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        "text": "AfricaUtopia\nAfrica Utopia: The Review\nThe Africa Utopia is back for a third year celebrating the act and culture of one of the world’s most beautiful, dynamic and fast-growing continent. The festival looks at how Africa can lead the way in think about culture, community, business and technology and includes topics ranging from fashion, gender and power to politics, sustainability and activism.\nThis year’s festival features some of Africa’s greatest artistes across music, dance, literature and art. The three day event held at London’s Southbank centre features fascinating and exciting events that reflect the richness of African culture and heritage and in some cases, what to expect from African creatives’ based at home and in the diaspora.\nThe Festival features also interrogate key themes attributed to the narratives of the continent such as migration, and displacement through visual art and theatre.\nThere were lots of events lined up at Africa Utopia. Some of the features from the 3 day festival:\nThrough Dance, music, art and literature the festival showcased appearances from Tavaziva Dance-when king Gogo met the chameleon,\nlegendary drummer Tony Allen, one of the acknowledged co-founders of Afrobeat,\nSenegalese super group Orchestra Baobab;\nPhoebe Boswell’s Transit Terminal,\nFunmi Adewole,\nMaia Von Lekow,\npowerfully soulful West African(Mali) singer Kassé Mady Diabaté;\nEurope’s first Black and Minority Ethnic classical symphony orchestra, Chineke! and lots of others.\nFashion and food lovers were not left out as there was an African-inspired fashion, a buzzing marketplace and delicious African street food to enjoy.\nEritrean Food\nAfrica Utopia Friday Day Pass was an opportunity for people to participate in panel discussion, exploring African politics, technology, education and trade. Everything from disruptive innovation to the power and politics of data in Africa were discussed. A panel of writers with African roots explores migrations real and imagined, asking if we inevitably circle back to where we came from.\nIt was a great and colorful festival.\nImage courtesy: AfricaUtopia"
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        "text": "Григорианският календар (понякога наричан и Грегориански календар или „нов стил“) е съвременният международно признат светски календар, на който се основава и международният стандарт ISO 8601.\n\nГригорианският календар е въведен в употреба на 4 октомври 1582 г. в съответствие с була от 24 февруари 1582 г. на папа Григорий XIII, чието име носи и днес. Той поправя древноримския Юлиански календар, като в него са нанесени някои корекции, за да се отчете по-точно дължината на тропическата година. В Юлианския календар се приема, че времето между две последователни пролетни равноденствия е 365,25 дни и дробната част се компенсира, като една на всеки четири години има с един ден повече (високосна година). При Григорианския календар годините, кратни на 100 не са високосни (с изключение на годините, кратни на 400, т.е. на всеки четири века се пропускат три високосни години, като например 1700, 1800 и 1900 година), което дава средна продължителност на годината от 365,2425 дни. Тази стойност се доближава значително до продължителността на тропическата година – например времето между пролетните равноденствия през 2000 година е 365,242374 дни.\n\nГригорианският календар е възприет в различните страни по различно време, като този процес продължава почти три века и половина. Въведен е в България със закон, гласуван от Народното събрание на 14 март 1916 г., като отчитането на времето единствено по нов стил започва от 1 април 1916 г. според юлианския календар (14 април според григорианския календар).\n\nОписание \nГригорианският календар е слънчев календар, зависим от периода на завъртането на Земята около Слънцето, който е 365,2422 дни от 24 часа по 60 минути, всяка по 60 секунди. Средната тропическа година е 365 дни, 5 часа, 48 минути и 45.5 секунди. Тя варира слабо, с една до две минути, в зависимост от началната точка. Точната стойност, изчислена на 1 януари 2000 година е 365,242 190 419 дни. Средната година при Григорианския календар е 365,2425 дни; за да може броят на годишните дни да е цяло число, през определени периоди, най-често 4 години, се добавя един допълнителен ден, 29 февруари, а годината се нарича „високосна“.\n\nОт тук следва разпределението на високосните години:\n Всяка година, кратна на 4 е високосна;\n Всяка година кратна на 100, но не и на 400, не е високосна;\n Всяка година кратна на 400 е високосна (1600, 2000 и т.н.).\n\nТази методика осигурява достатъчна за практиката точност. Годината по Григорианския календар е малко по-дълга от реалното време на обикаляне на Земята около Слънцето, т. е. 365,2425 вместо 365,2422 дни. Разликата между средната година при Григорианския календар 365,2425 дни и точната стойност на средната тропическа година 365,242 190 419 дни е\n\n365,2425 – 365,242190419 = 0,000309581 = 1/3230,1723943 ≈ 1/3230 ≈ 1/3200\n\nВ същия ред на анализа това означава, че на 3230,1723943 години = 3230 години, 2 месеца, 2 дни, 2 часа, 10 минути и 26,6448 секунди трябва да има по още една невисокосна година от кратните на 400 или всяка година кратна на 400, но не и на 3200, не е високосна. Така че, ако периодът на обикаляне на Земята около Слънцето се запази през вековете, около 3230 година ще трябва да се отнеме още един ден. Ако се спази методиката на Григорианския календар, трябва да не е високосна, а нормална 3200 година, а най-точно – 3232 година.\n\nГригорианският календар се дели на 12 месеца по следния начин:\n януари, 31 дни;\n февруари, 28 или 29 дни;\n март, 31 дни;\n април, 30 дни;\n май, 31 дни;\n юни, 30 дни;\n юли, 31 дни;\n август, 31 дни;\n септември, 30 дни;\n октомври, 31 дни;\n ноември, 30 дни;\n декември, 31 дни.\n\nВсеки период от седем дни се казва седмица, а дните на български се наричат така:\n понеделник;\n вторник;\n сряда;\n четвъртък;\n петък;\n събота;\n неделя.\n\nБроенето на годините в календара започва с годината, за която средновековните схоластици погрешно приемат, че е година на раждането на Иисус Христос. Според евангелията на Матей и на Лука, Иисус се ражда по време на управлението на Ирод Велики, за когото съвременната историческа наука е сигурна, че умира през 4 г. пр.н.е. Съществува и хипотеза, според която „Витлеемската звезда“, видима на небосвода по време на раждането на Христос е комета, преминала в близост до Земята през 7 г. пр.н.е. Император Октавиан Август въвежда нов календар във връзка с Pax Romana и заповядва 1 януари на всяка нова година да се чества като празник на Мира – започва епохата „новата ера“, „нашата ера“ или „християнската ера“. Годините в нея се отбелязват според Миланския Едикт на Константин със „сл. Хр.“ (след Христа) или с „н.е.“ (от новата ера), или са без такова уточнение. Годините преди 1 век н.е. се бележат с „пр. Хр.“ или с „пр.н.е.“ (преди новата ера). В западноевропейските страни новата ера се бележи със съкращението „AD“ ( – Лето Господне), но също така може и да е без това уточнение; а годините преди 1 век н.е. с „BC“ ( – Преди Христа).\n\nГригорианската промяна \n\nОсновната разлика между Григорианския календар и предшественика му – Юлианския, се състои в разпределянето на високосните години.\n\nВ Юлианския календар, всяка четвърта година е високосна и има един допълнителен ден през февруари.\n\nКакто е отбелязано по-горе, средната тропическа година се определя от продължителността на периода на завъртане на Земята около Слънцето, който процес отнема 365,2422 дни. Добавяйки един ден на всеки четири години, Юлианският календар има малко по-голяма средна дължина – 365,25 дни. Това постепенно е довело до забавяне в отчитането на дните и съответно до разликата от десет дни спрямо астрономическото време. Видимият признак, по който през 16 век това е установено, е пролетното равноденствие отместено по-рано – към началото на март, което църквата използва за определяне на датата за честване на Великден.\n\nЗа пръв път нов вариант, за да бъде приведен календарът в съответствие с астрономическото време е предложен от калабрийския доктор Алойзий Лилий. Новият календар е одобрен на 24 февруари 1582 г. чрез папската була Inter gravissimas на папа Григорий XIII.\n\nНовият календар премахва високосните дни за годините, отговарящи едновременно на следните две условия:\n годината е кратна на 100;\n годината не е кратна на 400.\n\nКакто в Юлианския календар, годините 1600 и 2000 са високосни, но за разлика от него, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100 не са.\n\nInter gravissimas постановява също, че четвъртък, 4 октомври 1582 г. ще бъде непосредствено следван от петък, 15 октомври, за да се компенсира отместването, натрупано през вековете.\n\nГригорианският календар не се приема едновременно в цяла Европа. Той е наложен от Григорий XIII в страните под силно влияние на католическата църква – Испания, Португалия и Полша го приемат веднага, а други (Франция и др.) – съвсем скоро след тях. Протестантска Англия приема Григорианския календар чак през 18 век, а Русия трябва да дочака Октомврийската революция, за да го приеме през 1918 г., като се оказва че Октомврийската революция започнала на 25 октомври 1917 г. според юлианския календар, всъщност е започнала на 7 ноември 1917 г.\n\nВ България григорианският календар е въведен в гражданския живот с Указ № 8 на цар Фердинанд I съгласно който 31.III.1916 г. веднага е последван от датата 14.IV.1916 г. (Държ.вест., бр. 65, 21.III.1916 г.). В Сърбия това става на 18.I.1919 г., в\nГърция – на 9.III.1924 г. и т.н.\n\nРазликите в календарите създават трудности на историците, защото примерно даден английски документ, датиран от 10 януари 1603 г., е писан по-късно от френски документ от 15 януари същата година. Например Уилям Шекспир и Мигел де Сервантес са починали на една и съща дата (23 април 1616 г.), но всъщност не и в един и същи ден. Допълнителни трудности идват от факта, че календарите се отдалечават и григорианската „поправка“ е от 10 дни до датата 28 февруари/10 март 1700 г., 11 дни от 29 февруари/11 март 1700 г., 12 дни от 29 февруари/12 март 1800 г. и 13 дни от 29 февруари/13 март 1900 г. до днешна дата.\n\nГригорианският календар не предвижда година Нула и вековете и хилядолетията започват с годината номер 1. Следователно:\n последният ден от старата ера е 31 декември от първата година преди новата ера;\n първото столетие продължава от 1 януари 1 г. до 31 декември 100 г., второто – от 1 януари 101 г. до 31 декември 200 г., 21 век и третото хилядолетие започват на 1 януари 2001 г.\n\nХронологична схема\n\nВижте също \n\n Високосна година\n Високосна секунда\n Целогодишни календари\n Юлиански календар\n Новоюлиански календар – източноправославен църковен календар\n\nВъншни препратки \n\n ГРИГОРИАНСКИ КАЛЕНДАР \n Kalendergenerator\n Вечният календар\n Papst Gregor XIII: Inter Gravissimas Папската Була\n Алтернативи\n\nИзточници \n\nКалендари"
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        "text": "11. RCC, Persia, Turkey, and the 50 Russian bears\nThis article was originally written within the context of how all the gods of Babylon are numbered — literally!\n(The Babylonians assigned to each god a number. For example, Enki was the number “40” and Enlil was “50”.)\nRussia the Bear\nOn Feb 9th, 2019 (“State of Emergency” declared)\n50 polar bears invade Russian town, emergency declared\nTASS, February 9th. “The state of emergency was introduced from February 9 on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which is part of the Arkhangelsk region, because of the massive invasion of polar bears into the territory of settlements. This is stated in a statement released on Saturday of the press service of the governor and the regional government.\n…from December 2018 to February 2019 there was a large gathering of animals near settlements.Near the village Belushya Guba are 52 polar bears. Wild animals have aggressive behavior – they attack the inhabitants and enter the premises.”\n(Google translation from Russian)\nA polar bear invasion is terrorizing Russians on a remote Arctic island with more than 50 beasts besieging one town.\nA state of emergency has been declared on Soviet nuclear testing archipelago Novaya Zemlya as the beasts enter the front doors of apartment blocks. (Fox News)\nThe number of days to the other ten signs, including “the sealing and unsealing”\nEmphasis on the number “50” (50 bears in a town of 50*50 people)\n65 days from Dec 6th, about when the bears began to invade. (“65” signifies “shattering”, Isaiah 7:8)\nIt’s a Russian military community\nIt’s near the town of Belushya Guba, which area is associated with nuclear testing\nIt’s in “the far north” (Ezek 38:15)\n“Belushya Guba is the main permanent settlement of the island territory of Novaya Zemlya. A large proportion of its population is made up of military personnel associated with the nuclear test sites located on the island.” Wiki\nThe Russian bear, Turkey, and Persia (Iran) and allies (i.e., the other bears) are conspiring against Israel and the US is in the way. Their goal is to be “Lord of the Earth”, which is the Babylonian god Enki’s number, name, and meaning. (Enki is “40”.)\nAbout the above image: The Measuring rod superimposed over the Mene-Tekel Code of the Zigurrat, set to the Jan. 20th, 2019 lunar eclipse. 20 days later is the Polar Bears. 25 days later (5*5) is the Persian, Turkish and Russian meeting. Rod points to the Arctic and to Russia. The code repeats the word \"Persia\" (Iran) 20 times horizontally and 20 times vertically, once for every year of the Iranian revolution.\nFeb 9th and 14th are 20 days to Jan 20 and Jan 25 (the 5th and 6th sign) and then another 20 days to Jan 5th, (the 4th sign when the partial solar eclipse occurred over Russia as locust invaded Mecca). In Babylon, Utu, the Sun god is represented by the number \"20\".  Feb. 11th, the day of the 40th year of the Revolution is 40 days (and 70 days) to the 3rd sign, and then another 40 days to Nov 23, 2018, when the first insight was given into the Mene Tekel Code and how their gods are judged. (Enki is represented by the number \"40\" and Utu by \"20\".)\nRod with Flag points to Russia\nOverlay with the above image. Note wind in flag and direction of blood. The original image revealed at and on, 2300 days before Trump declared the embassy move to Jerusalem.\nNote the flag flying. Click to enlarge\nA white horse: Religious ‘Peace and Safety’\nFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. Depicted from left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. The first horsemen on the white horse with the crescent red moon below its tail represent false peace. He carries a bow and arrow the same as the constellation of Sagittarius (Nergal) where the eclipses occurred. The Pope and the Arab false peace.\nBabylonian Constellation of Sagittarius with scorpion tale towards cresent moon\nI looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. Rev 6:2\nMarch 30-31, 2019. The Vatican announced logo of “cross within crescent moon” Jan. 7, 2019. Note date stamp of my post about locust invasion\nClick to enlarge. Recall this image from Dec. 2018 of the serpent rising (i.e., “Enlil”) from the Abyss of the Ziggurat/Minaret with his head as the moon about to swallow the sun with the cross in it. Below is Vatican’s now with the moon with the cross in it — Enlil has finished swallowing!\nPope dressed in white with a large image of a false Christ above him as he speaks Feb 4, 2019, to an audience of mixed religions\nBelow, the crescent logo of the moon swallowing up the cross within the sun was released by the Vatican Jan 7, 2019, during the locust invasion of Mecca (4th sign).\nDec 26, 2019, Annular Solar eclipse begins in Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates where the Pope signed the agreement with 700 religious leaders of all faiths watching. It was signed 30 days (# of Sin-moon-god) after the locust invasion of Mecca that hit the headlines the same day as the Vatican released this logo about the upcoming Muslim-Catholic pacts.\nBoth the Jan 5 and Dec 26, 2019 eclipses occur in Sagittarius\nI noted in the article about the locust invasion that the locust descended during a partial (75%) solar eclipse over northern Russia and that exactly one lunar year later another will occur that begins its trek in Saudia Arabia. The above is that eclipse, except notice that this small nation of the United Arab Emirates happens to be at the start of its path. Thus, both the logo and the eclipse signify “the moon-god swallowing up the sun”.\nMoreover, Feb 4, 2019, to Dec 26th is 325 days (13*5*5), thereby connecting the date to the “fives“.\nBoth the logo and the eclipse signify “the moon-god swallowing up the sun”. To be exact, the meeting was held in the city of Abu Dhabi as marked in the map before this. Notice what the eclipse of the sun will look like from this city. The Moon will swallow a similar proportion of the sun as in the logo! (Click to enlarge.) Interestingly, this eclipse takes place in the constellation of Sagittarius, which is associated with the Babylonian god “Nergal“, “The God of war, plague, death, and disease”. (The first and fourth horsemen of the book of Revelation?)\nWithout wanting to make this article too long, I feel it necessary to quote from “the 4th sign” to see the connection more clearly to the timing of this logo on Jan 7, 2019.\nIslam, Osiris (i.e., Apollo), and Ra. (See Part Two of Mene Tekel Code for the explanation of this image.)\nA fourth sign has occurred. It began the evening of Jan. 5th in Mecca and lasted at least four days. “Black locust” and flying cockroaches descended upon Mecca. Social media has many images and videos of it.\nLocust descend upon Mecca when Part Two of Mene Tekel posted, “Islam is judged”. Part Two was posted the 7th of January 2019. (Note post stamp on the address of Part Two.) And the below video was also posted the same day that I posted my article about Mecca and the MINAret. The video went viral.\nLocust plague Mecca (Meqqa). (This is a clip of a video.) Notice the Menoret in the background, which is patterned after the Tower of Babel as said in the Mene Tekel Code as posted the same day as this video. Moreover, this image was posted on social media 4*4 days after Anak Krakatoa exploded. Both the sign of eruption of Anak during the full moon and the locust upon Mecca during the New Moon point to the 4th Seal and 4th/5th Trumpet of Revelation. (The New Moon when the locust descended upon Mecca was also accompanied by a partial solar eclipse in the constellation of Sagittarius, which represented Nimrod of Babel (Nirgal and Ninurta) who has a tail like a scorpion and a breastplate/body like a lion as per the Babylonian Sagittarius.)\nBiblical PLAGUE? Experts BAFFLED as mysterious swarm of LOCUSTS invade Mecca’s holy sites\nAN UNPRECEDENTED swarm of deadly locusts invaded one of the world’s holiest sites this week as Mecca faced an infestation of “biblical proportions”.\nIslam-RCC logo Jan 7, 2019\nTherefore, the above locust video, “The first “signs” post, and this Vatican logo were all released the same day.\n(Vatican News. Words in red added.)\n“Prior to the Morocco visit (March 30-31), the Pope is scheduled to make a trip to the United Arab Emirates on February 3-5. (Hence, the two trips are 55 days apart.)\nAddressing the Diplomatic Corps on Monday (Jan 7, 2019) in the Vatican, Pope Francis said that his visit to the 2 predominantly Muslim countries, “represent two important opportunities to advance interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding between the followers of both religions, in this year that marks the eight-hundredth anniversary of the historic meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil.”\nOn Monday, Feb 4, 2019\n(Feb 4, 2019, is the same day as the 9th Sign.)\n“Pope and the Grand Imam: Historic declaration of peace, freedom, women’s rights.”\n“…document signed by Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb on Monday in the United Arab Emirates” (Vatican News)\nPope and grand imam sign historic pledge of fraternity in UAE\nIn first papal visit to Arabian peninsula, Francis calls for end to wars in Middle East. (The Guardian)\nA woman rides the beast\nThere I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.\nInterestingly, seven days after the Pope and the Imam signed the peace declaration, Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of their revolution. And ten days after the Pope and Imam signed the peace declaration, Iran, Russian and Turkey met, as did contrarily the US, Israel, and allies. And Kushner gave a rare speech about peace.\nIran (Persia) “Uparsin”\nOn Feb 1st and the 11th, 2019\n40th anniversary of Iran Revolution\n“Speaking at a rally earlier Monday celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said that Iran would demolish entire cities in Israel if the United States attacked the Islamic Republic.\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Monday evening… it “would be the last anniversary of the revolution that they celebrate.” (Haaretz)\nOn Feb 11th, 2019, the same day that the 10th sign occurred, Iran (Persia) celebrated the 40th year of its revolution. Their celebration is ten days long, from Feb. 1st to the 11th.\nIt happens that Iran was formerly known as Persia until the Nazis influenced a name change to mean “Aryan”. The word “Persia” is the singular form of the word “Parasin“, as in ‘Mene, Tekel, Parsin!” Hence, in the above Mene Tekel Peres Picture Code, the word Parsin (Persia פרס) is repeated 20 + 20 times.\nFeb 1st was the 40th anniversary of the false prophet Ayatollah Khomeini who took over Persia (Iran) in 1979, which in turn ended “2,500 years of Persian monarchy”.\nNumeric note that you might wish to skip over.\n\"2500 years of Persian monarchy (Upharsin)\" Thus we see 50*50 again. Interestingly, now that it is 2540 years, that's a seven-year period on the lunar calendar, 1270 + 1270 days and years.\nIronically, the \"2500 years\" Iran refers to is a round number. 550 BC to 2019 is 2568 years, which is more accurately a seven-year lunar period of days as years. In other words, 2568 and 2569 days is literally exactly seven years from now on the Islamic and Jewish calendars. A 'seven-year period of rule' is a common timeframe in the Bible, especially the Book of Revelation.\n“Beware of Valentines Day”\nBoth the Russian and the US-led conferences are to be held on Valentines Day. This reminds me of something personal.\n“Beware of Valentines Day!” Those are the words that the Lord kept speaking to me 31 years ago when the devil attempted to destroy my family, including my mother and friends. It was our personal “Purim”. (See the Book of Esther. Purim and Valentine’s day both commemorate love and someone’s execution, and both occur around the same time of the year.)\nBut like Purim, God turned the tables. When that day came, what was meant to be the final blow to kill us instead became the turning point. It marked the day when the darkness began to lift.\nAfter many months of descent, that very day, Valentines Day, marked the slow ascent from the pit.\nA Norad base was in the small town where I now live. We moved in on Hanukah, 2003.\n“When we began our move, the moving company building where we rented the moving truck blew up like an atomic bomb… 1290 days after the Hand code.” (bible-codes.org/Atomic-bomb-nuclear-explosion-code-b.htm)\nThe two sides meet separately, but both on Valentine’s Day\nOn Monday, Feb 14, 2019– Valentines Day\nThe US-led meeting\nIt is interesting that this meeting for peace occurs just ten days after the Pope’s religious equivalent. After all, a woman rides the beast, (Rev. 17:7).\nThe two-day conference includes representatives from some “60 countries”. The stated theme was “Promoting a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East.” The Bible says:\nWhile people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (1Thess. 5:3)\nRecall that Jared Kushner is in charge of the Peace Process. And the Bible refers to a peace treaty that follows a seven-year period of hell on earth, (Dan. 9:24-27). (See 666 video.)\nKushner: Israel, Palestinians Will Have to Compromise in Upcoming Trump Peace Plan. (Headlines Haaretz)\n“Warsaw, Poland – A United States-led two-day summit on “peace and security” in the Middle East started on Wednesday – a gathering denounced by uninvited Iran as “dead on arrival”.\n“Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, is expected to make a rare speaking appearance on Thursday.” (Aljazeera) (Recall 666 video.)\n“Thursday”, is Valentines Day, the day for love.\nValentine’s Day among enemies, however, suggests deception — the kiss of an enemy. Feined love.\nThe Russian-led meeting\nIran, Russia, and Turkey shake hands at their first summit in 2017. Back then, my wife and I made a video about this\nThis fourth meeting will necessarily include talks about Israel as well as Syria.\nRussia, Iran, Turkey to hold fourth round of Syria talks in Sochi. Trilateral summit between ‘guarantor countries’ to focus on long-term settlement of the Syrian crisis, the Kremlin says.\nThe Syria talks run in parallel to the Geneva talks organised by the United Nations.\nBut the three leaders will also discuss projects and coordination on the international arena. (Aljazeera)\nRussia, Iran, and Turkey: emblems of the earth, sun, moon, and stars — Eagle/Lion (Babylon)\nEmblem of Russia. A two-headed eagle with the earth in its claws. Rider on white horse slays dragon\nIran’s emblem. Sun and lion\nEmblem of Turkey. Moon and star, the land of the seven churches/stars of the Book of Revelation\nFirst Iraq (Babylon) and now Iran (Persia)\nImage by Olympus Digital Camera of a mosque and images of Kumani. Notice the two ziggurat pillars\nThe first time that the message came to me as to how God was applying the writing on the wall in our times was on Feb 4, 2000. At that time it was primarily about Iraq. (I.e., Babylon and Saddam Hussein was the main theme from the first time that God revealed to me the depth of meaning within the writing on the wall in 2000. Saddam Hussein rebuilt the palace of where the original writing on the wall was). And now we have Iran in the crosshairs. (I.e., Persia and her allies).\nBack in the Gulf war, I said that the coalition of England and America attacking Iraq (ancient Babylon) represented new Babylon attacking ancient Babylon, in that the emblem of England and America was a lion and an eagle, just as it was of Babylon of old. I said that the Mene Tekel Code referred to it (and “Hand Code” 125-days later).\n“Jehovah?\nIs it the hand of Jehovah?\nHe Himself goes to war. He put him to death!\nJehovah goes to war against her (i.e., ‘Babylon‘),\nand the arrogant one!\nJehovah goes to war against her,\nand the rebellious one!\nand the one being removed!” (Bible-codes.org)\n1/2 Shekel coin\nAnd now Trump is likened unto the Persian king “Cyrus”. Thus, now we have new Persia attacking the ancient land of Persia! It was Cyrus who sacked Babylon in 539 BC in fulfillment of the writing on the wall.\nRecall the encoded image of Trump as Cyrus on the coin being weighed in the Ziggurat-mountain balance. Note that the word “Persia” פרס in Aramaic runs through the coin.\nMene Mene Tekel Upharsin matrix (written vertically and horizontally 20 times each). Image created Dec. 19, 2018. Click to enlarge coin. Note the word “Persia” (Iran), פרס.\nIt is fitting that after Babylon, next is Persia in God's crosshair because Iran (Persia) is the nation that took over Babylon when she fell in 539 BC at the time of the writing on the wall.\nMoreover, 539 BC is seven years of years on the lunar calendar to the first wave of understanding in 2000, and seven years of years to this second wave of understanding 19 years later on the solar calendar.\nNotice that Feb 1st to 11th, 2019, is 70 and 80 days from Nov. 23, 2018, (“the sealing”) and Feb 14th, 2019, is 70 days from Dec. 6, 2018 (“the unsealing”). (See article about “The Number of the Beast” for the meaning of these numbers.)\nFeb 11th was “Purim” on the 360 calendar\nPurim is the celebration of the Jews over the attempt of her enemies to destroy them in the days of their exile in Persia, as recorded in the book of Esther.\nIt happens that Feb. 11th (the 40th anniversary of their revolution) on the 360 calendar is Purim. “Purim” is another word directly related to the Aramaic word “Uparsin“. And “Persia פרס” and “Purim פרינ” are two of the seven encoded words at the very beginning of the very first post:\n“מנא מנ-אמנ. אשקלו פרס פרינ-סינ” (Aramaic) The re-scrambling of “Mene Mene Tekel Uparsin.”\nIran and Israel trade threats of destruction\nOn Islamic revolution’s 40th anniversary, regional rivals engage in a war of words threatening to attack each other.\nIsrael and Iran traded threats of mutual destruction on Monday as the Islamic Republic celebrated the 40th anniversary of its revolution.\n“The US should know that we would raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground in the event of a military attack on us,” General Yadollah Javani, head of the guard’s political bureau, was quoted as saying.\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to respond, saying later on Monday it would mark Iran’s last revolution anniversary if it attacked any cities in Israel.\n(Aljazeera)\n“He will weigh them (in the balance)! I will melt a lamp. He will number them!” He despises (and will melt) the rising of Babylon and their rebellion”. (This is part of the secret message stamped out as events occured on the below date-chart!)\nCalendar of events is overlayed with the Mene-Tekel matrix, and this matrix is repeated four times.\nClick to enlarge. The above has the dates from when God began to reveal the Mene Tekel prophetic images as well as the dates for the 13 signs that followed. These dates are here presented overlapping the Mene Tekel prophetic image. This is the template that God has been following as He passes sentence among the gods. The calendar runs from November 2o, 2018, unto Feb 22, 2019, exactly 100 days, and is laid out in rows of five (at center column) in keeping with the Mene Tekel matrix.\nAbout the above chart: This is the 5*5 “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uparsin matrix” repeated four times. It here includes the calendar dates of all ‘sealings’, ‘unsealing’ and the 11 signs, as explained before. Miraculously, God used the below image from Dec. 11, 2018, as the template upon which He did all future events and signs.\nThis is the same image that is overlayed in the main image of God judging North and South America, and the North Pole. Notice the general outline of a winding serpent like the one below, except here it starts from the top using the first dates for the head and then weaving back and forth like a serpent to Feb 14, 2019. (In line with this, Saddam Hussein as predicted was hung by the neck 1260 + 1260 days after Feb 4, 2000, and thus is also a multiple of five. Moreover, 125 days later was the “hand code” on Pentecost, 2000, (125 = 5*5*5).\nFootnote: (This information was written before signs 5B and 13). As each event lands on a letter in the code as time progresses, these letters will form words and phrases that concern the very event that is happening at the time! For example, Dec. 16, 18, and 22nd (that ends with \"Sign 2: Mt Anak\") reads, \"From Anak מאנק\". Altogether, the 20 squares wherein at least one event transpired roughly reads:\n\"Truly He broke open (the seals). Anak with sackcloth. Yes its true, their banner is Ameleck the second!\"\nGod knows \"the end from the beginning\", therefore in reverse, it reads: סר יתקלמ! אמס נר ימנאמ! מָאַס קמ מרתמ\n\"In anger he will weigh them (in the balance)! I will melt a lamp. He will number them!\" He despises (and will melt) the rising of Babylon and their rebellion\".\nThe word for \"despise\" מָאַס also means \"to melt\", and it is also the word \"Mass\", and this word occurs at the logo of RCC! See date chart.) (מְרָתַיִם is a symbolic name for \"Babylon\" in Jer. 50:21, meaning \"double rebellion/bitterness\". Except here it is מרתמ, \"their rebellion/bitterness\". This is also a play on words for \"Their Minaret\", too, as מנרתמ, which means \"Their lamp-house-tower\". Moreover, this same word backward מתירמ means, \"Loosing/solving them\", i.e., to \"loose/break\" a seal open or to \"solve\" a riddle.\" Thus, the mystery word for \"Babylon\" backward means, \"to be broken asunder\"!) סר-angry also means 'a Babylonian Sar, a unit of 3600'. Recall the Sar-moth code.\n(Note: when two letters occur within one square, one or both can be used, as was the case in the previous articles. Amalek is here spelled אמלק instead of עֲמָלֵק‬, in keeping with the previous word, אנק. Amalek, the arch-enemy of the Jew is associated with Purim. Saul failed to destroy all the Amalekites.)\nIf you’re interested, click “Read More” for examples of how events align with exact spots on the image about which the sign referred.\nOr the first sign of ‘the Church with the enemy under its feet’ (i.e., ‘comet and the Pleiades), and that date is located here at the top of the mountain overlapping the neck of their enemy, the serpent. ‘Come here and put your foot on the neck of your enemies!’ (Josh 10:24; Heb 1:13.)\nClick to enlarge. As said, the hand at top begins at the letter corresponding to when the writing on the wall began to be revealed, “sealed”\nAuthor Dean CoombsPosted on February 12, 2019 May 31, 2019 Tags Iran, peace treaty, Persia, Turkey and Russia2 Comments on 11. RCC, Persia, Turkey, and the 50 Russian bears"
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        "text": "Im still on LW 7.5 (Mac OSX) but im REALLY curious about the character animation tools in LW 9.2 and how mush of an improvement over previous versions of LW.\nDoes LW 9.2 allow you to play around with this and how have people found it...?\n\"this is football like its never been told. be prepared, you will wish you never knew\"\nAs far as CA is concerned, there is no change at this time. IK booster was added back in the 8.x cycle, so that would be new for you, but that's about it. It was noted that CA and Modeler tools were to be worked on next in the 9.x cycle as these are important areas to be worked on, but other issues had to be resolved first in order to do so, so stick around for a bit longer and you might just be surprised.\nThe big selling point right now for 9.2 is the new, faster rendering engine (which is beautiful) materials, OpenGL performance and more. But like I said, stay on board for a bit longer and you will see CA improvements, I'm sure. The team that is grinding out the goodies are pretty awesome.\n...thanks dude. im gonna try to hang in their for the character animation tools."
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        "text": "IBB owner Shay Geyer greets guests at the IBB Day of Design on Feb. 25.\nThe first-ever IBB Design Fine Furnishings “Day of Design” was a smashing success! With throngs of design fans and scads of vendors, IBB Design pulled off a successful event by any measure. The Frisco showroom hosted several presenters on Feb. 25 for the day-long design showcase, featuring IBB owner Shay Geyer, as well as several of the store’s talented designers. A craftsman from Vanguard Furniture built a chair right in the store, too. What a treat!\nDid you miss it? Don’t worry, we have a feeling it will happen again.\nIBB Design Fine Furnishing’s own Shay Geyer will lead a Feb. 25 workshop on how to add Pantone’s color of the year to your home.\nMany were perplexed when Pantone announced that the 2017 color of the year was “Greenery” — how on earth do you add such a bold, lively, and by all means bright shade to home decor?\nBut for IBB Design Fine Furnishing’s Shay Geyer, it was a green light to inspiration. She’s found just the right balance for every style in adding this verdant color to rooms, and she wants to show you how.\nYou can learn how to make “Greenery” your personal color of the year in Shay’s noon presentation during the store’s “Day of Design” workshops this Saturday, Feb. 25. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., IBB Design staffers will host demonstrations on a bevy of subjects, as well as featuring some of the best vendors in the industry. They daylong event is open to the public, so do stop in!\nAlways craved a well-dressed bed? IBB Design is hosting a day of workshops where you can learn that and more!\nWhile we marvel at photos of gorgeous homes day in and day out, you’d be surprised at how design-challenged some of us on the CandysDirt.com staff are. And with how quickly new products and materials are coming on the market, playing catch-up is a tough game for anyone in the real estate profession.\nThat’s why we’re thrilled about IBB Day of Design. On Saturday, Feb. 25, the talented design team at IBB Design Fine Furnishings will offer tips and tricks, as well as some of their favorite trends.\nKevin Isbell with Julie Dodson at the Round Top Designer Shopping Spree 2016. Photos courtesy of Julie Dodson.\nTwice a year, 2,000 dealers and over 100,000 shoppers from all over the U.S. flock to Round Top, midway between Austin and Houston, for the Round Top Antiques Fair. It’s a shopping extravaganza showcasing European and American antiques, architectural elements, and collectibles.\nTexas’ own designer Julie Dodson hosted a special event at last year’s fall show that was such a success she’s returning for a reprise this year. The Second Annual Designer Dream Spree, to be held September 26-29, will include shopping the dealers of Round Top, a designer panel discussion on “Exceptional Discoveries,” and an array of social gatherings, from wine tastings to fine dining featuring cuisine prepared by notable Houston chef Travis Lenig.\nEmbarking upon their retirement years, Steve and Karen Piro enlisted Sanders Custom Homes and IBB Designer Shannon Gidney to help build their dream home.\nAfter Steve’s successful career as President of Asko, Inc., and Karen culminating a 40-year career as the Independent Executive National Sales Director for Mary Kay Cosmetics, they were ready to begin a new, exciting phase in their lives and take on the task of designing a new place to call home. They wanted a home that was comfortable, inviting and stylish to enjoy with family and friends.\nShannon worked with Sanders and the Piros on the project for more than a year, selecting all of the interior finishes as well as designing and executing all of the home’s furnishings and drapery. Every last detail was accounted for, so all the Piros had to do was move in their clothing and personal belongings.\n“We wanted our home to reflect our personalities and taste, and Shannon accomplished this through her excellent listening and questioning skills. It was nice to work with someone who was so aware of our needs without forcing her agenda. She brought us wonderful ideas and appropriate selections from which to choose. We asked for finishes which would not be dated in a matter of years,” Karen said."
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        "text": "Q: What is the difference between Intel and PPC? What is the hardware and software differences between Intel and PPC Macs?\n\nA: When it comes to Apple hardware, the differences between the last generation of PowerPC and the first generation of Intel were fairly minor, as far as the end user experience goes. They used the same form factors, and the all-new internals were quite effectively hidden by the unchanged exterior and the accommodations the operating system made for compatibility.\nThe last PowerPC Macs were sold in 2006, so any new machine since then is Intel.\nIn general, Intel Macs can run the vast majority of software created for PowerPC Macs. There is a performance hit for the emulation required, but it runs at acceptable speeds even for complex software like Photoshop. PowerPC Macs cannot run Intel software.\nThe latest version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is available only for Intel-based Macs.\nIntel Macs have access to a feature called Boot Camp, which allows them to boot into Windows at full speed. Intel Macs can also run Windows inside virtual machines with the help of third-party software (VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox or Parallels); there is a minor performance penalty for this, but it's much faster than the emulation required for a PowerPC Mac to run Windows software.\n\nA: The Intel chips at the time of the transition were sourced to be far more thermal and power efficient than the PPC chips of the time. Intel had much more room to grow within the same thermal and physical envelopes in terms of clock rate and the amount of hardware needed to support a given processor choice. \nThe PPC roadmap was shooting for massive clock rates in the 4 to 5 GHz range which amplified these disadvantages for future PPC chips when compared to future Intel chips.\nMoving to Intel processors did away with the need for exotic liquid cooling systems, massive heat sink design and complexity due to space constriants that went into the G5 PowerMac. Power supplies were also downsized.\nPPC design was heading directly into mainframe territory with chipkill memory, CPU virtualization, First Failure Data Capture and other high end / high cost features. Just check out this P5 heat sink and 4 processor MPM with associated L3 cache chips to get a feeling for how massive these processors would grow before Power7 manufacturing finally packed more power in a lower clock rate / smaller package. (and this is finally shipping in 2010). Now the Power5 and Power6 are still shipping and awesome at what they do in server land, just not so appropriate for the current Mac market space.\nFurthermore, there was nothing coming in the pipeline for a portable processor from PPC so even though the power was there for future desktop machines if one accepts the many tradeoffs already listed. Quite simply, portable macs were starving for horsepower on the PPC architecture and likely drove the urgency of a transition to anything but PPC.\n\nA: Hardware-wise: PowerPC is a microprocessor developed mainly by the three developing companies Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It is built with reduced instruction-set computer (RISC) which speeds-up the operation of MIPS (million instructions per second). PowerPC is mainly based on IBM’s earlier Power architecture because it has a similar RISC instruction set for microprocessors.\nIntel and AMD CPU's are based on CISC architectures. Typically CISC chips have a large amount of different and complex instructions. The philosophy behind it is that hardware is always faster than software, therefore one should make a powerful instructionset, which provides programmers with assembly instructions to do a lot with short programs.\nIn common CISC chips are relatively slow (compared to RISC chips) per instruction, but use little (less than RISC) instruction\n\nA: PPC Macs refers to the generation of Macintosh computers created in the mid to late 1990s through to 2006 that used PowerPC RISC based chips made by IBM or Motorola. That last PowerPC based Macintosh, the PowerMac G5 stopped being sold in August 2006. The latest version of Mac OS X a PowerPC chip enabled computer was able to run was Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (so long as the computer supported it).\nIntel Macs refers to the newer Macintosh computers (since January 2006) that use Intel's CISC processors. Intel Macs uses EFI instead of BIOS and can run the latest versions of Mac OS X. Intel Macs are also able to run PowerPC compiled applications through a translation layer called Rosetta which is optionally installed in 10.6.\nIf a program is made available as a Universal binary it is able to run on both PPC and Intel Macs however many new applications released today are Intel only (eg. Google Chrome, Final Cut Studio, Mac OS X Snow Leopard).\n\nA: From the end user point of view, you don't need to worry about it much. Many applications were produced as \"universal\", meaning they run on both PPC and Intel-based Macs, and an emulator (called Rosetta) would let PPC-only apps run on the new Intel machines. \nHowever, as time passed, newer features were only available to Intel Macs, so some applications state outright that they require Intel chips. Also, the latest version of Mac OS X only runs on Intel CPUs.\nApple did a reasonably good job of hiding the entire transition from users, so that everything just kept working as people expected, offloading any heavy lifting to software developers.\n\nA: Architecture:\nPowerPC: (short for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) and Intel processor.\nmore information can be found at wikipedia: PowerPC\n\nA: I also wanted to know more on the Power architecture, I did find some good info on it.  I'm glad to share the following information, specially for POWER8 (the latest from IBM):\n\n\n*\n\n*SMT8: 8 threads per core\n\n\n*\n\n*can also switch mode e.g. SMT1, SMT2, SMT4, SMT8 \n\n\n*CAPI: Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface\n\n\n*\n\n*first of its kind in industry\n\n*hardware attachment\n\n*eliminates the Device driver overhead when accessing the FPGA.\n\n*Increased coherency \n\n\n*NUCA - Non Uniform Cache Access\n\n\n*\n\n*though each processor is associated with a L3 cache, NUCA let's the L3 Cache be shared by the cores.\n\n*Benefits data-intensive workloads\n\n\n*NVIDIA partnership:\n\n\n*\n\n*through NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing we can obtain an 8x performance increase for Java programs, on Power8. \n\n\n\nMore references:\n\n\n*\n\n*https://community.runabove.com/kb/en/instances/power8-features.html\n\n*https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273393397_The_cache_and_memory_subsystems_of_the_IBM_POWER8_processor\n\nA: One thing I know is that PPCs are big endian by default, but can switch modes if necessary. Intel are little endian.\n\nA: Power PC has its unique set of instruction in which overall is labeled RISC architecture and the way it performs its program goes way faster than that used on PC. About software there isn't difference except the way it was coded or compiled. For example Windows NT 3.51 was developed for PowerPC.\nPC most used processor are labeled CISC architecture which change the way you code and the advantage is operates more than a single task at same time.\nThe term RISC and CISC doesn't make difference since some times RISC 32bits has more complex instructions than CISC 8bits.    \n"
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        "text": "Q: Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.\n\nA: There is no supported way to do this. Having said that, you can do it using scutil:\nlouis@Arios:~$ sudo scutil \n> set Setup:/Network/BackToMyMac\n> d.add <YYY>  <XXX>.members.btmm.icloud.com\n> set Setup:/Network/BackToMyMac\n> quit\nlouis@Arios:~$ \n\nReplacing <YYY> with the UID of the user account on the system (for most people with  single account that is 501), and <XXX> with your iCloud account number. If you don't know that you can check your dns-sd registrations:\nlouis@Arios:~$  dns-sd -E\nLooking for recommended registration domains:\n DATE: ---Wed 22 Aug 2012---\n 9:11:04.789  ...STARTING...\nTimestamp     Recommended Registration domain\n 9:11:04.789  Added     (More)               local\n 9:11:04.789  Added                          icloud.com\n                                             - > btmm\n                                             - - > members\n                                             - - - > <XXX>\n\nThe last line will list your iCloud user number. I think they are all 8 digit numbers, at least mine is.\n"
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        "text": "PHOTO REVIVES ANGER AT RED GUARD TERROR\nby Xujun Eberlein\nHistory would later record this as the first case of Red Guard students killing a teacher\n(PNS) -- A month before the 114th birthday of Chairman Mao Zedong on December 26, a long forgotten photo of Mao with a young girl resurfaced on the Chinese Internet. It generated an instant furor around the girl.\nIt has been 41 years since then. She was 18 or 19 at the time, a senior student at the girls' school that was attached to Beijing Normal University. On August 18, 1966, she went to Tiananmen, as part of a delegation of Red Guards to be received by Mao. She was given the special honor of placing a Red Guard armband on Mao's sleeve. As she did this, Mao asked her her name and she told him: Song Binbin. Loosely translated it means \"gentle and refined.\" Mao had told her in a joking way, according to the photographer, that gentle was out, and \"Yaowu\" was in. \"Yaowu\" means \"seeking armed conflict.\"\nAlmost overnight, the girl became known as Song Yaowu and famous throughout China. Young and proud, little did she know how history is prone to turning fame into infamy. Soon, her new name evolved into a symbol of Red Guard violence, and for a reason.\nJust two weeks before this happy moment on Tiananmen, a cruel beating death occurred in Song's school. It was August, and the peak of the three-month activity that marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards, mostly middle school and high school students, held power in China second only to Mao. On August 5, in the name of the revolution, teenage girls in Song Binbin's school yelled at and beat up their teachers and administrators.\nBian Zhongyun, the school's Communist Party secretary and vice principal died in the turmoil. History would later record this as the first case of Red Guard students killing a teacher, something that would shortly thereafter become more frequent nationwide.\nSong's role in the 1966 beating death remains clouded to this day. All we know is that she was a Red Guard leader at the time. One witness claims that she was on campus with other onlookers, and that she had commented on the righteousness of the action.\nFast-forward four decades. Today, Song Binbin, who goes by this name, has lived a low-key life in the United States for 27 years. On the other side of the earth, in Beijing, her alma mater is celebrating its 90th anniversary. For reasons we don't know, as part of the celebrations, displayed is a special photo album containing the picture of Song Binbin with Mao. On the opposite page is a picture of Bian Zhongyun, the teacher who had so tragically died at the hands of her students.\nEarlier this year, the anniversary had sparked a search for alumnae who made a mark in the world. Song Binbin was among those recommended. She embraced the opportunity with enthusiasm, listing among her achievements her doctoral degree in atmospheric and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She said she was the first doctoral student from China in her department, and provided a picture of herself with her adviser, Fred Frey, a reputed geochemist at MIT.\nThis appears to be the first time Song Binbin acknowledged her ties to her high school. She had done her best to move away from that time, and always seemed reluctant to talk to anyone about her past. Viewed by most as a villain, and perhaps by history as another fervent believer in a cause gone wrong, she had put the past behind her. That is, until now.\nIn her write-up of her career, she made no mention of \"Red August,\" 1966. No apology. No justification. Simply nothing. This is a strategy that had been fairly effective in the United States, but her alma mater is not in her adopted land. If she believed her past was forgotten, she was wrong. People saw what she had written, and it generated a furor. Many were outraged that she would hold up her accomplishments in America as if nothing had happened at her high school. They called her the school's shame. They called the school's 90th anniversary celebrations a shame.\nAmong the 90 honored alumnae, Song Binbin provided the longest self-introduction, as well as the largest number of personal photos. Her eagerness to regain recognition from her old school is a bit puzzling, given how hard she had been trying to have her Red Guard past forgotten. In all the years after coming to America, the only time she spoke publicly was in Carma Hinton's recent documentary, \"Morning Sun.\" With her face blurred, Song told the interviewer Ð and the audience Ð she had never hit anyone; she had always opposed violence. It was her way of indirectly denying any involvement in Bian Zhongyun 's beating death.\nIn her long self-introduction in Chinese, which can be found online, she talks about her 92-year-old mother and young son. Through her words, I see her keenness to spare her family from the shadow of her past, to allow them to lead normal lives. I have also read articles about Song's gentle personality, which I have no reason to disbelieve.\nMy big sister, though years younger than Song Binbin, was also a Red Guard and died for her cause at age 16. Knowing my sister, I tend to believe in Song Binbin's good intention. Like my sister, Song was one of countless Red Guards, in fact, an entire generation of Chinese youngsters who had responded with enthusiasm to Mao's call for an ongoing revolution.\nThere is nothing to suggest that Song Binbin was especially fervent in her beliefs, but the picture of herself next to Mao was enough to make her stand out. Unfortunately, the symbol is long-standing, despite being transformed from glorious to notorious; despite Song Binbin and her family becoming victims of the very revolution she had participated in; despite Song spending her adult life as a scientist, shying away from politics.\nBut the fact remains that the Red Guards did commit numerous acts of violence, and Song was a notable member of that collective. The violence was aimed at people who were labeled as enemies and the label, in turn, justified the violence. It's like in a war. Remember the American soldier who was tempted to shoot an Iraqi family in an insurgent controlled area? (\"Rules of Engagement\" by William Langewiesche in Vanity Fair, 2006, reprinted in Best American Magazine Writing 2007, has a great description of this.)\nOnly history can belatedly judge the justice or injustice of such actions, and the judges are never the litigants. \"Praise for good things doesn't go beyond a door; blame for bad things sounds out for thousands of miles.\" So goes a Chinese adage.\nSo far, few former Red Guards have come out and talked about their actions. Most are in their 60s now, remaining behind a wall of silence. I can understand their excuse that the violence they were involved in was circumstantial, non-personal, and, at the time, even politically correct. Still, I can't help but wonder: Had Song Binbin acknowledged her part in, clarified her position on, and properly expressed her sorrow for that tragic day of 1966, would people's reaction today have been more restrained? Would she have been forgiven by those who crouched in terror that day, as well as by those who had terrorized and now try to forget their shame?\nComments? Send a letter to the editor.\nAlbion Monitor December 22, 2007 (http://www.albionmonitor.com)\nContact rights@monitor.net for permission to use in any format."
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        "text": "Q: Why doesn't Microsoft Office/2008(& later) support RTL languages? I have Microsoft Office/2008 on my MacBook Pro. Office doesn't support RTL languages like Farsi and Arabic, and I know that Office/2010 (for Windows) also has the same problem.\nDo you think the lack of support is because of business competition, or some other reason?\n\nA: “Why” is a question for Microsoft, but I'm guessing it boils down to a simple lack of resources on the part of the Mac Business Unit. They have to prioritize certain features, and RTL support is not a priority for them.\nTo address the underlying need, you have several options:\nOpenOffice and NeoOffice support RTL text in Microsoft Office documents.\nMellel has a reputation as the best RTL/multilingual word processor (it certainly has a nice feature set for it, like a direction breaking space so you can mix RTL/LTR in a paragraph), but I don’t know how good its Microsoft Office document interoperability is.\nThis would also be a use case where it might make sense to run Office 2010 inside a Windows virtual machine.\n\nA: Microsoft has dragged their heels on support for RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic for years. It's always been 'coming in the next version' for as long as I've been using a Mac. Until it shows up, if it ever does, the premiere word processor for RTL languages on OS X is Mellel. It's actually quite great.\n\nA: Microsoft probably doesn't have the manpower and it uses custom code for layout, plus the market is relatively small as well.\nWhat's strange is that Apple's iWork doesn't work with RTL, although the OS (Cocoa framework) does support it.\nIndeed, OpenOffice (or NeoOffice) are the best alternatives for RTL languages.\nMellel should also work, but it's quite different in its approach to text editing.\n"
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        "text": "Anyone having a concept but not the experience can utilize ClickFunnels to start or broaden their business. The agency provides strategic business processes or funnels that entrepreneurs can employ, to compensate for lack of experience.\nSimply put a sales funnel is an automated process that contributes to a sale. Funnels can be big, or little, and if they’re done properly the right mixture of traffic leads you to success. A great video to see that explains what a sales funnel is can be found right here.\nIn just four short years, ClickFunnels has grown to over 55,000 clients and can rely over 200 millionaires among them. Creator Russell Brunson has built the fastest growing non-venture endorsed software company on the planet. Brunson started his company at the age of 12 when he gathered direct mail flyers. Throughout college, his hobby developed into an obsession. He offered everything from supplements to novels. Founding ClickFunnels has been Russell Brunson’s next logical step.\nThe trick to prosperity for Russell Brunson and his ClickFunnels Software is empowering others to a life that is successful. It’s natural for potential entrepreneurs to admit defeat if they don’t have any focus or goals. Brunson has produced a juggernaut of encouragement for anybody prepared to listen and read.\nExpert Secrets: This publication discusses the right message at the right time to enhance an individual’s life. Professional Keys helps to get an inviting message out to those most needing a reforming hand.\nDOTCOM Secrets: A playbook for increasing visitors and converting. The publication encourages the consumer to comprehend why they are not getting visitors and works to improve the fundamental issues.\nThe Funnel Hackers Cookbook: Funnel recipes to grow almost any business. This is the handbook for everyone thinking of utilizing ClickFunnels. It is easy-to-understand building blocks to achieve success.\nPlenty of organizations publicize their achievement with all the ClickFunnels software. One of them are Tony Robbins, Danielle Ford, Caleb Maddox and JucingVegatables.net.\nDanielle Ford, a movie and marketing strategist has utilized ClickFunnels within her path to success. Her sites Funnelin5.com and FordFunnels.com are excellent examples of a dynamic entrepreneur harnessing the power of ClickFunnels. Ford has used the program to promote her training videos and most recently recognized using ClickFunnels as a way to acquire a Trustee seat on the Clark County School Board.\nClickFunnels gives any possible user the knowledge to start with the software. There are several membership opportunities and new users may have a 14-day free trial to ensure the program is what your business requirements. With the free trial, you can find a feeling of the program, choose a funnel and examine all of the options and templates. The trial gives you considerable time and allows potential users to make certain they have a clear grasp of the ClickFunnels software before committing.\nRussell Brunson has created a management of success, for everyone who dreams of having a business. ClickFunnels has everything."
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        "text": "Beginners BBQ Class Taking Place in Missoula!\nDo you want to get better at making delicious BBQ? You will have the opportunity, put this on your calendar now. Thursday, September 22nd join World Class BBQ Champion, Tony Balay from Lonestar Smoke Rangers. He will be teaching a beginner level class for everyone who wants to get better with their culinary skills.\nHe will teach you everything you need to know to compete in a KCBS BBQ competition, including techniques, recipes, timelines, meat selection and trimming, plus smoker and fire information.\nThe cost to be in the class is $35 per person, and for spectators it is free. Included in the cost will be either a t-shirt or apron and you will be tasting samples of each meat that is prepared."
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        "text": "package kg.jl.common;\n\nimport android.content.Context;\nimport android.support.test.InstrumentationRegistry;\nimport android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4;\n\nimport org.junit.Test;\nimport org.junit.runner.RunWith;\n\nimport static org.junit.Assert.*;\n\n/**\n * Instrumentation test, which will execute on an Android device.\n *\n * @see <a href=\"http://d.android.com/tools/testing\">Testing documentation</a>\n */\n@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)\npublic class ExampleInstrumentedTest {\n    @Test\n    public void useAppContext() throws Exception {\n        // Context of the app under test.\n        Context appContext = InstrumentationRegistry.getTargetContext();\n\n        assertEquals(\"kg.jl.common.test\", appContext.getPackageName());\n    }\n}\n"
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        "text": "Q: Repair Disk - Start up disk options I had a power failure and upon rebooting noticed that the OS drive needed to be repaired (Disk Utilities). I am running Snow Leopard and don't have the CD to start up from in order to perform the fix.\nAre there any other options for running the repair utils on the startup disk?\n\nA: One option would be to clone your startup drive to an external disk using something like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Then you can use System Preferences->Startup Disk to select that external drive as the boot drive. \nOnce you've rebooted and are running the system off the external drive you can use Disk Utility to run the repair. After you're done, re-select the internal drive as the Startup Disk and reboot.\n\nA: One option that doesn't require any external drives or disks:\nDisk Utility's repair disk is largely* a thin wrapper over the unix fsck (stands for \"File System Check\") utility.  You can run it by:\n\n\n*\n\n*Booting into \"Single User Mode\" by rebooting and holding command-S during startup.\n\n*A command-line input will appear; enter /sbin/fsck -fy\n\n*Wait for it to complete.  If you see **** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** then run it again, since sometimes fixing the first errors will uncover more.\n\n*Repeat until it says that the disk appears to be ok.\n\n*Enter Reboot to boot normally.\n\n\n*I can't find any indication that Disk Utility's \"Repair Disk\" function does anything that fsck doesn't.  Nonetheless, Apple recommends that you use Disk Utility instead when that is an option.\n"
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        "text": "Home » Projects » Themes » National Cultural Policy profile for Mongolia\nThe national profile of Mongolian cultural policy has been commissioned under the aegis of WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies. The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in association with the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Tourism of Mongolia and Arts Council Mongolia, have been instrumental in kick-starting this project.\nThe Mongolian profile will be launched on the WorldCP website later this year. This launch will also showcase previously commissioned profiles from Singapore, Vietnam, India and South Korea. ASEF supports the WorldCP initiative through its Asia-Europe Dialogue on Cultural Policies programme.\nWorldCP aims to provide easy online access to up-to-date and comprehensive information on arts and cultural policies. The initiative also promotes the exchange and facilitates dialogue on policy-making between Asia and Europe. It is promoted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and a consortium of partners from around the world."
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        "text": "Entries in Beyonce (1)\nMarco Rubio: Jay-Z Needs to Get Informed on Cuba\nSTR/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio Sunday morning slammed Jay-Z over his recent trip to Cuba, saying on This Week that the rapper needed to “get informed” and that he missed an opportunity to meet the politically oppressed people that live on the island nation south of Florida.\n“I think Jay-Z needs to get informed. One of his heroes is Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a racist that wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent, so he should inform himself on the guy that he’s propping up,” Rubio said during an interview with ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.\n“Secondly, I think if Jay-Z was truly interested in the true state of affairs in Cuba, he would have met people that are being oppressed, including a hip-hop artist in Cuba who is right now being oppressed and persecuted and is undergoing a hunger strike because of his political lyrics,” Rubio added. “And I think he missed an opportunity. But that’s Jay-Z’s issue.”\nAfter returning from Cuba last week, Jay-Z produced a new rap entitled “Open Letter,” in which he criticized politicians for questioning his trip with his wife Beyoncé to the communist nation. The trip was authorized by the Treasury Department under a licensed program that encourages “meaningful contacts” with the Cuban people.\nRubio, who is of Cuban descent, criticized current U.S. travel policy to the island, which he said was being run by a “tyrannical regime.”\n“The bigger point is the travel policies. The travel policies need to be tightened because they are being abused,” Rubio said. “These are tourist trips, and they are – what they’re doing is providing hard currency and funding so that a tyrannical regime can maintain its grip on the island of Cuba, and I think that’s wrong.”\nSunday, April 14, 2013 at 12:17PM by Kelly Knaub Permalink\ntagged Beyonce, Cuba, Jay-Z, Marco Rubio in Politics General"
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        "text": "If you have unpredictable tastes, but only focus on one show at a time, it might be most cost efficient to just buy all your television a la carte. For the price of a year of cable, the average viewer can buy 26 seasons of TV. Assuming these are all 45 minute shows with 14 episodes, that’s almost 300 hours of content. If you can’t ever imagine yourself watching more than that, then this plan is for you. Don’t forget to grab a TV antenna for major live events like the Oscars or the Super Bowl, or if you just want the option of kicking back and watching prime time now and then.\nBundles that include television service are offered by cable and phone companies. Since fiber-optic is only available in limited areas, the phone companies usually also offer a bundle where the TV component is delivered by a partner satellite TV company. In any case, bundling TV with some combination of home phone and Internet can yield monthly savings. Click below to see and compare bundle offers.\nAmazon has already taken steps toward this idea. Its customers can subscribe to different content providers through Amazon Video Channels, including traditional television providers like HBO and Showtime as well as streaming content providers like Britbox and IndiePix Unlimited, then view them all through Amazon Prime Video. Individual accounts and payments are still required, but the notion of one killer app or portal that allows access to everything is such an enticing idea that it’s difficult to imagine that companies aren’t already discussing the possibility. And Xfinity’s deals with Netflix and Amazon suggest that even guarded companies with a strong proprietary interest in their original content are willing to come on board.\n(It’s worth noting that Sarah’s not really a television addict, but that she likes to have the TV on in the background while she’s doing busywork, of which she has quite a bit from her job. You can often find her in the late evenings with about 70% attention on some low-intensity work task and about 30% attention on something on the television. Personally, I prefer to listen to white noise when working, but to each their own.)\nThe major network channels are all broadcast in HD. And you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that the quality of uncompressed HD video in an antenna feed is actually superior to what you've been getting with your cable box. Cable operators have to deliver hundreds of channels, plus broadband and phone service over a single connection to your home, so the TV signal is usually compressed to conserve bandwidth. Not so with your OTA feed. The difference is immediately noticeable. Outside of a Blu-ray movie, this is the best output I've ever seen on my TV. And did I mention the channels are free?\nPlayStation Vue plans aren’t that much cheaper than traditional cable or satellite, so it’s probably not the best option if you‘re cutting the cord to save money. It does offer a 5-day free trial, so you can test it out (two days shorter than any other streaming service), but make sure to cancel by day five, or you‘ll be charged for the whole month.\nIf you’ve ever doubted the excellence of YouTube, perform this simple exercise. Pick a favorite band or musical act, type in its name followed by “live” or “in concert”. It doesn’t matter what era we’re talking about, you’re going to find something amazing to watch – and it won’t be a program that you’ll ever find offered by Comcast, Spectrum or any other cable TV or satellite company.\nI hate to be a downer but I think I see some things coming that are a continuation of manipulation of the content consumers (us) get, with how we can view and how we will still have what we pay maximized over us. I think that the content providers are likely going to give us a complete on demand service so we won’t have to mess with a dvr system. But guess what, that then gives the providers full control over what exactly is provided. What I mean is they are going to make sure we cannot move to where we want timewise in a program easily and we certainly can only avoid some of the commercials if any of them. The content providers are going to make sure any deal they make requires this kind of thing and allows for no in house dvr systems. I have to watch some programming on the nbc sports site (on demand) and it is an eyeopener as to how awful and controlled that viewing experience is.\nWe mentioned before: YouTube TV is not YouTube Red. Red is more like an advanced, commercial-free version of regular ol' YouTube. The YouTube TV option costs more and has a lot of catching up to do to rival the other live TV streaming services. It's in limited cities, has limited channels, and is available on limited devices (Chromecast, Android, iOS, LG and Samsung TVs, Xbox One, and browsers on PCs). It doesn't even bundle in YouTube Red as part of the service—you'd have to spend another $10 a month on Red to keep ads out of your regular YouTube streaming. Premium channel add-ons include $11-a-month Showtime, $5-a-month Shudder, and $7-per-month Sundance. The big plus: unlimited storage in the cloud-based DVR option.\nCable TV was once the ultimate entertainment necessity. The over-the-air days of VHF/UHF television signals couldn't keep up with voracious viewers who needed more, more, more channels. Having a cable directly pumping all that content into your home became the norm, and the cable providers—which likely provide your high-speed broadband internet access as well—knew they had you on the hook.\nThen take a look at that list you’ve been putting together. How is it looking? Chances are it may appear a little messy with many side notes and some networks scribbled out. If so, good. Maybe for the first time in your life, you’re taking a hard look at what you are spending on a channel by channel basis. That’s essentially the worst nightmare of cable TV operators.\nThere are plenty of cable service providers in the country and most of them offer attractive packages or plans to their customers at affordable prices. However, customers who are in search of a cable service provider commonly asks, “who is the best cable service provider in the country” and “how can I acquire a cheap cable TV deal from the providers”.\nIn broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord-cutters, cancelling their subscriptions to multichannel subscription television services available over cable, dropping pay television channels or reducing the number of hours of subscription TV viewed in response to competition from rival media available over the Internet such as Amazon Prime, Sling TV, Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix and YouTube Premium. This Internet content is either free or significantly cheaper than the same content provided via cable.\nI get asked about the best cable TV alternatives on a regular basis by readers so I wanted to write a post that outlines some of the cheaper alternatives to cable TV that still let you watch the shows you like. If you want to cut the cord and wonder what channels you can get without cable, this post shows the best cable replacement services to consider.\nNot only do you have access to stream over 40,000 hit movies and TV shows, but you get free music, books, and unlimited photo storage as well. Your membership also includes free 2-day shipping from Amazon.com regardless of the order size. Some metropolitan areas offer 2-hour shipping. For more information, check out all the benefits you receive with Amazon Prime.\nCableTV.com makes it easy to pick an Internet and TV service provider in Dallas. We have the scoop on Internet and TV provider options in Dallas, TX, including product reviews and prices for packages available in your area. With all that information readily available, you can quickly compare your options and determine which Internet and TV services fit your needs and your budget.\nIt could be true that choosing one of these options won’t get you all of shows you could get with cable. However, if you truly want to get rid of cable, knowing what some of the options are can help you choose the BEST one. Then you can make the decision of whether or not it is worth it to spend the additional money to get the extra one or two channels through cable OR sacrifice one or two shows to save a BUNCH of money. It just depends your priorities.\nIf you don't feel like paying exorbitant cable or satellite fees, but still crave the sweet pablum of basic cable programming, you can always try a cable-replacement service. These online streaming subscriptions deliver live (and on-demand) channels over the internet, and while they're not cheap, they're not as hellaciously expensive as traditional cable or satellite fees. If streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video aren't enough for you, read on to find out how you can reintroduce live TV into your home without signing your life away to an onerous cable contract.\nMy plan is to use sling and alternate between Amazon Prime and Netflix for certain things. I don’t need them all year. Amazon Prime will be a month around xmas, and then 6 months later. Then 1 month for Netflix to catch things I want to watch there in between. No need for a full year. I may use sling. Depends on what all channels and shows I can find there. I have never had much luck cutting a deal with comcast though, and I will still be dependent on them for internet.\nParks Associates estimated that in 2008, about 0.9 million American households relied entirely on the Internet for television viewing; by 2017, this figure had increased to 22.2 million.[2] Leichtman Research Group found that six percent of Americans watched at least one show online each week in 2008, a figure that grew to eight percent in 2009. The number of Americans subscribing to cable service increased two percent in 2008, but the growth had slowed. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. found that in the fourth quarter of 2008, the increase was seven-tenths of one percent, or 220,000 homes, the lowest ever recorded.[3] A Centris report showed that 8% of Americans expected to cancel their pay television service by the third quarter of 2009. About half of Americans tried to get a better deal from a provider other than the one they were subscribed to. Amazon Video, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Sling TV and YouTube, made cancelling service possible for those who would be unable to see their favorite programs over the air. Sports programming was a big reason for not cancelling pay television service, although online options existed for many events. Another problem was the inability to watch many programs live, or at least soon enough in the case of a television series.[4]\nI am now paying a total of $184/month to Spectrum for my 3 in1 package! I am a 67 year old woman. I really need to lower my expenses for all three services. This is the best most detailed article I have found. But I still don’t know where to begin. I need is to know what steps to take. Is it possible to talk to you so you can walk me through. Thank you.\nI am really excited that I found this site. I am beginning our quest to cut the cord. First, I plan to make the indoor DIY antenna that was demonstrated in the video. Next, I will be calling Verizon to strong-arm them into a serious reduction. We currently pay close to $180 a month for Fios service (cable TV, phone and internet) we do not use DVR service and only have 2 TVs (one with an HD box and one with a standard box. I wish to keep only the phone and internet service. We have an Amazon Fire Stick and are looking to get the most out of it. Wish me luck… momma needs a new pair of shoes!!!\nSony PS4 (starting at $299.99) / Microsoft XBox ($299 to $499): One of the biggest unexpected players in this space has been the major video game console companies. The Sony PS4 and Xbox One X are state-of-the-art in terms of their streaming capabilities, and they’re even creating their own services that attempt to serve the same functions as traditional cable TV. (More on that later.) The Xbox One S, Microsoft’s previous model, was still for sale as of August 2018, at $200 less than the One X. Click here to compare the two on the Xbox website.\nDIRECTV is the go to satellite TV provider for sports fanatics. Get exclusive access to every live game every Sunday with NFL Sunday Ticket. Watch your favorite teams on your TV or stream the games on your laptop, phone, tablet, or gaming console. NFL Sunday Ticket also comes with the DIRECTV Fantasy Zone Channel, so you can get all the stats you need on your fantasy team. You'll also have access to Player Tracker, which lets you keep tabs on the stats of your 20 favorite players. Have too many live games going on at the same time? The DIRECTV Red Zone Channel lets you watch multiple games at once, on the same screen. You'll never miss a touchdown again.\nWith the exception of Sling TV and HBO Now, the latter of which is available for $15 per month, prices for these services start at under $10 apiece. It’s easy to mix-and-match providers as none of these companies require contracts. You can even share login info with a friend down the block or sibling on the other side of the country, without worrying about anyone getting on your case.\nThe newest leg of CBS’s digital effort is a free sports streaming service called CBS Sports HQ. There is no games or any other sporting events. CBS Sports aims to be a destination for game highlights and talk about your favorite teams. It will be interesting to see where CBS takes this platform in the months ahead. CBS Sports HQ is available on the web or within the CBSN app.\nOffer(s) valid with 12 month Promotional Discount. Local TV regularly $25.95/month.Wave digital equipment required on every connected TV. $2.72/month Interactive Equipment Fee on first digital or HD receiver. STARZ and STARZ ENCORE regularly $12/month each or $17/month for both. MOVIEPLEX regularly $5/month. After 12 months, Roku regularly $5/month. $100 Visa gift cardand Free Installation offer good with online order of High Speed 100 and up at 12-months, with offer code “CYBER100”. Customers must be in good standing for 90 days in order to be eligible for the Visa gift card. After 90 days, customers will receive an email with instruction on how to redeem the gift card online. Free Installation, regularly $60, is good for online orders with offer code “CYBER18”, and includes set-up for up to 2 TVs on existing outlets. Additional outlet and special wiring fees may apply. Serviceable areas only. Prices subject to change. Not valid with other offers. Certain restrictions and additional fees may apply. Call for complete details. WASHINGTON RESIDENTS: The base rates listed are subject to a 2% Regulatory Recovery Fee, which added together determines the total price.\nThe first thing you may want to consider is an HD antenna. This doesn't provide a way to watch streaming videos, but if you want to watch live TV, it's the cheapest and simplest solution. You may remember having rabbit ears on your hand-me-down TV as a kid — an HD antenna is basically the modern-day version of that. You hook the device into your TV, put it somewhere near a window and watch as the free channels roll in.\nHappily, the NFL has remained committed to airing local market and national games on free broadcast TV networks, so your TV antenna is going to provide ample football coverage! You'll get Sunday games, Sunday Night Football and Thursday Night Football. The only thing missing is Monday Night Football, which is only available on ESPN. There's now a great solution for cord cutters to get ESPN at a low cost and we'll explain more in the Streaming Services section below.\nBonuses\tUnlimited internet data, HD channels, access to AT&T Wi-Fi network, 3 months of free premium channels\tFree Contour HD receiver, free premium channel of your choice for 1 yr\t24/7 customer support team, comes with HD DVR service to record up to 2,000 hours\tHigh internet speeds, unlimited internet data, free HD, free Spectrum TV App for multiple device viewing\tOptional DVR and premium channels, can customize cable package to your family\tHighest internet speeds for the lowest monthly price\nMany cord cutters opt for online streaming services to save money on TV. But in reality, those cord cutters often end up spending more money than they would for a cable TV package. To get all of your favorite shows and networks, you would probably need to get subscriptions from multiple streaming services. Add up the combined costs of Hulu, Netflix, and Sling TV, and you're at about $40. For the same price, you could get a DIRECTV package with over 155 channels and thousands of on demand titles to access on the go. Why limit yourself to just a few networks and deal with the hassle of paying for multiple streaming services?\nYour Local Library: Your local library will most likely have a decent selection of DVD movies that you can check out for a week or more. In fact, many libraries will actually buy copies of new releases that you can reserve. My local library tends to be a bit picked over, but if you get on a waiting list you can usually find movies or TV shows you’d enjoy watching.\nAdam… there are countless options and opinions out there on what’s “best” but it all boils down to what the readers want and need. The wife and I cut cable completely about 6-7 years ago. We have internet only for $50/mo. We now have a $4 a month (taxes only) VOIP phone (Ooma) for home phone, cut our cell phones down to bare minimum $5/mo. plans and rolled the savings to an amazing 55″ OLED SmarTV television on an open box deal. Between the apps on that, the computer attached by HDMI, the over the air antenna and free apps and web sites, we don’t need any of the devices or subscriptions to have it all… and then some. There’s no need for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Sling, Philo, Fire Stick or anything. Our motto is keep it simple. We get library access online 24/7 and instead of asking “what’s on TV tonight?” the question is “what do you WANT on TV tonight?” … $54/month total… we’re good!\nI ‘Cut the Cord’ a few months ago on National Cord Cutting Day (it was coincidence). YouTube TV through Chromecast for my older TV’s. Called and threatened to cancel the internet and phone from Comcast until I got hte Retention Specialist. Now I got the cheapest and fastest internet and phone and I’m still saving just over $100 a month. Sad thing is my wife already figured out how to spend those savings and then some…\nNetflix ($7.99/mo., $10.99/mo., $13.99/mo.): What HBO has been to premium cable, Netflix has been to subscription streaming services, offering buzzed-about programming that anyone who wants to be “in the know” regarding contemporary television needs to see. It got a head-start on its competitors by producing must-see original content, and it continues to expand its library every month with new series and movies that generate a lot of buzz. (Think “Orange Is the New Black,” “Stranger Things,” “BoJack Horseman” or “Jessica Jones”) The service has been licensing fewer older TV shows and films in recent years, but it still offers a lot of high-quality product from those realms, including great British television, recent CW and Fox series and a surprisingly healthy amount of contemporary foreign cinema.\nI put a couple of units to the test and found that the new breed of antennas really work as advertised. In an environment like New York City with numerous obstacles to transmission towers, a major selling point of cable TV in the analog era was that it was the only reliable way to get a clear signal from the free network channels. But today, on a lower floor of my Brooklyn brownstone, I can get 60 OTA channels with a small tabletop antenna like the $50 Mohu Curve, which has a 30-mile antenna range. It did take a bit of trial and error to find the spot in the room with the strongest signal for most stations, but I got the best results by placing it near a window.\nSome providers have both TV and internet available to bundle. Other providers sell TV only or internet only. Companies that offer only one service often partner with TV-only or internet-only counterparts to provide a complete service. For example, satellite TV can be paired with DSL or fiber internet to save you time and money. Using our handy comparison tool, you can look at all TV-only, internet-only, and TV-and-internet options available in your area.\nLet’s get some of bad news out of the way. If your goal in cord-cutting is to save money — but you’d prefer not to lose access to anything you’re currently watching via your cable or satellite subscription — then you should be aware that the money you save on one bill may be immediately redistributed to another. Additionally, unless you want your “Game of Thrones” episodes to look blurry and choppy, you’ll want to make sure you have the proper internet package.\nTelevision manufacturers have been moving toward “smart TVs” that connect to the internet and provide access to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and the like. The selection of apps on these sets vary depending on licensing agreements made between the manufacturers and the O.T.T. services. (O.T.T. is short for “over the top,” a term applied to any streaming media provider to which a consumer can subscribe directly.) Also, not all of them will let you plug in and get a seamless, cable-like TV experience without any other hardware. The technology and interfaces are certain to improve in the years ahead, but for now, for the best results, you’re better off just investing in a set-top box.\nThe comments about Spectrum DVRs are not accurate based on our experience. We have Spectrum (previously Time Warner) and our DVR allows us to record 4 channels simultaneously (not 2) while watching a fifth channel. Also, our DVR can store substantially more than 21 hours of HD content as the review claims. I’m only guessing, but I’m sure we are able to store at least 100 hours of content. Overall, we’ve been satisfied with the Gold package. There are lots of channels including premium channels (HBO, Showtime, NFL Network, etc.) and there are decent mobile viewing capabilities. The Spectrum app allows you to watch all content and manage DVR settings when you’re connected to your home Wi-Fi. Substantially fewer channels are available on the Spectrum app when accessed via the internet; however, this is shortfall can largely be made up by downloading the apps for individual channels such as HBO Go, Show Anytime, Max Go, etc. On the negative side, Spectrum is expensive and the internet speeds never measure up to what they advertise. Instead of getting 100Mbps we get about 50 down/35 up. In fairness, most people I talk to all seem to have the same complaint about their service provider. And, of course, the customer service generally stinks.\nAll services may not be available in all areas. Subject to change without notice. Some restrictions may apply. Installation fees may apply. Offers valid for new residential customers only. Promotional rates apply for 12 months. After 12 months, standard local rates will apply. All prices exclude applicable taxes, fees and one time charges. See other applicable terms and conditions below. To receive all services, Digital TV, remote and lease of a Digital set-top box required. Some services are not available to CableCARD customers. Not all equipment supports all services. HD set-top box and HDTV set required for HD service. All services may not be available in all areas. Subject to change without notice. Some restrictions may apply. Installation fees may apply. Offers valid for new residential customers only. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners TM and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Time Warner Cable and the Time Warner Cable logo are trademarks of Time Warner Inc. Used under license. ©2014 Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC. All rights reserved.\nHere at Providers By Zip, we’re fully aware that analyzing and comparing television and internet service providers can be a lengthy, complex process. With so many different television and internet providers per zip code, it can be an incredibly tough choice to make. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to make the decision easier for you and eliminate any unnecessary hassle. Your days are busy enough without the additional stress of having to conduct research into numerous different service providers. Our helpful service is now known to be one of the leading internet and television comparison tools.\nWe haven’t mentioned customer service with other cable TV providers, but we think we should emphasize that Xfinity customer service is known for being especially terrible. We understand if you’re not surprised—Xfinity has earned its reputation. However, many of us still use Xfinity because it’s the best of what’s available (most people have access to only one or two cable TV providers in their area).\nCable TV is fairly easy to install, but it can also be time-consuming. Cable companies will send someone to install the system of cables and cable boxes for you. However, these appointments can eat up a lot of time and cost extra. Cable companies generally don’t give a specific price quote for their installation services, but installation service can often run as high as $200 depending on the provider.\nNo cable service truly offers a la carte cable TV. However, through VUDU, iTunes and Amazon (even if you’re not a Prime Instant Video subscriber) you can buy episodes of entire seasons of shows a la carte. This includes shows currently airing. At first, that might seem expensive, but shows are $1.99 an episode and you can get a discount on the season pass. I saved a ton of cash this way when my family cut the cord. My family purchases only 3-4 season passes a year, keeping it under $10 a month.\nHowever, customers who do not have a cable TV service at their home will also be able to subscribe to a cable internet service, as most cable TV providers offer standalone internet service to customers. However, if you are planning to bundle either two or three of your services, get in touch with your preferred cable TV provider, as they will also be able to help you with that. Below are a few factors that you need to consider before subscribing to a certain cable internet service provider.\nMany rely on their cable provider for home phone service. Like most of their services, it can be replaced with a much cheaper internet based service. For those who need a little more than a cell phone after they ditch their cable TV subscription, I recommend PhonePower (formerly BroadVoice.) They are an affordable and reliable phone service provider that uses your existing internet connection.\nThe first change is time. TV can suck you in and not let you go. It’s easy to justify killing 15 or 20 minutes when you have a few minutes of down time. But sometimes that 15 or 20 minutes can turn into an hour or two. We are now more intentional with what we watch and when we watch it. Channel surfing is a thing of the past. I find TV much more enjoyable when I plan my viewing time – that way I don’t feel guilty or feel like I could be doing something more productive.\nOnce tuners that could receive select mid-band and super-band channels began to be incorporated into standard television sets, broadcasters were forced to either install scrambling circuitry or move these signals further out of the range of reception for early cable-ready TVs and VCRs. However, once all 181 allocated cable channels[which?] had been incorporated, premium broadcasters were left with no choice but to scramble.\nBear in mind that, if you’re on the ball, there’s also plenty you can watch for free — with no need to subscribe to anything. This may change in the future as major media companies put more of their products behind a paywall, but for now, some major channels (like ABC, Fox, the CW and PBS) make select episodes of their shows available online for nothing, for a limited time after their original broadcasts. You can watch them through a web browser or through an app on your set-top box.\nOverall, Amazon is still playing catch-up when it comes to Netflix and other streaming services just because they don’t have as much content. However, at technically $8.25 / month it is a bit cheaper than your typical $8.99 or $9.99 package, and you get free, 2-day shipping as a perk. If you shop online a lot, that could end up swinging your choice.\nCable-replacement streaming services work exactly the same as having cable — live channels presented in real time — except they come streaming over the Internet rather than via an analog wire. The upside is that you don't have to give up the channels that you love. Sling TV carries multiple ESPN stations, plus Cartoon Network, TBS, Bloomberg, CNN, History and dozens of others. PlayStation Vue offers SyFy, Spike, USA, VH1, Fox News, Nickelodeon and more. You can also record programs to watch later on PS Vue, just like you would with a cable DVR box.\nOne of the advantages of unplugging from the physical cable sticking out of a socket in your home is that you’re free to enjoy the entertainment you’re paying for on any screen you happen to have handy, be it a laptop, tablet or mobile phone. Many streaming services, like Netflix and Hulu, keep track of what you’re watching and will let you pause a show or movie on one device, then pick it up later on another device."
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        "text": "Q: How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor? I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button.  It would be nice if this second click wasn't needed, which leads me to my question:\n\nHow can I make it so that when I move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, it becomes active?\n\n\nA: This is freely possible for the Terminal and X11 :\n\ndefaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES\ndefaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true\n\nOr, OS-wise, with a utility that seems to fit your needs, called MondoMouse.\n\nA: I originally wanted to do this with my first Mac a couple years ago as well, since that's how my Linux and Windows environments behave.  But I think the driving force preventing this from becoming a reality is in how OS X handles application menus.\nWhat if you want to go to the menu at the top of the screen for an application you're using, but in the process briefly hover over another application?  That would become infuriating quickly.\nIn short, I don't think its doable for that and potentially other reasons.\n\nA: Best little utility I stumbled upon is Zooom/2. Strange name, hence hard to find. You can choose delay (Rather cumbersome, OS X and global menu is not designed to allow that). I set it to focus window under cursor instantly when Option key is pressed. Great value, no dock or tray icons, it just works.\n\nA: Amethyst (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst) is excellent. \nFollow the README.md instructions to download, and then enable \"Focus Follows Mouse\" in the Misc. section of the Settings view.\n"
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        "text": "Q: With multiple monitors, can I pick which one an application will load on? In Spaces it's possible to specify which space a given application will open on -- for example, my web browser always opens on Space 1 and iTunes on Space 3.  Is something similar possible with multiple monitors, so that whichever space I'm on a certain application will always open on the second monitor?  For even more control, can I specify that it will always open on Monitor 2 of Space 4?\n\nA: Not with the default Apple Spaces.\nThere is an alternative, though. CocoaBots makes a small app called Hyperspaces which builds upon the default Spaces and adds a bunch of cool features. Multi-monitor support is coming to their next release.\nhttp://thecocoabots.com/blog/post/148/hyperspaces-104-and-the-road-to-11/\n\nA: Stay App sounds like it might do what you want.\n\nIf you’re fastidious about keeping\n  your windows tidy, Stay is for you.\n  Stay ensures that your windows are\n  always where you want them to be, even\n  as you connect and disconnect\n  displays.\n\n"
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        "text": "EXCLUSIVE!! BLACK AND TANS FETISHISM EXPOSED!\nMEAT EXPORTERS AND INSURANCE.......\nMichael Noonan (left), the Fine Gael spokesperson on Finance and former (State) Minister for Health, spoke on the export credit insurance issue. His remarks were based largely on John Bruton's speech (in Leinster House) in September 1994. From 'Magill' magazine, October 1997.\n\"No additional jobs would result from the gift of £2.74 million to the Goodman organisation, because the Goodman group had the deal which was going to create the jobs in the bag for the previous two months. The Minister's actions were a clear and deliberate breach of a Cabinet decision and this has never been fully explained. The way in which Deputy Reynolds dealt with granting export credit to other companies was arbitrary and unfair. At the meeting on 8th September between Deputy Reynolds and Mr Paschal Phelan, the owner of 'Master Meats'. Mr Oliver Murphy, the owner of Hibernia Meats, was also present. Mr Murphy had been making representations, directly and indirectly, to Deputy Reynolds to no avail.\nHe was trying to get a piece of the action on export credit insurance cover which, until then, had been made exclusively available to the Goodman organisation. The difficulty was that Hibernia Meats was owed money by Iraq and the Minister had made it clear up to then that any company owed money by that country would not receive cover. However, at this remarkable meeting, to which no officials from the Minister's Department were invited to attend, out of the blue and without explanation, Deputy Reynolds did an about-face on the question of issuing export credit insurance cover to Hibernia Meats. Suddenly the Cabinet decision did not matter and Deputy Reynolds, at a meeting attended by himself and two others, but not by officials from the Department of Industry and Commerce or a representative of the insurance company ICI, decided to issue export credit insurance to Hibernia Meats.\nAt that meeting, Deputy Reynolds also agreed to give £10 million export credit insurance cover to Master Meats, the company of his friend, Paschal Phelan, who was also present. This was an amazing decision because there was no record of Master Meats having applied to the Minister or to the Department of Industry and Commerce or to ICI for export credit insurance cover in respect of Iraq. Master Meats had no contract to export beef to Iraq when it was offered the £10 million cover, and subsequently made little attempt to negotiate a contract. It must be remembered that, shortly after , a host of beef exporting companies which had negotiated contracts with Iraq were refused insurance cover. Master Meats did not use the cover provided by Deputy Reynolds , but transferred it to Hibernia Meats , and we do not know whether this was done at no cost or for a commercial consideration. However, the worth of what was transferred to Hibernia Meats in terms of cover in the marketplace amounted to £1.7 million. Master Meats never applied for cover however due to the attendance of its principal officer at the meeting in question it received such cover.\" (MORE LATER).\nTHE ANATOMY OF AN AFTERNOON : THE STORY OF THE GIBRALTAR KILLINGS........\nBy Michael O'Higgins and John Waters. From 'Magill Magazine' , October 1988.\nFor a month, coroner Felix Pizzarello had demonstrated that patience was not just his virtue but his trademark. There was tortuous examination and re-examination of witnesses to make sure that even the smallest of details was clarified before a witness was allowed leave the box. At times it was tedious, but Felix Pizzarello, in the minds of everybody attending the inquest, showed a determination to be thorough and the time it took to do this was - quite correctly - irrelevant. Some of the witnesses had been in the box longer than the jury were out considering their verdict. The jury had to evaluate the evidence of over ninty witnesses and now Pizzarello, after five-and-a-half-hours (which included an hour's break for lunch) was telling them to hurry up. From this point on it was a stopwatch verdict.\nSome inkling of what was going through Pizzarello's mind might well be gleaned from a conversation a senior official from the coroner's office had with a couple of journalists earlier that afternnon , during which the official seemed to favour a quick result. He quoted Cardinal Hume who once said that in matters of judgement it is well to have second thoughts but in matters of conscience there must be none.\nThe court resumed at 7pm - the pressure exerted on them had worked. They sent a message down to say they hoped to bring in a verdict in fifteen minutes. The stopwatch had run its course and it was now into extra time. The pressure which had been imposed on them favoured a lawful killing verdict. Two hours previously, the jury had been in favour of a lawful verdict by seven to four but, with the clock running, it was a lot easier to change the minds of two people in order to get a verdict of lawful killing than to change the minds of five others to get a verdict of unlawful killing. The packed court waited as the tension rose.... (MORE LATER).\nTHE MIKE AND MARTINA SHOW.\nMartina Anderson : 'Northern Ireland' description for the partitioned six-county area of Ireland is now acceptable to these 'republicans',apparently.\nFor any so-called 'republican' to allow the term 'Northern Ireland' to go unchallenged, in reference to the occupied six counties of Ireland, is just as unforgivable as referring to that same area as a \"country\" , which is what Martina's nemesis, Mike Nesbitt done in the same comment in which he highlighted her acceptance of the term 'Northern Ireland' in relation to the six north-eastern Irish counties under discussion.\nIf perchance one of her own attempts to reprimand her over her 'Northern Ireland' blunder she should ask why it's ok to describe Leinster House as \"the Dáil\" but not ok to describe the occupied six counties as 'Northern Ireland'. In for a cent, in for a pound, eh, Martina?\nBRANDED BY DEBT.....\n\"...they persecute the most poor people and benefit the richest institutions...\"\nHe has his demons, as have we all and, although I wouldn't be a fan of his (to the extent that I don't even know anyone that thinks he's 'cool') but, to be honest, he makes more sense re the proposed/enforced double-water tax in this State in these ten minutes than the political clowns in Leinster House that are trying to introduce the double tax. Also, his views on voting (\"I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites..\") would be close enough to my own 'NOTA' viewpoint and, as such, I would be inclined to at least listen to the man when he speaks about issues like that. But there's no way I'd vote for him!\nON THIS DATE (19TH NOVEMBER) 216 YEARS AGO : DEATH OF THEOBALD WOLFE TONE.\nBorn in Dublin on the 20th June 1763, he died in that same city 35 years later, on the 19th November 1798.\nIn September 1798, Wolfe Tone, a fighter for Irish emancipation, a leader of the 'United Irishmen' group, and a soldier in the French army, was taken prisoner by the British at Lough Swilly , Donegal and, at his 'trial' by court-martial in Dublin, on the 8th November 1798, he was found guilty of treason and was sentenced to be hanged as a traitor.\nMore so to state his reasons for his activity than in an attempt to place himself at the 'mercy' of that British 'court' (he was well aware that a death sentence awaited him) he stated - \"I entered into the service of the French republic with the sole view of being useful to my country. To contend against British Tyranny, I have braved the fatigues and terrors of the field of battle; I have sacrificed my comfort, have courted poverty, have left my wife unprotected, and my children without a father. After all I have done for a sacred cause, death is no sacrifice. In such enterprises, everything depends on success: Washington succeeded – Kosciusko failed. I know my fate, but I neither ask for pardon nor do I complain. I admit openly all I have said, written, and done, and am prepared to meet the consequences. As, however, I occupy a high grade in the French army, I would request that the court, if they can, grant me the favour that I may die the death of a soldier......I have laboured to abolish the infernal spirit of religious persecution, by uniting the Catholics and Dissenters. To the former I owe more than ever can be repaid. The service I was so fortunate as to render them they rewarded munificently; but they did more: when the public cry was raised against me—when the friends of my youth swarmed off and left me alone—the Catholics did not desert me; they had the virtue even to sacrifice their own interests to a rigid principle of honour; they refused, though strongly urged, to disgrace a man who, whatever his conduct towards the Government might have been, had faithfully and conscientiously discharged his duty towards them; and in so doing, though it was in my own case, I will say they showed an instance of public virtue of which I know not whether there exists another example.\"\nHis speech/request from the dock, although listened to and commented on by the British judges,was not however acted on by them : two days later he was pronounced guilty and told he would be hanged in two days time. At that time in our history, suicide was considered by all the churches in Ireland to be a 'mortal sin' and a crime under common law, for which the punishment was that the person who killed themselves would be buried, with a wooden stake through the heart, at a crossroads (to signify that the soul of the person would never arrive at its 'destination'?) and his/her's possessions would become the property of the (British) State.It should be noted that the then 'powers-that-be' did not impose this punishment on Tone or his family.\nWhat is, in our opinion, a propaganda theory that 'Tone committed suicide' is an issue which we wrote about on this blog in the past (see 'Murder Most Foul', here,from March 9th to March 18th - each post can be read by clicking on the 'Newer Post' button) and we ask that our readers at least point this position out to those who state positively that Tone killed himself.\nFREE STATERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS AT ODDS OVER 1916!\nThis is what happens when a political administration reluctantly attempts to 'honour' the men and women who took up arms to prevent its birth, thereby allowing a group, consisting of relatives of the 1916 men and women and those who sit in the above-mentioned administration and who are not opposed to the institutions which were spawned from the defeat of the 1916 ideals, to try and organise their own gig. It's a confusing enough scenario for those who live here and who might not be republican-minded or inclined to find the lie of the land, so to speak, in regards to the finer points of this subject, never mind expecting on-lookers from abroad to be able to figure out what the heck is going on here in relation to the centenary of the 1916 Rising!\nBut not to worry - in order to ensure you are not inadvertently standing shoulder-to-shoulder with any of the many pretenders who are trying to wrap themselves in the Irish flag for the day, this is all you need to know. The crowd of on-lookers will be smaller than the State-financed event, it will not receive as much publicity as the State-financed event and a British 'queen' will not be present (or, indeed, welcome!) but you will be in the company of genuine republican-minded people. And that, rather than the (false) pomp and ceremony, is what it's all about.\nEXCLUSIVE!! THE BLACK AND TANS - IF THE SHIRT FITS.....\nThe 'Black and Tans' , but not as you know them - by which I mean not only are they mislabeled as \"...an old Irish rebel group..\" , but there's something else about them, too - \"IN JUNE 1974 a group of men decided to band together and make their mark.... they would leave a footprint that would forever change the way service, leadership and brotherhood would be viewed....(they) didn’t have a uniform. An Englishman walked passed the group and said, “Look who’s here. It’s the Black and Tans!”.........they formally changed the name to The Regiment of the Black and Tans....It’s purpose and objectives are to “foster brotherhood and be of service to the community”.......former and active civil servants, firefighters, reservists, and military men make up a large number of it’s membership.....It is a part of the fabric of our local community......\" (more here, and here!)\nAnyway : Irish republicans wouldn't be at all surprised at the claim made by Ian Bailey in relation to the shirt that the State cops gave him to wear as it would have come straight out of their uniform store. Just ask any protester, water tax or otherwise, how those State cops treat them when they are being 'policed' by them on the street. But don't ask the cops themselves, as you won't like or agree with the answer you get.....\nThanks for reading, Sharon.\n'1169...' EXCLUSIVE - THE BLACK AND TANS, BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM....\nEXCLUSIVE!! THE BLACK AND TANS - BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM!\nOn Wednesday, 19th November 2014, we will publish an exclusive report, complete with links to our sources, in relation to an up-to-now mostly unknown aspect of the Black and Tans - their fetishes regarding, amongst other issues, their uniforms, in which some of their members are directly quoted about how they interacted sexually with each other during events which they held over weekends when they were able to act out their \"hot fantasies\" and how those present were left \"wet and drooling for more as they embraced their fetish\"....!\nOur piece will give access to pics [which we ourselves will not be directly posting - viewer discretion is advised] and, as stated, links to our sources, which we have established are genuine. All will be revealed (!) , here,on Wednesday 19th November 2014. Don't be the 'odd' one one - check back with us then!\n'1169...' EXCLUSIVE - THE BLACK AND TANS, BUT NOT..."
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        "text": "Best Sci Fi Books of All Time\nLast updated on 12/24/2015Edit\nBest Sci Fi Books of All Time recommended by Google. See the list here: Best Sci Fi Books of All Time\nby: Frank Herbert\nHere is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.\nA stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what it undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.\nby: Orson Scott Card\nrelease date: Aug 01, 2002\nIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew \"Ender\" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.\nEnder's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.\nIs Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.\nWinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.\nOther Lists with This Book:\nBest Books for Young Adults\n20th Century's Best Books\nBest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books\n100 Best Novels\nComplete Reading list for teenagers (Grade 9-12)\nGrade 7 summer reading list\nby: George Orwell\nView our feature on George Orwell's 1984.Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.\nby: William Gibson\nThe Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .\nCase had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.\nHotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potent visions of the future.\nby: Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny\n\"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.\"\n--John Brunner\nTHE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .\nDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.\nBy 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans.\nEmigrées to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in.\nRick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.\n\"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from.\"\n--Paul Williams, Rolling Stone\nby: Dan Simmons\nOn the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\nby: Aldous Huxley\n\"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.\" —Chicago Tribune\nAldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.\nRingworld\nby: Larry Niven\nA new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!\nby: H. G. Wells\nH. G. Wells' best-selling classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS\nThe Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term \"time machine\", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. This work is an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre. The portion of the novel that sees the Time Traveller in a distant future where the sun is huge and red also places The Time Machine within the realm of Eschatology; that is the study of the end times, the end of the world, and the ultimate destiny of mankind. The Time Machine has since been adapted into two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It has also indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media.\nby: Robert A. Heinlein\nIn one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.\nThe Forever War\nby: Joe Haldeman\nThe monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi\nThe Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But \"home\" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...\nby: Neal Stephenson\nOne of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.\nOnly once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.\nIn reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you'll recognize it immediately.\nThe Stars My Destination\nby: Alfred Bester\n#5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. \"Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them\"-Joe Haldeman \"Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable\" -James Lovegrove Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for fifty years. (Bester fans should also note that iPicturebooks has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.\nThe Windup Girl\nby: Paolo Bacigalupi\nWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author.\nAnderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories.\nEmiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.\nWhat happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.\nIn this brand new edition celebrating the book's reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.” Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.\nThe Hugo Award-winning and controversial science fiction masterpiece from Robert A. Heinlein, the New York Times bestselling author of Starship Troopers.\nValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.\nby: Philip K. Dick\n“From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time\nGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.\n“More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño\nThe Player of Games\nby: Iain M. Banks\nThe Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.\nPraise for Iain M. Banks:\n\"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more\" -- NME\n\"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them.\" -- Time Out\nby: Arthur C. Clarke\nWithout warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends--and then the age of Mankind begins....\nRendezvous with Rama\nAt first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits -- just behind a Raman airlock door.\nA Fire upon the Deep\nby: Vernor Vinge\nA Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.\nThousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these \"regions of thought,\" but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.\nFleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.\nA Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.\nby: Richard K. Morgan\nIn the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.\nEx-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .\nA #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions.\nAnathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the reviews for have been dazzling: “Brilliant” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel), “Daring” (Boston Globe), “Immensely entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “A tour de force” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), while Time magazine proclaims, “The great novel of ideas…has morphed into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.”\nby: Mary Shelley\nFew creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's.\n\"We will each write a story,\" Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.\nThe illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, \"would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.\"\nZoe's Tale\nby: John Scalzi\nHow do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?\nI ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.\nEveryone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did ― how I did what I had to do ― not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try to make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.\nIt's a story you know. But you don't know it all.\nThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress\nRobert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, \"modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean.\" He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.\nIt is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.\nThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.\nThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the winner of the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.\nSlaughterhouse-Five\nby: Kurt Vonnegut\nSlaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.\nThe Left Hand of Darkness\nby: Ursula K. Le Guin\nWhen The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, \"Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter.\" Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin.\nWhen the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of \"male\" and \"female,\" he may destroy both his mission and himself.\nby: Ray Bradbury\nRay Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.\nGuy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.\nMontag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.\nWhen Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.\nGrade 6 classic readings\nAgeless and timeless classics\nKumon Recommended Reading List - Level I (Grade 9)\nby: Andy Weir\nSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.\nNow, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.\nAfter a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.\nChances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old \"human error\" are much more likely to kill him first.\nBut Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?"
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        "text": "Q: How do I disable or get rid of the startup sound my Mac makes? Everytime I turn on my Macbook Pro it makes a start up noise. This is annoying since there is no volume or ability to turn it off. I just don't want the sound to play at all.\nHow do I disable this startup sound?\n\nA: Open Terminal.app and type:\n\nsudo -s\n\nGive the password when asked for\nthen:\ncat >/private/etc/rc.shutdown.local\n#! /bin/sh /usr/bin/osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'\n\nthen press Ctrl-D and type \"exit\".\nNext time you'll reboot in silence BUT you'll have to manually reset the sound volume (F10, slider ...) if you want to hear some music again. Theoretically it should be possible to run under /private/etc/rc.local a script to do it ('set volume without output muted') but that seems to behave erratically.\n\nA: I haven't noticed that sound on my MacBook Pro for ages, and today I figured out why. The MBP seems to remember 2 sets of volume settings; both for having-no-headphones-plugged-in, and for having-headphones-plugged-in. \nI usually have my external speakers plugged in-when I'm at home, and when I'm travelling/way from home obviously I don't. At some point in the past I have turned the volume down to zero when headphones weren't connected, and now when I start the MBP up there's no sound.\nYou could try this (though it's not particularly practical) - turn the volume on your Mac right down to zero, then restart the computer. I suspect you won't hear the startup-sound. Like I say, not really practical but if the start-up noise annoys you enough, you might just get into the habit of turning the volume down before switching off. :-)\nEDIT: Just realised this this point about turning the volume down has already been made in other answers here, so feel free to ignore this! \n\nA: For Snow Leopard and earlier machines download and install \"StartupSound.prefPane\" which will install a preference pane in system settings to allow you to adjust the startup volume and disable the startup sound:\nhttp://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/BETA/index.en.html\nNote that the above has mixed results in Lion.  For Lion users the following is recommended:\n\n  \n*\n  \n*Login as administrator and open a terminal window\n  \n*Create scriptfile for muting\nsudo nano /path/to/mute-on.sh\n  \n*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:\n#!/bin/bash\nosascript -e 'set volume with output muted'\n  \n*Create scriptfile for unmuting\nsudo nano /path/to/mute-off.sh\n  \n*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:\n#!/bin/bash\nosascript -e 'set volume without output muted'\n  \n*Make both files executable:\nsudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-on.sh\nsudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-off.sh\n  \n*Check if any hooks already exist (these will be overwritten, so make sure it is OK for you)\nsudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook\nsudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook\n  \n*Add hooks for muting\nsudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/mute-on.sh\nsudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/mute-off.sh\nNotes:\n  \n  \n*\n  \n*/path/to/ is the location of the scripts, I used /Library/Scripts/\n  \n*you can skip the unmuting loginhook (i.e. each logout will silence your machine), but I like it this way because I always have sound\n  available exactly at the volume level I set last time\n  \n*root has to be the owner of the script files - running an editor from command line with sudo is the easiest way to achieve that\n  (otherwise you need to chown)\n  \n*to delete the hooks, use the following:\nsudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook\nsudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook\n\n(source)\n\nA: You can use StartSound.PrefPane which basically just sets the volume to 0 when you shutdown and then turns it back up after login.\n\nA: Hold down the mute button on your keyboard whenever you boot it\n\nA: If you keep your volume off when you shut down your mac/laptop it wont make the sound when you start it up again!\nI don't know if this is true but its what my laptop does :)!\nHope this helps!\n"
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        "text": "Q: Multitasking on iPhone Does the iPhone close the background programs if it runs out of memory or battery?\n\nA: There are two ways to approach this question.\nFrom the end user's perspective, the answer is no. No matter what you do, the app will come back to the same state it was in previously, unless you close it from the switching interface.\nTechnically: yes. When the device runs short on RAM, it will freeze the application's state from RAM to the main storage (flash). When you resume, it loads the state from flash back into RAM, and then resumes. This is intended to happen quickly enough and transparently enough to be indistinguishable, but you may sometimes notice that resuming takes a bit longer if you have loaded several other apps in the meantime (and therefore pushed the app out of RAM). \n\nA: They aren't really \"in memory,\" more like cached to disk if and when necessary. Many apps don't even use the multitasking or aren't setup for it. When you switch it does actually close the app.\nBeing in the task bar doesn't guarantee that it's actually in memory, actively running, or both. The OS manages that. \n\nA: No. Even restarting, complete power down and power up, will not remove the background applications from memory. According to the Apple Geniuses you must manually remove the applications from the task bar.\n"
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        "text": "GNU General Public License (на български превеждан като „Общ публичен лиценз на GNU“, е лиценз, издаден от Фондацията за свободен софтуер, с цел той да бъде използван за лицензирането на софтуер като „свободен“.\n\nСвободи \nGPL гарантира на потребителите на компютърни програми следните права (още наричани „свободи“):\n\n Свободата да ползват програмата за каквато и да е цел;\n Свободата да изучават как работи програмата и да я променят (достъпът до изходния код е необходима предпоставка за това);\n  Свободата да разпространяват копия;\n Свободата да подобряват програмата и да дават на обществото достъп до подобренията (достъпът до изходния код е необходима предпоставка за това).\n\nИменно тези „свободи“ отличават GPL от лицензните договори на собственическия софтуер, които рядко гарантират на крайните потребители някакви други права, освен възможността да ползват програмния продукт (макар да е спорно дали на човек изобщо му трябва лиценз за това), и дори понякога ограничават дейности, които нормално са позволени от закона, като например обратното инженерство.\n\nОт друга страна, GPL се отличава и от някои още по-необвързващи договори, като лиценза на BSD. Главната разлика между тях се корени във факта, че GPL се опитва да гарантира запазването на гореспоменатите „свободи“ и в копията и продуктите, производни на оригиналния. Това се постига чрез механизма copyleft, измислен от Ричард Столман, който изисква програмите, произтичащи от GPL софтуер, също да бъдат лицензирани под GPL. Противно на това, договорите в стил BSD позволяват производните продукти да бъдат разпространявани под друг лиценз, включително и като собственически софтуер.\n\nСпоред някои проучвания GPL е най-популярният договор за свободен софтуер и за софтуер с отворен код. През април 2004 г. 75% от общо 23479-те софтуерни проекта, записани във Freshmeat, както и 68% от проектите в SourceForge, са били лицензирани под GPL.\n\nМного значими свободни продукти са лицензирани под GPL включително ядрото „Линукс“ и основният компилатор за Линукс GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Други свободни продукти са лицензирани под повече от един лиценз като единия е GPL.\n\nИстория \nGPL е разработен от Ричард Столман през 1989 г. за програмите създадени като част от проекта ГНУ. Първоначалният вариант на GPL е базиран на унифициране на подобни лицензи използвани за ранните версии на GNU Emacs, GNU Debugger и GCC.\n Тези лицензи съдържат клаузи подобни на съвременния GPL, но са специфични за всяка от програмите и поради това несъвместими.  Столман си поставя за цел да създаде лиценз, който да може да се използва за всеки продукт като по този начин различни проекти могат да споделят изходен код.\n\nНякои специалисти смятат, че силната copyleft клауза на GPL е от съществено значение за успеха на Линукс. Тази клауза дава на програмистите, които допринасят към проекта гаранции, че от тяхната работа ще може да се възползва целият свят и също така, че ще остане свободен софтуер и няма да бъде експлоатирана от софтуерни компании, които не споделят нищо с обществото в замяна.\n\nВерсия 2 на лиценза е обявена през 1991.\n\nВерсия 3 е официално обявена на 29 юни 2007 г.\n\nКритика\n\nИзвестни програми и библиотеки, ползващи лиценза \n\n Ядрото Линукс и всичките базирани на него свободни операционни системи\n WordPress – свободна система за управление на съдържание, стояща зад почти 40% от интернет сайтовете\n Trisquel – напълно свободна ГНУ/Линукс-базирана операционна система\n УСУ – свободна ГНУ/Линукс дистрибуция (операционна система) за българи\n Parabola – свободна GNU/Linux базирана операционна система\n LibreOffice – свободна офис-програма (текстообработка, таблици, презентации...)\n Firefox – свободен браузър за ползване на интернет\n Thunderbird – свободен клиент за електронна поща\n Pidgin – свободен клиент за обмен на моментни съобщения\n GIMP – свободен софтуер за създаване и редактиране на изображения\n Inkscape – свободен софтуер за векторни (уголемяеми) SVG изображения\n Blender – свободен софтуер за компютърна анимация\n Tor – свободен софтуер за анонимен достъп до интернет\n Pretty Good Privacy – свободен софтуер за шифроване на съдържание\n\nВижте също \n GNU FDL – Лиценз за свободна документация на ГНУ\n GNU LGPL – GNU „лек“ общ публичен лиценз\n GNU AGPL – GNU общ публичен лиценз на Аферо\n\nИзточници\n\nВъншни препратки \n Официалната страница на GNU.org за GPL\n History of the GPL\n Groklaw: GPL е лиценз, а не договор\n Microsoft коментира относно GPL\n GNU General Public License и коментари  – Редактирано от Robert Chassell.\n Направете вашият софтуер GPL-съвместим. Или. (David A. Wheeler, 7 април 2004) – защо GPL-съвместимите лицензи са важни за здравината на проекта.\n „Към истински отворен код“ – статия относно това защо GPL е обвинен за твърде ограничаващ.\n John Koenig: Линукс GPL проилизащи в „Черупка“\n Патентовите рискове на софтуера с отворен код – обяснява лиценза в GPL\n NOVELL: GPL: Да разберем лиценза, който ръководи Линукс – Тази статия обяснява един възглед върху GPL с лесни термини, говори за статично и динамично свързване в GPL, както и дискутира защо компаниите като Майкрософт могат да се „страхуват“ от лиценза.\n GNU General Public License – оригинален вариант на английски\n Общ публичен лиценз на ГНУ (GNU GPL) – превод на български от Цвятко Йовчев\n Още един превод на български на GNU General Public Licence version 2 от Атанас Атанасов\n\nGNU\nЛицензи за авторски права\nИнтелектуална собственост"
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        "text": "A Strategy for Pensions at Risk of Extinction\nCompanies could change, or even eliminate, pension plans, but workers were entitled to the benefits they had already earned. A government agency was set up to guarantee that pensions would be paid even if the sponsoring company went broke. This year may well be remembered as the one when the fundamental tenet of Erisa, as the law came to be known, was abandoned.\nThe Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the agency set up 40 years ago to guarantee those pensions, made clear in its annual report released last month that one group of pension funds would most likely run out of money within a few years. Absent new legislation, the already modest pensions of some retired workers will be eliminated.\nThe endangered pensions are not in the P.B.G.C.’s largest program, which insures pensions backed by a single company. That program is said to have a multibillion-dollar deficit, but there is no immediate danger for pension recipients.\nThe problem is in the area known as multiemployer pension plans. Those plans, often involving unionized workers, were once common in industries like coal mining, trucking and construction. Those plans seemed so solid in 1974 that they were not even required to be covered under Erisa. When they were added, years later, they were put into their own separate insurance scheme. Now that scheme is in danger of failing.\nWhen those funds run out of money to pay benefits, it will be up to the P.B.G.C. to step in. It now pays a maximum of $12,870 a year for workers who spent 30 years digging coal or driving trucks, even if the plan called for larger payouts. A worker with only 15 years of service gets half of that. But the P.B.G.C. says its multiemployer plan might run out of money in 2018 and is virtually certain to fail by 2025.\nIn another era, a consensus would have been reached that something should be done to prevent that from happening. But this is the 21st century. When a commission was set up to look for solutions to the multiemployer problem — one that included representatives of pension plans, unions and employers — it started from the assumption that no government money would be available. The proposal it came up with was to allow such plans to cut benefits quickly, on the theory that depriving current retirees of income would leave some for future retirees. Such cuts would require legislation.\nThere are those who are outraged by the proposal. AARP, the lobbyist for retired people, protested that “the anti-cutback rule,” barring the reduction of benefits already earned and vested, “is perhaps the most fundamental of Erisa’s participant protections.” But in the current century, spending taxpayer money to help the unfortunate is unpopular.\nIt may not help that the multiemployer plans generally benefit union members, a group whose political influence is waning. Nor does it help that the Central States Teamsters fund was legendarily corrupt a few generations ago, although that fact does not seem to be a cause of its current problems.\nErisa never covered public pensions, and there are plenty of troubles in that area now. While few companies still offer defined-benefit pensions, many local and state governments still do. But Detroit was able to reduce its obligations in bankruptcy, and some states are seeking ways to get around legal protections for pension benefits.\nThe baby boomers now retiring — a group that includes me — may be the last American generation to leave work assured of adequate income in old age. In place of defined-benefit pensions, future generations will be left with their own savings.\nEmployers, private or public, are no longer willing to accept the investment risks that come from managing plans that promise benefits, so that risk has been transferred to workers. Whatever one thinks of 401(k) defined-contribution plans, they offer no guarantees and no assurances that even retirees who build up substantial balances will not outlive their money. And the evidence is that most people are not saving much money. They say the typical household nearing retirement has only $110,000 in a 401(k), an amount that will not go far.\nThey want to raise payroll taxes to shore up Social Security and to make it automatic for workers to join 401(k) plans. Employees could still opt out, but research shows inertia leads people to stay in if they are in and to stay out if they are out. They think we should work longer and save more.\nNow, with retired coal miners in danger of losing meager pensions, the political system seems unwilling to even consider a taxpayer-supported solution.\nClick here to access the full article on The New York Times."
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        "text": "We have written previously on this blog about preparing your new Yixing teapots for first use, but some things bear repeating. A recent photo posted by Guitian’s Tea Club on her Facebook page prompted a revisit to this important topic, especially since that article mentioned above didn’t go into too much of the details.\nNo, we’re not talking about spices and herbs here. This is quite different! Basically, seasoning an unsealed, porous zisha clay teapot or even something like cast iron cookware means letting it absorb some of the substance you will be steeping/cooking in it. With cast iron cookware, you normally use some type of cooking oil or shortening. With teapots (the zisha clay kind which are unsealed), you use a particular type of tea.\nStart with a wash (water only, never use soap of any kind) of the pot to remove any loose bits.\nChoose the tea you want to use with the pot since it will be flavoring that pot and subsequent infusions of tea.\nMini-steep — Boil some water and pour it into the teapot, but try not to let it overflow. Let the teapot sit for about 10 minutes and then pour out the water. Fill the pot with boiling water again and add one teaspoon of your favorite loose tea leaves. Remember, this should be the type of tea you will use this pot for. Allow to sit for ten minutes. Drain the tea. Now your pot is ready for use.\nOvernight Soak — Place the teapot and lid separately in a cooking pot (that can take direct heat) large enough for you to cover them with water. Then, add the water and some tea leaves (the kind of tea you want to use from that point on with that teapot) into that cooking pot. Heat slowly to a boil (heating rapidly could damage the teapot) and continue the boil for an hour or so. Remove the cooking pot from the heat, leave the teapot and lid in the water, and let them sit for about 24 hours. Then, rinse the pot and lid with clear water and put them back in the cooking pot. Bring the water slowly back to a boil and let boil for another hour. Next, let the water, the cooking pot, and teapot cool for a day. You’re almost there so stick with it. All you need to do now is remove the teapot from the cooled water and rinse a final time in hot water. All set!\nFull Steep — Start by a gentle rinse with clear, cold water of the teapot to remove any dust or residue. Wipe inside and out with clean paper towels to get any remaining bits off. Boil about 1 to 2 gallons of water, depending on the size of your teapot, in a large cooking pot, and then turn off the heat, add 3 to 5 teaspoons of dry tea leaves of your choice, and let the tea steep for 10 minutes minimum. Using tongs, lower the teapot and lid into the tea and let stand for a half hour or until the water has cooled a bit. Seal the top of the cooking pot with plastic wrap and leave all in place for a week, checking on it now and then. Carefully remove the plastic wrap and lift the teapot and lid out of the water, then rinse them with cold water and let dry completely. Now you’re ready for some serious tea steeping!\nThere are a number of variations on the above posted on various Web sites, but these will give you the general idea.\nThere is some debate about the practice of pouring hot water over the outside of your teapot. Some say it keeps the teapot warm during steeping while others say it removes the sheen on the teapot’s exterior. Your choice here, since you will need to decide which is more important to you: sheen or hot tea.\nOne thing that is also recommended when using your Yixing zisha clay teapot is to handle it and let the oils from your fingers build up and add to the teapot’s sheen.\nHere’s hoping you’ll enjoy your teapot for many years to come!\nThis entry was posted in Teawares and tagged JAS-eTea, tea steeping, Teawares, yixing. Bookmark the permalink."
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        "text": "Q: Is there a configurable \"word-of-the-day\"-screensaver/ -widget I am looking for a \"word-of-the-day\" screensaver or dashboard widget where I can configure (e.g. in a text file) that \"words\" to be displayed?\n\nA: AFAIK - there's word-of-the-day screensaver that comes packed with every Mac OS X (since Tiger). You can configure it on a \"per dictionary\" basis. So if you need a limited list of some words, just create your own dictionary, install it on the system and I believe you'll be able to use it in a screensaver yourself.\n"
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        "text": "you are here: Annual Report 2010 / Investor Relations / 10 years on the stock market\nOur first 10 years on the stock market\nIn 2010, Deutsche EuroShop celebrated its 10th anniversary. But are 10 years really that significant in the life of a company? Probably not. Yet, for some players on the stock market, even three months can seem \"long term\". Despite the short-term thinking that frequently prevails on the capital markets, 10 years on the stock exchange can be an eternity. We share this view, given that the stock markets have seen two major crises in 10 years which have not exactly made things easier for us or anyone else on the capital markets.\nHow did our story begin? In September 2000 – under the aegis of Deutsche Grundbesitz – a shelf company was renamed and Deutsche EuroShop commenced business operations. Our IPO followed just a few days later, with investors able to submit buy orders from 2 October 2000 to 29 December 2000, subject to a minimum subscription obligation of 50 shares at the fixed price of €38.40 (before 1:2 share split on 6 August 2007). As befitting a stock borne of the retail sector, a discount also came into play: those who subscribed to shares as early as October 2000 received a €0.30 discount per share, with a €0.15 discount being granted to all subscribers in November 2000.\nSince 2 January 2001, the shares of Deutsche EuroShop have been listed for official trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.\nWith the dot-com bubble having just burst, Deutsche EuroShop did not get off to the most auspicious of starts. It took almost three years – having already created an internal professional structure to coordinate communication with the capital market – for us to place all the shares owned by Deutsche Bank and, in doing so, significantly increase our free float. Until this task was complete, few investors on the capital market were interested in us. It was only when Deutsche Bank concluded its exit in mid-2003 that things changed.\nOur company is now emerging from its fledgling years, and we again believe that we are equipped to grow further.\nAnalysts then began to cover our stock, and trading volumes on the stock market increased numerous times over. We subsequently made it onto the SDAX and then, one year later in autumn 2004, onto the MDAX.\nSince then, we have been among the 100 biggest listed companies in Germany, even though we are the smallest on the exchange in terms of staff numbers. And as the stock market loves comparing figures: not only are we streets ahead of Daimler, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom and co with regard to sales and profit per capita, but we are also one of the best in terms of liabilities per capita.\nAt the end of 2004, banks discovered the growth potential of real estate shares, and this fuelled further interest. More and more analysts published reports on Deutsche EuroShop, and the press also began to cover us. Real estate shares had suddenly gone from wallflower status to becoming the stock market's flagship. The real property market saw much the same phenomenon. For investors worldwide, Germany became the place to be. This led to sharp price rises and, conversely, to diminishing returns. We therefore decided at the end of 2006 to refrain from participating in this race and put our investment activities on ice. At the time, we had no idea that it would be three years before we saw attractive conditions on the market again. Once banks started experiencing difficulties half a year later, a wider public began to wonder when the bubble would burst. Nevertheless, it would be another 14 months before Lehman Brothers collapsed.\nLooking back at our first decade, we can conclude that four of the last 10 years were good and six were difficult. Last year was one of our good years, and we think this will also be the case for 2011. This is because the crisis barely affected Deutsche EuroShop, although the impact on our operating environment was severe. By maintaining a relatively good level of performance on the stock market, we not only became Germany's biggest listed real estate company at one stage, but the public at large now also regard us as an exemplary public company. This, above all, is down to exercising restraint.\nOur company is now emerging from its fledgling years, and we again believe that we are equipped to grow further. The prices for shopping centers are high again, albeit at levels that seem acceptable. In cooperation with lenders, we are able to put up investments which also stand up to the requirements of the capital market. This allows us to raise the necessary equity via the stock market. And our aim is to make hay while the sun shines – not only to keep our company right at the top of the German stock list but, in particular, to close the gap on our major European competitors in the shopping center sector. After all, a sizeable presence on the capital market also enables us to become a must-have stock and thus helps reduce capital costs.\nDeutsche EuroShop AG – the first 10 years for shareholders*\nSince the IPO, the share price has risen by 130%.\nIn the last 10 years, the Deutsche EuroShop share has outperformed the DAX, MDAX and EPRA indices (+7%, +117% and +83% respectively).\nWhat began as investments totalling €10,000 are now worth €23,027.\nInvestors who participated in the two rights issues in 2010 have seen the new shares increase by 37%.\nCrisis? What crisis? Since 2007, DES shareholders have enjoyed average annual growth of 12.2%, whereas the DAX has lost an average of 5.0% per year.\nThe dividend has risen steadily, from €0.96 per share for the 2001 financial year to €1.10 per share for 2010\nInvestors who have stayed with us since the IPO have, to date, received €9.04 per share in the form of dividends. In June 2011, they will earn another €1.10 per share.\nInvestors who participated in one of the four capital increases have all profited as a result.\nInvestors holding DES shares over the last 10 years would have achieved an average return of 10% per year.\nOur 100 biggest shareholders, accounting for 1% of our 10,000 shareholders, hold almost 80% of our shares.\n* As of 31 December 2010; our performance calculator is available online at: www.deutsche-euroshop.de/\nContinue reading: Conferences and roadshows 2010\nBack to: The shopping center share"
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        "text": "Cold weather has never been my friend. We’re into February, and all I can think about is counting down the days until summer produce and sandals. I can’t exactly escape the cold living in Minnesota, though. If it has to happen, bring on the low carb comfort food. It’s like an obsession every year. In addition to the classic low carb soups and casseroles, a keto low carb meatloaf recipe definitely makes the list.\nThis paleo meatloaf turned out to be a hit in my family. Believe it or not, that’s actually saying something. First of all, meatloaf is one of those foods that unequivocally tastes much better than it looks.\nBrown foods are more difficult to make presentable in general, not to mention the bad reputation meatloaf gets sometimes. In some ways, getting someone to try it is the hardest part!\nBesides, my family presents their own set of challenges. My toddler is going through a “no phase”. The answer to every question under the sun is “no”. Food is certainly no exception. I wonder how long this is supposed to last?\nStill, if you ask my husband what his favorite foods are, he’ll throw out comfort foods like paleo pizza or cheeseburger casserole and, maybe a bit surprisingly, meatloaf. As for my daughter, she gobbled up a big plate of this keto meatloaf without protest. I’ll take it, even if it was between “no” exclamations!\nSince this low carb meatloaf recipe is one of our family favorites, I figured I had to share it for all the rest of you hearty food lovers. For all those “meat and potatoes” guys and gals, this dish is where it’s at. It makes such a satisfying dinner on a cold day!\nWe don’t usually eat potatoes around here, though. Instead, we love our keto meatloaf with some brussels sprouts au gratin or simple parmesan roasted broccoli and cauliflower. Almost any side dish you like will go well with it! If you want to simulate the meat and potatoes concept while staying low carb, try mashed cauliflower instead.\nIf you want to try a different recipe, you can try this version of paleo meatloaf with gravy!\nJust a quick word of warning – keto low carb meatloaf is very tender. It can be a little challenging to cut, so make sure to let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing. Cut carefully using a sharp serrated bread knife, not a chef’s knife.\nAvoid overworking the meat when mixing the ingredients, too. Doing so can make the loaf more prone to falling apart. It may also affect the taste and texture. This pretty much applies to any recipe that uses ground beef.\nYou can easily make this keto meatloaf in advance! If you’ll be eating it within a few days, it stores just fine uncooked in the fridge. Cover the surface very tightly with plastic so that the meat doesn’t oxidize. Otherwise, you can freeze it for longer.\nBoth ways make meal prep on a weeknight a breeze. Even though it takes a while to cook in the oven, the prep is pretty quick. And, having it ready in advance means you can stick it in the oven while you go do something else. Can’t go wrong with time saving low carb recipes like this!\nBinding Keto Meatloaf: Almond Flour, Coconut Flour, or Flaxseed Meal?\nMany low carb meatloaf recipes are made with either almond flour or coconut flour. And when I first began my journey of how to start a low carb diet, keto meatloaf was one of the first things I experimented with.\nI originally used golden flaxseed meal instead, because it binds better than the other two. It also happens to be the lowest in net carbs. You can use regular flaxseed meal if you want to, but the golden kind is more mild, with a better flavor.\nIf you prefer your paleo meatloaf to be even more sturdy, there’s one modification to consider. Simply increase the golden flaxseed meal amount to 2/3 cup. This makes it slightly less tender, but easier to cut without crumbling. I think it’s delicious both ways!\nAll of this being said, I have since tried making this low carb meatloaf recipe with almond flour. And I have to say, I do prefer the texture of almond flour over the flaxseed meal. It’s up to you which way you want to make it. If nuts are not a problem, I would now probably recommend to use the almond flour if you can.\nDon’t forget the sugar-free ketchup on top!\nLoaf pan – Great for everything from meatloaf to paleo keto bread!\nMeat temperature probe – To get your meatloaf to just the right temperature easily. It’s ready to remove from the oven when it’s at 160 degrees, and will rise another 5 degrees while resting.\nPreheat the oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 in (23x13 cm) loaf pan and set aside.\nIn a large bowl, combine all ingredients except ketchup. Mix together until well incorporated, but don't overmix.\nRest for 10 minutes before slicing. Cut carefully using a serrated bread knife (not a chef's knife).\nClick or tap on the image below to play the video. It's the easiest way to learn how to make Paleo Keto Meatloaf!\nI love this recipe. I’ve made it a few times. The only adjustment I make is I use 1/2 a teaspoon of sea salt rather than 2 teaspoons.\nI really liked it. I used 1lb meatloaf mix of meats + 1lb 85/15 ground beef. I cooked onions, bell peppers and garlic just long enough for them to become aromatic. I used a little less onion than stated but I did add onion powder. As to almond flour or flaxseed meal, I used both. I used 1/2 cup flaxmeal and 1/4 cup almond flour approximately. Came out firm enough to cut easily (I actually used my egg flipper (spatula) to cut the slices…aim it straight down tip of spatula aimed at top of meatloaf and cut, if that makes sense. It was nice and juicy also…thanks so much for sharing your recipe. Oh, i only had 1 fresh garlic clove…a pretty big one and then I added some garlic powder. So yummy served with turnip hash brown and a few steamed and buttered asparagus spears.\nBest meatloaf I’ve ever made Keto or not.\nHello, I was wondering if this would freeze well after cooking and slicing? I’m trying to come up with ideas to make homemade “tv dinners” for my elderly mother that she could reheat in the microwave that are healthier than the store bought ones. Any ideas?\nHi Diane, Yes, you can definitely freeze slices! Great idea!\nReally tasty recipe and loaf held together surprisingly well (used the flax meal option) when I took it out of the loaf pan. Didn’t have an Worcestershire sauce so subbed it with soy sauce and added a bit less salt to compensate and turned out great. Will definitely make again but I think I’ll pre-cook the onions and garlic a bit first to soften them up before adding them to the mix, they were just a bit firmer than I would have preferred in the cooked loaf. I appreciated the options for different low-carb flours included in the recipe! thanks for posting!\nHi Cecilia, Yes, you can do that!\nIt sounds delicious! I will be making it for supper, thank you.\nDo you ever lose patience with all the questions about how to change the recipe? I’m pretty sure I would…That’s not even close to my recipe, but good luck to ya.\nSo good! I used meatloaf mix (ground beef, pork and veal) and added a healthy dose of parsely. My wife LOVES meatloaf and this hit the spot for both of us! Thank you for this recipe!\nLoved it! Didn’t need the ketchup as far as I was concerned, had enough flavor and was nice and juicy. I used only 1.6lbs of 80/20 beef (all I had) and added maybe 1/2 Tbps ginger to the mix. Great idea to use ground flaxseed, too- would have never thought of that. Thanks for posting, we will make often.\nI don’t happen to have any coconut flour on hand. Is it possible to substitute quinoa for the flour?\nHi Susan, This recipe doesn’t use any coconut flour (and I don’t recommend it for meatloaf, as it would make it very dry). This recipe uses either flax seed meal or almond flour. I haven’t tried quinoa, so not sure if that would work, but it would not be low carb, keto or paleo.\nI used 1lb elk burger & 1 lb beef burger. added 1small chopped zucchini, I used crushed pork rinds instead of the flour & spicy brown mustard for the topping..the meatloaf was really good!!\nHave you ever tried using ground Turkey? Wondering if it would be too dry?\nHi Anne, It should work fine with ground turkey. It might be slightly more dry than beef, but I don’t think it would be so dry that it’s not good.\nI recommend lining the loaf pan w/ plastic wrap and use it as a mold, then remove the molded meat to a flat pan so the loaf is free standing and you can glaze all sides instead of just the top.\nTasted great! I added a little heavy cream and some feta cheese, and it’s amazing! Thank you!\nMy kids gobbled this right up, it was so good! This recipe is definitely a keeper!\nWow, this is so juicy and delicious. Loving the pro tips too.\nThank you for this recipe! I’m looking forward to trying it this week! Question: I only have glass loaf pans. Will that make a difference in the taste or timing of this recipe? I can get a metal loaf pan if necessary, but I wasn’t sure if that was needed. Thanks!\nHi Catherine, You can use a glass pan. The baking time might vary a bit, so use a thermometer to make sure it’s done.\nOmg just made this and it was amazing!! Thanks so much for the recipe 🙂 I did add two teaspoons of sambal oelek aka spiciness to it, which definitely gave it an extra kick. And think the quality of the meat I used (organic, grass-fed) also made a huge difference.\nThis looks delicious – I understand why your family liked it!\nInstead of flax seed meal or almond flour, I use crushed pork rinds to bind the meatloaf. Zero carbs and cheaper. I also added many more veggies to my meatloaf; chopped celery, red, green, yellow pepper, scallions.\nSounds delicious. Thank you for sharing, Linda!\nHi, what is the percentage of the ground beef? I like to use grass fed beef but I know that can be more tough. There is a Us Wellness Meat that is 55% lean I use. Any recommendations?\nHi Thuy, You can use any kind you like. I usually use either 80% or 85% lean, grass fed, and it doesn’t come out tough or dry.\nThis looks really good! I have made a Keto meatloaf many times and instead of using almond flour, I used grated Parmesan cheese. It tastes treat, and works great as a binder and the meatloaf is pretty easy to cut. Also, I use Lipton Onion Soup Mix in mine instead of Italian seasonings and it is wonderful!\nDonna, I used to use the onion soup mix years ago in meatloaf, and it is really delicious. But look at the carbs it adds! That number isn’t for what’s in the packet, it’s just for 1/4 packet… The Italian seasoning adds nearly no carbs.\nI am new to the keto diet and this meatloaf has helped me along! It’s so good! I did do a substitute. I used ground turkey and ground deer meat in place of beef and left out the tomato paste. I didn’t have the tomato paste when I first made it. I also used almond flour. I am making it again today! Thank you for sharing this yummy dish!\nI make this with Venison and to add a little more fat, I weave bacon around it and I also add some cheese, it makes a great tender meatloaf.\nReally tasty, I used the ground flaxseed and it had a nice texture. I found it to be too salty however. I will omit the salt altogether next time. I think the Worcestershire sauce is salty enough.\nThank you so much for this recipe! First time making meat loaf, it was so easy and delicious. I used almond flour. My husband, 1 year old and 3 year old loved it !\nI made this today with almond flour and I substituted sugar free ketchup for BBQ sauce. Yes this was a little crumbly but the flavor is fantastic!!! I paired this with my favorite mashed cauliflower recipe and I can’t tell it’s not the real thing!!\nGreat recipe. It was delicious! We all loved it! I used flaxseed and baked a little longer to have a little drier consistency.\nLoved the recipe, all I changed was using 1/2 Tbsp onion powder (husband hates onions, but he’ll tolerate the powder), and 1tsp garlic powder. I used the almond flour instead of the flaxmeal. And I know it’s not keto, but I did add 1 Tbsp regular ketchup to the top, but no more. Everyonehere loved it, and I’m the only one keto. Thanks.\nGreat recipe and mine turned out great. However, since I am keeping close track, I would appreciate a more precise serving size. One 3/4 inch thick slice could be many things. I could have a 3/4 inch slice that was 6 inches long or a 1inch by 1 inch slice that was still 3/4 inches thick. I say this because even though I made this full recipe I only baked some of it and froze the remainder. I couldn’t cut the meatloaf into even portions. Could you give me a serving size in ounces? Thank you.\nHi Dona, I’m glad you liked it. The serving size of a 3/4 inch thick slice is based on the pan size specified in the recipe, 9×5 inches, so the size of the slice is 5 inches long by 3/4 inches thick, and the width would be the height of the meatloaf you made. If you need a precise weight, you can definitely weigh that slice as well, or weigh the whole loaf and divide by the number of servings to get the weight of one serving.\nHi! Would this work with coconut flour? How much?\nHi Holly, No, sorry that would make it too dense and dry.\nHi Mary, No, sorry, coconut flour would be too drying.\nHi! I would like to make this recipe using the muffin sheet. Have you tried it?\nHi Lorena, I haven’t, but it will definitely work. The baking time will be reduced a lot.\nMade this last night and it was amazing. Meatloaf is a big deal in the south and this recipe nailed it. Unfortunately I didn’t get 12 servings. I got roughly 8, I believe this was due to the fat cooking off. I used 73/27 beef because I am Keto and need the fat. I also drain midway through and baked an additional 10 minutes for texture reasons.\nI am happy you liked the meatloaf, Tiffany! Thanks for stopping by!\nHave you made this with Panko and how much would you use?\nHi Wayne, I haven’t. It wouldn’t be low carb, keto, paleo or gluten-free, if you are looking for it to be any of those. If you just want to make regular meatloaf, Panko breadcrumbs will work fine.\nDelicious and moist. Thank you for this great recipe.\nI am so glad to hear that, Diane! Thank you!\nCan crushed pork rinds be used instead of almond flour? If so, how much would you recommend?\nHi Audrey, Yes, you can use the same amount.\nI am so happy you liked the meatloaf! Have a great day!\nExcellent recipe! I love the taste!!!\nI am so happy to hear that, Rosetta! Thank you!\nI love this recipe! I use this recipe all the time!\nI am so happy you liked the meatloaf, Vickie! Please come back soon!\nThis meatloaf is so good!! My kids and I loved it!\nI am so happy you and your family liked the meatloaf, Jenna! Thanks for stopping by!\nAmazing meatloaf. I made it about 3 weeks ago for the 1st times. Even my picky 13 yo son loved it. In fact, he asked me to make it again for dinner tonight, on the way home from school today. The key is to not over mix it. Also I like mine a little crispy on the outside, so I added 6 min cooking time to give it just a touch of crispiness (no mushy meatloaf for me). And I used almond flour. Truly turned out perfect & was easy to slice & serve. Made exactly 12 servings. I actually divided mine into 2 regular size loaf pans.\nI love to hear that, Lori! Thanks for stopping by!\nThis meatloaf was awesome! I made it about 3 weeks ago. Even my (picky eater) 13 yo son loved it. In fact, he asked me on the way home from school if I’d make it for dinner tonight. The key is to not over mix it. It made 12 equal servings. I divided mine into 2 regular size loaf pans. Also cooked it about 6 min longer to add a crispy layer to the outside, which also kept it from falling apart.\nI am so happy you and your son liked it, Lori! Please come back soon!\nIs golden flaxseed meal the same as ground flaxseed. If not, can it be substituted in this recipe?\nHi Marian, They are almost the same. Ground flax seed and flax seed meal are the same. Golden flax seed meal is ground flax seed made out of golden flax seeds instead of brown. The taste is better, but either one will work. Otherwise you can also use almond flour, which I actually prefer now.\nThanks for the tips about golden flax seed, but where do I find the nutrition info for the meatloaf?\nHi Judy, The nutrition info is right on the recipe card above.\nWish I’d only used 1 tsp salt… way too salty! Will try again.\nHi Betty, Sorry to hear it was too salty for you. I use Julia Child’s recommendations for salt – 1 tsp per pound of meat – but if you like it less salty, feel free to adjust.\n1/2 a cup of golden flaxseed meal has 16 grams of carbs. How can the entire meal have only 5 grams of carbs?\nThanks for stopping by, Khaled. There are 12 servings in this meatloaf so that is why there are 5 grams of carbs per serving. Have a great day!\nNo indication what ratio of ground beef. Two, never has any meatloaf, including yours, comes out nice and not fall apart. Thirdly this does not make 12 servings. I use a normal size pan for meatloaf. We have 7 people living here. 5 kids two adults.\nHi Natalie, You can use any ratio you like. There are definitely stabilizers that can be added to make meatloaf more sturdy, but I prefer using natural ingredients and don’t see an issue with it being a little fragile. It does make 12 slices that are a serving each, but of course the amount a person would need will vary based on so many factors like appetite and what else is being served. You can certainly eat more than one serving if you want to.\nCan you cook this in an instant pot??\nHi Stacie, Possibly, but I haven’t tried it. Let me know if you try it.\nJust wondering if anyone had made this recipe using pork rinds for the binding agent?\nHi Margaret, I haven’t, but you probably can!\nIf I were to cook in muffin tin, do you know what the cook time/temp would be? And how many would equal a serving?\nHi Vicky, Sorry, I don’t have the cook time for making this into low carb meatloaf muffins. It would be much less than a whole loaf, though. Serving size would depend on the muffin size and what else you have with them.\nThis is a good idea. My muffin tin makes 12 muffins, so it would automatically be divided into servings. I think I’ll try that and figure out the cook time with a thermometer. Bonus is that fragility won’t be an issue.\nMeatloaf was delicious. I followed the recipe to a T and it turned out great! This one is a keeper for sure.\nI a so happy to hear that, Lucy! Have a great day!\nRecipe held up great with almond flour. I would recommend sautéing the onions and garlic before baking. I also broiled some mozzarella on top at the end!\nTopping it with mozzarella sounds delicious, Erika!\nThis recipe is delicious! I used regular flax and did not take the tip about using more for a more firm result. That combined with the fact I couldn’t wait to dig in resulted in my meatloaf being pretty crumbley. But it’s just me, so I don’t mind. I made 2 small loaves and topped one each with sugar free ketchup & sugar free BBQ. Nice to have something that I can eat hot or cold and already prepared. I will absolutely prepare this recipe again!\nI love to hear that, Billy! Thank you for stopping by!\nHow about changing it slightly to 1 lb beef, 1 lb pork?\nHi Mike, You can definitely do that!\nI made a small batch–half with ground flax seed and half with almond flour. Cooked them simultaneously, but the flax one was clearly done much faster. It’s been an hour and 20 minutes, and the almond flour one still looks raw. Any idea why?\nSorry, I haven’t experienced that before! The time was pretty similar with both in my experience, but I didn’t make them at the same time. The only thing I can think of is, were they on different racks in your oven? It’s possible that the positioning affected heat distribution.\nI made this tonight using milled flax seed. It held together beautifully, but had a slimy texture when we were eating it. Is this normal? Or what did I do wrong?\nHi Beth, Sorry you had issues with it. It might have needed to cook for longer, or it might be that you just would like the almond flour version better. The amount would be the same.\nTotally flamin perfect! My family couldn’t do keto w/o meatloaf! Came out a little less coherent and slightly soupy despite minimal handling, so we tried halving the recipe, doubling almond flour and still using 2eggs. Even my duck dynasty son ate a whole batch, sez it’s the best he has ever had. Thanks so much for a real winner!!\nI am so happy to hear that, June! Have a great day!\nI made it with almond flour, but it didn’t hold together very well, but IT WAS DELICIOUS and my family loved it!\nHi Rena, I’m glad your family loved it! You can add more almond flour if you want it to bind a bit better, it’s just a balance between that and tenderness.\nI have probably made this recipe about 25 times over the last several months and never stopped to comment. Tonight I am cutting it in half to make meatballs. My kids are very picky and they devour these. My husband and I love eating these for snacks on the go or over a salad! Thank you for this WINNER of a recipe!\nI am so happy to hear that even your picky kids liked them, Katie! Thank you!\nWhen cooking, do I need to cover the pan?\nHi Kristen! You cook this uncovered. I hope you like it!\nHi, I don’t have tomato paste. I have tomato sauce. Can I use that?\nHi Julia, You can try, but I can’t vouch for the result. Tomato sauce doesn’t have the same concentrated flavor, so I think it would be better with the paste, but if all you have is sauce, it might not be a deal breaker.\nBuy your tomato paste in a tube or do what I learned from another blogger (haven’t done it yet). Freeze your tomato paste in 1 oz circles and then use them when needed.\nI want to learn how prepare good meals. I am a type 2 diabetic. Is there a phone number to speak to someone? And where do I buy the products?\nHi Vennetta, Unfortunately I don’t have the capacity to offer phone support, but we do have a helpful support group here that you can join. All my recipes have links to buy the ingredients right on the recipe card.\nThis meatloaf is outstanding!! I used almond flour and had only 4 garlic cloves on hand…it was bursting with flavor. To serve, I put a slice on top of fresh spinach and topped the meatloaf with about a quarter cup of mozzerella, then microwaved for 30 seconds.\nTHANK YOU FOR ANOTHER WINNER!!\nThank you so much, Wendy! After initially making it I do slightly prefer the almond flour version. The topping you used sounds great!\nYou think this recipe can be made in the crock pot or even frozen? I’m having baby #3 in a few weeks and I’m getting some freezer or easy meals together.\nHi Hayley, You can absolutely freeze it! I did the same when I had my youngest little girl. I’ve never tried it in a Crock Pot, though.\nHow long should I cook if not using ketchup?\nHi Ashley, The cook time doesn’t change if not using the ketchup. It’s still the same amount of time needed to cook through the meat. A meat thermometer is the most sure way to determine cook time, you want 160 degrees in the center.\nI have no flax seed or almond flour left. Can I use coconut flour or tapioca? Thank you.\nHi, can this be made a few hours in advance (tightly refrigerated)? Or must it be made immediately before putting in the oven? Thanks.\nHello there! Yes, you can easily prepare this ahead of time and then place in the oven when you are ready to cook. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoy it!\nI have noticed that when I change the serving size, then click to print, it does not calculate the new serving size. The ready to print page has the original 12 servings. Might I be doing something wrong?\nHi Johnathon, No, you are not doing anything wrong. That is a limitation of the website at the moment. I’m sorry. Also, for a meatloaf recipe, keep in mind that changing the servings will affect baking time.\nIs there something to use instead of golden flaxseed flour? I am just starting the keto way and I have purchased so many things lately. I want to make sure I can keep up with the diet before I buy everything for different recipes.\nHi Sandy, Yes! You can use almond flour.\nOMG. I’m very surprised. I was expecting a delicious outcome but didn’t like the ground flax! I tried slicing the meatloaf into thinner pieces, browning, adding spices, hot sauce, etc., but the flax! Sorry folks. I don’t think it’s an acquired taste issue either because I use the flax in juices & other dishes & can easily handle it as well as plain unflavored psyllium and similar things. Great website & recipes in general – for me though, not *this* one.\nHi Bill, Thank you for the feedback. Sorry that it wasn’t for you. The flax might be an issue if the meatloaf isn’t cooked through enough. But if you still don’t like the flax in there, try making it with the same amount of almond flour instead.\nHi! I was really wanting to try this recipe! Big fan of yours! I have already tried a lot of your recipes. Never a disappointment! Thank for helping us become healthy, you have made life more enjoyable for us!\nI was wondering if I could ask something from you. Could you possibly give me an ingredients measurement for just one pound of meat, please? There are only two of us and two pounds would be a bit much. I understand you are busy and I appreciate your time! I am not really good at measurements and winging it. Still very new to cooking.\nHi Victoria, if you go to the recipe card you can change the number of servings to however many you want! 🙂 Of course, baking time will be shorter with fewer servings so be sure to watch it closely.\nThis turned out really slimy. So I’m hoping frying it will fix this.\nHi Diana, Sorry that happened – that indicates that it wasn’t cooked through enough. I’d recommend using a meat thermometer to make sure it’s done.\nHi Toni, the serving size in one 3/4″ thick slice of the meatloaf.\nWhat about blooming some unflavored gelatin in the eggs/liquid to help prevent crumbling without adding extra flax meal?\nHi Arielle, What a great idea! I haven’t tried that. Let me know how it goes if you do!\nI prefer to use “pork rind dust” as a substitute for breadcrumbs. You make them by smashing pork rinds or processing them in a food processor.\nI’ll have to try that sometime!\nYou mention ketchup in the directions but I don’t see that as an ingredient. Are we making ketchup? If so what ingredients on the list make it?\nHi Kim, Ketchup is listed as an optional ingredient – it’s the last one on the ingredients list. You can make your own sugar free one, but I haven’t posted a recipe for it yet. You can use any ketchup you want, or omit it if you’d like.\nYou’re welcome! I ended up using pecan meal instead & it worked great with the combination of elk & wild boar ground meat that I used. I think any nut or seed meal will be fine if you don’t have the flaxseed on hand. Looking forward to trying more of your recipes!\nI’m glad you liked it! Good to know that the nut meal worked out, too.\nThank you! I haven’t tried this one with almond meal, but think it should work. Let me know how it turns out if you get the chance!\nThe sassy “No” phase, I remember it well! My son would not touch meatloaf until he was 10 years old. Now he loves it. Your toddler at least is more adventurous.\nAhhh, the “no” phase! I remember it well. I didn’t like meatloaf until I was an adult. My mom had to put mashed potatoes in it and douse it in ketchup before I would take a bite. But, now I have found ways to make friends with meatloaf. This meatloaf looks appetizing.\nLooks good! I’m not much of a meatloaf person but I actually like the sound of how tender this is!"
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        "text": "Although that much wanted and needed slumber may seem to never come for the new mom, there are tips to follow for aid in getting to sleep. In addition to sleeping on a comfortable bed, mom will also want some calming time to help her drift off for a healthy sleep.\nSleep may be a difficult to achieve task for many, but when one is a new mom it becomes most important to keep mom healthy and in the best shape to take care of baby. Too little sleep will have mommy putting lives at risk both emotionally and physically. The new mom needs to learn how to sing herself a lullaby just as she does for her little one.\nAlthough each person is different, with some needing less sleep than others, generally a proper night of sleep is around seven hours. For new moms getting too little sleep it means that they are being detrimental to their own mental health as well as their child’s.\nLack of shuteye can lead to depression and lack of care for oneself and baby. Even as young as newborn will sense when mommy is depressed – which in turn can cause mental anguish for the baby as well. In addition to depression lack of sleep can also put the family at physical risk.\nWhen mom is overtired and gets behind the wheel it can be just as dangerous as driving drunk. So, to keep all safe it is most important for mom to be well rested with a full night’s sleep.\nAlthough no one tip may be the magic needed to lull one to dreamland, sleep tips can be wonderful aids in helping mommy get the slumber she so needs. Some aids will also assist in giving mom the all-important me time that she may feel has been lost after baby’s birth.\nUse some time before sleep time to wind down and relax. Whether in bed or on the sofa try to take an hour prior to bedtime to listen to music, watch a favorite show, read a book, or just have important alone time with a partner. It is important to keep discussions about chores and paying bills away from this relaxation time. After an hour turn of alone time turn off the lights and cozy into bed for dream time.\nMom you do not need to do it all by yourself if there are others who can help. Ask for help from your partner. Even if the other parent heads to work during daytime, an early night and early morning caring for baby shift can be taken to help mom get sleep. If grandma is staying over for newborn assistance than do not be afraid to ask for nighttime aid as well.\nTurning room lights on at night will disturb both mommy and baby’s production of the body’s natural melatonin hormone that induces sleep. A soft nightlight will eliminate this issue as it guides one with just enough light to get tasks completed, such as tending to baby and bathroom needs.\nWith light affecting melatonin production one may want to make sure any unnecessary lights are all off. This includes the glow of a TV and alarm clock. Keep electronics turned off at night whenever possible.\nMake sure that dinner should be consumed at least three hours or more before bedtime. Eating late may result in indigestion that could cause sleep problems. Have an early dinner supplemented by a light bedtime snack of a couple of cookies and a glass of warm milk.\nAlcohol may be a tempting sip to relax the day’s worries away but instead it works against one when it comes time for bed. That glass of vino gives the body more to do working to metabolize it. In addition, alcohol is a diuretic that can keep one up with bathroom trips and feeling dehydrated.\nCaffeine may be what one craves in the morning to wake up but it also works against one when it comes to craving sleep. Curb the caffeine at least six hours prior to bed. This does not just mean coffee, but also caffeinated teas and even some medications used for headache, pain, and menstrual issues. And do not forget that yummy chocolate is made with caffeine too.\nOnce the body has time to lay down and sleep it seems like it is time for the mind to go to work thinking endlessly. Try some mental exercises as distractions like counting backward from 300 by threes. This will work to keep the mind busy but free from sleep disturbing thoughts.\nIn addition, keep a note pad next to the bed to write down sudden thoughts. This will free the mind from having to remember something important for the next day and allow it to sleep.\nUse some of that hour of relaxation before bedtime for some bathroom me time. Enjoy a soak in a warm tub for a half hour of relaxation. If not enough time for a bath, then take a nice soothing hot shower. The water will work to calm away the day’s tensions in order to induce sleep.\nMeditation can be a great technique to help one relax and find sleep. There are smartphone apps and video tutorials that can talk one through a guided process. There are also very simple mediation exercises to do such as picturing oneself in a serene place. Or picture each limb falling asleep, from the toes up, until the entire body is drifting off to slumber.\nYoga can be a great way to wind down before bed. There are specific poses that will help to encourage sleep. Make sure to find a pose that will work for individual health needs and wants.\nThe baby monitor may help one here an infant in distress but it can also keep waking a new mom when baby simply coos during sleep. Placing a white noise machine in the baby’s room at night will mask these quiet sounds while allowing for the little one’s cries of distress to still be heard.\nBreastfeeding mom often feel they have no recourse but to do it all themselves at night. This adds to sleep deprivation for mommy. There are a couple of tips to help those nursing to achieve better sleep.\nAt least during the newborn phase have the baby stay in a bassinet right next to the bed. This will save time when it is time to nurse. Mommy can feed baby without rising from bed, allowing for as little sleep disturbance time as possible.\nDo not let breastfeeding be the excuse for a partner to not do feedings. Pumping the breasts will allow for milk to be placed in bottles for others in the household to take on nighttime feeding. This can give mommy a break for some much-needed snooze time.\nIf all else fails, there are over-the-counter and prescription sleep aids. These should only be taken after consulting with a medical professional. Keep in mind too that taking anything while breastfeeding means that it could be affecting baby too.\nThis can be anything from a diphenhydramine allergy medication, such as Benadryl, to a doxylamine succinate sleep aid, like Unisom. These antihistamines work to sedate at night but can also cause drowsiness during daytime too.\nThe body naturally produces the hormone melatonin that controls the cycle of sleeping and waking. For some taking a melatonin supplement works as an aid for falling to sleep.\nHerbal remedies can also help promote sleep. Valerian root supplements have been seen to help reduce anxiety for a better sleep with no side effects.\nFor short-term needs the long time go-to for prescription sleep aid has been drugs like Halcion and Restoril. Be aware that one may feel hung over in the morning and that these meds can become addicted if used for too long.\nThese sleep aids should be used for short term as well. Drugs in this class include Ambien, Sonata, and Lunesta. Although there does not seem to be many common side effects, there can be a serious one called parasomnia resulting in activities such as sleep driving.\nRozerem is the only melatonin agonist medication that is FDA-approved for insomnia. It works to mimic natural melatonin to help in falling asleep, instead of as the others do in slowing the central nervous system.\nSleep problems can be a symptom of depression. A medical professional will determine if this is the case and, if so, may prescribe an antidepressant to resolve the issue. Silenor is the only antidepressant that has been FDA-approved to be used in very small doses as a specific sleep aid for keeping from waking during the night.\nSleep is of utmost importance for keeping the new mom in the best of health to care for baby. With helpful tips and the advice from medical professionals the elusive sleep can be achieved.\nBe sure to have a wonderful GhostBed mattress along with lullaby inducing GhostBed pillows to incite the best sleep experience possible."
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        "text": "Accademia di Vino\nAbout ADV\nChef Biography\nOwner Profile\nAnthony Mazzola, Managing Partner/Proprietor of Accademia di Vino, is a Bronx native with a rich Italian heritage and esteemed gastronomic background. Anthony brings his proven reputation for tradition and excellence to his latest concept, the spacious and evocative Accademia di Vino. Having won over New York’s east side with the first location, Anthony opened the second Accademia di Vino on Broadway in 2009.\nInfluencing his future success, good food featured largely in Anthony’s early life. His parents emigrated from the town of Leonforte in southern Sicily. His mother, having cooked for a prominent Sicilian family before coming to America, and his father, proprietor of a fresh pasta, ravioli and salumeria store in the Bronx, laid the foundation for an innate love of food. “We never knew we were poor,” he recounts “there was always good food on the table, every night.”\nAlways an entrepreneur, Anthony opened his first retail wine-and-liquor store by the age of 25, eventually amassing a total of eight retail wine-and-liquor stores in the tri-state area. The showcase among them was the highly regarded, and much frequented, Sutton Wine Shop on 57th and 1st Avenue.\nDeciding it was time to pursue a new goal he sold his retail operations and moved to Rome, Italy where he researched the idea of owning his own vineyard and producing his own wine. Over the next two years he traveled extensively, exploring the wines and foods unique to every region of Italy.\nUnderstanding that his soul would always be in Italy, but he belonged at home in New York, he returned. Eager to share his inspiration, he launched into restaurant ownership. First with Ouest, along with Chef Tom Valenti, he achieved an unprecedented success for fine dining on the Upper West Side. With an eye for a unique opportunity and knowing the importance of firsthand experience, Anthony then traveled throughout the southern U.S. experiencing its many forms of BBQ. As a result Big Bubbas was established at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT, bringing authentic southern cuisine north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Next he returned to his roots and opened ‘Cesca on W. 75th Street, an upscale Italian dining experience that was an immediate success by both popular and critical standards.\nAnd today, with two Accademia di Vino locations joining ‘Cesca, all three New York restaurants benefit from Anthony’s annual trips back to Italy. He continues to explore the authentic Italian tastes and traditions that inspire exciting new additions to each menu. Make a date to get to know Accademia di Vino… and Anthony. He’ll be there to welcome you, so join us soon!\nAccademia di Vino is an Italian restaurant and wine bar located on Third Avenue at 63rd Street offering an impressive wine list of some 800 bottles and a dynamic wine-by-the-glass program with over 50 wines. There’s even a Wine School with weekly wine classes. And don’t miss the Accademia di Vino West-Side experience. Please plan to visit our Broadway location soon!\nContact us for more information on either location:\nFor our East-Side Accademia di Vino location, please contact Wine Director, Michael Doctor, at doctor@accademiadivino.com, or General Manager, John Fanning, at fanning@accademiadivino.com.\nFor our West-Side Accademia di Vino location, please call Carlo Stanisci or David Patten at 212-787-3070.\nAnthony Mazzola\nManaging Partner/Proprietor\nNutrition and Emotions: How income affects your food choice\nPlaces To Eat and Drinks in New York\n1081 THIRD AVENUE\n© 2010 ACCADEMIA DI VINO"
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        "text": "Kendall Jenner Shut Down a Comment About Her Dating History\nTool singer's Justin Bieber tweet called \"childish\" by wife Hailey Bieber\nAfrican singer Johnny Clegg dies aged 66: Manager\nRobert Downey Jr opens up about his life after the 'Avenger' series\n'Bachelorette' Hannah Brown and Luke Parker spar on Twitter after sex dispute\nBeyoncé features Shatta Wale on 'Lion King' album\nTaika Waititi Is Returning To Direct Thor 4\nBritain's most-played song of the 21st century is announced\nYoung Thug Doesn't Think Lil Nas X Should Have Come Out\nProsecutors Drop 2016 Groping Case Against Kevin Spacey\nFirst 'Venom' Poster Is Out, Trailer Expected To Follow\nOne can also watch out this space to get the first glimpse of the trailer. It is minimalist and features a pair of eyes with Tom Hardy's name printed above th...\nStranger Things: David Harbour stars in the Tide Super Bowl commercials\nLed by David Harbour, the actor who plays Jim Hopper on \" Stranger Things \", the recurring commercials made every ad set-up an opportunity for a Tide commercial...\nDrake Visits Miami High School to Film Music Video\nIn addition to surprising James with the check, the Canadian rapper also stopped by the Miami Senior High School to shoot some more of the video with the younge...\nCelebrity Big Brother: Watch a Sneak Peek of Tonight's Premiere\nAfter explaining to Omarosa what Big Time Rush was, she said she was from the NBC show. Mark McGrath , 49, was a singer with the band Sugar Ray and Pe...\nBulger killer Venables jailed 3 years over child abuse images\nJames's mother Denise Fergus and father Ralph Bulger were in court for the hearing. In a murder that shocked the world, Venables and his friend Robert Th...\nNicole Eggert Files Police Report Against Scott Baio\nLast month, Eggert told USA news host Megyn Kelly that Baio penetrated her with his finger when she was 14. \"We've been demanding since previous year that ...\nThurman crash is my biggest regret: Quentin Tarantno\nMeanwhile, Weinstein's attorney Ben Brafman said that Thurman's claims are being investigated before deciding whether legal action against her is suitable. He...\nThe Spice Girls Have Announced a Reunion\nAfter about 20 years of whines, moans, and outcries for the return of the beloved Spice Girls after their six-year stint taking over the entire planet, the ...\nTHIS JUST IN - The Spice Girls ARE Going On A Reunion Tour!\nSadly, there will be no new music to accompany the tour. Simon Fuller , who managed the girl power group, organized the recent Spice Girls summit and he wi...\nKylie Jenner's Baby Announcement Becomes Most-Liked Instagram Ever\nReality TV star Kylie Jenner has given her newborn daughter the unique name of Stormi . In a post on her Instagram page, Jenner said she kept quiet...\nDisney Channel Rebooting 'Kim Possible' With a Live-Action Movie\nAdam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsk will take over directing duties. \"Mark and Bob created an enduring character and kids all over the world found a friend in her,...\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle to visit Social Bite\nPrince Harry and Princess Eugenie stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in 2015. \"She said, 'That's distant family and I don't know those people .' That's...\nAlexis Sanchez Heavily Fined, but Will Avoid Prison for Tax Fraud\nThe Chilean was blamed for cheating the Spanish Treasury of €1m (£890,000) while at the Catalan side in 2012 to 2013 by utilizing a shell organization in Malta ...\nCome Get Your Uncle: Quincy Jones claims he once dated Ivanka Trump\nThey were no-playing (expletive). Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. \"And Ringo? Don't even talk about it. great guy, though\". He's a insane (explet...\nArnold Schwarzenegger Joins Amazon Western \"Outrider\" as Star and Exec. Producer\nTrey Callaway and Mark Montgomery will write and executive produce, with Mace Neufeld also executive producing alongside Schwarzenegger. Deadline reports Schw...\nLanny Davis: Comey Hurt Hillary 'Far More' Than He Hurt Trump\nIn late September 2016, he learned his NY field office was sitting on emails between Anthony Weiner and his wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin , which potentiall...\nJennifer Lopez Covers Prince, Debuts New Song at Pre-Super Bowl Concert\nAT&T said it would match charitable contributions up to $200K to the Hispanic Federation for the Hurricane Maria relief and recovery effort in Puerto Rico, and ...\nSharon Tate's sister slams Hilary Duff's movie\nDebra has taken aim at them all, saying, \"It's classless how everyone is rushing to release something for the 50th anniversary of this horrific event\". \"I know ...\nJessica Jones digs into her past in first trailer for season two\nNetflix has debuted a brand new trailer for the second season of Marvel's Jessica Jones . She also finds herself in competition with another private investi...\nGetting too old for this: Jamie Dornan on Fifty Shades\nThe actor was asked about the movie when he revealed this. \"Over the course of the three films, it never got easier\". Fans of the series will already know tha...\nReese Witherspoon opens up about past abusive relationship\nIf you enjoy shopping for Ladies fashion, Men's fashion, or Teenage fashion then look around our site and enjoy!. Reese Witherspoon has addressed the challe...\nWinter weather advisory in effect for Wednesday morning\nAreas north of I-80 are expected to get 6-9 inches of snow. PennDOT is treating the roads with a mix of anti-skid and salt. Snow will spread across the area...\nNew Deadpool 2 trailer introduces Josh Brolin's Cable\nWe saw how Deadpool got his powers, we met his girlfriend and we learned that this superhero doesn't have to play by the same rules as the Avengers or the X-M...\nSuper Bowl Nets 103 Million Viewers, Down 7 Percent from 2017\nThat gives it the lowest TV viewership of any Super Bowl since 2009, when 98.7 million people watched the Steelers defeat the Cardinals. The NFL's ratings s...\nAnushka Sharma's eerie 'Pari' teaser three\nAnushka Sharma's taking us on a ride of horror fairytale that vows to scare the hell out of everyone. The film is set in Kolkata and by the look of it, it see...\nBack 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 Forward\nWelcome to the Stage, the Star Horse of 'Witcher'\nQuentin Tarantino keeps film sets loose with regular cocktail parties\n‘Gossip Girl’ Spinoff Series in the Works at HBO Max\nKelly Staff Release Sex tapes in Cooperation with Federal Investigation\nAmazon workers strike during Prime Day to demand better working conditions\nJennifer Lopez, Constance Wu scam Wall Street clients in first trailer — Hustlers\nR. 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        "text": "Hi-Tech / Hardware\nhttp://mcomp.org\nNews on the political and public arena in the world, Russia and other countries. Recent events in the country.\n\"A sad ending\": it Became known release date of the latest series of \"big Bang Theory\" 12.03.2019 at 17:29\nThe Writers reported that the final episode can be quite sad and its duration will also differ. Became known release date of the latest series of the famous sitcom \"big Bang Theory\". The final episode will appear on the screens on may 16 this year, and it turns out it can be quite sad. This was announced by the writers of the series, they also added that the duration of the series, too, will differ, as will last for an hour. That 12 will be the final season, it became known last year. Moreover, the sitcom has a 279 series, which is a record number for this genre. the series follows the life of a talented physicist Sheldon and his friends. It describes various situations that occur with friends-scientists and how they solve them. But most often the biggest...\nNimble \"Polo\" vs \"Japanese\": Volkswagen Polo GT battled in the race with the Mazda CX-5 12.03.2019 at 15:19\nThe Owners of Mazda CX-5 and Volkswagen Polo GT decided to fight in the race with each other to check whether turbocharged \"German\" to overtake all-wheel drive \"Japanese\". the Author of the channel \"Auto VRN\" was told that in one race of the Volkswagen Polo GT with a 125-horsepower turbocharged engine 1.4 on a 6-step \"mechanics\", which was already ahead of the LADA Granta and Hyundai Solaris, and Mazda CX-5 with a 194-horsepower 2.5 and 6-speed automatic transmission, which is ahead of earlier, Toyota Camry and Hyundai Sonata. while the first race \"Mazda\" confidently took the lead and the speed to 190 km/h drove by four lengths ahead of Polo. In the second race with the mark on the speedometer 20 km/h the situation is almost repeated \"Japanese\" very quickly...\nMike Pompeo accused \"Rosneft\" in the purchase of oil from Venezuela 12.03.2019 at 12:59\nUS Secretary of state Mike Pompeo believes that the Director of the oil company \"Rosneft\" by their actions \"extends a lifeline\" to the Venezuelan authorities. Mike Pompeo said that the Russian company \"Rosneft\" to bypass the us sanctions on buying oil from Venezuela. On this statement Pompeo, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it can not be combined with international law. \"This is as international law goes? Yes way,\" said Lavrov at press conference following talks with foreign Minister of Austria Karin Kneissl. Earlier it was reported that the office of the Venezuelan oil monopoly PDVSA will be transferred to Moscow. Also Sergey Lavrov commented on the situation around the \"Nord stream-2,\" he pointed to the need for fair competition. \"We see...\nFine taste and elegance: Kate Middleton appeared in public in a coat for $1200 06.03.2019 at 13:20\nThe Duchess of Cambridge once again showed not only great sense of style, but excellent figure. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Blackpool to attend the event on the topic of social and mental health challenges faced by people in the UK. 37-year-old Kate Middleton stressed your fine taste and the elegance of a refined coat olive green from Sportsmax for $1200, which translated to approximately 78 000. Also, the Duchess was wearing a dress by Michael Kors and complement the image of the green bag from Manu Atelier. In public, Kate Middleton appeared together with her husband Prince William. After the event in the Central library of Manchester, the Duke of Cambridge met with representatives of the emergency services and community first aid to...\n\"700,000 km is not a sentence\": the Perfect Hyundai Sonata with a huge run showed expert 06.03.2019 at 13:00\nIt is considered that the engines of modern cars of South Korean brand is quite unreliable, however, the expert proved that it happens and Vice versa. the Perfect Hyundai Sonata with a huge run was a featured expert on the YouTube channel \"the Theory of internal combustion engines\". The machine 2014 proved that 700,000 km is not a death sentence for the car. Sedan is in good condition, almost not rusty, and the interior of the vehicle looks like new. Specify that we are talking about the Hyundai Sonata of the sixth generation, imported from South Korea. The car was used in the country exclusively in a taxi. According to the blogger, the work carrier provided the unit car to work regularly in all the ranges that affect its durability, and this despite the...\nTravis Scott on Twitter affectionately called Kylie Jenner \"Queen\" 06.03.2019 at 11:59\nDespite rumors of infidelity of the rapper, Travis Scott continues to prove his love to her younger sister Kim Kardashian. the other day American media reported that the beloved 21-year-old Kylie Jenner Travis Scott is cheating on the mother of his only daughter. This became to suspect myself of Kylie, which held a young man rather emotional conversation, according to insiders. Then, to prove his devotion and love, the rapper defiantly has deleted his page in Instagram. Recently Travis Scott in your profile in Twitter, which until removed at the request of the beloved, affectionately called Kylie Jenner \"Queen.\" Forbes magazine named the youngest of the family Kardashian-Jenner is the youngest billionaire in the world, and therefore Travis could not resist...\nKit Harington in tears when he read the final script of \"Game of thrones\" 06.03.2019 at 11:10\nStar of \"Game of thrones\" could not hold back tears and hinted at the happy ending of the cult TV series. the 32-year-old actor kit Harington has been invited as a guest to the evening show Stephen Colbert The Late Show. During the conversation, the star of \"Game of thrones\" has told that together with the audience waiting for the latest season to appear on television. Keith also admitted that he really cried when I read the final script. According to celebrity, he could not expect such ending fantastic stories. Presenter Stephen Colbert immediately suggested that viewers at the end of the eighth season of waiting is still a happy ending. the Harington more not say a word for the plot of the final season, as well as about the fate of his character Jon snow....\n\"Reliable but boring\": His impressions of the Volkswagen Polo shared owner 06.03.2019 at 08:59\nGerman sedan earned the love of Russians for their reliability and practicality. the Leading channel on YouTube TeoretiG is a German owner of the popular sedan Volkswagen Polo. My impressions of this \"chetyrehdverki\" the expert shared on the pages of your blog. consider the Mileage of Volkswagen Polo was 108 000 km, and during this period, with \"Polo\" almost nothing happened, which proves its reliability. However, the car has poor paintwork - when you hit a little rock on the body, there is formed a dent or a chip. Headlight for Volkswagen Polo finished in plastic is not of the highest quality, which they are easily scratched. The same scratches were discovered in the rear lights. the Continuation of... \"Go > > see\": Blogger ridiculed for \"plug-in...\n\"Kozhemyako, save poor mothers!\": In Primorye, err on the mass non-payment of the parent capital 06.03.2019 at 07:29\nResidents of Primorsky Krai are outraged by the situation with the payment of the parent capital. They said on the official website of the Governor Oleg Kozhemyako, to get paid is almost impossible due to the arbitrariness of officials. Every time the powers that be come up with new excuses and are forced to collect stacks of unnecessary paperwork. Even more pitiable the situation with the promised land. And when to involve a positive results to wait still is not necessary because of bureaucratic delays. \"Kozhemyako, save poor mothers!\" show a series of reviews in the official Instaram account of the Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako. Out POPs a range of problems, the main of which is the inability to obtain statutory benefits. Note, this is not...\n\"You'll die, so be it!\": Sobchak wants a speedy death of Putin — why? 06.03.2019 at 05:20\nTo the question about the reason for the plight of the President Ksenia Sobchak told analysts. Impulsive statement about Putin and Stalin did not go unnoticed by the people. On the questions \"why?\" and \"why?\" gave the answer Analytics. Patron, Vladimir Putin, Anatoly Sobchak, he had a very close friendship with his protégé, promoting the future President to power, at that time, an unknown KGB officer. Gradually, out of nowhere, came a charismatic political figure that went over the head, but not literally, but as if by itself. After the death of Sobchak, in the year Vladimir Putin was nominated for the first term. And from that moment between the daughter of the political curator of Putin and himself begin to cool down a very warm relationship that...\n\"Volga\" for hipsters: a Russian Tuning sedan admired network 06.03.2019 at 04:59\nClassic \"Volga\" has received a tuning kit, turned it into a muscle car. On the pages of one of the automotive communities in popular social networks appeared a photo that managed to draw the attention of subscribers. In the photo you can see the classic \"Volga\", which has received a stylish tuning kit. Judging from the picture, the sedan is equipped with a custom suspension, which allowed to significantly increase ground clearance. Arch auto has also been significantly expanded, and the sedan is put on large chrome rims with low profile tires. netizens in the comments have appreciated the tuning sedan. \"This Volga for dudes\", \"Our response to oil-Karam\", \"How do you like that, Mustang?\", \"On our roads the wheels will come to an end,\" the joke of the...\n\"Out of competition\": \"the miracle of Japanese technology\" Subaru XV frankly told the judge 24.02.2019 at 18:19\nNew Japanese crossover thanks to its technological equipment is actually \"removed\" the competition. the Blogger Ross Rossavich introduced in the network overview all-wheel drive Japanese crossover Subaru XV fresh generation, which he considers \"a miracle of Japanese technology.\" New 2019 model year received adaptive headlights, 220-mm ground clearance, roof rails, rear view camera, Parking sensors and antenna \"shark fin\". the Hood space of the Japanese crossover is a 2-liter boxer engine 4 cylinder. Thanks to the convenient horizontal arrangement of the motor, \"Japanese\" perfectly \"holds\" the road. the Functional inventory of new Subaru XV includes ABS, stabilization system, informative steering wheel, a fully digital \"tidy\", a progressive media hub, heated...\n63-year-old Donatella Versace admitted that he will never give up mini dresses 24.02.2019 at 17:50\nOne of the most famous fashion designers in the world said he believes the mini-dress of their real passion. the 63-year-old Donatella Versace is not shy in such a respectful age to wear making outfits and mini dresses. A famous woman claims that have fought for years for her figure, which now can be proud of. Moreover, Versace admitted that he will never give up mini dresses and short skirts, but now is trying not to wear them on bare feet. The designer prefers to hide his legs under tights or thin leggings that can be worn under dresses. When journalists asked Donatella, no longer does she wear mini-skirt, she replied: \"are You crazy? Of course I still wear them!\". The designer also had some style advice. Most important, according to Versace, to continue...\nExperts called the TOP 5 cars that rust within three years after purchase 24.02.2019 at 14:19\nOne of the main criteria when buying a new car is its durability and reliability. Auto researched the market and made the TOP 5 cars that rust too quickly. Topped the rating of rusting models of UAZ \"Patriot\", because six months later the owner is faced with damage the body. It is possible to carry out anti-corrosion treatment and defer the problem. Second place went to the Chinese Lifan X60, which even treatment doesn't help. In third place was the domestic LADA Granta, which gives resistance to corrosion, but the suspension components and the engine compartment too quickly rust, so is unable to see the first chips. Fourth place went to Renault Duster, which suffers from rusting suspension. Almost immediately on the welds crack and then rust. TOP 5 cars...\nZelensky, the President of Ukraine: Donbass pays over 40% of the votes for the comic for the sake of peace in the country 24.02.2019 at 13:30\nZelensky wins voters before the elections. the Election race in Ukraine has never been so fierce as it is now. Moreover, list and electorate candidates completely diverse, and most importantly, \"anything\" does not abate the sensation, which depends on the future of relations with Russia and the settlement of the conflict in the Donbas. this Spring, everything should finally be resolved. The main rivalry is between Vladimir Zelensky, a politician and a showman-comedian, Petro Poroshenko, current President of the country, and also between Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Boyko and Evgeny Musaevym. it is Important to say that after the recent events and the falling ratings Poroshenko, Vladimir Zelensky became actively recruit electorate. Through informal surveys on..."
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        "text": "The Triumph of Modernism in the Art of Australia\nSubmitted by AliaK on Fri, 03/27/2015 - 19:52\n28 Mar 2015 - 24 May 2015\nSpans 60 years of Australian Art with over 50 iconic works by 26 artists who have shaped the development of modern art in Australia.\nThe Triumph of Modernism tells the story of a new identity in Australian art commencing post World War II with artists such as Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Russell Drysdale, John Brack, John Perceval and Charles Blackman. Later years see the continuing development of modern art in the works of Fred Williams and John Olsen, and in more recent times in contemporary art by artists Imants Tillers, Howard Arkley and Aida Tomescu. The Triumph of Modernism is a rich and representative display of the story of modern Australia, with a particular and deliberate emphasis on Australian identity, although it is just a glimpse into the remarkable collections.\nCurated for Hazelhurst by its patron, Edmund Capon, the exhibition provides an opportunity to see some works that are rarely made available for public viewing. “This is the first time Sydney audiences will be able to see the collection in such depth, revealing the strength and diversity it holds” said Belinda Hanrahan, Hazelhurst's Director. Edmund Capon says “My objective here has been to illustrate two themes; firstly the triumph of modernism in Australian art and, secondly, the particular qualities and strengths of the TarraWarra and Besen collections.”\nArtists featured include Howard Arkley, George Baldessin , Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, William Delafield Cook, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Ian Fairweather, Joy Hester, Dale Hickey, Roger Kemp, Joanna Lamb, Godfrey Miller, Sidney Nolan, John Olsen, John Perceval, Jeffrey Smart, Tim Storrier, Edwin Tanner, Imants Tillers, Aida Tomescu, Tony Tuckson, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams and William Wright.\nThis exhibition is a partnership project between TarraWarra Museum of Art and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. The Triumph of Modernism will also be shown at TarraWarra Museum of Art from 21 June – 16 August 2015.\nvia http://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Community/Hazelhurst/Exhibitions/T..."
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        "text": "There have been a lot of changes in my surrounding friends and family’s lives lately and through it all both happy and sad prayer is the thing that is the foundation!\nThere are prayers of need and sadness for lost mommy’s with little ones, husbands, parents, siblings, and friends left here to pick up pieces and really connect them in a totally different way… For lost baby’s before a mom could ever see them open their eyes, for family and friends and sudden tragedys.\nThere are also prayers of thankfulness for blessings of all kinds: safe travels, new baby’s, clean bills of health, new milestones in life, close relationships with Christ no matter if newly found or just stronger than ever.\nThis may seem confusing to some, but based on some of the things we have experienced lately I am at this second to the point of tears just from feeling overwhelmingly blessed, grateful, honored that my son can call for me and find me. That he can say Mommy and not have to keep looking with no knowledge his mommy went to Heaven and will no longer be able to love and care for him on this earth. I pray for a long and healthy life in which I can pester and harrass my family to the very last because though I know I’m going to Heaven and I’m blessed to have that opportunity I also love my little piece of Heaven God has granted me on this earth.\nPrayer is the very first and yet also the final place your heart and lips go to cry and to rejoice! He is our beginning and end and He is our full unending support on earth. I just feel incredibly blessed and am reminded daily even more so really by the minute at some times how very blessed I am to have His love and through His love to have an amazing and faithful family and close knit group of friends to move through life with.\nThank you as always for stopping by and taking the time to share in my posts, thoughts, life, mommy moments, and projects."
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        "text": "This is an archive of the old Knight Digital Media Center site. Please visit our new home at the Knight Digital Media Center.\nSponsoring Institutions\nLeadership 3.0 Blog\nOJR: The Online Journalism Review\nNews for Digital Journalists\nSeminars Archived by Topic\nSeminars Archived by Year\nRecent Seminars\nMultimedia Training\nNew Media Resources\nPosts tagged with: Contest\nApps for Inclusion: New Knight contest to build the digital public square\nOn Tuesday the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a new contest to develop online and mobile applications that will help people improve their lives through better access to government/community info and services.\nThe Apps for Inclusion Challenge “encourages technology innovators to review government and community services and develop tools that will improve lives by making it easier for citizens to receive these services through mobile and online applications.”\nThis announcement came during an event co-hosted by the Knight Foundation in which the FCC previewed its forthcoming National Broadband Plan. The FCC will be “in partnership” with the Knight Foundation on Apps for Inclusion.\nContest entry criteria and deadlines have not yet been announced. However, the Knight Foundation will commit a total of $100,000 in prize money. A panel of experts will review applications and pick winners. The public will have a vote through several “people’s choice awards.”\nStay tuned for further details.\nBy Amy Gahran, 03/09/10 at 2:14 pm\nComments (1) • Permalink • Tell-a-Friend\nCrowdsourcing your business: Financial Times idea contest to boost subscriptions\nHere’s an intriguing notion—ask the crowd you’d like to have pay for your product for ideas on how to get more of them to pay for it. That’s the approach legendary pink business broadsheet Financial Times has taken by using a “social think tank” called Idea Bounty to help find digital marketing ideas to boost new subscriptions to FT.com.\nThe crowdsourcing contest has an actual bounty—it carries a top prize of $5,000 and offers 10 short-listers full-year subscriptions to the paper. It’s a pretty simple process: register, submit an idea, then wait to hear back. In this case, you’d know after the July 25 deadline if yours was the plan to win the paper gobs of new online readers.\nIdea Bounty, part of Cape Town, South Africa-based Quirk eMarketing, has run such crowd-sourcing contests since late 2008 for Levi’s, Red Bull, BMW, Unilever and others, but this appears to be its first news project. Winning ideas end up belonging to the client, so it’s not so apparent what they are or how well they worked. But the site is reported by technology site Memeburn to have generated 6,000 ideas for 11 projects so far.\nFinancial Times, meanwhile, already has 140,000 digital subscribers using the site via metered paywall, and according to a long writeup in the Los Angeles Times, has been seeing subscription revenues grow, with 15% more subscribers than a year ago.\nHat tip to Matt Buckland of Creative Spark, which runs the Memeburn site that reported the contest.\nBy A. Adam Glenn, 06/28/10 at 10:51 am\nHillman Opens Submissions for Social Justice Journalism Prize\nA journalism prize for investigative reporting with a social and economic justice bent is now accepting submissions for its 2011 awards. The annual Hillman Prize, sponsored by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, has categories for online, newspaper and magazine publishing, as well as broadcast TV/radio, photojournalism, film and non-fiction books. The winner receives $5,000, plus travel to New York for an awards ceremony next May 19.\nAmong 2010 winners were healthcare policy bloggers Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic and Ezra Klein of The Washington Post, the Bloomberg News series “The Fight for Transparency,” High Country News’ “The Dark Side of Dairies,” photo series from The Denver Post and a segment from PBS TV series NOW.\nThe contest judges are a high-powered lot, including a Washington Post/Los Angeles Times editor-at-large, a senior editor from the New Yorker, the editor and publisher of The Nation, a senior producer for CNN and others.\nDeadline for submissions is Jan. 31, 2011. No fee is required. Submit or nominate work here.\nBy A. Adam Glenn, 11/09/10 at 12:23 pm\n“Planet Inspired” contest: YouTube users play mix n’ match with National Geographic content\nIn its Planet Inspired YouTube contest, National Geographic shows how a media organization can build engagement and issue awareness, while also extending the relevance of its established brand to a new generation of digital collaborators. The secret? Encouraging the public play with its multimedia archives…\nThrough Nov. 15, YouTube users can submit short montage videos compiled from clips and images from a library of National Geographic content, combined with their own pictures or video. Submissions must focus on one of four themes: oceans, endangered species, freshwater, or exploration. Videos can include text captions written by the user, and audio from a library provided by National Geographic.\nThe goal here is not to help people create journalism, but to help them feel a sense of engagement and identification with National Geographic. The language around this contest is highly emotional and personal: “Choose the issue you feel most passionate about; the story of our planet you want to tell. Then select images, clips, music, plus your own original content to create a message that moves hearts and minds.”\nThat’s an important point: It’s pretty hard to build a brand, or engage an audience or community, without passion. While your journalism may not be an appropriate place to express or incite passion, it can be interesting to let your community reflect their passion back at you by layering their creativity onto your content.\nThis particular contest focuses on gorgeous imagery and global issues. However a news organization that happens to have rich photo or video archives might consider trying something similar for issues of special significance to their region: a sports team, a major storm, local business or schools, an annual festival or parade, local history, the local landscape, etc.\nNational Geographic made this contest very easy for people with little or no video experience by building a user-friendly web-based tool that allows people to select, upload, organize, and caption clips and produce a finished video. That kind of tool requires some web development work, but if you build it right it can be reused for multiple contests. This approach also doesn’t make it too easy for people to use your content in unauthorized ways.\nThe deadline for submissions is Nov. 15. A panel of National Geographic judges then will choose 10 finalists. YouTube votes will determine the grand prize winner, which will be announced Dec. 17. The grand prize is a National Geographic weekend photography workshop (an existing revenue-generating event series) plus a $1,000 gift certificate from The North Face.\nAndroid apps contest brings together journalists, programmers\nIn a contest to foster journalism innovation - or even help birth a new breed of journalist-programmer - the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is bringing together journalism students with computer science, engineering and business students to create new apps for Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system.\nThe several month-long competition, sponsored by Google, Adobe, Sprint, and Hearst Corp., is in its fourth year, having previously developed apps for the iPhone and for Adobe. One winning idea from last year’s contest is now in development as a potential business at Hearst.\nThe contest form itself is nicely innovative. Students form ad-hoc, cross-disciplinary teams, with project management from Hearst employees. Adobe provides tools for generating Android apps, while Sprint provides help from developers and phones for testing apps. The winner ultimately gets to present its idea to Google execs in California next spring.\nThe Neiman Journalism Lab blog has a detailed writeup on the contest and its interdisciplinary approach.\nBy A. Adam Glenn, 12/07/10 at 6:31 am\nWeMedia PitchIt Challenge for news entrepreneurs: Apply by Feb 4\nToday, WeMedia started accepting applications for its PitchIt Challenge—a competition for news entrepreneurs. Two winning pitches each will receive up to $25,000 to invest in their big ideas…\n“We want to find the best startups and help launch them with advice from funders, investors, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, attendees and media,” writes WeMedia.\nApply now! Deadline for entries: Feb. 4\nLearn more about this contest.\nThis contest is open to for-profit and nonprofit projects. Finalists will pitch their ideas live before a panel of expert judges and a live audience at WeMedia NYC (Apr. 6).\nFirst Knight-Mozilla Tech Challenge now open: Unlocking video\nThe first phase of the Knight-Mozilla Technology Challenge launched this week. Through May 6, the program is accepting online submissions of ideas to create tools to help news organizations find new ways to use video in storytelling beyond embedding a “TV in a web page”...\nAccording to the Unlocking Video challenge page: “New open video tools make it possible to pull data from across the web right into the story. Information related to the video can literally ‘pop’ into the page. And videos themselves can change, dynamically adapting as stories evolve. The challenge is to use these tools in ways that serve the story. How can we enrich news video through things like added context, deeper viewer engagement, and the real time web? What are the untapped possibilities inherent in many-to-many, web video?”\nRegarding how news organizations could put these ideas to use:\n“How might you tell a story by pulling in video, data and other material from across the web?”\n“How can semantic video help audiences dig deeper into other forms of context and content?”\n“How do we create compelling narrative experiences—and avoid overwhelming viewers with too much information?”\nThis challenge is one of three to be held this spring—the others are reinventing comments, and future news apps. This series is designed to identify 15 fellows “who will be embedded in leading newsrooms around the world. These fellows will create new tools, ideas, and news experiences that benefit both readers and newsmakers—all using open technologies.”\nFellows must commit to spending a year on site with one of the program’s news partners (currently: Boston.com, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC News, and Zeit Online). At a meeting last night in San Francisco, Nathaniel James (news technology program manager for Mozilla’s Drumbeat initiative) said that the salary would be in the range of $65,000, and that relocation funding and support would be available.\nDeadline for video challenge entries: May 6. Ideas then will be voted on by the public and a panel of experts.\nJames said that in 2012 ten additional news partners will be announced. While the first few partners are mostly large established media organizations, the program will seek more diversity in the size, type, and focus of additional news partners. According to James, the selection process for news partners begins in September. Learn more and stay tuned for more info.\nThe News for Digital Journalists blog is made possible by a grant to USC Annenberg from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.\nBy Amy Gahran, 04/27/11 at 5:20 am\nKnight Community Arts Journalism Challenge: Apply by Aug. 18\nLocal arts journalism is evolving quickly, just like every other kind of news and information. To spur and guide this evolution, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts recently teamed up to launch an eight-city competition seeking new models for local arts journalism in the digital age…\nA Knight press release explained that the new Knight Community Arts Journalism Challenge will award prizes up to $100,000 total for projects that “use the latest tools for storytelling and engaging readers to create model programs that could be replicated in other communities.”\nProjects must focus on or directly benefit at least one of the following cities:\nCharlotte, N.C.\nSan Jose/ Silicon Valley, Calif.\nApplicants need not reside within a target city.\nDeadline: Midnight ET, Aug. 18\nFirst round winners will receive up to $20,000 to create an action plan to develop their idea. These projects are eligible to win up to $80,000 for implementation in the contest’s second round.\nIndividuals, non-profits and businesses are eligible to apply. Partnerships between legacy and emerging media organizations are encouraged. There is no limit to the number of applications that you can submit.\n“No idea is too unusual,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president for arts.\nKnight News Challenge 2.0: applications open Feb. 27\nFor five years the original Knight News Challenge stimulated innovation in news, information, and community engagement. Today the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation unveiled the revamped program…\nThe new Knight News Challenge will comprise three smaller, more focused competitions. Each Challenge will last 8-10 weeks, beginning to end.\nThe first Challenge opens for applications Feb. 27, deadline March 17. First-round winners will be announced in June 18 at MIT.\nThe second contest (an open competition, casting a wide net for new ideas) will launch later this spring.\nThe dates and topic of the third contest have not yet been determined.\nThis year’s first News Challenge will focus on the concept of networks. John Bracken, director of journalism and media innovation for the Knight Foundation, explained what Knight means by networks:\n“In the course of our work, we often come across proposals to ‘build a Facebook that connects X and Y.’ We want to move away from that. There are a lot of vibrant networks and platforms, on- and off-line, that can be used to connect us with the news and information we need to make decisions about our lives. This challenge will not fund new networks. Rather, we’re asking you to describe ways you might use existing platforms to drive innovation in media and journalism.”\nKnight News Challenge 2012 from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.\nBy Amy Gahran, 02/09/12 at 12:44 pm\nKnight News Challenge 2012: To apply, answer 7 questions on networks\nToday the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation began accepting applications for the first part of the revamped Knight News Challenge. To apply, explain your idea on the theme of “networks” by answering seven questions on a special Tumblr site…\nThis year the News Challenge will comprise three smaller, more focused competitions. Each Challenge will last 8-10 weeks, beginning to end. The application deadline for the first Challenge is March 17. First-round winners will be announced June 18 at MIT.\nBy “networks,” Knight means “ideas that build on the rise of existing network events and tools that deliver news and information and extend our understanding.”\nIn this video, Michael Maness (Knight VP of Journalism and Media Innovation) elaborated on the “networks” theme. For example: “Storify didn’t invent Twitter,” he said, “they just found a new way of using it.”\nLater this spring, Knight will launch the second Challenge (an open competition, casting a wide net for new ideas). The dates and topic of the third contest have not yet been determined.\nLearn more and apply now\nDeadline: March 17\nNews and announcements from the Knight Digital Media Center.\nRTNDA/Gannett award for innovative community watchdog journalism\nKnight News Challenge on Mobile: applications now open\nWhat “mobile first” means to BreakingNews.com\nReview: RCFP “first aid” app for journalists\nCivic Data Challenge: Apply by July 29\nknight foundation research mobile business models social media pew internet and american life project events funding tools resources local knight news challenge contest communities government technology newspapers business grants data\nTwitter: @KDMC\n@KNIGHTFDN\nThe Knight Digital Media Center is a partnership between:\n© 2019 Knight Digital Media Center | Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation"
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        "text": "Q: Strange loading screen when MBP battery dies and reboots I have a 2007 Macbook Pro and for nearly two years, the battery has been toast. In April, Apple replaced the logic board. Since the repair, whenever the power cable comes loose, the MBP shuts off as expected. \nBefore the repair, when the power cable was unplugged, the MBP simply shut off. Now, when I plug it back in and turn it on, it boots back up in the previous state, but has a white screen with loading bars at the bottom.\nI haven't found anything related to this on the web. Is this related to the new logic board, or is there something else I should be concerned about? The MBP is running Leopard and is up to date.\n\nA: This feature is called Safe Sleep. Apple notebooks will keep the RAM contents alive (sleep in PC jargon), but write a copy to the disk (hibernate, in PC jargon) at the same time.\nIf the battery runs out while the computer is sleeping, when it wakes up, it needs to read the RAM contents from disk, and thus you get the progress bar you are seeing.\nApple doc about it is here\n\nA: This is so called \"Hibernation\" (my first met in windows). When battery dies, the OS dumps whole RAM into HDD (sort of swapping) so that no information is lost. When it's being booted back up, it loads the information back from HDD to RAM (hence you see the progress with those white bars).\n"
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        "text": "Q: Faster alternative to ShakesPeer? I've used ShakesPeer for it's clean and Mac-like interface. But the downloads are really slow. Is there a faster alternative to ShakesPeer?\nPreferably having at least the same features as ShakesPeer itself if not more. Also preferable if the software follows the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.\n\nA: I haven't tried these but Jucy and EiskaltDC++ are two DirectConnect clients that work on mac.  However, neither appears to use a mac interface.\nsource: http://alternativeto.net/desktop/shakespeer/?sort=likes&platform=mac\n\nA: Whatever calavera pointed you at — also, try MLDonkey, NeoModus Direct Connect (DC original client!) and Valknut, they all have Mac versions.\nSince I'm not a DC user, can't comment on speed =(\n"
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        "text": "The long and short of it: This 14 Series Shower Control is a fully functioning Shower Faucet without the showerhead. It includes the Handle to control the Shower (on/off) along with the Rough-in Valve which installs in the wall. This item can work with any showerhead or handheld shower when plumbed correctly in the wall. It mixes the water from your hot and cold water lines in the wall and sends out a stream of warm water to whatever shower spray you choose.\nBuy this Delta Cassidy Collection Polished Nickel Monitor 14 Series Shower Valve Control Only INCLUDES Single Lever Handle and Rough-in Valve with Stops D1863V Now!"
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        "text": "Discussion in 'Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers' started by wilsonljx, Jan 30, 2012.\nDoes anyone know the coding for light brightness adjustment interfacing with LDR?\nWhich route to go for coding embedded C?"
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        "text": "Репу̀блика Бълга̀рия е държава в Югоизточна Европа. Граничи на север с Румъния, на запад – със Сърбия и Северна Македония, на юг – с Гърция, на югоизток – с Турция и на изток – с Черно море. С площ почти 111 000 km² и население около 6 520 000 души (2021) тя е съответно на 11-о и 16-о място в Европейския съюз. София е столицата и най-големият град в страната, следвана от Пловдив, Варна и Бургас.\n\nНай-ранните свидетелства за човешко присъствие по земите на днешна България датират от преди 200 – 100 хиляди години, или епохата на палеолита. Към петото хилядолетие преди н.е. в североизточна България процъфтява култура, която създава най-ранните златни украшения в Европа. От античността до Тъмните векове по земите на днешна България се развиват културите на траките, древните гърци, келтите, готите и римляните. С пристигането на славяните през VI век, а век по-късно и на прабългарите, започва процесът на изграждане на българската държавност. През 681 година е основана Първата българска държава, която достига разцвета в развитието си в началото на X век и оказва голямо влияние на източноевропейските народи чрез книжовните си школи и литературата. Тя просъществува до 1018 г., когато попада под византийска власт. Отхвърля я с въстание през 1185 г. Втората българска държава достига върха в могъществото и териториалното си разширение през първата половина на XIII век и съществува между 1185 и 1396 г., когато е завладяна от разрастващата се Османска империя.\n\nПрез 1878 г., след почти век на културно и икономическо възраждане, неуспешни въстания и дипломатически борби, България възстановява държавността си под формата на монархия и се освобождава от петвековното османско владичество с помощта на Руската империя в Руско-турската Освободителна война. Малко след това България започва да води редица войни със своите съседи и се съюзява с Германия по време на двете световни войни. На 15 септември 1946 г. монархията е заменена с народна република, от съветски тип и държавата се преименува на Народна република България, ръководена от Българската комунистическа партия. Социалистическият строй съществува до 1990 г., след което България поема по пътя на либералната демокрация и пазарната икономика. На 29 март 2004 г. страната се присъединява към НАТО, а на 1 януари 2007 г. – към Европейския съюз.\n\nВ икономически аспект България е промишлена страна, чиято икономика се гради върху добива на метали и минерали и върху преработката на суровини. По-малка роля в икономиката играят земеделието и туризмът. Основни проблеми пред развитието на страната са много високите нива на корупция и критичната демографска ситуация. България е една от основателките на Организацията за черноморско икономическо сътрудничество и Организацията за сигурност и сътрудничество в Европа; освен това страната членува в ООН, Съвета на Европа, Европейския съюз и НАТО. През 2015 г. България е позиционирана като третата най-перспективна страна в света за базиране на производство според Cushman & Wakefield в техния индекс за позициониране на производство в развиващите се пазари. България е сред основателките на Инициатива „Три морета“ през 2016 г.\n\nГеография \n\nБългария се намира в югоизточна Европа, и заема източната част на Балканския полуостров, на брега на Черно море. Общо 1808 километра сухопътни граници се делят с Гърция и Турция на юг, Северна Македония и Сърбия на запад, и Румъния на север. На изток се намира 354-километровата черноморска брегова ивица. България е с обща площ от 110 994 km2, което я прави 105-ата по големина страна в света.\n\nСтраната обхваща части от отделните региони, известни в класическата епоха като Мизия, Тракия и Македония. Около 30% от територията са равнини, а платата и хълмовете заемат около 41%. Югозападната част на страната има по-силно изразен планински характер, като ярко се открояват Рила и Пирин, а по на изток са по-ниските, но по-обширни Родопи. В Рила се намира най-високият връх на Балканския полуостров – Мусала, с височина 2925 м. Старопланинската верига разделя страната наполовина, от запад на изток. На север от нея се намира обширната Дунавска равнина, където главната река на България – Дунав, определя границата с Румъния, а на юг са разположени Горнотракийската низина и Софийската котловина. Хълмистият и равнинният пейзаж са по-характерни за югоизточните части по черноморското крайбрежие, както и по Дунав на север. Странджа е най-високата планина в югоизточната част, а Добруджа е най-равнинната област на България, с ниски и малко на брой възвишения.\n\nВ България преобладава умереният климат. Бариерният ефект на Стара планина има силно влияние върху климата в цялата страна – Северна България изпитва по-ниски температури и получава повече валежи в сравнение с южната част. През зимата континенталните въздушни маси носят снеговалежи и студени зими, особено в Дунавската равнина, а през лятото средиземноморските въздушни маси водят със себе си сухи и горещи лета в Родопите и Горнотракийската низина. Валежите в страната са средно около 630 mm годишно. Най-сухи са Добруджа и части от Тракия, където годишно падат под 500 mm валежи, а по високите планински райони валежните количества достигат 2540 mm на година. Най-ниската измерена температура е -38,3 °C в Трън, а най-високата – 45,2 °C в Садово.\n\nСтраната има добре развита речна мрежа от около 540 реки, повечето от тях – с изключение на река Дунав, са сравнително къси и с ниски водни нива. Повечето реки преминават през планински райони. Най-дългата река, намираща се изключително на българска територия, е Искър, с дължина 368 km. Други по-големи реки са Струма и река Марица на юг. Най-големите езера са Варненско, Бургаско, Атанасовско и Мандренско.\n\nБългария разполага с голямо разнообразие от полезни изкопаеми и природни ресурси. Маришкият въглищен басейн е богат на лигнитни въглища, най-разпространеният тип в България, а запаси от кафяви въглища съществуват около Бобов дол и в Рила. Западна Стара планина, особено около Средна гора и Челопеч, е богата на мед. Налични са и находища на манган, уран, олово, цинк, желязна руда, хром, доломит, гипс, каолин, мрамор и кварцит. Край Плевен са разработени и малки находища на петрол.\n\nБиоразнообразие и околна среда \n\nБългария попада на границата между евросибирския и средиземноморския регион на палеарктическата екозона, най-обширната от осемте екозони на Земята. По-голямата част от страната попада в биома на Умерените широколистни и смесени гори с няколко от неговите региони – Балкански смесени гори (основната част от страната), Родопски планински смесени гори (в по-високите планини), Източноевропейски лесостепи (североизточните области) и Евксинско-Колхидски листопадни гори (крайните югоизточни райони).\n\nЧаст от територията на страната е останала незасегната от Ледниковия период, вследствие на което са оцелели някои много стари реликтни растителни видове от терциера.\n\nВзаимодействието на различни климатични, хидроложки, геоложки и топографски условия е причина България да има сравнително голямо разнообразие от растителни и животински видове. То включва около 100 вида бозайници, към 400 вида птици, близо 40 вида влечуги, над 200 вида черноморски и сладководни риби, над 27 000 вида насекоми и безгръбначни, и над 10 000 низши и висши растения и гъби. Висшите растения са над 3800 вида, от които 170 вида са ендемити. Розата, пренесена в България от Персия през XVII век, е символ на България. Някои от най-разпространените животни в България са благородният елен (25 910 индивида), сърната (над 106 000), дивата свиня (88 948). Сравнително често срещани са чакалът и лисицата, докато мечката, царският орел, тибетският як и зубърът са значително по-редки.\n\nНад 35% от общата площ на страната е покрита от гори. На територията на България съществуват три национални парка, 55 резервата, 11 природни парка, 565 защитени местности и 35 поддържани резервата. Към тях се прибавят и 114 орнитологично важни места, в които се срещат редки видове птици. Защитени са 574 вида растения, 483 вида животни и 1581 вековни дървета. Много от защитените райони, особено по Черноморието, са застрашени от безразборно незаконно строителство.\n\nБългария е подписала и ратифицирала Протокола от Киото и е постигнала намаляване с 30% на емисиите на въглероден диоксид, постигайки целите на протокола. Околната среда обаче продължава да е силно замърсена. Въздухът е един от най-силно замърсените в Европа от автомобилни газове и работата на въглищни електроцентрали, а почвата и водите са засегнати от канализационните системи на населените места и промишлеността. Освен това България е единствената страна членка на ЕС, в която не се рециклират битови отпадъци.\n\nИстория\n\nПраистория и Античност \n\nСред най-ранните човешки следи по днешните български земи са откритите в пещерата Козарника неандерталски останки на около 150 000 години. Праисторически култури в българските земи включват неолитната „Хаманджия“ и Винчанската култура (6-о до 3-то хилядолетие пр.н.е.), енеолитната култура „Варна“ (5-о хил. пр.н.е.) и езерската култура от бронзовата епоха. В принадлежащия към култура „Варна“ Варненски некропол са открити най-ранните златни накити, на възраст около 6000 години, поради което се счита, че именно тази култура дава началото на златообработката. Карановската култура дава хронологическа система за новокаменната епоха (неолит и енеолит) на Балканския полуостров и е пример за ранно земеделско общество.\n\nЕпохата на Одриското царство \nТраките са първата значима цивилизация, появила се на територията на днешна България. Присъствието им е засвидетелствано към XII век пр.н.е., но за произхода им липсват достатъчно исторически извори. Най-вероятно произлизат от прототракийски народ, включвал представители както на автохтонно население, така и на индоевропейски народи. Макар и политически фрагментирани, техните постижения в изкуствата и стопанството са съизмерими с тези на древните гърци. Траките живеели разделени на различни племена до 480 г. пр.н.е., когато цар Терес обединява повечето от тях под управлението на Одриското царство, което е първото единно царство на предшествениците на българите. Терес управлява успешно царството до 448 г. пр.н.е., когато умира. При сина на Терес, Ситалк, държавата значително се разширява, завладяват се нови територии и на север от Стара планина, чак до устието на Дунав. Една част от тракийските племена е покорена за кратко от Александър Велики, после от Персия. Към III век пр.н.е. Римската империя започва да налага своето управление на Балканския полуостров. През 46 г. сл. Хр., след продължилото 526 години съществуване на царството, тракийските владения окончателно са присъединени към империята и стават част от новата римска провинция Тракия.\n\nПърва българска държава (681 – 1018 г.) \n\nПрез 632 г. със създаването на Велика България са сложени основите на българската държавност. В хода на войната на Велика България с хазарите, Аспарух, третият син на Кубрат, е изтласкан на югозапад към Дунава и се заселва в областта Онгъл. През лятото на 680 г. византийският император Константин IV Погонат (668 – 685 г.) предприема поход срещу прабългарите. Поражението на византийците и покоряването от страна на прабългарите на завареното население завършва със сключването на мирен договор през лятото на 681 г., чрез който Аспарухова България е призната от Византия.\n\nПървото стратегическо териториално разширение на юг – завземането на областта Загоре – става по време на управлението на наследника на Аспарух – Тервел, през 705 г. Византийският император Юстиниан II Ринотмет (Носоотрязания) отстъпва областта на българите заради оказаното му от българския владетел съдействие за повторното му възкачване на трона в Константинопол. Тервел получава и титлата кесар (цезар). Българският владетел изиграва решителна роля в спасяването на Константинопол и Византия от обсаждащата армия на Арабския халифат, като в решителното сражение от 717 г. българските воини посичат над 20 000 араби.\n\nСлед укрепването на българската държава, в началото на VIII век страната изпада в продължителна политическа криза, изразяваща се в честа смяна на владетелите в Плиска, преодоляна при управлението на Кардам (777 – 803 г.).\n\nПо времето на Крум (803 – 814 г.) и през първата половина на IX век франките от северозапад и българският владетел Крум от изток ликвидират изпадналия в криза Аварски хаганат. Важен елемент от формирането на новата българска народност, обединяваща славяните с прабългарите и другите племена в земите на царството, е въведеният официален за държавата език, който се развил на основата на славянския. България разширява своите предели до Средния Дунав или до р. Тиса на север, а на запад до р. Днепър (днешна Украйна). За пръв път се въвежда административно делене в страната, доведено до изграждане на цялостна административно-териториална система (комитати) при управлението на Омуртаг с управители (комити), назначавани от централната власт в Плиска. След големите военни победи на Крум срещу аварите и Византийската империя България се превръща в една от Великите сили в Европа, наред с Франкската и Византийската империи.\n\nКняз Борис I (852 – 889 г.) покръства българите през 864 г. Той основава и първата българска книжовна школа – Преславската, през 885 г., а създадената през 855 г. глаголица се въвежда като официална азбука. При цар Симеон I (893 – 927), който създава и утвърждава Българската патриаршия като една от автокефалните вселенски патриаршии, Българското царство (империя) обединява редица народи под своя скиптър и се превръща в една от най-могъщите държави в Европа, разпростирайки се почти на целия Балкански полуостров, а на северозапад – до р. Тиса, обхващайки Карпатския планински масив. Столицата е преместена при управлението на Симеон І от Плиска в Преслав.\n\nПри Св. цар Петър I Български и цар Борис II България упада заради вътрешни размирици и разпространението на богомилството. През 971 г. Киевска Рус завзема Източна България и столицата Преслав, а по-късно Византия взима териториите от Киевска Рус. След това столицата се мести последователно в Средец, Скопие, Преспа, Битоля и Охрид. След дълга и ожесточена борба между българските и ромейските владетели през 1018 г. последните крепости на държавата са завладени от византийците след погрома над войските на цар Самуил през 1014 г. и гибелта на Иван-Владислав през 1018 г.\n\nВизантийско владичество (1018 – 1185 г.) \n\nПървите опити за освобождаване на България от византийско господство са дело на Петър II Делян (1040 – 1041 г.) и на Петър III и Георги Войтех (1072 г.). След загубата в битката при Манцикерт във Византия назряват благоприятни вътрешнополитически процеси, способстващи за подигане на българското народоосвободително движение. Асеневци сключват стратегически съюз за борба срещу Византия на Балканите с великия жупан на Сърбия Стефан Неманя. През пролетта на 1185 г. братята Асен и Петър решават да вдигнат въстание. За негово средоточие избират Търново. Много хора се включват във въстанието и заради наложения данък върху добитъка. Бунтовниците решават въстанието да започне на Димитровден. За да окуражат хората, а и като знак за начало на действията, братята Асен и Петър пускат слуха, че Свети Димитър е напуснал Солун и иконата му се намира в построената от братята църква.\n\nНа 26 октомври 1185 г. Асен и Петър се обявяват срещу византийската власт в българските земи и по-големият брат Петър е провъзгласен за цар Петър IV (по-късно по-малкият Асен поема властта). Ромейският пълководец Алексий Врана губи първите битки с въстаниците. През пролетта на 1187 г. самият император Исаак II Ангел обсажда Ловешката крепост, за да си върне владението на Мизия. След тримесечна безрезултатна обсада той се отказва от намерението си и подписва мирен договор, с който де юре признава възстановяването на българската независимост и държавност. Този акт бележи за историографията хронологически началото на Втората българска държава.\n\nВтора българска държава (1185 – 1396 г.) \n\nВтората българска държава (1185 – 1396), създадена от братята Асен и Петър след периода на византийското владичество (1018 – 1186), е със столица Търновград. През XII век се укрепва държавата с военните успехи на цар Калоян над рицарите от Четвъртия кръстоносен поход и пленяването на императора на Латинската империя Балдуин Фландърски през 1205 г.\n\nПрез годините 1218-41 г. започва териториално разширение, стопанско и културно развитие при Йоан Асен II, както и възобновяване на Българската патриаршия.\n\nГодините между 1241-80 г. са белязани от нашествията на Татарската златна орда, упадък при цар Константин Тих Асен и въстанието на Ивайло. Цар Теодор Светослав (1300 – 1322 г.) успява да отстрани татарската заплаха за България и укрепва държавата, но след смъртта му се засилват стремежите на болярите за откъсване от централната власт. Това довежда до отделяне на Добруджанското деспотство.\n\n1371 г. е съпроводена с разделяне на България между наследниците на Иван Александър: Търновското царство с владетел Йоан Шишман и Видинско царство с владетел Йоан Срацимир. През 1393 г. османските турци превземат столицата на Търновското царство. То съществува до 1395 г., когато е превзет Никопол и е убит цар Йоан Шишман. През 1396 г. след неуспешен кръстоносен поход българските земи са окончателно покорени от османските турци със завладяването и на Видинското царство. През 1444 г. Владислав III Варненчик опитва неуспешно да освободи Балканите от османците, като достига до Варна, където е разбит от султан Мурад II.\n\nОсманско владичество (1396 – 1878 г.) \n\nПо време на османското владичество, понякога наричано от народа „турско робство“, българите са подложени на религиозна, политическа, икономическа и юридическа дискриминация, аристокрацията е елиминирана, българската култура е унищожена, а образованите духовници бягат в други християнски страни.\n\nXV век е белязан от действията на Константин II Асен, Въстанието на Константин и Фружин, походите на Владислав III Варненчик и Янош Хуняди – това са първите опити да се освободи България от властта на османците. През 1454 г. е заловен и първият хайдутин – Радич, действал в Софийско. Между XVI и XVII век избухват няколко простонародни въстания срещу завоевателя – Първо търновско въстание (1598), Второ търновско въстание (1686), Чипровско въстание (1688) и Карпошово въстание (1689). Всички тези опити за възстановяване на българската държава остават безплодни.\n\nПрез XVIII век започва период на икономическо и културно развитие – това е българското Възраждане, чието начало е дадено от Паисий Хилендарски с написването на История славянобългарска през 1762 г. Започват да се водят борби за независимост на три нива – просветно, религиозно и политическо.\n\nМакар и първите училища в България – килийните, да се появяват още през XV век, техният брой рязко се увеличава през XVIII и XIX век. Паралелно с тях се появяват и взаимните училища и читалищата, където за разлика от килийното училище се преподава на говорим български език. През 1824 г. Петър Берон издава и т.нар. Рибен буквар, който е първият български учебник с енциклопедичен характер. В религиозен план на 3 април 1860 г. (Великден) Иларион Макариополски обявява отделянето на Българската църква от вселенската патриаршия, и на 27 февруари/11 март 1870 г. султан Абдул Азиз издава ферман за учредяването на самостоятелна Българска екзархия, чийто първи екзарх – Антим I, бива избран през 1872 г.\n\nПо време на Кримската война са създадени Тайното общество и Добродетелната дружина, които целят освобождаване на България с помощта на руските войски. Неуспехът на Русия във войната обаче обрича тези усилия на провал, а в дипломатически план българският въпрос изобщо не се третира. Войната обаче дава допълнителен тласък на усилията за освобождение, и между 1860 и 1878 г. възниква организирано национално освободително движение – Г. С. Раковски основава Таен централен български комитет; Любен Каравелов, Христо Ботев и Васил Левски учредяват Български революционен централен комитет. Избухват Старозагорското (1875 г.) и Априлското (1876 г.) въстания, последното организирано и водено от Георги Бенковски, Панайот Волов, Тодор Каблешков, Захари Стоянов, Обретенови и др. На 12 април 1877 г. избухва Руско-турската освободителна война, като бойните действия продължават до 19 януари 1878. На 3 март 1878 г. със Санстефанския мирен договор е възстановена българската държава.\n\nТрета българска държава (след 1878 г.) \n\nПоследвалият Руско-турската война Берлински договор от 1878 година създава две държавни образувания с предимно българско население и широка автономия в рамките на Османската империя – Княжество България и Източна Румелия, които се обединяват през 1885 година. Новата българска държава получава либералнодемократично устройство с широки избирателни права и многопартийна система, но и значително влияние на монарха. Първите години след нейното създаване са период на политическа нестабилност, чиято кулминация са международната Българска криза и кратката Сръбско-българска война. Берлинският договор оставя големи области с българско население извън границите на България, превръщайки иредентизма и особено Македонския въпрос в основна тема за българската политика от този период. На 22 септември 1908 година България обявява пълната си независимост, а през 1912 – 1913 година играе основна роля в успешната Балканска война на Балканския съюз срещу Османската империя. Непосредствено след това страната влиза в конфликт със съседите си и в последвалите Междусъюзническа (1913) и Първа световна война (1915) губи значителни територии.\n\nПораженията на България във войните довеждат до дълбоки промени в партийната система и в първите следвоенни години доминиращо положение заема Българския земеделски народен съюз, който през 1923 година е свален от власт с военен преврат. Няколко години по-късно демократичният режим е възстановен, но през 1934 година, след Голямата депресия и период на политическа нестабилност нов военен преврат е последван от налагането на авторитарна диктатура на цар Борис III. България използва международната обстановка в началото на Втората световна война и с Крайовската спогодба си връща по мирен път Южна Добруджа, но през 1941 година се включва във Втората световна война на страната на Оста и окупира големи части от Югославия и Гърция. При навлизането в страната на съветски войски през 1944 година военен преврат довежда на власт правителство, доминирано от Комунистическата партия, и до края на войната България воюва на страната на Съюзниците.\n\nСлед кратък период на многопартийност до сключването на мир със западните Съюзници, след 1947 година в България се установява тоталитарен режим по съветски образец. Наложен е съветският модел на планова икономика с национализация на предприятията и колективизация на селското стопанство, въведен е масов политически терор и десетки хиляди българи са изпратени в концентрационни лагери, а външната политика е изолационистка, като страната става един от най-лоялните участници в Съветския блок. От 1956 година до края на комунистическия режим той се оглавява от Тодор Живков, който чрез умело маневриране и демонстриране на пълно подчинение на поредица съветски диктатори става най-дълго управлявалият политик сред съветските сателити. Периодът на политическа и социална стабилност при Живков е съпътстван от периодични и нарастващи стопански затруднения, чиято кулминация е започналата през 1987 година многогодишна финансова криза. Комунистическият режим е обявен за престъпен със закон от 2000 г.\n\nПри срива на европейските комунистически режими през 1989 година Живков подава оставка, а Българската комунистическа партия е принудена да се откаже от монопола си върху властта и да предприеме стъпки за премахване на тоталитарната система. Въпреки това през следващите години тя запазва значително влияние, като този преходен период се характеризира с политическа нестабилност, отлагане на належащите стопански реформи и разрастване на корупцията и престъпността. Трайна финансова стабилизация е постигната в края на 90-те години със съдействието на Международния валутен фонд, през 2004 година икономиката достига предкризисните нива от средата на 80-те години, а през следващите години растежът се ускорява, стимулиран от чуждестранните инвестиции. През 2004 година страната става член на НАТО, а на 1 януари 2007 година се присъединява към Европейския съюз.\n\nДържавно устройство\n\nСимволи и институции \n\nСъгласно Конституцията от 1991 г. България е парламентарна република, с ясно изразено разделение на властите – законодателна, изпълнителна, съдебна. Националните символи на българската държава са знамето, химнът и гербът на Републиката.\n\nБългарският парламент \nНародното събрание е еднокамерен парламент и се състои от 240 народни представители, избирани за срок от 4 години. Пълномощията, работата и задачите на парламента са описани в глава Трета в Конституцията (чл. 62 – 91). Сред тях са приемането на закони, контрол над изпълнителната власт, одобряването на бюджета, насрочването на президентски избори, избора и отзоваването на министър-председателя и други министри, обявяването на война, разполагането на войски извън България и ратифицирането на международни договори и споразумения. От 2006 г. Народното събрание избира омбудсман, който се застъпва за правата и свободите на гражданите.\n\nМинистерски съвет \nМинистерският съвет е основен орган на изпълнителната власт в Република България. Той е съставен от министър-председател, заместник министър-председатели и членове – ресорни министри.\n\nМинистерски съвет ръководи и осъществява вътрешната и външна политика на страната, осигурява обществения ред и националната сигурност, осъществява ръководството на държавната администрация чрез създадените от него министерства, агенции и комисии.\n\nПрезидентът на Републиката \nПрезидентът се избира пряко за 5-годишен срок с право на едно преизбиране. Той е държавен глава, върховен главнокомандващ на Въоръжените Сили и председател на Консултативния съвет за национална сигурност. Макар да не притежава законодателна власт или инициатива, президентът може да върне законопроект за преразглеждане, упражнявайки правото си на налагане на вето. Президентът има вицепрезидент, избиран заедно с него на преки избори.\n\nАдминистративно деление \n\nОт 1999 г. насам Република България административно е разделена на 28 области: Благоевград, Бургас, Варна, Велико Търново, Видин, Враца, Габрово, Добрич, Кърджали, Кюстендил, Ловеч, Монтана, Пазарджик, Перник, Плевен, Пловдив, Разград, Русе, Силистра, Сливен, Смолян, Област София-столица, област София, Стара Загора, Търговище, Хасково, Шумен, Ямбол. Всички те са наименувани на областния си център, като самата столица образува отделна област. Преди това, до 1987 г. страната е била разделена на 28 окръга, а от 1987 г. до 1999 г. – на 9 области. Областите са разделени на общини, а общините – на кметства. Всичките 28 области имат общо 265 общини от 25.7.2014 г.\n\nВъоръжени сили \n\nВъоръжените сили (ВС) са създадени от държавата военни и специализирани формирования и техни обединения, подчинени на специфична организация и ред на функциониране, които притежават и прилагат военни и специални средства за действие за осигуряване целите на отбраната на страната. Въоръжените сили на Република България включват: Българската армия и други структури на пряко подчинение на министъра на отбраната: служба „Военна полиция“, служба „Военна информация“, Военните академии и Висшите военни училища, Военно-медицинската академия, Националната гвардейска част, резерва на въоръжените сили, Военно-географската служба, Стационарната комуникационна и информационна система, Централното военно окръжие, Централния артилерийски технически изпитателен полигон, Комендантство на Министерството на отбраната (МО), военнослужещите от структурите на пряко подчинение на министъра на отбраната. В състава на ВС във военно време могат да се включват и структури от другите сили от системата за национална сигурност на Република България при условия и по ред, определени с акт на Министерския съвет.\n\nОбщата численост на въоръжените сили е около 39 000 души. България е член на НАТО и участва в мироопазващата мисия в Афганистан с контингент от 610 души. Българският контингент в Ирак бива изтеглен през декември 2008 г. Българската армия разполага с около 600 бр. танка, от които 160 бр. са в експлоатация; близо 1000 бр. бронирани машини (около 350 бр. в експлоатация); 192 единици тежка артилерия; над 300 бр. единици минометна артилерия; 21 бр. изтребителя МиГ-29, 15 бр. от които годни за бой (През 2012 г. ВВС на България загубват един изтребител МиГ-29УБ по време на учение по радарен прихват в резултат на пожар от опашката. След излитане самолетът се разбива близо до Пловдив, авиобаза „Граф Игнатиево“. Двамата пилоти катапултират след подадена команда и са в добро здравословно състояние); 18 бр. Су-25Т 23 – всички са в състояние за ефективен бой, както и прихващачи МиГ-21 БиС, бойни вертолети, 11 бойни съда (4 фрегати, 3 корвети, 3 ракетни катера и една подводница), както и различни видове транспортна техника. Противовъздушната отбрана разполага с общо 208 зенитно-ракетни комплекса и около 500 бр. зенитно-артилерийски установки. Оборудването е предимно от съветски произход. България има добре развита отбранителна промишленост и произвежда радиоелектронно оборудване, части за изтребители, авионика, ракети, автоматични оръжия, артилерия, гранатомети, боеприпаси, униформи и безпилотни самолети.\n\nНаселение \n\nНаселението на България е 6 951 482 души по данни на НСИ към 31 декември 2019 година. В градовете живеят 73,7% от общия брой на населението, като 24,2%, или 1 242 568 души, са съсредоточени в столицата София. Други големи градове са Пловдив (347 851) и Варна (336 216), както и Бургас (201 779), Русе (141 231) и Стара Загора (134 726). Българите са държавообразуващият етнос и съставляват 84,8% от населението. Две от малцинствата, турците (8,8%) и циганите (4,9%), са относително по-многобройни; останалите 1,5% включват други малцинства – руснаци, арменци, власи, каракачани, украинци, евреи, румънци, както и хора, които не се самоопределят. Българският език е единственият официален в страната и е роден език за 85,2% от населението. Турският е майчин на 9,1%, а циганският на 4,2%.\n\nНаселението нараства до върховата си точка по времето на социализма, когато на преброяването през 1985 г. населението на третата българска държава възлиза на 8 948 649 души. След 1989 г. населението започва да намалява значително: до преброяването през 2001 г. то спада до 7 932 984 души, а през 2011 г. е вече 7 364 570 души. Близо 1,2 милиона българи напускат страната в периода 1990 – 2004 г. в търсене на работа. Тази тенденция продължава: около 27 000 младежи емигрират всяка година, а в десетилетието след световната финансова криза от 2008 г. страната са напуснали 300 000 души на възраст под 30 години. Съчетанието от емиграция и вътрешни политически, социални и икономически кризи довеждат България до състояние на остър демографски срив. Почти една пета от населението е на възраст над 65 години, а близо 60% от пенсионерите живеят под прага на бедността. Една трета от домакинствата се състоят от само един човек, а над 75% от семействата нямат деца на възраст под 16 години. През 2017 година се раждат 57 175 деца, най-ниският брой от 1945 година насам. България е на едно от последните места в света по раждаемост, а по смъртност се нарежда трета в света, което предопределя бързо намаляване на населението.\n\nСърдечно-съдовите и раковите заболявания са причина за смърт в 80% от случаите, много от които биха могли да бъдат предотвратени с навременна и адекватна здравна помощ. Българската здравна система преминава от безплатно държавно здравеопазване тип „Семашко“ към децентрализирана осигурителна система през 1990-те. През 1999 г. се създава Националната здравноосигурителна каса (НЗОК), която работи с 88 частни и 312 държавни и общински здравни заведения. Здравните услуги в тях се финансират от НЗОК с постъпления от осигуровки, които служители и работодатели в частния сектор плащат. Заради несъобразени клинични пътеки, злоупотреби и намаляващото работоспособно население обаче болниците са хронично недофинансирани от касата. Така на практика близо 50% от стойността на здравните услуги се доплаща от пациентите. Увеличаването на броя на бедните жители, неспособни да доплащат, честите промени в осигурителния пакет и емиграцията на медицински персонал допълнително влошават достъпа до здравеопазване. От 33 европейски държави (вкл. 27-те в ЕС), България се нарежда на предпоследно място по качество на здравните услуги.\n\nОбразователната система е под надзора на Министерството на образованието и науката. Степените на образование в България са четири – начално (1-ви до 4-ти клас), основно (5-и до 8-и клас), средно (9-и до 12-и клас) и висше. На територията на страната съществуват 4711 образователни институции, в това число 1203 основни училища, 117 гимназии и 50 акредитирани висши учебни заведения (ВУЗ). От тях най-високо класираното ВУЗ е Софийски университет. Качеството на българското образование обаче е ниско. Прекомерно големият брой висши училища и слабото финансиране са причина системата да изгражда некачествени кадри, поради което икономиката е неатрактивна за чуждестранни инвеститори. Част от подрастващите отпадат от образователната система твърде рано или въобще не са обхванати от нея. Средната грамотност е 98,4%, но нивата на функционална неграмотност са високи (41,5%).\n\nБългария няма официална религия според конституцията си, вместо това като „традиционна религия“ за страната е посочено православното християнство. Като православни християни са се самоопределили 59% от населението на преброяването през 2011 г. Най-голямата малцинствена религия е ислямът, който е посочен като вероизповедание от 7,8% от населението (главно от турското малцинство, но също и от българи мохамедани и една пета от циганите, като 7,4% са сунити, 0,4% са шиити и други), следва протестантство (0,9%) и римокатолицизъм (0,7%); 0,13% следват други религии, а останалите 31% или са посочили, че нямат вероизповедание, или не са отговорили на въпроса. В провежданите в страната преброявания вероизповеданието е поставено като въпрос, към който е добавена точка, че се иска отговор за вероизповеданието като „исторически обусловена принадлежност на лицето или на родителите и предците му към дадена група с определени религиозни възгледи“.\n\nИкономика \n\nКласифицирана като развиваща се и една от страните с висок среден доход, България е промишлено-аграрна отворена пазарна икономика със средно развит частен сектор и известен брой стратегически държавни предприятия. През последните години постига висок икономически растеж, и въпреки това продължава да бъде страната с най-ниски заплати и доходи, най-нисък БВП на глава от населението (6550 евро) и най-ниска производителност на труда (47,1% от средни за ЕС 100%) в Европейския съюз. Според Евростат през 2019 г. БВП на глава от населението (в ППС) е 53% от средния за Европейския съюз.\n\nСектори \n\nТуризмът в България е едно от най-допринасящите пера в БВП на страната. Всяка година броят на туристите расте, като има възгледи броят им да стигне 20 милиона до 2020 г. Повечето туристи се насочват или към зимните курорти, или към летните, в съответствие със сезона. Перспективите за развиване на туризъм са големи, тъй като страната има потенциал заради природните, културните и историческите забележителности. По данни на НСИ през 2017 г. България е била място за почивка и екскурзия на 11 596 167 души. За сравнение през 2007 г. те са били 7 700 000 души.\n\nОт 2010 г. развитието на транспортната инфраструктура е приоритет на държавното управление с оглед на улесняване и задълбочаване на икономическото взаимодействие и развиване на производството и търговията. В транспортната стратегия (до 2020 г.) на България са заложени някои основополагащи насоки: икономическа ефективност, развитие на устойчив транспортен сектор (включително ограничаване на отрицателното влияние на транспорта върху околната среда и здравето на хората), интегриране на българската транспортна мрежа към европейската.\n\nВ края на 2013 г. общата дължина на републиканската пътна мрежа е 19 678 km, като 605 km от тях са автомагистрали, 2975 km първокласни пътища, 4035 второкласни и 12 063 третокласни пътища, пътни връзки при кръстовища и пътни възли. Дължината на всички жп линии е 4032 km, а превозените товари и пътници възлизат съответно на 13 538,9 хил. т. и 26 071,5 хил. п.\n\nБългарската икономика е отворена, като външнотърговският обмен на страната надхвърля БВП. Главните вносители на български стоки са Германия (11,6%), Румъния (9,5%), Италия (8,7%), Турция (8,6%), Гърция (7,0%) и Белгия (4,9%), като общият обем на износа през 2011 г. е 39,6 млрд. лева. Обемът на вноса в България през същата година е 45,8 млрд. лева, а най-големите вносители в страната са Русия (17,6%), Германия (10,8%), Италия (7,1%), Румъния (6,9%), Гърция (5,6%) и Испания (5,3%).\n\nКултура\n\nИзобразително изкуство и архитектура\n\nДревност и античност \nБългарските земи са наследили едни от най-древните културни богатства в Европа. Така например Варненското съкровище от V. – началото на IV хил. пр.н.е., принадлежащо на Варненската култура е най-старото обработено злато в света. През II. хил. пр.н. Балканите са населени от траките, сред които са разпространени долмени, могили и образа на тракийският конник (виж. Тракийско изкуство)\n\nСредновековие и ренесанс \n\nЕдин от най-старите български културни паметници е вписаният в списъка на световното културно наследство (ЮНЕСКО), Мадарски конник (VIII век). Първата българска столица е построена по римски образец със здрава крепостна стена, обграждаща дворци, църкви и храмове, бани, и други публични постройки, в чийто стил са преплетени и елементи от Централна Азия и Близкият изток. След приемането на Християнството и възкачването на цар Симеон Велики, столицата и културният център на българската държава се премества в Преслав. Последвалият период е известен още като Златен век на България, в който българската култура достига своя първи апогей. Златната църква в Преслав, Голямата базилика в Плиска, чиято дължина заедно с перистила е почти сто метра, църквите „Св. София“ в Охрид и Средец, „Св. Стефан“ в Несебър или преславската керамика са само част от тези постижения (виж. Плисковско-Преславска култура). Разлики с византийското изкуство настъпват още през X век и се проличават най-вече в декоративните елементи (декоративни ниши в църковното строителство, рисувана керамика, стенописи и др.). Силно е и влиянието на прабългарския бит, като зографските образи са застъпени в почти всички сфери.\n\nСлед падането на първото българско царство под византийска власт (1018 – 1185/86) се засилва влиянието на Византия в българското изкуство. То е прекратено с възстановяването на българската държава през 1185 г. Търново става столица на второто българско царство и се превръща в нов политически и културен център, не само в средновековна България, но и на целия Балкански п-в. Съвременниците описват Търново като новият Йерусалим, Рим и Константинопол взети заедно.\n\nВ градежа на сакралната (църковна) архитектура се наблюдава нов тип църкви. В сравнение с предходни епохи те са по-малки, и повечето случаи еднокорабни, което е заимствано от Византия. Характерни са и техните кръстовидни сводове и дъги арки, които преминават в купола. Скоро този тип църкви се налага из цялата българска империя, като примери са църквата „Св. Никола“ в Мелник, Пантократорската църква и „Св. Йоан Алитургитос“ (Неосветени) в Несебър, както и църквата „Свети Четиридесет мъченици“ в Търново. В сравнение с византийските еднокорабни църкви, българските са различават със своето изя̀щество и декорация (цветна и стъклена керамика в зида, декоративни ниши и арки и др.). Във външните стени са изградени арки, които чрез ритмичната смяна на червени и бели тухли или керамика създават типична декоративна илюзия.\n\nПо-голяма самостоятелност на българското средновековно изкуство се постига в църковната живопис. Великолепен пример е Боянската църква, построена през 1259 г., чиито стенописи, изпълнени в техника „мокро фреско“ са изографисани от зограф Васили. В сравнение с живописта в Западна Европа по това време творбите на Търновската художествена школа са наситени с предренесансови елементи.\n\nБългарско възраждане \n\nВ българската култура като цяло присъства и силно ориенталско влияние заради османското владичество. България пропуска прогресивните европейски течения от епохите на Ренесанса, Реформацията, Просвещението и XIX век. Възрожденската епоха е културно-исторически период, характеризиращ се с възраждане на българските традиции, но отвъд рамките на елитарната култура, присъстваща в западноевропейските страни.\n\nЛитература \n\nПод българска литература се разбира цялата книжнина, създадена и писана на български език. Макар и да няма точна класификация на периодите на развитие, българската литература може да се раздели най-общо на старобългарска, възрожденска, следосвобожденска, литература между двете войни, литература след Втората световна война – период на социалистически реализъм и най-нова литература (след 1989). Първите творби се появяват към VIII век и са идейно и естетически обвързани с християнството. В Първата българска държава се открояват имената на свети Климент Охридски (създател на Охридска книжовна школа, първия славянски университет), Константин Преславски (Учително евангелие) и Черноризец Храбър (За буквите, около 893 г.). По време на византийското и турското владичество, българската литература е в период на упадък и почти не се развива.\n\nМузика \n\nЕдни от най-ранните примери за българска музика са творбите на Йоан Кукузел (13 – 14 в.). Най-известната му творба е Полиелей на българката. Йоан Кукузел, наричан Ангелогласния, също реформира византийското нотно писмо и въвежда т.нар. невми. От периода на ранното средновековие до днешни дни са достигнали само образци на църковната музика, повечето творби са на неизвестни автори.\n\nСветската музика остава неразвита през следващите няколко века, най-вече по време на османската власт. В края на XIX век, след освобождението на България, се заражда т.нар. Българска класическа музика. Маестро Георги Атанасов, Добри Христов и Емануил Манолов са част от първото поколение български композитори. Емануил Манолов е автор на първата българска опера – Сиромахкиня. Панайот Пипков е известен със своите оперети, но най-вече с химна на светите братя Кирил и Методий, известен като „Върви, народе възродени“.\n\nБългария се слави и с редица талантливи певци като Борис Христов, Гена Димитрова, Анна Томова-Синтова, Райна Кабаиванска и Николай Гяуров. По времето на социализма се развива т.нар. естрадна музика, чийто видни представители са Ирина Чмихова, Георги Кордов, Маргрет Николова, Лили Иванова, Емил Димитров, Борис Гуджунов, Паша Христова, Богдана Карадочева, Васил Найденов, Орлин Горанов, Йорданка Христова и Бисер Киров. Много от тях се радват на световна известност през 60-те, 70-те и 80-те години, а част от тях са много популярни и днес в България.\n\nБългарски народни танци \n\nЦенен източник на материали за историята на танцовото изкуство в България е старата българска църковна и светска иконография. Тя дава конкретна представа за танца. Много интересна в това отношение е една стара фреска в църквата в с.Арбанаси, Великотърновско, от края на XVI век, в която е изобразено едно спокойно женско хоро. Танцуващите, наловени „за пояс“, не са облечени в народна носия, а в някаква особена, може би болярска носия. В движенията и позите на жените има много грация и благородство. Танцова тематика има и в стенописите на Лесновския манастир и на Хрельовата кула в Рилския манастир.\n\nДоста по-късно картините на Никола Образописов „Самоковско хоро“ и на Иван Мърквичка „Ръченица“ ни дават представа за подреждането и начина на залавянето на танцуващите, както и за състоянието, което изразяват. Сведения за състоянието на народните танци през османското иго са отразени в статии, дневници и пътни бележки на чужди сановници и пътешественици, минали през България в XVI, XVII, XVIII и XIX век. Някои от тях описват хората по-подробно, други – бегло, но и при едните, и при другите българските народни танци привличат вниманието им, като имаме предвид, че са били с различни интереси и подготовка. Най-известни са бележките на проф. Стефан Герлах (1546 – 1612) – немски учен и дипломат, който споменава в дневника си за българските хора и песни, които е видял и чул; Еспри Кузинери – френски учен и търговски консул в Солун в края на XVIII век, пише, че българските жени никога не играели хоро заедно с мъжете; граф Александър д'Отрив (1754 – 1830) – френски дипломат; Ами Буе (1794 – 1881) – френски геолог и пътешественик; Огюст Дюзон – френски консул в Македония, също пишат за облеклото, песните и танците на българите. Феликс Каниц (1829 – 1905) – известен унгарски археолог и етнограф. След дълги наблюдения върху бита и културата на българския народ той издава през 1882 г. тритомния си труд „Дунавска България и Балкана“. Пише, че българинът обича да се забавлява с весела игра, пеене и танци на открито в гората или на зелена морава край някоя гора: „Моми и ергени се залавят на хорото най-отпред във верига. Тя прилича на пъстра лента, която се движи постепенно вдясно. Темпото се ускорява постепенно и двете крила се стремят с по-енергични стъпки да се приближат едно до друго“.\n\nВ България по време на Възраждането с повишаване на националното съзнание на народа и националноосвободителното движение се дава тласък за развитие на българската етнографска наука, а така също за издирване и събиране на документи на народната песен и танц. Петко Р. Славейков през 1855 г. печата в „Цариградски вестник“ – „Български народни поверия и стари обичаи – Митология“, където дава интересни сведения за народните обичаи Сурваки, Ладуване, Бабинден, Власовден. По-късно в „Гайда“ през 1866 г. печата „Нрави и обичаи у българите“ – за нестинарството и кукерите. В средата на XIX век (1865) Георги С. Раковски издава „Българска старина“, където дава сведения за бита на народа. Любен Каравелов през 1861 г. издава в Москва забележителния сборник „Памятники народного быта болгар“. В него включва пълен цикъл на календарните народни обичаи. Той проявява интерес и към народния танц. В повестта си „Неда“ той говори за хорото, като става изразител на любовта на българина към него: „Скоро ще да се захване народното хоро без което ни един българин, ни една млада българка не могат да живеят“. Димитър и Константин Миладинови в предговора към сборника си „Български народни песни“, издаден през 1861 г. в Загреб, наричат народното хоро „училище, където се усъвършенства народната ни поезия“ Техния сборник не е загубил и до днес високата си стойност за националната ни култура и наука. През 1872 г. в Болград излиза „Български народен сборник“ на Васил Чолаков. В него той прави подробно и богато описание на народни обичаи от различни краища на страната. Освен това отделя кратка, но специална глава на народните хора и игри, които наблюдава в Панагюрско и Пазарджишко. С верен усет на фолклорист той отбелязва хората и игрите и като самостоятелна танцова проява, и като съставка на народните обичаи.\n\nНаука и техника \n\nБългария има дългогодишни традиции в научни дисциплини като математиката, физиката, информационни технологии, астрономията и медицината. Повечето български учени работят в Българската академия на науките (БАН). За научни изследвания се отделя най-малък дял от БВП – едва 0,4% за 2008 г.\n\nКино \n\nЗа начало на кинематографията в България се счита филмът на Васил Гендов „Българан е галант“ (1915). От 1915 до 1948 г. (когато се национализира кинопроизводството) са създадени 55 филма. По време на управлението на Отечествения фронт се създават филми с историческа и идеологическа насоченост, като се осъществява строг контрол и цензура от държавата, а някои филми са спирани или сваляни от екраните. Най-голямото студио по това време е киностудио „Бояна“. След кризата от 90-те години, киното бавно започва подем със снимането на нови сериали и филми. Множество чужди продукции, главно холивудски се снимат в България.\n\nСпорт \nБългария има дългогодишни традиции в спорта. Има успехи в почти всички европейски и световни състезания. Най-известен спорт е футболът, но несъмнено след него веднага се нарежда волейболът. През 1994 българският национален отбор по футбол печели четвъртото място на Световното първенство в САЩ. Футболният отбор има и бронзов медал от олимпийските игри през 1956 г. в Мелбърн и сребърен медал от олимпийските игри през 1968 г. в Мексико. България има и световни постижения във волейбола, баскетбола, борбата, тениса, хандбала, спортната стрелба, хвърлянето на чук както и неподобреният към септември 2012 г. рекорд на скок височина на Стефка Костадинова, лека атлетика, художествена гимнастика и много други.\n\nСтолицата, София, се кандидатира за домакин на Зимните олимпийски игри през 1992, 1994 и 2014 г. През 1985 г. губи срещу Албервил кандидатурата за игрите през 1992 г. с два гласа разлика, през 1987 г. губи кандидатурата за игрите през 1994 г. от Лилехамер, като отпада на втория тур, а през 2006 г. отпада в първия кръг на избора на домакин за игрите през 2014 г.\n\nОбичаи \n\nБългарите имат множество самобитни обреди и обичаи, произлизащи от съчетаването на езическите и християнските разбирания за света и вселената. Те обикновено са подредени в календарна последователност. Най-известни са сурвакането – характерен за Нова година обичай, известен в цялата страна; хамкането – изпълняван на Сирни заговезни, когато всички в семейството се опитват да уловят само с уста сварено обелено яйце, халва или въглен, завързани на края на конец, закачен на тавана, който се върти около трапезата. Мартеници се връзват за здраве на първи март, когато започва краят на зимата.\n\nЛазаруването е най-важната традиция в обредната система от момински пролетни обичаи. Тогава се събира цялото село и потенциалните свекърви и ергените оглеждат нагиздените моми, за да изберат своите бъдещи снахи и съпруги. Великден, Възкресение Христово е най-значимият религиозен празник. Датата на Великден зависи от първото пълнолуние след деня на пролетното равноденствие. Червени великденски яйца се боядисват на Велики четвъртък. С първото боядисано в червено яйце бабата чертае кръстен знак по челата на децата, за да са здрави и румени през годината. На Велики Четвъртък се подновява квасът и се замесва тестото за великденските хлябове и козунаци. През празничните дни се играят хора̀, а момите и ергените връзват люлки и се люлеят, пеейки обредни песни.\n\nКукерските обреди се осъществяват от мъже, предрешени като зверове или типични персонажи (бабата, дядото, царят, бирникът), винаги с маски на главите, често с чанове на пояса и с кожуси с козината навън. Те танцуват по улиците, за да изплашат лошите сили и да пропъдят студа и извършват обредни действия като оран, сеитба и други за плодородие и здраве.\n\nКоледуването e най-значимият в обредно отношение зимен празник и сред най-големите годишни празници, известни по цялата българска етническа територия. Коледарите пеят за щастие в семейството и придобив в стопанството.\n\nНестинарството е танц на босо в жарава, но в него има религиозен смисъл. Нестинарите са пазители на скритото знание. Обичаят днес е най-автентично запазен в село Българи.\n\nНационална кухня \n\nЕдна от характерните особености на българската кухня е, че повечето продукти в едно ястие се обработват топлинно едновременно. Това важи особено при печивата и обяснението е просто – в миналото домакинствата почти не са имали собствени фурни, а са отнасяли подготвеното за печене ястие в обществени фурни. Дори с навлизането на модерните технологии тази традиция на приготвяне се запазва в голяма степен. Друга характерна особеност е включването на много пресни или консервирани зеленчуци, които се обработват едновременно с месото. Силна, в сравнение с други кухни, е употребата на пикантни подправки като лук, чесън, червен и чер пипер, бахар, дафинов лист.\n\nВижте също \n\n Комуникация в България\n Външна политика на България\n Официални празници в България\n Списък на страните в ЕС по население\n Списък на градовете в България по население\n Списък на реките в България\n Правителства на България\n\nБележки\n\nБиблиография\n\nВъншни препратки\n\nДържавни институции \n Официален сайт на българското правителство \n Официален сайт на българския президент\n Официален сайт на Народното събрание\n\nОще \n  \n България в Open Directory"
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        "text": "Q: How do hide iPod icon with SBSettings? On my Jailbroken iPad, I have SBSettings installed. I chose to hide all my application icons, but iPod will not go away, no matter what the switch setting is. I was thinking about just going into the file system and manually deleting the icon, but I don't know where it's stored.   \nAny suggestions?\n\n\nA: Are you running OS 3.1.x or 4.0.x? I've had some inconsistencies with hiding certain icons on my jailbroken 4.0.1 phone. It may be that SBSettings isn't fully compatible with OS 4.x yet.\nedit: Fail on my behalf. Somehow I missed \"iPad\" in both your question AND tag. /facepalm\n\nA: I just used Saurik's guide on theming and made my own iPod icon, a transparent 57 x 57 PNG. Kinda rudimentary, but it works for now. I then used iBlank to hide the shadow. Works for now lol....even though, the iPod is still selectable, kinda gotta be lucky to spot it.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is Apple's warranty international? I'm about to travel to the US, where iPods / AirPods / iPhone are much cheaper than in my country. \nI wonder if Apple's warranty is international, and/or what warranty coverage exists when I return to my country.\nWhere can I understand what Apple Warranty covers in the US when products leave the US?\n\nA: I bought an ipad in January 2013 (10 mths ago) in the USA. It started giving problems a few weeks ago by restarting for itself every 2 mins. I took it at the apple dealer and repair center in South Africa where I currently stay, they tried fixing it but said that it needs to be replaced but they can't replace it since its under international warranty and they only deal with South African bought products. \nSo I guess the warranty is not international\n\nA: Apples warranties are international except for the iPhone where the warranty is only valid in the country the phones was bought in.\n\nA: Apple Warranty is international and you can use your warranty on every country that apple has branch.\nbut other than warranty you can buy AppleCare Protection.\nApple has “global repair coverage” If you carry your Apple computer or iPod when you travel and happen to need repair service, AppleCare Protection Plan offers global repair coverage.\nbut for this you need to purchase AppleCare Protection , and if you want go to other country to buy your product cheaper AppleCare Protection not a good Idea. \n\nA: Yes it's international.\nMy friend bought a MacBook in the US and had a warranty case in Switzerland. The warranty case got solved without any problems.\n\nA: AppleCare warranty is international, sort of no questions asked (unless you take in a soaking iPod).\nApple's limited 1 year warranty is sort of international. As in, your local Apple Service Provider may provide you with warranty or may choose to be very strict on the wording and not cover anything they don’t have to cover to the letter of the law and agreement.\n\nA: Yes, Apple's computer warranties are international. Worst case, you have to ship your product back to the purchasing country if Apple asks for that, but the wording and common practice is U.S. purchases generally get covered everywhere Apple has service globally.\nSee Apple's Warranty Page for more details. The warranty is established in the country of purchase and if warranty service is not available in the country where the device is when service is requested, you may be on the hook for import/export duties as well as paying for the shipping.\nNo, iPhone and some parts of AppleCare plus are not necessarily international.\n\n*\n\n*https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/\nPay attention to parts like:\n\nIMPORTANT RESTRICTION FOR iPHONE, iPAD AND APPLE TV SERVICE.\nApple may restrict warranty service for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV to the country where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the device.\n\nThat doesn’t mean you won’t get service, but you could be denied or could have to get the device back to the country of purchase on your dime to get service.\nAlso, no in terms of consumer law varying widely between Europe, Asia, US and other countries:\n\n*\n\n*How does Apple's two year warranty in Europe work?\nTo recap:\n\n*\n\n*Warranty is what Apple offers and you may have responsibilities or costs to get service\n\n*Consumer law covers things outside the warranty, so you need to balance both when choosing where to buy\n\n*Look for words like shall and may and must - these contracts are legal and  /or prescriptive so details and words matter. Read all the document, several times before spending money if you don’t know the return policy or have limited time to return goods after purchasing them.\n\n\nA: Read my answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/13285/34885 in the comments (look for my name: madivad). I can vouch that:\niPhones warranties are NOT international.\n\nIMPORTANT RESTRICTION FOR iPHONE AND iPAD SERVICE.\n  Apple may restrict warranty service for iPhone and iPad to the country where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the device.\n\nfrom https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/ipad-english-a.html\nUPDATE: I made this post in 2013, I have again checked the link above in 2017, and the situation is still the same. \n\n"
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        "text": "Историята на българските земи може да бъде условно разделена на 5 основни периода: Праистория, Античност, Средновековие, Османско владичество и Съвременна история.\n\nПоради географското си положение територията на днешна България е сред най-рано заселените райони в Европа. През 3 хилядолетие пр.н.е. тя е заета от траките – индоевропейски народ, за който се предполага, че е дошъл на Балканите от североизток. Те създават свои държави, които достигат разцвет по време на елинизма. В средата на 1 век пр.н.е. траките са подчинени от Древен Рим.\n\nАнтичност и Ранно средновековие (до 7 век)\n\nПредистория (преди 12 век пр.н.е.) \nПрез ранната енеолитна епоха се развиват металургията на медта и златото, благодарение на тяхното наличие по повърхността (много реки в България са златоносни). През енеолита тук е създадена най-старата в света протописменост – известната Дунавска протописменост, първата технология за леене на метали, първите каменни градежи в Европа.\n\nИма голям брой артефакти на различни места, които показват наличие на развита ранна енеолитна цивилизация  – в комплекса Блантица, Винча, Караново VI, Хотница, Варненският некропол. Tази цивилизация е вероятно най-старата в Европа, най-ранният център на медната металургия в Европа с едни от най-древните предпарични знаци от раковини, за развита търговия със Средиземноморието още в началото на енеолитната или халколитна епоха свидетелстват импортни предмети (средиземноморската мида Spondylus).\n\nНа територията на България са намерени части от човешки останки (зъб) на прачовека Graecopithecus freybergi, датиращи от 7,2 милиона години.\n\nТраки (12 век пр.н.е. – 1 век) \n\nПредполага се, че първите траки се заселват в източната половина на Балканския полуостров, включително на днешната територия на България около 3500 г. пр.н.е. През 12 век пр.н.е. вече са обособени в групи и населяват Балканския полуостров. Древногръцкият историк Херодот дава описание на траките в своята „История“ (5 – 3), казвайки че: „Тракийската народност е най-многобройна след индийската. Във всяка отделна област траките носят отделно име, но нравите и обичаите на цялата народност са навред едни и същи.“\n\nВ средата на 4 век пр.н.е. траките са подчинени от Филип и Александър Македонски и са включени в Древна Македония, но в края на века възвръщат самостоятелността си. През 3 век пр.н.е. групи келти се установяват в Тракия, но създадената от тях държава не просъществува дълго. В средата на 1 век пр.н.е. днешната територия на България е подчинена от Римската република, с което се слага край на самостоятелността на тракийските племена.\n\nВ Древна Гърция траките са смятани за войнствени, известни са с нехарактерната за Гърция конница. Дори в римската епоха Тракия е важен източник на войници и гладиатори. Предводителят на най-голямото робско въстание срещу Рим – гладиаторът Спартак, е тракиец от племето меди. Днес основен източник на сведения за траките са археологическите разкопки на големи тракийски гробници и селищни центрове, а също така откритите храмове и светилища. Знатните траки са погребвани в гробници с много имущество, при някои от тях – с принесените в жертва жени, със съдове и други предмети, за които може би се смятало, че ще са им необходими в задгробния живот.\n\nРимска и византийска власт (1 – 7 век) \n\nОкончателното завладяване на Тракия станало в епохата на Римската империя. Земите край Дунава били покорени след голям поход на римския пълководец Марк Лициний Крас в 29 – 27 г. пр. Хр., в началото на самостоятелното управление на първия римски император Октавиан Август. В северно-тракийските земи първоначално бил създаден военен окръг (префектура) под командването на управителя на провинция Македония, който обхващал само сравнително тясна ивица край южния бряг на р. Дунав. Вероятно в 15 г. сл.н.е. завладените крайдунавски земи били официално оформени в римска провинция, получила името Мизия. Земите на гетите на изток от р. Янтра чак до Черноморското крайбрежие и устието на р. Дунав били предадени на съюзното Одриско царство, просъществувало до 45 г. сл.н.е., когато император Клавдий го анексира и създава от територията му римската провинция Тракия.\n\nС реформите на императорите Диоклетиан и Константин Велики в края на III и началото на IV в. положението в империята временно е стабилизирано. Особено значителни а административните промени, в резултат на които броят на провинциите се увеличава и те са обединени в по-големи административни единици – диоцези и префектури. От двете Мизии (Горна и Долна) са създадени 5 нови провинции, а от бившата провинция Тракия – 4. Сред най-важните нововъведения на Константин Велики е преместването на столицата на империята от Рим в разположения на Босфора Бизантион (днес Истанбул), който е наречен на негово име Константинопол. Това има важни последици за тракийските провинции, които попадат в непосредствено съседство с новата столица, и довежда както до временно стопанско оживление, така и до засилени мерки за отбраната им от нови варварски нашествия. В 313 г. Константин издава указ, с който разрешава християнството като официална религия на територията на Римската империя. През IV в. то се налага като господстваща религия на територията на империята.\n\nПрабългари и славяни (5 – 7 век) \n\nВ 479 г. византийският император Зенон се принудил да се съюзи за пръв път с \"тъй наричаните българи”, които живеели между Цариград и Адриатическото крайбрежие пише  Йоан Антиохийски . Теофан Изповедник (Theophanes, p. 143) отбелязва в летописа си за годината 494: „В тази година (494) и тъй наричаните българи, които живееха в Илирия и Тракия, нападаха и се отдръпваха, преди да ги забележи човек“, а Марцелин Комес съвременник на тези събития, пише в своята хроника загодина 499: „Арист, военачалникът на илирийските войски, с петдесетхилядна въоръжена войска и 250 коли, натоварени с нужното за бой снаряжение, тръгна против българите, които плячкосвали Тракия. Боят се завърза при р. Цурта (Чорлу), където бяха унищожени повече от четири хиляди наши (римляни), било като бягаха, било като падаха от брега в реката“. По-късно Йоан Зонара  и Теофан Изповедник  съобщават, че през 501 г. племето на българите, нахлуло в Илирик и Тракия. Това са едни от първите сведения за българските племена по тези земи.\n\nСлед разпадането на хунската държава (453) славяните започват да преминават през проходи в Карпатите и през втората половина на 5 век се настаняват в Трансилвания. След като голямата част от остготите се насочват към Италия (488), славяните заемат обитаваните от тях области по поречието на Долен и Среден Дунав. Първото славянско нападение през Дунав е отбелязано в историята през 519 г. по време на император Юстин I и е извършено от антите. През 6 век славяните започват да усядат и южно Дунав в балканските земи. През 7 век южните славяни стават преобладаващото население на Балканския полуостров. Постепенно те заемат плътно Мизия, Тракия, цяла Македония, Родопите, Беломорието, днешна Албания, старата Гърция с адриатическия бряг и централен Пелопонес и дори някои от егейските острови. Славяни са заселени и в предна Мала Азия.\n\nСтара Велика България (7 век) \n\nСтара Велика България (, на византийски гръцки: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, Palaiá Megálē Boulgaría), както е наричана от византийските автори, по-рядко Оногурия (Patria Onoguria)  е ранносредновековна държава с владетел Кубрат, съществувала около 30 г. след 632 г. в зоната на северното Причерноморие – днешна Украйна и Южна Русия. В някои източници Фанагория се сочи като столица на държавата. Това предположение се основава на хрониката на Теофан Изповедник, но не се подкрепя от археологическите данни.\n\nТя представлява военно-племенен съюз на прабългарите и сродните им племена, дотогава подчинени на Аварския и Западнотюркския хаганат при граници: на изток – река Кубан, на юг – Азовско и Черно море (без южен Крим), на запад – река Днепър, на север – река Донец.\n\nБългарско Средновековие (7 – 14 век)\n\nПърва българска държава (681 – 1018) \n\nСлед разпадането на Велика България, която е завладяна от хазарите, част от прабългарите, водена от Аспарух, и друга, водена от Кубер, се преселват на Балканския полуостров и се сливат със славяните, дошли от север в началото на VI век и смесили се с местните византийци. След като Аспарух извоюва победа над армия на византийския император Константин IV, се сключва споразумение между Аспарух и Константин. Според него прабългарите и славяните получават по-голямата част от територията между Стара планина и р. Дунав. С това се поставя началото на създаването на оформящата се българска народност. Договорът с Византия от 681 г. се приема като момент на създаване на Първата българска държава.\n\nПо време на управлението на Крум (803 – 814) България се разраства на югозапад и югоизток, населвайки района на днешна София през 811 г. и днешен Одрин през 813 г. Побеждава император Никифор I в битката при Върбишкия проход на 26 юли 811 г. и от черепа му си прави обкована чаша. Достига до портите на Константинопол, но не успява да ги премине. Въвежда много строги закони, включително за изкореняване на лозята и членовредителни наказания за крадци. Хан Омуртаг (814 – 831 г.) продължава административната реформа, започната от Крум, като разделя страната на области, наречени комитати, начело с комити. В българската история Омуртаг е познат още с прозвището си Строителя. Той създава известния надпис „Човек и добре да живее – умира, и друг се ражда, и нека роденият след него помни делата му“.\n\nКняз Борис I (Михаил) (852 – 889 г.) приема християнството за официална религия. Съпротивата в лицето на някои боляри е смазана жестоко – тези, които не желаят да приемат новата религия, са преследвани и избивани. Детронира и ослепява първородния си син княз Владимир Расате (889 – 893 г.) заради опита му да върне езичеството. Княз Борис I предприема този ход, за да обедини прабългари и славяни, които по онова време имат коренно различни религии, както и за да укрепи международния престиж на България в силното „семейство“ на християнските държави. Българите получават правото на собствена архиепископска църква. Около 886 г. Борис приема в България прогонените от Великоморавия ученици на Кирил и Методий – Климент, Наум и Ангеларий. Така новосъздадената от братята Кирил и Методий азбука – глаголицата – и богослужението за славяните достигат до българските земи. Благодарение на подкрепата, която Борис оказва на Климент и Наум за мисионерската и просветителската им дейност, Кирило-Методиевото наследство е съхранено за Европа и славяните. В началото на 10 век в Преславската книжовна школа се разработва нова азбука, наречена кирилица, на основата на гръцката писменост и глаголицата.\n\nОколо 950 г. от смесицата между потомците на прабългари, славяни и на местното палеобалканско население, включително елински и римски колонисти, както и византийци, се формира новата народност на българите. Важен елемент от този процес е общият език, който се развива на основата на преобладаващия славянски. Българите се класифицират като южнославянски народ, каквито са например сърбите.\n\nПо-късно княз Симеон I (893 – 927 г.), приема титлата цар на българите и император на българи и ромеи (в българската държава, наречена от някои историци Дунавска България), за да се разграничи от Волжка България, населявана от прабългарите. Титлата император е призната от папата.\n\nВремето на Симеон I е наречено Златен век. Сам получил образованието си в Константинопол изгражда множество книжовни центрове из цяла България. Симеон I се превръща в сериозна заплаха за Византийската империя. След множество военни успехи си поставя за цел да превземе Константинопол. Провъзгласява се за император.\n\nСлед смъртта на Симеон I мощта на България спада. Появява се богомилството по времето на цар Петър I, появява се и отшелничеството. Петър, най-дълго управлявалият български владетел, в началото на управлението си сключва мирен договор с Византия, но след изтичането му се започва война с ромеите. През 968 г. Киевска Рус съумява да превземе столицата Преслав цялата източна част от българските земи. България премества столицата си и след 50-годишна ожесточена война с Византия България започва да запада. По времето на цар Самуил се водят много войни, а много тежко поражение е нанесено на византийския император Василий II в Битката при Траянови врата, където по чудо самият император остава жив. Фатална се оказва обаче битката при село Ключ, където Василий II избива хиляди и нарежда 14 000 пленени воини да бъдат ослепени. Заради тази си постъпка византийският император е наречен от по-късни писатели българоубиец. Според легенда, когато цар Самуил вижда ослепените си воини, умира. През 1018 г. при цар Иван Владислав последните крепости са превзети от Византия – това е краят на Първата българска държава.\n\nВизантийско владичество (1018 – 1185) \n\nПрез 1018 година след близо половинвековна борба България е завладяна от Византия. В страната е въведено византийско административно деление, Българската патриаршия става архиепископия, а българската аристокрация е изселена в Мала Азия, като са и дадени византийски титли. На отделни места продължават борбата български местни първенци и престолонаследникът Пресиян II, но без успех.\n\nСлед смъртта на Василий II положението на българите се усложнява повече. Данъците са увеличени и заменени с натурални, а на мястото на починалия български охридски архиепископ Йоан е назначен византиец. Това е причина да бъде организирано въстанието на Петър Делян през 1040 година, което избухва в Белград. Той е провъзгласен за цар. Въстаниците напредват на юг и се съединяват с въстаниците от Албания, начело с Тихомир. Последният обаче е убит. Обединените български въстаници настъпват на юг към Солун, като по пътя разгромяват ромейски войски. Тогава обаче се появява провинилият се братовчед на Петър Делян Алусиан. Петър Делян му прощава и му повелява 40 000 армия, за да превземе града, но той се оказва некадърен военачалник и е разбит. На вечеря Петър Делян е ослепен от братовчед си. Алусиан се предава на ромеите и въпреки съпротивата на въстанието е сложен край.\n\nПрез следващите години българите страдат от варварски и нормански нашествия. Те ограбват и избиват българско население. Българите трябва да се справят с тях сами. Освен това през България минават и кръстоносци, които следват примера на варварите. В крайна сметка Византия успява да се справи с тези опасности.\n\nПрез 1072 година избухва бунтът на Георги Войтех, но и той е потушен. Надигат се още българите в Тесалия, начело с Никулица Делфина (1066), Нестор (1074), павликяните в Пловдив (1074), Добромир в Несебър през 1078 година и други. Всички те обаче са неуспешни. През 1185 година е вдигнато въстание, начело с Асен и Петър, което донася свобода за българския народ.\n\nВтора българска държава (1185 – 1396) \n\nВ резултат на въстанието на Асен и Петър България е възстановена през 1185 година. За цар е определен по-големият брат Петър, но той не се справя добре с властта и затова през 1187 година отстъпва трона на брат си Асен. През следващите години страната започва да възвръща територията си – при двамата братя тя си връща Белградската и Браничевската област, част от отвъддунавските земи, Мизия, Северна Тракия и земите по Горна Струма. Византия, която е в криза, не може да спре напредването на българите. През 1196 година Асен е убит от братовчед си Иванко, а боляри убиват и царувалия отново за кратко след това Петър. Властта е поета от третия брат Калоян (1197), който е бил няколко години във византийски плен, но успява да се спаси. Той превзема последната ромейска крепост в Северна България – Варна. Освен това сключва уния с папа Инокентий III, с което страната получава авторитетно международно признание. Разширява България към Македония и Тракия. Цар Калоян успява да разгроми рицарите от Четвърти кръстоносен поход и така да спре експанзията им. В резултат на заговор е убит, начело на многохилядна войска пред портите на Солун. На престола застава племенникът му Борил. При него страната губи част от териториите си. Освен това е подозиран от народа в убийството на Калоян. Свален е от завърналия се в страната син на цар Асен I, Иван Асен II, през 1218 година.\n\nПри Иван Асен II България постига най-голямото си териториално разширение по време на Втората българска държава и отново границите ѝ са на 3 морета. При Клокотница разбива епирския владетел Теодор Комнин и така той не успява да възстанови Византия. По времето на българския владетел Българската архиепископия става патриаршия (1235). Иван Асен II умира през 1241 година и оставя на наследниците си една обширна страна. След смъртта му обаче България изпада в криза. Страната губи много територии. Татарите започват да нападат България и страната изпада в зависимост от тях. Въпреки опитите на сина му Михаил II Асен да спре упадъка, страната е в криза. За кратко се разгаря гражданска война, която завършва с възкачването на трона на Константин Асен. Политиката му не дава желаните резултати. Убит през 1277 година от Ивайло. Ивайло разбива на няколко пъти татари и византийци, но не може да се задържи дълго на власт. Наследен е от Георги I Тертер. При неговото управление хегемонията на татарите е пълна, но е преодоляна от сина му Светослав Тертер. Той присъединява някои територии, което прави и сина му Георги II Тертер.\n\nМихаил III Шишман Асен опитва да разшири България в Македония, но е победен при Велбъжд. Иван Александър разширява България на юг. Води последната в историята война с Византия. При неговото управление започват експанзията си османските турци. Те навлизат на Балканския полуостров като дружини, на които се плаща да се бият на страната на наемателя. В 1352 г. османците овладяват първата крепост на Балканите – Цимпе. За пръв път нападат Византия. Страната предлага съюз на Сърбия и България (1352), но и от двете страни е отхвърлен. Османците не успяват да превземат Византия, затова се устремяват към българските земи (Търновско царство на цар Иван Шишман, Видинско царство на цар Иван Страцимир и Добруджанско деспотство на деспот Добротица). Успяват да превземат българските крепости Ямбол, Пловдив и София, стигат чак до Кюстендил.\n\nОсманската инвазия се насочва в нова посока на север по долината на р. Марица. Падат Ихтиман, Самоков, а през 1386 година и София. Същата година османците достигат Ниш, балканските владетели правят опити за антиосманска коалиция и през 1387 година ги разбиват при Плочник. Османците се мобилизират и в 1389 г. разбиват съюзниците при Косово поле.\n\nПрез 1389 година е покорено Добруджанското деспотство. На 17 юли 1393 година е сложен край на Търновското царство. Цар Иван Срацимир получава многобройна войска от унгарския крал и се устремява към Никопол, Баязид разгромява рицарите в крайдунавските мочури и нарежда всички пленници да бъдат избити. Той отвежда пленения Срацимир в Мала Азия, където е удушен, а унгарският крал бяга с кораб по Дунава. Така Видин е лесно превзет през 1396 година.\n\nОсманско владичество (1396 – 1878)\n\nБългарските земи през XV и XVI век (1396 – 1600) \n\nБългария първа от балканските държави попада под османска власт. Окончателно покорени до 1396 г. са всички български земи. Но българите не се примиряват с новата власт. Още в началото на 15 век те вдигат първото въстание против турците – в Северозападна България, през 1404 или (според други източници) 1408 г. Негови ръководители са синът на цар Иван Срацимир – Константин II Асен, и синът на цар Иван Шишман – Фружин. То обаче завършва с неуспех. През 1454 година е заловен войводата Радич.\n\nПрез следващите години политическата активност на българите се изразява в подкрепа на враговете срещу турците. Българи участват в походите на крал Владислав III и Янош Хуняди. След загубата им при Варна много българи се изселват на север от Дунав.\n\nПрез 1598 г. е вдигнато Първото търновско въстание. Международната обстановка е благоприятна – в ход е война между Австрия и Османската империя, а и влашкият войвода Михай Витязул подпомага австрийците. Начело на въстанието застават Тодор Балина, дубровнишкият търговец Павел Джорджевич и гръцкият духовник Дионисий Рали. И то обаче завършва с неуспех.\n\nОсманското владичество унищожава система от административни, правни, фискални, военни, културни и други институции. Унищожена е църковната йерархия, държавата и българския елит, които са главната опора на народността. Интелигенцията е изтребена, разпиляна и обезродена, поради което обществото остава без организатори и водачи. Силно е намален демографския потенциал – част от българите са избити, много от тях са принудени да се изселят. Чрез различни форми на антиосмански съпротиви българското общество притъпява експлоатацията, поддържа жива историческата памет и държи будно българското самосъзнание.\n\nНалагането на османските структури предизвиква сблъсък на 2 различни обществено-икономически системи. В тяхното обособяване участват българско-византийски, монголско-ирански и азиатски елементи. През първите 3 века Османската империя е във възход и това обяснява защо преобладават пасивните съпротивителни действия и защо всички въстания завършват с неуспех. Независимо от неблагоприятният им изход те са важен фактор за оцеляването на българите.\n\nОсманското завладяване довежда до масов психологически шок. Нашествениците имат изключително добра стратегия – поетапно завземане на отделните територии, укрепване на властта в завладените земи, изграждане на силна военна организация, централизиране на властта, характерни за номадския и полуномадския начин на живот. Основен проблем в първите десетилетия от османското владичество е физическото оцеляване на българите и запазването им като етнос. През 1439 г. опит за нова антиосманска коалиция правят православната и католическата църква, но без особен резултат. Нов опит за отхвърляне на чуждата власт българите правят по време на организиралите се през 1443 – 1444 г. кръстоносни походи от полско-унгарския крал Владислав III Ягело и унгарския войвода Янош Хуниади. Армията нанася тежко поражение на османците на 3 ноември 1443 г. край Ниш. Настъпилата люта зима принуждава кръстоносците да подпишат мир със султана. Обмисля се обаче по-мащабна операция. И през есента на 1444 г. кръстоносците достигат до Варненско поле, където обаче биват победени от османците на 10 ноември 1444 г. В битката загива 20-годишният им предводител Владислав III Ягело и посмъртно получава прозвището Варненчик. На 29 юни 1453 г. Мехмед II Завоевател завладява Константинопол, преименува го на Истанбул и го прави своя столица.\n\nПричините за нестихващата антиосманска съпротива се крият в непрекъснатото влошаващо се положение на българите. Те не могат да участват в административно-управленския механизъм, третирани са като безправна социална група – рая. Важна причина за съпротива е народностната и религиозната дискриминация. Според исляма едно от най-важните задължения на мохамеданина в ислямската държава е „войната за вярата“ или Свещената война (Джихад). Тази политика на неравнопоставеност е прокарана във всички институции на османската държава. Жестока форма на асимилация е „кръвния данък“ (девширме) – момчета в детска и юношеска възраст са отвличани, помохамеданчвани и специално обучавани за попълване на войската (еничарския корпус). Този данък често е наричан Еничарство. Събирането на деца е утвърдено със специален закон и продължава до края на XVIв. съпроводено с много жестокости и насилие. Съществена причина за съпротивата срещу чуждата гнет е политиката на помюсюлманчване на българското население. Ислямизирането на българите с различна интензивност протича през целия период от османското владичество. То протича в три основни форми-единични, групови и масови. Единичните са най-опасни за народността защото водят до откъсване от етническата среда, поетапно загубване на езика и потурчване. Груповите засягат отделни райони или села при неподчинение и/или неизпълнение на задълженията си. Масови има в XVI в. в Чирмен, Никопол, Беломорието и Македония. Чуждата политическа власт, непосилният икономически гнет, езиковите и верските различия, дискриминационната политика, политическото и юридическото безправие предизвикват борбата на българите срещу чуждото потисничество.\n\nСъпротивата протича през целия период на чуждото владичество и обхваща цялата етническа територия. През първите три века целите на борбата са: опазване на народността, съхранение на нейния демографски потенциал, противодействие срещу системата на експлоатация, като се намали степента и борба за политическо освобождение.\n\nФормите и методите на борбата се делят на активни и пасивни. Упорството и неприемането на чуждата вяра е форма на пасивна съпротива, която съществува непрекъснато. Активните форми на съпротива се срещат по-рядко, защото са необходими водачи и по-добра организация – това са бунтовете и въстанията. Военната слабост на Османската империя води до криза в политическия и икономическия живот, което активизира борбите на българите.\n\nПървото търновско въстание избухва през 1598 г. Организаторите му са търновският митрополит Дионисий Рали, търговецът Павел Джорджович и Тодор Балина. Принос в антиосманската съпротива имат и българските католици. Стремежът на папите да разпространят влиянието си на Балканите се засилва след завладяването им от османците.\n\nБългарските земи през XVII век и първата половина на XVIII век (1601 – 1760) \n\n През 1601 г. излиза първото издание на Царството на славяните написано от бенедектинския монах от хърватски произход Мавро Орбини. Произведението има исторически характер, като в него се пресъздава някогашната славна история на южните славяни с оглед организирането им за борба под егидата на папството срещу настъплението на османците към Централна Европа.\n През 1643 г. докторът по богословско и каноническо право Петър Парчевич се завръща в България като посвещава усилията си за организиране на антитурска коалиция на католическите държави. С тази цел, с благословията на папата, той предприема редица дипломатически мисии в Австрия, Унгария, Полша, Венеция, Влашко, Молдова и дори посещава Богдан Хмелницки в Украйна. За приноса му в защита на християнството той е удостоен с титлата „барон“ от императора на Свещената римска империя.\n През 1645 г. избухва турско-венецианската война и предизвиква оживление на Балканите. Начело на заговора е влашкият господар Матей Басараб. Изглежда необходимо да се привлече полският крал Владислав IV, който, поради удържаната от него победа над султан Осман II при Хотин, се ползва с голяма популярност. За пратеник е назначен Петър Парчевич, отлично знаещ гръцки, латински, италиански, румънски и арменски езици. Владислав IV приема пратеника много сърдечно. Парчевич се връща в отечеството си с портрета на краля в пълно въоръжение, с червено кадифено знаме и с много подаръци. Владислав наистина почва да се готви за война, но предивременната му смърт през 1648 г. осуетява надеждата на българите.\n\nАрхиепископ Деодат, един от главните заговорници, с мъка удържа прибързаността, с която искат да обявят въстанието. На 18 декември началниците отново се срещат с Деодат у княз Матей Басараба в Търговище и повторно изпратили Парчевич в Полша, при императора и във Венеция. Българският лъв, пишели те в писмата си, макар и да дреме, но е още жив, и съветвали да не пропуща благоприятното време за съвместно нападение на Портата и за възстановяване на славянските царства. Парчевич навсякъде бил приет съчувствено, особено от венецианците, които и без това поради войната на републиката с Турция се грижили за съставянето на съюза. Но отношенията на европейските държави след 30-годишната война били такива, че съюзът не можал да се осъществи.\n През 1665 г. много знатни българи, сърби, албанци и гърци съставят тайно съглашение помежду си. Парчевич още веднъж отива при император Фердинанд III, а сръбският патриарх Гаврил заминава за Москва. Но и този път делото получава лош обрат. Парчевич остава на Запад и е възведен в 1656 г. в сан „марцианополски архиепископ“.\n През 1667 г. Петър Богдан написва на латински първата „История на България“. До смъртта му през 1674 г. обаче не намира достатъчно средства и творбата не излиза от печат.\n\n През 1673 г., вече в преклонна възраст и болен, Парчевич предприема ново пътешествие, за да работи за освобождението на България. Снабден с писма от молдовския княз Стефан Петрашко, от стария чипровски архиепископ Деодот и от други знатни лица, той от името на народите на България, Сърбия, Тракия и Македония заминава за Полша, Виена, Венеция и Рим. Парчевич с юношески ентусиазъм настоява западните християни да изпратят на поляците пари и войски, за да преминат Дунав и с възстановяването на България да подкопаят мощта на Портата. Умира на 23 юли 1674 година и е погребан в Рим в базиликата Св. Андреа дела Фрате пред параклиса на пратриарха Франциск. Парчевич се смята като най-великия българин на XVII век.\n От 1686 до 1689 г. избухват 3 големи въстания, които са потушени:\n 1686 – Второ Търновско въстание;\n 1688 – Чипровско въстание;\n 1689 – Карпошово въстание.\n\nВъзраждане (18 – 19 век) \n\nВъзраждането по нашите земи започва по-късно, в сравнение със Западна Европа, тъй като България (а и изобщо Балканският полуостров) са под турска власт. То е процес в който българите се осъзнават като народ и започват да отстояват своите права и стремежи да станат равни на другите европейски народи и да се превърнат в нация. През Възрожденската епоха започват да се разпространяват сред българските земи стоково-паричните отношения, в цялото Българско национално землище се усилват стремежите и борбите на българите за стопански и културен напредък и за църковна, просветна и политическа свобода и независимост. Традиционно за начало на Възраждането е считано написването на „История славянобългарска“ от Паисий Хилендарски през 1762 година, макар че бурните процеси на Възраждането започват да се забелязват по-късно, след последователните Руско-турска война (1828 – 1829) и Кримска война (1853 – 1856) когато започва материално съвземане на българите което издига самочувствието им, а наложените от Европа на Турция макар и формални реформи улесняват започналите още в началото на века стремежи към култура и масова просвета стават възможни в азиатската империя принудена да допусне развитието им.\n\n(През 1794 г. сръбският историк от български произход по бащина линия Йован Раич издава своето произведение „История разных славенских народов найпаче болгар, хорватов и сербов“, която ще послужи за основа на други два историографски труда: на Атанас Нескович и Петър Сапунов.)\n\nПрез 1854 г. по данни на Нойс в Добруджа живеят шестнадесет раси. Той пише, че в главните места за преминаване на България „евреи, гърци и арменци се смесетват свободно с турци в широки роби и с българи с овчи калпаци и варварски дрехи. Тук – една тромава компания низами предшества редица от египтяни и там – мургав отряд на бея на Тунис последва банди от арнаути и планинци от Азия. Окото понякога се спира на арабски шейх с равнодушна група воини и дервиши, лицата им пълни с огъня на Азия, а понякога на черкезки главатар, див и неопитомен като орлите от скалите в родната му страна. Френски, английски, унгарски и полски офицери допълнително разнообразяват тази любопитна галерия от националности“.\n\nЗа основоположник на модерното българско национално-освободително движение срещу османската власт се счита Георги Стойков Раковски. През август 1841 година той е инициатор на Втория браилски бунт, който предвижда през февруари 1842 г. през Дунав да бъдат прехвърлени две чети – от Браила и от Галац. Раковски е разкрит от властите и е осъден на смърт, но тъй като има гръцки паспорт е екстрадиран, след което успява да избяга и да се укрие. След избухването на Кримската война (1853) Раковски заедно с група българи създава в Свищов Тайното общество, което има за задача да събира пари за освобождението и сведения за османските войски и да ги предава на руското военно командване. Новосъздаденото Тайно общество приема като знаме на бъдещата българска република трибагреника – бяло, зелено и червено. През юни 1854 година Раковски организира чета от дванадесет души и броди с нея из Източна Стара планина. Тогава прави опит да се свърже и с руските войски, които по това време са преминали на юг от река Дунав. През есента, руската армия се изтегля отвъд Дунава и Раковски разпуска четата си. През 1861 година той изготвя „План за освобождението на България\" и „Статут за едно Привременно българско началство в Белград\". Раковски започва подготовката на „всеобщо българско въстание\" и през 1862 година създава Първата българска легия в Белград. Същата година тя участва в боевете с турския гарнизон на белградската крепост Калемегдан.\n\nСледват четите на Хаджи Димитър и Стефан Караджа в Мизия, на Ильо войвода в Македония и на Капитан Петко войвода в Беломорието и Тракия, съдаването от Васил Левски на Вътрешна революционна организация (ВРО) и на Български революционен централен комитет (БРЦК). Връхна точка на национално-освободително движение срещу османската власт се явява героичното Априлско въстание през 1876 година, предизвикало освободителната Руско-турска война (1877 – 1878), довела до образуването на Княжество България. Възрожденското просветно, църковно и национално-освободително движение обаче продължава в останалите под владичество земи. В Южна България национално-революционната борба води Български таен централен революционен комитет (БТЦРК) до Cъединението ѝ с Княжеството в 1885 г., а в останалите поробени земи това дело е поето от извоюваната в 1871 г. Българска Екзархия и други структури в мирните му форми и от Вътрешната македоно-одринска революционна организация (ВМОРО) за въоръжената борба.\n\nВъпреки че за край на Възраждането традиционно се приема 1878 г., когато, със Санстефанския мирен договор, е възстановена свободната държава на българите, това донякъде е вярно само за Княжеството. В неосвободените земи Възраждането продължава чак до 1912 г., защото след Берлинския конгрес и дори след Съединението в 1885 г., Македония и по-голямата част от Тракия, остават под турско владичество. Българското национално възраждане там продължава до освобождението им в 1912 г. след победоносната Балканска война. Тогава югозападните и южните българските земи са освободени, ала са завзети от Сърбия и Гърция, а в Одринска Тракия турците извършват етническо прочистване на 300 000 българи и с това е сложен кръст на българското национално развитие в тези области.\n\nТрета българска държава (от 1878 г.) \n\nТретата българска държава започва съществуването си на 3 март 1878 г., когато в Сан Стефано е сложен край на Руско-турската война. Първоначално територията е обхващала населените с българи територии от Черно море до Охридското езеро и от Дунав до Егейско море. Притеснени от новата голяма държава на Балканите великите сили приемат на конгрес в Берлин Мизия и Софийското поле да се обособят като васално и трибутарно на Турция Княжество България. В рамките на Османската империя остава автономната област Източна Румелия с административен център Пловдив, която практически съвпада по територия с днешна Южна България. Македония, Одринска и Беломорска Тракия остават в територията на Османската империя. На 6 септември 1885 в Пловдив е обявено Съединението на Източна Румелия с Княжество България. На 22 септември 1908 г. България обявява юридическата си независимост от Османската империя.\n\nОт Освобождението до Балканските войни (1878 – 1912) \n\nСпоред Берлинския договор Княжество България е самостоятелно трибутарно княжество под върховната власт на султана с християнско правителство и народна войска (полиция). Източна Румелия остава под пряката политическа и военна власт на султана, но се ползва с пълна административна автономия. Решенията на Берлинския конгрес са посрещнати с недоволство от българското население в Мизия, Тракия и Македония. В Княжество България и Източна Румелия се основава комитета „Единство“, който организира въоръжена борба за национално обединение. В Македония избухва Кресненско-Разложкото въстание (1878 – 1879), което завършва с неуспех.\n\nУчредителното народно събрание (10 февруари – 16 април 1879) приема Търновската конституция и определя София за столица на княжеството. На 17 април 1879 в Търново е свикано I велико народно събрание, което избира германския принц Александър Батенберг за български владетел под името Александър I. На 5 юли е съставено първото българско правителство начело с Тодор Бурмов. Формират се Консервативната партия и Либералната партия – първите политически партии в страната. На 27 април 1881 г. Александър I сваля либералното правителство на Петко Каравелов и назначава служебен кабинет начело с генерал Казимир Ернрот (1881 – 1883). Проведените през май 1884 парламентарни избори се печелят от крайните либерали и е формирано правителство оглавено от Каравелов.\n\nЗа главен управител на Източно Румелия султанът назначава княз Александър (Алеко) Богориди. През септември 1879 г. изборите за Областно събрание се печелят от Народната партия под девиза „Съединение на Източна Румелия и Княжество България“. През 1885 г. в Пловдив е създаден Българският таен централен революционен комитет, който организира и довежда до успешен край Съединението на Източна Румелия с Княжество България през същата година. Сърбия, поощрявана от Австро-Унгария, започва военни действия срещу България. В Сръбско-българската война българската армия спира навлизането на сръбската армия в Северозападна България. На 19 февруари 1886 г. Сърбия и България подписват Букурещкия мирен договор. Същата година е подписана и Българо-турската спогодба, с която Турция признава Съединението.\n\nСлед Съединението в България избухва политическа криза, чийто резултат е детронацията на Александър I на 26 август. На 25 юли 1887 г. III велико народно събрание избира за княз на България немския принц Фердинанд Сакс-Кобург-Гота под името Фердинанд I. Стабилизация и модернизация в политическия и икономическия живот настъпва при управлението на Стефан Стамболов (20 август 1887 – 19 май 1894). Недоволни от вътрешната политика формират т.нар. Съединена легална опозиция от консерватори и либерали. Княз Фердинанд предизвиква оставката на правителството. Новото правителство на Константин Стоилов (19 май 1894 – 18 януари 1899) успява да стабилизира вътрешнополитическата обстановка в България.\n\nЦентрално място във външната политика на всички български правителства от края на XIX и началото на XX в. заема проблемът с националното обединение на българския народ. През 1893 г. в Солун е основана революционна организация, наречена през 1905 г. официално Вътрешна македоно-революционна организация (ВМРО). Бежанците от Македония и Тракия, живеещи в Княжество България, създават своя организация – Върховен македоно-одрински комитет. Между двете организации се осъществява сътрудничество, резултат от което е избухването на Илинденско-Преображенското въстание през лятото на 1903 г. . Въстанието завършва с неуспех и е жестоко потушено от османските власти.\n\nПрез 1903 – 1908 г. на власт е Народнолибералната партия, чието управление е известно като Втори стамболовистки режим. През 1908 – 1911 управлява Демократическата партия. На 22 септември/5 октомври 1908 г., след победата на Младотурската революция, в Търново княз Фердинанд I обявява със специален манифест независимостта на България и приема титлата цар на България. През 1910 г. цар Фердинанд I и министър-председателят Александър Малинов водят неуспешни преговори за сключване на българо-руски съюз. Преговорите между правителствата на България и Сърбия и на България и Гърция приключват с подписването на Балканския съюз 1912 г.\n\nВойни за национално обединение (1912 – 1918) \n\nВ Първата балканска война (1912 -1913) България участва в името на националното обединение. Българската войка има главни операции в Лозенград, Люлебургас, Бунархисар, Чаталджа, Булаир-Шаркьой и Одрин. Армиите на Сърбия и Гърция воюват във Вардарска и Егейска Македония. Войната завършва с победа на съюзниците и подписване на Лондонския мирен договор от 1913 г., в резултат на който Турция отстъпва всички земи на запад от Мидия-Енос. Между България, Сърбия и Гърция възникват противоречия при разпределянето на отвоюваните територии. Сърбия претендира за голяма част от Вардарска Македония. Гърция се стреми да получи окупираната от нея Егейска Македония. Гърция и Сърбия подписват на 19 май 1913 г. съюзен договор с антибългарска насоченост, който слага край на Балканския съюз. На 16 юни по заповед на Фердинанд I, който е и главнокомандващ на българските войски, бившите съюзници са атакувани и започва Втората балканска война (1913). България се оказва във война с всички свои съседи. На 28 юли правителството на Васил Радославов подписва Букурещкия мирен договор и на 16 септември – Цариградския мирен договор. Пораженията на България във войната е първата национална катастрофа за българския народ.\n\nБългария изпада в пълна изолация на Балканите. Няма покровителство и от Великите сили. Правителството на Васил Радославов търси сближаване с Германия и Австро-Унгария, което е един от факторите България се включи в Централните сили при избухването на Първата световна война (1914 – 1918). На 24 август 1915 е подписан договор между България и Германия, конвенция между Германия, Австро-Унгария и България и споразумения с Турция. На 1 октомври България обявява война на Сърбия, на 1 септември 1916 г. – на Румъния, на 26 юни 1917 г. Гърция обявява война на България. Продължителността на войната предизвиква остра финансова, стопанска и продоволствена криза в България. На фронта възниква силно антивоенно движение, в страната се провеждат демонстрации. Недоволството прераства във въоръжен опит за слагане край на войната и събаряне на монархията. На 3 октомври 1918 г. Фердинанд I абдикира в полза на сина си Борис Търновски. На 4 октоври цар Борис III издава указ за демобилизация на въоръжените сили на България, която е окупирана от войските на Съглашението.\n\nСлед Първата и през Втора световна война (1918 – 1945) \n\nПрез първите години след войната страната изпада в политическа криза. На 6 октомври 1919 г. се сформира правителството на министър-председателя Александър Стамболийски. Същата година той подписва Ньойския мирен договор. През март 1920 г. се провеждат предсрочни парламентарни избори. Печели ги Българският земеделски народен съюз (БЗНС), който образува самостоятелно земеделско правителство (21 май 1920 – 9 юни 1923) начело със Стамболийски. На 16 декември 1920 България е приета в Обществото на народите. Недоволните от управлението на БЗНС подкрепят Деветоюнския преврат от 1923 г., извършен от Военния съюз начело с полковник Дамян Велчев. На власт идва коалиционно правителство начело с лидера на Народния сговор Александър Цанков. Опитите за съпротива на Оранжевата гвардия и земеделските дружини са смазани. Александър Стамболийски е заловен и жестоко убит.\n\nПод натиск на военните през август 1923 г. е създадена казионна партия Демократически сговор. Москва нарежда на Централния комитет на Българската комунистическа партия (тесни социалисти) да започне подготовка за въстание. Септемврийските бунтове от 1923 са обречени предварително на неуспех. През ноември Демократическият сговор печели изборите. През 1924 г. е приет Закон за защита на държавата и са забранени прокомунистическите организации. БКП минава в нелегалност и под натиска на Коминтерна се възприема подготовка на ново въстание. На 16 април 1925 г. военната организация на БКП извършва атентат в столичната църква „Света Неделя“, при който са убити над 150 души и ранени 500. Правителството отговаря с арести и убийства на видни представители на левицата.\n\nНа 4 януари 1926 г. е назначен правителство на Демократическия сговор с министър-председател Андрей Ляпчев. Под егидата на Обществото на народите България получава два големи заема – „Бежански“ през 1926 г. и „Стабилизационен заем“ през 1928 г. През 1927 г. с Гърция е подписана спогодбата Моллов-Кафандарис за размяна на населението между България и Гърция. Същата година се учредява Работническата партия и политическия кръг „Звено“, през 1928 г. – Работническия младежки съюз и Българският земеделски народен съюз „Врабча 1“, през 1930 – Българският общонароден студентски съюз. Засилва се дейността на ВМРО, която 1928 г. е оглавена от Иван Михайлов. През 1931 г. създаденият като широка коалиция Народен блок печели изборите. От 29 юни до 12 октомври 1931 г. Александър Малинов оглавява правителството, а от 12 октомври 1931 до 19 май 1934 г. то се ръководи от Никола Мушанов.\n\nНа 19 май 1934 г. Военният съюз заедно с политическия кръг „Звено“ извършва преврат. Разпуснато е Народното събрание, политическите партии са забранени, наложен е авторитарен безпартиен режим начело с Кимон Георгиев от 23 ноември 1935 до 15 февруари 1940 г. Цар Борис III предизвиква оставката на Георгиев и безпартийното управление в България минава под пълен контрол на царя. Военният съюз е разпуснат (1936) и на офицерите е забранено да се занимават с политика. През 1936 г. част от водачите на забранената партия организират политическата групировка „Петорката“ и националистическите организации „Ратник“ и „Българска орда“. Сключени са Българо-югославския пакт (1937) и Солунското споразумение (1938) за премахване на военните каузи на Ньойския мирен договор.\n\nНа 15 септември 1939 г. българското правителство обявява политика на неутралитет във Втората световна война. През август същата година България сключва пакт за ненападение с Германия и СССР. На 16 февруари 1940 г. Богдан Филов приема председателството на новия служебен кабинет. Под натиск на Германия и СССР (и с одобрение на Великобритания) правителството сключва Крайовската спогодба от 1940 г., с която България си връща Южна Добруджа. На 1 март 1940 г. България подписва Договор за присъединяване към Тристранния пакт (Германия, Италия и Япония). На 6 април 1941 г. започват военни действия на Балканите, но българската армия не участва в тях. След капитулацията на Югославия и Гърция към територията на България се присъединени Моравска област, Източна Вардарска Македония, Източна Егейска Македония и Западна Тракия. Правителството на Филов обявява на 12 декември 1941 г. „символично“ война на САЩ и Великобритания. След нападението на Германия над Съветския съюз на 22 юни 1941 г. България запазва дипломатическите си отношения със СССР. До края на войната български войски не са изпратени на Източния фронт.\n\nБългария е единствената страна в Оста, в която се създава партизанско движение. През юли 1942 г. Българската работническа партия създава Отечествения фронт, а през август 1943 г. е сформиран Национален комитет на Отечествения фронт. През 1943 г. е предотвратено депортирането на хиляди български евреи в германски концентрационни лагери. На 28 август 1943 г. смъртта на цар Борис III променя хода на войната. В нарушение на Конституцията е съставено регентство – Богдан Филов, княз Кирил Преславски и генерал Никола М. Михов управляват от името на малолетния цар Симеон II. На 14 септември 1943 г. регентството назначава безпартиен кабинет с премиер Добри Божилов. В края на 1943 г. и началото на 1944 г. над София и други градове са извършени англо-американски бомбардировки.\n\nВъзникналата политическа криза довежда до съставянето ново безпартийно правителство с министър-председател Иван Багрянов (1 юни – 2 септември 1944). За да предотврати навлизането на съветските войски в страната, правителството на Багрянов започва в Анкара и Кайро преговори с Великобритания и САЩ за излизане от войната с тяхно съдействие. Формира се правителство на легалната опозиция – за министър-председател е назначен Константин Муравиев от 2 до 9 септември 1944 г. Правителството обявява политика на неутралитет и започва изтегляне на българските окупационни войски от Югославия и Гърция. На 5 септември 1944 г. Съветският съюз обявява война на България, страната е окупирана от съветските войски и се извършва Деветосептемврийският преврат.\n\nНа 9 септември 1944 е установено правителство на Отечествения фронт, оглавено от Кимон Георгиев – лидер на политически кръг „Звено“. Формира се нова политическа система от народнодемократичен тип. Ръководна позиция заема Българската работническа партия (комунисти). Решаваща роля за закрепването и запазването на новата власт има съветската армия, която остава три години в страната (8 септември 1944 – 14 декември 1947). Издадена е наредба-закон за съдене от Народен съд на виновниците във въвличането на България в световната война. Произнесени са 2730 смъртни присъди, на доживотен затвор са осъдени 1305 души, на затвор от 20 до една година – 4312 души, условни присъди са 808, оправдани са 1516 души, 451 дела са прекратени. На смърт са осъдени регентите княз Кирил Преславски, Богдан Филов, министър-председателите Иван Багрянов, Добри Божилов, министри, висши държавни служители, дворцови съветници, народни представители, висши военни и полицаи, агенти на полицията, дейци на политически организации, публицисти, журналисти, жандармеристи, кметове, свещеници и учители.\n\nНародна република България (1946 – 1990) \n\nНа 8 септември 1946 г., в нарушения на изискванията на Търновската конституция, е проведен референдум – „допитване до народа за премахване на монархията и провъзгласяване за народна република“. На 15 септември България е провъзгласена за народна република. На 27 октомври 1946 са проведени избори за VI велико народно събрание, което има за задача да изготви нова конституция. Изборите са спечелени от Българската работническа партия (комунисти) – БРПк, и Георги Димитров оглавяват новото правителство. На 10 февруари 1947 г. България подписва Парижкия мирен договор, според който българската държава запазва границите си от 1 януари 1941 г. На 4 декември 1947 Великото народно събрание приема Конституцията на Народна република България, наречена още Димитровската конституция. В края на 1947 е извършена национализация и цялата собственост става държавна. Петият конгрес на БКП 1948 открито признава „диктатурата на пролетариата“. През VI велико народно събрание приема Закона за вероизповедания, който дава възможност на държавните органи да се месят пряко в работата на религиозните общности.\n\nВасил Коларов наследява Георги Димитров в поста му на председател на Министерския съвет от 1949 до 1950. През 1950 г. за председател на Министерския съвет е избран Вълко Червенков. Установява се тотална политическа диктатура. Политическият режим през 1950 – 1953 провежда форсирана социалистическа индустриализация и масово коопериране на селското стопанство. На 10 май 1953 г. е възстановена Българската патриаршия, за български патриарх е избран Пловдивският митрополит Кирил. На 14 декември 1955 г. България е приета за член на ООН. През 1956 г., по време на Априлския пленум на Комунистическата партия, Червенков е освободен от поста. Ръководител на Политбюро става първият държавен секретар на Централния комитет на Българската комунистическа партия Тодор Живков. За председател на Министерския съвет е издигнат Антон Югов. Периодът 1957 – 1970 бележи високи темпове на нарастване на производството.\n\nПрез 60-те, увлечено в курса за сближаване със СССР, българското партийно и държавно ръководство предлага в бъдеще България да се „обедини“ и „слее“ със Съветския съюз. По съображения от международен характер Москва отклонява предложението. През 1962 г. Антон Югов и Вълко Червенков са отстранени от партийни и държавни постове. Тодор Живков е избран за първи секретар на ЦК на БКП и е избран за министър-председател на България. След това Живков става само председател. Между 1963 – 1967 се провеждат четири срещи между Живков и Йосип Броз. По македонския въпрос е възприета нова линия – разкриване на истината за македонското население. При официално посещение на Тодор Живков в Турция през 1968 г. е подписана спогодба за изселване на българските турци. През август същата година български военен контингент участва в интервенцията на Варшавския договор срещу Чехословакия. През 1968 – 1971 се разработват проекти за нова програма и нова конституция на страната.\n\nНа 16 май 1971 г. е приета чрез референдум нова конституция на Народна република България, известна като Живковата конституция. През декември същата година Държавният съвет утвърждава нов герб на Народна република България. В началото на 70-те се провежда реорганизация (изграждането на аграрно-промишлени комплекси) и концентрацията има отрицателна роля в развитието на кооперативното движение в селското стопанство. В края на 1984 г. започва смяна на имената на българомохамеданите и етническите турци (т.нар. „Възродителен процес“). Като израз на съпротива срещу провежданата асимилационна политика в средата на 1985 г. възниква нелегалното Турско националноосвободително движение. Движението е отговорно за атентата на гара Буново на 9 март 1985 г., в който загиват 7 души. През пролетта на 1989 г. обстановката в Североизточна България се изостря. Правителството разрешава свободното изселване за Република Турция – над 350 000 български граждани напускат страната.\n\nПрез втората половина на 80-те по инициатива на генералния секретар на Централния комитет на Комунистическата партия на Съветския съюз Михаил Горбачов в СССР започва преустройство на съществуващата политическа система. В България не настъпват съществени изменения в политическото устройство. През 1988 – 1989 възникват т.нар неформални организации. На 10 ноември 1989 г. Тодор Живков е освободен от длъжността генерален секретар на ЦК на БКП, и на 17 ноември от поста председател на Държавния съвет. За генерален секретар е избран дотогавашният член на Политбюро и министър на външните работи Петър Младенов. Една седмица след това Народното събрание го избира за председател на Държавния съвет, а по-късно и председател (президент) на републиката.\n\nРепублика България (от 1990 г.) \n\nПрез следващите години в страната се провеждат политически и икономически реформи с променлива интензивност. Този период често е наричан Преход на България към демокрация и пазарна икономика, като има различни мнения за това кога приключва. На 15 ноември 1990 г. VII велико народно събрание променя името на държавата от Народна република България на Република България. На 7 декември 1989 г. 13 от некомунистическите политически групи се събират във федерация, която приема името Съюз на демократичните сили (СДС). За свой водач Координационният съвет на СДС избира Жельо Желев. На 3 януари е създаден нов политически орган „Кръгла маса“. На 4 януари 1990 г. е учредено Движението за права и свободи (ДПС). На 29 януари е оповестено, че Тодор Живков е арестуван по обвинение включващи злоупотреба на властта, присвояване и подстрекаване към етническа ненавист. От 30 януари до 2 февруари е свикан извънредно XIV конгрес на БКП, който се стреми да обнови и реформира партията – закрити са Политбюро и Централният комитет. Младенов се отказва от поста си на партиен ръководител, като остава държавен глава. Заменен е от Александър Лилов. На 23 февруари в София се състои огромна демонстрация с близо 200 000 протестиращи, недоволни от бавния напредък на разговорите около Кръглата маса. На 27 февруари националният празник на България е върнат от 9 септември на 3 март. В края на март Отечественият фронт е преименуван на Отечествен съюз. Вътрешната „перестройка“ на XIV конгрес е последвана в началото на април от промяна на името – БКП става БСП (Българска социалистическа партия). През юни са проведени избори за VII велико народно събрание. Изборите са спечелени от БСП, което предизвиква недоволство сред антикомунистическите сили. Започват студентски окупационни стачки. В центъра на столицата е създаден „Град на истината“ и е подпален Партийният дом. Президентът Петър Младенов подава оставка. Жельо Желев е първият демократично избран президент на България. Той встъпва в длъжност на 8 август 1990 г.\n\nНа 12 юли 1991 г. VII велико народно събрание приема Конституцията на Република България. Кабинетът на Димитър Попов („правителството на надеждите“, 1990 – 1991) дава ход на либерализирането на цените.\n\nНа 7 май 1992 г. България става 27-ият редовен член на Съвета на Европа.\n\nНа 29 март 2004 г. България става член на НАТО. На 25 април 2005 г. България подписва Договора за присъединяване към Европейския съюз, който на 11 май е ратифициран от XXXIX народно събрание. От 1 януари 2007 г. България е член на Европейския съюз. На 1 януари 2018 г. за шест месеца България поема председателството на Съвета на Европейския съюз.\n\nВижте още \n Военна история на България\n Български владетели\n Стопанска история на България\n\nВъншни препратки \n История на България  (сайт на БАН)\n История и култура на България (правителствен сайт)\n История на България – в сп. „Българска наука“\n История на България (с подкрепата на НБУ)\n\nИзточници\n\nБиблиография"
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        "text": "Team cohesion can be defined as a group's tendency to stick together while pursuing its objectives.[42] Team cohesion has two components: social cohesion (how well teammates like one another) and task cohesion (how well teammates work together to achieve their goal). Collective efficacy is a team's shared belief that they can or cannot accomplish a given task.[43] In other words, this is the team's belief about the level of competency they have to perform a task. It is important to note that collective efficacy is an overall shared belief amongst team members and not merely the sum of individual self-efficacy beliefs. Leadership can be thought of as a behavioral process that influences team members towards achieving a common goal.[44] Leadership in sports is pertinent because there are always leaders on a team (i.e., team captains, coaches, trainers). Research on leadership studies characteristics of effective leaders and leadership development.\nIn 1996, as a result of a three-year research project led by Lindsay B. Yeates, the Australian Hypnotherapists Association[48] (founded in 1949), the oldest hypnotism-oriented professional organization in Australia, instituted a peer-group accreditation system for full-time Australian professional hypnotherapists, the first of its kind in the world, which \"accredit[ed] specific individuals on the basis of their actual demonstrated knowledge and clinical performance; instead of approving particular 'courses' or approving particular 'teaching institutions'\" (Yeates, 1996, p.iv; 1999, p.xiv).[49] The system was further revised in 1999.[50]\nDallas Sports Performance therapists who have a special focus on sports performance and sports issues, including sports counseling, and sports psychology. Sports counseling in Dallas may include sports preparation and sport coaching, while sports counseling in Dallas addresses issues ranging from performance to stress. Sports Psychologists in Dallas will help address sports performance issues for individuals and teams.\nHypnotherapy expert, Dr Peter Marshall, former Principal of the London School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Ltd. and author of A Handbook of Hypnotherapy, devised the Trance Theory of Mental Illness, which provides that people suffering from depression, or certain other kinds of neurosis, are already living in a trance and so the hypnotherapist does not need to induce them, but rather to make them understand this and help lead them out of it.[24]\nIn a hypnotherapy session, after identifying client goals for the session and reviewing how the session will proceed, the practitioner will use guided imagery and soothing speech to help the person to feel relaxed and safe. When the recipient of hypnosis has achieved a more receptive state, the practitioner will provide suggestions that could help the person reach his or her goals. The person in the trancelike state remains aware and is usually able to return to a more alert state independently once the session is over. Some people find that just one hypnotherapy session is sufficient, and others may attend several sessions.\nResearch in sport psychology involves studying and observing athletes in order to find out what motivates them to keep pushing on, and what gives them the thirst for landing in the winner's circle. A sport psychology researcher might also try to find ways for athletes to perform better and with fewer obstacles. The knowledge gained through this research can then be applied during counseling sessions with athletes.\nMotivational climate refers to the situational and environmental factors that influence individuals' goals.[39] The two major types of motivational climates coaches can create are task-oriented and ego-oriented. While winning is the overall goal of sports competitions regardless of the motivational climate, a task-orientation emphasizes building skill, improvement, giving complete effort, and mastering the task at hand (i.e., self-referenced goals), while an ego-orientation emphasizes demonstrating superior ability, competition, and does not promote effort or individual improvement (i.e., other-referenced goals). Effective coaching practices explore the best ways coaches can lead and teach their athletes. For examples, researchers may study the most effective methods for giving feedback, rewarding and reinforcing behavior, communicating, and avoiding self-fulfilling prophecies in their athletes.[40]\nThe program he followed consists of an introductory video, several audio sessions, and an e-book. “There was all this imagery and counting down and clouds,” he says. “I would fall asleep listening.” It might all sound a little new agey, but Jonathan hasn’t had a cigarette in a year — besides a few weeks of cheating at the six-month mark. There wasn’t even a major time commitment — he would fall asleep a few minutes into the sessions every night, and he found himself smoke-free within days of starting the program.\nInstead of doing a detox or cleanse in the hopes of resetting your GI system (and speeding up weight loss), boost your gut health naturally with fiber-filled foods. “Fiber is a carbohydrate found in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, but unlike other forms of carbohydrates, it is harder to digest. As it passes through your digestive system, it stimulates the receptors that tell your brain you’re full. People who consume more fiber tend to have healthier body weights,” says Gueron. If you’re looking for more specific fiber-filled foods to reboot your gut, eat the three P’s: prunes, pulses, and pears. Prunes help maintain good digestive health and can positively affect the bacteria living in the gut. Pulses, which include lentils, beans, and peas, improve gut health by strengthening the gut barrier. And pears contain prebiotic fiber, which help promote intestinal health by providing food for beneficial probiotic bacteria.\nCoaching in education is seen as a useful intervention to support students, faculty and administrators in educational organizations.[24] For students, opportunities for coaching include collaborating with fellow students to improve grades and skills, both academic and social; for teachers and administrators, coaching can help with transitions into new roles.[24]\nI would give Rita 50 stars if I could..... Her prices are fair. Period. Would you rather spend more money on cigarettes and lifetime of unnecessary medical bills or one flat fee and be smoke free for the rest of your life? Smoking is not attractive and has absolutely zero health benefits.... Smoking is a financial burden. I don't have to tell you this though, if you're reading this you already know.\nRecently some studies have been influenced by an evolutionary psychology perspective.[45] This includes studies on testosterone changes in sports which at least for males are similar to those in status conflicts in non-human primates with testosterone levels increasing and decreasing as an individual's status changes. A decreased testosterone level may decrease dominant and competitive behaviors which when the status conflicts involved fighting may have been important for preventing physical injury to the loser as further competition is avoided.[citation needed] Testosterone levels also increase before sports competitions, in particular if the event is perceived as real challenge as compared to not being important.[citation needed] Testosterone may also be involved in the home advantage effect which has similarities to animal defense of their home territory.[citation needed] In some sports there is a marked overrepresentation of left-handedness which has similarities to left-handed likely having an advantage in close combat which may have evolutionary explanations.[citation needed]\nThe other recent study, by Canadian researchers, found the same thing by looking at brain activity when people have power. They found that increased power diminishes the ability to be empathic and compassionate because power appears to affect the “mirror system” of the brain, through which one is “wired” to experience what another person is experiencing. Researchers found that even the smallest bit of power shuts down that part of the brain and the ability to empathize with others.\nColeman Griffith worked as an American professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois where he first performed comprehensive research and applied sport psychology. He performed causal studies on vision and attention of basketball and soccer players, and was interested in their reaction times, muscular tension and relaxation, and mental awareness.[11] Griffith began his work in 1925 studying the psychology of sport at the University of Illinois funded by the Research in Athletics Laboratory.[12] Until the laboratory's closing in 1932, he conducted research and practiced sport psychology in the field. The laboratory was used for the study of sports psychology; where different factors that influence athletic performance and the physiological and psychological requirements of sport competitions were investigated. He then transmitted his findings to coaches, and helped advance the knowledge of psychology and physiology on sports performance. Griffith also published two major works during this time: The Psychology of Coaching (1926) and The Psychology of Athletics (1928). Coleman Griffith was also the first person to describe the job of sports psychologists and talk about the main tasks that they should be capable of carrying out. He mentioned this in his work “Psychology and its relation to athletic competition”, which was published in 1925.[13] One of the tasks was to teach the younger and unskilled coaches the psychological principles that were used by the more successful and experienced coaches. The other task was to adapt psychological knowledge to sport, and the last task was to use the scientific method and the laboratory for the purpose of discovering new facts and principles that can aid other professionals in the domain.\nIn 2007, a meta-analysis from the Cochrane Collaboration found that the therapeutic effect of hypnotherapy was \"superior to that of a waiting list control or usual medical management, for abdominal pain and composite primary IBS symptoms, in the short term in patients who fail standard medical therapy\", with no harmful side-effects. However the authors noted that the quality of data available was inadequate to draw any firm conclusions.[2]"
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        "text": "Even though it claims from the start that it isn't a love story, this terrific movie (one of 2009's finest) is indeed a love story — the best since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in fact. Two twentysomethings hook up, fall in love and then break up. It's all tossed together, mixing up chronology and emotions. It also breaks for a cool song-and-dance. Watch it on Blu-ray.\nThe latest book in the music-snob-approved 33 1/3 series takes a look at Brian Eno's 1975 ambient classic. Writer Geeta Dayal probes the stories and sounds behind the U2 producer's best solo album, a tranquil meditation on a cold world, told through synthetic noise. It's a perfect wintertime record; this book makes an accommodating companion.\nThis cool compilation gathers 15 songs from a bunch of bands you never heard of. Some were from Cleveland (the Sensational Saints), some were from Thailand (T. Zchiew and the Johnny). All of them ingeniously blend 1970s psych-rock with gospel, funk horns and other things you rarely hear in the genre. And all of them are designed to blow your mind.\nLast year's best movie comes to Blu-ray with all of Nation's Pride, the Nazi propaganda film that's glimpsed in Basterds. The two-disc set also includes extended and alternate scenes. But the real reason to own this is to watch Quentin Tarantino rework not only war-movie clichés, but World War II itself. A blast.\nThe greatest pop-music label ever compiles 18 clips from 1965 through 1971, featuring its top artists singing their greatest songs. Many of these TV spots — some from The Ed Sullivan Show, some from lesser-known programs like Teen Town — are lip-synched, but that doesn't take away the joy of seeing the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder at their best."
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        "text": "Significant donation to State Library Victoria puts kids in charge\nJanuary 30, 2019 - Creative Industries, Latest News\nYoung Victorians keen to read and learn will be the main beneficiaries of the most recent $2 million donation to State Library Victoria from John and Pauline Gandel, through Gandel Philanthropy, which will deliver free dedicated literacy programs created for kids, by kids.\nThe donation will also support the development of the Pauline Gandel Children’s Quarter, a dedicated space for children up to 12 years old, six times larger than the Library’s previous space used for children’s programming, along with a new children’s book collection.\nCelebrated Australian children’s authors Andy Griffiths, Leigh Hobbs, Gabrielle Wang and Ailsa Wild participated in the first of a number of co-design workshops with 5 – 12 year-olds to develop a suite of innovative programs enabled by the donation.\nThe workshops form part of a broader programming framework developed jointly with Gandel Philanthropy, the family’s foundation, which incorporates Auslan, languages other than English and livestreaming to enable greater access to children across Victoria.\nMinister for Youth, Gabrielle Williams, said the generous donation will help Victorian children develop the skills they need for a successful future. “With the vision and generosity of Gandel Philanthropy, State Library Victoria is putting kids in the driver’s seat to help shape a new era of creative and exciting literacy programs,” she said.\n“When this amazing new Children’s Quarter opens at our State Library later this year, it will offer a range of kid-designed programs that will boost literacy skills, build confidence and spark imaginations.”\nState Library Victoria CEO, Kate Torney, said Gandel Philanthropy is taking a leading role in nurturing a love of reading in young Victorians. “Reading and storytelling are essential for children’s development and their transition into adulthood,” she said.\n“The Pauline Gandel Children’s Quarter and the programming it will deliver will help children’s literacy and creative skills grow and will set the benchmark for other libraries in Australia and around the world.”\nJohn Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC, Chair and Trustee of Gandel Philanthropy, said State Library Victoria was a natural partner. “We are committed to creating a positive and lasting difference in the lives of children. Research shows 39% of Australian students don’t meet the National Proficient Standard in reading literacy and 44% of adults lack the literacy skills required to cope with the complex demands of modern life,” they said.\n“Literacy is truly a key building block of future academic success. Global trends show that we need to encourage children to read from the earliest age. We are particularly pleased that these programs will also reach children and families from many different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.”\n“Partnering with the State Library to deliver a dedicated space and a number of innovative children’s programs means we can reach more young people and their families and have a lasting, positive impact on their lives, and on this country as a whole,” they added.\nThe Pauline Gandel Children’s Quarter is part of the Library’s $88.1 million Vision 2020 redevelopment, and is due to open in late spring 2019. For more information, visit: www.slv.vic.gov.au for details.\nImage: Pauline Gandel Children’s Quarter Design Render (supplied)\nA new urban art festival announced for Melbourne: ...\nThe first of its kind in Melbourne, Can’t Do Tomorrow is a celebration of urban art and contemporary culture in one of t...\nMelbourne International Arts Festival reveals 2019...\nA giant adventure through the arts awaits when pop culture icons, political prose, immersive magical meals and musical h...\nNAISDA Dance College appoints new Head of Dance\nNAISDA Dance College has announced the appointment of Deon Hastie to the position of Head of Dance. 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        "text": "Септември е името на деветия месец от годината според григорианския календар и има 30 дни.\n\nЕтимология \nИмето му произлиза от латинската дума за седем – septem, тъй като е седмият месец според римския календар, който започва през март. С въвеждането на юлианския календар за начало на годината се определя датата 1 януари и септември става деветият месец.\n\nДревните гърци са наричали месеца Boedromion.\n\nСтарото славянско име на месеца е  (руен, „жълточервен“), тъй като през този месец пожълтяват тревата и листата на дърветата.\n\nПрабългарите наричали този месец Девем.\n\nМетеорология \nСептември може да бъде определен като полулетен полуесенен месец. Статистически се води най-сухият месец в годината, но това е доста относително. През първата си половина септември доста често е дъждовен. Макар и сравнително рядко, валежите е възможно все още да са придружени от гръмотевици, докато през втората – слънчев. Температурите през първите 15 – 20 дни остават сравнително високи – от 23 до 28 градуса, по Черноморието – 24 – 26, в планините от 17 до 22, по най-високите върхове – между 7 и 12, но в края на месеца съществено се усилва преносът на хладни и по-влажни северозападни въздушни маси. Така максималните температури след 23 септември – есенното равноденствие – вече рядко превишават 19 – 24 градуса, по Черноморието – от 22 до 25, в планините – между 14 и 19, по най-високите върхове – от 5 до 8 градуса.\n\nСъбития \n Европейски ден на еврейската култура – отбелязва се през първата неделя на септември\n В България 15 септември е първият учебен ден.\n 22 или 23 септември е есенното равноденствие (денят е равен на нощта). В северното полукълбо започва есента (в южното – пролетта).\n\nЛюбопитно \n Месец септември започва със същия ден от седмицата, с който и декември.\n\nВижте също \n Исторически годишнини\n Календар на православните църковни празници за месец септември\n\nВъншни препратки \n Българският фолклор и месец септември\n\nМесеци"
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        "text": "ACIDIC Rocks the Next Generation of Youth Intensity\nIf you had any questions about whether or not the youth of America are spending time creating great music, those answers are about to be answered to the hilt. ACIDIC is an intense group of youth that is rocking the scene with new music and the next generation of rocking intensity. They have a new album out and this interview will feature why you should own it and tell your friends about it.\nThomas: When and why did you start playing together as a group?\nMatt: I joined in 2008 with Michael because I’d never been in a band that was in clubs and actually out there playing. I wanted to be in a professional band playing around L.A., and that’s what we started doing. And it just blossomed from there.\nMax: I joined in late 2013. Zane Taylor, my longtime friend and our old tour manager at the time, told me that ACIDIC was looking for a bassist. Did I know anybody? I was a guitarist in another band, but I tried out because I thought, hey I’ve got nothing to lose, maybe they’ll like me! And they did! And then I joined. Besides, the sound of touring got me interested. It’s something I’ve wanted all my life and dreamed of doing, but joining this band finally gave me that opportunity.\nMike: I wanted to start playing because I had a passion for music, and had a desire to communicate that to a broader audience. We all coalesced and it has been a great match. I started the project in 2007 and we have been in our current formation since 2014.\n​Thomas: Why is making music at this time important for society?\nMatt: I think music is a way to break from society in a sense. Life is very serious and music is an escape – it lets you get away from all the seriousness for a bit and breathe some fresh air into your mind, and it helps you stay normal.\nMax: Music gives a voice to people who normally wouldn’t have the power to be heard. It allows people people to say anything they want with no restrictions. Seems like people respond to music a lot more than just to an article or a book or some such thing. People connect with music on a very deep level, so I think that’s what has the power to change things if someone really wants to change them. The whole medium of art and performance and talent is what people are tapping into and it resonates with people very intimately. It hits the heart.\n​Mike: With so much uncertainty propagating in America and the broader international community, I believe that music is going to play a fundamental role in expressing the true voice of the majority of people and will become the group conscience of our society. Music is freedom of speech, and freedom of expression. Music is cathartic and therapeutic. Music can give a snapshot of someone’s emotional pitch. Music can influence generations of people to rise up against tyranny. I think true change is going to have it’s genesis in music and art.\nThomas: Before the collection of songs came together (Creatures), what songs did you mostly play together?\nMatt: Songs we played before “Creatures”? All the “Copper Man” songs, like the title track, and “Drive Thru,” “Monster,” “Strata Red,” the whole load. I’ve been in the band from the start, so for me it’s all of ’em.\nMax: Before “Creatures,” it was “Strata Red,” our version of the Beatles’ “Come Together,” and just jamming. Everything off of the “Copper Man” album, like “Drive Thru,” Monster” especially, and some of the older songs. The one I had to practice the most was “Satellite” from the “Copper Man” album cuts that was the toughest for me to play.\n​Mike: We mostly played songs off our previous albums with the exception of adding a good cover song in every set.\nThomas: What made you select these songs for the Creatures?\nMatt: We took time and wanted to get a different kind of sound than we had before. We were at it working on “Creatures” for about a year. We went for this rocky kind of gritty sound but also put in some effects and things we hadn’t tried before, to add a little flare and deepen it up. We all worked on the songs together and polished them and everyone had a lot of input, and then it all came together for the album.\nMax: The songs that were the best, the ones we liked, each of us had a say in what we liked. I cowrote several of the songs with Michael Gossard. But Matt cowrote with us and Josh had a hand in it, too. One way or other, it was all kind of a group effort to think of what would be the best and what would mesh together better, regardless who wrote what or how much of any given song. In the end, it’s the four of us all having input, whether it’s lyrics or especially the different music parts.\nMike: Creatures was challenging album to write. It took about a year of sending ideas back and forth between the artists and the producer to make it write. We also enlisted the help of a good friend of our’s, Rob Bonfiglio, who is a prolific writer in his own right. We selected these songs because they fit together more cohesively than anything else and were the cream of the crop.\nThomas: Describe the most challenging song(s) to play together, and why?\nMatt: Right now we have this new punk song that we just wrote, and it’s not only so much of a challenge but it’s also quite different than what we’ve played before. A lot different, and so you have to adjust and work and play it and play it and play it to get the feel of it. But it’s fun to play, too, even though it’s the most challenging so far.\nMax: Mike’s new punk rock song that we just wrote that we haven’t named yet because it’s so fast! Brand new! Fast and crazed! There’s a few changes in it that get difficult to blend. The speed of the song makes it tough for everyone to stay in the pocket. But when we do it’s AWESOME!\n​Mike: Our most challenging song to play is the song “Beautiful.” It has quite a bit of dynamic range, and emotion. It takes artful performance to get just right. There is also a myriad of background vocals and choosing the best ones to replicate live is definitely a process.\nThomas: Who most influenced you as a musician, and as a group?\nMatt: For groups, I’d probably say there are some bands we all listen to that have definitely influenced us. Hard to think of them all! But in general, especially in the beginning, Green Day and the Beatles were universal basics. We all have these different influences from bands out there, because we all bring our own individual tastes into the mix. MY greatest influences are many different drummers, but maybe the strongest influence has been a fellow drummer and close friend Jonny Udell of Warner Drive. He really opened me up and taught me different things from all his experience, because he’s a little older and he’s been at it longer. Those little niches you have to know and master, to make it to the next step and help you get better as a musical craftsman. He really helped get me to the next level as a drummer.\nMax: Personally, my two biggest influences are probably George Harrison of the Beatles, and Bradley Nowell of Sublime, kind of because George was so deep with the philosophical ideas in his writing, and his ability to make a simple guitar line sound so good, to make it the predominantly theme of the song. Bradley – the cuts of his lyrics and the way he lived his life when he was still around. As a group – we’ve kinda Green Day and Jane’s Addiction among others, but for stage presence, definitely the Red Hot Chili Peppers – with that wild energetic vibe. By now, we’ve certainly got a wild energetic vibe all of our own!\nMike: I was influenced a lot by the band Green Day. I watched their concert DVD “Bullet in a Bible” on repeat as a kid. I was also influenced by bands like the Beatles and the rolling stones. I love to watch a talented musician rocking out in their true element!\nThomas: Do you think artists nowadays have too many influences from other artists due to the internet? Or does it benefit creativity?\nMatt: I do think that having the asset of the internet, you do hear all kinds of stuff both good and bad. Because anybody can just put anything out there that they want, for free, so you get exposed to everything! It allows people to see what’s out there and strive to be different than what IS out there. But it’s also easy to start copying what other people are doing and not really use it to explore and develop what you can bring it it, yourself, if you’re not careful. I think it both helps and hurts.\n​Max: With everything there’s give and take. This is a yes and no. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be influenced by another artist, maybe you make a song that sounds like somebody else’s but you give it a different take. It’s hard to say – but I do think because of the access to the internet, a lot more musical material and everything else – a lot of sub-par stuff is allowed to be put on there. Because of the free access, anybody can put anything up there so some is just outstanding and some other stuff is diluted content. It’s not bad to be influenced, unless you get tempted by something harmful!\n​Mike: I think increased volume of influences increases creativity and the generative nature of music. Having more choice of what to listen to and watch also creates the effect of diversifying the music artists write so that there is a broader range of artistic expression within music. It is also true, that is something is truly wide ranging and reaches a broad audience, and has the propensity to be immensely well accepted, it will still make a large splash.\nThomas: How did the internet and listening to the vast sea of music influence what you do today?\nMatt: Listening to all the music that’s come out and all that, we had to keep up with what’s going on and we have to see what’s happening what’s new in the world. The internet is a great way to find all that out. We’ve been using that as our tool to fine-tune the parts of the band and our music that we want to focus on, because we’re always trying to improve and expand.\n​Max: Luckily, for me, I’m different because I never got into downloading music unlike most of the people I know. So I was not too into just finding out who the new new people were and grabbing all the music I could. I always listened to CDs. And I still buy CDS. My car only has a CD player, so that’s just how it is. I have my iPhone but I never got too deluged with just tons and tons of music via download. I like a lot of different genres. Different influences from every genre. Internet may not have impacted me as much as other people.\nMike: I have the opportunity to listen to dozens of different artists every day rather than buying a new record or CD every day, week, or month, or having to make a mixtape. It has made me much more accepting of different types of music, and world music. My writing style has also evolved out of the box because of the wide range of influence.\nThomas: Many artists like to teach their music after it’s published. Would you hope other musicians would learn your music?\nMatt: Yeah! If someone came to me and showed me they knew how to play “Copper Man,” for example, I’d be really stoked! I would think “Copper Man” is an easy song for just about anybody to learn. And besides, it’s fun! Might be one of the funnest songs we have!\nMax: Never really thought of that! I think it’d be cool if somebody came up to me and said “Oh I learned your song,” or “your song helped me get the bass or the guitar better.” I wouldn’t even say that’s one of my goals, haven’t really thought about it. I’d just want someone to listen to my music, period. That’s enough for me.\n​Mike: I would be honored if people learned the music. I believe that is the ultimate compliment.\nThomas: What do you think makes the group so solid, not just in the studio, but also in performances?\nMatt: I would say what probably makes us really solid is our personalities. We’re all easygoing people and nobody’s too high-maintenance or has an ego complex. It’s really easy to get along with all of us. We’re kind of like brothers by now, which is what happens when you all squeeze into something like our little old tour van for a few thousand miles!\nMax: Practice! Lotta practice! Gotta keep practicing. That’s the main thing. Don’t ever assume you’re already good enough, always be willing to keep practicing, keep working on it. That, and maintaining a positive attitude. Those two things could get you further than you could ever imagine.\nMike: We practice frequently and try to communicate as honestly as possible. I think that lends a good energy to our general performance. We try to maintain a strong friendship as well as a good working relationship.\n​Thomas: What do you think is next for the group?\nMatt: We’re just making new music and we’re trying to keep it going. It’s a dog-eat-dog business and you’ve just gotta keep going and keep pushing. Right now our music is gonna be what gets us there and we’re just gonna keep doing until something hits for us.\nMax: Hopefully overseas tours and another album, and playing as many shows as possible. That’s what I hope and what I foresee. We’re already working on new songs, and they’re better than ever!\nMike: I think we are setting our sights on new material and possible overseas touring.\nThomas: What do you want audiences to get most out of each performance?\nMatt: I want people to go away from our shows feeling happy and like they’ve had a good time. Nowadays everyone wants to go out to these dance clubs for a party and stuff. But I like to think WE bring the party back to rock ‘n’ roll! I hope people see us and realize how much you can enjoy rock when you’re at a club ‘n’ stuff, seeing a live show. We always have a good time onstage and we always hope it’s contagious. And it must be, because that’s what we keep hearing from people who’ve been to see us.\nMax: Just the point of our show is give the audience a good experience. A good time. I want them to have fun, and see the energy that we bring and enjoy that we’re playing super hard and that they like the music! I hope they just have a blast watching us and get down. I hope it makes them dance because if they’re dancing then you know they’re having a good time.\nMike: I want people to sponge in the high energy we bring and I would like the audience to feel the professional tightness that we work to display.\nThomas: Will you be shooting any new videos? If so, what are some concepts you have?\nMatt: Not sure about any new videos on the horizon but I wouldn’t want to give anything away even if I did know! We always try to surprise people and come out with something new and innovative. We don’t want to do more of what we just did.\nMax: I hope we do. The next video will be based on whatever song we want to push next, and with the “Creatures” album it’s kinda hard to decide because all the songs are so strong. But we do have footage we could be editing down – a mini tour log that we have the footage for. Hopefully I can get it edited down, and maybe make it into a web series like a tour log.\nMike: We will be shooting new video when we have another single or when we have a new album. Until then we will continue to push our current material.\nThomas: What have you learned most to this point being a musician?\nMatt: I learned a lot. At first I wanted to do it because music was fun and a way not to have to do a regular job, and a way for me to get popular and get people to know me because I play music. But you learn as you go on and we’ve toured around the country for 5-6 years so far. I’ve learned that I’m not doing a good job OR doing justice to the music or doing right by the audience unless I care, and that no one is gonna care unless I do! They can tell. They can feel it. They know if your performance is honest and your heart is in it or if you’re just kinda phoning it in. I’m more attuned now than I’ve ever been, sort of like being one with the drums. I find I’m taking a lot more pride in my playing and I enjoy what I play so much. And I’m having fun making music.\nMax: What I’ve learned is that, if you want to do something, music or anything really but definitely in music, just go out and try! Do it! Practice. Give up anything you need to give up, to go do it. Because spending the money you need to get out on tour, or being in debt, whatever problems you think you have from it, they’re miniscule. Whatever it takes, go fulfill your dreams. Go do it and fulfill your dreams, as long as it’s not something that hurts people. Material possessions and all that worldly stuff – it doesn’t matter. It’s the doing that counts. Do it. Try it. Risk it. It’s much better than getting old and thinking back and wishing you had when you were young, now that your time is up.\nMike: I have learned that progress is the true nature of this business. I have learned to try to be more humble and I have learned to listen more. This has been an instructive process and a great 8 years and I look forward to the future!"
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        "text": "Q: Can an iPhone be restored from an iPod Touch backup? If I have an iPod Touch backup on my computer, can an iPhone restore from it? How about vice versa?\n\nA: According to this forums post, somebody did it with success.\n\nWorked flawlessly for me\n  I just activated my new iPhone 3GS and then iTunes offered to either set it up as a new iPhone or to restore it from my iPod Touch backup which I did. No problems so far...\n\n\nA: Yes, i can confirm this Works based on my experience. All my music and contacts from my iPod touch was magically restored to the iPhone 4S.\n\nA: It will depends only of the iOS version, because the Apple's script is not accepting iOS minor than 8 right now (That's called downgrade). But if want to make an \"Upgrade\" (or restore from a version to the same version) so you have no problem with that, even with different devices.\n"
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        "text": "At Wilton Building Services we specialise in a huge range of building and property maintenance services including Kitchen Extension Surrey and many others. We are based in Leatherhead, Surrey, and work across the wider area including places such as . If you can't find your village, town or city mentioned anywhere on our website, please still give us a call on 01483 281612 to see if we can assist.\nWe are very competitive on price when it comes to Kitchen Extension Surrey and the other services that we offer in and the surrounding areas. Whatever your requirements, talk to the experts at Wilton Building Services. We have a wealth of experience in Kitchen Extension Surrey and have been established in Leatherhead and areas such as since 2002.\nOur fully qualified workforce have the necessary skills and experience to carry out any and all jobs, including Kitchen Extension Surrey, to the extremely high standards that we expect here at Wilton Building Services. Our reputation for high quality workmanship precedes us whenever we travel to or the surrounding areas.\nIf you'd like more information on what we do, please visit our Services page. For some examples of the work we've carried out for our previous customers, please visit our Gallery page. If you'd like to get in touch with us regarding Kitchen Extension Surrey, please do so via the Contact Us page."
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        "text": "Q: How do I recover the administrator or root password on OS X? I received a hand me down white MacBook with 10.4 on it and it automatically logs into a user account that isn't able to change much in the preference pane. How do I recover or change the administrator password?\nThe original owner told me to try a few passwords, none of which work to get logged in as admin.\n\nA: You can reboot into single user mode and change the password of a user with:\npasswd [user]\n\nEnter the new password twice and reboot.\n\nA: Boot to OS recovery, internet recovery or on older systems, with a Mac OS X DVD, then there's an option to change passwords.\n\nYou can follow an how-to here.\n\nA: Getting admin access without the Setup Utility: another option, for the sake of completeness.\n\n\n*\n\n*Boot into single user mode by holding command-S on boot up.\n\n*Enter /sbin/mount -wu / when the prompt appears to mount the filesystem\n\n*Enter rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone\n\n*Enter reboot\nAt this point, it should run the colorful little setup utility that ran when the machine was new.  This'll create a brand new admin account.  This method can be useful if you don't want to mess up any existing accounts on the machine.\nBefore step 4 you can use the passwd command to overwrite the current password for any accounts on the mac. The command ls /Users will show all the user names. \n"
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        "text": "18 септември е 261-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (262-ри през високосна). Остават 104 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 96 г. – След убийството на Домициан за римски император е определен Нерва – първият от Петимата добри императори.\n 1502 г. – Христофор Колумб достига бреговете на Коста Рика, при последната си, 4-та експедиция до Новия свят.\n 1759 г. – Канадската провинция Квебек окончателно попада под английски контрол.\n\n 1793 г. – Президентът Джордж Вашингтон прави първата копка на сградата на Конгреса на САЩ – Капитолия.\n 1810 г. – В Чили е формирано първото военно правителство на страната – начало на борбата за получаване на независимост от Испания.\n 1851 г. – Започва да излиза американският ежедневник Ню Йорк Таймс.\n 1885 г. – Съединението на България: Извършен е военен преврат, подкрепен от българския княз Александър I Батенберг. (нов стил)\n 1906 г. – Тайфун, придружен с цунами, стават причина за смъртта на около 10 000 души в Хонконг.\n 1910 г. – Съставено е тридесет и първото правителство на България, начело с Александър Малинов.\n 1922 г. – Унгария е приета в Обществото на народите.\n 1923 г. – Правителството на професор Александър Цанков иска и получава разрешение от Междусъюзническата военнотехническа комисия за свикване на 3000 наборници за потушаване на комунистическите бунтове.\n 1925 г. – Основан е град Аймореш в Бразилия.\n 1928 г. – За първи път е направен полет над Ламанша с автожира „С-8“, пилотиран от конструктора Хуан де Ла Сиерва.\n 1934 г. – СССР е приет в Обществото на народите.\n 1961 г. – Генералният секретар на ООН Даг Хамаршелд загива в самолетна катастрофа над Конго.\n 1962 г. – Руанда, Бурунди и Ямайка са приети за членове на ООН.\n 1970 г. – Джими Хендрикс е намерен мъртъв в Лондон.\n 1973 г. – Двете Германии – ФРГ и ГДР са приети за членки на ООН.\n 1976 г. – В Пекин се състои погребалната церемония на лидера на Китай Мао Дзъдун.\n 1981 г. – Премахнато е смъртното наказание във Франция.\n 1998 г. – Създадена е неправителствената организация ICANN, която отговаря за поддържането на системата от домейни и IP-адреси в Интернет.\n 2008 г. – XL народно събрание на България приема Пражката декларация за европейската съвест и комунизма, която осъжда нацистките и комунистическите тоталитарни режими.\n 2014 г. – Референдум за независимост на Шотландия.\n\nРодени \n\n 53 г. – Траян, римски император († 117 г.)\n 1709 г. – Самюел Джонсън, британски есеист, критик, поет († 1784 г.)\n 1819 г. – Леон Фуко, френски физик († 1868 г.)\n 1895 г. – Джон Дийфенбейкър, 13-и министър-председател на Канада († 1979 г.)\n 1905 г.\n Агнес де Мил, американски хореограф († 1993 г.)\n Грета Гарбо, шведска и американска актриса († 1990 г.)\n Еди Андерсън, американски актьор († 1977 г.)\n 1907 г. – Леон Аскин, австрийски актьор († 2005 г.)\n 1908 г. – Виктор Амбарцумян, арменски астроном († 1996 г.)\n 1910 г. – Джоузеф Инрайт, американски морски офицер († 2000 г.])\n 1916 г. – Росано Браци, италиански актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1920 г.\n Джак Уордън, американски актьор († 2006 г.])\n Дорис Мюрингер, австрийска поетеса († 2009 г.)\n 1926 г. – Бъд Грийнспан, американски кинопродуцент\n 1932 г. – Николай Рукавишников, руски космонавт († 2002 г.)\n 1933 г. – Джими Роджърс, американски певец и композитор\n 1940 г. – Франки Авалон, музикант\n 1942 г. – Аксиния Джурова, български учен – изкуствовед\n 1944 г. – Иван Милев, български музикант\n 1945 г.\n Катя Паскалева, българска актриса († 2002 г.)\n Руси Чанев, български актьор\n 1946 г. – Павел Поппандов, български актьор\n 1947 г. – Джанкарло Минарди, италиански автомобилен шеф\n 1950 г. – Карл Вербракен, белгийски композитор\n 1951 г.\n Бен Карсън, американски неврохирург\n Марк Сюрер, швейцарски автомобилен състезател\n 1952 г.\n Ди Ди Рамон, американски музикант (Ramones) († 2002 г.)\n Рик Питино, американски баскетболен треньор\n 1954 г. – Стивън Пинкър, канадски психолог и лингвист\n 1957 г. – Богомил Бонев, български политик\n 1958 г. – Рашид Таха, френско-алжирски музикант\n 1959 г. – Райн Сендбърг, американски бейзболист\n 1960 г. – Карим Рашид, египетски дизайнер\n 1961 г.\n Бернар Вербер, френски писател фантаст\n Джеймс Гандолфини, американски актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1964 г.\n Курт Хансен, датски шахматист\n Холи Робинсън, американска актриса\n 1968 г.\n Darryl Hill – Cappadonna, американски рапър – (Wu-Tang)\n Тони Кукоч, хърватски баскетболист\n 1971 г.\n Джейда Пинкет Смит, американски модел, актриса\n Ланс Армстронг, американски колоездач\n 1972 г. – Димитър Рачков, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Джеймс Марсдън, американски актьор\n 1974 г.\n Икзибит, американски рапър\n Сол Кембъл, британски футболист\n 1976 г. – Стефан Иванов, български актьор\n 1979 г. – Симон Тръпчески, пианист от Република Македония\n 1983 г. – Кевин Дойл, ирландски футболист\n 1986 г. – Анелия Луцинова, българска актриса\n 1994 г.\n Владислав Радославов, български футболист\n Елица Янкова, български олимпийски шампион по свободна борба.\n\nПочинали \n\n 96 г. – Домициан, римски император (* 51 г.)\n 1180 г. – Луи VII, крал на Франция (* 1120 г.)\n 1598 г. – Тойотоми Хидейоши, японски военачалник (* 1536 г.)\n 1708 г. – Бенин Доверн дьо Сен-Мар, френски офицер (* 1626 г.)\n 1753 г. – Христофор Жефарович, български зограф и график (* края на 17 век)\n 1783 г. – Леонард Ойлер, швейцарски математик, физик и астроном (* 1707 г.)\n 1865 г. – Кристиан Юлиус Де Меза, датски генерал (* 1792 г.)\n 1906 г. – Натанаил Охридски, български духовник (* 1820 г.)\n 1911 г. – Пьотр Столипин, руски политик (* 1862 г.)\n 1936 г. – Василий Немирович-Данченко, руски писател (* 1849 г.)\n 1943 г. – Величко Велянов, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1961 г. – Даг Хамаршелд, шведски генерален секретар на ООН, Нобелов лауреат (* 1905)\n 1963 г. – Иван Орманджиев, български историк (* 1891 г.)\n 1967 г. – Сър Джон Кокрофт, британски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1951 г. (* 1897 г.)\n 1968 г. – Константин Матов, български лекар (* 1899 г.)\n 1970 г. – Джими Хендрикс, американски рок музикант и китарист (* 1942 г.)\n 1990 г. – Александър Обретенов, български изкуствовед (* 1903 г.)\n 2006 г. – Нилтон Мендеш, бразилски футболист (* 1976 г.)\n 2013 г. – Марсел Райх-Раницки, немски литературен критик (* 1920 г.)\n\nПразници \n Древна Гърция – Пети ден от Елевзинските мистерии\n Чили – Ден на независимостта (1810 г., чества се образуване на първото правителство – начало на борбата за независимост от Испания, извоювана окончателно през 1818 г., национален празник)\n\n918"
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        "text": "Follow @ahess247\nRecent Posts by Arik Hesseldahl\nLying Apple Gadfly Mike Daisey Still Doesn’t Get It\nMarch 19, 2012 at 4:18 pm PT\n“… story should always be subordinate to the truth, and I still believe that. Sometimes I fall short of that goal, but I will never stop trying to achieve it.”\nBoy, oh boy, is Mike Daisey confused.\nAfter a weekend of savage pounding by the media, Daisey, the opportunistic fabulist who was caught lying to one of the most respected radio documentarians in the history of broadcasting, reemerged in public today. In his latest attempt to mitigate the damage done to his reputation, he appears to compare himself to Mark Twain, opening his latest blog post by quoting — his words — another famous monologuist: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”\nInstead he seems to be borrowing from Phineas T. Barnum, the great American showman who is often credited — perhaps apocryphally — with saying “There is no such thing as bad publicity.”\nI couldn’t tell you how ticket sales to Daisey’s show have been affected by the ensuing controversy and, frankly, I don’t care. I know that Daisey addressed it in opening comments before his performance of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” on the night of March 17 in New York.\nIn summary, his defense is that his work is theater based on a body of facts that are largely true, and though they shouldn’t have been aired as factual on “This American Life,” he stands by it as theatrical work. Never mind that he insisted, not once, but repeatedly according to one account, that the words “This is a work of non-fiction,” be printed on his show’s Playbills. (For an example see page 3 of this PDF.)\nBut the money quotes that give the deepest insight into his state of mind are these:\n“Especially galling is how many are gleefully eager to dance on my grave expressly so they can return to ignoring everything about the circumstances under which their devices are made. Given the tone, you would think I had fabulated an elaborate hoax, filled with astonishing horrors that no one had ever seen before. …\n“If people want to use me as an excuse to return to denialism about the state of our manufacturing, about the shape of our world, they are doing that to themselves.”\nRight. Mike Daisey, a confessed liar who parlayed his appearance on “This American Life” into a months-long string of media appearances on CBS, MSNBC, HBO and PBS — which helped raise his public visibility, built buzz and goosed ticket sales — thinks he can retake the moral high ground?\nThe only benefactor of all this attention certainly hasn’t been Chinese workers, but Daisey himself. Some 70,000 people have seen his show in 18 cities, and tickets in New York have been going for $75 to $85.\nWorse, he continues to believe it is he alone who has been shining a light on the problems that have emerged over the years with Apple’s manufacturing arrangements in China and around the world. “Given the tenor of the condemnation, you would think I had concocted an elaborate, fanciful universe filled with furnaces in which babies are burned to make iPhone components …”\nSorry, Mike, but the discussion about Apple, Foxconn and its employees was going on well before you elbowed your way onto the scene.\nFor openers, at the D8 conference in 2010, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg asked Apple’s then-CEO Steve Jobs about the situation at Foxconn, in the wake of a string of suicides.\nThat same year — indeed, only weeks after nine suicides by Foxconn employees — Bloomberg Businessweek’s Fredrik Balfour conducted a three-hour interview with Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, and also several unsupervised interviews with Foxconn workers, for a story featured on the magazine’s cover. The Atlantic Monthly considered Foxconn in the wider context of the rise of China as a leading economic power. The BBC looked at Foxconn after the suicides. Indeed, there had been a great deal of attention paid to matters related to Apple, Foxconn and workers in China, well before the days of Daisey. Who does he feel has not been talking about this?\nIn fact, let us not leave Apple itself out of that conversation. The way Daisey tells it, you might assume that the electronics giant is sweeping its dirty laundry under the nearest rug.\nThis is not the case. Awakened to allegations that emerged in 2006 of worker abuses and bad conditions at a Foxconn plant in Longhua — in a British tabloid newspaper, no less — Apple started issuing an annual document it calls its “Supplier Responsibility Progress Report.” The latest one, from 2012, is here (PDF). Reports are available from 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007.\nThese reports hardly let Apple off the hook. Rather, they document progress made, as well as progress yet to be made. Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted to The Wall Street Journal earlier this year that a priority for 2012 is to reduce the number of hours that employees at Foxconn and other companies work. It is, as you can see by Apple’s own admission, the most difficult of its China labor issues to solve.\nHard as this is to believe, employees often want to work long hours — and to earn the overtime pay that comes with them. In being too aggressive, they run afoul of Apple’s demand that no one work more than 60 hours a week, six days a week. And keeping accurate records that prevent employees from overworking themselves is proving difficult. If you visited Foxconn, Apple’s own disclosures suggest, you would probably have no trouble finding someone who recently worked more than 60 hours in a week.\nWhat you would have trouble finding are the underage workers that Daisey said — in a now-debunked statement from his stage show and radio appearances — were so plentiful. Apple’s 229 audits found none of those at the final-assembly plants owned by Foxconn and others, and found only five active and 13 historical cases of underage workers at other facilities it does business with.\nYou would also have trouble finding people poisoned by n-hexane. As Apple documents in its 2011 report, a poisoning incident did happen, and when it did, Apple ordered the factory in question to stop using the chemical, the use of which I understand, is already a violation of Chinese law. Most of the 137 people who were poisoned had returned to work by the time the report was published. One plant using the chemical was shut down entirely by local authorities.\nRead any of these reports by Apple, and you’ll find not the PR-sanitized language you might expect, but instead a rather unvarnished assessment of a company trying to come to grips with the human costs of a deeply complex industrial operation. Each report, which Apple releases voluntarily generates a new round of negative press coverage. Meanwhile, China is, despite its size, still a developing nation, and it will be some time before workplace standards there come close to resembling what we take for granted in the U.S. It is an evolving situation, one that will improve over time.\nAnd while I readily admit that consumers and activists should continue to pressure and engage Apple on the subject of workers’ safety and rights, in China and in the other countries where it does business, it rarely gets any credit for the progress it has made and the leadership it has shown.\nOn that note, I think the discussion on the matter has been a healthy and engaging one for the better part of a decade. Contrary to his own inflated sense of self-importance, Mike Daisey has added nothing of value to it, and should consider shutting up.\nI said as much on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday, and have embedded the video below:\nCNN Reliable Sources March 18 2012 from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.\nTagged with: Apple, CBS, CNN, Foxconn, Hon Hai Precision Industry, iPad, iPhone, manufacturing, Media, Mike Daisey, New York Times, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, theater\nApple Denies Working with NSA on iPhone Backdoor\nHP Is Negotiating to Settle Bribery Charges\nCIOs Brand Enterprise Social Tools as Most Overhyped Technology of the Year\nMalware Attacks by Syrian Pro-Government Hackers Are on the Rise\nThere’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows.\n— Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google"
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        "text": "Kwara Governor Approves Immediate Rehabilitation of Three Major Water Works\nKwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend approved immediate rehabilitation of three major works across the state’s senatorial districts.\n“The three are the Lafiagi Waterworks (Kwara North); Igbaja Waterworks (Kwara South); and Asa Dam Waterworks (Kwara Central),” according to a statement on Saturday by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.\nThe statement said the three water works are either in bad condition or not working at optimal capacity, and have been recommended for rehabilitation by the Ministry of Water Resources in line with the administration’s commitment to tackle water scarcity in the state.\n“Consequently, the Governor has approved the release of N48,548,720 for their rehabilitation,” the statement added.\nThe Lafiagi Waterworks is currently running skeletal services owing to the damage to four of its five boreholes, the intake and transfer pumps, the statement said.\nIt said the facilities in Igbaja had since broken down as a result of poor electricity supply and the lack of proper rehabilitation..\nThe statement said the Asa Dam, which services the entire Ilorin, works at half its design capacity, adding that the intervention would boost its working capacity.\n“The Governor remains committed to his desire to have water running in the state. This has started happening in certain areas, thanks to his interventions, but the idea is that every part of the state should have access to potable water,” it said.\nKwara to rehabilitate three major water works"
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        "text": "Q: iPhone Taskbar close all applications Is there a way to close all application in the taskbar at once?\n\nA: No.\nYou have to manually remove each one.\n\nA: One nifty trick I learned from a friend: Enter \"wiggle\" mode for the taskbar, then tap the icons from right to left. This way you can close at least four apps in a steady motion without having to wait for the icons move one column to the right. Sounds obvious, but try it out and you’ll see what I mean.\n"
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        "text": "Q: \"Erase and Install\" function missing in Snow Leopard When installing Tiger or Leopard, there was an option called \"Erase and Install\" that would delete the disk before installing the new OS.\nIn Snow Leopard, this option seems to be missing. Is there any way I can add \"Erase and Install\" back to Snow Leopard?\n\nA: With Snow Leopard Erase and Install is now a two step process:\n\n\n*\n\n*When you start up off the Mac OS X Install DVD from the Tools menu choose \"Disk Utility\". You will then want to erase the hard drive you want to install on.\n\n*Install Mac OS X as you would normally. \n\n\nA: Use the tools menu --> disk utility to erase the partition you want to install Snow Leopard on.  Then proceed with the installation.\n\nA: Because Snow Leopard is an technically a Leopard upgrade it might not be readily accessible.\nYou can boot up and under the \"Tools\" menu open up Disk Utility to erase before you install.\n"
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        "text": "Thursday, 6 December 2018, 06:30 HKT/SGT\nSource: CFN Media\nCreso Pharma: A Truly Global Cannabis Company -- CFN Media\nSEATTLE, WA, Dec 6, 2018 - (ACN Newswire) - via NEWMEDIAWIRE - CFN Media Group (\"CFN Media\"), the leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the North American cannabis industry, announces publication of an article discussing Creso Pharma's (ASX: CPH) innovative approach, diverse product portfolio, and why investors may want to take a closer look as it gears up to go public on the Venture exchange in Canada. The listing would make Creso the first public cannabis company listed in both Australia and Canada.\nThe North American cannabis industry is littered with companies touting global ambitions. There are regular announcements regarding letters of intent to distribute in emerging markets like Europe and Latin America, long on potential and short on concrete details. Many of these announcements are speculative at best, requiring a mix of regulatory approvals, licensing, product development, and funding to make them a reality.\nCreso Pharma is an Australian-based company with operations in Switzerland, Canada, Colombia, and Israel along with established product distribution across the globe. The company develops and sells pharmaceutical-grade nutraceutical products for both humans and animals. Utilizing its deep background in pharmaceutical science and international regulatory product approvals, Creso Pharma leverages GMP-certified facilities and partnerships with world-class manufacturing and distribution companies to create a global footprint in key markets.\nWhat Creso Has Now\nCreso Pharma was founded by a team of executives set on bringing pharmaceutical rigor to the medicinal and recreational cannabis markets. Co-founder and CEO Dr. Miri Halperin Wernli has more than 30 years of strategic and operational leadership in global pharmaceutical and biomedical industries in Canada, the U.S., and Switzerland. Co-founder Boaz Wachtel is a leading medical cannabis expert, having co-founded the pioneering Australian Medicinal Cannabis company Phytotech Medical.\nIn addition to its experienced management team, the company is developing cultivation, processing, extraction, and manufacturing operations, partnering with well-established companies where necessary. In 2017, Creso became the first company to import medicinal cannabis to Australia. The company is also in the final stages of completing the acquisition of licensed Colombian company, Kunna Colombia, which will add a low-cost cultivation operation to supply its own product development. Creso has a joint venture in Israel focused on genetic development, cultivation, and R&D.\nIts wholly owned, purpose built, GMP state-of-the-art cultivation and production facility in Nova Scotia is built and ready to roll, awaiting licensing under Canada's new Cannabis Act. Called the Global Centre for Edible Cannabis Research and Development, the facility is designed to leverage Canada's leading regulatory environment along with Creso's extensive research and scientific relationships to develop innovative cannabis edibles for the global market.\nCreso sells and develops nutraceutical products, backed by scientific research and data that ensures the products will meet and often exceed any regulatory requirements. It's a refreshing approach in comparison to the current and largely unregulated CBD market, where all kinds of potential benefits are claimed without any scientific backing.\nCreso Pharma has already developed and commercialized a range of innovative products. For example, the company offers CBD-infused nutraceutical products designed to help reduce stress, enhance sleep or improve mental function that are already commercially-available in Switzerland and select EU countries. Its pipeline contains many more of these products targeting both humans and animals.\nCreso very recently launched, in a joint venture, the Old Boy Mary Jane line of infused beer. This type of product is a point of emphasis for the company going forward, as more consumer-oriented edible products gain regulatory and market traction across the industry.\nWhere Creso Is Headed\nCreso believes that there is a much bigger opportunity in next-generation cannabis products that reach into other product categories. While Grandview Research projects the global cannabis industry to reach about $64 billion by 2024, it sees the animal supplements market reaching $96 billion and the human supplements market hitting $278 billion over the same time. Creso is active in all of the above, meaning the company's targeted end markets could exceed $435 billion in just five years.\nCreso's products are organized across five businesses:\n* Creso Therapeutics - The company's cannQIX(R) 50 is a CBD-based, full-spectrum hemp extract medicinal cannabis buccal lozenge formulation with vitamins, minerals, and capsicum to assist with managing pain. After its launch in New Zealand this year, the company plans to launch in Australia in 2019 before moving on to Europe.\n* Creso Nutraceuticals - The company's cannQIX(R) family of brands consists of cannabinoid formulations to help reducing stress, improve sleep, and support metal and nervous function in humans. The company has already launched these products in Switzerland and other European markets (UK, Netherlands).\n* Creso Animal Health - The company's anibidiol(R) range of products is a complementary feed for companion animals with CBD full spectrum hemp oil extract and targeted vitamins. After launching in Switzerland and Liechtenstein in November 2017, the company plans to launch in an additional 15 countries later this year with its global partner Virbac.\n* Creso Lifestyle - The company is working on a portfolio of cannabis and hemp-derived alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages containing a unique mix of terpenes. The company plans on launching these products in conjunction with CLV Frontiers in Estonia. The first beers were launched in the third quarter of this year.\n* Creso Topicals - The company partnered with Frike Technologies to develop cannaDOL(R), a range of organic CBD-based functional topicals. The initial focus is on analgesic needs for sports-related injuries, arthritis, and other issues. The plan is to launch the product early next year.\nThe company has several distribution partners in place across Switzerland, Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands to help expand revenue over the coming quarters. The partners are generally well established, highly professional firms like Virbac (8th largest animal health company in the world), PharmaCare, and Doetsch Grether AG. Creso intends to greatly expand its product offerings over the coming quarters, utilizing its partners' widespread distribution networks to create significant growth in key international markets.\nThere are many details to cover regarding Creso Pharma (ASX: CPH) and its comprehensive product development and sales strategy. With its pharmaceutical approach, the company has already developed a number of innovative commercial products. Its near-term plans to cultivate in Canada, Israel, and Colombia could open the door to strong revenue growth, while a listing on Canada's TSX Venture stock exchange could draw more investor interest. Look for more developments in this space over the coming months.\nFor more information, visit the company's website at www.cresopharma.com.\nPlease follow this link to read the full article:\nhttp://www.cannabisfn.com/creso-pharma-a-truly-global-cannabis-company/\nCFN Media (CannabisFN) is the leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the global cannabis industry, helps companies operating in the space attract investors, capital, and publicity. Since 2013, private and public cannabis companies in the US and Canada have relied on CFN Media to grow and succeed.\n- Learn how to become a CFN Media client company, brand or entrepreneur: http://www.cannabisfn.com/featuredcompany\n- Download the CFN Media iOS mobile app to access the world of cannabis from the palm of your hand: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cannabisfn/id988009247?ls=1&mt=8\n- Or visit our homepage and enter your mobile number under the Apple App Store logo to receive a download link text on your iPhone: http://www.cannabisfn.com.\nCannabisFN.com is not an independent financial investment advisor or broker-dealer. You should always consult with your own independent legal, tax, and/or investment professionals before making any investment decisions. The information provided on http://www.cannabisfn.com (the Site) is either original financial news or paid advertisements drafted by our in-house team or provided by an affiliate. CannabisFN.com, a financial news media and marketing firm enters into media buys or service agreements with the companies that are the subject of the articles posted on the Site or other editorials for advertising such companies. We are not an independent news media provider. We make no warranty or representation about the information including its completeness, accuracy, truthfulness or reliability and we disclaim, expressly and implicitly, all warranties of any kind, including whether the Information is complete, accurate, truthful, or reliable. As such, your use of the information is at your own risk. Nor do we undertake any obligation to update the items posted. CannabisFN.com received compensation for producing and presenting high quality and sophisticated content on CannabisFN.com along with financial and corporate news.\nFrank Lane\nflane@cannabisfn.com\nTopic: New Listing on Exchange\nSectors: Daily Finance, BioTech, HealthCare, Alternatives, Local, Local Business\nCFN Media Releated News\nJan 24, 2019 06:00 HKT/SGT\nCreso Pharma Gears Up for Adult-Use Market with New Supply Agreement -- CFN Media\nCreso Pharma Targets Multi-Billion Dollar Pet Industry -- CFN Media\nDec 19, 2018 07:00 HKT/SGT\nCreso Pharma Brings Together Cannabis Experts Across Several Verticals -- CFN Media"
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        "text": "Този списък съдържа имената на всички международно признати суверенни държави, на де факто държавите без международно признание, и на зависимите територии.\n\nА\n\nБ\n\nВ\n\nГ\n\nД\n\nЕ\n\nЗ\n\nИ\n\nЙ\n\nК\n\nЛ\n\nМ\n\nН\n\nО\n\nП\n\nР\n\nС\n\nТ\n\nУ\n\nФ\n\nХ\n\nЦ\n\nЧ\n\nШ\n\nЮ\n\nЯ\n\nСкорошни и бъдещи възможни промени \n 10 октомври 2010 г. – разпад на Нидерландски Антили. Аруба, Синт Мартен и Кюрасао са станали отделни зависими самоуправляващи се територии на Нидерландия, останалите три части на Нидерландски Антили (Бонер, Саба и Синт Еустациус) са станали интегрална част на Нидерландия.\n 2011 г. – Майот става интегрална част на Франция като нов отвъдморски департамент.\n\nЗабележки \n1 – Малки далечни острови на САЩ ()\n\nВижте също \n Агенция по геодезия, картография и кадастър (АГКК). Каталог с имената на държавите\n Списък на международно признатите суверенни държави\n Списък на страните по брой на населението\n Списък на страните по площ\n Списък на зависими територии\n Непризнати държави\n Списък на териториите, невключени в списъка на страните"
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    {
        "text": "Януари е името на първия месец от годината според\nгригорианския календар и има 31 дни.\n\nЯнуари е предпоследният месец в римския календар. Януари и февруари са последните два месеца, добавени към календара, тъй като римляните смятали зимата за безмесечен период.\n\nЕтимология \nИмето на месеца идва от латински Iānuārius, месецът на Янус, римският бог на вратите и проходите, на Слънцето и светлината, както и на всяко начало и край.\n\nСтарото българско име на януари е Голям Сечко, тъй като големият студ пресича всякаква земеделска дейност. Старото славянско название на месеца е . Прабългарите наричали този месец Алем.\n\nСъбития \n На 1 януари се отбелязва Нова година.\n\nЛюбопитно \n Знаците на зодиака през месец януари са Козирог (22 декември – 20 януари) и Водолей (21 януари – 18 февруари).\n Слънцето обаче преминава през зодиакалните съзвездия Стрелец и Козирог.\n В обикновена година януари започва и свършва в същия ден от седмицата както октомври, а във високосна година започва в същия ден от седмицата като април и юли.\n\nВижте също \n Исторически годишнини\n Календар на православните църковни празници за месец януари\n\nВъншни препратки \n Българският фолклор и месец януари\n\nМесеци"
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        "text": "Декември е името на дванадесетия, последен месец от годината според григорианския календар и има 31 дни.\n\nЕтимология \nИмето на месец декември произлиза от латинската дума decem (десет), тъй като е десетият месец според римския календар, който започва през март. С въвеждането на юлианския календар за начало на годината се определя датата 1 януари и декември става дванадесетият месец.\n\nСтарото славянско име на месеца е  (студен). Прабългарите наричали този месец Алтом, а народът – снеговей.\n\nМетеорология \nДекември е първият типично зимен месец. Обикновено първата за зимата снежна покривка над 5 cm се образува още през първите дни от месеца. Още тогава максималните температури стават вече типично зимни – от 1 – 2 до не повече от 5 – 6 градуса, а сутрин, особено при ясно време падат до стойности от минус 10 до минус 5. Дори и на морския бряг още през първите си дни декември е доста студен – около 4 – 5 градуса, само в крайните югозападни райони от България температурите достигат до 6 – 8 градуса над нулата. При преминаването на всеки циклон се появява умерен и силен северен или североизточен вятър, при което се създават условия за първите „ледени“ дни с максимални температури от минус 6 до минус 1 – 0 градуса. Нерядко обаче се случва дори през декември, особено през първата му половина, да има поредица от 4 – 5 слънчеви дни с температури достигащи до 10 – 12 градуса през деня, дори и по-високи. През втората си половина декември остава студен и сравнително снежен, макар че през последните години все по-рядко се случва да има снежна Коледа или снежна Новогодишна нощ – съответно доста често температурите в полунощ на Нова година са положителни – от 2 до 7 – 8 градуса.\n\nСъбития \n На 25 декември християните празнуват Рождество Христово.\n\nЛюбопитно \n Месец декември започва със същия ден от седмицата, с който и септември.\n\nВижте също \n Исторически годишнини\n Календар на православните църковни празници за месец декември\n\nВъншни препратки \n Българският фолклор и месец декември\n\nМесеци"
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        "text": "The children in year 3 have been busy learning about the history and geography of our local area.\nLast week we visited the St Albans Museum to find out what life was like here in the past – thank you to all the parents who helped out by driving and accompanying us on the trip. Since the visit we have also found out more about what school was like in the past by looking at artefacts and also at the old Colney Heath School log books.\nThis week we ventured out (in between showers) to the common, where the children each created a journey stick. We also looked at some of the trees on the common and measured their circumferences, which helped us to work out how old the trees were.\nWelcome to the New Year 3’s page! We have had a good start to the new school year, settling into new routines and already producing some great pieces of work. Today the children were busy producing their entries for the Village Show based on the theme of Memories. Please go along to the show this weekend to find out who the winners are!\nWe have made a great start to the term, working hard at our new topic on Ancient Egypt and in all our other lessons, too. The children have produced some fabulous homework – pyramids of all sizes and materials, information booklets, quizzes, cookery – even a handmade wooden shaduf! They have all worked to produce a classroom display of the river Nile. In science the children have been finding out that light travels in straight lines and learning why shadows form. They had an exciting day on Monday when the sun actually shone for a while, finding out how and why our shadows change during the day."
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        "text": "Преминаването от юлианския към григорианския календар\nне става едновременно във всички страни.\n\nНовият календар е наложен от папа Григорий XIII през 1582 г. (4 октомври е последван от 15 октомври). Страните под негова власт, Испания, Португалия и Полша го приемат веднага. Други, като Франция, съвсем скоро след тях. Англия и протестантските страни приемат григорианския календар през XVIII век, а източноправославните – чак в началото на XX век.\n\nИзчисления за приравняване на календарите \nЮлианският календар с времето се отдалечава от григорианския, тъй като има повече високосни години. В зависимост от това кога се е случило дадено събитие, отбелязано по „стар стил“ (или юлиански календар), поправката за „нов стил“ е различен брой дни.\n\nРазликите в двата календара са следните:\n\n За събитията до 4 октомври 1582 г. включително има само един официален календар (юлианския, „стар стил“) и всички дати се запазват, без да се прави поправка.\n Датите от 5 до 14 октомври 1582 г. включително (10 пропуснати дни) не съществуват в григорианския календар (по „нов стил“).\n Датата 29 февруари не съществува в григорианския календар (по „нов стил“) през годините 1700, 1800, 1900 и няма да съществува през 2100 г. (вижте григориански календар).\n\nГодишнините и събитията обикновено се празнуват по „нов стил“, дори и да са били отбелязани по стар стил. Ето необходимите поправки за събития, отбелязани по „стар стил“ в посочените интервали:\n\n 5 октомври 1582 – 28 февруари 1700: 10 пропуснати дни (добавят се десет дни, например 1 май по стар стил е същият ден като 11 май по нов стил);\n 1 март 1700 – 28 февруари 1800: 11 пропуснати дни (добавят се 11 дни, например 1 май по стар стил е същият ден като 12 май по нов стил);\n 1 март 1800 – 28 февруари 1900: 12 пропуснати дни (добавят се 12 дни, например обесването на Левски, 6 февруари по стар стил е същият ден като 18 февруари по нов стил);\n 1 март 1900 – 28 февруари 2100: 13 пропуснати дни (добавят се 13 дни, например Трифон Зарезан, 1 февруари по стар стил е същият ден като 14 февруари по нов стил).\n\nНедостатъчно доброто познаване на календарите понякога води до грешки. През 1916 г., когато България преминава от стар към нов стил, необходимата поправка е от 13 дни. За събитията, случили се преди 1 март 1900 г. обаче, необходимата поправка е от 12 дни, а понякога грешно се добавят 13.\n\nНапример избухването на Априлското въстание, на 20 април 1876 г. по стар стил, днес правилно се празнува на 2 май (12 дни поправка). Рождената дата на Васил Левски (6 юли 1837 г. по стар стил) също се отбелязва правилно като 18 юли по нов стил. За разлика от нея, обесването на Левски, 6 февруари 1873 г. по стар стил традиционно се отбелязва грешно като 19 февруари, всъщност датата отговаря на 18 февруари по нов стил. Понякога не се отчита промяната на годините. Христо Ботев е роден на 25 декември 1847 г. по стар стил. при промяната на датата по нов стил на 6 или (неправилно) 7 януари, често се запазва годината 1847, а всъщност би трябвало да се отбележи 1848 година.\n\nМоже да се допълни, че при смяната на календара, когато и да става, не се разместват дните от седмицата, а само датите от месеца, тоест четвъртък 4 октомври 1582 е последван от петък 15 октомври (Испания) и сряда 2 септември 1752 е последван от четвъртък 14 септември (Англия).\n\nДати на приемане на григорианския календар \n Австрия различните провинции на различни дати:\n Бриксен, Залцбург и Тирол: 5 октомври 1583 е последван от 16 октомври;\n Каринтия и Щирия: 14 декември 1583 е последван от 25 декември;\n вижте също Чехословакия и Унгария.\n Албания през декември 1912.\n Белгия 21 декември 1582 е последван от 1 януари 1583.\n България 31 март 1916 е последван от 14 април.\nБългарската православна църква преминава към поправения Юлиански календар на 20 декември 1968 г. като прескача 13 дни от църковния календар.\n Великобритания\n Англия и колониите ѝ: 2 септември 1752 е последван от 14 септември.\n Уелс (както Англия): 2 септември 1752 е последван от 14 септември.\n Шотландия: шотландското преминаване е доста проблематично, управляващите не желаят да приемат промените едновременно с Англия и преминаването е доста по-рано.\n Германия различните провинции на различни дати:\n Католическите провинции: между 1583 и 1585 г.;\n Прусия: 22 август 1610 е последван от 2 септември;\n Протестантските провинции: 18 февруари 1700 е последван от 1 март (с няколко местни варианта).\n Гърция 9 март 1924 е последван от 23 март (други източници дават 1916 и 1920).\n Дания (с Норвегия) 18 февруари 1700 е последван от 1 март.\n Египет през 1875.\n Естония през 1918.\nИрландия както Англия.\n Испания 4 октомври 1582 е последван от 15 октомври.\n Италия 4 октомври 1582 е последван от 15 октомври\n Канада различните зони преминават на различни дати:\n Нюфаундленд и Хъдсън бей коуст: 2 септември 1752 е последван от 14 септември (както Англия);\n Континентална Нова Скотия: григориански от 1605 до 13 октомври 1710, после юлиански от 2 октомври 1710 до 2 септември 1752, после григориански от 14 септември 1752;\n останалата част от Канада: григориански от Първия европейски договор.\n Китай или през 1912, или през 1929, според това на коя власт е решението.\n Латвия по време на германската окупация между 1915 и 1918;\n Литва през 1915.\n Люксембург 14 декември 1582 е последван от 25 декември.\n Нидерландия\n провинция Холандия, Зеландия, Брабант, Лимбург: 21 декември 1582 е последван от 1 януари 1583;\n Хронинген: 28 февруари 1583 е последван от 11 март. Връщане на юлианския календар през лятото на 1584, а 31 декември 1700 е последван от 11 януари 1701;\n Хелдерландия: 30 юни 1700 е последван от 12 юли;\n провинция Утрехт и Оверайсел: 30 ноември 1700 е последван от 12 декември;\n Фризия и Дренте: 31 декември 1700 е последван от 11 януари 1701.\n Норвегия вижте Дания.\n Полша 4 октомври 1582 е последван от 15 октомври.\n Португалия 4 октомври 1582 е последван от 15 октомври.\n Румъния 31 март 1919 е последван от 14 април.\n Русия 31 януари 1918 е последван от 14 февруари (В далечните източни провинции промяната е през 1920).\n САЩ различните зони преминават по различно време:\n източния бряг, Вашингтон, Орегон: заедно с Англия през 1752;\n долината на Мисисипи: заедно с Франция през 1582;\n Тексас, Флорида, Калифорния, Невада, Аризона, Ню Мексико: заедно с Испания през 1582;\n Аляска: 5 октомври 1867 е последван от 18 октомври, когато става част от САЩ.\n Турция преминаване от мюсюлманския календар: 1 януари 1927.\n Унгария 21 октомври 1587 е последван от 1 ноември.\n Финландия част от Швеция;\n Частта от Финландия в границите на Русия продължава да използва юлианския календар.\n Франция 9 декември 1582 е последван от 20 декември;\n Елзас: 5 февруари 1682 е последван от 16 февруари;\n Лотарингия: 16 февруари 1760 е последван от 28 февруари;\n Страсбург: през февруари 1682.\n бивша Чехословакия (сега Чехия и Словакия) 6 януари 1584 е последван от 17 януари.\n Швейцария според районите:\n Католическите кантони: през 1583, 1584 или 1597;\n Протестантските кантони: 31 декември 1700 е последван от 11 януари 1701 (с много местни вариации).\n Швеция (включваща Финландия) 17 февруари 1753 е последван от 1 март (Швеция използва специален вариант на юлианския календар между 1700 и 1711).\n бивша Югославия (сега Босна и Херцеговина, Северна Македония, Словения, Сърбия, Хърватия, Черна гора) през 1919.\n Япония Григорианският календар е въведен като допълнение към традиционния календар на 1 януари 1873.\n\nБележки\n\nВижте също \n Пресмятане деня от седмицата за дадена дата\n Календар, юлиански, григориански, новоюлиански, високосна година\n Високосна секунда\n Целогодишни календари\n Исторически годишнини\n\nВъншни препратки \n\n Закон за въвеждане григорианския календар Обнародван в Държавен вестник, бр. 65 от 21 март 1916 г.\n За църковния календар без емоции, статия от Венцислав Каравълчев\n Изчисления за Великден и други църковни празници\n Календарен калкулатор: седмичен и годишен\n Календарен калкулатор – изчислява даден ден в различни календари, григориански, юлиански, еврейски, мюсюлмански, персийски и др. \n За новостилния разкол, статия от свещ. Божидар Главев\n Отново за календарния разкол, статия от Иван Симеонов\n Сравнение на календарите стар стил – нов стил.\n\nКалендари"
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        "text": "Q: How do I turn off multitouch zoom in Safari? I'm using my wife's Macbook with the bigger multitouch track pad. Many times while in Safari, it thinks I want to zoom in and the page will zoom in. I want to just get rid of multitouch in Safari, or just disable the zoom feature in Safari.\nIt's nice to have multitouch in other applications like iPhoto, but it just causes problems in Safari.\n\nA: In the trackpad preference pane (System Preferences) there is an option to disable Screen Zoom.\nThere is an alternative. A small plugin, of sorts, that allows you to disable pinch zooming in Safari and Firefox.\nhttp://cubeyellow.blogspot.com/2009/01/mac-book-pro-trackpad-zooming-and.html\n"
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        "text": "Предложеният календар е за  година (други годишни календари).\n\nБележки \n\nКалендари"
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        "text": "Home Sports Guardiola says Man City will not sacrifice League Cup for title race\nGuardiola says Man City will not sacrifice League Cup for title race\nHolders Manchester City will take Tuesday’s League Cup quarter-final with Leicester City seriously, says manager Pep Guardiola, even though they are in a tight duel with Liverpool for the Premier League title. Guardiola whose Premier League champions trail Liverpool by a point says it is only by winning trophies the club can get better, even if the League Cup is viewed as the third most important domestic trophy in English football. The 47-year-old Spaniard concedes Liverpool may benefit from no longer being involved in the League Cup their next match is against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Friday and if City progress they will face a two-legged semi-final in January. “We could say yes,” said Guardiola, answering a question at his press conference over whether Liverpool had an advantage in having a lighter fixture list. “But I’d prefer to be in the League Cup than not.\n“I cannot imagine going into a game thinking, ‘Oh, it will be better to lose because then we’ll have more time to rest’. I have never thought in that way. “That is the only way a club like Manchester City who 10 years ago were not in this position can grow up, and get better and better. And that’s what we have to do.” Guardiola said that those players who had played on Saturday in the 3-1 win over Everton would probably have to shoulder the responsibility of backing up against Leicester due to a growing injury list. Belgian star Kevin de Bruyne returned against Everton and should play again whilst record goalscorer Argentinian Sergio Aguero could start after a four week absence through injury. “We don’t have many players,” said Guardiola. “We have a lot of injured players. Some players that played Saturday and in the last games have to play. “But it is a chance to reach a semi-final and since I’ve been here my teams have never dropped one game, not even a friendly game. “It is a competition, it must be respected, like we did it last season. We are going to try and win the game.”\nPrevious articleTexas court rules ObamaCare health law as unconstitutional\nNext articlePolice checks on Pete Davidson checked after suicide concerns"
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        "text": "Q: Keyboard needs to be setup on every boot up I am being asked to setup my keyboard every time I reboot my computer. Is there anyway I can get this to keep the setup?\nI am on Snow Leopard and have a Logitech Wave wireless keyboard and mouse combo. This started happening when I switched to 64-bit mode. Booting into 32-bit mode doesn't fix it.\n\nA: Repair permissions: Run Disk Utility; select your (main) disk; click Repair Disk Permissions\nViewing logs: Run Console\n\nA: Um, standard \"stock\" fixes:\n\n\n*\n\n*Repair permissions\n\n*Check logs\n\n*Erase (Logitech) software and reinstall\n\n\nYou could also see if it is actually saving the connection details (by finding the pref file) or it is unable to. \n"
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        "text": "Category Archives: Maori King\n1law4all > Maori King\nTwenty Two Mendacious Modern (part-)Maori Myths\nmaori, new zealand, racial privilege, racism, Treaty of Waitangi, Waitangi Tribunal Maori, Maori King, Maori Privilege, New Zealand, New Zealand History, Propaganda, Racism, The Maori Party, Treaty of Waitangi 11\nA useful reference when challenged on your stance of 1Law4All:\nThe Maoris are indigenous to NZ.\nWrong. Unlike the Indians in North America and the Aborigines in Australia, who have been on their land for tens of thousands of years, gaggles of Maoris arrived in New Zealand about 1250 A.D. a mere 400 years before Abel Tasman. At Cape Reinga there is a hillock that, according to Maori lore and the accompanying sign, the spirits of dead Maoris leave from on their journey home to Hawaiki, thus showing that even the modern part-Maoris don’t believe that they are indigenous.\nThe Maoris enjoyed an idyllic life before the arrival of the white man.\nBefore the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 New Zealand was divided among numerous warring tribes. Since 1820 about one third of their population (43,500) had been killed as a result of tribal warfare and all lived in constant fear of being attacked by a stronger tribe with better weapons. Cannibalism, ritual human sacrifice, slavery, female infanticide, witch-doctory and a lack of any form of law and order were features of their Stone Age existence.\nThe Maoris did not cede full sovereignty at Waitangi in 1840.\nThis lie has recently been put out by the Waitangi Tribunal at the behest of part-Maori radicals. By Article One of the Treaty the chiefs ceded full sovereignty of these violent and anarchic islands to Queen Victoria forever as the speeches of Rewa, Te Kemara, Kawiti and other chiefs of the time show. Twenty years later at the Kohimarama (Auckland) conference, the largest gathering of chiefs in New Zealand history, they declared that full sovereignty had been ceded in 1840. If the chiefs did not cede sovereignty, they would have continued their cannibalism, which meant a lot to some of them.\nThose tribes, like Tuhoe and Tainui, whose chiefs did not sign the Treaty, are not bound by it.\nThe obvious answer to this is that Tuhoe, Tainui, etc. should return to the taxpayer all their substantial Treaty settlements. For how do those tribes take a settlement from a Treaty that their tribal forebears did not sign? However, as is so often the case, the obvious is not the truth. By living peacefully under the law for several generations – paying taxes, receiving welfare benefits, fighting in the armed services, etc. – these and other tribes have, by their actions, accepted the sovereignty of the Crown. Whether or not their forebears signed the Treaty is irrelevant. End of story.\nThe Treaty of Waitangi was a “partnership” between the Crown and Maori.\nNo. Full sovereignty was ceded to Britain in 1840 as Britain, at the time the greatest empire in the history of the world, did not go in for “partnership” agreements with Stone Age chiefs who had been unable to bring peace and order to their own lands. Indeed, one of the instructions of Colonial Secretary, Lord Normanby, to Captain Hobson, was to walk away if full sovereignty could not be ceded as, without it, Britain would have no legal basis for bringing order and peace to the islands. No special concessions or “partnership” were mentioned in the Treaty for the simple reason that there was no partnership.\nThis was clearly understood by all parties until the Maori radical movement got off the ground in the 1980s. Realising that by the words of the Treaty they could not get superior rights over other New Zealanders, they invented the “partnership” concept for that very purpose. For reasons of cowardice, treason or self-interest, others, politicians, judges, bureaucrats – have bought into this lie. It is also being taught in our schools in an effort to soften up the next generation for a whole new tranche of tribal demands.\nThere are principles of the Treaty.\nNo, the Treaty was a very simple document of only three Articles, none of which mentions “principles” or “partnership.” Since the Treaty gave equality for the first time to all the people of New Zealand, the grievance industry of the late twentieth century knew that they could not get special race based privileges from the Treaty itself and so, 150 years after the event, they invented for the first time the fictions of “principles” and “partnership” to give them what the Treaty does not.\nThere are two conflicting versions of the Treaty one in English and the other in Maori.\nThere is only one Treaty and it’s in Maori – (Te Tiriti). It was signed by around 500 chiefs. It was translated from the English draft, known as the Littlewood document. Hobson’s secretary, James Freeman, later made some English replica versions of the Treaty, adding his own phrases here and there. Those were neither drafts of the Treaty nor translations of it. But one of these replica versions in English was signed by some chiefs at Waikato Heads because the genuine manuscript copy intended for signing had not arrived in time for the meeting. By the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 the government has adopted this illegitimate version, signed by a mere 49 chiefs in the abovementioned circumstances, as the “official” English Treaty, displacing Te Tiriti that was signed by nearly 500 chiefs!!!!\nThe Treaty of Waitangi is a “living document.”\nWrong. The Treaty was merely the pre-condition for establishing British rule, which Governor Hobson did by proclamation later in 1840. By the end of 1840, the Treaty was regarded as having performed its function, viz. acceptance by the chiefs of British sovereignty in exchange for full British citizenship for all Maoris.\nIt’s only become a “living document” for those who want to expand its meaning so as to give ever more spurious rights to the tribal elite -­ including people like former Labour Deputy Prime Minister, Michael Cullen, who, since his retirement from Parliament has become the highly paid chief Treaty negotiator for the Tuwharetoa tribe for which, interestingly, if not worse, he used his ministerial position to grant a generous part of the nation’s forests under the Treelords deal a short time earlier.\nColonisation was bad for Maoris.\nIn one bold stroke the Treaty of Waitangi freed all the chiefs’ slaves (about 10,000 of them). They were then free to take work on things like road building contracts, thus earning money and being able to spend it how they liked.\nThe Treaty brought an end to tribal warfare and cannibalism, thus giving individual Maoris a right to life that they had not had before. For a society that had not even invented the wheel or writing, colonisation brought all the advanced inventions, comforts and contemporary medicine of the Western world. In 1840 the average life expectancy of a Maori was less than 30 years. In 2012 it was 72.8 years for men and 76.5 years for women.\nMaori had to wait 27 years after 1840 before being granted the vote in 1867.\nNot so. Maoris had the same representation as all other New Zealanders from the very beginning. The Treaty had given them the full rights of British subjects. In 1853 all men over twenty-one who owned property (with no distinction for race) could vote. At the time about 100 Maoris (mainly leaders) were enrolled to vote and by 1860 some 17% of the electorate were Maoris. The special Maori seats in Parliament were introduced in 1867 when all Maori men over twenty-one (with no property provision) could vote. By contrast, a property qualification still applied to Europeans so that many remained excluded. Those Maoris with freehold land could vote in general seats until 1893. In 1893 all women, including Maori, were granted the vote.\nIn the 1850s and 1860s Maoris paid most of the country’s taxes.\nIn the financial year ended June, 1859, for example, the great majority of government income (£150,471 out of £175,310) was from customs revenue. This is manifestly not from Maori as any separate entity.\nConfiscation of lands from rebellious tribes during and after the Maori Wars was a breach of the Treaty.\nIn the words of Sir Apirana Ngata, the first Maori to graduate from a university and probably the greatest thinker that Maoridom has yet produced, “The chiefs placed in the hands of the Queen of England the sovereignty and authority to make laws. Some sections of the Maori people violated that authority. War arose from this and blood was spilled. The law came into operation and land was taken in payment. This itself is a Maori custom revenge, plunder to avenge a wrong. It was their own chiefs who ceded that right to the Queen. The confiscations can not therefore be objected to in the light of the Treaty.”\nIn 1863, during the Maori War, Governor Grey “invaded” the Waikato.\nThis misrepresentation has been bandied about for several years, usually by so-called “professional historians” with an axe to grind. The word “invade” suggests a hostile entry by a foreign power ­e.g. Hitler invading Poland in 1939 and Argentina invading the Falkland Islands in 1981. Since Grey was the Governor of New Zealand, holding legal jurisdiction over the whole country, it was not possible for him to “invade” any part of it. What he did was to lawfully send troops into the Waikato to suppress a rebellion against the sovereign power – something that every state is entitled to do. That is not an “invasion.”\nThere’s no harm in “co-governance agreements” between Crown and part-Maori.\nWrong. Co-governance agreements are a violation of both democracy and national sovereignty. Co-governance undermines the power of our democracy to make decisions for the general good since unelected tribes have effective veto powers and see things only from their own narrow interests. By his co-governance agreements with Tuhoe and other favoured tribes, Treaty Minister, Christopher Whinlayson, is driving a racist, separatist sword through the nation’s sovereignty and undermining our hard-won democracy.\nThe Maori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa.\nPre-1840 the Maoris did not have a name for the whole of New Zealand as they had no sense of a Maori nation – they were­ just separate warring-with-one-another tribes.\nIn 1643 the country was named New Zealand by the States-General (Parliament) of Holland and this has been its name for 370 years. Aotearoa as a fanciful name for New Zealand invented only in 1890 when S. Percy Smith used it as a make-up name for the whole country in his fictional story of Kupe. Nu Tirani appears in the Treaty of Waitangi. “Aotearoa” does not.\nTuheitia of the Waikato is the Maori king.\nLike all other New Zealanders Tuheitia is a subject of Queen Elizabeth II and no monarch can be the subject of another. It is legally impossible. He might be a chief – even a high chief, but a king he is not.\nMaoris (“tangata whenua”) have a greater claim to New Zealand than other New Zealanders.\nThere is no such thing as an ethnic Maori and there may not even be any half-castes as a result of several generations of Maoris cross-breeding with other races. We now have a race of part-Maoris with more European blood in them than Maori. So “tangata whenua” (people of the land) is therefore meaningless. The Treaty specifies 1840 Maori as tangata Maori.\nFurthermore, in a modern democracy that is committed to equal rights for all citizens it is both absurd and offensive that any racial group should have superior rights to other New Zealanders. The mere chance of whose canoes or boats arrived first is irrelevant.\nMaoris deserve special grants and privileges because they are at the bottom of the socio-economic heap.\nYes, a number of part-Maoris are not doing well; more than for other ethnic groups. But struggling citizens of all races should be helped on the basis of need, not race.\nFar too much of the taxpayer-funded Treaty settlement and other race-based payouts from NZ taxpayers have gone into the pockets of the pale-faced tribal elite people like the multi-millionaire Irish New Zealander, Stephen (alias Tipene) O’Regan.\nThe high imprisonment rate of part-Maoris is the result of the Crown not honouring the Treaty of Waitangi.\nNo. People are imprisoned for things they have chosen to do. Those who are brought up in a good moral environment are less likely to commit crimes.\nMost New Zealanders see nothing wrong with Maori privileges; it is only a few fuddy-duddies who object.\nWrong. Some poll results:\n* 79% No to special Maori seats in parliament (Submitters to the Constitutional Advisory Panel)\n* 82% No to compulsory Maori language in schools (yahoo Xtra poll)\n* 96% of non-Maori students of Year 9 and above do NOT learn Maori despite it being an available option in many schools (NZ Herald, 23 July, 2014)\n* 85% No to special Maori housing (Bay of Plenty Times, 20 April, 2013)\n81% No to “Maori are special” (Close Up poll, July, 2011)\n* 81% No to Maori names for North Island and South Island (Stuff poll, 2/4/13)\n* 82% No to “h” in Wanganui (Referendum conducted by Wanganui District Council, 2006)\n* 79% No to a special Maori voice on the committees of Rotorua Council (Rotorua Daily Post, 9/5/14)\n* 82% No to special Maori wards on New Plymouth Council (Taranaki Daily News, 15/5/15)\n* 79% No to Maori wards, Waikato District Council, April, 2012\n* 80% No to Maori wards, Hauraki District Council, May 2013\n* 79% No to Maori wards, Nelson District Council, May, 2012\n* 52% No to Maori wards, Wairoa District Council, March, 2012\n* 68% No to Maori wards, Far North District Council, March, 2015\n* 70% want Maori wards in local government abolished (Consumerlink, Colmar Brunton poll, March, 2012)\n* 68% want the Waitangi Tribunal abolished\nIn the 1800s Maoris “lost” most of their lands.\nApart from the relatively small percentage of land confiscated as a punishment for rebellion in the 1860s (See Myth No. 12) Maoris did not “lose” their lands; they sold them for valuable consideration at a mutually agreed price. Whether they spent the proceeds wisely or not was their own choice. There is a world of difference between “losing” something and selling it.\nThose who oppose special rights and privileges for part-Maoris are “racists”.\nThis is a contradiction in terms and is propagated by people who are either mischievous or just plain dumb. Special rights/privileges for one race are a violation of the democratic principle that we should all be treated equally. To demand equality is not being “racist.” The real racists are those of the radical tribal elite who are trying to subvert our democracy with their endless racist demands.\nThese false claims by the tribal elite, aided and abetted by certain academics, judges and politicians acting for their own dubious motives, are trying to overturn a way of life in which we are all New Zealanders, equal before the law and with equal representation in government.\nA purpose of 1Law4All is to reinforce the values that have made New Zealand what it is and for which our servicemen have died on the battlefield, and to expose the lies and racism which – in the twenty-first century – are tearing our nation apart. The continuing transfer of what were once public assets like forests and the foreshore and seabed ­and even state houses – to small, private tribal groups and the racist institutionalisation of a privileged status for those who happen to have been born part-Maori amount to the most radical change in our recent history and the most disastrous in its long term effects.\nCitizens have a responsibility to be informed and, if sufficiently concerned, to cease voting from ancient habit rather than clear thought and an intelligent assessment of what is going on. Both National and Labour have been responsible for creating the mess that we are in and they are hardly the types to get us out of it.\nClick the ‘download’ button below to save a copy of these myths for your use and reference. Perhaps print a copy to have on hand, too? (Four A4 pages)"
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        "text": "YouGov poll Timelines: Histolyrical Timeline\nIt was important for us to get a visual sense of the UK into our work. We ran a YouGov poll and asked, “What view helps you think?” giving different options. Most people said from the window of a moving vehicle. From this we decided to film out of the window of some of the most scenic train journeys in the UK. So we flew up to Inverness and made our way back to London via Kyle of Lochalsh, Edinburgh and the Cumbrian coast. After recording over 24 hours of train journey, we began exploring different ways that we could make the Facebook text flow over the footage we had shot.\n22 August 1970 //\nIt was important for us to get a visual sense of the UK into our work. We ran a YouGov poll and asked, “What view helps you think?” giving different options. Most people said from the window of a moving vehicle.\nFrom this we decided to film out of the window of some of the most scenic train journeys in the UK. So we flew up to Inverness and made our way back to London via Kyle of Lochalsh, Edinburgh and the Cumbrian coast. After recording over 24 hours of train journey, we began exploring different ways that we could make the Facebook text flow over the footage we had shot.\nMapping journeys for HistoLyrical\nTrain journeys by Ben Peppiatt and Stephanie Bickford-Smith\nUp back forward down (perspective transform)\nTrains, Facebook and freedom of thought\nHistoLyrical: the making of an artwork"
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        "text": "African Union - Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus/New York (SRDC/NY)\nPan-Africanism must be the goal\nHome | African Union Lauches Decade of the African Women! | Africa's Women Speak Out - United Nations 54th Conference 2010 | Bakary Tandia AU6th Region Observer Featured in the New York City Daily News, October 24, 2007 | JUNE, 2007 -- A PUBLIC POSITION PAPER REGARDING ORGANIZING THE DIASPORA FOR THE AU | AU Purpose | Message from Carmen Collymore | PAOC Report - NY Town Hall Gathering | Election Report March 31, 2007 | Dinner for New Reps & Observers | PAOC in Brazil - April 13 to 22, 2007 | Newsletter | Articles | Links | Reading List | PAN AFRICAN CLUBS & Reading List | Contact Us\nK. Leba Ola-Niyi\nWednesday, May 23rd 2007\nOn Friday, many Africans at home and abroad will observe African Liberation Day. The theme is \"Africa must be self-reliant: Forward to a United States of Africa.\"\nIn addition, we should celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence. We should understand, pursue and achieve Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's vision for a united Africa.\nAfter the national flag of red, green and gold with a black star rose at midnight, Nkrumah declared:\n\"We again re-dedicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa, for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.\"\nIn \"sub-Saharan\" Africa, Ghana was the first African/black nation. That victory was a thrill and inspiration for all colonial peoples who were fighting for freedom.\nAs a result of the Pan-African meetings and national liberation movements, Africa today has 53 countries. However, most so-called independent states fell into the bottomless pit of neocolonialism. The establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Ethiopia fell short of attaining a powerful, prosperous and united Africa.\nAfrica has an odious debt to international lenders and Western governments. For example, Africa Action stated: \"The continent currently shoulders a $2000 billion debt burden, which drains $14\nbillion per year out of the national economies of Africa and into the pockets of wealthy bilateral and multilateral creditors.\nThe effects of this debt burden are devastating, undermining government spending on health and education and fueling poverty.\"\nThese Western lenders impose free-market economic conditions that keep Africa in a perpetual debt trap. Africa Action added: \"Between 1970 and 2003, it is estimated that Africa received $540 billion in loans. African countries repaid $580 billion in principal and interest over those years, but as a result of accrued interest at the end of that time period, the continent still owe over $300 billion on the original loans.\"\nHence, Africa is still paying illegitimate and immoral debts to international finance capital.\nThe World Bank and IMF imposed Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on cash-strapped regimes that borrow high-interest loans to solve economic and financial crisis or to achieve economic growth and development. These harsh economic measures are as follows: producing,\nextracting, and exporting cash crops and/or raw mineral resources, respectively; ending food and agricultural subsidies; cutting social programs such as education, health care, and housing; having mass layoffs in the public sector; devaluating national currency to make imports expensive and exports cheaper; opening your economy and public sector for foreign trade and investment; and privatizing government-owned enterprises or authorities.\nThe wealth produced by labor and capital never trickles down to the workers, producers and the poor.\nAs a result of these neoliberal policies, we are seeing a small oasis of the rich surrounded by the vast desert of the poor.\nFree markets economics and trade exacerbate inequality between Africa and the West. Unfettered free market policy has widen the gap between the rich and poor between and within countries. In 1998, the GNP per capita of the rich world was $25,000, while the per capita in Africa was a little over $600. Under free trade agreements, multinational corporations based in the West dominate the market share, sales and proportion for world production.\nUnfair trade terms and plunging commodity export prices result in lower income for most African countries.\nA united Africa is possible. We must build a worldwide Pan-African movement that organizes and educates African everywhere. We must know and defeat the enemies of African freedom and justice.\nWe need another wind of change that will end neocolonialism and economic imperialism in Africa.\nWe must achieve the century-old goal of Pan-Africanism or African unity. Nkrumah wrote:\n\"The optimum zone of development for the African people is the entire continent of Africa. Until there is an All-African Union Government pursuing socialist policies, and planning the economic development of Africa as a whole, the standard of living of the African masses will remain low, and they will continue to suffer from neocolonialist exploitation and the oppression of the indigenous bourgeoisie.\"\nWe urge the African Union to achieve African unity as defined by Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Ture, Patrice Lumumba and other great Pan-Africanists.\nWe must demand that Western governments and global lenders acknowledge the unjust nature of Africa's debt and to cancel all illegitimate debts without neoliberal economic conditions.\nWhen we have achieved Pan-Africanism, this objective will fulfill \"the aspirations of the Africans and people of African descent everywhere.\"\nK. Leba Ola-Niyi, a member of the Pan-African Support Group, lives on St. Thomas.\nhttp://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_editorial?\nFORWARD EVER, BACKWARDS NEVER!\nAFRICA MUST UNITE AND AFRICANS MUST UNITE!"
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        "text": "31 януари е 31-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 334 дни до края на годината (335 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1862 г. – Американският астроном Алвън Кларк първи наблюдава бледо бяло джудже, компаньон на най-ярката звезда на небосклона – Сириус.\n 1878 г. – По време на Руско-турска война (1877–1878) е сключено примирие, което дава началото на прекратяването на войната.\n 1879 г. – Във Франция денят 14 юли е обявен за национален празник.\n 1899 г. – Съставено е осемнадесетото правителство на България, начело с Димитър Греков.\n 1906 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 8,8 по скалата на Рихтер разтърсва крайбрежието на Еквадор.\n 1915 г. – Първа световна война: германската армия за пръв път прави опит да използва химическо оръжие в голям мащаб – изстрелва снаряди със сълзотворния газ ксилилбромид срещу позиции на руската армия в района на река Равка, Западна Варшава. Студеното време (-21 °C) попречва да се постигне желаният ефект – ксилилбромидът не се изпарява.\n 1946 г. – Социалистическа федеративна република Югославия приема нова конституция, чрез която, по подобие на Съветския съюз, се установяват шест съставни републики: Босна и Херцеговина, Хърватия, Македония, Черна гора, Сърбия и Словения.\n 1950 г. – Президентът на САЩ Хари Труман обявява програма за създаване на водородна бомба.\n 1958 г. – САЩ пускат своя първи изкуствен спътник Експлорър 1.\n 1968 г. – Науру обявява независимост от Австралия.\n 1971 г. – Програма Аполо: Аполо 14 потегля към Луната.\n 1990 г. – Първият McDonald's в Съветския съюз отваря в Москва.\n 2001 г. – В Нидерландия, шотландски съд осъжда един либиец и оправдава друг във връзка с атентата над Локърби през 1988.\n 2006 г. – Открити са телата на двете сестри Белнейски в местността „Грамадата“, между Пещера и Брацигово, с множество наранявания.\n 2007 г. – Стартира изграждането на магистрала Люлин в България.\n 2020 г. – Великобритания напуска Европейския съюз.\n\nРодени \n\n 1797 г. – Франц Шуберт, австрийски композитор († 1828 г.)\n 1854 г. – Стефан Стамболов, български революционер и държавник († 1895 г.)\n 1858 г. – Андре Антоан, френски артист († 1943 г.)\n 1862 г. – Йожен Гаяр, френски архитект († 1933 г.)\n 1870 г. – Ангел Букорещлиев, български композитор († 1950 г.)\n 1875 г. – Иван Вълков, български офицер († 1962 г.)\n 1878 г. – Иван Строгов, български политик († 1955 г.)\n 1879 г. – Грейс Кулидж, първа дама на САЩ (1923 – 1929) († 1957 г.)\n 1884 г. – Теодор Хойс, 1-ви президент на Германия († 1963 г.)\n 1901 г. – Мари Луизе Кашниц, немска поетеса († 1974 г.)\n 1902 г. – Алва Мюрдал, шведска писателка Нобелов лауреат през 1982 († 1986 г.)\n 1907 г. – Владимир Жидовец, хърватски дипломат († 1948 г.)\n 1907 г. – Паулина Станчева, българска поетеса († 1991 г.)\n 1910 г. – Фернанду Монтейру ди Кащру Сороменю, португалски журналист († 1968 г.)\n 1913 г. – Веса Гачева, българска актриса († 1978 г.)\n 1916 г. – Герасим Младенов, български актьор († 1982 г.)\n 1917 г. – Христо Малинов, български писател († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Марио Ланца, американски актьор († 1959 г.)\n 1921 г. – Курт Марти, швейцарски писател († 2017 г.)\n 1923 г. – Норман Мейлър, американски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1924 г. – Тенгиз Абуладзе, грузински режисьор († 1994 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ацо Караманов, югославски партизанин († 1944 г.)\n 1929 г. – Рудолф Мьосбауер, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 († 2011 г.)\n 1930 г. – Йо Боние, шведски пилот от Формула 1 († 1972 г.)\n 1935 г. – Кендзабуро Ое, японски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1994 († 2023 г.)\n 1936 г. – Юлиан Вучков, български театровед († 2019 г.)\n 1937 г. – Крум Крумов, български кинооператор († 2001 г.)\n 1938 г. – Беатрикс Холандска, холандска кралица\n 1941 г. – Георги Марковски, български писател († 1999 г.)\n 1941 г. – Йожен Тер'Бланш, защитник на белите в РЮА († 2010 г.)\n 1946 г. – Александър Андонов, български философ\n 1949 г. – Кен Уилбър, американски писател\n 1951 г. – Кристин Роуз, американска актриса\n 1954 г. – Адриан Ванденберг, холандски китарист\n 1954 г. – Мауро Балди, италиански пилот във Формула 1\n 1959 г. – Кели Линч, американска актриса\n 1959 г. – Николай Бъчваров, български футболист\n 1959 г. – Петър Попангелов, български скиор\n 1960 г. – Желко Щуранович, черногорски политик († 2014 г.)\n 1964 г. – Светлана Янчева, българска актриса\n 1966 г. – Декстър Флечър, британски актьор\n 1967 г. – Фат Майк, американски музикант\n 1969 г. – Ивана, българска фолк певица\n 1973 г. – Порша де Роси, австралийска актриса\n 1974 г. – Прити Зинта, индийска актриса\n 1977 г. – Шинго Катори, японски актьор и певец от група SMAP\n 1978 г. – Ивайло Габровски, български колоездач\n 1979 г. – Златан Златанов, български юрист и политик\n 1980 г. – K-Maro, рап и R&B певец\n 1981 г. – Джъстин Тимбърлейк, американски изпълнител\n 1982 г. – Елена Папаризу, гръцка изпълнителка\n 1984 г. – Малика Аян, италианска певица\n 1985 г. – Антон Вергилов, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Каломира, гръцка певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 1606 г. – Гай Фокс, английски войник (* 1570 г.)\n 1908 г. – Иван Белинов, български политик (* 1859 г.)\n 1904 г. – Киро Тулешков, български просветител (* 1846 г.)\n 1923 г. – Карл де Бур, германски историк (* 1848 г.)\n 1933 г. – Джон Голсуърти, британски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1867 г.)\n 1942 г. – Никола Мушмов, български историк (* 1869 г.)\n 1955 г. – Джон Мот, американски общественик, Нобелов лауреат през 1946 г. (* 1865 г.)\n 1956 г. – Алън Милн, английски писател (* 1882 г.)\n 1965 г. – Константин Муравиев, министър-председател на България (* 1893 г.)\n 1965 г. – Коста Лулчев, български политик (* 1882 г.)\n 1969 г. – Стоян Загорчинов, български писател (* 1889 г.)\n 1972 г. – Матвей Захаров, съветски маршал (* 1898 г.)\n 1973 г. – Рагнар Фриш, норвежки икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 (* 1895 г.)\n 1980 г. – Христо Бръзицов, български публицист (* 1901 г.)\n 1994 г. – Ервин Щритматер, немски писател (* 1912 г.)\n 2001 г. – Гордън Диксън, канадски писател (* 1923 г.)\n 2004 г. – Костадин Гугов, български певец (* 1935 г.)\n 2009 г. – Лино Алдани, италиански писател (* 1926 г.)\n 2012 г. – Роза Димова, българска състезателка по ски бягане (* 1936 г.)\n 2014 г. – Миклош Янчо, унгарски режисьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2015 г. – Рихард фон Вайцзекер, бундеспрезидент на Германия (* 1920 г.)\n\nПразници \n Науру – Ден на обявяване на националната независимост (от Великобритания, Австралия и Нова Зеландия, 1968 г., национален празник)\n\n131"
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        "text": "1 януари е 1-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 364 дни до края на годината (365 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n\n 45 г. пр.н.е. – Юлианският календар влиза в сила за първи път.\n 404 г. – Състои се последният известен гладиаторски бой в Рим.\n 630 г. – Пророкът Мохамед се запътва с армия към Мека, която ще завладее без да пролее капка кръв.\n 990 г. – Киевска Рус приема Юлианския календар.\n 1259 г. – Михаил VIII Палеолог е обявен за съимператор на Никея със своя подопечник Йоан IV Ласкарис.\n 1438 г. – Алберт II е коронован за крал на Унгария.\n 1502 г. – Откриване на залива Гуанабара, на брега на който е разположен град Рио де Жанейро, от португалския мореплавател Педро Алвариш Кабрал.\n 1583 г. – Първи ден от Григорианския календар в Нидерландия и Фландрия.\n 1622 г. – Папската канцелария приема 1 януари за начало на годината (дотогава начало на годината е 25 март).\n 1700 г. – В Русия е въведен Юлианския календар.\n 1739 г. – Откриване на остров Буве в южната част на Атлантическия океан от френския мореплавател Жан Батист Шарл Буве дьо Лозие.\n 1801 г. – Италианският астроном Джузепе Пиаци открива 1 Церера – най-големия астероид в Слънчевата система.\n 1801 г. – Влиза в сила съюзът между Великобритания и Ирландия, създава се Обединеното кралство.\n 1804 г. – Хаити става независима държава (денят се чества като национален празник).\n 1829 г. – Английските изследователи Чалз Стерт и Хамилтън Юм откриват притока на р. Дарлинг, Боган, а след това и река Дарлинг.\n 1881 г. – В Княжество България е проведено първото преброяване на населението.\n 1901 г. – Нигерия става британски протекторат.\n 1901 г. – Бившите британски колонии (Западна Австралия, Нов Южен Уелс, Тасмания, Куинсланд, Южна Австралия и Виктория) се федерализират в Австралийски съюз.\n 1903 г. – Крал Едуард VII е провъзгласен за император на Индия.\n 1905 г. – Официално е открита Транссибирската магистрала.\n 1908 г. – Щатът Джорджия в САЩ налага забрана на алкохола.\n 1909 г. – За първи път започва изплащането на пенсия във Великобритания.\n 1912 г. – Китай става република с първи президент Сун Ятсен.\n 1919 г. – В рамките на СССР е образувана Белоруска ССР.\n 1925 г. – В Норвегия столицата Християния е преименувана на Осло.\n 1925 г. – Американският астроном Едуин Хъбъл обявява откриването на галактики извън Млечния път.\n 1935 г. – Италианските колонии Киренайка, Триполи и Феззан приемат името Либия.\n 1946 г. – Император Хирохито се отказва от божествеността си.\n 1947 г. – Британската и американската окупационна зона в Германия, след Втората световна война се обединяват в Бизония, която по-късно става Федерална република Германия.\n 1947 г. – Първа официална изява на българския детски хор „Бодра смяна“\n 1948 г. – Влиза в сила Общото споразумение за тарифите и търговията (ГАТТ), чиято цел е либерализация на международната търговия.\n 1948 г. – Британските железопътни линии са национализирани.\n 1948 г. – Влиза в сила Новата Конституция на Италия след проведен референдум за монархията.\n 1956 г. – Судан придобива независимост от Египет и Обединеното кралство (денят се чества като национален празник).\n 1960 г. – Провъзгласена е независима Република Камерун.\n 1962 г. – Западна Самоа придобива независимост от Нова Зеландия.\n 1966 г. – След преврат, Жан-Бедел Бокаса взима властта в Централноафриканската република.\n 1970 г. – Възрастта за пълнолетие в Англия е намалена от 21 на 18 години.\n 1971 г. – Основан е френският университет Пантеон-Асас.\n 1973 г. – Обединеното кралство, Дания и Ирландия се присъединяват към Европейския съюз.\n 1974 г. – Голда Меир е преизбрана за министър-председател на Израел.\n 1981 г. – Гърция се присъединява към Европейската икономическа общност.\n 1982 г. – В новогодишното си обръщение папа Йоан-Павел II казва, че думата солидарност (намек за профсъюза „Солидарност“) говори за великите усилия, които са положили хората на труда.\n 1986 г. – Испания и Португалия се присъединяват към Европейския съюз.\n 1993 г. – Чехословакия се разпада на Чехия и Словакия.\n 1994 г. – Създадена е Европейската икономическа зона.\n 1995 г. – Австрия, Финландия и Швеция се присъединяват към Европейския съюз.\n 1995 г. – Създадена е Световната търговска организация (СТО).\n 1998 г. – Създадена е Европейската централна банка.\n 1999 г. – Появява се официално еврото.\n 2002 г. – Еврото става официална валута в дванадесет страни членки на Европейския съюз.\n 2003 г. – Отпада държавно установеният монопол в българските телекомуникации.\n 2007 г. – Разширяване на ЕС:\n България и Румъния се присъединяват към Европейския съюз.\n Българският, румънският и ирландският език стават официални езици на Европейския съюз, заедно с още 20 езика.\n Словения става тринадесетата страна, която въвежда еврото.\n 2007 г. – Ангола се присъединява към ОПЕК.\n 2008 г. – Уругвай става първата латиноамериканска държава, която на национално ниво разрешава еднополовите граждански бракове. Така Уругвай става деветнадесетата държава в света резрешила гей-браковете.\n 2009 г. – Словакия се присъединява към еврозоната.\n 2011 г. – Естония приема еврото като официална валута. Бонер, Саба и Синт Еустациус приемат щатския долар като официална валута.\n 2011 г. – В Буенос Айрес започва 32-рото издание на Рали Дакар, което преминава през Аржентина и Чили.\n 2012 г. – В Мар дел Плата започва 33-то издание на Рали Дакар, което преминава през Аржентина, Чили и Перу.\n 2015 г. – В Бразилия Дилма Русев за втори път е избрана за президент.\n 2017 г. – В Истанбул мъж, преоблечен като Дядо Коледа, стреля в нощен клуб, оставяйки 39 убити и повече от 100 ранени.\n 2017 г. – Случва се бунт в бразилски затвор. Умират над 60 души.\n 2017 г. – В Бужумбура политикът Емануел Нионкуру е убит с огнестрелно оръжие.\n 2017 г. – В Бразилия Жаир Болсонаро полага клетва като президент на страната, наследявайки Мишел Темер.\n 2023 г. – Хърватия приема еврото и става 20-ата страна, част от Еврозоната и от Шенгенското пространство.\n\nРодени \n\n 1431 г. – Александър VI, римски папа († 1503 г.)\n 1449 г. – Лоренцо Медичи, италиански политик и меценат († 1492 г.)\n 1467 г. – Зигмунт I Стари, полски крал и велик литовски княз († 1548 г.)\n 1484 г. – Улрих Цвингли, деятел на Реформацията в Швейцария († 1525 г.)\n 1614 г. – Джон Уилкинс, английски духовник и учен († 1672 г.)\n 1618 г. – Бартоломе Естебан Мурильо, испански художник († 1682 г.)\n 1774 г. – Андре Мари Констан Дюмерил, френски лекар и зоолог, професор по анатомия († 1860 г.)\n 1823 г. – Шандор Петьофи, унгарски поет и революционер († 1849 г.)\n 1840 г. – Данаил Попов, български революционер († 1909 г.)\n 1845 г. – Васил Петлешков, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1851 г. – Тодор Каблешков, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1852 г. – Жозеф-Елиезер Берние, канадски арктически изследовател († 1934 г.)\n 1853 г. – Федор Гершелман, руски офицер († 1927 г.)\n 1854 г. – Джеймс Джордж Фрейзър, британски антрополог († 1941 г.)\n 1856 г. – Царевна Миладинова, българска просветна деятелка († 1934 г.)\n 1863 г. – Алеко Константинов, български писател и общественик († 1897 г.)\n 1863 г. – Любомир Милетич, български филолог († 1937 г.)\n 1863 г. – Пиер дьо Кубертен, възродил Олимпийските игри († 1937 г.)\n 1866 г. – Константин Венедиков, български генерал († 1933 г.)\n 1870 г. – Йосиф Великотърновски, български духовник († 1918 г.)\n 1872 г. – Иван Далкалъчев, български революционер († 1931 г.)\n 1874 г. – Атанасиос Минопулос, гръцки андартски капитан († 1962 г.)\n 1874 г. – Франк Нокс, американски политик († 1944 г.)\n 1877 г. – Иван Клинчаров, български обществен деец, публицист, литературен критик и преводач († 1942 г.)\n 1878 г. – Пейо Яворов, български поет и драматург († 1914 г.)\n 1879 г. – Ърнест Джоунс, уелски невролог и психоаналитик († 1958 г.)\n 1882 г. – Иван Антонов, български революционер и духовник († 1928 г.)\n 1884 г. – Хосе Пинеда, испански футболен треньор († ? г.)\n 1886 г. – Карекин Нъждех, арменски революционер и военен († 1955 г.)\n 1887 г. – Вилхелм Канарис, германски генерал († 1945 г.)\n 1887 г. – Георги Машев, български художник († 1946 г.)\n 1889 г. – Николай Райнов, български писател († 1954 г.)\n 1893 г. – Георги Стаматов, български актьор († 1965 г.)\n 1895 г. – Едгар Хувър, американски криминалист, директор на ФБР († 1972 г.)\n 1896 г. – Кирил Цонев, български художник († 1961 г.)\n 1898 г. – Ламар, български поет и писател († 1974 г.)\n 1902 г. – Никола Кенов, български диригент и композитор († 1968 г.)\n 1906 г. – Васил Бакърджиев, български кинорежисьор († 1980 г.)\n 1907 г. – Арналдо Расковски, аржентински лекар († 1995 г.)\n 1907 г. – Леонид Брежнев, съветски ръководител († 1982 г.)\n 1909 г. – Бари Голдуотър, американски политик († 1998 г.)\n 1913 г. – Седат Алп, турски археолог († 2006 г.)\n 1913 г. – Шек Кин, китайски актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1915 г. – Бранко Чопич, югославски писател († 1984 г.)\n 1919 г. – Джеръм Дейвид Селинджър, американски писател († 2010 г.)\n 1920 г. – Елпида Караманди, комунистическа партизанка († 1942 г.)\n 1923 г. – Въло Радев, български режисьор († 2001 г.)\n 1927 г. – Върнън Смит, професор по икономика\n 1927 г. – Морис Бежар, френски балетист и хореограф († 2007 г.)\n 1931 г. – Първан Стефанов, български поет, преводач и драматург († 2012 г.)\n 1932 г. – Димитри Иванов, български журналист\n 1932 г. – Иван Кирков, български художник († 2010 г.)\n 1933 г. – Светозар Русинов, български композитор и музикален педагог († 2000 г.)\n 1934 г. – Пенка Павлова, българска народна певица († 2020 г.)\n 1937 г. – Здравко Кисьов, български поет и преводач († 2015 г.)\n 1938 г. – Жимакс, италиански автомобилен състезател\n 1942 г. – Ане Дуден, германска писателка\n 1944 г. – Латинка Петрова, българска комедийна актриса\n 1944 г. – Омар ал-Башир, президент на Судан\n 1945 г. – Рюдигер Сафрански, германски писател\n 1945 г. – Джеки Икс, белгийски пилот от Формула 1\n 1946 г. – Гювен Хокна, турска актриса\n 1950 г. – Пламен Масларов, български режисьор († 2010 г.)\n 1952 г. – Миле Китич, босненски певец\n 1954 г. – Ричард Гибсън, британски актьор\n 1959 г. – Абдул Мохманд, първият афганистански космонавт\n 1959 г. – Мишел Онфре, френски философ\n 1960 г. – Алексей Въжманавин, руски шахматист († 2000 г.)\n 1963 г. – Дражен Ладич, хърватски футболист\n 1965 г. – Иван Кръстев, български политолог\n 1966 г. – Ивица Дачич, министър-председател на Сърбия\n 1968 г. – Давор Шукер, хърватски футболист\n 1970 г. – Христо Бонин, български артист\n 1972 г. – Лилиан Тюрам, френски футболист\n 1974 г. – Хамилтон Рикард, колумбийски футболист\n 1979 г. – Мохамед Хомос, египетски футболист\n 1982 г. – Давид Налбандиян, аржентински тенисист\n 1983 г. – Даниел Харке, испански футболист († 2009 г.)\n 1984 г. – Паоло Гереро, перуански футболист\n 1986 г. – Колин Морган, ирландски актьор\n 1992 г. – Джак Уилшър, английски футболист\n 1992 г. – Хазар Ергючлю, турска актриса\n 1995 г. – Сердар Азмун, ирански футболист\n 1996 г. – Андреас Перейра, бразилски футболист\n 1999 г. – Джанлука Скамака, италиански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 138 г. – Луций Елий, римски император (* 101 г.)\n 379 г. – Василий Велики, православен учител (* 330 г.)\n 898 г. – Одо, херцог на Франция и граф на Париж (* 860 г.)\n 1432 г. – Александру чел Бун, молдовски войвода (* 14 век)\n 1515 г. – Луи XII, крал на Франция (* 1462 г.)\n 1559 г. – Кристиан III, крал на Дания и Норвегия (* 1503 г.)\n 1560 г. – Жоашен дю Беле, френски поет (* 1522 г.)\n 1561 г. – Педро де Урсуа, испански конкистадор (* 1526 г.)\n 1748 г. – Йохан Бернули, швейцарски математик (* 1667 г.)\n 1763 г. – Харитон Лаптев, руски изследовател (* 1700 г.)\n 1782 г. – Йохан Кристиан Бах, германски композитор (* 1735 г.)\n 1817 г. – Мартин Клапрот, германски химик и минералог (* 1743 г.)\n 1850 г. – Хайнрих Фридрих Линк, германски ботаник (* 1767 г.)\n 1881 г. – Луи Огюст Бланки, френски социален публицист (* 1805 г.)\n 1894 г. – Неделя Петкова, българска просветителка (* 1826 г.)\n 1894 г. – Хайнрих Херц, германски физик (* 1857 г.)\n 1929 г. – Емил Бордел, френски скулптор (* 1851 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Далкалъчев, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1932 г. – Добри Петков, български политик (* 1859 г.)\n 1934 г. – Якоб Васерман, германски писател (* 1873 г.)\n 1941 г. – Петър Попарсов, български революционер и общественик (* 1868 г.)\n 1966 г. – Петър Манджуков, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1972 г. – Морис Шевалие, френски актьор (* 1888 г.)\n 1980 г. – Степан Шчипачов, руски поет (* 1899 г.)\n 1984 г. – Здравко Милев, български шахматист (* 1929 г.)\n 1988 г. – Николай Дончев, български писател – франкофон (* 1898 г.)\n 1992 г. – Грейс Хопър, американски информатик (* 1906 г.)\n 1994 г. – Вернер Шваб, австрийски писател (* 1958 г.)\n 1995 г. – Юджин Уигнър, унгарски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. (* 1902 г.)\n 1998 г. – Хелън Уилс Мууди, американска тенисистка (* 1905 г.)\n 2009 г. – Йоханес Марио Зимел, австрийски писател (* 1924 г.)\n 2012 г. – Киро Глигоров, първи президент на Република Македония (* 1917 г.)\n 2015 г. – Омар Карами, ливански политик (* 1934 г.)\n 2020 г. – Силва Зурлева, български журналист (* 1958 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на молитвата за мир – Отбелязва се от 1967 г. Обявен от папа Павел Шести в рамките на католическата общност.\n Ден на световното семейство – Чества се от 2007 г. по инициатива на американската фондация „Световно семейство“ с подкрепата на Конгреса (Парламента) на САЩ и на Общото събрание на ООН като ден на мира и разбирателството между хората и народите, за обединението на човечеството в едно световно семейство.\n Нова година – Първи ден от Григорианския календар\n Православна църква – Ден на Свети Василий Велики (Васильовден: Василовден, Василица, Василия, Сурваки, Сурва, Сурува, Суроздру) – именници: Васил, Василка, Веселин, Веселина, Весела, Веска, Василена, Василиса, Вълко, Вълка, Вълкан, Вълкана)\n Бруней – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1984 г., национален празник)\n Камерун – Ден на независимостта (от Франция и Великобритания, 1960 г., национален празник)\n Китай – Ден на република Китай\n Куба – Празник на свободата (1959 г., национален празник)\n Самоа – Ден на независимостта (от Нова Зеландия, 1962 г.)\n Словакия – Ден на република Словакия (1993 г.)\n Судан – Ден на независимостта (от Франция и Египет, 1956 г., национален празник)\n Тайван – Създаване на Република Китай (1912 г.)\n Танзания – Ден на засаждането\n Хаити – Ден на независимостта (от Франция, 1804 г., национален празник)\n Чехия – Ден на република Чехия (1993 г.)\n\n101"
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        "text": "Baptists and Calvinism: A Brief Reply to Dr. Garrett\nAugust 6, 2007 Michael A.G. Haykin\nIn a recent series of articles on Baptists and Calvinism, Dr. James Leo Garrett, Jr., has produced a good overview of some of the key issues that Baptists have faced regarding Calvinism over the centuries of their existence. I deeply appreciated the irenicism of the articles, the passion for missions and the finely nuanced scholarship. Dr. Garrett correctly points that “Baptists have not been in total agreement on these issues.”[1] Nor have Baptist historians always been in agreement about how to interpret Calvinism in Baptist life. I was especially intrigued by some of Dr. Garrett’s remarks regarding eighteenth-century English Baptist life. The bane of Hyper-Calvinism He argues first of all that Hyper-Calvinism was the bane of missions in certain quarters of English Baptist life in the eighteenth century. In his words:\n“When the learned John Gill in London was teaching the tenets of Dort and some of the teachings of Hyper-Calvinism, the Particular Baptists were in a deplorable state of spiritual decline and apathy. It took a casting off of Hyper-Calvinism and an overhauling of Dortian Calvinism to bring Particular Baptists into the Evangelical Revival and to the point of leading the modern Protestant missionary movement. Moreover it has been the evangelical or missionary form of Calvinism that in the providence of God through William Carey and Andrew Fuller and Charles Haddon Spurgeon and John Leadley Dagg propelled Baptists from a tiny minority sect to a major Christian denomination. Hence the teachings of Dort do matter inasmuch as there are effects of such teachings.”[2] Now, it is important to realize that in the eighteenth century Gill’s teaching was not uniform throughout the English Baptist denomination. There was the vital Calvinistic Baptist tradition associated with the Bristol Baptist Academy, for instance, that preserved a rich balance between the sovereignty of God and evangelism. The Academy produced remarkable Evangelical Calvinists like the younger Andrew Gifford (1700-1784), who supported George Whitefield, Benjamin Francis (1734-1799), an indefatigable evangelist, and Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795), who knew revival in the town where his ministry was centred, Bourton-on-the-Water. Moreover, while there is little doubt that there was decline among many Baptist quarters in England during this period—especially seen in London, Yorkshire, the East Anglian counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and the area covered by the Northamptonshire Association—to fix the blame chiefly on Gill and his “Dortian Calvinism” is an over-simplification.[3] Russell E. Richey, for instance, points out that there were ongoing legal restrictions, which effectively confined Baptist preaching to the meeting house.[4] Deryck W. Lovegrove, on the other hand, locates the real problem of Baptists during this period in the matter of their isolation. “The very strength of independency,” he notes, “the internal cohesion of the gathered church, became its weakness as geographical remoteness conspired with autonomy and lack of common purpose to foster numerical decline.”[5] And Isabel Rivers sees a loss of identity as a key factor in the decline of the Baptists. Speaking about the dissenters in general, she states: “The experience of…persecution and heroic leadership must have given a sense of identity and commitment to the nonconformists not shared by the succeeding generations of dissenters.”[6] In short, the decline of the Baptists during the early and mid-eighteenth century cannot be easily attributed to simply one cause.[7] As the studies of Richey, Lovegrove and Rivers indicate, there were a variety of factors at work: political and sociological, as well as theological. Recent historiographical approaches demand that we consider not simply the realm of ideas in analyzing denominational history but also the social and political climate. Yet, Garrett is not wrong to point out that there was decline. Andrew Fuller, who, as Garrett notes, was instrumental in the revitalization of the Baptists in the final decades of the century, summed up this situation of decline in his own inimitable style when he declared: “Had matters gone on but for a few years, the Baptists would have become a perfect dunghill in society.”[8] But, it is vital for Baptist historians to ask this: is Fuller here speaking in strict statistical terms of every nook and cranny of the denomination, or making a more general observation? One of the myths in Baptist history has been to take Fuller’s words as totally applicable to the entire denomination in England.\nWas Andrew Fuller a Calvinist? Then, in a later article, “How prominent Baptists stack up: Have leading Baptist theologians affirmed teachings of Dortian Calvinism?”, Garrett makes the following comment about Andrew Fuller’s own commitment to Calvinism: according to Garrett, Fuller “strongly advocated repentance and faith as duties,” but he “supported only two of Dortian Calvinism’s five points[,] limited atonement and irresistible grace.”[9] These remarks are very curious and have no basis in Fuller’s works. Fuller was a five-point Calvinist through and through. Yes, he did argue, against Hyper-Calvinism, that repentance and faith were duties. Hyper-Calvinists had argued that sinners are unable to do anything spiritually good, and thus are under no obligation to exercise faith in Christ. They supported their argument by reference to such texts as John 6:44 (“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him”) and 1 Corinthians 2:14 (“the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”). The inability of which these passages speak, Fuller contended in response, is a moral inability, which is rooted in the sinful disposition of the heart. Men and women refuse to come to Christ because of their aversion to him. They fail to understand the gospel and the things of the Spirit because they lack the means by which such matters are understood, namely, the presence of the indwelling Spirit. And they lack the Spirit because their hearts are closed to God. These verses are not speaking of a physical inability—such as insanity or mental deficiency—which excuses its subject of blame.[10] In making this distinction between physical and moral inability, which Fuller derived from Jonathan Edwards, Fuller was seeking to affirm a scriptural paradox: sinful men and women are utterly powerless to turn to God except through the regenerative work of God’s Holy Spirit, yet this powerlessness is the result of their own sinful hearts.[11] In other words, Fuller takes seriously the Scriptures’ affirmation of the total/radical depravity of the human heart. This led Fuller to address the role of the Spirit’s work in conversion. Hyper-Calvinists argued that if repentance and faith are ascribed by the Scriptures to the work of the Spirit, then “they cannot be duties required of sinners.” As Fuller points out, though, the force of this objection is dependent upon the supposition that “we do not stand in need of the Holy Spirit to enable us to comply with our duty.” What is amazing about this supposition is that Arminianism assumes the same. For the Arminian, because faith is commanded of sinners by God, then they must be able to believe without the irresistible drawing of the Spirit. Similarly, the Hyper-Calvinist reasons that since faith is wrought by the Spirit it cannot be an act of obedience. The truth of the matter, however, is that “we need the influence of the Holy Spirit to enable us to do our duty” and that “repentance and faith, therefore, may be duties, notwithstanding their being the gifts of God.”[12] Fuller thus affirmed the biblical via media on this issue. In his confession of faith that he made when he was inducted into his second pastoral charge, at Kettering in 1783, Fuller maintained that he believed in “the doctrine of eternal personal election and predestination” and that “those who are effectually called of God never fall away so as to perish everlastingly, but persevere in holiness till they arrive at endless happiness.”[13] It is a Baptist urban myth that Fuller abandoned his Calvinistic heritage. He affirmed it to the end of his earthly life.\nDistinct proof of this can be found when Fuller came to die in 1815, in a last letter to his close friend, John Ryland, Jr. (1753-1825), in which he affirmed his belief in the perseverance of the saints. After quoting a portion of 2 Timothy 1:12, Fuller went on to say:\n“I am a poor, guilty creature; but Christ is an almighty Saviour. I have preached and written much against the abuse of the doctrine of grace; but that doctrine is all my salvation and all my desire. I have no other hope, than from salvation by mere sovereign, efficacious grace, through the atonement of my Lord and Saviour. With this hope, I can go into eternity with composure.”[14]\nWhat I love about Andrew Fuller is this wholehearted commitment to the doctrines of grace and his passion for missions. He did not compromise either. And in so doing, he proved to be a safe guide for Baptists today.\n[1] James Leo Garrett, Jr., “A question facing Baptist churches: Does Dortian Calvinism really matter?”, The Alabama Baptist (Thursday, August 2, 2007) (http://www.al.com/living/alabamabaptist/index.ssf?/base/living/118581125997920.xml&coll=8; accessed august 6, 2007).\n[2] Garrett, Jr., “A question facing Baptist churches.”\n[3] Deryck W. Lovegrove, Established Church, Sectarian People. Itineracy and the transformation of English Dissent, 1780-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 7; B.R. White, “Reviews: H. Leon McBeth, The Baptist Heritage: Four centuries of Baptist witness”, The Baptist Quarterly, 32 (1987-1988), 256.\n[4] “Effects of Toleration on Eighteenth-Century Dissent”, The Journal of Religious History, 8 (1974-1975), 350-363. There were exceptions, of course. Between 1688 and 1705 William Mitchel and David Crosley (1669-1744) evangelized towns and villages throughout east Lancashire and West Yorkshire from their base at Rossendale. For further details, see W.E. Blomfield, “Yorkshire Baptist Churches in the 17th and 18th Centuries” in The Baptists of Yorkshire (2nd ed.; Bradford/London; Wm. Byles & Sons Ltd./London: Kingsgate Press, 1912), 73-88; Ian Sellers, ed., Our Heritage. The Baptists of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire (Leeds: The Yorkshire Baptist Association/The Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association, 1987), 10-11.\n[5] Established Church, Sectarian People, 7.\n[6] Reason, Grace, and Sentiment. A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), I, 169.\n[7] Barrie R. White, Letter to the author, May 6, 1991.\n[8] Cited Simon Valentine, “A wrestler who fought the Devil”, Baptist Times, 7297 (March 1, 1990), 6.\n[9] James Leo Garrett, Jr., “How prominent Baptists stack up: Have leading Baptist theologians affirmed teachings of Dortian Calvinism?”, The Alabama Baptist (Thursday, August 2, 2007) (http://www.al.com/living/alabamabaptist/index.ssf?/base/living/118581123097920.xml&coll=8)\n[10] The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation in The Complete Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, revised Joseph Belcher (1845 ed.; repr. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Sprinkle Publications, 1988), 2:376-379.\n[11] James E. Tull, Shapers of Baptist Thought (1972 ed.; repr. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1984), 90.\n[12] Works, 2:379-380.\n[13] Confession of Faith VIII and XIV in Michael A.G. Haykin, ed., The Armies of the Lamb: The spirituality of Andrew Fuller (Dundas, Ontario: Joshua Press, 2001), 276, 279.\n[14] Cited John Ryland, The Work of Faith, the Labour of Love, and the Patience of Hope Illustrated; in the Life and Death of the Reverend Andrew Fuller (London: Button & Son, 1816), 544-546.\nIn 18th Century\n← Andrew Fuller Conference Two Weeks AwayTheology Fashionistas and CH Spurgeon →"
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        "text": "A Wild Soul\n0 March 31, 2009 Musings\nHow do you put evil on trial?\nTwo days ago the tribunal in charge of processing Cambodia’s genocide sat down to meet for the first time to try to make sense of the 1.7 million deaths that occurred between 1975-1979 under the Khmer Rouge. Delayed thirty years by civil war and conflict, the tribunal seeks to bring justice, understanding, and closure to the horrendous crimes committed so long ago. But how do you measure evil, and who do you blame? Pol Pot, the obvious choice, died in 1998. Then there are his closest advisers, there are those who physically murdered people, and those who just as they say, “ran the trains” (an expression that has come to represent those who followed orders who might not have directly murdered anyone, but participated in the genocide).\nToday, Kaing Guek Eav (Duch), the Khmer Rouge’s chief torturer, took the stand. Duch was in charge of one of the prisons that orchestrated as many as 16,000 deaths. The leaders of the prison were systematic- they took a picture of each victim before torturing them to death. The evidence is there. After the tribunal read through gruesome details, Duch was given an opportunity to speak. He took the time to apologize to his nation for the crimes he committed. Hundreds of people watched from behind a glass window. Among them sat victims, and family members of victims who did not survive.\nCambodia has no death penalty, but Duch is facing life in prison for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and murder. After his apology, Duch explained that he carried out his “duty” to protect his family, but that he takes “responsibility for crimes committed at S-21, especially the tortures and executions of the people there.” He also requested the people to “leave an open window for [him] to seek forgiveness.”\nDuch’s lawyer argued that Duch is a scapegoat, and the court should turn its attention to those with more blood on their hands.\nThe Cambodian Prime Minister has been accused of limiting the tribunal because of politics. Hun Sen, the Prime Minister and a former Khmer Rouge officer (yes, really?), said that he does not approve of the court and hopes that it runs of out of money “as soon as possible.”\nThe Prime Minister’s attitude represents a greater issue facing Cambodia- the entire country’s apparent lack of understanding, knowledge, and justice regarding the genocide. Children growing up in Cambodia do not learn about the tragedy in school although it is vital to their history, and one teenager went so far as to say, “I’m not interested… I’m busy and I don’t want to know.”\nWhat does this do for the survivors, and how will this affect the next generation? This tribunal is monumental, and of the utmost importance, and I will continue to follow it. I urge you to do the same, and to learn about what happened. There are many different kinds of genocide, and the genocide that occurred in Cambodia was unique and led to the term “autogenocide” which means the extermination of country’s citizens by its own people or government. Autogenocide differs from “genocide” in that people are not targeted and killed as the “other” as was the case in Nazi Germany, but as the same.\nI wish I had time to share more about Cambodia’s history (after taking a class on Genocide a few months ago I had hoped to write a paper on what I learned, and that’s still in the works) but this is a great website to learn about the history.\nCategories: Musings Tags: 1975-1979, apology, autogenocide, autogenocide vs. genocide, blame, Cambodia, closure, Duch, evil, forgiveness, Genocide, Hun Sen, justice, Khmer Rouge, Prime Minister, torture, trial, tribunal\n« Genocide (1)\nTwitter Protest, Using Technology to Create Social Change »\nCopyright© 2019 · All Materials by Julia DeSantis"
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        "text": "Joe Azcue (#176)\nHere is Indians' #1 catcher Joe Azcue. I didn’t realize until looking at the back of the card today that Joe played for the Reds and Athletics before joining the Tribe. (Odd that Baseball-Reference.com uses a photo of Joe in an A’s cap. He played 594 games with Cleveland, while only 74 with Kansas City.)\nAzcue was a catcher in the Reds' farm system from 1956 to 1960, also playing 14 games with Cincinnati in the final 2 months of 1960. He was purchased by the Braves in December 1960, but spent the entire '61 season in the minors.\nOne year after coming to the Braves, he moved on to the Athletics (with 3rd baseman Ed Charles and outfielder Manny Jimenez) for pitcher Bob Shaw and infielder Lou Klimchock.\nAzcue shared the Athletics' starting catcher job with veteran Haywood Sullivan in 1962, then was traded to the Indians in May 1963 (with shortstop Dick Howser) for catcher Doc Edwards and $100,000.\nWait… Azcue AND Howser for DOC EDWARDS? Who was the Athletics' GM? No wonder they were so bad for so long!\nJoe was the Indians' top catcher for the next 6 seasons (1963-68). For most of that time he platooned with Johnny Romano (and later Duke Sims), but managed to start more games than any other catcher each year. He made the All-Star team in 1968, his last full season with Cleveland.\nWith rookie Ray Fosse transitioning into a starting role in 1969, Azcue was traded to the Red Sox two weeks into the season. The Indians obtained pitchers Dick Ellsworth and Juan Pizarro, and 1B/OF Ken Harrelson in exchange for Azcue and pitchers Sonny Siebert and Vicente Romo.\nAfter only 2 months (and 19 games) with Boston, Joe was flipped to the Angels for backup catcher Tom Satriano. Azcue replaced the tandem of Satriano and Tom Egan as the team's #1 catcher, starting 75 of the remaining 108 games in 1969.\nIn 1970 he started 2/3 of the games, to Egan’s 1/3. After sitting out the entire 1971 season with a contract dispute, he returned in 1972 but by then the Angels had moved on to John Stephenson.\n(Oh please… I’m trying to keep a straight face as I typed that!) Azcue only played 3 games with the Angels in 1972, while spending most of that season’s first half in the minors.\nIn late July 1972 he and infielder Syd O'Brien were traded to the Brewers for catcher Paul Ratliff and infielder Ron Clark. Joe only appeared in 11 games for the Brewers in the season's final 2 months, then played for the Indians’ double-A team in 1973 before retiring.\nPosted by Jim from Downingtown at 10:43 PM\nLabels: ...debut: 1960, ...I learned something today, .Indians, Joe Azcue\nDissecting the 1969 Set"
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        "text": "New pictures from Ironman Hawaii and XTerra Maui online!\nPictures from Ironman Hawaii are online!\nThe SuperSeal Triathlon (1.5K ocean swim, 40K bike, 10K run) took place on Coronado Island, just off the coast of San Diego, California yesterday morning. The race featured a cold ocean swim, an exposed and windy bike course, followed by a soft sand and pavement run route."
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        "text": "Contact AP\nThe RISE Centre\nHockey…Hockey…Hockey!\nApril 23, 2014 April 23, 2014 Robin\nCongratulations Dundas Real McCoy's on your 2014 Allan Cup Victory! The entire week was full of energy from the volunteers, organizers and teams. I had a great time shooting for Hamilton Scores \"The voice of the #HamOnt amateur sport community\". All my photographs from the event can be viewed at www.Presentitphoto.com (Direct Link-2014 Allan Cup) Please enjoy my favourite picks from the tournament.\nLast year I posted about the Real McCoy's because they sponsored the newly added Atom Select team. Since adopted by the DMHA they were known as the Dundas Jr. Real McCoy's. Being part of a small community it is nice to have the boys mentored by an amazing group of local hockey players. The McCoy's sponsored the boys who were in hockey limbo and gave time to run a very special practice. Read More: They Sure Are the Real McCoy | Hockey Links\nOn a personal note, my little guy tried out for rep that year and didn't make it. The coach of the Atom Selects was a former Real McCoy's player giving his time to share the love of the game. A wonderful parent network and commitment to the team led to lifetime experiences for our boys. These moments add growth to our children and deepens the ambition to be better hockey players. In my sons case, he wanted to try out for the rep team again. Once again he didn't make it. In light of some events he was asked to join the team. He had a great hockey year and the team building experiences are unforgettable. Now that hockey tryouts are around the corner, he has come to play. The Allan Cup Championship game has momentum that is inspiring to a young athlete. Mentorship is not only a one time moment, it is an ongoing connection and relationship.\nThe feedback from the 2014 Allan Cup by community members give a sense of loyalty and pride. I am pleased to present this video from the Championship day!\nIt was an extremely busy week. Just coming out of the OBA's in Windsor my computer hard drive failed. Creative Technologies in Burlington has worked hard to get me up and running. I hope to have a newly revised machine by the end of the week. Now among all that my daughter caught that awful hacking cold and was off school all week, my son had multiple sports-lessons and his birthday celebrations, I was shooting tons of hockey, my colleague from the Syracuse Crunch was in town to shoot the Bulldogs and I was hosting Easter Dinner. Needless to say I stopped to smell the roses in the beautiful flower bouquet from by sweetheart. Ahhhhhhhhh got it all done though!\nPhoto Above: Transway Bantam Girls Emotional Celebration Reclaiming their Provincial title at the OBA's\nAs I wind down from hockey season, I will be processing the last of the images and putting together a portfolio specific to hockey. Dave Black, SI photographer said my football is strong, but where is all the hockey? If I'm from Canada I should have more hockey in my portfolio. Well ya gotta listen and do when someone like Dave gives you advice. OH and I am very excited...no wait jumpy excited to meet with Dave Sandford-NHL photographer to gain some valuable photographic advice. It's kinda funny because I first met Dave Sandford back in 1997 at an event I was running. Yesterday when I was going through some photos I found this one one of a future NHL'r from the Whitby area. Jason Ward played in the OLA Celebrity Lacrosse Challenge. Here he is with NHL greats (L-R backrow: Adam Foot, Gary Roberts, Jason Ward, Joe Nieuwendyk, Colin Patterson. L-R Front Row: Darren Pang, Doug Gilmore, Brendan Shanahan, Stan Johnathan) all played lacrosse to improve their hockey skills.\nAt the time I was the Marketing Director for the OLA. I was just starting out as a photographer back then on film and we hired a professional photographer for the event to take the team shots. Such a small world to come full circle, live in a small town, support our local team and find a photo with some history. Photo: Real McCoy, Jason Ward (1997) and NHL Celebrities\nThe Hamilton Bulldogs (1) finished their season with a loss to the Syracuse Crunch (3) on April 20th, 2014 at FirstOntario Centre. Shout Out: Thank you Brandon Taylor, Hamilton Bulldogs photographer for sharing the glass and strobes all season. From beginning to end, it was so much fun to work with you.\nPhoto: Hamilton Bulldog, Mike Blunden fires one off at the Syracuse in the final game of the season. View Photos Here: http://presentitphoto.com/hamilton_bulldogs\nOne last shout out...THANK YOU DMHA for the feedback on the 2013- 2014 Yearbook. The positive response and the enjoyment the membership has shared has been overwhelming. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Amy Yanover, DMHA Sponsorship bent over backwards to keep the deadlines and we accomplished amazing things together as a team. It is a true pleasure to design and include my own photographs for the Dundas hockey community to enjoy for a lifetime. \"The yearbooks are great...very glossy, colourful and professional! Thank you!\"...\"Awesome yearbook cover!\"...\"The yearbook is awesome and a great keepsake for our family...\"Best Yearbook EVER!!!\"...\nLooking for a team photographer/event contract position for next season please contact me\nPowered by Cincopa Video Hosting solution.\nTAG US #aerialpromotions @aerialpromotions #presentitphoto @presentitphoto\nSocial Media Please like us onfacebook, follow us on twitter and comment on our photographs/design on our blog. 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        "text": "« Back to homepage\nBruins Blog\nBoston Sports Blog\nCollege Sports Blog\nBob Ryan\nDan Shaughnessy\nTony Massarotti\nChristopher Gasper\nGlobe 10.0\nGlobe SportsWire\nBaseball /\nBaseball Notes\nProtection has become part of the package\nBy Nick Cafardo\nJason Bay, in his short time here, seemed to be a nice guy. His demeanor and his performance reminded me of Nick Esasky, who in one year (1989) with the Red Sox hit 30 homers, drove in 108 runs, and batted .277 while playing a decent first base.\nThe difference is that Esasky wanted out of Boston to be closer to his Georgia home, so he signed a free agent deal with Atlanta, where he unfortunately developed vertigo (or something like it) and was out of baseball at age 31.\nBay wanted to stay in Boston. He liked the small ballpark, which was the best place for him offensively and defensively. The wear and tear on his knees and shoulder here would have been far less than it will be in the expanse of Citi Field. All common sense.\nSo don’t believe the hooey from his news conference when he said New York is where he always wanted to be (in a ballpark where righthanded hitters go to die). Basically, it was the only place he could go after the Red Sox dared do their medical diligence and found things in his knees and shoulder that raised red flags in the minds of some of the best orthopedic doctors in America.\nBay elected to clear the air with WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford Friday, laying out a timeline of events. He said the Sox wanted him to have knee surgery - even though his knee didn’t hurt - to kick in a new four-year, $60 million deal, a provision that, according to Bay’s version, the team retracted in later offers. The Sox wanted medical provisions to protect them, and Bay and his agent balked, especially after two other medical opinions disagreed with Boston’s findings.\nThe Sox will likely not be able to come back and challenge Bay on his story because of the HIPAA Act, which prohibits them from disclosing medical information. But judging by some of the things I’ve heard on Yawkey Way the last couple of days, they seem to think Bay’s story is a little fuzzy in some areas. Quite frankly, they don’t want to engage in a he said/he said scenario with a player who has moved on and said is very “happy’’ and has “no regrets.’’ Evidently, he has a few.\nIt doesn’t really matter if a second opinion or third opinion or 10th opinion all disagreed with the conclusions of Thomas Gill, who has served the Patriots and Red Sox quite well as team doctor. The fact is, Gill had concerns, the same concerns he had when he insisted that J.D. Drew’s contract contain a provision that if he should spend more than 35 days on the disabled list because of an existing right shoulder condition, the Sox could void the contract after the 2010 season. This is a provision that Scott Boras, Drew’s agent, agreed to.\nThe Sox also insisted on a provision in John Lackey’s deal that if he has elbow surgery at any time he is under contract, the Sox have the option of bringing him back for a sixth year at the major league minimum salary. Lackey agreed to the deal.\nGill is the same doctor who after looking over Pedro Martinez’s medical history advised the Sox that, based on what he saw, Martinez would likely break down and have a major shoulder issue. Well, about 1 1/2 years into his contract with the Mets - the same Mets who have signed off on Bay’s issues - guess what happened.\nThe Sox had concerns about Curt Schilling entering that final year of his deal but went against their better judgment and picked up the $8 million option feeling a sense of gratitude to Schilling, who had helped bring them a world championship in 2004.\nI’m guessing the Sox will require medical provisions in future contract discussions with Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon, both of whom have had shoulder issues. And if they balk, don’t be surprised if they leave for teams that are more lenient on such matters.\nAre the Sox going too far? Are they being too cautious when other doctors opine that Bay will be fine?\nThe bottom line is . . . the bottom line. It’s the Sox who are paying the millions, so if they have concerns, that’s really all that matters.\nOver the next few years, we’ll see whether their concerns about Bay were warranted. We’ll see whether Bay continues to average 154 games. His sentiment, in his explanation to WEEI, was: If it’s not broken, why fix it? Fact is, the Sox felt it was broken or will be broken, and they wanted to fix it before the fixing would cost them valuable time without a slugger in the lineup.\nLike Esasky, Bay was a treat to watch when he was in a groove. He did disappear for lengthy periods, but power hitters are prone to do that, just as they are prone to high strikeout totals.\nWhat’s puzzling is that if he felt so confident about his physical condition, and understood how good Fenway and Boston were to him, why wouldn’t he go along with the medical provisions, just as some prominent teammates had? If the Sox - according to Bay’s version - were willing to go three guaranteed years and a fourth year with medical protection at $15 million per year, what was so offensive about that?\nThe Sox showed smart business sense. And Bay? Guess he did the same. He got his money with no strings attached, and in his words, he is “truly happy to put everything behind me and become a member of the New York Mets.’’\nHEARING LOSSES\nExamining the case against arbitration\nTal Smith, president of the Houston Astros and Tal Smith Enterprises, which represents many major league teams in arbitration cases, has seen his business dwindle over the years. Teams and agents would rather settle than argue the merits of their numbers. This is a far cry from the old days, when Jeremy Kapstein and Dennis Gilbert and Tom Reich and Dick Moss liked to get in there and battle for their clients.\nTeams are 49-25 in arbitrations against players since 1999, a sign that Smith had the upper hand. It’s a wonder why more teams don’t save themselves money by taking their case to a hearing. In 2008, only three cases went to hearings. The last double-digit hearing load came in 2001, with 14.\nThe Red Sox, who are 12-5 in arbitration, haven’t been to a hearing since 2002 - never in the Theo Epstein era. They have the resources to pay their players and avoid the process.\nBut some teams have been missing from the hearing room much longer. According to Smith, Cleveland hasn’t gone since 1991, the Cubs since 1993, the Blue Jays since 1997, the Brewers since 1998, and the Cardinals since 1999.\n“There are probably a number of reasons,’’ said Smith, a Framingham native. “Nobody likes to lose. And we’ve seen instances over the years where a player has fired an agent for losing in arbitration.\n“The teams don’t like what they perceive as a contentious relationship with the player if they should beat him, but it’s been my experience - and I’ve done more than 150 cases - that it doesn’t have to be that way.\n“I remember I beat Barry Bonds twice and Barry, every time I saw him, was certainly not happy about the result but didn’t hold it against me.’’\nIt seems that teams simply don’t have the stomach to pursue it all the way, but Smith has a potential monster this season in Tim Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young winner who is asking for $13 million while the Giants are coming in at $8 million. It’ll be interesting to see whether the Giants will go all the way. Lincecum is their superstar, and going all the way might be viewed as challenging him.\nSmith wonders why more teams don’t take advantage of the process, though he concedes it is designed to compromise. Asked whether teams felt it was too expensive to go, Smith said he charges expenses only if he loses a case and a percentage of the difference if he wins, so the process itself isn’t of great expense to teams. Some teams do their arbitration calculations in house, which reduces the cost even more.\nIs it that nobody likes a good fight anymore?\n“I think the cases now are far more complicated and elaborate than they used to be,’’ Smith said. “There are more statistics, more graphs, and there’s more to the presentation than way back when.\n“I think at one point Scott Boras said he spent $150,000 to put a case together. Way back, the agents would come in and have a legal pad and just read off their notes. Back then, there also wasn’t as much at stake.’’\nTHE BACK BAY BOMBERS\nSox lead the majors in home run hitters\nThe Sox will head into spring training with nine players on the roster who have hit 25 or more homers in a season, the most of any team. Six of the nine are starters, which is as many as the Yankees have. One of the nine is Mike Lowell, who will likely be moved before the end of spring training.\nThe Sox also have more moderate power in Jeremy Hermida, whose high is 18 homers; Dustin Pedroia, who hit 17 in his MVP season; Jacoby Ellsbury, who some feel is going to begin cranking more homers, like a Johnny Damon; and Marco Scutaro, who hit a dozen for the Blue Jays last season and is expected to hit more at Fenway.\nThose who have hit 25 are Lowell, Victor Martinez, Kevin Youkilis, David Ortiz, J.D. Drew, Mike Cameron, Jason Varitek, Bill Hall, and Adrian Beltre, and that includes big years such as 54 by Ortiz in 2006, 48 by Beltre with the Dodgers in 2004, and 35 by Hall with the Brewers in 2006.\nAmong the Yankees starters, only left fielder Brett Gardner hasn’t reached the 20-homer mark. Derek Jeter and Nick Johnson have surpassed 20 but have never reached 25.\nThe Red Sox, Yankees, Angels, Twins, and Phillies are the only teams to have at least five starters who have hit 25. The Rangers have five overall, but one is super utility player Khalil Greene.\nOn the opposite end of the spectrum are the Pirates, who have no players that have hit 25 homers. The Padres have only one, Adrian Gonzalez, a player the Sox would love to add. Lowest in the AL are Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, and Seattle with two each.\nThe Sox say this was not part of any overall strategy, to create a team of home run hitters, but it sure did turn out that way.\n1. I find the Yankees’ treatment of Johnny Damon baffling; 2. Never heard so much anger coming from the mouths of Hall of Famers and other ex-players concerning Mark McGwire; 3. Get a lot of messages from Mets fans who believe their only salvation is if the Wilpons sell; 4. Mark Prior anyone?; 5. Orlando Cabrera can’t get a job?\nUpdates on nine\n1. Ben Sheets, RHP, free agent - The Sox were one of the teams that sent a scout to his workout in Louisiana last week, but one Sox source said it was unlikely they would be in the running. Sheets (left), who was throwing in the low 90s, would likely want a situation where he could be in the back end of a rotation until he got up to full health. The Mets remain the team with the biggest need.\n2. Ron Mahay, LHP, free agent - One major league scout wonders why more teams haven’t taken an interest in the former Sox outfielder/pitcher. “He pitched so much better once he left Kansas City and got to Minnesota,’’ said the scout. “I think the Twins gave him a more set role and he responded. He can still get people out and I’m sure he’s going to be on a major league roster before spring training.’’\n3. Miguel Batista, RHP, free agent - Batista, 38, can provide multiple innings as a middle guy. He went 7-4 with a 4.04 ERA in 56 games for the Mariners last season. While Batista can be a heart attack at times, “He’s still a very serviceable piece in your bullpen,’’ said a National League scout. “He’s a guy who has been around for a while that you could spot-start if you needed someone in that role.’’\n4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B, Tigers - Now we know why Cabrera (left) wasn’t in play this offseason: alcoholism treatment. The Tigers would have entertained offers for their slugger, as they wanted to pare payroll even more than they did. But with Cabrera in rehab, it was difficult for any team - including the Sox - to lay out talent for him and take on his $20 million-a-year contract. Cabrera could be in play by the trading deadline if things go well for him and if the Tigers don’t stay in the AL Central race.\n5. Carl Crawford, LF, Rays - The feeling is that if the Rays’ financial picture gets any gloomier, Crawford will be trade bait by the trading deadline or even earlier. In fact, both he and Carlos Pena could have new addresses at some point in the season.\n6. Grant Desme, OF, A’s - He got the “callup’’ last week. Not from Oakland, but from a higher place. A 2007 second-round pick and last season’s Arizona Fall League MVP, Desme retired from baseball to join the priesthood. He hit a combined .288 with 31 homers, 89 RBIs, and 40 steals at Single A affiliates Stockton and Kane County in 2009. In the Fall League, he hit .315 with 11 homers and 27 RBIs for the Phoenix Desert Dogs. He went out on top.\n7. Jim Thome, DH, free agent: There’s no doubt guys like Thome and Gary Sheffield can still hit. The Twins are trying to find a way to get Thome (left) as a DH. That would give them some impressive power with Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, Michael Cuddyer, and Jason Kubel at new Target Field, which has the same dimensions as the Metrodome. Thome spent the last few weeks of his season with the Dodgers as a pinch hitter, which seemed like a waste for someone who can still produce.\n8. Gary Matthews, OF, Mets - The Mets got themselves a motivated player in Matthews, who had a decent season in Texas in 2006 (.313, 19 HRs, 79 RBIs), which landed him a five-year, $50 million deal with the Angels. It was a big mistake by the Angels, who have been trying to cut their losses for some time. At the winter meetings, they entertained talks with the Sox on Mike Lowell for Matthews, but once Lowell’s thumb injury became a concern, that deal was pretty much dead. The Mets got $21 million to pay Matthews’s salary, so it isn’t a bad move to add protection for Carlos Beltran, who could miss a month of the season after knee surgery. This is a fresh start for Matthews, who believes he can still play at a high level.\n9. Joel Pineiro, RHP, Angels - Somewhere along the line, the Angels’ focus changed. After they lost John Lackey, they were determined to obtain another No. 1 starter (Roy Halladay), but that never materialized, so they opted for Pineiro, who many scouts believe was perfectly suited to stay in the NL. The Angels don’t seem to think Pineiro - who reinvented himself, as most pitchers do, under Dave Duncan in St. Louis - will find the American League any more daunting. “He’s certainly not a No. 1,’’ said an AL GM, “but he could be another middle-rotation guy. If you have enough of them, which they do, you might be able to piece together a good staff, even with the loss of Lackey.’’\nShort hops\nFrom the Bill Chuck files: “The pitcher with the highest W-L percentage, and at least 500 innings pitched, from 2000--09, was Jon Lester, whose 42-16 record gave him a percentage of .724. The leader with at least 600 innings pitched was Pedro Martinez, with a percentage of .691.’’ Also, “The last time Brian Shouse pitched for the Red Sox was May 6, 1998, against the Minnesota Twins. The last batter he faced was Twins first baseman David Ortiz, whom he struck out swinging.’’ . . . The New England Baseball Journal (baseballjournal.com) has made a nice debut . . . “Spaceman: A Baseball Odyssey,’’ a documentary about Bill Lee, airs on MLB Network tonight at 10 . . . Happy birthday to Cory Bailey (39) and Ted Cox (55).\nNick Cafardo can be reached at cafardo@globe.com; material from personal interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.\nRed Sox player search\nFind the latest stats and news on:\nYouk | Wakefield | Ellsbury | -- or pick a player -- Brian Anderson (#32, CF) Daniel Bard (#72, P) Aaron Bates (#50, 1B) Josh Beckett (#19, P) Michael Bowden (#64, P) Clay Buchholz (#61, P) Manny Delcarmen (#17, P) J.D. 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        "text": "Essay on atlantic slave trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade\nThe principal carriers were the Portuguese and their Brazilian colony Benin, however, restricted Portuguese influence and somewhat limited the trade in human beings. Slavery and Slave Trade occurred in variety of cultures for over thousand of years. Other smaller carriers including the Danes and the Americans share the rest of the trade. As a result of the slave trade, five times as many Africans arrived in the Americas than Europeans. False and negative views of Africa and Africans were used to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade and colonization.\nEssay on The Atlantic Slave Trade - Words | Bartleby\nThe Transatlantic Slave Trade\nThe Atlantic Slave Trade\nThe transatlantic slave trade: introduction\nA Study On Atlantic Slave Trade\nSimons Island in Africans were sold with little secrecy.\nToday there are tens of millions of people of African origin who, as a consequence of the forced removal of their ancestors, live in the Caribbean, the United States, Brazil and other countries in the Western Hemisphere, as well as elsewhere outside Africa.\nCambridge University Press, Figures for Upper Guinea,\" Paiduema, 39, Prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery had stood alive and…. In addition, the slave trade contributed to the growth of banking and insurance in Europe and provided the finance to develop European capitalist economies further.\nOn the African side most captives were traded from only a few ports: In addition to the millions of able-bodied individuals captured and transported, the death toll and the economic and environmental destruction resulting from wars and slave raids were startlingly high.\nMilitary goods, principally firearms, were also exchanged for captives. Others came from the Bight of Biafra and the Windward Coast. They still exist today in the form of racial stereotypes and prejudices and racist violence, as well as Eurocentric views about Africa, its peoples and their cultures.\nTheir status reflected essay on cafe terrace at night enslaved status of their mothers, no matter who their father might have been. So far slaves were being transported in small numbers to Portugal, Spain, as well as the Atlantic islands. In the Americas, besides the considerable riches their free labor created for others, the importation and subsequent enslavement of the Africans would be the major factor in the resettlement of the continents following the disastrous decline in their indigenous population.\nBesides its demographic toll, the slave trade, and the Africans' resistance to it, led to profound social and political changes. Their presence was especially pronounced in Louisiana, to which many Manding people - almost all males - had been transported.\nThe Middle Passage On the first leg of their three-part journey, often called the Triangular Trade, European ships brought manufactured goods to Africa; on the second, they transported African men, women, and children to the Americas; and on the third leg, they exported to Europe the sugar, rum, cotton, and tobacco produced by the enslaved labor force.\nCassell AcademicLovejoy, Paul E. Identity in the Shadow of Slavery London: The Clotilda landed more than a hundred men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria in the summer of at Mobile, Alabama. Resistance started in Africa, continued during the so-called Middle Passage and broke out again throughout the Americas.\nOne million people 7.\nJudicial and religious sanctions and punishments removed alleged criminals, people accused of witchcraft, and social misfits through enslavement and banishment. Women made up a relatively high number among those groups. However, an illegal trade continued for many years, and slavery itself was not abolished in some countries until the s. The slave trade was closely linked to the Europeans' insatiable hunger for gold, and the arrival of the Portuguese on the \" Gold Coast\" Ghana in the s tapped these inland sources.\nIn addition, European powers intervened in the political process to prevent the rise of the Essay on atlantic slave trade centralized states that would have hampered their operations. The jihad led to two major political transformations: The trade was a high-risk enterprise.\nIn Louisiana, they labored on sugarcane plantations. Since the slave trade went across political and cultural frontiers, there was little recourse to courts and governments in the event of commercial dishonesty.\nFinally, the increased exchange with Europeans and the fabulous wealth it brought enabled many states to cultivate sophisticated artistic traditions employing expensive and luxurious materials.\nHaiti's constitution was the first to recognise the human rights of all its citizens. Addiction to European commodities was the bait used in their strategy in which alcohol and firearms played a key role.\nMost of them were kidnapped on the coast of Northern Senegambia, notably in Wolof and Berber villages, and put to work on the Iberian islands where the Moors had previously developed rice and sugar cane plantations, using African and European slaves. Cambridge University Press, Traders could benefit immensely from theft, plunder, kidnapping, ransoming, and the sale of human beings as commodities.\nBaltimore Klein, Herbert S. The jihad movement continued into the nineteenth century, especially with the outbreak of war in in the Hausa states northern Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Usman dan Fodio. There was also a direct trade between Brazil and Angola that did not include the European leg. Therefore, nearly 90 percent of the Africans in these two major regions came from only four zones in Africa.\nIn the process, their technological and economic development was hindered as they devoted their energy to hiding and defending themselves. Muslims were particularly concerned with protecting the freedom of their co-religionists.\nBy the close of the fifteenth century, 10 percent of the population of Lisbon, Portugal, then one of the largest cities in Europe, was of African origin. For the first one hundred years, captives in small numbers were transported to Europe.\nIt was during this time when the beginning of the Black Diaspora would begin to manifest itself with the exportation of millions of the African populace to the Americas. But at a higher level, the political fragmentation - many small centralized states and federations governed through secret societies - made it virtually impossible to develop methods of government that could effectively resist the impact of the slave trade.\nThese individuals were human pawns who could be enslaved if debts were not paid.\nAfrica could not satisfy it since the slave market was too narrow. A Caribbean Perspective Philadelphia: West African Strategies Athens: Over time, the Portuguese vessels added another commodity to their cargo: However, in the 19th century some enslaved Africans were also transported across the Atlantic from parts of eastern and south-eastern Africa.\nEuropeans, on the other hand, generally exported essay on atlantic slave trade items such as alcohol, textiles and guns to Africa to be exchanged for African captives. The most significant of all these acts of resistance and self-liberation was the revolution in the French colony of St Domingue, now Haiti, in Dwellings were set on fire to increase confusion.\nWith the exception of the Gold Coast wars, guns played little role at first in local conflicts, due in part to the difficulty of keeping powder dry in tropical regions.\nAfrican states eager to augment their treasuries in some instances even preyed upon their own peoples by manipulating their judicial systems, condemning individuals and their families to slavery in order to reap the rewards of their sale to European traders.\nMiller, Joseph C. Cambridge University Press2nd ed. The corresponding impact on Africa was intensified as larger parts of west and central Africa came into the slavers' orbit.\nThe production of such items, as well as the construction of ships, shackles and other items connected with the slave trade, certainly contributed to the development of manufacturing in Europe. The Portuguese first saw the coast of Senegambia in In all probability, a large number of the many Africans whose origins are not known actually came from this area.\nThe personal identity of the captives was denied. Most came from the west-central area of Angola and Congo where languages - Kikongo, Kimbundu and culture often referred to as Bantu were closely related. Their goal was also to connect directly with the Asian market of silk and spices from which Europe was barred with the rise of the Ottoman Empire which controlled the Eastern Mediterranean sea.\nThe discovery of the New World boosted the European economy and marked the starting point of what one can call the \"African nightmare. The demand for labor resulted in numerous innovations, encouraged opportunists and entrepreneurs, and accrued deceptions and barbarities, upon which the slave trade rested. Images, maps of transatlantic slave trade routes, statistical data, critical analysis, and educational resources are available http: The slave trade resulted in the essay on happiness is considered very important in life of predatory regimes, as well as stagnation or regression.\nThe U. Slave Trade Act, enacted by a vote of 63 in favor and 49 against in Februarywas a half victory for the slavers because it specified that the Africans illegally brought to slaveholding states would still be sold and enslaved. These nine ports accounted for at least half of all the Africans deported to the Americas.\nConstitution stipulated that \"The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or essay on happiness is considered very important in life may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.\nAs recounted by a slave smuggler, it was an easy task: When these millions of people were physically removed from their homelands, they took with them their languages, beliefs, craftsmanship, skills, music, dance, art and other important elements of culture. New York: Herskovits, Melville J.\nBrazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico were essay on atlantic slave trade principal destinations for Africans, since they could no longer legally be brought into North America, the British or French colonies in the Caribbean, or the independent countries of Spanish America. Other smaller carriers including the Danes and the Americans share the rest of the trade.\nSenegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade Madison: Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa The negative impact of the international slave trade on Africa was immense.\nHowever, in reality, the Ancient civilizations of Egypt… The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Words 3 Pages The Trans-Atlantic slave occurred during the early sixteenth century and lasted until the beginning of the all the way to nineteenth century.\nForests of Gold: Depending on the times, upwards of 20 percent died from various epidemics or committed suicide. Ultimately, the international slave trade had lasting effects upon the African cultural landscape. Traders referred to the Africa-Americas part of the voyage as the \" Middle Passage\" and the term has survived to denote the Africans' ordeal.\nThe preservation and adaptation of African cultural forms to respond to the new needs of the enslaved population was also an act of resistance to the imposition of European norms. From the fine silver- and goldwork of Dahomey and the Asante court to the virtuoso wood carving of the Chokwe chiefdoms, these treasures are a vivid testimony of this turbulent period in African history.\nIn Angola and Senegambia, European merchants married or otherwise cohabited with local women, and these women sometimes amassed considerable fortunes as agents and merchants in their own right. Their mixed offspring became an intermediate class of merchants along the coast, but especially concentrated along the Upper Guinea Coast as far as Senegambia, and in Luanda, Benguela, and their commercial outposts in the interior of Angola.\nFrom Slave Trade to \"Legitimate\" Commerce: Alcohol essay on happiness is considered very important in life regarded as a luxury, except in Muslim communities, where it was prohibited.\nKlein, Martin. Working from their permanent colonies at Luanda, Benguela, and other coastal points, the Portuguese conducted joint military ventures into the hinterlands with their African allies. In the end, the slave trade left the continent underdeveloped, disorganized, and vulnerable to the next phase of European hegemony: Half came from west-central Africa, and more than 40 percent were originally from the Bights of Benin and Biafra, and Southeast Africa - Mozambique and Madagascar.\nOn board slave ships, essay on atlantic slave trade the midst of their oppression, the Africans, who were often as much strangers to each other as to their European captors, forged the first links with their new American identities. 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        "text": "1 февруари е 32-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 333 дни до края на годината (334 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1587 г. – Кралицата на Англия Елизабет I подписва смъртната присъда на Мария Стюарт.\n 1788 г. – В САЩ е патентован параходът.\n 1800 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт е провъзгласен за пожизнен консул чрез референдум на новата конституция.\n\n 1810 г. – Преброяването на населението в САЩ показва, че броят на жителите е 7,2 млн. души.\n 1851 г. – Извършено е изпитание на първата подводница („Le Plongeur-Marine“), конструирана от баварския офицер Вилхелм Бауер.\n 1905 г. – Основан е нидерландския футболен клуб АДО Ден Хааг в град Хага.\n 1926 г. – Образувана е Киргизка автономна република в състава на СССР.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Започва масирана атака на американската армия срещу японските сили, която завършва на 7 февруари с превземането на Маршалските острови.\n 1945 г. – Произнесени са и са изпълнени смъртните присъди срещу осъдените български политици по Дело № 1 на т.нар. Народен съд. До завършването на процесите на Народния съд през април 1945 на смърт са осъдени 2730 души. Датата 1 февруари 1945 г. остава в историята с най-масовото произнасяне на смъртни присъди над политици\n 1946 г. – Норвежкият дипломат Тригве Ли става първият Генерален секретар на ООН.\n 1950 г. – Народното събрание избира Вълко Червенков за министър-председател на България.\n 1957 г. – Главно управление на пътищата преминава към Министерството на комуналното стопанство и благоустройството и се преименува на Министерство на комуналното стопанство, благоустройството и пътищата.\n 1958 г. – Изстрелян е първият американски изкуствен спътник на Земята.\n 1958 г. – Египет и Сирия се обединяват във федерация, наречена Обединена арабска република, която просъществува до 1961 г.\n 1969 г. – С декларация на ръководителите на Югославия и Румъния се опровергава доктрината на Брежнев за приоритет на интересите на международното работническо движение над националните интереси.\n 1978 г. – Режисьорът от полски произход Роман Полански е принуден да емигрира от САЩ във Франция, след като е преследван от закона за секс с 13-годишно момиче.\n 1979 г. – В Техеран тържествено е посрещнат, след 15-годишно изгнание, завърналия се от Франция аятолах Хомейни.\n\n 1990 г. – Георги Атанасов подава оставка като Министър-председател на България.\n 1991 г. – Основана е българска търговска компания АНКА.\n 1991 г. – Цените на стоките в България са освободени и започват да се формират по механизмите на пазарната икономика.\n 1995 г. – България става асоцииран член на Европейския съюз.\n 2003 г. – Космическата совалка Колумбия се разпада при повторното си навлизане в атмосферата на Земята, като загиват всичките седем члена на екипажа.\n 2004 г. – По време на ислямското богомолство Хадж в Мека, при изпълняване на опасния ритуал Прогонване на дявола с камъни, паника причинява смъртта на 251 пилигрими.\n 2011 г. – България за пръв път отбелязва Ден за почит към жертвите на комунизма\n\nРодени \n\n 1834 г. – Кузман Шапкарев, български просветен деец († 1909 г.)\n 1837 г. – Михаил Хитрово, руски дипломат († 1896 г.)\n 1844 г. – Грандвил Стенли Хол, американски психолог († 1924 г.)\n 1860 г. – Густав Вайганд, германски езиковед († 1930 г.)\n 1870 г. – Йосиф Пречистански, български революционер († 1902 г.)\n 1872 г. – Смиле Войданов, български революционер († 1958 г.)\n 1874 г. – Хуго фон Хофманстал, австрийски поет († 1929 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Кръстев, български диригент и композитор († 1945 г.)\n 1882 г. – Владимир Димитров – Майстора, български живописец († 1960 г.)\n 1885 г. – Йордан Качаков, български политик († 1934 г.)\n 1892 г. – Гаврил Генов, български комунист († 1934 г.)\n 1894 г. – Джон Форд, американски режисьор († 1973 г.)\n 1899 г. – Алексей Бистров, руски учен († 1959 г.)\n 1900 г. – Пенчо Георгиев, български художник († 1940 г.)\n 1901 г. – Кларк Гейбъл, американски актьор († 1960 г.)\n 1902 г. – Лангстън Хюз, американски поет († 1967 г.)\n 1905 г. – Емилио Сегре, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1959 г. († 1989 г.)\n 1907 г. – Гюнтер Айх, германски поет († 1972 г.)\n 1915 г. – Стенли Матюс, английски футболист († 2000 г.)\n 1918 г. – Мюриъл Спарк, шотландска писателка († 2006 г.)\n 1923 г. – Генко Генков, български художник († 2006 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ивайла Вълкова, българска журналистка († 2008 г.)\n 1927 г. – Христо Недков, български музикант († 2010 г.)\n 1931 г. – Борис Елцин, първи президент на Русия († 2007 г.)\n 1939 г. – Клод Франсоа, френски певец († 1978 г.)\n 1942 г. – Тери Джоунс, британски актьор\n 1946 г. – Иван Кючуков, български футболист\n 1946 г. – Николай Михайлов, български политик\n 1949 г. – Михо Михов, български генерал\n 1949 г. – Руси Карабалиев, български режисьор\n 1949 г. – Франко Каузио, италиански футболист\n 1954 г. – Бил Муми, американски актьор\n 1965 г. – Брендън Лий, американски актьор († 1993 г.)\n 1965 г. – Кирил Метков, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Дийодоне М'бала М'бала, френски актьор\n 1968 г. – Лиза Мари Пресли, американска актриса († 2023 г.)\n 1969 г. – Бахман Гобади, кюрдски кинорежисьор\n 1969 г. – Габриел Омар Батистута, аржентински футболист\n 1971 г. – Джил Кели, американска порно актриса\n 1972 г. – Кристиан Циге, германски футболист и треньор\n 1979 г. – Александър Галкин, руски шахматист\n 1979 г. – Рутина Уесли, американска актриса\n 1982 г. – Надя, бивша българска попфолк певица\n 1982 г. – Таканори Матсумото, японски вокалист\n 1985 г. – Радослав Анев, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Иван Площаков, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Анди Валентино, американска порноактриса\n 1992 г. – Кели Гос, американска актриса\n 1994 г. – Хари Стайлс, британски певец („One Direction“)\n\nПочинали \n\n 997 г. – Геза Унгарски, унгарски владетел (* ок. 945)\n 1691 г. – Александър VIII, римски папа (* 1610 г.)\n 1733 г. – Август II, крал на Полша (* 1670 г.)\n 1851 г. – Мери Шели, английска писателка (* 1797 г.)\n 1865 г. – Авксентий Велешки, български духовник (* 1798 г.)\n 1871 г. – Гийом Лежан, френски пътешественик (* 1828 г.)\n 1903 г. – Джордж Гейбриъл Стоукс, ирландски учен (* 1819 г.)\n 1908 г. – Карлуш I, крал на Португалия и Алгарве (* 1863 г.)\n 1920 г. – Адолф Албин, румънски шахматист (* 1848 г.)\n 1922 г. – Аритомо Ямагата, министър-председател на Япония (* 1838 г.)\n 1926 г. – Теодосий Скопски, български духовник (* 1846 г.)\n 1945 г. – Екзекутирани български офицери и политици от т.нар. Народен съд\n Александър Радолов, български политик (* 1883 г.)\n Александър Станишев, български политик (* 1886 г.)\n Богдан Филов, министър-председател на България (* 1883 г.)\n Борис Йоцов, български учен (* 1894 г.)\n Васил Митаков, български политик (* 1891 г.)\n Димитър Шишманов, български политик (* 1889 г.)\n Добри Божилов, министър-председател на България (* 1884 г.)\n Иван Русев, български политик (* 1872 г.)\n Иван Бешков, български политик (* 1896 г.)\n Иван Вазов, български политик (* 1892 г.)\n Иван Багрянов, министър-председател на България (* 1891 г.)\n Иван Горанов, български политик (* 1891 г.)\n Княз Кирил Преславски, български княз (* 1895 г.)\n Никола Захариев, български политик (* 1898 г.)\n Никола Михов, български офицер (* 1891 г.)\n Павел Груев, български юрист (* 1879 г.)\n Петър Габровски, министър-председател на България (* 1898 г.)\n Първан Драганов, български политик (* 1890 г.)\n Рашко Атанасов, български военен деец (* 1884 г.)\n Руси Русев, български военен деец (* 1887 г.)\n Теодоси Даскалов, български военен деец (* 1888 г.)\n Христо Калфов, български политик (* 1883 г.)\n 1950 г. – Марсел Мос, френски антрополог и социолог (* 1872 г.)\n 1957 г. – Фридрих Паулус, германски генерал (* 1890 г.)\n 1958 г. – Клинтън Дейвисън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1881 г.)\n 1961 г. – Ищван Чок, унгарски художник († 1865 г.)\n 1966 г. – Бъстър Кийтън, американски актьор (* 1895 г.)\n 1971 г. – Александър Андреев, български скулптор (* 1879 г.)\n 1971 г. – Амет-хан Султан, съветски летец (* 1920 г.)\n 1976 г. – Вернер Хайзенберг, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1932 (* 1901 г.)\n 1976 г. – Джордж Уипъл, американски биофизик, Нобелов лауреат през 1934 г. (* 1878 г.)\n 1981 г. – Доналд Дъглас, американски авиоконструктор (* 1892 г.)\n 1982 г. – Найден Войнов, български шахматист (* 1895 г.)\n 1986 г. – Алва Мюрдал, шведски дипломат, Нобелов лауреат през 1982 г. (* 1902 г.)\n 1998 г. – Захари Жандов, български режисьор (* 1911 г.)\n 2003 г. – Седем членен екипаж на космическата совалка Колумбия\n 2003 г. – Монго Сантамария, джаз музикант (* 1917 г.)\n 2007 г. – Джан Карло Меноти, американски композитор (* 1911 г.)\n 2012 г. – Вислава Шимборска, полска поетеса, есеистка и преводачка, Нобелов лауреат през 1996 г. (* 1923 г.)\n 2014 г. – Максимилиан Шел, австро-швейцарски артист, режисьор и продуцент (* 1930 г.)\n 2014 г. – Стефан Божков, български футболист и треньор (* 1923 г.)\n 2014 г. – Луис Арагонес, испански футболист и треньор (* 1938 г.)\n 2014 г. – Василий Петров, съветски маршал (* 1917 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – Свети Трифон (Трифоновден)\n Православна църква – Свети Фелицитата и Перпетуя (стар стил)\n Алжир – Ден на евакуацията\n България – Ден на признателност и почит към жертвите на комунистическия режим\n САЩ – Национален ден на свободата\n\n201"
    },
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        "text": "1 март е 60-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (61-ви през високосна година). Остават 305 дни до края на годината. В Древен Рим от 1 март започва новата година по римския календар, съответно и мандата на избраната от народа магистратура.\n\nСъбития \n 86 пр.н.е. г. – Битка при Херонея (86 пр.н.е.): Римляните съумяват да превземат Атина.\n 317 г. – Константин I провъзгласява сина си Крисп за цезар в Сердика и го изпраща като префект на Галия.\n 1331 г. – Османският владетел Орхан Гази превзема Никея.\n 1462 г. – Френската благородничка Шарлот дьо Валоа, дъщеря на крал Шарл VII и неговата метреса Агнес Сорел, сключва брак с граф Жак дьо Брезе.\n 1555 г. – Нострадамус публикува книгата „Столетия“, съдържаща предсказания за събития от европейската история.\n 1562 г. – Във френския град Васи католици-екстремисти избиват над 1000 хугеноти, което е начало на Религиозната война в тази държава.\n 1565 г. – В Бразилия е основана колонията Рио де Жанейро.\n 1700 г. – В Швеция е въведен нов календар, известен като Шведски календар.\n 1803 г. – Охайо става 17-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1841 г. – Атанас Иванов открива в Стара Загора взаимно училище, с днешно име СОУ „Иван Вазов“.\n 1845 г. – Президентът на САЩ Джон Тайлър приема законопроект, с който САЩ анексира Република Тексас.\n 1848 г. – Германска революция 1848/49: Започва Мартенската революция в Баден с окупирането на сградата на баденския парламент в Карлсруе.\n 1859 г. – Експедицията на английския полярен изследовател Френсис Макклинток достига северния магнитен полюс.\n 1872 г. – В САЩ е открит Йелоустоун – първият национален парк в света.\n 1873 г. – Фирмата „E. Remington & Sons“ започва производство на първите пишещи машини за масова употреба.\n 1878 г. – Направено е първото зимно изкачване на връх Ането – най-високият връх в Пиренеите от Роже дьо Монт, Б. Куреж и Б. и В. Паже.\n 1879 г. – Положен е основният камък на мавзолея костница на руските войни в Разград от княз Александър Дондуков-Корсаков.\n 1881 г. (стар стил) – Убийството от първомартовци на руския цар и император Александър II.\n 1896 г. – Анри Бекерел открива радиоактивността.\n 1912 г. – Създадена е Военната академия „Георги Раковски“\n 1912 г. – Американецът Албърт Бери извършва първия парашутен скок от самолет.\n 1921 г. – Съюзниците влизат в Германия, за да я принудят да плаща репарации след Първата световна война.\n\n 1932 г. – Основан е уругвайският футболен отбор Данубио от българските имигранти Мигел и Хуан Лазароф.\n 1932 г. – Създадена е марионетна държава Манджоу-Го от Япония в китайската област Манджурия, която просъществува до 15 август 1945 г.\n 1934 г. – Крайцерът Аякс е спуснат на вода.\n 1936 г. – Излиза първият брой на вестник Дневен Труд в София.\n 1936 г. – Излиза първият брой на списанието Боен подвиг, издавано от Обществото на кавалерите на ордена за храброст.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Министър-председателят Богдан Филов подписва договора за присъединяване към Тристранния пакт, с което се слага край на политиката на неутралитет и Царство България става съюзник на Нацистка Германия.\n 1941 г. – В Нашвил (щата Тенеси) започва да излъчва първата УКВ радиостанция.\n 1943 г. – Подписана е Доломитската декларация.\n 1945 г. – Саудитска Арабия влиза във Втората световна война на страната на Съюзниците.\n 1946 г. – Английската централна банка е национализирана заради операция Бернхард.\n 1947 г. – Започва работа Международният валутен фонд.\n 1948 г. – Излиза първият брой на списанието Нова македонка.\n 1950 г. – Студената война: Клаус Фукс е обвинен в шпионаж в полза на Съветския съюз, който се състои в предаване на строго секретни планове на атомната бомба.\n 1954 г. – САЩ извършват опит с 15-мегатонна водородна бомба на атол Бикини в Тихия океан.\n 1954 г. – Националисти от Пуерто Рико атакуват сградата на Конгреса във Вашингтон, ранявайки петима членове на парламента.\n 1961 г. – Президентът на САЩ Джон Кенеди учредява Корпуса на мира.\n 1966 г. – Съветската космическа сонда Венера 3 се разбива на повърхността на Венера, ставайки първият обект с човешки произход достигнал повърхността на друга планета.\n 1966 г. – Основан е Централният институт по изчислителна техника.\n 1973 г. – Състои се премиерата на анимационния филм Паяжината на Шарлот.\n 1978 г. – Ковчегът с тялото на Чарли Чаплин е откраднат от швейцарско гробище, с цел откуп.\n 1980 г. – Открит е естественият спътник на Сатурн – Елена.\n 1982 г. – Спускаемият модул на съветския космически апарат Венера 13 достига повърхността на Венера.\n\n 1986 г. – Открит е естественият спътник на Уран – Жулиета – на снимки, заснети от апарата Вояджър 2.\n 1990 г. – Мамили е обявен за национален парк.\n 1991 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския филм „Дъ Дорс“\n 1992 г. – Босна и Херцеговина провежда референдум за отделяне от Социалистическа федеративна република Югославия.\n 1996 г. – Изстреляна е космическата станция Фрийдъм.\n 1999 г. – Влиза в сила Отавската конвенция, която забранява използването, складирането, производството и трансфера на противопехотни мини и предвижда тяхното унищожаване.\n 2001 г. – Започва официално преброяване на населението в България.\n 2002 г. – В Испания излиза от обращение националната дотогава валута песета, която е заменена с евро.\n 2003 г. – Международният наказателен съд встъпва в длъжност в Хага.\n 2003 г. – Създадена е Комисията за финансов надзор на Република България.\n 2003 г. – Създадена е Службата за гражданство и имиграция на САЩ.\n 2007 г. – Закрита е Агенцията за чуждестранна помощ.\n 2007 г. – Балеарските острови получават автономен статут.\n 2008 г. – Образуван е Забайкалски край като субект на Руската федерация, след сливането на Читинска област и Агински-Бурятския автономен окръг.\n 2009 г. – Официално е открито Радио Видин – проект на Българското национално радио.\n\nРодени \n\n 1445 г. – Сандро Ботичели, италиански художник († 1510 г.)\n 1554 г. – Уилям Стафорд, английски икономист († 1612 г.)\n 1810 г. – Фредерик Шопен, полски композитор († 1849 г.)\n 1846 г. – Киро Тулешков, български книжовник († 1904 г.)\n 1858 г. – Васил Данаджиев, български офицер († 1885 г.)\n 1858 г. – Георг Зимел, немски философ († 1918 г.)\n 1859 г. – Георги Янков, български военен деец († 1920 г.)\n 1866 г. – Стоян Пушкаров, български военен деец († 1925 г.)\n 1871 г. – Йоаким Лептидис, гръцки духовник († 1931 г.)\n 1875 г. – Жан Огюст Мари Тийо, френски офицер († 1956 г.)\n 1875 г. – Кирил Пърличев, български революционер († 1944 г.)\n 1876 г. – Анри дьо Байе-Латур, белгийски дипломат, 3-ти президент на МОК († 1942 г.)\n 1878 г. – Георги Йорданов, български политик († 1950 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Стамболийски, министър-председател на България († 1923 г.)\n 1880 г. – Литън Стрейчи, английски писател († 1932 г.)\n 1881 г. – Александър Кипров, български революционер († 1931 г.)\n 1886 г. – Оскар Кокошка, австрийски художник († 1980 г.)\n 1887 г. – Георг-Ханс Райнхарт, германски офицер († 1963 г.)\n 1897 г. – Сава Гановски, български политик († 1993 г.)\n 1904 г. – Глен Милър, американски музикант († 1944 г.)\n 1910 г. – Дейвид Нивън, британски актьор († 1983 г.)\n 1916 г. – Георги Пачеджиев, български футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1921 г. – Петър Куцаров, български художник († 2015 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ричард Уилбър, американски поет († 2017 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ицхак Рабин, министър-председател на Израел, Нобелов лауреат през 1994 († 1995 г.)\n 1923 г. – Неделчо Чернев, български режисьор († 2000 г.)\n 1924 г. – Доналд Слейтън, американски летец († 1993 г.)\n 1926 г. – Атанас Бояджиев, български композитор († 2017 г.)\n 1926 г. – Людмила Исаева, българска поетеса († 1991 г.)\n 1927 г. – Димитър Панделиев, български писател († 1994 г.)\n 1927 г. – Хари Белафонте, американски актьор\n 1929 г. – Георги Марков, български писател († 1978 г.)\n 1939 г. – Цветан Тодоров, български философ († 2017 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ричард Майърс, американски генерал\n 1942 г. – Сократ Мойсов, македонски футболист\n 1943 г. – Георги Китов, български археолог († 2008 г.)\n 1944 г. – Роджър Долтри, английски музикант (The Who)\n 1946 г. – Лиляна Димитрова-Тодорова, български езиковед († 2018 г.)\n 1947 г. – Дора Христова, български диригент\n 1949 г. – Виолета Димитрова, български хирург\n 1952 г. – Мартин О'Нийл, североирландски футболист\n 1952 г. – Стивън Барнс, американски писател\n 1954 г. – Рон Хауърд, американски режисьор\n 1956 г. – Юрий Трутнев, руски политик\n 1958 г. – Бертран Пикар, швейцарски учен\n 1963 г. – Томас Андерс, германски рок музикант (Modern Talking)\n 1964 г. – Пол Льо Гуен, френски футболист\n 1965 г. – Емил Съндой, румънски футболист\n 1966 г. – Зак Снайдър, американски режисьор\n 1967 г. – Францобел, австрийски писател\n 1969 г. – Хавиер Бардем, испански актьор\n 1970 г. – Ути Бъчваров, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Добромир Георгиев, български поет\n 1974 г. – Мария Манакова, сръбска шахматистка\n 1974 г. – Ромина Мондело, италианска актриса\n 1974 г. – Светослав Бърканичков, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Дженсън Екълс, американски актьор\n 1983 г. – Алисия, попфолк певица\n 1983 г. – Даниел Карвальо, бразилски футболист\n 1983 г. – Джорджие Четкович, черногорски футболист\n 1983 г. – Станка Златева, българска състезателка по борба\n 1985 г. – Андреас Отъл, немски футболист\n 1987 г. – Кеша, американска поп изпълнителка\n 1989 г. – Карлос Вела, мексикански футболист\n 1994 г. – Джъстин Бийбър, канадски изпълнител\n 1995 г. – Мария Сотирова, българска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 589 г. – Свети Давид, патрон на Уелс (* 500 г.)\n 1383 г. – Амадей VI Савойски, граф на Савоя (* 1334 г.)\n 1643 г. – Джироламо Фрескобалди, италиански композитор (* 1853 г.)\n 1697 г. – Франческо Реди, италиански лекар, натуралист и поет (* 1626 г.)\n 1792 г. – Леополд II, император на Свещената Римска империя (* 1747 г.)\n 1862 г. – Питър Барлоу, британски математик, (* 1776 г.)\n 1865 г. – Анна Павловна, кралица на Нидерландия (* 1795 г.)\n 1875 г. – Матей Преображенски, български възрожденец (* 1828 г.)\n 1875 г. – Хенри Келет, ирландски хидролог (* 1806 г.)\n 1878 г. – Сава Геренов, български революционер (* 1852 г.)\n 1905 г. – Сава Михайлов, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1911 г. – Якоб Вант Хоф, холандски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 (* 1852 г.)\n 1914 г. – Иван Кършовски, български революционер (* 1839 г.)\n 1916 г. – Муне-Сюли, френски артист (* 1841 г.)\n 1925 г. – Оскар Ленц, германски изследовател (* 1848 г.)\n 1931 г. – Елисей Манов, български обществен деец (* ? г.)\n 1932 г. – Никола Пасхов, български революционер (* 1862 г.)\n 1936 г. – Михаил Кузмин, руски писател (* 1871 г.)\n 1938 г. – Габриеле д'Анунцио, италиански писател (* 1863 г.)\n 1944 г. – Георги Ликин, български партизанин (* 1889 г.)\n 1950 г. – Алфред Кожибски, философ семиотик (* 1879 г.)\n 1964 г. – Петър Романовски, руски шахматист (* 1892 г.)\n 1971 г. – Иван Снегаров, български историк (* 1883 г.)\n 1972 г. – Марко Рясков, български икономист (* 1883 г.)\n 1972 г. – Моше Снех, израелски комунист (* 1909 г.)\n 1984 г. – Джеки Куган, американски актьор (* 1914 г.)\n 1991 г. – Едуин Ланд, американски изобретател (* 1909 г.)\n 1992 г. – Мари Деа, френска актриса (* 1919 г.)\n 1995 г. – Владислав Листев, телевизионен водещ (* 1956 г.)\n 1995 г. – Георгес Кьолер, германски биолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1984 г. (* 1946 г.)\n 1997 г. – Ханс Роберт Яус, германски историк (* 1921 г.)\n 2006 г. – Александър Фол, български историк (* 1933 г.)\n 2012 г. – Лучио Дала, италиански поп певец, музикант и композитор (* 1943 г.)\n 2014 г. – Ален Рене, френски режисьор (* 1922 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – св. Евдокия\n Международен ден за борба против ядреното оръжие (отбелязва се по решение на Международната конференция за забрана на атомното и водородното оръжие, състояла се през 1977 г. в Хирошима (Япония)\n Международен ден на гражданската защита – Годишнина от създаването през 1972 г. на Международната организация за гражданска защита\n Световен ден на котката (в зависимост от конкретната държава, може да се отбелязва и на 8 август)\n Босна и Херцеговина – Ден на независимостта (от Югославия, 1992 г., национален празник)\n България – Баба Марта\n Италия – Матроналии – В чест на Юнона Луцина – покровителка на майчинството\n Румъния – Марцишор (Mărţişor)\n Уелс (Великобритания) – Ден на Свети Давид (национален празник)\n Швейцария – Ден на републиката\n Празник на органите за логистично осигуряване в Българската армия - Определен е със заповед на министъра на отбраната от 23 януари 2001 г. От 1995 г. до 2000 г. денят се празнува на 21 ноември като Ден на тиловите органи и служители от Управление \"Материално-техническо осигуряване\", а през 2000 г. - от Главно управление \"Материално-техническо и медицинско осигуряване\" при Генералния щаб на Българската армия. За първи път като Празник на органите по логистика на Българската армия се отбелязва през 2001 г.\n\n301"
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        "text": "PERRING, JOHN SHAE (1813–1869), civil engineer and explorer, was born at Boston in Lincolnshire on 24 Jan. 1813. He was educated at Donington grammar school, and then articled, on 28 March 1826, to Robert Reynolds, the surveyor of the port of Boston, under whom he was engaged in surveying, in the enclosure and drainage of the Fens, in the improvements of Boston Harbour and of Wainfleet Haven, and the outfall of the East Fen, in the drainage of the Burgh and Croft marshes, and other works. In 1833 he proceeded to London, and was there employed in engineering establishments. In March 1836 he went to Egypt, under contract with Galloway Brothers of London, as assistant engineer to Galloway Bey, then manager of public works for Mahomed Ali, viceroy of Egypt. One of the first undertakings on which Perring was engaged was the construction of a tramway from the quarries near Mex to the sea. After the death of Galloway he became a member of the board of public works, was consulted as to the embankment of the Nile, advocated the establishment of stations in the Desert between Cairo and Suez to facilitate the overland transit, and was employed to make a road with the object of carrying out this scheme.\nFrom January to August 1837 he was busy helping Colonel Howard Vyse and others in making a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh, and in the execution of plans, drawings, and maps of these monuments. He had already published ‘On the Engineering of the Ancient Egyptians,’ London, 1835, six numbers. The years 1838 and 1839 he spent in exploring and surveying the pyramids at Abou Roash, and those to the southward, including Fayoom. His services to Egyptian history are described in ‘The Pyramids of Gizeh, from actual survey and admeasurement, by J. E. [sic] Perring, Esq., Civil Engineer. Illustrated by Notes and References to the several Plans, with Sketches taken on the spot by E. J. Andrews, Esq., London, 1839, oblong folio. Part i.: The Great Pyramid, with a map and sixteen plates; part ii.: The Second and Third Pyramids, the smaller to the southward of the Third, and the three to the eastward of the Great Pyramid, with nineteen plates; part iii.: The Pyramids to the southward of Gizeh and at Abou Roash, also Campbell's Tomb and a section of the rock at Gizeh, with map of the Pyramids of Middle Egypt and twenty-one plates.’ Perring's labours are also noticed in Colonel R. W. H. H. Vyse's ‘Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837, with account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt, and an Appendix containing a Survey by J. S. Perring of the Pyramids of Abou Roash,’ 3 vols. 4to, 1840–2 (i. 143 et seq., ii. 1 et seq., iii. 1 et seq.), with a portrait of Perring in an eastern costume. Perring, before leaving Egypt, made a trigonometrical survey of the fifty-three miles of country near the pyramids. The value of these researches, all made at the cost of Colonel Vyse, are fully acknowledged in C. C. J. Bunsen's ‘Egypt's Place in Universal History,’ 5 vols. 1854 (ii. 28–9, 635–45), where it is stated that they resulted in furnishing the names of six Egyptian kings till then unknown to historians.\nPerring returned to England in June 1840, and on 1 March 1841 entered upon the duties of engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway docks and harbour. In April 1844 he became connected with the Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale railway, which he helped to complete; and, after its amalgamation with other lines, was from 1846 till 1859 resident engineer of the East Lancashire railway. He was subsequently connected with the Railway, Steel, and Plant Company, was engineer of the Ribblesdale railway, and constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn. He was also engineer of the Oswaldtwistle and other waterworks. Finally, he was one of the engineers of the Manchester city railways. On 6 Dec. 1853 he was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and in 1856 a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He died at 104 King Street, Manchester, on 16 Jan. 1869."
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        "text": "MFI Profile\nFor March 31, 2019\nMonthly Financial Statements\nMyanmar Key Economic Indicators\nChairman's Report\nManaging Director & CEO's Report\nEnvironmental and Social Sustainability Report\nACLEDA MFI Songs\nPublic Holidays in Myanmar\n» Financial Information » Chairman's Report\nDr. IN Channy, Chairman\nMyanmar's Economy\nMyanmar is on track to post high economic growth in Fiscal Year 2017 (ending March 31, 2018). With the return of normal weather during the year, agriculture is recovering from flooding the previous year. Crop production is benefiting as well from higher demand and strong international prices for agricultural commodities. Industrial growth continues to accelerate with higher investment, both public and private, in garments and other light manufacturing, while services are getting a boost from buoyant tourism and expansion in the nascent telecommunications industry.\nOn the demand side, investment remains strong on higher inflows of external development assistance for infrastructure and buoyant private capital investment. Strong growth and rising incomes support private consumption. Foreign trade continues to grow at a brisk pace. In the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2017, the US dollar value of merchandise exports grew by 17%, and merchandise imports accelerated even faster, by 22%.\nAlthough annual inflation halved to 3.9% in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2017 from 7.6% in the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, inflation for the year as a whole is still forecast at a higher rate because the first quarter decline came largely from a onetime drop in food prices. Slightly higher inflation is still forecast for Fiscal Year 2018. Continued demand pressure from strong growth and rising incomes will keep inflation elevated.\nIn the budget for Fiscal Year 2017, the government pursued a prudent fiscal policy. In response to a declining ratio of revenue to GDP, it recently passed a new tax law with significant changes to commodity and commercial tax rates. In tandem with prudent management of public expenditures, such revenue reform should help the government contain the fiscal deficit for Fiscal Year 2017 within the budget target, equal to 4.4% of GDP. The government plans to pass an investment law to attract more foreign direct investment and a new company law to allow foreign investors to operate in the stock market. While these initiatives could help achieve steady growth in the near term, inclusive and sustainable development require national peace and stability. An international risk to this outlook is possible volatility in financial markets [1].\nKey Players in the Financial Sector in Myanmar\nThere are four State Owned Banks, 29 Private Banks, 13 Foreign Bank Branches, and 48 Representative Bank Offices, as well as 176 Licensed Microfinance Institutions which includes five INGOs, 22 NGOs, 39 Foreign Companies, three Partnership Firms, and 107 Local Companies. ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co. Ltd. (AMM) with its operational network in three branch offices and five sub-branches is amongst the 176 Licensed MFIs.\nACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd.'s Governance\nThe Board met face-to-face four times in June, September and December of 2017 and in March of 2018. Eleven resolutions were approved by e-mail during the course of 2017/18. Each meeting normally lasts one whole day.\nDuring 2017/18 there were a number of changes to the governance of the Group. Mr. Sebastien Nahon has been appointed as a Director, and I whole-heartedly welcome him to the Board. In addition, the Board of Directors have approved the appointment of Mr. Min Aung as Company Secretary and approved the resignation of Mr. Vincent Gros as the Representative of our shareholder COFIBRED S.A.\nACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd.'s Achievement in year 2017/18\nFrom a performance perspective, we are pleased to report that ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd. has achieved a strong performance. Profit before income tax for the year-end 2017/18 was US$3,024,233; Loans outstanding were US$24,735,217 with 68,564 active borrowers and balance on savings amounted to US$2,360,317 with 98,374 savings accounts. In 2017/18 the net profit after tax was US$2,240,037. Our Head Office in Yangon and all our branches are using in-house Information Technology Systems developed by our parent company, ACLEDA.\nIn closing, on behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to our Shareholders for their confidence, support and encouragement for our on-going activities; and to our management and staff for their efforts that have contributed to more than four years of growth. The Board remains committed to building ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd. as a leading MFI in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.\nFinally, I would like to express my appreciation to all Myanmar authorities, the general public, and all of our customers for their continued support and confidence in ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd.\nDr. IN Channy\nChairman of the Board of Directors\n[1]. 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        "text": "1 април е 91-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (92-ри през високосна). Остават 274 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 527 – Начело на Византия застава Юстиниан I\n 1572 – Група протестантски пирати превзема град Брийле.\n 1579 – Основан е университета във Вилнюс.\n 1657 – Обесен е Партений III Константинополски, вселенски патриарх.\n 1778 – Бизнесменът от Ню Орлийнз Оливър Полък създава знака на долара.\n 1803 – Френското правителство забранява да се дават имена на деца, които ги няма в календара.\n 1808 – Император Александър I провъзгласява присъединяването на Финландия към Русия.\n 1826 – Патентован е двигателят с вътрешно горене.\n 1875 – Първата метеорологична карта е публикувана в лондонския вестник „Таймс“.\n 1889 – В Чикаго се появява на пазара първата съвременна съдомиялна машина, изобретена от Джоузефин Кокрейн.\n 1891 – Художникът Пол Гоген отплавал за Таити.\n 1906 – Подписана е Международна конвенция за защита на птиците.\n 1916 – В България се въвежда Григорианския календар и датата не съществува в календара от тази година, като същия ден в хода на ПСВ е сключено временно споразумение между Австро-Унгария и Царство България за установяване сферите на влияние на двете държави в Албания.\n 1918 – Първата Световна Война: Създадени са Кралските Военновъздушни сили като амалгама от Кралския летателен корпус (Royal Flying Corps) и Кралската флотска въздухоплавателна служба (Royal Naval Air Service).\n 1933 – Немският крайцер Адмирал Шеер е спуснат на вода.\n 1936 – Основан е аржентинският ФК Лухан.\n 1937 – Бирма (днес Мианмар) се отделя от Индия.\n 1939 – Пада Втората испанска република.\n 1940 – В Ню Джърси е проведена първата демонстрация на електронен микроскоп.\n 1946 – Във Варна е създаден Държавен симфоничен оркестър.\n 1947 – В София е основан Съюз на българските композитори – творческа организация на композитори и музиковеди\n 1948 – Студената война: Започва блокадата на Берлин, след като контролираното от Съветския съюз правителство на Източна Германия, предприема проверки на пътния и жп трафик със Западен Берлин.\n 1959 – Създадена е Българска национална филмотека (първоначално името ѝ е Държавен филмов архив).\n 1960 – САЩ пускат в космоса първия в света метеорологичен изкуствен спътник.\n 1966 – В Сенегал е открит първият в света фестивал на африканското изкуство.\n 1976 – Стив Джобс и Стийв Возняк основават Apple Computer, Inc.\n 1979 – Иран е провъзгласен за ислямска република.\n 1987 – Американецът Стивън Нюмън завършва за 4 години първата околосветска пеша обиколка (36 200 км, посетени 20 страни на пет континента).\n 1997 – Кометата Хейл-Боп преминава през перихелий.\n 1998 – На публичен търг в Лондон цигулка Страдивариус е продадена за 1 526 000 долара – световен рекорд за цена на музикален инструмент.\n 2004 – Google стартира своята услуга за електронна поща Gmail.\n 2006 – Основана е официално Агенцията за борба с тежката организирана престъпност.\n 2009 – Хърватия и Албания стават членове на НАТО.\n\nРодени \n\n 1578 – Уилям Харви, английски лекар († 1657 г.)\n 1647 – Джон Уилмът, английски поет († 1680 г.)\n 1697 – Прево, френски писател и журналист, автор на „Манон Леско“ († 1763 г.)\n 1732 – Йозеф Хайдн, австрийски композитор († 1809 г.)\n 1753 – Жозеф дьо Местр, савойски философ († 1821 г.)\n 1809 – Николай Гогол, руски писател, поет и драматург († 1852 г.)\n 1815 – Ото фон Бисмарк, първи канцлер на обединена Германия († 1898 г.)\n 1842 – Араби-паша, египетски лидер († 1911 г.)\n 1847 – Йордан Брадел, български лекар († 1899 г.)\n 1852 – Стефан Бочаров, български военен лекар († 1937 г.)\n 1862 – Антон Митов, български художник († 1930 г.)\n 1868 – Едмон Ростан, френски драматург († 1918 г.)\n 1873 – Сергей Рахманинов, руски композитор († 1943 г.)\n 1875 – Едгар Уолъс, писател († 1932 г.)\n 1878 – Кирил Христов Совичанов, български революционер и учител († 1961 г.)\n 1881 – Октавиан Гога, румънски поет, общественик, политик и драматург († 1938 г.)\n 1884 – Георги Богровски, български политик († 1959 г.)\n 1887 – Леонард Блумфийлд, американски лингвист († 1949 г.)\n 1905 – Еманюел Муние, френски философ, представител на персонализма († 1950 г.)\n 1906 – Александър Сергеевич Яковлев, съветски авиоконструктор († 1989 г.)\n 1908 – Ейбрахам Маслоу, американски психолог († 1970 г.)\n 1909 – Бинка Вазова, българска художничка († 2007 г.)\n 1911 – Илия Пейков, български художник († 1988 г.)\n 1917 – Симон Барии, френска актриса († 2013 г.)\n 1920 – Велико Йорданов, български учител († 2004 г.)\n 1920 – Евгени Матеев, български икономист († 1997 г.)\n 1920 – Тоширо Мифуне, японски актьор и продуцент († 1997 г.)\n 1926 – Ан Макафри, американска писателка († 2011 г.)\n 1929 – Иван Станчов, български дипломат († 2021 г.)\n 1929 – Милан Кундера, чехословашки писател\n 1931 – Ролф Хохут, немски драматург († 2020 г.)\n 1931 – Петър Пашов, български езиковед († 2009 г.)\n 1933 – Клод Коен-Тануджи, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1938 – Ради Неделчев, български художник\n 1939 – Людмил Даковски, български учен\n 1939 – Петко Еврев, български архитект († 2020 г.)\n 1940 – Вангари Маатаи, кенийска активистка, Нобелов лауреат († 2011 г.)\n 1941 – Рашко Сугарев, български писател († 1995 г.)\n 1942 – Самюъл Дилейни, американски писател\n 1945 – Джан Батиста Кампаньола, италиански дипломат\n 1946 – Ариго Саки, италиански футболен треньор\n 1953 – Алберто Дзакерони, италиански футболист\n 1954 – Джанкарло Антоньони, италиански футболист\n 1961 – Сюзън Бойл, шотландска певица\n 1966 – Симеон Владов, български актьор и певец\n 1974 – Владимир Бесчастних, руски футболист\n 1975 – Магдалена Малеева, българска тенисистка\n 1978 – Силвия, българска попфолк певица\n 1980 – Ренди Ортън, американски кечист\n 1983 – Кристиан Шулц, немски футболист\n 1983 – Херман Пиетробон, аржентински футблист\n 1986 – Иреен Вюст, холандска скоростна кънкьорка\n 1987 – Дин Джънхуй, китайски снукър играч\n 2003 – Кристиян Върбановски, български актьор, певец, влогър и инфлуенсър\n\nПочинали \n\n 1204 – Елеонор Аквитанска, съпруга на кралете Луи VII (Франция) и Хенри II (Англия) (* 1122 г.)\n 1548 – Зигмунт I Стари, полски крал и велик литовски княз (* 1467 г.)\n 1865 – Джудита Паста, италианска оперна певица, сопрано сфогато (* 1797 или 1798 г.)\n 1917 – Скот Джоплин, американски музикант (* 1868 г.)\n 1922 – Карл I, австрийски император (* 1887 г.)\n 1939 – Антон Макаренко, руски писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1940 – Стоян Брънчев, български лесовъд (* 1860 г.)\n 1944 – Иван Козарев, деец на БКП (* 1901 г.)\n 1944 – Митко Палаузов, дете партизанин (* 1930 г.)\n 1947 – Георгиос II, крал на Гърция (* 1890 г.)\n 1947 – Екатерина Каравелова, българска общественичка (* 1860 г.)\n 1952 – Ференц Молнар, унгарски писател (* 1878 г.)\n 1962 – Мишел дьо Гелдерод, белгийски драматург (* 1898 г.)\n 1962 – Ото Пьоцъл, австрийски невролог (* 1877 г.)\n 1965 – Иван Димов, български актьор (* 1897 г.)\n 1966 – Димитър Димов, български писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1968 – Лев Ландау, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1908 г.)\n 1973 – Йоланде Якоби, немски психолог (* 1890 г.)\n 1976 – Александър Шеманский, руски оперен певец (* 1900 г.)\n 1976 – Макс Ернст, германски художник (* 1891 г.)\n 1984 – Марвин Гей, американски музикант (* 1939 г.)\n 1991 – Марта Греъм, американска танцьорка (* 1894 г.)\n 2002 – Симо Хаюха, финландски снайперист (* 1905 г.)\n 2005 – Томас Клинг, немски поет (* 1957 г.)\n 2008 – Петър Славов, български барабанист (* 1941 г.)\n 2010 – Дзанис Дзанетакис, гръцки политик (* 1927 г.)\n 2011 – Георги Русев, български актьор (* 1928 г.)\n 2017 – Евгений Евтушенко, руски поет и писател (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на шегата\n Начало на Седмицата на гората (1 април – 7 април)\n Международен ден на птиците - Отбелязва се от 1906 г. по силата на Конвенцията за защита на редките птици.\n Иран – Ден на Ислямската република (национален празник, 1979 г.)\n Кипър – Национален празник\n Малта – Ден на свободата\n Сан Марино – Национален празник\n Тайланд – Ден на държавната служба (1979 г.)\n ЮАР – Ден на семейството\n\n401"
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        "text": "1 май е 121-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (122-ри през високосна). Остават 244 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1707 г. – Кралство Англия и Кралство Шотландия се обединяват под името Кралство Великобритания.\n 1776 г. – Създадено е тайното общество на илюминатите от философа Адам Вайсхаупт.\n 1786 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта Сватбата на Фигаро от Волфганг Амадеус Моцарт във Виена.\n 1851 г. – Провежда се първото световно изложение, което е открито от кралица Виктория.\n 1869 г. – Васил Левски започва втората си обиколка из България, по време на която създава революционни комитети.\n 1860 г. – Открита е жп гарата в Йол по линията Корк – Йол.\n 1873 г. – Излиза първият брой на вестник „Будилник“, редактор на който е Христо Ботев.\n\n 1884 г. – Публикувана е прокламация с искане за осемчасов работен ден в САЩ.\n 1931 г. – В Ню Йорк е открит 102-етажният Емпайър Стейт Билдинг.\n 1941 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския драматичен филм Гражданинът Кейн.\n 1948 г. – Образувана е Северна Корея, а Ким Ир Сен става първият ѝ президент.\n 1960 г. – Студената война: СССР сваля американски разузнавателен самолет над своя територия и задържа пилота Гари Пауърс.\n 1966 г. – Враца и с. Згориград са залети от хвостохранилището на мини „Плакалница“: 500 жертви, 2000 ранени.\n 1978 г. – Японецът Наоми Уемура става първият човек, достигнал сам Северния полюс.\n 1982 г. – Започват масови манифестации на полските работници срещу режима, които продължават три дена във Варшава, Гданск, Шчечин, Краков и други градове на страната. При сблъсъци със силите на реда са ранени над 1500 демонстранти, над 600 са арестувани.\n 1982 г. – Фолкландската война: В хода на войната между Аржентина и Великобритания Кралските военновъздушни сили атакуват позиции на аржентинската армия на Фолкландските острови.\n 1986 г. – 5 дни след Чернобилската авария съветската информационна агенция ТАСС съобщава официално за катастрофата.\n 2003 г. – Война в Ирак (2003): На борда на самолетоносача USS Abraham Lincoln американският президент Джордж Буш обявява края на мащабните военни действия в Ирак.\n 2004 г. – Естония, Кипър, Латвия, Литва, Малта, Полша, Словакия, Словения, Унгария и Чехия се присъединяват към Европейския съюз.\n 2009 г. – Еднополовият брак е узаконен в Швеция.\n 2011 г. – Президентът на САЩ Барак Обама обявява в официално обръщение от Белия дом, че Осама бин Ладен е убит в Пакистан.\n 2020 г. – Доказано е съществуването на алотропна форма на азота с кристална решетка, наподобяваща тази на черния фосфор.\n\nРодени \n\n 1218 г. – Рудолф I, крал на ромеите († 1291 г.)\n 1672 г. – Джоузеф Адисън, британски писател († 1719 г.)\n 1852 г. – Сантяго Рамон и Кахал, испански учен, Нобелов лауреат († 1934 г.)\n 1859 г. – Никола Рибаров, български военен деец († 1927 г.)\n 1866 г. – Борис Пожаров, български актьор († 1942 г.)\n 1872 г. – Хюго Алфвен, шведски композитор († 1960 г.)\n 1872 г. – Иван Андрейчин, български поет, белетрист, драматург, преводач и критик († 1934 г.)\n 1880 г. – Васил Ив. Стоянов, български детски поет († 1962 г.)\n 1881 г. – Пиер Теяр дьо Шарден, френски палеонтолог и теолог († 1955 г.)\n 1885 г. – Екатерина Ненчева, българска поетеса († 1920 г.)\n 1887 г. – Темелко Ненков, деец на БКП († 1925 г.)\n 1891 г. – Йордан Мечкаров, български журналист († 1954 г.)\n 1897 г. – Райна Касабова, българска медицинска сестра († 1969 г.)\n 1905 г. – Стою Костов Маринов – общественик, деец на кооперативното движение, деец на БКП († 1976 г.)\n 1917 г. – Даниел Дарийо, френска актриса († 2017 г.)\n 1923 г. – Джоузеф Хелър, американски писател († 1999 г.)\n 1923 г. – Юри Буков, български пианист († 2006 г.)\n 1925 г. – Скот Карпентър, американски астронавт († 2013 г.)\n 1927 г. – Валтер Цеман, австрийски футболист († 1991 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ралф Дарендорф, германско-британски политик († 2009 г.)\n 1930 г. – Литъл Уолтър, американски музикант († 1968 г.)\n 1933 г. – Васил Арнаудов, български хоров диригент и музикален педагог († 1991 г.)\n 1933 г. – Геласий, български духовник († 2004 г.)\n 1933 г. – Уве Гресман, немски поет и белетрист († 1969 г.)\n 1942 г. – Иван Дервишев, български актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1942 г. – Станчо Бончев, български футболист († 2013 г.)\n 1948 г. – Тери Гудкайнд, американски фентъзи писател († 2020 г.)\n 1949 г. – Пол Тътъл-старши, производител и дизайнер на мотоциклети\n 1955 г. – Стефан, глава на МПЦ\n 1957 г. – Мая Нешкова, българска певица\n 1959 г. – Чавдар Монов, български актьор и режисьор\n 1961 г. – Мариана Сендова, български физик\n 1968 г. – Оливер Бирхоф, германски футболист\n 1971 г. – Калоян Чакъров, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Оливер Ньовил, германски футболист\n 1975 г. – Марк-Вивиан Фое, камерунски футболист\n 1981 г. – Александър Хлеб, беларуски футболист\n 1985 г. – Адриан Олегов, български футболист\n 1987 г. – Сашко Пандев, македонски футболист\n 1987 г. – Тезджан Наимова, българска лекоатлетка\n\nПочинали \n\n 408 г. – Аркадий, император на Източната Римска империя (* 337 г./338)\n 1277 г. – Стефан Урош I, сръбски крал (* ок. 1217 г.)\n 1555 г. – Марцел II, римски папа (* 1501 г.)\n 1572 г. – Пий V, римски папа (* 1504 г.)\n 1694 г. – Мария Елизабета Лемерихт, майка на Йохан Себастиан Бах (* 1644 г.)\n 1873 г. – Дейвид Ливингстън, шотландски изследовател (* 1813 г.)\n 1904 г. – Антонин Дворжак, чешки композитор (* 1841 г.)\n 1905 г. – Стою Костов Маринов – общественик, деец на кооперативното движение, комунист (* 1976)\n 1912 г. – Васил Диамандиев, български общественик и революционер (* ок. 1840)\n 1925 г. – Герасим Михайлов, български комунист (* 1878 г.)\n 1932 г. – Георги Иванов, български генерал (* 1858 г.)\n 1945 г. – Йозеф Гьобелс, нацистки министър на пропагандата (* 1897 г.)\n 1952 г. – Владимир Поптомов, български политик (* 1890 г.)\n 1954 г. – Йордан Мечкаров, български журналист (* 1891 г.)\n 1963 г. – Стефан Младенов, български езиковед и диалектолог (* 1880 г.)\n 1966 г. – Кирил Попов, български математик (* 1880 г.)\n 1978 г. – Арам Хачатурян, арменски композитор (* 1903 г.)\n 1993 г. – Пиер Береговоа, министър-председател на Франция (* 1925 г.)\n 1994 г. – Аертон Сена, бразилски автомобилен състезател (* 1960 г.)\n 2003 г. – Златка Измирлиева, български математик и педагог (* 1922 г.)\n 2007 г. – Захари Медникаров, български хоров диригент (* 1924 г.)\n 2010 г. – Хелън Уогнър, американска актриса (* 1918 г.)\n 2011 г. – Иван Славков, български спортен деятел (* 1940 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден на самоеда\n Международен Ден на труда и на международната работническа солидарност\n България – Празник на Конфедерацията на независимите синдикати\n България – Празник на градовете Първомай и Суворово, и на селата Първомай, Дъбова Махала, Сливовик, Цонево\n България – Празник на в. „Дума“ и на левия печат в България\n Германия, Финландия, Източна Франция, Чехословакия, Румъния, Словакия, Швеция и др. – Валпургиева нощ – езически празник, свързван с Шабаша на вещиците, символ на края на зимата, засаждането на майско дърво и запалването на големи огньове. Описана е в драмата Фауст на Гьоте и в други литературни призведения.\n Ирландия и Шотландия – Белтейн – Празник на магьосниците и Празник на огньовете\n Китай и Тайван – празник на морската богиня Мазу, майка на предците\n Маршалови острови – Ден на независимостта (от САЩ, реално от 21 октомври 1986 г.) и Ден на конституцията (1979 г., национален празник)\n Хавай – Празник на гирляндите\n\nРимски празници \n Празник на богинята Бона Деа\n Ден на Ларите\n\nИзточници \n\n501"
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        "text": "Argentine Armenians Thank Pope for Genocide Recognition\nPope Francis (far right) during a mass commemorating the Armenian Genocide in April\nBUENOS AIRES, Agrentina (Agencia Prensa Armenia)—A Mass and a prayer service of gratitude to Pope Francis for his recognition of the Armenian Genocide were held at the Catedral Metropolitana of Buenos Aires on Wednesday June 24.\nThe ceremony, carried out by Cardinal Mario Poli, Archbishop Kissag Mouradian and Bishop Vartan Boghossian, was attended by the Undersecretary for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism City Claudio Avruj, Dr. Leon Carlos Arslanian, Ambassadors of Armenia, Lebanon and other diplomats as well as most of the leaders of the Armenian community in Argentina.\nThe choir sings during the Mass of gratitude for the Pope in Buenos Aires\n“The unforgettable Pontifical Mass on Sunday April 12 at the Basilica of San Pedro and the acceptance of the figure of St. Gregory of Narek among the doctors of the Universal Church were historic events that carried comfort and reinforced the hurted hearts of Armenians in the commemoration of the Centennial,” said a letter to the Pope that was signed by all the institutions of the Armenian community. Cardinal Mario Poli, meanwhile, stressed the “courageous stance” taken by Pope Francis to condemn three genocides of the twentieth century: the one perpetrated by Turkey, Stalinism and Nazi Fascism. The ceremony ended with a chorus of a hundred voices evoking the centenary of the genocide.\nThe recognition by Pope Francisco in April served as the basis and foundation for further recognitions such as the European Parliament, also in April, or the Federal Senate of Brazil on last June 2."
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        "text": "How to Install Clockworkmod Recovery on Samsung Galaxy Mini GT- .. when i click the OPS button and click the tass file it doesnt show in. Europe Firmware - European version of Samsung Galaxy Mini S CSC: SOXXKT9 CSC: SXWKTH OPS file: theswingdj.com Dan OPS file – TASS vops. Europe Firmware – European version of Samsung Galaxy Mini S Newest update: SXWKTH -XEO.\nSamsung Galaxy Mini S Asian Stock ROMs. SDDKQ7 PDA: SDDKQ7 CSC: SODDKQ6 OPS: theswingdj.com Version: Android. Here's a list of Samsung Galaxy mini S Official or original stock CSC: SNEEKT5 MODEM: SXWKT9 OPS file: theswingdj.com 11 Jan How to Update Samsung Galaxy pop to Android Gingerbread [Step by Step Ops file. TASS vops 4) I have posted the links so please."
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        "text": "Innovation can solve many of our most pressing health-care problems by making the delivery system more efficient.\nBreakthrough drugs can help treat disease, but prevention and better use of information can also go a long way.\nRadical transformations can help keep Americans healthier outside of political solutions.\nAs politicians debate who should pay for America's declining health and ever-increasing cost of health care, they are overlooking the key to simultaneously improving the health of Americans and cutting costs: innovation.\nInnovation can solve many of our most pressing health-care problems by transforming lives, preventing disease, restoring people to full health and making the health-care delivery system more efficient.\nMedical technology innovation to restore health to people suffering from chronic disease.\nScientific breakthroughs in drugs that treat and cure the most debilitating diseases.\nDelivery of health care outside of the hospital setting, letting hospitals focus on the most seriously ill patients.\nInnovative use of information to improve diagnosis, treatment and after-care.\nMoving upstream to prevent disease occurrence with innovative approaches that enable people to lead healthy lives.\nIn the last 30 years, breakthroughs in medical technology have transformed the treatment of cardiovascular disease with implantable defibrillators and drug-coated stents, of Type I diabetes with the sensor-based pumps and the advent of the artificial pancreas, and of spine, hip and knee surgery with implantable prostheses. Now, advancements in medical technology are addressing debilitating neurological diseases like Parkinson's, incontinence and sleep apnea. With investment and imagination, the future of medical technology to help people seems almost unlimited.\nDecades of scientific investment in genetics, genomics and proteomics have led to treating the immune system as the most promising way to cure cancer and other debilitating diseases. Breakthroughs in personalized medicine like immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy hold the potential for genuine cures, not just palliative treatments.\nTo make these high-priced treatments more affordable, they should be offered on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. Meanwhile, a wider array of generic drugs should be approved for traditional drugs such as statins to lower the overall cost of drug therapy. In addition, the multiple layers of drug distribution should be creatively disintermediated by direct-to-consumer approaches, thus dramatically cutting the overall cost of drug therapy.\nIn recent years, focus on health-care delivery has been making doctors and hospitals more efficient, leading to shortening appointments to less than 10 minutes — only enough time to issue a prescription without thorough diagnosis — often creating misdiagnosis and excessive drug use. Instead, we need to rethink the entire health-care delivery system by changing the basic model of one-to-one physician-patient interaction in a traditional health care institution by providing health care in community centers, YMCAs and retail centers like MinuteClinic (now owned by CVS), using nurses, allied health professionals and group classes.\nHospitals need to undergo massive consolidation to ensure that severe diseases and complex treatments can be carried out in the highest-volume centers that will lead to improved outcomes at lower costs. This will require clear movement away from fee-for-service to innovative health plans covering total costs with people having a fiscal stake in their health.\nHealth care's information technology is woefully inadequate. From inability to match patient records with claims data to inadequate cost accounting data to poor transparency of prices to consumers, health care has been unable to provide even the basics of information. Now, however, opportunities to use the internet to connect patients and their basic information like EKGs to their physicians and health-care teams, along with artificial intelligence and big data married with patient data, offer entirely new fields for innovation, improved diagnosis, treatment and after-care.\nThis fifth category of innovation – leading healthy lives – holds the greatest promise of all, as self-care becomes the new primary care. It is well known that unhealthy life styles account for 50 to 70 percent of health-care costs. For example, America's obesity epidemic is the leading cause of Type II diabetes, heart disease, and spine, hip and knee issues. Yet instead of focusing on enabling people to lead healthy lives, we concentrate downstream on those who are sick and extremely ill to the point of nonrecovery.\nEating healthy. Innovative food and beverage companies, such as Boulder Brands and Suja Juice are transforming eating and drinking habits along with products like Earth Balance all-natural spreads, Udi's gluten-free cereals and baked goods, and organic juices.\nPhysical fitness. A relatively simple device like Fitbit has become transformative in changing people's behavior by walking at least 10,000 steps per day or exercising in Lifetime Fitness clubs that focus on healthy living.\nStress reduction. The mindfulness movement is revolutionizing daily behaviors that reduce stress through myriad mindfulness practices. Don't know how to meditate? Innovative on-line products like Headspace provide guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.\nToday, the usage of these products is heavily concentrated among the middle and upper social-economic classes. The key now is to get them as ubiquitous as mobile phones by offering them in local communities and at lower prices.\nFor decades, American health-care systems have been mired in trying to become more efficient with essentially the same methods. What is needed to transform health care's broken system is much more radical transformation that these innovations can bring. Rather than looking for political solutions to a broken system, the focus must shift to innovation to create more radical approaches that create entirely new systems.\nCommentary by Bill George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and the author of \"Discover Your True North.\" He is a CNBC contributor. Follow him on Twitter @Bill_George.\nBill GeorgeSenior Fellow, Harvard Business School and Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic, Inc."
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        "text": "Leading Sports media company, Kwesé TV has announced that it has signed advertising deals with major brands for the FIFA World Cup 2018 taking place in Russia.\nAlongside that agreement, the company has sub-licensed its rights to the football tournament to over 35 sub-Saharan broadcasters in the African continent. Kwesé TV has won the exclusivity to the 2018 FIFA World Cup over the free-to-air and non-exclusive pay-tv broadcast rights in sub-Saharan Africa, except in South Africa.\nAccording to industry reports, Brands that have entered into partnerships with Kwesé TV include Coca-Cola, Total, Opera News, PZ Cussons, Adidas, Nigerian Breweries, SoKlin, and Nokia.\nReports have shown that Kwesé TV is also working in collaboration with the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), Nigeria's umbrella body for broadcasters to relay the tournament to all TV broadcasters. This way Kwesé TV is enabled to reach approximately 100 million viewers in Nigeria alone.\nTo enhance its coverage of this tournament across the continent, Kwesé TV has installed studio facilities in association with global media sports company, ESPN in Russia.\nThe pay-as-you-watch satellite TV service, which provides over 50 channels of world-class entertainment and other contents has put the minds of many football-loving African residents at rest as it is making the matches available to viewers in different countries through partnerships.\nWith Russia 2018 at hand, Kwese has entered into partnerships with various media houses to bring the highly anticipated 2018 World Cup to football lovers for free. So far, apart from South Africa and Kwese TV subscribers who will enjoy all the 64 games, football fans in countries like Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya will enjoy 32 of the world cup games for free from the comfort of their homes or at bars and at viewing centres."
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        "text": "Home » Business » Energy board to hear traditional Indigenous evidence in Trans Mountain review\nEnergy board to hear traditional Indigenous evidence in Trans Mountain review\nVANCOUVER- The National Energy Board will hear oral traditional evidence from Indigenous groups in the coming weeks as part of its new review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.\nThe Federal Court of Appeal struck down the federal government’s approval of the project in August, citing inadequate Indigenous consultation and the energy board’s failure to review the project’s impacts on the marine environment.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government ordered the energy board to review the marine impacts and submit a report no later than Feb. 22, and on Wednesday the board unveiled its schedule for oral traditional evidence.\nThirty-one Indigenous groups or individuals from Canada and the U.S. are scheduled to participate and the hearings will be held in Calgary the week of Nov. 19, in Victoria the week of Nov. 26 and in Nanaimo, B.C., the week of Dec. 3.\nSome First Nations that won the court battle in August, including British Columbia’s Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish Nations, say the new process is too rushed and they’re considering filing fresh court challenges after the board issues its report.\nThe energy board responds to concerns about the timeline in documents released Wednesday, saying there’s already significant evidence on the record and legislation requires it to conduct proceedings within the time limit set by the federal government.\nThe board includes oral traditional evidence because it “understands that Indigenous peoples have an oral tradition for sharing knowledge from generation to generation,” it says in the documents.\n“This information cannot always be shared adequately or appropriately in writing,” it says.\nThe traditional evidence previously provided in the first Trans Mountain review remains on the record, it says, and board members will read transcripts prior to the new hearings.\nThe board adds that Indigenous interveners should file any scientific evidence or expert reports as written evidence.\nThose scheduled to participate include the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, the pro-pipeline Cheam First Nation, a coalition of U.S. tribes and B.C. Green party member of the legislature Adam Olsen, who is Indigenous.\nThe project would increase tanker traffic seven-fold in Burrard Inlet off Metro Vancouver’s coast, raising concerns about impacts on salmon and endangered southern resident killer whales."
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        "text": "Amazons incredible plant-filled biospheres open in Seattle\nFiled under Eco, Green, Recycle\nComments Off on Amazons incredible plant-filled biospheres open in Seattle\nAmazon has finally opened its stunning new downtown Seattle office and it’s unlike any workspace we’ve seen before. Amazon Spheres, which celebrated its grand opening yesterday, is part greenhouse and part office housed within three glass geodesic domes. Designed by NBBJ , the $4 billion “mini-rainforest” campus will house over 800 Amazon employees in addition to more than 40,000 plants in an ecosystem built to emulate a verdant cloud forest. Located at the corner of Lenora Street and 6th Avenue, Amazon’s giant geodesic domes are made with a steel frame holding 2,643 laminated glass panels made up of four-layered low-iron glass to minimize heat loss. The largest of the three domes measures 90 feet tall and 130 feet in diameter with five floors (and a four-story-tall living plant wall that grows 200 plant species). Retail space occupies the ground floor and part of the first floor. Over 400 species of plants from more than 30 countries are represented in the domes and are cared for by a full-time horticulturalist. Nearly all of the plants were grown in a suburban greenhouse for the Spheres project. The flora centerpiece is a 55-foot-tall Ficus tree (nicknamed Rubi) that weighs almost 36,000 pounds and was craned into the space through the roof. The plantings are mostly organized in either the Old World garden that features African and Asian plants, or in the New World garden with a focus on the Americas. An architectural highlight is undoubtedly the “bird’s nest,” a timber treehouse suspended 30 feet in the air that serves as an intimate meeting space. Related: Amazon’s biospheres spring to life with first planting in Seattle The interior temperature will be stabilized at 69 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit with 60 percent humidity, and the climate will vary throughout the space. Recycled heat from the nearby data center is used to heat the Spheres. The project is on track for LEED Gold certification. The public is welcome to take a free tour of the facilities but must first book with Spheres Discovery at Understory . + NBBJ Via Bloomberg Renderings via NBBJ, photos via Amazon\nTags: amazon, amazon spheres, architecture, climate, Eco, garden, nbbj, space\nRuins of Swedens oldest church put on a new A-frame shelter\nFiled under Green\nComments Off on Ruins of Swedens oldest church put on a new A-frame shelter\nMedieval history meets modern architecture at Kata Farm, a ninth-century church that now serves as a shelter and exhibition hall in Varnhem, Sweden. Designed by Stockholm-based AIX Arkitekter AB , a new 300-square-meter timber A-frame structure sits atop the remains of Sweden’s oldest Christian church that’s also thought to be the country’s oldest building. Glue-laminated timber was used as the primary material for the new structure. Located on the grounds of Varnhem Abbey, Kata Farm was named after the woman who ruled the farm and allowed the church to be built. The new timber structure, which was built to protect the farm foundations from the elements, is raised on a series of pillars to minimize site impact . An elevated walkway with a glazed railing and signage wraps around the exposed stone ruins and is punctuated by glass panels allowing for top-down views of the burial sites, including Kata’s tomb that dates back to the mid-1000s. Related: Stunning chapel in Japan brings a fractal forest indoors The glue-laminated timber trusses are exposed and timber left unpainted for a minimalist look to complement the excavated grounds. In contrast to the light-colored interior, darker tar-treated pine planks clad the sloped exterior. The building can be accessed via a staircase that leads up to an outdoor deck or a glazed elevator on the opposite side of the building. + AIX Arkitekter AB Via ArchDaily Images © Antonius van Arkel\nTags: a-frame, aik arkitekter ab, amazon, amazon spheres, garden, kata farm, nbbj, ruins, space, sweden, tar treated pine, varnhem, varnhem-abbey"
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        "text": "American Axle and Manufacturing, Inc.\nWestern Michigan University is a university based in Kalamazoo, Mich. that is home to around 20,000 undergraduates. The school has a strong sports tradition (Go Broncos!) and its urban campus offers many benefits for its students. Alumni responses to PayScale's salary questionnaire form the basis for this outline.\nFormer WMU students are professionally suited for a wide range of fields including the manufacturing industry, the education industry, and the health care industry. Among WMU grads, the automotive manufacturing industry is a commonly chosen career field. Median pay for those who graduated from WMU amounts to $59K.\nMale graduates of WMU out-earn their female counterparts significantly, earning an average of $67K versus $54K for women.\nWMU grads who become Mechanical Engineers are compensated well above average — these folks are top-earners among their graduating class, making an average $68K yearly. Also notably well-paid are Software Engineers and Operations Managers; their salaries approach around $66K and approximately $64K, respectively. On the lower end, Buyers report making about $55K.\nInfamous for its meager salaries (average pay is the lowest at $55K), about one in six WMU students still call Kalamazoo, Mich. their home after graduation. On the opposite end of the pay scale is Detroit, Mich., a top-paying city for WMU grads looking to earn a larger-than-average sum (this city has a median pay of around $67K). Other cities of interest include Chicago, Ill. and Battle Creek, Mich.\nWMU students with a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance can expect to make the most money (about $95K on average per year) compared to their fellow graduates. The degree that warrants the lowest level of financial compensation is a B.A. in Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASc) (approximately $48K on average annually).\nFormer Broncos with Engineering Design abilities can expect to make 24 percent more than their former classmates ($73K). WMU grads are usually competent in Project Management, and one in seven alumni continue practicing this skill in their career. Experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Data Analysis is highly valued as well.\nOnly one in three grads for this school enjoy paid vacation days and about one-fifth of alumni get paid sick time. Health insurance benefits extend to a large number of respondents, and a strong majority of respondents sign up for dental plans. A large number of grads save up for retirement through a 401(k) plan. Alumni of Western Michigan University also take in a casual working environment, a company-subsidized cell phone, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement.\nWest Virginia University grads bring in salaries of around $59K, making them the most similar to WMU alumni in terms of earnings. The University of Toledo, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Northern Illinois University are also similar to WMU.\n* SAT critical reading score is not included.\n* SAT math score is not included.\n* SAT writing score is not included."
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        "text": "10 new pics of Guys Together added on the ‘Gay Expression‘ page. I love the angle on this first shot!\nIf gay love fascinates you, these three books should serve as a great read as well! Share the dream, and support the blog. Just click on the covers!\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged acrobatics, Against All Odds, books, boys, brotherhood, gay, homophobia, love, Loving the Boy, muscle, partners, The Power of Love, writing. Bookmark the permalink."
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        "text": "1 юни е 152-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (153-ти през високосна). Остават 213 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 193 г. – Римският император Дидий Юлиан е убит на третия месец от своето управление.\n 1778 г. – Основан е град Мариупол в днешна Украйна.\n 1792 г. – Кентъки става 15-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1796 г. – Тенеси става 16-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1831 г. – Експедицията на британския морски офицер и изследовател Джеймс Кларк Рос открива Северния магнитен полюс.\n 1850 г. – Българските земи под османско владичество: Избухва масово Въстание в Северозападна България.\n 1858 г. – Георги Раковски е назначен за надзирател в Херсонската духовна семинария в Одеса.\n 1867 г. – Торонто избран за столица на провинция Онтарио в Канада\n 1876 г. – В подножието на връх Вола във Врачанската планина, след сражение с части на османската армия е прострелян смъртоносно Христо Ботев, като почитта се отдава традиционно на 2 юни.\n 1879 г. – България е приета за член на Всемирния пощенски съюз.\n 1880 г. – Приет е първият държавен бюджет на Българското княжество за 1880/81, одобрен от 2. ОНС през декември същата година.\n 1913 г. – Непосредствено след края на Балканската война представители на Сърбия и Гърция подписват в Солун Гръцко-сръбски договор, с който си разпределят бившите османски територии в Македония.\n 1913 г. – Начело на коалиционното правителство на Народната и на Прогресивнолибералната партия застава Стоян Данев.\n 1913 г. – В 11 ч. и 35 мин. Северна България е разтърсена от земетресение, тежки са пораженията в Горна Оряховица, Велико Търново, Лясковец.\n 1922 г. – На първата конференция на комитета Народен сговор в София ръководството се поема от проф. Александър Цанков.\n 1935 г. – В Англия са въведени автомобилните номера и изпитите за получаване на свидетелство за правоуправление.\n 1942 г. – България във Втората световна война: На гарнизонното стрелбище в София е разстрелян българския генерал Владимир Заимов.\n 1944 г. – Приключва мандата на Добри Божилов като министър-председател на България, за нов премиер е избран Иван Багрянов.\n 1945 г. – Приета е наредба-закон за подпомагане на борците против фашизма и техните семейства.\n 1950 г. – За първа година в 51 страни на света се чества учредения от Съвета на Международната демократична федерация Международен ден за защита на децата.\n 1954 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма „Границата“.\n 1956 г. – Подписано е споразумение за установяване на дипломатически отношения между Народна република България и Република Судан.\n 1979 г. – На децата до 3 г. и бременните жени започват да са предоставят безплатни лекарства при домашно лечение.\n 1980 г. – CNN започва излъчване.\n 1981 г. – В София е открито двуседмично Световно биенале на архитектурата.\n 1996 г. – Опозицията в България провежда първите в Европа предварителни избори за определяне на общ кандидат за президент; действащият президент д-р Желю Желев, подкрепен от ДПС, БЗНС и ДП, е елиминиран от кандидата на СДС Петър Стоянов.\n 2000 г. – Българският телевизионен канал bTV започва да излъчва за пръв път.\n 2001 г. – Непалското кралско семейство е избито от престолонаследника принц Дипендра, който след това се самоубива.\n 2005 г. – На национален референдум Нидерландия отхвърля Европейската конституция.\n 2006 г. – Радио N-JOY започва да излъчва за пръв път.\n 2009 г. – Самолет Airbus A330 пътуващ по маршрута Рио де Жанейро – Париж на „Air France“ се разбива над Атлантическия океан вследствие удар от мълния. Загиват всички 216 пътници и 12 членен екипаж – 9 стюардеси и 3 пилоти.\n\nРодени \n\n 1076 г. – Мстислав I, велик княз на Киевска Рус († 1132 г.)\n 1780 г. – Карл фон Клаузевиц, пруски генерал († 1831 г.)\n 1790 г. – Фердинанд Раймунд, австрийски драматург († 1836 г.)\n 1796 г. – Никола Леонар Сади Карно, френски физик († 1832 г.)\n 1804 г. – Михаил Глинка, руски композитор († 1857 г.)\n 1815 г. – Отон I (Гърция), крал на Гърция († 1867 г.)\n 1917 г. – Уилям Ноулс, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат († 2012 г.)\n 1926 г. – Мерилин Монро, американска актриса († 1962 г.)\n 1926 г. – Серги Йоцов, български футболист и треньор († 2012 г.)\n 1927 г. – Жана Костуркова, българска художничка († 2010 г.)\n 1935 г. – Норман Фостър, английски архитект\n 1937 г. – Колийн Маккълоу, австралийска писателка († 2015 г.)\n 1937 г. – Морган Фрийман, американски актьор\n 1940 г. – Рене Обержоноа, американски актьор\n 1947 г. – Рон Денис, британски механик от Формула 1\n 1953 г. – Пламена Гетова, българска актриса\n 1953 г. – Георги Станчев, естраден певец\n 1956 г. – Петра Морсбах, немска писателка\n 1956 г. – Том Ъруин, американски актьор\n 1958 г. – Намбарин Енхбаяр, президент на Монголия\n 1959 г. – Иван Билярски, български историк\n 1959 г. – Мартин Брандъл, британски пилот от Формула 1\n 1962 г. – Адриан Видяну, кмет на Букурещ\n 1967 г.\n – Андрей Чорбанов, български имунолог и депутат в XLV и XLVI НС\n – Роджър Санчес, американски DJ\n 1968 г. – Джейсън Донован, австралийски актьор\n 1968 г. – Матиас Руст, германски авиатор\n 1973 г. – Петър Калчев, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Акис Зикос, гръцки футболист\n 1974 г. – Аланис Морисет, канадска певица\n 1977 г. – Сара Уейн Келис, американска актриса\n 1980 г. – Оливър Джеймс, британски актьор\n 1982 г. – Жюстин Енен, белгийска тенисистка\n 1985 г. – Марио Иполито, анголски футболист\n 1988 г. – Нами Тамаки, японска певица\n 1996 г. – Том Холанд, американски актьор \n 2004 г. – Крисия Тодорова, българска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 193 г. – Дидий Юлиан, римски император (* 133 г.)\n 657 г. – Евгений I, римски папа (* ?)\n 1434 г. – Владислав II, Велик княз на Литва (* ок. 1362 г.)\n 1477 г. – Шарлот дьо Валоа, френска благородничка (* 1446 г.)\n 1815 г. – Луи Бертие, френски маршал (* 1753 г.)\n 1823 г. – Луи Даву, френски маршал (* 1770 г.)\n 1846 г. – Григорий XVI, римски папа (* 1765 г.)\n 1868 г. – Джеймс Бюканън, 15-и президент на САЩ (* 1791 г.)\n 1876 г. – Христо Ботев, български поет и революционер (* 1848 г.)\n 1894 г. – Николай Ге, руски художник, передвижник (* 1831 г.)\n 1936 г. – Христина Морфова, българска оперна певица (* 1889 г.)\n 1937 г. – Любомир Милетич, български филолог (* 1863 г.)\n 1938 г. – Йодьон фон Хорват, австрийски писател (* 1863 г.)\n 1942 г. – Владимир Заимов, български генерал (* 1888)\n 1944 г. – Йорданка Чанкова, деятелка на младежкото революционно движение (* 1911)\n 1944 г. – Начо Иванов, български комунист (* 1904)\n 1946 г. – Йон Антонеску, румънски генерал (* 1882 г.)\n 1958 г. – Гаврил Кацаров, български историк и филолог (* 1874 г.)\n 1968 г. – Хелън Келер, американска общественичка (* 1880 г.)\n 1971 г. – Никола Кожухаров, живописец и сценограф, ученик на Мърквичка (* 1892 г.)\n 1971 г. – Райнхолд Нибур, американски теолог (* 1892 г.)\n 1977 г. – Рудолф Витлачил, чехословашко-австрийски футболист (* 1912 г.)\n 1987 г. – Ерол Бароу, министър-председател на Барбадос (* 1920 г.)\n 1990 г. – Милош Зяпков, български писател (* 1940 г.)\n 1996 г. – Майкъл Фокс, американски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2001 г. – Бирендра Бир Бикрам Шах, крал на Непал (* 1945 г.)\n 2005 г. – Владимир Савон, украински шахматист (* 1940 г.)\n 2005 г. – Мариана Димитрова, българска актриса (* 1954 г.)\n 2008 г. – Йозеф Лапид, израелски журналист (* 1931 г.)\n 2008 г. – Ив Сен Лоран, френски моден дизайнер (* 1936 г.)\n 2010 г. – Андрей Вознесенски, руски поет (* 1933 г.)\n 2017 г. – Танкред Дорст, немски писател (* 1925 г.)\n 2018 г. – Синан Сакич, сръбски певец (* 1956 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на детето\n Бахамски острови – Ден на труда\n България – Ден на град Враца и на селата Априлово, Безмер, Гранитово, Гьоврен, Дуранкулак, Одърци, Свобода, Церово\n Кения – Мадарка – Ден на свободата\n Монголия – Ден на децата\n Палау – Ден на президента\n Самоа – Ден на независимостта (от Нова Зеландия, 1962 г., национален празник Заб.: Държавата получава независимостта си на 1 януари, но празникът е преместен на 1 юни поради причини от климатичен характер)\n Тунис – Ден на конституцията и победата (1959 г.)\n\n601"
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        "text": "“Vintage” poster for the Museum of Design Zurich\nRalph Schraivogel\nImages of “Vintage” poster for the Museum of Design Zurich\nImage 1 — 4-vintage (“Vintage” poster for the Museum of Design Zurich)\nRalph Schraivogel, Netherlands (1995)\nRalph Schraivogel was born in 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied graphic design at the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich from 1977 to 1982. After receiving his diploma, he opened his own g...\n“Vintage” poster for the Museum of Design Zurich, 2013\nhttp://f0315463488d2921b56f-77a5fe26cae7cb35bb07eccfb28cee77.r87.cf3.rackcdn.com/ralphschraivogel/_1600xAUTO_crop_center-center_75/4-vintage.jpg\nRalph Schraivogel was born in 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He studied graphic design at the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich from 1977 to 1982. After receiving his diploma, he opened his own graphic design studio in Zurich. He designs print media and devotes himself above all to poster design.\nTen years after graduating, Schraivogel returned to the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich as a lecturer, where he continued to teach until 2001. During 2000-2001 he was a guest professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2003 he teaches at the Luzern University of Applied Sciences and Arts.\nOne-man shows in many locations including Tokyo, Osaka, Tehran, Paris, and Zurich, have helped make his poster work known to a wider public. His posters are part of numerous collections around the world including the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.\nPoster Collection 09 / Ralph Schraivogel\nMuseum für Gestaltung Zürich\nggg Books-93 / Ralph Schraivogel\nginza graphic gallery Tokyo\nDNP Art Communications Co.Ltd\nIDBN 978-4-88752-318-0\nPosters / Ralph Schraivogel\nNational Museum Poznan\nAtelier Schraivogel"
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        "text": "1 юли е 182-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (183-ти през високосна година). Остават 183 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 69 г. – Веспасиан е издигнат за император на Римската империя от легионите.\n 1097 г. – Битка при Дорилеон: Кръстоносците водени от принц Боемунд I Антиохийски побеждават селджукската армия, водена от Килич Арслам I.\n 1847 г. – В САЩ са пуснати в употреба първите залепващи пощенски марки.\n 1863 г. – Американска гражданска война: Започва Битката при Гетисбърг.\n 1881 г. – II велико народно събрание суспендира Търновската конституция, като гласува исканите от княз Александър Батенберг извънредни властови пълномощия да управлява страната в следващите седем години.\n 1894 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен клуб Клуб де Регаташ Ботафого, предшественик на днешния Ботафого от Рио де Жанейро.\n 1905 г. – Алберт Айнщайн прави публично достояние създадената от него Теория на относителността.\n 1907 г. – В САЩ са създадени първите военновъздушни сили.\n 1911 г. – Полският биохимик Казимир Функ открива витамините.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Започва една от най-кръвопролитните битки през войната – Битката при Сома.\n 1921 г. – По предложение на Александър Теодоров-Балан е въведена правописна реформа.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: След 8-месечна обсада германската армия овладява Севастопол.\n 1960 г. – Двете Сомалии – британска и италианска получават независимост и се обединяват в една държава.\n 1962 г. – Руанда и Бурунди стават независими от Белгия държави.\n 1968 г. – В Женева е подписан Договор за неразпространение на ядрените оръжия от СССР, САЩ, Великобритания и други страни.\n 1975 г. – Людмила Живкова оглавява културното ведомство на Народна република България.\n 1976 г. – Португалия предоставя автономия на Мадейра.\n 1980 г. – В Полша избухва стачка, ръководена от профсъюза Солидарност.\n 1996 г. – Неврокопският митрополит Пимен е избран за патриарх от алтернативния Свети Синод.\n 1997 г. – Китайска народна република възстановява суверенитета си над Хонконг, с което приключва 156-годишното колониално управление на Обединеното кралство.\n 1997 г. – В България е въведен валутен борд и българския лев е приравнен към германската марка (1 DEM = 1000 BGN).\n 2000 г. – В България започва здравна реформа, чието цел е да замести безплатното здравеопазване.\n 2002 г. – Основан е Международният наказателен съд, който разглежда дела на лица за геноцид, престъпления срещу човечеството, военни престъпления и престъпления на агресия.\n 2004 г. – Космическият апарат Касини-Хюйгенс, по съвместна програма на НАСА и ЕКА, влиза в орбита около Сатурн.\n 2009 г. – Открит е новият терминал на Летище Пловдив.\n\nРодени \n\n 1646 г. – Готфрид Лайбниц, германски математик и философ († 1716 г.)\n 1742 г. – Георг Кристоф Лихтенберг, германски математик и физик († 1799 г.)\n 1804 г. – Жорж Санд, френска писателка († 1876 г.)\n 1847 г. – Хайнрих Гелцер, немски историк († 1906 г.)\n 1872 г. – Луи Блерио, френски авиоконструктор и пилот – пионер († 1936 г.)\n 1879 г. – Леон Жуо, френски профсъюзен деятел, Нобелов лауреат († 1954 г.)\n 1889 г. – Вера Мухина, руска скулпторка († 1953 г.)\n 1899 г. – Константинос Цацос, президент на Гърция († 1987 г.)\n 1899 г. – Чарлз Лотън, английски артист († 1962 г.)\n 1902 г. – Уилям Уайлър, американски режисьор от френски произход († 1981 г.)\n 1909 г. – Никола Парапунов, комунистически партизанин († 1943 г.)\n 1909 г. – Сергей Закариадзе, грузински актьор († 1990 г.)\n 1911 г. – Сергей Соколов, съветски маршал († 2012 г.)\n 1914 г. – Ахмед Хасан ал-Бакър, иракски политик († 1982 г.)\n 1915 г. – Уили Диксън, американски блус музикант († 1992 г.)\n 1916 г. – Оливия дъ Хавиланд, американска актриса († 2020 г.)\n 1919 г. – Ханс Бендер, немски писател († 2015 г.)\n 1920 г. – Амалия Родригеш, португалска певица († 1999 г.)\n 1921 г. – Йежи Стефан Ставински, полски сценарист и режисьор († 2010 г.)\n 1921 г. – Маргарита Дупаринова, българска актриса († 2005 г.)\n 1922 г. – Стоян Стоянов, български психиатър († 1999 г.)\n 1926 г. – Робърт Фогел, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1993 г. († 2013 г.)\n 1929 г. – Джералд Еделман, американски биохимик и имунолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 г. († 2014 г.)\n 1931 г. – Лесли Карон, френско-американска актриса\n 1931 г. – Мирон Иванов, български писател († 1988 г.)\n 1931 г. – Сейни Кунче, нигерски военен диктатор († 1987 г.)\n 1931 г. – Станислав Гроф, чешки психиатър\n 1933 г. – Никола Лечев, български баскетболист\n 1934 г. – Сидни Полак, американски режисьор († 2008 г.)\n 1938 г. – Александър Курляндски, съветски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1938 г. – Едуард Захариев, български режисьор († 1996 г.)\n 1939 г. – Паскал Гилевски, македонски писател\n 1941 г. – Майрън Шолс, канадски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1997 г.\n 1944 г. – Стоян Райчевски, български публицист\n 1950 г. – Дейвид Дюк, американски политик\n 1952 г. – Дан Акройд, канадски актьор\n 1956 г. – Юлия Кънчева, българска актриса († 2019 г.)\n 1961 г. – Даяна Спенсър, принцеса на Уелс († 1997 г.)\n 1961 г. – Карл Луис, американски атлет\n 1962 г. – Доминик Кийтинг, британски актьор\n 1967 г. – Памела Андерсън, канадски модел\n 1967 г. – Светлана Смолева, българска актриса\n 1968 г. – Георги Ангелов, български поет\n 1971 г. – Джулиан Никълсън, американска актриса\n 1976 г. – Патрик Клуйверт, нидерландски футболист\n 1977 г. – Лив Тайлър, американска актриса\n 1979 г. – Форест Грифин, американски ММА боец и актьор\n 1982 г. – Анелия, българска певица\n 1982 г. – Кармела ДеЧезаре, американски модел и кечистка\n 1982 г. – Хилари Бъртън, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Леа Сейду, френска актриса и модел\n 1991 г. – Серенай Саръкая, турска актриса\n 1994 г. – Елена Тодорова, българска спортистка\n 1998 г. – Холи Стийл, британска певица\n 2003 г. – Тейт Макрей, канадска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 251 г. – Деций Траян, римски император (* 207 г.)\n 251 г. – Херений Етруск, римски император (* 227 г.)\n 1109 г. – Алфонсо VI, крал на Леон и Кастилия (* 1040 г.)\n 1784 г. – Вилхелм Фридеман Бах, германски композитор (* 1710 г.)\n 1836 г. – Феликс дьо Божур, френски дипломат (* 1765 г.)\n 1839 г. – Махмуд II, султан на Османската империя (* 1785 г.)\n 1853 г. – Николай Ст. Палаузов, български търговец (* 1776 г.)\n 1881 г. – Херман Лоце, германски философ (* 1817 г.)\n 1881 г. – Анри Дьовил, френски физик и химик (* 1818 г.)\n 1891 г. – Михаил Когълничану, румънски държавник (* 1817 г.)\n 1896 г. – Хариет Бичър Стоу, американска писателка (* 1811 г.)\n 1905 г. – Джон Хей, американски политик (1838 г.)\n 1944 г. – Таня Савичева, руска ученичка (* 1930 г.)\n 1950 г. – Елиел Сааринен, финландски архитект (* 1873 г.)\n 1961 г. – Луи-Фердинан Селин, френски писател (* 1894 г.)\n 1971 г. – Уилям Лорънс Браг, австралийски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1890 г.)\n 1974 г. – Хуан Перон, президент на Аржентина (* 1895 г.)\n 1982 г. – Герасим Младенов, български актьор (* 1916 г.)\n 1990 г. – Иван Серов, руски офицер (* 1905 г.)\n 1993 г. – Герт Хофман, немски писател (* 1931 г.)\n 1997 г. – Джошуа Хасан, гибралтарски политик (* 1915 г.)\n 1997 г. – Робърт Мичъм, американски актьор (* 1917 г.)\n 2001 г. – Николай Басов, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1922 г.)\n 2003 г. – Нхау, намибийски актьор (* 1944 г.)\n 2004 г. – Марлон Брандо, американски актьор (* 1924 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ричард Мей, британски юрист (* 1938 г.)\n 2004 г. – Тодор Скаловски, македонски композитор (* 1909 г.)\n 2005 г. – Иван Колев, български футболист (* 1930 г.)\n 2009 г. – Карл Молдън, американски актьор (* 1912 г.)\n 2011 г. – Васа Ганчева, българска журналистка и водеща (* 1946 г.)\n 2015 г. – Христо Стоянов-Едрин, български писател и журналист (* 1958 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Православна църква – Празник на светите братя Козма и Дамян, в България се почита сред народа като Свети Врач. Ден на билкаря и на народния лечител.\n Международен ден на архитектурата (от 1985 г.)\n Армения – Ден на прокурорите\n Британски Вирджински острови – Ден на Вирджинските острови\n България – Джулай\n Гана – Ден на републиката (1961 г.)\n Канада – Ден на Канада (национален празник)\n Канада – Ден на унижението (създаден през 1923 г. от страна на китайските имигранти в Канада, за да привлекат вниманието на канадските власти по въпросите на имиграцията в страната)\n Киргизстан – Ден на данъчната служител\n Китай – Ден на комунистическата партия\n Лесото – Ден на семейството\n Молдова – Ден на данъчната служба\n Руанда и Бурунди – Ден на независимостта (1962 г., от Белгия, национални празници в двете държави)\n Русия – Ден на морския и речния флот\n Сомалия – Ден на независимостта (1960 г., от Италия) и Ден на обединението на двете Сомалии (национален празник)\n Суринам – Ден на свободата\n Турция – Ден на Военноморските сили\n Украйна – Ден на архитекта\n\nВижте също \n Джулай\n\n701"
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        "text": "Whether you are re-imagining a room from the ground up or starting from scratch in a new home, ceramic tile can transform any home in Lansing. Ceramic tile flooring is incredibly versatile, lending style to contemporary and traditional designs alike. It is a classic addition to spaces like bathrooms, kitchens, mudrooms and more. At Carpet One in Lansing, ceramic tile flooring is one of the things we do best. We carry a diverse selection of ceramic tile flooring in a wide range of looks and prices.\nBut with so many kinds to choose from, how can you be sure you end up with the right ceramic tile flooring? Lansing Carpet One has the expertise you need. Whichever room you want to revitalize, Carpet One is here to help. Our Carpet One sales professionals will help find the right Lansing ceramic tile flooring for your project from our wide selection, while making sure your budgetary needs are met. And because your Lansing Carpet One is one of over 1,000 stores in the Carpet One buying group, the savings we obtain from brands, mills and manufacturers are passed on to you in Lansing. Furthermore, we do ceramic tile flooring installation with the same expertise we add to floor selection. Carpet One delivers the same services and expertise that back our floor selection system, so you know your flooring will be installed professionally and with ease. Additionally, we offer various easy-to-understand levels of SelectAFloor™ warranty options to protect your Lansing ceramic tile flooring over time. Ceramic tile flooring is easy to add to your home when you work with us.\nMoreover, your neighborhood Carpet One in Lansing, MI is locally owned, so we care about the Lansing community, are dedicated to helping you, and make it our mission to bring you the best value in all kinds of flooring. What’s more, in addition to ceramic tile, Lansing Carpet One does all kinds of flooring! To find out about our other flooring choices, like our natural hardwoods and comfortable carpeting, contact your nearest Carpet One location in Lansing, MI. We’ll go beyond your expectations to help you find the perfect ceramic tile flooring at the perfect price."
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        "text": "Q: How can I move an iTunes library from one computer to another? I'm getting a new laptop and I want to move my iTunes library from the old to the new computer. How can I do this? Of course I want to preserve as much information as possible: metadata such as ratings and play counts, cover art, my purchased content from Apple.\nI also own an iPhone which I used to sync with the old computer and now I want to sync with the new one, preserving my apps, contacts, purchased content, etc.\nWhat would be the best way to do this? Is just moving the whole “iTunes” folder from one computer to the other an option?\n\nA: If they both have Firewire you can simply use the Migration Utility.\n\nA: Yes, moving the whole iTunes folder will work fine, as long as the music is in the same location or a subfolder (that's the default). You can even move from Mac to PC and vice versa. However, I would suggest copying first; just in case anything goes wrong. :-)\nIf the iTunes Media folder and the Library files are in different locations, it can get more complicated. It's still possible, but if this is the case and you have the disk space, it's easiest to “Consolidate” the library into the folder that contains the iTunes Library file before you make the move.\n\nA: Yes, simply coping your entirely iTunes folder to an other computer will do the trick. This assumes all of your media is consolidated within the iTunes Media and iTunes Music folders. iTunes will assist in copying music to the folder and organizing a library if you would like to ensure all the media is portable when it comes time to transfer.\nDo not forget to reauthorize the old computer if you are not going to use it regularly in case it crashes and one of your 5 slots is taken up. You can reset things after a lost computer, but it is somewhat time restricted to prevent abuse of that feature.\n\nA: *\n\n*If you are a Windows user and don't want to go through all of this hacking, you can buy iTunes Transfer software at my partner site. It will help you back up your library – with playlists – and transfer it to your other computer.\n\n*If you're trying to transfer music from your iPod to your computer, unfortunately, Apple won't let you do this freely, but you can buy iPod to Computer software for PC (free trial download), or iPod to Computer software for Mac at my partner site that will allow you to do this.\n\n*If you just have the hard drive of your old PC, Ben has shared with us how to make the transfer\n\n*If you aren't keen on messing with XML files – and play count isn’t important to you - Oden has a simple process, involving smart playlists, for retaining song ratings when you transfer your iTunes library.\n\n*Collin has a simple way to find out those duplicate songs that you may end up with when transferring your catalog.\n\n*Aaron devised a clever way to transfer while retaining playlists in your collection.\n\n*If you are transferring between Macs, pbaron has a method involving FireWire mode.\nSource for above.\n"
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        "text": "1 август е 213-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (214-и през високосна). Остават 152 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 527 г. – Юстиниан I става самостоятелен владетел на Източната Римска империя.\n 902 г. – Арабите, оглавявани от династията Аглабиди, завладяват последната крепост на Византия на остров Сицилия – Таормина.\n 1291 г. – Три централни швейцарски кантона подписват Федерална харта (Bundesbrief), с която се създава Швейцарската конфедерация.\n 1208 г. – Българо-латински войни: В Битката при Пловдив армията на Втората българска държава е разгромена от рицарите на Латинската империя; българите са изтласкани от Тракия.\n 1461 г. – Едуард IV е коронован за крал на Англия.\n 1492 г. – Фердинанд Арагонски и Изабела I прогонват евреите от Испания.\n 1498 г. – Христофор Колумб акостира на континентална Америка при Венецуела.\n 1619 г. – Във Вирджиния (дн. САЩ) са докарани с кораби първите африкански роби.\n 1774 г. – Джоузеф Пристли открива кислорода и потвърждава предишното откритие на този химичен елемент от Карл Вилхелм Шееле.\n 1798 г. – Революционни войни: В Абукирския залив, Египет, започва морска битка, в която адмирал Хорацио Нелсън унищожава флотата на Наполеон Бонапарт.\n 1800 г. – Кралство Великобритания и Кралство Ирландия се обединяват в Обединено кралство Великобритания и Ирландия.\n 1834 г. – Отменено е робството в Британската империя, около 770 280 роби стават свободни граждани.\n 1876 г. – Колорадо става 38-ия щат на САЩ.\n 1879 г. – Създадена е Дунавската военна флотилия, с което се поставя началото на българските ВМС.\n 1885 г. – В Санкт Петербург е отпечатана първата българска банкнота с номинал 20 лева.\n 1888 г. – От Виена потегля първият влак по линията Виена – Цариград.\n 1894 г. – Избухва Китайско-японската война.\n 1895 г. – Излиза първият брой на списание Лов и риболов.\n 1902 г. – САЩ купуват правата за Панамския канал от Франция.\n 1907 г. – На остров Браунси започва първият скаутски лагер, организиран от британския генерал Робърт Бейдън-Пауъл.\n 1912 г. – В София е сформирана Аеропланна рота – първата самолетна част в България.\n 1914 г. – Първата световна война: Германия обявява война на Русия три дни преди Великобритания да обяви война на Германия.\n 1924 г. – Основан е АС Монако.\n 1926 г. – Открита е първата отсечка от теснопътната железопътна линия Септември – Добринище, от гара Септември до гара Велинград.\n 1928 г. – Създадена е Радиослужба към БТА.\n 1936 г. – В Берлин се откриват 11-те Летни олимпийски игри от Адолф Хитлер.\n 1944 г. – Втора световна война: Във Варшава Армия Крайова започва Варшавското въстание срещу нацистката окупация на Полша; бунтът продължава 63 дни преди да бъде потушен от германците.\n 1953 г. – Създадена е Информационна агенция на САЩ (ЮСИА).\n 1960 г. – Кипър получава своята независимост.\n 1960 г. – Република Дахомей (по-късно преименувана на Бенин) обявява национална независимост от Франция.\n 1960 г. – Град Исламабад е обявен за федерална столица на Пакистан.\n 1967 г. – Израел анексира Източен Йерусалим.\n 1968 г. – Хасанал Болкиах е коронован за 29-и султан на Бруней.\n 1971 г. – На Медисън Скуеър Гардън (Ню Йорк) се провежда благотворителен концерт пред 40 хил. души, на който са събрани около 244 хил. долара за нуждите на УНИЦЕФ в Бангладеш; концертът е организиран от Джордж Харисън и Рави Шанкар, сред изпълнителите са Боб Дилън, Ерик Клептън, Ринго Стар и др.\n 1975 г. – 33 европейски страни, САЩ и Канада, подписват в Хелзинки Заключителния акт от споразумението за човешките права, който води до създаването на Организация за сигурност и сътрудничество в Европа.\n 1981 г. – В САЩ започва излъчване музикалният тв канал MTV.\n 1990 г. – Желю Желев е избран от VII велико народно събрание за председател (президент) на Република България.\n 1991 г. – XXXVI народно събрание на Република България решава да не поднови договора за дружба, сътрудничество и взаимна помощ със СССР от 1967 г.\n 2001 г. – България, Кипър, Латвия, Малта, Словения и Словакия се присъединяват към Европейската агенция за околна среда.\n 2004 г. – При пожар в супермаркет в Асунсион (Парагвай) загиват 396 души и над 500 са ранени.\n\nРодени \n\n 10 г. пр.н.е. – Клавдий, римски император († 54 г.)\n 126 г. – Пертинакс, римски император († 193 г.)\n 1520 г. – Зигмунт II Август, Крал на Полша и Велик княз на Литва († 1572 г.)\n 1626 г. – Шабатай Цви, еврейски лъжемесия († 1676 г.)\n 1744 г. – Жан-Батист Ламарк, френски биолог († 1829 г.)\n 1770 г. – Уилям Кларк, американски изследовател († 1838 г.)\n 1819 г. – Херман Мелвил, американски романист, есеист и поет († 1891 г.)\n 1829 г. – Иван Сеченов, руски физиолог († 1905 г.)\n 1849 г. – Джордж Доусън, канадски геолог и геодезист († 1901 г.)\n 1857 г. – Анастас Янков, български военен и революционер († 1906 г.)\n 1858 г. – Ханс Рот, австрийски композитор († 1884 г.)\n 1862 г. – Иван Пашинов, български военен деец († 1936 г.)\n 1872 г. – Димитър Мирасчиев, български революционер († 1917 г.)\n 1873 г. – Кръстьо Раковски, български, румънски, съветски политик и дипломат († 1941 г.)\n 1889 г. – Валтер Герлах, немски физик († 1979 г.)\n 1893 г. – Александрос I, крал на Гърция († 1920 г.)\n 1899 г. – Джеймс Ейнджъл, американски авиатор († 1956 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джак Креймър, американски тенисист († 2009 г.)\n 1924 г. – Абдула бин Абдул Азис, крал на Саудитска Арабия († 2015 г.)\n 1924 г. – Жорж Шарпак, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1992 († 2010 г.)\n 1925 г. – Димитър Русков, български хоров диригент († 2010 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ернст Яндл, немски поет и драматург († 2000 г.)\n 1930 г. – Пиер Бурдийо, френски социолог († 2002 г.)\n 1933 г. – Антонио Негри, италиански философ-марксист\n 1936 г. – Ив Сен Лоран, френски моден дизайнер († 2008 г.)\n 1942 г. – Джанкарло Джанини, италиански актьор\n 1945 г. – Вили Кавалджиев, български рок певец († 2010 г.)\n 1945 г. – Дъглас Ошероф, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1996 г.\n 1948 г. – Дейвид Гемел, британски писател († 2006 г.)\n 1950 г. – Любомир Котев, български писател и белетрист\n 1951 г. – Томи Боулин, американски китарист († 1976 г.)\n 1952 г. – Зоран Джинджич, министър-председател на Сърбия († 2003 г.)\n 1953 г. – Игор Дамянов, български политик († 2019 г.)\n 1953 г. – Мартин Гудман, британски историк и писател\n 1959 г. – Джо Елиът, британски рок музикант\n 1961 г. – Ален Берг, бивш канадски пилот от Форума 1\n 1961 г. – Николай Станчев, български актьор († 2021 г.)\n 1962 г. – Божидар Искренов, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Кулио, американски рап изпълнител\n 1964 г. – Димитър Митовски, български режисьор\n 1964 г. – Каспар Капарони, италиански актьор\n 1965 г. – Сам Мендес, английски режисьор\n 1967 г. – Валентин Иванов, български астроном и писател\n 1968 г. – Дан Донеган, американски рок музикант\n 1971 г. – Александър Ангелов, български юрист\n 1972 г. – Вадим Милов, швейцарски шахматист\n 1980 г. – Елеонора Манчева, български фотомодел\n 1980 г. – Мансини, бразилски футболист\n 1981 г. – Стивън Хънт, ирландски футболист\n 1984 г. – Бастиан Швайнщайгер, германски футболист\n 1986 г. – Елена Веснина, руска тенисистка\n 1988 г. – Неманя Матич, сръбски футболист\n 1988 г. – Иван Думиника, молдовски историк от български произход\n 1989 г. – Стефани Хуанг, американска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 30 пр.н.е. г. – Марк Антоний, римски пълководец (* 83 пр.н.е. г.)\n 527 г. – Юстин I, римски император (* 450 г.)\n 1137 г. – Луи VI, крал на Франция (* 1081 г.)\n 1146 г. – Всеволод II, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* 1094 г.)\n 1464 г. – Козимо Медичи, основател на династията Медичи (* 1386 г.)\n 1557 г. – Олаф Магнус, шведски писател (* 1490 г.)\n 1714 г. – Кралица Анна (* 1665 г.)\n 1831 г. – Уилям Хенри Леонард По, американски моряк и поет (* 1807 г.)\n 1859 г. – Стефан Богориди, османски държавник (* 1780 г.)\n 1887 г. – Михаил Катков, руски публицист (* 1818 г.)\n 1912 г. – Йоаким Груев, български просветител (* 1828 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димитър Вълнаров, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1926 г. – Израел Зангвил, английски писател (* 1864 г.)\n 1934 г. – Михаил Розов, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1941 г. – Наум Арнаудов, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1944 г. – Стефан Чавдаров, български революционер (* 1883 г.)\n 1959 г. – Жан Бера, френски пилот от Формула 1 (* 1921 г.)\n 1967 г. – Рихард Кун, германски химик и биохимик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1900 г.)\n 1968 г. – Мито Хадживасилев, югославски политик (* 1922 г.)\n 1970 г. – Ото Варбург, германски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1883 г.)\n 1973 г. – Валтер Улбрихт, германски политик (* 1893 г.)\n 1977 г. – Гари Пауърс, американски летец (* 1929 г.)\n 1987 г. – Пола Негри, американска актриса (* 1897 г.)\n 1992 г. – Маргарита Алигер, руска поетеса (* 1915 г.)\n 1997 г. – Святослав Рихтер, съветски пианист (* 1915 г.)\n 1998 г. – Ева Барток, унгарска актриса (* 1927 г.)\n 2002 г. – Мария Нейкова, българска поппевица и композиторка (* 1945 г.)\n 2003 г. – Мари Трентинян, френска актриса (* 1962 г.)\n 2005 г. – Фахд бин Абдул Азис, крал на Саудитска Арабия (* 1923 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ъруин Сандърс, американски социолог (* 1909 г.)\n 2008 г. – Симон Мирман, френска дизайнерка (* 1912 г.)\n 2009 г. – Мария Корасон Акино, първата жена, президент на Филипините (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на градинаря Честването на празника е възобновено на 1 август 1993 година в град Брезово, Пловдивско, от членове на БЗНС\n Азербайджан – Ден на азербайджанската азбука и език\n Ангола и Ливан – Ден на армията\n Барбадос, Тринидад и Тобаго, Бермуди, Гвиана и Ямайка – Ден на еманципацията (по повод забраната на робството в Британската империя, 1832 г.)\n Бенин – Ден на независимостта (1960 г., от Франция, национален празник)\n Демократична република Конго – Ден на родителите\n Йоркшир, Англия – Ден на Йоркшир\n Либия – Ден на въоръжените сили\n Никарагуа – Ден на фиестата\n Русия – Ден на тиловите войски от въоръжените сили на Руската федерация\n Украйна – Ден на военноморския флот\n Швейцария – Национален ден на Швейцария (по повод подписването на Федералната харта, 1291 г.)\n\n801"
    },
    {
        "text": "1 септември е 244-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (245-и през високосна). Остават 121 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1271 г. – Григорий X е избран за римски папа.\n 1364 г. – Папа Урбан V издава указ за създаване на Краковската академия.\n 1581 г. – Казашкият атаман Ермак Тимофеевич започва военния си поход в Сибир.\n 1804 г. – Немският астроном Карл Лудвиг Хардинг открива третия астероид в Слънчевата система – 3 Юнона.\n 1870 г. – Френско-пруската война: В Битката при Седан Прусия постига решителна победа.\n 1887 г. – Съставено е петнадесетото правителство на България, начело със Стефан Стамболов.\n 1897 г. – В Бостън, Масачузетс е открито първото метро в Северна Америка.\n 1914 г. – Санкт Петербург сменя името си на Петроград.\n 1916 г. – Първа световна война: България обявява война на Румъния.\n 1920 г. – Франция създава Ливан, който е под френска протектура до 1946 г.\n 1923 г. – Голямото земетресение в Канто опустошава района на Токио в Япония, жертвите са над 140 000, а бездомните 2,5 милиона.\n 1928 г. – Албания е обявена за кралство и първи крал става Зог I.\n 1937 г. – Открит е изложбеният център Ърлс Корт Сентър в Лондон, Великобритания.\n 1939 г. – Втора световна война: Нацистка Германия напада Полша, с което започва войната.\n 1950 г. – В Париж се състои първият конгрес на Международната астрономическа федерация.\n 1965 г. – Създадена е израелската комунистическа партия Маки.\n 1968 г. – Водачът на Пражката пролет Александър Дубчек претърпява автомобилна катастрофа и по-късно умира през 1992 г.\n 1969 г. – След държавен преврат в Либия, полковник Муамар ал-Кадафи взима властта, която по-късно предава на Народни Комитети.\n 1972 г. – В Рейкявик, Исландия, американецът Боби Фишер побеждава руснака Борис Спаски и става световен шампион по шахмат.\n 1974 г. – Във Враца е открит газопроводът СССР-НРБ.\n 1979 г. – Американският космически кораб Пионер 11 става първият апарат, който посещава Сатурн, като минава покрай планетата на разстояние от 21 000 км.\n 1983 г. – Студената война: Съветски изтребител „Су-15“ на СССР сваля над остров Сахалин, южнокорейски пътнически самолет Боинг-747 (Call sign: KOREAN AIR 007), който неволно навлиза в съветското въздушно пространство поради грешно зададен маршрут в навигационната система на самолета от пилотите. Сваленият самолет е превозвал 246 пътници + 23 души екипаж, като е изпълнявал редовен полет от Ню Йорк за Сеул (с междинно кацане в Анкоридж). Свален е, след като се отклонява 500 километра от курса. Загиват всичките 269 души на борда. Инцидентът предизвика сериозно влошаване, на и без това обтегнатите отношения между СССР и САЩ. Президентът на САЩ Роналд Рейгън, след инцидента обявява кръстоносен поход срещу комунизма.\n 1985 г. – Съвместна американско-френска експедиция локализира останките на Титаник.\n 1991 г. – Узбекистан обявява независимостта си от СССР.\n 1997 г. – 11 миньори загиват в мини Бобов дол вследствие на експлозия.\n 1999 г. – Ботев (Луковит) отново започва дейност\n 2004 г. – Терористичен акт в Беслан: Въоръжени терористи взимат за заложници стотици ученици в руския град Беслан в Северна Осетия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1336 г. – Стефан Урош V, сръбски крал и цар († 1371 г.)\n 1637 г. – Никола Катина, френски Генерал († 1712 г.)\n 1854 г. – Сава Коев, български опълченец и журналист\n 1858 г. – Трайко Китанчев, български революционер († 1895 г.)\n 1864 г. – Александър Танев, български военен († 1932 г.)\n 1875 г. – Едгар Бъроуз, американски писател († 1950 г.)\n 1876 г. – Иван Вулпе, български оперен певец и музикален педагог († 1929 г.)\n 1878 г. – Александра Сакскобургготска, британска принцеса († 1942 г.)\n 1887 г. – Блез Сандрар, швейцарски писател и поет († 1961 г.)\n 1888 г. – Симеон Петров, български авиатор († 1950 г.)\n 1896 г. – Бхактиведанта Свами Прабхупада, индийски религиозен водач († 1977 г.)\n 1898 г. – Димитър Талев, български писател († 1966 г.)\n 1898 г. – Фридрих Георг Юнгер, немски писател († 1977 г.)\n 1899 г. – Анастас Петров, български балетист († 1978 г.)\n 1911 г. – Михаил Михеев, руски писател († 1993 г.)\n 1922 г. – Златка Измирлиева, български математик и педагог († 2003 г.)\n 1923 г. – Роки Марчиано, американски боксьор († 1969 г.)\n 1925 г. – Рой Глаубер, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2018 г.)\n 1932 г. – Христо Недялков, български композитор († 2013 г.)\n 1933 г. – Атанас Ценев, български сценарист\n 1939 г. – Лили Томлин, американска актриса\n 1942 г. – Антониу Лобу Антунеш, португалски писател\n 1942 г. – Каролайн Чери, американска писателка\n 1944 г. – Леонард Слаткин, американски диригент\n 1945 г. – Мустафа Балел, турски писател\n 1946 г. – Но Му-хен, южнокорейски политик († 2009 г.)\n 1951 г. – Тимъти Зан, американски писател\n 1953 г. – Валентин Пензов, български композитор († 2019 г.)\n 1954 г. – Филип Вуянович, президент на Черна Гора\n 1955 г. – Тодор Митов, български футболист\n 1956 г. – Катерина Евро, българска актриса\n 1956 г. – Прамод Митал, индийски бизнесмен\n 1957 г. – Валентин Княжевич, български даскал, историк-краевед и генеалог\n 1957 г. – Глория Естефан, кубинска певица\n 1959 г. – Нели Топалова, българска актриса\n 1961 г. – Тонино Бенакиста, френски писател\n 1962 г. – Рууд Гулит, холандски футболист\n 1963 г. – Светослав Минчев, български публицист\n 1967 г. – Андреас Майер, немски писател\n 1968 г. – Димитър Авджийски, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Хакан Шюкюр, турски футболист\n 1983 г. – Кирил Терзиев, български борец\n 1989 г. – Близнаците Бил Каулиц и Том Каулиц, немски музиканти (Токио Хотел)\n 1996 г. – Зендая Колман, американска певица и актриса\n 1997 г. – Чон Чонг Кук, южнокорейски певец, автор на песни и продуцент на звукозаписи.\n\nПочинали \n\n 1557 г. – Жак Картие, френски пътешественик (* 1491 г.)\n 1687 г. – Хенри Мор, английски философ (* 1614 г.)\n 1715 г. – Луи XIV, крал на Франция (* 1638 г.)\n 1838 г. – Уилям Кларк, американски пътешественик и откривател (* 1770 г.)\n 1906 г. – Джузепе Джакоза, италиански писател, драматург и либретист (* 1847 г.)\n 1920 г. – Константин Кирков, български военен деец (* 1869 г.)\n 1948 г. – Чарлз Биард, американски историк (* 1874 г.)\n 1953 г. – Жак Тибо, френски цигулар (* 1880 г.)\n 1953 г. – Теодор Капидан, румънски лингвист (* 1879 г.)\n 1958 г. – Димитър Дечев, български класически филолог (* 1877 г.)\n 1970 г. – Зорка Йорданова, българска драматична актриса (* 1904 г.)\n 1970 г. – Франсоа Мориак, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1952 г. (* 1885 г.)\n 1981 г. – Алберт Шпеер, нацистки архитект и министър на военната промишленост (* 1905 г.)\n 1982 г. – Владислав Гомулка, полски комунистически политик и държавник (* 1905 г.)\n 1988 г. – Луис Алварес, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. (* 1911 г.)\n 1992 г. – Пьотър Ярошевич, полски партиен и държавен деец (* 1909 г.)\n 1996 г. – Люба Велич, българо-австрийска певица (* 1913 г.)\n 2003 г. – Райнер Малковски, немски поет (* 1939 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – Начало на Църковната нова година; свети Симеон Стълпник (Симеоновден)\n Ден на движението на необвързаните страни – Чества се от 1981 г. На тази дата през 1961 г. в Белград представители на 25 държави от Африка, Азия и Европа участват в Първата конференция на необвързаните страни\n Празник на Криводол – На 1 септември 1969 г. е обявен за град\n България – Ден на Драгоман (за 2012 г.) – Чества се първата събота, след 29 август. Датата се определя с решение на Общински съвет и е във връзка с обявяването на Драгоман за град през 1963 г.\n Италия – Празник на град Аквино\n Либия – Ден на Революцията (1969 г., държавен преврат под ръководството на Муамар Кадафи, национален празник)\n Пуерто Рико – Ден на труда\n Русия – Ден на знанието (първи учебен ден)\n Сингапур – Ден на учителя\n Словакия – Ден на конституцията (1992 г., национален празник)\n Узбекистан – Ден на независимостта (от СССР, 1991, национален празник)\n\n901"
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        "text": "1 октомври е 274-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (275-и през високосна). Остават 91 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 331 пр.н.е. – Големият пълководец Александър Македонски побеждава в Битка при Гавгамела армията на персийския владетел Дарий III и завладява Персийската империя.\n 1218 г. – Папа Хонорий III освобождава тевтонските рицари от съдебната власт на местните епископи.\n 1791 г. – Провежда се първото заседание на Законодателното събрание на Франция.\n 1814 г. – Започва Виенският конгрес, който цели да преначертае политическата карта на Европа след победата над Наполеон по-рано.\n 1874 г. – Избухва голям пожар в Поморие – унищожени са над 550 сгради.\n 1888 г. – Основан е Софийският университет „Св. Климент Охридски“.\n 1890 г. – Светият Синод на Българската православна църква окончателно се установява в София.\n 1890 г. – Създаден е Национален парк Йосемити в Калифорния, САЩ.\n 1899 г. – Съставено е 19 Правителство на България на Либералната партия начело с Тодор Иванчов.\n 1910 г. – Терористи взривяват сградата на вестник Лос Анджелис Таймс, загиват 21 души.\n 1934 г. – В испанския парламент влизат трима министри от Испанската конфедерация на независимата десница, което довежда до въстания на социалисти и анархисти в Астурия и Каталония.\n 1936 г. – Генерал Франциско Франко става генералисимус и държавен глава на националистическото правителство в Испания.\n 1938 г. – Германия анексира Судетската област.\n 1942 г. – Извършен е първият полет на първия американски реактивен самолет Bell XP-59 „Aircomet“.\n 1946 г. – Приключват Нюрнбергските процеси, след като са издадени присъди срещу 24 от най-известните нацистки лидери.\n 1946 г. – Основана е организацията с нестопанска цел Менса.\n 1947 г. – Правителството на САЩ възстановява дипломатическите отношения с България след Втората световна война.\n 1948 г. – Основан е чешкият футболен тим Дукла в Прага.\n 1949 г. – Народна република България анулира договора за приятелство, сътрудничество и взаимна помощ със Социалистическа федеративна република Югославия, под натиска на СССР, и започва широка идеологическа кампания срещу правителството на Йосип Броз Тито.\n 1949 г. – Мао Дзъдун провъзгласява създаването на Китайската народна република.\n 1958 г. – Мароко и Тунис се присъединяват към Лигата на арабските държави.\n 1960 г. – Кипър извоюва свободата си от Великобритания\n 1960 г. – Открит е завод „Електроника“ в София; до 1972 г. е сред първите и най-големи производители на електронни калкулатори в Европа.\n 1967 г. – Групата Pink Floyd започва първото си турне в САЩ.\n 1970 г. – Състои се погребението на президента на Египет Гамал Абдел Насър, по време на което много хора са стъпкани от милионната тълпа.\n 1971 г. – В град Орландо, щата Флорида е открит увеселителния парк Disney World.\n 1977 г. – Бразилският футболист Пеле прекратява спортната си кариера.\n 1982 г. – Хелмут Шмит подава оставка от поста канцлер на ФРГ и е наследен на поста от Хелмут Кол.\n 1992 г. – Стартира Cartoon Network.\n 1992 г. – Създадена е Държавната агенция за българите в чужбина.\n 1992 г. – В Литва е въведена нова парична единица, наречена лит.\n 2004 г. – Открива се Тараклийският държавен университет.\n 2005 г. – По време на терористичен акт в индонезийския остров Бали загиват 26 души и стотици са ранени.\n 2014 г. – В резултат от авария в завод „Миджур“, причинена от взрив, загиват 15 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 208 г. – Александър Север, римски император († 235 г.)\n 1207 г. – Хенри III, английски крал († 1272 г.)\n 1685 г. – Карл VI, Свещен римски император, крал на Бохемия, Унгария и Хърватия († 1740 г.)\n 1754 г. – Павел I (Русия), император на Русия († 1801 г.)\n 1791 г. – Сергей Аксаков, руски писател и обществен деец, литературен и театрален критик († 1859 г.)\n 1855 г. – Анани Явашов, български просветен деец († 1934 г.)\n 1865 г. – Пол Дюка, френски композитор и музикален критик († 1935 г.)\n 1888 г. – Димо Сяров, български писател († 1965 г.)\n 1889 г. – Чавдар Мутафов, български писател († 1954 г.)\n 1890 г. – Любомир Золотович, български актьор († 1945 г.)\n 1893 г. – Ип Ман, майстор на бойното изкуство „винг чун“ († 1972 г.)\n 1898 г. – Коста Шулев, деец на БКП и БКМС († 1925 г.)\n 1898 г. – Марко Марчевски, български писател († 1962 г.)\n 1903 г. – Владимир Хоровиц, американски пианист от украински произход († 1989 г.)\n 1903 г. – Пиер Вейрон, френски автомобилен състезател († 1970 г.)\n 1907 г. – Георги Минчев, деец на БКП († 1942 г.)\n 1911 г. – Веселина Геновска, българска писателка († 1960 г.)\n 1911 г. – Захари Жандов, български кинорежисьор († 1998 г.)\n 1912 г. – Лев Гумильов, руски географ, историк и философ († 1992 г.)\n 1920 г. – Александър Попов, български футболист\n 1921 г. – Джеймс Уитмор, американски актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1922 г. – Чженин Янг, американски физик от китайски произход, Нобелов лауреат\n 1924 г. – Джими Картър, 39-и президент на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат\n 1925 г. – Мария Столарова, българска художничка († 2016 г.)\n 1927 г. – Олег Ефремов, руски актьор и режисьор († 2000 г.)\n 1928 г. – Лорънс Харви, британски актьор († 1973 г.)\n 1930 г. —\n Филип Ноаре, френски актьор († 2006 г.)\n Ричард Харис, ирландски актьор († 2002 г.)\n 1935 г. —\n Нина Стамова, българска актриса († 2019 г.)\n Джули Андрюс, британска певица, актриса и автор\n 1937 г. – Райко Стойнов, български футболист († 2010 г.)\n 1943 г. – Хусто Хорхе Падрон, испански поет\n 1947 г. – Аарон Цихановер, израелски биолог Нобелов лауреат\n 1951 г. – Валентина Атанасова, българска поетеса\n 1954 г. – Владимир Уручев, български политик\n 1961 г. – Сумру Яврочук, турска актриса\n 1963 г. – Лъчезар Танев, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Джордж Уеа, либерийски футболист и политик\n 1971 г. – Драгомира Бонева, българска актриса\n 1981 г. – Жулио Баптища, бразилски футболист\n 1988 г. – Кариба Хайн, австралийска актриса и танцьорка\n 1989 г. – Бри Ларсън, американска актриса и певица\n 1990 г. – Хазал Кая, турска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1499 г. – Марсилио Фичино, италиански хуманист и философ (* 1433 г.)\n 1578 г. – Хуан Австрийски, испански военачалник (* 1547 г.)\n 1684 г. – Пиер Корней, френски писател и драматург (* 1606 г.)\n 1911 г. – Вилхелм Дилтай, немски философ (* 1833 г.)\n 1933 г. – Руси Коджаманов, български композитор, диригент и музикален педагог († 1866 г.)\n 1964 г. – Стефан Ангелов, български лекар (* 1878 г.)\n 1968 г. – Романо Гуардини, германски писател и философ-теолог (* 1885 г.)\n 1972 г. – Луис Лики, археолог и биолог (* 1903 г.)\n 1974 г. – Петко Задгорски, български художник (* 1902 г.)\n 1977 г. – Лазар Парашкеванов, български архитект (* 1890 г.)\n 2006 г. – Атанас Михайлов, български футболист (* 1949 г.)\n 2007 г. – Мариане Фриц, австрийска писателка (* 1948 г.)\n 2013 г. – Том Кланси, американски писател (* 1947 г.)\n 2018 г. – Шарл Азнавур, френски певец (* 1924 г.)\n 2019 г. – Карел Гот, чешки поп певец (* 1939 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден за борба с хепатита – Определен от консорциум, в който влизат 15 организации от Европа и Близкия изток, за подкрепа на пациентите\n Международен ден на вегетарианството – Учреден през 1977 г. с решение на световния конгрес на вегетарианците във Великобритания по инициатива на Северноамериканската организация на вегетарианците\n Международен ден на възрастните хора – Определен от Общото събрание на ООН през 1990 година, първото му отбелязване е през 1991 година.\n ЮНЕСКО – Световен ден на музиката (Отбелязва се от 1975 г. по решение на Международния съвет за музика при ЮНЕСКО)\n Австрия – Ден на кафето\n Боливия – Народен ден на Библията\n България\n Българска православна църква – Покров на Пресвета Богородица, Преп. Йоан Кукузел\n Ден на Застрахователя – Обявен е за професионален празник през февруари 1996 г. с решение на Асоциацията на българските застрахователи и Съюза на частните застрахователи\n Ден на поезията\n Празник на Академията на Министерство на вътрешните работи (МВР) – Обявен с Решение на 39-ото Народно събрание от 14 юни 2002 г.\n Празник на българските певци и музиканти – Обявен е през 1980 г. по повод 700-годишнината от рождението на св. Йоан Кукузел\n Професионален празник на зенитно-ракетните войски – Отбелязва се от 1 октомври 1960 година, когато в Казахстанската степ български дивизион за първи път осъществява боен пуск на зенитна ракета\n Камерун – Празник на обединението\n Кипър – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1960 г., национален празник)\n Китай – Ден на Китайската народна република (1949 г., национален празник)\n Нигерия – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1960 г., национален празник)\n Сан Марино – Инвеститура на Регента\n Сингапур – Ден на детето\n Тувалу – Ден на независимостта (от Кирибати, 1975 г., национален празник)\n Узбекистан – Ден на учителя\n Южна Корея – Ден на въоръжените сили\n Япония – Национален празник на кафето\n\nИзточници \n\nA01"
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        "text": "1 ноември е 305-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (306-и през високосна). Остават 60 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 79 г. – Започва едно от големите изригвания на вулкана Везувий.\n 1478 г. – папска була на Сикст IV за въвеждане на инквизицията в Кастилия. Начало на испанската инквизиция.\n 1520 г. – Фернандо Магелан открива проток между Атлантическия океан и Тихия океан, който по-късно е наречен Магеланов проток.\n 1755 г. – Лисабонското земетресение: Лисабон е почти напълно разрушен, загиват между 60 и 100 хил. души\n 1897 г. – Учреден е ФК Ювентус (Торино).\n 1900 г. – Започва да функционира първата в България водноелектрическа централа, ВЕЦ Панчарево, която захранва 600 лампи, осветяващи София.\n 1909 г. – В Пловдив за първи път е честван Денят на народните будители.\n 1914 г. – Първата световна война: Край брега на Чили започва една от големите морски битки между германския и британския военни флотове – битката при Коронел.\n 1922 г. – Последният султан на Османската империя, Мехмед VI, абдикира. В Царство България денят е обявен на 31 октомври същата година за – празник на народните будители.\n 1928 г. – Цар Борис III открива 10-километровата жп линия Асеновград – Пловдив.\n 1928 г. – Турският президент Мустафа Кемал Ататюрк въвежда съвременната 29-буквена турска азбука, която заменя старата османска турска азбука в официалния турски език.\n 1943 г. – Огласена е Московската декларация от съюзниците в т.нар. антихитлеристка коалиция, по силата на която СССР се присъединява към атлантическата формулировка за „безусловната капитулация“ на страните от Оста.\n 1944 г. – Създадена е Българската хорова капела „Светослав Обретенов“.\n 1944 г. – Във Великобритания е създадено първото дружество на привържениците на веганството.\n 1946 г. – Провежда се първият мач в историята на NBA.\n 1954 г. – В Алжир избухва въстание за независимост от Франция.\n 1962 г. – Монголия става член на ЮНЕСКО.\n 1964 г. – Отворени са временни проходи през Берлинската стена.\n 1974 г. – Открита е водноелектрическата каскада Белмекен - Сестримо.\n 1981 г. – Антигуа и Барбуда придобива независимост от Великобритания.\n 1989 г. – В Одеса, Украйна, е основан българският вестник Роден край.\n 1993 г. – Влиза в сила Маастрихтският договор, с който се създава Европейския съюз\n 1998 г. – Създаден е Европейският съд по правата на човека.\n\nРодени \n\n 1757 г. – Антонио Канова, италиански скулптор († 1822 г.)\n 1778 г. – Густав IV, крал на Швеция († 1837 г.)\n 1842 г. – Стоян Новакович, сръбски учен и политик († 1915 г.)\n 1864 г. – Елизавета Фьодоровна, руска княгиня († 1918 г.)\n 1871 г. – Ангелко Кръстич, македонски поет († 1952 г.)\n 1871 г. – Стивън Крейн, американски писател († 1900 г.)\n 1873 г. – Божан Ангелов, български критик († 1958 г.)\n 1878 г. – Карлос Сааведра Ламас, аржентински политик, Нобелов лауреат († 1959 г.)\n 1879 г. – Пал Телеки, министър-председател на Унгария († 1941 г.)\n 1880 г. – Алфред Вегенер, немски метеоролог и геолог († 1930 г.)\n 1884 г. – Анибале Бергонзоли, италиански офицер († 1973 г.)\n 1887 г. – Лорънс Стивън Лоури, британски художник († 1976 г.)\n 1888 г. – Борис Георгиев, български художник († 1962 г.)\n 1889 г. – Филип Ноел-Бейкър, британски активист за мир с канадски произход, Нобелов лауреат († 1982 г.)\n 1897 г. – Карло Луканов, български комунист († 1982 г.)\n 1902 г. – Ойген Йохум, немски диригент († 1987 г.)\n 1911 г. – Анри Троая, френски писател и историк († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Илзе Айхингер, австрийска поетеса († 2016 г.)\n 1923 г. – Гордън Диксън, канадски писател фантаст († 2001 г.)\n 1924 г. – Сюлейман Демирел, министър-председател и президент на Турция († 2015 г.)\n 1924 г. – Янко Янков, български актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1925 г. – Надя Тодорова, българска актриса († 2016 г.)\n 1926 г. – Гюнтер де Бройн, немски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1929 г. – Димитър Йорданов, български футболист († 1996 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Колев, български футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1938 г. – Ибрахим Касимов, български аграрен учен и общественик († 2007 г.)\n 1938 г. – Пламен Дончев, български актьор\n 1939 г. – Бернар Кушнер, френски общественик\n 1943 г. – Салваторе Адамо, белгийски певец\n 1944 г. – Иван Бенчев, български изкуствовед († 2012 г.)\n 1944 г. – Рафик Харири, министър-председател на Ливан († 2005 г.)\n 1947 г. – Георги Петканов, български политик († 2015 г.)\n 1950 г. – Робърт Лафлин, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1952 г. – Лари Флинт, американски издател 2021\n 1953 г. – Нанси Дейвис, американска астронавтка\n 1954 г. – Димитър Ефремов, български футболист\n 1957 г. – Питър Оустръм, американски артист\n 1958 г. – Рейчъл Тикотин, американска актриса\n 1962 г. – Антъни Кийдис, американски певец (Red Hot Chili Peppers)\n 1965 г. – Мариела Гемишева, български дизайнер\n 1973 г. – Айшвария Рай, индийска актриса\n 1974 г. – Сибин Майналовски, български писател, журналист и дизайнер\n 1975 г. – Елена Петрова, българска актриса\n 1981 г. – Пиер Фич, канадски гей-порно актьор\n 1983 г. – Наталия Тена, британска актриса\n 1984 г. – Милош Красич, сръбски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1496 г. – Филип Калимах, италиански писател (* 1437 г.)\n 1804 г. – Йохан Фридрих Гмелин, германски учен (* 1748 г.)\n 1860 г. – Александра Фьодоровна, императрица на Русия (* 1798 г.)\n 1865 г. – Джон Линдли, английски ботаник (* 1799 г.)\n 1877 г. – Янко Матушка, словашки поет (* 1821 г.)\n 1892 г. – Иван Богоров, български енциклопедист (* 1820 г.)\n 1893 г. – Ян Матейко, полски художник (* 1838 г.)\n 1894 г. – Александър III, император на Русия (* 1845 г.)\n 1903 г. – Теодор Момзен, германски писател, Нобелов лауреат, (* 1817 г.)\n 1907 г. – Алфред Жари, френски поет (* 1873 г.)\n 1922 г. – Методий Кусев, български духовник (* 1838 г.)\n 1928 г. – Иван Антонов, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1941 г. – Христо Ников, деец на БКП (* 1911 г.)\n 1944 г. – Шарл Дил, френски учен (* 1859 г.)\n 1949 г. – Никола Жеков, български офицер (* 1865 г.)\n 1953 г. – Александър Гиргинов, български политик (* 1889 г.)\n 1956 г. – Пиетро Бадолио, италиански политик (* 1871 г.)\n 1958 г. – Яхия Кемал Беятлъ, турски поет (* 1884 г.)\n 1972 г. – Езра Паунд, американски поет (* 1885 г.)\n 1979 г. – Мейми Айзенхауер, първа дама на САЩ (1953 – 1961) (* 1896 г.)\n 1993 г. – Северо Очоа, испански биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1959 г. (* 1905 г.)\n 1995 г. – Васил Ильоски, македонски писател (* 1900 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стивън Рънсиман, британски историк (* 1903 г.)\n 2006 г. – Донка Паприкова, социален работник (* 1915 г.)\n 2006 г. – Стойчо Мазгалов, български актьор (* 1930 г.)\n 2007 г. – Пол Тибетс, американски генерал (* 1915 г.)\n 2008 г. – Димитър Калчев, български политик (* 1945 г.)\n 2010 г. – Пенка Цицелкова, българска актриса (* 1943 г.)\n 2014 г. – Уейн Статик, американски музикант (* 1965 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на веганството\n Римокатолическа църква – Ден на Вси светии\n България\n Ден на народните будители\n „Ден на светото рождение йоанско“\n Свети безсребърници и чудотворци Козма и Дамян Асийски\n Ден на българската наука – От 1991 г. Съюзът на учените в България отбелязва Деня на народните будители и като свой празник.\n Ден на българската журналистика – Отбелязва се в Деня на народните будители, с решение на Съюза на българските журналисти. В деня на празника се връчват наградите на съюза.\n Алжир – Ден на революцията и на независимостта (от Франция, 1962 г., национален празник)\n Антигуа и Барбуда – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1981 г., национален празник)\n Британски Вирджински острови – Ден на свободата\n Словения – Ден на възпоменанието\n\nB01"
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        "text": "Barely Human Chapter One: Scary Guests\n1—Scary Guests\nI was waiting for them out in front of the building, feeling nervous as a chicken on the freeway. Like what if they don’t show? But what if they do? Well, pretty soon here they come, rolling up to the curb in this big black limo, the kind they use to shuttle people from the airport to their hotel. And even though I was totally expecting them, it was still kind of weird to see these bears getting out. Real bears. They had to be ours.\nJimmy sauntered up to me. “I’m Jimmy,” he said. “And you must be . . . ”\n“Charlie Higgins,” I said.\nHe held out a paw and I touched it with my hand. He looked bigger and darker than what I was expecting from the photo. And he wasn’t wearing anything at all but a red beret. Ursula was kind of cute in her super-size blue dress. She had a pretty blue and red scarf over her ears, and she was funny, too. We hit it off from the get-go. Jimmy was a little harder to read.\nWe’d done the paperwork six months earlier. Weeks went by and then we got the letter. They were assigning us two black bears, a boy and a girl. They used a shitload of words to add that these bears could live with us and be our guests for as long as it all worked out. Plus we’d get the stipend on the same day every month.\nWe had the extra bedroom and the bath. We also had the killer view of the bridges and the Bay, but that wasn’t going to do them any good ‘cause bears can’t see worth a damn. That’s what I always thought. But Ursula could see just fine. They’d hardly been with us an hour before she was giving Jimmy a tour of the scene out the living room window.\n“And that’s Alcatraz over there and that bigger one . . .”\n“I don’t perceive a bigger one.”\n“ . . . is Angel Island.”\nShe said it was “a rich man’s view.” That embarrassed the hell out of me. I wasn’t into being anybody’s “rich man.”\nSince the bears were our guests, we had to feed them. I’d looked forward to that, because I kind of like to cook for folks. But what they liked to eat became an issue from day one. When I’d asked them what they liked, Jimmy said, “Pork,” or maybe “Pork makes my day.” I don’t know, I may have had a heat on at the time. But I wasn’t so juiced up I don’t remember him saying that. Okay, it’s out. I like my alcohol. Sometimes too much. Then I take myself off the stuff. Hell, I can go for weeks, even months, without a friggin’ drop. They tell me it’s a disease, but I don’t feel sick. I feel great. Especially after a nice tall cool one. Hey, I’m just messing with you like.\nWith the bears and me eating all that pork, Rhonda wouldn’t eat with us. She thought pigs were cute. If she could’ve had a baby pig on her lap, she would’ve been as happy as a spotted pony. There were only baby pigs for her, and she couldn’t stand the thought of eating one and adding to the cruel slaughter.\n“Why aren’t we having salmon? Isn’t that what they like to eat?”\nIt was late at night, soon after they arrived, and I remember how the moon was lighting up the living room.\n“Ssshhh!” I whispered. “They can hear things we can’t.”\n“What are you talking about? You can hear them snoring!”\nThey were in the room down the hall. We hadn’t thought about the nighttime sounds our guests might make. Why would we? We were hung up on the thought of making friends with members of another species—or getting to know them pretty good, at least. Isn’t that why people have dogs and cats? But bears! Rhonda felt the same way I did about this. It was kind of scary but exciting, too. Maybe floating around in the back of our heads, or my head anyway, was the notion that making such a major household change might jumpstart our relationship up. Like some young couple that decides to have a kid because they’re fighting all the time. ‘Cause she still turned me on.\n“Black bears mostly eat vegetation and insects,” said Rhonda, one morning when we thought we had the kitchen to ourselves. “They’re practically vegetarians, like me.” I bet she Googled that.\n“When they’re in the wild, you mean.”\n“That’s their natural diet. You’re overfeeding them with all that meat.”\n“Oh, I hope they didn’t hear that, Rhonda.” The bears were in the TV room, and I was kind of up for this. “The fact is, number one, I always include a vegetable dish.” I was counting rice and bread, but she didn’t have to know that. “Number two, Ursula and Jimmy are not wild bears. And three, they eat everything I put on their plates. And then they look around to see if there’s anything else. Maybe you’d like to be the one to ask them if they’re getting too much to eat.”\n“Too much meat, Charlie. Too much pork.”\nI naturally played my high card then, which was that pork was what Jimmy said they most liked to eat. She trumped that by reminding me that pork cooking was what she least liked to smell. So we were up against that old food thing again. Ursula ambled in. She must’ve heard something of what we said, because she asked if she could make a suggestion.\n“Jimmy and I would like to have some take-out for a change, and we can help out on the cost.” They’d seen so many interesting-looking restaurants in the neighborhood, she said.\n“Hell, yeah,” I said. “Pick out what you want and I’ll be glad to cover it.” I have to admit that all that cooking was starting to wear me down. I can’t be on my feet all day.\n“It sounds good, Charlie,” Rhonda told me later, “but if you’re going to give up the cooking, you’d better find something else to do with yourself. I don’t want to come home in the afternoon to find you already destroyed. I can’t do that anymore.”\nIt was really unfair. I’d never made a peep when she used to get herself tore up. All the times I had to drag her off from a party, or haul her ass out of a bar and into the car, and then put her to bed. But that was years ago, before the government offered to pay for people to take in bears. And before anybody knew what bears could do.\nI had a lot of respect for Rhonda though, the way she’d raised a kid from scratch all by herself and worked her way through nursing school, too. She was a good person, even with her oven turned off to me. And we had a pretty solid arrangement, too. I’d bought the condo, she did a lot of the chores, she didn’t bug me much, and I got lots of close-ups of her dark good looks. If nothing else. I always thought there was still a chance.\nThe bears were full of surprises. Since they were “humanized,” we thought they’d act like real people. Like us, I mean. I remember an evening, soon after they arrived. We were all in the living room when we heard somebody use a key to let herself in the front. That had to be Mollie, Rhonda’s kid. She used to spend the night with us sometimes.\n“Who’s been sleeping in my bed?” we heard from down the hall. Her mother sure as hell must’ve told her about our guests, but Mollie must’ve forgot. She was kind of a head case. Rhonda went to explain.\n“Wasn’t that supposed to be your line?” Jimmy said to Ursula.\n“Oh, I hate that story!” she burst out.\n“But you have to admit that it’s a nice turnaround.”\n“A turnaround? How’s that?” I asked.\n“For once, the home invader is a human,” Jimmy said.\n“Right. Instead of a bear,” added Ursula.\n“But don’t you just love her presumption? This prepubescent human female comes into the bears’ empty home and proceeds to assert ownership claims. The house is hers because there’s nobody inside. She’s like Columbus, claiming and naming every island he encounters in the Caribbean. But Columbus didn’t stop at that and neither did she. The home of the bears becomes an island to be plundered . . . ”\n“Right,” joined Ursula, “and by a little human blondie.”\n“Yes, and with nobody at home, there’s no one to dispute her wild claims. The young lady seems positively compelled to acquire other people’s things.”\n“Since when do you defend private property?” Ursula asked.\n“Since bears acquired some of their own, if only in a fairytale,” he rumbled. “Moreover, the story typecasts bears as homeowners nouveau who don’t have sense enough to lock the door.”\n“Yeah,” added Ursula in a tough-guy voice, “tame and lame. And this Goldilocks . . . ”\n“Is an obsessive-compulsive,” Jimmy finished for her. He mimicked Goldilocks in a bear falsetto: “’This one’s too hot, this one’s too cold, this one’s too lumpy, this one’s too frumpy.’” Ursula was pretending to be grabbing things. “Our immature protagonist might soon have grown grumpy if the bear family hadn’t interrupted this kleptomaniacal frenzy. She’s someone who will never be satisfied.”\n“Maybe, Jimmy, but I think she’s just spoiled,” Ursula grinned. “I can just see her going to law school and becoming a corporate hack, speeding around in her little red Porsche.”\n“Wait a minute,” I finally busted in. “You’re finding stuff in it that isn’t there. It’s just a kid’s story.”\n“And an artifact of human culture that reveals far more than it intends.”\nMollie and Rhonda came in, and her mother introduced her daughter to the bears.\nAnother time the Bertram show was about to come on, and we were in the TV room, all eyes on the big screen.\n“Ursula,” said Rhonda, “would you tell Jimmy that the Bertram show is about to start.” He was somewhere down the hall, puttering around in the kitchen probably.\n“Oh, he won’t want to watch that.”\n“Why not?” asked Rhonda. “Everybody loves Bertram Bear.”\n“Not Jimmy though,” said Ursula. “He’s embarrassed by him.”\n“Embarrassed? Why should he be embarrassed?”\n“Well, he thinks Bertram is a clown. Or clone or something. He thinks Bertram stereo-tapes bears and makes us look like fools. Like we don’t know anything.”\n“Stereo-taping, yeah! I like that word,” I said.\n“I’ll ask what you think of Bertram during the break,” Rhonda told her as she turned the volume up. We’d never known anybody who didn’t like Bertram Bear.\nOnce we got over the pork diet issue, our home life perked along just fine. Not that Rhonda and me became sweethearts again, but we had the thrill of having bears. But before it could be much of a thrill, we had to stand up to our own worst fears. I’ve always been kind of chickenshit when it comes to big animals. When we used to go on camping trips, we always went to the trouble of hanging our food from the high branch of a tree or letting it dangle over the side of a cliff. Not forgetting to include the toothpaste, of course. Bears love toothpaste. That’s what people always said. Then it would get to be the middle of the night, and I’d be curled up like a ball of wire, ears catching every random little nighttime sound. That snuffling at the edge of the tent could be a hungry bear! Rhonda likes to tell people that I got so scared one time I wet my sleeping bag, and the “bear” outside the tent turned out to be somebody’s little black and white dog. I sure as hell don’t remember anything like that. My sleeping bag had needed a trip to the cleaners for a long time. But I admit my fear of bears kept me awake.\nNow we’d invited bears to come right in and live in our “tent,” so to speak. To eat our food and share our toothpaste, too, until they could get some of their own. Which they soon did. I admit it was a challenge in the beginning to sit across the table from one of these big furry beasts without losing my chill. Standing, Jimmy towered over me, and I’m about five ten. I tried not to disagree with anything he said. I mean, could we trust the government to send us super tame bears?\nUrsula was shorter, more like Rhonda’s size, but a lot heavier. But both those bears had big sharp teeth and long-assed claws. Goes along with being a bear, right? A dustup with one of them would not have gone down well for the likes of us. For the first few weeks, I had this worry that padding down the hall to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, just feeling my way along because I hate to have to use the light, I might run into one of our guests. What if he was sleepwalking or something and he threw a bear hug on me? What if he used his claws to rip me open or his teeth to take out half my neck? Even if our bears didn’t do something crazy like that, could I stifle a shriek? I worried about that. A shriek would embarrass the hell out of me. Even a loud gasp. And as I got back into bed and lay awake, I remembered that in order to qualify as bear hosts, we’d had to sign a statement saying that we had no kids or dogs or other pets. Now there had to be a reason for that.\nThe one time that I did meet one of them in the hallway in the night, the moon was flooding in through the skylight, and I could see that it was only Ursula, just coming out of the bathroom. All the same, my heart still lost the beat, and I cut loose a fart.\n“Are you ill, Charlie?” she asked.\nTurns out our guests didn’t have a thing for toothpaste. They didn’t get into my wine or liquor either. They didn’t leave a mess, which was just the opposite of what people said they did. And they even chipped in on expenses, as best they could. Ursula got some housecleaning gigs, and Jimmy took a job as a street sweeper in a special program for unemployed bears. He complained that his work was as boring as watching snails breed.\n“Have you done much of that?” Rhonda asked.\n“Well, yes I have,” he said, “since that’s pretty much in line with my sexual preference.”\n“Too bad,” she teased. Rhonda seemed to have a fondness for Jimmy right from the start.\nWhen he told us that street sweeping was a respectable job but a “considerable remove” from what he was used to, we didn’t picture him sitting at a desk or standing in front of a class. We assumed he’d got some training in assembly or fast-food work under the Ursine Assimilation Program. At the most, we thought he missed the chance to rummage through people’s things in search of weapons or drugs as an airport security bear. He didn’t say anything to correct us on this. Turns out Jimmy had been kind of famous for a while around our area as the first of his kind to go to Cal—a real Cal Bear. But the government’s description just said “2 bears, male and female, educated, very tame.” I thought “educated” just meant high school. For Ursula, that would be about right, but for Jimmy, that was way off. Mollie, Rhonda’s kid, said he was an “intellectual.” I thought that was stretching it some. I mean, Jimmy used a lot of big words, but get real, he was only a bear.\nAnyway, whatever his work had been like before—before the Trouble Period, I mean—the only thing he was qualified to do now, he said, was to work in a chocolate factory’s quality control. I told him that a job like that wouldn’t to be easy to find.\n“Why not?” he said. “I sent my application in.”\n“Oh, you have to follow up on that.” I thought I was giving him some good advice.\n“Indubitably,” he said, “but jobs like that are scarce as frog’s teeth.”\nHold it, I thought. Frogs don’t have teeth. Or if they do, they’re tiny small. But I let it go. What the hell would a bear know about amphibians?\nWe got used to the bears, but there was a lot they didn’t share with us. For example, Rhonda wanted to know what it had been like living in the camp. They didn’t want to talk about that. Also, were they a couple? We’d given them the twin beds. But maybe they were siblings. A mother and son? Best friends? They both had the same ginger-colored fur, but that didn’t really mean anything.\n“We’re just a pair of refugees,” Jimmy would say.\n“And survivors,” Ursula would add.\n“Do either of you have children?” Rhonda asked. A mom will ask that every time.\n“Not me,” said Ursula. “I use birth control that time of year.”\nWhen I put the question to Jimmy, he said he’d left a passel of little ones in Chicago.\n“Oh?” said I.\n“Yes, indeed,” said he. “You must have heard of the Chicago Cubs.”\nI had heard of the Chicago Cubs, of course. But wouldn’t their parents be the Chicago Bears? My little joke.\nAnother time I made the mistake of asking Jimmy if he missed the forest.\n“The forest?” He swung his head around, all confused like.\n“You know, the woods.” I still thought of him as first generation.\n“Miss inhabiting a wilderness when I can live inside a house? Surely you jest.”\n“I thought it was an okay question.”\n“Well, it’s certainly that,” he wheezed, “and it’s also quite revealing. It appears that you don’t know the first thing about me, Charlie. I could be a man inside a bear suit, for all you know.”\n“Yeah, sure.”\n“That’s right,” he said. “Do you want to see the real me?” He reached for his throat like he had a zipper there. My eyes were probably bugging out of my head.\nUrsula gave him a look. “Jimmy,” she growled.\n“No,” he backed off, “I’m afraid you couldn’t handle it.”\nGetting a grip, I called his bluff. “I can handle it. Let’s see what you’ve got under there.” But he’d picked up the sports section and seemed to be using his magnifying glass to study the baseball stats. When he looked up, he gave me a big old wink.\nI might’ve forgotten this incident, but a few days later I heard the buzzing of what sounded like an electric razor coming from our guests’ bathroom. I’d heard that sound before, but what was it? Unless he was a shaver, one of those bears that try to make themselves look more human by shaving off all their fur, he’d have no use for such a thing. Wasn’t he a real bear? Of course he was. The question made me think I was getting some serious mileage on my brain.\nI liked the bears, but as the weeks went by I still didn’t find them all that easy to know. Especially Jimmy. One day he and I went down the hill to a coffee house. I’d noticed that caffeine kind of opened him up.\n“So Jimmy,” I asked him when we’d found a table and were blowing on our drinks, “What’s it like to be a bear?”\n“Hmm. What’s it like to be a bear? I don’t know. Why don’t you ask our barista?” He gave a nod in the direction of the counter.\nI didn’t expect to see a “shaver” there. Most of them had gone to work in funeral homes and real estate offices.\n“What can he tell me? He doesn’t even want to be a bear.”\n“So ask him what he’s running from.”\nBut the furless one had gotten hip to our attention and was giving us a sour-eyed look. I had to make a show of looking all around the room for someone else.\n“Well,” said Jimmy, “if you don’t want to talk to him, why don’t you ask a wild bear?”\n“You gotta be kidding, right?”\n“Because, for starters, a wild bear can’t talk.”\n“What do you think he would say if he could? Would he talk about his heightened sense of smell, his excellent hearing, his superior size, and his propensity to look for things to eat?”\n“I’m damned if I know. I mean he might.”\n“So you think he might. And if he did, wouldn’t you want to know, compared to what?”\n“Jeez, Jimmy. Why can’t I just ask you?”\n“Because it’s like my asking you, what’s it like to be a human? Could you answer that?”\n“Uhh . . . I could tell you what it’s like to be me. Sort of.”\n“Right, but I’m getting a sense of that.”\nAnd that was the end of that.\n“Ursula and I are going to Sacramento on Wednesday for the anti-bear-hunt rally,” said Rhonda one fine day. “You two are welcome to come along.”\nA lot of us thought it was fucked that at a time when bears might be on the edge of getting citizenship, some people were still hunting and shooting the last of the wild ones in their backwoods lairs. The annual bear hunt meant that so-called humanized bears were stuck in security camps or crammed in with us humans. They wouldn’t go outside that time of year. But they should’ve been able to go wherever they wanted. Am I right?\n“Any takers?” Rhonda asked.\n“∑xw ɗouλϵιá,” said Jimmy.\n“Oooh,” squealed Rhonda. She loved it when he said something in French, but she went out of her head when he said something that reminded her of her Greek grandmother.\n“Which means that I’m busy. I have to go to work. Besides, how are you going to stop people from shooting bears when they’re shooting other people with such stunning regularity?”\n“But that isn’t okayed by the state,” said Rhonda. “They don’t issue licenses to people to gun other people down.”\nThe woman was killer smart. But the government issued uniforms and weapons to off people in wars. Wasn’t that kind of a massive hunt?\n“That Sacramento rally may have merit, but I think I have a better idea,” Jimmy announced.\n“Oh, yeah, what’s that?” somebody asked.\n“I was thinking that I might apply for a hunting license.”\n“What? You want a license to hunt bears?” said Rhonda.\n“Not at all,” Jimmy said. “What I said was that I might apply for such a document. They would surely turn me down, and that would raise an issue of discrimination. I could file suit. Think of the publicity that might attend such a simple and creative act.”\nUrsula let him know what she thought: “Brother bear, get serious. What you’re proposing is beside the point, which is that people hunt bears.”\n“When it should be the other way around? Am I missing something here?”\n“Jimmy . . . . ”\n“Will you two stop playing,” scolded Rhonda. “Look, we all have to do what we can. What about you?” She was eyeing me. “You coming?”\n“Uh, I’m also kind of busy,” I said. The truth is, and this is something I hate to admit, while I’ve never had a problem with the smell of one or two bears—one or two are cool, no problem—the thought of that crowd of maybe ten thousand bears, some of them grizzlies, and a few hundred of their human supporters in the sizzling Sacramento sun was a real downer for me. Plus the noise and confusion that a few thousand bears can make . . . . I don’t even want to think about it.\n“Busy, huh?” she huffed. “What do you have to do that’s so important?”\nThe question had a barb on it for anything I might come up with, so I just shrugged.\n“In any case,” added Jimmy, “how do you know there are still bears in the woods?”\n“Jimmy, you know there are, and some of them are your own cousins,” scolded Ursula.\n“Distant relatives perhaps.”\n“And you don’t care if they’re killed? Every year we hear about hunters getting their limit,” said Rhonda.\n“And that’s what?” sniffed Jimmy, “maybe one or two each?”\n“Those are one or two bears you’re talking about,” flared Ursula.\n“Adds up,” I put in.\n“What are you, a mathematician?” said Jimmy, turning on me. “And what are you doing tomorrow that’s more important than minimizing the slaughter of innocent bears? Don’t try to shrug this off.”\n“Well, for one thing I was going to drive you to work.”\n“Ha, I can take the lovely bus.”\n“Last time they shut the door in your face.”\n“Perhaps I should have been wearing a jacket or shirt.”\n“Or maybe some pants,” shouted Ursula.\n“A bear is wearing all the clothes that he will ever need at birth.”\n“Fine with me,” Rhonda said.\nMy ace in the hole was that I’d done my part by taking them in, and I didn’t do it for the government subsidy either. It was a card I kept up under my cap, hoping I’d never have to spring it into play. Rhonda seemed to read my mind.\n“Sometimes being Mr. Nice Guy isn’t enough.”\nI thought of the smell of ten thousand bears in the Sacramento heat.\nRhonda and Ursula were gone several days. An email told us that while they were at the Sacramento rally, they’d signed up for a bear “accompaniment program” and joined some brave but maybe suicidal others on a bus that took them up to Trinity County to try to find some wild bears and protect them from hunters. I was worried, and with Rhonda away, it was all too easy for me to elevate my nipping and my sipping. To change the music maybe, Jimmy asked me to teach him how to drive. I had my doubts, but I finally gave in.\nI drove us out to a residential area where there were hardly any other cars on the road. Jimmy crammed himself behind the wheel of my battered old van, and I could see that he was one happy bear. But perched beside him on the passenger seat, I was one frightened man. We hadn’t gone more than a couple of blocks before I had to tell him that his driving put me in a nervous state.\n“Where’s that, Alabama?”\nI knew he’d say something like that.\n“No,” I said, “and it’s not Minnesota either. It’s the state of you-can’t-see-worth-a-damn. I want my van to be in one piece, I don’t want to get us killed, and I shouldn’t be doing this.”\nHe admitted that his eyesight wasn’t nearly as good as most black bears’ but said he had something in the works that would remedy that.\n“In any case, I can smell anything approaching from a thousand feet away.”\n“Oh, yeah? Can you smell that sign right there? It says stop!” He hit the brake just in time.\n“I recognized it by its shape,” he rumbled.\n“You recognized it? What about next time doing what it says?”\nI wondered whether he could really sniff a hazard from a thousand feet away. If he could do that, wouldn’t he be taking in the smells of everything in every direction from a thousand feet around? I could understand that smells behind us would turn fainter as we moved away from them, but what about all the rest? Was his nose like a smell-gun he could aim down the road to zero in on what was ahead of us? I felt like I was taking my life in my hands, and there were other people’s lives to think of, too. But I can’t say that I gave them a lot of thought, because all of a sudden, by our second practice drive, Jimmy’s driving got a lot better. He was making all the stops, including for pedestrians, and all the turns and lane shifts, too, and doing it with ease. I was blown away.\n“Maybe it has something to do with these corrective lenses that I’m wearing now.”\nI don’t know how I could’ve missed them. They looked like swimming goggles. I mean, instead of the usual plastic frame, they were held together by an elastic band that came around his head. Later, I remembered how wigged out Rhonda had been when she saw him reading with a hand-held lens. She’d said something then about an appointment with an eye doctor. It looked like he’d gone to that exam, though he hadn’t said a word to me.\n“These are for distance,” Jimmy explained. “I have another pair for reading.”\nWhat I never did understand was how he could wedge his bulk behind the wheel and keep it there for hours at a time. But I quickly learned not to open my mouth about each driving hazard on the road. He could see them as well as I could. As Jimmy put it,\n“These glasses have opened a whole new world to me, and now I want to see as much of it as I can.”\nIt was also a new world for me. With Jimmy at the wheel I wasn’t at risk of getting another DUI. I couldn’t afford one of those. Now I could have a belt or two before we took off and maybe another one after we got going. Not that I keep track. But we were still busting the law. Jimmy didn’t have a driving license, and he wasn’t going to get one either. Not unless they changed the licensing set-up. Jimmy didn’t do multiple choice. Multiple choice was unprofessional, he thought. He said it was only for humans and rats. He was ready to write an essay or help grade others’ written tests, but no multiple choice.\nWe didn’t know until Rhonda and Ursula got back that hunters had fired some shots at them. They had to hug the ground until they could crawl off through the brush, which—they told us more than once—was full of ticks. It didn’t matter to the hunters that Ursula and the adolescent bear that they’d run into had a human friend along. Every bear, even Ursula in her red t-shirt and her red and blue scarf, was fair game, and Rhonda could easily have become what they call “collateral damage.” We were lucky to get them back in one piece.\nOnce they returned I could tell that something had changed. Rhonda’s hair looked different, for one thing. That’s always a sign. Ursula sure seemed to like the way it looked. Or maybe how it felt. She kept stroking it with her claws when she passed by Rhonda’s chair. Jimmy was away at work at the time, and the three of us were sitting in the living room, admiring the view, when all of a sudden it seemed that there was one of us too many in there. Because it was obvious that Rhonda and Ursula had become an item. They didn’t have to say anything for me to get the picture. The looks they traded and the little touches that they gave one another made me think their sex life must’ve been a fireworks show.\nRhonda had mentioned years ago that she was bi, but I’d forgotten just what that meant. As for the interspecies thing, what the hell, I’m no prude. I was just glad to see her happy for a change. Glad and maybe a little sad. But mainly relieved. For one thing, I’d kind of thought that it was just a matter of time before she announced that she was pairing off with Jimmy. Because it was clear as a highball glass she really dug the critter. You could see that from day one in the way she always laughed at his stupid jokes. I even had the notion that she might suggest a swap, in which she and Jimmy would only be like 50 percent. I was ready to put the kibosh on part two of that. Don’t get me wrong. I had a lot of respect for Ursula, but there were some lines that I wasn’t willing to cross.\nAs for me and Rhonda, I couldn’t lose what I didn’t have. We’d never had a lot in common. Later was always better than sooner, to my way of thinking, while she was the kind that would grab up a plate while the last bite of food was still on its way to your mouth, hustle it to the sink, and give it a scrub. She liked Masterpiece Theater and MSNBC. Give me a ballgame or a fight in the octagon arena any day. We had the glue of good sex, at least at first, but that ended when she wouldn’t party with me anymore. So by the time she and Ursula returned from up north, our relationship had already chilled down almost to the iceberg stage, as far as the sex. But maybe I’d get me a new girlfriend, too. The idea didn’t cause me any pain, I’ll tell you that.\nThat evening, when we were all in the living room, Ursula made a little speech. I don’t remember her exact words, but the gist of it was that Rhonda was different from other humans she’d known.\n“She respects me more. She really listens to what I have to say, and she takes me seriously, too. She doesn’t try to bully me or suck up to me either. I hate that special treatment that I get sometimes.”\nShe was looking right at Rhonda when she said all this. Then she and Rhonda announced that they were thinking of looking for their own place. They wanted to know how Jimmy and I felt about that. I thought that was damned considerate of them, looking to us for an okay, but I had my own room, I didn’t see the need, and I immediately began to trip on all the extra housework I was going to have to do if they moved out. Because I knew that Jimmy wouldn’t do squat. He liked to take the garbage and recycle out, but that was about it. I couldn’t even get him to turn off lights. . . . So I’d have to hire somebody to come in every other week or so to keep the place picked up. But the condo was all paid for, at least. I could easily afford to have them go.\nI wanted to ask Jimmy how he felt about the two of them, but neither of us ever brought it up. If he was suffering some kind of loss, he didn’t say anything about it to me. And what do you know but Rhonda and Ursula didn’t move out. So it looked like we had ourselves a new normal. But you never know. If somebody had told me then that I was about to take a lengthy journey to some places where I’d never been before and that when I came back I’d have a hella different look, I’d have said, boy, what’s that you’re putting in that pipe?\nRead Chapter Two of Barely Human\nIf you want to contact me about the book, I can be reached at alsandine (at) aol.com."
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        "text": "Q: Why does my MacBook Pro take so long to go to sleep? My MacBook Pro takes an awful long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. Considering that I generally want to close the lid and then carry it somewhere, I want it to be fully asleep so I don't have any hard drive issues. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?\n\nA: I recommend a nifty little utility called SmartSleep that allows you to control when the saving of your RAM contents to disk for the Safe Sleep / Hibernate feature Mac OS X has.\nAlternatively you can disable Safe Sleep altogether by running: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0. To change it back to the defaults, change the value to 3.\n0 - Old style - just goes to sleep.\n1 - Only Hibernate\n3 - Default - goes to sleep but writes RAM contents to disk just in case.\n5 - Only Hibernate mode but if you use secure virtual memory.\n7 - The Default but if you use secure virtual memory.\n\n\nA: Use the command pmset -g log to find out what is delaying the sleep command.  Look for \"applicationresponse.slowresponse\" and \"applicationresponse.timedout\" entries.\n\nA: Depending on what applications you are running it could take a significant amount of time (20-30 sec) to actually \"sleep.\" \nOS X will \"dock\" the hard drive head if it detects sudden movement, so I wouldn't expect any issues there.\n\nA: Another use for the pmset utility (which, like most Apple utilities, is documented: do \"man pmset\" in Terminal) is to tell the system to sleep when you hit the power button. In Terminal, do\nsudo pmset powerbutton 1\nand thereafter when you hit the power button a menu comes up with choices Restart, Sleep, Cancel, and Shut Down. I always sleep my MacBook Pro this way in order to be sure it has really gone dormant.\nOn the other end of the sleep cycle, I don't want the machine waking up while traveling if it gets jostled enough to shake the lid open (even briefly). The Terminal command to estabish this is\nsudo pmset -a lidwake 0\nFor both commands, you will have to authenticate as an administrator.\n"
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        "text": "Home > 33 1/3 > Announcing: The Fall 2018 33 1/3s!\nAnnouncing: The Fall 2018 33 1/3s!\nJuly 3, 2018 333admin\nWe’re excited to bring you the Fall 2018 lineup of 33 1/3s! This batch is one of our most eclectic yet – from fan favorites like Tori Amos to the religious-secular stylings of Jesus Freak, with feminist and film studies readings, there is a lot to look forward to with these books. We can’t wait to bring you these come Fall ’18! We promise, they’ll be worth the wait.\nDrive-By Trucker’s Southern Rock Opera\nThe Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way, the Truckers attempt to untangle the mess that is southern history by exploring the contradictory, dualistic nature of the region.\nSiouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow\nSamantha Bennett takes a film studies approach to analyzing Peepshow, an album from UK cult favorite Siouxsie and the Banshees, drawing on more than one hundred films and film scores to reveal a panoply of cinematic influences woven into the music. Bennett proves that, ultimately, Peepshow can be read as a soundtrack to all the films Siouxsie and the Banshees ever saw. Or perhaps it was the soundtrack to the greatest film they never made.\nTori Amos’s Boys for Pele\nOver her career, Tori Amos has drawn a range of intense reactions to her music and performances. Boys for Pele demonstrates that reactions to women’s art is often organized around disgust, as if women can’t be expressive without drawing a strong reaction. Using Boys for Pele as a jumping off point, Amy Gentry illustrates women’s participation in art among this “aesthetic of disgust”.\ndc Talk’s Jesus Freak\ndc Talk’s Jesus Freak explores a rare moment of cultural convergence between Christian and secular music in the series’ first Christian hip hop entry. Written by two queer scholars with evangelical pasts, Jesus Freak presents a unique perspective on a variety of topics, including race, sexuality, gender, and politics.\nSo there you have it! Which ones are you most excited about? Give us a shout on Twitter @333books and continue to follow along for more updates.\n— The 33 1/3 team\n33 1/3, Article33 1/3, 333, 333books, music books, new books, new music, Popular Music, reading now\nThe Rolling Stones and Some Girls – The Difference 40 Years Makes\nRest in power Aretha Franklin\nJune 25, 2019 333admin 0\nSteve Matteo, author of The Beatles’ Let It Be, is taking over the blog today to...\nPride Month is here, and we want to highlight some LGBTQIA musicians and authors featured in...\nHave you ever wondered, if given another chance to write for 33 1/3, which albums past..."
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        "text": "« Young Chris Cornell Rocks a Beret in Never-Before-Seen Temple of the Dog Footage | Main | Alicia Keys Teases Her Character on Fox’s \"Empire\" »\nKelly Clarkson Releases Sneak Peek of “Piece by Piece” Video\nRCA Records Kelly Clarkson has released a teaser for her new “Piece by Piece” music video. The singer posted a 10-second clip from the black-and-white visual showing a close-up of her face with her hair blowing and two people holding hands.\nThe full-length video comes out tomorrow. Kelly previously called “Piece by Piece” the most personal track on her album of the same name. She wrote it about being abandoned by her father as a child, and how her husband, Brandon Blackstock, restored her faith in men.\nShe’s currently expecting her second child -- a boy -- with Brandon. They have a daughter named River Rose.\nKelly's #PieceByPiece video premieres tomorrow, but we've got a special sneak peek for you today! - Team KC https://t.co/N6VKTZnCts\n— Kelly Clarkson (@kelly_clarkson) November 18, 2015\nWednesday, November 18, 2015 at 7:00PM Music News Group Permalink\nin Adult Contemporary, CHR, Hot AC, Lite AC"
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        "text": "The City of Enid, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is proposing to widen and improve North Cleveland Street from the BNSF Railroad tracks to West Willow Road.\nThe four-lane connection on North Cleveland Street between BNSF Railroad and West Willow Road is currently in the design and planning phase with construction anticipated to begin in two to three years.\nThe City of Enid will hold a public meeting in the City Council Chambers at 401 West Owen K. Garriott Road at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26th, 2019, to discuss the project and receive public comments. You are invited to attend this public meeting to view a presentation on this project and to discuss any concerns."
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        "text": "You are here: Home / Archives for crane\n“This Work Is our Whole Life”\nAugust 9, 2014 By Pam\nThis week, I honored the memory of August 1945, when the U.S. dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by writing about the resistance of the Shibokusa women for my new book on creative nonviolence. It lifted my spirits. I hope it lifts yours, too.\nLong before Occupy Wall Street, the Shibokusa women of Japan used the tactic of nonviolent occupation. They refused to abandon Mount Fuji, a beloved symbol of their nation.\nThe land at the foot of Kita Fuji (North Fuji) had been farmed since the Edo period in the 17th century. In 1936, however, it was taken over by the Japanese Imperial Army for military exercises. Following World War II, the base was appropriated by U.S. forces, which retained special privileges even after a 1952 treaty. Little did the soldiers know that some very tough women would become their worst nightmare.\nAfter most farm families gave up and moved to the cities, these tough, steadfastly antiwar grandmothers formed the Shibokusa Mother’s Committee in 1955, determined to fight for their land and disrupt business-as-usual on the military base. They knew that militarism meant death to people and animals and violence to the earth.\nAn intentionally mischievous, bothersome, embarrassing presence at the military base, they dressed in baggy trousers and wide straw hats and found countless ways to disrupt training exercises. They flew kites in flight paths, sent up smoke signals to obstruct artillery tests, lay down in the road to block trucks. They created secret paths from their cottages to the military exercise areas and jumped out of the bushes to startle the soldiers. They planted scarecrows, sat in circles to sing and clap, stood pointing and laughing at the men in their military uniforms.\nSometimes, riot police were sent to arrest the women in a futile attempt to evict them and put an end to their resistance. The elders were unfazed.\nHumor was one of the hallmarks of the Shibokusa women’s resistance. In an interview with Leonie Caldecott, they explained, “[The police] hate it when we start screaming. They have realized that, though we are physically easier to arrest than men, we’re more trouble afterwards! Men put up a fight, but once it’s over they just give everything away. We never give our name, age or anything. We just say we’re so old, we can’t remember when we were born or who we are.”\nIn the Caldecott interview, the women said, “Don’t imagine our lives are miserable. It’s fun to make a nuisance of ourselves and embarrass those men. This work is our whole life. We enjoy every minute, but we’re not lazy about it.”\nThe women’s occupation at Kita Fuji lasted until 2006 when the aged leadership died off, but the stories of their resistance and courage live on.\nTo Go Deeper:\nCaldecott, Leonie. “At the Foot of the Mountain: The Shibokusa Women of Kita Fuji” from Keeping the Peace: A Women’s Peace Handbook. Lynne Jones, ed. London: Women’s Press, 1983.\n“Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki with WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), July 28, 2014 http://peaceeconomyproject.org/wordpress/?p=3273\n“The Story of the Peace Crane” http://www.buddhistcouncil.org/bodhitree/Books/Story_of_the_Peace_Crane.pdf\n“How to Fold an Origami Crane (for beginners)”\n“Origami” by Hiroko Sakai (She is a contemporary Japanese artist who has lived in San Francisco since 1999.) http://www.redbubble.com/people/hilo/works/3420485-origami\nFiled Under: Featured Tagged With: crane, Hiroshima, Japan, Leonie Caldecott, Mount Fuji, Nagasaki, origami, peace crane, Shibokusa"
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        "text": "1 декември е 335-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (336-и през високосна). Остават 30 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1145 г. – Започва Вторият кръстоносен поход.\n 1347 г. – Българският цар Иван Александър се жени за еврейката Сара, която приема свето кръщение и християнското име Теодора.\n 1408 г. – Москва е обсадена от войските на татарския хан Едигей.\n 1640 г. – Португалия възвръща независимостта си от Испания и Жуау IV отново се възкачва на трона.\n 1648 г. – По време на Английската революция е пленен крал Чарлз I.\n 1742 г. – Руската императрица Елисавета нарежда евреите да бъдат изгонени от Русия.\n 1804 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт се жени за Жозефина Боарне.\n\n 1822 г. – Педро I е коронован за император на Бразилия.\n 1822 г. – 11-годишният Ференц Лист дебютира като пианист на концерт във Виена.\n 1835 г. – Ханс Кристиян Андерсен издава първата си книга с приказки.\n 1855 г. – Пощата в Канада въвежда като услуга паричния превод.\n 1864 г. – В Русия е въведено разделяне на гимназиите на хуманитарни и технически.\n 1887 г. – Британският писател Артър Конан Дойл публикува разказ, в който за първи път главен герой е детектива Шерлок Холмс.\n 1891 г. – Американецът Джеймс Нейсмит изобретява играта баскетбол.\n 1913 г. – В автомобилните заводи Форд е пусната първата поточна линия.\n 1918 г. – Исландия става автономно кралство, но все още обединено с Дания.\n 1918 г. – Румъния се обявява за обединена държава след като Трансилвания става част от страната, а преди това, на 27 март същата година са присъединени Бесарабия и Буковина.\n 1918 г. – Провъзгласено е Кралство на сърби, хървати и словенци, по-късно преименувано на Кралство Югославия.\n 1939 г. – Втората световна война: Окупационните власти на Варшава издават разпореждане всички евреи да носят като отличителен знак Звездата на Давид.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: В Техеран (Иран) е закрита конференцията на държавните лидери от Антихитлеристката коалиция Франклин Рузвелт, Уинстън Чърчил и Йосиф Сталин.\n 1944 г. – България във Втората световна война: С дислоцирането на сформираната през ноември 1944 г. Първа българска армия командвана от генерал Владимир Стойчев в Югославия на сръбско -унгарската граница започва Втория период на водената срещу нацистка Германия Отечествена война на България 1944-1945 г.\n 1953 г. – Отпечатан е първият брой на еротичното списание Плейбой.\n 1956 г. – В България е обявено приключването на преброяване на населението, резултатите от което са обявени на 17 януари 1957 г.\n\n 1956 г. – В Мелбърн е установен рекорд по посещаемост на бейзболен мач – 114 хиляди зрители.\n 1959 г. – Студената война: 12 държави подписват във Вашингтон Антарктическия договор, с който Антарктида се запазва за ядрени взривове и складиране на радиоактивни материали и се забраняват военни дейности на този континент.\n 1972 г. – С извеждане в космоса на българска апаратура на съветския спътник Интеркосмос 8 България е вписана като 18-ата космическа страна в регистъра на ООН.\n 1981 г. – Създаден е дарителският фонд 1300 години България.\n 1987 г. – Започва строителството на Тунела под Ла Манш.\n 1988 г. – За първи път се чества Световният ден за борба срещу СПИН.\n 1990 г. – Френските и британските строителни работници се срещат под Ла Манш при строителството на Тунела под Ла Манш.\n 1990 г. – Създадено е Националното бюро по заетостта, днешната Агенция по заетостта.\n 1991 г. – На състоялия се референдум украинците категорично гласуват за независимост от СССР.\n 2000 г. – България е извадена от негативния Шенгенски визов списък.\n 2009 г. – Влиза в сила Договорът от Лисабон, който заменя двата договора, осигуряващи конституционна основа на Европейския съюз – Договора от Маастрихт и Римските договори.\n\nРодени \n\n 1081 г. – Луи VI, крал на Франция († 1137 г.)\n 1083 г. – Ана Комнина, византийска историчка († 1153 г.)\n 1716 г. – Етиен Морис Фалконе, френски скулптор († 1791 г.)\n 1743 г. – Мартин Клапрот, немски химик, откривател на урана и циркония († 1817 г.)\n 1761 г. – Мадам Тюсо, създателка на музея на восъчните фигури в Лондон († 1850 г.)\n 1792 г. – Николай Лобачевски, руски математик († 1856 г.)\n 1812 г. – Владимир Гете, руско-френски духовник († 1892 г.)\n 1854 г. – Алексей Павлов, руски геолог († 1929 г.)\n 1867 г. – Игнаци Мошчицки, президент на Полша († 1946 г.)\n 1868 г. – Никола Генадиев, български политик († 1923 г.)\n 1874 г. – Тодор Луканов, български политик († 1946 г.)\n 1884 г. – Александра Датска, кралица на Великобритания († 1925 г.)\n 1884 г. – Михаил Кремен, български белетрист и мемоарист († 1964 г.)\n 1886 г. – Рекс Стаут, американски писател († 1975 г.)\n 1888 г. – Иван Данчов, български лексикограф († 1956 г.)\n 1889 г. – Василий Блюхер, съветски маршал († 1938 г.)\n 1893 г. – Атанас Илиев, психолог и философ († 1985 г.)\n 1896 г. – Георгий Жуков, съветски военен и държавник, маршал († 1974 г.)\n 1896 г. – Петко Стайнов, български композитор († 1977 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Хаджимарчев, български писател († 1957 г.)\n 1899 г. – Бончо Бочев, музикален педагог и диригент, създател на хор „Бодра смяна“ († 1975 г.)\n 1910 г. – Йордан Спасов, български актьор († 1984 г.)\n 1912 г. – Минору Ямасаки, японски архитект († 1986 г.)\n 1914 г. – Богдан Добранов, български духовник († 1983 г.)\n 1922 г. – Всеволод Бобров, съветски футболист и хокеист († 1979 г.)\n 1923 г. – Давид Овадия, български поет († 1995 г.)\n 1925 г. – Любомир Кабакчиев, български актьор († 1986 г.)\n 1929 г. – Алфред Моисиу, албански военен и 5-и президент на Албания\n 1932 г. – Цветана Гълъбова, българска актриса († 2019 г.)\n 1935 г. – Уди Алън, американски режисьор и актьор\n 1937 г. – Вайра Вике-Фрайберга, президент на Латвия\n 1938 г. – Иван Пушкаров, български политик\n 1945 г. – Бет Мидлър, американска певица и актриса\n 1947 г. – Добринка Станкова, българска актриса († 2022 г.)\n 1947 г. – Теодосий Теодосиев, български учител\n 1949 г. – Пабло Ескобар, колумбийски наркобарон († 1993 г.)\n 1951 г. – Александър Александров, български космонавт\n 1951 г. – Иван Добрев, български генерал\n 1951 г. – Сийка Келбечева, българска спортистка\n 1958 г. – Янко Русев, български щангист\n 1960 г. – Керъл Алт, американски супермодел и актриса\n 1964 г. – Салваторе Скилачи, италиански футболист\n 1967 г. – Нестор Карбонел, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Крис Ванс, австралийски актьор\n 1974 г. – Кощиня, португалски футболист\n 1975 г. – Марио Домингес, мексикански автомобилен състезател\n 1977 г. – Брад Делсън, американски музикант (Линкин Парк)\n 1977 г. – Мария Илиева, българска поп певица\n 1979 г. – Антоний Аргиров, български актьор\n 1982 г. – Диего Кавалиери, бразилски футболист\n 1985 г. – Шанел Престън, американска порнографска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1135 г. – Хенри I, крал на Англия (* ок. 1068)\n 1455 г. – Лоренцо Гиберти, италиански скулптор и ювелир (* ок. 1378)\n 1521 г. – Лъв X, римски папа (* 1475 г.)\n 1633 г. – Изабела-Клара Испанска, щатхалтер на Испанска Нидерландия (* 1566 г.)\n 1755 г. – Морис Грийн, английски композитор (* 1696 г.)\n 1825 г. – Александър I, император на Русия (* 1777 г.)\n 1866 г. – Джордж Еверест, британски геодезист и географ (* 1790 г.)\n 1888 г. – Антим I, български екзарх и политик (* 1816 г.)\n 1906 г. – Александър Вулев, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1918 г. – Герасим Струмишки, български митрополит (* 1860 г.)\n 1927 г. – Аврам Аврамов, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1934 г. – Бончо Боев, висш български финансист (* 1859 г.)\n 1937 г. – Тихомир Павлов, български публицист и общественик (1880)\n 1947 г. – Годфри Харолд Харди, британски математик (* 1877 г.)\n 1952 г. – Виторио Орландо, италиански правист и политик (* 1860 г.)\n 1972 г. – Ип Ман, китайски майстор по бойни изкуства (* 1893 г.)\n 1973 г. – Давид Бен-Гурион, министър-председател на Израел (* 1886 г.)\n 1979 г. – Вергил Димов, български политик (* 1901 г.)\n 1991 г. – Джордж Стиглър, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1982 г. (* 1911 г.)\n 1996 г. – Бабрак Кармал, афганистански политик (* 1929 г.)\n 1997 г. – Стефан Грапели, френски и американски музикант, цигулар (* 1908 г.)\n 2001 г. – Павел Садирин, съветски футболист и треньор (* 1942 г.)\n 2004 г. – Бернард Холандски, принц на Холандия (* 1911 г.)\n 2006 г. – Веселин Савов, български актьор (* 1945 г.)\n 2006 г. – Клод Жад, френска киноактриса (* 1948 г.)\n 2009 г. – Петко Йотов, български полковник, военен историк, директор на Националния военноисторически музей (* 1947 г.)\n 2011 г. – Криста Волф, немска писателка (* 1929 г.)\n 2011 г. – Елизабет Йънг-Бруел, американски психотерапевт (* 1946 г.)\n 2014 г. – Георги Янакиев, български състезател по мотокрос (* 1941 г.)\n 2021 г. – Надя Савова, българска актриса (* 1936 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Световна здравна организация – Световен ден за борба със СПИН (от 1988 г.)\n Румъния – Годишнина от възвръщането на Трансилвания и обединението на Румъния (1918 г., национален празник)\n Португалия – Ден на възстановяването на независимостта (от Испания, 1640 г.) и Ден на младежта\n ЦАР – Ден на републиката (1958 г., получена автономия от Франция, национален празник)\n Чад – Фестивал на свободата и демокрацията\n Австралия – Първи ден на лятото\n Ботевград – Празник на града\n\nC01"
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        "text": "Chapter 8 - Abortion, neonaticide and infanticide\nTara, a 25-year-old businesswoman, was 23 weeks pregnant and scheduled for an abortion. She had approached a clinic, which had accepted her for treatment and provided counselling. However, the stress of the procedure had been too much, and she went into spontaneous labour the night before she was due to undergo the termination. The baby, Mary, was born alive, but severely brain damaged and a medical assessment found that Mary was blind and deaf, but could feel pain. Staff at the hospital approach Marc from Rowlett McGuinness LLP and Simon the hospital ethicist and ask for their opinion regarding whether Mary should be provided with nursing care only and allowed to die.\nMarc had previously been consulted in relation to the proposed termination, and had taken steps to ensure that the scheduling of the termination was within the bounds of the Abortion Act 1967 (p. 189). Since the pregnancy is less than 24 weeks old, it may be authorised by the ‘social ground’ in s.1(1)(a) of the 1967 Act (p. 190), which means that it is unlikely that there would have been a successful legal challenge had the operation been performed so long as two doctors had asserted that to continue with the pregnancy would have constituted a risk to the physical or mental health of Tara. However, once the baby has been born alive – whether this is as a result of spontaneous labour or a failed abortion – then the child is a person in its own right and has to be treated as such. Marc explains that this means that the primary considerations must be the welfare of the child, and whether to continue to provide treatment would be in the interests of the baby. He tells the staff at the hospital that in other cases involving brain damage and a prognosis involving a very poor quality of life, particularly when coupled with an ability to feel pain, the courts have been sympathetic to the view that treatment could be withdrawn and the baby allowed to die. Simon makes it clear that any termination is ethically problematic and that it would, of course, always be preferable to let life prosper to the fullest extent possible. At the same time this is, as so often, a situation of conflicting interests and the law's approach to balancing the mother-to-be's interests against that of the unborn life is ethically justifiable. Simon agrees that once the baby has been born, it is entitled to expect the full protection of society and the law and ought to be treated in the same way as other human beings, including medical care. Any discontinuation of medical treatment, or a limitation to nursing care only, would certainly not be permissible simply on the grounds of an assumption that Mary's life is 'worth less' than a healthy child's. Where, however, the focus of attention is on what is thought to be best for Mary, it is in some instances possible to argue that to make a baby such as Mary comfortable and allow her to die with a minimum of suffering is the preferable route to take. Simon expressly makes it clear that good ethical arguments can be found to argue for both the continued intensive-care treatment of Mary as well as the proposed option to allow her to die. The latter can, however, be justifiable and may, in this case, be the preferred option.\nS. Elliston, The Best Interests of the Child in Healthcare (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007) http://books.google.de/books?id=ooqNAgAAQBAJ\nB. Hewson, ‘Killing Off Mary: Was the Court of Appeal Right?’ (2001) 9(2) Medical Law Review 281 http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/3/281.full.pdf\nJ. Keown, Abortion, Doctors and the Law: Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Abortion in England from 1803 to 1982 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) http://books.google.de/books?id=c6JPyfOBZYIC\nS. McGuinness, ‘Law, Reproduction and Disability: Fatally “Handicapped”?’ (2013) 21 Medical Law Review 213 http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/02/medlaw.fws041.full.pdf+html\nA. Morris, ‘Selective Treatment of Irreversibly Impaired Infants: Decision-Making at the Threshold’ (2009) 17(3) Medical Law Review 347 http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/3/347.full.pdf+html\nS. Sheldon, Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion Law (London: Pluto Press, 1997) http://books.google.de/books?id=sYYhAQAAIAAJ\nM. Thomson, ‘Abortion Law and Professional Boundaries’ (2013) 22(2) Social and Legal Studies 191 http://sls.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/02/22/0964663912474740\nD. Boonin, A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge University Press, 2003) http://books.google.de/books?id=YhcosxnhtJ8C\nC. Cameron and R. Williamson, ‘In the World of Dolly, When Does a Human Embryo Acquire Respect?’ (2005) 31 Journal of Medical Ethics 215–20 http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/4/215.full.pdf+html\nR. Gillon, ‘Is There a “New Ethics” of Abortion?’ (2001) 27 Journal of Medical Ethics ii5–9 http://jme.bmj.com/content/27/suppl_2/ii5.full\nB. Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (Oxford University Press, 2007), chapters 17–19 http://books.google.de/books?id=hBtMPgAACAAJ\nS. Wilkinson, ‘Eugenics, Embryo Selection, and the Equal Value Principle’ (2006) 1 Clinical Ethics 146 http://cet.sagepub.com/content/1/1/46.abstract"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a way to start a specific application with a keyboard short cut? Sort of like the Windows+R command in the windows world?  That actually just lets you run a command but you get the idea.\n\nA: As of Snow Leopard, this actually is built into the OS.\nLaunch Automator and create a service that receives no input from any application. From the Actions Library, add the 'Launch Application' action to the workflow. Select the 'Terminal' application in the drop-down list of Applications. Save your new service and then assign a keyboard shortcut to it in:\nSystem Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Services\n\nA: Solution suggested by @NReilingh is fine but it fails if Terminal.app is running and it has no opened window (I've tested it in OSX 10.7).\nReplacing Launch Application action with Run AppleScript action and setting the following code to be run does the trick:\non run {input, parameters}\n  tell application \"Terminal\"\n    activate\n    reopen\n  end tell\n  return input\nend run\n\nHere's the full post: Mac OS X: Launch Terminal from keyboard shortcut\n\nA: I wanted a shortcut to always open a new Terminal window regardless of anything else.  Here is the code to do that:\ntell application \"Terminal\"\n        do script \"\"\n        activate\n    end tell\n\n\nA: Assuming your running Snow Leopard ⌘+space will open Spotlight which can be used to run terminal.\nSpotlight can be bound to another key combination but the default is similar to Windows+R.\n\nA: In Mavericks there is an option to open a new terminal window at the folder you have highlighted in Finder. To enable this option go to Finder -> Services -> Service Preferences and check New Terminal at Folder.\n\nThen use it from the Finder menu:\n\n\nA: This solution works for MacOS Sierra.\n\n\n*\n\n*Launch Automator\n\n*Click 'New Document' and select 'Service'\n\n*Change \"Service receives selected\" to \"no input\"\n\n*Select \"Launch Application\" from the Action pane\n\n*Select the application that you need to launch from the pull down menu. For Terminal you will have to go to the bottom and select \"Other\" and find it in the Utilities folder.\n\n*Save the Service using some name.\n\n*Open System Preferences. Go to Keyboard option. Click on Shortcut tab.\n\n*Select Services from the left pane and scroll down to General in the right pane. You should see your Service.\n\n*Click the service. You should see a button on the selected service itself which says \"Add Shortcut\". Click on that.\n\n*Enter a key combination and close System Preferences.\n\n\nA: If you have the Alfred Powerpack, you can add a hotkey in Alfred 1:\n\nOr create a workflow in Alfred 2:\n\nHotkeys have a short delay by default in Alfred 2, but changing the trigger behavior reduces it:\n\n\nA: I would recommend installing QuickSilver. It's an application launcher that will remember the applications you launch most frequent and recommend them first. It's easy to launch any application with a few keystrokes.\nQuickSilver is the first Application I install on every new Mac.\n\nA: Not built-in to the OS, but I've been using a free utility called Visor. What you do with it is leave your Terminal running in the background, but Visor hides it and invokes it in a Quake-style console when you hit a (user-configurable) key combo. It's pretty customizable as to how your Terminal shows/hides. Super awesome.\n\nA: DTerm is accessed via a user-configurable hotkey, and pops up a window in which you can execute a terminal command in the current directory.  For example, if you're in Finder and want to tar some files, you just hit the hotkey and run tar, without the need to change directories.  Pressing Shift+Enter instead of just Enter after typing your command will execute it in a new Terminal window, from which you can keep working.\n\nA: I use Spark and have ⌘+⌥+§ (I have a UK keyboard layout; § is just below esc) to launch the terminal. I prefer it to using Services/AppleScripts because it's faster. Also it doesn't add any visible UI elements like other solutions (I'm very anal about keeping my workspace as streamlined as possible).\nI think development for Spark has stopped but it works perfectly on Snow Leopard.\n\nA: I love Apptivate, it is like Spark. Apptivate lets you \"assign system wide shortcuts to any application, document, or script file.\" It just does this one thing, and does it pretty well. It's very small, so doesn't use much system resource. \nOne great feature of Apptivate is that if it detects the application, say Terminal.app, that has already been running, Apptivate will hide it, instead of launching a new instance of the application.\n\nA: Although I think the Automator / Keyboard binding to Services is better, I think I should mention Quicksilver, which gives you excellent keyboard services for the mac.\nYou should read this article about Quicksilver.\n\nA: This is a bit opinionated and not a direct answer: you can use iTerm and set a global hotkey for it through Preferences (⌘+,) > Keys > Hotkey.\n\nA: I'm using FastScripts to do this. It's free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts, $14.95 to enable unlimited keyboard shortcuts (I'm not affiliated with Red Sweater Software, just a happy customer).\n\nA: This is pretty close: CDTo.\n\"Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the front most finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar.\"\nIdeally, you want a tool that mimics the built-in feature of MacOS 9:\n\n\nA: I use Open Terminal. Check it out here.\n\nA: Thanks for the recommendation for Spark. I have just now tried version 3.0b9 and it worked perfectly in OS X 10.10.3 for creating a shortcut to launch the terminal. I use Ctrl+Opt+T, which is the same shortcut to open the terminal in my linux distro.\n\nA: You can use the Automator.app to make new shortcuts\nAutomator app> and then service(gear icon)[no input]> followed by launch application.app service,> chose terminal.app > [SAVE] > system pref. >keyboard shorcuts >services > setup shortcut\nctr+opt+cmd+T\nIts Explained in this link\n"
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        "text": "The Bicycle® brand celebrates North America's (US and Canada) craft brewing spirit. A spirit that captures the passion for their craft, signature look as well as product, and the entrepreneurial drive to turn a hobby into a business. Each of the 52 cards in the deck feature a unique logo. From all parts of the US and Canada, these 52 logos represent what we love most about craft beer!"
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        "text": "$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path('../../lib', __FILE__)\nrequire 'moromi'\n"
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        "text": "The patient sought treatment for upper respiratory infection. The final diagnosis was pneumonia.\nThe patient was treated conservatively.\nFailure to diagnose and treat pneumonia.\nDeath of a 16 year old female.\nThe insured conferenced with attorneys and claims adjuster."
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        "text": "2 януари е 2-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 363 дни до края на годината (364 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1443 г. – Варненски кръстоносен поход: В Битката при Куновица турците са победени от кръстоносците на Владислав III и Янош Хуняди, и много турски командири, включително Махмуд бей, зет на султан Мурад II, са пленени.\n 1492 г. – Реконкиста: Арагонският крал Фернандо превзема Гранада, последната крепост на маврите в Европа.\n 1757 г. – Великобритания завладява Калкута, Индия.\n 1788 г. – Джорджия става 4-тия щат на САЩ.\n 1793 г. – Русия и Прусия си разделят Полша.\n\n 1835 г. – По инициатива на Васил Априлов в Габрово е открито първото взаимно училище с първи учител Неофит Рилски.\n 1839 г. – Френският художник и фотограф Луи Дагер прави първата фотография на Луната.\n 1871 г. – Амадеус I става крал на Испания.\n 1882 г. – Джон Рокфелер обединява петролните си холдинги в тръста Стандарт Ойл.\n 1891 г. – В софийското читалище Славянска беседа се състои първото оперно представление.\n 1905 г. – Руско-японска война: След 6-месечна обсада Япония завзема руската крепост Порт Артур.\n 1905 г. – Американският астроном Чарлз Дилон Перин открива Елара – естествен спътник на Юпитер.\n 1912 г. – На гарите в София, Пловдив и Плевен са монтирани първите телефони.\n 1913 г. – Балканска война: Турският гарнизон на остров Хиос се предава на гръцката армия и островът става част от Гърция.\n 1919 г. – Чехословашката армия превзема Братислава.\n 1921 г. – В Бразилия е основан Крузейро Ешпорте Клубе, един от най-важните футболни отбори в страната.\n 1922 г. – Крим получава независимост от Съветския съюз.\n 1929 г. – Канада и САЩ приемат план за запазване на Ниагарския водопад.\n 1929 г. – Арестуван е Лев Троцки, обвинен в антисъветска дейност.\n 1932 г. – Аржентинския отбор Бока Хуниорс става шампион на аржентинската Примера Дивисион, което е първото професионално издание на  аржентинския футболен турнир.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: В Оберзалцбург се състои среща на българския министър-председател Богдан Филов с Хитлер, на която е постигнато съгласие за присъединяване на България към Тристранния пакт.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Манила е превзета от японските сили.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Започва отстъплението на германските войски от Кавказ.\n 1955 г. – Убит е президентът на Панама Хосе Антонио Ремон.\n 1956 г. – ФРГ създава първите си редовни военни части след Втората световна война – Бундесвер.\n 1958 г. – Влиза в действие първата българска подземна електроцентрала – ВЕЦ Батак.\n 1959 г. – От космодрума Байконур, СССР изстрелва първия в света изкуствен спътник на Луната – Луна 1.\n 1963 г. – Между София и Москва през Букурещ е установена радиорелейна линия, като е приета и излъчена в България първата телевизионна програма от чужбина.\n 1965 г. – Индонезия напуска ООН.\n 1967 г. – Кристиан Бърнард извършва втората успешна сърдечна трансплантация.\n 1988 г. – Канада и САЩ подписват договор за свободна търговия.\n 1998 г. – В Русия влизат в обращение нови рубли, за да се задържи инфлацията и възстанови доверието.\n 2001 г. – Сила Калдерон става първата жена губернатор на Пуерто Рико.\n 2006 г. – Покрив на ледена пързалка в Бавария рухва от дебелата снежна покривка, загиват 15 души, в т.ч. 11 деца.\n 2010 г. – В Пасто, Колумбия, вулканът Галерас изригва в 19:43 ч. местно време. Това се случва в началото на карнавала в този град.\n\nРодени \n\n 1642 г. – Мехмед IV, султан на Османската империя († 1693 г.)\n 1699 г. – Осман III, султан на Османската империя († 1757 г.)\n 1777 г. – Кристиан Даниел Раух, германски скулптор († 1857 г.)\n 1822 г. – Рудолф Клаузиус, германски физик († 1888 г.)\n 1827 г. – Пьотър Семьонов-Тяншански, руски географ († 1914 г.)\n 1834 г. – Тодор Бурмов, първи министър-председател на България († 1906 г.)\n 1837 г. – Милий Балакирев, руски композитор († 1910 г.)\n 1839 г. – Нешо Бончев, български възрожденец, литературен критик, педагог († 1878 г.)\n 1846 г. – Жул-Леон Дютрей дьо Рен, френски изследовател географ († 1894 г.)\n 1848 г. – Георги Тишев, български политик († 1929 г.)\n 1871 г. – Николаус Велтер, люксембургски писател, литературовед и държавник († 1951 г.)\n 1873 г. – Света Тереза от Лизио, френска монахиня и писателка († 1897 г.)\n 1878 г. – Христо Кабакчиев, български политик († 1940 г.)\n 1880 г. – Луи Брегет, френски авиоконструктор († 1956 г.)\n 1896 г. – Дзига Вертов, руски кинорежисьор († 1954 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Странски, български учен († 1979 г.)\n 1905 г. – Лев Шнирелман, руски математик († 1938 г.)\n 1905 г. – Тодор Мазаров, български тенор († 1975 г.)\n 1913 г. – Анна Ли, британска актриса († 2004 г.)\n 1917 г. – Вера Зорина, германска танцьорка († 2003 г.)\n 1920 г. – Айзък Азимов, американски писател от руски произход († 1992 г.)\n 1922 г. – Блага Димитрова, българска поетеса († 2003 г.)\n 1925 г. – Франческо Коласуоно, италиански духовник († 2003 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Велинов, български юрист († 2018 г.)\n 1936 г. – Роджър Милър, американски поп певец († 1992 г.)\n 1937 г. – Веско Зехирев, български актьор\n 1938 г. – Иън Брейди, британски сериен убиец († 2017 г.)\n 1946 г. – Илма Ракуза, швейцарска писателка\n 1948 г. – Николай Червенков, молдовски българист\n 1955 г. – Хриска Пейчева, българска плувкиня\n 1957 г. – Йоанна Пакула, американска актриса от полски произход\n 1958 г. – Владимир Овчинников, руски пианист\n 1958 г. – Красимир Рангелов, български скулптор\n 1967 г. – Тиа Карере, американска актриса\n 1968 г. – Куба Гудинг Джуниър, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Олег Дерипаска, руски милиардер\n 1969 г. – Кристи Търлингтън, американски топмодел\n 1972 г. – Йосиф Шамли, български актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1975 г. – Олександър Шовковски, украински футболен вратар\n 1976 г. – Пас Вега, испанска актриса\n 1979 г. – Асен Гайдарджиев, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Мексимилиано „Макси“ Родригес, аржентински футболист\n 1983 г. – Кейт Босуърт, американска актриса\n 1986 г. – Аса Акира, американска порноактриса\n 1987 г. – Иван Колев, български волейболист\n 1987 г. – Шели Хениг, американска актриса\n 1991 г. – Давиде Сантон, италиански футболист\n 1993 г. – Амела Терзич, сръбска лекоатлетка\n\nПочинали \n\n 826 г. – Адалхард, християнски светец (* 752 г.)\n 1543 г. – Франческо Канова да Милано, италиански композитор (* 1497 г.)\n 1557 г. – Понтормо, италиански художник (* 1494 г.)\n 1819 г. – Мари Луиз дьо Бурбон-Парм, кралица на Испания (* 1751 г.)\n 1861 г. – Фридрих Вилхелм IV, крал на Прусия (* 1795 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джордж Бидъл Еъри, британски астроном (* 1801 г.)\n 1917 г. – Едуард Тайлър, британски антрополог (* 1832 г.)\n 1921 г. – Теобалд фон Бетман-Холвег, немски политик (* 1856 г.)\n 1925 г. – Никола Петров, български борец (* 1873 г.)\n 1926 г. – Такааки Като, Министър-председател на Япония (* 1860 г.)\n 1955 г. – Хосе Антонио Ремон, президент на Панама (* 1908 г.)\n 1960 г. – Фаусто Копи, италиански велосипедист (* 1919 г.)\n 1960 г. – Фридрих Адлер, австрийски политик (* 1979 г.)\n 1963 г. – Дик Пауъл, американски актьор (* 1904 г.)\n 1967 г. – Иван Кинов, български политик (* 1893 г.)\n 1992 г. – Иван Недев, български политик (* 1918 г.)\n 1995 г. – Сиад Баре, президент на Сомалия (* 1919 г.)\n 1996 г. – Карл Тарговник, унгарски психиатър (* 1915 г.)\n 2000 г. – Нат Адърли, американски композитор (* 1931 г.)\n 2000 г. – Патрик О'Брайън, британски писател (* 1914 г.)\n 2005 г. – Арнолд Денкер, американски шахматист (* 1914 г.)\n 2005 г. – Едо Муртич, хърватски художник (* 1921 г.)\n 2005 г. – Сирил Флетчър, британски комедиант (* 1913 г.)\n 2019 г. – Димитър Симеонов, български музикант, диригент и преподавател (* 1932 г.)\n 2019 г. – Кръстьо Станишев, български поет и преводач (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Църквата почита паметта на Свети Силвестър Римски\n\n102"
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        "text": "You are here: Main » Why ACA repeal bill is the worst yet - especially for women\n\"The American Academy of Family Physicians is pleased that the U.S. Senate has determined that they will not proceed with efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act\".\n\"A year ago there weren't as many people standing up and saying health care is a human right\".\nStates should be allowed to include additional \"targeted\" recipients, such as childless adults, and also allowed to cover generic drug equivalents and take measures to control medication costs.\nAntos said after years of working to oppose President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress was taken by surprise when Donald Trump was elected President last November.\nThe problem with socialized health care is the very reason I just explained. Senator John McCain of Arizona is one of the Republicans who does not support the Graham-Cassidy bill. Certainly not a God who tells us to protect the least among us.\nRoades: I can't predict whether Republicans will eventually pass Graham-Cassidy or another ACA repeal bill, but it does seem like they'll keep trying. Sen. Sadly, politics so often trumps sound policy, moral decency and a sense of responsibility for the next generation and the nation's future.\nRabbi Jonah Pesner, head of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said, \"For centuries, Jewish law has commanded communities to provide healthcare to their inhabitants...we call upon the Senate and House to work together to enhance our healthcare system so that all people can access the care they need and deserve\".\nConcepts like block granting Medicaid expansion funds and premium subsidies and capping Medicaid spending at unrealistic levels will nearly certainly be back in the future. The initial version of Graham-Cassidy reveals that it created a system in which, using a new temporary block grant, all states would receive the amount of federal resources necessary to provide coverage to certain individuals who would be ineligible for Medicaid. Moving forward, Congress needs to craft responsible reforms to bring long-term stability and predictability to the individual market.\nThe decision not to put the bill to a vote in the Senate came a day after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), would have violated the federal government's trust and treaty responsibility by gutting the ACA and taking away health care from hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, Udall said.\nAccording to Avalere's study, children will see funding slashed by an astonishing 31 percent by 2036.\nPark Square was lined with people opposing the new federal health care proposal. In 2004, the HMS Department of Health Care Policy established the Marshall J. Seidman Program for Medical Economics, which supports cost and quality research through the Seidman Fellowship Program.\nWhen Obamacare was introduced in 2010, it was meant to be a solution for Americans who could not afford health insurance. Most everyone in West Virginia knows someone with a pre-existing condition that could end up with astronomical health care charges or loss of coverage. And she described the parents as formidable: \"You do not want to stand in between one of these moms and the good health care of her child\".\nIt's no surprise. In addition to the unsafe policies we've seen in previous versions of Obamacare repeal, the Graham-Cassidy-Heller bill goes much further than any other piece of legislation.\nCOPYRIGHT VIOLATION WARNING: This news story was originally posted by Week Herald and is the sole property of of Week Herald. Wall Street is only getting more bullish on the stock, with 11 of analysts who cover LBTYA having a buy-equivalent rating.\nYou may have seen this outlined in Star Wars Shattered Empire and Star Wars Aftermath, punishing the Empire and Rebellion both. There's also a glimpse at summoning reinforcements and hero customisation.\nThe Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued regulatory guidance on initial coin offerings (ICOs). The move helped convulse Bitcoin prices that had been behaving in a parabolic fashion, ultimately peaking at all-time highs.\nWith fans eager to see what would happen between Neymar and Cavani, it was the Brazilian who stepped up and rolled it in for his eighth goal in PSG colours.\nAirport, hotel, circuit - Raikkonen sees no reason to miss Malaysian GP\nHaving been second quickest to team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in FP3, Vettel had to stop running early due to a power unit issue. It is Hamilton's fifth career Malaysian Grand Prix pole position equaling Michael Schumacher's Sepang record.\nThese two charts show what's wrong with Trump's tax proposal\nIf you own your own business, you'd only benefit from the cap if you would otherwise be subject to a tax rate higher than 25%. But the claim that broad cuts in corporate and individual tax rates will not reduce revenue is not borne out by history.\nTrump has repeatedly boasted about the positive reviews he said his administration is getting from Puerto Rico and the U.S. A spokesperson for Rosselló told CNN only 20 percent of drivers have gone back to work since the hurricane.\nAsked whether there could be any happiness about his promotion, he said, \"There's happiness from the standpoint of we know now\". It's not something easy on us or him. \"He's loud in practice and it is fun to have him around\".\nSpeaking ahead of Crystal Palace's visit to Old Trafford on Saturday, Mourinho revealed that the France global will not be available for the foreseeable future.\nTelevision pictures showed dozens of fans falling onto the pitch, and the match was suspended following a security meeting. Lille tweeted a message to the injured fans from their official Twitter account saying: \"We give them all our support\".\nTim Aiken, NC Guard's Director of Joint Operations. \"Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by Hurricane Maria\", said Brig.\nBluehole Spins Off Separate Entity Focused Entirely On PUBG\nPlayerunknown's Battleground firm Bluehole has confirmed that Chinese tech giant Tencent has contacted it to purchase a stake. Earlier today, Bluehole announced that the smash hit PUBG is now being maintained by PUBG Corp .\nCongress will have sixty days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions that were in place before the nuclear deal was signed. Responding to the missile test, Trump said it illustrated the weakness of the existing nuclear deal."
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        "text": "Q: How do I turn off the Front Row keyboard shortcut? I keep accidentally hitting Command+Esc and bringing up Front Row. How can I disable this shortcut?\n\nA: Under Keyboard & Mouse on System Preferences there is a Keyboard Shortcuts tab.\n\n"
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        "text": "Before the Bigs\nPreview: Sunstock Solar Festival September 9 Aug 23, 2017\nShort link https://tfn.tw/9yv/\nSunstock Solar Festival is proud to announce its first wave of music programming. On the Gold Stage we will see headliners Ra Ra Riot, along with Robert DeLong, Run River North, and Wild Club. The Green Stage, focused on local bands, will feature Trapdoor Social, Freedom Fry, Bloodboy, and The Fuzzy Crystals. Additional acts will be announced soon!\nFor the first time, a VIP package will be available. For $50, attendees will receive separate entry, Sunstock Tote and Swag, and Access to the \"Future is Bright\" Lounge featuring a Sustainable Mixology Bar by Award-Winning mixologist, Robin Chopra, Free Food and Drink Tastings, Shaded Seating by Hang High and more!\nThe festival in partnership with GRID Alternatives will be raising funds to provide a rooftop solar installation for A Safe Place for Youth, a shelter for homeless teens on the west side.\nIn addition to GRID Alternatives, this year’s non-profit partners include the Sierra Club, SoCal 350 Climate Action, Climate Hawks Vote, South Bay Clean Power, Food & Water Watch, and Rootskeeper, with more to be announced soon. Media Partners include LA Weekly and Alt 98.7.\nSunstock Solar Festival impassions, educates and activates our local communities through music, art, food, discussions and more, all centered around building greener cities and better futures. The event will focus on clean energy, sustainability, and social justice in a positive, engaging way, featuring solar-powered light installations, organic food trucks, immersive art, workshops, games, sustainable vendors, social action opportunities and the headlining feature - music powered by the sun. The all-ages show intends to engage festival-goers with the causes and calls-to-action that we need to protect our future.\nTickets are now on sale! Read more for details!\nWhat: Sunstock Solar Festival\nWhen: Saturday September 9th 2:00pm-11:00pm\nWhere: Magic Box LA\nComplete details, along with submissions to participate as a visual artist or vendor can be found at SunstockSolarFestival.com.\nABOUT SUNSTOCK\nSunstock began in 2016 with 2500+ Los Angelenos in attendance, with local bands including Cults, Wavves, The Allah-Las and more, and with a fundraising mission that resulted in a $10k donation of solar power to Kids Cancer Connection. The festival is non-profit, solar-powered, and focused on strengthening the LA community and sustainability movement to create a better future. Sunstock is the brainchild of Trapdoor Social, who also produce solar-powered concerts on tour around the country.\nWebsite: http://sunstocksolarfestival.com/\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunstockSolFest\nTwitter: @SunstockSolFest\nInstagram: @SunstockSolFest\nPromo Video: https://youtu.be/9UrVWc_ggaA\nLatest faves (7/4-7/14)\nArroyo Seco Weekend Day 2: Magic Giant, The Mowgli's, The Revivalists, Fitz & The Tantrums, Weezer, The Shins, and Mumford & Sons\nJune 9-16, 2019 Favorites of the Week (Playlist)\nFavorite of the Week (6/17-6/23): Gethen Jenkins, Half The Animal, Injury Reserve and more!\nLatest favorites (6/24-7/3): Omar Apollo, Paco Versailles, Friendly Fires, Royal Teeth, Cold War Kids and much more!\nProviding you with the best up-and-coming musicians while assisting their efforts to break into mainstream. We feature artists and their music from a variety of genres including hip-hop, indie/alternative, rock, pop mashups, and electronica/remixes.\nLos Angeles, CA 90038, US\nzach@beforebigs.com\n© 2019 Copyright: Before the Bigs, LLC"
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        "text": "2 февруари е 33-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 332 дни до края на годината (333 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 962 г. – Отон I е коронован в Рим, като първия император на Свещената римска империя след почти 40 години; в Германия тази дата се приема за ден на основаването на нацията.\n 1033 г. – Бургундия се присъединява към Свещената Римска империя.\n 1536 г. – Испанският конкистадор Педро де Мендоса основава Буенос Айрес.\n 1568 г. – Открити са Соломоновите острови.\n 1701 г. – Петър I издава указ за основаване на Балтийски флот.\n 1709 г. – Случайно минаващ кораб прибира от остров Мас-о-Тера корабокрушенеца Александър Селкирк – първообраз на героя на Даниел Дефо Робинзон Крузо.\n 1811 г. – Руски заселници основават американския град Форт Рос.\n 1846 г. – Най-богатите квартали на Пловдив са почти унищожени от пожар.\n 1848 г. – Мексиканско-американска война: Подписан е договора Гуадалупе Идалго, който слага край на войната, а Мексико отстъпва на САЩ повече от половината от своята територия.\n 1863 г. – Американският писател Самюъл Клемънс започва да публикува с псевдонима си Марк Твен.\n 1896 г. – Престолонаследникът на българския трон княз Борис III Търновски приема православието; негов кръстник става руският император Николай II.\n 1932 г. – Обществото на народите свиква Женевска конференция по разоръжаване с участие на 63 държави.\n 1940 г. – Военната колегия на Върховния съд на СССР осъжда бившият ръководител на НКВД Николай Ежов на смърт чрез разстрел.\n 1940 г. – Дебют на сцена на американския певец Франк Синатра.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Последните германски военни части в Битката при Сталинград капитулират.\n 1945 г. – В нощта на 1 срещу 2 февруари са изпълнени смъртните присъди на т.нар. Народен съд, като са разстреляни Богдан Филов и княз Кирил Преславски.\n 1946 г. – Унгария е обявена за република.\n 1951 г. – XXVII народно събрание приема нов Наказателен кодекс, копиран от съветското законодателство, станал основа за репресиите през 1950-те години.\n 1971 г. – В иранския град Рамсар е подписана Конвенция за защита на влажните зони.\n 1982 г. – Сирийската редовна армия започва да бомбардира град Хама, за да потуши избухналото под ръководството на Мюсюлманското братство въстание – загиват между 10 и 25 хил. души (според Амнести Интернешънъл).\n 1990 г. – В ЮАР е обявена за легална дейността на забранения дотогава Африкански национален конгрес.\n 2004 г. – Швейцарският тенисист Роджър Федерер става водач в Световната ранглиста по тенис за мъже – позиция, която удържа за рекордните 237 последователни седмици.\n\nРодени \n\n 1495 г. – Бона Сфорца, полска кралица († 1557 г.)\n 1522 г. – Лодовико Ферари, италиански математик († 1565 г.)\n 1616 г. – Себастиан Бурдон, френски художник († 1671 г.)\n 1649 г. – Бенедикт XIII, римски папа († 1730 г.)\n 1650 г. – Нел Гуин, английска актриса († 1687 г.)\n 1669 г. – Луи Маршан, френски музикант († 1732 г.)\n 1700 г. – Йохан Кристоф Готшед, немски писател († 1766 г.)\n 1754 г. – Шарл Морис дьо Талейран, френски политик († 1838 г.)\n 1762 г. – Джироламо Крешентини, италиански певец, кастрат († 1846 г.)\n 1767 г. – Хайнрих Фридрих Линк, германски ботаник († 1850 г.)\n 1822 г. – Огюст Дозон, френски дипломат († 1890 г.)\n 1827 г. – Атанас Илиев, български просветен деец († 1927 г.)\n 1852 г. – Освалд Ахенбах, немски художник († 1905 г.)\n 1855 г. – Христо Никифоров, български политик († 1918 г.)\n 1864 г. – Дядо Благо, български детски писател († 1938 г.)\n 1876 г. – Илия Докторов, български революционер († 1947 г.)\n 1879 г. – Пано Ангелов, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1879 г. – Стоян Бъчваров, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1882 г. – Джеймс Джойс, ирландски писател († 1941 г.)\n 1882 г. – Фридрих Долман, немски генерал († 1944 г.)\n 1889 г. – Жан дьо Латр дьо Тасини, френски маршал († 1952 г.)\n 1890 г. – Тале Андонов, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1894 г. – Жорж Папазов, български художник и писател († 1972 г.)\n 1896 г. – Казимеж Куратовски, полски математик († 1980 г.)\n 1899 г. – Паула Хайман, немски психиатър († 1982 г.)\n 1904 г. – Валерий Чкалов, съветски летец († 1938 г.)\n 1904 г. – Петер Блос, немски психоаналитик († 1997 г.)\n 1905 г. – Айн Ранд, американски писателка, родена в Русия († 1982 г.)\n 1911 г. – Александър Бурмов, български историк († 1965 г.)\n 1917 г. – Димитър Ангелов, български историк († 1996 г.)\n 1919 г. – Петър Петров, български шахматист († 2005 г.)\n 1920 г. – Алберт Шац, учен, микробиолог († 2005 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ефтим Змията, български борец\n 1922 г. – Стоянка Мутафова, българска актриса († 2019 г.)\n 1926 г. – Валери Жискар д'Естен, президент на Франция († 2020 г.)\n 1926 г. – Григор Стоичков, български политик († 2016 г.)\n 1927 г. – Иван Хаджирачев, български актьор († 1981 г.)\n 1933 г. – Брана Црънчевич, сръбски писател († 2011 г.)\n 1940 г. – Томас Диш, американски писател († 2008 г.)\n 1947 г. – Фара Фосет, американска актриса († 2009 г.)\n 1949 г. – Брент Спайнър, американски актьор\n 1953 г. – Константин Сиденко, руски офицер\n 1955 г. – Лешек Енгелкинг, полски писател, критик и преводач\n 1956 г. – Аднан Октар, турски интелектуалец\n 1966 г. – Андрей Чесноков, руски тенисист\n 1969 г. – Валери Карпин, руски футболист\n 1969 г. – Гошо Гинчев, български футболист\n 1969 г. – Игор Шалимов, руски футболист\n 1971 г. – Арли Ховер, испанска актриса\n 1971 г. – Петко Петков, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Дана Интернешънъл, израелска поп певица\n 1972 г. – Клара Добрев, съпруга на министър-председателя на Унгария\n 1977 г. – Шакира, колумбийска певица\n 1978 г. – Бари Фъргюсън, шотландски футболист\n 1978 г. – Джоел Брюйер, басист и член на групата „Thousand Foot Krutch“\n 1981 г. – Ду Бала, бразилски футболист\n 1982 г. – Йон Ким, корейска състезателка по голф\n 1987 г. – Жерар Пике, испански футболист\n 1990 г. – Боян Табаков, български футболист\n 1993 г. – Николета Караколева, българска футболистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 880 г. – Бруно, херцог на Саксония (* ок. 830/840)\n 1054 г. – Ярослав I, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* ок. 980)\n 1211 г. – Аделхайд фон Майсен, германска принцеса (* ок. 1160 г.)\n 1218 г. – Константин, Княз на Владимирско-Суздалско княжество (* 1186 г.)\n 1594 г. – Джовани Пиерлуиджи да Палестрина, италиански композитор (* 1514 г.)\n 1660 г. – Говерт Флинк, холандски художник (* 1615 г.)\n 1688 г. – Абраам Дюкен, френски морски офицер (* 1610 г.)\n 1704 г. – Гийом Франсоа дьо Лопитал, френски математик (* 1661 г.)\n 1766 г. – Йохан Кристоф Готшед, немски писател (* 1700 г.)\n 1769 г. – Климент XIII, италиански папа (* 1693 г.)\n 1873 г. – Елена Павловна, велика руска княгиня (* 1807 г.)\n 1884 г. – Иларион Ловчански, български екзарх (* 1800 г.)\n 1901 г. – Марко Милянов, кучински войвода (* 1833 г.)\n 1902 г. – Емануил Манолов, български композитор (* 1860 г.)\n 1905 г. – Адолф Бастиан, немски лекар († 1826 г.)\n 1907 г. – Димитрий Менделеев, руски химик (* 1834 г.)\n 1908 г. – Петър Христов Германчето, български революционер (* 1867 г.)\n 1909 г. – Адолф Щьокер, немски политик (* 1835 г.)\n 1913 г. – Карл Лавал, шведски инженер (* 1845 г.)\n 1927 г. – Петър Иванов, български просветен деец (* 1847 г.)\n 1928 г. – Спас Вацов, български метеоролог (* 1856 г.)\n 1934 г. – Иван Димитриев Гешов, български политик (* 1854 г.)\n 1938 г. – Григор Попев, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1941 г. – Янко Сакъзов, български политик (* 1860 г.)\n 1942 г. – Даниил Хармс, руски драматург (* 1905 г.)\n 1943 г. – Гюнтер Ангерн, германски офицер (* 1893 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Димитров, български художник (* 1850 г.)\n 1945 г. – Александър Радолов, български политик (* 1883 г.)\n 1945 г. – Кирил Преславски, български княз (* 1895 г.)\n 1949 г. – Теодорос Нацинас, гръцки просветен деец (* 1872 г.)\n 1950 г. – Сребро Бабаков, български комунист (* 1908 г.)\n 1954 г. – Трифон Кунев, български поет и фейлетонист (* 1880 г.)\n 1957 г. – Ищван Холош, унгарски лекар (* 1872 г.)\n 1962 г. – Христо Шалдев, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1968 г. – Зигфрид Расп, немски генерал (* 1898 г.)\n 1969 г. – Борис Карлоф, английски актьор (* 1887 г.)\n 1970 г. – Бъртранд Ръсел, британски философ, Нобелов лауреат през 1950 (* 1872 г.)\n 1974 г. – Марилуизе Флайсер, немска писателка (* 1901)\n 1976 г. – Златьо Бояджиев, български художник (* 1903 г.)\n 1979 г. – Сид Вишъс, английски музикант (Sex Pistols) (* 1957 г.)\n 1987 г. – Карлош Жозе Кастильо, бразилски футболист (* 1927 г.)\n 1995 г. – Фред Пери, английски тенисист (* 1909 г.)\n 1996 г. – Джийн Кели, американски актьор (* 1912 г.)\n 1998 г. – Реймънд Кетъл, американски психолог (* 1905 г.)\n 2000 г. – Владимир Гранов, френски психиатър (* 1924 г.)\n 2000 г. – Тодор Попов, български композитор (* 1921 г.)\n 2005 г. – Макс Шмелинг, немски боксьор (* 1905 г.)\n 2008 г. – Джошуа Лидърбърг, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. (* 1925 г.)\n 2010 г. – Карандаш, български карикатурист (* 1924 г.)\n 2014 г. – Филип Хофман, американски актьор (* 1967 г.)\n 2022 г. – Моника Вити, италианска киноактриса (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Световен ден на влажните зони и водолюбивите птици (по повод на Рамсарската конвенция от 1971 г., за първи път се отбелязва през 1997 г.)\n Петльовден (Ден на мъжката рожба)\n Зимна Богородица – славянски празник в българския народен календар\n Сретение Господне – 40 дни от раждането на Иисус Христос\n Азербайджан – Ден на младежта\n Бразилия – Официален празник на град Порту Алегри – ден на Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes, патрон на града\n Италия – Празник на град Шака\n САЩ и Канада –  Ден на мармота\n Тайланд – Ден на изобретателя (от 1995 г.) и Национален ден на земеделието\n\n202"
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        "text": "Q: Why does my MacBook Pro reach high temperatures when running? I have my MacBook Pro sitting on my desk and it's consistently over 160 degrees. It is almost too hot to touch in some places on the casing.\n\nA: 160 degrees Fahrenheit, if it is CPU temperature, is normal for MBP. \nMBPs are designed to run pretty hot, with the aluminum case as the main heatsink the casing gets uncomfortably hot sometimes.\nIf you want to remedy the problem:\n\n\n*\n\n*use a laptop stand (I use Belkin Cushtops, they are really comfortable), \n\n*put your laptop on steady, heat-transducing surface (human skin, blankets or soft chairs are bad — wooden/plastic/metallic tables are good),\n\n*open up the casing and clean the dust (can make it ~10 degrees Celcius cooler)\n\n*or, use less video- or CPU-intensive application =)\n\n\nA: If you're interested, I've had a lot of luck manually regulating my MBP's temperature a little better with smcfancontrol.  I find that keeping the fans running at 3,000 RPM by default (instead of the normal 1,000) adds no ambient noise over what's already in my office and keeps the temperature a bit lower.  I also use it to pre-emptively turn the fans up to 6,000 RPM when I know I'm about to do something that will make it run hot.\n\nA: That is within range. The chips can run up to 205*F according to the people at my local Apple store (I had the same question).\nThere is a thermal trigger if it gets too hot that will yank power to the computer. Real pain when you're working on something and don't notice the heat output.\n\nA: Short answer: because of the crappy nVidia chip in it. See here for more details and don't forget to use some sort of app to see your actual temperature details. You'll see it's the GPU diode that's burning up. The rest should be hunky dory, at least 12 degrees centigrade below that piece of... extraordinary nVidia technology which I will forever remember for this snafu.\nLong answer: I currently have one of those pre-Unibody 17\" MBPs, with the faulty nVidias. Oh yeah, I'm so happy, I can hardly hold it in.\nIt initially ran at about 75 degrees Centigrade when I used it. After putting it on a smcfancontrol diet and keeping the fans revved up to 4500 as a default, everything was hunky dory except it still ran at about 69 degrees and was burning my forearms (though I love it in the winter).\nLong story short: bought a wireless keyboard, turned the fans down to their standard 2000, 4 weeks later I'm the proud owner of an MBP with a dead nVidia chip on it. Luckily, I had Apple Care so everything was fixed literally without any questions. The new logic board had the gpu diode running at 63 degrees for the first two weeks (with fans turned down). Now their default has become 72 degrees with the fans at 4000. I think I'm going to turn smcfancontrol off, make the default 2000 again and let it burn.\nI wonder how many dead nVidias I have to get in so that Apple replaces my notebook with a version that doesn't have a crappy nVidia card in it.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 март е 61-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (62-ри през високосна година). Остават 304 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 986 г. – Луи V става крал на франките.\n 1353 г. – Османските турци завладяват голямата крепост Галиполи, изходна база за завладяване на балкански територии.\n 1498 г. – По време на колонизаторското си плаване Вашко да Гама пристига в днешен Мозамбик.\n 1699 г. – Френският изследовател Пиер Ле Мойн д’Ибервил открива устието на река Мисисипи (САЩ).\n 1796 г. – 26-годишният генерал Наполеон Бонапарт е назначен за командващ френската армия в Италия.\n 1831 г. – Създаден е окръг Айония в щата Мичиган, САЩ.\n 1855 г. – Александър II става цар на Русия.\n 1877 г. – Избирателната комисия в САЩ след преразглеждане на изборните резултати обявява за президент Ръдърфорд Хейс.\n 1896 г. – Великите сили признават Фердинанд I за княз на България.\n 1919 г. – В Москва е открит първият конгрес на Комунистическия интернационал.\n 1933 г. – В Ню Йорк се състои премиерата на филма Кинг Конг.\n 1949 г. – Американският пилот Джеймс Галахън завършва със самолет „Lucky Lady II“ (B-50 Superfortress) първия в историята околосветски полет без прекъсване с 4 зареждания с гориво във въздуха.\n 1941 г. – Втора световна война: Първите германски войници влизат в България след присъединяването към пакта.\n 1951 г. – В NBA се провежда първият мач на звездите.\n 1951 г. – Пощенска спестовна каса и множество по-малки банки са обединени в Държавна спестовна каса (след 1999 г. – Банка ДСК)\n 1954 г. – УЕФА взема решение за учредяване на футболната Купа на европейските шампиони.\n 1962 г. – В Мианмар ген. У Не Вин осъществява военен преврат, при който на власт идва Партията на бирманската социалистическа програма. Провъзгласен е „бирманският път към социализма“.\n 1969 г. – Състои се първият изпитателен полет на френско-английския свръхзвуков пътнически самолет Конкорд.\n 1969 г. – На остров Джънбао избухва престрелка между съветски и китайски граничари, която по-късно прераства във въоръжен конфликт между двете държави.\n 1970 г. – Родезия се провъзгласява за република и скъсва всякаква връзка с Британската корона.\n 1983 г. – В Англия фирмите Sony, Philips и Polygram за първи път демонстрират съвместната си разработка – компактдиск.\n 1987 г. – Закрита е корпорацията Америкън Моторс.\n 1989 г. – Дванадесет страни от Европейската общност постигат съгласие за забрана на всякакви фреонови продукти до края на века.\n 1995 г. – Изследователи във Фермилаб обявяват откриването на топ кварк.\n 1998 г. – Данните, изпратени от космическата сонда Галилео показват, че на луната Европа, спътник на Юпитер, има течен океан под дебел слой лед.\n 2017 г. – На официална конференция в Москва са добавени към периодичната таблица елементите московий, тенесин и оганесон.\n\nРодени \n\n 1316 г. – Робърт II Стюарт, крал на Шотландия († 1390 г.)\n 1459 г. – Адриан VI, римски папа († 1523 г.)\n 1481 г. – Франц фон Зикинген, германски вожд († 1523 г.)\n 1793 г. – Сам Хюстън, президент на Република Тексас († 1863 г.)\n 1810 г. – Лъв XIII, римски папа († 1903 г.)\n 1817 г. – Янош Арани, унгарски поет († 1882 г.)\n 1824 г. – Бедржих Сметана, чешки композитор († 1824 г.)\n 1834 г. – Лев Иванов, руски балетмайстор († 1901 г.)\n 1859 г. – Шалом Алейхем, руски новелист († 1916 г.)\n 1861 г. – Никола Иванов (офицер), български генерал († 1940 г.)\n 1865 г. – Калин Найденов, български генерал († 1925 г.)\n 1876 г. – Пий XII, римски папа († 1958 г.)\n 1880 г. – Мицумаса Йонаи, министър-председател на Япония († 1948 г.)\n 1894 г. – Александър Опарин, руски биолог († 1980 г.)\n 1900 г. – Курт Вайл, германски композитор († 1950 г.)\n 1903 г. – Хари Гизе, немски актьор († 1991 г.)\n 1910 г. – Валтер Тил, германски учен († 1943 г.)\n 1913 г. – Георги Фльоров, руски физик († 1990 г.)\n 1914 г. – Мартин Рит, американски режисьор († 1990 г.)\n 1919 г. – Дженифър Джоунс, американска актриса († 2009 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ефим Гелер, украински шахматист († 1998 г.)\n 1925 г. – Николай Янков, български литературовед († 1982 г.)\n 1926 г. – Мъри Ротбард, американски икономист († 1995 г.)\n 1928 г. – Гиньо Ганев, български политик († 2016 г.)\n 1930 г. – Том Улф, американски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1931 г. – Михаил Горбачов, президент на СССР, Нобелов лауреат през 1990 г. († 2022 г.)\n 1937 г. – Абделазиз Бутефлика, алжирски президент († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Александър Костов, български футболист († 2019 г.)\n 1939 г. – Йоаникий Сливенски, митрополит на Сливенска митрополия\n 1940 г. – Фредерик ван Зейл Слаберт, южноафрикански политик († 2010 г.)\n 1942 г. – Джон Ървинг, американски писател\n 1942 г. – Лу Рийд, американски певец († 2013 г.)\n 1943 г. – Питър Строб, американски писател († 2022 г.)\n 1948 г. – Рори Галахър, ирландски китарист († 1995 г.)\n 1955 г. – Шоко Асахара, японски терорист († 2018 г.)\n 1956 г. – Марк Евънс, австралийски китарист\n 1962 г. – Джон Бон Джоуви, американски певец\n 1963 г. – Таню Киряков, български спортист\n 1966 г. – Ани Вълчанова, българска актриса\n 1968 г. – Даниел Крейг, английски актьор\n 1972 г. – Моник Швитер, швейцарска писателка и актриса\n 1976 г. – Даниил Страхов, руски актьор\n 1977 г. – Георги Вачев, български актьор\n 1982 г. – Кевин Курани, германски футболист\n 1983 г. – Рейчъл Рокс, американска порноактриса\n 1988 г. – Джеймс Артър, английски певец\n 1989 г. – Марсел Хиршер, австрийски скиор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1333 г. – Владислав I Локетек, крал на Полша (* 1260 г.)\n 1782 г. – Софи Френска, френска благородничка (* 1734 г.)\n 1791 г. – Джон Уесли, основател на методистката църква (* 1703 г.)\n 1797 г. – Хорас Уолпоул, английски политик (* 1717 г.)\n 1835 г. – Франц II, първи император на Австрийската империя (* 1768 г.)\n 1840 г. – Хайнрих Вилхелм Олберс, немски астроном (* 1758 г.)\n 1855 г. – Николай I, император на Русия (* 1796 г.)\n 1885 г. – Жозеф Алфред Сере, френски математик (* 1819 г.)\n 1895 г. – Алексей Михайлович, руски велик княз (* 1875 г.)\n 1895 г. – Исмаил Паша, владетел на Египет (* 1830 г.)\n 1899 г. – Николай Палаузов, български възрожденец (* 1819 г.)\n 1905 г. – Димитър Добрович, български художник (* 1846 г.)\n 1930 г. – Дейвид Хърбърт Лорънс, английски писател (* 1885 г.)\n 1939 г. – Димитър Страшимиров, български филолог (* 1868 г.)\n 1939 г. – Хауърд Картър, британски археолог (* 1874 г.)\n 1946 г. – Евтим Дабев, български политик (* 1864 г.)\n 1948 г. – Ейбрахам Брил, американски психиатър (* 1874 г.)\n 1978 г. – Бохуслав Хавранек, чешки езиковед (* 1893 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ярослав Ивашкевич, полски писател (* 1894 г.)\n 1982 г. – Филип Дик, американски писател (* 1928 г.)\n 1987 г. – Рандолф Скот, американски актьор и режисьор (* 1898 г.)\n 1991 г. – Серж Генсбур, френски поет и певец (* 1928 г.)\n 1992 г. – Санди Денис, американска актриса (* 1937 г.)\n 1993 г. – Иван Иванов, български музикант (* 1935 г.)\n 1999 г. – Дъсти Спрингфийлд, британска певица (* 1939 г.)\n 2006 г. – Илия Пенев, български актьор (* 1933 г.)\n 2007 г. – Анри Троая, френски историк и биограф (* 1911 г.)\n 2009 г. – Жоао Виейра, президент на Гвинея-Бисау (* 1939 г.)\n 2016 г. – Петко Бочаров, български журналист (* 1919 г.)\n\nПразници \n Етиопия – Празник в чест на победата при Адуа\n Мароко – Ден на независимостта (от Франция и Испания, 1956 г., национален празник)\n Мианмар – Ден на земеделеца\n\n302"
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        "text": "ExposeFacts\nMyths of Pakistani Election\nJUNAID AHMAD, junaidsahmad at gmail.com\nAhmad is assistant professor at the University of Lahore in Pakistan, and Secretary-General of the International Movement for a Just World. See Ahmed’s interviews on The Real News.\nHe said today: “With more than 100 million eligible voters, Pakistan is witnessing one of its most highly contested elections ever. And democratic elections are important here, since half the country’s history has been under military rule.\n“The cricketer-turned politician [Imran Khan] and his political party, PTI (‘The Movement for Justice’) stand a good chance in putting a significant dent in the PML(N) dominated by the Sharif family and their single party dominance of the influential Punjab over the past few decades.\n“In all of Western mainstream and even alternative media, there’s the simplistic and erroneous narrative advanced that claims Khan is just riding on the coattails of the military. It actually may be the reverse, i.e. the military is exploiting the popular political campaign of Khan.\n“But the Western political establishment, along with the rulers in New Delhi and Riyadh, love who they deem (not without merit) their businessman puppet-partner Nawaz Sharif — now jailed in Pakistan for being implicated in gross corruption. The Western press couldn’t seem to help itself in regurgitating nonstop this past week how this is the ‘dirtiest election’ ever in Pakistan’s history. In fact, it’s deemed so ‘dirty’ because the wrong guy, i.e. Khan, who has taken forceful positions against Pakistan’s involvement in the U.S./NATO ‘war on terror,’ stands a chance of winning or at least having his party gain enormously.\n“However, defeating PML(N)’s stranglehold over the political life of Pakistan’s most influential and populous province, the Punjab, is certainly a Herculean task for Khan and his PTI.\n“The other political parties, including secular ones like the PPP or ANP, as well as some religious parties, may become more significant in the context of a hung parliament where coalitions will be necessary.”\nSearch News Releases\nKey term:\nBy Date Range:\nMonth January February March April May June July August September October November December Day 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Day 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019\nMost Recent News Releases\n“Official Secrets” Highlights Lies of Iraq War\nVenezuela: “Humanitarian Intervention” That Isn’t\nEpstein: Protected Because He Is a Spy? — A Backgrounder\nMilitary Spending: * Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Scandal * Backing Saudi Aggression in Yemen\nNoMoreCamps.org\nKamala Harris’ Claims About Her Record on Big Banks “Doesn’t Withstand a Moment’s Scrutiny”\n“Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor'”\nBiden’s Deceits on * Busing * Iraq War\nTrump-Putin Meeting: “Will U.S. Elites Give Détente With Russia a Chance?”\nBiden’s Record: Segregationists, Wall Street, War\n1714 Franklin Street #100-133\nipa[at]accuracy.org\nWashington Office (journalist contact)\n915 National Press Building"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a quick way to lock my Mac? On Windows you can hit the keys Windows+L to lock your computer if you step away.\nI don't want to have to remember if sleep currently asks for a password, if there is a time out where my screen isn't locked during a short period. Even with Lion supporting resume of many apps, I don't want to log out. \nI do want to be sure data is secure when stepping out for lunch or a smoke break.\n\nA: Your Mac can ask your password after it wakes up if you set it to do so in the Preferences panel (Security). From there on, you can use ⌥+⌘+⏏ to put your Mac to sleep. So all you have to do is hit that and walk away.\n\nA: If you enable screen locking within the screen saver pref pane you can put the computer to sleep and lock at the same time by pressing ⌘+⌥+F12\n\nA: ⇧+⌘+⌥+Q will perform a \"quick logout.\"\nAnother option is to enable a password when waking from sleep or screen saver and adding a hot corner for one or the other. Then locking is as simple as tossing a mouse in a corner.\n\nA: To lock your screen using a apple keyboard try this \nOr do this by going to \"System Preferences\" then \"Security\" under \"General\"\n\nA: If you want to be able to remote control your Mac (with Synergy or something similar) even when it's locked, I'd recommend you to show the Keychain Status in the Menu Bar. You do that as follows:\n\n\n*\n\n*Launch the application Keychain Access\n\n*Press ⌘, to open up the Preferences window\n\n*Tick the Show Status in Menu Bar check box\n\n*Click the newly appeared lock icon in the menu bar\n\n*Click Lock Screen to lock the screen\n\n\nThis will lock the screen with a login window, but still make the Mac possible to remote control. If you don't need to remote control the Mac, MacLoc is a simple and effective solution.\n\nA: On macOS High Sierra, there is a standard key sequence and Apple menu item to lock your screen. \n\n\n*\n\n*control-command-q or ^+⌘+Q\nThe Lock Screen 2 app is a great little tool to make locking and unlocking much more adaptable. It is for sale on the app store priced below $5 lately. \nThe promo video is quite entertaining even though it doesn't promote the ease of assigning a custom key command to engage a screen lock.\n\nA: Here is a good tutorial which will help you to create a short cut keys to lock your mac machine\nhttp://www.macyourself.com/2013/01/27/how-to-lock-your-mac-screen-with-a-keyboard-shortcut/\nLock Screen Service\n1. Launch Automator from your Applications folder.\n2. Select Service as the document type.\n3. Select Utilities from the list on the left, then double-click Run Shell Script in the next column.\n\n4. On the top-right side of the screen, adjust the drop-down menus so the statement reads: Service receives [no input] in [any application]\n5. Copy the following command into the large text box that appears:\n/System/Library/CoreServices/\"Menu Extras\"/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend\n\n6. Go to File > Save and name your service Lock Screen. Once saved, you can now quit Automator.\nLock Screen Keyboard Shortcut\n1. Launch System Preferences and go to the Keyboard pane.\n2. Next, select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. From the list on the left, select Application Shortcuts. Click on the plus (+) button below to add your new shortcut.\n3. In the dialog box we’ll want to leave All Applications selected in the first menu. Enter Lock Screen as the Menu Title. Please note this has to be exactly the same name you entered when saving the service in Automator. Finally, enter your keyboard shortcut. Let’s go with Command+Option+Shift+L.\n\n4. Click Add and you’re all done!\nNow when you press your keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+Shift+L), the Mac login screen will immediately be displayed. You’re still technically logged in and processes such as large downloads will continue in the background. But you can leave your Mac unattended without worry – no one will be able to access your account until you enter your password. When you do, everything on your desktop will be there just as you left it!\n\nA: \nGo to settings -> Mission control and then over to HotCorners on the bottom left corner.\n\nThere are 4 corner setting appearing there. Choose anyone of them according to your feasibility as put to sleep. Just by dragging the mouse to that corner will put it to sleep and lock your system. I guess thats the best easy shortcut i have discovered.\n\nA: If you're using Alfred, just invoke Alfred and start typing \"lock\". I don't remember if it's activated by default, but if not, you can activate and change the keywords in the Alfred preferences.\n\n\nA: Via the Expose system preferences panel you can set a \"hot corner\" of your monitor that activates your screen saver. Say you set the Bottom Left corner, as soon as you move your mouse there the screen saver will invoke. If you've set a password on it, bingo, done.\nYet another option is to enable Fast User Switching in the Login Options pane of the Accounts preferences panel. This puts a Users menu in the top right hand corner, from which you can quickly choose \"Login Window...\". This kicks you to the login screen, requiring a password to move away from, and also does not end your session/quit any running apps.\n\nA: Deskshade does exactly what you are asking. It locks the screen displaying only a huge padlock sign so intruders know the screen is locked which prevents unnecessary attempts to use the machine whiles you are away. \nhttp://macrabbit.com/\n\nA: SizzlingKeys is a little Preference Pane that mostly lets you configure iTunes keyboard shortcuts, but one of the \"Extras\" included lets you specify a shortcut to actually lock the computer and take you to the Fast User Switching screen, not just start the screensaver. I keep Lock configured as ⌃+⌘+L but you can specify whatever you want.\nSizzlingKeys has a paid upgrade, but the Lock shortcut is configurable using the free version.\n\nA: Another program that can allow you to quickly lock your screen is Padlock. Note that the aforelinked  Macworld review of Padlock also gives a comprehensive review of other solutions (many of which were discussed above) for locking your Mac.\n\nA: FTW!  A keyboard short cut to launch screen saver which you can configure with a password lock.  All free.  Follow the link for better explanation and screens.  I have been using quicksilver to launch the screensaver which works nicely as well.\nhttp://leafraker.com/2007/09/14/start-the-screen-saver-with-quicksilver/\n\nThe only thing left to do is to define a keyboard trigger. I’m using\n  “Shift/Control/Command-L” as my trigger.\nThis key combination may sound a bit awkward at first, but I’m using\n  “Shift/Control/Command” for all my Quicksilver trigger. The nice thing\n  about this combination is that it rarely cause conflicts with other\n  keyboard shortcuts, and once you are used to this combination it’s\n  really not this bad. So in this case I combined it with the letter\n  “L”, for “Lock”.\n\n\nA: There is finally a native way to lock your screen, starting with macOS High Sierra (10.13).\nThis can be done by clicking the Apple menu at the top left of the screen, and then pressing \"Lock Screen.\" The shortcut associated with this action is ^⌘Q. Arguably, this is not as convenient as the ❖L (Windows + L) shortcut that exists on Windows.\nHowever, one can achieve a similar behavior on the Mac natively. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, click on All Applications, press the + (plus) button at the bottom, type in \"Lock Screen\" (without quotes) for the menu title, and for the shortcut assign your own shortcut (such as ⌘L). Now you can use ⌘L à la Windows (or your own shortcut) to lock the screen.\nNote that using ⌘L as your lock screen shortcut will render it ineffective for other tasks such as focusing on the URL bar in Safari.\n\nA: Logging out to the fast user switching screen\n\n\n*\n\n*Run /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend.\n\n*Enable the fast user switching menu from the Users & Groups preference pane and then select Login Window… from the menu.\n\n*Use the lock action in Alfred.\n\n\nLocking the screen\n\n\n*\n\n*Check \"Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins\" in the Security & Privacy preference pane. You can then lock the computer manually by pressing control-shift-eject to turn off displays or option-command-eject to go to sleep. A power key can be substituted for eject in 10.8 and later. In 10.9 and later, you can also put displays to sleep by running pmset displaysleepnow.\n\n*Enable the Keychain menu extra from the preferences of Keychain Access and then select Lock Screen... from the menu.\n\n\nA: You guys should check out QuickLock to lock your Mac with. It locks with any desired keyboard shortcut, it's beautiful, and it's completely and totally customizable. \nBest of all it's free.\nCheck it out here: http://www.quicklockapp.com\n\nA: On macOS High Sierra, there is a standard key sequence and Apple menu item to lock your screen. \n\n\n*\n\n*Control-Command-Q or ^+⌘+Q\n\n\nFor older OS, ⇧+⌃+⏏ puts the display (only the display, not the whole computer) to sleep and will then prompt you for a password if you have enabled Require password [amount of time] after sleep or screen saver begins under System Preferences > Security.\nIf your Mac does not have an ⏏ (eject) key, you can use ⇧+⌃+⌽ (power).\n\nA: Lock Me Now - a Free app. Found it great for myself after searching and trying various options.\nNothing redundant, just all-you-need-out-of-the-box:\n\n\n*\n\n*Lock your screen\n\n*Set a global shortcut\n\n*Unlock with just a password\n\n\nP.S: I'm not affiliated with this product.\n\nA: With the track pad, you can configure gestures for locking your mac. I do it with a four finger swipe left. To confiugre this, you need a (free) tool like the BetterTouchTool.\n\nA: Use a keyboard shortcut and use Automator to make a screen lock service. This will allow you to set any keyboard command you would like to lock or start a screen saver on your mac. As referenced below is a nice article on how to do the process.\nHandy screen locking tips for Mac\n\nIf mousing to part of the screen isn’t your thing, you can use the keyboard to lock the screen, but it takes Automator (or a third-party application, but Automator is the better bet if you’re using OS X 10.6). Launch Automator and create a new service.\nTell the new service that it receives “no input” (rather than the default of “text”). The default is also for “any application”, make sure to keep this set. Next, drag the Start Screen Saver action from the Utilities action group to the workflow. Finally, save the service and give it a name, such as Start Screensaver. Go back to Keyboard Shortcuts in the Keyboard section of System Preferences and look in the Services group. Scroll down to the General section and you will see the newly created Start Screensaver service is enabled. Click in the whitespace to the far right of this entry and a new entry box will appear. Type the keyboard shortcut, such as CTRL-OPT-L.\nExit System Preferences.\n\nYou will now be able to hit CTRL-OPT-L and activate the screen saver in order to lock the screen. If you wish to return to the login window instead (you are still logged in, but the computer is locked) rather than activate the screensaver, change the Automator service to Run Shell Script instead of Start Screen Saver and have it run the following command:\n/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend\n\n\n\nA: From my answer in Super User.\nUsing Keychain Access's Lock Screen menubar.\nActivate it here, in Keychain Access.app's Preferences:\n\nThen lock.\n\n\nA: I've used Salute for years - works beautifully.\nA nod to Windows' three finger salute - ⌘+⌃+⌫ gives you quick access to screensaver (set a password on the and your done) - terminal or activity monitor. It's no longer actively developed but doesn't need to be - worked great on Leopard through Mavericks.\n\nA: You have some app on the App Store who provide you a lot of way to lock your Mac.\nLike this one : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/lock-me-now/id464265594?l=en&mt=12\nOr this : http://www.knocktounlock.com [Lock and unlock your Mac with your iPhone bluetooth]\n\nA: Just hit these 3 buttons at the same time and hold shortly until you're locked:\nControl-Shift-Power (⏏ or ⌽)\nWorks in the latest macOS Sierra.\n\nA: Beginning with OS X Mavericks, all you need to do is press the power button of your MacBook to put it to sleep. This has the advantage of preventing you from having to close the lid to get the same effect. This will put your MacBook to sleep, however.\n"
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        "text": "Africa/Opinion\nOpinion: Mapmaking and warmongering in Africa\naddisstandard / June 30, 2016 / 4k\nStelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou\nProvidence/London – Why are some regions plagued by seemingly endless instability? In the Middle East, one widespread argument, which even the Islamic State expounds, puts much of the blame for chronic conflict on the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret deal agreed 100 years ago by France and Great Britain to divide between them the soon-to-be-former Ottoman Empire. According to this view, while the “lines in the sand” drawn by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot served the short-term interests of the colonial powers, the arbitrary partition of the region spurred a century of violence, organized and otherwise.\nWhether or not the Sykes-Picot Agreement is the main reason for the Middle East’s troubles, one thing is certain: the imposition of capriciously drawn borders by colonial powers has not been a uniquely Middle Eastern phenomenon. African countries have had the same experience – and may have suffered even more as a result.\nDuring the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies. The event that most symbolizes the colonial carve-up is the conference that Otto von Bismarck organized in Berlin from November 1884 until February 1885, where an area twice the size of Germany and France, the Congo Free State, was presented as a gift to Belgium’s King Leopold II.\nIn drawing these lines, diplomats focused on preventing Europeans from fighting one another on African territory, not on local geographic, cultural, or political conditions. African leaders had no say in any of the negotiations. As then-British Foreign Secretary (and subsequently Prime Minister) Lord Salisbury famously put it, Europeans “engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man’s feet have ever trod.”\nAt first, the colonial arrangements had little impact on Africans, who were allowed to move freely across the new borders. Upon independence in the 1960s, however, the borders became salient. While there were calls to redraw the colonial lines, neither departing Europeans nor local elites were interested in the thorough reshuffling that this would have required. Ultimately, all African countries except Somalia and Morocco accepted the colonial borders.\nThat decision had far-reaching consequences. As the historian Henk Wesseling has explained, rather than reflecting political, institutional, and economic reality, the map of Africa “helped to create it” in at least three key ways.\nFirst, Africa has the largest share of landlocked countries of any continent. Countries like Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda have suffered, as their access to global shipping routes – and thus to world markets – depends on their unstable neighbors.\nSecond, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles. Even countries with relatively strong institutions find it difficult to project power in remote areas.\nThird, the homelands of about one-third of African ethnicities straddle international borders. The Diolas in the Casamance region have been divided among Senegal, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau. The Togo-Ghana border divides the Ewe. The Maasai live in Kenya and Tanzania. And the list goes on, affecting around 400-500 million Africans (roughly 40% of the continent’s total population).\nThe long-run consequences of colonial ethnic partitioning on contemporary political violence are profound. By comparing anthropological maps of the spatial distribution of African groups during colonization with detailed geo-referenced information on violent events, we have confirmed what has long been suspected: ethnic partitioning has played a key role in spurring conflict and animosity in Africa since independence.\nSpecifically, we found that homelands of partitioned ethnicities have been disproportionately affected by armed conflict between state forces and rebels with the explicit goal of overthrowing the government. Violence against civilians – including the destruction of villages or churches, conscription of children, kidnapping, and rape – is also linked to ethnic partitioning.\nWe also learned that partitioned ethnicities are significantly more likely to engage in civil wars that have an explicit ethnic dimension. Since the early 1960s, roughly one-third of such groups have participated in an ethnic-based civil war; only about one-fifth of non-partitioned ethnic groups have engaged in such conflicts.\nPartitioned ethnicities are also much more likely than their non-partitioned counterparts to face institutionalized discrimination from the national government (25%, compared to 15%). As econometric evidence and case studies reveal, one reason for this is that neighboring countries often use divided ethnic groups to destabilize one another’s governments, including through proxy wars. Target governments use such activities as a pretext to discriminate against those groups.\nSomalia is a poster child for the impact of ethnic partitioning. Immediately after independence, Somalia became embroiled in two devastating wars over the overwhelmingly Somali-populated Ogaden region, which the British and the French ceded to Ethiopia for its support in their war against Somali clans in the late nineteenth century. Then, in the early 1960s, Somalis in northern Kenya, with support from the Somali government in Mogadishu, fought for secession, further eroding regional stability and setting the stage for the failure of the Somali state in the early 1990s.\nThere is no denying that external powers’ mapmaking has had a powerful influence on Africa’s development. While the evidence does not necessarily carry over to the Middle East, it seems reasonable to assume that the Sykes-Picot Agreement did, indeed, help shape that region’s development – perhaps by spurring conflict. Acknowledging the lingering consequences of the West’s colonial behavior is the first step toward redressing them.\nED’s Note: Stelios Michalopoulos is Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University. Elias Papaioannou is Professor of Economics at the London Business School. Addis Standard received this opinion from Project Syndicate.\nNews: US, Ethiopia team up to end TB\nNews: At least four people killed in Addis Abeba following confrontations between citizens and the police\nWorld News/Commentary\nIran’s military and the security challenges to a successful negotiation"
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        "text": "Q: When using Spaces, is there a way to set each \"desktop\" background independently? For instance, say I had a few sweet background images I wanted to use to identify each one.\n\nA: There's no built-in feature in OS X for that but there are two applications that can do that for you, Hyperspaces and SpaceSuit.\n\nA: You have to use a third-party tools, like SpaceSuit.\n\nA: Mac OS X Lion supports this out of the box now. Simply switch to the Space you want to apply a certain background to, then change it as usual (with System Preferences or the desktop's context menu). Repeat for your other Spaces and background images.\nFor older versions, you will still need to use a third-party tool as recommended by the other answers.\n"
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        "text": "2 април е 92-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (93-ти през високосна). Остават 273 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1512 г. – Испанският мореплавател Хуан Понсе де Леон достига източното американско крайбрежие и нарича полуострова Флорида.\n 1861 г. – Йосиф Соколски е ръкоположен от римския папа за архиепископ на Униатската църква в България.\n 1889 г. – Американецът Чарлз Хол патентова нов метод за производство на алуминий.\n 1912 г. – Проведени са първите изпитания на презокеанския лайнер Титаник.\n 1915 г. – В България е дадена амнистия за престъпления по печата, при избори и при публични събрания.\n 1917 г. – Първа световна война: Американският конгрес гласува САЩ да влязат във война с Германия.\n 1917 г. – С Декрета за отмяна на вероизповедалните и национални ограничения е премахната Линията на уседналост в Русия.\n 1924 г. – С Определение № 1 на Върховен касационен съд на основата на Закона за защита на държавата са забранени БКП, Партията на труда, БКМС и техните синдикални и кооперативни организации.\n 1956 г. – Започва Априлският пленум на ЦК на БКП, който осъжда култа към личността на Вълко Червенков, и Тодор Живков застава начело на БКП.\n 1958 г. – Националният съвет по аеронавтика на САЩ е преобразуван в НАСА.\n 1962 г. – Йемен става член на ЮНЕСКО.\n 1962 г. – Отбелязано е раждането на 8-милионния българин.\n 1964 г. – СССР изстрелва космическия апарат Зонд 1.\n 1972 г. – Актьорът Чарли Чаплин се завръща в САЩ за първи път, откакто е обявен за комунист по време на Маккартизма.\n 1978 г. – По CBS започва излъчването на сапунената опера Далас, което продължава 13 години.\n 1982 г. – Фолкландска война: Войната започва с нахлуването на Аржентина на Фолкландските острови.\n 1989 г. – Ясер Арафат е избран за президент на самопровъзгласилата се палестинска държава.\n 1992 г. – В Ню Йорк, мафиотският бос Джон Готи е осъден на доживотен затвор за убийства и рекет.\n 1996 г. – Русия и Беларус подписват договор за по-тясно политическо и икономическо сътрудничество в рамките на ОНД.\n 2004 г. – Членство на България в НАТО: С издигане на българското знаме в Брюксел се обявява присъединяването на България към НАТО.\n 2005 г. – Умира папа Йоан Павел II на 84-годишна възраст, милиони католици пътуват до Рим, Италия, за да му отдадат последна почит.\n\nРодени \n\n 747 г. – Карл Велики, крал на франките от 768 г. († 814 г.)\n 1348 г. – Андроник IV Палеолог, византийски император († 1385 г.)\n 1527 г. – Абрахам Ортелий, фламандски картограф († 1598 г.)\n 1725 г. – Джакомо Казанова, венециански авантюрист и писател († 1798 г.)\n 1798 г. – Аугуст Хайнрих Хофман фон Фалерслебен, немски писател († 1874 г.)\n 1805 г. – Ханс Кристиан Андерсен, датски писател и поет († 1875 г.)\n 1821 г. – Георги Раковски, български революционер и национален герой († 1867 г.)\n 1833 г. – Август Александър Ярнефелт, руски офицер († 1896 г.)\n 1840 г. – Емил Зола, френски писател († 1902 г.)\n 1862 г. – Никълъс Мъри Бътлър, президент на Колумбийския университет, Нобелов лауреат († 1947 г.)\n 1872 г. – Никола Мушанов, български политик, министър-председател на България начело на три правителства († 1951 г.)\n 1874 г. – Петър Цанев, български военен деец\n 1881 г. – Димитър Настев, български военен деец († 1952 г.)\n 1884 г. – Александър Брус Биеласки, американски юрист († 1964 г.)\n 1891 г. – Георги Апостолов, български архитект († 1967 г.)\n 1891 г. – Макс Ернст, германски художник († 1976 г.)\n 1899 г. – Саздо Иванов, български учен († 1996 г.)\n 1899 г. – Цеко Торбов, български философ, правист, преводач († 1987 г.)\n 1910 г. – Георги Богданов, български художник († 1974 г.)\n 1910 г. – Иван Апостолов, български юрист († 1981 г.)\n 1914 г. – Алек Гинес, английски актьор († 2000 г.)\n 1915 г. – Джика Петреску, румънски композитор и певец († 2006 г.)\n 1926 г. – Едгар Хилзенрат, немски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джак Брабам, австралийски пилот от Формула 1 († 2014 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ференц Пушкаш, унгарски футболист († 2006 г.)\n 1928 г. – Тодор Атанасов, български художник († 1985 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стефка Съботинова, българска народна певица († 2010 г.)\n 1932 г. – Йоанна Хмелевска, полска писателка († 2013 г.)\n 1933 г. – Константин Павлов, български поет и драматург († 2008 г.)\n 1934 г. – Брайън Глоувър, британски актьор († 1997 г.)\n 1939 г. – Марвин Гей, американски музикант († 1984 г.)\n 1940 г. – Адриан Зелер, френски политик († 2009 г.)\n 1940 г. – Пейчо Пеев, български шахматист († 2007 г.)\n 1948 г. – Димитрис Митропанос, гръцки певец († 2012 г.)\n 1951 г. – Моритеру Уешиба, айкидистки дошу\n 1961 г. – Иван Домусчиев, български лекар\n 1972 г. – Томас Главинич, австрийски писател\n 1976 г. – Люси Дяковска, българска поп-певица\n 1979 г. – Аслъ Тандоган, турска актриса\n 1979 г. – Джеси Кармайкъл, американски музикант\n 1981 г. – Бетани Джой Галеоти, американска актриса, певица и музикант\n 1982 г. – Давид Ферер, испански тенисист\n 1983 г. – Дончо Атанасов, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Ниджат Мамедов, азербайджански шахматист\n 1986 г. – Андрис Биедринш, латвийски баскетболист\n 1987 г. – Сезгин Мехмед, български политик и икономист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1118 г. – Балдуин дьо Булон, крал на Йерусалимското кралство (* ок. 1058)\n 1314 г. – Анджело ди Сполети, францискански монах, убит в Маврокастро\n 1657 г. – Фердинанд III (Свещена Римска империя), император на Свещената римска империя (* 1608 г.)\n 1872 г. – Самюъл Морз, американски изобретател на Морзовата азбука (* 1791 г.)\n 1885 г. – Джеймс Едуард Александър, английски колонизатор, (* 1803 г.)\n 1905 г. – Цено Куртев, български военен и революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1914 г. – Урс Видмер, швейцарски писател (* 1938 г.)\n 1914 г. – Паул фон Хайзе, германски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1830 г.)\n 1919 г. – Херман Хелмер, австрийски архитект (* 1849 г.)\n 1940 г. – Пенчо Георгиев, български художник (* 1900 г.)\n 1948 г. – Али Сабахатин, турски писател (* 1907 г.)\n 1963 г. – Любомир Бобчевски, български актьор (* 1897 г.)\n 1972 г. – Франц Халдер, германски генерал (* 1884 г.)\n 1974 г. – Жорж Помпиду, президент на Франция (* 1911 г.)\n 1977 г. – Орлин Василев, български писател (* 1904 г.)\n 1993 г. – Кирил Серафимов, български физик (* 1932 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ханес Алфвен, шведски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1908 г.)\n 2000 г. – Томазо Бушета, италиански мафиот (* 1928 г.)\n 2005 г. – Йоан Павел II, римски папа (* 1920 г.)\n 2007 г. – Божин Ласков, български футболист (* 1922 г.)\n 2014 г. – Веселина Цанкова, българска писателка (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на детската книга\n ООН – Световен ден на осведомеността за Аутизъм (от 2008 г.)\n България – Празник на община Ценово\n Аржентина – Ден на Малвински острови\n Беларус и Русия – Ден на Съединението на народите\n Тайланд – Ден за опазване на наследството (от 1995 г.)\n\n402"
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        "text": "Q: Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable? Please Search Prior To Posting!\nThere are many applications already listed.  In all likelihood, this includes the one you are thinking of. Please check the existing answers to avoid duplicates, and the resulting cleanup it necessitates.\nTo search, use the search box in the upper-right corner. To search the answers of the current question, use inquestion:this. For example:\ninquestion:this Evernote\n\nIf it hasn't already been posted, please follow a few simple rules when adding it as an answer. \nRules\n\n\n*\n\n*Limit to one application per answer.\n\n*Add a short description of the application.\n\n*Add a link to the website in the name of the application if possible (no direct downloads).\n\n*Use ## [appName](link) for citing the application name.\n\n*Only Mac OS X (not iOS, OS 9, compatible, etc) applications. All versions of OS X are accepted, but if the application requires a specific version please note.\n\nA: Perian\nPerian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.\n\nA: Transmission\nTransmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is:\nFree and Community-Driven.\nEasy.\nLean.\nNative.\nPowerful.\n\nA: The Unarchiver\nThe Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for \"BOMArchiveHelper.app\", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems.\nSupported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more and less obscure formats.\n\nA: Notify\nNotify is an awesome email notifier for Mac OS X. It fits seamlessly into your menubar, only vying for your attention when you have new mail. Notify supports mutliple accounts, including Gmail, MobileMe, and Rackspace Email.\n\nA: Echofon\nA really simple, intuitive twitter client.  This is the one that got me to switch from Tweetie.\n\nA: X Lossless Decoder\nX Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. Supported audio files can be split into tracks with a cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.\nXLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs.\n\nA: Unrar\nThis is a command line utility to unpack the .rar files on Mac OSX. You can't unpack the .rar files natively on OSX, where this small util is useful.\n\nA: Aperture\nAperture is a fine app for photo management and editing for professionals and advanced amateur photographers alike.\nIt supports many file-formats and raw image file formats.\nFor a complete feature list see the link above.\nOne of my favorite features is having a full screen view while still having image control for editing via a HUD.  \n\n\nA: Caffeine\nCaffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Right-click (or ^-click) the icon to show the menu.\n\nA: Transmit\nFTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 and WebDav client.\n\nA: Cyberduck\nfor Upload, Download and Sync of FTP, SFTP, WebDav, iCloud, S3, ...\n\nA: Skype\nWith skype, you can make\n\n*\n\n*Voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype\n\n*Conference calls with three or more people\n\n*Instant messaging, file transfer and screen sharing\n\n\nA: MacPorts\nThe MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.\n\nA: MacVim\nA very good port of Vim. I used both Emacs and TextMate for quite some time, but finally became a Vim user. I think I'll have a look at TextMate 2, if it will actually be released some time…\n\nA: Isolator\n\nIsolator is a small menu bar\napplication that helps you\nconcentrate. When you're working on a\ndocument, and don't want to be\ndistracted, turn on Isolator. It will\ncover up your desktop and all the\nicons on it, as well as the windows of\nall your other applications, so you\ncan concentrate on the task in hand.\n\nIt's a small utility, but one that I find pretty indispensable. One of the first apps I install on new Mac.\n\nA: A Better Finder Rename\nA Better Finder Rename has long been the file renamer of choice for tens of thousands of professionals, businesses and hobbyists across the world.\n\n\nA: Mathematica\nIf I need to choose only one software to install on my Mac, I would install Mathematica by Wolfram.\n\nA: XBMC\nXBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox.\n\nA: iMovie\niMovie is the best amateur video editing software out there. It has a very small learning curve, which makes it great for doing quick projects. I used iMovie for the longest time, then switched to FCE. I still use it for minor projects.\n\nA: Quicksilver\nMore then just an application launcher, Quicksilver is an intuitive, self learning, application launcher and system manipulator.\nIt can also assign global hotkeys to actions, store clipboard history, show the current iTunes song and much more.\n\nA: iWork\n\nPages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works.\n\n \n\nWith great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, spreadsheets suddenly make perfect sense.\n\n \n\nCreate your presentation in Keynote, and you’ll be a hard act to follow. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow.\n\nI use iWork constantly. Both on my Mac and iPad. It's just great :D\n\nA: VirtualBox\nVirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).\n\nA: MusicBrainz Picard\nMusicBrainz is an audio file metadata (or \"tag\") editor.  It has options for both automatic and manual modification of audio metadata.\nIt's cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) and written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger.\nPicard supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (PUIDs, similar to other fingerprinting apps like Shazam and SoundHound), performing CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support. Additionally, there are several plugins available that extend Picard's features.\n\nA: Clean My Mac\nThe world's easiest-to-use maintenance solution. This all-in-one tool includes everything you need to keep your Mac clean and healthy.\n\nA: Opera\nBecause it's still my favourite browser. After having used it on Windows for eight years, I took it with me when I \"switched\" four years ago.\nBrowsers are always subjective, but I like Opera because I rely on its single-key shortcuts, used its mouse gestures a lot before I moved over to a glass trackpad, I have dozens of tabs open at any time, it has session handling, bookmark syncing, and dozens of other neat, small things. And everything is built in and just works.\nI could probably get Firefox to do everything Opera does for me, but it would be a hassle, and it would be even slower than it already is without any extensions. I could never get Safari to do everything I need.\n\nA: NTFS-3G (Tuxera)\nWe still need to learn how to play nice with windows systems (and filesystems).  I use this to access my NTFS drives.\nNTFS-3G is a stable, read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. A high-performance driver is available commercially for embedded devices.\n\nA: CrashPlan\nA very powerful backup application that allows you to backup to external drives, other computers, and/or their own cloud at a very reasonable price.  It has an impressive compression rate and allows you to create multiple backup sets to backup different data to different locations.  It has a well-designed interface and allows you to specify scheduled or continuous backups.  It offers versioning and 448-bit encryption.  For a home user the software is free to use if you choose not to backup to their cloud.\n\nA: I Love Stars\nDisplays iTunes’ current song’s rating in your menu bar. Click to change rating. Supports keyboard shortcuts. Has a configurable sound to remind you to rate an unrated song. Disappears when nothing’s playing.\n\nA: Evernote\nEvernote is an app for note taking that features online syncing, much like Dropbox. Install Evernote on your desktop, laptop, iPhone and iPad and have access to all your notes, and if you've left all them all at home, access them on the web.\n\nA: Safari\nWhile I adore Chrome, but Chrome on Mac is not on the same level as Chrome on Windows yet.\n\nA: Firefox\nFirefox is an open-source web browser from Mozilla, based off Netscape.\nWith a few OS X specific tweaks it can be made to behave like a OS X browser should, including font rendering, Keychain Access and Retina display support.\n\nA: OmniGraffle\nThe only diagramming application worth using.\n\nA: Pomodoro\nPomodoro Desktop is a desktop application for Time Management on your Mac OSX. It is a simple but effective way to manage your (coding) time, and it's based on the Pomodoro technique you can find here.\n\nA: Air Display\nTechnically this is both an iOS and Mac OS X application.  What it does is let you use your iPad as a second monitor with your Mac.  When I am using my Mac my iPad isn't usually in use (unless a family member stole it) so I use Air Display to make it useful while I am using my Mac.  You get a 1024x768 or 768x1024 display that rotates and flips automatically - like you would expect.\nThe Mac portion is free, but you buy the iPad App.  Runs with Windows too.  Operates over WiFi, but you can always create a private network if one does not exist or it is too slow!\n\nA: OmniDiskSweeper\nOmniDiskSweeper scans your hard drive telling you where your largest files are, making it easy to delete cruft. It's intelligent in how it presents this information hierarchically.\n\nA: VMware Fusion\nYet another virtual machine product. I have tried Parallels and am using VirtualBox on and off, but VMware's Fusion is what I find to be most efficient and feature-full. Unity view is quite efficient when you want to run something side-by-side, while full screen or windowed modes are good for when you need a focus or are just testing out something.\n\nA: iTerm2\niTerm2 is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.\nNote: iTerm2 is based on the old iTerm and is supported by the original author.\n\nA: Reeder for Mac\n\nA gorgeous RSS reader based on the iOS app.\n\n\n*\n\n*Syncs with Google Reader\n\n*Can manage Google Reader subscriptions\n\n*Has full Readability integration\n\n*Supports multi-touch gestures \n\n*Switches between reader and webpage view in a swipe\n\n*Has customizable interface and shortcuts \n\n*Supports Lion fullscreen mode\n\n*Offers quick access to services (including Twitter, Readability, Instapaper, ReadItLater and Evernote)\n\n\n\n\nA: VirtualHostX\nFor web developers who develop websites locally on their Mac. VirtualHostX manages your Apache Virtual Hosts and enable the use of domain names that point to your local machine (even non-routable domain names.) VirtualHostX does this by managing your Mac's hosts file and your Apache httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf config files. It even supports MAMP (although I don't use MAMP.)\nIt's one of my top 5 favorite apps and one I'd hate to do without. I use it every time I start a new project!\n\n\nA: iChm\niChm is an ebook reader for CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) files.\n\nA: SABnzbd\nSABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python.\nIt's totally free, incredibly easy to use, and works practically everywhere.\nSABnzbd makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.\n\nA: KeePassX password vault\nKeePassX is a cross platform secure password saver. Like Keychain, but you can use it on your mobile phone and windows computers.\n\nA: Postbox\n\nPostbox 2 is first class email software that puts you in the driver’s seat. Stay on task, find information quickly and act, not react.\nUnified Account Groups\nFocus Pane\nQuick Reply\n\nExist both free and paid versions\n\nA: Kod\na programmers' editor for OS X\nAn open source project that is slowly replacing TextMate for me.\n\nA: Papers\nDesigned for scientists, Papers manages PDFs of journal articles. Articles imported to Papers can easily have their metadata applied from journal databases. Articles can then easily be sorted by author or journal, and labeled with different categories. Papers has an associated iOS app that it syncs with.\n\nA: SizeUp\nSizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys). Similar to \"tiled windows\" functionality available on other operating systems.\n\nA: Plex Media Center for OS X\nPlex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins. \nPlex has all but replaced VLC as my primary media application.\n\nA: Forklift\nA Finder replacement. Two panes file management program. Not as cutomizable as Total Commander but has a lot of features builtin.\n\nA: Shady\nIf you're finding your laptop screen too bright at night even on the minimum brightness, Shady's the right guy for you. Basically, it puts a transparent overlay over your entire screen, dimming it anywhere between 0% and 90% of normal.\n\nA: muCommander\nmuCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. It runs on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...).\nHere's a non-exhaustive list of what you'll find:\n\n\n*\n\n*Virtual filesystem with support for local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS and Bonjour\n\n*Quickly copy, move, rename files, create directories, email files...\n\n*Browse, create and uncompress ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb and LST archives\n\n*ZIP files can be modified on-the-fly, without having to recompress the whole archive\n\n*Universal bookmarks and credentials manager\n\n*Multiple windows support\n\n*Full keyboard access\n\n*Highly configurable\n\n*Available in 23 languages : American & British English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Italian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Slovak, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Ukrainian and Arabic.\n\n*Free Software (GPL)\n\n\nA: Voodoopad\n\n\nVoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Ideas, images, lists, passwords, your mom's apple pie recipe. Anything you need to keep track of and organize. VoodooPad will grow with you without getting in the way. Drag and drop folders, PDFs, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad, and they will link up just like on the web. And with powerful search, nothing will be lost or out of reach.\n\n\nA: Adobe Creative Suite / Master Collection\nThe absolute KING of creative tools. Sure, the price is a bit up there, although there really isn't anything that can touch the versatility of having seventeen applications at your disposal. I've used some of these tools since their very existence (Illustrator, Photoshop) and I honestly can't imagine working without them. It would be difficult to describe what they all do; infinite possibilities.\n\nPhotoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat X Pro, Flash\nProfessional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, Adobe Premiere Pro,\nAfter Effects, Audition, OnLocation, Encore, Bridge, Device Central,\nMedia Encoder, Media Encoder\n\n◆ I'm a bit shocked this is just now making it's debut here.\n\nA: Audio Hijack Pro\nAudio Hijack allows you to record any sound from your Mac or input device. You can also mute certain applications. This is my go-to-application for any audio recording.\n\nA: Stickies\nIt's Apple's program for taking notes. Very minimalistic and fast.\nYour notes can be:\n\n\n*\n\n*formatted how you like\n\n*edited with hyperlinks\n\n*drag and drop pictures\n\n*export as *.txt\n\n*custom color of note\n\n\n\n\nA: Soulver\nAn amazing calculator that does it all with a nice text-based interface.\nJust type your problem as you'd write it on paper. You see your answer instantly. No setting up formulas, no equals button. If you make a mistake, you don't have to start all over again, you just hit delete.\n\nA: Hiss\n\nHiss is an OSX app that forwards notifications from Growl enabled apps\n  to Notification Center in Mountain Lion.\n\nCurrently in beta, but it does an awesome job of piping all your Growl notifications into the Notification Center of OS X Mountain Lion. The only real downside to it is that it flags all notifications with the Growl icon.\n\nA: Sequel Pro\nSequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.\nSequel Pro gives you direct access to your MySQL databases on local and remote servers. \nWhether you are a Mac Web Developer, Programmer or Software Developer your workflow will be streamlined with a native Mac OS X application! \n\nA: Things\nTask management tool with an that UI strikes a nice balance between simplicity and functionality. Can be synced with iPhone and iPad versions. \nIt's a commercial app, and not even very cheap (40€ / $53 currently), but I've come to rely on it a lot. \n\nA: BetterTouchTool\nTake your Magic Mouse and add some more magic to it. Lets you do tons more gestures than OS X alone.\nWorks for the new trackpad and the multitouch trackpads in laptops too. It's still a bit buggy, but really, really cool.\n\nA: MacTeX\n-- TeXLive distribution and assorted goodies for the Mac.\n\nA: Sublime Text 2\nSublime Text has grown to become my favorite GUI code editor. It feels like a spiritual successor to TextMate (even allowing support for some TextMate bundles like snippets and themes), and has many original+natural features like fully independent text cursors, a very nice search feature, and a rapidly-growing plugin API and surrounding community.\nI liked it so much I wrote an inline lint plugin.\n\n\nA: Skitch\nSkitch allows you to take screenshots on your Mac, edit them and share them with others. It makes the sharing process seamless by making it a natural workflow to send the image (with edited arrows and other highlights helpful to your client) to them via email or automatic website uploads. It is especially popular with the designer community, as they show their clients rough drafts of their work in a nearly automated process. It makes it simple to work remotely with someone and pass on work revisions and get feedback quickly. Other uses include:\n\n\n*\n\n*Snap a website\n\n*Capture a chat moment\n\n*Screenshot an application\n\n*iSight snap your bad hair day\n\n*Quickly sketch an idea\n\n*Tap into your iPhoto Library\n\n*Re-open images from your Skitch History\n\n\nA: Coda\nCoda is the only web-language-text-editor I like. It does everything you really need for web applications. It remember some common part of code in clips that you can load just by typing their tag name, it completes your html tags, it shows you the list of functions with related variables and autocomplete, it has the powerful Transmit ftp engine built in, it has a great visual CSS editor, it allows you to personalize the text colors and it has HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP doumentation maulaus available from within the application.\nNever seen all these features in just one application!\nFrom the developer's website:\n\nSo, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, adjusting SQL in a Terminal, using a CSS editor and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we declared. “And much cooler.”\n\n\n\nA: InsomniaX\nDisables sleep mode, so you can shut your lid without the system hibernating.\n\nA: Google's Quick Search Box\nAn application launcher, like Quicksilver. Having tried both, I found Quick Search Box's UI to be cleaner and the overall application to be faster.\n\nA: TinkerTool\nThis handy tool allows you to customize OSX in various ways so that it is more efficient for you uses and allows you to access settings that you normally couldn't\n\nA: PCalc\nThis is an awesome calculator that I have been using for at least 10 years. For basic arithmetic and quick calculations this app can't be beat.\nIt is also available from the Mac App store.\n\nA: Fraise\n\nFraise is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users.\n\nGeneral-purpose text editor with extensive syntax highlighting support. Can be downloaded via MacUpdate.\n\nA: 0xED\na free, native OS X hex editor based on the Cocoa framework.\n\n\n*\n\n*Fast editing of large files.\n\n*Unlimited file size (limited by what the actual file system supports).\n\n*Small memory footprint.\n\n*Instant opening of files of any size.\n\n*Resource fork editing.\n\n*Full hex/text search/replace. \n\n*Binary/text Cut/copy/paste support.\n\n*Plug-in system to display your custom data types.\n\n\nA: Nocturne\nFor all those low-light situations, Nocturne is a tool for inverting colors, changing screen tint etc. So I can make the screen dimmer while keeping it readable, when the dimmest backlight setting is too bright.\nI especially like the Invert hue option, which can be used to keep colors the same while inverting black/white.\n\nA: LaunchBar\n\nLaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.\n\nIndespensible as a keyboard utility to launch applications, open websites, search the web and a million other things.\n\nA: F.lux\nf.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.\nTell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically.\n\nA: TotalFinder\nImproves the finder by adding a tabbed view, as well as other less interesting features. I didn't realize how addicted to this I was until I got a new Mac and couldn't figure out why I couldn't open another finder tab. :-)\n\nA: CloudApp\n\n\nWhat a fantastic little App... it makes easy to share allmost any file instantly and when you create a screenshot it automatically uploads it to the web and you have the short URL ready to be pasted anywhere.\na simple Cmd + SHIFT + 4 and ... Paste the url :)\n...and you have RainDrops to share other content as photos from iPhoto directly and more\n\n\nA: TextWrangler\nTextWrangler is the (free) powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. It is a powerful and richly featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files.\nAmong other things, it can open files from (and save them) to remote FTP and SFTP servers, offers a powerful grep engine, supports multi-byte and non-Roman text files, can perform Find Differences on pairs of files or folders, and can be invoked from the Unix command line.\n\nA: iTunes\nquote from Thilo:\n\nI absolutely hate this app, but at the\nsame time I (or rather my iPods)\ncannot live without it.\nPlease, Steve, make iTunes optional\nfor iPods and iPads.\n\n\nA: iStat Menus\nDisplays customizable system monitoring information like CPU, memory and network usage and hardware temperatures in the menu bar. So like MenuMeters but a bit nicer in my opinion.\n\n\nA: Notational Velocity\nis an application that stores and retrieves notes.\nIt is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.\n\nA: BBEdit\nHands down the best plain-text editor I've ever used.\n\nA: Sparrow\nSparrow's hallmark is a simplified user interface reminiscent of Twitter clients such as Tweetie or iOS apps, as opposed to a more traditional e-mail style such as Apple's Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.\nSparrow currently supports all IMAP email accounts. It also includes features such as drag-and-drop attachments, Growl support, and keyboard shortcuts, as well as threaded replies and easy switching between Gmail accounts.\n\nA: Microsoft Office\nOffice for Mac 2011 is the best option for Mac users who share documents at home, work, or at school.\nIt comes packed with powerful features for creating artful documents, dynamic spreadsheets, and effective presentations. Plus it’s compatible. You can be confident that your documents will open correctly on Mac or PC.\n\nA: Parallels Desktop\nGives almost(!) seamless Windows OS and apps integration.\n\nA: Skim\n\n*\n\n*PDF reader and note-taker.\n\n\nA: Overflow\nOverflow is an application designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders while reducing the number of items needed in your Dock.\n\nA: Base\nBase is an awesome tool for managing SQLite databases. It has an intuitive interface and allows you to easily create or alter tables. I especially like that the transcript shows you exactly what queries Base is executing against your database.\n\nA: Clipmenu\nA simple yet powerful clipboard management tool.\n\nA: JustNotes\nA simple notes app that syncs with Simplenote--my favorite notes app for iOS.\n\nA: AppFresh\nAppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date.\nAll from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. AppFresh works by checking the excellent osx.iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.\n\nA: QuickCursor\nQuickCursor lets you use your favorite editor to edit text in any Mac app that has a text input field. It's particularly useful for editing textboxes on web pages.\n\nA: AppTrap\nWhen you move a .app to the Trash, AppTrap notices this and offers to remove all associated library and preference files.\n\nA: AntiRSI\nA timer that detects when you're using the computer and tells you to take breaks if you've been at it too long. I like it because it has two timers running concurrently, one for small, frequent breaks, the other for long, rarer breaks. It's intelligent, configurable, and can show the timers on the dock icon.\n\nA: TinyUmbrella\nTinyUmbrella is a great app for anyone who has an iOS device they want to downgrade to a previous firmware for one reason or other. It backs up and saves the SHSH blobs or \"Keys\" required to complete the restore.\n\nA: Bowtie\nBowtie (free) is a little app for controlling iTunes and Last FM. It comes with several features, and it's really well done. Here's a brief description from its webpage.\n\nBowtie is a free application that allows you to control iTunes and your iPhone (requires 99¢ companion app) with customizable shortcuts, submits your songs to Last.fm with support for Loving and Banning, and sports a very simple, yet very powerful, HTML5 + CSS + JavaScript theming system.\n\nIt's got some pretty cool \"Bowlets\", or little controllers/information displayers that can sit on the screen. There are plenty to choose from (these are just a few I have downloaded from the theme browser):\n\nThis is one of my favourite (PaperRift by creeze):\n\nDownload on App Store.\n\nA: Port Map\nEasily configure ports, assuming you have a UPnP router.\n\nA: Hex Editor\nPractically every editor, including text editors, lie about the contents of files. Even programming languages change or omit certain characters. In general this is intended to help you see what they think you are looking for, but sometimes you just want to see things how they really are\nNote: The original hexeditor I linked to is no longer on offer, so I have updated the link with the suggestion from neoneye\n\nA: NetBeans IDE\nA free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. All the tools needed to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java platform, as well as with C/C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy.\n\nA: LibreOffice\nLibreOffice is the FLOSS office suite. It's comparable to Microsoft Office while available for free.\n\nA: Boom\n\n*\n\n*provides a system-wide equalizer\n\n*boost the overall volume of your computer\n\n*boost volume of specific audio files\n\n*fast access via menu icon\n\n\n\nA: Hands Off! Firewall\n\n*\n\n*Prevents applications from phoning home\n\n*Block outgoing/incoming network connections\n\n*Block subdomains\n\n*Supports IPv4, IPv6 and local networks\n\n*Block read/write file operations\n\n*Monitoring network connections and disk access\n\n*export/import rules\n\n*default rules for certain applications (Mail, Safari,...)\n\n*access via menubar\n\n\n\nA: Moom\nMoom is a very configurable window management tool. Some useful features include convenient and fast window placement and resizing using grids, saving window layout profiles, configurable hot keys, and much more.\n\nA: Little Ipsum\nIt’s my favorite dummy text / lorem ipsum generator for OS X (free). What it makes so special is the selection mechanism from the menu bar (words… sentences… paragraphs):\n\n\nA: Bark\nFrom their site:\nWho says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Bark intelligently brings\nnotifications from Growl into Notification Center under OS X Mountain Lion.\n\nMuch like Hiss, Bark forwards your Growl notifications to Notification Center in Mountain Lion. The catch though is it forwards them not as \"Growl Notifications\", but as notifications from the actual app that sent them, making the experience totally seamless.\nScreenshots might make it more clear. I reckon Bowtie and Coda 2 don't support Notification Center natively, but with Bark this is what you get:\n\n\nAnd on notification center they look like this:\n\nCorrect icons, correct grouping, the plugin is completely free and works with the newer versions of Growl (App Store versions)... definitely worth checking out!\nPS: Coda 2.0.3 I think now supports Notification Center natively, but you get the idea...\n\nA: Secrets\nSecrets is a PrefPane that lets users access hidden settings in many Mac OS X applications. It is also open source and user driven, any user can submit a secret and have it immediately available in the Secrets for anyone to use.\n\n\nA: Spotify\nFor listening to music off the internet. This definitely has become one of the pieces of software I would first install (on a Mac or any other computer).\nNote: Spotify is available only in some countries; currently:\nAustralia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\nThe Wikipedia article has details.\n\nA: Carbon Copy Cloner\nClone, synchronize, backup.\nCCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute fastest performance and highest fidelity in the industry!\n\nA: Acorn\nI have Photoshop, but Acorn is an amazing, lightweight and cheap alternative I go to way, way more often.\n\nA: TotalTerminal (formerly Visor)\n\n*\n\n*\"A system-wide terminal on a hot-key.\"  I press ctrl-T (the hot key I chose), and a tab-able terminal window slides down from the top of my screen.  This invaluable for anyone who, like me, is constantly between the terminal and other apps.\n\nThis great little tool was originally by Blacktree, who made Quicksilver.\n\nA: OmniFocus\nOmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items. Perfect for the Getting Things Done® system, but flexible enough for any task management style, OmniFocus helps you work smarter by giving you powerful tools for staying on top of all the things you need to do.\n\nA: µTorrent\nOne of the best light weight BitTorrent clients.\n\nA: Hyperdock\nBrilliant.\nHyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.\n\nControl iTunes. Hover the mouse over the iTunes dock item to view information about the current song, You can pause or skip songs and even adjust volume just by scrolling on the itunes icon.\n\nAnd many more...\n\nA: Cinch\nI literally couldn't stand to use the Mac without this software. When I want to full screen an app I just drag the app's title bar to the menu bar and it \"cinches\" itself to full screen. A must have for Mac.\nEdit: Cinch also allows making a window fill the left/right/upper/lower half of your screen (similar to Windows Snap). Very useful for copy-pasting and comparing.\n\n\n\nA: Daisy Disk\nDaisyDisk scans your disks and presents their content as interactive maps where you can easily spot unusually large files and remove them to get more free space. The map gives you an overview of your data, so you always know what your hard disks are filled with. \n\nA: Dropbox\nPut your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed Dropbox on.\n\nA: Eclipse IDE (free)\nAwesome, open source, well-featured IDE primarily for Java, but also supports C++, PHP, and Python, among others. Also has a wealth of third-party plugins. \n\nA: Versions\nGUI Subversion client. From their website:\n\nVersions provides a pleasant way to\nwork with Subversion on your Mac.\nWhether you're a hardcore Subversion\nuser or new to version control\nsystems, Versions will help streamline\nyour workflow.\n\nI will say up front that it doesn't inherently support all of Subversion's features, but it does make managing source code and important document for solo developers and small groups much, much easier than dealing with the command line. It's one of the three apps that gets opened with my \"AM\" script.\n\nA: Calibre\n\ncalibre is a free and open source\ne-book library management application\ndeveloped by users of e-books for\nusers of e-books. It has a cornucopia\nof features divided into the following\nmain categories:\n\n*\n\n*Library Management\n\n*E-book conversion\n\n*Syncing to e-book reader devices\n\n*Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form\n\n*Comprehensive e-book viewer\n\n*Content server for online access to your book collection\n\n\n\nA: Lastpass\nYet another password manager (actually, probably the first one online, I believe prior to 1pass) that integrates well with every browser (well, at least Safari, Chrome and Firefox). You have even an option to use yubikeys with it. I use it for long time and it's just amazing. It does everything I would expect and little more. It monitors when you change password, have a KB of websites and really gets almost all of them, while allow you to configure whenever field with login and password you want. And it's multiplatform.\nBack in 2010 it bought Xmarks and must integrate with that as well.\nIt's completely free to use but it does offer a premium subscription for extra (and unnecessary) features. I personally paid for it as a donation, since I really never use the features.\n\nA: Terminal\nTerminal.app opens a UNIX terminal and allows you to access many power-user tools and features, just as you would on a machine running Linux or BSD.\n\nA: iChat\nI know a lot of people use Adium, and I did too for a long time. But iChat just does what I want and does it slightly more elegantly, so I switched.\nI personally can't live without:\n\n\n*\n\n*audio and Video calls;\n\n*it can stay in the menu bar without launching the application, and log in at startup (if you are familiar with UNIX, it's like a daemon mode);\n\n*support for Jabber.\n\n\nI also use it for MSN via a Jabber transport, which basically lets me connect to MSN through a jabber server, integrating the two seamlessly. Since there are a lot of transport-enabled servers – for ICQ and AIM (which, by the way, are also supported natively in iChat), IRC, Gadu-Gadu, QQ and of course MSN – you can benefit from iChat's simple interface with whatever IM service you use.\n\nA: Divvy\nApplication for moving and resizing windows using a \"grid\" approach.\n\nA: AppCleaner\nIt's small and powerful tool for remove/ uninstalling your applications on OS X. \nI use it frequently, it even helps you to remove Cache created the the application from your Mac.\n\nA: Colloquy\nExcellent IRC client that is open source.\n\nA: Activity Monitor\nA task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the Mac OS X operating system. Some of its functions include:\n\n*\n\n*Quitting or \"killing\" a computer process\n\n*Viewing the computer's CPU\nload\n\n*Checking the amount of random access memory in use or swapped\nout\n\n*Checking the amount of hard disk read-ins and write-outs\n\n*Checking\nthe capacity of storage devices\n\n*Monitoring the computer's network\nusage\n\n*Inspecting running computer processes\n\n*Viewing a process\nidentifier number\n\n*Viewing information about a particular process\n\n\nA: xGestures\n\n*\n\n*adds mouse gestures to every program.\n\n\nA: Rulers\nfrom the webpage:\n\n\"Rulers\" allows you to create rulers\non the entire screen area like most\ncommon graphic editors allow on their\nworking areas only. The guide lines\nenable you to measure and position\nobjects with precision. Rulers is\nincredibly useful in many fields, such\nas computer graphics, desktop\npublishing and web design. Rulers can\nalso be used to select a screen area\nand take a screenshot that is\nautomatically saved to your desktop or\ncopied to system clipboard.\n\n\nA: Rip\nRip is an application for accurate CD audio extraction.\nIt uses a smart combination of the AccurateRip database and CD Paranoia to ensure that the CD will be ripped accurately through the fastest means available.\n\nA: Spirited Away\nSpirited Away checks each running application's activity, and if an application isn't active for a certain fixed time, Spirited Away hides the application automatically. It is, in effect, Spirited Away :-)\nThis is a great productivity app, keep your workspace clean and focussed, by hiding all the apps you are not using. No more distractions in the background!\n\nA: Breakaway\nPull out your headphones, and iTunes pauses. Plug it back in, and it starts again. A simple application that makes your life that much easier.\n\nA: FinderPop\nThis tool provides a ton of enhancements to the contextual menu.  It allows you to select move,copy,alias a selected item (icon) to pretty much any folder via pop-up hierarchical folder lists. Built-in preview stuff, and more.\n\nA: Textual: IRC for Mac OS X\n\nTextual is a lightweight IRC client\n  created specifically for Mac OS X. It\n  was designed with simplicity in mind.\n  Textual has taken the best of IRC and\n  built it into a single client. Its\n  easy-to-use functionality combined\n  with scripting support makes it an\n  ideal IRC client for novice to\n  advanced users.\n\nI tried Colloquy; I tried MacIrssi; I tried X-Chat Aqua; but for a GUI client, I have happily stuck to using Textual. \n\nA: Vox\n\nVox is a little and simple music player for Mac OS X with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to AAC+, Apple Lossless, WAV and other formats with enabled effects.\n\nThis is one truly awesome little app which is sadly not well-known. I'd even say Vox was one of the reasons I switched to Mac. Nothing but the essentials for a music player. Besides, it offers some nice audio features (e. g. resampling with antialiasing) as well as built-in Last.fm integration and nifty controls in menubar.\nI prefer to organize my music in folders by artists and albums and not bother with music libraries used in most modern audio players, so Vox's ability to play all files in a folder is the single most important feature to me.\nIf you feel that iTunes has grown far too big for a music player or just don't like messing with audio libraries you should really give Vox a try.\n\nA: Pianopub\n\nPianopub is a free Pandora internet radio player for OS X.\n  It is a port of Pianobar, so please support the original developers. \n  It is for use with your account from the Pandora.com internet radio service.\n\nBy far the best Pandora client ever — in form of a native Mac OS X app.\n\nA: The Hit List\nTHL is a to-do list/GTD organizer that supports tagging, contexts, tabs, unlimited nesting, alarms, cloud syncing, keyboard shortcuts, and a ton of other features. It's a great piece of software, and comes from a developer with impeccable attention to detail. There's a companion iPhone app as well.\n\nA: Prism by Mozilla Labs\nPrism allows you to turn any webpage into an application. I've used this numerous times.\n\nA: Readiris\nOCR software for OS X.\n\nReadiris 12 family quickly converts your paper documents into editable text or PDF files you can edit, share and store!\n\n\nA: Grooveshark\nI know what you are thinking: \"This isn't an application!\", but wait a second, it actually is! I made Grooveshark into a standalone application with hotkeys. I love it and use it all the time! Information about turning Grooveshark into a standalone application here.\n\nA: Sloth\nSloth is a graphical frontend for the console tool lsof. If don't know what that is, it doesn't matter! \nSloth makes it easy to find out which applications are using which files.\nSloth displays a list of all open files and sockets in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system. This list is presented along with the names of applications using the file and their process IDs.  Includes support for regex list filtering, process killing, sorting and more.\n\nA: ControlPlane\n\nControlPlane supports multiple contexts where a context is defined as\n  a location or activity you are performing.  Using evidence sources you\n  can create a set of rules that tell ControlPlane what context to apply\n  to your environment.  When ControlPlane enters or leaves a context a\n  set of Actions are performed.\n\nIn other words: it will turn off screen saver protection when You arrive home and turn it back when You leave. And so much more.\n\nA: CheatSheet\nJust hold the ⌘ a bit longer to get a list of all active short cuts of the current application. It's as simple as that.\n\nA: ScreenFlow\n\nWith ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor\n  while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer\n  audio. The easy-to-use editing interface lets you creatively edit your\n  video, and add additional images, text, music and transitions for a\n  truly professional-looking video. The finished result is a QuickTime\n  or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog\n  or directly to YouTube or Vimeo.\n\n\nA: WebStorm & Co.\nThese are the best IDEs for Web development I found so far. The features go way beyond what simple editors offer. Intellisense, refactorings, debugging, source control integration are my favorite.\n\nA: XtraFinder\nXtraFinder add Tabs and features to Mac Finder.\n• Tabs.\n• Dual Panel & Dual Window.\n• Cut & Paste.\n• Colorful icons in Sidebar.\n\nA: TextExpander\nSimply the best. Save keystroke even if you just use it to write your email address. \n\nA: SizeUp\nAllows you to set keyboard shortcuts for moving windows to certain halves and quarters of the desktop, as well as between desktops when using multiple monitors.\n\nA: Preview\nA lot of people (especially newcomers) completely overlook what the humble built-in Preview app can do. Apart from handling PDFs (including printing them in various layouts etc), you can join PDF files together with it (open the sidebar and start dragging pdf files into it, rearrange pages etc). \nYou can crop & resize images, adjust colour & saturation (etc), save as different image format and even add text & simple diagrammatical annotations to pictures.\nLike a lot of the built-in software, there's an awful lot of flexibility that you simply don't appreciate at first because it's hidden in the GUI - as opposed to huge nested menus of functions, you have to try things with the mouse - often things just work!\n\nA: Jumpcut\nMinimalist Clipboard Buffering for OS X\nJumpcut is an application that provides \"clipboard buffering\" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.\n\nA: NetNewsWire\nEasy-to-use RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader (but it doesn't have to). I think my favorite part is that the UI can be completely and logically navigated with the arrow keys even the action of opening a feed entry in your default browser.\n\nA: Path Finder\nPath Finder = Finder + Automatic viewer + Shell + Screen Capture + Almost everything you need\n\nA: Twitter\nThe best Twitter client there is. In perfect sync with the web app itself.\n\nA: Air Video Server (Free)\n\nAssociate to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, through their 2.99 App this is the best solution to see all your downloaded movies in your devices. \nThere is a Windows version as well. \n\nAdded\nSince iOS 4.3, iTunes Home Sharing is now available for all iDevices, and there is no need of having Air Video, though, you wil need to import all your movies into iTunes in order to be accessible cross network.\nFor me, I will still stick with Air Video for a long time :o)\n\nA: Thunderbird\nOn the whole, still the best email app I know for any platform.\n\nA: gfxCardStatus\ngfxCardStatus is an open-source menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your dual-GPU MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them on demand. (free, donationware)\n\nIf you have a dual-GPU MBP, you absolutely NEED this program! Did you know that some common applications such as Skype enable your high-powered Nvidia graphics card the entire time they're running? I use it to force my MBP to switch to the power-saving Intel graphics chip when I'm on battery. It adds an extra hour or so of battery life which would otherwise be wasted just because I keep Skype online for chatting.\n\nA: Little Snitch - Firewall\n\n*\n\n*rule based traffic filtering\n\n*connection alert for undefined rules\n\n*network monitor\nalso see: Hands Off!\n\n\nA: Aquamacs\n\n*\n\n*emacs on the Mac.\n\n\nA: Filezilla\nNo matter what OS, Filezilla had been everywhere I go, and when you start to use it, you can never really get rid off it.\nThe interface is simple and intuitive, with bookmarks, tree sync, multiple connections on tabs, etc.\n\nA: MacFuse\nMacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X's native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems. It is used as a software building block by dozens of products. \n\nA: DTerm\nA terminal window for every application. Press a hotkey (I have mine set to Cmd-Opt-Space), and a floating command line pops up over your current window, initialized to the current directory of that window.\nAnother hotkey allows you to easily paste the name of your current document or Finder selection.\n\nA: MenuMeters\nI have a hard time using a Mac without it these days.  How does anyone -- especially a programmer -- work without having the pulse of their Mac at their fingertips?  How else do you tell when your browser is stuck or is really downloading something, if you can't see the network traffic?  When the computer pauses, and you want to know if it's working, just look at the menu to see that the CPU gauges are pegged at 100% -- and much of that is in the kernel.  At a glance, I can instantly see that memory consumption has rocketed up, and with a click I can see that I'm heavily into swap space.  It's just so useful.\n\nA: Growl\nGrowl is a well-known 'notification' system for the Mac; many different programs support Growl and will pass notifications to it. You have a surprising degree of control over how the notifications appear, how they group themselves together, how they are dismissed from the screen etc. This can be configured universally or on an app-by-app basis, so it's very flexible.\nOne of the most useful features for me has been the way you can configure it to send notifications to selected other Macs on the network - I can leave one of my Macs doing something (such as downloading a large file) while I'm using my other Mac, and when the first Mac has finished doing its stuff the notification will pop-up on the Mac I'm in front of.\nGrowl is free, though you can donate to the cause!\nPrograms that can use Growl include Coda, Dropbox, Firefox, Handbrake, NetNewsWire, SuperDuper!, Transmit, and also Mail & Safari (via helper plugins).\n\nA: MAMP\n(MAMP = Mac Apache MySQL PHP)\nApache Webserver, MySQL Database and PHP in one Package. Easy installation and easy to use for local development of Websites/Webapps.\n\nA: Movist\nThe best movie player for Mac OS X based on QuickTime & FFmpeg. Opens all types of video files and loads quicker than any other app for movies I've ever used. \nFeatures I like: \n\n\n*\n\n*file support - plays amazingly well .mkv not to mention all the rest\n\n*simple and minimal UI\n\n*excellent keyboard shortcuts support\n\n*switch from FFmpeg to Quicktime playback with a single click\n\n\nA: Garageband\nThis program is, in some ways, the embarrassing bastard child of the audio world. It's an underpowered, feature-crippled version of Logic, one of the best-regarded multitracking applications in the recording world.\nNonetheless, Gagareband is very powerful, and does what I need it to do. While I'd appreciate more flexibility (tempo matching would be nice, and the ability to change time signatures within a project), and the program doesn't handle multiple layers of effects as well as I'd like, it performs brilliantly at what it does do, and it's insanely easy to learn.\nGarageband is one of the main reasons I haven't ditched my G5 Mac for a Windows or Linux machine I took so long to replace my G5 mac. (Now I use GB and Logic on a Macbook Pro.)\n\nA: SuperDuper!\nI'm amazed it hasn't been mentioned as an answer already.  It's saved my data on more than one occasion from catastrophic hard drive failure.\nFrom its website: SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine under Leopard and Snow Leopard, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume—and it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!\n\nA: Google Chrome\nGoogle Chrome is a lightweight, minimalistic web browser based off the open source project, Chromium.\n\nA: Homebrew\n\"The missing package manager for OS X\". Like MacPorts and Fink, but simpler to use and easy to contribute to.\n\nA: Xcode\nA good IDE for cocoa developers. Xcode 5 is now available on the Mac App Store.\n\nA: VLC media player\nAt its simplest, it's a video player that'll play nearly anything.  File extensions supported include: mov, mkv, flv, wmv.\nIt's actually considerably more powerful than that in terms of streaming and converting, but even as a straight up video player, it's impressive.\n\nA: Picasa\nPicasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.\n\nA: MPlayer OSX Extended\nIt is a media player. I like it more than VLC player.\n\nA: Audacity\nA free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application (from Wikipedia).\nIf you want to record plain old audio onto your computer, Audacity is a pretty easy way to do it.\n(Apple's optical drives from the past several years have implemented region lockout DRM in firmware, rather than simply software, so I can't play back DVDs from multiple regions on my Mac.  It's a laptop, so \"just buy a second DVD drive\" isn't really feasible, and I'm not brave enough to try flashing it with a third-party firmware.  Plugging in my DVD player to my Mac is quick and easy, though!)\n\nA: 1Password\n1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser.\n\nA: Xee\nXee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface. Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X.\n\nA: Onyx\nOnyX is a (free) multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight and many Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.\nI've seen this utility majorly improve the performance of Mac OS X.  I run it about once a month to automate maintenance scripts and it's helped identify problems like the need to repair a disk several times.  A very useful and effective tool.\n\nA: nvALT\nUnbeatable note-taking app, featuring online syncing with the plain text notes web service, Simplenote, and the simplenote apps for iPhone and iPad.\nnvAlt is a fork of the existing application, Notational Velocity.\n\nA: Fantastical\nAmazing background app for quickly accessing and adding events to your mac's calendar.  Supports Caldev Sync to keep your mac's calendar always up to date, as well as natural writing event creation.\nBring up fantastical with a keyboard shortcut, and then type out your new event.  Hit return and it's in.  Quickly view all the upcoming events for the next month and beyond.  Next time you open iCal, all of your data will remain intact as Fantastical works with your software in the background.\n\nA: TextMate\nTextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.\nIf you’re looking for a good editor, Sublime Text 2 is quite good too by now!\n\nA: Shift It\n(Uses the same principles as SizeUp, but free)\nThis application will let you resize and move your windows without having to using a mouse. Here are some of things you can do with Shift It:\n\n*\n\n*Shift the focused window to left/right/top/bottom half of the screen.\n\n*Resize the focused window to fill the whole screen.\n\n*Move the focused window to the center of the screen.\n\nShift It is a great tool that lets you organize your windows. Now you can read documents side-by-side without having the pain of manually resizing the windows.\n\nA: cdto\n\nFast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the front most finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar.\n\n\nA: Default Folder X\nAugments the Open Folder and Save Folder dialogs from any application to allow you to immediately jump to any folder currently open by Finder. (Also works for folders open with Path Finder). \nOnce you start using this app, it's really hard to live without it. \n\nA: Gitbox\nGitbox is a Git repository manager.\n\nA: Airfoil\nPlay any audio across your network to a whole host of devices, all in sync! Airfoil sends audio to remote speakers including iOS devices, other computers, and hardware devices like the Apple TV and AirPort Express. Airfoil for Mac gives you any audio, everywhere.\nBasically, what previously only iTunes could do (send audio to an AirPort Express) you can now do with all applications.\n\nA: Geektool\nGeektool allows you to put a tail of your syslog on the desktop, or the output of some command, or some graphic/chart/picture.\nIt's a bit like a more single-minded Dashboard for your desktop. You can make awesome clocks, or beautiful server monitoring, or just a fortune cookie (if you install fortune with HomeBrew).\nIt's not perfect (it would need sticky borders, continuous command output and sane multi-monitor behavior for that) but it's a lot of fun, using little resources.\n\nA: Alfred\n\nAlfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. Whether it's maps, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, you can feed your web addiction quicker than ever before.\n\nIt's a wonderful piece because it enables you to:\n\n\n*\n\n*Increase your productivity by launching apps with shortcuts \n\n*Instant access to web searches, bookmarks & more\n\n*Browse and play music from your iTunes library quickly\n\n*Perform actions – copy, move & email files & folders\n\n*Ward off RSI – skip using the mouse with easy shortcuts\n\n\nA: Handbrake\nHandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.\n\nA: Adium\nAdium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. It provides enhanced security by supporting the OTR messaging protocol out of the box.\n\nA: Tunnelblick\n\nTunnelblick is a free, open source Graphic User Interface (GUI) for OpenVPN on Mac OS X. It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections.\n\n\nA: VideoMonkey\nThis is an open source replacement for VisualHub. It's free and lets you do all kinds of mass video conversions as well as auto-tagging your video with tv show / movie metadata.\n\nA: Hyperspaces\nSet names and separate background pictures for different spaces.  Really helps me focus on one specific project at a time and helps me avoid tangents.\n\nA: Clyppan\nThis is a really good clipboard manager.\n\nA: Zooom/2\nZooom/2 is a Mac desktop utility that redefines how you can resize, move and align your application windows - making you faster and more productive.\nOn many X-based desktops (such as KDE and Gnome) you can resize windows from any side, move windows by clicking anywhere on the window, and switch windows simply by pointing your mouse. Zooom/2 brings the same functionality to Mac, and I can no longer live without it. For example, in my configuration I hold Shift-⌘ and click anywhere in a window to move it. No more hunting for the menu bar or the resize corner!\n\nA: Minuteur\nQuick and easy to use timer. It's programmable, so you can do (10+2)*5 or the Pomodoro technique on repeating intervals.\nThe App is localized into English, but the linked webpage is French. The MacUpdate page is in English. \n\nA: Warp\nFrom the website:\n\nWarp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard.\nWarp offers the ability to display a live preview of a space when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, allowing you to see what you have on another space before actually switching to it. Clicking the preview will then warp you to that space.\n\n\nA: Alarms\n\nAlarms app is the reminder system you never knew your Mac was missing. Just drag the items you want to be reminded of to the Alarms menu and place them on the time line.\n\n\nA: Pow\n\nPow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.\n\nSimple to use and indispensable if you are doing any kind of Rails/Sinatra/Rack development\n\nA: Final Cut Express, a discontinued video-editing software made by Apple. Final Cut Express is one step above iMovie, with up to 99 video tracks, 99 audio tracks, and 12 compositing modes. My favorite features of FCE are Chroma Key, Color Correction, and Livetype, which comes with Final Cut Express.\n\nA: DragThing\nis a utility that provides an alternative to the Dock. It is tremendously flexible and customizable in letting you design your own way to organize application launchers.\nLet me be frank; I've been using a Mac every day since 1987. I cannot live without DragThing because I could never get used to using the Dock, which appeared with the first Mac OS X circa 2000 (and I was using developer builds of Mac OS X before the first version went public). While you can configure DragThing to perform many functions, what I use it for is to provide an application menu and an application launcher that behave the same way they did in Apple Macintosh System 7 through Mac OS 9. That's the way I want it.\n\nA: Final Cut Express\nI am so amazed no one has mentioned this!\nThe best video editor for the price. Unfortunately Apple has abandoned FCE to go on to FCPX. I couldn't live without FCE!\n\nA: SecondBar\nSecondBar adds a second menu bar to your secondary monitor. Although there are a few bugs, it's a great little application.\n\nA: Keyboard Maestro\nAn indispensable macro tool. Trigger a macro based on a hotkey (overriding the frontmost app if appropriate), typed strings (a la TextExpander, the status of an app, the system waking or your logging in, at certain times or dates, etc. \nA macro can do pretty much anything you can do manually -- manage apps, choose menu items, click on windows or dialog boxes or whatever, display text or Growl or other notifications, etc. -- including running scripts. Macros can also include flow control (if, while, etc.) for less straightforward tasks (e.g. in Photoshop CmdDelete deletes the current layer if a layer is selected or the current group of layers if a group is selected).\nOne great use is unifying commands across apps, e.g. have Cmd- zoom out and Cmd= zoom in for every app that supports the concept rather than having to remember how, say, OmniGraffle does it vs Photoshop vs Numbers.\n\nKeyboard Maestro enables you to create or record custom macro shortcuts that you can activate at any time. For example, your macros could help you navigate runnings applications or work with an unlimited number of clipboards. Best of all, every macro you create is available using simple keystrokes you choose.\n\n\nA: Growl Extras - Hardware Growler, Growl Mail,...\nHardwareGrowler\nFind out when a hardware status changes on the Mac.\nGrowl Mail\nNotifications for incoming mail.\n\n\nA:  MarcoPolo\nMarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your Mac! It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions).\nI use MarcoPolo to run scripts (actions) when I arrive at work, as determined by WiFi hotspots detected or IP addresses assigned (context).\n\nA: teleport\nOkay, did a search of all eight pages posted to date, and didn't see \"teleport\" listed.\nThis little free System Preference gets installed on two computers, and then you can move your cursor off the screen of one, onto the screen of the other.\nI run a dedicated Mac Mini server, but my main computer is a Mac Pro. I have the server screen above the pro screen, and I can simply move my cursor up to the server, like you'd do with multiple monitors on the same computer. BRILLIANT!\nThis is so much simpler and easier than using Screen Sharing or other such tools.\nIt also copies the clipboard of one computer to the other. This can cause a significant delay if you have something huge on the clipboard.\n\nA: Simple Comic\nSimple Comic is the most intuitive comic reader on the Mac. Its clean interface gives you full control of your viewing experience without getting in the way. Reading comics on a computer has never been easier.\nA great program for looking any any set of archived images.\nSimple Comic viewer window http://dancingtortoise.com/simplecomic/images/screens/two_page.png\n\nA: Yep\n\n*\n\n*I scan all my documents to PDF and use Yep to track & find them.\n\n*No filing! Everything goes to a single target folder, Yep takes care of it.\n\n*Tag documents\n\n*Automatically finds all PDF, iWorks, Office, et.al. documents anywhere on your hard drive.\n\n*Does not use a database like some similar apps. So I can access documents via finder; move, copy, delete, etc. easily.\n\n*In conjunction with a Fujitsu Scan Snap scanner Yep is a dream to use.\n\n\nA: Tweetbot for Mac\nThough relatively new. Tweetbot for Mac is bringing the same innovation to the Mac platform that it's had established on iOS for a while now.\n\nA: EVE\nFrom website:\n\nEVE helps you to learn shortcuts, in order to increase your productivity with MAC OS X. Every time you execute an action using the mouse, EVE will show you the matching shortcut.\n\nGreat application! I use it with Cheatsheet.\n\nA: SparkleShare\nSparkleShare allows you to create your own DropBox. In this way you don't have to pay for more space, if you have your own server, and you don't have to share data with no one else (service provided) except the people you decide.\nHow does it work?\n\nSparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer in which\n  projects are kept. All projects are automatically synced to their\n  respective hosts (you can have multiple projects connected to\n  different hosts) and to your team's SparkleShare folders when someone\n  adds, removes or edits a file.\n\nWhy SparkleShare?\n\nThe idea of SparkleShare sprouted at the GNOME Usability Hackfest in\n  London, where a couple of designers came to the conclusion that they\n  didn't have a good (Open Source) collaboration tool to share their\n  work (for more background, read “The one where the designers ask for a\n  pony”). They didn't like how the good collaboration tools were\n  proprietary, and that using them meant having to give up privacy,\n  control and other rights. What they needed was something that they\n  could run and control themselves, without having to depend on other\n  companies.\n\n\nA: Vienna\nViennna is a free open source RSS/Atom reader. Very flexible and version 3 will have Google Reader support.\n\n\nA: Glui\nI never really enjoyed using Skitch, even before Evernote bought them. Not too long ago I heard about Glui and have fallen in love ever since.\nIt's quick, provides some useful annotating tools, uploads to Dropbox and the automatically copies the share url to your clipboard.\nReally has improved my workflow as a programmer. Makes it super easy to share screens when working with others.\n\nA: Monosnap\nMonosnap is a free screenshot program for Mac OS X and Windows. The program allows users to create screenshots, annotate them and upload them to the cloud.\n\n\n\nA: Hub List\nVery promising successor of The Hit List.\nDescription: \nA HTML5 compliant productivity application\nFrom the author: \n\nHub List tries to strike a balance between simplicity and\n  customization. If you’ve every managed a software project then you’ve\n  probably spent more time then you care to admit inside an ugly bug\n  tracking application that a bunch of developers convinced you would\n  make them more productive. You probably use another app to manage your\n  business projects and then something else to help you remember all\n  those pesky personal todos like getting your mom a card for mother’s\n  day. Rather than try to replace all those tools Hub List strives to\n  provide real-time two-way integration with all of them so you can be\n  more productive using the tools you already have.\n\nWebsite:\nhublistapp.com\n\nA: switchDiskSizeBase\nIn Mac OS 10.6 disk and file sizes are measured in base 10 (one kilobyte is defined as 1000 bytes, one megabyte is defined as 1000 kilobytes, etc.) in Finder and Disk Utility.  Unfortunately this has created a lot of inconsistency even when working with Apple’s own programs since most of them still define file sizes in binary units (one kilobyte is defined as 1024 bytes, one megabyte is defined as 1024 kilobytes, etc.).  This utility will switch the measurement of disk and file sizes in both Finder and Disk Utility back to binary units (or if the measurement has already been switched to binary units it will restore the system back to using base 10 units).\nAfter the switch in Snow Leopard I never could get used to read file sizes in Finder with base-10. This application patches the Foundation framework in order to get back base-2 units. I can now again compare disk space and file sizes with other operating systems or output from shell tools.\n\nA: Podworks\nI recently referred to the app in this thread. If you own both a Mac and an iPhone or iPod, this application is a must-have.\nPodworks works around iTunes to allow transfer of media to/from Mac and iOS devices.\n\nA: iMote\nI use it mostly to rate songs and get Growl to display the currently playing song. From the website:\n\niMote is a simple, elegant, and lightweight program for controlling iTunes from just about any application. Play/pause, change tracks, select playlists, adjust volume, rate tracks, and more using fully customizable hot-keys or a universal menu bar item. iMote includes a beautiful iPod-esque floating window, indicating current track information, and Growl support if you want an even more streamlined experience with your other Growl-enabled applications. Written using Cocoa, iMote is lean and mean, consuming minimal system memory and CPU time. iMote is the original iTunes controller.\n\n\nA: News Anchor\nOne of the few RSS readers that doesn't try to imitate an e-mail application, News Anchor converts inanimate text in news feeds into lively television-like news broadcasts. With News Anchor you can now \"read\" news feeds while eating or doing other things.\n\n\nA: Vuze\nVuze, the most powerful bittorrent app on earth\n\nA: Monocle\nA great utility to make a web search (Google, Wikipedia, any other search engine) just a keystroke away regardless of what application I'm in.\n\nA: Livetype\nLivetype is an awesome title generator that came with FCE. It does have a rather steep learning curve if you aren't used to keyframing, but it generates professional-looking titles at a great price.\n\nA: Spark\n\nSpark is a powerful, and easy Shortcuts manager. With Spark you can create Hot Keys to launch applications and documents, execute AppleScript, control iTunes, and more...\nYou can also export and import your Hot Keys library, or save it in HTML format to print it.\nSpark is free, so use it without moderation!\n\nI use this all the time and love it!\n\nA: App bar\nApp Bar displays a quick list of all your applications. This is the quickest way possible to find and open any application launched from your Status Bar or Dock. All apps are listed alphabetical and the scroll list is well laid out and always just a click away.\n\nA: JiTouch\nJiTouch is similar to BetterTouchTool, but with many, many more options. The one thing it doesn't have is Windows 7 snapping, so keep BetterTouchTool around for that. I would highly recommend this application, though it's a paid application.\n\nA: Shimo - VPN management for the Mac\nReceive notifications via Growl. Assign network locations and wireless networks to profiles.\n\n*\n\n*CiscoVPN Support\n\n*OpenVPN Support\n\n*IPSec Support\n\n*PPTP/L2TP Support\n\n*Hamachi Support\n\n*SSH Support\n\n*Use Keychain for Passwords\n\n*Certificate Management\n\n*Advanced Notifications\n\n*Automatic (Re-)Connection\n\n*Syncing Profiles with MobileMe\n\n*Scriptable with AppleScript\n\n*Global Keyboard Shortcuts\n\n\n\nA: Sophos Anti-Virus Mac Home Edition\nFree commercial AV software.\n\n*\n\n*Fast signature updates\n\n*Low cpu usage\n\n*Live scan\n\n*Define custom scan scopes\n\n*Define action upon treat alert (log only, cleanup, move threat, delete threat)\n\n\n\nA: Scrawl\nScrawl is nifty little note taking app for the Mac that I made with iCloud support.\n\nA: iProcrastinate\niProcrastinate is the ideal task manager for anyone who doesn't want their todo list to get in the way of actually getting things done! Great for anyone who is looking for a mobile, easy-to-use task manager. (Not just for students!) Add birthdays, soccer practice and conference calls, all without missing a beat. \nUses iCloud to sync between Mac and iOS. Couldn't do my homework without it.\n\nA: AppCode\nFrom JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ. Has a lot more refactoring support than XCode and a more powerful editor. Especially useful to anyone coming to iOS development from the Java world.\n\nA: Emacs 24\nBest text editor ever...Supports VIM bindings plus has org-mode and can run a shell, edit directories, view images, etc. Make sure to use the built-in package manager to load add-ons. Solarized-dark is an excellent color scheme.\n\nA: Herald\nAllow notification plugin for Mail.app. In ML you have notification center, but with Herald you also get the full message body which I really like. \n\nA: CCleaner\nOne of best cleaning utility.\nCCleaner is the no. 1 cleaning utility for Windows PC. In Mac it does the same function, cleaning temp files, cookies, cache etc. for making more space available. The tools section provides utilities to uninstall an application, change startup option, erase free space and manage permissions.\n\nA: SafeWallet\nSafeWallet is a very useful and complete password manager, which allows you to safely keep you passwords, credit card pins, notes, and many more stored on your Mac.\nIt also provides functionality for sharing your wallet with the iOS App (SafeWallet for iPhone). In this way your wallet is always with you and always synced. \n\nA: ControlPlane (free/open-source)\nThis application can trigger a wide range on actions based on different events, its mainly use being to start/stop application based on your context.\nFor example when you bring your laptop to work it can start Outlook. You can detect that you are at work based on the network IP, presence of a wireless network, or many other options.\n\nA: Debookee\nDebookee is a network traffic analyzer that allows you to see your traffic by protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, DHCP, DNS, SIP etc ...\nIt can also scan all the devices present on your network, and intercept the traffic of any of them, perfect to see what your iPhone or tablet is sending over the network.\n\nA: PogoPlug\nThere's a software version as well as the hardware box that creates a cloud server. The software version allows me to set a folder or drive on my Mac and link to it so I can let others access. I know there are other ways to do this, but for me the $20 ($30 now, I think) was well spent as the software is simple and no glitches.\nIf you have a good friend and you both agree to leave your computers running, you can use the other's extra drive to store your backup with no monthly fee, just install a decent size drive at the friend's house.\n\nA: Airmail\nAfter last year Sparrow acquisition from Google and development freeze, Airmail is new, actively developed mail client. It does not hide it's Sparrow roots, but exceeds it and new features are constantly added.\n\nA: Entropy\ndEntropy Logo http://bit.ly/16BItjE\nI use it as my daily productivity booster since it moves all files I haven't touched within the last week from my Desktop into my archive. It has many more features you may find interesting. Here is a trailer.\n\nDisclaimer: I'm the creator. Ask me anything. ;)\n\nA: Unclutter\nMain features:\n\n*\n\n*Instant, configurable access even in full screen mode\n\n*File Storage, to keep your Desktop clean from temporary files\n\n*Notes, your digital notepad\n\n*Clipboard preview, so you always know what you're about to share\n\n*Draggable cards that can stick on top of other windows\n\n*Retina display support\n\n\n\nA: Gimp\n\nVery powerful and free and open source image editor, inspired by PhotoShop. Has layers, RGB and indexed modes, and more tools and filters than you can shake a stick at.\nSince version 2.8 Gimp is OS X native.\nScreenshots - Features\n\nA: Fuzzyclock\n\"Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like \"five past ten\" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a \"fuzzy\" style.\" I use the handwriting font. (Alfred, Cloudapp and Growl have been said).\n\n\nA: StockMeter\n\n"
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        "text": "2 май е 122-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (123-ти през високосна). Остават 243 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1494 г. – Христофор Колумб открива Ямайка.\n 1803 г. – САЩ купуват от Франция областта Луизиана.\n 1808 г. – Избухва Полуостровната война: Жителите на Мадрид се вдигат на бунт срещу френската окупация.\n 1876 г. – Георги Бенковски обявява преждевременно началото на Априлското въстание.\n 1889 г. – Менелик II, император на Етиопия, подписва договор с армията на Италия, който дава на Етиопия контрол над Еритрея.\n 1925 г. – В България със закон е създадена жандармерия с численост 6800 души.\n 1933 г. – Съобщено е за появата на Чудовището от Лох Нес.\n 1935 г. – Бенито Мусолини издава заповед за нахлуване на армията на Италия в Абисиния.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветският съюз обявява завладяването на Берлин и съветските войници издигат своето червено знаме над сградата на Райхстага. Германските сили се предават в Италия, а в Триест на армията на Нова Зеландия.\n 1945 г.- България във Втората световна война:започва водената от Първа българска армия Австрийска операция в която българските войски навлизат на територията на източна Австрия преследвайки германските войски от група армии „Е“.\n 1952 г. – От Лондон до Йоханесбург е извършен първият полет с реактивен пътнически самолет.\n 1955 г. – Тенеси Уилямс печели Пулицър за Котка върху горещ ламаринен покрив.\n 1969 г. – Британският лайнер Queen Elizabeth 2 потегля на своето първо пътуване до Ню Йорк.\n 1997 г. – На 44-годишна възраст Тони Блеър от Лейбъристка партия става най-младият министър-председател на Обединеното кралство за последните 185 години.\n 1997 г. – Русия приема закон за пълна ликвидация на химическото оръжие.\n 1998 г. – Учредена е Европейска централна банка в Брюксел, която има за цел да формулира и прилага монетарната политика на Европейския съюз.\n 1999 г. – Започва излъчване на международния сателитен канал ТВ България на БНТ.\n 2011 г. – Осама бин Ладен, „организаторът на Атентатите от 11 септември 2001 г.“ и най-издирваният терорист в света, е убит от екип на американските военноморски части „Тюлени“ в Абботабад, Пакистан.\n\nРодени \n\n 1588 г. – Етиен Паскал, френски любител-математик († 1651 г.)\n 1602 г. – Атанасий Кирхер, германски свещеник и учен († 1680 г.)\n 1660 г. – Алесандро Скарлати, италиански композитор († 1725 г.)\n 1729 г. – Екатерина II, императрица на Русия († 1796 г.)\n 1764 г. – Фридрик фон Генц, германски политик и дипломат († 1832 г.)\n 1772 г. – Новалис, германски поет и философ († 1801 г.)\n 1859 г. – Джеръм К. Джеръм, английски писател († 1927 г.)\n 1860 г. – Теодор Херцел, австрийски ционист († 1904 г.)\n 1886 г. – Готфрид Бен, немски поет, есеист и драматург († 1956 г.)\n 1890 г. – Едуард Смит, американски писател († 1965 г.)\n 1892 г. – Манфред фон Рихтхофен, германски авиатор († 1918 г.)\n 1902 г. – Алан Маршал, австралийски писател († 1984 г.)\n 1903 г. – Бенджамин Спок, американски педиатър († 1998 г.)\n 1903 г. – Бинг Крозби, американски певец и актьор († 1977 г.)\n 1921 г. – Сатяджит Рей, индийски режисьор († 1992 г.)\n 1925 г. – Джон Невил, английски актьор († 2011 г.)\n 1926 г. – Георги Павлов, български народен певец († 2010 г.)\n 1927 г. – Александър Мирер, руски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стойчо Мазгалов, български актьор († 2006 г.)\n 1935 г. – Файсал II, крал на Ирак († 1958 г.)\n 1935 г. – Луис Суарес Мирамонтес, испански футболист и треньор\n 1939 г. – Леонид Каневски, руски актьор\n 1942 г. – Жак Рох, белгийски президент на МОК († 2021 г.)\n 1944 г. – Франц Инерхофер, австрийски писател († 2002 г.)\n 1945 г. – Йосиф Сърчаджиев, български актьор\n 1946 г. – Любомир Младенов, български актьор\n 1947 г. – Филип Херевеге, белгийски диригент\n 1950 г. – Вячеслав Кушев, български композитор\n 1950 г. – Желязко Петров, български политик\n 1950 г. – Лу Грам, американски певец\n 1950 г. – Мухарем Сербезовски, сръбски певец\n 1951 г. – Боян Дуранкев, български икономист и маркетолог\n 1954 г. – Елиът Голдентал, американски филмов композитор\n 1955 г. – Донатела Версаче, италианска модна дизайнерка\n 1962 г. – Джими Уайт, английски снукър играч\n 1963 г. – Тончо Токмакчиев, български актьор\n 1969 г. – Беноа Кое, френски футболист\n 1970 г. – Костадин Видолов, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Койна Русева, българска актриса\n 1970 г. – Тошко Хаджитодоров, български сценарист\n 1971 г. – Бъз Калкинс, американски автомобилен състезател\n 1972 г. – Скалата, американски кечист и актьор\n 1975 г. – Дейвид Бекъм, английски футболист\n 1977 г. – Александър Сано, български актьор\n 1980 г. – Тим Боровски, германски футболист\n 1985 г. – Лили Алън, английска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 373 г. – Атанасий I Александрийски, египетски духовник (* ок. 293)\n 756 г. – Шому, японски император (* 701 г.)\n 907 г. – Борис I, български цар (* 9 век)\n 1519 г. – Леонардо да Винчи, италиански архитект (* 1452 г.)\n 1685 г. – Адриан ван Остаде, холандски художник (* 1610 г.)\n 1855 г. – Александър Меншиков, руски дипломат (* 1787 г.)\n 1857 г. – Алфред дьо Мюсе, френски драматург (* 1810 г.)\n 1862 г. – Йосиф Волф, немски мисионер (* 1795 г.)\n 1864 г. – Джакомо Мейербер, германски композитор (* 1791 г.)\n 1926 г. – Цанко Церковски, български писател (* 1869 г.)\n 1930 г. – Исидор Гунсберг, британски шахматист (* 1854 г.)\n 1934 г. – Никола Ракитин, български писател (* 1885 г.)\n 1943 г. – Петър Мутафчиев, български историк (* 1883 г.)\n 1945 г. – Мартин Борман, нацистки служител (* 1900 г.)\n 1954 г. – Николай Райнов, български писател (* 1889 г.)\n 1957 г. – Джоузеф Маккарти, американски сенатор (* 1908 г.)\n 1969 г. – Франц фон Папен, германски генерал (* 1879 г.)\n 1972 г. – Едгар Хувър, директор на ФБР (* 1895 г.)\n 1985 г. – Атилио Бетега, италиански рали пилот (* 1953 г.)\n 1997 г. – Джон Екълз, американски неврофизиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. (* 1903 г.)\n 2002 г. – Георги Мицков, български поет (* 1921 г.)\n 2003 г. – Блага Димитрова, българска поетеса (* 1922 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ви Ким Ви, президент на Сингапур (* 1915 г.)\n 2005 г. – Кенет Кларк, американски психолог (* 1914 г.)\n 2006 г. – Стефан Груев, български журналист (* 1922 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лин Редгрейв, британска актриса (* 1943 г.)\n 2011 г. – Осама бин Ладен, лидер на Ал-Кайда (* 1957 г.)\n 2015 г. – Мая Плисецкая, руска балерина (* 1925 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – Празник на Свети Цар Борис-Михаил Покръстител (Борисовден)\n Индонезия – Ден на националното образование\n Иран – Ден на учителя\n Мадрид (Испания) – Ден на региона на Мадрид\n Полша – Ден на националния флаг\n Харманли - Празник на град Харманли.\n\n502"
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        "text": "The village of Obenheim is a small french village located north east of France. The town of Obenheim is located in the department of Bas-Rhin of the french region Alsace.\tThe town of Obenheim is located in the township of Erstein part of the district of Sélestat-Erstein. The area code for Obenheim is 67338 (also known as code INSEE), and the Obenheim zip code is 67230.\nThe altitude of the city hall of Obenheim is approximately 155 meters. The Obenheim surface is 7.99 km ². The latitude and longitude of Obenheim are 48.359 degrees North and 7.69 degrees East. Nearby cities and towns of Obenheim are : Gerstheim (67150) at 2.55 km, Daubensand (67150) at 2.79 km, Boofzheim (67860) at 3.04 km, Herbsheim (67230) at 4.34 km, Rhinau (67860) at 4.61 km, Friesenheim (67860) at 5.67 km, Rossfeld (67230) at 5.80 km, Osthouse (67150) at 5.95 km.\nThe population of Obenheim was 1 214 in 1999, 1 352 in 2006 and 1 371 in 2007. The population density of Obenheim is 171.59 inhabitants per km². The number of housing of Obenheim was 557 in 2007. These homes of Obenheim consist of 518 main residences, 4 second or occasional homes and 35 vacant homes.\nHere are maps and information of the close municipalities near Obenheim.\nSearch hotels near Obenheim : Book your hotel now !\nAt right you can find the localization of Obenheim on the map of France. Below, this is the satellite map of Obenheim. A road map, and maps templates of Obenheim are available here : \"road map of Obenheim\". This map show Obenheim seen by the satellite of Google Map. To see the streets of Obenheim or move on another zone, use the buttons \"zoom\" and \"map\" on top of this dynamic map.\nTo search hotels, housings, tourist information office, administrations or other services, use the Google search integrated to the map on the following page : \"map Obenheim\".\nThis is the last weather forecast for Obenheim collected by the nearest observation station of Sélestat-Erstein.\nThe latest weather data for Obenheim were collected Friday, 19 April 2019 at 14:50 from the nearest observation station of Sélestat-Erstein."
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        "text": "Q: Windows print screen when using Boot Camp I have bootcamp installed on my Mac, and when on Windows, I need to frequently capture screens using windows shortcuts such as Print Screen.\nUsing virtualization is not an option, since I need to run a virtualized environment within Windows already.\nOn the Mac keyboard (I have a MacBook Pro, and an external think aluminum keyboard), there isn't a print screen key. Is there any equivalent when using a mac keyboard?\n\nA: Follow these instructions in order to map the F13-F15 keys on an Apple keyboard to the functions, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Break commonly found on PC keyboards:\n\n\n*\n\n*On your PC, copy the following lines into a text file.\n\n\nREGEDIT4\n[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Keyboard Layout]\n\"Scancode Map\"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,46,E0,5F,00,46,00,5E,00,37,E0,5D,00,00,00,00,00\n\n\n*\n\n*Rename the text file remap.reg\n\n*Double click on the file remap.reg and answer yes to the question about adding the information to the registry\n\n*Reboot\n\n\nFunction keys are now remapped to their PC equivalents\nSource: MacWindows.com\n\nA: This article at Apple's KB includes the mapping of Windows keys to each of their keyboards.\n\nA: Under Windows (with Boot Camp software installed) you can press F13 or Fn+F11 to take a screenshot.\n"
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        "text": "The Kettle by Joan McDaniel - 6.000\" x 8.000\"\nThe Kettle metal print by Joan McDaniel. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16\" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4\" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.\nThere are no comments for The Kettle. Click here to post the first comment.\nThis abandoned barn in California seemed to be be saying \"Tea is on. Come and get it!\".\nI grew up in a Marine Corps family and traveled the world until my dad retired in North Carolina in 1968. It was there in rural North Carolina that I developed a love for nature and the beauty of the outdoors. I spent 23 years on the coast of North Carolina before moving to Northern California and discovering the rugged west coast and the redwoods. All of nature is spectacular to me and I enjoy exploring the back roads in search of new adventures in the outdoors. I try to capture some of the wonders I see on camera."
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        "text": "Q: How can I get DoubleTwist to differentiate between music and podcasts? Since iTunes has no way to sync with my Motorola Droid, and all of my music is on my Macbook Pro, I recently tried out DoubleTwist.  It detected my Droid right away.\nThe problem is that when I chose to sync all of my music, DoubleTwist also synced all of my podcasts, which quickly filled up my sd card with stuff I don't want on there.  Is there a way to have it only sync my iTunes music library and ignore podcasts?\n\nA: Judging by the screenshots, doubleTwist allows syncing specific playlists and has smart playlists.\nCreate a smart playlist that would contain all your library but not podcasts (excluding genre Podcast), and sync it.\n"
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        "text": "The First Amendment Blocks Anti-BDS Legislation in the United States\nYousef Munayyer\nSince Palestinian civil society organizations issued a call in 2005 for international solidarity with Palestinians through the use of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), modeled after the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, Palestinian rights advocacy has grown and successfully shifted conversations in various US institutions, including universities and churches. Israel, equipped and experienced in the use of military force, found that its traditional weapons cannot defeat such activism. It would instead have to win a battle of ideas.\nBDS efforts present audiences with a question: Can they remain complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians? Israel’s supporters have various responses to these efforts, including 1) to claim no such human rights abuses exist or that they are insignificant, and 2) to smear the activists. Neither of these responses is compelling, even if both approaches may muddy the waters and slow down the process. In the end, however, the reality of Israeli policies and the impact they have on the rights of Palestinians are the deciding factors. The longer the battle of ideas goes on, the more people will turn away from supporting Israel. Defending Israel’s policies on their own merits simply doesn’t cut it. Another way to try to stop the success of BDS efforts is to silence the conversation altogether; after all, an argument cannot be lost if it is not permitted to be proposed in the first place.\nRepression across the Country\nVarious repressive efforts have been attempted and aimed at silencing and intimidating BDS activism. Perhaps most notorious among these is the advancement of legislation that would turn the law into an instrument against such activism. Such repressive legislation, most common at the state level, often takes the form of statutes that would compel state governments to terminate financial relationships with persons and businesses supporting a boycott of Israel. For example, if a local snow plowing company in the state of Maryland—one of the states where such laws exist—divested from corporations that profit from Israel’s occupation, that snow plow company would not be eligible for contracts with the state.\nRepressive legislation, most common at the state level, often takes the form of statutes that would compel state governments to terminate financial relationships with persons and businesses supporting a boycott of Israel.\nLegislation like this has spread across various states. A new investigative report by the Center for Public Integrity and USA Today found that “pro-Israel advocates have taken the battle to state legislatures, where their lobbyists worked with sympathetic lawmakers to shut down” BDS efforts. Further, a “rapid succession of states – 27 in four years – adopted measures to curb the initiative known as BDS. These new laws and executive orders were crafted by activists, then copied from one state to the next and adopted with virtually identical language.”\nDespite the quick spread of these laws in states across the country, many of them have come up against an important obstacle: the US Constitution, and specifically, the First Amendment. This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, saying that “Congress shall make no law” which infringes on the free speech of individuals in the United States. Further, the Supreme Court has ruled that political boycotts are protected speech under the First Amendment; therefore, discriminating against people for supporting a boycott of Israel would be unconstitutional.\nThe Supreme Court has ruled that political boycotts are protected speech under the First Amendment; therefore, discriminating against people for supporting a boycott of Israel would be unconstitutional.\nIndeed, the courts have already begun to hear cases stemming from laws aimed at repressing BDS activity and ruling them as unconstitutional. Laws passed in several states have been challenged in federal courts, including in Kansas, Arizona, and Texas, and the courts have issued injunctions to stop the state from enforcing the laws.\nMost recently, the Texas case was brought by an array of plaintiffs including a school speech pathologist and other school and university employees. The federal judge rejected every single one of the defendants’ arguments and granted an injunction in a decision for the plaintiffs. His ruling made clear the following:\n“In Texas, only five legislators voted against H.B. 89. (Texas Resp. Mots. Prelim. Inj., Dkt. 25, at 4). Texas touts these numbers as the statute’s strength. They are, rather, its weakness. ‘If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.’ W. Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943). ‘[T]he purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular[,]’ is ‘to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation—and their ideas from suppression—at the hands of an intolerant society.’ McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n, 514 U.S. 334, 357 (1995).”\nOne Israel supporter recently wrote in a Jewish newsweekly regarding the Texas case, “The case has already become a public relations debacle for the pro-Israel community. It has all the appearances of an overbearing government thought-police pressing down on the little guy, holding paychecks hostage in order to demand ideological conformity on the merits of a country two continents away.”\nIf this strategic blunder seems eminently foreseeable, that is because it was. In 2017, a report by the ADL and the Reut Institute, two organizations working together to inform what they call the global “pro-Israel network” on how best to combat Palestinian rights activism, the authors ask, “How far should we take anti-BDS legislation?” They answer that “Legislative initiatives in a number of states have raised concerns regarding their possible violation of free speech. Future legislation needs to be developed with careful consideration of this issue to avoid the potential for rallying progressive groups in coordinated opposition.”\nFederal Level Legislation Stalls\nDespite this warning, the ADL along with many other pro-Israel groups continued to support blatantly unconstitutional legislation aimed at intimidating and silencing BDS activism, including at the Federal level. One of these laws was the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (IABA).\nThe Israel Anti-Boycott Act was so obviously controversial that its initial cosponsors in the US Senate tried to attach it to other legislation in the hope that it would pass quickly and quietly, thus circumventing debate. That did not happen.\nThe IABA was so obviously controversial that its initial cosponsors in the US Senate tried to attach it to other legislation in the hope that it would pass quickly and quietly, thus circumventing debate. That did not happen and the bill became a flashpoint for controversy when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) weighed in against it and one of its Democratic cosponsors, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), withdrew her sponsorship. Now with this unconstitutional legislation out in the open, legislators would have to decide whether to side with the ACLU and the Constitution or with a law seeking to silence criticism of Israel. For Republicans, siding with Israel over the First Amendment gave them little pause. For Democrats, however, the story was different. Public opinion on Israel was shifting in the party and criminalizing dissent did not seem like a progressive thing to do. Groups like the ACLU carried much more important weight among Democrats than Republicans. By the end of the 115th Congress, the controversial legislation could not move forward, and it expired. The 116th Congress, with a Republican-controlled Senate but a Democratic-controlled House, began with a Senate resolution that would once again force lawmakers to choose between the Constitution and silencing Israel’s critics.\nSenator Marco Rubio put forward a bill––“Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019”––that packaged four different bills including one that had expired without passing in the previous Congress (called the Combating BDS Act of 2019). Although this bill passed in the Senate, nearly half the Democrats voted against it, including almost every Democrat in the Senate who was running for president. The fight over the IABA and now this second vote made it very clear that laws seeking to silence criticism of Israel were dividing the Democrats. Now in control of the House, the Democrats will be much less likely to advance such legislation, and even though S.1 has companion legislation in the House, it has yet to advance and likely will not.\nNow in control of the House, the Democrats will be much less likely to advance such legislation, and even though S.1 has companion legislation in the House, it has yet to advance and likely will not.\nIt seems that Israel’s lobbyists have begun to figure this out and adjust. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the biggest and most influential among Israel lobby groups, had supported the IABA and also the S.1. package that included the Combating BDS Act of 2019. AIPAC’s current approach, however, with the aim of achieving wide consensus, is to push for a resolution that merely condemns BDS without attempting to criminalize it or otherwise violate the First Amendment in the process. While this resolution provides AIPAC an opportunity to demonstrate bipartisan support again, it also seems to be an acknowledgment that the previous efforts were counterproductive and an overreach. It is not clear if this is an adjustment of tactics based on an acknowledgment of the costs or merely a recognition of shifting political majorities in Congress. If the latter, there might be a return to unconstitutional legislative pushes at the federal level in the future.\nEffort Backfires but Attempts at Repression Continue\nWhile it seems the effort to push unconstitutional legislation has backfired, other repressive initiatives continue. For example, after a recent high-profile university event about the right to free speech on Palestine was scheduled at the University of Massachusetts, some Israel advocates sued to try to get the university to stop the event alleging that it would cause harm to Jewish students. This effort to equate Palestinian rights advocacy with anti-Semitism has been another pathway to try to harness the power of the law as a repressive instrument to silence debate. In such cases, advocates seek to use preexisting laws relating to discrimination and demand their enforcement against Palestinian rights advocacy. A judge in Massachusetts, however, rejected the request for an injunction against the event and stated, “I can’t enjoin a forum just because someone may say something at that forum that fits someone’s definition of anti-Semitism or racism or homophobia or anything else.” Judge Robert Ullmann continued, “There’s nothing that comes even close to a threat of harm or incitement to violence or lawlessness.”\nAlthough the event took place, it was only after a legal obstacle was thrown in its way. To be sure, efforts to intimidate and silence students on university campuses are very common. It is not clear yet whether the work of the repression network will significantly shift due to the First Amendment or merely be slightly adjusted to attempt passing constitutional challenges.\nEfforts to intimidate and silence students on university campuses are very common. It is not clear yet whether the work of the repression network will significantly shift due to the First Amendment or merely be slightly adjusted to attempt passing constitutional challenges.\nIf laws aimed at silencing and intimidating Palestine rights advocacy cannot be passed because they violate the Constitution, using preexisting laws against discrimination might be the fallback option. In line with this, there is a growing chorus attempting to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Indeed, the newly appointed US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, has taken this view, as has US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. That this seems to be an operating principle within the executive branch now suggests that the groundwork is laid for the existence of current anti-discrimination laws being used against Palestine rights advocacy. One avenue through which this could happen is the Department of Education, because President Donald Trump appointed a staunch advocate of such political targeting to head the Office of Civil Rights. Universities like the one in Massachusetts, for example, could face penalties or lose funding over their willingness to host such events. While this would set up yet another constitutional challenge, the repressive effect might well be easier to impose since the laws are already in place.\nIn sum, developments over the last several months have underscored something of a shift in the battle over the right to boycott Israel in the United States, with the First Amendment presenting a thick red legal—and, importantly, political—line. While the First Amendment has proved a useful guarantor of the right to boycott, interest groups backing Israel still seem more strategically committed to stopping the debate than attempting to win it when it comes to addressing US complicity in Israeli policies.\nYousef Munayyer is a Non-resident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC. To learn more about Yousef and read his previous publications click here"
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        "text": "Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton\nWatch the truly bizarre first trailer for the Cats movie\nTom Cruise promises that everything you see in this Top Gun: Maverick trailer is 'for real'\nU.S. Navy 'destroyed' Iranian drone that came too close, Trump says\nToys 'R' Us is relaunching in the U.S. with new stores designed to be more 'fun and interactive'\nSeattle’s NHL expansion team names Hall of Famer Ron Francis as general manager\nRep. Ilhan Omar reminds Lindsey Graham that he once called Trump a 'race-baiting bigot'\nHope Hicks told Michael Cohen to 'keep praying' as they hoped to keep hush money payments quiet, documents show\nSee More Speed Reads\nMore than a month after Hillary Clinton bagged enough delegates and superdelegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) officially endorsed her during a joint rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday. Though Sanders applauded his own campaign's wins in 22 states, he conceded that Clinton has \"won the Democratic nominating process\" and announced he will work to \"make certain she will be the next president.\"\nSanders admit that he and Clinton \"disagree on a number of issues,\" but he contended that's \"what democracy is about\" and also underscored that the campaigns have come together recently to produce \"by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.\" \"This campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face,\" Sanders said. \"And there is no doubt in my mind that, as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that.\" Becca Stanek\nNothing can adequately prepare you for your first glimpse at the Cats movie.\nUniversal Pictures on Thursday debuted the highly-anticipated first footage from its upcoming musical adaptation after months of teases about Taylor Swift's attending of \"cat school\" and the film's supposedly revolutionary use of, as the filmmakers describe it, \"digital fur technology.\" And, well, here it is.\nI'm at a loss for words pic.twitter.com/0QblRxDk5k\n— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) July 18, 2019\nFrom start to finish, the trailer is a wild ride that doesn't even attempt to ease viewers into how surreal literally every character in the film looks. That online reaction to the initially funky-looking CGI Genie in Aladdin and the extremely distressing new Sonic the Hedgehog don't even hold a candle.\nCats' cast includes, believe it or not, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, and Judie Dench, who discussed their experience making the film in a recent behind-the-scenes reel featuring such quotes as \"they're people but they're cats ... there is nothing else like it.\" Indeed, there isn't. Take a deep breath and watch the trailer below. Brendan Morrow\nThis Christmas, you will believe. #CatsMovie pic.twitter.com/doKFWGAdpB\n— Cats Movie (@catsmovie) July 18, 2019\nTom Cruise still has that need for speed, even three decades later.\nAt San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, Cruise made an unannounced appearance following a Terminator: Dark Fate panel to reveal the first trailer for the long-awaited Top: Gun Maverick, a follow-up to the 1986 original that's set for release next year. The footage, which dropped online shortly after its Comic-Con debut, shows off Cruise's return as Maverick and some seriously impressive-looking flying sequences.\nCruise, who in recent years has infamously done his own, increasingly insane stunts for the Mission: Impossible franchise, promised the Comic-Con audience similar authenticity in Maverick, saying, \"Everything you see in this film, obviously, it's for real,\" Variety reports. \"We're working with the Navy. All of the flying that you see in this picture, everything is real.\" He also described the movie as a \"love letter to aviation.\"\nTop Gun: Maverick will hit theaters on June 26, 2020, and Cruise said Thursday that after a 34 year wait, \"I felt it was my responsibility for me to deliver for you.\" Watch the trailer below. Brendan Morrow\nWatch the official trailer for #TopGun: Maverick starring @TomCruise. In theatres 2020. pic.twitter.com/WbXdWDR2nc\n— Paramount Pictures (@ParamountPics) July 18, 2019\nMCSN Craig Z. Rodarte/U.S. Navy via Getty Images\nThe U.S. Navy has \"destroyed\" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump announced Thursday afternoon.\nThe U.S.S. Boxer was sailing in the strategic strait when the drone came within 1,000 yards of it and ignored \"multiple calls to stand down,\" Trump told reporters. It then took \"defensive action\" and used electronic jamming to down the drone, Trump continued.\nThe attack comes after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday claimed responsibility for seizing a foreign tanker that went missing this past weekend in the Strait of Hormuz, The Washington Post notes. It's the latest international incident in the waterway that connects the Persian Gulf with the rest of the world, and also comes amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Iran shot a U.S. drone in that area last month, but while America says it was in international airspace, Iran claimed it was flying in Iranian territory. Kathryn Krawczyk\nTim Boyle/Getty Images\nToys 'R' Us is getting a reboot.\nThe retailer, which closed all its locations in the U.S. in 2018 after the company filed for bankruptcy, is being relaunched by Tru Kids Brands with the opening of two new stores this year, CNN reports. One of the new locations will be in Houston, Texas, while the other will be in Paramus, New Jersey, and the company's aim is to open 10 new stores by the end of 2020, The Washington Post reports.\nBut Toys 'R' Us won't be coming back without some major changes, as Tru Kids Brands has reworked the stores' design so they're more \"fun and interactive\" as to \"better fit within today's retail environment,\" CEO Richard Barry told the Post. The two new locations will be smaller — 6,500-square feet compared to about 40,000 square feet before — and they'll emphasize open areas for children to play in, the Post notes. The stores will also sell fewer toys than before, CNN reports. Previously, lenders had teased a \"new and re-imagined\" Toys 'R Us on the horizon.\nAhead of this relaunch, though, The Associated Press notes that it's unclear \"how much support the new model will get from suppliers, who were burned by Toys 'R' Us' quick demise.\" The company in 2018 announced it would close all of its stores in the United States six months after filing for bankruptcy, resulting in the loss of more than 30,000 jobs, per The Washington Post.\nFor Toys 'R' Us kids in Texas and New Jersey, the new locations will open this fall. Brendan Morrow\nSLAPSHOT IN SEATTLE\nBruce Bennett/Getty Images\nNational Hockey League Hall of Famer and former Hartford Whaler Ron Francis was named the first general manager of Seattle's forthcoming expansion team on Thursday, The Seattle Times reports.\nThe team was approved by the NHL's Board of Governors in December, and will begin playing in the 2021-2022 season. Francis received a multi-year contract with Seattle, according to ESPN.\nFrancis played 23 seasons in the NHL, and is second only to Wayne Gretzky in all-time career assists. Following his retirement in 2004, Francis was hired to direct operations for the Carolina Hurricanes and was later named general manager. He was then president of hockey operations until 2018.\nThe new Seattle team is still unnamed, but Oak View Group, the new team's ownership group, registered 13 possible trademarks last year, including the Seattle Kraken, the Seattle Sockeyes, and the Seattle Evergreens. The name choice, which Francis will be able to give input on, is expected to be announced by the end of the year. To the dismay of few, the Whalers is not being considered.\nThe Seattle team, when it officially launches, will become the league's 32nd team, following the Las Vegas Golden Knights in 2017, who reached the Stanley Cup finals in their first season. Their entrance will cause a realignment of the league's divisions, with Seattle taking the Arizona Coyotes' place in the Pacific Division, and moving the Coyotes, who play in suburban Phoenix, to the Central Division. Together, the Central and Pacific Divisions make up the Western Conference, and the Atlantic and Metropolitan Divisions make up the Eastern Conference.\nFrancis tweeted that he was looking forward to \"build[ing] an excellent franchise that will bring back the Stanley Cup!\" Steven Orlofsky\nSen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has provided the most confusing explanation yet for President Trump's racist tweets.\nTrump on Sunday sent tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen to \"go back\" to the countries they came from, inspiring his backers at a Wednesday rally to chant \"send her back\" after Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). This sparked dozens of allegations that Trump is racist, which, as Graham oddly claimed in a Thursday tweet, apparently happens to every Republican president.\nSomething I have learned:\nIf you are a Republican nominee for President – or President – you will be accused of being a racist.\nJohn Lewis compared John McCain’s campaign to being like that of George Wallace.\nIt comes with the territory unfortunately.\n— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 18, 2019\nGraham's statement not only doesn't defend past GOP nominees and presidents against labels of racism; it's downright coated in irony. As Omar quickly reminded the senator, he was the one calling Trump a \"bigot\" just a few years ago. Kathryn Krawczyk\n“Donald Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”\n~ Sen. Lindsey Graham https://t.co/IqQaIbynHs https://t.co/z4aFtJRxdj\n— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 18, 2019\nit's working\nNew court documents unsealed on Thursday detail President Donald Trump's 2016 team's conversations as Michael Cohen was arranging hush money payments to silence women alleging they had affairs with Trump.\nIn the documents, an FBI agent says that Trump's former attorney in the days after the Access Hollywood tape was released \"exchanged a series of calls, text messages, and emails\" with Stormy Daniels' attorney Keith Davidson, the National Enquirer's David Pecker and David Howard, Trump, and then-campaign secretary Hope Hicks, per BuzzFeed News' Zoe Tillman.\n\"Based on the timing of these calls, and the content of the text messages and emails, I believe that at least some of these communications concerned the need to prevent [Stephanie] Clifford from going public, particularly in the wake of the Access Hollywood story,\" the FBI agent says.\nOne portion of the document also describes a conversation on Nov. 5, in which Cohen texted Hicks noticing that a Wall Street Journal article about the National Enquirer paying to silence Karen McDougal, who also claimed she had an affair with Trump, was \"getting little to no traction,\" per CBS News' Steven Portnoy. Hicks responded, \"Same. Keep praying!! It's working!\" Hicks claimed in a comment for that story, \"We have no knowledge of any of this.\" The documents also show that Cohen texted Howard that \"he's pissed,\" per HuffPost, seemingly referring to Trump.\nHicks has denied knowing about Daniels' allegations until November 2016, a claim she made during congressional testimony, ABC News reports.\nCohen is currently serving a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations as prosecutors say he made the hush money payments at the direction of Trump, and the documents show Trump and Cohen communicating numerous times as Cohen was arranging the payments, CNN reports. Trump has denied knowing anything about the payments. Brendan Morrow"
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        "text": "The Birth and Government\nBEFORE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION\nArticles of Confederation\nThe Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, also known as the Articles of Confederation, was the first official governing document of the newly created Unites States of America. After the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 by the Continental Congress, the brand new nation needed a document that bound the thirteen colonies into a union. On November 15, 1777 the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation that combined the thirteen colonies into a loose confederation. The articles were ratified by the colonies and took effect March 1, 1781. The Second Continental Congress at that time evolved a new a name for itself to go with the new constitution: Congress of the Confederation.\nThe Articles of Confederation would fail to provide for decisive leadership and did not create the position of a chief executive or president of the country. Instead, the articles created a position for a person to serve as the presiding officer of Congress under the Articles of Confederation. This post was called President of the United States in Congress Assembled. By failing to provide for a strong national chief executive the Articles of Confederation fell out of favor with members of Congress and the people.\nEventually, the Articles of Confederation would be replaced by the United States Constitution on June 21, 1788, when the ninth state, New Hampshire, ratified the Constitution.\nUnited States of America - Official Name\nThough brief in its existence, the Articles did leave its mark. The document contained thirteen articles, a conclusion, and signatures. The first article established the name of the confederation as “The United States of America”. The second article explained the rights possessed by any state and the power to which the state is entitled. Other articles dealt with freedom of movement, state representation in the Congress of the Confederation (each state had one vote), and limited the power of states to conduct foreign relations independent of Congress and limited the right of a state to declare war. It also provided that the Congress have a unicameral legislature (one chamber).\nThe Articles of Confederation also outlined the right of the central government to declare war, set weights and measures including coins, and to be the final arbiter of arguments between states.\nAnother weakness of the Articles of Confederation was its failure to empower congress to compel states to provide its share of revenue or troops for war for independence from Great Britain, the American Revolution, that was still raging. The inefficiency of weak central government led to Gen. George Washington’s frustration as he often lacked needed funds and troops to fight the war. The Articles endorsed Congressional control of the Continental Army and allowed for the show of colonial unity but lacked the teeth to enforce its own laws.\nA decisive blow to the life of the Articles of Confederation lay in its failure to provide for a national means of collecting taxes from the various states. Without a consistent flow of income from all the states the central government was ineffective.\nFinally, after several failed attempts to address the issue of the weaknesses of the Articles, leaders from several states first met at the Annapolis Convention of 1786 and then in Philadelphia to debate improvements to the federal government. On February 21, 1787 Congress endorsed the plan by state leaders to revise the Articles of Confederation.\nThe endorsement for changes by Congress led to the Constitutional Convention. Secretly, and at great risk to their freedom, instead of simply revising the Articles, delegates from the various states created a plan to completely replace the Articles with a new governing document that would come to be the United States Constitution, the same Constitution in effect today. The Constitutional Convention, as the assembly came to be known, endorsed the new Constitution on September 17, 1787.\nOn September 28, 1787 Congress sends the newly written Constitution to the states for ratification. The document states it will become effective upon ratification by the ninth state. This happened on June 21, 1788 when New Hampshire ratified it. Rhode Island became the thirteenth and last state to ratify it on May 29, 1790.\nOn July 2, 1788 the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America was officially announced by Congress. On November 1, 1788 the last Congress under the Articles of Confederation adjournsed.\nOn March 4, 1789 the new government created by the U.S. Constitution came into existence when the U.S. Congress met for the first time.\nNEXT PAGE - Constitutional Convention\nReturn to - TABLE OF CONTENTS\nPlease e-mail your inquiry.\nbernal1776@gmail.com"
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        "text": "Q: Sync iPhone with multiple Macs Is it possible to sync an iPhone with multiple computers? I know the music will be restricted, and I don't mind. I want the contacts, bookmarks, etc. to be in sync across my home iMac and my MacBook.\n\nA: The best way to synchronize contacts and bookmarks between several Mac and/or iPhone is to use MobileMe (now iCloud). It will sync all as you need where you want.\n\nA: You actually don't have to buy MobileMe to sync contacts and calendar to multiple Macs and multiple iOS devices. This can be accomplished with only a free Google account. If you want more details on how to set it up, please ask.\nAs far as I know, there is no way to sync bookmarks without MobileMe.\n\nA: Actually, I just answered the question to how to keep your device's music library synchronized with 2 machines as well: Sync iTunes U between 2 Macs via an iPod\n\nA: One way to partly solve this (without paying for MobileMe) is by syncing certain data between different computers using Dropbox. (This approach was suggested in a Super User question about syncing home folders that I asked a year ago.)\nTo sync contacts, for example, share AddressBook's application data between your Macs like this:\n\n\n*\n\n*Move the folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (on the computer where you have the data) to your Dropbox.\n\n*On each computer you wish to sync, create a symlink from ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook to that folder in your Dropbox.\n\n\nThese screenshots show what the setup looks like on one of my computers:\n\n\n(If you need more detailed instructions, please let me know!)\nFor bookmarks, you'd need to share some Safari application data (I don't know which files/folders exactly as I haven't done that myself).\nObviously this isn't optimal, but once you set it up, it works pretty well. I think Apple is sooner or later going to provide better (cloud-based, even wireless) sync across multiple devices (also to those who're not paying extra for the service). Well, at any rate they should, as they are lagging behind Google quite badly in this respect.\n\nA: You can have your music synced to one computer and contacts synced to another - no problem.\n"
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        "text": "Dobson, Henry (1841–1918)\nby E. M. Dollery\nHenry Dobson (1841-1918), by J. W. Beattie\nAllport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, AUTAS001125881284\nHenry Dobson (1841-1918), lawyer and politician, was born on 24 December 1841 in Hobart, son of John Dobson, solicitor, and his second wife Kate, née Willis. Like his brother Alfred and his half-brothers William Lambert and Frank he was educated at The Hutchins School. After some time in a merchant's office he commenced legal training with Allport, Roberts and Allport, and was called to the Tasmanian Bar on 30 December 1864. As the partner of William Giblin in 1865-70 and from 1887 as senior partner in the firm of Dobson, Mitchell and Allport he became one of the most trusted family lawyers in the colony.\nElected for Brighton to the House of Assembly in 1891 he was soon chosen as leader of the Opposition, probably because of his family connexions and his wealth at a time when many other prominent politicians were embarrassed by the economic depression. After the Fysh ministry was defeated Dobson became premier on 17 August 1892. His period in office, following the over-spending of previous administrations, was a disastrous one. His policy of drastic retrenchment was rejected, and he obtained a dissolution. With the situation unchanged after the election he resigned on 14 April 1894; he held his seat until 1899. An ardent Federalist, he was a member of the Federal Council of Australasia from 1893 and represented Tasmania at the 1897-98 convention. Elected to the Senate in 1901 he was temporary chairman of committees in 1904-08 and chairman in 1908-09. After his defeat in 1910 he retired from politics.\nWith Giblin, James Backhouse Walker and others Dobson was a founder in 1864 of the Working Men's Club. In an attempt to relieve the unemployment of the 1890s he gave much personal support to the establishment in 1894 of a partially self-supporting, though finally unsuccessful, village settlement at Southport; his enthusiasm was surpassed only by that of his wife Emily Lempriere whom he had married on 4 February 1868 in the Bothwell Church of England. Keenly interested in education, he earned the hostility of many employers in 1898 by implementing the amendment to the Education Act (1885) which made attendance at school compulsory for five days a week. He also sponsored the introduction of kindergartens. Paramount among his public works was his advocacy of Tasmania as a tourist resort. Founder and president in 1895-1914 of the Tasmanian Tourist Association he worked for the establishment of the official Tourist and Information Bureau and of the Scenery Preservation Board in 1915. He was chairman of the National Park Board in 1917-18. He also supported the developing fruit-growing industry.\nA highly cultivated man with a love of good music, literature and sport, Dobson belonged to the Royal Society of Tasmania from 1861, and the Tasmanian Club from 1866, and was president of the Athenaeum Club in 1895-1906. He held tenaciously to views many of which, while not immediately popular, subsequently proved sound. He died on 10 October 1918 at Hobart survived by his wife, four daughters and the elder of two sons, and was buried in Queenborough cemetery.\nCyclopedia of Tasmania (Hob, 1900)\nW. R. Barrett, History of the Church of England in Tasmania (Hob, 1942)\nF. C. Green (ed), A Century of Responsible Government 1856-1956 (Hob, 1956)\nRoyal Society of Tasmania, Proceedings, 1918\nP. F. Bolger, ‘The Southport settlement’, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 12 (1965), pt 4\nTable Talk (Melbourne), 25 Apr 1901\nPunch (Melbourne), 7 Dec 1905\nMercury (Hobart), 11 Oct 1918.\nDobson, Emily (wife)\nLempriere, Thomas James (father-in-law)\nLempriere, William George (brother-in-law)\nCooke, Annie Josephine (niece by marriage)\nLempriere, Audley Raoul (niece by marriage)\nLempriere, Adelaide Maude (niece by marriage)\nLempriere, Thomas Edward (nephew by marriage)\nLempriere, John Thomson (nephew by marriage)\nLempriere, Dora Elizabeth (nephew by marriage)\nLempriere, Charles Algernon (nephew by marriage)\nE. M. Dollery, 'Dobson, Henry (1841–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dobson-henry-5986/text10217, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 16 July 2019.\nHobart, Tasmania, Australia\neducational reformer\nfederationist\nMember of Lower House\nMember of Upper House"
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        "text": "Apr. 13, 2019. The 9th annual \"Hollywood Walk of Fame\" Wig Out Gala at Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort is the major fundraiser for the organization Don't be a Chump! Check for a Lump! Their mission is to provide free breast health education and direct assistance with new wigs, mammograms and diagnostic testing in Arizona."
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        "text": "The Stargazers\nSat24Aug\n+ special guests: SISTER SUZIE\n+ DJs New album launch for legendary 1980’s Rock ‘n’ Roll – Jump Jive Group.\nThe Stargazers released their debut single “Groove, Baby, Groove” in 1981 on Epic Records closely followed by the LP “Watch This Space” and further singles “Tossin’ N Turnin” (a cover of the 1960 Bobby Lewis song), Louis Prima’s “Hey Marie” and “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” (a cover of the 1946 Louis Jordan song) the following year. The band split in 1983 but reformed in the 1990’s where they released four more albums. Tonight the band will launch their brand new album.\nNearly Dan\nFlamin’ Groovies + THE GALILEO 7\nGraham Day & The Forefathers"
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        "text": "ANNUAL ALFRED DEAKIN LECTURE\nAUSTRALIA INDIA LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE 2018\nVictoria’s India Strategy launch\nOceania: Yonder & Beyond\nAIYD Alumni Round Table\nCivilisational Perspectives in International Relat...\nAii Delhi Incoming Leader Fellow Ravi Dutt Bajpai speaking on Civilisa... Watch Now\nDidgeridoo in Kasol...\nA group of young travel enthusiasts from Team Get Lost found a piece o... Watch Now\nRT @DipenRughani: My conversation with @amitabhk87 of @NITIAayog on his recent visit to #Australia @... follow\nRT @AIinstitute: Rahul Gandhi has resigned as the President of the Congress party. Expert Robin Jeff... follow\nRT @jaijit: With less than 5% of global GDP, #India contributes to more than 10% of global growth ht... follow\nRT @orfonline: India developed an unique AI approach and strategy by leveraging it not only for econ... follow\nIt took universal health care, political will & an aggressive health campaign but four decades i... follow\nIt took universal health care, political will and a health campaign designed to terrify the public, but nearly four decades into the H.I.V. crisis, Australian researchers say the country is on a path toward making transmissions of the virus vanishingly rare - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/australia/hiv-aids-prep-prevention-drug.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage\nT-Hub, Beanstalk AgTech invite applications for Graft Australia-India AgTech Program. Global AgTech startups with disruptive technologies and the potential to address the challenges faced by the Indian and Australian agricultural sector are eligible for the Program - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/t-hub-beanstalk-agtech-invite-applications-for-graft-australia-india-agtech-program/articleshow/70141648.cms\nAustralia India Institute, Delhi is with Muskan Jain.\nFurthering our mandate we are constantly exploring collaborations with fellow bilateral research institutes. Our director Ms. Tanya Spisbah & our research associate, Ms. Muskan Jain met Dr Prachi Kaul, Director & Ms. Pikee Sharma, Program Officer from the Canadian Indian Shastri Institute in Delhi today.\nOur director, Ms. Tanya Spisbah met with Dr Sanjay Seth, CEO of The Energy Resources Institute Green Ratings integrated Housing Assessments (GRiHA) Council, and Ms Shubnam Bassi, Secretary of the GRiHA Council, to discuss collaboration in sustainable housing and infrastructure. Ms. Spisbah was very pleased to receive a Gond art painting as a gift from Dr. Seth.\nAustralia's model of selling public assets such as power grids and airports to fund further infrastructure investment offers promise for India to find a cool $1 Trillion - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-04/india-needs-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-australia\nThrough its teaching, research, public policy and outreach programs, Aii is building Australia’s understanding of India, and deepening and enriching the relationship between the two countries.\nDelhi Centre\nMelbourne Centre\nThe Australia India Institute was established by the University of Melbourne in 2008 and was launched in September 2009 by the then Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi. Ms Gillard stated that the Australian Government “is committed to building a greater understanding between our two peoples and Australians’ understanding of India, its culture, its history and place in the world”.\nAII@Delhi, the first centre of the Institute’s network to be established in India, opened in February 2015. The Institute’s plans to expand its operations to India with a centre in Delhi were revealed by Australia’s Prime Minister at the time, the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP, during his trip to India in September 2014.\nScroll Here\nSort order Date wise Select Month April (1) May (1) November (2) December (1)\nShow All Event\nWOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: EXPANDING INFLUENCE AND CATALYSTS FOR SUCCESS\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi in association with LaTrobe University, Australia and FI...\nMay, 01st, 2017\nEvent / Seminars\nReception in honour of The Honorable Simon Birmingham\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi hosted a Cocktail Reception in honour of Senator, The Honoura...\nApr, 11th, 2017\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi hosted an Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture on “Building an Australi...\nDec, 21st, 2016\nINAUGURAL INDIA-AUSTRALIA HEALTH POLICY ROUNDTABLE\nAustralia India Institute @Delhi hosted Inaugural India-Australia Health Policy Roundtable on the sc...\nNov, 05th, 2016\nAnnual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017\nH.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin...\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi in association with LaTrobe University, Australia and FICCI hosted a Roundtable on “Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Catalysts for Success” to celebrate LaTrobe University’s 50th Anniversary.\nThe event was well attended by women influencers and leaders; Dr. Kiran Bedi, Lt Governor, Puducherry; Dr. Jyotsna Suri, Past President, FICCI and Chairperson & Managing Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group; Prof. Amalia Di Lorio, Associate PVC & Partnerships, College of Arts, Social Sciences & Commerce, LaTrobe University, Australia\nApril, 11th, 2017\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi hosted a Cocktail Reception in honour of Senator, The Honourable Simon Birmingham, Australian Minister for Education & Training.\nThe event was well attended by Educational influencers from both India and Australia.\nThe 1st edition of SAMVAAD was launched at the reception, a platform for dialogue, research and partnership ideas from incoming leader fellows\nDecember, 21st, 2016\nAustralia India Institute @ Delhi hosted an Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture on “Building an Australia - India Partnership” by Mr. Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Australia.\nThe lecture was moderated by H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India.\nNovember, 05th, 2016\nAustralia India Institute @Delhi hosted Inaugural India-Australia Health Policy Roundtable on the scope for Indo-Australian collaboration on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) as related to Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Communicable Diseases (CDs). It also aimed to understand the policy responses to these challenges faced by the health care systems in India and Australia.\nH.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017 on ‘Australia & India Natural Partners In An Uncertain World’\nhttp://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/\nIn late 2009, the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations provided just over AUD8 million to the Australia India Institute over three years. The University of Melbourne also contributed AUD1.75 million in cash and kind.\nIn April 2011, Professor Amitabh Mattoo joined the Institute as its inaugural Director for a three-year term. He was on leave from his position as Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Professor Mattoo has also been a member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India.\nIn 2011, the Institute moved to new premises in Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria, which for the first time gave it a real home. Here at least once a week, in the Institute’s vibrant seminar room, thought leaders from around the world provoke insightful discussion on subjects relevant to India and its relations with Australia. Here too, visiting fellows from India are given office space for their sojourn in Australia.\n“I welcome the Institute’s plans to open its first node in India in 2015, supported by the University of Melbourne,” Mr Abbott said.\nIn August 2015, the then Minister of Education and Training, the Hon. Christopher Pyne inaugurated the the centre’s Delhi offices during a trip to India with an Australia Education Delegation including Vice Chancellors from some of Australia’s leading universities.\n“With nodes also at La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales, it is good to see a deep focus on India at a time when the relationship between our two countries is fast growing in importance.” Mr Pyne said.\n“The Institute plays a crucial role in strengthening the relationship in education and research between Australia and India, and the New Delhi node can only strengthen this,” he said.\nBy promoting public policy dialogue and academic debate, the new centre will facilitate research partnerships and serve as a resource hub for academics, policy makers and businesses.\nA dynamic program of lectures, seminars and events will enable thought leaders from India and Australia to engage with each other on current issues in a wide range of disciplines.\nThe AII@Delhi will work closely with the Government of India, the Australian High Commission, and Indian universities and think tanks to expand the work of the Melbourne-based Australia India Institute. The Institute is committed to deepening and enriching the strategic relationship between Australia and India, a relationship that is emerging as one of the most significant Asian partnerships of the 21st century.\nPublication Collection\nVOLUME (01)\nShow all collection\nSAMVAAD VOLUME II\nAn Overview of School Education in India and Australia"
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        "text": "Home » India\nIndia critized freedom report\nUpdated: 00:00 GMT, Jan 1, 1970 | Published: 06:11 GMT, May 3, 2015 |\nIndia has criticized a US congressional panel claim that minorities in the country have been subjected to “violent attacks” after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP came to power.\nThe foreign ministry said the panel report “appears to be based on limited understanding of India”. Critics say Mr Modi’s government is not doing enough to stop Hindu zealots targeting minorities.\nMr Modi has vowed to protect all religious groups.\nThe latest US Commission on International Religious Freedom report says that “since the [last year’s] election, religious minority communities have been subject to derogatory comments by politicians linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and numerous violent attacks and forced conversions by Hindu nationalist groups, such as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)”.\nThe report said Hindu groups had announced plans in December to forcibly “reconvert” at least 4,000 Christian families and 1,000 Muslim families to Hinduism in Uttar Pradesh as part of a so-called ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) programme. “Despite the country’s status as a pluralistic, secular democracy, India has long struggled to protect minority religious communities or provide justice when crimes occur, which perpetuates a climate of impunity,” the report added.\n“The report appears to be based on limited understanding of India, its Constitution and its society,” India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup quoted as “We take no cognisance of the report,” he added.\nDuring his visit to Delhi earlier this year, US President Barack Obama said that “India will succeed so long as it is not splintered on religious lines”.\nChristian groups in India have accused hard-line Hindu groups, emboldened by Mr Modi’s landslide in last year’s general election, of carrying out the attacks on churches, but police say there is little evidence for this.\nMr Modi has said his government would “not allow any group belonging to majority or minority to incite hatred against other communities” and the government “will act strongly against such violence.\nBharatiya Janata Party (BJP\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP\nRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS\nVishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)"
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        "text": "2 юни е 153-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (154-ти през високосна година). Остават 212 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 455 г. – Вандалите нападат, превземат и плячкосват Рим в продължение на 2 седмици.\n 575 г. – Започва понтификата на папа Бенедикт I.\n 657 г. – Свети Евгений I е избран за римски папа.\n 1537 г. – Папа Павел III издава забрана северноамериканските индианци да бъдат използвани като роби.\n 1848 г. – В Прага започва Панславянски конгрес в отговор на германския национализъм в териториите в Централна Европа, населени със славяни.\n 1873 г. – При поредния разпит на Атанас Узунов в Хасково османските власти успяват да установят неговата самоличност и да изтръгнат признание за съпричастността му към комитетската организация.\n 1876 г. – В подножието на връх Вола във Врачанската планина, след сражение с части на османската армия е прострелян на 1 юни смъртоносно Христо Ботев, като почитта се отдава традиционно на 2 юни.\n 1880 г. – Приет е първият Закон за устройство на съдилищата в България.\n 1885 г. – Костите на Георги Раковски са пренесени от Букурещ в България.\n 1896 г. – Италианецът Гулиелмо Маркони патентова радиото.\n 1901 г. – В Княжество България със закон окончателно е отменен натуралният десятък и е въведен поземлен данък.\n 1907 г. – В Хага започва Втората световна мирна конференция.\n 1915 г. – Централните сили предлагат България да нападне Сърбия и да завземе цяла Вардарска Македония и Поморавието, а след войната обещават съдействие за присъединяване на Южна Добруджа и Кавала.\n 1920 г. – Губернаторът на Беломорска Тракия ген. Шарпи напуска областта, тази предишна българска държавна територия губи автономния си режим на „Междусъюзническа Тракия“ и е напълно анексирана от Гърция.\n 1924 г. – Президентът на САЩ Калвин Кулидж подписва закон, който предоставя право за гласуване на индианците, родени в САЩ.\n 1946 г. – Италия след общонароден референдум е обявена за република, а жените получават избирателни права.\n 1953 г. – Състои се официалната коронация на кралицата на Великобритания Елизабет II в Уестминстърското абатство в Лондон, която е пряко предавана по телевизията.\n 1975 г. – Започва официално посещение в Народна република България на севернокорейския ръководител Ким Ир Сен.\n 1979 г. – Два милиона поляци посрещат папа Йоан Павел II при неговото първо посещение в Полша.\n 1983 г. – От СССР е изстрелян автоматичен космически апарат Венера 15.\n 1992 г. – При референдум в Дания е отхвърлен Маастрихтският договор.\n\n 1999 г. – Африканският национален конгрес печели 66% от гласовете на избори в ЮАР.\n 2003 г. – От космодрума в Байконур е изстрелян Марс експрес – първият междупланетен космически апарат на Европейската космическа агенция.\n 2004 г. – Регистрирано е първото обгазяване на Стара Загора.\n 2008 г. – Кола бомба избухва срещу посолството на Дания в Исламабад, Пакистан. Осем души загиват, а над 40 са ранени.\n\nРодени \n* 1535 г. – Лъв XI, римски папа († 1605 г.)\n 1740 г. – Донасиен Алфонс Франсоа дьо Сад, френски писател и философ († 1814 г.)\n 1821 г. – Йон Братиану, министър-председател на Румъния († 1891 г.)\n 1835 г. – Пий X, римски папа († 1914 г.)\n 1840 г. – Томас Харди, английски романист и поет († 1924 г.)\n 1857 г. – Карл Гелеруп, датски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1919 г.)\n 1871 г. – Фьодор Токарев, съветски оръжеен майстор († 1968 г.)\n 1873 г. – Рачо Ангелов, български лекар († 1956 г.)\n 1876 г. – Константин Треньов, съветски писател († 1945 г.)\n 1880 г. – Тихомир Павлов, български публицист и общественик († 1937 г.)\n 1882 г. – Павел Шатев, български революционер († 1951 г.)\n 1884 г. – Адолфо Мелендес, испански спортен функционер († 1968 г.)\n 1900 г. – Асен Василиев, български изкуствовед и художник († 1981 г.)\n 1904 г. – Джони Вайсмюлер, американски плувец, олимпийски шампион († 1984 г.)\n 1920 г. – Марсел Райх-Раницки, германски литературен критик († 2013 г.)\n 1922 г. – Кармен Силвера, канадска актриса († 2002 г.)\n 1923 г. – Виолета Якова, българска партизанка († 1944 г.)\n 1930 г. – Чарлс Конрад, американски астронавт († 1999 г.)\n 1940 г. – Константинос II, крал на Гърция\n 1941 г. – Динко Дерменджиев, български футболист († 2019 г.)\n 1942 г. – Тони Бъзан, британски психолог\n 1946 г. – Венета Зюмбюлева, българска актриса († 2021 г.)\n 1946 г. – Ласе Халстрьом, шведски филмов режисьор\n 1949 г. – Владимир Луков, български поет\n 1951 г. – Лидия Михова, радиожурналист и озвучаващ актриса\n 1955 г. – Дейна Карви, американски актьор\n 1956 г. – Марк Полански, американски астронавт\n 1957 г. – Марк Лорънсън, английски футболист\n 1962 г. – Сибиле Берг, германска писателка\n 1970 г. – Би-Риъл – американски рапър\n 1970 г. – Георги Донков, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Антъни Монтгомъри, американски актьор\n 1972 г. – Уентуърт Милър, американски актьор\n 1978 г. – Роберт Петров, македонски футболист\n 1978 г. – Джъстин Лонг, американски актьор\n 1981 г. – Николай Давиденко, руски тенисист\n 1985 г. – Джулия Микелини, италианска актриса\n 1987 г. – Атанас Чипилов, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Серхио Агуеро, аржентински футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1831 г. – Константин Павлович, велик княз на Русия (* 1779 г.)\n 1876 г. – Иван Преснаков, български революционер (* 1852 г.)\n 1882 г. – Джузепе Гарибалди, италиански революционер (* 1807 г.)\n 1905 г. – Иван Тодев, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1930 г. – Жул Паскин, френски художник (* 1885 г.)\n 1935 г. – Апостол Дограмаджиев, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1940 г. – Гунчо Гунчев, български географ (* 1904 г.)\n 1952 г. – Наум Торбов, български архитект (* 1880 г.)\n 1968 г. – Андре Матьо, канадски пианист и композитор (* 1929 г.)\n 1968 г. – Йордан Матев, български актьор (* 1928 г.)\n 1971 г. – Тодор Георгиев, български офицер (* 1882 г.)\n 1978 г. – Сантяго Бернабеу Йесте, испански футболист (* 1895 г.)\n 1988 г. – Радж Капур, индийски актьор (* 1924 г.)\n 2004 г. – Николай Гяуров, български певец (* 1929 г.)\n 2008 г. – Бо Дидли, американски блус певец (* 1928 г.)\n 2009 г. – Венцел Райчев, български социолог (* 1930 г.)\n 2007 г. – Волфганг Хилбиг, германски писател (* 1941 г.)\n 2009 г. – Дейвид Едингс, американски писател (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – ден на село Новоселец\n България – Ден на Христо Ботев и на загиналите за свободата и независимостта на България. Този ден се чества на тази дата, въпреки че фактическата дата на смърт на Христо Ботев е 1 юни.\n България – Празник на село Алеково (област Силистра)\n Италия – Ден на републиката (1946 г.)\n\n602"
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        "text": "Christ Church in Alexandria Removing Plaque to Washington\nChrist Church Episcopal in Alexandria, Virginia is removing two plaques from their sanctuary and apparently relocating them to another location that is to be determined. Leaders at Christ Church defended their “unanimous decision” by explaining that the plaques “make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome.” This decision by one of the most historic churches in the Washington, DC area comes in the context of a nationwide furor over statues and memorials to dead white Americans, primarily Confederate generals or leaders. But the acrimonious debate, as predicted by President Donald Trump, has now encompassed Founding Fathers and even Revolutionary War soldiers. It isn’t just Robert E. Lee who is having his plaque removed; it’s George Washington too.\nTo continue reading... check out \"George Washington's Home Church Caves to Political Correctness\"\nPosted by Brian Tubbs at 3:57 PM 2 comments: Links to this post\nIs Western Culture Superior? Dinesh D'Souza and PragerU Say Yes\nIn this age of Political Correctness, it seems almost blasphemous to suggest that one culture might be superior to another. This is especially so if one asserts that it's the western culture which is superior. Yet that is precisely what PragerU does with this controversial, but thought-provoking, video.\nAccording to Dinesh D'Souza, western culture (which of course forms the backdrop and context of the British Empire and the United States of America) is indeed superior to the other cultures of the world.\nWhat do you think? Sound off in the comments.\nPosted by Brian Tubbs at 6:09 PM 1 comment: Links to this post\nLabels: is western culture superior, western culture\nKilling England Debuts\nKilling England, the newest edition of the Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, has just been released. And I've downloaded it onto my Audible account. I'll be listening to it as I commute. When I'm done (no promises as to exact timetable), I'll post a review.\nThe title is jarringly inaccurate. The American revolutionaries of course didn't \"kill\" England. The British Empire didn't die or collapse during or after the Revolutionary War. The title is contrived to work the American War for Independence into the Killing series.\nThe Killing series is written as creative nonfiction with a widespread (read: non-academic) audience in mind. If you're looking for heavy scholarship, the Killing series is not for you. But they are enjoyable nonetheless and have inspired a greater interest in history for many people.\nWere the Founders Racist and Pro-Slavery?\nThe momentum to take down (or vandalize) statues to Confederate leaders has now extended to statues and memorials to America's Founding Fathers. The premise driving this is, of course, that the Founders were (by consensus) racist and pro-slavery. Most mainstream academic texts either affirm this premise or ignore it. But David Barton, a controversial speaker and author, counters this narrative.\nWhat follows is the first part of a video presentation titled \"American History in Black & White.\" This first part deals with the founding era.\nAs always...civil comments are welcome.\nRobert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not The Same\nRobert E Lee's statue in Charlottesville, Va.\nIn a combative August 15 press conference, President Donald Trump expressed dismay at the removal of the statue to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia (that planned removal being the flashpoint of the violent protests which erupted this past weekend) and in doing so, seemed to compare General Lee to George Washington.\n\"So, this week it's Robert E. Lee,\" said the President. \"I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?\"\nLet's agree that there are many in this country who would make little to no distinction between Confederate generals and slave-owning Founding Fathers. These activists would like to see statues and memorials to any and all slave owners (Confederate or loyal American) removed, and they would like to see any schools, towns, cities, or states likewise renamed. This includes Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and so on. President Trump is correct on this point, but...\nI believe it's wrong to encourage such linking or association. It's unnecessary to suggest an all-or-nothing approach to statues and memorials.\nThere are indeed some similarities between George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Both professed to be Christians. Both were Virginians. Both were generals. Both led (depending on one's point of view) revolutionary or insurrectionist armies. And, yes, both owned and managed slaves. But... there are also several very meaningful differences.\nRobert E. Lee emphasized loyalty to state over nation. By contrast, George Washington called for national allegiance. In his Farewell Address, President Washington declared: \"Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.\" Despite post-Civil War \"Lost Cause\" mythology and propaganda, the southern states in 1860-61 (particularly in the Deep South), clearly centered their grievances around the issue of slavery. This was made clear in their speeches, editorials, proclamations, formal deliberations, and official resolutions. Their desire to protect the institution of slavery (as well as its expansion and the capture of slaves who escaped to the North) was what drove them to secession. (See Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech). Lee took up his sword to defend this cause.\nIn contrast, the Second Continental Congress listed out their grievances (17 of them) against the British in the Declaration of Independence. Not one of those grievances was the desire to guard or expand slavery. (In fact, despite popular misconception today, most of the Founders didn't own slaves and even many who did had deep reservations with the institution). Both Lee and Washington expressed moral disapproval of slavery, and yet one of them (Lee) took up arms to effectively defend (and, had he been successful, to advance) slavery. The other capped off his long career by freeing his slaves in his will and (in so doing) publicly adding his name to the cause of manumission.\nOn the issue of slavery, it should be noted that Lee may not have been the \"benevolent\" slave master that his defenders would have us believe. Wesley Norris was a slave owned by the family and estate of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington. It was, as Norris said, the \"general impression\" of the slaves that when Mr. Custis passed, they would be freed. This understanding was no doubt inspired by the spirit of George Washington's will. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. When Custis died, Norris was informed he would have to remain a slave, under the authority of (at the time) Colonel Lee according to the \"conditions of the will.\" Seventeen months into their 5-year extension, Norris and two or three other slaves escaped to Maryland where they were captured and returned to Lee. Norris' account of what happened next is damning. Though Lee privately denied these allegations, there is some compelling evidence to back up Norris' claims. But even if Lee is technically innocent of some of the specifics of what Norris says, the nature of the controversy speaks to the relations Lee had with the slaves on his and his wife's plantation. It also makes clear that the Custis family and Lee broke with George Washington's trajectory against slavery.\nElizabeth Brown Pryor, author of Reading The Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, explains how Lee should be seen on the issue of slavery in contrast to George Washington. She writes:\nThe tragedy for Lee is that he never made the transformational leap that would recognize the fundamental human nature of the slaves. George Washington wrestled with it; Abraham Lincoln did as well. Neither of these men ever considered African-Americans their equal. Ultimately, however, they both grasped the fact that what was wrong with slavery was not an absence of sufficient laws, or a need for more humane treatment within an exploitative system. What was wrong with slavery was that it failed to recognize the brotherhood of the human condition. The entangled lives of the slaves and their masters, the emotional, historical, sexual, and communal connections, could mean only one thing: that these beings were equal as part of mankind; equal in their human instincts, passions, desires, and inclinations, including the desire for self-determination. Equal, as Lincoln said, in the \"right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns. . . .\" Capable, as George Washington finally realized, \"of a destiny different from that in which they were born.\" Robert E. Lee would never cross this threshold. He could embrace the need for justice, but it was a justice defined by unjust principles. His racism and his limited imagination meant that he never admitted the humanity of the slaves with whom he lived. In avoiding that truth, he bound himself to slavery's inhumanity.\nFinally, though Lee verbally objected to secession (calling it \"anarchy\"), he ultimately took up arms against the national government when his home state seceded. Washington, on the other hand, responded to rebellion against the national government with a swift and overwhelming display of military force (even leading troops in the field himself while President). See the Whiskey Rebellion. He also reportedly told an English friend, after the American Revolution, that if the southern states (including Virginia) were to secede over the issue of slavery, he would move north and side with the Union.\nBottom line: George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.\nThere are similarities, but there are also some very important differences -- differences that we should not miss today.\nThe President is right that some will seek to remove Washington's hero status (by tearing down statues in his honor and removing his name from schools and parks). Some are already doing this (and have been for a few years). Tearing down or removing Confederate statues is undoubtedly fueling momentum for downgrading the hero status of anyone associated with slavery - and that certainly includes men like Washington. But...\nIt's fallacious to say that we should keep up statues to undeserving historical figures so that we don't lose our statues to deserving ones.\nWe should not honor the Confederacy as a noble cause. Anyone who reads Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens' infamous \"Cornerstone Speech\" should agree. For this reason, I understand - and will not oppose - the removal of statues to Confederate leaders from public grounds. Confederate flags and statues belong on cemeteries and museums - not in public squares. Not in 2017.\nBut we should honor our nation's Founding Fathers. And I will oppose (vigorously so) any attempt to dishonor our nation's Founders.\nThis is how, I hope, most Americans today feel.\nLabels: donald trump and george washington, George Washington, george washington and robert e lee, lee and washington, lee slavery, washington slavery, washington trump\nBill O'Reilly Primed to Tackle The American Revolution\nBill O'Reilly turns the attention of his mega-bestselling Killing series to the American Revolution. In September 2017, Killing England will go live. According to its preview Amazon listing: \"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’s King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.\"\nOf course, the title isn't accurate. The Founding Fathers weren't trying to kill England. Indeed, they didn't even want to separate from England initially. They simply wanted the British Empire to live up to the principles of its own constitutional heritage and to honor the promises of its colonial charters. Even when war came, and the Declaration of Independence was later signed, they still didn't want to destroy the British Empire. They only wanted to be left alone. Many of them, including Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, were actually rather fond of the British and pushed for closer British ties after the war.\nO'Reilly and Martin Dugard have, of course, received a great deal of criticism for errors and sensationalism for their Killing series. But I think it's unfair to hold the Killing books to the same level of scrutiny one reserves for true historical texts like the mammoth John Adams biography by David McCullough or the classic The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood. The O'Reilly-Dugard books aren't works of scholarship. They are best understood as being in the genre of \"creative nonfiction.\" If you want deep scholarly analysis, they are not for you. But if you want an enjoyable read that transports you into the era they each profile, they accomplish their task. Some of the Killing books are better than others, but I've nevertheless enjoyed reading most of them.\nAs a Revolutionary War buff, I can't wait for this new book!\nLabels: Bill O'Reilly, Killing England\nWhat Part of 'No Religious Test' Does Senator Bernie Sanders Not Understand?\nThe U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids any \"religious test\" when it comes to people holding public office or public trust in the United States. Somehow, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) forgot that part of the Constitution or chose to ignore it when questioning President Trump's nominee to be the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Sanders vociferously objected to the nominee's views on salvation.\nHere's an article I wrote over at the American Creation blog on the subject...\nSenator Bernie Sanders Disregards US Constitution\nLabels: bernie sanders, bernie sanders constitution, bernie sanders founding fathers, bernie sanders religious test\nA Reminder from Mount Vernon on Star Wars Day\nThe fine folks at Mount Vernon have posted this brilliant meme inspired by Star Wars Day. If you don't \"get it,\" you need to watch the original Star Wars trilogy and pay close attention to the end of The Empire Strikes Back. :-)\nPosted by Brian Tubbs at 10:44 AM 2 comments: Links to this post\nLabels: father of the United States, George Washington, I am your father, Star Wars Day\nYORKTOWN, Va. — Artillery salutes and flag-raising ceremonies. Fifes and drums and military dragoons. Brass bands and color guards. Historians, military veterans, re-enactors, entertainers and enthusiasts reveling in the Revolution will come together March 23 to April 4 to present 13 days of festivities showcasing the new American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.\nThe Grand Opening Celebration of the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will feature a patriotic salute to America’s 13 original states, a dedication ceremony on April 1, tours of expansive gallery exhibits, and military music and 18th-century interpretive experiences in the newly expanded Continental Army encampment and Revolution-era farm.\nThe Grand Opening culminates the museum’s 10-year transformation from the Yorktown Victory Center. Through immersive indoor gallery exhibits with nearly 500 period artifacts, experiential films and interpretive living-history experiences, the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown presents a renewed national perspective on the meaning and impact of the Revolution.\nCeremonies honoring the legacy of the first 13 states in the United States of America will take place each day in the order that they ratified the Constitution – Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island. A dedication April 1 will officially launch the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.\nDaily programs recognizing each state will begin midday with ceremonial welcoming remarks and presentation of the state flag, followed by an Honor Guard procession along the Grand Corridor to the outdoor re-created Continental Army encampment’s artillery amphitheater for a flag-raising ceremony and artillery salute. Visitors will be able to learn more about each state’s Revolutionary War history through a variety of educational programs, new exhibition galleries, and interpretive programs in the newly expanded Continental Army encampment and Revolution-era farm. Children’s games and family friendly activities will round out the festivities.\nFor more information, visit http://www.historyisfun.org/grandopening/\nLabels: American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Grand Opening Museum, Grand Opening Yorktown\nWas America Founded on Socialism?\nThis video from Prager University (aka PragerU) explains the socialist - yes, socialist - origins of colonial America...\nLabels: colonial america socialism, socialism, was america founded on socialism\nChrist Church in Alexandria Removing Plaque to Was...\nIs Western Culture Superior? Dinesh D'Souza and Pr...\nRobert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not The Sa...\nBill O'Reilly Primed to Tackle The American Revolu...\nWhat Part of 'No Religious Test' Does Senator Bern...\nYORKTOWN, Va. — Artillery salutes and flag-raising..."
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        "text": "2 юли е 183-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (184-ти през високосна). Остават 182 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1556 г. – Русия завладява и присъединява Астраханското ханство.\n 1644 г. – Английска гражданска война: Състои се Битката при Марстън Мур.\n 1776 г. – Континенталният конгрес гласува за обявяване на независимост на Тринадесетте колонии (САЩ) от Великобритания.\n 1819 г. – Със закон в Англия се забранява наемането на деца под 9 години във фабриките и се ограничава работния ден до 12 часа за децата до 16-годишна възраст.\n 1853 г. – С преминаването на река Прут от руската армия започва Кримската война.\n 1900 г. – Граф Фердинанд фон Цепелин извършва първия полет с дирижабъл край Боденското езеро, Германия, продължил 18 мин.\n 1934 г. – Със смъртта на Ернст Рьом приключва Нощта на дългите ножове.\n 1937 г. – Амелия Ерхарт и нейният навигатор за последен път са чути над Атлантическия океан, докато се опитват да осъществят първия околосветски полет със самолет над екватора.\n 1947 г. – СССР отказва да се включи в Плана Маршал за възстановяване на съюзническите страни в Европа след Втората световна война.\n 1949 г. – Георги Димитров умира. Министър-председател на България става Васил Коларов.\n 1954 г. – Започва да функционира телевизионна мрежа Евровизия.\n 1962 г. – В Арканзас е открит първият магазин от най-голямата в света верига от хипермаркети Уолмарт.\n 1964 г. – Президентът на САЩ Линдън Джонсън подписва Акта за гражданските права, който забранява расовата дискриминация.\n 1976 г. – Северен и Южен Виетнам, разделени след 1954 г., се обединяват отново в Социалистическа република Виетнам със столица Ханой.\n 1990 г. – По време на ислямското богомолство Хадж, по време на похода между Мека и Медина, при преминаване на многохилядна тълпа през пешеходен тунел настъпва паника, при която загиват 1426 пилигрими.\n 2000 г. – В експлоатация е пуснат мостът Йоресунд между Швеция и Дания, който е най-дългият комбиниран железопътен и автомобилен мост в Европа.\n 2003 г. – МОК избира Ванкувър, Канада, за домакин на Зимни олимпийски игри 2010.\n\n 2004 г. – Асоциацията на страните от Югоизточна Азия (АСЕАН) приема Пакистан, като 24-ти член.\n 2008 г. – В Колумбия е освободена Ингрид Бетанкур – бивша кандидатка за президент на страната, държана в плен от екстремиската групировка ФАРК в продължение на 6 години.\n\nРодени \n\n 419 г. – Валентиниан III, римски император († 455 г.)\n 1486 г. – Якопо Сансовино, италиански архитект и скулптор († 1570 г.)\n 1714 г. – Кристоф Глук, немски композитор († 1787 г.)\n 1724 г. – Фридрих Готлиб Клопщок, немски поет и драматург († 1803 г.)\n 1841 г. – Александър Зайцев, руски химик († 1910 г.)\n 1843 г. – Антонио Лабриола, италиански философ († 1904 г.)\n 1858 г. – Илия Куртев, български политик и общественик († 1923 г.)\n 1860 г. – Иван Бобев, български военен деец († 1885 г.)\n 1862 г. – Уилям Хенри Браг, английски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1942 г.)\n 1865 г. – Лили Браун, германска феминистка и писателка († 1916 г.)\n 1877 г. – Херман Хесе, германски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1946 г. († 1962 г.)\n 1879 г. – Тодор Паница, български революционер († 1925 г.)\n 1886 г. – Михаил Йовов, български военен и държавен деец, дипломат († 1951 г.)\n 1903 г. – Олаф V, крал на Норвегия († 1991 г.)\n 1904 г. – Жан Рене Лакост, френски тенисист († 1996 г.)\n 1906 г. – Ханс Бете, американски физик от германски произход, Нобелов лауреат през 1967 г. († 2005 г.)\n 1906 г. – Петър Димитров-Рудар, български писател († 1994 г.)\n 1906 г. – Ханс Улрих Рудел, германски пилот от Втората световна война († 1982 г.)\n 1908 г. – Христо М. Данов, български историк († 1997 г.)\n 1911 г. – Михаил Петрушевски, филолог от СР Македония († 1990 г.)\n 1922 г. – Пиер Карден, френски моделиер († 2020 г.)\n 1923 г. – Вислава Шимборска, полска поетеса, Нобелова лауреатка през 1996 г. († 2012 г.)\n 1923 г. – Любен Хранов, български футболист († 2011 г.)\n 1925 г. – Патрис Лумумба, първи министър-председател на Демократична република Конго († 1961 г.)\n 1930 г. – Ахмад Джамал, американски джаз пианист и композитор\n 1930 г. – Карлос Менем, президент на Аржентина († 2021 г.)\n 1936 г. – Детко Петров, български писател от бивша Югославия († 1990 г.)\n 1937 г. – Иля Талев, български писател и езиковед († 2008 г.)\n 1940 г. – Георги Иванов, български космонавт\n 1946 г. – Дейвид Сушей, английски актьор\n 1946 г. – Ричард Аксел, американски генетик и физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 2004 г.\n 1956 г. – Джери Хол, американски модел и актриса\n 1958 г. – Красимир Кънев, председател на Български хелзинкски комитет\n 1961 г. – Сами Насери, френски актьор\n 1963 г. – Росица Кирилова, българска певица\n 1963 г. – Ернестина Шинова, българска актриса\n 1968 г. – Илиан Илиев, български футболист и тренъор\n 1973 г. – Денислав Калчев, български плувец\n 1974 г. – Матю Райли, австралийски писател\n 1976 г. – Георги Иванов – Гонзо, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Ашли Тисдейл, американска певица и актриса\n 1986 г. – Линдзи Лоън, американска актриса\n 1986 г. – Аатиф Шаешу, марокански футболист\n 1990 г. – Марго Роби, австралийска актриса и продуцент\n\nПочинали \n\n 936 г. – Хайнрих I Птицелов, германски владетел (* 876 г.)\n 1298 г. – Адолф от Насау, крал на Германия (* ок. 1255 г.)\n 1504 г. – Щефан чел Маре, молдовски владетел (* 1434 г.)\n 1566 г. – Нострадамус, френски лекар и предсказател (* 1503 г.)\n 1591 г. – Винченцо Галилей, италиански композитор (* 1520 г.)\n 1778 г. – Жан-Жак Русо, френски философ (* 1712 г.)\n 1843 г. – Самуел Ханеман, немски лекар, основател на хомеопатията (* 1755 г.)\n 1850 г. – Робърт Пийл, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1788 г.)\n 1876 г. – Велчо войвода, български национал-революционер (* 1840 г.)\n 1886 г. – Херман Абих, немски геолог (* 1806 г.)\n 1893 г. – Джорджиана Баримор, американска актриса (* 1854 г.)\n 1897 г. – Адам Асник, полски поет (* 1838 г.)\n 1914 г. – Джоузеф Чембърлейн, английски индустриалец и държавник (* 1836 г.)\n 1915 г. – Порфирио Диас, президент на Мексико (* 1830 г.)\n 1924 г. – Масайоши Мацуката, министър-председател на Япония (* 1835 г.)\n 1932 г. – Мануел II, крал на Португалия (* 1889 г.)\n 1934 г. – Ернст Рьом, нацистки лидер (* 1887 г.)\n 1937 г. – Амелия Иърхарт, американски авиатор (* 1897 г.)\n 1949 г. – Георги Димитров, министър-председател на България (* 1882 г.)\n 1951 г. – Фердинанд Зауербрух, германски хирург (* 1875 г.)\n 1958 г. – Божан Ангелов, български литературен критик (* 1873 г.)\n 1961 г. – Ърнест Хемингуей, американски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1954 г. (самоубийство) (* 1899 г.)\n 1963 г. – Бодо Узе, немски писател (* 1904 г.)\n 1966 г. – Ян Бжехва, полски поет (* 1900 г.)\n 1977 г. – Владимир Набоков, американски писател (* 1899 г.)\n 1992 г. – Борислав Пекич, сръбски писател (* 1930 г.)\n 1997 г. – Джеймс Стюърт, американски актьор (р. 1908 г.)\n 1999 г. – Кръстю Димитров, български шахматист (* 1916 г.)\n 1999 г. – Марио Пузо, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2000 г. – Чавдар Драгойчев, български лекар, кардиохирург, професор (* 1925 г.)\n 2003 г. – Райнхард Баумгарт, немски писател (* 1929 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лоран Терзиеф, френски актьор (* 1935 г.)\n 2011 г. – Итамар Франку, бразилски политик, 33-ти президент на Бразилия (* 1930 г.)\n 2013 г. – Дъглас Енгълбърт, американски изобретател (* 1925 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на неидентифицираните летящи обекти (НЛО) – През 2001 г. Хактан Акдоган, създател на Международния музей на НЛО в Истанбул, Турция, публикува предложение за честването му. Годишнина от инцидента в Розуел, САЩ (юни – юли 1947), където е намерено катастрофирало НЛО\n Международен ден на спортния журналист – Отбелязва се от 1995 г. по инициатива на Международната асоциация на спортната преса\n Азербайджан – Ден на полицията\n Бразилия – Ден на държавата\n България – Боен празник на 32-ри Загорски пехотен полк\n Кюрасао – Ден на знамето\n Норвегия – Ден на краля\n\n702"
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        "text": "2 август е 214-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (215-и през високосна). Остават 151 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 338 пр.н.е. – армията на Филип II постига решителна победа в Битката при Херонея, което осигурява хегемония на македонското царство в Гърция.\n 216 пр.н.е. – Втора пуническа война: Картагенските сили водени от Ханибал разгромяват армията на Римската република в Битката при Кана, едно от най-големите тактически сражения във военната история.\n 47 пр.н.е. – Армията на Гай Юлий Цезар разбива войските на боспорския цар Фарнак II и изпраща до Римския сенат своето прочуто съобщение Veni, vidi, vici. (Дойдох, видях, победих.).\n 1330 г. – След смъртта на цар Михаил III Шишман, на българския престол се възкача сръбкинята Анна Неда – неговата първа съпруга и сестра на сръбския крал Стефан Урош III Дечански.\n\n 1802 г. – Наполеон I Бонапарт е обявен от Френския сенат за пожизнен консул на Франция, което му дава правото да посочва своя наследник.\n 1870 г. – В Лондон е открит железопътният тунел Тауър под река Темза, което е първото метро в света.\n 1887 г. – Германският принц Фердинанд I Сакскобургготски е коронован в Търново за княз на българите.\n 1891 г. – В подножието на връх Бузлуджа се провежда тайно събрание, наречено по-късно Бузлуджански конгрес, с което се създава Българската социалдемократическа партия (БСДП).\n 1897 г. – Подписана е конвенция между Княжество България и Франция за изграждане на Военноморските сили на България.\n 1903 г. – В Османската империя избухва Илинденско-Преображенското въстание организирано от Вътрешната Македоно-Одринска революционна организация и местните българи.\n 1921 г. – Междусъюзническата контролна комисия връчва ултиматум на българското правителство за разформиране на въоръжените сили.\n 1923 г. – Калвин Кулидж става 30-ия президент на САЩ, след като предшественика му Уорън Хардинг умира от сърдечен удар.\n 1932 г. – Американският физик от шведски произход Карл Андерсън открива позитрона, за което през 1936 г. става носител на Нобелова награда за физика.\n\n 1934 г. – Адолф Хитлер се самопровъзгласява за фюрер след смъртта на президента Паул фон Хинденбург и получава цялата власт в Германия.\n 1944 г. – В Пчинския манастир е свикано Първото заседание на АСНОМ, което конституира Народна република Македония в рамките на Югославия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Завършва Потсдамската конференция.\n 1974 г. – Народна република България установява дипломатически отношения с Венецуела и Тайланд.\n 1980 г. – Тероризъм: Бомба експлодира на жп гарата в Болоня (Италия), убивайки 85 души и ранявайки над 200.\n 1988 г. – В 17:29 ч. при излитане от София за Варна катастрофира самолет Як-40 на БГА Балкан; загиват 27 и са ранени 10 пътници.\n 1990 г. – Ирак окупира Кувейт, което довежда до намеса на войски на ООН и до Войната в Персийския залив.\n\nРодени \n\n 1627 г. – Самуел ван Хоогстратен, холандски художник († 1678 г.)\n 1696 г. – Махмуд I, султан на Османската империя († 1754 г.)\n 1788 г. – Леополд Гмелин, немски химик († 1853 г.)\n 1815 г. – Бернхард Ернст фон Бюлов, немски и датски дипломат († 1879 г.)\n 1820 г. – Джон Тиндал, ирландски физик († 1893 г.)\n 1829 г. – Феликс Каниц, унгарски археолог и етнограф († 1904 г.)\n 1848 г. – Йозеф Шмаха, чешки актьор, режисьор и педагог († 1915 г.)\n 1849 г. – Мария-Пия Бурбонска, херцогиня на Парма и Пиаченца († 1882 г.)\n 1866 г. – Адриан Жерлаш дьо Гомери, белгийски изследовател († 1934 г.)\n 1870 г. – Константин Живков, български военен деец\n 1872 г. – Борис Гайгуров, български просветен деец и революционер († 1968 г.)\n 1876 г. – Александър Белич, сръбски филолог († 1960 г.)\n 1877 г. – Стоян Филипов, български революционер и политик († 1944 г.)\n 1882 г. – Иван Джонев, български революционер († 1967 г.)\n 1884 г. – Ромуло Галегос, венецуелски писател и политик († 1969 г.)\n 1888 г. – Теодоси Даскалов, български военен деец († 1945 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джак Уорнър, канадски кинопродуцент († 1978 г.)\n 1893 г. – Асен Греков, военен деец († 1954 г.)\n 1905 г. – Мирна Лой, американска актриса († 1993 г.)\n 1906 г. – Бончо Несторов, български писател и журналист († 1987 г.)\n 1915 г. – Ружа Делчева, българска актриса († 2002 г.)\n 1924 г. – Христо Ганев, български сценарист († 2021 г.)\n 1932 г. – Питър О'Тул, ирландски актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1940 г. – Коле Мангов, писател от Република Македония († 2013 г.)\n 1942 г. – Исабел Алиенде, чилийска писателка\n 1943 г. – Макс Райт, американски актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1946 г. – Нева Кръстева, българска композиторка\n 1951 г. – Джо Лин Търнър, американски рок певец\n 1951 г. – Марчел Юреш, румънски актьор\n 1956 г. – Красимир Доков, български актьор\n 1960 г. – Оливие Грюнер, френски актьор\n 1963 г. – Васил Киров, български юрист\n 1969 г. – Фернандо Коуто, португалски футболист\n 1974 г. – Анджи Сепеда, колумбийска актриса\n 1975 г. – Димитър Илиев, български автомобилен състезател\n 1975 г. – Минейро, бразилски футболист\n 1976 г. – Кати Вилхелм, немска биатлонистка\n 1976 г. – Сам Уортингтън, австралийски актьор\n 1976 г. – Тони Стораро, български попфолк изпълнител\n 1977 г. – Марк Ризо, американски китарист\n 1978 г. – Бойко Косев, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Горан Гавранчич, сръбски футболист\n 1983 г. – Хатидже Шендил, турска актриса\n 1984 г. – Елена Паришева, българска попфолк певица\n 1996 г. – Симон Манюел, американска плувкиня\n\nПочинали \n\n 257 г. – Стефан I, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 640 г. – Северин, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 686 г. – Йоан V, римски папа (* 635 г.)\n 1100 г. – Уилям II, крал на Англия (* ? г.)\n 1589 г. – Анри III, крал на Франция, последният представител на династията Валоа (* 1551 г.)\n 1667 г. – Франческо Боромини, италиански архитект (* 1599 г.)\n 1813 г. – Софроний Врачански, български свещенослужител (* 1739 г.)\n 1815 г. – Гийом Брюн, френски маршал (* 1763 г.)\n 1823 г. – Лазар Карно, френски генерал, политик и математик (* 1753 г.)\n 1911 г. – Апостол войвода, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1911 г. – Георги Мучитанов, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1917 г. – Никола Рясков, български военен деец (* 1856 г.)\n 1921 г. – Енрико Карузо, италиански тенор (* 1873 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Бел, американски физик с шотландски произход (* 1847 г.)\n 1923 г. – Уорън Хардинг, 29-и президент на САЩ (* 1865 г.)\n 1936 г. – Луи Блерио, конструктор и летец (* 1872 г.)\n 1938 г. – Константин Батолов, български политик (* 1878 г.)\n 1940 г. – Асен Траянов, български изследовател (* 1885 г.)\n 1945 г. – Пиетро Маскани, италиански композитор (* 1863 г.)\n 1946 г. – Андрей Власов, руски офицер (* 1901 г.)\n 1963 г. – Георги Абаджиев, македонски писател (* 1910 г.)\n 1973 г. – Жан-Пиер Мелвил, френски кино-режисьор (* 1917 г.)\n 1976 г. – Фриц Ланг, австрийски режисьор (* 1890 г.)\n 1979 г. – Виктор Раул Ая де ла Торе, перуански политик (* 1895 г.)\n 1983 г. – Филип Филипов, български театрален режисьор и общественик (* 1914 г.)\n 1988 г. – Реймънд Карвър, американски писател (* 1938 г.)\n 1997 г. – Уилям Бъроуз, американски романист (* 1914 г.)\n 2009 г. – Адолф Ендлер, немски поет (* 1930 г.)\n 2016 г. – Ахмед Зеуаил, американски химик и Нобелов лауреат (* 1946 г.)\n 2022 г. – Величко Минеков, български скулптор (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n Възпоменателен ден на геноцида срещу ромите и синтите (по повод Биркенау, 1944 г.)\n Православна църква – Илинден (стар стил), в почит на свети Илия\n Азербайджан – Ден на националното кино\n България – Празник на Българската социалистическа партия – 41-вият конгрес на БСП (3 – 6 юни 1994 г.) одобрява за празник на Партията 2 август – деня на Учредителния конгрес на БСДП – 2 август 1891 г. (20 юли стар стил)\n България – Годишнина от Илинденско-Преображенското въстание\n Гвиана – Ден на свободата\n Северна Македония – Ден на Републиката (национален празник)\n Русия, Украйна и Беларус – Ден на десантните войски\n Сърбия – Ден на авиацията\n\n802"
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        "text": "2 септември е 245-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (246-и през високосна година). Остават 120 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 31 г. пр.н.е. – Война между Октавиан и Антоний: В Битката при Акциум Октавиан разгромява флотилията на Марк Антоний и Клеопатра VII.\n 1666 г. – Избухва Големият пожар в Лондон, който гори три дни и унищожава 10 хил. сгради, включително катедралата Свети Павел.\n 1752 г. – Великобритания и нейните колонии в Америка изоставят Юлианския календар и започва използването на Грегорианския календар, при което датата 2 септември става 14 септември.\n 1789 г. – Основано е Министерството на финансите на САЩ.\n 1870 г. – Френско-пруската война: В Битката при Седан прусаци вземат в плен Наполеон III заедно с цялата му армия от 100 хил. войници.\n 1944 г. – Назначено е правителство на Константин Муравиев.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война завършва: Япония подписва акт за безусловна капитулация на борда на американския кораб Missouri в Токийския залив.\n 1945 г. – Виетнам провъзгласява своята независимост от Франция и се преименува във Виетнамска демократична република (Северен Виетнам).\n 1947 г. – Основан е град Димитровград.\n 1967 г. – Създадена е микродържавата Сийланд.\n 1987 г. – В Москва започва процес срещу 19-годишния германски пилот Матиас Руст, който необезпокояван каца със своя самолет Чесна на Червения площад през май 1987.\n 1991 г. – САЩ признава независимостта на балтийските страни – Латвия, Литва и Естония.\n 1991 г. – БЗНС „Никола Петков“ напуска СДС и заявява, че ще участва в изборите самостоятелно.\n 1994 г. – Министър-председателят Любен Беров подава оставката на правителството си.\n 1996 г. – Върховният съд на България отхвърля кандидатурата на Георги Пирински за президентските избори, във връзка с американското му гражданство.\n\nРодени \n\n 1661 г. – Георг Бьом, германски композитор († 1733 г.)\n 1685 г. – Кристиана Шарлота фон Насау-Отвайлер, германска аристократка († 1761 г.)\n 1753 г. – Мария-Жозефина-Луиза Савойска, френска аристократка († 1810 г.)\n 1840 г. – Джовани Верга, италиански писател († 1922 г.)\n 1847 г. – Димитър Греков, български юрист и политик († 1901 г.)\n 1853 г. – Вилхелм Оствалд, германски химик, лауреат на Нобелова награда за химия през 1909 г. († 1932 г.)\n 1877 г. – Фредерик Соди, английски радиохимик, Нобелов лауреат († 1956)\n 1878 г. – Вернер фон Бломберг, германски фелдмаршал († 1946 г.)\n 1883 г. – Рудолф Вайгъл, полски биолог (†1957 г.)\n 1894 г. – Йозеф Рот, австрийски писател († 1939 г.)\n 1896 г. – Асен Йорданов, български авиоинженер († 1967 г.)\n 1906 г. – Александър Казанцев, руски писател († 2002 г.)\n 1910 г. – Абрахам Поляк, еврейски историк († 1970 г.)\n 1913 г. – Бил Шенкли, английски футболен треньор († 1981 г.)\n 1921 г. – Таня Масалитинова, българска актриса († 2014 г.)\n 1927 г. – Спас Джонев, български театрален и филмов актьор († 1966 г.)\n 1938 г. – Джулиано Джема, италиански киноактьор 2013\n 1938 г. – Петър Вучков, български актьор\n 1947 г. – Петко Йотов, български офицер († 2009 г.)\n 1952 г. – Джими Конърс, американски тенисист\n 1953 г. – Джон Зорн, американски музикант\n 1955 г. – Карл-Хайнц Румениге, германски футболист\n 1963 г. – Роби Бухл, американски автомобилен пилот\n 1964 г. – Киану Рийвс, американски актьор\n 1965 г. – Ленъкс Люис, канадско-британски боксьор\n 1966 г. – Оливие Панис, пилот от Формула 1\n 1966 г. – Салма Хайек, мексиканска актриса\n 1967 г. – Андреас Мьолер, германски футболист\n 1968 г. – Синтия Уотрос, американска актриса\n 1971 г. – Боян Расате, български националист\n 1971 г. – Киетил Андре Аамод, норвежки скиор\n 1973 г. – Ханде Атаизи, турска актриса\n 1977 г. – Елица Тодорова, българска певица\n 1980 г. – Полина Лъвчиева, българска писателка\n 1985 г. – Адам Немец, словашки футболист\n 1988 г. – Димитрий Овчаров, германски спортист\n 1988 г. – Хави Мартинес, испански футболист\n 1989 г. – Алешандре Пато, бразилски футболист\n 1990 г. – Шарлин Ван Сник, белгийска джудистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 421 г. – Констанций III, римски император (* неизв.)\n 1652 г. – Хосе де Рибера, испански художник (* 1591 г.)\n 1836 г. – Уилям Хенри, английски химик (* 1775 г.)\n 1889 г. – Захари Стоянов, български писател (* 1850 г.)\n 1901 г. – Луиджи Мария Албертис, италиански изследовател (* 1841 г.)\n 1916 г. – Луи Айер, български педагог (* 1865 г.)\n 1919 г. – Иван Ботушанов, български революционер († 1874 г.)\n 1937 г. – Пиер дьо Кубертен, френски общественик, основоположник на съвременните олимпийски игри (* 1863 г.)\n 1941 г. – Коле Неделковски, македонски поет (* 1912 г.)\n 1965 г. – Йоханес Бобровски, германски поет (* 1917 г.)\n 1969 г. – Хо Ши Мин, виетнамски революционер (* 1890 г.)\n 1973 г. – Джон Роналд Руел Толкин, британски писател (* 1892 г.)\n 1977 г. – Виктор Франкъл, австрийски психиатър (* 1905 г.)\n 1991 г. – Алфонсо Гарсия Роблес, мексикански политик (* 1911 г.)\n 1991 г. – Евгени Филипов, български инженер (* 1917 г.)\n 1992 г. – Барбара МакКлинток, американска генетичка, лауреат на Нобелова награда за физиология или медицина през 1983 г. (* 1902 г.)\n 1996 г. – Георги Георгиев – Гец, български актьор (* 1926 г.)\n 1998 г. – Джаки Бланчфлауър, ирландски футболист (* 1933 г.)\n 2001 г. – Кристиан Барнард, южноафрикански кардиохирург (* 1922 г.)\n 2007 г. – Сафет Исович, босненски музикант (* 1936 г.)\n 2013 г. – Роналд Коуз, британски икономист, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1910 г.)\n 2013 г. – Фредерик Пол, американски писател (* 1919 г.)\n 2021 г. – Микис Теодоракис, гръцки композитор (* 1925 г.)\n\nПразници \n Боливия – Ден на труда\n България – Празник на Димитровград – На 2 септември 1947 г. с Постановление на Министерския съвет селата Раковски и Марийно, Хасковска околия, Черноконево, Чирпанска околия, се обединяват в едно селище – Димитровград\n Виетнам – Ден на независимостта (от Франция, 1945 г., национален празник)\n Приднестровие – Ден на независимостта (от СССР, 1990 г., Приднестровие не е международно призната независима държава)\n САЩ – Ден на победата над Япония\n\n902"
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        "text": "Join Shirin Ebadi opposing attack on Iran\nShirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work on behalf of human rights, women's rights, and children's rights in Iran. She is a critic of the current Iranian government, and lives in exile. In a message written for RootsAction, Ebadi opposes any attack on Iran:\n\"Not only military attack but even threat of military attack would slow down the progress of democracy in Iran because the government, under the pretext of safeguarding national security, would further intensify its crackdown on pro-democracy activists and critics. Moreover, such an eventuality would incite people's nationalist sentiment, which would cause them to forget their criticisms of the government.\n\"I also oppose economic sanctions against Iran because they would increase poverty and deteriorate the economic situation of the people. I favor sanctions that do not harm the people. For instance, the E.U. and U.S. have imposed sanctions on a number of human rights violators in Iran. It has been declared that they cannot enter Europe and the U.S., and their assets would be frozen should they have any on the aforementioned territories.\n\"That list should be expanded. Moreover, companies that have sold equipment and software intended for use by the Iranian authorities in the monitoring or interception of internet and telephone communications should be penalized. These kinds of sanctions will weaken the Iranian government without being harmful to the people. We should try to adopt more targeted sanctions to punish the government for its violation of human rights.\" --Shirin Ebadi\nA decade ago, government lies and media spin brought the disaster of the Iraq war. Don't let the same thing happen again.\nRootsAction will deliver this petition to leaders of the U.S. and Israeli governments, insisting that all diplomatic avenues be pursued and opposing any military attack on Iran.\nWe call upon the leaders of the governments of the United States and Israel to end their threats of launching a military attack on Iran. Instead, leaders should engage in genuine diplomatic dialogue. We unequivocally oppose any attack on Iran."
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        "text": "// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.\n\nusing System;\nusing System.Security.Cryptography;\nusing Security.Cryptography.Properties;\n\nnamespace Security.Cryptography\n{\n    /// <summary>\n    ///     <para>\n    ///         The AesCng class provides a wrapper for the CNG implementation of the AES algorithm. It\n    ///         provides the same interface as the other AES implementations shipped with the .NET Framework,\n    ///         including <see cref=\"AesManaged\" /> and <see cref=\"AesCryptoServiceProvider\" />.\n    ///     </para>\n    ///     <para>\n    ///         AesCng uses the BCrypt layer of CNG to do its work, and requires Windows Vista and the .NET\n    ///         Framework 3.5.\n    ///    </para>\n    ///    <para>\n    ///         Since most of the AesCng APIs are inherited from the <see cref=\"Aes\" /> base class, see the\n    ///         documentation for Aes for a complete API description.\n    ///    </para>\n    /// </summary>\n    public sealed class AesCng : Aes, ICngSymmetricAlgorithm\n    {\n        private BCryptSymmetricAlgorithm m_symmetricAlgorithm;\n\n        /// <summary>\n        ///     Constructs an AesCng object. The default settings for this object are:\n        ///     <list type=\"bullet\">\n        ///         <item>Algorithm provider - Microsoft Primitive Algorithm Provider</item>\n        ///         <item>Block size - 128 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Feedback size - 8 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Key size - 256 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Cipher mode - CipherMode.CBC</item>\n        ///         <item>Padding mode - PaddingMode.PKCS7</item>\n        ///     </list>\n        /// </summary>\n        public AesCng() : this(CngProvider2.MicrosoftPrimitiveAlgorithmProvider)\n        {\n        }\n\n        /// <summary>\n        ///     Constructs an AesCng object using the specified algorithm provider. The default settings for\n        ///     this object are:\n        ///     <list type=\"bullet\">\n        ///         <item>Algorithm provider - Microsoft Primitive Algorithm Provider</item>\n        ///         <item>Block size - 128 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Feedback size - 8 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Key size - 256 bits</item>\n        ///         <item>Cipher mode - CipherMode.CBC</item>\n        ///         <item>Padding mode - PaddingMode.PKCS7</item>\n        ///     </list>\n        /// </summary>\n        /// <exception cref=\"ArgumentNullException\">if <paramref name=\"algorithmProvider\"/> is null</exception>\n        /// <param name=\"algorithmProvider\">algorithm provider to use for AES computation</param>\n        public AesCng(CngProvider algorithmProvider)\n        {\n            if (algorithmProvider == null)\n                throw new ArgumentNullException(\"algorithmProvider\");\n\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm = new BCryptSymmetricAlgorithm(new CngAlgorithm(BCryptNative.AlgorithmName.Aes),\n                                                                algorithmProvider,\n                                                                LegalBlockSizesValue,\n                                                                LegalKeySizesValue);\n            \n            // Propigate the default properties from the Aes class to the implementation algorithm.\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.BlockSize = BlockSizeValue;\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.KeySize = KeySizeValue;\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.Mode = ModeValue;\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.Padding = PaddingValue;\n        }\n\n        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)\n        {\n            try\n            {\n                if (disposing && m_symmetricAlgorithm != null)\n                {\n                    (m_symmetricAlgorithm as IDisposable).Dispose();\n                }\n            }\n            finally\n            {\n                base.Dispose(disposing);\n            }\n        }\n\n        //\n        // Forwarded APIs\n        //\n\n        public override int BlockSize\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.BlockSize; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.BlockSize = value; }\n        }\n\n        public CngChainingMode CngMode\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.CngMode; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.CngMode = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override int FeedbackSize\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.FeedbackSize; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.FeedbackSize = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override byte[] IV\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.IV; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.IV = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override byte[] Key\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.Key; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.Key = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override int KeySize\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.KeySize; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.KeySize = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override KeySizes[] LegalBlockSizes\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.LegalBlockSizes; }\n        }\n\n        public override KeySizes[] LegalKeySizes\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.LegalBlockSizes; }\n        }\n\n        /// <summary>\n        ///     Gets or sets the cipher mode to use during encryption or decryption. Supported modes are:\n        ///     <list type=\"bullet\">\n        ///         <item>CipherMode.CBC</item>\n        ///         <item>CipherMode.ECB</item>\n        ///         <item>CipherMode.CFB</item>\n        ///     </list>\n        /// </summary>\n        public override CipherMode Mode\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.Mode; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.Mode = value; }\n        }\n\n        public override PaddingMode Padding\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.Padding; }\n            set { m_symmetricAlgorithm.Padding = value; }\n        }\n\n        public CngProvider Provider\n        {\n            get { return m_symmetricAlgorithm.Provider; }\n        }\n\n        public override ICryptoTransform CreateDecryptor()\n        {\n            return m_symmetricAlgorithm.CreateDecryptor();\n        }\n\n        public override ICryptoTransform CreateDecryptor(byte[] rgbKey, byte[] rgbIV)\n        {\n            return m_symmetricAlgorithm.CreateDecryptor(rgbKey, rgbIV);\n        }\n\n        public override ICryptoTransform CreateEncryptor()\n        {\n            return m_symmetricAlgorithm.CreateEncryptor();\n        }\n\n        public override ICryptoTransform CreateEncryptor(byte[] rgbKey, byte[] rgbIV)\n        {\n            return m_symmetricAlgorithm.CreateEncryptor(rgbKey, rgbIV);\n        }\n\n        public override void GenerateIV()\n        {\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.GenerateIV();\n        }\n\n        public override void GenerateKey()\n        {\n            m_symmetricAlgorithm.GenerateKey();\n        }\n    }\n}\n"
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        "text": "So, I am finishing up my posts on our visit to New York this week….and in celebration of my 40th birthday last weekend, the fact I have reached 200 followers (thank you all), I would like to include you all in my experience in the Lotta Jansdotter Surface Printing class I have a GIVE AWAY :-).\nAll you have to do is leave a comment below, by midnight Thursday 20th June, about what inspiration do you get for your projects from the environment around you. For a second entry, just let me know if you are a follower. If you are a no-reply commenter please leave an email address. I will announce the winner next Friday.\nThe New York finale is really simple, here are some of my favorite photos and views of New York.\nThe park is so large we only saw a small part of it. We had amazing weather both days. The boys visited the Central Park Zoo where the Polar Bear was the star. There was a great sense of community and fun here. I also loved the statues at one of the entrances of the zoo.\nThis was a great (new-ish) place that used to be a railroad track above the factories in the meat packing district. It is now ~ 2 mile walk through gardens, some vendors (like coffee, ice pops, and food items) and various art pieces. This is my favorite place in New York.\nTo get a good view of the city on such a wonderful day, we took advantage of the views at the top of Rockefeller center. We were lucky with the atmosphere which was buzzing as it was Puerto Rico Day and a parade was occurring. At the top we saw the Empire State building on one side and a great view of central park expanse on the other (wow is all I can say).\nWhat an amazing Building, even in the pouring rain it was captivating. Celebrating its 100 anniversary, it is still in its glory. Look at the amazing ceiling with its celestial paintings.\nWe were very lucky with the atmosphere in Times Square when we were visiting. Obviously we went at night to get the full impact of all the lights….but the night we went there was a viewing party going on. In the middle of Times Square you could sit and watch the Tony awards which was broadcasting on an extra-large screen – there must have been thousands of people out that night.\nI hope you enjoyed our view of New York.\nHave a great weekend!!! Linking up with Amanda Jean @ CrazyMomQuilts.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Central Park, Central Station, Charm Park, give away, High Line, Lotta Jansdotter, New York City, printing, quilting, Rockefeller Center, sewing, Times Square on June 14, 2013 by mlwilkie.\n1. Oh I love the Bella line. I am a sucker for flowers.\nMe too, I love the bella line and glimma but I missed out on the echo line 😦 I love the colors she uses.\n3. Environmental inspiration: not 10 minutes ago, I collected some twigs from boughs that my partner has cut from our plum tree. (It is winter here in New Zealand, a good time for tree thinning.) With their tiny, woody buds just starting to appear, the twigs remind me of bug’s legs. I think there’s going to be a textile bug coming from my studio soon.\nOoops, I forgot to hit “notify me” in the previous comment, so if I’m luck enough to win, please drop by my blog or mail me at carolinelarnach (at) hotmail (dot) com.\n6. A lot of nature inspires the colors I use in projects! Thank you. Sounds like a great birthday!\nMe too….I am such a color person.\n7. And I imported my Reader feed into Bloglovin today (sigh) and you are on my list!\n8. I am a new follower!\n9. I never know when it will hit, sometimes and advertisement, sometimes the clothes people wear, or looking up (in a city) for a skyline. I, like Laura, am also keeping my fingers crossed for the strawberry journal. Thank you for the chance.\nI am the same – you never know when it will hit, but what I like is it makes you think differently and more aware of things around you.\nOregon is definitely wonderful place and beautiful.\n12. I follow via bloglovin’.\n13. Thank you for the generous giveaway and happy birthday! I really like to look at plants & flowers for color schemes for my quilt ideas.\nColor is definitely the first thing that makes we think about things, shapes etc are usually next.\n14. I follow through Bloglovin, thanks!\n15. Wow, love the pictures of your trip, i love NY and wish i could come back for a visit!\nI know how you feel at the moment – obviously one trip to New York and all I see are quilts 🙂 The only store I went shopping in was quilt store.\n17. I actually have gotten a lot of inspiration from road trips. Seeing architecture in a different way!\nThat is what happened on this trip. I really enjoyed seeing things differently.\n20. I get a lot of inspiration from shapes and forms in nature. I really love Bella and Glimma – I was not “in the know” for Echo.\n21. I’m a new follower w/bloglovin.\n22. Oh wow! A giveaway from your trip! What an incredible gesture!\nSo I, of course, have to enter!\nFirst of all – my inspiration comes from many sources – a person I see walking down the street, a picture of a beautiful setting, a combination of colours and textures, a striking building, brightly coloured crafts by other people…..\n24. I’m a new Bloglovin’ follower! Love architecture (I’m an Architect! ehm…) and nature continuously surprises me!\n25. Forgot to divide the comment into two and to say I love Lotta’s work. Your lucky girl for following the workshop!\nwould love to enter this contest for fun..\n27. I’m a new follower..\n30. Right now my inspiration comes from my 3 month old grand daughter. So I am into pink and soft.\n31. Most of my inspiration comes from my environment…..both near and far. I love abstracting patterns from mountains, icebergs, water, light through glass, textured wallpaper, folds in fabric and so on! Great giveaway, thanks.\n33. i get inspiration from colours. they could be colours anywhere in a dept. store in nature architecture textiles. i adore all colours the brighter the better .\n34. lovely giveaway i’m a follower of your blogg would love to win and am sendinfg positive vibes to the angels!!\n35. I would have to say that the imperfect perfectness of what I see. Color is so important to our peace of mind.\n36. I was lucky enough to get some yardage of the fabric inspired by Grand Central Station. Thank you for sharing pics of Grand Central Station. Now, what to do with the fabric? However, loved your New York pics. I want to visit. Thanks for the giveaway.\n38. i just found your blog, so wasn’t a follower before, but am now! in case things get screwy and you can’t respond, my email is (cbiro@alumni.iu.edu).\n39. i love lotta! i have some bella and echo, but no glimma yet. i get inspiration all around-from my gardens and my son-the things he says, his art. i love nature inspiration-rocks, plants, taking hikes in the woods-inspiration hits. thanks for the giveaway and happy birthday!\n41. What a great weekend! I love the pictures, thanks a million for sharing them.\n42. I’ve loved reading about your New York visit, my sister & daughter were there in May & went to & raved about many of the same places as you – your photos were much better though. I am inspired by my environment, I live in a beach suburb in Sydney Australia & even though we don’t have huge colour changes with the seasons I still find that my fabric choices relate to time of year & what’s happening outside.\n43. Thanks for the lovely giveaway, I follow you via Bloglovin.\n44. Thanks for the virtual visit to New York! That city has such wonderful energy. I get my environmental inspiration from shorelines of any kind – ocean beaches, rivers, creeks. I guess that’s why most of the stuff I make ends up with blue in it! Thanks for the awesome giveaway too!\n48. I am so inspired by graffiti art and everyday color combinations. Every once and while I just “see” everyday colors differently. Then I just NEED to translate those colors into art. Thank you for the giveaway! Your trip to NYC sounds lovely.\n51. I take inspiration wherever I can find a pattern – the bolder and more geometric the better. This weekend, I took a photo of a wrought iron fence with a deer emblem because I thought it might make a good Christmas quilt!\n52. I find inspiration everywhere! Whether it’s on a building or on the ground I’m walking on, there are patterns in everything. I once took inspiration from the cracks in asphalt."
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        "text": "Q: Creating a new file blocks Textmate When I want to create a new file through the button (left-bottom one) in the project drawer or in the file menu it takes a long time and blocks TextMate and even blocks TextMate totally in some cases.\nI've installed the latest version of TextMate and installed all updates available for Mac OS X.\nAnyone any idea what the problem is?\n\nA: I just tested it with a couple of different massive projects on my MBP and it created a new file right away.\nFirst guess would be perhaps a bundle or other plugin you've added is interfering with the program operation somehow. You could also try trashing your Textmate preferences file and restart the program to see if that helps (~/Library/Preferences/com.macromates.textmate.plist).\n\nA: Do you have any external drives connected?  Certain external hard drives will go into some sort of dormant mode when they haven't been used in a while, and will block things until they spin back up.  This is triggered by anything requiring filesystem access, whether you're trying to access those drives or not.\nIf this is your issue, it'll be very intermittent, and caused by other attempts to access the file system (Open File and Save File dialogs being common).  Furthermore, it won't be limited to just Textmate, but your usage patterns may mean it mostly shows up there.\nThe solution, in this case, would be to unplug the external drives when not in use.\nOf course, this isn't to say this /is/ your issue, but it would more or less fix your symptoms.\n"
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        "text": "P. A. Hayes Family Papers\n1868-1985 [bulk 1940s-1950s]. 4 boxes (36 folders), ca. 215 items. MSS. COLL. #81\nThe P.A. Hayes Family Papers consist primarily of materials relating to Justice Drug Company and also include information about the Hayes family. P.A. Hayes worked for Justice Drug for fifty-five years, serving as president for thirty-seven years and then as chairman of the Board. The collection includes correspondence, photo albums, financial and legal documents, printed materials and several scrapbooks. Researchers interested in Greensboro history, the history of Justice Drug Company or the Hayes family will find this collection useful.\nArrangement: This collection is organized into seven series and arranged within series by document type and/or subject. The series are: 50th Anniversary with Justice Drug, 1953; Correspondence, 1935-1984; Financial & Legal, 1927-1961; Miscellaneous, ca 1930s-1950s; Photographs, 1958, n.d.; Printed Materials, 1868-1985; and Scrapbooks, 1906-1955.\nProvenance: This collection was donated by Virginia Hayes Forrest in August 1986 and assigned accession number 1986.101. In January 1993, she added the materials relating to Vick Chemical Co. (6:7-9). Her final donation in March 1993 included two photo albums relating to Justice Drug (5:1-2); these items were assigned accession numbers 1993.16.1-2.\nProcessing: This collection was organized and the finding aid was prepared by intern Hannah Hemphill in July 2017.\nPearly Arthur “P.A.” Hayes (1882-1963) of 405 Meadowbrook Terrace was born to Mary Catherine (1855-1930) and Eli P. “E.P.” Hayes (1856-1931) in Randleman, NC. Upon his graduation from Guilford College in 1903, he went to work as an order clerk at L. Richardson Drug Company, which became Justice Drug Company when it was sold to R.L. Justice in 1905. The company was an important regional drug wholesaler. After purchasing a controlling interest in Justice Drug, Hayes became president in 1921 and held that position until 1958, when he was appointed chairman of the Board. He was president of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce in 1929, the Greensboro Rotary Club in 1942, the Traveling Men’s Auxiliary of the NC Pharmaceutical Association in 1934, and the National Wholesale Druggists Association in 1940. He also served as a City Council member and mayor pro tem in 1931.\nIn 1913, Hayes married Virginia Townsend (1890-1973). Born to Emma Elizabeth (1852-1932) and Christopher Columbus “C.C.” Townsend (1849-1929), Virginia Townsend Hayes was originally from Burlington but lived most of her life in Greensboro. She was an alumna of the State Normal and Industrial College (later Woman’s College and then UNC Greensboro), a president of the Greensboro Drug Club Auxiliary, and a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the NC Pharmaceutical Association.\nMr. and Mrs. Hayes had two daughters. The eldest, Virginia Hayes Forrest (1919-2015), attended Mary Baldwin College before obtaining a Master of Arts in Drama from UNC Chapel Hill in 1942. She married Lt. Stephen Taylor Forrest (1919-1978) in 1942, and they had three children: Stephen Taylor Forrest Jr., Hayes Forrest and Beverly Forrest Kehayes. Mrs. Forrest participated in the Junior League, Children’s Theatre, Greensboro Drug Auxiliary and the NC Pharmaceutical Auxiliary. She also served as president and vice president on the Board of the Greensboro Historical Museum. Her husband, Stephen Forrest, worked at Justice Drug Company after World War II, eventually serving as president for fifteen years.\nHer younger sister, Anne Hayes Brewer Davis (1921-2015), also attended Mary Baldwin College. She married William “Bill” Paul Brewer Sr. (1921-1987) in 1943, and they had three children: Paul, Michael and David H. She taught school before having children and afterwards worked part-time as a psychometrist with UNCG. After the death of her first husband, she married John Lorraine Davis (1916-2013) in 1999. She was active in the Greensboro Junior League and the Greensboro Cotillion, was a charter member of the NC Historical Book Club, and served as a president of NC Pharmaceutical Wives.\nBiographical Sources: The sources for this biographical note include the obituaries of P.A. Hayes (Greensboro Daily News, November 21, 1963) and Virginia Townsend Hayes (Greensboro Daily News, November 14, 1973), as well as those of Virginia Hayes Forrest (News & Record, January 30, 2015) and Anne Hayes Brewer Davis (News & Record, January 11, 2015). Additional information was obtained from Ancestry.com, the Greensboro city directories, the Guilford County Register of Deeds database and materials in the collection.\nTypes of materials in this collection include correspondence, financial and legal documents, photographs, printed materials, LP recordings and scrapbooks. Most materials highlight P.A. Hayes’ career with Justice Drug. Of note are two photo albums depicting Justice Drug construction and employees (5:1-2), as well as an invoice from WFMY-TV for commercial spots (3:1). Also included are a few pieces of Justice Drug letterhead (2:2, 4:2), drug formulas (4:1-3) and an insert from the Greensboro Beacon about local businesses (6:3). The scrapbooks give insight to the Hayes family’s social and professional accomplishments (7:1-4). Of particular interest is Mrs. Hayes’ scrapbook from her time at the State Normal and Industrial College (7:5).\n1. 50th Anniversary with Justice Drug. 7 folders (ca. 40 items). 1953.\nMaterials in this series relate to P.A. Hayes’ Golden Anniversary with Justice Drug Company. Correspondence (1:1-2) and a scrapbook (1:7) contain letters from associates congratulating him on his fifty years with the company. The photographs (1:3), LP records (1:6) and printed materials (1:4-5) detail the 50th Anniversary banquet held in his honor.\n2. Correspondence. 6 folders (ca. 90 items). 1935-1984.\nThe majority of the correspondence was sent from wholesale manufacturers to Justice Drug Company about products and contracts (2:4-6). Letters from P.A. Hayes, including two on company letterhead, show how he conducted business (2:2), while a letter from William Brewer discusses the sale of a desk with company history (2:1). Also included is a postcard to Carlos Virgil Cagle, a pharmacist for Justice Drug (2:3).\n3. Financial & Legal. 2 folders (18 items). 1927-1961.\nThis series contains Justice Drug contracts with wholesale manufacturers (3:2) and an invoice from WFMY-TV (3:1) for commercial spots purchased by the company. The invoice includes the times and costs of the commercials.\n4. Miscellaneous. 4 folders (ca. 25 items). ca. 1930s-1950s.\nThe miscellaneous items consist of formulas and personnel forms. The Justice Drug formulas are contained in two notebooks and on several loose pages, some of which are Justice Drug letterhead (4:2-3). Other formulas were recorded on the prescription pads of Dr. John Wesley Long, Dr. S.P. Sebastian and the O.Henry Drug Store, while a recipe for cigar flavoring is on Carolina Cigar Company letterhead (4:1). The blank personnel forms from Justice Drug Company include job applications, termination records, and annual performance reviews that provide insight into employee evaluation (1946-1947; 4:4).\n5. Photographs. 2 folders (2 items). 1958, n.d.\nOne of these photo albums shows the 1958 construction of a new Justice Drug building at 1201 Valley Park Drive (later Coliseum Blvd.; 5:1). The second album contains portraits of the company’s employees at their work locations (5:2).\n6. Printed Materials. 10 folders (ca. 35 items). 1868-1985.\nMaterials in this series are a mix of family and business items. Family items include a geography book that belonged to C.C. Townsend (1868; 6:2), and poems and prayers by P.A. Hayes’ mother, Mary Catherine Hayes (1917-1930; 6:5). The business aspect is represented by advertisements for office equipment and medicine (6:1), wholesale price schedules (6:10), and an article about P.A. Hayes and Justice Drug in the Greensboro Beacon (6:3). Also of interest are a piece of letterhead from Nanzetta Medicine Company (6:6) and items relating to Vick Chemical Company, including an early issue of Vicks Family News (1938; 6:9), two newspaper clippings (1960, 1965; 6:7) and a term paper by Martin Boney (1985; 6:8).\n7. Scrapbooks. 5 folders (6 items). 1906-1955.\nThe majority of the scrapbooks relate to the Hayes family and show how family and business were closely intertwined. Compiled by Mrs. Hayes and covering 1929-1955, these scrapbooks consist mostly of newspaper clippings about family and friends, as well as holiday cards (7:1-4). All of the scrapbooks contain articles about Justice Drug and Mr. Hayes’ career with the company. Items of note in the first scrapbook include newspaper clippings about P.A. Hayes’ election to the Greensboro Rotary Club (1942) and Chamber of Commerce (1929), and a photograph of the Hayes maid, probably Virginia Crutchfield (7:1).\nTwo scrapbooks (7:2,4) include information about the Hayes daughters’ marriages. The two large brown scrapbooks (7:3) also have newspaper clippings about Virginia and Anne’s children. Of particular interest are news clippings about the Justice Drug Company fire in July 1953. A copy of C.C. Townsend’s will (1921) is also present.\nThe final scrapbook (7:5) depicts Mrs. Hayes’ years at the State Normal and Industrial College. This scrapbook, which mostly consists of photographs, shows President J.J. Foust, faculty and students. Other photographs include the Spencer building and Mrs. Hayes’ room, and the Greensboro Centennial celebrations in 1908. Some programs from plays and ceremonies and Mrs. Hayes’ own musings are also included.\n1 1-2 50th Anniversary with Justice Drug -- Correspondence (1953)\n3 -- Photographs (1953)\n4 -- Printed Materials (Guest Books; 1953)\n5 50th Anniversary with Justice Drug -- Printed Materials (Newspaper Clippings; 1953)\n6 -- Recordings (1953)\n7 -- Scrapbook (1953)\n2 1 Correspondence -- Brewer, William (1984)\n2 -- Hayes, P.A. (1945-1957)\n3 -- Shre?, D.L. to Carlos Virgil Cagle (1941)\n4 Correspondence -- Wholesale distributors to Justice Drug Co. (1935-1939)\n5 -- Wholesale distributors to Justice Drug Co. (1940-1949)\n6 -- Wholesale distributors to Justice Drug Co. (1950-1958, n.d.)\n3 1 Financial & Legal -- Invoice -- WFMY (1952)\n2 -- Wholesale Manufacturer Contracts (1927-1961)\n4 1 Miscellaneous -- Formulas (n.d.)\n2 -- Justice Drug Formulas (loose; ca. 1930s-1940s)\n3 Miscellaneous -- Justice Drug Formulas (notebooks; ca. 1940s-1950s)\n4 -- Justice Drug Personnel Forms (1946-1947)\n5 1 Photographs -- Album -- Justice Drug Company Construction (1958)\n2 -- Album -- Justice Drug Company Employees\n6 1 Printed Materials -- Advertisements\n2 -- Geography Book (1868)\n3 -- Greensboro Beacon (ca. 1947)\n4 Printed Materials -- Greensboro Historical Museum (1947)\n5 -- Hayes, Mary Catherine (copies; 1917-1930)\n6 -- Nanzetta Medicine Company\n7 Printed Materials -- Newspaper Clippings -- Vick Chemical Co. (1960, 1965)\n8 -- \"The Rise of an American Company\" (by Martin M. Boney; 1985)\n9 -- Vicks Family News (September 1938)\n10 -- Wholesale Price Schedules (1941-1957, n.d.)\n7 1 Scrapbooks -- Hayes Family (1929-1954)\n2 -- Hayes Family (1942-1947)\n3 -- Hayes Family (1949-1954; 1953-1955)\n4 Scrapbooks -- Hayes Family (1954-1955)\n5 -- State Normal and Industrial College (1906-1911)"
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        "text": "Q: Dot-files and other meta data on non-Mac network shares Is there a way to tell Finder to not use (or worry about) the ._* files and other meta-data files it normally tries to use when it's on a network share?\nCurrently when I'm in Finder and I try to copy a file to a network share it results in an error:\n\nThe Finder can’t complete the\n  operation because some data in “file_name” can’t be read or written.\n  (Error code -36)\n\nBut I can copy the file from the terminal command line to the network share and use it from Finder afterward just fine.  It seems that the meta-data isn't really needed on the network share.  Is there a way to tell Finder this?\nFor reference, I'm using Snow Leopard and the share is a Samba share on a Linux server.\n\nA: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true\n\nWill get rid of the DS files. Anything else you might have to do by hand.\n\nA: Adapted from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/57832/8546\n\nFinder\nFinder does much to ensure integrity of data, and to make its results compatible with a broad range of Apple operating systems. For some types of copy/move routines, ._ (dot underscore) files are required. \nFile system\nIf creation of ._ files is prevented at the file system level, then that file system is partially incompatible with at least: \n\n\n*\n\n*Apple Finder\n\n*Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2011.\n\n\n(For any use case that involves Office 2011 saving to a file system, you must allow ._ on that file system … and so on.)\nError code -36\n-36 (ioErr) (I/O error) is a file system error, it indicates that data cannot be sent or received by the operating system. Historically, errors of this type were bummers. \nWithout knowing the detail of your Samba configuration: \n\n\n*\n\n*I guess that in your case, error -36 is the result of a file system restriction. \n\n\n\nFor more detail please see my answer to an older question, Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them?: \n\n\n*\n\n*Purposes of .DS_Store and ._ files\n\nA: Is the file you're trying to copy using a resource fork?\nIf you're dealing with .DS_Store file issues run the following command in Terminal:\ndefaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true\n\nIf you're having issues with resource forks on Snow Leopard you may need to change your settings for the streams setting in smb.conf on the Linux machine or nsmb.conf on your local Mac. (._FILENAME files are the resource forks of the file). Check out Super User for more details on this.\n\nA: This is not working for me anymore.\nSo i have added ._* to the veto files\nI think it's works but i don't know if it has other complications?\nvi /etc/samba/smb.conf\n[global]\nveto files = /._*/.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@_thumb/.@_desc/:2e*/\n(esc-shift-ZZ)\nservice smb restart\nservice nmb restart\n"
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        "text": "Q: What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory? The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing\n\nA: Real mem relates to physical memory (actual RAM modules in your computer).  Virtual Mem is how much \"fake\" memory is allocated to the process, meaning memory that is allocated on the permanent storage medium (hard drive, solid state drive, etc) for that process.  Shared memory is physical (Real) memory that can be shared with other processes.  Private memory is \"real\" memory that can only be used by the process it is allocated to.\nThese explanations may help as well... directly from activity monitor --> help --> viewing system memory usage:\nHere is an explanation of some of the information displayed at the bottom of the memory pane:\n\n\n*\n\n*Wired: Wired memory contains information that must always stay in RAM\n\n*Active: Active memory that contains information that is actively being used.\n\n*Inactive: Inactive memory contains information that is not actively being used. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later.\n\n*Used: Used memory is being used by a process or by the system.\nUsed memory is the sum of wired, active, and inactive memory. If the system requires memory it takes free memory before used memory.\n\n*Free: Free memory is not being used and is immediately available.\n\n*VM size: Virtual memory, or VM, is hard disk space that can be used as memory. VM size is the amount of disk space being used as memory. Mac OS X can use more memory than the amount of physical RAM you have. A hard disk is much slower than RAM, so the virtual memory system automatically distributes information between disk space and RAM for efficient performance.\nPage ins/outs: The number of gigabytes of information Mac OS X has moved between RAM and disk space\n\n\nA: Apple updated the Activity Monitor in OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). They have a good article about what everything means here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890. In summary...\n\n\n\n*\n\n*Physical Memory: The amount of RAM installed.\n\n*Memory Used: The amount of RAM being used and not immediately available for other apps.\n\n*Virtual Memory: The amount of memory mapping that apps have asked for. This is not an actual consumption of RAM resources and it size is determined by the author of the app.\n\n*Swap Used: The space on your drive being used to swap unused files to and from RAM. It is normal to see some activity and it is not a indication that you have depleted RAM resources. Seeing memory pressure in the Red state will indicate that RAM resources are depleted.\n\n*App Memory: The amount of space being used by apps.\n\n*Wired Memory: Memory that can’t be cached to disk, so it must stay in RAM. This memory can’t be borrowed by other apps.\n\n*Compressed: The amount of memory in RAM that is compressed, making more RAM resources available for other apps.\n\n*File Cache: The space in RAM marked as available for apps to use that contains recently used files.\n\n\n\nMemory Pressure graph\nThe combination of Free, Wired, Active, Inactive & Used memory statistics in previous versions of Activity Monitor have been replaced in Mavericks with an easy to read \"Memory Pressure\" graph.\nMemory pressure is indicated by color:\n\n\n*\n\n*Green – RAM memory resources are available.\n\n*Amber – RAM memory resources are being tasked.\n\n*Red – RAM memory resources are depleted and OS X is using the drive for memory.\n\n\nA: Taken from my answer at Server Fault:\nMac OS X Memory Jargon:\nWired : This refers to kernel code and such. Memory that should not ever be moved out of the RAM. Also know as resident memory.\nShared : Memory that is shared between two or more processes. Both processes would show this amount of memory so it can be a bit misleading as to how much memory is actually in use.\nReal : This is the \"real\" memory usage for an application as reported by task_info() - a rough count of the number of physical pages that the current process has. (RSIZE)\nPrivate : This is memory that a process is using solely on its own that is used in Resident memory. (RPRVT)\nVirtual : The total amount of address space in the process that's mapped to anything - whether that's an arbitrarily large space for variables or anything - it does not equate to actual VM use. (VSIZE)\nActive : Memory currently labelled as active and is used RAM.\nInactive : \"Inactive memory is no longer being used and has been cached to disk. It will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later.\" - Mac OS X Help\nFree : The amount of RAM actually available without any data.\n\nThe best documentation I know of (and have been able to find in followup research) is Apple's own Managing Memory article on their developer website.\nOther worthwhile sources: Darwin-dev mailing list: [1], [2] and an old article on MacOSXHints. Additionally Mike Ash has posted a good layman's introduction on his blog\n"
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        "text": "As part of our ongoing commitment to protect the health and safety of our students, staff, and visitors to our facilities, Itasca School District 10 has tested all public drinking fountains and classroom faucets for the presence of lead higher than the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb) and the Illinois Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) requirement for levels of lead in drinking water of 5 ppb.\nThis is consistent with Illinois SB40 0550-The Lead in Drinking Water Testing Bill.\nThis law requires that all school buildings constructed prior to January 1, 1987 have all drinking water and water used for food preparation tested by December 31, 2017. Additionally, any building constructed between January 2, 1987 and January 1, 2000, is required to have all drinking water and water used for food preparation tested by December 31, 2018.\nAll drinking fountains, classroom faucets and kitchen sinks that are used for food preparation at all District 10 schools were tested this summer. This is a higher standard than the law calls for as sources that are not used for drinking were tested such as classroom faucets. The samples were drawn by Pekron Environmental Health and Safety Consulting following a very specific protocell under Illinois State Law.\nAll drinking sources and water fountains at all schools are safe and had no detectable levels of lead.\n5 classroom faucets at Benson were found to have lead levels above the Illinois standard, they are Room 3A, Room 3B, Room 16, Room 17 and Room 18. One was found over the USEPA’s action level. That was in Room 3B.\n10 classroom faucets at Franzen were found to have lead levels above the Illinois standard, they are the nurse office, Room 4, Room 5, Room 6, Room 7, Room 8, Room 10, Room 14, Room 16 and Room 17. One was found over the USEPA’s action level. That is Room 7.\nAll sources and classroom faucets at Benson and Franzen (listed above) that tested for lead levels above IDPH and USEPA standards have been closed at the waterline level for usage. They are not accessible for usage.\nThe District will be undertaking several steps to ensure the accuracy of the results and the safety of our students, staff and visitors. All of the fixtures that had indications on any elevated levels of lead above the IDPH and or USEPA’s action level have been taken out of service. Those water sources will undergo correction and further testing. Additionally, all school nurses station will have usage of a water cooler for nursing purposes.\nIf you have any concerns or questions please email or call at 630-773-1232. Additionally, I will be in attendance at both Franzen and Benson Curriculum Nights and to take any questions you may have regarding this manner."
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        "text": "Q: How can I get Snow Leopard to properly reconnect to my Windows network drives after it goes to sleep? My mac goes to sleep. It wakes up. The volumes mounted to a Windows server in my house all work. I can see pictures and listen to music. Until I can't. After two or three sleep/wake cycles, I can't connect to the Windows server at all, with Finder hanging infinitely on trying to connect. I have to reboot the entire machine to reconnect properly. With OS X 10.5, I never could get the volumes to reconnect after sleep, but at least they didn't sabotage Finder. Anyone have any ideas? I hate leaving the mac running all the time.\n(27\" 2010 iMac, OS X 10.6.4)\n\nA: This is a known issue, and has no current hotfix or resolution.  The problem is in the samba implementation.\nThe only thing I can think of doing is writing a script to umount your samba just before sleep, and mounting right after sleep.  (Nobody has done this yet)\nMost educated source on the problem I could find:\nhttps://superuser.com/questions/144327/mac-os-cant-connect-to-smb-shares-after-sleep\n\nA: I had this issue as well and found sleepwatcher to do what I need.\nI found this article\nhttp://imclumzy.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/mac-osx-automatic-smb-mount-script-using-sleepwatcher/\nI used created the main script as he has it and then another to calls this one with one line for each volume I need to mount, for example: sh ~/Scripts/mountShare.sh /Volumes/Music bundywhs/Music.\nI don't have the username and password in it since i store it in my keychain.  \nOne other note, his article has the sleep time set to 10 seconds in his wakeup script.  That seems to work fine when I am on wireless but for me my wired network takes longer to come back so I changed it to 30 seconds.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Can the keys on the MacBook Pro be removed for cleaning? The MacBook Pro does a really good job keeping dirt and stuff from getting under the keys, but none-the-less there is some dirt under a few keys.  Can I pop these keys off and then easily replace them?\nIn the past when I've done this, the key never really went back on correctly.\nThis is the newer Unibody MBP with the black backlite chiclet keys. \n\nA: If they keys are square without beveled edges then no. Removing it would require major surgery to remove. \nI recommend a can of air duster, some q-tips, and alcohol to clean the keyboard. \n\nA: Without knowing which specific model you are referring to it would be hard to tell. The keyboards on the newer unibody macbook pros are one assembly and it would not be advised to try to take off the keys. \n\nA: Yes - all keys on all mac portables in the past 10 years or so are individually removable.\nThere are very delicate plastic scissors hidden under the key caps. \nAlso - the scissors are not necessarily all oriented the same way. The return key may have two vertical scissors where an H key may have one horizontal scissors mechanism underneath. Also - the size of say a small arrow key may not be the same size as a function key at the top.\nLarge keys such as the space bar and the option keys have added metal supports and you may need a large amount of patience to get them back.\nIf you damage the very small delicate nubs - you will have broken that key and have to press the little rubber nubbin by hand until you can get a replacement. If you bend the metal rings that hold the scissors (or the actual switch) - the repair cost is much higher. Most lighted whole keyboards go for $65 to $300 plus labor.\nDo your research before starting so you won't be that person with a plastic baggie of parts that are close but not identical waiting in line at the genius bar for help with a tedious repair. :-)\nIf you know the cost to replace and have a steady hand - dive in and go get those crumbs :-)\n\nA: A bit offtopic answer, but sometimes get handy:\nhttp://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23536/keyboard-cleaner\n:)\n"
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        "text": "Gorillas occur only in Africa. The species Gorilla is subdivided into three recognized sub species: the western lowland gorilla, which occurs in several countries in West Africa; the eastern lowland gorilla, which inhabits remnant forest areas along the eastern border of Zaire; and the mountain gorilla which occurs only in two separated and extremely small populations on and near the Ugandan, Zairean and Rwandan borders. All three are endangered.\nMountain gorillas are mainly terrestrial and quadrupedal; they walk on the soles of their hind limbs but pivot on the knuckles of their forelimbs. Gorillas are predominantly herbivorous, feeding mainly on the leaves, stems and roots of specific plants. Groups are strongly bonded; the same individuals typically travel together for years at a time. Groups are led by an adult male or ‘silverback’. All males, once they are they mature, become silverbacks, developing very distinct characteristics, including an impressive silver saddle extending across their back from shoulders to rump. However not all silverbacks are successful enough to ultimately gain leadership of a group. The size of a gorilla group varies from two to as many as 35 individuals. Average group size is about nine. In addition to a dominant silverback and occasionally one or two subordinates, the group consists of several adult females, sub adults, juveniles and infants.\nGorilla Trekking through the misty forests requires patience and stamina, often walking for hours in the mud and the wet. Finally meeting them in the undergrowth is an inspiring moment. Quietly chewing away at their vegetarian delicacies, they seem like a marooned human family. The tender grooming and firm disciplining of their offspring seems all too familiar. The gorilla family cast a wary glance at the sudden human intrusion into their private world, but is comforted by the clucking made by the trackers. When provoked, the noisy but harmless silverback grunts, screeches, bares his fangs and beats his chest, before slithering off with attendant females, offspring and other mature males.\nThe parks both offer spectacular landscapes and a rich variety of wildlife and bird species."
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        "text": "\npackage net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.impl.swt.view.sync;\n\nimport net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.api.UiDisplay;\nimport net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.api.event.UiEventType;\nimport net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.api.view.UiNode;\nimport net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.base.view.AbstractUiNodeAdapter;\nimport net.sf.mmm.ui.toolkit.impl.swt.UiFactorySwt;\n\nimport org.eclipse.swt.SWT;\nimport org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;\nimport org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener;\n\n/**\n * This is the abstract base class used for synchronous access on a SWT object\n * (e.g. a {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget}). SWT is designed in a way\n * that enforces a strict programming-model. This includes a specific threading\n * with an event-queue based main loop. Further it requires top-down UI\n * composition as every node of the UI can only be created after its parent. All\n * these aspects are unsuitable for an abstraction layer that also allows to run\n * the same code as a web-application. The idea of this framework is to free the\n * user of such constraints and make it easier to write cross-technology\n * user-interfaces.\n * \n * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)\n * @param <DELEGATE> is the generic type of the {@link #getDelegate() delegate}.\n * @since 1.0.0\n */\npublic abstract class AbstractSyncObjectAccess<DELEGATE> extends AbstractUiNodeAdapter<DELEGATE>\n    implements Runnable, Listener {\n\n  /**\n   * operation to\n   * {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#Widget(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget, int)\n   * create} the object. This operation will be implemented in the according\n   * sub-class.\n   */\n  private static final String OPERATION_CREATE = \"create\";\n\n  /**\n   * operation to {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#dispose() dispose} to\n   * widget.\n   */\n  private static final String OPERATION_DISPOSE = \"dispose\";\n\n  /**\n   * operation to determine if the widget is\n   * {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#isDisposed() disposed}.\n   */\n  private static final String OPERATION_IS_DISPOSED = \"isDisposed\";\n\n  /** the ui display */\n  private final UiDisplay display;\n\n  /** the operation to perform in {@link #run()} */\n  private String op;\n\n  /** the {@link org.eclipse.swt.SWT} style of this widget */\n  private int style;\n\n  /** <code>true</code> if the widget is disposed */\n  private boolean disposed;\n\n  /**\n   * The constructor.\n   * \n   * @param uiFactory is used to do the synchronization.\n   * @param node is the owning {@link #getNode() node}.\n   * @param swtStyle is the {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#getStyle()\n   *        style} of the widget.\n   */\n  public AbstractSyncObjectAccess(UiFactorySwt uiFactory, UiNode node, int swtStyle) {\n\n    super(node);\n    this.display = uiFactory.getDisplay();\n    this.op = null;\n    this.disposed = false;\n    this.style = swtStyle;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * {@inheritDoc}\n   */\n  public final void run() {\n\n    Object widget = getDelegate();\n    if (widget == null) {\n      if (this.op == OPERATION_CREATE) {\n        doCreateSynchron();\n      }\n    } else {\n      if (isDisposedSynchron()) {\n        handleDisposed();\n      } else {\n        performSynchron(this.op);\n      }\n    }\n    this.op = null;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called from {@link #run()} if the widget has been disposed.\n   */\n  protected void handleDisposed() {\n\n    this.disposed = true;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called from {@link #run()}. It does the actual job for the\n   * given operation.\n   * \n   * @param operation is the actual operation to perform.\n   */\n  protected void performSynchron(String operation) {\n\n    if (operation == OPERATION_DISPOSE) {\n      disposeSynchron();\n    } else if (operation == OPERATION_IS_DISPOSED) {\n      // this.disposed = isDisposedSynchron();\n    } else if (operation == OPERATION_CREATE) {\n      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(\"Duplicate operation: \" + operation);\n    } else {\n      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(\"Unknown operation: \" + operation);\n    }\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called for the create operation.\n   */\n  protected void doCreateSynchron() {\n\n    createSynchron();\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called for {@link #doCreateSynchron()}.\n   */\n  protected abstract void createSynchron();\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called for the isDisposed operation.\n   * \n   * @return <code>true</code> if the widget is disposed false otherwise.\n   */\n  protected boolean isDisposedSynchron() {\n\n    return this.disposed;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method is called for the dispose operation.\n   */\n  protected void disposeSynchron() {\n\n    this.disposed = true;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method creates the actual widget. The {@link #getDelegate() widget}\n   * should not yet exist and the parent must be available.\n   */\n  protected void create() {\n\n    assert (checkReady());\n    assert (getDelegate() == null);\n    invoke(OPERATION_CREATE);\n    assert (getDelegate() != null);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#dispose() disposes} the\n   * widget.\n   */\n  public void dispose() {\n\n    assert (checkReady());\n    invoke(OPERATION_DISPOSE);\n    this.disposed = true;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method determines if the widget is\n   * {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#isDisposed() disposed}.\n   * \n   * @return <code>true</code> if the widget is disposed.\n   */\n  @Override\n  public boolean isDisposed() {\n\n    if (!this.disposed) {\n      assert (checkReady());\n      invoke(OPERATION_IS_DISPOSED);\n    }\n    return this.disposed;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method checks if previous operations are completed. It is used only\n   * for assertions in development.\n   * \n   * @return <code>true</code> if all previous operations are completed.\n   */\n  protected boolean checkReady() {\n\n    String operation = this.op;\n    if (operation == null) {\n      return true;\n    } else {\n      System.out.println(\"Synchronization bug: the operation '\" + operation\n          + \"' was NOT completed!\");\n      return false;\n    }\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method gets the {@link org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget#getStyle()\n   * style} of this widget.\n   * \n   * @return the style of the widget.\n   */\n  public int getStyle() {\n\n    return this.style;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method checks if the given <code>styleMask</code> is contained in the\n   * {@link #getStyle() style} of the widget.<br>\n   * E.g. use the following to check if the HORIZONTAL flag is set.\n   * \n   * <pre>\n   * {@link #hasStyle(int) hasStyle}({@link org.eclipse.swt.SWT#HORIZONTAL})\n   * </pre>\n   * \n   * @param styleMask is the style mask to check.\n   * @return <code>true</code> if all bits in the given styleMask are set in the\n   *         {@link #getStyle() style}, <code>false</code> otherwise.\n   */\n  public boolean hasStyle(int styleMask) {\n\n    return ((this.style & styleMask) == styleMask);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method sets the flag(s) given in <code>styleMask</code> in the\n   * {@link #getStyle() style} of the widget.\n   * \n   * @param styleMask is the style mask to set.\n   */\n  protected void setFlag(int styleMask) {\n\n    this.style = (this.style | styleMask);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method clears the flag(s) given by <code>styleMask</code> in the\n   * {@link #getStyle() style} of the widget.\n   * \n   * @param styleMask is the style mask to unset.\n   */\n  protected void unsetFlag(int styleMask) {\n\n    this.style = (this.style & ~styleMask);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method inverts (XORs) the flag(s) given by <code>styleMask</code> in\n   * the {@link #getStyle() style} of the widget.\n   * \n   * @param styleMask is the style mask to invert.\n   */\n  protected void invertFlag(int styleMask) {\n\n    this.style = (this.style ^ styleMask);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method invokes the given operation synchronous.\n   * \n   * @param operation is the operation to perform.\n   */\n  protected void invoke(String operation) {\n\n    assert (checkReady());\n    this.op = operation;\n    this.display.invokeSynchron(this);\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * This method gets the display.\n   * \n   * @return the display.\n   */\n  public UiDisplay getDisplay() {\n\n    return this.display;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * {@inheritDoc}\n   */\n  public String getId() {\n\n    // not supported by SWT\n    return null;\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * {@inheritDoc}\n   */\n  public void setId(String newId) {\n\n    // not supported by SWT\n  }\n\n  /**\n   * {@inheritDoc}\n   */\n  public void handleEvent(Event event) {\n\n    switch (event.type) {\n      case SWT.Selection:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.CLICK);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Hide:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.HIDE);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Show:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.SHOW);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Iconify:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.ICONIFY);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Deiconify:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.DEICONIFY);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Activate:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.ACTIVATE);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Deactivate:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.DEACTIVATE);\n        break;\n      case SWT.Dispose:\n        getNode().sendEvent(UiEventType.DISPOSE);\n        break;\n      default :\n        return;\n    }\n  }\n\n}\n"
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        "text": "2 октомври е 275-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (276-и през високосна). Остават 90 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1187 г. – Сирийският султан Саладин превзема Йерусалим след 88-годишно управление от кръстоносците.\n 1835 г. – С Битката при Гонзалес започва Тексаската революция.\n 1836 г. – Чарлз Дарвин се завръща в Англия след 5-годишно изследователско пътешествие в южните океани на борда на кораба Бийгъл.\n 1870 г. – Рим е обявен за столица на обединена Италия.\n 1909 г. – В Англия е изигран първият ръгби мач.\n 1910 г. – Два самолета се сблъскват във въздушното пространство над Милано, което е първата самолетна катастрофа.\n 1921 г. – Във Варна е открита първата учебна година във Висшето търговско училище (предшественик на Икономически университет – Варна).\n 1928 г. – В Мадрид е основана Прелатурата на Светия Кръст и Опус Деи известна като Опус Деи.\n 1936 г. – В САЩ е възобновено производство на алкохолни напитки след отменянето на сухия режим.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Започва Операция Тайфун срещу Москва. Сформирана е Вяземската фронтова отбранителна операция.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Нацистите потушават Варшавското въстание, съветските войски изчакват в близост до града.\n 1946 г. – На екран в САЩ се появява първият сапунен сериал, Далечен хълм.\n 1956 г. – В Ню Йорк е представен първият в света атомен часовник.\n 1958 г. – Гвинея провъзгласява независимост от Франция.\n 1959 г. – По CBS се състои премиерата на телевизионния сериал Зоната на здрача.\n 1960 г. – Официално е открит стадион „Морумби“ в Сао Пауло, Бразилия.\n 1966 г. – Официално е открит стадион „Висенте Калдерон“ в Мадрид.\n 1968 г. – Кървава разправа на мексикански военни части срещу студенти и граждани в Тлателолко от следобеда до ранните часове на нощта. Загиват от 200 до 1000 души.\n 1996 г. – Бившият министър-председател на България Андрей Луканов е застрелян пред дома си в София от вероятен наемен убиец.\n 2002 г. – XXXIX народно събрание решава срокът на затваряне на 3-ти и 4-ти реактор на АЕЦ Козлодуй да не предхожда приемането на България в Европейския съюз.\n\nРодени \n\n 971 г. – Махмуд Газневи, газневидски владетел († 1030 г.)\n 1450 г. – Йеронимус Бош, брабантски художник († 1516 г.)\n 1452 г. – Ричард III, крал на Англия († 1485 г.)\n 1470 г. – Изабела Арагонска, херцогиня на Милано († 1525 г.)\n 1538 г. – Карло Боромео, италиански духовник († 1584 г.)\n 1667 г. – Луи дьо Бурбон, граф дьо Вермандоа, френски принц, признат незаконен син на Луи XIV († 1683 г.)\n 1802 г. – Едуар Менетрие, френски зоолог († 1861 г.)\n 1833 г. – Вито Позитано, италиански дипломат († 1886 г.)\n 1846 г. – Паул фон Хинденбург, немски държавник и маршал († 1934 г.)\n 1864 г. – Петко Момчилов, български архитект († 1923 г.)\n 1869 г. – Махатма Ганди, индийски политик, Баща на нацията († 1948 г.)\n 1871 г. – Кордел Хъл, държавен секретар на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат през 1945 г. († 1955 г.)\n 1881 г. – Васил Късогледов, български и руски доктор, хирург († 1936 г.)\n 1882 г. – Борис Шапошников, съветски маршал († 1945 г.)\n 1889 г. – Михаил Захариев, български генерал\n 1889 г. – Иван Лазаров, български скулптор († 1952 г.)\n 1890 г. – Граучо Маркс, американски комик († 1977 г.)\n 1904 г. – Греъм Грийн, британски писател и драматург († 1991 г.)\n 1904 г. – Лал Бахадур Шастри, министър-председател на Индия († 1966 г.)\n 1906 г. – Гоце Тенчов, български лекар († 1960 г.)\n 1920 г. – Джузепе Коломбо, италиански учен († 1984 г.)\n 1920 г. – Йордан Йотов, български политик († 2012 г.)\n 1927 г. – Никола Клюсев, министър-председател на Република Македония († 2008 г.)\n 1933 г. – Димитър Христов, български композитор († 2017 г.)\n 1934 г. – Лальо Аврамов, български цигулар († 1995 г.)\n 1935 г. – Омар Сивори, аржентински футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1937 г. – Хелга Шютц, немска писателка\n 1939 г. – Юрий Глазков, съветски космонавт († 2008 г.)\n 1947 г. – Йоан Костадинов, български политик\n 1948 г. – Ана Митгуч, австрийска писателка\n 1949 г. – Мечислав Домарадски, полски археолог († 1998 г.)\n 1951 г. – Красимир Ранков, български актьор\n 1951 г. – Стинг, английски рок музикант\n 1960 г. – Фият Цаноски, политик от Република Македония\n 1967 г. – Томас Мустер, австрийски тенисист\n 1968 г. – Веселин Вачков, български и чешки журналист\n 1968 г. – Яна Новотна, чешка тенисистка 2017\n 1971 г. – Джеймс Рот, американски китарист (Slipknot)\n 1974 г. – Пол Тътъл-младши, дизайнер и конструктор на мотоциклети\n 1978 г. – Аюми Хамасаки, японска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 534 г. – Аталарих, крал на остготите в Италия (* 516 г.)\n 1264 г. – Урбан IV, римски папа (* ок. 1200)\n 1804 г. – Никола Жозеф Кюно, френски изобретател (* 1725 г.)\n 1847 г. – Васил Априлов, български просветен деец и книжовник (* 1785 г.)\n 1853 г. – Франсоа Араго, френски физик и политик (* 1786 г.)\n 1916 г. – Димчо Дебелянов, български поет (* 1887 г.)\n 1927 г. – Сванте Август Арениус, шведски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1903 г. (* 1859 г.)\n 1938 г. – Александру Авереску, министър-председател на Румъния (* 1859 г.)\n 1946 г. – Игнаци Мошчицки, полски президент (* 1867 г.)\n 1968 г. – Марсел Дюшан, френски художник (* 1887 г.)\n 1973 г. – Пааво Нурми, финландски бегач (* 1897 г.)\n 1974 г. – Василий Шукшин, руски писател, кинорежисьор, сценарист и актьор (* 1929 г.)\n 1985 г. – Рок Хъдсън, американски актьор (* 1925 г.)\n 1987 г. – Питър Медауар, английски биолог и имунолог, Нобелов лауреат (* 1915 г.)\n 1996 г. – Андрей Луканов, министър-председател на България (* 1938 г.)\n 1998 г. – Георги Найденов, български банкер (* 1927 г.)\n 2000 г. – Светозар Русинов, български композитор и музикален педагог (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на ненасилието.\n Международен ден на усмивката (за 2015 г. – отбелязва се в първия петък на октомври)\n Световен ден на селскостопанските животни\n Гвинея – Ден на независимостта (от Франция, 1958 г., национален празник)\n Индия – Годишнина от рождението на Махатма Ганди (1869 г., национален празник)\n\nA02"
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        "text": "nike-air-women\nSneakers didn’t own the runway during Fashion Month this season https://www.thetopsneaker.com/nike-air-women , but they still reign at retail and on the street. While some insiders said the explosive growth of the category is leveling off, the long-term impact of the streetwear revolution is notable.“Boots are definitely back in as the ‘it’ shoe of the season,” said Alberto Oliveros, GMM at Level Shoes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “However, I don’t think this will affect sneakers in any way. The trend is very much alive and well, and that sense of comfortable luxury will prolong the [momentum] further. They are still performing extremely well, and I anticipate that they will continue to do so.”“Streetwear is here to stay because people are not going back to suits,” added GCDS co-founder and creative director Giuliano Calza. “Even if [formal] is the next sartorial trend, there are too many consumers out there who want easy things to wear every day. It’s going to be more organic, in a way.”To that end, Giuseppe Zanotti said he was trying to put the “emotion” of a sneaker into more dressed-up looks. “I tried to put a lot of details from streetwear and the sneaker universe on a high heel — some neon color, new materials. I want to make stilettos more technological, to do some elegant shoes that are less boring,” Zanotti said Womens Nike Air Max , noting that the explosion of streetwear has completely changed the landscape in the past few years. “It’s not only ready-to-wear or shoes or fashion. It’s a social evolution. It’s global. It’s digital.”Now designers need to understand what’s next, Zanotti said. “This is a challenge for me and a lot of other people.”Elizabeth von der Goltz, global buying director at Net-a-Porter, said she’s noticing the chunky sneaker evolving into a hybrid hiking boot silhouette.“Gucci has done this very well. Overall, streetwear seems to be gravitating toward alternative definitions of cool comfort in the form of combat and hiking boots, and chunky Chelsea ankle styles from brands such as Prada, Miu Miu and Moncler. UFC star Conor McGregor is in legal trouble yet again, this time for an alleged sexual assault in Ireland.According to a report from The New York Times today, the Reebok-backed fighter is under investigation in Ireland after a woman accused him of sexual assault at a hotel in south Dublin in December. The report states McGregor was arrested and released after questioning the next month and he has not been charged with or convicted of a crime. The investigation, as stated in the report, does not represent proof of allegations.Although he has not been charged or convicted, the latest allegations against McGregor are serious, and he has had trouble with the law in the past — leading industry insiders believe it may be time for Reebok to part ways with him.“On one hand [athletes] are unbelievable influencers, but on the other hand your brand gets connected to them,\" CEO and co-founder of influencer marketing platform HYPR Gil Eyal said. \"If they’re prone to doing bad things and its beyond the point where you think its PR or intentional Nike Lunarlon Womens , he’s getting in real trouble, you have to ask if you’re willing to pay the price as a brand.\"Eyal continued, “Reebok is a really strong and powerful brand, they can find alternatives to Conor McGregor. He’s replaceable.”The influencer expert believes the mixed martial arts organization already has athletes who would be great ambassadors in place of the Irish fighter such as Daniel Cormier and the last man to defeat McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov.“There are plenty of other superstars. MMA is an industry, a business that’s in the business of creating superstars. Conor McGregor is just the current star,\" Eyal said. \"There are an abundance of people to take his place.\"However, The NPD Group senior sports industry analyst Matt Powell believes it would be in Reebok's best interest to watch the situation carefully.“As I understand it, the procedures in Europe are different than the U.S. and he has not actually been charged with the crime although he is being investigated for it,\" Powell said. \"It may be a bit premature for them to sever ties with him, but they’ve got to watch the case very closely. I might urge a little bit of caution, but when and if it becomes clear that he’s involved they need to act very swiftly.”Although he believes the athletic brand should proceed with caution, he's not sure McGregor — in legal trouble or not — is an asset it really needs.“I don’t know that he’s really brought them that much as an endorsee. Maybe, in some ways, this is a simple way to sever ties with him Womens Nike React ,\" Powell said. \"The brand’s success is being driven by retro product and he’s not involved in that. Their performance business continues to be challenged so I don’t think they’ve got a ton out of this relationship. It may be a good time to cut ties.”McGregor is part of Reebok's efforts to promote its Sole Fury sneaker, an aesthetically bold performance running silhouette highlighted by its visibly split cushioning.Aside from McGregor, Reebok is using other combat sports stars, including boxing sensation Mikey Garcia, to promote the shoe.With a healthy roster of accomplished athletes, Eyal doesn't think the risk of keeping McGregor is worth the potential reward.“If he’s denying responsibility then Reebok may not be in a hurry to do it. With that said, they’re a very respected, well-known brand in the world, you can’t blame them if they decide to part ways,\" Eyal said. \"The upside is limited, the downside is very big if there is truth to this.”In an email to FN, Reebok said: \"We will not be commenting on this matter until we have more information.\"Two weeks ago, McGregor was arrested in Florida for breaking the cellphone of someone who was attempting to take the fighter’s photo, according to a Miami Beach Police report. The report states McGregor, slapped the phone out of the man’s hand outside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel and stomped on it several times before picking it up and walking away with it.And in July 2018 https://www.thetopsneaker.com/nike-zoom-women , McGregor pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges after throwing a hand-truck into a bus window at a media event at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, N.Y., in April ahead of UFC 223, which was captured on video and shared on social media.Early this morning, in an unexpected tweet, the 30-year-old star athlete announced his retirement (for the second time) from the sport.“Hey guys quick announcement, I’ve decided to retire from the sport formally known as 'Mixed Martial Art' today. I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition. I now join my former partners on this venture, already in retirement,” McGregor wrote on the social media platform."
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        "text": "wave4 Vietnam\nAsian Barometer Survey Wave 4\n(VIETNAM)\nBy Taylor Nelson Sofres Vietnam\nThe Asian Barometer 2015 Survey covered the entire Viet Nam, and had 6 major study areas: Northern Midlands and Mountains, Red River Delta, North and South Central Coast, Central Highlands, Southeast, Mekong River Delta.\n1.2 Population\nWith an estimated 85.8 million inhabitants (Census 2009), it is the world’s 13th – most – populous country, and the eight-most-populous country in Asia. According to census data, during the last decade the proportion of people living in urban areas increased from 23.7% in 1999 to 29.6% in 2009. This translates into a total of 25.4 million urban residents out of a national population of 85.8 million in 2009. The main increase in urbanization took place in the already large urban areas with 200,000 residents or more. The total number of these urban centres has increased from 9 in 1999 to 15 in 2009.\n1.3 Government\nThe Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state. Its current state constitution, which replaced the 1975 constitution in April 1992, asserts the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in all organs of government, politics and society. The General Secretary of the Communist Party performs numerous key administrative and executive functions, controlling the party’s national organization and state appointments, as well as setting policy. Only political organizations affiliated with or endorsed by the Communist Party are permitted to contest elections in Vietnam. These include the Vietnamese Fatherland Front and worker and trade unionist parties. Although the state remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist, with The Economist characterizing its leadership as “ardently capitalist communists”.\nBack to ABS Wave4 Survey"
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        "text": "Home > Cultural Tours > HINDUKUSH & KARAKURAM CIRCLE TOUR\nHINDUKUSH & KARAKURAM CIRCLE TOUR\nIslamabad-Taxila-Peshawar-Bamboret-Chitral-Swat-Besham-Gilgit-Karimabad-Gulmit-Duiker Village-Chilas-Islamabad\nDay 01: Islamabad\nArrive at Islamabad International Airport. Meet, assist & transfer to the hotel. AM at leisure. PM Islamabad city tour.\nOur sightseeing tour will start from, Faisal Mosque, Shakar Parian & National monument with a trip to Damn-e-Koh, to catch an eye bird view of the twin cities.\nDinner & overnight at the hotel in Rawalpindi/Islamabad. (Lunch & Dinner).\nBreakfast at the hotel. Morning drive to Peshawar, en-route visit Taxila on the G.T Road.\nTaxila is a Tehsil in Rawalpindi District of Punjab province situated just off the Grand Trunk Road about 40 kms northwest of Islamabad the capital city of Pakistan. It is an imperative archaeological site. Taxila accurately claims to be the confluence of the immense civilizations of the world. It came to celebrity when it was under enemy control by Mouriyans, Kushans, Greeks, Scythians and Parthian. Taxila is the region from where Buddhism traveled to the Far East and Persians, Greeks and Hindus all later left their mark. View the sun set from the ruins of a Buddhist monastery or stroll all the way through streets of a dug up Persian city in the information that there are two older ones buried underneath. In 1980, Taxila was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site with many locations. Now it has been given a status as the top tourist destination in Pakistan.\nLunch in a local restaurant. After lunch drive to Peshawar.\nPM. Peshawar city tour. Visit Museum, Mohabat Khan Mosque.\nArrive and transfer to the hotel.\nDinner & overnight in Peshawar. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 03: Peshawar-Bamboret via Lowari Pass\nBreakfast at the hotel. Morning drive to Bamboret via Lowari Pass.\nLowari Pass is situated at an elevation of (10,230 ft.) is a high mountain pass that connects Chitral with Dir in Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lowari Top is a comparatively low pass. Lowari Pass is closed by snow from late November to late May every year. During this time, jeeps cannot cross so men must travel by foot. This is dangerous, as there are high mountains on each side of Lowari Top, and a fatal avalanche can come at any moment without warning. Lowari Top remains popular because it is the shortest route from Chitral to Peshawar. This pass is one of the four major mountain passes to enter Chitral. The others are the Dorah Pass from Badakshan in Afghanistan, Shandur Top from Gilgit, and Brughul Pass from the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan. The Lowari Tunnel is currently being constructed under Lowari Pass by a Korean company. The tunnel is expected to be fully open in 2012.\nOn the way lunch in a local restaurant. Arrival in Bamboret and transfer to the hotel.\nBamboret is the main valley of three valleys, away from Chitral of 2 hours drive. Inhabitants of Kalash valley exist in two unique types of Kafirs (Infidels) the red and the black until the ending of the last century. The Red Kafirs (Infidels) were subjugated by Amir of Afghanistan and converted to Muslims. The Kalash were however not debilitated till to day and preserve their pagan rites.\nDinner & overnight in Bamboret. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 04: Bamboret-Kalash Valleys Excursion-Chitral\nAfter breakfast proceed for full day excursion to two Kalash valleys by Non A/C Willy Jeep.\nWe shall explore the two valleys of Kalasha (Rambur & Birir). Muslims used the word Kafir to stand for infidels or nonbelievers. There used to exist two distinctive types of Kafirs, the Red and the Kalash (Black). Now, there are only the Kalash, existing in the three valleys south of Chitral. To this day the Kalash people maintain their pagan life, and one can watch their ancient dances and ceremonies. The women are out and about in their villages and will invite you for tea, to look at their unusual dresses and jewelry, and will offer to braid your hair in their fashion. As well as observing the people and their customs, one must notice the spectacular scenery.\nBirir remains relatively unspoiled and less visited. The majority of the people are still Kafirs. One can see the village constructed on a mountain slope in a terrace-like fashion, with houses perched upon each other. Evening drive back to Chitral.\nDinner & overnight in Chitral. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 05: Chitral Valley tour\nAnother interesting place near Chitral is Birmoglasht, the summer residence of the former Mehtars (rulers). About 45 Kms north of Chitral Town are the famous hot springs Garam Chashma, known for their curing properties. Polo, the “Game of the Kings” is best seen here in its land of origin. Played by skillful, daring participants in traditional style, Polo tournament is held every year in July near Chitral at Shandur Pass between Gilgit & Chitral.\nShahi Mosque, a beautiful white structure built by the former rulers of Chitral, is one of the most interesting buildings in Chitral. In its courtyard are buried former rulers and members of their families. Nearby is the historic Fort of Chitral where a small contingent of the British Army was besieged for almost thirty days. From the fort is an overwhelming view of Trich Mir Mountain with the Chitral River flowing nearby. The winding street of the Chitral bazaar has shops selling house hold objects, antiques and handicrafts obtained from the remote valleys.\nDay 06: Chitral-Swat via Lowari Pass\nMorning drive to Swat via Lowari pass. On the way lunch at Dir. Arrive and transfer to the hotel.\nMingora Bazaar is the commercial hub of Swat region and well-worth visiting; there some one will find emeralds for which Swat is well-known. If time permits then continue to Murghazar to visit old white palace constructed from white marble and adorned with ornate carvings.\nDay 07: Swat-City tour-Besham\nAfter breakfast proceed for sight seeing of Swat.\nThe museum in Saidu Sharif has a huge compilation of Gandhara sculptures collected from some of the Buddhist sites in Swat Valley. There are some local embroidery, carved wood, rare coins & tribal jewelery displayed.\nAfter lunch PM. drive to Besham via Shangla Pass.\nArrive and transfer to the hotel. Dinner & overnight in Besham. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nBreakfast at the hotel. AM. Drive to Gilgit along Karakuram Highway.\nEn-route lunch in Chilas. Arrive and transfer to the hotel.\nGilgit is administratively capital city of Gilgit/Baltistan and business hub in the region. Its ancient name was Sargin, later it is locally known as Gilit. Gilgit was an important city on the Great Silk Road, along which Buddhism was spread from south Asia to rest of the Asian countries.\nDinner & overnight in Gilgit. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 09: Gilgit-Karimabad\nBreakfast at the hotel. Morning Kargah Buddha visit. Then drive to Karimabad Hunza.\nLocated on a rock near Kargah Nullah (Narrow valley), 10 km away from Gilgit city is a Beautiful rock impression of Buddha from 7th century A.D.\nOn the way lunch at Rakaposhi View Point. Arrive and transfer to the hotel. PM. At leisure.\nDay 10: Karimabad full day tour\nBreakfast at the hotel. Proceed for excursion to Nagar valley, Baltit Fort and Karimabad Bazaar.\nA short jeep traveling will take us to Nagar Valley. The beauties of the village are fruit orchards, longevity of local people and enjoy the many mountain flowers that point the landscape. We have excellent views of Ultar Peak, and the Hunza Valley as seen from Nagar.\nDay 11: Karimabad-Gulmit Excursion-Duiker\nMorning drive from Karimabad to Gulmit by visiting Attaabad Lake via friendship tunnels. Gulmit is the head quarter of Tehsil Gojal, in the upper Hunza region of District Hunza/Nagar of Gilgit/Baltistan. Territory is located in the deep in the Karakuram Mountain Range. Gulmit is a centuries-old historic town, with mountains, peaks and glaciers. It is a tourist spot and has many hotels, shops and a museum. Its altitude is (7900 ft / 2408m) above the Arabian Sea level. Gulmit is also a Turkish or Iranian word which means the valley of flowers. Before 1974, when Hunza was a state, Gulmit used to be the Summer Capital of the formerly Hunza state. After the abolition of the state it became the Tehsil’s set up of government. The oldest undamaged house in Gulmit is more than six centuries old.\nAfter lunch in Gulmit drive back to Karimabad. Arrive and transfer to Duiker Village.\nDinner & overnight at the hotel in Duiker. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 12: Duiker-Chilas\nEarly morning view Sunrise from Duiker village. Breakfast at the hotel.\nAfter some times drive back to Karimabad and continue drive to Chilas.\nChilas was on the very old caravan track over the Babusar Pass into India and on the Indus trail of Besham, and many rock engravings/impressions were left by travelers in this area. Chilas is standing under the shadow of world famous Killer Mountain Nanga Parbat. Arrive and transfer to the hotel.\nDinner & overnight in Chilas. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nDay 13: Chilas-Rawalpindi/Islamabad\nBreakfast at the hotel. Morning drive to Islamabad via Besham & Abbottabad.\nOn the way lunch in a local restaurant. Arrive and transfer to the hotel.\nDinner & overnight in Rawalpindi/Islamabad. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).\nAfter breakfast transfer to Islamabad International Airport for home bound flight. 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        "text": "Bloomington Church Student Welcome - All incoming Illinois State, Heartland Community College, and Illinois Wesleyan students AND their parents are invited to the ISU Young Group welcome dinner on Sunday, August 19th at the Bloomington Church. The evening will begin at 4 p.m. with a pizza party to kick off the upcoming year's activities!\nThe congregation is also encouraged to donate fresh produce for the farmers market and bake items for the Bake Sale.\nThe Silver Lining - is seeking contributors for their next special article: “Mission Work at Home: What are the Ways to Share Christ with your Friends and Neighbors.” This is not to showcase your efforts, but to encourage others about the many opportunities that are available. Additional information is on the bulletin board or you can contact Sis. Barb Schwind.\nYour Gifts in His Body - There are many blessings that we receive by being a part of our church family. Some of those blessings are the opportunities we have to support each other both in the good times and difficult times of life. Recently an effort has begun to connect those in our church that could benefit from the support of their church family with those who want to provide that support. The title of this new endeavor is \"Your Gifts in His Body\". In a larger church sometimes needs can be overlooked even though there are many willing people who want to be involved. A committee has been developed to discuss how we can better serve one another in the body of Christ. As a way to begin, we will have a Spiritual Gifts Bible Study on Wed. evening 9/12 and once again take the Spiritual Gifts survey. The results of this survey will be used to identify how individuals can help as needs arise within the church. If you have a need that you would like assistance with from within our church please contact Sis. Marjorie Bertschi at 309-253-0151 or marjoriebertschi@gmail.com. If you have questions about this new effort you can contact Bro. Matt Feucht."
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        "text": "According to the National Research Council & Institute of Medicine; Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral (MEB) health is the overall psychological well-being of individuals and includes the presence of positive characteristics, such as the abilities to deal with stress, demonstrate flexibility under changing environments, and recover from adverse situations.\nThis is the basis of recovery; recognizing that our overall well-being is compromised due to the use of alcohol or other substances. However, simply alleviating these substances are not enough for the alcoholic or addict. Focussing on the challenges, trauma, or other aspects of dysfunction is not enough. In order to fully recover we must recognize that our MEB Health is paramount to long term joy and fulfillment.\nThis is the “Wow Factor” that many people miss. They often focus solely on fixing what is broken and fail to enjoy the moment let alone design a future for a successful productive life. This is the basis of what I believe has kept me focussed through ups and downs. Through failure, homelessness, divorce as well as all of the successes I have been blessed with, all I might add while I was/am in recovery.\n1) They have a wide variety of sources of gratification.\n2) They are flexible under stress.\n3) They recognize and accept their limitations as well as their assets.\n4) They understand the importance of treating people as individuals.\n5) They stay active and productive.\n6) They Love, are Loving and Live by a loving example.\nNext post: Congrats, Kristin Joy… And Joe!"
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        "text": "Unblock by Werdsmith\nBy Nathan Tesler\nDeveloper: Nathan Tesler\nSay goodbye to writer's block. Unblock makes writing easy, with professionally designed writing exercises to get you through even the toughest obstacles. With Unblock you have access to hundreds of writing prompts, exercises, questions and quotes that will help you: - Get through writer's block - Discover what kind of writer you are - Develop your writing skills - Get inspired to write - Bring your characters to life - Spark your muse Unblock is a project by Werdsmith. Please note: exercises in Unblock are grouped into decks of cards, which you can unlock by purchasing credits in the app. We've given you a bunch of credits for free to get you started.\nBy Rachel Aquilina\nI am an aspiring writer, and in writing my first book, I was kind of clueless. I tried many apps to help me with outlines and ideas, even to help with writers block, but NOTHING compared to this. This is the best writing app I have ever used and it has helped me come up with tons of new ideas for my story and I MUST incorporate them into it ASAP. THAT’S HOW GOOD THIS IS. GET THIS APP RIGHT NOW.\nGood but Could be Better\nBy Incedibly addicting\nThis app has a lot of great potential and is one I’d love to explore. However, the app makes it impossible to do so. Say I’m an author, that’s my job. But my books aren’t selling like crazy so I turn to this app thinking it’s cheap and helpful with getting the ideas flowing. Then, upon opening it, I find that I get two card sets and the rest I have to spend money I DON’T have on an app I thought was free. I understand the developer must make money himself, but more card sets should be available from the beginning. Say for example, the main feature of this app, The Daily Habit. It’s on the AppStore page and mentioned in the description. If nothing else, shouldn’t this be free? Like I said, this is a beautiful app and it’s one that I wish I had the funds to use correctly. The coins should be able to be earned. Say, for example, every time you complete a Daily Habit you get 5 coins. This would make the process slow, but not impossible and the un-patient people will go straight for the option to purchase coins. I truly wish I could’ve enjoyed this app more, but the system displayed is impossible for my budget. Fix this issue and you’ll have a loyal follower.\nBy laney0926\nI like the idea of the app and all, and I like how it shows you all the decks you can purchase, but it made me purchase the Discovery deck before it would let me look at the other choices, and then I only had enough credits for one deck, and I wasn’t even really interested in that deck anyway\nGood, but unreasonable\nBy Awesome amazing rowksksksjsnsn\nI’ve had this app for a while but really haven’t used it until now.First off, the prompts on it are really good which is why it did get 2 stars.But the fact that there is no way to get credits without buying them makes no sense unless they’re just trying to get all of your money. There should be a way to get credits without buying them.\nI want to like it...\nBy Pendemonium\n(Updated) ... but I learned long ago not to purchase IAP credits to unlock features in an app. You can't restore them. So if you buy a lot of credits, then need to switch phones, you are out the packs that you bought with those credits. Please correct me if I'm wrong: things may have changed. Offer a full unlock, or even packs of cards that can be restored, and I will certainly take another look at what this app has to offer. It seems interesting, but I'm not going to get burned again. —\u0000 It’s interesting that the dev still updates the app, yet totally ignores all of the complaints about the monetization scheme. IAP currency is horrible for anything that is supposed to last. Offering no way to earn “coins” without buying them makes no sense, unless the goal is to force your customers to re-buy everything later on if they upgrade/replace their phone, or have to reinstall the app for any reason. If they were to sell the additional card sets for actual money so they could be restored, or offer groups of card packs for sale – like $10-15 for “full access” – I would buy them. No question. I will not support this form of IAP. Ever.\nInstant Paywall\nBy Benbo's Reviews for Nerds\nYou're blocked by an instant paywall as soon as you start using this app to unlock the features it was made for and you downloaded it for in the first place. Scummy business practices, stay away.\nWould be useful, but...\nBy WaZzzzZuPp!\nthis would be super useful if there was a way to earn \"star coins\" besides just buying them. or, even better, if you got rid of the star coins and just gave us the stuff for free, like your app advertised... i would much rather sit through ads then have to pay for something that is advertised as free.\nI'm Disappointed...\nBy XxLethallyDemonicxX\nI like the concept of this app, but the fact that you have to spend money on it without other choices is disappointing. If anything I would suggest being able to watch an advertisement for 5 or so star coins, or even a daily bonus system would work. The 30 (-10) star coins they give you at the start isn't enough to buy the pack they described the whole app about. Ironic much?\nVery useful app for writers!\nBy rpphoto\nThis is a great way to make sparks fly in your brain, real inspiration and ideas for brainstorming. I don't mind supporting developers; there's a huge amount of time and energy to create these things, and if you don't support the creators they will have no incentive (or economy) to make or update things in the future. This app can really be applied for more than just writing. I'm also using it to focus and create ideas for my photo art projects. Very attractive app, too.\nGood premise, bad delivery.\nBy K Karwan\nI would much rather sit through ads than be forced to buy \"star coins\" to unlock the feature for which I downloaded this app to begin with. They give you 30 coins. Then force you to buy their basic \"What kind of writer are you?\" package for 10. Well, now that you've slogged through that waste of time, the \"beating writers block\" bundle (the one this entire app description implies this whole app is about) is 30 coins in and of itself. If you're in my situation, where you are just stuck while writing, don't expect this seemingly free app to help without a price.\nMore by Nathan Tesler\nWerdsmith\nNathan Tesler"
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    {
        "text": "2 ноември е 306-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (307-и през високосна). Остават 59 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 676 г. – Доний става папа.\n 1789 г. – Във Франция е национализирана голяма част от недвижимата собственост на католическата църква.\n 1795 г. – Френската революция: Начало на управлението на Директорията във Франция.\n 1912 г. – Балканската война: Победа на българските войски в Люлебургазко-Бунархисарската операция.\n 1914 г. – Първата световна война: Франция, Великобритания и Русия обявяват война на Турция.\n 1917 г. – Великобритания обвява Декларация Балфур, с която подкрепя идеята за еврейско установяване в територията на Палестина.\n 1920 г. – В Питсбърг (САЩ) започва да функционира първата в света обществена радиостанция.\n 1930 г. – Хайле Селасие е коронован за император на Етиопия.\n\n 1936 г. – Би Би Си започва да излъчва телевизионни емисии с висока разделителна способност.\n 1947 г. – Американският индустриалец и авиатор Хауърд Хюз извършва в Лонг Бийч, Калифорния, кратък (1,6 км) тестов полет на транспортния хидроплан Hughes H-4 Hercules, който е с най-големия дотогава размах на крилата (97,51 м).\n 1949 г. – Индонезия получава национална независимост.\n 1953 г. – Пакистан е провъзгласен за ислямска република.\n 1955 г. – Списанието Билборд публикува за първи път класацията Топ 100.\n 1956 г. – Правителството на Унгария заявява, че страната излиза от Варшавския договор и се обръща към ООН и западните държави за помощ при влизане на войски на СССР на територията на държавата.\n 1963 г. – Президентът на Южен Виетнам, Нго Дин Дием, е убит след проведения военен преврат в страната.\n 1965 г. – 31-годишният американски квакер Норман Морисън се самозапалва пред Пентагона в знак на протест срещу участието на САЩ във Виетнамската война.\n 1965 г. – Албанския лидер Енвер Ходжа заявява, че страната преустановява близки контакти със СССР и влиза в съюзнически отношения с Китай.\n 1988 г. – В Интернет се появява първият компютърен червей, създаден от Робърт Тапан Морис.\n 2000 г. – На Международната космическа станция пристига първият екипаж.\n 2001 г. – Състои се премиерата на анимационния филм Таласъми ООД.\n 2004 г. – Джордж Уокър Буш е избран в САЩ за втори президентски мандат.\n\nРодени \n\n 1699 г. – Жан-Батист-Симеон Шарден, френски художник († 1779 г.)\n 1755 г. – Мария-Антоанета, кралица на Франция и Навара († 1793 г.)\n 1766 г. – Йозеф Радецки, австрийски офицер († 1858 г.)\n 1795 г. – Джеймс Полк, 11-ви президент на САЩ († 1849 г.)\n 1815 г. – Джордж Бул, английски математик и философ († 1864 г.)\n 1843 г. – Марк Антоколски, руски скулптор († 1902 г.)\n 1844 г. – Мехмед V, султан на Османската империя († 1918 г.)\n 1854 г. – Исидор Гунсберг, британски шахматист от унгарски произход († 1930 г.)\n 1858 г. – Димитър Петков, министър-председател на България († 1907 г.)\n 1861 г. – Вичо Диков, български военен деец († 1928 г.)\n 1865 г. – Уорън Хардинг, 29-и президент на САЩ († 1923 г.)\n 1883 г. – Пенчо Златев, министър-председател на България († 1948 г.)\n 1893 г. – Батиста Пининфарина, италиански автомобилен дизайнер († 1966 г.)\n 1897 г. – Асен Разцветников, български писател († 1951 г.)\n 1897 г. – Софроний Доростолски и Червенски, български духовник († 1995 г.)\n 1904 г. – Никола Мавродинов, български учен († 1958 г.)\n 1906 г. – Емил Коралов, български писател († 1986 г.)\n 1906 г. – Лукино Висконти, италиански режисьор († 1976 г.)\n 1911 г. – Одисеас Елитис, гръцки поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1979 г. († 1996 г.)\n 1913 г. – Бърт Ланкастър, американски актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ричард Тейлър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1990 г. († 2018 г.)\n 1931 г. – Николай Генчев, български историк († 2000 г.)\n 1932 г. – Мелвин Шварц, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1988 г. († 2006 г.)\n 1932 г. – Стоян Ристески, писател и историк от Република Македония\n 1938 г. – Дейвид Лейн, американски неонацист († 2007 г.)\n 1938 г. – София Гръцка, кралица на Испания\n 1940 г. – Богдан Богданов, класически филолог, университетски мениджър († 2016 г.)\n 1945 г. – Иван Газдов, български художник\n 1946 г. – Алън Джоунс, австралийски пилот от Формула 1\n 1949 г. – Лоис Макмастър Бюджолд, американска писателка\n 1949 г. – Франки Милър, шотландски музикант\n 1950 г. – Любомир Любоевич, сръбски шахматист\n 1952 г. – Азиз Йълдъръм, президент на Фенербахче\n 1953 г. – Велислава Дърева, българска журналистка и публицистка\n 1954 г. – Август Крейс III, неонацистки лидер\n 1956 г. – Мария Каварджикова, българска актриса\n 1959 г. – Игор Срамка, словашки футболен съдия\n 1959 г. – Нотис Сфакианакис, гръцки музикант\n 1962 г. – Трайко Веляноски, политик от Република Македония\n 1963 г. – Рон Макгавни, американски музикант\n 1965 г. – Шах Рук Хан, индийски актьор\n 1967 г. – Звонимир Солдо, хърватски футболист\n 1968 г. – Саманта Ферис, канадска актриса\n 1969 г. – Реджиналд Арвизу, американски басист (KoЯn)\n 1973 г. – Марисол Никълс, американска актриса\n 1974 г. – Нели, американски рапър\n 1978 г. – Виктория Йермолиева, украински музикант\n 1990 г. – Кендал Шмид, певец и актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1715 г. – Шарлота фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург, германска принцеса (* 1694 г.)\n 1877 г. – Фридрих фон Врангел, пруски генерал (* 1784 г.)\n 1881 г. – Аверкий Попстоянов, български духовник (* 1801 г.)\n 1905 г. – Иван Сеченов, руски физиолог (* 1829 г.)\n 1940 г. – Тодор Йончев, български учител (* 1859 г.)\n 1945 г. – Димитър Мишайков, български юрист (* 1883 г.)\n 1950 г. – Джордж Бърнард Шоу, британски драматург, Нобелов лауреат през 1925 г. (* 1856 г.)\n 1963 г. – Нго Дин Дием, президент на Южен Виетнам (* 1901 г.)\n 1975 г. – Пиер Паоло Пазолини, италиански кинорежисьор (* 1922 г.)\n 1977 г. – Ханс Ерих Носак, немски писател (* 1901 г.)\n 1992 г. – Трайко Запрянов, български невролог (* 1904 г.)\n 1994 г. – Гриша Филипов, министър-председател на България (* 1919 г.)\n 2000 г. – Симеон Симеонов, български футболист (* 1946 г.)\n 2002 г. – Чарлс Шефилд, американски писател, роден във Великобритания (* 1935 г.)\n 2004 г. – Тео ван Гог, холандски кинорежисьор (* 1957 г.)\n 2011 г. – Марин Иванов – народен певец, родом от Черни Вит, Тетевенско\n\nПразници \n Бразилия, Венецуела, Еквадор, Мексико и Португалия – Ден на мъртвите (Задушница)\n Либерия – Ден за благодарност\n България – Именни дни: Аспарух, Исперих, Пухи, Паолина\n\nB02"
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    {
        "text": "Q: Is there any way to print directly from my iPad to my wifi-connected printer? I am happy to purchase an app, but the only printing app I'm aware of seems to just let your ipad connect to a computer that is connected to the printer and effectively print through it.   \nI'm looking to print from my ipad without the use of another computer.   Both the ipad and the printer are on the same wifi network (which is how I print from our laptops).\nEDIT:  In my specific case, the printer is a Canon MP990.\n\nA: iOS 4.3 now offer AirPrint.\n\nA: \nIf you want to print pictures and\n  photos, you can use Epson iPrint\n  (there are similar apps from other\n  printer manufacturers, e.g. Canon\n  iEPP, HP iPrint Photo 2.0,\n  Kodak Pic Flick or Lexmark\n  LexPrint). For printing PDFs or\n  other documents, the already mentioned\n  \"print n share\", \"Print Bureau\"\n  (both from eurosmartz) or Air\n  Sharing Pro from Avatron could be\n  useful.\n\nVia piquadrat answering my similar question on gadgets.stackexchange.com.\n\nA: Canon made a utility for their printers called Easy-PhotoPrint.\nOtherwise, they are more generic utility like ePrint (but it's far more perfect or convenient).\n\nA: I have used the iPad part of PrintCentral with mixed results - I have a HP Color LaserJet 2605dn connected to an Apple Airport router. The printer is configured as 'A4' (I'm in the UK) and while some things print just fine from the iPad, other things seem to have pagination issues. Printing from emails and Safari generally seems okay.\nTo be fair I think that the only way you're going to get this to work seamlessly is if you can find a wifi printer with drivers for the iPad (do they even exist) - everything else is likely to be some kind of compromise.\nEDIT: Just to be clear, PrintCentral can either print directly to the 'network' printer, or can send data to an app on your Mac/PC. I haven't tried the latter approach (and your question says you don't want to do it that way anyway) - but I have used it to connect and directly print to my HP from the iPad.\n\nA: Have you tried Google Cloud Print? https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/apps.html\n\nA: The answer depends on what kind of printer you have.\nThe fundamental problem is printer drivers. That is why all of the apps use a server/proxy on a desktop computer, that way the can piggyback the desktops existing printer drivers. Otherwise they would need to include drivers for all supported printers.\nA few of the printer vendors have iPhone/iPad apps that can take to their network printers, but obviously those only support their printers (an usually only recent ones).\nI expect this to change at some point in the future (when Apple builds printing support into iOS), but this how things stand with iOS 3.2/4.0.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "2 декември е 336-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (337-и през високосна година). Остават 29 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1375 г. – Българският монах Киприан е ръкоположен за митрополит на Киев и Литва.\n 1804 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт е коронован в катедралата Нотр Дам за император на Франция.\n\n 1805 г. – Армията на Наполеон Бонапарт удържа голяма победа в битката при Аустерлиц срещу обединената армия на Русия и Австрия.\n 1848 г. – Австрийският император Фердинанд I абдикира и за император е провъзгласен неговият племенник Франц Йосиф I.\n 1852 г. – Установена е Втората империя във Франция, начело с Наполеон III, след премахването на Втората република.\n 1857 г. – Руският император Александър II слага началото на т.нар. Селска реформа в Русия – премахване на крепостното право.\n 1857 г. – Основан е чешкият футболен клуб СК Славия в Прага.\n 1915 г. – Алберт Айнщайн публикува знаменитата си Теория на относителността.\n 1927 г. – Лев Троцки е изключен от болшевишката партия на СССР с мотив „антипартийна дейност“.\n 1946 г. – САЩ и Великобритания обединяват окупираните от тях зони в Западна Германия, наричайки тази територия Бизония; през 1948 г. е присъединена френската окупационна зона, образувайки Тризония, върху която територия през 1949 г. е създадена Федерална република Германия.\n 1961 г. – Студената война: В свое изказване кубинският лидер Фидел Кастро обявява, че е последовател на идеите на Карл Маркс и Ленин и че Куба ще приеме като форма на управление комунизма.\n 1971 г. – Сформирана е федерацията Обединени арабски емирства.\n 1975 г. – Кралят на Лаос е принуден да абдикира, страната е обявена за народна република, а денят се чества като национален празник.\n 1982 г. – В университета на Юта 61-годишният зъболекар Барни Кларк става първият човек, на когото е присадено изкуствено сърце (той живее 112 дни с него).\n 1989 г. – Започва срещата край Малта, белязала края на Студената война.\n 1995 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат СОХО (съкратено от английски „Слънчева хелиосферна обсерватория“) по съвместна мисия на ЕКА и НАСА.\n 1996 г. – Пуснат е в експлоатация първият реактор на АЕЦ „Черна вода“.\n\nРодени \n\n 1578 г. – Агостино Агацари, италиански композитор († 1640 г.)\n 1825 г. – Педро II, император на Бразилия († 1891 г.)\n 1848 г. – Стефан Любомски, български военен деец († 1902 г.)\n 1859 г. – Жорж Сьора, френски художник († 1891 г.)\n 1881 г. – Джефри Лорънс, британски юрист († 1971 г.)\n 1883 г. – Марко Рясков, български икономист и министър († 1972 г.)\n 1884 г. – Яхия Кемал Беятлъ, турски поет и политик († 1958 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Баграмян, руски и съветски маршал от арменски произход († 1982 г.)\n 1901 г. – Недялка Симеонова, българска цигуларка, музикален педагог († 1959 г.)\n 1921 г. – Лола Гаос, испанска актриса († 1993 г.)\n 1923 г. – Александър Николаевич Яковлев, съветски историк († 2005 г.)\n 1923 г. – Мария Калас, американска и гръцка оперна певица († 1977 г.)\n 1930 г. – Гери Бекър, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1992 г. († 2014 г.)\n 1934 г. – Тарчизио Бертоне, държавен секретар на Ватикана\n 1944 г. – Ибрахим Ругова, президент на Косово († 2006 г.)\n 1944 г. – Атанас Стоев, български акордеонист, композитор, аранжор, текстописец и певец\n 1944 г. – Бото Щраус, германски писател и драматург\n 1946 г. – Джани Версаче, италиански моден дизайнер († 1997 г.)\n 1954 г. – Славка Калчева, българска народна певица\n 1954 г. – Евгений Михайлов, български режисьор\n 1957 г. – Каролин Христова-Бакърджиева, български изкуствовед\n 1957 г. – Любомир Фръчковски, македонски юрист и политик\n 1958 г. – Огнян Минчев, български политолог\n 1960 г. – Милена Живкова, българска актриса\n 1961 г. – Дорон Рабиновичи, израело-австрийски писател\n 1962 г. – Владо Бучковски, македонски политик\n 1962 г. – Кардам Сакскобургготски, български княз 2015\n 1963 г. – Валери Иванов, български поет\n 1968 г. – Люси Лиу, американска актриса от китайски произход\n 1971 г. – Франческо Толдо, италиански футболист\n 1973 г. – Моника Селеш, американска тенисистка от югославски унгарски произход\n 1973 г. – Ян Улрих, германски колоездач\n 1978 г. – Красимир Захов, български плувец\n 1978 г. – Нели Фуртадо, канадска певица с португалски произход\n 1981 г. – Бритни Спиърс, американска певица\n 1984 г. – Петер Мате, унгарски футболист\n 1987 г. – Мариана Торес, мексиканска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1469 г. – Пиеро ди Козимо Медичи, италиански благородник (* 1416 г.)\n 1547 г. – Ернан Кортес, испански конкистадор (* 1485 г.)\n 1594 г. – Герардус Меркатор, фламандски картограф (* 1512 г.)\n 1814 г. – Донасиен Алфонс Франсоа дьо Сад, френски маркиз и писател (* 1740 г.)\n 1815 г. – Ян Потоцки, полски писател (* 1761 г.)\n 1859 г. – Джон Браун, американски аболиционист (* 1800 г.)\n 1889 г. – Алайос Кароли, унгарски дипломат (* 1825 г.)\n 1895 г. – Петър Димитров, български просветен деец (* 1841 г.)\n 1918 г. – Едмон Ростан, френски драматург (* 1868 г.)\n 1919 г. – Ивлин Ууд, британски фелдмаршал (* 1838 г.)\n 1926 г. – Александър Фок, руски военен деец (* 1843 г.)\n 1944 г. – Филипо Томазо Маринети, италиански писател (* 1876 г.)\n 1945 г. – Велко Думев, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1959 г. – Иван Георгиев, български агроном (* 1897 г.)\n 1966 г. – Иван Потиров, български революционер (* 1865 г.)\n 1969 г. – Климент Ворошилов, руски и съветски военачалник (* 1881 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ромен Гари, френски писател (* 1914 г.)\n 1982 г. – Джовани Ферари, италиански футболист (* 1907 г.)\n 1984 г. – Константин Димчев, български актьор (* 1933 г.)\n 1985 г. – Филип Ларкин, американски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 1990 г. – Аарън Коплънд, американски композитор (* 1900 г.)\n 1993 г. – Пабло Ескобар, колумбийски наркобос (* 1949 г.)\n 2008 г. – Леон Даниел, български режисьор (* 1927 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Международен ден, напомнящ за премахването на робството\n Лаос – Ден на републиката (1975 г., национален празник)\n Обединени арабски емирства – Годишнина от създаването на федерацията (1971 г., национален празник)\n\nC02"
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        "text": "AirForceMag.comCurrently selected\nUS Watchdog: Too Much Classification Creates Cynicism of Afghan War\nDatapoints\nArticle Collections\nThe Chart Page\nEnola Gay Controversy\nHow to Join AFA\nEntryByline\n​––Brian Everstine\nAFA Caption\nJohn Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, speaks at the Marine Corps University on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., March 23, 2018. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert Gonzales.\nBodyText\nHow is the US-led effort going in Afghanistan? For the most part, that is classified. And needlessly so, according to the top US watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction.\n“Almost every indicia, metric for success or failure, is now classified or non-existent,” John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told reporters in Washington, D.C. “Over time it has been classified, or it’s no longer being collected.”\nSpecifically, the Afghan government no longer publicly releases figures for casualties of its forces. Also, SIGAR cannot publicly release the districts that are in Taliban control or Afghan government control. These are figures that show how stable, or unstable, the Afghan government is with US and NATO support and broadly show the effectiveness of 17 years of war.\nSIGAR historically had released a breakdown of Afghan districts that were under Taliban control, but has recently been blocked from doing so, Sopko said. These figures are now in the classified annex of his quarterly reports for US government leaders, the latest of which is expected next week.\nThis decision in particular does not make sense, and only serves to hide bad news, Sopko said. “Governments usually don’t classify good news,” he said.\n“I don’t think it makes sense. The Afghan people know which districts are controlled by the Taliban,” he said. “The Taliban obviously know which districts they control. Our military knows. Everybody in Afghanistan knows it. The only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that’s the American taxpayer.”\nHiding too much information about the ongoing war effort breeds suspicion and cynicism, which is dangerous for a war that is now largely out of the public’s eye.\nIt is a pivotal time for the US effort, as American negotiators are working on a possible peace agreement with the Taliban. Additional information and understanding of the conflict by the public is important to avoid it becoming another “forgotten war,” he said. Additionally, policymakers need to ensure they are adequately planning for what could come next to ensure that everything that has been spent has not been wasted.\n“There’s still Americans dying there; 2,400 Americans died. We’ve spent close to a trillion dollars in Afghanistan,” he said. “All of it is at risk if we screw up on the day after a peace agreement.”\nTurkey Begins Receiving S-400; NDAA Passes House on Party Lines; Judge Blocks JEDI Protest\n—Rachel S. Cohen and Brian Everstine7/15/2019\n​Daily Report: Read the day's top news on the US Air Force, airpower, and national security issues.\nMilley Raises Alarm on China; Esper’s Confirmation Hearing Date Set; Moving Toward a Digital Air Force\n​Daily Re​port: Read the day's top news on the US Air Force, airpower, and national security issues.\nUSAF Clears Hyten of Assault Allegation; Skyborg Tests Coming Soon; Spooky Returns Home"
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        "text": "best beach tent are an indispensable summer accessory for households who spend a great deal of time in sunlight. The best beach tents for babies are flexible and may be used from the backyard, in the park, or even from the ocean waves. There are many choices available on the current market, however, that it can be tough to pick between them! Here are 3 suggestions that will help you find the right sun shelter for the baby this summer.\n9 Times from 10 you will find the best baby beach tents online, in which you are going to find the best prices too – and the best variety to pick from. But when you purchase online – or perhaps purchase a tent in individual, because they are very likely to come in boxes – it is difficult to tell what size they are. The number one complaints of parents about sunlight shelter tents created for babies is that they’re larger or smaller than anticipated. Before you purchase, pull out a tape measure, and work out how broad, long, and tall that the tent is. That way, you will understand what to expect, if you want a very small tent for a little baby or a bigger tent toddlers can utilize.\nAnother Major problem with a few beach tents for babies is that they don’t offer you enough venting. Since babies can not control their body temperature quite well, it is essential that they don’t get overly hot. Start looking for a kayak with venting on at least 2 sides, although the very best beach tents for small ones will have venting on four or three sides.\nAll these small tents are usually of those pop up tent assortment, so you fold them out instead as a umbrella. These chairs are super simple to build, but they might be a small bit pricier than the more customary tent style choices. Whatever you do, be sure testimonials notice that a kayak is easy to put together, because you won’t need to mess with your tent for extended having a hectic or fussy baby accessible, too!"
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        "text": "3 януари е 3-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 362 дни до края на годината (363 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1431 г. – Бургундският херцог предава срещу 10 000 франка Жана д'Арк на англичаните.\n 1496 г. – Леонардо да Винчи извършва неуспешен опит с конструиран от него летателен апарат.\n 1521 г. – Папа Лъв X издава папска була, с която отлъчва Мартин Лутер от Църквата.\n 1793 г. – В Канада е забранено робството.\n 1833 г. – Великобритания завладява Фолкландските острови.\n\n 1863 г. – В Халифакс (Канада) е открита първата в страната закрита ледена пързалка.\n 1868 г. – С превземането на двореца на шогуна в Япония е възстановена монархията с държавен глава император Мейджи.\n 1870 г. – Започва строежът на Бруклинския мост.\n 1871 г. – В САЩ е патентован маргаринът.\n 1880 г. – Утвърден е първият градоустройствен план на София, изработен от чешкия строителен инженер Иржи Прошек.\n 1899 г. – Думата автомобил е използвана за пръв път в редакторски материал в New York Times.\n 1902 г. – Съставено е двадесет и третото правителство на България, начело със Стоян Данев.\n 1907 г. – Официално е открита сградата на Народния театър в София.\n 1921 г. – Български бежански въпрос: XIX обикновено народно събрание на България отпуска кредит от 1 000 000 лева за настаняване на бежанците от Беломорска Тракия.\n 1925 г. – Бенито Мусолини обявява, че ще упражнява диктаторска власт в Италия.\n 1956 г. – Пожар опустошава върха на Айфеловата кула.\n 1958 г. – Създадена е Западноиндийската федерация.\n 1959 г. – Аляска става 49-ият щат на САЩ и първият без граница с никой от останалите.\n 1961 г. – САЩ скъсва дипломатическите отношения с Куба.\n 1962 г. – Папа Йоан XXIII отлъчва Фидел Кастро от църквата.\n 1963 г. – Осъществен е първият изпитателен полет на пътническия самолет Ил-62.\n 1977 г. – Създадена е американската фирма Apple Computer Inc..\n 1987 г. – Арета Франклин става първата жена, увековечена в Залата на славата на рокендрола.\n 1990 г. – Национална кръгла маса в България: начало на заседанията, чиято цел е споразумение между БКП и опозицията за осъществяване на преход към демокрация.\n 1990 г. – Бившият лидер на Панама Мануел Нориега се предава на американската войска.\n 1993 г. – В Москва, президентите Джордж Хърбърт Уокър Буш и Борис Елцин подписват втория договор за съкращение на две трети от стратегическите ядрени оръжия на САЩ и Русия.\n 1994 г. – Самолет Ту-154 на авиокомпания „Байкалски авиолинии“ се разбива след излитане от летище Иркутск, загиват 126 души.\n 1997 г. – Започват демонстрации на Съюза на демократичните сили с искане Българската социалистическа партия да се откаже от управлението.\n 1997 г. – Испанският колоездач Мигел Индураин слага край на кариерата си.\n 1999 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат Марс Полър Лендър, контактът с когото е загубен на 3 декември след предполагаемото му кацане на повърхността на Марс.\n 2004 г. – Самолет на Flash Airlines се разбива в Червено море малко след излизането си от Египет; загиват всичките 148 души на борда.\n\nРодени \n\n 106 г. пр.н.е. – Цицерон, римски оратор и държавник († 43 пр.н.е.)\n 1801 г. – Ернест Хофман, руски геолог († 1871 г.)\n 1810 г. – Антоан Томсън д'Абади, френски изследовател на Африка († 1897 г.)\n 1823 г. – Хайнрих Густав Райхенбах, германски ботаник († 1889 г.)\n 1842 г. – Янко Мустаков, български композитор и диригент († 1881 г.)\n 1860 г. – Такааки Като, министър-председател на Япония († 1926 г.)\n 1876 г. – Вилхелм Пик, първи президент на ГДР († 1960 г.)\n 1878 г. – Константин Батолов, български политик († 1938 г.)\n 1883 г. – Йордан Мешков, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1883 г. – Клемент Атли, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1967 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джон Роналд Руел Толкин, британски писател и филолог († 1973 г.)\n 1897 г. – Пола Негри, американска актриса († 1987 г.)\n 1901 г. – Кирил, български патриарх († 1971 г.)\n 1901 г. – Нго Дин Дием, първи президент на Южен Виетнам († 1963 г.)\n 1903 г. – Александър Бек, съветски писател († 1972 г.)\n 1903 г. – Гено Матеев, български футболист († 1966 г.)\n 1910 г. – Джон Стърджис, американски кинорежисьор († 1992 г.)\n 1921 г. – Изабела Башмакова, руска историографка на математиката († 2005 г.)\n 1924 г. – Ото Байзхайм, германски предприемач († 2013 г.)\n 1929 г. – Серджо Леоне, италиански режисьор († 1989 г.)\n 1935 г. – Джовани Лайоло, италиански духовник\n 1941 г. – Кръстана Стоева, българска скиорка, състезателка по ски бягане († 2004 г.)\n 1942 г. – Джон Тоу, британски актьор († 2002 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ласло Шойом, унгарски политик\n 1945 г. – Стоян Петров (треньор), български футболист и треньор по футбол\n 1946 г. – Джон Пол Джоунс, британски музикант (Led Zeppelin)\n 1947 г. – Любен Корнезов, български юрист и политик († 2019 г.)\n 1950 г. – Виктория Принсипал, американска актриса\n 1954 г. – Ross the Boss, английски певец\n 1956 г. – Мел Гибсън, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1966 г. – Робърт Станек, американски писател\n 1969 г. – Михаел Шумахер, немски пилот от Формула 1\n 1974 г. – Алесандро Петаки, италиански колоездач\n 1975 г. – Анета Германова, българска волейболистка\n 1977 г. – Александър Мутафджич, сръбски футболист\n 1977 г. – Лий Бойър, английски футболист\n 1979 г. – Любен Иванов, български адвокат и политик\n 1984 г. – Бошко Янкович, сръбски футболист\n 1986 г. – Мария Киркова, българска скиорка\n 1989 г. – Алекс Линц, американски актьор\n 1992 г. – Цветелин Тонев, български футболист\n 1998 г. – Патрик Кутроне, италиански футболист\n 2003 г. – Грета Тунберг, шведска активистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 236 г. – Антер, римски папа (* ?)\n 1322 г. – Филип V, крал на Франция (* 1293 г.)\n 1468 г. – Йохан Гутенберг, германски изобретател (* 1398 г.)\n 1501 г. – Алишер Навои, тюркски поет (* 1441 г.)\n 1543 г. – Хуан Кабрильо, португалски изследовател (* 1499 г.)\n 1705 – Лука Джордано, италиански художник (* 1634 г.)\n 1785 г. – Балтасаре Галупи, италиански композитор (* 1706 г.)\n 1858 г. – Анри Дарси, френски инженер (* 1803 г.)\n 1875 г. – Пиер Ларус, френски лексикограф, енциклопедист и издател (* 1817 г.)\n 1892 г. – Емил дьо Лавеле, белгийски икономист (* 1822 г.)\n 1920 г. – Жозеф Жак Сезар Жофр, френски офицер (* 1852 г.)\n 1920 г. – Франц Тоула, австрийски геолог (* 1845 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ярослав Хашек, чешки романист (* 1883 г.)\n 1933 г. – Джак Пикфорд, канадски актьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1937 г. – Иван Баялцалиев, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1945 г. – Едгар Кейси, американски медиум (* 1877 г.)\n 1950 г. – Ангел Букорещлиев, български композитор (* 1870 г.)\n 1956 г. – Йозеф Вирт, немски политик (* 1879 г.)\n 1960 г. – Виктор Шьострьом, шведски режисьор и актьор (* 1879 г.)\n 1970 г. – Константин Константинов, български писател и преводач (* 1890 г.)\n 1971 г. – Александър Миленков, български художник (* 1882 г.)\n 1972 г. – Франс Мазарел, белгийски художник (* 1889 г.)\n 1974 г. – Максим Щраух, руски артист (* 1900 г.)\n 1983 г. – Мария Милкова-Золотович, българска оперна певица (* 1898 г.)\n 1988 г. – Розе Ауслендер, австрийска поетеса (* 1901 г.)\n 2002 г. – Фреди Хайнекен, холандски предприемач (* 1923 г.)\n 2008 г. – Александър Абдулов, руски актьор (* 1953 г.)\n 2008 г. – Валя Вербева, българска балерина (* 1918 г.)\n 2011 г. – Ева Щритматер, немска поетеса и белетристка (* 1930 г.)\n 2011 г. – Надка Караджова, българска народна певица (* 1937 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – Ден на Свети мъченик Гордий и на свети пророк Малахия\n Католическа църква – Празник на най-святото име Иисус\n Буркина Фасо – Ден на народното въстание\n\n103"
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        "text": "Q: Is there any way to get a pop-up notification on my iPhone or iPad when mail arrives? I have gmail set up to send me \"true\" push notifications (using the exchange server setup).  So my mail arrives in realtime, and I instantly get badges on my springboard screen to indicate new messages.  \nBut I want to be able to get a pop-up with the sender and subject, like I would with an SMS, or an IM using Beejive.  Is there really no way to do this?  It would be especially helpful when I'm in another app, and don't mind the pop-up's interruption, but would like to know who the message is from before deciding to leave the app to check mail.\n\nA: With the release of iOS 5 mail can now appera as a pop up box style notifacation.\nGoto Settings>Notifications>Mail> the choose \"Alerts\" in the alert style menu.\n\nyou will then have something that looks like a message notification when an email arrives\n\nA: Give BoxCar a go.\nI use it in a similar way for Twitter Direct Message notifications.\n\nA: I use a combination of Notify and Prowl, running on a spare Mac.  I found so many other uses for Prowl, such as sending push notifications from a script.\n\nA: Don't use the standard Gmail configuration from iPhone, use Google Sync. \nHere: Google Sync: Set Up Your Apple Device for Google SyncShare Comment\n\nA: This isn't a way to fix your issue now, but I believe iOS 5 will be able to do what you want when it's released this fall according to:\nhttp://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#notification\nI see screenshots with mail notifications on the top of the screen and I believe these can be configured to be current-style pop-ups per app.\n\nA: I use a combo of Apple Mail rules, an AppleScript, and Howl (another growl app similar to Prowl mentioned above).\nName the Mail rule like so: \"growl-TestPost\" as indicated in the AppleScript, then set up the considitons and trigger this AppleScript to run. Then set up your Growl display style to use that of Howl (or Prowl).\nHere is the AppleScript, unfortunately I do not have info on the original author's script which I modified:\non run\n    -- at current, the registration is done whenever you launch the script, \n    -- and also below whenever the the script itself is run by Mail\n    -- (that let's users make new notification on the fly, sort of...)\n    -- could probably find a more graceful semaphor, but...\n    register()\nend run\n\nusing terms from application \"Mail\"\n    on perform mail action with messages messageList for rule theRule\n        set theRuleName to name of theRule\n        if theRuleName does not start with \"growl-\" then return\n\n        register()\n        -- extract notification type from rule name\n        set noteType to characters 7 thru (length of theRuleName) of theRuleName as text\n        repeat with thisMessage in messageList\n\n            -- basic information for notification\n            set theSender to sender of thisMessage\n            set theSubject to subject of thisMessage\n            set theText to (content of thisMessage)\n            set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters\n            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to \" \"\n            try\n                set theSummary to (text items 1 through 20 of theText) as text\n            on error\n                set theSummary to theText\n            end try\n            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid\n\n            -- notify\n            tell application \"GrowlHelperApp\" to notify with name noteType ¬\n                title noteType description ¬\n                \"From: \" & theSender & return & \"Subject: \" & theSubject ¬\n                application name \"MailGrowl\"\n        end repeat\n        -- if we want to coalesce or order the notifications, then we'd put the \n        -- notifications into an array above and notify GHA here.  I'm not completely\n        -- on the structures that are required for grouped messages, though..\n    end perform mail action with messages\nend using terms from\n\nto register()\n    tell application \"Mail\"\n        set ruleList to name of every rule whose name begins with \"growl\"\n    end tell\n    set noteTypes to {}\n    repeat with theRuleName in ruleList\n        set end of noteTypes to (characters 7 thru (length of theRuleName) of theRuleName as text)\n    end repeat\n    tell application \"GrowlHelperApp\"\n        register as application \"MailGrowl\" all notifications noteTypes ¬\n            default notifications noteTypes ¬\n            icon of application \"Mail\"\n    end tell\nend register\n\n"
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        "text": "\n\nvar path = require('path');\nvar aliasify = require('aliasify');\nvar common = require('./platforms/common');\nvar fs = require('fs');\nvar childProcess = require('child_process');\nvar events = require('cordova-common').events;\nvar bundle = require('cordova-js/tasks/lib/bundle-browserify');\nvar writeLicenseHeader = require('cordova-js/tasks/lib/write-license-header');\nvar Q = require('q');\nvar computeCommitId = require('cordova-js/tasks/lib/compute-commit-id');\nvar Readable = require('stream').Readable;\n\nvar PlatformJson = require('cordova-common').PlatformJson;\nvar PluginInfoProvider = require('cordova-common').PluginInfoProvider;\n\nfunction generateFinalBundle (platform, libraryRelease, outReleaseFile, commitId, platformVersion) {\n    var deferred = Q.defer();\n    var outReleaseFileStream = fs.createWriteStream(outReleaseFile);\n    var time = new Date().valueOf();\n\n    writeLicenseHeader(outReleaseFileStream, platform, commitId, platformVersion);\n\n    var releaseBundle = libraryRelease.bundle();\n\n    releaseBundle.pipe(outReleaseFileStream);\n\n    outReleaseFileStream.on('finish', function () {\n        var newtime = new Date().valueOf() - time;\n        events.emit('verbose', 'generated cordova.' + platform + '.js @ ' + commitId + ' in ' + newtime + 'ms');\n        deferred.resolve();\n        // TODO clean up all the *.browserify files\n    });\n\n    outReleaseFileStream.on('error', function (err) {\n        events.emit('warn', 'Error while generating cordova.js');\n        deferred.reject(err);\n    });\n    return deferred.promise;\n}\n\nfunction computeCommitIdSync () {\n    var deferred = Q.defer();\n    computeCommitId(function (cId) {\n        deferred.resolve(cId);\n    });\n    return deferred.promise;\n}\n\nfunction getPlatformVersion (cId, project_dir) {\n    var deferred = Q.defer();\n    // run version script for each platform to get platformVersion\n    var versionPath = path.join(project_dir, '/cordova/version');\n    childProcess.exec('\"' + versionPath + '\"', function (err, stdout, stderr) {\n        if (err) {\n            err.message = 'Failed to get platform version (will use \\'N/A\\' instead).\\n' + err.message;\n            events.emit('warn', err);\n            deferred.resolve('N/A');\n        } else {\n            deferred.resolve(stdout.trim());\n        }\n    });\n    return deferred.promise;\n}\n\nmodule.exports = function doBrowserify (project, platformApi, pluginInfoProvider) {\n    // Process:\n    // - Do config munging by calling into config-changes module\n    // - List all plugins in plugins_dir\n    // - Load and parse their plugin.xml files.\n    // - Skip those without support for this platform. (No <platform> tags means JS-only!)\n    // - Build a list of all their js-modules, including platform-specific js-modules.\n    // - For each js-module (general first, then platform) build up an object storing the path and any clobbers, merges and runs for it.\n    // Write this object into www/cordova_plugins.json.\n    // This file is not really used. Maybe cordova app harness\n    var platform = platformApi.platform;\n    events.emit('verbose', 'Preparing ' + platform + ' browserify project');\n    pluginInfoProvider = pluginInfoProvider || new PluginInfoProvider(); // Allow null for backwards-compat.\n    var platformJson = PlatformJson.load(project.locations.plugins, platform);\n    var wwwDir = platformApi.getPlatformInfo().locations.www;\n\n    var commitId;\n    return computeCommitIdSync()\n        .then(function (cId) {\n            commitId = cId;\n            return getPlatformVersion(commitId, platformApi.root);\n        }).then(function (platformVersion) {\n            var libraryRelease = bundle(platform, false, commitId, platformVersion, platformApi.getPlatformInfo().locations.platformWww);\n\n            var pluginMetadata = {};\n            var modulesMetadata = [];\n\n            var plugins = Object.keys(platformJson.root.installed_plugins).concat(Object.keys(platformJson.root.dependent_plugins));\n            events.emit('verbose', 'Iterating over plugins in project:', plugins);\n            plugins.forEach(function (plugin) {\n                var pluginDir = path.join(project.locations.plugins, plugin);\n                var pluginInfo = pluginInfoProvider.get(pluginDir);\n                // pluginMetadata is a mapping from plugin IDs to versions.\n                pluginMetadata[pluginInfo.id] = pluginInfo.version;\n\n                // Copy www assets described in <asset> tags.\n                pluginInfo.getAssets(platform)\n                    .forEach(function (asset) {\n                        common.asset.install(asset, pluginDir, wwwDir);\n                    });\n\n                pluginInfo.getJsModules(platform)\n                    .forEach(function (jsModule) {\n                        var moduleName = jsModule.name ? jsModule.name : path.basename(jsModule.src, '.js');\n                        var moduleId = pluginInfo.id + '.' + moduleName;\n                        var moduleMetadata = {\n                            file: jsModule.src,\n                            id: moduleId,\n                            name: moduleName,\n                            pluginId: pluginInfo.id\n                        };\n\n                        if (jsModule.clobbers.length > 0) {\n                            moduleMetadata.clobbers = jsModule.clobbers.map(function (o) { return o.target; });\n                        }\n                        if (jsModule.merges.length > 0) {\n                            moduleMetadata.merges = jsModule.merges.map(function (o) { return o.target; });\n                        }\n                        if (jsModule.runs) {\n                            moduleMetadata.runs = true;\n                        }\n\n                        modulesMetadata.push(moduleMetadata);\n                        libraryRelease.require(path.join(pluginDir, jsModule.src), { expose: moduleId });\n                    });\n            });\n\n            events.emit('verbose', 'Writing out cordova_plugins.js...');\n\n            // Create a stream and write plugin metadata into it\n            // instead of generating intermediate file on FS\n            var cordova_plugins = new Readable();\n            cordova_plugins.push(\n                'module.exports = ' + JSON.stringify(modulesMetadata, null, 2) + ';\\n' +\n                'module.exports.metadata = ' + JSON.stringify(pluginMetadata, null, 2) + ';\\n', 'utf8');\n            cordova_plugins.push(null);\n\n            var bootstrap = new Readable();\n            bootstrap.push('require(\\'cordova/init\\');\\n', 'utf8');\n            bootstrap.push(null);\n\n            var moduleAliases = modulesMetadata\n                .reduce(function (accum, meta) {\n                    accum['./' + meta.name] = meta.id;\n                    return accum;\n                }, {});\n\n            libraryRelease\n                .add(cordova_plugins, {file: path.join(wwwDir, 'cordova_plugins.js'), expose: 'cordova/plugin_list'})\n                .add(bootstrap)\n                .transform(aliasify, {aliases: moduleAliases});\n\n            var outReleaseFile = path.join(wwwDir, 'cordova.js');\n            return generateFinalBundle(platform, libraryRelease, outReleaseFile, commitId, platformVersion);\n        });\n};\n"
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        "text": "Hemerocallis ‘El Desperado’ (daylily) is a fantastic grower with large 5 inch, buttery-yellow flowers and a wine-purple eye with matching picotee edge half way up the petals. Hemerocallis ‘El Desperado’ is an award winner, strong grower, well-branched with masses of bloom scapes. We have have planted a very large group of Hemerocallis ‘El Desperado’ in our botanical gardens because it makes a spectacular, extended, late summer display for many weeks. Grown on-site and is for sale at Plant Paradise Country Gardens."
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        "text": "Asian ministerial conference pledges greater efforts to empower women in reducing disaster risk\nDate: Monday, July 23, 2018\nAuthor: Devikara Devakula\nUlaanbaatar, Mongolia — More than 50 countries have pledged to give more women leading roles in efforts to reduce the high risks they face from natural disasters in Asia.\nDiscussing gender and inclusiveness at the Ulaanbaatar conference are, from left, Dugersuren Sukhjargalmaa of Government of Mongolia; Chandni Joshi of Women Friendly Disaster Management Network Nepal; Nguyen Thi Minh Huong of Vietnam Women’s Union; and Bjorn Andersson of UNFPA. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins\nThe 2018 Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Mongolia’s capital on 3-6 July, made this and other key commitments by adopting the Ulaanbaatar Declaration and the Action Plan 2018-2020 of the Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. They also agreed to promote gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR) by improving collection of disaggregated data on sex, age and disability, and meeting the specific needs of women and girls in programmes to stem gender-based violence and to ensure sexual and reproductive health.\nThe Sendai Framework is a global plan adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. In 2017, disasters in Asia killed more than 6,500 people and affected 66.7 million, says the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable; at the same time, they play critical roles in prevention, response and recovery.\nIn the Ulaanbaatar Declaration, the countries pledged to “promote full and equal participation of women in leading, designing, and implementing gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes, through joint efforts by public and private sector, supported by appropriate legal frameworks and allocation of necessary resources”.\nLeading up to and at the Asian Ministerial Conference, UN Women joined a wide range of civil society and non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies in the ISDR Asia Partnership Gender Stakeholder Group to advocate for the key outcomes, including at a plenary event on gender and inclusiveness.\n“After the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, we saw extraordinary resilience from women, who made commitments not just to rebuild their homes, but to rebuild their communities and their nations,” Chandni Joshi, Chair of the Women Friendly Disaster Management Network in Nepal, said at the conference. “Yet patriarchal mindsets and protectionist views reign large, women continue to lack access to information on disaster risk reduction actions, and women in leadership in DRR remain invisible.”\nSenator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, chairs the event on gender and inclusiveness at the Ulaanbaatar conference. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins\nSenator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, said: “Women, girls, and persons with disabilities have a fundamental right to contribute to the decisions that affect their lives and their communities. They bring vital skills, knowledge, and resilience, but continue to be underrepresented in positions of leadership. We do not need to make decisions on behalf of this group. We need to trust them, we need to respect them, and most of all we need to empower them.”\nSmriti Aryal, Acting Head of UN Women Myanmar and Regional Advisor for Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction, presents the progress review report of the Gender Stakeholder Group at the Ulaanbaatar meeting. Photo: UNFPA/Tim Jenkins\nSmriti Aryal, Acting Head of UN Women Myanmar and Regional Advisor for Humanitarian Action and disaster risk reduction, called for concrete action on women’s leadership while presenting the results of a progress review done by UN Women, Duryog Nivaran and the Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre on behalf of the Gender Stakeholder Group.\n“To increase women’s leadership and participation in DRR policy and actions, we must establish or strengthen institutional mchanisms and platforms, ensure a minimum of 30 per cent women in DRR decision-making roles, and invest in developing women’s leadership capabilities and skills as part of strengthening risk governance,” she said. “We cannot afford lip service any more -- we must engage women, be inclusive, and protect rights for all.”\nBjorn Andersson, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said strengthened disaggregated data are needed for taking evidence-based actions, especially in humanitarian and fragile situations where 60 per cent of preventable maternal deaths occur.\nIn a joint United Nations statement made at the conference, Tiziana Bonapace, Director of ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific, said: “We will further strengthen the emphasis on enhancing capacities, strengthening livelihood and resilience of those who are most marginalized -- the poor, women, children and those living with disability -- which is critical to reducing disaster risks, reducing poverty, strengthening health systems and promoting gender and social equality.”\nDuring the Ulaanbaatar meeting, participants at an event organized by the Gender Stakeholder Group discuss the importance of collecting data disaggregated by sex, age and disability. Photo: UN Women/Devikara Devakula\nAs a key step towards realizing commitments made at the conference, Senator Fierravanti-Wells announced her country’s support for a three-year rollout of Gender Inequality of Risk in the Solomon Islands, a joint flagship programme of UN Women, United Nations Office for Dissaster Risk Reduction, and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Speaking on the importance of building community resilience and reducing the gender inequality of risk, she said: “The more inclusive our approach, the stronger, fairer, and more resilient our communities will be. The challenges of ensuring commitments to gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction are great, but if we can overcome these challenges, we know we can together change and save so many lives.”\nDevikara Devakula\nProgramme Analyst, Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction\nUN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific\nEmail: devikara.devakula@unwomen.org"
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        "text": "Q: Why didn't my Windows partition show up in the Startup Disk preference pane? I install Windows(XP after that 7) on my MBP with Boot Camp and every thing was fine but after a while in System Prefences -> Startup Disk my windows partition was lost and when I want to switch to my windows must restart my Laptop and Press Down option during startup. I can't switch directly from my OS X.\nanyone know how can I solve this. or why this is happened?\n\n\nA: Did you by any chance install the NTFS-3G driver?\nIt's a known bug (for quite some time, now). When installed, you can no longer have the Windows partition in the Startup Disk prefpane.\n\nA: You shouldn't have to eject your Bootcamp disk from your Desktop. As soon as you do that, it's unavailable to the system until you reboot.\nA quick tip: if you don't want your Bootcamp drive to display on your OS X Desktop, boot into windows and then rename your C: drive to a name that starts with a period. OS X will treat it as a \"hidden\" file and not display the icon. Been using that trick since Bootcamp was in beta and have never had a problem with it.\n\nA: I found a solution, if you haven't already. I'm assuming here that you have already uninstalled the NTFS-3G Driver\nBrowse to /yourhdd/Library/ and search that folder for a file called com.tuxera.NTFS.plist - I found mine in .../Library/Filesystems/NetFSPlugins\nOpen that file with a property list editor. I used Open with Property List Editor 2.1\nLook for a Property, Disable Driver, change it's value to 1, and restart, should be fixed.\n\nA: I had this issue with the latest version of Tuxera NTFS and El Capitan. I reinstalled Tuxera, restarted and all game good again. My bootcamp drive was accessible again via the desktop. \n\nA: In the NTFS control panel, there is an option to uninstall. I did that, and, without restarting, I have the option again!\n"
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        "text": "Discussion in 'Mac OS X Lion (10.7)' started by axboi87, Jan 20, 2012.\nI've got a 500gb internal drive and a 240gb SSD.\nWhen trying to restore using disk utility i'm given the error \"Not enough space on disk ____ to restore\"\nBut I shouldn't have to do that!!!\nAny ideas or workarounds before resorting to the above?\nUse Carbon Copy Cloner to copy one drive to the other. I've done this several times going from larger HDD to smaller SSD and I wound up with a bootable SSD drive. One step you have to remember not to skip is to use Disk Utility to partition the SSD as GUID partition scheme HFS+ before doing the clone. If it came Apple Partition Scheme, even if you let CCC do the clone, the resulting drive won't be bootable. CCC usually works in \"file mode\" and it can easily copy a larger drive (that's mostly empty) onto a smaller drive. If you tell CCC to clone a drive you did NOT boot from, it can work in block copy mode where the destination drive must be the same size or larger than the drive you are cloning from (if I recall).\nI've actually done this somehow on Disk Utility several times (booting from a different drive (or even the dvd) so not running disk utility from the drive your cloning) and had it work just fine from larger to smaller bootable clone. Definitely format the drive cloning to first, as bootable Apple etc..\nThanks for pointing this out. My only experience using DU to go larger to smaller was when I was trying to make a Lion install stick and I was unable to restore InstallESD.dmg to a 4 GB USB stick but of course the reason that wouldn't fit is there was slightly more than 4 GB of data."
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        "text": "3 февруари е 34-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 331 дни до края на годината (332 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1451 г. – Мехмед II става султан на Османската империя.\n 1690 г. – Колонията в Масачузетс издава първите банкноти в САЩ.\n 1718 г. – Петър I лишава своя син Алексей от правото да наследи руския престол.\n 1754 г. – Търговци от Санкт Петербург и Москва подаряват на императрица Елисавета 76-каратов диамант в знак на благодарност за митническите облекчения в Русия.\n 1809 г. – Илинойс е формиран като отделна територия на САЩ.\n 1815 г. – В Швейцария започва промишлено производство на кашкавал.\n 1830 г. – Гърция получава независимост от Османската империя.\n 1916 г. – При пожар изгаря зданието на канадския парламент в Отава.\n 1919 г. – В Париж се състои първото заседание на Обществото на народите.\n\n 1921 г. – Харалампи Джамджиев патентова в Прага модел самолет под името Бързолет.\n 1931 г. – В Нова Зеландия е регистрирано най-опустошителното в историята на страната природно бедствие – земетресение с 258 жертви.\n 1945 г. – Започва Ялтенската конференция, на която се решава съдбата на Европа.\n 1947 г. – В Аляска е измерена най-ниската температура на въздуха в цяла Северна Америка (-63 °C).\n 1954 г. – Елизабет II става първият британски монарх, посетил Австралия.\n 1957 г. – Френският химик от виетнамски произход Нгуен Бу Хои обявява за откриването на причинител на рак в тютюневия дим.\n 1958 г. – Белгия, Нидерландия и Люксембург създават митническия съюз Бенелюкс.\n 1959 г. – В самолетна катастрофа близо до езерото Клиър Лейк загиват музикантите Бъди Холи, Ричи Валънс и Биг Бупър.\n 1966 г. – Съветският непилотиран космически апарат Луна 9 става първият апарат в света, осъществил меко кацане и предал снимки от повърхността на Луната.\n 1967 г. – В Австралия е извършена последната екзекуция на осъден на смърт.\n 1969 г. – Ясер Арафат е избран за лидер на ООП.\n 1981 г. – Гру Харлем Брундтланд става първата жена министър-председател на Норвегия.\n 1989 г. – В Парагвай след 35-годишна диктатура е свален генерал Алфредо Стреснер.\n 1994 г. – САЩ прекратяват икономическото ембарго над Демократична република Виетнам, наложено през 1964 г.\n 1998 г. – Американски военен самолет прелита ниско и прерязва кабела на лифт в курорта Кавалезе (Италия), една от кабините пада и загиват 20 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1795 г. – Антонио Хосе де Сукре, латиноамерикански революционер († 1830 г.)\n 1809 г. – Феликс Менделсон Бартолди, германски композитор († 1847 г.)\n 1821 г. – Елизабет Блекуел, британско-американска лекарка († 1910 г.)\n 1830 г. – Роберт Гаскойн-Сесил, британски политик (* 1903 г.)\n 1845 г. – Григор Начович, български политик († 1920 г.)\n 1857 г. – Вилхелм Йохансен, датски биолог († 1927 г.)\n 1859 г. – Хуго Юнкерс, германски авиоконструктор († 1935 г.)\n 1874 г. – Никола Стоянов, български икономист († 1967 г.)\n 1881 г. – Петър Тодоров, български политик († 1955 г.)\n 1882 г. – Добри Немиров, български писател († 1945 г.)\n 1883 г. – Стоян Дринов, български детски поет и преводач († 1922 г.)\n 1887 г. – Георг Тракл, австрийски поет († 1914 г.)\n 1889 г. – Карл Теодор Драйер, датски кинорежисьор († 1968 г.)\n 1893 г. – Гастон Жулиа, френски математик († 1978 г.)\n 1898 г. – Алвар Аалто, финландски архитект († 1976 г.)\n 1909 г. – Андре Каят, френски сценарист и режисьор († 1989 г.)\n 1916 г. – Емил Карастойчев, български шахматист († 1997 г.)\n 1920 г. – Джордж Милър, американски психолог († 2012 г.)\n 1922 г. – Светослав Лучников, български политик († 2002 г.)\n 1926 г. – Ханс Йохен Фогел, германски политик († 2020 г.)\n 1930 г. – Петко Иванов, български аграрен учен, професор († 2019 г.)\n 1930 г. – Христо Черняев, български поет († 2021 г.)\n 1934 г. – Петър Чернев, български актьор († 1993 г.)\n 1941 г. – Едуард Володарски, руски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1941 г. – Михаел Шаранг, австрийски поет\n 1946 г. – Живко Янкуловски, македонски политик\n 1947 г. – Ангел Ценов, български футболист († 2006 г.)\n 1947 г. – Георги Каменски, български футболист\n 1947 г. – Пол Остър, американски писател\n 1947 г. – Стоян Стоянов, български учен\n 1947 г. – Христо Бонев, български футболист и треньор\n 1948 г. – Карлош Фелипе Шименеш Бело, източнотиморски духовник, Нобелов лауреат през 1996 г.\n 1948 г. – Хенинг Манкел, шведски писател († 2015 г.)\n 1951 г. – Таня Шелхорн, българска писателка\n 1954 г. – Савас Цитуридис, гръцки политик\n 1955 г. – Бруно Пецей, австрийски футболист († 1994 г.)\n 1965 г. – Валентин Захариев, български треньор\n 1972 г. – Маурисио Почетино, испански треньор\n 1973 г. – Чавдар Атанасов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Стоян Колев, български футболен вратар\n 1983 г. – Габриел Саргисян, арменски шахматист\n 1983 г. – Хилари Скот, американска порнографска актриса\n 1984 г. – Данаил Милушев, български волейболист\n 1985 г. – Александър Алиев, украински футболист\n 1990 г. – Шон Кингстън, ямайско-американски изпълнител\n\nПочинали \n\n 1014 г. – Свен I, крал на Дания (* ок. 960)\n 1116 г. – Калман, крал на Унгария (* 1070 г.)\n 1252 г. – Светослав III, велик княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество (* 1196 г.)\n 1451 г. – Мурад II, султан на Османската империя (* 1404 г.)\n 1468 г. – Йохан Гутенберг, германски издател (* 1398 г.)\n 1735 г. – Кристиан III фон Цвайбрюкен, Пфалцграф на Цвайбрюкен-Биркенфелд (* 1674 г.)\n 1862 г. – Жан-Батист Био, френски физик (* 1774 г.)\n 1924 г. – Удроу Уилсън, 28-и президент на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат (* 1856 г.)\n 1925 г. – Оливър Хевисайд, английски електроинженер, математик и физик (* 1925 г.)\n 1956 г. – Емил Борел, френски математик (* 1871 г.)\n 1959 г. – Ричи Валънс, американски рок музикант (* 1941 г.)\n 1959 г. – Бъди Холи, американски музикант (* 1936 г.)\n 1964 г. – Албърт Ричардсън, британски архитект (* 1880 г.)\n 1975 г. – Ум Кулсум, египетска певица и актриса (* ок. 1898 г.)\n 1978 г. – Ласло Наги, унгарски поет (* 1925 г.)\n 1985 г. – Франк Опънхаймър, американски физик от еврейски произход (* 1912 г.)\n 1989 г. – Джон Касавитис, американски актьор и режисьор (* 1929 г.)\n 1997 г. – Бохумил Храбал, чешки писател (* 1914 г.)\n 1999 г. – Люк Борели, френски футболист (* 1965 г.)\n 2011 г. – Мария Шнайдер, френска актриса (* 1952 г.)\n 2022 г. – Христос Сардзетакис, гръцки политик (* 1929 г.)\n\nПразници \n Тайланд – Ден на ветераните\n Православна църква – свети Симеон Богоприемец и пророчица Анна\n\n203"
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        "text": "HomeAbsinthe United States\nIn the early 1900s many European countries banned the strong alcoholic drink Absinthe, United States banned Absinthe in 1912.\nAbsinthe was never as popular in the United States as it was in European countries such as France and Switzerland, but there were areas of the US, such as the French part of New Orleans, where Absinthe was served in Absinthe bars.\nAbsinthe is a liquor made from herbs such as wormwood, aniseed and fennel. It is often green, hence its nickname the Green Fairy, and it has an anise taste.\nAbsinthe is an interesting concoction or recipe of herbs that act as a stimulant and alcohol and other herbs that act as a sedative. It is the essential oils from the herbs that cause Absinthe to louche, go cloudy, when water is added.\nWormwood, Artimesia Absinthium, contains a chemical called thujone which is said to be similar to THC in the drug cannabis, to be psychoactive and to cause psychedelic effects.\nAbsinthe United States and the ban\nAt the beginning of the 1900s there was a strong prohibition movement in France and this movement used the fact that Absinthe was linked to the Bohemian culture of Montmartre – with its writers, artists and the courtesans and loose morals of establishments such as the Moulin Rouge, and the allegation that an Absinthe drinker murdered his family, to argue for a ban on Absinthe. They claimed that Absinthe would be France’s ruin, that Absinthe was a drug and intoxicant that would drive everyone to insanity!\nThe United States followed France’s example and banned Absinthe and drinks containing thujone in 1912. It became illegal, a crime, to buy or sell Absinthe in the USA. Americans either had to concoct their own homemade recipes or travel to countries like the Czech Republic, where Absinthe was still legal, to enjoy the Green Fairy.\nMany US legal experts argue that Absinthe was never banned in the US and that if you look carefully into the law and ordinance you will find that only drinks containing over 10mg of thujone were banned. However, US Customs and police would not allow any Absinthe shipped from abroad to enter the US, only thujone free Absinthe substitutes were allowed.\nAbsinthe United States 2007\nTed Breaux, a native of New Orleans, runs a distillery in Saumur France. He has used vintage bottles of pre-ban Absinthe to investigate Absinthe recipes and to create his own classic pre-ban style Absinthe – the Jade collection.\nBreaux was amazed to find that the vintage Absinthe, contrary to belief, actually only contained very minute quantities of thujone – not enough to harm anyone. He became determined to provide an Absinthe drink which he could ship to his homeland, the US. His dream was to once again see Absinthe being consumed in bars in New Orleans.\nBreaux and lawyer Gared Gurfein, had many meetings with the Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau about the thujone content of Breaux’s Absinthe recipe. They found that actually no law needed to be changed!\nBreaux’s dream became reality in 2007 when his brand Lucid was able to be shipped from his distillery in France to the US. Lucid is based on vintage recipes and contains real wormwood, unlike fake Absinthes. Now, in 2008, a brand called Green Moon and two Absinthes from Kubler are all able to be bought and sold within the US.\nAbsinthe United States – Many Americans are now enjoying their first taste of real legal Absinthe, perhaps there will be an Absinthe revival."
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        "text": "PCs Are Diving, Tablets Climbing\nLooks like PC sales have had their worst quarter since sales tracking began in 1994, according to IDC, dropping 14% in the last quarter. IDC blames some of that on poor adoption of Windows 8, which seems like a pretty good guess to me.\nTablets, on the other hand, are still growing strongly. The 7 inch size seems to be the most popular one, whether it's the iPad Mini or one of the many Android tablets in that range. Every game maker I talk to (and I talk to a lot of them) has their eyes on tablets as the Next Big Thing.\nStill, we're still in the early days on tablet games. Designers have to figure out ways to get around the lack of physical controls, and there are still many innovations to be found in designing for a touch interface, all the different sensors, and all the various means of connection.\nFor game marketers it just means things are changing even faster. You'd better be re-examining your marketing plans frequently as the market changes. Demographics are shifting, platforms are shifting, business models are changing, marketing channels are opening and closing... It's like trying to navigate through the breakup of an icecap. What looks like clear water ahead may turn out to be a dead end, then the ice closes in and you're trapped.\nOn the other hand there's a chance for new players to break through the noise and find a market. It's encouraging that new games and new publishers continue to make the Top Ten list of the highest-grossing games on iOS and Android. That means there's not complete dominance by large companies."
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        "text": "Uber today won a major victory in Edmonton when a court injunction to block their operations failed.\nCiting Star Trek and science fiction author Ray Bradbury, an Alberta court denied the city’s attempt to stop Uber from operating in Edmonton.\nBradbury’s worlds and those experienced by occupants of the Starship Enterprise “seemed unimaginable 30 years ago,” wrote Queen’s Bench Justice Michelle Crighton in a decision released Thursday.\nThe Internet is opening new avenues for what might be possible, she said. “It is not surprising, therefore, that legislation drafted to accommodate a more static, paper and people driven environment, sometimes lags behind the technical response to individual preferences and demands.”\nAs a result of this ruling, Uber can continue operating in Edmonton. One of the primary issues is that Uber Canada is just a front company, and that courts probably would have to really push to block the international conglomerate from operating an app that is administered in Holland.\nAll the city can do at this point is go after individual drivers, a measure that probably wouldn't be very politically expedient. Instead they'll have to wait until they pass their ride sharing legislation. On the bright side for the city, if they draft too ridiculous a legislation Uber will leave, just like they did in San Antonio. Bear in mind, though, that this may turn out to be a scorched earth policy.\nWhat I find enjoyable about this is that the Uber vs. Edmonton fight, as encapsulated by the scoreboard above that K'mpec texted me earlier today, causes cowardly Don Iveson's far-left base to become disillusioned with him. Now that he's offended basically everybody who uses the roadways, there's a good chance that the shelf life of this useless sack of shit is coming to an end."
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    {
        "text": "3 март е 62-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (63-ти през високосна година) и е национален празник на България от 1880 г. Остават 303 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n\n 1431 г. – Начало на понтификата на папа Евгений IV\n 1517 г. – Експедицията на испанските мореплаватели Франсиско Кордова и Антон Аламинос достига полуостров Юкатан.\n 1578 г. – На входа на двореца си в Анхиало е обесен по заповед на султан Мурад III архонтът на Константинопол – Михаил Кантакузин Шейтаноглу.\n 1585 г. – Във Венеция е открит Олимпийският театър, проектиран от Андреа Паладио.\n 1845 г. – Флорида става 27-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1855 г. – Александър II официално се възцарява като император на Руската империя.\n 1857 г. – Втора опиумна война: Франция и Великобритания обявяват война на Китай.\n 1861 г. – Александър II премахва с манифест крепостното право в Русия.\n 1875 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта Кармен в парижката Опера комик.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Русия и Османската империя подписват прелиминарния (предварителен) Санстефански мирен договор, с който се слага край на войната и де факто се създава Третата българска държава.\n 1886 г. – Сръбско-българската война: След приключване на войната е сключен Букурещки договор между България и Сърбия.\n 1891 г. – В правилата на футбола е въведена дузпата, а прилагането ѝ започва от следващия сезон.\n 1904 г. – При използване на цилиндъра на Томас Едисън е направен първият звукозапис на политическа реч – на кайзера на Германия Вилхелм II.\n 1912 г. – Във Варна е учреден Юношеският туристически съюз Галата.\n 1913 г. – Основан e футболен клуб Тича, известен днес като ПФК Черно море.\n 1918 г. – Първата световна война: Подписан е Брест-Литовският договор между от една страна Германия, Австро-Унгария, Османската империя и България, и от друга страна – болшевишкото правителство на Русия, даващ независимост на Полша, Финландия, Литва, Латвия и Естония.\n 1923 г. – Излиза първият брой на списание „Тайм“\n 1924 г. – Със закон на Националното събрание на Турция халифатът е отменен, а последният халиф Абдул Меджид II и всички преки членове на династията Осман са прогонени от Турция.\n 1924 г. – В България по решение на правителството са арестувани около 500 дейци на ВМРО.\n 1931 г. – Приет е съвременният Химн на Съединените американски щати.\n 1938 г. – В Саудитска Арабия са открити големи находища на нефт.\n\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Великобритания скъсва дипломатически отношения с България.\n 1941 г. – Холокост: Германските окупатори създават в Краков еврейско гето.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Финландия обявява война на Хитлеристка Германия.\n 1958 г. – Нури ал-Саид става министър-председател на Ирак за 14-и път.\n 1961 г. – Хасан II става крал на Мароко.\n 1974 г. – Самолет МакДонълд Дъглас на турските авиолинии катастрофира близо до Форе д'Ерменонвил, Франция – загиват 346 души.\n 1980 г. – Робърт Мугабе съставя първото правителство на Зимбабве (дотогава Родезия), след получената независимост от Великобритания.\n 1992 г. – Босна и Херцеговина обявява независимост от Югославия.\n 1997 г. – Открита е най-високата постройка в Нова Зеландия – кулата Скай Тауър (328 m), построена в Окланд за две години и половина.\n 2002 г. – Народът на Швейцария решава в референдум страната да стане член на ООН.\n 2005 г. – Американският пилот Стив Фосет приключва околосветския си полет със самолета GlobalFlyer без междинно зареждане с гориво, започнат на 28 февруари.\n\nРодени \n\n 1455 г. – Жуау II, крал на Португалия († 1495 г.)\n 1823 г. – Дюла Андраши, унгарски политик († 1890 г.)\n 1831 г. – Джордж Пулман, американски изобретател и индустриалец († 1897 г.)\n 1841 г. – Джон Мъри, британски океанограф с шотландски произход († 1914 г.)\n 1845 г. – Георг Кантор, германски математик († 1918 г.)\n 1847 г. – Александър Греъм Бел, шотландски изобретател († 1922 г.)\n 1859 г. – Бончо Боев, български икономист († 1934 г.)\n 1868 г. – Емил Шартие, френски философ († 1951 г.)\n 1872 г. – Борис Дрангов, български офицер и военен педагог († 1917 г.)\n 1873 г. – Уилям Грийн, американски синдикален лидер († 1952 г.)\n 1876 г. – Мария Георгиевна, гръцка принцеса († 1940 г.)\n 1877 г. – Йордан Захариев, български географ и етнолог († 1965 г.)\n 1880 г. – Лев Шчерба, руски езиковед († 1944 г.)\n 1895 г. – Рагнар Фриш, норвежки икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 († 1973 г.)\n 1898 г. – Растко Петрович, сръбски поет и писател († 1949 г.)\n 1903 г. – Христо Несторов, български анархист († 1954 г.)\n 1905 г. – Стефан Пейчев, български актьор († 1979 г.)\n 1906 г. – Артур Лундквист, шведски писател († 1991 г.)\n 1906 г. – Димитър Станишев, български учен († 1995 г.)\n 1909 г. – Георги Веселинов, български детски писател († 1978 г.)\n 1911 г. – Джийн Харлоу, американска актриса († 1937 г.)\n 1913 г. – Роже Кайуа, френски писател († 1978 г.)\n 1915 г. – Страшо Пинджур, македонски партизанин († 1943 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джеймс Мерил, американски поет († 1995 г.)\n 1926 г. – Марио Рици, италиански католически архиепископ, апостолически нунций на Светия престол в България († 2012 г.)\n 1928 г. – Гудрун Паузеванг, немска писателка († 2020 г.)\n 1930 г. – Йон Илиеску, президент на Румъния\n 1930 г. – Любен Гоцев, български политик († 2020 г.)\n 1935 г. – Желю Желев, президент на България († 2015 г.)\n 1939 г. – Георги Солунски, български актьор\n 1942 г. – Владимир Ковальонок, съветски космонавт\n 1946 г. – Елизабет Йънг-Бруел, американски психотерапевт († 2011 г.)\n 1948 г. – Сноуи Уайт, британски китарист (Пинк Флойд)\n 1949 г. – Георги Божинов, български политик\n 1949 г. – Георги Новаков, български актьор\n 1950 г. – Георги Костадинов, български боксьор\n 1952 г. – Иван Тишански, български футболист\n 1953 г. – Йозеф Винклер, австрийски писател\n 1953 г. – Зико, бразилски футболист\n 1953 г. – Милко Божков, български художник\n 1954 г. – Теньо Минчев, български футболист\n 1956 г. – Збигнев Бонек, полски футболист\n 1958 г. – Миранда Ричардсън, английска актриса\n 1961 г. – Валери Кулинов, български футболист\n 1962 г. – Джаки Джойнър-Кърси, американска атлетка\n 1966 г. – Фернандо Колунга, мексикански актьор\n 1967 г. – Зоран Коняновски, македонски политик\n 1967 г. – Насер Орич, босненски командир\n 1970 г. – Антония Велкова-Гайдаржиева, български литературен историк\n 1970 г. – Веско Ешкенази, български цигулар\n 1972 г. – Кристиан Оливер, немски актьор\n 1977 г. – Костадин Язов, български политик\n 1977 г. – Владимир Ненов, български режисьор\n 1982 г. – Джесика Бийл, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Момчил Николов, български шахматист\n 1987 г. – Елнур Хюсейнов, азербайджански певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 1578 г. – Михаил Кантакузин Шейтаноглу, архонт на Константинопол\n 1605 г. – Климент VIII, римски папа (* 1536 г.)\n 1703 г. – Робърт Хук, английски учен (* 1635 г.)\n 1706 г. – Йохан Пахелбел, германски композитор (* 1653 г.)\n 1707 г. – Аурангзеб, император на Индия (* 1618 г.)\n 1792 г. – Робърт Адам, шотландски архитект (* 1728 г.)\n 1797 г. – Ив Жозеф дьо Кергелен дьо Тремарек, френски мореплавател (* 1734 г.)\n 1878 г. – Владимир Черкаски, руски княз (* 1824 г.)\n 1889 г. – Александър Деп, руски офицер (* 1835 г.)\n 1900 г. – Константин Кесяков, български генерал (* 1839 г.)\n 1903 г. – Петър Карапетров, български публицист (* 1845 г.)\n 1923 г. – Иван Петров, български военен деец (* 1863 г.)\n 1928 г. – Хуго Кох, холандски изобретател (* 1870 г.)\n 1932 г. – Ойген д'Албер, германски композитор (* 1864 г.)\n 1959 г. – Иван Кавалджиев, български народен музикант (* 1891 г.)\n 1959 г. – Лу Костело, американски актьор и комик (* 1906 г.)\n 1962 г. – Пиер Беноа, френски писател (* 1886 г.)\n 1969 г. – Фред Алесандър, американски тенисист (* 1880 г.)\n 1982 г. – Жорж Перек, френски писател (* 1936 г.)\n 1983 г. – Жорж Реми, по псевдоним Ерже, белгийски автор на комикси (* 1907 г.)\n 1987 г. – Дани Кей, американски актьор, певец и комик (* 1913 г.)\n 1996 г. – Лео Мале, френски писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1996 г. – Маргьорит Дюрас, френска писателка (* 1914 г.)\n 1997 г. – Христо Минковски, български футболист (* 1911 г.)\n 1999 г. – Герхард Херцберг, канадски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1971 г. (* 1904 г.)\n 2005 г. – Михаил Кирков, български сценарист (* 1940 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ринус Михелс, холандски футболен треньор (* 1928 г.)\n 2006 г. – Генко Генков, български художник (* 1923 г.)\n 2008 г. – Антон Лебанов, български общественик (* 1912 г.)\n 2010 г. – Момо Капор, сръбски писател (* 1937 г.)\n 2013 г. – Пламен Горанов, български фотограф, алпинист и застъпник за граждански права (* 1976 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на писателите\n България – Ден на Освобождението на България от османска власт (от Османска империя, 1878 г., национален празник)\n Световен ден на дивата природа\n Грузия – Ден на майката\n Судан – Ден на националното обединение\n Япония – Ден на детето\n Световен ден на тениса\n\n303"
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        "text": "Q: Are there sites that support editing and ordering photo prints, cards, and books on an iPad? I'm reposting this question (unchanged) from webapps.stackexchange.com, because I've received no answers there and this seems like an appropriate question for the Apple Stack Exchange site.\n\nI've tried the Shutterfly iPad app, which allows uploading photos, but doesn't support any other functionality available on the website. And I can't edit photos or design cards and books from the Mobile Safari browswer on the iPad, presumably because those features use Flash.\nAre there any other photo websites that provide either a full-featured iPad app (that includes creating cards and books and ordering prints) or an iPad or iPhone app that allows uploading photos and a website that allows one to create cards and books and order prints in Mobile Safari?\nNote, I download photos directly from my camera to the iPad, so I'm trying to figure out how to avoid any need for a PC.\nSomeone (on vark.com) recommended Apple's MobileMe (http://me.com).  But http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html doesn't show that it supports editing photos and ordering prints, cards, and books.  Does anyone have experience with MobileMe?\n\nA: I don't really have a direct answer for you, but I would like to help by sharing what I know.\nI have a Mobile Me account, and there are no tools for editing your photos online. It's an image gallery. A gallery is meant just for viewing and not for editing.\nMobile Me was designed to work in conjunction with the iLife software on a desktop mac. You edit the photos, order the prints, make the cards, and the books in the iPhoto app on the Mac.\nPhoto editing on the iPad is the easy part, but I think you are approaching it from the wrong angle. There are tons of free (and cheap) apps that allow you to edit photos. (Photoshop Mobile for instance. Just check the Photography category in the App Store). Once you edit them in an app, then I would upload them to a service that supports printing services. The hard part is going to be the ordering of prints, cards and books from the iPad.\nWe can only hope that sometime in the near future, Apple creates a mobile version of iPhoto just as they did with iMovie. That would be ideal.\nEDIT\n\n\n*\n\n*You can order prints from this app as well:\nhttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323705153&mt=8%3FpartnerId%3D30&siteID=KEmRFwU0WKY-yY5rDqaKJMaSUWCfbLPC3w\n\n*You can also order prints from the Walgreens app:\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/walgreens/id335364882?mt=8\n\n*This might solve your issue as well!\nhttp://www.ritzpix.com/net/OrderPrints/\n\n*You might want to check out this app and service:\nhttp://www.ecce-terram.com/order-solutions/mobile-client.html\n\nECCE TERRAM announced a new service this week that will allow people to order prints of photos stored on their iPhones from the phones themselves. With their Photo2lab Client, users may select a photo (both those taken with the iPhone and those transfered from iPhoto), add text and create prints, post cards and even mini photo books. You'll even be able to add an address to a post card from the iPhone's built-in contacts list.\n\n\nA: I downloaded the Walgreens app and emailed pics to my local store.  The only problem is if you edit your photos on the iPad, it doesn't transfer to the store.  So just use their browse and edit button, fix the pics there and create an album, send and pick up in hours.  So far this has worked.\n\nA: Only answer I can think of would be something like Phanfare loading up to flikr/Phanfare or via SmugMug and the smugshot app combined with the smugmug webpage (which is not mobile friendly, but isn't flash infested either).\n\nA: Just released.  I hope this helps:\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/app/roes/id533327862?mt=8\n"
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        "text": "Powered by solar energy and mounted to the backs of sheep, 360-degree cameras are mapping out the Faroe Islands for Google Street View. Since Google was initially reluctant to send cars to the archipelago, locals took it upon themselves to get their own interactive images out into the world, raising awareness of the region’s uniquely beautiful landscapes. In the end, they not only attracted Google’s interest but managed to spawn a creative DIY approach to mapping rugged environments.\nSheep View 360 got its start when resident Durita Dahl Andreassen first strapped a camera to a sheep, let the animal roam free around the island then uploading the results to Google. “I gently placed a 360-degree camera powered by a solar panel on the back of a sheep that would take photographs as the animal freely grazed the open hillsides,” explains Andreassen.\n“Photos are then transmitted back to my mobile phone so that I can upload them to Google Street View myself, finally putting the Faroes on the map in a very unique way!” Indeed, some of the shots and perspectives would be unlikely or impossible for vehicles or even humans, taken as they are from the tops of roofs and sides of mountains.\nThis endeavor and an associated petition eventually did get Google’s attention, but by the time they showed up with vehicles the self-mapping system was well underway with sheep, bikers, backpackers, ships and even a wheelbarrow playing parts.\nUltimately, folks from the Faroe Islands have made it a bit of an interactive game — anyone who wants to can come borrow a camera and start mapping the parts not yet uploaded to Google. This presents an interesting challenge for those who want to take it on: can you as a tourist cameraman visit the places most people and cars don’t go to or can’t reach?"
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        "text": "Q: What is the best media player for the mac (besides .mov - e.g., .mp3, .wmv, .avi, .mpg, etc) I've recently switched from PC to Mac, so I'm slowly building a library of useful utilities. So, any recommendations for the best generic media player?\nOn the PC - I've found the VLC player to be pretty useful - there's a Mac version, but I don't know how it compares to other alternatives.\nMany of the alternatives on the PC are full of crap - e.g., constantly pushing toolbars, add-ins, anti-virus junk, etc. \nSo, I'd like something lightweight and crapware free. I'd be happy to pay $20-$30 for something that was worth it.\n\nA: I like Movist. It has the format flexibility of VLC, but with a nicer Mac-like interface.\n\nA: I vastly prefer the experience of using Quicktime with a little help from Perian and Flip4Mac to give it compatability with 90% of the video I need to play. For the rare stubborn video that does not want to cooperate with that setup, I break out VLC, because of VLC can't play it, it's just not going to play.\n\nA: VLC is a nice player, but if you want something more Mac OS-like, try Lunettes (download link beta 8 is the last one at the time of writing).\nBasically, it's VLC rewritten fully in 64 bits and Obj-C.\nYou do not have to build it yourself ! Just extract the .app from the zip file, that's all.\n\nA: VLC is by far the best. \nFast, extensible, and versatile. You can play just about any format video, Video_TS file, remote disks, remote streams, even pipe the output of a command into it to play. Can you say on the fly video manipulation? That's VLC.\nNot to mention the main selling point, it's free.\nQuicktime? Slow. Plugins? Hokey. Alternatives? Either not very \"native\" or buggy, slow, and prone to crashing. There is not one thing I have been unable to play with VLC that I had to use something else.\nOkay, one thing. The MKV support on it is a bit of a pain. Try seeking with a 4GB MKV file. \n\nA: VLC is best media player in OS X too. and it's free also.\nbut if you install perian in your mac (it's free too) I suggest use QuickTime. peran it's component for Quicktime to support many extension for media on mac.\n\nA: I can only agree regarding VLC. It's best. I've tried quite a few (MplayerX, MplayerOSX, QuickTime and some others), since the UI is, just like on Windows, ugly and non-slick, but it still win by far.\nWhat I like the most are all the keyboard shortcuts for everything. Currently my standard setup is to use VLC together with AirFoil. The problem then is of course the 2 second delay for sound to the AirPort Express, this is however easy to solve with the f key, delay sound 2000 ms (g reduces the delay). Or if you get hold of some subtitle that totally out of sync, use h and j to delay the text. I use this all the time. None of the others I tried have easy (if any) access to these features, and thus make the unusable for me and my lovely AirPort Express setup at home.\n\nA: I like VLC, but I end up using Mplayer OSX Extended more often. I find the default shortcut key mappings to be more intuitive. And it's as versatile as VLC in terms of file format compatibility.\n\nA: VLC really do a good job, but sometimes it fails me when dealing with some Blu-ray issue. I do a lot of homework on this, finally I got Macgo Blu-ray player. I won't say it's the best or perfect,  while it meets my needs currently. There is a little friction in the playing of one disc but no big deal.\n"
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        "text": "Home » Canadian history • History and Policy • Theme Week\nThe Family as Tax Dodge, Again\nSeptember 21, 2017 September 15, 2017 No Comments on The Family as Tax Dodge, Again\nBy Shirley Tillotson\nThis is the fourth in a five part theme week marking the centenary of income tax in Canada.\nHere we are again. If you’ve studied history or lived a decade or two after forty, you’ve noticed that some battles are fought over and over and over again. Those repetitive, “I can’t believe we’re still debating this!” struggles mark itchy, scratchy places in our society, the places where the imperatives of institutions and “common sense,” markets and human needs contradict each other. So “same old, same old” really means “this is hot stuff.” In the history of the income tax, much of the hot stuff shows up around family. And sure enough, family matters appear in the federal government’s current proposals to make income taxation more fair. One aspect of the Morneau proposals targets the use of the breadwinner / homemaker / children family as a tax dodge. Or, to be less provocative, one might say the proposals target the use of one kind of family as a means to minimize tax, perfectly legal. Opposition MP Michelle Rempel moans, how can a government “change the rules” and call the change “fair”? Is the finance minister calling people who follow the rules “crooks”?\nAmid all this heat, a bit of tax history might be calming. The distinction between what is avoidance – legal – and what is evasion – illegal – has changed before, and will no doubt change again. Rempel presents herself as defending law-abiding folk who face the shutting down of ordinary good business practices, ways of saving and spending that are both legitimate and socially useful. But those practices are not natural rights. They are more like tactics in a sport. They are merely ways of using current law to the taxpayer’s best advantage: tax avoidance practices, also called tax planning. As the world changes, so may tax law, in the future as it has in the past. The boundary between avoidance and evasion is historical, driven by events and our responses to them.\nIn the Anglo-Canadian world, a landmark event in the 1930s pretty much invented the distinction between avoidance and evasion. On May 7, 1935, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council found against the Internal Revenue and for the taxpayer in the appeal of the despicable (for other reasons) Hugh (“Bendor”) Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. Westminster had reduced his income tax assessment by an accounting move that the person on the street can hardly have regarded as fair, and that the tax authority thought was evasion. The majority of the JCPC called it avoidance. Westminster had figured out that, if he paid his approximately 100 household and estate staff one way (by means of income from annuities) rather than another (ordinary wages), he could significantly reduce his taxable income, and avoid a surtax.\nHugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster\nby Walter L. Colls, circa 1902 © National Portrait Gallery\nWestminster was enormously wealthy. His family owned much of Mayfair and Belgravia in London. He ostentatiously enjoyed his wealth, revelling in Rolls Royces, yachts, horses, mansions, and gifts of lavish gems to a series of girlfriends and wives including, for a time, Coco Chanel. To his credit was a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) earned in active combat during the Great War. To his shame was keen support for Hitler during the 1930s and 1940s and a hatred of homosexuality that makes Lord Alfred Douglas’s dad look like a member of PFLAG. Westminster was an active member of Britain’s extreme and anti-Semitic right in the interwar years, and a tailor-made villain for tax history. No mere government was going to make Benny Grosvenor pay some ridiculous surtax on high incomes.\nEven if we don’t much like the man, Westminster, the decision in Westminster usefully established a tax filer’s right to arrange his or her business affairs so as to pay the least tax legally required, a right to avoid that defends all of us against the risk of overweening tax administration. But Westminster was also the charter case of aggressive tax planning. Before the change in statutory interpretation led by Westminster, the tax authority was allowed to investigate whether a business transaction (paying a salary, renting a property, borrowing or investing money) had a real economic purpose – substance – or whether it was just moving money around to avoid a proper tax liability. After Westminster, tax authorities had to invent new ways to determine whether a tax filer was, like the Duke, doing one thing and calling it another, taking advantage of words in the tax statute to produce a result contrary to the legislators’ intentions.\nOne new way that governments found to shut down clever tax schemes in the 1930s was the gift tax. Is a so-called “gift” really a gift when the giver is your rich uncle Edwin, who signs over to you the deed on one of his apartment buildings on the understanding that you’ll loan him back the rental revenue at zero interest for an indefinite term? You don’t earn much from your job slinging donuts, so your tax liability on the rents will be smaller than Edwin’s would have been. When Edwin in the end gets that rental income and pays “your” tax bill, he’ll still be keeping more of his money. And he’ll owe you at least a favour. In June 1935, the Canadian federal government started levying a tax on “gifts” like that one. According to a new rule in the Income War Tax Act, the generous “giver” of this sort would have to pay the government a percentage of the value of the gift (ranging from 2 per cent to 10 per cent).[1] Uncle Eddy could still give his niece (or even one of his employees) that income property, but he’d have to fork over some cash up front for the tax advantage that he was busy arranging.\nToronto Daily Star, 23 March 1935\nA number of countries enacted gift taxes in the 1930s, precisely to close the kind of gate through which the Duke of Westminster had escaped. As credit markets crashed and worker misery grew to near-revolutionary levels, governments powered up their tax enforcement efforts and raised taxes on the poor, the middling, and the rich alike. Wealthy Canadians began, like Westminster, to “give” previously undeclared income-earning assets to people within their control, to prevent the assets’ being discovered and so to avoid the subsequent tax bill. Facing the newfound earnestness of the state’s effort to enforce the tax law, various Uncle Eddies felt a strong incentive to divide some property among lower earning kin, and thus legally to minimize their income taxes.\nToday, the tax authority has more precise methods (attribution rules) to track who really should pay the tax on income-generating property that is transferred within families. However much more precise, those rules still address the same question as did the gift tax of 1935. Is it right for the highest earner in a family to “sprinkle” some of his (or, less often, her) income among offspring (or nieces or grandchildren) and spouse, so as to reduce the overall income tax paid by the family as an economic unit? Our law has tended to say no, because sprinkling and splitting shrinks the overall tax base in ways that benefit only some kinds of families and mostly higher income earners.\nIncome sprinkling benefits substantially only those families that have just one member who earns a lot (or who has lots of investment income). Childless single people, families that live on a smaller single income, or families with two similar incomes can’t reduce their taxes much or at all in that way. The truly small business person, even if married with kids – the donut franchisee versus the plastic surgeon – sees only a small dollar amount by way of benefit. Tax scholars call splitting and sprinkling an “upside-down subsidy” – a tax expenditure that benefits taxpayers more and more as you go up the income scale. All taxpayers, happily or grudgingly, subsidize the tax reduction that is enjoyed by those who can use family for this purpose.\nDespite its dubious and discriminatory impact, the appeal of this tax avoidance strategy seems never to die. It was enthusiastically pursued in the 1950s but successfully opposed by federal tax policy makers, both Liberal and Progressive Conservative. In the 1960s, tax reformers tried to make family income sharing less selective (but lost the fight), and an argument for marital wealth splitting (as distinct from income splitting) is still being made and is worth exploring.[2] In 2014, disagreements on a simplistic form of marital income splitting divided Steven Harper (in favour) and his finance minister, Jim Flaherty (against). Regardless of party, finance ministers aren’t terribly keen on the sprinkling and splitting – these practices erode the revenue and don’t serve a broad economic objective.\nNow, a Liberal finance minister proposes reforms that will take away one of the few remaining routes to income-sprinkling. It isn’t an especially partisan move: Morneau proposes merely to extend the reach of a penalty against income sprinkling to children that, though introduced by the Liberals in 1999, was bolstered by the Conservatives in their 2014 budget. In tax planning circles, that penalty is called the “kiddie tax.” The kiddie tax was a bit like the gift tax of 1935. It doesn’t prohibit transferring income to one’s minor children, aged 17 or under. It just makes it prohibitively expensive to do so, by charging a Tax On Split Income (the TOSI, as the kiddie tax is called in scholarly circles). Morneau now proposes to apply the same tax to income sprinkling among children aged 18 to 24.\nPerhaps Morneau has noticed that there has been a change in the life course of young middle-class adults, who are now less likely to be independent in their early 20s. A tax law change might reflect this kind of social change in family relationships. Or maybe Morneau is just trying to stem a substantial drain on the federal revenue that resulted when, in 2005, Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario government handed doctors a tax shelter (not then available in every province) by allowing them to make their practices into private corporations and cut their tax rate by something like 30%.[3] Federalism complicates tax policy, to put it mildly.\nFor reasons such as these, tax laws sometimes must be changed. The overall project of a progressive rate tax on personal income is to collect a revenue in ways that reasonably reflect earners’ and investors’ ability to pay. Governments may miscalculate ability to pay, and taxpayers should let them know if that happens. Efforts to follow in the Duke of Westminster’s footsteps are one way to protest. But to think that a particular method of tax avoidance is a right, rather than just an opportunity arising from possibly short-lived circumstance, is to misunderstand the forces that are constantly at work on tax law. When the McGuinty government gave Ontario’s doctors a new tax break, he was allowing them to take a bite out of the federal income tax revenue. I’d be surprised if McGuinty worked that out with the federal government of the day; by constitutional law, he didn’t have to. And when some doctors, along with lawyers and others with personal corporations, used them to sprinkle income among their young adult children, they cannot be entirely surprised if the childless among them do no see a valid equity argument expressed in their chosen form of protest.\nI would not accuse Ontario’s doctors or small businesses of being crooks. Few among us will forego a rich tax advantage that the law offers us. Our governments don’t expect us to. But when something in the world changes and, as a result, inequities arise among taxpayers, we might lose a tax advantage. In fact, it’s kind of the job of a government to see that we do. And when inequities are related to the kind of family we live in, we should especially expect our governments to be alert. Family and tax laws have a long, and sometimes suspect, history together.\nShirley Tillotson is an adjunct member of the Dalhousie University Department of History and an Inglis Professor of the University of King’s College. Her most recent book is Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy (UBC Press, October 2017).\n[1] Charitable gifts were exempt from the tax, as were gifts totalling less than $4,000 in value. There was no giving assets to the wife and kids to avoid tax: all such property was already taxed in the hands of the father and husband.\n[2] Lisa Phillips, “Cracking the Conjugal Myths: What does it mean for the attribution rules?” Canadian Tax Journal, 50, 3 (2002), at 1031\n[3] Detailed evidence on the impact of Ontario’s 2001 incorporation measure is provided in Michael Wolfson and Scott Legree, “Policy Forum: Private Corporations, Professionals, and Income Splitting: Recent Canadian Experience,” 63, 3 (2015), at 717\nCanadian history, History and Policy, Theme Week\tIncome Tax\n← History Slam Episode 104: Taxation and Democracy The Use and Abuse of Boredom →"
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        "text": "Speed Reads\nSpecial reports: THE IDEA FACTORY LIFE AFTER WORK\nHouse passes $4.5 billion emergency border aid package\nDemonstrators return to the streets of Hong Kong to protest extradition bill\nHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns\nIsrael reportedly retaliates after mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip\nIsraeli Defense Forces says Iran fired 20 rockets at army in Golan Heights\nTrump: Cohen raid is a 'whole new level of unfairness'\nSenate passes spending bill, averting government shutdown\nZimbabwe's army denies a military takeover of the government is underway\nSee More Speed Reads\nThe House passed a $4.5 billion bill Tuesday night to aid migrants, with a vote of 230-195.\nLast week, lawyers reported on the \"deplorable\" conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Texas housing migrant kids, and before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) likened the situation to \"child abuse,\" adding that supporting the bill was \"a vote against the cruel attitude toward children of this administration.\"\nDemocrats came into the vote divided on whether to support the bill, worried that they would actually be helping President Trump and his aggressive immigration policies; Pelosi reassured them this would only provide humanitarian aid, Politico reports. Before the vote, several changes were made to the bill, lawmakers and aides told Politico, including making it so no child can be in a shelter for more than 90 days, ensuring that private detention centers meet certain standards within six months, and providing migrants translation services.\nThe Senate is expected to vote on its own bill this week, but it's unclear if Trump will sign anything that doesn't include changes to asylum law. Catherine Garcia\nDale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images\nThe streets of Hong Kong were once again filled with tens of thousands of protesters on Wednesday, as they demonstrated against a controversial bill that would allow the extradition of people arrested in Hong Kong to mainland China.\nThe protesters jammed Lung Wo Road, near the offices of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and put up barricades so drivers couldn't get to the financial center. There are hundreds of riot police on the scene, and they have been using pepper spray and water cannons to push some of the demonstrators back, The New York Times reports.\nHong Kong's legislature had planned on debating the bill on Wednesday, but postponed the action after throngs of protesters surrounded the council's complex. Multiple groups are united against the bill, including students, teachers, and business leaders who worry about the creeping influence of Beijing. After decades of British rule, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, with the understanding there would be \"one country, two systems.\" Hong Kong has its own independent justice system, while China's courts are controlled by the Communist Party. Catherine Garcia\nHector Vivas/Getty Images\nPresident Trump announced on Twitter Sunday evening that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned.\nIn a separate tweet, Trump said Kevin McAleenan, the current commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, will serve as acting DHS secretary. About an hour later, Nielsen confirmed the news in a tweet of her own, saying she submitted her resignation to Trump on Sunday afternoon and felt it was the \"honor of a lifetime to serve with the brave men and women\" of the department.\nNielsen stepped into the role in December 2017, and has become the public face of the Trump administration's immigration policies, including separating undocumented migrant children from their families. Catherine Garcia\nAhmad Gharbali/AFP/Getty Images\nOn Tuesday morning, 25 mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, with most intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.\nSirens went off at least twice warning people to take caution, and The Jerusalem Post says one of the mortars that made it to the ground landed at a kindergarten; no students were there at the time. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip told the Post that almost immediately, the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Defense Forces artillery units retaliated by targeting Hamas positions. No injuries have been reported.\nTensions are high in the region, and at least 116 Palestinians have been killed over the last few weeks during protests along the border. Israel says that Hamas is inciting violence, a charge leaders have denied. Catherine Garcia\nJalaa Marey/AFP/Getty Images\nJust after midnight Thursday, Iranian forces in Syria fired roughly 20 rockets or projectiles at the Israeli army in Golan Heights, Israeli Defense Forces said.\nA spokesman told reporters that most of the rockets were intercepted by Israeli defenses, and there was minimal damage done. Iran is backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country's civil war, and Israel has warned Tehran not to establish a permanent military presence in Syria.\nOn Tuesday, the Israeli military said it spotted \"irregular activity\" by Iranian forces in Syria, and authorities in the Golan Heights were told to prepare bomb shelters and mobilize some reservist forces. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, a move not recognized by the international community. Catherine Garcia\nPresident Trump called the FBI raiding the office and hotel room of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday \"a disgraceful situation\" and \"an attack on our country in a true sense.\"\nTrump on raid of Michael Cohen: \"It's an attack on our country in a true sense. It's an attack on what we all stand for.\" pic.twitter.com/6aKs0A5Y3k\n— Axios (@axios) April 9, 2018\nThe agents seized records about Cohen's clients, The Washington Post reports, including documents related to the $130,000 payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Cohen's attorney, Stephen Ryan, said the raid, carried out under a warrant obtained by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, is related to an investigation referred by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and Trump jumped on this, calling the special counsel \"the most conflicted group of people I have ever seen\" and claiming FBI agents \"broke\" into Cohen's office.\nThe raid is a \"whole new level of unfairness,\" Trump continued, and a \"witch hunt.\" He also criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, which ultimately led to the hiring of Mueller, and then mentioned multiple times that Hillary Clinton and her emails should be investigated again. Catherine Garcia\nPool/Getty Images\nShortly after the House passed a two-week spending bill on Thursday, the Senate followed suit with a vote of 81-14, averting a government shutdown on Friday.\nThe stopgap measure will keep the federal government open through Dec. 22. Republicans, who are trying to finish work on their tax bill, need the support of Democrats to put together a two-year budget deal that will pass. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats \"will not leave here without a DACA fix,\" meaning the budget must include deportation protection for undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children. Catherine Garcia\nJekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images\nHours after witnesses first described hearing explosions and gunfire in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, early Wednesday morning, Zimbabwe's army said in a televised statement that what is taking place is not \"a military takeover of government\" and that President Robert Mugabe is safe and under protection.\nThe army is targeting people who \"were committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country,\" the statement said. \"As soon as we have accomplished our mission, we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.\" Armed vehicles were seen lining the streets outside of Harare, the BBC reports, and witnesses told Reuters that soldiers took control of the state-run broadcaster ZBC and manhandled some staffers.\nEarlier this month, Mugabe, 93, ousted Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had been viewed as Mugabe's likely successor; the new frontrunner is Mugabe's wife, Grace. On Monday, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga said if there are any more purges in the ruling Zanu-PF party, the army \"will not hesitate to step in,\" and the government responded Tuesday by accusing him of \"treasonable conduct.\" Catherine Garcia\nMore about The Week\nClassroom subscriptions\nThe Week UK\nAd info\n® 2019 The Week Publications Inc., All rights reserved."
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        "text": "Q: Adding a new processor I've got a Mac Pro (Jan-2008) 2.8GHz Quad-core Xeon with one processor. Do all the Mac Pro's have the two sockets motherboards even if it's purchased with one processor? If so can I purchase an equivalent Intel Xeon proc and install it to have the 8-core?\n\nA: No, single processor Mac Pros ship with a single socket motherboard, and use Xeon 3000 series processors, not the more expensive Xeon 5000 series needed for dual socket support.\n"
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        "text": "Entries in commander (4)\nCommander of US Army Forces in Japan Suspended\nhttp://www.usarj.army.mil/cmdstaffs/CG2.jpg(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Army suspended Maj. Gen. Michael Harrison, commander of the U.S. Army Forces in Japan from his duties for alleged failure to report or investigate at least one allegation of sexual assault.\nThe sexual abuse case in question took place within the last 12 months, says USA Today. While Maj. Gen. Harrison was relieved of his duties by Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff, he is not himself accused of any form of sexual misconduct.\nThe U.S. Department of Defense announced in a press release that Maj. Gen. James C. Boozer, formerly the deputy commanding general of the United States Army in Europe, will serve as the interim commander in Japan until the Army's investigation is complete.\nCopyright 2013 ABC News Radio\nSaturday, June 8, 2013 at 11:05AM by Louis Milman Permalink\ntagged Japan, Maj. Gen. Michael Harrison, Suspended, U.S. Army, commander in National News General\nObama Welcomes Home US Commander in Iraq\nPost a Comment Share Article\nPAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Marking the end of the nearly nine-year war, President Obama Tuesday welcomed home the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin, and witnessed the return of the command flag that flew over Baghdad.\n“It is great to be back in the United States of America,” Austin said in an understated ceremony at Joint Base Andrews. “We have honored our commitment and our military-led mission has come to a successful conclusion, and today I am proud to safely return our colors to their rightful place, the United States of America.”\nWhile the president did not deliver formal remarks, both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden greeted Austin and his top command staff on the tarmac.\nWith his commander-in-chief sitting close by, Austin praised the troops who served in Iraq and highlighted their successes. “I could not be more proud of our men and women in uniform who are unquestionably the pre-eminent military force in the world,” he said. “What our troops achieved in Iraq over the course of nearly nine years is truly remarkable. Together with our coalition partners and core of dedicated civilians, they removed a brutal dictator and gave the Iraqi people their freedom.”\nTuesday’s event came only two days after the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq. “Today, we bring home the colors to United States soil, at the same time we embrace many of our own back into the fold just in time for the holidays,” chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said. “Welcome home.”\nTuesday, December 20, 2011 at 11:27PM by Carmen Cox Permalink\ntagged Iraq, Lloyd Austin, President Obama, commander in Homeland Security, National News General, Politics\nNaval Commander Convicted of 9/11 Fraud\nPhotos.com/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A decorated retired naval officer who was honored for his heroic actions during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon was found guilty Monday of defrauding a 9/11 victims’ compensation fund.\nCmdr. Charles Coughlin of Severna Park, Maryland was found guilty of making a false claim in order to collect more than $300,000 from the fund. Coughlin claimed he was injured by falling debris when he raced back into the Pentagon to help others. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Meritorious Service Medal for his actions and the injuries he suffered that day.\nSoon after, the 52-year-old Coughlin claimed he suffered constant pain in his neck, along with headaches, weakness and numbness in his left hand. He also claimed he could no longer play basketball, work on homeowner projects or run long distance races.\nProsecutors say Coughlin ran in the New York City Marathon two months after the terrorist attack. They also presented photographs of Coughlin playing lacrosse.\nThe verdict carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison, but prosecutors are expected to seek a sentence of three to four years when Coughlin is sentenced on Nov. 21.\nTuesday, August 30, 2011 at 4:19AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink\ntagged 9/11, Fraud, Pentagon, Sept. 11, Terrorist Attack, U.S. Navy, commander in National News General\nBlue Angels Commander Steps Down After Leading Risky Maneuver\nRaymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO) -- The leader of the Navy's celebrated Blue Angels flight team is stepping down after admitting to leading jets in an \"unacceptably\" low-altitude stunt.\nNavy Cmdr. Dave Koss volunteered to be relieved of his duties after admitting days following a performance at Lynchburg Regional Air Show on May 22, that the movement he carried out \"had an unacceptably low minimum altitude\" and was not in accordance with airborne standards, according to a statement from the Naval Air Forces.\n\"This maneuver, combined with other instances of not meeting the airborne standard that makes the Blue Angels the exceptional organization that it is, led to my decision to step down,\" Koss said in the statement.\nEven though the maneuver went off without injuries and all members of the Blue Angels Team landed safely, after a safety review several of the team's shows were cancelled, including a midweek show at the U.S. Naval Academy and performances scheduled over the Memorial Day Weekend.\nThis Blue Angels also canceled scheduled performances at the Rockford Airfest June 4 and 5, and at the Evansville Freedom Festival Air Show June 11 and 12.\nIn the meantime, according to the statement, the Blue Angels were to stay in Pensacola, Fla., for more training and air show demonstration practice.\nSafety issues are not new for the esteemed flying team. Thousands watched on April 2007 when a Blue Angels' jet crashed during a South Carolina performance. The Beaufort, S.C., crash killed one pilot and injured other members of the team.\nIn 2004, Lt. Ted Steelman suffered minor injuries after being ejected when his aircraft struck water one mile off Perdido Key in Florida. The accident was the result of engine and structural damage.\nKoss will be replaced by Capt. Greg McWherter, who was the previous Blue Angels' commanding officer, for the duration of the season.\nSunday, May 29, 2011 at 8:00AM by Anselm Gibbs Permalink\ntagged Navy, blue angels, commander, resigns in National News General"
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        "text": "Q: What are some good sources for Pages and Keynote templates? It doesn't matter whether they are for free or for purchase as long as they are compatible.\n\nA: The best commercial packages of themes for the iWork apps, in my experience, are those from Jumsoft.(under Design) They produce themes for both Pages and Keynote, as well as animation and art packs.\nFor free templates, iWorkCommunity has a ton of Pages templates, and some decent Numbers templates as well for basic use. KeynoteUser also produces commercial themes, in addition to having some freebies, and an excellent blog and collection of links for other sources of high quality stuff.\n\nA: Interesting. You can find some nice examples on Themeforest, they should have a big list of such items.\nhttp://wisset.com/premium-keynote-templates/\n\nA: Klariti has SDLC and business templates over but these are for professionals. \nhttp://klariti.com/apple-iwork-templates/\n"
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        "text": "ALS Often Gets The Short Straw When It Comes To Unintended Consequences\nIplex and Insmed are back in the news.\nFrom Reuters:\nhttp://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSBNG6673520090727\nUPDATE 1-Insmed stops supplying Iplex to new patients\nMon Jul 27, 2009 9:20am EDT\nJuly 27 (Reuters) - Biopharmaceutical company Insmed Inc (INSM.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said it had stopped supplying new patients with its experimental drug Iplex for treating Lou Gehrig's disease, and it said its limited inventory on hand must be conserved for treating existing patients.\nInsmed, which sold its Colorado manufacturing facility to Merck & Co (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) earlier this year, said it has no longer the ability to manufacture the drug and it would not initiate further clinical trials with the drug at this time.\nIplex is approved for treating a growth hormone deficiency but is not currently sold for that purpose because of a court order related to patent infringement.\nThe company is studying Iplex as a potential treatment for muscular dystrophy.\nAbout 70 patients currently receive the drug, including 12 in the United States, the company said. Most of the patients receive Iplex pursuant to a court-ordered extended access program to use the drug in Italy to treat patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the company said.\nALS causes muscles to weaken and eventually deteriorate. It usually develops in people between the ages of 40 and 60.\nThe company said it has sufficient Iplex inventory to supply these patients for no more than 24 months.\nAny agreement with a third party to manufacture Iplex would not result in any production of the drug for at least 12 to 18 months, it said.\nIf anybody wanted to write a soap opera about ALS and the straws of hope that patients try to grasp, off-label use of FDA-approved drugs, the long and expensive process of getting new indications for FDA-approved drugs, the confusing patent and regulatory situations that can cause availability of drugs in Europe but not in the United States, and the lack of ALS therapies (thus driving patients to try things or be guinea pigs)... Iplex could be the star.\nOffer To Help WIth The Little Things\nMichael Goldsmith, who accomplishes big things, speaks wisely of how all can make a difference.\nFrom The BYU Universe --\nhttp://universe.byu.edu/node/1080\nBYU professor promotes ALS awareness\nBy Adrienne Gorge\n- Tue, 07/21/2009 - 20:45\nPhoto courtesy of Michael Goldsmith. BYU professor Michael Goldsmith takes a cut at a pitch during a fantasy camp game.\nWith the bases loaded, the batter stepped up to the plate again. With two strikes against him, he nervously looked at the pitcher. Quickly the ball released from the pitcher and came whizzing toward the plate. With a surge of confidence, the batter swung. Crack. The ball went sailing into the air.\nMichael Goldsmith, a law professor at BYU, hit a triple to get his Little League baseball team back into the game. It was a defining moment for him.\n“It gave me confidence so that I never let two strikes worry me again,” he said.\nWhen Goldsmith was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2006, baseball became his refuge and his medium for awareness of ALS.\n“Watching part of yourself die every few days makes it very personal,” he said. “Life has now become a race against the clock,” he said.\nAfter attending a Baltimore Orioles baseball camp in 2008, Goldsmith decided to become an activist for ALS. He wrote an essay and submitted it to Newsweek magazine.\n“I knew that my writing skills exceeded my baseball skills so I submitted an essay to Newsweek,” he said. “This was very much a long shot because Newsweek publishes just one essay out of 200 submissions, but this was better than no shot at all. I knew if I didn’t try I had no chance at all.”\nNewsweek published the essay, and it caught the attention of Major League Baseball commissioner, who contacted Goldsmith and put him in charge of the event for ALS awareness.\nGoldsmith said, “I was just a small part of a superb team whose efforts inspired me and provided a helpful distraction from my own difficulties.”\nOn July 4, Goldsmith threw the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s famous speech on the disease named after the Yankee Hall of Famer.\n“I was naturally very excited but I tried not to personalize it,” Goldsmith said. “I viewed myself as representing everyone afflicted with ALS.”\nAs Goldsmith released the ball, it zoomed toward the plate.\n“It was by far the worst throw I have ever made,” he said. “But my effort showed the crowd how pitifully weak ALS makes you. They gave me — and everyone I represent — a five minute standing ovation.”\nGoldsmith’s mission is to promote ALS awareness and help encourage donations to finance research for a cure. He gave advice to BYU students on how to help with ALS patients. Since professional caregivers are expensive and insurance doesn’t cover in-home assistance, small acts of kindness help.\n“If you offer to help with the little things — running errands, grocery shopping, house or yard work — it will make a huge difference,” he said.\nThese Students Are Very Aware\nFrom Readers' Digest --\nhttp://www.rd.com/make-it-matter-make-a-difference/make-it-matter-students-of-northport-high-school/article73412.html\n\"Kids Really Aren't Aware Of Who Lou Gehrig Was...\"\n\"...and we're losing our connection with him and the disease.\"\nhttp://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090719/NEWS01/907190331/1006/Group+putting+spotlight+on+Lou+Gehrig+s+disease\nDavid Cone Still Pitches 4 ALS\nFrom the New York Times, July 18, 2009 --\nhttp://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/cone/\nWhen David Cone finally made it to Suite 33 at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, two buttons of his blue shirt were opened, and he looked relieved. On the 10-year anniversary of Cone’s perfect game with the Yankees, he was thrilled that he did not bounce the ceremonial first pitch....\nCone spoke at length with Chris Pendergast, a former school teacher with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) who he met in 1996. Before Pendergast left the suite, he had a pen placed in his mouth and signed his name in Cone’s guest book. Cone considered that a perfect ending to the day.\nDear Abby Readers Learned About ALS in Veterans Today\nToday was certainly a good one for getting the word out about ALS and veterans' presumptive disability.\nhttp://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20090718_Dear_Abby__Her_boyfriend_fears_her_fidelity_while_studying_abroad_may_be_a_mistake.html\nDEAR ABBY: In May 2001, you printed my letter alerting former prisoners of war and their widows to the special veterans' benefits available to them from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The response was great; many former POWs and their dependents now have their VA benefits because of that column.\nNow, as chairman of VA outreach for American Ex- Prisoners of War, I write to alert all veterans (not just former POWs) of a recent VA ruling.\nOn Sept. 23, 2008, Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was made a presumptive condition for all veterans who served in our armed forces for at least 90 days.\nThis means that the widows of those vets who died of Lou Gehrig's disease in the past are eligible for the VA widows' monthly benefit, which is very substantial. Many people are not aware that a veteran's death due to this disease is now considered service-connected. One claim I handled recently involved an ALS death 46 years ago, in 1963.\nThank you for your help in getting the word out, Abby.\n- Fred Campbell,\nAmerican Ex-Prisoners of War\nDEAR FRED: I'm pleased to help you and America's veterans once again. Readers, Fred welcomes inquiries at 3312 Chatterton Drive, San Angelo, TX 76904. He can also be e-mailed atfredrev@webtv.net.\nFred Campbell of the American Ex-Prisoners of War continues to serve his country and Abby in syndication has spread the word far and wide. The scintillating headline on the column didn't hurt, either ;-)\nHere Is An ALS Advocate In Argyle\nTom Watson gets it when it comes to ALS.\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/sports/golf/17golf.html?em\nFrom the New York Times, July 16, 2009...\nSo it was a blast of nostalgia when Watson, grinning from ear to ear, shot a dazzling 65 in the first round Thursday. Miguel Ángel Jiménez rolled in a long birdie putt on 18 to snatch the lead from Watson with a 64 later Thursday afternoon, but the day still belonged to Watson.\nAt 59, Watson seemed to turn back time, for one lovely day in Scotland anyway. “The body’s a little bit old, but the enthusiasm out there was very similar,” he said, still grinning after his round. “What a wonderful day to play.”\nWatson’s lead held up through much of the afternoon. He was tied by Ben Curtis and Jiménez at minus-5 before Jiménez went ahead with a 66-foot putt on 18 for birdie. Turnberry counts on a usually relentless Scottish wind to give it snarl, but a windless day made it an easy target for players to shoot under par. The low scores were piling up, and a group of six golfers sat one shot behind the leaders at four under, including Fredrik Jacobson, Steve Stricker and Stewart Cink. Watson strode around the links course as one of golf’s genial elder statesmen, a revered figure who joins the PGA Tour players only twice a year now, for the Masters and the British Open. He has, however, made waves at a major championship in his advancing years, shooting a 65 in the first round of the 2003 United States Open. He became the inspirational story of that tournament, mostly because his caddie, Bruce Edwards, was carrying his bag while battling A.L.S. Edwards died a year later.\nIf you've never seen Tom and Bruce, here's a trip down memory lane... and the age of this video should be a reminder to us all that ALS is still doing its evil to tens of thousands of good people.\nFrom A Horrible Situation We Have Another Teachable Moment\nOn July 4 as I drove to Ohio to help pass out information as part of 4 ALS day at the Reds game, I passed Ezzard Charles Drive near downtown Cincinnati. It's a small world. I had not remembered that Ezzard Charles, the world heavyweight champion, was from Cincinnati. He died from ALS. It's a very small world when you pay attention to ALS and all the people it has stolen from us.\nYesterday as more on the terrible news on the Burr Oak Cemetery in Chicago unfolded, we learned that Ezzard Charles was buried there.\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/court-appoints-new-direct_n_234527.html\nToday would be a good day for us all to spread the reminder that ALS is Lou Gehrig's Disease and it has cut short the lives of many mighty athletes... even a world heavyweight champion.\nIt's up to us to keep the memory and connections to ALS alive in people's minds at every opportunity.\nDoes G.I. Joe Have A Good Side?\nGianni Lopergolo would know.\nHere is a story of a talented photographer who had a pretty incredible job and employer, Hasbro...\nhttp://www.hasbro.com/discover/giannisbook.cfm\nGianni Lopergolo has always been an artist. Whether it was his appreciation for architecture at age 15, his passion for the art of special effects as an NYU film student, or his intense love of cinematography and photography – not only as a student, but also as a teacher and a trail-blazing photographer – Gianni thrives on inspiration. Not only getting it, but also giving it.\nGianni joined the Hasbro family in 2002 and completely reinvented the way product photography was done for the toy company. With over a thousand original photographs spanning his impressive Hasbro career, Gianni admits that he has had no formal illustration or set-building training. \"Anyone can do what I do,\" he humbly confesses. \"And I want to teach them how. I've taught others in the past and I can teach more.\"\nAt the young age of 39, Gianni has been living with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease for three years. No longer able to work, but still as passionate about photography as ever, he has compiled this collection of images, which he hopes will teach, entertain and inspire.\nThe book will be newsworthy. Thanks, Hasbro.\nHow About A Commemorative Box Of Wheaties?\nWouldn't it be nice if General Mills might make a commemorative Lou Gehrig Wheaties box to celebrate Wheaties' birthday and to raise more 4 ALS awareness?\nThe following is from this morning's Wall Street Journal:\nRemembering Gehrig With A Splash Of Milk\nWheaties, the cereal that calls itself the breakfast of champions, is celebrating its 85th birthday. Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to grace a Wheaties box, appearing on the back of the carton in 1934. Since then more than 150 individual athletes have been pictured on the box, and 50 teams have been featured. Michael Jordan was the first basketball player to get the honor in 1988, and he’s also the most frequent guest, appearing 18 times. Tiger Woods is on his heels at 16.\nThis Is An Example Of The Problem Posed By The Disease With The Impossible Name\nWhoops... last night it seemed that this was another great example of MLB's contribution to ALS awareness. This morning the big error in the MLB story was pointed out by a reader. Ryan Zimmerman's mother has MS, not ALS. And so it goes with the problem of the \"letter diseases.\" Even one of the biggest advocates for ALS, MLB, confused ALS with another letter disease. If MLB can't keep it straight, you know we're fighting an uphill battle!\nI should have paid closer attention. If she had ALS, it would have been ZiALS foundation and not ZiMS foundation. Duh.\nThank heavens for Lou Gehrig or ALS wouldn't have name that anyone would remember.\nThanks to MLB for raising an incredible amount of ALS awareness on July 4 and for continuing to communicate moving and informative stories with an ALS connection. Ryan Zimmerman of the Nationals, a first-time All Star, is featured.\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090713&content_id=5861060&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb\nBeing at his first All-Star Game is even more special because his mother, Cheryl, will be in attendance. Cheryl has been afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 1995. ALS is an unpredictable disease that affects the central nervous system.\nDuring the first five years of her illness, Cheryl was able to work as a teacher, but it grew worse by 2000. She is now confined to a wheelchair. Ryan said Cheryl's illness helped him become even keel throughout his life. It explains why one never sees him get angry with the media or with umpires in public. \"That's a big part of it.\" Ryan said. \"Me and my brother [Shawn] had to do some things that younger kids wouldn't have to do. We were not the only kids that ever had to deal with something like that. That added to my [composure]. I don't get too high or too low. \"Before that, that's the way we were brought up. That's the way my parents were when we were young. I just think it rubbed off on us.\"\nCheryl continues to hang in there. Today she is one of the Board of Directors of ziMS Foundation, which raises money to help find a cure for ALS. Ryan is the president of the foundation. Asked how Cheryl is doing these days, Ryan said, \"It's nothing really. It's just kind of steady. There is no cure, there is nothing, so it's the same thing every day. Obviously, we have dealt with it for a long time. It's almost second nature to us.\nDo You Really Think That A Moving Depiction Of ALS Is The Most Offensive Thing The Kids Might See On TV?\nhttp://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Anger-over-TV-ban-on.5442507.jp\nBosses of a Northampton charity say they are puzzled why their controversial advert still remains banned from TV despite backing from an ad watchdog and other advertisers\nLet's Get ALS On Their Radar - Nominate!\nSurely someone with an intimate knowledge of ALS can get a seat at this table. By the way, ATSDR is the arm of the CDC responsible for delivering the ALS Registry.\nhttp://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Custom.aspx?cid=21&e=de864ef7-1d96-42d4-943f-0d510fae5a26\nRESOLVE, a non-profit organization specializing in consensus building in public decision making, and CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) are accepting nominations for membership in each of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures’ six work groups. The work groups are:\nMonitoring: collecting information on chemical use, exposure pathways, exposure levels, and health outcomes\nJohn Balbus, George Washington University\nScientific Understanding: filling knowledge gaps on the health effects of chemicals\nKevin Teichman, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development\nPolicies and Practices: reducing harmful chemical exposures and adverse health outcomes, eliminating inequities, and spurring the development and use of safer alternatives\nChemical Emergencies: preventing, preparing for, and responding to acute chemical incidents\nAndrea Kidd Taylor, Morgan State University\nServing Communities: addressing local chemical exposure concerns to promote environmental justice and improve health\nPeggy Shepard, WE ACT for Environmental Justice\nEducation and Communication: ensuring a well-informed public and a competent network of health care providers\nKathy Rest, Union of Concerned Scientists\nWhat will work groups do?\nWork groups will be responsible for addressing the following questions:\nWhat are the major components of the United States' approach in this area?\nWhat have been the major successes in this area over the last 40 years?\nWhat are the major shortcomings, gaps, redundancies, and emerging priorities?\nWhat solutions could help improve the system?\nWhat can be done quickly (1-2 years)?\nWhat recent or ongoing initiatives might impact this area?\nWhich parties can take specific actions?\nAs a product of their analyses, each work group will develop recommendations focusing on the role of NCEH/ATSDR and other federal agencies, while also addressing the role of non-federal partners (state and local agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia and the private sector). Work groups will prepare reports outlining their assessment and recommendations (draft report expected March 2010, final report expected July 2010).\nWork groups also will help formulate relevant questions to pose to members of the public through citizen conversation tool-kits, and to the wide range of National Conversation stakeholders through the web-discussion platform and at public regional and community forums.\nWork group members should have demonstrated expertise, experience and/or interest in the topics to be covered by the work group. They should be skilled in collaborative group processes. Finally, prospective members will need to have time to devote (an average of 10 hours per month) throughout the 18-month project period and should be willing to travel for occasional in person meetings.\nRESOLVE and NCEH/ATSDR are committed to forming work groups with representation from a broad range of perspectives and expertise. We are seeking balanced membership across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, including:\nFederal agencies;\nState and local public health and environmental agencies;\nTribal groups;\nPublic health and environmental organizations;\nCommunity-based organizations;\nIndustry;\nAcademic and research institutions, and\nIndividuals.\nNominations for work group membership should be submitted using the online submission provess (see submit nomination button below). Self-nominations are encouraged. To nominate someone other than yourself, please confirm the nominee’s interest in membership prior to submitting the nomination form, and be sure to include your name and contact information in the “Nominating Individual” fields. Nominations will be accepted until July 20, 2009.\nEach work group will be comprised of up to 30 members. Nominations will be reviewed by the work group chairs, RESOLVE and NCEH/ATSDR staff to ensure balanced representation. Applicants can expect to receive a response regarding selection by August 28, 2009.\nThe Casualities Of War Continue Long After The Troops Come Home\nALS is an unacceptible fringe benefit of military service.\nhttp://www.bu.edu/today/world/2009/06/25/one-four-vets-suffers-gulf-war-illness\nYou May Have Missed This While You Were At The Ballpark On July 4\nNBC and Today ran a piece that explains an American hero - Michael Goldsmith -- and how Major League Baseball came through with MLB 4 ALS.\nHere's A Wonderful Idea\nFrom a letter in the San Francisco Chronicle...\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/06/EDKB18IUPP.DTL\nGiants battle ALS\nI was one of the nine ALS patients introduced at home plate before the Giants game on July 4.\nThanks to Major League Baseball and the Giants for supporting the organizations seeking a treatment and cure for ALS and for helping to create awareness of the disease.\nI know I speak for the entire ALS community when I say that I hope the July Fourth \"4 ALS Awareness\" Day will become an annual event.\nJIM BARBER Walnut Creek\nSurely The Cubbies Could Have Done Better\nhttp://www.examiner.com/x-1553-Chicago-Cubs-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Cubs-miss-the-boat-honoring-memory-of-Lou-Gehrig\nALS Registry Information To Be Released\nDon't get too excited. I learned the art of the teaser from CBS last week;-)\nThis is information regarding the Massachusetts registry --\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/07/05/middleborough_awaits_release_of_als_registry_information?mode=PF\nALS advocates still wait anxiously for news of the June meeting of the national ALS registry investigators. If anyone has any news, please comment.\nMaybe TMZ will get on the case.\nThis Picture Says It All\nhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5gCGkEUs3KRj-NvOrwfLpyGO1OgkQD997UTI80?index=0\nMichael Goldsmith and son at Yankee Stadium\nHere Is A \"Must Read\" From The July 5, 1939 LA Times\nhttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/files/1939_0705_sports.jpg\nHere is a nice article from USAToday about the Lou Gehrig ceremonies and 4 ALS. Dreams come true, but we have one more dream and we are all need to be part of it becoming reality. That dream is a cure for ALS.\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-07-04-lou-gehrig-anniversary_N.htm\nVisit Every Major League Game From July 4\nHere is a great collection of videos from 4 ALS observances at all of the MLB parks (look for the video links at the left side of the page)...\nhttp://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090704&content_id=5689200&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos\nThis Is ALS\nThis is ALS.\nIt steals the body but somehow the human spirt within grows to achieve remarkable things.\nThank you, Michael Goldsmith.\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/sports/baseball/05vecsey.html?ref=sports\nKent Hrbek Rocks\n...As all Major League teams honored the 70th anniversary of Gehrig's famous farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, Hrbek was called upon Saturday to deliver a reading of Gehrig's words. Certainly an emotional speech for Gehrig, Hrbek, too, had to hold his emotions in check as he read the words from first base at the Metrodome prior to the Twins' game against the Tigers.\n\"I had a hard time finishing up the speech,\" Hrbek said. \"I got a little choked up just from the fact that you think about what this guy talked about and what kind of person he was.\"\nSince his father, Ed, passed away from ALS during Hrbek's rookie season in 1982, Hrbek has dedicated much of his time to raise awareness of the disease and money for ALS research through various charities such as his annual golf and fishing tournaments....\nHe Knew Lou Gehrig and Lou Gehrig's Disease\nhttp://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/04/life-touched-lou-gehrig-8212-and-disease-named-him/?metro&zIndex=126713\nYou have to love a man who knows how to save two cakes a year ;-)\nBill, I'm Going To Remember This Day For A Long Time\nSo are we, Lou.\nhttp://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/07/03/sports/doc4a4ec78297572957600386.txt\nhttp://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014204.html\nCurt Schilling Speaks\n\"Major League Baseball is sitting in front of more people, being seen, heard and watched by more pairs of eyes than at any time in its history,\" said Curt Schilling, who has been a longtime champion of efforts to help fight ALS. \"On July 4th of this year more people will receive an introduction to ALS, what it is, what it does and what it means, than on any day in the history of mankind. For that we have Commissioner Bud Selig to thank. ... MLB has the power to change the world when focused and delivering the right message, and I am proud to see that message being presented to the world this year.\"\nTry The Google Test Today\nUsually if you Google \"Gehrig's\" for news, you find a lot of obituaries and a few fundraisers. Today you find baseball news and 4 ALS and all kinds of awareness information. July 4, 2009, is a refreshingly good day to help people understand the ALS problem. Today millions of people will learn that Lou Gehrig's Disease is ALS, and nobody has figured it out 70 years later.\nThank you, Michael Goldsmith. Thank you, Bud Selig. Thank you, MLB.\nIf only every day were 4 ALS day!\nMeet The Demmerle Brothers\nThere is a special stinging irony when ALS strikes a world-class athlete who is a good person. Lou wasn't the only such victim...\nhttp://www.stamfordadvocate.com/sports/ci_12750649\nHere Is An Interesting Slant On Advocacy This July 4\nThe cause isn't ALS, but the thoughts are interesting as we celebrate our freedoms this Independence Day...\nhttp://www.indystar.com/article/20090704/LOCAL/907040443/\nIt Was Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day Then, And It Still Is\nNewsday covers Gehrig and 4 ALS. The great articles just keep on coming this week!\nhttp://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-splou0704,0,987875.column\nSports Illustrated Remembers Lou Gehrig\nDick Friedman - SI - gives us an interesting historical perspective.\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/07/03/friedman.gehrig/\nCheck Out The Pre-Game Show\nhttp://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/blog/2009/07/rain_then_clearing_in_the_bron.html\nMeanwhile, this announcement from YES: during Saturday's pre-game show, which starts at 12:30 p.m., the network will air a story commemorating the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's \"Luckiest Man\" speech. Toward the end of the piece, YES will show various members of the organization reciting Gehrig’s speech. Among those: Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Mark Teixeira, Nick Swisher, Brian Cashman, Jorge Posada, Joe Girardi, CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Xavier Nady and Johnny Damon.\nHere Is A Tribute From Tampa\nhttp://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jul/03/sp-for-a-lesson-in-courage-this-fourth-of-july-loo/\nThe Speech Made The Movie\nHere is a nice column on Lou Gehrig from Oklahoma --\nhttp://www.newsok.com/berry-tramel-70-years-later-lou-gehrigs-message-lives-on/article/3382574?custom_click=lead_story_title\nThe CBS News Story on ALS by Katie Couric Ran Tonight\nCBS Evening News http://www.cbsnews.com/\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/02/eveningnews/main5130584.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea\nWatch CBS Videos Online\nBy Katie Couric\n(CBS) Lou Gehrig might have considered himself lucky. But he couldn't have imagined that seven decades after his emotional farewell, there would still be no treatment for ALS.\n\"When I was initially diagnosed, the doctors, three different doctors, told me the same thing: 'There's nothing we can do. Go home and die,' basically,\" said Philip Carlo, an ALS patient.\nBut CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric reports that science may finally be making the kind of progress that would have made the iron horse proud. \"Much as those Yankees featured some of the greatest teamwork in the history of baseball. We have assembled a dream team of scientists and clinicians to work on the problem,\" said Valerie Estess, co-founder, Project ALS. Once competitors, scientists from both Harvard and Columbia are working together - with skin samples from both patients and healthy donors to help doctors figure out what causes ALS. \"Well, for the first time we can now have billions of these cells to study in the laboratory and ask why it is that they get sick,\" says Dr. Kevin Eggan of the\nHarvard Stem Cell Institute.\nIn ALS, nerve cells - called motor neurons - become incapable of sending messages from the brain, to the spinal cord, and on to the muscles - resulting in paralysis and ultimately death. \"You're alive. But you watch yourself die, and you can't do anything about it,\" said Carlo. Rather than retrieving the motor neurons from the spinal cord of patients, a procedure that's far too risky, scientists are creating them from scratch. \"Skin cells are very accessible, but they have nothing to do with the disease. So that's why we've had to find out a way of turning the skin cells into motor neurons,\" said Chris Henderson, Do-Director, Motor Neuron Center, Columbia University.\nCouric decided to donate some of her skin to science. A tiny piece of skin is put it in a Petri dish, where cells then multiply. They are genetically modified to behave like embryonic stem cells - capable of becoming any kind of cell in the body. \"They have all the characteristics of embryonic stem cells but they don't come from the embryo,\" said Dr. Eggan. They're then able to manipulate those very malleable stem cells to become motor neurons - enabling researchers to do what's never been done before: study the progression of ALS under a microscope.\n\"We want to compare the motor neurons from ALS patients with the motor neurons from healthy individuals. And through that we really do believe that we'll come to a fundamental understanding of what leads to ALS,\" said Henderson Which in turn, should lead to more effective treatment.\nCarlo said the research is essential, \"we have light at the end of the tunnel. And that -you can't ask for more than hope.\" Hope, that even the luckiest man on the face of the earth never had. At the end of his speech, Gehrig said, \"I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you.\"\nMore about MLB and ALS here\nMore about Project ALS Here\nThis Week In Baseball Is All About Lou\nIsn't this a great way to celebrate our nation? We celebrate a true sports hero and we do some good for a cause.\nWatch The Sunday Chicago Sun-Times\nFollowing was just tweeted:\n@ScarfaceAl Read about two of my heroes, Aimee Chamernik and Lou Gehrig, in Saturday's Chicago Sun-Times.\n@ScarfaceAl is the wonderful Gehrig biographer Jonathan Eig. You'll have to go to his twitter profile to figure out the name :-)\nESPN Does A Beautiful Job With The Lou Gehrig Letters\nThis is just an outstanding presentation of an important glimpse into history! These are not to be missed.\nhttp://espn.go.com/mlb/flash/gehrigletters\nThanks, ESPN.\nColumbia University Remembers Lou Gehrig\nHere is a nice tribute from Lou's alma mater...\nhttp://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3759032\nGo Columbia, Beat ALS!\nWhile We Wait For the Katie Couric CBS News and Today Show Segments on ALS\nPlease take a moment and visit this link on the Major League Baseball site --\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/4als/index2.jsp\nIt tells us what this weekend is about, and it includes some wonderful video that helps us understand the greatness of Gehrig and the horrible irony of the disease that took him out of the lineup.\nWe are grateful to MLB for giving us this weekend to remember and to raise much needed awareness. We are grateful to Michael Goldsmith for presenting the concept. We are grateful to all of the brave people with ALS who give us the reason to keep up the fight against this outrageous disease.\nThere Is A Wonderful 4 ALS Column In The Boston Globe\nThis one speaks volumes about Lou Gehrig and the magnitude of 4 ALS.\nhttp://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2009/07/02/als_event_saturday_proves_charity_begins_at_home_plate?mode=PF\nBelow is an excerpt.\nCharity begins at home plate\nBy Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist | July 2, 2009\nGoing to Fenway Park for Red Sox-Mariners Saturday? Bring a box of tissue. Bring your checkbook, too. Boston’s ancient baseball theater will be one of 15 major league parks honoring the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech (“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth’’) and raising funds to support ALS research. It’s called “4ALS Awareness’’\nNice going, MLB. In 1939, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis took Gehrig off the field after 2,130 consecutive games and now baseball is joining the fight against the deadly disease.\n“We’re involved with a whole series of charities,’’ explained commissioner Bud Selig. “We get asked a lot. But I’ve had inquiries about ALS from a fair number of people over the years, because of the Lou Gehrig connection. I said to myself, ‘This disease is so horrible and it affects so many people and it’s as dreaded today as it was in 1939.’ This is our chance to increase awareness, raise some money, and reach out to all the people affected and show people we do care.\n“I can’t give any more reason than that. That’s how it happened. I wish my other decisions were as easy as this one.’’\nWarm Up The TV For The Today Show\nTomorrow (Thursday) morning, the Today Show has a segment on the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's farewell slated.\nHas CBS Found A Way To Get Us To Watch Their Evening News Every Night?\nToward the end of this evening's CBS news with Katie Couric, they ran the teaser again on their ALS story that said it will run tomorrow. \"New treatments for Lou Gehrig's Disease may be as close as the surface of your skin.\"\nTomorrow... you're always a day away...\nThey're finishing up the news right now as I type. The final story is on Michael Jackson's patented shoes. They had time for that story but not ALS. Go figure.\nESPN Will Have Lou Gehrig Features This Weekend\nThanks to the heads-up from @ALSlesturner on twitter... ESPN will have Lou Gehrig features this weekend and tomorrow the great Gehrig biographer Jonathan Eig will be interviewed on ESPN.\nHow great is this?\nWe're finally getting some national resolve to get the word out about ALS thanks to Michael Goldsmith and Lou Gehrig!\nFire Up The Popcorn Popper For Sunday!\nHere Is The Definitive, Good-News Press Release on 4 ALS MLB Activities\nThis will just make you smile when you read it. It will be a tearful smile by the time you finish.\nThanks, Major League Baseball.\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20090701&content_id=5636318&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb\nMajor League Baseball clubs hold special on-field ceremonies on July 4th to honor 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech\nIn an effort to raise awareness and financial support for organizations leading the fight against ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, every Major League Baseball Club playing at home on July 4th will conduct a special on-field ceremony to commemorate Lou Gehrig's Yankee Stadium farewell speech. During these special ceremonies, all Clubs will honor Gehrig's memory by recreating part of his \"Luckiest Man\" speech (Excerpt at the end of the release).\n\"Seventy years ago, Lou Gehrig delivered an impassioned speech that has become part of American History,\" said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. \"Major League Baseball is proud to devote the Fourth of July to Lou Gehrig and the disease that bears his name. We are pleased to have this opportunity to help find a cure for ALS and help those who are suffering from the disease.\"\nThe New York Yankees will host a special \"4 ♦ ALS Awareness\" ceremony at Yankee Stadium prior to their 1:00 p.m. (ET) game against the Toronto Blue Jays. During the pre-game ceremony, the Yankees will recognize Michael Goldsmith, a lifelong baseball fan who contributed to the development of the \"4 ♦ ALS\" initiative.\n\"Seventy years after Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, no cure exists for ALS,\" said Goldsmith. \"Doctors have no real way even to slow its devastating progression. Because research for a cure is still in its infancy, defeating ALS will require the same determination that Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken, Jr. demonstrated in setting records for consecutive games played. I live for the day when all ALS patients can give you a standing ovation for fighting this fight with us.\"\nOn July 4th all on-field personnel, including players, coaches, umpires and groundskeepers will wear a \"4 ♦ ALS\" patch. In addition, to honor Gehrig, who played first base with the Yankees for 17 years, a special \"4 ♦ ALS\" logo will appear on top of first base in each ballpark. Authenticated first bases from the July 4th games will be auctioned off at a later date on MLB.com to raise additional funds for ALS. A special \"4 ♦ ALS\" video was created for Clubs playing at home on July 4th.\nIn addition, individual Clubs will support the ALS cause on July 4th. For example, American Idol Finalist Michael Johns will perform the National Anthem prior to the Baltimore Orioles vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game; the Philadelphia Phillies have raised over $865,000 for ALS this year alone; and the Minnesota Twins are one of many Clubs that have donated a suite for ALS families.\nIn support of the \"4 ♦ ALS\" initiative, MLB Network will air an edition of \"Studio 42 with Bob Costas\" featuring an interview with Cal Ripken, Jr. on July 5th at 8:00 p.m. (ET) followed by the Academy Award-winning movie, \"The Pride of the Yankees\" at 9:00 p.m. (ET).\nMLB.com has established an online community at http://mlb4als.mlblogs.com, where representatives of the four organizations working with Major League Baseball, as well as others impacted by ALS, are collaborating to share stories, research and further opportunities to unite in support of ALS. The four leading organizations working with MLB on the on the \"4 ♦ ALS\" campaign are: The ALS Association, ALS TDI, MDA's Augie's Quest and Project A.L.S. ALS destroys the nerve cells controlling muscles, ultimately causing complete paralysis. The average life expectancy is three to five years after diagnosis.\nThe ALS Association is a non-profit organization fighting Lou Gehrig's Disease on every front. Through global research, providing assistance for people with ALS via a nationwide network of chapters, coordinating multidisciplinary care through certified clinical care centers, and fostering government partnerships, The ALS Association builds hope and enhances quality of life while aggressively searching for new treatments and a cure.\nThe ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) has a single mission-to develop therapeutics that slow and stop ALS. The nonprofit Institute has a 30 person research team working aggressively by applying the best practices on behalf of today's patients.\nMDA's Augie's Quest, the Muscular Dystrophy Association's ALS research initiative, is an aggressive, cure-driven effort singularly focused on finding treatments and cures for ALS. MDA funds over $23 million annually and has funded more than $250 million since its inception.\nThe mission of Project A.L.S. is to create a new paradigm for neurodegenerative disease research. They identity the world's leading researchers and clinicians and mobilize them to work together as teams in the areas of genetics, drug discovery, stem cells, and disease pathways. Each project is vetted and approved by its research advisory board. Project A.L.S. has raised over $38 million to fund these efforts.\nLou Gehrig's \"Luckiest Man\" Speech (Abbreviated Version)\n\"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.\nI have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.\nLook at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?\nSure I'm lucky. When the [New York Giants], a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift-that's something.\nWhen everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies-that's something.\nWhen you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter-that's something.\nWhen you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body-it's a blessing.\nWhen you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed-that's the finest I know.\nSo, I close in saying that, I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.\"\nThis Is A Great Week For Googling Gehrig In The News\nThere are a lot of good news stories this morning about Lou Gehrig and 4 ALS and MLB and Michael Goldsmith.\nHere is one of them --\nhttp://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/columnists/mcgrath/story/796530.html\nHmmm... \"Lou Gehrig Stadium\" ... like the sound... or maybe \"Cure Lou Gehrig's Disease Stadium\" and then they can sell the naming rights when that name is passe.\nALS Often Gets The Short Straw When It Comes To Un...\n\"Kids Really Aren't Aware Of Who Lou Gehrig Was......\nDear Abby Readers Learned About ALS in Veterans To...\nFrom A Horrible Situation We Have Another Teachabl...\nThis Is An Example Of The Problem Posed By The Dis...\nDo You Really Think That A Moving Depiction Of ALS...\nThe Casualities Of War Continue Long After The Tro...\nYou May Have Missed This While You Were At The Bal...\nHere Is A \"Must Read\" From The July 5, 1939 LA Tim...\nBill, I'm Going To Remember This Day For A Long Ti...\nHere Is An Interesting Slant On Advocacy This July...\nIt Was Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day Then, And It St...\nThe CBS News Story on ALS by Katie Couric Ran Toni...\nESPN Does A Beautiful Job With The Lou Gehrig Lett...\nWhile We Wait For the Katie Couric CBS News and To...\nThere Is A Wonderful 4 ALS Column In The Boston Gl...\nHas CBS Found A Way To Get Us To Watch Their Eveni...\nHere Is The Definitive, Good-News Press Release on...\nThis Is A Great Week For Googling Gehrig In The Ne..."
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        "text": "Sultan Abu Bakar Museum, Pekan (till the end of March 2017)\nMuzium Negeri Kedah, Alor Setar, Kedah (ended Feburary 2016)\nBastion House, Melaka (ended July 2015)\nTerengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu (ended Jan 2015)\nPusat Sains Negara, Kuala Lumpur (ended June 2014)\nFor more information please visit www.1001inventions.com.my\nSultan Abu Bakar Museum, Pekan\nwww.1001inventions.com/pekan\nMuzium Negeri Kedah, Alor Setar, Kedah\n1001 Inventions at Alor Setar, Kedah\n1001 Inventions at Bastion House, Melaka.\nMelaka, February 17, 2015: Award-winning, blockbuster educational exhibition, 1001 Inventions: Kegemilangan Tamadun Muslim, has opened for four months, starting February 17, 2015 at Muzium Dunia Melayu Dunia Islam, Bastion House, Bandar Hilir, Melaka. The state-of-the-art exhibition was welcomed by hundreds of fans, guests and visitors during the opening. Get your tickets now. Visit our 1001inventions.com.my website, facebook or twitter for more information.\n1001 Inventions at Pusat Dagangan Terengganu.\nThe Tour has begun! Come and meet us, the 1001 Inventions: Kegemilangan Tamadun Muslim, the award winning educational exhibition that has captivated the world, coming soon 23 August 2014 at Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu\nOfficial Launch of 1001 Inventions by Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.\nMalaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister launched the internationally renowned 1001 Inventions show at the National Science Centre. The award-winning exhibition, which was declared the world’s best by the European museums Industry in 2011, welcomed visitors at Kuala Lumpur’s Pusat Sains Negara until end of June 2014.\nThe exhibition was officially opened by the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin bin Mohd Yassin, who is also the patron of 1001 Inventions in Malaysia, at a lavish ceremony held at the host venue.\nMalaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, was guest of honour and patron at the official launch event\n1001 Inventions has already received more than three million visitors at blockbusters residencies in London,New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dhahran and recently began a new European tour in Sweden. The exhibition highlights a thousand year period of history when Muslim Civilisation led the world in scientific, technological and cultural achievement – known as the “Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation.”\n~ Click here for Media/Press Coverage ~\nAhmed Salim, Producer and Managing Director of the brand, said: ”1001 Inventions features a diverse range of exhibits, hi-tech games, interactive displays and dramatisation that bring to life historic role models from Muslim Civilsation who will serve as an inspiration for modern Malaysia’s young people to pursue careers in science and technology.”\nFrom the seventh century onwards, men and women of many different faiths and ethnic backgrounds worked together, building on knowledge from ancient civilisations, to make groundbreaking advances in the fields of medicine, engineering, astronomy, agriculture, geology, mathematics, music and architecture. Their achievements still have an impact of the way we live our lives today, and also paved the way for the European Renaissance a millennium later.\nMalaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, taking a closer look at the Al-Jazari's Elephant Clock, which is the main attraction during the exhibition (source)\nMr David Oh Seong Keat, Operations Director of Science Discoveries Sdn Bhd, said: “Malaysia is chosen as the exhibition’s premiere in this region and this will surely help boost our nation’s tourism industry as it is a unique, world class exhibition.\n“1001 Inventions will also introduce Malaysians to a world of science and technology that will inspire the younger generations to become the pioneering minds of tomorrow,” said Oh.\nTan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the “1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilisation” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. With him are (from left) Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Ewon Ebin, Axiata chief executive officer Datuk Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim, National Science Centre director Associate Professor Dr Irmawati Ramli and Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah. Pic by Sairien Nafis (source)\nThe exhibition has been immensely popular in Europe, America and the Middle East, where a dual language Arabic-English version enjoyed blockbuster residencies across the Arabian peninsula. The Malaysian version of the exhibition features more than 60 exhibits targeting all age groups. This hands-on, interactive and state-of-the-art family-friendly show introduces visitors to the wonders of scientific advancement we have inherited from Muslim Civilisation.\n1001 Inventions was voted the world’s best touring exhibition by the Museum and Heritage Excellence Awards in London in 2011, and currently has more than three million online fans on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.\nMalaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, watching the students playing educational games in 1001 Inventions Exhibition (source)\nVisitors have the opportunity to enjoy five interactive ‘Zones’ that reproduce some of the most astounding inventions of the Golden Ages and demonstrates the broad influence that Muslim Civilisation has had on the way we live our lives today.\nVisitors will be introduced to the wonders of Muslim Civilisation through an internationally award-winning educational film The Library of Secrets that is projected onto a five-metre-high screen.\nTold as a short story, the 10-minute movie follows the journey of young children exploring the era of the historically mislabeled ‘Dark Ages’ and this will give them a better understanding and appreciation when they start exploring the main exhibition.\nRapt attention: Students from SMK Bukit Bandaraya looking at an interactive exhibit at the 1001 Inventions exhibition at the National Science Centre (Source)\nOscar-winning actor, Sir Ben Kingsley, plays renowned 12th century engineer, Al-Jazari, who introduces the wealth of innovation and advancement that occurred throughout the Muslim World from 7th and 17th centuries.\nAhmed Salim, from 1001 Inventions, stated: “The exhibition is a powerful educational tool that brings the history of Muslim Civilisation to life in high-tech, exciting and engaging ways that will appeal to school children and adults alike.\n“The positive messages of public support we have already received have been overwhelming, and we are confident that 1001 Inventions will be as popular in Malaysia as it has been in Europe, America and the Middle East. I’m also confident that the example of inter-racial, inter-religious harmony provided by Muslim Civilisation will also be a powerful message that resonates with the young people who visit our show.”\nDeputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at 1001 Inventions Exhibition in Malaysia National Science Centre (source)\nAhmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions\nThe launch event was also attended by Datuk Dr. Ewon Ebin, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, and Dr Irmawati Ramli, Director of National Science Centre. 1001 Inventions Malaysia is organised by Science Discoveries Sdn Bhd in partnership with the National Science Centre. Science Discoveries had previously brought several science exhibitions to Malaysia from the London Science Museum. The exhibition is open daily from 9am to 5pm.\n1001 Inventions exhibition in Malaysia is sponsored by Axiata Group Berhad and supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Malaysia and supported by the Ministry of Education.\n1001 Inventions is a leading and award-winning international science and cultural heritage brand reaching over 100 million people around the world.\n1001 Inventions uncovers a thousand years of scientific and cultural achievements from Muslim Civilisation from the 7th century onwards, and how those contributions helped create the foundations of our modern world.\nThrough its award-winning educational programmes, books, blockbuster exhibitions, live shows, films and learning products, 1001 Inventions showcases the contributions of inspirational men and women of different faiths and cultures in a civilisation that spread from Spain to China.\n1001 Inventions, in partnership with Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives, have produced a world-class range of exciting and engaging educational experiences, productions, products and resources that are all extensively researched by academics and experts from the UK-based Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation.\nBrand reaches over 100 million people worldwide\nAward-winning films seen by over 33 million viewers\nBlockbuster exhibitions visited by over 3.3 million people\nOver 200,000 worldwide book sales\nOver 16.5 million website visitors.\nOver 2,5 million registered member fan base\nMedia Coverage in 78 countries\n27 International Awards\nFoundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC)\nThe Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) is the global academic and knowledge partner for 1001 Inventions. FSTC is an international network of historians, scientists, engineers, educationalists and museum professionals working to popularise awareness of the historic roots of science. By highlighting role models from the past and how their achievements and inventions live on in the modern world, FSTC aims to inspire young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Further information is available on FSTC's popular website: FSTC.org.uk\nAbdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives\nAbdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) is the global strategic partner for the 1001 Inventions brand. ALJCI is the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the ALJ Group, which is a Toyota automobiles distributor in 13 different countries. ALJCI plans and operates numerous global programs, such as poverty-alleviation initiatives, artistic and educational projects and technology innovation grants, including a long history of scholarships for students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information please visit ALJCI website: www.aljci.org\nPusat Sains Negara (National Science Centre)\nPusat Sains Negara Persiaran Bukit Kiara, 50662\nKuala Lumpur, Bukit Kiara, Malaysia\n1001 Inventions Announces Three-Year Tour of Malaysia\n1001 Inventions Asian Premiere in Kuala Lumpur\nUS media welcomes 1001 Inventions to NYC\nGoogle presents Sci-Tech Award to 1001 Inventions\nMuslim Heritage Initiative recognised at Prince’s Charity’s Talent Awards\n1001 Inventions film wins at Cannes\nGold Award for Best Education Film\nVisitors soar above Sultanahmet\nIstanbul hands over 1001 Inventions exhibition to New York city\nSeven more awards for 1001 Inventions Film\n5 Golds and Best Education film in Los Angeles and Hamburg Film Festivals.\n1001 Inventions wins Best Film in New York\n1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets wins eight New York film awards.\n1001 Inventions wins Best Education Film\n1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets wins four major industry IVCA awards\nPrince’s Charity and 1001 Inventions\nPrince’s charity announces partnership with Muslim Heritage pioneer\nThousands flock to “Blockbuster” Muslim Heritage Exhibition\nIn its opening week, over 15,000 visit new 1001 Inventions exhibition\n1001 Inventions Exhibition in Science Museum, London\nThe Science Museum today announced that it will host a new exhibition called 1001 Inventions"
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        "text": "Q: Is it generally advisable to get anti-virus software for Mac OS X? Is it worth to buy an anti-virus software for Mac OS X?\nI heard both opinions like \"it's not possible to get a virus on Mac OS X\" and \"Mac OS X is also vulnerable against virus... \"\nWhich is true? What is the accepted practice, if any? Under what circumstances would anti-virus be advisable?\n\nA: The simple fact is that malware has always existed for Mac OS (OS X and macOS), so the statement that a Mac can't get malware is patently, demonstrably and dangerously false.\nA second fact is that Apple has done a good job with technology to make the macOS ecosystem largely immune to most threats. This \"immune system\" consists of sandboxed application design, entitlements to let developers express intent when they need out of the sandbox, signed code to prevent modifications that turn a known app malicious, App Store distribution, system integrity protection, XProtect file quarantine mechanism with a free online update service.\nHistorically and for many years; the scarcity of viruses, trojans and other malware that spread widely or affect a broad cross-section of Mac users has contributed to a perceived complacency about good security hygiene. The good news, is macs have a built in multi-layered defense system against virus and trojan/malevolent software. This means that most of the recent exploits rely on people unintentionally sabotaging themselves by self-defeating built in defenses. With a small investment of time, you can significantly decrease the need for additional anti-virus protection on OS X.\nThe calculus of whether running a specific antivirus package is a moving target (vendors typically react to bugs and threats - so what was true yesterday may not be true tomorrow). This makes general answers about the merits of software easily out-dated in a month's time (let alone the two and a half years that have passed since this question was first asked).\nWhat hasn't changed for decades, is that each user should at least spend some time thinking about what is on their device and how painful total compromise might be to them. Based on how valuable your time is to you, it would be silly for someone that has paid IT staff to advise them to not spend $1,000 extra dollars on evaluating security to include potentially installing anti-virus software. It would also be silly for a casual home user to pay for software rather than invest some time to mitigate known risks in their behavior in response to a healthy fear of the unknown.\nThere are many cases where additional anti-virus protection is critically important. There are also many cases where it is totally un-needed. I would recommend anyone browse these few Apple knowledge base articles to gauge their \"baseline security aptitude\" and then reach out and learn more before spending any money on anti-virus software1.\n\n\n*\n\n*Use gatekeeper, automatic updates to apps and system files and malicious lists for quarantine.\n\n*Protect your computer from harmful applications - the very basics\n\n*Safety tips for handling email attachments and content downloaded from the Internet - a good primer on attachments and executable code \n\n*Apple ID: Tips for protecting the security of your account - great tips on account hygiene, applicable for all online accounts\n\n*Safari: Using encryption and secure connections - starts with the basics, but gets technical quickly. Perhaps better is about certificates to get started.\n\n\nMy only critique of the above articles would be the admonishment to frequently change passwords. This is of limited value when you start making unique passwords and don't as a matter of course enter those passwords on other computers. Changing passwords is of little use when your using them on compromised computers, since the new password is stolen as easily as the old one was.\nOnce you've mastered the basics, you should have absorbed the following ideas:\n\n\n*\n\n*how to use the OS X keychain for storing passwords\n\n*considered or implemented having a few distinct passwords\n\n*and have started securing your account passwords as well as your computer (by applying the tips on Securing Apple ID to other accounts)\n\n\nAfter the basics, now it's time to think about increasing your overall security by spending money on anti-virus or a good unique password generation toolset2 to automate secure storage of stronger, unique passwords. \nWithout being proficient at the level of involvement in the linked articles above, spending money and potentially adding instability or slowness from anti-virus software might not make sense for many users. Furthermore, Apple is clearly intent on getting ahead of this problem with the one-two punch of the App Store model where spreading unsafe software installation practices is clearly working with GateKeeper to allow most people to have automated warnings when code is not signed to prevent tampering and assist in tracing the source of malware.\nFor most Mac users on Lion, the correct answer is to keep running anti-virus if you have it but not to run out and get it unless you have a good reason to spend time and money after getting up to speed on the basics of security.\nSince Lion, Apple has hardened the OS faster than bad actors have been able to exploit the OS so for most people and most businesses, not needing additional software as your default option is a sane and probably correct choice.\n\n1 especially with the likes of Mac Defender preying on people looking for legitimate anti-virus software\n2 like 1Password\n\nA: There is anti-virus software available for Mac OS X:\n\n\n*\n\n*Intego VirusBarrier\n\n*ClamXAV (Free)\n\n*Norton AnitVirus Mac Edition\n\n*McAfee VirusScan for Mac\n\n*Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac (Consumer Version is free)\n\n\nIs it worth it? That's largely up to you. Personally I'd say unless required there's no reason to so long as you practice \"safe computing\" (eg. not opening files from just anywhere, being aware of what is installed on your computer, etc.). However there are some companies that require any computer (regardless of OS) to have up to date anti-virus software installed and operational.\nThere are no viruses available for Mac OS X but there are several pieces of malware and trojan horses that a user must manually download and install. The anti-virus products (and actually a feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard) will help fight against these threats but the primary defence is actually user education as the attack vector is primarily social engineering and not using any security hole.\n\nA: There is a nice article on Mac.Appstrom from yesterday about antivirus on Mac OS X (which ones and do we need them).\n\nA: Another possible reason install an antivirus software on a mac could be the protection of systems running other operation systems in a heterogenous network. A virus or malware could reside on a mac drive for several time, until it is activated by an other system, on which it can run.\nTherefore it may make sense to install anti-virus software on all computers in a network, to keep the whole network clean.\n\nA: Arriving lately after the legitimate rising of this question I'd like to add here a return on many years and many OSes regular attacks.\n\n\n*\n\n*There is no Tchernobyl frontier (in 1986, French government\nannounced publicly that the Tchernobyl radioactiv cloud wouldn't\ncross the country frontiers. Since this official public lie, I name\nwith this metaphor any form of false official security barrier)\nto protect MacOS X: we live under the same probability\n(all\noperating systems are born equal with approximately the same coding\nerrors ratio:\nthey are written by us humans who are error prone).\n\n*There are many attacks targeting specifically Symantec AntiVirus\nfor 2 reasons (I'm refering here to the huge number of external\nattacks I see on our external firewall targeting 2967/tcp and\n38293/udp =\nports used by Symantec anti-virus.):\n\n\n*\n\n*(too many security defaults) × (too many people using it) = good target for cybercriminals\n\n*many versions of Symantec AntiVirus failed to install or run\non a case sensitive filesystem which is the sign of a weak\nquality control.\nTo say it bluntly, a vulnerable anti-virus (Symantec) installed on a\nrobust operating system (MacOS X), may render this last one\nvulnerable.\n\n*Many attacks are targeting directly us (the human seated\nbehind the keyboard), either through booby trapped\nweb servers or HTML formatted E-mail hidding URL toward\nthese booby trapped web servers\nThe 2 best anti-viruses I'm using on many versions of MacOS X are:\n\n\n*\n\n*clamav\n\n*ClamXav\nAs their name lets guess it, they are based on the same engine.\nIt is pretty good quality software, updated very quickly, and running also on many other Unixes. On some new crapware detected clamav included them within less than 72 h where commercial products took a quiet week (just enough time stop to get many thousand computers infested).\nI also appreciate Sophos, because it is running on different OSes, does install and run on a case sensitive filesystem (which is the sign of a serious quality control).\n\nA: Probably goes without saying, but if you run any version of Windows in a VM within OS X, those installs of Windows will need antivirus software on them. A surprising number of people I've worked with (including, on one occasion, a head of IT) haven't thought of that.\n\nA: No, it's not worth it to buy any antivirus software for your Mac. This is for two reasons. Firstly, the number of viruses in the wold for OS X is infinitesimal. Your risk is extremely low, and what viruses do exist, are mostly proofs of concept or MS Office Macro Viruses targeting old versions of Office.\nThe second reason is because for what antivirus needs you do have, ClamXAV is lightweight, effective, and free. So no, it's not worth purchasing. But it is absolutely worth using, and if you can spare a few bucks for the tip jar, I'd encourage you to do that as well.\n\nA: Apple is excellent and keeping up with patching the few Mac vulnerabilities that do arise, so anti-virus isn't necessary as long as your not foolish enough to fall for blatant trojans.\nHOWEVER if you have a Windows PC with which you share files, it may be worth running anti-virus on your mac to prevent yourself from unintentionally spreading Windows viruses (which are otherwise harmless to Macs).\nNote that all anti virus programs for mac are either a hoax or simply check for Windows viruses to prevent unintentional spreading of viruses while file sharing.\n\nA: I personally use Sophos. The company I work for uses Sophos with 20,000+ computers, and the Mac version is free for consumer use. I have not had any problems with it running on my machines. It scans relatively quickly, and runs faster & better than any Norton product I've ever used. \n\nA: Viruses are so 80's. The big money is user information, this is where big companies make a lot of money, like Google Ads. Also Known As Spyware. \nViruses started as a joke, a prank, a way for coders to have fun. Viruses flourished on Microsoft platforms like DOS and Windows because Microsoft never really cared about its customers other than how to sell more and make more money. \nMacOS X is a Unix based OS. Unlike Windows, a file cannot do whatever it wants. If it tries to modify your hard disk in any way, outside the home folder, it needs permissions. Permission you give. That makes life, for a virus, seriously hard. Because the goal of a virus is not just to infect your files, that means nothing, it's there to infect your system to infect your OS. To take control of your OS. That's the end goal. \nIt's not impossible to hack an OS like MacOS X, but Apple is not stupid and, unlike Microsoft, it cares - because safety and reliability is what it sells. \nI have owned an iMac for 7 years and I've never had the problems I had with Windows. I see little reason to install a piece of software that will slow down my CPU and offer me zero benefits. \nThere is no such thing as safety, safety is an illusion. As a matter of fact I have caught viruses on Windows several times using an anti-viruses that was full updated. \nIf you want real safety, disconnect from the internet and install nothing. This is the only way to be sure. \nWhat seriously annoys me, and one of the big reasons I left Windows for good, was that Microsoft created this culture of \"getting a virus is what happens for an OS\" like its something normal. It's not normal, it's a serious flaw in the design of the OS, a flaw that survives because customers tolerate it as \"normal\". \nDo not install anti-viruses, you paid for your OS, demand from its publisher to deliver an OS that does what is reasonable to expect to keep you and your files safe. Viruses and malware are unacceptable. \n\nA: \nDo you need an Antivirus Software on OS X?\nYes, yes you do need some sort of antivirus app for your Mac OS X and my reason for saying that is simple. Viruses exist for every known Operating System. It is true that Apple’s Operating system for Macs is safer and more naturally protected against Viruses but the REAL truth is that Mac systems are not as popular as the Windows OS so those that make viruses don’t see a need to program viruses for Macs when most desktop users in the world still operate on a Windows OS. So my point is, it is better to get a good Antivirus for your Mac computer now because sooner or later, as OS X becomes more user friendly, more and more viruses will appear...\n\nThat's how I look at it too, you can never be too safe.\n"
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        "text": "Issue 304 1 February 2017\nThree Board donor constituencies call on the Global Fund to review the role of CCMs\nCountry coordinating mechanisms need to be consulted, supported, strengthened and empowered, according to three donor constituencies on the Global Fund Board. The constituencies have released a position paper calling for a review of the role of CCMs.\n2. ANNOUNCEMENT\n“New” editor for GFO\nAidspan has announced that David Garmaise is returning as editor of Global Fund Observer.\n3. ANALYSIS\nGlobal Fund steps up investments in women and girls\nIn sub-Saharan Africa, there are about 8,600 new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women every week. The Global Fund’s new Strategy for 2017-2022 places increased emphasis on reaching this group, including measuring HIV incidence among women aged 15-24 as a key performance indicator. To achieve its objectives, an additional $55 million on top of country allocations is earmarked for the scale-up of HIV prevention among AGYW in the 2017-2019 funding cycle.\nNumber of people receiving ART through programs supported by the Global Fund reaches 10 million\nPrograms supported by The Global Fund added another 787,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in the first half of 2016, bringing cumulative results to 10 million. During that same period, the number of smear-positive TB cases detected and treated increased by 1.4 million (cumulative total: 15.6 million); and the number of mosquito nets distributed rose by 54 million (cumulative total: 713 million). In a comment, Aidspan says that it difficult to know how much of the increase in numbers of people receiving services is due to better counting.\nEECA allocation letters promote investment in RSSH\nThe Global Fund has used the letters informing countries of their allocations to push for more investment in resilient and sustainable systems for health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We provide information on the content of the letters.\nSignificant improvement required in grant management in high-risk countries: OIG\nIn recent years, the Global Fund has implemented additional measures to manage grants in 47 high-risk countries. A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General has found that these measures need significant improvement.\nOIG audit of grants to Côte d’Ivoire shows mixed results\nGrant implementation arrangements for Global Fund grants to Côte d’Ivoire were “partially effective,” the Office of the Inspector General said as a result of an audit conducted in 2016. The OIG rated supply chain controls and assurance mechanisms one rung lower, at “needing significant improvement.”\nOIG audit finds that treasury management at the Global Fund is generally in good shape\nThe Office of the Inspector General says that the governance, risk management practices and internal controls related to treasury management are adequately designed and generally well implemented. However, some improvements are required.\nImplementation of integrity due diligence remains fragmented: OIG\nThe Global Fund is continuing to strengthen its anti-corruption framework and, within that, has launched an integrity due diligence initiative. An advisory review by the Office of the Inspector General reveals that the implementation of IDD remains fragmented. In this article, we provide a brief summary of the OIG’s findings. We also explain what IDD is.\n10. ANNOUNCEMENT\nResources for applicants posted on Global Fund website\nThis article provides an overview of the resources related to applying for funding available on the Global Fund’s website.\nMid-2016 results reported\nIn the first half of 2016, through programs supported by the Global Fund, another 787,000 people were put on antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV, bringing the total to date to 10 million, a 9% increase over end-2015 results and a 17% increase over the number a year ago. Three countries account for 77% of the increase from six months ago: Kenya (52%), Tanzania (16%) and Mozambique (9%). The full national result from Kenya is now included in Global Fund reporting; previously, the Global Fund captured only 50% of the national results.\nIn that same period, the number of smear-positive TB cases detected and treated increased by 1.4 million, bring the cumulative total to 15.6 million, a 9% increase over end-2015 results and a 15% increase over the numbers a year ago. Two high-impact Asia countries – India and Bangladesh – account for 56% of the overall increase from six months ago.\nAlso in the first half of 2016, about 54 million mosquito nets were distributed, bringing the total to date to 713 million, an increase of 8% over end-2015 results and a 19% increase over the numbers a year ago. The greatest number of nets were distributed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Sénégal. Together, they accounted for about 75% of the increase from June 2015.\nAdditional results are provided in the Global Fund’s Results Factsheet dated 17 January 2017.\nAIDSPAN COMMENT\nIt is difficult to know from the Results Factsheet how much of the increase in numbers of people receiving services represents real growth in impact and how much is the result of better counting. For example, as reported above, 77% of the increase in people receiving ART came from just three countries – one of them Kenya where the Fund is now capturing 100% of the numbers instead of just 50% previously. To its credit, the Global Fund is quite open about the reason for the increase in people receiving ART. But how much of the other increases reported in the factsheet (e.g. people treated for MDR-TB up 25% in six months) is due to better counting? The Fund relies on national reporting, so we don’t underestimate the challenges in obtaining an accurate picture of impact.\nsmear-positive TB cases"
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        "text": "With its lush greenery and miles of hiking trails, Northern Virginia is truly a nature lover’s paradise. Whether you want to go for a swim in the summer, gaze at the foliage in the fall, have a snowball fight in the winter, or smell the roses in spring, there’s a park for you in Northern Virginia. Get out of the house this weekend and check out some of our favorite parks in the area before coming in for your next Escape Room adventure here at Room Escape Fairfax!\nIf you want to learn about the history of the Civil War in Northern Virginia, head to Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Park. This park houses the site of one of the biggest Civil War battles in Loudon County. From April through November, the park has group tours on Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM and 1 PM. These tours are conducted by volunteer interpreters who can answer any questions that you have about the battlefield. You can also tour the battlefield on your own and spend time looking at the park’s monuments. After touring the battlefield, end your day with a hike on one of the park’s beautiful forest trails.\nPrince William Forest Park is a natural refuge that’s owned and operated by the National Park Service. The park is full of hiking trails, camping grounds, and places to picnic. It’s also a great place to see wildlife—the park is home to about 180 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. The park has an extensive trail system, with over thirty-seven miles of hiking trails available. This includes easy flat trails that are great for young kids and more rugged trails that are perfect for seasoned hikers. Whether you’re looking for a quiet day out with your family or a strenuous hike through the woods, Prince William Forest Park is perfect for you.\nClaude Moore Park is a wonderful place to spend a day immersed in the outdoors, with eleven miles of hiking trails that take you through forests, meadows, and young woodlands. The park is also home to a wide variety of animals, including deer, box turtles, and wild turkeys. In addition, the park houses the Lanesville Historic District, which is a national historic district. Here, you can see buildings and houses that date back hundreds of years, including the 1779 Lanesville Ordinary and Post Office. This park is perfect for both history buffs and nature lovers.\nPotomac Overlook Regional Park is a wonderful place to escape the busyness of Washington DC for a few hours. This park is located right across the river from DC in Arlington, and it has two miles of hiking trails that go through beautiful wooded areas. The park also has an interpretive garden that features organic vegetables and native plants. You can also learn about the connection between humans and nature at the James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education. This lovely park offers plenty for the whole family.\nIf your kids are looking for somewhere to splash around in the summer, Algonkian Regional Park is just what you need. The park is home to the Volcano Island Waterpark, which has tons of waterslides, shallow splash pools, and play structures. Your kids will have fun all day long going down waterslides and swimming in the cool pools.\nAlgonkian Regional Park also has plenty of fun things to do on dry land. Tee up at the 18-hole championship Algonkian Golf Course that’s located right on the Potomac River. Or, go for a casual game of mini-golf at the Polynesian-themed Algonkian Mini Golf course. You can also bring your fishing pole and try your luck catching fish in the Potomac River. If you’re in the mood for a hike, Algonkian Park has plenty of trails to explore. And if just one day in this park isn’t enough, you can rent a lovely riverfront cottage for the night.\nLocated in Alexandria, this peaceful 50-acre park houses a wildlife sanctuary and a mile-long trail that goes along a stream, through marshland, and up wooded hills. You can take a self-guided tour of the trail, or you can go with a naturalist who will be able to tell you all about the flora and fauna in the park. The park is adjacent to the Jerome Buddie Ford Nature Center, where you can learn more about the culture and natural history of Dora Kelley Park.\nHuntley Meadows Park is a gorgeous 1,500-acre park that features pristine wetlands. The park is known for its amazing birdwatching opportunities—there have been over 200 species of birds spotted in the park. You can explore the wetlands on a half-mile boardwalk trail. If you’re looking for a longer hike, Huntley Meadows has hiking trails that will take you through a forest and along a meadow. The park also has an observation tower that gives you a bird’s eye view of the wetlands. Before heading into the park, stop by the visitor’s center to learn about Huntley Meadow’s unique history and to find out more about the natural features in the area.\nLeesylvania State Park is located right on the Potomac River in Prince William County. The park has a pier that’s a popular local fishing spot. You can also rent kayaks and go on an adventure on the Potomac River, or you can take a stroll on the park’s two-mile hiking trail. If you have a boat, the park has a boat launch that’s available for anyone to use. There’s also a great playground available for the little ones. Whether you’re looking for water or land activities, Leesylvania State Park is a great place to go.\nNorthern Virginia is full of amazing parks that are perfect for everyone from avid hikers to families with young kids. When the sun is shining, head outside to one of these beautiful parks. You’ll always have a great time when you spend the day in a lovely Northern Virginia park."
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        "text": "News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App\nby Peter Kafka\nThe Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years.\nThe media giant, which also owns this Web site, said it will “cease standalone publication” of the app on Dec. 15.\nIt says that “technology and other assets from The Daily, including some staff, will be folded into” News Corp.’s New York Post tabloid. The app/newspaper has approximately 120 employees.\nNews Corp. made the announcement in the midst of other organizational changes in advance of the company’s upcoming breakup, which will spin off the company’s publishing assets into a new, separately traded company. Here’s Murdoch’s take on The Daily, via a press release:\nFrom its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term. Therefore we will take the very best of what we have learned at The Daily and apply it to all our properties. Under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Col Allan and the business and digital leadership of Jesse, I know The New York Post will continue to grow and become stronger on the web, on mobile, and not least, the paper itself. I want to thank all of the journalists, digital and business professionals for the hard work they put into The Daily.\nJesse Angelo, The Daily’s editor-in-chief, will become publisher of the Post; Daily publisher Greg Clayman will get a job heading up digital at the new publishing company. Earlier this year, The Daily cut a third of its staff.\nSome of News Corp.’s other key moves in the split have already been reported: Robert Thomson, for instance, the Wall Street Journal’s current managing editor, will run the new company, and Thomson’s deputy Gerard Baker will get Thomson’s old job.\nThe “new” publishing company, which includes Dow Jones, News Corp.’s other newspaper assets and HarperCollins publishing, will be named “News Corp.” The remaining part of the “old” News Corp. — primarily, its TV and film assets — will be renamed “Fox Group.”\nCurrent New York Post publisher Paul Carlucci, who is also chairman of News America Marketing, will now “focus exclusively” on that job.\nThe Daily launched in February 2011 with a great deal of fanfare and a blessing from Apple, which worked closely with News Corp. to get the paper off the ground. But The Daily never clicked, and struggled to attract subscribers.\nThe app was initially hampered by technical problems, but The Daily’s key issue was a conceptual one. While the app boasted lots of digital bells and whistles, in the end it was very much a general interest newspaper that seemed to be geared toward people who didn’t really like newspapers. You can’t make that work no matter what kind of platform you use.\nThe real surprise would have been if News Corp. had found a way to keep The Daily around, since the tablet newspaper’s fate was essentially sealed this summer when the corporate split was announced.\nThe money-losing Daily has been on News Corp. COO Chase Carey’s pet peeve list for a long time, but it was also a passion project for Murdoch, whose first love was and is newspapers. And the old News Corp. structure let Murdoch subsidize passion projects with profits from his TV business.\nPresumably he’ll still be able to do some experimenting at the new/old publishing company, but it will be much harder to do that stuff without TV money to prop it up.\nLike moving pictures? Here’s a clip of me gassing on with All Things Digital’s excellent Lauren Goode about the Daily’s demise, via WSJ.com’s Digits show.\nReturn to: News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App\nURL: http://allthingsd.com/20121203/news-corp-shutters-the-daily-ipad-app/"
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        "text": "Q: StartupSound.prefPane on new iMacs? Inspired by this question to which I thought I knew the answer, does anybody know how to make StartupSound.prefPane work on a new iMac?\nI just got the computer last week, and installed SS.pP (v1.1b3) right away, but noticed the next day that it didn't actually function.  However, it appears to work, in that it installed fine in System Preferences, I can access it, check and uncheck its options, and move its slider, all without receiving warnings or errors of any kind.  Whatever configuration I set is remembered the next time I go into the app, even after a reboot.  Nevertheless, the startup sound is still played when I boot up.\nEdit: Are others having the same issue?  I'd be interested to know if this is a consistent problem with new iMacs or some quirk in how I've set mine up...\n\nA: Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you're out of luck. A year or two ago Apple decided that the startup sound is enough of a diagnostic (which it is, in fact: it lets you know the logic board is functioning properly enough) that it needs to sound on every boot, from the internal audio device, regardless of what your sound settings and interfaces are.\n\nA: I use the Startup Sound prefpane on a 2010 iMac with 10.6.5 and it does its job beautifully. Try reinstalling the prefpane. Link here.\n"
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        "text": "Why Telltale Games Died\nBefore I begin, it's important to note that I have no inside knowledge of Telltale Games, other than what has been published. My opinions are just based on observation of the company and the game market. Keep that in mind as you read this -- there may be factors at play I know nothing about.\nI was saddened to hear about the fall of Telltale Games. The company isn't quite dead yet, maintaining a crew of 25, but it seems the end is near from their public statements. Apparently the suddenness of the demise was due to a failed investment round. When that fell through, the company didn't have the revenues to go forward. Still, though, either the CEO shouldn't have been playing hardball in the negotiations, or should have had a viable plan B for the employee's sake if things fell through. The company must have been in bad shape financially for some time, and had to keep the employees on board in order to land the investment (who would invest if the staff was gone?) -- so couldn't give the staff any warning of potential impending doom. I understand why that was the thinking, but that puts the employee's welfare completely out of strategy entirely, which is obviously wrong. Or it should be obvious, anyway.\nThe bottom line is that Telltale should have been aware of its problems and trying to fix them years earlier. There were plenty of warning signs.\nFirst of all, I'll point out the widespread stories that Telltale apparently operated in continuous crunch mode, demanding employees work 50, 60, 70 hours a week or more to complete episodes on time. That essentially says you don't have enough people on the project. And when you do that for every project, all the time, you're not properly allocating resources. Your budget for the project says $X on paper, but your really spending much more than $X... so the product is going to be that much less profitable.\nAccording to some of the press reports, only Game of Thrones and Minecraft were profitable for Telltale, among their recent games. The conclusion is clear -- either they needed to create larger audiences for their games, or reduce the cost to create them, or find more ways to generate revenue from those games.\nPart of the problem is inherent in the design of the games. Basically, they are stories with some branching. There's no opportunity there for multiple players or character customization (since your character is part of the story and can't be changed), which means there's no reason for virtual goods. Why customize your character's look if no one else sees it -- and it really isn't your unique character, anyway? Taking away virtual item sales means foregoing a major source of revenue in this day and age.\nAnother problem for Telltale was licensing. Their whole portfolio of games is built on licensed properties -- they have no company-owned IP. Now, licenses, properly used, can be great. A well-chosen license can get you a vast audience at a low acquisition cost, though of course you now have licensing costs on top of your usual costs. The trick is to find ways to profit from that new audience. Usually, the obvious thing is to create a game using in-house IP that can sell well to the audience you gathered for the licensed game. (Note that many publishers use this strategy, like Jam City, Electronic Arts, Activision, and others.)\nFor instance, if you've sold millions of a Game of Thrones game, why not create your own fantasy setting and build interactive stories for that? Sure, the audience would be smaller than for Game of Thrones... but you wouldn't have the licensing costs. But Telltale never used this obvious strategy.\nI suppose that makes sense when your games weren't profitable anyway. This points to what they should have been doing -- finding a way to either sell their games to a bigger audience (through better marketing), or change the game design to be less expensive to produce and have more opportunities for profit (a design that made virtual items a reasonable thing to create).\nAll that said, I think interactive stories are fun, and Telltale had plenty of great ones (their numerous awards can testify to that). Telltale just hadn't figured out how to make them profitably. That's an important lesson for any game company. Yes, you have to create a fun experience for players -- but you have to make sure you have a way to make a profit, too.\nUpdate: A lawsuit has just been filed against Telltale for breaking laws in its abrupt layoffs.\nFurther Information: More than just the problems I outlined above, Telltale had basic problems with its engine that it never solved, as detailed in this article."
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        "text": "Q: Opening a new Terminal window when it's running on another desktop I open a lot of terminal windows. I also make use good use of tabs & multiple desktops.\nNormally I launch Terminal.app with Spotlight. But if Terminal is already running on another desktop, it changes to that desktop and opens it there. I hate that. I want it to open on the current desktop.\nSo for now, I've been doing this:\n\nIs there a better way?\n\nA: By Golly, I think I've found it this time.\nFire up Utilities/AppleScript Editor. Copy/paste the lines below. Save it and add it to your Dock. Whenever you click it you'll get a new window on your current desktop. You need to have \"Enable support for assistive devices\" activated in System Preferences - Universal Access. \ntell application \"Terminal\" to activate\ntell application \"System Events\"\n    tell process \"Terminal\"\n        click menu item \"New Window\" of menu \"Shell\" of menu bar 1\n    end tell\nend tell\n\nSource: adapted from this hint regarding Safari.\n\nA: I looked far and wide and found no better way myself. I usually have less than 5 Terminal windows open, and I usually don't want to switch desktops for Terminal, so in System Preferences - Expose - Spaces I assigned Terminal to be in Every Space so as to follow me around. You might hate that though.\n\nA: You can create a new service using automator (from the applications folder). At the top of the automator window, enter: Service receives 'no input' in 'any application'. Then, in the workflow, add 'Run applescript'. Make the applescript contain the following:\non run {input, parameters}\n\n    tell application \"Terminal\"\n        do script \" \"\n        activate\n    end tell\n\n    return input\nend run\n\n(You can add any command you like into the do script line between the \" \" (e.g. something useful to run when terminal first opens like \"uptime\" if you like, or just leave it blank).\nSave the service as 'Open Terminal' or whatever name you like. It should now appear in your services menu.\nThen if you want to add a keyboard shortcut, you just need to go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select services in the left hand menu, and find your new service (its probably near the bottom). Just click in the space to the right of your service name, and assign it whatever keyboard shortcut you like, and hey presto! it should all work\n\nA: You can tell the system to stop switching spaces \"automagically\" based on what App comes to the foreground:\n# don't switch spaces\ndefaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO\nkillall Dock\n\nThis is an important setting if you view each Space as its own workspace, and might have a Terminal window and a web browser window open in each space. If you want to switch spaces, you need to do so consciously and manually.\nThis is equivalent to System Prefs > Spaces, and then unchecking the \"switch space when switching app\" checkbox at the bottom.\n"
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        "text": "Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair\nby seymour • 17 July 2018 • Comments Off on Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair\nMorgan Rynish, 2018 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, will be at the Outagamie County Fair throughout the week. She will be speaking at various events. Rynish was a former exhibitor at the fair and is excited to be back at the fair this year. Pictured (left to right) Amanda Stingle, 2017 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, and Rynish. – Submitted photo\nOutagamie County fairgoers will have the opportunity to meet the 2018 Fairest of the Fair as they take in this year’s fair.\nMorgan Rynish, Pulaski, was crowned the 2018 Outagamie Fairest of the Fair at the Outagamie County Breakfast on June 10. Rynish will be a senior at UW-Eau Claire this fall and will graduate with a degree in elementary education next spring.\nRynish said coming back to the fair and once again being able to share her passion for the fair is one of the reasons she ran for the fairest of the fair.\n“I decided to run for fairest of the fair because I was looking for a way to become more involved in the Outagamie County Fair again,” Rynish said. “I have been out of exhibiting for a couple of years now, prior to having shown exhibits for 10 years, and I wanted to showcase the passion and experiences I gained from those 10 years at the fair.”\nDuring her previous years at the fair Rynish was busy participating with many activities at the fair.\n“Fair time was always crazy for me because I exhibited so many things,” Rynish said. “In my busiest years, I would show arts and crafts, foods and nutrition, photography, woodworking, dogs, rabbits, poultry, sheep and goats. So I guess you could say I know my way around the fair.”\nRynish said the fair really helps promote cooperation and teamwork across a wide range of people.\n“I believe everyone has something to gain from the fair, not just the youth,” Rynish said. “Come fair week, you can walk through the barns and witness everybody, adults and kids alike, working together to reach a common goal. I think the biggest thing anyone can take away from the fair is that feeling of pride and satisfaction when you work hard and work smart to reach a goal or help someone else do the same.”\nThis year Rynish said she is really looking forward to one of the new events at the fair.\n“I am looking forward to bull riding on Thursday night,” Rynish said. “I have never seen anything like this at the fair, so I can’t wait to experience something a little different.”\nWhile at the fair, Rynish said she will be speaking to many people and sharing her experiences.\n“I will be walking around the fairgrounds all week speaking at as many events as possible on stage at grandstand entertainment and at animal judging,” Rynish said. “I will be an advocate for the fair as well as the Fairest program.”\nSince she began her reign as fairest of the fair, Rynish said she has been to many events.\n“I have already participated in the Mackville Nationals Truck and Tractor Pulls, St. Nicholas Country Fest in Freedom, the Manawa Rodeo parade, and the Kickin’ It with the Cows run/walk in De Pere,” Rynish said.\nDuring her time as fairest of the fair, Rynish hopes to gain experience to help her in the future.\n“I hope to gain more experiences with speaking in front of large crowds, as well as maintaining professionalism in all circumstances,” Rynish said. “Since in the near future I hope to be an educator, this will help me be even more comfortable when working with students and adults. I can’t wait to see where my reign takes me personally and professionally.”\nThe Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair program Rynish said wouldn’t be possible without the support of the community.\n“I would like to thank the sponsors of the fairest of the fair program: the Outagamie County Dairy Promotions, Outagamie County Farm Bureau and Outagamie County Fair Association,” Rynish said.\nRynish said she does have advice for anyone who wants to run for fairest of the fair.\n“Don’t stress about it, which may seem like hard advice to listen to when the time comes,” Rynish said for any future fairest of the fair contestants. “Just be yourself.”\nVillage looking for ways to save money →"
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        "text": "Q: What are the benefits of iPhone jailbreak? Some days ago I read a news that said iPhone Jailbreak is legal. So I get 2 question in my mine.\n\n\n*\n\n*before this news jailbreaking was illegal?(if yes why? \"because when we buy something we can do anything we want with that product )(and if no then what was this news for?)\n\n*what is the benefits of jailbreaking? (are all iPhone applications was reachable through iTunes app store?)\n\n\nA: I Jailbroke my iPhone 4 as soon as the jalibreak was released and had my iPhone 2G Jailbroken before that.\nFor me it's not about illegally installing applications, it's about intsall tweaks and applications which Apple can't or won't allow into their App Store, for example:\n\n\n*\n\n*Winterboard:     Complete themeing system.\n\n*SBSettings:      Easily enable/disable settings from within\nany application.\n\n*Infinifolder:        Remove the 12 Application limit from iOS4 Folders.\n\n*QuickReply SMS:      Reply to SMS messages directly from the message\nalert with a popup keyboard and then\ninstantly return back to what you\nwere doing.\n\n*Cyntact:     Show contact pictures in Contacts.\n\n*BossPaper:       Rotating wallpapers (Was available before iOS 4 allowed\nthem)\n\n*Categories:      Allowed Apps in folders years before iOS4 did!\nThe few short weeks I had my iPhone 4 without it being Jailbroken I found it hard to use as I'd got so used to the small tweaks I'd installed my Cydia, most of them I had purchased.-\n\nA: I jailbroke my iPhone 4 few weeks ago, specifically for the MyFi, which allows you to tether your 3G connection to your other WiFi-enabled devices (iPad, laptop, etc), without paying $20 to AT&T every month and being limited by 2Gb of data. MyFi is $19.99, but you pay it once and enjoy free tethering after that, especially if you kept your $30 unlimited data plan (I did).\n   Initially beyond that I saw very little reason to use other apps from Cydia store, but now I slowly changing my mind, since I found few real gems.\n\n\n*\n\n*SBSettings - gives you quick panel to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G and few other functions. This is extremely handy, especially when you're trying to preserve your battery (long day on the conference or something) and you don't want to dive into Settings each time you want to turn WiFi on or off. SBSettings is free\n\n*Notified Pro - this is notification management done right. Notifications have horrible usability in iOS and this app ($4.00 for Pro version, but I think they have the light one for free as well) fixes it by introducing notifications list similar to one Android has, which you can activate from status bar or via other customized shortcuts\n\n*Frash - which is Flash for iPhone, right in your mobile Safari. Frankly I haven't use it for anything serious yet (and it doesn't support my favorite Flash game Quadradius), but it's a good app to wow your friends, since everyone knows that there's no Flash on the iPhone and you can always prove people wrong.\n\n*My favorite app IntelliScreen - it's a paid app as well, but it's extremely handy. It gives you a highly customizable lock screen very similar to Windows Mobile's Today screen, so you can look at your calendar, emails, SMS and other info without even unlocking your phone. Really, really handy.\nOne other thing that I didn't try personally yet, but going to soon is sync with your PC or Mac over WiFi. I hate to do it over a cable.\nNow, on the bad side:\n\n\n*\n\n*You have to be more careful and knowledgeable about stuff you're installing. That includes both apps (which are, in general, more buggy and may conflict with each other or with iOS) and stuff like official Apple iOS updates that you can't install unless you know that there's a jailbreak for them.\n\n*Cydia store (and others like RockYou app store) are less informative than AppStore and quite often it's hard to figure out what certain app does\n\n*Payment (while they allow multiple ways including AMazon payments and PayPal) is usually much more painful\n\n*Apps quite often are more expensive (think $4.99-$9.99 range), but on the bright side they worth it\n\nA: As to your first inquiry, Jailbreaking was illegal because of the way the Digital Millenium Copyright Act restricts the circumvention of encryption, copy protection, and other digital security mechanisms. In short, it is not so much the possession of a jailbroken phone which was illegal, but rather the process by which the phone was jailbroken. A common analogy is to liken the DMCA's restriction to a law preventing the crossing of red lines in the road. If there is a public park on the other side of the red line, it is legal for you to be there, but illegal to walk across the line to get there. The recent LoC ruling essentially created an exception to the DMCA's restriction for the specific purpose of jailbreaking a phone for the purpose of installing additional software and expanding it's functionality.\nNow, as to Why Jailbreak? In short, Jailbreak if there is an application you want to run which requires you to jailbreak. Apps available through Cydia and other repositories available to Jailbroken iPhone owners run the gamut from those rejected by Apple because they violate the App Stores Terms of Service in some way (Explicit content, use of hidden or illegal API's), apps from authors who disagree with Apples policies in administering the App Store, and apps which rely on functionality only available from other jailbreak apps.\n\nA: Here's the same question from gadgets.stackexchange.com. Lotsa good info in that post as well.\niOS4 really has circumvented the \"need\" to jailbreak. The reasons are actually dwindling now. Here are my advantages.\n\n*\n\n*Backgrounder allows a (now outdated) type of multitasking. It was ok on iPhone 3G, but with the iPad's more powerful processor, it may be more stable. Once 4.0 is released for the iPad, this won't be necessary any more.\n\n\n*MyWi allows you to tether for free if you've got the 3G iPad ($9.99 for the app...$19.99 for 4.0, but well-worth it IMO)\n\n\n*For me, it's cool to have access to the filesystem. Utilities like Mobile Terminal, OpenSSH, and iFile are of specific interest to me just for my own nerdish pleasures lol.\nHope this helps!\n\nA: The Benefits of Jailbreaking are that you can run any software that was created for it, regardless if it was rejected from the Apple’s App Store. Some good applications were rejected for different reasons (using Private APIs, Confilcts with existing Apple apps, etc). \nIf you Jailbreak your iPhone/iPodTouch you can install any of these, bypassing the iTS.\nEDIT: The legal part has been nicely explained by LessPop_MoreFizz.\n\nA: Jailbreaking your phone lets you use non AT&T sim cards in it. If you go overseas to the Czech Republic or to Germany, for example, you can buy pre-paid sim cards in those countries and continue using your iphone if it is jailbroken. \n\nA: For me jailbreaking allowed me to install an app not allowed on the App Store - AutoSilent.  I needed this as a drop of my iPhone (1G) left the silent switch permanently set to silent.  AutoSilent allowed me to bypass this.\n\nA: I jailbreak because of Wifi Tethering and WinterBoard.\n\nA: Facetime over 3G and tethering are the only reasons to jailbreak an iPhone 4.  Multitasking is the only reason to jailbreak an iPad.\nIts legal, but make sure you restore the device before you bring it to a genius bar.  Apple employees don't have to honor the warranty or applecare if they see that the device is jailbroken.\n"
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        "text": "3 април е 93-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (94-ти през високосна). Остават 272 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1265 г. – Битка при Ившам: Симон дьо Монфор е разгромен и убит, а папа Климент IV предоставя на Шарал д'Анжу права за организиране на кръстоносен поход.\n 1860 г. – На Великден в цариградската църква Свети Стефан при църковната служба епископ Иларион Макариополски не споменава името на Вселенския гръцки патриарх; Българската православна църква се отделя от фанариотската вселенската патриаршия.\n 1879 г. – Учредителното събрание избира София за столица на Княжество България.\n 1910 г. – Осъществено е първото изкачване на най-високия връх в Северна Америка – Маккинли.\n 1917 г. – Владимир Ленин пристига в Петроград след заточението, което поставя началото на Болшевишкото управление в руската революция.\n 1922 г. – Йосиф Сталин е избран за Генерален секретар на ЦК на КПСС.\n 1933 г. – Четирима англичани с два двуплощника извършват първия полет над Еверест (Джомулунгма).\n 1939 г. – Втората световна война: Хитлер се разпорежда за разработването на Операция Вайс за нападение над Полша.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Японската армия започва масирани атаки срещу американските войски.\n 1948 г. – Американският президент Хари Труман подписва Плана Маршал, съгласно който на 16 страни от Европа e отпусната помощ в размер на 6 милиарда долара за възстановяване след Втората световна война.\n 1966 г. – Съветският космически апарат Луна 10 влиза в орбита около Луната, като става първият изкуствен спътник на друго небесно тяло.\n 1973 г. – В Ню Йорк е направено първото обаждане от мобилен телефон.\n 1975 г. – Боби Фишер отказва шахматна среща срещу Анатоли Карпов, в резултат на което Карпов получава титлата Световен шампион по шахмат.\n 1976 г. – Във Франция се провежда първата церемония по връчване на наградите „Цезар“ за постижения в областта на киното.\n 1984 г. – Ракеш Шарма става първият индийски космонавт.\n 1986 г. – IBM показват PC Convertible, техният първи преносим компютър.\n 1990 г. – БКП се преименува на Българска социалистическа партия.\n 1990 г. – IX народно събрание гласува законите за изборите, за политическите партии, за закриване на Държавния съвет на НРБ и замяната му с председател (президент) на Републиката и негов заместник, като избира Петър Младенов за председател (президент) на Република България.\n 1992 г. – XXXVI народно събрание приема нов Закон за поземлената собственост и частното стопанисване на земята в България, който изисква връщането на земята „в реални граници“.\n 2000 г. – БНТ излъчва ужасяващи кадри от войната в Чечения във вечерните новини от „По света и у нас“. Вследствие на това НСРТ глобява БНТ, а екипът, работил същата вечер и водещата Милена Милотинова са временно понижени. Милотинова репортерства в новините, запазва рейтинг и е реабилитирана като водеща на новините на 8 декември същата година, но вече работи с екипа на редакторката Нина Спасова.\n 2011 г. – Българската православна църква канонизира за светци новомъчениците от Ново село и Батак, дали живота си за християнската вяра по време на Априлското въстание.\n\nРодени \n\n 1367 г. – Хенри IV, Крал на Англия († 1413 г.)\n 1783 г. – Уошингтън Ървинг, американски писател († 1859 г.)\n 1797 г. – Бартелеми Дюмортие, белгийски ботаник и политик († 1878 г.)\n 1841 г. – Херман Фогел, немски астроном († 1907 г.)\n 1859 г. – Александру Авереску, румънски политик († 1938 г.)\n 1873 г. – Ян Янски, чешки невролог († 1921 г.)\n 1880 г. – Ото Вайнингер, австрийски философ († 1903 г.)\n 1884 г. – Иван Йончев, български поет († 1918 г.)\n 1885 г. – Борис Вилкицки, руски хидрограф († 1961 г.)\n 1896 г. – Юзеф Чапски, полски художник († 1993 г.)\n 1898 г. – Мишел дьо Гелдерод, белгийски драматург († 1962 г.)\n 1900 г. – Михаил Люцканов, български певец († 1989 г.)\n 1903 г. – Пиеро Пасторе, италиански футболист и киноартист († 1968 г.)\n 1903 г. – Петер Хухел, немски поет († 1981 г.)\n 1909 г. – Роберт Щилмарк, руски писател († 1985 г.)\n 1911 г. – Майкъл Уудръф, английски хирург († 2001 г.)\n 1911 г. – Николай Бошнаков, български военен летец († 1948 г.)\n 1921 г. – Георги Мицков, български поет († 2002 г.)\n 1924 г. – Марлон Брандо, американски актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1930 г. – Хелмут Кол, Канцлер на Германия († 2017 г.)\n 1934 г. – Джейн Гудол, английска зооложка\n 1934 г. – Христофор Тзавелла, български поет, писател и фолклорист († 2018 г.)\n 1936 г. – Виктор Вълков, български политик\n 1942 г. – Мария Желева, първа дама на България (1990 – 1997) († 2013 г.)\n 1942 г. – Уейн Нютън, американски актьор\n 1945 г. – Атанас Щерев, български лекар и политик\n 1948 г. – Ханс-Георг Шварценбек, немски футболист\n 1948 г. – Яп де Хоп Схефер, холандски политик\n 1949 г. – Александър Томов, български борец\n 1956 г. – Йордан Митков, български щангист\n 1958 г. – Алек Болдуин, американски актьор\n 1961 г. – Еди Мърфи, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Вени Марковски, интернет пионер\n 1968 г. – Себастиан Бах, канадски музикант (Скид Роу)\n 1969 г. – Клотилд Куро, френска актриса\n 1970 г. – Дитмар Дат, немски писател\n 1972 г. – Добромир Митов, български футболен треньор\n 1973 г. – Джейми Бамбър, британски актьор\n 1978 г. – Томи Хаас, немски тенисист\n 1980 г. – Иван Спахиев, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Леона Люис, британска певица\n 1986 г. – Аманда Байнс, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1682 г. – Бартоломео Естебан Мурильо, испански художник (* 1618 г.)\n 1849 г. – Юлиуш Словацки, полски поет (* 1809 г.)\n 1862 г. – Джеймс Кларк Рос, британски полярен изследовател (* 1800 г.)\n 1868 г. – Франц Адолф Бервалд, шведски цигулар и композитор (* 1796 г.)\n 1897 г. – Йоханес Брамс, германски композитор (* 1833 г.)\n 1927 г. – Васил Попов, български анархист (* 1879 г.)\n 1941 г. – Пал Телеки, министър-председател на Унгария (* 1879 г.)\n 1950 г. – Курт Вайл, американски композитор от немски произход (* 1900 г.)\n 1966 г. – Батиста Пининфарина, италиански автомобилен дизайнер (* 1893 г.)\n 1991 г. – Греъм Грийн, английски писател (* 1904 г.)\n 1998 г. – Зина Юрданова, българска художничка (* 1904 г.)\n 2000 г. – Милко Бобоцов, български шахматист (* 1931 г.)\n 2010 г. – Иван Балсамаджиев, български актьор (* 1953 г.)\n 2010 г. – Йожен Тер'Бланш, защитник на белите в РЮА (* 1941 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n403"
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        "text": "Q: Is there an image editor like Windows' Paint for OS X? I tried out several image editors mentioned on this site but some of them (like Pixen and Seashore) were very disappointing. These apps were too simple and low level.\nWhat do you suggest for a (preferably free) image editor on OS X?\nP.S: I was using GIMP on Linux and also know that it was released for OS X too, but I want to find new good applications.\n\nA: I think it’s too subjective. Anyway, probably the two candidates are:\n1) You don’t have Photoshop experience (or want to get far from it): Acorn is for you.\n2) You know Photoshop and have some experience with it: Pixelmator will make you feel more at home.\n\nA: You said that you already know Gimp. I use that at times on my Ubuntu box and my Macbook. Also, Seashore on the Mac for really simple stuff.\nHere are a couple of links to open source options.\n\n\n*\n\n*http://www.osalt.com/graphic-applications\n\n*http://www.opensourcemac.org/\n\nA: I use Pixen for the lightweight jobs.\nUpdate 2018: Since I recommended it 8 years ago, Pixen is now a paid app. Apparently I'm not the only one who thought they were doing something right. I wish them well with it. In the intervening time, I've gravitated to using Preview for basic photo editing and markup.\n\nA: I don't know why nobody talks about Krita.\nIt is free and powerful with a lot of options. I was a real user of Paint.NET and I got sad when I migrated to Mac and didn't get my Paint.NET.  Now I am using Krita and this is perfect.  \n\nA: You could try Paintbrush (free).\nAs quoted from its website :\nPaintbrush is a simple paint program for Mac OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years.\n\n\nA: Acorn ($49 or free with reduced features)\nAcorn is what you want.\n\nA: Pixelmator is a great alternative to Photoshop and similar to paint.net on windows\n\nA: What about the PowerPoint? You can edit images and then take a screenshot.\n"
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        "text": "Q: iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Way to type multiple capital letters without having to press SHIFT before each letter? Let's say I'm typing a word in ALL-CAPS on the iPad.  Currently, the only way I know of how to do this is to press SHIFT before each of the letters.\nIs there an alternative, like a sticky shift or Caps Lock function, where I can just go into a caps mode, type the letters I want as all caps, and then go back to normal text entry?  I've tried keeping my finger on the shift key as well while I type, but that doesn't work as expected.\n\nA: Tap the Settings app. and click on the General *menu* > the Keyboard. Then turn \"Enable Caps Lock\" on.\nNow just double-tap the shift key to enable caps lock once using the keyboard.\nyou can see with image tutorial here.\n\nA: Holding shift ought to work, also. Perhaps that relies on the caps lock option, but it works for me. \n"
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        "text": "Vaccination campaign against Polio in Luanda\nHere again comes the time for the annual Campaign against Polio in Angola. Angolan government, Ngos, International schools, expats, everybody is called for help in giving the two magic drops of the vaccination directly in the mouth of children age between 0 and 5 years old.\n\"In these last 14 months - as an Africare official told us - there have been no new cases of the disease in the Country\".\nThat's a good news, but the campaign goes on even this year in order to prevent any new case and, as last year, the Luanda International School has been part of this campaign with more than 50 students, almost 10 teachers and a number of parents.\nThe Lis group of people has been sent in Rangel, a huge area in Luanda, where more than 38.000 people live in precarious living conditions without electricity, water, roads, stuck in a mountain of mud given the tropical rains of this last few weeks.\nThe guys have been walking in the street, knocking at the doors, asking to the people about the presence of children and after a while \"they were coming to us\" said a Lis student involved in the campaign. At the end of the day 800 children have been vaccinated as a matter of a touchable success.\nThe aim of this campaign held by the WHO (World Health Organization), Africare and African Governments is the eradication of Polio in Africa.\nHere's the video of the Polio Vaccination Day in Luanda with Africare shot by Margriet Faber.\nPolio Vaccination Day Lis-Africare in Luanda (2012)\nLuanda solidarity\nIt happens sometimes that a group of people, no matter their skin color, their religion, their nationality, gather together around a wish: I want to do something for the others!\nWell it happened a couple of days ago, when these people, americans, english, africans, italians, …, went all together in a \"barrio\" in south Luanda where some 500 people, mostly children, in their best clothes, were waiting their arrival in church, praying and singing and dancing.\nOnce there, this nice and colourful group of people, did a Christmas exibition, with their children pretending to be Maria and Giuseppe and a number of angels. Then they gave to the local children a present each and they distributed fruits to the others, there was no room in the church for the incredible amount of locals gathered around the church.\nIt happens that even if a simple wish couldn't change the world, can give some unfogettable two hours of solidarity and communion between people.\nEtichette: Angola, Luanda, solidarity"
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        "text": "East Coast Renovations, LLC has provided exceptional marble and granite installation in Aldan Pennsylvania. Our highly skilled craftsmen will work with you every step of the way to create the new kitchen, bathroom or beautiful Aldan stone flooring of your dreams. We pride ourselves in providing the best quality products available for an affordable price. Our Aldan marble and granite offerings are extensive and design ideas are endless.\nEast Coast Renovations, LLC offers a wide variety of marble and granite to Aldan residents and businesses. Whether you would like to update your counter tops with sparkling, polished granite or install gleaming marble floors or a staircase, East Coast Renovations, LLC is skilled and experienced in providing quality marble and granite installation at a reasonable price. Our Aldan natural stone installation team will work with you every step of the way, from choosing the stone to suite your taste, to choosing colors to compliment your home's existing furnishings. Put our experience in the industry and creativity to work to make your dreams become reality.\nWhen you call East Coast Renovations, LLC for your Aldan stone floor or counter top installation, rest assured that we will schedule appointments around your busy schedule and arrive to meetings on time. Once work has begun and through its completion, we will work within a structured schedule to complete your Aldan marble or granite project on time and within budget."
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        "text": "3 май е 123-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (124-ти през високосна). Остават 242 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1494 г. – Христофор Колумб открива Ямайка.\n 1791 г. – В Полско-литовската държава е приета първата модерна конституция в Европа.\n 1802 г. – Вашингтон е обявен за град.\n 1808 г. – Полуостровната война: Жителите на Мадрид, които вдигат бунт на 2 май срещу френската окупация, са разстреляни.\n 1837 г. – В Атина е основан първият университет за страните от източно Средиземно море.\n 1904 г. – Американски изобретател Джордж Паркър патентована първата си писалка „Паркър“.\n 1915 г. – Канадският военен лекар подполковник Джон Маккрей написва Във Фландърските полета, призната по-късно за една от най-добрите поеми, писани през Първата световна война.\n 1916 г. – Екзекутирани са ръководителите на Великденското въстание, целящо постигането на независимост на Ирландия от Великобритания.\n 1936 г. – Изборна победа на Народния фронт във Франция.\n 1937 г. – Маргарет Мичел печели Пулицър за книгата си Отнесени от вихъра.\n 1947 г. – Приета е новата следвоенна конституция на Япония.\n 1956 г. – Провежда се първото световно първенство по джудо.\n 1959 г. – Обявени са първите награди Грами.\n 1971 г. – Ерих Хонекер е избран за първи секретар на Германската единна социалистическа партия.\n 1979 г. – Маргарет Тачър печели изборите във Великобритания, превръщайки се в първата жена министър-председател на страната.\n 1999 г. – Торнадо от 5 степен връхлита Оклахома, при което загиват 45 души, 665 са ранени, а щетите са за 1 милиард долара.\n\nРодени \n\n 612 г. – Константин III, византийски император († 641 г.)\n 1469 г. – Николо Макиавели, италиански философ († 1527 г.)\n 1678 г. – Амаро Парго, испански корсар († 1747 г.)\n 1740 г. – Иван Михелсон, руски военачалник († 1807 г.)\n 1761 г. – Аугуст фон Коцебу, немски драматург († 1819 г.)\n 1764 г. – Елизабет Френска, френска принцеса († 1794 г.)\n 1773 г. – Джузепе Ачерби, италиански изследовател († 1846 г.)\n 1858 г. – Рачо Славейков, български военен деец и публицист († 1931 г.)\n 1867 г. – Александър Малинов, министър-председател на България († 1938 г.)\n 1873 г. – Павло Скоропадски, украински политик († 1945 г.)\n 1877 г. – Карл Абрахам, германски психоаналитик († 1925 г.)\n 1880 г. – Кирил Попов, български математик († 1966 г.)\n 1892 г. – Анастас Дудулов, български скулптор († 1971 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джордж Паджет Томсън, английски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1975 г.)\n 1898 г. – Голда Меир, министър-председател на Израел († 1978 г.)\n 1902 г. – Алфред Кастлер, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1984 г.)\n 1903 г. – Бинг Кросби, американски актьор († 1977 г.)\n 1916 г. – Христо Иванов, български химик († 2004 г.)\n 1917 г. – Киро Глигоров, първи президент на Република Македония († 2012 г.)\n 1924 г. – Йехуда Амихай, израелски писател († 2000 г.)\n 1924 г. – Кен Тирел, британски автомобилен състезател († 2001 г.)\n 1926 г. – Михаил Пенчев, български режисьор († 1996 г.)\n 1927 г. – Юрий Тухаринов, съветски офицер († 1998 г.)\n 1928 г. – Джеймс Браун, чернокож музикант († 2006 г.)\n 1929 г. – Вадим Масон, руски археолог († 2010 г.)\n 1930 г. – Хуан Хелман, аржентински поет († 2014 г.)\n 1931 г. – Хироказу Каназава, японски каратист († 2019 г.)\n 1933 г. – Стивън Уайнбърг, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2021 г.)\n 1933 г. – Рада Москова, българска писателка\n 1934 г. – Иван Андонов, български режисьор и живописец († 2011 г.)\n 1934 г. – Хенри Купър, британски боксьор († 2011 г.)\n 1936 г. – Асен Кисимов, български актьор († 2005 г.)\n 1940 г. – Кони Планк, немски продуцент († 1987 г.)\n 1941 г. – Нона Гаприндашвили, грузинска шахматистка\n 1942 г. – Стефка Берова, българска поп певица и актриса\n 1946 г. – Христофор Събев, български йеромонах\n 1950 г. – Валентин Миновски, български певец\n 1951 г. – Татяна Толстая, руска писателка\n 1953 г. – Мадлен Чолакова, българска актриса\n 1957 г. – Стивън М. Вейзи, американски религиозен водач\n 1959 г. – Василка Сугарева, българска актриса\n 1965 г. – Майкъл Смит, британски писател\n 1969 г. – Добринка Корчева, българска поетеса\n 1972 г. – Ненчо Илчев, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Ивайло Петров, български футболист\n 1979 г. – Виктория Терзийска, българска певица\n 1983 г. – Мартон Фюльоп, унгарски футболист\n 2001 г. – Рейчъл Зиглър, американска актриса и певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 115 г. – Александър I, римски папа (* ок. 106)\n 1152 г. – Матилда Булонска, шотландска благородничка (* ок. 1103)\n 1270 г. – Бела IV, крал на Унгария (* 1206 г.)\n 1481 г. – Мехмед II, султан на Османската империя (* 1432 г.)\n 1758 г. – Бенедикт XIV, римски папа (* 1675 г.)\n 1856 г. – Адолф Адам, френски композитор (* 1803 г.)\n 1857 г. – Василий Тропинин, руски художник, портретист (* 1776 г.)\n 1932 г. – Антон Вилдганс, австрийски писател (* 1881 г.)\n 1936 г. – Роберт Михелс, немски политолог (* 1876 г.)\n 1937 г. – Петър Тантилов, български военен деец (* 1861 г.)\n 1942 г. – Елпида Караманди, комунистическа партизанка (* 1920 г.)\n 1944 г. – Вела Пеева, българска партизанка (* 1922 г.)\n 1987 г. – Далида, френска певица (* 1933 г.)\n 1996 г. – Херман Кестен, немски писател (* 1900 г.)\n 2005 г. – Петър Петров, български шахматист (* 1919 г.)\n 2006 г. – Карел Апел, холандски художник (* 1921 г.)\n 2007 г. – Уоли Шира, американски астронавт (* 1923 г.)\n 2010 г. – Флоренцио Кампоманес, филипински шахматист (* 1927 г.)\n 2014 г. – Гери Бекър, американски икономист (* 1930 г.)\n 2018 г. – Гюнтер Хербургер, немски писател (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n ЮНЕСКО – Световен ден за свобода на пресата\n Полша – Ден на конституцията (1791 г., национален празник)\n САЩ – Национален ден на учителя\n Сиера Леоне – Ден на независимостта\n Южна Африка – Ден на свободата\n Япония – Ден на конституцията (1947 г., национален празник)\n\n503"
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        "text": "BatzB - Poplar Grove �\nThe Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Contents\nTopic: BatzB - Poplar Grove\nThe Battle of Poplar Grove\nSouth Africa, 7 March 1900\nThe Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Roll of Honour\nThe Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900\nBoer War, 1899 - 1902\nCitation: The Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Contents\nUpdated: Thursday, 7 April 2011 12:50 PM EADT\nThe Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Outline\nPoplar Grove, a minor action of the Second South African War, fought on 7 March 1900 during the British advance on Bloomfontein following the capture of Cronje's force of Boers at Paardeberg (q.v.) a week earlier. In an effort to delay the progress of Field Marshal Lord Roberts' large army, 7,000 burghers under General Christiaan De Wet prepared to make a stand on ridges near a drift (ford) over the Modder River some 90 kilometres west-north-west of the Orange Free State capital. Although occupying strong ground on both sides of the river, the enemy were dispirited by their recent defeat. By 7.30 a.m., and before the British artillery could be brought into action, the Boers began abandoning their positions. They had seen Lieut.-General Sir John French's cavalry division embarking on a wide flanking movement to their left and panicked at the idea of being cut off.\nDuring the battle the New South Wales Mounted Rifles and Queensland Mounted Infantry were attached to the 14th Infantry Brigade, which was assigned the role of harassing the enemy on the south bank of the river and diverting attention from the main attack being delivered by French. Although the British infantry was soon in possession of the enemy's prepared trenches, some of which would have proved almost impregnable if defended, the cavalry's flanking move had been too slow to catch the better-mounted Boers. Losses on the British side amounted to no more than 50 casualties, including five men killed. De Wet's forces remained intact to mount a renewed defensive effort.\nExtracted from the book produced by Chris Coulthard-Clark, Where Australians Fought - The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998, p. 70.\nCitation: The Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Outline\nThe Roll of Honour contains the names of all the Allied forces known to have served and lost their lives during the Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900.\nCitation: The Battle of Poplar Grove, South Africa, 7 March 1900, Roll of Honour"
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        "text": "3 юни е 154-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (155-и през високосна). Остават 211 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 350 г. – Римският узурпатор Непоциан, от Константиновата династия, се провъзгласява за римски император и влиза в Рим начело на тълпа гладиатори.\n 1098 г. – Първи кръстоносен поход: Кръстоносците превземат Антиохия след 8-месечна обсада.\n 1862 г. – Избухват сражения между сърби и турци в Белград; Първа българска легия на Георги Сава Раковски се намесва в конфликта.\n 1889 г. – В Канада е завършена железопътната връзка между Източния и Западния бряг.\n 1918 г. – Третяковската галерия e обявена за държавна с декрет на Ленин.\n 1927 г. – Дейци на ВМРО взривяват жп линията Скопие – Велес.\n 1933 г. – Параходът на СССР Челюскин, под названието „Лена“, извършва първото си плаване.\n\n 1934 г. – Изобретателят на инсулина – канадецът Фредерик Бантинг, е удостовен с благородническа титла.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Цар Борис III се среща с Адолф Хитлер в Бергхоф (Бавария) – обсъдено е положението в Гърция и е оказан натиск върху Царство България да окупира цяла Егейска Македония със Солун и Моравската долина.\n 1950 г. – За първи път е осъществено изкачване на осемхилядник – връх Анапурна – от френски алпинисти.\n 1959 г. – Сингапур става независима от Великобритания държава.\n 1989 г. – Китайското правителство изпраща военни части, за да потуши протестите на площад Тянанмън.\n 2006 г. – Черна гора официално обявява независимост, с което слага край на конфедерацията Сърбия и Черна гора.\n\nРодени \n\n 1804 г. – Ричард Кобден, британски предприемач и политик († 1865 г.)\n 1808 г. – Джеферсън Дейвис, президент на Конфедеративните американски щати († 1889 г.)\n 1817 г. – Клементина Бурбон-Орлеанска, майка на цар Фердинанд († 1907 г.)\n 1819 г. – Ян Бартолд Йонгкинд, холандски художник († 1891 г.)\n 1832 г. – Карл Льокок, френски композитор († 1918 г.)\n 1844 г. – Детлев фон Лилиенкрон, немски поет и драматург († 1909 г.)\n 1865 г. – Джордж V, крал на Обединеното кралство († 1936 г.)\n 1873 г. – Леонид Леонидов, руски актьор († 1941 г.)\n 1873 г. – Ото Леви, австрийски физиолог и фармаколог, Нобелов лауреат за 1936 г. († 1961 г.)\n 1885 г. – Йоан XXIII, римски папа (* 1963 г.)\n 1893 г. – Асен Карастоянов, български композитор († 1976 г.)\n 1899 г. – Георг фон Бекеши, унгарски биофизик, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 г. († 1972 г.)\n 1906 г. – Джозефин Бейкър, американска танцьорка († 1975 г.)\n 1906 г. – Сергей Герасимов, руски актьор, режисьор и педагог († 1985 г.)\n 1910 г. – Полет Годар, американска актриса († 1990 г.)\n 1921 г. – Коста Пергелов, български икономист († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ален Рене, френски режисьор († 2014 г.)\n 1924 г. – Торстен Визел, шведски офталмолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г.\n 1925 г. – Тони Къртис, американски актьор († 2010 г.)\n 1926 г. – Алън Гинсбърг, американски поет († 1997 г.)\n 1926 г. – Мартин Грегор-Делин, немски писател († 1988 г.)\n 1930 г. – Марион Зимър Брадли, американска писателка († 1999 г.)\n 1931 г. – Илчо Димитров, български историк и политик († 2002 г.)\n 1931 г. – Раул Кастро, президент на Куба\n 1938 г. – Кирияк Цонев, български дипломат († 2016 г.)\n 1939 г. – Любен Петков, български писател († 2016 г.)\n 1940 г. – Вълчан Вълчанов, български режисьор\n 1941 г. – Моника Марон, немска писателка\n 1950 г. – Сузи Куатро, американска поп-изпълнителка\n 1961 г. – Лорънс Лесиг, американски юрист\n 1961 г. – Норберт Гщрайн, австрийски писател\n 1963 г. – Пол Хлебников, американски журналист († 2004 г.)\n 1964 г. – Николай Николов, български актьор\n 1967 г. – Николай Станчев, български футболист\n 1967 г. – Цонко Цонев, кмет на Каварна\n 1970 г. – Петер Тегтгрен, шведски метъл музикант\n 1971 г. – Луиджи Ди Биаджо, италиански футболист\n 1971 г. – Тихомир Георгиев, български политик, инженер и икономист\n 1974 г. – Евгени Иванов, български волейболист\n 1974 г. – Сергей Ребров, украински футболист\n 1976 г. – Милица Гладнишка, българска актриса\n 1980 г. – Амаури, бразилски футболист\n 1982 г. – Елена Исинбаева, руска лекоатлетка и световна рекордьорка в овчарския скок\n 1982 г. – Теодора, българска попфолк певица\n 1985 г. – Явор Янакиев, български борец\n 1986 г. – Рафаел Надал, испански тенисист\n 1992 г. – Марио Гьотце, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1605 г. – Ян Замойски, полски държавник (* 1542 г.)\n 1613 г. – Алахверди хан, ирански генерал (* ок. 1560 г.)\n 1657 г. – Уилям Харви, английски лекар и физик (* 1578 г.)\n 1773 г. – Паисий Хилендарски, български народен будител (* 1722 г.)\n 1821 г. – Йосиф III Солунски, гръцки духовник (* ? г.)\n 1844 г. – Луи XIX, дофин на Франция (* 1775 г.)\n 1858 г. – Юлиус Ройбке, германски композитор (* 1834 г.)\n 1875 г. – Жорж Бизе, френски композитор (* 1838 г.)\n 1899 г. – Йохан Щраус (син), австрийски композитор (* 1825 г.)\n 1924 г. – Франц Кафка, австрийски писател (* 1883 г.)\n 1925 г. – Камий Фламарион, френски астроном (* 1842 г.)\n 1945 г. – Викентий Вересаев, руски писател (* 1867 г.)\n 1946 г. – Михаил Калинин, съветски държавник (* 1875 г.)\n 1958 г. – Жорж Буланже, румънски музикант (* 1893 г.)\n 1963 г. – Йоан XXIII, римски папа (* 1881 г.)\n 1963 г. – Назъм Хикмет, турски поет (* 1902 г.)\n 1964 г. – Франс Емил Силанпя, финландски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1939 г. (* 1888 г.)\n 1975 г. – Ейсаку Сато, министър-председател на Япония, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 г. (* 1901 г.)\n 1977 г. – Арчибал Хил, британски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1922 г. (* 1886 г.)\n 1977 г. – Роберто Роселини, италиански режисьор (* 1906 г.)\n 1979 г. – Арно Шмит, немски писател (* 1914 г.)\n 1989 г. – Рухолах Хомейни, ирански шиитски лидер (* 1900 г.)\n 1990 г. – Робърт Нойс, американски изобретател (* 1927 г.)\n 1991 г. – Лъчезар Стоянов, български актьор (* 1938 г.)\n 2000 г. – Атанас Душков, български писател (* 1909 г.)\n 2000 г. – Невена Коканова, българска актриса (* 1938 г.)\n 2001 г. – Антъни Куин, мексикано-американски актьор (* 1915 г.)\n 2006 г. – Жул Леви, български композитор и диригент (* 1930 г.)\n 2006 г. – Зако Хеския, български режисьор (* 1922 г.)\n 2009 г. – Дейвид Карадайн, американски актьор и ушу звезда (* 1936 г.)\n 2009 г. – Шек Кин, китайски актьор († 1913 г.)\n 2010 г. – Жуау Агиар, португалски писател (* 1943 г.)\n 2010 г. – Владимир Арнолд, съветски, руски и френски математик (* 1937 г.)\n 2012 г. – Анди Хамилтън, британски музикант (* 1918 г.)\n 2013 г. – Невена Тошева, български режисьор (* 2013 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Ден на село Самуилово, община Сливен\n Ливан, Мароко, Сирия, Тунис и др. – Годишнина от раждането на пророка Мохамед\n Русия – Ден на мелиоратора\n Тайван – Ден за борба с опиума (1839)\n Украйна – Ден на въоръжените сили от ПВО\n\n603"
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        "text": "Looking for a home mortgage in Troy, KY?\nA BB&T Mortgage loan professional in Troy, KY can help you find the right mortgage interest rates, down payment options, home loan type, and mortgage payment. We will help you navigate the home mortgage process and identify the home loan that meets your needs.\nIf you already own a home in Troy, KY a home equity loan or refinancing might be a good choice, depending on your financial situation."
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        "text": "3 юли е 184-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (185-и през високосна). Остават 181 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 324 г. – В Битката при Адрианопол римският император Константин I Велики побеждава Лициний, който се спасява зад стените на Византион.\n 1608 г. – Град Квебек е основан при устието на река Сейнт Лорънс от френския изследовател Самюел дьо Шамплен.\n 1863 г. – Завършва Битката при Гетисбърг, част от Американската гражданска война.\n 1866 г. – По време на Австро-пруската война се състои битката при Кьонегрец с участие общо на 436 000 войници и 1700 оръдия; австрийските и саксонските войски претърпяват загуба и са принудени да сключат Пражкия мир.\n 1877 г. – Руско-турска освободителна война: Българското опълчение преминава река Дунав.\n 1890 г. – Айдахо става 43-тия щат на САЩ.\n 1894 г. – Започва учредителният конгрес на Българската работническа социалдемократическа партия.\n 1895 г. – Бившият министър-председател на България Стефан Стамболов е съсечен в центъра на София и 3 дни по-късно умира от раните си.\n 1908 г. – С бунт в гарнизона в Ресен избухва Младотурската революция; дадена е амнистия на 1500 българи – политически затворници.\n 1912 г. – Провежда се за пръв път Оперният фестивал в Савонлина във Финландия, огранизиран от Айно Акте.\n 1915 г. – В Турция са пуснати в обращение първите банкноти.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Започва Операция Катапулт, в която британската флота, идваща от Гибралтар, напада Френската атлантическа флота, разположена в Мерс ел-Кебир.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Англо-американската авиация бомбардира Русе и село Чупрене.\n 1956 г. – Народна република България установява дипломатически отношения с Етиопия.\n 1957 г. – Създаден е Български автомобилен турингклуб, преименуван по-късно на Съюз на българските автомобилисти.\n 1962 г. – След продължителна колониална война френският президент Шарл дьо Гол провъзгласява независимостта на Алжир от Франция.\n 1985 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма Завръщане в бъдещето в САЩ.\n 1988 г. – Самолет Airbus A300 на иранските авиолинии, изпълняващ редовен полет между Бандар Абас в Иран и Дубай е свален над Персийския залив, от ракета на ракетния крайцер „Vincennes“ от състава на Военноморските сили на САЩ. Загиват всичките 290 души на борда на самолета.\n 1991 г. – Адигея влиза в състава на Руската федерация.\n 2006 г. – При катастрофа в метрото на Валенсия (Испания) загиват 41 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1423 г. – Луи XI, крал на Франция († 1483 г.)\n 1728 г. – Робърт Адам, британски архитект († 1792 г.)\n 1738 г. – Джон Копли, американски и английски художник († 1815 г.)\n 1767 г. – Жан Жозеф Пол Огюстен, френски държавник († 1828 г.)\n 1854 г. – Леош Яначек, чешки композитор († 1928 г.)\n 1855 г. – Петър Груев, български висш военен, генерал († 1942 г.)\n 1857 г. – Антон Шоурек, чешки математик († 1926 г.)\n 1875 г. – Фердинанд Зауербрух, германски хирург († 1951 г.)\n 1876 г. – Ралф Пери, американски философ, неореалист († 1957 г.)\n 1879 г. – Алфред Кожибски, полски лингвист († 1950 г.)\n 1883 г. – Франц Кафка, чешки и австрийски писател († 1924 г.)\n 1888 г. – Рамон Гомес де ла Серна, испански писател († 1963 г.)\n 1923 г. – Йордан Малиновски, български физикохимик († 1996 г.)\n 1924 г. – Славчо Чернишев, български писател († 2000 г.)\n 1925 г. – Асен Попов, български скулптор († 2008 г.)\n 1928 г. – Гюнтер Бруно Фукс, немски поет, белетрист и график († 1977 г.)\n 1929 г. – Петър Дюлгеров, български политик († 2003 г.)\n 1932 г. – Стефан Гецов, български актьор († 1996 г.)\n 1933 г. – Александър Фол, български историк († 2006 г.)\n 1934 г. – Стефан Абаджиев, български футболист\n 1935 г. – Харисън Шмит, американски астронавт\n 1937 г. – Невена Симеонова, българска актриса († 2013 г.)\n 1942 г. – Радосвет Коларов, български литературовед\n 1945 г. – Стефан Воронов, български естраден изпълнител († 1974 г.)\n 1948 г. – Йордан Костурков, български писател и преводач\n 1949 г. – Емилия Масларова, български политик\n 1952 г. – Лора Браниган, американска певица и актриса от ирландски произход 2004\n 1961 г. – Албена Бакрачева, български учен и преводач\n 1962 г. – Том Круз, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Хънтър Тайло, американска актриса\n 1964 г. – Теодор Лулчев, български дизайнер\n 1968 г. – Елин Рахнев, български писател\n 1968 г. – Рамуш Харадинай, косовски военен деец и политик\n 1969 г. – Гедеон Буркхард, немски актьор\n 1971 г. – Джулиан Асанж, австралийски програмист и журналист, основател на Wikileaks\n 1977 г. – Деян Божков, български шахматист\n 1978 г. – Петя Янчулова, българска волейболистка\n 1981 г. – Ангел Игов, български писател и журналист\n 1986 г. – Оскар Устари, аржентински футболист\n 1987 г. – Себастиан Фетел, немски автомобилен състезател\n 1988 г. – Владимир Зомбори, български актьор\n 1991 г. – Анастасия Павлюченкова, руска тенисистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 1642 г. – Мария Медичи, кралица на Франция (* 1573 г.)\n 1904 г. – Теодор Херцел, австрийски ционист (* 1860 г.)\n 1908 г. – Николай Игнатиев, руски дипломат (* 1832 г.)\n 1918 г. – Мехмед V, султан на Османската империя (* 1844 г.)\n 1941 г. – Марк Никълсън, английски футболист (* 1871 г.)\n 1965 г. – Иван Антипов-Каратаев, руски почвовед (* 1888 г.)\n 1971 г. – Джим Морисън, американски певец (The Doors) (* 1943 г.)\n 1971 г. – Цветан Стоянов, български преводач и писател (* 1930 г.)\n 1995 г. – Андрей Гуляшки, български писател (* 1914 г.)\n 1998 г. – Иван Пановски, български народен певец (* 1921 г.)\n 1998 г. – Садек Чубак, ирански писател (* 1916 г.)\n 2000 г. – Георги Трингов, български шахматист (* 1937 г.)\n 2000 г. – Кемал Сунал, турски киноартист (* 1944 г.)\n 2007 г. – Алис Тимандер, шведска зъболекарка и киноактриса (* 1915 г.)\n 2010 г. – Абу Дауд, палестински терорист (* 1937 г.)\n 2016 г. – Ани Бакалова, българска актриса (* 1940 г.)\n 2016 г. – Маркус Вернер, швейцарски писател (* 1944 г.)\n\nПразници \n Беларус – Ден на освобождението (от окупация на Нацистка Германия, 1944 г., национален празник)\n\n703"
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        "text": "Songs to fuck by\nUsed to be there was a time when a person couldn’t figure out which song on a Janet Jackson album wouldn’t become a hit single.\nOf the nine tracks on Control, only three weren’t played to death on radio.\nBut sometime in the early 1990s, Janet discovered her body, and her music turned seductive, risqué and, sadly enough, somewhat predictable.\nHer exploration of sex continues on All For You, and nowadays, it’s hard to figure out which songs are singles, because most of them sound like filler.\nThe album starts off well enough with the insanely catchy title track and the equally rump-shaking “Come On Get Up.” After that, All for You starts to crash, moving from one lush, sexy ballad to another.\nJanet’s endeavor is clear: put this music on and screw like rabbits.\nBut don’t to put this album on for long commutes or for casual listening.\nWhen Janet decides to pick up the pace, she missteps with “Son of a Gun”, a reworking of Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” that doesn’t really go anywhere, or with sampling the Ventures on “Someone to Call My Lover”, an action that speaks for itself.\nThere are some interesting moments on the disc. The mistitled “China Love” centers around a nice Indonesian gamelan sample. And “Would You” features the best fake orgasm since that infamous scene in the deli in When Harry Met Sally.\n(The embarrassment factor of “Would You” decreases with each subsequent listen.)\nToward the end of the album, Janet regains the momentum established by the first few tracks of the album, but as a purely listening experience, the gesture is too little, too late.\nIn context of fuck music, however, a rousing finish makes for good post-coital mix.\nHmmm. Maybe I’m wrong about this album. Maybe All for You follows the arc of seduction — partying, pairing off, fucking, then small talk while waiting for the other person to get the hell out.\nIf that’s the case, then All for You is genius. But if it’s not, get this album only for those occassions when you’re digging into someone else’s pants."
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        "text": "Jan 24, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács\nQ&A on the case of Jobbik’s illegal party financing\nHungary’s State Auditor recently imposed a fine on the political party Jobbik. Some reports of the decision missed some essential details, so I thought a little briefer, in the form of a Q & A, would be helpful\nparty financing state audit Jobbik\nQ: Why is Hungary so strict about political party financing?\nIn fact, the Hungarian rules are not any stricter than regulations we find in other European countries. The point is to regulate the funding to prevent the possibility that political parties receive financial support from unknown or illegal sources.\nQ: What is illegal financing?\nAs stated in Act 33 of 1989 on the functioning and financing of political parties, political parties in Hungary may receive funding from three sources: party membership fees, subsidies from the central budget and individual donations of natural persons with Hungarian citizenship. The funding, according to the law, should be transparent. Anything that’s not transparent – as in this case with Jobbik where a company provided billboard space at little or no cost – is illegal.\nPolitical parties in Hungary are prohibited from receiving donations from the following entities: foreign states, foreign organizations (irrespective of their legal status), persons and organizations without a legal personality in Hungary, natural persons without Hungarian citizenship. Parties in Hungary are also barred from accepting money from anonymous sources.\nQ: But Hungary’s ruling alliance, Fidesz-KDNP, changed the election laws to make it more difficult for opposition parties. No?\nThe limitations on television media – the rule that requires that airtime during the campaign period must be provided to all parties equally or not at all – are favorable to smaller parties who would otherwise be at a disadvantage in paying for television advertising time.\nThe law also explicitly prohibits political parties from receiving billboard space for less than the official list price and prohibits them from running billboard campaigns outside of the election campaign period.\nYes, the previous parliament passed new election laws, but the new rules favor the smaller and financially weaker parties by reducing the possibility for illegal funding and by creating a more level playing field.\nAt the same time, the rules come down hard on those who try to break them. Infamous cases like the CDU’s Schwarzgeldaffäre (‘black money affair) in 1999 are examples of how hidden donations or undisclosed donations to political parties can have grave consequences.\nQ: On the surface, though, it seems like the government has used a state body to cause a major setback – in the form of a fine of over one million euro – for one of its political opponents, Jobbik.\nThat’s why the details here are important. In fact, the State Auditor, in the course of a routine audit that all political parties have to undergo, caught Jobbik carrying out what is possibly the biggest case of party financing fraud in Hungary’s democratic history.\nAccording to media reports, Jobbik signed a contract with a company to rent billboard space. The contract says that Jobbik would pay 27.5 million HUF (90 thousand EUR) for space that was in fact worth 129.4 million HUF (430 thousand EUR). If Jobbik failed to pay, then Jobbik would “buy” the actual ownership of 1019 billboard spaces for about 430 thousand euros (129,4 M HUF), but – here comes the twist – would only pay about 90 thousand euros (27.5 M HUF). If it fails to pay the rest, the billboards go back to their original owner after May 31, 2018. When they signed the contract the exact date of the elections was not announced, but it was clear they would be in the spring.\nThat would mean that Jobbik would receive a billboard space for about 12 euros per month during an eight-month period. Putting that in perspective, the same billboard space would normally go for 370 to 1000 euros per month.\nThat’s a donation that has a very real cash value and Jobbik did not disclose it properly. According to the law, a party that is caught cheating suffers a fine twice the amount of the value of the illegal financing.\nBack in 2013, during the parliamentary debate these party financing rules, Jobbik argued for a penalty twice as high, according to Gergely Gulyás, Fidesz parliamentary group leader. Had Jobbik’s proposal passed the parliament, the party would today be facing a fine double the amount of the current penalty.\nQ: But isn’t the head of the State Auditor a former member of Fidesz?\nTrue, however it is also true that during the audit, the second in command at the State Auditor’s office was a member of the Socialist Party. The State Auditor is an independent body, and the government has no authority over it.\nQ: Will Jobbik be forced to pay the fine prior to the April 8 parliamentary elections?\nNo. Minister for National Economy Mihaly Varga instructed the country’s tax authority to delay the collection of fines until after the elections. Gulyás also suggested that the law may be changed so that penalties would be suspended for an interim period of six months prior to the elections.\nQ: But why has the State Auditor inspected only Jobbik’s compliance with the rules and not Fidesz’s?\nFidesz was audited as well. The act on party financing (cited above) calls upon the State Audit to look into party finances every second year.\nThe penalty imposed on Jobbik became news because of the large size of the fine in the case. Other parties were also audited, and the State Auditor found irregularities in those cases as well. But nothing compares to the magnitude of the fraud that Jobbik committed."
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        "text": "Q: iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Can I disable the automatic upper-casing that takes place after I end a sentence? When using the iPad to type a note, for instance, every time I type a period, the iPad assumes I want to start the next word with a capital letter.  It also assumes I want to start typing with a capital letter in some text fields on web forms.  Is there any way to turn off the automatic SHIFT that is taking place, so there are only capital letters where I explicitly want them to be?\n\nA: *\n\n*Go to settings\n\n*Go to general\n\n*Go to keyboard\n\n*Toggle and disable auto-capitalization\n\n"
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        "text": "The Models @ The Gov, 15th December ’15\nBy Rob Lyon\nMelbourne 80s art-rock wizards the Models played their first shows in quite some time doing a quick lap around the country before Christmas. It was a bit of a tough one for...\nBad//Dreems – “Dogs At Bay”\nRollicking out of Adelaide, Bad//Dreems debut record is raw and relentless. Dogs...\nEzra Furman – “Perpetual Motion People”\nPerpetual Motion People, the third solo release for U.S singer/songwriter Ezra Furman...\nTurbowolf – “Two Hands”\nTwo Hands is the powerful follow up to Turbowolf‘s self titled debut....\nSkipping Girl Vinegar – “The Great Wave”\nRecorded in a variety of abandoned halls and sheds along the Victorian...\nTommy Rutland – “The Iconography Of Your Youth”\nBy Gavin Stocker on March 26, 2015\nFor well over a decade now Adelaidian Tommy Rutland has served as the animated frontman for Dangerous! and Wendy Icon. The Iconography Of Your Youth sees...\nChadwick Stokes – “The Horse Comanche”\nDeviating from his acclaimed trio Dispatch, Boston singer/songwriter Chadwick Stokes has emerged with The Horse Comanche. In this solo guise he has created a diverse...\nThe Lizards – “Future Life”\nComprising of three chaps by the name of Pat, Stubs and Marty, The Lizards have popped out a short and sharp punk rock nugget. Perhaps...\nDanko Jones – “Fire Music”\nBy Gavin Stocker on March 6, 2015\nTwelve albums and almost two decades into their career it would seem Danko Jones have no intention of taking their foot off the pedal. With...\nDarlia – “Petals”\nBy Gavin Stocker on February 23, 2015\nVia Petals, British trio Darlia have delved into their nineties influences and churned out a snappy eight track mini album. With the majority of...\nShakey Graves – “And The War Came”\nBranching out from his solo debut Roll The Bones, Shakey Graves (aka Alejandro Rose- Garcia) has returned with the more collaborative And The War Came....\nDan Mangan + Blacksmith – “Club Meds”\nBy Gavin Stocker on February 9, 2015\nFrom the creative hotbed that is beautiful Vancouver comes Club Meds, a densely layered and difficult to pigeonhole album. The fourth full length release for...\nCarl Barât And The Jackals – “Let It Reign”\nLet It Reign is the first up full length release from Carl Barât with his new outfit, The Jackals. Recorded in Los Angeles and London, it...\nAlanna Eileen – “Absence”\nComing out of Melbourne, Absence is a beautiful collection of delicate folk songs. The six tracks on display here on this debut EP show Alanna...\nSpain – “Sargent Place”\nBy Gavin Stocker on January 29, 2015\nLaid back to the point of near horizontality, Sargent Place is the fifth studio album for Los Angeles quartet Spain. According to vocalist/bassplayer Josh Haden...\nFelicity Groom – “Hungry Sky”\nFollowing up from her debut full length Gossamer, Perth’s Felicity Groom has returned with Hungry Sky. Predominantly an ambient journey, electronica is fused with standard...\nPeter Bibby & His Bottles Of Confidence – “Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician”\nRambling, rough as guts and unflinchingly honest, Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician is an attention grabbing breath of fresh air. Essentially an album revolving around a dedication to inebriation,...\nThe Ruminaters – “I Hate The Ruminaters”\nObserving the title ‘I Hate The Ruminaters’, it doesn’t require a genius to deduce that these guys don’t take themselves too seriously. The Sydney quartet’s...\nThe Grates – “Dream Team”\nBy Gavin Stocker on January 7, 2015\nFour albums in and Brisbane’s The Grates have not lost the art of sounding delightfully gritty. On this latest effort Dream Team the trio are...\nThe Czars – “Best Of”\nBy Gavin Stocker on December 11, 2014\nCalling it a day back in 2004, The Czars left us with a legacy of five studio albums, the final one being the aptly titled...\nSincerely, Grizzly – “Halves”\nBy Gavin Stocker on November 26, 2014\n“Literature Rock” is how Adelaide’s Sincerely, Grizzly have labelled themselves, and with the unique sounds to be found across their debut album Halves, they may...\nBen Ottewell – “Rattlebag”\nStepping briefly away from the beloved Gomez, Ben Ottewell presents to us his second solo offering, Rattlebag. The album is not a dramatic departure from...\nJames Vincent McMorrow – “Post Tropical”\nConceived a mere stone’s throw from the Mexican border, Post Tropical is the second album from Irish singer/songwriter James Vincent McMorrow. Given the location of...\nThe Voyeurs – “Rhubarb Rhubarb”\nFusing a combination of sixties punk and eighties nu-wave, The Voyeurs have returned with their second album Rhubarb Rhubarb. Following up after their debut release...\nAmaranthe – “Massive Addictive”\nCoalescing two dramatically opposing flavours of hard rock/metal, Sweden’s Amaranthe have developed a genuinely original take on the genre. With their third album Massive Addictive,..."
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        "text": "I've never been able to get enough. I've learned to be content with what I do get though, and the effort behind it, because love can be wonderful.\nI woke up one morning after a dream, and realized that that dream contained the only romance i'd felt all year.\n...and it wasn't even real."
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        "text": "Q: How to minimize all windows/applications to the dock? ⌥+⌘+M as mentioned in multiple docs only appears to minimize the current (focused) window.\nI am looking for the \"Show Desktop\" equivalent.  If it matters I'm using 10.6.4.  \n\nA: I just use Hot Corners to do it.   \nSystem Preferences >> Desktop & Screen Saver >> Hot Corners >> Select \"Desktop\" from one of the dropdowns. I use the bottom left, since that's where I was used to the Desktop button in XP lol. \n\nA: ⌥+⌘+M actually minimizes all windows of a current application, not just the current focused window (unless of course, the application you have running only has one non-minimized window.)\nThe easiest way to hide all active applications is to select the Finder/Desktop, and then \"Hide Others.\" The keyboard shortcut is ⌥+⌘+H.\nYou can also simply hold ⌥ and ⌘ and click on the Desktop, or Finder on the Dock, or of course, simply use Expose and hit F11 (Or whatever you've rebound Hide-all to.)\n\nA: I finally found how to do it with Command+Option+H+M.\nThis works for me on Mac OS X Lion.\n"
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        "text": "Internet humor\nCounter.gif\nOne of the more frequent jokes on the internet is to produce a \"fake\" or joke web counter. The counter pictured here dates back to 1991 and is possibly the first of its kind.\nThe Internet has long been a resource for the circulation of humorous ideas and jokes. Countless web-sites are devoted to the collection of Internet humour, and every day thousands of emails cross the world containing the text of humorous articles, or jokes about current events.\n\"Internet humor\" is distinguishable from \"Humor on the Internet\" through the concept of ownership. There are definite examples of humor restricted by copyright law on the internet; examples include the cartoons of Dilbert or the newspaper columns of Dave Barry. \"Internet humor\" is regarded as that which belongs to the public domain.\nInternet humor may also be regarded as humor that specifically relies on characteristics belonging to the Internet, such as \"geek\" or \"hacker\" humor -- i.e, humor that would not exist if not for the Internet.\nGenerally, this type of semi-institutionalized humor starts as a specific group's in-joke, and grows until it reaches a significant portion of Internet users, gaining popularity, \"rules\" and mythos.\nLongstanding and widely recognized examples of such humor are:\nThe Internet Oracle (formerly The Usenet Oracle) at cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi\nThe Jargon file (also known as The (New) Hacker's Dictionary (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html))\nThe cult of Kibology\nThe Darwin Awards at www.DarwinAwards.com\nThe concept of authorship with regard to Internet humor is very difficult to define. Frequently a \"list\" type joke may get started but within a few generations of distribution it evolves beyond recognition. A classic example is the well-known \"you have two cows\" joke - after circulating in more primitive media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism. However, it was later expanded to include all forms of government, regional variations, philosophical systems, and even art movements. Attempting to define an \"author\" of the joke hence becomes impossible, and it becomes a publicly owned resource, simply because no-one could validly claim legitimate ownership.\nThough the Internet has allowed the global explosion of collectively-authored comedy, its precursors existed on bulletin boards, corporate messaging systems, and even through such low-tech mechanisms as the facsimile since at least the 1970s.\nLightbulb jokes\nYou have two cows\nHonor system virus\nBash.org\nThe Accidental Tourist pictures\nNewgrounds.com (http://www.Newgrounds.com) - A site that showcases many excellent flash artists, and is full of internet humor.\nAlbino Blacksheep (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com) - Another website with humorous flash animations and games.\nFunny Movies (http://www.funnymovies.net/) - Archive with funny movies and videos since 1999\nThe Humor Archives (http://www.thehumorarchives.com/) - a large collection of internet humor\nHarHarLinks (http://www.thecureforboredom.com/) - The cure for boredom is the best humor website.\nHuumor.Com (http://www.huumor.com/) - Online joke collection. Oldest jokes from 1993, site online since 1st April 2000.\nFunny Video Clips (http://www.holylemon.com) - A collection of funny videos, pictures and flash files.\nPicPop (http://www.picpop.com/gallery/index.php) - Funny pictures and avatars.\nFunniest jokes and pictures (http://www.jokesnet.co.nr) - Large collection of funny jokes and pictures\nwww.StupidStuff.ORG (http://www.stupidstuff.org)\nFunniest Pictures Network (http://www.funniest-pictures.com) (Currently suspended)\nPrague TV's Funny Pictures Archive (http://prague.tv/funny-pictures-archive/) - a collection hundreds of funny pictures\nFun With Headlines (http://www.funwithheadlines.net) - A site that has fun with real news headlines with word play.\nFree Jokes and Fun (http://welovefreebies.com/folders/Free_Jokes_and_Fun) - A directory of sites for free jokes and fun.\nInternet cartoons\nInternet phenomenon\nRetrieved from \"http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Internet_humor\"\nCategories: Computer humor"
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        "text": "Q: How do I sync up my iPhone with my Google Calendar? \nPossible Duplicate:\nHow do I sync my Google calendar with my iPhone? \n\nSo I want to be able to add appointments/events/tasks on either and have those changes reflected on both.\n\nA: You should really use Google Sync for iPhone to have all the benefits of Calendars (and even Mail if you need it).\n\nA: In iCal, add a new CalDAV account.\nDescription: Google:you@gmail.com\nUsername: you@gmail.com\nPassword: yourpass\nSERVER SETTINGS\nServer Address: www.google.com\nServer Path: /calendar/dav/you@gmail.com/user/\nPort: Auto\nUse SSL: CHecked\nMake sure you have sync enabled in iTunes.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is it possible to add alternate SCM options in Xcode 3? Is it possible to add additional SCM options in Xcode, specifically Mercurial?  I know it is possible outside with Murky and others but I was hoping for a \"inside Xcode\" integration.\nIf this is too SOish say so.\n\nA: In the latest beta of XCode 4, there's a built-in support for Git, so it's possible to add other SCM.\nMaybe Apple will also incorporate Mercurial support as well.\nThey are several requests - XCode should support Mercurial as well as Git., Xcode 4 should support Mercurial - to put Mercurial support into XCode.\nSo if you can't find a solution now, I'd suggest you to wait until XCode 4 goes out officially.\n\nBy the way, if you need or want a nice Mac OS X client for Mercurial, you should try MacHg.\n\nA: The lack of XCode plugins is due to the fact that apple doesn't document XCode's plugin interface in public. That makes writing XCode plugins very hard. To increase the chance for a future  Mercurial plugin you could file a dupe of Documentation and opening of the Xcode plug-in API (.xcplugin and family) which is dupe of rdar://3037631.\n\nA: As far as I know, it’s not possible to add support for mercurial using Xcode alone. \nYou have to use an external tool (Like Murky). Xcode’s SVN support is primitive to say something nice about it. It works, but it’s far from being like “Versions”. ;)\n\nA: One may want to evaluate github for mac as an alternative.\n\nA: You're not going to find an built in extension for adding other SCM's. Best bet is to either use another tool (Murky mentioned) or the CLI.\nThe third option would be to build a set of Xcode macros that performed common SCM tasks, such as commit and pull.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Free screen capture tool that has decent annotation I'm looking for a free screen capture tool that has decent annotation.  I want to be able to do the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*Highlight an area\n\n*Dim everything but the selected area\n\n*Draw arrows\n\n*Blur selected areas\n\n\nA: I just downloaded the Snagit Beta for Mac, free for now, I'm sure it will cost when it comes out of beta.  So far it has everything I was asking for except the dimming feature.  It has a few other nice features as well.\n\nA: LittleSnapper (not free)  from Realmac Software does these things plus it has organizing features and web capture features, with source code. \nIt's more suitable for web or other type of designers, perhaps, but it has these annotation features.\nA free tool for fast annotation (although I don't think it has darkening or blurring) is Skitch (mentioned by others here as well) which is otherwise very convenient for fast operation.\n\nA: Voila can apparently do all that but it’s not free.\nSkitch i use most of the time to add arrows and such. Very good.\n\nA: I second Skitch. I use it every day. It's free, for now.\n\nA: Jing also does much of what you're looking for.\n"
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        "text": "Uganda, a tiny land locked country is Africa’s most complete bird watching destination supporting more than 1000 bird species which inspire various world birders to undertake birding safari tours to Uganda. Uganda which is the same size as Great Britain can be dubbed as the ‘birder’s Eden’.\nSpecialists in birding safaris and tours in Uganda in the western region routinely notch up an incredible tally of 400 species in a two weeks’ period while the starters can come up with 300 species with in the same time. Uganda ‘s prime attraction is the presence of more than 100 west African forest species and therefore a short trip here to soak up the bizarre and mind blowing shoebill is an incredibly rewarding.\nBird watching in Uganda is throughout the country but the most key sites that are always encountered by birders on Uganda safaris and tours include; the Semliki National Park which is Uganda’s extension of the Congo’s Ituri rainforest and special interest to ornithologists for some 40 Congolese bird species including forest birds and 80 central African species found in few countries. The bird species that can be encountered in this micro destination include; the Black dwarf, hornbill, blue king fisher, broad billed roller, black-rumped button quail, papyrus gonolek, African fish eagle, western-banded snake eagle, white-backed night heron, black bee-eater, shoebill pel’s fishing owl.\nSpanning the equator is the vast varied landscapes of the Uganda safari tour destination of Queen Elizabeth National Park which boasts an impressive scenic crater field, vast savannah combretum, tropical forests, papyrus swamps and counts of wildlife and a diverse array of birds. The park features 610 species of birds which seems to be incredible and a record of 296 species can be made in a single day while on a safari tour in Uganda. The opportunities of spotting the Harlequin and Blue Quails, White winged Warbler, Small (Common) Buttonquail, Martial Eagle, African Crake, African Skimmer, Papyrus Gonolek, Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl, Amur Falcon, Ovampo Sparrowhawk, Greater and Lesser Flamingo, Lowland Akalat, Black Bee-eater, Terek Sandpiper, Caruthers’s Cisticola, Temminck’s Courser and Secretary Bird to mention but a few exist in Queen Elizabeth National Park.\nThe community-run guided trial through Bigodi wetland near Kibale forests where chimpanzee trekking safari tours in Uganda are carried out also presents a great opportunity to watch the Blue Turaco and other colorful forest birds. Murchison falls for savannah such as the Red-throated Bee-eater, Abyssinian ground Hornbill and Denham’s Bustard. The Lake Bisinia in the east of Uganda is a rich habitat for bird species the endemic Fox’s weaver’s as well as Papyrus-dwellers.\nThe Uganda gorilla trekking safari tour destination of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is famously known as the number one birding spot in Africa and has got impressive bird species some of which are endemic to the park and the Albertine rift."
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        "text": "Families of flotilla martyrs call for lifting of Gaza siege\nFamilies of the nine peaceful activists who were martyred on May 31 when Israeli commandoes attacked on Mavi Marmara international flotilla, which was taking humanitarian aid to Gaza called Israel to lift its blockade on Gaza at a news conference held in İstanbul on Dec. 7.\nThe news conference, which was held at the headquarters of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation in İstanbul, was attended by Derya Kılıçlar, wife of martyred peace activist Cevdet Kılıçlar, Ahmet Doğan, father of martyred peace activist Furkan Doğan, Refika Yıldırım, wife of martyred peace activist Necdet Yıldırım, Çiğdem Topçuoğlu, wife of martyred peace activist Çetin Topçuoğlu, Saniye Bengi, wife of martyred peace activist Ali Haydar Bengi, Muhammed Ensari, brother-in-law of Bengi, İsmail Songür, son of martyred peace activist Cengiz Songür, İsmail Bilgen, son of martyred peace activist İbrahim Bilgen, Hasan Yaldız, brother of martyred peace activist Fahri Yaldız and IHH President Bülent Yıldırım.\nMartyr families said the Mavi Marmara incident cannot be covered up only through Israel’s offering an apology and paying compensations for the victims. “Our relatives became martyrs for the sake of removal of the blockade on Gaza. Our hearts will be consoled if only the blockade on Gaza is lifted.”\nLast week, Turkey put aside tensions in diplomatic relations with Israel, and under orders by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, rushed to send fire fighting aircraft to assist in the battle against Israel’s biggest-ever fire that has killed around 40 people. Following Turkey’s move, it is said that Turkish and Israeli relations will enter a period of reconciliation and Israel will offer an apology to Turkey for the Mavi Marmara attack and pay compensations to the victims. As the most important parties of the case, martyr families voiced their demands and expectations about Israel at the news conference.\nThe martyr families said they were offended by Turkey’s sending fire fighting aircraft to Israel and asked why Turkey did not send any aircraft while the Mavi Marmara ship was being attacked by Israeli soldiers in international waters.\nA symbolic apology and compensation unacceptable\nAssociate Professor Ahmet Doğan, father of Furkan, said a symbolic apology and compensation to be offered by Israel would not be sufficient alone.\nNoting that his son sacrificed his life for the elimination of the blockade on Gaza, he said: “ My son was on that ship for the lifting of Gaza siege. He had only one goal: to take humanitarian aid to Gaza. He became a martyr for the sake of this goal. An apology will not make us forgive Israel. If Israel is to offer an apology, this should not be a symbolic one. As far as I understand, they will not make a sincere apology. It seems as if they will offer a symbolic apology for the attack. We can never accept such an apology.”\nA compensation not a price for the blood of martyrs\nAbout the compensation that needs to be paid to victims and martyr families by Israel, Doğan said: “It will be wrong to see a compensation to be paid by Israel as a price for the blood of the martyrs. As far as I follow Israeli press makes mention of a little sum of a compensation. As martyr families, we do not need the money that will come from Israel; however, paying a compensation is a part of the punishment that Israel should be given. The amount of the compensation to be paid by Israel should be a very large sum that will hurt it. We are not playing a game here. Israel committed a big crime which cannot be covered up by a symbolic apology or compensation. What Israel did was a massacre, willful manslaughter and brutality. We expect it to confess to having committed this crime.”\nAbout the fire fighting aircraft that were sent to Israel by Turkey, Doğan said: “Sending of the fire fighting aircraft to Israel is the right thing from a humanitarian and Islamic point of view; however, we have been offended by this move. We have been a little bit saddened. These are just my personal emotions. At the end of the day, we are humans and have emotions. Although bureaucracy and diplomacy are done free of emotions, we would expect our emotions to be taken into consideration.”\nThose soldiers should be tried\nMartyr Kılıçlar’s wife, Derya, also said Israel’s offering and apology and paying compensation for the victims will not be sufficient to close the Mavi Marmara attack case.\n“What Israel did is exactly a massacre. The perpetrators of this attack should be punished. Just as when people commit crimes, they are tried; Israel should also be tried for the crimes it committed. We want the trial of the Israeli soldiers who committed the massacre. And we want the removal of blockade on Gaza.”\nAbout Turkey’s sending fire fighting aircraft to Israel, she said: “Turkey’s move to send fire fighting aircraft to Israel saddened us. I really wonder why not any aircraft were sent to Mavi Marmara on the day of the attack. I offer my thanks to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. Our prime minister has showed an unprecedented attention to the plight of Palestinians that no other Turkish prime minister has showed; however, this is not enough. The blockage on Gaza should be lifted.”\nWe were deeply hurt when Israel awarded medals to its soldiers\nWife of martyr Yıldırım, Refika said although she has been going through difficult days since the killing of her husband, she is very proud of being the wife of a martyr.\n“Our husbands took part in the aid convoy to win Allah’s sake. When Israel gave medals to soldiers who raided the Mavi Marmara, we were hurt once again. Our hearts will be consoled when we see that the perpetrators of this attack are punished properly and when the Gaza blockade is lifted. We want our demands to be fulfilled,” said Yıldırım.\nÇiğdem Topçuoğlu who was on board the flotilla with her husband said: “My husband was martyred just next to me. I closed his eyes with my own hands. This is a case of which I am proud. My heart is burning like the forests of Israel. If the Turkish aircraft sent to Israel to help extinguish its forest fires, had been sent for our help, we would perhaps be suffering less now. But we were left alone there.”\nMuhammed Ensari, brother-in-law of martyr Bengi, also called for the removal of Gaza siege, saying that this will be the only thing that will console his heart.\nMartyr Yaldız’s brother Hasan said: “My brother had only one goal, which was to build a park for the orphans in Gaza. I want to see that park.”\nSongür and Bilgen also called for the removal of Gaza blockade in addition to Israel’s offering an apology and paying compensation for the victims.\nYıldırım: Israel should pay a large sum of compensation\nFor his part, IHH President Yıldırım said Israel should pay a large sum of compensation for the victims, offer an apology to the families of the victims as well as to Turkey and to the entire world and it should immediately remove the blockade on Gaza. Yıldırım also said a new flotilla that will be sent to Gaza on 31 May 2011 should see that the blockage is lifted.\nNoting that Israel is currently making some efforts to normalize its relations with Turkey, Yıldırım said: “At this news conference we would like to share the way these efforts are perceived by us as well as our expectations and the expectations of the martyr families from Israel.”\nStressing that Turkey has stood up for Turks and others on board the Mavi Marmara, Yıldırım offered his thanks to all the state officials who supported the Mavi Marmara being mainly President Abdullah Gül, Prime Minister Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.\n“We were very honored by the stance they took against Israel. Israel was already placed into a difficult position due to this attack and released us immediately in order to save itself from international pressure. It sent our ships months later. They gave great damage to our ships and their engines. Now, they say they will offer an apology and pay compensation. They will do this. In return, they want relations with Turkey as they were before.”\nYıldırım recalled that a report prepared by the UN Human Rights Council about the Mavi Marmara attack found out that Israel committed willful murder on the flotilla.\n“The report found that Israel violated international law and human rights by committing heavy crimes such as willful killing, torture and maltreatment of persons, violating persons’ physical integrity rights, detaining and arresting persons arbitrarily, confiscating persons’ belongings and restricting freedom of expression. While it committed so many crimes, what will be the punishment that will be given to Israel? When one kills a person in Turkey, does anybody say let the murderer pay compensation so that he/she can escape trial. Those who committed and masterminded the murders need to be arrested and tried. Furkan’s father will go to the United States and file a case against Israel there because Furkan was a US citizen. No lawsuit has yet been filed against Israel in Turkey. When I took a look at the newspapers yesterday, I saw news saying that Israel will offer an apology to the families of the martyrs and pay compensations for the victims. It is said that the compensation Israel will pay will be between $50,000 and $200,000. If the compensation amount remains so little, this will not mean that Israel has paid any compensation.”"
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        "text": "Daily Deals: Preorder the Sega Genesis Mini, 10% Off Deadhaus Sonata\nApril 1, 2019 admin IGN comics\nResident Evil 2 for PlayStation 4 for $39.99, Alienware GTX 1070 Laptop for $1499, 12 Free Months of Nintendo Switch Online.\nWant more deals? Join the IGN Deals Newsletter.\nBy Michael Koczwara\nWelcome to IGN’s Daily Deals, your source for the best deals on the stuff you actually want to buy. If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, read our Terms of Use.\nWe bring you the best deals we’ve found today on video games, hardware, electronics, and a bunch of random stuff too.Check them out here or like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to get the latest deals.\nPreorder the Sega Genesis Mini\nClassic games, retro controllers, and handful of nostalgia. The Sega Genesis Mini is set to release on September 19 of this year and you can preorder your mini console for $79.99 today. Comes with 40 different games, ten of which are currently known:\nCastlevania: Bloodlines\nDr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine\nToeJam & Earl\nMini consoles seem to be all the rage these days so it’s hard to tell if and when they will sell out!\nIGN Exclusive 10% off Coupon Code for the Upcoming Deadhaus Sonata MMO Game from Apocalypse\n“Deadhaus Sonata is a cooperative multiplayer, free to play action RPG where you play the undead fighting the living. An unstoppable force from Deadhaus, you are a monster among men, dealing death and destruction on a massive scale.”\nThe Early Access store has just recently launched and for a limited time, IGN is offering an exclusive 10% off discount code “IGNDEADHAUS” that works for any tier you purchase. Pledge tiers range from $30 all the way to $10,000. Depending on the tier you choose, you can get in-game currency, early alpha and beta access, exclusive in-game content, commemoration, or even the rare opportunity of meeting the dev team and bestowing your own personal touch to the game itself.\nAssassin’s Creed: Odyssey (PS4) for $19.99\nIn our professional opinion, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the best game in the entire AC franchise, which is a tall order considering the quality of the AC games before it. It was released late last year, but that hasn’t stopped the price from dropping like crazy. This deal only applies to the PS4 version.\n33% off Resident Evil 2 (PS4)\nThis is the remake to one of the best Resident Evil games in the entire series, and the PlayStation 4 version is available for $20 off.\nThe Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts for $16.92\nComplete your Zelda book collection with this art gallery featuring over 400 pages of official artwork, concept art, and never before seen material.\nFar Cry New Dawn for $19.99\nFar Cry New Dawn has been out for about a month and if you’ve been holding off since then, perhaps this sale might catch your attention. Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions are on sale for half off.\nAlienware 15 Intel Core i7-8750H 6-Core 15.6″ 1080p IPS Gaming Laptop with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and GeForce GTX 1080 $1749.99\nUse code “250OFF1999AFF”\nYou will not find a more powerful gaming laptop at this price, thanks to the GeForce GTX 1080 video card. This video card is as powerful as the desktop variant, and you can use it to drive higher-resolution external displays or VR headsets like the Rift or Vive Pro.\nAlienware 15 Intel Core i9-8950HK 15″ 4K UHD Gaming Laptop with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and GeForce GTX 1080 $2199\nUse code “AFF600A15”\nTake $1420 off this ridiculously powerful Alienware laptop. Check Amazon, and you’ll find comparable i9-8950HK GeForce GTX 1080 laptops selling for at least $3500, and most over $4K. Specs include a 4K UHD 3840×2160 display, powerful Intel Core i9-8950HK 6-core processor that can Turbo Boost to 4.8GHz, 16GB RAM, dual drives (256GB SSD and 1TB HDD), and the very powerful GeForce GTX 1080 8GB graphics card.\nAlienware 17 Intel Core i7-8750H 6-Core 17″ 2560×1440 QHD 120Hz Gaming Laptop with Tobii Eye Tracking, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, and GeForce GTX 1070 for $1499.99\nThis GeForce GTX 1070-equipped laptop boasts a high-resolution 17″ 2560×1440 QHD 120Hz display and built-in Tobii eye tracking (best implemented in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided). You’ll need the GTX 1070 to run the most games at the maximum 120Hz refresh rate at this resolution.\nNew 2019 Alienware m15 Intel Core i7-8750H 6-Core 15″ 1080p IPS Gaming Laptop with 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB $1199\nUse code: “100Off999AFF”\nThe Alienware m15 is a redesigned and super-thin gaming laptop that’s offered with newer RTX graphics, or last-gen Pascal GPUs like this particular deal. At just 4.8lbs it’s relatively light given its payload, and still retains the no-expense-spared premium construction of its predecessor. It also features an advanced cooling system so the laptop never gets too hot or too loud. This deal pairs the m15 with the capable GeForce GTX 1060 video card. We reviewed the m15 and highly recommend it.\nDell G5 15 Gaming Intel Core i7-8750H Quad-Core 15″ 1080p IPS Laptop with 16GB RAM, 256B SSD, 1TB HDD, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB for $999\nUse code “100Off999AFF”\nThis is a great price for a budget conscious shopper who still wants a gaming-worthy laptop. Specs include a 15.6″ 1080p IPS display, 8th generation Intel Core i7-8750H 6-core processor, 16GB RAM, dual drives (256GB SSD + 1TB HDD), and GeForce GTX 1060 6GB video card.\nAlienware Intel Core i7-8700 6-Core GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming Desktop with 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, and 2TB HDD for $999.99\nUse code “AFFAW730”\nAccording to our GTX 1660 Ti review, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is close in performance to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti or the RTX 2060. Combine that with an 8th generation Inel Core i7 6-core processor, 16GB of memory, and dual drives (128GB SSD + 2TB HDD) and you have yourself a killer rig.\nAlienware Aurora Intel Core i7-800 6-Core Gaming Desktop with 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 2TB HDD, and GeForce GTX 1080 for $1379.99\nThis GTX 1080-equipped gaming desktop will run even the newest games like Battlefield V, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and Fallout 76 with ease. What’s a powerful video card without good bones, though, and the Alienware Aurora has good bones. It boasts a 6-core Intel Core i7 processor, a healthy amount of memory, and dual drives for both speed and storage capacity. There’s nothing else that this desktop needs.\nAlienware Aurora GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming Desktop from $1399, RTX 2080 Ti Desktop from $1899\nUse code: “200Off1599AFF” or “250OFF1999AFF”\nScore an RTX 2080 equipped Alienware desktop for $1399.99 following the instructions below. Stock specs include an Intel Core i5-8400 6-core processor, 8GB of memory, and 1TB HDD. The only recommendation I’d make is to add in your own SSD. SSDs are much cheaper than they used to be and it doesn’t void your warranty.\nIf you’ve got deep pockets, you can upgrade to the RTX 2080 Ti instead. This is the only way you’ll be able to get a brand new, fully warrantied pre-built RTX 2080 Ti configuration for under $2K.\nTwitch Prime Members Get Up to 12 Months of Nintendo Switch Online\nAmazon Prime members can sign up for Twitch Prime absolutely free.\nSign up for Twitch Prime membership and get 3 months of Nintendo Switch Online membership instantly. Stay a Twitch Prime member for 2 more months and get an additional 9 months of Switch Online membership. For those of you who are already Twitch Prime members, you’re also eligible for this deal. 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Housed in the decidedly better looking shell are three Harman Kardon 1.5″ midrange tweeters, one Harman Kardon 3.5″ high-excursion subwoofer, and a four microphone array.\nNew 2019 Edition SteelSeries Arctis 7 Lag-Free 7.1ch Wireless Gaming Headset for $103.99 [The BEST Gaming Headset at This Price]\nThe Arctis 7 normally sells for $150, but for a limited time you can buy it directly from SteelSeries at 30% off. You’ll need to sign up for a (free) SteelSeries membership. This is IGN Deals’ best selling gaming headset and for good reason. We rated it a 9.8/10 here at IGN and I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I think this is the best headset you can get at this price range. The 2019 edition improves upon the older model with thicker ear cushions, redesigned headband to fit larger heads, redesigned on-ear controls, more bass output, and the inclusion of DTS Headphone:X v2.0 for better sound.\nAstro A40 TR Headset for $99.99, with MixAmp Pro for $169.99\nThis is the lowest price ever for the very well rated Astro A40 TR headset. The A40 happens to be one of the most popular headsets used by professional gamers. It features Dolby 7.1ch surround sound, comfortable open-back design, USB sound card functionality (for PC), and swappable precision microphone.\nFor console gamers, the Astro A40 with MixAmp Pro is also discounted. The MixAmp Pro enables Dolby Digital surround sound processing, lag-free and interference-fee signal. EQ modes, and volume correction for the PS4 and Xbox One. Definitely worth the upgrade!\nSkytech Legacy Mini AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8-Core GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming Desktop (Better Than GTX 1080) for $999.99\nYes, you’re getting an RTX 2070 equipped desktop for just under $1K. According to our RTX 2070 review, this card is more powerful than the GTX 1080. The Ryzen 7 1700 is simply the prior generation model of the Ryzen 7 2700 and has 95% of its gaming prowess, plus it still boasts 8 cores under its hood. You also get 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, and a “mini” chassis size.\nSkytech Blaze AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-Core GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming Desktop (Comparable to GTX 1070 Ti or RTX 2060) for $759.99\nAccording to our GTX 1660 Ti review, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is close in performance to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti or the RTX 2060. Combine that with the latest generation AMD Ryzen 5 6-core processor, 8GB RAM, and 500GB SSD, and you have yourself a killer rig for less than $800.\nThe Best GeForce RTX Laptop Deal of 2019 – Lenovo Y740 Intel Core i7-8750H 15″ 144Hz G-SYNC RTX 2070 Gaming Laptop for $1459.19\nUse code “EXTRA5”\nWith this superb deal you are getting a laptop with the RTX 2070 video card, which offers better performance and newer technology, at a lower price than GTX 1070 laptops. The other specs aren’t too shabby either. You get a 15″ 1080p IPS display with 144Hz refresh rate and GSYNC technology, 8th generation Intel Core i7 six-core processor, 16GB of RAM, dual drives (256GB SSD and 1TB HDD), and a full 1-year warranty from Lenovo.\nNintendo Switch with NBA 2K19 for $299\nA new Switch bundle has surfaced. If you’re a fan of sports games, or you want to spend a bit less on the initial cost of Switch ownership, you can buy a Switch console and get the very well rated NBA 2K19 game for free. This game is huge so you might want to invest in a cheap Micro SDXC card for additional storage. Fortunately, there’s a deal for that too.\nApple Watch Series 3 38mm Smart Watch for $199\nThe Apple Watch Series 3 is back at the lowest price it has ever been. If you don’t need the ECG or other medical capabilities of the Series 4, you’ll be saving $200 by going just one generation back. The Series 3 features an aluminum case that’s waterproof up to 50 meters, built-in heart rate monitor, GPS, and its small, sleek, and looks almost identical to the Series 4.\n2018 Model 6th Generation Apple iPad 32GB WiFi for $249\nNow that the new 2019 iPads have been announced, the 2018 iPads are seeing a 25% price drop. This is cheaper than what we saw on Black Friday. 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        "text": "3 август е 215-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (216-и през високосна). Остават 150 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1492 г. – Христофор Колумб отплава от пристанището Палос де ла Фронтера в Испания на Първата си експедиция с корабите Санта Мария, Пинта и Ниня.\n 1529 г. – В Италия е подписан „Мирът на дамите“ – мирен договор за прекратяване на военния конфликт между Испания и Франция.\n 1610 г. – Капитан Хенри Хъдсън, търсейки нов проход към Тихи океан, открива проток, кръстен на неговото име.\n\n 1692 г. – Деветгодишната война: Франция побеждава в Щайнкирк обединените холандски, немски и британски войски.\n 1778 г. – В Милано е открит оперният театър Ла Скала.\n 1804 г. – Състои се сватбата на Великия херцог Карл Фридрих Сакс-Ваймар-Айзенах и Мария Павловна.\n 1809 г. – Екатерина Павловна сключва брак с първия си братовчед херцог Георг фон Олденбург.\n 1887 г. – Разпуска се Третото велико народно събрание, след полагането на клетва на германския принц Фердинанд Сакс-Кобург-Гота, избран за български княз.\n 1889 г. – В Ница е открит астероида 285 Регина.\n 1902 г. – Основан е аржентинският футболен отбор КА Тигре.\n 1903 г. – Илинденско-Преображенско въстание: В град Крушево, Македония, българските въстаници обявяват създаването на Крушевска република, която съществува само 10 дни.\n 1904 г. – В Пловдив е основан Общият работнически синдикален съюз (ОРСС).\n 1911 г. – Италианските войски пускат със самолети бомби над турските позиции в Триполи, което е първото използване на самолети при военна операция.\n 1914 г. – Първа световна война: Германия обявява война на Франция.\n 1927 г. – Започва първата екуменическа църковна конференция в Лозана.\n 1934 г. – В Царство България е проведена общинска реформа, при която общините са лишени от автономия и броят им е намален повече от три пъти до около 800.\n 1940 г. – Литва е включена официално в територията на СССР.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Италианската армия навлиза в Британска Сомалия.\n 1948 г. – Публикуван е указ за закриване на чуждите училища в Народна република България.\n 1950 г. – Политбюро на ЦК на БКП решава да се поощрява с всички средства изселването в Турция на турското население и преди всичко от родопските гранични райони.\n 1952 г. – Закрити са Летни олимпийски игри 1952 в Хелзинки, по време на които боксьора Борис Николов печели първия български олимпийски медал.\n 1960 г. – Нигер придобива независимост от Франция.\n 1977 г. – Избухва стачка на миньорите от въгледобивния басейн „Валя Жиулуй“ в Румъния против режима на Николае Чаушеску. В нея участван около 35 000 души.\n 1980 г. – В Москва са закрити XXII Олимпийски игри, бойкотирани от западните страни, в които Народна република България печели 8 златни, 16 сребърни и 17 бронзови медала и заема 3-то място в крайното класиране.\n 1994 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския филм Реална опасност.\n 2000 г. – Чилийският Върховен съд отнема съдебния имунитет на генерал Аугусто Пиночет.\n 2001 г. – Ражда се първото бебе в България, заченато по метода инвитро от замразен ембрион.\n 2004 г. – От военновъздушната база Кейп Канаверал, САЩ, е изстрелян към Меркурий космическият апарат МЕСИНДЖЪР на НАСА.\n 2004 г. – Пиедесталът на Статуята на свободата в Ню Йорк е открит за посещения след затварянето му при Атентатите от 11 септември 2001 г.\n 2006 г. – XL народно събрание ратифицира Конвенцията на ООН срещу корупцията.\n 2014 г. – Тежко наводнение в град Мизия с жертви и стотици евакуирани хора.\n\nРодени \n\n 1750 г. – Лудвиг Енгелберт, княз на Реклингхаузен († 1820 г.)\n 1770 г. – Фридрих Вилхелм III, крал на Прусия от 1797 г. († 1840 г.)\n 1811 г. – Илайша Отис, американец, изобретател на асансьора († 1861 г.)\n 1832 г. – Иван Зайц, хърватски композитор († 1914 г.)\n 1840 г. – Джеймс Елтън, английски пътешественик († 1877 г.)\n 1862 г. – Освалд Кюлпе, германски философ († 1915 г.)\n 1872 г. – Хокон VII, крал на Норвегия († 1957 г.)\n 1875 г. – Димитър Йоцов, български историк, дипломат и политик († 1969 г.)\n 1889 г. – Крум Дрончилов, български географ († 1925 г.)\n 1890 г. – Константин Константинов, български писател († 1970 г.)\n 1892 г. – Иван Болдин, съветски военачалник († 1976 г.)\n 1898 г. – Борис Тиков, български революционер († 1972 г.)\n 1898 г. – Калина Малина, българска писателка († 1979 г.)\n 1899 г. – Луи Широн, бивш пилот от Формула 1 († 1979 г.)\n 1901 г. – Стефан Вишински, полски кардинал († 1981 г.)\n 1904 г. – Клифърд Саймък, американски писател († 1988 г.)\n 1907 г. – Ернесту Гайзел, бразилски офицер († 1996 г.)\n 1910 г. – Лесли Талбът, английски футболист († 1983 г.)\n 1914 г. – Нада Богданова, югославска партизанка († 1987 г.)\n 1921 г. – Иван Пръмов, български политик († 2005 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ален Турен, френски социолог\n 1926 г. – Тони Бенет, американски певец и художник\n 1935 г. – Георгий Шонин, съветски космонавт († 1997 г.)\n 1936 г. – Ерих Хоф, австрийски футболист († 1995 г.)\n 1940 г. – Мартин Шийн, американски актьор\n 1946 г. – Джак Стро, британски политик\n 1946 г. – Петко Петков, български футболист († 2020 г.)\n 1948 г. – Жан-Пиер Рафарен, френски политик\n 1949 г. – Кристоф Гайзер, швейцарски писател\n 1951 г. – Панайот Панайотов, български режисьор\n 1951 г. – Ханс Шлегел, немски физик\n 1952 г. – Освалдо Ардилес, аржентински футболист\n 1955 г. – Зигфрид Зелберхер, австрийски учен\n 1959 г. – Коичи Танака, японски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 2002 г.\n 1959 г. – Стоян Делчев, български гимнастик\n 1960 г. – Анна-Мария Равнополска-Дийн, българска музикантка\n 1960 г. – Ким Милтън Нилсен, датски футболен съдия\n 1960 г. – Татяна Янчева, българска гимнастичка\n 1961 г. – Борислав Кьосев, български волейболист\n 1963 г. – Джеймс Хетфийлд, американски музикант (Metallica)\n 1964 г. – Лъки Дубей, южноафрикански реге певец († 2004 г.)\n 1973 г. – Джей Кътлър, американски културист\n 1977 г. – Милен Йорданов Игнатов, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Колин Бенджамин, намибийски футболист\n 1979 г. – Еванджелин Лили, канадска актриса\n 1980 г. – Руши Видинлиев, български певец\n 1981 г. – Георги Даскалов, български футболист\n 1984 г. – Раян Локти, американски плувец\n 1985 г. – Марсел Цимер, германски футболист\n 1987 г. – Траян Траянов, български футболист\n 1989 г. – Сам Хътчинсън, английски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 224 г. – Юлия Меса, знатна римлянка (* 165 г.)\n 1460 г. – Джеймс II, крал на Шотландия (* 1430 г.)\n 1780 г. – Етиен Боно де Кондияк, френски философ (* 1715 г.)\n 1797 г. – Джефри Амхърст, британски офицер (* 1717 г.)\n 1857 г. – Йожен Сю, френски писател (* 1804 г.)\n 1872 г. – Уилям Дейвис Евънс, английски шахматист (* 1790 г.)\n 1902 г. – Лазар Москов, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1913 г. – Фридрих Пуцгер, немски картограф (* 1849 г.)\n 1924 г. – Джоузеф Конрад, английски писател от полски произход (* 1857 г.)\n 1927 г. – Стоян Михайловски, български поет и баснописец (* 1854 г.)\n 1929 г. – Емил Берлинер, американски изобретател от германски произход (* 1851 г.)\n 1929 г. – Торщайн Бунде Велбен, американски икономист институционалист (* 1857 г.)\n 1954 г. – Габриел Сидони Колет, френска писателка (* 1873 г.)\n 1955 г. – Марин Жеков български художник-маринист и сценограф (* 1898 г.)\n 1968 г. – Константин Рокосовски, съветски офицер, маршал на СССР (* 1896 г.)\n 1977 г. – Макариос III, кипърски духовник и първи президент на Кипър (* 1913 г.)\n 1979 г. – Бертил Олин, шведски икономист, Нобелов лауреат (* 1899 г.)\n 1979 г. – Васка Попова-Баларева, българска художничка (* 1902 г.)\n 1986 г. – Кирил Харалампиев, български фолклорист (* 1926 г.)\n 1998 г. – Алфред Шнитке, руски композитор (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Кармен Силвера, канадска актриса († 1922 г.)\n 2006 г. – Елизабет Шварцкопф, германска оперна певица (* 1915 г.)\n 2008 г. – Александър Солженицин, руски писател и историк, Нобелов лауреат (* 1918 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Световен ден на динята\n Бразилия – Празник на град Жабоатау дус Гуарарапис\n Венецуела – Ден на националния флаг (празнува се от 2006 г.)\n Екваториална Гвинея – Ден на въоръжените сили\n Кентъки (САЩ) – Ден на динята\n Нигер – Ден на независимостта (1960 г., от Франция, национален празник)\n\n803"
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        "text": "3 септември е 246-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (247-и през високосна). Остават 119 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 301 г. – Сан Марино получава независимост от Римската империя.\n 590 г. – Григорий I е избран за римски папа.\n 1189 г. – Ричард Лъвското сърце е коронован за крал на Англия в Уестминстър.\n 1260 г. – Води се Битката при Айн Джалут.\n 1651 – Битка при Вустер (Англия), в която Оливър Кромуел разбива Чарлз II и завладява Шотландия\n 1783 г. – Подписан е Парижкия мир между Великобритания и 13 нейни северноамерикански колонии, с който се слага край на Американската война за независимост.\n 1791 г. – Френското законодателно събрание приема първата френска конституция.\n 1843 г. – Въстание в Атина довело до приемането на първата гръцка конституция.\n 1877 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Битка при Ловеч: Руските войски превземат града за втори път.\n 1877 г. – Руско-турска война (1877 – 1878): Румънският княз Карол I е назначен за главнокомандващ на руско-румънските части при Плевен.\n 1878 г. – Край бреговете на Англия потъва корабът „Принцеса Алиса“, в резултат на което загиват 645 души.\n 1901 г. – Четници на Яне Сандански и Христо Чернопеев отвличат протестантската мисионерка мис Елен Стоун и бременната Катерина Цилка за откуп от 100 000 щатски долара.\n 1903 г. – Вселенският патриарх Йоаким III с послание настоява Турция възможно най-бързо да потуши въстанието и да възстанови реда в Македония.\n 1905 г. – В Барселона по време на военноморски парад при бомбен взрив загиват около 30 души.\n 1914 г. – Започва понтификата на папа Бенедикт XV.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: В битката при Кочмар и Гешаново конната дивизия на ген. Иван Колев удържа бляскава победа над румънските армейски части.\n 1925 г. – Над Охайо претърпява катастрофа американският дирижабъл Шенъндоу, който е първият летателен апарат с хелий.\n 1939 г. – Втора световна война: Франция, Великобритания, Нова Зеландия и Австралия обявяват война на Нацистка Германия.\n 1941 г. – В концлагера Освиенцим е използван за първи път отровният газ Циклон Б.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: в Сицилианското село Касибиле е подписано Примирие на Италия с антихитлеристката коалиция с което Италия излиза от съюз с нацистка Германия, прекратява военните действия срещу Антихитлеристката коалиция и се задължава да обяви война на Германия и да участва в нея с армията си.\n 1944 г. – Министър-председателят Константин Муравиев спира изпълнението на всички смъртни наказания в България.\n 1944 г. – Холокост: Ане Франк, момичето което води дневник за Втората световна война, е качено заедно със семейството си на последния влак за концентрационния лагер Аушвиц.\n 1954 г. – САЩ въвеждат смъртно наказание за шпионаж в мирно време.\n 1963 г. – В София е открит Българският национален киноцентър.\n 1967 г. – В Швеция се пренаписват пътните закони, и се променя движението по пътищата към дясната страна.\n 1971 г. – Катар получава национална независимост.\n 1974 г. – В Пловдив се открива XXX юбилеен международен мострен панаир.\n 1974 г. – Създадена е гръцката социалдемократическа партия ПАСОК.\n 1976 г. – Космическия кораб Викинг 2 каца на Марс и предава първите цветни снимки на повърхността на планетата отблизо.\n 2004 г. – Терористичен акт в Беслан: Кризата приключва със смъртта на 344 души, повече от половината деца. Други 180 са обявени за безследно изчезнали.\n\nРодени \n\n 1499 г. – Диана дьо Поатие, френска благородничка († 1566 г.)\n 1859 г. – Жан Жорес, френски политик († 1914 г.)\n 1869 г. – Фриц Прегл, австрийски химик, Нобелов лауреат († 1930 г.)\n 1875 г. – Фердинанд Порше, германски конструктор на автомобили († 1951 г.)\n 1891 г. – Любомир Владикин, български юрист и писател († 1948 г.)\n 1893 г. – Денчо Марчевски, български писател († 1973 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ристо Кърле, македонски драматург († 1975 г.)\n 1900 г. – Урхо Кеконен, финландски политик и президент († 1986 г.)\n 1905 г. – Карл Дейвид Андерсън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1936 г. († 1991 г.)\n 1911 г. – Ернст Майстер, немски писател († 1979 г.)\n 1918 г. – Хелън Уогнър, американска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1928 г. – Боян Мошелов, български волейболист († 2003 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ирини Папа, гръцка актриса\n 1931 г. – Самир Амин, египетски политикономист († 2018 г.)\n 1938 г. – Лидия Вълкова, българска актриса\n 1938 г. – Димитър Коклин, български художник-гримьор († 2014 г.)\n 1941 г. – Сергей Довлатов, руски писател († 1990 г.)\n 1949 г. – Петър VII, патриарх на Александрия († 2004 г.)\n 1949 г. – Хосе Пекерман, аржентински футболен треньор\n 1950 г. – Васил Найденов, български поп-певец\n 1950 г. – Малина Петрова, български кинорежисьор и сценарист\n 1953 г. – Жан-Пиер Жоне, френски филмов режисьор\n 1954 г. – Людмил Бонев, български скулптор († 2018 г.)\n 1955 г. – Стив Джоунс, британски музикант (Sex Pistols)\n 1962 г. – Костас Мандилор, австралийски актьор\n 1964 г. – Александър Станков, български футболист и треньор\n 1965 г. – Чарли Шийн, американски актьор\n 1970 г. – Гарет Саутгейт, английски футболист и треньор\n 1970 г. – Димитър Тотев, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Кевин Ричардсън, американски певец, Бекстрийт бойс\n 1974 г. – Мария Донева, българска поетеса\n 1976 г. – Самюъл Куфур, ганайски футболист\n 1977 г. – Олоф Мелберг, шведски футболист\n 1978 г. – Йордан Владев, български композитор\n 1985 г. – Скот Карсън, английски футболист\n 1986 г. – Шон Уайт, американски сноубордист и скейтбордист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1592 г. – Робърт Грийн, английски писател\n 1634 г. – Едуард Кок, английски политик и юрист (* 1552 г.)\n 1653 г. – Клавдий Салмазий, френски лингвист и учен (* 1588 г.)\n 1658 г. – Оливър Кромуел, английски политик и държавник (* 1599 г.)\n 1667 г. – Алонсо Кано, испански скулптор (* 1601 г.)\n 1877 г. – Адолф Тиер, френски политик (* 1797 г.)\n 1880 г. – Вилхелм Вестмайер, немски композитор и пианист (* 1829 г.)\n 1883 г. – Иван Тургенев, руски писател (* 1818 г.)\n 1903 г. – Манол Розов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1948 г. – Едуард Бенеш, президент на Чехословакия (* 1884 г.)\n 1962 г. – Е. Е. Къмингс, поет авангардист (* 1894 г.)\n 1965 г. – Александър Бурмов, български историк (* 1911 г.)\n 1970 г. – Васил Гендов, първият български кинорежисьор (* 1891 г.)\n 1975 г. – Любомир Андрейчин, български езиковед (* 1910 г.)\n 1989 г. – Гаетано Ширеа, италиански футболист (* 1953 г.)\n 1990 г. – Веселин Йосифов, български писател, публицист и журналист (* 1920 г.)\n 1991 г. – Франк Капра, американски режисьор (* 1897 г.)\n 1994 г. – Били Райт, английски футболист (* 1924 г.)\n 2001 г. – Стефан Продев, български писател, есеист и публицист (* 1927 г.)\n 2004 г. – Андре Стил, френски писател и публицист (* 1921)\n\nПразници \n Катар – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1971 г., национален празник)\n Сан Марино – Ден на републиката (най-старата република в света, 301 г., национален празник)\n Република Китай (Тайван) – Ден на армията, Ден на победата над Япония\n\n903"
    },
    {
        "text": "3 октомври е 276-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (277-и през високосна). Остават 89 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 42 пр.н.е. – Битка при Филипи: Триумвирите Марк Антоний и Октавиан Август водят решителна битка с войската на убийците на Цезар – Марк Юний Брут и Касий.\n 1868 г. – Хуан Прим става министър-председател на Испания.\n 1918 г. – Първа световна война: Цар Фердинанд I абдикира в полза на сина си Борис III и напуска завинаги България.\n 1929 г. – Кралството на сърби, хървати и словенци е преименувано на Кралство Югославия.\n 1932 г. – Ирак придобива независимост от Великобритания.\n 1941 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския криминален филм Малтийският сокол.\n 1942 г. – Вернер фон Браун заедно с други сътрудници на немския изследователски реактивен център в Пенемюнде (Германия) пуска успешно първата в света балистична ракета – Фау-2.\n 1944 г. – Футбол Клуб 1913 се обединява с Раковски под името Раковски ФК.\n 1952 г. – Обединеното кралство провежда Операция Ураган, при която успешно изпробва първата си атомна бомба.\n 1960 г. – Нигерия придобива независимост от Великобритания.\n 1962 г. – Програма Мъркюри: Изстрелян е космическия кораб Мъркюри 8 с астронавта Уоли Шира на борда, който прави шест орбити около Земята за осем часа.\n 1985 г. – Космическата совалка Атлантис прави първия си полет.\n 1990 г. – Влиза в сила договора за повторно обединение на Германия: Германската демократична република престава да съществува и нейната територия става част от Федерална република Германия. Източногерманците стават част от Европейската общност, която по-късно става Европейски съюз.\n 1993 г. – Битката за Могадишу: В опит да заловят високопоставени лица от организацията на военния диктатор Мохамед Фара Айдид в Могадишу (Сомалия), 18 американски войници и около 1000 сомалийски цивилни бойци са убити в тежка престрелка.\n 2009 г. – Турция, Казахстан, Киргизстан и Азербайджан основават Тюркския съвет.\n\nРодени \n\n 1458 г. – Свети Казимир, християнски светец († 1484 г.)\n 1819 г. – Евлоги Георгиев, български предприемач († 1897 г.)\n 1858 г. – Елеонора Дузе, италианска драматична актриса († 1924 г.)\n 1885 г. – Георги Кулишев, български политик († 1974 г.)\n 1886 г. – Ален Фурние, френски писател († 1914 г.)\n 1889 г. – Карл фон Осиецки, немски пацифист, Нобелов лауреат († 1937 г.)\n 1891 г. – Морис Виктор Батенберг, британски принц († 1914 г.)\n 1895 г. – Сергей Есенин, руски поет († 1925 г.)\n 1897 г. – Луи Арагон, френски историк, поет, романист и новелист († 1982 г.)\n 1899 г. – Константин Матов, български лекар († 1968 г.)\n 1899 г. – Луи Йелмслев, датски лингвист († 1960 г.)\n 1908 г. – Вазген I, арменски духовник († 1994 г.)\n 1919 г. – Джеймс Бюканън, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат († 2013 г.)\n 1925 г. – Гор Видал, американски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1928 г. – Алвин Тофлър, американски писател и футурист († 2016 г.)\n 1933 г. – Цветан Марангозов, български писател и драматург († 2021 г.)\n 1935 г. – Чарлс Дюк, американски астронавт\n 1945 г. – Клаус Мерц, швейцарски писател\n 1954 г. – Стиви Рей Вон, американски блус китарист и певец († 1990 г.)\n 1961 г. – Емил Маринов, български футболист\n 1962 г. – Томи Лий, американски музикант (Мотли Крю)\n 1964 г. – Клайв Оуен, британски актьор\n 1969 г. – Гуен Стефани, американска певица (No Doubt)\n 1973 г. – Лина Хеди, английска актриса\n 1976 г. – Шон Уилям Скот, американски актьор и комедиант\n 1977 г. – Владимир Николов, български волейболист\n 1979 г. \n Евгения Алексиева, български политик\n Карло Албан, еквадорски актьор\n 1980 г. – Линдзи Келк, английска писателка\n 1981 г. – Златан Ибрахимович, шведски футболист\n 1981 г. – Клаудио Писаро, перуански футболист\n 1982 г. – Тимо Глок, немски автомобилен състезател\n 1984 г. – Ашли Симпсън, американска певица и актриса\n 1988 г. – Ейсап Роки, американски рапър\n 1988 г. – Алисия Викандер, шведска актриса\n 1996 г. – Анджей Джандев, български политик и инженер\n\nПочинали \n\n 1226 г. – Франциск от Асизи, италиански духовник (* 1181 г.)\n 1568 г. – Елизабет Валоа, съпруга на Филип II (* 1545 г.)\n 1896 г. – Уилям Морис, английски дизайнер, художник, писател и социалист (* 1834 г.)\n 1929 г. – Густав Щреземан, канцлер на Германия, Нобелов лауреат (* 1878 г.)\n 1931 г. – Стефан Белов, български военен деец (* 1860 г.)\n 1937 г. – Александър Чаянов, руски агроном и писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1964 г. – Стоян Атанасов, български книгоиздател (* 1881 г.)\n 1977 г. – Асен Павлов, български политик (* 1898 г.)\n 1987 г. – Жан Ануи, френски писател (* 1910 г.)\n 1990 г. – Север Гансовски, руски писател (* 1918 г.)\n 1999 г. – Акио Морита, японски предприемач (* 1921 г.)\n 2004 г. – Джанет Лий, американска актриса (* 1927 г.)\n\nПразници \n Европейски ден на птиците\n Германия – Ден на германското единство (1990 г., национален празник)\n\nA03"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: How can I use an ADB Apple Keyboard with a modern Mac? I recently found an old Apple Extended Keyboard that uses the ADB interface. I would like to use it, but I don't have an ADB-to-USB converter. I know of only one which is the Griffin iMate. Unfortunately, it's out of production and the ones going on ebay are expensive. \nAnyone know of another company that made the ADB-to-USB converters? Even better if they still do!\n\nA: The iMate was the only converter available on the market.\nIf you do get an iMate, the only thing it will work with these days are keyboards and mice. It internally converts ADB keyboard and mice commands to USB keyboard and mice commands, so it will just make your ADB mouse and keyboard look like a USB mouse and keyboard to the computer, no drivers required.\nIn ~2001 there was a driver for the iMate that would actually configure it as an ADB bus the computer could see, that way anything with real ADB drivers could use it just like a builtin port. That driver has not been updated in years, and Apple dropped all ADB support from OS X, so at this point USB emulation is the only thing it does. Not that there were many (any?) interesting ADB devices that were supported under Mac OS X anyway.\n\nA: Find a matching vintage CPU, install an old linux on it with ADB drivers, and then send the resulting keystrokes over IP.\nOr you could buy a nice new low-profile aluminum Apple keyboard. It'll be cleaner, more comfortable, and cheaper.\n\nA: FYI there appears to be another USB to ADB adapter out there as well Micro Connectors USB ADB Adapter. Good luck with your search.\n\nA: ADB is over ten years old. \nI would highly doubt anyone is still making a converter for it. \n"
    },
    {
        "text": "Al Bunshaft is the Senior Vice President of Dassault Systèmes’ Americas Corporation where he spearheads key strategic initiatives and corporate leadership programs, including the company’s expansion into the U.S. government federal sector. He is also responsible for the company’s relationships with key stakeholders such as academic institutions, financial and industry analysts, public officials, as well as foreign diplomats.\nAs Managing Director of Dassault Systèmes Americas from 2010 until 2013, he helped build the foundation for future company growth by leading the operations and communications of an organization of more than 3,000 employees. Bunshaft led the selection, design, construction and opening of the company’s North American headquarters, an award-winning campus recognized for its sustainable innovation practices and located in the heart of Boston’s technology belt in Waltham, Mass. The campus was awarded Best New Workplace in New England in 2012, and has been awarded one of only a handful of LEED Platinum designations in the Boston area.\nA common thread in Mr. Bunshaft’s career has been his expertise in visualization and computer graphics. In the thirty years since doing his post-graduate work at the National Science Foundation Center for Interactive Computer Graphics he has led efforts to introduce new technologies into far ranging industries. For example, he assisted major manufacturing companies’ in their transition from physical to digital design practices and played a key role in the development of the first digitally-designed automobile. With vehicles now being mobile computing platforms, he is focused on how this intelligence will be integrated into our urban infrastructure of the future. A subtle balance of technology, policy, and infrastructure evolution will be needed maximize society’s benefits.\nBunshaft is Dassault Systèmes’ leading voice in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiatives and was named one of the top 100 CEO leaders in STEM in the U.S. He represents the company as a member of the STEM subcommittee of the Clinton Global Initiative – America, and is a board member of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, where he co-chairs the Education and Talent Development Committee. Bunshaft also serves as an advisory board member at the Department of Information and Computer Science of The State University of New York at Albany. He was recently named to the Olin College of Engineering President’s Council. He regularly writes and speaks about STEM topics.\nHe received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from University at Albany, State University of New York and has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where he was a researcher at RPI’s Center for Interactive Computer Graphics, a National Science Foundation university-industry research center."
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    {
        "text": "This week’s column celebrates the opening of Action Point (and my interview with Johnny Knoxville) with a trio of non-Jackass related titles. All three available for rent on Amazon.\nAfter Jackass: The Movie hit big, Knoxville went to work, determined to be the first of his troop of addlepated daredevils to become a household name. And after he lent strong support to several features, The Ringer was poised to prove to the world his ability to carry a narrative comedy. In it, a gangster (Brian Cox) convinces his debt-ridden nephew (Knoxville) to go undercover and rig the Special Olympics. Before you start shaking your head: the production was made with the organization’s blessing, and those who’ve seen it invariably walk away, if not impressed, then at least not offended. By its very nature, Jackass had no room for pathos, yet the biggest reveal in The Ringer is Knoxville’s ability to handle the sentiment, a trait that would later prove useful in Skiptrace. But this was hardly the place for romantic complications, as evidenced by the flirtation struck between our Special Olympian impersonator and his comely tournament organizer (Katherine Heigl). Fairy tale intrigue notwithstanding, a steady stream of laughs await.\nHere’s one that seeks out and encourages insensitive behavior in its viewers. Instead of going to a hot boy’s Halloween party, Wren (Victoria Justice) is ordered to take her 8-year-old, bonbon-eating bon vivant brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll, the brawny tyke who would later appear opposite Knoxville in Bad Grandpa) trick or treating. Knoxville’s cameo as a jackass with a blond mullet makes his work in The Ringer look like something out of Chekov. And speaking of Tony C., fans of Russian drama won’t leave hungry: if in the second act you have an Asian nerd dressed as Aaron Burr and carrying a loaded musket, then in the following one it should be fired. Produced by Nickelodeon Films, this politically incorrect teen comedy — as close to an R-rating as PG-13 gets — couldn’t possibly air unedited on its parent cable channel. That probably accounts for why I frequently caught myself laughing out loud.\nA gambling cheat (Knoxville), banned from playing in American casinos, helps a sadder and wiser Hong Kong cop (Jackie Chan) hunt down a mob boss who operates under the pseudonym The Matador. When shrill joke-spinner Chris Tucker teamed with Chan, their poles-apart combination made such a worldwide splash that it spawned a pair of well-paying sequels. When professional tumbler/tummler Johnny met Jackie, the pairing barely saw the arclight of day in American multiplexes. Too bad, because I’ll take this over all the Rush Hour pictures combined. And don’t forget the long dormant director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cutthroat Island), hoping this might be his big comeback. Chan wrote the story, and though it’s admittedly not an example of the director or either actor in their prime, the avalanche gags and a posteriori stunt work — an encounter between Chan and a Russian nesting doll had me reaching for the remote to hit rewind — make for a rollicking good time."
    },
    {
        "text": "3 ноември е 307-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (308-и през високосна). Остават 58 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1493 г. – По време на второто си плаване до Америка Христофор Колумб открива остров Доминика.\n 1839 г. – В Цариград е провъзгласен „Гюлханският хатишериф“.\n 1867 г. – Отрядите на Джузепе Гарибалди губят от френската армия Битката при Ментана и не успяват да свалят Временното правителство на папата в Рим (то пада три години по-късно).\n 1887 г. – Основан е португалският футболен отбор Академика от град Коимбра.\n 1903 г. – С подкрепата на САЩ Панама обявява независимост от Колумбия.\n 1912 г. – Балканската война: Турция се обръща към Великите сили с молба те да посредничат за преустановяването на военните действия.\n 1916 г. – Катар попада под британска протекция.\n 1918 г. – Полша обявява независимост от Русия.\n 1918 г. – Австро-Унгария напуска Тройния съюз.\n 1943 г. – Холокост: В концентрационния лагер Майданек (на територията на Полша) по време на Празника на земята (Erntefest) са разстреляни 18 400 евреи.\n 1957 г. – СССР изстрелва космическия кораб Спутник-2, на борда на който се намира кучето Лайка, първото живо същество от Земята, което излиза в орбита.\n 1961 г. – Бирманецът У Тан е избран за изпълняващ длъжността генерален секретар на ООН.\n 1964 г. – Линдън Джонсън е избран за президент на САЩ.\n 1966 г. – Ураган в Бенгалския залив отнема живота на около 1000 души.\n 1970 г. – Парламентът на Чили избира за президент социалиста Салвадор Алиенде.\n 1973 г. – Програма Маринър: НАСА изстрелва Маринър 10 към Меркурий и на 29 март 1974, той става първият космически апарат, който достига планетата.\n 1978 г. – Доминика става независима от Великобритания държава в чест на годишнината от откриването ѝ.\n 1986 г. – Федерални щати Микронезия придобиват независимост от САЩ.\n 1988 г. – По инициатива на Желю Желев софийски интелектуалци създават Клуб за подкрепа на гласността и преустройството.\n 1989 г. – ПК Екогласност внася в Народното събрание подписка срещу проекта „Рила-Места“, след шествие по улиците на София, което е първа масова демонстрация срещу комунистическата власт в България.\n 1992 г. – Демократът Бил Клинтън побеждава републиканеца Джордж Х. У. Буш и независимия кандидат Рос Перо, и е избран за президент на САЩ.\n 2004 г. – Ясер Арафат изпада в постепенно задълбочаваща се кома; умира на 11 ноември.\n\nРодени \n\n 39 г. – Марк Аней Лукан, римски поет († 65 г.)\n 1500 г. – Бенвенуто Челини, италиански скулптор и ювелир († 1571 г.)\n 1560 г. – Анибале Карачи, италиански художник († 1609 г.)\n 1604 г. – Осман II, султан на Османската империя († 1622 г.)\n 1618 г. – Аурангзеб, шести император на моголите († 1707 г.)\n 1718 г. – Джон Монтагю, британски политик († 1792 г.)\n 1749 г. – Даниъл Ръдърфорд, шотландски физик и химик († 1819 г.)\n 1801 г. – Винченцо Белини, италиански композитор († 1835 г.)\n 1852 г. – Мейджи, 122-рият император на Япония († 1912 г.)\n 1855 г. – Степан Юринич, български учен зоолог († 1947 г.)\n 1860 г. – Фредерик Октавиус Пикард-Кеймбридж, английски арахнолог, илюстратор, натуралист († 1905 г.)\n 1869 г. – Васил Златаров, основател и пръв командир на въздухоплаването в България († 1932 г.)\n 1872 г. – Михаил Ганчев, български военен деец († 1931 г.)\n 1885 г. – Николай Аничков, руски патоморфолог († 1964 г.)\n 1893 г. – Алекси Квартирников, български инженер († 1977 г.)\n 1893 г. – Едуард Адълберт Дойзи, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1943 г. († 1986 г.)\n 1895 г. – Едуард Багрицки, руски поет († 1934 г.)\n 1900 г. – Адолф Даслер, немски предприемач († 1978 г.)\n 1901 г. – Андре Малро, френски писател († 1976 г.)\n 1901 г. – Леополд III, крал на Белгия († 1983 г.)\n 1921 г. – Чарлс Бронсън, американски актьор († 2003 г.)\n 1922 г. – Георги Свежин, български поет († 2001 г.)\n 1925 г. – Дитер Велерсхоф, немски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1926 г. – Валдас Адамкус, президент на Литва\n 1926 г. – Никола Ковачев, български режисьор († 2005 г.)\n 1931 г. – Моника Вити, италианска актриса († 2022 г.)\n 1933 г. – Амартя Сен, индийски икономист, Нобелов лауреат\n 1935 г. – Георги Мишев, български писател и сценарист\n 1936 г. – Рой Емерсън, австралийски тенисист\n 1939 г. – Налатамби Наваратнараджа, дипломат на Шри Ланка\n 1944 г. – Надежда Захариева, българска поетеса\n 1945 г. – Герд Мюлер, германски футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ник Симпър, британски баскитарист\n 1954 г. – Кевин Чилтън, американски астронавт\n 1957 г. – Веселин Методиев, български политик\n 1957 г. – Долф Лундгрен, шведски актьор\n 1965 г. – Борислав Гидиков, български щангист\n 1967 г. – Стивън Уилсън, английски музикант\n 1966 г. – Лилия Абаджиева, български режисьор\n 1969 г. – Робърт Майлс, италиански DJ\n 1973 г. – Таня Боева, българска поп и попфолк певица\n 1979 г. – Пабло Аймар, аржентински футболист\n 1982 г. – Евгений Плюшченко, руски фигурист\n 1982 г. – Искра Донова, българска актриса\n 1983 г. – Фининьо, бразилски футболист\n 1988 г. – Ангъс Макларън, австралийски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 361 г. – Констанций II, римски император (* 317 г.)\n 644 г. – Омар I, арабски халиф (* ок. 591)\n 1254 г. – Йоан III Дука Ватаций, император на Никейската империя (ок. 1192)\n 1766 г. – Томас Абт, германски философ (* 1738 г.)\n 1885 г. – Костадин Халачев, български военен деец (* 1861 г.)\n 1903 г. – Киряк Цанков, български революционер и дипломат (* ок. 1847 г.)\n 1914 г. – Георг Тракл, австрийски поет и драматург (* 1887 г.)\n 1918 г. – Александър Ляпунов, руски математик (* 1857 г.)\n 1919 г. – Масатаке Тераучи, Министър-председател на Япония (* 1852 г.)\n 1920 г. – Георги Янков, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1950 г. – Куниаки Коисо, Министър-председател на Япония (* 1880 г.)\n 1954 г. – Анри Матис, френски художник и график (* 1869 г.)\n 1957 г. – Тодор Радев, български военен деец и политик (* 1887 г.)\n 1959 г. – Андрей Протич, български изкуствовед (* 1875 г.)\n 1970 г. – Петър II, крал на Югославия (* 1923 г.)\n 1971 г. – Янина Поражинска, полска писателка, поетеса и преводачка (* 1888 г.)\n 1981 г. – Едвард Коцбек, словенски поет, писател и публицист (* 1904 г.)\n 1996 г. – Абдула Чатлъ, турски националист и неофашист (* 1956 г.)\n 1996 г. – Жан-Бедел Бокаса, император на Централноафриканска република (* 1921 г.)\n 1998 г. – Боб Кейн, американски аниматор (* 1915 г.)\n 2005 г. – Маргарита Дупаринова, българска актриса (* 1921 г.)\n 2006 г. – Алберто Спенсър, еквадорски футболист (* 1937 г.)\n 2006 г. – Александър Караиванов, български аграрен учен (* 1925 г.)\n 2007 г. – Александър Дедюшко, актьор (* 1962 г.)\n 2010 г. – Виктор Черномирдин, руски политик (* 1938 г.)\n 2014 г. – Димитър Коклин, български художник-гримьор (* 1938 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква  – почита св. Пимен Зографски, покровител на българските художници, иконописци и реставратори\n Католическа църква – Ден на Свети Хуберт, патрон на ловците\n Световен ден на мъжете (първоначално възниква през 1999 г. в Тринидад и Тобаго; подкрепен е от ООН)\n България – Професионален празник на главната инспекция по труда – На този ден през 1907 г., с указ на княз Фердинанд I, е обнародван Закон за инспектората по труда. С този държавнически акт се поставя основата на институцията Инспекция по труда в България\n България – Ден на българския художник – Отбелязва се от 3 ноември 1993 г. в деня на църковния празник на св. Пимен Зографски, обявен за покровител на българските художници. Празнува се от българските художници, иконописци и реставратори\n Доминика – Ден на независимостта (1978 г., от Великобритания, национален празник)\n Малдиви – Ден на победата\n Микронезия – Ден на независимостта (1986 г., от САЩ)\n Панама – Ден на независимостта (1903 г., от Колумбия, национален празник)\n Япония – Ден на културата (Bunka-no Hi)\n\nB03"
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        "text": "Q: Stop Safari from loading webpages as Preview images Everyday, the first time I start Safari, if I go to the history or bookmarks tab, I get the following message: \n\nHow can I stop Safari from prompting this message and completely disable the webpages Preview?\nI already set the update policy to 2 with this:\ndefaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2\n\n\nA: Try running this command in the terminal:\ndefaults write com.apple.Safari DidPromptToFetchRecentHistoryPreviews -bool YES\n\n"
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        "text": "The CLASS Scholars pose with Mayor Dean in the atrium of the Wedgewood Academic Center.\nFrom sitting in the World’s Largest Chair to working on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center to managing a major metropolitan area during a “thousand year flood,” Karl Dean’s life has been marked by unexpected events. In his talk with the CLASS Scholars last Thursday, the former mayor of Nashville spoke about the value of being open to what life presents you.\nMayor Dean, who is now a professor of political science and history at Belmont University, told the scholars that he knew he wanted to be a lawyer at 16, but didn’t know what kind of work he was most interested in. A native of Gardner, Massachusetts, a small town famous for furniture manufacturing (and the world’s largest chair), he ended up attending college at Columbia University in the largest city in the U.S. Studying there confirmed his love of history and political science. His next step was attending law school at Vanderbilt–he thought he would spend the rest of his life in New England, and wanted to experience living in another part of the country first. He fell in love with Nashville (and his wife) and has lived here since 1983.\nThough he had experiences in international business and corporate law, he found his passion in public service, becoming the Assistant Public Defender and working in that office for sixteen years, being elected as the city’s Public Defender three times. He became Mayor Bill Purcell’s Law Director from 1999 until 2007, when he was first elected mayor.\n“As you go through life and make choices,” he told the Scholars, “be open to things–try things to see what they’re like. There are no failed experiments, because then you have more information.” For example, he decided to run for mayor as Purcell’s second term was winding down because it would have been worse to regret not running than to be embarrassed by losing an election. He knew he would learn something about himself, even if he failed at getting elected.\nDuring his two terms of office, his emphases were education, public transportation, and managing growth. This all seems well enough and the city was making good progress, but then 3 unexpected things hit: the national economic recession, the 2010 flood, and the English Only initiative. Mayor Dean explained how all of these things were potentially disastrous for a boom town with an ever-growing foreign-born population, and required responses that kept the long view and what was good for the city in mind.\nAs he left office, the main issues facing Nashville remained education, public safety, and economic development and all the ancillary issues arising from it, including the fact that 80-90 people move to Nashville every day. He summed up the main qualifications of public service by saying you have to like people and be optimistic.\nThe Scholars asked many questions about protecting historic buildings, encouraging civic participation, being involved when you’re too young to vote, and the ethics of being in public office, and they left with a lot better knowledge of what it takes to run a city."
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        "text": "3 декември е 337-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (338-и през високосна година). Остават 28 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1557 г. – В Единбург, Шотландия е подписана Конгрегация на Бог, с което се узаконява Реформацията и създаването на Презвитерианската църква.\n 1586 г. – В Англия са пренесени от Колумбия картофите като земеделска култура.\n 1621 г. – Галилео Галилей изобретява телескопа.\n\n 1775 г. – За първи път е издигнат американския флаг.\n 1810 г. – Англия завоюва от Франция остров Мавриций.\n 1818 г. – Илинойс става 21-вият щат на САЩ\n 1828 г. – Осъществено е обединението на Прусия и за столица на унията е определен Кьонигсберг (дн. Калининград).\n 1866 г. – Петко Славейков основава вестник „Македония“ в Цариград.\n 1891 г. – Народното събрание приема Закон за армията, който полага основите на модерната Българска армия.\n 1910 г. – Жорж Клод демонстрира създадената от него неонова лампа на изложение в Париж.\n 1912 г. – Балканската война приключва с подписването на примирие между Османската империя, от една страна, и България, Гърция, Черна гора и Сърбия (Балкански съюз). Тази война трае 2 месеца.\n 1917 г. – Открит е Квебекският мост – най-дългият за своето време мост в света.\n 1938 г. – В Германия е приет закон за национализация на собствеността на евреите.\n 1951 г. – В Турция е въведено смъртно наказание за комунистическа дейност.\n 1955 г. – ООН приема решение за създаване на Международна агенция за атомна енергия.\n 1959 г. – Първият в света атомен ледоразбивач „Ленин“ е пуснат на вода в корабостроителницата в Ленинград, СССР.\n 1960 г. – Министерският съвет създава външнотърговското предприятие „Тексим“ за търговия със специални стоки, в т.ч. с оръжие.\n 1966 г. – Край Кремълската стена са погребани останки на незнаен войн и е създаден известният Гроб на незнайния войн.\n 1967 г. – Кристиан Барнард осъществява в Кейп Таун, ЮАР първата трансплантация на сърце на 53-годишния Луис Уашкански – пациентът умира 18 дни по-късно от двустранна бронхопневмония.\n 1971 г. – Избухва войната между Индия и Пакистан.\n 1973 г. – Космическият кораб Пионер 10 изпраща към Земята първите близки снимки от Юпитер.\n 1984 г. – При тежка производствена катастрофа в град Бхопал, Индия загиват около 2500 души, около 100 хиляди души са с увредено здраве от отравяне, евакуирани са над 200 хиляди души.\n 1986 г. – Президентът на САЩ Роналд Рейгън обнародва първия бюджет на САЩ, превишаващ един трилион долара.\n 1989 г. – Завършва срещата край Малта, белязала края на Студената война.\n 1997 г. – В град Отава, Канада представители на 121 страни подписват договор, забраняващ поставянето на противопехотни мини. САЩ, Китайската народна република и Русия не подписват договора.\n 1999 г. – НАСА загубва радиовръзка с марсохода Марс Полар Лендър минути преди той да навлезе в атмосферата на Марс.\n\nРодени \n\n 1368 г. – Шарл VI, крал на Франция († 1422 г.)\n 1447 г. – Баязид II, султан на Османската империя († 1512 г.)\n 1596 г. – Николо Амати, италиански майстор на цигулки († 1684 г.)\n 1684 г. – Лудвиг Холберг, норвежки писател († 1754 г.)\n 1800 г. – Франце Прешерн, словенски поет († 1849 г.)\n 1820 г. – Сава Доброплодни, български възрожденец († 1894 г.)\n 1823 г. – Станислав Доспевски, български художник († 1878 г.)\n 1830 г. – Фредерик Лейтън, английски художник († 1896 г.)\n 1857 г. – Джоузеф Конрад, английски писател († 1924 г.)\n 1869 г. – Слободан Йованович, сръбски политик († 1958 г.)\n 1883 г. – Антон Веберн, австрийски композитор († 1945 г.)\n 1886 г. – Мане Сигбан, шведски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1924 г. († 1978 г.)\n 1889 г. – Стоян Загорчинов, български писател († 1969 г.)\n 1895 г. – Ана Фройд, австрийски психоаналитик († 1982 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Георгиев, български агроном († 1959 г.)\n 1899 г. – Хаято Икеда, министър-председател на Япония († 1965 г.)\n 1900 г. – Рихард Кун, австрийски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1938 г. († 1967 г.)\n 1902 г. – Кирил Мирчев, български езиковед († 1975 г.)\n 1909 г. – Владимир Аврамов, български цигулар († 2007 г.)\n 1911 г. – Нино Рота, италиански композитор († 1979 г.)\n 1922 г. – Свен Нюквист, шведски кинооператор († 2006 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ким Де Чун, президент на Южна Корея, Нобелова награда за мир през 2000 г. († 2009 г.)\n 1926 г. – Кирил Янев, български актьор († 2003 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жан-Люк Годар, френски режисьор\n 1931 г. – Франц Йозеф Дегенхарт, германски писател († 2011 г.)\n 1933 г. – Иван Сакарев, български политик († 2017 г.)\n 1934 г. – Абимаел Гусман, перуански комунист († 2021 г.)\n 1945 г. – Божидар Димитров, български историк († 2018 г.)\n 1948 г. – Ози Озбърн, английски певец\n 1949 г. – Милка Стоянова, българска поетеса\n 1955 г. – Алберто Тарантини, аржентински футболист\n 1960 г. – Дарил Хана, американска актриса\n 1960 г. – Джулиан Мур, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Катарина Вит, германска фигуристка\n 1971 г. – Мартин Стоев, български волейболист\n 1972 г. – Малин Орачев, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Албена Денкова, българска състезателка по фигурно пързаляне\n 1977 г. – Адам Малиш, полски състезател по ски скокове\n 1981 г. – Давид Вия, испански футболист\n 1984 г. – Авраам Пападопулос, гръцки футболист\n 1985 г. – Ласло Чех, унгарски плувец\n\nПочинали \n\n 1154 г. – Анастасий IV, римски папа (* ок. 1073 г.)\n 1533 г. – Василий III, велик княз на Московското княжество (* 1479 г.)\n 1552 г. – Франциск Ксаверий, основател на Ордена на йезуитите (* 1506 г.)\n 1834 г. – Симиън де Уит, американски географ († 1776 г.)\n 1854 г. – Йохан Петер Екерман, германски писател (* 1792 г.)\n 1888 г. – Карл Цайс, германски механик (* 1816 г.)\n 1893 г. – Михаил Амиорков, български военен деец (* 1863 г.)\n 1894 г. – Робърт Луис Стивънсън, британски писател (* 1850 г.)\n 1919 г. – Пиер-Огюст Реноар, френски живописец (* 1841 г.)\n 1935 г. – Шарл Рише, френски психолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1913 г. (* 1850 г.)\n 1949 г. – Елин Пелин, български писател (* 1877 г.)\n 1973 г. – Йожеф Дарваш, унгарски писател (* 1912 г.)\n 1987 г. – Кристине Буста, австрийска поетеса (* 1915 г.)\n 1995 г. – Александър Кайдановски, руски актьор (* 1946 г.)\n 1996 г. – Жорж Дюби, френски историк (* 1919 г.)\n 1999 г. – Скатман Джон, американски музикант (* 1942 г.)\n 2003 г. – Дейвид Хемингс, британски актьор (* 1941 г.)\n 2015 г. – Атанас Свиленов, български писател и журналист (* 1937 г.)\n\nПразници \n Католическа църква – Ден в памет на св. Франциск\n ООН – Международен ден на хората с увреждания\n Гана – Национален ден на фермерите\n Русия – Ден на неизвестният войн\n\nC03"
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        "text": "« Dancers with disabilities slay in jaw-dropping video | Main | The LPGA is one of the only women's leagues to provide league-wide child care for its players »\nYogurt: A good source of vitamins, minerals…and sugar\niStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- New research published in the British Medical Journal today reminds us that it might be time to scrutinize our yogurt labels more closely.\nYogurt is a good source of protein, calcium, and vitamins like B2 and B12. It also can contain live lactic-acid producing bacteria that falls under the category of “probiotic,” lauded for its potential to improve digestive and other health. But store-bought yogurt may also contain more sugar than anyone suspected.\nThe study, conducted by researchers at the University of Leeds and the University of Surrey in 2016, looked at approximately 900 individual yogurt products available in five major UK supermarkets. Each of these yogurts were then sorted into eight different categories, and compared: children’s, dairy alternatives, dessert, drinks, flavored, fruit, natural/Greek, and organic.\nThe nutritional content of the yogurts varied widely, but one thing was clear: most of them had lots of sugar. The authors of the study calculated the median amount of sugar per 100 grams for each category of yogurt that they studied, and compared sugar averages. Dessert yogurts had the highest amounts of sugar, 16.4 grams, which isn’t too surprising. What is surprising is that yogurts marketed as organic had the next highest median amount of sugar, 13.1 grams. And yogurts marketed toward children also had very high sugar, 10.8 grams. For context, the daily recommended sugar content per day for children ages 4 to 6 is no more than 19 grams, and many of these yogurts contributed significantly to that maximum. Overall, fewer than one in ten of all the yogurts studied -- 9 percent -- qualified as low-sugar.\nNatural/Greek yogurt was the only category appreciably different than the rest, with a lower median sugar content of 5 grams, as well as a higher median protein content.\nIt’s important to note that food labels in the UK report nutritional contents differently than in the U.S. Every component is based on a standard 100 gram portion rather than the classic U.S. “serving size,” which is determined by individual food manufacturers. Regardless, these levels of sugar are dramatic.\nThis information is significant when considering that obesity, even among children, is on the rise around the world. Dr. J. Bernadette Moore, nutrition scientist and lead author of the study, said that her concerns as a parent were the initial inspiration for the research. “I did not know that the yogurt I was giving my child had [so much] added sugar in it,” Moore said in a statement to ABC News.\nOther studies have pointed out a tendency for people to believe products labeled “organic” are inherently healthier, which Moore fears is playing into consumer choices about yogurt that is actually high in sugar. But she is quick to point out that yogurt is not the worst option in the grocery store: “If you are a parent and you are choosing between a Coca-Cola, a chocolate biscuit [cookie]…or a sweetened yogurt, then by all means give your child the yogurt -- you’ll get some calcium, you’ll get some protein, and you may get some probiotic.”\nStill, the amount of sugar in many commercially available yogurts is less than ideal. Moore advocates for more transparent food labeling, and changes from the yogurt industry itself.\nMoore thinks that if individuals know more about sugar in yogurt, they can make different decisions for themselves and their families. When introducing foods to children, why not choose natural yogurt instead? People can also make their own yogurt at home, as some cultures have been doing for centuries.\nEven when opting for natural or homemade yogurts, it’s important not to load it with toppings that can sabotage efforts to decrease your sugar intake. One study showed that given the choice, people inadvertently added an average of 13.6 grams of sugar to their yogurt with things like honey and jams.\nSo unless it’s using artificial sweeteners, if your yogurt tastes sweet, it’s probably because there’s sugar in it.\nWednesday, September 19, 2018 at 10:27AM by Michael Dobuski Permalink"
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        "text": "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\nAuthor: Michael Chabon\nRelease: September 19, 2000\nPublisher: Random House\nGenre: Fiction, Historical Fiction\nMain Character(s): Joe Kavalier, Sam Clay, Rosa Saks\nSynopsis: It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn’s own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun.\nDeclassified by Agent Palmer: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is Brilliant (A No Spoiler Book Review)\nQuotes and Lines\nWe have this history of impossible solutions for insoluble problems. – Wil Eisner, in conversation\nLike all of his friends, he considered it a compliment when somebody called him a wiseass. (He = Clay)\nBut like most natives of Brooklyn, Sammy considered himself a realist, and in general his escape plans centered around the attainment of fabulous sums of money.\n“‘Forget about what you are escaping from,’” he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum’s. “‘Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.’”\n“Never worry about what you are escaping from, he said. “Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.”\n“People only notice what you tell them to notice,” he said. “And then only if you remind them.” – Kornblum\nGossips, busybodies, and kibitzers were the fiends of her personal demonology. She was universally at odds with the neighbors, and suspicious, to the point of paranoia, of all visiting doctors, salesmen, municipal employees, synagogue committeemen, and tradespeople.\nAll of this left him hardened, battered, rumpled, and addicted to the making of money, but not, somehow, embittered. – Anapol\nSammy glared at Ashkenazy, not because Ashkenazy had insulted his work–no one was ever more aware of his own artistic limitations than Sam Clay–but because Sammy felt that he was standing on the border of something wonderful, a land where wild cataracts of money and the racing river of his own imagination would, at last, lift his makeshift little raft and carry it out to the boundless freedom of the open sea.\nJoe gave up trying to think like, trust, or believe in his cousin and just walked, head abuzz, toward the Hudson River, stunned by the novelty of exile.\nHer entire discourse with him appeared to consist solely of animadversion and invective.\nIt was, in part, a longing–common enough among the inventors and heroes–to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved.\nIn the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.\nIt was not that Joe felt at home in New York. That was something he never would have allowed himself to feel. But he was very grateful to his headquarters in exile. New York City had led him, after all, to his calling, to this great, mad new American art form. She had laid at his feet the printing presses and lithography cameras and delivery vans that allowed him to fight, if not a genuine war, then a tolerable substitute.\n…work that Deasey had long since concluded was only “a long, spiraling chute, greased with regular paychecks, to the Tartarus of pseudonymous hackdom.”\nNeither of the cousins was much for parties. Though Sammy was mad for swing, he could not, of course, dance on his pipe-cleaner legs; his nerves killed his appetite, and at any rate, he was too self-conscious about his manners to eat anything; and he disliked the flavor of liquors and beer. Introduced into a cursed circle of jabber and jazz, he would drift helplessly behind a large plant. His brash and heedless gift of conversation, by means of which he had whipped up Amazing Midget Radio Comics and with it the whole idea of Empire, deserted him. Put him in front of a roomful of people at work and he would be impossible to shut up; work was not work for him. Parties were work. Women were work. At Palooka Studios, whenever there occurred the chance conjunction of girls and a bottle, Sammy simply vanished, like Mike Campbell’s fortune, at first a little at a time, and then all at once.\n“Don’t be smart, it’s unattractive in a man.” – Rosa to Joe\nTo get paid vast sums for wasting one’s life, in her view, only added to the cosmic tallying of wastefulness. Most maddening of all to Sammy was the way that, in the face of the sudden influx of money, Ethel steadfastly refused to change any element of her life, except to shop for better cuts of meat, buy a new set of carving knives, and spend a relatively lavish amount on new underwear for Bubbie and herself.\nWhen they had first started going out, he was so absorbed by his work that he rarely had time for meals, existing quite mysteriously on coffee and bananas, but as Rosa herself, to her considerable satisfaction, had begun to absorb Joe more and more, he had become a regular guest at her father’s dinner table, where there were never fewer than five courses and three different varieties of wine. His ribs no longer stuck out, and his skinny little-boy’s behind had taken on a manlier helf.\nThe true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.\nOne of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.\n“I’m tired of fighting, maybe, for a little while. I fight, and I am fighting some more, and it just makes me have less hope, not more. I need to do something . . . something that will be great, you know, instead of trying always to be Good.” – Joe\nThe systems that controlled the motion, sound, and lighting of Democracity and its companion exhibit, General Motors’ Futurama, were quite literally the dernier cri of the art and ancient principles of clockwork machinery in the final ticking moments of the computerless world.\nWhat would she be saying if she did? That she wanted to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she was twelve or thirteen, Rosa had been declaring roundly to anyone who asked that she had no intention of getting married, ever, and that if she ever did, it would be when she was old and tired of life. When this declaration in its various forms had ceased to shock people sufficiently, she had taken to adding that the man she finally married would be no older than twenty-five. But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives.\nShe closed her eyes and tried to recite a snatch of Buddhist prayer her father had taught her, claiming it had a calming effect. It had little apparent impact on her father, and she wasn’t even sure she had the words right. Om mani padmi om. Somehow it did make her feel calmer.\nHe tried to be stern and friendless but was an inveterate kibitzer.\n…explorers invariably give their names to the places that haunt or kill them.\nThe defeat of those actual world-devouring supervillains, Hitler and Tojo, along with their minions, had turned out to be as debilitating to the long-underwear hero trade as the war itself had been an abundant source of energy and plots; it proved to be hard for the cashiered captains and supersoldiers, on their return from tying Krupp artillery into half-hitches and swatting Zeros like midges over the Coral Sea, to muster the old pre-1941 fervor for busting up rings of car thieves, rescuing orphans, and exposing crooked fight promoters. At the same time, a new villain, the lawless bastard child of relativity and Satan, had appeared to cast its roiling fiery pall over even the mightiest of heroes, who could no longer be entirely assured that there would always be a world for them to save. The tastes of returning GIs, who had become hooked on the regular shipments of comic books provided them along with candy bars and cigarettes, turned to darker, more “adult-oriented” fare: true-crime comics had their vogue, followed by horror tales, Westerns, science fiction; anything, in short, but masked men.\nRosa shook her head. It seemed to be her destiny to live among men whose solutions were invariably more complicated or extreme than the problems they were intended to solve.\nThe usual charge leveled against comic books, that they offered merely an escape from reality, seemed to Joe actually to be a powerful argument on their behalf. He had escaped, in his life, from ropes, chains, boxes, bags, and crates, from handcuffs and shackles, from countries and regimes, from the arms of a woman who loved him, from crashed airplanes and an opiate addiction and from an entire frozen continent intent on causing his death. The escape from reality was, he felt–especially right after the war–a worthy challenge.\nThe newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited “escapism” among the litany of injurious consequences of their reading, and dwelled on the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life.\nHope had been his enemy, a frailty that he must at all costs master, for so long now that it was a moment before he was willing to conceded that he had let it back into his heart.\nNow he had been unmasked, along with Bruce and Dick, and Steve and Bucky, and Oliver Queen (how obvious!) and Speedy, and that security was gone for good. And now there was nothing left to regret but his own cowardice.\n“I’m much too old to be happy, Mr. Clay. Unlike you.” – Deasey\nI have tried to respect history and geography wherever doing so served my purposes as a novelist, but wherever it did not I have, cheerfully or with regret, ignored them.\nFinally, I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe in this and everything else I’ve ever written to the work of the late Jack Kirby, the King of Comics.\nMichael Chabon’s grandfather was a typographer who worked in a New York City plant where, among other things, comic books were printed.\nFame and fortune are coming your way.\nYou are interested in higher education, whether material or spiritual."
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        "text": "Why Did The Weapons Manufacturer Bribe The Armed Services Committee Member?\nBy Middle Aged Woman Talking on June 15, 2012 4:35 pm ·\nMore powerful than the killing machines they manufacture, Northrup Grumman has given more money to Buck McKeon, (R-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services than any other member in Congress. In March, 2011, in a tit for tat move, McKeon tapped vice-president and lobbyist for Northrup, Thomas MacKenzie, to oversee defense contracts. Grumman reportedly paid MacKenzie “$500,ooo a few weeks before he became, as per Lee Fang who broke the story, ‘a low-paid Congressional staffer shaping military policy.’” MacKenzie’s salary was about to take quite a hit, from $529,379 at Northrup to $120,000 as a member of the committee.\nFang writes at Republic Report:\n“In Mackenzie’s case, Northrop Grumman made sure he had extra cash before he went to work writing policy on the defense budget. Republic Report views a recently filed ethics disclosure form and found that Northrup Grumman paid MacKenzie a $498.334 bonus in 2011, just before he went to work under McKeon as a committee staffer. The bonus was almost the size of MacKenzie’s annual salary at the firm, which was $529,379 in 2010. View a copy of the disclosure here.“\nSenator Richard Blumenthal caught wind of Fang’s story and as per the National Journal and Connecticut Post, clearly found the timing suspect. He has demanded that Northrup Grummon, “explain to Congress and the American public why they paid one of their executives close to half a million dollars right before he was about to quit and start work as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.”\nI have the answer to that one Senator Blumenthal. It’s probably for the same reason the defense industry donated over $22.6 million dollars to congressional candidates in 2009/10 and employs more than 1000 lobbyists, which works out to nearly 2 lobbyists for every member of congress. It’s probably for the same reason the defense industry spent $144 million for lobbying expenditures in 2010 and had “at least 682 revolving door employees in 2010, that would be people working in the government overseeing the arms industry then leaving government to work for a defense firm.”\nIt’s called influence Senator Blumenthal and irrespective of Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion that “independent expenditures do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,” the expenditures, the money, does in fact control the game of who gets what, F-35’s or food, drones or health care, and Buck McKeon, Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services is one the main players.\nHere’s the link to the petition to investigate Tom MacKenzie.\nhttp://unitedrepublic.org/its-bribery/\nLive loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools, Katherine Manaan (MAWT)"
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        "text": "4 януари е 4-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 361 дни до края на годината (362 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1493 г. – Христофор Колумб напуска Новия свят, като слага край на първото си пътуване.\n 1698 г. – Голям пожар разрушава резиденцията на английската корона – Двореца Уайтхол.\n\n 1762 г. – Англия обявява война на Испания и на Неапол.\n 1847 г. – Самюел Колт продава първия си револвер на правителството на САЩ.\n 1863 г. – Джеймс Плимптън патентова в САЩ ролковите кънки.\n 1865 г. – На Уол Стрийт (Ню Йорк) започва да действа Нюйоркска стокова борса.\n 1878 г. – Победата на Русия в Битката при София – заключителното действие на Западния отряд (Гурко) за разгрома на Орханийската османска армия в Руско-турската война (1877 – 1878) – води до освобождаването на София от османско владичество.\n 1885 г. – В Айова, САЩ е направена първата операция по отстраняване на апендикс.\n 1896 г. – Юта става 45-ият американски щат.\n 1923 г. – Владимир Ленин прави завещание, в което изказва мнение за ограничаване на властта на Сталин.\n 1924 г. – Гласуван Закон за защита на държавата от XXI обикновено народно събрание; законът е премахнат 20 години по-късно.\n 1926 г. – Съставено е четиридесет и третото правителство на България, начело с Андрей Ляпчев.\n 1936 г. – В Ню Йорк е публикувана първата ранглиста на хитовете (Billboard) въз основа на продадените грамофонни плочи.\n 1948 г. – Бирма (Мианмар) получава независимостта си от Обединеното кралство, денят се чества като национален празник.\n 1951 г. – Корейска война: Севернокорейските и китайските войски овладяват столицата на Южна Корея Сеул.\n 1958 г. – Спутник-1 излиза от орбитата си и пада на Земята (изстрелян е на 4 октомври 1957).\n 1962 г. – В Ню Йорк е показан влак, който може да се движи без екипаж на борда.\n 1970 г. – Бийтълс правят последния си запис като група.\n 1980 г. – Във връзка с нахлуването на съветски войски в Афганистан президентът на САЩ Джими Картър обявява бойкот на Олимпийските игри в Москва.\n 1990 г. – Учредено е Движението за права и свободи с председател Ахмед Доган.\n 2004 г. – Космическият апарат на НАСА Спирит успешно каца на Марс в 04:35 UTC.\n 2004 г. – Михаил Саакашвили печели президентските избори в Грузия.\n 2010 г. – Официално е открита най-високата сграда в света дотогава – Бурж Халифа в Дубай, Обединените Арабски Емирства\n\nРодени \n\n 1643 г. – Исак Нютон, английски физик († 1727 г.)\n 1710 г. – Джовани Батиста Перголези, италиански композитор († 1736 г.)\n 1772 г. – Жан-Етиен Ескирол, френски психиатър († 1840 г.)\n 1785 г. – Якоб Грим, немски филолог († 1863 г.)\n 1809 г. – Луи Брайл, френски изобретател († 1852 г.)\n 1826 г. – Адам Цвецински, руски офицер († 1881 г.)\n 1838 г. – Павел Калянджи, български педагог († 1890 г.)\n 1848 г. – Таро Кацура, министър-председател на Япония († 1913 г.)\n 1849 г. – Никола Сукнаров, български политик († 1894 г.)\n 1881 г. – Иван Пашов, български революционер († 1955 г.)\n 1882 г. – Йованче Попантов, български революционер († 1906 г.)\n 1886 г. – Мариано Латоре, чилийски писател († 1913 г.)\n 1893 г. – Йордан Анастасов, български политик († 1976 г.)\n 1920 г. – Уилям Колби, американски юрист († 1996 г.)\n 1925 г. – Ганчо Ганчев, български актьор († 1990 г.)\n 1927 г. – Жак Моше Авдала, български сценограф и живописец († 2000 г.)\n 1932 г. – Карлос Саура, испански режисьор\n 1934 г. – Рудолф Шустер, президент на Словакия\n 1935 г. – Флойд Патерсън, американски боксьор († 2006 г.)\n 1936 г. – Еньо Вълчев, български борец († 2014 г.)\n 1940 г. – Брайън Джоузефсън, британски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г.\n 1940 г. – Гао Синдзиен, китайски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 2000 г.\n 1941 г. – Джордж Косматос, италиански режисьор († 2005 г.)\n 1942 г. – Джон Маклафлин, британски музикант\n 1945 г. – Ричард Шрок, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 2005 г.\n 1959 г. – Али Ахмети, албански политически водач\n 1960 г. – Майкъл Стайп, американски певец (R.E.M.)\n 1962 г. – Питър Стийл, американски музикант (Type O Negative) († 2010 г.)\n 1963 г. – Тил Линдеман, немски музикант (Rammstein)\n 1964 г. – Елман Зейналов, азербайджански дипломат\n 1964 г. – Христо Шопов, български актьор\n 1966 г. – Томас Щангл, австрийски писател\n 1971 г. – Йоанис Николаидис, гръцки шахматист\n 1973 г. – Росен Кирилов, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Армин Цьогелер, италиански състезател по пързаляне с шейна\n 1977 г. – Тим Уилър, ирландски певец (Ash)\n 1978 г. – Доминик Хърбати, словашки тенисист\n 1984 г. – Франсиско Мартос, испански футболист\n 1985 г. – Рос Търнбул, английски футболист\n 1990 г. – Тони Кроос, германски футболист\n 1992 г. – Вилислав, български попфолк певец\n 1995 г. – Мария Исабел, испанска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 1695 г. – Люксамбур, френски офицер (* 1628 г.)\n 1791 г. – Етиен Морис Фалконе, френски скулптор (* 1716 г.)\n 1818 г. – Онуфрий Габровски, български монах (* 1786 г.)\n 1849 г. – Франц Габелсбергер, немски стенограф (* 1789 г.)\n 1881 г. – Неофит Рилски, български учител (* 1793 г.)\n 1903 г. – Йосиф Пречистански, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1908 г. – Димче Сарванов, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1919 г. – Георг фон Хертлинг, канцлер на Германия (* 1843 г.)\n 1920 г. – Бенито Перес Галдос, испански писател (* 1843 г.)\n 1920 г. – Григор Начович, български политик (* 1845 г.)\n 1941 г. – Анри Бергсон, френски философ, Нобелов лауреат през 1927 (* 1859 г.)\n 1942 г. – Орце Николов, македонски партизанин (* 1916 г.)\n 1943 г. – Мирче Ацев, македонски партизанин (* 1915 г.)\n 1943 г. – Страшо Пинджур, македонски партизанин (* 1915 г.)\n 1954 г. – Димитър Папрадишки, български иконописец (* 1859 г.)\n 1960 г. – Албер Камю, френски философ, Нобелов лауреат през 1957 г. (* 1913 г.)\n 1961 г. – Ервин Шрьодингер, австрийски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1933 г. (* 1887 г.)\n 1965 г. – Томас Стърнз Елиът, американски поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1948 г. (* 1888 г.)\n 1966 г. – Жорж Тьони, белгийски политик (* 1873 г.)\n 1979 г. – Калина Малина, българска писателка (* 1898 г.)\n 1985 г. – Брайън Хорокс, британски военачалник (* 1895 г.)\n 1990 г. – Детко Петров, български писател (* 1936 г.)\n 1996 г. – Михаил Михайлов, български актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 1999 г. – Кишомару Уешиба, японски айкидист (* 1921 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стефан Гечев, български поет (* 1912 г.)\n 2001 г. – Александра Адлер, австрийска невроложка (* 1901 г.)\n 2004 г. – Брайън Гибсън, американски режисьор (* 1944 г.)\n 2006 г. – Махтум бин Рашид ал Махтум, министър-председател на ОАЕ (* 1946 г.)\n 2006 г. – Ървинг Лейтън, канадски поет (* 1912 г.)\n 2007 г. – Сандро Салвадоре, италиански футболист (* 1939 г.)\n 2011 г. – Джери Рафърти, шотландски певец (* 1947 г.)\n 2011 г. – Коен Мулийн, холандски футболист (* 1937 г.)\n 2017 г. – Стефан Орманджиев, български футболен съдия (* 1953 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православен календар: Събор на св. 70 апостоли. Св. преподобномъченик Онуфрий Габровски. Св. преподобни Тривелий Теоктист. Имен ден празнуват Тихомир, Тихомира, Тервел.\n Ангола – Ден на мъчениците от колониалните репресии\n Мианмар – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1948 г., национален празник)\n Самоа – Рожден ден на краля\n\n104"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 февруари е 35-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 330 дни до края на годината (331 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 786 г. – Харун Ал Рашид става халиф на Багдад.\n 1708 г. – Излиза първото напечатано произведение на Йохан Себастиан Бах – Кантата 71.\n 1794 г. – Франция забранява робството в своите колонии и обявява робите за свободни граждани.\n 1797 г. – Земетресение разрушава столицата на Еквадор – Кито.\n 1864 г. – Основан е окръг Айдахо в САЩ.\n 1899 г. – Основан е германския футболен отбор Вердер Бремен.\n\n 1906 г. – Полицията в Ню Йорк започва да използва пръстовите отпечатъци за идентифициране на престъпници.\n 1911 г. – Ролс-Ройс утвърждава емблемата за своите автомобили – статуетката Spirit of Ecstasy.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: Германия обявява британските териториални води за зона на военни действия.\n 1922 г. – Компанията Форд купува компанията Линкълн.\n 1923 г. – ВМРО извършва неуспешен атентат срещу Александър Стамболийски.\n 1932 г. – Олимпийски игри: Зимни олимпийски игри – открити са III Зимни олимпийски игри в Лейк Плесид, Ню Йорк.\n 1940 г. – В СССР е разстрелян бившият ръководител на НКВД Николай Ежов.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Приключва Битката при Сталинград.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Започва Ялтенската конференция с участието на Йосиф Сталин, Франклин Рузвелт и Уинстън Чърчил.\n 1946 г. – Основан е албанския футболен отбор Партизани.\n 1947 г. – Завършва Първата национална конференция на ТКЗС.\n 1952 г. – Учредена е Българска търговско-промишлена палата.\n 1965 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 8,7 по скалата на Рихтер разтърсва Алеутските острови.\n 1972 г. – В Австралия е намерен най-големият в света опал – 1520 карата.\n 1976 г. – Олимпийски игри: XII-те Зимни олимпийски игри се откриват в Инсбрук, Австрия.\n 1992 г. – Уго Чавес оглавява неуспешния опит за преврат, наречен „Операция Замора“ срещу тогавашния президент на Венецуела, Карлос Андре Перес. Загиват стотици хора.\n 1997 г. – Председателят на БСП Георги Първанов и министърът на вътрешните работи Николай Добрев връщат мандата за съставяне на ново правителство след оставката на правителството на Жан Виденов по време на политическата криза от 1997 г..\n 1998 г. – С политически консенсус е прието Национално знаме на Босна и Херцеговина.\n 2003 г. – Съюзна република Югославия официално е преименувана на Сърбия и Черна гора, и е приета нова конституция, наречена Конституционна харта.\n\nРодени \n\n 1677 г. – Йохан Лудвиг Бах, германски композитор († 1731 г.)\n 1725 г. – Дру Друри, британски ентомолог († 1804 г.)\n 1739 г. – Джон Робисън, шотландски физик († 1805 г.)\n 1746 г. – Тадеуш Косцюшко, полски, беларуски и литовски национален герой († 1817 г.)\n 1778 г. – Огюстен Пирам дьо Кандол, швейцарски ботаник († 1841 г.)\n 1799 г. – Алмейда Гарет, португалски писател († 1854 г.)\n 1811 г. – Аристид Кавайе-Кол, френски органостроител († 1899 г.)\n 1815 г. – Йосиф Щросмайер, хърватски епископ († 1905 г.)\n 1820 г. – Божена Немцова, чешка писателка († 1862 г.)\n 1846 г. – Николай Умов, руски математик († 1915 г.)\n 1863 г. – Алфред Франсоа Лакроа, френски минералог († 1948 г.)\n 1863 г. – Артур Ячевски, руски ботаник († 1932 г.)\n 1871 г. – Фридрих Еберт, германски политик († 1925 г.)\n 1872 г. – Гоце Делчев, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1873 г. – Михаил Пришвин, руски писател († 1954 г.)\n 1881 г. – Климент Ворошилов, съветски военачалник († 1969 г.)\n 1885 г. – Асен Златаров, български учен († 1936 г.)\n 1885 г. – Борис Ахтаров, български ботаник († 1959 г.)\n 1897 г. – Лудвиг Ерхард, 2-ри бундесканцлер на Германия († 1977 г.)\n 1900 г. – Жак Превер, френски поет († 1977 г.)\n 1902 г. – Светослав Минков, български писател († 1966 г.)\n 1902 г. – Чарлз Линдберг, американски авиатор († 1974 г.)\n 1913 г. – Роза Паркс, американска общественичка († 2005 г.)\n 1914 г. – Алфред Андерш, немски поет († 1980 г.)\n 1930 г. – Борислав Пекич, сръбски писател († 1992 г.)\n 1931 г. – Благоя Иванов, писател от Република Македония\n 1931 г. – Изабел Перон, съпруга на Хуан Перон\n 1935 г. – Марти Талвела, финландски певец († 1989 г.)\n 1935 г. – Месру Мехмедов, български диригент († 1971 г.)\n 1937 г. – Дейвид Нюмън, американски кинорежисьор († 2003 г.)\n 1939 г. – Марин Колев, български поет\n 1939 г. – Румен Сербезов, български дипломат\n 1941 г. – Джон Стийл, американски рок музикант (The Animals)\n 1943 г. – Ванда Руткевич, полска алпинистка († 1992 г.)\n 1946 г. – Стефан Илиев, български композитор\n 1948 г. – Алис Купър, американски музикант\n 1953 г. – Китаро, японски музикант и композитор\n 1953 г. – Петър Попзлатев, български режисьор\n 1954 г. – Елисавета Вълчинова-Чендова, български музиколог\n 1955 г. – Микулаш Дзуринда, министър-председател на Словакия\n 1958 г. – Вернер Шваб, австрийски писател († 1994 г.)\n 1960 г. – Джонатан Ларсън, американски рок композитор († 1996 г.)\n 1963 г. – Пирмин Цурбриген, швейцарски скиор\n 1964 г. – Нудлес, американски китарист (The Offspring)\n 1967 г. – Сергей Гринков, руски фигурист († 1995 г.)\n 1968 г. – Теодор Ушев, български графичен дизайнер\n 1970 г. – Габриел Ануар, английска актриса\n 1970 г. – Мартин Карбовски, български журналист\n 1972 г. – Джовани Силва Де Оливейра, бразилски футболист\n 1973 г. – Красимир Паскалев, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Троян Радулов, български футболист\n 1975 г. – Натали Имбрулия, австралийска поп певица\n 1978 г. – Дана Гарсия, колумбийска актриса\n 1978 г. – Евгени Йорданов, български футболист\n 1980 г. – Георги Палазов, български плувец\n 1987 г. – Венцислав Роланд-Вензи, български певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 211 г. – Септимий Север, император на Рим (* 146 г.)\n 708 г. – Сисиний, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1505 г. – Жана Френска, френска благородничка (* 1464 г.)\n 1894 г. – Адолф Сакс, белгийски изобретател и майстор на музикални инструменти (* 1814 г.)\n 1928 г. – Хендрик Лоренц, нидерландски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1902 г. (* 1853 г.)\n 1937 г. – Бончо Василев, български военен и революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1939 г. – Едуард Сапир, американски езиковед (* 1884 г.)\n 1943 г. – Сенджуро Хаяши, Министър-председател на Япония (* 1876 г.)\n 1955 г. – Ханс Блюер, германски философ (* 1888 г.)\n 1956 г. – Петър Горов, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1987 г. – Карл Роджърс, американски хуманистичен психолог (* 1902 г.)\n 1995 г. – Патриша Хайсмит, американска писателка (* 1921 г.)\n 2002 г. – Агата Барбара, малтийски политик (* 1923 г.)\n 2006 г. – Павел Матев, български поет (* 1924 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Шри Ланка – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1948 г., национален празник)\n СЗО (ООН) – Световен ден за борба с рака (отбелязва се от 2000 г.)\n\n204"
    },
    {
        "text": "4 март е 63-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (64-ти през високосна година). Остават 302 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 870 г. – на   Поместен  събор в Константинопол е призната автокефалността на Българската православна църква.\n 1152 г. – Фридрих I Барбароса е избран за германски крал.\n 1238 г. – Войските на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество, водени от Юрий II, претърпяват пълно поражение от армията на Монголската империя в битката при река Сит.\n 1275 г. – Китайски астрономи наблюдават пълно слънчево затъмнение.\n\n 1386 г. – Владислав II е коронован за крал на Полша.\n 1519 г. – Ернан Кортес пристига в Мексико с намерение да търси цивилизацията на ацтеките и техните богатства.\n 1665 г. – Кралят на Англия Чарлз II обявява война на Нидерландия.\n 1770 г. – При най-големия пожар в Пловдив са изпепелени над 500 къщи и много обществени сгради.\n 1789 г. – В Ню Йорк е открит първият Конгрес на САЩ, който приема конституцията на страната.\n 1791 г. – Върмънт става 14-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1837 г. – Чикаго е обявен за главен град на Илинойс.\n 1848 г. – Във Франция по време на Февруарската революция е въведено всеобщо избирателно право за мъжете, навършили 21 години.\n 1849 г. – Приета е конституцията на Австрия.\n 1854 г. – Кримската война: Англия и Франция обявяват война на Русия, в подкрепа на Турция.\n 1857 г. – Англия признава независимостта на Афганистан.\n 1877 г. – Американският изобретател от немски произход Емил Берлинер създава микрофона.\n 1877 г. – В Русия излиза първият дипломиран випуск на жени лекари.\n 1882 г. – В Лондон е пуснат първият електрически трамвай.\n 1887 г. – Германският инженер и предприемач Готлиб Даймлер извършва тест на първия си автомобил.\n 1894 г. – При голям пожар в Шанхай (Китай) изгарят над 1000 сгради.\n\n 1898 г. – Белгийският кораб Belgica, с капитан Адриан дьо Жерлаш е скован от антарктическите ледове и принудително прави първото презимуване на толкова южна ширина.\n 1901 г. – Съставено е двадесет и второто правителство на България, начело с Петко Каравелов.\n 1910 г. – Официално е основан град Албиън, окръг Уитман, щата Вашингтон, САЩ.\n 1917 г. – Николай II абдикира като цар на Русия.\n 1933 г. – Канцлерът на Австрия Енгелберт Долфус разпуска парламента и налага авторитарен режим на управление, известен като период на австрофашизъм.\n 1936 г. – В Германия е извършен първият полет на най-големия дирижабъл – Хинденбург.\n 1942 г. – Никола Вапцаров е заловен заради участие в нелегалната комунистическа партия.\n 1943 г. – Холокост: Започва депортиране на български евреи от Беломорието.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: В Япония е обявена всеобща мобилизация на студентите.\n 1945 г. – Принцесата на Великобритания Елизабет (по-късно кралица Елизабет II) започва служба в армията като шофьор.\n 1946 г. – Излиза първият албум на Франк Синатра.\n 1949 г. – Съветът за сигурност на ООН препоръчва на Израел да стане член на организацията.\n\n 1966 г. – Джон Ленън прави скандалното изявление, че Бийтълс са станали по-известни от Иисус, което му навлича неприязън сред американските християни и те изгарят публично записи на групата.\n 1974 г. – Открит е най-дългият мост (мостът Нитерой) в Бразилия (13 290 m), свързващ градовете Рио де Жанейро и Нитерой.\n 1975 г. – Кралица Елизабет II дава благородническа титла на актьора Чарли Чаплин.\n 1977 г. – В Свищов по време на най-унищожителното в Югоизточна Европа земетресение – Вранчанското (с магнитуд 7,4 по Скалата на Рихтер, над 1600 жертви), са разрушени 2 сгради и загиват 121 души; комунистическата власт в България запазва в тайна тази трагедия.\n 1980 г. – Робърт Мугабе става първият цветнокож премиер на Зимбабве.\n 2001 г. – B референдум гласоподавателите на Швейцария отхвърлят членство на страната в Европейския съюз.\n 2005 г. – В Ирак е убит българският рейнджър Гърди Гърдев.\n 2007 г. – В началото на денонощието се наблюдава първото от двете пълни лунни затъмнения за 2007, което е уникално с това, че е частично видимо от всеки континент по света.\n\nРодени \n\n 1394 г. – Енрике Мореплавателя, португалски принц († 1460 г.)\n 1678 г. – Антонио Вивалди, италиански композитор и свещеник († 1741 г.)\n 1827 г. – Карл Юхан Андерсон, шведски изследовател на Южна Африка († 1867 г.)\n 1832 г. – Самюъл Колман, американски художник († 1920 г.)\n 1847 г. – Карл Байер, австрийски химик и металург, син на Фридрих Байер († 1904 г.)\n 1848 г. – Карл де Бур, немски историк († 1923 г.)\n 1863 г. – Реджиналд Инъс Поукък, британски зоолог († 1947 г.)\n 1871 г. – Борис Галеркин, руски математик († 1945 г.)\n 1875 г. – Михай Кароли, унгарски политик и държавник († 1955 г.)\n 1877 г. – Александър Гедике, руски композитор († 1957 г.)\n 1877 г. – Гарет Морган, американски изобретател († 1963 г.)\n 1879 г. – Бернхард Келерман, немски писател († 1951 г.)\n 1881 г. – Тодор Александров, български революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1881 г. – Ричард Толман, американски физикохимик († 1948 г.)\n 1883 г. – Дамян Велчев, български политик († 1954 г.)\n 1904 г. – Иван Леков, български езиковед и славист († 1978 г.)\n 1904 г. – Йозеф Шмидт, унгарски и австрийски тенор († 1942 г.)\n 1910 г. – Ангел Балевски, български учен († 1997 г.)\n 1913 г. – Джон Гарфийлд, американски актьор († 1952 г.)\n 1916 г. – Ханс Айзенк, германски психолог († 1997 г.)\n 1917 г. – Георги Георгиев, български археолог († 1987 г.)\n 1925 г. – Пол Мориа, френски композитор и диригент († 2006 г.)\n 1928 г. – Алън Силитоу, английски поет и белетрист († 2010 г.)\n 1932 г. – Ришард Капушчински, полски журналист и писател († 2007 г.)\n 1935 г. – Бент Ларсен, датски шахматист († 2010 г.)\n 1936 г. – Джим Кларк, шотландски пилот от Формула 1 († 1968 г.)\n 1938 г. – Кито Лоренц, немски писател († 2017 г.)\n 1940 г. – Сава Хашъмов, български актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1941 г. – Ейдриън Лайн, английски режисьор\n 1943 г. – Лучио Дала, италиански поп певец, музикант и композитор († 2012 г.)\n 1944 г. – Харви Постълуайт, британски инженер († 1999 г.)\n 1947 г. – Ян Гарбарек, норвежки саксофонист и джазмен\n 1948 г. – Джеймс Елрой, американски писател\n 1948 г. – Шейкин Стивънс, британски рок певец\n 1949 г. – Сергей Багапш, абхазки агроном и политик († 2011 г.)\n 1951 г. – Кени Далглиш, шотландски футболист и треньор\n 1951 г. – Крис Риа, британски поп певец\n 1952 г. – Рон Мос, американски актьор\n 1954 г. – Франсоа Фийон, френски политик\n 1956 г. – Рафи Рафиев, български футболист\n 1958 г. – Емел Етем Тошкова, български политик\n 1958 г. – Патриша Хийтън, американска актриса и продуцент\n 1959 г. – Пламен Гетов, български футболист\n 1959 г. – Васил Симов, български футболист\n 1959 г. – Дилян Хубанов, български художник и педагог\n 1961 г. – Теодосий Спасов, български музикант\n 1963 г. – Джейсън Нюстед, американски музикант\n 1965 г. – Халед Хосейни, афганистански писател\n 1968 г. – Киркор Киркоров, български боксьор\n 1968 г. – Патси Кенсит, английска актриса\n 1969 г. – Пиерлуиджи Казираги, италиански футболист\n 1971 г. – Ясен Атанасов, български писател\n 1973 г. – Михаил Михайлов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Кристоф Магнусон, исландско-немски писател\n 1978 г. – Любомир Божанков, български футболист\n 1983 г. – Илтер Садъков, български политик\n 1983 г. – Зоран Балдовалиев, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Скот Майкъл Фостър, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 254 г. – Луций I, римски папа\n 561 г. – Пелагий I, римски папа\n 1172 г. – Ищван III, крал на Унгария и Хърватия (* 1147 г.)\n 1193 г. – Салах ад Дин (Саладин), султан на Египет (* 1137 г.)\n\n 1832 г. – Жан-Франсоа Шамполион, френски учен, египтолог (* 1790 г.)\n 1852 г. – Николай Гогол, руски писател (* 1809 г.)\n 1916 г. – Франц Марк, германски художник екпресионист, загинал в битката при Вердюн (* 1880 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Людсканов, български политик (* 1854 г.)\n\n 1925 г. – Рачо Хаджиев, български военен деец, полковник (* 1859 г.)\n\n 1935 г. – Теодор Гълъбов, български стенограф (* 1870 г.)\n 1941 г. – Лудвиг Квиде, германски пацифист, Нобелов лауреат през 1927 г. (* 1858 г.)\n 1945 г. – Цветан Генев, български футболист и треньор (* 1898 г.)\n 1948 г. – Антонен Арто, френски драматург, актьор и режисьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1950 г. – Христо Тошев, български революционер и духовник (* 1873 г.)\n 1952 г. – Чарлз Шерингтън, британски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1932 г. (* 1857 г.)\n 1955 г. – Константин Константинов, български музиколог (* 1903 г.)\n 1958 г. – Смиле Войданов, български революционер и емигрантски деец (* 1872 г.)\n 1969 г. – Цветана Романска, български фолклорист и етнолог (* 1914 г.)\n 1977 г. – Андрес Кайседо, колумбийски писател (* 1951 г.)\n 1977 г. – Тома Караджиу, румънски актьор (* 1925 г.)\n 1983 г. – Стефан Илчев, български езиковед (* 1898 г.)\n 1989 г. – Михаил Люцканов, български оперен певец (* 1909 г.)\n 1996 г. – Гаврил, духовник, глава на Македонската православна църква (* 1912 г.)\n 2002 г. – Маргарете Нойман, немска поетеса и белетристка (* 1917 г.)\n 2003 г. – Джаба Йоселиани, грузински военачалник и политик (* 1926 г.)\n 2005 г. – Юрий Кравченко, украински политик (* 1951 г.)\n 2005 г. – Никола Калипари, италиански полицейски служител и разузнавач (* 1953 г.)\n\n 2006 г. – Роман Огаза, полски футболист (* 1952 г.)\n 2011 г. – Симон ван дер Меер, холандски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1984 г. (* 1925 г.)\n 2019 г. – Весела Тотева, български журналист (* 1973 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n304"
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        "text": "4 април е 94-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (95-и през високосна година). Остават 271 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1581 г. – След околосветско плаване Франсис Дрейк е обявен в Лондон за рицар.\n 1818 г. – Конгресът на САЩ приема Националното знаме на САЩ, което има 13 бели и червени линии и по една звезда за всеки щат (20 звезди).\n 1818 г. – Силно земетресение нанася щети в София.\n 1850 г. – Лос Анджелис е учреден като град.\n 1877 г. – Русия и Румъния подписват конвенция за свободен преход на руските войски за започване на Руско-турската война от 1877 година.\n 1887 г. – В Аргония, щата Канзас, Сузана Салтер става първата в света жена, избрана за кмет.\n 1905 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 8,7 бала по скалата на Рихтер разрушава напълно индийския град Кангри, загиват 370 хиляди жители.\n 1909 г. – В Порто Алегре е основан бразилския футболен клуб Спорт Клуб Интернасионал.\n 1918 г. – Първата световна война: С цената на 150 хил. жертви Германия успява да спечели втората битка при Сома и да придвижи фронта с 60 km на запад.\n 1923 г. – Цар Борис III утвърждава Закон за попълване на войската.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветската армия освобождава Унгария.\n 1949 г.:\n във Вашингтон е подписан договор за създаване на НАТО от 10 западноевропейски държави, САЩ и Канада;\n в София е открита Биологическата конференция на БАН, с която започва разгромът на генетиката в България, през периода 1949 – 1965 г.\n 1960 г. – На 32-рата церемония по връчване на наградите Оскар, 11 статуетки са присъдени на филма Бен-Хур.\n 1968 г. – Борецът за права на цветнокожите в САЩ Мартин Лутър Кинг е убит в мотел в Мемфис (Тенеси).\n 1968 г. – Проект Аполо: НАСА изстрелва Аполо 6.\n 1972 г. – Съветският съюз отказва виза на секретаря на Шведската академия, който трябва да връчи Нобеловата награда за литература на Александър Солженицин.\n 1981 г. – Тодор Живков е избран за генерален секретар на ЦК на БКП, след като дотогава е бил първи секретар.\n 1983 г. – Космическата совалка Чалънджър прави първия си полет в космоса.\n 1984 г. – Президентът на САЩ Роналд Рейгън призовава за международна забрана за използване на химическо оръжие.\n 1990 г. – Печатният орган на БКП вестник Работническо дело се преименува на вестник Дума.\n 1991 г. – Основан е Атлантически клуб за България по инициатива на депутата от СДС Соломон Паси, който става негов председател.\n 1994 г. – Учредена е Netscape Communications Corporation под името „Mosaic Communications Corporation“.\n 2000 г. – Бившият български цар Симеон II пристига в България и обявява, че ще остане в страната.\n 2004 г. – Български автобус пада в 40-метров каньон на границата между Сърбия и Черна гора на гора в река Лим, при което загиват 12 деца от град Свищов.\n\nРодени \n\n 186 г. – Каракала, римски император († 217 г.)\n 1752 г. – Николо Цингарели, италиански композитор († 1837 г.)\n 1818 г. – Майн Рид, британски писател († 1883 г.)\n 1843 г. – Ханс Рихтер, австро-унгарски композитор († 1916 г.)\n 1846 г. – Лотреамон, френски поет († 1870 г.)\n 1866 г. – Петър Абрашев, български юрист († 1930 г.)\n 1879 г. – Васил Попов, български анархист († 1927 г.)\n 1889 г. – Борис Грежов, български кинорежисьор, един от родоначалниците на игралното кино в България († 1968 г.)\n 1891 г. – Васил Миков, български археолог († 1970 г.)\n 1907 г. – Райна Стоянова, българска оперна певица († 1977 г.)\n 1907 г. – Юлиус Тинцман, немски писател († 1982 г.)\n 1911 г. – Георги Чолаков, деец на БРП (к) и партизанин († 1944 г.)\n 1914 г. – Маргьорит Дюрас, френска писателка († 1996 г.)\n 1915 г. – Мъди Уотърс, американски музикант († 1983 г.)\n 1919 г. – Веселин Ханчев, български поет и драматург († 1966 г.)\n 1920 г. – Ерик Ромер, френски кинорежисьор († 2010 г.)\n 1922 г. – Елмър Бърнстийн, американски композитор († 2004 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мая Анджелоу, американска писателка († 2014 г.)\n 1932 г. – Андрей Тарковски, руски режисьор и актьор († 1986 г.)\n 1932 г. – Антъни Пъркинс, американски актьор († 1992 г.)\n 1937 г. – Лайош Портиш, унгарски шахматист и гросмайстор\n 1939 г. – Светослав Пеев, български актьор\n 1944 г. – Роберт Шиндел, австрийски писател\n 1945 г. – Димитър Въндев, български математик († 2004 г.)\n 1946 г. – Росен Босев, български белетрист († 1988 г.)\n 1948 г. – Абдула Йоджалан, кюрдски политик, лидер на Кюрдската работническа партия\n 1948 г. – Дан Симънс, американски писател\n 1950 г. – Бистра Марчева, българска актриса\n 1952 г. – Гери Мур, британски китарист († 2011 г.)\n 1952 г. – Розмари Акерман, германска състезателка по висок скок\n 1952 г. – Станислав Даскалов, български дипломат\n 1957 г. – Аки Каурисмеки, финландски режисьор\n 1957 г. – Беси Аргираки, гръцка певица\n 1958 г. – Кристиан Данер, германски пилот от Формула 1\n 1960 г. – Хюго Уивинг, австралийски актьор\n 1965 г. – Робърт Дауни Джуниър, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Христо Мутафчиев, български актьор\n 1976 г. – Джеймс Родей, американски актьор\n 1976 г. – Емерсон, бразилски футболист\n 1979 г. – Тиаго Силва, бразилско-български футболист\n 1979 г. – Хийт Леджър, американски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1985 г. – Станислав Катранков, български футболист\n 1991 г. – Джейми Лин Спиърс, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 636 г. – Исидор Севилски, отец на Църквата (* 560 г.)\n 896 г. – Формоза, римски папа (* 816 г.)\n 1292 г. – Папа Николай IV (* 1227 г.)\n 1305 г. – Жана I Наварска, съпруга на Филип IV (* 1271 г.)\n 1617 г. – Джон Непиър (Непер), шотландски математик (* 1550 г.)\n 1806 г. – Карло Гоци, италиански сатирик (* 1720 г.)\n 1817 г. – Андре Масена, френски маршал (* 1758 г.)\n 1841 г. – Уилям Харисън, 9-и президент на САЩ (* 1773 г.)\n 1899 г. – Иван Лимончев, български революционер (* 1864 г.)\n 1929 г. – Карл Бенц, германски изобретател (* 1844 г.)\n 1932 г. – Вилхелм Оствалд, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1909 (* 1909 г.)\n 1953 г. – Карол II, крал на Румъния (* 1893 г.)\n 1968 г. – Мартин Лутър Кинг, американски активист, Нобелов лауреат през 1964 (* 1929 г.)\n 1979 г. – Зулфикар Али Бхуто, президент на Пакистан (* 1928 г.)\n 1984 г. – Борис Арабов, български артист (* 1925 г.)\n 1984 г. – Олег Антонов, съветски авиоконструктор (* 1906 г.)\n 1991 г. – Макс Фриш, швейцарски писател (* 1911 г.)\n 1992 г. – Самуел Решевски, американски шахматист (* 1911 г.)\n 2004 г. – Юлиян Манзаров, български футболист (* 1985 г.)\n 2004 г. – Стефан Попов (Замората), български плувец (* 1930 г.)\n 2011 г. – Скот Кълъмбъс, американски музикант (Manowar) (* 1956 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Световен ден в защита на пострадалите от мини\n Ден на психолозите в България (от 1995 г.)\n Сенегал – Ден на суверенитета (1960 г., национален празник)\n Лесото – Ден на героите\n Тайван и Хонконг – Ден на детето\n Ден на атлантическата солидарност в България\n\n404"
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        "text": "Council backs awards to help young people find jobs\nBelfast City Council is backing two projects by the Prince’s Trust which are designed to help young people find full-time employment.\nDevelopment Awards are small cash grants which aim to remove financial barriers that prevent young people entering education, employment or training, while the Get Started is a personal and social development programme designed to build confidence and motivation in young people.\nThe Development Awards are targeted at disadvantaged young people aged 16-30 who live in Belfast, and specifically in the most deprived electoral wards in the City Council area.\nThe Council is funding 200 Development Awards, to a value of between £200 and £250 per award. These awards will help the recipients address barriers to employment at a structural and personal level through the provision of financial support; move into positive destinations – including employment, education and training; progress into employment; address educational inequalities through the removal of barriers to participation; enhance and increase their skill levels; and address deprivation and economic inactivity.\nThe Prince’s Trust ‘Get Started’ programme is a personal and social development programme which uses inspiring themes, such as sport or the arts, to engage young people, aged 16-30 who face multiple barriers to employment and often lack the motivation and confidence needed to take their first step.\nOver the next six months, four ‘Get Started’ programmes will be delivered in key areas of interest to young people.\nThe Council will be supporting a total of 50 young people over the course of the four programmes. This will help the young people involved to complete a one week course which includes practical, hands on sessions related to the programme theme; group activities focusing on personal and social skills; one to one support to help each young person identify their next steps; and relevant qualifications and accreditation.\nMore information on both the Development Awards and the Get Started programmes can be found at www.belfastcity.gov.uk/employability."
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        "text": "Sometimes I find it difficult getting too worked up about some Human Rights Issues, even ones affecting me personally. They seem so trivial in the Grand Scheme of Things, yet I have a duty to clean up my own back-yard, so to speak.\nHere's why I feel this way. I subscribe to iAbolish, the US-based anti-slavery group. This scourge is still with us in out-of-the-way places, and the wrongness of chattel slavery offends me deeply.\nThis week, iAbolish brings you an excerpt from chapter 2 of Enslaved: Abuk Bak's story.\nWhen her village in Southern Sudan was raided by an Arab militia in 1987, Abuk Bak; only 12 years old at the time; was kidnapped and subsequently enslaved for ten years. During that time, her master, Ahmed Adam, never once used her name; she was always \"abeeda.\" It was only after she escaped that she learned what it meant: her name for a decade was simply \"black slave.\"\nFrom Chapter 2: Beyond Abeeda\n\"As we struggled, Ahmed Adam grabbed the knife that he carried in his sleeve and stabbed me in my right thigh. The pain was so strong that he could not stop my screams, and he ran back into the house, afraid that his wife would hear...\n\"I knew right away that I would not stay to see another morning there, but my leg was bleeding badly. I ripped a piece of cloth from my skirt and tied it around my thigh to try to stop the bleeding, and thought about how to escape. I lay awake all night, knowing that if I ran away I could be found and severely beaten or killed, but I had to take a chance.\"\nYou can read about the rest of Abuk's escape in Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery\nCompared with that, it's a little difficult getting too worked up about trivialities like being denied a passport, or any of the myriad humiliations I've had to endure in my journey so far.\nat 10/31/2006 09:26:00 pm 0 comments Links to this post\nDeferred Success\nOh England, My England!\nI've been naturalised since 1988, but I can't help but feel more than a trace of affection for the land of my Birth. So this story saddens me.\nFrom the BBC :\nA retired teacher has lost her fight to have the word \"fail\" replaced by \"deferred success\" in education speak.\nLiz Beattie, from Ipswich, Suffolk, put forward the motion at the Professional Association of Teachers' conference.\nShe argued many children were put off learning for life after being labelled \"failures\" but her colleagues rejected the move as \"a foot-in-mouth motion\".\nIan Pringle, from Canvey Island, Essex, said: \"We'll be ridiculed. Please do not vote for this motion.\"\nAll well and good. Yes, they'd be a laughing-stock if they did this. But the article then goes on:\nAnother delegate said failure was not a word used in schools anyway these days.\nYou see, it's not the concept they're against : just what they're doing being found out and them subject to deserved public ridicule.\nAn Un Conventional Story\nThe Hotel's lobby was quietly cool, the soft piano music in the background unobtrusive, almost imperceptible, as smooth as the evening's velvet darkness.\nThe Middle Aged Alpha Geek walked in, his suit and tie uncomfortable after the day's proceedings, though not as uncomfortable as they were when he'd put them on that morning. Both had a nice, rumpled look now, lived in, to match his personality. And it had pockets, lots of them, now stuffed with a hundred business cards, some from suits, some from colleagues, some from friends, and some from rivals. Networking, they called it. Not the frantic linebuzz of TCP/IP, the you-scratch-my-back-and-I'll-stab-yours world of rustling up venture capital, sailing through fleets of corporate buccaneers hunting for the treasure that was the Next Big Thing.\nA necessary Evil. Not His Scene. Something you had to do at any HiTek Convention though.\nHe spotted her, across the room. A few other women had just left in a group, leaving her in relaxed solitude, comfortably enveloped in a black lounge chair, legs demurely crossed, studying the next morning's programme.\nNo-one could have mistaken her for a suit, or an advertising dollybird. Not for her, the power trouser suit, the immaculate makeup and thousand-dollar coiffure. Some sort of black silk top, and an ankle-length dress denim skirt, neat but understated. Besides which, she'd given a presentation that morning on lifecycle models, risk analysis, and the impact of team personalities on software design that was as intriguing as it was unconventional.\nHe'd wanted to speak to her about that, despite his natural shyness around the females of the species. The project that would make or break his firm was just ramping up, and she might just hold the key to its success.\nHe would have just marched up to a guy and introduced himself, but now he was acutely aware of his bald patch, his over-ample belly, and the salt-and-pepper 5 O'Clock shadow he'd forgotten to scrape off in his hotel room. But what the heck. His divorce was well over a year ago, and it was time he did some socialising. Of course, with his luck, she'd be Lesbian. No matter, her ideas really could make a big difference to The Project, and that's what his life revolved around now since Sandra left with the kids.\n\"Hi\" Oh great line, Joe. that will work wonders he thought. I'm out of practice for this kind of stuff. What was I thinking?\nThe Geekette, what was her name, Phoebe? sat up a little straighter, tensing slightly, then favoured him with a raised eyebrow that could only be called \"quizzical\". She could have been any age from her late thirties to early fifties. A bit statuesque for his tastes, almost Amazonish now he was close to her. Broad shouldered. Nice rack though.\nHer voice sounded a little huskier than it had over the PA system.\n\"Hi-I'm-Joe-Macennerny-and-I'd-like-to-speak-to-you-about-your-presentation\" the words came out in a rush.Oh God Please Let the Floor Swallow Me Up Now\nHer face lit up, a slight smile magically appearing, as she held out her hand and replied.\n\"Phoebe Dawson. Now what was that again?\"\nSlowly, he repeated his introduction, and she gestured for him to sit in the overpadded lounge chair beside her.\nSoon they were engaged in that intimate intercourse of tech-talk common amongst geeks of every stripe and nationality. When taking tech, her enthusiasm was contagious, her hands weaving patterns of thought, invisible diagrams on a virtual whiteboard that communicated more than mere words could say. He ordered a double bourbon from a passing waiter, she a vodka and lime, and soon they were sharing war stories, tales of spectacular management ineptitude, and even the odd truly foetid pun.\nHe found himself opening up in a way he never did before, talking about his family, and showing her the pictures of his two daughters. And of his son, his boy who had gone off to war and come home under a flag of honour. Killed in an automobile accident while delivering mail on a poorly surveyed road.\nHe looked up, fighting off the wateriness that always came into his eyes when he told that story, and saw tears falling down her cheeks. Without prompting, she took his hand, and just held it, her soft skin gently pressing against his, speaking without words a message of comfort, and sympathy, and shared sadness.\n\"So\", he said eventually, \"Do you have a family?\"\n\"A boy\" she said brightly. \"Nearly twelve now. He's staying with my best friend.\"\n\"And his father?\"\nHer whole body seemed to diminish, her face which had been bright and lively dimming and grey, and he knew that once again, he'd blown it. Like he'd blown it with Sandra. Like he always blew it.\n\"My son's father is.... no longer with us.\"\n\"Divorce?\" The word just spilt out, he'd been thinking of his own situation, and now he was just making it worse. But she seemed not to notice his gaucherie, nor take offense.\n\"No, it's a long story. He was born with a rare congenital condition. Neurological. Some die with it, without ever showing symptoms. Some have years, even decades of increasingly bizarre behaviour before the end. It puts a strain on any marriage.\"\nShe took a paper handkerchief out of her bag, wiped away her tears, and continued. Now her grief was in full flood, and all he could do was listen.\n\"Oh, it's not genetic. My son's OK. And his father didn't suffer much, except at the end. Many sufferers suicide, their whole life is one of misery. He didn't have it too badly, till January of '04. He got acute symptoms in January, February was full of medical tests, the typical bizarre behaviour started in March, and in early April, he was gone. Just. Like. That. Leaving us to cope.\"\n\"Could nothing be done?\"\n\"No, it's incurable, and still not well understood. The first signs show up at about age 5, you know? Oh, Palliative care can help reduce the agony, but that often hastens rather than delays the end. Oh God, it's a blessed relief to them when they go, he said it was the best thing that could ever happen to him. He was so sorry to leave his family in such a mess, but he said he had no choice, and he was in so much pain....\"\nNow she was gently crying, her whispered voice choked with low, feminine sobs.\n\"He tried so very, very hard to be a normal man, and a good father. But he just couldn't do it any more..... So. Here I am. Picking up the pieces of my shattered life.\"\nNot knowing what to do, the Alpha Geek somehow did exactly the right thing, took her hand, and gently held it.\nWhen the waiter came by a little later to freshen their drinks, the pair were once more in animated conversation, sprinkled with laughter and garnished with smiles. Talking an incomprensible private language larded with acronyms like \"SLCM\", \"CMMI\", and \"J2EE\". He sitting a little taller, she absently twiddling her long dangly earings.\nThe two lonely people conversed long after midnight, and left together, sharing the same lift.\nThe waiter had bet five bucks those two would be sleeping together that night, but the cynical bartender refused to pay up.\n\"No open diplay of affection, they could have been going to separate rooms\" he said.\n\"You can never tell by outward appearances.\"\n(c) 2005 Zoe E Brain\nThe Uncanny XX-Men\nFrom Nature :\nHow can a person with two X chromosomes be a man? In more ways than one...\nThe battle of the sexes continues to rage — right down to the level of our genes.\nA gene has now been discovered that, when mutated, turns girls into boys. The finding advances, but also complicates, our understanding of how sex is determined by our genes.\nAs if it wasn't complicated enough...\nIn people, almost all men carry two different sex chromosomes (XY) and women are XX. But there are some (extremely rare) exceptions to this rule. It is possible to have XX men, for example.\nAnd X0 women, and XXY men, and (very rarely) XXY women, and a whole host of others, XY/XX, XY/XO mixtures, and this is just for humans who are mentally normal. XXXY, XXYYY etc and Bad Stuff (tm) happens in neural development.\nThis female-to-male sex reversal almost always happens when a\ncertain gene called SRY, usually carried on the Y chromosome, accidentally ends up on the X chromosome inherited from the father.\nOther genes have been found to muddle up sexual identity, making the resulting child neither fully male nor fully female.\nAs regular readers of this blog are no doubt aware. Then there's environmental issues in the womb, where the genes are fine, but a chemical is introduced, or things just go slightly amiss for one reason or another. It happens.\nBut in most cases of anatomically complete XX men — who have functional testes, but without a Y are infertile — SRY is involved. For this reason, it has long been called the gene that defines 'maleness'.[1]\nBut now Giovanna Camerino of the University of Pavia in Italy and colleagues have found another gene that is equally important to the process.\nThe team studied a family in which four brothers were each XX. None carried the 'male' SRY gene. Instead, the team reports in Nature Genetics [2], they each have a mutation in a gene called RSPO1.\nIt seems that sex is determined in humans by a cascade of genes. At a crucial junction in this process lies a gene called SOX9, which in males is switched on by SRY, causing testis development. In females, the researchers now suggest, SOX9 might be typically switched off by RSPO1, which, via other genes in the cascade, leads to the development of ovaries. In the brothers, it seems the mutated RSPO1 gene could not fulfil its switching-off role, leaving SOX9 on and leading to male development.\nThis theory fits with animal studies: mice with two X chromosomes that have their SOX9 expression turned back on form testes.[3]\nThe idea stands in contrast to previous theories that said that female development was basically the default that happens in the absence of genes to direct maleness. \"What is really important is that suppression of male and induction of female development is an active process,\" says Andreas Schedl of INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Nice, who is a co-author on the paper.\n\"RSPO1 clearly plays a key role in this process.\" The identification of this gene, he says, may be as important to the field as the identification of SRY.\n1. Koopman P., et al. Nature, 351 . 117 - 121 (1991).\n2. Parma P., et al. Nature Genet., doi:10.1038/ng1907 (2006).\n3. Vidal V. P., et al. Nature Genet, 28 . 216 - 217 (2001).\nAnother piece in the puzzle. Not an expected one either, hence more valuable than most.\nThe Jelly Baby Death Machine\nHere, along with other unwise microwave experiments\nLego Stargate\nIt's about time I blogged an Interesting URL. A great source is always Fred Kiesche's Eternal Golden Braid.\nFrom Make Magazine :\nCrisis Averted\nFrom News.com :\nAUSTRALIANS travelling to the US can breathe easy. So can the 100,000 or so Australian expatriates living in America.\nThe US government today dismissed media reports it had banned Vegemite.\n\"There is no ban on Vegemite,\" US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman Mike Herndon said.\nMedia reports at the weekend claimed American border officials were confiscating Vegemite from Australians as they entered the US.\nThe FDA, charged with policing America's food supply, has not issued an \"import alert\" to border officials to halt the import of Vegemite.\nMr Herndon said the FDA was surprised by the media reports.\nThe controversy centres on folate, an ingredient in Vegemite.\nUnder US regulations, folate can be added only to breads and cereals.\n\"One of the Vitamin B components (in Vegemite) is folate,\" Mr Herndon said.\n\"In and of itself, it's not a violation. If they're adding folate to it, boosting it up, technically it would be a violation.\n\"But the FDA has not targeted it and I don't think we intend to target Vegemite simply because of that.\"\nJoanna Scott, spokesperson for Vegemite's maker, Kraft, reportedly has said, \"The Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid\".\nBut Mr Herndon said, \"Nobody at the FDA has told them (Kraft) there is a ban\".\nTo eradicate any grey areas or potential regulation breaches, Mr Herndon said, Kraft could petition the FDA, something other food manufacturers have done.\nWhile many Aussies living in the US rely on visiting Australian relatives and friends to bring them a jar or two of Vegemite from Australia, the product is available in some US supermarkets.\nThe price slapped on Vegemite, however, is tough to swallow.\nA tiny, four ounce jar of Vegemite sells for around $US4.80 ($6.33) in US supermarkets.\nBut from a comment on a previous thread, by my good friend, Scotty :\nwas forwarded this yesterday and I looked on the shelves of a new snooty grocery shop, hoping to get a jar of Vegemite before it ran out, and I was greated by only Marmite. I was very sad. The Vegemite was gone.\nThe Vegemite was gone.\nYet Another Data Point\nAnother blood test, the last before my Op.\nOestrodiol level a new high, 301 pMol/L. Of course a normal Human being would have at least 600, but I'll take whatever I can get. Still the highest on record.\nIf the hypothesis about my condition is correct, we could reasonably expect levels to slowly increase as the receptors in the cells get \"turned over:, and saturated with post-pubescent levels of hormones.\nThe progression since starting 8mg of Progynova, tests every 3 months, is 179, 241, 301. Vs a pre-HRT level of about 195.\nStill not proven, but the hypothesis has made its first prediction, and come up trumps.\nMeanwhile I'm recovering from jaw surgery on Monday, the wisdom tooth had J-curve roots. The extraction didn't hurt despite me having only local anaesthetic, though the bone saw wasn't a pleasant experience. Today, I've just come back from my usual day-trip every 3 months to see Professor Steinbeck, my endocrinologist. All the blood tests - apart from the weird hormonal results - are now slap-bang in the middle of the normal range, so I'm cleared for surgery by him. Next stop, my GP to get BP and cardiac functions checked, and I'll be set to go.\nThe last bit of medical preparation before the op.\nWars Have Started For Less\nFrom Blogcritics\nAbout Australia, a US based store providing American consumers with traditional products from Down Under, was forced to stop importing Vegemite six months ago, however the product was actually limited to 113gram (4oz) jars in 2005. Expat Daniel Fogarty, now living in Canada, was recently searching for Vegemite while crossing the border on a trip to Montana. Other travelers have had their jars of Vegemite confiscated.\nAt the bottom of this bizarre prohibition is the US Food and Drugs Administration (of course), who say they disapprove of the addition of folate to anything other than bread or grain products such as flour and pasta.\nOkay, time for the serious stuff. Exactly what is folate and why is it so bad?\nFolate is a water-soluble B vitamin found naturally in green vegetables, legumes, liver, and some fruits and nuts, not to mention yeast extracts. It works in conjunction with B12 (also present in Vegemite) to produce the genetic materials for cell growth and reproduction. Folate helps to build proteins and healthy red blood cells, which means it is an important nutrient in the defence against anemia. Furthermore, there is some evidence to suggest that high folate intake can reduce the risk of certain diseases.\nSounds like pretty good stuff, right? The FDA thinks so, too.\nIn 1998, after several years of deliberation, the FDA ruled on regulations for the mandatory addition of folic acid (the synthetic equivalent of folate) to breads, cereals, and other grain products, to assist in the prevention of neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Nine months after the policy was introduced, incidence of spina bifida was reportedly reduced by 31 percent. However, it is argued that the supplementation is inadequate and many more cases of birth defect could be avoided with a higher dosage.\nNevertheless, the FDA purports to the theory that too much folate can mask vitamin B12 deficiency in the elderly and, they argue, Vegemite contains just too much. I’m thinking the FDA hasn’t been reading the nutritional information panel on their jar of Vegemite, which suggests a 5 gram serving for 50% of the recommended dietary intake (RDI) of 200 micrograms of folate per day, or 400 micrograms for women of child bearing age.\nNot only that, the Institute of Medicine has established a daily upper intake level (UL) of no more than 1000 micrograms of folic acid so as not to mask symptoms of B12 deficiency.\nThat’s an awful lot of Vegemite, even for an Aussie. Just how much Vegemite is the FDA slapping on their slice of toast?\nBut it's gotten worse. From the Courier Mail :\nTHE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there.\nThe bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.\nExpatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up recently and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on toast for breakfast.\nFormer Geelong man Daniel Fogarty, who now lives in Calgary, Canada, said he was stunned when searched while crossing the US border recently.\n\"The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite,\" Mr Fogarty said.\n\"I was flabbergasted.\" Paul Watkins, who owns a store called About Australia in San Antonio, Texas, said he had been forced to stop importing Vegemite six months ago.\n\"We have completely stopped bringing it in,\" he said.\n\"(US authorities) have made a stance and there is nothing that can be done about it.\"\nYou know what to do. Go to SaveVegemite.com, or just e-mail the White House direct.\nThe Tenth Dimension\nSuperstrings for beginners, explained here.\nCurtsy to reader (and former schoolmate) Hugh.\nAnd if you think a ten-spatial-dimension Universe is something miraculous, you should see the pictures of his baby daughter.\nThat a Universe could exist with a place in it for concepts such as Love, that is the real miracle. The mechanics are interesting too, of course, but somehow... less important.\nAnother interesting day.\nOk, so there was a big pow-wow today, with the Education Mavenette of the AutoCRC.\nI better provide subtitles.\nMy PhD - and about a dozen others - is being funded by the Co-Operative Research Centre (CRC) for advanced Automotive systems. CRCs are joint educational/Industry Research and Development groups, co-operative partnerships where academic and industry groups get together to see what they can do for each other. Industry provides the money, and gets both directed research, a higher profile amongst undergrads, and even a say in what is taught, so they have a skilled workforce that meets their needs.\nThis was a planning meeting, saying what the situation was, and to explore future possibilities and overcome difficulties.\nOne of the 3 main problems the Automotive Industry has here is Diversity - there isn't any. Only 8% of engineering graduates are female, and less than 1% of engineers working in the auto industry.\nAs the senior female engineer there (3 gals, 30 guys, sigh) , and since I'm a member of the WICcans (Women in Information and Communication - WIC - the national group), and the WITches (Women in Information Technology - the group within the ANU's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology), I got a special after-meeting one-on-one with the Education mavenette. She was really interested in what was going on, and needed the contacts.\nWell, after a Kaffeklatsch about Diversity, how to achieve it, what's gone wrong with previous attempts etc, I decided to give her the post-grad treatment. I showed her my presentation on Intersex, and about three quarters of the way through the penny started to drop. The slide about passport difficulties for IS and TS people, as she knew that I'd had some for unspecified reasons.\nShe still burst out in stifled laughs when she saw the last slide - the one detailing (with pictures) my unique perspective. Then we got around to discussing how TS is 1:3500 or so in the general population, but 1:100 in IT, and we think about 1:250 in Engineering generally.\nThey're just starting to formulate HR policies in this regard, so I'll be involved in that in addition to my PhD studies. As she said, we might even generate a paper on the subject.\nIt was great to get a hug from her as she left. I think we'll work well together.\nLanded Immigrant\nI have just been informed that an official decision has been made by the Department of Immigration to update my records.\nAs of two days ago, as far as they're concerned, I'm now Zoe Ellen Brain, Australian Citizen, Landed Immigrant. Legally Female, too, and with UK passport number recorded.\nOK, so they sent me my new Citizenship certificate some time ago, but it takes time for these things to work through the system. Two months and some weeks, rather faster than I thought it might in fact.\nHmmmm... I wonder of that will help me get my UK Birth Certificate changed one day? Oh well, that's another struggle, and sufficient unto the day the troubles thereof.\nI leave for Thailand in just over 3 weeks. The end of a long nightmare is in sight. As long as Murphy doesn't intervene, of course, and I have a deep and abiding faith in both him and his consort, Eris, Goddess of Chaos and Confusion!\nThoughts on Gender\nHere's a post I wrote in reply to Jane, a woman who I greatly admire. She transitioned when the odds against it were almost unsuperable, when you could count the number of SRS surgeons in the world on the fingers of one hand - and not use your thumb.\nShe'd \"Deep Stealth\", having had pretty close to a normal life since her mid 20's, so I can give no more details about her. Other than she's quite a gal.\nIt's about the nature of gender - and those transsexual people who for some reason or other never quite seem to look right in their acquired gender. Nothing you can put your finger on - but some just look exactly right, while others ring false.\nLike you Jane, I'm convinced that the answer lies in the brain.\nLook at the diagram - values of -4 to -1 we call \"male\", values 0.5 to 4 we call \"female\".\nAll sexed species have facilities for recognition of the opposite sex buried deep in their nervous system. The same goes for their sexual identity. That's necessary for species survival - though by some theories, having a trace amount of cross-gendered identification may be advantageous. Or maybe it's just in the nature of things that stuff goes wrong sometimes, and to make it absolutely 100% accurate would have penalties not worth the cost.\nNow we know from autopsies, and most recently, dynamic MRI imaging that the human brain is very sexually dimorphic - at least as dimorphic as the genitalia. But it's also a very complex organ. It might be best described as a vector with not dozens, but thousands of values. Put into plain english, a brain might be FFFfFfffFmFFFfFFmfF - indicating strongly feminine (F) in some aspects, normally feminine (F) in others, weakly feminine (f) in others, and even a bit more masculine than feminine (m) in a few.\nReally though, \"feminine\" could be anywhere from 0.5 to 4 as shown in the diagram, and I'm simplifying hugely.\nNow my own studies, and research by other workers in Artificial and Natural Intelligence, indicate that we think consciously a lot less than we think we do, and think subconsciously a lot more. Moreover, we make use of stereotypes a lot to fill in the gaps in information that we don't have.\nFor example \"it has 4 wheels and is on a road\" leads us to the belief that \"it\" is a car, an automobile, and we're usually right in that belief. We don't have to examine the chemical composition of the paintwork, and other such details.\nThe brain's \"programmable firmware\" give us our instincts, our talents, the way we move and react, the way we carry ourselves. A recent study showed that gender recognition was based more on movement than anything else. You, Jane, could be wearing a boiler suit, and just the way that you walk, or even your stance when standing still, would clue anyone that you're a woman. That's because the base part of your brain causes your posture to be that way. Typically feminine, maybe 3 on the graph above. There are other sexual cues too, body shape, face, and there's additional cultural programming on top of that. In our society, men generally don't wear floral prints, skirts, lipstick, and these are additional cues, but the basics are still instinctive, we \"think\" without knowing that we think.\nNow when things go wrong - and for some of us, that means 47xxy chromosomes, for others 46xy but a glitch in masculinisation, etc etc we may end up not with FFFfFfffFmFFFfFFmfF but with FFfMFfmfFmFfFfFFmfF. Still recognisably female, but with some bits under-feminised.\nThough again, it's a bimodal distibution, numbers <0 are \"typically male\", >0 \"typically female\", so it's not quite right to say bits of the brain are \"masculinised\" or \"feminised\". They are what they are, typical or atypical for a given gender.\nAnd that is why I was so emotionally affected by getting involved with the Women in Technology. I knew from my studies that my brain hadn't been feminised \"properly\", it couldn't have been, no matter how much I might wish it were so. But when I joined WIT, I found other women, natal women, who thought just like I did. I hadn't been damaged beyond repair, my femininity wasn't congenitally wrecked, I was no more masculine than any of the others there, and more feminine than a few. Yet they were all women. I wasn't \"second class\", \"ersatz\", or shoddy goods after all.\nAnyway, that's why, despite there being a \"spectrum\", we still fit into one of two main categories. It's why 99.9% of us are recognisable no matter what we do, provided enough of the misgendering cues (such as build) aren't all consistently too far from the norm.\nBut if you are a woman, regardless of the genitalia or chromosomes you were born with, and the parts of your brain controlling how you move and carry yourself are misgendered, then you have a problem.\nA minority of TS people have this. They must \"learn\" techniques to overcome their intincts and move in a way that will cause correct gender recognition. But others have the opposite problem, their intincts are so strong that they must \"learn\" techniques to overcome their instincts just so they will pass as the gender they're not. Those TS women with very masculine bodies (like me) are pretty much forced to do this, and the bar for success is lower than for those with androgenous/feminine bodies. Those, the andro/femme primary transitioners, have basically no hope of pretending to be guys successfully. Like you, Jane.\nIt does mean though that some TS women have to work at it, while the majority of us just have to relax, and get rid of as many somatically male cues ( voice, face, skin texture, clothing ) as we can.\nThe impassable ones are just as female as we are, and more so in some cases. They just have parts of their brain masculinised that we don't.\nWilful Blindness\nFrom the National Review:\nThe credibility of the flagship of U.N. “reform,” the newly created Human Rights Council, sunk during its very first session, which ended on Friday, June 30th. The deck chairs on the Titanic had been rearranged when the Council replaced the discredited Commission on Human Rights. Serial human-rights abusers were elected members right from the start.\nThe Human Rights Council is now the U.N.’s lead human-rights body, and examples of egregious human-rights violations should not have been hard to find. In Darfur, there are three quarters of a million people beyond humanitarian reach, 2.5 million people displaced by the violence, 385,000 people in immediate risk of starvation, and over two million dead in 22 years of violence and deprivation. But it wasn’t genocide in Sudan that interested the Human Rights Council. Nor was it a billion Chinese without civil and political rights. Not 13 million women in Saudi Arabia whose lives depend on hiding from sight in public places and never being caught behind the wheel of an automobile. Not the dire human-rights conditions of 23 million people in North Korea. Not Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s incitement to genocide or his country’s legal system, which includes crucifixion, stoning and amputation.\nNo; there was only one country singled out by the U.N. Human Rights Council, and that was Israel.\nThe Council placed criticism of Israel permanently on the agenda of all future sessions. It gave only the special investigator on Israel what amounted to a permanent mandate. On its final day, the Council passed just one resolution condemning human-rights violations by any of the 192 U.N. members, and directed it at Israel. When it was all over, the Council decided to hold its first special (emergency) session within a few days — on Israel.\nAt the Commission (the dysfunctional former UN Human Rights body), over a 40-year period, 30 percent of the resolutions condemning human rights violations by specific states were directed at Israel. The Council is now batting 1.000. And given a behind-the-scenes deal not to have any country-specific resolutions at least in the first year of operation (with the exception of Israel), that figure is not likely to change any time soon.\nFrom RadioFreeEurope :\nRFE/RL: Mary Robinson, may I ask you about the Human Rights Council? This was a body meant to replace a predecessor that came under a lot of criticism for failing to address human rights abusers on the commission. But the council has just ended its session, and one group at least, Human Rights Watch, called it a huge disappointment, again failing to address some of the big human rights issues, such as Darfur. Do you share the view that it's a disappointment?\nMary Robinson: Well, like Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty, and some of the other major human rights organizations, I did welcome the establishment of the Human Rights Council, and I felt that it had a real possibility of trying to break through sensitive political issues with a human rights leadership, which is never easy. The current president of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador [Luis Alfonso] de Alba of Mexico, is very committed, and it had a reasonably good start.\nI think there were two things that worried me. One was when the war broke out in Lebanon, and you had the response of Israel, which is very questionable about being disproportionate, and raised issues of civilian casualties and displacement and destruction of property, and bridges, etc., which raises issues of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. But you also had Hizballah sending missiles into civilian populations in northern Israel.\nI hoped that the Human Rights Council would act in a human rights way, and set up a commission of inquiry into both. Alas -- and this was a problem of the previous Human Rights Commission -- it only set up a commission of inquiry into what had happened in Israel, by the Israel forces. And that is not the human rights approach; that is the political approach. And if the Human Rights Council continues to taint human rights with the political approach, this time because of the Organization of the Islamic Conference countries.... They had the majority, they wanted to hit Israel, not do human rights work. How can you have a Human Rights Council that's not absolutely outraged by what's happening in Darfur?\nSo that's one very big problem. And then, I would very much agree with Human Rights Watch. How can you have a Human Rights Council that's not absolutely outraged by what's happening in Darfur? It's getting worse by the day. There are women being raped, there are children dying, there are populations being displaced, there's a militia that's being supported in a complicit way by a government, and the fact that they didn't bring it to our attention in a more urgent way, and have more urgent action.... The Security Council was also involved, but the Human Rights Council is the voice. \"We the people\" is the first three words of the charter.\nBut I still hope that the Human Rights Council will work well, because the United Nations needs leadership on human rights.\nEveryone with two neurons to fire consecutively could predict what would happen - what has happened. If Mary Robinson, former head of the Human Rights Council's predecessor \"hoped that the Human Rights Council would act in a human rights way\" with the current batch of dictatorships and tyrannies that compose the majority of the commission, it can't be lack of intellect. It requires wilful blindness.\nThe same wilful blindness the world as a whole is showing about Dafur.\nI blame Bush.\nOr rather, I think the US political scene is partially to blame. The problem is that it was a Republican President who dared to liberate 50 million people, not a Democrat. For this, Bush can never be forgiven by the US Media, though of course a lot of the world's media is congenitally Anti-US no matter who is in power, simply because they distrust any nation or organisation that is too powerful. Much as many on the far right of the US distrust the UN, regardless of what it does.\nAs a result, the world as a whle has lost its idealism. From The Australian :\nIn Rwanda in 1994, pit latrines were favoured places for the disposal of bodies. When I was there two years after the genocide, people were retrieving the bodies from the pits and giving them church burials. In 100 days, not of tribal madness but of government-organised slaughter, Rwandan Hutus killed close to one million Rwandan Tutsis. Today in Rwanda it is considered bad form to talk of Tutsi and Hutu. All are simply Rwandans, which must give some cause for hope.\nIn Darfur, wells are a favoured means of disposing of bodies. This time two years ago I was in a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border, hearing stories of people who had fled the massacres in the Darfur region of Sudan. This conflict, now in its third year, was even then being described as \"Rwanda in slow motion\". Whether it is a genocide or, as the UN would describe it, merely \"ethnic cleansing\" is still being disputed.\nSudanese President Omar al-Bashir says the UN resolution for the deployment of peacekeepers is a \"Zionist plot\" to weaken the region and an insult to his country's sovereignty. He has threatened that his soldiers will fight any uninvited UN forces. He may be bluffing. But because so little pressure has been put on him until now, Bashir appears to believe he can get away with whatever he wants. (Incredibly, in 2004, while the massacres in Darfur had been under way for months, Sudan was elected to the then UN Human Rights Commission.)\nThe problem, of course, is Iraq.\nWhat the world desperately needs, and hasn't got, is a strong, effective and united UN. That was lost over Iraq. What the world needs and hasn't got is a strong affirmation of the principle that governments do not have the right to brutalise and massacre their own people with impunity, simply by claiming national sovereignty. That was lost in Iraq, too. There was always a case for humanitarian intervention in Iraq, though it was clearly not the reason for the invasion (which I supported). What has been lost, in the tragedy that Iraq has become, is idealism.\nIt has become naive and stupid to believe that there is even such a thing as an international community, let alone one that can intervene to stop genocidal dictators, which Saddam Hussein certainly was when he was in power and Bashir gives every indication of wanting to be.\nThe mandate of the African Union troops has been extended to the end of this year. For all sorts of reasons it would be better if African forces could keep the peace in Darfur. But what Bashir needs to believe is something Saddam never believed: that if he can't or won't stop the killings, a stronger international force will come in and do it, with or without his consent. (Bashir is no Hussein and it is very likely he would crumble once his bluff was called.)\nWhat we need to get back is the belief that, in the 21st century, in this age of globalisation, we owe protection to people in distant countries, even if we are not being threatened.\nUnless we can get back some of that belief, some of that idealism, we are going to keep hearing about atrocities such as Darfur and are going to keep demanding something be done, without knowing or acknowledging what it is that has to be done.\nThe predecessor to the UN, the League of Nations, did nothing to stop WW II. But if anything, the current UN is even worse, and it's not getting better. Quite the contrary. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain, Japan and Stalin's Russia would now have seats on the Human Rights Commission if they were around today.\nWe need something like the UN, despite the ravings of the far right. But the current UN is unsalvageable, all attempts at reform have just made the situation worse. Time to mend it with a new 'un.\nSpecial Victims\nAustralian TV is a little behind the current US series. Case in point, the latest episode of Law & Order : SVU. Special Victims Unit.\nThe episode just aired was Identity.\nIt left me in tears. You see, so much of the episode was based on fact.\nFrom Intersex Initiative :\nInvestigators confront the parents: \"What happened? Is it that you just had to have a boy and a girl?\" \"It was a freak accident. They do it hundred times a day. It's supposed to be a routine procedure.\" \"What?\" \"Circumcision... They used some sort of device to remove foreskin--it malfunctioned. Burned him severely. We spoke to all those experts, and they all said that he will never be normal... Imagine the abuse he'd take in locker rooms. Humiliation of explaining it to the girl he fell in love with. We couldn't put him through that.\" \"Did you think that sex change operation would be easier for him?\" \"What else could we do? Dr. Blair convinced us that it was the only hope our child had for a normal life... He promised us that it would work. He promised us, as long as we are committed to raising him as a girl.\"\nNext, investigators visit Dr. Blair, a character obviously based on psychologist/sexologist John Money. \"Any plastic surgeon would tell you that it's easier to dig a hole than to build a pole... In order for the experiment to work, she has to look like a girl, be treated like a girl, and taught to act like a girl... Children are born psychosexually neutral, a blank slate. Gender identity is determined by nurture, not nature.\"\nInvestigators then go back to Lindsey to tell her that they would not press charge against her because it was self-defense, but Lindsey is rightfully confused about what had happened. \"But I don't understand... You said my brother had to have done it. Just tell me what's going on! I feel like I'm going crazy. Please.\" It is at this point Lindsey is finally told the truth despite the objection of Dr. Blair. \"You were born a boy. There was an accident right after you were born.\" \"I knew it! I never once felt right! Why didn't anybody tell me? Why didn't you tell me? What was my name?\" Almost immediately, Lindsey stops taking estrogen and chooses to transition back to his genetic gender.\nBut that is not all: Logan wishes to press charge against Dr. Blair. \"He molested us. He used to show us these pictures of adults having sex. He pushed us into positions. He used to make me and my sister pretend we are having sex.\" This is the detail similar to Dr. Money's practice described in \"As Nature Made Him.\" In response, Dr. Blair insists that everything was necessary part of the treatment. \"It was important to differentiate their gender roles... It clarified things for Lindsey. She had to be programmed. It's perfectly normal for children to explore each others' bodies.\" \"So you are not denying any of the allegations Logan made about your practices?\" \"Denying? I'm writing a book about it.\"\nThe most unbelievable parts of the episode are the parts that most closely mirror reality. That is exactly what happened, and yes, he did write a book.\nNow we know - or most know - that Gender is set in the brain, not the genitalia, and not amenable to any amount of nurture or brainwashing. Goodness knows, many Transsexuals try so very hard to be the gender the mirror and society tells them they have to be. And a small proportion of TS people have been made that way. Born Intersexed, their bodies were changed to the gender the surgeons guessed was best. Often they guess right, and a normal life becomes possible. Sometimes though, they guess wrong, and Transsexuality results.\nThis practice is still standard today. Instead of waiting till the child is old enough to state which gender they feel themselves to be, Intersexed children are, to put it bluntly, genitally mutilated shortly after birth.\nHere's the ending in fiction:\nIn the end, however, Dr. Blair is found murdered in his office. They find the DNA and security camera evidences indicating that either Logan or Lindsey--now going by Luke--must have committed the crime, but they cannot figure out which one did it. \"They came up with a perfect crime.\" \"Until you get one of them to flip.\" \"That's not going to happen. They are too close.\" The scene pans out as Logan and Luke, now wearing similar clothes and hairstyles, feel each other's presence through the holding cell wall.\nThe ending in fact:\nUnfortunately, in the real \"John/Joan\" case both twins--Brian and David Reimer--have committed suicide\nDr Money died not long ago, well-respected in his field, despite his inhuman conduct.\nI'm on a variety of support groups. Some of the most amazing things have happened, people being treated this way, as experimental animals, even to this day. I have to deal with the wreckage, the consequences, the pain every single day, providing support simply because I've had it just so easy compared with nearly everybody. I can't not help. And yes, I get my share of support too, sometimes things aren't easy for me either.\nSeeing this episode caused me to be unspeakably angry at the way some people have been treated, and are continuing to be treated. OK, I've been discriminated against in this whole Passport farce, but compared with other things, it's nothing.\nI just have to remember - it was only a TV program, and one not the freshest either.\nA program about Special Victims indeed.\nIt's like being stung by a bee. 40,000 times. Costing you 30c a sting.\nBut it's better than being the \"bearded lady\".\nSome people see it as some sort of \"rite of passage\", a necessary evil that separates those who are strong enough to successfully transition from those who will pike out.\nPersonally, I think that's rubbish. I mean, they're only bee-stings, for goodness' sake. There are far worse problems, to do with one's marriage, one's family, one's children, important stuff. Very real health risks too with the hormones, liver failure, diabetes, deep vein thrombosis.\nOn the other hand, in terms of pain, yes, far worse than having a tooth extracted, something else I've had recently. Dearie, Dearie me, wisdom teeth are not supposed to start growing again. And a recent X-ray confirms that yes, another one is growing to replace one I had extracted about 10 years ago. Impacted, of course.\nOh well, if that's the worst of my problems, I've gotten off lightly. Still hurts though. Rite of Passage? Pshaw! I'm just lucky that IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) cleared away about 90% of the facial hair, so I only have about 4000 to deal with. Another 211 out today, that's nearly 1000 of them gone.\nThere's the UK Tabloids. The Sun is in a class of its own, for example:\nAngling Star had his Rod removed (October 5th):\nA Woman who won one of angling’s top prizes has a secret past — as a man.\n(Photo : Gina lost her tackle)\nGina le Faux, 51, was once George Faux, a professional folk singer who lost his rod in sex-change surgery.\nSex-change woman darts ban :\nA Woman darts player has been thrown out of her ladies’ league — because she used to be a man.\nChristine Makin, formerly Clive, had to quit her pub team after 17 out of 25 rival sides protested.\nShe revealed she was cruelly taunted during games, with opponents shouting: “You can’t play because you’re not womanly enough.”\nChristine, 51, was married for 13 years as a man but became a woman through a series of sex-change operations.\nNow, just like David Walliams’s Emily Howard character in Little Britain, she insists: “I’m a laydee.”\nShades of Steppin Fetchit. \"Yes Massa, I's a Cumin!\"\nHere's \"Emily Howard\", on the right. Just so you know what they mean.\nBut Leek Ladies’ Darts League in Staffs disagreed.\nChristine was turfed out for the 2006/7 season under Rule 35, which states: “Under no circumstances can any person of any gender play in the league unless that person was born a female.”\nShe claims the rule was brought in specially to keep her out.\nSex-swap cop got me the chop :\nA Cop has been suspended for refusing to call his cross-dressing male colleague MELANIE-SARAH.\nPC Jason Anderson, 35, faces a disciplinary hearing because he insists on treating transsexual copper David Hanson as a man.\nHe is being hauled over the coals by his bosses at Cleveland Police despite the fact they themselves refused PC Hanson’s demand to let him dress as a WPC.\nMarried dad-of-two PC Hanson, 45, stunned colleagues when he first revealed he wanted to be a woman. Police chiefs let him grow his hair and change his name — but drew the line at a female uniform. When off-duty, PC Hanson wears women’s clothing and fake boobs — and is on hormones in preparation for a sex swap op next year.\nPart of her qualification for treatment is that she take on the new gender role for at least a year, two in the UK. I;m surprised that her treatment by her employer has allowed her to continue, especially in the UK. She must be going to a private doctor, at her own expense.\nLast night a police source at Hartlepool nick said: “PC Anderson will not co-operate and acknowledge PC Hanson as a woman in any way. He points out that, as Cleveland Police will not allow Hanson to dress as a woman cop, he should not be forced to address him as a WPC.\n“Jason was suspended and has a disciplinary hearing this week and could be sacked.\n“It would be a tragedy as he is a very good copper.”\nAs opposed to that jumped-up Pervert who should be shot, right? The one who, despite having passed through Goodness knows how many psychiatric barriers is now labelled as a \"cross-dressing man\". Actually a woman forced to cross-dress as a man during working hours.\nOK, so let's get a little more up-market. Well, the Grauniad anyway. Some of the comments on one of their recent articles, this one about the witch-hunting of Dr Russel Reid.\nThe way society approaches cosmetic surgery (and I think gender reassignment belongs in this category) needs rethinking...\nSpend the cash on cancer care or something.\nThere is no such thing as a sex change. No amount of hormones could turn the billions of XY chromosomes in my body into XX chromosomes. \"Gender dysphoria\" is a psychological problem. Like any other psychological problem, it is unlikely to be cured by mutilating the patients genitals and pumping them full of hormones.\nThe whole concept of \"changing gender\" is an absurdity.\nCastrate a man and pump him full of estrogen and you have a woman?\nNot hardly.\nLloydy2: Spend the cash on cancer care or something.\nDr Reid provided primarily private treatment. Because of bigots sharing your attitude, we all had little choice but to pay for it out of our own money.\nI suppose that I will not fully understand transsexuality, but, having heard from you and others on this blog, I accept that it is real. It must be truly difficult and I admire not just your courage to try and set things right, but also your taking time to educate the rest of us on this blog.\nThank you, all TS bloggers.\nAnd from The Australian :\nONLY a girl could write The Female Brain and walk away with life and reputation intact. This new book may be contentious, but in fact modern science is merely playing catch-up with what we know intuitively. Girls are different from boys.\nMind-blowing news, huh?\nBut here's the really brave bit: the unisex brain is a feminist fabrication. Louann Brizendine, an American neuro-psychiatrist, has written a book debunking stubborn notions that girls are different only because society makes them so. It's much more to do with the brain, she says. The female brain, to be more precise.\nHere's a snap brain quiz. Which sex uses, on average, about 20,000 words a day, in contrast to the 7000 uttered by the other sex? Who has two-and-a-half times the amount of brain space devoted to sexual drive, meaning they think about sex, on average, every 52 seconds? When their feelings are hurt by someone they love, which sex reacts by assuming the relationship is over? Who has larger sections of the brain for action and aggression? If you answered, in order, women, men, women, men, you've been watching too many Woody Allen movies. Now, science is confirming that Woody was right all along.\nWhile more than 99 per cent of male and female genetic coding is the same, it's the less than 1 per cent of difference that packs a punch in marking out women from men. Drawing upon advances in gene technology and brain-imaging techniques that have revolutionised neuro-scientific research, Brizendine presents a heady cocktail of structural, chemical, genetic, hormonal and functional differences between women and men.\nThese biological differences explain the most basic female behaviour. For instance, why do teenage girls endlessly talk? Science suggests that connecting through conversation triggers the pleasure centres in the brain.\nCan I take the Fifth there? Anyone who's known me for long will be aware that I;'m a little loquacious at times. Just a bit mind you.\nOK, but now I know why. So much obvious in hindsight.\nTooth or Consequences\nLooks like the various Hormonal and general metabolic weirdness is affecting my teeth too. A fully impacted wisdom tooth has started growing again, and has pretty much destroyed the tooth in front of it.\nAnyway, just had an extraction today, with a surgical extraction scheduled for Monday. So blogging will be light for a while.\nThis is just so wrong\nHello Cthulhu\nJust a Good Blog\nSometimes you see a penny in the dust. Sometimes it's actually a gold sovereign.\nHave a look at the NeoBlog Medication Time.\nThe SMH Belfry\nThe Sydney Morning Herald used to be a good paper, once upon a time. But it has steadily moved further, and further, and yet further, not so much towards the Left as to stark staring Insanity. And the readership now reflects this.\nFrom their Comments Page about the recent North Korean Nuclear Test. Here's the first 3.\nNo, I'd say it's become a lot safer now. With a nuclear deterrent Korea is now less likely to be invaded by the USA.\nPosted by: Tony B at October 9, 2006 01:17 PM\nNo less safe than the world is now. Israel already has nuclear weapons and has proven it can't be trusted not to bomb the blazes out of another country.\nPosted by: sam88 at October 9, 2006 01:23 PM\nI am more concerned about indiscriminate terrorist attacks against innocent people and the global aggression displayed by the US government. I think North Korea is a lonely outpost of Communism, but is of little threat to the world, unless the US decides to aggravate them. Unless they show signs of invading South Korea, I don't see any reason to be concerned about their internal politics and international grandstanding.\nPosted by: Dean at October 9, 2006 01:24 PM\nSome more responses:\nWorld will most certainly be more dangerous. Not because NK has done what they have done, but simply because of Uncle Sams knee jerk reaction.\nPosted by: Woka at October 9, 2006 01:29 PM\nI'm a lot more worried by the US, who is the only country who has ever used nuclear weapons against people.\nPeople allways forget that they use them twice, against civilian targets!\nOne was an airburst, and one was a ground detonation. They used two bombs against innocent people to test which would be more destructive.\nNow that is a terrorist rouge state if I ever saw one!\nPosted by: dude at October 9, 2006 01:31 PM\nDPRK would not have tested a nuclear bomb if Bush was not the president of USA.\nPosted by: Maan at October 9, 2006 01:31 PM\nIt's very refreshing to see someone sticking it in the eye of America and Israel. I would encourage Iran to continue as well. We are not falling for the propaganda that is spun up by George W. Bush any more. The world will only get safer the more we deter America from pushing us around. This seems to be the only language they understand. Let's keep the ball rolling.\nPosted by: Samson at October 9, 2006 01:39 PM\nNot that i agree with nuclear weapons but hasnt the US tested weapons? The Costs of the Manhattan Project (US) $20,000,000,000. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500. Pot calling the kettle black Bush.\nPosted by: alan at October 9, 2006 01:41 PM\nThe hostile attitude of NK is a direct response of decades of western hostility. Iran will be the next new nuclear kid on the block. And the west will simply have to swallow its arrogance and take it.\nThe threat of war from the US is far greater than NK or Iran. And can someone please explain why these nations having nuclear power is such a bad thing when during the cold war Russia and the US wouldnt dare fire on each other in fear of wiping the world out?\nPosted by: Jim at October 9, 2006 01:42 PM\nGreat. So now the US, with a leader who cannot even pronounce the word \"Nuclear\" will be having an itchy trigger finger\nPosted by: Andy at October 9, 2006 01:43 PM\nNorth Korea is a brutal dictatorship, but it's had nuclear weapons for years. But US policy seems to be \"Be nice to us or we'll bring democracy to your country\".\nPosted by: Gren at October 9, 2006 01:44 PM\nAbsolutely not. The United States government couldn't care less about they're own people so why the hell would they think twice about murdering millions from another country. Anti-Korean sentiment is clouding seriousness of this issue for alot of people.\nPosted by: asdf at October 9, 2006 01:44 PM\nAnd the last comment before the site was closed:\njf...\n'A man who keeps his people in abject poverty, '\nHave you seen America's health system and social security and privately run Gaols.\n'has a record of staggering human rights abuses'\nUS Foreign policy in South America, Vietnam to name just two....\n' and is completely paranoid. '\nI'd be paranoid if the world's only super power branded me part of an axis of evil.\nPosted by: whitty at October 9, 2006 04:34 PM\nI don't think I need say more.\nThe Great Passport Fiasco : A Victory For Common Sense ?\nIn a Previous post, I wrote:\n...someone had the Bright Idea that a document of limited validity, good for 5 years (later changed to 3) not 10, and not considered adequate as a passport by many countries, but with the great virtue that it made no statement about the holder's identity, could be used. Such a document existed, the Document of Identity, or DOI. In response to a passport application by someone who was evidentially transgendered and pre-operative, A DOI would be offered as an alternative to an arguably useless M type (for someone identifying as female) passport. No statement would be made about the holder's gender as far as the Government was concerned, and no admission that the holder was \"really\" of a gender other than the one they identified as would be required.\nOverall though, it was a humane compromise: not quite as good as a full passport, but often good enough, and issue of it avoided all sorts of legal complexities and a possible test case about gender that the Government didn't want. The Re Kevin decision hadn't gone their way, and who knows what the Courts may find? A Transgendered applicant would be faced with the question of whether they wanted to fight for years, and have a possibly financially devastating loss and lose existing rights, or accept the compromise. By applying for a passport in an F identity, they asserted their right to be considered that, and the Government made no reply either way - just offered this alternative.\nAnd the option of a 12-month validity F passport was still there for SRS, should they wish to travel for the operation to a country where a DOI was inadequate.\nNot perfect, but the hardship caused would be small. Not as good as the UK policy, of issuing a correctly gendered passport on evidence of living permanently in the new gender, but good enough.\nThe intent was not to require the transgendered person to apply for a DOI - for then they would be \"Australian citizens who request a document of identity instead of a passport\". No, by section 60, a DOI would be issued to meet immediate travel needs, in response to a passport request.\nAnd there there was a problem already. Instead of a full 3-year unrestricted DOI, this would be only to \"meet immediate travel needs\". Arguably, the intent was to have the situation similar to that of a DOI for travel to Norfolk island, unrestricted except for the 3-year validity, and the restriction that many countries didn't accept a DOI as adequate.\nThat was what I thought should be happening - but wasn't. I now have evidence indicating that indeed, this was the intent of the Legislation.\nHere it is, received in this morning's mail, just an hour or two ago:\nDear Ms Brain,\nThank you for your email dated 13 September 2005 to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr Downer has requested that I respond on his behalf.\nAs advised previously, persons born overseas who have undergone gender reassignment surgery, and who are applying for a passport in their new gender, are required to provide medical certificates from two registered medical practitioners, confirming they have undergone gender affirmation surgery, that they are 18 yeasr of age or over and unmarried.\nAs you do not meet these requirements but have advised that a Document of Identity (DOI) would satisfy your needs, I am very pleased to advise that I am able to approve the issue of such a document valid for three years (the maximum period permissible) to enable you to meet your commitments for travel associated with your medical condition and PHD studies. The Document of Identity will not record your gender.\nIn order to set arrangements in train, you will need to acknowledge the advice contained in the accompanying letter by signing the attachment and forwarding the same to the Canberra Passport Office. Once the Document of Identity has been issued the fee of $38 will be deducted from the sum we are holding and the balance will be refunded to you.\nThank you for bringing your views to the attention of the Government.\nRoss Tysoe\nPassport Client Service Branch\nAttached Letter:\nDear Ms Brain.\nThank you for your recent application for an Australian passport. I refer to our subsequent advice on the possible issue of a Document of Identity.\nIt is important to note that the following information about issuing you an Australian Document of Identity without the sex/gender section being displayed. While this will alleviate unnecessary embaressment to you when travelling, it is important for you to be aware that:\nsome countries do not regard a Document of Identity as a valid travfel document.\ncustioms/immigration authorities in some countries may view the possession of a Document of Identity in lieu of a passport with suspicion and consequently delay or harass the bearer at entry points; and\nshould customs officers decide to conduct a body search there is a very real risk of embarressment to the bearer.\nIf you agree to be issued with an Australian Document of Identity could you please sign and return the enclosed acknowledgement as soon as possible etc etc etc\nRoss Tysoe,\nI'll be doing that straight away. Now, I actually don't need a DOI at this point, because Immigration granted me an Australian Declaratory Visa, good for 5 years, and with my UK passport I'm not subject to the 3-year DOI's strictures. Nonetheless... I wish to set a firm precedent. A precedent stating that for Transgendered people, the DOI really is a semi-passport, and that this situation is distinguished from VAK and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade [2002] AATA 588 (11 July 2002). That the circumstances are not the same as the general ones, and that to paraphrase Miss S A Forgie Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, \"It (The DOI) should be issued in terms that would permit freedom of travel that equates with a passport for a shorter period of time.\".\nThere's still some work to be done: why should people born overseas have to be unmarried if they are to get a new passport? But that is for the long term, and another ... negotiation (I only fight when I'm cornered). Right now, the situation is discriminatory, but if this precedent is set, it can be lived with as a reasonable, and even arguably humane, compromise. It's Discrimination - but it's not blatant Persecution.\nIf a precedent is set, and in the general case, transgendered people will always be offered an unrestricted 3-year DOI as an alternative to a misgendered passport.... then it's a victory. Not mine though. One for Common Sense, and one for the Australian Passport Office, who will no longer look like absolute Dills.\nNow This is Cool!\nCurtsy to MaddBlog , from Science Daily :\nIn the submicroscopic world -- the domain of elementary particles and individual atoms -- things behave in the strange, counter-intuitive fashion governed by the principles of quantum mechanics. Nothing (or so it seems) like our macroscopic world -- or even the microscopic world of cells or bacteria or dust particles -- where Newton's much more reasonable laws keep things sensibly ordered.\nThe problem comes in finding the dividing line between the two worlds -- or even in establishing that such a line exists. To that end, Keith Schwab, associate professor of physics who moved to Cornell this year from the National Security Agency, and colleagues have created a device that approaches this quantum mechanical limit at the largest length-scale to date.\nAnd surprisingly, the research also has shown how researchers can lower the temperature of an object -- just by watching it.\nThe results, which could have applications in quantum computing, cooling engineering and more, appear in the Sept. 14 issue of the journal Nature.\nAccording to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the precision of simultaneous measurements of position and velocity of a particle is limited by a quantifiable amount. Schwab and his colleagues were able to get closer than ever to that theoretical limit with their measurements, demonstrating as well a phenomenon called back-action, by which the act of observing something actually gives it a nudge of momentum.\n\"We made measurements of position that are so intense -- so strongly coupled -- that by looking at it we can make it move,\" said Schwab. \"Quantum mechanics requires that you cannot make a measurement of something and not perturb it. We're doing measurements that are very close to the uncertainty principle; and we can couple so strongly that by measuring the position we can see the thing move.\"\nThe device, while undeniably small, is -- at about ten thousand billion atoms -- vastly bigger than the typical quantum world of elementary particles.\nStill, while that result was unprecedented, it had been predicted by theory. But the second observation was a surprise: By applying certain voltages to the transistor, the researchers saw the system's temperature decrease.\n\"By looking at it you cannot only make it move; you can pull energy out of it,\" said Schwab. \"And the numbers suggest, if we were to keep going on with this work, we would be able to cool this thing very cold. Much colder than we could if we just had this big refrigerator.\"\nThe mechanism behind the cooling is analogous to a process called optical or Doppler cooling, which allows atomic physicists to cool atomic vapor with a red laser. This is the first time the phenomenon has been observed in a condensed matter context.\nSchwab hasn't decided if he'll pursue the cooling project. More interesting, he says, is the task of figuring out the bigger problem of quantum mechanics: whether it holds true in the macroscopic world; and if not, where the system breaks down.\nFor that he's focusing on another principle of quantum mechanics -- the superposition principle -- which holds that a particle can simultaneously be in two places.\n\"We're trying to make a mechanical device be in two places at one time. What's really neat is it looks like we should be able to do it,\" he said. \"The hope, the dream, the fantasy is that we get that superposition and start making bigger devices and find the breakdown.\"\nFor more on the related Zeno Effect, see a previous post on the subject\nJust as weirdly, and also via Maddblog, this from PhysOrg.com :\nWith a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Their accomplishment, however, has less to do with quantum mechanics than with an observation once considered experimentally impossible: the wave-particle double nature of a macroscopic object (an oil droplet and its associated surface wave).\nhe droplet, which is about 1mm (10 million times larger than an atom), is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.\n“The interest of our result comes from the fact that we observe single particle diffraction and interference with a classical system,” Couder told PhysOrg.com. “This phenomenon was thought to be reserved to the quantum scale.”\nAlthough there is no specific dividing line between the quantum and macroscopic scales, an object larger than an atom generally has much too small a wavelength to be detected. Wave-particle duality, one disturbing chapter of quantum mechanics, means that all objects (quantum and macroscopic) sometimes behave like waves and show interference, and other times like particles--objects that have mass and obey conservation laws. Duality, though strange, could explain why objects seem to be in two places at the same time and communicate instantaneously across distances. These abilities, to scientists, would be even more difficult to reckon with than wave-particle duality, which is accepted as an \"interpretation\" of the world rather than a literal description.\nWhile the scientists observed that each droplet goes through only one slit, the associated wave travels through both slits, with the wave interferences determining the walker’s trajectory. When creating a histogram based on the walkers’ deviations, the scientists found that the graph highly resembled that of a plane wave. In other words, this interference of the waves generated both individual uncertainty and statistical determinism in the trajectories of the material particles formed by the drops.\nOutgoing Mail\nAs opposed to Outgoing male I suppose...\nAnother letter to some Politicians. These ones involved in actively lobbying for a comprehensive anti-discrimination Act.\n[address 1]\nKevin Rudd MP\nNicola Roxon MP\nDear Mr Rudd,\nI wish to bring to your attention the very real problems faced by Transsexual people wishing to travel overseas.\nThe problem is caused by the explanatory notes to the Australian Passports Determination 2005*, which states (with no reason given) that it is \"unneccessary or undesirable\" to give Trangendered people passports.\nBy the explanatory notes, the following people are to be treated equally:\n* Australian Citizens who cannot be issued a passport due to an outstanding arrest warrant, or being suspected of passport trafficking for having \"lost\" so many\n* Australian Citizens who are Transgendered\n* Australian Citizens being deported, repatriated or extradited\n* Australian Citizens whose travel the minister believes should be restricted\nThe effective definition of \"Transgendered\" by the Australian Passport Office includes everyone who has not had their Australian Birth certificate altered, all post-operative people who are married, all people whose medical health or financial status precludes surgery, and many people who are Intersexed.\nSuch people may be granted a Document of Identity, good for one journey, but only if they apply in their originally registered gender, and can find a guarantor to swear that this is their \"actual\" gender. This is impossible for some Intersexed people, and for those whose medical history has been kept secret.\nBy caselaw**, a DOI will only be issued for \"good reasons\" such as to get neccessary surgery or to allow travel back to Australia to answer an arrest warrant. It will not be granted for business purposes, for example. I required multiple re-entry to Australia to attend Academic conferences necessary for my PhD (a fact attested to in writing by my PhD supervisor), but was told this would not be granted. Exceptions to this general case - those travelling to Norfolk Island, and those unable to obtain a Commonwealth passport - are explicitly stated in the explanatory notes. All the rest - wanted suspects, deportees, extradited criminals, people refused a passport due to security considerations or suspected passport traffickers, and Transsexuals - are treated the same way.\nIn my own case, I was unable to get a DOI anyway because of my medical condition - medically I'm female, according to Medicare Australia, despite the UK \"boy\" birth certificate, so could not apply as a male. To apply for a DOI, I would have to purjure myself, and leave both myself and my guarantor open to prosecution (based on the medical evidence) under the Australian Passports Act 2005***, or conversely, under the Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005****, as my UK passport states that I'm Female.\nAs a Dual UK/Australian national, I was able to leave Australia any time I liked, but not able to return to my family due to the APO's travel restrictions. As I require surgery of a type only available overseas, I was to be effectively exiled from Australia, not despite, but because of, my Australian Citizenship. As an Australian Citizen, I don't qualify for a re-entry visa on my UK passport, unlike permanent residents.\nI applied for an Australian passport on June 4th 2006, well before the scheduled date of surgery on November 15th 2006, and still don't have one. Not only that, but I've been informed in correspondence with the Commonwealth Ombudsman that no appealable decision has been made. A passport hasn't been refused (a decision I could appeal through the AAT) - they just won't issue one.\nA phonecall from a representative of the APO made it quite clear : in order to get any form of Australian Passport, I would have to divorce. The exact words were \"Under the Marriage Act, we can't have people who are married changing their gender\". The APO is in possession of advice directly contradicting that assertion from the Federal Attorney General, advice they have chosen to ignore.\nIronically, for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1961*****, my UK passport showing a Female Gender is adequate to verify my Identity for the purposes of marriage.\nFortunately, the Department of Immigration and Indigenous Affairs staff were horrified when they saw the correspondence from the APO. They have gone out of their way to help, issuing me both with a new Citizenship Certificate (which was ignored by the APO) based on the medical evidence, and at the last moment with a rare emergency administrative document which will allow me back in the country. I was lucky - most people would not have this loophole to turn to.\nPerhaps the original intent was to allow Transgendered people - including fulltime crossdressers - an unrestricted \"gender-neutral\" travel document (albeit one not recognised by many countries) as an option, as an alternative to a passport showing a gender inconsistent with their appearance. The actual practice is that many transsexual Australian Citizens are now forbidden to travel overseas. Other transsexual Australian Citizens are merely forbidden to return. Unbelievable, isn't it? But I have the evidence in writing, and the explanatory notes to the Australian passports determination 2005 are available for all to see. I also kept an online diary, a weblog******, of events as they happened.\nTransgendered people - especially Transsexuals - are subject to harrassment, even violence. If Transsexuals have their medical condition treated, they face the loss of family, of income, of friends. All too often their difficulties seem insurmountable, they give up, and lose their lives instead. Usually the prejudice they face is covert, hidden and \"plausibly deniable\". It's unusual and dismaying that the law of the land overtly and unashamedly singles them out for blatant persecution here. This must not stand. It is unjust. It is unfair. It is Un-Australian.\nPlease put and end to it, and as soon as possible.\nZoe Ellen Brain BSc MInfoTech(Distinction)\n* Australian Passports Determination 2005 Explanatory Notes Section 6.3 para 89\nhttp://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrument1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/5681A7871644AF20CA25702200251B7F\n** VAK and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade [2002] AATA 588 (11 July 2002)\nhttp://www.austlii.edu.au//cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/aat/2002/588.html?query=passport\n*** Australian Passports Act 2005 Division 2 Section 29 Making false or misleading statements in relation to Australian travel document applications\nhttp://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/EE43C1E140453B9ECA25719C002AD9D1\n**** Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005 Part 3 Section 18 Making false or misleading statements in relation to foreign travel document applications\nhttp://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/0D75D5C1796BB48ECA25702600068C9F\n***** Marriage Act 1961Division 2 Section 42.(1).b.(iii)\nhttp://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/framelodgmentattachments/3D7C85733B0F1F41CA25719C00335E0D\n****** http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2006/09/great-passport-fiasco-summarised.html\nAnd after reading Petro Georgiou's Speech about putting the Liberal back into the Liberal Party, a copy to him too. I've voted Liberal since I was 18. We'll see if the Liberal party can return to its roots. Well, Hope springs eternal in the human breast. And now I have two of those, at last!\nLabels: Passport\nPerspective, Revisited\nFrom the Jawa Report :\nRecently, I was creeped out by this supernova. Detected Feb. 18 by Swift, a satellite launched to look for gamma-ray bursts, the exploding star already was the 24th supernova discovered at that early point in 2006. As instruments improve, exploding stars appear more common than cosmologists had expected, and that's not the best news we might have heard. Coded GRB 060218, this star detonation began as a gamma-ray burst that lasted 33 minutes -- absolutely stunning because previous gamma-ray bursts from space have lasted a few seconds at the most. The gamma rays came from 470 million light-years away. That was discomfiting because strong gamma-ray bursts usually emanate from what astronomers call the \"deep field,\" billions of light-years distant and thus billions of years back in the past. A distance of 470 million light-years means the GRB 060218 supernova happened 470 million years ago. That is ancient by human reckoning, but many cosmologists had been assuming the kind of extremely massive detonations thought to cause strong gamma-ray busts occurred only in the misty eons immediately after the Big Bang. The working assumption was that since life appeared on Earth, there had been no stellar mega-explosion. Now we know there has.\n...had GRB 060218 happened in our galaxy, life on Earth would have ended Feb. 18.\nApart from some lithophillic bacteria, perhaps.\n470 million LY is not just \"not in the furthermost corners of the Universe\", it's not that far from the local galactic cluster, which stretches for 10 million LY. Just outside the Virgo Sipercluster in fact. That's the one we're in.\nOdds are, conditions within a given Supercluster are fairly uniform, in terms of probablilities of Gamma Ray Bursts like this. A GRB within a Galaxy presses the \"reset\" button over less than a million years, wiping out all complex life within the whole Galaxy as the Gamma rays propagate outwards.\nPuts little problems like Al Qaeda, and trivialities such as minority persecution in perspective, doesn't it?\nA Disturbing Image\nI know it's supposed to be humourous. Nonetheless, this altered comic front cover leaves me with some very disturbing feelings.\nFirstly, that if it did happen to a boy, it would probably kill him. The looks are one thing, it's the thinking process that's important (trust me). Guys who are born in female bodies have it hard enough. Many don't make it, but at least they don't have it happening suddenly, they have time to get used to the idea - and time to suffer too. Yes, there's the whole Sex thing too, but if he were as screwed up hormonally as that, sex of any kind is probably the last thing on his mind. Even if he were Gay - there's a massive difference between being a Gay Male and a Straight Female. Many in the GLB activist groups don't understand that TS women aren't some form of Gay Male, and TS men aren't Lesbians either.\nSecondly, although the condition 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (5ARD) can cause little girls to grow up into big boys, the reverse is much rarer. Yet there seems to be something of an \"urban legend\" status about it - maybe it's a part of male sexuality (something I've never understood), or maybe it happens more often than the literature says it does. Probably with fatal results, from purely physiological considerations, let alone psychological ones.\nThirdly - why did it have to happen when I was 47, and not 17? And why couldn't I have ended up looking like that? Grrrrrr. Never mind, considering my skeletal structure at age 10, it was not to be anyway. I always was thickset, \"elfin\" was never a possibility.\nFourth - they got the whispers in the background right. Heck, it was difficult enough for me, surrounded by mature, educated adults. For teenage transitioners, it must be far worse, at least, in some societies. In others, where there's a bit more knowledge and tolerance than there was when I was growing up, it might be easier. But it would never be easy. I've seen far too many kids lives made hell by parents who not just don't understand, they won't understand, won't even look at the evidence. It's too embarressing and upsetting to their world-view.\nA bit like my reaction to this picture.\nYou know what? I'm awfully lucky I had CNI - Congenital Neurological Intersex AKA Transsexuality. If I hadn't... it doesn't bear thinking about. For most people, being TS is a curse. For me, it was a literal life-saver. Gosh! (Zoe for the nth time thanks her lucky stars)\nGood News For Some\nFrom The Times :\nWomb transplants may be possible within two years, giving hope to women unable to have children, doctors claimed yesterday.\nLondon-based researchers, working with medical teams in New York and Budapest, have developed a technique for providing a transplanted womb with a reliable blood supply. Women born without a uterus or who have undergone an emergency hysterectomy would be among those to benefit from the procedure.\nThe transplant would be temporary, doctors being reluctant to continue giving a patient drugs to help the body to fight rejection of the womb. That could leave the woman two to three years to conceive and carry a baby or babies before the womb was removed.\nThis will certainly benefit many Intersexed women with vaginal dysgenesis and other conditions where they have ovaries, but not the complete reproductive system. It will also benefit many other women who have had to have hysterectomies which have left their ovaries intact.\nNot good for women like me though. Not yet. But perhaps, one day, those who are now transitioning in their teens might just possibly be able to become biological mothers.\nIt means a lot to us, you see.\nMeanwhile, I look at my son Andrew, now fast asleep, and am content. Content? I'm positively ecstatic! Though I think if we'd had to adopt, I'd feel just the same. There's more to motherhood than pregnancy.\nWould have been nice though... but was not to be. Guess I'm just greedy."
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        "text": "Author Larry D. Sweazy was born in the year 1960 in the Anderson, Indiana area. While growing up, he watched a lot of westerns like “The Rifleman”, Bonanza, and “Wild, Wild West”. Other shows he enjoyed include “Baretta”, “Batman”, “Star Trek”, and quite a few cop shows from the seventies.\nLarry began reading from an early age, and picked up whatever books were around the house. It didn’t matter if they were over his head or not. Movies, books, and television shows gave Larry an escape from every day life’s troubles. In his early twenties, he started to think he might be able to become a writer and tell stories.\nHe worked many different kinds of jobs; he managed a restaurant, served in the US Air Force, janitor, and insurance salesman. Before he worked in the publishing industry as a back-of-the-book indexer in the year 1998. It wasn’t until he was 49 that he published his first novel, which was called “The Rattlesnake Season”, and was released in the year 2009.\nHe won the WWA Spur Award for Best Paperback Original in the year 2013, and Best Short Fiction in the year 2005. Larry has also won Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction in the years 2011 and 2012.\nSweazy writes the “Marjorie Trumaine” series, the “Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger” series, and the “Lucas Fume Western” series. His work is from the genres of mystery, western, and historical mystery.\n“See Also Murder” is the first novel in the “Marjorie Trumaine” series, which was released in the year 2015. In the year 1964, a gruesome murder is committed in the tiny town of Dickinson, North Dakota. Lida and Erik Knudsen are found killed in their beds, and their throats have been slit. Two sons, ages nineteen and twenty, named Jaeger and Peter, live in the same house, yet they claim they heard nothing while they slept in their rooms.\nSheriff Hilo Jenkins gets called to the crime scene, and finds an odd copper amulet in Erik’s hand. He knows his friend Marjorie Trumaine is a professional indexer and skilled researcher, and asks her to help investigate the potential meaning of the amulet with its strange markings.\nHer search takes her to a college close by where she finds that Professor Phineas Strand used to have a similar amulet that was stolen. Professor Strand is later found killed in the same grisly fashion. Marjorie finds a link between both Peter and the professor.\nThe closer she gets to finding out the truth, Marjorie feels more and more threatened. As she knows the murderer is going to stop at nothing to keep his tracks covered.\nThis is an enjoyable read that makes you feel entirely immersed in what is happening. Marjorie is a tough woman, who stands up to the tough life she leads, and never lets life get her down. The mystery is well done and the entire book was well written. This is one book that will make you a fan of Larry D. Sweazy and go out in search of his other work.\n“See Also Deception” is the second novel in the “Marjorie Trumaine” series, which was released in the year 2016. October of 1964. Months after Marjorie Trumaine helped with a murder case, she is faced with one more death that pulls her into another unwanted investigation. The local librarian, Calla Eltmore, is found deceased at work. Everybody thinks that it was suicide, but Marjorie is unable to think that Calla is capable of doing this.\nMarjorie’s suspicions are aroused more when she picks up on something odd at Calla’s wake, but the cops are uninterested in these observations.\nDespite the burden of caring for her husband in declining health and pressing job commitments, she sets out to find out the truth. She finds a maze of secrets, as well as some threats from somebody who is going to kill to keep these secrets hidden.\nLarry D. Sweazy brings to life a bleak world, and makes you feel the atmosphere of North Dakota in 1964. Marjorie is a fantastic character, and many find themselves wanting her to be in many more books. The book has an excellent mystery in it, and the total solution comes together by the end of the novel nicely.\n“See Also Proof” is the third novel in the “Marjorie Trumaine” series, which was released in the year 2018. Dickinson, North Dakota in the year 1965. it is a harsh winter and Marjorie is mourning the death of Hank, her husband, while she tries to finish a lengthy index. The bleak weather seems to make her grief that much worse, and then she finds out more bad news. A neighbor’s daughter, Tina (only fourteen years old and disabled) has just gone missing.\nMarjorie feels that she has to do something to help the Rinkerman family, and she joins Sheriff Guy Reinhardt in the hunt for the missing girl. Quickly, the investigation is led to one shocking discovery and some further complications. Nils Jacobsen, grocery store manager, is found with a bullet in his head not far from the Rinkerman’s house.\nMarjorie has a looming deadline for the book’s index, and is increasingly distracted by the disturbing events that surround the search to find Tina Rinkerman. Instead of remaining focused on her work, she follows up on leads that take her some five hours away to the Grafton State School. Up until recently, Tina was a resident there. The information she gathers raises up more questions, but still ties together the death of Nils Jacobsen as well as the girl’s vanishing.\nDuring a treacherous drive back to Dickinson, she learns that there is somebody that does not want her to come back. She starts to fear the person who killed Nils is not going to hesitate in silencing her, now that is is aware of an old secret.\nMarjorie is simply a stellar character in crime fiction. Larry writes some dark and gloomy mysteries, and is one of the masters of conjuring up an atmosphere in his work."
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        "text": "World Famous Israeli Novelist Amos Oz\nNo Comments on World Famous Israeli Novelist Amos OzPosted in The Story By mosozPosted on May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019\n“My beloved father has simply passed away from cancer after a swift deterioration,” stated his daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger in a brief assertion. He’s survived by his spouse Nili Zuckerman and his three kids. Born in Jerusalem in the course of the Mandatory Palestine of 1939, his name was Amos Klausner in his youth. The famed writer lived as a younger man for a time on Kibbutz Hulda, and as an grownup in the northern Negev desert metropolis of Arad. He took on the identify “Oz” – “courage” – and used his words to specific his beliefs about his world after first finishing his service in the IDF. Amoz Oz started writing at age 22.\nHe Dies At Age 79\nHe received dozens of literary honors, was an Israel Prize awardee, and a recipient of Germany’s Goethe Award. His numerous books have been printed around the globe and translated into forty five languages however though he was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, it was an honor he by no means achieved. Speaking 4 years ago at a conference held at Herzliya’s Interdisciplinary Center, Oz mentioned, “If there are usually not two states here quick, there can be one state right here. And it will likely be Arab from the sea to the Jordan River. If there is such a state, I envy neither our youngsters or our grandchildren…. My Zionist place to begin has all the time been simple: We aren’t alone in Israel and in Jerusalem, and neither are the Palestinians. We can not change into one joyful family. There is one other manner: They don’t seem to be going wherever, they have nowhere to go; now we have nowhere to go. “A story of love and mild and now, nice darkness. The glory of our Creator. Rest in peace, our dear good friend Amos.\nThere are numerous such examples. This incestuous relationship has served Wall Street extraordinarily well. Matt Taibbi in his article, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? ” discusses the corrupt lack of prosecution of Wall Street bankers and buyers who value this nation and the world losses within the trillions of dollars and degraded the world economic system as effectively. The brand new York Times additionally has an excellent investigation on why the S.E.C. 1.5 Trillion underneath both the Bush and Obama administrations to avoid wasting Wall Street from monetary collapse. Mary L. Schapiro-Commissioner of the S.E.C. Martin Gruenberg: Acting Chairman of the F.D.I.C. His predecessor was Sheila C. Blair, additionally (Jewish. Gary Gensler-Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (C.F.T.C.) also has regulatory oversight of Wall Street. Mr. Gensler labored for Goldman Sachs, entered Government as prime official in the Treasury Department. Ben Bernanke – Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank is. Timothy Geithner – Secretary of the Treasury.\nJewish Government officials overseeing Jewish bankers, investors, financiers on Wall Street is the sweetest deal of all-go ahead steal, share the money with us, and we’ll protect and supply a cowl up. In actual fact, we’ll send you Trillions of dollars to bail you out and make you worthwhile again. Because we’re tribal brethren and could care less about the American people or the world. Vanity Fair magazine in its October 2007 difficulty revealed a list of “the world’s most highly effective people”. A listing of the one hundred most influential rich women and men who span the business, monetary, and banking sectors, the media, film studios, publishers and so on. These powerful folks have the influence to form our world and our world view of each other. They could make or break governments, shape and affect world economies, launch wars and devastate nations.\nThese are the few who can actually form and mold our future. Peter Beinart (Jewish) in his e book, “The Crisis of Zionism” (2012, Times Books) additionally attests to Jewish Power. “The shift from Jewish powerlessness to Jewish energy has been so profound, and in historical phrases so fast, that it has outpaced the way in which many Jews think about themselves”.\ne shift from Jewish powerlessness to Jewish energy has been so profound, and in historical phrases so fast, that it has outpaced the way in which many Jews think about themselves”.\nAbout The Novelist Named Anne Tyler\nHow The Books Inspire Your Imagination"
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        "text": "Opposite Direction\nFrom the SMH, a tale of Intersex, Medical Blindness and Ostracism :\nA champion shot-putter and discus-thrower, Rabei has photos of himself as a woman towering over other female competitors, which prompted sporting authorities to raid his home looking for performance-enhancing drugs.\nBut his build was not enough to prompt doctors to entertain the idea that he was not a woman.\n\"Every time I went to hospital, they told me I was a woman,\" he said, adding doctors routinely failed to diagnose a lack of internal female reproductive organs. Staff at one clinic laughed when he went for tests to determine his genetic sex.\nDoctors instead prescribed pills to induce menstruation and suggested an operation to open the hymen when Rabei could not consummate \"her\" marriage.\nRabei's lawyer, who is fighting to have his sex and name changed on official documents, said her work was not easy.\n\"People have been attacking me personally, asking me why I encourage sex correction. According to them, this is haram, or forbidden in Islamic and Arab society,\" Fouzia Janahi said.\nRabei's employers have demanded his resignation and psychiatrists have declined to counsel him for life as a man.\n\"I'm not saying I'm not under intense pressure, but as long as what I'm doing is right medically, religiously and legally, I don't care what people say,\" he said. \"Praise God, I feel like I'm a man, I feel like I'm myself.\"\nI feel like myself. I took a different route, and in the opposite direction, but I know exactly how he feels.\nThe Australian Government is thinking about setting up a consultation blog/forum to give the public a chance to debate public policy.\nIf you want to help shape the form this blog will take then have your say here:\nwww.openforum.com.au/Survey\nIt only takes a couple of minutes and could help lead to something really worthwhile. Thanks."
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        "text": "4 май е 124-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (125-и през високосна). Остават 241 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1493 г. – Папа Александър VI става арбитър между Испания и Португалия за определяне на границите им на влияние в Новия свят.\n 1593 г. – Основан е бразилският град Жабоатау дус Гуарарапис.\n 1626 г. – Остров Манхатън е продаден от индианците на холандските заселници в Америка.\n 1675 г. – Кралят на Англия Чарлз II нарежда да бъде изградена Кралската Обсерватория в Гринуич.\n 1715 г. – В Париж е произведен първият сгъваем чадър.\n 1799 г. – Мишел Ней е прехвърлен в Армията на Андре Масена.\n 1872 г. – Завършва първото общо събрание на БРЦК, на което инициатор е Васил Левски.\n 1903 г. – Четата на Гоце Делчев е обкръжена от турска войска край село Баница (Сярско) и в сражението загива самият Делчев.\n 1924 г. – В Париж са открити VIII Летни олимпийски игри.\n 1925 г. – Публикуван е Закон за администрацията и полицията. С него се създава Дирекция на полицията с три отдела: Държавна сигурност, Криминален и Административна полиция.\n 1932 г. – В Атланта, мафиотът Ал Капоне, обявен за „обществен враг № 1“ в САЩ, влиза в затвора за единадесет години с присъда за укриване на данъци.\n 1937 г. – С Наредба-закон се забранява на българските граждани да участват в Гражданската война в Испания.\n 1945 г. – Ханс Франк е пленен от американски войници близо до Берхтесгаден.\n 1949 г. – Вследствие на самолетна катастрофа край Торино загива целият футболен отбор на италианския клуб Торино, с изключение на един играч, който не лети поради контузия.\n 1953 г. – Ърнест Хемингуей получава наградата Пулицър за повестта си Старецът и морето.\n 1966 г. – В СССР започва производство на леките коли Жигули и Лада по лиценз на Фиат.\n 1979 г. – Маргарет Тачър става първата жена министър-председател на Обединеното кралство.\n 1990 г. – Латвия обявява възстановяване на независимостта си след Съветската окупация.\n 1994 г. – Израелският министър-председател Ицхак Рабин и лидера на Организацията за освобождение на Палестина Ясер Арафат подписват историческо споразумение, даващо автономия на палестинците в окупирания Западен бряг на река Йордан и в Ивицата Газа.\n 1994 г. – Европейският парламент одобрява предложението за приемане в Европейския съюз на Австрия, Финландия, Норвегия и Швеция.\n 1999 г. – XXXVIII народно събрание гласува искането на НАТО България да предостави части от въздушното си пространство за въздушни акции срещу Югославия.\n 2001 г. – Папа Йоан Павел II започва пътуване, наречено по стъпките на Свети Павел – от Гърция до Сирия и оттам до Малта.\n 2005 г. – Открит е естественият спътник на Сатурн Егир.\n\nРодени на 4 май \n\n 1008 г. – Анри I, крал на Франция († 1060 г.)\n 1733 г. – Жан-Шарл дьо Борда, френски математик, физик и философ († 1799 г.)\n 1770 г. – Франсоа Жерар, френски художник († 1837 г.)\n 1777 г. – Луи Жак Тенар, френски химик († 1857 г.)\n 1807 г. – Томас Дънкан, шотландски художник-портретист († 1845 г.)\n 1825 г. – Томас Хъксли, британски биолог – дарвинист († 1895 г.)\n 1833 г. – Валерий Якоби, руски художник († 1902 г.)\n 1873 г. – Джо Де Грас, канадски режисьор († 1940 г.)\n 1886 г. – Александър Пеев, български общественик († 1943 г.)\n 1891 г. – Петко Петков, български политик († 1923 г.)\n 1900 г. – Антун Аугустинчич, хърватски скулптор († 1979 г.)\n 1911 г. – Христо Минковски, български футболист († 1997 г.)\n 1917 г. – Веселин Хаджиниколов, български историк и етнолог († 2003 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ед Касиди, американски поп-музикант\n 1928 г. – Волфганг фон Трипс, немски пилот от Ф1 († 1961 г.)\n 1928 г. – Хосни Мубарак, египетски президент († 2020 г.)\n 1929 г. – Одри Хепбърн, американска киноактриса († 1993 г.)\n 1931 г. – Генадий Рождественски, руски диригент\n 1937 г. – Методий Григоров, български хоров диригент († 2020 г.)\n 1939 г. – Амос Оз, израелски писател и журналист († 2018 г.)\n 1943 г. – Георги Аспарухов, български футболист († 1971 г.)\n 1943 г. – Артин Потурлян, български композитор\n 1947 г. – Иван Добчев, български режисьор\n 1947 г. – Филип Трифонов, български актьор († 2021 г.)\n 1951 г. – Жерар Жюньо, френски артист\n 1952 г. – Майкъл Баримор, американски комедиен актьор\n 1958 г. – Зорка Първанова, първа дама на България (2002 –)\n 1958 г. – Кийт Харинг, американски художник († 1990 г.)\n 1972 г. – Майк Дърнт, американски музикант\n 1976 г. – Адриан Лазаровски, български писател\n 1979 г. – Христо Янев, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Кубрат Пулев, български боксьор\n 1987 г. – Сеск Фабрегас, испански футболист\n 1992 г. – Кристиян Николов, български покер играч.\n 1994 г. – Александър Гулд, американски дете-актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1003 г. – Херман II, херцог на Швабия (* ? г.)\n 1530 г. – Никлас граф Салм, австрийски военен командир\n 1677 г. – Айзък Бароу, английски математик (* 1630 г.)\n 1811 г. – Николай Каменски, руски офицер (* 1776 г.)\n 1903 г. – Гоце Делчев, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1921 г. – Алфред Херман Фрид, австрийски журналист, Нобелов лауреат (* 1864 г.)\n 1938 г. – Карл фон Осиецки, германски журналист, Нобелов лауреат през 1935 (* 1889 г.)\n 1946 г. – Иван Сматракалев, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1955 г. – Джордже Енеску, румънски композитор (* 1881 г.)\n 1972 г. – Едуард Кендъл, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1950 г. (* 1886 г.)\n 1980 г. – Йосип Броз Тито, президент на Югославия (* 1892 г.)\n 1982 г. – Жорж Алека Дамас, габонски политик (* 1902 г.)\n 1993 г. – Франце Щиглиц, югославски режисьор (* 1919 г.)\n 2001 г. – Васка Илиева, македонска певица (* 1923 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден на металурга, пожарникаря и коминочистача (Ден на патрона на тези професии в католическата църква Свети Флориан)\n Замбия – Ден на труда\n Италия – Празник на град Анкона\n Китай – Ден на младежта\n Нидерландия – Ден на памет на жертвите от Втората световна война\n Тонга – Ден на престолонаследника\n\n504"
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        "text": "ManKind Project Men on CBS Sunday Morning – Developing Healthy Friendships\nby branger | Mar 27, 2017 | Press, Recent News\nThis clip from CBS Sunday Morning – “Friendship: Close ties that enhance, extend life” – features men from the ManKind Project South Central area talking about the connections that they experience being part of the ManKind Project. Willie Baronet, Scott Prentis, Ron Nevelow, and John Groll were interviewed for the section on what it means to have powerful and supportive friendships.\nCBS Sunday took an interest in the ManKind Project because of an article that featured one of the men in the segment, Ron Nevelow, who is a therapist in Dallas. Read the article here.\nIf you are ready to build your friendships with men, and improve every aspect of your life, you’re invited to find a men’s group near you. Email us.\nHere’s an excerpt from the segment:\nBut things are different just outside of Dallas, where Scott Prentice, John Groll, Ron Nevelow and Willie Baronet may do the usual guy things, like “trash-talking.”\n“It means making fun of his abilities, ’cause he can’t play basketball,” said Willie. “John can’t play poker. Scott can’t out-fish me, those sorts of things.”\n“I’ve got pictures to prove otherwise, that’s all I can say,” Scott retorted.\nYou get the point, especially when they join other friends for a game of whirlyball — kind of a mash-up of lacrosse and basketball, played in bumper cars.\nBut they say that the friendship they’ve developed over more than 15 years is far different than the stereotypical friendship most people think of between a bunch of sports-loving, poker-playing guys.\n“I’ve never found a group that’s so understood me, accepted me, loved me, and honored me as this group does,” said Scott.\n“We are willing to share deeply with each other what our fears are, what’s not working well, and I think most men yearn for that connection, but don’t feel comfortable going after it,” said Willie.\n“You’re all married, or in relationships; what do the women in your lives think about these friendships?” asked Braver.\n“I guarantee you, without these guys, I wouldn’t be married,” said Scott. “I had, you know, a fear of commitment. They helped me walk through what it was that was keeping me from being able to have a wife.”"
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        "text": "Q: How can I skip the Welcome screen after installing OS X? How can I skip the Welcome Video/Music that comes up after a fresh install of OS X? I believe you could skip this in Windows by hitting ESC, but I cannot find a key that has that same effect in OS X.\n\nA: Unfortunately you can not skip the opening movie - but you can skip the registration process which shows up later by pressing Command-Q. When the Setup process is complete the file .AppleSetupDone shows up in /var/db. (If this file exists it will skip the Setup process altogether)\n\nA: Try pressing cmd+q. It’s a Quicktime movie after all.\n"
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        "text": "On The Road - Anaheim\nWell it’s now November and my Autumn of Hanson is officially over. I know a lot of you following along at home might think that I’m actually certifiable for following a band across the country and back, but I also know that I just had the absolute time of my life and I don’t regret a single moment, dollar, mile, hour I spent in line, or night that I literally slept in a van. The first show of my west coast follow along was Anaheim...so let’s get started, shall we?\nMy friend Lorraine and I had been planning this trip for months, and we quickly learned that there was a slew of fans with the same idea. There was a whole group of us who were all following the band for the same cluster of shows. For all of you who think I am the only insane person who does this, let me just say...following Hanson is not uncommon. It’s actually a thing that...a lot of fans just do every tour. By the end of the follow, I felt like I was at summer camp or something, because we literally spent the week with all these girls! It was such a cool experience, and one that I will never forget.\nWe got to the venue around 7am and ended up being 21 and 22 in line (respectable, honestly). I immediately loved the ladies around us in line, and we all fell into comfortable chatter quickly and effortlessly. Right at the beginning of the day, a cop pulled up and asked what we were protesting, and we proudly exclaimed that we were just in line for a Hanson show. The whole week I kept making jokes about how I love line culture, but at the end of the day, they were not jokes! I had so much fun that afternoon getting to know the girls around me and laughing and chatting. Everyone was so chill and kind! I also got a to see a bunch of friends from past shows, and people I have known for years on the internet, which is one of the best parts of Hanson concerts!\nLorraine and I travelled around SoCal in a campervan, and let me just say, this is the WAY TO DO IT. Having the van at the venue in case we needed to take a nap, or make a snack, or change...a literal life saver. I’m sure I could make it work in a regular car but like...the van was the way to go. A serious game changer that made the days in line so pleasant! After a whole day of chatting and laughing and waiting, we went in for the Member’s Only Event. We were front row on Ike’s side which was AWESOME but we lost our front row spot because MOE’s are not organized and I just don’t think there is a right way to do it. Not leaving after pictures doesn’t work...leaving after pictures doesn’t work...whatever. But it was fine...being in the front for the MOE and getting pictures with the guys was great...okay on to the show!\nHighlights from Anaheim, CA:\nWhen the show started and the guys started playing Already Home, I actually felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. Pure, unbridled joy. I would have that feeling every time that song was played for the rest of the tour.\nThey played Crazy Beautiful, which is one of my favorites (Underneath songs are the key to my heart, boys!). I would get to hear it again during the follow, and it made me so happy.\nThey sang Wildflowers which, silly me, I was afraid I would never hear live. I heard it thrice.\nTaylor was very chatty during this show. He just...he had a lot to say! I get it!! I loved it!\nStrong Enough to Break (and Taylor’s speech beforehand) made me cry again, surprise, surprise. That’s like...THE song for this tour I guess. Whatever. It makes me feel like I can actually do anything, so I’ll take it.\nPenny, always.\nThe last three songs are almost too much for my little body to handle (in the best way)! I will always love If Only live...then pair that with Fired Up ---> In the City. WOW they sure know how to end a show. And it got better every single night!! Gah!\nFor the encore they did Finally It’s Christmas which made me stupid happy, then Lost Without Each Other finished us off (always a highlight for me).\nI feel like I’m forgetting so much! But most of it was feelings and glances and an overwhelming sense of belonging. Even the three VERY drunk girls behind us couldn’t bring me down.\nAfter the show, the van once again proved its worth and we were able to cool down a little before the after party. If I ever do another afterparty, I’ll try to organize it so it’s not on a day I line up early because I was pretty much completely wiped out by the time it started. I still had fun because I got to dance around like an idiot with my friends and watch Taylor DJ and look happier than I’ve maybe ever seen him. All in all, it was an awesome day, and the perfect start to this crazy, west-coast adventure.\nOn to LA…\nPeace, Love, and No Tomatoes!!!!!\nLabels: 2017, Anaheim, autumn of hanson, concert, concert review, do go be, follow along, Hanson, I was born, live music, MOE, MOE tour, music, west coast follow along\nOn The Road: EPCOT\nKT's Favorite Albums of 2017\nOn The Road - Las Vegas\nOn The Road - San Diego\nOn the Road - Los Angeles"
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        "text": "AGG Intellectual Property Law\nANTOINETTE G. GIUGLIANO, Esq.\nRegistered Patent Attorney\nAntoinette G. Giugliano is a Registered Patent Attorney and the founder of AGG Intellectual Property Law. With more than 20 years’ experience, Antoinette advises clients to develop a worldwide patent strategy. Intellectual property legal services of the firm include drafting and prosecuting patents and trademarks, obtaining copyright protection and advising clients about protect trade secrets. Antoinette has prepared and successfully prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign patent and trademark applications.\nAntoinette represents various types of clients, corporate, start-ups and universities, in intellectual property matters in many fields, specializing in life sciences (e.g., biotechnology, biochemistry, immunology, and molecular biology), bioinformatics, medical and dental devices, business methods, mechanical devices and consumer products.\nPrior to founding the firm, Antoinette worked at a Boston area intellectual property law firm for several years drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Antoinette also obtained experience working at EG&G, Inc., where she assisted in-house counsel with managing its worldwide patent and trademark portfolio. Additionally, she has worked at Boston University’s Office of Technology Transfer, where she assisted in various stages of patent prosecution and negotiation of licensing agreements.\nAntoinette has biochemical and immunological experience as a Research Technologist at the University of Vermont, College of Medicine (UVM). At the UVM, Antoinette produced monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, maintained established hybridomas, performed protein purification, tissues culture, ELISA assays, antibody isotyping, SDS-PAGE, ion exchange chromatography, gel filtration and immunoblotting. Additionally, she has computer software experience as an Installation Consultant at IDX Systems Co., Inc., where she installed laboratory and radiology software.\nAntoinette received a B.S. degree in Biology, cum laude, in 1992 from the University of Vermont and is also a graduate of Suffolk University Law School from which she received her J.D., cum laude, with a High Technology Concentration in 1997. Antoinette is a member of Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. bars, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.\n100 Cummings Center, Suite 227C Beverly, MA 01915\nemail: agg@ProtectInventions.com\n© Copyrighted 2005-2017 Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C. dba AGG Intellectual Property Law\nThis web site provides information only. No attorney-client relationship is created by access to this web site, nor does the information provided herein constitute legal advice. This web site and information may be considered advertising under the rules of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.\nPatents Copyrights Trademarks & Trade Secrets"
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        "text": "Q: What are your favorite Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts? What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X?\n\nA: For me the life saving shortcut is the quarter increment/decrement of light/sound:\n⇧+⌥ and the increment/decrement light or sound button.\nIt is extremely useful with LED Cinema Display monitors.\n\nA: ⌘+E: Put selected text into search clipboard.\nThen ⌘ + G to find next.\nIn combination with regular copy-paste you can do selective search and replace very quickly and conveniently.\n\nA: Here's a great one (for switchers) I got from the TextMate blog;\nCreate the folder ~/Library/KeyBindings (if it doesn't already exist)\nIn there, create a key-binding file DefaultKeyBinding.dict\nIn that file, put this text (including all braces & punctuation);\n\n{\n    /* home */\n    \"\\UF729\"  = \"moveToBeginningOfLine:\";\n    \"$\\UF729\" = \"moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:\";\n\n    /* end */\n    \"\\UF72B\"  = \"moveToEndOfLine:\";\n    \"$\\UF72B\" = \"moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:\";\n\n    /* page up/down */\n    \"\\UF72C\"  = \"pageUp:\";\n    \"\\UF72D\"  = \"pageDown:\";\n}\n\nSave the file, and when you next start a Cocoa app (eg Mail, TextEdit etc) you will find that Home, End, Pg Up and Pg Down now work as they do on Windows.\nIt's well worth having a look at the whole of that article - he explains exactly how to make this file and how the bindings work, with information about the other keycodes etc.\n\nA: ⇧+⌘+?: Help->Search, then type any menu item text, can be just a prefix\n⌘+E: put selected text in search dialog\n⌘+G and ⇧+⌘+G: find next/previous\n⇧+⌃+⌘+4: Take a screenshot, press space for whole window screenshot\nctrl + mouse scroller: zoom screen\n⌥+⌘+⏏: sleep\n\nA: *\n\n*ctrl+A: Go to the beginning of the line (works in every Cocoa textfield)\n\n*ctrl+E: Go to the end of the line (works in every Cocoa textfield)\n\n*⌘+⇧+H : Pop up the Home folder\n\n*⌘+⇧+D : Pop up the Desktop folder\n\nA: ctrl+F2: Access the menu via the keyboard (Windows alt+space equivalent).\n\nA: Typing / on any file dialog will give you a \"go to folder\" dialog, which autocompletes with tab (you have to wait a second for it to work). This lets you type in the full path, from the root / folder.\nExtra handy if you want to open from / save to hidden locations or already have the command line path you want to save something in.\nThis can be also accessed via ~ (i.e. the tilde key, to start from your home directory, e.g. ~/Documents) or using cmd+shift+G (which starts with the most recently entered directory).\n\nA: While being in the application switcher (using ⌘+⇥) cycle to an application by pressing ⇥ or ⇧+⇥; then - while still holding down ⌘ - press the down arrow to see an expose view of the selected app´s windows, including minimized windows. Using the arrow keys navigate to a window you want to bring to the foreground and hit ← to select it.\n\nA: Holding down the ⌥ while booting to select the startup volume.\nHolding down C while booting to boot from a CD/DVD in the drive.\n\nA: In a text area:\nCommand ⌘ + → the end of the line (like End)\nCommand ⌘ + ← the beginning of the line (like Home)\nOption ⌥ + → jump forward one word\nOption ⌥ + ← jump back one word  \n\nA: ⌘+space: activate spotlight.\nThen you can launch any application, open most files, do quick calculations, etc.\n\nA: ⌘+W: Close window (or tab).\n⌘+⌥+W: Close all windows.\n\nA: ⌘+⇧+4: selective screenshot saved on desktop\n⌘+⇧+ctrl+4: selective screenshot  saved in clipboard\n\nA: ⌘+⇧+.: show/hide hidden files on any file dialog\n\nA: ⌘+⇧+4+space+click on a window copies the current window to the desktop.\nThis is very useful while taking screenshots without the need to crop. The rounded edges stay rounded.\nUse this with ctrl to copy the image to the clipboard.\n\nA: ⌘+⇥: Cycle through running apps\n⌘+`: Cycle through windows for current app\n⌘+W: Close current window\n⌘+Q: Quit current app\n⌘+,: Preferences dialog for current app\n⌘+H: Hide current app (as long as it's not Photoshop)\nctrl+⇧+⏏: Sleep all displays\n\nA: Power keys:\nCtrl+⏏:  \"Are you sure you want to shut down your computer\" dialog message appears:\n\nCtrl+⌘+⏏: restart the computer\nCtrl+⌥+⌘-⏏: shut down the computer\n⌘+⌥+⏏: puts the computer in sleep mode\n⇧+Ctrl+⏏: puts the monitor in sleep mode\n\nA: Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Esc ⎋ brings up the force quit dialog, which is handy for killing unresponsive applications.\n\nCommand ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Shift ⇧ + Esc ⎋ held down for 5 seconds kills the foremost application.\n\nA: ctrl+⌥+⌘+8: High contrast theme.\n⌘+` (backtick): Cycle through app's windows.\n\nA: ⌘+⇧+N: Create a new folder in Finder\n\nA: ⌘+⌥+H: hide all inactive application windows\nThis is great for focusing on a single task or works well as a kind of show desktop if you switch to Finder first (providing you have few or no windows open)\n\nA: All of the shortcuts are my favorite!\nSpecifically (based on frequency of use) ⌘+H: Hide application\n\nA: ⌘+⇥:  Cycle through applications.\n⌘+`:  Cycle through the current application's windows.\n⇥: Auto fill commands and file/directory names in Terminal.\n⌘+⇧+4: Take a screenshot of a selected area.\n⌘+⇧+3: Take a screenshot of the whole screen.\n\nA: ⌘+C:  Copy selection  \n⌘+V: Paste selection  \n⌘+X: Cut selection \n\nA: shift+F12 or F11 - change sound volume without 'bip' sound\n\nA: fn+F3: show all windows (in the current Space)\nfn+⌘+F3: show the desktop\nfn+ctrl+F3: show the \"current application\" windows\nfn+⌥+F3: show the Exposé preference pane\n\nA: ⌘+alt+shift+V   pastes plain text, SUPER useful for copying from web pages or MS Word into email, and leaving the weird formatting behind.\n\nA: Not wholly keyboard shortcut, but holding down the Option key (⌥) and bringing up a system menu often provides extensive information. For instance if you are connected to wifi, hold down ⌥ and clicking on the network menu will bring up a lot of information (MAC address, IP address, signal strength, et c.) about the current network connection.\nHolding ⌥ and clicking on the notification icon also sets your notification status to \"Do not disturb\"---rather useful when discussing something on your screen with colleagues and you don't want to see Messages popping up.\n\nA: ctrl+⌘+1 to order files by name (icon view)\n\nA: Zoom shortcuts, very good for presentations:\nfn+⌥+⌘+8: turn on/off zoom\nfn+⌥+⌘+=: zoom in\nfn+⌥+⌘+-: zoom out\n\nA: On newer keyboards, invoke Exposé to\n\n\n*\n\n*fn+F3: show all windows (in the current Space)\n\n*fn+⌘+F3: show the desktop\n\n*fn+ctrl+F3: show the \"current application\" windows\n\n*fn+⌥+F3: show the Exposé preference pane\n\n\nWhile being in Exposé, \n\n\n*\n\n*cycle through windows with the arrow keys, using return to bring them into focus.\n\n*use ⇥ and  ⇧+ ⇥ to cycle through windows by applications (as highlighted in the Dock)\n\n\nA: ctrl+← or ctrl+→ to move between Mission Control spaces (in Lion).\n\nA: ctrl+⇥ Cycles through tabs in a web browser going to the right.  \nctrl+⇧+⇥ Cycles through tabs in a web browser going to the left. \n⌘+↓ Goes to the very bottom of a web page or textarea.\n⌘+↑  Goes to the very top of a web page or textarea.  \n\nA: In Finder, ⌥+⌘+P brings up the full path. If you then hit ⌘+C in Finder, you can paste the full path of a file or folder into your Terminal or elsewhere by ⌘+V.\n\nA: ⌘+z [undo] is my favorite & the one I tell the people I support to remember if they only learn one shortcut. \nIn Finder it undoes the last operation you just performed from inadvertently beginning to rename a file or folder; or undoing an unintentional drag and drop of a file or folder into the wrong folder or undoing a move to trash operation.\nIn applications many have multiple levels of undo which lets you step backward undoing previous edits or draws. Extremely useful in extricating yourself from sticky situations or just after having made a simple mistake.\n\nA: control+shift+L   turn the lights off\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a free, lightweight text editor that isn't text-only but also isn't a heavyweight IDE? I'm not really satisfied with the text-editors available for Mac OS X.\nI tried TextWrangler, Smultron, Coda, SubEthaEdit, TextMate and others I do not remember. But none of the above satisfied my needs.\nI want a (free) text editor\n\n\n*\n\n*which is fast,\n\n*which does syntax highlighting\n\n*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),\n\n*where the developers are active,\n\n*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application\n\n*which can define projects (like Coda can)\n\n*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN\n\n*which supports a fast autocompletion\n\n*Mac OS X 10.6 compatible\n\n\nIn plain English: the perfect lightweight text editor which is not yet a heavyweight IDE.\n\nA: Try Editra It's do lots of you want but not all of them, it's similar to notepad++ in windows.\n\nA: I can't vouch for it personally, but RedCar looks pretty promising. It supports TextMate bundles and runs on Mac, Linux & Windows. It doesn't support your entire feature list, I don't believe it has integrated source-control or project support (other than folders).\n\n\nA: You need Notepad++ running under wine! or winebottler!\n\nA: One trend I noticed this year is Mac programmers and web developers moving away from Textmate and the like to MacVim, including Ryan Singer of 37signals, who rocked MacVim during his Future of Web Applications talk recently.\nLots of people have written about why they switched; \"Coming Home to Vim\" is my favorite. \n\nA: What's wrong with BBEdit, other than you might have to pay for it?\n\nA: You might try KomodoEdit.\n\nI want a (free) text editor\n\nFree and free (under the Mozilla Public License).\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which is fast,\n  \n\nReasonably fast\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which does syntax highlighting\n  \n\nCheck\n\n  \n*\n  \n*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),\n  \n\nThere are lots of plugins; I'm sure it is possible to create your own syntax highlighter\n\n  \n*\n  \n*where the developers are active,\n  \n\nI believe so.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application\n  \n\nI'm afraid it is not a Cocoa application; it is built off of Firefox's UI system.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which can define projects (like Coda can)\n  \n\nYep.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN\n  \n\nIt looks like there may be some built-in Git support.  Here's a git plugin.\nIt looks like support for SVN is built-in.\nEdit: Those features appear to require Komodo IDE, instead of Komodo Edit.  Komodo IDE is a for-pay upgrade.  You might find \"Home-baked SVN support for Komodo Edit\" to be interesting.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which supports a fast autocompletion\n  \n\nIt has autocompletion; you'll have to try it to see if it is fast enough for you.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*Mac OS X 10.6 compatible\n  \n\nYes.\n\nA: There is a new editor on the block called Chocolat. I've been using it for a week now and really like it. It has a lot of the features of TextMate (as well as supporting TextMate bundles) but I've found it to work a lot better with large sets of files especially over the network.\n\nA: I'm partial to Coda these days, but came across this the other day when I was looking for something else.  I haven't tried it, so not sure if it meets all your needs. It's free, but only because it's not being developed anymore. \nhttp://www.web-scripter.com/\n\nA: There's a new text editor called Kod that is modern, fast, and support projects. \nA warning -- development on Kod is just starting, so things are a bit unstable. It's alpha-level software at version 0.0.3, although I think it will eventually turn into just the application you're looking for.\nFeatures:\n\n\n*\n\n*Written from the ground up for 10.6 using Grand Central Dispatch and other new things\n\n*Uses GNU Syntax Highlighting format so there's highlighting support for every language\n\n*Modern UI with Chromium tabs\n\n*Scriptable using node.js\n\n\nA: Atom by GitHub is a free and powerful text editor and IDE build with programmers in mind. At the same time, it also doesn't give the impression of being a heavy-weight IDE.\nVisual Studio Code is another similar offering from Microsoft.\n\nA: Have you considered Xcode?\nI know you said you don't like TextMate, but it's one that meet pretty much all your needs.\n\nwhich is fast  \n\nTextMate\nReally fast    \nXcode\nNot that fast but not Eclipse/Netbeans-slow\n\nwhich does syntax highlighting\n\nTextMate\nVery complete and extensible  \nXcode\nDoes syntax highlighting, it depends on your needs  \n\nwere I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),\n\nTextMate\nVery, very extensible  \nXcode\nSyntax extensions are possible \n\nwhere the developers are active,  \n\nTextMate\nSome say it's vaporware, yet very few other text editor can compete with its current features\nXcode\nApple development of this program is very active\n\nwhich does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler  \n\nTextMate\nIf you don't like the sliding bar, there's a plugin to replace it by a drawer\nXcode\nDoesn't have a sliding bar  \n\nwhich can define projects (like Coda can)  \n\nTextMate  / Xcode\nDo projects\n\nwhich includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN  \n\nTextMate\nSupport for Git/SVN/Mercurial (and probaby more) via built-in and added plugins\nXcode\nSVN support for 3.x, added Git in Xcode 4\n\nwhich supports a fast autocompletion  \n\nTextMate\nBasic variable/function completion\nvery complete code completion via bundles  \nXcode\nBasic variable/function completion\n\nMacOS X 10.6 compatible  \n\nTextMate\nSome compatibility issue\nXcode\nFully compatible\n\nA: Have you tried any of the Eclipse variants? I'm not a huge Eclipse fan, but the Aptana version of Eclipse (which is geared primarily towards front-end web developers) seems to satisfy all of your requirements above and may be worth a peek.\nhttp://aptana.com\n\nA: Your best bet in 2018 for free and active and extensible editors that are not heavy IDE are:\n\n\n*\n\n*https://code.visualstudio.com/\n\n*http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/\n\n*https://developer.apple.com/xcode/\nAll are very fast on SSD modern Mac, even the MacBook (One) with a mobile CPU with minimum cores and clock rate. All are free, actively developed, extensible, support code control and completion and are extensible, scriptable and can be added to for many languages and syntax. \n\nA: There is also Brackets, to consider. Written in Javascript, currently developed by Adobe as a \"community guided, open source project\", focuses on web development but can also be used as a generic text editor, has a solid API to extend it and a growing number of extension already available.\n\nA: I would say that MacVim but it's of course a more complicated tool based on the traditional unix vim text-editor with a steep learning curve.\nBy the way, which aspect of TextMate didn't appeal you?\n\nA: Sublime Text 2\nSupport for TextMate snippets, languages and color schemes.\nSplit view, tabbing, projects, commands. Full-screen on Lion and a \"focused\" mode.\nExtensible, too.\nVery fast, great multiple selection mode and cross-platform.\nCurrently priced at $59, but a free version is available with occasional alerts.\nIt also has a rapidly-growing plugin API and surrounding community.\n\nCheck it out, it's freaking awesome.\nUpdate: Sublime Text 2 is now superseded by Sublime Text 3 which features various enhancement and performance improvements.\n\nA: I think that Aquamacs might do the trick!\n\nA: You're not going to find it.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which is fast,\n  \n\nTexMate is pretty fast. TextWrangler is faster for large files though.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which does syntax highlighting\n  \n\nMost (if not all) have syntax highlighting.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),\n  \n\nYou might or might not get this.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*where the developers are active,\n  \n\nBest of luck with that.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application\n  \n\nWhat's wrong with the sidebar? \n\n  \n*\n  \n*which can define projects (like Coda can)\n  \n\nDefine projects as folders and you're all set.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN\n  \n\nUNIX philosophy is to do one thing and do it well. Integrated support for an SCM is not something easily found. Perhaps you should use an external tool?\n\n  \n*\n  \n*which supports a fast autocompletion\n  \n\nAs far as I know, only a few major IDE's support this. \nYou're not going to find what you're looking for free. Any IDE will feel slow as mud compared to a text editor like TM or TW. \nIf you want my honest opinion, try TextMate. Bundles will allow you to replicate some of the behavior you're looking for, the rest you can hope is in 2.0. \n\nA: Check out Fraise, the successor to Smultron.  It meets many of your requirements.  Here are the ones that are not met:\n\n*\n\n*where the developers are active: Fraise looks like it's now dying like its predecessor\n\n*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN: not sure what you mean by this, but Fraise has command line integration\n\n*which supports a fast autocompletion: not positive but I don't think it has autocompletion... but it has commands and text snippets\n\nEverything else you mention is in there.\non edit:\nI was a notepad++ guy for years doing windows dev work and over the last couple months I've slowly transitioned over to vim.  It does every single thing you're asking for and more.\n"
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        "text": "Q: iTunes on Windows Refuses to Upgrade I've been having a problem when trying to upgrade iTunes on Windows (7 x64). Every time I try to upgrade it, I get the error message:\n\nQuickTime was not found.\nQuickTime is required to run iTunes. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again.\n\nWanting to upgrade to 9.2 to get iOS4, I obliterated anything to do with Apple from my machine and reinstalled successfully, but this error comes back time and time again.\nI recently found that I am not the only one suffering from this.\nIs there a way to solve this issue or am I doomed to stay like this forever?\n\nA: It seems like the installer expects Quicktime to be there but when it looks it can't find it. \nHave you tried removing any registry entries to do with Quicktime and retrying the install?\n\nA: I have the same issue. iTunes on Windows 7, installed with default configuration months ago. After that I have upgraded it several times successfully, again with default settings. Now the latest iTunes upgrade offered by Apple Software Updater suddenly fails with \"QuickTime required\" error. iTunes and QuickTime Player fully working, only upgrading to latest version fails.\n"
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        "text": "4 юни е 155-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (156-и през високосна). Остават 210 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1783 г. – Братя Монголфие демонстрират своя балон с горещ въздух.\n 1880 г. – II обикновено народно събрание на Княжество България приема закон, с който се създава националната валута лев = 100 стотинки = 1 френски франк.\n 1896 г. – Хенри Форд извършва тестово шофиране на първия си модел автомобил по улиците на Детройт.\n 1911 г. – В Аляска (САЩ) са открити големи залежи от злато.\n 1917 г. – Колумбийският университет (САЩ) започва връчването на престижните награди Пулицър за върхови постижения в литературата, журналистиката, музиката и драмата.\n 1920 г. – Унгария губи 71% от територията си и 63% от населението си по силата на Трианонския договор, подписан в Париж.\n 1936 г. – Леон Блум става министър-председател на Франция.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Започва най-голямото морско сражение през войната – Битката при Мидуей.\n 1970 г. – Тонга получава независимост от Обединеното кралство.\n 1972 г. – Руският писател Йосиф Бродски е изгонен от СССР.\n 1989 г. – Протестите на площад Тянанмън в столицата на Китай, Пекин, са жестоко потушени от въоръжени войници и танкове на Народната освободителна армия, загиват стотици студенти.\n 1996 г. – Първият полет на европейската ракета-носител Ариана 5 се проваля, след като ракетата се саморазрушава, 37 секунди след полета, в резултат на програмни грешки.\n 1996 г. – След 53-годишно прекъсване ПФК Славия печели Купата на България.\n 1998 г. – Конституционният съд на България публикува решение, с което обявява за противоконституционен Закона за обявяване в държавна собственост на имуществото на царете Фердинанд I и Борис III и техните наследници.\n 2001 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма Парола: Риба меч в САЩ.\n 2002 г. – Открит е транснептуновия обект 50000 Кваоар.\n\nРодени \n\n 1394 г. – Филипа Английска, кралица на Дания, Норвегия и Швеция (†1430 г.)\n 1489 г. – Антон II, херцог на Лотарингия (†1544 г.)\n 1604 г. – Клавдия Медичи, ерцхерцогиня на Австрия († 1648 г.)\n 1694 г. – Франсоа Кене, френски икономист († 1774 г.)\n 1738 г. – Джордж III, крал на Великобритания († 1820 г.)\n 1867 г. – Карл Густав Манерхейм, финландски политик († 1951 г.)\n 1882 г. – Йон Бауер, шведски художник († 1918 г.)\n 1882 г. – Фьодор Комисаржевски, руски режисьор († 1954 г.)\n 1900 г. – Алфредо Ле Пера, аржентински поет († 1935 г.)\n 1904 г. – Алва Беси, американски писател († 1985 г.)\n 1911 г. – Милован Джилас, югославски политик († 1995 г.)\n 1915 г. – Кейта Модибо, първи президент на Мали († 1977 г.)\n 1916 г. – Робърт Фърчгот, американски учен, Нобелов лауреат († 2009 г.)\n 1925 г. – Кольо Витковски, български художник († 1999 г.)\n 1926 г. – Константин Коцев, български актьор († 2007 г.)\n 1926 г. – Алфредо ди Стефано, аржентински футболист († 2014 г.)\n 1927 г. – Владимир Гиновски, български скулптор († 2014 г.)\n 1929 г. – Каролос Папуляс, президент на Гърция († 2021 г.)\n 1930 г. – Георги Георгиев, български ветроходец († 1980 г.)\n 1933 г. – Годфрид Данелс, белгийски духовник († 2019 г.)\n 1934 г. – Никола Ковачев, български футболист († 2009 г.)\n 1936 г. – Нутан Бел, индийска актриса († 1991 г.)\n 1937 г. – Пандо Колевски, писател от Република Македония\n 1941 г. – Екатерина Йосифова, българска поетеса\n 1948 г. – Юрген Шпарвасер, германски футболист\n 1956 г. – Димитър Дерелиев, български кинопродуцент\n 1957 г. – Сю Ходж, британска актриса\n 1960 г. – Георги Ангелов, български телевизионен водещ и преводач\n 1961 г. – Ференц Дюрчан, унгарски политик\n 1963 г. – Адриана Велчева, българска тенисистка\n 1966 г. – Чечилия Бартоли, италианска певица\n 1970 г. – Изабела Скорупко, полско-шведска актриса и модел\n 1971 г. – Джеймс Калис, британски актьор\n 1971 г. – Жозеф Кабила, президент на Конго\n 1971 г. – Ноа Уайли, американски актьор\n 1975 г. – Анджелина Джоли, американска актриса\n 1977 г. – Александер Манингер, австрийски футболист\n 1978 г. – Робин Тейлър, американски актьор\n 1983 г. – Емануел Ебуе, котдивоарски футболист\n 1983 г. – Ромарик, котдивоарски футболист\n 1985 г. – Лукас Подолски, германски футболист\n 1985 г. – Анна-Лена Грьонефелд, германска тенисистка\n 1985 г. – Бар Рафаели, израелска манекенка и водещ\n 1986 г. – Фахрие Евджен, турска актриса\n 1986 г. – Уна Чаплин, испанска актриса\n 1986 г. – Иван Велчев, български актьор\n 1987 г. – Моли Кинг, английска певица и модел\n 1990 г. – Евън Шпигел, американски бизнесмен\n 1990 г. – Джетсун Пема, кралица на Бутан\n 1991 г. – Лоренцо Инсине, италиански футболист\n 1992 г. – Морган Грифин, австралийска актриса\n 1993 г. – Джонатан Юбердо, канадски хокеист, нападател на Флорида Пентърс\n 1996 г. – Мария Бакалова, българска актриса\n 2004 г. – Макензи Зиглър, американска танцьорка, певица, актриса и модел\n\nПочинали \n\n 1039 г. – Конрад II, император на Свещената римска империя (* ок. 990)\n 1472 г. – Несауалкойотъл, владетел на Текскоко (* 1402 г.)\n 1789 г. – Луи-Жозеф Ксавие Франсоа, дофин на Франция (* 1781 г.)\n 1798 г. – Джакомо Казанова, италиански авантюрист и писател (* 1725 г.)\n 1848 г. – Неофит Бозвели, български духовник (* 1785 г.)\n 1872 г. – Станислав Монюшко, полски композитор (* 1819 г.)\n 1875 г. – Едуард Мьорике, германски поет (* 1804 г.)\n 1875 г. – Иларион Макариополски, български висш духовник (* 1812 г.)\n 1876 г. – Абдул Азис, султан на Османската империя (* 1830 г.)\n 1887 г. – Уилям Уилър, американски политик (* 1819 г.)\n 1911 г. – Александър Радев, български политик (* 1864 г.)\n 1917 г. – Йордан Николов, български просветен деец (* 1884 г.)\n 1923 г. – Дмитрий Анучин, руски учен (* 1843 г.)\n 1925 г. – Пиер Луис, френски писател (* 1870 г.)\n 1932 г. – Христо Стамболски, български общественик, лекар-анатом (* 1843 г.)\n 1941 г. – Вилхелм II, последен император на Германия (* 1859 г.)\n 1942 г. – Райнхард Хайдрих, нацистки офицер от СС (* 1904 г.)\n 1971 г. – Дьорд Лукач, унгарски философ и литературен критик (* 1885 г.)\n 1974 г. – Петър Пенков, български актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 1997 г. – Евгени Матеев, български икономист (* 1920 г.)\n 2002 г. – Фернандо Белаунде Тери, президент на Перу (* 1912 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Международен ден за защита на децата – жертви на агресия (от 1983 г.)\n Тонга – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1970 г., национален празник)\n Естония – Ден на знамето, празнува се от 1884 г.\n Финландия – Ден на знамето на Военните сили, отбелязва се ежегодно в деня, когато е роден известния финландски държавник Карл Густав Манерхейм\n Унгария – Ден на националното единство, от 2010 г. се отбелязва годишнината от подписването на Трианонския договор, когато Кралство Унгария губи 72% от своята територия.\n\n604"
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        "text": "4 юли е 185-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (186-и през високосна). Остават 180 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1054 г. – Свръхнова с наименование SN 1054 е забелязана за пръв път от династията Сун, араби и вероятно от американски индианци в близост до звездата Зета Таури. За няколко месеца е достатъчно ярка, за да може да се наблюдава и през деня. Формирана е от остатъците на т.нар. Ракообразна мъглявина.\n 1456 г. – Османската армия, предвождана от Мехмед II, започва обсадата на Белград.\n 1776 г. – На континентален конгрес във Филаделфия е подписана американската Декларация за независимост, която обявява, че Тринадесет колонии престават да бъдат част от Британската империя.\n 1802 г. – Открита е Военната академия на Съединените щати в Уест Пойнт.\n 1879 г. – Англо-зулуската война приключва.\n 1894 г. – Хавайските острови са провъзгласени за република за кратко време.\n 1898 г. – При морска катастрофа между френския параход „Ла Бургон“ и английския търговски кораб „Кромартишир“ загиват 560 души.\n 1906 г. – Великобритания, Франция и Италия дават независимост на Етиопия.\n 1916 г. – Учреден е Военноисторическият музей в София.\n 1941 г. – В Рига латвийски националисти, колаборанти на Нацистка Германия, разрушават всички синагоги и убиват над 400 евреи.\n 1942 г. – Приключва обсадата на Севастопол, с което градът е завладян от страните от Оста.\n 1946 г. – След 381 години колониално управление, Филипините получават независимост от САЩ.\n 1959 г. – Каймановите острови се отделят от Ямайка и стават част от Обединеното Кралство.\n 1971 г. – Ловчанският митрополит Максим е избран за Български патриарх.\n 1997 г. – Космическият апарат на НАСА Марс Патфайндър каца успешно на Марс.\n 1999 г. – Американският състезател по тенис на корт Пийт Сампрас става най-титулувания тенисист в света.\n 2004 г. – Гърция побеждава Португалия с 1:0 на финала на Европейското първенство по футбол 2004.\n 2005 г. – Космическата сонда на НАСА „Дийп Импакт“ успешно се сблъсква с ядрото на кометата Темпел 1, изривайки късове от вътрешността на ядрото за изучаване.\n\nРодени \n\n 1546 г. – Мурад III, султан на Османската империя († 1595 г.)\n 1795 г. – Карл Айхвалд, руски учен († 1876 г.)\n 1804 г. – Натаниел Хоторн, американски писател († 1864 г.)\n 1807 г. – Джузепе Гарибалди, италиански патриот († 1882 г.)\n 1807 г. – Мариано Гуадалупе Валехо, американски военен и политик († 1890 г.)\n 1826 г. – Стивън Фостър, американски композитор († 1864 г.)\n 1872 г. – Калвин Кулидж, 30-и президент на САЩ († 1933 г.)\n 1881 г. – Богомил Радославов, български учен по минно инженерство († 1953 г.)\n 1883 г. – Петър Мутафчиев, български историк († 1943 г.)\n 1902 г. – Майър Лански, американски мафиот († 1983 г.)\n 1910 г. – Глория Стюарт, американска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1915 г. – Кристине Лавант, австрийска поетеса, белетристка и художничка († 1973 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джерард Дебрю, американски икономист с френски произход, Нобелов лауреат († 2004 г.)\n 1926 г. – Алфредо Ди Стефано, аржентински футболист († 2014 г.)\n 1927 г. – Джина Лолобриджида, италианска актриса\n 1928 г. – Патрик Тили, британски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1929 г. – Тодор Рачински, български аграрен учен († 1980 г.)\n 1930 г. – Щефан Ухер, словашки режисьор († 1993 г.)\n 1935 г. – Кейносуке Еноеда, японски каратист († 2003 г.)\n 1941 г. – Томаж Шаламун, словенски поет († 2014 г.)\n 1944 г. – Алберт Капенгут, американски шахматист\n 1947 г. – Михаил Мутафов, български актьор\n 1954 г. – Александър Хайтов, български скулптор\n 1955 г. – Диян Мачев, български актьор\n 1960 г. – Роланд Ратценбергер, австрийски пилот от Формула 1 († 1994 г.)\n 1964 г. – Еди Рама, албански политик\n 1965 г. – Джанкарло Мароки, италиански футболист\n 1969 г. – Атанас Джамбазки, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Алексей Широв, испански шахматист\n 1972 г. – Нина Бадрич, хърватска певица и текстописец\n 1973 г. – Гакт Камуи, японски певец\n 1974 г. – Серафим Неврокопски, български висш духовник, митрополит на Неврокопската епархия\n 1977 г. – Весела Казакова, българска актриса\n 1999 г. – Марио Василев, български актьор\n 1999 г. – Илиана Аладжова, българска национална, европейска шампионка по карате. Има трето място на световното от 2016.\n\nПочинали \n\n 965 г. – Бенедикт V, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1296 г. – Конрад фон Фойхтванген, немски аристократ (* ок. 1230 г.)\n 1541 г. – Педро де Алварадо, испански конкистадор (* 1495 г.)\n 1546 г. – Хайредин Барбароса, алжирски владетел (* 1478 г.)\n 1826 г. – Джон Адамс, 2-ри президент на САЩ (* 1735 г.)\n 1826 г. – Томас Джеферсън, 3-ти президент на САЩ (* 1743 г.)\n 1831 г. – Джеймс Монро, 5-и президент на САЩ (* 1758 г.)\n 1848 г. – Франсоа Рене дьо Шатобриан, френски писател (* 1768 г.)\n 1873 г. – Йохан Якоб Кауп, германски зоолог (* 1803 г.)\n 1888 г. – Теодор Щорм, германски писател (* 1817 г.)\n 1901 г. – Иван Котков, български революционер (* 1858 г.)\n 1902 г. – Свами Вивекананда, индийски гуру (* 1863 г.)\n 1907 г. – Атанас Кършаков, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1910 г. – Джовани Скиапарели, италиански астроном (* 1835 г.)\n 1921 г. – Антони Грабовски, полски химик и есперантист (* 1857 г.)\n 1934 г. – Мария Кюри, полска физичка, Нобелов лауреат през 1903, Нобелов лауреат през 1911 (* 1867 г.)\n 1973 г. – Леонид Щейн, украински шахматист (* 1934 г.)\n 1974 г. – Амин ал Хусейни, палестински религиозен водач (* 1895 г.)\n 1976 г. – Йонатан Нетаняху, израелски командос (* 1946 г.)\n 1989 г. – Джак Хейг, британски актьор (* 1913 г.)\n 1989 г. – Леда Тасева, българска актриса (* 1926 г.)\n 1992 г. – Астор Пиацола, аржентински музикант (* 1921 г.)\n 1993 г. – Лола Гаос, испанска актриса (* 1921 г.)\n 2003 г. – Бари Уайт, американски певец (* 1944 г.)\n 2004 г. – Георги Джубрилов, български актьор (* 1938 г.)\n 2008 г. – Томас Диш, американски писател (* 1940 г.)\n 2011 г. – Ото фон Хабсбург, германски политик (* 1912 г.)\n 2015 г. – Неделчо Беронов, български юрист и политик (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Международен ден на кооперативите (за 2015 г.) – Отбелязва се от 1995 г. по инициатива на ООН през първата събота на юли\n България – Празник на град Велинград\n България – Боен празник на 9-и Пловдивски, 11-ви Сливенски и 3-ти артилерийски полкове\n САЩ – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1776 г., национален празник)\n Филипино-американския ден на приятелството (Филипините)\n\n704"
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        "text": "bil.com Responsibilities You will be responsible for covering Chinese markets.\nThe position is based in Zurich.\nYou will report to Head of Wealth Management.\noperation with BIL Group in Luxembourg for cross-selling of financial services and products Ensure all business is conducted in compliance with local relevant laws, regulations and bank internal policies Identify key actions with a high business potential (client events) Reporting line : Branch Manager (ExCo member) based in Zurich."
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        "text": "Students who choose the residence option will stay in a modern, three-story hostel just a short walk from the lush María Luisa Park and the Old Quarter of Sevilla.\nParticipants will reside in double, triple or quadruple rooms, all of them with private bathrooms, small exterior balconies and set around a large central courtyard.\nOther residence facilities include: air-conditioning, a TV room, internet access, meeting rooms, towel rental, coin-operated laundry machines, public telephones and a 24-hour reception area.\nIncludes all language classes, evening activities, sports, workshops, excursions, etc.\nHome stay program participants will share a room with another teenager in a family home located within walking distance from the school. The host family will provide the student with 3 meals per day and will enforce the nightly curfew."
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        "text": "Q: What hardware upgrade would be most beneficial for a Mac? Would it make more sense to buy a Mac with a better processor, or with a better graphics card, or a SSD?\nFor general computer use, mainly word processing and Chrome/Safari.\n\nA: Do you plan to buy an iMac or a MacBook ?\nIf you buy a MacBook, you should take a SSD because it's better for a portable device (more resistant).\nIf you buy an iMac, SSD is not really necessary because you don't move your computer every day, so you can take a better processor and/or RAM.\nIf you don't manage to choose, juste take a better processor and a SSD :)\nHope this helps !\n\nA: The speed gains from an SSD drive are awesome, but they're still much more expensive.\nAlso, OS X always sees significant boosts from adding RAM, so get as much as you can afford (but not from Apple!).\n\nA: Given those three I say processor. \nGiven an alternate option I say processor then RAM. Always buy the most \"powerful\" processor you can at the time. You're probably going to keep the computer for a few years. With upgrades and new versions coming out it is hard to stay on top. Might as well be as close to the top as possible to start with. \nOS X and some programs (cough Firefox) love RAM. Get the stock amount and upgrade later.\n\nA: For general computing the most \"bang for your buck\" would come from RAM as tonklon states. Get as much as you can given your budget and specs on the computer. The next item would be up the hard drive to SSD. \nThis can get quite expensive but I've heard nothing but good things about certain SSD drives. \nIf cost not an issue then do both. If it is then upgrading RAM is your best bet. Keep in mind that Safari is a memory HOG. I've seen it take over 1G of RAM with just a few browser tabs open.\nDefault graphics card should be more than adequate for your stated needs.\n\nA: My suggestion is to always take the second fast processor available and invest the rest of your budget in RAM. The fastest processor is usually too expensive. You don't get much more speed for the price difference between the fastest and second fast.\nAnd don't upgrade the RAM in the Apple Store. Find a local reseller, who delivers your System readily build with non-apple brand RAM with warranty. You could get twice the RAM for the same price. But never ever use discount RAM. It's not worth the hassle. \nEDIT Oct 12:\nbmike's comment is right. The SSD is right now the single most important component for your Mac's speed.\nSo take the SSD. Even if you can then only afford the slowest processor.\nBTW. Are there still Mac models w/o SSD?\n\nA: I've found RAM and SSD are usually the ways to go. However, it depends upon your current configuration. If you currently only have 1gb or less of RAM, then you should definitely load up on RAM at the expense of other things (if there need be a tradeoff). But if you've got 2gb already, then SSD will likely do much more for you (given your stated needs).\n\nA: As Jeff Atwood says in his post, \"no CPU or memory upgrade can come close to touching that kind of real world performance increase\" as an SSD.\n\nA: SSD and RAM for me. But buy them from OWC or Crucial. Don't use the Apple one! And second display is always a nice upgrade, even a small 7 inch USB display. \n\nA: Consider that Hard drive is a bottleneck (physical speed) and limited ram enforces the usage of the Hard Drive (swap!). With those two parameters, you need to find a balance between the two.\nIf you get 32GB of RAM, yes, you will be using a “slow” hard drive, but the swap to drive will be close to zero. If you go with less ram but an SSD, those swapping times will be way way faster. \nI’d chose memory over anything else, because swap is not a substitute for RAM, and no free RAM = bad things occur. \n"
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        "text": "4 август е 216-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (217-и през високосна). Остават 149 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1693 г. – Смята се за датата на създаването на шампанското от бенедиктинския монах Дом Периньон.\n 1704 г. – Войната за испанското наследство: Гибралтар е завладян от английска и холандска флотилия под командването на британския адмирал сър Джордж Рук в съюз с ерцхерцог Карл\n 1782 г. – Волфганг Амадеус Моцарт сключва брак с Констанце Вебер\n 1791 г. – Подписан е Свищовският договор, с който се слага край на Австро-турската война (1787 – 1791).\n 1836 г. – В Кремъл камбаната Цар Камбана е поставена на каменен пиедестал.\n 1870 г. – В германския град Баден-Баден завършва един от първите международни шахматни турнири.\n 1879 г. – Княжество България освобождава от мито стоките, внасяни от Македония, Одринско и Източна Румелия.\n 1879 г. – Елзас и Лотарингия са провъзгласени за територия на Германия.\n 1903 г. – Пий X е избран за 257. римски папа.\n 1914 г. – Първа световна война: Германия нахлува в Белгия, в отговор на което Великобритания обявява война на Германия. Съединените щати обявяват неутралитет.\n 1916 г. – Първа световна война: Либерия обявява война на Германия.\n 1936 г. – Министър-председателят на Гърция Йоанис Метаксас суспендира парламента и Конституцията и установява Режима от 4 август.\n 1957 г. – Аржентинецът Хуан Мануел Фанджо за пети път става победител в състезанията от Формула 1.\n 1964 г. – Тонкински инцидент: Американските разрушители USS Maddox и USS Turner Joy докладват за сблъсък със северновиетнамски плавателни съдове в Тонкинския залив.\n 1983 г. – В резултат на държавен преврат в Горна Волта (днес Буркина Фасо) президент става Томас Санкара.\n 1984 г. – Африканската република Горна Волта се преименува на Буркина Фасо.\n 1995 г. – Хърватия започва Операция Буря, за да си възвърне анклавa, обявен за Република Сръбска Крайна и намиращ се от 4 години под контрола на сръбското малцинство.\n 1996 г. – В Атланта (САЩ) са закрити 26-те Олимпийски игри.\n 2007 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат на НАСА Финикс.\n\nРодени \n\n 1521 г. – Урбан VII, римски папа († 1590 г.)\n 1713 г. – Елизабета Албертина фон Сакс-Хилдбургхаузен, германска принцеса († 1761 г.)\n 1787 г. – Александър Алябиев, руски композитор († 1851 г.)\n 1792 г. – Пърси Шели, британски поет († 1822 г.)\n 1859 г. – Кнут Хамсун, норвежки писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1920 († 1952 г.)\n 1890 г. – Ерих Вайнерт, немски поет († 1953 г.)\n 1900 г. – Елизабет Боуз-Лайън, британска кралица († 2002 г.)\n 1901 г. – Луис Армстронг, американски музикант († 1971 г.)\n 1904 г. – Витолд Гомбрович, полски романист († 1969 г.)\n 1910 г. – Уилям Шуман, американски композитор († 1992 г.)\n 1911 г. – Михаил Ботвиник, руски шахматист († 1995 г.)\n 1916 г. – Елена Стефанова, българска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1920 г. – Иван Кръстев, български писател († 2013 г.)\n 1921 г. – Морис Ришар, канадски хокеист († 2000 г.)\n 1925 г. – Александър Сталийски, български политик († 2004 г.)\n 1925 г. – Манол Манолов, български футболист († 2008 г.)\n 1930 г. – Любомир Димитров, български актьор († 2001 г.)\n 1933 г. – Тодор Андрейков, български кинокритик и киноисторик († 1997 г.)\n 1938 г. – Саймън Престън, американски диригент\n 1942 г. – Огнян Сапарев, български политик\n 1951 г. – Валди Тотев, български музикант\n 1955 г. – Били Боб Торнтън, американски актьор\n 1958 г. – Марио Тагарински, български политик\n 1961 г. – Барак Обама, 44-ти президент на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат\n 1961 г. – Веселин Маринов, български певец\n 1967 г. – Цветелина Узунова, българска журналистка\n 1968 г. – Даниъл Дей Ким, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Илиян Киряков, български футболист\n 1968 г. – Хироши Куротаки, японски пианист\n 1969 г. – Диего Латоре, аржентински футболист\n 1969 г. – Макс Кавалера, бразилски музикант\n 1973 г. – Деян Статулов, български кинокритик и сценарист\n 1981 г. – Владимир Атъпов, български волейболист\n 1981 г. – Меган Съсекска, британска херцогиня и бивша актриса\n 1982 г. – Жечо Станков, български политик и икономист\n 1984 г. – Карлос Веласкес, пуерторикански боксьор\n 1977 г. – Луиш Боа Морте, португалски футболист\n 1988 г. – Том Паркър, британски певица (The Wanted)\n 1989 г. – Уан Хао, китайски шахматист\n 1992 г. – Кол и Дилан Спраус, американски актьори-близнаци\n 1998 – Киметриус Кристофър Фууз (Lil Skies), американски рапър\n\nПочинали \n\n 1060 г. – Анри I, крал на Франция (* 1008 г.)\n 1306 г. – Вацлав III, унгарски, чешки и полски крал (* 1289 г.)\n 1578 г. – Себастиан I, крал на Португалия (* 1554 г.)\n 1816 г. – Франсоа-Андре Венсан, френски художник (* 1746 г.)\n 1875 г. – Ханс Кристиян Андерсен, датски писател и поет (* 1805 г.)\n 1900 г. – Исак Левитан, руски художник (* 1860 г.)\n 1922 г. – Енвер паша, турски военачалник (* 1881 г.)\n 1924 г. – Иван Ангелов, български живописец (* 1864 г.)\n 1930 г. – Зигфрид Вагнер, германски композитор (* 1869 г.)\n 1948 г. – Милева Марич, сръбска математичка (* 1875 г.)\n 1977 г. – Сър Едгар Дъглас Ейдриън, британски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1932 г. (* 1889 г.)\n 1978 г. – Иван Леков, български езиковед и славист (* 1904 г.)\n 1985 г. – Иван Радоев, български футболист (* 1901 г.)\n 1989 г. – Люба Енчева, българска пианистка (* 1914 г.)\n 1991 г. – Емил Чакъров, български диригент (* 1948 г.)\n 1998 г. – Юрий Артюхин, съветски космонавт (* 1930 г.)\n 2003 г. – Фредерик Робинс, американски педиатър, Нобелов лауреат през 1954 г. (* 1916 г.)\n 2004 г. – Методи Димов, български писател и общественик (* 1938 г.)\n 2007 г. – Константин Коцев, български комедиен и драматичен актьор (* 1926 г.)\n 2011 г. – Наоки Мацуда, японски футболист (* 1977 г.)\n\nПразници \n Буркина Фасо – Годишнина от революцията (1984 г.)\n Острови Кук – Ден на конституцията (1981 г., национален празник)\n САЩ – Ден на бреговата охрана\n\n804"
    },
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        "text": "4 септември е 247-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (248-и през високосна година). Остават 118 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 476 г. – Одоакър детронира последния римски император Ромул Августул.\n 1207 г. – Българи убиват солунския крал Бонифаций Монфератски от засада и изпращат главата му на цар Калоян.\n 1260 г. – В битката при Монтаперто (Италия) войските на Свещената Римска империя разгромяват армията на римския папа.\n 1781 г. – Основан е Лос Анджелис, Калифорния, от 44 испански заселници.\n 1852 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта Ако бях цар на Адолф Адам.\n 1867 г. – Основан е ФК Шефилд Уензди.\n 1870 г. – Френският император Наполеон III е свален и е обявена Трета френска република.\n 1886 г. – Вождът на апачите Джеронимо се предава на армията на САЩ.\n 1888 г. – Джордж Ийстман регистрира търговската марка Кодак и получава патент за своя фотоапарат, който използва фотофилм.\n 1907 г. – Франция, Русия, Германия и Великобритания подписват в Осло съглашение, с което признават границите на Норвегия след излизането ѝ от федерацията с Швеция.\n 1911 г. – Провеждат се избори за XV обикновено народно събрание, спечелени от управляващите народняци и прогресивнолиберали.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Тутраканска битка: Трета българска армия, командвана от генерал Пантелей Киселов започва атака за овладяване на крепостта край град Тутракан.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Войскови части, командвани от генерал Тодор Катранджиев, освобождават Добрич.\n 1947 г. – В Авиньон (Франция) е открит първият театрален фестивал, организиран от Жан Вилар.\n 1954 г. – Произведен е първият български пеницилин.\n 1958 г. – Във Франция е приета нова конституция на страната, която поставя началото на Петата република.\n 1969 г. – Открит е ТЕЦ Марица Изток 2.\n 1972 г. – Марк Шпиц става първият състезател, който спечелва седем медала в едни олимпийски игри.\n 1973 г. – Салвадор Алиенде е избран за президент на Чили.\n 1974 г. – Пуснат е в действие първият реактор на АЕЦ Козлодуй.\n 1976 г. – Обявена е независимостта на Азорските острови.\n 1992 г. – Тодор Живков е осъден от Върховния касационен съд на България на 7 г. затвор и парична глоба за злоупотреба с държавни средства, но след смъртта му всички обвинения срещу него отпадат.\n 1997 г. – 8 души са убити и 150 ранени при три самоубийствени атаки на военната групировка Хамас в центъра на Йерусалим.\n 1999 г. – В дагестанския град Буйнакск при терористичен акт е взривен жилищен блок – загиват 62 души, а повече от 100 са ранени.\n 2006 г. – Завършва едноседмичният културен ежегоден фестивал Burning Man в САЩ.\n\nРодени \n\n 1241 г. – Александър III, шотландски крал († 1286 г.)\n 1729 г. – Луи, дофин на Франция († 1765 г.)\n 1768 г. – Франсоа Рене дьо Шатобриан, френски писател († 1848 г.)\n 1809 г. – Юлиуш Словацки, полски поет († 1849 г.)\n 1824 г. – Антон Брукнер, австрийски композитор, органист и педагог († 1896 г.)\n 1877 г. – Карлис Улманис, латвийски политик и диктатор († 1942 г.)\n 1882 г. – Леонхард Франк, немски писател († 1961 г.)\n 1892 г. – Дариус Мийо, френски композитор († 1974 г.)\n 1896 г. – Антонен Арто, френски драматург, актьор и режисьор († 1948 г.)\n 1906 г. – Макс Дебрюк, германски биолог, лауреат на Нобелова награда за физиология и медицина през 1969 г. († 1981 г.)\n 1910 г. – Ремо Джацото, италиански музиколог († 1998 г.)\n 1913 г. – Кензо Танге, японски архитект († 2005 г.)\n 1913 г. – Станфорд Мур, американски биохимик, лауреат на Нобелова награда за химия през 1972 г. († 1982 г.)\n 1927 г. – Джон Маккарти, американски информатик и когнитивен изследовател († 2011 г.)\n 1933 г. – Ричард Кастелано, американски актьор († 1988 г.)\n 1941 г. – Александър Шаламанов, български футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1942 г. – Бисер Киров, български поп певец, музикант, композитор, телевизионен водещ, режисьор, продуцент и дипломат († 2016 г.)\n 1943 г. – Боян Иванов, български поп певец († 2012 г.)\n 1955 г. – Наталия Андреева, българска писателка\n 1957 г. – Патриша Толман, американска актриса\n 1960 г. – Деймън Уейънс, американски актьор\n 1967 г. – Игор Корнеев, руски футболист\n 1969 г. – Николина Чакърдъкова, българска народна певица\n 1970 г. – Игор Кавалера, бразилски барабанист (Сепултура)\n 1971 г. – Милен Велев, български тенисист\n 1975 г. – Никос Либеропулос, гръцки футболист\n 1977 г. – Елена Атанасова, българска филмова и театрална актриса\n 1980 г. – Дейвид Гарет, немско-американски цигулар\n 1980 г. – Хитоми Шиматани, японска певица\n 1981 г. – Бийонсе, американска певица и актриса\n 1982 г. – Лу Доайон, френска актриса\n 1983 г. – Айдън Селчук, турски боксьор\n 1988 г. – Дорис Пинчич, хърватска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 422 г. – Бонифаций I, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1063 г. – Тогрул I, селджукски султан (* ок. 990 г.)\n 1207 г. – Бонифаций Монфератски, италиански благородник (* 1155 г.)\n 1588 г. – Робърт Дъдли, английски политик (* 1532 г.)\n 1839 г. – Хендрик Вогд, нидерландски художник (* 1768 г.)\n 1899 г. – Йован Ристич, сръбски политик (* 1831 г.)\n 1907 г. – Едвард Григ, норвежки композитор (* 1843 г.)\n 1912 г. – Уилям Джон Макгий, американски геолог (* 1853 г.)\n 1930 г. – Владимир Арсениев, руски изследовател (* 1872 г.)\n 1936 г. – Богомил Берон, български лекар (* 1866 г.)\n 1942 г. – Горазд II, чешки светец (* 1878 г.)\n 1960 г. – Алфред Едуард Грийн, американски филмов режисьор (* 1889 г.)\n 1963 г. – Робер Шуман, министър-председател на Франция (* 1886 г.)\n 1964 г. – Вернер Бергенгрюн, немско-балтийски писател (* 1892 г.)\n 1965 г. – Алберт Швайцер, германски общественик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1875 г.)\n 1984 г. – Панайот Пондалов, български волейболист (* 1926 г.)\n 1989 г. – Жорж Сименон, френски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1997 г. – Иван Ненов, български художник (* 1902 г.)\n 1997 г. – Ханс Айзенк, германски психолог (* 1916 г.)\n 2006 г. – Джачинто Факети, италиански футболист (* 1942 г.)\n 2006 г. – Стив Ъруин, австралийски телевизионен водещ и естествоизпитател (* 1962 г.)\n 2011 г. – Любен Йорданов, български цигулар (* 1926 г.)\n\nПразници \n Беларус – Ден на писмеността и печата\n\n904"
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        "text": "4 октомври е 277-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (278-и през високосна). Остават 88 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 771 г. – След смъртта на брат си Карломан, Карл Велики става единствен владетел на Франкската държава.\n 1366 г. – Започва антитурският (по-късно и антибългарски) кръстоносен морски поход на граф Амадей VI Савойски.\n 1537 г. – Излиза от печат първата пълна англоезична Библия с преводи на Уилям Тиндъл и Майлс Ковърдел.\n 1582 г. – Въведен е Григорианският календар от папа Григорий XIII; в Италия, Полша, Португалия и Испания 4 октомври е последван от 15 октомври.\n 1824 г. – Мексико е обявено за република.\n 1830 г. – Белгия е обявена за независима държава, след като 15 години е била част от Нидерландия\n 1853 г. – Кримска война: Османската империя обявява война на Русия, след като тя отказва да изтегли войските си от дунавските княжества.\n 1883 г. – Ориент Експрес започва първото си пътуване от Париж до Румъния, преминавайки през 6 държави.\n 1910 г. – След бягството на крал Мануел II във Великобритания Португалия става република.\n 1912 г. – Балканска война: Османската империя обявява война на Балканския съюз.\n 1930 г. – Основан е футболният клуб АЕЛ.\n 1957 г. – Космическа програма на СССР: Съветският съюз изстрелва от космодрума в Байконур първия в света орбитален изкуствен спътник Спутник-1.\n 1958 г. – Обявена е Петата френска република.\n 1974 г. – Започва строежът на автомагистрала Хемус, предвидена да свързва София и Варна.\n 1963 г. – Гамбия получава право на вътрешно самоуправление, а на следващата година става независима държава.\n 1974 г. – В Гърция е основана партията „Нова демокрация“.\n\n 1990 г. – Демонтирана е петолъчката от фасадата на вече бившия Партиен дом в София.\n 1993 г. – Руска конституционна криза (1992 – 1993): Борис Елцин потушава бунта на твърдолинейните комунисти, след 10-часов щурм с танкове срещу сградата на парламента в Москва.\n 2001 г. – Полет 1812 на авиокомпания „Сибир“: Самолет Ту-154 е свален над Черно море от заблудена украинска военна ракета С-200, загиват 78 души.\n 2004 г. – Американският частен ракетоплан SpaceShipOne извършва втория си пробен полет в космоса, за което получава наградата Ansari X Prize в размер на 10 млн. долара.\n\nРодени \n\n 1289 г. – Луи X, крал на Франция († 1316 г.)\n 1542 г. – Роберто Белармино, италиански кардинал († 1621 г.)\n 1729 г. – Джовани Пиранези, италиански художник († 1778 г.)\n 1787 г. – Франсоа Гизо, френски политик († 1874 г.)\n 1802 г. – Адолф Ниел, френски генерал († 1869 г.)\n 1814 г. – Жан-Франсоа Миле, френски живописец († 1875 г.)\n 1822 г. – Ръдърфорд Хейс, 19-и президент на САЩ († 1893 г.)\n 1853 г. – Стефан Панаретов, български учен († 1931 г.)\n 1874 г. – Гаврил Кацаров, български историк († 1958 г.)\n 1892 г. – Енгелберт Долфус, австрийски политик († 1934 г.)\n 1895 г. – Бъстър Кийтън, американски актьор († 1966 г.)\n 1895 г. – Рихард Зорге, журналист († 1944 г.)\n 1903 г. – Андрей Гречко, съветски маршал († 1976 г.)\n 1903 г. – Джон Атанасов, американски компютърен пионер († 1993 г.)\n 1903 г. – Ернст Калтенбрунер, нацистки офицер († 1946 г.)\n 1912 г. – Любомир Ангелов, български футболист († 1984 г.)\n 1916 г. – Виталий Гинзбург, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2009 г.)\n 1923 г. – Чарлтън Хестън, американски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1924 г. – Иван Митев, български лекар († 2006 г.)\n 1926 г. – Георги Георгиев – Гец, български актьор († 1996 г.)\n 1937 г. – Франц Враницки, австрийски политик\n 1938 г. – Иван Лалов, български физик\n 1939 г. – Ангел Михайлов, български композитор († 1998 г.)\n 1941 г. – Ан Райс, американска писателка († 2021 г.)\n 1945 г. – Димитър Кирков, български писател († 2017 г.)\n 1946 г. – Сюзън Сарандън, американска актриса\n 1949 г. – Луис Сепулведа, чилийски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1952 г. – Кърстен Кук, английска актриса\n 1955 г. – Хорхе Валдано, аржентински футболист\n 1967 г. – Лив Шрайбър, американски актьор\n 1976 г. – Алиша Силвърстоун, американска актриса\n 1980 г. – Томаш Росицки, чешки футболист\n 1982 г. – Кейти Макграт, ирландска актриса\n 1984 г. – Елена Катина, руска певица (Тату)\n 1984 г. – Ивайло Захариев, български актьор\n 1986 г. – Йоанна Темелкова, българска актриса\n 1989 г. – Кими Майснер, американска фигуристка\n 1990 г. – Михаела Маевска, българска спортистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 1305 г. – Камеяма, 90-и император на Япония (* 1249 г.)\n 1497 г. – Беноцо Гоцоли, италиански художник (* 1421 г.)\n 1660 г. – Франческо Албани, италиански художник (* 1578 г.)\n 1669 г. – Рембранд ван Рейн, холандски художник (* 1606 г.)\n 1747 г. – Амаро Парго, испански корсар (* ок. 1678 г.)\n 1800 г. – Йохан Херман, френски зоолог (* 1738 г.)\n 1872 г. – Владимир Дал, руски писател и лексикограф (* 1801 г.)\n 1879 г. – Сергей Соловьов, руски историк (* 1820 г.)\n 1903 г. – Ото Вайнингер, австрийски философ (* 1880 г.)\n 1936 г. – Георги Баласчев, български историк и археолог (* 1869 г.)\n 1944 г. – Стоян Филипов, български революционер и политик (* 1877 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Хаджийски, български философ, социолог, общественик и народопсихолог (* 1907 г.)\n 1947 г. – Макс Планк, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1919 (* 1858 г.)\n 1970 г. – Джанис Джоплин, американска певица (* 1943 г.)\n 1982 г. – Ахмед Хасан ал-Бакър, иракски политик (* 1914 г.)\n 1982 г. – Глен Гулд, канадски пианист и композитор (* 1932 г.)\n 1983 г. – Богдан Добранов, български духовник (* 1914 г.)\n 1985 г. – Евдокия, българска княгиня (* 1898)\n 1989 г. – Греъм Чапман, британски комедиант (* 1941 г.)\n 1992 г. – Денис Хълм, новозеландски автомобилен състезател (* 1936 г.)\n 1997 г. – Никола Николов, български писател и общественик (* 1920 г.)\n 2006 г. – Оскар Пастиор, немски поет (* 1927 г.)\n 2007 г. – Емил Камиларов, български цигулар и педагог (* 1928 г.)\n 2013 г. – Во Нгуен Зиап, виетнамски генерал (* 1911 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на свети Франциск от Асизи\n Световен ден за защита на животните (начало на световната десетдневка на животните) - Решение за отбелязването му е взето през 1931 г. на международния конгрес на Движението за защита на природата във Флоренция.\n Лесото – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1966 г., национален празник)\n Мозамбик – Ден на мира и разбирателството\n България – Ден на информационното общество – професионален празник на специалистите по компютърна техника, информационни технологии и автоматика – с Решение № 633 от 27 септември 2007 г. на Министерски съвет\n Празник на българския програмист\n\nИзточници \n\nA04"
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        "text": "Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele]\nAlpha Teren\nSubject: Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele] May 21st 2014, 10:21\nHatred flooded the male's mind. He was abandoned, for the most part. It could partially be for the fact that he killed his members for their acts of conspiracy and ignorance to the matter at hand. His only truly trusted member had left him, his son. Of all the wolves he had lent a paw in raising, shaping to be a carbon copy of himself, none had surpassed his tests like the young Azrael. Teren walked through the river, cleaning his pelt of the last remaining ties to his pack. The waters were cold, almost close to freezing. His old coat fought against the dropping temperatures, but alas, he had to get out unless he wished to catch a sickness. When he was completely out, he shook his body from head to foot, shaking the excess water from his hide. Hazel hues of green and brown mixed together, staring off into the distance. Where would he go? There was nothing holding him back now. He could go where he pleased, when he pleased to do so. He was a lone wolf. Never in his life had he been a loner. Large paws moved about the forest floor, he watched as they sank into the ground ever so slightly. Dead leaves covered the area, lying there all cold and crunchy like. The male despised the cold. It was a cold killer, even more than Teren himself. How would this even be? The midnight brute decided it was high time to move from this particular spot, faster than before. It had been months since he gave his old bones a good run for freedom. Picking up his pace again, he charged ahead. His tail high over his spine, just as he did in the pack.\nHis pink tongue hung from his ajar jaws. He could feel the wind breezing through his fur, shifting and distorting it. He was free at last. A small scent trickled over his nose, toying with him. Teren came to a halt, sniffing out the creature. It was rather small in form and had very large feet. He could see the prints left behind in the moist dirt. Like a deranged hunter, the wolf slunk close to the ground, following the prey as it moved about the ground, unaware of the danger following closely behind. Saliva began to build within his maw, dripping from the sides. He hadn't had a nice meal in a very long time, too worried about fighting for his life and killing those who denied his way. As he approached the rabbit, he held his breath and walked ever so softly in the snow. He was careful not to scare the little bugger. When he was in close reach, he lunged his old bones and muscles forward, closing his massive jaws on the small creature, and shaking the life from its poor little body. When he heard the snap of the neck, the male dropped the kill to the floor. He tore into the flesh and ripped at the fresh meat before him.\nBlood gushed into his mouth with each bite, reminding him of the murder of his old pack. He enjoyed every minute of those kills, even to the very end when he could barely fight any longer. Snapping back to reality, he ate until he was mostly full. The hare was not large enough to fill the large brute, but it was enough. Finally when he had finished, he started to clean his pelt. His fur looked darker than night in comparison to the snow around him. Finishing up his cleansing, he looked around the area. There was nothing special to this place, a lot of large trees he knew nothing of. But when he sniffed the area for any hint of where he was, he found himself in shock. The stench of a pack was deep and bright in this place. But it was not that which shocked him. As he sniffed more, containing more information from the woods themselves, this pack was small and the leader, weak more than likely. Containing a snarl, he closed his mouth. As he looked for more information, his nose informed him there were males within these boundaries, but they were not of high ranking. Only the Alpha male. Teren turned his back, thinking of looking for another pack instead. But as he looked to the open terrain, he decided he could be looking for miles and miles before he found an opportunity as such.\nSettling for this pack, he placed his rump on the ground. He dipped back his head and let out an old and crackly howl. It rattled within his throat, fighting to expose itself for all its luster. Then as if a blockage was removed the old Alpha released a blood-curdling howl which could be heard for miles around. Birds flew from their trees, scared for their lives. Other forest creatures dashed off, deeper into the thicket. When he finished, he lowered his large head and stared into the direction the pack lived. With a sigh, he dropped his large body to the floor, resting his head on crossed front paws. Here he would wait for the... Alpha.\nSteele of Erenyx\nSubject: Re: Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele] May 24th 2014, 11:50\nThe autumn had come and presented itself with full force, showing the colors of the season. Orange, yellow, and red blanketed the floor, covering the dying grass and dried out bushes. The black male laid in the mouth of his den, staring to the outside world. He took a deep sigh and looked to the dens around him. Everything was silent and peaceful. Everything was perfect. He was content in the ways he had forced his life to be. He once fell in love with a wolf and paid for it dearly. He allowed his lineage to be continued, to spread the pack to grow and flourish, but even they were gone. All but one, Samael. He was the only one the male could really trust, of the males in his pack anyway. There were a few he could console his darkest things with, but they were of the female type. Could he truly trust a female? Perhaps all females were that way? He would never really know the truth, nor would any male for that matter. Females were always going to be untrustworthy. As he laid there, he stared to the dens, analyzing the work of their creators, wondering how things would be different had he never chosen to take a mate in the first place. He was curious to see how Erenyx would have been in that situation. His silver orbs looked and looked, but nothing changed inside the pack clearing. Perhaps the day was too early or the pack had been doing their own things. He did not care what the answer was, he was only concerned for one thing, but then, he didn't even know what he cared about. He had lost many things in life, and it appeared he would continue to do so. What would be the next thing for him to lose? While he was deep in thought, a loud and rusty sounding howl escaped from some wolf's lips. Startled by the action, the sound in itself, Steele stood to his four paws and stretched out his body.\nPushing off with his hind legs, the Alpha male made his way to the border where the other male was waiting. Steele moved through the brush and the leaves with speed, much faster than he had in a long time. The other wolf sounded to have a history, a powerful one from his sound alone. It was the call of an \"alpha\". When he approached the area of the guest, his nose flared, collecting the scents which thrived from the soul past his boundary. When he approached within inches from the other, he slowed to a walk. His ears were pinned forward, while his tail curled over his spine. His eyes stared at the figure before him, large and muscular. This creature, this monster, was larger than Steele himself. The male practically towered over him, more so than his previous Guardian, Nicolaus. Steele felt no fear when he stared into the soul-less eyes of emerald before him. He took a few moments to size up the wolf before him, judging him and plotting any ideas he would have to have in order to keep himself safe from this monster before him. The green eyes glared to him, right back from his silver stare. \"So, elder wolf, what brings you to these borders? Shouldn't an elder wolf like you be looking for a place to curl up and die?\"\nThe Original Alpha/Creator Of Erenyx\nOther Characters: Warrior Odin, Apprentice Samael\nJade hues stared to the border, waiting and hoping a fae would not be the initial wolf to greet him. Faes did hold rank in his old pack, however, the thought of it made him sick to his stomach. He was patient, and would wait as long as it took. It did take quite a while. The old brute sighed as he thought about rolling onto his side. Before he could decide amongst himself, he saw a wolf enter his sight. He watched closely how the other approached him. The male which approached him, came off as the Alpha male of these lands. The world smelled like his putrid scent and forced the beast to snicker within his own being. Looking to the other, his eyes trained over the body of the 'Alpha male'. when the black wolf spoke, he gave him quite a laugh. But Teren did not laugh out loud, nor did he show his contempt for the other's position. Instead he kept his cool, and watched as the male patronized him for his age and appearance. Oh how this wolf would pay for the words of disrespect he spoke to Teren, the monster. But if Teren were to actually stand, he would tower over the male before him. He thought to himself for a moment, deciding what he would tell the questioning wolf. \"I... The name is Teren. I am a monster and a form of which in the future, you might wish to respect instead of trying to downgrade the power that I have beneath my paws. I have done more in my years of life while you were suckling on the teets of your whore mother.\" Teren was not one to have a casual conversation with another, and if they wished to treat him as if he were nothing, then in return they would be nothing to him. As the brute moved his paws, he could feel the rush of anger surging through his form. His green orbs glared to the wolf before him. What would this 'Alpha' say to him? Before he would allow the other to speak, he stood tall and proud, holding his place and his head mighty over the other. \"I have been an Alpha for many years, and after that, I served as an Elite. I may be old, but in my old age, as you call it, I am a beast, and I can kill you with a simple act of violence from my powerful jaws. Stand down Alpha and allow your new ruler to take this pack from nothing and make it great. If you stand down now, I will show you mercy and perhaps allow you to live.\"\nRage. Anger. Hatred. These feelings coursed through his body. His silver hues stared to the other wolf with disbelief. Was this truly happening in this moment? Was the old wolf coming for his position? Did he simply think that Steele would stand down and allow a useless old bag of bones to control the way things were? No. Steele would never just step aside and allow another to have what he worked so hard for. His eyes stared down the brute, even when he stood completely up on all fours. His tail hung high over his spine and the hairs along it started to rise and show their position. Steele meant business, the Alpha meant everything he spoke. \"Stand down whelp. I do not care for your past, your present, or your future. I will not be backing down from what is mine. I will not move aside and let some scoundrel come to my lands and tell me how he plans to change my home. If there is something you truly want, then you will have to fight for it. If you do not wish to fight a wolf half your age, then I suggest you shut your mouth, turn around and go back to the hell you came from. You refer to yourself as a monster, but all I see is a trashed coat holding together a bunch of bones. You are nothing to the greatness of this pack. You are nothing compared to my achievements. You can consider yourself nothing at all. I am the ruler of these lands. I have slaved over my cause and forced myself to the most extensive work I have ever accomplished. I would rather be killed then just step aside and let a worm like you come and take what is mine.\" Steele breathed hard as he stared at the other wolf. His eyes flared with anger and hatred for the one called \"Teren\". If this old wolf wanted a fight, then he was going to pay for it.\nSubject: Re: Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele] June 3rd 2014, 09:52\nCackling, evil cackling, escaped from the larger males lips. His malevolent green hues stared to the brute before him, astounded by the words he spoke to him. \"Pup, I am surprised by the words you choose to speak to me. It is your lack of experience which rears its ugly head in your place. You are not wise, you are not intelligent. for if you were of these things, then you would know better than to even think of challenging a seasoned veteran like myself. I have killed wolves for less than you are doing right now. I have been the Alpha to a powerful pack for too long to allow some worthless mutt think he can push me around because he pissed on some rocks or whatever. I will not allow a whelp like you to speak to me in such a manner, and if it's a fight you are wanting, then I shall be sure to make it your last. When I am done with you, you will be begging for your life, muttering crazy words the rest of your pack will be confused over. Your innards will be spread around the camp as a sign for any all not to mess with Teren. Your pack will be more accepting of one who will actually lead them, than one who just speaks empty threats in doing so. No more talking, now we fight!\" He snarled as he sprung into an offensive stance. He allowed his full height to be seen and curled his tail in a dominant stance over his spine.\nMoving closer to the male, he charged into him. It was an attempt to shake the other, to frazzle his brain and force him to act without thinking. Teren had done this trick many times. He returned to his previous position, a small distance between the two males as they began to circle slowly. Each one trying to keep their back from the other. Teren made small steps, careful not to trip among his own paws or any stubble that might be along the forest floor. The monster wished to get inside his head, \"they call me a monster for the fact that I am one. Have you ever forced your own pups to kill one another not less than a year after they witnessed the murder of their own mother by your own word? No? Didn't think so. You look like the type to allow your emotions to strangle you and actually love a bitch.\" He chuckled as they snarled to one another, his green eyes watched the other carefully. Finally, Teren had enough of the toying, the games.. He pressed his weight on his hind legs and bounded towards the other male. His jaws had been set for the neck of the other, but if Steele was cunning and clever enough, he might only braise the shoulder.\nAttack: First he charged into Steele, and then he lunged, trying to strike his neck\nDefense: Keeping his body from the other, after his other attack, he has no defenses up\nInjuries: None yet\nSubject: Re: Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele] June 29th 2014, 18:22\nThe first attack, Steele was not expecting. He had listened to the old wolf speak, his words fueling his anger in ways he did not even know he felt. His muscles clenched as he was shoved. He snarled and bared his teeth. \"You bastard! How dare you say such things to me!\" But before Steele could react to his words, or even attack for himself, he was attacked once more. Teren came for his throat, trying to catch his body, Steele moved out of the way. He took a deep breath as he felt teeth sliding in his shoulder. It scraped over his coat, forcing the flesh beneath to split and blood to leak out. Steele moved far from the other, separating them with a large amount of distance. His silver hues locked on to the green orbs across from him, waiting and prepared for anything. \"You will not be getting what you came here for.\" Steele used this time to prepare himself, he rushed forward, charging for the male and hoping to grab hold of his flesh, to be able to rip it from his body. Steele was not a cannibal, but he would consume the flesh of this beast before him, just to prove that he is ready to keep his pack. He would lead Erenyx until his coat had flakes of grey and his body was breaking down into nothing. Now he was young and strong, passionate and determined. Nothing would stop him. He flexed his body, waiting for the recoil from the other.\nAttack: Lunged for the throat\nDefense: Separated them, then taking a defensive stance after his possible attack\nInjuries: He has a wound in his left shoulder\n[For the purpose of speeding this along, Teren and Steele get into a rigorous battle where it seems as though neither will win. In an attempt to finish the fight, Teren takes control over Steele. He pins him to the ground. Both are bleeding, though Steele is bleeding more than Teren. The two are soaked in each other's blood, but Teren has the upper paw. Grabbing Steele by the neck, Teren drags him into the pack lands. Both wolves are tired from their brawl, but Teren proves his abilities in the end.]\nSubject: Re: Harboring The Hatred To Start Fresh [Steele]"
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        "text": "4 ноември е 308-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (309-и през високосна година). Остават 57 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1429 г. – Арманяк-бургундска гражданска война: Жана д'Арк освобождава Сен Пиер льо Мутие.\n\n 1501 г. – Катерина Арагонска (по-късно първа съпруга на Хенри VIII) среща Артър, принц на Уелс, по-възрастния брат на Хенри VIII, за когото по-късно същата година се омъжва.\n 1576 г. – Осемдесетгодишната война: Във Фландрия, Испания превзема Антверпен (и след три дни градът е почти разрушен).\n\n 1783 г. – Симфония № 36 на Волфганг Амадеус Моцарт и изпълнена за пръв път в Линц, Австрия.\n 1798 г. – Започва руско-османската обсада на остров Корфу срещу французите.\n 1842 г. – Ейбрахам Линкълн се жени за Мари Тод.\n 1848 г. – Във Франция е приета конституцията на Втората френска република.\n 1856 г. – В Галац се провежда първата конференция на държавите, извършващи корабоплаване по Дунав.\n 1906 г. – Съставено е двадесет и седмото правителство на Княжество България, начело с Димитър Петков.\n 1912 г. – Балканската война: Започва Битката при Чаталджа – първият опит на българите да преодолеят защитната линия на османската Чаталджанска армия на подстъпите към столицата Константинопол.\n 1913 г. – В България е учреден Върховен административен съд.\n 1918 г. – Първата световна война: Австро-Унгария подписва акт за капитулация.\n 1922 г. – В Египет, британският археолог Хауърд Картър открива гробницата на фараона Тутанкамон в Долината на царете.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Втората битка при Ел Аламейн (Северна Африка) завършва с победа на британската армия над войските на хитлеристка Германия.\n 1945 г. – Ръководителят на българските комунисти Георги Димитров се завръща от Москва в България след 22-годишна емиграция.\n 1946 г. – Влиза в сила уставът на ЮНЕСКО, ратифициран от двадесет държави.\n 1950 г. – В Рим започва подписването на Европейската конвенция за защита правата на човека и основните свободи.\n 1952 г. – Създадена е Българската търговско-промишлена палата.\n 1952 г. – Дуайт Айзенхауър е избран за 34-ти президент на САЩ.\n\n 1956 г. – Съветски военни сили нахлуват в Унгария, за да потушат избухналото на 23 октомври въстание срещу комунистическия режим; хиляди са убити и ранени, а почти четвърт милион напускат страната.\n 1962 г. – На пленум на ЦК на БКП Антон Югов е освободен от поста министър-председател на България, а Вълко Червенков е изключен от БКП.\n 1979 г. – Ирански гвардейци превземат посолството на САЩ в Техеран и държат повече от 440 дни 90 заложници, 63 от които са американци.\n 1980 г. – Роналд Рейгън е избран за 40-и президент на САЩ.\n 1981 г. – СССР е изстрелва автоматичния космически апарат Венера 14.\n 1995 г. – Министър-председателят на Израел Ицхак Рабин е смъртоносно прострелян на площад в Тел Авив от израелски студент.\n 2004 г. – САЩ признава Република Македония под конституционното ѝ име.\n 2008 г. – Барак Обама става първият афроамериканец, който печели изборите за президент на САЩ.\n 2015 г. – Министър-председателят на Румъния Виктор Понта подава оставка след 20-хиляден протест, във връзка с трагедията в дискотека „Колектив“, при която загиват над 30 души, а 140 са тежко ранени.\n\nРодени \n\n 1407 г. – Едуард V, крал на Англия († 1483 г.)\n 1575 г. – Гуидо Рени, италиански художник († 1642 г.)\n 1618 г. – Аурангзеб, император на Индия († 1707 г.)\n 1731 г. – Мария Жозефа Саксонска, дофина на Франция († 1767 г.)\n 1744 г. – Йохан III Бернули, швейцарски математик († 1807 г.)\n 1765 г. – Пиер-Симон Жирар, френски инженер († 1836 г.)\n 1770 г. – Франсоа Пуквил, френски дипломат и учен († 1838 г.)\n 1864 г. – Георги Колушки, български химик († 1944 г.)\n 1873 г. – Джордж Едуард Мур, британски философ († 1958 г.)\n 1883 г. – Владимир Василев, български критик († 1963 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иван Наков, български политик († 1977 г.)\n 1908 г. – Джоузеф Макарти, американски политик († 1957 г.)\n 1908 г. – Юзеф Ротблат, британски физик, Нобелова награда за мир през 1995 г. († 2005 г.)\n 1918 г. – Арт Карни, американски актьор († 2003 г.)\n 1932 г. – Томас Клестил, президент на Австрия († 2004 г.)\n 1933 г. – Чарлз Као, китайски инженер, Нобелова награда за физика през 2009 г. († 2018 г.)\n 1940 г. – Марлен Жобер, френска актриса\n 1946 г. – Лора Буш, първа дама на САЩ\n 1950 г. – Чарлз Фрейзър, американски писател\n 1951 г. – Траян Басеску, президент на Румъния\n 1953 г. – Карлос Гутиерес, американски политик\n 1957 г. – Диляна Грозданова, български журналист\n 1957 г. – Хансйорг Шертенлайб, швейцарски писател\n 1965 г. – Джеф Скот Сото, американски музикант\n 1965 г. – Уейн Статик, американски музикант († 2014 г.)\n 1969 г. – Матю Макконъхи, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Шон Комбс, американски музикант\n 1972 г. – Луиш Фиго, португалски футболист\n 1977 г. – Евгения Раданова, българска състезателка по шорттрек\n 1977 г. – Христо Йовов, български футболист\n 1979 г. – Одри Холандър, американска порноактриса\n 1982 г. – Нийл Мелър, английски футболист\n 1983 г. – Иржи Билек, чешки футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1584 г. – Карло Боромео, италиански духовник (* 1538 г.)\n 1847 г. – Феликс Менделсон Бартолди, германски композитор (* 1809 г.)\n 1918 г. – Уилфред Оуен, английски поет (* 1893)\n 1929 г. – Карл фон ден Щайнен, германски етнолог (* 1855 г.)\n 1952 г. – Иван Лазаров, български скулптор (* 1889 г.)\n 1966 г. – Веселин Ханчев, български поет (* 1919 г.)\n 1981 г. – Петър Димков, народен лечител (* 1886 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ицхак Рабин, министър-председател на Израел, Нобелова награда за мир през 1994 г. (* 1922 г.)\n 1995 г. – Жил Дельоз, френски философ (* 1925 г.)\n 2001 г. – Никола Ганчев, български кавалджия и педагог (* 1919)\n 2008 г. – Майкъл Крайтън, американски писател (* 1942 г.)\n 2011 г. – Норман Рамзи, американски физик, Нобелова награда за физика през 1989 г. (* 1915 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на Европейската конвенция за правата на човека\n Професионален празник на русенските корабостроители – През 1881 г. в Русе е построен първият български кораб „Бот-1“ с дължина 16 м, широчина 3 м и водоизместимост 60 тона, с което се поставя началото на българското корабостроене. Чества се от 1993 г.\n Русия – Ден на народното единство\n Доминика – Ден на Общността\n Тонга – Празник на конституцията\n Северни Мариански острови – Ден на гражданството\n\nB04"
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        "text": "4 декември е 338-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (339-и през високосна). Остават 27 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1533 г. – Иван Грозни става велик княз на Московското княжество.\n 1639 г. – Йеремия Хорокс и Уилям Крабтрий за първи път наблюдават пасаж на Венера.\n 1808 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт забранява папската институция Светата инквизиция на територията на Испания.\n 1864 г. – В Румъния е забранено на евреите да изучават и практикуват юридидически науки.\n 1887 г. – Основан е шведският футболен отбор Йоргрюте ИС.\n 1904 г. – В София, с подкрепата на Иван Шишманов (тогава министър) е открито първото музикално училище в България, което през 1913 г. става държавно, а през 1921 г. е преобразувано на музикална академия.\n 1908 г. – В София е открит първият киносалон в България, втори в Европа.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Във Великобритания е направена гражданска мобилизация на неомъжените жени от 20 до 30-годишна възраст за служба в полицията и пожарната охрана.\n\n 1947 г. – VI велико народно събрание приема Конституция на Народна република България, известна като Димитровска конституция.\n 1948 г. – Китайският пътнически кораб Киянг попада на мина от Втората световна война и потъва – загиват 2750 пътници и членове на екипажа.\n 1949 г. – Територията на континентален Китай е поставена окончателно под комунистически контрол от верните на Мао Дзедун войски.\n 1958 г. – Република Дахомей и Бряг на слоновата кост стават автономни държави в рамките на Френската общност.\n 1963 г. – Пленумът на ЦК на БКП изпраща писмо до Хрушчов, в което НРБ обещава сближаване със СССР.\n 1971 г. – Индийската армия навлиза в Източен Бенгал, което по-късно довежда до откъсването му от Пакистан и създаването на държавата Бангладеш.\n 1976 г. – Жан-Бедел Бокаса обявява републиканско управление в Централната африканска империя (сега ЦАР), година по-късно възстановява монархията и се обявява за император Бокаса I.\n 1980 г. – Обявен е разпадът на британската рок-група Led Zeppelin\n 1991 г. – Египетският политик Бутрос Бутрос-Гали е избран за генерален секретар на ООН.\n 2002 г. – Състои се първият полет на самолет от новата държавна авиокомпания България Ер, създадена след фалита на националния превозвач БГА Балкан.\n\nРодени \n\n 1735 г. – Йозеф Николай Лауренти, австрийски зоолог († 1805 г.)\n 1795 г. – Томас Карлайл, британски философ и историк († 1881 г.)\n 1801 г. – Карл Лудвиг Мишле, немски философ († 1893 г.)\n 1835 г. – Самюъл Бътлър, британски писател († 1902 г.)\n 1852 г. – Сава Муткуров, първият български генерал († 1891 г.)\n 1854 г. – Василий Абашидзе, грузински актьор († 1926 г.)\n 1866 г. – Василий Кандински, художник от руски произход († 1944 г.)\n 1875 г. – Райнер Мария Рилке, австрийски поет († 1926 г.)\n 1878 г. – Никола Данчов, български лексикограф († 1956 г.)\n 1881 г. – Елисавета Консулова-Вазова, българска художничка († 1965 г.)\n 1882 г. – Стефан Гевгалов, български просветен деец († 1956 г.)\n 1889 г. – Николай Петрини, деец на БЗНС († 1925 г.)\n 1892 г. – Франсиско Франко, испански диктатор, генералисимус († 1975 г.)\n 1908 г. – Алфред Хърши, британски биохимик и микробиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 († 1997 г.)\n 1914 г. – Георги Чилингиров, български народен певец († 2000 г.)\n 1920 г. – Надир Афонсо, португалски архитект и художник († 2013 г.)\n 1922 г. – Жерар Филип, френски актьор († 1959 г.)\n 1924 г. – Любен Станев, български писател, белетрист, кинодраматург († 2009 г.)\n 1925 г. – Алберт Бандура, американски психолог († 2021 г.)\n 1940 г. – Георги Костов, български писател († 1995 г.)\n 1949 г. – Джеф Бриджис, американски актьор\n 1952 г. – Роналд Сега, американски астронавт\n 1962 г. – Александър Литвиненко, руски офицер и писател († 2006 г.)\n 1963 г. – Сергей Бубка, украински лекоатлет\n 1964 г. – Сертаб Еренер, турска поп изпълнителка\n 1964 г. – Феридун Заимоглу, немски писател\n 1964 г. – Мариса Томей, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Владимир Алекно, руски волейболист\n 1969 г. – Джей Зи, американски рапър\n 1971 г. – Адам Хороуиц, американски телевизионен сценарист\n 1973 г. – Тайра Банкс, американски супермодел\n 1975 г. – Васил Камбуров, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Десислава Бакърджиева, българска актриса\n 1979 г. – Любомир Виденов, български футболист\n 1992 г. – Ким Сок Джин, южнокорейски певец и автор на песни.\n\nПочинали \n\n 1122 г. – Омар Хаям, ирански учен и поет (* 1048 г.)\n 1334 г. – Йоан XXII, римски папа (* 1249 г.)\n 1371 г. – Стефан Урош V, сръбски крал и цар (* 1336 г.)\n 1642 г. – Арман Жан дю Плеси дьо Ришельо, френски политик (* 1585 г.)\n 1679 г. – Томас Хобс, английски философ (* 1588 г.)\n 1680 г. – Томас Бартолин, датски лекар (* 1616 г.)\n 1798 г. – Луиджи Галвани, италиански лекар и физик (* 1737 г.)\n 1850 г. – Уилям Стърджън, английски физик и изобретател (* 1783 г.)\n 1881 г. – Димитър Горов, български революционер (* 1840 г.)\n 1893 г. – Хайнрих Гьобел, изобретател (* 1818 г.)\n 1898 г. – Павел Третяков, руски предприемач и колекционер (* 1832 г.)\n 1904 г. – Костандо Живков, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1912 г. – Атанас Лютвиев, български революционер (* 1885 г.)\n 1922 г. – Димитър Вачов, български политик (* 1855 г.)\n 1933 г. – Стефан Георге, германски писател (* 1868 г.)\n 1934 г. – Адриан Жерлаш дьо Гомери, белгийски изследовател (* 1866 г.)\n 1942 г. – Адалберт Антонов, български комунистически деец и партизанин (* 1909 г.)\n 1945 г. – Димитър Бабев, български поет и литературен критик (* 1880 г.)\n 1945 г. – Томас Морган, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1933 г. (* 1866 г.)\n 1952 г. – Карен Хорни, германска психоложка (* 1885 г.)\n 1975 г. – Хана Аренд, германски философ (* 1906 г.)\n 1976 г. – Бенджамин Бритън, британски композитор (* 1913 г.)\n 1976 г. – Томи Боулин, американски рок музикант (Deep Purple) (* 1951 г.)\n 1979 г. – Петя Дубарова, българска поетеса (* 1962 г.)\n 1988 г. – Владимир Полянов, български писател драматург (* 1899 г.)\n 1993 г. – Франк Запа, американски музикант и композитор (* 1940 г.)\n 2005 г. – Грег Хофман, американски филмов продуцент (* 1963 г.)\n 2009 г. – Вячеслав Тихонов, руски артист (* 1928 г.)\n 2010 г. – Атанас Славов, български писател, изкуствовед, семиотик, поет и сценарист (* 1930 г.)\n 2010 г. – Дафо Трендафилов, български майстор гайдар и преподавател (* 1919 г.)\n 2011 г. – Сократес, бразилски футболист (* 1954 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна и католическа църква – Ден на Света Варвара\n България – Храмов празник на село Варвара\n Индия – Ден на военноморския флот\n Полша – Ден на миньорите\n Тайланд – Ден на околната среда (от 1991 г.)\n Тонга – Ден на краля\n\nC04"
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        "text": "5 януари е 5-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 360 дни до края на годината (361 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1444 г. – Варненски кръстоносен поход: В Битката при Куновица турците са победени от кръстоносците на крал Владислав III Варненчик и Янош Хуняди и много турски командири, включително Махмуд бей, зет на султан Мурад II, са пленени.\n 1762 г. – Петър III става император на Русия, след смъртта на царица Елисавета.\n 1775 г. – Екзекутиран е Емилян Пугачов, водач на селско въстание в Русия.\n\n 1919 г. – В Мюнхен, Германия е основана Националсоциалистическата партия. В Берлин е основана Германска работническа партия. По-късно двете се обединяват под името Националсоциалистическа германска работническа партия.\n 1933 г. – Започва строителството на Моста Голдън Гейт в Санфранциския залив.\n 1937 г. – В СССР е проведено преброяване на населението.\n 1968 г. – Александър Дубчек идва на власт; започва „Пражката пролет“ в Чехословакия.\n 1969 г. – От СССР е изстрелян автоматичния космически апарат Венера 5.\n 1971 г. – Израел, Египет и Йордания започват непреки преговори с посредничеството на ООН.\n 1972 г. – По нареждане на президента на САЩ Ричард Никсън НАСА започва да разработва проект по създаване на космическа совалка.\n 1976 г. – Режимът на Пол Пот преименува държавата Камбоджа на Кампучия.\n 1990 г. – Процеси на демократизиране на управлението на България след падането на Желязната завеса: с решение на Министерския съвет се закрива Шесто управление на Държавна сигурност.\n 2005 г. – Ерида, втората най-голяма планета джудже в Слънчевата система, е открита от научния екип на Майкъл Браун при изучаване на снимки, направени в обсерватория Паломар на 21 октомври 2003.\n 2007 г. – В Тайван е пуснат в движение високоскоростен влак (300 км/ч).\n\nРодени \n\n 1548 г. – Франсиско Суарес, испански философ и теолог († 1617 г.)\n 1592 г. – Шах Джахан, император на Великите Моголи († 1666 г.)\n 1767 г. – Жан-Батист Сей, френски икономист († 1832 г.)\n 1846 г. – Рудолф Ойкен, германски философ, Нобелов лауреат († 1926 г.)\n 1849 г. – Василий Немирович-Данченко, руски писател († 1936 г.)\n 1874 г. – Джоузеф Ърленгър, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1944 г. († 1965 г.)\n 1876 г. – Конрад Аденауер, германски канцлер († 1967 г.)\n 1893 г. – Парамаханса Йогананда, индийски гуру († 1952 г.)\n 1909 г. – Андон Митов, български лекар († 1975 г.)\n 1913 г. – Джак Хейг, британски актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1914 г. – Джордж Рийвс, американски актьор († 1959 г.)\n 1916 г. – Добри Джуров, български офицер и политик († 2002 г.)\n 1916 г. – Иван Тодоров-Горуня, български генерал и политик († 1965 г.)\n 1917 г. – Джейн Уаймън, американска актриса († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Фридрих Дюренмат, швейцарски писател († 1990 г.)\n 1928 г. – Зулфикар Али Бхуто, президент на Пакистан († 1979 г.)\n 1931 г. – Робърт Дювал, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1932 г. – Раиса Горбачова, съветска общественичка († 1999 г.)\n 1932 г. – Умберто Еко, италиански писател и философ († 2016 г.)\n 1935 г. – Васил Методиев, български футболист и треньор († 2019 г.)\n 1936 г. – Жулиета Шишманова, българска треньорка († 1978 г.)\n 1938 г. – Хуан Карлос I, крал на Испания\n 1946 г. – Даян Кийтън, американска актриса\n 1951 г. – Николай Пекарев, български художник\n 1952 г. – Ули Хьонес, германски футболист\n 1953 г. – Василий Соломин, съветски боксьор († 1997 г.)\n 1953 г. – Джордж Тенет, бивш директор на ЦРУ\n 1959 г. – Кланси Браун, американски актьор\n 1960 г. – Ваня Кастрева, български учител и заместник-министър на образованието и науката в две правителства\n 1965 г. – Вини Джоунс, уелски футболист и актьор\n 1967 г. – Джо Фланиган, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – DJ BoBo, швейцарски певец, композитор и продуцент\n 1969 г. – Мерилин Менсън, американски певец\n 1972 г. – Сакис Рувас, гръцки поп певец\n 1982 г. – Яница Костелич, хърватска скиорка\n 1982 г. – Ярослав Плашил, чешки футболист\n 1986 г. – Дипика Падуконе, индийска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1589 г. – Катерина Медичи, кралица на Франция (* 1519 г.)\n 1762 г. – Елисавета (Русия), руска императрица (* 1709 г.)\n 1858 г. – Йозеф Радецки, австрийски офицер (* 1766 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ърнест Шекълтън, ирландски изследовател на Антарктида (* 1874 г.)\n 1933 г. – Калвин Кулидж, 30-и президент на САЩ (* 1872 г.)\n 1944 г. – Паисий Каравелов, български духовник и общественик (* 1891 г.)\n 1952 г. – Христо Татарчев, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1969 г. – Франц Теодор Чокор, австрийски писател (* 1885 г.)\n 1970 г. – Макс Борн, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1954 г. (* 1882 г.)\n 1973 г. – Христо Миндов, български поет и есеист (* 1888 г.)\n 1981 г. – Харолд Юри, американски физик и физикохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1934 г. (* 1893 г.)\n 1989 г. – Янко Янков, български актьор (* 1924 г.)\n 1995 г. – Георги Стоянов, български актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 1996 г. – Александър Петков, български политик (* 1942 г.)\n 1996 г. – Яхия Аяш, палестински терорист (* 1966 г.)\n 1998 г. – Сони Боно, американски музикант и политик (* 1935 г.)\n 2014 г. – Еузебио, португалски футболист (* 1942 г.)\n\nПразници \n Беларус – Ден на служителите в социалната защита\n Сърбия и Черна гора – Tutsindan (Ден на облаците) – Национален религиозен християнски празник\n\n105"
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        "text": "\n\npackage com.liferay.tasks.service.impl;\n\nimport java.util.Date;\nimport java.util.HashSet;\nimport java.util.List;\n\nimport com.liferay.asset.kernel.service.AssetEntryLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.counter.kernel.service.CounterLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.message.boards.kernel.service.MBMessageLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.PortalException;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.json.JSONFactoryUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.json.JSONObject;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.User;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.UserNotificationDeliveryConstants;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.notifications.NotificationEvent;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.notifications.NotificationEventFactoryUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.notifications.UserNotificationManagerUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.ServiceContext;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.UserLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.UserNotificationEventLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.PortalUtil;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.StringPool;\nimport com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.Validator;\nimport com.liferay.social.kernel.service.SocialActivityLocalServiceUtil;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.exception.TasksEntryDueDateException;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.exception.TasksEntryTitleException;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.model.TasksEntry;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.model.TasksEntryConstants;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.service.base.TasksEntryLocalServiceBaseImpl;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.social.TasksActivityKeys;\nimport com.liferay.tasks.util.TasksPortletKeys;\n\n/**\n * @author Ryan Park\n * @author Jonathan Lee\n */\npublic class TasksEntryLocalServiceImpl extends TasksEntryLocalServiceBaseImpl {\n\n\tpublic TasksEntry addTasksEntry(\n\t\t\tlong userId, String title, int priority, long assigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tint dueDateMonth, int dueDateDay, int dueDateYear, int dueDateHour,\n\t\t\tint dueDateMinute, boolean addDueDate,\n\t\t\tServiceContext serviceContext)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\t// Tasks entry\n\n\t\tUser user = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUserById(userId);\n\t\tlong groupId = serviceContext.getScopeGroupId();\n\t\tDate now = new Date();\n\n\t\tvalidate(title);\n\n\t\tDate dueDate = null;\n\n\t\tif (addDueDate) {\n\t\t\tdueDate = PortalUtil.getDate(\n\t\t\t\tdueDateMonth, dueDateDay, dueDateYear, dueDateHour,\n\t\t\t\tdueDateMinute, user.getTimeZone(),\n\t\t\t\tTasksEntryDueDateException.class);\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tlong tasksEntryId = CounterLocalServiceUtil.increment();\n\n\t\tTasksEntry tasksEntry = tasksEntryPersistence.create(tasksEntryId);\n\n\t\ttasksEntry.setGroupId(groupId);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setCompanyId(user.getCompanyId());\n\t\ttasksEntry.setUserId(user.getUserId());\n\t\ttasksEntry.setUserName(user.getFullName());\n\t\ttasksEntry.setCreateDate(now);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setModifiedDate(now);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setTitle(title);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setPriority(priority);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setAssigneeUserId(assigneeUserId);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setDueDate(dueDate);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setStatus(TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_OPEN);\n\n\t\ttasksEntryPersistence.update(tasksEntry);\n\n\t\t// Resources\n\n\t\tresourceLocalService.addModelResources(tasksEntry, serviceContext);\n\n\t\t// Asset\n\n\t\tupdateAsset(\n\t\t\tuserId, tasksEntry, serviceContext.getAssetCategoryIds(),\n\t\t\tserviceContext.getAssetTagNames());\n\n\t\t// Social\n\n\t\tJSONObject extraDataJSONObject = JSONFactoryUtil.createJSONObject();\n\n\t\textraDataJSONObject.put(\"title\", tasksEntry.getTitle());\n\n\t\tSocialActivityLocalServiceUtil.addActivity(\n\t\t\tuserId, groupId, TasksEntry.class.getName(), tasksEntryId,\n\t\t\tTasksActivityKeys.ADD_ENTRY, extraDataJSONObject.toString(),\n\t\t\tassigneeUserId);\n\n\t\t// Notifications\n\n\t\tsendNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\ttasksEntry, TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_ALL, assigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tserviceContext);\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntry;\n\t}\n\n\t@Override\n\tpublic TasksEntry deleteTasksEntry(long tasksEntryId)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\tTasksEntry tasksEntry = tasksEntryPersistence.findByPrimaryKey(\n\t\t\ttasksEntryId);\n\n\t\treturn deleteTasksEntry(tasksEntry);\n\t}\n\n\t@Override\n\tpublic TasksEntry deleteTasksEntry(TasksEntry tasksEntry)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\t// Tasks entry\n\n\t\ttasksEntryPersistence.remove(tasksEntry);\n\n\t\t// Asset\n\n\t\tAssetEntryLocalServiceUtil.deleteEntry(\n\t\t\tTasksEntry.class.getName(), tasksEntry.getTasksEntryId());\n\n\t\t// Message boards\n\n\t\tMBMessageLocalServiceUtil.deleteDiscussionMessages(\n\t\t\tTasksEntry.class.getName(), tasksEntry.getTasksEntryId());\n\n\t\t// Social\n\n\t\tSocialActivityLocalServiceUtil.deleteActivities(\n\t\t\tTasksEntry.class.getName(), tasksEntry.getTasksEntryId());\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntry;\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getAssigneeTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByAssigneeUserId(userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getAssigneeTasksEntriesCount(long userId)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByAssigneeUserId(userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getGroupAssigneeTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong groupId, long userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByG_A(groupId, userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getGroupAssigneeTasksEntriesCount(long groupId, long userId)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByG_A(groupId, userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getGroupResolverTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong groupId, long userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByG_R(groupId, userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getGroupResolverTasksEntriesCount(long groupId, long userId)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByG_R(groupId, userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getGroupUserTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong groupId, long userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByG_U(groupId, userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getGroupUserTasksEntriesCount(long groupId, long userId)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByG_U(groupId, userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getResolverTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByResolverUserId(userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getResolverTasksEntriesCount(long userId)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByResolverUserId(userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getTasksEntries(long groupId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByGroupId(groupId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getTasksEntries(\n\t\t\tlong groupId, int priority, long assigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tlong reporterUserId, int status, long[] assetTagIds,\n\t\t\tlong[] notAssetTagIds, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryFinder.findByG_P_A_R_S_T_N(\n\t\t\tgroupId, priority, assigneeUserId, reporterUserId, status,\n\t\t\tassetTagIds, notAssetTagIds, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getTasksEntriesCount(long groupId) throws SystemException {\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByGroupId(groupId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getTasksEntriesCount(\n\t\t\tlong groupId, int priority, long assigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tlong reporterUserId, int status, long[] tagsEntryIds,\n\t\t\tlong[] notTagsEntryIds)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryFinder.countByG_P_A_R_S_T_N(\n\t\t\tgroupId, priority, assigneeUserId, reporterUserId, status,\n\t\t\ttagsEntryIds, notTagsEntryIds);\n\t}\n\n\t@Override\n\tpublic TasksEntry getTasksEntry(long tasksEntryId)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByPrimaryKey(tasksEntryId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic List<TasksEntry> getUserTasksEntries(long userId, int start, int end)\n\t\tthrows SystemException {\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.findByUserId(userId, start, end);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic int getUserTasksEntriesCount(long userId) throws SystemException {\n\t\treturn tasksEntryPersistence.countByUserId(userId);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic void updateAsset(\n\t\t\tlong userId, TasksEntry tasksEntry, long[] assetCategoryIds,\n\t\t\tString[] assetTagNames)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\tAssetEntryLocalServiceUtil.updateEntry(\n\t\t\tuserId, tasksEntry.getGroupId(), TasksEntry.class.getName(),\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.getTasksEntryId(), assetCategoryIds, assetTagNames);\n\t}\n\n\tpublic TasksEntry updateTasksEntry(\n\t\t\tlong tasksEntryId, String title, int priority, long assigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tlong resolverUserId, int dueDateMonth, int dueDateDay,\n\t\t\tint dueDateYear, int dueDateHour, int dueDateMinute,\n\t\t\tboolean addDueDate, int status, ServiceContext serviceContext)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\t// Tasks entry\n\n\t\tDate now = new Date();\n\n\t\tTasksEntry tasksEntry = tasksEntryPersistence.findByPrimaryKey(\n\t\t\ttasksEntryId);\n\n\t\tUser user = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUserById(tasksEntry.getUserId());\n\n\t\tvalidate(title);\n\n\t\tDate dueDate = null;\n\n\t\tif (addDueDate) {\n\t\t\tdueDate = PortalUtil.getDate(\n\t\t\t\tdueDateMonth, dueDateDay, dueDateYear, dueDateHour,\n\t\t\t\tdueDateMinute, user.getTimeZone(),\n\t\t\t\tTasksEntryDueDateException.class);\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tlong oldAssigneeUserId = tasksEntry.getAssigneeUserId();\n\t\tint oldStatus = tasksEntry.getStatus();\n\n\t\ttasksEntry.setModifiedDate(now);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setTitle(title);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setPriority(priority);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setAssigneeUserId(assigneeUserId);\n\t\ttasksEntry.setDueDate(dueDate);\n\n\t\tif (status == TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_RESOLVED) {\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setResolverUserId(resolverUserId);\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setFinishDate(now);\n\t\t}\n\t\telse {\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setResolverUserId(0);\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setFinishDate(null);\n\t\t}\n\n\t\ttasksEntry.setStatus(status);\n\n\t\ttasksEntryPersistence.update(tasksEntry);\n\n\t\t// Asset\n\n\t\tupdateAsset(\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.getUserId(), tasksEntry,\n\t\t\tserviceContext.getAssetCategoryIds(),\n\t\t\tserviceContext.getAssetTagNames());\n\n\t\t// Social\n\n\t\taddSocialActivity(status, tasksEntry, serviceContext);\n\n\t\t// Notifications\n\n\t\tsendNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\ttasksEntry, oldStatus, oldAssigneeUserId, serviceContext);\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntry;\n\t}\n\n\tpublic TasksEntry updateTasksEntryStatus(\n\t\t\tlong tasksEntryId, long resolverUserId, int status,\n\t\t\tServiceContext serviceContext)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\t// Tasks entry\n\n\t\tDate now = new Date();\n\n\t\tTasksEntry tasksEntry = tasksEntryPersistence.findByPrimaryKey(\n\t\t\ttasksEntryId);\n\n\t\ttasksEntry.setModifiedDate(now);\n\n\t\tif (status == TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_RESOLVED) {\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setResolverUserId(resolverUserId);\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setFinishDate(now);\n\t\t}\n\t\telse {\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setResolverUserId(0);\n\t\t\ttasksEntry.setFinishDate(null);\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tint oldStatus = tasksEntry.getStatus();\n\n\t\ttasksEntry.setStatus(status);\n\n\t\ttasksEntryPersistence.update(tasksEntry);\n\n\t\t// Social\n\n\t\taddSocialActivity(status, tasksEntry, serviceContext);\n\n\t\t// Notifications\n\n\t\tsendNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\ttasksEntry, oldStatus, tasksEntry.getAssigneeUserId(),\n\t\t\tserviceContext);\n\n\t\treturn tasksEntry;\n\t}\n\n\tprotected void addSocialActivity(\n\t\t\tint status, TasksEntry tasksEntry, ServiceContext serviceContext)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\tint activity = TasksActivityKeys.UPDATE_ENTRY;\n\n\t\tif (status == TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_REOPENED) {\n\t\t\tactivity = TasksActivityKeys.REOPEN_ENTRY;\n\t\t}\n\t\telse if (status == TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_RESOLVED) {\n\t\t\tactivity = TasksActivityKeys.RESOLVE_ENTRY;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tJSONObject extraDataJSONObject = JSONFactoryUtil.createJSONObject();\n\n\t\textraDataJSONObject.put(\"title\", tasksEntry.getTitle());\n\n\t\tSocialActivityLocalServiceUtil.addActivity(\n\t\t\tserviceContext.getUserId(), tasksEntry.getGroupId(),\n\t\t\tTasksEntry.class.getName(), tasksEntry.getTasksEntryId(), activity,\n\t\t\textraDataJSONObject.toString(), tasksEntry.getAssigneeUserId());\n\t}\n\n\tprotected void sendNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\tTasksEntry tasksEntry, int oldStatus, long oldAssigneeUserId,\n\t\t\tServiceContext serviceContext)\n\t\tthrows PortalException, SystemException {\n\n\t\tHashSet<Long> receiverUserIds = new HashSet<Long>(3);\n\n\t\treceiverUserIds.add(oldAssigneeUserId);\n\t\treceiverUserIds.add(tasksEntry.getUserId());\n\t\treceiverUserIds.add(tasksEntry.getAssigneeUserId());\n\n\t\treceiverUserIds.remove(serviceContext.getUserId());\n\n\t\tJSONObject notificationEventJSONObject =\n\t\t\tJSONFactoryUtil.createJSONObject();\n\n\t\tnotificationEventJSONObject.put(\n\t\t\t\"classPK\", tasksEntry.getTasksEntryId());\n\t\tnotificationEventJSONObject.put(\"userId\", serviceContext.getUserId());\n\n\t\tfor (long receiverUserId : receiverUserIds) {\n\t\t\tif ((receiverUserId == 0) ||\n\t\t\t\t!UserNotificationManagerUtil.isDeliver(\n\t\t\t\t\treceiverUserId, TasksPortletKeys.TASKS, 0,\n\t\t\t\t\tTasksEntryConstants.STATUS_ALL,\n\t\t\t\t\tUserNotificationDeliveryConstants.TYPE_WEBSITE)) {\n\n\t\t\t\tcontinue;\n\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\tString title = StringPool.BLANK;\n\n\t\t\tif (oldStatus == TasksEntryConstants.STATUS_ALL) {\n\t\t\t\ttitle = \"x-assigned-you-a-task\";\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\telse if (tasksEntry.getAssigneeUserId() != oldAssigneeUserId) {\n\t\t\t\tif (receiverUserId == oldAssigneeUserId) {\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle = \"x-reassigned-your-task\";\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\telse {\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle = \"x-assigned-you-a-task\";\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\telse if (tasksEntry.getStatus() != oldStatus) {\n\t\t\t\tif ((tasksEntry.getStatus() !=\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTasksEntryConstants.STATUS_OPEN) &&\n\t\t\t\t\t(tasksEntry.getStatus() !=\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTasksEntryConstants.STATUS_REOPENED) &&\n\t\t\t\t\t(tasksEntry.getStatus() !=\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTasksEntryConstants.STATUS_RESOLVED)) {\n\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\t\tString statusLabel = TasksEntryConstants.getStatusLabel(\n\t\t\t\t\ttasksEntry.getStatus());\n\n\t\t\t\ttitle = \"x-\" + statusLabel + \"-the-task\";\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\telse {\n\t\t\t\ttitle = \"x-modified-the-task\";\n\t\t\t}\n\n\t\t\tnotificationEventJSONObject.put(\"title\", title);\n\n\t\t\tNotificationEvent notificationEvent =\n\t\t\t\tNotificationEventFactoryUtil.createNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\t\t\tSystem.currentTimeMillis(), TasksPortletKeys.TASKS,\n\t\t\t\t\tnotificationEventJSONObject);\n\n\t\t\tnotificationEvent.setDeliveryRequired(0);\n\n\t\t\tUserNotificationEventLocalServiceUtil.addUserNotificationEvent(\n\t\t\t\treceiverUserId, notificationEvent);\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\n\tprotected void validate(String title) throws PortalException {\n\t\tif (Validator.isNull(title)) {\n\t\t\tthrow new TasksEntryTitleException();\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\n}\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "6 януари е 6-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 359 дни до края на годината (360 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1066 г. – За крал на Англия е коронован Харолд Годуинсън.\n 1579 г. – Осемдесетгодишна война: В Арас е подписан договор за създаване на Араския съюз на лоялните към испанския крал нидерландски провинции.\n 1720 г. – Публикуван е указ за създаването на Компания на южните морета в Англия, която на практика съществува от 1711 г. и има монопол върху търговията с Южна Америка.\n 1838 г. – Американецът Самюъл Морз става първият човек, създал електрически телеграф.\n 1853 г. – Американският президент Франклин Пиърс и семейството му претърпяват железопътна катастрофа – президентът и съпругата му Джейн оживяват, но загива 7-годишният им син Бен.\n 1853 г. – Основан е окръг Айлънд в щата Вашингтон, САЩ.\n 1900 г. – Лейдисмит (Южна Африка) е атакуван от бурите.\n 1912 г. – Ню Мексико става 47-ият щат на САЩ.\n 1919 г. – В Германия започва формирането на Фрайкорпс – доброволни про-десни военни формирования, съществували в началото на 19 век, участвали във войната срещу Наполеон.\n\n 1929 г. – В Югославия крал Александър I Караджорджевич извършва държавен преврат и поставя начело на изпълнителната власт военните (т.нар. Шестоянуарска диктатура).\n 1929 г. – Католическата монахиня Майка Тереза, основала по-късно ордена Мисионери на милосърдието, пристига в Индия.\n 1930 г. – От Индианаполис до Ню Йорк е осъществено първото пътуване с автомобил с дизелов двигател.\n 1931 г. – Томас Едисън патентова последното си изобретение.\n 1939 г. – Германският химик Ото Хан прави публично достояние откритието си за разпадане на атомното ядро.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Германските окупационни власти извършват масови екзекуции в Познан (Полша).\n 1942 г. – Пан Американ получава редовна линия за извършване на околосветски полети.\n 1950 г. – Великобритания признава Китайската народна република и между двете държави са установени дипломатически отношения.\n 1971 г. – В САЩ е синтезиран хормон на растежа – соматропин.\n 1972 г. – САЩ връщат на Унгария взетата по време на Втората световна война Корона на Свети Стефан – една от националните реликви.\n 1984 г. – Правителството на Тунис въвежда извънредно положение.\n 1992 г. – Президентът на Грузия Звияд Гамсахурдия бяга в Армения.\n 1994 г. – Американската фигуристка Нанси Керигън е намушкана в левия крак от съперничката си и съотборничка Тоня Хардинг.\n 2002 г. – Германският ски скачач Свен Ханавалд става първият победител във всички състезания на Турнира на четирите шанци.\n 2005 г. – В Брюксел започва световен конгрес на имамите и равините за мир.\n 2021 г. – Капитолият на САЩ е завзет от поддръжници на Доналд Тръмп, които забавят формалното потвърждаване на избора на Джо Байдън за президент.\n\nРодени \n\n 1367 г. – Ричард II, крал на Англия († 1400 г.)\n 1412 г. – Жана д'Арк, национална героиня на Франция († 1431 г.)\n 1486 г. – Мартин Агрикола, германски поет († 1556 г.)\n 1665 г. – Карл Лудвиг фон Насау-Саарбрюкен, германски граф († 1723 г.)\n 1745 г. – Жак-Етиен Монголфие, френски пионер, извършил първия полет с балон с горещ въздух († 1799 г.)\n 1799 г. – Джедидая Смит, американски пътешественик († 1831 г.)\n 1822 г. – Хайнрих Шлиман, германски археолог († 1890 г.)\n 1832 г. – Гюстав Доре, френски художник († 1883 г.)\n 1838 г. – Макс Брух, германски композитор († 1920 г.)\n 1839 г. – Георге Анджелеску, румънски политик († 1915 г.)\n 1848 г. – Христо Ботев, български поет и революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1850 г. – Едуард Бернщайн, германски общественик († 1932 г.)\n 1861 г. – Виктор Орта, белгийски архитект († 1947 г.)\n 1865 г. – Алексий Калайджиев, български духовник († ? г.)\n 1865 г. – Никола Жеков, военен деец († 1949 г.)\n 1866 г. – Алексей Апостол, финландски диригент († 1927 г.)\n 1866 г. – Антон Арнаудов, български революционер († 1948 г.)\n 1870 г. – Густав Бауер, германски политик († 1944 г.)\n 1872 г. – Александър Скрябин, руски композитор († 1915 г.)\n 1872 г. – Йордан Иванов, български учен († 1947 г.)\n 1875 г. – Атанас Калфов, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1878 г. – Стефан Добрев, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1878 г. – Карл Сандбърг, американски поет († 1967 г.)\n 1881 г. – Ернст Фесман, германски офицер († 1962 г.)\n 1881 г. – Тодор Оровчанов, български революционер († 1927 г.)\n 1882 г. – Александра Екстер, руска художничка († 1949 г.)\n 1882 г. – Антон Стериов, български революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1883 г. – Халил Джибран, ливански и американски поет († 1931 г.)\n 1884 г. – Исак Бродски, руски живописец († 1939 г.)\n 1884 г. – Кина Герджикова, българска актриса († 1950 г.)\n 1888 г. – Христо Николов Луков, български политик († 1943 г.)\n 1894 г. – Владимир Григоров, български художник († 1985 г.)\n 1894 г. – Освин Гролиг, германски офицер († 1944 г.)\n 1896 г. – Иван Маринов, български военен деец († 1979 г.)\n 1897 г. – Ференц Салаши, унгарски държавник († 1946 г.)\n 1900 г. – Мария Румънска, кралица на Югославия († 1961 г.)\n 1905 г. – Ерик Франк Ръсел, английски писател фантаст († 1978 г.)\n 1909 г. – Здравко Сугарев, български икономист († 1993 г.)\n 1909 г. – Моше Снех, израелски комунист († 1972 г.)\n 1913 г. – Едвард Герек, полски политик († 2001 г.)\n 1913 г. – Лорета Йънг, американска актриса († 2000 г.)\n 1915 г. – Боню Ангелов, български филолог († 1989 г.)\n 1915 г. – Джон Лили, американски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1921 г. – Христо Евтимов, български футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ристо Кирязовски, македонски историк († 2002 г.)\n 1928 г. – Евгения Камова, българска писателка († 2008 г.)\n 1929 г. – Бабрак Кармал, афганистански политик († 1996 г.)\n 1931 г. – Едгар Лорънс Доктороу, американски писател († 2015 г.)\n 1933 г. – Олег Макаров, съветски космонавт († 2003 г.)\n 1935 г. – Клод Щайнер, австрийски психолог († 2017 г.)\n 1935 г. – Маргарита Гомес-Асебо и Сехуела, съпруга на Симеон Сакскобургготски\n 1938 г. – Адриано Челентано, италиански певец\n 1944 г. – Ролф Цинкернагел, швейцарски имунолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1996 г.\n 1945 г. – Иван Григоров, български юрист († 2017 г.)\n 1946 г. – Сид Барет, британски музикант („Pink Floyd“) († 2006 г.)\n 1953 г. – Малкълм Йънг, австралийски китарист („AC/DC“)\n 1953 г. – Манфред Калц, германски футболист\n 1954 г. – Антъни Мингела, британски режисьор († 2008 г.)\n 1955 г. – Роуън Аткинсън, английски комик\n 1957 г. – Майкъл Фоул, американски астронавт\n 1958 г. – Димитър Петков, български режисьор\n 1958 г. – Людмила Путина, съпруга на Владимир Путин\n 1960 г. – Андреа Томпсън, американска актриса\n 1962 г. – Анджей Михалек, полски историк, писател и художник († 2007 г.)\n 1963 г. – Карен Мовсисян, арменски шахматист\n 1965 г. – Бьорн Ломборг, датски политолог\n 1966 г. – Атилио Ломбардо, италиански футболист\n 1970 г. – Димитър Екимов, български музикант († 2008 г.)\n 1970 г. – Цанко Цветанов, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Еди Редмейн, английски актьор\n 1986 г. – Петер Нортхуг, норвежки ски бегач\n 1989 г. – Андрю Керъл, английски футболист\n 1995 г. – Уинифер Фернандес, волейболистка от Доминиканската република\n\nПочинали \n\n 1448 г. – Кристоф III, крал на Дания, Норвегия и Швеция (* 1418 г.)\n 1478 г. – Узун Хасан, тюркски владетел (* 1423 г.)\n 1536 г. – Балтазаре Перучи, италиански художник и архитект (* 1481 г.)\n 1607 г. – Гуидобалдо дел Монте, италиански учен (* 1545 г.)\n 1693 г. – Мехмед IV, Султан на Османската империя (* 1642 г.)\n 1831 г. – Родолф Кройцер, френски композитор и диригент (* 1766 г.)\n 1852 г. – Луи Брайл, създател на азбуката за слепи (* 1809 г.)\n 1860 г. – Уилям Лийк, британски топограф и историк (* 1777 г.)\n 1875 г. – Кръстьо Пишурка, български народен будител (* 1823 г.)\n 1878 г. – Станислав Доспевски, български възрожденски художник (* 1823 г.)\n 1884 г. – Грегор Мендел, австрийски монах, биолог и генетик (* 1822 г.)\n 1885 г. – Пьотър Левиз-оф-Менар, руски офицер (* 1829 г.)\n 1899 г. – Стоян Лазов, български революционер (* 1871 г.)\n 1902 г. – Коце Пейков, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1918 г. – Георг Кантор, германски математик (* 1845 г.)\n 1919 г. – Теодор Рузвелт, 26-и президент на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат през 1906 г. (* 1858 г.)\n 1934 г. – Хърбърт Чапман, английски футболист (* 1878 г.)\n 1942 г. – Александър Беляев, руски писател (* 1884 г.)\n 1942 г. – Анри дьо Байе-Латур, белгийски президент на МОК (* 1876 г.)\n 1944 г. – Весела Василева, българска поетеса (* 1919 г.)\n 1945 г. – Владимир Вернадски, руски учен (* 1863 г.)\n 1946 г. – Божил Райнов, български просветен деец (* 1857 г.)\n 1949 г. – Виктор Флеминг, американски режисьор (* 1883 г.)\n 1949 г. – Стоян Бъчваров, български актьор (* 1878 г.)\n 1964 г. – Вернер Кемпф, германски офицер (* 1886 г.)\n 1981 г. – Арчибалд Кронин, шотландски писател (* 1896 г.)\n 1983 г. – Ерик Витковер, британски психоаналитик (* 1899 г.)\n 1990 г. – Павел Черенков, руски физик, лауреат на Нобелова награда за физика през 1958 г. (* 1904 г.)\n 1993 г. – Дизи Гилеспи, американски джаз музикант (* 1917 г.)\n 1993 г. – Рудолф Нуреев, руски балетист (* 1938 г.)\n 1994 г. – Иления Кариси, италианска поетеса (* 1970 г.)\n 1995 г. – Тодор Диев, български футболист (* 1934 г.)\n 1999 г. – Мишел Петручани, френски джаз пианист (* 1962 г.)\n 2000 г. – Алексей Въжманавин, руски шахматист (* 1960 г.)\n 2000 г. – Дон Мартин, американски илюстратор (* 1931 г.)\n 2000 г. – Илия Минев, български антикомунист и националист (* 1917 г.)\n 2004 г. – Пиер Чарлз, министър-председател на Доминика (* 1954 г.)\n 2019 г. – Иван Ласкин, български филмов и театрален актьор (* 1970 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – Кръщение Господне (Йордановден) – Богоявление\n Православна църква и Арменска църква – Бъдни вечер – по Юлиянски календар\n Католическа църква – „Ден на тримата крале“ (Three Kings' Day)\n Българска армия – Водоосвещаване на българските бойни знамена и светини\n Ирак – Празник на армията\n Франция – Ден на семейството\n\n106"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched? I use iTunes on my Mac (OS X 10.6) but I wonder what's up with it's update.\nI really want know Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched.\nP.S: I have limited bandwidth with my internet then the size of update was important for me.\n\nA: The reason why they release patches so often, iTunes is the app where all their management of iPhone and iPad occurs, which means they often need to update it to add support for new iPhone/iPad/iPod touch models, and to support new features in those products. The fact that it is also where they handle a lot of their DRM (which they may have contractual obligations to update in some instances) probably is part of the reason as well.\nThe fundamental issue with delta patches is that they are more complex, and have higher support costs for the vendor. A full updater can run against any version of the app that is installed, a delta patcher most be made against specific version. A full updater will work regardless of whether the app has been modified (user hacking the binary to do something, tweaking the artwork, etc), a delta updater will fail against a modified app.\nGiven the extra work involved in preparing a delta patch, and the increased chance that it won't work, they tend to only be used in very specific cases. Apple tends to create delta updates for software updates, but they only create a delta against the most recent released version of the OS, rather than making dozens of versions that work with every release they make the one that will get most people, and then for everyone else they do a combo update that is a full updater that also incorporates every previous software update as well.\nFor smaller things like iTunes, they don't tend to bother with delta updates at all due to the increased workload, support, the increased number of versions that exist, and the fact that iTunes is fairly small in the scheme of things (it is smaller than an OS update, or an iPhone/iPad firmware).\n\nA: \nI use iTunes on my mac (OS X 10.6) but\n  I wonder what's up with it's update. I\n  realy want know Why Itunes updates get\n  released so fast and why everytime the\n  entire Itunes has to be updated\n  instead of patched.\n\nIt probably is patched. There are more then a few files that go along with iTunes, there are other applications and shared processes that must be updated as well.\nApplications are updated on an as-needed basis. You probably don't have to update right this minute, it's simply saying an update is available, and you would be better off if you updated. This could fix any number of issues, from performance, stability, or misc \"bugs\" that were found. You can see the (abbreviated) changelog if you want to know exactly what this update is supposed to do.\nContrary to the other answer, it is not how Apple \"bundles\" applications. The \"bundle\" is simply a folder that finder interprets as an application. Applications can (and are often) \"patched\" by modifying files withing these .app folders. The entire application does not need to be replaced every time. Otherwise every Adobe update would take days do download. \n\nA: Please note that the following answer is valid for any application (Apple-specific or 3rd party).\nIt's the way Apple bundles all applications. In fact every *.app is a bundle (think - folder).  You can open it in finder (right click -> Show Package Contents) or cd to it in terminal. That's why any app is not patched like on windows systems where files of one program is scattered all over the file system, but sort of \"replaced\" as a whole.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "7 януари е 7-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 358 дни до края на годината (359 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1558 г. – Франция завладява Кале, последното владение на Англия в континентална Европа.\n 1566 г. – Започва понтификатът на папа Пий V.\n\n 1598 г. – Борис Годунов става цар на Русия.\n 1610 г. – Италианският математик и астроном Галилео Галилей наблюдава четири от естествените спътника на Юпитер – Йо, Европа, Ганимед и Калисто, наречени по-късно Галилееви спътници.\n 1714 г. – Англичанинът Хенри Мил патентова пишеща машина, от която не е правено масово производство.\n 1768 г. – Роден е Жозеф Бонапарт, крал на Испания и брат на Наполеон Бонапарт.\n 1782 г. – Открита е първата търговска банка в САЩ.\n 1785 г. – Американецът Джон Джефри и французинът Жан-Пиер Бланшар прелитат първи в света Ламанша с балон с горещ въздух.\n 1797 г. – Италия започва да използва настоящия си национален флаг.\n 1841 г. – Писателят Виктор Юго е избран за член на Френската академия.\n 1879 г. – В София е открита Първа мъжка гимназия.\n 1887 г. – Томас Стивънс от Сан Франциско завършва първото в света околосветско пътешествие с велосипед, изминавайки за 4 години над 13 хиляди мили.\n 1894 г. – Уилям Диксън патентова филмовата лента.\n 1904 г. – Влиза в употреба международния сигнал за бедствие CQD, изместен 2 години по-късно от SOS.\n 1909 г. – Във Франция е издаден първият лиценз за пилотиране на самолет.\n 1914 г. – През Панамския канал преминава първият кораб.\n 1924 г. – Джордж Гершуин приключва Рапсодия в синьо.\n 1924 г. – Австрия, Белгия, Испания, Швейцария, Унгария, Франция и Чехословакия учредяват в Париж Международна федерация по хокей.\n 1927 г. – Открита е трансатлантическата телефонна линия между Лондон и Ню Йорк.\n 1945 г. – Във Вардарска Македония са избити 1200 граждани, които проявяват българско самосъзнание – актът е известен като Кървавата Коледа.\n 1950 г. – При пожар в болницата на Дейвънпорт (Айова) загиват 41 души.\n 1953 г. – Президентът Хари Труман обявява, че САЩ са разработили водородна бомба.\n 1959 г. – САЩ признават временното правителство на Куба, начело с Фидел Кастро.\n 1979 г. – Виетнамската армия превзема столицата на Кампучия (дн. Камбоджа) Пном Пен и сваля от власт режима на Пол Пот и Червените кхмери.\n 1984 г. – Бруней става шестия член на Асоциацията на страните от Югоизточна Азия.\n 1990 г. – От съображения за сигурност е забранен достъпа на посетители във вътрешността на Наклонената кула в Пиза.\n 1999 г. – Започва процедурата по импийчмънт на президента на САЩ Бил Клинтън.\n\nРодени \n\n 1502 г. – Григорий XIII, римски папа († 1585 г.)\n 1800 г. – Милърд Филмор, 13-и президент на САЩ († 1874 г.)\n 1845 г. – Димитър Моллов, български лекар-хирург и политик, акад. († 1914 г.)\n 1846 г. – Теодосий Скопски, български духовник († 1926 г.)\n 1856 г. – Стоян Михайловски, български писател († 1927 г.)\n 1857 г. – Сава Дацов, български икономист († 1940 г.)\n 1858 г. – Елиезер Бен Йехуда, еврейски лингвист († 1922 г.)\n 1860 г. – Емануил Манолов, български композитор († 1902 г.)\n 1862 г. – Иван Георгов, български философ († 1936 г.)\n 1871 г. – Матей Икономов, български артист († 1960 г.)\n 1892 г. – Иван Вазов, български политик († 1945 г.)\n 1895 г. – Георги Костов, български режисьор († 1961 г.)\n 1897 г. – Георги Наджаков, български физик († 1981 г.)\n 1899 г. – Степан Шчипачов, руски поет († 1980 г.)\n 1899 г. – Франсис Пуленк, френски композитор († 1963 г.)\n 1906 г. – Иван Дочев, български политик († 2005 г.)\n 1912 г. – Иван Якубовски, съветски маршал († 1976 г.)\n 1916 г. – Орце Николов, македонски партизанин († 1942 г.)\n 1916 г. – Паул Керес, естонски шахматист († 1975 г.)\n 1924 г. – Захари Медникаров, български диригент († 2007 г.)\n 1925 г. – Манол Тодоров, български музикант, фолклорист и педагог († 2019 г.)\n 1925 г. – Джералд Даръл, английски писател († 1995 г.)\n 1928 г. – Христо Минчев, български артист († 2012 г.)\n 1935 г. – Валерий Кубасов, съветски космонавт († 2014 г.)\n 1937 г. – Али Соили, коморски политик († 1978 г.)\n 1938 г. – Теодор Мусев, български пианист († 2021 г.)\n 1939 г. – Иван Радулов, български шахматист\n 1941 г. – Джон Уолкър, британски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1997 г.\n 1945 г. – Раила Одинга, министър-председател на Кения\n 1948 г. – Ичиро Мидзуки, японски певец\n 1949 г. – Ан Шедийн, американска актриса\n 1952 г. – Франц Йозеф Чернин, австрийски писател\n 1952 г. – Цоньо Василев, български футболист († 2015 г.)\n 1953 г. – Велизар Енчев, български журналист\n 1956 г. – Дейвид Карузо, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Александър Дугин, руски философ\n 1962 г. – Радосвета Пиронкова, българска плувкиня\n 1963 г. – Клинт Мансел, английски композитор\n 1964 г. – Никълъс Кейдж, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Георги Господинов, български поет\n 1970 г. – Сарухан Хюнел, турски актьор\n 1971 г. – Джереми Ренър, американски актьор\n 1977 г. – Софи Оксанен, финландска писателка\n 1985 г. – Луис Хамилтън, английски състезател от Формула 1\n 1987 г. – Линдзи Фонсека, американска актриса\n 1987 г. – Давиде Астори, италиански футболист († 2018 г.)\n 1991 г. – Еден Азар, белгийски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1285 г. – Карл I Анжуйски (* 1226 г.)\n 1536 г. – Катерина Арагонска, съпруга на Хенри VIII (* 1485 г.)\n 1655 г. – Инокентий X, римски папа (* 1574 г.)\n 1862 г. – Константин Миладинов, български поет (* 1830 г.)\n 1882 г. – Игнаци Лукашевич, полски аптекар (* 1822 г.)\n 1890 г. – Августа Сакс-Ваймарска, кралица на Прусия (* 1811 г.)\n 1892 г. – Ернст Вилхелм фон Брюке, германски физиолог (* 1819 г.)\n 1892 г. – Тауфик паша, владетел на Египет (* 1852 г.)\n 1914 г. – Михаил Петрович Клодт, руски художник, передвижник (* 1835 г.)\n 1932 г. – Андре Мажино, френски офицер (* 1877 г.)\n 1943 г. – Никола Тесла, американски изобретател (* 1856 г.)\n 1943 г. – Станимир Станимиров, български просветен деец (* 1858 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Бележков, български революционер (* 1866 г.)\n 1944 г. – Лу Хенри Хувър, първа дама на САЩ (1929 – 1933) (* 1874 г.)\n 1959 г. – Борис Лавреньов, руски писател (* 1891 г.)\n 1984 г. – Алфред Кастлер, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1966 г. (* 1902 г.)\n 1988 г. – Венко Марковски, български писател (* 1915 г.)\n 1989 г. – Хирохито, император на Япония (* 1901 г.)\n 1992 г. – Ричард Хънт, американски кукловод – Мъпет Шоу (* 1951 г.)\n 1998 г. – Владимир Прелог, хърватски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1975 г. (* 1906 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ингрид Тюлин, шведска актриса (* 1926 г.)\n 2006 г. – Юри Буков, български пианист (* 1923 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – св. Йоан Кръстител (Ивановден). Имен ден празнуват Иван, Иво, Йоан, Йоана, Ивайло, Иванка, Ивана, Ива, Ванчо, Ваньо, Ваня, Ивелин, Калоян, Йото, Йонко, Жана\n Православна църква – Коледа (по Юлиански календар)\n Италия – Ден на националното знаме (Festa del Tricolore, от 1797 г.)\n Камбоджа – Ден на освобождението (1979 г., чества се свалянето на режима на Пол Пот след инвазията на Виетнамската армия в страната).\n Япония – Фестивал на седемте билки (七草の節句 – Nanakusa-no-sekku)\n\n107"
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        "text": "Q: Quicksilver addons and plugins Quicksilver is no doubt THE App that's must have for any keyboard ninja using Mac. Please share your [power] tips on new addons, triggers and plugins that you use.\n\nA: If you're using Quicksilver just as a launcher I recommend checking out \"Google Quick Search Box\" (http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/).\n\nA: [Holywar mode on]\nQuick silver is NOT the app that's must have for any keyboard ninja using Mac since Spotlight works like a charm.\nQuicksilver was good on 10.3 as there were no Spotlight :).\n[Holywar mode off]\n"
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        "text": "8 януари е 8-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 357 дни до края на годината (358 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1198 г. – Инокентий III става римски папа.\n 1598 г. – Евреите са прогонени от Република Генуа.\n 1815 г. – Британско-американска война: Американските сили водени от генерал Андрю Джаксън побеждават британската армия близо до Ню Орлеанс, две седмици след като САЩ и Великобритания подписват мирен договор за край на войната.\n 1838 г. – Алфред Вейл демонстрира телеграфа, като използва точки и чертички (поставя се началото на т.нар. Морзов код).\n 1900 г. – Президентът на САЩ Уилям Маккинли обявява военно положение в Аляска.\n 1918 г. – Американският президент Удроу Уилсън излага своя мирен план за последиците от Първата световна война в 14 точки (включващи открита дипломация, право на народите на суверенитет, създаване на Общество на народите, либерализиране на търговията).\n 1931 г. – Папа Пий XI издава енциклика срещу разводите и срещу контролирането на раждаемостта.\n 1949 г. – В Москва социалистическите държави учредяват Съвет за икономическа взаимопомощ.\n 1958 г. – 14-годишният Боби Фишър печели Американския шампионат по шахмат.\n 1959 г. – Генерал Шарл дьо Гол е обявен за първи президент на Петата република на Франция.\n 1962 г. – Картината на Леонардо да Винчи Мона Лиза е показана за пръв път в САЩ.\n 1973 г. – Изстреляна е съветската космическа сонда Луна 21 с Луноход 2 на борда.\n 1992 г. – Президентът на САЩ Джордж Х. У. Буш заболява, докато е на визита в Япония и по време на официален обяд повръща върху японския министър-председател.\n 1996 г. – В България стартира масовата приватизация.\n 2004 г. – Кралица Елизабет II кръщава най-големия пътнически лайнер, строен някога – Кралица Мери II.\n\nРодени \n\n 1628 г. – Люксамбур, френски офицер († 1695 г.)\n 1823 г. – Алфред Ръсел Уолъс, английски естествоизпитател († 1913 г.)\n 1824 г. – Уилки Колинс, английски писател († 1889 г.)\n 1830 г. – Ханс фон Бюлов, германски композитор († 1894 г.)\n 1836 г. – Лорънс Алма-Тадема, британски художник († 1912 г.)\n 1849 г. – Степан Макаров, руски офицер († 1904 г.)\n 1852 г. – Димитър Ценов, български предприемач, дарителят на Стопанска академия († 1932 г.)\n 1861 г. – Димитър Кирков, български военен деец († 1918 г.)\n 1867 г. – Емили Грийн Болч, американска писателка, Нобелов лауреат през 1946 г. († 1961 г.)\n 1870 г. – Мигел Примо де Ривера, испански генерал и диктатор († 1930 г.)\n 1871 г. – Михаил Апостолов, войвода († 1902 г.)\n 1873 г. – Елена Петрович Негош, кралица на Италия († 1952 г.)\n 1885 г. – Иван Дипчев, български военен деец († 1954 г.)\n 1886 г. – Славчо Пирчев, български революционер († 1973 г.)\n 1888 г. – Борис Верлински, съветски шахматист († 1950 г.)\n 1890 г. – Шандор Радо, унгарски психоаналитик († 1972 г.)\n 1891 г. – Богомил Андреев, български режисьор († 1939 г.)\n 1891 г. – Валтер Боте, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1954 г. († 1957 г.)\n 1892 г. – Акиле Гама, бразилски футболист († ? г.)\n 1899 г. – Соломон Бандаранайке, министър-председател на Цейлон и Шри Ланка († 1959 г.)\n 1902 г. – Георгий Маленков, съветски политик († 1988 г.)\n 1902 г. – Карл Роджърс, американски психолог († 1987 г.)\n 1907 г. – Жан Иполит, френски философ († 1968 г.)\n 1911 г. – Йорданка Чанкова, деятелка на младежкото революционно движение († 1944 г.)\n 1914 г. – Херман Пилник, аржентински шахматист († 1981 г.)\n 1918 г. – Хаим Оливер, български писател († 1986 г.)\n 1922 г. – Артемио Франки, италиански футболен деятел († 1983 г.)\n 1923 г. – Лари Сторч, американски актьор († 2022 г.)\n 1924 г. – Йордан Томов, български футболист († 1998 г.)\n 1924 г. – Стефан Савов, български политик († 2000 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Абаджиев, български партиен деец († 2006 г.)\n 1933 г. – Зев бен Шимон Халеви, автор на съчинения върху Кабала († 2020 г.)\n 1933 г. – Хуан Марсе, испански писател († 2020 г.)\n 1935 г. – Елвис Пресли, американски певец († 1977 г.)\n 1935 г. – Илия Чубриков, български рали пилот († 2020 г.)\n 1936 г. – Георги Данаилов, български писател († 2017 г.)\n 1936 г. – Сафет Исович, босненски музикант († 2007 г.)\n 1937 г. – Шърли Беси, американска певица\n 1941 г. – Борис Валехо, перуански илюстратор\n 1941 г. – Греъм Чапман, британски актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ангел Марин, вицепрезидент на България\n 1942 г. – Валя Балканска, българска певица\n 1942 г. – Стивън Хокинг, британски физик († 2018 г.)\n 1944 г. – Тери Брукс, американски писател\n 1946 г. – Роби Кригър, американски музикант\n 1947 г. – Дейвид Боуи, британски музикант († 2016 г.)\n 1958 г. – Рей Мистерио старши, мексикански кечист\n 1959 г. – Асен Масларски, български певец, музикант и композитор\n 1961 г. – Иван Ненков, български поет, сатирик, журналист и учител\n 1963 г. – Дмитрий Галямин, руски футболист\n 1967 г. – Ар Кели, американски музикант\n 1976 г. – Филип Колев, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Амбър Бенсън, американска актриса\n 1978 г. – Марко Фу, играч на снукър от Хонг Конг\n 1978 г. – Николай Атанасов, български поет († 2019 г.)\n 1979 г. – Стипе Плетикоса, хърватски футболист\n 1980 г. – И Чън-су, южнокорейски футболист\n 1981 г. – Женевив Кортес, американска актриса\n 1984 г. – Илиян Гаров, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Давид Силва, испански футболист\n 1987 г. – Орлин Старокин, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Павел Виданов, български футболист\n 1999 г.– Дамяно Давид, италиански певец\n 2000 г. – Ноа Сайръс, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1107 г. – Едгар I, крал на Шотландия (* 1074 г.)\n 1324 г. – Марко Поло, венециански пътешественик (* 1254 г.)\n 1337 г. – Джото, италиански художник (* 1267 г.)\n 1642 г. – Галилео Галилей, италиански учен (* 1564 г.)\n 1713 г. – Арканджело Корели, италиански композитор (* 1653 г.)\n 1878 г. – Николай Некрасов, руски писател (* 1821 г.)\n 1881 г. – Арзас Тергукасов, руски офицер (* 1819 г.)\n 1896 г. – Пол Верлен, френски поет (* 1844 г.)\n 1904 г. – Феликс Каниц, унгарски археолог и етнограф (* 1829 г.)\n 1919 г. – Петер Алтенберг, австрийски писател (* 1859 г.)\n 1922 г. – Димитър Гешов, български военен деец (* 1860 г.)\n 1934 г. – Илия Балтов (ВМОК), български военен и революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1937 г. – Борис Дякович, български археолог от Бесарабия (* 1868 г.)\n 1938 г. – Иван Кепов, български историк и журналист (* 1870 г.)\n 1938 г. – Неофит Скопски, български духовник (* 1870 г.)\n 1941 г. – Робърт Бейдън-Пауел, основател на скаутското движение (* 1857 г.)\n 1944 г. – Джоузеф Джастроу, американски психолог (* 1863 г.)\n 1944 г. – Дочо Пенков Маринов, български партизанин (* 1924 г.)\n 1948 г. – Курт Швитерс, германски художник (* 1887 г.)\n 1950 г. – Йозеф Шумпетер, австрийски икономист (* 1883 г.)\n 1951 г. – Войдан Чернодрински, български театрален деец и писател (* 1875 г.)\n 1953 г. – Иван Романов, български католически епископ – умира в затвора (* 1878 г.)\n 1956 г. – Павел Францалийски, български художник (* 1884 г.)\n 1957 г. – Иван Хаджимарчев, български писател (* 1897 г.)\n 1966 г. – Владимир Мусаков (преводач), български преводач (* 1928 г.)\n 1968 г. – Пиеро Пасторе, италиански футболист и киноартист (* 1903 г.)\n 1971 г. – Бертрам Левин, американски психоаналитик (* 1896 г.)\n 1974 г. – Бланш Ревершон-Жув, френски психоаналитик (* 1879 г.)\n 1981 г. – Александър Котов, руски шахматист (* 1913 г.)\n 1981 г. – Шигеру Егами, японски каратист (* 1912 г.)\n 1986 г. – Пиер Фурние, френски виолончелист (* 1906 г.)\n 1988 г. – Тодор Дермонски, български футболист (* 1910 г.)\n 1991 г. – Стив Кларк, английски музикант (* 1960 г.)\n 1996 г. – Теобалдо Депетрини, италиански футболист и треньор (* 1913 г.)\n 1996 г. – Франсоа Митеран, президент на Франция (* 1916 г.)\n 2000 г. – Неделчо Чернев, български режисьор (* 1923 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стефан Савов, български политик († 1924 г.)\n 2002 г. – Александър Прохоров, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1916 г.)\n 2012 г. – Алексис Вайсенберг, френски пианист с български произход (* 1929 г.)\n\nПразници \n Бабинден – Ден на родилната помощ (нов стил)\n Монако – Ден на независимостта (от Република Генуа, 1297 г.)\n\n108"
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        "text": "Museums and the Web\nDavid Bearman\nJennifer Trant\nsteve.museum\nSearch archimuse.com\nthe conference and community we founded\nin 1997, now produced by\nArchives & Museum Informatics\n@archimuse\nwww.archimuse.com\nSite Update Policy\nConsulting, Publishing and Training\nfor Cultural Heritage Professionals\nArchives & Museum Informatics is a partnership of two respected leaders, researchers, and theorists in museum and cultural informatics: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant. We are now on an extended sabbatical.\nFor many years, our consulting services have emphasized inter-institutional collaboration, and strategic planning. We've specialized in organizational development, business model design, collaboration, multi-institutional projects, knowledge organization, standards development, and requirements analysis.\nWe also provide research services. Our international clientele has included archives, museums, libraries, cultural heritage networks, consortia, funders, philanthropists, businesses and governments.\nPublications from Archives & Museum Informatics chronicle the development of interactive multimedia in museums and the impact of the Web on digital museums and libraries. Most of these publications are freely available online.\nMuseums and the Web and ICHIM conference papers are catalogued and available online. Many of our own articles and papers are also available online.\nBetween 1987 and 1996 Archives and Museum Informatics published a quarterly newsletter. These are freely available online as PDF files. See the Index to issues.\nPrint publications are also available to order.\nWe founded the conferences Museums and the Web and ICHIM on the belief that knowledge and best practices should be openly shared amongst colleagues. These became internationally known venues for information-sharing across a broad range of cultural professions, and attracted a diverse, vibrant group of managers, marketers, new media / technologists, curators, educators, and researchers.\nMuseums and the Web was held annual from 1997, and is ongoing under new leadership. See museumsandtheweb.com.\nICHIM was held biennially from 1991 - 2007 and has now ended.\nWe also hosted several research meetings on Electronic Records.\nWe established an online community of cultural heritage professionals, that has grown to thousands of members. Originally at conference.archimuse.com, you can now join the conversation at museumsandtheweb.com\nInformatics: The interdisciplinary study of information content, representation, technology and applications,\nand the methods and strategies by which information is used in organizations, networks, cultures and societies."
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        "text": "9 януари е 9-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 356 дни до края на годината (357 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 475 г. – Император Зенон е изгонен от Константинопол.\n 1317 г. – Филип V е коронован за крал на Франция.\n 1349 г. – Под претекст, че са носители на чума, в Базел (Швейцария) са изгорени заедно с домовете им около 700 евреи.\n 1399 г. – Войските на монголския хан Тимур завземат Бейрут.\n 1431 г. – Започва процесът срещу Жана Д'Арк в Руан.\n\n 1768 г. – Филип Астли отваря в Лондон първия модерен амфитеатрален цирк.\n 1788 г. – Кънектикът става петият щат, който се присъединява към САЩ.\n 1799 г. – В Англия за първи път в света е въведен данък върху дохода.\n 1861 г. – Параходът Star of the West, изпратен от президента Джеймс Бюканън в помощ на Форт Съмтър с храна и амуниции, е обстрелван от оръдията на Южна Каролина.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877–1878): Руските войски удържат победа в битката при Шипка-Шейново.\n 1878 г. – Умберто I става крал на Италия.\n 1882 г. – Оскар Уайлд изнася първата си лекция на тема „Английският ренесанс в изкуството“ в Ню Йорк.\n 1892 г. – Приета промяна в организационната структура на българската армия – от полкова към дивизионна.\n 1900 г. – В Рим е основан футболният клуб Лацио.\n 1901 г. – Генерал Рачо Петров застава начело на служебен безпартиен кабинет.\n 1909 г. – Ирландският изследовател Ърнест Шакълтън достига на 156 км от Южния полюс – най-близко от всички изследователи дотогава.\n 1912 г. – Военноморски кораби на САЩ навлизат в Хондурас.\n 1927 г. – Инцидент с кинокамера създава паника в киносалон в Монреал (Канада), загиват 77 деца, което е причина на многогодишна забрана на децата да посещават киносалони в Квебек.\n 1929 г. – В Лондон за първи път е използван суров пеницилин като лекарство.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Германия изпраща военна помощ на Италия в Северна Африка.\n 1941 г. – Холокост: При масов погром в Букурещ са избити 6000 евреи.\n 1941 г. – Осъществен е първият полет на британския бомбардировач Авро Ланкастър.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Прояпонското правителство на Китай обявява война на САЩ и Великобритания.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Англо-американската авиация бомбардира София.\n 1951 г. – В Ню Йорк е официално открита сградата на ООН.\n 1954 г. – В Юкон (Канада) е измерен абсолютен минимум на температурата на въздуха за тази страна – минус 63 °C.\n 1960 г. – Започва строежът на Асуанския язовир в Египет.\n 1964 г. – Край Панамския канал избухва антиамерикански бунт на панамски студенти, при който загиват 29 души.\n 1969 г. – Във Великобритания се извършва първи пробен полет на прототипа на Конкорд.\n 1972 г. – В Хонконг изгаря лайнерът Кралица Елизабет.\n 1978 г. – Състои се премиерата на български игрален драматичен филм „Адиос, мучачос“.\n 1989 г. – В Ню Йорк и Лос Анджелис започва продажбата на игралната конзола Sega Genesisis.\n 1991 г. – Армията на СССР атакува Вилнюс, за да прекрати обявяването на независимост в Литва.\n 1992 г. – Сърбите в Босна и Херцеговина обявяват своя република, като заявяват, че тя ще е част от СР Югославия.\n 1995 г. – Космонавтът Валери Поляков завършва своя 366-дневен престой на борда на космическата станция Мир.\n 1996 г. – Фирмата Sun Microsystems обявява създаването на JavaSoft.\n 2005 г. – В Палестина се провеждат избори за поста на починалия през 2004 г. Ясер Арафат, спечелени от Махмуд Абас.\n\nРодени \n\n 1554 г. – Григорий XV, пимски папа († 1623 г.)\n 1624 г. – Меишо, императрица на Япония († 1696 г.)\n 1797 г. – Фердинанд Врангел, руски мореплавател († 1870 г.)\n 1807 г. – Елена Павловна, велика руска княгиня († 1873 г.)\n 1835 г. – Ивасаки Ятаро, японски финансист и индустриалец († 1885 г.)\n 1856 г. – Антон Ашкерц, словенски поет († 1912 г.)\n 1869 г. – Ноел Бъкстон, английски политик († 1948 г.)\n 1876 г. – Роберт Михелс, немски политолог († 1936 г.)\n 1878 г. – Джон Б. Уотсън, американски психолог († 1958 г.)\n 1888 г. – Никола Антонов, български дипломат († 1979 г.)\n 1890 г. – Карел Чапек, чешки писател и драматург († 1938 г.)\n 1890 г. – Курт Тухолски, германски журналист († 1935 г.)\n 1908 г. – Симон дьо Бовоар, френска писателка († 1986 г.)\n 1913 г. – Ричард Никсън, 37-и президент на САЩ († 1994 г.)\n 1914 г. – Иван Точко, писател от СР Македония († 1973 г.)\n 1920 г. – Стефан Дичев, български писател († 1996 г.)\n 1920 г. – Хаким Мохамед Саид, пакистански просветител († 1998 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ахмед Секу Туре, президент на Гвинея († 1984 г.)\n 1923 г. – Стоян Анастасов, български художник\n 1925 г. – Лий Ван Клийф, американски актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1928 г. – Джудит Кранц, американска писателка († 2019 г.)\n 1929 г. – Хайнер Мюлер, немски писател († 1995 г.)\n 1931 г. – Алгис Будрис, американски писател († 2008 г.)\n 1936 г. – Кина Мутафова, българска актриса\n 1937 г. – Енрике Лисалде, мексикански актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1941 г. – Джоун Байез, американска поп певица\n 1941 г. – Цветан Северски, български писател\n 1944 г. – Джими Пейдж, британски китарист (Led Zeppelin)\n 1945 г. – Левон Тер-Петросян, арменски политик\n 1948 г. – Явор Милушев, български актьор\n 1958 г. – Мехмет Али Агджа, турски терорист, опитал да убие папа Йоан Павел II\n 1959 г. – Венцислав Мартинов, български комик\n 1959 г. – Ригоберта Менчу, гватемалска общественичка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1992 г.\n 1967 г. – Дейв Матюс, китарист и солист\n 1967 г. – Клаудио Каниджа, аржентински футболист\n 1970 г. – Лара Фабиан, белгийско-канадска поп певица\n 1978 г. – Дженаро Гатузо, италиански футболист\n 1982 г. – Кейт Мидълтън, херцогиня на Кембридж\n 1982 г. – Бенямин Леберт, немски писател\n 1982 г. – Нора Босонг, немска писателка\n 1987 г. – Лукаш Лейва, бразилски футболист\n 1989 г. – Нина Добрев, българска актриса\n 1990 г. – Тодор Скримов, български волейболист\n 2003 г. – Сузанита, българска поп и попфолк певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 1799 г. – Мария Гаетана Анези, италианска математичка (* 1718 г.)\n 1819 г. – Екатерина Павловна, кралица на Вюртемберг (* 1788 г.)\n 1873 г. – Наполеон III, император на Франция (* 1808 г.)\n 1877 г. – Александър Брюлов, руски художник (* 1799 г.)\n 1878 г. – Виктор Емануил II, крал на Италия (* 1820 г.)\n 1918 г. – Емил Рено, френски изобретател (* 1844 г.)\n 1923 г. – Катрин Мансфийлд, новозеландска писателка (* 1888 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Манолев, български революционер (* 1871 г.)\n 1936 г. – Йордан Самарджиев, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1947 г. – Карл Манхайм, германски социолог (* 1893 г.)\n 1961 г. – Емили Грийн Болч, американска писателка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1946 г. (* 1867 г.)\n 1962 г. – Лев Ошанин, руски антрополог (* 1884 г.)\n 1977 г. – Константин Исаев, руски драматург (* 1907 г.)\n 1981 г. – Лозан Стрелков, български писател (* 1912 г.)\n 1994 г. – Йоахим Вернер, германски археолог (* 1909 г.)\n 1998 г. – Кеничи Фукуи, японски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г. (* 1918 г.)\n 1999 г. – Георги Марковски, български писател (* 1941 г.)\n 2006 г. – Руслан Райчев, български диригент (* 1919 г.)\n 2013 г. – Джеймс Бюканън, американски икономист, нобелов лауреат (* 1919 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на мигрантите и бежанците (за 2011 г., отбелязва се от 1904 г. през втората неделя на януари в рамките на католическата общност\n България – Празник на висшето военноморско училище „Н. Й. Вапцаров“ – Варна – създадено на 9 януари 1881 г.\n Италия – Празник на град Албино\n\n109"
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        "text": "Q: Cycle through windows with keyboard in Adobe Acrobat I use Adobe Acrobat Pro a lot, and often keep multiple documents open. Does anyone know of a way of cycling through the open windows of this application without resorting to the mouse?\n(Cmd+` (backtick) does not work.)\nI use OS X 10.6.4 on a 13\" MacBook Pro.\n\nA: You can try Cmd + F6. It's working on both Mac OS & PC.\n\nA: Are you referring to cycling through all open windows in all apps, or all open windows within Adobe Acrobat?\nIf the former, use ⌘tab to switch between apps, and then ⌘` to swap between windows in that app.\nIf the latter, ⌘` works just fine for me (Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.4; 15\" MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.4; no particular third-party addons that might change this behavior).\n\nA: I had given up on this for a long time, but trying it once more I noticed that the \"`\" requires to be pressed for longer for the switch to happen. Once it switches you have to let go quickly or it will switch back to the 1st document.\nHope this helps.\n\nA: You might want to take a look at Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/). It'll give you many more options for how you can cycle through windows and open apps. It's not free ($19), but there is a free trial.\n\nA: option+command+backslash (on french keyboard) (`, on english probably)\n\nA: On Mac OS X 10.11.1 with Acrobat Pro DC installed try controltab.\n"
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        "text": "10 януари е 10-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 355 дни до края на годината (356 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 49 г. пр.н.е. – Гай Юлий Цезар пресича Рубикон.\n 532 г. – Начало на въстанието Ника в Константинопол.\n 1810 г. – Бракът на Наполеон и Жозефина е анулиран.\n 1863 г. – Открита е първата линия на Лондонското метро – първото в света метро.\n 1904 г. – Започва да излиза в. „Българан“ под редакцията на Христо Силянов и Александър Кипров.\n 1920 г. – Обществото на народите провежда първата си среща, на която ратифицира Версайския договор за края на Първата световна война.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Извършена е шеста бомбардировка на София от британско-американската авиация.\n 1946 г. – Състои се първото Общо събрание на ООН; представени са 51 страни.\n 1968 г. – Американската автоматична станция Surveyor-7 извършва меко кацане на повърхността на Луната в близост до кратера Тихо.\n 1969 г. – СССР изстрелва сондата Венера 6 към планетата Венера.\n 1984 г. – САЩ и Ватикана започват дипломатически отношения.\n\n 1990 г. – Сформирана е компанията Time Warner, след обединяване на Time Inc. и Warner Communications Inc.\n 1990 г. – Китайската народна република вдига военното положение, въведено след събитията на площад „Тянънмън“ през юни 1989 г.\n 1996 г. – Народното събрание отхвърля втори вот на недоверие към кабинета на Жан Виденов, предложен от СДС заради зърнената криза.\n 1997 г. – Организираното протестно шествие на опозицията срещу управляващата Българска социалистическа партия прераства в щурм на сградата на Народно събрание на България; полицията разгонва със сила демонстрантите.\n 2000 г. – Възобновени са наблюденията с космическия телескоп Хъбъл.\n 2000 г. – America Online обявява намерението си да закупи Time Warner за 162 милиарда щатски долара.\n\nРодени \n\n 1573 г. – Симон Мариус, немски астроном († 1624 г.)\n 1644 г. – Луи-Франсоа дьо Буфлер, френски офицер († 1711 г.)\n 1769 г. – Мишел Ней, френски маршал († 1815 г.)\n 1883 г. – Алексей Николаевич Толстой, руски писател († 1945 г.)\n 1883 г. – Атанас Дачев, български революционер († 1973 г.)\n 1897 г. – Методи Шаторов, български партизанин († 1944 г.)\n 1903 г. – Димитър Мутафчиев, български футболист († 1990 г.)\n 1904 г. – Шон Макбрайд, ирландски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 († 1988 г.)\n 1913 г. – Густав Хусак, президент на Чехословакия († 1991 г.)\n 1916 г. – Иван Венедиков, български археолог († 1997 г.)\n 1920 г. – Стоян Орманджиев, български футболист и треньор († 2006 г.)\n 1924 г. – Алексей Аджубей, съветски журналист и политик († 1993 г.)\n 1924 г. – Едуардо Чилида, испански скулптор, художник († 2002 г.)\n 1924 г. – Макс Роуч, американски перкусионист, барабанист и композитор († 2007 г.)\n 1936 г. – Робърт Удроу Уилсън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1978\n 1938 г. – Доналд Кнут, американски математик и компютърен учен\n 1942 г. – Величка Пандева, българска скиорка, състезателка по ски бягане († 1993 г.)\n 1942 г. – Уолтър Хил, американски филмов режисьор\n 1943 г. – Джо Масино, американски мафиот\n 1945 г. – Род Стюарт, британски рок певец\n 1947 г. – Джордж Ефинджър, американски писател\n 1948 г. – Тереза Грейвс, американска актриса и певица († 2002 г.)\n 1949 г. – Джеймс Лапайн, американски режисьор\n 1949 г. – Джордж Форман, американски боксьор\n 1950 г. – Любомир Николов, български писател\n 1954 г. – Такаши Мацуока, американски писател\n 1955 г. – Майкъл Шенкер, немски китарист\n 1960 г. – Георги Глушков, български баскетболист\n 1963 г. – Георги Георгиев, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Тони Димитрова, българска певица\n 1965 г. – Йордан Митев, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Стийв Крамър, американски политик\n 1971 г. – Камелия, българска попфолк певица\n 1974 г. – Ритик Рошан, индийски актьор\n 1973 г. – Глен Робинсън, американски баскетболен играч\n 1976 г. – Адам Кенеди, американски бейзболен играч\n 1980 г. – Мердин Байрям, български политик\n 1980 г. – Сара Шейхи, американска актриса\n 1983 г. – Тервел Пулев, български боксьор\n 1992 г. – Иван Ангелов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 681 г. – Агатон, римски папа (* ок. 577)\n 976 г. – Йоан I Цимиски, император на Византийската империя (* ок. 925)\n 1778 г. – Карл Линей, шведски ботаник (* 1707 г.)\n 1815 г. – Балтазар Акке, френски геолог на австрийска служба (* 1739 г.)\n 1824 г. – Томас Едуард Боудич, английски изследовател (* 1791 г.)\n 1862 г. – Самюел Колт, американски изобретател (* 1814 г.)\n 1873 г. – Димитър Общи, български революционер (* ок. 1835)\n 1878 г. – Гина Караиванова, майка на Васил Левски (* ок. 1810 г.)\n 1917 г. – Бъфало Бил, американски заселник (* 1846 г.)\n 1918 г. – Константин Иречек, чешки историк (* 1854 г.)\n 1922 г. – Шигенобу Окума, министър-председател на Япония (* 1838 г.)\n 1934 г. – Маринус Ван дер Любе, холандски комунист, обвинен в подпалването на Райхстага (* 1909 г.)\n 1937 г. – Генко Мархолев, български военен деец (* 1865 г.)\n 1944 г. – Герхард Венгел, германски летец (* 1915 г.)\n 1944 г. – Андрей Тошев, министър-председател на България (* 1867 г.)\n 1944 г. – Божил Стоянов, български актьор (* 1897 г.)\n 1944 г. – Христо Обрешков, български цигулар (* 1907 г.)\n 1951 г. – Синклер Луис, американски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1930 (* 1885 г.)\n 1957 г. – Габриела Мистрал, чилийска писателка, Нобелов лауреат през 1945 (* 1889 г.)\n 1957 г. – Иван Грозев, български поет (* 1872 г.)\n 1961 г. – Дашиъл Хамет, американски писател (* 1894 г.)\n 1967 г. – Радхабинод Пал, индийски юрист (* 1886 г.)\n 1967 г. – Стефан Ненков, български общественик (* 1880 г.)\n 1971 г. – Коко Шанел, френска модна дизайнерка (* 1883 г.)\n 1975 г. – Стойчо Мошанов, български политик (* 1892 г.)\n 1976 г. – Хаулин Уулф, американски музикант (* 1910 г.)\n 1986 г. – Ярослав Сейферт, чешки писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1984 (* 1901 г.)\n 2001 г. – Неджати Джумалъ, турски писател (* 1921 г.)\n 2007 г. – Елена Георгиева, българска езиковедка (* 1930 г.)\n 2007 г. – Карло Понти, италиански продуцент (* 1912 г.)\n 2008 г. – Михаил Минин, поставил знамето на победата над Райхстага през 1945 г. (* 1922 г.)\n 2010 г. – Божидар Спириев, български статистик (* 1932 г.)\n 2014 г. – Георги Найденов – Гого, български певец (* 1949 г.)\n 2015 г. – Франческо Рози, италиански режисьор и сценарист (* 1922 г.)\n 2017 г. – Роман Херцог, президент на Германия (* 1934 г.)\n\nПразници \n – ден на Св. Евстатий Чудотворец\n\n110"
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        "text": "Hypnosis is the process of putting people into a highly suggestive trance like state by using various verbal commands and thought processes. There is a huge amount of debate about the amount of influence a hypnotist can have on someone and on exactly what happens to the brain when someone is hypnotized However it is widely accepted that hypnosis cannot make people perform actions that they would not be consciously willing to do. (So all those stage performer hypnotists you may have seen have some serious questions to answer).\nCally uses hypnotherapy to help people feel empowered in mind and body. Hypnotherapy can be integrated into your health care to address sleep problems, stress relief, general anxiousness, freedom from smoking, weight management, pain management, self-confidence, and fears that get in the way of daily life. Cally will teach you self-hypnosis, provide you with a list of strategies and resources for relaxation, and a digital audio file for reinforcement at home.\nThis coaching is for a minimum of six months up to one year. The focus is to identify and prioritize developmental issues and goals with an action plan. The coach will gather data via a client questionnaire, a 360 degree feedback process, and/or other diagnostic assessments such as Myers-Briggs, Strength Finders, etc. The coach is responsible for working with the executive to determine the plan, its implementation and subsequent follow-up. The coach also lends support to the client in addressing and focusing on strategic issues of the organization, while simultaneously addressing personal developmental issues.\nSometimes I think of a story for a teaching example later, and I’m unable to contact the client for permission. In these situations, I change identifying details. This can be tricky, because simply omitting the name, time, and place of the event you’re describing is not enough to ensure that someone who knows the client well would not recognize the story. Certain details, like a unique physical trait combined with a sport or interest could be enough to identify the client. Therefore, I change those types of details as well.\nWe don’t aim to use scare tactics because research from the field of neuropsychology has shown that scaring smokers doesn't help them stop (1) In fact what most smokers do when they’ve been scared is…reach for the cigarettes. Scary anti-smoking pictures of, for example, diseased lungs have been show not to deter smoking but stimulate a part of the brain known as the “craving spot.” (1) (2)\nSome popular beliefs attached to weight loss have been shown to either have less effect on weight loss as commonly believed or are actively unhealthy. According to Harvard Health, the idea of metabolism being the \"key to weight\" is \"part truth and part myth\" as while metabolism does affect weight loss, external forces such as diet and exercise have an equal effect.[43] They also commented that the idea of changing one's rate of metabolism is under debate.[43] Diet plans in fitness magazines are also often believed to be effective, but may actually be harmful by limiting the daily intake of important calories and nutrients which can be detrimental depending on the person and are even capable of driving individuals away from weight loss.[44]\nMany of the clucking chicken images are the result of hypnosis’s forefather, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). Mesmer believed that there was an invisible force, a cosmic energy, that could be harnessed by one person to influence another person’s behavior. While his theory was wrong, the techniques he used were effective. These techniques were picked up on and developed over the coming years for therapeutic and medical purposes. Sigmund Freud, for instance, used hypnosis techniques. In the mid-1900s, hypnotherapy as we know it evolved. Milton Erickson (1901-1980) pioneered “indirect hypnosis,” during which therapists work with individual patients to shift their perceptions of themselves and their issues.\nA person with depression experiences a wide variety of emotions. According to the University of New Hampshire, hypnotherapy can help a person learn to reduce and/or better control feelings of anxiety, stress, and sadness. Hypnotherapy is also used to treat negative behaviors that could be worsening a person’s depression. These behaviors may include smoking and poor eating and sleeping habits.\nOften, when an executive coach is engaged, business transformation is top of mind. Executive coaching efforts often focus on change management, yielding important results. It is common for organizations to seek out executive coaches who are adept at developing new business practices, implementing new technologies, or adopting new strategies. The tangible organizational benefits of executive coaching are manifold. Research by Performance Sales Executive Council found that effective coaching directly increased sales performance. On average, executive coaching of core sales representatives resulted in an 8 percent performance increase. A study published in the Manchester Review that primarily investigated executives from Fortune 1000 companies reported that executive coaching leads to improved customer service (39 percent frequency), cost reduction (23 percent) and increased bottom-line profitability (22 percent).\n“Learning hypnotherapy does not commit you to drastically changing your therapy practice,” says hypnotherapist Catherine Reiss. “The training will allow you to more quickly and effectively get to the cause of your clients’ unwanted behaviors and the feelings they present with it, but it also facilitates the use of trance in more traditional formats.”\nIt might take the full 10 years, but coaching will begin to rise in popularity over consulting. Aging demographics will demand a vast transfer of institutional, industry and professional wisdom. Consulting augments gaps in knowledge, but coaching emphasizes the transfer of wisdom. Smart young leaders will seek to learn, as talent becomes harder to \"rent.\" - Jim Vaselopulos, Rafti Advisors, Inc.\nWith the emphasis on sports and exercise in society, it’s no wonder that sports psychology is a growing specialty within the broader field psychology. Sports psychologists examine the interrelation between human psychology and athletic performance, applying their skills and knowledge to enhance performance and maximize the benefits of physical activity.\nSpecialists in this area commonly work alongside other professionals who make up the team support system, such as coaches, trainers, physical therapists and game strategists. In a corporate setting, sports psychologists may be called upon by HR managers or department heads to develop team-building strategies for colleagues of a particular business or organization.\nAcross all business sectors and areas of professional practice, workers confront significant transitions. When transitioning into leadership roles, they cannot rely on their old ways of conducting themselves. They must transform their mindset and behavior patterns in order to succeed in the new role. Technical skills and know-how are no longer sufficient. They must also learn to collaborate with C-suite executives, develop novel business opportunities, and inspire their colleagues and direct reports with a well-articulated vision of success.\nConsider Jim Mirabella, an executive earmarked for leadership at an electronic games manufacturer. Ever since the CEO had promoted him to head of marketing, Mirabella had become impossible to work with. Colleagues complained that he hoarded information about company strategy, market indicators, sales forecasts, and the like. The theory circulating through the grapevine was that Mirabella’s aim was to weaken junior executives’ ability to make informed contributions during inter-divisional strategic-planning sessions. He was assigned an executive coach.\nLuke O’Neil for The Atlantic reviewed quit smoking hypnotherapy when he tried the treatment himself. He said “I left the session feeling noticeably different. I sat in my car outside for a half hour and did not smoke. I went to dinner nearby and sat, and had a drink, and did not smoke. Eventually I caved in to the craving, but I didn't like it. I'm still smoking, I just don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as I used to anymore.”\nI have no prior experience with hypnosis. I went into this with no expectations, but I did have the willingness to quit smoking. I have tried nicoderm patches, nicoderm gum, Chantix, Wellbutrin, cold turkey, weaning off, etc...for the last two years. The most I ever got were 28 agonizing days. The cravings never went away. Then I met with Rita Black and here I am 6 weeks later to share how amazed I am with the success of our 1 meeting! I walked out of Rita's office a non-smoker in every way. Rita explained to me how to manage the \"cravings\" if and when they come. I have totally regained my power against smoking. I highly recommend this life saving service (not to mention, financial savings).\nAs the practice of sport psychology expanded throughout the 1980s and 1990s, some practitioners expressed concern that the field lacked uniformity and needed consistency to become \"a good profession.\"[25] The issues of graduate program accreditation and the uniform training of graduate students in sport psychology were considered by some to be necessary to promote the field of sport psychology, educate the public on what a sport psychologist does, and ensure an open job market for practitioners.[26] However, Hale and Danish (1999) argued that accreditation of graduate programs was not necessary and did not guarantee uniformity. Instead, these authors proposed a special practicum in applied sport psychology that included greater contact hours with clients and closer supervision.[27]\n“With hypnosis, you might help someone stop smoking by suggesting the taste or smell of cigarettes is worse than it actually is. But a hypnotherapist can also use age regression to examine the impulse that fuels the client’s habit and discover old conclusions and behaviors. The healing will take place when the client creates new conclusions about old memories and chooses new behaviors rather than smoking.”\nThis video will last for 8 hours and will allow you to enjoy a full night of high quality sleep. Simply turn on the video when you go to bed, lay back, relax, and fall asleep. The affirmations in the recording will be absorbed by your subconscious as you sleep, producing fantastic results. At the end of the recording an alarm will sound, and you'll wake up full of positive energy and ready to start your day.\nHealth coaching is becoming recognized as a new way to help individuals \"manage\" their illnesses and conditions, especially those of a chronic nature.[21] The coach will use special techniques, personal experience, expertise and encouragement to assist the coachee in bringing his/her behavioral changes about, while aiming for lowered health risks and decreased healthcare costs.[22] The National Society of Health Coaches (NSHC) has differentiated the term health coach from wellness coach.[22] According to the NSHC, health coaches are qualified \"to guide those with acute or chronic conditions and/or moderate to high health risk\", and wellness coaches provide guidance and inspiration \"to otherwise 'healthy' individuals who desire to maintain or improve their overall general health status\".[22]\nDuring the next year, Nelson suggested a number of personnel changes. Since those came with the CEO’s backing, the HR director accepted them, no questions asked. Because she was afraid to buck the CEO’s handpicked adviser, the personnel director also said nothing about the problems that ensued. These stemmed from Nelson’s exclusive reliance on his profiling system. For example, in recommending the promotion of one East Coast store manager to regional director of West Coast sales, Nelson ignored the man’s unfamiliarity with the region and the people he was appointed to manage. Not surprisingly, that move—and many of Nelson’s other ill-conceived selections—bombed. To compound the problem, word of Nelson’s status and his often horrific recommendations circulated through the company like wildfire, leading many people to both fear and resent his undue influence over Garvin. The negative emotions Nelson generated were so intense that underperforming, newly promoted managers became the targets of an undeclared, but uniformly embraced, pattern of passive-aggressive behavior by the rank and file. Such behaviors ranged from not attending meetings to botching orders to failing to stock goods in a timely manner.\nWhile coaching has become a recognized intervention, sadly there are still no standards or licensing arrangements which are widely recognized. Professional bodies have continued to develop their own standards, but the lack of regulation means anyone can call themselves a coach. [...] Whether coaching is a profession which requires regulation, or is professional and requires standards, remains a matter of debate.\n\"Coaching works when it's systematic,\" says Babson's Hunt, and many organizations use coaching as an integrated part of a larger leadership development program. Increasingly, firms incorporate \"360-degree\" feedback, using the results to indicate areas in which an executive might benefit from working with a coach. Has your feedback revealed an area in which you would like to improve? Is it a skill you need to refine in order to advance through the organization? Would you benefit from an outside perspective? The answers to these questions help gauge the potential value of coaching.\nThe link between exercise and psychology has long been recognized. In 1899, William James discussed the importance of exercise, writing it was needed to \"furnish the background of sanity, serenity...and make us good-humored and easy of approach.\"[68] Other researchers noted the connection between exercise and depression, concluding a moderate amount of exercise was more helpful than no exercise in symptom improvement.[69] Additionally, meeting exercise requirements can also aid in alleviating symptoms of avoidance disorders and anxiety, while also providing a higher quality of life for the patient in terms of physical health. [70]\nWhile there is a multitude of different tangible benefits associated with executive coaching, many benefits don't appear as line items on financial statements. Executive coaching often focuses on leadership skills and relationships with managers, direct reports, co-workers, and other stakeholders. In these cases, executive coaches focus on teamwork, problem solving, decision making, and conflict resolution skills. The results can be transformative. A survey reported by Clear Coaching Limited found that executive coaching resulted in improvements in work relationships within a team (50 percent frequency), employees' abilities to see others' perspectives (47 percent), and improved atmosphere (40 percent). In a world where the strength of an organization's culture is increasingly trumping salary levels in terms of importance to employees, these intangible benefits are more relevant than ever.\nWilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) William James (1842–1910) Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) Carl Jung (1875–1961) John B. Watson (1878–1958) Clark L. Hull (1884–1952) Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Gordon Allport (1897–1967) J. P. Guilford (1897–1987) Carl Rogers (1902–1987) Erik Erikson (1902–1994) B. F. Skinner (1904–1990) Donald O. Hebb (1904–1985) Ernest Hilgard (1904–2001) Harry Harlow (1905–1981) Raymond Cattell (1905–1998) Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) Neal E. Miller (1909–2002) Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) Donald T. Campbell (1916–1996) Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) David McClelland (1917–1998) Leon Festinger (1919–1989) George Armitage Miller (1920–2012) Richard Lazarus (1922–2002) Stanley Schachter (1922–1997) Robert Zajonc (1923–2008) Albert Bandura (b. 1925) Roger Brown (1925–1997) Endel Tulving (b. 1927) Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987) Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) Ulric Neisser (1928–2012) Jerome Kagan (b. 1929) Walter Mischel (1930–2018) Elliot Aronson (b. 1932) Daniel Kahneman (b. 1934) Paul Ekman (b. 1934) Michael Posner (b. 1936) Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Bruce McEwen (b. 1938) Larry Squire (b. 1941) Richard E. Nisbett (b. 1941) Martin Seligman (b. 1942) Ed Diener (b. 1946) Shelley E. Taylor (b. 1946) John Anderson (b. 1947) Ronald C. Kessler (b. 1947) Joseph E. LeDoux (b. 1949) Richard Davidson (b. 1951) Susan Fiske (b. 1952) Roy Baumeister (b. 1953)\n“We brought Performance Consultants International in to Mubadala to help us launch and deliver an Executive Coaching programme to the top tiers of our organization. We maintained constant contact throughout the set-up phase. We had a true partnership with Performance Consultants who helped us every step of the way, from concept to launch to implementation and ongoing tracking. The launch event wildly exceeded expectations and the ongoing support I needed was always there. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending them for an Executive Coaching framework in any ambitious organization”\nBut coaching is not just for tackling new assignments. It can also play an invigorating role. Coaches can help executives \"develop new ways to attack old problems,\" says Vicky Gordon, CEO of the Gordon Group coaching practice in Chicago. \"When efforts to change yourself, your team, or your company have failed—you are frustrated or burned out—a coach can be the outside expert to help you get to the root cause and make fundamental changes.\"\nIntentional weight loss is the loss of total body mass as a result of efforts to improve fitness and health, or to change appearance through slimming. Weight loss in individuals who are overweight or obese can reduce health risks,[1] increase fitness,[2] and may delay the onset of diabetes.[1] It could reduce pain and increase movement in people with osteoarthritis of the knee.[2] Weight loss can lead to a reduction in hypertension (high blood pressure), however whether this reduces hypertension-related harm is unclear.[1][not in citation given]\nOne obvious risk to patients is the insufficiently trained therapist. The inadequately trained therapist can cause harm and distort the normally pleasant experience of hypnotherapy. A second risk for patients is the unscrupulous practitioner who may be both inadequately trained and may have some hidden agenda. These rare individuals are capable of causing great harm to the patient and to the profession. As mentioned above, the patient should carefully scrutinize their chosen therapist before submitting themselves to this dynamic form of therapy.\nSports lovers will likely find the field of sports psychology interesting, but choosing it as a career involves practical considerations—in other words, what’s the job outlook, and what’s the bottom line? As with most jobs, financial compensation largely depends on experience and education level, but as a growing field, sports psychologists have a generally good outlook.\nThis course examines organizational coaching and surveys the foundational disciplines on which the practice of organizational coaching is based, applicable theories and methods. Coaching will be explored as an intervention and developmental technology. Students are introduced to the practice of coaching and coaching conversation models as well as coaching-related skills including contracting, listening, questioning, designing actions, planning and goal setting, and managing progress and accountability.\nJust recently have sport psychologists begun to be recognized for the valuable contributions they make in assisting athletes and their coaches in improving performance during competitive situations, as well as understanding how physical exercise may contribute to the psychological well-being of non-athletes. Many can benefit from sport psychologists: athletes who are trying to improve their performance, injured athletes who are looking for motivation, individuals looking to overcome the pressure of competition, and young children involved in youth sports as well as their parents. Special focus is geared towards psychological assessment of athletes. Assessment can be both, focused on selection of athletes and the team set up of rosters as well as on professional guidance and counseling of single athletes.\nAccording to many sources including the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is part of the United States National Library of Medicine and a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hypnosis is scientifically proven to help relieve both mental challenges and physical pains. Hypnosis can alleviate stress and reduce pain after surgeries, has been shown to relieve anxiety in children in the emergency room, and can be useful for managing pain associated with everything from arthritis to migraines. Hypnosis is non-invasive and gives you a way to control pain or discomfort that might otherwise seem out of your hands. Hypnosis shouldn’t be used as a substitute for medical care, but may be an excellent complementary tool that is best provided by a trained therapist or licensed medical provider. The University of Maryland Medical Center shares many conditions for which hypnosis can be useful:\n“Hypnosis is a different state of mind associated with four major characteristics,” he said. First is a “highly focused attention on something.” It could be an issue you're having, or a problem you want to address. Second is disassociating oneself from the immediate physical environment. “You focus on the beach in Florida in the middle of a Boston winter,” he said, anticipating my particular winter-addled frame of mind perfectly. “Instead of traveling there, you go there with your mind, and you're fully focused on the beach.”\nSome therapists use hypnosis to recover possibly repressed memories they believe are linked to the person's mental disorder. However, the quality and reliability of information recalled by the patient under hypnosis is not always reliable. Additionally, hypnosis can pose a risk of creating false memories -- usually as a result of unintended suggestions or the asking of leading questions by the therapist. For these reasons, hypnosis is no longer considered a common or mainstream part of most forms of psychotherapy. Also, the use of hypnosis for certain mental disorders in which patients may be highly susceptible to suggestion, such as dissociative disorders, remains especially controversial."
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        "text": "HomeNews and announcementsNew Bishop Ready to Take Up Office\nNew Bishop Ready to Take Up Office\nMedia Release Thursday 7 February 2019\nOn Saturday 9 February, the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch will celebrate the ordination and installation of their ninth Bishop in two separate festive services. Last year it was announced that the Reverend Dr Peter Carrell, a Cantabrian and well-respected Bible scholar and priest, would become the new Anglican Bishop this year.\nThe activity of ordaining and installing the new Bishop of Christchurch will be a time for Anglicans to celebrate and focus on the joy of new leadership, strength and unity of purpose, and a refreshed desire for engaging with their communities.\nDiocesan Manager Edwin Boyce has been working with a team to plan the events since the announcement in August last year.\n“We wanted to make this a day of celebration. It’s a time for us and the communities we live in and among, to celebrate as we re-focus on a central tenet of the Christian faith, ‘love your neighbour’. Part of that is building enhanced relationships that both honour the past and reflect our passion for the future,” says Mr Boyce.\n‘Togetherness’ will be at the heart of the this celebration as people from parish groups across Ōtautahi Christchurch, the Diocesan territories, and the public come as one with church leaders of many faiths, government, iwi, community and business leaders, to welcome and support this new beginning.\nThe Dean of Christchurch, Dean Lawrence Kimberley, is particularly excited to welcome the new Bishop, which also coincides with visible progress being made on site at 100 Cathedral Square.\n“Christchurch began with a special relationship to Anglicanism, with our founding forebears bringing their faith-based approach to life with them when building the city. This unique event will be a joyful combination of different aspects of Anglicanism. Its inclusiveness demonstrates love for friends and neighbours including welcoming those who are hard to love. It extends to work colleagues, visitors from far and near, and our tūrangawaewae, the places we are connected to and belong,” says the Dean.\nThe Anglican Church consists of three strands: Tikanga Māori, Tikanga Pākehā and Tikanga Pasifika will all be participating in the celebrations.\nThe two services – one to ordain Rev’d Dr Carrell as a Bishop, and one to install him as the Ninth Bishop of Christchurch – will take place at Christchurch Boys’ High School auditorium in the morning, and in the Square, in front of the cathedral steps in the afternoon, respectively.\nAnglicans from all over the Diocese, which extends between South and North Canterbury, across to Westland and the Chatham Islands, will be celebrating either at the event itself or by tuning in to a live feed being streamed for both events.\nBishop-elect, Rev’d Dr Carrell, has been preparing himself for the role over the last few months and is ready to take on the challenge.\n“Stepping into this role is a privilege and an honour. I am grateful for all the support, prayer and aroha I have been receiving and that no doubt will continue. I am excited and yearn for the Diocese to move forward and thrive.\n“I want to be known as someone who works together with the Diocese, the city, the council, local iwi, other faiths, and in our local communities and whanau groups. Faith needs to be practical and lead to action.\n“I invite anyone interested to join with us at the Installation Service in the Square at 3:00 pm. All are welcome to come down and celebrate with us together.”\nRev’d Dr Carrell has stepped down from his previous roles as Director of Theology House, Director of Education for the Diocese of Christchurch, and Archdeacon for Pegasus (East Christchurch), and new personnel are now in place.\nPeter has a wide and deep knowledge of the Diocese into which he was baptised and ordained, including serving as Archdeacon of South Canterbury (2014–18) and Archdeacon of Mid Canterbury (2015–18). He is a priest with strong gifts and experience in communicating the Christian faith through speaking and writing.\nDetails of the two events are outlined below:\nThe Ordination Service: This will take place at Christchurch Boys High School Auditorium where representatives from both the Province and the Diocese, Tikanga Maori and Tikanga Pacifica will be present. The service begins at 11:00 am and is a ticketed event. Bishop Richard Wallace, O Te Waipounamu, will be speaking at this service.\nThe Installation Service: Following the Ordination Service, Bishop Peter will be installed as Ninth Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch in a brief, and less formal service, in Cathedral Square. The Installation Service will begin at 3:00 pm and anyone is welcome to attend this out-door event, which will take place in all weather. The Mayor, Leanne Dalziel will be speaking at this event."
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        "text": "Mike Morin’s legendary history includes stints in Detroit, Toledo and Washington DC radio before coming to Boston where he hosted The Morning Zoo on 94.5 WZOU. Later, Mike landed the morning show at 93.7 WCGY-Boston, 106.3 WHOB-Nashua, and most recently was host of New Hampshire In The Morning at WZID-Manchester. Some of you may also remember Mike as co-host of Candlepin Stars and Strikes on Channel 50 TV. Mike is a regular contributor to New Hampshire Magazine, has written 2 books about his famed radio career, TV’s golden age of Candlepin Bowling, and is currently writing a 3rd book about the 100 year history of the Historic Red Arrow Diner."
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        "text": "Q: Mail: Smart Mailbox Filters How can I get the smart mailbox to filter email correctly? I have the following set:\nContains messages that match ANY:\nSubject Contains criteria one\nEntire Message Contains criteria two\nEntire Message Contains criteria three\nThe result is no messages found. If I remove the third criteria I get messages. What I thought the ANY would take each criteria and OR them. Instead it appears to be AND ing them.\nAny thoughts on how to implement criteria in an OR?\n\nA: You've got your rule set up correctly - if it's an ANY set of predicates it's as if there is an OR between them. It may be slow (and why nothing is showing up) because an Entire Message Contains has to search every email you have.\nWhat happens if you have only criteria three and not criteria two - there may be an issue with criteria three that is causing the search to fail. (Check Console)\nYou can kludge a smart mailbox with AND and OR rules by using other Smart Mailboxes and the \"Message Is In Mailbx\" or \"Message Is Not In Mailbox\" predicate.\n\nA: For the \"Entire Message\" and \"Contains\" combination, you can use AND and OR to add multiple keywords. For example, \nContains messages that match ALL of the following conditions:\nData Received is in the date range \"01/01/2011\" to \"31/12/2011\"\nEntire Message Contains \"invoice OR receipt\"\nThis will give you all messages in 2011 that contain either \"invoice\" or \"receipt\"\n"
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        "text": "Prof Eric Pentecost\nProfessor of Economics, specialisting in monetary and financial economics, with specific reference to the Euro-zone, international capital movements and exchange rate determination and policy\nChristina Perry\nTeaching Fellow in Law\nI am the Course Convenor for Law 4005: Elements of Contract Law at Queen Mary. Previously, I was a Lecturer at The City Law School. I practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP for seven years prior to entering academic life. I have experience in significant corporate transactions, including private equity transactions, Regulation S/Rule 144A equity offerings, project financings and internal corporate investigations. I am admitted to practice in New York State as well as in England and Wales. I am the Careers Liaison Tutor and is a Legal Advice Centre Subject Advisor for Contract law. My research interests include comparative banking regulation in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.\nProf Dimitris Petmezas\nChair in Finance\nProfessor Dimitris Petmezas is Chair in Finance. Prior to taking up this position he was a Reader and Senior Lecturer in Finance at Surrey Business School (ex-School of Management) and also held the position of Lecturer in Finance at Durham Business School. Professor Petmezas was educated at Aristotle University (BA in Economics) and Durham University (MSc in Finance and Investment with Distinction, and PhD in Finance). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a visiting-academic in several European Business Schools teaching in EMBA, MBA and MSc programmes. Professor Petmezas has also been invited to deliver speeches in several Universities in Europe and China. He is an independent M&A advisor and he has also worked as a stock market analyst. Professor Petmezas' main research interests lie in the area of Corporate Finance and, more specifically, in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). His current research focuses on the role of financial and informational intermediaries, as well as corporate governance, in M&As. Professor Petmezas' research also looks into factors that affect value creation for shareholders in M&A activity and its relation with behavioral issues such as managerial overconfidence. Additionally, he is interested in SEOs. Professor Petmezas has published extensively in top international journals including the Journal of Finance, Financial Management, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. His paper titled “When It Pays to Pay Your Investment Banker: New Evidence on the Role of Financial Advisors in M&As” was the 3rd Most-Read Article in 2012 in the Journal of Finance.His research has been featured on the programs of various US and European conferences receiving awards, such as the best paper award in International Finance at the Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA) Conference in the US in 2009, and quoted in widely read international media, such as the Financial Times and The Economist. Professor Petmezas serves as an ad-hoc referee in several academic journals and research grants' bodies and also acts as an external examiner in a number of academic institutions.\nDr Ivan Petrella\nIvan Petrella is a Lectuer in Economics and Birkbeck, University of London. His research interests are in Macroeconomics, in particular Monetary Economics, as well as Applied Econometrics and Commodity Pricing.\nDr Jan Pfister\nLecturer in Accounting\nDr Ludovic Phalippou\nLudovic Phalippou has been a Lecturer in Finance at the Said Business School of the University of Oxford since January 2011. Ludovic's research is mainly on private equity funds and has received considerable attention from the investment professional community and the academic community alike. Several major newspapers echoed his findings such as the Financial Times and The Economist. He has received several best paper awards and research grants. His research has been presented at the best academic conferences and at seminars in prestigious universities. His research has been published in top academic and practitioner journals: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Harvard Business Review, Review of Finance and Financial Analyst Journal. Ludovic is ranked in the top 100 worldwide by SSRN.com out of all business school researchers for the number of downloads of his articles, and has been selected in the Speaker Retainer Program of the CFA institute."
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        "text": "11 януари е 11-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 354 дни до края на годината (355 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1158 г. – Владислав II е коронован за крал на Чехия.\n\n 1477 г. – В хода на войната между Швейцария и Бургундия се състои битката при Нанси, в която загива херцогът на Бургундия Шарл.\n 1567 г. – В Лондон става тегленето на печалбите в първата държавна лотария.\n 1610 г. – Италианският математик и астроном Галилео Галилей открива спътника на Юпитер Ганимед.\n 1693 г. – При земетресение в Сицилия загиват около 60 000 души.\n 1787 г. – Английският астроном Уилям Хершел открива два естествени спътници на Уран – Оберон и Титания.\n 1909 г. – В САЩ се провежда първото женско автомобилно състезание.\n 1910 г. – Основан е град Айоун, щата Вашингтон, САЩ.\n 1919 г. – Румъния анексира Трансилвания.\n 1921 г. – България получава помощ от Германия в размер на 1 500 000 златни марки в знак на благодарност за участието ѝ в Първата световна война на страната на Централните сили.\n 1922 г. – В Торонто, Канада, за първи път успешно е използван инсулин при лечение на 14-годишно момче, болно от диабет.\n 1923 г. – Войски на Франция и Белгия нахлуват в Рур, за да принудят Ваймарската република да плати репарациите след Първата световна война.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Япония обявява война на Холандия, а японската армия нахлува в Борнео и завзема столицата на Малайзия – Куала Лампур.\n 1957 г. – Съветското правителство взема решение за създаване на балистична ракета.\n 1961 г. – Започва изграждането на доменния цех на металургичния комбинат в Кремиковци.\n 1966 г. – В СССР е създаден център за подготовка на космонавти.\n 1974 г. – В Кейптаун (ЮАР) се раждат шестзначки – първите в света живородени и запазени живи 6 близнака.\n 1981 г. – Международна експедиция поставя рекорд, като прекосява Антарктида за 67 дни.\n 1982 г. – Астурия става автономна област на Испания.\n 1991 г. – Съветската армия щурмува обществени сгради във Вилнюс, за да пресече кампанията за независимост на Литва.\n 2001 г. – В щата Орегон (САЩ) се ражда първата генетично модифицирана маймуна – Анди.\n\nРодени \n\n 347 г. – Теодосий I, римски император († 395 г.)\n 1278 г. – Рита Арменска, византийска императрица († 1333 г.)\n 1503 г. – Пармиджанино, италиански художник († 1540 г.)\n 1545 г. – Гуидобалдо дел Монте, италиански учен († 1607 г.)\n 1686 г. – Ханс Егеде, норвежки мисионер († 1758 г.)\n 1755 г. – Александър Хамилтън, американски политик († 1804 г.)\n 1793 г. – Кейв Джонсън, американски политик († 1866 г.)\n 1807 г. – Езра Корнел, американски предприемач († 1874 г.)\n 1810 г. – Йохан Лудвиг Крапф, немски мисионер († 1881 г.)\n 1815 г. – Джон Макдоналд, първи министър-председател на Канада († 1891 г.)\n 1820 г. – Александър Серов, руски композитор и музикален критик († 1871 г.)\n 1842 г. – Уилям Джеймс, американски психолог философ († 1910 г.)\n 1852 г. – Константин Ференбах, канцлер на Германия († 1926 г.)\n 1853 г. – Густав Фалке, немски писател († 1916 г.)\n 1857 г. – Георги Дерманчев, български офицер († 1927 г.)\n 1859 г. – Джордж Кързън, британски политик († 1925 г.)\n 1867 г. – Едуард Титченър, английски психолог († 1927 г.)\n 1888 г. – Коста Янков, български комунист († 1925 г.)\n 1891 г. – Борис Митов, български художник, син на Антон Митов († 1963 г.)\n 1892 г. – Никола Кожухаров, български художник († 1971 г.)\n 1896 г. – Иван Винаров, съветски военен разузнавач и български генерал († 1969 г.)\n 1899 г. – Грете Бибринг, австрийски лекар († 1977 г.)\n 1903 г. – Алън Пейтън, южноафрикански писател († 1988 г.)\n 1905 г. – Змей Горянин, български писател († 1958 г.)\n 1906 г. – Алберт Хофман, швейцарски химик († 2008 г.)\n 1910 г. – Йордан Спасов, български актьор († 1984 г.)\n 1911 г. – Зенко Сузуки, министър-председател на Япония († 2004 г.)\n 1911 г. – Петко Инджов, български хирург († 1987 г.)\n 1912 г. – Иван Мартинов, български писател († 1991 г.)\n 1916 г. – Методий Стратиев, български духовник († 2006 г.)\n 1918 г. – Едуард Мърфи, аерокосмически инженер († 1990 г.)\n 1920 г. – Закария Ситчин, азербайджански писател († 2010 г.)\n 1920 г. – Славко Яневски, македонски писател († 2000 г.)\n 1923 г. – Дрексел Джером Люис Биксби, американски писател и сценарист († 1998 г.)\n 1925 г. – Свобода Бъчварова, българска писателка и сценаристка († 2012 г.)\n 1926 г. – Лев Демин, съветски космонавт († 1998 г.)\n 1929 г. – Людия Иванов, български учен ихтиолог († 2002 г.)\n 1929 г. – Рафаел Ейтан, израелски генерал († 2004 г.)\n 1934 г. – Жан Кретиен, министър-председател на Канада\n 1938 г. – Артър Скаргил, английски политик\n 1938 г. – Фишер Блек, американски икономист († 1995 г.)\n 1939 г. – Ричард Поснър, американски съдия\n 1940 г. – Венелин Живков, български учен\n 1946 г. – Миодраг Иванов, български шоумен и актьор\n 1952 г. – Ким Хартман, английска актриса\n 1956 г. – Боряна Балин, български писател\n 1957 г. – Ани Илков, български поет\n 1957 г. – Брайън Робсън, английски футболист\n 1963 г. – Джейсън Конъри, британски актьор\n 1967 г. – Катарина Хакер, немска писателка\n 1971 г. – Стюарт Дейвис, американски музикант\n 1972 г. – Аманда Пийт, американска актриса\n 1972 г. – Константин Хабенски, руски актьор\n 1973 г. – Рокмонд Дънбар, американски актьор\n 1981 г. – Атанаска Вихърова – българска актриса, участвала в комедийното шоу Тутурутка († 2011 г.)\n 1982 г. – Денис Колодин, руски футболист\n 1983 г. – Адриан Сутил, германски пилот от Формула 1\n 1984 г. – Данаил Митев, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Рие Фу, японска певица\n 1995 г. – Николай Алгафари, български политик\n\nПочинали \n\n 314 г. – Милтиад, римски папа (* 3 век)\n 705 г. – Йоан VI, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 812 г. – Ставракий, император на Византийската империя (* 8 век)\n 1055 г. – Константин IX Мономах, византийски император (* ок. 1000 г.)\n 1068 г. – Екберт I, граф на Брауншвайг (* ? г.)\n 1494 г. – Доменико Гирландайо, флорентински ренесансов художник (* 1449 г.)\n 1696 г. – Шарл Албанел, френски мисионер (* 1616 г.)\n 1801 г. – Доменико Чимароза, италиански композитор (* 1749 г.)\n 1817 г. – Тимъти Дуайт, американски поет (* 1752 г.)\n 1837 г. – Франсоа Жерар, френски художник (* 1770 г.)\n 1862 г. – Димитър Миладинов, български просветител (* 1810 г.)\n 1916 г. – Козма Дебърски, висш български духовник (* ок. 1835 г.)\n 1923 г. – Константинос I, крал на Гърция (* 1868 г.)\n 1927 г. – Екатерина Златарева, българска артистка (* 1868 г.)\n 1928 г. – Томас Харди, английски писател (* 1840 г.)\n 1941 г. – Емануел Ласкер, германски шахматист (* 1868 г.)\n 1944 г. – Галеацо Чано, италиански политик (* 1903 г.)\n 1945 г. – Стефан Стефанов, политик, индустриалец (* 1876 г.)\n 1947 г. – Коста Тодоров, български политик (* 1889 г.)\n 1952 г. – Жан дьо Латр дьо Тасини, френски маршал (* 1889 г.)\n 1955 г. – Родолфо Грациани, италиански военен офицер (* 1882 г.)\n 1958 г. – Милош Колчагов, български революционер (* 1886 г.)\n 1959 г. – Едуард Бибринг, австрийски психиатър (* 1894 г.)\n 1960 г. – Сергей Рубинщейн, съветски психолог (* 1889 г.)\n 1966 г. – Лал Бахадур Шастри, индийски политик (* 1904 г.)\n 1968 г. – Коце Ципушев, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1978 г. – Стоян Райнов, български керамик (* 1894 г.)\n 1984 г. – Йордан Спасов, български актьор (* 1910 г.)\n 1988 г. – Изидор Раби, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1944 г. (* 1898 г.)\n 1991 г. – Карл Дейвид Андерсън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1936 г. (* 1905 г.)\n 1995 г. – Игнасио Мате-Бланко, чилийски психиатър (* 1908 г.)\n 1999 г.\n Симон Дракул, македонски писател (* 1930 г.)\n Фабрицио де Андре, италиански певец (* 1940 г.)\n 2005 г. – Фабрицио Меони, италиански мотоциклетен състезател (* 1957 г.)\n 2007 г.\n Робърт Антън Уилсън, американски писател (* 1932 г.)\n Стоян Цветков, български аграрен учен (* 1930 г.)\n 2008 г.\n Иля Талев, български писател и езиковед (* 1937 г.)\n Едмънд Хилари, новозеландски алпинист и изследовател (* 1919 г.)\n 2009 г.\n Вълкана Стоянова, народна певица (* 1922 г.)\n 2009 г. – Елзе Папенхайм, австрийски невролог (* 1911 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ерик Ромер, френски кинорежисьор (* 1920 г.)\n 2012 г.\n Стефан Вълков, български дисидент и политик (* 1925 г.)\n Сава Хашъмов, български актьор (* 1940 г.)\n 2013 г. – Арон Шварц, американски програмист (* 1986 г.)\n 2014 г.\n Ариел Шарон, министър-председател на Израел (* 1928 г.)\n Вугар Гашимов, азербайджански шахматист (* 1986 г.)\n 2015 г. – Анита Екберг, шведска актриса (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на думата „благодаря“ (1994 г.)\n Албания – Ден на републиката (1946 г.)\n Мароко – Декларация за национална независимост (1956 г.)\n Непал – Ден на националното обединение (1768 г.)\n\n111"
    },
    {
        "text": "Blake Andrews\nBlake Andrews (°1968, Berkeley, United States) is an artist who mainly works with photography. Through a radically singular approach that is nevertheless inscribed in the contemporary debate, Andrews tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.\nHis photos feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the work is important.\nHis works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, he uses references and ideas that are so integrated into the process of the composition of the work that they may escape those who do not take the time to explore how and why these images haunt you, like a good film, long after you’ve seen them.\nHis works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing.\nHis work urge us to renegotiate photography as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By questioning the concept of movement, he formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.\nHis works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.\nHis works are a drawn reflection upon the art of photography itself: thoroughly self-referential, yet no less aesthetically pleasing, and therefore deeply inscribed in the history of modernism – made present most palpably in the artist’s exploration of some of the most hallowed of modernist paradigms. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.\nHis works are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. Blake Andrews currently lives and works in Eugene."
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        "text": "Action Against Apartheid WHY WE PROTEST\nA joint statement of Anthony Scotto, President, Local 1814 International Longshoremen's Association; George Houser, Executive Director, American Committee on Africa; James Farmer, National Director, Congress of Racial Equality\nby Anthony Scotto, George Houser, James Farmer, American Committee on Africa, Congress of Racial Equality, International Longshoremen's Association\nPublisher: American Committee on Africa, Congress of Racial Equality, International Longshoremen’s Association\nType: Press Release\nCoverage in Africa: South Africa\nThe joint statement issued as a press release says a line of pickets protesting US-South African trade is marching before Port Authority Pier 6 in Brooklyn, where the \"South Africa Pioneer,\" bearing goods from South Africa is waiting to be discharged. Members if the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Local 1814 have refused to cross the line. The joint statement says opposition to apartheid in South Africa is a logical extension of the struggle for equality in the United States. The joint statement calls for a boycott of South African goods and an embargo on American trade with South Africa.\nCollection: Africa Action Archive"
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        "text": "The life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of solar power are in the range of 22 to 46 gram (g) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) depending on if solar thermal or solar PV is being analyzed, respectively. With this potentially being decreased to 15 g/kWh in the future.[121] For comparison (of weighted averages), a combined cycle gas-fired power plant emits some 400–599 g/kWh,[122] an oil-fired power plant 893 g/kWh,[122] a coal-fired power plant 915–994 g/kWh[123] or with carbon capture and storage some 200 g/kWh, and a geothermal high-temp. power plant 91–122 g/kWh.[122] The life cycle emission intensity of hydro, wind and nuclear power are lower than solar's as of 2011 as published by the IPCC, and discussed in the article Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources. Similar to all energy sources were their total life cycle emissions primarily lay in the construction and transportation phase, the switch to low carbon power in the manufacturing and transportation of solar devices would further reduce carbon emissions. BP Solar owns two factories built by Solarex (one in Maryland, the other in Virginia) in which all of the energy used to manufacture solar panels is produced by solar panels. A 1-kilowatt system eliminates the burning of approximately 170 pounds of coal, 300 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, and saves up to 105 gallons of water consumption monthly.[124]\nPrior to the development of coal in the mid 19th century, nearly all energy used was renewable. Almost without a doubt the oldest known use of renewable energy, in the form of traditional biomass to fuel fires, dates from 790,000 years ago. Use of biomass for fire did not become commonplace until many hundreds of thousands of years later, sometime between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago.[31] Probably the second oldest usage of renewable energy is harnessing the wind in order to drive ships over water. This practice can be traced back some 7000 years, to ships in the Persian Gulf[32] and on the Nile.[33] Moving into the time of recorded history, the primary sources of traditional renewable energy were human labor, animal power, water power, wind, in grain crushing windmills,[32] and firewood, a traditional biomass. A graph of energy use in the United States up until 1900 shows oil and natural gas with about the same importance in 1900 as wind and solar played in 2010.\nSeveral large-scale energy storage suggestions for the grid have been done. Worldwide there is over 100 GW of Pumped-storage hydroelectricity. This improves efficiency and decreases energy losses but a conversion to an energy storing mains electricity grid is a very costly solution. Some costs could potentially be reduced by making use of energy storage equipment the consumer buys and not the state. An example is batteries in electric cars that would double as an energy buffer for the electricity grid. However besides the cost, setting-up such a system would still be a very complicated and difficult procedure. Also, energy storage apparatus' as car batteries are also built with materials that pose a threat to the environment (e.g. Lithium). The combined production of batteries for such a large part of the population would still have environmental concerns. Besides car batteries however, other Grid energy storage projects make use of less polluting energy carriers (e.g. compressed air tanks and flywheel energy storage).\nOther renewable energy technologies are still under development, and include cellulosic ethanol, hot-dry-rock geothermal power, and marine energy.[156] These technologies are not yet widely demonstrated or have limited commercialization. Many are on the horizon and may have potential comparable to other renewable energy technologies, but still depend on attracting sufficient attention and research, development and demonstration (RD&D) funding.[156]\nJump up ^ Noth, André (July 2008). \"History of Solar Flight\" (PDF). Autonomous Systems Lab. Zürich: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2010. Günter Rochelt was the designer and builder of Solair I, a 16 m wingspan solar airplane ... 21st of August 1983 he flew in Solair I, mostly on solar energy and also thermals, during 5 hours 41 minutes.\nWhen energy is purchased from the electricity network, the power reaching the consumer will not necessarily be generated from green energy sources. The local utility company, electric company, or state power pool buys their electricity from electricity producers who may be generating from fossil fuel, nuclear or renewable energy sources. In many countries green energy currently provides a very small amount of electricity, generally contributing less than 2 to 5% to the overall pool. In some U.S. states, local governments have formed regional power purchasing pools using Community Choice Aggregation and Solar Bonds to achieve a 51% renewable mix or higher, such as in the City of San Francisco.[76]\nThe heat that is used for geothermal energy can be from deep within the Earth, all the way down to Earth's core – 4,000 miles (6,400 km) down. At the core, temperatures may reach over 9,000 °F (5,000 °C). Heat conducts from the core to surrounding rock. Extremely high temperature and pressure cause some rock to melt, which is commonly known as magma. Magma convects upward since it is lighter than the solid rock. This magma then heats rock and water in the crust, sometimes up to 700 °F (371 °C).[58]\nOur latest innovation in the Industrial Internet era, The Digital Wind Farm, is making our turbines smarter and more connected than ever before. A dynamic, connected and adaptable wind energy ecosystem, the Digital Wind Farm pairs our newest turbines with a digital infrastructure, allowing customers to connect, monitor, predict and optimize unit and site performance.\nThe most significant barriers to the widespread implementation of large-scale renewable energy and low carbon energy strategies are primarily political and not technological. According to the 2013 Post Carbon Pathways report, which reviewed many international studies, the key roadblocks are: climate change denial, the fossil fuels lobby, political inaction, unsustainable energy consumption, outdated energy infrastructure, and financial constraints.[155]\nThe Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550 MW power plant in Riverside County, California, that uses thin-film CdTe-modules made by First Solar.[41] As of November 2014, the 550 megawatt Topaz Solar Farm was the largest photovoltaic power plant in the world. This was surpassed by the 579 MW Solar Star complex. The current largest photovoltaic power station in the world is Longyangxia Dam Solar Park, in Gonghe County, Qinghai, China.\nMicro-hydro configured into mini-grids also provide power. Over 44 million households use biogas made in household-scale digesters for lighting and/or cooking, and more than 166 million households rely on a new generation of more-efficient biomass cookstoves.[26] Clean liquid fuel sourced from renewable feedstocks are used for cooking and lighting in energy-poor areas of the developing world. Alcohol fuels (ethanol and methanol) can be produced sustainably from non-food sugary, starchy, and cellulostic feedstocks. Project Gaia, Inc. and CleanStar Mozambique are implementing clean cooking programs with liquid ethanol stoves in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Mozambique.[139]\nAll electrical turbine generators work because of the effects of moving a magnetic field past an electrical coil. When electrons flow through an electrical coil, a magnetic field is created around it. Likewise, when a magnetic field moves past a coil of wire, a voltage is induced in the coil as defined by Faraday’s law of magnetic induction causing electrons to flow.\nWith advanced technology being developed, cellulosic biomass, such as trees and grasses, are also used as feedstocks for ethanol production. Ethanol can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form, but it is usually used as a gasoline additive to increase octane and improve vehicle emissions. Bioethanol is widely used in the United States and in Brazil. The energy costs for producing bio-ethanol are almost equal to, the energy yields from bio-ethanol. However, according to the European Environment Agency, biofuels do not address global warming concerns.[75] Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils, animal fats or recycled greases. It can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form, or more commonly as a diesel additive to reduce levels of particulates, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons from diesel-powered vehicles. Biodiesel is produced from oils or fats using transesterification and is the most common biofuel in Europe. Biofuels provided 2.7% of the world's transport fuel in 2010.[76]\nA more recent concept for improving our electrical grid is to beam microwaves from Earth-orbiting satellites or the moon to directly when and where there is demand. The power would be generated from solar energy captured on the lunar surface In this system, the receivers would be \"broad, translucent tent-like structures that would receive microwaves and convert them to electricity\". NASA said in 2000 that the technology was worth pursuing but it is still too soon to say if the technology will be cost-effective.[77]\nAlthough not permitted under the US National Electric Code, it is technically possible to have a “plug and play” PV microinverter. A recent review article found that careful system design would enable such systems to meet all technical, though not all safety requirements.[112] There are several companies selling plug and play solar systems available on the web, but there is a concern that if people install their own it will reduce the enormous employment advantage solar has over fossil fuels.[113]\nNuclear power. After coal, the next largest source of our electricity is nuclear power. While nuclear plants don't cause air pollution, they do create radioactive waste, which must be stored for thousands of years. As accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl proved, nuclear plants also carry the risk of catastrophic failure. And nuclear power can be very expensive.\nThe journal, Renewable Energy, seeks to promote and disseminate knowledge on the various topics and technologies of renewable energy systems and components. The journal aims to serve researchers, engineers, economists, manufacturers, NGOs, associations and societies to help them keep abreast of new developments in their specialist fields and to apply alternative energy solutions to current practices.\nRenewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas, in contrast to other energy sources, which are concentrated in a limited number of countries. Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security, climate change mitigation, and economic benefits.[8] The results of a recent review of the literature[9] concluded that as greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters begin to be held liable for damages resulting from GHG emissions resulting in climate change, a high value for liability mitigation would provide powerful incentives for deployment of renewable energy technologies. In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power.[10] At the national level, at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply. National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond.[11] Some places and at least two countries, Iceland and Norway generate all their electricity using renewable energy already, and many other countries have the set a goal to reach 100% renewable energy in the future. For example, in Denmark the government decided to switch the total energy supply (electricity, mobility and heating/cooling) to 100% renewable energy by 2050.[12]\nEven with plans to grow as much as 80 percent over the next five years, the city expects to have plenty of energy from these renewable sources. (To be sure, about 2 percent of the time, the Georgetown utility draws electricity derived from fossil fuels. Ross says the city more than compensates at other times by selling excess renewable energy back to the grid—at a profit.)\nDue to data transmission problems, structural health monitoring of wind turbines is usually performed using several accelerometers and strain gages attached to the nacelle to monitor the gearbox and equipments. Currently, digital image correlation and stereophotogrammetry are used to measure dynamics of wind turbine blades. These methods usually measure displacement and strain to identify location of defects. Dynamic characteristics of non-rotating wind turbines have been measured using digital image correlation and photogrammetry.[44] Three dimensional point tracking has also been used to measure rotating dynamics of wind turbines.[45]\nWind is a form of solar energy and is a result of the uneven heating of the atmosphere by the sun, the irregularities of the earth's surface, and the rotation of the earth. Wind flow patterns and speeds vary greatly across the United States and are modified by bodies of water, vegetation, and differences in terrain. 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        "text": "A visit to Wagner Farm affords you the opportunity to take part in and experience firsthand the workings of a genuine American farm. Wagner Farm is an 18.6 acre farm preserved for the educational and recreational enjoyment for all. See how bread was made in a wood cook stove, hear the rooster marking time with his crow or milk one of the farm's many cows. Explore the world of agriculture and rural life as it existed in 1920-1950's."
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        "text": "Dear Fellow Members:\nAs we begin our 23rd year, the International Alchemy Guild continues to fulfill its charter obligations to provide networking and support services for modern alchemists and assist them in their practical and spiritual transformations. From its inception, I have tried to keep the Guild from developing ambitions other than these simple goals. We strive to be an organization without ego; the group’s will and life force itself originates from our membership. No one at the Guild gets paid; we are all volunteers. The Guild would not exist without the selfless service of our volunteers and esteemed Board of Directors:\nPUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR – Daniel Coaten\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/publications\nThanks to Daniel’s hard work, the Alchemy Journal has been completely redesigned with beautiful artwork and cutting-edge articles. He also implemented a professional website devoted to the Journal at www.AlchemyJournal.org and oversees all facets of publishing for the Guild. Members are encouraged to submit articles and artwork. Visit the “For Authors” section of the website.\nBULLETIN EDITOR – Tracy Cranick\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/bulletin\nTracy has expanded the Guild’s central communication tool to include more news and relevant articles. She has also opened the Bulletin to more shared experiences and feedback from members.\nARCHIVES DIRECTOR – Jim Baldwin\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/archives\nUnder Jim’s leadership, the world’s largest online library of alchemical manuscripts and resources has grown even more. He has also added new search features and organized the files into 30 separate categories.\nACQUISITIONS EDITOR – Gabriel Maroney\nGabriel helps select and edit new submissions for the Alchemy Journal. He is a graduate of Bastyr University and specializes in medical alchemy and spagyrics in the tradition of Paracelsus.\nCHAPTERS DIRECTOR – Vincent Martin\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/chapters\nThanks to Vincent’s directorship, we added three new chapters (Poland, Chicago, and North Carolina). We now have 17 chapters in nine countries. He is the President of the growing Ohio Alchemy Guild - http://www.alchemyguildohio.org\nMEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR – Jason Collette\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/membership\nJason has consolidated and refined our membership services and has limited membership to 500 members to provide better service. There is also a new app just for members. Download the Wild Apricot for Members App from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wildapricot.appformembers or https://itunes.apple.com/app/wild-apricot/id1220348450 and login with your Guild user name and password.\nSOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR – Steve Kalec\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/forums\nUnder Steve’s steady hand, the quality and relevance of our forum contacts and message has greatly improved. The Guild now has over 40,000 members in our Facebook groups.\nGUILD SECRETARY – Paulette Dager-Harris\nhttp://www.alchemyconference.net\nPaulette has been one of the Guild’s guiding lights for over a decade and is known for her sage advice to members in the forums. She is an essential ingredient at our national conferences.\nDIRECTOR OF EDUCATION – Benjamin Turale\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/lectures\nBenjamin’s modern perspectives on teaching alchemy are just what is needed at this crucial time in the Guild’s evolution. His website is http://www.benjaminturale.com.\nSTUDY PROGRAM DIRECTOR – Alex Hayden\nhttp://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/ASP\nUnder Alex’ control, the Alchemy Study Program expanded its offerings and resources. The website (http://www.alcheystudy.com ) has been completely revamped and is now scalable to fit all smart devices. Course manuals have been updated and professionally published. Mentors have been added in Spiritual Alchemy (John Hernandez) and Practical Alchemy (Robert Bartlett) for students desiring personal guidance. See http://alchemyguild.memberlodge.org/mentoring\nALCHEMY MUSEUM PROJECT\nhttp://www.rosicrucianpark.org/alchemy-museum\nAfter five years of preparation, the Alchemy Museum in San Jose, California, is scheduled to open in 2020. Guild members who donated artifacts and time to this project are to be congratulated. The first phase of remodeling is complete and the next phase of interior construction is beginning. The museum will be a beacon for students of alchemy and will also serve the general public. Multimedia experiences and immersive environments will inspire guests to meaningfully engage with the operations of alchemy as presented in the Guild’s teachings. Other areas will take a more contemplative tone, providing space for meditation and for guests to reflect on the connections between alchemy and their personal and spiritual beliefs and practices. A complete 12-station laboratory, auditorium, library, herbatorium, and alchemical garden are all part of the structure. A preview exhibit is now on display in the Egyptian Museum. Guild members receive free admission.\nAs President of the Guild, I am still working hard to expand the Guild’s influence and present the ancient teachings from which alchemy originated to the modern world. I continue to write books about the applications of alchemy. I also started a regular “Alchemergy” podcast available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, and other popular apps. The podcast is hosted at http://alchemergy.podbean.com in addition to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/alchemergist.\nI look forward to the coming year and the exciting challenges and deep transformations we have ahead and share as brothers and sisters of the Alchemy Guild.\nDennis William Hauck\nhttp://www.DWHauck.com"
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        "text": "Cover StoryCover Story\nAn Chi-hwan: A Voice to RememberAn interview with An Chi-hwan, whose music embodies the spirit of Korean democratization\nLee So-jung, Yang Ji-weon | sojunglee23@yonsei.ac.kr, jiwoney30@yonsei.ac.kr\n“UNTIL THE spirit of the People rules the world with freedom, I shall wade on even through darkened waters,” sings An Chi-hwan in his song “Pine, pine, the ever green pine*.” During the 1980s democratization movements, a voice could be heard singing the song of the people, above the chaos of daily student protests and police brutality. In remembrance of the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising**, which embodies the Korean struggle for justice, The Yonsei Annals interviewed An Chi-hwan, a singer and Yonsei graduate of the Department of Social Welfare, to know more about his music career from the times of political turbulence.\nAnnals: Can you please introduce yourself?\nAn: I call myself the “singing An Chi-hwan.” There are two types of singers in Korea: the entertainer and the artist. I believe that we should clearly differentiate the two. I define myself as the latter.\nAnnals: What made you begin your career as a musician?\nAn: Back then, becoming a singer happened naturally. It wasn’t like nowadays where people have to enter an agency and go through training before they debut. Instead, singers were recognized for their talents alone. Those who were talented and committed enough received opportunities to record an album and release it to the public. It was the same for me.\nI entered Yonsei as a student back in 1984, four years after the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising and three years before the 6.10 Democracy Movement**. By the time I was a senior in 1987, Yonsei University was the hub of democratization movements with students as the leading force.\nAfter the 5.18 Gwangju Uprising in 1980, there was a cultural movement among university students to utilize songs we now call “resistance songs***” to inspire meaningful change in society. When I was a freshman in 1984, universities had a liberal atmosphere: students actively organized bands to perform resistance songs during student demonstrations. In Yonsei University, a band called Ul-lim-teo was formed during my first year. I applied, and I remember being the second in line for the auditions.\nWhile performing in the band, I began to understand the social issues of dictatorship and oppression more in depth, and I got a clear sense of what kinds of songs I wanted to play. I wasn’t interested in singing songs for entertainment; I wanted to perform resistance songs that gave me the power to fight against injustice. Of course, I felt overwhelmed and even scared to take action at first. However, with my bandmates by my side, I could naturally begin my music career.\nAnnals: What was the first resistance song you wrote?\nAn: In the beginning, I used to only perform resistance songs from the music scores we—the members of Ul-lim-teo—shared. We practiced until the papers were ragged. However, I had this ambition of writing my own songs, even though the guitar was the only instrument I could play. I didn’t know anything else about music and how it worked. Then, during my junior year, one of my sun-baes**** in Ul-lim-teo was arrested and sent to jail for instigating a demonstration. Reading over the things I wrote down while thinking of him, I composed my very first song, “Pine, pine, the ever green pine.”\nI performed the song with Ul-lim-teo at Dae-dong-jae***** in May. The festival was held in the Amphitheater back then with Yonsei students filling up all the seats. I sang “Pine, pine, the ever green pine” on stage, and, to my disbelief, it made a big sensation. It first became famous in Yonsei University, then bands from other schools started performing the song in their campuses. My song was known to almost every university student despite it not having been released in an official album.\nAnnals: How was your life as a Yonsei student? Are there any memorable events from your school days?\nAn: Looking back on my old school days, I am happy to have been a part of the democratization. Many people, including myself, suffered and some even died fighting, but my friends and I share unforgettable memories from those turbulent times. During the day, we were out at protests, getting attacked by the police with tear gas bombs. At night, we gathered in our friends’ boarding houses to sing songs and drink. I would not go home for days, so my parents would even come to school searching for me. My friends and I were not preoccupied with worries about our future, jobs after graduation, and such. We spent time reflecting on the things we could do to fight against the government, especially through art. I took comfort in music when nothing else was certain.\nAs for a specific event, I remember the very first time I performed on stage. It was in April, and there was a beautiful field of azaleas right below the Amphitheater. I was only a freshman, and I was preparing for a school concert in commemoration of the 4.19 Revolution** in 1960. In the school theater with around 4,500 seats, I sang a song called “Jin-da-lae******,” which was written in remembrance of the revolution. After the song ended, the audience, mostly students, clapped for a whole minute. I had never experienced that before in my life—I was overwhelmed. I wondered what brought about such passionate, enthusiastic response from the students. I had discovered the true power of music in bringing people together.\nAnnals: You are known for having been part of a music group called Those Finding Music*******. Can you share your experience of what it was like?\nAn: I would first like to explain how the group Those Finding Music came about. By 1987, during my senior year, we—the students—had made considerable progress in democratization. Even though we had lost our dear friends, including Lee Han-yeol, in the struggle, we had brought about tangible results, such as the direct presidential election system. The changes that we had only dreamed of for the past years were finally realized; and, at the same time, the general public began to demand for the songs that powered these demonstrations to be officially released in albums. Those Finding Music was formed to meet this public demand for resistance songs. Luckily enough, I was “nominated” as one of the key members of this group thanks to the fame that my very first song had brought me.\nThis was when I graduated from Yonsei in 1988. I didn’t think of continuing my studies in graduate school or getting a job. I was already earning a living, so I continued my career as a singer of this group. After spending a year and a half in this band, I left to pursue my own music career as a solo musician. Here I am now, still making music and performing for more than 30 years.\nAnnals: You are known as “The singer of the people.” What are your thoughts on this title?\nAn: I don’t agree with the title. I understand that it stems from the public belief that I am the musician who wrote songs for a great cause. That is how I started my career, so, to some extent, I can’t get away from that image. However, I need to ask: To whom is the word “people” referring? I don’t think all people enjoy my songs. Authorities certainly don’t sing my songs; the laborers and the intellectuals low on the social hierarchy are the ones who do. I simply don’t agree with the title.\nPeople call me by other titles, such as “The singer who transcends genres” and “The singer who abandoned resistance songs,” but I am just me. It’s been 30 years since I became a singer. All the songs during those long years cannot be encapsulated into one of these definitive titles.\nAnnals: You have recently released a song “One Hundred Years of Struggle********” to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 3.1 Independence Movement**. What was your motive behind writing this song?\nAn: One hundred years have gone by since the 3.1 Independence Movement, yet I realized that there were no songs to commemorate those 100 years. This got me thinking. If I am to be called an artist, I felt the need to act like one. Artists must utilize their talents in their respective fields. They shouldn’t free ride [and claim to be a musician when they are not using their talents for a good cause].\nAnnals: In 2016, you were invited to be a guest singer at the candlelight protest in Gwanghwamun. How did you come to perform at this historical event?\nAn: In the case of the candlelight protest, there were only a handful of singers who could go up on stage. People call me to national events, because it has to be me; An Chi-hwan has to be there. Famous young artists like BTS would probably have been hesitant to perform on that occasion. These kinds of events require people who have the age and wisdom to handle grave matters. Performers should sing songs that are suitable for the situation, so that everyone else can sing along. Imagine Girls’ Generation singing at the candlelight protest—there is no connection between them and the purpose of the protest.\nBeing able to perform on stage was a great honor for me. The candlelight protest became a very crucial point in Korean history. In contrast to the 6.10 Democracy Movement where people bled and fought for their lives, the 2016 candlelight protest demonstrated a complete paradigm shift. People showed their power through nonviolent ways of protest. Now, we are living in a different era where we do not fight by throwing rocks at the enemy. I think it is beautiful that the ways we protest have become a form of art. Can you imagine how I felt on stage, seeing a million citizens holding up their candles, all in one hope? How moved I was by the burning passion in the people... This isn’t something many singers get to experience, so I am always grateful for these opportunities.\nAnnals: You are known not only for revolutionary songs, but also for popular music, such as “If I were*********.” What message did you try to convey through this type of genre?\nAn: I am more popular as an activist singer, so all the songs in my first and second albums were dedicated to the theme of “revolution.” However, after the 1990s when the Soviet Union fell apart and there was a period of ideological division, I thought I wanted to become more personal in the songs I wrote. My career went through a phase of personal transformation where I started to incorporate my personal stories into the music I created.\n“If I Were,” isn’t a song that I wrote myself. I got this song from a hoo-bae**** and was invited to sing it for broadcasts. Surprisingly, it was a big hit. Since the public had always known me as an activist singer, I did receive some criticisms for “turning coat” from my original colors. However, I wasn’t very affected by those comments because I realized that the public demanded more than one genre from me. I just tried to focus on making songs for my fans and sing what I wanted to.\nAnnals: Do you have a favorite verse from any of your songs that you want to share with us?\nAn: As people say, “Every child is dear to their parents,” the same applies to me and my songs. I like the ones that I wrote from my heart, rather than what the public likes. I can say I am an indiscreet narcissist; I cherish all my songs. I am an artist with boundless self-pride.\nAnnals: When have you felt the proudest as a musician? When do you feel most content?\nAn: Music has been my life—I was only ever into music. I established my fame through music, and I’m still happily producing my own songs.\nI have met and seen countless people while on stage, and when I see that my songs make them happy, I am happy. Although my songs can’t absolutely cure everything, the fact that I can brighten up people’s lives even a little counts as a blessing to me.\nI also feel proud as a musician knowing that I still mean something to our nation. The well-being of our country has been my motivation for pursuing music, and still holds true now.\nAnnals: Many people may call you “the singer of the people,” but how would you define yourself? How do you want your songs to be remembered by the future generation?\nAn: When I was invited to programs such as “7080 Concert,” at first, I felt like I would look “shabby.” I don’t like it when old singers try to act young, wearing trendy clothes on stage, when everyone knows they are too old for that. I decided to appear in front of the public again in my own style. Not only did I sing my old hit songs, but I continued to introduce new songs to show the public that I am still a working musician. I will age as time goes by, but I will not stop singing for the people. I own a concert hall, so I am going to keep on hosting concerts and meeting my fans.\nEveryone has songs and memories pertaining to their own generation, but I am not going to let myself get out of touch. I am going to age as an honorable musician who stays in tune with his audience.\nI want to be remembered as a “living musician,” or a “present-continuous” musician. I feel like this is the most important thing I can do for my fans.\nAnnals: What message would you like to convey to the Annals readers and Yonseians?\nAn: Do things with passion and have fun. This, I believe, is the way to happiness in life.\n*Original song title in Korean: “솔아 솔아 푸르른 솔아”; original song lyrics in Korean: “민중의 넋이 주인되는 참 세상 자유 위하여; 시퍼렇게 쑥물 들어도 강물 저어 가리라”\n**5.18, 6.10, 4.19, and 3.1 refer to particular dates: May 18, June 10, April 19, and March 1; the dates are written as such to follow the original titles in Korean.\n***The word “resistance song” is a direct translation of the original word “저항가요” in Korean\n****Sun-bae, hoo-bae are Korean terms referring to upperclassman and lowerclassman respectively\n*****Dae-dong-jae: A schoolwide festival held in May to pay respect to the students who lost their lives during the process of democratization; the tradition of dae-dong-jae still continues nowadays.\n******Jin-dal-lae: A Korean term that refers to azalea\n*******Original band name in Korean: “노래를 찾는 사람들”\n********Original song title in Korean: “100년의 함성”\n*********Original song title in Korean: “내가 만일”"
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        "text": "2) Given the cavitation on tight turns and possible 1mph reduction in speed we are going back to middle bracket hole, any other suggestions?\n3) The spray between the motors is pretty excessive, is this a characteristic of close mounted twins?\n4) We are going to up the pitch to 23p prop, should net ~55mph. Thats as much as we are going to get before drive ratio changes which probably isnt worth it. Whats a safe'ish 22' rubber ducky top speed? When do we have to worry about hull or tube dynamics?\nRegarding the Mercury 115 2+2's, after rebuilding 8 carbs, ripping out the accelerator pumps and rebuilding the fuel pumps...quite fond of these simple 2 strokes. They idle well and really really like WOT. More quiet than I expected while at idle AND on plane. The downside is that there is a \"high idle\" vibration that is low frequency and really lights the center console canape structure up. But we just dont run it there...This outboard is kind of bashed in marine circles and they can go cheap. After running these for 300mi I wouldn't be afraid to recommend them.\nMe, I'd put them down 2 holes. Better grip on the water in rough conditions, better grip in turns, more bow lift...All plusses in my book. Get the engines down and the props fully loaded, test for max revs then decide whether an increase in pitch is required.\nIf it only cavitates on tight turns while trimmed up and the cav plate is just surface skimming while underway I wouldn't change a thing, just trim in when doing tight turns. Exactly how my boat is setup. I purposely have mine this way as going too deep in my case resulted in bad lean to port when underway, raising engine fixed it, everything is a compromise with setup.\nOn my rib I get 1% slip at full whack, I suspect the 20 degree Suzuki prop isn't actually a true 20 degree hence it being that low.\nHow do you measure the amount of slip you are getting?\nEasiest way is via mercury prop calc on their website.\nThanks Xk59D. I'll take a look."
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        "text": "The 5Ft Formulate Backlit Kit display is a captivating and eye-catching exhibit that helps to draw the attention thanks to its LED light curtain that offers even and bright white light balance throughout. 5Ft Formulate Backlit Kit also features an aluminum tube frame and a zippered pillowcase printed fabric graphic. An expandable, sturdy display case is included to protect the frame and LED light curtain in transit to events and tradeshows."
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        "text": "Q: Quick, automated way to verify the copy of a folder? I have a lot of files that I've been transferring around my network and to external hard drives.  For example, I just copied a folder with files representing an old laptop's disk image (created with clonezilla) from an external hard drive to my macbook pro.\nIs there an app or script I can use that would allow me to verify that all the files in the folder were copied correctly and without corruption?  I want to be able to run something on the source and target folders that will give me confidence that they are identical.  Ideally, the tool would be able to verify folders on a network drive as well.\n\nA: Two easy ways, one CLI and the other with a GUI :\n\n\n*\n\n*With Terminal :\n\n\n*\n\n*diff -rq folder1 folder2\n\n\n*Using FileMerge (which comes with the Developer Tools) :\n\n\n*\n\n*\n\nA: The easiest way to do that would be to run a md5 sum on all the files and match it with the local set. I can't script off the top of my head at the moment, but that's how you would do it.\nFor future reference, don't copy folders. Tar / bzip them up and then move them. Your copy time will be significantly decreased and then it's easier to verify a successful copy.\n"
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        "text": "12 януари е 12-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 353 дни до края на годината (354 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 475 г. – Флавий Василиск става император на Византийската империя.\n 1528 г. – Густав I е коронован за крал на Швеция.\n 1884 г. – Съставено е деветото правителство на България, начело с Драган Цанков.\n 1908 г. – От Айфеловата кула е излъчен дълговълнов радиосигнал, чийто диаметър е 6000 км.\n 1908 г. – Влиза в сила указ на княз Фердинанд I, с който Информационното бюро към Щаба на войската се преобразува в Разузнавателна секция. Ден на военното разузнаване на България.\n 1915 г. – В Конгреса на САЩ е отхвърлено предложението за даване на избирателни права на жените.\n\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Червената армия започва операция за разкъсване на Блокадата на Ленинград.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветския съюз започва т.нар. Януарска офанзива срещу Нацистка Германия на фронт от 1200 км в Източна Европа.\n 1964 г. – В Занзибар започва въстание, определено като революция, което довежда до обявяване на държавата за република.\n 1966 г. – В САЩ започва излъчването на телевизионния сериал Батман.\n 1969 г. – Рок групата „Лед Зепелин“ издава първия си албум – Led Zeppelin.\n 1970 г. – Войната в Биафра завършва с анексирането на тази държава от Нигерия.\n 1981 г. – Започва излъчването на американската „сапунена опера“ Династия.\n 1991 г. – Конгресът на САЩ оторизира правителството да използва военна сила за да отблъсне армията на Ирак извън границите на Кувейт.\n 1992 г. – След победата на Ислямския фронт за спасение в Алжир, правителството прекратява изборите, което става повод за гражданска война.\n 1998 г. – В Европейския съюз е постигнато съгласието на 15-те страни-членки за забрана на клониране на хора.\n 2005 г. – Изстреляна е американската космическа сонда Deep Impact за извършване на изследвания върху кометата Темпъл 1.\n 2006 г. – През последния ден от ислямското пилигримство Хадж в Саудитска Арабия, по време на ритуала Пропъждане на дявола с камъни между Мека и Мина инцидент с автобус предизвиква паника, загиват 346 и са ранени 209 богомолци.\n 2022 г.-Протест и щурм на Народното събрание, организиран от  Възраждане (партия)\n\nРодени \n\n 1591 г. – Хосе де Рибера, испански художник († 1652 г.)\n 1628 г. – Шарл Перо, френски писател († 1703 г.)\n 1729 г. – Едмънд Бърк, ирландски държавник († 1797 г.)\n 1746 г. – Йохан Хайнрих Песталоци, швейцарски педагог († 1827 г.)\n 1779 г. – Никола Клеман, френски химик († 1841 г.)\n 1797 г. – Анете фон Дросте-Хюлзхоф, германска поетеса († 1848 г.)\n 1848 г. – Василий Суриков, руски художник, исторически живописец († 1916 г.)\n 1851 г. – Димитър Наумов, български агроном († 1884 г.)\n 1852 г. – Жозеф Жак Сезар Жофр, френски генерал († 1931 г.)\n 1863 г. – Беньо Цонев, български езиковед († 1926 г.)\n 1863 г. – Свами Вивекананда, индийски философ († 1902 г.)\n 1876 г. – Джек Лондон, американски писател († 1916 г.)\n 1877 г. – Иван Кипров, български лекар († 1922 г.)\n 1878 г. – Ференц Молнар, унгарски писател († 1952 г.)\n 1893 г. – Алфред Розенберг, нацистки политик († 1946 г.)\n 1893 г. – Херман Гьоринг, нацистки функционер († 1946 г.)\n 1899 г. – Паул Мюлер, швейцарски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1948 г. († 1965 г.)\n 1900 г. – Тодор Ангелов, български антифашист († 1943 г.)\n 1903 г. – Игор Курчатов, съветски учен († 1960 г.)\n 1904 г. – Георги Караславов, български писател († 1980 г.)\n 1907 г. – Сергей Корольов, съветски инженер († 1966 г.)\n 1910 г. – Луис Рейнър,  германо-британска актриса († 2014 г.)\n 1913 г. – Иларион Доростолски, митрополит на Доростолска епархия († 2009 г.)\n 1915 г. – Петър Увалиев, български критик († 1999 г.)\n 1916 г. – Питер Бота, първи президент на ЮАР († 2006 г.)\n 1917 г. – Любомир Сагаев, български музиколог и общественик († 2001 г.)\n 1926 г. – Рей Прайс, американски кънтри певец († 2013 г.)\n 1929 г. – Коста Странджев, български писател († 1991 г.)\n 1933 г. – Лили Енева, българска актриса\n 1934 г. – Васил Симов, български волейболист († 1995 г.)\n 1944 г. – Властимил Хорт, чехословашки шахматист\n 1944 г. – Джо Фрейзър, американски боксьор († 2011 г.)\n 1948 г. – Елена Божкова, българска народна певица\n 1949 г. – Харуки Мураками, японски новелист\n 1951 г. – Кърсти Али, американска актриса\n 1954 г. – Хауърд Стърн, американски радиоводещ\n 1955 г. – Людмил Тодоров, български актьор\n 1956 г. – Николай Носков, руски музикант\n 1958 г. – Ваня Цветкова, българска актриса\n 1962 г. – Марина Кондова, българска тенисистка\n 1964 г. – Джеф Безос, американски предприемач\n 1965 г. – Роб Зомби, американски музикант\n 1968 г. – Амелия Личева, българска литературна критичка\n 1969 г. – Роберт Просинечки, хърватски футболист\n 1970 г. – Зак де ла Роча, американски певец (Rage Against the Machine)\n 1972 г. – Приянка Ганди, индийски политик\n 1974 г. – Илиян Симеонов, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Милен Петков, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Мартин Герасков, български актьор\n 1982 г. – Величко Чолаков, български щангист († 2017 г.)\n\nПочинали \n\n 1519 г. – Васко Нунес де Балбоа, испански мореплавател (* 1475 г.)\n 1519 г. – Максимилиан I, австрийски ерцхерцог (* 1459 г.)\n 1583 г. – Фернандо Алварес де Толедо, испански военачалник (* 1507 г.)\n 1665 г. – Пиер дьо Ферма, френски математик (* 1601 г.)\n 1829 г. – Фридрих фон Шлегел, германски културфилософ (* 1772 г.)\n 1856 г. – Людовит Щур, словашки възрожденски деец (* 1815 г.)\n 1913 г. – Стоян Топузов, български военен деец (* 1864 г.)\n 1951 г. – Рачо Стоянов, български драматург (* 1883 г.)\n 1960 г. – Невил Шът, английски писател (* 1899 г.)\n 1976 г. – Агата Кристи, британска писателка (* 1891 г.)\n 1983 г. – Николай Подгорни, председател на Върховния съвет на СССР (* 1903 г.)\n 1990 г. – Йон Хансен, датски футболист (* 1924 г.)\n 1993 г. – Юзеф Чапски, полски художник († 1896 г.)\n 1997 г. – Чарлз Хюгинс, канадски медик, Нобелов лауреат през 1966 г. (* 1901 г.)\n 2002 г. – Сайръс Ванс, държавен секретар на САЩ (* 1917 г.)\n 2003 г. – Морис Гиб, британски поп-певец (* 1949 г.)\n 2007 г. – Юрг Федершпил, швейцарски писател (* 1931 г.)\n 2017 г. – Лари Стеинбауер, британски кейбордист (Bronski Beat) (* 1960 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна и Католическа църква – Света мъченица Татяна\n България – Празник на българското военно разузнаване (от 1997)\n Индия – Национален ден на младежта\n Танзания – Ден на революцията в Занзибар (1964 г.)\n Туркменистан – Ден на всенародната памет\n\nИзточници \n\n112"
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        "text": "Q: Is it possible to launch a program in a specific language? I'm a developer, and my primary language is French, so I use Mac OS X in French. However, I need on a regular basis to open an application in English to do support.\nRight now I'm going to the International System Preferences and I put English above in the languages list, then I open the app I need to run in English. When I'm done, I switch it back to French.\nThis is an annoying process. Is there something else I can use, like a command-line program, to launch an application in a specific language?\n\nA: You can change the language inside the preferences file of the application :\ndefaults write com.apple.TextEdit AppleLanguages '(\"en-US\")'\n\nOr just run once one application with another language :\n/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal -AppleLanguages '(de)'\n\n\nTo determine the bundle identifier, run\nmdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier /Applications/Mail.app\n\nor directly in one command:\ndefaults write $(mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -raw /Applications/Mail.app) AppleLanguages '(\"en-UK\")'\n\n(via SuperUser)\n\nA: There is a freeware, Language Switcher, to launch a single application with a different languages.\nit's really simple and work amazingly.\n\nA: Go to the app, Press Command + I and if there are other languages they will show up in the info page. Just untick all except the language you want\n\nA: For Google Chrome do this:\ndefaults write com.google.Chrome AppleLanguages '(\"en-US\")'\n\n\nA: I also found this to work:\n\nbash-3.2$ LANG=de.UTF-8\nbash-3.2$ /Applications/MuseScore\\ 3.app/Contents/MacOS/mscore \n\n\n\nA: In the Finder, get info on the application. There are languages here, and you can choose. Alas, this seems to have disappeared in Snow Leopard.\n"
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        "text": "Involvement in a dispute can be a difficult and expensive process. Utilising the skills of an Expert Witness in building disputes can significantly assist in resolving issues. Within our team, both Clive Edwards and Kevin Thomas are highly experienced in the role of Expert Witness, and have completed the rigorous RICS training scheme. This, in addition to their technical expertise and knowledge allows them to reach reliable conclusions.\nOur Expert Witness Reports are fully compliant with Civil Procedure Rules and can be relied upon in Court as being an expert professional opinion on the issue at hand, be it a dispute over construction defects; negligence or any other such area of conflict.\nShould you need the services of an Expert Witness for your own litigation procedure or as a court appointed independent professional, please contact us for confidential guidance on how to proceed."
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        "text": "Creutzfeldt Jakob : Against The Wall with JJink\nUSDA quarantines 2 farms in mad cow investigation\nMay 3, 2012 by JJink\nsource cnn:\nTwo farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month’s discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.\nAuthorities also have launched an investigation at a calf ranch where the initial infected cow was raised 10 years ago, according to a statement released late Wednesday by the USDA.\nLast week, the USDA documented the fourth confirmed U.S. case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) — a brain wasting disease affecting cattle — known commonly as mad cow disease, at a rendering facility in central California. USDA officials said the cow was never presented for human consumption and was not a threat.\nThe farm where the cow was initially discovered has been under quarantine since the discovery, agriculture officials said. Wednesday’s announcement of a second quarantine involves a farm closely associated with the dairy where the sick cow was discovered last month, the USDA said. The agency is still trying to determine if any at-risk cattle are present at either of the two farms.\nEating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The fatal brain disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.\nControversy over ‘mad cow’ testing\nAre tests for ‘mad cow’ enough?\n‘Mad cow’ case confirmed by USDA\n‘Mad cow’ confirmed in California\nLearn more about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease\nIn people, symptoms of the disease include psychiatric and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.\nBSE can cause infected animals to display nervousness or aggression, difficulty in coordination and standing up, decreased milk production or weight loss.\nIt is usually transmitted between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed to other cattle.\nIn this case, the Agricultural Department reported that the cow had a rare form of BSE not likely carried by contaminated feed.\nSince 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.\nThe USDA says that since the discovery of the infected cow, they have identified 10 different feed suppliers that delivered animal feed to the farm. Determining if the cow became sick from feed is an area where investigators are focusing close attention.\nAuthorities have determined the infected cow gave birth twice. One calf was stillborn and the other was located on a farm outside of California. That cow was subsequently euthanized and tested negative for mad cow disease.\nUnlike most other meat-borne illnesses, such as those caused by E.-coli bacteria, cooking does not kill the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease.\nConsumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone. The group also says to choose boneless cuts of meat and ground beef only if it has been ground in the store.\n“Evidence shows that our systems and safeguards to prevent BSE are working, as are similar actions taken by countries around the world,” said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department’s chief veterinarian.\nLast year, 29 cases of BSE were reported worldwide, down 99% from the peak of 37,311 cases in 1992.\n“This is directly attributable to the impact and effectiveness of feed bans as a primary control measure for the disease,” he said last month.\nThe Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.\nA second U.S. case was confirmed June 24, 2005, and a third on March 13, 2006.\nTags: BSE, CANADA, Creutzfeldt Jakob, USDA"
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        "text": "Q: How to perform hard / cold reboot of iPhone or iPad? I understand that when I press and release the power button on the top of my iPhone or iPad, it stays on but turns off the screen.\nWhereas if I press and hold the power button, a \"slide to turn off\" control appears on the screen.\nSliding this, as I was told, does turn the unit off, but it does so by suspending the RAM to disk (flash memory, actually.) So, when turning on the iPhone or iPad, it isn't so much rebooting the OS as it is resuming it from flash storage.\nHow to force the OS to completely reboot on these devices?\n\nA: See Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support:\n\niPhone 8 or earlier\nPress and hold the Home and Power Button until your iPhone / iPad reboot (ignore the \"Slide to turn off\"), you can release both buttons when you see Apple logo.\niPhone X\nPress and hold Volume up [or down] and Power Button until your iPhone reboots (ignore the \"Slide to turn off\"), you can release both buttons when you see Apple logo.\n\nSee If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won‘t turn on or is frozen - Apple Support:\n\nIf your screen is black or frozen\nIf your screen is black or frozen, you might need to force restart your device. A force restart won't erase the content on your device. You can force restart your device even if the screen is black or the buttons aren't responding. Follow these steps:\n\n*\n\n*On an iPhone X, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then, press and hold the Side button until you see the Apple logo.\n\n\n*On an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Side and Volume Down buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.\n\n\n*On an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch: Press and hold both the Home and the Top (or Side) buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.\n\n\nA: Hard power off, hold power button and home button until it shows the shutdown slider, and then keep holding the buttons.  After a while the screen will completely turn black.  Now press the power button to boot the machine up.\n"
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        "text": "Batty, Francis de Witt (1879–1961)\nFrancis de Witt Batty, n.d.\nState Library of Queensland\nFrancis de Witt Batty (1879-1961), Anglican bishop, was born on 10 January 1879 at Waltham Green, London, youngest son of Rev. William Edmund Batty and his wife Frances Beatrice, née Jebb. Named after his mother's ancestor, the Dutch patriot Jan de Witt, he was usually known by his second name. Waltham was a poor parish and in 1892 his father accepted the living of Finchley in a residential district of London. The change of surroundings and his education at St Paul's School in 1890-97 helped to give him that ease of movement amid the governing classes which was to be one of his chief characteristics. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class in Litterae Humaniores in 1902 (M.A., 1905).\nBalliol exercised a decisive influence on Batty who responded with a lifelong affection for the college. He was a wide and intelligent reader all through his life; he was not a professional scholar but Oxford gave him a sound understanding of philosophy, classical literature and some history. More important, he made friends with men who were to be future leaders in church and state, became aware of Britain's imperial obligations and opportunities, and acquired that sense of high moral responsibility combined with an aloofness of manner and a rueful acknowledgment of the weaknesses of lesser mortals which he always retained.\nFamily influence and the impression made by a junior undergraduate, William Temple, later archbishop of Canterbury, were important in Batty's decision to enter the Church. He declined an offer to read theology at Balliol and in 1902 entered Wells Theological College. Here he obtained an insight into the corporate spiritual life, was grounded in liberal religious learning and came to disdain those Church 'parties' whose contests were then particularly virulent. On 4 October 1903 he was made deacon and became an assistant curate at Hornsey, a London suburb. His vicar, St Clair Donaldson, gave Batty thorough tuition in his craft. When Donaldson was appointed bishop of Brisbane in 1904, Batty went as his domestic chaplain and secretary. Priested by the Bishop of London on 29 May he reached Brisbane on 19 December.\nBatty lived at the official residence with the bachelor archbishop and was soon asked to assist in much of the administration of the diocese. He also helped at the cathedral, took religious instruction classes and in 1909-16 edited the Brisbane Church Chronicle and lectured at St Francis's (Theological) College. Significantly, he accompanied Donaldson, and sometimes represented him, at meetings with governors, politicians and ecclesiastics. He acquired a wide knowledge of the workings of church and state, an easy familiarity, which he treasured, with important people, and a somewhat Olympian attitude, enhanced by his quizzical sense of humour, to local problems and personalities. He probably learned little about 'grass-roots' conditions—his attitude to local radicalism and later to the conscription referenda made this evident.\nAlthough he could never wholly identify himself with Queensland, Batty's sense of commitment became deeper. He was made sub-dean and canon residentiary of St John's Cathedral in 1916, and as such took over the whole responsibility for the running of the cathedral and was closely involved in the St Martin's War Memorial Hospital Appeal. He spoke frequently in the diocesan synod and represented his diocese in the wider councils of the Church. While lamenting what seemed to be a decline in standards, he worked vigorously for the Australian College of Theology, becoming a fellow in 1924. He published pamphlets on Church reunion and the ministry of healing. When Donaldson was translated to Salisbury in 1921, Batty, though severely tempted, chose not to follow him home. His relations with the new archbishop, Gerald Sharp, were generally good. With Rev. C. T. Dimont, he publicly stated his debt to his mentor in St. Clair Donaldson … (London, 1939). Meanwhile, his links with Queensland became stronger. On 7 January 1925 he married Elizabeth Meredith Davis (1893-1972), matron of St Martin's Hospital. That year he became dean of Brisbane and in 1930 succeeded his friendly rival H. F. Le Fanu as coadjutor bishop. He retained his deanship and acted as administrator of the diocese in Sharp's absence.\nBatty was elected bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, and enthroned on 3 March 1931. He thought it 'the most enviable diocese in Australia': compact in area but varied in composition, with a strong intellectual tradition, a good supply of clergy and a large endowment in a pastoral property. He had family ties with the district and had long venerated the founder-bishop William Tyrrell. He rejected the chance of becoming bishop of Adelaide in 1941.\nIn depression-ridden Newcastle, Batty encouraged the registrar and diocesan trustees to reduce reliance on the endowment and to provide for greater financial responsibility by the parishes. While this policy freed funds for special projects and promoted parochial self-reliance, it bore hardly on the weaker areas. He was less successful in coping directly with the problems of people in mining parishes—he lacked the common touch of his predecessor G. M. Long but was made acutely aware of the challenge to the Church posed by current social issues.\nBatty found at St John's College, Morpeth, a group of scholars, including E. H. Burgmann, Roy Lee and A. P. Elkin, who, in a series of publications, were trying to relate Christianity to modern developments in sociology, politics and international affairs. His meeting with Temple during a visit to Britain in 1933 stimulated his own thinking on these lines. In 1955 the college came under the sole control of Newcastle and he hoped that a connexion would be set up with the new university college. Under him Newcastle became a focal point for earnest thinking about contemporary issues in a Christian context. During World War II the Christian Social Order Movement received strong support and Batty himself, stimulated by a Roman Catholic journalist and under the enthusiastic patronage of the governor, Lord Wakehurst, initiated 'Religion and Life Week'. Batty became a radio broadcaster of distinction, although he failed to secure a licence for a Church radio station at Newcastle. At the 1948 Lambeth Conference, he played a considerable part in social justice discussions and was not committed to a distinct secular position. His (Bishop) Moorhouse lectures in 1939 had made it clear that he held to traditional propositions; they were published as Human Nature (Sydney, 1941). He criticized the conservative stance in theology and politics but he was also a strong critic of some Labor government policies of the 1940s.\nBatty was associated with Donaldson in early discussions for reform of the 'legal nexus' between Australian dioceses and the Church of England and emerged as a proponent of the draft constitution first tabled in 1926. Although consistently English in his loyalties, he actively opposed those who feared the jurisdictional independence of an Australian Anglican tribunal. He always disliked extremes of churchmanship and the ecclesiastical quarrels motivated by them. In the later 1940s he supported strongly, though with some compunction, Bishop Wylde of Bathurst in the 'Red Book' case, fearing a revival of divisions over ritual. By 1945 Batty had emerged as the 'minister in charge of the Bill' (as he termed himself). Despite patient negotiation he had to confess by 1950 that the prospect of agreement seemed remote, but enough consensus was reached in 1955 for legislative action to begin. He was widely regarded as one of the principal architects of the constitution which was received in 1961. He also favoured an ecumenical approach and was a persistent exponent of discussions about Christian reunion. From 1937 he belonged to a group of Anglican and Protestant churchmen who studied possible bases of agreement, although he remained reluctant to proceed too rapidly.\nIn the 1950s Batty remained active, travelling overseas, and promoting new lines of Christian thought. It is probable that his diocese, faced with post-war problems of expansion and finance, would have benefited more by his direct attention, but he became increasingly content to leave these affairs to his subordinates. He did not resign until 1958, when he was in his eightieth year, and then presided over the synod which elected his successor. Batty lived in quite active retirement at Double Bay, Sydney. Survived by his wife, he died on 3 April 1961 and was buried in Morpeth cemetery, next to W. Tyrrell, whom he had commemorated in a short play, and whose centenary of appointment he had celebrated with much ceremony in 1947.\nA. P. Elkin, The Diocese of Newcastle (Syd, 1955)\nChurch of England (Brisbane), Reports of the Proceedings of Synod, 1904-30, and General Synod, Proceedings, 1905-60\n‘Synod reports’, Church of England, Diocese of Newcastle Year Book, 1930-58\nF. de W. Batty, Memoirs (Diocesan Registry, Newcastle)\nBatty papers (St James's Church, Sydney)\nElgin papers (privately held)\nVerney papers (privately held)\nWakehurst papers (State Library of New South Wales)\nWylde-Batty correspondence (Diocesan Registry, Bathurst, New South Wales).\nTaylor, Alexander John (brother-in-law)\nK. J. Cable, 'Batty, Francis de Witt (1879–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/batty-francis-de-witt-5155/text8649, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 16 July 2019.\nAnglican bishop\nmagazine/journal editor\nradio religious broadcaster\nreligious writer"
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        "text": "Final Card: Dave Nicholson\nThis is the final card for outfielder Dave Nicholson (#298). Topps added pink to their color spectrum in 1969 for the Royals and Expos (and brown for the Padres and Pilots).\nNicholson never played for the Royals, and had played his last major-league game on October 1, 1967. Because he spent all but 10 games of the 1967 season, and all of 1968 in the minors, he was left out of the 1968 Topps set.\nDave was signed by the Orioles in 1958, and played 2 full seasons in the minors. After 18 games with triple-A Miami in 1960, he made his major-league debut with the Orioles on May 24th. After another full season in the minors in 1961, Dave returned to Baltimore in 1962 as a backup outfielder.\nIn January 1963, Nicholson was traded to the White Sox (with pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm and infielders Pete Ward and Ron Hansen) for shortstop Luis Aparicio. Dave was the Sox' regular left fielder in 1963, and shared the job with others in 1964. With newly-acquired Danny Cater taking over left field, Dave was relegated to the bench for all of 1965.\nNicholson was traded to the Astros in December 1965 for pitcher Jack Lamabe, and a year later he was shipped to the Braves with pitcher Bob Bruce for 3rd baseman Eddie Mathews and infielder Sandy Alomar.\nAfter spending most of the next 2 seasons with the Braves' AAA team in Richmond, Dave was purchased by the expansion Royals in October 1968. He spent his final professional season (1969) pinch-hitting for the expansion Royals' triple-A team in Omaha, Nebraska.\nLabels: ...back on Topps' radar, ...debut: 1960, ...final card, .Royals, Dave Nicholson\nFinal Card: Vic Roznovsky\nThis is the final card for backup catcher Vic Roznovsky (#368). Vic's major-league career consisted of 200 games over a 5-year period, playing for the Cubs, Orioles, and Phillies.\nHe was signed by the Pirates in 1958, and played 2 seasons of class-D ball in their organization. Before the 1960 season he was dealt to the Giants, and spent the next 4 seasons in their farm system, as a catcher-outfielder (along with 29 games at 3rd base in 1963).\nIn December 1963 the Cubs selected him in the minor-league draft, and after spending some time in triple-A, Vic made his major-league debut on June 28, 1964. He played in 35 games (15 starts) as the 3rd-string catcher behind Dick Bertell and Jimmie Schaffer.\nIt looks like the Cubs used the catcher-by-committee system in 1965. Bertell began the season as the starter, but was traded to the Giants in late May for catcher Ed Bailey and others. Meanwhile, Roznovsky and rookie Chris Krug were getting a lot of starts. The final tally behind the plate: Roznovsky - 44 starts, Krug - 46, Bailey - 45, Bertell - 29 (yes, they played 164 games that year).\nPlaying in 71 games in 1965 was the high point of Roznovsky's career, as the Cubs acquired Randy Hundley in the off-season and sent Vic packing to the Orioles for outfielder Carl Warwick. There, he backed up rookie Andy Etchebarren for most of the season, while also finding himself back in triple-A for 19 games. 1967 was a repeat of 1966, except that Roznovsky swapped slots in the pecking order with 1966's 3rd-string catcher Larry Haney.\nThings got worse for Vic in 1968, as he spent the entire season at triple-A Rochester, rescued only by an April 1969 trade to the Phillies, who sent their '68 third-string backstop John Sullivan to the O's for Roznovsky. (There's some debate as to which was the better team - the 1969 Phillies or the AAA Rochester Red Wings.) :D\nVic wrapped up his career gathering dust on the Phillie bench, as he was on the team for the entire season, but only played 13 games (14 plate appearances) and caught a grand total of 4 innings as the 3rd-stringer behind Mike Ryan and rookie Dave Watkins.\nPosted by Jim from Downingtown at 11:00 AM 1 comment: Links to this post\nLabels: ...catchers, ...debut: 1964, ...final card, .Orioles, Vic Roznovsky"
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        "text": "As soon as you have created your online course (see How to create an Online Course) you can start adding content / lectures.\nWhen you click on the \"Import from Web\" image a colorbox pops up and asks for the URL. Give in the field the desired URL and click on Fetch."
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        "text": "Q: Can I change my OS X theme? Some of my friends said that OS X sucks because you only have to choose one theme on every device that have OS X. I searched, but I didn't find any feasible solution just one little thing that cost money (and I didn't want to risk it). \nIs there a easy way to change OS X themes that is free? Please don't tell me that the theme doesn't need to be changed; I really want something like Ubuntu that can change anything, I really love my Ubuntu desktop (KDE and Gnome).\nIf OS X doesn't do this, are there any 3rd-party utilities that can?\n\nA: There is now an app called Flavours that allows theming. It has many nice themes, including some Shapeshifter themes, and runs starting on Lion (10.7.x) up to Mavericks (10.9.x). It costs a bit, however.\n\nA: These days, there's also PaintCan which is a plugin for MacForge.\n\nA: Out of the box there is no themeing capability in Mac OS X, you can however modify some of the colours used by Mac OS X in the Appearance Preference Pane in System Preferences.\nIf you're serious about themeing however there are 3rd party applications you can get to help with this:\n\n\n*\n\n*CandyBar - manages and changes icons.\n\n*ThemePark - does most everything else. If you're interested in available themes that work with ThemePark check out MacThemes\nOtherwise a fairly good resource is the forum at MacThemes.\n\nA: Back in the 10.4 days there was Shapeshifter from Unsanity. Sadly, it died when Leopard was released.\n"
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        "text": "Creating a Portrait\nA Princess:\nCHAKA CHAKA\n\"My background could never deter me from wanting to be what I wanted to be.\"\nHer Voice and a Broomstick\nProfile of an Icon\n“Let’s do it for Madiba!” shouts Yvonne Chaka Chaka as she walks on stage at the first 46664 concert in Cape Town. She’s decked out in South African flags, looking like a soccer fan crossed with a diva. There are two on her dress and eight on her hat; her left side is supported by a crutch draped in a 46664 t-shirt.\nIn spite of the crutch, she dances with real energy, shaking her hips as she sings ‘Umqombothi’. It’s a song about beer – more specifically, making it, as women all over South Africa do. Chaka Chaka doesn’t drink, but she sings this song as though she does. This concert captures Chaka Chaka in her element: performing to an enchanted South African audience, for a good cause: she’s a singer with a heart, deeply involved with the African people.\nShe’s sophisticated, she’s intelligent, and she carries herself lightly, moving with the poise of a born performer. She speaks with sureness and refined grace, her musicality bubbling under the surface.\nThis does not mean that she is at ease with the world. No black South African who grew up during the 1970s and ‘80s could be. But one of her gifts is the ability to take negativity and turn it into something positive: past challenges are used as motivation to improve the present.\nChaka Chaka learnt the importance of discipline and integrity from her mother, who raised three daughters as a single parent on a domestic worker’s salary. She’d help her mother with chores around the house – but also found time to express herself. While sweeping the floor, Chaka Chaka, barefoot and swaying in time to the swishes of the broom’s scratch on concrete, would sing into its handle. It became a microphone, and the concrete floor a stage.\nChildren are ambitious. Usually their dreams and desires fall away over time, replaced by the concerns of the moment and cut down by the realities of life. Not everyone can be extraordinary. Chaka Chaka is the exception. At the age of 13 she was introduced to the world of show business when she went to an audition held by Bernard Joffe, who was looking for talented children in Soweto.\n“He came from nowhere. I guess he was sent by God,” she says. Out of the audition came a show called ‘Sugar Shack’, and Chaka Chaka became the first black child to appear on South African television. Rising to fame at a young age can mean that turbulence, controversy and a meltdown into ignominy follow. Not so for Yvonne Chaka Chaka. Her calm and grace have sustained her throughout her career, kept her touching the heights without plummeting down.\n“I love life. I live life to the fullest and I want to help where I can. I know I can never change the world, but I’m a believer that if you have, always share with others,” she says.\nStaying grounded, and sharing her gifts, has worked out well for Chaka Chaka. She’s released more than 20 albums, with multiple gold and platinum records to her name. By the time she was 19 she was recording her first album, “I’m in Love with a DJ”, for Dephon Records. The first single, which shares its name with the album, was an instant hit, and both sold well.\nAs an example of how Chaka Chaka is able to take misfortune and use it to make something beautiful, a trip to the doctor turned into a lifelong romance. Chaka Chaka’s sister recommended that she visit Doctor Mandlalele Mhinga when the singer fell sick, and while nothing of note happened immediately after that first visit, they stayed in contact. Occasional calls and meetings turned into love and, ultimately, marriage.\nThe death of Phumzile Ntuli, a musician in Chaka Chaka’s band, turned her world on its head. After playing a concert in Gabon, Phumzile came down with a fever. Doctors misdiagnosed her, only realising too late that she had malaria, a disease that affects more than two thirds of the world’s population. More than that, it’s the most vulnerable who are the worst affected by malaria: its highest rates of occurrence are in the world’s poorest countries. Chaka Chaka threw herself into the fight. She is now a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for malaria.\n“I was totally ignorant about malaria. I knew it was there, but I didn’t know how many people it kills, and when I discovered that I thought, ‘I want to be the voice of the voiceless.’” When she says that she’s talking about who malaria affects: in addition to the poorest people being the most susceptible, those who are particularly vulnerable are children under the age of five – who lack natural immunity – and pregnant women – whose immunity is decreased.\nNow when she makes music, Chaka Chaka has an external motive. She’s still doing what she loves, but she’s singing to keep her profile high enough that she is able to make a difference in the fight against malaria. For Chaka Chaka, singing has become useful as well as enjoyable: it has the power to mobilise people, and to raise funds for medicine and mosquito nets.\nChaka Chaka is a performer with a conscience. She stands out from the celebrities who pretend to care, whose involvement in humanitarian causes is done more to appease their own guilty consciences than out of genuine concern for others.\nShe’s got an extraordinary presence. She’ll win you over without even trying – without needing to do more than smile, or give a gentle touch on the arm. There’s a restrained energy behind those gestures that, when it’s unleashed, knocks you off your feet.\nPeople who have such allure often fall in love with themselves, forgetting about the concerns of others. Chaka Chaka never did that. She has maintained the connections she established growing up, and knows who she is: The Princess of Africa.\nThe second part of that title is important – Yvonne is ofAfrica. She doesn’t set herself above it. She gives freely of herself, with her music and her humanitarian work: more than anything she works for the African people, for their health and wellbeing. Africa is lucky to have her.\niryVYy3Cies\nSinger and goodwill ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka tells Adrian Steirn, filmmaker, photographer and creator of 21 Icons South Africa, about her long and difficult journey as a musician and why she has chosen to become a voice for the voiceless through her charitable work. In conversation with Adrian Steirn, Yvonne Chaka Chaka relives her extraordinary career, which saw her rise from the townships of Soweto to becoming the Princess of Africa: a world famous singer, performer and human rights activist.\nA series of behind-the-scenes images reflecting the 21 Icons team at work.\nSeemingly daydreaming Chaka Chaka sings into a wooden broomstick pretending it is a microphone as she did as a child. In the background, a tiara rests atop the piano in reference to the nickname ‘Princess of Africa’ bestowed upon her by Nelson Mandela."
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        "text": "Q: Mac ports installation of gcc46 failing due to architecture problems When trying to install gcc46 on OS X 10.6.4 using port (MacPorts 1.9.1) i get the following errors:\nartemis:foo$ sudo port install gcc46\nError: Cannot install gcc46 for the arch(s) 'x86_64' because\nError: its dependency gmp is only installed for the arch 'i386'\nError: and the configured universal_archs 'ppc i386' are not sufficient.\nError: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch\n\nMacPorts was freshly installed on the 10.6 system.\nAny suggestions on how to resolve this or how to install gcc46 for i386?\n(Previously asked and as of now unanswered on SuperUser.)\n\nA: For some reason the universal_archs configurations was wrong. An answer on SuperUser now worked:\n\n\n*\n\n*in /opt/local/etc/macports/ copy macports.conf.default to macports.conf\n\n*make sure universal_archs in it is set to x86_64 i386\n\n*now go for clean installs, e.g. by following the migration instructions\n\nA: Try installing first gmp only with the universal variant :\n\nsudo port install gmp +universal\n\nThen reinstall gcc46.\n"
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        "text": "FAQ#084 ... In a grand overall vision of social and economic reform such as The Venus Project, what about those few who will always exhibit aberrant behavior under any system?\nYou must remember that Jacque has been at...\nYou must remember that Jacque has been at this almost all of his life, and so have I for the last 33 years. He encountered these questions early in his youth. That's why he joined the KKK and the White Citizen's Council and worked on ways of turning them around. He was successful at this. If genetics were a fixed part of human nature, then behavior could not be altered. He also worked with \"juvenile delinquents\" who were called some of the worst kids in NY, and changed them into constructive citizens who still call him today. He also worked with drug addicts and alcoholics who, in turn, worked with other groups to alter their behavior in a positive way using his methods. He had motorcycle gangs and members of the Nazi party come to his lectures and he changed all of these people. There are processes that work with different kinds of people.\nFresco has developed precise incremental steps for altering human behavior. Genetics determines the function and replication of internal organs, the color of the eyes, a propensity toward certain physical disorders, etc., but has nothing whatever to do with values, bigotry, prejudice, or other learned behaviors. Genetics does not make a person mean, selfish, self-centered, or greedy. If genetics endowed humans with preset behaviors, then people would be unalterable.\nAnimals seem to possess inherited patterns of behavior such as nest building, defending their young, and feeding their offspring, but most of this behavior is based on imprinting and internal body chemistry. Animals with large adrenal glands and a large brain will tend to perpetuate those characteristics in their offspring. Bull dogs of several hundred years ago were very ferocious, which was thought to be inborn. Since then, most of that has been bred out of them by reducing the size of their adrenal glands, which lessened the violence of the animals. It was not the case that the violence was inherited, but rather that the size of the adrenal gland caused the aggressive behavior that characterized the species.\nFresco is interested in ascertaining the precise mechanisms responsible for behavior.\nGeneticists can invent a word like genes, and yet still leave out all the details responsible for behavioral variations. Some imply that through the protoplasmic bridge, acquired behavioral patterns are inherited, thus making genes a scapegoat for the real determinants. It is difficult to go into this if you haven't read the books Jacque gave you such as Brain and Mind, Mind in the Making, and books on Semantics. In the absence of a serious familiarity with these books, it is nearly impossible to do justice to this type of information.\nIn essence, Jacque is concerned with the precise mechanisms that impart values and determine behavior, and he rejects terms like instinct, human nature, and inheritance across a protoplasmic bridge. These do not describe a precise process. If we used only names and neglected processes, we could not make progress in science. We could not build bridges, make telephones, design computers, etc. It would just be an intellectual hobby in linguistics. This inadequate process would not suffice for designing a more positive future.\nLinguistic and intellectual engagement has been used by many philosophers and intellectuals who saw that process of evaluation as constituting advanced and deep thinking. From Fresco's point of view, their writings look like the musings of artists who dream that someday people will develop ways of reaching the heavens, but who don't provide any information for attaining those ends. It is the work of people who develop precise methodologies for accomplishing these ends that can translate them into reality. Most people are engaged in a jungle of linguistic abstractions with little or no precise insight into cause and effect or methodology. This, for Fresco, was never an acceptable way of accomplishing anything."
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        "text": "Q: Can I get the Canon EOS Utility to stop bugging me when I plug in my iPhone? I'm not sure if this belongs here or SuperUser, so I'll ask here and if the community decides to close it, I will re-ask there.\nEvery time I plug my iPhone in to my MacBook, the Canon EOS Utility (installed with the software for my DSLR) pops up and decides to inform me that a camera was not connected. I, of course, know this, as I just connected my iPhone. This happened with my last iPhone (3G) and continues to happen with my current iPhone 4.\nIs there any way to get that software (provided by Canon) to stop bugging me (on my MacBook, OS X 10.6) when I plug in my iPhone?\n\nA: After plugging in your iPhone, open \"Image Capture.app\" in the Applications folder. In the bottom left of the window is an option to choose what to do when this \"camera\" is plugged in. Change this to Do Nothing or open iPhoto as you would prefer. \n\nA: You can also try installing Cameras, which will let you select default actions depending on the camera you plug in.\n\nA: Open up the ImageCapture application. There will be an option to change what happens when you plug a camera / device in.\n\nA: One option would be to simply disable the Canon EOS Utility, which apparently has a 'helper' app/daemon running all the time, and manually launch it when you need it.\nThere should be a setting in the Canon EOS Utility's preferences, but if there isn't, look in System Preferences » Accounts (I think that's what it is called in Snow Leopard) » Login Items.\nIf there's nothing there, check \"~/Library/LaunchAgents\" (where ~ is your home directory) for something which (probably) lists Canon in the filename. Remove the file from that directory and restart your Mac.\nBonus Tip: Assuming that your camera mounts in /Volumes/ when connected, you could use Hazel to automatically launch the utility when your camera is connected.\n"
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        "text": "Q: iChat periodically disconnects About twice a night, iChat will disconnect (though it'll still show me as connected).  After about 10 minutes, it'll realize it's disconnected and bring up a dialog telling me it lost the connection.  I can then close the dialog and reconnect with no trouble.\nMy computer's network connection seems to be fine throughout this.\nAny idea:\n\n\n*\n\n*What might might be causing this?\n\n*How to fix it?\n\n*At least how to make it tell me more immediately when it loses the connection?\n\n\nA: Your problem might be your router loosing connection temporarily to your ISP.\nI use Chax, an extension to iChat which, among other great things, auto-reconnects when connection is lost. Chax is donationware.\n"
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        "text": "13 януари е 13-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 352 дни до края на годината (353 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1610 г. – Галилео Галилей открива спътник на Юпитер – Калисто.\n 1822 г. – В Гърция е приет дизайнът на сегашния национален флаг.\n 1854 г. – Във Филаделфия (САЩ) е патентован акордеонът.\n 1864 г. – В Русия започва въвеждането на провинциални (областни) съвети.\n 1878 г. – Стара Загора е освободена повторно, а за окръжен началник е назначен руският офицер Куликовски.\n 1893 г. – В Лондон е учредена Лейбъристката партия на Великобритания.\n 1898 г. – Френският писател Емил Зола публикува отвореното си писмо „Аз обвинявам“ – протест срещу скалъпеното дело „Драйфус“.\n 1910 г. – От Метрополитън опера в Ню Йорк е осъществено първото радиоизлъчване – на операта „Селска чест“.\n 1915 г. – Прожектиран е първият български игрален филм „Българан е галант“ на Васил Гендов.\n 1915 г. – Мощно земетресение разтърсва град Авецано в Централна Италия, при което загиват 29 800 души.\n 1916 г. – Поради пробив в дига е наводнена голяма част от територията на Нидерландия, загиват около 10 хил. души.\n\n 1935 г. – Саарланд гласува на референдум за присъединяването си към Германия.\n 1953 г. – Йосип Броз Тито е избран за президент на Югославия.\n 1964 г. – Първият запис на песента на Бийтълс „Искам да държа ръката ти“ става най-бързо продаващият се сингъл.\n 1964 г. – Карол Войтила, бъдещият папа Йоан Павел II, е ръкоположен за архиепископ на Краков.\n 1972 г. – Висшият педагогически институт в Пловдив е преименуван на Пловдивски университет.\n 1974 г. – Отворено най-голямото летище в света – в Далас, щат Тексас, САЩ.\n 1991 г. – За да не допуснат независимост на Литва, съветски войски и танкове атакуват телевизията във Вилнюс, при което загиват 11 души.\n 2001 г. – При земетресение в Салвадор загиват около 800 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 101 г. – Луций Елий, римски император († 138 г.)\n 1832 г. – Хорейшо Алджър, американски писател († 1899 г.)\n 1843 г. – Луи Леже, френски славист († 1923 г.)\n 1849 г. – Константин Йованович, австрийски архитект от български произход († 1923 г.)\n 1851 г. – Тодор Каблешков, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1863 г. – Алеко Константинов, български писател († 1897 г.)\n 1864 г. – Вилхелм Вин, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1928 г.)\n 1866 г. – Георги Иванович Гурджиев, философ-мистик († 1949 г.)\n 1878 г. – Пейо Яворов, български поет († 1914 г.)\n 1880 г. – Александър Морфов, български композитор († 1934 г.)\n 1883 г. – Никола Марковски, български революционер († 1966 г.)\n 1898 г. – Николай Фол, български писател и режисьор († 1969 г.)\n 1909 г. – Маринус Ван дер Любе, холандски комунист († 1934 г.)\n 1924 г. – Волфганг Краус, австрийски писател († 1998 г.)\n 1924 г. – Паул Файерабенд, австрийски философ († 1994 г.)\n 1925 г. – Георги Калоянчев, български актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1927 г. – Сидни Бренър, южноафрикански биолог, Нобелов лауреат през 2002 г. († 2019 г.)\n 1933 г. – Мария Луиза Българска, българска княгиня\n 1938 г. – Шивкумар Шарма, индийски музикант\n 1939 г. – Яцек Гмох, полски футболист\n 1943 г. – Ричард Мол, американски актьор\n 1947 г. – Карлес Рексач, испански футболист\n 1949 г. – Ракеш Шарма, индийски космонавт\n 1958 г. – Буйо, испански футболист\n 1964 г. – Виолета Георгиева, българска певица\n 1965 г. – Росен Миланов, български диригент\n 1966 г. – Патрик Демпси, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Стивън Хендри, шотландски играч на снукър\n 1972 г. – Щефан Байнлих, германски футболист\n 1977 г. – Орландо Блум, британски актьор\n 1982 г. – Мария, попфолк изпълнителка\n 1984 г. – Тодор Паланков, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 86 г. пр.н.е. – Гай Марий, древноримски военачалник и политик (* 157 пр.н.е.)\n 888 г. – Карл Дебели, франкски император (* 832 г.)\n 1151 г. – Сугерий, френски духовник и държавен деятел (* 1081 г.)\n 1182 г. – Агнес Бабенберг, кралица на Унгария (* ок. 1154 г.)\n 1599 г. – Едмънд Спенсър, английски поет (* 1552 г.)\n 1863 г. – Козма Прутков, измислен руски писател (* 1803 г.)\n 1864 г. – Димитър Мутев, книжовник (* 1818 г.)\n 1864 г. – Стивън Фостър, американски композитор (* 1826 г.)\n 1867 г. – Виктор Кузен, френски философ (* 1792 г.)\n 1906 г. – Александър Попов, руски учен (* 1859 г.)\n 1921 г. – Йоан Караджани, румънски фолклорист (* 1841 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мара Бунева, българска революционерка (* 1902 г.)\n 1932 г. – София Хоенцолерн, съпруга на крал Константинос I (* 1870 г.)\n 1941 г. – Джеймс Джойс, ирландски писател (* 1882 г.)\n 1950 г. – Димитрис Семсис, гръцки музикант (* 1883 г.)\n 1950 г. – Калинка Драганова, кмет на с. Гела, Смолянска област\n 1953 г. – Христо Метев, фабрикант (* 1881 г.)\n 1961 г. – Цветан Лазаров, български авиоконструктор (* 1896 г.)\n 1972 г. – Владимир Трендафилов, български актьор († 1897 г.)\n 1974 г. – Салвадор Ново, мексикански поет (* 1904 г.)\n 2000 г. – Боян Знеполски, български писател (* 1908 г.)\n 2006 г. – Божидар Божилов, български поет (* 1923 г.)\n 2012 г. – Рауф Денкташ, кипърски политик (* 1924 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Професионален празник на работещите в областта на киното – Обявен с Решение на МС от 27 декември 2005 г.\n Швеция и Финландия – Ден на Свети Кнут (край на Новогодишните празници)\n\nИзточници \n\n113"
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        "text": "14 януари е 14-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 351 дни до края на годината (352 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1477 г. – Московският велик княз Иван III завладява Новгород.\n 1539 г. – Испания анексира остров Куба.\n 1690 г. – В Германия е създаден духовият инструмент кларинет.\n 1701 г. – В Русия е създадено първото морско училище.\n 1724 г. – Филипе V абдикира от престола на Испания в полза на сина си Луис I, но седем месеца по-късно се връща на трона, поради смъртта на младия крал от вариола.\n 1762 г. – Със смъртта на императрица Елисавета става възможно прекратяването на седемгодишната Руско-пруска война.\n 1897 г. – За първи път е изкачен най-високият връх в Южна Америка Аконкагуа.\n 1901 г. – В София е пуснат първият електрически трамвай\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: В Казабланка се провежда среща между Уинстън Чърчил и Франклин Рузвелт за обсъждане на съвместните действия през следващата фаза на войната.\n 1954 г. – Основана е корпорацията Америкън Моторс.\n 1967 г. – Речта на уволнения от Харвард професор Тимоти Лири, изнесена по време на The World's First Human Be-in в Сан Франциско, дава начало на световното движение хипи.\n\n 1972 г. – Маргрете II става кралица на Дания.\n 1985 г. – Тенисистката Мартина Навратилова печели своя стотен турнир.\n 1993 г. – В Балтийско море потъва полският ферибот Ян Хавелиуш, загиват 55 души екипаж и пътници.\n 1994 г. – България се включва в инициативата на НАТО „Партньорство за мир“.\n 2004 г. – Грузия възстановява националния си флаг, използван преди 500 години.\n 2005 г. – Спускаемият модул на апарата от съвместната програма на НАСА и ЕКА „Касини-Хюйгенс“ достига до повърхността на Титан.\n\nРодени \n\n 83 г. пр.н.е. – Марк Антоний, римски политик († 30 пр.н.е.)\n 38 г. пр.н.е. – Нерон Клавдий Друз, римски генерал, брат на Тиберий и баща на Клавдий († 9 пр.н.е.)\n 1684 г. – Жан Батист ван Ло, френски художник († 1745 г.)\n 1777 г. – Уилям Лийк, британски топограф († 1860 г.)\n 1792 г. – Кристиан Юлиус Де Меза, датски генерал († 1865 г.)\n 1839 г. – Йосиф Ковачев, български учен († 1898 г.)\n 1850 г. – Пиер Лоти, френски писател († 1923 г.)\n 1861 г. – Мехмед VI, султан на Османската империя († 1926 г.)\n 1875 г. – Алберт Швайцер, елзаски лекар, Нобелов лауреат през 1952 († 1965 г.)\n 1883 г. – Нина Ричи, френска дизайнерка († 1970 г.)\n 1888 г. – Иван Момчилов, български политик († 1966 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Димов, български актьор († 1965 г.)\n 1904 г. – Емили Хан, американска писателка († 1997 г.)\n 1910 г. – Васил Чертовенски, български писател († 1979 г.)\n 1911 г. – Анатолий Рибаков, руски писател († 1998 г.)\n 1915 г. – Герхард Венгел, германски летец († 1944 г.)\n 1915 г. – Мари-Луиз фон Франц, швейцарска психоложка († 1998 г.)\n 1925 г. – Юкио Мишима, японски писател († 1970 г.)\n 1925 г. – Мария Чичикова, българска археоложка († 2021 г.)\n 1926 г. – Васко Абаджиев, български цигулар-виртуоз и композитор († 1974 г.)\n 1931 г. – Катерина Валенте, италианска певица\n 1932 г. – Йован Котески, поет от Република Македония († 2001 г.)\n 1939 г. – Александрос Лагопулос, гръцки семиотик\n 1941 г. – Милан Кучан, първи президент на Словения\n 1941 г. – Фей Дънауей, американска актриса\n 1942 г. – Васил Попов, български математик, член-кореспондент на БАН († 1990 г.)\n 1947 г. – Петер Ногли, германски футболист\n 1947 г. – Ричард Леймън, американски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1947 г. – Кристина Пронко, полска певица\n 1948 г. – Карл Уедърс, американски актьор\n 1952 г. – Кълин Попеску-Търичану, министър-председател на Румъния\n 1957 г. – Веселин Калановски, български артист\n 1959 г. – Георги Димитров – Джеки, български футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1960 г. – Веселин Койчев, български музикант\n 1961 г. – Висарион, духовен учител от Русия\n 1962 г. – Андреас Щайнхьофел, немски писател\n 1965 г. – Шамил Басаев, чеченски бунтовник († 2006 г.)\n 1966 г. – Марко Хиетала, финландски китарист (Nightwish)\n 1967 г. – Зак Уайлд, американски китарист\n 1967 г. – Емили Уотсън, английска актриса\n 1969 г. – Дейв Грол, американски музикант\n 1969 г. – Джейсън Бейтман, американски актьор\n 1973 г. – Джанкарло Фисикела, италиански пилот от Формула 1\n 1974 г. – Кевин Дюранд, канадски актьор\n 1976 г. – Вили Прагер, български артист\n 1982 г. – Виктор Валдес, испански вратар\n\nПочинали \n\n 1092 г. – Вратислав II, Крал на Бохемия (* 1032 г.)\n 1235 г./36 – Свети Сава Сръбски, сръбски духовник (* 1169 г.)\n 1331 г. – Одорико, италиански францискански монах, изследовател и мисионер (* 1286 г.)\n 1676 г. – Франческо Кавали, италиански композитор (* 1602 г.)\n 1742 г. – Едмънд Халей, английски учен (* 1656 г.)\n 1753 г. – Джордж Бъркли, ирландски философ – теолог (* 1685 г.)\n 1882 г. – Теодор Шван, немски биолог (* 1810 г.)\n 1886 г. – Лев Каменев – руски художник, пейзажист (* 1834 г.)\n 1890 г. – Фьодор Радецки, руски генерал (* 1820 г.)\n 1898 г. – Луис Карол, британски писател и математик (* 1832 г.)\n 1905 г. – Ернст Карл Абе, германски физик (* 1840 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ото Либман, германски философ (* 1840 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мара Бунева, българска революционерка (* 1902 г.)\n 1937 г. – Стефан Бочаров, български военен лекар (* 1852 г.)\n 1939 г. – Валдемар Датски, датски принц (* 1858 г.)\n 1943 г. – Ерик Найт, британски писател (* 1897 г.)\n 1946 г. – Илия Матакиев, български лекар (* 1872 г.)\n 1949 г. – Хари Стек Съливан, американски психиатър (* 1892 г.)\n 1957 г. – Хъмфри Боугарт, американски актьор (* 1899 г.)\n 1966 г. – Сергей Корольов, съветски ракетен инженер (* 1907 г.)\n 1972 г. – Фредерик IX, крал на Дания (* 1899 г.)\n 1975 г. – Георги Трайков, български политик (* 1898 г.)\n 1977 г. – Анаис Нин, американска писателка от френски произход (* 1903 г.)\n 1977 г. – Антъни Идън, английски политик (* 1897 г.)\n 1977 г. – Питър Финч, английски актьор († 1916 г.)\n 1978 г. – Курт Гьодел, австрийски математик (* 1906 г.)\n 1988 г. – Георгий Маленков, съветски политик (* 1902 г.)\n 1988 г. – Камен Калчев, български писател (* 1914 г.)\n 2002 г. – Дечо Таралежков, български композитор (* 1929)\n 2009 г. – Димитър Манчев, български актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 2014 г. – Хуан Хелман, аржентински поет (* 1930 г.)\n 2016 г. – Алън Рикман, английски актьор (* 1946 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – Св. Нина (светица)  \n Банго Васил – Циганската Нова година (празнува се по Юлиански календар)\n България – Празник на войските на министерството на транспорта – (обявен с Решение на Министерски съвет от 6 януари 1994 г.)\n Тайланд – Национален ден за опазване на горите\n\n114"
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        "text": "Home / 1001 Inventions' Science Show and Schools Programme launches in Sao Paulo, Brazil\nWorld-premier show and educational productions uncovering fascinating scientific legacy from Muslim Civilisation\nwww.1001inventions.com.br\nTuesday 23rd September 2014, Sao Paulo: A new theatrical science show and educational programme was launched today at the Institute of Butantan. The ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ provides a fascinating insight into the history of science, medicine and technology from over one thousand years ago in a period known as the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation.\nOver the last decade, 1001 Inventions has reached over 100 million people across the globe, with educational campaigns in cities such as in London, Istanbul, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur,Jeddah, Karlstad and Rotterdam.\n~ Click here for Media/Press Coverage ~\nDeveloped specifically to engage schools in Brazil, the programme was produced by the United Kingdom based educational organisation 1001 Inventions in partnership with the Institute of Butantan in Sao Paulo, Qatar Museums, Qatar Ministry of Culture, the Government of Sao Paulo and is launched as part of the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture.\nThe science show and educational programme introduce a world of science and inventions from a creative era of Muslim Civilisation that spread across three continents from Spain and southern Portugal to as far east as China. During this historic period from the 7th century onwards, inspirational men and women of different faiths and cultures built upon the knowledge of ancient civilisations and made discoveries that have had a huge and often underappreciated impact on our world. Settlers who arrived in Brazil in the 16th century brought with them many of these ideas and discoveries that still shape modern life today.\n“This programme is so important to inspiring our children today because it helps demonstrate that science is global and that other civilisations have contributed to the world we live in. This journey to the past can help us build a better future”, says Jorge Kalil, Director of Butantan Institute.\nThe ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ provides educators and schools with a new, first-of-its-kind, live science show and short feature film starring Sir Ben Kingsley, and classroom materials that enrich the teaching of science, technology and mathematics. The diversity of the content provided interlinks themes of science with art and culture, helping to nurture student creative skills.\nDavid Uip, São Paulo State Secretary of Health, commented that “It is wonderful to see the leading role in the 1001 Inventions science show as the character impersonation of Malba Tahan, our celebrated early 20th century Brazilian mathematician. Through his beautiful stories and books he introduced us to the same Middle Eastern golden age of science and discovery and this 1001 Inventions school programme continues that journey demonstrating how societies today, including those of Latin America, have had centuries of interactions with Muslim Civilisation.”\nAhmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions, said “Our 45 minute science show is fun, engaging, interactive and educational. It features actors role playing scientists from the past who attempt to bring back to life fascinating stories of discovery and link them to our lives today. From algebra to inoculation, from algorithms to time telling machines; This was an enlightening time in human history, contrary to what is sometimes called the darks ages, the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the European Renaissance”.\nCommenting on the significance of the ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme, Safiya Al Hajari, Director of the Office of Strategic Cultural Relations, Qatar Museums, said: “We are delighted to be a part of this exciting educational programme that will further contribute to the cultural bridges that we are building between Qatar and Brazil as part of the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture.”\nThe ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ is managed in Brazil by the Institute of Butantan in Sao Paulo. The first phase of the programme will be hosted at the Institute of Butantan where many schools will attend the live show and receive educational materials.\n1001 Inventions is a British educational organisation and world leader in celebrating the scientific and cultural legacy of Muslim Civilisation.\n1001 Inventions delivers global educational campaigns and creates award-winning productions including blockbuster exhibitions, festivals, films, live shows, books and learning materials.\n1001 Inventions is the world’s leading Muslim Civilisation brand that has engaged and educated over 100 million people and established a global network of strategic partnerships and relationships with governments, educational institutions and organisations.\n1001 Inventions demonstrates that for a thousand years from the seventh century onwards, exceptional scientific andtechnological advancements were made within Muslim Civilisation. In an areathat spread from Spain to China, men and women of various beliefs and backgrounds built upon knowledge from ancient civilisations, making breakthroughs that helped pave the way for the European Renaissance and impact our world today.\nMany of these discoveries, inventions andideas spread, with the settlers, to Brazil in the 16th century influencing life today in homes, schools, hospitals, towns, and our understanding of the world and universe. www.1001inventions.com\nAbout Qatar Museums\nQatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralizes resources and provides a comprehensive organization for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant center for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.\nSince its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QMA Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.\nQM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.\nAbout Qatar Brazil 2014\nQatar Brazil 2014 is a year-long cultural exchange programme dedicated to connecting people in Qatar and Brazil through culture, community and sport. Through a year full of thought-provoking activities, both nations strive to strengthen bilateral relations and create lasting partnerships. For more information: www.qatarbrazil2014.com\nAbout Butantan Institute\nInstitute of Butantan is a leading research institution in Brazil, developing biological products for public health, undertaking basic and applied research, and promoting scientific knowledge. Founded in 1901, it is one of the largest biomedical research centres in the world in the areas of Biology, Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. For more information: www.butantan.gov.br\n1001 Inventions to launch Brazil Schools Programme\nInspirational reading for a season of reflection\nTimes Online selected 1001 Inventions book as one of the books of last summer 2008\n1001 Inventions at Engineering Islam\n1001 Inventions was invited to attend and speak at Engineering Islam 2008.\n1001 Inventions coverage\nMuslimHeritage.com Newsletter Issue 3 and The Times Summer Book 1001 Inventions\nU.K. Prime Minister endorses Muslim Heritage\nTony Blair has embraced the Muslim community with his endorsement of the pioneering book 1001 Inventions"
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        "text": "Home / Softball / Wayland’s Ritz reaches coaching milestone\nWayland’s Ritz reaches coaching milestone\nJason Wesseldyk\nSoftball isn’t literally part of Cheri Ritz’s DNA.\nBut it might as well be.\n“Some of my earliest memories were at the softball fields in Moline watching my dad and uncle play,” Ritz said. “Softball has always been a big part of my life and I developed a passion for it at a young age.”\nThat passion continues to this day, with Ritz recently completing her 36th season as a high school coach. That includes 34 seasons as a varsity coach, with the vast majority of those coming at her alma mater Wayland Union High School.\nDuring the 2019 campaign, Ritz reached yet another career milestone as she racked up the 900th victory of her career.\n“It felt good,” Ritz said of the win, which came during the first game of a doubleheader against St. Joseph last month. “There’s really not that much difference between 899 wins and 900 wins, but round numbers are always nice.\n“And even though I get credit for the wins, this is really an accomplishment that also belongs to all the players who have played for me and the coaches who have coached with me. I wouldn’t have had the success I have had if it wasn’t for them.”\nDuring the course of winning those 900, Ritz has experienced numerous highs both from a team and an individual perspective.\nFrom a team standpoint, Wayland has won two state championships with 25 conference championships and 23 district championships. Individually, Ritz was named National Federation Coach of the Year in 2015 to go with being named District Coach of the Year 17 times and Regional Coach of the Year eight times.\n“All of those things are great,” Ritz said. “But it’s like I tell the parents at our awards banquet each year. My greatest victories are in the lives of their daughters, not in our record or the banners on the walls. I want to make a positive difference in the life of each of my players. That’s my biggest goal.”\nThat goal was born out of a desire to give back to the sport that has given so much to her.\n“Softball has given me some of the best experiences of my life,” Ritz said. “I played at (Michigan State University) and got to travel all over, including to Belize. I’ve had the opportunity to coach in Hawaii twice. It’s been a great ride and I owe it to softball.”\n“God has been good to me and softball has been good to me. I just want to pay that forward.”\nRitz is also the softball chairman for the National High School Coaches Association.\n“That’s been another blessing,” Ritz said. “I get to meet with the eight finalists for National Coach of the Year and spending time with coaches like that is amazing.”\nWhile reaching the 900-win milestone was fun for Ritz, the season as a whole wasn’t quite what fans have come to expect from Wayland. With a young squad that included as many as six freshmen in the starting lineup, the Wildcats finished at 16-19 and were runner-up in both the OK Gold Conference and at districts.\nWayland had won 14 straight league titles and 15 straight district crowns.\n“This year was a different kind of challenge given our youth,” Ritz said. “But we didn’t lower our expectations because of that. We still expected a lot out of ourselves and we fell short of some of our goals. But I have no doubt this group will work hard and we’ll get back to where we want to be.”\nAlong the way, Ritz will continue to rack up more wins, with all-time leader Diane Laffey and her total of more than 1,200 wins as the ultimate goal.\n“Diane is one of the coaches I really admire,” Ritz said. “She’s been coaching more than 50 years, so I figure I have a lot of time left. Getting to 1,000 wins would be cool and why not aim for Diane’s record.”\nCheri Ritz"
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        "text": "Ok, here are anagrams of 38 ep titles, Expect the Unexpected being taken as one. See if you can guess which is which RELY ON ROLE JOGMAZED OFF A GORY MINK HEN GUT A FACIAL GORKY STRUNG HOSTCOLA CELLS TO A RIPENER ZOOI TRY A LASAGNA IMPI'M HUNG TIL BEDMR TOT BEARA WARY UNSCALY SPEC COPEXPECT THE DECENT EX UPDR NO, RARE HUTPOP TO PENT I'M MR NED SNOT G - DOLWIMP RATECHARGE TO ATTIC I RIT FORTH IN MY NO FEE A SHRILL POET FOR HERE SITS UN OZHYPED ADAM YAP A SUM AIRSPACEFITTER'S RISKANTS MESS ROMA PLEDGE PRONGRIFLED CONGCAN N EN U SEEEE ME?A PERSIAN SOOTCHAP'S IDYLLDAPHNE TRUTH OOH, CREEPIER WOFT FONT PING AT CASEI'M AN AC TUTEE HELMETCOY FURA CM CRIME SLIT SARAH A FEELER HOGS TIMS LUNT LOT I'M HOT-CASED HUT Oh, and they aren't in order and have had any punctuation removed, or added to make the sentence work.\nyou boys have too much time on your hands. Join the club.Very good King, man.\nYes, I did them meself.\nThe only one which could be mixed up to form an anagram containing my name is A Christmas Miracle. Let's see:RACHEL IS A SMARTI CMI couldn't do much with the last two letters.\nI knew there was something I especially liked about that episode!"
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        "text": "Q: How can I unlock my screen when my input is in a different language? I have 3 languages installed and everytime my MacBook goes to sleep - the screen is being locked. After entering a password, system says that it's incorrect. It appears, that I'm entering password not in English language, but in Lithuanian (mother tongue), where all digits are taken by Lithuanian-specific vowels and consonants (from 1 to 8: ąčęėįšųū). And the problem is that I can't change language back to English so that I'd be able to enter digits for my password. Using backtick for \"default language\" does not work (I get beeps all the time). Copy pasting does not work too.\nAny suggestions? As I don't think I need to take care of what language my MacBook locks the screen in.\nI'm running Mac OS X 10.6.\n\nA: Go to System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options and tick \"Show input menu in login window\" you'll then be able to change it in the screen saver password window as well\nIn OS X 10.7 Lion, \"Accounts\" is called \"Users & Groups\".  The setting \"Show input menu in login window\" really ought to be active by default when plural language input sources are enabled, though.\n\nA: If you used before lithuania language and with this language locked screen.then you must to press in one time     ctrl and alt plius number which for you need.\n\nA: Go to System preferences > Language & Text  and in the Language tab move your password language (in your case, English) on top of the other languages.\n\nA: just turn it on and turn it on again and it will go back to english i just did it\n"
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        "text": "UR-GPO has contracted with pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide highly-competitive prices for pharmaceuticals, biologics and biosimilars.\nI joined United Rheumatology because I wanted to remain in independent private practice, keeping my autonomy and self- determination for the rest of my career. Being a part of this group has given me back the hope that that dream can be a reality. That alone is worth the membership fee!"
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        "text": "Writing: exploring the world of creative professionals\nLibrary > Articles > Writing > 008\nFreelance Copywriting Clients - Are yours Peppermint, Bitter Lemon or Pure Humbug?\nContributor: Mike Beeson\nClients can get in the way of a perfectly good career; or at least that's the impression given by some freelance copywriters who work in the advertising and Internet marketing sector. Like it or not, learning to love clients - warts and all - is essential if you want to succeed in what is an incredibly competitive business. This article gives some useful tips for those on the threshold of what could be a truly great future.\nCopywriters Need Clients\nSo you set yourself up as a freelance copywriter. You've always fancied yourself as an advertising copywriting sort of person. So what's stopping you scaling the heights of fame and fortune as a true copywriting professional?\nThe stark lesson is - and it's a lesson that comes as a shock to so many who are new to freelance copywriting: copywriters need clients. Convincing clients to use the services of an unknown copywriter is hard enough in itself. If you don't have a thick skin, an adaptable personality and a physical presence that confirms you can at least spin a sentence together, you're likely to have a hard time of it.\nLike copywriters, clients come in all shapes and sizes. As they're paying the bill, they're likely to come in some surprising flavours too. There's 'bitter lemon', the type that that will always be hard to please. There's 'humbug' who will always downgrade your offering, the more to minimise your fee. And you may come across 'peppermint'-flavoured clients whose sharpness and critical faculties are so highly tuned, you'll wonder why they bothered to hire a freelance copywriter in the first place!\nBut - despair not! With a little more experience you can at least purport to be an expert - although, it has to be said, any copywriter who cannot back up his or her claims to be able to walk on water will soon be found out.\nDepending on which copywriting sector you enter and what type of expertise you are offering, there's a wide spectrum of responses that could greet you. In the early days, you're probably best avoiding copywriting projects requiring an understanding of the marketing context of what you're expected to write about. This requires commercial insight and experience that doesn't come with a degree in English, useful though that is.\nClients who are used to hiring creative copywriting talent will find you out in seconds. Obviously, they won't expect you to know as much about their business as they do, but naivety is the kiss-of-death for freelance copywriters, especially in the world of owner-managers of small and medium-size companies.\nOff-line or online copywriting?\nBefore 'the ubiquitous Internet' entered the marketing fray, an aspiring copywriter could sometimes get away with selling his or her 'creativity' - as opposed to good, solid commercial awareness. The good news is that off-line copywriting techniques still make up a big part of the total marketing mix. That isn't to say that online copywriting isn't creatively demanding. It is. But in a different way!\nThe BIG change is that Internet marketing is the message itself. It's an informational medium that sets out to inform. In this respect, it's more like PR. The type of copywriting this calls for is therefore more akin to a journalistic style that 'tells before it sells'.\nThere is a subtle difference here and one which demands even greater subtlety on the part of copywriters who need to develop an informal yet authoritative style. Many clients themselves will not be aware of the changes the web has brought to copywriting techniques. Unaware, that is, until their website, online articles or blogs simply bomb out.\nDespite all this, for aspiring copywriters, the web has to be good news. It's not ALL about fiddling with on-page search engine optimisation (SEO). In many cases, a half-way decent freelance copywriter with a lively style could satisfy the needs of many companies.\nThe web is a massive consumer of words in the quest for developing keyword-rich content to generate website links. The need for informative press releases and newsletters (on and off-line), for example, has never been greater. Website content, articles, e-mails, blogs... the world of opportunity for aspiring freelance copywriters is exciting and full of potential if you're looking to make your mark - and a dollar or two!\nAlready, there are website copywriting 'gurus', especially in the USA, who could claim to match the legendary status of direct marketing copywriters of the past. And although nothing stays the same - even in the world of freelance copywriting - clients of the 'bitter lemon', humbug' or peppermint' persuasion will always be around to get under the skin of new and experienced copywriters alike.\nMike Beeson is a UK freelance copywriter, PR consultant and journalist specialising in advertising copywriting, media relations, website copywriting and direct marketing. Mike's company, Buzzwords Limited was established over 20 years ago and is located in Knutsford, Cheshire (south Manchester). For more information, visit:\nMike Beeson and Buzzwords Limited:\nwww.buzzwords.ltd.uk or e-mail Mike at open@buzzwords.ltd.uk.\nIf you observe inaccuracies in our articles or wish to contribute an article or review to be included at AbleStable® visit Feedback."
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        "text": "Q: Is there a way to rename a sound card in Mac OS X? I have multiple sound cards connected and would benefit from being able to rename them from their device name to something like \"Headphones\", \"Surround system\", etc. Is there a way to do this?\n\nA: The Sound Card’s name comes from the Device itself, which “publishes” its name. The operating system reads the name from there. I don’t believe you can rename it, but you can definitely go to /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup and create an Aggregate Audio Device (with the names you want) and select the input/outputs of each.\nFor example, you can create your headphones like this:\n\n"
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        "text": "15 януари е 15-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 350 дни до края на годината (351 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1582 г. – Русия предава Ливония и Естония на Полша, с което губи излаз на Балтийско море.\n 1759 г. – Открит е Британският музей.\n 1892 г. – Джеймс Нейсмит публикува правилата на баскетбола.\n 1908 г. – Основан е италианският АС Бари.\n 1919 г. – Игнаций Падеревски става министър-председател на Полша.\n 1919 г. – Роза Люксембург и Карл Либкнехт, двама от най-известните социалисти в Германия, са заловени и след неколкочасови инквизиции са разстреляни от Фрайкорпс.\n 1943 г. – В експлоатация влиза най-голямата административна сграда в света, Пентагонът.\n\n 1951 г. – Илзе Кох, съпругата на коменданта на концлагера Бухенвалд, е осъдена на доживотен затвор в съд в Западна Германия.\n 1969 г. – СССР изстрелва космическия кораб Союз 5.\n 1970 г. – Муамар ал-Кадафи е провъзгласен за водач на Либия.\n 1970 г. – Биафра се предава след 32-месечна борба за независимост от Нигерия.\n 1975 г. – Ангола получава своята независимост от Португалия.\n 1983 г. – Започва да функционира АЕЦ Кръшко.\n 1991 г. – Срокът на ООН за изтегляне на иракските войски от Кувейт изтича и така започва подготовката за Операция Пустинна буря.\n 1992 г. – Международната общност признава независимостта на Словения и Хърватия от Социалистическата федеративна република Югославия.\n 1992 г. – България първа в света признава независимостта на Република Македония от Югославия.\n 2001 г. – В интернет стартира Уикипедия – виртуална енциклопедия със свободно Уики съдържание.\n 2006 г. – Йеле Клаасен става световен шампион по дартс.\n\nРодени \n\n 1432 г. – Афонсу V, крал на Португалия († 1481 г.)\n 1622 г. – Жан-Батист Молиер, френски драматург и актьор († 1673 г.)\n 1724 г. – Пьотър Румянцев, руски граф и генерал († 1796 г.)\n 1791 г. – Франц Грилпарцер, австрийски поет и драматург († 1872 г.)\n 1795 г. – Александър Грибоедов, руски драматург († 1829 г.)\n 1809 г. – Пиер-Жозеф Прудон, френски философ – анархист († 1865 г.)\n 1828 г. – Димитро Папазоглу, български предприемач († 1902 г.)\n 1842 г. – Йозеф Бройер, австрийски психиатър († 1925 г.)\n 1843 г. – Теофилакт Тилев, български духовник и политик († 1922 г.)\n 1850 г. – Михай Еминеску, румънски поет († 1889 г.)\n 1850 г. – София Ковалевска, руска математичка, писателка и публицистка († 1891 г.)\n 1866 г. – Натан Сьодерблум, шведски духовник – икуменист, Нобелов лауреат през 1930 г. († 1931 г.)\n 1868 г. – Евтим Спространов, български просветен и обществен деец († 1931 г.)\n 1871 г. – Йордан Венедиков, български генерал († 1957 г.)\n 1875 г. – Войдан Чернодрински, български театрален деец и писател († 1951 г.)\n 1883 г. – Власи Власковски, български политик († 1959 г.)\n 1884 г. – Георги Манев, български физик († 1965 г.)\n 1891 г. – Осип Манделщам, руски поет и преводач († 1938 г.)\n 1892 г. – Уилям Бюдайн, американски режисьор († 1970 г.)\n 1895 г. – Гео Милев, български поет († 1925 г.)\n 1897 г. – Георги Дреников, командващ Въздушни войски († 1980 г.)\n 1902 г. – Сауд бин Абдул Азис, крал на Саудитска Арабия († 1969 г.)\n 1902 г. – Назъм Хикмет, турски поет († 1963 г.)\n 1906 г. – Аристотел Онасис, гръцки корабен магнат († 1975 г.)\n 1913 г. – Лойд Бриджис, американски актьор († 1998 г.)\n 1917 г. – Василий Петров, съветски маршал († 2014 г.)\n 1918 г. – Гамал Абдел Насър, президент на Египет († 1970 г.)\n 1922 г. – Франц Фюман, немски писател († 1984 г.)\n 1923 г. – Янко Керемидчиев, български историк († 2004 г.)\n 1929 г. – Мартин Лутър Кинг, афроамерикански борец за граждански права, Нобелов лауреат през 1964 († 1968 г.)\n 1931 г. – Алън Скофийлд, южноафрикански писател и журналист († 2017 г.)\n 1933 г. – Йордан Милев, български писател и поет († 2019 г.)\n 1935 г. – Робърт Силвърбърг, американски писател\n 1936 г. – Делчо Лулчев, български инженер († 1986 г.)\n 1956 г. – Иван Кутузов, български художник-карикатурист († 2020 г.)\n 1958 г. – Борис Тадич, президент на Сърбия\n 1959 г. – Пийт Треуавас, британски рокмузикант\n 1966 г. – Владислав Кацарски, български журналист\n 1968 г. – Иняки Урдангарин, испанска кралска особа\n 1970 г. – Даниел Боримиров, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Росица Ангелова, българска поетеса\n 1975 г. – Мери Пиърс, френска тенисистка\n 1976 г. – Татяна Петкова, незряща състезателка по маратонско бягане\n 1976 г. – Флорентин Петре, румънски футболист\n 1979 г. – Мартин Петров, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Бианка Гуачеро, италианска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 69 г. – Галба, римски император (* 3 г.)\n 936 г. – Раул, крал на Франция (* ок. 890 г.)\n 1595 г. – Мурад III, султан на Османската империя (* 1546 г.)\n 1615 г. – Вирджиния Медичи, член на клана Медичи (* 1568 г.)\n 1901 г. – Йосиф Гурко, руски генерал (* 1828 г.)\n 1912 г. – Йозеф Мария фон Радовиц, германски дипломат (* 1839 г.)\n 1919 г. – Карл Либкнехт, германски политик, марксист (* 1871 г.)\n 1919 г. – Роза Люксембург, германски политик (* 1870 г.)\n 1926 г. – Луи Мажорел, френски декоратор и мебелист (* 1859 г.)\n 1934 г. – Херман Бар, австрийски писател (* 1863 г.)\n 1945 г. – Теодор Траянов, български поет (* 1882 г.)\n 1948 г. – Ралф Нелсън Елиът, американски икономист (* 1871 г.)\n 1983 г. – Майър Лански, американски мафиот (* 1902 г.)\n 1988 г. – Шон Макбрайд, ирландски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 (* 1904 г.)\n 1998 г. – Владимир Свинтила, български писател (* 1926 г.)\n 2000 г. – Желко Ражнатович, сръбски военен командир (* 1952 г.)\n 2006 г. – Джабер III ал-Ахмед ал-Джабер ал-Сабах, емир на Кувейт (* 1926 г.)\n 2007 г. – Барзан Ибрахим Тикрити, иракски политик (* 1951 г.)\n 2007 г. – Джеймс Хилиър, канадски физик (* 1915 г.)\n 2009 г. – Саид Сиям, палестински политик (* 1959 г.)\n\nПразници \n Рожден ден на виртуалната енциклопедия Уикипедия (2001 г.)\n Ден на изкуствения език Интерлингва (1951 г.)\n САЩ – Ден в памет на Мартин Лутър Кинг\n Северна Корея – Ден на корейската азбука\n\n115"
    },
    {
        "text": "PBS Names Dana Golub Vice President, Programs Management, Technology and Operations\nDana Golub, PBS\nArlington, VA; September 18, 2017 – PBS today announced that Dana Golub has been promoted to the newly created role of Vice President, Programs Management. Golub will continue to serve on PBS’ Technology and Operations team, reporting to PBS Chief Technology Officer Mario Vecchi.\nSince 2010, Golub has served as the Executive Director of PBS WARN, an innovative program that leverages the television broadcast environment and PBS’s national footprint to enhance the reliability of the national Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system. In this capacity, she administered a $55-million grant, which included $28 million in sub-grants to provide power back-up equipment to public television stations.\nIn her new role, Golub will continue to oversee PBS WARN while also managing a new program, announced in July, that will protect access to PBS for an estimated 38 million Americans in remote and underserved communities. The program stems from a commitment that Golub helped to secure from T-Mobile to cover the costs for the relocation of translators, small broadcasting facilities needed to extend the reach of TV broadcast signals to rural and remote areas, following the FCC’s recent spectrum incentive auction.\n“Dana is not only a very skillful program manager and team leader, but she is also always looking for innovative ways to serve stations and deepen public media’s impact in local communities,” Vecchi said. “In particular, she has been at the forefront of advancing the role that PBS and stations play in ensuring public safety through lifesaving emergency communications.”\n“From helping to facilitate secure communications among local first responders to serving as impromptu phone banks in times of crisis, local stations’ commitment to keeping their communities safe never ceases to amaze me,” said Golub. “I am excited to explore ways we can support and strengthen this vital function through even greater collaboration, exchange of best practices and innovative approaches.”\nIn April, Golub was named as one of four finalists for the Digital Entertainment Group’s “Hedy Lamarr Award for Innovation in Entertainment Technology.” She was also appointed this summer to FEMA’s National Advisory Council IPAWS Subcommittee, a body focused on promoting best practices in emergency alerting.\nGolub joined PBS in 2002, first serving in Digital Strategic Services, eventually managing more than 360 grants that distributed $119 million to PTV stations in support of digital television broadcast equipment. Before PBS, she held marketing and product management roles at Time Life Music in Alexandria, Virginia.\nGolub is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English.\nAparna Kumar, PBS, 703-739-5028, ahkumar@pbs.org\nPBS Takes Friday Nights to a New Level With Broadcast ...\nPBS Names Jennifer Rankin Byrne Vice President, Corporate Communications"
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    {
        "text": "The legendary producer/songwriter George Brown (founding member of Kool and the Gang) created Astana Music, a new record company and production company that will focus on dance pop and pop releases. Astana is based at Brown’s studio complex in Woodland Hills. Brown has already signed six artists to the label.\nAstana’s roster has a distinctly international flavor: Chelsea was born in the Philippines, Dominique (Canadian American), Jonna (Denmark) Tlia, Chiyumba (Kenya) , Jordan (Israel), Mychelle Nychole (US). The label also has a stable of staff songwriters, sound engineers, producers, singers and musicians including the acclaimed Keri Lewis, Leon Silvers and Rick Marcel.\nGeorge Brown is a founding member of Kool and the Gang which became one of the most inspired and influential funk units during the '70s, and one of the most popular R&B groups of the '80s after their breakout #1 hit \"Celebration\" in 1979. They released 7 Gold and Platinum albums.\nThe first release from the label is the infectious dance club track KING SIZE from the sultry vocal powerhouse CHELSEA. “King Size” was produced by Brown produced who also co-wrote the track. Acclaimed producer Alessandro Calemme and his DJ team created four REMIXES and the original radio mix."
    },
    {
        "text": "16 януари е 16-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 349 дни до края на годината (350 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 27 г. пр.н.е. – Сенатът на Римската империя удостоява за първи път с титлата август император Гай Юлий Цезар Октавиан.\n 927 г. – Кордоба (в дн. Испания) е обявена за халифат.\n 1547 г. – Иван Грозни се самопровъзгласява за цар на Русия.\n 1556 г. – Императорът на Свещената Римска империя Карл V абдикира, разделяйки империята на две части – в полза на сина си Филип II и брат си Фердинанд I.\n 1581 г. – Английският парламент узаконява англиканството като държавна религия, приемайки закони против католицизма.\n 1593 г. – Мехмед III става султан на Османската империя, след което убива 19-те си братя.\n 1707 г. – Шотландският парламент ратифицира договора за обединение с Англия, с което се създава Великобритания.\n 1724 г. – Петър I забранява в Русия браковете по принуда.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Капитан Александър Бураго с отряд руски драгуни освобождава Пловдив от Османската империя.\n 1881 г. – Български пощи сключва договор с Австрийското параходно дружество за превоз на пощенски пратки по Дунав.\n 1908 г. – Съставено е правителство на Демократическата партия с премиер Александър Малинов.\n 1909 г. – Експедицията на Ърнест Шакълтън установява местонахождението на магнитния южен полюс.\n 1915 г. – Открита е българската легация във Вашингтон от първия пълномощен министър на България в САЩ Стефан Панаретов.\n 1920 г. – В САЩ е въведен така нареченият Сух режим.\n 1920 г. – В Париж се провежда първото заседание на Лигата на нациите.\n 1920 г. – Страните от Антантата преустановяват търговската блокада на СССР.\n 1957 г. – В Ливърпул, Англия, на 10 Mathew Street отваря „The Cavern club“, където дебютират Бийтълс.\n 1963 г. – СССР обявява, че притежава водородна бомба.\n 1969 г. – Чешкия студент Ян Палах се самозапалва в Прага, в протест срещу смазването на Пражката пролет от Съветския съюз година по-рано.\n 1970 г. – Полковник Муамар Кадафи встъпва в длъжност министър-председател на Либия.\n 1979 г. – В Иран е свален светският режим на шах Мохамед Реза Пахлави и страната е обявена за ислямска република.\n 1992 г. – С мирен договор се поставя край на 12-годишната гражданска война в Салвадор, взела 75 000 жертви.\n 2000 г. – За президент на Чили е избран Рикардо Лагос.\n 2001 г. – ЮНЕСКО обявява 16 януари за ден на Бийтълс.\n 2005 г. – 66-годишната румънка Адриана Илиеску става най-възрастната родилка на планетата.\n\nРодени \n\n 1728 г. – Николо Пичини, италиански композитор († 1800 г.)\n 1749 г. – Виторио Алфиери, италиански поет и драматург († 1803 г.)\n 1831 г. – Йован Ристич, сръбски политик († 1899 г.)\n 1838 г. – Франц Брентано, германски психолог и философ († 1917 г.)\n 1853 г. – Андре Мишлен, френски предприемач († 1931 г.)\n 1867 г. – Викентий Вересаев, руски писател († 1945 г.)\n 1890 г. – Асен фон Хартенау, граф Хартенау († 1965 г.)\n 1901 г. – Фулхенсио Батиста, кубински диктатор († 1973 г.)\n 1904 г. – Димитър Добрев, български писател († 1985 г.)\n 1910 г. – Валтер Шеленберг, ръководител на германското стратегическо разузнаване по време на Втората световна война († 1951 г.)\n 1920 г. – Алберто Креспо, аржентински пилот от Формула 1 († 1991 г.)\n 1924 г. – Кати Хурадо, мексиканска актриса († 2002 г.)\n 1928 г. – Уилям Кенеди, американски писател и журналист\n 1931 г. – Йоханес Рау, президент на Германия († 2006 г.)\n 1933 г. – Сюзън Зонтаг, американска писателка и общественичка († 2004 г.)\n 1934 г. – Мерилин Хорн, американска оперна певица\n 1939 г. – Биньо Иванов, български поет († 1998 г.)\n 1946 г. – Кабир Беди, индийски актьор\n 1947 г. – Валентин Чернев, български поет\n 1948 г. – Джон Карпентър, американски сценарист и режисьор\n 1952 г. – Майкъл Чорни, руски бизнесмен\n 1953 г. – Иван Петрушинов, български актьор\n 1953 г. – Райнхард Иргл, германски писател\n 1953 г. – Росен Елезов, български режисьор\n 1955 г. – Джери Лененджър, американски астронавт\n 1957 г. – Иван Черкелов, български режисьор и сценарист\n 1959 г. – Шаде Аду, британска певица от Нигерия\n 1962 г. – Христо Марков, български депутат\n 1964 г. – Деян Неделчев, български поп певец, композитор и шоумен\n 1966 г. – Алек Попов, български писател\n 1968 г. – Бойко Пенчев, български писател, преводач, журналист\n 1968 г. – Дейвид Чокачи, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Корнелия Нинова, български политик\n 1970 г. – Снежина Петрова, българска актриса\n\n 1974 г. – Кейт Мос, английски модел\n 1975 г. – Андреа Грил, австрийска писателка\n 1976 г. – Андреана Николова, българска оперна певица\n 1979 г. – Алия, американска поп певица († 2001 г.)\n 1981 г. – Боби Замора, английски футболист\n 1981 г. – Соня Немска, българска попфолк певица\n 1982 г. – Тунджай Шанлъ, турски футболист\n 1983 г. – Емануел Погатец, австрийски футболист\n 1985 г. – Маркош да Силва, бразилски футболист\n 1986 г. – Айша, латвийска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 1794 г. – Едуард Гибън, британски историк (* 1737 г.)\n 1798 г. – Джон Далинг, британски военен (* 1731 г.)\n 1891 г. – Лео Делиб, френски композитор (* 1836 г.)\n 1901 г. – Арнолд Бьоклин, швейцарски художник (* 1827 г.)\n 1912 г. – Георг Хайм, германски поет (* 1887 г.)\n 1925 г. – Алексей Куропаткин, руски военачалник (* 1848 г.)\n 1927 г. – Йован Цвиич, сръбски географ и учен (* 1865 г.)\n 1928 г. – Велимир Прелич, сръбски юрист (* 1884 г.)\n 1942 г. – Карол Ломбард, американска актриса (* 1908 г.)\n 1947 г. – Андрей Шкуро, руски офицер (* 1887 г.)\n 1950 г. – Густав Круп фон Болен унд Халбах, германски индустриалец (* 1870 г.)\n 1954 г. – Михаил Пришвин, руски писател (* 1873 г.)\n 1957 г. – Артуро Тосканини, италиански диригент (* 1867 г.)\n 1962 г. – Иван Мещрович, хърватски скулптор (* 1883 г.)\n 1977 г. – Ангел Сладкаров, български оперетен артист (* 1892 г.)\n 1990 г. – Влади Симеонов, български диригент (* 1912 г.)\n 1992 г. – Димитър Казаков, български художник (* 1933 г.)\n 1995 г. – Георги Костов, български писател (* 1940 г.)\n 2001 г. – Лоран-Дезире Кабила, президент на Конго (* 1939 г.)\n 2004 г. – Калеви Сорса, министър-председател на Финландия (* 1930 г.)\n 2006 г. – Георги Кордов, български поп певец, композитор и педагог (* 1934 г.)\n 2008 г. – Никола Клюсев, министър-председател на Република Македония (* 1927 г.)\n 2012 г. – Густав Леонхард, нидерландски музикант (* 1928 г.)\n 2017 г. – Юджийн Сърнън, американски астронавт (* 1934 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Професионален празник на хората, работещи в областта на растителната защита (обявен с решение на Министерски съвет 28 септември 2005 г.)\n САЩ – Национален ден за религиозна свобода\n Тайланд – Ден на учителя\n Тамили (народност, населяваща Индия, Шри Ланка, Малайзия, Сингапур и др.) – Фестивал на реколтата\n\n116"
    },
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        "text": "17 януари е 17-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 348 дни до края на годината (349 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 49 г. пр.н.е. – Рим е бил опразнен заради настъпващите от север легиони на Юлий Цезар.\n 395 г. – Римската империя е поделена между синовете на император Теодосий I на източна, с владетел Аркадий, и западна с владетел Флавий Хонорий.\n 1562 г. – Във Франция са легализирани хугенотите.\n 1718 г. – Огромно свлачище унищожава село Лойкербад в Швейцария, при което загиват 56 души.\n 1733 г. – Английският капитан Джеймс Кук става първият мореплавател, пресякъл южния полярен кръг.\n 1765 г. – Братът на Паисий Хилендарски, Лаврентий подарява бащината си къща в Банско за метох на Хилендарския манастир.\n 1775 г. – За пръв път е поставена пиесата „Съперници“ на Ричард Шеридан.\n 1793 г. – Конвентът на Франция гласува да бъде екзекутиран крал Луи XVI.\n 1819 г. – Симон Боливар обявява Колумбия за самостоятелна република.\n 1852 г. – Великобритания признава независимостта на Трансваал – провинция в Южна Африка.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877–1878): Битката при Пловдив открива пътя за руско настъпление към Цариград; освободени са Ямбол и Сливен.\n 1917 г. – САЩ купуват от Дания Вирджинските острови за 25 млн. долара.\n 1919 г. – В Месинския пролив потъва френският кораб „Chaonia“, загиват 460 пътници и екипаж.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Червената армия влиза във Варшава.\n 1959 г. – Извършена е реформа на административното разделение на България – разформировани са административните окръзи и околии и са създадени 30 нови административно-икономически окръзи, които по-късно стават 28.\n 1966 г. – Американски самолет загубва до бреговете на Испания четири водородни бомби.\n 1969 г. – Бийтълс пускат на пазара албума си Yellow Submarine (Жълта подводница).\n 1973 г. – Фердинанд Маркос става пожизнен президент на Филипините.\n 1983 г. – Нигерия експулсира над 2 милиона имигранти, най-вече от Гана.\n 1991 г. – След смъртта на баща си Олаф V, Харалд V става крал на Норвегия.\n 1995 г. – Земетресение в Кобе, Япония, с магнитуд 7,3 по Скалата на Рихтер причинява огромни материални щети и убива 6433 души.\n 2003 г. – В Черно море близо до българското крайбрежие е открит кораб, пролежал на дъното 2400 години.\n\nРодени \n\n 1504 г. – Пий V, пимски папа († 1572 г.)\n 1706 г. – Бенджамин Франклин, американски писател († 1790 г.)\n 1732 г. – Станислав Август Понятовски, полски крал († 1798 г.)\n 1794 г. – Айлхард Мичерлих, германски химик († 1863 г.)\n 1798 г. – Огюст Конт, френски философ († 1857 г.)\n 1820 г. – Ан Бронте, британска писателка († 1849 г.)\n 1847 г. – Николай Жуковски, руски учен († 1921 г.)\n 1849 г. – Андон Балтов, български революционер († 1918 г.)\n 1860 г. – Георги Вазов, български генерал, брат на поета Иван Вазов († 1934 г.)\n 1863 г. – Дейвид Лойд Джордж, британски премиер († 1945 г.)\n 1863 г. – Константин Станиславски, руски актьор († 1938 г.)\n 1870 г. – Мария Луиза Бурбон-Пармска, италианската принцеса († 1899 г.)\n 1870 г. – Стефан Бончев, български геолог († 1947 г.)\n 1871 г. – Дейвид Бийти, британски адмирал († 1936 г.)\n 1880 г. – Мак Сенет, американски актьор († 1960 г.)\n 1887 г. – Никола Андонов, български художник († 1981 г.)\n 1888 г. – Александър Чаянов, руски учен († 1937 г.)\n 1898 г. – Евдокия, българска княгиня († 1985 г.)\n 1899 г. – Ал Капоне, американски гангстер († 1947 г.)\n 1902 г. – Леонид Трауберг, руски сценарист († 1990 г.)\n 1905 г. – Гилермо Стабиле, аржентински футболист († 1966 г.)\n 1909 г. – Ъруин Сандърс, американски социолог († 2005 г.)\n 1911 г. – Джордж Стиглър, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1982 г. († 1991 г.)\n 1919 г. – Дафо Трендафилов, български майстор гайдар и преподавател († 2010 г.)\n 1919 г. – Дезмънд Дос, американски военен герой († 2006 г.)\n 1922 г. – Бети Уайт, американска актриса († 2021 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ърта Кит, американска актриса († 2008 г.)\n 1931 г. - Джеймс Ърл Джоунс; американски актьор.\n 1933 г. – Далида, френска певица († 1987 г.)\n 1934 г. – Иван Спасов, български композитор († 1996 г.)\n 1940 г. – Табаре Васкес, уругвайски политик († 2020 г.)\n 1942 г. – Мохамед Али, американски боксьор († 2016 г.)\n 1943 г. – Рене Превал, хаитянски политик († 2017 г.)\n 1952 г. – Иля Прокопов, български историк\n 1956 г. – Пол Янг, британски музикант\n 1961 г. – Мая Чибурданидзе, грузинска шахматистка\n 1962 г. – Джим Кери, канадски актьор\n 1963 г. – Нарцис Торбов, български археолог\n 1964 г. – Алекс Бранс, костарикански професионален покер играч\n 1964 г. – Мишел Обама, съпруга на Барак Обама\n 1966 г. – Любчо Георгиевски, македонски политик\n 1966 г. – Русанка Ляпова, българска преводачка\n 1969 г. – Лукас Мудисон, шведски режисьор\n 1969 г. – Навийн Андрюс, английски актьор\n 1969 г. – Тиесто, холандски транс диджей\n 1970 г. – Джеймс Уатана, тайландски играч на снукър\n 1971 г. – Кид Рок, американски певец\n 1971 г. – Ричард Бърнс, британски рали състезател († 2005 г.)\n 1983 г. – Алваро Арбелоа, испански футболист\n 1985 г. – Симоне Симонс, холандска певица (Epica)\n 1986 г. – Антоанета Бонева, българска спортистка\n 1987 г. – Александър Усик, украински боксьор\n 1996 г. – Клео Меси, австралийска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 395 г. – Теодосий I, римски император (* 347 г.)\n 1371 г. – Иван Александър, цар на България (*)\n 1468 г. – Скендербег, албански национален революционер (* 1405 г.)\n 1598 г. – Фьодор I, цар на Русия (* 1557 г.)\n 1751 г. – Томазо Албинони, италиански бароков композитор (* 1672 г.)\n 1805 г. – Абрахам Хиацинт Анкетил-Дюперон, френски ориенталист (* 1731 г.)\n 1869 г. – Александър Даргомижки, руски композитор (* 1813 г.)\n 1893 г. – Ръдърфорд Хейс, 19-и президент на САЩ (* 1822 г.)\n 1897 г. – Янош Вайда, унгарски поет (* 1827 г.)\n 1904 г. – Георги Странски, български политик (* 1847 г.)\n 1911 г. – Френсис Галтън, британски психолог и антрополог (* 1822 г.)\n 1915 г. – Никола Образописов, български художник и иконописец (* 1828 г.)\n 1933 г. – Луис Комфорт Тифани, американски художник и дизайнер (* 1848 г.)\n 1960 г. – Ичко Бойчев, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1961 г. – Патрис Лумумба, първи министър-председател на Конго (* 1925 г.)\n 1977 г. – Таке Папахаджи, румънски фолклорист (* 1892 г.)\n 1978 г. – Атанас Далчев, български поет (* 1904 г.)\n 1979 г. – Храбър Попов, български архитект (* 1896 г.)\n 1980 г. – Александър Несмеянов, руски химик органик, академик (* 1899 г.)\n 1982 г. – Варлам Шаламов, писател, поет, публицист (* 1907 г.)\n 1982 г. – Пеньо Русев, български писател (* 1919 г.)\n 1982 г. – Фердинанд Хоринек, български шахматист (* 1896 г.)\n 1991 г. – Олаф V, крал на Норвегия (* 1903 г.)\n 2002 г. – Камило Хосе Села, испански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1989 г. (* 1916 г.)\n 2004 г. – Чеслав Ниемен, полски поп-певец и композитор (* 1939 г.)\n 2005 г. – Алберт Шац, учен, микробиолог (* 1920 г.)\n 2005 г. – Чжао Цзиян, китайски политик и държавник (* 1919 г.)\n 2008 г. – Боби Фишер, американски шахматист (* 1943 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – Свети Антоний Велики (Антоновден)\n България – Празник на град Антоново\n Демократична република Конго – Ден на Патрис Лумумба\n Италия – Празник на град Аджерола\n\n117"
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        "text": "18 януари е 18-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 347 дни до края на годината (348 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 532 г. – В Константинопол въстанието Ника, насочено срещу високите данъци и корупцията при император Юстиниан I, е потушено жестоко от войниците на Велизарий, избити са около 30 хил. души.\n 1535 г. – Испански конкистадори основават на тихоокеанското крайбрежие днешната столица на Перу – Лима.\n 1701 г. – Коронован е първият пруски крал Фридрих I.\n 1825 г. – Открита е сегашната сграда на Болшой театър в Москва.\n 1871 г. – Във Версайския дворец е провъзгласено обединяването на Прусия, Елзас и Лотарингия в Германска империя (Вторият райх), за император е коронован Вилхелм I, a за канцлер Ото фон Бисмарк.\n 1911 г. – Осъществено е първото кацане на самолет върху палубата на кораб.\n 1919 г. – Започва работа Парижката мирна конференция за изработване на мирните договори след Първата световна война.\n\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Съветската войска пробива блокадата на Ленинград.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Британският премиер Уинстън Чърчил призовава Нацистка Германия да обяви капитулация.\n 1956 г. – Влиза в действие първата българска радиорелейна линия между София и Пловдив.\n 1960 г. – Във Варна е основано държавното издателство Георги Бакалов.\n 1964 г. – Започва строителството на Световен търговски център в Ню Йорк. (разрушен 2001 г.)\n 1985 г. – На среща на Политбюро на ЦК на БКП с първите секретари на окръжните партийни комитети е отчетено, че дотогава са сменени имената на 310 000 български турци, и за първи път са говори за „възродителен процес“.\n 1990 г. – Издадена е заповед за арестуване на Тодор Живков, като главен виновник за икономическата криза в България.\n 1991 г. – В отговор на американските бомбардировки, Ирак започва ракетен обстрел на Израелски градове.\n 1997 г. – Норвежецът Бьорг Ослунд става първият човек, прекосил сам Антарктида.\n 2000 г. – Мюсюлмански фанатици разрушават 11 християнски храмове в град Матарам (Индонезия).\n 2012 г. – Достъпът до англоезичната Уикипедия е спрян в цял свят като форма на протест срещу законопроектите SOPA и PIPA в САЩ.\n\nРодени \n\n 1689 г. – Шарл дьо Монтескьо, френски мислител († 1755 г.)\n 1795 г. – Анна Павловна (Романова), кралица на Нидерландия († 1865 г.)\n 1830 г. – Григор Пърличев, български писател († 1893 г.)\n 1834 г. – Йоаким III, константинополски патриарх († 1912 г.)\n 1835 г. – Цезар Кюи, руски композитор († 1918 г.)\n 1849 г. – Никола Цвятков, български революционер\n 1849 г. – Едмънд Бартън, австралийски политик († 1920 г.)\n 1855 г. – Атанас Шопов, български книжовник († 1922 г.)\n 1856 г. – Никола Генев, български военен деец († 1934 г.)\n 1861 г. – Григор Грънчаров, български военен деец († 1928 г.)\n 1868 г. – Кантаро Судзуки, министър-председател на Япония († 1948 г.)\n 1874 г. – Георги Атанасов, български художник († 1951 г.)\n 1875 г. – Алексей Иванович Абрикосов, руски патологоанатом († 1955 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Христов, български революционер († 1964 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Балабанов, български учен († 1955 г.)\n 1882 г. – Алън Милн, английски писател († 1956 г.)\n 1883 г. – Иван Кинкел, български икономист († 1945 г.)\n 1884 г. – Павел Францалийски, български художник († 1956 г.)\n 1887 г. – Йозеф Фолтман, германски офицер († 1958 г.)\n 1892 г. – Оливър Харди, американски актьор († 1957 г.)\n 1894 г. – Константин Гърнев, български художник († 1966 г.)\n 1904 г. – Борис Бабочкин, руски артист († 1975 г.)\n 1904 г. – Кари Грант, американски актьор († 1986 г.)\n 1905 г. – Александър Стаменов, български художник († 1971 г.)\n 1908 г. – Михаил Герасимов, български химик († 2002 г.)\n 1909 г. – Асен Василев, български художник († 1987 г.)\n 1914 г. – Арно Шмит, немски писател († 1979 г.)\n 1921 г. – Йоичиро Намбу, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 2008 г. († 2015 г.)\n 1923 г. – Александър Гърличков, югославски политик († 1990 г.)\n 1925 г. – Жил Дельоз, френски философ († 1995 г.)\n 1931 г. – Ивелин Димитров, български музикант († 2008 г.)\n 1932 г. – Робърт Антон Уилсън, американски автор († 2007 г.)\n 1933 г. – Йордан Соколов, български политик († 2016 г.)\n 1935 г. – Дамян Дамянов, български поет († 1999 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джон Хюм, британски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1998 г. († 2020 г.)\n 1939 г. – Иван Василев - Катила, български футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1940 г. – Милош Зяпков, български писател († 1990 г.)\n 1940 г. – Недялко Йорданов, български поет\n 1947 г. – Такеши Китано, японски актьор\n 1948 г. – Ем Си Гейни, американски актьор\n 1950 г. – Жил Вилньов, канадски пилот от Ф1 († 1982 г.)\n 1954 г. – Валентин Михов, български футболен деятел\n 1955 г. – Кевин Костнър, американски актьор\n 1963 г. – Петер Щам, швейцарски писател\n 1965 г. – Мирослав Севлиевски, български политик\n 1966 г. – Александър Халифман, световен шампион по шахмат\n 1967 г. – Иван Саморано, чилийски футболист\n 1968 г. – Драгана Миркович, сръбска певица\n 1969 г. – Лилия Маравиля, българска актриса\n 1970 г. – Джонатан Дейвис, американски музикант\n 1971 г. – Кристиан Фитипалди, бразилски пилот от Ф1\n 1980 г. – Робърт Грийн, английски футболист\n 1983 г. – Вихрен Узунов, български футболист\n 1984 г. – Чо Сюн Ху, южнокорейски масов убиец († 2007 г.)\n 1987 г. – Йохан Джуру, швейцарски футболист\n 1988 г. – Анджелик Кербер, германска тенисистка\n 1994 г. – Минзи, южнокорейска танцьорка и член на групата 2NE1\n 2001 г. – Томас Раги, италиански китарист и член на Монескин\n\nПочинали \n\n 350 г. – Констанс, римски император (* 333 г.)\n 474 г. – Лъв I, византийски император (* 401 г.)\n 1174 г. – Владислав II, крал на Бохемия (* 1110 г.)\n 1246 г. – Йоаким I, търновски патриарх (* неизв.)\n 1586 г. – Маргарита Пармска, херцогиня на Парма (* 1522 г.)\n 1854 г. – Джуда Туро, американски филантроп (* 1775 г.)\n 1862 г. – Джон Тейлър, 10-и президент на САЩ (* 1790 г.)\n 1878 г. – Антоан Бекерел, френски физик (* 1788 г.)\n 1883 г. – Марин Калугеров, български духовник (* 1837 г.)\n 1890 г. – Мариано Гуадалупе Валехо, американски военен и политик (* 1807 г.)\n 1905 г. – Александър Турунджев, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1906 г. – Петър Юруков, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1910 г. – Александър Чакъров, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1923 г. – Петко Момчилов, български архитект (* 1864 г.)\n 1936 г. – Ръдиард Киплинг, британски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1907 г. (* 1865 г.)\n 1967 г. – Димитър Михалчев, български философ (* 1880 г.)\n 1971 г. – Месру Мехмедов, български диригент (* 1935 г.)\n 1977 г. – Карл Цукмайер, немски писател (* 1896 г.)\n 1978 г. – Хасан Аскари, пакистански писател и философ (* 1919 г.)\n 1988 г. – Росен Босев, български белетрист (* 1946 г.)\n 1992 г. – Петър Стъпов, български писател (* 1910 г.)\n 1995 г. – Адолф Бутенандт, германски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1939 г. (* 1903 г.)\n 2006 г. – Ян Твардовски, полски поет (* 1915 г.)\n 2007 г. – Марко Семов, български писател и публицист (* 1939 г.)\n 2014 г. – Дойно Дойнов, български историк (* 1929 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международния ден на Снежния човек\n Православна църква – Св. Атанасий Велики - Атанасовден (Имен ден празнуват Атанас, Атанаска, Наско, Начо, Таню, Тинка и др.)\n България – Празник на село Генерал Тодоров, Благоевградска област\n Тайланд – Ден на въоръжените сили\n\n118"
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        "text": "19 януари е 19-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 346 дни до края на годината (347 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 383 г. – Аркадий е обявен за император на източната Римска империя.\n 1419 г. – Стогодишна война: Град Руан се предава на английския крал Хенри V и по този начин Нормандия става част от Англия.\n 1764 г. – Джон Уилкс е изгонен от Камарата на общините заради подривна дейност и клеветничество.\n 1806 г. – Великобритания окупира нос Добра надежда.\n 1829 г. – Състои се премиерата на „Фауст“ от Гьоте.\n 1839 г. – Британската източноиндийска компания превзема Аден.\n 1853 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта „Трубадур“ на Джузепе Верди в Рим.\n 1861 г. – Джорджия става 5-ия щат, отделил се от САЩ след Южна Каролина, Мисисипи и Алабама.\n 1899 г. – Судан става кондоминиум на Великобритания и Египет.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: При първата в света бомбардировка на цивилно население, германски цепелини бомбардират градовете Грейт Ярмут и Кингс Лин във Великобритания, загиват над 20 души.\n 1918 г. – Финландска гражданска война: Първи тежки сражения между Червената гвардия и Бялата гвардия.\n 1920 г. – Сенатът на САЩ гласува против присъединяването на държавата към Обществото на народите.\n 1937 г. – Хауърд Хюз поставя нов световен рекорд за скорост, прелетявайки със самолет разстоянието от Лос Анджелис до Ню Йорк за 7 часа, 28 минути и 25 секунди.\n 1938 г. – За първи път в света започва серийно производство на леки автомобили с дизелов двигател от американската фирма „Дженерал Моторс“.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Великобритания напада контролираната от Италия Еритрея в Етиопия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветската армия освобождава Лодз. От 230 000 жители през 1940, по-малко от 900 оцеляват след Нацистката окупация.\n 1946 г. – Генерал Дъглас Макартър създава Международен военен трибунал за Далечния изток за съдене на японски военнопрестъпници.\n 1955 г. – Играта „Скрабъл“ се появява на пазара.\n 1966 г. – Индира Ганди е избрана за министър-председател на Индия.\n 1969 г. – Студентът Ян Палах умира, след като три дена преди това се самозапалва в Прага в знак на протест срещу инвазията на СССР в Чехословакия през 1968. Погребението му се превръща също в значим протест.\n 1977 г. – Президентът на САЩ Джералд Форд амнистира Ива Тогури д'Акино, известна като „Токийската роза“.\n 1977 г. – В Маями, щата Флорида, пада сняг за първи път в известната история на града.\n 1981 г. – САЩ подписва споразумение с Иран за освобождаването на 52-мата американски заложници, държани 14 месеца в плен.\n 1983 г. – Нацисткият Военният престъпник Клаус Барби е арестуван в Боливия.\n 1983 г. – Apple Computer известява за появата на „Apple Lisa“ – първият си персонален компютър с графичен потребителски интерфейс и компютърна мишка.\n 1989 г. – Френският президент Франсоа Митеран кани на неформална закуска в посолството на Франция в София 12 български дисиденти.\n 1993 г. – IBM обявява, че е регистрирана загуба от $4,97 милиарда за изминалата 1992 година – най-голямата загуба за една година на дадена корпорация в историята на САЩ.\n 1997 г. – След повече от 30 години Ясер Арафат се завръща в Хеброн и участва в честването по случай присъединяването на последния, контролиран от израелците, град на Западния бряг.\n 2006 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат Нови Хоризонти (New Horizons) и неговата мисия е да изследва Плутон. Апаратът достигна Плутон на 14 юли 2015 г.\n 2007 г. – Арменският журналист Хрант Динк е застрелян пред офиса на вестника, в който работи, от 17-годишен турски националист.\n\nРодени \n\n 399 г. – Елия Пулхерия, Императрица на Източната Римска империя († 453 г.)\n 840 г. – Михаил III, византийски император († 867 г.)\n 1544 г. – Франсоа II, крал на Франция († 1560 г.)\n 1736 г. – Джеймс Уат, британски изобретател († 1819 г.)\n 1798 г. – Огюст Конт, френски философ, един от основоположниците на позитивизма († 1857 г.)\n 1803 г. – Сара Хелън Уитман, американска поетеса († 1878 г.)\n 1807 г. – Робърт Лий, генерал от Армията на Конфедерацията по време на Американската гражданска война († 1870 г.)\n 1809 г. – Едгар Алън По, американски писател († 1849 г.)\n 1833 г. – Ели Дюкомен, швейцарски политик, Нобелов лауреат († 1906 г.)\n 1839 г. – Пол Сезан, френски художник († 1906 г.)\n 1849 г. – Владимир Давидов, руски артист († 1925 г.)\n 1853 г. – Иван Салабашев, български политик († 1924 г.)\n 1859 г. – Шарл Дил, френски учен, историк († 1944 г.)\n 1860 г. – Стефан Белов, български военен деец († 1931 г.)\n 1863 г. – Вернер Зомбарт, немски икономист († 1941 г.)\n 1864 г. – Иван Пеев-Плачков, български политик († 1942 г.)\n 1865 г. – Валентин Серов, руски художник († 1911 г.)\n 1871 г. – Даме Груев, български революционер († 1906 г.)\n 1875 г. – Георги Константинов, български революционер († 1969 г.)\n 1879 г. – Симеон Радев, български публицист, дипломат и историограф († 1967 г.)\n 1882 г. – Александър Миленков, български художник († 1971 г.)\n 1883 г. – Херман Абендрот, немски диригент, професор († 1956 г.)\n 1884 г. – Георги Кьосеиванов, български политик († 1960 г.)\n 1890 г. – Иван Зонков, деец на БКП († 1938 г.)\n 1900 г. – Иван Христов, български художник († 1987 г.)\n 1900 г. – Лесли Уайт, американски антрополог († 1975 г.)\n 1902 г. – Георгий Острогорски, руски византолог († 1976 г.)\n 1908 г. – Радка Йосифова, преподавателка по народно пеене, първата „Мис България“ († 2012 г.)\n 1912 г. – Леонид Канторович, руски икономист и математик († 1986 г.)\n 1918 г. – Васил Величков, първият български пилот († 1984 г.)\n 1920 г. – Иван Пачников, български лекар и общественик\n 1920 г. – Хавиер Перес де Куеляр, перуански дипломат († 2020 г.)\n 1921 г. – Патриша Хайсмит, американска писателка († 1995 г.)\n 1922 г. – Йежи Кавалерович, полски кинорежисьор († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Христо Данов, български юрист († 2003 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ивайло Петров, български писател († 2005 г.)\n 1923 г. – Маркус Волф, немски офицер († 2006 г.)\n 1926 г. – Тодор Гогов, български политик 2022\n 1929 г. – Ред Амик, американски автомобилен състезател († 1995 г.)\n 1936 г. – Стойко Факиров, български химик, професор\n 1943 г. – Джанис Джоплин, блус, рок-енд-рол, блус-рок и психеделик-рок певица († 1970 г.)\n 1946 г. – Генадий Кузмин, украински шахматист\n 1946 г. – Джулиан Барнс, британски писател\n 1946 г. – Доли Партън, американска кънтри певица, композиторка и киноактриса\n 1947 г. – Род Евънс, английски рокпевец\n 1955 г. – Саймън Ратъл, английски диригент\n 1957 г. – Петя Силянова, българска актриса\n 1957 г. – Синди Шърман, американска фотографка и режисьорка\n 1958 г. – Алън Стийл, американски писател фантаст\n 1966 г. – Стефан Едберг, шведски тенисист\n 1967 г. – Хавиер Камара, испански актьор\n 1968 г. – Светослав Малинов, български политик\n 1969 г. – Предраг Миятович, черногорски футболист\n 1970 г. – Александър Бох, германски автомобилен състезател\n 1972 г. – Борислав Цеков, български политик\n 1972 г. – Калина Сакскобургготска, дъщеря на Симеон II\n 1975 г. – Александър Александров, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Марша Томасън, британска актриса\n 1980 г. – Дженсън Бътън, британски пилот от Формула 1\n 1984 г. – Исмаел Бланко, аржентински футболист\n 1985 г. – Бени Файлхабер, американски футболист\n 1985 г. – Елиът Уорд, английски футболист\n 1986 г. – Клаудио Маркизио, италиански футболист\n 1991 г. – Петра Мартич, хърватска тенисистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 923 г. – Мохамед ибн Джарир ал-Табари, персийски историк (* 839 г.)\n 1526 г. – Изабела Хабсбург, австрийска ерцхерцогиня и кралица на Дания, Норвегия и Швеция, съпруга на крал Кристиан II. (* 1501 г.)\n 1547 г. – Хенри Хауард, граф на Съри, английски поет (* 1517 г.)\n 1576 г. – Ханс Закс, немски поет и драматург (* 1494 г.)\n 1629 г. – Абас I Велики, шах на Иран (* 1571 г.)\n 1825 г. – Феодосий Шчедрин, руски скулптор (* 1751 г.)\n 1865 г. – Пиер-Жозеф Прудон, френски философ – анархист (* 1809 г.)\n 1869 г. – Карл фон Райхенбах, германски химик (* 1788 г.)\n 1874 г. – Аугуст Хайнрих Хофман фон Фалерслебен, немски писател (* 1798 г.)\n 1881 г. – Франсоа Мариет, френски археолог, създател на Египетския музей в Кайро (* 1821 г.)\n 1908 г. – Георги Данчов, български художник и революционер (* 1846 г.)\n 1913 г. – Йосиф Ангелов, български офицер (* 1857 г.)\n 1927 г. – Шарлота Белгийска, императрица на Мексико (* 1840 г.)\n 1929 г. – Цветко Дрончилов, български просветен деец (* 1841 г.)\n 1930 г. – Франк Рамзи, английски математик (* 1903 г.)\n 1931 г. – Димитър Бръзицов, български публицист (* 1858 г.)\n 1931 г. – Петър Пешев, български политик и юрист (* 1858 г.)\n 1938 г. – Бранислав Нушич, сръбски писател (* 1864 г.)\n 1947 г. – Мануел Мачадо, испански поет (* 1874 г.)\n 1947 г. – Тане Николов, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1952 г. – Валтер фон Болтенщерн, германски офицер (* 1889 г.)\n 1954 г. – Димитър Божиков, български революционер (* 1866 г.)\n 1965 г. – Яким Якимов, български учен (* 1900 г.)\n 1969 г. – Ян Палах, чешки студент, починал след самозапалване (* 1948 г.)\n 1974 г. – Франц Набъл, австрийски писател (* 1883 г.)\n 1987 г. – Лоурънс Колберг, американски психолог (* 1927 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ошо, индийски и американски духовен учител и философ (* 1931 г.)\n 1991 г. – Джон Ръсел, американски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 1996 г. – Дон Симпсън, американски филмов продуцент (* 1943 г.)\n 1997 г. – Клифърд Скот, английски психоаналитик (* 1903 г.)\n 1997 г. – Тодор Андрейков, български актьор (* 1933 г.)\n 1998 г. – Карл Пъркинс, американски китарист (* 1932 г.)\n 2000 г. – Бетино Кракси, италиански политик и държавник (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Вава, бразилски футболист (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Франц Инерхофер, австрийски писател (* 1944 г.)\n 2004 г. – Александър Сталийски, български политик (* 1925 г.)\n 2006 г. – Уилсън Пикет, американски соул певец (* 1941 г.)\n 2007 г. – Хрант Динк, арменски писател и журналист (* 1954 г.)\n 2017 г. – Теори Заваски, бразилски магистрат, член на Върховния федерален съд на Бразилия (* 1948 г.)\n\nПразници \n Балтимор (САЩ) – Ден на Едгар Алън По\n Тексас (САЩ) – Ден в памет на героите на Конфедерацията\n\n119"
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        "text": "The makers of the popular Television show Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai are slapped with a legal notice by the Election Commission.\nThe Lok Sabha Elections for the year 2019 have begun and the Political environment is a bit topsy-turvy right now. As per the rules and regulations of the Election Commission Of India, the violation of its rules will lead to legal action. Such legal action was taken on the makers of the Television show Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai.\nIt so happened that the makers broadcasted an episode which showed the support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party Bhartiya Janata Party and received a legal notice for the same. According to the rules, no one has the authority to showcase their support or promote any Political party.\nAt a screenwriter's event, Raghuvir Shekhawat was quoted saying \"We didn't mention any opposition party's name, neither did we target any party. Everything was done in a limited way. We only promoted Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and the man behind the cause, that's it.\"\nA social media user brought this thing into the light as he tweeted a clip from the episode and wrote \"Yesterday i realized Modi has found another venue to advertise himself. i watch Bhabhi ji ghar par hain (that's right, deal with it), this TV serial has started to use some not so subtle Product placement/advertisement recently, but yesterday something else happened.\""
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        "text": "20 януари е 20-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 345 дни до края на годината (346 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1320 г. – Херцог Владислав I става крал на Полша.\n 1600 г. – Светата инквизиция признава Джордано Бруно за еретик.\n 1841 г. – Китай отстъпва Хонконг на Великобритания и възстановява управлението си в тази територия едва през 1997 г.\n 1877 г. – Приключва Цариградската конференция без да вземе решение за съдбата на християнското население на Балканите.\n 1895 г. – В щата Ню Хампшър започва рутинно използване на рентгенов апарат за клинични цели.\n\n 1937 г. – Франклин Делано Рузвелт поставя началото на полагане на клетва президента на САЩ на този ден. Преди това датата е била 4 март.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Правителството на България решава да присъедини страната към Тристранния пакт.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: В Берлин, нацистите провеждат конференция на тема окончателното решаване на еврейския въпрос, известна като Конференцията Ванзе, която дава насоки на практиката на масовото ликвидиране на евреи.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Италианските войски на Първа моторизирана бойна група атакуват успешно германски войски в Битката при Монте Касино.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Унгария подписва акт на безусловна капитулация и унгарското антифашстко правителство обявява война на дотогавашния унгарски съюзник Хитлеристка Германия въпреки че унгарските войски признаващи правителството на Ференц Салаши продължават да се сражават на страната на нацистка Германия срещу съветските и българските войски.\n 1946 г. – Основана е Централна разузнавателна група на САЩ с акт на президента Хари Труман, която по-късно прераства в Централно разузнавателно управление – CIA.\n 1961 г. – Джон Кенеди встъпва в длъжността президент на САЩ, като най-млад и първи римокатолически президент. Неговото церемониално обръщение е едно от най-запомнящите се за 20. век.\n 1978 г. – Състои се първият полет на съветския безпилотен космически кораб Прогрес 7К-ТГ.\n 1980 г. – САЩ обявяват бойкот на Олимпийските игри в Москва.\n 1986 г. – Маргарет Тачър и Франсоа Митеран подписват договор за съвместно строителство на тунел под Ла Манш от Великобритания и Франция.\n 1990 г. – Черният януари. В столицата на Азербайджан Баку Съветската армия потушава политическите вълнения и действията ѝ завършват със смъртта на повече от 100 цивилни граждани.\n 1993 г. – Основана е първата частна електронна медия в Република Македония телевизията А1.\n 1996 г. – Ясер Арафат става първият избран президент на Палестина.\n 2001 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма Авалон в Япония.\n 2009 г. – Барак Обама встъпва в длъжност като 44-тия президент на САЩ и първия чернокож президент в страната.\n\nРодени \n\n 225 г. – Гордиан III, римски император († 244 г.)\n 1292 г. – Елишка Пршемисловна, чешка кралица († 1330 г.)\n 1716 г. – Жан-Жак Бартелеми, френски археолог († 1795 г.)\n 1716 г. – Карлос III, крал на Испания († 1788 г.)\n 1732 г. – Юхан Фалк, шведски ботаник († 1774 г.)\n 1734 г. – Робърт Морис, американски търговец († 1806 г.)\n 1734 г. – Шарл Александър дьо Калон, френски политик († 1802 г.)\n 1751 г. – Фердинанд I Пармски, херцог на Парма († 1802 г.)\n 1775 г. – Андре-Мари Ампер, френски физик († 1836 г.)\n 1785 г. – Бетина фон Арним, германска писателка († 1859 г.)\n 1853 г. – Стефан Бобчев, български общественик († 1940 г.)\n 1857 г. – Владимир Бехтерев, руски невропатолог († 1927 г.)\n 1873 г. – Йоханес Йенсен, датски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1950 г.)\n 1874 г. – Лазар Киселинчев, български революционер († 1946 г.)\n 1874 г. – Стив Блумър, английски футболист († 1938 г.)\n 1884 г. – Абрахам Мерит, американски писател († 1943 г.)\n 1884 г. – Георги Андрейчин, български политик († 1949 г.)\n 1887 г. – Димитър Ковачев, български революционер († 1974 г.)\n 1889 г. – Петко Атанасов, български актьор († 1956 г.)\n 1890 г. – Яко Доросиев, български комунистически деец († 1925 г.)\n 1895 г. – Вилхелм Кризоли, германски офицер († 1944 г.)\n 1902 г. – Виктория Ангелова - Винарова, българска архитектка († 1947 г.)\n 1911 г. – Алфредо Фони, италиански футболист († 1985 г.)\n 1915 г. – К. В. Керам, германски журналист († 1972 г.)\n 1920 г. – ДеФорест Кели, американски актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1920 г. – Федерико Фелини, италиански режисьор († 1993 г.)\n 1921 г. – Иван Врачев, български политик († 1994 г.)\n 1923 г. – Иван Илиев Иванов, български общественик († 2005 г.)\n 1925 г. – Борис Апостолов, български футболист († 2009 г.)\n 1926 г. – Патриша Нийл, американска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1930 г. – Едуин Олдрин, американски астронавт\n 1931 г. – Савако Арийоши, японска писателка († 1984 г.)\n 1931 г. – Дейвид Лий, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1932 г. – Хачо Бояджиев, български режисьор († 2012 г.)\n 1937 г. – Минтимер Шаймиев, президент на Татарстан\n 1944 г. – Нанси Чодороу, американска психоаналитичка\n 1946 г. – Дейвид Линч, американски сценарист и режисьор\n 1948 г. – Нанси Крес, американска писателка – фантастика\n 1949 г. – Иван Стоянов, български футболист († 2017 г.)\n 1949 г. – Йоран Персон, премиер на Швеция\n 1952 г. – Йордан Караджов, български рок-певец\n 1953 г. – Джон Робъртсън, шотландски футболист\n 1956 г. – Бил Мар, американски актьор\n 1956 г. – Родолфо Родригес, уругвайски вратар,\n 1956 г. – Франц Тост, австрийски спортен мениджър\n 1957 г. – Алу Алханов, президент на Чеченската република\n 1958 г. – Лоренцо Ламас, американски актьор\n 1958 г. – Пламен Панайотов, български политик\n 1959 г. – Робърт А. Салваторе, американски писател\n 1969 г. – Максим Поташов, руски преподавател\n 1970 г. – Бранка Катич, сръбска актриса\n 1971 г. – Петя Пендарева, българска лекоатлетка\n 1972 г. – Георги Марков, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Румен Истревски, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Христо Фурджев, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Тодор Финков, български учен\n 1976 г. – Хендрик Мьобус, немски музикант и неонацист\n 1977 г. – Илиан Стоянов, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Биляна Павлова, българска тенисистка\n 1978 г. – Ванеса Дифенбо, американска писателка\n 1979 г. – Роб Бъртън, американски музикант (Linkin Park)\n 1981 г. – Оуен Харгрийвс, английски футболист\n 1982 г. – Александру Пакурар, румънски футболист\n 1984 г. – Емил Урумов, български футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ева Данаилова, българска актриса и режисьорка\n 1991 г. – Полона Херцог, словенска тенисистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 250 г. – Свети Фабиан, папа (* ?)\n 287 г. – Севастиан, християнски мъченик (* ?)\n 842 г. – Теофил, византийски император (* 813)\n 1479 г. – Хуан II Велики, крал на Навара (* 1398 г.)\n 1513 г. – Елена Ивановна, кралица на Полша (* 1476 г.)\n 1612 г. – Рудолф II, германски император (* 1552 г.)\n 1639 г. – Мустафа I, султан на Османската империя (* 1592 г.)\n 1666 г. – Анна Австрийска, кралица на Франция (* 1601 г.)\n 1745 г. – Карл VII, император на Свещената Римска империя (* 1697 г.)\n 1813 г. – Кристоф Мартин Виланд, немски писател (* 1733 г.)\n 1819 г. – Карлос IV, крал на Испания (* 1748 г.)\n 1826 г. – Станислав Сташиц, полски философ (* 1755 г.)\n 1850 г. – Адам Готлоб Йоленшлегер, датски поет (* 1779 г.)\n 1871 г. – Александър Серов, руски композитор и музикален критик (* 1820 г.)\n 1875 г. – Жан-Франсоа Миле, френски художник (* 1814 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джон Кауч Адамс, английски учен (* 1819 г.)\n 1896 г. – Хайнрих фон Батенберг, германски принц (* 1858 г.)\n 1898 г. – Коста Абраш, сръбски поет (* 1879 г.)\n 1900 г.\n Джон Ръскин, английски писател (* 1819 г.)\n Р. Д. Блекмор, английски писател (* 1825 г.)\n 1908 г. – Бойко Чавдаров, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1913 г. – Димитър Робков, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1914 г. – Яков Петкович, български военен лекар (* 1848 г.)\n 1920 г. – Антон фон Фройнд, унгарски психоаналитик (* 1880 г.)\n 1921 г. – Алфред Натхорст, шведски геолог (* 1850 г.)\n 1923 г. – Върбан Килифарски, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1934 г. – Гаврил Генов, български политик (* 1892 г.)\n 1936 г. – Джордж V, крал на Великобритания (* 1865 г.)\n 1939 г. – Владимир Руменов, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1940 г. – Теофил Николов, български общественик (* 1882 г.)\n 1943 г. – Никола Сакаров, български финансист (* 1881 г.)\n 1944 г.\n Дако Цоков, български партизанин (* 1923 г.)\n Джеймс Кетъл, американски психолог (* 1860 г.)\n 1945 г.\n Петър Бойович, сръбски офицер (* 1858 г.)\n Яни Попов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1973 г. – Амилкар Кабрал, политик от Гвинея-Бисау (* 1924 г.)\n 1981 г.\n Иван Апостолов, български юрист († 1910 г.)\n Петър Кантарджиев, български архитект (* 1893 г.)\n 1983 г. – Гаринча, бразилски футболист (* 1933 г.)\n 1984 г. – Джони Вайсмюлер, американски плувец (* 1904 г.)\n 1990 г. – Барбара Стануик, американска актриса (р. (1907 г.)\n 1991 г. – Хари Гизе, немски актьор († 1903 г.)\n 1993 г. – Одри Хепбърн, английска актриса (* 1929 г.)\n 1994 г. – Мат Бъзби, шотландски футболист (* 1909 г.)\n 1996 г. – Джери Мълиган, американски джаз музикант (* 1927 г.)\n 2000 г. – Славко Яневски, писател от Република Македония (* 1920 г.)\n 2006 г. – Марко Стойчев, български сценарист (* 1931 г.)\n 2012 г. – Ета Джеймс, американска певица (* 1938 г.)\n 2013 г. – Йорг Щайнер, швейцарски писател (* 1930 г.)\n 2014 г.\n Ненко Токмакчиев, български художник (* 1931 г.)\n Клаудио Абадо, италиански диригент (* 1933 г.)\n 2015 г. – Валентин Гацински, български дипломат (* 1950 г.)\n 2022 г. – Евстати Маринов, български художник (* 1950 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на Патриарх Евтимий\n Петльовден – Празник за здраве и плодовитост на мъжките рожби \n Азербайджан – Ден на мъчениците\n Гвинея-Бисау и Кабо Верде – Ден на героите\n Мали – Празник на армията\n\n120"
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    {
        "text": "The synchronization scripts for the Customer table illustrate timestamp-based synchronization and partitioning rows. Both of these techniques minimize the amount of data that is transferred during synchronization while maintaining consistent table data.\nPeriodically, customers may be reassigned among sales representatives. This process is commonly called territory realignment.\nEach remote database contains only the customers they are assigned to.\ndownload_cursor The following download_cursor script downloads only active customers for whom information has changed since the last successful download. It also filters customers by sales representative.\ndownload_delete_cursor The following download_delete_cursor script downloads only customers for whom information has changed since the last successful download. It deletes all customers marked as inactive or who are not assigned to the sales representative.\nIf rows are deleted from the Customer table at the consolidated database, they do not appear in this result set and so are not deleted from remote databases. Instead, customers are marked as inactive.\nWhen territories are realigned, this script deletes those customers no longer assigned to the sales representative. It also deletes customers who are transferred to other sales representatives. Such additional deletes are flagged with a SQLCODE of 100 but do not interfere with synchronization. A more complex script could be developed to identify only those customers transferred away from the current sales representative.\nThe MobiLink client performs cascading deletes at the remote database, so this script also deletes all contacts who work for customers assigned to some other sales representative.\nupload_update The following upload_update script modifies the customer information at the consolidated database. Conflict detection is not done on this table.\nSET name = ?, rep_id = ?\nupload_delete The following upload_delete script marks the customer as inactive at the consolidated database. It does not delete a row."
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        "text": "If the soft tissue of a tooth (the pulp) is inflamed, then this often leads to very intense and long-lasting tooth pain. In the past, the tooth would probably have been pulled; however, in many cases, modern dentistry offers the opportunity to permanently preserve the affected tooth with the help of endodontic (root canal) treatment. When it comes to endodontics, preserving the tooth is of paramount concern.\nWhy is endodontic treatment necessary?\nPulp consists of nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissue. If bacteria find their way into the pulp, e.g. because of a deep caries or a gap between a tooth and filling, this might lead to inflammation. Oftentimes, such inflammations remain unnoticed, and the dentist might identify the inflammation on an X-ray, for example. Usually, the tooth will begin to ache intensely, suddenly, and for a long period. If such inflammations remain untreated, then the entire pulp will eventually be destroyed, leaving the jawbone affected as well. This leads to bone breakdown, purulent inflammations, and germs spreading through the bloodstream, causing illnesses in other parts of the body.\nThe only opportunity to eliminate these risks to the greatest extent possible and durably preserve the tooth is through timely treatment of the infected pulp.\nDuring a root canal treatment, the dentist removes the infected pulp tissue through the branched root canals. Cleaning solutions are used to clean and disinfect all cavities completely, to remove the germs. To eliminate the risk of a new infection to the greatest possible extent, the canals are filled up and provided with a bacteria-proof sealant.\nRoot canal treatments are usually successful; however, in some cases, they might go awry. Where appropriate, the resulting situation might be successfully fixed by performing an apicoectomy or a reimplantation of the tooth.\nHow does modern technology assist during the treatment?\nModern technology makes today’s root canal treatments significantly easier, safer, and more successful than was imaginable in the past.\nIn our practice, we use high-performance microscopes by Leica, which allow us to take a highly amplified look into the tooth during the operation. With the help of this technology, called microscopic endodontology, the detection of all root canals is made much easier, allowing for the very precise execution of all treatment steps.\nFurthermore, the length of each root canal is determined with a high degree of precision using a computerised, electrical procedure.\nMechanical systems are also used to clean and disinfect the root canals. To name an example, the efficacy of the disinfecting agent is increased through sound or ultrasound activation.\nDuring the follow-up appointments, the tooth and jaw structures can be looked at using 3D X-rays with digital volume tomography (DVT). This helps determine whether a new infection has flared up or whether that scenario can be ruled out.\nEndodontic treatments have a high success rate nowadays, thanks in small part to the use of state-of-the-art technology."
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        "text": "In \"They Live the Dream\" by Dan Rather please answer the following question: 1. Does the writer use any metaphors, similes, images, allusions, or other figures of speech? 2. Is there any repetition? 3. What is the effect of any of these figures of speech?"
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        "text": "21 януари е 21-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 344 дни до края на годината (345 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1506 г. – По нареждане на папа Юлий II е образувана армията на Ватикана – Швейцарската гвардия.\n 1542 г. – Английският парламент осъжда на смърт за държавна измяна съпругата на крал Хенри VIII – Катрин Хауърд, която по-късно е екзекутирана.\n 1698 г. – Царят на Русия Петър I пристига в Лондон, за да премине тримесечен теоретичен курс по корабостроене.\n 1763 г. – Императрица Екатерина II одобрява план за създаване на Дом за сираци и подхвърлени деца.\n 1793 г. – Френската революция: След като е намерен за виновен в държавна измяна от Конвента, френският крал Луи XVI е гилотиниран пред възторжена тълпа в Париж.\n 1872 г. – По заповед на Високата порта трима български владици – Панарет Пловдивски, Иларион Ловчански и Иларион Макариополски са заточени в Измит.\n 1880 г. – В Княжество България се учредява Статистическо отделение към Министерството на правосъдието.\n 1890 г. – Разкрит е заговор на майор Коста Паница за убийство на княз Фердинанд I и премиера Стефан Стамболов, за което Паница е осъден на смърт и разстрелян.\n 1901 г. – Кралица Виктория умира на 81 години, след 63 години на престола на Великобритания. Наследена е от Едуард VII, който е първи от династията Сакс-Кобург-Гота (по-късно преименувала се на Уиндзорска).\n 1911 г. – Американският лекар Франсис Раус изолира първия онкогенен вирус, който причинява саркома по кокошките.\n 1926 г. – В Ленинград са отворени гробовете на руските царе, скъпоценностите им са взети и предадени на държавата.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Германските войски започват настъпление в Северна Африка.\n 1942 г. – Георги Исерсон е осъден от Военния трибунал на Приволжкия военен окръг на 10 и допълнително 5 години в трудововъзпитателен лагер.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Австралия и Нова Зеландия подписват пакт за съвместни отбранителни действия.\n 1945 г. – Стефан е избран за екзарх на Българската православна църква след като Българската екзархия е без екзарх от 1915 г.\n 1948 г. – В Народна република България е основано „Дружество за ООН“ с председател академик Георги Наджаков.\n 1954 г. – В САЩ е пусната първата атомна подводница „Наутилус“.\n 1965 г. – В Техеран е убит министър-председателят на Иран Хасан Али Мансур.\n 1966 г. – Джордж Харисън от групата Бийтълс сключва брак с фотомодела Пати Бойд.\n 1968 г. – Виетнамска война: Започва главната атака в битката при Ке Сан.\n 1968 г. – Бомбардировач B-52 с четири водородни бомби се разбива близо до Военновъздушната база Туле в Гренландия и големи количества плутоний изтичат върху леда.\n 1976 г. – Осъществен е първият редовен полет на свръхзвуковия пътнически самолет Конкорд.\n 1977 г. – В Италия официално са разрешени абортите.\n 2001 г. – Пол Маккартни става първият музикант, чието състояние надминава един милиард долара.\n 2005 г. – В Белмопан, столицата на Белиз, вълненията поради увеличаването на данъците прерастват в бунт.\n\nРодени \n\n 1338 г. – Шарл V, крал на Франция († 1380 г.)\n 1763 г. – Огюстен Робеспиер, френски революционен деец († 1794 г.)\n 1775 г. – Мануел Гарсия (баща), испански оперен певец, композитор и педагог († 1832 г.)\n 1823 г. – Имре Мадач, унгарски писател († 1864 г.)\n 1824 г. – Томас Стоунуол Джаксън, генерал от Армията на Конфедерацията († 1863 г.)\n 1841 г. – Едуар Шуре, френски писател († 1929 г.)\n 1850 г. – Иван Мушкетов, руски изследовател († 1902 г.)\n 1874 г. – Иван Групчев, български революционер († 1963 г.)\n 1874 г. – Рене-Луи Бер, френски математик († 1932 г.)\n 1885 г. – Михаил Фрунзе, съветски политически лидер († 1925 г.)\n 1889 г. – Питирим Сорокин, американски социолог († 1968 г.)\n 1905 г. – Кристиан Диор, френски дизайнер († 1957 г.)\n 1903 г. – Вълко Гочев, български политик († 1978 г.)\n 1909 г. – Тодор Скаловски, композитор от Република Македония († 2004 г.)\n 1912 г. – Конрад Блох, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1964 г. († 2000 г.)\n 1915 г. – Андрей Малчев, български шахматист († 1994 г.)\n 1920 г. – Ерол Бароу, министър-председател на Барбадос († 1987 г.)\n 1922 г. – Пол Скофийлд, британски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1924 г. – Бени Хил, британски актьор († 1992 г.)\n 1924 г. – Катя Попова, българска актриса († 1966 г.)\n 1929 г. – Васил Попилиев, български актьор († 2002 г.)\n 1941 г. – Георги Костов, български композитор\n 1941 г. – Пласидо Доминго, испански певец\n 1944 г. – Румен Антонов, български изобретател\n 1950 г. – Джоузеф Танър, американски астронавт\n 1953 г. – Пол Алън, американски предприемач († 2018 г.)\n 1954 г. – Камелия Тодорова, българска певица\n 1954 г. – Христина Христова, български политик\n 1956 г. – Джина Дейвис, американска актриса\n 1962 г. – Елжана Попова, българска актриса\n 1962 г. – Мари Трентинян, френска актриса († 2003 г.)\n 1964 г. – Маргарита Моллова, българска акробатка\n 1967 г. – Арташес Минасян, арменски шахматист\n 1970 г. – Ален Бокшич, хърватски футболист\n 1970 г. – Кен Люнг, американски артист\n 1971 г. – Алан МакМанъс, шотландски играч на снукър\n 1972 г. – Катрин Сиачоке, колумбийска киноактриса\n 1974 г. – Малена Алтерио, испанска актриса\n 1975 г. – Оливер Дулич, сръбски политик\n 1977 г. – Фил Невил, английски футболист\n 1983 г. – Милчо Танев, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Стоян Илиев, български борец\n 1989 г. – Даниел Димов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1118 г. – Паскалий II, римски папа (* ?)\n 1330 г. – Жана Бургундска, кралица на Франция (* ок. 1291 г.)\n 1638 г. – Игнацио Донати, италиански композитор (* 1570 г.)\n 1774 г. – Мустафа III, султан на Османската империя (* 1717 г.)\n 1775 г. – Емелян Пугачов, руски въстаник (* 1740 г. или 1742)\n 1789 г. – Пол-Анри Дитрих Холбах, френски писател (* 1723 г.)\n 1793 г. – Луи XVI, крал на Франция (екзекутиран) (* 1754 г.)\n 1831 г. – Ахим фон Арним, германски поет (* 1781 г.)\n 1851 г. – Алберт Лорцинг, германски композитор (* 1801 г.)\n 1870 г. – Александър Херцен, руски писател (* 1812 г.)\n 1872 г. – Франц Грилпарцер, австрийски поет и драматург (* 1791 г.)\n 1877 г. – Александър Брюлов, руски архитект и художник (* 1798 г.)\n 1879 г. – Любен Каравелов, български писател (* 1834 г.)\n 1914 г. – Димитър Моллов, български политик (* 1846 г.)\n 1923 г. – Иван Хаджиенов, български предприемач (* 1843 г.)\n 1924 г. – Владимир Ленин, руски революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димитър Караджов, български композитор (* 1885 г.)\n 1926 г. – Камило Голджи, италиански психиатър, Нобелов лауреат през 1906 г. (* 1843 г.)\n 1927 г. – Митрофан Пятницки, руски музикант (* 1864 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Стоянов, български революционер (* 1887 г.)\n 1939 г. – Йонко Вапцаров, български революционер (* 1860 г.)\n 1950 г. – Джордж Оруел, британски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1957 г. – Кай Нилсен, датски илюстратор (* 1886 г.)\n 1959 г. – Сесил Демил, американски режисьор (* 1881 г.)\n 1961 г. – Блез Сандрар, швейцарски писател и поет (* 1887 г.)\n 1967 г. – Ан Шеридън, американска актриса (* 1915 г.)\n 1975 г. – Минко Балкански, български оператор (* 1894 г.)\n 1982 г. – Георги Железаров, български художник (* 1897 г.)\n 1984 г. – Алан Маршал, австралийски писател (* 1902 г.)\n 1993 г. – Феличе Борел, италиански футболист и треньор (* 1914 г.)\n 2004 г. – Йордан Радичков, български писател (* 1929 г.)\n 2006 г. – Ибрахим Ругова, президент на Косово (* 1944 г.)\n 2007 г. – Мария Чионкан, румънска лекоатлетка (* 1977 г.)\n 2012 г. – Ирена Яроцка, полска певица (* 1946 г.)\n 2014 г. – Георги Славков, български футболист (* 1958 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на прегръдката (отбелязва се от 1986 г.)\n Православна църква - Св. Максим Изповедник \n Барбадос – Ден на Ерол Бароу (барбадоски политик, първи премиер, национален герой)\n България – Ден на родилната помощ (Отбелязва се официално от 1951 г. на Бабинден)\n Полша – Ден на бабата\n Съединени американски щати –  Ден на Мартин Лутер Кинг\n България – Бабинден (стар стил)\n\n121"
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        "text": "Q: iPad displays \"Not Charging\" when plugged into USB ports.  What can I do? When I plug my iPad into my computer's USB ports, the iPad battery area displays \"Not Charging\".  \nI understand the iPad requires more wattage to charge compared to an iPhone or iPod, as evidenced by the iPad's larger power adapter (10W) vs the iPhone's (5W).\nIs there anything I can do to enable iPad charging from my computer's USB ports? The computer in question is a desktop PC, and it has a 950W power supply.  I presume the motherboard's own USB ports are the issue, as opposed to overall power available :-)\nSo I'd like to know:\n\n\n*\n\n*Are there external USB hubs that can supply enough power to charge the iPad?\n\n*Is there any other solution to enable a computer's USB ports to charge an iPad?\ne.g. doubling up a USB port, as I've seen done with some external hard drive enclosures?\n\nA: From the article, The iPad's USB charging caveat:\n[Originally posted on Neowin.net by giga on 04 April 2010 12:26]\n\nThe iPad specifications page clearly state the ability to charge with USB (with no mention of OS requirements) but Apple have additionally provided a support document disclosing that \"some USB 2.0 ports and accessories do not provide enough power to charge iPad.\"\nProviding some further clarification to Macworld, Apple asserts that USB charging is supported but that it varies according to the state of the iPad and the power output of the USB hub:\n  \n  \n*\n  \n*For the fastest charging, use the iPad’s included 10-Watt USB power adapter. This will fully charge the iPad in a few hours, even if you’re using the iPad at the same time.\n  \n*When connected to a high-power USB port—such as the ones on recent Macs and the iPhone Power Adapter—the iPad will charge, even during use, but more slowly. (We haven’t yet determined how much more slowly.) Some third-party powered USB hubs provide higher-power USB ports, but many don’t; similarly, the USB ports on most Windows PCs don’t provide this additional power.\n  \n*When connected to lower-power USB ports—those on older Macs, most Windows PCs, and most USB hubs (powered or unpowered)—the iPad’s battery is not charged while the iPad is awake, but is charged (again, slowly) when the iPad is asleep. What’s confusing here is that the message \"Not charging\" appears in the menu bar when the iPad is awake, which might lead you to assume that the offending USB port can never charge  your iPad. But rest assured, Apple says: once you put the iPad to sleep, the battery will indeed charge. (If you could see the screen while the iPad was asleep, it might even display the charging icon. It’s the modern-day “Does the refrigerator light stay on when I close the door?” mystery.)\n  \n  \n  Further analysis from Apple's statements indicate that the iPad can only be charged off of USB connections that provide near 1 amp of current. The majority of USB ports on most older Macs and PCs only provide 500 mA and thus can't be used to charge the device. \nThe USB 2.0 specification provides 500 mA of current to high-powered buses and 100 mA for low-powered buses. But in April 2009, the specification gained a new \"Battery Charging Specification\" which provided additional current to high power devices and it seems that Apple has started to incorporate it in their newer Macs.\n\n\nA: As Am1rr3zA mentioned above, the specs for USB 2.0 provides for 500 mA of power. Apple is the sole manufacturer that I know of that utilizes higher-than-spec powered USB ports, and I think, even then that's only on their later model (within the last couple years) Macs.\n\"Not charging\" is a bit of a misnomer, because in fact, the iPad is charging, but it's also draining power. It says \"Not charging\" when it's draining power quicker than it's charging, which is the case when plugged into 500 mA USB ports. There's nothing you can really do about this, unfortunately.\n\nA: The same thing happened to me  \"Not Charging\" but when I inserted my motherboard support cd i saw a software called \"ASUS Ai Charger\" then i installed it and restarted. Then when i plugged in my iPad mini it charged \n\nA: Check if there is an update for your motherboard, many manufacturer has release update to enable USB port to deliver enough watt to charge an iPad.\n\nA: This is one of many cases in which a device that says it's not charging is actually... charging... very... slowly.\nThis is the case with the ipad here, ipods and iphones that are put into older docks, blackberries that are connected to older macbooks, etc.\nYou'll likely be just fine if you charge it overnight, but if you're waiting for it, it's pretty darn slow.\n\nA: USB 3.0 is specified for up to 900 mA.  Give such a hub a try.\n\nA: I installed \"ASUS IA Chrager\" on my PC and it worked\nASUS AI Charger\n"
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        "text": "22 януари е 22-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 343 дни до края на годината (344 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1690 г. – Индианското племе Ирокези подписва мирен договор с британските власти в Северна Америка.\n 1723 г. – В Русия е издадена заповед за борба с некачествената продукция на Тулския оръжеен завод. Счита се, че това е първата намеса на държава за по-качествени стоки.\n 1724 г. – Петър I издава заповед за задължителното познаване на законите и указите от държавните служители и въвежда глоби за неизпълнение.\n 1771 г. – Испания отстъпва на Англия Фолкландските острови.\n 1863 г. – В Полша избухва т.нар. Януарско въстание срещу руското владичество.\n 1872 г. – Изпратени са писма от патриаршията на всички български митрополити, в които с ултимативен тон се иска да се покаят, че са нарушили клетвата си към „Великата църква“.\n 1873 г. – Султан Абдул Азис потвърждава смъртната присъда на Васил Левски.\n 1878 г. – Открити са първите български пощенски станции в Свищов, Велико Търново и Габрово.\n 1878 г. – Руски войски са съсредоточени в Одрин.\n 1893 г. – Обнародван е Законът за търговските и индустриалните марки.\n 1901 г. – Едуард VII става крал на Обединеното кралство, след като неговата майка кралица Виктория умира.\n 1903 г. – САЩ и Колумбия подписват договор за строителството на Панамския канал.\n 1905 г. – Поставено е началото на трудовото законодателство в България с приемане на Закон за защита на женския и детския труд.\n 1905 г. – Кървавата неделя в Русия: Царската лейб-гвардия открива огън срещу мирна демонстрация в Санкт Петербург, при което загиват над хиляда души; актът става повод за избухване на революцията от 1905 г.\n 1918 г. – Украинската народна република обявява независимостта си от Русия.\n 1920 г. – Учреден е Руско-български културно-благотворителен комитет с председател архимандрит Стефан в залите на Руската легация.\n 1931 г. – В Англия е открит метод за имунизация срещу детски паралич.\n 1935 г. – Съставено е петдесет и първото правителство на България, начело с Петко Златев.\n 1939 г. – В Колумбийския университет е разделен атомът на урана.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Неуспешно завършва мисията на американския полковник Донован, който идва в България за да за предотврати сключването на съюз с Германия.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Американската армия извършва морски десант при Анцио (Италия).\n 1944 г. – Издадена е съветска нота против строежа на германски военни кораби във Варна.\n 1945 г. – България във Втората световна война: Сремска операция на Първа българска армия, в която тя води боеве срещу германските войски, в резултат българските войски отхвърлят германските в Унгария от Югославия.\n 1947 г. – VI велико народно събрание обсъжда на първо четене законопроекта за БАН.\n 1947 г. – Стартира съдебният процес срещу нелегалната военна организация „Неутрален офицер“.\n 1972 г. – Великобритания, Дания, Ирландия и Норвегия се присъединяват към Общия пазар.\n 1973 г. – Върховният съд на САЩ разрешава абортите.\n 1980 г. – Андрей Сахаров е арестуван в Москва.\n 1984 г. – Фирмата Apple представя първия си компютър „Макинтош“.\n 1991 г. – Регистрирана е партия Български бизнес блок.\n 1997 г. – С официалното встъпване на Петър Стоянов като президент на България започва традиция, която е последвана от Георги Първанов през 2002 и 2007 г.\n\nРодени \n\n 1440 г. – Иван III, велик княз на Московското княжество († 1505 г.)\n 1561 г. – Френсис Бейкън, английски философ († 1626 г.)\n 1592 г. – Пиер Гасенди, френски философ и математик († 1655 г.)\n 1729 г. – Готхолд Ефраим Лесинг, немски писател и драматург († 1781 г.)\n 1788 г. – Джордж Байрон, британски поет († 1824 г.)\n 1842 г. – Аугуст Стриндберг, шведски драматург († 1912 г.)\n 1861 г. – Костадин Халачев, български военен деец († 1885 г.)\n 1869 г. – Григорий Распутин, руски монах († 1916 г.)\n 1875 г. – Дейвид Уорк Грифит, американски режисьор († 1948 г.)\n 1879 г. – Асен Белковски, български художник († 1957 г.)\n 1880 г. – Фридеш Рис, унгарски математик († 1956 г.)\n 1891 г. – Антонио Грамши, италиански писател († 1937 г.)\n 1892 г. – Марсел Дасо, френски авиоконструктор († 1986 г.)\n 1904 г. – Аркадий Гайдар, руски писател († 1941 г.)\n 1904 г. – Джордж Баланчин, американски балетмайстор († 1983 г.)\n 1906 г. – Густав Себеш, унгарски футболист и футболен треньор († 1986 г.)\n 1906 г. – Робърт Хауърд, американски писател († 1936 г.)\n 1908 г. – Лев Ландау, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1962 г. († 1968 г.)\n 1909 г. – У Тан, бирмански политик, генерален секретар на ООН (1961 – 1971 г.) († 1974 г.)\n 1921 г. – Арно Бабаджанян, арменски пианист и композитор († 1983 г.)\n 1926 г. – Георги Владиков, български партизанин, деец на БКП, депутат, дипломат, посланик († 1999 г.)\n 1926 г. – Слободан Сотиров, български художник от Сърбия († 2015 г.)\n 1929 г. – Петър Ебен, чешки композитор († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Мариви Билбао, испанска актриса († 2013 г.)\n 1931 г. – Сам Кук, американски музикант († 1964 г.)\n 1935 г. – Григор Велев, български учен, общественик и националист († 2020 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джоузеф Уомбо, американски писател\n 1940 г. – Джон Хърт, британски актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1943 г. – Вилхелм Генацино, немски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1946 г. – Вельо Горанов, български актьор и мим († 2020 г.)\n 1953 г. – Джим Джармуш, американски режисьор\n 1954 г. – Крис Лемън, американски актьор\n 1957 г. – Пламен Бончев, български дипломат\n 1959 г. – Урс Майер, швейцарски футболен съдия\n 1960 г. – Майкъл Хътчънс, австралийски певец († 1997 г.)\n 1962 г. – Чой Мин-шик, южнокорейски актьор\n 1965 г. – Васил Илиев, български борец († 1995 г.)\n 1967 г. – Елена Панайотова, български театрален режисьор\n 1971 г. – Светлин Нончев, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Гейбриъл Махт, американски актьор\n 1973 г. – Рожерио Сени, бразилски футболен вратар\n 1974 г. – Биляна Петринска, българска актриса\n 1976 г. – Стефан Учиков, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Хидетоши Наката, японски футболист\n 1982 г. – Мартин Кох, немски ски скачач\n 1982 г. – Фабрицио Колочини, аржентински футболист\n 1985 г. – Мохамед Сисоко, малийски футболист\n 1985 г. – Христо Златински, български футболист\n 1987 г. – Шейн Лонг, ирландски футболист\n 1988 г. – Марсел Шмелцер, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1666 г. – Шах Джахан, император на Великите Моголи (* 1592 г.)\n 1830 г. – Анастасиос Каратасос, гръцки революционер (* 1764 г.)\n 1840 г. – Йохан Фридрих Блуменбах, германски биолог (* 1752 г.)\n 1901 г. – Виктория, кралица на Обединеното кралство (* 1819 г.)\n 1906 г. – Найден Дринов, български революционер (* 1846 г.)\n 1922 г. – Бенедикт XV, римски папа (* 1854 г.)\n 1922 г. – Камил Жордан, френски математик (* 1838 г.)\n 1922 г. – Фредрик Байер, датски политик и пацифист, Нобелов лауреат през 1908 (* 1837 г.)\n 1942 г. – Рачо Петров, български офицер и министър-председател на България (* 1861 г.)\n 1945 г. – Елзе Ласкер-Шюлере, германска поетеса (* 1869 г.)\n 1947 г. – Макс Берг, немски архитект (* 1870 г.)\n 1959 г. – Майк Хауторн, пилот от Формула 1 (* 1929 г.)\n 1967 г. – Ксенофонт Иванов, български ветеринарен лекар (* 1898 г.)\n 1973 г. – Линдън Б. Джонсън, 36-и президент на САЩ (* 1908 г.)\n 1979 г. – Али Хасан Саламех, палестински терорист (* 1943 г.)\n 1985 г. – Михаил Громов, съветски авиатор (* 1899 г.)\n 1993 г. – Кобо Абе, японски писател (* 1924 г.)\n 1994 г. – Жан Луи Баро, френски артист (* 1910 г.)\n 2008 г. – Венец Цонев, български статистик и социолог (* 1917 г.)\n 2008 г. – Хийт Леджър, австралийски актьор (* 1979 г.)\n\nПразници \n Сейнт Винсент и Гренадини – Национален празник\n Полша – Ден на дядото\n\n122"
    },
    {
        "text": "23 януари е 23-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 342 дни до края на годината (343 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 393 г. – Римският император Теодосий I провъзгласява 9-годишния си син Хонорий за съимператор.\n 1482 г. – Излиза първото печатно издание на Петокнижието.\n 1556 г. – При най-смъртоносното земетресение в историята, в провинция Шенси, Китай, загиват 820 хил. души.\n 1558 г. – Руските войски нападат Ливония, което е начало на Ливонската война, целяща контрол на Русия над днешната територия на Естония и Латвия.\n 1579 г. – Подписана е Утрехтската уния, поставила основите на новата държава Нидерландия.\n 1849 г. – Елизабет Блекуел се дипломира в Медицинския колеж в Дженива и става първата американка лекар.\n 1899 г. – Емилио Аквиналдо става първи президент на Филипините.\n 1904 г. – Приет е Закон за университета, който преобразува Висшето училище в София в Български университет „Братя Евлоги и Христо Георгиеви от Карлово“ (дн. Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“).\n 1928 г. – Професор Михаил Арнаудов издига кандидатурата на драматурга Иван Грозев за Нобелова награда за литература през 1929 г.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Британски войски успяват да завладеят Триполи от Нацистка Германия.\n 1950 г. – Ерусалим е провъзгласен за столица на новосъздадената държава Израел.\n 1953 г. – Екзекутиран е Йосиф Тончев – католически свещеник, осъден за противонародна дейност от комунистическия режим в България.\n 1978 г. – Швеция става първата държава в света, която забранява аерозолните опаковки, като мярка за съхранение на озоновия слой.\n 1997 г. – Мадлин Олбрайт става първата жена, заела поста държавен секретар на САЩ.\n 2001 г. – Седем души опитват да се самозапалят на площад Тянанмън (Китай) в навечерието на китайската Нова година, което мнозина считат за постановка на Китайската комунистическа партия с цел да се засилят гоненията срещу Фалун Гонг.\n 2006 г. – При железопътна катастрофа в Черна гора, недалеч от Подгорица, загиват 40 пътници.\n\nРодени \n\n 1688 г. – Улрика Елеонора, кралица на Швеция († 1741 г.)\n 1752 г. – Муцио Клементи, британски музикант от италиански произход († 1832 г.)\n 1783 г. – Стендал, френски писател († 1842 г.)\n 1794 г. – Едуард Фридрих Еверсман, германски зоолог († 1860 г.)\n 1832 г. – Едуар Мане, френски художник († 1883 г.)\n 1840 г. – Ернст Карл Абе, германски физик († 1905 г.)\n 1857 г. – Андрия Мохоровичич, хърватски сеизмолог († 1936 г.)\n 1862 г. – Давид Хилберт, германски математик († 1943 г.)\n 1876 г. – Ото Дилс, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1950 г. († 1954 г.)\n 1891 г. – Антонио Грамши, италиански писател и политик († 1937 г.)\n 1898 г. – Сергей Айзенщайн, съветски режисьор († 1948 г.)\n 1900 г. – Адамантиос Диамантис, кипърски художник (†1994 г.)\n 1903 г. – Григорий Александров, съветски режисьор († 1983 г.)\n 1905 г. – Константи Илдефонс Галчински, полски поет († 1953 г.)\n 1907 г. – Хидеки Юкава, японски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1949 г. († 1981 г.)\n 1910 г. – Джанго Райнхарт, белгийски музикант († 1953 г.)\n 1915 г. – Артър Люис, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1979 г. († 1991 г.)\n 1921 г. – Тодор Попов, български композитор († 2000 г.)\n 1927 г. – Давид Попов, български футболист († 2011 г.)\n 1928 г. – Жана Моро, френска актриса и режисьор († 2017 г.)\n 1930 г. – Дерек Уолкът, поет от Сейнт Лусия, Нобелов лауреат през 1992 († 2017 г.)\n 1938 г. – Георг Базелиц, германски художник\n 1944 г. – Рютгер Хауер, нидерландски актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1945 г. – Тито Петковски, македонски политик\n 1946 г. – Борис Березовски, руски предприемач († 2013 г.)\n 1947 г. – Адела Пеева, българска режисьорка\n 1950 г. – Ричард Андерсън, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1954 г. – Сава Пиперов, български актьор\n 1964 г. – Маришка Харгитай, американска актриса\n 1964 г. – Денис Ризов, български музикант и продуцент\n 1967 г. – Наим Сюлейманоглу, турски тежкоатлет, роден в България († 2017 г.)\n 1968 г. – Петр Корда, чешки тенисист\n 1971 г. – Йордан Ефтимов, български поет и литературовед\n 1975 г. – Даниел Христов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Светлан Кондев, български футболист\n 1984 г. – Ариен Робен, нидерландски футболист\n 1984 г. – Владимир Левин, азербайджански футболист\n 1987 г. – Александер Баумйохан, германски футболист\n 1987 г. – Андреа, българска попфолк певица\n 1987 г. – Владислав Мирчев, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1002 г. – Ото III, император на Свещената римска империя (* 980 г.)\n 1744 г. – Джамбатиста Вико, италиански философ (* 1668 г.)\n 1785 г. – Матю Стюарт, шотландски математик (* 1717 г.)\n 1789 г. – Джон Клеланд, английски писател (* 1709 г.)\n 1806 г. – Уилям Пит-младши, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1759 г.)\n 1837 г. – Джон Филд, ирландски композитор (* 1782 г.)\n 1875 г. – Чарлз Кингсли, британски писател (* 1819 г.)\n 1883 г. – Гюстав Доре, френски илюстратор (* 1832 г.)\n 1902 г. – Иван Мушкетов, руски изследовател (* 1850 г.)\n 1908 г. – Едуард Макдауъл, американски композитор (* 1860 г.)\n 1926 г. – Йордан Цицонков, български революционер (* 1903 г.)\n 1931 г. – Анна Павлова, руска балерина (* 1881 г.)\n 1939 г. – Матиас Зинделар, австрийски футболист (* 1903 г.)\n 1941 г. – Добри Христов, български композитор (* 1875 г.)\n 1944 г. – Едвард Мунк, норвежки художник (* 1863 г.)\n 1944 г. – Михаил Маджаров, български дипломат (* 1854 г.)\n 1950 г. – Васил Коларов, министър-председател на България (* 1877 г.)\n 1958 г. – Илия Бешков, български художник (* 1901 г.)\n 1963 г. – Юзеф Гославски, полски скулптор (* 1908 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ернст Оцвирк, австрийски футболист (* 1926 г.)\n 1981 г. – Роман Руденко, съветски офицер (* 1907 г.)\n 1981 г. – Самюъл Барбър, американски композитор (* 1910 г.)\n 1986 г. – Йозеф Бойс, германски художник (* 1921 г.)\n 1988 г. – Банчо Банчевски, български певец (баритон) (* 1906 г.)\n 1989 г. – Салвадор Дали, испански художник (* 1904 г.)\n 1993 г. – Кийт Лаумър, американски писател (* 1925 г.)\n 1994 г. – Николай Огарков, съветски маршал (* 1917 г.)\n 1998 г. – Фридрих Йозиас Сакскобургготски, германски благородник (* 1918 г.)\n 2001 г. – Недко Недев, български футболист (* 1920 г.)\n 2005 г. – Иван Динков, български писател (* 1932 г.)\n 2006 г. – Дамян Заберски, български художник (* 1929 г.)\n 2007 г. – Ришард Капушчински, полски журналист (* 1932 г.)\n 2015 г. – Абдула бин Абдул Азис, крал на Саудитска Арабия (* 1924 г.)\n\nПразници \n Тайван и Южна Корея – Световен ден на свободата\n Острови Питкерн – Ден на Баунти (в памет на изгарянето на кораба „Баунти“ през 1790 г.)\n \n\n123"
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    {
        "text": "Q: Books or Info about Mac OS X under the hood Can somebody point me in the direction of books, sites, articles, ... to learn everything about Mac OS X \"under the hood\"? In other words to learn more about the kernel, the system.\nps.: About Snow Leopard of course\n\nA: I've read several articles by Amit Singh at http://kernelthread.com, and have always found them very interesting.\nHe's book is Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach\n\nA: Don't overlook http://developer.apple.com - there still is a free developer account option to get Xcode 3.  You can also buy Xcode 4 from the Mac App store for $5 and no developer account needed - the public documentation available through Xcode is impressive and comes from the web site. The free Ingredients browser also is superb for consuming and searching the Apple Documentation. You only need to pay for a developer account to get pre-release software and documentation so to learn about the current and past OS is free or nearly free.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "24 януари е 24-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 341 дни до края на годината (342 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 41 г. – По време на Палатинските игри в Рим Касий Херея убива император Калигула.\n 1848 г. – Започва Калифорнийската златна треска в Сакраменто.\n 1862 г. – Влахия и Молдавия се обединяват и създават държавата Румъния, а Букурещ е избран за столица на новата държава.\n 1878 г. – Град Карнобат е освободен от Османската империя.\n 1895 г. – Кралицата на Хавайските острови Лилилукалани се отрича от трона и се обявява за привърженик на републиканско управление.\n\n 1903 г. – САЩ и Канада създават комисия, която да определи границите на Аляска.\n 1918 г. – С декрет в Съветска Русия е въведен грегорианския календар.\n 1920 г. – В Пещера е убит от екстремисти на Земеделския народен съюз политикът и държавник Михаил Такев.\n 1922 г. – Американецът Кристиан Нелсън патентова сладоледа Ескимо.\n 1924 г. – Петроград е преименуван на Ленинград.\n 1933 г. – Дейци на ВМРО убиват в София народния представител и македонист Христо Трайков.\n 1935 г. – В Ричмънд (САЩ) е пусната на пазара първата в света консервирана бира.\n 1939 г. – При най-смъртоносното земетресение в Чили загиват около 30 хил. души.\n 1940 г. – В Испания е забранено масонството.\n 1940 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския драматичен филм Гроздовете на гнева.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Японските войски за първи път атакуват територията на Австралия.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Англо-американската авиация извършва бомбардировки върху градове Скопие и Враца, и селата Кунино (Врачанска област) и Беглеж (Плевенска област), загиват общо 124 души.\n 1946 г. – Създадена е Международната комисия за атомна енергия към ООН.\n 1984 г. – В продажба е пуснат първият компютър Apple Macintosh, който става първият успешен персонален компютър с мишка и графичен потребителски интерфейс, вместо с интерфейс с команден ред.\n 1986 г. – Апаратът на НАСА Вояджър 2 се сближава максимално с планетата Уран.\n 1996 г. – Полският министър-председател Юзеф Олекси подава оставка след компромат за шпионаж в полза на СССР.\n 2003 г. – Започва да функционира Министерство на вътрешната сигурност на САЩ.\n\nРодени \n\n 76 г. – Адриан, римски император († 138 г.)\n 1444 г. – Галеацо Сфорца, принц на Милано († 1476 г.)\n 1712 г. – Фридрих II, крал на Прусия († 1786 г.)\n 1724 г. – Франсиз Брук, английски писател († 1789 г.)\n 1732 г. – Пиер дьо Бомарше, френски писател († 1799 г.)\n 1776 г. – Ернст Теодор Амадеус Хофман, немски писател († 1822 г.)\n 1779 г. – Елизавета Алексеевна, руска императрица († 1826 г.)\n 1848 г. – Василий Суриков, руски художник († 1916 г.)\n 1886 г. – Хенри Кинг, американски филмов режисьор († 1982 г.)\n 1888 г. – Вики Баум, австрийска писателка († 1960 г.)\n 1889 г. – Виктор Ефтимиу, румънски писател († 1972 г.)\n 1891 г. – Валтер Модел, германски фелдмаршал († 1945 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иван Батаклиев, български учен († 1973 г.)\n 1897 г. – Симеон Коков, български духовник и монах († 1974 г.)\n 1903 г. – Коста Църнушанов, български общественик († 1996 г.)\n 1904 г. – Камен Попдимитров, български цигулар, музикален педагог, професор († 1992 г.)\n 1905 г. – Елена Николай, българска певица († 1993 г.)\n 1906 г. – Стефан Попов, български писател († 1989 г.)\n 1907 г. – Стефан Марков, български партизанин († 1978 г.)\n 1910 г. – Георги Батаклиев, български литератор († 1994 г.)\n 1917 г. – Ангел Столинчев, български църковен деятел († 2003 г.)\n 1917 г. – Ърнест Боргнайн, американски актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1921 г. – Добри Жотев, български писател († 1997 г.)\n 1923 г. – Стефана Бояджиева, български скулптор\n 1930 г. – Махмуд Фаршчиян, ирански художник\n 1936 г. – Благовеста Карнобатлова-Добрева, българска певица\n 1941 г. – Нийл Даймънд, американски актьор\n 1942 г. – Людмила Савелиева, руска актриса\n 1943 г. – Георги Чапкънов, български художник\n 1943 г. – Михаил Рошиану, румънски дипломат\n 1944 г. – Чавдар Стойчевски, български журналист\n 1945 г. – Джон Гараменди, американски политик\n 1947 г. – Мичио Каку, американски физик\n 1949 г. – Джон Белуши, американски актьор († 1982 г.)\n 1950 г. – Даниел Отьой, френски актьор\n 1952 г. – Уилям Реди, американски астронавт\n 1953 г. – Романьола Мирославова, българска поетеса, автор на текстове на песни († 2016 г.)\n 1957 г. – Камелия Касабова, български политик\n 1961 г. – Настася Кински, германска киноактриса\n 1961 г. – Алиса Валзер, немска писателка, преводачка и художничка\n 1968 г. – Михаел Киске, германски хевиметъл вокал\n 1971 г. – Дион Томас, американски баскетболист\n 1974 г. – Сирил Деспре, френски мотоциклетист\n 1977 г. – Мишел Хунцикер, швейцарски модел\n 1978 г. – Екатерина Климова, руска актриса\n 1983 г. – Скот Спийд, американски пилот от Формула 1\n 1986 г. – Миша Бартън, американска актриса\n 1987 г. – Луис Суарес, уругвайски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 41 г. – Калигула, римски император (* 12 г.)\n 41 г. – Цезония, римска императрица (* ? г.)\n 661 г. – Али ибн Абу Талиб, ислямски водач (* ок. 599 г.)\n 891 г. – Стефан V, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1046 г. – Екехард II, маркграф на Майсен (* 985 г.)\n 1877 г. – Йохан Кристиан Погендорф, германски физик (* 1796 г.)\n 1881 г. – Джеймс Колинсън, викториански художник (* 1825 г.)\n 1894 г. – Александър Мидендорф, руски пътешественик (* 1815 г.)\n 1913 г. – Стефан Ильев, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1920 г. – Амедео Модилиани, италиански художник (* 1884 г.)\n 1920 г. – Михаил Такев, български политик (* 1864 г.)\n 1921 г. – Иван Белчев, български революционер (* 1867 г.)\n 1922 г. – Атила Зафиров, български военен деец (* 1858 г.)\n 1927 г. – Василий Доростолски и Червенски, български духовник (* 1847 г.)\n 1929 г. – Васил Главинов, политически деец (* 1869 г.)\n 1934 г. – Жеко Радев, български географ (* 1875 г.)\n 1939 г. – Максимилиан Бирсе-Бене, швейцарски психиатър (* 1867 г.)\n 1943 г. – Джон Бърнс, английски политик (* 1858 г.)\n 1960 г. – Едвин Фишер, швейцарски пианист (* 1886 г.)\n 1965 г. – Уинстън Чърчил, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство, Нобелов лауреат през 1953 г. (* 1874 г.)\n 1975 г. – Лари Файн, американски актьор (* 1902 г.)\n 1983 г. – Джордж Кюкор, американски режисьор (* 1899 г.)\n 1987 г. – Паскал Стружев, български художник (* 1913 г.)\n 1989 г. – Тед Бънди, американски сериен убиец (* 1946 г.)\n 1990 г. – Аракен Патушка, бразилски футболист (* 1905 г.)\n 1990 г. – Сергей Довлатов, руски писател (* 1941 г.)\n 1996 г. – Стоян Христов, писател (* 1898 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стоян Стоев, български актьор (* 1941 г.)\n 2005 г. – Владимир Савченко, украински писател (* 1933 г.)\n 2006 г. – Крис Пен, американски актьор (* 1965 г.)\n\nПразници \n Румъния – Обединение на Влашко и Молдова (почивен ден от 2017 г.)\n\n124"
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        "text": "Q: iVPN Connection Problems I want a way to create a secure connection to the internet (something I can trust) on my iPod Touch and Laptop through a source I can trust. In my research, it was suggested I use iVPN on my iMac at home to set up the connection. So I bought that and tried it out. The VPN client connects, but I cannot navigate to the internet. Any thoughts on how to fix it?\n\nA: Doing so would require being able to access your iMac from remote places, thus configuring either a DMZ host, or port forwarding on your router. Either way it will be a headache. \nAlso if you're on a residential connection note that the public IP address can and will change. I recommend a dynamic DNS server for that.  \nAssuming you can get that all setup it's as simple as setting up VPN on your iDevice.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Can I use Time Machine to back up data to a Windows shared drive? How can I do \"Time Machine\" from my Mac OS X 10.6.4 to my Window share drive? I'd also prefer to encrypt my image, so it's \"safe\" just in case :-)\n\nA: In order to create a Time Machine backup to an unsupported drive (pretty much anything that's not formatted HFS+) you need to run the following Terminal command:\ndefaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1\n\nYour share will now show up as a valid Time Machine destination in the Time Machine Preference Pane.\nTime Machine will then create a disk image on that drive that will act just like a HFS+ drive for Time Machines purposes (hard linking, etc.). One advantage of using a disk image over using the entire drive is that you can limit the size it will grow to of the disk image using Disk Utility.\nBe sure to check Louis Gerbarg's answer as well for why it's unsupported and you have to jump through a hoop to enable it.\n\nA: There are various hacks to setup a diskimage on the share, which I am sure other people will describe in depth. Having said that DO NOT USE SMB TO STORE TIME MACHINE BACKUPS.\nGuaranteeing writes on a disk image backed over a network store is complicated. Apple had reliability issues with Time Machine over AFP for years, and they controlled the entire stack. In order to guarantee write ordering and write stability (which are necessary in order for Time Machine to work in the presence of intermittent networking, such as walking out or range of the base station or putting the machine to sleep midbackup and waking it up out of range) Time Machine depends on features specific to AFP (For those interested, those are published as part of the Time Machine Network Server Requirements).\nIf you want to backup to a Windows Machine you should probably get a copy of ExtremeZ-IP, if it is a linux box running SAMBA you should install netatalk.\n\nA: I did not test this solution, but looks someone did a little write up for this:\nOSX Timemachine and Samba/Windows share « Hupio’s Weblog\n\nA: Yes with caveats\n\n*\n\n*Create a sparsebundle disk image per these instructions Windows NTFS Linux or other disk for Time Machine Backups and move it to your network file share\n\n*Optional: Add the disk image as a login item so that it is mounted when you log-in\n\n*\n\n* Menu -> System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Login Items -> '+' button -> Navigate to the network drive and select the sparsebundle\n\n*Or, add a cron job for a 2 line script:\n\n*\n\n*osascript -e 'mount volume \"smb://username@servername/sharename\"'\n\n*hdiutil attach /Volumes/servernameandorsharename \n(The advantage of osascript over bash is that osascript will remember your password)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*If your disk doesn't appear as an option in Time Machine preferences use the line from Chealion's answer: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1.\n\n*\n\n*And/Or use the commandline: tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Volumenameonceitsbeenmounted\n\n\n\n\n*Buy a copy of Alsoft DiskWarrior.\n\nThe problem is, as @louis-gerbarg says, backup to a network share is a risk unless your server, router, network and client are all very reliable. The symptom is then that the disk no longer mounts and your backup no longer runs.\n\nI have been doing Time Machine backup to network share for 10 years and I reckon on a disk repair every other month. I have sometimes got through a year with Disk Utility or chkdsk alone repairing errors but that left me with a trail of old broken backup images.\n\nThat said, the better perspective is:\n\n*\n\n*If you don't have 3 copies, you aren't serious about backup. Therefore:\n\n*You should also have everything duplicated to somewhere that's at least fire-and-theft-isolated from your machine. Some combination of iDrive, OneDrive, Github, Syncthing, Cubbit, diy Azure storage, for instance.\n\n*That leaves me still using TimeMachine primarily for the convenience of recent versions: 'darn get me the version from yesterday'. It's a great interface. So now I'm less concerned about losing last year's TM backups so long as I can start a new TM backup tonight.\n\n\nA: Unfortunately, I don't believe you can. From the Time Machine help docs:\nTime Machine can’t back up to an external disk connected to an AirPort Extreme, or to an iPod, iDisk, or disk formatted for Windows.\nEDIT: Ignore this answer. As mentioned in comments, Apple's own documentation is out of date. \n"
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        "text": "Entries in Department of Agriculture (3)\nFood Prices Could Rise 5 Percent in Next 9 Months\nJupiterimages/Pixland/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The cost of filling grocery carts in America is going up. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that it is projecting as much as a five percent price hike for some food items over the next nine months.\n“Of course I’m concerned,” said shopper Barbara Webb. “I’m concerned for the people who can’t afford it.”\nBehind the expensive jump is the drought, now covering 60 percent of the United States, pushing up prices for feed that translate into higher prices for beef, pork and chicken products.\nBeef prices will see the biggest hike, up four to five percent, according to the USDA. That means the ground beef purchased last year for $2.77 per pound will cost consumers $3.04 per pound next year.\nDairy product prices will increase by 3.5 to 4.5 percent, bumping a gallon of milk from $3.57 in 2011 to $3.84 in 2013.\nThe price of eggs will also go up by three to four percent, making a dozen eggs $1.95 per dozen in 2013, compared with $1.77 in 2011.\nIf USDA’s economists are correct, a family who spends $150 per week on groceries will now be spending $160 by next year, bumping their annual food budget up more than $500.\nLisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart magazine, has a few tips for families trying to keep their grocery bills down, despite the anticipated hike.\n\"The best thing you can do is if all you’re doing is clipping coupons in newspapers -- go online!” Freeman said. “There are literally hundreds of coupons online and if you’re not tapping that, you’re missing out on a huge resource for savings.”\nFreeman also recommends buying store brands in supermarkets, joining warehouse clubs and even shopping at dollar stores to save the most money.\n\"Things are changing and the dollar stores are now carrying brand name items,” Freeman said. “Prices can be up to one-third cheaper at the dollar store than at the supermarket.”\nThe 2013 food price forecast projects an overall food price hike of three to four percent, higher than the normal annual grocery inflation of 2.8 percent.\nThe recent announcement is also the USDA’s first projection to factor in the drought.\nDavid Lobell, writes studies for Climate Central, monitoring global warming. He says farmers should prepare for tougher growing conditions and higher prices in the future.\n\"This year is very emblematic of the type of thing we worry about with climate change,” Lobell said. “The new normal for agriculture is going to be frequent episodes of very high temperatures. Temperatures at which pretty much any crop does not do very well.”\nWednesday, July 25, 2012 at 9:51PM by Carmen Cox Permalink\ntagged Crops, Department of Agriculture, Food Prices, drought in Business General, Economy\nLess Beef Being Consumed in the US, USDA Finds\nJupiterimages/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Where's the beef? These days, less of it is being found in the kitchens of the average American family, much to the consternation of cattle ranchers and meat packers.\nThere's no question that the nation's beef consumption habits have changed over the past decade for health reasons. Another problem for the beef industry: the down economy and a fall-off in business of restaurants with main courses of steaks and other meat dishes.\nAccording to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, per capita beef consumption in 2011 was 57.4 pounds per person, a drop of 13 percent from 2001. It's believed that the decline will continue next year by at least another five to six percent from 2011.\nThe beef industry has responded by developing cuts of meat that will satisfy steak lovers at lower prices. Sales of cheaper ground beef have also risen substantially.\nMeanwhile, the industry is also looking outside the U.S. to bolster business. Sales have improved in Asian countries including Russia, where fears of mad cow disease have subsided over the past few years.\nFriday, December 23, 2011 at 6:00AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink\ntagged Beef, Department of Agriculture, USDA in Business General\nUSDA Is Pleased after Government Approves Funding in Pigford Settlement\nSecretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack. Photo Courtesy - USDA dot gov(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate Friday decided to provide funding as relief to the country's black farmers who have experienced discrimination in the farming industry.\nThe government approved funding for the settlement agreement on a class action suit originally filed in 1997 by farmer Timothy Pigford, who was later joined in the suit by 400 other African American farmers, against the Department of Agriculture citing instances of descrimination.\nThe U.S. Department of Agriculture commended the government's \"leadership in working to right these wrongs.\"\n\"This announcement marks a major milestone in USDA's efforts to turn the page on a sad chapter in our history,\" said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a written statement.\nVilsack added that Civil rights is a \"top priority,\" which has prompted him to implement a program that will ensure customers are treated fairly and equally.\nCopyright 2010 ABC News Radio\nFriday, November 19, 2010 at 8:30PM by Carmen Cox Permalink\ntagged Department of Agriculture, Pigford Settlement in Business General"
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        "text": "What is motivation? And how does it relate to purpose? Ayn Rand wrote: She goes on to describe motivation as: That last question--what is he after?-- implies that understanding a man's purpose is critical to understanding his motivation. But what exactly is the relationship there? Let's say, in general, that a man's purpose is to do productive work, which Rand considered to be man's central, rational purpose in life. And let's also say that a particular man expresses a desire to work on starting a relationship with a particular woman. He tells us that this is what he's after. He's going to ask her out on a date. It's his own application of the abstract productive work to his individual, concrete life. Now we might consider how such a purpose relates to his motivation. Why did he pick this goal, and why does he work toward achieving it? As Rand suggested, is it because of his \"basic premises and values\"? If so, this man could have any number of different reasons for pursuing a relationship with the woman. Which is why we would need to understand his premises and values before we could really understand why he chose that purpose in the first place. Now, let's suppose we are that man. (Women, feel free to reverse the sexes in the example.) Why are we acting toward achieving this particular purpose? Let's say we think the woman is smart and attractive, a fairly standard reason for asking someone out. But why are we pursuing a smart and attractive woman? What really motivates this action? I'm not sure such a question can be answered by fantasizing, or imagining, a possible future with the woman. For example, we could say that we hope things work out and that she becomes our lover, and that that would make us very happy. But this doesn't explain why we want to pursue a smart and attractive woman in the first place. Furthermore, we would have established no logical basis for assuming that such a woman could possibly make us happy. It seems that we must look at our values for the root of motivation. Perhaps, in this case, we have learned to value relationships by interacting with family members and friends all throughout life. We've learned to value romantic relationships by watching couples in love, and possibly by having a lover in the past. We've learned to value intelligence by personally experiencing and recognizing the benefits of knowledge. And we've learned to identify and value attractiveness by experiencing the physical and emotional responses we have to certain women, as opposed to others. Given our specific and individual set of values, we are now morally impelled to act in pursuit of this particular woman. Our motivation literally springs from our recognition of the fact that she is what we value. And depending on how thoroughly she embodies our own values, our moral need for her will be that much greater. Our initial need, for example, might only be a dinner date to have a chat or kiss her goodnight. But should she turn out to embody our entire moral code, or idea of a perfect woman, our need for her might become so critical to the maintenance of our own happiness that we would protect her with our own life, if necessary. If we accept the idea that motivation is a moral impulsion which springs from the recognition of certain values, then purpose could be understood as the expression of our need for those values. Purpose would be the productive work required in order to satisfy our particular needs for particular values. And if purpose is indeed a function of our value-based needs, it must adjust to the relative importance of our values. If all we know about the woman is that she is smart and attractive, a dinner date would satisfy our need to speak to her and admire her beauty. In this way, our purpose is simple: to gain the values of her intelligence and beauty. But if during the date, we notice that she embodies many more of our important values, such as kindness and affection, our need would increase proportionally. At some point our purpose might become: to gain her emotional and sexual affections. And this purpose would be expressed by the effort we put into achieving that value, such as asking to see her again, buying flowers for her, and inviting her into our house. In this way, purpose depends upon and directly corresponds to our established value system. If the above is correct, then purpose necessarily depends upon motivation. One must first be motivated to act toward the acquisition of some needed value. Then, because man does not act on instinct but by free will, a related purpose must be chosen to help guide his planning of any actions required to gain the needed value."
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        "text": "Added by viamin (Bart Agapinan) almost 2 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.\nIt should be marking miss failure.\nCould you give us the way to reproduce it?\nI can confirm having the same issue. It's intermediate but reproducible, and affects both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 versions.\nThe guard Ruby gem is installed and run using fsnotify events to trigger builds, and it would randomly crash Ruby interpreter. Sometimes at the very beginning, sometimes after running a while.\nSince I test against multiple Ruby versions, I can confirm that this does not happen on 2.2.6 and 2.3.3, only 2.4.x family is affected.\nIf you can modify MRI source code, please try to change RGENGC_CHECK_MODE in gc.c to 2 and run your program on your modified MRI again.\nIt will inserts many assertions and it may help.\nIs this same to #13605 and fixed at r59063?\nI get the same error running the Pry rspec suite.\n/home/panic/src/pry/lib/pry/core_extensions.rb:87: [BUG] gc_verify_internal_consistency: found internal inconsistency.\ncould you with check recent trunk (2.5dev)? I'm not sure recent 2.4 has backport patch (r59063).\nI see r59063 went into ruby_2_4 yesterday.\nand I don't get the crash."
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        "text": "A 25% returnable deposit will be asked for with each booking, with the balance due on arrival.\nThe bed linen and towels can be provided by arrangement, but not beach towels.\nElectricity is supplied via a meter. The house will be cleaned after each let, but we do expect tenants to leave the house as they would wish to find it. Access to accomodation is at 2pm on day of arrival. Guests are requested to vacate the house by 10.30am on day of departure.\nUnfortunately we cannot accept your pets.\nThe house is more of a bungalow really, it has two bedrooms downstairs."
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        "text": "Mary Keitany again wrote her name in the world record books after a sensational run at the Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday.\nClocking 2:17:01, the Kenyan smashed the women-only marathon world record of 2:17:42 which had been set by Paula Radcliffe in London in 2005.\nBehind her, Ethiopian track great Tirunesh Dibaba impressed in only her second ever marathon after her debut in London in 2014, coming close to the record mark herself with 2:17:56.\nMore than five minutes behind the top two, Ethiopia’s Aselefech Mergia clocked 2:23:08 for third, one place ahead of Olympic 5000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot with 2:23:50 on her marathon debut.\nKeitany had a blistering start and had been on sub-2:11 pace through the first 5km, clocking 15:31 for that downhill section. The time on the clock was 31:17 for 10km, with Cheruiyot then in second, recording a split of 31:25 as she enjoyed a strong start to her debut.\nAlthough her pace was gradually starting to slow, Keitany’s time at 10 miles was still 50:48 – exactly a minute quicker than Radcliffe’s time en route to her outright world record of 2:15:25 set in a mixed gender race at the London Marathon in 2003.\nContinuing her incredible front-running performance, Keitany went through 20km in 63:26, and behind the pacemaker Caroline Kipkirui she was leading six athletes who remained on pace to dip under the women-only world record mark at that point.\nHer 66:54 was the fastest ever half-marathon split in a marathon and kept her on course for a time quicker than the outright world record, with Dibaba, Cheruiyot, Mergia and Kenya’s 2015 world silver medallist Helah Kiprop a minute behind her.\nKeitany’s time at 25km – 79:43 – was quicker than her own world record for that distance but not record eligible because of the elevation of the start of the London course. However, 5km later a world record fell as she clocked 96:05 for 30km.\nDibaba had moved into second with 97:23 on the clock at that point, with Kiprop in third a couple of seconds behind her.\nWhile Keitany’s pace continued to slow slightly, she remained looking strong. Dibaba started to close the gap before stomach cramps in the final few kilometres tool their toll. Almost stopping to bend over in pain, three-time Olympic track champion Dibaba again picked up the pace and was 72 seconds behind Keitany at 40km, which the Kenyan passed in 2:09:38.\nThe two-time London champion wasn’t going to be caught and completed her hat-trick in style, clocking the best ever women-only marathon mark and the second fastest ever time.\nDibaba’s time was an Ethiopian record which moves her to third on the world all-time list.\n“It was a very fast pace and I tried to follow it,” said Keitany. “The weather was really good this year. Last year it was very,very cold.\nAlso delighted with her time was Dibaba, who said: “I’m so happy with the result and being third fastest woman of all time.\n“I had stomach cramps with 2km left. I have had that problem before and I was really scared and almost vomited. It really affected my run and my desire to catch up with Mary.\nAustralia’s Lisa Weightman was fifth in a PB 2:25:15 and USA’s Laura Thweatt sixth in a PB 2:25:38, one place ahead of Kiprop, who clocked 2:25:39.\nIn the race for places on the GB team for the IAAF World Championships, Alyson Dixon came out on top. Smashing her PB, the Rio 2016 Olympics marathoner clocked 2:29:06 to secure her spot for the World Championships back in the UK capital this summer and she was followed over the finish line by rising marathon star Charlotte Purdue. Her time of 2:29:23 and result as second best Brit also booked her place on the team.\nThird Briton to finish was Tracy Barlow who continued her incredible progression over 26.2 miles. From her marathon debut of 3:52:59 in 2011, she went sub-three-hours for the first time in 2013, improved to 2:38:49 in 2015 and then ran 2:32:05 last year before her time of 2:30:42 behind Purdue.\nSadly Jo Pavey did not enjoy such success, as the five-time Olympian, who had been hoping to secure her spot to compete at a sixth world championships, was forced to withdraw around 16 miles into the race. Her coach and husband, Gavin, explained that in Pavey’s long and successful career so far it is only the second time that she has been forced to drop out.\n“I’m bitterly disappointed,” the 43-year-old said. “It was always a bit of a gamble running today because I’ve had so much illness in the build-up to the event and I was a bit in the dark about how I would feel on the day.\n“But my training had been consistent and I thought I would give it a go because I wanted to qualify for the World Championships in London. It just wasn’t to be on the day."
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        "text": "Salameh Kaileh: Assad’s collapse imminent\nPopular movement will prevail over foreign meddling\nMohamed Aburous and Wilhelm Langthaler\nSalameh Kaileh is a Palestinian-Syrian author, political activist and Marxist intellectual representing the Syrian Left Coalition. He was arrested anew on April 24, 2012. Having been tortured, he was eventually deported from Syria where he had spent three decades and out of that eight years in prison.\nHaytham Manna at the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi\nDiscuss with leaders and activists of the Syrian popular uprising\nHaytham Manna is the foreign representative of the “National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change” (NBC) and as such one of the most vocal and prominent figures of the Syrian left as well as of the anti-imperialist wing of the current democratic people’s movement.\nDamascus uprising calling upon soldiers to switch side\nStatement of the Syrian Left Coalition\nAll Syrians follow the huge revolutionary developments which overwhelmed the capital Damascus in the past two days, knowing that what the media covers is less than what happens in the uprising capital. It confirms the persistence of the revolution and its marsh towards victory. Everybody can see the weakness of the regime, the dispersion of its forces and its tendency towards disintegration.\nTahrir popular uprisings at our doors\nIn the first years after the formation of the Anti-imperialist Camp we used to hold an annual public summer camp in Assisi, Italy, the last one in 2004. After difficult years we revive this experience this year 2012 on the juncture of the Arab revolt and the Southern European movements against the EU crisis.\nObamania\nWhy we remain anti-American\nA Black president in a country that was founded on slavery and racism—that is a true sensation. We understand and share the joy and satisfaction in the Black communities from Harlem via Chicago to New Orleans.\nOne Democratic State to be debated in Assisi\nProtagonists of the Palestine solidarity will get together\nThe support to the Palestinian liberation struggle always has been in the heard of the Anti-imperialist Camp. Therefore this year’s camp in Assisi, Italy, scheduled for 23-26 of August will feature a debate on the future of the Palestine solidarity movement."
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        "text": "Q: Are there any features like Winamp's auto tag exist for iTunes? It took me 3 months to ID3 Tag all of the MP3s (artist, album, released year, etc) in my iTunes library.  It was annoying.  I saw that Winamp solves this problem with an \"Auto Tag\" feature.  Is there a plugin for iTunes on OS X to do the same? Or does iTunes itself support this?\nP.S: I would like the program or plugin or whatever else to be compatible with iTunes.\n\nA: MusicBrainz Picard works quite well, it uses the same database as iEatBrainz but is still actively developed.  It's free, and I've had great luck with it fixing tags on some 40GB of music I had laying around from my Windows days.  \nThe interface is somewhat arcane unfortunately.  Check out this link that will give you some other alternative ideas.\non edit:\nI went back to check out the newer version of Picard (0.12 vs 0.11), and the workflow is much improved.  A lot of the annoying things from before have been automated.  If you take a few minutes to set all the preferences to your tastes using the online help as reference, this really is a great automated tagging app.\n\nA: iTunes does have a \"Get Track Names\" option under the \"Advanced\" menu. That should be what you're looking for. Granted it might not find everything, but it finds most of them.\n\nIf you aren't ripping from a CD, then I suggest iEatBrainz, though you will have to scrum up a UB for it.\nOther software:\n\n\n*\n\n*Jaikoz (Java)\n\n*MusicBrainz Picard (Python)\n\n*iEatBrainZ UB\n\nA: There's also an application called SongGenie. It looks very good, too.\n\nA: You could try TidySongs. From their website :\nTidySongs is an easy and powerful program that will fix any missing or misspelled song details, add album artwork, remove duplicate songs and organize your music.\n\nA: After many search I find TuneUp it's done what I want.\nTuneUp is an easy-to-use and powerful plug-in for iTunes & Windows Media Player, and also available for both Mac and windows.\n\nA: MetaBliss is good, but costs $20\nYou are limited to working with batches of 5000 at a time, but the bulk update feature is great\n"
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        "text": "Q: How can you get Finder to sort by name, but also sort folders before files? When I want sort my files and folder in Finder (specially sort by name) they sort all item by name mixing folders and files together. I want a way that sorts (like Windows) first all folders by name then all other items by name. How can I do this?\n\nA: There's no built in feature in the Finder to achieve that, but with the \"plugin\" TotalFinder you can get that. It's located under the \"Tweaks\" tab in the TotalFinder settings.\nEdit: There was a screenshot here, but it was out of date. Look at Robsofts answer instead for an up-to-date screenshot!\n\nA: XtraFinder is free plugin for Finder that allows you to sort folders before files, by selecting \"Arrange folders on top\" in the Preferences.\nAfter installing and running it, you can tune folder sorting and many other aspects of Finder behavior.\n\nA: Here is a method that involves a plist setting, and no plugin, or third party app.\nTo summarize:\n\nShow Package Contents of Finder.app (located in System/Library/CoreServices\nDrill down to Contents > Resources > English.lproj. > InfoPlist.strings\nLocate the string “Folder” = “Folder”;\nAdd a leading space before the second Folder as follows: “Folder” = “ Folder”;\nSave InfoPlist.strings to the same location (backup elsewhere if desired)\nRelaunch Finder (Ctrl+Option+Click)\nOpen new Finder window and sort files by Kind\n\n\nA: Related to the Total Finder answer above (so please don't vote for this answer), here's a picture of the current TF tweaks page (you get to it from the Finder's Preferences screen). With these options I definitely get the folders at the top of the list.\nYou can also control this from the VIEW menu in Finder, once TF is installed.\n\n\nA: There is a Finder replacement called Path Finder that will do what you want. It's a bit more expensive but it does do a lot more than just a regular finder window.\n\nA: As of OS X Yosemite (≥ 10.10), you can sort folders above files without any third-party apps.\nFinder > Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Check \"Keep folders on top: in windows when sorting by name\" option.\n\nA: This is possible by having icons displayed as list (Cmd + 2) in Finder window. First click on the [Name] column header (this will sort all files by name), then click on [Kind] column header (this will sort items by kind, but keep the name sorting in groups).\n\nA: Since I have found myself doing the Folder trick over and over again I ended up creating a bash script to automate renaming of the string in /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings.\n\n\n*\n\n*Save it as e.g. finder-folders-first.sh\n\n*Make it executable: chmod +x finder-folders-first.sh\n\n*Run with root permissions: sudo finder-folders-first.sh\n#!/bin/bash\n# Make folders sortable first in Finder\n\nif [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then\n   echo \"Script must be run as root! Aborting.\"\n   exit 1\nfi\n\ncd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/\n\ncp -i InfoPlist.strings InfoPlist_ORIGINAL-`date +%b-%d-%Y_%H_%M_%S`.strings\nplutil -convert xml1 InfoPlist.strings\nsed 's|<string>Folder</string>|<string> Folder</string>|' InfoPlist.strings > InfoPlist_PATCHED.strings\n\ndiff InfoPlist.strings InfoPlist_PATCHED.strings\n\nif [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\n    echo File already patched! Exiting.\n    exit -1\nelse\n    echo Patching original file...\n    plutil -convert binary1 InfoPlist_PATCHED.strings -o InfoPlist.strings\n\nfi\necho Restarting Finder...\nkillall Finder\necho Done!\n\nThe last line restarts Finder. To do the same thing from the GUI press Alt+rightclick the Finder icon in the Dock and select Relaunch.\nNow, in Finder click the Kind column once/twice to have the folders listed as first/last.\nThis works in Mavericks and Yosemite, but might not work in later versions.\n"
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        "text": "These best selling Sterex F3S Stainless Steel Two Piece Needles are the perfect solution for safe sterile hair removal.\nSterex F3S Stainless Steel needles are best selling disposable two piece needles, the perfect solution for safe sterile hair removal. Made from quality diamond drawn medical grade stainless steel. More sizes available.\nDelighted arrived fast as described.\nUsed these for over 30 years."
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        "text": "Q: What are some good resources for learning Dashcode? What are some good resources for learning Dashcode? I've got plenty for XCode, but can neither find a good online Dashcode tutorial nor a book in stores. If anyone can help, please let me know.\nMy apologies if this is better suited for SO.\n\nA: There are a bunch of resources available from the Apple Developer Site.\nHere is a small list of stuff available:\nDashboard Widget Tutorial\nMobile Safari Web Application Tutorial\nStarting a Project\n\nA: Maybe you've already checked and didn't like it or something, but the included help documentation is actually a pretty good starting point for creating simple widgets in Dashcode.  It got me through coding a couple easy ones.  Not sure if you're looking for complete beginner tutorials or something more advanced however.\n"
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        "text": "Jaguar XJ12 #7339202\nYou can see more picture of Jaguar XJ12 in our photo gallery. Click on the links below to view them. Also we have full gallery of Jaguar XJ12 on this page which you can see.\nIf you have your own good photos of Jaguar XJ12 and you want to become one of our authors, you can add them on our site\nNissan Juke 2011: a new compact crossover\nConfirmed arrival of crossover Nissan Juke in the Canadian market Nissan Canada Inc. (NCI) today confirmed a new compact crossover SUV, the Juke will join a range of Nissan vehicles available in Canada in the fall of 2010. European version of this vehicle a extraordinary elegance will be unveiled to the media on February 10 and will make its first global public appearance at the Auto Show in\nRenault-Nissan sign an international exclusivity of 15,000 vehicles contract with Danone\nThe Renault-Nissan Alliance will provide the food group Danone, with its headquarters in Paris, some 15,000 vehicles, under a contract of fleet renewal in exclusivity. As part of this agreement, which represents a first for the Alliance, the latter equip at least five years the fleet of Danone in 25 countries. Danone has chosen the Renault-Nissan Alliance because of its wide range of products,\nF1 attracts 100,000 people in Russia\nThe first Formula 1 Grand Prix of Russia is planned to take place in the city of Sochi in 2014. But the Russian authorities did not wait for the event to measure the popularity of the pinnacle of motorsport discipline since last Sunday, Jenson Button (McLaren-Mercedes), Giancarlo Fisichella (Ferrari) and Karun Chandhok (Lotus-Renault) took part in a demonstration in the streets of Moscow. In fact\nMinister Kent boasts new emission standards for cars\nOTTAWA - On the eve of talks in Doha on Climate Change, which will be valid to Canadian policies renewed attention, Ottawa Tuesday unveiled new standards to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks. The federal Minister of the Environment Peter Kent, indicates that mimics americaines of emission standards for models to be constructed between 2017 and 2025. It the\nChevrolet Aveo and / or Spark: We'll have two\nTata Nano: No more\n2011 Subaru Forester: New engine and new equipment\nSubaru Legacy and Outback PZEV, these unknown\nVolkswagen Golf: 30 million copies later"
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        "text": "Q: Can I make applications load on the same monitor as the mouse cursor? I have multiple monitors, and with Quicksilver and Magic Mouse gestures I open applications without using the dock more often than with it.  Is there a way to have these application windows appear on the monitor that currently has the mouse cursor?  An added bonus would be the ability to have Finder open a new window if there isn't one on the current monitor, even if there is one on the other monitor.\n\nA: I think Mr. Siracusa has railed against the lack of consistency or flexibility that leads to a situation like this, and I don't have a \"you can modify this plist and presto!\" answer either, but I saw this and thought of your plight:\ncordlessdog.com/stay/\nIt may not be what you need, but it could be a step in the right direction, which I heard of here: http://twitter.com/wilsonminer/status/20750686482\n\nA: I've never come across anything that would tick all those boxes unfortunately. I simply don't think the OS supports that at the moment. Sorry I can't offer more help.\n"
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        "text": "Fitting words from the man who invented the lightbulb—the universal metaphor for an idea.\nDo you have a great idea that's yet to see the light of day? Then keep in mind that the Wizard of Menlo Park is just as well-known for the 10,000 attempts it took him to transform his idea into a reality!\nA work ethic we can all take a shine to."
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        "text": "Real and complex analysis\nSpecial Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials\nPart of Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics\nRichard Beals, Yale University, Connecticut\nRoderick Wong, City University of Hong Kong\nDate Published: May 2016\nThe subject of special functions is often presented as a collection of disparate results, rarely organized in a coherent way. This book emphasizes general principles that unify and demarcate the subjects of study. The authors' main goals are to provide clear motivation, efficient proofs, and original references for all of the principal results. The book covers standard material, but also much more. It shows how much of the subject can be traced back to two equations - the hypergeometric equation and confluent hypergeometric equation - and it details the ways in which these equations are canonical and special. There is extended coverage of orthogonal polynomials, including connections to approximation theory, continued fractions, and the moment problem, as well as an introduction to new asymptotic methods. There are also chapters on Meijer G-functions and elliptic functions. The final chapter introduces Painlevé transcendents, which have been termed the 'special functions of the twenty-first century'.\nCovers standard topics from a unified point of view to show how different topics are part of a general scheme\nComprehensive but self-contained, covering newer asymptotic methods to give an up-to-date view of an important research area\nIncludes topics such as Painlevé functions and Meijer G-functions, which are not usually treated at this level, to give an understandable and well-motivated introduction to some subjects of great current interest\n'… an excellent graduate textbook, one of the two best available on this subject…' Warren Johnson, MAA Reviews (www.maa.org)\ncontains: 7 b/w illus. 430 exercises\n2. Gamma, beta, zeta\n3. Second-order differential equations\n4. Orthogonal polynomials on an interval\n5. The classical orthogonal polynomials\n6. Semiclassical orthogonal polynomials\n7. Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials: two methods\n8. Confluent hypergeometric functions\n9. Cylinder functions\n10. Hypergeometric functions\n11. Spherical functions\n12. Generalized hypergeometric functions\nG-functions\n13. Asymptotics\n14. Elliptic functions\n15. Painlevé transcendents\nAppendix A. Complex analysis\nAppendix B. Fourier analysis\nCopyright Information Page (153 KB)\nRichard Beals is a former Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago and Yale University. He is the author or co-author of books on mathematical analysis, linear operators and inverse scattering theory, and has authored more than 100 research papers in areas including partial differential equations, mathematical economics and mathematical psychology.\nRoderick Wong is Chair Professor of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of books on asymptotic approximations of integrals and applied analysis. He has published over 140 research papers in areas such as asymptotic analysis, singular perturbation theory and special functions.\nAsymptotics and Mellin-Barnes Integrals\nA Graduate Text\nOrthogonal Polynomials and Painlevé Equations\nMaximum and Minimum Principles\nA Unified Approach with Applications\nAffine Hecke Algebras and Orthogonal Polynomials\nJournal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu\nJournal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu covers all domains in pure mathematics.\nCompositio Mathematica\nCompositio Mathematica is a prestigious, well-established journal publishing first-class research papers that traditionally…\nJournal of K-Theory\nIt is with regret that Cambridge University Press announces that it will no longer publish the Journal of K-Theory…\nMathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society\nMathematical Proceedings is one of the few high-quality journals publishing original research papers that cover the…\nForum of Mathematics, Sigma is the open access alternative to the leading specialist mathematics journals. Editorial…\nMathematika\nMathematika publishes both pure and applied mathematical articles and has done so continuously since its founding…\nAbstract analysis\nDifferential and integral equations, dynamical systems and control\nDiscrete mathematics, information theory and coding\nFluid dynamics and solid mechanics\nHistorical mathematical texts\nLogic, categories and sets\nMathematical modelling and methods\nMathematical tables and handbooks\nNumerical recipes\nMathematics (general)\nOptimization, OR and risk analysis"
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        "text": "Jia Zhang-Ke – ADESTE Laureate 2011\nBy JO LEE Magazine\nPhotography by Xstream Pictures\nAs we see the world through the eyes of Unsung Heroes – experiencing possibilities undreamed of, we embrace more and more the multitude of Global Nominations submitted, during 2010, within the five ADESTE categories: Humanities, Social Justice, Arts, Technology and Medicine. We are reminded through the Nominees of The ADESTE Gold Medal how many wonderful people are doing amazing things from corner to corner in this chaotic world. We too, are reminded, that the most important aspect, the heart, of ADESTE is to discover “the 40 and under” Unsung Heroes who “outperform” in a globe of billions.\nCritics and film directors have described Jia Zhang-Ke as perhaps the most important filmmaker working in the world today. Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Jia Zhang-Ke has battled “The Machinery of Oppression”. He embraces the extreme limit of virtue with so much courage!\nJo Lee magazine and its 21 World Voting Members of ADESTE Present With Pride The 7th Annual ADESTE Gold Medal Laureate 2011 By JO LEE Magazine to Jia Zhang-Ke Jia has had the extraordinary opportunity to make the greatest impact on a wide cross-section of his people – portraying an authentic face of the globe’s fastest-evolving and most mysterious superpower, China, as he battled back from extreme adversity and censorship, finally winning over even his own government.\nJia Zhang-Ke is different from other film directors. He is a rare breed, responsible for helping millions of people understand China’s social issues through years of agonizing persistence!!\nEqually important, is that several scholars and intellectuals are interested in watching his films: because he tells the truth about the Chinese society and its social issues.\nJia’s focus is not on commercial movies, or using a lot of pop stars. Instead, he saves thousands of dollars by using regular people within China to play their own life roles in his films.\nJia has made many documentaries, non-fiction films, talking about some very sensitive social topics, including: a) migrant workers’ lives; b) low income families; c) how the Chinese government’s decision making affected normal people’s lives, and; d) the Three Gorges Dam Project, the world’s largest capacity hydroelectric power station. His early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China’s state-run film bureaucracy, therefore are considered “underground” films. In 2004, Jia’s status in his own country was raised when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, The World, with state approval.\nJO LEE Magazine applauds, congratulates and reveres Jia for his compassion for his countrymen and the world at large.\nPhilanthropic, PHILANTHROPY, The ADESTE Academy and Gold Medal | Comments Off on Jia Zhang-Ke – ADESTE Laureate 2011"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a way to match calendar colors without MobileMe? \nPossible Duplicate:\nHow can I change the colors of calendars on iOS5 \n\nI have an iPhone 4 that syncs with iCal through Google. However, the colors for the calendars are different on the iPhone than on iCal. Is there any way to set the colors for the calendars on the iPhone so that they are the same as the colors I have selected in iCal?\n\nA: There's no official way to achieve this, however you can try a trick involving deactivating / reactivating calendars in a certain order until they match the colour you want.\n\nA: Assuming you have your preferred colors set in iCal, try this on your next sync:\nBE SURE YOU SYNC ANY CALENDAR INFO YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDED VIA THE PHONE BEFORE DOING THIS OVERWRITE\n\n\n*\n\n*In iTunes, select your iPhone in \"Devices\" (same as normal sync)\n\n*At the top of the sync window, click on \"Info\"\n\n*Scroll down to the Advanced heading\n\n*Under \"Replace information on this iPhone\", check the \"Calendars\" box\n\n*Sync at will\n\n\nThis should override all of the calendar settings on your iPhone, and replace them with the settings from iCal.\n"
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        "text": "HomeMagnesium Market\nMarket and Production\nMagnesium demand is forecast to show healthy growth over the next five years, exhibiting an average annual growth rate of 5% to total 1,400 kt in 2017. Rather than reflecting a “new normal”, the mid-2000s explosion in demand was largely tied to surging global and Chinese growth. Both of these factors have now moderated, and growth in magnesium consumption is therefore expected to be more modest going forward. Barring any great market changes or breakthroughs in use, long-term growth in magnesium demand (i.e., post 2017) may, however, be more sluggish, as Chinese consumption continues to ease as China’s economy matures.\nMagnesium in the automotive industry\nSince the 1930s, the global automotive industry has used a wide range of magnesium components on vehicles: in pistons, oil pumps, mounts, brackets and housings. In the late 1930s to 1960s, the VW Beetle was the first vehicle to use more than 40 pounds of magnesium, primarily in its transmission and air-cooled engine. The 1952 Chrysler had more than 15 die-cast parts, most converted from heavy zinc. Ford Motor Company’s 1998 Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) demonstration vehicle contained 87 lb of magnesium components.\nStarting with 2011 models, the U.S. federal government’s fuel-economy standards, which had been frozen for years, saw the biggest change since the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) law was created in 1975. The average fuel economy for cars must improve from the 27.5 mile per gallon (mpg), where it has been since 1990, to 37.8 mpg by 2016, and the truck standard is to rise from 23.5 to 28.8 mpg. This means that cars must improve by 37% and trucks by 23%. Combined, cars and trucks in 2016 should average 34.1 mpg, up 35% from the current 25.3 mpg, a jump of 5.1% per year.\nA recent report from the United States Automotive Materials Partnership, a collaboration among carmakers GM, Ford and Chrysler, estimates that by 2020, 250 pounds of magnesium will replace 500 pounds of steel and 90 pounds of magnesium will replace 130 pounds of aluminum per vehicle, resulting in an overall 15% weight reduction.\nIf those predictions for magnesium usage in cars come true, there is reason to believe that overall magnesium demand will continue to be positive for the foreseeable future. While Europe is holding back, preventing a return to pre-economic-downturn growth levels, the automotive outputs of Asia and South America are making up some of the slack, helping global demand.\nMarkets Targeted by Alliance Magnesium\nEnd-user markets for magnesium extracted from the proposed plant would be global. At the proposed 50,000 tpy magnesium metal production rate, Alliance Magnesium would only grab a small share of the annual growth in this sector. It would therefore not displace incumbents, but would be a new player.\nAlliance Magnesium initiated meetings with large players in the automobile industry at the Global Automotive Lightweight Material Conference in London, UK and at the APMA conference in Windsor Ontario. APMA is Canada’s national association of OEM producers of parts, equipment, tools, supplies and services for the worldwide automotive industry.\nPotential clients globally would include volume carmakers, high-end manufacturers, most diversified automotive supplier in the world, which designs, develops and manufactures automotive systems, assemblies, modules and components, many other first tier and mid-tier suppliers, large aluminium consortiums and large aerospace companies and OEMs.\nRoskill, a well-recognized industry consultancy group, commented recently on new initiatives to use more magnesium in cars in order to reduce weight and greenhouse gas emissions, saying that:\nIn October 2012, General Motors said it was testing a new process to form lightweight magnesium sheet metal with a view to increasing its usage in cars. Magnesium, which weighs 33 percent less than aluminum, 60 percent less than titanium and 75 percent less than steel, would cut fuel usage."
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        "text": "25 януари е 25-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 340 дни до края на годината (341 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 41 г. – Сенатът избира Клавдий за римски император.\n 1327 г. – 14-годишният Едуард III става крал на Англия, но страната се управлява от неговата майка – кралица Изабела Френска и нейният любовник.\n 1479 г. – С подписване на мирен договор в Константинопол е прекратена 15-годишната война между Венеция и Османската империя.\n 1554 г. – Основана е йезуитска мисия, около която по-късно се образува град Сао Пауло.\n 1755 г. – Основан е Московският университет.\n 1791 г. – В Канада са формирани две провинции: Горна Канада (Онтарио) и Долна Канада (Квебек).\n 1858 г. – За първи път е изпълнен Сватбения марш на Менделсон.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Руската армия освобождава Лозенград.\n 1879 г. – Основана е Българска народна банка.\n 1881 г. – В София е открита Държавна печатница.\n 1895 г. – Натуралният десятък в България е заменен с поземлен данък.\n 1901 г. – Съставено е двадесет и първото правителство на България, начело с Рачо Петров.\n 1902 г. – В Русия е отменено смъртното наказание.\n 1915 г. – Александър Бел провежда първият трансамерикански телефонен разговор – между Ню Йорк и Сан Франциско.\n\n 1919 г. – Страните от Антантата одобряват план за създаването на Общество на народите.\n 1919 г. – В Ню Йорк е открит най-големият хотел в света – Пенсилвания, с 2200 стаи.\n 1924 г. – В подножието на Монблан в Шамони (Франция) започват първите Зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1935 г. – С указ на цар Борис III е създадено Българско национално радио.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Тайланд обявява война на САЩ и Великобритания.\n 1945 г. – В София е създаден Народен театър на младежта.\n 1947 г. – Американският гангстер Ал Капоне умира от сифилис.\n 1949 г. – В Израел се провеждат първите парламентарни избори.\n 1949 г. – Публикувано е съобщение за образуването на СИВ с участието на страните от социалистическия блок България, Полша, Румъния, СССР, Унгария и Чехословакия.\n 1959 г. – Започват редовни пътнически самолетни полети между САЩ и Европа.\n 1971 г. – Генерал Иди Амин завзема властта в Уганда чрез военен преврат и установява военна диктатура в страната за следващите осем години.\n 1980 г. – Американският кораб на въздушна възглавница SES-100B прави рекорд за военен плавателен съд, достигайки скорост 170 км/ч.\n 1981 г. – Бившият министър-председател на Китай Чан Чжунчжао и вдовицата на Мао Дзъдун са осъдени на смърт.\n 2004 г. – Опъртюнити каца на повърхността на Марс.\n\nРодени \n\n 750 г. – Лъв IV, византийски император († 780 г.)\n 1627 г. – Робърт Бойл, английски физик и химик († 1691 г.)\n 1736 г. – Жозеф Луи Лагранж, френски математик и астроном († 1813 г.)\n 1759 г. – Робърт Бърнс, шотландски поет († 1796 г.)\n 1832 г. – Иван Шишкин, руски художник († 1898 г.)\n 1838 г. – Юлия Вревска, руска баронеса († 1878 г.)\n 1842 г. – Вилхелм Томсен, датски езиковед († 1927 г.)\n 1854 г. – Георги Златарски, български геолог († 1909 г.)\n 1856 г. – Фридрих Грюнангер, австрийски архитект († 1929 г.)\n 1858 г. – Симеон Ванков, български офицер († 1937 г.)\n 1865 г. – Елизавета Маврикиевна, Велика руска княгиня († 1927 г.)\n 1866 г. – Емил Вандервелд, белгийски политик († 1938 г.)\n 1870 г. – Жак Грюбер, френски художник и витражист († 1943 г.)\n 1874 г. – Съмърсет Моъм, британски белетрист и драматург († 1965 г.)\n 1882 г. – Вирджиния Улф, британска писателка († 1941 г.)\n 1886 г. – Вилхелм Фуртвенглер, германски диригент († 1954 г.)\n 1886 г. – Георги Занков, български революционер († 1949 г.)\n 1897 г. – Георги Железаров, български художник († 1982 г.)\n 1902 г. – Петър Панчевски, политик, български и съветски генерал († 1982 г.)\n 1908 г. – Никола Николов, български футболист († 1996 г.)\n 1909 г. – Иван Бонев, български партизанин († 1966 г.)\n 1912 г. – Атанас Маргаритов, български диригент († 1998 г.)\n 1917 г. – Иля Пригожин, белгийски физикохимик от руски произход, Нобелов лауреат през 1977 г. († 2003 г.)\n 1922 г. – Невена Тошева, български режисьор († 2013 г.)\n 1926 г. – Атанас Агура, български архитект († 2008 г.)\n 1928 г. – Едуард Шеварднадзе, президент на Грузия († 2014 г.)\n 1928 г. – Свобода Молерова, българска актриса († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Таня Савичева, руска ученичка († 1944 г.)\n 1933 г. – Мария Корасон Акино, президентка на Филипините († 2009 г.)\n 1935 г. – Анастасия Костова, българска народна певица († 2010 г.)\n 1938 г. – Владимир Висоцки, руски поет, певец, актьор и писател († 1980 г.)\n 1938 г. – Ета Джеймс, американска певица († 2012 г.)\n 1942 г. – Еузебио, португалски футболист († 2014 г.)\n 1949 г. – Пол Нърс, британски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 2001 г.\n 1950 г. – Джон Тери, американски актьор\n 1958 г. – Алесандро Барико, италиански писател\n 1958 г. – Петко Драганов, български дипломат\n 1961 г. – Елке Шмитер, немска писателка\n 1969 г. – Румен Угрински, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Игор Миладинович, сръбски шахматист\n 1975 г. – Сергей Минаев, руски писател\n 1975 г. – Людмила Сланева, българска актриса, певица и писателка\n 1978 г. – Володимир Зеленски, украински актьор, шоумен, комик, режисьор и политик, президент на Украйна\n 1981 г. – Тоше Проески, македонски поп певец († 2007 г.)\n 1983 г. – Теодора Малчева, българска състезателка по ски бягане\n 1984 г. – Робиньо, бразилски футболист\n 1984 г. – Щефан Кислинг, германски футболист\n 1986 г. – Асани Лукимя-Мулонготи, конгоански футболист\n 1987 г. – Мария Кириленко, руска тенисистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 389 г. – Свети Григорий Богослов\n 477 г. – Гейзерик, крал на вандалите (* ок. 389 г.)\n 844 г. – Григорий IV, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1559 г. – Кристиан II, крал на Дания, Швеция и Норвегия (* 1481 г.)\n 1852 г. – Фадей Белингсхаузен, руски мореплавател и адмирал (* 1778 г.)\n 1893 г. – Григор Пърличев, български общественик (* 1830 г.)\n 1896 г. – Фредерик Лейтън, английски художник (* 1830 г.)\n 1900 г. – Николай Максимов, руски писател (* 1848 г.)\n 1908 г. – Михаил Чигорин, руски шахматист (* 1850 г.)\n 1925 г. – Александър Каулбарс, руски офицер (* 1844 г.)\n 1927 г. – Иван Милев, български художник (* 1897 г.)\n 1929 г. – Димитър Хаджииванов, български преводач\n 1947 г. – Ал Капоне, американски гангстер (* 1899 г.)\n 1950 г. – Дончо Лазаров, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1951 г. – Сергей Вавилов, руски физик (* 1891 г.)\n 1954 г. – Дамян Велчев, български политик (* 1883 г.)\n 1982 г. – Михаил Суслов, съветски политик (* 1902 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ава Гарднър, американска актриса (* 1922 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ерих Хоф, австрийски футболист (* 1936 г.)\n 2000 г. – Симеон Пиронков, български композитор (* 1927 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стефан Кожухаров, български литературовед (* 1934 г.)\n 2005 г. – Филип Джонсън, американски архитект (* 1906 г.)\n 2006 г. – Ангел Ценов, български футболист (* 1947 г.)\n 2012 г. – Коста Цонев, български актьор (* 1929 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на средствата за масова информация\n Православна църква – Св. Григорий Богослов\n България – Ден на българското радио\n Русия – Ден на Света Татяна и празник на руските студенти (по повод основаването на Московския университет, стар стил)\n Шотландия – Ден на Бърнс\n\n125"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a quick, free viewer for Word docs? TextEdit will open them, but often doesn't display them correctly.\nI really like QuickLook, but it won't stay open and doesn't allow for copying text.\nOpenOffice seems to read the files adequately, but is slow to launch.\nThe ideal would be something like Preview that can open Word docs.\n\nA: Try Bean.  \nThe last time I tried it, it was pretty quick (quicker than OpenOffice) and according to the website, can open .docx files.\n\nA: Here's an interesting solution I've never seen before. Apparently a .docx is just an .xml file (which I've heard, but never actually investigated lol).\n\n\n*\n\n*Change the .docx extension to .zip\n\n*Unzip the file. You'll get an .xml\n\n*Open and read the resulting .xml\n\n\nA: Preview.app and TextEdit.app can both open .doc(x) files. While they may not handle intricate formatting, I have found they will do a decent job with 99% of the Word files that I receive.\nFor more advanced documents, Pages remains the best answer, and it's now free for effectively everyone.\n\nA: Pages by Apple can be used to view Word document files. Pages is available as macOS and iOS native app as well as for Web.\nPages used to be a paid app, but is now available free of cost. Pages Web app can be used on compatible Web browsers even on a Windows PC.\n\nA: You can open them up in chrome with the extension \"office editing for docs sheets and slides\" by google. Works pretty fast on my computer. And I use chrome anyway so it's nice for me.\nDownsides are that it doesn't seem to work for double clicking on macOS (you might have to drag the file into chrome or type the path) and the save feature wont save to .doc files. But it will display them quickly just like a preview.\n"
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        "text": "The source of the word “enthusiasm” comes from the Greek word enthousiasmos, which ultimately comes from the adjective entheos, “having the god within,” formed from en, “in, within,” and theos, “god.” Since its introduction in the English language in the early fifteenth century, its meaning has become disassociated with religion and god (the word god is “a god” and not “the God,” because of its Greek origin) and now means great excitement for, or interest in, a subject or cause. It is this excitement, or the feeling of having a god (or the God) within oneself, which is the fuel by which success is powered.\nI generally do not think the modern day definition of the word does it justice. Enthusiasm is NOT the same as just being excited. Being enthusiastic about something is very much like being inspired by a supreme being. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster. Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.\nEnthusiasm will empower you to do just about anything you want, but most of all it will help you do it exceptionally well. The feeling of enthusiasm has amazing effects on the physical body as well. Voice, posture, heart rate and energy, to name a few, are all positively affected when one is filled with enthusiasm. Those around you easily detect this enthusiasm. When another finds you enthusiastic about something, it is difficult for that person not to share some of your enthusiasm. This is incredibly important when selling a product, service, or idea to others. With enthusiasm, your success rate increases phenomenally.\nEnthusiasm springs from desire and passion. It is difficult to become enthusiastic about something such as taking out the garbage, but certainly possible. For example, an inventor on his quest to automate the taking-out-garbage process could enthusiastically take out the garbage over and over—the source of his enthusiasm being the idea of revolutionizing the garbage industry. A great way to become enthusiastic is to visualize a time when you were enthusiastic about something. Think about what you were feeling, what you were seeing, and what you were hearing. Replay the “scene” in your head until you begin to start feeling the enthusiasm once more.\nUse words, body language, and visual aids to share your ideas. Use enthusiasm to share your feelings. The ability to allow others to share your passion, even if temporarily, is priceless."
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    {
        "text": "26 януари е 26-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 339 дни до края на годината (340 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1340 г. – Кралят на Англия Едуард III е обявен за крал на Франция.\n 1500 г. – Испанският мореплавател и конкистадор Висенте Пинзон става първият европеец стъпил на брега на днешна Бразилия.\n 1531 г. – Лисабон е засегнат от мощно земетресение с хиляди жертви.\n 1736 г. – Кралят на Полша Станислав Лешчински е принуден да абдикира от престола.\n 1788 г. – По време на първото заселване на Австралия като английски каторжен лагер е основан Сидни; денят е обявен за Ден на Австралия и се чества като национален празник.\n 1808 г. – В Австралия избухва единственият успешен въоръжен бунт – Ромов бунт.\n 1837 г. – Мичиган е обявен за щат на САЩ.\n 1905 г. – В ЮАР, край Претория, е намерен най-големият диамант в света – наречен Кулинан, тежък 3106 карата (621 г.).\n 1911 г. – Американският авиатор Глен Къртис създава първия американски хидроплан.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Първите американски войски за участие във войната акостират в Северна Ирландия.\n 1950 г. – Влиза в сила новата Конституция на Индия, държавата е обявена за република, а денят за национален празник.\n 1956 г. – В Кортина д'Ампецо (Италия) са открити Седмите Зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1965 г. – Хинди е обявен за официален език в Индия.\n 1980 г. – Между Египет и Израел са установени дипломатически отношения.\n 1991 г. – Мохамед Сиад Баре е свален от власт в Сомалия, което е край на централизираното управление в страната.\n 1992 г. – Президентът на Русия Борис Елцин обявява, че американските градове вече не са прицел на руските ядрени ракети.\n 1993 г. – Вацлав Хавел е избран за президент на Чехия.\n 1994 г. – В Италия е създадена партията Форца Италия с лидер Силвио Берлускони.\n 2005 г. – Кондолиза Райс е назначена за Държавен секретар на САЩ и става първата жена афроамериканка на този пост.\n\nРодени \n\n 1714 г. – Жан-Батист Пигал, френски скулптор († 1785 г.)\n 1715 г. – Клод Адриан Хелвеций, френски философ († 1771 г.)\n 1781 г. – Ахим фон Арним, германски писател († 1831 г.)\n 1848 г. – Хусто Сиера Мендес, мексикански писател († 1912 г.)\n 1865 г. – Сабино Арана Гойри, испански писател († 1903 г.)\n 1877 г. – Михаил Герджиков, български революционер († 1947 г.)\n 1880 г. – Дъглас Макартър, американски генерал († 1964 г.)\n 1884 г. – Едуард Сапир, американски езиковед († 1939 г.)\n 1891 г. – Димитър Гюдженов, български художник († 1979 г.)\n 1904 г. – Шон Макбрайд, ирландски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 († 1988 г.)\n 1908 г. – Гидеон Щалберг, шведски шахматист († 1967 г.)\n 1909 г. – Цвятко Димчевски, български художник († 1991 г.)\n 1911 г. – Норберт Шулце, германски композитор († 2002 г.)\n 1911 г. – Поликарп Куш, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1955 г. († 1993 г.)\n 1918 г. – Николае Чаушеску, румънски диктатор († 1989 г.)\n 1918 г. – Филип Фармър, американски писател († 2009 г.)\n 1921 г. – Акио Морита, японски предприемач († 1999 г.)\n 1925 г. – Пол Нюман, американски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1928 г. – Роже Вадим, френски режисьор († 2000 г.)\n 1934 г. – Тодор Кавалджиев, вицепрезидент на България († 2019 г.)\n 1935 г. – Фридрик Олафсон, исландски шахматист\n 1945 г. – Евгени Кирилов, български политик\n 1946 г. – Кристофър Хемптън, британска сценаристка и режисьорка\n 1948 г. – Румен Петков, български кинорежисьор († 2018 г.)\n 1950 г. – Владимир Янев, български учен\n 1950 г. – Йорг Хайдер, автрийски политик († 2008 г.)\n 1952 г. – Марио Рънко, американски астронавт\n 1953 г. – Андерс Фог Расмусен, министър-председател на Дания\n 1955 г. – Еди Ван Хален, американски музикант († 2020 г.)\n 1955 г. – Светлана Тилкова, български астролог\n 1958 г. – Елън Дедженеръс, американска актриса\n 1960 г. – Валентин Йорданов, български борец\n 1961 г. – Уейн Грецки, американски хокеист\n 1963 г. – Жозе Муриньо, португалски футболен треньор\n 1963 г. – Красимир Узунов, български журналист († 2019 г.)\n 1964 г. – Даниел Цочев, български актьор\n 1967 г. – Жан-Пол Рув, френски актьор\n 1968 г. – Николай Бойков, български писател\n 1969 г. – Камен Шербетов, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Айгюн Кязимова, азербайджанска поп певица\n 1971 г. – Светослав Витков, български певец и музикант\n 1976 г. – Йордан Йончев, български музикант\n 1976 г. – Петър Стоянов, български сумист\n 1978 г. – Ангел Генов, български актьор\n 1978 г. – Йордан Линков, български футболист\n 1980 г. – Нора Гомрингер, германско-швейцарска писателка\n 1985 г. – Тодор Симов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1795 г. – Йохан Кристоф Фридрих Бах, германски композитор (* 1732 г.)\n 1855 г. – Жерар дьо Нервал, френски поет (* 1808 г.)\n 1891 г. – Николаус Ото, германски изобретател (* 1832 г.)\n 1899 г. – Йордан Брадел, български лекар (* 1847 г.)\n 1918 г. – Евалд Херинг, германски физиолог (* 1834 г.)\n 1919 г. – Байъм Шоу, британски художник (* 1872 г.)\n 1920 г. – Жан Ебютерн, френска художничка (* 1898 г.)\n 1932 г. – Димитър Мишев, български публицист (* 1856 г.)\n 1939 г. – Бончо Балабанов, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1942 г. – Феликс Хаусдорф, германски математик (* 1868 г.)\n 1943 г. – Николай Вавилов, руски ботаник (* 1887 г.)\n 1952 г. – Хорлоогийн Чойбалсан, монголски политик († 1895 г.)\n 1962 г. – Лъки Лучано, американски мафиот (* 1897 г.)\n 1967 г. – Добри Терпешев, български държавник (* 1884 г.)\n 1968 г. – Никола Фурнаджиев, български поет (* 1903 г.)\n 1975 г. – Любов Орлова, съветска актриса (* 1902 г.)\n 1980 г. – Георги Караславов, български писател (* 1904 г.)\n 2000 г. – Алфред ван Вогт, писател с канадски произход (* 1912 г.)\n 2000 г. – Дон Бъдж, американски тенисист (* 1915 г.)\n 2002 г. – Веселин Джигов, български народен певец (* 1940 г.)\n 2020 г. – Коби Брайънт, американски баскетболист (* 1978 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на митниците и митническия служител\n Австралия – Ден на Австралия (по повод пристигането на първите заселници на острова през 1788 г., национален празник)\n Индия – Ден на републиката (1950 г., национален празник)\n\n126"
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        "text": "911uk.com Forum Index > 997 (2004 - 2012) > 997.1/.2 :: List of (professional) reviews\nwjk_glynn\nAdded...\n997.2 Carrera reviews\nJayEmm on Cars - 997.2 C2 Coupe (6MT) vs. 996.2 C4S Coupe (6MT) - YouTube\nCompares the two models from the perspective of a used-car purchase\n997.2 GT3 RS 4.0 reviews\nDoug DeMuro - Reviews a used GT3 RS 4.0 (6MT) - YouTube\nLow miles (approximately 7,200), and worth at the time ~$500K...\nStock – 997.2 C2S Coupé • Carrara White / Cocoa • Adaptive Sports Seats • PDK w/SC • PSE\nMods – Brake Airflow (996 GT2 front scoops, 997 Turbo rear scoops, 997 GT3RS rear L-ducts) • 3rd (center) Coolant Radiator • TG Muffler Bypass\nStock 997 Turbo Models\n997.1 Turbo reviews\nSpeed TV's Battle of the Supercars - 997.1 Turbo Coupe (Tip) vs. Nissan GT-R (DCT) - YouTube\nProfessional racedrivers Paul Tracy (IndyCar) and Tanner Foust (Rally/Drifting) compete against each other in these cars\nThe 997TT is wearing some form of bodykit, but they quote standard 480 HP levels - so presumably the engine is stock\nPresenation style is like WWE, so beware...\nApril 2015 (but the original broadcast date is sometime before that)\nModified 997 Turbos\nModified 997.2 Turbos\nSpeed TV's Battle of the Supercars - Evolution Motorsports EVT650 997.2 Turbo Coupe (PDK) vs. Evolution Motorsports twin-turbo Audi R8 V8 Coupe (6-spd auto-clutch) - YouTube\nModified 997 GT Models\nModified 997.1 GT3 RS reviews\nSpeed TV's Battle of the Supercars - 997.1 3.9L Sharkwerks GT3 RS (6MT) vs. \"tuned\" Ferrari F430 (6-spd auto-clutch) - YouTube\nAdded the following...\nBuyers' Guides / Recommendations\nEvo Magazine - Comparing a used 997.1 Carrera S (6MT) with the 996 Carrera (6MT) and 996 Turbo (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/21718/the-porsche-911s-you-can-afford\nPrices ranged from £13K to £35K\nEvo Magazine - Review of the base Carrera (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6578/997-porsche-911-carrera-review-basic-911-still-cuts-the-mustard\n997.1 Carrera 4/4S reviews\nEvo Magazine - C4S (6MT) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6323/porsche-911\nEvo Magazine - Group test of a C4S (6MT) with Powerkit - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/14185/audi-r8-v-porsche-911-v-bmw-m6-v-aston-martin-prodrive-vantage-audi-r8-v-rivals\nAlso included was an Audi R8 V8 (6MT), BMW M6 V10 (SMG) and Aston Martin Prodrive Vantage V8 (6MT)\n997.1 Targa reviews\nEvo Magazine - Targa 4S review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6453/porsche-911\n997.2 Carrera GTS reviews\nEvo Magazine - Richard \"Dickie\" Meaden reviews the Carrera GTS in two parts:\nNovember 2010 - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6933/9972-porsche-911-carrera-gts-review-the-911s-greatest-hits-album\nDecember 2010 - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6988/9972-porsche-911-carrera-gts-review\n997.2 Cabriolet reviews\nEvo Magazine - Carrera GTS Cabriolet (6MT) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/7044/9972-porsche-911-carrera-gts-cabriolet-review\n997.2 Other\nEvo Magazine - Brief review of the X51 Powerkit - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6953/9972-porsche-911-carrera-s-powerkit-review\n997.1 Turbo Cabriolet reviews\nEvo Magazine - Turbo Cabriolet (Tip) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6528/997-porsche-911-turbo-cabriolet-review-is-the-turbo-better-without-a-roof\nEvo Magazine - DMS tuned 997TT - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6506/997-porsche-911-turbo-review-is-the-turbo-still-the-king-of-its-castle\nNo information on the transmission type\nEvo Magazine - APR tuned 997TT (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6518/porsche-911\nEvo Magazine - Sportec SPR1 M tuned 997TT (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/241429/sportec_spr1_m.html\n997.1 GT3 reviews\nEvo Magazine - GT3 (6MT) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6503/porsche-911-gt3-997\n997.1 GT3 RS reviews\nEvo Magazine - GT3 RS (6MT) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6461/porsche-911\nEvo Magazine - Group test with a 911 GT3 (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/14150/911-gt3-v-vantage-v12-v-r8-v10-v-corvette-zr1\nAlso included was an Aston Martin Vantage V12 (6MT), Audi R8 V10 (6MT) and Corvette ZR1 (6MT)\nEvo Magazine - Soon-to-be old school group test with a 911 GT3 (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/14119/porsche-911-gt3-vs-bmw-m3-vs-clio-200-cup-vs-subaru-wrx-sti\nAlso included was an E92 M3 Coupe, Renault Clio 200 Cup and Subaru WRX STI\nEvo Magazine - GT3 RS (6MT) vs. CLK63 Black Series (7-spd wet-clutch speed-shift automatic) - https://www.evo.co.uk/features/22137/hardcore-coupes-clk63-black-series-vs-997-gt3-rs\nEvo Magazine - GT2 RS (6MT) review - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/6876/9972-porsche-911-gt2-rs-review\nEvo Magazine - Group test with a GT2 RS (6MT) - https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/14133/ferrari-f40-v-jaguar-xj220-v-porsche-911-gt2-rs-v-noble-m600\nAlso included was a Ferrari F40 (5MT), Jaguar XJ220 (5MT) and Noble M600 (6MT)\nEvo Magazine - 9ff GTurbo 750 Lightweight - https://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/253072/9ff_twin_turbo_gt3_rs_review.html\nAutocar - 997.1 C2S Coupe (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-s-2004-review\nAutocar - 997.1 Carrera S X51 option - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-s-powerpack-2005-2012-review\nBrief review of the optional powerpack\nAutocar - 997.1 Targa 4S (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-targa-4s\nBrief review\nAutocar - 997.1 Carrera S Cabriolet (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-s-cabrio\nAutocar - 997.2 Carrera Coupe (PDK) - Two reviews from Steve Sutcliffe:\nJune 2008 - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera\nJuly 2008 - YouTube\nAutocar - 997.2 Carrera 4S Coupe (PDK) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-3.8-carrera-4s\nAutocar - 997.2 Carrera GTS Coupe - Two reviews:\nNovember 2010 - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-gts-review\nFebruary 2011 (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-gts-uk-review\nAutocar - 997.2 C4 Cabriolet (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-4-cabriolet\nAutocar - 997.2 Carrera GTS Cabriolet (PDK) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-carrera-gts-cabriolet\nAutocar - 997.2 Speedster Cabriolet (PDK) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-speedster\nThis link is to the generic Speedster page on Autocar\nIf they review a newer (post 997.2) Speedster, then it's likely they'll overwrite this page with the new review (as they often do)\nAutocar - 997.1 Turbo Coupe (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-turbo\nAutocar - 997.2 Turbo Coupe (PDK) - Three separate reviews during October & November 2009:\nSteve Sutcliffe - YouTube\nGreg Kable - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-turbo/first-drives/porsche-911-38-turbo\nMatt Saunders - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-turbo/first-drives/porsche-911-turbo-pdk\nAutocar - 997.2 Turbo S Coupe (PDK) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-turbo/first-drives/porsche-911-turbo-s\nAutocar - 997.1 Turbo Cabriolet (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-turbo/first-drives/porsche-911-turbo-cabriolet-2007-review\n997 GT3/GT2 Models\nAutocar - 997.1 GT3 (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911/first-drives/porsche-911-gt3\nAutocar - 997.1 GT3RS (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-gt3-rs/first-drives/porsche-911-gt3-rs\nAutocar - 997.2 GT3 Clubsport (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-2012-2015/first-drives/porsche-911-gt3-clubsport\nAutocar - 997.2 GT3RS (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-gt3-rs-2010-2012\nNo publication date\nAutocar - GT3 RS 4.0 (6MT) - Two separate reviews:\nAndrew Frankel - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-gt3-rs-2010-2012/first-drives/porsche-911-gt3-rs-40\nMatt Prior - YouTube\nAutocar - 997.2 GT2 RS (6MT) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-gt3-rs-2010-2012/first-drives/porsche-911-gt2-rs\nFactory Racecars\nAutocar - 997.2 GT3 R Hybrid (Sequential & Electric) - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/911-gt3-rs/first-drives/porsche-911-gt3-r-hybrid\nAutoweek - 997.1 C2 Coupe (6MT) - PDF download at https://autoweek.com/sites/default/files/997%202004.pdf\nThe carrier page for the PDF is here: https://autoweek.com/article/autoweek-60/july-2004-997-generation-seeks-right-911-ship\nAutoweek - 997.1 C2S Coupe (6MT) long-term test - Five reports:\nJuly 2005 (Introduction) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2005-porsche-911-carrera-s-introduction-carrera-america-kicking-year-porsches-911\nSeptember 2005 (Update) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2005-porsche-carrera-s-first-quarter-update\nJanuary 2006 (Update) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2005-porsche-911-carrera-s-second-quarter-update-superior-attitude-any-why-not\nMarch 2006 (Update) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2005-porsche-911-carrera-s-third-quarter-update-sled-dog\nJune 2006 (Wrap-up) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2006-porsche-911-carrera-s-wrap-life-porsche-non-owners\nAutoweek - 997.1 C4 and C4S Coupe review - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2006-porsche-911-carrera-4-carrera-4-and-4s-quietly-deliver-gobs-grip\nAutoweek - 997.1 Targa 4 and 4S review - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-911-targa-4-porsches-newest-targa-further-divides-911-line\nAutoweek - 997.1 C2S Cabriolet review - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2005-porsche-911-carrera-s-cabriolet-first-turn-new-porsche-911-good\nAutoweek - 997.1 C4 Cabriolet review - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2006-porsche-911-carrera-4-cabriolet-stuttgarts-latest-ragtop-carreras-porsche\nAutoweek - 997.2 C2 Coupe (6MT) - PDF download at https://autoweek.com/sites/default/files/997-2%202008.pdf\nSame article also available here: https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/drives-2009-porsche-911-sweetness-gen-ii-46-years-porsches-911-keeps-getting\nAutoweek - 997.2 C4 and C4S Coupe review - https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/porsche-carrera-4-4s-2009-traction-tempest-porsche-brings-all-new-drivetrains\nAutoweek - 997.1 Turbo Coupe (Tiptronic) - Three articles:\nApril 2006 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-911-turbo-towering-above-crowd-nothing-beats-porsches-911-turbo\nNovember 2006 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-911-turbo\nNovember 2006 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-911-turbo-911-turbo-takes-over-top-spot\nAutoweek - 997.2 Turbo Coupe - Two separate reviews\nOctober 2009 (6MT) - http://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/2010-porsche-911-turbo-supercar-everyday-driving\nNovember 2009 (PDK) - PDF download at https://autoweek.com/sites/default/files/911%20turbo.pdf\nCarrier page for the PDF is at https://autoweek.com/article/autoweek-60/november-2009-2010-911-turbo-gets-even-500-hp\nAutoweek - Techart modified 600+ hp 997.1 Turbo Coupe - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/luxury-tuner-techart-porsche-997-turbo-dial-it-11\nAutoweek - 9ff modified 910-hp 997.1 Turbo Cabriolet (6MT) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/luxury-tuner-9ff-porsche-911-turbo-cabriolet-cayman-cr-42-pair-pumped-porsches\nBrief review also included the 9ff modified Cayman CR-42\nAutoweek - 997.1 GT3 (6MT) - Two articles:\nApril 2006 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-gt3-sell-farm-were-movin-stuttgart\nJune 2007 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2007-porsche-911-gt3-nothing-else-comes-close-street-or-circuit\nApril 2009 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/2010-porsche-911-gt3-hard-core-enthusiast\nOctober 2010 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/2010-porsche-911-gt3-aw-drivers-log\nAutoweek - 997.2 GT3RS (6MT) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/porsche-gt3-rs-38-year-life\nAutoweek - 997.2 GT3RS (6MT) raced at the Nürburgring 24-hour race in 2010\nDriven by professional racers Patrick Simon and Roland Asch, along with European journalists Chris Harris and Horst von Saurma\nCar was supposedly stock save for slick tires\nIntroduction begins at https://autoweek.com/article/alms/nrburgring-24-revisited-lapping-nordschleife-porsches-911-gt3-rs\nFull race report at https://autoweek.com/article/alms/24-hours-green-hell-nurburgring-24-might-be-best-race-all\nOctober 2007 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/08-porsche-911-gt2-race-bred-and-road-ready\nDecember 2007 - https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/2008-porsche-911-gt2-take-banks-track-day-investment-porsche-elite\nAutoweek - 997.2 GT3 R Hybrid (Sequential & Electric) - https://autoweek.com/article/car-reviews/behind-wheel-porsches-new-hybrid-lab\nNow it's time to go watch the Patriots vs. the Rams...\nModified GT3 reviews\nJay Leno's Garage - SharkWerks modified 4.1L 997.2 GT3 RS (6MT) - YouTube\nJay Leno interviews Alex Ross (SharkWerks) and drives their modified RS\nAnd updated...\n/DRIVE - Review of SharkWerks modified 3.9L 997.1 GT3 RS and a 4.1L 997.2 GT3 RS (both 6MT) - YouTube\nThere's also a shorter version just focused on comedian Joe Rogan's SharkWerks Porsche 997.1 3.9L GT3 RS - YouTube\nMotor (Australia) - 997.1 C2S Coupe (6MT) vs. Maserati GranSport (auto-clutch) - https://www.whichcar.com.au/reviews/2005-maserati-gransport-vs-porsche-911-carrera-s-comparison-classic-motor\nMotor (Australia) - 997.1 C2S Coupe (6MT) won their 2005 PCOTY award - https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/performance-coty/porsche-911-carrera-s-wins-performance-car-of-the-year-2005\nThe other parts of that competition are at:\nAcceleration - https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/performance-coty/performance-car-of-the-year-2005-airport-classic-motor\nTrack - https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/performance-coty/performance-car-of-the-year-2005-winton-raceway-classic-motor\nHillclimb - https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/performance-coty/performance-car-of-the-year-2005-hillclimb-classic-motor\nThe cull - https://www.whichcar.com.au/events/performance-coty/performance-car-of-the-year-2005-the-cull-classic-motor\nWheels (Australia) - 997.2 C2S Coupe (PDK) - https://www.whichcar.com.au/reviews/the-king-and-i-porsche-911-carrera-s\nMotor (Australia) - 997.1 Turbo Coupe (6MT) - https://www.whichcar.com.au/reviews/2006-porsche-997-911-turbo-review-classic-motor\nMotor (Australia) - 997.1 GT3 Coupe (6MT) - https://www.whichcar.com.au/reviews/2006-porsche-911-gt3-review-classic-motor\nNew York Times - 997.2 Cabriolet S (PDK) - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/automobiles/autoreviews/03porsche.html\nMr JWW - 997.2 GT3 RS 4.0 (6MT) - YouTube\nPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:37 am Post subject:\nCAR Magazine - Used 997.2 C4S Coupe vs. new Audi TTS - https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/used-cars/new-audi-tts-vs-used-porsche-911-c4s/\nPosted: Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:27 am Post subject:\nTotal 911 - Article about the merits of the 997 - https://www.total911.com/opinion-seven-reasons-the-997-is-the-best-generation-911/\nSeems to have been published in 2015\nPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 3:44 pm Post subject:\nElferspot - General 997.1 Carrera buyers guide - https://www.elferspot.com/en/magazin/the-porsche-997-1-5-questions-before-buying-one/\nsaxon46\nLocation: south wales boy bach\nHats off to you sir 👍👍👍👍\nMARK-english lad in wales....where men are men and sheep are scared\n84 carrera 3.2\nAnd a couple of old bikes\nElferspot - General (if not very detailed) 997 Turbo buyers guide - https://www.elferspot.com/en/magazin/buyers-guide-the-porsche-997-turbo-s/\nThe title of the article is about the 997.2 Turbo S, but in practice it's more broad than that\nsaxon46 wrote:\nCheers, thanks.\nAutotrader (UK) - 997 GT3 Buyers' Guide - YouTube\nPorsche Club of America - Two articles by Rob Sass\nApril 2018 - Five reasons why a 997.2 base Carrera is the Porsche we should all be buying - https://www.pca.org/news/2018-04-10/five-reasons-why-9972-base-carrera-porsche-we-should-all-be-buying\nJune 2019 - What's going on with the Porsche 997.2 market? - https://www.pca.org/news/2019-06-25/whats-going-porsche-9972-market\nRoad & Track - Bio of August Achleitner - https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/profiles/a28107570/the-man-behind-porsches-greatest-modern-car/\n'Chief Engineer' of the 997.1 and 997.2\nTheBruce (Rennlist) - 997.1 Definitive Buyers Guide - https://rennlist.com/forums/997-forum/1147600-997-1-definitive-buyers-guide.html\nCommunity developed Buyer's Guide for the 997.1 Carrera models\nAll times are GMT - 12 Hours\nJump to: Select a forum Porsche Talk----------------Porsche Awards from www.porscheawards.co.ukGeneral Porsche ChatterMeets & EventsTrackdays, Road Trips & Drives-- Circuit Reviews & Track Days FAQ-- 911uk Tours 2012-2016Members Lounge BarNewbie Zone Porsche Model Range Forums----------------Hypercars: 959, GT1, CGT, 918, Mission EAll New 992 (2018 - 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        "text": "Team Trump Is Singing from Putin’s Songbook on DNC Hacks\nBy Rob Garver\nRepresentatives of President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday adopted the same line as the Kremlin with regard to U.S. intelligence agencies’ claim that Russia interfered in the recent presidential election: The assessment of senior U.S. intelligence officials shouldn’t be believed unless they present direct evidence.\nWith U.S. intelligence agencies all in agreement that the Russian government sponsored the computer hacking of Democratic Party institutions and officials during the 2016 election as part of an effort to help Trump, the Kremlin has offered a blanket denial.\nRelated: Russia to Obama: Put Up or Shut Up About Hacking the Election\nIn a conversation with reporters on Friday, Dmitry Peskov, the chief spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, put it this way: “They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise, it all begins to look unseemly.\"\nThe Trump transition team apparently found that a pretty compelling argument because when they were dispatched to the Sunday talk shows over the weekend, they essentially sang the same tune.\n“Where’s the evidence?” demanded Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager, in an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation. “Why, when CIA officials were invited to a House Intelligence briefing last week did they refuse to go? Instead, they’re talking to the media. That undermines our national security and our intelligence operations.”\nConway was referring to an agency-wide memo from Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan that was provided to The Washington Post on Friday. In it he wrote, “Earlier this week, I met separately with FBI [Director] James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election.”\nRelated: Trump’s Massive Global Business Footprint Can Subvert US National Security\nIn general, intelligence agencies of any stripe are reluctant to reveal the evidence they use to draw their conclusions. Their assessments don’t have to be tested in a court of law, so publicizing specific information they have obtained is generally seen as creating an unnecessary risk of revealing their sources and intelligence gathering methods.\nPresident Obama on Friday said that he has demanded a comprehensive report from the Intelligence Community on the Russian hacking and promised that he would make as much information public as practicable.\nBut that hasn’t satisfied the Trump transition team, which is increasingly given to suggesting the reports of the Kremlin’s interference in the election are simply an effort to delegitimize the President-elect’s victory.\n“If the CIA and if director Brennan and others at the top are serious about turning over evidence to we the American people then they should do that,” Conway said.\nRelated: Trump Train Headed for a Brick Wall in US-Russia Relations\nIncoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, in an appearance on Fox News Sunday, took a similar tone.\n“If there is this conclusive opinion among all of these intelligence agencies, then they should issue a report or they should stand in front of a camera and make the case,\" he said. “I think that these guys should be straight with the American people and come out and say it,\" said Priebus.\nPriebus repeatedly insisted that the reports about Russian involvement were all coming from anonymous “third parties” and suggested that until Comey and Clapper themselves say so in public, nobody can be sure that they believe it.\nHost Chris Wallace pointed out that the latest news came from the CIA director himself directly reporting his conversations with other senior intelligence officials.\nRelated: Why the Russia Hacking Scandal Could Cost Trump His Pick for Secretary of State\n“Do you think he’s lying?” Wallace asked.\n“I don’t think he is,” Priebus answered, in a tone that suggested he was still open to the possibility. “But it sure would be nice to hear from everybody.” He went on to say that the CIA director’s word alone was not enough to give him confidence that he was getting the true assessment of the intelligence community.\nTo be fair to Team Trump, the conclusions of the U.S. Intelligence Community have not always been correct. The conclusion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which led directly to the Iraq war, is the most obvious example. They have also not always been above politics -- the FBI’s COINTELPRO program in the 1960s and 70s was very active in disrupting domestic political movements.\nFor two of Trump’s most senior advisers to openly suggest that the Intelligence Community could be working to mislead the American people is pretty remarkable. But at this point, it is clear that Conway and Priebus are just representing the perspective of their boss. Trump himself has repeatedly said that he doesn’t believe the findings of the intelligence community and has said that he believes the findings are politically motivated.\nRelated: Putin Cranks Up Russia’s Cyber Defenses\nBut the increasingly open war between the intelligence community and the incoming president is, at the very least, completely unprecedented and, in the view of many, dangerous.\nIn an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Rep. Adam Schiff, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said, “For the president-elect to continue to give the Russians deniability is deeply damaging to the country. He is doing damage to himself and to his ability to lead the country when he becomes president. We are going to have a national security crisis at some point. It may be very early in the administration or it may be later but it's going to come and he is going to need to rely on the intelligence community.”\nSchiff went on to specify that he was referring to the likelihood that, in a crisis, Trump would find himself explaining what he viewed as a necessary response by informing the American people of the findings of the Intelligence Community. That will be hard to do, he said, if Trump continues to characterize its members as political hacks.\nIt Took Eight Years, but Barack Obama Finally Sounds Disillusioned\nBarack Obama had almost made it. Closing in on the final month of his presidency, he had managed against considerable...\nObamacare Repeal Could Provide a Huge Tax Break to the One Percent\nRepealing the Affordable Care Act remains the top priority for the incoming administration of Donald Trump -- ranking...\nAging Baby Boomers Face a Serious Housing Problem\nThe current supply of homes is completely inadequate to address the needs of an aging population that will grow...\nRob Garver\nA longtime reporter on the intersection of the federal government and the private sector, Rob Garver served as a National Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., for four years. He has written for ProPublica, The New York Times and other publications."
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        "text": "Q: Is there a tool I can use to securely wipe data from iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch? Is there a tool or application that will securely wipe an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad (i.e. any iOS device?)\nI'm not interested in a complete wipe that would brick the device.  Rather, I'd want to wipe all free space after it's been reset to default or had the OS reinstalled.\nFurthermore: by \"securely wipe\", I'm referring to multiple successive passes with random data, etc. to thwart any attempt at data recovery.\nFor instance: If somebody wanted to sell their old iPhone on eBay, how can they be sure it's completely wiped, so there's little hope of a malicious buyer being able to recover sensitive data that used to be on it?\nI think this is especially important when people are using iPhone apps to store passwords, credit card numbers, etc. (even if those apps have a supposedly secure storage mechanism.)\n\nA: The built in secure-wipe does a very good job, but you should really create a new user on your Mac and do a Restore from iTunes while logged in as that user, and then do the secure wipe mentioned by Studer. That will keep the iTunes account crap from happening.\nThere's also an iWipe app available in the Cydia store at $2.99 for jailbroken iphones, that wipes free space.\n\nA: iOS 4.0 supports a very rapid secure erase called \"Data Protection\". If you upgrade from 3.0 you need to do a restore to set the stage for hardware encryption of all the data.\nIf your device isn't capable of hardware encryption (often called secure data at rest), then you can use the Erase all content and settings function. This built-in functionality to secure wipe your iDevice has been around since iPhone OS 2.0\nAs this doesn't work the same way on all iOS devices, do read Understanding 'Erase All Content and Settings' before you depend on this to clear data securely.\nOnce you are through erasing the device, you might want to connect it to a clean iTunes library and restore the device and set it up as new. Making a new account on your Mac or PC is an easy way to have a library with no account, no songs, and no apps just to be sure the device has a clean (and easily verifiable) start to it's new life.\n\nA: One option would be to put it into disk mode and then use an external utility to do the wiping. \n\nA: You can get ShredIt for iOS, more information can be found here: http://www.burningthumb.com/apps/shredit/\n"
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        "text": "Home | Wire | Ludwig von Mises and the Nature of Money\nLudwig von Mises and the Nature of Money\nTags Money and BanksHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsMonetary Theory\n02/13/2019Jörg Guido Hülsmann\nAs a true disciple of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises began the presentation of his theory of money with an analysis of the nature of money itself. He then went on to deal with the determination of money’s purchasing power and with the impact of what he called Umlaufsmittel (fiduciary media) on the monetary system.\nIn dealing with the nature of money, Mises relied heavily on the work of Carl Menger. The founder of the Austrian School had shown that money is not to be defined by the physical characteristics of whatever good is used as money; rather, money is characterized by the fact that the good under consideration is (1) a commodity that is (2) used in indirect exchanges, and (3) bought and sold primarily for the purpose of such indirect exchanges.\nMenger also stressed that money emerges spontaneously on the market as a response to the lack of the double coincidence of wants. Indirect exchanges are resorted to, for example, by the chair maker seeking to buy a dozen eggs from the farmer who already has enough chairs, or by the painter trying to purchase a glass of beer from the brewer who does not care for art. They first exchange their products into highly marketable commodities, such as salt, wheat, or silver coins, in order to exchange these “media of exchange” against eggs and beer in a subsequent deal. The significance of this fact was that a monetary system could come into being without a prior social contract and without government fiat.1\nMises added to and refined this analysis of the nature of money in four ways.\nFirst, he took issue with the idea that the functions of money—being a means of exchange, a store of value, a means of payment, a means of deferred payments, a numéraire (measure of value)—were of equal importance. Mises argued that a commodity could play the role of numéraire only because it was used as a means of exchange; and, similarly, a commodity was held as a store of value precisely because it was marketable. Thus there was a hierarchical order of the functions of money: the means of exchange was primordial, being a necessary condition for the others.\nSecond, Mises developed a comprehensive typology of monetary objects—that is, in Mengerian language, of all the things generally accepted as media of exchange. On the most fundamental level, he distinguished several types of “money in the narrower sense” from several types of “money surrogates” or substitutes. Money in the narrower sense is a good in its own right. In contrast, money substitutes were legal titles to money in the narrower sense. They were typically issued by banks and were redeemable in real money at the counters of the issuing bank (see diagram on the previous page).\nIn establishing this fundamental distinction between money and money titles, he applied crucial insights of Böhm-Bawerk’s pioneering work on the economics of legal entities. He stressed: “Claims are not goods; they are means of obtaining disposal over goods. This determines their whole nature and economic significance.”2 As his exposition in later parts of the book would show, these distinctions have great importance, both for the integration of monetary theory within the framework of Menger’s theory of value and prices, and for the analysis of the role of banking within the monetary system. At the heart of his theory of banking is a comparative analysis of the economic significance of two very different types of money substitutes. Mises observed that money substitutes could be either covered by a corresponding amount of money, in which case they were “money certificates,” or they could lack such coverage, in which case they were fiduciary media—Umlaufsmittel. Mises devotes the entire last third of his book to an analysis of the economic consequences of the use of Umlaufsmittel.3\nThird, Mises refuted the idea that money prices are a measure of value. Here he relied on the work of the Czech economist Franz Cuhel who some years earlier, in his Zur Lehre von den Bedürfnissen (On the Theory of Needs), had clarified several fundamental issues of the new Mengerian price theory.4 Cuhel was a champion of the psychological theory of marginal utility (Gossen-Jevons-Wieser), but several of his contributions to the theory of value and utility proved useful despite that fact.\nCuhel refuted Böhm-Bawerk and Wieser’s quantitative claims about marginal utility, which referred to homogeneous units of a supply of goods, where each individual unit provides the same utility. According to Böhm-Bawerk, the utilities derived from the use of several units could be added, to the point that the utility, say, of consuming fifteen plums equals exactly fifteen times the utility of consuming one plum. But Cuhel objected that this contradicted the basic idea of the law of diminishing marginal utility, namely, that the satisfaction derived from the consumption of each additional unit of the good is lower than the utility derived from the consumption of the previous unit.5\nCuhel also made a devastating case against interpersonal comparisons of satisfactions. The benefits derived from the consumption of two different goods could be compared only indirectly, and only in one narrow case, namely, in the case of individual decision-making at one point of time. From the fact that an individual chooses to enjoy satisfaction A rather than B, one can infer that A yields more satisfaction to this person than B does, because at the time of the choice both A and B were present and competed directly with one another.6 Hence, the observed choices of individuals provide evidence about the relative size of enjoyment. But this is the only type of evidence available because it is fundamentally impossible to perceive the comparative satisfactions of other people.7 One can only have direct knowledge of the utilities that the satisfaction of various needs has for oneself. Other people’s utilities have to be inferred, indirectly, from their actual decision-making.\nIt follows that there is no such thing as value calculation or even value measurement. Even money does not have a constant value, and is therefore unable to provide the basis for a value calculus. Moreover, since money prices are the result of individual valuation processes, they are individual historical events, always determined by the particular circumstances in which they emerge. Contrary to what Walras’s system of equations suggests, there are no constant relationships between money prices of different times and places.\nIt was therefore out of the question to follow Irving Fisher in his attempt to establish a quantitative law—such as in physics— of the relationship between the quantity of money and money prices (the price level). Mises placed great emphasis on this crucial implication of value theory for the methodology of economics:\nBecause there are no constant relations in the field of human action, the equations of mathematical catallactics cannot be made to serve practical problems in the same way the equations of mechanics solve problems through the use of data and constants that have been ascertained empirically.\nIn my book on money I did not say one controversial word against the mathematical school. I presented the correct doctrine and refrained from attacking the method of mathematicians. In fact, I even resisted the temptation to dissect the empty term “velocity.” I refuted mathematical economics by proving that the quantity of money and the purchasing power of the monetary unit are not inversely proportional. This proof demonstrated that the only constant relationship which was believed to exist between “economic quantities” is a variable determined by the data of each individual case. It thus exploded the equations of exchange of Irving Fisher and Gustav Cassel.8\nMises’s criticism of the mechanical version of the quantity theory had an impact well beyond the theory of money. For this version of the quantity theory represented a larger agenda: a quantitative view of social science in general. Mises showed that there are no quantitative constants linking human actions to repercussions in the social realm. An increased demand for apples would in all cases lead to higher apple prices than would otherwise have existed, but there is no law that tells us that a 10 percent increase of the apple demand will cause, say, an 8 percent or a 14 percent increase of apple prices. Actual quantities will always depend on the particular circumstances of each individual case.\nFourth, and finally, Mises dealt more explicitly than Menger with the claims of the monetary statists or “chartalists.” Whereas Menger had argued that money could emerge spontaneously on the market, the statist scholars asserted that money was a creation of the state.\nDebate on this topic can be traced back to the times of Plato and Aristotle. It ran all through the Middle Ages and was only settled, for a short while, by the classical economists, who had argued along Mengerian lines. But at the end of the nineteenth century the statists struck back. Cernuschi in France, Neupauer in Austria, and Lexis in Germany reasserted the view that money is what the state declares to be such.9 But the most famous champion of this view was Georg Knapp—the same Knapp who had pioneered the studies on Germanic rule as a liberating force for East-European peasants.\nIn his Staatliche Theorie des Geldes (State Theory of Money), Knapp argued that money was a creation of the legal order and that the theory of money therefore had to be studied as a branch of legal history.10 According to Knapp, money came into being through government proclamation. The state says that this or that is money, and it suddenly becomes a token for some corresponding amount of real goods. The essence of money was therefore to be a government-proclaimed token (charta in Latin) that could be used as a legally valid means of payment.11\nKnapp’s views were not well received at first,12 but did find early support from prominent bankers13 and eventually won many converts to the state theory of money. His chartalist theory did, after all, perfectly complement the statist convictions already prevalent among German economic professors. As Mises later observed:\nThe statist school of German economics has probably reached its high point in Georg Friedrich Knapp’s State Theory of Money. It is not per se remarkable that this theory has been formulated; after all, its tenets have been championed for centuries in the writings of canonists, jurists, romantics, and certain socialists. What was remarkable was rather the success of the book.14\nKnapp’s fundamental error was in failing to see that government orders can only be relevant in the context of presently existing contracts involving deferred payments. Ex post, governments can determine what should be counted as “money” and, hence, what should be counted as payment. But it does not have the power to impose on market participants the future use of any means of exchange:\nBusiness usage alone can transform a commodity into a common medium of exchange. It is not the state, but the common practice of all those who have dealings in the market, that creates money. 15\nExcerpted from Mises: Last Knight of Liberalism\n1. Although Menger delivered a painstaking analysis of the process of the emergence of money (a process that was in his view the best illustration of the emergence of social institutions) he was not the first economist to point out that money does not come into being by social contract. Among Menger’s predecessors were John Law (1705), Ferdinando Galliani (1751), Étienne de Condillac (1776), Adam Smith (1776), Antonio Genovesi (1788), Jean-Baptiste Say (1802), and Richard Whately (1832). On the emergence of this approach in the eighteenth century see Arthur E. Monroe, Monetary Theory before Adam Smith (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, [1923] 1966).\n2. Mises, Theory of Money and Credit, p. 65; also Mises quoted Böhm-Bawerk’s Rechte und Verhältnisse vom güterwirthschaftlichen Standpunkte, pp. 120ff.\n3. Regrettably, this comparative focus of his analysis was lost in the English translation of the title of the book: Theory of Money and Credit. The term Umlaufsmittel, which literally translates into “means of circulation,” was rendered in the English text as “fiduciary media.” Consequently the title of the book should have been Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media, but the publisher decided that the unusual terminology would irritate readers and thus opted for the smoother but toothless Theory of Money and Credit, failing to honor the fact that even in the original German version the expression was unusual. Mises was hostile to innovations in language that were not justified by the analysis of hitherto neglected phenomena. But the difference between money certificates on the one hand, and Umlaufsmittel on the other was such a neglected phenomenon, to the point that established scientific terminology even lacked the means for expressing this difference. Mises thus introduced the expression Umlaufsmittel for this purpose and even used it in the title of his book to highlight its importance.\n4. See Franz Cuhel, Zur Lehre von den Bedürfnissen. Theoretische Untersuchungen über das Grenzgebiet von Ökonomik und Psychologie (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1907).\n5. See ibid., pp. 190f. Böhm-Bawerk had made this claim in a long essay on the theory of value, his first statement on value theory. See Böhm-Bawerk, “Grundzüge der Theorie des wirtschaftlichen Güterwertes,” Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik n.s. 13 (1886): 48. It was this passage that met with criticism in Cuhel and Mises. Mises said many years later that, in distinct contrast to corresponding passages in Böhm-Bawerk’s Positive Theory of Capital (New York: G.E. Stechert, 1930), the statement in Grundzüge “was incompatible with the whole tenor of Böhm’s theory” (Mises to A.E. Foerster, letter dated March 2, 1965; Grove City Archive: Böhm-Bawerk file). ​This letter raises a certain problem because Mises here said that Böhm-Bawerk eventually realized his error and expressed the correct formulation in a later edition of Capital and Interest (South Holland, Ill.: Libertarian Press, 1959, vol. 2, bk. 3, part A, chap. 3, p. 148). But in the second edition of Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel, 2nd ed. (Munich and Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1924, p. 13), Mises said Böhm-Bawerk had not said anything new on this matter\n6. See Cuhel, Zur Lehre von den Bedürfnissen, pp. 178f\n7. See ibid., p. 210. Cuhel called subjective utilities by the unusual name of “Egenzen.” In an analogous case, Vilfredo Pareto called subjective utility “ophélimité.”\n8. Mises, Notes and Recollections, p. 58.\n9. See Henri Cernuschi, Nomisma; or, “Legal Tender” (New York: Appleton & Co., 1877); Josef von Neupauer, Die Schäden und Gefahren der Valutaregulierung für die Volkswirtschaft und die Kriegsbereitschaft (Vienna: Lesk & Schwidernoch, 1892); Wilhelm Lexis, “Papiergeld,” Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1893; 2nd ed., 1901, 3rd ed., 1910). Mises mentions Neupauer’s book in Mises, “Die wirtschaftspolitischen Motive der österreichischen Valutaregulierung,” Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Verwaltung 16 (1907): 578.\n10. See Georg F. Knapp, Staatliche Theorie des Geldes, 2nd ed. (Munich & Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1918), p. 1.\n11. See ibid., p. 31. Knapp thought he had to create an entirely new vocabulary to adequately deal with the theory of money and among many other innovations came up with the expression “chartal.”\n12. In particular Andreas Voigt, one of the leaders of the small but growing cadre of anti-Schmoller economists, gave Knapp an unfavorable review. See Andres Voigt, “Die staatliche Theorie des Geldes,” Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft 62 (1906): 317–40.\n13. See L. Calligaris, “Staatliche Theorie des Geldes,” Münchener Allgemeine Zeitung (February 1, 1906); idem, “Staatliche Theorie des Geldes,” Österreichische Rundschau 7, no. 80 (May 10, 1906); F. Bendixen, Das Wesen des Geldes (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1908), p. 3; idem, “Fünf Jahre Geldtheorie,” Bank-Archiv 10, no. 10 (1911): 145ff.; W. Lexis, “Eine neue Geldtheorie,” Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften und Sozialpolitik 5 (1906): 557–74; idem, “Die Knappsche Geldtheorie,” Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 3rd series, 32 (1906): 534–45.\n14. Ludwig von Mises, Staat, Nation und Wirtschaft (Vienna: Manz, 1919), p. 5, n. 3. Mises referred to Anderson’s verdict that Knapp’s book “has had wide influence on German thinking on money. It is typical of the tendency in German thought to make the State the center of everything.” Benjamin M. Anderson, The Value of Money (New York: Macmillan, 1917), p. 433. He also quoted Carl Menger’s exasperated comment on the success of the State Theory of Money: “It is the logical development of Prussian police science. What are we to think of a nation whose elite, after two hundred years of economics, admire such nonsense, which is not even new, as highest revelation?” Mises, Erinnerungen, p. 20; Notes and Recollections, p. 35.\n15. Mises, Theory of Money and Credit, p. 93.\nJörg Guido Hülsmann is senior fellow of the Mises Institute where he holds the 2018 Peterson-Luddy Chair and was director of research for Mises Fellows in residence 1999-2004. He is author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism and The Ethics of Money Production. 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        "text": "27 януари е 27-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 338 дни до края на годината (339 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 98 г. – След смъртта на император Нерва, Траян става император на Римската империя.\n 1299 г. – Създадена е Османската държава, впоследствие превърнала се в империя.\n 1302 г. – Данте Алигиери е лишен от граждански права и е принуден да напусне Флоренция.\n 1343 г. – Папа Климент VI издава булата Unigenitus.\n 1593 г. – Ватикана започва 7-годишен процес срещу Джордано Бруно.\n\n 1695 г. – След смъртта на Ахмед II султан на Османската имерия става Мустафа II.\n 1756 г. – В двореца Уайтхол (дворец) в Лондон е подписан Уайтхолският договор между Великобритания и Прусия.\n 1785 г. – Открит е първият университет в САЩ – Университета на Джорджия.\n 1872 г. – Панарет Пловдивски, Иларион Ловчански и Иларион Макариополски са освободени от заточение в Измит със заповед на великия везир.\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Освободени са Добрич и Омуртаг.\n 1878 г. – Румънски части започват бомбардировка над Видин.\n 1881 г. – Българското правителство отправя нота до Великите сили за подобряване положението на българите в европейските вилаети на Турция и за прилагане на чл. 23 и 62 от Берлинския договор.\n 1885 г. – Приет е Законът за Българската народна банка (БНБ)\n 1908 г. – Астрономът Филибер Жак Мелот открива Пасифая – спътник на Юпитер.\n 1908 г. – Австро-Унгария се отказва от реформената акция в Европейска Турция (Мюрцщегските реформи), след като получава концесия за строеж на жп линия през Нови пазар и Македония към Солун.\n 1915 г. – Американски войски окупират Хаити.\n 1924 г. – Състои се полагането на балсамираното тяло на Ленин в построения за него мавзолей на Червения площад в Москва.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Ленинград е напълно освободен след 872-дневна германска блокада.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Червената армия влиза в нацисткия концлагер Аушвиц в Полша.\n 1949 г. – При морска катастрофа – сблъсък между два китайски кораби край Шанхай, загиват около 1600 души.\n 1951 г. – САЩ открива ядрения полигон в Невада с тестването на атомна бомба от 1 килотон.\n 1959 г. – НАСА избира 110 кандидати, които да бъдат обучавани за първия космически полет. Сред тях е и първият американски астронавт Джон Глен.\n 1960 г. – Открит е първият участък от Автомагистрала А6 в Италия, свързващ Савона и Чева.\n 1967 г. – Програма Аполо: Първият тричленен екипаж загива в пожар по време на изпитанията на Аполо 1 в Космическия център Джон Ф. Кенеди.\n 1967 г. – СССР, САЩ и Великобритания подписват договор за космоса, който влиза в сила на 10 октомври 1967 г.\n 1973 г. – В Париж е подписан мирен договор, с който официално се прекратява Виетнамската война.\n 1983 г. – Японските острови Хоншу и Хокайдо са свързани с най-дългия тунел в света – Сейкан (53,85 км); тунелът е изцяло комплектуван и влиза в действие на 13 март 1988 г.\n 1990 г. – Беларус въвежда като държавен език беларуския език.\n 2001 г. – При земетресение в Индия загиват около 13 хиляди души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1571 г. – Абас I Велики, Шах на Иран († 1629 г.)\n 1621 г. – Томас Уилис, английски лекар († 1675 г.)\n 1756 г. – Волфганг Амадеус Моцарт, австрийски композитор († 1791 г.)\n 1775 г. – Фридрих Вилхелм Йозеф Шелинг, германски философ († 1854 г.)\n 1790 г. – Уилям Дейвис Евънс, морски офицер и изобретател († 1872 г.)\n 1808 г. – Давид Щраус, германски богослов и философ идеалист († 1874 г.)\n 1823 г. – Едуар Лало, френски композитор от испански произход († 1892 г.)\n 1832 г. – Артър Хюс, британски художник († 1915 г.)\n 1832 г. – Луис Карол, британски писател († 1898 г.)\n 1850 г. – Джон Колиър, британски художник († 1934 г.)\n 1850 г. – Едуард Джон Смит, английски капитан на „Титаник“ († 1912 г.)\n 1859 г. – Вилхелм II, кайзер на Прусия († 1941 г.)\n 1859 г. – Павел Милюков, руски политик († 1943 г.)\n 1871 г. – Йордан Венедиков, български офицер († 1957 г.)\n 1883 г. – Димитър Мишайков, български юрист († 1945 г.)\n 1886 г. – Радхабинод Пал, индийски юрист († 1967 г.)\n 1887 г. – Евгений Ващенко, руски художник († 1979 г.)\n 1887 г. – Тома Попстоянов, български революционер († 1946 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иля Еренбург, съветски писател и поет († 1967 г.)\n 1892 г. – Фердинанд Козовски, български политик и военен деец († 1965 г.)\n 1893 г. – Петър Золотович, български оперен певец († 1977 г.)\n 1895 г. – Симеон Недков, български индустриалец († 1960 г.)\n 1917 г. – Анри Перюшо, френски писател († 1967 г.)\n 1924 г. – Рауф Денкташ, кипърски политик († 2012 г.)\n 1926 г. – Божидар Лечев, български актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1926 г. – Ингрид Тюлин, шведска актриса († 2004 г.)\n 1928 г. – Анастас Наумов, български диригент, композитор и фолклорист († 2015 г.)\n 1934 г. – Реймон Будон, френски социолог († 2013 г.)\n 1934 г. – Федерико Майор, испански учен и политик\n 1936 г. – Волфганг Бомер, германски политик\n 1936 г. – Самюел Тинг, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1976\n 1938 г. – Александър Чирков, български лекар и кардиохирург († 2020 г.)\n 1940 г. – Бернд Йенцш, германски писател\n 1941 г. – Христо Илиев-Чарли, български сценарист и актьор\n 1942 г. – Кейт Улф, фолклорна певица († 1986 г.)\n 1944 г. – Марийд Кориган, северноирландска активистка, Нобелов лауреат през 1976\n 1944 г. – Ник Мейсън, английски музикант (Pink Floyd)\n 1945 г. – Клариса Пинкола Естес, американска поетеса\n 1948 г. – Валерий Брайнин, руско-германски музиколог, поет, педагог, композитор\n 1949 г. – Петър Димитров, български политик и икономист\n 1950 г. – Педро Хуан Гутиерес, кубински поет\n 1955 г. – Георги Кадурин, български актьор\n 1955 г. – Красимир Премянов, български политик\n 1957 г. – Яник Гърс, британски музикант („Айрън Мейдън“)\n 1961 г. – Джули Кейтлин Браун, американска телевизионна и театрална актриса\n 1964 г. – Бриджит Фонда, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Христо Марков, български лекоатлет\n 1967 г. – Орхан Мурад, български музикален изпълнител\n 1968 г. – Майк Патън, американски певец (Faith No More)\n 1968 г. – Трики, английски музикант и актьор\n 1970 г. – Емануел Паю, швейцарски музикант, флейтист\n 1970 г. – Светла Димитрова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1971 г. – Лил Джон, американски рапър и продуцент\n 1974 г. – Василен Димитров, български плувец\n 1974 г. – Оле Ейнар Бьорндален, норвежки биатлонист\n 1976 г. – Веселин Прахов, български актьор\n 1979 г. – Стратия, български музикант\n 1979 г. – Розамунд Пайк, английска актриса\n 1980 г. – Марат Сафин, руски тенисист\n 1981 г. – Алиша Молик, австралийската тенисистка\n 1984 г. – Юри Бережко, руски волейболист\n 1988 г. – Керлон, бразилски футболист\n 1989 г. – Аветик Григорян, арменски шахматист\n 1989 г. – Виктор Петаков, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Насър Ал-Ахмед, български културист \n 1990 г. – Осман Мурадов, български политик и икономист\n 1994 г. – Александра Богданска, български модел и инфлуенсър\n\nПочинали \n\n 98 г. – Нерва, римски император (* 35 г.)\n 672 г. – Виталиан, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 847 г. – Сергий II, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1062 г. – Аделаида Арпад, унгарска принцеса (* ? г.)\n 1547 г. – Анна Ягелонина, кралица на Унгария и Бохемия (* 1503 г.)\n 1731 г. – Бартоломео Кристофори, италиански майстор на музикални инструменти (* 1655 г.)\n 1836 г. – Вилхелмина от Баден, Велика херцогиня на Хесен (* 1788 г.)\n 1850 г. – Йохан Шадов, германски скулптор и график (* 1764 г.)\n 1851 г. – Джон Джеймс Одюбон, американски художник (* 1785 г.)\n 1860 г. – Янош Бояй, унгарски математик (* 1802 г.)\n 1901 г. – Джузепе Верди, италиански композитор (* 1813 г.)\n 1919 г. – Ендре Ади, унгарски поет (* 1877 г.)\n 1922 г. – Джовани Верга, италиански писател (* 1840 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жан Нику, шведски индустриалец (* 1876 г.)\n 1939 г. – Гоце Дивлев, български комунист (* 1907 г.)\n 1940 г. – Исак Бабел, украински писател (* 1894 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Макаров, съветски сержант (* 1907 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Нелчинов, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1945 г. – Карл Ландауер, германски психоаналитик (* 1887 г.)\n 1949 г. – Борис Асафиев, руски композитор (* 1884 г.)\n 1956 г. – Ерих Клайбер, австрийски диригент (* 1890 г.)\n 1960 г. – Петко Зидаров, български четник (* 1874 г.)\n 1971 г. – Алфонс Медер, швейцарски лекар (* 1882 г.)\n 1971 г. – Хакобо Арбенс Гусман, президент на Гватемала (* 1913 г.)\n 1974 г. – Лео Гайр фон Швепенбург, германски офицер (* 1886 г.)\n 1982 г. – Александър Абуш, германски писател (* 1902 г.)\n 1983 г. – Луи дьо Фюнес, френски актьор (* 1914 г.)\n 1987 г. – Нарман Макларън, канадски режисьор (* 1914 г.)\n 1992 г. – Сали Мугабе, първа дама на Зимбабве (1980 – 92) (* 1931 г.)\n 2003 г. – Хенрик Яблонски, министър-председател на Полша (* 1909 г.)\n 2006 г. – Йоханес Рау, президент на Германия (* 1931 г.)\n 2007 г. – Марчелин Бертран, американска актриса (* 1950 г.)\n 2008 г. – Гордън Хинкли, американски религиозен водач (* 1910 г.)\n 2008 г. – Сухарто, президент на Индонезия (* 1921 г.)\n 2009 г. – Джон Ъпдайк, американски писател (* 1932 г.)\n 2010 г. – Джеръм Дейвид Селинджър, американски писател (* 1919 г.)\n 2010 г. – Христо Недков, български музикант (* 1927 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Международен възпоменателен ден на Холокоста (приет с резолюция през 2005 г.)\n Католическа църква – Ден на католическото училище\n Великобритания, Германия, Дания, Италия, Полша – Ден в памет на жертвите на националсоциализма\n Монако – Ден на Света Девота (патрон на държавата и династията)\n Сърбия – Ден на Свети Сава\n\n127"
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        "text": "Q: How can I make my Mac a DLNA server and/or client? How can I make my Mac be a DLNA server and/or client?\n\nA: Serviio is a free DLNA server, with a Mac version.\nhttp://www.serviio.org/\n\nA: There are several choices based on the fact that any UPnP server should also be DLNA compliant : \n\n\n*\n\n*Free ones :\n\n*\n\n*XBMC\n\n*MythTV\n\n*TvMobili\n\n*Kinsky\n\n*Plex\n\n*uShare (easier to install with MacPorts)\n\n\n*Paid ones :\n\n*\n\n*EyeConnect\n\n*PlayBack\n\n*SongBook\nThe bold ones are directly mentioned to be DLNA servers.\n\nA: I've been using the PS3 media server.\n\nA: I've had this same frustrating hunt for ages, tried and found all of them to have serious issues either with usability or actual functionality. Most sadly arent even worth trying. But then last week I found a poster who recommended Plex media server and its so good I'm trying to find the post and poster to thank him.\nPlex server is totally free but you can pay for mobile clients. I have an iMac and MacBook Pro both running Mountain Lion, and the iMac now serves my xbox, wdtv live and archos 7 faultlessly. This may sound set up but save yourself the pain and effort and try Plex first.\nPlex takes a while to run through a big, say 3tb collection but it genuinely has been the most painless and reliable of all I've tried and the searchable options are far more varied and sensible than those for others. Don't want to name names but I've pretty much tried them all. The only thing I can't comment on is transcoding; I assume their clients manage this. From my perspective, I needed something to access my library, rather than rely on hardware specific transcoding. If you need this its a mixed bag regarding codec support, and I found the issues with other servers made the solution less viable. Connect360 was not bad for xbox, they also do a PS version, but for straight media serving, Plex no question.\n\nA: There are some free as well as pay for options:\nhttp://mediatomb.cc/ (FREE)\nhttp://www.wildmediaserver.com/  ($40)\n\nA: I've been using Plex for a few months and its awesome - found it far superior to PS3MS.  Get SABnzbD and SickBeard running as well.\n\nA: Rivet\n\nA: Plex has recently added DNLA support, and is an excellent option.\n\nA: Specify Machine...\neMac PPC 10.5.8 - \nServing : \nTvMobili-Leopard-universal.dmg  works as does Twonky 5.1.x for serving.  XBMC seems to work but not thoroughly tested\nClient :\nPlex-0.9.5.3-PowerPC - This operates but I've not had any luck getting it to see my servers....  Apparently there is a way to get plex to see twonky but I cant figure it\nProbably the best bet on a PPC is to get a distro of Ubuntu and go from there....   then all we need is a decent client on our $200 Tablet with HDMI to flatscreen.\nOtherwise you can get DAAP clients for cross platform music streaming from OSX boxes....\nReally it depends on what you mean by makeing a \"Mac\" into a media server/client....   If you have multiple apple machines, then far and away the best thing is iTunes (I stick to version 9), get vine server and chicken of the vnc....  and bVNC for your android...  job done, no brainer\n\nA: TVMOBiLi (free) works with Macs really well. I have Macbook Pro Retina and I use it every other day mostly with my PS3 and Samsung Smart TV. \nDue to my Smart TV not having a qwerty keyboard (and really rubbish remote). I tend to stream movies directly to the PS3 (which connects each time I switch it on).\nI will rarely use it with my iPad but have the PlugPlayer app when I do.\n\nA: Vuze is a free torrent client that includes DMS and transcoding. It's okay — to be fair, the DMS is still in beta, but works very well (though I can't pause video with it)\n\nA: Playback is my favorite DLNA Server for MAC OS X, but I just found out that they closed business and are no longer supporting any of their software as of March 2014. I'm using Plex right now as the best of the two others that I've tried; Plex and XBMC (KODI). I just have problems with Plex not understanding my naming convention for TV show episodes. They get out of order and the program reads 4,14,114 as the number 4 for episode numbers. I previously spent a lot of time naming them how they make sense to me. I do enjoy the artwork that Plex brings up for certain titles.\nPlayback didn't try to re-order or rename anything. It just reflected exactly what the folder contents were in alphabetical order. It also had it's own security settings such as only allowing certain devices to connect to the server by ip address. When viewed through the PS3 it displayed album art or a snapshot from that episode.\n\nA: MediaLink from NullRiver is a relatively inexpensive option ($20). It was extremely easy to setup -- it installs as a preference pane plug-in, there are four things to configure and a 'Start' button. Best of all, you can try it for free for 30 minutes; I purchased it after about 4.5 minutes. There's also an App-store version that is a straight-up application.\nCaveats: I don't know if the pref-pane option will still work if/when I upgrade to El Capitan with its new security enhancements (no reason to think it won't, but you never know). Also, the last software was two years ago (2013), as of this writing. But it works and was easy to setup.\n\nA: Elmedia Player\n\nElmedia Player is a Mac video player that offers advanced streaming options. It can handle any conceivable media format. Files can be streamed to Chromecast, AirPlay, Roku and DLNA devices. No additional codecs are required for it to work.\n\nhttps://www.elmedia-video-player.com\n"
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        "text": "For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation).Template:GBdot\nLeeds is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, in the north of England. The River Aire runs through the town. Leeds is part of a metropolitan borough named the City of Leeds. According to the 2001 census the urban area of the city had a population of 429,242, and the City of Leeds borough had a population of 716,513. The boundaries of the City of Leeds however include places which are separate from the urban area of Leeds itself and are not generally considered part of the urban city.\nAn inhabitant of Leeds is locally known as a Loiner, although such terms are rarely used or understood. However, the mock-classical adjectives Leodensian and Leodiensian are sometimes used by some local sports clubs.\nLeedscoatofarms.gif\nLeeds' Coat Of Arms\n2 Industry & Economy\n3.2 Media\n3.3 Museums & Arts\n3.5 Present Day Nightlife\n3.6 LGBT (Gay) Scene\nThe city was originally an agricultural market town in the Middle Ages, and received its first charter in 1207. In the Tudor period Leeds was mainly a merchant town manufacturing woollen cloths and trading with Europe via the Humber estuary. At one point nearly half of England's total export passed through Leeds. The city's industrial growth was catalysed by the introduction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816 and the railway in 1848.\nLeeds today has an extremely diverse economy with the service sector now dominating over the city's manufacturing industries. The city has in the past been served well by its canal; and today by its rail network at Leeds station, from where the MetroTrains operate to all parts of West Yorkshire. There are current plans for a tram system, the Leeds Supertram. With the M1 and M62 intersecting at Leeds, it is one of the principal northern hubs of the motorway network. Leeds Bradford International Airport is located to the north west of the city and has scheduled flights to destinations within the U.K and Europe. These good transport links have been a major factor contributing to the growth of Leeds, and it has led to the city becoming a major centre for distribution, as well as banking, financial and legal services. Retail is another major service and employer in the city centre, with a retail economy which has experienced a recent boom resulting in several shopping centres and department stores. Although, like the rest of the North of England, Leeds had its fair share of tough economic times during the 1970s and 1980s, it was quick to bounce back by investing heavily in communications links. This helped it (along with Birmingham and Glasgow) become one of the major hubs for call-centres in the late 20th Century, particularly for service-oriented companies. Many outlying towns formerly relying on mining and heavy industry, found financial salvation in the 'reliable' sounding Yorkshire accent. However, many of these large employers are now outsourcing many of these jobs to places like Bangalore in India, where staff costs are considerably lower.\nThe city has a strong sporting heritage, with the Yorkshire County Cricket Club as well as Leeds Rhinos, the Rugby League team and Leeds Tykes, the Rugby Union team playing at Headingley, and Leeds United F.C. playing at Elland Road. Leeds United had a turbulent 2004, narrowly avoiding bankruptcy, and dropped from the Premier League into The Championship in the 2004/2005 season.\nThe Rugby League team, Leeds Rhinos, were crowned Super League champions on 16 October, 2004 after defeating arch rivals Bradford Bulls 16-8 at Old Trafford.\nThe city is the centre of media activities for the Yorkshire region. Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd, owned by Johnston Press plc is based in the city, and produces a daily morning broadsheet, the Yorkshire Post, and an evening paper, the Yorkshire Evening Post, as well as other publications such as Leeds Express.\nRegional television and radio stations are also based in the city; BBC Television and Yorkshire Television both have studios and broadcasting centres in Leeds, albeit there is concern over the future of regional independent television with the consolidation of Independent Television franchises in the UK. BBC Radio Leeds, Radio Aire, Magic 828, Galaxy 105 and Real Radio all broadcast from the city. In the 1980s, pirate radio stations including Rapid City Radio (RCR), amongst other, shorter lived stations broadcast a mainly reggae playlist from Chapeltown, later diversifying into hip hop and house. Later, Dream FM was one of the biggest pirate radio stations in the country, but folded soon after getting a license to operate legally.\nIn the late 90's dot-com boom, Leeds became one of the key hubs in the emerging new media sector - companies such as Freeserve, Energis, Sportal and Ananova emerged to dominate the UK internet industry, with Freeserve and Ananova going on to become part of Wanadoo and Orange within France T�l�com. The City's Holbeck area is now home to the 'internet quarter' - an urban village with infrastructure and facilities for digital media and creative companies; at its heart is the Round Foundry (http://www.roundfoundry.net) media centre facility.\nMuseums & Arts\nThe city has a large number of museums, being the home of the Royal Armouries Museum (opened in 1996 when the collection was transferred from the Tower of London), the Leeds City Museum about the history of Yorkshire, the Museum of Leeds, being devoted to the city's industrial heritage, and Thackray's Medical Museum as well as the City Art Gallery. Leeds also boasts the Grand Theatre (which is where Opera North are based), the City Varieties (which claims to have hosted performances by Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini) and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.\nThe Leeds Festival takes place every year in Bramham Park (having moved from Temple Newsam after pressure from some local residents). It features some of the biggest names in rock and indie music. The city is home to the Leeds International Piano Competition, held every three years since 1963 and which has launched the careers of many major concert pianists. There is also the Leeds International Concert Season, the largest local authority music programme of any UK city outside London.\nThe first ever moving pictures were taken in the city, by Louis Le Prince, of Leeds Bridge in 1888.\nTemple Newsam House and the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey which dates from the 12th Century, are on the outskirts of the city.\nThough not as prolific as its neighbours Manchester and Liverpool across the Pennines, or indeed Sheffield in South Yorkshire, Leeds has still produced some notable bands. The Mekons and the influential Gang of Four came out of the 1970s punk movement, whilst in the early to mid 1980s the city was home to a large goth scene, famous local bands including The Sisters of Mercy. The avant-garde art scene centred around Leeds Metropolitan University's (then Leeds Polytechnic) Fine Art course led to the formation of early 80s electronic pioneers Soft Cell. Later 1980s and 1990s rock bands include The Wedding Present, Chumbawumba and Cud.\nLike most major northern cities, house music had a big impact on Leeds when it arrived in the late 1980s. Early house nights included Downbeat at the Warehouse, Meltdown at the Astoria in Roundhay, and Joy and Kaos at various temporary venues, along with a thriving Shebeen or \"Blues\" scene in Chapeltown. Along with Sheffield and Bradford, Leeds was a centre for the Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass scene in 1989-1990, with influential local bands such as LFO, Nightmares on Wax, Ital Rockers, Unit 93 and Juno on Sheffield's Warp Records and Leeds' Bassic Records.\nThis early, underground scene developed into the Leeds club scene of the 1990s, when for a while Leeds held the title of Britain's clubbing capital. Both Back to Basics and mixed gay night Vague enjoyed the title of best club in Britain at different points in the decade, whilst The Orbit in Morley was an internationally recognised techno mecca. Sadly this venue has now been converted into a restaurant.\nPresent Day Nightlife\nMajestyk,_Leeds.jpg\nMajestyk, one of Leeds many nightclubs\nThe city has a very large student population and boasts a large number of bars and nightclubs, as well as venues for live bands such as the Cockpit, The New Roscoe, and Joseph's Well (http://www.josephswell.co.uk), which combine to generate a vibrant nightlife.\nSince the heady days of the dance music explosion of the early nineties, Leeds has gained a well-deserved reputation as one of the UK's favourite clubbing destinations. Often described as the leading clubbing city outside of London, Leeds is best known as the home of pioneering club nights Back to Basics and Speedqueen.\nComplete listings and reviews of bars, pubs and nightclubs in Leeds can be found online at Leeds City Guide (http://www.geocities.com/leedsguide), an extensive online venue guide.\nLeeds is also very well-known for its underground music scene. There is a vibrant and active community based around the DIY punk ethic, supported in part by Cops and Robbers (http://www.copsandrobbers.net), a monthly guide to DIY events in and around Leeds.\nLGBT (Gay) Scene\nIn recent years a vibrant scene has developed. The old stalwarts The Bridge Inn and The New Penny, both on Call Lane, remain much as they always were. Queens Court offers a similar experience to its London counterpart Rupert Street. Recent additions, courtesy of Terry George, Bar Fibre, on Lower Briggate and Mission, under the arches opposite, offer more contemporary 'straight friendly' environments. Also worth a visit The Base, Bridge End, is an alternative to Queen's Court. During the summer months the secluded courtyard that lies between Bar Fibre and Queens Court makes a pleasant beer garden. In particular the summer courtyard parties (usually on the last Sunday of every month), where both bars team up to turn the courtyard into an alfresco club, are a must-visit for locals and tourists alike. The loss of Velvet is mitigated somewhat by the recent opening of Velvet Underground and the Velvet team's recognisable and stylish contribution to the environment at The Warehouse, home of the Saturday club night Speedqueen. Speedqueen itself is particularly worthy of note, generally recognised as the successor to Vague, it is largely regarded by its members as nothing short of an institution, and often referred to as one of the best gay club nights in the UK.\nLeeds has two universities, the University of Leeds, with around 31,500 full-time students (and a further 52,000 on short courses) and Leeds Metropolitan University with around 26,000 (according to UCAS; the LMU website claims 37,000) as well as various higher education colleges including Trinity & All Saints College accredited by the University of Leeds, giving it one of the largest student populations in the country. The main campuses of both universities are near the city centre.\nLeeds Grammar School, situated on the outskirts of the city at Alwoodley Gates and dating back to 1552, is the principal public school for boys.\nLeeds Girls' High School, is an independent, selective school for girls, located in Headingley and consistently ranked highly in education tables.\nAllerton High School was started in 1901.\nMorley High School was first founded as a grammar school in 1907, but became became a mixed comprehensive in 1975.\nTemplate:Commonscat\nLeeds City Council (http://www.leeds.gov.uk)\nInformation about public transport in the region (http://www.wymetro.com)\nLeedsNet - Information for the Leeds region (http://www.leedsnet.com)\nLeeds City Guide - Information about Bars, Pubs, Clubs, Hotels and Restaurants (http://www.geocities.com/leedsguide)\nHyde Park Picture House (http://www.leedscinema.com)\nLeeds Film Festival (http://www.leedsfilm.com)\nLeeds Music Festival (http://www.leedsmusicfestival.com)\nWest Yorkshire Playhouse (http://www.wyplayhouse.co.uk)\nLeeds United Football Club (http://www.leedsunited.com)\nLeeds Rhinos (Rugby League) and Leeds Tykes (Rugby Union) (http://www.leedsrugby.com)\nBBC Leeds (http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/)\nLeeds.biz - local search and directory (http://www.leeds.biz)\nLeeds Music Scene - Information about Leeds bands and musicians (http://www.leedsmusicscene.net)\nLeeds Grammar School (http://www.leedsgrammar.com/)\nLeeds Bradford International Airport (http://www.lbia.co.uk/)\nTrinity & All Saints (http://www.tasc.ac.uk/)\nLeeds Girls' High School website (http://www.lghs.org/)\nGateway Church - Leeds (http://www.gatewayleeds.net/)\nLoveMyTown - City of Leeds (http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/CityProfiles/Leeds/index.htm) civic pride facts and organisations in Leedsde:Leeds\neo:Leeds fr:Leeds (Angleterre) no:Leeds pl:Leeds pt:Leeds sv:Leeds\nRetrieved from \"http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Leeds\"\nCategories: Article names with other uses | Leeds | Cities in England | Cities in Yorkshire"
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        "text": "Q: Create bulleted list in iOS Mail Is it possible to create a bulleted or numbered list in Mail on an iDevice? If so, please share how. I know it'll display them. Like if I create it in GMail on my MacBook, save a draft, then open it on the device, I see the bullets as intended, but I would like to actually create this same thing on my iPad/ iPhone.\nThanks!\nThomas\n\nA: Until Apple offers the ability to add some basic controls (eg. bold, etc.) on the iPhone/iPad (without the keyboard) it's not possible without copying and pasting from a previous message.\nYou could create a draft with the different types of list to copy and paste and use that.\nOf note: some third party apps can help with this: eg. MarkdownMail just released today by Second Gear Software ($1.99) or any other app that will allow you to create HTML.\n\nA: It’s a hack, but one thing you can do is compose your message in a note, which does support bulleted lists, then copy the message into the email app. It really surprises me that this feature doesn’t exist.\n"
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        "text": "How many backlinks per day for new site?\nDiscussion in 'Black Hat SEO' started by Omoplata, Dec 3, 2010.\n1) for a newly created site, what's the max # backlinks per day I should do to be safe?\n2) how long do I have to let my site age before I can start making more blinks?\nI did about 6000 forum profiles every 24 hours for 10 days for one of my sites which had a brand new domain.\nThere is three backlinks for every of these forum profile so thats 18 000 backlinks every 24 hours and nothing happened in terms of being penalized or sandboxed. This is now maybe 3 months ago and the site is ranking on first page for a lot of my targeted keywords.\nbuild more you can in starting but do manual submission and not spammy type means manual + relevant to the post.. then after 1 month you can make a big blast..\nWow, dude, you built 18k backlinks a day on a brand new site? How quickly did you rank up? What kind of competition/searches did those keywords have?"
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        "text": "Delivering a dream with new luxury cruise ship\nGENTING Hong Kong, a leading global leisure, entertainment and hospitality company, commemorated the official handover of Genting Dream, the newly constructed ship for Dream Cruises, on Oct 12, during a special event in Bremerhaven, Germany.\nShipbuilder Meyer Werft delivered Genting Dream to Dream Cruises with the traditional Changing of the Flag ceremony where the Meyer Werft and German flags were lowered, and the flags for Dream Cruises and the Bahamas were raised to signify the official transfer of the ship to Dream Cruises.\nThe launch of Dream Cruises marks the latest chapter in Genting Hong Kong’s history – a culmination of 20-plus years’ of Asian cruise industry experience combined with the company’s internationally-acclaimed luxury cruise expertise and long heritage of award-winning service and hospitality.\nDream Cruises was designed as the first Asian luxury cruise line and caters specifically to the large and rapidly growing high-end market in China and Asia.\nThe new brand aims to be a pacesetter in the cruise industry in the region, meeting the needs of the “emerging generation” of confident, independently-minded and affluent Asian travellers and will offer its guests inspirational luxury, which is Asian at heart and international in spirit.\nWith the official handover, Genting Dream will begin her epic ocean voyage that will take her from Germany to Gibraltar, through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, across the Indian Ocean with visits to India, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong before ending at her new homeport in Guangzhou, China on Nov 13.\nGenting Dream will provide passengers with the highest levels of service and spacious comfort in the region and boasts an attentive crew of over 2,000 – the majority of whom speak Chinese.\nAccommodation on board Genting Dream will reflect both size and choice for travellers with over 70% of staterooms featuring private balconies and over 100 connecting rooms catering to extended families and groups.\nTwo floors of lavish suites in the exclusive Dream Palace will feature European butler service and special guest privileges.\nWith the finest Asian and international dining, exceptional service, enthralling entertainment and inspirational experiences, Dream Cruises aims to redefine vacation travel for her guests through transformational journeys at sea.\nFor details, visit www.gentinghk.com\nAsia’s “Dream Cruises” Unveils LED Lighting Systemhttp://asian-cruise.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/light3-600x600.jpg\nViking to Asia in 2018http://asian-cruise.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/shutterstock_524462815-300x213.jpg"
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        "text": "28 януари е 28-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 337 дни до края на годината (338 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1644 г. – Френският актьор Жан Поклен за първи път се подписва с псевдонима Молиер.\n 1687 г. – В Япония с императорски указ се забранява убиването на диви животни.\n 1738 г. – В Лондон започва строителството на Уестминстърския мост.\n 1820 г. – Руска експедиция начело с Фадей Белингсхаузен и Михаил Лазарев приближава брега на Антарктида.\n 1871 г. – Пада Парижката комуна.\n 1895 г. – Обнародван е Закон за насърчение на местната индустрия, който дава тласък на българското промишлено производство.\n 1935 г. – Исландия става първата страна в света, легализирала аборта.\n 1935 г. – В Германия е произведен първият изкуствен изумруд.\n 1937 г. – По нареждане на Сталин в Москва е арестуван Кръстьо Раковски по обвинение „за участие в контрареволюционна терористична организация“.\n 1938 г. – Рудолф Карачола поставя рекорд за най-бързата официално отчетена скорост на обществен път – 432,7 km/h с автомобил Мерцедес-Бенц W195 Rekordwagen.\n 1939 г. – Алберт Айнщайн обявява, че новооткритият химичен елемент уран може да бъде използван като мощен източник на енергия, което се използва за създаването на атомната бомба.\n\n 1946 г. – В Русе е открито Висше техническо училище, днешният Русенски университет.\n 1956 г. – Елвис Пресли се появява за пръв път по телевизията.\n 1981 г. – Държавите членки на Съвета на Европа подписват Конвенция 108 за защита на лицата при автоматизираната обработка на лични данни.\n 1985 г. – ЦК на БКП отчита, че преименуването на турците в България е приключило, с което се поставя началото на „възродителен процес“.\n 1986 г. – Космическата совалка на САЩ „Челинджър“ се взривява 73 секунди след своето десето излитане, при което загиват всичките седем астронавти на борда.\n 1988 г. – Върховният съд на Канада обявява за противоконституционен закона, който забранява абортите.\n 1998 г. – Открита е първата отсечка на Софийското метро – от бул. Сливница до бул. Константин Величков, с дължина 6,5 km и 5 станции.\n 2004 г. – Открита е втора версия на компютърния вирус Mydoom.\n\nРодени \n\n 1457 г. – Хенри VII, крал на Англия († 1509 г.)\n 1540 г. – Лудолф фон Цойлен, германски математик († 1610 г.)\n 1600 г. – Климент IX, римски папа († 1669 г.)\n 1611 г. – Ян Хевелий, полски астроном, градоначалник и пивовар († 1687 г.)\n 1717 г. – Мустафа III, султан на Османската империя († 1774 г.)\n 1812 г. – Илия Гарашанин, сръбски държавник († 1874 г.)\n 1834 г. – Александру Чернат, румънски генерал († 1893 г.)\n 1841 г. – Хенри Мортън Стенли, уелско-американски пътешественик († 1904 г.)\n 1852 г. – Ефрем Каранов, български книжовник († 1927 г.)\n 1853 г. – Владимир Соловьов, руски философ († 1900 г.)\n 1853 г. – Хосе Марти, кубински революционер († 1895 г.)\n 1858 г. – Стоян Данев, министър-председател на България († 1949 г.)\n 1873 г. – Колет, френска писателка († 1954 г.)\n 1879 г. – Франсис Пикабия, френски художник († 1953 г.)\n 1884 г. – Йордан Пеев, български висш офицер († 1938 г.)\n 1887 г. – Артур Рубинщайн, полски пианист и диригент († 1982 г.)\n 1891 г. – Никола Хаджипетков, български военен деец († 1949 г.)\n 1897 г. – Валентин Катаев, руски писател († 1986 г.)\n 1900 г. – Херман Кестен, немски писател († 1996 г.)\n 1913 г. – Леон Суружон, български цигулар и педагог († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Атанас Манчев, български поет († 1944 г.)\n 1922 г. – Робърт Холи, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. († 1993 г.)\n 1922 г. – Цветан Ангелов, български писател († 1982 г.)\n 1930 г. – Цветан Стоянов, български преводач и писател († 1971 г.)\n 1931 г. – Сакьо Комацу, японски писател († 2011 г.)\n 1935 г. – Дейвид Лодж, английски писател и критик\n 1936 г. – Исмаил Кадаре, албански писател\n 1936 г. – Любен Попов, български шахматист\n 1940 г. – Асен Георгиев, български актьор († 2016 г.)\n 1940 г. – Карлос Слим Елу, мексикански милиардер\n 1942 г. – Турхан Расиев, български писател-сатирик\n 1943 г. – Кирил Ценевски, режисьор от Република Македония\n 1946 г. – Митко Щерев, български композитор\n 1947 г. – Иван Минеков, български скулптор\n 1949 г. – Божил Колев, български футболист\n 1953 г. – Хайгашод Агасян, български инструменталист, певец и композитор\n 1953 г. – Христо Димитров-Хиндо, български сценарист\n 1955 г. – Никола Саркози, президент на Франция\n 1955 г. – Огнян Радев, български учител\n 1957 г. – Александър Железняков, руски физик\n 1957 г. – Константин Димитров, български политик\n 1964 г. – Георги Христов, български поп певец\n 1966 г. – Марк Лорънс, американско-британски писател\n 1968 г. – Диджей Мъгс, американски музикант\n 1969 г. – Фердинанд Хелерс, шведски шахматист\n 1977 г. – Такума Сато, японски пилот във Ф1\n 1978 г. – Джанлуиджи Буфон, италиански футболен вратар\n 1980 г. – Ник Картър, американски поп певец (Бекстрийт Бойс)\n 1981 г. – Марко Бабич, хърватски футболист\n 1982 г. – Калоян Патерков, български актьор\n 1986 г. – Иван Скерлев, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 814 г. – Карл Велики, крал на франките (* 742 г.)\n 1271 г. – Исабела Арагонска, кралица на Франция\n 1547 г. – Хенри VIII, крал на Англия (* 1491 г.)\n 1596 г. – Френсис Дрейк, английски мореплавател (* ок. 1540)\n 1599 г. – Кристофано Малвеци, италиански композитор (* 1547 г.)\n 1621 г. – Павел V, римски папа\n 1687 г. – Ян Хевелий, полски астроном (* 1611 г.)\n 1854 г. – Жером-Адолф Бланки, френски икономист (* 1798 г.)\n 1864 г. – Беноа Пол Емил Клапейрон, френски физик\n 1868 г. – Адалберт Щифтер, австрийски писател и художтник (* 1805 г.)\n 1896 г. – Иван Добровски, български възрожденец (* 1812 г.)\n 1901 г. – Йосиф Гурко, руски генерал (* 1828 г.)\n 1915 г. – Николай Умов, руски математик и физик (* 1846 г.)\n 1928 г. – Висенте Бласко Ибанес, испански писател и политик\n 1939 г. – Уилям Бътлър Йейтс, ирландски поет и драматург, Нобелов лауреат през 1923 г. (* 1865 г.)\n 1951 г. – Карл Густав Манерхейм, финландски офицер и политик\n 1952 г. – Николае Бацария, румънски писател\n 1962 г. – Дако Даковски, български режисьор (* 1919 г.)\n 1986 г. – Екипажът на совалката Чалънджър:\n Грег Джарвис (* 1944 г.);\n Криста Маколиф (* 1948 г.);\n Роналд Макнеир (* 1950 г.);\n Елисън Онизука (* 1946 г.);\n Джудит Ресник (* 1949 г.);\n Франсис Скоби (* 1939 г.)\n Майкъл Смит (* 1945 г.)\n 1986 г. – Улоф Палме, шведски политик\n 1988 г. – Клаус Фукс, немски физик (* 1911 г.)\n 1992 г. – Куно Ребер, швейцарски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 1995 г. – Атанас Москов, български политик\n 1996 г. – Йосиф Бродски, руски поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1987 г. (* 1940 г.)\n 1996 г. – Стефан Дичев, български писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2002 г. – Астрид Линдгрен, шведска детска писателка (* 1907 г.)\n 2006 г. – Хенри Макги, американски комик (* 1929 г.)\n 2007 г. – Леон Суружон, български цигулар и педагог\n\nПразници \n Католическа църква – Ден на Свети Тома Аквински\n Европейски ден за защита на данните (от 2006)\n Световен ден на болните от проказа\n България – Ден на град Разград (по Решение на Общинския съвет от януари 1994 г.)\n\n128"
    },
    {
        "text": "The Denver Board of Education opened the 2017-18 school year with an update on projects that include new construction, upgrades, heat mitigation and quality learning environments.\nWe are excited that Denver students will be the beneficiaries of a four year, $572 million General Obligation Bond. Since the passage of the bond, our construction team has worked to schedule the projects over the four-year term of the bond.\nDenver voters on Tuesday approved bond and mill funding measures for students in Denver Public Schools, agreeing to invest $572 million in bond funding to build and improve schools and $56.6 million in operating dollars to support proven initiatives, such as early literacy.\nDenver voters say yes to bond and mill levy funding support for DPS students and schools. Click to learn more about the details of the voter-approved bond measure.\nDenver voters on Nov. 8 approved bond and mill funding measures for DPS students and schools. Learn more about what’s included in the mill levy measure."
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    {
        "text": "29 януари е 29-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 336 дни до края на годината (337 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1765 г. – Софроний Врачански завършва в Котел първия препис на История славянобългарска.\n 1781 г. – Операта „Идоменей“ на Моцарт е показана за пръв път на парижка сцена.\n 1795 г. – В САЩ е приет закон, който позволява приемането на американско гражданство едва след 5 години пребиваване в страната.\n 1805 г. – Василий Каразин основава Харковският университет – в града, в който днес има 30 висши училища и 60 научни института.\n 1845 г. – Най-известната творба на американския писател Едгар Алън По – поемата „Гарванът“ е публикувана във вестник „Ню Йорк Ивнинг Мирър“.\n 1856 г. – Кралица Виктория (Обединено кралство) учредява най-високата военна награда на страната Кръст Виктория.\n\n 1861 г. – Канзас става 34-тият щат на САЩ.\n 1866 г. – В румънския град Браила е организирано представление на пиесата на Добри Войников „Стоян войвода“.\n 1878 г. – Освобождение на градовете Търговище и Кюстендил от османско владчество – последни на територията на Княжество България.\n 1886 г. – Германският инженер Карл Бенц патентова първия автомобил с бензинов двигател.\n 1889 г. – Избран е първият ректор на Висшето училище в София – Александър Теодоров-Балан.\n 1896 г. – Американският физик Емил Грубе за първи път в света използва радиоактивно облъчване за лечение на рак.\n 1899 г. – В Болшой театър се състои премиерата на балета „Спящата красавица“ от Пьотър Чайковски.\n 1908 г. – Съставено е тридесетото правителство на България, начело с Александър Малинов.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Германия извършва първия боен полет на дирижабъл над Париж.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Двадесет и трети пехотен шипченски полк на Българската армия, под командването на капитан Серафимов, заема Елбасан.\n 1926 г. – В съветските учебни заведения е въведена задължителната военна подготовка.\n\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Англо-американската бомбардировъчна стратегическа авиация срива църквата „Дева Мария на Българите“ или „Богородица на Българите“ в кампуса на Болонския университет.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: САЩ пускат на вода най-големия си линеен кораб – Мисури (използван до 1992 г.).\n 1949 г. – Великобритания официално признава Израел за независима държава.\n 1959 г. – За пръв път на екрана се появява анимационен филм на Уолт Дисни – „Спящата красавица“.\n 1964 г. – Олимпийски игри: Открити са IX зимни олимпийски игри в Инсбрук, Австрия.\n 1970 г. – Папа Павел VI за пръв път в историята на папството провежда срещи с комунистически дейци.\n 1978 г. – Швеция за първи път въвежда ограничения за производството на аерозоли, поради пагубното им влияние върху озоновия слой.\n 1990 г. – Бившият държавен глава на България Тодор Живков е арестуван в обвинение за насилствена смяна на имената на българските турци и принуждаване към изселване.\n 2000 г. – В казино в Лас Вегас е спечелена най-голямата дотогава сума от игрален автомат – 35 млн. долара.\n 2002 г. – В своето годишно обръщение към Конгреса на САЩ американският президент Джордж Уокър Буш описва „режимите, които спонсорират терора“ като „ос на злото“, в която той включва Ирак, Иран и Северна Корея.\n\nРодени \n\n 1688 г. – Емануел Сведенборг, шведски учен и философ († 1772 г.)\n 1700 г. – Даниел Бернули, швейцарски математик († 1782 г.)\n 1832 г. – Николай Игнатиев, руски дипломат († 1908 г.)\n 1843 г. – Уилям Маккинли, 25-и президент на САЩ († 1901 г.)\n 1860 г. – Антон Чехов, руски писател († 1904 г.)\n 1866 г. – Ромен Ролан, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1915 г. († 1944 г.)\n 1867 г. – Висенте Бласко Ибанес, испански писател и политик († 1928 г.)\n 1868 г. – Александър Бърнев, български военен деец († 1922 г.)\n 1888 г. – Сидни Чапман, британски математик и геофизик († 1970 г.)\n 1893 г. – Милка Ламбрева, българска драматична актриса († 1943 г.)\n 1900 г. – Александър Занков, български скулптор († 1982 г.)\n 1904 г. – Георги Атанасов, български художник († 1952 г.)\n 1912 г. – Стефан Гечев, български поет († 2000 г.)\n 1921 г. – Иван Пановски, български народен певец († 1998 г.)\n 1922 г. – Виктор Яшин, руски летец († 1952 г.)\n 1923 г. – Илия Делчев, български аграрен учен\n 1924 г. – Луиджи Ноно, италиански композитор († 1990 г.)\n 1926 г. – Абдус Салам, пакистански физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1979 († 1996 г.)\n 1931 г. – Ференц Мадъл, президент на Унгария († 2011 г.)\n 1931 г. – Герт Хофман, немски писател († 1993 г.)\n 1934 г. – Димчо Рошманов, български деятел († 2019 г.)\n 1938 г. – Иван Кръстев, български политик\n 1939 г. – Георги Минчев, български композитор\n 1944 г. – Стоян Йорданов, български футболист\n 1945 г. – Стоян Коцев, български футболист и треньор († 2012 г.)\n 1945 г. – Том Селек, американски актьор\n 1947 г. – Дейвид Байрън, британски рокмузикант († 1985 г.)\n 1947 г. – Линда Бък, американска биоложка, Нобелова лауреатка през 2004 г.\n 1947 г. – Младен Кучев, български щангист\n 1947 г. – Спартак Паскалевски, български художник и изкуствовед\n 1950 г. – Джоди Шектър, южноафрикански пилот от Формула 1\n 1951 г. – Сашо Касиянов, български музикант, композитор, педагог, радиоводещ и шоумен († 2012 г.)\n 1953 г. – Тереса Тен, тайванска певица († 1995 г.)\n 1954 г. – Греди Асса, български художник\n 1954 г. – Опра Уинфри, американска тв журналистка\n 1966 г. – Максим Длуги, американски шахматист\n 1966 г. – Ромарио, бразилски футболист\n 1969 г. – Сам Трамел, американски актьор\n 1970 г. – Добрин Рагин, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Петър Малинов, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Хедър Греъм, американска актриса\n 1972 г. – Татяна Захова, българска актриса\n 1976 г. – Антонио Милошоски, политик\n 1978 г. – Мартин Шмит, германски ски скачач\n 1979 г. – Андрю Кийгън, американски актьор\n 1980 г. – Иван Класнич, хърватски футболист\n 1982 г. – Адам Ламбърт, американски актьор и певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 1180 г. – Собеслав II, Херцог на Бохемия (* 1128 г.)\n 1730 г. – Петър II, император на Русия (* 1715 г.)\n 1814 г. – Йохан Готлиб Фихте, германски философ (* 1762 г.)\n 1820 г. – Джордж III, крал на Обединеното кралство (* 1738 г.)\n 1847 г. – Атанасиос Христопулос, гръцки поет и учен (* 1772 г.)\n 1898 г. – Христо Иванов-Големия, български революционер и политик (* 1838 г.)\n 1899 г. – Алфред Сисле, френски художник от английски произход (* 1839 г.)\n 1906 г. – Кристиан IX, крал на Дания (* 1818 г.)\n 1912 г. – Херман Банг, датски писател (* 1857 г.)\n 1919 г. – Франц Меринг, германски политик, философ и естет (* 1846 г.)\n 1934 г. – Фриц Хабер, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1918 г. (* 1868 г.)\n 1941 г. – Йоанис Метаксас, гръцки политик и държавник (* 1871 г.)\n 1951 г. – Павел Шатев, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1955 г. – Владимир Бъчваров, български лекар (* 1896 г.)\n 1963 г. – Робърт Фрост, американски поет (* 1874 г.)\n 1970 г. – Базил Лидъл Харт, британски историк и стратег (* 1895 г.)\n 1982 г. – Цветан Ангелов, български писател (* 1922 г.)\n 1986 г. – Л. Рон Хъбард, американски писател (* 1911 г.)\n 1992 г. – Уили Диксън, американски блус музикант (* 1915 г.)\n 1993 г. – Густав Хасфорд, американски писател (* 1947 г.)\n 2004 г. – Джанет Фрейм, новозеландска писателка (* 1924 г.)\n 2006 г. – Януш Вазов, български сценарист (* 1927 г.)\n 2013 г. – Велиян Парушев, български футболист (* 1968 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден за помощ на болните от проказа (лепра) (за 2012 г., отбелязва се от 1954 г. в последната неделя на януари)\n България – Професионален празник на работещите в системата на главна дирекция „Изпълнение на наказанията“ към Министерството на правосъдието – Обявен с Решение 862/15 декември 2006 г.\n България – Празник на град Търговище – (от 1993 г.) и на град Кюстендил – (от 2009 г.)\n Гибралтар – Ден на конституцията (1969 г.)\n Италия – Празник на град Агрополи\n\n129"
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    {
        "text": "Vodafone will sell its stake in SFR by June, with Vivendi snapping up 44 per cent of the French mobile phone operator for a price of €7.95 billion (c£7bn).\nMedia giant Vivendi is France's biggest mobile phone business and has been in talks with Vodafone over the sale of SFR for a considerable time.\nUK company Vodafone will return £4 billion to it stakeholders, with the sale part of a move to have a more focused portfolio.\n\"The sale of our stake in SFR, at an attractive multiple, represents a significant further step in the execution of this strategy,\" said UK chief executive Vittorio Colao.\nThe deal is expected to go through in the coming months, and allow Vodafone to concentrate on its other offerings.\nThat includes an ongoing project in India, where the company recently paid local partner Essar group around £3.1 billion to buy them out and take 75 per cent of that business.\nThat deal is expected to be completed by November, although one per cent of stock must be got rid of to comply with Indian ownership law."
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        "text": "Apricot Rhubarb Almond Tart on the menu today!\nIf you know a thing or two about me, you know my dream is to have a bakery/cafe type of thing.\nI just want to have a place where I can bake different cakes and treats every day.\nIn my dreams, I see a big counter, full of pastries and pies!\nAnd in these visions I have, I see this tart!\nIt’s an Apricot Rhubarb Almond Tart.\nAlmond cookie-like crust, sliced and layered apricots on the bottom, topped with a insanely delicious almond cream, covered in rhubarb ribbons and a crumble topping!\nI bake a lot, as you can tell from this website, and this is probably one of the most delicious things I’ve ever baked!\nThe flavors here have got me HOOKED on this tart!\nAbout my bakery. I see this tart in a beautiful display, on top of a cake stand, taking the prime spot! What a show off!\nNow, it might take me a few years (or decades) to get my bakery. But I am willing to wait. I am willing to work hard so one day I will be able to actually physically stare at the display of treats I see in my head, in my dreams.\nAnd, you know what? I am not even upset about waiting. It’s not like I’m sitting around waiting for some opportunity to fall on my lap. I am giving my whole soul to this baking thing! I put everything I have into my dreams! And, after all, it’s not about the destination, anyway… it’s all about the JOURNEY!\nAnd I am having a hell of a time on my journey! I look forward to waking up everyday because I have so much I want to accomplish!\nYesterday, my husband Brian said to me that the lottery was $300 million or something. “What do you think we would be doing if we won that money?”, he asked me.\nYes, Brian, we can move to Hawaii, I don’t know about the yacht though.\nThat’s when I realize how happy I am. I couldn’t care less about money. My whole heart is in this thing right here.\nWould it be nice to have a lot of money? Of course, I’d buy a better camera, have a bigger studio, not have to work for someone else. Money would give me freedom and resources. But no amount of money would ever change my passion and my drive.\nFreedom and resources, or lack of them, are no excuse for me. I am the one who makes the resources, I am the one who makes the time, and I am the one who makes myself free and available to work on my passion.\nNothing that is great can be built without a tone of work. And I am ready, bring it on!\nApricot Rhubarb Almond Tart is a delicious dessert with an almond crust, layered apricots on the bottom, topped with an almond cream, covered in rhubarb ribbons and crumble topping.\n1 cup almond flour about 4 oz.\nIn the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter for about 1 minute. Add powdered sugar and cream for another 2 minutes at medium speed.\nAdd almond flour and salt. Mix to combine.\nAdd vanilla extract and egg. Mix on medium speed for 30 seconds to incorporate egg. Scrape bowl and make sure egg has been fully incorporated.\nAdd all-purpose flour and mix on low briefly or with a spoon to combine ingredients. Mix just until flour has been fully incorporated.\nWrap dough in plastic wrap and press it lightly into a small disk. Leave it in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.\nCream butter in the bowl of an electric mixer, at medium speed for 1 minute.\nAdd brown sugar and cream for another minute, until mixture is lightened and fluffy.\nAdd almond flour. Beat on medium until incorporated.\nAdd all-purpose flour and salt and mix.\nAdd egg and almond extract and run mixer on medium speed until all ingredients are incorporated and mixture is creamy.\nMix butter, sugar and flour with your hands, or with a fork. Mixture should be quite loose, not very wet. You don’t want it to have a lot of butter in the mixture. Pinch a small piece of crumble with your hands, if crumbs stick together, you’re good to go. If they are still falling apart, add maybe half a tablespoon of butter at a time, until you obtain a crumble that is holding itself together, but isn’t too wet.\nPlace crumble in the fridge while you assemble the pie.\nSprinkle some flour on the counter. Remove dough from the fridge. Roll dough out on the floured counter.\nNow, mind you, the tart dough is very crumbly and you might have a hard time keeping it from breaking. It’s supposed to be this way, there’s no elasticity to it, because it’s supposed to be a cookie-like crust.\nOnce you’ve sort of rolled your dough out to a 10 inch circle, transfer it to your tart pan. Remember, it’s totally ok if it breaks all over the place. That’s the beauty of this dough, you can simply press the dough down slightly with your fingers and patch pieces together.\nOnce you’ve pressed the dough down the whole bottom and sides of the tart pan, trim off excess with a pairing knife, running it over the top, so there is no dough hanging.\nPlace tart pan in the freezer while you prepare the rest.\nNow would be a good time to make the filling, while your tart crust chills.\nRemove skin from apricots and slice them thinly. Set aside.\nWith a small pairing knife, cut long rhubarb ribbons lengthwise. The ribbons should be thin, long and flat. Set aside. I like to organize mine per color, so I can have a nice ombre effect when placing rhubarb ribbons on top of pie.\nNow you can start to assemble the pie.\nRemove tart crust from the freezer.\nPlace apricots on the bottom of the crust.\nSpread filling evenly over apricots with the help of a spatula. Try to get the filling as even and smooth as you possibly can.\nLay rhubarb ribbons on top of filling, trimming excess off, so there’s no rhubarb hanging off.\nPlace small amounts of the Crumble Topping around the edges of the pie. On top of the crumble, arrange slices of almonds like you see in the pics above.\nCarefully, stick assembled pie in the freezer for 15 minutes.\nStart to pre-heat the oven to 350F.\nBake pie for 25-35 minutes.\nIf the top is browning too fast, you want to cover it with foil so the bottom has a chance to bake.\nI like to bake my pie on the bottom rack of the oven so the bottom bakes, because the top tends to bake faster.\nRemove from the oven. Let it cool all the way, place in refrigerator for 2 hours until chilled.\nPie will keep well for about 4-5 days, covered in the refrigerator.\nWhen you open I will be there if you’ll have tarts like this one! I am swooning over this combo. Rhubarb is my fave!\nSuch beautiful clicks and the tart looks absolutely scrumptious! how I wish I could grab a bite from my screen!\nThis tart is so beautiful that it should have a spotlight on it! It would definitely be the star of your bakery!\nOh my goodness this look absolutely amazing! It truly looks delicious! I can’t WAIT to try this! Now, this recipe will be one of my favorites. Looks incredible! Love the unique flavors in this recipe! YUM!\nWow! What a beautiful looking tart! Love apricots and rhubarb in baking, they are so flavorful!\nIt was a heavenly combo!! Thank you!\nyou are really gifted on presentation. Every time I visit I am in awe on how lovely your desserts and photos are . This really looks and sounds fantastic, great job. I want a big slice!\nThis tart is so beautiful! I love how rhubarb looks when it’s sliced like that. I bet it’s delicious too!\nThis looks so incredibly pretty and sounds delicious as well. I don’t think I have seen apricot and rhubarb together but I can imagine they work well. Yum!\nIt was delicious beyond words. Thank you!\nSuch an impressive tart, so pretty. It looks delicious too!"
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        "text": "30 януари е 30-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 335 дни до края на годината (336 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1649 г. – Кралят на Англия Чарлз I е обезглавен.\n 1661 г. – Тялото на Оливър Кромуел, лорд-протектор на Англия, е ексхумнирано две и половина години след смъртта му и е извършена формална екзекуция.\n 1847 г. – Град Йерба Буена в Калифорния е преименуван на Сан Франсиско.\n 1856 г. – В Свищов е създадено първото българско читалище.\n 1912 г. – Шведският писател Алфред Йенсен номинира Пенчо Славейков за Нобелова награда за литература.\n 1932 г. – Във Финландия е въведен „сух режим“ на алкохола.\n 1933 г. – Адолф Хитлер е назначен за канцлер на Германия.\n 1934 г. – Българското правителство въвежда държавен монопол върху пшеницата и ръжта.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Армията на фелдмаршал Фридрих Паулус капитулира край Сталинград.\n 1945 г. – Хитлер прави последното си публично обръщение по радиото по повод на 12-годишнината от заставането му начело на Германия.\n 1948 г. – Индийският пацифист и духовен водач Махатма Ганди е убит в Делхи от религиозен фанатик.\n 1972 г. – Кървава неделя: Войници на Обединеното кралство убиват 14 цивилни граждани, демонстриращи за човешки права в Северна Ирландия.\n 1972 г. – Пакистан се оттегля от Общността на нациите.\n 1994 г. – 14-годишният унгарски шахматист Петер Леко става най-младият гросмайстор за времето си.\n 2003 г. – Белгия официално узаконява еднополовите бракове.\n 2007 г. – „Microsoft“ пуска поредната операционна система – Windows Vista.\n\nРодени \n\n 133 г. – Дидий Юлиан, римски император († 193 г.)\n 1767 г. – Яспер Улрих Зетцен, немски пътешественик († 1811 г.)\n 1781 г. – Аделберт фон Шамисо, немски писател и учен († 1838 г.)\n 1839 г. – Васил Диамандиев, български общественик и революционер († 1912 г.)\n 1857 г. – Емануил Иванов, български математик († 1925 г.)\n 1857 г. – Петър Ораховац, сръбски лекар († 1922 г.)\n 1870 г. – Стефан Бончев, български геолог († 1947 г.)\n 1875 г. – Атанас Буров, български финансист и държавник († 1954 г.)\n 1875 г. – Климент Шапкарев, български революционер и учител († 1949 г.)\n 1876 г. – Никола Михайлов, български художник († 1960 г.)\n 1878 г. – Дончо Лазаров, български революционер († 1950 г.)\n 1882 г. – Теодор Траянов, български поет († 1945 г.)\n 1882 г. – Франклин Делано Рузвелт, 32-ри президент на САЩ († 1945 г.)\n 1884 г. – Божидар Здравков, български политик († 1959 г.)\n 1889 г. – Георги Попхристов, български журналист († 1959 г.)\n 1893 г. – Бохуслав Хавранек, чешки езиковед († 1978 г.)\n 1894 г. – Борис III, цар на България († 1943 г.)\n 1899 г. – Макс Тейлър, американски вирусолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1951 г. († 1972 г.)\n 1899 г. – Надежда, българска княгиня († 1958 г.)\n 1900 г. – Исак Дунаевски, съветски композитор († 1955 г.)\n 1901 г. – Тодор Боров, български библиограф († 1993 г.)\n 1901 г. – Ханс Ерих Носак, немски писател († 1977 г.)\n 1903 г. – Златан Дудов, германски режисьор от български произход († 1963 г.)\n 1910 г. – Борислав Габровски, български футболист († 1977 г.)\n 1914 г. – Борис Машалов, български народен певец († 1962 г.)\n 1915 г. – Йоахим Пайпер, германски офицер († 1976 г.)\n 1917 г. – Пол Фрер, белгийски пилот от Формула 1 († 2008 г.)\n 1920 г. – Делбърт Ман, американски режисьор († 2007 г.)\n 1923 г. – Леонид Гайдай, съветски кинорежисьор († 1993 г.)\n 1925 г. – Дъглас Енгълбърт, американски изобретател († 2013 г.)\n 1926 г. – Василий Архипов, съветски вицеадмирал († 1999 г.)\n 1926 г. – Йенс Герлах, немски поет и белетрист († 1990 г.)\n 1927 г. – Улоф Палме, министър-председател на Швеция († 1986 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джийн Хекман, американски актьор\n 1932 г. – Димитър Димитров, български политик († 2002 г.)\n 1935 г. – Благой Шклифов, български езиковед († 2003 г.)\n 1935 г. – Христос Цолакис, гръцки филолог († 2012 г.)\n 1937 г. – Борис Спаски, руски шахматист\n 1937 г. – Ванеса Редгрейв, британска актриса\n 1938 г. – Ислам Каримов, президент на Узбекистан († 2016 г.)\n 1941 г. – Грегъри Бенфорд, американски писател\n 1941 г. – Дик Чейни, вицепрезидент на САЩ (в екипа на Джордж У. Буш)\n 1942 г. – Марти Балин, музикант и вокалист († 2018 г.)\n 1944 г. – Цветана Манева, българска актриса\n 1945 г. – Светлозар Игов, български литературен критик\n 1948 г. – Божидар Финков, български лекар, политик\n 1949 г. – Питър Агре, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 2003 г.\n 1951 г. – Светлозар Жеков, български литературен критик, преводач и издател († 2022 г.)\n 1951 г. – Фил Колинс, британски музикант\n 1951 г. – Чарлз С. Дътън, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1957 г. – Златин Тръпков, български дипломат\n 1962 г. – Абдула II, крал на Йордания\n 1968 г. – Фелипе VI, крал на Испания\n 1969 г. – Добромир Банев, български писател, поет и публицист\n 1972 г. – Дженифър Хейл, американска озвучаваща актриса\n 1974 г. – Борис Чаталбашев, български шахматист\n 1974 г. – Крисчън Бейл, уелски актьор\n 1975 г. – Жуниньо Пернамбукано, бразилски футболист\n 1976 г. – Кристиан Броки, италиански футболист\n 1980 г. – Уилмър Валдерама, американски актьор\n 1981 г. – Димитър Бербатов, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Питър Крауч, английски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 970 г. – Петър I, цар на България (* Х век)\n 1566 г. – Алонсо де Ареляно, испански мореплавател (* XVI в.)\n 1649 г. – Чарлз I, крал на Англия (* 1600 г.)\n 1730 г. – Петър II, император на Русия (* 1715 г.)\n 1805 г. – Джон Робисън, шотландски физик (* 1739 г.)\n 1899 г. – Мария-Луиза Бурбон-Пармска, българска княгиня (* 1870 г.)\n 1928 г. – Йоханес Фибигер, датски медик, Нобелов лауреат през 1926 г. (* 1867 г.)\n 1932 г. – Димитър Каданов, военен деец (* 1860 г.)\n 1943 г. – Милка Ламбрева, българска актриса (* 1893 г.)\n 1945 г. – Антон Кецкаров, български революционер (* 1865 г.)\n 1948 г. – Махатма Ганди, индийски борец (* 1869 г.)\n 1948 г. – Орвил Райт, американски самолетен пионер (* 1871 г.)\n 1951 г. – Фердинанд Порше, австрийски конструктор (* 1875 г.)\n 1955 г. – Петър Тодоров, български политик (* 1881 г.)\n 1963 г. – Франсис Пуленк, френски композитор (* 1899 г.)\n 1968 г. – Иван Братанов, български актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 1969 г. – Жорж Пир, белгийски монах, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. (* 1910 г.)\n 1986 г. – Густав Себеш, унгарски футболист (* 1906 г.)\n 1986 г. – Иван Папанин, руски изследовател (* 1894 г.)\n 1991 г. – Джон Бардийн, американски физик, двукратен Нобелов лауреат през 1956 и 1972 г. (* 1908 г.)\n 1993 г. – Светослав Рьорих, руски художник (* 1904 г.)\n 1994 г. – Пиер Бул, френски писател (* 1912 г.)\n 1995 г. – Джералд Даръл, британски естественик (* 1925 г.)\n 2005 г. – Христо Евтимов, български футболист (* 1921 г.)\n 2007 г. – Сидни Шелдън, американски писател (* 1917 г.)\n 2015 г. – Жельо Желев, първият президент на Република България (* 1935 г.)\n 2022 г. – Стефан Солаков, български журналист (* 1942 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква: Свети Три Светители, Св. свещеномъченик Иполит, папа Римски, Св. благоверен цар Петър Български, Св. преподобни Сергий Къпински, Св. мъченик Димитрий Сливенски\n\n \n130"
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        "text": "Credit and debit cards are a common part of everyday life in the western world but just how secure are they? If you went out shopping for some Fenchurch clothing you wouldn't think twice about handing over your card to the cashier. But what is he/she really doing with it? Do you really understand what you are watching happen, and are you at risk?\nWhen the cashier swipes your card information from it is sent to your bank's authorisation servers and back to the shop. This information is rarely encrypted, meaning that with the right technology and know-how you could tap this line and steal the card information of everyone who shops there. In this way, shopping online for your Fenchurch clothing is actually a lot safer, as the information is encrypted before being sent. Due to the physical structure of the internet it is also impossible to predict the route your data will take between your own computer and that of the bank's, meaning that as long as they are kept securely you should be fine.\nIf you want to secure your home computer for easy Fenchurch clothing shopping online then you should make sure all of your software is fully patched and has all the latest updates. The easiest way to rip you off while shopping for Fenchurch clothing on your computer is to exploit existing security holes caused by bad programming practises, and patching your software will eradicate these holes, safeguarding your data and your finances."
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        "text": "BANGALORE CY JUNCTION SBC to GONDIA JUNCTION G train timings, routes, stops, and complete info.\nAs of now, 1 trains run between from BANGALORE CY JUNCTION (YPR) to GONDIA JUNCTION (G).\nThe fastest train from BANGALORE CY JUNCTION (YPR) to GONDIA JUNCTION (G) is YPR KRBA WAINGANGA EXP (12251) that departs at 23:40 and arrives to at 21:15. It takes approximately 21:35 hours."
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        "text": "Tonight I went back through some of the Tweets I have recently favorited and checked out a tweet by George Couros ( @gcouros ) that referred to a post by Andrew Campbell. His post was about \"The 5 Most Overhyped Trends in Education.\" One of the trends he mentions is BYOD. Within this post he provides a link to a more focused post on BYOD, so I went on to read that one as well along with a post by Gary Stager on why he believes BYOD to be the worst idea of the century. All of this reading led me to reconfirm my thoughts on this concept as well.\nSo I was struggling to focus in on a topic for tonight's post. When you need a little motivation where can you go for a post. Well, there are lots of options really. Maybe an article you recently read, or possibly a You Tube video. I have gotten inspiration from experiences at school, home and on occasion from quality TV like Seinfeld, The Walking Dead or my favorite The Big Bang Theory. But, if you are looking for a real PLN experience that is directly focused on the current trends in education, there is nothing like taking inspiration from another educators blog post.\nI don't want you to misunderstand me. For a while, I was a supporter of this program. I was so eager for technology to become a larger part of the education equation that I was willing to settle for this concept. I am not sure I considered it settling at first, but as I pondered it more and read reflections from members of my PLN, my understanding began to deepen and the drawbacks became clearer.\nIf we can just make a small analogy leap, let's consider how quickly we would reject the idea of student athlete's having to pay for their own athletic uniforms? Too much of a reach? How about if we said, the students that can afford football cleats can bring their own cleats in, and those that don't have cleats can either wear their regular shoes, or wait until the students that brought in their own cleats, were done with a drill, then they could offer to share their cleats with the other students. Still to simplistic of an analogy? How about if we asked the students that had their own Football helmets, high quality Riddell 360 helmets that are superior in concussion protection, but for the students that didn't have their own helmet, well they could use the slightly more used Riddell suspension helmets from 1965. Seem like a good plan now? While I don't think it is necessary that all students use the exact same device, or that students learn how to use just one type of device, the simple truth is there is a difference of what can be done with the various types of tools available. The problem for school districts is that if there are multiple types of devices being used, how do we support them? How do we support the students without their own devices? How do teachers plan for the different devices? How do we support the different types of charging needs? If you are looking for more detail on all the reasons this concept isn't such a great idea, check out the blog posts above. They do an excellent job of explaining all of the inequities involved, and lets face it public education is supposed to be there to be an equalizer.....or am I thinking of Finland?\nLove the helmet analogy. Great way to make your point.\nI just can't relate to simple statements on stuff like this. Context is everything. My school has been BYOD for a full 2 years now. None of the issues you've mentioned have turned out, for us, to be issues at all.\nI'm a firm believer that there are different answers for different schools. We have a BYOD program that has avoided the issues you mentioned above. I also know many schools that are a 'traditional' 1:1 which fits with their mission and culture.\nSo, while I believe everyone should have a well-reasoned basis for the decision in their school, I don't believe anyone can say that either BYOD or a 1:1 is the only answer for all schools.\nSteve & Jonathon, I would have to agree with both of to a point. I do think BYOD is a stepping stone for getting schools started in technology integration and it is a way for districts and more importantly for state and federal governments to side step their responsibilities. I also struggle with the idea that all devices need to be the same, but there is also benefits to this practice. I am glad Steve that your school has not faced any of the problems I list above, but I also want you to know that I did not just imagine that list of problems. They are the very problems that BYOD teachers have shared with me either face to face, via blog posts or on Twitter. Again, this is just my philosophy and why I don't think it is the answer for our schools or students. These are my thoughts as to why I think we need to address the technology gap in schools and while BYOD can be a stepping stone (my opinion) I don't see it as the answer until quality tech has become so prevalent that even the homeless have access to it, because yes, we do have homeless students in our schools."
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        "text": "A simulated multi-agency Channel Panel exercise. Look at a real life case study of a young person at risk of radicalisation, make an assessment based on the Vulnerability Assessment Matrix, then rate the risk.The event will provide participants with the knowledge and awareness to make informed opinions about the Prevent Strategy and Channel process.\nPre-registration essential - Please confirm your attendance by 17.30 on Monday 12th November by e-mailing seerat@ssgcic.org.\nSafe Space Group CIC is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation working with vulnerable people across the UK through the successful Upstanding Neighbourhoods programme."
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        "text": "Well maintained large town home with great east side location. New floor covering and just steps from community pool and well manicured grounds. Plenty of parking. Great for anyone looking for beautiful low maintenance living."
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        "text": "Q: Is there an easy way to remove a URL from Safari's address bar history? So, I love the new, awesomebar-style address bar in Safari 5 - with it's history search, I've gotten to the point where I no longer use bookmarks for most sites, I just remember the 2-4 letter strings that will bring what I want to the top of the search results.\nThis is great, except for when I screw up and add things to the history that screw with it. For example, one of my most used shortcuts was to get to a site I frequent by typing \"bl\" and hitting enter. Somehow, at one point, I did this without a search coming up, and now, the \"Top Hit\" for \"bl\" is \"http://bl/\", which is obviously, not an actual site.\nIs there any way to remove a single entry from the history without clearing the history entirely?\nBonus points if it can be done from the address bar without navigating around in prefs or anything. While the answers currently given work, I'd love to find an easier way to do it.\n\nA: click on show all bookmark (open book) on top-left of your safari. then search the site you want to remove (e.g: http://bl) after that delete it from history when you delete the singe site you never find http://bl when press bl in address bar.\n\nsearch here:\n\n\nA: Go in bookmarks menu and select show bookmarks, then search the url you want to delete with the search field on the top right (under the search engine bar), select the url to remove in the bottom part on hit delete key\n\nA: In Safari 8 the accepted answer no longer seems to work as history isn't within the bookmarks any more. Instead, there are options in the History menu to show and edit history. \nAs pointed out in a comment above by Loïc Wolff you can use the keyboard combination Opt+Cmd+2 to show history and a search field is available at the bottom right.\n"
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        "text": "BASEketball - RARE Movie Used Screen Prop actual ball. Props from this movie are IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND! This is one of the movie used ball signed by Parker & Stone! Balls are all custom made by hand, each little \"STITCH\" is red tape applied by hand. There are some missing on the backside of ball. You could cut up some red electric tape to restore. I attached a few screen shots, and you can see missing \"STITCHES\" in the movie. Rare collectible from this funny movie. Includes COA from Hollywood4u Investments, LLC. The item \"BASEketball RARE Ball Movie Prop Screen Used Autographed Trey Parker Matt Stone\" is in sale since Wednesday, September 21, 2016. This item is in the category \"Entertainment Memorabilia\\Movie Memorabilia\\Props\\Originals\". The seller is \"hollywood2buy\" and is located in New Port Richey, Florida. This item can be shipped worldwide."
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        "text": "5 февруари е 36-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 329 дни до края на годината (330 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 506 г. – Кралят на вестготите Аларих II издава сборник с римски закони.\n 1204 г. – Алексий V Дука Мурзуфул е коронясан за император на Византия.\n 1762 г. – Френската островна колония Мартиника е превзета от Англия.\n 1783 г. – При първото от петте последователни земетресения на полуостров Калабрия (Италия) загиват 50 хиляди души.\n 1818 г. – Маршал Жан Бернадот се възкача на шведския престол като Карл XIV.\n 1850 г. – В САЩ е патентована първата машина за смятане аритмометър.\n 1859 г. – Княз Александру Йоан Куза е избран за владетел на Княжество Молдова и поставя основите на съвременна Румъния.\n 1861 г. – В САЩ е патентована кинокамерата от Коулмън Селърс.\n 1871 г. – Васил Левски изготвя писма до Филип Тотю в Одеса и Панайот Хитов в Белград, с които кани двамата войводи да се включат дейно в работата на Вътрешната революционна организация.\n 1885 г. – Белгийският крал Леополд II създава Свободна държава Конго, като своя частна собственост в Африка.\n 1889 г. – Княз Фердинанд I дава разрешение на Военното министерство за закупуване на първите картечници за Българската армия.\n 1904 г. – Войските на САЩ напускат Куба след 5-годишна окупация.\n 1909 г. – Русия признава независимостта на България.\n 1917 г. – Мексико приема своята революционна конституция.\n 1928 г. – По изкуствен път е получен Витамин D.\n 1936 г. – Чарли Чаплин реализира последния си ням филм – Модерни времена.\n 1945 г. – По време на конни надбягвания в Мексико конят Голяма Ракета поставя световен рекорд по скорост – 70 км в час.\n 1953 г. – За пръв път е показан анимационният филм на Уолт Дисни „Питър Пан“.\n 1958 г. – Военноовъздушните сили на САЩ загубват водородна бомба близо до бреговете на Савана, Джорджия, бомбата не е била намерена.\n 1958 г. – Гамал Абдел Насър е номиниран за първи президент на Обединената Арабска Република.\n 1968 г. – Виетнамската война: Започва Битката при Ке Сан.\n 1971 г. – Проект Аполо: Аполо 14 каца на Луната.\n 1973 г. – В Торонто (Канада) започва строежът на телевизионната кула Си Ен Тауър – най-високата сграда в света за следващите 34 години.\n 1976 г. – Американката Мод Тал става най-възрастният шофьор в света, след като получава правоуправление на 104-годишна възраст.\n 1991 г. – Столицата на Киргизстан – Фрунзе е преименувана на Бишкек.\n 1997 г. – Под обществен натиск три швейцарски банки прехвърлят 71 млн. долара по сметката на фонда за жертвите на Холокоста.\n 2000 г. – В Техеран е извършен неуспешен опит за атентат срещу президента на Иран Мохамед Хатами.\n 2002 г. – Компанията Pepsi заснема най-скъпия рекламен видеоклип – с участието на Бритни Спиърс на стойност 9 млн. долара.\n\nРодени \n\n 1788 г. – Робърт Пийл, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1850 г.)\n 1808 г. – Карл Шпицвег, немски художник († 1885 г.)\n 1812 г. – Жорж Дантес, френски монархист († 1895 г.)\n 1840 г. – Джон Бойд Дънлоп, шотландски изобретател († 1921 г.)\n 1840 г. – Хайръм Стивънс Максим, британски изобретател († 1916 г.)\n 1843 г. – Никола Ганчев, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1848 г. – Жорис-Карл Юисманс, френски писател († 1907 г.)\n 1852 г. – Масатаке Тераучи, министър-председател на Япония († 1919 г.)\n 1866 г. – Рейджиро Вакацуки, министър-председател на Япония († 1949 г.)\n 1871 г. – Константин Н. Робев, български лекар († 1946 г.)\n 1877 г. – Константин Калинин, съветски авиоконструктор († 1938 г.)\n 1878 г. – Андре Ситроен, френски автомобилен пионер († 1935 г.)\n 1882 г. – Луи Вагнер, френски автомобилен състезател († 1960 г.)\n 1889 г. – Станке Димитров, български антифашист († 1944 г.)\n 1899 г. – Уолтър Лангер, американски психоаналитик († 1981 г.)\n 1903 г. – Алексей Леонтиев, съветски психолог († 1979 г.)\n 1905 г. – Георги Герасимов, български художник († 1977 г.)\n 1907 г. – Валтер Науш, австрийски футболист († 1957 г.)\n 1909 г. – Вангел Аяновски, югославски партизанин († 1996 г.)\n 1912 г. – Пиетро Ферарис, италиански футболист († 1991 г.)\n 1914 г. – Алън Ходжкин, британски биофизик, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. († 1998 г.)\n 1914 г. – Уилям Бароуз, американски романист († 1997 г.)\n 1915 г. – Роберт Хофщетер, американски физик от еврейски произход, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 г. († 1990 г.)\n 1916 г. – Уго Локатели, италиански футболист († 1993 г.)\n 1919 г. – Андреас Папандреу, министър-председател на Гърция († 1996 г.)\n 1920 г. – Леда Милева, българска поетеса и писателка († 2013 г.)\n 1923 г. – Евгени Константинов, български писател и сценарист († 1986 г.)\n 1924 г. – Александър Матросов, съветски военнослужещ († 1943 г.)\n 1925 г. – Генчо Стоев, български писател († 2002 г.)\n 1930 г. – Александър Герчев, български лекар († 1997 г.)\n 1930 г. – Веселин Калчев, български музикант († 1999 г.)\n 1932 г. – Чезаре Малдини, италиански футболист и треньор († 2016 г.)\n 1934 г. – Ханк Аарон, американски бейзболист († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Петър Драмов, български художник\n 1941 г. – Стивън Канел, американски актьор, продуцент, сценарист и писател († 2010 г.)\n 1943 г. – Майкъл Ман, американски режисьор и продуцент\n 1948 г. – Свен-Йоран Ериксон, шведски футболен мениджър\n 1949 г. – Курт Бек, германски политик\n 1949 г. – Мануел Орантес, испански тенисист\n 1950 г. – Нийл Джордан, ирландски режисьор и писател\n 1954 г. – Клиф Мартинез, американски музикант\n 1956 г. – Ектор Ребаке, мексикански автомобилен състезател\n 1958 г. – Франк Пагелсдорф, германски футболист\n 1959 г. – Антони Дончев, български музикант\n 1961 г. – Ирина Флорин, българска певица и моден дизайнер\n 1962 г. – Емил Велев, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Пако Айестеран, помощник-треньор на ФК Ливърпул\n 1964 г. – Дъф Маккагън, американски музикант\n 1964 г. – Лора Лини, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Георге Хаджи, румънски футболист\n 1966 г. – Вяра Анкова, български журналист\n 1967 г. – Инка Парай, немска писателка\n 1968 г. – Маркус Грьонхолм, автомобилен състезател\n 1969 г. – Боби Браун, американски певец\n 1969 г. – Майкъл Шийн, британски актьор\n 1971 г. – Терезия Мора, немско-унгарска писателка\n 1972 г. – Мери-Елизабет Доналдсън, графиня на Монпезат\n 1975 г. – Джовани ван Бронкхорст, холандски футболист\n 1976 г. – Тони Джа, тайландски майстор по бойни изкуства\n 1977 г. – Иван Гребенчарски, български скиор\n 1978 г. – Тал Шакед, американски шахматист\n 1980 г. – Мартин Харизанов, български политик и икономист\n 1981 г. – Жули Зенати, френска певица\n 1984 г. – Карлос Тевес, аржентински футболист\n 1985 г. – Ванеса Русо, играч на покер от САЩ\n 1985 г. – Кристиано Роналдо, португалски футболист\n 1986 г. – Ведран Чорлука, хърватски футболист\n 1987 г. – Диян Христев, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Румен Николов, български футболист\n 1992 г. – Марина Кискинова, българска поп певица и актриса\n 1992 г. – Неймар, бразилски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1578 г. – Джанбатиста Морони, италиански художник (* 1520 г.)\n 1725 г. – Йохан Кристоф Вайгел, немски гравьор (* 1654 г.)\n 1803 г. – Джордж Бас, английски лекар (* 1771)\n 1822 г. – Али паша Янински, албански държавник (* ок. 1741)\n 1881 г. – Томас Карлайл, британски философ и публицист (* 1795 г.)\n 1909 г. – Димитър Паничков, български издател (* ок. 1810)\n 1910 г. – Дине Дробенов, български революционер (* ?)\n 1927 г. – Никола Рибаров, български генерал (* 1859 г.)\n 1931 г. – Михал Грамено, албански революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1934 г. – Уилям Морис Дейвис, американски геоморфолог (* 1850 г.)\n 1937 г. – Лу Андреас-Саломе, германска писателка (* 1861 г.)\n 1947 г. – Боян Смилов, български политик (* 1885 г.)\n 1959 г. – Курт Закс, немски музиколог (* 1881 г.)\n 1966 г. – Лудвиг Бинсвангер, швейцарски психиатър (* 1881 г.)\n 1984 г. – Манес Шпербер, австрийски писател (* 1905 г.)\n 1999 г. – Василий Леонтиев, руски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г. (* 1906 г.)\n 2001 г. – Любомир Димитров, български актьор (* 1930 г.)\n 2005 г. – Гнасингбе Еядема, президент на Того (* 1937 г.)\n 2008 г. – Асен Попов, български скулптор (* 1925 г.)\n 2013 г. – Леда Милева, българска писателка (* 1920 г.)\n 2014 г. – Робърт Дал, американски политолог (* 1915 г.)\n 2021 г. – Атанас Скатов, български алпинист (* 1978 г.)\n 2022 г. – Анани Явашев, български актьор (* 1932 г.)\n 2023 г. – Первез Мушараф, пакистански военачалник и политик (* 1943 г.)\n\nПразници \n Мексико – Ден на конституцията (1917 г.)\n Бурунди – Ден на единението\n Сан Марино – Ден на патрона (Света Агата)\n Пакистан – Ден на Кашмир\n\n205"
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        "text": "Madonna News Archives for July 2005\nRumour : Documentory to premiere on TV ?\nFor a variety of reasons, Madonna’s documentary feature did not go to the Cannes Film Festival, and it has become clear that it’s not going to be screening at the Venice cinema jamboree either.\nSo where will it get shown? Um, television.\nThe singer and her many associates have decided, or rather been advised, that the film – which is a behind-the-scenes and in-front- of-the-scenes look at her last tour – would work better on the small screen.\nAt one point, the Cannes czars were going to give Madonna a place on the jury and show the documentary as a work in progress.\nCannes festival boss Thierry Fremaux told me he had seen three hours’ worth of footage but, in his view, “it wasn’t ready”.\nOthers have seen more footage, and it appears that wasn’t ready, either.\nDocumentaries about artists’ exploration of their work often come across better on the box than on the big screen.\nOne tends to want to doze at the cinema, whereas at home one can hit the pause button while pouring a glass of cranberry juice to stay awake.\nOne wag commented last night: “What’s happened to Madge? Is she too busy feeding her chickens to sort this thing out?”\nSome films that will be at the Venice Film festival include Proof, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Casanova, with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller.\nSienna is hoping to attend the festival for Casanova’s world premiere screening on September 3, but first she will have to work out whether it would be feasible to miss a performance of As You Like It, which is running at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.\nWhile I’m on the Sienna topic, it’s worth remembering that Jude Law is one of the few actors in this country whose work has been honoured with Oscar nominations.\nAnd by the way, the producers of Casanova want to know if they are booking a suite in Venice for one, or two.\nsource : dailymail\nThe Sexiest Music Videos – Justify My Love at #6\nChristina Aguilera’s Dirrty has clinched the title of sexiest music video.\nEric Prydz’s Call On Me, which featured a women’s aerobics work-out, came second behind Aguilera, whose video was set in a boxing ring.\nBenny Benassi’s Satisfaction, which stars scantily-clad women clutching power tools, was third.\nNerd’s Lapdance was fourth, followed by tATu’s All the Things She Said, famous for its lesbian clinch in pouring rain.\nMadonna’s erotic black-and-white video Justify My Love came sixth, followed by Kylie Minogue’s Spinning Around, in the online poll for FHM Music TV.\nMariah Carey’s Heartbreaker – which features a girl-on-girl fight – was eighth, followed by Britney Spears’s Toxic, and Narcotic Thrust’s I Like It.\nFHM Music TV spokeswoman Vikki Timmons said of the winning video: “David LaChapelle created this erotic masterpiece in a sweaty boxing ring.\n“Dirrty oozes sex appeal from start to finish. Christina is one of the sexiest women in music.\n“It was a tough decision for the public to make but I think few would dispute the winner.”\nFHM Music TV is presenting the Top 100 Sexiest Music Videos of all time on Channel Q, co-hosted by Myleene Klass and ex-England footballer Lee Sharpe. More than 150,000 votes were cast in the online poll.\nsource : launch\nLiz Rosenberg on album rumours\nDon’t believe those reports that Madonna is teaming up with Christina Aguilera. “Christina is working on an album in the [same] building [as Madonna] but they have not seen each other,” – Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, tells The Scoop. She went on to debunk another rumor. “Gwen Stefani is not guesting on the record either. It’s all Madonna, all the time ” a total dance record called ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor.’ No ballads, no messages. Her fans will go insane when they hear it. It’s back to Madonna the queen of the dance floor.”?\nMadonna is “Hung Up”\nMadonna has announced details of the first release from her new album, “Confessions On A Dancefloor”.\nThe comeback single will be “Hung Up”, which has been produced by Stuart Price, aka Jacques Lu Cont, reports madonna.com. An autumn release is expected.\nLu Cont is understood to have produced “Confessions On A Dancefloor”, Madonna’s first new album since 2003’s “American Life”. The album is apparently currently being mixed in Los Angeles.\nAccording to reports, Madonna will shoot the album cover next month with Steven Klein, who is also expected to direct the video for “Hung Up”.\nProducer Lu Cont was the musical director for Madonna’s “Re-Invention Tour” last year and also co-wrote the track “X-Static Process” from “American Life”.\nsource : launch.com\nNew Madonna.com intro page\nMadonna.com : Album and Single Confirmed\nMadonna.com is happy to announce the name of the first single off of the new album is called Hung Up (produced by Stuart Price). The album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, will be released this fall. Stay logged in to Madonna.com for more exciting album news!\nThat’s no lady, that’s Madonna\nMadonna is the new Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, albeit more To the Manor Bought than Penelope Keith’s dowager. She has been shot in jodhpurs (only with a camera, not a 12-bore) enjoying British aristo pleasures and wafting grain around the lawn of her Wiltshire pile wearing a catwalk gown.\nHer transformation from one who played the pop ho to one who might bank at Hoares is complete. So if I were her husband I’d be very nervous. Guy Ritchie might have anticipated retirement as a squire as his film career nears the end of its reel, but how long before the old girl wearies of green wellies? The chanteuse has talent, above all, for reinvention; the material girl is a mercurial woman. When she masters one look, she is soon shopping for the next. By the time toffs pile round for the start of the pheasant season she may even have adopted peasant chic ” as long as it keeps her in the manner to which she has become so very accustomed.\nsource : timesonline.co.uk\n“Like A Duchess” – Vogue Article\n“Who would have thunk it?” says Madonna with a laugh. “The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pubgoing nature lover”and the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn’t take no for an answer!”\nSpeaking in carefully modulated tones, dressed with faux-bourgeois sobriety (this afternoon in Issa’s prim satin blouse with a print of flying ducks, black Kate Hepburn pants, and Marc Jacobs teal lizard shoes), a flotilla of charming, noiseless assistants close at hand and a courtly husband making polite but distracted small talk, she has the air of an Edwardian dollar princess”the moneyed American belles who were married off to impecunious British nobles in the golden age”and the fragile beauty and substantial real estate to match. But no one understands metamorphosis better than Madonna; she even named her 2004 tour “Re-Invention.” That tour is the subject of Madonna’s documentary I’m Going to Tell You a Secret, directed by Jonas A…kerlund and to be released later this year. In some ways the new movie is a pendant to 1991’s Truth or Dare, which a mellower Madonna now admits “in some ways is hard for me to watch. I was a very selfish person. You go through periods of your life where the world does revolve around you, but you can’t live your whole life that way. On the other hand, I kind of admire my spunk and directness!”\nClick here for the full article.\nRumour : Madonna to produce a movie about Dusty Springfield\nMadonna and her quest for movie success continues at a fast pace… but she is now planning to hit the screen as a producer. While she may have been the undisputed star of the recent Live 8 show in London, as far as movies are concerned, Madonna’s star doesn’t shine so bright.\nBut she plans to rectify this by making a big-screen version of the life of Sixties singing legend Dusty Springfield – who scored worldwide success with tracks like I Only Want To Be With You. Madonna told my mole: “In order to work at the level I want in movies, I have to create my own vehicles. This is a story I can relate to well.”\nNot only will she produce the movie, but she’s also hinted that she will take a small role… that of Dusty’s manager. Fans of Musical Madonna, take note that her new album – provisionally called Confessions Of A Dance Floor – will be out towards the end of October this year.\nsource : sky.com/madonna.nu\nWhen it’s too late for lusty, a rock chick can be formidable\nSummertime, and the living is easy . . . so naturally American Vogue prints a photo-shoot of the English countryside, showing how the cream of English society disports itself during our brief but ravishing belle saison.\nNow, who is this patrician figure, clad in buttermilk chiffon and cashmere, her wheat-blonde hair curled into immaculate waves, laughingly enacting a Petit Trianon charade of feeding her flock of happy hens from a dainty porcelain bowl, while in the background there looms the rose brick frontage of some small but perfectly formed English country house?\nHere she is again, on horseback this time, dressed in hacking jacket, breeches and a slightly peculiar pair of boots. Last and prettiest of all is the set piece with evening dress and small children. A flowing silk skirt, the creamy smile of a woman who knows that she has fulfilled her destiny in every possible way, and two angelic moppets, a little girl in fairy frills, a small boy in chain mail, brandishing a sword as big as himself.\nSo go on, who is she, the girl in the pictures? Matriarch, countrywoman, grande dame. I give you one guess. The hens are the clinching detail. It’s the Duchess of Devonshire, isn’t it? Archive pictures from the Thirties, showing her at the height of her beauty. Odd about wearing chiffon to feed the poultry, but that’s eccentric Brits for you, right?\nWrong. The rose-and-blonde aristo, posing so charmingly with hens, hunter and lovely home is, in fact, none other than the Material Girl herself — Madonna, fetchingly got up for the photographer from American Vogue as Our Lady of the Manor. Fancy that!\nNot, it is true, that Madonna’s latest incarnation comes as a total surprise. Between her dizzying variety of personae — the nasty-mouthed dominatrix in spiky fetish gear, the studious seeker after Kabbalistic knowledge, the sweet, Prada-clad librarian of her book launches — Madonna has been offering for some time periodic glimpses of herself in tweeds and wellies as the Country Wife.\nStill, isn’t it a trifle rum that she chooses to offer up this vision of herself as an English gentlewoman at a time when the English gentry has never been more unfashionable or more energetically reviled? Do you think she’s losing the keen edge that has kept her ahead of the game for so long? Well, no, of course she isn’t. In fact, I think what she has done is to take a long, keen-eyed look into the future to see what awaits her there, and come up with a wonderfully pragmatic solution.\nI’m always amazed when I read the things that fat, ugly, balding male journalists allow themselves to write about Madonna, their fabulously well preserved contemporary. “Menopausal” and “the old girl”, were a couple of the milder descriptions that appeared after her performance at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park. Yeah, right, Mr Love God, and just look at you, I always think, on reading the painfully misogynistic prose of these barrel-shaped boobies.\nHowever, I suspect that the secret of the Madonna phenomenon is a certain restlessness which ensures that she doesn’t sit around fulminating about patronising press but is instinctively always moving on to the next thing, and the next, and the one after that. The trouble is that, at 46, you begin to run out of next things.\nHowever fabulously well preserved, an intelligent woman (and Madonna is certainly that) knows that there is no mileage after a certain point in pretending to be luscious. The result is simply sinister, as a brief tour d’horizon of Botoxed and desperate former beauties will confirm. So, what’s the alternative?\nIn the States there is no alternative. Unless you’re Barbara Bush, you just carry on getting thinner and thinner, more and more wide-eyed, sadder and madder, until you vanish altogether. You’d think Madonna might have been able to thrive in France, where allure is reckoned to be ageless, but the French are so intolerant of eccentricity (and their music scene is so peculiar). Besides, she’s married to an Englishman.\nSo, what have the Brits to offer a 46-year-old rock star — apart from an unpleasant claque of paunchy, sex-starved male journalists? Actually, more than you’d imagine. One always thinks of Latin nations as being supremely matriarchal, but in Britain we entertain a long and robust tradition of pale, willowy beauties who deal with the transition from flower-like nymph to middle age and older by becoming Formidable.\nEven luckier for Madonna, our version of Formidable comes in an assortment of incarnations. There is Rock Chick Formidable, as modelled by Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Jane Birkin, all of whom are quite as much adored now — wrinkles, shattering life experiences and all — as they were in their dewy prime.\nBut if Madonna is too grand for that slightly down-at-heel form of celebrity, luckily we do a fabulous line in straight-up Dowager Formidable, which might suit her down to the ground. Consider the picture of the 50-year-old Queen Mary, or (to bring the matter up to date) Lady Annabel Goldsmith. Observe the wonderful posture, the ineradicable self-belief, the immense quantities of diamonds (or glitter of some sort, at any rate), and tell me if you don’t see there the very pattern of the Material Girl in later life.\nLooking again at those Vogue pictures, I think Madonna has made a clever choice. At 46 she is still pretty enough to conceal the power behind the charm. Catch her again in 30 years’ time and she’ll have turned into one of P. G. Wodehouse’s aunts. Rock chick, bellowing to rock chick, like mastodons across the primeval swamp.\nRumour : “Hung Up” the first single from Confessions on a Dancefloor\nfrom MadonnaTribe : MadonnaTribe has heard some fresh and exclusive news about Madonna’s upcoming album.\nThe Queen of Pop is currently in Los Angeles mixing her album with Stuart Price and the first single to be released from the new album is called “Hung Up”. In mid-August Madonna will shoot the album cover in the UK with Steven Klein who will also direct her new video, also shot in August and also in the UK.\nfrom DrownedMadonna : As DrownedMadonna revealed some weeks ago, Madonna and Stuart Price are currently mixing her new album in Los Angeles. We have been told that one of the possible songs to be chosen as first single is called “Hung Up”.\nChris Martin plays for Madonna\nChris Martin played a song for Madonna with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow at a recent party in the English countryside, according to reports.\nThe Coldplay singer and American movie star were invited to a party hosted by the Queen Of Pop at her home at Ashcombe Manor, in Tollard Royal on the Wiltshire-Dorset border.\nMadonna has revealed in an interview with Vogue magazine that all the guests were asked to contribute a song, poem or piece of acting, leading to Martin and Paltrow’s song.\nApparently they were joined by Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella in a rendition of “American Wife”, a reworking of Madonna’s “American Life”.\nMadonna said the party was to mark her fourth wedding anniversary. She explained: “Gwyneth did a fantastic rap and Stella sang background vocals and, well, Chris played the piano.”\nElsewhere at the showbiz knees-up, Sting reportedly played a lute, while Madonna herself performed a scene from the play “The Town Wench Or Chastity Rewarded”."
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        "text": "Q: Real alternative to Tag&Rename I was using Tag&Rename (an MP3 tag editor) on Windows and I'm looking for a real alternative for OS X.\n\nA: Jaikoz and Music Man can do it for you.\nyou can also use some free apps too:\n\n\n*\n\n*MusicBrainz\n\n*ID3 Editor\n\nA: The tagger\n\nA: To my knowledge there is no tagging software on OS X as polished and features complete as Tag&Rename.\nBeside the ones aforementioned, I use SimpleTagger which enables you to tag from Amazon (including cover) and rename your files from tags.\n\nA: \nI mostly use mid3v2. Some examples:\nmid3v2 --artist Artist --title Title --album Album --track 1 file.mp3\nfor f in *.mp3;do a=${f%% - *};t=${f#* - };t=${t%.mp3};mid3v2 --artist \"$a\" --title \"$t\" \"$f\";done\nmid3v2 -l file.mp3 # list tags\nmid3v2 -l file.mp3|sed -n s/^TPE1=//p # artist\nmid3v2 -D file.mp3 # delete all tags\nfor f in *.mp3;do l=$(mid3v2 -l \"$f\");mv \"$f\" \"$(printf %02d $(sed -n 's,^TRCK=0*\\([^/]*\\).*,\\1,p'<<<\"$l\")) $(sed -n 's,^TIT2=,,p'<<<\"$l\"|tr '/:?<>\\\\*|\"^' _).mp3\";done\nmid3v2 --delete-frames $(mid3v2 -l *|LC_ALL=C sed -n 's,^\\([^=]*\\)=.*,\\1,p'|sort -u|grep -Exv 'TPE1|TIT|TALB|TRCK|TYER|TDRC'|tr \\\\n ,) * # keep only specified tags\n\nYou can install mid3v2 by running sudo easy_install pip;sudo pip install mutagen. id3v2 and id3tag don't support Unicode and id3tool doesn't support ID3v2.\n\nA: Tag & Rename works on PlayOnMac.\nPlayOnMac is a Windows compatibility layer (but it's not a virtual machine). It's free and you don't need a Windows license either. First, you need to download and install PlayOnMac, then buy Tag & Rename and install it from within PlayOnMac.\nAfter that, it just works like a usual app.\n"
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        "text": "6 февруари е 37-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 328 дни до края на годината (329 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1623 г. – Франция, Савоя и Венеция сключват съюзен договор, насочен против Испания.\n 1788 г. – Масачузетс става 6-ия щат на САЩ.\n 1819 г. – Британският благородник Томас Рафълс основава Сингапур.\n 1840 г. – С подписване на договор между представители на британската корона и маорите е основана държавата Нова Зеландия.\n 1878 г. – Освободен е град Бургас от османско владичество и е учредена първата българска градска община.\n 1897 г. – Открита е жп линията Перник – Радомир.\n 1899 г. – Сенатът на САЩ ратифицира договор, по силата на който Испания отстъпва на САЩ владенията си Гуам, Куба, Пуерто Рико и Филипините.\n 1900 г. – В Хага е създаден Международен арбитражен съд.\n 1901 г. – В Парижките жп гари са поставени първите обществени телефони.\n 1904 г. – Япония прекъсва дипломатически отношения с Русия; два дни по-късно започва Руско-японската война.\n 1922 г. – Подписан е договор за забрана използването на отровни газове при военни действия между Великобритания, САЩ, Франция и Япония.\n 1933 г. – В Германия е въведена цензура на печатните издания.\n 1935 г. – В САЩ започва продажбата на играта Монополи.\n 1936 г. – Олимпийски игри: Зимни олимпийски игри: В Гармиш-Партенкирхен са открити IV Зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1951 г. – При тежка железопътна катастрофа в Пенсилвания (САЩ) загиват 85 души и над 500 са ранени.\n 1952 г. – Умира крал Джордж VI и Елизабет II става кралица на Обединено кралство Великобритания и Северна Ирландия.\n 1958 г. – В самолетна катастрофа в Мюнхен (тогава ФРГ), загиват 23 души, осем от които футболисти на ФК Манчестър Юнайтед, Англия.\n 1996 г. – В Атлантическия океан, близо до брега на Доминиканската република катастрофира Боинг-757 на турските авиолинии, при което загиват всичките 189 пътници и екипаж.\n 2004 г. – При самоубийствена атака на чеченски сепаратист в Московското метро загиват 40 души, а 129 са ранени.\n 2012 г. – При скъсването на язовирна стена е наводнено Харманлийското село Бисер.\n\nРодени \n\n 1664 г. – Мустафа II, султан на Османската империя († 1703 г.)\n 1665 г. – Анна Стюарт, кралица на Англия († 1714 г.)\n 1799 г. – Емерих Фривалдски, унгарски ботаник († 1870 г.)\n 1802 г. – Чарлз Уитстоун, британски физик († 1875 г.)\n 1838 г. – Хенри Ървинг, британски артист († 1905 г.)\n 1858 г. – Христофор Хесапчиев, български офицер и учен († 1938 г.)\n 1866 г. – Стефан Ватев, български педиатър и антрополог († 1946 г.)\n 1879 г. – Педро Агире Серда, президент на Чили († 1941 г.)\n 1886 г. – Алберто Гереро, чилийско-канадски композитор († 1959 г.)\n 1886 г. – Людмил Стоянов, български филолог († 1973 г.)\n 1892 г. – Джон Карден, британски конструктор на танкове († 1935 г.)\n 1892 г. – Уилям Мърфи, американски лекар, Нобелов лауреат († 1987 г.)\n 1892 г. – Христо Стоянов, български политик († 1970 г.)\n 1895 г. – Бейб Рут, американски бейзболист († 1948 г.)\n 1897 г. – Алберту Кавалканти, бразилски кинорежисьор († 1982 г.)\n 1900 г. – Харалд фон Елверфелт, германски офицер († 1945 г.)\n 1903 г. – Клаудио Арау, чилийски пианист († 1991 г.)\n 1905 г. – Владислав Гомулка, полски комунистически и държавен деец († 1982 г.)\n 1911 г. – Роналд Рейгън, 40-и президент на САЩ († 2004 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ева Браун, любовница и съпруга на Адолф Хитлер († 1945 г.)\n 1916 г. – Кръстю Димитров, български шахматист († 1999 г.)\n 1917 г. – Жа Жа Габор, американска актриса († 2016 г.)\n 1928 г. – Алан Мелцер, американски икономист († 2017 г.)\n 1928 г. – Илия Конев, български учен († 2009 г.)\n 1929 г. – Кийт Уотърхаус, британски писател и журналист († 2009 г.)\n 1929 г. – Пиер Брис, френски актьор († 2015 г.)\n 1932 г. – Камило Сиенфуегос, кубински революционер († 1959 г.)\n 1932 г. – Франсоа Трюфо, френски режисьор († 1984 г.)\n 1933 г. – Аврам Аврамов, български алпинист († 2019 г.)\n 1943 г. – Иван Гарелов, български журналист и телевизионен водещ\n 1945 г. – Боб Марли, ямайски певец († 1981 г.)\n 1946 г. – Атанас Вангелов, македонски писател\n 1948 г. – Феликс Митерер, австрийски писател\n 1949 г. – Джим Шеридън, ирландски кинорежисьор\n 1950 г. – Натали Кол, американска поп певица († 2015 г.)\n 1951 г. – Атанас Липчев, български писател († 2010 г.)\n 1956 г. – Стефан Влахов-Мицов, български историк и писател\n 1958 г. – Валентин Касабов, български журналист и политик († 2020 г.)\n 1960 г. – Мила Искренова, български хореограф\n 1962 г. – Аксел Роуз, американски музикант (Guns N' Roses)\n 1963 г. – Владимир Писанчев, български дипломат\n 1964 г. – Руслан Райнов, български тенисист\n 1966 г. – Рик Астли, английски поп певец\n 1967 г. – Тони Дачева, българска попфолк певица\n 1968 г. – Акира Ямаока, японски композитор и продуцент\n 1969 г. – Масимо Бусака, швейцарски футболен съдия\n 1984 г. – Пирет Йервис, естонска поп певица (Vanilla Ninja)\n 1986 г. – Микеле Паолучи, италиански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 893 г. – Фотий, константинополски патриарх (* 820 г.)\n 1411 г. – Исав де Бунделмонти, деспот на Епир (* ? г.)\n 1515 г. – Алдо Мануцио, италиански печатар (* 1449 г.)\n 1685 г. – Чарлз II, крал на Англия, Шотландия и Ирландия (* 1630 г.)\n 1695 г. – Ахмед II, султан на Османската империя (* 1642 г.)\n 1740 г. – Климент XII, римски папа (* 1652 г.)\n 1793 г. – Карло Голдони, италиански драматург (* 1707 г.)\n 1804 г. – Джоузеф Пристли, английски химик, теолог и философ (* 1733 г.)\n 1894 г. – Теодор Билрот, австрийски хирург (* 1829 г.)\n 1896 г. – Павел д'Убри, руски дипломат (* 1820 г.)\n 1898 г. – Леополд Льофлер, полски художник (* 1827 г.)\n 1899 г. – Лео фон Каприви, пруски генерал и канцлер (* 1831 г.)\n 1900 г. – Пьотър Лавров, руски социолог (* 1823 г.)\n 1902 г. – Васил Кънчов, български учен и политик (* 1862 г.)\n 1903 г. – Петко Каравелов, български политик (* 1843 г.)\n 1918 г. – Густав Климт, австрийски художник (* 1862 г.)\n 1926 г. – Иван Жабински, български офицер (* 1862 г.)\n 1929 г. – Мария-Кристина Австрийска, кралица на Испания (* 1858 г.)\n 1932 г. – Петруш Йовчев, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1944 г. – Кирил Ботев, български офицер и държавник (* 1856 г.)\n 1952 г. – Георги Шпагин, руски оръжеен конструктор (* 1897 г.)\n 1952 г. – Джордж VI, крал на Обединеното кралство (* 1895 г.)\n 1962 г. – Кандидо Портинари, бразилки художник (* 1903 г.)\n 1963 г. – Абд ел-Крим, политически и държавен деец на Мароко (* ок. 1881 г.)\n 1981 г. – Фредерика Хановерска, кралица на гърците (* 1917 г.)\n 1985 г. – Джеймс Хадли Чейс, английски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1985 г. – Мюриъл Гардинър, американски психоаналитик (* 1901 г.)\n 1991 г. – Салвадор Едуард Лурия, американски вирусолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 г. (* 1912 г.)\n 1993 г. – Артър Аш, американски тенисист (* 1943 г.)\n 1993 г. – Йон Негойцеску, румънски писател и поет (* 1921 г.)\n 1994 г. – Джак Кърби, американски художник и писател (* 1917 г.)\n 1998 г. – Фалко, австрийски поп вокалист и композитор (* 1957 г.)\n 2002 г. – Макс Перуц, австрийско-британски микробиолог, Нобелов лауреат (* 1914 г.)\n 2003 г. – Христо Асърджиев, български журналист (* 1924 г.)\n 2009 г. – Джеймс Уитмор, американски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2010 г. – Атанас Липчев, български писател (* 1951 г.)\n 2011 г. – Гери Мур, британски рок и блус китарист (* 1952 г.)\n 2010 г. – Митьо Солаков, български скулптор (* 1931 г.)\n 2012 г. – Ангел Георгиев, български актьор (* 1944 г.)\n\nПразници \n Имен ден: Огнян, Огняна, Искра, Искрен, Пламен, Пламена, Светла, Светлана, Светозар, Светлозар, Светослав, Светлозара, Светослава, Фотий, Фотин, Фотина, Фотьо\n Свети Фотий – На този ден в България празнуват имен ден Светла, Светлан, Силвия и производните имена\n Лапландия – Ден на саамите (народа на Лапландия)\n Нова Зеландия, Ниуе, Токелау – Годишнина от договора Вайтанга (1840 г., национален празник)\n\n206"
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        "text": "Nestled in the heart of the Stapleton neighborhood is Westerly Creek Elementary. Established in 2007, serving ECE, Kindergarten, and 1st grade students—WCE now serves over 700 students in ECE-3 through Fifth grade. As a close knit community that partners with families to support the growth and development of the whole child, Westerly Creek Elementary continues to accelerate learning for all students."
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        "text": "Tag: fluorescence\nReport from Jerusalem, #28, 5th January 2011\nNon-Destructive Investigation By X-Ray\nProf. Yuval Goren of Tel Aviv University has discovered a method of investigating clay and other materials by non-destructive methods, using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry . Having built up a data-base of results from former intrusive methods, he can now organize the analysis by merely scanning the object and comparing the results with the previous data. The scans will then show the type of clay or other material and its geographical origin. He is thus able to examine new finds and also older museum specimens without the need to break off a piece or cut off a sample. The method has been used on the Late Bronze Age fragment of a cuneiform letter from the City of David excavations that is dated to the El-Amarna period. Prof. Goren’s analysis shows that the tablet material is the Terra Rossa soil from around Jerusalem and it is therefore most probable that the item was written by a scribe in the Jerusalem area and may indeed have been part of a letter dictated by the Jebusite king Abdi-Heba to Egypt, to the court of Amenhotep III or IV at El-Amarna, and the fragment may have been part of the copy retained by the sender.\nAelia Capitolina, A Roman Bathing Pool in Jerusalem\nDuring excavations for a new mikvah (ritual bath) in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, a rescue dig by the IAA, directed by Dr. Ofer Sion, uncovered a large bathing pool that had been used by the Tenth Legion (Fretensis) of the Roman army in about 200 CE. Evidence of the Roman build was the large number of floor and roof tiles with the stamp of the legion, and the many stamped roof tiles show that the facility was completely roofed. The location in the Jewish Quarter, some distance from the presumed army HQ in the Armenian Quarter, shows that the occupying soldiers were spread out throughout the city. The Tenth Legion was involved in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple and later in the rebuilding of the city by Hadrian, after the abortive Bar-Kochba revolt of 135 CE. when it was renamed Aelia Capitolina.\nThe excavators were amused to find one of the roof tiles impressed with the paw marks of a dog. Presumably the cur had walked over the wet tiles that had been spread out and left to dry.\nMonastery of St. George in Wadi Qelt, West of Jericho\nOn 30th November a ceremony was held at the Monastery to celebrate the completion of a new road to St. George’s, that had been built by the Ministry of Tourism and other bodies to improve access, at the request of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III. The present road had suffered damage from flash floods and a minor earthquake over the last few years, and the new one will make it easier for pilgrims and tourists alike, to visit this remarkable 5th-7th century complex of buildings that appear to hang from the side of the steep desert mountain over the lush green wadi below.\nIt is thought that the original buildings were constructed above a fourth-century synagogue. They were destroyed during the Persian invasion of Jerusalem in 614 CE. and later restored by the Crusaders. The interior boasts some very fine icons and frescoes. Today, St. George’s is one of only six monasteries still active in the Judean desert area.\nFunding for Restoration of Historic Sites\nIn the context of the National Heritage Plan announced last February, the first tranche of 91 million shekels (16 million sterling) has now been allocated for work to 16 major sites, ancient and modern. One of the archaeological sites is Herodion, where work was recently halted due to the tragic death of Ehud Netzer. It can now continue with restoration of the unique frescoes at the small theatre, that will be preserved and made ready for presentation to the public by experts from the Hebrew University.\nAnother site will be the large Byzantine-period synagogue at Umm el-Kanatir, in the Golan heights, which is being restored piece by piece using computerized technology organized by Yeshu Drei and archaeologist Haim Ben-David.\nSudden Fierce Storm , Destruction and Discovery\nWinter in Israel started with a destructive storm on 12th and 13th December, that wreaked havoc along the Mediterranean coast in particular. Many sites were affected but worst of all was Caesarea. Some of the foundations of the northern aqueduct were exposed and parts of the Crusader city wall suffered fractures due to subsidence. The Crusader-period breakwater, that protected the southern arm of the Herodian harbour was broken into three pieces and the port wall left unprotected from southern wave damage. Repair work will have to begin very shortly to avoid major damage to the ancient port.\nAt Ashdod-Yam, the ancient fortress close to the shore suffered damage.\nIn ancient Ashkelon, at the national park, there was damage to a mosaic floor and a row of several columns was overturned. On the beach ten metres below, the storm that hit the cliffs exposed and toppled a classic white marble Roman statue about 1.2m high. It was headless and without arms but depicted a fine female figure in a carefully folded toga and sandals and has been presumed to be of Aphrodite. It is from a bath house, exposed at the head of the cliffs, and may have been part of the dedication of the baths, that are dated to c. 300 CE.\nEarly Homo Sapiens from Cave in Israel, 400,000 Years Ago?\nIn 2000 Prof. Avi Gopher and Dr. Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University discovered the Qesem Cave where they claim to have found the earliest evidence of modern man. The cave is near Rosh Ha’ayin, about 20 km. east of Tel Aviv, and the archaeologists have located a series of human teeth that they claim are closer to the dental apparatus associated with anatomically modern Homo Sapiens, rather than their earlier brothers, the Neanderthals. They have found in the cave evidence of flint knapping, the mining of sub-surface materials for flint production, hunting and the cutting and sharing of animal meat, evidence of regular burning and so on, all activities associated with anatomically modern Homo Sapiens.\nThe claim is that these findings antedate the earliest evidence of anatomically modern Homo Sapiens from Africa and thus the scholars claim that the species existed at the Qesem cave many years earlier than presently realized. The dating of the teeth to between 400,000 and 300,000 years ago is however not yet at all clear and further results from the ongoing excavations are awaited before reaching any firm conclusions.\nStephen Gabriel Rosenberg,\nW.F.Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem\nAuthor adminPosted on January 5, 2011 Categories SitesTags Abdi-Heba, Amenhotep, Ashdod-Yam, Ashkelon, Avi Gopher, Bar Kochba, Caesarea, City of David, Crusaders, El-Amarna, fluorescence, frescoes, Hadrian, Haim Ben-David, Homo Sapiens, IAA, Jebusite, Jericho, Jerusalem, Late Bronze Age, LBA, mikvah, Neanderthal, Ofer Sion, Qesem Cave, Ran Barkai, ritual bath, spectrometry, St. George, synagogue, Tel Aviv University, Theophilos III, Umm el-Kanatir, Wadi Qelt, X Legion Fretensis, X-ray, Yeshu Drei, Yuval Goren"
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        "text": "Hagerstown C.C. Athletics\nHawk Booster Club\nBooster Membership Structure\nFitness Center Hours for Hawk Trainer and Hawk Corporate Memberships\nScholar Athlete Thank you\nARCC Facilities\nFuture Hawks\nWelcome Prospective Hawks\nProspective Athletes Form\nConference 2017-18\nHCC Awards\nHCC names Leah Pongratz as new Head Volleyball Coach\nLeah Pongratz has been named head volleyball coach for the 2019-20 academic year at Hagerstown Community College.\n\"We are very excited for Leah Pongratz to take over the head coach responsibilities of our volleyball program,\" said HCC Athletic Director Robert Rohan. \"Coach Pongratz has years of successful experience at a variety of levels, as well as recruiting quality student-athletes to play at the college level. Her level of organization and her knowledge of skill and strategy will be great assets as she continues to grow our program.\"\nPongratz graduated from HCC in 2005 and transferred to Salisbury University, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology. She went on to earn a master's degree in teaching from Frostburg State University.\nMost recently, Pongratz served as the head women's volleyball coach at Penn State Mont Alto, where she accumulated a record of 19-4. She advanced her team to the PSUAC Championship and was nominated for the PSUAC Conference Coach of the Year. She also served as head coach of several high school programs, including Mercersburg Academy, Saint Maria Goretti High School, and Boonsboro High School.\n\"I am looking forward to working with this core group of returning players, and new recruits, to continue building on HCC's established program,\" said Pongratz. \"We have a very talented group and I am excited to see how they all get together to make this a successful season.\"\nHagers Town\nSat, 11/03 | Women's Volleyball vs. Montgomery College (MD) L, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX\nFri, 11/02 | Women's Volleyball vs. Cecil College W, 3-2 (Final) RC | BX\nMon, 10/22 | Women's Volleyball vs. Christendom College W, 3-2 (Final) BX\nFri, 10/19 | Women's Volleyball at Harford Community College W, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX\nWed, 10/17 | Women's Volleyball at Potomac State College of WVU L, 3-1 (Final) BX"
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        "text": "7 февруари е 38-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 327 дни до края на годината (328 през високосна година).\n\n7 февруари е международният ден на гърдата.\n\nСъбития \n 1758 г. – Учреден е първият парламент на Канада.\n 1857 г. – В Русия е издаден указ за създаване на първата железопътна мрежа.\n 1878 г. – Руските войски освобождават Поморие в хода на Руско-турската война.\n 1921 г. – Започва работа Вторият църковно-народен събор.\n 1922 г. – Мария Склодовска-Кюри става член на Френската академия на науките.\n 1940 г. – Би Би Си открива редакция в България.\n 1983 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Ако те има“.\n 1992 г. – Подписан е Договорът от Маастрихт, който води до създаване на Европейския съюз.\n 1998 г. – В Нагано, Япония се откриват XVIII Зимни олимпийски игри.\n 2000 г. – България и Румъния се договарят в Брюксел за изграждане на втори мост над Дунав при Видин и Калафат.\n\nРодени \n\n 1102 г. – Мод, наследница на английския трон († 1167 г.)\n 1478 г. – Томас Мор, политически деец и хуманист († 1535 г.)\n 1693 г. – Анна, руска императрица († 1740 г.)\n 1804 г. – Джон Диър, американски производител († 1886 г.)\n 1812 г. – Чарлз Дикенс, британски писател († 1870 г.)\n 1833 г. – Рикардо Палма, перуански писател († 1919 г.)\n 1845 г. – Фьодор Успенски, руски историк и археолог († 1928 г.)\n 1846 г. – Владимир Маковски, руски художник († 1920 г.)\n 1858 г. – Александър Найденович, български учен († 1927 г.)\n 1864 г. – Киро Узунов, български революционер († 1938 г.)\n 1868 г. – Иван Стойков, български генерал († 1925 г.)\n 1870 г. – Алфред Адлер, австрийски лекар († 1937 г.)\n 1877 г. – Годфри Харолд Харди, английски математик († 1947 г.)\n 1882 г. – Тодор Георгиев, български генерал († 1971 г.)\n 1883 г. – Борис Денев, български художник († 1969 г.)\n 1885 г. – Синклер Луис, американски писател и драматург, Нобелов лауреат († 1951 г.)\n 1887 г. – Андрей Шкуро, офицер от Руската имперска армия († 1947 г.)\n 1889 г. – Клаудия Муцио, италианска оперна певица († 1936 г.)\n 1906 г. – Олег Антонов, руски авиоконструктор († 1984 г.)\n 1915 г. – Теоктист, румънски патриарх († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Неджмие Ходжа, албански политик († 2020 г.)\n 1925 г. – Херберт Айзенрайх, австрийски писател († 1986 г.)\n 1926 г. – Марк Тайманов, украински шахматист и пианист († 2016 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Йорданов, български актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1938 г. – Георги Джубрилов, български актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1940 г. – Тошихиде Маскава, японски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2021 г.)\n 1942 г. – Мария Воденска, македонски писател\n 1951 г. – Добрин Добрев, български литературовед\n 1958 г. – Мат Ридли, британски журналист и писател\n 1960 г. – Джеймс Спейдър, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Дейвид Брайън, американски музикант\n 1965 г. – Крис Рок, американски комик\n 1972 г. – Любомир Нейков, български комедиант и актьор\n 1973 г. – Боян Петров, български зоолог и алпинист († 2018 г.)\n 1978 г. – Аштън Къчър, американски актьор и модел\n 1978 г. – Даниел Ван Бойтен, белгийски интернационален футболист\n 1979 г. – Асен Букарев, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Делия Матаке, Румънска поп певица\n 1983 г. – Силвия Дънекова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1984 г. – Еньо Кръстовчев, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Спас Гюров, български колоездач\n 1987 г. – Бреа Бенет, американска порно актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 590 г. – Пелагий II, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 999 г. – Болеслав II Благочестиви, херцог на Бохемия (* 932 г.)\n 1317 г. – Робер дьо Клермон, граф на Клермон (* 1256 г.)\n 1823 г. – Ан Радклиф, английска писателка (* 1764 г.)\n 1864 г. – Вук Караджич, реформатор на сръбския език (* 1787 г.)\n 1873 г. – Шеридан Ле Фаню, ирландски писател (* 1814 г.)\n 1876 г. – Партений Зографски, български духовник (* 1818 г.)\n 1878 г. – Пий IX, римски папа за период от 32 години (* 1792 г.)\n 1885 г. – Ивасаки Ятаро, японски финансист и индустриалец (* 1835 г.)\n 1894 г. – Георги Бабаджанов, български революционер (* 1834 г.)\n 1900 г. – Петко войвода, български революционер, хайдутин и войвода (* 1844 г.)\n 1908 г. – Мануш Георгиев, български революционер (* 1881 г.)\n 1913 г. – Йордан Йовчев, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1937 г. – Илайхю Рут, американски политик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1845 г.)\n 1960 г. – Игор Курчатов, руски физик (* 1903 г.)\n 1971 г. – Александър Бегажев, български журналист (* 1898 г.)\n 1979 г. – Йозеф Менгеле, германски лекар, военнопрестъпник (* 1911 г.)\n 1986 г. – Минору Ямасаки, японски архитект (* 1921 г.)\n 1989 г. – Васил Акьов, български сценарист (* 1924 г.)\n 1999 г. – Хусейн I, крал на Йордания (* 1935 г.)\n 2010 г. – Уилям Тен, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2017 г. – Цветан Тодоров, българо-френски философ (* 1939 г.)\n 2020 г. – Иван Забунов, български историк, общественик и политик (* 1948)\n\nПразници \n Гренада – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1973 г., национален празник)\n\n207"
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        "text": "William Paca Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland, placed a ban on personal pencil sharpeners recently after several young students allegedly cut their wrists with the blades contained inside their small plastic housing. A concerned parent came forward March 29th, causing the school to launch an investigation into the matter, according to WTTG-TV. The school announced the ban on the use and possession of the pencil sharpeners later that same day, though the school’s nurse met with each of the seven kids and determined that none of them needed to be sent to the hospital. Counselors came to the school and spoke with the students, and officials notified the families of each of the students involved in the alleged incidents by the following week.\nIt is obvious that something must be done to stop these mass assaults, even if self-inflicted. We must take aggressive action now to stop the carnage wreaked by school and office supplies. No one in any place of learning, office, or other workspace should ever have to worry about the danger posed by these weapons in disguise. Today it’s portable pencil sharpeners, tomorrow it might be staplers. In the past, rulers were sometimes used to discipline unruly students, actions that would now be considered assault and battery. Nuns occasionally whacked a disruptive student on the rump in days of yore. Today we know this is sexual harassment, #MeToo, #bantheruler.\nHow long will it be until a carelessly flung rubber band strikes someone in the eye? How long until someone stabs another—or themselves—with a Bic pen? No one should be allowed to flick—or fling-- their Bic! We are well aware of the inherent dangers of lead pencils and have taken admirable steps to keep them out of the public’s hands, however it’s not just toxicity that’s the problem… there’s also the risk that someone could be stabbed or have their eye(s) put out. Scissors are an obvious threat. The sale and manufacture of regular scissors should be prohibited, and ones with rounded tips should be subject to a five-day waiting period. Hole-punchers could be used as a low-cost (but completely unsafe) alternative to pierce one’s ears, and should, at the very least, be heavily regulated. Elmer’s glue or other forms of paste could be sniffed or cause one’s fingers to stick together, either of which is unacceptable.\nCompasses, those fiendishly sharp instruments used to inscribe circles and arcs and measure distances on maps, have blessedly fallen into disfavor with the advent of computer technology. However, it is still possible to obtain them. A law must be passed mandating the immediate seizure and destruction of all of these “tools” currently extant. And this is just scratching the surface of the steps that need to be taken.\nWe have made strides. We have banned the Ten Commandments from public spaces, prayer in public schools and outmoded concepts such as “mom” and “dad” and “boy” and “girl.” We have put “not for human consumption” (don’t eat) warning labels on everything from posters, desks and lockers to tape dispensers, calculators, and keyboards. We are gradually reducing risks to the wellbeing of students and workers."
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        "text": "Q: Can I control how frequently Safari refreshes when switching between pages? Frequently when I'm using Safari on the iPad and loading multiple web sites at the same time and switching between them, Safari starts to reload a page when I switch back to it, even if it's been only a few minutes since I last opened the page.  This can be quite annoying.\nIs there any way to control how often Safari on the iPad will perform refresh a page?  Ideally, I'd like to tell Safari to not refresh any pages and just refresh manually when I want to.\n\nA: Safari (for iPod and iPad) keeps website cache only in RAM, and therefore, once it runs out of RAM, it'll automatically destroy an entire page, forcing the refresh, disguising itself as an auto-refresh feature. You can only keep few pages respective to amount of your device RAM.\nYou can try a third-party browser that has offline caching, and it'll remedy the situation. like:\n\n\n*\n\n*Mercury\n\n*iCab\n\n*Atomic Web Browser\nor if you Limit the number of tabs open in Safari to 2 or 3. It won't refresh.\n\nA: Try and make sure the sites you're visiting are optimized for mobile, open fewer tabs at a time, and other ways of not using Safari as heavily. Not exactly very suitable answers until iOS 4.1 is eventually released for the iPad. Alternative browsers such as iCab have an offline bookmark option that will save the entire page to disk so you can view it without needing to refresh until you want to.\nSafari on iOS has a very limited size on it's cache and will refresh a page when you come back to it if the cache is full. Part of this is because of the limited RAM available on iOS devices along with the fact that Apple doesn't write any cached items to the flash memory and only keeps it in the memory. (The iPad and iPhone 3G S only have ~256 MB of RAM, earlier devices 128 MB and the iPhone 4 512 MB)\nYahoo has run a series of tests to determine just how large the cache is. If the HTML of a page exceeds 25.6KB it will not be cached (and so refreshed every time you visit), external components can be larger (Up to 4MB) but the max size of the HTML page cache is only ~280KB on an iPad (paltry really). iOS 4 is set to increase that page cache size up to as much RAM as is available.\n"
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        "text": "Adore and Admire\nALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ROSS\nAdore and Admire is an alternate-universe RP which finds a middleground between old-Western cowboy settings, along with steampunk and deep fantasy. The year is 440 AR, and the month/season follows with the real world's and the northern hemisphere.\nAmelié Gentilesci\nAdore and Admire :: PROFILES :: Character Creation :: Female\nAmelié on Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:57 am\nDOSSIER: Sorcerer Freelancer\nRANK: Singer\n-GENDER\n-AGE\n-BIRTHPLACE\nPort Victory, South Thibudis\n-BIRTHDATE\nJune 14th, 420 AR\n-THEME SONG\n+ For now: Welcome to my Fanclub's Night!\n-PICTURE\n-DESCRIPTION\nThere are only a few things that never really change about Amelié. One: She is 5'6\". Two: She weighs about 145 lbs (ok so that could change maybe). Three: She has sparkling blue eyes that instantly grab someones attention when she looks at you. There is a sort of intensity to them that you can't help but notice. When she speaks to you, she generally gives her full attention. Four: Her hair is always long. Five: Her voice is clear, confident, and powerful. It is another thing that can be captivating about her. If she has to start giving out orders, you know she means business. Normally she just sounds like a sweet girl. Other than that... Amelié is a being of free-spirit.\nThanks to her abilities via the Ancestors, her hair will shift colors when she wills it from its usual blonde/strawberry blonde color. Sometimes its blue, purple, white, black.... Basically any color that you could choose. Her wardrobe is also a thing that is subject to change since it really can depend on her mood. She has plenty of clothes, and thus plenty of choices for various occasions. A guarantee, however, is that it'll be stylish on her and possibly show off her curves. She knows that she's a pretty girl (and she isn't so hesitant to show it off). She also wears a distinctive pair of earrings all the time for they are precious to her.\n-PRIMARY WEAPONS\nA microphone is her weapon of choice if she can get away with it.\n-SECONDARY WEAPONS\nA spear is her second choice.\n-SORCERY SPECIALITY\nShe's a changling with her hair. In a general sense, she can change her appearance slightly at the moment.\n-SKILLS\n+ Singing\n+ Dancing\n+ Taking control of a situation\n+ Not revealing everything in a situation ^_~\n-WEAKNESSES\n+ She feels as if she has to prove herself upon occasion.\n+ She hates feeling useless.\n+ She actually hates fighting.\n+ She is too often self-conscious about herself.\n-COMBAT STYLE\nAmelié is a more of a pacifist by nature, but she does know how to fight if she absolutely has to. If she doesn't have a spear on hand, she will mostly try to dodge and get away from her attacker if possible. She might make a few quick kicks or some such if she feel it will actually DO anything to help her in whatever situation she finds herself in. Otherwise she will try to find something in her surroundings to delay her attacker with, or use as some kind of makeshift weapon (in her case things like brooms, long sticks, etc).\nWhen she has her spear, however, the inner warrior comes out. She is quick, agile, and unrelenting. Her reflexes allow her to react with haste with either a spin of her spear, a deflection with the shaft, or maybe a parry via the tip. By an instructors standards, she has excellent form. She does possess great upper body strength for she can manage to bend a bamboo shaft when she is training. As long as she some kind of poled weapon, she can deal some serious damage, she is just the best at the spear. A glave would be a fantastic stand-in.\n-PERSONALITY\nWords can only go so far when it comes to describing a person, but they shall try to do Amelié Gentilesci justice. She is a woman of strength, integrity, and beauty. She will refuse to back down from a fight should she be challenged unless she knows it to be wiser to avoid the confrontation. She possess the womanly grace that many men may find attractive, and she knows how to use her womanly wiles if she needs to get her way (or if she's just bored. Not that she likes to play with hearts mind you! Though some teasing never hurt anyone). She is quite mature given her age, though her youthful nature does come out to play.\nFor example, she may pester in jest until someone will give in and take a day to walk her around a city should she find them interesting enough. She giggles at silly things, funny things, witty things. She cares about her appearance, and yet she won't if there is not time to worry about such frivolous things or some such. If she can help it though? She wants to look pretty, what kind of girl wouldn't? In that sense, there is an unshakeable self-confidence to her that fuels and drives her forward. She is who she is today because she worked hard to get here, and because of a special few who offered her support and aid when she needed it. If she decides that she likes you, she may decide to aid you in subtle or slight fashions. However, she must be sure that you can take that step yourself and not need to be taken by the hand and shown how to do everything. Nobody likes a complete child. She holds no respect for people that utterly depend on a person (unless she can understand the situation).\nThen there is the complex issue of war. To her, war is an ugly thing rife with sadness, death, and just overall bad. But like hell will she be unprepared to deal with it. The resolve that has fueled her in her career also fuels her should she need to steel herself for a combat situation. She will take up arms if no one else will and fight to death even if she might be terrified. As a rule of thumb, she tries her best not to show any kind of weakness to anyone and always tries to appear the self-confident Amelié that people know and love. After all, she didn't follow her rebellious streak for nothing! She followed it in order to pursue the thing she was most passionate about. That is another thing that is notable about her. If she feels strongly about something, she doesn't hold back when pursuing it.\nOnes familial history is not something that always defines them. Amelié made a point of breaking that chain of thinking. She is the daughter of a prominent General who retired to Port Victory once his wife began to take ill. She bore their daughter with some difficulty, and managed to survive the birth though she was in the hospital for a while afterwards. When General Arturius Gentilesci found out he was to have a daughter, he was both thrilled and disappointed. He had hoped for a son to carry on the family line, but was gifted with a daughter instead. The reason he was thrilled to have her was because of the frail nature of his wife whom had been a nurse that had served with his regiment before.\nDespite his initial misgivings about having a daughter, those were soon broken as his daughter grew and grew. She was quick to learn and perceive things, speaking her first words a bit earlier than other children her age. It was then that he decided he would try to raise her with the strength of a soldier while maintaining the precious frailty of a girl. It was what her mother wanted, and he loved his wife dearly. So she was a child that learned ballet, and minor combat forms. She played the flute, and learned how to stab with a spear. She learned the etiquette of a lady of the upper class combined with the strictness of a soldier. At first it was fun to her, like a game of some sort. People seemed to adore her, charmed by her acceptance to learn and how quickly she took to her different subjects. She had to admit, the attention was rather nice! Though her father wouldn't let it go to her head, drilling her that a puffed up peacock wouldn't survive in the world. It was something she learned quite well since she did notice how some of her fellow students didn't seem to like her for it. Once she toned it down and kept her pleasure more to herself, they seemed to open up more.\nBut then she discovered singing. She had joined her high schools chorale group and was soon one of their shining stars. Her father had already begun to hint at her joining the military, but now she wanted to pursue something else. She wanted to be a singer. No, correction, she wanted to be the best singer there was! Her mother had to remain in the hospital constantly for the past several years, growing weaker and weaker with each passing month. Yet she supported her daughter's dream when Amelié told her during one particular visit. She always visited her mother after school. Her father, on the other hand, was less than thrilled to hear of her plans. It was a wrench that had been thrown into his ideas for the future and well... he kind of went into a rage. They had thankfully been at home at the time, but it was still devastating to her. She hadn't cried so hard in her room before.\nThe words sank in overnight and she didn't bring up the subject again. Her father had told her that if she wanted to become a singer, he would disown her and she would have no home to return to. So Amelié fell quiet and did as he bade her to, learning how to fight better and better with her spear as time went on. She still sang in the chorale, he at least permitted her that, but it wasn't as fulfilling as it had been before. It was hollow, like a shade to remind her of what had been denied from her. It wasn't until she told her mother a couple of weeks later what had transpired between her and father since her mother could clearly tell something was eating away at her. It was her mother who told her to go and grasp that dream no matter who told her she couldn't, or shouldn't. \"But what of father?\" Amelié asked her mother. \"Don't tell him.\" Was her simple reply with a sly smile upon her weathered face.\nSo that was what she did. Amelié spoke to their chorale teacher and began to take private lessons, using money that she claimed went towards some other kind of lesson when her father asked. Then she went to auditions, writing and singing when and where she could. Sometimes she went to open mic nights doing covers, other times she managed to get small gigs with local bands who needed a singer for the evening or something. It took some time, but by the time she was about to graduate from High School, she was scouted. A call had finally come back. She was so excited she ran all the way to the hospital to tell her mother the good news only.... When she got there, the room was empty. Confused, she asked the nurses if she had gotten the right room and they looked at each other, before turning to her sadly. \"I'm sorry but she died about an hour and a half ago or so. She's already been taken down to the embalmer for preparations for her funeral.\" \"...What? Sh-She's...\" Amelié couldn't believe her ears at the news, instead staring at the empty room with its empty bed. She hadn't even been told that her mother had died. Her happiest day, had become her saddest. She had never seen her father so broken before that day. They ate dinner in relative silence.\nDuring the funeral, she asked the priest if it would be alright for her to sing a song for her mother, and he gave her the go ahead. So she did. It was a sunny day, a beautiful day, one of those days that her mother would have loved. She sang as she had never sung before, tears running down her cheeks, and she could feel something stir within her. It was as if a being had answered, or reacted to her singing. As she began to realize it was an ancestor answering her, her hair began to shimmer with a spectrum of colors like a liquid opal. It drew the attention of all those that were there, and though startled, she didn't stop singing. It was as if her hair had come alive, glittering with the light of life. It was like the Ancestors told her that was what she should do. And her father understood that too. After they had arrived home, he asked her if she was still interested in becoming a singer. She told him the good news she hadn't been able to tell her mother, and how she had been going behind his back to do it. He stared at her silently for a few moments, then merely nodded slowly. \"Do as you will. Just promise me you will never lose what we have taught you.\" He told her tiredly with a wave of a hand, sitting down to his drink then.\nSo she pursued her career with a fierce passion, as if she were a woman possessed. And it flourished with the brilliance of a rising star. She was soon known throughout the different cities, and she had a fan-base that was rapidly growing. Despite it all, her father was proud of her.\n-SORCERY TECHNIQUES\n~ Rainbow ~ 1\nAmelié's singing draws the attention of Ancestors and it channels into her appearance. Right now, she focuses it into her flowing hair in order to change the color for the most part though she can create a kind of shimmering effect if she gains a lot of power.\n-SORCERY FINISHER\n~ Flash Bomb ~ 1\nWith a powerful surge of energy from the Ancestors, Amelié can cause her hair to become a blinding focal point of light in order to distract/disable her opponents temporarily. In essence, it's like a flash bomb that goes off, but is her hair. They can't really see after staring at it. She has to have her eyes closed otherwise this could also affect her slightly, given her bangs close proximity to her eyes. The brilliant light lasts about fifteen seconds or so before going out.\n-FACE CLAIM\n[b]Macross Frontier/Aoki Hayato[/b] ||| [i]Sheryl Nome[/i]\n-CUSTOM RANK\n- Siren of Thibudis\n-ALIAS/NICKNAME\nVi, Raven, something....\n-OTHER CHARACTERS\nAurora Shir, Prophet Barius, Kida Armitage\nAmelié\nSIREN OF THIBUDIS\nCredits : 5\nPower Level: 1\nRe: Amelié Gentilesci\nElisa Castillo on Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:13 am\nElisa Castillo\nAXE CRAZY (Admin)\nLocation : Sabrie\nRank: Prime Minister of Sabrie\nJump to: Select a forum||--MAIN HALL| |--Announcements| |--The Foyer| |--Rules| |--Information| |--Archives| |--OOC| |--Postings| |--Events| | |--Event Information| | |--Event Archives| | | |--General Discussion| |--Absences| |--Logs| |--Bestiary and Registry| |--Human| |--Flora/Fauna| |--Legendary| |--Event-Based| |--Tech Registry| |--PROFILES| |--Character Creation| | |--Pending Characters| | |--WIP Characters| | |--Dead/Archived Characters| | |--Male| | |--Female| | |--Equipment| | | |--Templates| |--Store| |--THIBUDIS |--The North | |--Altis Tundra | |--Aenias City | | |--Prophets' Dominion | | |--Aenias Bridge | | |--Residential District | | |--Crown District | | |--Commerce District | | | |--Alterian Mountains | | |--Highcrest | | |--Farokon | | | |--The Silver Wall | |--Ryuhi | |--The Midlands | |--Yataris | | |--Yataris Colosseum | | |--Yataris Mineshaft | | |--Yataris Castle | | |--Yataris Station | | | |--Yatarian Desert | | |--Old Yataris Ruins | | |--Syndicate Headquarters | | | |--Eulvian Wilds | |--The South | |--Sky Pirate Cove | |--Sabrie | | |--Level One | | |--Level Two | | |--Level Three | | |--Level Four | | |--Sabrian Palazzo | | |--The Underdepths | | | |--Ill Fortune | |--The Great Plains | |--Port Victory | |--Mt. 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        "text": "Maj Gen Ishwar Hamal\nMajor General Ishwar Hamal, awc, ndu-ctf, psc, MPA, MSS, an alumnus of Nepali Military Academy, was commissioned in 1985 and joined Rajdal Battalion (Field Artillery). Before assuming the responsibility of the Commandant of Army Command and Staff College in January 2019, he was the General Officer Commanding of Mid-Eastern Division HQ.\nDuring his illustrious career, he has completed various courses with distinction from home and abroad. His home courses include Infantry Young Officers' Course, Counter Insurgency and Jungle warfare Course, Company Commander and Staff Course, Para Jump Training, All Arms Field Engineering, Regimental Signal Officers Course, Junior Staff Course, Personal Management Training, Management and Leadership Training, Course on International Humanitarian Law and Disaster management Training.His overseas trainings are Artillery Young Officers' Course, Regimental Survey Course, Regimental Signal Officers' Course and Long Gunnery Staff Course in India; Dynamics of International Terrorism Course, Legal Aspect of Combating Terrorism Course, NESA Strategic Studies Executive Course and Peace and Stability Course in the USA.\nMaj Gen Hamal is an eminent scholar. He is a distinguished graduate of Nepali Army Command and Staff College, Shivapuri, Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, USA and US Army War College, Carlisle, USA. He holds Master's degrees in Public Administration from Tribhuvan University and Strategic Studies from US Army War College and counter terrorism fellowship from National Defense University, Washington D.C.\nHe has a vast experience of serving as a peacekeeper in various United Nations missions. He served as a member of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 1990 and 2000 and United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in former Yugoslavia in 1994. He has also served in United Nations Peacekeeping Force in United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) in 2006-07 as a Military Observer.\nIn a distinguished service spanning over 34 years, he successfully completed wide-ranging appointments and assignments. He commanded Gorakh Box independent company (2000-01), Kali Jung Infantry Battalion (2003), Devi Dal Infantry Battalion (2005-06), No 1 Infantry Brigade (2015-16), and Mid-Eastern Div HQ. His important staff appointments include Military Assistant to Chief of Army Staff (2014-15), Military Secretary (2014), Director of Military Operations (2016-17), Chief of Staff of Far-Western Division HQ (2013). He also served as the Commandant of Birendra Peace Operation Training Centre (2011-13). His eminent service earned him prestigious accolades including SUKRITIMAYA RASTRADEEP, SUPRABAL JANASEWA SHREE, PRAKHYAT TRISHAKTI PATTA and PRABAL GORKHA DAKSHIN BAHU.\nMaj Gen Hamal is an avid reader, keen sportsman, and a passionate traveller. He is happily married to Mrs Roshani Hamal."
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        "text": "Q: How to automount a network share once OpenVPN has connected? (Using Tunnelblick) Does anyone know how to automatically mount a network share once a VPN connection using Tunnelblick has connected?\nRight now I have to connect and then do a cmd+K in the finder to connect to the AFP share. It'd be nice if it would connect automatically.\nThe share doesn't have a password (TimeCapsule without any passwords, and no, not using it for backup, we use it for a fileserver).\n\nA: 1.\nEdit the file /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/client.up.osx.sh and add these commands at the end of the file, just before exit 0 :\nsu USERNAME -c '\nmkdir /Volumes/TimeCapsule\nmount_afp afp://afp_username@server/volumename /Volumes/TimeCapsule\n'\nopen /Volumes/TimeCapsule\n\nReplace USERNAME with your username on the system.\n2.\nThen add the following at the end of /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/client.down.osx.sh :\numount /Volumes/TimeCapsule\n\n3.\nDo not forget to check the set nameserver option for your configuration : \n\nWarning : Configuration files client.(up|down).osx.sh are executed for every connections made using OpenVPN.\nThis could also be made using launchd for watching if the vpn connection is up, but I don't know how to use launchd.\n\nA: I have just succeeded to auto-mount NFS after having connected VPN and auto-unmount before discconect with Tunnelblick (3.7.3 on macOS High Sierra).\nAt first, I had the same problem with Cameron Conner. Still, Studer's answer was quite helpful for me.\nInstead of Studer's client.(up|down).osx.sh, I placed two lines in the .ovpn:\nup (path to your connected.sh)\ndown (path to your pre-disconnect.sh)\n\nThen create and edit these connected.sh and pre-disconnect.sh.\nconnected.sh:\n#!/bin/sh\nsudo mkdir /Volumes/NFS\nsudo mount -P 192.168.0.1:/share /Volumes/NFS\n\npre-disconnect.sh:\n#!/bin/sh\nsudo umount /Volumes/NFS\n\nI don't know about TimeCapsule manipulation. So above process is about NFS. I think you can arrange it for TimeCapsule.\nI think the point Cameron and I got stucked was su or sudo. And, to avoid password is another problem. My solution to that was sudoers.\nEdit /etc/sudores with visudo. Modify the %admin entry from:\n%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL\n\nto:\n%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL\n\nUnless your account is not an admin, it should work.\n"
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        "text": "The Untold Environmental Costs of the Brexit Vote\nJuly 16, 2016 by Bill Laurance\nALERT member Pierre-Michel Forget is a leading tropical ecologist and former President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Here he tells us about some surprising implications of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.\nOn 22 June 2016, hundreds of participants attended a photo slideshow during the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Montpellier, France.\nThere was no talk, only pictures showcasing the beauty of nature in the tropics. It was a quiet moment, a relaxing break for those who are dedicating their lives to knowledge and conservation of tropical biodiversity.\nSudden Change\nWhen the clock woke me early on 24 June, everything had changed. While ATBC delegates were still sleeping, investors were already awake, expecting a gold price increase after anticipating the Brexit vote outcome.\nIt happened when markets opened -- gold prices spiked. I immediately thought of the tropical ecosystems we are studying and hoping to protect from human misuse, because as Alert’s Director Bill Laurance recently wrote: “The world will be a far poorer place if we fail to try.”\nMy thoughts then turned to the Guianan rainforests, especially those belonging to France, and countries that have been terribly ravaged by long-term mercury and cyanide pollution from mining activities. It was not difficult to envision the consequences of the Brexit vote for rainforest diversity and communities.\nThis new economic crisis will generate high demand for gold, as we already experienced in the early 2000s. The aftermath of the Brexit vote will be ecologically devastating, not just politically or economically.\nThese untold, hidden consequences will not be mentioned in reports for the UK, EU, or the global market. Those who invest in gold are blind to its origins.\nA moonscape of illegal gold mining in Sumatra, Indonesia (photo by William Laurance).\nBlood Gold\nLikewise, investors ignore the ecological and social consequences of increased demand, though these are well known. Climate change will worsen and global carbon stocks and water quality will be directly impacted by deforestation due to gold mining.\nAnd all this only six months after the historic COP21 agreement in Paris -- where the world agreed to strong measures to limit harmful climate change. What can we do now, as conservationists?\nAfter the increase of gold prices and the subsequent gold rush in Amazonian countries in 2004-2008, the Conservation Committee of the ATBC released resolutions calling for the halt of gold mining in the Guianas and the Amazon, and opposing industrial mining in nature reserves and protected areas -- issues that were addressed during the ATBC 2008 meeting in Suriname.\nWhat has happened since 2008? Are ATBC resolutions and declarations successful in countries suffering from rampant mining in protected areas? Yes and no, might be the response.\nReturn to French Guiana\nI recently returned to Nouragues, a nature reserve in French Guiana, more than three decades after my first expeditions there. Contrary to my first observation in late 2003, I did not see a single gareimperos village or canoe along the Approuage and Arataye rivers this time.\nHowever, the gold rush still persists in other locations, and the Brexit vote will make it worse.\nThe scars of illegal gold mining in Suriname, South America (photo by William Laurance)\nA study showed that 41% of deforestation in the Amazon occurred between 2001-2013 in the Guianas, with 2007–2013 being the worst due to the economic crisis and an increased demand for gold. It is difficult to stay optimistic.\nIn 2008, the French government rejected the Iamgold-Cambior project’s application to open a large-scale gold mine at Kaw Mountain after NGOs and experts warned that these activities in the core zone of a protected area would be detrimental to nature and people.\nNew Threat\nNow, a new project has been proposed in western French Guiana by the Canadian-Russian joint venture Columbus Gold-Nordgold, which is now under scrutiny by various local media and environmentalists.\nThe proposed mining site is within the biologically rich area of Montagne d’Or, squeezed between the two mountains of the Integral Biological Reserve of Lucifer Dékou-Dékou.\nThe devil is in the details of the project. There is no need for another resolution or declaration about the consequences of a new gold rush; all this has been said before.\nIt is now the responsibility of stakeholders, policy-makers, and politicians to act and vote NO or YES, against or for destroying the Amazon forest to extract more gold in response to investors who demand more -- the untold consequences of the Brexit vote. For me, the risks of a project like this is just too high to contemplate.\nThis referendum is crucial for all citizens on the planet, not only for Europeans.\nJuly 16, 2016 /Bill Laurance\nBrexit, Blood Gold, Pierre-Michel Forget, ATBC, French Guiana, Suriname, illegal gold mining, mercury pollution, cyanide pollution, deforestation, water quality, protected areas, gold mines, Nouragues Protected Area, gold prices, Columbus Gold/Norgold, Montagne d'Or, Amazon rainforest, Guianas\nScientific group worries about future of Cambodian and S.E. Asian environments\nApril 04, 2015 by Bill Laurance\nThe largest-ever gathering of tropical biologists and environmental scientists to meet in Cambodia has expressed strong concerns about several development trends in the country, and in Southeast Asia generally.\nPerils ahead for leopards and lots of other Asian wildlife\nOver 300 scientists from 29 nations met in Phnom Penh this week, representing the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).\nThe scientists expressed their concerns in a document entitled the \"Phnom Penh Declaration\" (which you can download here).\n“We have a number of worries, but our most immediate concern is a proposed road that would slice through vitally important forest in Mondulkuri Province in eastern Cambodia, from Srea Ampos to Kbal Damrei,” said Seng Teak, Conservation Director, WWF Greater Mekong.\n“This road would clearly imperil one of the biologically richest forests in Indochina, an area that provides critical habitat for rare wildlife such as Elephants, Leopards, and Banteng, as well as over 230 bird species,” said Mr Teak.\n“Unfortunately, roads that cut into wilderness areas like that in Mondulkuri almost always open a Pandora’s box of environmental problems, such as illegal logging, poaching, and land clearing,” said William Laurance, a former ATBC president and director of ALERT. Laurance has studied the environmental impacts of roads and infrastructure across the tropics.\n“This is a critical time for decisions impacting wildlife and natural resources in Cambodia and throughout Southeast Asia,” said Teak. “There are huge plans ahead for new roads, dams, mining projects, and other infrastructure that could have severe environmental impacts.”\n“It’s absolutely vital that there be rigorous environmental impact assessments done before any major project is undertaken,” said Teak. “And we need a precautionary approach to projects—to look at them very carefully to ensure that they really are essential.”\n“If we don’t, we could lose a lot of the wildlife and natural ecosystems that make Cambodia unique, and that form the basis of our thriving and highly profitable tourism industry,” said Teak.\nApril 04, 2015 /Bill Laurance\nATBC, ATBC-Asia-Pacific, Phnom Penh Declaration, Mondulkuri Province, Srea Ampos-Kbal Damrei Road, WWF Greater Mekong, Cam, Cambodia, Leopard, Elephant, Banteng, wildlife poaching, illegal logging, Seng Teak, William Laurance, infrastructure expansion, roads, dams, Mekong River, environmental impact assessments\nNeotropical rainforests under assault from infrastructure & mining\nEverywhere you look across Central and South America, native ecosystems are being imperiled by an avalanche of new mining and infrastructure projects.\nForests under assault in Panama (photo by William Laurance)\nConsider just three examples:\n- In Nicaragua, a massive interoceanic canal project threatens vast expanses of rainforest and other ecosystems. It will imperil 4,000 square kilometers of forest and wetlands, slice across several key nature reserves, and cut through the MesoAmerican Biological Corridor. This issue is so worrisome that the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, the world's leading scientific organization devoted to tropical research, issued a special resolution of concern.\n- In Brazil, many protected areas are under assault from mining. A paper just published in the leading journal Science shows that at least 20% of all Brazil´s strictly protected areas and indigenous reserves -- an area larger than the UK and Switzerland combined -- are under consideration for mining projects. More than 44,000 square kilometers of Brazil's protected areas have been lost to mining and other developments since 2008.\n- Across the Amazon basin and Andes, at least 150 major hydroelectric dams have been proposed or are under construction. These projects will not only flood large expanses of forest but their associated road projects will imperil some of the basin's most remote and biologically important areas. For instance, it is estimated that 12 dams proposed for the Tapajós River in Brazil would result in nearly 1 million hectares of additional forest loss by 2032.\nWho is responsible for this tsunami of forest-destroying projects? There is no single cause, but China's unquenchable thirst for natural resources, the aggressive Brazilian development bank BNDES, and ambitious regional development schemes such as IIRSA are all leading contributors.\nNo one wants to halt responsible economic development, but this is a feeding frenzy. Unless scientists and conservationists have a louder voice, some of the world's most important environments could be lost forever.\nNeotropical forests, rainforests, Interoceanic Canal, Nicaragua, Brazil, Amazon, Andes, mining, hydroelectric projects, hydroelectric dams, infrastructure, BNDES, IIRSA, China, Central America, South America, deforestation, roads, Tapajos River, ATBC, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation"
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        "text": "8 февруари е 39-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 326 дни до края на годината (327 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 1215 г. – По време на Седмия кръстоносен поход, кръстоносците са разбити при Ал-Мансур (Египет).\n 1587 г. – Бившата шотландската кралица Мария Стюарт е екзекутирана по подозрение за участие в заговор за убийство на нейната братовчедка английската кралица Елизабет I.\n 1600 г. – Джордано Бруно е осъден от Инквизицията на смърт.\n 1724 г. – С указ на император Петър I е създадена Руска академия на науките.\n 1861 г. – Основани са Конфедералните американски щати.\n 1904 г. – Избухва Руско-японската война, след изненадваща торпедна атака на японската военна флотилия срещу руски кораби край Порт Артур, Китай.\n\n 1931 г. – Тържествено е открита новата столица на Индия – Ню Делхи.\n 1920 г. – Тирана става столица на Албания.\n 1950 г. – Създадено е Министерството на държавната сигурност на ГДР, известно още като ЩАЗИ.\n 1952 г. – Елизабет II е обявена за кралица на Великобритания.\n 1965 г. – Във Великобритания е забранена рекламата на цигари по телевизията.\n 1974 г. – В Горна Волта е извършен военен преврат.\n 1974 г. – Третият (последен) екипаж на американската космическа станция Скайлаб се завръща на Земята след 84-дневен престой в станцията.\n 1990 г. – Андрей Луканов съставя правителство на България, а на 7 август същата година подава оставката му.\n 1998 г. – Зимни олимпийски игри: Провежда се първият женски хокей на лед в историята на зимните олимпийски игри, в който Финландия побеждава Швеция с 6:0.\n 2002 г. – Зимни олимпийски игри: Започват XIX Зимни олимпийски игри в Солт Лейк Сити.\n\nРодени \n\n 412 г. – Прокъл, гръцки философ († 485 г.)\n 1191 г. – Ярослав II княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество († 1246 г.)\n 1405 г. – Константин XI Палеолог, император на Византийската империя († 1453 г.)\n 1557 г. – Робърт Бъртън, английски писател († 1640 г.)\n 1700 г. – Даниел Бернули, швейцарски математик, физик († 1872 г.)\n 1744 г. – Карл Теодор фон Далберг, германски държавник († 1817 г.)\n 1792 г. – Каролина Августа Баварска, императрица на Австрия († 1873 г.)\n 1794 г. – Фридлиб Рунге, немски химик († 1867 г.)\n 1798 г. – Михаил Павлович, велик княз на Русия († 1849 г.)\n 1799 г. – Джон Линдли, английски ботаник († 1865 г.)\n 1810 г. – Елифас Леви, френски езотерик († 1875 г.)\n 1825 г. – Хенри Уолтър Бейтс, английски естественик († 1892 г.)\n 1828 г. – Жул Верн, френски писател († 1905 г.)\n 1834 г. – Димитрий Менделеев, руски химик († 1907 г.)\n 1853 г. – Георги Агура, български офицер († 1915 г.)\n 1858 г. – Херман Шкорпил, чешко-български археолог († 1923 г.)\n 1861 г. – Петър Вариклечков, български офицер († 1958 г.)\n 1872 г. – Тодор Хвойнев, български революционер († 1957 г.)\n 1878 г. – Мартин Бубер, немски философ († 1965 г.)\n 1880 г. – Франц Марк, германски художник († 1916 г.)\n 1881 г. – Георги Баждаров, български революционер и учител († 1929 г.)\n 1883 г. – Иван Минков, български опълченец († 1925 г.)\n 1883 г. – Йозеф Шумпетер, австрийски икономист († 1950 г.)\n 1888 г. – Якоб Кайзер, немски политик († 1961 г.)\n 1890 г. – Владимир Поптомов, български политик († 1952 г.)\n 1895 г. – Хорлоогийн Чойбалсан, монголски политик († 1952 г.)\n 1911 г. – Йосиф Йосифов, български композитор († 2001 г.)\n 1915 г. – Пенчо Данчев, български критик (* 1989 г.)\n 1921 г. – Лана Търнър, американска актриса († 1995 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ерика Буркарт, швейцарска поетеса († 2010 г.)\n 1922 г. – Юрий Авербах, руски шахматист\n 1925 г. – Джак Лемън, американски актьор († 2001 г.)\n 1928 г. – Вячеслав Тихонов, руски актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1929 г. – Карл Колер, австрийски футболист († 2009 г.)\n 1930 г. – Ева Щритматер, немска поетеса († 2011 г.)\n 1931 г. – Джеймс Дийн, американски актьор († 1955 г.)\n 1932 г. – Благовест Сендов, български математик († 2020 г.)\n 1932 г. – Джон Уилямс, американски композитор\n 1932 г. – Клиф Алисън, британски автомобилен състезател († 2005 г.)\n 1932 г. – Хорст Екел, германски футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1933 г. – Хироки Косай, японски астроном\n 1934 г. – Лада Галина, българска писателка († 2015 г.)\n 1941 г. – Ник Нолти, американски актьор\n 1946 г. – Герт Йонке, австрийски писател († 2009 г.)\n 1947 г. – Рашко Младенов, български актьор\n 1950 г. – Спас Панчев, български политик\n 1950 г. – Хосе Фалкон, кубински космонавт\n 1955 г. – Джон Гришам, американски писател\n 1955 г. – Константин Тренчев, български общественик\n 1956 г. – Марион Колева, българска журналистка\n 1958 г. – Христо Стоянов-Едрин, български журналист и писател († 2015 г.)\n 1958 г. – Марина Силва, бразилски министър\n 1959 г. – Симеон Щерев, български спортист\n 1959 г. – Хенри Черни, канадски актьор\n 1961 г. – Брус Тим, американски аниматор\n 1961 г. – Едуард Ераносян, български футболист\n 1964 г. – Герман Греф, руски политик\n 1966 г. – Бруно Лабадия, германски футболист\n 1966 г. – Христо Стоичков, български футболист\n 1968 г. – Гари Коулман, американски актьор († 2010 г.)\n 1971 г. – Борис Мисирков, български сценарист\n 1971 г. – Константин Джамбазов, български китарист\n 1972 г. – Грамадата, американски кечист\n 1974 г. – Улисес де ла Крус, еквадорски футболист\n 1977 г. – Дейв Фаръл, американски музикант (Linkin Park)\n 1979 г. – Димитър Анестев, български журналист\n 1980 г. – Камен Асенов, български актьор\n 1980 г. – Стивън Райт, английски футболист\n 1982 г. – Тодор Енев, български тенисист\n 1983 г. – Олга Сияпутра, индонезийски актьор († 2015 г.)\n 1984 г. – Цветан Генков, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Елизабет Пец, германска шахматистка\n 1987 г. – Виктор Неделчев, български сноубордист\n 1990 г. – Александър Вучев, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Симеон Иванов, български футболист\n 1992 г. – Карл Дженкинсън, английски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1265 г. – Хулагу, монголски хан (* 1217 г.)\n 1296 г. – Пшемисъл II, крал на Полша (* 1257 г.)\n 1587 г. – Мария Стюарт, шотландска кралица (* 1542 г.)\n 1676 г. – Алексей, цар на Русия (* 1629 г.)\n 1696 г. – Иван V, цар на Русия (* 1666 г.)\n 1725 г. – Петър I, император на Русия (* 1672 г.)\n 1778 г. – Анри Луи Льокен, френски артист († 1729 г.)\n 1838 г. – Иларион Критянин, гръцки духовник (* 1765 г.)\n 1849 г. – Франце Прешерн, словенски поет (* 1800 г.)\n 1874 г. – Давид Щраус, немски богослов и философ идеалист (* 1808 г.)\n 1886 г. – Иван Аксаков, руски публицист (* 1823 г.)\n 1905 г. – Константин Нунков, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1916 г. – Густав Фалке, немски писател (* 1853 г.)\n 1918 г. – Луи Рено, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1843 г.)\n 1920 г. – Рихард Демел, немски поет, драматург и романист (* 1863 г.)\n 1921 г. – Пьотър Кропоткин, руски анархист (* 1842 г.)\n 1930 г. – Рудолф Мария Холцапфел, австрийски психолог и философ (* 1874 г.)\n 1931 г. – Йордан Гюрков, български революционер (* 1891 г.)\n 1932 г. – Йордан Миланов, български архитект (* 1867 г.)\n 1935 г. – Макс Либерман, немски художник (* 1847 г.)\n 1938 г. – Иван Зонков, деец на БКП (* 1890 г.)\n 1941 г. – Христо Паков, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1944 г. – Христо Михайлов, деец на БКП (* 1893 г.)\n 1957 г. – Валтер Боте, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1891 г.)\n 1957 г. – Джон фон Нойман, американски математик (* 1903 г.)\n 1960 г. – Дж. Л. Остин, британски философ (* 1911 г.)\n 1964 г. – Ернст Кречмер, германски психиатър (* 1888 г.)\n 1972 г. – Маркос Вамвакарис, гръцки музикант (* 1905 г.)\n 1974 г. – Фриц Цвики, швейцарски астрофизик (* 1898 г.)\n 1993 г. – Каспер ван ден Берг, нидерландски поет и пърформър (* 1956 г.)\n 1998 г. – Халдоур Лакснес, исландски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1955 (* 1902 г.)\n 1999 г. – Айрис Мърдок, британска писателка (* 1919 г.)\n 2005 г. – Татяна Бек, руски поет и литературовед (* 1949 г.)\n 2007 г. – Анна Никол Смит, американска актриса и фотомодел (* 1967 г.)\n 2021 г. – Атанас Косев, български композитор и поет (* 1934 г.)\n 2022 г. – Люк Монтание, френски вирусолог (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Боен празник на Кюстендилски и Самоковски гарнизони\n Словения – Ден на културата\n Ден за по-безопасен интернет, организиран от Insafe (европейска мрежа от центрове за осведоменост)\n\n208"
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    {
        "text": "Mike Patton, Jean-Claude Vannier “Chansons D’Amour” (Official Video)\nJune 29, 2019 June 29, 2019 ABComments Off on Mike Patton, Jean-Claude Vannier “Chansons D’Amour” (Official Video)\nThe second single from the September 13th release, Corpse Flower. Pre-order now on 180gram Colored Vinyl, CD Digipak and digital: http://smarturl.it/CorpseFlower Following the recent announcement of the 12-song album Corpse Flower by Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mondo Cane) and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, a video has been shared for the track “Chansons D’Amour”. Filmed by Eric Livingston\nJean-Claude Vannier comments “When I was a little boy, love songs terrified me, with their stupid Ophelias, faded flowers of melodramatics singers, quavering vocalises of another time, barbaric rituals, screams of impatient sexes, furious and bloody refrains, like in this beautiful and poisonous video. Afterwards, I lived some love stories and it was even worse, all a bazaar puppet show that moved me despite myself, took me hostage and blames me for these crimes that I did not commit”\nDirector Eric Livingston adds “the melody on Chansons D’ Amour chased me around in the back of my head for a few days after listening. I found it to be a haunting and unapologetically honest version of Vannier’s original piece. When I was given the choice between a few songs to shoot a video accompaniment to, I gravitated towards this one. Mainly, because I knew it would be a challenge for me. To film something that is subtle, yet demands attention.”\nA variety of musicians, both in Los Angeles and Paris, took part in the recording of Corpse Flower with the Los Angeles team including Smokey Hormel (Beck, Johnny Cash), Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Air, Nine Inch Nails) and James Gadson (Beck, Jamie Lidell). The Parisian players are Denys Lable, Bernard Paganotti (Magma), Daniel Ciampolini, Didier Malherbe, Léonard Le Cloarec and the Bécon Palace String Ensemble. The lyrics for “Ballad C.3.3.” are drawn from Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” poem, which was initially published using the name C.3.3.\nCorpse Flower is available now for pre-orders (http://smarturl.it/CorpseFlower), including special embossed versions featuring Kenro Izu’s stunning cover photo. The album will be available on 180gram coloured vinyl, as well as a CD digipak and digitally.\nTrans Dads Trystan and Biff Adopted Their Niece and Nephew. Should They Have Received Paid Time Off?\nImani Coppola “Lying To My Therapist” (Official Video)"
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    {
        "text": "9 февруари е 40-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 325 дни до края на годината (326 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 474 г. – След като 7-годишният Лъв II е намерен твърде млад, за да управлява Византийската империя, за негов съимператор е коронован неговия баща Зенон.\n 1667 г. – Подписано е примирие между Русия и Полша, с което завършва продължилата 13 години руско-полската война.\n 1822 г. – Хаити напада Доминиканската република.\n 1822 г. – Окупаторските сили на Хаити, водени от Жан Пиер Бойер, пристигат в Санто Доминго, за да победят новосъздадената Доминиканска република.\n 1895 г. – Провежда се първо заседание на Правописна комисия за българския език под председателството на Константин Величков.\n 1895 г. – Уилям Морган оповестява правилата на създадената от него игра волейбол.\n 1897 г. – В Русия започва първото всеобщо преброяване на населението, което установява, че в страната живеят 129 млн. души.\n 1900 г. – Учредено е състезанието по тенис Купа Дейвис.\n 1903 г. – Народното събрание отпуска допълнителна помощ за бежанците и пострадалите от Илинденско-Преображенското въстание в размер на 300 хил. лв. (след като на 22 ноември са отпуснати 500 000 лв.).\n 1923 г. – В България е съставен нов кабинет с министър-председател Александър Стамболийски.\n\n 1934 г. – Гърция, Турция, Югославия и Румъния подписват в Атина Балкански пакт, който цели запазването на геополитическото статукво на Балканите след Първата световна война.\n 1942 г. – За първи път в САЩ е изпробвано лятно часово време.\n 1949 г. – България става член на УНИЦЕФ.\n 1950 г. – Американският сенатор Джоузеф Маккарти обвинява Държавния департамент, че е пълен с комунисти, което разпалва период на силни антикомунистически настроения в САЩ, известни като Маккартизъм.\n 1951 г. – Създава се Централен архивен фонд към Българската армия.\n 1969 г. – Осъществен е първият тестов полет на Боинг-747 Джамбоджет.\n 1990 г. – Излиза първи брой на вестник Демокрация – първият демократичен ежедневник след комунистическия режим.\n 1996 г. – Тодор Живков е оправдан от Общото събрание на Наказателната колегия на Върховния съд по обвинението за незаконно раздаване на апартаменти, коли и представителни пари от УБО.\n 1998 г. – Екатерина Дафовска става първата българска олимпийска шампионка в зимна олимпиада.\n 1999 г. – Процес срещу българските медици в Либия: Пет български медицински сестри и един палестински лекар са задържани по обвинение, че са заразили с вируса на СПИН 393 либийски деца в детската болница в Бенгази, Либия.\n 2001 г. – Конституционният съд обявява решението си, че в президентските избори може да се кандидатира само български гражданин, който е живял в България поне 183 дни на година през последните 5 години.\n\nРодени \n\n 1773 г. – Уилям Хенри Харисън, президент на САЩ († 1841 г.)\n 1789 г. – Франц Габелсбергер, немски стенограф († 1849 г.)\n 1830 г. – Абдул Азис, 32-рият султан на Османската империя († 1876 г.)\n 1830 г. – Илия Блъсков, български писател († 1913 г.)\n 1838 г. – Ивлин Ууд, британски фелдмаршал († 1919 г.)\n 1874 г. – Еми Лоуъл, американска поетеса († 1925 г.)\n 1885 г. – Албан Берг, австрийски композитор († 1935 г.)\n 1887 г. – Василий Чапаев, руски военачалник († 1919 г.)\n 1887 г. – Николай Николаев, български политик († 1961 г.)\n 1891 г. – Роналд Колман, английски актьор († 1958 г.)\n 1892 г. – Кирил Драмалиев, български просветен и държавен деец († 1961 г.)\n 1910 г. – Жак Моно, френски биолог и биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. († 1976 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ради Мазников, български футболист († 1944 г.)\n 1912 г. – Рудолф Витлачил, чехословашко футболист и футболен треньор († 1977 г.)\n 1914 г. – Ърнест Тъб, американски певец († 1984 г.)\n 1922 г. – Катрин Грейсън, американска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1928 г. – Ринус Михелс, холандски футболист и треньор († 2005 г.)\n 1929 г. – Таиджи Касе, японски каратист († 2004 г.)\n 1931 г. – Йозеф Масопуст, чешки футболист († 2015 г.)\n 1931 г. – Пенчо Стоянов, български композитор († 2020 г.)\n 1931 г. – Томас Бернхард, австрийски писател († 1989 г.)\n 1932 г. – Герхард Рихтер, германски художник\n 1938 г. – Минчо Празников, български синоптик\n 1940 г. – Джон Максуел Кутси, южноафрикански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 2003 г.\n 1943 г. – Джо Пеши, американски актьор\n 1943 г. – Джоузеф Стиглиц, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 2001 г.\n 1945 г. – Йошинори Осуми, японски учен, Нобелов лауреат през 2016 г.\n 1945 г. – Мия Фароу, американска киноактриса\n 1947 г. – Карла дел Понте, швейцарска юристка\n 1948 г. – Антонио Санини, испански рали пилот\n 1948 г. – Константин Пуликовски, генерал-лейтенант от Руските въоръжени сили\n 1950 г. – Антоний Генов, български актьор († 2006 г.)\n 1959 г. – Али-Бен Бонго, габонски политик\n 1963 г. – Брайън Грийн, американски физик\n 1973 г. – Станислав Димитров, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Светлана Богинская, руска гимнастичка\n 1974 г. – Жорди Кройф, холандски футболист\n 1975 г. – Димитър Дочев, български шахматист\n 1976 г. – Чарли Дей, американски актьор\n 1979 г. – Джан Дзъи, китайска актриса\n 1979 г. – Ирина Слуцкая, руска фигуристка\n 1981 г. – Тодор Барболов, български юрист и политик\n 1981 г. – Том Хидълстън, британски актьор\n 1981 г. – Петър Владов, български бизнес боксьор\n 1983 г. – Димитър Рангелов, български футболист\n 1996 г. – Джими Бенет, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1450 г. – Агнес Сорел, френска благородничка (* ок. 1420)\n 1640 г. – Мурад IV, султан на Османската империя (* 1612 г.)\n 1881 г. – Фьодор Достоевски, руски писател (* 1821 г.)\n 1897 г. – Димитър Ангелов, български духовник (* ок. 1830 г.)\n 1905 г. – Адолф фон Менцел, немски художник (* 1815 г.)\n 1909 г. – Петко Горбанов, български общественик (* 1846 г.)\n 1920 г. – Екатерина Ненчева, първата българска поетеса (* 1855 г.)\n 1944 г. – Кирил Пърличев, революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1957 г. – Кирил Делирадев, български публицист (* ?)\n 1957 г. – Миклош Хорти, унгарски адмирал и държавен глава (* 1868 г.)\n 1961 г. – Григорий Левенфиш, руски шахматист (* 1889 г.)\n 1970 г. – Итало Гариболди, италиански офицер (* 1879 г.)\n 1972 г. – Николай Крилов, съветски маршал (* 1903 г.)\n 1977 г. – Сергей Илюшин, руски авиоконструктор (* 1894 г.)\n 1978 г. – Хулио Харамильо, еквадорски музикант (* 1935 г.)\n 1979 г. – Денис Габор, унгаро-английски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1971 г. (* 1900 г.)\n 1981 г. – Бил Хейли, американски рок музикант (* 1927 г.)\n 1984 г. – Юрий Андропов, генерален секретар на съветската комунистическа партия (* 1914 г.)\n 1985 г. – Атанас Илиев, психолог и философ (* 1893 г.)\n 1996 г. – Адолф Галанд, германски пилот (* 1912 г.)\n 1999 г. – Александър Гейщор, полски историк (* 1916 г.)\n 2000 г. – Шобна Самарт, индийска актриса (* 1915 г.)\n 2001 г. – Хърбърт Саймън, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1978 г. (* 1916 г.)\n 2002 г. – Принцеса Маргарет, сестра на британската кралица (* 1930 г.)\n\nПразници \n Италия – Празник на град Арича\n\n209"
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    {
        "text": "Q: Why does OS X's Apache server give different results using real and virtual addresses? I'm developing a WordPress site on my Mac, running OS X 10.6.4. I'm using OS X's built-in Apache server to run the site locally during development. I've set up WordPress and connected it to OS X's MySQL with no problems. The site seems to work fine, and I can post, edit, etc.\nThe WordPress installation is in a folder called ~/Sites/mysite.dev.\nI've also customized my .hosts file and Apache's httpd-vhosts.conf file, to redirect requests for mysite.dev to this folder. So when I enter http://mysite.dev in a browser window, the site loads. No problems here.\nSo I can access the site, in a browser, from two different addresses, http://mysite.dev, and http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/.\nHere's what's weird: When I go to http://mysite.dev, the WordPress site loads normally. When I go to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, WordPress can't find any posts from the database: It gives me the \"Sorry, no posts met your criteria\" message (which is built into the theme for when a search for posts returns nothing). N.B.: Apache processes the PHP code normally in both cases -- but in one case WordPress can get posts from MySQL, and in the other case it can't.\nMy first thought was that this was a problem with WordPress's configuration, so I changed the WordPress URL to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/, but this made no difference. \nI don't understand why using the two addresses produces different results. Any help appreciated.\n(Here's why I care, in case you're wondering: I want to preview the site in BBEdit's web preview window, and BBEdit will only load the site via the http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/ address.)\n\nA: This is not a problem with OS X or Apache. A redirect doesn't change any PHP code behavior and since you apparently get response from the code, nothing is wrong with the server setup. The problem lies in the way Wordpress reads the domain name from the request (which is the only thing that should differ) and what it does with it.\n\nA: I was able to solve this problem—it turns out that WordPress behaves better when I set both the WordPress address and the site address to http://localhost/~Gabe/mysite.dev/.\n"
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        "text": "On a frigid Baltimore evening, in which going directly home after work to a warm cup of soup sounds ideal, at least 150 patrons made their way to Linwoods for dinner. It was a random Wednesday night, yet Linwoods had a buzz to it.\nThe two hostesses were kept busy by all the incoming guests, and assisting them with their thick winter coats. Once we made our way to the main dining room, the tantalizing smells coming from the open kitchen enticed the senses, and made you excited about your meal. Though there wasn’t a wait for dinner, the place was full – people quickly pounced as seats became available at the bar.\nWe were there to meet with one of Linwoods event managers to discuss a future event, and admittedly we weren’t incredibly hungry, or thirsty for that matter. The cocktail/wine menu was nicely put together with a plethora of options, which we couldn’t pass up. I was impressed to see a plentiful amount of various whiskies available, ranging from American bourbon, to Scotch and even small batch artisan spirits. Passing up scotch served neat was very difficult; however, I settled on the speakeasy and my fiancé settled on the L75 (per recommendation of the event manager).\nBoth cocktails were prepared in individual size Boston shakers, which were poured tableside and left on the table for you to refill your glass once it got low. A relatively simple concept, yet unheard of in modern day fine dining – or any type of dining for that matter. Better than the generous portion of booze was the craftiness of the drinks themselves. The speakeasy was a rye whiskey based drink, having yellow chartreuse, sweet vermouth and orange infused bitters. This cocktail embodied the bold whiskey yet provided floral background notes making it very drinkable and delicious. The L75 was a play on a traditional French 75 cocktail, featuring Hendricks gin, St. Germaine, fresh lemon juice and finished with sparkling wine. The drink arrives with a sugar cube on the bottom, which continued to fizzle like champagne as the evening went on – another excellent cocktail.\nThe menu features quite an array of items, ranging from cornmeal crust flatbreads to fresh seafood and thick steaks. Linwoods doesn’t claim to be a steakhouse, although every steak that flew out of the kitchen did look wonderful. We wanted to sample some of the items we were considering for our event, so we settled on the autumn salad and Pugliese flatbread. Not sure if we wanted to get entrees, we hoped the salad and pizza would impress – and they did. The autumn salad featured roasted carrots and baby tomatoes in a caraway salt mixture, which was then served with bib lettuce, torn croutons, a rustic dressing and finally topped with crispy goat cheese balls. The salad was so simple yet the flavors and ingredients popped – a wonderful revitalizing opener for our palettes.\nThe flatbread was also very tasty. The cornmeal crust becomes almost cracker-like in the oven, which features a blend of fontina, asiago, and romano cheeses then topped with caramelized onions. The pizza itself wasn’t greasy, and relatively light considering the rich cheeses and sweet onions.\nAgain upon recommendation, we settled on the tuna “fiorentina” – a seared tuna entrée with grilled asparagus and pearl onions. The entrée didn’t sound amazing when we ordered it, but both the associate we met with and our server recommended it. Since we were sharing the entrée, Linwoods cleverly split the entrée and served it on two separate plates – an appreciated gesture. The sashimi grade tuna was rubbed with chopped rosemary, coarse salt and pepper before being seared on all sides.\nThe tuna was served thickly sliced over some nicely charred asparagus and roasted pearl onions, then drizzled with balsamic. I was pleasantly shocked at how well the rosemary and tuna went together, it was bold yet not overpowering to the delicate and perfectly cooked tuna. The onions and asparagus were nice accompaniments; however I would have liked a sauce that was a bit more intricate than balsamic. But it didn’t matter, the dish was very delicious.\nAfter being thoroughly pleased by the meal, we couldn’t overlook dessert, for which we decided on the chocolate bread pudding with coffee ice cream. The bread pudding was still warm and perfectly fluffy. As the coffee ice cream melted on the bread pudding, we couldn’t consume the delicious mixture fast enough.\nI must say, Linwoods was impressive. The menu isn’t as intricate or modern as a harbor east restaurant, but it doesn’t need to be. Linwoods has created a formula, which clearly works. Although the restaurant has been in business for twenty-five years, the restaurant is in immaculate condition with décor that has kept up with the times. Do yourself a favor and spend an evening at Linwoods. The prices of entrees dictate that this restaurant will be reserved for special occasions – for most. However, appetizers (or flatbreads) and cocktails will be manageable for almost any budget, and still very delicious.\nIn closing, thank you Linwoods for restoring my faith in Baltimore County fine dining.\nEvery time I read your food blog, I just want to go eat at the restaurant you reviewed."
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        "text": "Q: Multiple tags on music in iTunes? Is there any plugin for iTunes making it possible to tag the music with multiple tags (not ID3-tags or genre)? Just like last.fm does, e.g. \"soft electronic african female-vocalist\"?  Genres are so totally unusable to use as a music categorizer.\nI use iTunes a lot for syncing various iDevices and streaming music to the Airport Express, so I'm not really interested in an alternative app, even though I might be if it supports more or less everything iTunes does and have some more features, but also being compatible with and updating the iTunes library.\nA big bonus would be if it's also allowing hierarchical tag structures.\n\nA: While it won't satisfy the hierarchical feature you'd like, the Grouping (or even the Comment) field in iTunes could be used to hold tags. Ideally you would want to do something to make the tag always unique by separating by a comma or say <> around the word. You can then use a Smart Playlist to filter for this tag. (Grouping contains).\nThere is an unfinished program called QuickTag that leverages that ability and makes it easier to tag.\nThere is also a hint on MacOSXHints.com that shows how you can grab Last.FM's tags and apply them to the current playing track. You'll need to modify their script slightly - namely to use the grouping or comment field (and match anything special you've done, eg. <>s around the word) instead of the genre. The alternative Perl version worked faster than the original script for me.\n"
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        "text": "Grattan, Clinton Hartley (1902–1980)\nby Laurie Hergenhan\nClinton Hartley Grattan (1902-1980), journalist, author, historian and commentator on foreign affairs, was born on 19 October 1902 at Wakefield, near Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, son of Leonard Grattan, journeyman baker, and his wife Laura, née Campbell, both from Nova Scotia, Canada. His forebears were Scots, English, Irish and French-Swiss, the patronymic supposedly being changed from Gratteau to Grattan. Hartley deeply admired his maternal grandfather, a subsistence farmer and mineworker. His family background contributed to his pro-labour views and to his sense of being something of an 'outsider' in American society, though he always identified strongly, if critically, with the better aspects of American democracy.\nFailing to gain a place at Harvard University, Grattan nevertheless valued his Alma Mater, Clark College, Clark University (A.B., 1923), Worcester. His most influential teacher was Harry Elmer Barnes, a polymath and a crusader for radical causes. Grattan saw himself as inheriting the left-liberalism of Barnes and others who sought to harness the social sciences in a struggle for social justice. By temperament, background and education, Grattan became a dissenter with a liking for combative polemics and a belief in ranging across the disciplines. He was a proponent of American cultural independence in the debates of the 1920s and subsequently a supporter of parallel impulses in Australian culture.\nIn 1925 he took up journalism in New York, having already begun writing iconoclastic articles on American literary figures for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury. On 22 October 1926, in New York, Grattan married with Unitarian forms Beatrice Kuper, an actress who used 'Kay' as her stage surname; they were to be divorced in 1937. He published three books in 1929 and more followed. While pursuing a career as an Americanist, he had visited Australia in 1927 when he accompanied Beatrice who was touring with the musical, Sunny. He devoted himself to learning about the 'new' country—which he felt could not be as dull as it seemed—by collecting books and reading widely in its literature. Although he made no contact with the intellectual community, he regarded Australia as a fascinating 'experiment' in democracy. The outcome was a slim booklet, Australian Literature (Seattle, 1929), one of the earliest attempts to synthesize nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary history so as to establish what was characteristically 'Australian'.\nHis essay earned the immediate interest of such writers as Miles Franklin, Nettie Palmer and Katharine Susannah Prichard because it detected a promise of distinctiveness in Australian literature and did not see it as a branch of Anglo-European culture. In his voluminous later writing, much of it in leading New York journals and newspapers, he expanded his interests into socio-cultural questions, politics, economics and international relations. The span and tone of his work appealed to Australian artists and intellectuals who promoted their country's independence in the 1930s and 1940s.\nAmong them were people whom Grattan met on his next and most substantial visit to Australia—made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation—in December 1936-September 1938: besides Franklin, Palmer and Prichard, he met Bert Evatt, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brian Penton, Sir Herbert Gepp, Percy Stephensen, Keith Duncan, William Macmahon Ball, and the economists Colin Clark and (Sir) John Crawford, his friend thereafter. Through Geoffrey Remington, Grattan forged links with the Australian Institute of Political Science. He published influential articles in the institute's journal, the Australian Quarterly, on Joseph Furphy (as an inspirational radical nationalist) and on Australian society's lack of self-definition and direction. Grattan lamented the country's conservatism in the late 1930s.\nFollowing a speculative and influential article, 'An Australian-American Axis?' in Harper's Magazine (May 1940), he again visited Australia for nearly two months in 1940. His brief was to report on wartime conditions and opinion in Australasia. He produced a 49-page typescript, 'Australia and New Zealand Today', which was confidentially circulated in both countries, and which summed up their situations and future possibilities. Introducing Australia (New York, 1942) resulted from both his 1936-38 and 1940 tours. An accessible, professionally informed, generalist study, the book was widely read and served not only to introduce Australia to Americans, but, as Franklin pointed out, to interest Australians in their own country. It also appealed to younger nationalists, such as Geoffrey Serle and Stephen Murray-Smith.\nIn the mid- and late 1930s Grattan had moved farther to the left, without becoming a communist supporter. He married a former sweetheart Marjorie Sinclair Campbell on 3 June 1939 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In January 1942 he was appointed an analyst with the Board of Economic Warfare, Washington, a sign at last of his official recognition as an American expert on Australian affairs. Chaired by Martin Dies, a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (which was investigating un-American activities) accused Grattan of being both a communist and a Nazi sympathizer, forcing him to resign in April. This bitter disappointment threw him back on freelance journalism in New York. He consequently experienced financial difficulties and moved with his family to nearby Katonah.\nAfter being employed by the Ford Foundation in the 1950s, Grattan produced The Southwest Pacific to 1900 and The Southwest Pacific Since 1900 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1963) which he and Sir Keith Hancock regarded as his magnum opus. The work was an ambitious synthesis and drew on a lifetime's study. It was well received, but some reviewers pointed out its limitations as a generalist history in which the component parts—Australia, New Zealand, 'the Islands' and Antarctica—tended to coexist separately. The approach, especially in 'the Islands', lacked a post-colonial perspective that characterized the work of later historians.\nIn 1964 the University of Texas at Austin bought Grattan's vast collection of Australiana and South Pacificana, which had become legendary among his steady stream of visitors from Australia. He accepted a post at the university as curator of his collection, with some lecturing duties in history; later made professor, he retired in 1974. On his seventh and final visit to Australia in 1977, he received an honorary LL.D. from the Australian National University in belated recognition of his contribution to the study of Australian culture. Survived by his wife, and their son and three daughters, he died on 25 June 1980 at Austin.\nGrattan's wish that his ashes be scattered over Sydney Harbour testified to his extraordinarily enduring attachment to Australia. The country's most important foreign observer, he was, as Serle has said, its most persistent, productive and embracing.\nD. Oliphant (ed), Perspectives on Australia (Austin, Texas, US, 1989)\nL. Hergenhan, No Casual Traveller (Brisb, 1995), and for publications\nMeanjin Quarterly, 33, no 3, Sept 1974, p 229\nOverland, 121, Summer 1990, p 70\nJ. J. Healy, Bibliography of Grattan's Writings (manuscript) and Grattan papers (Grattan Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin).\nHenry, Alice (friend)\nFranklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles (friend)\nLaurie Hergenhan, 'Grattan, Clinton Hartley (1902–1980)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grattan-clinton-hartley-10343/text18311, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 16 July 2019.\nWakefield, Massachusetts, United States of America\nAustin, Texas, United States of America\nAustraliana collector\ncontemporary-affairs commentator\nhistorian (general)\nliterary critic"
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        "text": "Q: Prevent iTunes from resetting my music library location My iTunes library is located on an network drive, or rather, the music is, and my library file is located on my MacBook.\n\n\n*\n\n*Library file: /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library\n\n*Music: /Volumes/MyVolume/Music\nBut every now and then when I use the laptop somewhere outside my WiFi network, and then come back, fire up iTunes and play a song  I get a library full of those pesky little exclamation point icons next to my songs. This is because iTunes have guessed that \"Oh, he's not at home, let's reset the music files location to /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes.\" And there are no music there.\nHow can I prevent iTunes from doing this \"smart\" guess, and just leave the setting alone?\nPS. And MyVolume is auto-mounted on my laptop. But of course, if iTunes is running when opening up the lid of the MacBook, it takes some time for it to mount, and iTunes won't find the path to the music at first.\n\nA: You can make \"iTunes Music\" an alias to your music folder on your network drive. That should keep iTunes' smartness at bay.\n\nA: Finally figured out how to get around this myself. My solution is to have two separate libraries, one local and one on my drive. I created a LaunchAgent (see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html) that runs a script when the mount path to the disk changes (via WatchPaths). The script checks whether the directory /Volumes/drivename exists, and if it does it sets runs a command to tell iTunes to change to the Library on the drive.\nif [ -e \"$mountPath\" ]\nthen\n   defaults write com.apple.iTunes 'alis:1:iTunes Library Location' -data \"drive hex path data\"\nelse\n   defaults write com.apple.iTunes 'alis:1:iTunes Library Location' -data \"local hex path data\"\nfi\n\nOtherwise it runs the same command with the path to the local library.\nMac OS does some weird kind of encoding for the hex data path, so I would recommend holding down the option key while starting iTunes, selecting each library, and examine the plist for the path data (note that when you use the defaults command you have to remove the brackets and spaces from the hex data).\nThis way, if your drive isn't mounted, iTunes will load a local library and won't mess up your main one. This can be handy for traveling, etc when you just want to use the local library to play stuff on iCloud.\n\nA: Apparently this is a never-ending issue, because by this date I’m running OS 10.13.6 on a 2012 Mac Mini, and I needed Winger’s Answer to figure out a solution for me: not up to coding in the system files. But I DID realize (as he suggested) that if I removed iTunes from the ‘Login Items’ automatic startup list in the Users system Prefs pane, and let the Mac connect to the network drive first (which is an ethernet connected TimeCapsule, which I’m using also for it’s storage volume as extra space, and IS in the Login Items pane), that when iTunes is opened it finds its library right where it left it! Happy iTunes, happy me!\n\nA: What works for me is a combination of the above ... add the shared folder location to:\nsystem preferences -> users & groups -> login items (in the login name you're using)\nThis establishes the network connection automatically upon restart which appears to be the root cause of this.\nThen untick the \"reopen windows when logging back in\" option when restarting. When the mac next restarts and you log in, the shared folder will automatically be opened (it opens in finder, but you can close it).\nWhen you open apple music, it remembers what it was set to and you no longer need to reset the location and rescan your files each time.\nI worked this one out because when apple music is opened before the network drive, the music file location reverts back to the default location. But if you close apple music, open the network drive where your music is stored, then re-open apple music it magically reverts back to what you had it set to.\nBut if you re-enable the \"reopen windows when logging back in\" option, it seems that apple music gets launched before the shared folder - so you're back where you started. Although if you typically have a lot of windows open, you could just close and re-open apple music after restarting which should work.\n\nA: Just a thought for your laptop, why don't you share your iTunes library and stream it to your laptop instead of mounting the network drive?\nI'm in the process of setting this up now, I just moved my iTunes library and media files to my Network Attached Storage, which can share with all machines on my home network.\nI was having the same library reset issue as you, so I'll try using an alias in Windows 7 to get around this (thanks @zneak). Nothing scarier than telling iTunes where my 10,000+ song library is and have it show nothing :(\n\nA: I would guess that when the iTunes media directory /Volumes/MyVolume/Music is found to not exist, it resets to the default value of /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes. That is to say, I don't think it matters if the files are there or not (so network mounting is not so much the issue), but that the directory is there and can be browsed.\nSo a solution would be to have an empty directory as your iTunes media library directory (which can just be the default), and mount the network share into that directory. This would involve using smbmount rather than the standard Finder-based /Volumes/... mounting. Of course... smbmount doesn't come with OS X, so this solution will require some effort on your part to get smbmount.\nYou might be able to achieve the same with symbolic links, though I'm not sure whether iTunes can handle its media library directory being a broken symlink; it might just delete the symlink by forcibly creating the /Users/glenn/Music/iTunes directory on top of it...?\n\nA: The \"music location\" path only matters if you set itunes to \"import media into your local library\" and with \"automatic library management\" activated. With both options disabled, its not of importance. You set the options in the same tab where you set the \"music location\" path.\nRemember: If you use links or aliases to non existing places (when youre not at your network) you might get into trouble with itunes trying to write stuff there - it might even reset because of this.\nIf you add files from a network, with local management off, the network path will be stored inside your library file, no matter what is set as music location. If you are not on your network you will always see the exclamation mark as the files aren't accessible, it makes totally sense. Exclamation mark goes away as soon your network is at reach again.\nI have everything stored on my network, nothing locally and do not have any trouble.\n"
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    {
        "text": "2014, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, 169 min, USA, Dir: Christopher Nolan\nIn the not-too-distant future, life on Earth can no longer sustain itself. It’s up to Cooper, a pilot-turned reluctant farmer-turned astronaut, to lead a team into space to look for new worlds to inhabit. Combining family drama with eye-popping visuals and mind-expanding philosophical inquiry, Nolan’s sci-fi epic stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine and won an Oscars for its stunning visual effects. “An enormous undertaking that, like all the director’s best work, manages to feel handcrafted and intensely personal, “Interstellar” reaffirms Nolan as the premier big-canvas storyteller of his generation, more than earning its place alongside THE WIZARD OF OZ, 2001, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and GRAVITY in the canon of Hollywood’s visionary sci-fi head trips.” - Scott Foundas, Variety.\nEmma Thomas\nLynda Obst\nJonathan Nolan\nHoyte Van Hoytema"
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        "text": "Coming to your next outdoor party or festival in a two-piece package, this fun and festive slip and slide model is a popular choice. Jungle Jumps is the leading manufacturer of commercial-grade inflatable products, and this one is no exception. Tough vinyl material in red, black, blue, and white make up this unit, which has a slip and slide area and a generously-sized splash pool. Over the slip and slide area, inflatable arches and stylized speaker towers enhance the race car theme. The vinyl is ready to take on many years of fun by children of all ages. Race toward the finish line aboard this colorful inflatable slip and slide model!"
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    {
        "text": "10 февруари е 41-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 324 дни до края на годината (325 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1258 г. – Монголите превземат Багдад и разрушават Абасидския халифат.\n 1392 г. – Състои се сватбата на Елена Драгаш и византийския император Мануил II Палеолог.\n 1619 г. – Състои се сватбата на френската принцеса Кристин Мари и Виктор-Амеде I Савойски, херцог на Савоя и принц на Пиемонт.\n 1763 г. – В Париж е подписан договор за приключване на Седемгодишната война.\n 1799 г. – След завладяването на Египет, Наполеон започва поход за завладяване на Палестина.\n 1824 г. – Симон Боливар е провъзгласен за диктатор на Перу.\n 1827 г. – В Санкт Петербург е основана Военноморска академия.\n 1840 г. – Британската кралица Виктория се омъжва за принц Алберт фон Сакс-Кобург-Гота.\n 1841 г. – Онтарио и Квебек (Канада) са обединени в една провинция със столица Кингстън.\n 1867 г. – Григорий VI е утвърден от Високата порта за Вселенски патриарх.\n 1879 г. – Открито е Учредителното събрание в Търново.\n 1883 г. – В България влиза в сила първият Закон за печата.\n 1885 г. – В България, Пловдив е сформиран БЦТРК, подготвил Съединението.\n 1892 г. – Започва процес срещу Екатерина Каравелова – съпруга на политика Петко Каравелов, и други съпруги на политици-либерали по обвинение в предателство, който завършва с оправдателна присъда.\n 1904 г. – Избухва Руско-японската война.\n 1913 г. – Десет месеца след трагичната им смърт, в Антарктида са намерени телата на членовете от експедицията на Робърт Скот, достигнали Южния полюс.\n 1922 г. – В САЩ е осъществено първото директно излъчване по радиото на цял симфоничен концерт.\n 1925 г. – В Турция избухва въстание на кюрдите за получаване на независимост.\n 1938 г. – Румънският крал Карол отменя конституцията и установява кралска диктатура.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Съветската власт започва масова депортация на полско население от окупираните от Червената армия полски територии, при което 200 хил. души са изпратени в лагери в Украйна, Казахстан и Сибир.\n 1942 г. – Американската звукозаписна фирма Виктор пуска първата в света Златна плоча.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: В Полза на САЩ приключва битката между американски и германски войски за контрол върху гората Хуртген, дадени са общо 36 хил. жертви.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветска подводница потапя германски транспортен кораб, превозващ цивилни бежанци и ранени войници, загиват около 3600 души.\n 1947 г. – В Париж е подписан Парижкият мирен договор между България и държавите от Антихитлеристката коалиция.\n 1947 г. – Приета е Резолюция 17 на Съвета за сигурност на ООН.\n 1949 г. – Приета е Резолюция 68 на Съвета за сигурност на ООН.\n 1953 г. – I народно събрание на Народна република България приема изменения в Наказателния кодекс и предвижда смъртно наказание за измяна на Родината.\n 1962 г. – Заловеният съветски шпионин Рудолф Абел е разменен за Гари Пауърс, пилот на американския шпионски самолет U2, свален над СССР през 1960 година.\n 1990 г. – Михаил Горбачов заявява в интервю, че обединението на Германия е в ръцете на германците.\n 1996 г. – Суперкомпютърът на IBM Deep Blue става първата машина в света, която спечелва игра по шахмат срещу настоящ световен шампион (Гари Каспаров).\n 2006 г. – В Торино (Италия) са открити XX зимни олимпийски игри.\n\nРодени \n\n 1499 г. – Томас Платер, швейцарски хуманист († 1582 г.)\n 1606 г. – Кристин Мари, френска царица († 1663 г.)\n 1741 г. – Леонтий Бенингсен, немски граф († 1826 г.)\n 1795 г. – Ари Шефер, френски художник († 1858 г.)\n 1845 г. – Харалан Ангелов, български поет († 1904 г.)\n 1851 г. – Йонко Карагьозов, деец на националноосвободителното движение († 1876 г.)\n 1859 г. – Илия Миларов, български писател († 1948 г.)\n 1861 г. – Тодор Кантарджиев, български генерал († 1945 г.)\n 1867 г. – Костадин Байкушев, български лесовъд († 1932 г.)\n 1870 г. – Стоян Аргиров, български филолог († 1939 г.)\n 1874 г. – Иван Каиков, български революционер († 1965 г.)\n 1890 г. – Борис Пастернак, руски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. († 1960 г.)\n 1891 г. – Димитър Осинин, български писател († 1981 г.)\n 1894 г. – Яков Френкел, руски физик († 1952 г.)\n 1897 г. – Джон Франклин Ендърс, американски медик, Нобелов лауреат през 1954 г. († 1985 г.)\n 1898 г. – Бертолт Брехт, немски поет († 1956 г.)\n 1902 г. – Уолтър Братейн, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1956 г. († 1987 г.)\n 1903 г. – Матиас Зинделар, австрийски футболист († 1939 г.)\n 1910 г. – Жорж Пир, белгийски монах, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. († 1969 г.)\n 1912 г. – Йожеф Дарваш, унгарски писател († 1973 г.)\n 1912 г. – Херберт Баум, немски антифашист († 1942 г.)\n 1913 г. – Уилям Менстър, римокатолически свещеник († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Арпад Гьонц, президент на Унгария († 2015 г.)\n 1924 г. – Зафир Йончев, български художник – график († 2006 г.)\n 1925 г. – Начо Начев, български учен († 1995 г.)\n 1927 г. – Яков Линд, австрийско-английски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1929 г. – Джери Голдсмит, американски композитор († 2004 г.)\n 1930 г. – Владимир Шкодров, български астроном († 2010 г.)\n 1933 г. – Александър Держански, български физик († 2015 г.)\n 1934 г. – Георги Узунски, български писател († 1987 г.)\n 1934 г. – Татяна Лолова, българска актриса († 2021 г.)\n 1935 г. – Александър Обрешков, български сценарист\n 1938 г. – Асен Дурмишев, български лекар († 2006 г.)\n 1938 г. – Димо Димов, български цигулар\n 1942 г. – Илия Добрев, български актьор († 2016 г.)\n 1944 г. – Георги Тодоров, български художник\n 1947 г. – Димитър Еленов, български режисьор и актьор († 2020 г.)\n 1950 г. – Марк Шпиц, американски плувец\n 1955 г. – Евгений Бакърджиев, български политик († 2021 г.)\n 1962 г. – Клиф Бъртън, американски музикант († 1986 г.)\n 1963 г. – Мартин Гюлих, немски писател\n 1964 г. – Франческа Нери, италианска актриса\n 1967 г. – Лора Дърн, американска актриса\n 1973 г. – Искра Ангелова, българска журналистка\n 1974 г. – Елизабет Банкс, американска актриса\n 1974 г. – Иври Лидер, израелски певец\n 1977 г. – Сесилия Вега, френска порнографска актриса\n 1982 г. – Александър Методиев, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Джъстин Гатлин, американски спринтьор\n 1984 г. – Брент Евърет, канадски гей порнографски актьор\n 1986 г. – Радамел Фалкао, колумбийски футболист\n 1986 г. – Виктор Троицки, сръбски тенисист\n 1987 г. – Поли Генова, българска поп певица\n 1987 г. – Цветан Димитров, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Фуко, японски модел\n 1988 г. – Християн Димитров, български пистов състезателен пилот\n 1990 г. – Суйонг, корейска певица\n 1997 г. – Клоуи Грейс Морец, американска актриса и фотомодел\n\nПочинали \n\n 542 г. – Света Сколастика, италианска светица (* 480 г.)\n 917 г. – Фредеруна, кралица на Западнофранкското кралство (* 887 г.)\n 1126 г. – Гийом дьо Поатие, херцог на Аквитания и трубадур (* 1071 г.)\n 1162 г. – Болдуин III, крал на Йерусалим (* 1130 г.)\n 1471 г. – Фридрих II, немски аристократ (* 1413 г.)\n 1567 г. – Хенри Стюарт, английски аристократ (* 1545 г.)\n 1722 г. – Бартоломю Робъртс, уелски пират (* 1682 г.)\n 1738 г. – Готлиб Байер (Теофил Зигфрид), немски историк и филолог (* 1694 г.)\n 1752 г. – Ан Анриет, френска благородничка (* 1727 г.)\n 1755 г. – Шарл дьо Монтескьо, френски мислител (* 1689 г.)\n 1817 г. – Карл Теодор фон Далберг, германски епископ и държавник (* 1744 г.)\n 1829 г. – Лъв XII, римски папа (* 1760 г.)\n 1837 г. – Александър Пушкин, руски поет (* 1799 г.)\n 1857 г. – Дейвид Томпсън, уелски топограф (* 1770 г.)\n 1865 г. – Емилий Ленц, руски физик от немски произход (* 1804 г.)\n 1867 г. – Огюст Викенел, френски геолог (* 1800 г.)\n 1879 г. – Оноре Домие, френски художник (* 1808 г.)\n 1891 г. – София Ковалевска, руска математичка и писателка (* 1850 г.)\n 1897 г. – Йероним Стебницки, руски военен топограф (* 1832 г.)\n 1899 г. – Уилям Колензо, английски мисионер (* 1811 г.)\n 1905 г. – Васил Караконовски, български лекар (* 1840 г.)\n 1912 г. – Джоузеф Листър, английски хирург (* 1827 г.)\n 1915 г. – Георги Агура, български офицер (генерал) (* 1853 г.)\n 1917 г. – Джон Уилям Уотърхаус, британски художник (* 1849 г.)\n 1918 г. – Абдул Хамид II, султан на Османската империя (* 1842 г.)\n 1918 г. – Ернесто Теодоро Монета, италиански пацифист, Нобелов лауреат през 1907 г. (* 1833 г.)\n 1922 г. – Христо Матов, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1923 г. – Вилхелм Рьонтген, немски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 г. (* 1845 г.)\n 1932 г. – Едгар Уолъс, американски писател и киносценарист (* 1875 г.)\n 1939 г. – Пий XI, римски папа (* 1857 г.)\n 1944 г. – Карл Майнхоф, немски лингвист (* 1857 г.)\n 1954 г. – Вилхелм Шмид, австрийски етнолог (* 1868 г.)\n 1958 г. – Жузе Пансети, бразилски художник (* 1902 г.)\n 1959 г. – Борис Ахтаров, български ботаник (* 1885 г.)\n 1966 г. – Били Роуз, американски поп-музикант и композитор (* 1899 г.)\n 1968 г. – Питирим Сорокин, американски социолог (* 1889 г.)\n 1987 г. – Добрин Петков, български диригент (* 1923 г.)\n 2001 г. – Христо Бояджиев, български художник (* 1912 г.)\n 2002 г. – Джон Ериксон, британски историк (* 1929 г.)\n 2002 г. – Михаил Герасимов, български химик (* 1908 г.)\n 2005 г. – Артър Милър, американски драматург (* 1915 г.)\n 2008 г. – Рой Шайдър, американски актьор (* 1932 г.)\n 2014 г. – Шърли Темпъл, американска актриса (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православие – Св. мъченица Валентина и свети Харалампий Магнезийски (Чуминден) - покровител на пчеларите и меда. Имен ден празнуват Валентина, Валентин, Валя, Вальо, Харалампи, Ламбо, Пейо, Пейчо, Пейка.\n Католическа църква – Ден на Света Схоластика\n Международен ден за безопасен интернет\n Ден на пчеларя\n\n210"
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        "text": "English language and linguistics: general interest\nLanguage, Sexuality and Education\nc.CAD$51.74 (C)\nAuthor: Helen Sauntson, York St John University\nPublication planned for: July 2019\navailability: Not yet published - available from July 2019\nc.CAD$ 51.74 (C)\nThis title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.\nPresenting a range of data obtained from secondary schools in the UK and US, this path-breaking book explores the role played by language in constructing sexual identities. Analysing the often complex ways in which homophobia, heterosexism and heteronormativity are enacted within school contexts, it shows that by analysing language, we can discover much about how educators and students experience sexual diversity in their schools, how sexual identities are constructed through language, and how different statuses are ascribed to different sexual identities.\nAddresses the timely and much-debated issue of sexual diversity in schools, which is currently undergoing many changes\nUses multiple methods of discourse analysis rather than focus on a single analytical framework, enabling a more systematic and detailed analysis of the data\nFocuses on the linguistic dimensions of sexual diversity in schools, ideal for those working in applied linguistics as well as in education and sexuality studies\n‘An outstanding piece of scholarship. Her meticulous, queer linguistically informed analyses of communicative practices in educational contexts reveal graphically that sexuality-related discrimination and invisibility still form harmful discourses that systematically affect learners and learning in negative ways. A seminal text for queer applied linguistics and an important addition to the field of language and sexuality studies.' Heiko Motschenbacher, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen\n1. Confronting the context\n2. Researching language and sexuality in educational settings\n3. Using sociolinguistic frameworks to explore the school experiences of LGBT+ Yyouth\n4. Educators' perspectives on language and sexual diversity in schools\n5. Exploring ideologies of sexuality in curriculum documents\n6. SRE classroom interaction analysis and the construction of sexual identities\nTable of Contents (32 KB)\nFront Matter (82 KB)\nIndex (47 KB)\nHelen Sauntson, York St John University\nHelen Sauntson is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at York St John University. Her books include New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity (2007), Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse (2012), and Global Perspectives and Key Debates in Sex and Relationships Education (2016).\nEnglish Today\nEnglish Today provides accessible cutting-edge reports on all aspects of the language, including style, usage, dictionaries,…\nEnglish Language and Linguistics\nEnglish Language and Linguistics, published three times a year, is an international journal which focuses on the…\nAfrican and Caribbean language and linguistics\nApplied linguistics and second language acquisition\nArabic and Middle Eastern language and linguistics\nAsian language and linguistics\nEuropean language and linguistics\nLatin American language and linguistics\nOther languages and linguistics\nPsycholinguistics and neurolinguistics\nResearch methods in linguistics\nStylistics"
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        "text": "Senate adjourns session; resumes July 23\nBy Jelly F. Musico\nMANILA, June 6 — The Senate closed on Wednesday night as what Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile described “as the most challenging” second regular session of the 15th Congress by adjourning sine die, which means “without a day.”\nMajority Leader Vicente Sotto III said the Senate would resume its third regular session on July 23, in time for the State-of-the-Nation Address, when senators will proceed to the House of Representatives for a joint session of Congress to hear President Aquino deliver his SONA.\n“In closing, permit me to make a confession. With candor, I will admit that this Second Regular Session has been the most challenging that I have had to lead, and mostly in part because of the impeachment,” Enrile said.\nDespite of the delay in the legislative work due to the 44-day impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, the Senate managed to pass urgent and priority bills to improve the people’s quality of life, according to Enrile.\nThe Senate made up for lost time this week by approving 13 bills, including six house bills, on third and final reading. In addition, he reported that the Conference Committee has also approved the Cybercrime bill.\nThese bills are Senate bill 3009 amending the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2011; Senate Bill 3127 or the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012; Senate Bill No. 3164 amending the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Act; Senate Bill No. 3206, or the act recognizing the early years from zero to age eight as the first crucial stage of educational development, strengthening the Early Childhood Care and Development Council and renaming the day care center as Child Development Center; Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 which seeks to extend the life of the Congressional Oversight Committee on Dangerous Drugs (COCDD) to 10 more years; Senate Bill No. 3209, otherwise known as the “Red Cross and other Emblems Act of 2012” which penalizes misuse of the Red Cross logo.\nAlso approved were House Bill No. 5608, also known as the “Reapportioning of the Province of Palawan into Three Legislative Districts” and six franchise bills for the construction, operation and maintenance of radio and television broadcasting stations in the country.\nStatistics from the Legislative Bills and Index Service as of May 30 showed that Senate has approved a total of 47 bills and has acted upon 283 other measures filed since July 2010.\nThese 17 have been enacted into law, namely: RA No. 10147 (General Appropriations Act of 2011), RA No. 10148 (Grant of Philippine Citizenship to Marcus Eugene Douthit), RA No. 10149 (GOCC Governance Act), RA No. 10150 (Extending the Lifeline Rate to Marginalized End-Users of Power), RA No. 10151 (An Allowing the Employment of Night Workers), RA No. 10152 (Mandatory Basic Immunization Services for Infants and Children) RA No. 10153 (Synchronization of the ARMM Elections with the National and Local Elections), RA No. 10154 (Early Release of Retirement Pay of Government Employees), RA No. 10155 (General Appropriations Act of 2012), RA No. 10156 (Conferment of Civil Service Eligibility to Members of the Sangguniang Bayan), RA No. 10157 (Kindergarten Education Act), RA No. 10158 (Act Decriminalizing Vagrancy), RA No. 10159 (Amending the Revised Penal Code provision on Subsidiary Imprisonment), RA No. 10160 (Bacoor City Charter), RA No. 10161 (Imus City Charter) and RA10162 (Sta. Rosa City Charter) and RA10164 (Mabalacat City Charter).\nTwo other bills are pending in the conference committee, Department of Information and Communications Technology and Ethnic Discrimination.\nNine bills were sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence – SBN 789 or Additional Benefits and Protection for Househelpers, SBN 429 or the Discrimination Against Women, SBN 480 or Replacing the Term “Spouse of Age” with “Either Spouse”, SBN 1052 amending the Family Code (Divorced Obtained Abroad), SBN 2796 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2011, SBN 2811 or the People’s Survival Fund (Climate Change), SBN 2817 or the Involuntary Disappearance Act, SBN 2875 or the Security of Tenure of Casual/Contractual Employees of the Government and SBN 2965 or the Data Privacy Act.\nSotto expressed satisfaction with the output of the Senate despite the huge time it spent for the impeachment trial of Corona.\n”Generally, I’m very satisfied with the production of the Senate. What we have achieved for the entire year (June 2011 to June 7 2012) is quite difficult to achieve without the impeachment but with the impeachment it is doubly satisfying,” Sotto said. (PNA) RMA/jfm"
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        "text": "Q: Can I change the application icon of an Automator script? I have created a couple of automator scripts. I was curious if there is a way to change the application icon on those scripts to something other than the robot.\n\nA: You can also change the icon just as you would normally for any other folder or file in Mac OS X:\n\n\n*\n\n*Copy the image you want to use as your icon. Ideally it should be 512x512 already.\n\n*Choose Get Info on the file/folder/app in Finder\n\n*Click on the Icon and you'll notice a blue outline on the icon - now press Command-V or choose Paste from the Edit menu.\n\n\n\n(Screenshot taken from Super User question 37811)\n\nA: To complement the existing, helpful answers:\n\n\n*\n\n*The accepted answer works in principle, but:\n\n\n*\n\n*relies on extended attributes of the HFS+ filesystem, which are lost when copying the bundle to a filesystem that doesn't support them. For instance, you cannot store a custom icon in a Git repository.\n\n*the icon displayed by the bundle itself, such as when showing an alert, is still the original icon.\n\n\n*percent 20's answer is more comprehensive and portable in principle, but comes with two caveats:\n\n\n*\n\n*Any changes to AutomatorApplet.icns are lost whenever you modify and re-save the bundle in Automator.\nThus, for instance, you'd need a script to put the updated icons in place programmatically every time the bundle is saved.\n\n*As others have noted, there are icon caching issues, which can be tricky to resolve; as of OSX 10.10.4:\n\n\n*\n\n*Even a reboot doesn't make the new icons appear in Finder (though it does appear in other contexts such as in the Dock), but there are two workarounds: either (a) move the bundle to a different folder, or (b) rename the bundle; given that reverting to the original path and name makes the problem reappear, you'd have to plan ahead: create your bundle in a different location or with a different name, then move / rename to the desired location / name.\n\n*Alternatively, you can use a tool such as OnyX and check IconServicesunder Cleaning > User to clear the cache.\n\n\n\n\nA: I found a hacky way to do it after you have created the applet\n\n\n*\n\n*(Create your icns icon file - however you want)\n\n*Open Applications Folder\n\n*Right-click on automator script\n\n*Click on view package contents\n\n*Add your icon to resources folder\n\n*Rename it to AutomatorApplet.icns\n\n\nI am sure there is a better way, but I figured out how to do it this way.\n\nA: After the script has been created do the following :\n\n\n*\n\n*Find the source app with the icon you want\n\n*Get Info of the source app (cmd-i)\n\n*Click on the icon inside the source app's info window\n(Not the one in the big Preview section at the bottom, if you have one of those; the little one in the top-left corner.)\n\n*Copy it (cmd-c)\n\n*Get Info of the automator script (i.e., the destination app) (cmd-i)\n\n*Click on the icon inside the destination app's info window\n\n*Paste the icon from the clipboard (cmd-v)\nThis method works for every files in Mac OS X.\n\n\nA: Apple's official page on customizing files and folders works great for this! \nFor the sake of completeness, for others who view this, I am sharing this.\n\nA: This seems a silly answer but it taught me a interest addittional info\n\nRestore the original icon for an item\n  \n  \n*\n  \n*On your Mac, select the file or folder, then choose File > Get Info.\n  \n*At the top of the Info window, select the custom icon, then choose\n      Edit > Cut.\n\nOnly drawback about this simple apple hidden feature: You can't undo the 'Restore original' icon by executting cmd + z from just made from inside Get Info... Or so it seemed.\nLucky me, I noticed that my custom icon wasn't completly removed in all the places (still present in the top side of the Get Info and in the Finder window miniature I both left opened).\nSo I found out a simple cmd + z from Finder window reverted my disaster.\nMaybe it should be safer to store the copy-pasted custom icon in Contents/Resources/description.rtfd inside Package Contents\n"
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        "text": "Sarajevo is a city in which even strangers can feel at home. Neither geographically expansive nor characterised by large buildings, the city retains a particular, arresting charm with its abundance of busy cafés and abiding tradition of hospitality.\nThe city’s breathtaking backdrop of seemingly endless hills and towering mountains have in a sense always isolated the city, creating a timeless world, which despite its seclusion has always kept its doors open to the rest of the world. Although Sarajevo is a capital city typified by the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it also possesses a unique ambience that seeps into the soul.\nThis city epitomizes a partial centuries-old struggle against outside influences combined with the absorption of these influences into one of the most diverse cultures in Europe. Indeed, few places on earth feature an Orthodox and a Catholic church, a mosque and a synagogue within easy walking distance of each other. If there were any city in Europe that effortlessly straddles east and west, it is Sarajevo. Here the Byzantine and Ottoman empires of the east and the Roman, Venetian and Austro-Hungarian empires of the west left an indelible mark through culture, traditions and religions. A walk through Sarajevo is a walk through its past. From the oriental Ottoman quarters lined with sweet shops, cafés and handicraft workshops, to the administrative and cultural centre of Austro-Hungarian times, Sarajevo encompasses the very best of both worlds. In Sarajevo, people have time for family and friends. It is often said that a man’s wealth here is not measured in his material belongings but rather in his friendships."
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        "text": "Q: How can I really disable the Cmd to Win key mapping in Parallels Desktop 5? Removed it from System Preferences > Keyboard. No go.\nRemapped ⌘ Cmd to be Ctrl. No go.\nRipping out the ⌘ Cmd key shouldn't be the solution. Anyone?...\n\nA: It works for me, but I have it remapped like this: \n\nSo cmd is really control for Windows. \n\nA: I found that mapping a different key to the Win command did not remove the Cmd key being mapped to Win.  What worked for me was to map Cmd to Shift.\n\nAll the other shortcuts such as Cmd + S (save), Cmd + C (copy), etc still worked but hitting Cmd by itself now just activates the Shift key which really does nothing by itself.\n\nA: Go to Parallels Desktop preferences and disable key mapping for key which behaves abnormally (\"Cmd > win\" in our case) as shown on the screenshot below:\n\n\nA: You can use Krumstick to remap the windows key inside Windows.\n\nA: Not sure if this will help you. But the main problem for me was the CMD + arrow keys I use all the time to go to the start or end of a line. \nThis can be remapped without problems, this way you can use all your normal shortcuts from MacOS too. The second I get a Mac keyboard muscle memory kicks in and this is a good compromise :)\n\n"
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        "text": "Q: Can Macs be put in hibernation voluntarily? I know that when you put your Mac laptop to sleep and the battery dies, next time you plug it in it will wake up from the state it was prior to being put to sleep. There are also hacks to get this behavior with a desktop Mac (except it triggers when you put the Mac to sleep and unplug it).\nIs there a way to trigger this behavior without cutting power, and that will still let me put my Mac to sleep normally? Like Windows 7's Hibernate option.\n\nA: Yes, of course you can. I myself use Deep Sleep widget (second link) to put my Macbook Pro into hibernation.\nAnd if you prefer to use the command line, read this article.\n\n\nA: There is a pref pane called smart sleep that is pretty good\n\nA: You could use DeepSleep.\nI know this is a widget, but if you want an application, do the following :\n\n*\n\n*Download the widget and uncompress the zip file containing it, but do not install it.\n\n\n*Right-click on the widget, the select Show Package Contents.\n\n\n\n\n\n*Copy the DeepSleep Application where you want.\n\n\n\n"
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        "text": "Q: Keyboard shortcuts for \"Straighten\" in iPhoto? If you've used iPhoto for photo retouching, you probably know the Straighten functionality. \n\nMy question is, are there any keyboard shortcuts for rotating the photo, or is mouse & the slider the only way? Any other useful tips regarding this are of course also welcome.\nIt can be somewhat slow and awkward to do this with mouse/trackpad for each photo (especially if your mouse is not the most accurate one, like my Logitech bluetooth mouse). In iPhoto '09 they made matters worse by removing the small buttons next to the slider that you could click to rotate by one step (0.1 degrees).\n\nA: You can press the S key to activate the straighten tool. And the return key will save any changes. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to control the slider in order to actually make a change using the keyboard.\n\nA: If you have a trackpad you can use two-finger-rotation gestures in Straighten mode. See http://www.cnet.com/news/quick-tip-iphoto-11-trackpad-gestures/\n\nA: You can use the Accessibility Inspector to input arbitrary numbers for the amount of rotation. See this post here for usage instructions.\nRemember to press Set value to change the number and input numbers with decimal point, e.g. 4.0.\n\n\n"
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        "text": "Dr. Dan V Nicolau, Jr. Cheif Executive Officer – Dan Jr. has degrees in Electrical Engineering (BEng/Hons), Applied Mathematics (BS, MS) and a doctoral title in Biological Mathematics (DPhil, Oxford). He was a Miller Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, USA. In the past he was also the CEO of Altitude Medical (www.altitudemedical.com). Dan Jr has also holds a BM BCh from Oxford University Medical School Dan Jr. is the main Senior Researcher and is the Principal Investigator of our reserarch projects on biocomputing.\nDr. Dan V Nicolau, Jr.\nMs. Carmen Nicolau, Chief Operations Officer – Carmen has University degrees in Mechanical Engineering (MEng) and Psychology (MS) as well in Management Science. Prior to joining Molecular Sense, Carmen was the Managing Director of Ponte SRL. Carmen is the Project Manager of our research projects.\nProf. Dietmar Manstein, PhD in Molecular Biology, is Director of the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at Hannover Medical School. His positions include Stanford University, National Institute for Medical Research, London; and Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg.\nDr. Mircea Dusa, who has a PhD in Electronic Engineering, is the Senior Scientist at ASML (www.asml.com). He is a Fellow of the SPIE. Mircea’s former positions include Seeq, National Semiconductor, and IMT.\nDr. Uwe Muller, who has PhD in Microbiology, is presently the CSO, Neoclone Biotechnology. His former executive positions include Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., Nanosphere, Corning Inc. Vysis, Abbott Diagnostics, BP Amoco.\nDr. Takahisa Taguchi, who has a PhD in Neuroscinces, the Director of the Special Division for Human Life Technology, at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST, www.aist.go.jp), Japan."
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        "text": "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 [43] 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333\nWe are a bunch of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your website offered us with useful info to work on. You've performed an impressive job and our entire group will probably be thankful to you. Take a look at my site http://todayinadianads.in/user/profile/90477\n1 gallon art style clear plastic paint can w ears\nadidas 3s full zip up hoodie blacknh bruins hockey long sleeve t shirt2 pcs foldable nonwoven garment suit dress jacket clothes cover carrier bag with handles prevent mothseducational toddler toys for 1 2 3 4 5 year old boys girls stacking toy toys games 1 gallon art style clear plastic paint can w ears\ndetails about women white stripes maxi dress side slit stage dance wear brief club sexy summer\nblack romper off shoulder romper black floral romper 29jovani 60017 sparkle glitter jersey jumpsuit mia bella couturedusty pink bardot double layer culotte jumpsuitjumpsuits playsuits asos petite jumpsuit with lace top fringing women black details about women white stripes maxi dress side slit stage dance wear brief club sexy summer\nbraun prestige digital watch\ntwill uniform skort for toddler girlsbauer prodigy ice hockey skates juniorpatriots 11 jerseyfortnite chug life t shirt clothing braun prestige digital watch\nWһoa....thiѕ іѕ a іnvаluaƄlｅ ᴡｅƄ ѕіtе. Fеｅⅼ fгее tο ѕuгf tߋ mʏ wеbрagе harga beton jayamix tangerang paling murah\nnew years shirts 2019\nand broke the all time touchdown passes in a single season. this tom brady photo is unsigned and was photographed and autographed by williams hauserphiladelphia eagles 59 seth joyner light green throwback 99th jerseythe north face mens drew peak hoodie tfn black white impact shopprinted men t shirt funny all my black shirts are dirty joke statement humor slogan quotes saying funny women t shirt new years shirts 2019\ncustom made slim fit gray formal business suits wedding blazer for\nsenators vs. bruins playoff previewindustrial construction shop by categoryft 830 outdoor table tennis tablemens hat brands custom made slim fit gray formal business suits wedding blazer for\ngrey pj romper w white socks roblox\ncarson wentz womens philadelphia eagles nike color rush jersey limited greenblack nike shoes mens nike basketball football runningccm cl pro chest arm pad srold style england football shirts grey pj romper w white socks roblox\neddie van halen guitar price\ndestiny t shirt cayde 6regular fit corduroy pants black menvan halens monstrous stage rig for the 1984 tourgolden state warriors finals jacket eddie van halen guitar price\nrazer goliathus chroma rgb soft mouse pad quick review youtube\nsummer trending fashionbowies favourite designer speaks about their relationshipella flared denim jumpsuit for women. please upgrade to full version of magic zoom plusspring fall preppy style fashion casual mens slim blue denim bib pants razer goliathus chroma rgb soft mouse pad quick review youtube"
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        "text": "Q: Can I transfer backups when replacing a Time Capsule? If I get a new Time Capsule, how can I transfer the backups from the old Time Capsule to the new one. I see an option to Archive the Time Capsule from the Airport Utility, but I don't see any way to restore. Do I have to go through the initial back up process again with all of my Macs?\n\nA: From Apple Support Knowledge Base...\nTime Capsule, Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later: How to transfer your back up from an existing Time Capsule to a new one\nFor this process, you should leave your computer in the same room as the Time Capsules, or use one Ethernet cable to connect your Mac to the Ethernet port on the existing Time Capsule, then use another Ethernet cable to connect from the existing Time Capsule to the new Time Capsule.\n\n\n*\n\n*Configure your Time Capsule for your network. See the documentation\nthat came with your Time Capsule for information about setting it up\non your network. \n\n*Open Time Machine preferences in System\nPreferences.\n\n*Slide the Time Machine switch to Off. \n\n*Open a Finder\nwindow. \n\n*Locate both Time Capsules listed in the SHARED section of\nthe navigation pane on the left of the Finder window.  Note: If you\ndo not see your Time Capsules in that section, choose Preferences\nfrom the Finder menu and make sure \"Connected servers\" is checked\nunder SHARED. \n\n*Select the name of the new Time Capsule in the\nnavigation pane. The default name is \"Time Capsule xxxxxx\", with\nxxxxxx being the last digits of the ID printed on the bottom of the\nTime Capsule. \n\n*Mount the volume by double-clicking the name of the\nvolume in the Finder window's main section. The default drive name\nis \"Data\". \n\n*Open a new Finder window by pressing Command-N, or by\nchoosing File > New Finder Window. \n\n*Repeat the previous 2 steps with\nthe other Time Capsule, to mount it. Drag your backup disk image\nfrom the current Time Capsule to the new Time Capsule. This can take\nsome time to complete because your entire backup will be copied.\n\n*Open Time Machine preferences in System Preferences. \n\n*Click \"Select\nDisk...\", then select your new Time Capsule. \n\n*Perform a Time Machine\nback up. \n\n*After the back up, you can remove the Ethernet cables if\ndesired and configure your wireless network to your liking.\n\n\nA: This is a slow way but dead simple. After letting the new time capsule absorb the setting from the old one and hooking it up to your network then just reconnect with Airport Utility to the old one. Reconfigure the old one to extend your network instead of making a new one. \nNow you can mount both drives and copy files between then as you wish.\n\nA: Some time ago I read an article about this procedure but it's a bit of a hack.\nI won't copy it here because it's a 12-point tutorial.\nAnyway, I was too lazy to test it, so I cannot guaranty it will work.\nMaybe someone will post a better solution.\n\nA: If you can find a way to hook up the TImeCapsule's drive to your mac directly you might get away with this simple Disk Utility trick:\nhttp://rolfje.com/2008/09/07/a-bigger-timemachine-without-changing-history/\n"
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        "text": "Q: Can I resize a BootCamp partition without reinstalling Windows? Does any one know how to do this?\n\nA: You can use GParted to achieve this, as it supports HFS+, FAT32 & NTFS resizing.\n\n\n\nA: if you want to reduce the size of bootcamp partition you can use this.\nand if you want to increase the partition size you can use CampTune.\n\nEdited:\nif you want do it free use this method (Malicious link removed -- see comments) it needs 2 applications (both are free)\n\n\n*\n\n*winclone\n\n*carbon copy cloner\np.s: some software download link in article was corrupt you must download these apps from my links.\n"
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        "text": "11 февруари е 42-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 323 дни до края на годината (324 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 660 г. пр.н.е. – Първият японски император се възкача на престола – денят се определя като начало на японската държава и се чества като национален празник.\n 1211 г. – Цар Борил свиква в Търново църковен събор срещу богомилите.\n 1809 г. – Американецът Робърт Фултън патентова парахода.\n 1826 г. – Основан е Лондонският университетски колеж.\n 1869 г. – В Канада се състои последната за тази страна публична екзекуция.\n 1919 г. – В Германия е проведен избор на първия райхспрезидент (Фридрих Еберт).\n 1929 г. – Италия и Ватиканът подписват Латеранските споразумения, съгласно които Папската държава става независима.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Генерал Дуайт Айзенхауър е определен за командващ на обединените антихитлеристки сили на Западния фронт.\n\n 1953 г. – Съветският съюз къса дипломатически отношения с Израел.\n 1964 г. – Република Китай (Тайван) къса дипломатически отношения с Франция.\n 1975 г. – Маргарет Тачър става първата жена, избрана за лидер на Консервативната партия на Великобритания.\n 1978 г. – Цензура: В Китай е отменена забраната за творбите на Аристотел, Шекспир и Дикенс.\n 1979 г. – В Иран побеждава Ислямската революция, ръководена от аятоллах Хомейни.\n 1989 г. – В Пловдив е създаден независимия синдикат „Подкрепа“ с председател д-р Константин Тренчев.\n 1990 г. – Южноафриканският активист против системата на апартейд Нелсън Мандела е освободен от затвора „Виктор Ферстер“ в Република Южна Африка, след като е държан като политически затворник там 27 години.\n 2007 г. – Чрез референдум в Португалия е легализиран аборта през първите 10 седмици от бременността.\n\nРодени \n\n 1466 г. – Елизабет Йоркска, кралица на Хенри VII († 1503 г.)\n 1535 г. – Григорий XIV, римски папа († 1591 г.)\n 1800 г. – Уилиам Фокс Талбот, английски пионер във фотографията († 1877 г.)\n 1829 г. – Вилхелм Вестмайер, немски композитор († 1880 г.)\n 1841 г. – Йоан Караджани, румънски фолклорист († 1921 г.)\n 1847 г. – Томас Едисън, американски изобретател († 1931 г.)\n 1866 г. – Иван Бележков, български революционер († 1944 г.)\n 1869 г. – Елзе Ласкер-Шюлер, немска поетеса († 1945 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ханс-Георг Гадамер, германски философ († 2002 г.)\n 1902 г. – Любов Орлова, съветска актриса († 1975 г.)\n 1905 г. – Константин Кугийски, български виолончелист († 1975 г.)\n 1917 г. – Сидни Шелдън, американски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1919 г. – Ева Габор, американска актриса († 1995 г.)\n 1920 г. – Фарук I, крал на Египет († 1965 г.)\n 1921 г. – Стефан Никушев, български футболист († 1989 г.)\n 1926 г. – Лесли Нилсен, американски актьор († 2010 г.)\n 1931 г. – Георги Богословов, български керамик\n 1934 г. – Евстати Стратев, български актьор († 1984 г.)\n 1934 г. – Радка Правчанска, български есперантист († 1993 г.)\n 1934 г. – Иван Терзиев, български режисьор († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Мануел Нориега, панамски генерал († 2017 г.)\n 1940 г. – Веселин Вълков, български актьор († 2016 г.)\n 1947 г. – Миряна Башева, българска поетеса († 2020 г.)\n 1950 г. – Илинка Митрева, македонски политик и учен\n 1953 г. – Джеб Буш, американски политик\n 1954 г. – Джон Байърли, американски дипломат\n 1958 г. – Стефан Тафров, български дипломат\n 1958 г. – Стоян Гунчев, български волейболист\n 1962 г. – Шерил Кроу, американска певица\n 1963 г. – Валентин Тодоров, български писател\n 1964 г. – Сара Пейлин, американски политик\n 1967 г. – Чиро Ферара, италиански футболист\n 1969 г. – Дженифър Анистън, американска актриса\n 1969 г. – Адел Паркс, британска писателка\n 1970 г. – Ивайло Йотов, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Деймиън Люис, английски актьор\n 1977 г. – Майк Шинода, американски музикант\n 1981 г. – Кели Роуланд, американска певица\n 1982 г. – Нийл Робъртсън, австралийски играч на снукър\n 1987 г. – Хосе Мария Кайехон, испански футболист\n 1992 г. – Тейлър Лаутнър, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 55 г. – Британик, син на император Клавдий (* 41 г.)\n 244 г. – Гордиан III, император на Рим (* 225 г.)\n 641 г. – Ираклий, византийски император (* ок. 575)\n 731 г. – Папа Григорий II, римски папа (* 7 век)\n 1503 г. – Елизабет Йоркска, кралица на Хенри VII (* 1466 г.)\n 1515 г. – Георги Софийски Нови, български светец (* 1497 г.)\n 1525 г. – Изабела Арагонска, херцогиня на Милано (* 1470 г.)\n 1650 г. – Рене Декарт, френски математик (* 1596 г.)\n 1829 г. – Александър Грибоедов, руски дипломат (* 1795 г.)\n 1868 г. – Леон Фуко, френски физик (* 1819 г.)\n 1882 г. – Франческо Айец, италиански художник (* 1791 г.)\n 1901 г. – Милан I, крал на Сърбия (* 1855 г.)\n 1927 г. – Иван Момчилов, български лекар (* 1868 г.)\n 1931 г. – Веранъс Алва Мур, американски бактериолог (* 1859 г.)\n 1935 г. – Германос Каравангелис, костурски митрополит (* 1866 г.)\n 1948 г. – Сергей Айзенщайн, латвийски режисьор (* 1898 г.)\n 1949 г. – Аксел Мунте, шведски лекар (* 1857 г.)\n 1958 г. – Ърнест Джоунс, уелски психоаналитик (* 1879 г.)\n 1962 г. – Никола Станимиров, български офицер (* 1876 г.)\n 1963 г. – Силвия Плат, американска писателка (* 1932 г.)\n 1966 г. – Иван Попов, български актьор (* 1865 г.)\n 1968 г. – Ибрахим Абача, чадски политик (* 1938 г.)\n 1973 г. – Ханс Йенсен, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. (* 1907 г.)\n 1976 г. – Лий Дж. Коб, американски актьор (* 1911 г.)\n 1978 г. – Хари Мартинсон, шведски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1904 г.)\n 1982 г. – Такаши Шимура, японски актьор (* 1905 г.)\n 1986 г. – Франк Хърбърт, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1991 г. – Веселин Андреев, български поет (* 1918 г.)\n 1993 г. – Робърт Холи, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. (* 1922 г.)\n 1994 г. – Паул Файерабенд, австрийски философ (* 1924 г.)\n 1999 г. – Стоян Гъдев, български актьор (* 1931 г.)\n 2000 г. – Роже Вадим, френски режисьор (* 1928 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джак Чокър, американски писател (* 1944 г.)\n 2011 г. – Йозеф Пирунг, германски футболист (* 1949 г.)\n 2012 г. – Уитни Хюстън, американска певица (* 1963 г.)\n 2017 г. – Курт Марти, швейцарски писател (* 1921 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден на жените и момичетата в науката, отбелязва се от 2016 г., приет е с Резолюция на ООН\n Международен ден на болните – Отбелязва се от 1993 г. в деня на Лурдската Божия майка. Учреден от Папа Йоан Павел II през 1992 г. Празнува се от католическата църква.\n Католическа църква – Дева Мария от Лурд\n Ватикан – Ден на суверенитета (от Италия, 1929 г., има статут на държавен празник)\n Иран – Ден на ислямската революция (1979 г.)\n Камерун – Ден на младежта\n САЩ – Национален ден на изобретателя\n Япония – Възникване на нацията (възкачване на първия император на трона, 660 пр.н.е., национален празник)\n\nПравославен календар \n Свети свещеномъченик Власий, епископ Севастийски.\n\nИзточници \n\n211"
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        "text": "Meet Maria Lewis Kussmaul, CFA\nMaria Lewis Kussmaul, CFA\nCo-Founder and Partner - Boston\nMobile / Comms\nMaria Lewis Kussmaul, CFA LinkedIn Profile\nMaria, a Co-Founder and Partner at AGC Partners, leads the firm’s investment banking efforts in the IT security sector. A recognized domain expert, Maria is a frequent contributor to industry events, panelist/presenter at the RSA Conference, Security Innovation Network (SINET) Advisory Board Member, Naval War College Roundtable Participant and has facilitated numerous “Blue Sky” strategic planning sessions with leading security teams. Prior to co-founding AGC, Maria was a co-founder, general and venture partner of Castile Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm. Maria’s early Wall Street career spanned three firms – Smith Barney, Shearson Lehman and Cowen & Co., culminating as global head of Cowen’s data networks & Internet investment banking activities. Working for more than 30 years as a sell-side equity analyst, venture capitalist and investment banker, Maria has advised on hundreds of telecom equipment, networking, internet and security transactions. Previously, she was named to the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for 13 consecutive years. Maria holds a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University, an M.B.A. from Wharton School of Business and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She was the 2013 recipient of the Boston Joseph Wharton Award.\nMaria's Featured\nMaria is a Trustee of the Museum of Science (MoS) in Boston, MA, and chair of the Museum’s Discoverers’ Committee. She is also an Overseer with Boston Baroque. A former marathoner, Maria now restricts her running to shorter distances and has adopted the annual Washburn Climb of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire’s highest peak, as her chief fundraiser for MoS. Maria and her husband Wes are empty nesters and reside in Boston, MA.\n“Maria and her team at AGC served as BreakingPoint’s trusted advisor through a comprehensive and highly efficient process that culminated with the successful sale to Ixia. Through every step of the way, including complex final negotiations, AGC led BreakingPoint with professionalism and a deep commitment to our shareholders. My team and our investors couldn’t be more pleased with the results, and we look forward to working with AGC again in the future.”\n— Des Wilson, CEO of BreakingPoint\n(AGC Partners acted as sole financial advisor to BreakingPoint)\n\"We are very pleased with Maria, Russ and the team at AGC, who worked diligently with us from start to finish and secured the best outcome for our shareholders. Maria's extensive knowledge of the industry and personal guidance throughout the entire term of our engagement was invaluable, and I would welcome the opportunity to work with Maria and her team again.\"\n— Mike Dager, CEO of Arxan\n(AGC Partners served as sole financial advisor to Arxan Technologies in September, 2013)\n\"AGC did a fantastic job advising Xceedium during the M&A process. The management team, Board, and shareholders were all thoroughly impressed by Maria’s deep industry knowledge and close relationships with the major security players. The entire AGC team served as a trusted advisor and helped make this transaction a success. We look forward to working with Maria and her team again in the future.\"\nGlenn Hazard, CEO of Xceedium\n(AGC Partners acted as sole financial advisor to Xceedium in August 2015)\nSecurity Flash Report – April 2019\nSecurity Orchestration & Automation\nCyber Risk Insurance\nConnected Car Security"
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        "text": "Some rare and not so rare Birds seen recently by our members!\nSpecial feature on the Baltimore Ivory Gull. Photos taken on 6 March 2009. Other Gulls on below are for comparison."
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        "text": "\"Growth, Inequality, and Nationalism\", Journal of Democracy, July 2017\n\"Does Citizenship Abate Class? Evidence and Reflections from a South Indian City\" (with Ebony Bertorelli, Patrick Heller and Siddharth Swaminathan), Economic and Political Weekly, August 12, 2017.\n“Caste and Entrepreneurship in India” (with Lakshmi Iyer and Tarun Khanna), Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, 2013.\n\"Battles Half Won: Political Economy of India’s Growth and Economic Policy Since Independence\" (with Sadiq Ahmed), in Chetan Ghate, ed, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press, 2012.\n\"Two Banks of the Same River? Social Order and Entrepreneurialism in India\" in Partha Chatterjee and Ira Katznelson, eds, Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States, Oxford University Press, 2012.\n\"Comment on ‘The Political Economy of Public Service Provision in South Asia,’ by Lakshmi Iyer\" in Justin Yifu Lin and Boris Pleskovik, eds, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics—Global 2009, Washington DC: World Bank Publications, 2010.\n\"Who Benefits from Conflict? Some Evidence from Assam\" (with Deepa Narayan and Binayak Sen), in Deepa Narayan, ed, Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 3: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India, Washington DC: World Bank Publications, 2009.\n\"Poverty and Famines: An Extension\" in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, eds, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, Oxford University Press, 2009.\n\"China and India: A New Asian Drama\", Perspectives on Politics, September 2005.\n\"Democracy and Poverty\" in Deepa Narayan, ed, Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Washington DC: World Bank Publications, 2005.\n\"Violent Conflict and the Millennium Development Goals: Diagnosis and Recommendations\" (with Macartan Humphreys), background paper for the UN Millennium Development Goals Poverty Task Force Workshop, set up by Kofi Annan, on poverty alleviation in developing countries, Working Paper, August 2004.\n\"Why have Poor Democracies not Eliminated Poverty? A Suggestion\", Asian Survey, September-October 2000.\n\"Preface\" (with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Nirupam Bajpai), in Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ashutosh Varshney, and Nirupam Bajpai, eds, India in the Era of Economic Reforms, paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.\nThe Politics and Economics of India's Reforms: An Introduction\" (with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Nirupam Bajpai), India in the Era of Economic Reforms, Oxford University Press, 1999.\n\"Mass Politics or Elite Politics?: India’s Economic Reforms in Comparative Perspective\", Journal of Policy Reform, November 1998. Reprinted in Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ashutosh Varshney, and Nirupam Bajpai, eds, India in the Era of Economic Reforms, Oxford University Press, 1999. Also published as “Mass Politics or Elite Politics?: Understanding the Politics of India’s Economic Reforms” in Rahul Mukherji, ed, India’s Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms, Oxford University Press, 2007.\n\"Cultures and Modes of Rationality\", APSA-CP—Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, Summer 1997. Translated in French and published as “‘Choix Rationnels,’ Conflit Ethnique et Culture”, Critique Internationale, Autumn 1999.\n\"Classes, like Ethnic Groups, are Imagined Communities\", Economic and Political Weekly, July 12, 1997.\n\"Strategy in Industrial Development: India and South Korea\", India International Centre Quarterly, Winter 1993.\n\"Self-Limited Empowerment: Democracy, Economic Development and Rural India\", The Journal of Development Studies, July 1993.\n\"Urban Bias in Perspective\", Journal of Development Studies, July 1993.\n\"Ideas, Interest and Institutions in Policy Change: Transformation of India's Agricultural Strategy in the Mid-1960s\", Policy Sciences, August 1989.\n\"India's Political Economy: Issues, Non-Issues and Puzzles\", Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, November 1988.\n\"Political Economy of Slow Industrial Growth in India\", Economic and Political Weekly, September 1, 1984."
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        "text": "« Low-Level Employee At Nuke Tech Plant Steals Aluminum Tubes, Information About Uranium Enrichment To Sell To Foreign Buyers | Main | Terror Bombing Kills 50 In Pakistan, Including Chinese Workers »\nBible-Level Mega-Flood Separated Britain From Europe\nDude, those maps in the beginning of every Conan book? Totally real.\nA flood of biblical proportions cut the British Isles off from mainland Europe sometime between 450,000 and 200,000 years ago, according to a new study.\nThe research, based on three-dimensional sonar mapping of the English Channel, provides the strongest evidence yet that a catastrophic megaflood broke a land bridge that once connected what is now Britain and France.\n\"It is probably one of the largest floods ever identified,\" said Phillip Gibbard, a geographer at the University of Cambridge who wasn't involved in the study.\nAt its peak, the flood would have discharged water at a rate of about 264 million gallons (a million cubic meters) a second, gushing at speeds of up to 62 miles (100 kilometers) an hour, the researchers say. This is roughly equivalent to ten times the combined flow rate of all the rivers in the world.\nThe flood also marooned many animals and plants, so those species gradually evolved into different forms than their mainland cousins.\nAnd humans appear to have avoided the newly made island altogether, leaving it unoccupied for over a hundred thousand years.\nThe great flood could help explain why Britain remained an uninhabited region for a large chunk of the archaeological record.\n\"There seems to be a large gap in the evidence for human occupation [of Britain] during cold and warm phases from about 180,000 until about 60,000 years ago,\" said Nicholas Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum in London.\n\"It wasn't until 60,000 years ago,\" Ashton said, \"that humans—late Neanderthals—had the technological capabilities, such as more effective clothing and shelter, to survive the cold conditions.\""
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        "text": "Ministry women in Alaska often struggle more than the men. The rough challenge to hunt, fish, chop wood, and survive deep cold and darkness usually invigorates a man’s independent Alaskan spirit and connects him with like-minded men.\nA white missionary lady disembarks from a small aircraft in a new and different culture that stands back from this newcomer until she earns the trust of the village people. No shopping malls, supermarkets, fresh produce, department stores, restaurants, or fast food chains greet or provide her with a break. The “roughing it” stage for some wears thin after the initial honeymoon.\nOver the years, Arctic Barnabas women have reached out to encourage bush ministry women to persevere with the love of Christ. At our most recent retreat this April, two Barnabas ladies flew into Fairbanks to set up a retreat. God provided accommodations with two separate bedrooms, one for sleepers and one for night owls, an exercise room, walking trails, and a full kitchen.\nLife in a remote village includes food prep from scratch, since a shopping trip to Anchorage usually comes only once a year. Most of these women homeschool their children and minister to families, hordes of village children, and other women. Their busy lives and the unpredictable April weather, make commitments to attend the retreat a last minute deal, which makes preparation tricky. The relaxed retreat schedule allowed for rest and connection with each other.\nThe Barnabas ladies arrived a day early to prepare gift bags and make physical and spiritual preparations. The retreat ran Wednesdayevening through Saturday. Some ministry women contend with food allergies and intolerances, but the Barnabas ladies made sure to prepare meals accordingly.\nEach lady brought a craft to work on while they enjoyed girl time and each came from a remote village with a need for conversational encouragement with other women. They shared their hearts, struggles, tears, and love. They prayed together for strength, courage, and safety. God used this time away with other ministry ladies to strengthen them to return to their village and continue to share Christ’s love."
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        "text": "Q: External Disk to use with TimeMachine in a AirPort Extreme Any one know any external disk that I can use to do this?\n\nA: Again, any usb disk should work, unless there's something I'm missing in the question.\n"
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        "text": "Swatch's Financials\nNow, in this post, we get into the really nitty gritty details of investing: financials and revenue and margins and numbers and ratios. This is really the bread and butter of stock analysis which is also perhaps the most difficult part for most laypeople. As alluded to in the previous posts, I would usually like to pick up a few important numbers and ratios out of the financial statements. Most of the time, it would give a really good sense of how the company is doing. I have posted in details what all these numbers meant like a million years ago. You can find the old descriptions in the labels: Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Ratios. For your convenience, I have also added hyperlinks at the relevant paragraphs below. But for Swatch today, I would just do a quick commentary on what’s interesting.\nHere’s an updated version of the cheat sheet that I would normally use. As you might be able to tell, I have added some colours and made it look prettier in order to compete with Serina Wee. I hope our beloved media will take some pics here too!\nSwatch's Cheatsheet\nFirst, let’s explain the structure. I have divided this table into a few parts, the titles for these parts are in red and underlined. The pure financials are PL, BS, CF. If you do not know what they stand for, I suggest you message Serina Wee on Facebook for a crash course, she would be able to help since she is a certified accountant and a devoted Christian. Of course, you should also make known to her that you will be joining City Harvest tomorrow and pledge 50% of your household income to support her wardrobe.\nWell, short of pledging 50% of your income to support Serina Wee’s wardrobe, which isn’t really a bad thing since you will be doing a big favour to all Singaporean guys watching her strut down Supreme Court, you can read the posts I wrote a million years ago under the in the labels: Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Ratios. I just need a Like for my Facebook page on the right of this post.\nYou are most welcome :) Ok, jokes aside. So the financials are PL, BS and CF. The other segments are:\nStock related: which relates to stock information and the numbers used to calculate its valuation and the all important target price (TP) or intrinsic value.\nStakeholders: who are the big owners and managers of this company.\nComps: how does it compare with industry peers in terms of valuation.\nSo we see a bunch of no.s all over. I guess it would be easiest to focus on those numbers in blue. Basically these are derived numbers ie they are formulas in Excel rather than hard coded. What does it mean? Take dividend yield which is at 1.4%. It is simply DPS or dividend per share of CHF (Swiss Franc) 8 divided by its share price of CHF 587, ie no.s in blue are derived from other no.s in the spreadsheet.\nSo as you can see, Swatch is pretty much a top notch business. GPM or gross margin at 80% and OPM or operating margin of over 20%, these are some of the highest margins in any industry. Essentially, when you pay $10,000 for an Omega watch, the cost to produce it in the Swiss watch factory would only be $2,000. *Gasp!* That’s why the gross margin is 80%. Well, since OPM is 20%, it then means that the cost to do marketing like getting James Bond to wear it, putting it in a fancy retail store on Orchard Road and finally packaging it nicely in a wooden oak box, these add up to another $6,000, which is the difference between the gross profit and the operating profit. So Swatch only makes $2,000 at the operating level for every $10,000 Omega watch that it sells.\nThen there’s the ROE or Return on Equity, which measures the growth rate of the business. For Swatch it’s 21%, another world-class number. How’s your salary increment this year? If I read the published stats, it’s about 5%? For every year that passes, the capital base in Swatch grows 4x faster than our salaries. So if your savings pool is large enough, you have to think really hard if you should work or you should just put all your money in Swatch. Well, that’s another topic. But even when compared to peers like Tiffany (ROE 16%) and Richemont (20%), Swatch’s ROE is still superior.\nThe other measure I like to look at is the FCF yield which stands for free cash flow yield. This is basically cash the business churns out after it has re-invested back in the business, divided by the market cap. So it means that if you buy Swatch now, it churns out 3% cash for you, in theory. In reality, it pays out 1.4% as dividends to shareholders. This two no.s then compares whether the dividend is sustainable. If you see a dividend yield higher than the FCF yield, it means dividend cut akan datang (or coming soon).\nFCF yield of 3% is actually considered low in most circumstances which means that the stock is expensive. Cheap stocks give close to 10% FCF yield, like Microsoft or Apple, the maker of iPhone 5S, which stands for Same and 5C for which stands for Cheap. Even Singaporeans’ infatuation with the 5C dream would not save Apple. Tim Cook probably needs to seek divine help from Serina Wee.\nSo Apple 10% FCF yield vs Swatch 3% FCF yield? Shouldn’t we buy Apple? Things are cheap for a reason. Just comparing the plain FCF yields ignores the growth angle. Swatch has a sustainable ROE of 21% while Microsoft or Apple would probably see its ROE decline over time. This means that whatever cash Swatch’s business can churn out, that amount should grow at 21% per annum. For Microsoft or Apple, the cash churned out would decline over time. Hence it’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison (no pun intended :).\nNow growing at 21% is powerful. Remember compound interest is the Eighth Wonder. This means that in 2 to 3 years, Swatch’s FCF yield based on today’s price is then 6%. And in 4 to 6 years, it would be 9%. That is not far from the 10% for the 2 loser techland dinosaurs described above. And Swatch's free cash flow will continue to grow after six years, into perpetuity as long as people don't stop buying luxury watches and diamonds.\nFinally, we should talk about how we get to Swatch’s target price or intrinsic value of CHF 650. There’s no rocket science here. I simply used the EPS or earnings per share of CHF 36 multiplied by 18x. Why 18x? This is actually at the high end of what I would pay for. (I have advocated paying not more than 18x PE) But 18x should be justifiable for such a great franchise with strong growth, brand recognition and all the business moats we have discussed.\nNow do take note that intrinsic value is just a number. The most important point about investing is the margin of safety. At CHF 587, the margin of safety is a mere 10%. Ben Graham, the father of value investing, would want 30%, so this is definitely not enough for him. But Warren Buffett also did say that if the business is great, not just good but great, then it’s ok to buy even with no margin of safety.\nInvesting is an art and I would leave it to you and your artistic talent to determine what is a good entry price for Swatch. For me, although I started the analysis and bought it way cheaper, I believe Swatch still offers upside at today’s price. I would advocate buying a toehold for now and if it falls, it’s a chance to load the truck! Hopefully we would make enough to fund Serina’s wardrobe in time!\nPS: For those who have no idea who’s Serina Wee, where have you been dude? Here’s her pic below.\nSingapore's hottest accused criminal\nLabels: Swatch\nSwatch's Management\nSwatch Group came about via a series of mergers around the time of the near death experience of the Swiss watch industry in the early 1980s and was finally helmed by this legendary guy called Nicolas Hayek, a Lebanese who later became a Swiss. His kids, Nick Junior and Nayla Hayek - a brother and sister tag-team, run the Swatch Group today. Nick Senior passed away in 2010 but he created a lasting legacy by rescuing and reinventing the whole Swiss watch industry.\nNick started his own management consulting firm called Hayek Engineering in the early 1960s and became very successful in consulting and helping to turn around ailing companies all over Europe. Hayek Engineering corporate philosophy embodies Nick’s belief that an entrepreneur is essentially an artist. This is not different with investing which is also an art. Also, an investor should also manage his portfolio with an almost artistic creativity to make outsized returns.\nIn Nick's own words,\nAn entrepreneur is first of all an artist, full of fantasy and inventions. He or she needs to be able to communicate, be open to new ideas and able to question everything. – Not only our society but also oneself. An entrepreneur ought to be captured by the beauty of and sensitive to the outcome of our planet. This attitude does not only allow him or her to create new products and more jobs, it also allows for the creation of true values and riches for all people. It is also necessary if one wants to overcome all obstacles using courage and fantasy…\nThis is how Nicolas Hayek approached entrepreneurship and by 1979, Hayek Engineering had 300 clients in 30 countries and Nick was well regarded as a true entrepreneur and on top of that, a teacher to other entrepreneurs. Today the company still exists as a niche consulting firm headed by Nayla Hayek, Nick’s daughter.\nSo that was all before Nick got involved in Swatch. Then, in the early 1980s, the onslaught of the cheap Japanese quartz watches drove the mechanical Swiss watch industry to the brink of bankruptcy. A lot of watchmakers and their movement companies were going bankrupt. At age 52, Nick was roped in to oversee the liquidation of two of these companies: ASUAG and SSIH but he thought and decided there could be a way out for the Swiss watch industry.\nAt the same time, Swatch was created by a group of entrepreneurs led by another guy called Ernst Thomke who was also trying to rescue ETA, a very important Swiss watch movement company. Nick then joined hands with Ernst and a group of investors to form a Swiss watch giant called SMH, which later changed its name to Swatch Group.\nSwatch Group today is an integrated watchmaker producing 50% of the world's high end mechanical watch movements and owns a slew of brands including Breguet, Harry Winston, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, Jaquet Droz, Léon Hatot, Omega, Tiffany & Co. (watches), Longines, Rado, Union Glashütte, Tissot, Calvin Klein watches and jewellery, Balmain, Certina, Mido, Hamilton and needless to say, Swatch.\nOn its website, Swatch also lists all its production companies. Some of which are critical to the development of the human race. Like Nivarox-FAR, one of Swatch Group companies that produced the world's smallest springs and gears for impeccably accurate time-keeping in mechanical watches.\nSwatch Group production companies\nETA, Nivarox-FAR, François Golay, Comadur, Rubattel et Weyermann, MOM Le Prélet, Universo, Manufacture Ruedin, Simon Et Membrez, Lascor, Novi, Swatch Group Assembly, DYB, EM Microelectronic, Renata, Micro Crystal, Oscilloquartz and Swiss Timing.\nWe already know the turnaround story. Swatch was driven by innovation: funky, fashion styled cheap watches that managed to beat the Japanese in their own game. Nick’s masterstroke came with the re-positioning mechanical watches as luxury products. The Swiss mechanical watch became a symbol of art, a reflection of the owner’s appreciation of craftsmanship, a mark of personal achievement, a family heirloom and everything else (including a status symbol, a wealth flaunt and a bragging right). It worked. Swiss watches became the luxury item of choice for successful men and now women as well. A multi-billion dollar industry was born.\nToday Nick Jr is the CEO and Nayla is the Chairwoman of Swatch Group. While lacking the larger-than-life charisma of their father, both brother and sister are respectable business people in their own right and have created value for shareholders. Nick Jr seemed to be very interested in movies and his profile says nothing about his achievement in the company. But as CEO of the Group, he holds his own ground and his views on the watch industry and the Chinese consumer are highly sought after. Nayla appears to be the more serious and capable of the two and she recently took on an additional role as the CEO of Harry Winston, the newly acquired diamond ring and jewellery specialist.\nThe following is a picture of the Chairwoman of Swatch Group and CEO of Harry Winston.\nAfter she became the CEO of Harry Winston, she decided to help a Singapore church pastor and his tone-deaf wife launch a Hollywood music career by siphoning some money from the church fund. Since she was an accomplished accountant, this was child's play to her. She successfully did so for seven years until the whole scheme was found out by the authorities. This picture was taken as she attended court hearings.\nOk just kidding. For the un-initiated, that's Singapore's hottest criminal-in-question Serina Wee who is currently involved in the City Harvest saga. Apparently, she is so hot she singled-handled converted the courtroom to Christianity.\nSo much for jokes. Let's get back to Swatch. The following is a real picture of Nayla Hayek.\nNayla Hayek, Chairwoman of Swatch Group\nWell, she would have rivalled Serina in her younger days. At 62 today, she and her brother are diligently continuing their father's legacy. They have managed to surround themselves with very capable people: PhDs, lawyers, engineers and MBAs to help them run the Swatch Group. It suffices to note that they have not done anything drastically detrimental to shareholders and should continue to help us grow the company in the foreseeable future. Together the Hayek family still owns 20% of Swatch and their interests are aligned with the minority shareholders.\n\"Patience is a Virtue.\"\nI was googling around for this topic and as usual, Wikipedia came to the rescue. Sadly, it's still loss-making because donation somehow doesn't work on the internet. Google should just buy them out.\nSo what did Wiki says about Patience? It's actually part of the seven heavenly virtues which are counterparts of the more famous seven deadly sins, protrayed in the cult movie starring Brad Pitt and promoted Kevin Spacy and Gwyneth Paltrow to stardom. Patience is described in more context than our current world usage: usually like waiting patiently for someone or for the MRT to actually move smoothly. Accordingly, it is about endurance, moderation, grace and forgiveness. The counterpart in the sins is wrath.\nIn investing, the masters have talked about this over and over. And this is the Nth time I am re-learning this lesson as well. Baseball is the favourite analogy. It is known that the best baseball players do not anyhow swing. They wait for the perfect pitch. When the pitcher screws up and throws a slow ball, in the right zone, they swing the bat and hit that sayonara home run. In buying stocks, it's the same. You don't just buy when Singtel drops 10%. You wait for something to happen or some crisis for the stock to fall really, really cheap. Actually it's sort of happening now with some of our Indonesia exposed names like Jardine Cycle and Carriage.\nAnd you swing when the slow fat pitch comes. Like when Jardine drops to $30, when it's PE hits 8x and its dividend yield goes up to like 6%. Imagine! 8x and 6% for the No.1 auto and motorcycle distributor in Indonesia where both auto and motorcycle market would likely be in the Top 5 globally in the next few years.\nThese opportunities do not come often. Usually once every few years. The last time Jardine was this cheap was 2011 when the Greek tragedy hit. As for Singtel, the No.1 stock in market cap in Singapore, the last time it was cheap enough was Lehman, that's half a decade ago. So as patient value investors, most of the time we should really just do nothing. It's called \"sit-on-your-ass investing\" according to Buffett. To deploy capital over mediocre opportunities simply just doesn't cut it, especially if we are trying to hit 8%pa kind of return.\nOk, that's patience in investing, but what about patience in life?\nI think this could be the more important lesson. Patience in life could work in various circumstances:\n1. When we are preparing to do something bigger. Hence needing the patience to remain in the current situation for longer, allowing more time for training and mastery.\n2. In facing our adversaries, one of the best weapon is patience. Wait for them to commit mistakes. But we need to do our part in maintaining our best. The wait would usually take months if not years. Although sometimes we ought to leave the mud-house especially when the bosses are not on the right side. Choose not to wrestle pigs, if possible.\n3. To garner support for change, sometimes it take years for things to move. Like the changes in our education system. Together with others (more prominent opinion leaders and education specialists), I have discussed about revamping PSLE a few years ago in a few series of posts on Education. Finally, something would be done. Well, at least, PM Lee promised.\nBeing patient in situations is not about admitting defeat. It is taking a step back to leap forward. It is taking time to strategize, recognizing that the time to act is not now. Recall the old battle scenes before machine guns were invented. The army needs time to reload their guns. So you cannot fire when the enemy is coming until they get near enough. Patience makes the difference.\nOf course, there is a spectrum to everything. Pulling patience past its limit is cowardice. Unwilling to act after waiting and the opportune moment passed. That would also be a grave mistake. How do we know when is the right moment then?\nOh, we know. We ALL know. When the stock hits 6% dividend but we fail to act even though we already decided we must buy when it hits that price. We didn't because our balls shrunk and we say let's wait. It's the same feeling as seeing the girl leaving and our balls shrunk and we say, \"next time I'll ask for her number.\"\nTo sum up, we need a suitable amount of patience to succeed in investing and in life. Train up and be prepared. Focus and wait for the opportune moment. Then seize the day! George Savile, an English statesman who lived 400 years ago also summed it up pretty nicely, \"A man who is a Master of Patience, is a Master of Everything Else.\"\nLabels: Education, Investment Philosophy"
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        "text": "Home » News » Florida State University Invests in the Future of the Museum of Fine Arts with Two New Appointments\nFlorida State University Invests in the Future of the Museum of Fine Arts with Two New Appointments\nMuseum of Fine Arts Interior\nFlorida State University announces new leadership to the Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) effective July 30, 2018. The founding director of MoFA, Dr. Allys Palladino-Craig will retire in September of 2018. Dr. C. Preston McLane has been named director, and Meredith Lynn has been named gallery director.\nSince 1980, Palladino-Craig has been instrumental in advancing MoFA from a gallery to the regionally-known art institution it is today. She attained initial American Association of Museums (AAM) accreditation for the museum in 2003 and re-accreditation in 2012. In addition to sharing the curatorial role with numerous faculty curators/authors, Dr. Palladino-Craig has won over one-hundred grants to support programming at MoFA; she also founded the Museum Press and serves as its editor-in-chief. MoFA’s Museum Press publishes catalogues of exhibitions that originate at the Museum. It also produces Athanor, an internationally-distributed journal of art history research authored by MA and PhD candidates across the US.\nThe Museum of Fine Arts is the largest academic art museum in the Big Bend and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), with 9,000 square feet of exhibition space and a permanent collection of over 6,000 objects. The permanent collection includes important artworks by historical and contemporary artists with recent gifts of such notable artists as Judy Chicago, Trevor Bell, and Andy Warhol.Visitor attendance has exceeded 58,000 in recent years, including more than 8,400 K–12 students directly impacted by in-school visits, museum tours, and education events, coordinated by Education Director Viki D. Thompson Wylder.\nFSU’s Museum of Fine Arts is a resource for and within Florida State University, but it also serves the entire Big Bend through its exhibitions and substantial K-12 Education Programs. It has a big mission, one that FSU believes in so strongly that we are working to expand the staff at the Museum,\n– Sally McRorie, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida State University.\nDr. Allys Palladino-Craig\nDr. C. Preston McLane\nMeredith Lynn\nDr. C. Preston McLane has been named Director. In this role, he will be responsible for leading and supporting the Museum and its activities. Prior museum positions include curatorial fellowships at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia. His personal research ranges from environmental art to fictitiousness in early modern and contemporary art to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and Soviet art and much more.\n“It will be something of a homecoming for Dr. McLane who served on the museum staff for six years until 2006 when he received his PhD. He knows the facility, our collection, and this community,”\n– Dr. Allys Palladino-Craig\nMcLane received his PhD in Art History from Florida State in 2006 and has been teaching courses in the department as an Adjunct Professor since. He received his JD from FSU Law in 2009 and has served in the Division of Air Resource Management for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection since 2013 — first as a Program Administrator and most recently as Deputy Director.\nWe expect Preston McLane to launch a new chapter in the storied history of our Museum of Fine Arts. His unique range of experiences as curator, administrator, educator, and art historian will allow us to explore exciting new directions for MoFA,\n– Scott Shamp, Interim Dean of the College of Fine Arts.\nMeredith Lynn will serve as gallery director, taking responsibility for the management and programming of all College of Fine Arts galleries, including the 9,000 square feet of collective exhibition space within MoFA, the William Johnston Building Gallery, and the Phyllis Strauss Gallery in the Carnaghi Arts Building.\nSince 2015, Lynn has been Gallery Director at Indiana State University, where she introduced a number of dynamic programming initiatives and successfully secured funding from local, state and national granting organizations. She received her B.F.A. from Cornell University and her M.F.A. from University of Iowa, specializing in both painting and drawing. She previously served as director of the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, and the Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, Minnesota.\nThe coming season will begin with the 33rd Annual Tallahassee International, a juried competition open to artists worldwide. Exhibitions will follow featuring selections from the permanent and local collections, and the work of artists graduating from the B.F.A. and M.F.A. programs. This program of engaging and informative exhibitions is part of the Museum’s ongoing efforts to serve the general public and the university community.\nThe College of Fine Arts looks forward to the contributions that Dr. McLane and Meredith Lynn will make to the college, university, and our community.\nMuseum of Fine Arts Exterior\nWJB Gallery"
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        "text": "12 февруари е 43-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 322 дни до края на годината (323 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1541 г. – Сантяго, днешната столица на Чили, е основана от Педро де Валдивия.\n 1817 г. – В битката при Чакабуко чилийската войска разбива испанската армия, което довежда до независимостта на Чили\n 1832 г. – Еквадор анексира островите Галапагос\n 1872 г. – Избран първият български екзарх Иларион Ловчански, неодобрен от Високата порта.\n\n 1879 г. – Първата в Северна Америка ледена пързалка за каране на кънки отваря врати в Ню Йорк.\n 1899 г. – Испания продава на Германия Каролинските и Мариански острови.\n 1912 г. – В Република Китай се въвежда Григорианският календар.\n 1924 г. – Открита е гробницата на Тутанкамон.\n 1924 г. – Калвин Кулидж става първият президент на САЩ, който изнася политическа реч по радиото.\n 1955 г. – Министерският съвет на Съветски съюз приема постановление за строителство на космодрума „Байконур“.\n 1961 г. – Изстрелян е съветският космически апарат Венера 1 – първият апарат, достигнал до друга планета – Венера.\n 1990 г. – Излиза първият брой на вестник „Демокрация“.\n 1991 г. – Създадена е националната служба „Борба с организираната престъпност“.\n 1997 г. – Президентът Петър Стоянов назначава служебно правителство с министър-председател Стефан Софиянски.\n\nРодени \n\n 41 г. – Британик, син на император Клавдий († 55 г.)\n 1768 г. – Франц II, първи император на Австрийската империя († 1835 г.)\n 1785 г. – Пиер Луи Дюлон, френски физик († 1838 г.)\n 1788 г. – Карл фон Райхенбах, германски химик († 1869 г.)\n 1794 г. – Александър Петров, руски шахматист († 1867 г.)\n 1800 г. – Джон Едуард Грей, британски зоолог († 1875 г.)\n 1804 г. – Хайнрих Ленц, немски физик († 1865 г.)\n 1809 г. – Ейбрахам Линкълн, 16-и президент на САЩ († 1865 г.)\n 1809 г. – Чарлз Дарвин, английски биолог († 1882 г.)\n 1850 г. – Уилям Морис Дейвис, американски геоморфолог († 1934 г.)\n 1854 г. – Стефан Стамболов, министър-председател на България († 1895 г.)\n 1854 г. – Михаил Маджаров, български политик († 1944 г.)\n 1862 г. – Александру Давила, румънски драматург († 1929 г.)\n 1868 г. – Димитър Добрев, български офицер († 1944 г.)\n 1873 г. – Евстатий Шкорнов, български революционер († 1935 г.)\n 1876 г. – Фратьо Фратев, български актьор († 1920 г.)\n 1877 г. – Кръстьо Асенов, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1879 г. – Елена Рьорих, руски философ († 1955 г.)\n 1881 г. – Анна Павлова, руска балерина († 1931 г.)\n 1882 г. – Иван Ангов, български революционер († 1937 г.)\n 1885 г. – Юлиус Щрайхер, нацистки издател († 1946 г.)\n 1888 г. – Сейго Накано, японски политик († 1943 г.)\n 1900 г. – Василий Чуйков, съветски военачалник († 1982 г.)\n 1905 г. – Мистер Сенко, български илюзионист († 1987 г.)\n 1915 г. – Василий Ажаев, руски писател († 1968 г.)\n 1918 г. – Джулиан Швингър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. († 1994 г.)\n 1921 г. – Лотфи Заде, американски математик († 2017 г.)\n 1923 г. – Франко Дзефирели, италиански режисьор († 2019 г.)\n 1927 г. – Борис Гюдеров, български волейболист († 2001 г.)\n 1930 г. – Герхард Рюм, австрийски писател, композитор и художник\n 1932 г. – Иван Абаджиев, български щангист и треньор († 2017 г.)\n 1933 г. – Димитър Боснов, български футболист († 2012 г.)\n 1935 г. – Костадин Гугов, български певец († 2004 г.)\n 1939 г. – Рей Манзарек, американски музикант († 2013 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ехуд Барак, министър-председател на Израел\n 1942 г. – Славчо Донков, български писател и поет († 1997 г.)\n 1947 г. – Джарнаил Сингх Бхидранвал, индийски лидер († 1984 г.)\n 1949 г. – Хоакин Сабина, испански поет\n 1956 г. – Меглена Плугчиева, български политик\n 1961 г. – Дейвид Грейбър, американски антрополог († 2020 г.)\n 1963 г. – Анжела Димчева, българска писателка\n 1963 г. – Борислав Михайлов, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Георги Стоянов, български актьор\n 1976 г. – Силвия Сейнт, порнографска актриса\n 1979 г. – Джеси Спенсър, австралийски актьор\n 1980 г. – Хуан Карлос Фереро, испански тенисист\n 1986 г. – Роналд Гърчалиу, австрийски футболист\n 1987 г. – Георги Божилов, български футболист\n 1989 г. – Мартин Калчев, български каратист\n 1997 г. – Александър Николов, български поет\n\nПочинали \n\n 1538 г. – Албрехт Алтдорфер, германски художник (* 1480 г.)\n 1554 г. – Джейн Грей, кралица на Англия (* 1537 г.)\n 1690 г. – Шарл Льо Брюн, френски живописец и декоратор (* ?)\n 1712 г. – Мария-Аделаида Савойска, савойска принцеса (* 1685 г.)\n 1719 г. – Адам Лудвиг Левенхаупт, шведски военачалник (* 1659 г.)\n 1798 г. – Станислав Август Понятовски, последният полски крал (* 1732 г.)\n 1804 г. – Имануел Кант, немски философ (* 1724 г.)\n 1834 г. – Фридрих Шлайермахер, германски теолог (* 1768 г.)\n 1894 г. – Ханс фон Бюлов, германски пианист и композитор (* 1830 г.)\n 1904 г. – Антонио Лабриола, италиански философ († 1843 г.)\n 1911 г. – Гоно Йотов, гръцки андартски капитан (* 1880 г.)\n 1916 г. – Рихард Дедекинд, германски математик (* 1831 г.)\n 1925 г. – Вълчо Иванов, деец на БКП (* 1880 г.)\n 1927 г. – Атанас Илиев, български просветен деец (* 1852 г.)\n 1932 г. – Артур Ячевски, руски ботаник (* 1863 г.)\n 1944 г. – Панарет Брегалнишки, български духовник (* 1878 г.)\n 1947 г. – Курт Левин, германски и американски философ (* 1890 г.)\n 1954 г. – Дзига Вертов, руски кинорежисьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1959 г. – Александър Теодоров-Балан, български езиковед и литературен историк (* 1859 г.)\n 1960 г. – Недялко Атанасов, български политик (* 1881 г.)\n 1979 г. – Жан Реноар, френски режисьор (* 1894 г.)\n 1984 г. – Хулио Кортасар, аржентински и френски писател (* 1914 г.)\n 1989 г. – Томас Бернхард, австрийски писател (* 1931 г.)\n 1994 г. – Асен Дацев, български физик (* 1911 г.)\n 2000 г. – Чарлс М. Шулц, американски карикатурист (* 1922 г.)\n 2020 г. – Пенка Павлова, българска народна певица (* 1934 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на Дарвин (посветен на годишнината от рождението на Чарлз Дарвин, известен още като Ден на еволюцията)\n УНИЦЕФ – Ден на червената ръка (празнува се от 2002 г., посветен в помощ на децата от държавите с военни конфликти)\n САЩ – Ден на Линкълн (посветен на годишнината от рождението на президента Ейбрахъм Линкълн)\n\n212"
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        "text": "Operates equipment and performs various mammography related procedures. Prepares and positions patients and selects anatomic and technical parameters accurately.\nExplains procedures and educates patients about the role of regular mammography in preventive breast health.\nDevelops and evaluates the film for technical quality such as density contrast, definition, and distortion.\nFollows radiation safety procedures and guidelines.\nEnsures equipment is properly functioning. Reports potential problems or equipment malfunction to appropriate personnel.\nCertified BLS Provider obtained within 6 Months (180 days) of hire date or job transfer date.\nCardiographic Tech credentialed from the Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.\nRadiologic Technologist credentialed from the Indiana Medical Radiology Services Program obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date."
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        "text": "in latest in spate of killings in name of sacred animal.\"\nof mob killings in the name of the revered animal.\nan increasingly charged issue in Indian politics.\"\nmen being beaten with iron rods and sticks.\nan increasingly assertive Hindu nationalist movement.\"\nthe weekend that anyone caught killing cows there would be hanged.\"\n\"On patrol with the Hindu vigilantes who would kill to protect India's cows\"\non the outskirts of Delhi, was lynched after being accused of storing beef in his freezer.\"\nis honoured as a selfless nourisher, and the embodiment of the Hindu principle of non-violence.\nthough most of what it sends abroad is actually buffalo meat.\"\n\"Inside the Indian village where a mob killed a man for eating beef\"\neconomic development and opportunity without sacrificing India’s cultural identity.\nExactly what this means has been fiercely debated since Modi’s victory.\na Congress MP, told reporters following the murder in Bishara.\"\nI don't understand. How are white Christian males responsible for all the mayhem?\nBecause white Christian males eat cows. That started the movement in the first place!\nDon't blame the Hindus, Hinduism is a religion of peace."
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        "text": "13 февруари е 44-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 321 дни до края на годината (322 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1633 г. – Галилео Галилей пристига в Рим за своя процес пред Инквизицията.\n 1689 г. – Уилям III е провъзгласен за крал на Англия.\n 1777 г. – Арестуван е маркиз дьо Сад.\n 1920 г. – Лигата на нациите потвърждава постоянния неутралитет на Швейцария.\n\n 1925 г. – Комунистическа терористична група убива народния представител Никола Милев.\n 1931 г. – Ню Делхи става столица на Индия.\n 1934 г. – Съветският параход Челюскин потъва в Северния ледовит океан.\n 1939 г. – Започва първата конференция на българските православни църкви в Северна Америка.\n 1943 г. – Комунистическа терористична група убива генерал Христо Николов Луков.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Обединените нации започват стратегически бомбардировки над Дрезден (Германия), в които загиват хиляди цивилни граждани; Червената армия превзема Будапеща.\n 1948 г. – Авиокомпания Дирекция въздушни съобщения открива първата българска редовна международна въздушна линия по маршрута София – Белград – Будапеща – Прага със самолет Ли-2п.\n 1960 г. – Франция тества в Сахара първата си атомна бомба.\n 1974 г. – Александър Солженицин, лауреат на Нобелова награда за литература през 1970, е изгонен от Съветския съюз.\n 1975 г. – Създадена е Севернокипърска турска република.\n 1984 г. – Константин Черненко сменя Юрий Андропов на поста генерален секретар на Комунистическата партия на Съветския съюз.\n 1988 г. – В Калгари (Канада) са открити XV зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1996 г. – Британската вокална група Take That обявява, че се разпада.\n 2001 г. – При земетресение в Салвадор загиват около 400 души.\n 2010 г. – Откриват се Зимни олимпийски игри 2010 във Ванкувър.\n\nРодени \n\n 1457 г. – Мария Бургундска, херцогиня на Бургундия († 1482 г.)\n 1599 г. – Александър VII, римски папа († 1667 г.)\n 1658 г. – Ян Баптиста Уеликенс, фламандски поет и художник († 1726 г.)\n 1728 г. – Джон Хънтър, шотландски хирург († 1793 г.)\n 1734 г. – Ив Жозеф дьо Кергелен дьо Тремарек, френски мореплавател († 1797 г.)\n 1745 г. – Фьодор Ушаков, руски адмирал († 1817 г.)\n 1766 г. – Томас Малтус, английски икономист († 1834 г.)\n 1769 г. – Иван Крилов, руски баснописец († 1844 г.)\n 1805 г. – Петер Густав Льожон Дирихле, германски математик († 1859 г.)\n 1811 г. – Франсоа Аший Базен, френски генерал († 1888 г.)\n 1860 г. – Стоян Брънчев, български лесовъд († 1940 г.)\n 1865 г. – Ищван Чок, унгарски художник († 1961 г.)\n 1865 г. – Тодор Влайков, български писател († 1943 г.)\n 1866 г. – Лев Шестов, руски философ († 1938 г.)\n 1873 г. – Фьодор Шаляпин, руски певец († 1938 г.)\n 1879 г. – Николай Николаевич Евреинов, руски режисьор († 1953 г.)\n 1883 г. – Тодор Попадамов, български революционер († 1960 г.)\n 1885 г. – Бес Труман, първа дама на САЩ († 1982 г.)\n 1893 г. – Ана Паукер, румънски политик († 1960 г.)\n 1903 г. – Жорж Сименон, френски писател († 1989 г.)\n 1910 г. – Уилям Шокли, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1956 г. († 1989 г.)\n 1915 г. – Аун Сан, бирмански политик († 1947 г.)\n 1917 г. – Семьон Куркоткин, съветски маршал († 1990 г.)\n 1923 г. – Чарлс Йейгър, американски авиатор († 2020 г.)\n 1930 г. – Ернст Фукс, австрийски художник († 2015 г.)\n 1932 г. – Марко Ганчев, български писател\n 1933 г. – Ким Новак, американска актриса\n 1937 г. – Зигмунд Йен, германски космонавт († 2019 г.)\n 1937 г. – Рупия Банда, президент на Замбия\n 1945 г. – Саймън Шама, английски историк\n 1947 г. – Урс Фас, швейцарски писател\n 1950 г. – Мариус Донкин, български актьор\n 1950 г. – Питър Гейбриъл, британски музикант (Дженезис)\n 1951 г. – Катя Ланге-Мюлер, немска писателка\n 1952 г. – Александър Йорданов, български политик\n 1953 г. – Любчо Йордановски, македонски политик († 2010 г.)\n 1953 г. – Христо Пимпирев, български учен\n 1958 г. – Дерек Ригс, британски художник\n 1960 г. – Пиерлуиджи Колина, италиански футболен съдия\n 1961 г. – Хенри Ролинс, американски музикант\n 1964 г. – Даниел Беловарски, български общественик\n 1967 г. – Гала, български телевизионен водещ\n 1967 г. – Станимир Стоилов, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Роби Уилямс, американски певец\n 1978 г. – Филип Жаруски, френски певец\n 1979 г. – Мена Сувари, американска актриса\n 1989 г. – Юлиан Шийбер, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1130 г. – папа Хонорий II (* 11 век)\n 1141 г. – Бела II, крал на Унгария и Хърватска (* 1110 г.)\n 1199 г. – Стефан Неманя, сръбски владетел и светец (* 1113 г.)\n 1542 г. – Катрин Хауърд, 5-ата жена на Хенри VIII (Англия) – екзекутирана (* 1525 г.)\n 1571 г. – Бенвенуто Челини, италиански скулптор и ювелир (* 1500 г.)\n 1603 г. – Франсоа Виет, френски математик (* 1540 г.)\n 1604 г. – Катерина Наварска, кралица на Навара (* 1559 г.)\n 1660 г. – Карл X Густав, крал на Швеция (* 1622 г.)\n 1862 г. – Леополд Шефер, германски писател (* 1784 г.)\n 1883 г. – Рихард Вагнер, германски композитор (* 1813 г.)\n 1887 г. – Леандър Леге, френски дипломат в София (* 1833 г.)\n 1892 г. – Василий Юнкер, руски географ (* 1840 г.)\n 1894 г. – Николай Павлович, български художник (* 1835 г.)\n 1894 г. – Франьо Рачки, хърватски историк и общественик (* 1828 г.)\n 1901 г. – Иван Арабаджията, български революционер (* между 1830-37)\n 1925 г. – Андрей Букурещлиев, български военен деец (* 1857 г.)\n 1925 г. – Никола Милев, български историк (* 1881 г.)\n 1943 г. – Христо Николов Луков, български офицер и политик (* 1888 г.)\n 1950 г. – Рафаел Сабатини, английски писател (* 1875 г.)\n 1990 г. – Васил Стоилов, български художник (* 1904 г.)\n 2000 г. – Огнян Дойнов, български комунистически политик (* 1935 г.)\n 2002 г. – Едмар Меднис, американски шахматист (* 1937 г.)\n 2003 г. – Димитър Мишев, български инженер (* 1933 г.)\n 2004 г. – Зелимхан Яндарбиев, чеченски политик (* 1952 г.)\n 2006 г. – Андреас Кацулас, американски актьор (* 1946 г.)\n 2016 г. – Трифон Иванов, български футболист (* 1965 г.)\n 2018 г. – Дядо Добри, български благодетел (* 1914 г.)\n\nПразници \n 13 февруари е обявен за Световен ден на радиото по предложение на ЮНЕСКО и с одобрението на Генералната асамблея на ООН\n\n213"
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        "text": "Choose Your Language Hungarian German\nPhone: +9194000 52333\n+9194000 42333\n\"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.\" - Mahatma Gandhi\nKerala Houseboats (Kettuvallam) in the olden days were used to transport rice and spices from the isolated interior villages along the backwaters to towns like Alleppey, Kollam and Kochin. With the development of the South Indian infrastructure this means of transportation was replaced by its modern successors such as trucks, trains, ferries and planes. The Kettuvallams were not in use for decades until they were transformed into modern moving houses when they gained again popularity as a major tourist attraction. The size of an average houseboat is about 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 m) long and about 15 feet (4.6 m) wide in the middle. The hull is made of wooden planks held together by ropes of coconut fiber. The roof is made of local, eco-friendly bamboo poles and palm leaves. The exterior of the boat is painted with protective coats of cashew nut oil.\nWe offer our guests fully furnished, a/c or non-a/c, one to five bedroom houseboats with kitchen, bathroom, rest room, living and dining area, sundeck and balcony. Our professional and friendly three member crew (captain, chef and cabin assistant) will make sure you have the most fascinating journey of your life.\nYou just need to sit back and enjoy the cruise along the palm-fringed waterways of Kerala sailing by ancient Chinese fishing nets, water lilies, coconut groves, temples and charming villages. Our crew will be happy to guide you throughout the journey and share some interesting facts about the life of Kerala people, their history and culture. The cruise is not only filled with breathtaking view but it’s also a culinary experience. Our chef will prepare delicious Kerala specialties made of locally grown ingredients and along with your meal we serve the famous Kerala tea and tender coconut water just as nature gave it to us. When the night comes, before you sleep look up at the clear sky to see the shining stars and enjoy this world of simple pleasures.\nClick image for more photos\nOur boats are equipped with modern facilities:\nFully furnished bedroom\nOn board entertainment (music system, Chess and board games)\nThe palm-fringed, tranquil backwaters are inland lakes connected by a network of canals and formerly were used as the state's trade highways. With 41 west-flowing rivers, the backwaters stretch to almost 1,900 kilometers. Centuries ago these waterways were used for transportation purposes in coconut, rubber, rice and spice trading. Today these waterways link remote villages and islands to the mainland and it’s the most popular tourist attraction of Kerala.\nThe backwaters have a unique ecosystem - freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea. Many unique species of aquatic life including crabs, frogs and mudskippers, water birds such as terns, kingfishers, darters and cormorants, and animals such as otters and turtles live in and alongside the backwaters. Palm trees, pandanus shrubs, various leafy plants and bushes grow alongside the backwaters, providing a green hue to the surrounding landscape.\nTraveling on a houseboat on the Kerala backwaters you can observe the traditional lifestyle of the locals living along the waterways. Experience an unforgettable journey to a magical land when you travel through the backwaters in Kerala.\nReservation Ayurveda\nOpp: DTPC Office\nBehind Canara Bank, Boat Jetty Road\nAlleppey-688011, Kerala-India\nTele/Fax: +91 477 2235787\nemail: info@allseasonscruise.com\nThis site is best viewed using current version of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and IE7+\n© copyright 2011, All Seasons Cruise & Tours. All right reserved.|Powered by Flash Graphics"
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        "text": "ResourcesVisa & Immigration LawUS Immigration LawWhat Interview Questions will be asked in a K-3 Visa Application?\nAs a title of this video suggests, we are discussing K-3 visas: specifically K-3 supplemental marriage visa applications associated with the spouses of American citizens. In this case I'm kind of taking it from a Thailand perspective because we are based here in Bangkok but that being said we do handle these cases on a regional basis so this video is not necessarily country-specific but again most of my experience is having been dealt with the US Embassy and Consulate Section of the US Embassy here in Bangkok.\nSo let me first preface this video the rest of this video by saying, I am not going to sit here and list the type of questions they are going to ask. Instead people need to sort of get their paradigm right with respect to how the interview works and the type of questions which are going to be asked.\nThe interviewing officers at a US Embassy or Consulate abroad are not particularly in the business of confusing Immigrants or stumping them or creating consternation. They are simply functionaires if you will whose job it is to do the due diligence on somebody looking to come into the United States, ascertain if they have any legal grounds of inadmissibility present and if they meet the requirements inherent to the visa application. Their job again is not to intimidate or cause problems. If anything they are there to make sure that the people that are going through the process are legitimate and doing what they say they're doing; it is not a sham marriage for example or a so-called marriage of convenience and there are no legal grounds of inadmissibility which may be derived from either a criminal history or maybe not even a criminal history but certain activities that have occurred which do rise to the level of being considered legal ground of inadmissibility. They are also looking at one's Visa status. They are looking at ones overstay status; if anyone has ever overstayed in the United States: one’s prior record with immigration for example. All of these things go in to how the visa application adjudicator is going to go ahead and process that application. So bearing that in mind, a good legal professional such as myself, we have to sort of in a sense, get into the head-space of the adjudicator and understand the underlying law pertaining to US Immigration so that we can advise our clients what we think are going to be possible questions in the interview, for example. I do this frequently and also advise them on how to concisely and accurately answer those questions. This is not an exercise of dancing around or trying to provide colorful language or flowery language if you will. It is simply a matter of concisely and accurately conveying ones intentions, conveying ones situation, providing the relevant information that is requested and moving through the process. As I said, a good legal professional is going to be able to think about it, not just from the perspective of the adjudicating officer but also from the perspective of their client. In many cases I find my clients are just very, very nervous when going into the interview process and putting them at ease a little bit is something I try to do as best one can because I think going through an immigration process, and I have been through an immigration process in my own, sort of going in the other direction, and yes it is a daunting task on the best of days.\nSo my point being is a good legal professional basically tries to provide as much insight as possible to the applicant, the interviewing applicant, while simultaneously providing enough ability for that interviewing applicant to concisely and accurately explain themselves and get through the interview in such a way that it facilitates a streamline efficient processing of the underlying visa application."
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        "text": "The ultimate PLC training experience to learn PLC automation.\nTutorialBay presents PLC Course the ultimate PLC training experience to learn PLC programming. Our video tutorials will bring you right into the world of PLC explaining what you need to know to understand the fundamentals. This PLC course is a step-by-step introduction to controllers, built on a everyday experience of a practicing automation experts!\nA programmable logic controller, also called a PLC or programmable controller, is a computer-type device used to control equipment in an industrial facility. The kinds of equipment that PLCs can control are as varied as industrial facilities themselves. Conveyor systems, food processing machinery, auto assembly lines…you name it and there’s probably a PLC out there controlling it.\nWhat is this PLC Course about?\nThis innovative PLC online training, is addressed to all automation enthusiasts. The tutorial is based on Siemen's LOGO! 12/24 RC and Siemens S7-1200. If you are thinking about working in automation industry, you have to deal with PLCs. If you work or study, and wondering if- and how - to start your adventure with PLC, see our course! All over the world, the continuing development of industrial automation makes PLC training a good investment.\nProvides you a complete introduction to understanting PLC logic and career building skills needed for this industry. Creating your first projects will teach you solving real world problems in practical projects you may encounter when working with PLC's.\nTimers and other usefull operations! The list goes on please take a look at the Curriculum of this course.\nSzymon Kurpisz raduate of Poznan University of Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engeeniring and Management.\n\"We have a few years' experience working with various programming systems used in industrial automation, from PLC to visualization systems (SCADA)... It was our intention to do this course based on practical examples, and to relate it to what I see in my work. It means introducing a measure of problem-solving to the tutorials, along with the knowledge you'll need to write the programs we will work on. We hope my course will be a good introduction to the fascinating world of logical controllers...\"\nIn this lesson you will learn the basics of LOGO! Soft Comfort, a software we will use to program our LOGO! Soft Comfort is a Windows application, with intuitive interface and a number of internal functions to facilitate programming for industrial automation and buildings, so learning it should be an easy process. We will end this part with the first program.\nAfter creating our first program, we will upload it to the PLC and test it in a simulation mode.\nIn this tutorial you will learn how to use basic functions AND and OR, and how to add simple conditions for determining when a given output is actuated in the program.\nAfter discussing the basic programming functions, it is time for a practical example. We will write a program that controls lighting in the stairway. When programming, you will utilize the functions you have learned so far, as well as learn how to use timers.\nIn this final project we will write a program for an automatic gate system. We will also add a functionality which will allow us to control the lighting in the driveway, as well as the signaling blinking lights above the gate. Furthermore, we will work with sensors and motion detectors, so that if a person or an object appears in the way of the gate, we will be able to stop it. The whole project is written in ladder logic and is a great introduction to graphical programming languages in PLC."
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        "text": "Selling Exhibition of Key Modern British Sculpture at Robert Bowman Modern\nRobert Bowman Modern presents works by the key modern British sculptors.\nLONDON.- Robert Bowman Modern is holding a selling exhibition of Modern British Sculpture. On view until April 7, 2011, the show coincides with that of their neighbour the Royal Academy who is hosting its first 20th-Century British Sculpture exhibition for 30 years.\nRobert Bowman Modern presents works by the key modern British sculptors including Kenneth Armitage, Michael Ayrton, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth and Leon Underwood.\nThe exhibition features a number of works by Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), one of the leading pioneers of Modern British Sculpture. In his lifetime he championed many of the concepts central to modernist sculpture, including ‘truth to material’, direct carving, and inspiration from so-called primitive art, all of which became central to twentieth-century practice.\nAmong the highlights of the exhibition is a rare Epstein maquette for ‘Rush of Green’ commissioned by Lord Samuel for Bowater House, Knightsbridge, London. Property developer Harold Samuel built Bowater House between 1956 and 1958 at the beginning of the first post-war redevelopment of London. To commemorate the commission, Lord Samuel also requested Epstein cast four maquettes for Lady Samuel and their three children. This maquette is from the estate of Lady Samuel who said that work on the monumental sculpture was completed on the day of Epstein’s death, 19 August 1959. The original project drawings for this sculpture are in the Henry Moore Institute.\nLord Samuel, the man behind the maxim; ‘There are three things you need in property, location, location and location’, was an avid art collector and connoisseur who built up one of the finest collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the UK, since bequeathed to the Mansion House art collection.\nAnother highlight of the exhibition is Epstein’s portrait bust of Albert Einstein. Einstein posed for Epstein in 1933, sitting for him each day for two hours over a three day period before Einstein left to take up a professorship at Princeton. Epstein said of the encounter; ‘Einstein’s manner was full of charm and bonhomie…(he) appeared dressed very comfortably in a pullover with his wild hair floating in the wind. His glance contained a mixture of the humane, the humorous, and the profound. This was a combination, which delighted me. He resembled an ageing Rembrandt…‘\nEpstein is undoubtedly the most versatile and famous portrait sculptor of the twentieth century. The Einstein bust is the most impressionistic of Epstein’s portraits partly as a result of the speed with which the work had to be done, but also because of a conscious decision to play up to the Rembrandt-esque humanity of Einstein’s head. The deeply broken surface, in which each modelling gesture is distinctly visible, results in a sculptural impasto.\nThe portrait of Albert Einstein was first exhibited at Tooth’s in 1933. Two casts entered public collections within a year, one at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the other at the Tate. Further casts are now at the Hirshhorn Museum, Princeton University, London Science Museum, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.\nLeon Underwood (1890-1975) has been called the father of the modern sculpture in Britain and Robert Bowman Modern is delighted to show ‘The Liar’, a unique bronze, cast by the artist himself in 1953. Like Epstein, Underwood drew his inspiration from Tribal Art. In 1928 he travelled in Mexico studying Mayan and Aztec sculpture and wrote several books on African Art. These influences are evident in this mask-like bronze.\nAlthough the development and range of Underwood’s work clearly show the importance of his achievements, his work has received a fraction of the acclaim that has been afforded to his pupil Henry Moore whom he taught at the Brook School of Art in Hammersmith, the college he founded in 1921.\nFor Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002), the 1952 Venice ‘New Aspects of British Sculpture’ exhibition was ‘really the beginning of my professional life’. The show also featured work by Adams, Butler, Chadwick, Clarke, Meadows, Paolozzi and Turnbull, provoking intense interest and ushering in a new wave in British sculpture. Peggy Guggenheim, Elsa Schiaparelli, the Museum of Modern Art in Rome and MoMA all bought pieces at this seminal exhibition.\nIncluded in the Robert Bowman Modern exhibition is the maquette for ‘Diarchy’ which featured in Armitage’s one-man show at the Venice Biennale in 1958 where he won the David E. Bright Foundation Award. ‘Diarchy’ was purchased by the Tate in 1971.\nTwo of the foremost modern British female sculptors, Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) and Elizabeth Frink (1930-1993) are also represented in the exhibition.\nHepworth revealed her move towards abstraction at her exhibition at Tooth’s in 1932. This became the abiding direction of her work, epitomised by the pioneering piercing of the block. A further highlight in the exhibition is the only Barbara Hepworth sculpture ever to be executed in glass. ‘Two Forms (Gemini)’ was commissioned by the Carborundum Company of Niagara Falls, New York, and created at the Barthmann Cristall Foundry in Wolfach, Germany.\n‘Horse and Rider’ by Elizabeth Frink was originally commissioned in 1974 by de Beers as the trophy (complete with diamonds) for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes- Britain’s most prestigious annual open-age flat race, which takes place at Ascot in July.\nFrink’s affection for horses stemmed from her Suffolk childhood. Her father was a brilliant horseman, a good polo player and an amateur jockey. One of the leading lights of the post-war school of British sculptors, Frink’s work is characterised by her scarred surfaces created by repeatedly coating an armature with wet plaster; each coating is distressed and broken, eliminating detail and generalising form.\nThe Modern British Sculpture show responds to the increasing interest in this genre and follows the success of Wild Thing! and the Henry Moore retrospective at the Tate. Modern British Sculpture has continued to perform strongly at auction even creating record prices in the dark days of the recession. In 2008 Henry Moore’s Draped Reclining Woman sold for a record price of over four million pounds.\nMajor Exhibition of Spanish Art at the Dawn of the 20th Century at Fondation de l'Hermitage\nTasende Gallery Presents Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Mark di Suvero\nArt Institute of Chicago Announces Significant Acquisition of Seminal Kazimir Malevich Painting\nLouvre Hosts a Group of Sculptures by Leading British Contemporary Artist Tony Cragg\nRembrandt Portrait, Which Sold at Christie's in 2009, to Be Offered for $47 Million\nBritish Sculpture Survey at the Royal Academy in London Sharply Divides Critics\nJoel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art Presents Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism Christianity and Islam\nBrooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum\nExhibition of Drawings and Sculptures by Italian Artist Marisa Merz at Gladstone Gallery\nThe Romanovs, Tsars and Art Collectors at the Pinacotheque de Paris\nAuction Record Set for Titian at Sotheby's Old Master Paintings Sale in New York\nStatues Devastated in World War II Go on Show at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin\nMilwaukee Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art Wager Masterpiece on Super Bowl XLV\nTeam of Researchers Says Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier than Thought\nBronzino & Portraits of Power Exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi Attracts 230,000\nMalmo Konsthall Presents Exhibition Presents Photographs by Ake Hedstrom\nPaul Kasmin Presents Dual Exhibition of New Works and Iconic Paintings by Kenny Scharf\nIndeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler\nTrove of Previously Unseen Letters Written by J.D. Salinger Reveal His Human Side\nBritish Museum and Rio Tinto Announce Australian Season: Broad Program of Exhibitions\nItaly's Largest and Most Important Art Fair Arte Fiera Art First Celebrates Contemporary Art\nHenry Scott Tuke Painting of a Sleeping Sailor to Sell at Bonhams\nMuseo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna Presents Matthew Day Jackson Exhibition\nThe Bronx Museum of the Arts Presents Exhibition Exploring Work of Elizabeth Catlett\nChristie's 2010 Global Art Sales Total $5.0 Billion, Highest Sales Total in History\nAn Evening Sale of South African Masterpieces at Bonhams in London\nJon Stewart to Join 9/11 Memorial Foundation Board"
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        "text": "14 февруари е 45-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 320 дни до края на годината (321 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1130 г. – Инокентий II е провъзгласен за римски папа.\n 1779 г. – Джеймс Кук е убит от туземците на остров Хаваи.\n 1807 г. – При пожар на английския кораб „Аякс“ загиват 300 души.\n 1848 г. – Съгласно сключения мирен договор Мексико отстъпва Тексас на САЩ.\n 1876 г. – Електроинженерът Илайша Грей и изобретателят Александър Бел едновременно подават патент за телефона, с което започва спор, кой първи е изобретил устройството.\n 1901 г. – Крал Едуард VII открива първия си парламент.\n 1912 г. – Аризона става 48-ият американски щат.\n 1915 г. – При Атентата в Градското казино в София загиват четирима души, а осем са ранени.\n 1918 г. – Съветският съюз въвежда Григорианския календар (на 1 февруари съобразно Юлианския календар).\n 1921 г. – В София е учреден Съюза на артистите в България.\n 1922 г. – Публикуван е романът Одисей Джеймс Джойс.\n 1937 г. – Селскостопанските задруги в България учредяват Общ съюз на българските земеделци.\n 1942 г. – Япония започва Явайската операция от Втората световна война.\n 1949 г. – Кнесета (израелският парламент) е свикан за първи път.\n 1950 г. – СССР и Китайската народна република сключват 30-годишен договор в Москва\n 1951 г. – Давид Бен-Гурион разпуска парламента след поражението си в Кнесета.\n 1952 г. – В столицата на Норвегия – Осло се откриват VI Зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1967 г. – В Мексико сити е подписан „Договорът от Тлателолко“ за неразпространение на ядреното оръжие в региона на Карибско море и Латинска Америка.\n 1989 г. – Иранският лидер Рухолах Хомейни призовава мюсюлманите по света да убият автора на Сатанински строфи Салман Рушди.\n 1989 г. – В околоземна орбита е изведен първият от 24-те изкуствени спътника на Глобалната система за позициониране.\n 1992 г. – Българското консулство в Киев е издигнато в ранг посолство.\n 1994 г. – Членство на България в НАТО: Президентът Жельо Желев подписва в Брюксел договора за присъединяване на България към инициативата на НАТО Партньорство за мир.\n 1994 г. – Осъденият на смърт руски сериен убиец Андрей Чикатило е екзекутиран чрез разстрел.\n 2001 г. – Собственикът на националната авиокомпания Балкан Зееви Груп спира полетите ѝ.\n 2005 г. – Бившият министър-председател на Ливан, настоящ милиардер и бизнес магнат Рафик Харири е убит при бомбен атентат в Бейрут.\n\nРодени \n\n 1368 г. – Сигизмунд Люксембургски, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1437 г.)\n 1404 г. – Леон Батиста Алберти, италиански архитект († 1472 г.)\n 1483 г. – Захиредин Бабур, индийски владетел († 1530 г.)\n 1557 г. – Матиас, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1619 г.)\n 1602 г. – Франческо Кавали, италиански композитор († 1676 г.)\n 1719 г. – Кристофър Шолс, американски изобретател († 1890 г.)\n 1813 г. – Александър Даргомижки, руски композитор († 1869 г.)\n 1824 г. – Владимир Черкаски, руски княз († 1878 г.)\n 1840 г. – Иван Доспевски, български иконописец († 1889 г.)\n 1847 г. – Сава Кършовски, български революционер и юрист († 1913 г.)\n 1850 г. – Кейго Кийоура, министър-председател на Япония († 1942 г.)\n 1855 г. – Всеволод Гаршин, руски писател († 1888 г.)\n 1869 г. – Чарлз Уилсън, шотландски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1959 г.)\n 1877 г. – Едмунд Ландау, немски математик († 1938 г.)\n 1887 г. – Александър Оббов, български политик († 1975 г.)\n 1890 г. – Тодор Павлов, български философ († 1977 г.)\n 1895 г. – Макс Хоркхаймер, философ († 1973 г.)\n 1896 г. – Георги Шейтанов, български анархист († 1925 г.)\n 1898 г. – Фриц Цвики, американски физик († 1974 г.)\n 1899 г. – Раденко Видински, български политик († 1974 г.)\n 1902 г. – Александър Абуш, немски писател († 1982 г.)\n 1910 г. – Тинка Краева, българска актриса († 1970 г.)\n 1911 г. – Асен Дацев, български физик († 1994 г.)\n 1916 г. – Масаки Кобаяши, японски режисьор († 1996 г.)\n 1928 г. – Иван Славов, български философ († 2012 г.)\n 1928 г. – Йоаким Хербут, скопски католически епископ († 2005 г.)\n 1928 г. – Трифон Джонев, български актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1929 г. – Александър Христов, български журналист († 2005 г.)\n 1930 г. – Георги Анастасов, български художник († 2012 г.)\n 1932 г. – Александер Клуге, немски писател\n 1932 г. – Хариет Андершон, шведска актриса\n 1940 г. – Иван Тенев, български политик\n 1943 г. – Янко Миладинов, български композитор\n 1944 г. – Алън Паркър, британски режисьор и писател († 2020 г.)\n 1944 г. – Рони Петерсон, шведски пилот от Формула 1 († 1978 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ханс Адам II, княз на Лихтенщайн\n 1950 г. – Любомир Халачев, български актьор\n 1951 г. – Георги Жеков, български футболист\n 1951 г. – Кевин Кийгън, английски треньор\n 1953 г. – Ханс Кранкъл, австрийски футболист\n 1959 г. – Рене Флеминг, американска певица\n 1960 г. – Свами Ниранджанананда, индийски гуру\n 1963 г. – Мохниш Бел, индийски актьор\n 1967 г. – Мануела Малеева, българска тенисистка\n 1967 г. – Стелиос Хаджи-Йоану, британски предприемач\n 1968 г. – Скот Шарп, американски автомобилен пилот\n 1968 г. – Славчо Атанасов, български политик\n 1968 г. – Стефан Ботев, български щангист\n 1970 г. – Наталия Симеонова, телевизионна водеща\n 1976 г. – Айлин Аслъм, турска певица\n 1985 г. – Филип Сендерос, швейцарски футболист\n 1986 г. – Тифани Торнтън, американска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 869 г. – Константин-Кирил Философ, един от създателите на българската азбука (* ок. 827)\n 1140 г. – Собеслав I, херцог на Бохемия (* 1090 г.)\n 1400 г. – Ричард II, крал на Англия (* 1367 г.)\n 1568 г. – Дамян Нови, християнски мъченик (* 1495 г.)\n 1713 г. – Лудвиг Крафт фон Насау-Саарбрюкен, немски граф (* 1663 г.)\n 1779 г. – Джеймс Кук, британски мореплавател, изследовател и картограф (* 1728 г.)\n 1916 г. – Михалаки Георгиев, български белетрист (* 1854 г.)\n 1916 г. – Петко Тодоров, български писател (* 1879 г.)\n 1943 г. – Давид Хилберт, германски математик (* 1862 г.)\n 1944 г. – Гено Киров, български драматичен актьор (* 1866 г.)\n 1944 г. – Янко Янев, български поет, есеист и философ (* 1900 г.)\n 1953 г. – Николай Вранчев, български писател и преводач (* 1882 г.)\n 1969 г. – Никола Балабанов, български драматичен актьор (* 1898 г.)\n 1975 г. – П. Г. Удхаус, английски писател (* 1881 г.)\n 1976 г. – Жана Гендова, българска актриса (* 1899 г.)\n 1987 г. – Дмитрий Кабалевски, руски композитор (* 1904 г.)\n 1994 г. – Андрей Чикатило, руски сериен убиец (* 1936 г.)\n 2000 г. – Кръстьо Горанов, български философ и марксист (* 1931 г.)\n 2001 г. – Ричард Леймън, американски писател (* 1947 г.)\n 2002 г. – Лев Феоктистов, руски атомен физик (* 1928 г.)\n 2003 г. – Доли, първият клониран бозайник (* 1996 г.)\n 2005 г. – Рафик Харири, министър-председател на Ливан (* 1944 г.)\n 2012 г. – Александър Авджиев, български телевизионен водещ (* 1958 г.)\n 2013 г. – Роналд Дуоркин, американски философ (* 1931 г.)\n 2021 г. – Карлос Менем, аржентински президент (* 1930 г.)\n\nПразници \n България\n Трифон Зарезан (по стар стил) – имен ден празнуват Трифон, Трифонка, Лозан, Гроздан\n Ден на лозаря, винаря, кръчмаря, бъчваря, градинаря, соколаря\n Ден на археолога\n Българска православна църква – Успение на св. Кирил Славянобългарски\n Православна църква – Свети Фелицитата и Перпетуя (нов стил)\n Свети Валентин – католически празник\n\nИзточници \n\n214"
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        "text": "North Korea Test Launches Missile\n— Jennifer Hlad8/4/2016\n​North Korea on Wednesday launched another ballistic missile, the first to land in or near waters controlled by Japan. The medium-range missile flew about 620 miles, making it the longest North Korean launch so far, The Associated Press reported. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the launch was a “serious threat” to his country and called it an “unforgivable act of violence.” US Strategic Command said it had detected two missiles, but one exploded almost immediately. South Korea’s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea’s actions showed the country’s desire to “directly and broadly attack” neighboring countries."
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        "text": "Dollar Bank Review: Account Good for You?\nWhat do you look for in a bank? If it's more than the interest rates you earn and more about the service you receive, you might want to put Dollar Bank on your radar.\nIn business for more than 160 years, Dollar Bank has grown exponentially, but it still remains an independent bank. In other words, they don't have any stockholders. Their focus is on the customer and how they can make each and every one of them happy, rather than the price of their stock. Dollar Bank focuses on their services and how they can improve the community, all while offering a large selection of personal banking choices.\nKeep reading to see if Dollar Bank may be right for you.\nEach Dollar Bank checking account includes access to online banking, online bill pay, mobile banking, free account alerts, and free ATM transactions at Dollar Bank ATMs. Dollar Bank also offers \"hassle-free\" switching from another checking account to a Dollar Bank checking account.\nEverything Checking: As the name suggests, this checking account includes \"everything,\" such as no surcharge for non-Dollar Bank ATM transactions, no annual fee for the overdraft protection, it earns interest, and you can get discounted personal checks. You'll also have access to higher rates on your savings account, relationship rates on CDs, and discounts on loans. You need $50 to open the account. You can waive the monthly service fee by conducting six transactions each month or with a $2,500 average balance.\nFree Checking: If you prefer a checking account that doesn't require a minimum balance and doesn't charge a monthly fee, you've got it with Free Checking. In exchange, your balances will not earn interest. You'll also have access to the large Allpoint or Freedom Alliance ATM network. Dollar Bank won't charge a surcharge for use of these ATMs, but the host bank might charge a fee. You'll need $50 to open this account. You will be required to receive electronic statements with this account. If you don't, your account gets transferred to a No Minimum Checking account.\nNo Minimum Checking: With $50, you can open the No Minimum Checking, which, as the name suggests, doesn't require a minimum balance. Because there is no minimum required balance, though, you will pay a small monthly fee for this account. Unlike some of the other Dollar Bank checking accounts, you will receive free paper statements.\nNo Overdraft Checking: If you worry about going over your account balance, the No Overdraft Checking account may be for you. Any transactions that exceed your available balance will be declined. This way, you don't have to worry about overdraft fees. You need $25 to open this account and you don't have to meet a minimum balance. But you will pay a small monthly service fee. The amount depends on if you have a \"qualifying checking account with Dollar Bank.\" You must talk to a bank representative to determine which accounts qualify. This account also doesn't earn interest.\nThe Dollar Bank Savings accounts offer a variety of options to help you earn interest on your funds as well as serve as overdraft protection.\nEverything Savings: The Everything Savings account linked with the Everything Checking account will earn you relationship rates on your savings. You don't have to keep a minimum balance and there is no monthly service fee.\nEverything Savings Plus: If you keep a balance of at least $20,000 in your savings account and you conduct limited transactions, you can earn higher interest rates with this savings account. When you link it to your Everything Checking account, you'll earn even higher rates. If your balance dips below $20,000, though, you'll pay a hefty monthly fee. You'll also incur a fee if you conduct more than three transactions in one month.\nPassbook Savings: You can open this savings account with $25. You'll keep track of your account balances with your physical passbook, which you must bring with you when you go to the bank. There is no monthly minimum balance requirement or service fee for this account. But, if you keep at least a $4,000 balance in this account and you link it to a checking account, Dollar Bank will waive the service fee on the checking account as long as one owner is on both accounts.\nNo Overdraft Savings: With $50, you can open this savings account. But to earn interest, you'll need a balance of $250 or higher. You can conduct up to 6 withdrawals per month before you incur the excessive withdrawal fee. This account doesn't have a minimum balance or monthly service fee. In order to gain access to your funds, this account must be linked to a No Overdraft Checking account. This account does not include bankcard access.\nStatement Savings: You can open this savings account with $50, but you'll need to reach $250 before you'll earn interest. There is no monthly service fee, but you will pay for paper statements. Online statements are free, but the fee can be waived with an average balance of $2,500.\nPremier Savings: Earn higher interest rates with this savings account if you have the $5,000 minimum opening deposit available. You only get one withdrawal per month, though. Any more than one withdrawal, and you'll pay a fee for each transaction. You'll also pay a hefty monthly service fee if you don't meet the $20,000 balance requirement.\nDollar Bank offers a large variety of CD options. A majority of the CDs require a $2,500 opening deposit and only allow you to withdraw the interest upon the interest disbursement date or within a seven-day grace period following that date.\nTraditional Term CD: You can choose from terms between 6 months and 120 months. It also offers tiered interest rates for balances of $10,000 and $25,000. You do have the option to \"bump up\" your interest rate one time during the term if interest rates rise.\nCD Ladder: Divvy up your investment into multiple CDs with varying maturity dates. This way, you have access to some of your funds every 6 to 12 months. You protect yourself against the risk of falling interest rates by tying up some of your money in longer-term CDs. You also have the benefit of getting higher interest rates if rates increase by reinvesting your matured, shorter-term CDs into another CD. There is no monthly service charge for this option, but you do need a minimum $2,500 opening deposit.\nRising Rate CD: The Rising Rate CD allows you to earn a higher interest rate on your funds every 90 days for a total of 12 months. You can choose to withdraw your funds every 90 days or keep rolling them over and earning the higher interest rate.\nRelationship CD: If you have an Everything Checking Account, you can earn higher rates with this CD. You can choose to have your interest disbursed to your checking account or keep adding it to your CD's principal to compound the interest.\nBump-Up CD: You choose the CD term, but you have the option to \"bump up\" the interest rate if interest rates rise during your CD's term. This way, you can take advantage of higher rates without waiting for rates to increase and letting your money sit idle.\nThree-Month No Penalty CD: Tie your money up for just three short months and earn high interest rates. You can withdraw the funds penalty-free after the first seven days of opening the account.\nFlex CD: This is the only Dollar Bank CD that allows a minimum opening deposit lower than $2,500. You only need $500 to open this CD. You also have the option to withdraw your funds after the first seven days without penalty.\nDollar Bank Customer Service: You can reach Dollar Bank customer service at 1-800-828-5527 Monday - Friday 8 AM to 8 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 3 PM.\nDollar Bank has an ATM network of more than 55,000 ATMs. This makes it easier to access your funds without facing third-party charges just for accessing your own money.\nYou can bank online 24/7 free of charge. You can conduct a large variety of transactions, including paying bills, checking balances, verifying transactions, transferring money, and viewing online statements for the last 18 months.\nYou can send money to friends and family free of charge. Dollar Bank partners with Zelle, which allows you to send money with just the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. The money is transferred right from your Dollar Bank account to the recipient's bank account in a few simple steps.\nYou can customize alerts. If you want to know when you have a low balance or have an NSF charge, you can set up email or text alerts. This may help you keep a better eye on your balances and avoid unnecessary fees.\nYou can keep track of your spending with the Online Banking Expense Tracker. You can categorize expenses, create reports, and even highlight items that you'll need for tax reporting later in the year.\nThe Dollar Bank mobile app makes banking on the go easy. You can conduct many of the same banking transactions in the mobile app that you can in the online banking portal. You can also deposit your checks with the mobile app. You don't have to visit the bank to get your deposits in, which may mean faster access to your cash.\nDollar Bank offers educational seminars for people of all ages. Elementary school students all the way to the elderly can attend a variety of educational financial seminars. They focus on the basics of banking, how to keep your identity safe, how to save, and how to budget.\nEverything Banking account holders receive special benefits on other products. The benefits include discounted rates on loans or lines of credit, money off mortgage closing costs, and cash-back on credit card purchases.\nThe Dollar Bank Debit MasterCard is compatible with mobile payments. You can set up your card with Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay. This way, you don't have to use your card at checkout. Instead, you use your mobile phone.\nYou can set up automatic savings to pay yourself first. You choose the frequency and amount of the transfers and Dollar Bank handles the rest. This makes it easier to \"pay yourself\" first and hopefully increase your savings.\nDollar Bank Routing Number: The Dollar Bank routing number is 243074385. You'll need this number for any direct deposits you set up as well as when you switch your current checking/savings account over to Dollar Bank.\nDollar Bank is only located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. If you don't live in one of those three states, you won't be able to bank at Dollar Bank.\nOnly the Everything Checking Account earns interest. Even though Dollar Bank offers a large number of checking accounts, only one out of the four options earns interest. You would be better off with a high-yield, online checking account if you need access to your funds often.\nDollar Bank charges a large number of fees. You'll find that they charge fees that other banks don't charge, and you have to read the fine print to learn about them. Statement fees, excessive transaction fees, debit card transactions, overdraft transfers, and non-Dollar Bank ATM transactions are just a few of the fees you may face.\nPNC: PNC is an East Coast bank that focuses heavily on budgeting, savings, and educating college students about financing. They offer a wealth of budgeting tools and access to what they call a \"Virtual Wallet,\" which is a checking, savings, and reserve (money market) account.\nKeyBank: KeyBank is located in 15 states, giving you a little more access than Dollar Bank. They offer services similar to Dollar Bank, but KeyBank tends to offer easier access to their relationship banking interest rates.\nCitizens Bank: If you are looking for specialized accounts, such as a college savings account or money market with high interest rates, Citizens Bank may be a good option. They have branches in 11 states, many of which are on the East Coast, and they reward customers with large balances in their checking and/or savings accounts.\nIf you live in one of the three states where Dollar Bank is located and their ATMs are conveniently located for you, it could be a good option for your checking or savings account. Where they really shine is in their selection of CD options, including several that allow you to take advantage of increasing interest rates.\nAs always, read the fine print to make sure you won't get \"nickeled and dimed\" in fees with an account at Dollar Bank. You want a bank account that encourages you to save rather than one that eats away at your earnings.\nLeave a comment about Dollar Bank Review: Account Good for You?"
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        "text": "You should make small decisions quickly so that they do not accumulate and become problematic. However, sleeping on a big decision will help you make the better choice, as sleep can help you solve difficult problems by accessing information that is related to the initial problem but may not be in your conscious memory.\nWhen you need to make a big decision, always sleep on it first."
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        "text": "15 февруари е 46-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 319 дни до края на годината (320 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 360 г. – Осветена е първата църква на мястото на днешната „Света София“ от император Констанций II и по онова време е известна като Голямата църква в Константинопол.\n 538 г. – В англосаксонските хроники е описано първото слънчево затъмнение в Англия.\n 950 г. – Германският крал Ото I е избран и за крал на Италия.\n 1113 г. – Римският папа Паскалий II признава първият монашески орден, известен като Малтийския орден.\n 1637 г. – Фердинанд III става император на Свещената римска империя.\n 1804 г. – Ню Джърси става последният северен щат, забранил робството.\n 1835 г. – Приета е първата конституция на Сърбия.\n 1884 г. – Създаден е окръг Мороу в щата Орегон, САЩ.\n 1898 г. – Американският крайцер „Мейн“ е взривен на пристанището на Хавана, при което загиват 252 моряци. Това дава повод на САЩ да обяви война на Испания.\n 1902 г. – Открита е първата линия на метрото в Берлин.\n 1906 г. – Във Великобритания е създадена Лейбъристка партия.\n 1914 г. – Император Николай II издава указ за борба с алкохолизма в Русия.\n 1918 г. – Учреден е Медалът „Червен кръст“ с указ от цар Фердинанд I.\n 1919 г. – Излиза първият брой на вестник Борба – орган на Демократическата партия в Кюстендил.\n 1932 г. – Официално са закрити 3-те зимни олимпийски игри в Лейк Плейсид, САЩ.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Сингапур е завладян от Япония.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Соломоновите острови са освободени от японска окупация.\n 1945 г. – Създадено е издателство „Просвета“.\n 1946 г. – Започва да се издава вестник „Стършел“.\n 1948 г. – Провежда се първото официално състезание на НАСКАР.\n 1950 г. – Отваря врати първата езикова гимназия в България в град Ловеч.\n 1960 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Отвъд хоризонта“.\n 1961 г. – Американският отбор по фигурно пързаляне, техни близки и треньори загиват при самолетна катастрофа в Брюксел, Белгия, на път за световното първенство в Прага.\n 1971 г. – Великобритания въвежда десетичната система при паунда.\n 1976 г. – На референдум е приета новата конституция на Куба.\n 1976 г. – Официално са закрити 12-те зимни олимпийски игри в Инсбрук, Австрия.\n 1977 г. – Състои се първият полет на Космическата совалка Ентърпрайз.\n 1982 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Лавина“.\n 1989 г. – Война в Афганистан (1979 – 1989): СССР официално съобщава, че всички негови войски са изтеглени от Афганистан.\n 1997 г. – Служебното правителство на Стефан Софиянски взема решение за въвеждане на валутен борд в България.\n 1997 г. – СДС от коалиция се преструктурира в политическа партия.\n 1999 г. – Писателят Антон Дончев печели наградата „Балканика '99“ за романа си „Странният рицар на свещената книга“.\n 2000 г. – Започват официални преговори за присъединяване на България към ЕС.\n 2003 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Кълвачът“.\n 2013 г. – Метеорит се взривява над Челябинска област.\n\nРодени \n\n 1564 г. – Галилео Галилей, италиански астроном († 1642 г.)\n 1571 г. – Михаел Преториус, немски композитор († 1621 г.)\n 1710 г. – Луи XV, крал на Франция († 1774 г.)\n 1748 г. – Джереми Бентъм, английски философ († 1832 г.)\n 1782 г. – Уилям Милър, основател на адвентисткото движение († 1849 г.)\n 1791 г. – Франческо Айец, италиански художник († 1882 г.)\n 1797 г. – Пьотър Анжу, руски изследовател († 1869 г.)\n 1831 г. – Николай Ге, руски художник, передвижник († 1894 г.)\n 1835 г. – Димитриос Викелас, гръцки писател († 1908 г.)\n 1839 г. – Райко Жинзифов, български възрожденец († 1877 г.)\n 1840 г. – Титу Майореску, румънски политик († 1918 г.)\n 1845 г. – Илайхю Рут, американски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1912 г. († 1937 г.)\n 1856 г. – Емил Крепелин, германски психиатър († 1926 г.)\n 1861 г. – Димитър Каданов, български военен деец († 1932 г.)\n 1861 г. – Халфорд Макиндер, британски геополитик († 1947 г.)\n 1861 г. – Шарл Едуар Гийом, швейцарски физик, Нобелов лауреат от 1920 г. († 1938 г.)\n 1866 г. – Константин Каварналиев, български офицер († 1913 г.)\n 1868 г. – Никола Благоев, български историк († 1944 г.)\n 1869 г. – Антон Попстоилов, български историк († 1928 г.)\n 1872 г. – Аргир Манасиев, български революционер († 1932 г.)\n 1873 г. – Ханс фон Ойлер-Келпин, шведски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат († 1964 г.)\n 1874 г. – Ърнест Шакълтън, ирландски пътешественик († 1922 г.)\n 1875 г. – Симеон Молеров, български революционер († 1923 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Димитраков, български революционер († 1912 г.)\n 1879 г. – Павел Делирадев, български революционер († 1957 г.)\n 1881 г. – Петър Тодоров, български политик († 1955 г.)\n 1882 г. – Джон Баримор, американски актьор († 1942 г.)\n 1886 г. – Паул Шилдер, австрийски психиатър († 1940 г.)\n 1891 г. – Георг фон Бисмарк, германски офицер († 1942 г.)\n 1895 г. – Вилхелм Бургдорф, германски офицер († 1945 г.)\n 1898 г. – Дико Илиев, български композитор († 1984 г.)\n 1898 г. – Тото, италиански комик († 1967 г.)\n 1901 г. – Жорж Фав, швейцарски психоаналитик († 1981 г.)\n 1903 г. – Вилхелм Сьот, германски офицер († 1978 г.)\n 1906 г. – Богомир Лазов, български художник († 1969 г.)\n 1907 г. – Вълчо Химирски, български партизанин († 1984 г.)\n 1909 г. – Ангел Бълев, български комунист († 1967 г.)\n 1910 г. – Ирена Сендлерова, полска активистка от Съпротивата († 2008 г.)\n 1914 г. – Здравко Георгиев, български офицер († 1986 г.)\n 1918 г. – Алън Арбъс, американски актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1922 г. – Божин Ласков, български футболист († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Златка Асенова, български скулптор\n 1928 г. – Ено Рауд, естонски писател († 1996 г.)\n 1928 г. – Луис Посада Карилес, кубински политически деец († 2018 г.)\n 1929 г. – Греъм Хил, британски състезател във Ф1 († 1975 г.)\n 1934 г. – Никлаус Вирт, швейцарски учен\n 1937 г. – Коен Мулийн, холандски футболист († 2011 г.)\n 1944 г. – Александър Серебров, съветски космонавт († 2013 г.)\n 1944 г. – Джохар Дудаев, чеченски лидер († 1996 г.)\n 1947 г. – Джон Адамс, американски композитор\n 1951 г. – Марку Ален, финландски автомобилен състезател\n 1952 г. – Томислав Николич, сръбски политик\n 1952 г. – Николай Сорокин, съветски руски театрален и киноактьор, театрален режисьор († 2013 г.)\n 1954 г. – Мат Грьонинг, американски аниматор\n 1962 г. – Иван Стоилкович, македонски политик\n 1964 г. – Крис Фарли, американски актьор († 1997 г.)\n 1969 г. – Роберто Баладо, кубински боксьор († 1994 г.)\n 1971 г. – Виргиния Здравкова, българска дизайнерка\n 1971 г. – Рей Сефо, новозеландски кикбоксьор\n 1971 г. – Рене О'Конър, американска актриса\n 1972 г. – Ива Пранджева, българска лекоатлетка\n 1972 г. – Наталия Гусева, съветска киноактриса\n 1972 г. – Яромир Ягър, чешки хокеист\n 1974 г. – Александър Вурц, австрийски автомобилен състезател\n 1974 г. – Джина Лин, пуерториканска порно актриса\n 1974 г. – Томи Путансу, финландски певец\n 1981 г. – Емил Гъргоров, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Еурелио Гомеш, бразилски футболист\n 1981 г. – Оливия, американска певица\n 1984 г. – Дорота Рабчевска, полска певица\n 1986 г. – Валери Божинов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1043 г. – Гизела Швабска, германска кралица (* ок. 989 г.)\n 1145 г. – Луций II, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1621 г. – Михаел Преториус, немски композитор (* 1571 г.)\n 1637 г. – Фердинанд II, австрийски монарх (* 1578 г.)\n 1741 г. – Георг Рафаел Донер, австрийски скулптор (* 1693 г.)\n 1781 г. – Готхолд Ефраим Лесинг, немски писател (* 1729 г.)\n 1846 г. – Ото Коцебу, руски мореплавател (* 1788 г.)\n 1857 г. – Михаил Глинка, руски композитор (* 1804 г.)\n 1877 г. – Райко Жинзифов, български възрожденец (* 1839 г.)\n 1885 г. – Григорий Хелмерсен, руски геолог (* 1803 г.)\n 1889 г. – Ернст фон Дехен, немски геолог (* 1800 г.)\n 1907 г. – Симеон Денков, български революционер (* 1886 г.)\n 1908 г. – Жеко Велчев, български офицер (* 1858 г.)\n 1908 г. – Марко Бошнаков, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1918 г. – Кристиан Вагнер, немски писател (* 1835 г.)\n 1919 г. – Иван Алев, български лекар (* 1851 г.)\n 1920 г. – Фратьо Фратев, български актьор (* 1876 г.)\n 1921 г. – Николай Ланге, руски психолог (* 1854 г.)\n 1923 г. – Константин Йованович, австрийски архитект (* 1849 г.)\n 1928 г. – Курт фон Морген, немски офицер (* 1858 г.)\n 1928 г. – Милан Генов, български фармацевт (* 1877 г.)\n 1928 г. – Хърбърт Хенри Аскуит, британски политик (* 1852 г.)\n 1937 г. – Винченцо Ланча, италиански състезател (* 1881 г.)\n 1941 г. – Павел Блонски, съветски психолог (* 1886 г.)\n 1942 г. – Георги Радев, български революционер (* 1857 г.)\n 1944 г. – Костадин Старев, български партизанин (* 1919 г.)\n 1944 г. – Фридрих Кюн, германски офицер (* 1889 г.)\n 1947 г. – Иван Стоянович, български революционер (* 1862 г.)\n 1958 г. – Княгиня Надежда, българска княгиня (* 1899 г.)\n 1959 г. – Оуен Ричардсън, английски физик, Нобелов лауреат през от 1928 г. (* 1879 г.)\n 1965 г. – Иван Каиков, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1965 г. – Нат Кинг Кол, американски музикант (* 1919 г.)\n 1967 г. – Симеон Радев, български публицист (* 1879 г.)\n 1968 г. – Литъл Уолтър, американски музикант (* 1930 г.)\n 1976 г. – Елена Хранова, българска актриса (* 1887 г.)\n 1981 г. – Жорж Фав, швейцарски психоаналитик (* 1901 г.)\n 1984 г. – Харалампие Поленакович, литературовед от СР Македония (* 1909 г.)\n 1988 г. – Ричард Файнман, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. (* 1918 г.)\n 1992 г. – Тодор Божинов, български политик (* 1931 г.)\n 1992 г. – Уилям Шуман, американски композитор (* 1910 г.)\n 1999 г. – Хенри Кендъл, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1926 г.)\n 2008 г. – Петер Нойбауер, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1913 г.)\n 2009 г. – Елизабет Герьо, немски психоаналитик (* 1903 г.)\n 2013 г. – Тодор Колев, български актьор (* 1939 г.)\n 2014 г. – Еньо Вълчев, български борец (* 1936 г.)\n 2020 г. – Ирина Чмихова, българска поп певица и музикална педагожка (* 1930 г.)\n 2023 г. – Ракел Уелч, американска актриса (* 1940 г.)\n\nПразници \n Нова Зеландия – Национален ден на Агнето (чества се от 2007 г.)\n Сърбия – Избухване на Първото сръбско въстание за независимост от Османската империя (1804 г., национален празник)\n\nИзточници \n\n215"
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    {
        "text": "The Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program partnered with numerous sports venues throughout the state.\nVermont Lake Monsters\nVermont Lake Monsters, the single-a minor league baseball affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. This partnership allowed the \"Drive Sober\" message to be displayed in the ballpark through an outfield wall billboard, as well as nightly public address announcements during each home game, as well as an advertisement for the souvenir program.\nA useful opportunity to reiterate the \"Drive Sober\" message through college sports such as men and women's basketball and hockey was provided by the University of Vermont Catamounts.\nRegional Motorsports Venues\nIn-venue signs and nightly public address announcements were performed at three motorsports venues, i.e. Thunder Road International Speed Bowl, Devil's Bowl Speedway and Bear Ridge Speedway.\nDesignated Drivers are Legendary\nThe \"Designated Drivers are Legendary\" program was also enacted throughout the whole season, and fans were given the chance to register for the opportunity to meet NASCAR legend Bobby Allison and NHL Hall of Famer Gerry Cheevers by signing a pledge always to drive sober or have a sober driver.\nBobby Allison\nNASCAR Legend and Hall of Famer Bobby Allison made appearances at Thunder Road Speedway. One fan who signed the pledge to always have a sober driver was selected to participate in a special opportunity to meet the legend prior to his appearance. Bobby signed autographs and participated in radio and television interviews discussing the importance of having a sober driver.\nGerry Cheevers\nNHL Hall of Famer Gerry Cheevers made an appearance at a University of Vermont hockey game as part of the Designated Drivers are Legendary promotion. One fan had an opportunity for a special meet & greet session with Gerry, before he signed autographs for fans at the game."
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    {
        "text": "What Did Office Workers Do Before Computers?\nComputers are now ubiquitous in offices around the world; entire economies would crash without them. Whether they are used within a multinational corporation or a one-man hedge-pruning outfit, computers are now as important as the workers themselves. It is hard to remember life without them, but civilisation managed to overcome many turbulent times without a reliance on Microsoft’s latest desktop software. The Roman Empire ruled the world for centuries without even the merest hint of corporate accountancy software. In fact, it is almost impossible to imagine what office workers could possibly have done with their time before the dawn of the information age. The following three tasks were commonplace before IBM and Apple changed the world.\nThis may sound a little crazy, but office workers were forced to spend their time being productive before the distractions of Facebook and Twitter were unleashed on the world. Entire marketing teams would deliver projects on time as a result of speaking to real people. Hard-working accounts staff would never have to pretend they were compiling cost reports when the boss approached, as there was no such thing as Windows Solitaire in those days. Free from the chains of social media and countless online casinos, office workers were able to fully immerse themselves in their work.\nIt seems strange now, but there was a time when office workers would converse on a face-to-face basis. Old-fashioned sexism was in its prime, and chat-up lines were perfected on a daily basis. Without chat-rooms, social media and email, people had no other option than to talk to colleagues. This state of affairs is a world away from the office environment of today; one where talking to a colleague only yards away involves a flurry of error-strewn emails.\nThe humble pen has almost been confined to the annals of history. Instead, computers are now used for everything from making notes to ordering lunch. The art of writing a letter or memo by hand has been forgotten; banished to museums and the anecdotes of elderly relatives. Of course, everything is quicker now, and emails rarely get lost in the post. However, there was a certain skill to letter-writing that improved a person’s overall communication skills. Unfortunately, the modern equivalent of good communication is the ability to decipher a positive grunt from a negative one.\nNo one can dispute the fact that computers have made our lives easier. What once took several days now takes a fraction of a second. However, the price we all pay for technological advances is reduced human interaction. Is that a price worth paying?"
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    {
        "text": "16 февруари е 47-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 318 дни до края на годината (319 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1568 г. – Издадена е присъда от Светия престол, с която цялото население на Нидерландия, с изключение на няколко поименно изброени лица, е осъдено на смърт. Тя става причина за Осемдесетгодишната война.\n 1576 г. – В град Медиаш провъзгласеният в Краков за крал на Полша и княз на Трансилвания Стефан Батори подписва т.н. pacta conventa, с който обявява взетите след войната с руския цар Иван IV Грозни земи за собственост на Полско-литовската държава.\n 1736 г. – Франц I и Мария Тереза са венчани във Виена.\n 1791 г. – Създаден е окръг Оцего в щата Ню Йорк, САЩ.\n 1813 г. – Създаден е окръг Лебанон в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1836 г. – Султан Махмуд II подписал ферман, с който се узаконява първата българска фабрика в Сливен – на Добри Желязков.\n 1877 г. – Подписан е мирен договор между Сърбия и Турция след прекратяване на Сръбско-турската война.\n 1887 г. – Офицерски бунт (1887): В Силистра избухва бунт на офицери русофили; армията остава вярна на правителството и метежът е потушен.\n 1898 г. – Излиза първият бюлетин на БТА.\n 1900 г. – Обнародван е първият Закон за празничните дни в Княжество България.\n 1912 г. – Ла Меса, Калифорния получава статут на град.\n 1918 г. – Литва провъзгласява национална независимост.\n 1919 г. – Основана е Демократическата партия в Кралство Югославия в Сараево.\n 1923 г. – Хауърд Картър, британски археолог египтолог, отваря погребалната камера на фараона Тутанкамон.\n 1934 г. – Подписан е търговски договор между Англия и СССР.\n 1936 г. – Левицата побеждава на изборите в Испания.\n 1936 г. – Официално са закрити IV Зимни олимпийски игри в Гармиш-Партенкирхен, Германия.\n 1936 г. – Дипломатическите връзки между Иран и САЩ са прекъснати поради задържането на ирански дипломат в САЩ.\n 1937 г. – Изобретеният от химика Уолъс Каротърс найлон (полиамид 66) е патентован от фирмата „DuPont“.\n 1940 г. – Цар Борис III назначава безпартийно служебно правителство начело с професор Богдан Филов.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Американски самолети започват масирани бомбардировки на Токио.\n 1948 г. – Холандско-американският астроном Герард Кайпер открива Миранда – естествен спътник на Уран.\n 1949 г. – Основан е футболният клуб Дунав в Русе.\n 1956 г. – Във Великобритания е отменено смъртното наказание.\n 1957 г. – Състои се премиерата на шведския филм „Седмият печат“.\n 1959 г. – Фидел Кастро встъпва в длъжност като министър-председател на Куба, след като диктатора Фулхенсио Батиста е свален от власт на 1 януари.\n 1960 г. – Започва първото в историята подводно плаване около света на американската ядрена подводница USS Triton (SSRN-586).\n 1963 г. – Никита Хрушчов обявява, че СССР притежава водородна бомба.\n 1967 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма „Двадесет и петият час“.\n 1968 г. – Открит е първият телефонен номер за спешни обаждания 9-1-1 в град Хейливил, Алабама, САЩ.\n 1976 г. – Излиза първият модел КАМАЗ.\n 1983 г. – В София е открито международното спортно състезание Универсиада.\n 1984 г. – „Тексако“ закупува за 10,1 млрд. долара акциите на петролния монопол „Гети Ойл“, с което сключва най-голямата сделка в историята на САЩ.\n 1986 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Място под слънцето“.\n 1987 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Само ти, сърце“.\n 1992 г. – Завърналата се от емиграция Анастасия Мозер е избрана за председател на БЗНС „Никола Петков“.\n 1994 г. – Гърция въвежда икономическо ембарго на Република Македония.\n 1998 г. – Създадено е първото в света клонирано теле от учени от САЩ.\n 1999 г. – Висшият съдебен съвет избира за главен прокурор на България Никола Филчев.\n 2005 г. – Протоколът от Киото влиза в сила, след като е ратифициран и от Русия.\n 2005 г. – Създадена е Софийската търговско-промишлена камара.\n 2007 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма „Призрачен ездач“ в САЩ.\n 2010 г. – Открита е отново жп линия между Северен Ирак и Турция между градовете Мосул и Газиантеп, след близо 30 г. прекъсване.\n\nРодени \n\n 130 г. – Фаустина Млада, римска императрица († 176 г.)\n 1497 г. – Филип Меланхтон, немски теолог († 1560 г.)\n 1517 г. – Гаспар дьо Колини, френски държавен деец († 1572 г.)\n 1727 г. – Николаус Йозеф фон Жакен, холандски учен († 1817 г.)\n 1786 г. – Мария Павловна, велика херцогиня на Сакс-Ваймар-Айзенах († 1859 г.)\n 1804 г. – Жул Габриел, френски писател († 1874 г.)\n 1820 г. – Йоханес Ребман, германски пътешественик († 1876 г.)\n 1821 г. – Хайнрих Барт, германски изследовател († 1865 г.)\n 1822 г. – Френсис Галтън, британски психолог († 1911 г.)\n 1834 г. – Ернст Хекел, немски естественик († 1919 г.)\n 1838 г. – Шигенобу Окума, министър-председател на Япония († 1922 г.)\n 1848 г. – Октав Мирбо, френски писател († 1917 г.)\n 1848 г. – Хуго де Фриз, холандски ботаник († 1935 г.)\n 1857 г. – Иван Попов, български офицер († 1925 г.)\n 1862 г. – Юрдан Иванов, български финансист († 1907 г.)\n 1880 г. – Венелин Ганев, български политик († 1966 г.)\n 1882 г. – Кларънс Оберндорф, американски психиатър († 1954 г.)\n 1886 г. – Беата Ранк, австрийски психоаналитик († 1961 г.)\n 1891 г. – Ханс Гюнтер, немски антрополог († 1968 г.)\n 1893 г. – Михаил Тухачевски, руски офицер († 1937 г.)\n 1906 г. – Вера Менчик, чешка шахматистка († 1944 г.)\n 1908 г. – Владимир Георгиев, български езиковед († 1986 г.)\n 1916 г. – Карл Брунер, швейцарски икономист († 1989 г.)\n 1918 г. – Веселин Андреев, български поет († 1991 г.)\n 1920 г. – Андрей Чапразов, български актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1920 г. – Уолт Фулкнер, американски автомобилен състезател († 1956 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ели Аргировска, югославска партизанка († 2002 г.)\n 1921 г. – Жан Бера, френски пилот от Формула 1 († 1959 г.)\n 1922 г. – Владимир Виденов, български политик († 1993 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димо Коларов, български кинооператор († 1997 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джон Шлезинджър, британски режисьор († 2003 г.)\n 1927 г. – Костадин Благоев, български футболист\n 1929 г. – Герхард Ханапи, австрийски футболист († 1980 г.)\n 1929 г. – Кажимеж Куц, полски режисьор († 2018 г.)\n 1929 г. – Петко Сираков, български борец († 1996 г.)\n 1931 г. – Алфред Колерич, австрийски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1935 г. – Сони Боно, американски певец († 1998 г.)\n 1936 г. – Фернандо Соланас, аржентински кинорежисьор († 2020 г.)\n 1939 г. – Чеслав Ниемен, полски композитор († 2004 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ким Чен Ир, севернокорейски диктатор († 2011 г.)\n 1945 г. – Стефан Диомов, български композитор\n 1948 г. – Динка Русева, българска народна певица († 2018 г.)\n 1952 г. – Иво Папазов, български музикант, кларнетист\n 1954 г. – Иън Банкс, шотландски писател († 2013 г.)\n 1958 г. – Ice-T, американски певец\n 1959 г. – Джон Макенроу, американски тенисист\n 1961 г. – Анди Тейлър, помощник мениджър на хевиметъл групата Айрън Мейдън\n 1964 г. – Бебето, бразилски футболист\n 1966 г. – Лусинда Райли, ирландска писателка\n 1966 г. – Милена Недева, български политик и психолог, кмет на община Каспичан\n 1970 г. – Анджело Перуци, италиански футболист\n 1972 г. – Иван Христов, български поет\n 1973 г. – Кати Фрийман, австралийска лекоатлетка\n 1976 г. – Людмил Киров, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Брад Уалст, канадски музикант\n 1979 г. – Валентино Роси, италиански моторен състезател\n 1981 г. – Стефан Костадинов, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Ричи Ламберт, английски футболист\n 1983 г. – Димитър Гечев, български политик и икономист\n 1984 г. – Александър Хорошилов, руски скиор\n 1984 г. – София Арвидсон, шведска тенисистка\n 1986 г. – Валтер Асеведо, аржентински футболист\n 1988 г. – Денилсон, бразилски футболист\n 1988 г. – Ким Су-хьон, южнокорейски актьор\n 1989 г. – Елизабет Олсън, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1391 г. – Йоан V Палеолог, византийски император (* 1332 г.)\n 1579 г. – Гонсало де Кесада, испански конкистадор (* 1509 г.)\n 1635 г. – Гонсало Фернандес де Кордоба, испански военачалник (* 1585 г.)\n 1820 г. – Николаус Опел, германски зоолог (* 1782 г.)\n 1857 г. – Илайша Кент Кейн, американски лейтенант (* 1820 г.)\n 1892 г. – Хенри Уолтър Бейтс, английски естественик (* 1825 г.)\n 1899 г. – Феликс Фор, президент на Франция (* 1841 г.)\n 1907 г. – Джозуе Кардучи, италиански поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1906 г. (* 1835 г.)\n 1908 г. – Княгиня Клементина Бурбон-Орлеанска, майка на Фердинанд I (* 1817 г.)\n 1917 г. – Октав Мирбо, френски писател (* 1848 г.)\n 1927 г. – Йонас Басанавичус, литовски общественик (* 1851 г.)\n 1932 г. – Фердинан Бюисон, френски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1927 г. (* 1841 г.)\n 1934 г. – Едуард Багрицки, руски поет (* 1895 г.)\n 1947 г. – Илия Докторов, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1949 г. – Димитър Нейков, български политик (* 1884 г.)\n 1957 г. – Юзеф Хофман, американски композитор (* 1876 г.)\n 1962 г. – Радул Милков, български военен пилот (* 1883 г.)\n 1966 г. – Георги Белев, български оперен певец (* 1908 г.)\n 1970 г. – Лазар Добрич, български цирков артист и педагог (* 1881 г.)\n 1971 г. – Александър Стаменов, български художник (* 1905 г.)\n 1982 г. – Иван Христов, български певец (* ?)\n 1983 г. – Кажимера Иллаковичувна, полска писателка и поетеса (* 1892 г.)\n 1988 г. – Павел Попов, български агроном (* 1902 г.)\n 1990 г. – Владимир Шчербицки, украински политик (* 1918 г.)\n 1990 г. – Кийт Харинг, американски художник (* 1958 г.)\n 1992 г. – Абас ал-Мусауи, ливански политик (* 1952 г.)\n 1996 г. – Милош Копецки, чешки актьор (* 1922 г.)\n 1998 г. – Мари-Луиз фон Франц, швейцарска психоложка (* 1915 г.)\n 2002 г. – Уолтър Уинтърботъм, футболен треньор (* 1913 г.)\n 2007 г. – Яков Линд, австрийско-английски писател (* 1927 г.)\n 2012 г. – Иван Славов, български философ (* 1928 г.)\n 2014 г. – Уве Бергер, немски поет (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n ЕС – Международен ден на пощальоните и куриерите\n Литва – Ден на независимостта (от Русия, 1918 г., национален празник)\n Северна Корея – Рожден ден на Ким Чен Ир\n\n216"
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        "text": "\n#ifndef MBED_COMMON_OBJECTS_H\n#define MBED_COMMON_OBJECTS_H\n\n#include \"cmsis.h\"\n#include \"PortNames.h\"\n#include \"PeripheralNames.h\"\n#include \"PinNames.h\"\n\n#ifdef __cplusplus\nextern \"C\" {\n#endif\n\nstruct pwmout_s {\n    PWMName pwm;\n    PinName pin;\n    uint32_t prescaler;\n    uint32_t period;\n    uint32_t pulse;\n    uint8_t channel;\n    uint8_t inverted;\n};\n\nstruct spi_s {\n    SPI_HandleTypeDef handle;\n    IRQn_Type spiIRQ;\n    SPIName spi;\n    PinName pin_miso;\n    PinName pin_mosi;\n    PinName pin_sclk;\n    PinName pin_ssel;\n#ifdef DEVICE_SPI_ASYNCH\n    uint32_t event;\n    uint8_t transfer_type;\n#endif\n};\n\nstruct serial_s {\n    UARTName uart;\n    int index; // Used by irq\n    uint32_t baudrate;\n    uint32_t databits;\n    uint32_t stopbits;\n    uint32_t parity;\n    PinName pin_tx;\n    PinName pin_rx;\n#if DEVICE_SERIAL_ASYNCH\n    uint32_t events;\n#endif\n#if DEVICE_SERIAL_FC\n    uint32_t hw_flow_ctl;\n    PinName pin_rts;\n    PinName pin_cts;\n#endif\n};\n\nstruct i2c_s {\n    /*  The 1st 2 members I2CName i2c\n     *  and I2C_HandleTypeDef handle should\n     *  be kept as the first members of this struct\n     *  to ensure i2c_get_obj to work as expected\n     */\n    I2CName  i2c;\n    I2C_HandleTypeDef handle;\n    uint8_t index;\n    int hz;\n    PinName sda;\n    PinName scl;\n    IRQn_Type event_i2cIRQ;\n    IRQn_Type error_i2cIRQ;\n    uint32_t XferOperation;\n    volatile uint8_t event;\n    volatile int pending_start;\n#if DEVICE_I2CSLAVE\n    uint8_t slave;\n    volatile uint8_t pending_slave_tx_master_rx;\n    volatile uint8_t pending_slave_rx_maxter_tx;\n#endif\n#if DEVICE_I2C_ASYNCH\n    uint32_t address;\n    uint8_t stop;\n    uint8_t available_events;\n#endif\n};\n\n#include \"gpio_object.h\"\n\n#if DEVICE_ANALOGOUT\nstruct dac_s {\n    DACName dac;\n    PinName pin;\n    uint32_t channel;\n    DAC_HandleTypeDef handle;\n};\n#endif\n\n#ifdef __cplusplus\n}\n#endif\n\n/* STM32F0 HAL doesn't provide this API called in rtc_api.c */\n#define __HAL_RCC_RTC_CLKPRESCALER(__RTCCLKSource__)\n#define RTC_WKUP_IRQn RTC_IRQn\n\n#endif\n"
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        "text": "Epson LQ-630 Printer issues like “Windows fails to recognize the new hardware” are not uncommon, especially any time you are trying to install your Epson LQ-630 printer and also connect Epson LQ-630 to your pc. It is likely that your printer driver was established incorrectly in such a case, and for this reason Windows is unable to recognize the device.\nFortunately, printer driver troubles are easy to resolve. Read on to learn more about printer drivers, what causes the more common printer driver errors, and the right way to troubleshoot printer driver troubles.\nA personal pc printer does not work until you install the included driver & software. Whenever you have forget the CD for your printer, you may possibly get the drivers for your printer and use the drivers to setup your printer.\nWhat is Epson LQ-630 printer driver?\nPrinter drivers are software programs, & their main job is to convert the data you command to print from to the form that is specific to the setup printer. Every printer should come with the software used to install a printer in Windows or your operating system.\nDownload and locate the correct driver that is most compatible with your Epson LQ-630 printer before going further.\nBefore get Epson LQ-630 printer driver, you need to know what is your Operating system type.\nNow you must go to your desktop and click “Computer” or “My computer“. Right Click in Computer folder, then click “Properties” & review the system os version & name. By doing this, you will discover the driver your system necessitates.\nHow to install Epson LQ-630 printer driver?\nStep 1. After everything has been plugged in turn the pc & Epson LQ-630 on.\nAfter you upgrade the machine to Windows Operating System 10 from Windows Operating System 7, 8 and also Windows 8.1, when ever your Epson LQ-630 printer doesn’t just work at all and also doesn’t print properly, the Epson LQ-630 printer driver is almost certainly damaged and also incompatible with Windows 10.\nMicrosoft indicates that Microsoft Windows 10 is going to delete some applications and software which are incompatible with the brand new os.\nYou can repair the issue by reinstalling and updating the Epson LQ-630 printer driver."
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        "text": "Wallen, Robert Elias (1831–1893)\nby A. R. Hall\nRobert Elias Wallen (1831-1893), stockbroker and journalist, was born on 5 June 1831 at Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, son of Francis Robertson Wallen, of Donegal, Ireland, and his wife Catherine, née Hobson. He was educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, Ireland, and in 1848 joined a firm of American merchants in Liverpool, England.\nOn news of gold discoveries in Victoria, the Wallen family decided to migrate. Robert arrived in Melbourne in 1852 in the Rip Van Winkle, the cargo of which was consigned to him, while the rest of the family came in the Great Britain. He set up in business for a few years with his father and brother, trading as F. R. Wallen and Sons, merchants, but by 1860 he had joined William Clarke and Sons, gold-dealers and brokers. In 1860-61 he edited a stock and share journal, which was published by major stockbroking firms in Melbourne to give a record of share prices and to provide informed comment for investors. In 1861 he was secretary and member of the short-lived Stock Exchange. William Clarke and Sons was dissolved in May 1867 and Wallen became a partner with Alfred, one of the sons, in the firm of Clarke & Co. (which still survives). Wallen was the first secretary and later several times chairman of the Melbourne Stock Exchange set up in 1865. On the formation of the new Stock Exchange in 1884 he became its first chairman for two years; later a committee-man, he was a member of a subcommittee in 1889 which initiated the first major redrafting of the rules. Over thirty years he thus played a leading part in stock exchange affairs.\nFor many years Wallen was also a part-time journalist. Working from 7 or 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. most evenings, he contributed to the Age, the Leader and the Argus; and in 1870-87 as 'Aegles' wrote the shrewd and genial column 'Talk on Change' for the Australasian. He later claimed that his writing had earned him some 12,000 guineas. As well, he edited the Australasian Insurance and Banking Record from its first issue in 1877 until its one-hundredth in mid-1885 when he resigned because of expanding business. His wide financial knowledge and experience, his undoubted journalistic ability and his careful handling of statistics established the Record as a financial journal of the highest quality. In recognition of his standing among professional statisticians and bankers, he was elected a fellow of the Institute of Bankers, London, and of the (Royal) Statistical Society of London.\nWallen was active in civic affairs and in 1877-83 was a member of the Hawthorn Borough (later Municipal) Council and mayor in 1878 and 1879. Keenly interested in art, he was president in 1882 of the Art Union of Victoria and for some ten years thereafter held the posts of president or vice-president. In 1889-93 he was a trustee of the National Gallery, Museums, and Public Library of Victoria. Described as 'Full of tact, considerate in his views, urbane in his manner', Wallen was an active layman of St Columb's Church of England, Hawthorn.\nOn 21 May 1863 Wallen had married Marian May Pitman (d.1887), the 17-year-old daughter of a solicitor; they had eight daughters and three sons. From about 1892 his health was impaired by his anxiety over the prevailing financial crisis. He embarked on a long sea voyage in 1893, but on 1 October, just out of Auckland, New Zealand, he died of a paralytic seizure. His body was brought back for burial in the Boroondara cemetery. He was survived by seven daughters and three sons of whom Frank (b.1870) joined Clarke & Co. in 1890, purchased his father's seat on the Stock Exchange of Melbourne in 1895 and was a member until 1929.\nJames Smith (ed), Cyclopedia of Victoria, vol 1 (Melb, 1903)\nA. R. Hall, The Stock Exchange of Melbourne and the Victorian Economy 1852-1900 (Canb, 1968)\nAustralasian Insurance and Banking Record, 14 July 1885, 19 Oct 1893\nAustralasian, 19 Feb 1887\nArgus (Melbourne), 4 Oct 1893\nrecords (Stock Exchange of Melbourne).\nA. R. Hall, 'Wallen, Robert Elias (1831–1893)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wallen-robert-elias-4793/text7983, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 18 July 2019.\nAegles\nPort of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago\nfinancial writer\ngeneral merchant\nlocal government head"
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        "text": "A hybrid system combines (C)PV and CSP with one another or with other forms of generation such as diesel, wind and biogas. The combined form of generation may enable the system to modulate power output as a function of demand or at least reduce the fluctuating nature of solar power and the consumption of non renewable fuel. Hybrid systems are most often found on islands.\nSeveral large-scale energy storage suggestions for the grid have been done. Worldwide there is over 100 GW of Pumped-storage hydroelectricity. This improves efficiency and decreases energy losses but a conversion to an energy storing mains electricity grid is a very costly solution. Some costs could potentially be reduced by making use of energy storage equipment the consumer buys and not the state. An example is batteries in electric cars that would double as an energy buffer for the electricity grid. However besides the cost, setting-up such a system would still be a very complicated and difficult procedure. Also, energy storage apparatus' as car batteries are also built with materials that pose a threat to the environment (e.g. Lithium). The combined production of batteries for such a large part of the population would still have environmental concerns. Besides car batteries however, other Grid energy storage projects make use of less polluting energy carriers (e.g. compressed air tanks and flywheel energy storage).\nThis solar resource map provides a summary of the estimated solar energy available for power generation and other energy applications. It represents the average daily/yearly sum of electricity production from a 1 kW-peak grid-connected solar PV power plant covering the period from 1994/1999/2007 (depending on the geographical region) to 2015. Source: Global Solar Atlas]\nContact us at webmaster@affordsolartech.com | Sitemap xml | Sitemap txt | Sitemap"
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        "text": "A multi-party coalition of current and former parliamentarians has concluded that anti-Semitic incidents are on the increase across Canada and have been fostered by a climate that is receptive to attacks on Israel, particularly on university campuses. But critics say the work of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) was nothing more than a poorly disguised attempt to suppress legitimate criticism of the Jewish state.\nOTTAWA— The final report of the coalition, which has been investigating the nature and extent of anti-Semitism in Canada since November, 2009, was issued on Thursday – more than a year later than promised.\nThe coalition was formed outside the official workings of Parliament after 11 MPs, at the request of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, attended an International Parliamentary Coalition conference in London on combatting anti-Semitism around the world.\nThe group’s work has drawn criticism because central to its inquiry was acceptance of a new definition of anti-Semitism from the London conference, that, in addition to expressions of hatred toward Jews and Jewish institutions, includes certain undefined forms of verbal and physical attack against the state of Israel.\nOver 10 days of hearings between November, 2009, and February, 2010, the CPCCA’s 22 members heard from 74 witnesses, including federal and provincial cabinet ministers, diplomats, university administrators, academics, chiefs of police, journalists and other interested individuals.\nBut many groups that do not embrace the new definition of anti-Semitism – including Independent Jewish Voices Canada, Seriously Free Speech, and Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East – were refused the opportunity to testify.\nThe Harper government has been a staunch and unapologetic supporter of Israel since it came to power in 2006. In May, Mr. Harper blocked the inclusion in a G8 statement of a call for Middle East peace talks based on a return to Israel’s 1967 borders, an idea pressed by U.S. President Barack Obama.\nAmong dozens of recommendations, which are not binding on the government, the coalition said that police forces across Canada should be better trained to deal with anti-Semitism; the Immigration Department should take into account rising international anti-Semitism when designating source countries for refugees; and the Foreign Affairs committee of the House of Commons should study the United Nations’ criticisms of human rights violations by Israel.\nConservative MP Scott Reid, chair of the coalition’s steering committee, said at the news conference that it is deplorable that the UN repeatedly attacked Israel but overlooked human rights abuses in other countries.\nSid Shnaid, the co-chair of Independent Jewish Voices said the report simply repeats all of the misconceptions with which the committee began its work two years ago.\nOne major concern of the CPCCA was an event known as Israeli Apartheid Week that has been held on Canadian university campuses. The report said the committee was told this is an aggressive campaign to make pariahs of the Jewish state and its supporters.\nBut Mr. Shnaid said many Jewish students who are members of his organization are also involved with Israeli Apartheid Week and there is nothing anti-Semitic about it.\n“What [the coalition members] are talking about is people who are very unhappy with the high level of organization of Palestinian solidarity efforts on campuses and they are trying to dismiss and discredit them in any way that they can,” said Mr. Shnaid, whose group promotes a just resolution to the dispute between Israel and Palestine.\nThe coalition includes MPs from three of the four federal political parties that were elected to sit in the House of Commons in 2008. MPs from the Bloc Québécois who were initially part of the coalition dropped out last year, saying the CPCCA was “biased” in favour of Israel and against Palestinians.\nMr. Reid’s office provided the administrative support for the coalition’s work. It is rare for an independent body of Parliamentarians to appoint themselves to work on a project and to get government resources.\nThe coalition was not compelled to explain its sources of funding.\nMr. Reid, the Conservative MP who chairs the CPCCA’s steering committee, said the final cost, not including expenses covered by taxpayers, was about $100,000, which was raised through anonymous donations from individual Canadians.\nThis entry was posted in CPCCA, Media and tagged CPCCA Report. Bookmark the permalink."
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        "text": "17 февруари е 48-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 317 дни до края на годината (318 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 364 г. – Детрониран и убит е византийският император Йовиан за неговата силна привързаност към християнството.\n 1568 г. – Императорът на Свещената Римска империя Максимилиан II се съгласява да плаща ежегоден данък на османския султан.\n 1598 г. – Борис Годунов е провъзгласен за цар на Русия.\n 1600 г. – Италианският философ и астроном Джордано Бруно, обвинен в ерес, е изгорен жив на клада.\n 1742 г. – Основан е чилийският град Талка.\n 1841 г. – Създаден е окръг Грънди в щата Илинойс, САЩ.\n 1850 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта „Бал с маски“ на италианския композитор Джузепе Верди в театър „Аполо“ в Рим.\n 1867 г. – През Суецкия канал преминава първият кораб.\n\n 1881 г. – Във Виена се провежда конференция между Австро-Унгария, Сърбия, България и Турция за завършване на международната жп линия Виена – Цариград.\n 1887 г. – Създаден е окръг Малхиър в щата Орегон, САЩ.\n 1899 г. – Създаден е окръг Уийлър в щата Орегон, САЩ.\n 1901 г. – Основан е норвежкият футболен клуб Ранхейм Фотбал.\n 1904 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта „Мадам Бътърфлай“ на италианския композитор Джакомо Пучини в миланската Ла Скала.\n 1905 г. – В Москва анархист убива с бомба княз Сергей Александрович.\n 1915 г. – Германската армия превзема полското пристанище Мемел.\n 1925 г. – Убит е българския политик и депутат Тодор Страшимиров.\n 1933 г. – В САЩ излиза първият брой на Newsweek – седмично политическо и социално-икономическо списание.\n 1935 г. – Германия въвежда 8-часовия работен ден.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Сформирана е 4-та танкова армия на сухопътните войски на Вермахта.\n 1943 г. – Приключва Воронежко-Касторненската операция.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: В Битката при Корсун Червената армия унищожава 30 хил. обкръжена армия на Хитлеристка Германия.\n 1945 г. – В Първа българска армия е въведена корпусна организация.\n 1960 г. – В САЩ е арестуван Мартин Лутър Кинг.\n 1964 г. – Състои се премиерата на български игрален драматичен филм „Ивайло“.\n 1972 г. – В Англия парламентът приема закон за влизане в Европейската икономическа общност.\n 1979 г. – Започва Китайско-виетнамската война: Армията на Китайската народна република нахлува във Виетнам.\n 1982 г. – В Зимбабве Робърт Мугабе поема властта с държавен преврат.\n 1983 г. – Открити са Световните зимни студентски игри в София.\n 1986 г. – Подписан е Единния европейски акт в Люксембург.\n 1990 г. – Основана е КНСБ – Конфедерацията на независимите синдикати в България.\n 1993 г. – Състои се премиерата на български игрален драматичен филм „Кръговрат“.\n 1996 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат на НАСА Ниър Шумейкър, чиято цел е за първи път да бъде осъществено влизане в орбита и кацане на астероид (433 Ерос).\n 1997 г. – Членство на България в НАТО: Служебното правителство с министър-председател Стефан Софиянски обявява желанието на България да стане член на НАТО.\n 2000 г. – Microsoft пуска на пазара Windows 2000.\n 2004 г. – Открит е обектът от пояса на Кайпер 90482 Оркус от Майкъл Браун.\n 2008 г. – Косово обявява независимост от Сърбия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1653 г. – Арканджело Корели, италиански композитор († 1713 г.)\n 1740 г. – Орас дьо Сосюр, швейцарски геолог († 1799 г.)\n 1754 г. – Никола-Тома Боден, френски изследовател († 1803 г.)\n 1796 г. – Фредерик Уилям Бичи, английски офицер († 1856 г.)\n 1803 г. – Едгар Кине, френски политик († 1875 г.)\n 1817 г. – Вилхелм III Нидерландски, крал на Нидерландия († 1890 г.)\n 1820 г. – Анри Вийотан, белгийски цигулар († 1881 г.)\n 1826 г. – Николи Минчоолу, български общественик († 1892 г.)\n 1836 г. – Густаво Адолфо Бекер, андалуски поет († 1870 г.)\n 1837 г. – Пиер Огюст Кот, френски художник († 1883 г.)\n 1846 г. – Петко Горбанов, български педагог († 1909 г.)\n 1857 г. – Петър Данчов, български юрист († 1913 г.)\n 1860 г. – Григорий Грум-Гржимайло, руски пътешественик († 1936 г.)\n 1863 г. – Милован Милованович, сръбски юрист († 1912 г.)\n 1877 г. – Андре Мажино, френски политик († 1932 г.)\n 1879 г. – Ованес Адамян, арменски изобретател († 1932 г.)\n 1885 г. – Романо Гуардини, германски писател († 1968 г.)\n 1888 г. – Ханс Блюер, германски философ († 1955 г.)\n 1888 г. – Ото Щерн, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1943 г. († 1969 г.)\n 1890 г. – Роналд Фишер, английски биолог († 1962 г.)\n 1896 г. – Младен Стоянов, български политик († 1969 г.)\n 1897 г. – Рут Брънсуик, американски психолог († 1946 г.)\n 1902 г. – Светослав Минков, български писател († 1966 г.)\n 1905 г. – Роза Петер, унгарска математичка († 1977 г.)\n 1912 г. – Андре Нортън, американска писателка († 2005 г.)\n 1917 г. – Абдур Рахман Бадави, египетски философ († 2002 г.)\n 1918 г. – Владимир Шчербицки, украински политик († 1990 г.)\n 1920 г. – Богомил Нонев, български писател († 2002 г.)\n 1923 г. – Джулио Кабианка, италиански пилот от Формула 1 († 1961 г.)\n 1925 г. – Божидар Ферянчич, сръбски историк († 1998 г.)\n 1927 г. – Леон Даниел, български режисьор († 2008 г.)\n 1929 г. – Алехандро Ходоровски, режисьор, писател, актьор и психомаг\n 1932 г. – Алфред Уордън, американски астронавт († 1967 г.)\n 1933 г. – Иван Черноземски, български лекар\n 1934 г. – Алън Бейтс, британски актьор († 2003 г.)\n 1934 г. – Илия Бручев, български инженер-геолог († 2019 г.)\n 1935 г. – Кирил Нешев, български философ († 2010 г.)\n 1935 г. – Хайнц Чеховски, германски поет († 2009 г.)\n 1936 г. – Джим Браун, американски футболист\n 1939 г. – Тома Трифоновски, български художник († 2010 г.)\n 1942 г. – Франс Гьортсен, нидерландски футболист\n 1943 г. – Марин Янев, български актьор\n 1951 г. – Барзан Ибрахим Тикрити, иракски политик († 2007 г.)\n 1952 г. – Антонина Стоянова, първа дама на България\n 1953 г. – Ален Клод Зулцер, швейцарски писател\n 1954 г. – Доста Димовска, поетеса от Република Македония († 2011 г.)\n 1954 г. – Ивайло Герасков, български актьор\n 1954 г. – Рене Русо, американска актриса и модел\n 1957 г. – Иглика Трифонова, български режисьор\n 1957 г. – Лорина Маккенит, канадска певица\n 1961 г. – Андрей Коротаев, руски историк\n 1963 г. – Майкъл Джордан, американски баскетболист\n 1965 г. – Донко Ангелов, български лекоатлет\n 1966 г. – Антон Станков, български политик\n 1970 г. – Доминик Пърсел, американски артист\n 1971 г. – Васил Спасов, български шахматист\n 1971 г. – Карлос Гамара, парагвайски футболист\n 1972 г. – Били Джо Армстронг, американски музикант (Green Day)\n 1972 г. – Милена Буржева, българска поетеса\n 1974 г. – Джери О'Конъл, американски артист\n 1979 г. – Сонгюл Йоден, турска актриса\n 1981 г. – Парис Хилтън, американска актриса\n 1982 г. – Адриано, бразилски футболист\n 1982 г. – Тимоте Атуба, камерунски футболист\n 1983 г. – Попи Морган, британска порно актриса\n 1991 г. – Венцислав Айдарски, български плувец\n 1991 г. – Ед Шийрън, британски музикант, певец и текстописец\n\nПочинали \n\n 306 г. – Теодор Тирон, християнски светец (* ? г.)\n 364 г. – Йовиан, император на Византия (* 331 г.)\n 440 г. – Месроб Машдоц, арменски учен (* ок. 360)\n 1364 г. – Роман Търновски, български монах (* ? г.)\n 1371 г. – Иван Александър, български цар (* 1301 г.)\n 1411 г. – Сюлейман Челеби, турски султан (* 1377 г.)\n 1600 г. – Джордано Бруно, италиански философ (* 1548 г.)\n 1652 г. – Грегорио Алегри, италиански композитор (* 1582 г.)\n 1673 г. – Жан-Батист Молиер, френски драматург (* 1622 г.)\n 1732 г. – Луи Маршан, френски музикант (* 1669 г.)\n 1803 г. – Луи Рене Едуар дьо Роан, френски духовник (* 1734 г.)\n 1805 г. – Йозеф Николай Лауренти, австрийски зоолог (* 1735 г.)\n 1807 г. – Осман Пазвантоглу, османски политик (* ок. 1758 г.)\n 1827 г. – Йохан Хайнрих Песталоци, швейцарски педагог (* 1746 г.)\n 1856 г. – Хайнрих Хайне, германски поет (* 1797 г.)\n 1878 г. – Нешо Бончев, български възрожденец (* 1839 г.)\n 1890 г. – Кристофър Шоулс, американски изобретател (* 1819 г.)\n 1904 г. – Пьотър Вановски, руски генерал (* 1822 г.)\n 1904 г. – Херман Емингхаус, германски психиатър (* 1845 г.)\n 1905 г. – Сергей Александрович, руски княз (* 1857 г.)\n 1909 г. – Джеронимо, индиански вожд (* 1829 г.)\n 1920 г. – Йован Бабунски, сърбомански войвода (* 1875 г.)\n 1925 г. – Никодим Кондаков, руски историк (* 1844 г.)\n 1925 г. – Тодор Страшимиров, български политик (* 1880 г.)\n 1934 г. – Албер I, крал на Белгия (* 1875 г.)\n 1934 г. – Зигберт Тараш, германски шахматист (* 1862 г.)\n 1937 г. – Панайот Дворянов, български офицер (* 1856 г.)\n 1937 г. – Хуго Майзъл, австрийски футболист (* 1881 г.)\n 1941 г. – Димитър Ляпов, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1944 г. – Сава Ганчев, български офицер (* 1920 г.)\n 1946 г. – Тодор Луканов, български политик (* 1874 г.)\n 1947 г. – Александър Лер, германски генерал (* 1885 г.)\n 1952 г. – Ангел Динев, български общественик (* 1891 г.)\n 1957 г. – Тома Радовски, български революционер (* 1862 г.)\n 1959 г. – Никола Икономов, български актьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1959 г. – Николай Кьостнер, естонски икономист (* 1889 г.)\n 1962 г. – Бруно Валтер, австрийски диригент (* 1876 г.)\n 1967 г. – Анри Перюшо, френски писател (* 1917 г.)\n 1969 г. – Пьотър Зинченко, съветски психолог (* 1903 г.)\n 1970 г. – Шмуел Йосеф Агнон, израелски писател, Нобелов лаурет през 1966 (* 1888 г.)\n 1976 г. – Христо Бърдаров, български офицер (* 1899 г.)\n 1977 г. – Константин Иванов Робев, български лекар (* 1897 г.)\n 1982 г. – Телониъс Монк, американски музикант (* 1917 г.)\n 1984 г. – Павел Батицки, съветски маршал (* 1910 г.)\n 1986 г. – Джиду Кришнамурти, индийски философ (* 1895 г.)\n 1994 г. – Иван Врачев, български политик (* 1921 г.)\n 1996 г. – Ерве Базен, френски писател (* 1911 г.)\n 1998 г. – Ернст Юнгер, германски писател (* 1895 г.)\n 1999 г. – Курт Айслер, австрийски лекар (* 1908 г.)\n 2003 г. – Христо Данов, български юрист (* 1922 г.)\n 2004 г. – Хосе Лопес Портило, президент на Мексико (* 1920 г.)\n 2005 г. – Омар Сивори, аржентински футболист (* 1935 г.)\n 2019 г. – Шабан Шаулич, сръбски певец (* 1951 г.)\n\nПразници \n Косово – Ден на независимостта (от Сърбия, 2008 г.)\n\n217"
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        "text": "WASHINGTON, DC, December 16, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration today proposed guidelines for solar development on public lands in the West, to accelerate projects in six western states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.\n“We think it provides a common sense and flexible framework through which to grow our nation’s renewable energy economy,” Salazar told reporters on a teleconference.\n“Our early, Smart from the Start, planning will help us site solar projects in the right places, and reduce conflicts and delays at later stages of the development process,” Salazar said.\nThe public is encouraged to provide comment on the draft plan during the next 90 days. The Notice of Availability for the Draft Solar PEIS will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, December 17 and is available today in the Reading Room. The 90-day public comment period will include 14 open meetings, beginning in Washington, DC on February 2, 2011.\n“Today’s announcement is part of an integrated strategy to cultivate the entire innovation chain to create the jobs of the 21st century economy and to put America on a sustainable energy path,” said Chu.\n“This proposal lays out the next phase of President Obama’s strategy for rapid and responsible development of renewable energy on America’s public lands,” Salazar said.\nUnder the proposal, the Bureau of Land Management would establish Solar Energy Zones within the lands available for solar development right of way applications. These are areas that have been identified as most appropriate for development, containing the highest solar energy potential and fewest environmental and resource conflicts.\nThe Solar Energy Zones would provide directed, landscape-scale planning for future solar projects and allow for a more efficient permitting and siting process.\nThe initiative stems from Salazar’s June 2009 announcement that tracts of BLM land in the six western states, known as Solar Energy Study Areas, would be fully evaluated for their environmental and resource suitability for large-scale solar energy production.\nAlso today, Energy Secretary Chu announced the Department of Energy’s intent to fund up to $50 million to test and demonstrate innovative technologies that will lead to cost-competitive solar energy technologies.\nThe demonstration program will be a critical link between the Department of Energy’s advanced technology development programs and full-scale commercialization efforts.\nThe Nevada National Security Site, previously the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, will serve as a proving ground for cutting-edge solar technologies, such as concentrating solar thermal power and concentrating photovoltaic energy. These technologies can be used for utility applications in the Southwest where there is an abundance of solar energy.\n“This funding will allow the Department to further test advanced and innovative solar energy technologies in real-world conditions, providing critical data for companies and communities looking to invest in large-scale solar projects,” said Chu.\n“The Solar Demonstration Zone in Nevada is part of an integrated effort to expand the solar energy industry, helping to put America on a path to a sustainable energy future and create the jobs of the 21st century economy,” he said.\nPotential technology applications include concentrated solar power systems that use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight on a heat absorbing fluid, convert it to steam, and ultimately generate electricity, as well as concentrated photovoltaic power that uses lenses to concentrate sunlight to improve the efficiency of conventional photovoltaics.\nThe demonstration projects as part of the Solar Demonstration Zone will be deployed at a large enough scale to provide useful operating and economic data for the eventual deployment of solar energy projects at utility-scale, which are typically grid-connected projects larger than 20 megawatts.\nThe Solar Demonstration Zone at the Nevada National Security Site will complement the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s 24 Solar Energy Study Areas on public lands across the Southwest by providing essential data about the commercial viability of the most advanced solar technologies.\nAs part of DOE and the Department of Interior’s continuing collaboration, the departments are working together to implement this project, including conducting environmental reviews and coordinating necessary infrastructure planning for the site.\nThe DOE’s Funding Opportunity Announcement is slated for early next year, but funding for the project is dependent upon congressional appropriations."
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        "text": "Q: External Disk to use with iTunes in a AirPort Extreme I have a external disk that I use now to have my iTunes collection, I want to connect the same disk to the AirPort Extreme so I dont have to use a USB port in my Notebook. \nDoes anyone have a reccomendation?\n\nA: Any standard USB disk should work.\n"
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        "text": "18 февруари е 49-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 316 дни до края на годината (317 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 1229 г. – Съгласно договор между императора на Свещената Римска империя Фридрих II и египетския султан Ал-Камил, християнските поклонници получават право да посещават Йерусалим, Витлеем и Назарет.\n 1688 г. – Сектата на менонитите в Пенсилвания първа осъжда робството в Северна Америка.\n 1856 г. – В Цариград е обнародван султанският реформаторски указ Хатихумаюн.\n 1861 г. – Виктор Емануил II става първият крал на Италия.\n 1873 г. – Българският революционер Васил Левски е обесен в покрайнините на София. Днес тази годишнина официално се чества на 19 февруари.\n 1909 г. – Приет е Закона за народното просвещение, останал в сила около 40 години.\n 1919 г. – Извършен е неуспешен опит за покушение срещу премиера на Франция Жорж Клемансо.\n 1929 г. – Обявени са първите Награди на Академията.\n 1930 г. – Американският астроном Клайд Томбо открива Плутон.\n 1932 г. – Япония създава марионетен режим в Манджурия и обявява територията за независима от Китай.\n 1942 г. – Най-голямата подводница в света – Сюркуф (Франция), потъва в Атлантическия океан.\n 1945 г. – Варненските футболни клубове Тича и Владислав се обединяват в „ТВ-45“ (Тича – Владислав 45), предшественик на днешния ФК Черно море.\n 1952 г. – Гърция и Турция стават членове на НАТО.\n 1960 г. – В Скуо Вали (Калифорния) са открити VIII зимни олимпийски игри.\n 1965 г. – Гамбия получава независимост от Великобритания.\n 1968 г. – Китаристът Дейвид Гилмор заменя Сид Барет в групата Пинк Флойд.\n 1972 г. – Върховният съд на щата Калифорния отменя смъртното наказание.\n 1980 г. – Израел открива първото си посолство в арабска държава – Египет.\n 1983 г. – Открит е Минно-обогатителния комплекс Елаците – медно находище.\n 1987 г. – В Ирландия Чарли Хоги е избран за министър-председател.\n 1999 г. – XXXVIII народно събрание ратифицира „Рамковата конвенция за малцинствата“.\n 2003 г. – При пожар в метрото на Тегу (четвъртия по големина град на Южна Корея) загиват 198 и са ранени 147 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1516 г. – Мария I Тюдор, кралица на Англия († 1558 г.)\n 1626 г. – Франческо Реди, италиански лекар, натуралист и поет (* 1697 г.)\n 1745 г. – Алесандро Волта, италиански физик († 1827 г.)\n 1780 г. – Алексей Венецианов, руски живописец († 1847 г.)\n 1825 г. – Мор Йокаи, унгарски писател († 1904 г.)\n 1836 г. – Шри Рамакришна, индийски гуру († 1886 г.)\n 1838 г. – Ернст Мах, австрийски физик († 1916 г.)\n 1848 г. – Луис Комфорт Тифани, американски художник († 1933 г.)\n 1857 г. – Петър Габе, общественик († 1927 г.)\n 1872 г. – Иван Кюлев, български учител († 1956 г.)\n 1883 г. – Никос Казандзакис, гръцки писател († 1957 г.)\n 1886 г. – Любомир Чакалов, български математик († 1963 г.)\n 1895 г. – Семьон Тимошенко, съветски маршал († 1970 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Милев, български художник († 1927 г.)\n 1898 г. – Енцо Ферари, италиански автомобилен пилот († 1988 г.)\n 1903 г. – Николай Подгорни, съветски политик († 1983 г.)\n 1919 г. – Джак Паланс, американски актьор и боксьор († 2006 г.)\n 1921 г. – Милко Борисов, български физик († 1988 г.)\n 1929 г. – Андре Матьо, канадски пианист и композитор († 1968 г.)\n 1931 г. – Надежда Драгова, български литературовед и драматург\n 1931 г. – Тони Морисън, американска писателка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1993 г. († 2019 г.)\n 1932 г. – Милош Форман, американски режисьор († 2018 г.)\n 1933 г. – Йоко Оно, американска поп певица\n 1933 г. – Боби Робсън, английски футболист († 2009 г.)\n 1936 г. – Джийн Оел, американска писателка\n 1938 г. – Ищван Сабо, унгарски кинорежисьор\n 1938 г. – Елке Ерб, немска писателка\n 1939 г. – Марек Яновски, полски диригент\n 1941 г. – Кънчо Аврамов, български скулптор († 2011 г.)\n 1950 г. – Сибил Шепърд, американска киноактриса\n 1950 г. – Джон Хюз, американски режисьор († 2009 г.)\n 1954 г. – Джон Траволта, американски актьор\n 1963 г. – Андерс Фриск, шведски футболен съдия\n 1964 г. – Мат Дилън, американски актьор\n 1965 г. – Доктор Дре, американски рапър\n 1967 г. – Магърдич Халваджиян, български режисьор\n 1967 г. – Роберто Баджо, италиански футболист\n 1968 г. – Моли Рингуалд, американска актриса\n 1971 г. – Хайди Марк, американска актриса\n 1974 г. – Евгени Кафелников, руски тенисист\n 1974 г. – Радек Черни, чешки футболист\n 1975 г. – Гари Невил, английски футболист\n 1975 г. – Христо Живков, български актьор\n 1977 г. – Хелги Гретаршон, исландски шахматист\n 1978 г. – Виктория Хил, австралийска актриса\n 1981 г. – Андрей Кириленко, руски баскетболист\n 1987 г. – Висенте Гуаита, испански футболист\n 1992 г. – Логан Милър, американски актьор\n 1994 г. – Давид Дяков, български музикант\n 1994 г. – Джей Хоуп, южнокорейски рапър, танцьор, певец и композитор.\n\nПочинали \n\n 1139 г. – Ярополк II, княз на Киевска Рус (* 1082 г.)\n 1405 г. – Тимур, монголски и тюркски пълководец (* 1336 г.)\n 1455 г. – Фра Анджелико, италиански художник (* ок. 1395)\n 1546 г. – Мартин Лутер, германски религиозен реформатор (* 1483 г.)\n 1564 г. – Микеланджело Буонароти, италиански художник и скулптор (* 1475 г.)\n 1851 г. – Карл Густав Якоби, германски математик (* 1804 г.)\n 1873 г. – Васил Левски, български революционер, национален герой (* 1837 г.)\n 1890 г. – Дюла Андраши, унгарски политик (* 1823 г.)\n 1902 г. – Кузман Стефов, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1915 г. – Стоян Новакович, сръбски учен и политик (* 1842 г.)\n 1927 г. – Йордан Дуяков, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1940 г. – Пиеро Аригони, италиански архитект (* 1856 г.)\n 1942 г. – Цоньо Калчев, български писател (* 1870 г.)\n 1944 г. – Ерик Уотърс, войник от Британската армия (* 1913 г.)\n 1947 г. – Георги Райчев, български писател (* 1882 г.)\n 1956 г. – Гюстав Шарпантие, френски композитор (* 1860 г.)\n 1957 г. – Хенри Ръсел, американски астроном (* 1877 г.)\n 1967 г. – Робърт Опенхаймер, американски физик, „баща“ на атомната бомба (* 1904 г.)\n 1973 г. – Станимир Лилянов, български писател (* 1896 г.)\n 1973 г. – Франк Кастело, италиански и американски мафиот (* 1891 г.)\n 1974 г. – Мануел Одрия, президент на Перу (* 1897 г.)\n 1978 г. – Михаил Арнаудов, български учен (* 1878 г.)\n 1982 г. – Живко Ошавков, български социолог (* 1913 г.)\n 1986 г. – Георги Дзивгов, български преводач (* 1903 г.)\n 1997 г. – Пантелей Зарев, български литературен теоретик (* 1911 г.)\n 2001 г. – Балтюс, френски художник от полски произход – модернист (* 1908 г.)\n 2001 г. – Георги Минчев, български певец и музикант (* 1943 г.)\n 2004 г. – Жан Руш, френски режисьор и антрополог (* 1917 г.)\n 2007 г. – Георги Баев, български художник (* 1924 г.)\n 2014 г. – Спас Райкин, български историк (* 1922 г.)\n 2016 г. – Пантелис Пантелидис, гръцки изпълнител, текстописец и композитор (* 1983 г.)\n 2018 г. – Павел Панов, футболист на Левски (София) и националния отбор на България (* 1950 г.)\n\nПразници \n Гамбия – Ден на независимостта (1965 г.)\n Дания(града на Авиша) – Карнавален ден „Фастелавн“\n Непал – Ден на мъчениците (национален празник)\n\n218"
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        "text": "New Paranormal Saga “Glitch” Begins Filming\nMatchbox Pictures, in association with ABC TV, is pleased to announce that the new six-part drama series “Glitch” has begun shooting on location in Melbourne and around Victoria. A high-concept drama, “Glitch” is a paranormal saga about love, loss, and what it means to be human.\nCreated by Tony Ayres (Cut Snake, The Slap, Nowhere Boys, The Home Song Stories), developed by Ayres and Louise Fox (Broadchurch, Dead Europe, Love My Way), and produced by Matchbox Pictures (The Slap, The Straits, Nowhere Boys, Old School, Devil’s Playground), “Glitch” is a tale of love and redemption, of second chances gained and lost, of vengeance and forgiveness.\nTony Ayres, Series Creator said, “’Glitch’ is an elevated genre series. At its core it is a Gothic mystery with a story that is passionate and dramatic.”\n“How do ordinary people deal with great love, longing, and the utterly unexpected? This is an exciting drama from a hugely talented creative team,” said ABC Head of Fiction Carole Sklan.\nFeaturing an impressive ensemble cast led by Patrick Brammall (Upper Middle Bogan, Offspring) with Rodger Corser (Party Tricks, Rush), Emma Booth (Cloud Street, Jack Irish), Emily Barclay (Suburban Mayhem, Lou), Genevieve O’Reilly (Episodes, Star War Episode III), Andrew McFarlane (Devil’s Playground), Daniela Farinacci (Redfern Now, Lantana), Sean Keenan (Puberty Blues), and Ned Dennehy (Sherlock Holmes).\nSet in the fictional country town of Yoorana, the 6 x 1 hour series sees the run-down town take on a new life from the most unlikely of places – the past.\nWhen six people inexplicably rise from the dead with no memory of their identities, disbelief soon gives way to a determination to discover who they are and what happened to them. Yoorana becomes the Gothic rural backdrop against which the “Risen” rediscover their past and why they have returned while those around them are also faced with a perplexing new reality, challenging all the beliefs and ideals they held dear.\n“’Glitch’ is a whole new type of television for ABC and for Australia. It’s not just for people who know and love genre, it’s for those who love character-driven stories with big heart and bigger thrills,” said producer Louise Fox.\n“Glitch” will air on ABC in 2015.\n“Glitch” is produced by Matchbox Pictures with the assistance of Screen Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Film Victoria, and NBCUniversal. The series is being sold internationally by NBCUniversal.\nProduction Credits: A Matchbox Pictures production in association with ABC Television, Screen Australia, and Film Victoria. Written by Louise Fox, Kris Mrksa, and Giula Sandler. Directed by Emma Freeman. Produced by Ewan Burnett and Louise Fox. Executive Producers Tony Ayres and Debbie Lee. ABC TV Executive Producers Carole Sklan and Christopher Gist.\nWanna Know What Eurotophobia Looks Like? Check Out New “V/H/S: Viral” Poster\nIf you ever wondered what it might look like to suffer from Eurotophobia (fear of the vagina) then look no further than the new “V/H/S: Viral” poster. I imagine it is what sufferers from this condition my possibly experience. Anyway the new artwork is giving me a total Dead Space meets Lovecraft vibe.\n“V/H/S: Viral” is the third installment to the anthology series and brings to life nightmares through the lens of the new online video craze. The film brings together directors Todd Lincoln, Nacho Vigalondo, Justin Benson, Marcel Sarmiento, Aaron Moorhead, Gregg Bishop. “V/H/S: Viral” hits limited theatrical release on November 21st, 2014. The film is currently available on VOD.\nPolice chase after a deranged ice cream truck has captivated the attention of the greater Los Angeles area. Dozens of fame—obsessed teens flock to the streets with their video cameras and camera phones, hell—bent on capturing the next viral video. But there is something far more sinister occurring in the streets of L.A. than a simple police chase. A resounding effect is created onto all those obsessed with capturing salacious footage for no other purpose than to amuse or titillate. Soon the discovery becomes that they themselves are the stars of the next video, one where they face their own death.\nMy Review Of “The Dark Place”\nJody Wheeler’s gay thriller “The Dark Place” takes on the conventional mystery with witty, and quick story telling. The film stars Blaise Embry, Eddy Rioseco, Shannon Day, Sean Paul Lockhart, Timo Descamps, Allison Lane, and follows a young man who returns home to make amends with his mother. His visit is one filled with chilling, and stark revelation as he learns the very real danger he is faced with meeting new family members. “The Dark Place” is a straight forward suspense, thriller that builds upon common themes of deadly relations.\nThe story is a well written, smart mystery that doesn’t rely on over-drawn stereotypes, or caricature personas to create character or entertainment value. “The Dark Place” keeps with a more serious tone, building a tense story arc that aims to draw viewers in with drama, action, and suspense. At times the story takes itself a bit too serious missing some moments that could have shown a comfortable, authentic feeling. The dialog, and writing move quick, with some witty, dark humor. However the acting, at times, feels somewhat contrived. Two dimensional characters present us with only superficial connectivity in scenes that require a strong emotional investment from the viewer. However there are some stand out moments from the cast during some of the film’s more dramatic scenes.\n“The Dark Place” starts a little choppy and confusing, forcing us to trust that things will fall into place as the story moves forward. It works to the extent of setting the tone of mystery and suspense. The downside to the choppy scene transitions at the start falls on the fact that not enough back story, or character development exists for us to give in completely to that trust. It caused a conflict in my ability to get into the story, and my knee-jerk reaction of distrust of Wheeler’s intentions and objective. Luckily the story arc stays pretty focuses and moves right into Wheeler’s intended vision effortlessly by the second act. More of the story becomes clear, characters become stronger, and a hint to the intense climax starts to unfold. By the third act I found myself glued to the drama unfolding, and the big reveal about some character’s back story, I was quietly seeking, was given to me.\nThe special effects and sound effects didn’t really impress me, the special effects wear minimal. Wheeler had plenty of opportunity to show a darker, grittier, and more visceral side but chose to play it safe. Letting the drama, and dialog support most of the thrills. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I would have liked to have seen more gruesome effects during altercation and action scenes. What Jody Wheeler chose to give us came closer to Lifetime level of effects. With that said, “The Dark Place” does manage to create some real intense situations, plenty of emotion, and is quite entertaining. Even the mediocre instrumental music score and effects aid in the film’s suspenseful atmosphere.\nOverall, I was pleasantly surprised by “The Dark Place”. The characters were not cartoonish stereotypes, and the story was a serious mystery, thriller. Even with the rough start, “The Dark Place” manages to become a captivating thriller. It is above most LGB&T thrillers that I have seen. There isn’t really any horror elements in the film, and the thrills are hit/miss throughout, so that was a slight disappointment. Still, Jody Wheeler does have a solid story here, with some stellar moments that create the necessary suspense and intensity. The ending was a little flat, but I was given the ending that I was hoping for, even if the final scene was a bit rudimentary and hokey. I definitely think mystery fans, and especially the LGB&T community should watch “The Dark Place”. Not that the film doesn’t have merit for the broader, hetero inclusive fan base.\nNew Images Released For “The Wicked One”\nCheck out these new images for slasher horror “The Wicked One”. The film is directed by Tory Jones and stars Katie Stewart, Dale Miller, Jack Norman, Ari Lehman, Jessica Bloom, Deb Perkins. Read the details for “The Wicked One” below.\nThe Wicked One is a breath of fresh air into the subgenre of Slasher movies. With his dilapidated coat, signature burlap mask, and a large knife for his intended victims, this Slasher has only one goal…. Death.\nSet inside the walls of a Mental Institute, the story follows Alex Curtis (Portrayed by the talented Katie Stewart) after her incarceration. Alex claims that a figure known only as the Wicked One is after her and will soon claim her life, enough to make everyone think she’s insane. The story is really about Alex’s journey and presents the question is this young woman insane or is someone truly after her? Heading up Alex’s therapy is a doubtful and dapper young Psychiatrist Dr. Adam Lawson (Played by MMA Legend Dale Miller) As bodies begin to pile up at the Athens Institute, the staff may soon find that the Wicked One (Jack Norman) may be a real entity.\nThis madness, all the vision of Director Tory Jones who wanted to unleash a new slasher onto the scene. With the majority of today’s horror being dominated by cliche found footage and paranormal movies at every turn a return to the slasher formula is something I’ve always been interested in and something I’m a fan of. Now I have celebrities like Leslie Easterbrook, Renae Geerlings, Ari Lehman, Tamara Glynn, and countless others commenting on the mask and movie and that’s a huge compliment for someone who grew up a fan of those old school 70’s and 80’s slasher movies. I’m hoping this film could be the start of a franchise and a sequel script is being teased and ideas thrown around. It’s just something that will be dependent upon the success of this film.\nThe first official trailer is set to be released in the coming weeks with a premiere planned for Early 2015!\n2015 Release Date Set For “Gnome Alone”\nA 2015 release date has been set for Timothy Woodward Jr. and John Michael Elfers’ “Gnome Alone”, putting the Verne Troyer starring vehicle in horror fan’s hands on January 20th. “Gnome Alone” also stars Kerry Knuppe, Marlon Young,Matt Cinquanta and Bill Oberst Jr. The release will span both DVD, Digital and VOD release on the January date.\nWhen timid college student Zoe witnesses a hit-and-run, the dying victim gives her a strange amulet. Suddenly, all those who have offended Zoe in her life begin dying horrible deaths at the hands of a malicious gnome (Troyer). When Zoe discovers the horrible history behind the amulet, will she be able to harness its magical power before the gnome begins killing those closest to her?\nFX Sets Out To Bring To Life “From Hell” Killer In New Series\nFX has announced the decision to explore “From Hell” serial killer, Jack The Ripper, in new series. The concept is based on the 572 page graphic novel from writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell. The novel spawned the 2001 Johnny Depp film which focuses on the brutal crime spree of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers from his point-of-view. “Children Of Men” writer David Arata has signed on to write the FX original series which explores the world of Jack The Ripper from a first person character study into the mind of the killer. The news was first reported by Deadline.com\nFrom Hell tells the tale of Jack the Ripper with the killer himself as the main character. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, the 572-page graphic novel is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century.\nFirst TV Spot Released For “Dementamania”\nThe first television spot has been released for Kit Ryan directed “Dementamania”. The film hits limited theatrical release and VOD on November 17th, and stars Kal Penn, Vincent Regan, Geoff Bell, Sam Robertson, John Thomson. \"They Say There is no Harm in Daydreaming” A frustrated office worker finds himself caught between the realms of his deranged imagination and the mundane reality of his everyday existence.\nFrustrated with the social injustice he faces everyday and the bureaucratic culture of the office where he works, EDWARD ARKHAM (Samuel Robertson) is at boiling point. Although a successful analyst with a leading IT consultancy, years of routine have taken their toll, and the unbearable daily monotony fuels his frustration and bitterness.\nWhen Edward is stung by a mysterious bug, it results in a painful and aggressive rash which unlocks the door to a secret world inside his head causing nightmarish fantasies to manifest themselves within vivid hallucinations. As the rash spreads and threatens to envelop his entire body, his visions become more terrifying and reality begins to drift further from his grasp.\nPoster And Trailer For “Magi” Released\nCheck out the promo poster and teaser trailer for Hasan Karacadag’s “Magi”. The film stars Lucie Pohl, Michael Madsen, Stephen Baldwin, Brianne Davis, and will be released on February 27, 2015 in Turkey. Not sure when this comes out here in the states…\nMagi follows an American woman who relocates to Istanbul to take on the job as an English teacher. Soon, her journalist sister slowly comes to realize that all may not be as it seems with her sibling’s new baby.\nWanna Know What Eurotophobia Looks Like? Check Out...\nFX Sets Out To Bring To Life “From Hell” Killer In..."
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        "text": "Maybe Robots Should Run Our Cyber Security\nBy Aliya Sternstein, Next-Gov\nThe theme of October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness month for half a decade has been “cybersecurity is a shared responsibility” — but should it be? We’re more aware than ever of the risks to logging online, with big-box store hacks, intelligence leaks and bank infiltrations regularly chronicled in the media. Yet the breaches continue.\nMost network intrusions can be traced back to an employee who inadvertently or intentionally opened the door to hackers.\nA heating and air conditioning vendor for Target compromised the retailer’s payment systems by clicking on a phishing email, unknowingly exposing the credentials needed to steal card data from as many as 70 million people, KrebsOnSecurity reported.\nTo retrieve sensitive information on 75 million households in JPMorgan’s systems, attackers entered a Web-development server using an employee’s username and password, according to Bloomberg.\nAnd National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden apparently convinced multiple colleagues to provide passwords for accessing classified information.\nHuman Nature Is the Weakest Link in Cyber\nHuman nature is the weakest link in cybersecurity. Maybe the responsibility for cyber should be ceded to machines. Why should computer users be accountable for configuring encryption, remembering passwords, and calling a help desk after clicking on a shady link?\nWouldn’t it be better if cybersecurity were more automated? Many computer science researchers, citizens and even the White House say, Yes!\nThe U.S. military is even willing to pay a $2 million cash prize to anyone who can build an automated system to thwart cyberattacks as fast as they are launched. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge will hold a machine-to-machine “capture-the-flag-style” tournament in 2016.\nPerhaps it’s hardware and software that need to become more aware, some programmers say.\nTechnology indeed is heading in this direction. There are efforts to enable encryption by default at Apple and Google, and to outsource identity verification for online accounts.\nCyber Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, with state and nonprofit support, emphasizes one key responsibility each week. This week’s duty is “Secure Development of IT Products,” which is exactly what citizens want.\nBut in this case, the burden for ensuring secure development is on the hapless computer user. Tips include: “Install and maintain vendor-distributed patches or updates, ensure they are using the latest operating systems on their computers and mobile devices, and be aware of vulnerabilities that may exist.” All sound advice, but hard to follow.\nCyber Awareness Outdated?\nEven one of the public faces of this month’s campaign, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel, said he can envision a future where humans have largely been voted off the island in favor of robots, so to speak.\n“You’re going to have to automate a lot more of the processes, and you’re going to have to build it in so the security happens as much as possible in the background,” he told Nextgov in an interview. “And that’s a true statement. Now, you’ll never take people out of the loop entirely … But I think that to the largest extent that we can make the cybersecurity just there and transparent to the users, that’s the direction that we have to go.”\nIn November 2010, at a Federal Communications Commission workshop, James Lewis, a Center for Strategic and International Studies analyst who advises Congress and the executive branch on cyber, said educating end users will not protect the Internet.\n“I’ve kind of given up on the end points,” he said then. “We had National Cybersecurity Awareness Month last month. A complete waste of time. We’re never going to get the end, the edge, to be safe. It’s never going to happen.” Instead, Lewis said, federal agencies should coordinate with Internet service providers to ensure consumers are supplied almost automatically with the best intrusion defenses.\nCan Tech Keep up with Evolving Threats?\nNotice how he said “almost automatically.” The problem with eliminating human intervention is that malware and hacking techniques mutate so rapidly, technical defenses cannot keep up.\n“Because threats are changing so quickly, not in the foreseeable future are we going to be able to just turn things over to the machine,” said George Washington University law lecturer Richard Gray, who also serves as the Defense Department’s associate general counsel. “You’ve got to have the C-level suite people, who are in charge of making the business decisions, allocate how much money we are willing to spend to have a certain level of security. And then you’ve got to ask that same question the next day when some new hacking tool comes out.”\nHe was speaking to Nextgov as an academic, not on behalf of the Pentagon.\nPart of the challenge is that software programs actually often permit risky activities that could be nefarious or legitimate, depending on the intent of the user. One example is a person logging on to a U.S. corporate network from Russia. The software might have trouble mind-reading to discern the user’s intent.\nTo deal with the unpredictability of humans, Mitre, a research and development contractor, holds internal cyber situational awareness sessions throughout the month. “We’re constantly talking about what threats are we facing? How do we need to change what we are doing? We are constantly evolving our strategy,” Mitre Chief Information Security Official Bill Hill said during a recent webcast interview with Nextgov.\nAnd so, Cyber Awareness Month doesn’t seem all that outdated yet, unlike your computer’s anti-virus protections.\nThis article originally appeared in Next-Gov.\nRead more at Next-Gov:\nWill Afghanistan Become Forgotten War Again?\nU.S. Strategic Leaders Need to Think Bigger, Much Bigger\n5 Reasons to Pay Attention to Boko Haram's Latest Video\n6 Things You Should Do Right Now to Protect Your Online Accounts\nBeware of schemes that could drain your bank account Beware of schemes that could drain your bank account The first...\nWhy Netflix Didn’t Pay the Ransom for ‘Orange Is the New Black’\nOver the weekend, hackers calling themselves “thedarkoverlord” threatened to release the first 10 episodes of the fifth...\nComing Soon to Your Credit Card: Fingerprint Scanning\nIn the race to make credit card payments more secure, MasterCard is testing a new card that uses a purchaser’s..."
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        "text": "Q: How can I get files on my iPad into my Dropbox? Let's say I get a file in an email, or have it stored in GoodReader, or find a link to it on the web, and want to put it into my Dropbox using the ipad app. \nIt seems like the only files you can add from the app are photos and video.  Am I missing anything?  Goodreader is a great example of how an app can \"pull in\" compatible files from emails, etc, but I can't find any similar capability in the Dropbox app.\n\nA: You can use Habilis to email files to Dropbox. I use it to transfer photos from my phone to my iPad without needing the camera connection kit. It works like a charm.\nIf you have a Mac, you can also use MobileDL to get files into Dropbox. It's an app that allows you to paste a URL into Simplenote on your iPad/iPhone/iPod and it'll start downloading the file on your Mac. Just make sure to go into the preferences when you install it and set the downloads folder to your Dropbox. The downside, of course, is that you'll have to leave your Mac on at home so you can use it.\n\nA: This is actually possible to do without any extra applications now. With attachments that can be previewed in Mail, and most every file type in Safari, you can use the Open in... and choose Dropbox. You then get to choose a folder to upload the file to and tap the Upload button.\nIn Mail, do this:\n\nAnd in Safari, do this:\n\n\nA: I've been wanting to do this too, but thus far to no avail. From the Dropbox in-app help, it states, 'The iPad version of the Dropbox Mobile Application allows you to upload any videos or photos synced to your gallery.'\nSo, from that I'd assume that you're not missing anything - your only upload options at the moment are photos and video from the general gallery. :-(\nIt'll be interesting to see if people post any usable workarounds, of course. :-)\n\nA: Here's a nice solution: http://sendtodropbox.com\nAnd here's how I found it. Thanks votebox!\n\nA: I believe that whilst this capability is not included in the official dropbox app, it is possible to accomplish using GoodReader for iPad.\n\n\n*\n\n*Open GoodReader on iPad and expand the section in the bottom right of the main screen which says \"Connect to Servers\"\n\n*Tap \"Add\"\n\n*Tap \"Dropbox\"\n\n*Enter your details and click add\n\n*Now tap the server you just added (I called it \"Dropbox\")\n\n*In the bottom right hand corner of the popover that just came up is a button saying upload. Tap it.\n\n*Select the files you want to upload and tap \"Upload\"\n\n\nYou will only need to do steps 5-7 the second time\n\nA: Regarding that link on the Web, icabmobile: http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id308111628?mt=8 can download files and upload to dropbox. \n\nA: if you have goodreader, you can add your dropbox account to it, no more need fore the dropbox app.\n\nA: Jailbreak your device and install iFile from Cydia.\n"
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        "text": "Mar 27, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács\nThe Soros ‘mercenaries’ working against Hungary\nAccording to a recently uncovered statement by Tracie Ahern, former chief financial officer of the Soros Fund Management, the billionaire financier commands a quasi-mercenary force of at least 2,000 people, tasked with achieving three goals: bringing down Prime Minister Orbán’s government, dismantling the border fence, and promoting immigration to Hungary.\nSoros plan soros army Soros network Illegal Migration\nThe statement marked the latest in a series of revelations of Soros-funded efforts that attempt to influence public life in Hungary and oppose the work of the democratically elected government. Earlier this month, the Jerusalem Post broke a story about how a Soros-funded NGO in Berlin, headed by a Hungarian national, is actively lobbying the German government to apply pressure on Hungary to change laws on NGO transparency. A few weeks ago, I posted on a Hungarian media report about an astonishing revelation that George Soros spent more than 14 million USD in 2017 lobbying the US government against Hungary. We’ve also called attention repeatedly to his Open Society network’s lobbying efforts in Brussels (here and here). Hungarian media also reported on a Soros-funded NGO illegally collecting data on migrants.\nFollowing this latest report, I have called upon these Soros organizations to make public the names of those 2,000 people and list the names of opposition party politicians on Soros’ payroll. The pending legislation that would require greater transparency from foreign-funded organizations that promote pro-migration policies and oppose our government’s efforts to curb immigration will make it more difficult for these activists to work without accountability. Until then, the Hungarian Government will resist all outside attempts to politically influence our immigration policy – a position that has broad popular support – and will apply all means necessary to prevent organizations from performing unlawful political activities.\nThough there are at least 2,000 people working against Hungary’s interests, “there is no shortage of such people in Brussels either,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a Facebook video prior to last week’s EU summit. Their aim is to make Hungary an immigrant country, he said, and “this we shall not allow to happen.”\nPrime Minister Orbán reiterated at the summit his government’s firm opposition to the mandatory quota system and any other policy that supports immigration. “As long as I am prime minister, there is no possibility of any such agreement,” he said.\n“Europe is full up,“ the prime minister said, therefore we must focus our attention on defending our external borders.\nThose who still see immigration of this scale as a positive phenomenon – despite considerable experience that suggests otherwise – have a fundamentally different vision for the future of our country and of Europe. For us, security comes first, and we must stop any organization that promotes illegal migration for ideological or other reasons that have no democratic mandate.\nIs Hungary's economy growing?"
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        "text": "Environmental Tackiness\nOn display this week at the ELCA Temple of Tackiness in my neighborhood:\nCELEBRATE GOD'S GREEN EARTH: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REJOICE\nLet's unpack those instructions a bit. (1) REDUCE Christ's church to a mouthpiece for a socio-political agenda. (2) REUSE artifacts of pagan spirituality, with or without sticking Christian symbols on them. (3) RECYCLE slogans and programs everybody else has seen through and moved on from, as Lutherans always do. (4) REJOICE in the opportunity to become just another part of the \"Go Green!\" background noise that has surrounded us on all sides throughout this year's month-long celebration of Earth Day. Hallelujah!\nPosted by RobbieFish at 3:44 PM 1 comment:\nLabels: tackiness\nLegs On Ya\nLast night I made my own lasagna, or as my brother used to call it when he was a wee tot, legs on ya. And God saw that it was good.\nI've probably blogged on the beauty of homemade lasagna before, and to be quite honest, I don't do much that the package of noodles doesn't tell me to do. I must say though, that no storebought or restaurant lasagna can ever hold a candle to the stuff that comes out of your own oven. Perhaps this is because it takes an hour to bake it, so in order to serve it in a restaurant you have to cook up a bunch of it ahead of time and serve it warmed-over (and often, as a result, dried-out).\nAt risk of repeating myself, however, I want to plug the Barilla brand lasagne noodles, which don't have to be boiled, cooled, and painstakingly peeled off a piece of aluminum foil before you bake it. This makes the process of building a handmade lasagna that much simpler. The flat, rectangular slips of pasta are crisp and ready-to-bake when they come out of the box. The box also helpfully tells you the order in which to layer your five essential building blocks of lasagna: the noodles, the shredded mozzarella, the browned meat, the red sauce, and the ricota cheese mixture.\nI enjoy making this kind of recipe, which essentially boils down to adding separate groups of ingredients together in a certain order. It's one of the reasons apple-upsidedown-gingerbread cake appeals to me. Plus, there is room for a bit of experimentation and customization within the basic structure. For example, the only herb I add to the cheese mixture is mint. There's really no need for parsley, basil, oregano, pepper, etc. Besides, your pasta sauce (which probably comes out of a storebought jar because, hey, it saves time) probably has those spices in it anyway.\nAlso, my browned meat mixture consists of equal parts ground beef and pork sausage, plus one onion coarsely chopped and mass quantities of minced garlic. Given a dish in which garlic works, one can hardly ever use too much of it. I have found, however, that it is just plain flavor overkill to use \"Italian sausage\" or, worse, \"spicy Italian sausage.\"\nMy most important browning pointers? Besides, obviously, making sure the meat is fully cooked: (1) You can brown the pork and beef separately, then combine what you need for the dish and save the rest. Using too much meat can result in the top layer of cheese welding itself permanently to the aluminum foil, a major fault in any lasagna operation. (2) Feel free to add garlic to both the pork and the beef as it browns, but for reasons of timing add all the onion to the beef. You can wait until the meat is halfway browned before adding the onion. Contrary to what you learned from making Hamburger Helper, there is no need to brown the onion until it turns to complete mush. Thus, after baking the main dish, you'll still have onion chunks with a little body to them, the kind that bursts in the mouth when you bite into it.\nAnother trick is spreading the ingredients around so that each layer covers the full area of the pan without using up more than its share. I find that it takes a bit more than one 24-ounce jar of tomato sauce. So I tend to throw in the leftovers from a previously opened, partly used jar, regardless of differences in the flavoring between the two jars. The mozzarella can be tricky to divvy up, too. I rely (again, for reasons of speed and laziness) on storebought, pre-shredded packages of the cheese, typically starting with two one-pound bags of it and using half of one bag in the ricota mixture, then dividing the remaining three halves among the layers of lasagna as directed by the label on the pasta package.\nOne last caveat: Really, really do let this sucker cool down before you eat it. Having to scrape a layer of burnt skin off the roof of your mouth is not a cool way to end a meal.\nPosted by RobbieFish at 1:16 PM No comments:\nTo Coin a Word\nI like the phrase \"to coin a word.\" It suggests so many cool things. It suggests that language can be treasured like money. It suggests that the right word at the right time may be rare and valuable. It suggests that the ability to invent new words is like the engraver's art, and that the process of bringing such a word into common usage is like the minting of money.\nIn the spirit of \"sniglets,\" a kind of \"funny money\" as it were, I would like to present the following coinage for you to collect and display.\nSo, a male cat is a tom, all right? What if we call a neutered male a tim?\nThank you. No, please, you're too kind. I'm here all week!\nPosted by RobbieFish at 7:34 AM No comments:\nLabels: cats, language, whimsy\nWhich Is Longer?\nYesterday, while driving from the Twin Cities to Saint Louis, I put a burning question to the test. Namely: Which is longer, the state of Iowa or Wagner's Götterdämmerung? I studied this vital issue by listening to the latter while driving across the former. The opera, which concludes Wagner's \"Ring of the Niebelung\" cycle of four interminable operas, came on the air as the last Metropolitan Opera broadcast of the season.\nIt started while I was still well within the borders of Minnesota. It played on one Iowa Public Radio station or another as I drove by Mason City, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Keokuk. When I finally lost contact with the Met broadcast, 10 miles from the Missouri state line, there was still a good bit of Act 3 to go. Siegfried had just perished, and I know (thanks to Margaret Juntwait) that at least three principal characters had yet to die tragic deaths, interspersed with a great deal of Wagner's passionate and yet ponderously dignified orchestral music.\nThe opera wins. Although the results may be a bit skewed by the fact that I broke the speed limit most of the way, I think it's a fair result when you take into account my stops to refill fuel, empty my bladder, and refresh myself with food and drink. To be sure, Iowa from east to west might be another story. But then, I've never had an opportunity to compare that drive to a Wagner opera, and I'm unlikely to do so.\nThis drive home struck me as strangely unfamiliar. I have, after all, made several trips from St. Louis to the Twin Cities. But then I realized that, oddly enough, I had never driven straight back until yesterday. I had either made the trip by air, or (on at least two occasions) had gone home by way of my mother's home in Nebraska. So it was actually weird to see the southbound side of my regular route. And it's weird that it was weird.\nPosted by RobbieFish at 11:32 AM No comments:\nLabels: music, travel, whimsy\nHeavy-Metal Books\nThe exterminator came today to lay down some bait for the ants, who (as they do every spring) had moved into the neighborhood on a truckload of mulch and set up housekeeping inside the walls. While he was here, we somehow got to talking about books. He doesn't read much nowadays, but he fondly remembers enjoying some rip-snorting sci-fi adventures by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke. I happily gave him my well-thumbed copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, assuring him that the book is pure fun and way better than the movie. (He claimed to have liked the movie. It takes all kinds.)\nWhen I told him that I review kids' books for a Harry Potter fan site, he started asking me what I would recommend for his kid. I asked him what his kid was into, and he said \"skateboarding and heavy metal music.\" For a moment I was stumped. Then the ideas started flowing. Some of these are books I have reviewed, some I have only seen in bookstores and thought about reading. But I hazarded to suggest them as something a member of the tattoos-and-piercings crowd might enjoy reading. And now, for those of you whose kids also belong to that set, I share the same list of recommendations with you (plus a few titles I might have mentioned had I thought of them):\nTithe by Holly Black: The first book in a series of dark, gritty, urban, modern fairy tales.\nWicked Lovely by Melissa Marr: Likewise an edgy, tough fairy tale, complete with a playlist of hard rock songs to read by.\nThe Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld: The start of the spooky, hip, slightly goth teen series called \"The Midnighters.\"\nI Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak: A moving story narrated by one of today's wild young people.\nBlack Tattoo by Sam Enthoven.\nCity of Bones by Cassandra Clare, also the first book in a series. I'm getting ready to read these last two.\nThis is just a place to start. I'm not about to judge anyone for liking heavy metal music. It's not a cultural stream in which I prefer to swim, but they have just as much right to enjoy a good book as anyone. If these books can lead them to develop a habit of reading, more power to them!\nOverdrawn Tackiness\nFeatured this week on the neighborhood ELCA church sign:\nATM INSIDE: ATONEMENT, TRUTH AND MERCY\nMake fast withdrawals from your savings account in the storehouse of heavenly treasures! Check your balance in God's books quickly, securely, and confidentially! A nominal transaction fee may be charged! Do you wish to continue?\nComing soon: INTEL INSIDE: I NEED TO EJECT LUNCH\nFour Book Reviews\nArabel and Mortimer\nby Joan Aiken\nRecommended Ages: 8+\nFans of Roald Dahl and Astrid Lindgren will love this book, part of a series about little Arabel Jones of \"Rumbury Town, London N.W. 3½\" and her pet raven Mortimer. Illustrated by the same Quentin Blake who so memorably decorated such books as The BFG and Danny the Champion of the World, and written by the same author who gave us The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and The Cockatrice Boys, it combines laugh-aloud scenes of mischief and mayhem with touches of whimsical irony and rib-tickling silliness.\nArabel and the family raven get up to some far-flung adventures, considering that she is the daughter of an easy-going cab driver and a slightly daffy housewife. Mr. Jones likes his football (that's soccer to you) and Mrs. Jones has an endearing way of muddling up her words. They both seem heroically tolerant of Arabel's feathered friend, who will swallow anything not bolted down and whose antics would be mortifying to most real-life parents. Part of what makes this fantasy so adorable is the way the Jones family takes Mortimer in stride.\nIn the three short stories (novellas?) included in this book, Arabel and Mortimer rescue a lost gem, run amuck on a cruise ship, save a zooful of zebras and camels from animal thieves, and put their special stamp on the unearthing of King Arthur's round table and the sword Excalibur. Mortimer samples the flavor of a table-tennis set, a bowler hat, and a sewing machine. He tests whether a riding lawnmower can fly, whether a grand piano can float, and whether a giraffe can climb a spiral staircase. And in spite of all his mischief, he and Arabel make lots of friends. Won't you be one of them?\nI haven't yet read Arabel's Raven, the first book in this series. Evidently it is a series you can join at any point. I'm not sure how many different stories are in it, since they seem to have been published separately and collected in various ways. But I do recommend this charming series of humorous child-and-animal adventures to anyone who senses the comic potential of doughnuts, nose organs, lavender paint, and a bird that often mutters, \"Nevermore!\"\nThe Tale of Despereaux\nThis Newbery-Medal-winning book by the author of Because of Winn-Dixie weaves together the story of a servant girl who wants to be a princess, a rat who wants to live in the light, and a mouse who wants to be a knight.\nThose of you who, like me, read the book after seeing the delightful movie based on it may be surprised to discover how many memorable bits in the movie aren't in the book. The original story is much simpler and more direct. Yet for all its spareness, it packs a big message. It bears witness that, even in the world of \"once upon a time,\" the route to \"happily ever after\" is fraught with pain, trouble, and disappointment. It shows the cost of not conforming, the harm that can result when a broken heart heals wrong, the rewards of courage and love, the importance of honor, and the power of forgiveness. Best of all, it has a character who says: \"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.\"\nDespereaux is an unusual mouse in many ways. Smaller than normal, born with his eyes open, interested in things other than scurrying and nibbling, he soon falls in love with a pretty princess and comes to fancy himself her champion. She needs a champion, too, when a vengeful rat and an envious serving wench target the Princess Pea in a plot involving the darkest dungeon in the kingdom. To save her, one very tiny mouse will have to accomplish some amazingly big things.\nIt's a gentle, lovely story in which each short chapter ends with the narrator turning toward the reader and looking him or her straight in the eye. DiCamillo has a way of explaining words and concepts that might remind one of Lemony Snicket, only without the latter's pedantic mannerisms. The book leaves more to the imagination than the film does, but it also rewards the imagination with a word-painting full of darkness and light, achieving the effect of great detail through an economy of means. It's the verbal equivalent of the painting technique after which one of the characters is named. It draws on all the senses. It speaks in the tones of a kindly adult telling a story out loud to a child. And it begs to be read over a bowl of savory soup.\nGods of Manhattan\nby Scott Mebus\nThirteen-year-old Rory Hennessy is a level-headed boy. He has an eye for the plain, unvarnished truth. This is why he hates watching stage magic; he can always spot how a trick was done. Always, that is, until his sister Bridget's ninth birthday party, when a conjurer named Hex pulls off the impossible. Suddenly Rory's entire world is shaken. Soon he begins to spot other impossible things, like a cockroach rider waving hello from a rat's back. Within days, the familiar and mundane streets of New York are transformed into a wonderland in which ghostly pirate ships patrol the river, animals engage in kung fu fighting, and members of the extinct Munsee tribe stalk the paths of Central Park.\nRory soon discovers that he is a rare type of person known as a Light. He sees what really is, and he can enable other people to see it too. But this talent puts him in great danger. Someone has seen to it that most Lights disappear by age four. Only the fact that, somehow or other, Rory has managed to block out his talent has kept him alive until now. But the feral, childlike Strangers are after him now. And one of the immortal gods of Manhattan -- spirits from its past like Alexander Hamilton and Walt Whitman -- is after Rory's head, aided by an assassin wielding a unique knife that can even kill gods.\nThat doesn't even begin to describe the danger Rory is in. All he has to defend himself are a handful of the immortal children of the gods, known as the Rattle Watch; a clan of rat-riding warrior roaches; and a mysterious magician with questionable motives, served by a papier-mâché boy. I'm not sure whether to count one little girl who fancies herself \"Malibu Death Barbie\" as an asset in Rory's favor. For, all too soon, his adventure becomes all about saving Bridget.\nMeanwhile, we readers are treated to a rapid, free course in the history of New York City. We meet many characters from its variegated history. We tag along on wild, and often scary, excursions into the past, where Rory and friends are threatened by gangsters, British troops, an albino alligator, and everything in between. A quest to right a 150-year-old wrong and restore the balance of Manhattan's spirit world veers to a supernatural bank heist, a spiritual journey, a surprise plot twist, the unveiling of a traitor, and a deadly trap. And the door remains open for more adventures in the world of Mannahatta, where gods like Peter Stuyvesant and Zelda Fitzgerald preside over such areas as nostalgia, guilt, trends, excess, wit, shoplifting, and street construction. The chronicles of Mannahatta continue in at least a second book, titled Spirits in the Park.\nby Delia Sherman\nThis tale was written to disprove a theory, voiced by another fantasy author, that fairies never live in big cities. Delia Sherman grew up in New York City, and she knows as well as anyone who has ever visited the Big Apple that it is a magical place. If anything, it has more fairy folk per square mile than the average, in proportion to its higher population density. And since the mortals who dwell in the \"New York Outside\" (that's our world) come from all over the world, the fairy realm known as \"New York Between\" is similarly cosmopolitan. Beautiful or ugly, naughty or nice, there are so many varieties of Folk in the city that you'll really need the glossary at the end of the book.\nSherman developed this idea through several short stories before bringing it to bear on the novel. It's really a powerful idea, too: more convincing than the Mannahatta of Scott Mebus's Gods of Manhattan, more family-friendly (and less tongue-in-cheek) than Shanna Swendson's Enchanted, Inc., it forms the basis of a unique, urban fairy tale that will please folklore fans of all ages. Although the idea of magic existing in New York City isn't unique in and of itself, I know of no other author who has transplanted such a melting pot of \"old country\" magic onto New World soil, keeping its original character while adapting it successfully to its new home.\nIn the New York Between, Manhattan has been divided up between \"Geniuses\": powerful fairies who control particular areas. For example, our heroine, a mortal changeling named Neef, has grown up under the protection of the Genius of Central Park, also known as the Green Lady. In her quest, she meets other Geniuses, including the Mermaid Queen of New York Harbor, the Producer of Broadway, and the Dragon of Wall Street. She also meets her double, a fairy changeling who was swapped with Neef as a small child and raised by Neef's mortal parents.\nTogether, Neef and Changeling undertake three seemingly impossible tasks in order to get back into the Green Lady's good books and restore everything to the way it should be. It starts when Neef breaks a magical rule she didn't know about. Faced with a choice between being banished from the Park and being eaten by the Wild Hunt, she chooses a third option and goes on a quest. She mingles with selkie harbor cops, vampire actors, stockbroker dwarves and kobolds, the odd fictional character, and a whole roomful of bogeymen. She crosses paths with spirits from Asian, European, and uniquely American folklore, surviving by sheer chutzpah and the surprising usefulness of her fairy double. And she provides an entertainment full of laughs, changes of scenery, and familiar fairy-tale beings and plot devices transformed in surprising ways. New York is transformed, too. You may never look at it the same way again.\nFor more information on this talented and award-winning author, visit her website. Several of her stories have been published in anthologies, including The Faery Reel, The Green Man, and The Coyote Road. Some of her other novels are Through a Brazen Mirror and The Porcelain Dove. And I have been assured that she is writing a sequel to Changeling. I'll be questing for it!\nBerlioz Week\nSaint Louis had an opportunity to experience a rare cultural treat this past weekend, when our own Symphony Orchestra & Chorus performed Hector Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust -- which only comes around once every fifteen years or so. We had the advantage of having just put on the same composer's earlier (and more rarely performed) work 8 Scenes from Faust two years ago. So we've been fully inoculated with one of the great masterpieces of the romantic era.\nWhat is The Damnation of Faust? It's a bit of this and a bit of that. It's partly an opera: it has been successfully staged, most recently a few weeks ago by the Met, though Berlioz never lived to see a staged production and, indeed, never seemed to feel one was necessary. It's partly a cantata or oratorio, making huge demands on the chorus (especially the men) and only four principal soloists: it works well, as we performed it, without costumes or scenery or stage business, simply as a concert work. It's partly a symphony, the culmination of Berlioz's development as a symphonist toward larger-scaled works in which dramatic narrative meets pure music: for in Berlioz's mind the music seems to have existed prior to the text.\nWhat, once again, is The Damnation of Faust? It's partly a setting of the verse portions Gérard de Nerval's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's seminal masterpiece -- seminal, that is, not just for Goethe but for 19th-century Western culture as a whole -- Faust: The Tragedy. That's already a pretty hefty pedigree, considering that Goethe rivals Shakespeare as a literary figure of worldwide importance; while he himself claimed to prefer Nerval's French translation to his own German original. Partly, it is also an independent literary creation by Berlioz himself, whose gift for melody, harmony, and orchestral color is matched by his literary skill in a proportion comparable to the gifts of Wagner.\nAs international Berlioz experts Hugh MacDonald and Kern Holoman argued in their pre-concert chat (which I heard both nights), The Damnation of Faust may reveal Berlioz at his best. It certainly benefited from its 20-year gestation period. And in last week's performance, it sizzled and glowed and bubbled and burned, it plunged and soared and danced and laughed, it staggered drunkenly and sighed mournfully, under the baton of David Zinman. This maestro conducted with a huge energy that belied the serious pain he was in, as evidenced by his gingerly way of stepping off the podium.\nIt was an infectious energy, too -- and fortunately so, for it helped the performers overcome several setbacks as well. Mezzo-soprano Katherine Rohrer performed beautifully as Marguerite, in spite of coming in as a last-minute replacement for another singer who bowed out due to illness. Bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen projected an enormous vocal and physical presence as Mephistopheles, in spite of also being ill at the time of the concerts. Matthew Polenzani delivered a nuanced and powerful interpretation of Faust, both as an actor and as a singer required to hit several \"high C's.\" Eric Owens rounded out the cast in the brief role of a drunk named Brander. The orchestra played an interestingly textured and highly accurate rendition of a very difficult score, all under Zinman's firm leadership -- which also saved the chorus from a few near train-wrecks. And the St. Louis Children's Choirs' Concert Choir added an angelic touch to the final number in which Marguerite is translated into heaven.\nA lot of people put a lot of talent and preparation into these excellent performances, but the lion's share of the credit goes to Zinman. It is even possible that his physical infirmity contributed to the phenomenal cleanness of his conducting gesture, the unheard-of efficiency with which he ran the rehearsals, and the sense of heroism that infused the high points of the musical sparkline. He spent less time getting more results, with hardly any unnecessary movement, compared to other conductors we have worked with. Facing him on the stage while he pulled the Turkish March (for example) to its triumphant close was so exciting that I almost laughed aloud. And yet the range and expressiveness of his gesture, in conducting a score packed with a variety of moods and textures, was such that one might dismiss rumors that the maestro was hurting.\nWe of the chorus did flub a bit here and there. On Friday night, we barely kept the choral recitative passages together, due to an unfortunate lack of eye contact with the baton; and in Mephisto's serenade (always a dangerous spot, also when we did the 8 Scenes in 2006-07) a missed cue might have brought the music to a halt but for Zinman's adroitness. Saturday, a slightly smaller audience witnessed a much better performance, when I for once did not feel at all oppressed by the size of the task, and rather enjoyed myself.\nWhat was not to enjoy? The chorus played a huge cast of characters, including cavorting peasants, carousing drinkers, chanting worshipers, randy soldiers, rowdy students, nosy neighbors, sylphs, will-o'-the-wisps, dancing demons, worshiping angels, and (in the one passage for women's chorus without the men) a group of toothless old women praying to the saints at a wayside chapel. Their literal scream (as Faust and Mephisto ride down upon them en route to the abyss) elicited the first occasion in which I have ever heard a conductor tell a chorus, \"That was truly bloodcurdling,\" and mean it as a compliment.\nWe sang a drunken \"Amen\" fugue that Berlioz intended as a wry joke on bad church music. We participated in a truly great operatic scene (the finale to Part III of four). We pulled off a number aptly titled \"Pandemonium,\" complete with a made-up language interspersed with a list of demons. We sang one piece in which my section of the chorus sang thirteen lines of French verse to an unbroken string of sixteenth-note triplets. And we eavesdropped on a gorgeous love duet, a gripping evocation of nature, a thrilling setting of the Hungarian national anthem, and two pieces of fairy ballet music that would turn Mendelssohn green with envy.\nMy personal highlights were mainly small moments that revealed Berlioz's mastery of instrumentation. One piece of fairy music ends with a unique duet between harp and tympani, both playing very softly. Every appearance of Mephistopheles was heralded by startling trombone chords; his Air is also accompanied mainly by trombones, which often volunteered a wry note or so to underscore the sinister intentions behind that charming devil. Rich, unexpected harmonies and rhythms filled the evening, including a remarkable three-measure woodwind riff that filled a rest in the students' chorus, an ahead-of-its-time passage of tonal ambiguity during the Ride to the Abyss, a terrifying instrumental depiction of the tumultuous flames of hell, and a series of hunting calls played by a clutch of offstage horns.\nEveryone notices the viola and cor anglais solos in Marguerite's ballad and romance, respectively; and that is understandable. But having sat quite close to the orchestra, I was privileged to notice other instances of Berlioz's genius. Who else has done what he did with three piccolos in the Ballet of Sylphs? Who else has achieved such an effect of tortured spareness as in Faust's solo in Part III? Who else could turn the entire string division into a giant guitar as in Mephisto's serenade? Berlioz used the orchestra to create audible images of a beating heart, a roaring kraken, galloping horses, flitting fairies, attacking birds of prey, and a distant artillery barrage. He creates a sonic depiction of hell that could rival a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, and a spun-sugar vision of heaven to shame Gustave Doré. He does it in music that is unmistakably Berlioz; no other composer would or could have written it. But it is also unmistakably the work of a powerful imagination married to wit, orchestral fluency, and a flair for balance and proportion. Put together, this adds up to a uniquely compelling musical tribute to one of the great texts in Western literature. How lucky am I to have been there when it happened, David Zinman style!\nIMAGES: Zinman, Ketelsen (playing Mephisto in a different production), Owens, Polenzani, Rohrer, Bosch's hell, Doré's heaven.\nLabels: art, music\nSouped-Up Sub\nI had lunch at Subway today. I often do, since there's a Subway restaurant in the building where I work. It can get a bit boring after a while. But today I tried a different combination of sandwich toppings, and came up with something rather special.\nMy order was a chicken breast sandwich on Italian bread. (I didn't realize until today that Subway actually had whole grilled chicken breasts, rather than the ones cut into strips and soaked in a sauce.) I had the sandwich toasted with mozzarella cheese, until it came out all crisp and melty. Then, choosing from the other toppings on offer, I added spinach, chopped onion, sliced cucumber and tomato, shredded carrot, a sprinkling of oregano, and a goodly squirt of olive oil. That was it!\nThis was an unusual combination for me. Most times, by reflex, I top \"whatever\" with shredded lettuce, tomato, black olive, and mayo and/or mustard. I tend to avoid onions and peppers because I know people are going to smell it on my breath later; and I pass on the pickles because the type served by fast-food restaurants tastes rancid to me.\nNo matter how virtuous I try to feel, however, I must admit to myself that my usual recipe does not really contain any good, veggie nutrients, except maybe a few vitamins from the tomato. And the taste is a boring same-old, same-old. It's actually gross when this standard combo is served at meetings, when the bread has had time to get tough/soggy and the vegetables have begun to wilt. Today my taste buds were surprised by exceptional flavor, while my body got vitamins it has probably been missing for a while.\nThree Book Reviews\nFaerie Lord\nby Herbie Brennan\nBook Four of the Faerie Wars Chronicles begins when a fairy princess named Blue asks a mortal boy named Henry to marry her. And it totally freaks him out.\nLife is complicated enough for Henry Atherton. His childhood best friend has a crush on him. His weak but nice father has a new girlfriend and doesn't have much time for him. His will and ambition are continually squashed by his snotty sister, his bossy mother, and her lesbian girlfriend. Three girls against one guy: Henry doesn't have a chance. Trapped by guilt and self-doubt, he has a vague, unfulfilling future ahead of him. But he's afraid to let go of it. And on some level, perhaps, he realizes that he doesn't have what it takes to reign beside the queen of the Faerie Realm, who also happens to be the queen of Hael (hell). No matter how much he loves her, Henry just isn't ready.\nTwo years later, however, a lot has changed. Queen Blue has grown into the power and majesty of her office. The demons of Hael have been liberated from enslavement, as Blue continues to pull together a new order in which Light and Dark Faeries, as well as her new demon subjects, form an integrated society. Her nemesis, Lord Hairstreak, has fallen on hard times. Henry is about to go off to University, and isn't sure he can take care of Mr. Fogarty's house and cat while the old ex-bank robber serves as Gatekeeper to the Faerie Realm. And now a plague has struck.\nThe temporal fever is a weird plague. It doesn't spread like a normal disease. It strikes young and old alike, making them age faster, eating up their future as their bodies pass through time on fast-forward. Henry's best friend, Blue's brother Pyrgus, has it. Mr. Fogarty is dying of it. And a strange prophecy suggests that Henry may find the cure for it... but only after going through an ordeal that could claim his life.\nHenry, his friends, and their enemies are all caught up in yet another complex web of plots, adventures, death traps, and struggles against mythical figures, ghastly monsters, and powers of heaven and hell. Henry journeys through strange countries, befriends weird and whimsical creatures, talks to a voice from beyond, and undertakes not one but two quests. His courage, strength, and love for Blue are all put to the test as they both rush toward the climax in which, by saving each other, they may save the world.\nThis is a fitting conclusion to a series full of dark horror, sparkling magic, thrills, romance, and surprises galore. Both Henry and Blue have grown up a lot since they first met in Faerie Wars. Their growth as characters, and the development of their relationship, finally fulfills its promise here. In fact, until partway through this book, one may find it hard to see what Blue sees in Henry. As the narrative jumps from one character's point of view to another, you will constantly be on the hook of suspense. And the ultimate riddle will keep you puzzling till the very end.\nHerbie Brennan, also known as J. H. Brennan, is the author of dozens of books, including children's picture books, horror novels, the eight-book Grail Quest series, and many non-fiction volumes on the occult.\nby Catherine Jinks\nRecommended Age: 14+\nEven at the age of seven, Cadel Piggott has the makings of an evil genius. His psychologist, Thaddeus Roth, spots it right away. Cadel's adoptive parents think he is getting counseling to cope with social adjustment problems; after all, the boy is hurtling through grade after grade, advancing ahead of students his age. But actually, Dr. Roth is encouraging Cadel to use his gifts to study systems, exploit their weaknesses, and bring them down.\nCadel's path of destruction begins with the Sydney rail system, then the roads. Soon he is sabotaging the social structure of his high school class. But it's all child's play until, at age 14, he has to choose a college. He chooses the Axis Institute, a program designed specially for Cadel by Dr. Roth and Cadel's biological father, the evil Phineas Darkkon, who has been pulling strings for the boy from a prison cell. The Axis Institute is so small that it offers only one degree program: World Domination.\nSurrounded by people studying assassination, biological warfare, forgery, embezzlement, misinformation, and the philosophy of pure evil, Cadel focuses his studies on computer science (a.k.a. infiltration). Worming his way into the computer files of the faculty and staff, Cadel finds out a lot about the motives of the bizarre and creepy people around him. By the time he realizes that he's just not evil enough to belong there, there seems to be no way out. No way, that is, except to bring the whole place down.\nCadel is a fascinating subject. Misguided from an early age, trained to accept crime on a massive scale as normal behavior, even brainwashed to believe that the survival of mankind depends on people like him seizing power, he nevertheless remains human, vulnerable, and basically decent. The spark of conscience in him, the capacity to love and a desire to be loved in return, grow and grow until he sees no choice but to escape from the clutches of his father, Dr. Roth, and the sinister staff of the Institute.\nBut he doesn't know his own strength, or his potential to do great harm without meaning to. When Cadel decides to blow a hole in the Axis Institue big enough to escape through, he sets off a conflagration even he did not foresee. The resulting carnage is both shocking and, at the same time, obscenely funny. It's the kind of dark comedy that may appeal to fans of Edward Bloor's Story Time, served up with an ironic, upside-down view of right and wrong reminiscent of Artemis Fowl. The only magic in it, however, is the magic of technology, the power of love, the strength of desperation, and the explosive effect of long-kept secrets revealed at just the right time. For more of the same, you may be interested in the sequel, Genius Squad. Jinks is the author of many other novels, including most recently The Reformed Vampire Support Group.\nFablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague\nby Brandon Mull\nIn Fablehaven, siblings Kendra and Seth found out that their grandparents' country estate is actually a secret preserve for magical creatures. Some of them are nice, some are nasty; in fact, Kendra barely saved her family, and the whole preserve, from being destroyed when some of the nasty creatures took control. In the sequel, Rise of the Evening Star, the kids averted a plot by the evil Society of the Evening Star to bring Fablehaven down. In so doing, Kendra found out that she has become \"fairykind,\" with a special bond to the magical folk that gives her unique powers.\nIn this third book in the series, Kendra's status as fairykind gets her invited to join the Knights of the Dawn, whose mission is to combat the Society of the Evening Star. She is immediately sent to a secret preserve in Arizona to help recover a magical talisman that must not fall into the wrong hands.\nBesides the danger involved in seeking an artifact surrounded by deadly traps and guarded by a fierce dragon, Kendra has other worries. For one, she suspects that the Captain of the Knights may be a traitor serving the Society. Giving him the artifact could bring the Society one step closer to their goal of opening the demon prison of Zzyzx. Meanwhile, back at Fablehaven, a plague of darkness has begun to spread, threatening to turn all the creatures of light to evil. When that happens, Fablehaven will fall.\nWith her fairykind powers, Kendra leads the battle of light against darkness. But she does not fight alone. She is aided by a visitor from the past, a friend she had thought lost forever, and her brother who has special powers of his own. An impressive army of satyrs, centaurs, nymphs, and fairies fight by her side; to say nothing of a huge golem and other strange and wonderful friends.\nBut even if she can overcome this greatest-ever threat to Fablehaven's survival, she will still have to face the ongoing puzzle of what the Sphinx is up to and how he can be stopped. And that, readers will be delighted to learn, is a matter for future books to take up. I would not want this to be the end of the exciting, magical, and fascinatingly original Fablehaven series. But I needn't worry. The fourth book, Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary, released late last month, promises even more suspense and supernatural adventure, and perhaps a bit of romance for Kendra.\nPosted by RobbieFish at 12:02 PM No comments:\nA Night to Sniff\nIt's a gorgeous night in St. Louis. Not too warm, not too cool; just a bit of a breeze; and the air is filled with a beautiful scent. Some widespread tree or shrub must be in bloom, its floral perfume approaching peak production. It's a perfect moment. Do have a sniff while it lasts, and rejoice! Spring is here, God is good, and tax day is drawing to a close!\nTie-In Stupidity\nFilm tie-ins are stupid, but they're an unalterable fixture in our commercial world. At least since Star Wars, no blockbuster family movie has been complete without a collectible toy, soft drink container, breakfast cereal, line of clothes or jewelry, video game, etc., etc., etc.\nSometimes I pity the suckers who are taken in by this stuff, like the kids who just had to have all the crappy trinkets tied in with the Twilight movie. At other times, I have to check my own desire to grab a piece of the memorabilia. I'm proud to say I have (mostly) resisted the temptation, even refusing the free poster I was entitled to after waiting in line at Borders for my release-day copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.\nMy greatest vulnerability, however, is the book tied in with a movie. If a movie is based on a book, and I know I'm going to watch it, I will often buy the book and read it first. Sometimes, if the book is based on the movie - a novelization of the screenplay - I'll read that too. Diane Duane's novelizations of the 1980s Star Trek films beguiled many of my teenaged hours, thrilling me with daring concepts that weren't even in the films. I was probably not even a teen when I read William Kotzwinkle's novelization of E.T., yet I still relish the memory of the alien's-point-of-view passages in that book and how they admiringly described Dee Wallace's character as having \"a nose like a based-in Brussels sprout.\"\nI have even bothered to review some film-tie-in novels, such as Millions (though whether it is a novelization of the film is debatable) and The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium (though it is only loosely connected to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium). I have also discovered some wonderful books after enjoying the movies based on them, though admittedly my reviews of those books may have been colored by memories of the films.\nFor example, a sharp-eyed reader had to correct me when I incorrectly gave \"Luke\" as the name of the main character in The Witches, a name revealed in the film but not in the book. Likewise, I had to step carefully in reviewing The Neverending Story because the movie had made a strong impression on my when I was a child, but I only discovered the book as an adult. Judging by how awfully some book-to-film adaptations turn out, it's probably a good policy that I read the book first. Otherwise, I might never have bothered after seeing the movie version of, say, Five Children and It; or, I might have felt let down by the spareness of the book compared to the souped-up glitz and glamor of the film, as in the ongoing Chronicles of Narnia movies.\nBut the full extent of the stupidity of movie/book tie-ins cannot be appreciated until you behold a book adapted from a movie that was, in turn, adapted from a book. The first time I noticed this phenomenon it had to do with Planet of the Apes. The original book by Pierre Boullé inspired a series of movies and TV programs a generation ago; Tim Burton filmed a 2001 remake; and a novelization of that screenplay was then published and sold alongside Boullé's original novel, to the confusion of would-be readers.\nThis is commercial stupidity at its most staggering. But the same kind of monkey-business is still going on. Recently I spotted a DVD of the movie based on Kate diCamillo's book The Tale of Despereaux, bundled with an audio-book recording of the \"junior novelization\" based on the screenplay. In other words, a children's book based on a movie based on an award-winning children's book. And the original book hasn't even been out that long; the first edition came out in 2003.\nNow, I have yet to read the original book. I plan to do so soon. I'm torn as to whether I want to touch the \"junior novelization.\" I can't think of a more effective way to screw up my personal visualization of the book. And I can't help but wonder why an author would consent to such a thing being done to her work. Perhaps she had no choice. Perhaps, in signing over the film rights, she also gave the studio the right to establish all kinds of movie tie-ins, all the way to replacing her novel with a film tie-in book that they own outright and can exploit as they see fit.\nI suppose this is no more cynical than Disney ransacking the Grimm Fairy Tales and, after turning many of them into animated films, disseminating storybooks based on their own version. Now, thanks to Disney, if you recite the names of the Seven Dwarfs (Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Grumpy, Bashful, and Doc), members of every generation now living can pick up on the cultural reference. They would probably be shocked and discomfited by the unfamiliarity of the tale as told by the Brothers Grimm. This bit of folklore has been irreversibly changed by passing through the filter of Walt Disney's 1936 film and his company's subsequent tie-ins.\nIs this wrong? Perhaps not. Perhaps it only seems sinister when you see it happening to an author who is still trying to live off her work.\nPosted by RobbieFish at 11:34 AM 2 comments:\nLabels: books, movies, stupidity\nOrdering the Middle Book\nI hate it when I have the first and last book of a trilogy, but can't find the middle book. Sometimes I don't realize this until I am already in the middle of reading it. Sometimes it means I don't dare start reading the trilogy until I can remedy the matter. And sometimes it takes years to complete the set.\nToday I placed a used book order online. Two out of five of the books I ordered are the second book in a trilogy of which I already own the first and third book.\nFirst there's Olivia Kidney Stops for No One, originally titled Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy, by Ellen Potter. It goes between Olivia Kidney, which I have already read, and Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City, which I recently picked up for peanuts. I had tried to get both sequels, but unfortunately my order for the second one was canceled when the supplier realized it wasn't in their inventory. So I'll have to wait a bit longer to find out what happens next! [EDIT: There is apparently also a book titled Olivia Kidney Hot on the Trail, but I don't know where it fits into this series. As far as I know, it might be an alternate title for one of the other books. This series is so confusing!]\nThen there's Johnny and the Dead, book 2 of the \"Johnny Maxwell Trilogy\" by Terry Pratchett. I have owned book 1, Only You Can Save Mankind, and book 3, Johnny and the Bomb, for ages; only I haven't wanted to read them without book 2 in hand. Now I can finally crack this series open!\nBut that's not all. I also bought Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken. It's not part of a trilogy as such. It's simply the first book in a long series of stories about a little British girl and her pet bird. I found out about it while reading one of the later books in the series, Arabel and Mortimer. Though I may not hunt down every title in this series - some of which seem to recycle previously published material - I felt that catching the beginning of the series might be worthwhile.\nPlus, I finally purchased the last book in Michael Lawrence's Withern Rise trilogy, titled The Underwood See. I had long since read the first two books, but while I waited for Book 3 to come out in paperback, all sign of it (hardcover included) disappeared from the local bookstores. It occurred to me that I could get it used or not at all. And really, I can still feel the \"hook\" at the end of book 2, Small Eternities.\nThe fifth book on my order was another Joan Aiken title, The Shoemaker's Boy. I just found out about it while going through Fantastic Fiction's list of titles by that author. There are plenty of other promising titles on that list, but one has to start somewhere, and this looked like a good starting place to me.\nLabels: books, stupidity\nFaust vs. Faust\nA couple years ago, we of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus sang the marvelous 8 Scenes from Faust by Hector Berlioz. This year - this week, in fact - we are performing his \"dramatic legend\" The Damnation of Faust. Later on I'll post a general review of the latter. For now, I only want to write about the difference between these two closely related pieces.\nThe 8 Scenes is a youthful work, composed in the heat of inspiration when the 25-year-old Berlioz had just discovered a French translation of Goethe's masterpiece. It was published at the composer's own expense as his Opus 1, and eventually reworked into the larger, more mature work some 20 years later.\nWe are very fortunate that Berlioz's attempts to suppress his first opus did not succeed. Not only in comparison with The Damnation of Faust but also on its own terms, it is a piece worth knowing. 8 Scenes is a flawed masterpiece, marked to be sure by its composer's immaturity and impetuosity (perhaps even coarseness), but also stamped with genius. Indeed, in its brash energy and immediate inspiration, one may prefer certain points in the 8 Scenes to their counterparts in the more mature and dramatically integrated Damnation. Berlioz gave with one hand, but often took away with the other.\nSome of the pieces from 8 Scenes were imported directly into Damnation with hardly any alteration. For example, No. 4, Brander's song about the rat, shows up in the Auerbachskeller scene where Mephisto introduces Faust to the pleasures of drunken revelry. Berlioz keeps the same quirky melody and the same refrain for the men's chorus. He only adds a mock-solemn \"Requiescat in pace\" as a final touch, and integrates it into the surrounding scene.\nLikewise, he faithfully transmits No. 5, Faust's song about the flea, only changing Faust from a tenor to a baritone. This is actually a very significant change, and I'm not talking merely about the tone-color of the solo voice. Among the most striking touches in the 8 Scenes was the casting of Mephistopheles as a tenor rather than a bass/baritone. In Damnation he reverts to the conventional casting of this role. One might say this change was necessary to make the larger work hold together dramatically. But one might also see in it the touch of a maturer and thus also more conservative hand. Is this an instance of the older Berlioz correcting an error of his younger self? Perhaps. But in correcting many such \"errors,\" he may also have bled the work of some of its originality and vibrancy. Plus, in my recording of The Damnation of Faust, baritone José van Dam opts to sing a lower melody on the fifth line of each stanza (\"Cruelle politique!\" in the last verse), rather than the more difficult but also more memorable high road. Making Mephisto a baritone came at a cost.\nAnother case in point: No. 2 of the 8 Scenes, the peasants' song and dance. Originally scored for a mezzo-soprano soloist, joined by the choir at the end of each verse for an explosion of mirth (\"Ha! Ha! Ha! Landerira\"), it reaches its final form in Scene 2 of The Damnation of Faust as a purely choral piece interspersed with comments by Faust. In working this number into his dramatic scheme, Berlioz really trashed it. First, he pulled the stanzas apart and stuffed the spaces between them with an unrelated, and in my opinion uninspired, peasant dance idea (\"Tra, la, la! Ho, ho!\"). Then he actually changed what had been an exquisite melody, lowering its effectiveness.\nIn the 8 Scenes version of this tune, the third line of each stanza is sung to a musical phrase that effortlessly combines asymmetry with a sense of careless rightness, and the melody of the fourth line highlights the rhythmic drive of the tune. In Damnation, the third line of the text is set, instead, to a longer and more balanced phrase that seems more mannered and less organically connected to the tune; while the fourth phrase exchanges its headlong directness and its punchy rhythm for a calmer phrase, repeated twice, in which the peasants seem to flourish their skirts. To my ear this is definitely a case of an older and more conservative composer rounding off the corners of a youthful piece, a piece that had been better left alone.\nThe Easter Hymn (No. 1 in 8 Scenes, Scene 4 in Damnation) also suffers, arguably, from the composer's second thoughts. In most details the two versions are identical. However, when the women's chorus joins the men for the second iteration of their hymn, the difference becomes clear. The mixed chorus writing in The Damnation of Faust is delicate and lovely, but tame when compared to the scrapped, earlier version. The women's voices merely form a part of the steadily moving choral texture in the later work, whereas in the 8 Scenes they contributed glowing cascades of notes, like strewn flower petals floating to the ground before the feet of an ecstatic religious procession. To know that sound is to love it, is to miss it when the elder Berlioz replaces it with a more modest (albeit exquisite) evocation of Gothic architecture.\nMarguerite's two numbers from the 8 Scenes - No. 6's ballad of the King of Thule and No. 7's desperate romance - seem to have crossed over to Damnation without much change. It is hard to imagine how Berlioz could have improved pieces of which one of my friends in the Symphony Chorus said something like, \"I'm often torn as to whether Berlioz was a genius or a charlatan, but after hearing these pieces I would forgive him anything.\"\nNo. 7, however, ends with the remarkable chorus of soldiers, accompanied by brass and drum signals and scored to sound like they marched up from the distance and faded out of earshot again. In the Damnation, this soldiers' chorus is split into two pieces. In the first instance, the soldiers sing their entire chorus without any hint of fading in or out, and without the brass-and-drum signals that made such an impressive accompaniment in the 8 Scenes. Then, in a tour-de-force of Berlioz's specialty of combining two melodies contrapuntally, the soldiers are joined by a crowd of university students singing a bawdy alma mater (\"Iam nox stellata\"). After introducing both songs separately, Berlioz combines them and brings them to a glorious finish.\nMuch later, both the soldiers' and the students' songs come in for a reprise at the end of Marguerite's romance. This time we do hear the brass and drums, and the marching singers do seem to fade away in the distance, while the heroine breathes a sigh of despair on realizing that Faust will not come to her. Here Berlioz achieves the fade-out effect more quickly and economically than in his first essay. But the price, for those of us who know and love the 8 Scenes, is the loss of the original setting of the soldiers' song with brass-and-drum accompaniment throughout.\nNo. 8 of 8 Scenes is perhaps an artifact of Berlioz's youthful vigor at its most awkward. Mephisto's serenade is a gorgeous melody showcasing the full range of the tenor's voice, and it really sounds nice when accompanied by nothing but a solo guitar. But as a conclusion to the 8 Scenes it is undeniably anticlimactic; so much so that, when the SLSO performed it under Pinchas Steinberg a few years ago, we moved it up ahead of No. 7. Though one hearing the guitar version might wish in one's heart to hear an orchestral setting of the serenade, the fulfillment of that wish in The Damnation of Faust comes, again, at a cost. Having changed Mephisto from a tenor to a baritone, Berlioz replaces the guitar with pizzicato strings and woodwind flourishes; he even adds parts for the men's chorus. All these touches are nice in their way, but in transposing the piece downward Berlioz also sacrifices some of the yearning intensity of the tenor version.\nFinally, there is the sextet of sylphs, No. 3 in 8 Scenes from Faust and part of Scene 7 in The Damnation of Faust. Which version is better? This case is a split decision if there ever was one. The 8 Scenes version is scored for six soloists taken from the chorus; the chorus itself, or at least a semichorus, is to sing the final version. By using the full chorus, the elder Berlioz risked sacrificing some of the clarity of articulation demanded by this fiendishly tricky piece; but it was arguably a worthwhile risk, since the chorus is better able to invest the whispery iterations of \"De sites ravissants,\" etc., with a soothing murmur and a suggestion of insect-like buzzing. Plus, in rewriting the sextet, the more mature composer brought greater economy to bear. The piece becomes more tightly constructed, clocking in a good 25% shorter than the first version.\nOn the other hand, some of the alterations are no improvement. Though recognizable as a version of the same piece, the later version needlessly alters and/or dispenses with perfectly serviceable passages from the original sextet. Listen to both pieces side-by-side, and you will very likely spot bits from each that you prefer over their counterparts in the other. I particularly liked the chromatically descending lines toward the end of the sextet in 8 Scenes, which suggested to my mind the dripping of a drugged nectar onto Faust's slumbering lips. I also find it fascinating to compare the different settings of the faster section (\"Là, de chants d'allégresse,\" etc.), in a major key in the 1826 version and in a minor key in the 1846 version. Both pieces are wonderful to witness, and I grieve for some of the 8 Scenes touches that didn't make it into the Damnation version, but overall I think this is one piece that did benefit from the attentions of the hoary head.\nWhich is better: 8 Scenes from Faust or The Damnation of Faust? It's a complex question. Without the one, we would not have the other. In many ways, I feel the original pieces from 8 Scenes surpass their later incarnation in Damnation. But in revisiting his youthful pieces, Berlioz did tighten them up and intelligently integrated them into an larger dramatic structure. And all that goes without even mentioning the numerous additional numbers, many of them for the chorus, with which he rounded out the later work.\nI have made it through few waking hours during the past weeks without thinking of the drinkers' chorus from the top of Scene 6. I can't help but snicker impiously at the wry \"Amen\" fugue improvised by the same drinkers after Brander's song. And near the end of the \"dramatic legend,\" we visit hell and heaven in that order, experiencing Pandemonium (complete with incomprehensible lyrics sung to a devilish anthem and a demonic waltz) as well as the apotheosis of Marguerite (with the choir of angels ending the whole work by singing, \"Come! Come!\"). But I'm getting ahead of myself. You'll hear more about all that in a few days.\nStewardship: A Unified Theory\nLast night I was gossiping with a couple of Lutheran friends, and I caught myself grousing about the way today's church sticks its fingers into people's pockets. It's as if everything the church does reduces down to an appeal for money. One can certainly come away from the average \"stewardship message\" with the idea that \"stewardship\" equates with \"contributing money to the church.\"\nNow, good Christian stewardship will most often involve contributing money to the church. But the equation \"stewardship equals putting dollars in the collection plate\" is false. The word \"stewardship,\" in the biblical sense, covers a great deal more. It means that everything we have, we have received. Every ability we possess, every right we enjoy, every freedom we exercise, every relationship we partake in, all our possessions, powers, and privileges, are gifts from God and properly belong to Him. He gives them to us in trust; He can take them away from us at any time.\n\"Stewardship\" means the freedom we have, as trusted servants, to use the Lord's things as if they belonged to us - knowing that we must one day give an account. \"Stewardship\" is a daily exercise of our faith in the One who provides us with all that we need: an exercise that both demonstrates our faith and strengthens it. God-pleasing, accountable, Christian stewardship is that use of our Lord's gifts which best glorifies Him and serves our neighbor. It is, in short, an act of faithful love.\nClearly, there's a lot more going on in Christian stewardship than \"putting money in the collection plate.\" Maybe for many Christians that's a good place to start practicing the spiritual discipline of stewardship. We care so much about our money: how to earn it, how to stretch it to cover our present and future needs, how to enjoy its abundance, how to cope with its scarcity. We have bills; we have debts; we have taxes and, hopefully, tax returns. To turn over a significant proportion of our earnings to the church may seem a big enough challenge to our faith. But make no mistake: it is an act of faith. It is a confession that God has provided, and a gesture of trust that He will continue to provide.\nBut that is not where the dollars in the offering basket most nearly touch the heart of the matter. For those same dollars are also an investment in preserving the ministry of Word and Sacrament, in spreading the Gospel, and in instructing the young in faith (whether they be old or young in years). The same gift, returned in part to Him who first gave it, is an exercise in locating our most cherished treasure not in our bank account, or in our investment portfolio, or in any earthly property, but in the Kingdom of God.\nThe dollars, time, and energy we deliver to the church are acts of stewardship mainly because they tear our devotion away from earthly things, and develop in us an appetite for heavenly things. For the true, lasting treasures are not earthly but heavenly, not visible but spiritual, not perishable but eternal. The best gifts of God, and therefore also the best stewardship, are concerned with these heavenly, spiritual, eternal treasures: namely, the grace of God in Christ, His forgiveness, His presence, His dwelling in us here and our dwelling with Him forever.\nGod has poured all these treasures into His Word and Sacrament. Through this ministry we catch men and haul them into God's kingdom, making disciples by baptizing and teaching them according to His Word. From this ministry we continually receive the forgiveness we need to cover our sinful lapses and to give us courage in the hour of spiritual trial and, ultimately, death. To this ministry we therefore supply all that we can afford, not only in monetary gifts but also in our arts and industry, our prayer and submission, our time and energy, even in some cases devoting a lifelong career to it.\nWe make these sacrifices because, of all acts of worship we could render to Him, nothing pleases God more than our receiving His gifts. We make these offerings because we trust Him to supply us in every earthly need, and because we value our heavenly treasures more highly. We give these gifts because, as stewards, we recognize that He has already given us so much, and because in respect to His Kingdom we want Him to enrich us with all His fullness.\nHaving made a big noise about biblical hermeneutics in this blog, I had better be able to back all this up with Scripture, soundly interpreted. Fortunately, I can. First, let's study the word \"stewardship\" as the New Testament uses it. Then, let's look at the concept of \"stewardship\" as Jesus and the apostles described it.\nNew Testament forms of the word \"steward\" occur only 12 times in the old King James Version, 15 in the New KJV, 15 in the old RSV, 12 in the New RSV, 14 in the NASB translation, 8 times in the ESV, and never in the NIV.\nLuke 8:3 describes Chuza, the husband of Joanna (a female disciple of Jesus) as Herod's steward: which is to say, a high-ranking servant with responsibility over his master's property and business affairs; a manager, an administrator. John 2:8-9, in some translations, uses the word \"steward\" to describe the servant in charge of the wine at a wedding feast. We can take these literal uses of the word as a reference point for understanding the figurative sense in which the New Testament speaks of \"stewardship.\"\nIn Luke 12:42-48, Jesus uses the words \"steward\" and \"slave\" interchangeably in a parable about the administration of the church. The steward is that slave whom the master makes responsible for the other slaves. His proper task is to feed them their rations in due time, not to beat them or to live the high life on their food and drink. When the master returns, he will reward the steward who does the former, and will punish him who does the latter - all the more so if he has knowingly disobeyed.\nThis parable seems to speak of the holy ministry and its brief to \"feed\" the church until Christ returns. Blessed is the minister who uses his stewardship of God's gifts in Christ to nourish us spiritually. Woe to the minister who uses ditto to lord it over us or to enrich himself; woe to him especially if he knows better.\nIn 1 Corinthians 4:1-2, St. Paul speaks of himself and other ministers of the Gospel (see chapter 3 for context) as \"servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God\"; stewards who, moreover, must be found faithful. Again in 1 Corinthians 9:16 ff., Paul describes the preaching of the Gospel as a stewardship. He does not boast about it because it is laid on him as a necessity. If one serves the Word willingly, the work is its own reward; if unwillingly, it is as one \"entrusted with a stewardship,\" neither enriching oneself nor abusing one's power.\nIn Ephesians 3:2, Paul speaks of \"the stewardship of God's grace which was given to me for you.\" In Colossians 1:24-29, Paul says he became a minister of the church \"according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God...striving according to His working which works in me mightily.\" Once more, in Titus 1:7 ff., Paul requires that a bishop (pastor) be, among other things, \"a steward of God.\"\nSt. Peter urges Christians to minister to one another, each according to his gifts, as \"stewards of the manifold grace of God\" (1 Peter 4:10). In verse 11 he makes it clear that he is speaking in the context of a church service, as in preaching the Word (\"speaking the oracles of God\") and conducting the liturgy. This seems to be complementary to Paul's exhortation in 2 Timothy 2:24 that \"the Lord's bondservant\" be \"able to teach.\"\nA word translated as \"steward\" appears in Galatians 4:2 in the sense of a regent or guardian who holds an inheritance in trust until the rightful heir comes of age. Paul likens the Law to such a steward, before the coming of Christ. Except for this instance and the cases of Chuza (Luke 8) and the wedding butler (John 2), the word \"steward\" in the New Testament always seems to have some connection with the eternal, spiritual, heavenly gifts of God's Kingdom in Christ; it could even be argued that the New Testament uses \"steward\" as a title for the pastoral office. But the crucial case remains to be examined.\nIn Luke 16:1-13 we find another parable about a steward: the dishonest or unrighteous manager who, having been denounced for squandering his master's property, was about to have his stewardship taken away. What did this man do to protect his future? He went around to his master's debtors and forgave some of their debts, using his authority as steward to make binding deals on his master's behalf. His master then praised him for his shrewdness!\nThis parable of the \"unrighteous steward\" is often the text (or pretext) for a \"stewardship message.\" But when interpreted as \"Christ's principles on how Christians should manage their money,\" it is a very perplexing text. Verses 9-13 come off as a string of loosely related proverbs rather than an application of the parable, which is how they seem to have been intended; while, if they are application, they seem to make the parable signify monstrous and bizarre things.\nFor several years, I have held that this parable is not Jesus' treatise on the ethics of fiscal stewardship. In an essay that I really thought I had blogged (but I can't find it now), I wrote that in Luke 16, Jesus is talking about the ministry again. When the dishonest steward gave his master's word to those debtors, he bound the master with his own word. Likewise, when the minister of God's gifts forgives your sins in Jesus' name and on the authority of God's Word, you can be certain that God will not go back on it - even though that minister is imperfect and sinful himself.\nPartly I was guided by the context of the surrounding verses. The parables of the lost sheep (Luke 15:4-7), the lost coin (15:8-10), and the lost son (15:11-32) are all about God's readiness to forgive every sinner who repents. Indeed, Jesus claims that God is pleased with sinners who seek His grace rather than with righteous people who live by observing the Law. In the previous two chapters, Jesus had used a variety of examples to illustrate how the Jews of His time, due to their literalistic and legalistic application of God's Law, would miss out on His Kingdom while the heathens, who had no righteous works to their credit, would inherit instead. And in the verses following the parable of the dishonest steward, Luke 16:15 ff., Jesus warns against justifying oneself by works, urging all people rather to receive His gifts in humble faith. In 17:1-4 He instructs us to forgive each other tirelessly rather than causing one another to stumble (by withholding forgiveness) and thus incurring God's wrath on ourselves. In 17:6-10 He puts obedience to God's Law in its proper relationship to faith: a believer seeks no favor or reward for his obedience, but renders it freely as what is due to a just and loving God.\nSo the parable of the dishonest servant stands in the center of an extended discourse that contrasts faith (the receiving of Christ's holy gifts, which alone pleases God) with works (seeking to be justified by obedience to Law, which turns the best deeds into deadly sin). Why, then, would Jesus suddenly, and for this one parable only, choose to instruct us in the correct use of our finances? It isn't merely that the standard interpretation of this parable makes no sense. It actually militates against the clear sense of the surrounding passages. And it turns verses 16:9-13 into a litany of non sequitur epigrams, connected only by a general topic of stewardship and their position in the text.\nAn interpretation of this passage more in keeping with its context and the analogy of faith (i.e., all that Scripture teaches about stewardship) also happens to make verses 16:1-13 work as a unit. Jesus is not, in fact, teaching us about money. When has he ever said anything about money that wasn't, after all, an analogy to the Kingdom of God? When has Jesus ever put a value on money, except in contrast to the imperishable, spiritual, heavenly treasures? This case is no different. In the parable of the dishonest steward, Jesus is instructing us to forgive one another as we would be forgiven by God. See also Matthew 5:21-26; 6:14-15; 18:15-20.\nIn Luke 16:8, Jesus begins his application of the parable by explaining why the master praised his steward's shrewdness: \"For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.\" This is a statement that causes endless difficulty in interpretation. I propose that all this difficulty can be cleared up by understanding the unspoken words that logically belong at the end of the sentence: \"in their generation.\" It is a completely balanced thought: the children of this world are wiser in applying the things that pertain to this age than the children of God's kingdom are in regard to its gifts. The sons of this age make better use of their \"unrighteous mammon\" (16:9) than do the sons of light with regard to their eternal, spiritual, heavenly treasures in Christ.\nIf a crooked little weasel like the steward in Luke 16 knows how to apply his master's good name and authority to forgive debts to his own advantage, how much more could Christians achieve by means of the authority to forgive sins? If a dishonest manager can thus make a place for himself in the homes of his ex-master's debtors, why can't we believing sinners make peace with each other by handing around little morsels of the boundless forgiveness God has granted to us? To our everlasting shame, we \"children of light\" are not so clever in using our treasures as the \"children of this world\" are in using of theirs.\nJesus says in Luke 16:10, \"He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.\" Our chief gift, our highest treasure, is God's forgiveness. Our debts toward each other are \"the least\" compared to our debt toward God (\"much\"). Can we expect to be forgiven in much if we do not forgive each other in the least? We are stewards of all God's gifts in Christ, the greatest gift being His forgiveness. Will this stewardship not be taken from us unless we share it with each other? Such lack of forgiveness would be unfaithful stewardship indeed. It would mean failing to properly use what God has given us, or to return even a small part of it to Him. It would mean failing to confess and exercise that faith which holds His forgiveness to be a good and abundant gift. It would be living not in accord with the Gospel, but in ruthless adherence to the spirit of the Law. It would be inviting the fate of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18:21-35 (another parable richly complementary to this one).\nIn Luke 16:9, Jesus issues the at first perplexing advice, \"Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.\" One may be immediately tempted to interpret it thus: \"If you throw enough money around, you might attract more people to your church, people who will be happy to see you when you arrive in heaven.\" But the context is crucial here. There is nothing in this parable to suggest that Jesus could be talking about \"spreading money around.\" Rather, he has been talking about forgiving debts. Within the church, among the \"sons of light,\" that translates to holding no debts against each other, considering everything you own to be the common possession of all, willingly parting with anything your Christian brother or sister needs so that you may be built up together as living stones in an eternal, spiritual house. See also Matthew 10:8; Acts 2:44-45; 20:35; 2 Peter 2:5. The fact that this has never worked out in practice bears witness that the sons of this world are indeed shrewder, etc.\nIn Luke 16:11-12, Jesus continues his application of the above parable with two parallel questions. \"If you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own?\" In both, notice what is being asked: not whether one has earned much, or given much, but whether one has been faithful. Notice, too, that the first question contrasts \"unrighteous mammon\" (filthy lucre) with \"the true riches,\" i.e. the grace of God in Christ. And notice how the second question changes the contrast from terms of \"earthly treasure vs. heavenly treasure\" to \"stewardship vs. ownership.\"\nWhat Jesus is asking, then, is first: \"How can you handle God's gift of forgiveness when you can't even use His material blessings as a faithful steward? What use can God's grace be to you, when your conduct regarding food, clothing, money, etc., shows neither awareness that He has provided them nor trust that he will continue to do so?\" And secondly, Jesus is asking: \"If you live this life without faith or trust toward God, how can you expect to receive an eternal inheritance?\"\nHere the concepts of faith as \"receiving\" and trust as \"relying\" get mixed up with the concepts of faith as \"reliability\" and trust as \"holding on behalf of the rightful owner.\" In this life we can be but stewards, by faith, of the gifts and treasures of the Kingdom to Come. But when it comes, when the dead are raised and when heaven and earth are renewed, we will inherit that Kingdom and take full ownership. The latter cannot come without the former. By trusting in God's promises (forgiveness etc.), we now hold their present fulfillment in trust, like guardians of an heir who has yet to come of age; but we also confidently hope to own it outright when we ourselves inherit it in the rebirth of all things. With that faith which believes and receives God's gifts, comes the Spirit to deal \"in good faith\" with them; that is, to be good stewards of them.\nWe need the gift of faith from God. In good faith, we constantly use the gifts He faithfully pours out through Word and Sacrament, especially His forgiveness, so that we may be built up in faith. As disciples of Jesus, we are ready to devote every earthly blessing, every shred of \"unrighteous mammon,\" of which we are stewards in this life, to preserving and spreading the eternal treasures in which we trust and which we now hold in trust. As Paul says in Philippians 3:7, we are ready to spend and/or lose all things (pertaining to this world) in order to gain Christ and the inheritance of the sons of light. (See also Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:12). That is why \"stewardship\" can so easily be confused with \"giving money to the church.\" As true Christian stewards, we must realize that the church's ministry and witness is our most precious treasure; we can afford to lose anything but that, and will give up whatever is necessary to keep that one thing needful (Luke 10:42).\nThere are other passages that, without using the word \"steward,\" provide additional insight to the concept of stewardship. Those familiar with \"stewardship messages\" may especially recall the parables of the Minas (Luke 19:12-17) and Talents (Matthew 25:14-30). In fact, I reckon that today's common understanding of the word \"talent\" to mean \"a special ability\" arises from the use of the coins in the latter parable as a metaphor for the work each of us can do for the Kingdom of God, according to his or her ability. The ability to forgive one's neighbors, however, is inherent in being a sinner who lives by God's forgiveness. I have already cited Matthew 5, where Jesus admonishes Christians not even to come to God for forgiveness unless we have already made peace with each other. To do so would come perilously close to tempting God (Matthew 4:7). And as the Minas & Talents show, to bury this gift from God and try to live without it is to invite a terrible judgment.\nJesus gives us Luke 16:13 as a final conclusion to his unjust-steward parable in order to remove any possibility that we might mistake his intentions in verses 9 and 11. \"No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.\" Jesus does not want us to be disciples of money. Nor does he want us to go and make disciples of money. We should not even try to split our loyalty between Christ and money. So He is certainly not advising us to run the church like the Temple of Mammon it so frequently resembles these days.\nThe church's job is not to grow or succeed. The church's job is to be faithful and to make disciples. We, as members of the church, do this not by spending or making money, but by receiving God's perfect gifts through the ministry of Word and Sacrament, and by sacrificing all that we can afford (!) to preserve and spread that ministry. As we live in faithful stewardship of God's boundless gift of forgiveness, we forgive one another daily and hourly. And whatever we give to the church, we give to no one's glory but God's, expecting no reward, but offering only what is due to our Lord and Provider, and trusting Him to supply all that we lack.\nLabels: hermeneutics, theology\nSekisui Pacific Rim\nPraying to be Published\nRein in the Tackiness\nMeeting of the Blogs"
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        "text": "Turkey’s TIKA awards $150,000 grant to help alleviate rural poverty in Latin America\nWAHINGTON DC (September 19)\nThe Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA) grant award of $150,000 (USD) to Strategies for International Development (SID) a DC-based not-for-profit that helps alleviate rural poverty in Central and South America. This is the first time TIKA has awarded a grant to a country in Latin America.\nIn honor of this grant, Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) organized a reception that was held on Capitol Hill in the House Natural Resources Committee Hearing Room where Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan gave remarks.\n“TCA is thrilled to bring these two organizations together to help reduce rural poverty, and make a difference in the lives of families in Latin America,” said G. Lincoln McCurdy, president of TCA. “I am also grateful to Congressman Henry Cuellar, a member of both the Hispanic and Turkey Caucuses, and to Esther Aguilera, President and CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute for their letters of appreciation for this worthy grant.”\nSID hosted a dinner following the reception. Guests attending these events included: Members of Congress Virginia Foxx and Ed Whitfield, Co-Chairs of the Turkey Caucus; Chairman of the Hispanic Caucus and Institute Ruben Hinojosa; Jim Moran; and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.\n“TIKA looks forward to establishing collaborative opportunities with Latin American countries to address challenges and priorities specific to this region. Thanks to our partners, the Turkish Coalition of America and Strategies for International Development, we have made a contribution to local farmers in Guatemala, Peru, and Bolivia. I believe this project will be very fruitful and is a significant step toward strengthening friendly relations and cooperation between Turkey and these countries, “ said Harun Tuncer, deputy president of the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA)\nAbout / Künye"
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        "text": "Q: Continuing pages in Page Layout Document in Pages I have a Page Layout document in Pages currently. Is there a way to convert part of the document into \"word processing\" mode where when you run out of room on one page, it automatically creates a new page?\n\nA: Someone has to give you the bad news: \nYou can't. You have to copy/paste and re-edit again in the other mode. When you create a new pages document, you have to wisely chose the one that suits you best. You can’t go back and forth between them nor mix the types in the same document. \nSad but true. ;) \n"
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        "text": "Stories indexed with the term ‘seventh hour’\nColumn: The Case for Free Public Schools\nBy Ruth Kraut\nEarlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan – along with two plaintiffs – filed suit against the Ann Arbor Public Schools for the school district’s plan to charge students who want to take a seventh class in a semester.\nRuth Kraut\nThe lawsuit argues that the Michigan Constitution requires a free public education for all Michigan students, and that charging for a seventh hour is unconstitutional. Kary Moss, ACLU of Michigan executive director, outlined the position in an ACLU press release: “Allowing this model to continue will open the floodgates for any district in the state to charge for every conceivable part of their students’ education creating a two-tiered system in which students who have money get ahead, while those who do not fall behind.”\nIn early June, I wrote my first column for The Chronicle, about three aspects of the AAPS budget proposal. [\"Column: Disparate Impact of AAPS Cuts?\"] One of the areas I wrote about was seventh hour, a term that refers to the option of taking a seventh class during a semester, rather than the more standard six classes.\nI was concerned about issues of equity – about Skyline students being able to acquire 7.5 credits in a year without paying, while Pioneer and Huron students could only earn 6 credits in a year for free. I was concerned about students losing access to the arts. I was concerned about disparate impacts.\nI assumed that – as with many other proposals – this idea was poorly conceived, but legal.\nA couple of days after my column was published in The Chronicle, I talked with the ACLU’s Kary Moss. (Full disclosure: Kary is a friend of mine, and we frequently discuss education issues. And that first Ann Arbor Chronicle column ended up as “Exhibit 4” in the ACLU complaint.)\nKary suggested to me that she was concerned about seventh hour, too – because she believed the move to charge tuition was unconstitutional.\nUnconstitutional?! That thought had not even occurred to me. [Full Story]\nColumn: Disparate Impact of AAPS Cuts?\nEditor’s note: This marks the launch of a new column in The Chronicle, focused on Ann Arbor Public Schools and other educational issues. Readers might know Ruth Kraut from her commentary on Ann Arbor Schools Musings, where she’s been writing about these issues for several years. For recent background on The Chronicle’s coverage of AAPS, see “Milestone: Why You Keep Running a Marathon.”\nNext week, the board of the Ann Arbor Public Schools will need to cut about 5% from the district’s budget. That’s a reduction of about $8.6 million. Teachers have already taken a 3% pay cut.\nPer-pupil funding for next year ($9,025) will be less than the per-pupil funding of 12 years ago in 2001-2002 ($9,034). So it’s no surprise that we’re at the point where cuts are painful. Cutting teachers, cutting programs – none of it is happy news. There will be consequences. The question is, what kind of consequences?\nIn the civil rights world, a “disparate impact” occurs when a policy is non-discriminatory in its intent but affects a “protected class” of people in a disproportionate way. In Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, for example, these protected classes include race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, and marital status.\nAAPS is a district with a large achievement gap – between white students and African American and Hispanic/Latino students. And this gap has persisted for many years. Although in state civil rights law, income is not a protected status, income is highly correlated with race, age, and marital status. District-wide, there is also an achievement gap that is related to income: Poor kids are more likely to do poorly in school.\nSo it’s important to consider the AAPS budget from a perspective of potential disparate impacts. On the surface, the proposed budget cuts treat all students equally. But if we look deeper, would we find that certain budget cuts worsen – or perhaps improve – the achievement gap?\nThree proposed budget cuts have raised a significant amount of opposition this year: (1) eliminating high school transportation; (2) cutting reading intervention teachers; and (3) cutting seventh hour or making it a tuition-only option. Together, these three account for just under $1.5 million of the $8.6 million in cuts. Do these cuts, in particular, have a disparate impact on any groups? [Full Story]"
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        "text": "Metodo 3 are the Spanish private investigators hired by the Madeleine Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited. Based in Barcelona, they were hired at a cost of 50,000 per month soon after the McCanns fled Portugal and returned to England.\nFrancisco Marco Fernández is also a specialist in IT law and he has a Master’s in corporation law. He is both a lawyer and a private detective.\nHe has written a wealth of doctrinal articles on the subject of private investigation, its legislation and jurisprudence.\nHis doctoral thesis is entitled “Private detectives and the right to privacy”.\nEver since he was young, he has shown a great interest in all things related with private investigation, its legislation, the company – detective relationship and the figure of the detective in Spain.\nSeveral of his works on these subjects have been published. He is the author of “Código de Seguridad Privada” (“Private Security Code”), co-written with the Professor of Criminal Law, Fermín Morales Prats, and published by Aranzadi. The manual he compiled entitled “El Control en la Empresa” (“Control of the Company”) has also been published.\nFrancisco Marco may have a string of impressive credentials to his name but his big blunder in the McCann Case was his claim that he knew where Madeleine was and that he would have her home by Christmas 2007."
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        "text": "Annie Percik\nProcessing Winchester\nWinchester Writers’ Festival is an amazing opportunity.\nHundreds of writers of all types to meet and talk to. Workshops, talks, panels and presentations on all aspects of the craft and the industry. And, most importantly, submitting your work to agents and getting face-to-face feedback.\nI did not get an agent at Winchester, but then I wasn’t expecting to. One agent told me he gets 2000 submissions a year and signs maybe four new authors.\nWhat Winchester did for me was to teach me important things about myself and what I want from my writing, which made it an extremely valuable experience.\nI saw four agents over two days, and they all gave me detailed and constructive feedback, for which I’m very grateful. But it was also wildly contradictory, which made the whole thing quite baffling.\nStill, the opening to my first workshop of the weekend was:\nThere are no absolutes in publishing.\nAnd most of publishing is wholly subjective.\nI learned from sending my first draft out to about fifteen readers that people respond very differently to fiction. If they all highlight the same issue, then you’ve got a problem you need to fix. But if they violently disagree on whether or not particular things work, you’ve got something that at least some people are going to love.\nThe same thing, of course, applies to agent feedback. Contradictory advice on what ‘needs’ changing or improving suggests that there are some agents out there that will love my novel just as it is, and it’s simply a case of finding the right one.\nMy last workshop of the weekend reinforced that principle, by repeating the age-old advice - the only way to get published is to persevere. Keep sending your work out until you find that one person who’s going to believe in your novel as much as you do.\nBut it’s not that simple. Sure, there was one writer at that workshop who said she’d sent her novel out to 300+ agents over the course of five years, and eventually landed a two-book deal from a publisher a couple of weeks ago. I’m amazingly impressed with her staying power, and I’m delighted for her that it eventually paid off. But there was a another writer I met, who got an agent at Winchester last year, but whose book still hadn’t sold to a publisher a year on, so she was back with a different book to try and find a different agent.\nFinding an agent is only the first (very difficult) step in a long and complicated process that involves a huge amount of work, revision, patience, self-marketing and conviction. And, even with a publishing deal, there are certainly no guarantees of success.\nFor those who are prepared to go through that, and put the work in - I salute you and wish you all the luck in the world.\nBut I have decided that the traditional publishing route is not for me. At least not right now.\nI don’t know yet what I’m going to do with my novel. In a few months’ time, I may come back to it, do another pass, maybe send it out to some small independent presses, or bite the bullet and self-publish, just to get it out there in the world. Time will tell.\nIn the meantime, I’m going to focus on my short fiction, which I love writing, and which I know I can sell. The defining moment of my weekend at Winchester came during Friday’s dinner, when I got an email from a print magazine, saying they want to publish my favourite short story I’ve written in the last couple of years - for more than twice what I’ve been paid for my short fiction before. It made me so happy, and it showed me where my passion and my writing future lies - at least for now. I’m not out to be famous or make lots of money from my writing. I just want to enjoy the process and see my work in print every now and then. And that’s okay.\nSo, thank you to the Winchester Writers’ Festival for helping me figure out what I want.\nNovel,\nRead more in...\nWeeknotes - S03E28 - The End is Nigh!\nThe end is definitely in sight for the Colours first draft and I had lots of interesting and useful writing experiences this week.\nDebunking Writing Myths\nMy article about Debunking Writing Myths is included in Palm-Sized Press Vol. 1.\nYou can get a copy here.\nWhat If It's No Good?\nMy friend Charlie, who co-runs the Six Month Novel Programme, has a mantra for the writers she helps. When writing a first draft, give yourself permission to be \"gloriously craptastic\". The most important thing is to get the words down on the page. You can edit later. Because, if you get caught up in doubts, or a desire for unattainable perfection, you’ll never get through it. It’s better to have a flawed thing that exists than a shining masterpiece that only lives in your head.\nWeeknotes - S03E27 - Doing the Bare Minimum\nNot a huge amount of time, energy or motivation this week, but still some progress. I think sending Artisan off to the publisher last weekend had a knock-on effect on my desire to work hard this week!\nWeeknotes - S03E26 - The Waiting Begins Again\nOnly two writing days this week, but a major milestone passed, as Artisan has now gone back to the publisher!\nWeeknotes - S03E25 - It Takes Some Grit\nI have a schedule now for completing Colours by my deadline. Two scenes per writing session. Every session so far, I have started by rewriting my schedule to see if I can give myself the excuse of not doing that day’s scenes. Then I have taken myself to task, knuckled down, and actually produced them with very little problem in a very short amount of time. Sometimes, you need a stick.\nHour of Writes\n© 2016 Annie Percik | Web design by Domnic Danson, Studio 359"
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        "text": "19 февруари е 50-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 315 дни до края на годината (316 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n На този ден слънчевите лъчи огряват четирите статуи на Птах, Ра-Хоракти, Рамзес II и Амон-Ра, намиращи се във вътрешността на храма в Абу Симбел. Този феномен се наблюдава и на 21 октомври.\n 356 г. – Константин Велики заповядва да се затворят всички езически храмове в Римската империя.\n 1199 г. – С була на папа Инокентий III е признат новият духовно-рицарски орден – Тевтонският орден.\n 1861 г. – С манифест на император Александър II в Русия е премахнато крепостничеството.\n 1878 г. – Американецът Томас Едисон патентова фонографа.\n 1882 г. – Град Хаджиоглу Пазарджик е преименуван на град Добрич чрез указ на княз Александър Батенберг\n 1886 г. – По стар стил: Сръбско-българската война: След приключване на войната е сключен Букурещки договор между България и Сърбия.\n 1910 г. – Открит е Олд Трафорд – стадионът на един от най-големите английски клубове – Манчестър Юнайтед. Съоръжението е с капацитет 80 000 места и става най-големият стадион на Острова.\n 1915 г. – Първа световна война: Започва Битката за Галиполи.\n 1924 г. – Персийският шах Ахмад е свален от престола.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: Японската авиация напада град Даруин, Австралия.\n 1943 г. – Втора световна война: В Тунис започва Битката при прохода Касерин.\n 1949 г. – Политическият кръг „Звено“ престава да съществува самостоятелно и се влива в Отечествения фронт\n 1951 г. – В София се състои премиера на първия антифашистки филм „Тревога“ (по пиеса на Орлин Василев, сцен. Анжел Вагенщайн, реж. Захари Жендов).\n 1963 г. – СССР се съгласява да изтегли войските си от Куба.\n 1986 г. – Космическа програма на СССР: В околоземна орбита е изстреляна космическата станция Мир – първата изследователска станция за дълго обитаване.\n\n 1992 г. – С указ на президента за Главен прокурор на България е назначен Иван Татарчев.\n 2002 г. – Космическият апарат на НАСА Марс Одисий започва мисията по картографиране на повърхността на Марс.\n 2003 г. – Самолет Ил-76 на иранските авиолинии катастрофира над Шахдад (Иран), загиват 275 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1473 г. – Николай Коперник, полски астроном († 1543 г.)\n 1743 г. – Луиджи Бокерини, италиански композитор († 1705 г.)\n 1792 г. – Родерик Мърчисън, английски геолог († 1871 г.)\n 1812 г. – Зигмунт Крашински, полски поет († 1859 г.)\n 1821 г. – Август Шлайхер, германски езиковед († 1868 г.)\n 1859 г. – Сванте Август Арениус, шведски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1903 г. († 1927 г.)\n 1861 г. – Рачо Петров, български офицер († 1942 г.)\n 1865 г. – Свен Хедин, шведски изследовател († 1952 г.)\n 1875 г. – Димо Хаджидимов, бъгарски революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1876 г. – Константин Брънкуш, румънски скулптор († 1957 г.)\n 1879 г. – Анхел Кабрера, испански зоолог († 1960 г.)\n 1881 г. – Константин Соларов, български военен деец († 1959 г.)\n 1896 г. – Андре Бретон, френски писател († 1966 г.)\n 1896 г. – Кирил Янчулев, български военен деец († 1961 г.)\n 1897 г. – Йордан Стубел, български поет († 1952 г.)\n 1899 г. – Асен Даскалов, български революционер († 1925 г.)\n 1900 г. – Георгиос Сеферис, гръцки писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. († 1971 г.)\n 1906 г. – Борис Попов, български политик († 1994 г.)\n 1906 г. – Георгий Тушкан, руски писател († 1965 г.)\n 1917 г. – Маргарете Нойман, немска поетеса († 2002 г.)\n 1919 г. – Петко Бочаров, български журналист († 2016 г.)\n 1922 г. – Стефана Стойкова, български фолклорист († 2021 г.)\n 1924 г. – Лий Марвин, американски актьор († 1987 г.)\n 1925 г. – Борис Арабов, български актьор († 1984 г.)\n 1926 г. – Рос Томас, американски писател († 1995 г.)\n 1929 г. – Жак Дере, френски кинорежисьор († 2003 г.)\n 1940 г. – Сапармурад Ниязов, президент на Туркменистан († 2006 г.)\n 1941 г. – Дейвид Грос, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1943 г. – Иван Димов, български художник\n 1948 г. – Тони Айоми, британски музикант (Black Sabbath)\n 1949 г. – Пламен Вачков, български политик\n 1952 г. – Данило Тюрк, президент на Словения\n 1953 г. – Атилио Бетега, италиански рали пилот († 1985 г.)\n 1953 г. – Иван Балсамаджиев, български актьор († 2010 г.)\n 1953 г. – Кристина Фернандес де Кирхнер, аржентински политик\n 1954 г. – Францис Буххолц, германски басист\n 1954 г. – Сократес, бразилски футболист († 2011 г.)\n 1955 г. – Джеф Даниълс, американски актьор\n 1960 г. – Принц Андрю, британски принц\n 1960 г. – Хелън Фийлдинг, английска писателка\n 1963 г. – Хана Мандликова, чешка тенисистка\n 1963 г. – Сийл, английски певец\n 1964 г. – Дъг Олдрич, американски китарист\n 1968 г. – Петьо Цеков, български журналист\n 1970 г. – Юасим Канс, шведски рокпевец\n 1977 г. – Джанлука Дзамброта, италиански футболист\n 1978 г. – Ибрахима Гай, сенегалски футболист\n 1983 г. – Детелин Далаклиев, български боксьор\n 1983 г. – Калоян Махлянов, български сумист\n 1987 г. – Ахмед Адли, египетски шахматист\n 1992 г. – Неда Спасова, българска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 197 г. – Клодий Албин, римски управител на Британия (* около 150 г.)\n 1445 г. – Елеонора Арагонска, кралица на Португалия (* около 1402 г.)\n 1826 г. – Атанас Богориди, гръцки писател (* 1788 г.)\n 1837 г. – Георг Бюхнер, германски драматург (* 1813 г.)\n 1897 г. – Карл Вайерщрас, германски математик (* 1815 г.)\n 1916 г. – Ернст Мах, австрийски физик (* 1838 г.)\n 1926 г. – Антон Шоурек, чешки математик (* 1857 г.)\n 1934 г. – Николай Осипов, руски лекар (* 1877 г.)\n 1938 г. – Едмунд Ландау, германски математик (* 1877 г.)\n 1945 г. – Николай Богданов-Белски, руски художник (* 1868 г.)\n 1951 г. – Андре Жид, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1869 г.)\n 1952 г. – Кнут Хамсун, норвежки писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1920 (* 1859 г.)\n 1960 г. – Цветан Каролев, български оперен певец (* 1890 г.)\n 1964 г. – Александър Брус Биеласки, американски юрист (* 1884 г.)\n 1964 г. – Димитър Баларев, български химик (* 1885 г.)\n 1966 г. – Йордан Ковачев, български писател (* 1895 г.)\n 1969 г. – Петър Завоев, български журналист и писател (* 1880 г.)\n 1980 г. – Бон Скот, австралийки музикант (AC/DC) (* 1946 г.)\n 1988 г. – Андре Курнан, американски лекар и физиолог, роден във Франция, Нобелов лауреат (* 1895 г.)\n 1993 г. – Михаил Янков, български футболист (* 1928 г.)\n 1997 г. – Дън Сяопин, китайски комунистически ръководител и революционер (* 1904 г.)\n 2000 г. – Марин Големинов, български композитор (* 1908 г.)\n 2000 г. – Фриденсрайх Хундертвасер, австрийски архитект и творец (* 1928 г.)\n 2001 г.— Стенли Крамър, американски режисьор и продуцент (* 1913 г.)\n 2012 г. – Георги Черкелов, български актьор (* 1930 г.)\n 2013 г. – Робърт Ричардсън, американски физик, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1937 г.)\n 2014 г. – Валерий Кубасов, съветски космонавт (* 1935 г.)\n 2020 г. – Поп Смоук, рапър (* 1999 г.)\n\nПразници и чествания \n Световен ден за защита на китовете – Годишнина от решението на Международната китоловна комисия за забрана на китоловната промишленост през 1986 г.\n Туркменистан – Ден на националния флаг\n Васил Левски – почит пред българския национален герой в деня след гибелта му (1873 г.)\n Филотея Атинска\n\nБележки \n\n219"
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        "text": "Lou Reed loved the blues. A personal remembrance\nIn 1989 I was working as an editor at the Hudson Reporter, a chain of small weekly newspapers based in Hoboken. I was also starting to freelance music writing as much as possible, already writing for Tower Pulse! And looking for more, more,…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-29 20:58:102013-10-29 21:25:04Lou Reed loved the blues. A personal remembrance\nOne Way Out praise, One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band\nPublishers Weekly Reviews One Way Out\nPublishers Weekly weighs in with the second review of One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. Obviously, Im pleased that it's positive, but I also really like the reading and interpretation. Thanks PW. An excerpt: \"One…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-29 00:51:282016-06-16 17:19:09Publishers Weekly Reviews One Way Out\nThe making of \"Sultans of Swing\"\nIn 1997 or '98, Guitar World did a cover story on the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time. I wrote many of the entries and will repost a bunch of them over the next month or so. I've been listening to Mark Knopfler's new album Privateering,…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-25 14:18:502013-10-25 14:18:50The making of \"Sultans of Swing\"\nDerek and Susan \"It's So Heavy\"\nI've been thoroughly enjoying the Tedeschi Trucks Band's new album Made Up Mind and was happy to come across this acoustic duo take of the album's \"It's So Heavy\" recorded on their bus. Derek has called this song their tribute to…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DerekTrucks.jpg 528 648 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-23 20:22:292017-11-16 18:13:13Derek and Susan \"It's So Heavy\"\nFirst One Way Out Review is in - Booklist\nHighlights from the starred review in Booklist: Perhaps no music journalist has written as extensively about the Allman Brothers Band as Paul...and his deep familiarity with the band and its music shows everywhere in this fluid account. Framed…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-17 15:07:572016-06-16 17:19:39First One Way Out Review is in - Booklist\nI really like the North Mississippi All Stars\nI am just finishing up a feature on the North Mississippi All Stars for Relix. I love the band and I love Luther and Cody Dickinson as people. I spent a fair amount of time hanging with Luther last June at Butch Trucks' Roots Rock Revival and…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-09 19:10:572013-10-09 19:33:54I really like the North Mississippi All Stars\nHoward Stern interviews Graham Nash and digs deep\nI'm not the biggest fan of Howard Stern and have never spent hours listening to him. I find a lot of his schtick juvenile and just not funny. But, man, when he's engaged, he's a great, great interviewer. Having essentially unlimited time allows…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-08 13:08:222013-10-08 17:24:09Howard Stern interviews Graham Nash and digs deep\nThe Making of Texas Flood\nIn honor of Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday, the 30th anniversary of his debut recording and the release of a new version, Texas Flood (30th Anniversary Collection), I present the following story of the making of Texas Flood. This was written…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-03 18:32:142013-10-03 18:32:14The Making of Texas Flood\nDixie Doc, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pirates\nWhy I'm driving to Pittsburgh for a baseball game\nTomorrow morning, I will see my kids off to school, kiss Becky good bye, gas up my Chevrolet and drive 357 miles from my New Jersey home to see a baseball game in my hometown of Pittsburgh. It was not a difficult decision. The NL Wildcard…\nhttp://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg 0 0 AlanPaul http://alanpaul.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/alan-imus-300x158.jpg AlanPaul2013-10-01 03:18:442016-06-15 14:25:42Why I'm driving to Pittsburgh for a baseball game"
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        "text": "The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessments, authorizations, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP is meant to replace the current process by which federal agencies assess low and moderate baseline third party cloud service provider systems prior to procurement. Preceding FedRAMP, individual agencies managed their own assessment methodology following guidance loosely set by the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA).\nFedRAMP has not only overhauled the civilian federal agency cloud service procurement process but it is also changing how the Department of Defense (DoD) assesses the security of cloud services prior to procurement.\nThe DoD utilizes the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) to assess the risk posture of systems prior to authorizing the systems for use. On June 26, 2012, the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) released a memo designating the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) as the Department of Defense Enterprise Cloud Service Broker (ECSB) to manage the use, performance, and delivery of cloud services. In addition, the DISA will negotiate relationships between cloud providers and the DoD agency cloud consumers. The memo also stated that DISA would use commercial cloud services that meet FedRAMP requirements.\nFedRAMP uses NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53 amongst others to establish common cloud computing baselines. In order to align with the NIST standards, DoD created the Joint Task Force (JTF) Transformation Initiative Interagency Working Group which included members from DoD, NIST, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), to transition DIACAP to a risk management framework. CNSS has the authority to issue binding guidance for national security systems and as such issued supplemental guidance for implementing NIST SP 800-53 controls for national security systems (NSS) in CNSS Instruction 1253, Security Categorization and Control Selection for National Security Systems.\nFor cloud providers, DISA has implemented a pilot program of the DoD Enterprise Cloud Service Broker (ECSB) Cloud Security Model that leverages the FedRAMP authorization process to assess cloud services for use in the DoD. CSPs that do not go through the ESCB security assessment process must obtain a waiver from the DoD CIO.\nThe ECSB will leverage FedRAMP provisional authorization and U.S. Government Federal ATO packages residing in the FedRAMP Secure Repository, including all supporting documentation, as part of the ECSB security assessment process. Once a CSP successfully completed the ECSB security assessment and receives a DISA provisional authorization, it is eligible for DoD cloud customer use. The CNSS worked with representatives from the Civil, Defense, and Intelligence Communities to produce a unified information security framework and to ensure NIST SP 800-53 contains security controls to meet the requirements of NSS.\nThe additional controls and control enhancements must be implemented and documented by the CSP and will be assessed by the DISA when applying for provisional authorization. As part of the CSP’s continuous monitoring program, The CSP and Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) are responsible for providing evidence of additional control implementation to the ESCB. The ECSB will use the information received, in combination with all information provided to the FedRAMP Information System Security Officer (ISSO), to recommend to the ECSB re-authorization of the CSP as a provisional DoD CSP.\nOn November 12, 2013, Autonomic Resources Corporation announced that it was issued a provisional authorization by the DOD for its Autonomic Resources Cloud Platform (ARC-P) infrastructure as a service offering, making it the only cloud provider offered for DOD-wide acceptance under the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Enterprise Cloud Service Broker catalog. ACR-P was notably the first CSP to obtain FedRAMP provisional authorization at the end of 2012. After ARC-P achieved FedRAMP authorization, it was further assessed using the DOD cloud security model, taking into account an additional 23 controls and enhancements from SP 800-53 rev 3. According to Autonomic, ARC-P is now authorized at DOD Impact Levels 1 and 2, meaning it is approved for unclassified public information and unclassified private information."
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        "text": "20 февруари е 51-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 314 дни до края на годината (315 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n\n 395 г. – Открит е първият в историята на християнството женски манастир във Витлеем.\n 1364 г. – Кралица Маргарет Дръмонд и Дейвид II сключват брак.\n 1530 г. – Зигмунт II Август е коронован за крал на Полша.\n 1547 г. – 9-годишният Едуард VI е коронован за Крал на Англия и Крал на Ирландия.\n 1631 г. – Мария-Анна Испанска и Фердинанд III сключват брак.\n 1666 г. – Основан е град Монреал в Канада.\n 1816 г. – В Рим се състои премиерата на операта Севилският бръснар на Джоакино Росини.\n 1835 г. – Земетресение в Чили отнема живота на 5 хил. души.\n 1872 г. – Открит е най-големият музей за изобразително изкуство в западното полукълбо „Метрополитън“ в Ню Йорк.\n 1876 г. – Начало на понтификата на папа Лъв XIII.\n 1877 г. – На сцената на Болшой театър в Москва се състои премиерата на балета Лебедово езеро от Пьотр Чайковски.\n\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Части на Руски Източния отряд на генерал Едуард Тотлебен освобождават Русе.\n 1881 г. – Избрани са членовете на първия след Освобождението Свети синод.\n 1888 г. – Конго е обявен за протекторат на Франция.\n 1893 г. – Създаден е окръг Линкълн в щата Орегон, САЩ.\n 1897 г. – Открита е жп линията София – Роман с дължина 109 km.\n 1901 г. – Руският писател Лев Толстой е отлъчен от Руската православна църква за романа си Възкресение.\n 1905 г. – Руско-японска война: Започва Битката при Мукден.\n 1909 г. – Италианският поет модернист Филипо Томазо Маринети публикува Манифест на футуризма, с който се поставя начало на футуризма.\n 1912 г. – Излиза първият брой на българския седмичен вестник „Югозападна защита“.\n 1927 г. – На Конференцията на безпартийните работнически групи е учредена легална форма на Българска комунистическа партия – Работническа партия.\n 1928 г. – Англия признава независимостта на Трансйордания.\n 1937 г. – Парагвай напуска Обществото на народите.\n 1937 г. – Американецът Уолдо Уотърман създава първия автомобил, който може да лети (аеробил), но поради слаб интерес са произведени само пет.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Приключва неуспешната Операция Нордмарк, проведена от немските военноморски сили.\n 1941 г. – Холокоста: Нацистката власт в Полша забранява на евреите да ползват обществения транспорт.\n 1945 г. – В Царство България е основано държавното издателство Народна просвета.\n 1947 г. – Назначен е последният вицекрал на Индия – лорд Луис Маунтбатън.\n 1952 г. – На сесия на НАТО е решено да бъдат привлечени за членове Тунис и Мароко.\n 1953 г. – Конгресът на САЩ приема резолюция за поробените народи, с която не признава анексирането на Прибалтийските републики от СССР.\n 1961 г. – Създадена е Контролно-техническа инспекция към Министерството на земеделието на Народна република България.\n 1962 г. – Програма Мъркюри: Джон Глен става първият американец, излезнал в орбита около Земята.\n 1964 г. – Учредена е Българска външнотърговска банка.\n 1986 г. – В околоземна орбита е изведен централният модул на съветската космическа станция Мир.\n 1987 г. – Турският терорист Мехмед Али Агджа е осъден от италианския съд на доживотен затвор за атентата срещу Йоан Павел II.\n 1991 г. – В Тирана тълпа разярени протестиращи събарят гигантска статуя на дългогодишния албански диктатор Енвер Ходжа.\n 1998 г. – 15-годишната американка Тара Липински става най-младата шампионка по фигурно пързаляне на Зимни олимпийски игри в Нагано, Япония.\n 2005 г. – Испания става първата страна, която провежда референдум за ратификацията на бъдещата Европейска конституция, като я одобрява със значително мнозинство, но при ниска активност.\n 2009 г. – С постановление на Министерския съвет е закрит Медицинският колеж в Благоевград.\n 2013 г. – Пламен Горанов се самозапалва пред сградата на Община Варна.\n 2013 г. – Управляващото правителство на Бойко Борисов подава оставка.\n\nРодени \n\n 1753 г. – Луи Бертие, френски маршал († 1815 г.)\n 1759 г. – Йохан Райл, немски лекар († 1813 г.)\n 1784 г. – Джон Уул, американски генерал († 1869 г.)\n 1808 г. – Оноре Домие, френски художник († 1879 г.)\n 1829 г. – Одо Ръсел, британски дипломат († 1884 г.)\n 1844 г. – Джошуа Слоукъм, канадски пътешественик († 1909 г.)\n 1844 г. – Лудвиг Болцман, австрийски физик († 1906 г.)\n 1849 г. – Иван Евстратиев Гешов, министър-председател на България († 1924 г.)\n 1859 г. – Георги Марчин, български военен деец († 1930 г.)\n 1863 г. – Иван Петров, български военен деец († 1923 г.)\n 1866 г. – Едуин Старбък, американски психолог († 1947 г.)\n 1873 г. – Страшимир Дочков, български революционер († 1936 г.)\n 1880 г. – Трифон Кунев, български писател († 1954 г.)\n 1884 г. – Константин Константинеску, румънски генерал († 1961 г.)\n 1886 г. – Бела Кун, унгарски политик († 1938 г.)\n 1894 г. – Борис Йоцов, български учен († 1945 г.)\n 1894 г. – Ярослав Ивашкевич, полски писател († 1980 г.)\n 1900 г. – Роберт Ваелдер, австрийски психоаналитик († 1967 г.)\n 1901 г. – Луис Кан, американски архитект († 1974 г.)\n 1903 г. – Аниела Яфе, германски психолог († 1991 г.)\n 1905 г. – Георги Гизов, български лекар († 1983 г.)\n 1908 г. – Стоян Стоименов, български книгоиздател († 1993 г.)\n 1913 г. – Паскал Стружев, български художник († 1987 г.)\n 1914 г. – Арнолд Денкер, американски шахматист († 2005 г.)\n 1923 г. – Георги Панков, български политик († 2011 г.)\n 1923 г. – Невена Стефанова, българска поетеса († 2012 г.)\n 1925 г. – Гирия Прасад Койрала, непалски политик († 2010 г.)\n 1925 г. – Робърт Олтмън, американски кинорежисьор († 2006 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ибрахим Ферер, кубински певец († 2005 г.)\n 1927 г. – Сидни Поатие, американски актьор († 2022 г.)\n 1931 г. – Георги Стойков Делийски, български писател\n 1932 г. – Николай Колев – Мичмана, български спортен коментатор († 2004 г.)\n 1937 г. – Роберт Хубер, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1988 г.\n 1939 г. – Димитър Парапанов, български общественик\n 1940 г. – Джими Грийвс, английски футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1940 г. – Танас Луловски, македонски художник († 2006 г.)\n 1943 г. – Александър Александров, руски космонавт\n 1944 г. – Вилем ван Ханегем, холандски футболист\n 1944 г. – Ружа Маринска, български изкуствовед († 2022 г.)\n 1945 г. – Юрг Аклин, швейцарски писател\n 1945 г. – Джордж Смут, американски астрофизик, Нобелов лауреат през 2006 г.\n 1947 г. – Питър Щраус, американски актьор\n 1949 г. – Ивана Тръмп, американска обществена личност († 2022 г.)\n 1951 г. – Гордън Браун, министър-председател на Великобритания\n 1953 г. – Рикардо Шаи, италиански диригент\n 1954 г. – Антъни Хед, британски актьор\n 1954 г. – Василий Циблиев, руски космонавт\n 1960 г. – Виктория Колева, българска актриса\n 1960 г. – Кий Марсело, шведски рок китарист\n 1961 г. – Ивайло Савов, български скулптор\n 1962 г. – Ферарио Спасов, български футболист и треньор\n 1963 г. – Чарлз Баркли, американски баскетболист\n 1966 г. – Синди Кроуфърд, американски модел\n 1967 г. – Кърт Кобейн, американски музикант (Нирвана) († 1994 г.)\n 1967 г. – Лили Тейлър, американска актриса\n 1967 г. – Павел Монцивода, бас китарист (Скорпиънс)\n 1969 г. – Данис Танович, босненски режисьор\n 1969 г. – Синиша Михайлович, сръбски футболист и треньор († 2022 г.)\n 1970 г. – Юлия Франк, немска писателка\n 1971 г. – Виктор Чучков, български актьор\n 1971 г. – Яри Литманен, финландски футболист\n 1974 г. – Карим Багери, ирански футболист\n 1975 г. – Жени Калканджиева, българска манекенка\n 1976 г. – Здравко Лазаров, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Хатидже Георгиева, български политик и икономист\n 1978 г. – Ангел Пумпалов, български скиор\n 1980 г. – Артур Боруц, полски футболист\n 1981 г. – Елизабет Гьоргъл, австрийска скиорка\n 1981 г. – Тони Хибърт, английски футболист\n 1982 г. – Боян Търкуля, сръбски футболист\n 1985 г. – Юлия Волкова, руска музикантка (Тату)\n 1988 г. – Риана, барбадоска музикантка\n 1990 г. – Чиро Имобиле, италиански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 922 г. – Теодора, византийска императрица (* ? г.)\n 1429 г. – Джовани ди Бичи, флорентински аристократ (* 1360 г.)\n 1431 г. – Мартин V, римски папа (* 1368 г.)\n 1626 г. – Джон Дауленд, британски композитор (* 1563 г.)\n 1762 г. – Тобиас Майер, германски астроном (* 1723 г.)\n 1778 г. – Лаура Баси, италиански учен и физик (* 1711 г.)\n 1790 г. – Йозеф II, император на Свещената Римска империя (* 1741 г.)\n 1797 г. – Доминик Мерлини, полски архитект (* 1730 г.)\n 1810 г. – Андреас Хофер, тиролски национален герой (* 1767 г.)\n 1895 г. – Фредерик Дъглас, американски писател (* 1818 г.)\n 1907 г. – Анри Моасан, френски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1906 г. (* 1852 г.)\n 1908 г. – Петър Малков, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1910 г. – Бутрос Гали, министър-председател на Египет (* 1846 г.)\n 1916 г. – Клас Понтус Арнолдсон, шведски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1908 г. (* 1844 г.)\n 1920 г. – Робърт Пири, американски изследовател (* 1856 г.)\n 1929 г. – Симеон Сиин, български революционер (* 1863 г.)\n 1937 г. – Димитър Тончев, български политик (* 1859 г.)\n 1939 г. – Анри Коде, френски психиатър (* 1889 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ани Виванти, италианска писателка и поетеса (* 1866 г.)\n 1943 г. – Раде Йовчевски, югославски партизанин (* 1919 г.)\n 1944 г. – Йосиф Кондов, български революционер (* 1868 г.)\n 1945 г. – Любомир Золотович, български актьор (* 1890 г.)\n 1949 г. – Кейт Фрийдлендър, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1902 г.)\n 1955 г. – Осуалд Ейвъри, американски лекар (* 1877 г.)\n 1960 г. – Леонард Уули, английски археолог (* 1880 г.)\n 1962 г. – Георги Попхристов, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1966 г. – Честър Нимиц, американски адмирал (* 1885 г.)\n 1969 г. – Ката Леви, унгарски психоаналитик (* 1883 г.)\n 1970 г. – Найден Шейтанов, български философ (* 1890 г.)\n 1972 г. – Мария Гьоперт-Майер, германска физичка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1963 (* 1906 г.)\n 1974 г. – Дора Хартман, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1902 г.)\n 1974 г. – Саломеа Изаковер, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1888 г.)\n 1976 г. – Рене Касен, френски юрист, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. (* 1887 г.)\n 1982 г. – Уолтър Бриел, американски психиатър (* 1893 г.)\n 1984 г. – Джузепе Коломбо, италиански учен (* 1920 г.)\n 1985 г. – Николай Урванцев, руски изследовател (* 1893 г.)\n 1993 г. – Феручо Ламборгини, италиански производител на автомобили (* 1916 г.)\n 1996 г. – Соломон Аш, американски психоаналитик (* 1907 г.)\n 1999 г. – Джудит Кестенберг, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1910 г.)\n 1999 г. – Сара Кейн, британска писателка (* 1971 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джими Йънг, американски боксьор (* 1948 г.)\n 2008 г. – Живко Сталев, български юрист (* 1912 г.)\n 2008 г. – Янина Мишчукайте, литовска певица (* 1948 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на социална справедливост – Отбелязва се от 2009 г. с резолюция 62/10 на Общото събрание на ООН от 26 ноември 2007 г.\n\n220"
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        "text": "Q: Please share your hidden macOS features or tips and tricks Do you know any hidden or little-known nice feature of macOS (née Mac OS X)? It doesn't matter what it is—maybe just a short terminal command or a keyboard shortcut. Share your experiences on hidden Mac OS X features with us..\nPlease post one tip per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inquestion:400 (or inquestion:this, directly from the question page) in addition to your search terms in the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page. \nAlso provide details on how to achieve that feature, and if possible, include a relevant image too!\n\nA: In Finder \"columns\" view, double click the block below the scroll bar arrows to auto fit column width.\nvia @Mactip\n\nA: ⌘ + ` (backtick accent) switches between multiple windows of the same app.\n\nA: To quickly lock your computer with a screen-saver style password, regardless of whether a password or time delay is set in the Security preference pane, enable the keychain status menu item and use its Lock Screen command. To enable it, open the Keychain Access utility, choose Preferences… from the Keychain Access menu, and enable \"Show Status in Menu Bar\" from the General pane.\n\n\nA: Want to move back and forth through your navigation history? Most apps, including Safari and Finder, let you use the following shortcuts:\n⌘+[ to move back.\n⌘+] to move forward.\n\nA: LaTex from Grapher:\n\n\nA: In any Open/Save dialog window, hitting ⌘+D opens the desktop folder.\n\nA: ⇧+⌥+← or ⇧+⌥+→ can be used to select the previous or next word.\n\nA: I love the DigitalColor Meter application (in /Applications/Utilities) for finding the color of something on screen (especially useful for web development). cmd + shift + h to lock/hold the color you're on, ⌘+⇧+c to copy the value as RGB Hex value.\n\nA: By pressing ⌥ + ⇧ + + you can create the  - Symbol on a german keyboard.\nThe tilde-key btw is created by pressing ⌥+N for all those who searched `~´\nFor English (American) keyboards, the shortcut is: Option ⌥ + Shift ⇧ + K\n\nA: The 'Open Terminal Here' applescript that can be added to the finder toolbar(?), is a great way of getting a shell prompt to the folder your are viewing. \nThe 'original' is at the pages of its author Marc Liyanage:\nhttp://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/\nHe kindly links to a number of other versions so you can take your pick.\nThe other side of the coin (though not worth it's own answer) is the command\nopen .\nto open a finder window for the current shell folder.\n\nA: You can access the File, Edit and other application menus with the 'Change the way Tab moves focus' setting in Keyboard -> Shortcuts Preferences. I changed it from the default to Ctrl+` as the default merely adjusted brightness.\n\n\nA: If you connect two Mac's directly using a standard ethernet cable, you can quickly transfer files between them.  It automatically configures the connection, and is much faster than doing large transfers over wireless.\n\nA: When resizing columns in Finder, hold down ⌥ whilst dragging, and you'll resize all columns and reset the default width.\n\nA: In order to navigate with the keyboard in the menu bar, press ctrl+F2. The Apple icon in the menu bar will light up, and you can navigate through the menus using arrows and the ↩ key.\nOnce you are in the menu bar you can also navigate using initial letters, e.g. b to go to Bookmarks\n\nA: Ever wanted to stop the iTunes visualizer at that really cool moment and take a picture? In iTunes 10 (and previous versions really) you can control what your visualizer is doing. You need to have a song playing to notice changes. \nSimply press the ? key to see a help menu of the controls. On most visualizers press f to see the current FPS. (all except the default)\nTo freeze the default iTunes visualizer press F to freeze the mode, then press L to freeze the camera. Now that your visualizer is completely stopped, press M to change the mode. Turn the fog on and off with N (only works with certain themes). Change the color palette with P before freezing the mode or locking the camera or it has no effect. ⌘ + F  for full screen, then ⌘+⇧+3 for full screen grab.\nViola, instant custom desktop pattern! \n\nA: Holding ⌘ lets you drag icons in your menu bar to reorder them. Dragging them out of the menu bar removes them.\nAll of the built-in icons support this behavior, but most third-party apps don't.\n\nA: 3rd party apps can add unwanted items to your right click menus!  To add or remove items from the right click contextual menus:\nGo to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Select the \"Services\" panel and uncheck the services which you don't need. \n\nA: When switching focus between applications, you can hold down ⌥ and click on another application. When you change focus from one application to another, the first application hides. So, let's say you are switching from an open Finder window to an open TextEdit window while holding the ⌥ key. Finder will hide once you click on the TextEdit window. I discovered this by accident and it's pretty cool\n\nA: In iTunes, it’s possible to make ⌘ + F focus the search input instead of toggling the full screen mode.\nSimply enter this command in Terminal.app:\ndefaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add \"Target Search Field\" \"@F\"\n\nThen, restart iTunes.\nDisclaimer: This is just one of the many goodies in my .osx file.\n\nA: To paste plain text without any formatting use ⇧+⌥+⌘+V.\nThat's very useful when working in app like Keynote and copying some text from webpage. \nNote: It doesn't work if any other function assigned to this shortcut. To fix that just change the default shortcut in the app to something else. \n\nA: When you drag and drop any file (or folder) from Finder onto a Terminal window, it gets converted into the full (absolute) path to that file.\nI find this a small but occasionally useful trick when dealing with files in both Finder and Terminal.\n\nA: Hold ctrl and move the scroll wheel (or use two fingers on trackpad). It will zoom in the entire screen.\nThis setting can be enabled or changed in the System Preferences, under Acessibility, Zoom.\n\nA: Hibernate your MacBook Pro with\nsudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25\nand then put it to sleep which will save the state of your system and then power off. Very handy when flying.\nIf instead you want very fast sleeps, without writing memory to disk, use\nsudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0\nTo restore the default behaviour, use\nsudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3\n\nA: Quickly find your search results in Safari \n\n\n*\n\n*Perform a Google search in the toolbar \n\n*Click a result \n\n*Press ⌘+G\nvia @Mactip\n\nA: Remember the double-sided arrows on both the top and bottom of the scroll column in OS 9? Go to the terminal and type: \ndefaults write \"Apple Global Domain\" AppleScrollBarVariant DoubleBoth\n\nWhen you login/restart, this will work across all applications. Very handy to have.\n\nA: If you want to quickly resize your Dock you can click and drag the bar that separates the apps from minified windows, the Trash etc. If your Dock is on the bottom then drag up to increase the size of the dock and down to make them smaller. Drag left/right if your Dock is on the side of the screen.\n\nA: If you use random Backgrounds,\nthere is a quick way to make them change when you want.\ntype in the terminal \nkillall Dock\n\nThis will make your random Desktopbackground change.\n\nA: An often-neglected feature of OS X is the ability to drag files and proxy icons into other applications or windows.\nTry this in Adobe apps. Why use the File > Place… command? Just drag a file directly from the Finder directly into the document you’re working on.\nDrag files onto Dock icons to open that JPG in Photoshop rather than iPhoto. Drag an image from your browser into Photoshop’s Dock icon.\n\nA: When closing an unsaved document ⌘+D will invoke Don't Save for you.\nUse with care though.\n\nA: You can play tetris in Terminal:\nWhen you are in Terminal type emacs and hit enter. After that press escape button and X button at the same time. Now just type tetris and hit enter.\nSame goes for pong, 5x5, snake, tetris, dunnet and blackbox, just type its name instead of tetris\nSource: http://secretpctips.com/2011/04/mac-os-secrets-easter-eggs/\n\nA: Here's one I learned a long time ago, still works today.\nKeyboard shortcut for proper single and double quotes:\nSingle Quotes\n\n\n*\n\n*For Left ( ‘ ) press: Alt + ] \n\n*For Right ( ’ ) press: Alt + Shift + ]\nDouble Quotes\n\n\n*\n\n*For Left ( “ ) press: Alt + [\n\n*For Right ( ” ) Alt + Shift + [\n\nA: If you need to type an accented letter like \"é\" or \"ñ\" just press and hold the corresponding letter on your keyboard and a little popup will appear with numbered letters with accents. You can also click the letter of your choice.\n\n\nA: Show the full directory path in the Finder window. \nIn the Terminal, run this:\ndefaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES\n\nThen, run this.\nkillall Finder\n\nThere are all sorts of hidden defaults that can be mucked around with but this is my absolute favorite because now no matter which window I am looking at, I know exactly where I am.\nYou should also check out TinkerTool for other hidden settings.\n\nA: Drag and drop files and folders to \"Open\" dialogs/sheets: very useful to open package contents with other software.\nJust locate the file with the Finder\n\nand drag and drop it to the Open dialog\n\nBonus: you can do the same thing with 'Upload file' web forms. (Only with WebKit-based browser)\n ➔ \n\nA: Holding ⌥ (or ⌥fn on MacBooks, and depending on your System Prefs*) while pressing one of the function-row keys will bring up the System Preference panel for that key. Here's a list:\n\n\n*\n\n*⌥+Brightness: Displays\n\n*⌥+Exposé/Dashboard: Exposé and Spaces\n\n*⌥+Mute/Volume: Sound\n\n*⌥+Keyboard Brightness: Keyboard (for Macs with backlit keyboards)\n\n\n*If you have checked the option to use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys, done in System Preferences>Keyboard, then you will need to add the fn to the afore mentioned sequences.\n\nA: You can disable 3D Dock effect ( if you don't like ) when dock is at bottom.\nUse tinker tool (it's free).\nNow, switch to Dock tab, do as instructed in image.\n\n\nA: You can adjust the scale of all windows (sizes of buttons and menus and toolbars) to fit more on a smaller screen. It was really helpful on my TV setup, because I couldn't see the bottom items in the System Preferences.\ndefaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor .75\n\nto reset simply\ndefaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1\n\nOr you can change it per Application\ndefaults write com.apple.iTunes AppleDisplayScaleFactor .7\n\n\nA: Target Disk Mode lets you mount a Firewire-enabled Mac as an external disk, without even booting into the OS.  Useful for quick transfers, large transfers (it's quite fast), recovery, etc.\nTo start it, hold T during startup.\n\nA:  sudo purge\n\nI use this all the time for freeing unused memory on my Mac.\n\nA: El Capitan has a new split full screen feature, where you can have two apps open at once. I use it all the time, but the one thing I find inconvenient about is that it will very strongly blur the un-focused window when resizing a pane:\n\nYou can hold down ⌥ while resizing to see both screens respond to your resize changes -- neither will be blurred.\n\nA: When I migrated from Windows to Mac OS X, what I really missed is the ability to move files with cut (Ctrl + X) and paste (Ctrl + V) (as opposed to copy and paste).\nIt turns out Finder has this capability as well, but it's more like 'mark and move': Cmd + C and then Alt + Cmd + V.\n\nA: Since El Capitan (OS X 10.10), the green button in the top left of a window does not resize the window as it used to, but instead turns it into full-screen mode.\nTo get the old behavior back, hold down the ⌥ key, which will turn the green button's symbol from the resizer to a + as it used to be.\n\nA: macOS has a built-in option to mass rename files (including changing the extension), which I found here while looking for a shell script snippet to do the trick. Just select the files, right click and choose \"Rename n items ...\". The Replace Text dialog is rather self-explanatory.\n\n\n(image sources: OS X Daily)\n\nA: Secrets is a database with a huge amount of hidden settings for both the system and some common applications.\nThis domain is now offline and the developer appears to have parked the work (based on MacUpdates activity). It was originally launched for OS 10.6 as a preferences pane although the data was delivered from a Google server which is now down. However :) - you can see some of the previous secrets listed as a web archive (may take a minute to load):\nhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150621044359/http://secrets.blacktree.com/ \nSept 2016\n\nA: On i.a. en-US keyboards ⌘+` will cycle through multiple open windows in your current application.\nOn some other keyboard layouts the hot key may be e.g. ⌘+<.\nYou can verify—and modify—your \"Move focus to next window in application\" shortcut under System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Keyboard & Text Input.\n\nA: alt + ⌘ + left click in the dock hides all windows except application currently in focus. Great if you find window clutter distracting.\n\nA: When ⌥+clicking on an open app in the Dock the application hides.\n\nA: You can force Exposé to only show windows that are on the current Space (instead of all windows open on any Space). Type the following into Terminal:\ndefaults write com.apple.dock wvous-show-windows-in-other-spaces -bool FALSE\n\nthen, to restart Dock:\nkillall Dock\n\n\nA: When you're in the ⌘+Tab task switcher selecting the Finder and pressing ⇧+Q will restart the Finder.\n\nA: Hide an Application While Cmd-Tabbing\nWhile using ⌘+Tab, you can press H to hide/show the app that is currently selected.\n\nA: You can prevent app from appearing in Dock by editing .app/Contents/Info.plist. Just add \n<key>LSUIElement</key>\n<true/>\n\n\nA: Probably the most used shortcut I created on my machine is one to hide and show hidden files.\nI've set this up via an AppleScript on my machine with a keyboard shortcut of ^ + ⌘ + ⇧ + . which toggles the visibility of hidden files within Finder whenever I want.  This way I don't have to manually run a terminal command to show hidden files, and I can quickly turn it off to avoid accidentally modifying system files. I use FastScripts to allow me to set the keyboard shortcut for my AppleScript, and placed the AppleScript in my ~/Library/Scripts Folder.\nHere is the AppleScript in case you wish to give it a try:\ntell application \"System Events\"\n\n    set hiddenFilesDisplayStatus to do shell script \"defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles\"\n    set hiddenFilesNewDisplayStatus to \"NO\"\n\n    if hiddenFilesDisplayStatus is \"NO\" then\n        set hiddenFilesNewDisplayStatus to \"YES\"\n    end if\n\n    do shell script \"defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles \" & hiddenFilesNewDisplayStatus\n    do shell script \"killall Finder\"\n\nend tell\n\n\nA: The Guest account is great for troubleshooting.\nIf I have a software issue, logging in as Guest lets me open an app with 'clean' preferences settings.  \nIt's helped me with network issues as well.  \nTo enable Guest logins, go to System Preferences, Users & Groups, Guest User, and check Allow guests to log in to this computer.  \n\nA: I really find the inbuilt dictionary useful on Cocoa apps like Safari and Mail etc.\nWith your cursor over a word, press ctrl+⌘+D to get a definition.\nYou can also drag a word straight onto the Safari icon in the Dock to perform a Google search for the word.\n\nA: Holding down ⇧ while using the mouse scroll wheel will scroll the window horizontally.\n\nA: Most animations in macOS can be played in slow motion, when you hold \n⇧(Shift). Works for example to slowly minimize windows if you click the minimize button while holding the \n⇧(Shift) key.\nOther examples are:\n\n*\n\n*toggle exposé\n\n*toggle dashboard\n\n*add/remove dashboard items\n\n*all kinds of animations in Twitter for Mac\n\nFrom: http://www.eeggs.com/items/29318.html\n\nIn macOS, while in the finder, open any window & click the minimizie button (yellow) at the top of the window while holding shift.\nThis will minimize the window in slow motion using the new \"genie effect\" minimize function of macOS.\nThe CEO of Apple has shown this egg publicly several times. However, this egg is undocumented & has no system menu equivalent to use this feature. Anyone who has NOT followed the development of macOS & watched the demos at the MacWorld trade shows would not realize this somewhat useless feature exists in macOS.\n\n\nA: In any Finder window or Open/Save dialog, you can hit ⌘⇧G (just '/' also works in Open/Save) to get a location bar from which you can directly type in the directory to go to. It even supports ~ for home and tab completion.\nThe Open/Save dialog has several other useful shortcuts:\n\n\n*\n\n*⌘ R -\nReveals the selected item in a new\nFinder window.\n\n*⌘ I - Info window shows for the selected item.\n\n*⌘ ⇧ > - Shows/Hides hidden files in the dialog\n\n*⌘ F - cursor jumps to the Find text field\n\n*/ or ~ - Opens a Go To Folder dialogue. \n\n*⌘ D or ⌘ ⇧ D - selects the ~/Desktop folder as a destination\n\n*⌘ ⌥ L - selects ~/Downloads folder as a destination\n\n*⌘ ⇧ O - selects ~/Documents folder as a destination\n\n*⌘ ⌥ S - Shows/Hides sidebar\n\n*⌘ . or esc - Cancels and closes the dialog window\n\n\nA: Exposé for spaces and 'Show desktop' attached to corners of the screen. I've attached 'Show desktop' to my lower right corner, and Exposé for spaces in the top left. Now, i can go bottom right to the desktop, grab a file, move over to the top left to switch to a space, and drop it there in a Finder window or Application.\n\nA: Do a \"killall dock\" in Terminal while a window is being minimized with the Genie effect (helps to hold down Shift to slow it down) and the window will be 'stuck' in the Genie effect yet still be operational! For example, you can still scroll.\n\nA: If you are a recent convert to osx and miss the mouse/cursor acceleration of a windows mouse?\nOSX mouse doesnt feel quite as good as the windows mouse?\nGive SteerMouse a try!\n\nA: There is a fast way to create a hidden folder on Mac OS.\nHidden folders a created by typing \".\" on the beginning (e.g. \".hiddenfolder\")\nThe Finder won't let you do this though.\nSo we gonna use the terminal.\nto create a new folder:\nmkdir .hiddenfolder\n\nfirst of course you have to navigate to the location, you want the folder to be.\nFor example the Desktop:\ncd /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/\n\nor drag a folder into the Terminal to get it's address\nTo know where you are right now, type:\npwd\n\nAnother way is, to rename a folder. To do so type:\nmv ActualFolderName .hiddenfolder\n\nTo open a hidden folder, make hidden files visible like described earlier,\nor use terminal (navigate there first, or type open absolute path)\nopen .hiddenfolder\n\nor if you are in the hidden folder already, just type\nopen .\n\nto show hidden folders/files in terminal type\nls -a\n\n\nA: If you drag files while holding the command key, the contents move but don't copy. Great for cutting the copy - then delete original process.\n\nA: Secrets by Blacktree is a preference pane which enables many hidden OS X and specific application preferences (e.g. change Dock to 2D, change iTunes stoplights back to horizontal). Saves you a couple of trips to the Terminal.\n\nA: Not sure if it's posted already but you can drag folders and files from the finder into an application's open / save dialogue. It sets the save or open path to that of the folder or file you're dragging. Excellent when you prefer to use the finder to navigate but don't want to repeat the process in your app or vice versa. Also, on many cases, whilst in the open / save dialogue, you can hit command R to reveal the files in the finder.\n\nA: You can ⌘-click and drag many OS provided icons from your menu bar to rearrange or remove them if it's getting too crowded.  Doesn't work with all 3rd party ones, but many built-in ones (like volume, battery, sync, bluetooth, etc) can be removed this way.   Many of them can be removed from the control panel, but this is the only way some of them can be removed once activated (that I'm aware of). \n\nA: I am new to Mac so this might be common knowledge but in snow leopard if you hold 3 and 2 during boot you will boot into 32 bit mode and the same goes foe 64 bit when holding the 6 and 4 keys during boot. Macfuse for example did not like running in 64 bit mode\n\nA: Hold ctrl and scroll with the mouse/trackpad in order to zoom the view at any time. Extremely handy in order to discern pixel differences of a UI.\n\nA: ⌘ + ⇥ = switch between applications.\nPress ⌥ before releasing ⌘ and it will un-minimize minimized windows from that application.\n\nA: Hold Option & click Speaker/Volume icon in top menu bar to quickly select audio output and input devices (bluetooth, airplay etc.)\nvia https://twitter.com/justinerdman/status/316936844958916608\n\nA: Create a Keyboard Shortcut to open Terminal (or any application) no matter where you are or what application is currently active.\nUse Automator to create a Service. Within Actions choose Launch Application.\nIn my case I made sure that the service receives no input in any application.\nThen from the dropdown select other then double-click Utilities then select Terminal.app and click choose.\nSave the service and make sure it has a .workflow extension.\nNext open up System Preferences and click on the keyboard. Click the Shortcuts tab and select the Services option on the left.\nYou should see your new service in the General section named whatever you chose to name it. \nThen you can click the none button that indicates it has no shortcut yet and assign it whatever shortcut keys you want.\nThere are other ways but this works no matter what application is active and it never fails.\n\nA: Extremely quick way to open a new Finder window:\n\n\n*\n\n*Click on the desktop (even a sliver will do)\n\n*Hit ⌘N\nThe desktop is part of Finder, so in a lot of ways it acts as a Finder window itself.  For me it's faster to select the Finder app by just clicking on the desktop than to use Spotlight or to switch apps to Finder.\n\nA: During a spotlight search, hit ⌘B to Google that term in Safari.  Gives very quick access to a google search.\nI assume the search setting in Safari determines which search engine is used.\n\nA: In file open and file save dialogs: Hit ⌘+⇧+. to show all hidden files and folders.\nNote that this appears to be true for any keyboard, no matter what ⇧+. on its own produces on that keyboard.\nThe commercial extension TotalFinder makes this feature available to normal Finder windows as well.\n\nA: *\n\n*When typing text in any document or text field ⌥ option+← backspace will delete the entire word, the same with ⌥ option+del which will delete the whole next word.\n\n*On MacBooks and aluminum keyboards, typing fn+← backspace leads to typing the del key, deleting the character in front of the cursor, not before it.\n\n*Using an accented language? Press ⌃ ctrl+← backspace after an accented letter to delete just the accent, not the letter.\n\nA: I still think ⌘ + ⌥ + ⇧ + v (paste without style) is very handy.\nThat is, when something is on the clipboard and has unwanted styles along for the ride, this keyboard shortcuts lets you paste just the plain text without any formatting.\n\nA: In iTunes pressing ⌘ + L brings you to the song playing right now.\nHelpful if you lost yourself in your collection or are in iTunes Store and want to change something real quick.\nVery useful in combination with ⌘ + I to show the details of the currently playing song.\n\nA: Have a menu command/keyboard shortcut that you know exists, but you can't find it (or just don't want to touch your mouse)?\nPress ⌘-⇧-/ to get to the help menu.  It'll pop up the help menu that you can type into.  Type the word you want to search the menus for, then ↓ to the menu item you want.  OSX will helpfully show you where that item exists in the menu with a big blue arrow and you'll also see any associated shortcuts.\n\n\nA: Also TinkerTool shows some hidden features\n\nA: Safari also supports a subset of Emacs keybindings\n\nA: If you want to Open/Close FrontRow just use ⌘ + esc\n\nA: One of the most amazing things I know to do in the terminal is \"doctor terminal\" I just love it! :D\nI know it's a silly program that's easy to make but, no other operating system has it.\nThis is accessed through emacs in the Terminal:\n\n\n*\n\n*Type emacs\n\n*Press Ctrl+X\n\n*Type doctor\n\n*Press Return\nAfter each question, you can recieve a response by pressing Return twice in a row.\n\nA: ⌘ + ctrl + \"two finger swipe\" = change the opacity of the window under the cursor\n\nA: In an any Open/Save dialog, you can use Quicksilver to quickly find the desired file or folder and just drag it anywhere into the file dialog, sendig the file chooser directly to that location. [Enter] will do the rest.\n(While not included in OSX, I assume, that the majority of users interested in this thread do run Quicksilver.app)\n\nA: Custom Alert Sounds - An old trick from OS9 days (tested to 10.8) is to create your own alert sounds. Not entirely productive but if you are into hacking your Mac / OS to make it your own, this is one on the list - it's fun to have Peter Griffin tell you it's time for lunch.  \n\n\n*\n\n*Sample your sound file as usual (download or record/input to the Mac using something like Sound Studio or QT Pro 7). \n\n*edit down to 10 seconds or less adding a clean entry and exit\n\n*export as an AIFF file\n\n*place here: /System/Library/Sounds/*\n\n*select the alert sound via the System Preferences / Sound / Sound Effects panel\n\n\nNote: the Library folder may be invisible by default. If so open terminal and add the following to make it permanently visible: \nchflags nohidden ~/Library/\n\nNote2: this route path will facilitate a sound file available to all users on your Mac. You can keep it to yourself by placing the AIFF here: \n/Users/username/Library/Sounds/\n\n\nA: Text Edit - restore zoom feature in 10.7 / 10.8+\nThis is a helpful tip to remedy Apple's less than useful update to the ubiquitous Text Edit application from OS 10.7 following which they removed the incremental 'Zoom' control shown below.\n\nI am aware of the keyboard shortcuts CMD + and CMD - that work post 10.7, however, the zoom increments with this method are pre-fixed and too large for me - I am most comfortable with 125% and to be honest, I am bugged that a useful function has been removed. So the action:\n\n\n*\n\n*Delete the default version of Text Edit in the system / apps folder (you can drag this app to the trash or use a program like AppZapper). If you go the manual method, delete the preferences file as well.\n\n*beg, steal or borrow a copy of OS 10.6. Most regular Mac users will have one archived (I have Mac OS's back to 6.5, although I am sad).\n\n*drag a copy of Text Edit 1.7.1 (or earlier - 1.6 should work from OS 10.5) to your current applications folder.\n\n\n\n\n\n*\n\n*Select any text edit document, get info (CMD + I) and set Text Edit 1.7.1 as the default application to open this type of file. \n\n\nNote: you may get an error message from Text Edit stating that it cannot save the file due to a permissions error. Don't worry, the file is being saved OK under OS 10.7+ and the false flag is due to an Apple change in the way newer versions of Text Edit auto-save. To suspend this reporting, you can soft hack Text Edit 1.7.1's behavior in terminal with the following command.\ndefaults write -app textedit ApplePersistence -bool false\ndefaults write -app textedit AutosavingDelay -int 0\nHope you find this tip helpful.\n\nA: You can drag-drop Finder objects (or any document window's proxy icons) while doing any of the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*App-Switching (⌘+Tab or ⌘+⇧+Tab), \n\n*Spaces (⌃+→ or ⌃+←), \n\n*Show Desktop (⌘+F3), or \n\n*Mission Control (⌃+↑).\n\n\nCombined with dropping into open/save dialogues, this means you'll never have to navigate to a file in one app and then navigate to the same file again in the open/save dialog. You'll also never have move windows around in order to drop a file into Safari.\nEg. I have an image open in Preview, and want to send it as an attachment in gmail.\n\n\n*\n\n*Gmail pops open the \"select attachment\" file dialogue:\n\n\n*Start dragging the proxy Icon from Preview - don't let go of it\n\n\n*While continuing to drag the file, switch apps with ⌘+Tab.\n\n\n*\n\n*Keep holding ⌘, but release/hit Tab or ⇧+Tab repeatedly to get to Safari.\n\n*Let go of ⌘ once Safari is selected, to bring it to the front.\n\n\n\n*Drop the file onto the file dialogue, and it'll become selected.\n\nFile is selected and ready to send. Return to finish selecting the file.\n\nIf you save screenshots to the desktop, then a similar trick is useful with the \"Show Desktop\" keyboard shortcut (⌘+F3).\n\nA: Quickly insert weird characters into text by setting Text-Replacement Keyboard Shortcuts for any characters you find in the \"Emoji & Symbols\" panel.\nI personally use LaTeX-style shortcuts, so typing \\arrowright gets replaced with →. Type a Space after the \\arrowright to do the replacement.\nSet your shortcuts in SysPrefs > Keyboard > Text\n\nYou can copy/paste characters from anywhere into the Replace With... column. I prefer to double-click characters from the Emoji & Symbols pane, so I know they're in the standard font packages. The Emoji & Symbols pane can be enabled by selecting\nSysPrefs > Keyboard > Keyboard (tab) > Show Keyboard and Emoji Viewers in menu bar\nand then choosing Emoji & Symbols in the resulting menu item:\n\n\nA: Ever downloaded an app that Mac OS won't let you open because it's \"from an unidentified developer\"?\nInstead of completely disabling this security feature (via SysPrefs>Security), try the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*Right-click the .app file\n\n*hold Shift while clicking Open.  \n\n*The resulting warning now has an [Open] button, click it.\n\n*The warning is circumvented for this app only, but still enabled system-wide. It will never warn you again for that particular app.\n\n\nA: In TextEdit, you can go to a specific line number by hitting ⌘L. Useful if a script errors at a specific line number.\n\n\nA: If you have an iPhone (or iPad) with iOS 12, and a Mac with macOS Mojave, you can use the iPhone as a scanner or photo camera to directly scan documents or take photos. The scanner will even rotate and resize the document so that it appears as a rectangle. This function is integrated in a few Apple apps like Finder, Mail, Messages and the iWork apps.\n\nFor more information, see the Apple Support article Use Continuity Camera on your Mac.\n\nA: On newer versions of macOS , you can access an interactive tool for taking screenshots via ⌘+Shift+5.\nModes\nYou can use three different modes.\nCapture/Record Entire Screen\nThis mode is basic and lets you capture the entire screen. It replicates the functionality of ⌘+Shift+3.\nCapture/Record Selected Portion\nThis mode allows you to crop out parts of the screen beforehand. You can move or resize the selected portion. The width and height of the portion will appear while resizing. This mode replicates the functionality of ⌘+Shift+4.\nCapture Selected Window\nThis screenshot-exclusive mode allows you to take a screenshot of a window. Windows include context menus and other UI items as well. This mode replicates the functionality of ⌘+Shift+4 after pressing Space and selecting a window.\nPreview/Markup\nAfter capturing your screenshot or recording, you can view a preview of it. Right-clicking this preview allows you to set its save location, open it, delete it, or use Markup.\n\nMarkup editor allows you to draw freehand circles, add text, crop, or rotate screenshots.\n\nThe Markup editor also allows you to trim recordings.\n\n\nA: By long-pressing on the bookmarks tab on the sidebar, you can open a menu containing the structure of the bookmarks folder. You can move your mouse to jump to a folder from this menu.\n\n\nA: This is a pretty common one, but to show all hidden files you can type the command\ndefaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1\n\nand then\nkillall Finder\n\nin Terminal.\nTo reverse, repeat using a 0 instead of 1.\n\nA: Image Wells\nAll good mac programs contain image wells for opening files, such as the Desktop & Screen Saver pane in System Preferences:  \n1[]1\nor in Filemerge:\n\nThis nifty litte things allow you to drag-and-drop files into them (and in some cases, out of) to load them into the program. Here, I am changing the wallpaper by dragging the file out of Finder and into the image well:\n\n\nA: In the terminal, you can pipe the output of any command to pbcopy to copy it to the system clipboard. You can also paste from the system clipboard using pbpaste, and pipe that to another command or write the value directly to a file:\nCopy a string: echo \"ohai im in ur clipboardz\" | pbcopy\nCopy the HTML of StackOverflow.com: curl \"http://stackoverflow.com/\" | pbcopy\nOpen a new buffer in VIM, initialized to the content of the clipboard: pbpaste | vim -\nSave the contents of the clipboard directly to a file: pbpaste > newfile.txt\n\nA: Disable Caps-Lock\nThe ability to disable the Caps Lock key is wonderful (open System Preferences, go to Keyboard, then click the button titled Special Keys or Modifier Keys). It is not really hidden, but I never need the key, but especially on my MacBook I sometimes hit it by fault.\nSome people also use this panel to replace Caps Lock with Control. Especially useful when you're using Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E shortcuts a lot.\n\nA: You can add spacers to your Dock. Some apps make them for you or you can use the Terminal:\ndefaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=\"spacer-tile\";}'\n\nAfterwards, use the following command to restart your dock:\nkillall Dock\n\nYou will see a spacer appear. Like normal apps, they can be removed and repositioned by dragging.\nYou can add spacers multiple times by repeating the first command. For example, this Dock has 2 spacers:\n\n\nA: I always find the ⌘+⇧+4, space (you must press space at the end otherwise it doesn't work) command is really useful, and one that a lot of people don't know you can do. Upon pressing space, you get a large camera icon for your cursor, and it allows you to take a screenshot just of the highlighted window. The nice thing is that OS X preserves the window drop shadow, with full alpha transparency. So when you paste the images into other documents, they look fab.\n\nMore screenshot magic from 3rdparty.\nScreenshot Secrets via: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/01/01/mac-os-x-screenshot-secrets.html:\n\n\n*\n\n*⌘+⇧+3  Capture entire screen and save as a file\n\n*⌘+ctrl+⇧+3  Capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard\n\n*⌘+⇧+4  Capture dragged area and save as a file\n\n*⌘+ctrl+⇧+4  Capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard\n\n*⌘+⇧+4 then space    Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file\n\n*⌘+ctrl+⇧+4 then space    Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard\n\n*Another useful trick is to hold space while drawing a capture area to reposition it.\n\n*Another trick is to hold option while drawing a capture area, to resize the area in all directions, instead of just the one corner you're dragging.\n\n*For fine-tuning on a certain axis, you can hold shift and the axis you next move in is the one you'll control.\n\n*Hit esc while capturing an area or window to exit capture mode.\nNote: I added this because I find it to be useful. I don't mean any offense to anyone's answer in doing so.\n\nA: You can increase or decrease your volume, brightness, or keyboard backlighting brightness by quarter increments by using the following combination:\n⌥ + ⇧ + Volume Up/Down\n\nNote that this feature was disabled in Mac OS X Lion from 10.7 through 10.7.3. This feature was restored in 10.7.4.  For workarounds on how to accomplish this on earlier Lion versions, see this question.\n\nA: *\n\n*Hold down the ⌘ key to drag a background window by its title bar without focusing it or bringing it to front\n\n*⌥-click in a scrollbar's empty space to scroll to the clicked place (instead of scrolling up or down one page). You can switch this behavior in the Appearance panel of System Preferences.\n\n*⌘-click on the name of a page in Safari's title bar to show the URL path as a menu. Select to browse (this is the same as ⌘-clicking the title in document windows).\n\nA: My favorite trick is using Exposé with drag and drop. Once you've started dragging something you can use the Exposé keyboard shortcut, switch to the application you want to drag it to, and drop it wherever it's needed. It's great for doing things like adding images to a presentation.\n\nA: While ⌘+Tab-ing between applications, without releasing ⌘, you can hit Q to quit or H to hide the selected application. Works great with the mouse to get rid of a whole bunch of applications quickly.\nThe bevel won't go away and you can repeat this for as many applications as you like as long as you're holding ⌘.\nIf you have multiple windows of an app, use key 1, ↑, or ↓ to reveal the windows while that app is highlighted in the application switching strip. i.e.: while ⌘+Tab-ing, when you highlight the app with multiple windows, keep ⌘ held down and press one of those keys. Then use mouse to go that window. \n\nA: Holding ⌥  (Option)while clicking menu bar icons will give you additional menu items or alternate menus. The alternate volume control menu will let you choose input and output audio devices.\n\nBonus: On older versions of OS X, this gave you the alert volume instead of devices. You can still get the alert volume using ⇧ clicking.\nFor the airport menu, you'll get WiFi connection information. \n\nThe Bluetooth menu will include debugging information and tools.\n\nTime Machine will show \"Verify Backups\" and \"Browse Other Time Machine Disks\". Unlike the other menus, the Time Machine menu will show the alternates if you hold Option after opening the menu, and will hide them if you release it.\n\nA: When clicking from one application's window to another's, holding down ⌥ while clicking will automatically hide the former app's windows.\n\nA: When you're ⌘+⇥ between running applications, if you press ⌥ before releasing command, it will raise minimized windows from the dock.  Otherwise, you may be in an application, but without a raised window.\nAlso, while ⌘+⇥ goes to the right through the application list, ⌘+⇧+⇥goes left.  ⌘+ backtick (`) also goes left.\nctrl+⌥+⌘-8 inverts the screen.  Sometimes useful for whacky lighting situations, especially with glossy screens.\n\nA: On any open file or save file dialog instead of searching for the file, you can grab any from the finder...\n\nAnd drop it in the window to select it! \n\nThis little trick has saved me hours in looking for files to be opened. You can also drop files directy on the file fiedls of any webpage.\n \nSpecially useful tricks when you have files on your desktop or a finder window! Hope it helps!\n\nA: Proxy icons\nIn a document-based application (like Finder, TextEdit, Preview, Pages…), after a document has been saved, a proxy icon for the document appears in the title bar. It represent the file itself, and can be likewise manipulated:\n\n*\n\n*click it for a few seconds and drag to another application to open it, or to the desktop/Finder if you want to copy/move it, etc…\n\n*⌘-click (or control-click, or right-click) it to view the path menu, useful to open the folder or any subfolders of the file in the Finder.\n\n\n\n*\n\n*⌘-click on the titlebar in Safari can help you easily move up the directory structure of a web site, too!\n\n\n\n*Since Mountain Lion you can edit the document titles:\n\n\nA: Pressing ⇧ + ⌘ + W will close all windows of an application at once, in most apps.\n\nA: Regarding tips and tricks. The most annoying part of MacOS for me always was the inability to put dock on the side of a middle monitor in multi monitor setup.\nI've managed to achieve it with a help of Wraparound app (Free). It wraps mouse around your monitors so you can setup you monitors arrangement so the monitor you want your dock to be on would be first (if you want dock on left) or last (if you want it on right) and then just wrap mouse movement horizontally.\nHere is example of my monitor arrangement before\n\nand this is after\n\nand here's how Wraparounds settings look\n\nso in the end my real setup looks like this \n\nThe only thing that doesn't work is dragging window from middle monitor to the left, it seems to work for an instant but then gets teleported back. But I'm using Spectacle app (Free) to manage windows and I use a shortcut to move windows between monitors so that's not a problem for me at all.\n\nA: I frequently use the shortcut: Shift + Home and Shift + End to jump to the begining and end (respectively) of a long command in Terminal. It is one of the most useful commands I have discovered for macOS to date.\n\nA: Advanced cursor navigation for text.\n\n\n*\n\n*optionleft/right arrow – Move cursor to previous/next word break.\n\n*commandleft/right arrow – Move cursor to start/end of line.\n\n*commandup/down arrow – Move cursor to top/bottom of textarea.\n\n*shiftleft/right arrow – Highlight left/right character.\n\n*shiftcommandleft/right arrow – Highlight left/right word.\n\n*shiftcommandup/down arrow – Highlight text to start/end of line.\n\n*optiondelete – Delete word.\n\n*commanddelete – Delete line.\n\n\nA: If you use a second monitor this one helped a lot\nfn + ⌘ + ↓ - combines the contents of both screens into one\n\nA: I love the fact that OS X will scroll the window that the mouse is hovering over, even if another application has focus.  That way I can scroll an example that I am coding in TextMate without having to lose keyboard control on TM\n\nA: Use widget in Desktop:\nThis allows you to drag widgets out of Dashboard onto the desktop. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so type \"killall Dock\" and press enter. Now, if you click and hold onto a widget in the dashboard and press F4 to return to the desktop, the widget won't disappear with the rest.   \nIf you want get it back to dashboard click it and press f4 (show dashboard) and release widget\ndefaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES\n\n\n\nA: It's always worth pressing Alt when a menu is posted, as some menu items will change to offer previously-hidden options. For example:\n\n\n*\n\n*In Safari, File>Close Window and File>Close Tab become Close All Windows and Close all Tabs. \n\n*In iTunes, File>Find Duplicates becomes File>Find Exact Duplicates, and Advanced>Create MP3 Version becomes Advanced>Convert to MP3...\n\n*In Mail.app, Edit->Add Link... becomes Edit->Remove Link.\n\n*In Finder right-click menu, Get Info becomes Show Inspector, and Keep Arranged By becomes Arrange By.\n\n*On the Window menu in any application, Minimize, Zoom, and Bring All to Front become Minimize All, Zoom All, and Arrange in Front.\n\n\nA: Have a laptop? ⌥+Click BatterySymbol in menu bar to view your battery's condition\nvia @Mactip\n\nA: hold down ctrl and ⇧ while mousing over the dock to toggle magnification on-demand.\n\nA: Dialogs usually have two useful actions accessible from the keyboard. ↩ performs the default action (Save, in the image below) and space performs the secondary action (Don't Save, in the image below).\n\n\nA: Click and hold the Show All/▒ button:\n\nAt the bottom of this list, there is a Customize... option.\n\nClicking this enables \"Hide mode\", which adds a checkbox to the corner of each preference pane.\n\nYou can hide a preference pane by unchecking the checkbox. You can later show it again by going back and checking it again. In addition, you can go to a preference pane without manually showing it again by using the same Show All button.\n\nA: Most applications on OS X respect emacs' style shortcuts for maneuvering about in text fields.\n\n\n*\n\n*ctrl+A: beginning of line.\n\n*ctrl+E: end of line.\n\n*ctrl+U: delete from cursor to beginning of line.\n\n*ctrl+K: delete from cursor to end of line.\n\n*ctrl+W: erase word to the left.\n\n*ctrl+T: transpose characters around cursor.\nThere are others that are slipping my mind currently I'm sure. I miss this so much on Linux.\n\nA: Just came across this one...\nTo enter a newline character in a text field you can use ⌥ + return. Similarly to enter a tab character use ⌥ + ⇥. This is particularly helpful in a find and replace window.\n\nA: You can Option ⌥-click menu items to bring up extra information.\n\n\n*\n\n*Battery:  \n\n*AirPort:  \n\n*Bluetooth:  \n\n*Sound:  \n\nA: It’s possible to enable AirDrop on unsupported (older) Macs running Lion by entering a single command in Terminal.app:\ndefaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces -bool true\n\nThis also enables AirDrop over Ethernet (not just WiFi). (CableDrop™?)\nDon’t forget to logout and login again, or reboot your Mac after entering the command.\nDisclaimer: This is just one of the many goodies in my .osx file.\n\nA: When I first switched to Mac a couple of years back, I was using it full time for nearly six months before someone showed me ⌘+space to bring up the Spotlight Search. Single best shortcut I've learned.\nThe Spotlight search field and Siri (especially with text input) can also handle simple mathematical expressions. No need for Calculator.app for a quick bit of division!\n\nA: Photo Booth: \nHold ⌥ to skip countdown and take immediate photo. \nHold ⇧ to disable the screen flash.\nvia @Mactip\n\nA: I really like the way of MacOS modifies the letter spacing of the fonts when resizing a pane.\nAs long as the spacing can be decreased, the title won't be truncated.\nExample:\n\nUPDATE: This feature does not exist anymore. :(\n\nA: ⌘ + ⇧ + . will show hidden files in any file-open dialog box.\n\n\n\nA: If you hold down option while resizing the Dock, it will resize in multiples of 16 pixels.\n\nA: Switcher + Exposé\n(10.6+)\nWhile ⌘+⇥ing (holding ⌘, tapping ⇥), you can press ↑ or ↓ to switch to the currently selected application's window Exposé view. You can then use the keyboard arrows to highlight a window and ↩ to switch to it.\n\n\nA: Want tab to go to every field on a form not just input fields?\nI got sick of the state/country drop down fields of web forms being skipped when tabbing.\nGo to System Preferences → Keyboard and set Full Keyboard Access to All Controls.\n\nIn system dialogs, if you tab-highlight a button, hit space to \"click\" it (hitting enter will still choose whatever the default action is, regardless of what button your tab has focused on).\n\nA: I needed this today, when I had to shut down several Macs.\nctrl + ⏏ Shows the shut down dialog. Type R to restart, S to sleep\nctrl + ⌥ + ⌘ + ⏏ Shuts the computer down\n⌥ + ⌘ + ⏏    sends computer to sleep\n⇧ + ctrl + ⏏    send display only to sleep (great for locking your computer instantly)\nctrl + ⌘ + ⏏ restarts the Mac\n⌥ + ⌘ + esc    lets you kill not responding programs (including the Finder)\nand one of my favorites\n⌘ + , gets you to preferences of almost every program\n\nA: I avoid using the mouse, so I like to start applications using Spotlight. You can launch Spotlight by pressing ⌘ + space. Once Spotlight is launched, type in application name and press enter.\nSo to start Safari without using the mouse, type:\n⌘ + space -> \"Safari\" -> ↩\n\nA: You can change screen brightness in quarter intervals by pressing ⌥ + ⇧ + Brightness Up / Down:\n\n\nA: I searched through all 5 pages of this thread and I'm surprised to find that nobody already mentioned this handy tip for Terminal.app:\nPress ctrl+R to bring up a search through your command history. It's a somewhat fuzzy search in that what you're typing doesn't have to be the initial characters of a command, but it still must be a contiguous section of the command.\nFor example, you could find a previous usage of curl by typing \"rl\" in the search... or \"post\" if the curl command you want to find was a POST.\nYou can also use the Up & Down arrows to flip through just the matching commands in your history.\n\nA: I prefer using the keyboard. Some shortcuts that kind of work together in Finder:\n\n\n*\n\n*⌘ + ↑ = Go to parent directory\n\n*⌘ + ↓ = Open selected directory/file\n\n*⌥⌘ + 2 = Clean up by type (see navigation bar for all the alternatives)\n\n\nAnd something I use all the time:\nWhen copy-pasting, ⌥⌘ + v (normal copy-pasting, but adding the option key when pasting) will move the file instead of copying it.\n\nA: While typing, just press F5 to get suggestions for what you're typing (almost equivalent to spell-check suggestions). Example:\n\n\nA: You can click on Dock app icons with modifier keys for special functions relating to that app:\n\n\n*\n\n*With the ⌘ key pressed, the clicked application will be shown in a Finder window (via @Mactip).\n\n*With the ⌥ key pressed, the clicked application will be hidden if it is visible.\n\n\nA: ⌘ + click on the title bar at the top of a Safari window to get a menu of URLs, each the same as the previous but with the last path component removed. Like this:\n\n\nA: When you use ⌘ + ⇥ to switch tabs, you can continue to hold ⌘ down and drag a file into any icon in the bezel.\nCombined with the trick of dragging from the proxy icon in the menubar, this is a powerful way to open a file in another application, especially if you rarely use your dock.\n\nA: In Safari, on a page that wants you to select a file for upload, instead of clicking \"browse\", you can usually just drag a file directly to the \"browse\" button. It will set the filename without even opening up the file dialog. \nSlightly recursive example below :)\n\n\nA: It’s possible to set a blazingly fast keyboard repeat rate, much faster than the maximum possible setting in System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard → Key Repeat.\n\nThe trick is to use this command in Terminal.app:\ndefaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0\n\nAfter that, log out and back in, or just reopen all applications.\nDisclaimer: This is just one of the many goodies in my .osx file.\n\nA: In Finder, select any number of files. Press ⌘ + ctrl + N to automatically have them moved to a new folder. \nGreat if you forgot to create a new folder before selecting files, and in general.\n\nA: This isn't really a \"feature\", just a way to customize OS X, but I still think it's useful:\nYou can edit the icons used by OS X at /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources\nYou can also change the login screen to your liking here\n/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources\n\nThere are so many ways to customize OS X... the dock, for example (/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources)\nAnd you don't really need to \"resource hack\" anything: just backup and change a couple png or tif files!\n\nA: The speech synthesizer, which is available from the command line, with the command say, knows how to correctly pronounce the operating system name:\nsay Mac OS X\n\nIt won't say \"MacOSex\", but \"Mac OhEs Ten\". That's attention to detail. It works even if you specify macosx as the argument.\n\nA: In Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal), open can be pretty handy. It can:\n\n  \n*\n  \n*launch programs by exact path to the executable\n  \n*launch any program in the PATH directories by executable name\n  \n\nIn Terminal, type open -a Application to launch an application that lives in the /Applications folder, or open <exact path to applcation> to launch an application that is anywhere on your computer.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*open files in default applications\n  \n\nJust us open <file>. open song.mp3 will open song.mp3 in the default audio player (in my case iTunes)\n\n  \n*\n  \n*open files with other applications\n  \n\nOpen a file with Mail.app (i.e. mail the file) open -a Mail homework.txt\n\n  \n*\n  \n*open a Finder window into a local directory\n  \n*open a Finder window into a network share\n  \n\nopen /Path/to/dir/ will launch the folder in Finder, whereas open . will open the current folder in Finder.\n\n  \n*\n  \n*open any URL with its default handler (e.g. a browser)\n  \n\nopen http://google.com will launch the default browser and open the url. It also works for FTP (but i have not tested anything else)\nFor more, just run man open in Terminal or see this page.\nFrom Super User\n\nA: It took me a while before I figured out that hitting the space bar while in Finder launches Quick Look on whatever is selected. VERY handy.\nAlso note that holding ⌥ while doing this throws you straight into the full-screen view.\n\nA: In most Mac apps (TextEdit, for example), you can ⌥-drag* to select a rectangular area of non-contiguous text.\n\nYou can also hold ⌘ while dragging to select multiple disjoint areas in a single selection.\n*Hold ⌥ while dragging your mouse over an area\n\nA: Running \npmset noidle\n\nor\ncaffeinate\n\nin Terminal will prevent your Mac from sleeping. Press Ctrl+C to stop.\n\nA: *\n\n*Select a bunch of text and drag to the desktop and it will make a text clipping.\n\n*Drag it back to a text window and it will dump the text there.\n\n*Double-click and you can view the  selectively copy for pasting elsewhere.\n\n*Install the quicklook extension and you can view text and pict clippings in quicklook.\n\n\nA: Hold down ⌥ and click TimeMachine Icon in the menubar. Now you can search/restore from other backups\nvia @MacTip\n\nA: In Terminal, if you hold option, your cursor turns into a small \"+\". While holding option, you can use this to highlight and copy any square/rectangular area of text instead of whole lines at a time.\n\nA: Often a simple spotlight query isn't enough.\nThe shortcut ⌥+⌘+space brings up the powerful finder search window no matter what app is running.\nNot only can you use the normal search types like kind:app or kind:mail but you can force spotlight to show you files that are normally hidden.\nThis is particularly useful to search for and inside hidden system files such as .ipsw packages, detailed logs and CoreServices utilities.\n\nYou may want to add System files to your default search menu for quicker access.\n\n\n*\n\n*first click the circle plus to the far right of the Save button to show the optional search filters\n\n*then choose other under the Kind dropdown \n\n*lastly search for System and check the include toggle.\n\n\nA: While you are using ⌘ + ⇥ to cycle through open applications, you can press Q before you release ⌘ to close the app. You can close several apps before release ⌘.\n\nA: A handy tip I discovered by accident.\nHighlight any file in an Open dialogue window, press the space bar and voila! there is your file in all it's glory.\n\nA: Use this plugin to allow QuickLook to view animated GIFs - Animated GIF QuickLook For Mac 1.0\n"
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        "text": "aeroscale.co.uk web\nmainAircraftAircraft: Props\nMesserschmitt Bf 109 G/K\nby: Rowan Baylis [ MERLIN ]\nAuthor Jakub Plewka's study of the ultimate wartime incarnations of Messerschmitt's famous fighter follows the established format of the Kagero Monograph series:\nFormat: Softbound A-4\n71 x pages of bilingual Polish/English text\n101 x B&W photos\n7 x pages of colour profiles\nFold-out colour centre section\nProduction tables\n21 x sheets of scale drawings\n1 x sheet of decals\nAfter a brief introduction describing the operational needs for developing the Bf 109, the author begins a quite detailed analysis of each variant of the Bf 109 G & K. In this very useful chapter, a short section is devoted to every version, from the Bf 109 G-0 through to the 'K-4, which includes manufacturing dates and numbers, details of the equipment specific to each mark along with a list of Rustsatze as appropriate. The translation of the Polish text is very readable with only occasional, minor, idiosyncrasies to give away its origins. The differences between the early marks are easy enough to follow, but the situation becomes much more complicated by the time we reach the 'G-10 - just as in real life. Thanks to chaotic production of this variant, the text demands careful reading, but the author does a good job untangling the nightmare of different \"stop-gap\" variants introduced by the three major production plants - all nominally the same, but actually far from identical.\nAlong the way, these sections form a kind of \"spotter's guide\" to the different production versions, and this theme is reinforced upon by the next section - \"How to identify a Gustav version?\". This is only a short section, but will be very useful for historians and modellers alike. How often are you faced with photos of machines in books - with either incomplete or misleading captions accompanying them? Well, with the aid of 3 photos of a particular aircraft, this guide shows how to analyse each photo, picking out distinctive features to rule out some versions and finally narrow the search down to arrive at an identity with a fair degree of confidence.\nNext up is a technical description of the 'G & 'K. This is quite comprehensive and covers the basic structure, through most of the systems from the engine, fuel and hydraulics etc., radio, armament and landing gear.\n\"Pilot's mark of Gustav\" is the slightly quirky title of a quite unusual section for a book of this nature. It forms a combination of pilot's notes and impressions of the fighter, from getting aboard, pre-flight checks and start-up through take-off into normal flight conditions. Further sections then discuss combat in the Gustav, landing and even emergency bale-out and crash-landing procedures. The only book I've ever read anything similar in was Capt. Eric Brown's \"Wings Of The Luftwaffe\", and it's a very interesting way to \"flesh out\" the bare bones of the machine.\nA real bonus is the inclusion of a full set of Bf 109 G & K production batch numbers - which is a real asset to accompany the earlier \"How to identify a Gustav?\". The charts include serial numbers, manufacturer and notes about the variant where known.\nLast, but not least, there is a discussion of the camouflage and markings applied in the various theatres where the 'G and 'K saw combat. Obviously, on a topic where entire volumes have been written, this cannot hope to cover the myriad of colour variations, but it does provide a good basic guide for anyone modelling a mid- to late-War Bf 109 and includes some details of internal colours to boot.\nPhotos and Illustrations\nThe text is illustrated throughout with some useful B&W photos which have been well chosen to illustrate the different versions. A few are \"old friends\", having often appeared in print before, but there plenty which are unfamiliar (to me at least). The photos deal almost exclusively with the exterior of the '109 (there aren't any photos of the cockpit, but there are several of the engine and nose armament - some seeming to originate in German technical manuals) and include a fair number of crash-landed or derelict aircraft which give an interesting insight into the variety of colour-schemes prevalent at the end of the War in Europe.\nAlong with the B&W photos, there's a colour centre section with a couple of quite well-known photos, plus a full-page fold-out of computer-generated 3-D artwork of a Bf 109 G-2 (Trop). This isn't entirely convincing and appears to be the type of 3-D model featured in flight simulators with texture-mapped details, while some of the contours, the airfoil and the canopy area all look rather suspect. On the plus side, the section also includes a set of 3-D illustrations of the cockpit and and instrument panel which work rather better. It's certainly an unusual approach, but I think most modellers would prefer some detailed cockpit photos as a reference.\nTurning to more conventional artwork, the book includes an excellent set of 7 full-colour profiles. These are beautifully reproduced and, most importantly from a modeller's perspective, include views of both sides of each aircraft, plus a plan view and details of the underwing markings. The subjects give an excellent cross-section of striking colour schemes, including a Bf 109 G-2 which is the subject of an accompanying sheet of decals.\nThe decals are beautifully printed by Techmod in 1/32, 1/48 and 1/72 scales, being thin and glossy with minimal carrier film. The sheet includes a full set of stencil data in each scale and the registration and printing is perfect, with the tiny text legible with the aid of a magnifier even in 1/72 scale.\nThe plans section will be of great value to modellers. Sheets 1-10 cover the Bf109 G-1 to 'G-4 in 1/48 scale, with enlargements of areas such as the armament and undercarriage. The drawings include full cross-sections and riveting patterns, plus ETC 50/VIIId pannier and Mg 151/20 underwing cannon-pod. The main Bf 109 G-2 5-view plan is repeated in 1/32 scale, which should be popular with anyone building the Hasegawa / Revell kits.\nSheets 11 - 19 are a series of 1/72 scale plans covering every version from the 'G-0 through to the K-4, highlighting the differences in an effective visual guide.\nSheet 20 is a 1/72 scale placement guide for national insignia, while Sheet 21 is a stencilling guide for the 'G-2, 'G-6, G'-10/U4 and 'G-14\nThis is a very useful guide to the Bf109 G/K series. It is well aimed at modellers with it's emphasis on identifying the different versions and the inclusion of scale plans will increase its usefulness as a long-term reference. The colour profiles will definitely serve to inspire some spectacular models and, while markings are only included for one aircraft, the excellent set of stencilling in 3 major modelling scales is a real bonus. Recommended.\nThank you to MMD-Squadron for kindly supplying the review sample.\nKagero can usually be relied upon to add a unique twist or two in their excellent series of aircraft monographs and this is certainly true of the latest volume about the Messerschmitt Bf 109G/K.\nDETAIL: 80%\nPHOTO COVERAGE: 60%\nCOLOUR PROFILES & DECALS: 80%\nMfg. ID: ISBN 83-89088-77-0\nAbout Rowan Baylis (Merlin)\nFROM: NO REGIONAL SELECTED, UNITED KINGDOM\nI've been modelling for about 40 years, on and off. While I'm happy to build anything, my interests lie primarily in 1/48 scale aircraft. I mostly concentrate on WW2 subjects, although I'm also interested in WW1, Golden Age aviation and the early Jet Age - and have even been known to build the occas...\nCopyright ©2019 text by Rowan Baylis [ MERLIN ]. Images also by copyright holder unless otherwise noted. Opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of AeroScale. All rights reserved.\nCopyright ©2019 AeroScale and Kitmaker Network, a subsidiary of Silver Star Enterprises\nAeroScale Visitors\n4 Members online: 27-1025, dinovision79, gastec, T0MM0-0172 non-logged in visitors\n2745 is the record for most users online at AeroScale on January 03, 2019. 3881 is the record for most users online at KitMaker Network."
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        "text": "Q: Can I mirror my iPad's display using the VGA adapter for use in a presentation? I would love to be able to mirror the display of my iPad on a projector for use in a presentation. Is there any software available to do this - on the AppStore or if necessary for use with a jailbroken iPad?\n\nA: There's no official way to achieve this.\nYou have to jailbreak your iPad and use a software like DisplayOut (works on all iDevices) to do this.\n\nA: Just for clarification: \nWith the iPad2, every app is mirrored on the VGA adapter by default, without any additional measures.\n\nA: As Studer mentioned, there is no official way to do so. you can use the DisplayOut software for Jailbroken iPads.\nIf you're more developer oriented, there is also \nthis option\n"
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        "text": "Q: Scrolling Settings - \"Throw\" I was trying to change my scrolling settings to keep the screen from scrolling when I take my hands off the touchpad.  Right now, if I do a two-finger scroll, and take my fingers off the pad while keeping my hand moving, the screen continues to scroll, like a throw.  I would like this behavior to stop.\nI have a MacBook Pro running Leopard\nThanks!\n\nA: You can remove the inertia for the two fingers scroll, just select \"without inertia\" under Trackpad inside the System Preferences :\n\n\nA: In your Trackpad system preferences panel, under Two Fingers, change the \"Scroll with Inertia\" option. That should stop it.\n"
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        "text": "Q: What are some of your best iTunes add-ins? I realized recently that iTunes has add-ins.\nWhat are the add-ins that add value to iTunes on Windows?\nOne add-in per answer please.\n\nA: Doug's Scripts is a fantastic collection of AppleScripts for iTunes that perform a whole array of functions. I've often made us of them to help detect duplicate songs and just generally keep my music library neat and tidy.\n\nA: When I edit my mp3 tags with external tools, then I use needledrop to force iTunes to refresh its internal database with updated tags content (by playing each file a few seconds).\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "21 февруари е 52-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 313 дни до края на годината (314 през високосна година). \n\nСв. Евстатий, архиепископ Антиохийски, на този ден именници са Евстати, Евстатий и Евстатия.\n\nСъбития \n 1613 г. – Михаил Романов е избран за цар на Русия.\n 1719 г. – Улрика Елеонора се възкача на престола на Швеция и премахва абсолютната монархия в тази държава.\n 1784 г. – Кримският пристанищен град Ахтиар е преименуван на Севастопол.\n 1788 г. – Австрия обявява война на Османската империя.\n 1804 г. – Ричард Тревитик създава първия парен локомотив в света.\n 1848 г. – Карл Маркс и Фридрих Енгелс публикуват Комунистическия манифест.\n 1864 г. – Вселенският патриарх Софроний III Константинополски свиква в Цариград църковен събор по българския църковен въпрос.\n 1878 г. – Великият руски княз Николай Николаевич предава ултиматум на Високата порта за влизане на руски части в Сан Стефано.\n 1885 г. – Във Вашингтон е открит Вашингтонският монумент – най-високият в света монумент (169,3 м), посветен на първия президент на САЩ Джордж Вашингтон.\n 1907 г. – При корабокрушението на пътническия параход Берлин край Холандия загиват 144 души.\n 1916 г. – Първа световна война: Започва Битката при Вердюн във Франция.\n\n 1918 г. – Първа световна война: Английските войски превземат Йерихон от турците\n 1929 г. – Франция отказва убежище на Лев Троцки.\n 1938 г. – Във Великобритания Уинстън Чърчил започва протестна кампания срещу премиера Невил Чембърлейн.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: 200 германски войници от дивизията за диверсии Бранденбург влизат в България и поемат контрола над основните стратегически обекти.\n 1947 г. – В САЩ е произведен първият фотоапарат Полароид.\n 1948 г. – Създадена е НАСКАР.\n 1960 г. – Фидел Кастро издава указ за национализация на частната индустрия в Куба.\n 1961 г. – Леон Мба се оттегля от позицията си като министър-председател на Габон.\n 1965 г. – Американският чернокож правозащитник Малкълм Екс е убит в Ню Йорк от членове на „Нацията на исляма“.\n 1972 г. – Съветският безпилотен космически апарат Луна 20 каца на Луната.\n 1986 г. – Земетресение от 6-а степен по Скалата на Медведев-Шпонхойер-Карник разлюлява Стражица и нанася значителни материални поражения в района.\n 1992 г. – XXXVI народно събрание на България приема Закон за реституцията, с който се възстановява социалната справедливост по отношение на бившите собственици, нарушена от Народната власт след 9 септември 1944 г.\n 2002 г. – В Египет 370 пътници загиват при най-голямата железопътна катастрофа в тази страна.\n\nРодени \n\n 1728 г. – Петър III, император на Русия († 1762 г.)\n 1791 г. – Карл Черни, австрийски композитор († 1867 г.)\n 1795 г. – Антонио Лопес де Санта Ана, мексикански военачалник и политик († 1876 г.)\n 1836 г. – Лео Делиб, френски композитор († 1891 г.)\n 1858 г. – Олдфийлд Томас, британски зоолог († 1929 г.)\n 1866 г. – Август фон Васерман, германски микробиолог († 1925 г.)\n 1876 г. – Пьотр Кончаловски, руски художник († 1956 г.)\n 1880 г. – Георги Казепов, български революционер и учител († 1923 г.)\n 1885 г. – Саша Гитри, френски драматург с руски произход († 1957 г.)\n 1892 г. – Хари Стек Съливан, американски психиатър († 1949 г.)\n 1895 г. – Хенрик Дам, датски биохимик и физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1943 г. († 1976 г.)\n 1903 г. – Анаис Нин, американска писателка († 1977 г.)\n 1903 г. – Реймон Кьоно, френски писател († 1976 г.)\n 1911 г. – Лео Конфорти, български актьор († 1970 г.)\n 1915 г. – Ан Шеридън, американска актриса († 1967 г.)\n 1924 г. – Робърт Мугабе, президент на Зимбабве († 2019 г.)\n 1927 г. – Юбер дьо Живанши, френски моден дизайнер († 2018 г.)\n 1933 г. – Нина Симон, американска певица († 2003 г.)\n 1934 г. – Иван Божков, български ветеринар и политик\n 1937 г. – Харалд V, крал на Норвегия\n 1939 г. – Дончо Папазов, български мореплавател\n 1942 г. – Вера Алентова, руска актриса\n 1943 г. – Людмила Улицка, руски писател\n 1946 г. – Алан Рикман, британски актьор († 2016 г.)\n 1952 г. – Нери Терзиева, българска журналистка\n 1953 г. – Тодор Барзов, български футболист\n 1953 г. – Уилям Питърсън, американски актьор\n 1960 г. – Пламен Орешарски, български финансист\n\n 1961 г. – Жоро Илчев, български политик и инженер, кмет на Провадия\n 1962 г. – Чък Паланюк – американски писател и журналист\n 1963 г. – Уилям Болдуин, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Абдулрахман Акра, палестински поет и писател\n 1976 г. – Мила Георгиева, българска цигуларка\n 1979 г. – Дженифър Лав Хюит, американска актриса\n 1979 г. – Паскал Шимбонда, френски футболист\n* 1980 г. – Тициано Феро, италиански певец\n 1981 г. – Флор Янсен, холандска певица\n 1986 г. – Гара Дембеле, френски футболист\n 1987 г. – Бърджес Абърнеди, австралийски актьор\n 1987 г. – Елън Пейдж, канадска актриса\n 1989 г. – Корбън Блу, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1513 г. – Папа Юлий II (* 1443 г.)\n 1575 г. – Клод Валоа, херцогиня на Лотарингия (* 1542 г.)\n 1677 г. – Барух Спиноза, холандски философ (* 1632 г.)\n 1730 г. – Бенедикт XIII, римски папа (* 1649 г.)\n 1846 г. – Нинко, император на Япония (* 1800 г.)\n 1876 г. – Мария Николаевна, велика руска княгиня (* 1819 г.)\n 1913 г. – Петър Данчов, български юрист (* 1857 г.)\n 1920 г. – Асен Петров, български хирург, учен и преподавател (* 1862 г.)\n 1920 г. – Владимир Маковски, руски художник (* 1846 г.)\n 1923 г. – Коста Петров, деец на БКП (* 1888 г.)\n 1926 г. – Хейке Камерлинг Онес, холандски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1913 г. (* 1853 г.)\n 1934 г. – Аугусто Сесар Сандино, никарагуански национален герой (* 1895 г.)\n 1940 г. – Георги Абаджиев, български офицер (* 1859 г.)\n 1941 г. – Фредерик Бантинг, канадски ендокринолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1923 г. (* 1891 г.)\n 1947 г. – Стефан Бончев, родоначалник на българската геология (* 1870 г.)\n 1965 г. – Малкълм Екс, американски чернокож правозащитник (* 1925 г.)\n 1967 г. – Волф Албах-Рети, австрийски актьор (* 1906 г.)\n 1968 г. – Хауърд Флори, австралийски и британски фармаколог, Нобелов лауреат през 1945 г. (* 1898 г.)\n 1973 г. – Никола Мирчев, български художник (* 1921 г.)\n 1974 г. – Ламар, български писател (* 1898 г.)\n 1977 г. – Христо Динев, български артист (* 1900 г.)\n 1980 г. – Алфред Андерш, немски белетрист и поет (* 1914 г.)\n 1984 г. – Михаил Шолохов, руски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. (* 1905 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ирина Тасева, българска актриса (* 1910 г.)\n 1991 г. – Нутан Бел, индийска актриса (* 1936 г.)\n 1999 г. – Гъртруд Елайон, американска биохимичка и фармаколожка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1988 г. (* 1918 г.)\n 2002 г. – Джон Тоу, британски актьор (* 1942 г.)\n 2004 г. – Джон Чарлс, уелски футболист и треньор (* 1931 г.)\n 2014 г. – Джоко Росич, български актьор (* 1932 г.)\n 2014 г. – Веселин Бранев, български сценарист и режисьор (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН/ЮНЕСКО – Международен ден на майчиния език (от 1999 г.)\n България – Ден на оказване на признателност към лицата, съпротивлявали се срещу нацизма в Република България (от 2017 г.)\n\nИзточници \n\n221"
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        "text": "Q: What is the best option to protect our Laptop? Because any MacBook Pro in a table can be easily pick up by thieves, and we do have always our current work there (though all backed up, by Dropbox or external HD), my question is\n\nShould we protect the access to our hard drive? \n\nYou would probably, if you travel a lot say yes, but\n\nWhat software should we use to protect our work with a password?\n\n... and, for example, after 3 wrong attempts, maybe erase all folders that we specified without an option to get it back?\nKinda like what iPhone give us in a business environment that we can, remotely, erase all personal data. \n\nA: Install Prey.\n\n\"Prey is a lightweight application\n  that will help you track and find your\n  laptop if it ever gets stolen. It\n  works in all operating systems and not\n  only is it Open Source but also\n  completely free.\"\n\n\nA: For starters, encrypting your Home folder using FileVault (in the Security Preferences pane) is always a good idea. You might notice a bit of a performance hit (some people say they do, others don't notice a difference), but the tradeoff of additional security can give you some extra peace of mind.\nAs far as an iPhone-esque \"wipe memory after [x] failed login attempts\" function, the OS doesn't have anything like that built in, so you'd need to search out a 3rd party solution. I don't have any recommendations offhand for that, but likely someone else here could point you in the right direction.\n\nA: I bought a cable lock that I use whenever I'm not at home and need to step away from my laptop, even if only for a few moments.  I lock the screen with password protection and attach the cable lock to the laptop and something that would be difficult if not impossible to move.\n\nA: The already mentioned FileVault will certainly help, but it must be coupled with a strong password. \nIn any case, the FileVault solution sometimes proves to be a problem, as it is known to have inconvenience to some pieces of software. If your intention is to completely wipe the system you have a few alternatives:\n1) One would be to use a service like Lojack for Laptops, that has the option to remotely wipe the box. It’s basically has a service that will connect every 15 mins to their server to “check” if the Laptop is ok, if not, it will proceed to do different things (erasing information being one of the options).\n2) You could do the above if you have scripting abilities and a webserver that you can upload files to. The basic idea consists in creating a script that will be executed upon boot (using Launchd), that will connect to your webserver and check for the existence of a file. E.g.: www.yourserver.com/mycomputer_erase.txt\nIf the file is found, then the script can execute a series of commands or something as simple as: \nrm -rf /Users/youruser\n\nYou can go beyond that and use applescript to perform other tasks, like taking pictures or uploading stuff via ftp or even dropbox. \nThe concerns about #2 are: \nWhat if I want to know where my laptop is? You can check your webserver logs to see who accessed the file and when. \nWhat if my laptop gets erased before they turn it on or connect it? Well, this is basically not your problem, as you want your data to be erased, not your laptop to be recovered :)\nLooking for a solution like #2, I came across this -not so new- post of a guy who did it with a Perl script. The post is from 2006, but it may help you go in the right direction. You can find it here.\nIn any case, all of the above could be certainly used in conjunction with FileVault. \nFinally, make sure you have a backup of your data before experimenting with the scripts (or at least change the ‘rm’ command to something harmless ;)\n"
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        "text": "Wilson's Creek\nAuthor Bookstand is proud to offer Wilson's Creek by Bookstand Publishing. Bookstand Publishing offers books by the best indie authors throughout North America and the world. Bookstand Publishing is dedicated to offering original content to a broad audience and promoting great authors, literacy, and freedom of expression. Wilson's Creek has generated a lot of interest and excitement and we think it would be an excellent addition to your library.\n\"Dr. Bob\" Ridgway graduated from Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California-Davis. After graduation, he worked at a veterinary hospital in Topeka, Kansas. He entered the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and became Director of the Animal Medicine Division on Okinawa. He later completed a Comparative Medicine residency at the Madigan Army Medical Center. He graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He was Treasurer of the District of Columbia Academy of Veterinary Medicine for 14 years. He served as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the District of Columbia Veterinary Medical Association. He was the first Army officer to be in charge of the Department of Defense Military Dog Veterinary Service at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He completed a Master's of International Management degree at the University of Maryland, University College. After retiring from the Army, he worked at Covance Laboratories, Banfield Pet Hospital, and Orange County Animal Services in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Ridgway is a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.\nMayflower Arab: A Memoir\nGrowing Up Aleluya\nFrom These Roots\nGays Are Earthlings and Very Human\nBlessings and Betrayals: A True Story of...\nMy Years on the Radio - 1996 - 2000"
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        "text": "Q: Are there any apps to diagnose a Macbook battery? My girlfriend's battery won't last 1 second, so it obviously needs replaced.\nBut I just bought a new battery from Apple a few months ago and it seems to discharge extremely quickly.  Are there any apps out there that would help me diagnose if I just need to buy another new one?\n\nA: They are several solutions : \n\n\n*\n\n*coconutBattery, the most famous one.\n\n*Watts seems nice even if I never manage to finish to calibration setup …\n\n*Battery Health if you want a free one.\n\n\nYou can also use the built-in tool System Profiler to check your battery : \n\n\n\n\nA: I can suggest some easy hint to inform you about the health of your battery:\ngo to utilities > System Profiler      select Hardware > Power > Battery Information\nThe third section is Health Information, where you can find out the current condition of your battery. As in the following screenshot, the Cycle count is 213, which means the battery has been discharged and recharged 213 times. And its current Condition is Normal.\n\nAlso, you can install Battery Health Monitor to get more information about your battery.\n\nAlso, it's a good read about the maximum Cycle count of your battery\n\nA: On my MacBook, if I opt-click on the battery in my menu bar, it gives me current the condition of my battery.\n\nYou can also use iStat to show the current state of your battery.\n\n\nA: While it's possible it's a bad battery - what programs are running on the computer? If you use Activity Monitor is CPU usage consistently \"high\" (say >50% in this case)?\nPrograms such as coconutBattery can give you the stats on your battery - telling you how much of a charge your battery still holds and how many load cycles have been done on your battery. If your current Battery capacity is under 25% it may very well be a good time to get a new battery. Under 10% for sure. If the new battery is less than 50% battery capacity in less than 6 months give AppleCare a call, they do have a warranty on their batteries but it's relatively limited.\n\nA: Coconut Battery will provide you the vitals on your batteries capacity, as well as how much that capacity has deteriorated since purchase. In general though, the Battery is pretty unlikely to be the actual problem. Check your power settings, particularly if you have a Pro machine with dual graphics cards.\nIn addition, I've noticed substantial improvements in the accuracy of the on-screen 'remaining power' estimates on brand new macs by 'calibrating' the battery as Apple recommends -  essentially, charge the laptop to full, then use it until the battery is completely empty, then charge it up to full once more.\n\nA: There are obviously a lot of factors to consider (machine specs, what apps your running, etc.), but if you want a sanity check from someone who had a similar experience:\nI replaced a basically dead battery in a same-era MacBook, and the new battery never lasted longer than two hours (although the battery indicator often claimed it would go for 3ish), and generally went down after closer to one if I was using wifi, processor-intensive apps, etc.\n\nA: When you say \"extremely quickly,\" how long are you talking about? One hour? 90 minutes? 30 minutes?\nMy early-2008 MBP with the original battery will still squeeze in two downloaded episodes of a 1-hr TV show without commercials (so think about 90 minutes of full-screen video) before the battery goes flat. iStat is still reporting the battery health at around 80%.\n\nA: Battery Health Monitor has a nice clean UI; but it seems to have been last updated years ago. The documentation says it is \"a handy utility for PowerBook and iBook users.\" Not encouraging given that I have a MacBook Pro, and the first of those were introduced in 2006. It does seem to produce sensible output that agrees with System Profiler, however.\n\nA: I believe the rated life of the old 2007 MacBook batteries is 4-5 hours of use. Though actual time will be different depending on your usage (heavy WIFI usage, watching videos, etc. will drain your battery quicker). If you're getting significantly less than that off a brand new battery, it is probably defective.\n\nA: I have a late 2007 MBP, and have had bad luck with battery life. Fortunately for me, Apple has been kind enough to replace them.\nIf your battery is less than a year old, and iStat says the health is abnormally low (70% is the guideline I've seen), try taking it to the Genius bar; they may replace it under warranty.\n"
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        "text": "English and language professors wondered how to increase enrollment in face of plunging enrollment.\nThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is upset at apparent attempts by the Trump Administration to change the vocabulary of federal employees, such as doctors and staff at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).\nA resolution to boycott Israel was rejected by the Modern Language Association, which has resisted such efforts in the recent past.\nNo, anti-Israel critics, Israel is not like apartheid South Africa, contends English professor Cary Nelson.\nIn our latest visit to the Modern Language Association, we discover, once again, that if you love literature, you may want to avoid most English courses."
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        "text": "Q: My personal settings on OS X disappear after booting Windows (XP or 7) on my MacBook Pro I installed Windows 7 (and XP before) on my MacBook Pro and whenever I boot my Windows and after that boot my OS X my clock shows the wrong time and my login items that I set in the system preference > Accounts disappear! \nI have also lost my second language added! Indeed I lost all my specimen settings.\nSomeone told me that's because MBP don't have BIOS and that causes the problem to happen. Does anyone know how must I solve it?\nP.S: asked this question before on superuser and get this answer about to edit registry and set RealTimeIsUniversal to 1.\n\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TimeZoneInformation\n\nbut it just solve the time problem.\nthis is my login items but I don't think it related to apps was set here because I changed them many times and still have the problem.\n\n\nA: Try to backup and delete the file under ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist\nThis will remove the login item you have and Mac OS X will create a new (clean) one.\nFor more information:  \n\n\n*\n\n*Do you by any chance use some kind of app cleaner on your Mac that would delete .plist files?\n\n*When on Windows, do you mount your Mac partition with read access?\n\n\nA: About the time :\nYou have to tell Windows that the clock is UTC.\nTo do this, edit the following in the registry :\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\n SYSTEM\n  CurrentControlSet\n   Control\n    TimeZoneInformation\n     RealTimeIsUniversal\n\nand set it to a DValue of 1.\n"
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        "text": "using System;\nusing System.Collections.Generic;\nusing System.Data;\nusing System.Data.Entity;\nusing System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;\nusing System.Linq;\nusing System.Net;\nusing System.Net.Http;\nusing System.Web.Http;\nusing System.Web.Http.Description;\nusing WebApiControllers.Models;\n\nnamespace WebApiControllers.Controllers\n{\n    [RoutePrefix(\"api\")]\n    public class WA2ProductsController : ApiController\n    {\n        private WACDBContext db = new WACDBContext();\n\n\n        [HttpGet]\n        [Route(\"w2Products\")]\n        public IQueryable<Product> m1()\n        {\n            return db.Products;\n        }\n\n        [HttpGet]\n        [Route(\"w2Products/{id}\")]\n        [ResponseType(typeof(Product))]\n        public IHttpActionResult m2(int id)\n        {\n            Product product = db.Products.Find(id);\n            if (product == null)\n            {\n                return NotFound();\n            }\n\n            return Ok(product);\n        }\n\n        [HttpPut]\n        [Route(\"w2Products/{id}\")]\n        [ResponseType(typeof(void))]\n        public IHttpActionResult m3(int id, Product product)\n        {\n            if (!ModelState.IsValid)\n            {\n                return BadRequest(ModelState);\n            }\n\n            if (id != product.Id)\n            {\n                return BadRequest();\n            }\n\n            db.Entry(product).State = EntityState.Modified;\n\n            try\n            {\n                db.SaveChanges();\n            }\n            catch (DbUpdateConcurrencyException)\n            {\n                if (!ProductExists(id))\n                {\n                    return NotFound();\n                }\n                else\n                {\n                    throw;\n                }\n            }\n\n            return StatusCode(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);\n        }\n\n        [HttpPost]\n        [Route(\"w2Products\")]\n        [ResponseType(typeof(Product))]\n        public IHttpActionResult PostProduct(Product product)\n        {\n            if (!ModelState.IsValid)\n            {\n                return BadRequest(ModelState);\n            }\n\n            db.Products.Add(product);\n            db.SaveChanges();\n\n            return CreatedAtRoute(\"DefaultApi\", new { id = product.Id }, product);\n        }\n\n        [HttpDelete]\n        [Route(\"w2Products/{id}\")]\n        [ResponseType(typeof(Product))]\n        public IHttpActionResult DeleteProduct(int id)\n        {\n            Product product = db.Products.Find(id);\n            if (product == null)\n            {\n                return NotFound();\n            }\n\n            db.Products.Remove(product);\n            db.SaveChanges();\n\n            return Ok(product);\n        }\n\n        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)\n        {\n            if (disposing)\n            {\n                db.Dispose();\n            }\n            base.Dispose(disposing);\n        }\n\n        private bool ProductExists(int id)\n        {\n            return db.Products.Count(e => e.Id == id) > 0;\n        }\n    }\n}"
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        "text": "Matches:List of Indo-Iranian languages\n* List of Indo-Iranian languages *\nفهرست زبان های هند و ایرانی\n(Wikipedia) - Indo-Iranian languages (Redirected from List of Indo-Iranian languages)\nIndo-Iranian\nGeographic distribution: Eastern Europe, West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia\nLinguistic classification: Indo-European\nProto-language: Proto-Indo-Iranian\nSubdivisions:\nIndo-Aryan\nNuristani\nISO 639-5: iir\nGlottolog: indo1320\nThe approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches of Eurasia: Indo-Iranian\nThe Indo-Iranian languages, or Indo-Iranic languages, also known as the Aryan languages, constitute the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. It is also the largest branch, with more than 1 billion speakers stretching from Europe (Jasz) and the Caucasus (Ossetian) eastward to Xinjiang (Sarikoli) and Assam (Assamese) and south to Maldives (Dhivehi).\n1 Languages\nIndo-Iranian consists of three groups:\nThe largest in terms of native speakers are Hindustani (Hindi–Urdu, ~590 million), Bengali (205 million), Punjabi (100 million), Marathi (75 million), Persian (60 million), Pashto (ca. 50 million), Gujarati (50 million), Kurdish (35 million), Bhojpuri (40 million), Awadhi (40 million), Maithili (35 million), Oriya (35 million), Marwari (30 million), Sindhi (25 million), Rajasthani (20 million), Chhattisgarhi (18 million), Assamese (15 million), Sinhalese (16 million), Nepali (17 million), Balochi (30 million), and Rangpuri (15 million).\nThe Indo-Iranian languages derive from a reconstructed common proto-language, called Proto-Indo-Iranian.\nIndo-Iranian languages were once spoken across an even wider area. The Scythians, were described by Roman writer Strabo as inhabiting the lands to the north of the Black Sea in present-day Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. The river-names Don, Dnieper, Danube etc. are possibly of Indo-Iranian origin. The so-called Migration Period saw Indo-Iranian languages disappear from Eastern Europe, apart from the ancestor of Ossetian in the Caucasus, with the arrival of the Turkic-speaking Pechenegs and others by the 8th century AD.\nThe oldest attested Indo-Iranian languages are Vedic Sanskrit (ancient Indo-Aryan), Older and Younger Avestan and Old Persian (ancient Iranian languages). A few words from a fourth language (very closely related to Indo-Aryan; see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and Syria and the Hittite kingdom in Anatolia.\nThis section requires expansion. (April 2014)\nInnovations shared with other languages affected by the satem sound changes include:\nFronting and assibilation of the Proto-Indo-European palato-velar stops: *ḱ, *ǵʰ, *ǵ > *ĉ, *ĵʰ, *ĵ\nThe merger of the PIE labiovelar and plain velar stops: *kʷ, *gʷʰ, *gʷ > *k, *gʰ, *g\nThe Ruki sound law\nInnovations shared with Greek include:\nThe vocalization of the PIE syllabic nasals *m̥, *n̥ to *a\nGrassmann''s law\nInnovations unique to Indo-Iranian include:\nThe lowering of PIE *e to *a\n*o was also lowered to *a, though this occurred in several other Indo-European languages as well.\nBrugmann''s law\nTags:Anatolia, Asia, Bengali, Caucasus, Central Asia, Danube, Europe, Greek, Hindustani, Hittite, ISO, Iranian, Kurdish, Maldives, Mesopotamia, Old Persian, Persian, Proto-Indo-Iranian, Roman, Romania, Sanskrit, Scythians, South Asia, Syria, Ukraine, Urdu, Vedic, Wikipedia\nAdd definition or comments on List of Indo-Iranian languages\nUpon approval, your definition will be listed under: List of Indo-Iranian languages"
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        "text": "Heesen has been on a roll this year with seven superyacht deliveries in the last 12 months, four of which are summer arrivals.\nThe first of the four to be delivered this summer is the 55 metre Quinta Essentia, whose launch we reported on in March, and last in line is the 37 metre Aurelia, which splashed in June.\nOf the other two due for delivery imminently, Ariadna is the seventh yacht in Heesen’s award-winning 47-Metre class. What really makes her stand out from the crowd is her classical Moscow Ritz-Carlton-inspired interior, which Frank Laupman from Omega Architects was commissioned to design by her owner. Unusually, the owner's suite is on the upper deck aft, which has the advantage of extra privacy and magnificent panoramic views. Its opulent master bathroom has a freestanding classical bath with 24-carat gold-plated taps and Swarovski knobs. The similarly sized and adorned VIP cabin is located forward on the main deck, while the guest cabins, notable for their unique, classically-styled table and floor lamps, are positioned on the lower deck.\nAriadna is a full displacement yacht, with a steel hull. She is powered by twin MTU 8V 4000 M70 engines which achieve a top speed of 15.5 knots, while giving her a range of 4,000 nautical miles at 12 knots.\nThe other delivery is hull number YN 15850, the second vessel in the new 50 metre all-aluminium class of below 500GT. Frank Laupman of Omega Architects also did her interior design alongside the owner's own design company Star Design Ltd, and Italian furniture manufacturer Domusnova transformed the ideas into reality. Notable features include the electrically-powered, expandable dining table constructed from from glass that occupies the aft part of the main saloon, and the fireplace in the upper saloon. The hull is painted a distinctive grey, providing an elegant contrast against the white superstructure and stainless steel detailing.\nThis semi-displacement yacht's naval architecture came from the boards of Heesen and Van Oossanen & Associates and she is fitted with a pair of MTU 16V 4000 M90 engines which top 23 knots.\nHeesen’s current order book now stretches into 2014, with 11 yachts from 40 metres to 65 metres in design or construction.\nThe seventh delivery of 2011 will take place in late December when YN 15555, the first 55 metre displacement yacht, will join the Heesen fleet."
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        "text": "Wyatt, Joseph (1788–1860)\nby H. L. Oppenheim\nJoseph Wyatt (1788-1860), theatre lessee and owner, settled in Sydney in the early days and made his money as a haberdasher at 16 Pitt Street. In October 1833 he sold his Cheap Wholesale and Retail Warehouse and invested in property. His first theatrical venture began in April 1835 when he was one of the six lessees who took over Barnett Levey's Theatre Royal. In May 1836 when Levey resumed nominal ownership Wyatt became the sole lessee, paying him the total amount of £30 a week, which previously had been paid by the group of six lessees. Two months later it became known that Wyatt had begun planning his own larger theatre; he was given the assurance that the governor 'will be very glad to see a more commodious theatre erected in Sydney'. Yet when the Victoria Theatre opened in March 1838 its size, a capacity of 2000, proved rather a disadvantage: Sydney's audience potential was too small to allow the building up of a proper repertoire; there was need for constant change of programme which led to badly rehearsed and shoddily produced performances. When opening the Victoria Theatre Wyatt had purchased the lease of the old Theatre Royal from Levey's widow and in years to come he fought every attempt which threatened his monopoly of the theatre in Sydney.\nIn March 1841 Wyatt sailed for England to bring out performers for the Victoria Theatre. During his absence the management was in the hands of William Knight, a hotel owner, who might also have been one of the six lessees of the Theatre Royal and who until December 1845 was part-owner of the Victoria. After Knight left Wyatt shared the management with Frederick Gibson, his brother-in-law.\nThe first group of actors engaged by Wyatt in England came to Sydney in October 1842; the others arrived with him in January 1843. By this time the Sydney actors who had played the decisive part in the young Australian theatre protested against this influx of newcomers and the direct result was the emergence of Joseph Simmons's City Theatre. Of the new engagements the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 1843, wrote: 'Mr Wyatt certainly made a most unfortunate selection of performers. Of the twelve brought out by him from England there is not one equal in ability to the leading members, male or female, of the old company'.\nIn 1854 Wyatt sold the Victoria, and in March 1855 opened the Prince of Wales Theatre in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. The building cost was above £30,000 but was sold for £10,000 five years later. Joseph Wyatt died on 20 July 1860, and was buried at St Stephen's cemetery, Newtown. It may be said that his purely commercial approach has left its mark on Australian theatre to this day.\nCoppin, George Selth (acquaintance)\nH. L. Oppenheim, 'Wyatt, Joseph (1788–1860)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wyatt-joseph-2820/text4041, published first in hardcopy 1967, accessed online 16 July 2019.\nNewtown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia\ntheatrical manager"
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        "text": "22 февруари е 53-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 312 дни до края на годината (313 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 1358 г. – По време на Парижкото въстание граждани превземат кралския дворец.\n 1540 г. – Мари дьо Гиз е официално коронована за кралица на Шотландия.\n 1635 г. – Създадена е Френската академия по заповед на кардинал Ришельо.\n 1825 г. – Русия и Великобритания определят границата между Аляска и Канада.\n 1831 г. – Мария-Анна Савойска и Фердинанд I се венчават във Виена в катедралата на кардинала на Оломоуц.\n 1840 г. – Град Форт Уейн получава статут на град.\n 1848 г. – С антиправителствен митинг в Париж започва Френската революция.\n\n 1887 г. – Екзекутирани са участниците в Офицерския бунт в България.\n 1892 г. – За първи път е изнесена комедийната пиеса на Оскар Уайлд „Ветрилото на лейди Уиндърмиър“.\n 1897 г. – Държавата въвежда задължителен депозит от всички печатни произведения в народните библиотеки в София и Пловдив.\n 1899 г. – Статутът на българското дипломатическо представителство в Белград е изравнен с този на независимите държави.\n 1901 г. – Открито е XI обикновено народно събрание.\n 1911 г. – Канада гласува да остане в състава на Британската империя.\n 1928 г. – Със спектакъла Копелия се поставя началото на българския балет.\n 1932 г. – Нацистите избират Хитлер за кандидат-президент.\n 1943 г. – Холокостът и България: България сключва договор с Германия за поетапна депортация на българските евреи в концентрационни лагери.\n 1945 г. – Вселенската патриаршия в Цариград отменя схизмата против Българската православна църква и провъзгласява автокефалността ѝ.\n 1952 г. – Тържествено е открит на гранитен постамент бронзов паметник на Александър Пушкин в естествен ръст, изработен от Петко Задгорски, в Морската градина на Бургас.\n 1956 г. – Елвис Пресли за първи път попада в музикалния хит парад с песента Heartbreak Hotel.\n 1957 г. – Австралийският плувец Джон Конрадс започва серията си от шест световни рекорда, поставени за 2 дни.\n 1965 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Краят на една ваканция“.\n 1967 г. – Сухарто става президент на Индонезия на мястото на Сукарно.\n 1967 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „Най-дългата нощ“.\n 1972 г. – Президентът на САЩ Ричард Никсън посещава Китай за разговори на високо равнище.\n 1974 г. – Пакистан признава Бангладеш за независима държава.\n 1974 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „Баща ми бояджията“.\n 1975 г. – Извършен е първият полет на Су-25.\n 1980 г. – Стартира телевизионното предаване „Минута е много“.\n 1981 г. – Иран освобождава трима английски мисионери.\n 1991 г. – Народно събрание приема Закон за аграрна реформа – връщане на земята на бившите ѝ собственици.\n 1993 г. – Българският хелзинкски комитет е приет за член на Международната хелзинкска федерация по правата на човека.\n 1997 г. – Учредена е политическата формация Българска евролевица.\n 1998 г. – Официално са закрити Осемнадесетите зимни олимпийски игри в Нагано, Япония.\n 1999 г. – Пуснат е I-mode в Япония.\n 1999 г. – Подписана е българо-македонска декларация за уреждане на езиковия спор между двете държави.\n 2007 г. – Сен Мартен и Сен Бартелми получават статут на отвъдморска общност на Франция.\n 2011 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 6,3 по Рихтер удря град Крайстчърч по обед в 12:51 часа местно време.\n\nРодени \n\n 1403 г. – Шарл VII, крал на Франция († 1461 г.)\n 1440 г. – Владислав Постум, крал на Унгария († 1457 г.)\n 1514 г. – Тахмасп I, ирански шах († 1576 г.)\n 1732 г. – Джордж Вашингтон, първи президент на САЩ († 1799 г.)\n 1749 г. – Йохан Форкел, германски композитор († 1818 г.)\n 1771 г. – Винченцо Камучини, италиански художник († 1844 г.)\n 1785 г. – Жан Пелтие, френски физик († 1845 г.)\n 1788 г. – Артур Шопенхауер, германски философ († 1860 г.)\n 1819 г. – Джеймс Ръсел Лоуел, американски поет († 1891 г.)\n 1824 г. – Жул Жансен, френски астроном († 1907 г.)\n 1840 г. – Август Бебел, немски политически деец († 1913 г.)\n 1857 г. – Робърт Бейдън-Пауел, основател на скаутското движение († 1941 г.)\n 1857 г. – Хайнрих Херц, германски физик († 1894 г.)\n 1868 г. – Мелетий Велешки, български духовник († 1924 г.)\n 1875 г. – Ела Шарп, английски учител († 1947 г.)\n 1886 г. – Хуго Бал, немски поет († 1927 г.)\n 1889 г. – Робин Джордж Колингуд, британски философ († 1943 г.)\n 1893 г. – Сава Киров, български дипломат († ? г.)\n 1895 г. – Виктор Раул Ая де ла Торе, перуански политик († 1979 г.)\n 1897 г. – Иван Михайлов, български генерал († 1982 г.)\n 1897 г. – Карол Сверчевски, полски политик († 1947 г.)\n 1897 г. – Леонид Говоров, съветски маршал († 1955 г.)\n 1899 г. – Дечко Узунов, български художник († 1986 г.)\n 1900 г. – Луис Бунюел, испански режисьор († 1983 г.)\n 1900 г. – Никола Дончев, български политик († 1978 г.)\n 1903 г. – Бела Грунбергер, френски психоаналитик († 2005 г.)\n 1903 г. – Франк Рамзи, английски математик († 1930 г.)\n 1905 г. – Виктор Сапарин, руски писател († 1970 г.)\n 1908 г. – Жана Николова-Гълъбова, български учен († 2009 г.)\n 1910 г. – Факира Мити, български илюзионист († 1989 г.)\n 1920 г. – Иван Дуриданов, български лингвист († 2005 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джулиета Мазина, италианска актриса († 1994 г.)\n 1921 г. – Жан-Бедел Бокаса, централноафрикански диктатор († 1996 г.)\n 1923 г. – Юлия Огнянова, български режисьор († 2016 г.)\n 1925 г. – Иван Шулев, български актьор († 2002 г.)\n 1927 г. – Флоренцио Кампоманес, филипински шахматист († 2010 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джулиано Монталдо, италиански режисьор\n 1932 г. – Едуард Кенеди, американски сенатор († 2009 г.)\n 1935 г. – Данило Киш, писател († 1989 г.)\n 1935 г. – Кирил Боянов, български учен\n 1935 г. – Мат Коел, американски неонацист († 2014 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джоана Ръс, американска писателка († 2011 г.)\n 1943 г. – Тери Игълтън, британски литературен теоретик\n 1943 г. – Хорст Кьолер, германски политик\n 1944 г. – Виктор Михайлов, български политик\n 1948 г. – Джон Аштън, американски актьор\n 1949 г. – Ники Лауда, американски пилот от Формула 1 († 2019 г.)\n 1950 г. – Христо Карастоянов, български писател\n 1953 г. – Ромас Каланта, литовски студент († 1972 г.)\n 1957 г. – Милко Ковачев, български политик\n 1958 г. – Спиридон Скембрис, гръцки шахматист\n 1958 г. – Уди Адам, израелски офицер\n 1959 г. – Кайл Маклоклан, американски актьор\n 1959 г. – Михаил Гуревич, турски шахматист\n 1962 г. – Стив Ъруин, австралийски естественик († 2006 г.)\n 1967 г. – Зинат Пирзаде, шведска актриса\n 1969 г. – Хоакин Кортес, испански танцьор\n 1970 г. – Саид-Магомед Какиев, чеченски военен командир\n 1971 г. – Михаил Юмерски, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Майкъл Ченг, американски тенисист\n 1972 г. – Роландо Виясон, оперен певец\n 1973 г. – Пламен Кралев, български автомобилен състезател\n 1973 г. – Шота Арвеладзе, грузински футболист\n 1974 г. – Амиран Муджири, грузински футболист\n 1974 г. – Валери Йорданов, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Джеймс Блънт, английски музикант и изпълнител\n 1975 г. – Дрю Баримор, американска актриса\n 1975 г. – Нели Ифандиева, българска телевизионна водеща\n 1980 г. – Милен Добрев, български щангист († 2015 г.)\n 1982 г. – Джена Хейз, американска порнографска актриса\n 1984 г. – Бранислав Иванович, сръбски футболист\n 1985 г. – Лариса Рикелме, парагвайски модел\n 1986 г. – Марк Алън, ирландски професионален играч на снукър\n\nПочинали \n\n 205 г. – Гай Фулвий Плавциан, римски политик (* 150 г.)\n 606 г. – Сабиниан, римски папа (* ? г.)\n 1371 г. – Дейвид II, крал на Шотландия (* 1324 г.)\n 1512 г. – Америго Веспучи, италиански мореплавател (* 1454 г.)\n 1712 г. – Никола Катина, френски генерал (* 1637 г.)\n 1750 г. – Пиетро Филипо Скарлати, италиански композитор (* 1679 г.)\n 1760 г. – Ана Магдалена Бах, втората съпруга на Йохан Себастиан Бах (* 1701 г.)\n 1797 г. – Барон Мюнхаузен, немски барон (* 1720 г.)\n 1851 г. – Александър Алябиев, руски композитор (* 1787 г.)\n 1875 г. – Чарлз Лайъл, шотландски адвокат (* 1797 г.)\n 1887 г. – Атанас Узунов, български военен деец (* 1857 г.)\n 1887 г. – Димитър Филов, български офицер (* 1846 г.)\n 1907 г. – Вангел Попхристов,­ български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1907 г. – Доно Брещенски,­ български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1907 г. – Митре Влаха,­ български революционер (* 1973 г.)\n 1912 г. – Рихард Андре, немски картограф (* 1835 г.)\n 1913 г. – Фердинанд дьо Сосюр, швейцарски езиковед (* 1857 г.)\n 1913 г. – Франсиско Мадеро,­ президент на Мексико (* 1873 г.)\n 1919 г. – Иполит Бернхайм, френски лекар (* 1840 г.)\n 1933 г. – Арчибалд Нокс, британски дизайнер (* 1864 г.)\n 1939 г. – Антонио Мачадо, испански поет (* 1875 г.)\n 1942 г. – Стефан Цвайг, австрийски писател (* 1881 г.)\n 1944 г. – Георги Чолаков, деец на БРП (* 1911 г.)\n 1947 г. – Степан Юринич, български зоолог († 1855 г.)\n 1956 г. – Александрос Сволос, гръцки политик (* 1892 г.)\n 1965 г. – Димо Янков, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1974 г. – Йордан Стратиев, български поет и дипломат (* 1898 г.)\n 1980 г. – Веса Паспалеева, детска поетеса (* 1900 г.)\n 1980 г. – Оскар Кокошка, австрийски художник (* 1886 г.)\n 1983 г. – Мечислав Яструн, полски поет (* 1903 г.)\n 1984 г. – Уве Йонзон, немски писател (* 1934 г.)\n 1984 г. – Имре Херман, унгарски невролог (* 1889 г.)\n 1987 г. – Анди Уорхол, американски художник (* 1928 г.)\n 1989 г. – Шандор Марай, унгарски писател (* 1900 г.)\n 1992 г. – Петър Динеков, български учен (* 1910 г.)\n 1998 г. – Петре Богданов, български оперен певец (* 1913 г.)\n 2001 г. – Боро Чаушев, югославски партизанин (* 1917 г.)\n 2002 г. – Чък Джоунс, американски аниматор (* 1912 г.)\n 2006 г. – Хилде Домин, немска писателка (* 1909 г.)\n 2009 г. – Хауърд Зийф, американски кинорежисьор (* 1927 г.)\n 2019 г. – Йоан Главиницки, български православен епископ (* 1949 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на идеята за побратимяване – Отбелязва се от организациите на скаутите в света\n Световен ден на скаутското движение - Рожден ден на Робърт Бейдън-Пауел и Олав Бейдън-Пауел.\n Международен ден в подкрепа на жертвите на престъпления – На този ден през 1990 г. правителството на Великобритания публикува „Харта на жертвите на престъпления“\n САЩ – Ден в памет на Джордж Вашингтон\n Сейнт Лусия – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1979 г., национален празник)\n\n2002"
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        "text": "23 февруари е 54-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 311 дни до края на годината (312 през високосна година).\n\nСъбития \n 303 г. – Римският император Диоклециан започва масови гонения срещу християните.\n 840 г. – Пиетро Традоник подписва Pactus Lotharii с франкския крал Лотар I, с което се осигурява независимостта на Венеция.\n 1796 г. – Наполеон I е назначен на длъжността главнокомандващ на Италианската армия.\n 1826 г. – Николай Лобачевски поставя началото на неевклидовата геометрия.\n 1836 г. – В Сан Антонио започва битката при Аламо.\n 1871 г. – В Цариград е свикан Първият църковно-народен събор.\n 1886 г. – Чарлс Мартин Хол произвежда първите образци алуминий след няколко години интензивна работа. По-голямата му сестра му помага при тези изследвания.\n 1893 г. – Рудолф Дизел получава германски патент за създадения от него двигател (наречен на неговото име дизелов).\n 1905 г. – В Чикаго адвокатът Пол Харис и трима други бизнесмени се срещат на обяд, за да създадат първия клуб „Ротари“.\n 1909 г. – Самолетът „Silver Dart“ прави първия си полет в Канада и Британската империя.\n 1910 г. – Китайските войски окупират Тибет.\n 1918 г. – Немският електроинженер д-р Артур Шербиус получава първи патент за шифровата машина „Енигма“.\n 1918 г. – В Съветския съюз войските на Василий Блюхер търпят сериозно поражение при Псков и Нарва. По-късно денят е обявен за празник на Червената армия. В днешна Русия това е Денят на защитниците на Отечеството.\n 1919 г. – В Италия Бенито Мусолини основава фашистката партия.\n 1933 г. – Япония окупира цялата северна част на Китай до Китайската стена.\n 1934 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския филм „Болеро“.\n 1943 г. – Създадена е Националната общогръцка огранизация на младежите.\n 1943 г. – Сформирана е Група армии „Африка“.\n 1944 г. – По заповед на Сталин над 400 хил. чеченци и ингуши са депортирани в Казахстан заради сътрудничество с нацистка Германия.\n 1947 г. – Основана е Международната организация по стандартизация ISO.\n 1953 г. – Във Великобритания са амнистирани 14 хиляди дезертьори от Втората световна война.\n 1955 г. – Провежда се първата среща на международната военна организация СЕАТО.\n 1958 г. – Кубински бунтовници отвличат 5-кратния световен шампион във Формула 1 Хуан Мануел Фанджо.\n 1959 г. – Проведена е първата сесия на Европейския съд по правата на човека.\n 1963 г. – Българската телевизия става член на Интервизия.\n 1963 г. – Създадена е Македонската академия на науките и изкуствата с първи председател Блаже Конески.\n 1973 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм Мъже без работа.\n 1981 г. – В Испания е извършен опит за военен преврат начело с подполоковника от Гражданската гвардия Антонио Техеро Молина.\n 1981 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм Дом за нежни души.\n 1987 г. – Наблюдавана е свръхновата SN 1987A в Големия Магеланов облак.\n 1992 г. – Официално са закрити XVI Зимни олимпийски игри в Албервил, Франция.\n 1996 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския филм Мери Райли.\n 1999 г. – Създаден е Съюз на частните здравноосигурителни фондове в България.\n 1999 г. – Лавина, с тегло над 300 хил. тона и движеща се с 290 km/ч, удря селцето Галтюр, Югозападна Австрия, в разгара на туристическия сезон. Загиват 31 души, затрупани под снега. Разрушени са 7 модерни здания.\n 2000 г. – Немският футболист Лотар Матеус изиграва 144-тия си мач за националния отбор, което е абсолютен световен рекорд.\n 2001 г. – Пусната е на вода ултрадълбоководната нефтена платформа Дийпуотър Хърайзън.\n 2001 г. – Президентът на Македония Борис Трайковски и на СР Югославия Воислав Кощуница подписват договор за общата си граница, като по този начин разрешават последния спорен въпрос между двете държави.\n 2001 г. – Радио Сити започва излъчване в по-големите градове на България.\n 2005 г. – За председател на 39-ото Народно събрание е избран Борислав Великов.\n 2006 г. – За главен прокурор на Република България е избран Борис Велчев.\n 2007 г. – Подписана е Спогодба за избягване на двойното данъчно облагане между България и САЩ.\n 2008 г. – Зов тигра в Приморски край на Русия е обявен за национален парк.\n\nРодени \n\n 1417 г. – Павел II, римски папа († 1471 г.)\n 1443 г. – Матяш Корвин, крал на Унгария († 1490 г.)\n 1633 г. – Самюъл Пийпс, английски писател († 1703 г.)\n 1685 г. – Георг Фридрих Хендел, германски композитор († 1759 г.)\n 1744 г. – Майер Ротшилд, немски предприемач († 1812 г.)\n 1782 г. – Йохан Пол, чешки ботаник († 1834 г.)\n 1823 г. – Найден Геров, български писател († 1900 г.)\n 1834 г. – Густав Нахтигал, немски лекар († 1885 г.)\n 1837 г. – Димитър Душанов, български книжовник († 1904 г.)\n 1840 г. – Всеволод Крестовски, руски офицер († 1895 г.)\n 1847 г. – Атанас Свещаров, български революционер († 1930 г.)\n 1864 г. – Вилхелм Щрайберг, немски лингвист († 1925 г.)\n 1864 г. – Кръстю Златарев, български офицер († 1925 г.)\n 1876 г. – Сенджуро Хаяши, министър-председател на Япония († 1943 г.)\n 1878 г. – Казимир Малевич, украински художник († 1935 г.)\n 1882 г. – Димитър Дичев, български революционер († 1934 г.)\n 1883 г. – Карл Ясперс, немски психиатър († 1969 г.)\n 1889 г. – Виктор Флеминг, американски режисьор († 1949 г.)\n 1894 г. – Димитър Атанасов, български учен († 1979 г.)\n 1897 г. – Валтер Денкерт, германски офицер († 1982 г.)\n 1899 г. – Елизабет Ланггесер, немска писателка († 1950 г.)\n 1899 г. – Ерих Кестнер, немски писател († 1974 г.)\n 1901 г. – Едгар Енде, немски художник († 1965 г.)\n 1905 г. – Асен Лазаров, български агроном († 1982 г.)\n 1915 г. – Пол Тибетс, американски генерал († 2007 г.)\n 1918 г. – Ричард Бътлър, американски фашист († 2004 г.)\n 1928 г. – Василий Лазарев, съветски космонавт († 1990 г.)\n 1929 г. – Алексий ІІ Московски, руски патриарх († 2008 г.)\n 1932 г. – Мейджъл Барет, американска актриса († 2008 г.)\n 1934 г. – Жак Сегела, френски рекламист\n 1940 г. – Георги Чалдъков, български учен\n 1940 г. – Здравко Велев, български дипломат († 2015 г.)\n 1940 г. – Илия Раев, български актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1940 г. – Питър Фонда, американски актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1941 г. – Венцеслав Андрейчев, български физик († 2001 г.)\n 1943 г. – Вера Ганчева, българска преводачка († 2020 г.)\n 1944 г. – Олег Янковски, руски актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1945 г. – Пламен Вагенщайн, български оператор († 1996 г.)\n 1946 г. – Камен Веселинов, български учен († 2021 г.)\n 1947 г. – Димитър Цеков, български футболист\n 1948 г. – Виолета Шаханова, българска оперна и камерна певица\n 1953 г. – Сатору Накаджима, японски пилот от Формула 1\n 1954 г. – Борислав Китов, български политик\n 1954 г. – Виктор Юшченко, президент на Украйна\n 1964 г. – Джон Норъм, норвежки китарист (Юръп)\n 1965 г. – Хелена Сукова, чешка тенисистка\n 1972 г. – Явор Гърдев, български режисьор\n 1983 г. – Красимир Гайдарски, български волейболист\n 1983 г. – Мидо, египетски футболист\n 1984 г. – Мамуту Кулибали, малийски футболист\n 1986 г. – Каменаши Казуя, японски идол\n 1989 г. – Килиан Шеридън, ирландски футболист\n 1989 г. – Амара Бейби, френски футболист\n 1992 г. – Кирякос Пападопулос, гръцки футболист\n 1994 г. – Дакота Фанинг, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1447 г. – Евгений IV, римски папа (* 1383 г.)\n 1603 г. – Андреа Чезалпино, италиански учен (* 1519 г.)\n 1704 г. – Георг Муфат, бароков композитор (* 1653 г.)\n 1717 г. – Магнус Стенбок, шведски генерал (* 1664 г.)\n 1766 г. – Станислав Лешчински, крал на Полша (* 1677 г.)\n 1820 г. – Альойзи Фелински, полски поет, драматург и преводач (* 1771 г.)\n 1821 г. – Джон Кийтс, британски поет (* 1795 г.)\n 1822 г. – Йохан Матеус Бехщайн, германски естественик (* 1757 г.)\n 1848 г. – Джон Куинси Адамс, 6-и президент на САЩ (* 1767 г.)\n 1855 г. – Карл Фридрих Гаус, немски математик (* 1777 г.)\n 1859 г. – Зигмунт Крашински, полски поет (* 1812 г.)\n 1870 г. – Ансън Бърлингейм, американски политик (* 1820 г.)\n 1876 г. – Рафаил Попов, български епископ (* 1830 г.)\n 1879 г. – Албрехт фон Роон, пруски политик (* 1803 г.)\n 1908 г. – Александър Георгиев, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1908 г. – Зиновия Константинова, българска учителка (* ? г.)\n 1921 г. – Ото Пипер, немски изследовател (* 1841 г.)\n 1930 г. – Хорст Весел, националсоциалистически композитор (* 1907 г.)\n 1931 г. – Рачо Славейков, български офицер, публицист и преводач (* 1858 г.)\n 1934 г. – Едуард Елгар, английски композитор (* 1857 г.)\n 1939 г. – Александър Егоров, съветски маршал (* 1883 г.)\n 1939 г. – Алфонс ван Геле, белгийски изследовател (* 1848 г.)\n 1942 г. – Георги Костадиев, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1943 г. – Александър Матросов, съветски военнослужещ (* 1924 г.)\n 1944 г. – Георги Колушки, български химик (* 1864 г.)\n 1944 г. – Моньо Минев, български партизанин (* 1918 г.)\n 1945 г. – Алексей Николаевич Толстой, руски писател (* 1883 г.)\n 1954 г. – Жак Мизес, немски шахматист (* 1865 г.)\n 1960 г. – Александър Алберт Маунтбатън, маркиз на Карисбрук (* 1886 г.)\n 1965 г. – Стан Лоръл, британски актьор (* 1890 г.)\n 1976 г. – Лорънс Стивън Лоури, британски художник (* 1887 г.)\n 1990 г. – Джеймс Гавин, американски офицер (* 1907 г.)\n 1997 г. – Димо Коларов, български кинооператор (* 1924 г.)\n 2000 г. – Стенли Матюс, английски футболист (* 1915 г.)\n 2000 г. – Тончо Жечев, български литературовед (* 1929 г.)\n 2006 г. – Александър Алексиев, македонски писател (* 1929 г.)\n 2006 г. – Бранко Пендовски, македонски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2008 г. – Пол Фрер, белгийски пилот от Формула 1 (* 1917 г.)\n 2015 г. – Джеймс Олдридж, австралийски писател (* 1918 г.)\n\nПразници \n Бруней – Национален ден на Бруней (от 1984 г., национален празник)\n Гвиана – Ден на републиката (1972 г., национален празник)\n Русия – Ден на Червената Армия /Защитника на Отечеството (1918 г., национален празник на мъжа)\n\n223"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a good / acceptable blog-publishing application on Mac OS X? On Windows, there is the pretty good Windows Live Writer.\nI have always been told that there is no equivalent on Mac.  \nWhat would be the best alternative?\nSome details about pros/cons, missing features, cool tips would be appreciated.\nI will make this question community wiki.\n\nA: Blogo, which was discontinued earlier, is back again. If you are on a Mac looking for a blog editor app, you should try it. You can download the beta for free at:\nhttp://www.getblogo.com\nThere is also a cross platform solution called BlueGriffon that looks promising.\nMy current recommendation and favorite is Blogo.\n\nEasily publish text, images, videos, slideshows and more. \n  With a simple, intuitive interface and support for Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine, Blogo is the best \n  way to maintain your blog and spread the word with Twitter, Ping.fm and other supported services.\n\nIt also supports Twitter.\nThe closest to WLW would be Ecto, but active development seems to have stopped.\n\nA: I have heard great things about MarsEdit, but have never used it myself. One that I have used quite a bit is MacJournal, which I know has blog-publishing support (in addition to functioning as a journal and/or notebook, which is what I mostly use it for). Without having put a lot of effort into figuring it out, I do feel like formatting posts can be a bit of a hassle in MacJournal, but I have used it for LJ publishing with okay results. All in all, I have probably heard more good things about MarsEdit for blog-publishing, but figured MacJournal deserved being mentioned, at least, as an alternative.\n\nA: Byword 2\nIn Byword 2, you can publish your Markdown content directly to blogs such as WordPress (both self-hosted and WordPress.com), and Tumblr.\n\n\nA: Qumana\n\nThis simple desktop editing tool allows you to write and save posts to your hard drive, while also posting to any of your blogs, anywhere. Never lose a post again.\n\nThingamablog\n\nA cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows), standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.\n\nPixelPumper\n\nWith PixelPumper, you can now create, edit and publish your blog posts directly from OS X in a beautiful retina display interface. It doesn't matter if you host your blog on WordPress.com or self-host, PixelPumper allows you to post to either.\n\nJust like Live Writer helps you update your WordPress blogs easily while still being inside your desktop environment and not opening the browser. The app is available for free in the Mac App Store and measures only about 4.8 MB in size.\nEdit\nAlso of interest is Ghost:\nMore information about it can be seen from its Kickstarter campaign and Official website.\n\nA: If you are using Markdown, you can try WordMark. It supports publishing to Wordpress, Ghost, Evernote, Blogger, and so on.. \n\n\nA: One of the best applications is MarsEdit (40$) by Red Sweater Software.\nIt supports many blog types (including Tumblr), and allows both HTML and Rich Text editing.\nI think it also allows editing Wordpress pages and not only blog posts.\nIt handles image uploading, editing of posts and supports multiple blogs.\nSome of the cons of MarsEdit are its HTML editing shortcuts and macros which are a little uncomfortable and a bit too little.\nIf you're comfortable with HTML, then the known TextMate text editor can also be used as an editor for blog posts and then you can either copy/paste from there or use a blogging bundle which will let you upload from there. TextMate can also show you live preview of your HTML in a separate window.\nOf course, being a specialized application, MarsEdit is more feature rich in the blogging sense but TextMate has a better editor (obviously).\n\nA: SmartXBlog is desktop blog editor for both Windows and Mac. It has WYSIWYG editor, image editor, online content search and RSS feed available from nearly 100 popular websites and you can even add your own RSS and drag and drop your result to editor. I think it is best available blogging desktop editor for Windows and Mac.\n"
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        "text": "We are releasing these G. Puma socks. this socks is one of the hottest items in this season.Calf high knit cotton socks in white. Signature multicolor embroidered graphic appliqué and stripes knit in red and blue at rib knit cuffs. We uesed the high quality fabrics which had the same softness and thinness and it's a perfect fit for the trend."
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        "text": "Sigrid Holmwood talking to Alli Sharma at her studio, Streatham Hill, London\n'Figure Painting', 2010, caput mortuum, gofun, lead-tin yellow, ochre, azurite and slate in parchment clipping distemper on kozo paper with tengujo tissue on board. Courtesy the artist and Annely Juda Fine Art\nAS: You spent your weekend at a Tudor Group re-enactment event?\nSH: Yes, we were doing a banquet in Haddon Hall, Derbyshire. I was working in the art department of the kitchen. On Saturday we made a pie in the shape of a castle with turrets and different fillings, like pork, pink custard and a strange 16th century pesto. Then on Sunday other members prepared a pig’s head by slicing off the face from the skull, sewing it back up, stuffing it and then boiling it for 3 hours. I then painted the head black with lard-bound charcoal and finished with marzipan tusks, eyes and a bristle brush comb so it looked like a wild boar.\nAS: It must be amazing to have access to fantastic Tudor buildings.\nSH: Yes, and we stay the night after the public have gone. So for breakfast this morning I had a lovely sour bread baked in a 16th century oven, actually, I think it was a 15th century oven.\nAS: Are there lots of artists in the group?\nSH: There are crafts people and photographers but then there are also accountants and IT people. And loads of kids because there are lots of families which is really great. People become expert in baking, leather work or ironmongery, all these things and, much like my approach to painting, they’re experimenting with materials, looking at what’s written at the time, but also by the act of doing, finding out what actually works.\nAS: You make your own paints from pigments?\nSH: I don’t make my all own pigments. I don’t make vermillion because it’s mercury sulphide. It can be synthesised but is also naturally occurring. You need a kiln to heat it, so in this period it would only be made industrially, not by artists themselves. That would be something they would go and buy. But yes, I make all the paints and all the pigments that artists would have made in the studio. Here I’ve got some madder, which is a pigment. I can pour that out so you can see it better. It’s made from madder roots.\nAS: What is madder?\nSH: It is an uninspiring looking plant but you grind up the roots and soak them in water. Heating it up turns it brown so I do it by soaking it in water with lye over a period of days works and you can see the dye coming out. These are birch leaves, they have their own smell. It smells tobacco-y. This is weld. It smells a bit pissy. My dress is dyed with weld so I like that the dyes used in the clothes are the same colours as one would use in some of the pigments. That’s fascinating. The world joins up.\nAS: How authentic are your socks, did Tudors wear knitted socks?\nSH: Yes, they wore knitted socks. There are all sorts of inventories. They also wore sewn fabric socks but I prefer knitted. You do find examples of things although socks don’t massively survive because they’re a bit throwaway. I didn’t knit these but knitting is one step too far for me. I sewed all my clothes.\nAS: You hand stitched them?\nSH: Yes, no machine stitching allowed.\nAS: Who makes your shoes?\nSH: In the world of re-enacting, you get people who make shoes, or pottery and they supply re-enactors from all periods.\nAS: Do you need help putting on the corset? You’ve been trapped in there all weekend, was it uncomfortable?\nSH: You get used to it but if you eat too much you suddenly want to get out. The key to wearing a corset is that you shouldn’t lean onto it. You should avoid it pressing onto you. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t always worn by working women. Trying to ascertain Tudor working clothes is a lot harder in Britain, than in the low countries, because there wasn’t the interest in painting them.\nAS: You mean peasants?\nSH: Peasants or even just working class. I’m not interested at all in the gentry with all their silks. I find that the least interesting.\nAS: And well documented?\nSH: Yes, they’re the ones we have paintings of in Britain. In this period in the low countries, there is an explosion of genre painting and it’s all linked-in with the birth of capitalism. The merchant classes and the stock exchanges began there and they were the new patrons of art. Before that, it was just aristocrats and the church interested in mythology, the bible and history painting. With the new middle class merchants, the new patrons of art, you get landscapes, peasants, still life, domestic scenes and artists specializing in different niches. It’s the predecessor of the art market we have today where artists have to specialize and find an original niche, which is their selling point and where art is about ourselves. So that’s part of my reason for painting these images. It’s actually the root of contemporary art. There’s a great irony, artists painting peasants only because of urbanization.\nAS: You’ve just given yourself an extra bum bit.\nSH: Yes, the bum roll, because in Tudor times, the question of ‘does my bum look big in this’ the answer you want is ‘yes’. You might have to give me a hand with tucking in my partlett. This was made of fine linen and used to fake being clean. You would have lots of linens but only one set of woollen clothes, and a Sunday best. These knives are my eating knives. You don’t have forks, that was a poncy Italian thing. So you cut and spear things and eat off your knife. They’re hand made by a guy in the group. So the final bit is my coif and then we’re done.\nAS: Did you dye the fabric?\nSH: I didn’t, that was a member of the Tudor Group. The thing about dying is that you need large facilities so that the wool can turn around and not get streaky so it requires a lot of space and drainage and some heat underneath it. However, someone in the group is setting up one in their garden in London so I’m hoping to go and dye some stuff so I can do it myself.\nAS: Are you busy at the moment?\nSH: Yes, I’m going to a gallery in China in August, I’m working with Vitamin Creative Space. They’ve planted Chinese indigo for me so hopefully when I get there that will have grown and I can harvest it to make some pigment. It’s in an urban farm in Beijing.\nSo, this is some gorgeous looking Madder. The crimson draperies in old paintings would be made with this.\nAS: It’s a beautiful pink. It doesn’t look that colour in the tube?\nSH: You get different shades. This was an experiment where I put in alum first, and then added potash. That means you get a warmer colour. I’ve made madders where I’ve made a cooler colour by putting in potash first and then added alum. They’re the two ingredients that you can play with when you’re making Lake pigments like this. Potash is alkali so it would be made with wood ash but it makes things cooler. If you think about litmus paper, the acid colours are red and yellow, and the alkali colours are blues and greens, purple so it works like that with these natural dyes.\nAS: So what will you do to this madder now?\nSH: I’m going to let it dry out completely and then I’m going to grind it up and wash it to take out any excess alum.\nAS: You’ve also made your own paper from sheets?\nSH: Yes, I have some here, with printed woodcuts. So the paper is made from my bed sheets. I burnished it but it still smells of my sheets.\nAS: How do you go about making paper?\nSH: First I cut up the sheets into one inch squares. You need a beating machine. In the 16th century you would have had large water powered ones where a big wheel powered by water sets off a trip and a big log comes down and pounds rags to a pulp. 16th century paper was made from the rags and scraps from linen and hemp fabric. Much like the pigment made from scraps of wool, you make use of a left over material. Once you can’t repair the linens any more they might as well be made into paper. Rag pickers were making a living by collecting rags from people and selling them to the paper mills. They were worth quite a lot in the end. Since I don’t have a beating machine, I send my rags off to a workshop in Glasgow and where it is beaten for me and the pulp sent back. I’ve got vats and felts and a friend who is also making paper to collaborate and share materials. We’ve made a press out of an oak frame and a hydraulic car jack because you need to squish all the water out to get it as smooth as possible. Then dry it. Because I was doing woodcuts I needed a smooth surface so I burnished this particular paper with the back of a spoon. I do have a burnisher at home which is agate but just rubbing a smooth hard thing across the paper will give you a bit of a sheen.\nAS: Are these drawings on paper of people in the Tudor Group?\nSH: Actually this is my apprentice. I’ve been inundated with offers from interns, which I think is indicative of young students these days feeling pressured into doing internships. I didn’t think I needed an intern because I like doing everything myself but then I thought it might be quite a good idea to play with the idea of having an apprentice and that relationship could be a body of work.\nAS: She looks pretty fed up in this one. I wonder how many students imagine interning would involve stirring a pot in 16th century costume.\nSH: I did explain! But yes, I think what has come out of the experience is a series of drawings that show the difficulty of the relationship. This is another student from the Ruskin and we did a painting circle, she grew up in Japan so she wore her kimono and we all painted each other. The idea is a women’s painting circle. The kimono is a lovely thing to draw. It’s more interesting to draw a kimono or Tudor clothes than jeans.\nAS: It’s interesting, how artists choose to present themselves, as artists.\nSH: It is, and the mystique of the studio.\nAS: Most artists are open about their practices, but I can imagine some wouldn’t want us to know their secrets, and why should they?\nSH: For me that’s quite important, I like to share recipes. It very much relates to movements such as relational aesthetics, where it’s about making work that deals with social exchanges that go on around art. Painters can seem isolated, stuck in their studios on their own and I think of my practice as fighting against that a bit, making it a more social practice. I also know other pigment freaks and we swap pigments... I’m not the only one!\nSigrid Holmwood's drawings can be seen at Mock Tudor, 60 Ravenscourt Road, London W6 0UG (open Fri-Sun, 12-6, or by appointment 07885 222409) until 10 July. She also features in the forthcoming issue of Garageland magazine, which will be launched at Mock Tudor on 17 July 2011.\nSigrid will be working in The Pavilion at Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing from 29 July - 27 September. For more information, follow The Astonishing Adventures of Lady Indigo. Resulting work will be exhibited at Annely Juda Fine Art next year.\nPosted by Articulated Artists at 04:04 No comments:\nLabels: Alli Sharma, Mock Tudor, Sigrid Holmwood\nJeff McMillan talks to Alli Sharma at his studio in Shoreditch, E2\nAS: Where do you find your drawings and paintings?\nJM: I go to car boot sales or sometimes to antique fairs, there are a few good ones in the south of England. Recently I was in Belgium and went to a couple of great flea markets there. I found a trove of one woman’s whole school career, which included her primary school drawings all the way through to her high school algebra. I think they’re from the 1950s and her name, Monique, is on everything. The drawings are a bit awkward, but in a good way, though her geometric drawings are very precise.\nAS: Is that what you look for, an awkwardness?\nJM: I’m just looking for potential. It’s hard to explain exactly what that means, but I make that assessment and decide whether it’s any good for my purposes. With this show in mind, I was specifically looking for works on paper to go with a number of drawings I’d already collected over the years. Certain things strike you as having real potential, whether it’s something in a figure’s eyes or a certain juxtaposition within a work, and I particularly like coming across works that are not really finished in the first place. Two of the Belgian schoolgirl’s drawings are of a woman, in one she has no right hand and there’s an ‘x’ marked on her shoulder where the teacher has ticked off that it has been drawn incorrectly. Most of the drawings have comments and grades in red ink over the top of them. In another the woman is in a position of lifting her arms in a way so that after I have immersed the paper in a container of ink, she looks like she’s floating or trying to escape.\nAS: Or drowning.\nJM: That’s the sort of potential I suppose I am looking for, as though the drawing is asking for an intervention to become complete. At times it feels like a collaboration.\nAS: Do you know what the geometric drawings are?\nJM: They’re old-school geometry, along with the pages and pages of equations and calculations to plot them out. I think a French curve and a ruler were used to make them so precise. They’re very technical but still beautiful drawings.\nAS: And beautifully presented.\nJM: Yes always drawn in with this double line border. I’m sure they’re all done by hand, and she always puts her name, written very neatly. There are some funny ones where she’s got bored and worked out who was dating who on the back of the drawings, some with love hearts. I was glad to see that, you can imagine it must have been pretty rigorous.\nAS: The dipping line works well with the geometric look.\nJM: I became most interested in what colour adds to them, particularly when the inks bleed into each other, they remind me of 1960s film strips or at times they become almost Rothko-like. The effect changes them from something dry and analytical to something with more of an emotional content. Just coincidentally the basic half-dozen ink colours are very similar to the colour scheme of a series of cardboard box paintings I made a few years back.\nAS: Is it important to use hand-made works, you haven’t used prints or photographs?\nJM: It always has been in the past, but I’ve worked with a few engravings for this show. Some are anatomical studies that have been cut out from a medical textbook from the 1800s.\nAS: I wanted to ask you about using old things. You might be seen as destroying something but at the same time you have rescued them in the first place.\nJM: I’m ambivalent about it, and I hope the work remains ambivalent too. It’s a fine line, I’m obviously the one making the decision about whether they stay as they are or become something else, but I like to think there are other anatomical prints like these out there but these are the only ones dragged into the contemporary world in this way.\nAS: The Chapman brothers make a deliberate point in defacing old Goya prints, but that’s not your concern?\nJM: No, but then their work is more about being provocative. In fact I tend towards the other end of the scale, I love coming across a painting that’s not got much going for it, that only costs a fiver but I know will be great for what I want to do. And actually I’m not that interested in appropriation either. What I do is probably closer to a form of recycling - I sometimes think all the painting techniques and brushstrokes have all been made before, all that is left now is how we re-configure them. Which is the idea of the re-mix I suppose, there really isn’t much new under the sun.\nAS: Is there something in particular about working with drawings that differs from the paintings?\nJM: One main difference is that with the canvases, I only ever work with oil paint. I think in my very first painting class I was taught that you couldn’t put acrylic over oil or it might crack, but you could put oil on top of anything. So I have always thought of oil as the final paint, the ultimate material. But by working on paper I was able to re-look at that and none of these works are done with oil paint. Some are made with acrylic paint and some with ink. Ink is a great medium because it has different properties like the fact that it’s so much thinner than oil or acrylic and also its not totally opaque.\nAS: The transparency doesn’t obliterate the image, like in the paintings. Dipping paper seems to emphasize its fragility. Some look so delicate, like a thin leaf of paint.\nJM: The ink has dripped off the bottom edge and become more intense in colour and slightly brittle where it has accumulated. Some of the engravings have been dipped two or three times in ink so you end up with this strange thing where two inks overlapping almost create a black, though a ghost of the original image can remain as well.\nAS: I bet it’s great to watch the ink soak in.\nJM: The old engraving papers are 150 years old and bone dry. They are so absorbent that the colour ends up being deeply saturated so they become darker than works on a thinner paper. I’ve also been working with a vinyl paint called flashe, which is actually a sign-writers paint. It looks like a pure pigment or something, so a sign writer would paint with it and the brushstrokes would disappear.\nAS: It’s very flat, but you’ve still got some bubbles in it, where it’s been dipped.\nJM: I like when a work reveals its natural physical properties. In fact, all the work is what it is, and it is quite simple to see how it is made.\nAS: So what decisions were you making about colour choices for Untitled (Man with necktie), with the black and the vermillion red.\nJM: It’s a strange mix of intention and intuition, I was interested because it’s a portrait of a black man, which is rare, and I wanted it to have some gravity so I used the black colour along the top. I was intrigued by his necktie and how it is not flush with his body, and it was just one of those things that is not easily explained. I think the brighter vermillion makes feel more exotic.\nAS: It looks like a flag but I wouldn’t know what country.\nJM: I don’t know either.\nAS: So it’s not political.\nJM: No, it’s not. Not for me. I think it has sinister overtones if you want to read that into it.\nAS: Tell me about this one which looks like a blind boy with pointed ears, Untitled (Boy).\nJM: If you saw the original image you would see it was just a portrait of a young boy but there was something about it once I started to take a piece of paper and obscure the lower part of it. There was this strange thing in that it wasn’t quite finished in the way the pupils had been drawn and then, for me, that was everything, an amazing point that makes it become something else.\nInterview continued in Garageland magazine, Fake issue 12.\nJeff McMillan's drawings are at Consequences, four all saints, London W11, by appointment only, 25 May - 2 July 2011.\nHe is also exhibiting paintings at Mock Tudor, Transition Gallery Offsite, London W6, 18 June - 10 July 2011.\nLabels: Alli Sharma, Jeff McMillan\nClaire Undy talking to Alli Sharma at her studio in Hackney Wick, London\nAS: This new work looks very different to what I’ve seen before.\nCU: Yes, I’ve recently made quite a big change in my work. It’s been two years now since I finished studying at Wimbledon College of Art, and I felt I had reached an impasse with my practice - I was refining it rather than developing it.\nAS: Did you feel that you’d exhausted your enquiry with the paintings with the gestural marks?\nCU: I felt like I was polishing it, I’d got to the point where I was experimenting with something so tiny. I was using different pigments to catch the light in a certain way, and the only thing I could achieve would be to work out how to do it and get it right every time. All I was doing was increasing the success rate of making these same paintings.\nThe gestural mark represents the act of painting. I was trying to put drawing in the process at different points, as I don’t like the idea that a painting is simply the final top layer and that everything else is hidden workings-out. I wanted to acknowledge the process of making. I don’t like the idea that as the artist you choose what to reveal and what to conceal, when it is the act of painting that I’m interested in and the process of putting it together.\nI started by stretching a canvas and then I used tape and paper to mask off the shape of a gestural mark. I built up a gesso ground over the entire surface so that when I took off the tape there was an area of un-primed canvas left in the gesso. When I pulled the paint across the whole surface, the colour changed on the different grounds. I was using transparent iron oxides, so that the bits that would soak into the fabric would be dark and the bits that were on the white ground would be really bright.\nAS: When you say pull across, what did you use?\nCU: A wide brush because I like the marks with the brush. They emphasise the act of applying the paint, rather than giving a perfectly uniform surface. Then I used a smaller brush on the top layer of wet paint to indicate another gestural mark, which slightly mis-registered the first.\nAS: So it looks like there are two marks.\nCU: Yes, but neither of them were painted, they were made by breaking the surface at different points. The gestural mark is blatantly a gestural mark because I didn’t want it to be a shape or to have any deceptive space to it. I wanted all the visual components to be about painting: brush marks; or the visible application of paint.\nAS: So you’re getting new ideas out quite quickly?\nCU: Yes, I’m aiming to make a lot of these new works, hopefully around 100 this scale. They’re all quite rough and different. They’re numbered; eg S1 (S stands for studio). So if S1 leads to others they become S1.1, S1.2 etc so they break up and then I can experiment further into an idea. It’s like research. I like this one. I’ve been moving the weave of the fabric to make the image.\nAS: Breaking the surface again?\nCU: Yes, drawing with the components of the painting, with the fabric. I went to Amsterdam recently and there was a market selling fabrics with really wide weave on them. With this one, I’ve pushed the weave of it and then set it with size. I’m just playing really with different ways of trying to show their making.\nAS: It sounds investigative.\nCU: I’m interested in finding a way of communicating that’s not via language. I think that this could be possible through making a painting, which doesn’t discuss things outside itself, and so talks very directly. A hole is a hole and a mark is a mark and they only attempt to communicate their hole-ness or mark-ness and not any other kind of coded message from the artist. I think the only thing the artist can communicate is the act of painting, so if I made a mark like that [gestures], you can sense that’s how it’s been made.\nAS: You’re communicating the action.\nCU: Yes, that’s one thing I can communicate truly. Quite a few people have said that you’re only talking to a painter in that respect, perhaps this is true - I hope not. As a painter, you see a gestural mark and you can really sense how it’s been made, I hope that non-painters can relate to that gesture too.\nAS: Getting something across without reference to an illusion, or trying to convey something without describing it.\nCU: I want to talk in a way that anyone can understand. I don’t want to use art historical, or other cultural references, as then you’re speaking in a certain language to a specific group of people. I feel like this is quite elitist. If that’s all we can do now, where can we go from here? Some people believe you can’t make a gesture now without referencing something else, you can’t make any paintings now without referencing what’s gone before. I don’t believe we can do that indefinitely. Eventually it will become a dated idea itself. There’s a lot of interesting work that references other ideas, other art, but it’s also a barrier to discovering anything new. I think that we need to look within the medium itself, not through a series of changing subject matters to find out what painting can be or do in the future.\nAS: That sounds like a pure way of thinking about painting, like it’s coming from a very particular history?\nCU: Most people would say it comes from a very old fashioned idea, from Modernism; wanting to be self referential with the meaning inherent within the work and not referring to anything. But equally I think, for me, there’s a lot of idealism to that which I don’t have. On the one hand I share the aspiration to make objective art, but equally I think my work is quite realistically aware of its futility and it doesn’t have grand ideas of being a pure or absolute idea. It’s about its materiality and what it physically actually is, rather than a bigger notion about painting.\nThere seems to be two ways you can approach painting today, which is either to ignore postmodernism and cynicism towards painting by going ahead and making geometric patterns, or gestural expressionist paintings or whatever, or you can be ironic, referencing the idea of painting itself as an ideology. I think I sit somewhere between the two in that I still have quite a lot of faith in painting and its possibilities but I think it has to be a realistic, grounded approach where you can talk about universal ideas and communication through the language of painting, but without having an unrealistic expectation that they are possible. I’m more interested in discussing the ideas rather than believing that they are true. I think that just because something has been proved to be impossible, it doesn’t mean the entire subject is worthless. Simply being an atheist does not mean that you can’t learn a great deal from religion.\nAS: Are you keen on art history.\nCU: It’s not something I’m particularly keen on. Making abstract work at College means that you have to be aware of it because the criticism is that making purely abstract painting is a naïve thing to do and you either don’t care about it or you don’t understand it. I think a lot of people wonder how you can do it without being ignorant, or how you can do this with conviction. I really feel that you can do it with conviction and understanding of what you’re doing. It’s hard. There have been over 60 years of history in this area I could spend a lifetime studying and I wouldn’t ever feel knowledgeable enough to make a genuine contribution to the discussion. But I do feel I have something that I want to add to the discussion of painting and I think it has to be possible to make abstract work today without having to answer every question of the last 60 years in every work.\nAS: It’s weird when you start thinking like that, how difficult it is to continue, despite the desire to engage with something, like you have to keep one eye on the past and one on what your doing.\nCU: This is what Fade Away touched on. I think this is why lots of people make work within that bracket between abstraction and figuration because there is still an interest in abstract painting but if you make a purely abstract painting you instantly take on this huge burden of history. However, if you make an abstract painting and work something vaguely figurative into it it’s suddenly free from so much theoretical baggage because it’s no longer aspiring to this pure idea. There’s less to answer, you’re not adhering to an old fashioned school of thought. There are an awful lot of abstract painters my age but it’s hard to relate to an older school of thought about abstract painting. It’s a hard discussion to be part of. You’re an outsider, and although the work looks visually similar, in your heart I think it comes from a very different place.\nList of works: S5, S7.4, Trouble, S7.1, S7.5, S7.6, S9.2, S13.1. All 50x40cm.\n'Trouble' 2010, by Claire Undy, can be seen at Fade Away, Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne from 5 - 26 May 2011, with free symposium/publication launch 3-6pm on 26 May 2011 and reception afterwards.\nLabels: Alli Sharma, Claire Undy\nPhoebe Unwin talking to Alli Sharma at her Hackney studio\nAS: You’ve been busy this year with a solo show at Wilkinson and the British Art Show 7. Do deadlines affect how you work?\nPU: I find that it’s important to put deadlines out of my mind. I mean they’re there, but I don’t make work specifically for a show because I make what I make. But, as it gets nearer, you can’t help looking at what you have and what would go where and those kinds of decisions.\nAS: I imagine the way you work can be unpredictable. You don’t use images. It’s all coming from your own experiences, from what’s in your mind, looking at things and seeing opportunities for paintings.\nPU: That’s true, and because I don’t know what any of the paintings will look like when they’re finished, that’s part of it. I like that working process of being surprised by how something might look but that also means that it’s important to be comfortable with failure in the work in terms of making something, looking at it and then thinking it’s not quite right. It might be an interesting idea but the size is wrong or something, I really respond to how it looks in the studio.\nAS: What do you do if you see something failing, do you try to make it work or do you scrap it and try something else?\nPU: Sometimes I try to make it work. Sometimes I try for months, and then it’s scrapped. Or I try for months and it works. I might think at the time that it was a bad idea in the first place, so it’s never going to work. But then I find I might be drawn to the idea again and have another go at it a year later. There’s enough tension to get an image to work so if you’re getting too self-conscious and wound up, then that’s not helpful.\nAS: The painting ends up looking too fraught or contrived?\nPU: I think there’s an element of tension in all of them. They’re not completely relaxed paintings but if there’s too much tension then I think a painting can look nervous. And then it’s not doing the job of communicating something. I mean it might be interesting to make a painting about being nervous but then it has to communicate that well, rather than be apologetic of itself. That’s when they get scrapped; if I feel they’re like that.\nAS: I’m looking at the girl figure in your earlier work, is it you or is that too obvious?\nPU: It’s not meant to be, none of the people I paint are portraits. I think of them as being portraits for feelings rather than portraits of a particular person. But all of my paintings and subjects end up being things that I’ve experienced in some way. They’re not personal stories, but in order for me to explain what something might have felt like or a relationship to an object, in terms of space or colour or scale, then I need to have experienced it. There’s nothing fantastical about them.\nAS: Are you losing the figure more, moving in an abstract direction?\nPU: I can’t imagine ever being completely abstract because the aspect I’m most interested in is the relationship between a visual world that everyone experiences and how that is explored through materials and marks.\nAS: You need something recognisable?\nPU: In order to communicate this subject, yes. So the subject is actually really important. For me, it’s not a pure interest in paint and colour and painting. It’s also about these relationships. For me it’s a springboard into different atmospheres or moods or tensions.\nAS: And they are invisible things.\nPU: Yes, Self Consciousness is very much about painting a feeling. Or the subject of Brick Wall was the everyday but also the formal qualities of painting because it’s a flat painting about something flat. So I’m interested in these subjects that explore a visual everyday world but also the world of the painting and the object itself.\nAS: How do you keep your ideas for paintings? Do you have a sketchbook?\nPU: This is one book. It’s falling apart. When I work here I put in lots of different coloured papers and respond to marks and colours and so on in an intuitive way. I’m not working in the book from beginning to end. It’s developed as a whole. I have to feel excited or engaged with the page and if I don’t then I just move on. I’ve worked on these for a while and the only rule I have is that anything can go in them. It can be an insignificant thing like a note of a couple of colours that I like or it can be something about an actual place or an image that has been layered and built up. I describe this as somewhere to be really gentle with ideas so they don’t have to stand up for themselves yet. They might never be used for a painting. I like working with this size. I’ve tried working in smaller or larger books but this size is just right. I also like that they’re quite thick because they start to build up a rich body of images. This is where I begin with all the different types of materials. I use acrylic, graphite, pastel, ink, and printed papers. And using coloured papers gets away from that feeling of a white, empty, blank page.\nAS: When it comes to a painting, is there a white blank canvas or do you have to mess it up first?\nPU: I think I need to mess it up but I’m not intentionally messing it up. I’ll think I’m just starting a painting but at every stage I’m looking at that and responding to the scale and the way the colours are because they’re not planned. Whatever I feel the subject demands will change my approach. Brick Wall started in a relatively controlled way by making a background of bricks, almost like creating a space to work within and respond to. So I knew I was making a painting of a brick wall and I knew how I was going to begin, but I didn’t know what it would end up looking like or how it would feel working within that pattern or that scale or combination of colours. Something like Self-Consciousness was started by putting colours and textures together, especially the oil paint which was quite impasto, and seeing and feeling where the painting would go. So building up to the image, rather than beginning with an image and working within that. They each have different approaches.\nAS: You’ve used patterned papers in your sketchbooks, like the chequerboard. What does pattern do for you in a painting?\nPU: I used a lot of pattern in the last show. The printed chequerboard and brickwork papers in the sketchbook, is where I first thought of it for painting. The pattern I have been using recently is about exploring a certain sort of rhythm in the paintings. I describe it as a constant hum or drumbeat. It’s a space to work within, which then gets interrupted or, like in Three Bananas, it’s reversed because the background is stronger than the subject on it. The banana shapes are like stains, almost like something has been taken away. So the movement and the focus of the painting is the chequerboard which is also a hand made mark, it’s not really a neat chequerboard so that was important. And then with Brick Wall there are elements where I’ve masked off the pattern which is much more graphic and controlled but then that pattern is echoed and mimicked in handmade brick marks using the different reds. So sometimes its about interrupting something and also an echo or reverberation of a mark or colour.\nAS: Do the same motifs crop up?\nPU: They do but in the sketchbook they’re not judged too much, they just live there. Elements of them are used when I’m ready to use them but very rarely are they scaled up from here. There might be an element of a composition that I take from the book but usually it’s a material element.\nAS: There doesn’t seem to be any hierarchy with the different materials.\nPU: That’s really important. One of my main reasons for using different materials is colour, because I feel that a colour is different in say an oil paint, spray paint, acrylic or pastel because they have really different surfaces, qualities and connotations. An oil paint mark might seem more controlled than a spray paint mark. It’s got a different speed to it. A spray paint mark, especially with the fuzzy edge, records what it was like to make it, which is quite magical. You press the top of the can and you can just keep going. It’s fast and it covers everything in an opaque way. Whereas there is a very different relationship with making, in that sense, to then being with a brush and a more gentle type of mark making. So I like using both of those languages, and all different types of languages with marks. With this page, there are so many elements in it. I’ve got this table from above and the carpet. There might be just one element of this that becomes a painting. And different viewpoints are important in the work.\nAS: I’m surprised you said that was a table, it’s looking down from above.\nPU: That’s like Sponge Palette in a way, it’s a palette with the thumbhole, and so you’re looking at it from above. Again, there’s pattern, and the sort of echoing of that background pattern and also a combination of colours about painting itself. I called it Sponge Palette because one aspect is that colour and form, for me, are indistinguishable from the subject when they are worked up. That’s my aim in a painting, to achieve, if I feel that I can, the colours and forms to be just those ones necessary for the painting, not to have any that don’t need to be there. So in a sense, the subject of the painting is as inspired by the colour and form. I almost see a subject in a colour combination in a painting in the way that it almost feels like a sponge or something, that the painting becomes saturated with these feelings or atmospheres.\nAS: It’s an interesting way to describe a painting, like a sponge, like it sucks in all this stuff, ideas and materials, and becomes visible.\nPU: I’m making it sound quite mystical. There are definitely a lot of felt qualities that are really important to me. And it is that thing about a sponge of sucking things up, the subject becoming really imbedded and saturated in the painting itself and in the colours and shapes, but there’s another element. The rigorous editing and appraisal of the work is really important to me. There are real formal aspects that come into play, especially as the painting gets further on, where I’ll be really thinking is it working in terms of subject, is it working in terms of scale and in terms of the painting itself.\nAS: It sounds like you’re very controlled about what goes in.\nPU: I am but when you speak about paintings in retrospect, because you’re talking about all the ideas, you can’t help but make it sound like ‘when I got to this point I was thinking this …’. But, when I’m actually working on a painting, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to put into words why I chose to get rid of a whole section or decided a painting failed, because I’m working really close to it, and working very quickly, but also so close to instinct and response.\nAS: Can you describe the process for making Sponge Palette?\nPU: The ground of Sponge Palette is made with an acrylic medium called crackle paste so it’s breaking up the surface. It’s meant to and it makes the surface very spongy. It feels absorbent. Because of the little cracks, the paints run into each other. Different surfaces in paintings are as important as marks because it completely changes the marks on top. I find that quite fascinating. Again, the pattern was made first so I’m working on something that is already visually dense. This palette shape, almost like a picture frame, is translucent so that the pattern is visible almost all the way through it. There would have been, in this painting especially, a real interest in layering and communicating the kind of time and visual conversation that happened in the painting. Some of my other paintings are more sparse and economical in line so they don’t have that sense of layered time. They would be about some other atmospheres or moods or tensions that I’m interested in exploring.\nSponge Palette, 2010 can be seen at Fade Away, Gallery North, Newcastle, 5-24 May 2011\nImages courtesy the artist and Wilkinson Gallery\nSponge Palette, 2010\nGirl, 2009\nstudio photograph, 2011\nSelf Consciousness, 2010\nThree Bananas, 2010\nBrick Wall, 2011\nLabels: Alli Sharma, Phoebe Unwin\nDavid Wightman talking to Alli Sharma at his Hackney Wick studio\nDW: People hesitate to call them targets but that’s what they are. When I first started doing them a few years ago, it was an attempt to mock formalist geometric abstraction. So I took on different abstract motifs, like the target, square, and stripe.\nAS: I don’t know much about geometric abstraction, who are you referencing?\nDW: The most obvious would be Kenneth Noland. He was part of the formalist Greenberg school in America, which has now been utterly rubbished and no-one talks about those artists any more. The Last Stand of Modernism is how I like to think of it. I looked at different painters within the geometric abstract movement, going back to Albers and Mondrian where its all about colour and form and shape. You know, someone will spend their life painting targets or squares or all-black monochromes. A mix of purity and weirdness.\nAS: Are there any contemporary painters you look at.\nDW: There are people like Peter Halley. He makes abstract paintings but they’re symbolic as well. I like the idea of abstraction having all these kinds of concerns attached to them, like hard-line abstraction, geometric abstraction, post-painterly abstraction, colour-field painting, and the difference between them is whether someone is using masking tape or not, little things like that.\nAS: So you started with an ironic intent.\nDW: I suppose I used typical art school irony where you look at the past and make fun of it, but it slowly turned into more of a lament.\nAS: Was there something in particular that changed your perception?\nDW: I had an idea of what I wanted to do and what I was making fun of (or ‘critiquing’ is what I would have said at the time), but the more I looked into it, the more I began to feel sorry that that endeavour had ended and the pursuit of abstraction had come to an end.\nAS: Do you mean the seriousness about what painting could be?\nDW: Yeah, at first I found it overblown and pretentious and then I immersed myself in it and I wished I could carry it on. I wished it was still up and running and I could be part of that lineage of abstract painters. It wasn’t until I really looked at that kind of work that I realised something was missing. Something had been lost, maybe a sincerity or a seriousness or some kind of aspirational quality to that kind of work had been put aside or had been trumped in favour of irony or something like that.\nAS: Did you come to that realisation at art school or later?\nDW: Once I’d left art school and stopped explaining things to other people. Once I was in my own studio and I could have fun and things didn’t necessarily have to make as much sense, I started to think differently about my work. Justifying things endlessly at art school can close down what you want to pursue. Can I really explain this kind of weird pink? I mean there’s more to the work than that, but for me it’s rediscovering something that’s lost so that’s how it started and so I began to see it more as a lament; a lost idea of art. Maybe that's pompous or just a bit silly, or maybe I’ve got my own idea of what it is and it never really existed. It does seem that formalist abstract painting was the last time painting took itself seriously. After that everything was different – and a lot of it is fantastic - I’m not wanting to return to the past.\nAS: I like this one, it makes me think of the Tudors.\nDW: Yes, it has references to non-art historical points but you can see it as a weird take on Ad Reinhardt which was the intention but it became something else, especially with the texture, it changes everything.\nAS: Tell me about the wallpaper.\nDW: The wallpaper was chosen for being cheap, tacky, un-aesthetic, something disregarded. That’s how I felt about abstraction at the time and this was me thinking I was witty. So the paintings weren’t dissimilar to what they are now but the intent was profoundly different. I was painting with household emulsion, in magnolia and cream and those clichéd household décor colours so everything made sense and I could talk about them very well. The wallpaper was critiquing pattern and design and abstraction and the decorative nature of what it may become or what it may mean. But they were ugly paintings and there was no real sincerity to them. They made sense and my tutors thought they were interesting. But I didn’t enjoy painting them. I could say it was a critique of colour painting and formalism but it wasn’t really, it was just an empty shell of a bigger idea. And, like I say, they gradually became something else; I started to miss the intentions that I’d mocked. Then I started to explore colour, slowly and tentatively, but only after I left college. I felt I couldn’t justify it there.\nAS: Really, because colour is vulgar, or tasteless?\nDW: There was always the notion at art college that colour was seductive and therefore should be ignored or used sparingly.\nAS: You mean an easy hook?\nDW: Yeah, but I don’t really agree. I think that’s a narrow view of what colour can be. It seems to be such a shame that a massive aspect of painting, probably the most important, immediate aspect, would be so thoroughly disregarded. When I was at college everyone would make purposefully ugly paintings, and I did the same. So when I left, I felt amazingly free to start exploring colour and using acrylic and to look at art in a different way, without being as prejudiced. So the wallpaper stayed and colour came in and the wallpaper, like the abstract motif, was used mockingly. I hated it, in a sense, because it was so cheap and tacky but I gradually grew to love that and I became a connoisseur of wallpaper and started to think about what it meant to me. I started to think about the house I grew up in that was full of this wallpaper and what it was supposed to mean back in the late 1970s. I felt that I had been working with two things that were very similar; abstraction and some sense of aspiration. But ultimately they had both failed or gone awry or been prematurely ignored. I like the idea of failure being inherent in abstraction, at least in modernity and the same sense of failure embodied by wallpaper.\nAS: You mean wallpaper in your home was aspirational?\nDW: DIY became really big in the mid to late 1970s when my parents decorated their home. It was about trying to aspire to something else, either some strange mock stately home or a weird contemporaneous vision of design. A weird blend of different elements thrown together and ultimately it’s just paper on a wall, and you don’t live in a stately home, it’s a small house in Stockport. But that sense of aspiration is still there, even if it’s failed. When I was at the Royal College, Lord Snowdon, who was the Patron of the College, came to visit and he loved the wallpaper and he was saying how he had it in his home. I had to explain to him that the wallpaper he was commenting on was actually the imitation of what he has. This is the cheap alternative, this is what people, who can’t afford what he has, buy to try to signify something else.\nAS: There is that familiarity about the wallpaper, so I wonder if they speak of a particular decade.\nDW: To me, it does, of growing up in the 1980s. My house was out of date by a decade. People say the patterns and textures are 1970s, but we were just ten years out of date. So I have these two elements, the wallpaper and colour and a different way of how I was looking at abstraction, I had a technique as well, which was quite laborious: collaging pieces of wallpaper together.\nAS: How are they made up?\nDW: Every piece is separate and they’re all cut to fit like a jigsaw, almost like marquetry.\nAS: How do you cut them?\nDW: Just with a scalpel – a surgical knife.\nAS: Although they look slick, they actually involve a very hand-made process.\nDW: Yeah, you could say they’re too perfect, but they're as perfect as I can possibly make them. Every single piece is an individual piece of wallpaper. Nothing overlaps. The abstract pieces are simpler, but the landscapes become quite complicated and there could be hundreds of pieces so they are very hand-crafted which is something else I wanted to elaborate on, rather than being against something that is hand-made and beautiful and textured and all those things that you’re not really allowed to do now. I stretch a canvas, put the wallpaper on, so they look quite scrappy at first. It takes a lot of scrappy preparation to make them that perfect. Then they’re sanded and primed and then I start painting.\nAS: So they’re painted afterwards.\nDW: Yes, and I paint from light to dark. But with the abstract pieces I usually try to work out the colours with these small modelli on paper. It’s just a way of working out colour and form, some of them I don’t even use. It’s far more labour intensive than I think the end product suggests. It’s a shame in a way because everything looks so perfect; it's easy to think the process must be quite simple.\nAS: So how do the landscapes fit with the targets?\nDW: I wanted to do what I was doing with abstraction and wallpaper but with something figurative or using a landscape. So I started to look at landscape imagery, especially clichéd mountain images you might find on a chocolate box. Images that seem familiar and beautiful but ultimately banal, which I think relates to the wallpaper. Something that is quite attractive but so commonplace it’s easy to overlook. I wanted to take another look at landscape painting and see if I could do something with that, reinvigorate it or see if I could use a similar technique to the abstract paintings to create an entire surface out of wallpaper.\nAS: You limit the colour in the landscapes.\nDW: I think the pink is brighter because the rest is greyscale. I like the idea of the greyscale standing in for a photograph. It’s quite documentary-like. The landscapes are a new thing. The first ones I painted using the original colours of the photographs, bright blue skies, green grass, white mountains. It quickly became tiresome and I missed the freedom of abstraction where you can use any colour combination you want. So it was an attempt to try to utilise that, especially with colourful skies and heavily floral wallpaper.\nAS: They’re graphic, less about material.\nDW: They’re graphic in the way Mondrian, Ad Reinhardt or Frank Stella are graphic. I’m making work about the geometric side of abstraction, it’s not expressionism or gestural mark-making. The squares are based on Josef Albers’ ‘Homage’ series but his are very placid, light yellows and cream or slightly greyish colours - subdued. I tried to do the opposite of that, bright and camp.\nAS: You embrace the camp or kitschness of the work?\nDW: I think it’s inevitable with the wallpaper; it’s impossible to avoid. Camp in the sense that it tries to be serious but it can’t take itself seriously, not just something that’s tacky or bright and brash, but something that has an intent and fails. It’s not that they fail because they’re bad paintings, they fail because abstraction, or this kind of painting, or even mountainscapes, don't seem to exist as a serious pursuit any more. It’s just me doing it on my own and the wallpaper is something you’re not supposed to use in serious art-making. So I’m making what I think are very serious paintings using two monumental things, mountainscapes and abstraction, out of wallpaper and bright colours. The subjects themselves are almost too big so they have to fail, or they have to have failure built in otherwise they’re pretentious and overblown.\nAS: I try to get my head around kitsch but it’s a word that is bandied about but can’t be pinned down.\nDW: People ask me about that. It’s not something I think about that much or purposefully try to take on, but I think it's implicit in the work. It’s not kitsch in a Jeff Koons sense. It’s not really celebratory kitsch, it’s more sad or melancholy kitsch. It’s the kitschness of a beautiful Alpine landscape on a cheap box of chocolates. Koons deals with a bigger, brasher, louder, funnier form of kitsch. I think if you try to incorporate kitsch in your work, it instantly stops being kitsch. Self-aware kitsch isn’t kitsch.\nAS: I was thinking of a sad, sentimentality related to the wallpaper.\nDW: There’s always that sense of nostalgia, which is different from sentimentality. I think for sentimentality, it has to be based around an object or thing. I think nostalgia is just a feeling, which is evoked by wallpaper or landscapes but you can’t clinch it, it’s not this object or this thing, it’s more these objects or these things. Perhaps that’s the difference between sentimentality and nostalgia. All those words are hard to talk about because we know what they mean but there’s something about these words (nostalgia, sentimentality, kitsch, aspiration) that when you try to define them; you lose the quality of what they represent.\nDavid Wightman is currently a fellowship holder at the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland until April 2011.\nLabels: David Wightman\nSigrid Holmwood talking to Alli Sharma at her stud...\nJeff McMillan talks to Alli Sharma at his studio i...\nClaire Undy talking to Alli Sharma at her studio i...\nPhoebe Unwin talking to Alli Sharma at her Hackney...\nDavid Wightman talking to Alli Sharma at his Hackn..."
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        "text": "You might think you have a fairly good idea of the direction that gaming is heading in the future. After all, we love video game season and getting our hands on the latest titles like Super Mario Odyssey and Assasin’s Creed: Origins will certainly be a highlight of the 2017 Christmas season. But look further into the future, jumping forward five or ten years, and you might discover that gaming isn’t going to be anything like what you’re used to.\nYou might be eagerly awaiting the announcement of the PS5 or perhaps the Xbox Two. But, you might find yourself waiting a while. A few years ago the main developers promised we were reaching the end of the console wars and generation leaps that we had grown used to. Instead of the PS5, Sony announced the PS4 Pro. Instead of the Xbox Two, Microsoft revealed Scorpio which quickly became the Xbox One X. Why did they do this? Despite the graphic improvements and the advancements in the software, the new consoles don’t justify a new title. As such, an add-on really is what they should be referred to as. Despite the hefty price tag, typical gamers aren’t getting much more for their money. Now that might change in the future, and in one or two years we may see the PS5, but don’t count on it. It seems far more likely that the console wars are over.\nWe have known for years that developers have started to shift their attention towards mobile gaming and perhaps not in the way we’re used to. Mobile games were add-ons, they weren’t new experiences. But with Pokemon Go and other mainstream titles that’s changed. You might love Final Fantasy, the RPG that has been held up as a pinnacle of gaming for years. Well, if you want the newest one, you need to check out the app store because that’s where you’ll find it. The latest title was made exclusive for mobile, and it’s rather good. This is a trend that you should expect to see grow in the future. For instance, Nintendo made a massive commitment to mobile, and this could lead to the end of the handheld gaming systems they are wildly. Since the 3DS, Nintendo have been quite on the handheld gaming front, and we can’t help but wonder, is this the end of the road? After all, the Switch is essentially mobile, and there was even a rumor that Nintendo were creating their own phone. It seems clear that mobile gaming will become a more prominent part of the industry in the future.\nAccording to Apple, the future is AR, and according to sony, it’s all about VR. Too radically different types of tech. Meanwhile, Microsoft can’t seem to decide which direction to head in. So, which one will win out in the future. VR and AR will both continue to evolve and become more important. AR will rise up on the phones while VR will become more crucial for awesome game experiences. However, eventually, both will meet in the middle with holograms. That’s right, we’re quite far away from this, but eventually, we will see holograms become prominent in gaming and every part of society. Expect the first movements and advancements in this tech over the next five to ten years. Games will be primitive at first with small levels that are merely demos similar to VR right now. But it will evolve, and slowly but surely we’ll move towards a point where we can walk around and interact with a holographic world.\nOf course, before we reach that point we will also see the end of the hard copies of games. Blu Ray and DVD is already being phased out of the market thanks to streaming options and capabilities. Games require larger files that need downloading and as such the movement isn’t quite there yet. But we are certainly moving towards that direction, and within ten years hard copies of games will have disappeared from the market completely. Everything will be an online download. Will we still have gaming stores? Not once the consoles disappear as well. As already mentioned, the consoles are dying. Eventually, they will reach the point where they are completely obsolete.\nDo you think this is the future of the video game industry? Or, could things head in a completely different direction. We’ll just have to wait and see what the years bring."
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        "text": "24 февруари е 55-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 310 дни до края на годината (311 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 303 г. – Император Диоклециан издава указ за преследване на християните в Римската империя.\n 1303 г. – Битката при Рослин, част от Първата война за независимост за Шотландия\n 1510 г. – Папа Юлий II отменя наложеното над Венеция отлъчване от Католическата църква.\n 1582 г. – Папа Григорий XIII представя за първи път Григорианския календар.\n 1607 г. – За първи път е поставена операта „Орфей“ на Клаудио Монтеверди по либрето на Алесандро Стриджо.\n 1616 г. – Комисия от римокатолически теолози определя идеята на Николай Коперник за хелиоцентричната система като „безсмислена, абсурдна, и официално еретична, тъй като отявлено противоречи на Светото писание...“.\n 1711 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта „Риналдо“ от Георг Фридрих Хендел в Лондон.\n 1719 г. – Император Петър I учредява в Санкт Петербург Кунсткамерата – първия руски музей.\n 1783 г. – Английският парламент взема решение за прекратяване на Британско-американската война.\n 1821 г. – Мексико получава независимост от Испания.\n 1839 г. – Уилям Отис получава патент за парен багер.\n 1841 г. – Създаден е окръг Ричлънд в щата Илинойс, САЩ.\n 1848 г. – Излиза „Манифест на комунистическата партия“, написана от Карл Маркс и Фридрих Енгелс.\n 1848 г. – Кралят на Франция Луи-Филип абдикира от престола; във Франция е обявена Втора република.\n 1861 г. – Великият църковен събор в Цариград низвергва и осъжда на заточение Иларион Макариополски, Авксентий Велешки и Паисий Пловдивски.\n 1876 г. – Състои се премиерата на музикалното произведение „В пещерата на планинския цар“ норвежкия композитор Едвард Григ в Осло.\n 1878 г. – Освободен е град Горна Джумая (дн. Благоевград).\n 1878 г. – Руско-турска война: Щабът на руската армия пристига в Сан Стефано.\n 1881 г. – Основан е чилийският град Темуко.\n 1887 г. – Париж и Брюксел стават първите столици, свързани с телефонна връзка, това също е и първата интернационална телефонна връзка в Европа.\n 1895 г. – Започва Националноосвободителното въстание в Куба против испанските колонизатори, начело с Хосе Марти.\n 1910 г. – Създаден е шведският футболен отбор Малмьо ФФ.\n 1918 г. – Естония приема декларация за независимост от Русия.\n 1921 г. – С Указ на цар Борис III се премахва наборната военна служба в Българската армия и се преминава към платена доброволческа служба на войнишкия състав.\n 1932 г. – Създаден е Висшият електорален съд – най-високата инстанция на изборното правосъдие в Бразилия.\n 1938 г. – В САЩ за първи път е използван найлон за стока за широко потребление – започва производството на найлонова четка за зъби.\n 1939 г. – Унгария се присъединява към Антикоминтерновия пакт.\n 1940 г. – Открито е XXV обикновено народно събрание.\n 1941 г. – Япония провъзгласява за своя територия островите в Океания.\n 1942 г. – Излъчено е първото предаване по Радио „Гласът на Америка“.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Съветска подводница торпилира и потапя край Босфора българския кораб Струма, превозващ 778 български евреи бежанци към Палестина.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Първа българска армия с командващ генерал-лейтенант Владимир Стойчев получава задачата за провеждане на Мурската операция.\n 1946 г. – В Аржентина Хуан Перон е избран за президент.\n\n 1955 г. – Турция и Иран сключват Багдадския пакт, просъществувал 24 години.\n 1958 г. – Създадена е кубинска радиостанция Радио Ребелде от Че Гевара.\n 1962 г. – Закрито е III народно събрание.\n 1964 г. – Касиус Клей (Мохамед Али) става за първи път световен шампион по бокс в тежка категория.\n 1966 г. – Ганайският президент Кваме Нкрума е свален, докато гостува в Чили.\n 1969 г. – Джими Хендрикс изнася последния си концерт в Англия.\n 1969 г. – Американският космически кораб Маринър 6 е изстрелян към Марс.\n 1981 г. – Официално са закрити 13-те Зимни олимпийски игри 1980 в Лейк Плесид, щата Ню Йорк, САЩ.\n 1981 г. – Бъкингамският дворец обявява годежа на принц Чарлз и лейди Даяна Спенсър.\n 1984 г. – Дяволският мост на река Арда близо до град Ардино е обявен за паметник на културата.\n 1984 г. – Започва дипломатическото сътрудничество на Камерун с България.\n 1988 г. – След представление в Германия зрителите аплодират Лучано Павароти в продължение на 1 час и 7 минути, в резултат на което той излиза на сцената 165 пъти.\n 1992 г. – Създаден е Национален парк Рила с обща площ 107 924 хектара.\n 2002 г. – Приключват Зимните олимпийски игри в Солт Лейк Сити.\n 2004 г. – Българинът подполковник Петко Лилов, който е командир на българския батальон в Кербала, Ирак, е назначен за вицегубернатор на града.\n 2007 г. – Официално е открит стадионът на Ковънтри Сити – Рикох Арена.\n 2008 г. – Фидел Кастро се оттегля от поста Президент на Куба, след като близо 50 години изпълнява тази длъжност.\n 2013 г. – Митрополит Неофит е избран за Патриарх на Българската православна църква\n 2022 г. – Русия напада Украйна в 5:00 сутринта\n\nРодени \n\n 1463 г. – Джовани Пико делла Мирандола, италиански хуманист († 1494 г.)\n 1500 г. – Карл V, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1558 г.)\n 1536 г. – Климент VIII, римски папа († 1605 г.)\n 1547 г. – Хуан Австрийски, испански военачалник († 1578 г.)\n 1619 г. – Шарл Льо Брюн, френски художник († 1690 г.)\n 1644 г. – Мария Елизабета Лемерхирт, майка на Йохан Себастиан Бах († 1694 г.)\n 1767 г. – Рама II, крал на Сиам († 1824 г.)\n 1786 г. – Вилхелм Грим, германски филолог († 1859 г.)\n 1788 г. – Юхан Дал, норвежки художник († 1857 г.)\n 1817 г. – Огюст-Александър Дюкро, френски генерал († 1882 г.)\n 1829 г. – Фридрих Шпилхаген, германски писател († 1911 г.)\n 1831 г. – Лео фон Каприви, пруски генерал († 1899 г.)\n 1842 г. – Ариго Бойто, италиански поет († 1918 г.)\n 1850 г. – Мари Ясаи, унгарска артистка († 1926 г.)\n 1863 г. – Франц фон Щук, немски художник († 1928 г.)\n 1870 г. – Теодор Гълъбов, български стенограф († 1935 г.)\n 1875 г. – Константин Хирл, немски политик († 1955 г.)\n 1878 г. – Александър Божинов, български художник († 1968 г.)\n 1882 г. – Стоян Романски, български езиковед († 1959 г.)\n 1884 г. – Иван Абаджиев, български офицер († ? г.)\n 1885 г. – Станислав Игнаци Виткевич, полски писател († 1939 г.)\n 1885 г. – Честър Нимиц, американски адмирал († 1966 г.)\n 1890 г. – Ангел Димитров, български цирков артист († 1965 г.)\n 1893 г. – Крум Кюлявков, български писател († 1955 г.)\n 1895 г. – Всеволод Иванов, съветски писател († 1963 г.)\n 1896 г. – Григор Агаронян, арменски скулптор († 1980 г.)\n 1897 г. – Никола Недков, български лекар († 1955 г.)\n 1899 г. – Михаил Громов, съветски авиатор († 1985 г.)\n 1900 г. – Максим Щраух, съветски артист († 1974 г.)\n 1902 г. – Борис Левиев, български диригент и композитор († 1968 г.)\n 1909 г. – Огъст Дърлет, американски писател († 1971 г.)\n 1910 г. – Тилемахос Кантос, кипърски художник († 1993 г.)\n 1912 г. – Иржи Трънка, чешки художник († 1969 г.)\n 1916 г. – Иван Башев, български политик († 1971 г.)\n 1918 г. – Винчо Христов, български партизанин († 1943 г.)\n 1931 г. – Славе Македонски, български писател († 2002 г.)\n 1932 г. – Мишел Льогран, френски композитор († 2019 г.)\n 1933 г. – Веселин Искърски, български журналист († 1995 г.)\n 1936 г. – Чудомир Начев, български лекар († 2005 г.)\n 1938 г. – Филип Найт, американски предприемач (Nike)\n 1940 г. – Денис Лоу, шотландски футболист\n 1941 г. – Сам Лундвал, шведски фантаст\n 1943 г. – Христо Проданов, български алпинист († 1984 г.)\n 1944 г. – Дейвид Уайнленд, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1946 г. – Ратомир Дуйкович, сръбски футболист\n 1947 г. – Едуард Джеймс Олмос, американски актьор\n 1948 г. – Уолтър Смит, шотландски футболист († 2021 г.)\n 1950 г. – Любен Чаталов, български актьор\n 1955 г. – Ален Прост, френски пилот от Формула 1\n 1955 г. – Стив Джобс, американски предприемач и изобретател († 2011 г.)\n 1956 г. – Джудит Бътлър, американски философ\n 1960 г. – Валери Цеков, български политик\n 1964 г. – Иван Маринов – Маслара, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Били Зейн, американски актьор\n 1966 г. – Милена Славова, пънк/рок певица\n 1968 г. – Мартин Вагнер, германски футболист\n 1971 г. – Педро де ла Роса, испански пилот във Формула 1\n 1972 г. – Владимир Колев, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Крис Фен, американски музикант\n 1973 г. – Йордан Йовчев, български гимнастик\n 1981 г. – Лейтън Хюит, австралийски тенисист\n 1982 г. – Клара Кукалова, чешка тенисистка\n 1987 г. – Жельо Желев, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Майкъл Джонсън, английски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1646 г. – Андерс Буре, шведски топограф (* 1571 г.)\n 1704 г. – Марк Антоан Шарпантие, френски композитор (* 1643 г.)\n 1777 г. – Жозе I, крал на Португалия (* 1714 г.)\n 1799 г. – Георг Кристоф Лихтенберг, германски математик и физик (* 1742 г.)\n 1810 г. – Хенри Кавендиш, английски учен (* 1731 г.)\n 1856 г. – Николай Лобачевски, руски математик (* 1792 г.)\n 1862 г. – Бернхард Ингеман, датски писател (* 1789 г.)\n 1905 г. – Ташко Цветков, български революционер (* 1865 г.)\n 1907 г. – Карло Хошек, чешки и български революционер (* 1871 г.)\n 1907 г. – Пасхалис Цягас, гръцки капитан (* 1873 г.)\n 1910 г. – Карл Лемох, руски художник от немски произход (* 1841 г.)\n 1913 г. – Йоанис Капитанис, гръцки революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1919 г. – Авксентий Пелагонийски, български духовник (* 1850 г.)\n 1923 г. – Елена Грънчарова, българска революционерка (* 1842 г.)\n 1925 г. – Карл Ялмар Брантинг, министър-председател на Швеция, Нобелов лауреат през 1921 (* 1860 г.)\n 1930 г. – Василий Завялов, руски физиолог и биохимик (* 1873 г.)\n 1934 г. – Гаврил Занетов, български юрист (* 1863 г.)\n 1935 г. – Христо Стойчев, български лекар–балнеолог (* 1872 г.)\n 1941 г. – Емил Зегадлович, полски писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1942 г. – Борис Иванов, български ботаник (* 1879 г.)\n 1947 г. – Пиер Жане, френски философ (* 1859 г.)\n 1951 г. – Георги Попаянов, български революционер (* 1881 г.)\n 1953 г. – Герд фон Рундщет, германски фелдмаршал (* 1875 г.)\n 1963 г. – Мила Павлова, българска актриса (* 1928 г.)\n 1973 г. – Димитър Табаков, български математик (* 1879 г.)\n 1975 г. – Николай Булганин, съветски политически и военен деец (* 1885 г.)\n 1976 г. – Димитър Митрев, югославски писател (* 1919 г.)\n 1981 г. – Георги Наджаков, български физик (* 1897 г.)\n 1988 г. – Блюма Зейгарник, руска психоложка (* 1900 г.)\n 1989 г. – Тодор Панайотов, български художник (* 1927 г.)\n 1993 г. – Боби Мур, английски футболист (* 1941 г.)\n 1994 г. – Димитър Грива, български композитор (* 1914 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ката Лахтова, югославски политик (* 1924 г.)\n 2001 г. – Клод Шанън, американски информационен теоретик (* 1916 г.)\n 2014 г. – Харолд Реймис, американски актьор, режисьор и сценарист (* 1944 г.)\n 2016 г. – Йордан Соколов, български политик (* 1933 г.)\n 2020 г. – Катрин Джонсън, американска физичка (* 1918 г.)\n\nПразници \n Естония – Ден на независимостта (обявена през 1918 г., от Русия, национален празник)\n Мексико – Ден на националното знаме (чества се от 1937 г.)\n Румъния – Общонароден празник Драгобете (ден, от който птиците започват пролетното чифтосване, ден на любовниците)\n Тайланд – Ден на националните артисти (чества се от 1985 г.)\n\n224"
    },
    {
        "text": "25 февруари е 56-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 309 дни до края на годината (310 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 138 г. – Императорът на Римската империя Адриан осиновява Антонин Пий, обявявайки го за престолонаследник.\n 1204 г. – Папа Инокентий III изпраща в България кардинал Лъв, който да коронова за крал цар Калоян и да издигне като единствен православен Примас архиепископ Василий.\n 1836 г. – Самюъл Колт получава патент за „въртящо се оръжие“, наречено по-късно револвер.\n 1848 г. – Във Франция е провъзгласена Втората република.\n 1856 г. – В Париж е открит Международен конгрес за изготвяне на мирен договор между държавите, участвали в Кримската война.\n 1901 г. – Американският магнат Джон Пиерпон Морган създава империята „Юнайтед стейтс стийл корпорейшън“.\n 1905 г. – В България е регистриран първият картел – Тютюнофабрикантско дружество „Свети Никола“, в който влизат 40 от общо 58 тютюневи фабрики.\n 1916 г. – Генерал Филип Петен поема командването на 2-ра френска армия.\n 1921 г. – Съветската Червена армия окупира Тбилиси, столицата на Грузия.\n 1928 г. – В САЩ е издаден първият лиценз за телевизионно излъчване.\n 1932 г. – Адолф Хитлер, който е гражданин на Австрия, получава германско гражданство.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Турция обявява война на Нацистка Германия.\n 1947 г. – В Народна република България е въведен държавен монопол върху производството и търговията с тютюневи изделия.\n 1948 г. – Комунистическата партия завзема властта в Чехословакия.\n 1949 г. – В София започва съдебен процес срещу 15 евангелистки пастори, който завършва с осъждането им за шпионска дейност.\n 1951 г. – В Буенос Айрес (Аржентина) са открити първите Панамерикански игри.\n 1956 г. – В своя реч на XX конгрес на КПСС съветският ръководител Никита Хрушчов осъжда култа към личността на неговия предшественик Йосиф Сталин.\n 1986 г. – Във Филипините, след 20-годишно управление, президентът Фердинад Маркос е победен на избори от Корасон Акино – първата филипинка президент.\n 1991 г. – Война в Персийския залив: Иракска балистична ракета „Ал-Хусейн“ удря американска военна база в Дархан, Саудитска Арабия, при което загиват 28 американски войници.\n 1992 г. – Общинският съвет на София взема решение за разрушаване на Мавзолея на Георги Димитров.\n 1992 г. – Създадена е Федерална космическа агенция в Русия.\n 2007 г. – Иран извършва първото си успешно изстрелване на космическа ракета.\n\nРодени \n\n 1305 г. – Ибн Батута, марокански учен и пътешественик († 1368 или 1377 г.)\n 1611 г. – Евлия Челеби, османски пътешественик († 1682 г.)\n 1643 г. – Ахмед II, султан на Османската империя († 1695 г.)\n 1707 г. – Карло Голдони, италиански драматург († 1793 г.)\n 1778 г. – Хосе де Сан Мартин, южноамерикански генерал († 1850 г.)\n 1835 г. – Масайоши Мацуката, министър-председател на Япония († 1924 г.)\n 1841 г. – Пиер-Огюст Реноар, френски художник, скулптор и график († 1919 г.)\n 1842 г. – Карл Май, германски писател († 1912 г.)\n 1857 г. – Андрей Блъсков, български офицер, генерал-майор († 1943 г.)\n 1859 г. – Васил Кутинчев, български генерал († 1941 г.)\n 1860 г. – Сър Уилям Ашли, британски икономически историк († 1927 г.)\n 1865 г. – Андраник Озанян, арменски генерал († 1927 г.)\n 1872 г. – Коста Николов, български просветен деец († 1957 г.)\n 1877 г. – Ерих Мориц фон Хорнбостел, етномузиколог и музикален теоретик († 1935 г.)\n 1878 г. – Панчо Дорев, български историк († 1938 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Андреев, български скулптор († 1971 г.)\n 1885 г. – Алис Батенберг, английска принцеса († 1969 г.)\n 1888 г. – Джон Фостър Дълес, американски дипломат и държавник († 1959 г.)\n 1888 г. – Йордан Бадев, български литературен критик († 1944 г.)\n 1896 г. – Цветан Лазаров, български авиоконструктор († 1961 г.)\n 1900 г. – Стефан Грудев, български писател и драматург († 1971 г.)\n 1902 г. – Никола Илчев, български борец, боксьор и кечист († 1975 г.)\n 1907 г. – Али Сабахатин, турски писател († 1948 г.)\n 1917 г. – Антъни Бърджес, британски писател († 1993 г.)\n 1935 г. – Октай Синаноглу, турски физикохимик и молекулярен биофизик († 2015 г.)\n 1941 г. – Георги Аяновски, писател от Северна Македония\n 1942 г. – Боян Радев, български борец, колекционер и меценат на изкуството\n 1943 г. – Джордж Харисън, британски рок музикант (Бийтълс) († 2001 г.)\n 1946 г. – Виктор Чучков, български композитор\n 1946 г. – Жан Тод, бивш президент на ФИА\n 1946 г. – Франц Ксавер Крьоц, немски драматург\n 1948 г. – Фридрих Концилия, австрийски футболист\n 1949 г. – Амин Маалуф, ливански писател\n 1950 г. – Нестор Киршнер, президент на Аржентина († 2010 г.)\n 1951 г. – Йонко Попов, български композитор\n 1952 г. – Светла Златева, българска лекоатлетка\n 1953 г. – Хосе Мария Аснар, министър-председател на Испания\n 1958 г. – Петко Драганов, български дипломат\n 1962 г. – Джон Ланчестър, английски писател и журналист\n 1964 г. – Ли Евънс, британски комик\n 1971 г. – Шон Астин, американски актьор\n 1972 г. – Анна Александрова, български политик и юрист\n 1981 г. – Парк Джи-сун, южнокорейски футболист\n 1982 г. – Мария Канелис, американска кечистка\n 1982 г. – Флавия Пенета, италианска тенисистка\n 1988 г. – Иван Иванов, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Димитър Вучев, български икономист и журналист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1536 г. – Якоб Хутер, тиролски проповедник (* неизв.)\n 1547 г. – Витория Колона, италианска поетеса (* 1492 г.)\n 1634 г. – Албрехт фон Валенщайн, германски генерал (* 1583 г.)\n 1713 г. – Фридрих I (Прусия), крал на Прусия (* 1675 г.)\n 1723 г. – Кристофър Рен, английски архитект (* 1632 г.)\n 1852 г. – Томас Мур, ирландски поет (* 1779 г.)\n 1872 г. – Паисий Пловдивски, Пловдивски Митрополит (* 1810 г.)\n 1899 г. – Паул Ройтер, британски журналист от германски произход (* 1816 г.)\n 1925 г. – Георги Скрижовски, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1950 г. – Джордж Майнот, американски патофизиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1934 г. (* 1885 г.)\n 1959 г. – Георги Богровски, български политик (* 1884 г.)\n 1971 г. – Теодор Светберг, Нобелов лауреат през 1926 г. (* 1884 г.)\n 1973 г. – Димитър Пешев, български политик (* 1894 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ахмад Шукейри, палестински политик (* 1908 г.)\n 1983 г. – Тенеси Уилямс, американски драматург (* 1911 г.)\n 1998 г. – Ванда Якубовска, полска филмова режисьорка (* 1907 г.)\n 1999 г. – Глен Сиборг, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1991 г. (* 1912 г.)\n 2002 г. – Никон Агатополски, български духовник (* 1931 г.)\n 2003 г. – Алберто Сорди, италиански актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 2003 г. – Преслав Кършовски, български художник (* 1905 г.)\n 2009 г. – Филип Фармър, американски писател (* 1918 г.)\n 2012 г. – Ерланд Юсефсон, шведски актьор (* 1923 г.)\n 2014 г. – Пако де Лусия, испански китарист и композитор (* 1947 г.)\n 2017 г. – Бил Пакстън, американски актьор (* 1955 г.)\n 2017 г. – Борислав Грънчаров, български поп певец (* 1944 г.)\n 2019 г. – Красимир Узунов, български журналист (* 1963 г.)\n\nПразници \n Италия – Празник на град Агридженто\n Кувейт – Национален ден на Кувейт (национален празник)\n Филипини – Ден на революцията (сваляне на диктатурата чрез избори, 1986 г.)\n\n225"
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    {
        "text": "Douglas Gayeton\nThroughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Douglas Gayeton lived in a restored sixteenth-century convent in Tuscany, studying Italy's \"slow living\" culture. Gayeton is a multi-media artist who has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and emerging media for National Geographic, PBS, Warner Brothers and Sony. His documentaries include Lost in Italy, a series Gayeton created and directed for the Fine Living Network, and the full-length film Molotov Alva for HBO. His images, which he refers to as \"flat film,\" are exhibited in museums and private collections around the world. Gayeton lives on a farm in Petaluma, California, with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Tuilerie.\n“Reno is very lucky to have an organization which makes it possible for native Italian chefs to be here and teach us so many of their wonderful recipes straight from their home country.”\nVeronica P."
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        "text": "Texas is just one of 14 states that have yet to expand Medicaid.\nSupport in Texas is growing to expand Medicaid as opposition drops in other Republican-leaning states working to increase health coverage to the uninsured.\nA new poll of adults shows almost two in three, or 64%, support Medicaid expansion in Texas , according to a new statewide survey by the Episcopal Health Foundation. More than 1,200 adults were interviewed from Jan. 3 to Jan. 25 for the analysis.\nThe poll comes as the Texas legislature weighs whether to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot as four other states have done. Last year, voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah voted by ballot initiative to expand Medicaid and Maine did the same in 2017. That means Texas is just one of 14 states that have yet to expand Medicaid.\n\"Texans say they believe that the state has a role to play in increasing access to health insurance,\" Episcopal Health Foundation CEO Elena Marks said. \"Medicaid expansion is a readily-available solution, especially for all those stuck in the current coverage gap. But Medicaid expansion isn¹t the one and only way to help. Texas lawmakers need to talk about expanding access to affordable health insurance coverage and a way for the state to come up with its own way to get that done.\"\nNearly 20% of Texans under the age of 65 don’t have health insurance and most of them are working, according to a December report on the state’s uninsured by the Urban Institute that was sponsored by Episcopal Health Foundation. Texas has 4.7 million uninsured, the most people of any other U.S. state without medical coverage under age 65.\nBut a Democratic legislator who is trying to gain support for the measure is up against a state government dominated by Republicans. In addition, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick “have argued that expanding Medicaid would increase health care costs for the state — especially if the federal government ever breaks its promise to help pay for the surge of newly eligible people,” the Texas Tribune said in a report.\nBut in the latest Episcopal Health survey there are indications that state residents could be open to allocating more tax dollars to healthcare and Medicaid expansion in particular. Nearly 60% of Texas adults don’t think state government is doing enough to help low-income adults access the healthcare they need."
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        "text": "Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Guests may use a train station pick-up service for a surcharge, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.\nGrab a bite to eat at the Cenobio, a restaurant where you can take in the pool view, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary local cuisine breakfast is served daily from 7 AM to 10 AM.\nThis 5 star hotel is located on the coastline of Como and was established in 1568. It is a short drive away from the Como and the nearest station is Como San Giovanni. The Hotel has 2 restaurants, 2 bars, a conference room, an indoor swimming pool, an outdoor swimming pool and a fitness centre/gym. All 152 rooms are equipped with minibar, hairdryer, safe and air conditioning.\nMake yourself at home in one of the 5 guestrooms.\nlastminute.com has a fantastic range of hotels in Cernobbio, with everything from cheap hotels to luxurious five star accommodation available. We like to live up to our last minute name so remember you can book any one of our excellent Cernobbio hotels up until midnight and stay the same night."
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        "text": "Book Haul~New Stash and Recently Received\nHere's a new crop of books that have come in recently from publishers, and a couple that I've ordered for myself. Things have slowed down with the publishers since I took a hiatus with my illness, but now that I'm back reviewing...are picking up again. I'm delighted to be back and able to read again.\nThere's a mixed bag here as you'll see.\nOne I just ordered that came in this week! I may have already told you about it, but it bears telling again. It's fantastic. Published by Orbit. Here's a summary:\nThe Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end.\nEvery morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.\nWhen they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.\nMelanie is a very special girl.\nA new book ( #2 ) in the Flavia Albia series! Thanks to St. Martin's Press.\n\"There are rules for private informers accepting a new case. Never take on clients who cannot pay you. Never do favours for friends. Don’t work with relatives. If, like me, you are a woman, keep clear of men you find attractive.\n“Will I never learn?”\nIn Ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the “enemies at home,” the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn’t quickly discovered, his slaves—all of them, guilty or not—were presumed responsible and were put to death. Without exception.\nWhen a couple is found dead in their own bedroom and their house burglarized, some of their household slaves know what is about to happen to them. They flee to the Temple of Ceres, which by tradition is respected as a haven for refugees. This is where Flavia Albia comes in. The authorities, under pressure from all sides, need a solution. Albia, a private informer just like her father, Marcus Didius Falco, is asked to solve the murders, in this mystery from Lindsey Davis.\nAnother Elin Hilderbrand...I love her stories, as I've said. This is one I just bought at Target on a whim. Don't you love the cover? It's published by Little, Brown & Co.\nA summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in the newest bestseller from \"the queen of the summer novel\" (People)\nThe Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a happy occasion: a wedding that will unite their two families. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail of her youngest daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for the beautiful event -- but in reality, things are falling apart.\nWhile the couple-to-be are quite happy, their loved ones find their lives crumbling. In the days leading up to the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in BEAUTIFUL DAY -- into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor our commitments.\nThis is an unusual memoir sent to me by Skyhorse Publishing. It harkens back to the times when the Soviet Union was closed and at its worst where human rights was concerned. I'm interested to give it a try...\nThere is always some part of the world where human rights are trampled and oppression quashes the human spirit. In the 1980s, it was the Soviet Union. In Swimming in the Daylight, Lisa Paul, a Catholic-American student living in Moscow in the early ’80s, details how she grew to understand the perverse reality of the pre-Gorbachev Soviet regime as her friendship with her Russian-language tutor, Inna Kitrosskaya Meiman, blossomed. Inna, a Soviet-Jewish dissident and refusenik, was repeatedly denied a visa to receive life-saving cancer treatment abroad. The refusal was an apparent punishment imposed on both her and her Jewish husband, Naum, for his participation in the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group—the lone group fighting for human rights in the U.S.S.R.\nBefore Lisa returned to the United States, she promised Inna she would do all she could to get her out of Moscow. But Lisa was one person, what could she possibly do that would make a difference? Inspired by her faith and rights as an American, Lisa staged a hunger strike, held press conferences, and galvanized American politicians to demand Inna’s immediate release.\nIn this heartfelt, compassionate, and inspiring narrative, Lisa brings the reader along with her as she learns indelible lessons from her heroic teacher. Inna’s greatest lesson—that it is possible to swim through treacherous waters, in daylight, not in despair—is as relevant today as it was during the final years of the Soviet regime. At a time when international strife seems insurmountable and worries at home seem to paralyze, this story will teach people everywhere that it is the courage inside, not the chaos outside, that defines us.\nLouise Penny is a new author for me. I've listened to one of her books on tape and enjoyed it, and look forward to an actual read. I know she has a tremendous group of followers. This was sent very nicely by St. Martin's Press.\nHappily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.”\nWhile Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache’s help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. “There’s power enough in Heaven,” he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, “to cure a sin-sick soul.” And then he gets up. And joins her.\nTogether with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it The land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.\nVery kindly sent to me by Kensington Press, this is of course a historical fiction about Jack the Ripper and his wife. Brandy Purdy is known for her fiction having to do with kings and queens of England. I look forward to reading this new approach of hers!\nI am so looking forward to starting this one sent by Tom Doherty Associates. It looks awesome. I love this type of thriller. Read the summary below:\nThe Ark Storm is coming—a catastrophic weather event that will unleash massive floods and wreak more damage on California than the feared “Big One.” One man wants to profit from it. Another wants to harness it to wage jihad on American soil. One woman stands in their way: Dr. Gwen Boudain, a brave and brilliant meteorologist.\nWhen Boudain notices that her climate readings are off the charts, she turns to Gabriel Messenger for research funding. Messenger’s company is working on a program that ionizes water molecules to bring rain on command. Meanwhile, Wall Street suits notice that someone is placing six-month bets on the prospect of an utter apocalypse and begin to investigate. Standing in the shadows is journalist Dan Jacobsen, a former Navy SEAL. War hardened, cynical, and handsome, Jacobsen is a man with his own hidden agenda.\nLinda Davies's Ark Storm brings together the worlds of finance, scientific innovation, and terrorism in a fast-paced thrill ride that will leave readers gasping.\nA techno thriller sent kindly by Tom Doherty Associates, as well. This one sounds like it could be a modern-day happening! It's a follow up to another book, but, hopefully easy to catch up on.\nA trip to an island off the New England coast—and away from the demands of police work—might be just what is needed to jumpstart Detective Doyle Carrick and Nola Watkins’ stalled relationship. But a mysterious plague is killing the island’s bees. Nola takes a job at an organic farm hit hard by the disease, working for the rich, handsome, and annoying Teddy, with whom she quickly becomes a little too friendly for Doyle’s liking. When Teddy’s estranged father offers Doyle a big payday to keep his son out of trouble until he can close a big government contract—and when Doyle meets Annalisa, a beautiful researcher studying the bees—Doyle decides to stick around.\nStoma Corporation, a giant biotech company, moves in with genetically modified super bees that supposedly are the answer to the world’s bee crisis. As tension grows between protestors and a private army of thugs, Doyle realizes that bees aren’t the only thing being modified. Annalisa’s coworkers start to go missing, and she and Doyle uncover a dark, deadly, and terrifying secret. Things spin violently out of control on the tiny island, and when Doyle closes in on what Stoma Corporation is really up to, he must race to stop them before their plot succeeds, and spreads to the mainland and the world.\nDeadout is thrilling follow-up to McGoran’s highly acclaimed novel, Drift.\nA mystery and crime novel also generously sent by Tom Doherty Associates. This one is a Sonya Iverson series book. Has been compared to Barbara Taylor Bradford in its storyline.\nElsa Klensch, host of the groundbreaking CNN news magazine, Style with Elsa Klensch, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Style with Elsa Klensch. When she retired from television, Elsa took with her many secrets, stories she'd never been able to tell...until now in The Third Sin.\nTelevision producer Sonya Iverson has a habit of stumbling over dead bodies. Wade Bruckheimer decides to sell a fabulous diamond that once belonged to his late mother. He needs money, and selling the Braganza seems the best way of getting it. His stepmother, Irina, is furious—that diamond is her ticket to every A-list party in New York. A few days before the sale, Wade is found dead in his luxurious apartment.\nSonya was already working on a story about the diamond and immediately begins to cover the murder, to the dismay of her boyfriend, who fears that Sonya is putting herself in danger. Irina Bruckheimer is the first, but not the last, suspect. Esperanza’s family want the Braganza back. There are long-standing rumors that Wade’s high-maintenance wife is having an affair. Only Sonya, with her outsider’s viewpoint, can sort through Wade Bruckheimer’s life and find his killer.\nBeautiful cover...this one is an ancient Ireland mystery which is Peter Tremayne's forte'. I love this time period and a good mystery. This one should be a fun read. Many thanks to St. Martin's Press for thinking of me with this one.\nWinter, 670 AD. King Colgú has invited the leading nobles and chieftains of his kingdom to a feast day. Fidelma and her companion Eadulf are finally home for an extended stay, and have promised their son, Alchú, that they’ll be able to spend some time together after months of being on the road, investigating crimes. Fidelma and Eadulf are enjoying the feast when it is interrupted by the entrance of a religieux, who claims he has an important message for the King. He approaches the throne and shouts ‘Remember Liamuin!’ and then stabs King Colgú. The assassin is slain, but does enough damage to take out Colgú’s bodyguard, and to put the king himself on the verge of death.\nAs King Colgú lies in recovery, Fidelma, Eadulf, and bodyguard Gormán are tasked with discovering who is behind the assassination attempt, and who Liamuin is. They must journey into the territory of their arch-enemies, the Uí Fidgente, to uncover the secrets in the Abbey of Mungairit, and then venture into the threatening mountain territory ruled by a godless tyrant. Danger and violence are their constant companions until the final devastating revelation.\nAtonement of Blood is a mystery of Ancient Ireland from Peter Tremayne.\nOn another note:\nI'm reading \"Outlander,\" \"Me Before You,\" and \"A Game of Thrones\" presently. Also have started \"The Girl with all the Gifts,\" which I've said is excellent!\nHope you are enjoying your new reads. 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        "text": "The 15th annual St Peter's College Sports and Cultural Festival is happening from Friday to Sunday, 14-16 September 2018. We look forward to welcoming over 3,000 students from 45 different schools to this hugely vibrant and fun event that we all look forward to every year.\nNot only are there sports (Basketball, Chess, Netball, Soccer), but also Musical events, Pavement Art, Public Speaking and Debating, Drama, and Photography competitions as well as workshops for debating adjudicators and choir leaders. Our entrepreneurial Grade 9s will be running their own businesses for two days at the Festival and will have lots of novelties on sale such as T-shirts, caps and beanies, jewellery, cell phone covers, bath bombs etc."
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        "text": "Costa adds Another Word to roster, Citigate takes on Stout, Hanover Housing Association hires Frontier PR and more from PRWeek UK.\nAnother Word has been appointed as Costa's retained corporate PR agency, working alongside the brand's existing agencies including Tulchan and Glasshouse, whinch advise on financial and CSR respectively.\nAnother Word did not competitively pitch for the brief. The agency will report to Costa head of comms Kerry Parkin and will deliver a reputation management brief.\nCitigate Dewe Rogerson has appointed Katja Stout as a director in its life sciences team. Stout has 20 years of healthcare and life sciences comms experience, and moves from Scius Communications, which she founded. She previously worked at AstraZeneca and founded another agency, Northbank, which was sold to what is now Instinctif Partners.\nFrontier PR has been selected by Hanover Housing Association to support the roll-out of new, high specification properties for people over the age of 55. Frontier will develop a PR plan for the programme supporting local sales and marketing activity, as well as positioning Hanover as a housing provider of choice. The agency will meet with local agents and with joint venture partners as part of the contract.\nM&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment has been appointed by Contego Sports as its international marketing and PR agency. Contego is developing a head protector to reduce the risk of concussion, which has become a prominent issue in rugby and other sports this year. The agency's remit will include the global launch strategy, ongoing international PR support, social media integration and brand development.\nThe national trade body of hospital caterers, Hospital Caterers Association, has appointed Open Door PR as its public relations representatives following a competitive tender process. The agency will be responsible for developing a national platform and a strategic comms plan to broaden the reach of the HCA, which represents members employing a total of 35,000 people in the UK.\nNelson Bostock Unlimited has been appointed at the UK PR agency for people-based marketing firm Signal. Nelson Bostock Unlimited’s programme will focus on positioning Signal and its offering for the UK market, localising the company’s messages for UK marketers and establishing a thought leadership platform for the EMEA team.\nAntlos, an online marketplace for boating holidays, has appointed Rooster PR to develop a PR campaign to build awareness of the site and generate bookings. Rooster won the work following a competitive pitch. Antlos was launched in May this year and aims to make boating holidays more affordable and accessible by connecting guests directly with boat owners.\nParks and open spaces charity Fields in Trust has appointed Grayling to a wide-ranging brief including media relations, public affairs, event management and digital engagement. It will see Grayling helping Fields in Trust raise awareness of the importance of universal access to free, local outdoor space for sport, play and recreation.\nNewcastle-based creative, digital marketing and PR agency ramarketing has located staff in Nottingham and London as it looks to provide a more localised service to clients in the Midlands and the south. New hire Ali Woodhouse is based in Nottingham, while Marta Rusinowska, who has worked for the firm since 2010, is based in London."
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        "text": "Q: Which are the OS X Dashboard Widgets you can't live without? I don't use widgets that much, but one particular widget makes the dashboard useful to me. That's iStat\n\niStat Pro is a highly configurable\n  widget that lets you monitor every\n  aspect of your Mac, including CPU,\n  memory, disks, network, battery,\n  temperatures, fans, load & uptime and\n  processes. iStat Pro can do it all.\n\nAnd it's FREE\n\nDo you have one outstanding widget to share? How do you use it?\nPlease follow these simple rules:  \n\n\n*\n\n*Please search for duplicate answers before posting. You can search\nthis question like this: inquestion:this iStat Pro  \n\n*Limit one dashboard widget per answer.   \n\n*Add a link to the website in the name of the application if possible (no direct downloads).\n\n\nA: Tea Timer\n\nIt's simply a timer. Notifies with:\n\n\n*\n\n*Sounds\n\n*Speech\n\n*Growl\n\n\nText completely customizable (food pictured). ready in can be changed to just in.\n\nA: Delivery Status is a must-have if you routinely track packages:\n\nI also use their iOS app and it all works spectacularly well, smart enough to change the delivery source based on what's your Clipboard.\n\nA: I've become a huge fan of Loremify, a free widget that generates Lorem Ipsum text for you in either plain text or HTML of various flavors. As a front-end web developer, it's become THE single fastest way for me to quickly populate a page with dummy text for testing layouts.\n\n\nA: I love Dictionary Widget.\n\n\nA: iStat Nano\n\n\nWhen iStat Pro feels just a bit overkill. When hovered over, you can change to a more detailed view.\n\nA: Stickies\nI myself use Sticky many times in a day.\n \n\nA: WeekNumber\nThe calendar widget doesn't show the current week number. I am working in an office where everything is calculated in week numbers, so this widget is much useful to me. \n\n\nA: UNIX Permissions Calculator is a dashboard widget that translates UNIX file permissions between symbolic and octal formats. I find this very useful.\n\nA: CSS Cheat Sheet\nDisplays the essential information from the CSS Cheat Sheet. On my job I use it. I can remember the most basic rules, but beyond that I need to look it up to be sure.\n\n\nA: Milk the Cow, a task manager which interfaces with Remember the Milk. It helps me keep up with my todo list!\n\n\nA: I used to use the NowPlaying widget all the time for seeing what shows were on my TiVo and downloading them to my Mac\n\nI eventually set up a Linux virtual machine to run pytivo and Galleon, and that now automatically downloads from my TiVo for me and allows me to pull the media back if and when I want... so I don't use this widget much anymore.\n\nA: Oblique Strategies\nOne of my favourite creativity-unleashing activities from one of my favourite artists, Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies makes a great widget. I use this all the time to kickstart the creative process. Sadly, it looks like CurvedSpace Software has folded and the original version is no longer available. You still seem to be able to get it from ZDNet and CNet though.\n\nA: Radar in Motion\nFree\nInstall it a few times and change map coverage to suit you. I live in Connecticut and find these two maps useful for coming weather. I've been using it for years and while its connections to weather service info sometimes drop out, it's been extremely useful for me.\n\n\nA: I've also found myself using NetworkStat:\n\nSeems a little stale, but works well for showing your current LAN/WAN IPs.  Sure, the excellent iStat widgets can show this info, but this is a little cleaner and easier to read quickly.\n\nA: The MAMP Control widget comes in very handy for me to start and stop Apache and MySQL:\n\n\nA: If you like to use Stickies, you should try StickiesPlus. It allows you to create a new sticky simply by OPT+clicking the widget.\nBased on the Apple widget, free of course:\nhttp://www.gatada.com/downloads/StickiesPlus.wdgt.zip\n\nA: I love using Twidget. It let's you get to full Twitter access. Download here : http://www.gettwidget.com\nFeatures\nDisplays 20 most recent public or friends timeline\nAuto-refreshes timeline display\nEasily show/hide timeline display\nOne-click refresh of timeline\nLinks to reply and Direct Message Twitter contacts\nLink to mark tweets as \"Favourite\"\nRecognizes replies and auto-links them to follow conversations\nShows your last tweet regardless of how it was updated (ie: mobile, txt, etc.)\nAuto-notification of new versions of Twidget\nPlanned Features\nGrowl Notifications:Twidget will allow you to specify whether or not to notify you of tweets via Growl.\n@Reply Highlight:Twidget will highlight tweets sent to you via @ replies.\nShort URLs:Twidget will allow you to shorten lengthy URLs when sending status updates.\nResizable Widget:Twidget will support resizing of its main window.\nMultiple Languages:Twidget will offer localized language support. If you'd like to translate Twidget into your language, please contact me: widgets@aquabox.ca\nDirect Message Display:Twidget will display direct messages sent to you.\nAudible Notifications:Twidget will allow you to specify whether or not to notify you of tweets through sounds.\n[More information at the website]\n\nA: This is one of my favorite calculator widgets, PEMDAS:\nhttp://www.donkeyengineering.com/pemdaswidget/\n\n\nA: I like BBC weather widget.\n"
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        "text": "Revolver soft bait is the most palatable formulation of the most widely used active ingredient, bromadiolone, containing 0% wax and delivering 100% pure performance. Rodents consume Revolver instead of scattering it, saving consumers the time and labor costs of clean-up. Revolver soft bait�s low-cost per placement pouches are available in 3.5kg and 7kg pails. ACTIVE INGREDIENT: BROMODIOLONE (AT 0.005%)."
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        "text": "26 февруари е 57-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 308 дни до края на годината (309 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n\n 364 г. – Валентиниан I става римски император.\n 1616 г. – На Галилео Галилей е забранено да преподава астрономията на Николай Коперник, като противоречаща на тълкуването на Светото писание.\n 1815 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт извършва бягство от остров Елба, след което се насочва с привърженици към Париж с намерение да завземе властта.\n 1851 г. – В Шумен е основан първият български оркестър, негов ръководител е Михай Шафран.\n 1899 г. – Константин Иречек публикува статия, в която описва партизанщината в българския политически живот.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: За първи път в историята в бойните действия се използва огнехвъргачка от армията на Германия.\n 1919 г. – В щата Аризона (САЩ) е учреден националният парк Гранд каньон.\n 1927 г. – Полша приема националния си химн.\n 1935 г. – Шотландският изобретател Робърт Уотсън-Уат демонстрира първия радиолокатор.\n 1936 г. – По нареждане на Хитлер в Германия започва производството на леките коли Фолксваген.\n 1951 г. – В САЩ президентските мандати са ограничени на два.\n 1952 г. – Британският премиер Уинстън Чърчил обявява, че страната притежава атомна бомба.\n 1961 г. – Хасан II става крал на Мароко.\n 1966 г. – САЩ изстрелват първия си космически кораб от серията Аполо без екипаж.\n 1967 г. – САЩ започва военна офанзива срещу главната квартира на Виетконг.\n 1980 г. – Израел и Египет установяват дипломатически отношения.\n 1991 г. – Американецът Тим Бърнърс-Ли представя първият уеб браузър.\n 1993 г. – Извършен е Атентат срещу Световния търговски център в Ню Йорк, при който загиват 6 души, а над 1000 са ранени.\n 2004 г. – Президентът на Република Македония Борис Трайковски загива в самолетна катастрофа близо до Мостар (Босна и Херцеговина).\n\nРодени \n\n 1361 г. – Вацлав IV, Крал на Бохемия († 1419 г.\n 1564 г. – Кристофър Марлоу, английски драматург († 1593 г.)\n 1671 г. – Антъни Ашли-Купър, британски философ († 1713 г.)\n 1786 г. – Франсоа Араго, френски учен († 1853 г.)\n 1789 г. – Итън Ходжкинсън, английски инженер († 1861 г.)\n 1799 г. – Беноа Пол Емил Клапейрон, френски физик († 1864 г.)\n 1802 г. – Виктор Юго, френски писател († 1885 г.)\n 1829 г. – Леви Щраус, американски дизайнер († 1902 г.)\n 1840 г. – Юджийн Скайлър, американски учен († 1890 г.)\n 1842 г. – Камий Фламарион, френски астроном († 1925 г.)\n 1846 г. – Бъфало Бил, американски шоумен († 1917 г.)\n 1852 г. – Джон Келог, американски хирург († 1943 г.)\n 1854 г. – Михаил Сарафов, български политик († 1924 г.)\n 1860 г. – Порфирий Бахметиев, руски физик († 1913 г.)\n 1860 г. – Стилиян Ковачев, български офицер († 1939 г.)\n 1861 г. – Надежда Крупская, руска революционерка († 1939 г.)\n 1861 г. – Фердинанд I, цар на България († 1948 г.)\n 1869 г. – Уилям Тарн, британски историк († 1957 г.)\n 1884 г. – Костас Варналис, гръцки писател († 1974 г.)\n 1896 г. – Андрей Жданов, съветски политик († 1948 г.)\n 1896 г. – Никола Икономов, български драматург († 1959 г.)\n 1902 г. – Веркор, френски писател († 1991 г.)\n 1903 г. – Джулио Ната, италиански химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1963 г. († 1979 г.)\n 1903 г. – Чарлз Орд Уингейт, британски офицер († 1944 г.)\n 1906 г. – Талал I (Йордания), крал на Йордания († 1972 г.)\n 1907 г. – Джон Боулби, английски психоаналитик († 1990 г.)\n 1913 г. – Херман Ленц, немски писател († 1998 г.)\n 1918 г. – Теодор Стърджън, американски писател († 1985 г.)\n 1921 г. – Алберт Коен, български писател († 1986 г.)\n 1928 г. – Фатс Домино, американски музикант († 2017 г.)\n 1930 г. – Лазар Берман, руски пианист († 2005 г.)\n 1932 г. – Джони Кеш, американски певец († 2003 г.)\n 1932 г. – Теодор Димитров, български дипломат\n 1934 г. – Михаил Берберов, български поет († 1989 г.)\n 1936 г. – Димо Печеников, български футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1941 г. – Тони Рей-Джоунс, британски фотограф († 1972 г.)\n 1943 г. – Иван Радев, български историк († 2020 г.)\n 1944 г. – Марко Тодоров, български учен\n 1944 г. – Роналд Лаудер, американски предприемач\n 1946 г. – Ахмед Зеуаил, египетски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1999 г. († 2016 г.)\n 1947 г. – Иля Велчев, български писател\n 1949 г. – Ема Къркби, британска певица\n 1953 г. – Васил Долапчиев, български общественик\n 1953 г. – Майкъл Болтън, американски певец\n 1954 г. – Искра Йосифова, българска актриса († 2005 г.)\n 1954 г. – Реджеп Ердоган, турски политик\n 1955 г. – Андреас Майслингер, австрийски политолог\n 1956 г. – Бадамдорж Батхишиг, монголски дипломат\n 1956 г. – Мишел Уелбек, френски писател\n 1958 г. – Силва Зурлева, българска журналистка († 2020 г.)\n 1963 г. – Бернардо Редин, колумбийски футболист\n 1964 г. – Петър Хубчев, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Благо Александров, български футболист\n 1966 г. – Славчо Богоев, български политик\n 1970 г. – Николай Желязков, български волейболист\n 1971 г. – Красимир Бислимов, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Макс Мартин, шведски композитор\n 1973 г. – Андре Танебергер, немски DJ\n 1973 г. – Уле Гунар Солшер, норвежки футболист\n 1974 г. – Себастиен Льоб, френски автомобилен състезател\n 1982 г. – Борис Солтарийски, български певец\n 1982 г. – Ли На, тенисистка от Китай\n 1983 г. – Пепе, португалски футболист\n 1984 г. – Берен Саат, турска актриса\n 1984 г. – Еманюел Адебайор, тогоански футболист\n 1985 г. – Мики Фуджимото, японска певица\n 1985 г. – Фернандо Йоренте, испански футболист\n 1986 г. – Хана Кърни, американска състезателка по ски\n 1987 г. – Иван Петков, български политик и икономист\n 1991 г. – Си Ел, южнокорейска певица и член на 2NE1\n\nПочинали \n\n 1577 г. – Ерик XIV крал на Швеция (* 1533)\n 1603 г. – Мария Испанска унгарска кралица (* 1528)\n 1770 г. – Джузепе Тартини, италиански композитор (* 1692 г.)\n 1821 г. – Жозеф дьо Местр, савойски философ (* 1753 г.)\n 1834 г. – Алоиз Зенефелдер, немски изобретател (* 1771 г.)\n 1871 г. – Теодосий Икономов, български възрожденец (* 1836 г.)\n 1892 г. – Георги Вълкович, български лекар (* 1833 г.)\n 1909 г. – Херман Ебингхаус, немски психолог (* 1850 г.)\n 1914 г. – Пьотър Семьонов-Тяншански, руски географ (* 1827 г.)\n 1922 г. – Алоис Хьофлер, австрийски философ (* 1853 г.)\n 1927 г. – Херман Обрист, швейцарски художник (* 1862 г.)\n 1931 г. – Ото Валах, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1910 г. (* 1847 г.)\n 1938 г. – Александър Амфитеатров, руски писател (* 1862 г.)\n 1943 г. – Теодор Айке, нацистки офицер (* 1892 г.)\n 1949 г. – Иван Сокачев, български писател (* 1887 г.)\n 1953 г. – Николай Державин, руски филолог (* 1877 г.)\n 1959 г. – Стоян Романски, български филилог (* 1882 г.)\n 1960 г. – Александър Белич, сръбски филолог (* 1876 г.)\n 1961 г. – Мохамед V, крал на Мароко (* 1909 г.)\n 1969 г. – Карл Ясперс, немски психиатър и философ (* 1883 г.)\n 1971 г. – Фернандел, френски комик (* 1903 г.)\n 1985 г. – Тялинг Коопманс, холандски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1975 г. (* 1910 г.)\n 1994 г. – Бил Хикс, американски комик (* 1961 г.)\n 1997 г. – Христо Огнянов, български поет (* 1911 г.)\n 1998 г. – Теодор Шулц, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1979 г. (* 1902 г.)\n 1999 г. – Херберт Бергер, австрийски писател (* 1932 г.)\n 2000 г. – Йоанна Савойска, българска царица (* 1907 г.)\n 2001 г. – Драгослав Аврамович, сръбски икономист (* 1919 г.)\n 2003 г. – Иван Маринов, български композитор (* 1928 г.)\n 2004 г. – Борис Трайковски, президент на Република Македония (* 1956 г.)\n 2005 г. – Бела Грунбергер, френски психоаналитик (* 1903 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джеф Раскин, американски компютърен специалист (* 1943 г.)\n 2013 г. – Стефан Хесел, френски дипломат и писател (* 1917 г.)\n 2016 г. – Карл Дедециус, немски писател и преводач (* 1921 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православна църква – св. Серафим Богучарски, Софийски Чудотворец\n Кувейт – Празник на освобождението (от Ирак през 1991 г.)\n\n226"
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        "text": "Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet.\nFrassetto LA, Schloetter M, Mietus-Synder M, Morris RC Jr, Sebastian A.\n1Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.\nBackground:The contemporary American diet figures centrally in the pathogenesis of numerous chronic diseases-‘diseases of civilization’. We investigated in humans whether a diet similar to that consumed by our preagricultural hunter-gatherer ancestors (that is, a paleolithic type diet) confers health benefits.Methods:We performed an outpatient, metabolically controlled study, in nine nonobese sedentary healthy volunteers, ensuring no weight loss by daily weight. We compared the findings when the participants consumed their usual diet with those when they consumed a paleolithic type diet. The participants consumed their usual diet for 3 days, three ramp-up diets of increasing potassium and fiber for 7 days, then a paleolithic type diet comprising lean meat, fruits, vegetables and nuts, and excluding nonpaleolithic type foods, such as cereal grains, dairy or legumes, for 10 days. Outcomes included arterial blood pressure (BP); 24-h urine sodium and potassium excretion; plasma glucose and insulin areas under the curve (AUC) during a 2 h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT); insulin sensitivity; plasma lipid concentrations; and brachial artery reactivity in response to ischemia.Results:Compared with the baseline (usual) diet, we observed (a) significant reductions in BP associated with improved arterial distensibility (-3.1+/-2.9, P=0.01 and +0.19+/-0.23, P=0.05);(b) significant reduction in plasma insulin vs time AUC, during the OGTT (P=0.006); and (c) large significant reductions in total cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and triglycerides (-0.8+/-0.6 (P=0.007), -0.7+/-0.5 (P=0.003) and -0.3+/-0.3 (P=0.01) mmol/l respectively). In all these measured variables, either eight or all nine participants had identical directional responses when switched to paleolithic type diet, that is, near consistently improved status of circulatory, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism/physiology.Conclusions:Even short-term consumption of a paleolithic type diet improves BP and glucose tolerance, decreases insulin secretion, increases insulin sensitivity and improves lipid profiles without weight loss in healthy sedentary humans.European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance online publication, 11 February 2009; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2009.4.\nThese are mighty impressive changes to occur in such a relatively short time. 10 days. This is even less than our 30-day Primal Health challenge.\nThese results were seen with no exercise (imagine what might have happened if they had added exercise) and with already nonobese, healthy individuals!\nI hope the study speaks for itself and encourages those that have taken the 2009 Primal Health Challenge to stay the course. If you haven’t jumped on the band wagon just yet maybe this is the encouragement you need to go Primal.\nHit me up with a comment. Thanks, everyone!\nWhat’s the Difference Between Paleo and Primal?\nThe only thing I noticed was the lean meat prescription – it would have been interesting to see the results with nice fatty meat.\nOnly nine subjects in the study. The numbers (especially on the lipid panel) are fairly impressive but the low number of subjects really erodes the statistical significance of the results. Also no controls (not that controls would be useful on such a small sample).\nFasting insulin was the greatest change that I saw, from 69 +/- 63 pmol/litre to 21 +/- 7 pmol/litre. Notice that not only did it drop way off but the subjects were much more uniform in their insulin levels, which indicates the study successfully dropped all participants insulin levels.\nFasting glucose didn’t change at all so these people weren’t insulin resistant going in.\nSince macronutrient ratios changed only a little (increased protein) in this study the conclusion would seem to be to avoid grains, legumes, and dairy products. The author’s say this was a preliminary study and they plan to follow-up with a larger study of type-2 diabetes patients.\nAs for the new dietary intervention, total saturated fat went down and polyunsaturated fat went up. Carbs basically stayed the same at 254 a day. Protein went up by 90 grams, but dietary cholesterol went down. Total calories increased.\nThe meat in the sample diet is lean: pork tenderloin, chicken breast, tuna, turkey. Plenty of veggies: carrot juice, tomato juice, parsnips. Honey was in there. Carrot juice was served at almost every meal.\nI am surprised by the tuna salad made from mayo. Also, Cordain has been labeling tomatoes as a potential cause of MS, so he clearly influenced but did not plan this menu.\nNow anytime anyone questions me with “WHAT?!?!? You don’t eat pasta/bread/etc???” I’m going to point them to this. Thanks Mark!\nI learned this from Dr. Chris Mohr and from doing some research on how to interpret a full study.\nOne study doesn’t prove the point but an abstract proves even less.\nThe link above as you quote is a “study” but in essence it’s an abstract. The term makes a world of difference.\nA summary of the main points of the article: here’s where you’ll find the purpose of the study, the hypothesis, the methods used, who was studied, and the conclusion or the findings. While you should read this first to get an general overview, a common mistake made is to draw conclusions just from the abstract.\nNow you might be right! But it sounds like you are drawing a conclusion to make your point from one abstract study.\nNot saying you are wrong per se.\nBut to use an abstract to prove a point by using the conclusion line is not the correct way to interpret or read a research study.\nThis is interesting news and lends itself for further research. If you can link to or find the full research paper, that would be even better.\nAnd again, not saying it’s wrong. Just saying using an abstract only to come to a conclusion is not correct. We’d need the whole study to draw a proper conclusion.\nI don’t agree with your statement about statistical significance and sample size. As the number of participants decreases, the effect size needed to show statistical significance (not to be confused with biological significance) increases. So, actually, it is larger sample sizes that “erode” the importance of a test. In other words, as a study becomes larger it becomes ever easier to find P<0.05. This is why huge observational studies that include hundreds or thousands of participants always show that something is significant. We should look with suspicion upon such studies.\nBig believer in diet. I am 52 and have known people who eat sandwich after sandwich….OK-wholewheat breat and lite mayo….whoopee, that’s still RIDICULOUS. You need to OMIT / CUTBACK on everything after a certain age. Don’t eat so much. I only eat once a day and look back at my younger days when I had breakfast lunch, snacked all day etc. Well, alsot of 52 year olds are STILL doing the same thing as back in their 20’s / 30’s. The big key is to omit junk and cut way back….your body really doesn’t need it. Good article though. I use honey in my coffee and still feel guilty. But I have to say that your body will bloat up the older you get, if you don’t cut back. Simple fact….and your veins take a pounding besides!\nIf the size of the study increases almost everything becomes significant. Then you have to start calculating the power of the effect and whatnot. Bigger groups are cool but are a mathematical hazzle if you ask me.\nA bigger study is of course needed and it needs not only be bigger but longer as well. But everything usually starts with the first step, not the the last and sometimes not the biggest.\nI have now read the whole article and I must say that I am genuinely impressed with the clear results and quick health benefits that are seen!\nIf I now only could talk my diabetic father who is a white rice junkie in to this.\nI am worried that your higher fat diet is not healthy although you do look very healthy. I feel that the fiber from the bran cereals is better than the additional fat from the eggs and red meat. How long did Grok live in those days-was it till only 40years old and could it match us now, with our better water, sanitation, and an aspirin a day?\nPeople are so brainwashed on diet. They FEEL this or that way because they are brainwashed. I don’t feel, I KNOW that on this diet I weight 120 for my 5′ 4″ frame and it’s a lean and muscle-packed 120,I work full-time with great energy all day, I almost never get sick (and recover quickly when I do), I am rested with 6-7 hours of sleep, and I climb, mountain bike, swim and run with people decades younger than I am and hold my own or better. Of course civilization has brought improvements that result in longer lifespan! It’s just that bran cereal is not one of them. I’ll take my meat and eggs, nuts and seeds, fruit and vegies…and race ya up a cliff!\nThis study is one of the few studies that was ever conducted with a possible Paleo type diet. We might argue that this wasn’t The Paleo that you advocate, but it is great that researchers even bother to do intervention studies with these type of diet, especially when atkins type diets and diets high in whole grains still dominate the nutritional field.\nDr. Anthony Sebastian (the senior author of this intervention study) is an old man in a wheel chair with a fascinating brain and a real passion for knowledge. Moreover, he’s a highly respected researcher with more than 60 scientific papers published and he is the foremost authority on acid-base balance. The problem with this topic is that very few people in the world are familiar with it, so every critic that I’ve seen lacks a good understanding of the topic and it reveals that most of the critics have never read and/or understood Dr. Sebastian’s papers on the topic, so I suggest everyone who is skeptical of the acid-base theory to first read some of Dr. Sebastian’s papers and then make up your mind (but not before).\nresulting from habitual consumption of typical American diets. J Nutr. 2008 Feb;138(2):419S-422S.\nFrassetto LA, Morris RC Jr, Sebastian A. Dietary sodium chloride intake independently predicts the degree of hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis in healthy humans consuming a net acid-producing diet.\nAm J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2007 Aug;293(2):F521-5.\nexceeds current and recommended intakes. Semin Nephrol. 2006 Nov;26(6):447-53.\nsapiens and their hominid ancestors. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Dec;76(6):1308-16.\ninduced by a high sodium chloride diet.\nJ Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002 May;87(5):2008-12.\nreduction in urinary calcium excretion. Kidney Int. 2000 Aug;58(2):748-52.\nMorris RC Jr, Schmidlin O, Tanaka M, Forman A, Frassetto L, Sebastian A. Differing effects of supplemental KCl and KHCO3: pathophysiological and clinical implications. Semin Nephrol. 1999 Sep;19(5):487-93.\nTranslation: everyone improved. That’s a very meaningful point, because even if the average improves, in many studies a certain percentage of people get worse. This study adds to the evidence that no matter what your gender or genetic background, a diet roughly consistent with our evolutionary past can bring major health benefits. Here’s another way to say it: ditching certain modern foods can be immensely beneficial to health, even in people who already appear healthy. This is true regardless of whether or not one loses weight.\nThere’s one last critical point I’ll make about this study. In figure 2, the investigators graphed baseline insulin resistance vs. the change in insulin resistance during the course of the study for each participant. Participants who started with the most insulin resistance saw the largest improvements, while those with little insulin resistance to begin with changed less. There was a linear relationship between baseline IR and the change in IR, with a correlation of R=0.98, p less than 0.0001. In other words, to a highly significant degree, participants who needed the most improvement, saw the most improvement. Every participant with insulin resistance at the beginning of the study ended up with basically normal insulin sensitivity after 10 days. At the end of the study, all participants had a similar degree of insulin sensitivity. This is best illustrated by the standard deviation of the fasting insulin measurement, which decreased 9-fold over the course of the experiment.\nHere’s what this suggests: different people have different degrees of susceptibility to the damaging effects of the modern Western diet. This depends on genetic background, age, activity level and many other factors. When you remove damaging foods, peoples’ metabolisms normalize, and most of the differences in health that were apparent under adverse conditions disappear. I believe our genetic differences apply more to how we react to adverse conditions than how we function optimally. The fundamental workings of our metabolisms are very similar, having been forged mostly in hunter-gatherer times. We’re all the same species after all.\nThis study adds to the evidence that modern industrial food is behind our poor health, and that a return to time-honored foodways can have immense benefits for nearly anyone. A paleolithic-style diet is a very effective way to claim your genetic birthright to good health. Just remember to eat the organs and fat. And skip the canola oil and mayonnaise.\nRegarding comments that this publication is only an “Abstract.” That’s incorrect. Its a full study.\nThe abstract is just the synopsis, a description of the study. Every scientific manuscript that is peer-reviewed has an abstract. Yes, there are only 9 subject, but each patient served as his/her own control; The changes that achieved statistical significance are believeable because of this design and the consistency of effects.\nIt is very hard to obtain consistent or statistically significant results with such small test population. Its an impressive result from one study.\njust eat (drink) what comes out of your BLENDER!\nNot much else- just DRINkING the resulting smoothie!- ALL YOU NEED!\nI personally find the paleo diet to be a lot of common sense – sadly a lot of which we have lost over the last few years, especially when it comes to food!\nI am 24, 5’7″ and was 166 pounds. I have been on the Paleo diet for less than a month and have lost 11 pounds. I have never felt so good in my life. This is a life style change for me.\nPaleo=eating clean, basically. The cool thing about it, when I go to a party and want to cheat, I load up on sausages, meatballs, etc. Love hearing, “How can you eat that and stay in shape”? I usually don’t even bother explaining. Hate hearing, “But all that protein will raise your cholesteral”."
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        "text": "2008-02-11 - Visit the BMW Mountain Days!\nFor the first time ever, the BMW Mountain days will be taking place from Thursday (public holiday/Fronleichnam), the 22nd. May till Sunday, the 25th. May 2008, in Kaprun.\nThe Europa-Sportregion Kaprun-Zell am See lies in the middle of the province of Salzburg and is an ideal starting point for the unique, and unforgettable tours for all BMW motor bike fanatics from all our national and international neighbours. Especially the Grossglockner – with its beautiful 30 km road running through the Hohe Tauern region – catches ones eye through it’s uniqueness.\nThe Tourism-Destination Kaprun with it’s numerous offers is easily accessible from Hungary, Czech republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.\nIn co-operation with BMW Austria there will be an exhibition of „The world of the BMW motor bikes“ on a stand of approx. 20.000 m² directly at the entrance to Kaprun. Around 30 exhibitors will present the newest bike trends as well as the technical and product development throughout the season: from accessories and tuning for the BMW motor bikes to special literature and international travel and trainings programs, no biker wish is left unfilled.\nThe presentation of the exclusive BMW motorbikes, free style shows, a spectacular Enduro park and a great biker fashion show, are only some of the highlights, which will fascinate the bikers as well as the visitors of the fair ground.\nTogether with the Oldtimer Museum in Kaprun, the historical BMW motor bikes will remind one of the longstanding tradition of the enjoyment of driving.\nMusic, dance and tradition create the street atmosphere – Pinzgauer food is on offer. Tanz und Tradition. Socialising, hospitality and tradition are in foreground.\nWith particular attention to detail, this „party mile“was created in a Pinzgauer style. With the help of the local committees, Kaprun and its region is presented from its most beautiful side."
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        "text": "Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work\nAuthor: Trevon D. Logan, Ohio State University\nMale sex work generates sales in excess of one billion dollars annually in the United States. Recent sex scandals involving prominent leaders and government shutdowns of escort websites have focused attention on this business, but despite the attention that comes when these scandals break, we know very little about how the market works. Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work is the first economic analysis of male sex work. Competition, the role of information, pricing strategies and other economic features of male sex work are analyzed using the most comprehensive data available. Sex work is also social behavior, however, and this book shows how the social aspects of gay sexuality influence the economic properties of the market. Concepts like desire, masculinity and sexual stereotypes affect how sex workers compete for clients, who practices safer sex, and how sex workers present themselves to clients to differentiate them from the competition.\nNo other book analyzes male sex work as an economic market\nTakes insights from sociological theory and applies them to markets, allowing readers to understand the economic importance of social theory to economics\nBy taking an economic approach to sexuality, gender and masculinity, this book brings readers who are intimidated by gender studies into the fold, showing them the importance of the field for human behavior\n'Firmly grounded in economic theory and modern empirical techniques yet broadly accessible, Logan offers a groundbreaking and comprehensive analysis of this poorly understood market. This book should be required reading for a broad class of social scientists at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality.' Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee\n'Using an innovative combination of economic and sociological approaches, Trevon D. Logan takes the reader on a fascinating deep dive into the American market for male sex workers. Through a series of careful analyses, he reveals that the inner workings of this understudied market are profoundly shaped by the intersecting social dynamics of masculinity, sexuality, and race.' Rene Almeling, Yale University and author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm\n'We have long needed someone to apply the lens of economics to the market for male sex work. Through these optics, Trevon D. Logan provides some of the first comprehensive empirical analysis of male sex work in the United States. This book advances our collective understanding of this utterly fascinating market.' Manisha Shah, University of California, Los Angeles\n'Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work is a beautiful piece of economic sociology accessible to scholars and students across sociology, anthropology, and economics. Logan manages to break new ground in economic sociology and is clearly having fun while doing so. The intellectual curiosity he brings to this book is infectious, and readers will be rewarded for every moment they spend in his company.' Gregory Mitchell, Contemporary Sociology\n'Trevon Logan's book is a sophisticated analysis of male sex work based on a blend of economic and sociological analysis of this market. Each chapter begins with a lengthy discussion of a research question, followed by a statistical analysis of Logan's data sources. While a few other scholars have examined sex markets in a limited fashion, Logan's work stands alone in digging deep into this marketplace.' American Journal of Sociology\nIntroduction: economics, sexuality, and male sex work\nPart I. The History and Economics of Male Sex Work:\n1. Male sex work: antiquity to online\n2. Face value: how male sex workers overcome the problem of asymmetric information\n3. Market movers: travel, cities, and the network of male sex work\nPart II. Male Sex Work and Sexuality:\n4. Illicit intersections: the value of sex work services\n5. Show, tell, and sell: self-presentation in male sex work\n6. Service fees: masculinity, safer sex, and male sex work\nConclusion: every man a sex worker: commercial and non-commercial gay sexuality.\nTrevon D. Logan, Ohio State University\nTrevon D. Logan is Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio State University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has won the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Sexuality's Best Article Award. He is a member of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession at the American Economic Association and member of the Executive Board of the North American Association of Sports Economists. He is a former president of the National Economic Association, was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan, and former chair of the Economic History Association Committee on Data and Archives.\nMarriage and the Economy\nTheory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies\nThe Economic Organization of the Household\nMotivation and the Economics of Information\nEconomics of Agglomeration\nCities, Industrial Location, and Globalization"
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        "text": "There is a lot that goes into a drug lab cleanup in Reston, VA that people do not often realize. You cannot simply toss all the materials in a trash bag and put it on the curb. There are countless rules and regulations that must be followed according to both OSHA and the Department of Health Services when it comes to a proper drug lab cleanup. These regulations exist to help keep people safe and make sure that drug lab cleanup is performed properly around Reston, VA. People sometimes do not realize that there are many times hazardous materials in plain sight at an illegal drug lab. Therefore the cleanup must be performed well and correctly so as to be sure that nobody comes in contact with a hazardous material. These materials also must be disposed of properly with a registered biohazard disposal plant.\nWhen we perform a drug lab cleanup we have the proper hazardous material suits so that we do not come in contact with these dangerous materials during the drug lab cleanup. This is why only a trained professional should ever attempt a drug lab cleanup in Reston, VA. If you become aware of a drug lab in the area always call the proper authorities and do not attempt to dispose of the materials yourself. This could cause you irreparable damage and is simply not worth the risk. It is important to remember to think of safety always as the first and foremost concern.\nHere at Envirotex all of our workers are fully trained in both federal and state rules pertaining to drug lab cleanup and we have been completing cleanups around Reston, VA for many years. This gives us the ability to perform a drug lab cleanup properly through following regulations along with proper hazardous material disposal. Never attempt a drug lab cleanup yourself in Reston, VA, always seek out the qualified professional and have them do the job for you. This is the only way to safely complete a drug lab cleanup here in Reston, VA."
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        "text": "27 февруари е 58-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 307 дни до края на годината (308 през високосна).\n\nСъбития \n 1531 г. – Осем немски князе и 11 града сформират Лига в защита на учението на Мартин Лутер.\n 1551 г. – Иван Грозни открива Стоглавия събор, ограничаващ правата на духовенството.\n 1599 г. – Джордано Бруно е преместен от Венеция в съда в Рим.\n 1687 г. – Управляващият Япония Цунаеши забранява на поданиците си консумацията на риба, стриди и птици.\n 1795 г. – Правителството на Франция обявява временно затваряне на театрите.\n 1814 г. – Състои се премиерата на 8-ата симфония на Бетховен.\n 1825 г. – Публикувана е първата глава на „Евгений Онегин“ на Александър Пушкин.\n 1854 г. – В състояние на умопомрачение немският композитор Роберт Шуман извършва неуспешен опит за самоубийство.\n 1870 г. – Със султански ферман е учредена Българската екзархия, възприета от властта за официален представител на българския народ в Османската империя.\n 1879 г. – Изработен е мемоар на Учредителното събрание против Берлинския договор изпратен до Великите сили.\n 1882 г. – В Русия за първи път е разрешено използването на телефоните от частни лица.\n 1897 г. – В Русе се състои първата кинопрожекция в България, наблюдавана от 200 зрители.\n 1900 г. – В Обединеното кралство е създадена Лейбъристката партия.\n 1900 г. – Създаден е футболният клуб „Байерн“ (Мюнхен).\n 1904 г. – Създаден е футболният клуб „Бенфика“ (Лисабон).\n 1907 г. – След убийството на Димитър Петков е съставен нов кабинет на Народнолибералната партия начело с Димитър Станчов.\n 1917 г. – Жените в провинцията Онтарио (Канада) получават право на глас в местните избори.\n 1921 г. – В София пристига Междусъюзническата контролна комисия в състав: граф Шеризе от Франция, Колвин от Великобритания и принц Боргезе от Италия. За български комисар към комисията е назначен Райко Даскалов с помощници Михаил Савов, Никола Стоянов и Крум Попов.\n 1922 г. – Върховният съд на САЩ единодушно приема 19-а поправка в конституцията, гарантираща избирателни права на жените.\n 1932 г. – Английският физик сър Джеймс Чадуик открива неутрона.\n 1933 г. – Япония обявява, че напуска Обществото на народите.\n 1933 г. – В Германия е подпалена сградата на Райхстага.\n 1934 г. – Арестуваните за пожара в Райхстага българи са екстрадирани в СССР.\n 1934 г. – Георги Димитров, Благой Попов и Васил Танев, съдени в Лайпцигския процес, са освободени от затвора Моабит.\n 1936 г. – Под натиска на властите съюзът „Добруджа“ се саморазпуска, но местните дружества продължават да съществуват и Софийското дружество поема ръководните функции от май същата година.\n 1945 г. – В България със закон е въведена Правописна реформа.\n 1946 г. – Открит е университетът „Кирил Славянобългарски“ във Варна.\n 1951 г. – В САЩ е ратифицирана 22-рата поправка към конституцията, която официално ограничава броя на президентските мандати до два.\n 1967 г. – Излиза запис на първата песен на групата Пинк Флойд.\n 1967 г. – Доминика придобива независимост от Обединеното кралство.\n 1969 г. – Подписано е споразумение между правителствата на България, СССР, ГДР, Полша, Румъния, Монголия, Унгария и Чехословакия за създаване на Международен център за научна и техническа информация.\n 1981 г. – Завършва 10-дневното посещение на председателя на Комитета за култура Людмила Живкова в Индия.\n 1982 г. – Завършва тридневното официално посещение в България на държавния глава на Турция – генерал Кенан Еврен.\n 1997 г. – Списание „Нейчър“ публикува съобщение за успешното клониране на овца.\n 1997 г. – В Ирландия се разрешават разводите.\n 2000 г. – Завършва Единадесетата конференция на СДС.\n 2000 г. – Завършва Шестнадесетият конгрес на Демократическата партия, който трябва да избере нов лидер след смъртта на Стефан Савов. Председател става Александър Праматарски.\n 2001 г. – НИС на СДС взема решение да изключи от СДС бившия главен секретар Христо Бисеров и члена на НИС Йордан Цонев за нарушаване на три члена на устава.\n 2005 г. – Международен възпоменателен ден на Холокоста.\n 2010 г. – В Чили, в 6:53 часа по Гринуич, се случва катастрофално земетресение с магнитуд 8,8 по скалата на Рихтер.\n\nРодени \n\n 280 г. – Константин I Велики, римски император († 337 г.)\n 1606 г. – Лоран дьо Ла Ир, френски художник († 1656 г.)\n 1724 г. – Фридрих-Михаел фон Пфалц-Цвайбрюкен, Пфалцграф на Цвайбрюкен-Биркенфелд († 1767 г.)\n 1861 г. – Рудолф Щайнер, австрийски философ и учен († 1925 г.)\n 1863 г. – Джордж Мийд, американски философ и социолог († 1931 г.)\n 1865 г. – Жак Мизес, немски шахматист († 1954 г.)\n 1867 г. – Жеко Спиридонов, български скулптор († 1945 г.)\n 1873 г. – Енрико Карузо, италиански тенор († 1921 г.)\n 1882 г. – Тодор Георгиев, български военен деец († 1971 г.)\n 1887 г. – Методи Алексиев, български революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1887 г. – Тодор Радев, български военен деец и политик († 1957 г.)\n 1902 г. – Джон Стайнбек, американски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1962 († 1968 г.)\n 1912 г. – Лорънс Дърел, британски писател († 1990 г.)\n 1913 г. – Пол Рикьор, френски философ († 2005 г.)\n 1913 г. – Ъруин Шоу, американски писател († 1984 г.)\n 1915 г. – Димитър Сагаев, български композитор († 2003 г.)\n 1921 г. – Майкъл Фокс, американски актьор († 1996 г.)\n 1924 г. – Христо Асърджиев, български журналист († 2003 г.)\n 1926 г. – Златина Тодева, българска актриса († 2007 г.)\n 1927 г. – Зигфрид Шнабл, германски сексолог († 2015 г.)\n 1928 г. – Ариел Шарон, министър-председател на Израел († 2014 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джоан Удуърд, американска актриса\n 1932 г. – Елизабет Тейлър, британско-американска актриса († 2011 г.)\n 1934 г. – Ралф Нейдър, американски адвокат\n 1935 г. – Димитър Хаджийски, български актьор († 2007 г.)\n 1939 г. – Дон Маккинън, новозеландски политик\n 1949 г. – Ева Волицер, българска актриса и режисьор\n 1957 г. – Ейдриън Смит, английски музикант (Iron Maiden)\n 1958 г. – Маргарет Уд Хасан, американски политик\n 1965 г. – Александър Голдин, американски шахматист\n 1966 г. – Мехмед Дикме, български политик\n 1970 г. – Димитър Попов, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Атанас Пенев, български рок музикант (Б.Т.Р.)\n 1975 г. – Гергана Димитрова, българска народна певица\n 1994 г. – Хоу Ифан, китайска шахматистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 1706 г. – Джон Ивлин, английски писател (* 1620 г.)\n 1800 г. – Мари-Аделаид, френска благородничка (* 1732 г.)\n 1883 г. – Княз Александър Горчаков, руски държавник и дипломат (* 1798 г.)\n 1887 г. – Александър Бородин, руски композитор (* 1833 г.)\n 1919 г. – Венета Ботева, съпруга на Христо Ботев (* ? г.)\n 1920 г. – Стефан Попов, български актьор и режисьор († 1846 г.)\n 1921 г. – Карл Менгер, австрийски икономист (* 1840 г.)\n 1936 г. – Иван Павлов, руски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат от 1904 (* 1849 г.)\n 1989 г. – Конрад Лоренц, австрийски зоолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 (* 1903 г.)\n 1990 г. – Георги Митов, български художник (* 1875 г.)\n 1990 г. – Михаил Петрушевски, филолог от СР Македония (* 1911 г.)\n 1993 г. – Лилиан Гиш, американска киноактриса в „нямото“ кино (* 1893 г.)\n 2003 г. – Петър Петров, български изобретател (* 1919 г.)\n 2008 г. – Бойд Кодиктън, американски автомобилен дизайнер (* 1944 г.)\n 2011 г. – Неджметин Ербакан, турски политик (* 1926 г.)\n 2015 г. – Борис Немцов, руски бизнесмен и политик (* 1959 г.)\n\nПразници \n Доминиканска република – Ден на независимостта (от Хаити, 1844 г., национален празник)\n\n227"
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        "text": "Ariel is Managing Director of Prolaurum Argentina.\nBefore Prolaurum, Ariel was Vice President and Partner of Korn Ferry International, where he specialized in practices such as Financial, Professional, Healthcare & Industrial Services as well as Manufacture. His top-level executives recruiting experience includes General Management, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations and Human Resources.\nPrior to the executive search consulting business, Ariel worked at Arthur Andersen for eleven years (Today Ernst & Young), where he reached the position of Senior Manager, acquiring sound experience in consulting, audit and management advising to major international and local companies.\nAriel has a Certified Public Accountant degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Masters’ degrees in International Business and in International Economy obtained in Buenos Aires at Universidad de Belgrano in conjunction with L’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees of France. He speaks Spanish and English."
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        "text": "Extreme Horror\nConguise Chronicles: The Rise of the River-Man: An exciting horror action adventure L. S. O'Dea\nAvailable Through May 10 at\nWelcome to the Conguise’s Laboratory Level Five....\nIn a world filled with human-animal hybrids, Guards are bred to serve the Almightys until they’re no longer wanted.\nMutter waits for his execution. It’s inevitable. He was a fighter and he lost. No one wants an ex-fighter. He’s too big, mean and ugly. Death will be the only way he gets out of this cell, but then the unthinkable happens. An Almighty visits in the dead of night and offers him a chance to leave. A chance to live.\nAll he has to do is obey and Guards were bred to obey.\nWhen Mutter is taken to his new home, something isn’t right. There’s food and a bed but there are sounds and smells from the other cages. Things that move like nothing he’s ever encountered.\nFor the first time in his life, he’s afraid. Afraid of the creatures that lurk nearby. Afraid of the shots his new master is giving him.\nHe knows he’s supposed to obey, to always follow their rules but if he doesn’t escape, he’ll become food for one of those things in the other cages. Or worse... turn into one of them.\n\"A fascinating glimpse into the world of the Lake of Sins.\" J. Urbanczyk\nA WINTER SLEEP Greg F. Gifune\nA WINTER SLEEP, the new novel from Greg F. Gifune.\nIn a haunted hotel on the outskirts of a forgotten town, a bizarre group of tenants guard a horrible secret. A troubled man on the run, with nothing left to lose, drives aimlessly along dark highways in search of redemption. A little boy, brutally attacked and left for dead, realizes the strange power his agony has granted him. An enigmatic homeless man with nightmares he can no longer control, lost in a violent dreamscape only he understands, watches and waits. As a snowstorm traps them all within the walls of the old hotel, where madness and depravity run wild, from the shadows, a new reign of lesser gods begins, and an aberrant evil fights for survival amidst the cold terror of a desolate winter, and the bloody dreams of the hopeless and the damned.\nCover art by Wendy Saber Core.\n\"One of the best writers of his generation, Gifune is the author everyone should be reading\"\n--Brian Keene\n\"Gifune is the best writer of horror and thrillers at work today\"\n--Christopher Rice\n\"Gifune is among the finest dark suspense writers of our time\"\n--Ed Gorman\nA Suburban Haunting: An extreme psychological horror Matt Shaw\nCritically acclaimed bestselling author, Matt Shaw - #1 bestseller in Horror Fiction with hundreds of 5 star reviews - brings you:\nA SUBURBAN HAUNTING\nWhen Craig's uncle passes away, he didn't shed a tear. The pair hadn't spoken for a couple of years now after a family row and - with that in mind - Craig didn't bother to attend the funeral. However, soon after, he is cornered by his uncle's solicitor with some unexpected news. Despite the pair not speaking, Craig had been left his uncle's house. At first Craig believed it to be a generous gift and, perhaps, a way of saying sorry from beyond the grave but he soon realises all is not as it seems and the house is less a gift and more a curse...\nShow Me More: Extreme Horror\nTurning Grace (The Turning Series, Book 1)J.Q. Davis\nAvailable Through March 09 at\nLife or death?\nIt all seems to be the same for Grace…\nGrace is a 17-year-old who enjoys all the normal things in life: Her best friend, boys, and school. But when she begins to see and feel physical changes, she worries something might be wrong.\nAnd when she finds herself gnawing down on a neighborhood cat, she realizes something is definitely wrong.\nShe tries to ignore it and balance her weird, uncontrollable, and increasing appetite for anything raw along with the awkwardness of being an everyday teenager the best she can, but a mysterious doctor soon enters her life.\nHe claims Grace is half human, half zombie and seems to have all the answers. Maybe even a solution.\nThe question is...should she trust him?\nClock's WatchMichael Reyes\nClock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it.\nTales of dark pulp fantasy and horror.\nClock's Watch:\nChaos creatures attempting to breach our world possess the body of a young mother! Can a strange observer stop the threat from beyond, or will it spill out into Coney Island to devour all that's in its path?!\nThe Black Balloon:\nSpending his final days near Coney Island, Stefano Murphy has been noticing a mysterious character: Clock! Will Murphy's past finally catch up with him, or will a demon Clock is hunting get to him first?!\nNarrioch:\nIn his past as guardian of Narrioch, Clock has foiled the plans of powerful entities... The defeat of Mudiret has bought only a brief respite, and Clock soon finds himself the target of its master's wrath!\nThe Indigo Mushroom:\nExtra-dimensional entities have tampered with our universe, an alien mineral intelligence has arrived on Earth, and Clock's buddy Sal has lost his job! Can Clock stop the vanguard of a mechanical invasion?!\nThe Cut Worm Forgives the Plough:\nA lover's tiff between Danny and his girlfriend reaches the next level when Maria is possessed by a demon! Can Clock reconcile the couple or are the blood and bodies strewn on the dance floor just too much!?\nCrockett:\nClock hoped to have put the past behind him, his memories hidden as a perk of his job... But when the Indigo Mushroom calls out to him, Clock must confront a demon from his past or be destroyed by it!\nClock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror. Illustrations by Sean Bova, Jay Campbell and MV.\nFaunaDavid Benton\nIn the depths of the Amazon rainforest a shaman utters a dire warning foretelling the string of grisly and seemingly unconnected animal attacks that become more and more common around the globe. In a few days time the attacks become a massacre and all life on Earth moves toward a single purpose: the culling of the human race.\n\"When Mother Nature's angry, she's a bitch! Fauna will have you gripping the edge of your seat from the first page to the last. This is a non-stop eco-thriller and cautionary tale that will leave you looking at your pets with a different eye. This is also the best book I've read all year! Read it now! But maybe lock the doors and windows first.\"\n--John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and Redemption\n\"We should have known that decades of messing with Nature would come back to bite us -- with a vengeance... In David Benton's exciting, realistic thriller FAUNA our world has finally decided we're the problem, and it's had enough of us. How would we cope if our apocalypse had fangs and four legs and didn't shamble at all? Reminiscent of Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's \"The Birds\" in approach, FAUNA will raise your neck hairs and chill you to the bone.\"\n--W.D. Gagliani, author of Savage Nights and the Nick Lupo Series\n\"The animal kingdom runs amok in David Benton's wildly entertaining Fauna. Exciting, action-packed and disturbing in all the right ways, this man-versus-beast saga gallops at a fierce pace with bloodthirsty menace. Benton's scenes unfold with a cinematic crispness and intensity that keeps the pages turning. This book will leave bite marks!\"\n--Brian Pinkerton, author of Anatomy of Evil\n\"In Fauna, David Benton takes you on a globe-circling thrill ride through a gone-crazy world where the animals have taken charge and want revenge. It's equal parts fantastic escapism and white-knuckle horror--a riveting read from the first page that touches on many of the ways humankind uses things and takes them for granted.\"\n--Christian Larsen, author of The Blackening of Flesh and Losing Touch\n\"[Benton] combines the visceral brutality of an Ed Lee or Richard Laymon with the globe-trotting skills of James Rollins, resulting in an exciting romp that evokes The Zoo by James Patterson, but with a message.\"\n--Cemetery Dance\nCrows (Crows Series Book 1)Grace Harney\nAnnie Murphy can sometimes tell the future. It's the past she has trouble with.\nWhen her brother's witch-girlfriend goes missing days after an invocation ritual, Annie has every reason to suspect him. But he says he didn't do it, and Annie isn't about to send another innocent man in her family to jail.\nWhen a confrontation with her brother Johnny turns violent, Annie flees into the worst blizzard to hit the area in years. Led by her Sight, she arrives at a rundown inn where she meets Crow. Another powerful psychic--and a witch that can control her namesake birds--Crow seems to be hated, feared, respected and loved, all at the same time. Soon Annie begins to wonder about things. Like why Crow appears to be connected to every suspicious disappearance over the past fifty years in the small town of Raven City. Why Johnny's missing girlfriend might be one of them. Why Crow has walked free every single time. And if Annie doesn't stop her, why she might again.\nThe Housemates: A Novel of Extreme TerrorIain Rob Wright\nTEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION IN CASH. ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH.\nWhat at first appears to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare imaginable. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as 'The Landlord', he is forced to compete not only for the money but for his life.\nAnd the life of his best friend and mentor, Harry.\nDamien can trust no one, that much is clear, especially now that a list of crimes has appeared on the wall: CHEAT, MURDERER, ABUSER, WHORE, TRAITOR, TRICKSTER, PEDDLER, PREDATOR, CRUSADER, THIEF.\nWhat does the list mean, and who is the Landlord? Only time will tell, but Damien must make sure that he ends up the winner, because all of the losers are dead.\nLet the games begin. Are you ready?\nBroken Doll (Broken Doll Series Book 1)Zoe Blake\nAvailable Through February 08 at\nMy last memory is of the accident.\nThe rancid smell of gasoline and the silence...the deafening silence.\nThen there was only darkness...and him.\nI am his captive.\nHis broken doll.\nThere is no escape.\nNo hope.\nNo one is coming to save me.\nThis is a twisted, dark horror novella. There is no HEA. You have been warned.\nThe Nightmare Room (The Messy Man Series Book 1)Chris Sorensen\nWinner Best Debut Novel, Indie Horror Book Awards\nInquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018\n12 of the Best Scary Audiobooks of 2018, Insider\nNew York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface.\nThey move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town—a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now—and start to settle into their new life.\nBut as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur—mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house. And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself.\nBurying the Honeysuckle GirlsEmily Carpenter\nAlthea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother's tragic, premature death--and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea's ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She'll find you, I think, but if she doesn't, you find her.\nAdrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn't expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she's not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors' lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she's meant to play in it.\nGripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family secrets and into one woman's emotional journey to save herself from a sinister inheritance.\nThe Woods: A NovelMilo Abrams\nIs there something looking back at me? Is there something there waiting for me?\nAt the edge of the woods behind his father's house, James Callum thinks he sees a monster. His father thinks he's interested in watching the deer, but James is more interested in what's watching him. For a twelve-year-old city boy, the intense openness of the Ohio countryside is like another world. The fields stretch forever, the summer heat is unrelenting, and the thick woods at the edge of the property hide untold secrets.\nWhen no one believes he's seeing a monster, his entire world unravels, leaving the frayed strands of his identity entangled with the mystery of the monster in the woods. With the help of his friends Jack and Owen, James risks his life, family, and friendships to prove the monster is real and uncover the truth behind it.\nIn THE WOODS, Milo Abrams pierces the veil of curiosity with an almost unbearable build-up of suspense and emotion. Don't go outside. Don't look into the backyard. There's something in the woods.\nDOA III: Extreme Horror AnthologyVarious Authors\nAfter six years and more than fifty authors, the Unholy Trinity is complete. This third installment in the DOA series offers thirty stories from the originators of splatterpunk as well as the newest voices in extreme horror.\nYou'll laugh...you'll cry...you'll vomit\nDon't say we didn't warn you.\nStories from Bentley Little -Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee - Shane Mckenzie - Wrath James White - Richard Christian Matheson - Kristopher Triana - T.M. McLean - Sean Eads & Joshua Viola - T. Fox Dunham - John Skipp - Luciano Marano - Ryan Harding - Kristopher Rufty - Daniel I. Russell - LLoyd Kaufman & Lily Hayes Kaufman - David Sandner - Betty Rocksteady - C.M. Saunders - K. Trap Jones - Hal Bodner - Adrian Ludens - C. Cameron Rossi - Alistair Rennie - Airika Sneve - Christoph Weber - Garrett Cook - Eric J. Guignard - Jeff Strand - Jaap Boekestein - John McNee.\nOctopus: An Extreme Horror NovelMatt Shaw\nH.P Lovecraft left Him sleeping at the bottom of the South Pacific ocean. Now, Matt Shaw attempts to awaken Cthulhu.\nWith mounting debt, and her career not going in the direction she'd hoped for, Jessica Ann took a modelling job at the Larsen's lavish party.\nWhat should have been an easy evening soon takes a nightmarish turn when she finds herself embroiled in an insane plot to awaken The Old Great One...\nBlack HannisC. J. Faust\nAvailable Through January 27 at\nAre you afraid of the dark? The only thing she fears is the light, so burn them all... but it won&apos;t be enough. Monsterizing the fem-dom motif with brutal and brilliant style, C.J. Faust creates a force of evil like nothing you&apos;ve experienced before.\nIn the summer following their high school graduation, five American friends head to merry old England for a celebration of their adulthood, and a last chance to spend time together before college and life pull them in separate directions. But the growing pains that come with coming of age, and the challenges of the world these millennials are poised to inherit (issues of seeking acceptance, racial bias, difficult grown-up choices, and the unfortunate fact that time and distance can wear down even the best cemented friendships)--these are small concerns compared to the storm of horror that awaits them.\nThe boogeyman is not a man at all; and Thatch, Tyrone, Kadara, Nia, and Big-Marc are about to find out for themselves what this means when their vacation of fun, sun, and sex appeal is transformed into a nightmare of supernatural depravity and a desperate struggle to survive.\nPart grim fairytale and part coming of age story, Black Hannis is an unflinching visceral nightmare to keep readers squirming till the last page.\nThe Haunting of Cabin Green: A Modern Gothic Horror NovelApril A. Taylor\nOne of PopSugar&apos;s Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.\nOne of Inquisitr&apos;s Best Horror Books of 2018.\nOne of Ranker&apos;s 2018&apos;s Scariest Horror Books.\nOne of BoredPanda&apos;s 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.\n#1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.\n\"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn&apos;t force myself to put it down.\" - The Horror Report.\n\"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques.\" - The Inquisitr.\n\"A haunting tale.\" - PopSugar.\nWelcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. A terrifying slow-burn that combines the literary Gothic prose of Shirley Jackson, Ambrose Bierce, & Thomas Tryon with the \"what&apos;s really real?\" aspects of The Shining. Cabin Green has also been compared to the devastation of Hereditary and the socially progressive, ambiguous approach of Paul Tremblay.\nGoing to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben&apos;s first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, \"There&apos;s no such thing as an evil building.\" Now he&apos;s caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.\nThis modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben&apos;s hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that&apos;s filled with more twists than a roller coaster.\nRevised Edition!\nTOP VOTE GETTER: Best Horror/Suspense - The Kindle Book Review (TKBR) Reader&apos;s Choice Awards 2018.\nRUNNER-UP: Best Overall Book of 2018 - TKBR Reader&apos;s Choice Awards\nSEMIFINALIST TKBR&apos;s 2018 Jury Award for Best Horror/Suspense\nContent Warning: Contains gore, sex, profanity, & deeply disturbing psychological themes. This isn&apos;t a fluffy horror story; it&apos;s true, descriptive Gothic horror that&apos;s emblematic of the destructive nature of grief & also contains societal/political/religious critiques. For mature readers only.\nInspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that&apos;s so well-hidden it can&apos;t be found by GPS! This book also contains a disturbing section that was inspired by real-life events.\n\"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn&apos;t force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader.\" - The Horror Report\n\"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn&apos;t pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of.\" - Mangled Matters\n\"Sucked me in from the first page... Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers... a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting... fighting the urge to turn on all the lights.\" - Connal Bain, Author of Blood Moon Fever\n\"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it&apos;s a] sucker punch.\" - HorrorTalk\n\"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-20th century techniques.\" - Inquisitr\n\"Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy.\" - BoredPanda\n\"A literary treat...it is written so intelligently that the very plot may leave some who are not well versed in abstract twist endings confused and wanting...very progressive. A modern horror classic.\" - Amazon Reviewer\nShow Me More: Gothic Horror\nDeadlocked Dollhouse (Locked House Hauntings Book 1)Mixi J Applebottom\nA cursed dollhouse. Seven stages until murder. What can this father do?\nMark's always been a bit insecure as a father, his own childhood sucked. He's been terrified he will ruin his perfect daughters. So he buys them presents and hopes he won't screw them up.\nThey certainly won't forget this dollhouse.\nHe doesn't know how to stop it, and all he wanted to do was be a good father.He was worried that they'd grow up to hate him, now he's worried they won't grow up at all.\nYou'll love this terrifying countdown, can he stop himself?\nTry Mixi J Applebottom's latest novel.\nCaught: Book One of the Oneiros LogM.L.S. Weech\nNothing is at all what it seems, and for four strangers, they'll have to discover why before they're driven over the edge of madness. Within them are the keys to free themselves. They'll need to traverse a landscape of horrors and fettered secrets.\nUnknown to these prisoners, another four desperately hunt for their own freedom-a freedom denied them by the tormenting existence of a monster. They will have to rely on all of their talents and each other to defeat the beast.\nMeanwhile, unbeknownst to all of them, the spider huddles at the center of its web, plucking its many gossamer strands as it waits...ready to pounce.\nThe Darwin EffectMark Lukens\nAfter six people wake up from suspended animation, they will find out what survival really means.\nSix people are awakened from suspended animation on a spaceship in the middle of a three-hundred-year journey to colonize a distant planet. At first they believe MAC, the onboard computer, has malfunctioned. But MAC tells them he was supposed to wake them up . . . it was part of the program.\nThey can&apos;t re-enter suspended animation, there&apos;s only enough food for a few months, MAC won&apos;t let them communicate with any other ships, and they are too far away to return to Earth.\nCromartie, the unelected leader of their group, tries his best to keep the others calm, but soon they are at each other&apos;s throats with panic. After one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders form an alliance. Cromartie tells Sanders that he thinks he may know the answer to their problems, but after another one of them is found murdered, Cromartie and Sanders must act quickly if they want to survive.\nBaby Firefly Dec 14, 2018 | 0Comments\nColdwaterMichael Hamm\nAvailable Through December 14 at\nJenna and her father Rick, who works for the EPA as an investigator, are summoned to an ancient Tobacco plantation deep in the heart of Louisiana. Little do they realize, that beneath the majestic mansion lies a sinister evil, which has been waiting and festering for over a hundred years. In the gathering darkness, Jenna begins having strange visions of the plantation's sordid past, people who have an intimate connection to Jenna's family. Within days, the blackness begins growing larger and larger, sweltering… forcing demon infested dolls and other ancient horrors to begin roaming the grounds, and eventually into the town of Coldwater.\nCaptured and tortured by the foul creatures that rule the warrens under the mansion, Jenna escapes and finds that the entire town is covered by a virulent storm that is pummeling the landscape. Along the way she finds unlikely allies in her quest to save her father, who has also been captured by the horrid demons. As she travels deeper into the darkness of the mansion's past, she begins to realize the visions she's having are genetic memory, showing her the terrible and tragic past of a diseased hamlet, and of the twisted family that rules over it.\nIf she is to survive, she must swallow her fears and trust an enigmatic professor, who lives in the guest houses surrounding Ivy Haven manor. But, as she is to soon learn, there is more to the strange man than meets the eye, and in the end, he may be leading them all to their death.\nMr. SnuffJon Athan\nRussell Wheeler, an enforcer-turned-contractor, spirals into a violent tailspin when his daughter is slaughtered for a snuff film. With his limited resources, including his trusty framing hammer and his criminal connections, Russell hunts the people responsible for his daughter's vicious death. He finds himself digging into the pits of hell, delving into a world of unimaginable depravity...\nJon Athan, author of The Harbinger of Vengeance and Sinister Syndromes, invites you to join the lucrative snuff industry. A world of opportunity, lust, riches, and death awaits you...\nThis Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End 2)David Wong\nFrom the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.\nYou may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.\nYou will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection -- the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the \"cure\" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.\nYou can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We're all about to find out.\nJust stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I'm just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it.\nEither way, I won't hold it against you if you're upset. I know that's just the spider talking.\nShow Me More: Humorous Horror\nDark Matters: 17 Twisted & Disturbing TalesG. Donald Black\nWhy would a mother murder her four children with a smile on her face? What sinister end awaits the regulars of the local watering hole? When Beverly Havermore rubs elbows with other members of high society, what ghosts from her past come to haunt her? Could a curse be behind the mysterious speech problems plaguing an otherwise healthy Benjamin Anatole?\nThe answers to these alarming questions can be found in this collection of seventeen nerve-racking, and at times darkly humorous, short stories that are guaranteed to chill the bones of even the most sensible reader. From a man choosing obsessive masturbation over infidelity to a trailer park gossip queen who receives a troubling diagnosis that she can't accept, this diverse assortment of unsettling narratives tells the stories of characters so vivid, you'll swear you've met them in person – and maybe you have.\nIn G. Donald Black's short fiction debut, he demonstrates why he won't stay an independent author for long. These stories, with their richly crafted characters and twisting plots, will pull you in and take you places you'd never dare to go. So curl up in your favorite chair, turn on the reading lamp, and prepare to have your skin crawl. Enjoy the ride!\nThe Van: An Extreme Horror StoryTim Miller\nAndy and Bridget like to travel. Their windowless van is their home. Speeding across the Texas countryside they pick up hitchhikers and weary travelers who see the pair as a nice couple showing southern hospitality. However, Andy and Bridget are not what they seem. In their plain looking van, there is no telling which town they will pass through or who will they pick up next."
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        "text": "Alfred Mann\nPeople of AMF\nTimeline of Progress\nLimb Loss\nLife in Santa Clarita\nConcert & Galas\nAMF Award Winners\nDonate Now - Support Alfred E Mann Foundation\nWorking on some of the most challenging medical problems for over thirty years\nDevelop and commercialize innovative solutions\nfor significant unmet medical conditions.\nThe Alfred Mann Foundation has been working on some of the most challenging medical problems for over a quarter of a century.\nThe Story of Alfred Mann\nAlfred Mann's dream of creating a foundation to develop revolutionary medical devices came after many years of success in the medical industry.\nThe People of AMF\nAMF has a diverse and uniquely qualified workforce, employing people from more than 20 countries, with more than half holding at least one graduate degree.\nSince its founding in 1985, the Alfred Mann Foundation has developed a record of success in commercializing its technology.\nSupport AMF\nMovement disorders, diabetes, limb loss and pain are all critical problems patients face today. The Alfred Mann Foundation’s goal is to develop medical devices to help patients who have few medical options and advance that technology to the marketplace.\nInnovation and invention are the life blood of AMF. When our scientists discover novel technology, inventions are documented and reviewed internally by a multi-disciplinary group representing science, legal, operational, clinical and regulatory groups.\nThe AMF encourages the dissemination of its research results to scientific, engineering and medical communities in the form of publications and presentations at scientific meetings.\nEach year, 750,000 people in the US experience a stroke and 11,000 suffer a spinal cord injury. 500,000 Americans currently live with cerebral palsy, 270,000 with multiple sclerosis and 5.3 million with the after-effects of a traumatic brain injury, and thousands more...\n25.8 Million children and adults in the U.S. are currently living with diabetes*. Of these, 4.5 million are insulin-dependent. Injections of insulin and monitoring of blood glucose levels with finger sticks were once the sole option for these patients. Innovations such as...\nBringing new technology to market for some of the most challenging medical problems for over thirty years\nBioness offers award-winning medical devices designed to benefit people with Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Spinal Cord Injury. These products use Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) to help people regain mobility and independence to improve quality of life and productivity.\nAxonics was established in late 2013 with the ambition to develop next-generation neuromodulation solutions for an improved patient and clinician experience. The team is developing a complete system around a miniaturized rechargeable stimulator for the treatment of Overactive Bladder (OAB) and Fecal Incontinence (FI) as first applications.\nThrough dedication and innovation, Second Sight's mission is to develop, manufacture and market implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve greater independence.\nMedallion Therapeutics was founded with the mission of innovating better therapies to improve the quality of life for those suffering from diseases that require targeted and sustained delivery of drugs or biologics.\nKnowledge of biochemistry and polymer science to create a polymer technology that simplifies sample preparation and processing.\nAMF Events\nThe Alfred Mann Foundation highlights significant achievement in medicine and community involvement with its annual AMF events celebrating Innovation and Inspiration\n25134 Rye Canyon Loop\n© Copyright - AMF"
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        "text": "Q: How can I use NTFS partitions in OS X? My coworkers use NTFS partitions, and I can't share my data with them, as NTFS on Mac OS X is read-only.\nHow can I read and write onto NTFS partitions?\n\nA: I payed(34$) for the full NTFS driver from Tuxera, the free version was not able to safely eject NTFS disks.\nUpdate: starting with Lion, you'll not be able to share the NTFS drives even if you use NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS for Mac.\nIt may be a good idea to reformat your drive to EXFAT in order to overcome these issues. I know it's a real pain and time killer.\n\nA: You have 3 main choices : \n\n\n*\n\n*NTFS-3G (free one)\n\n*Paragon NTFS (paid one)\n\n\nand even a built-in solution inside Mac OS X.\n\nA: If you're running Snow Leopard, don't bother with various MacFUSE based solutions - NTFS support is built in, but disabled by default. To enable it, read this.\n\nSnow Leopard has the ability to mount NTFS volumes as read/write, but it's not enabled by default -- just read only is supported, as in 10.5. Here's how to get full read/write support for NTFS drives in Snow Leopard. First, uninstall NTFS-3G or Paragon if you're using either one.\nHere's how to get read/write support for NTFS drives in Snow Leopard:\n\n*\n\n*In Terminal, type diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name, where volume_name is the name of the NTFS volume. From the output, copy the Volume UUID value to the clipboard.\n\n\n*Back up /etc/fstab if you have it; it shouldn't be there in a default install.\n\n\n*Type sudo nano /etc/fstab.\n\n\n*In the editor, type UUID=, then paste the UUID number you copied from the clipboard. Type a Space, then type none ntfs rw. The final line should look like this: UUID=123-456-789 none ntfs rw, where 123-456-789 is the UUID you copied in the first step.\n\n\n*Repeat the above steps for any other NTFS drives/partitions you have.\n\n\n*Save the file and quit nano (Control-X, Y, Enter), then restart your system.\nAfter rebooting, NTFS partitions should natively have read and write support. This works with both 32- and 64-bit kernels. Support is quite good and fast, and it even recognizes file attributes such as hidden files. My thanks go to Chrysaor, a MacRumors user who brought this to our attention.\n\nAlternately, you could use NTFSMounter, for a GUI utility to do the same thing.\n\nA: For free, you can use the NTFS-3G driver. In order to use it, you have to install MacFUSE first.\nIn the end, you'll have a prefpane to mount and manage your NTFS drives\n\n\nA: I use NTFS-3G with really good success, never lost a bit also sharing the same disk with windows machines and a WD media player connected to my TV.\nOnly very minor issue I've found was that to proper reclaim space from the disk when I delete file I need to run a Maintenance utility or the Disk Utiity to recover space.\nSee also http://www.phillo.it/?p=9\n\nA: Here is a good description how to access NTFS partitions. Basically - install NTFS-3G via macports http://fernandoff.posterous.com/ntfs-write-support-on-osx-lion-with-ntfs-3g-f\n"
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        "text": "2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology\nOrganizing Committee Member Scientific Program\nGlobal assembling of Academicians, Researchers, Scholars & Industry to disseminate and exchange information at 100+ Allied Academics Conferences\nA Spectrum of Opportunities towards the Nanomaterials\n- Nanomaterials 2019\nWe would like to thank all of our wonderful keynotes, speakers, conference attendees, students, associations, media partners and guests for making Nanomaterials 2019 a successful and splendid event.\nAllied Academies hosted the joint event of “2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology and 22nd International Conference on Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ” during May 16-17, 2019 at Panorama Hotel Prague, Milevská 7, 140 63 Praha 4, Czechia, Prague, Czech Republic with the theme “A Spectrum of Opportunities towards the Nanomaterials”. Benevolent response and active participation was received from the Editorial Board Members of supporting International Journals as well as from the leading academic scientists, researchers, research scholars, students and leaders from the fields of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology who made this event successful.\nWe also thank the moderators for both the Day 1 and Day 2, Who moderated the conference to the end in a successful way.\n· Johan Alauzun | Charles Gerhardt Institute Montpellier | France\n· Kangze Liu | Technological University Dublin | Ireland\nThe conference was marked by the attendance of young and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities representing more than 18 countries, who have driven this event into the path of success. The conference highlighted through various sessions on current retroviral research.\nNanomaterials 2019 witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various new-fangled topics related to the fields of Nanomaterials, Nanoscience, and Nanotechnology\nThe meeting was carried out through various sessions, in which the discussions were held on the following major scientific tracks:\n· Nanoparticles\n· Biomaterials\n· Nano Composites\n· Nanomaterials\n· Carbon Nanotubes\n· Nano Biotechnology\n· Polymer Nanoscience\n· Advanced Nanomaterials\n· Functional Nanomaterials\n· Nanophysics\n· Nano Electronics\nThe conference proceedings were carried out through various Scientific-sessions and plenary lectures. The conference was embarked with an opening ceremony followed by a series of lectures delivered by both Honourable Guests and members of the Keynote forum. The adepts who promulgated the theme with their exquisite talk were;\n· Huijun Zhao | Griffith University | Australia\n· Miriam Colombo | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy\n· Carlos Pagliosa | RHI Magnesita | Brazil\n· Houzheng Wu | Loughborough University | UK\n· Yaw-Kuen Li | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan\nThe event enlightened various areas of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology with Workshops and plenary lectures from the speakers of various universities and organizations like\n· Kaitlyn Parsons | University of Illinois | USA\n· Ivo Dlouhy | Brno University of Technology | Czech Republic\n· Francesco Picchioni | University of Groningen | The Netherlands\n· Hagay Shpaisman | Bar-Ilan University | Israel\n· David Strawser | Technical Developments | Israel\n· Fabio Vengoechea | Laboratorio Avimex SA de CV | Mexico\n· Bianca Rita Pistillo | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology| Luxembourg\n· Yongmei Zheng | Beihang University | China\n· Maurizio Destefanis | University of Turin | Italy\n· Yuliang Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China\n· Pavel Osmera | Brno University of Technology | Czech Republic\nWe are also obliged to various delegate experts, company representatives and other eminent personalities who supported the conference by facilitating active discussion forums. We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Members for their gracious presence, support, and assistance towards the success of Nanomaterials 2019.\nWith the grand success of Nanomaterials 2019, Allied Academies is proud to announce the \"3rd World Congress on Nanomaterials” to be held during November 07-08, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia.\nFor more information please visit: http://nanomaterials.alliedacademies.com/\nWelcome back to the 2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology on May 16-17 at Prague, Czech Republic.\nThis year with the innovative theme - “A Spectrum Opportunities towards the Nanomaterials \", which aims to offer new ideas, convictions, strategies and tactics that directly affect the way you do business and the management which holds eminent professionals in the field of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology.\nNanomaterials 2019 Conference is the platform of renowned scientists, researchers, university professors, university researchers and students, consisting of lectures, lectures, oral and poster presentations, exhibitions, and much more knowledge, share your Research experience and receive name recognition and Certificates signed by our eminent world-class organizing a committee.\nNo other event will offer a more impressive list of keynote speakers, quality assistants, and engaging content. This is an attractive event for delegates from Universities and Institutes to interact with scientists. Interested participants can confirm their participation by joining the conference together with their colleagues.\nPrague is the capital and the largest city in the Czech Republic. Prague has been a political, cultural and economic center of central Europe complete with a rich history. Prague is an ideal location allowing for the simple access to the surrounding areas.\nWe hope you join us and take little time to enjoy the unique charm of the region.\nSession on: Advanced Nanomaterials\nNanomaterials are the materials of which a solitary unit is measured 1 and 1000 nanometres but is generally from 1 to 100 nm. Nanomaterial questions about the adoption of approaches related to materials science and nanotechnology, gain ground in the metrology and the mix of materials that have been created in support of microfabrication research. The materials with structure in the Nanoscale regularly have unique optical, electronic or mechanical properties. Nanomaterials are becoming increasingly notoriously popular and begin to rise as products.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American Physical Society | Instituto Zuliano de Investigaciones Tecnologicas | Canadian Nano Business Alliance | American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Panel | National Nanotechnology Centre | National Nanotechnology Directorate | National Nanotechnology Initiative\nRecommended: Nanomaterials Conference | Nanotechnology Conference | Nanomaterials 2019 | Non-medical Conference | Nanomaterials Events | Nanomaterials Meetings\nRelated Conferences: 24th Nano Conferences, May 07-08, 2018 Rome, Italy | 25th Nano Congress, August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 17th Emerging Trends in Materials Science and Nanotechnology Conferences, April 26-27, 2018 Rome, Italy | 22nd Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology Conferences, Nov 06-08, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK.\nSession on: Nano Electronics\nNanoelectronics cites the use of nanotechnology in electronic segments. The term covers a varied arrangement of devices and materials, with the basic trademark that they are small to the point that between nuclear connections and the properties of quantum mechanics should be examined extensively. The purpose of this field is to allow the sustained knowledge of Moore's Law using innovative methods and materials for the construction of electronic devices that are presented with a nanometric scale size.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American Society for Precision Engineering | Converging Technologies Bar Association | Materials Research Society | Graphene Stakeholders Association | Russian Society of Scanning Probe Microscopy and Nanotechnologies.\nRelated Conferences: Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Conferences, Oct 18-20, 2017, Rome, Italy | 25th Nano Congress, August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 15th Materials Research and Technology Conferences, February 19-20, 2018 Paris, France | 3rd Biomaterials Conferences, March 05-06, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Ceramics and Composite Materials Conferences, May 14-15, 2018 Rome, Italy.\nSession on: Nano Applications\nThe 2000s saw the early uses of nanotechnology in commercial elements, although most applications are restricted to the mass use of inactive nanomaterials. The benefits of nanotechnology depend on the fact that structures can be modified at the Nanoscale to obtain specific properties, which greatly expands the set of material science tools. Using nanotechnology, the materials can be manufactured in a viable way, lighter, more resistant, more receptive, more like those of the sieves, or better electric transporters, among many different characteristics. Numerous regular commercial items are available at this time and are used day by day depending on the materials and procedures of the Nanoscale. Nanotechnology has added significantly to real advances in the registry and devices, which has generated fast, small and convenient frameworks that can monitor and store greater data measurements.\nRelated Societies/Associations:\nAmerican Academy of Nanomedicine | Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer | Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory | American Chemical Society - Nanotechnology Safety Resources.\nRelated Conferences: 24th Nano Conferences, May 07-08, 2018 Rome, Italy | Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Conferences, Oct 18-20, 2017, Rome, Italy | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, March 22-23, 2018 London, UK | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 15th Materials Research and Technology Conferences, February 19-20, 2018 Paris, France | 22nd Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology Conferences, Nov 06-08, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | 4th Ceramics and Composite Materials Conferences, May 14-15, 2018 Rome, Italy | 2nd Graphene and 2D Materials Conferences, November 6-7, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany.\nSession on: Nano-Biotechnology\nNanotechnology, biological biotechnology, and nanological biology are terms that refer to the convergence of nanotechnology and science. Nanobiotechnology is a discipline in which nanotechnology tools are developed and applied to study biological phenomena. Ideas that are updated through nanobiology include nanodevices (for example, natural machines), nanoparticles and nanoscale wonders that occur within the scope of nanotechnology. Bionanotechnology, in general, refers to the investigation of how the objectives of nanotechnology can be guided by focusing on how organic \"machines\" work and adjusting these natural issues to improve existing nanotechnologies or build new ones. This specialized way of dealing with science allows researchers to visualize and make configurations that can be used for organic research. Naturally stimulated nanotechnology uses organic frameworks as motivations for advances not yet made. Be that as it may, as with nanotechnology and biotechnology, bionanotechnology has numerous potential moral problems related to it. The key objectives that are generally found in the Nanobiology include the application of Nanotools to related medical/biological problems and, therefore, the perfecting of all these applications. Nanobiotechnology derives its fundamentals from nanotechnology.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American Society for Precision Engineering | Converging Technologies Bar Association | Materials Research Society | Graphene Stakeholders Association | Nanotechnology Industries Association | Russian Nanotechnology Corporation.\nRelated Conferences: 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 17th Emerging Trends in Materials Science and Nanotechnology Conferences, April 26-27, 2018 Rome, Italy | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 11th Advanced Materials and Processing conferences, September 7-8 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland | 3rd Biomaterials Conferences, March 05-06, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | 4th Ceramics and Composite Materials Conferences, May 14-15, 2018 Rome, Italy | 19th Materials Science and Engineering Conferences, June 11-13, 2018 Barcelona, Spain.\nSession on: Nano Bio-Medicine\nNanomedicine is the medicinal use of nanotechnology. Nanomedicine ranges from the medicinal uses of nanomaterials and organic devices to Nanoelectronic, Nanosensors, and even the possible future applications of atomic nanotechnology, for example, natural machines. The current problems of Nanomedicine include the understanding of the problems identified with the harmful and ecological effects of nanoscale materials. Functionalities can be added to nanomaterials by interconnecting them with atoms or natural structures. The measurement of nanomaterials is like that of most natural particles and structures; In this way, nanomaterials can be useful for research and biomedical applications in vivo and in vitro. Up to this point, the reconciliation of nanomaterials with science has driven the advance of symptomatic devices; Differentiate specialists, exhibition instruments, non-intrusive treatment applications, and medicine transport vehicles. Nanomedicine seeks to transmit a cost-effective array of research devices and clinically valuable devices sooner rather than later.\nSession on: Advanced Materials Science\nThe interdisciplinary field of materials science also called science and construction of materials, includes the revelation and the plan of new materials, with an emphasis on solids. The industry of propelled materials includes an extraction of materials in the form of a complete cycle, primary creation, improvement of forms and characterization of materials for the manufacture of articles, tests that are exhausted in composite materials and biomaterials. The improvement of avant-garde material is related to the era of new learning and authoritative innovation, a combination of the relationship with avant-garde materials. The Advanced Materials Directorate has created a benchmark in the monetary year in the South Africa area. The review included the understanding of capabilities, openings, global patterns, gaps, and business difficulties, with an accentuation in titanium, nanomaterials, powered compounds and nanotechnology and modern applications in aviation, self-propelled processes, development and dispositive. Restorative grouped and sustainable energy source (PV). There are many organizations that consult on advanced materials, in which Morgan Advanced Materials is one of them.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Panel | Iranian Nanotechnology Laboratory Network | Collaborative Centre for Applied Nanotechnology | American Physical Society | Canadian Nano Business Alliance.\nRelated Conferences: 4th Ceramics and Composite Materials Conferences, May 14-15, 2018 Rome, Italy | 19th Materials Science and Engineering Conferences, June 11-13, 2018 Barcelona, Spain | Magnetism and Magnetic Materials conferences, 6th Nanotechnology and Material Science Conferences, April 16-18, 2018, Valencia, Spain | 6th Metal-Organic Frameworks Conferences, December 9-13, 2018, Auckland, New Zealand |11th Advanced Materials and Processing conferences, September 7-8 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland | 7th Smart Materials Conferences, July 2-3, 2018 Vienna, Austria | 3rd Biomaterials Conferences, March 05-06, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK.\nSession on: Nano Composites\nThe nanocomposite is a strong multi-phase material in which one of the stages has one, some measurements of less than 100 nm, or structures that have a nanoscale refresh that eliminates between the various stages that make up the material. Nano compounds are found in nature, for example, in the structure of abalone shell and bone. He explored the starting point of shading depth and impermeability to acids and consumption of Mayan blue paint, attributing it to a nanoparticle instrument. Since the mid-1950s, Nano-scale organic substances have been used to control the flow of polymer arrangements (for example, as paint viscosities) or the constitution of gels (for example, as a thickening substance in cosmetics, maintaining provisions in a homogeneous framework). In the 1970s, polymer/dirt compounds were the subject of course books, even though the term \"Nanocomposites\" was not used in a similar way.\nRelated Societies/Associations: International Association of Nanotechnology | American Nano Society | Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Student Association | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Nano Science and Technology Consortium | National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology.\nRelated Conferences: 25th Nano Congress, August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 15th Materials Research and Technology Conferences, February 19-20, 2018 Paris, France | 2nd Graphene and 2D Materials Conferences, November 6-7, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | 23rd Nanomaterials Conference, March 15-16, 2018 London, UK | 22nd Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology Conferences, Nov 06-08, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Conferences, Oct 18-20, 2017, Rome, Italy.\nSession on: Nanotechnology\nNanotechnology is the construction of practical structures at subatomic scale. This diffuses both the current work and the most avant-garde ideas. In its extraordinary sense, nanotechnology implies the expected capacity to manufacture things from the base, using systems and devices that are created today to make elite and finished items. Two standard systems are used in nanotechnology. In the \"base\" strategy, materials and devices are produced using subnuclear fragments that are synthetically collected by subatomic recognition standards. In the \"best fall\" technique, nanoparticles are worked from larger components without nuclear level control. The improvement of the uses that join the semiconductor nanoparticles to be used as part of the new era of articles, for example, shows innovation, lighting, cells based on sunlight and organic images; see quantum dabs. The late use of nanomaterials incorporates a field of biomedical applications, for example, the construction of tissues, the transport of sedatives and biosensors.\nRelated Societies/Associations: International Association of Nanotechnology | American Nano Society | Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Student Association | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Nanoscience, and Technology Consortium | National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology.\nRelated Conferences: 13th Materials Science, Metal and Manufacturing Conferences, November 16-17, 2017 Paris, France | Magnetism and Materials conferences, October 9-10, 2017 London, UK | Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Conferences, Oct 18-20, 2017, Rome, Italy | 6th Nanotechnology and Material Science Conferences, April 16-18, 2018, Valencia, Spain | 6th Metal-Organic Frameworks Conferences, December 9-13, 2018, Auckland, New Zealand | 17th Emerging Trends in Materials Science and Nanotechnology Conferences, April 26-27, 2018 Rome, Italy | Smart Materials Conferences, July 2-3, 2018 Vienna, Austria.\nSession on: Biomaterials\nA biomaterial is a substance that has been created to interact with organic structures for a medicinal reason, be it a remedy (treat, increase, repair or supplant a tissue capacity of the body) or a demonstration. Biomaterials research is called biomaterials science or biomaterials design. A solid and lasting development has been found throughout its history, and many organizations have invested a lot of money in the improvement of new elements. The science of biomaterials includes components of the solution, science, science, tissue design and materials science.\nRelated Societies/Associations: National Nanotechnology Centre | National Nanotechnology Initiative | Iranian Nanotechnology Laboratory Network | Nano Malaysia | Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory | American Chemical Society - Nanotechnology Safety Resources.\nSession on: Nano-Photonics\nThe Nano photon corresponds to the use of light in companies at the nanometre scale. This field is related to some advances in the use of light in new advances, including silicon-based semiconductors, where nanophotonic improve speed and execution. The Nano-photonics or Nano-optics is the study of the behaviour of light in the nanometric scale and the interaction of nanoscale objects with light. In addition, the idea of nanophotonic adds to a broader classification of nanotechnology that is altering the way in which innovative work agencies (R & D) from different fields deal with a part of the more modest companies. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. It often involves metallic components, which can transport and focus light through surface Plasmon Polaritons.\nRelated Societies/Associations: European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology | Semiconductor Industry Association | Collaborative Centre for Applied Nanotechnology | James Watt Nanofabrication Centre | Southampton Nanofabrication Centre.\nRelated Conferences: 2nd Graphene & 2D Materials Conferences, November 6-7, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | 25th Nano Congress, August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 11th Advanced Materials and Processing conferences, September 7-8 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland |22nd Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology Conferences, Nov 06-08, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany.\nSession on: Nano-Satellites\nThe term Nanosatellites refer to artificial satellites that have a critical mass of 1 to 10 kg, which results in a significant reduction in the cost of the satellite. The proposed designs of these types may be launched separately or may have been grouped or information, in which sometimes it can be applied as \"Swarm of Satellites\" or \"fractional spacecraft\". With the advent of advanced technologies in miniaturization and capital increase to support the invective of private space flights in the decade of 2010, several newly created companies have been formed to look for opportunities with the development of a variety of vehicle launch technologies. These nanosatellites are stabilized by rotation and are also less expensive to launch Nano components than monolithic systems. These consume less energy to pack electronic components also to store memory with less thermal dissipation.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American Academy of Nanomedicine | Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer | Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory | American Chemical Society - Nanotechnology Safety Resources.\nSession on: Carbon Nanotubes\nCarbon nanotubes are long, thin cylinders and large molecules that are unique in their shapes, size, and extraordinary physical and chemical properties. These intriguing structures have aroused enthusiasm in recent years and a great deal of research has also been dedicated to their understandings. Carbon nanotubes are less than 100 nanometers in diameter and can be as thin as 1 or 2 nm. They open an incredible range of applications in materials science, electronics, chemical processing, energy management and many other fields of engineering.\nRelated Societies/Associations: Erwin Schrodinger Society for Nanoscience | Royal Society - Nanotechnology and Nanoscience | Nanoscale Science and Nanotechnology Group | London Centre for Nanotechnology | Nano Technology Research Association.\nRelated Conferences: 23rd Nanomaterials Conferences, March 15-16, 2018 London, UK | 22nd Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology Conferences, Nov 06-08, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Conferences, Oct 18-20, 2017, Rome, Italy | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 2nd Graphene & 2D Materials Conferences, November 6-7, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany | 15th Materials Research and Technology Conferences, February 19-20, 2018 Paris, France | 3rd Biomaterials Conferences, March 05-06, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 25th Nano Congress, August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland.\nSession on: Nanoparticles\nNanoparticles are particles between 1 and 100 nanometers in size. In nanotechnology, a particle is defined as a small object that behaves like a complete unit with respect to its transport and properties. The particles are classified according to diameter. The ultrafine particles are equal to the nanoparticles and have a size of 1 to 100 nanometers, the fine particles have a size of between 100 and 2,500 nanometers, and the coarse particles cover a range of between 2,500 and 10,000 nanometers.\nNational Nanotechnology Centre | National Nanotechnology Directorate | National Nanotechnology Initiative | Iranian Nanotechnology Laboratory Network | European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology.\nSession on: Nanophysics\nNanotechnology can be used in many different contexts, such as the development of new materials and new technologies. The master's program in nanomaterials and nanophysics focuses on the design, manufacture, and control of materials and components with dimensions at the nanoscale, that is, from 1 to 100 nm. You will learn how nanotechnology can be used to develop new optical and electronic components and new materials for use in communications technology, sensor technology or catalysis. In addition, you will obtain information on the possibilities, problems, and challenges faced by nanotechnology engineers on a day-to-day basis.\nRelated Conferences: 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 24th Nano Conferences, May 07-08, 2018 Rome, Italy.\nSession on: Functional Nanomaterials\nFunctional nanomaterials are the premise of the recent increase in nanotechnologies for different device applications. Nanomaterials with numerous types of morphologies and creations have been extensively researched, and show different types of utility in ranges, for example, electronic structure, optical impacts, turning elements and gas detection. Due to the avant-garde image and new methods of creation, nanomaterials are currently key to several orders, including materials science, science, materials science, construction, and drugs. This exceptional volume presents a detailed summary of late research advances in useful nanomaterials, which include combination, representation, and applications.\nSession on: Nanotechnology for Clean Energy & Environment\nNanotechnologies offer the possibility of improving the effectiveness of vitality in all branches of industry and financially use the creation of sustainable energy sources through new innovative agreements and advanced generation advances. In this way, its consequences for the vibrant era, transmission, storage, and use are diverse and different. Some will be incremental and others perhaps progressive. It is hoped that nanotechnological products, processes, and applications will contribute completely to natural and atmospheric insurance, saving raw materials, vitality, and water and, in addition, reducing the gases from nurseries and hazardous waste. The use of nanomaterials in this line guarantees certain ecological advantages and compatibility impacts.\nSession on: Nanomaterials Regulations & Safety\nThe development of nanomaterials has made all the international accord with the benefits of the rapidly developing discipline of nanomaterials and nanotechnology. manufacturers are expected to publicly identify more than 1,500 nanotechnology products and new products to reach the market each week. The wide range of products and skills programs offers nanotechnology its enormous growth prospects. The global nanotechnology industry will increase until it reaches the United States seventy-five. Eight billion with the useful resource of 2020 that makes each sector of the era and the generation listen to make nanotechnology and nanomaterials play a vital role in their future development.\nRelated Societies/Associations: American Society for Precision Engineering | Converging Technologies Bar Association | Materials Research Society | Graphene Stakeholders Association | Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council | National Nanotechnology Directorate | Asia Nano Forum.\nRelated Conferences: 25th Nano Congress , August 16-18, 2018 Dublin, Ireland | 20th Advanced Nanotechnology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16th Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology Conferences, Mar 22-23, 2018 London, UK | Membrane Science and Technology Conferences, September 11-12, 2017 Paris, France | 1st Materials Technology Conferences, December, 2018 Berlin, Germany | 4th Polymer Science and Technology Conferences, June 04-05, 2018 London, UK | 24th Nano Conferences, May 07-08, 2018 Rome, Italy.\nThe European Nanomaterials Market generated revenues of $ 2,536 million in 2015 and is expected to reach $ 9,078 million for 2022 with a CAGR of 20.0% during 2016-2022. Nanomaterials can be defined as materials with at least one external dimension in the size range of approximately 1 to 100 nanometers. The report focuses on current market trends and opportunities for future growth of nanomaterials, in industries such as paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, health, energy, electronics, and consumer goods, personal care and others. It also emphasizes the various types of nanomaterials that are commercially available on the market, namely, carbon-based (carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and POSS, and graphene), metal and non-metal oxides (titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, dioxide silicon, aluminum oxide). , cerium oxide, antimony tin oxide, copper oxide, bismuth oxide, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, magnesium oxide, manganese oxide, and zirconium oxide), metals (silver, gold, nickel and quantum dots), dendrimers, Nano clay, and nanocellulose. It also analyses the current trends of the nanomaterials market in different European countries and suggests opportunities for future growth by analyzing government regulations and policies, which can further increase consumer acceptance in that region.\nAccording to the perspective of the leading companies, the factors that drive the demand for nanomaterials in various end-user industries are a growing investment in research and development, a growth in the penetration of nanomaterials in various application industries and the excellent physicochemical properties of the nanomaterials. Nanomaterials are generally added in small amounts to improve the performance of the base material. However, factors such as strict environmental regulations and the high price of nanomaterials can hinder the growth of the market. Currently, the segments of paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, electronic products and consumer goods, and personal care are the main markets for end users of nanomaterials.\nIt is expected that the global market for nanotechnologies and nanomaterials will witness substantial growth during the forecast period. Nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes, Nano-clays, nanofibers, nanoplate, quantum dots, silicon oxide Nano pods, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide and nonporous materials already have established markets, which are estimated to be significantly driven by the demand for filtration applications, electronics, cosmetics, energy, medicine, chemicals, coatings, and catalysts. In addition, dispersion and coating, consolidated materials, biomedical devices, and nanodevices are some of the potential emerging applications in the nanotechnology and nanomaterials market.\nNanomaterials Market Key Benefits:\nThe projections in the report are based on the analysis of current market trends and future market potential for the period 2014-2022 in terms of value and volume.\nThe segmentation of the market of nanomaterials based on the region is provided to understand the current trends in various geographies.\nThe exhaustive analysis of the global market of nanomaterials by the end user helps to understand the level of penetration of nanomaterials in various applications in different regions and countries.\nIn-depth analyses of current research and developments in nanomaterials are provided along with the key dynamic factors of the market to understand market dynamics.\nThe exhaustive analysis of the market is carried out following the positioning of the key product and the monitoring of the main contenders in the market.\nThe main players in the nanomaterials industry have been outlined in the report and their strategies have been thoroughly analysed to understand the competing perspectives of the market.\nWe would like to thank all our wonderful keynotes, speakers, conference attendees, students, associations, media partners, exhibitors and guests for making Nanomaterials 2018 a successful and splendid event.\nAAC hosted the joint event of International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology during October 29-30, 2018 at Park Inn by Radisson London Heathrow Hotel with the theme “Innovatory Advancements in the Field of Nanomaterials”. Benevolent response and active participation were received from the Editorial Board Members of supporting International Journals as well as from the leading academic scientists, researchers, research scholars, students and leaders from the fields of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology who made this event successful.\nNanomaterials 2018 witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various new-fangled topics related to the fields of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology.\nThe conference proceedings were carried out through various Scientific-sessions and plenary lectures. The conference was embarked with an opening ceremony followed by a series of lectures delivered by members of the Keynote forum.\nThe meeting was carried out through various scientific sessions, in which the discussions were held on the following major scientific tracks:\nNano Electronics Mechanism\nAppliance of Nanomaterials\nNano Mechanics\nNano-Satellites\nNanorobotics Engineering\nNanoComposites Materials\nAnalysis of Nanomaterials\nNano Bio-medical\nNanostructures and Nanofabrication\nThe event enlightened various areas of Nanomaterials 2018, with plenary lectures and YRF from the speakers of various universities and organizations like\nAnatoliy V Glushchenko, University of Colorado, USA\nNoritada Kaji, Kyushu University, Japan\nThomas J Webster, Northeastern University, USA\nYunhong Jiang, University of Bath, UK\nCarlos A Avila-Orta, Centro de Investigacion en Quimica Aplicada (CIQA), Mexico\nErhard Kemnitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin\nInna Melnyk, Institute of Geotechnics of SAS, Slovak Republic\nUdayashankar Nithiyanantham, CIC Energigun, Spain\nYongbing Xu, Nanjing University, China\nWith the grand success of Nanomaterials 2018, AAC proud to announce the \"2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology” to be held during May 16-17, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.\nTo visit Nanomaterials 2018 Conference Book Proceedings: Click Here\nOrganizing Committee Member\nYaw-Kuen Li\nHsinchu City, Taiwan\nAlexander Seifalian\nCEO and Professor Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine\nNanoRegMed Ltd\nCarlos Pagliosa\nRHI Magnesita R&D Contagem, Brazil\nAmazon Brazil, Brazil\nLELLOUCHE Jean-Paul\nBar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan\nIsrael, Israel\nPanorama Hotel Prague,\nMilevská 7, 140 63 Praha 4,\nCzechia, Prague, Czech Republic\nNovember 6-7, 2019 3rd World Congress on\nNational Registration\nProgram Enquiry\nGeorge William\nnanomaterials@alliedconference.org\nLizeth Andrea\nnanomaterials@alliedforums.org\nSponsors/Exhibiting/Advertising\nAmanda Cross\nsponsoraac@alliedacademies.com\nNanomaterials and Nanotechnology\nAdvanced Nanomaterials\nNano Electronics\nNano Applications\nNano Biotechnology\nNano Bio Medicine\nAdvanced Materials Science\nNano Composites\nNano Photonics\nNano Satellites\nNanophysics\nFunctional Nanomaterials\nNanotechnology for Clean Energy & Environment\nNanomaterials Regulations & Safety\nMaterials Science and Nanotechnology\nJournal of Nanomedicine & Biotherapeutic Discovery\nJournal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology\nCancellation, Postponement, and Transfer of Registration\nIf allied academies postpone an event for any reason and you are unable or unwilling to attend on rescheduled dates, you will receive a credit for 100% of the registration fee paid. 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        "text": "my art search contacts\n(REVIEWS)\nIncomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova.\nIncomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova. Her artistic discourse is about problems of conscious and unconscious, about dramatic, agonizingly fine and bitter, and sometimes hateful connections between the worlds of a Woman and a Man, real and unreal in human life and senses. She embodies her meditations in artistically elegant compositions, the essence of which at first she puts through history and fiction, like through the lens, through the prism of aesthetics, play and carnival. In the meantime the artist makes skillful use of a guise, mask, persona in its antique understanding as a part of a person, which was shown to the external world, expressing and, simultaneously, hiding an authentic self, character, soul. The environment of her personages is made of histrionics, decorative poses and figures.\nThe works of Kateryna Gutnikova create a stage, where in oblivion some inspired performance. Splendid and wonderful attire stimulates thrust and relaxedness.\nIt is in flowers, grapes, fairy-tale melodies and, which is the most important, in love -headache you make it head off today... Today the author stages mostly one-theme performances, however under different names and aspects.\nThese complicated and rich compositions are inventively balanced, full of whimsical meanings and real life plots. Besides, there are landscape motifs and allegoric symbols. The Nature, flora and fauna from its entrails and are ready to flaw beyond the bounds of the drawing. The idea of a carnival, as a recreation of the essence of life with the help of figurative art means, is regularly actualized in the history of the world culture. In her works the moody and plotline carnival peripeteias become an important matter for philosophical reflection, psychological research and self-knowledge. Through her works, she strives to understand to major secrets: love and art. Perhaps, her quest is not in vain, as far as it brings forth one more secret: creative work of a young artist. Her creative manner is typical of the postmodern artist: reinterpretation of the age-old myths according to one's own painful questions. Private problems of the artist appear to be the problems of womankind, and mankind as a whole.\nYou can put her works on a par with palimpsests; only, to be precise, they do not block each other, but prop up. When you ponder over these artworks you come to understand that it isn't that easy to find the way out of the labyrinth of these themes, reminiscences, meanings and discoveries. This is the prime example of intellectual poetry created by means of graphic arts.\nOlesia Avramenko, Candidate of Art Criticism.\n(OUR SPONSORS)\n© Art of Ukraine Foundation, 1998-2003. All rights reserved. © Created by AMT, 2003. Site info."
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        "text": "Q: Can anyone recommend a decent free stop watch widget for MacOSX? I would like something that is simple to use.\n\nA: Depending on the functionalities you want : \n\n\n*\n\n*Simple & Design : iChrono\n\n\n*More features & like a real stopwatch : Stopwatch widget\n\n\nA: It's not a dashboard widget, but the Apimac Timer application is free (there's a paid Pro version with additional features) and functions as a stopwatch, countdown timer, and alarm clock. Nice and handy. \nhttp://www.apimac.com/timer/\n\n\n\n\nA: Menubar Countdown is good if you just want to countdown something\nhttp://capablehands.net/menubarcountdown\nLicense\nMenubar Countdown is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n\nA: For counting down a repeating task, Pomodoro is useful (and free):\nhttp://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/\n\nA: Not a widget, but since there's always a browser around, the Timer Tab web app does the trick for me.\n\nHere's a selection of features:\n\n\n*\n\n*timer + alarm clock + stopwatch\n\n*works offline\n\n*fullscreen countdown by clicking on the countdown\n\n*keyboard control:\n\n\n*\n\n*→, ←, ↑, ↓: control inputs, \n\n*f: toggle fullscreen, \n\n*space: toggle pause\n\n\n*customizable:\n\n\n*\n\n*audio alarm: any Youtube clip \n\n*background: any image on the web\n\n\n*countdown in the browser tab title and tab icon\n\n\n\nNow, if Chrome happens to be the browser of your choice, there's also the Chrome app, providing you with some extra features:\n\n\n*\n\n*optional sound and Chrome notification\n\n*use the \"tab to search\" chrome feature to set the timer\n\n*etc.\n\n\n\nNow, it's up to you to consider if this is a reasonable alternative to a widget.\n\nA: I know 2 of them:\n\n\n*\n\n*StopWatchWidget\n\n*tTimer\n\n"
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    {
        "text": "28 февруари е 59-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар. Остават 306 дни до края на годината (307 през високосна).\n\nВижте също: 29 февруари и 30 февруари.\n\nСъбития \n 364 г. – Валентиниан I е избран за римски император.\n 1799 г. – Официално е утвърден като град Бърлингтън (Масачузетс).\n 1813 г. – Битка при Лайпциг: В Калиш е сключен съюз между Русия и Прусия, насочен срещу Франция.\n 1838 г. – Обявена е независимостта на Долна (Френска) Канада, дн. Квебек.\n 1838 г. – Създаден е окръг Пойнсет в щата Арканзас, САЩ.\n 1839 г. – Създаден е окръг Джърси в щата Илинойс, САЩ.\n 1872 г. – Видинският митрополит Антим I е избран за първи екзарх на Българската екзархия.\n 1884 г. – Създаден е Военноморския духов оркестър.\n 1895 г. – Създаден е първият градски парк от европейски тип в България Аязмото в Стара Загора.\n 1897 г. – Последният монарх на Мадагаскар – кралица Ранавалона III е екстрадирана на остров Реюнион и Мадагаскар е превърнат във френска колония.\n 1904 г. – Основан е спортен клуб Бенфика Лисабон.\n 1908 г. – Oвдовелият български княз Фердинанд I сключва втори брак – с принцеса Елеонора фон Ройс-Кьостриц.\n 1909 г. – За първи път е отбелязан Международен ден на жената – в САЩ от бившата социалистическа партия в страната.\n 1922 г. – Обединеното кралство приема независимостта на Египет.\n 1925 г. – В Турция, кюрдите въстават срещу правителството.\n\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Британски самолети бомбардират Берлин през деня.\n 1947 г. – В Тайван започва 40-годишен период на бял терор, станал причина за смъртта на около 140 хил. души – през 1995 г. денят е обявен за Ден в памет на жертвите.\n 1948 г. – Последните британски войски се изтеглят от Индия.\n 1948 г. – Сформирана е израелската пехотна бригада Голани, известна още и като Бригада №1.\n 1959 г. – Направен е първият успешен полет от поредицата от американски орбитални ракети носители Тор-Аджена с извеждането на Дискавърър 1.\n 1960 г. – Закрити са 8-те зимни олимпийски игри в Скуо Вали, Калифорния, САЩ.\n 1966 г. – Край село Павел пада малък метеорит (около 2 – 3 kg). Това е най-големият метеорит, паднал в България.\n 1968 г. – Основан е град Ауровил.\n 1969 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм Танго.\n 1972 г. – Създадена е Автономна област Южен Судан.\n 1974 г. – След седем годишно прекъсване САЩ и Египет възстановяват дипломатическите си отношения.\n 1975 г. – При влакова катастрофа в Лондонското метро загиват 43 души, 20 са ранени.\n 1978 г. – Отворен е за посещение Пантеонът на Възрожденците в Русе.\n 1986 г. – Подписан е Единният европейски акт в Хага.\n 1988 г. – Закрити са 15-те зимни олимпийски игри в Калгари, Канада.\n 1991 г. – Обявен е краят на първата война в Залива.\n 1994 г. – ЮАР предоставя контрола на анклава Уолфиш Бей на Намибия.\n 1998 г. – Косовска война: Започва конфликтът между албанските сепарати от АОК и югославските сили за сигурност.\n 2000 г. – Групата „Oasis“ издават своя 4-ти самостоятелен албум Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants.\n 2004 г. – Над 1 млн. тайванци се включват в демонстрацията, наречена 228 ръка за ръка, образувайки 500-километрова жива верига в памет на жертвите от 40-годишния период на бял терор в страната.\n 2008 г. – Избухва Пожарът във влака София – Кардам, при който загиват 9 пътници.\n 2010 г. – Закрити са 21-те зимни олимпийски игри във Ванкувър, Канада.\n\nРодени \n\n 1518 г. – Франсоа III, френски дофин († 1536 г.)\n 1533 г. – Мишел дьо Монтен, френски писател († 1592 г.)\n 1683 г. – Рене-Антоан Реомюр, френски естествоизпитател († 1757 г.)\n 1690 г. – Алексей Петрович, руски цар († 1718 г.)\n 1712 г. – Луи-Жозеф дьо Монкалм, френски военачалник († 1759 г.)\n 1792 г. – Карл Ернст фон Баер, руски естественик († 1876 г.)\n 1820 г. – Илайша Кент Кейн, американски лейтенант († 1857 г.)\n 1823 г. – Ернест Ренан, френски писател († 1892 г.)\n 1840 г. – Анри Дюверие, френски пътешественик († 1892 г.)\n 1841 г. – Муне-Сюли, френски артист († 1916 г.)\n 1859 г. – Вълко Велчев, български генерал († 1935 г.)\n 1867 г. – Александър Протогеров, български генерал († 1928 г.)\n 1873 г. – Жорж Тьони, белгийски политик († 1966 г.)\n 1875 г. – Тодор Попантов, български революционер († 1954 г.)\n 1878 г. – Стефан Ангелов, български лекар († 1964 г.)\n 1880 г. – Тодор Страшимиров, български политик († 1925 г.)\n 1882 г. – Херберт Зилберер, австрийски психоаналитик († 1923 г.)\n 1885 г. – Лалю Метев, български индустриалец († 1957 г.)\n 1886 г. – Макс Фасмер, германски лингвист († 1962 г.)\n 1893 г. – Иван Васильов, български архитект († 1979 г.)\n 1894 г. – Бен Хехт, американски драматург († 1964 г.)\n 1895 г. – Вадим Лазаркевич, руски художник († 1963 г.)\n 1895 г. – Марсел Паньол, френски писател († 1974 г.)\n 1898 г. – Лили Рубичек-Пелер, австро-американски педагог († 1966 г.)\n 1898 г. – Франц Беке, германски офицер († 1978 г.)\n 1901 г. – Лайнъс Полинг, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1954, Нобелов лауреат през 1962 († 1994 г.)\n 1903 г. – Винсънт Минели, американски филмов режисьор († 1986 г.)\n 1907 г. – Емилиян Станев, български писател († 1979 г.)\n 1912 г. – Клара Петачи, метреса на Мусолини († 1945 г.)\n 1913 г. – Петко Абаджиев, български художник († 2004 г.)\n 1913 г. – Франтишек Шорм, чешки химик († 1980 г.)\n 1915 г. – Питър Медауар, английски биолог, Нобелов лауреат († 1987 г.)\n 1919 г. – Цанко Кильовски, български офицер († 1976 г.)\n 1922 г. – Юрий Лотман, руски семиотик († 1993 г.)\n 1923 г. – Илия Темков, български диригент († 2002 г.)\n 1929 г. – Франк Гери, американски архитект\n 1930 г. – Лион Купър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 г.\n 1937 г. – Иван Николов, български писател († 1991 г.)\n 1938 г. – Никола Спиридонов, български шахматист\n 1939 г. – Даниъл Ци, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1998 г.\n 1940 г. – Марио Андрети, италиано-американски пилот от Формула 1\n 1941 г. – Андрю Росос, канадски историк\n 1942 г. – Дино Дзоф, италиански футболист\n 1943 г. – Ханс Дейкстал, нидерландски политик († 2010 г.)\n 1944 г. – Сеп Майер, германски футболен вратар\n 1946 г. – Стоян Цанев, български художник († 2019 г.)\n 1947 г. – Лена Крун, финландска писателка\n 1947 г. – Янаки Петров (Чичо Чичопей), български поет († 1999 г.)\n 1948 г. – Стивън Чу, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1997 г.\n 1950 г. – Хорхе Лазаров, уругвайски музикант († 1989 г.)\n 1952 г. – Чавдар Кънчев, български банкер\n 1963 г. – Пламен Проданов, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Сашо Камбуров, български художник\n 1966 г. – Йоан VI Охридски, духовник от Република Македония\n 1972 г. – Гергана Стоянова, българска актриса\n 1979 г. – Иво Карлович, хърватски тенисист\n 1979 г. – Сандер ван Дорн, нидерландски музикант\n 1979 г. – Себастиан Бурде, френски автомобилен състезател\n 1980 г. – Кристиан Поулсен, датски футболист\n 1981 г. – Флоран Сера, френски тенисист\n 1984 г. – Каролина Куркова, чешки топмодел\n 1985 г. – Диего, бразилски футболист\n 1985 г. – Йелена Янкович, сръбска тенисистка\n 1987 г. – Антонио Кандрева, италиански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1621 г. – Козимо II Медичи, велик херцог на Тоскана (* 1590 г.)\n 1838 г. – Шарл Тевенен, френски художник (* 1764 г.)\n 1869 г. – Алфонс дьо Ламартин, френски поет (* 1790 г.)\n 1887 г. – Димитър Филов, български офицер (* 1846 г.)\n 1916 г. – Хенри Джеймс, американски писател (* 1843 г.)\n 1918 г. – Андон Балтов, български революционер (* 1849 г.)\n 1918 г. – Сардар Ваисов, български владетел (* 1878 г.)\n 1925 г. – Фридрих Еберт, германски политик (* 1871 г.)\n 1936 г. – Иван Пашинов, български офицер (* 1862 г.)\n 1936 г. – Шарл Никол, френски бактериолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1928 г. (* 1866 г.)\n 1941 г. – Алфонсо XIII, крал на Испания (* 1886 г.)\n 1945 г. – Сергей Зернов, съветски зоолог (* 1871 г.)\n 1951 г. – Александър Радославов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1956 г. – Фридеш Рис, унгарски математик (* 1880 г.)\n 1958 г. – Никола Мавродинов, български учен (* 1904 г.)\n 1959 г. – Максуел Андерсън, американски писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1978 г. – Ерик Франк Ръсел, британски писател фантаст (* 1905 г.)\n 1979 г. – Владимир Христов, български геодезист (* 1902 г.)\n 1985 г. – Дейвид Байрън, британски рок музикант (* 1947 г.)\n 1989 г. – Херман Бургер, швейцарски писател (* 1942 г.)\n 2004 г. – Руслан Гелаев, полеви командир в Чеченската армия (* 1964 г.)\n 2006 г. – Оуен Чембърлейн, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1959 (* 1920 г.)\n 2007 г. – Лий Едингс, американска писателка (* 1937 г.)\n 2008 г. – Рашо Рашев, български историк (* 1943 г.)\n 2013 г. – Доналд Глейзър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1926 г.)\n 2018 г. – Динка Русева, българска народна певица (* 1948 г.)\n\nПразници \n Алжир, Бахрейн, Египет, Йемен, Йордания, Катар, Либия, Мароко, ОАЕ, Оман, Саудитска Арабия, Сирия, Тунис – Ден на учителя (Ден на ислямския учител)\n\n228"
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        "text": "Q: How can I change which application is launched when I press the play button on my remote? My mac mini came with a remote control. When I press the play button, iTunes is launched. How can I change what happens when I press this button (e.g. launch a different program)?\n\nA: according to the writer : This seems to work with iTunes 8 and 9, although you'll need to redo the patch after upgrading.\nOpen a Terminal and type the following \ncd /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS\nsudo mv iTunes iTunesX\nsudo curl http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dmonner/iTunes -O\nsudo chmod uog+x iTunes enter code here\n\nFrom http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dmonner/iTunes\n#!/usr/bin/env python\n\nimport sys, os, subprocess\n\nlaunch = True\nblocker = \"\"\n\napps = [\"Spotify\", \"Songbird\"]\n\nps = subprocess.Popen(\"/bin/ps -x\", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)\n\nfor line in ps.stdout.read().split(\"\\n\"):\n    for app in apps:\n        if app in line:\n            launch = False\n            blocker = app\n\nps.stdout.close()\n\nif launch :\n    os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT, '/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesX', sys.argv)\nelse :\n    print \"Not launching iTunes while %s is running.\" % blocker\n\nand you can read more here and here.\n\nA: Some tool like Remote Buddy might help here, but it's probably much more than you asked for.\n"
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        "text": "Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks supports automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, GPS, industrial, medical, military, wireless networking, smartphone and tablet applications. Skyworks’ portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, lighting and display solutions, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, power management devices, receivers, switches and technical ceramics.\nIn June 2011, Skyworks closed its acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of RF front-end solutions for wireless multimedia across a wide range of applications. The acquisition complements Skyworks’ leadership in wide area front-end solutions by adding SiGe’s innovative short range, silicon-based products. As a result, Skyworks is now able to offer a truly comprehensive wireless networking product portfolio, supporting all worldwide operating frequencies with architectural flexibility to address a variety of existing and emerging high-growth applications.\nThe company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics.\nHeadquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America."
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        "text": "Q: How do I uninstall a program completely on a Mac? I come from a PC background... every time I want to uninstall an application, I must use add/remove programs. On the mac, you can simply run a .app file from wherever you want, and many say that the way to uninstall them is simply delete this .app file.\nHowever, I have noticed that many apps save files in the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory. So when I delete the .app file, all those files are retained in the Application Support directory. Isn't there any way to uninstall an app and have it remove everything it installed on my hard-drive?\n\nA: Also bear in mind that many applications will include an uninstall option as part of their installation package, either as a separate program/script within the .DMG file or as a specific option in the installation wizard itself.\nSo although it might seem counter-intuitive, it's often worth mounting the original .DMG file (that you downloaded) again, and having a look for anything marked 'uninstall' - you sometimes find that utility program, driver-type packages and large games do tend to include software to clean-up after themselves.\nIf I come across a couple of examples in the next day or so, I'll edit this to include their names.\n\nA: AppZapper\nAppZapper is by far my favorite way to remove an Application and clean up any associated files in Preferences or Application Support.\nAlso, here's a tip.  Drag AppZapper to your Finder's toolbar like so.  This will then give you the ability to drag applications you want to uninstall by dragging the application on top of the the AppZapper shortcut in the toolbar.\n\n\nA: You can use this free app:\nAppCleaner\n(Synium used to offer CleanApp, but the product has been discontinued. You can still download a demo version which supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion up to macOS 10.14 Mojave.)\n\nA: AppCleaner all the way. The vast majority of apps on the Mac are self-contained, which is why there's no built-in uninstall method in Mac OS X. The only exception to that is plist files - essentially just application preferences. These are tiny text files and usually inconsequential if left behind when you remove an app. (Leaving them also preserves you application preferences if you later decide to reinstall the app.)\nApplications like AppCleaner are for purists who want to truly remove every last bit of an app when they uninstall it (nothing against purists, though -- I fall in that camp). Since all these apps mainly do is hunt down these stray plist files, paying for an app like AppZapper is a little ridiculous. AppCleaner is free and gets the job done perfectly.\nAlternatively, the automation app, Hazel, automatically finds related files when you delete an app and asks if you'd like to remove those as well. It's not free, but it is highly useful for a vast number of other purposes, so if you'd like to get the other features it provides, you can kill two birds with one app, as it were.\n\nA: Mac World magazine of August 2010 has this article, they mention several programs to do this, and explain why you should not rely on such programs 100%, but check all files they erase as sometimes they do what they shouldn't. \nLet me check the article again and I will post the recomendations here. \n\nA: Please note that apps installed from the App Store do not require an uninstaller for complete cleanup. To remove them:\n\n\n*\n\n*Open Launchpad and find the app's icon in there.\n\n*Hold down the Option key.\n\n*Click the \"×\" button on the app you want to remove and confirm.\n\n\nApps not installed from the store will not have a \"×\" button, and may require manual intervention (as per the other answers).\n\nA: I recommend to use CleanMyMac. It has a very good uninstall functionality. Besides that it is able to perform other system cleanup tasks. I use it very frequently and am very happy with it.\n\nA: A way to uninstall a program completely even without the use of third-party software, which often causes damage, is by using the custom search function including the system files among the results, you have to search the name of the program and or the vendors\n"
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        "text": "Q: How can I resize a window that doesn't have the grabbing part on the bottom right? I have Hulu desktop running and I want to make the window smaller, there are no lines which are usually present on windows for resizing on the bottom right corner, though. On windows I could right-click the title bar and choose size for these kind of windows, is there any way to do something similar on a Mac?\nI tried pressing the green button on the top left, but that doesn't do anything.\n\nA: Hard to find free softwares for this, I only found a donationware :\n\n\n*\n\n*Window Wrangler\nOtherwise, you can have paid solutions :\n\n\n*\n\n*Cinch, which a nice and useful windows manager.\n\n*MondoMouse\n\n*Zooom/2\n\nA: I use MercuryMover for move or resize windows with keyboard.\nMercuryMover is a utility designed to help you keep your hands on the keyboard. Installed as a System Preferences panel, MercuryMover makes it possible to move and resize windows using just the keyboard.\n\n"
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        "text": "They have slumbered for centuries, dreaming of the day when they will rise again. In ancient times, their cults extended into the hearts of great empires. They ruled from temples heaped with skulls that echoed with the discordant chants of the faithful, drawing humanity down a path of slavery and corruption. The Earthbound dream of a world in which humanity exists only to furnish them with power, offering up souls in an unending feast. Now their time has come again.\nDemon: The Earthbound details the origins, history and power of these monstrous spirits, revered in the past as gods and twisted by centuries of mortal worship and depraved sacrifice. No longer angels nor wholly demons, the Earthbound are the nightmarish products of divine power and the darkest parts of the human soul.\nDieses Produkt wurde am April 16, 2004 in unseren Katalog aufgenommen."
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        "text": "29 февруари е 60-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар, появявайки се в годините, които са кратни на 4 с изключение на столетията, които не са кратни на 400. Такива години се наричат високосни. До края на годината остават 306 дни.\n\nТъй като Земята обикаля около Слънцето за 365,2422 дни, веднъж на 4 години се налага да бъде компенсирана разликата, в юлианския и григорианския календари този допълнителен ден се добавя към февруари, който става 29 дни, и годината се нарича високосна. Но прибавяйки всяка четвърта година по един ден се натрупва излишък от около 11 минути на година, което прави приблизително 3 дни за 400 години. Затова високосни години по григорианския календар от тези, които се делят на 100, са само тези, които се делят на 400, като така тези 3 дни не се натрупват. Това означава, че високосни години са 2000 и 2400, но не и 1900, 2100, 2200 и 2300.\n\nСъбития \n\n 1288 г. – В Шотландия се приема закон, според който на 29 февруари жена може да предложи брак на мъж.\n 1712 г. – В Швеция този ден е последван от 30 февруари, преди държавата да възстанови Юлианския календар.\n 1720 г. – Шведската кралица Улрика Елеонора абдикира в полза на съпруга си Фредерик I.\n 1880 г. – Завършва строителството на тунела Сен Готард в Алпите.\n 1912 г. – Поставя се началото на Балканския съюз, в София е сключен договор за приятелство между България и Сърбия.\n 1940 г. – Филмът Отнесени от вихъра печели 8 награди Оскар.\n 1944 г. – Споразумението Мирофило – Плака е първото между левите и десните сили преди гражданската война в Гърция.\n 1956 г. – Пакистан е обявена за ислямска република.\n 1960 г. – При земетресение в Агадир (Мароко) загиват между 12 и 15 хил. души.\n 1968 г. – Бийтълс печелят награда Грами за най-добър албум на годината със Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.\n 1984 г. – В Канада Пиер Трюдо подава оставка като министър-председател и постът се заема от Джон Търнър.\n 1988 г. – Южноафриканският архиепископ Дезмънд Туту, Нобелов лауреат за мир, е арестуван с още 100 духовни лица след 5-дневен протест срещу политиката на апартейд.\n 1996 г. – Перуански Боинг-737 катастрофира в Андите, загиват 123 души на борда.\n\nРодени \n\nХората, родени на 29 февруари, обикновено празнуват рождения си ден в обикновена година на 28 февруари или 1 март.\n 1468 г. – Папа Павел III († 1549 г.)\n 1692 г. – Джон Байръм, английски поет († 1763 г.)\n 1792 г. – Джоакино Росини, италиански композитор († 1868 г.)\n 1840 г. – Джон Филип Холанд, ирландски инженер\n 1860 г. – Херман Холерит, американски изобретател от немски произход († 1929 г.)\n 1900 г. – Йоргос Сеферис, гръцки поет и дипломат († 1971 г.)\n 1904 г. – Васил Стоилов, български художник († 1990 г.)\n 1908 г. – Ростислав Каишев, български физикохимик († 2002 г.)\n 1920 г. – Мишел Морган, френска актриса († 2016 г.)\n 1920 г. – Фьодор Абрамов, руски писател\n 1924 г. – Владимир Крючков, руски офицер и политик († 2007 г.)\n 1932 г. – Джоко Росич, български актьор († 2014 г.)\n 1940 г. – Вартоломей I, вселенски патриарх\n 1944 г. – Борислав Йотов, специалист по наказателно право, доцент\n 1948 г. – Мартин Зутер, швейцарски писател\n 1952 г. – Раиса Сметанина, руска състезателка по ски бягане\n 1960 г. – Сергей Березин, съветски футболист\n 1964 г. – Свилен Русинов, български боксьор\n 1968 г. – Христо Чешмеджиев, български актьор\n 1972 г. – Ивайло Цветков, български журналист\n 1972 г. – Педро Санчес, министър-председател на Испания\n 1980 г. – Екатерина Стоянова, българска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 480 г. – Иларий (* ?) римски папа\n 1868 г. – Лудвиг I, крал на Бавария (* 1786 г.)\n 1928 г. – Григор Грънчаров, български офицер (* 1861 г.)\n 1944 г. – Пер Евинд Свинхувуд, министър-председател и президент на Финландия (* 1861 г.)\n 1980 г. – Игал Алон, израелски политик (* 1918 г.)\n 2004 г. – Джеръм Лорънс, американски драматург (* 1915 г.)\n\nВижте също \n 30 февруари\n Високосна година\n\n229"
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        "text": "Entries in Steven Moll (1)\nReality TV Gone Wrong -- American Adventurers Detained in Russia\nStockbyte/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) -- A team of aspiring reality TV stars ran into the reality of foreign laws after they were detained crossing into Russian waters without authorization.\nThe American team was filming a series called Dangerous Waters Friday when they were detained by Russian authorities after crossing the Bering Strait, the body of water that separates Russia from Alaska, on their personal watercraft.\nIn an initial video posted on the show’s Facebook page shortly after they were detained, team leader Steven Moll sounded hopeful, saying, “We have to work through some laws, Russian laws, in order to move forward.”\nBut just a few hours later they posted an update saying they may be detained for a few days.\nMoll’s wife told the Sacramento Bee that the crew was greeted by a Russian tank and armed guards as they approached the shore. She said the Americans had Russian visas, but were told there was a problem with their documentation.\nMoll, who is producing and marketing the series, and his five companions had planned to travel from Alaska to Vietnam for the second season of a reality TV series that promised to take viewers to dangerous and remote locations only accessibly by personal watercraft.\n“Keep your fingers crossed, we’re going to Russia,” Moll said in a YouTube video posted shortly before their departure.\nLast year for the show’s first season they completed a 4,500-mile journey from Seattle to Russia on their Sea-Doos.\nFamily members of the detained crew said they were being treated well and were allowed to walk around the Russian military base, but were not allowed to leave. They said the men faced possible fines and were scheduled to appear in court.\nAs their detention continued over the weekend, Moll grew increasingly frustrated.\n“We want to leave. They won’t let us leave,” he said in another video posted on YouTube. “All we really want to do is get some fuel and head back to the United States. This is ridiculous.”\nBy Monday the team posted an update saying they had finally been given permission to depart, but only back to the United States and not to the south as they had hoped.\n“Russian authorities say they will give us permission to depart back across the Bering Strait tomorrow! Northern route now,” they wrote.\nMonday, July 9, 2012 at 7:34PM by Carmen Cox Permalink\ntagged Dangerous Waters, Reality Show, Russia, Steven Moll in World News General"
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        "text": "Home / Articles tagged with \"daily\"\nQuiz: Does an aspirin a day keep the doctor away?\nWill aspirin protect blood vessels from inflammation? Test your knowledge.\nQuiz: Does an aspirin a day, keep the doctor away?\nWill aspirin protect you against a heart attack? Will it help protect blood vessels from inflammation? Test your knowledge."
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        "text": "Q: Is there a way to change font sizes system-wide while preserving UI resolution? I have a 17\" widescreen mac book pro (1920 x 1080) and find it hard to read the small fonts in the finder menu and in the Finder let hand panel even though my vision is good. Even the font's in most applications appear small. I know certain applications will allow you to configure font size but I'm really looking for a system-wide/global solution.\nI have tried several solutions such as:\n 1.> defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.5\n 2.> User Interface Resolution with Quartz Debug application\n\nand both these mothods/features seem incomplete in that the GUI elements are not scaled smoothly.\nI also tried lowering my monitor resolution but that wasn't ideal cause the display gets a bit blurry.\n\nA: You can use TinkerTool to change the default system fonts and increase their size.\n\n\nA: Sorry I forgot to mention earlier, I've also tried tinker tool. While it does increase the font size for most mac apps it doesn't allow customizing other apps (such as the adobe suite that I tend to use day in day out). Also another aspect the problem for which I require a solution is UI resolution (I know mac doesn't fully support it yet). The toolbars and other panels in the adobe suite is are so tiny that it's almost a nightmare to use it. I do get around it sometimes by changing to a lower resolution like 1200x800 but it isn't effective cause it display get blurry (due to non-native resolution).\n\nA: Try holding down the <Ctrl> key and scrolling the mouse wheel up. This zooms in to the part of the screen where the mouse cursor is located.\n<Ctrl>-scroll mouse wheel down to zoom back out to normal level.\n"
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        "text": "String phenomenology of the somewhat different kind\n[Cat’s cradle. Image Source.]\nTen years ago, I didn’t take the “string wars” seriously. To begin with, referring to such an esoteric conflict as “war” seems disrespectful to millions caught in actual wars. In comparison to their suffering it’s hard to take anything seriously.\nLeaving aside my discomfort with the nomenclature, the focus on string theory struck me as odd. String theory as a research area stands out in hep-th and gr-qc merely because of the large number of followers, not by the supposedly controversial research practices. For anybody working in the field it is apparent that string theorists don’t differ in their single-minded focus from physicists in other disciplines. Overspecialization is a common disease of academia, but one that necessarily goes along with division of labor, and often it is an efficient route to fast progress.\nNo, I thought back then, string theory wasn’t the disease, it was merely a symptom. The underlying disease was one that would surely soon be recognized and addressed: Theoreticians – as scientists whose most-used equipment is their own brain – must be careful to avoid systematic bias introduced by their apparatuses. In other words, scientific communities, and especially those which lack timely feedback by data, need guidelines to avoid social and cognitive biases.\nThis is so obvious it came as a surprise to me that, in 2006, everybody was hitting on Lee Smolin for pointing out what everybody knew anyway, that string theorists, lacking experimental feedback for decades, had drifted off in a math bubble with questionable relevance for the description of nature. It’s somewhat ironic that, from my personal experience, the situation is actually worse in Loop Quantum Gravity, an approach pioneered, among others, by Lee Smolin. At least the math used by string theorists seems to be good for something. The same cannot be said about LQG.\nTen years later, it is clear that I was wrong in thinking that just drawing attention to the problem would seed a solution. Not only has the situation not improved, it has worsened. We now have some theoretical physicists who argue that we should alter the scientific method so that the success of a theory can be assessed by means other than empirical evidence. This idea, which has sprung up in the philosophy community, isn’t all that bad in principle. In practice, however, it will merely serve to exacerbate social streamlining: If theorists can draw on criteria other than the ability of a theory to explain observations, the first criterion they’ll take into account is aesthetic value, and the second is popularity with their colleagues. Nothing good can come out of this.\nAnd nothing good has come out of it, nothing has changed. The string wars clearly were more interesting for sociologists than they were for physicists. In the last couple of months several articles have appeared which comment on various aspects of this episode, which I’ve read and want to briefly summarize for you.\nFirst, there is\nCollective Belief, Kuhn, and the String Theory Community\nWeatherall, James Owen and Gilbert, Margaret\nphilsci-archive:11413\nThis paper is a very Smolin-centric discussion of whether string theorists are exceptional in their group beliefs. The authors argue that, no, actually string theorists just behave like normal humans and “these features seem unusual to Smolin not because they are actually unusual, but because he occupies an unusual position from which to observe them.” He is unusual, the authors explain, for having worked on string theory, but then deciding to not continue in the field.\nIt makes sense, the authors write, that people whose well-being to some extent depends on the acceptance by the group will adapt to the group:\n“Expressing a contrary view – bucking the consensus – is an offense against the other members of the community… So, irrespective of their personal beliefs, there are pressures on individual scientists to speak in certain ways. Moreover, insofar as individuals are psychologically disposed to avoid cognitive dissonance, the obligation to speak in certain ways can affect one’s personal beliefs so as to bring them into line with the consensus, further suppressing dissent from within the group.”\n“As parties to a joint commitment, members of the string theory community are obligated to act as mouthpieces of their collective belief.”\nI actually thought we knew this since 1895, when Le Bon’s published his “Study of the Popular Mind.”\nThe authors of the paper then point out that it’s normal for members of a scientific community to not jump ship at the slightest indication of conflicting evidence because often such evidence turns out to be misleading. It didn’t become clear to me what evidence they might be referring to; supposedly it’s non-empirical.\nThey further argue that a certain disregard for what is happening outside one’s own research area is also normal: “Science is successful in part because of a distinctive kind of focused, collaborative research,” and due to their commitment to the agenda “participants can be expected to resist change with respect to the framework of collective beliefs.”\nThis is all reasonable enough. Unfortunately, the authors entirely miss the main point, the very reason for the whole debate. The question isn’t whether string theorists’ behavior is that of normal humans – I don’t think that was ever in doubt – but whether that “normal human behavior” is beneficial for science. Scientific research requires, in a very specific sense, non-human behavior. It’s not normal for individuals to disregard subjective assessments and to not pay attention to social pressure. And yet, that is exactly what good science would require.\nThe second paper is\nContested Boundaries: The String Theory Debates and Ideologies of Science\nSophie Ritson, and Kristian Camilleri\nPerspectives on Science, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp 192-227.\nThis paper is basically a summary of the string wars that focuses on the question whether or not string theory can be considered science. This “demarcation problem” is a topic that philosophers and sociologists love to discuss, but to me it really isn’t particularly interesting how you classify some research area, to me the question is whether it’s good for something. This is a question which should be decided by the community, but as long as decision making is influenced by social pressures and cognitive biases I can’t trust the community judgement.\nThe article has a lot of fun quotations from very convinced string theorists, for example by David Gross: “String theory is full of qualitative predictions, such as the production of black holes at the LHC.” I’m not sure what’s the difference between a qualitative prediction and no prediction, but either way it’s certainly not a prediction that was very successful. Also nice is John Schwarz claiming that “supersymmetry is the major prediction of string theory that could appear at accessible energies” and that “some of these superpartners should be observable at the LHC.” Lots of coulds and shoulds that didn’t quite pan out.\nWhile the article gives a good overview on the opinions about string theory that were voiced during the 2006 controversy, the authors themselves clearly don’t know very well the topic they are writing about. A particularly odd statement that highlights their skewed perspective is: “String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of being the dominant paradigm within theoretical physics.”\nI find it quite annoying how frequently I encounter this extrapolation from a particular research area – may that be string theory, supersymmetry, or multiverse cosmology – to all of physics. The vast majority of physicists work in fields like quantum optics, photonics, hadronic and nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, atomic physics, solid state physics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, condensed matter physics, and so on. They have nothing whatsoever to do with string theory, and certainly would be very surprised to hear that it’s “the dominant paradigm.”\nIn any case, you might find this paper useful if you didn’t follow the discussion 10 years ago.\nFinally, there is this paper\n‘Crackpots’ and ‘active researchers’: The controversy over links between arXiv and the scientific blogosphere\nSophie Ritson\nSocial Studies of Science, 1-22, 2016\nThe title of the paper doesn’t explicitly refer to string theory, but most of it is also a discussion of the demarcation problem on the example of arXiv trackbacks. (I suspect this paper is a spin-off of the previous paper.)\nArXiv trackbacks, in case you didn’t know, are links to blogposts that show up on some papers’ arxiv sites, when the blogpost has referred to the paper. To exactly which blogs trackbacks show up and who makes the decision whether they do is one of the arXiv’s best-kept secrets. Peter Woit’s blog, infamously, doesn’t show up in the arXiv trackbacks on the, rather spurious, reason that he supposedly doesn’t count as “active researcher.” The paper tells the full 2006 story with lots of quotes from bloggers you are probably familiar with.\nThe arXiv recently conducted a user survey, among other things about the trackback feature, which makes me think they might have some updates planned.\nOn the question who counts as crackpot, the paper (unsurprisingly) doesn’t come to a conclusion other than noting that scientists deal with the issue by stating “we know one when we see one.” I don’t think there can be any other definition than that. To me the notion of “crackpot” is an excellent example of an emergent feature – it’s a demarcation that the community creates during its operation. Any attempt to come up with a definition from first principles is hence doomed to fail.\nThe rest of the paper is a general discussion of the role of blogs in science communication, but I didn’t find it particularly insightful. The author comes to the (correct) conclusion that blog content turned out not to have such a short life-time as many feared, but otherwise basically just notes that there are as many ways to use blogs as there are bloggers. But then if you are reading this, you already knew that.\nOne of the main benefits that I see in blogs isn’t mentioned in the paper at all, which is that blogs supports communication between scientific communities that are only loosely connected. In my own research area, I read the papers, hear the seminars, and go to conferences, and I therefore know pretty well what is going on – with or without blogs. But I use blogs to keep up to date in adjacent fields, like cosmology, astrophysics and, to a lesser extent, condensed matter physics and quantum optics. For this purpose I find blogs considerably more useful than popular science news, because the latter often doesn’t provide a useful amount of detail and commentary, not to mention that they all tend to latch onto the same three papers that made big unsubstantiated claims.\nDon’t worry, I haven’t suddenly become obsessed with string theory. I’ve read through these sociology papers mainly because I cannot not write a few paragraphs about the topic in my book. But I promise that’s it from me about string theory for some while.\nUpdate: Peter Woit has some comments on the trackback issue.\nPosted by Sabine Hossenfelder at 6:32 AM Labels: Papers, Science and Society, Sociology of Science\nPhillip Helbig 6:49 AM, June 13, 2016\n\"To me the notion of “crackpot” is an excellent example of an emergent feature – it’s a demarcation that the community creates during its operation. Any attempt to come up with a definition from first principles is hence doomed to fail.\"\nJohn Baez's crackpot index is usually pretty accurate.\nMichael Fisher 7:14 AM, June 13, 2016\nYou are one of my favourite bloggers Bee ~ not that I understand 90% of the physics, but I try\nGood post & I'm looking forward to the book\nAndrew Thomas 8:31 AM, June 13, 2016\nIt's funny John Baez's 50 point entry is a sneaky reference to string theory.\nUnknown 9:05 AM, June 13, 2016\nIf theorists can draw on criteria other than the ability of a theory to explain observations, the first criterion they’ll take into account is aesthetic value, and the second is popularity with their colleagues. Nothing good can come out of this.\nI think that is too dogmatic an assertion.\nScientific research requires, in a very specific sense, non-human behavior. It’s not normal for individuals to disregard subjective assessments and to not pay attention to social pressure. And yet, that is exactly what good science would require.\nI would say you don't have to \"disregard subjective assessments and to not pay attention to social pressure\" you just need to be aware of the influence of these on your own thinking.\n“String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of being the dominant paradigm within theoretical physics.”\nI would imagine this statement is referring to theoretical physicists working in quantum gravity.\nAlso nice is John Schwarz claiming that “supersymmetry is the major prediction of string theory that could appear at accessible energies” and that “some of these superpartners should be observable at the LHC.” Lots of coulds and shoulds that didn’t quite pan out.\nI suppose the second \"should\" should have been a could. We still could/should find supersymmetry in a future accelerator - so it's definitely work looking for more than once.\nUncle Al 10:30 AM, June 13, 2016\nhttp://www.quantamagazine.org/20160112-string-theory-meets-loop-quantum-gravity/\nUnite the unworkable into the grant fundable.\nhttp://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/nested-klein-bottles.jpg\nKlein gravitation.\nGeometric tests of spacetime geometry (existing apparatus!) offer more inclusive gravitation consistent with observation. Physics' chiral and parity anomalies, \"dark matter,\" and SUSY failure are sourced. Luboš, it's about empirical validation not love. Spacetime is a trace oddity (fermionic) not a strict eventy (bosonic).\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-uIQgq0obk\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js0evCum83o\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADGS587eOs\nClose-packed concave homochiral spacetime. giggle\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mf0JpTI_gg\nHaelfix 3:58 PM, June 13, 2016\nIts clear the notion of a scientific consensus isn't always right in science (Lysenkoism etc), and definitions of 'crackpot' which use this criteria are hence flawed.\nBut I think its fair to say that the subject has a much higher likelihood of being correct if a large number of independant specialists believe in it. Yes yes, societal biases, group think blah blah blah. Despite all of that, the statement remains true.\nIt's worth noting how things progress in the mathematics community. Almost always when a problem is close to being solved, there are several groups trying the same methods. Like for the Poincare conjecture, it was widely believed that Richard Hamiltons methods would be part of a solution, and indeed they were... This years before the eventual solution. Of course there was almost assuredly some other individual coming at the problem from a different way who would disagree, but nevertheless you could say there was a sort of consensus amongst the best people about what the most promising avenue was.\nString theory is like that, since there is so little experimental guidance. It's certainly a less strong belief than a traditional scientific consensus (like the belief in say the veracity of GR, which has experimental support) but that's about as good as you are going to get in quantum gravity... Basically mathematical consistency arguments, plausibility arguments, no go theorems for everything else and theoretical aesthetics.\nAlso finally, its not like string theory has given zero contributions in return. It's returned many different ideas to a wide array of fields in physics. For instance, many of the highly cited hep-ph of the past 20 years are stringy inspired models (some of which are now known to not quite work, but in that field almost any new and original idea is a big breakthrough, and string theory furnished many of these). Then of course there is AdS/CFT which it's fair to say has objectively contributed to the understanding of physics in many different diverse areas of physics.\nJohn Baez 4:08 PM, June 13, 2016\nThis is indeed a strange sentence: “String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of being the dominant paradigm within theoretical physics.”\nYes, there's the usual arrogant thing that particle physicists do - mixing up particle physics and theoretical physics as a whole. But even apart from that, it seems to be saying something like “String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of enjoying a privileged status.”\nAPDunbrack 4:48 PM, June 13, 2016\nI think in popular media language, \"theoretical physics\" = high-energy/GR/cosmology/... and \"applied physics\" = condensed matter/biophysics/..., regardless of whether a particular individual would be classified as an applied or theoretical physicist in the language used within the physics community. Accordingly, calling string theory the dominant within \"theoretical physics\" (meaning, in practice, BSM physics and open areas of GR) would be not unreasonably inaccurate within the language of the community/intended audience.\nnotevenwrong 4:58 PM, June 13, 2016\nSome commentary on the Ritson article is at my blog\nhttp://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8578\nIf anyone ever finds the answer to \"one of the arXiv’s best-kept secrets\", please let me know...\nJonathan Tooker 9:05 AM, June 14, 2016\n> the first criterion they’ll take into account is aesthetic value, and the second is popularity with their colleagues.\nWhy would you say Higgs' theory was found to be \"successful\" if not only because the math had quite a pleasing look to it when printed on the page and that the result was very popular with his colleagues?\nakidbelle 9:15 AM, June 14, 2016\nso if I read (perhaps not so) correctly, discussing Angel's sex is science because Angel's sex scientists enjoy discussing it. But they still don't know if it's good for something... let's hope I will never.\nMore seriously, there is conceptual bias, which is well-known of psychologists (and zen practitioners among others) under the name of projection. It's interesting that you never mention it because its effects is what this post describes to me (rather more than less, my own projection?).\nPlato Hagel 9:43 AM, June 14, 2016\nIt seems to me that a shift too, as Quantum realism, has pervaded science as a Kuhnian shift now regarded as quantum cognition.\nGeometrical underpinnings, has underscored our progressions, and such a basis serves to illustrate how our understanding as a base reality now functions derived as that quantum realism. So different models help you to see reality in different ways?\npiein skee 11:41 AM, June 14, 2016\n\"It’s somewhat ironic that, from my personal experience, the situation is actually worse in Loop Quantum Gravity\"\nSmolin's thesis wasn't primarily historic in terms of String Theory (you said decades without experiment). To borrow your symptom/cause vocabulary Smolin saw the long running lack of experiment as symptomatic of the much more fundamental problem specific to String Theory that it was untestable in principle.\nI think you've said somewhere that String is testable in principle because the necessary energy could be reached in the future, or some get-around might come with advance of technologies. String Theory can't be falsified even there, because at least one category of String Theory is decoupled from strings.\nTo be fair on him Smolin actually placed the absence of experiment plaguing alternate streams like Quantum Loop Gravity, front and centre of his argument, and went on to juxtaposition QLG and Strings as part of the construction of his argument, by demonstrating that QLG was testable in principle and had tests (which in the event came to nothing) in the pipeline.\nSabine Hossenfelder 12:22 PM, June 14, 2016\nJonathan,\nHiggs' idea was found to be successful because... they found the Higgs-boson. I don't think that the idea at the time was thought of as particularly beautiful. But more to the point, you have it backwards. I am not saying that beautiful ideas cannot work. I am saying merely that there isn't any known reason for why they should be more likely to work, hence putting an emphasis on beauty is a distortion of objective judgement. Indeed, if you look at what's been going on in theoretical physics since the early 80s, ideas from beauty have been dramatically unsuccessful. (And also in the course of history supposedly beautiful ideas have often failed.) Best,\nakidbelle,\nYes, I know what projection is. I ask myself about it constantly. If there is some mistake I am making that I am not aware of, please let me know.\npiein,\nThe sentence you quote is about communal reinforcement not about testability.\nJonathan Tooker 12:29 PM, June 14, 2016\nI guess another way to ask my question is why did Higgs win all these prizes if not only because his theory was nice to look at and his colleagues liked it?\n• Hughes Medal, Royal Society (with T W B Kibble) 1981\n• Rutherford Medal, Institute of Physics (with T W B Kibble) 1984\n• Scottish Science Award, Saltire Society and Royal Bank of Scotland 1990\n• James Scott Prize Lectureship, Royal Society of Edinburgh (delivered April 1995) 1993\n• Paul Dirac Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics 1997\n• High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, European Physical Society (with R Brout, F Englert) 1997\n• Royal Medal, Royal Society of Edinburgh 2000\n• Wolf Prize in Physics (with R Brout and F Englert) 2004\n• Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and Medal, Stockholm Academy of Sciences 2009\n• J J Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society (with R Brout, F Englert, G S Guralnik, C R Hagen and T W B Kibble) 2010\nKoenraad Van Spaendonck 12:36 PM, June 14, 2016\nAs far as any privileged status is concerned :\nString theory :\n+: It has the ambition to explain space AND matter\n-: It starts from spacetime as currently described, therefore de facto, it cannot look underneeth hyperbolic spacetime.\nLQG :\n+: It tries to describe what spacetime itself is constructed from.\n-: It does not attempt to incorporate the nature of matter in the concept.So de facto not a unifying theory.\nDisadvantage of both : Infinitesimal calculus fails to describe the finite character of a necessary quantumlike description.\nSo both (actually more than these 2 of course) can keep claiming to have the best approach, but without new oxigen they will not live up to the requirements right from their conception forward.\nJoining forces instead of more war would be a good start towards better insights, as opposed to more (tax payer unfriendly) stagnation and not enough positive energy to start over.\nIn his latest paper from december 2015 Lee Smolin argues that 'first and foremost, we need new physical causal principles, only than can we proceed to develope a mathematical description for it'.\nThat's hard to disagree with in my opinion.\nBest, Koen\nBecause it solved a problem.\nAnyway, you're not making sense focusing on a theory that was popular, was tested, and turned out to be correct. You should be asking how many theories are there which were (are) popular and turned out to be not correct (think: geocentrism, mechanism, steady state, vortex theory, etc), and how many theories are there which are not popular and their lack of popularity might have the consequence we'll never find out whether they are correct.\nKoenraad,\nYou have some misunderstanding both about quantization (you seem to confuse it with discretization) and about infinitesimal calculus (which is, as the name says, a method of calculation. That calculation is either correct or it isn't, but the method itself not to blame for the failure of a theory.) Best,\nLouis Tagliaferro 12:58 PM, June 14, 2016\nAnother article I really enjoyed. When John Baez replied to your sentence, “String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of being the dominant paradigm within theoretical physics.”… He says, it seems to be saying something like “String theory currently enjoys a privileged status by virtue of enjoying a privileged status.”\nI believe that is your point when you said, “Scientific research requires, in a very specific sense, non-human behavior. It’s not normal for individuals to disregard subjective assessments and to not pay attention to social pressure. And yet, that is exactly what good science would require.”\nI believe there are too many scientist who do not fully appreciate how difficult it is to truly separate the influence that, social pressures and personal motivations have in steering one’s own “objective reasoning”.\nKoenraad Van Spaendonck 1:14 PM, June 14, 2016\nOk on the bad nomenclature.\nI will certainly not argue on the proven usefulness of infinitesimal calculus, but the question is wether it is the adequate instrument specifically for a theory of quantum gravity. T. Padmanabhan for instance tries to avoid it in his extensive work on emergent gravity.\nakidbelle 1:44 PM, June 14, 2016\nI don'k know about your own mistakes; only you can. But I know there are training methods against projections. First one I heard of is by Korzybski (Science and sanity, 1933), which inspired PNL. Next, but not from Korzybski, there is a trick too long to explain here, about automatic judgement, personal history/training, refusal/denial and their relation to automatic and reactive emotions (not true sentiments).\nIf I were a top gun physicists (like I suppose you are), and considering the amount of theoretical work already on the table, I would change my point of observation, and hypothesize that the next productive step is theoretically impossible. In other words, and following Korzybski, I would guess that I would see it contradictory to the language I learnt - and then that I would instantaneously discard it.\nI would be happy to discuss the point further.\nJonathan Tooker 9:37 PM, June 14, 2016\nWhat is the difference between the case where one solves a physics problem only using math tools and the case where on develops a theory that can be considered successful even before it is tested? I don't get it. It seems like if your theory was good enough that someone might want to test it, that means it was a successful theory.\nSabine Hossenfelder 12:49 AM, June 15, 2016\nI read a book about NLP many years ago, but to my knowledge that idea itself turned out to be pretty shaky science. In any case, I'm always happy to learn something new, so if you have some reference, let me know. Best,\nSabine Hossenfelder 1:00 AM, June 15, 2016\n\"It seems like if your theory was good enough that someone might want to test it, that means it was a successful theory.\"\nI sincerely hope you are not a scientist. Because this sentence of yours sums up pretty much all that's going wrong in science right now. The purpose of science is to describe nature. A theory is successful if it correctly describes nature. A theory's success should not be assessed based on whether other scientists believe it has chances to do that. That's a popular vote, not science.\nSee, this is exactly the problem I have with Richard Dawid's idea of \"non-empirical theory assessment\" - it comes down to sociology. Science is a community enterprise, yes. But in the end the judgement call is made by nature. The big problem is that if we maneuver ourselves into a situation where we continuously test hypotheses that are wrong, we might just entirely miss to build experiments that could confirm correct hypotheses.\nDo you realize that literally dozens of experiments have been build to search for dark matter, beginning in the mid 80s? Every time they come back with a null-result, the \"expected\" scale for the mass and interaction rate shifts. It's pretty much the same with collider searches for susy. They've been looking for this already at LEP. That was 20 years ago. Now that it doesn't look like it's showing up at the LHC, it's supposed to show up at the next bigger collider.\nRead this for example:\n\"Physicists thought they might find these superpartners when the LHC's predecessor, CERN's Large Electron-Positron collider, came online a quarter of a century ago. They did not. When superpartners also failed to appear in the much bigger and more powerful LHC, some physicists panicked.\nBut there is hope. Recent theoretical research suggests that Higgsinos might actually be showing up at the LHC—scientists just cannot find them in the mess of particles generated by the LHC's proton-antiproton collisions.\nThis is where the International Linear Collider would shine.\"\nKorzybski's work is not NPL.\nLet us try with an example; for instance, you state in a response: \"A theory is successful if it correctly describes nature.\" OK, but the words \"correct\" and \"describes\" are not clear to me. Let us try a definition.\n\"correct\" = sufficiently similar quantities pop-out of equations when compared to experimental results.\n\"describes\" = no other quantities and equations are needed and can I understand.\nSecond: \"this sentence of yours sums up pretty much all that's going wrong in science right now\". Disagree, it's going right, because success is firstly mimetic in the human world - group's meme selection. No one stands a chance against that; the only thing you can do is start your own church. But you are right, it is not scientific! So this sentence shows an incomplete analysis (I mean the sentence, not you.) And I'll add that for many \"deciders\", success = money.\nThen : \"The big problem is that if we maneuver ourselves into a situation where we continuously test hypotheses that are wrong, we might just entirely miss to build experiments that could confirm correct hypotheses.\" In the sense of the meme/group, it is not a problem at all, it is a guarantee of success for the next 30 years; this is an experimental fact.\nNow please, tell me in 3 lines what is the technical need for super-partners?\n(the meme/group answer is play super-ball, I know this one, more work for collision machines - 30 more years to grow; we do not change a winning team).\nWell, then I don't know what the acronym means.\nI don't understand what you are trying to say with your example. I agree that in the first sentence I haven't explained \"correct\" and \"describe,\" I hope we can agree that in conversation it's quite uncommon to define every word (not to mention that it's in most cases impossible). If I write a longer text, I am usually doing something similar to what you ask for.\nI don't understand however what your issue is with the second sentence, since the first explains exactly that \"success\" for a \"scientific theory\" is not group selection, but adequacy to describe nature. (Now we can debate whether we agree that's what science should do, if that's what you mean.)\nYour further elaboration just continues to deny what I stated in the first sentence, that scientific success means to describe nature.\nThere is no technical \"need\" for superpartners. I can tell you the main motivations for supersymmetry, if that's what you mean: aids unification, provides dark matter candidates, supposedly avoids the need the finetune the Higgs mass, though that has turned out not to work. What do we learn from that?\nI am trying to explain you what success is in practice. You are trying to tell me what it should be in science. All that for a word: \"success\". We could debate like this and not understand each other indefinitely.\nWhat I am trying to tell you is that if you fight facts, you loose. Not because you loose the debate/fight but because you loose your energy. (Believe me, realizing this in my own work changed a lot of things; it's even become funny.)\nIn my opinion, a successful theory leads to a technological gap. In this way, the sorcerer who could make fire was the scientist of the time - whatever the fairy tales he used to explain his doing. This is not a problem until a class of sorcerers emerges working not for the fire, but for the fairy-tales explanation that support their class.\nWhat I learn from your list is that super-symmetry is not mentioned to lead to a technological gap (- in your list). What about string theory?\nI'm not fighting facts. (Which facts anyway?) I am merely telling you how I used the word success. In the example you picked I even explicitly explained how I use it, so I don't understand why you insist on redefining it.\nYou are telling me that for other people in other circumstances it might mean something else. I don't disagree. But fighting about the use of words I find rather pointless.\nLet me hence just rephrase the point without the word \"success\": if scientists would ask the public to please give them money so they can write papers about topics they like which they hope will also be liked by their colleagues with no intention to describe some aspect of our observations, I doubt that they would get much funding. (Look, I haven't used the word \"success\" at all. I am merely drawing upon what people think scientists should do with the money they get.)\nNobody expects either supersymmetry or string theory to lead to a technological gap any time in the next 100 years (at least I've never met someone who thinks this). But I'm not sure why I should care what in your opinion counts as a \"successful theory\" - it's clearly not the way the word is currently used in science...\nakidbelle 10:08 AM, June 15, 2016\nthanks; I'm not trying to fight, be sure of that.\nI agree with your description of the current definition of \"success\" without using the word. I agree from the beginning with all you said, I'm merely trying to discuss with you a different perspective (and I think you probably have it for long, or I would not even try).\nNow if scientists ask the public to please give them money so they can write papers, make congresses, careers, receive prizes, and make experiments about topics they like and in which they have no hope to lead to a technological gap any time in the next 100 years, would that be true?... and what would happen? That is the sorcerer class stuff, and the true, real output is to maintain societal stability, to begin with the position of the sorcerer class (and hopefully improve it).\nThat's my point. No offense meant, of course.\nThe Shroud of Turin projects a bicurved face onto a planar cloth without distortion. Peer-voted faith and theory suffer Galileo, Popper; science.\nPrincipia's first page assumes the pendulum equation has no bob. Newton bobbled c, h, and k_B. All are falsifiable, but not within the axiomatic system. Two fat black holes merged in external real time, with no firewall (anomalous binding energy), with no angular momentum blip as singularities danced (if they existed) re unaltered general relativity. The universe did not, Higgs versus top quark masses, nucleate into vacuum decay.\nTheory must look outside postulates to fundamentally allow baryogenesis, then repair itself.\nJonathan Tooker 10:55 AM, June 15, 2016\nI am going to have to disagree with you when you write \"The purpose of science is to describe nature.\" I think the purpose of science is to attempt to do that. The accumulation of many such attempts is success in itself because the history of science demonstrates that many attempts to describe invariably lead to increasingly accurate descriptions. I am compelled to point out that approximately 0% of practicing scientists have found anything that does affirmatively describe nature, and most efforts show what does not describe nature, perhaps by testing as-yet untested theories. By your own words, it could inferred that the still-absent theory of everything represents a failure of the entire scientific effort of mankind because all of our descriptions are still in some way wrong. I take the other position, the one I think is most popular among scientists, that science is a collection of baby steps, and any steps that aren't obviously in the wrong direction must have then been in the right direction, i.e.: the direction of scientific progress.\nI actually agree with you, that sentence of mine was somewhat sloppy, sorry about that. I expressed a very similar opinion to yours here.\nYou write: \"The accumulation of many such attempts is success in itself because the history of science demonstrates that many attempts to describe invariably lead to increasingly accurate descriptions.\"\nJust because something has worked before doesn't mean it will always continue to work. Science has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. There's no reason to expect that the methods from the past will continue to work in such a different environment. Either way, I am not so much worried that there won't be no progress at all, but that progress is much slower than it could be and that a lot of money is wasted. Best,\nWhen do you think we will get a final answer on the spin of the Higgslike particle that got discovered n 2012?\nI don't know, I'm not the right person to ask this, maybe ask Tommaso instead.\nKoenraad Van Spaendonck 6:48 AM, June 17, 2016\n@akidbelle\nI don't think technological spin off should be the only motivation for physics research, although a very important one.\nTo understand more of our position as human beings in the great unknown universe is an equally valid reason.\nBut if we observe stagnation in both areas, then the tax payer might indeed become increasingly impatient.\nBefore the internet, it was very difficult for a layman to inform himself on the actual status of research. But nowadays every bit of information is available to everyone.\nPhysicists and universities are therefore facing an adaptation period to cope with this rapid evolution.\nKnowledge bastions are losing that monopoly of single guardian, maker and distributor of information.\nOn top of that, systems like Google are not only data bases but are evolving into auxiliary instruments of research, somewhat in competition with 'the professor'. These professors are facing the upcoming challenge of how to stay relevant and how to produce added value in the face of this powerful almost-artificial-intelligence.\nThis is also the reason why academics with a degree and laymen are increasingly clashing.\nPhysics education faces the challenge to procure physicists who know how to handle this artificial intelligence,how to incorporate it in their problem solving methods. To make sure they stay far ahead of the intelligent laymen, thus providing him with the added value the laymen offers them his tax money for.\npiein skee 9:29 AM, June 18, 2016\nDr Bee \"piein, The sentence you quote is about communal reinforcement not about testability\"\nHi - I thought I replied to this already. You are referring to the comment you still have not published? In fact my response in that comment is also about communal reinforcement. The testing is for construction purposes, and is legitimate because his own context is very much that of String Theory contributions to adjacent or other fields as counter-argument to the lack of tests.\nThe point in that comment is that the contributions to adjacent fields are no less subject to the prediction than String Theory major.\nI hope everything is in order now and I will see my comment.\n(piein: There's no unpublished comment from you in the queue. It must have been a submission error.)\npiein skee 1:28 PM, June 19, 2016\nSabine - ok thanks for letting me know. So your comment referred to the QLG quote I took from you regarding Smolin?\nHaelfix says \" Then of course there is AdS/CFT which it's fair to say has objectively contributed to the understanding of physics in many different diverse areas of physics.\" (plus a more general statement of String Theory indirect contributions made)\nHaelfix - these contributions, if they lead to non-trivial predictions in the recipient field, are perfectly adequate as major confirmation of String Theory.\nBut there have not been any non-trivial predictions in the recipient fields. And that means String Theory may be contributing things that are wrong that leave those other fields undermined in the longer term.\nWhich will be case even if String Theory contains large amounts of truth. Because the amount of truth that would be needed would have to be at or above the standard already in play in those fields.\nFor that reason, just because String Theory brings something that seems very plausible and has eloquence and opens up new avenues of enquiry, this cannot be seen as evidence of usefulness. Because the levels of truth needed for effects like that is a fraction of what is necessary to add rather than diminish.\nSheever 8:51 AM, June 20, 2016\n\" But if we observe stagnation in both areas, then the tax payer might indeed become increasingly impatient.\"\nI haven't read such nonsense comment long time. Tax payers in general have no idea what is going on, they are flooded with physics news continously. Lets clear some misconception here, which is because one theory can't yet be tested successfully doesn't mean other theories need to sit, and theorists of other models do nothing.\nAgain, there is no theory up to date which is successful and frankly theoretical physics is in deep shit in its own regarding to ANY model as the lack of confirmation and experimental evidence.\nSheever,\nWe may have a simple misunderstanding here, easy to clear up. By stagnation I mean precisely what you say, not that physicists would not be working very hard to obtain results.\nAs for the tax payer, in recent years and years to come, he has access to much more than the popsi section, if he takes an interest.\nSheever 4:04 PM, June 21, 2016\nI havent ever heard a complaint from tax payers,to pointing to slow or no scientific progress.To be fair,to actually monitor this by a layman, need quite a bit of study.. not just reading a paper or two,or blog posts because the lack of understanding of the contents in general.You may agree on this.\nI agree, and I would like to see more accounts of accurate reports in the popsi section to keep the public informed on the actual status of things. Instead of the sensationalism that keeps the layman stupid. That is why I like blogs such as this one.\nAn example. I saw a video online of the World Science Festival. A known physicist spoke the following words in the context of approaching the speed of light : \"If I can walk fast enough, I can walk into your future.\" That - in my oppinion - does not belong in the 21st century concerning informing the layman on physics.It should always be accompanied by many ifs and a serious amount of nuance, because people take that for granted coming from important physicists.I completely dislike this oversimplification when communicating to the layman. Same thing for the rubber sheet with the earth 'weighing' on it to explain spacetime. Why not inform the layman that it is a totally unsatisfactory representation because gravity comes in over the horizontal plane semi-downward (hyperbolic line), and simultaneously from above with the earth's weight on the sheet, in that picture. Why keep people stupid about that ?\nI don't think people originally that stupid. Some percentage due lack of interest may accept such description and care no more about it. However some who have the intention to understand mathematical description will take its time to background check surely, on the level fit to their understanding. You know the good thing these days that, you just need to look up on the Stanford or Oxford University youtube page and can study Sr or quantum mechanics freely. Layman whom interested in reliable source will find it eventually.i understand your concern and its can be reflected back to the speaker (who influenced by another ones, used your same example) but have you ever heard a complain of the taxpayer against the rubbersheet analogy? :)\nAs a different note I would like to express this in different comment. These days I noticed that, people much more interested in science and this is i think because the effective access to sources are easier and more convenient. The can do from home and enjoy spending time on look up things in general. They are more informed on the current status on the developments of different physics branches and that is a communication I think is necessary to bridge Laymans to professional physicists at the first place.\nWhere can new physics hide?\nWissenschaft auf Abwegen\nNew study finds no sign of entanglement with other...\nString phenomenology of the somewhat different kin...\nDear Dr B: Why not string theory?"
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        "text": "Madrid sack Lopetegui after miserable run\nBy Ellsamwise King on October 30, 2018\nReal Madrid have sacked manager Julen Lopetegui and put B-team coach Santiago Solari in temporary charge.\nThe Madrid board is split over Lopetegui’s successor. The president Florentino Perez had wanted former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte but his demands for a two and half year contract and for a team of up to five assistants could make Belgium coach Roberto Martinez a more viable option.\nThe club are also considering leaving Solari in charge of the first team until next month’s international break before making a permanent appointment.\nConte is not the choice of the current players with captain Sergio Ramos saying: ‘Respect needs to be earned not imposed,’ when he was asked about the appointment of a disciplinarian manager.\nFormer Everton and Wigan coach Martinez is keen to get back into club management after reaching the World Cup semi-finals with Belgium.\nThe club are also taking into consideration Conte’s falling out with Eden Hazard who they are interested in signing next summer if he continues to run down his contract.\nConte has won the league in Italy and England but his confrontational style caused problems with Diego Costa and with Hazard who grew tired of being played out of position and then being accused of a lack of commitment."
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        "text": "5 март е 64-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (65-и през високосна година). Остават 301 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1558 г. – Испански мореплаватели донасят в Европа тютюна за пушене.\n 1684 г. – Австрия, Полша, Венеция и Русия създават Свещена лига за борба срещу Османската империя.\n 1792 г. – Революционното правителство във Франция затваря Сорбоната и всички теологически факултети в страната.\n 1821 г. – Джеймс Монро встъпва във втори мандат като президент на САЩ.\n 1867 г. – Играе се финалът на първия организиран турнир по футбол Йодан Къп в Шефилд, Англия.\n 1868 г. – Започва процедура на импийчмънт на президента на САЩ Андрю Джонсън.\n 1927 г. – Започва да излиза вестник Работническо дело.\n 1933 г. – На парламентарните избори в Германия нацистите побеждават с 44%.\n\n 1940 г. – Катинското клане: Членовете на съветското Политбюро издават заповед за екзекуция на 25 000 души от полската интелигенция, в това число 17 500 военнопленници.\n 1946 г. – Уинстън Чърчил произнася реч в американския град Фултън, с която обявява, че Европа е разделена от „желязна завеса“, на изток от която се налага съветската система.\n 1948 г. – VI велико народно събрание на България приема Закон за национализиране на едрата градска недвижима собственост.\n 1955 г. – Елвис Пресли е показан за първи път по телевизията.\n 1960 г. – Започва излъчването на телевизионната рубрика Лека нощ, деца.\n 1970 г. – Влиза в сила Договора за неразпространение на ядреното оръжие, подписан от 43 страни на 1 юли 1968 г.\n 1974 г. – Война от Йом Кипур: Израел прекратява окупацията си на Суецкия канал.\n 1982 г. – Съветският космически апарат Венера 14 достига повърхността на Венера.\n 1998 г. – НАСА съобщава, че космическата сонда Клементин, обикаляща около Луната, е открила достатъчно вода за поддържане на човешка колония.\n 2000 г. – Британски учени извършват първото клониране на свиня.\n 2003 г. – На Марс е открито замръзнало езеро.\n\nРодени \n\n 1133 г. – Хенри II, крал на Англия († 1189 г.)\n 1326 г. – Лайош I, крал на Унгария, Хърватия, Славония и Полша († 1382 г.)\n 1512 г. – Герардус Меркатор, фламандски картограф († 1594 г.)\n 1575 г. – Уилям Отред, английски математик († 1660 г.)\n 1637 г. – Ян ван дер Хейден, холандски художник и изобретател († 1712 г.)\n 1696 г. – Джовани Батиста Тиеполо, италиански художник († 1770 г.)\n 1800 г. – Огюст Викенел, френски геолог († 1867 г.)\n 1815 г. – Мехмед Емин Али паша, османски държавник († 1871 г.)\n 1821 г. – Стефан Веркович, сръбски фолклорист и етнолог († 1893 г.)\n 1830 г. – Чарлз Томсън, шотландски океанограф и биолог († 1882 г.)\n 1862 г. – Зигберт Тараш, немски шахматист († 1934 г.)\n 1871 г. – Роза Люксембург, полска еврейка, социалистическа революционерка († 1919 г.)\n 1879 г. – Уилям Бевъридж, британски икономист († 1963 г.)\n 1882 г. – Павел, български духовник и архиерей († 1940 г.)\n 1883 г. – Радул Милков, български военен пилот († 1962 г.)\n 1889 г. – Никола Алексиев, български писател († 1957 г.)\n 1891 г. – Юлия Казаска, българска писателка – франкофонка († 1976 г.)\n 1893 г. – Константин Муравиев, министър-председател на България († 1965 г.)\n 1898 г. – Чжоу Енлай, китайски комунистически политик и държавник († 1976 г.)\n 1908 г. – Кръстьо Белев, български писател († 1978 г.)\n 1908 г. – Рекс Харисън, британски актьор († 1990 г.)\n 1910 г. – Юзеф Марчинкевич, полски математик († 1940 г.)\n 1915 г. – Венко Марковски, български писател († 1988 г.)\n 1918 г. – Джеймс Тобин, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г. († 2002 г.)\n 1922 г. – Пиер Паоло Пазолини, италиански писател и кинорежисьор († 1975 г.)\n 1928 г. – Джоузеф Хилис Милър, американски литературен теоретик и историк англицист († 2021 г.)\n 1933 г. – Валтер Каспер, германски духовник\n 1934 г. – Даниел Канеман, израелски психолог и Нобелов лауреат през 2002 г.\n 1942 г. – Майк Резник, американски писател\n 1942 г. – Фелипе Гонсалес, министър-председател на Испания\n 1944 г. – Лучио Батисти, италиански поп певец († 1998 г.)\n 1944 г. – Ристо Шанев, македонски поет\n 1948 г. – Вирджиния Харт, американска писателка\n 1948 г. – Еди Грант, американски и британски реге певец от гвиански произход\n 1951 г. – Юрий Кравченко, украински политик († 2005 г.)\n 1958 г. – Анди Гиб, австралийски поп певец († 1988 г.)\n 1960 г. – Адриана Благоева, български диригент\n 1964 г. – Жорди Галсеран, каталонски драматург\n 1965 г. – Самвел Бабаян, арменски политик и военачалник\n 1970 г. – Джон Фрушанте, американски музикант (Red Hot Chili Peppers)\n 1972 г. – Лука Турили, италиански китарист и композитор\n 1974 г. – Ева Мендес, американска актриса\n 1974 г. – Мат Лукас, британски комик\n 1975 г. – Джолийн Блалок, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Кеничи Мацуяма, японски актьор\n 1986 г. – Александър Барт, френски футболист\n 1989 г. – Стърлинг Найт, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1534 г. – Антонио да Кореджо, италиански художник (* 1489 г.)\n 1815 г. – Франц Месмер, германски изследовател на хипнозата (* 1734 г.)\n 1827 г. – Алесандро Волта, италиански физик (* 1745 г.)\n 1827 г. – Пиер-Симон Лаплас, френски математик, астроном и философ (* 1749 г.)\n 1872 г. – Ангел Кънчев, български революционер (* 1850 г.)\n 1908 г. – Върбан Винаров, български военен деец (* 1856 г.)\n 1925 г. – Йохан Йенсен, датски математик (* 1859 г.)\n 1927 г. – Кръстю Маринов, български военен деец (* 1855 г.)\n 1933 г. – Анастасия Головина, първата българска лекарка (* 1850 г.)\n 1933 г. – Петко Наумов, български композитор и музикален педагог (* 1879 г.)\n 1943 г. – Сирак Скитник, български писател (* 1883 г.)\n 1944 г. – Макс Жакоб, френски поет (* 1876 г.)\n 1947 г. – Алфредо Касела, италиански художник (* 1883 г.)\n 1950 г. – Едгар Ли Мастърс, американски поет (* 1869 г.)\n 1953 г. – Йосиф Сталин, авторитарен ръководител на Съветския съюз (* 1879 г.)\n 1953 г. – Сергей Прокофиев, руски композитор (* 1891 г.)\n 1966 г. – Анна Ахматова, руска поетеса (* 1889 г.)\n 1970 г. – Христо Стоянов, български политик (* 1892 г.)\n 1977 г. – Том Прайс, британски пилот от Формула 1 (* 1949 г.)\n 1982 г. – Джон Белуши, американски актьор (* 1949 г.)\n 1984 г. – Тито Гоби, италиански баритон (* 1913 г.)\n 1984 г. – Уилям Пауъл, американски актьор (* 1892 г.)\n 1993 г. – Сирил Колар, френски писател и режисьор (* 1957 г.)\n 1999 г. – Кръстан Дянков, български журналист, фотограф и преводач на американска литература (р. 1933 г.)\n 2000 г. – Лоло Ферари, френска актриса (* 1963 г.)\n 2002 г. – Орфей Цоков, български сценарист (* 1937 г.)\n 2011 г. – Алберто Гранадо, аржентински и кубински доктор, писател и учен (* 1922 г.)\n 2013 г. – Уго Чавес, президент на Венецуела (* 1954 г.)\n 2013 г. – Христо Добрев, български военен деец (* 1923 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n305"
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        "text": "Gülen Band Owns $60 billion, Runs Heroin Network\nTURKEY 18 march 2014\nThe daily Turkish newspaper, Akşam, interviewed the FBI consultant Paul L. Williams who, as a specialist on radical Islam and terrorism, has studied the Islamist cleric Fethullah Gülen and his gang for years. He even made it into Gülen’s enormous mansion in Pennsylvania and had a look at the shady community behind the scenes. He claimed that the Gülen Band holds a great amount of property all around the world, approximating at $5 billion, and takes its real strength from drug dealing. According to Williams, Fethullah Gülen and his band initially worked for the USA’s interests over the middle-east region. The entire interview of Williams is as following:\n“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attitude about the Mavi Marmara incident is not surprising, and neither is the fact that he made Gülen an enemy due to his Syrian policies. General Kenan Evren had acted 34 years ago according to the US National Security Principal Consultant Zbigniew Brzezinski’s command, which was necessary for a new system for the Turkish countries in Asia. However, Gülen was the one who responded this need of his, by leaking into the region with his teaching institutions in order to deliver the control of gas and oil sources in the region to the USA. This is why the CIA authorities bestowed a letter of reference upon him for his Green Card application. In the sound recordings, Gülen talks about the revival of Ottoman Empire and a new Islamic system, which is interesting because the CIA seems to share this notion. Otherwise, why would the CIA assign its people to the Gülen’s schools in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kırgyzistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan? Russia and Ukraine shut down the Gülenist schools because of this. Gülen has also an effect on the protests in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. He tries to seize Turkistan’s independence from China as the CIA recognizes the country as a sovereign already, and because the leaders of Uyghur Turks live in Chicago, USA.\nWilliams claimed in his article in July 2013: “There are dormitories, resorts, guest houses, a heliport, test-fire areas in Gülen’s mansion which is protected by a 100 Turkish people day and night. People in the neighbourhood complain about the constant gunshots. They say that a helicopter flies low from time to time. Gülen lives in a mansion with those who do paramilitary armed training, yet he claims to be against terrorism.” There are a 130 CIA agents working in the Gülen schools which are financed by means of narcotics and smuggling. They dominate the banks and business world in Turkey. Women cannot get married even if they are 50 without Gülen’s permission and he even selects the husbands for them.”\n“I have visited Fethullah Gülen’s farm so many times before, had meetings with the authorities in it, all the neighbours around and the principals in the Gülen schools. According to some people who come and go to Gülen’s farm, he decided to abandon the AKP and support the CHP instead. Their goal is to take hold of that party and this idea nourished in Gülen’s farm in Pennsylvania. They surely have the support of the US Foreign Affairs Ministry. Gülen is known to serve to the CIA.”\n“The Susurluk incident proved the fact that there was a deep situation in the state and the criminal, mafia and politics are interlaced each other. Gülen is used by the CIA. I am currently writing a book on the relation between Fethullah Gülen and Susurluk incident.”\n“This kind of structuring is exactly what Gülen represents. The Gülen Movement lives on a massive heroin network. Gülen, supposedly the head of an education network, secretly declared to the court when he applied for Green Card that he had wealth of $5 billion. This amount of money is too much for a man who even denies to be the head of an educational network. How did they gain this amount of money? I can provide you with the document which was presented to the court.”\nYOU MAY INTERESTED IN\nTurkey to set up safe zone in Syria: Erdoğan\nTURKEY16 january 2019\nTurkey's year-end budget deficit in 2018 at 73 billion liras: Minister\nTurkey deploys more military vehicles to Syrian border\nTURKEY04 september 2018\nTurkish foreign minister calms down Greek counterpart over low flying jets\n‘Our choice is West,' CHP presidential candidate İnce says\nTURKEY20 june 2018\nEditor of Chief : Aziz Cüneyt Yüksel\nE-mail : iletisim@anadoluturkhaber.com\ninfo@anadoluturkhaber.com\n© 2019 Anatolia Turk News is proudly powered by Soul Multimedia"
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        "text": "The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)\nOverview Full Credits Full Synopsis Notes Music Screenplay Info\nUser Reviews Other Reviews Articles Money Awards Quotes Trivia Home Video Reviews Misc Notes Alternate Versions Theatrical Aspect Ratio Video TCM Archives Fan Sites\nFOR The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) YOU CAN\nActing of Lead Performers\nActing of Supporting Cast\nHistorical Importance\nToo Many Puzzling Scenes\nRonald Mentus\nFor what purpose did the assassin appear at the McKennas' room?To whom did Bernard make his phone call...and for what purpose? What connection was there between Bernard and his date as he appeared in the restaurant? On the stairs of Albert Hall: Jo says to the prime minster, \"...it wasn't...\" and he replies. \"But it was my dear lady, it was.\" What is being referred to here? How did Dr. McKenna know to go Albert Hall? Mr. Woburn told Jo where Buchanan was going...he did not speak to the doctor. Why did Mr. Drayton forgo his glasses after the chapel scene...to the end of the movie. A very entertaining movie, despite these \"loose ends.\" Does the original script explain any of the above?\nTwo Very Different Films\nAlthough one is generally considered a remake of the other, I think the 1934 and 1956 versions of \"The Man Who Knew Too Much\" are two very different films. Certainly, the basic plot is the same in both including the climatic scene at Alert Hall. However, there are three main differences. They end differently with a firefight between police and the bad guys in the earlier film film while the later version has the beleaguered couple trying to rescue their child at a foreign embassy. In the 1956 film James Stewart conveys mostly the desperation of a father whose child has been kidnapped while in the 1934 version Leslie Banks is able to keep his cool much of the time. There is also considerably more humor in the earlier film. I think the earlier version is better because sometimes the story seems to be dragged out in the later film.\nThe Man Who Knew Too Much\nLaurie Brown\nThis remake of \"The Man Who Knew Too Much\" was a much more polished version than it's predecessor, very much a Hitchcock film of that era. He returns to the familiar theme of the unsuspecting man thrust into extraordinary circumstances by forces beyond his control, probably more famously explored in \"Rear Window\" and \"North by Northwest\". He also returns to familiar collaborator Jimmy Stewart, who never disappoints, especially when working with Hitch. He sticks his neck out a bit by casting Doris Day as Stewart's wife, but the two of them share a believable rapport as husband and wife, and she displays a more impressive range than in some of the fluffy romantic comedies she is more generally associated with. The assassination attempt at the Royal Albert Hall is one of Hitchcock's more celebrated scenes, and rightly so, the decision to forego any dialogue increases the tension, as Stewart, Day and the assassin play a game of cat and mouse while we, as the audience, wait breathlessly for the inevitable and ominous cymbal crash. Unfortunately, the film drags at moments, especially in those scenes between the vacation in Morocco and the Royal Albert Hall scene. After that thrilling sequence, the finale also seems a bit anti-climactic. Not in the same league as some of his certified masterpieces, but still a fine film worthy of three and a half stars. As for the debate as to which of his two versions is better, this one is certainly a more professional production, but there's a certain manic enthusiasm to the British version that is tough to beat, and I thought that Peter Lorre gives the best performance in either film, so I'd have to give my vote to the 1934 version.\nMost Under-rated Hirchcock Movie\nJoe Carlton\nFor various reasons, both the critics and much of the Hitch fan base does not seem to rate this movie much above average. However, for this movie fan who has seen nearly all of the Hitch repertoire, this is one of his stand-out best productions. Many critics often proclaim the first version of this movie which Hitch directed while residing in England in the 1930s as the better of the the two; again, I disagree. Though the first version (which begins at a European ski resort instead of mysterious Morocco as was the setting in the second version) has its taut moments, the movie is lacking the grand scale found in the 1956 version. The first time I saw this movie about 16 years ago, my then 8 year old son watched it with me. Surprisingly, he was riveted by the movie, perhaps because the kidnapped victim was a young boy like himself. (In the first version, the kidnap victim is a young girl.) Most young people have no interest in old movies, but my son became an exception when he saw this one with me. I think one reason modern viewers don't rate this movie all that great is that the notion of a large gathering of people to hear a symphony orchestra perform seems quaint; most people under the age of 50 would prefer a rock concert or hip-hop party for the back-drop setting, much to my chagrin. Over the last 16 years, I have seen this movie several times, and I put it in the top 1% of the greatest movies ever...and among Hitchcock movies, I would put it right up there just behind North by Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, and Vertigo....and slightly ahead of such great Hitch classics as Psycho, the Birds, Dial M for Murder, the 39 Steps and Notorious. By the way, two other under-rated Hitch movies I would recommend are Saboteur (1942) and Marnie (1964). Saboteur seems ahead of its time in its focus on foreign enemies plotting the destruction of US infrastructure. Marnie is a psychological thriller as good or better than the Best Picture winner Rebecca.\nthree stars for Day and Stewart fans\nIn my opinion, especially for Stewart and Day fans, this movie is at least three stars. Yes, flat in some places, but in this era of bombast and overstatement it comes as a refreshing change. rm\nMichael Whitty\nHitchcock's adventure from Africa to London of an American couple- James Stewart and Doris Day- who have their son kidnapped and they have to go find him with regards to a symphony night at Albert Hall. While this doesn't rate with the best of Hitchcock it still amounts to a good suspenser with Doris singing \"Que Sera Sera\". The final 15 minutes in getting the boy back are somewhat thrilling as this finishes as a decent Hitchcock plot. The intrigue of London comes out well as the parents get frantic at times to find their son.\nThe Woman Who Sang Too Much\nMr. Blandings\nA Hitchcock musical? If any actor could be miscast in a Hitchcock film it's Doris flippin' Day. She and Stewart are the \"ugly American tourists\" caught up in all kinds of boring \"intrigue.\" If you want tense thrills in a musical, check out The Sound of Music instead.\nOverall-3 1/2 out of 5Lead Performers-3 and 1/2 out of 5Supporting Cast-3/5Director-5/5Score-3/5Titles-3/5Screenplay-3/5Cinematography-3/5Importance-2/5Recommendation for fans of genre-3/5\nDashiell Barnes\nHitchcock's remake of his '34 film is more extravagant, but not as good as the original. It's obvious that Stewart & Day don't have the best chemistry, but their performances are good, as is Miles & De Banzie. More of an entertaining piece makes this a less important work of his, but most famous for the Oscar-winning song \"Que Sera Sera.\" Some powerful scenes are covered by lavishness. I give it a 3/5.\nNot classic Hitchcock but fine entertainment\n115windycity\nNot classic Hitchcock but by most standards, a fine movie with some gripping scenes, particularly when the action shifts from Morocco to London.The Man Who Knew Too Much is considered lightweight entertainment, coming in the midst of a fertile period for its director Alfred Hitchcock. It is a remake of a movie of the same name, made in the mid-1930's. I am only slightly familiar with the original but to me the remake is superior. The slow pace of the movie in the early stages might be attributable to Hitchcock's love of exotic locales and he takes ample time to photograph Morocco. The all-American couple of Dr. Ben McKenna and his wife Jo Conway, a musical star, are from Minneapolis. They are played by Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart, as innocents abroad with their young son Hank. Not entirely comfortable being away from familiar territory, they become distraught once caught up in an international plot. They befriend a British couple, the Draytons (Brenda de Banzie and Bernard Miles) who feign to be fellow tourists and end up double-crossing them. The McKenna family tries to pursue the conspiracy once they land back in London. This takes them to some backstreets and alleys in the British capital and eventually to the Royal Albert Hall, where the climax of the movie takes place. Along the way they stop at a neighbourhood in London, where we witness some surprise action. The harrowing finale at the Royal Albert Hall comes with the clash of cymbals amidst the grandeur of the great edifice. Interesting trivia: On the billboard outside the Albert Hall, we see the name of the director of the London Symphony, Bernard Hermann, who wrote the music for many of Hitchcock's greatest movies. This is an alert to shrewd Hitchcock fans of his appearance in the finale.\nGreat use of close-ups for suspense\nJarrod McDonald\nA film professor once said that today's directors over-use the close-up. I think maybe that's a result of television's influence, where we are drawn into the intimacy of characters by focusing on facial expressions so much...it might also be a way to hide the fact that TV set designers haven't put much detail into room decor. But we cannot accuse Hitchcock of over-using the close-up. In fact, he uses it very sparingly...usually for moments created to generate the greatest amount of suspense for viewers. These were the key close-ups I noted: the street scene when Jimmy Stewart leans down and the man whispers in his ear; the scene where we see the gun at the music hall; we also see Doris Day's face close-up when she's screaming to avert the assassination; and we see a close-up when Stewart's character breaks into the room holding his son.\nA NEAR-GREAT HITCHCOCK CLASSIC\nWhile it's not considered one of the TOP FIVE Hitchcock classics (Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Pyscho, Rebecca) it sure has got to be #6 or #7, definitely in the Top 10. I love it.Two of my favorite scenes: In Albert Hall when James Stewart has to fill in wife Doris Day on all that he has learned is brilliant. At the last minute Hitchcock decided to forego the dialogue and just let us hear the beautiful music playing in the concert hall (we already know the info anyway). And when Doris Day lets out a bloodcurdling scream at the climatic moment in the symphony, she stops the assassination cold.\n*We protect your personal infortmation and will not provide it to anyone without your consent. For a complete explanation, please refer to TCM's Privacy Policy. By submitting your contribution, you agree to TCM's Terms of Use."
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        "text": "Q: Add the bookmarks bar to internal browsers of iPad apps Apps like Twitterific and Flipboard are great but I want to be able to use the \"Offline Pages\" app to save the text of a link so I can read it later. In Twitterific, when I touch a link it opens in an internal web app that doesn't have the bookmarks bar and therefor doesn't have my \"Offline Pages\" bookmarklet.\nI read somewhere that Instapaper has better integration with apps like Twitterific but I haven't seen anywhere how it works and I really do like offline pages . . . it does exactly what I want! Any ideas?\nI know I can simply \"open in Safari\" but that's another page load and I loose my place in Flipboard or Twitterific and have to re-open the app.\n\nA: Unfortunately, there is no way for developers to integrate your bookmarks into our apps. We create a browser using WebKit, but the bookmarks are stored in Safari, not WebKit. Instapaper is likely your best choice, and is available in most RSS apps and many Twitter apps do (including Echofon). You then can view these saved pages from the Instapaper app anytime you want.\n\nA: Instapaper is a web & desktop service that allows you to save, on your iDevice, an offline copy of articles or web pages and read them later.\nPersonally, I use Read it Later (more or less the same thing as Instapaper, but with less applications integration) and if I remember correctly, both work in the same way (at least with RIL) :\n\n\n*\n\n*Click on a bookmarklet or other\n\n*The webpage is uploaded to Instapaper's servers\n\n*You use your application to download the offline copy\n\n\nSo, you can see that you do not directly download the offline copy on your device.\nInstapaper is integrated with several applications like Twitterrific, Twitter for iPhone, Flipboard and others iOS & Mac OS.\nMoreover, Instapaper is compatible with iPad, iPhone and Mac OS.\nI'd recommend you a nice review about Instapaper.\n"
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        "text": "Q: How to move only purchased music from iPhone I have multiple Macs registered to my iTunes account.  If I plug my iPhone in to any Mac other than the one I usually sync with it, I have the option to transfer purchased items from my iPhone to the connected Mac.  This works great for moving music I purchase on my iMac to my MacBook.  However, every time I hit \"transfer purchases,\" it also tries to transfer applications.  I have no reason to puts apps on my MacBook, and don't see any reason to waste the disk space.  Is there any way to tell iTunes to only transfer purchased music off the phone?\n\nA: Maybe you can try this : \n\n\n*\n\n*The first time iTunes ask to transfer\npurchases, say No\n\n*In the App Tab of your iPhone in iTunes, uncheck the top box : \"Sync Apps\"\n\n*On the bottom of Application Tab, you'll find another box you can try to disable : \"Automatically sync new apps\"\n\n*Try a new sync\n\n\nA: Here we are over a year later.  I still haven't figured out how to do it, and it doesn't look like anyone else has either, so I'm going to assume you can't.  Luckily, this has now been rendered mostly irrelevant by iCloud.\n"
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        "text": "$39 Sale Price Only Good in February\nEntry Level Paternal Line DNA Test Lowered Drastic...\nDNA and Genealogy Help Identify Richard III\nRed Hair and Health Tendencies\nEntry Level Paternal Line DNA Test Lowered Drastically\nFTDNA drastically lowered the cost of it's entry level Y-chromosome DNA test today. This is a test that can be taken by men to trace their paternal surname line up their family tree. This test will allow men to determine their general haplogroup (ancient clan) but will not be specific enough to answer many family history questions. However, as Your Genetic Genealogist pointed out today, this will get samples stored for 25 years--or until it is used up by further testing. So this is a very economical way to collect samples from several members of the older generation of your family for future family research.\nAlso buried in the press release below is an announcement that a price reduction is likely to be in the offing for mitochondrial tests which can be taken by members of either gender to test their maternal lines:\nToward Universal Access by Individuals to their Own Genetic Data\nDate:2/20/2013\nHOUSTON, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FamilyTreeDNA.com, the genetic genealogy arm of Gene By Gene, Ltd., is dramatically lowering the price of one of its basic Y-DNA tests to $39, making it the lowest-cost DNA test available on the market, in order to take a major step toward universal access by individuals to their personal genetic data.\nBy dropping the price of its basic Y-DNA test by 60 percent to $39, Family Tree DNA -- the world's largest processor of Y-DNA and full mitochondrial sequences -- is working to eliminate cost as a barrier to individuals introducing themselves to the insights and knowledge to be gained from personal genetic and genomic research.\nFamily Tree DNA pioneered the concept of direct-to-consumer testing in the field of genetic genealogy more than a decade ago, and has processed more than 5 million discrete tests for more than 700,000 individuals and organizations since it introduced its Y-DNA test in 2000.\nThe test investigates specific Y-DNA locations for males that provide individuals with their haplogroup, or the deep ancestral origin of the paternal line. In addition, it can indicate if different individuals are likely to share a common male line.\nGene By Gene is also working to lower the cost of Family Tree DNA's comparable mtDNA test, which would be applicable to both females and males and provides data on the direct maternal line. The company expects to unveil new pricing for this test in spring 2013.\nAs the sponsor DNA Workshop of \"Who Do You Think You Are - Live\" in London this February, Family Tree DNA expects that the reduced price test will add a great number of individuals to its already large database – the largest of its kind in the world.\n\"We believe the first step to unearthing your personal and family history is to better understand your DNA,\" Gene By Gene President Bennett Greenspan said. \"That's why we are continuously investing in new technology and experienced scientists at our Genomics Research Center, enabling us to conduct tests more accurately, efficiently and at lower prices. Our $39 Y-DNA test is just the latest example of how we are working to help individuals gain access to their genetic data.\"\nIndividuals interested in Family Tree DNA's $39 Y-DNA test, or any of its ancestral testing products, can visit www.familytreedna.com for more information.\nAbout Gene By Gene, Ltd.\nFounded in 2000, Gene By Gene, Ltd. provides reliable DNA testing to a wide range of consumer and institutional customers through its four divisions focusing on ancestry, health, research and paternity. Gene By Gene provides DNA tests through its Family Tree DNA division, which pioneered the concept of direct-to-consumer testing in the field of genetic genealogy more than a decade ago. Gene by Gene is CLIA registered and through its clinical-health division DNA Traits offers regulated diagnostic tests. DNA DTC is the Research Use Only (RUO) division serving both direct-to-consumer and institutional clients worldwide. Gene By Gene offers AABB certified relationship tests through its paternity testing division, DNA Findings. The privately held company is headquartered in Houston, which is also home to its state-of-the-art Genomics Research Center.\nLabels: $39 DNA Test, Family Tree DNA, Y-chromosome Test"
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    {
        "text": "6 март е 65-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (66-и през високосна година). Остават 300 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1521 г. – Фернандо Магелан открива островите Гуам и Рота.\n 1810 г. – Илинойс става първият щат на САЩ, в който е въведена задължителна ваксинация на населението.\n 1834 г. – В Канада град Йорк е преименуван на Торонто.\n 1837 г. – Руският император Николай I възстановява имотите на Зографския манастир в Бесарабия и дава компенсация от руското правителство в размер на 400 000 рубли.\n 1853 г. – Във Венеция се състои премиерата на операта „Травиата“ на Джузепе Верди.\n 1869 г. – Дмитрий Менделеев представя първата Периодична система на елементите.\n 1888 г. – Експедицията на унгарския граф Шамуел Телеки открива езерото Рудолф (Басо Нарок) в Африка.\n 1899 г. – Немският химик Феликс Хофман получава патент за аспирина.\n 1902 г. – Основан е футболен клуб Реал Мадрид.\n 1910 г. – Селски бунтове в Тесалия.\n 1911 г. – Българското книжовно дружество е преименувано в Българска академия на науките.\n 1913 г. – В Сан Франциско за първи път започва да се използва думата джаз за определяне на музикален стил.\n 1933 г. – Американските банки са затворени за 8 дни поради финансова криза в банковата система на САЩ.\n 1938 г. – Започват изборите за XXIV обикновено народно събрание в България, като за първи път жените имат право на глас.\n 1945 г. – България във Втората световна война: Първа българска армия започва Дравската операция (6-19 март 1945 г.) в Унгария при Дравасоболч, в която тя се отбранява от настъпващите срещу нея германски войски от група армии „Е“, като българската армия преминава на 16 март в контранастъпление и разгромява до 19 март германските войски.\n 1948 г. – Народното събрание приема закон за национализация на горите в България.\n 1951 г. – В САЩ започва процесът срещу съпрузите Джулиус и Етел Розенберг по обвинение в шпионаж в полза на СССР.\n 1953 г. – На мястото на починалия Сталин, за министър-председател на СССР и генерален секретар на ЦК на КПСС е избран Георгий Маленков.\n 1957 г. – Гана обявява национална независимост от Великобритания.\n 1964 г. – Умира гръцкият крал Павлос I и престола заема синът му Константинос II.\n 1983 г. – Компанията Моторола представя първия в света преносим клетъчен телефон.\n 1994 г. – На референдум населението на Молдова решава да бъде обявена национална независимост.\n\nРодени \n\n 1475 г. – Микеланджело Буонароти, италиански художник и скулптор († 1564 г.)\n 1619 г. – Сирано дьо Бержерак, френски драматург († 1655 г.)\n 1659 г. – Саломо Франк, немски поет († 1725 г.)\n 1745 г. – Кажимеж Пуласки, полски генерал († 1779 г.)\n 1815 г. – Пьотър Ершов, руски писател († 1869 г.)\n 1870 г. – Оскар Щраус, австрийски оперетен композитор († 1954 г.)\n 1874 г. – Николай Бердяев, руски философ († 1948 г.)\n 1877 г. – Никола Михов, български библиограф († 1962 г.)\n 1885 г. – Ринголд Ланднър, американски писател († 1933 г.)\n 1896 г. – Никола Обрешков, български математик († 1963 г.)\n 1904 г. – Ценко Цветанов, български писател и библиограф († 1960 г.)\n 1906 г. – Лу Костело, американски актьор и комик († 1959 г.)\n 1909 г. – Станислав Йежи Лец, полски писател († 1966 г.)\n 1911 г. – Пламен Цяров, български актьор († 1983 г.)\n 1926 г. – Анджей Вайда, полски режисьор († 2016 г.)\n 1926 г. – Алън Грийнспан, американски икономист\n 1927 г. – Габриел Гарсия Маркес, колумбийски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1982 г. († 2014 г.)\n 1933 г. – Стойчо Панчев, български академик на БАН († 2014 г.)\n 1937 г. – Валентина Терешкова, съветска космонавтка\n 1939 г. – Адам Осбърн, британски компютърен дизайнер († 2003 г.)\n 1940 г. – Уилям Фергюсън, южноафрикански автомобилен състезател († 2007 г.)\n 1941 г. – Майкъл Горман, американски библиотекар\n 1943 г. – Александър Бръзицов, български композитор († 2016 г.)\n 1946 г. – Дейвид Гилмър, британски китарист (Pink Floyd)\n 1947 г. – Богдан Глишев, български актьор\n 1954 г. – Тони Шумахер, германски футболен вратар и национал\n 1954 г. – Джоуи Демайо, американски баскитарист (Manowar)\n 1966 г. – Яхия Аяш, палестински терорист († 1996 г.)\n 1969 г. – Андреа Елсън, американска актриса\n 1969 г. – Никълъс Роджърс, австралийски актьор\n 1972 г. – Мариане Тиме, холандски политик\n 1972 г. – Шакил О'Нийл, американски баскетболист\n 1974 г. – Любомир Владимиров, професор, български учен и политик\n 1977 г. – Йоргос Карагунис, гръцки футболист\n 1979 г. – Гари Монк, английски футболист\n 1983 г. – Андраник Теймурян, ирански футболист\n 1989 г. – Агнешка Радванска, полска тенисистка\n 1991 г. – Тайлър Дъ Криейтър, американски артист\n\nПочинали \n\n 991 г. – Варда Склир, византийски военачалник (* към 920)\n 1867 г. – Петер фон Корнелиус, германски художник (* 1783 г.)\n 1872 г. – Христо Георгиев, български предприемач, политик и общественик (* 1824 г.)\n 1888 г. – Луиза Мей Олкът, американска писателка (* 1832 г.)\n 1900 г. – Готлиб Даймлер, германски инженер и индустриалец (* 1834 г.)\n 1916 г. – Василий Суриков, руски художник, исторически живописец (* 1848 г.)\n 1945 г. – Вячеслав Шишков, руски писател (* 1873 г.)\n 1949 г. – Ана Карима, българска писателка (* 1871 г.)\n 1961 г. – Борис Вилкицки, руски хидрограф (* 1885 г.)\n 1964 г. – Павлос I, крал на Гърция (* 1901 г.)\n 1967 г. – Золтан Кодай, унгарски композитор (* 1882 г.)\n 1970 г. – Димитър Цолов, български архитект (* 1896 г.)\n 1973 г. – Пърл Бък, американска писателка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1938 г. (* 1892 г.)\n 1982 г. – Айн Ранд, американска писателка и философ (* 1905 г.)\n 1988 г. – Константин Илиев, български композитор (* 1924 г.)\n 1991 г. – Александър Карасимеонов, български писател (* 1930 г.)\n 1994 г. – Мелина Меркури, гръцка актриса и политик (* 1920 г.)\n 1994 г. – Тенгиз Абуладзе, грузински режисьор (* 1924 г.)\n 1997 г. – Славчо Донков, български писател и поет (* 1942 г.)\n 1998 г. – Костадин Кюлюмов, български писател (* 1925 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ханс Бете, американски физик от германски произход, Нобелов лауреат през 1967 г. (* 1906 г.)\n 2006 г. – Дана Рийв, американска актриса, съпруга на Кристофър Рийв (* 1961 г.)\n 2007 г. – Павел Сираков, български народен певец (* 1918 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ендуранс Идахор, нигерийски футболист (* 1984 г.)\n 2020 – Маккой Тайнър, американски пианист (* 1938 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден за борба с глаукомата\n Гана – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1957 г., национален празник)\n На този също се чества, „Красимиров ден“ (по новия календар). Празнуващи на този ден са: Красимир, Красимира, Краса, и др.\n\n306"
    },
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        "text": "7 март е 66-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (67-и през високосна). Остават 299 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 161 г. – Римският император Антонин Пий умира и е наследен едновременно от Марк Аврелий и Луций Вер, което е прецедент дотогава в Римската империя.\n 321 г. – Император Константин I Велики издава декрет че денят на Sol Invictus (неделя) е ден за почивка в Империята.\n 1530 г. – Папата отказва да узакони развода на английския крал Хенри VIII с Катерина Арагонска и да признае брака му с Ан Болейн, което става формален повод за създаването на англиканската църква.\n 1798 г. – Френската армия влиза в Рим.\n 1814 г. – В битката при Краон армията на Наполеон Бонапарт побеждава руските и пруските военни сили.\n 1876 г. – Александър Бел получава патент за изобретение, което той нарича телефон.\n 1912 г. – Руал Амундсен официално съобщава, че неговата експедиция е достигнала Южния полюс на 14 декември 1911 г.\n 1918 г. – Първа световна война: Финландия влиза в съюз с Германия.\n 1936 г. – Германия нарушава договорите от Локарно и Версайския договор, като окупира наново демилитаризираната Рейнска област.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Американски армейски части овладяват моста над река Рейн, с което се ускорява настъплението срещу Берлин.\n 1947 г. – Възстановени са дипломатическите отношения между България и Австрия.\n 1950 г. – Студената война: СССР прави изявление, в което отрича, че Клаус Фукс е работил като съветски шпионин.\n 1965 г. – За първи път в Канада в римокатолически църкви са извършени богослужения на английски език.\n 1966 г. – Президентът на Франция Шарл де Гол обявява намерението на страната да напусне НАТО.\n 1980 г. – Маргьорит Юрсенар е първата жена избрана за член на Френската академия.\n 1983 г. – Направен е опит за отвличане на самолет (полет № LZ-013) от БГА Балкан (София – Варна).\n 1987 г. – Майк Тайсън прегазва Джейм „Костотрошача“ Смит за световната титла в тежка категория.\n 1988 г. – Орлина Аспарухова става първата българка – лицензиран пилот на въздушен балон.\n 1989 г. – Иран скъсва дипломатически отношения с Великобритания по повод на издадените в кралството Сатанински строфи на Салман Рушди.\n 1996 г. – Формиран е първият демократично избран палестински парламент.\n 2002 г. – Открити са Деветите зимни параолимпийски игри в Солт Лейк Сити.\n 2009 г. – Изстрелян е космическият телескоп Кеплер, проектиран да открива земеподобни планети в орбита на други звезди.\n\nРодени \n\n 148 г. – Ания Луцила, римска принцеса († 182 г.)\n 189 г. – Публий Септимий Гета, римски император († 211 г.)\n 1693 г. – Климент XIII, италиански папа († 1769 г.)\n 1765 г. – Жозеф Ниепс, френски изобретател († 1833 г.)\n 1785 г. – Алесандро Манцони, италиански писател († 1873 г.)\n 1792 г. – Джон Хершел, английски математик и астроном († 1871 г.)\n 1802 г. – Едуин Ландсир, британски художник († 1873 г.)\n 1820 г. – Александър Дрентелн, руски офицер († 1888 г.)\n 1829 г. – Едуард Фогел, немски пътешественик и изследовател († 1856 г.)\n 1850 г. – Томаш Масарик, първи президент на Чехословакия († 1937 г.)\n 1855 г. – Карл фон ден Щайнен, немски етнолог, пътешественик и изследовател († 1929 г.)\n 1857 г. – Юлиус Вагнер-Яурег, австрийски лекар, Нобелов лауреат († 1940 г.)\n 1862 г. – Лукан Хашнов, български инженер († 1917 г.)\n 1864 г. – Александър Радев, български политик († 1911 г.)\n 1872 г. – Пийт Мондриан, холандски художник († 1944 г.)\n 1875 г. – Морис Равел, френски композитор († 1937 г.)\n 1878 г. – Борис Кустодиев, руски художник († 1927 г.)\n 1893 г. – Райко Алексиев, български публицист († 1944 г.)\n 1902 г. – Хайнц Рюман, германски актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1902 г. – Ханс Щубе, немски растениевъд († 1989 г.)\n 1904 г. – Райнхард Хайдрих, обергрупенфюрер в нацистка Германия († 1942 г.)\n 1908 г. – Ана Маняни, италианска актриса († 1973 г.)\n 1924 г. – Кобо Абе, японски писател († 1993 г.)\n 1926 г. – Ернст Оцвирк, австрийски футболист († 1980 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стенли Милър, американски химик († 2007 г.)\n 1931 г. – Жени Божинова, българска актриса\n 1937 г. – Георги Трингов, български шахматист († 2000 г.)\n 1938 г. – Албер Фер, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 2007\n 1938 г. – Дейвид Балтимор, американски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1975 г.\n 1940 г. – Дениъл Траванти, американски актьор\n 1940 г. – Руди Дучке, германски студентски лидер († 1979 г.)\n 1941 г. – Андрей Миронов, съветски актьор († 1987 г.)\n 1942 г. – Майкъл Айснер, американски директор на Уолт Дисни\n 1943 г. – Симеон Хаджикосев, български литературен критик († 2020 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джон Хърд, американски актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1946 г. – Вера Деянова, български литературен преводач\n 1947 г. – Валтер Рьорл, германски състезател\n 1955 г. – Ал-Уалид бин Талал, саудитски принц\n 1959 г. – Владимир Талески, актьор и политик от Република Македония\n 1960 г. – Иван Лендъл, чешки тенисист\n 1963 г. – Освалд Егер, немски писател\n 1964 г. – Брет Ийстън Елис, американски писател\n 1965 г. – Камеран Даддо, австралийски артист\n 1975 г. – Любомира Бачева, българска тенисистка\n 1978 г. – Азис, български чалга певец\n 1978 г. – Елена Емануилова, българска писателка\n 1979 г. – Деси Слава, българска певица\n 1984 г. – Надежда Карастоянова, българска археоложка, специализирала в археозоологията, планински водач\n 1987 г. – Хатем Бен Арфа, френски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 322 г. пр.н.е. – Аристотел, древногръцки философ (* 384 пр.н.е.)\n 161 г. – Антонин Пий, римски император (* 86 г.)\n 1274 г. – Тома Аквински, монах доминиканец, философ и теолог (* 1225 г.)\n 1724 г. – Инокентий XIII, римски папа (* 1655 г.)\n 1802 г. – Клотилд Френска, френска принцеса, кралица на Сардиния (* 1759 г.)\n 1875 г. – Джон Едуард Грей, британски зоолог (* 1800 г.)\n 1891 г. – Франц Миклошич, словенски славист (* 1813 г.)\n 1895 г. – Александър Ган, руски офицер (* 1809 г.)\n 1902 г. – Тодор Хаджистанчев, български драматург (* 1850 г.)\n 1931 г. – Аксели Гален-Калела, финландски художник (* 1865 г.)\n 1932 г. – Аристид Бриан, министър-председател на Франция, Нобелов лауреат през 1926 г. (* 1862 г.)\n 1932 г. – Петрана Обретенова, българска революционерка (* ?)\n 1945 г. – Албрехт Пенк, немски географ (* 1858 г.)\n 1952 г. – Парамаханса Йогананда, индийски гуру (* 1893 г.)\n 1954 г. – Ото Дилс, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1950 г. (* 1876 г.)\n 1955 г. – Георги Бончев, български геолог (* 1866 г.)\n 1956 г. – Петко Атанасов, български драматичен актьор и режисьор (* 1889 г.)\n 1967 г. – Дора Метева, българска поетеса и преводач (* 1894 г.)\n 1971 г. – Кирил, български патриарх (* 1901 г.)\n 1985 г. – Аркадий Фидлер, полски писател и пътешественик (* 1894 г.)\n 1985 г. – Робърт Уиншип Удръф, бизнесмен и филантроп (* 1889 г.)\n 1997 г. – Едуард Милс Пърсел, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1952 г. (* 1912 г.)\n 1999 г. – Стенли Кубрик, американски сценарист и режисьор (* 1928 г.)\n 2002 г. – Цвятко Анев, български генерал (* 1911 г.)\n 2003 г. – Илия Павлов, български бизнесмен, основател на „Мултигруп“ (* 1960 г.)\n 2005 г. – Иван Пръмов, български политик (* 1921 г.)\n 2006 г. – Али Фарка Туре, малийски музикант (* 1939 г.)\n 2014 г. – Мирослав Миронов, български футболист и треньор (* 1963 г.)\n\nПразници \n Свети Фелицитата и Перпетуя в Католическата църква\n Албания – Ден на учителя\n Италия – Празник на град Аквино\n\n307"
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    {
        "text": "I fell a little bit apart last week. Reading about Kate Spade’s death set the groundwork – it was an unwelcome reminder that the disease we share can kill you. I wrote a post about it last Thursday – When your brain is broken – trying to use writing as therapy, as I usually do.\nBut when I woke up on Friday to a friend’s message that Anthony Bourdain had killed himself as well – I fell apart.\nI spent all of Friday in bed, crying and obsessively reading every news snippet I could find about Anthony Bourdain. I downloaded his bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential and started reading right away, only interrupting myself to check online for more news every few hours. I don’t know what I was looking for: clues for why he did it? An explanation? A reason why? I don’t know.\nBecause that’s how I see it: they were sick, and their disease killed them.\nSuicide is an ugly word and an even uglier reality. It’s associated with shame and blame, and makes family members feel guilty – as if they are not allowed to properly grieve, because the death was self-inflicted. It’s victim-blaming, and I have a problem with that.\nPeople focus on the wrong things: they say he had “no reason”. They demand to know if he was really depressed. Some are angry at him (Val Kilmer’s horrible rant comes to mind), as if he did it to spite them.\nI obviously have no idea why Kate and Anthony couldn’t see a reason to live any more. I didn’t know them.\nI know how depression feels. I know how it can twist reality into something unrecognizable. It can make you believe horrible things about yourself: that you don’t matter, that you are a burden to everyone around you, that the world would be off better without you.\nIt messes with your brain, because it’s a brain disease – and how can you make rational decisions with a brain that’s sick?\nI also know that depression makes you feel worthless. And asking for help when you feel unworthy of help – well, you don’t do it. You can’t. That feeling of unworthiness paralyzes you. You don’t want to be annoying to others.\nTony often said that he had the best job in the world. But he also, occasionally, mentioned how lonely it was to be alone in a hotel room (which he was roughly 250 days out of the year) – always quickly followed up with a joke.\nBeing depressed when you have “a reason” – a break-up, loss of a loved one, trouble at work, financial difficulties – is acceptable.\nBut what about when you seemingly have everything? Money, fame, success, friends, the admiration of millions of people? You have “no reason”. And if you’re aware of your good fortune, as Tony was, you certainly don’t want to appear ungrateful and complain.\nSo you stay silent. You smile and you work and you stay busy, and you try to outrun the demons and the voice in your head.\nBut no matter how fast or far you run – they are always there. And when it gets quiet, and it’s dark, and you’re exhausted and alone … sometimes, the voices win.\nI’m not suicidal, and I never have been.\nBut I know the darkness and the loneliness well.\nHere is what I also know: Talk about the demons when you’re feeling well.\nWhen you feel strong, you have to tell people. Your brain will function better, you will feel braver, and you will show people that it’s normal to talk about mental illness.\nWhen you tell people about yours, they are much more likely to tell you about theirs.\nIf you take antidepressants, tell people.\nIf you are in therapy, tell people.\nIf you struggle – or used to struggle – with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or another mental illness – tell people.\nOnly by talking about it can we remove the shame, fear, and stigma.\nThose three words make all the difference. Having people in my life who know to ask them are my best weapon in the fight against my depression. Because I know that I don’t have to fight alone.\nSo I’m asking you: Are you okay? Do you need someone to talk to? My inbox is always open if you need an open ear, a virtual hug, or the reassurance that you are not alone.\nThere are SO many of us out there – an army. You don’t know it, but your always-cheerful co-worker? She cried in the bathroom this morning. Your friend who cancelled yoga yesterday? She didn’t have a dentist appointment – she didn’t have the strength to come. Your mother who had regular migraines when you grew up? She didn’t actually have migraines.\nLet’s talk about it. Let’s never stop talking about it."
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        "text": "The US will contribute 100% towards the roughing pumps and vacuum auxiliary system.\nThe ITER tokamak, cryostat, and auxiliary vacuum chambers must be evacuated prior to and during operations. The roughing pump system exhausts the torus and neutral beam injector cryopumps, service vacuum, and cryostat. This system will utilize a matrix of pump trains with various technologies to match specific vacuum system requirements, including tritium-compatible backing pumps for torus and neutral beam cryopumps.\nThe vacuum auxiliary system consists of valves, pipe manifolds, auxiliary pumps, sensors, and controls. The torus and neutral beam injector vacuum manifolds of this system need to be tritium compatible.\nThe cryogenic test facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) provided a unique environment for testing the performance of a 9 foot-tall tritium-compatible cryoviscous compressor pump prototype designed for the ITER tokamak."
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        "text": "KIM ALEXANDRIUK\ni n t e r i o r d e s i g n\nKim Alexandriuk © 2018 | Privacy Policy\nCARPET COLLECTION\nABOUT THE DESIGNER . . .\nKim Alexandriuk has been recognized by House Beautiful as one of the “125 Top Designers in the U.S.,” and by House & Garden as one of the “Top 50 Tastemakers in the Future of Design.” Drawing on a number of influences, including her European heritage, reverence for architecture and passion for travel, the Santa Monica-based designer seamlessly weds modern elements with classic settings to create intriguing spaces that are warm and inviting, with an air of worldly sophistication. Her distinct carpet designs for Christopher Farr (Vulcania Collection) and Doris Leslie Blau (Modern Primitive Collection) reflect these same design sensibilities."
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        "text": "Q: How do I find a modem driver for Mac? I'm not familiar with OS X. I'm trying to find a way to get a modem (Huawei ETS 1201, which I believe can only be connected using a USB cable) driver for OS X Leopard (on a MacBook Pro) for a friend. \nAfter failing to find a driver from the company's website, I was wondering whether it would be possible to use a Windows driver in any way (like some sort of Virtualization?) or whether I am likely to be able to find an unofficial driver for OS X.\nTIA\n\nA: First thing to check is : Do your modem support Mac OS X  ?\nIf the documentation said so, you should try to connect the modem directly on your Mac and see  what happens.\nIn case nothing works, I'd say that this modem is for PC only and you'll not find any driver for Mac OS X. \nThe only way to make it works is to boot on your BootCamp partition and install the driver on it, but you'll can use only Windows and not Mac OS X.\nEdit : I'm not sure that virtualization solve the problem too. Most of the time, the Internet connection is shared on the VM from host to guest. I think you can't share connection from guest to host.\n"
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    {
        "text": "8 март е 67-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (68-и през високосна година). Остават 298 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1169 г. – Киев е превзет и опустошен от Андрей I Боголюбски, княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество\n 1722 г. – По заповед на Петър I в Петербург започват системно да наблюдават атмосферните условия.\n 1752 г. – Парижкият парламент забранява Енциклопедията на Дени Дидро.\n 1802 г. – Германският астроном любител Хенрих Олберс открива малката планета Церера.\n 1857 г. – Международен ден на жената: Жените от шивашки и текстилни предприятия в Ню Йорк излизат на протест против лошите условия на труд и ниските заплати.\n 1899 г. – Основан е германският футболен клуб Айнтрахт Франкфурт.\n 1910 г. – Френската авиаторка Реймонд де Ларош става първата жена, получила пилотски лиценз.\n 1917 г. – Начало на Февруарската революция в Русия: в Санкт Петербург работнички стачкуват, искат хляб и завръщането на съпрузите си от фронта.\n 1924 г. – В Ню Йорк е основана компанията Pan American Airways.\n 1944 г. – Балкарците стават жертва на Сталинските репресии. Всички са депортирани в Сибир и Средна Азия.\n 1948 г. – При разглеждане на делото „Маккол против Министерството на образованието“, Върховният съд на САЩ постановява, че религиозните инструкции в училищата противоречат на Конституцията на САЩ.\n 1957 г. – Египет отваря отново Суецкия канал.\n 1965 г. – Виетнамската война: САЩ изпращат първи военни групи от 3500 морски пехотинци в Южен Виетнам.\n 1966 г. – В Дъблин бойците на ИРА взривяват колона, издигната в чест на адмирал Хорацио Нелсън.\n 1971 г. – Бокс: Джо Фрейзър печели двубоя срещу Мохамед Али в три забележителни рунда.\n 1974 г. – Отворено е летището Шарл дьо Гол в Париж, Франция.\n 1983 г. – Студената война: В речта си пред Националната асоциация на евангелистите в Орландо, САЩ, американският президент Роналд Рейгън нарича СССР „империя на злото“.\n 1988 г. – Учреден е Общественият комитет за екологична защита на Русе – първата дисидентска организация в България.\n\nРодени \n\n 1714 г. – Карл Филип Емануел Бах, германски композитор († 1788 г.)\n 1761 г. – Ян Потоцки, полски писател († 1815 г.)\n 1822 г. – Игнаци Лукашевич, полски изобретател († 1882 г.)\n 1875 г. – Франко Алфано, италиански композитор и пианист († 1954 г.)\n 1877 г. – Александър Яшченко, руски юрист († 1934 г.)\n 1879 г. – Ото Хан, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат († 1968 г.)\n 1898 г. – Димитър Митов, български литературен критик († 1962 г.)\n 1903 г. – Михалис Стасинопулос, президент на Гърция († 2002 г.)\n 1905 г. – Александър Родимцев, руски генерал († 1997 г.)\n 1907 г. – Константинос Георгиу Караманлис, министър-председател на Гърция († 1998 г.)\n 1914 г. – Олег Нейкирх, български шахматист († 1985 г.)\n 1917 г. – Петър Христосков, български музикант и композитор († 2006 г.)\n 1922 г. – Сид Чарис, американска актриса и танцьорка († 2008 г.)\n 1923 г. – Валтер Йенс, немски литературен историк († 2013 г.)\n 1928 г. – Коста Гоцов, български аграрен учен\n 1929 г. – Видин Даскалов, оперетен певец († 2001 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ебе Камарго, бразилска телевизионна водеща († 2012 г.)\n 1929 г. – Тодор Симов, български волейболист († 2020 г.)\n 1935 г. – Любен Костов, български футболист\n 1936 г. – Вик Неес, белгийски композитор († 2013 г.)\n 1939 г. – Лидия Скобликова, руска състезателка по бързо каране на кънки\n 1941 г. – Иван Илиеф, белгийски политик\n 1943 г. – Лин Редгрейв, британска актриса († 2010 г.)\n 1950 г. – Цветана Каменова, български юрист († 2018 г.)\n 1953 г. – Чавдар Цветков, български футболист\n 1954 г. – Ели Скорчева, българска актриса\n 1958 г. – Гари Нюман, британски певец\n 1961 г. – Мая Хадерлап, австрийска писателка\n 1962 г. – Силвия Русинова, българска актриса\n 1967 г. – Велизар Бинев, български актьор\n 1971 г. – Александър Воронов, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Николай Праматаров, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Милена Маркова, българска актриса\n 1984 г. – Дьорд Гарич, австрийски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1144 г. – Целестин II, римски папа\n 1702 г. – Уилям III, крал на Англия (* 1650 г.)\n 1869 г. – Ектор Берлиоз, френски композитор (* 1803 г.)\n 1873 г. – Робърт Уилям Томсън, шотландски изобретател (* 1822 г.)\n 1874 г. – Милърд Филмор, 13-и президент на САЩ (* 1800 г.)\n 1909 г. – Леон Тери, френски автомобилен състезател (* 1879 г.)\n 1917 г. – Фердинанд фон Цепелин, германски генерал (* 1838 г.)\n 1923 г. – Йоханес ван дер Ваалс, холандски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1837 г.)\n 1941 г. – Шъруд Андерсън, американски писател (* 1876 г.)\n 1942 г. – Хосе Раул Капабланка, кубински шахматист (* 1888 г.)\n 1958 г. – Петър Дървингов, идеолог на Македоно-Одринското опълчение (* 1875 г.)\n 1970 г. – Лео Конфорти, български актьор (* 1911 г.)\n 1971 г. – Харолд Лойд, американски актьор (* 1893 г.)\n 1974 г. – Тодор Герасимов, български археолог и нумизмат (* 1903 г.)\n 1975 г. – Джордж Стивънс, американски режисьор (* 1904 г.)\n 1983 г. – Петко Попганчев, български офицер, летец (* 1905 г.)\n 1984 г. – Ангел Тодоров, български актьор (* 1897 г.)\n 1986 г. – Хуберт Фихте, немски писател (* 1935 г.)\n 1988 г. – Хенрик Шеринг, мексикански цигулар от полски произход (* 1918 г.)\n 1992 г. – Сергей Образцов, руски артист (* 1901 г.)\n 1999 г. – Джо ди Маджо, американски бейзболист (* 1914 г.)\n 2001 г. – Моско Москов, български езковед (* 1927 г.)\n 2005 г. – Аслан Масхадов, чеченски лидер (* 1951 г.)\n 2014 г. – Лари Скот, американски културист (* 1938 г.)\n 2017 г. – Георги Данаилов, български писател (* 1936 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на жената (ООН)\n Световен ден за профилактика на бъбречните заболявания (отбелязва се от 2006 г. през втория четвъртък на март по инициатива на Международното дружество по нефрология и на Международната федерация на фондациите за бъбречни болести) (за 2012 г.)\n Замбия – Ден на младежта\n Либерия – Ден в памет на загиналите герои\n Малайзия – Ден на султана\n Сирия – Ден на революцията\n Православна църква – Ден в памет на свещеномъченик Поликарп\n\n308"
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    {
        "text": "John Schnatter, the founder of the pizza franchise Papa John's, learned a critical management lesson from his father: Train for aptitude, hire for attitude.\nSchnatter’s father, who owned a tavern called Mick’s Lounge, had decided to hire a woman named Denise Robinson to be a cook. The catch? She didn’t know how to cook.\nSchnatter initially thought his father had was crazy for hiring a cook with no skills in the kitchen. But his father insisted she’d be a great employee because of her great attitude. Robinson has been with Mick’s Tavern and now Papa John’s for more than three decades.\nSchnatter’s pizza operation -- which started in a broom closet in the back of Mick’s Tavern -- is a global franchise that racked up $1.4 billion in sales last year alone. Since his broom-closet days, Schnatter has learned a thing or two about being a boss. Top among them is the idea that you need to empower your employees to swim on their own.\nWatch this video to hear more about Schnatter’s views on being a boss."
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: Is it safe to always leave a Macbook Pro on? I have an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected to my Macbook Pro.  I have the lid closed and have it running.  I run it as if it were a desktop PC, always on.  I only shut off the LCD attached to it.  \nIs it safe to always have the Macbook Pro on and running? \nAbout every other week I let the battery drain almost completely.  I also have a Belkin laptop cooling stand running underneath it.  Is there anything else I can do to safely have my MBP running most of the time?\nUpdate:\nJust wanted to add that I have the newer 2010 Macbook Pro.\n\nA: Sure\nThe current uptime on my MacBook is 21 days.\nOne thing to note:\n\n\n*\n\n*I wouldn't drain the battery like that. Lithium ion batteries don't work like NiCa batteries with memory. If you have it continuously plugged in, charge to 60% and then remove the battery.\n\n\nA: Technically, yes, but from a long-term maintenance standpoint, I would reccommend at least rebooting once a week.  I reboot all my Macs first thing Monday morning, after the Sunday night system maintenance runs, and I never have problems with crashes, memory and the like (unless, of course I do something stupid while programming). Even Mac OS X needs a quick refresh every now and then.\nA laptop is really not that much different from a desktop computer; it's still a hard drive, ram, cpu, keyboard, and mouse just in a compact form factor. Anything you would do with a desktop machine, do with your laptop.\n\nA: From a software standpoint, it's perfectly fine to leave your Mac on continuously. It can even be considered recommended, since Mac OS X has a number of optimization scripts that run on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, but can only do so if the computer is on.\nFrom a hardware standpoint, it depends on your model. If you have an older (pre-2008) MacBook with a removable battery, leaving it on and plugged in continuously will kill the battery quick. In that case, you should remove the battery from the machine, only putting it back in occasionally, charging it to around 60%, to keep it in good working order.\nThe new MacBooks with non-removable batteries are designed to be able to be left plugged in constantly. The battery has circuitry to optimize the charge cycles so that the life of the battery is not adversely degraded over time (more than just normal use causes).\n"
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        "text": "Building values-based leadership and civic engagement in California’s youth is important to me. That is why I am proud to volunteer for California YMCA Youth & Government.\nCalifornia YMCA Youth & Government has provided outstanding statewide educational and social experiences close to 100,000 middle and high school youth for more than 70 years.\nTogether we can achieve so much more. Every gift makes a difference. Everyone has a role to play. Please join me and give today.\nJoin George's Team!\nTeam YMCA\nCharles Collins\nTyler Wright\nYMCA of Greater Long Beach\nGlendale YMCA\nHome Start a Team Join a Team Register as a Campaigner Give Contact Us\nThe mission of California YMCA Youth & Government is to build values-based leadership and civic engagement in California’s youth to strengthen our democracy.\n©2019 YMCA of the USA. All rights reserved.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/YOUTHandGOVERNMENT,http://www.twitter.com/calymca,http://www.youtube.com/user/calymca The mission of California YMCA Youth & Government is to build values-based leadership and civic engagement in California’s youth to strengthen our democracy."
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        "text": "Dave Sitek - Quotes\nThere are 19 quotes by Dave Sitek at 95quotes.com. Find your favorite quotations and top quotes by Dave Sitek from this hand-picked collection about music. Feel free to share these quotes and sayings on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr & Twitter or any of your favorite social networking sites.\nBeing in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.\nIf you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds. ---->>>\nI want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror! ---->>>\nI believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!\nI make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go. ---->>>\nI think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts. ---->>>\nMy records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar. ---->>>\nThere are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people. ---->>>\nUnder the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!\nI think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years. ---->>>\nIf we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place. ---->>>\nI moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house. ---->>>\nI spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid. ---->>>\nI'm a behind-the-scenes guy. I've got a face for radio. ---->>>\nSomewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song. ---->>>\nI don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people. ---->>>\nI work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside. ---->>>\nI'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have. ---->>>\nPop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order. ---->>>\nName: Dave Sitek\nOccupation: Musician\nDavid Andrew Sitek (born September 6, 1972) is an American musician, guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with his band TV on the Radio. He has also worked with bands such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals, Celebration, Little Dragon, and most recently Beady Eye, and produced free jazz-influenced remixes of songs by artists such as Beck and Nine Inch Nails, and has contributed a solo track to the Red Hot Organization Dark Was the Night charity compilation (wikipedia)"
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        "text": "Q: How do I use time machine to restore my entire computer, rather than a file? Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?\n\nA: In 10.7 and later you can start up from the recovery system and choose Restore From Time Machine Backup.\n\n\nOr if the backup was made on a different Mac, Apple recommends using Migration Assistant. See Mac Basics: Time Machine:\n\nRestoring your entire system from a backup\nIf you are restoring a backup made by a Mac to the same Mac\nWith your backup drive connected, start up your Mac from the Recovery system (Command-R at startup) or Mac OS X v10.6 installation disc. Then use the \"Restore From Time Machine Backup\" utility.\nNote: If \"You can't restore this backup because it was created by a different model of Mac\" appears when restoring a backup that was made on a different Mac, follow the onscreen instructions.\nIf you are restoring a backup made by one Mac to a completely different Mac\nImportant: If the backup you are about to restore is from a completely different Mac, use the Migration Assistant to transfer data from the backup, as described in the next section.\n\n\nA: The easiest way would be to start 'Migration Assistant' under Applications/Utilities and then select Time Machine (of course, having it already mounted). This will create a new account with all your entire working data and configuration (on any mac).\n\nA: To recover your entire system:\n1) Connect your Time Machine backup disk to your computer.\nIf you’re restoring your system because of a problem with your startup disk, make sure the disk has been repaired or replaced.\n2) Insert your Mac OS X Install disk, and double-click the Install Mac OS X icon.\n3) In the Installer, choose Utilities > Restore System from Backup.\n4) In the Restore Your System dialog, click Continue.\n5) Select your Time Machine backup volume.\n6) Select the Time Machine backup you want to restore.\n7) Follow the onscreen instructions.\n"
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        "text": "Q: How to disable syncing applications without uninstalling them? When I disable syncing apps with my iPad, iTunes uninstalls all apps. How can I make iTunes not mess with it and leave the apps on it, even if I disable synchronization?\nI tried disconnecting immediately after applying, but this doesn't save the changes I made.\n\nThis also happens to my iPods and iPhones.\n\nA: Alternatively you could select sync Apps but choose the applications you want in your iPad and uncheck the Automatically sync new apps. With this you will have only the applications that are selected.\n"
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        "text": "9 март е 68-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (69-и през високосна година). Остават 297 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1074 г. – Папа Григорий VII отлъчва от църквата всички женени свещеници, с което окончателно утвърждава целибата в католическата църква.\n 1230 г. – В Битката при Клокотница българският цар Иван Асен II разбива войските на епирския деспот Теодор Комнин.\n 1497 г. – Николай Коперник извършва и описва първите си астрономически наблюдения.\n 1500 г. – От Португалия за Америка потегля експедицията на Бартоломео Диаш и Педро Кабрала, която открива Бразилия.\n 1831 г. – В Алжир е създаден Френският чуждестранен легион.\n 1842 г. – В театъра Ла Скала в Милано се представя за първи път операта Набуко на италианския композитор Джузепе Верди.\n 1854 г. – В Букурещ е създадено Средоточно попечителство – бъдещата Добродетелна дружина.\n 1916 г. – Мексиканският бунтовник Панчо Виля напада щата Ню Мексико.\n 1923 г. – Владимир Ленин получава инсулт за трети път, остава прикован на легло и е неспособен да говори, поради което окончателно напуска всички официални постове, които заема.\n 1933 г. – Българските комунисти Георги Димитров, Благой Попов и Васил Танев са арестувани и обвинени за подпалването на Райхстага.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: По границите на България с Югославия и Гърция е настанена 680 хил. германска армия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Американската авиация извършва мащабни Бомбардировки на Токио, при която е разрушена голяма част от сградите в града и загиват над 80 хил. души.\n 1953 г. – Инцидент и паника стават причина за загиването на стотици хора по време на церемонията по погребението на Йосиф Сталин.\n 1959 г. – Куклата Барби е показана за първи път на панаир за играчки в САЩ.\n 1967 г. – Дъщерята на Сталин Светлана Алилуева, иска политическо убежище и емигрира в САЩ.\n 1977 г. – В САЩ и Канада е забранено използването на захарин в хранителните продукти и лекарствата.\n 1985 г. – В Народна република България е извършен атентат на гара Буново, при който загиват 7 души.\n 1991 г. – В Белград се провеждат мащабни демонстрации против Слободан Милошевич. Двама души са убити, а на улицата са изкарани танкове.\n 2006 г. – Открита е течна вода на луната Енцелад, спътник на Сатурн.\n 2008 г. – Осъществен е първият полет на АТК.\n\nРодени \n\n 1454 г. – Америго Веспучи, италиански мореплавател († 1512 г.)\n 1564 г. – Давид Фабрициус, фризийзки астроном († 1617 г.)\n 1721 г. – Каролина фон Пфалц-Цвайбрюкен, ландграфиня на Хесен-Дармщат († 1774 г.)\n 1758 г. – Франц Йозеф Гал, немски лекар (* 1828 г.)\n 1814 г. – Тарас Шевченко, украински поет († 1861 г.)\n 1849 г. – Христо Телятинов български свещеник († 1913 г.)\n 1859 г. – Петер Алтенберг, австрийски писател († 1919 г.)\n 1870 г. – Христо Чаракчиев, български военен деец († ? г.)\n 1873 г. – Тане Николов, български революционер († 1947 г.)\n 1874 г. – Иван Ботушанов, български революционер († 1919 г.)\n 1878 г. – Иван Сматракалев, български революционер († 1946 г.)\n 1882 г. – Коста Лулчев, български политик († 1965 г.)\n 1889 г. – Григорий Левенфиш, руски шахматист († 1961 г.)\n 1890 г. – Вячеслав Молотов, съветски политик († 1986 г.)\n 1898 г. – Асен Павлов, български политик († 1977 г.)\n 1907 г. – Мирча Елиаде, историк на религиите († 1986 г.)\n 1911 г. – Здравко Александров, български живописец († 1998 г.)\n 1918 г. – Джордж Линкълн Рокуел, американски неонацист († 1967 г.)\n 1918 г. – Мики Спилейн, американски писател († 2006 г.)\n 1926 г. – Иван Давидков, български поет († 1990 г.)\n 1933 г. – Панайот Щерев, български учен († 2019 г.)\n 1933 г. – Филип Рот, американски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1934 г. – Юрий Гагарин, съветски космонавт († 1968 г.)\n 1943 г. – Боби Фишер, американски шахматист († 2008 г.)\n 1943 г. – Енчо Мутафов, български критик († 2009 г.)\n 1950 г. – Йордан Кичеков, български футболист\n 1955 г. – Орнела Мути, италианска актриса\n 1958 г. – Руси Гочев, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Маркос Соарес Татагиба, бразилски хирург\n 1964 г. – Жулиет Бинош, френска актриса\n 1967 г. – Елена Бойчева, българска актриса\n 1969 г. – Ихсан Хаккъ, български политик и инженер\n 1974 г. – Армен Назарян, български борец\n 1974 г. – Лео Бианки, италиански и български певец\n 1982 г. – Жан-Франсоа Есига, френски волейболист\n 1983 г. – Маите Перони, мексиканска певица\n 1986 г. – Фахрадин Фахрадинов, български актьор\n 1989 г. – Ким Тейон, южнокорейска певица\n 1993 г. – Мин Юн-Ги, южнокорейски рапър, продуцент и автор на песни от групата Би Ти ЕС (BTS)\n\nПочинали \n\n 1403 г. – Баязид I, султан на Османската империя (* ок. 1354)\n 1661 г. – Кардинал Мазарини, френски политик (* 1602 г.)\n 1851 г. – Ханс Кристиан Оерстед, датски физик (* 1777 г.)\n 1888 г. – Вилхелм I, пруски крал, германски император (* 1797 г.)\n 1907 г. – Иван Соколов, български революционер (* 1844 г.)\n 1918 г. – Франк Ведекинд, немски писател (* 1864 г.)\n 1926 г. – Микао Усуи, основател на Рейки (* 1865 г.)\n 1944 г. – Карел Шкорпил, чешко-български археолог (* 1859 г.)\n 1946 г. – Стефан Ватев, български лекар (* 1866 г.)\n 1960 г. – Ценко Цветанов, български писател и библиограф (* 1904 г.)\n 1964 г. – Паул фон Летов-Форбек, германски генерал (* 1870 г.)\n 1988 г. – Курт Георг Кизингер, германски политик (* 1904 г.)\n 1992 г. – Менахем Бегин, министър-председател на Израел, Нобелов лауреат (* 1913 г.)\n 1993 г. – Ваня Войнова, българска баскетболистка (* 1934 г.)\n 1994 г. – Фернандо Рей, испански актьор (* 1917 г.)\n 1994 г. – Чарлз Буковски, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1995 г. – Едуард Бернайс, американски социолог (* 1891 г.)\n 1996 г. – Джордж Бърнс, американски актьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1997 г. – The Notorious B.I.G., хип-хоп музикант (* 1972 г.)\n 2000 г. – Пенчо Богданов, български инженер (* 1931 г.)\n 2008 г. – Александър Лепавцов, македонски политик (* 1935 г.)\n 2011 г. – Давид Попов, български футболист (* 1927 г.)\n 2014 г. – Валентин Фъртунов, български журналист и писател (* 1957 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на диджея  – отбелязва се от 2002 г. по инициатива на Световния диджей фонд и организацията „Нордоф Робинс мюзик терапи“\n Българска православна църква – Свети Четиридесет мъченици Севастийски\n Белиз – Ден на Барон Блис († 9 март 1926 г.)\n\n309"
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        "text": "Q: Search a phrase using Spotlight I find Spotlight very very useful, however I would like to be able to search for documents that contain a given phrase, i.e. words appearing together, instead of anywhere in a document. Do you know of any way or plugin to perform such a search?\n\nA: From the Mac OS X 10.5 Help\n\nUse quotation marks around text to\n  search for exact phrases — the same\n  way you do with most Internet\n  searches. For example, enter “trip to\n  France” in the search field to find\n  items on your computer that contain\n  that exact phrase. If you didn't use\n  quotes, the search results would\n  include items that contain any of\n  those words.\n\n"
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        "text": "ActOfDefianceMetal.com\nShows | Tours\nAct of Defiance signs with Metal Blade Records\nPublished February 26, 2015 | By Ms. A\nNew band featuring Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, Henry Derek, and Matt Bachand\nUpon exiting the ranks of Megadeth, the world eagerly awaited news as to what was next for Chris Broderick (guitars) and Shawn Drover (drums). The duo are now excited to announce their worldwide signing to Metal Blade Records for their new group ACT OF DEFIANCE, which is rounded out by Henry Derek (ex-Scar The Martyr) on vocals and Matt Bachand (Shadows Fall) on bass. They are currently recording their debut offering with world renowned producer Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall). Look for this album to be released sometime this summer. However, in the meantime, click of the link below for a sneak peek into a rough demo snippet of the track “Throwback.”\n“Throwback” Song Snippet\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8uFI7cYN3I\nBroderick states: “I am so excited to finally be able to announce ACT OF DEFIANCE to the world. Shawn just finished tracking drums the first week of February and his performance and tones are simply incredible. I have started tracking rhythms and leads, as well as working with Henry to get final vocal takes while Matt will record bass at his studio. The final mix and mastering will also be handled by Chris Harris.\n“I am also very honored to announce that we have signed with Metal Blade Records. There is not a better label to be on than one where the employees (and owner) still understand and listen to METAL! They have shown a loyalty, backing and drive for their artists that few other labels have. As for our music, I am really enjoying the ability to create what is a killer mix of thrash and modern metal. It has a unique combination ranging from thrash to classical influences. I am very proud of what we have written and hope that you all dig it.“\nDrover adds: “Having our new band, ACT OF DEFIANCE, sign with Metal Blade Records is a real thrill for me. I started my musical career with Brian Slagel and the Metal Blade family many years ago, so to come full circle at this point is a real musical home-coming, of sorts. I couldn’t be happier about that.\n“What thrills me the most is the fact that myself, Chris Broderick, Henry Derek and Matt Bachand all have in common is that from the get-go, we wanted this band to be 100% PURE Heavy Metal! No compromises, no ulterior motives other than making the best HEAVY METAL music we can. Metal Blade shares this vision, which really puts us all on the same page, musically.“\nBachand states: “I couldn’t be more excited to begin this new adventure with ACT OF DEFIANCE. The positive energy that has collected between the four of us in such a little amount of time has been nothing short of incredible. Writing bass lines is something new for me as well, and I am looking forward to the challenge. All the songs are coming together great and I can’t wait for the world to hear this.“\nDerek comments: “I’m extremely honored and excited to be a part of AOD. Everyone has been super cool and supportive, which is always a huge plus. I know this is going to be an awesome musical experience and the fact that I’m embarking on this journey with good people means everything. Cheers.“\nBrian Slagel further comments: “I am super excited to welcome ACT OF DEFIANCE to the Metal Blade family. I have known Chris and Shawn over the years and really admired their work. I am honored to be able to work with these two legendary musicians. Really excited to work with all the guys on this exciting new band!“\nPosted in Music | Tagged metal blade, song\nChris Broderick\nTweets by @ActOfDefiance1\nallegaeon billboard birth and the burial metal blade song stream u.s.a. website\nAct Of Defiance © 2015. All Rights Reserved.\nSite Design by Ms. A."
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        "text": "Q: How can I make Back to my Mac Screen Sharing go full screen? I've got two macs, both with the same monitor. When I use Back to my Mac Screen Sharing from Mac A to Mac B, I see the full screen of Mac B, but it's in a window on Mac A, and the image is scaled a little bit.\nAlso, since I set up all my machines the same way, the dock is on the bottom and has auto hide enabled for both. When I try to expose my doc on Mac B, My cursor winds up leaving the window and exposing the dock on Mac A. \nIs there any way to get that screen sharing window to go full screen, the way something like VMWare or Parallels does? I tried other VNC clients, but Apple's Screen Sharing is the most responsive.\n\nA: Up to 10.5.4 included, it was possible to add, among other possibilities, a full screen item to Apple Screen Sharing application : .\nBut, from 10.5.5 they remove all these features and so, the simple trick becomes more hacky.\nI don't know why Apple remove these options, but anyway, if you want them back and if you're not scared about tweaking Screen Sharing application with XCode or if you have a backup of Mac OS X 10.5.4, here's an how-to.\n\nA: As far as I know, the only way to get full screen is with Apple Remote Desktop or a third party VNC client.  \n\nA: The screen sharing client in OS X Lion supports the new full screen mode.\n"
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        "text": "My parents were instrumental in cultivating my love for music at a very young age. Although they eventually pursued academic careers in psychology and education, my Mom was at one time an accomplished classical pianist and my Dad is still a very gifted jazz pianist. I am forever grateful to them for inspiring my love for music and the creative arts.\nI began studying classical guitar as a seven-year-old, but it wasn’t until I was almost twenty that I discovered my love for singing. That discovery coincided with the dawn of my interest in meditation and spiritual inquiry, and during that time, I began to write poetry and songs that reflected those new yearnings and awakenings. That was thirty-nine years ago and to this day, I continue to find music to be a remarkable vehicle for giving voice to the ineffable. The poet Rumi reminds us: “Let the beauty that we love be what we do.” The creation and sharing of this music is one of my favorite ways to express this love for the mystery and the miracle that is every moment.\nJohn's latest recording, What We've Always Been, contains 12 beautifully arranged songs. Titles include: \"Dazzling Darkness,\" \"Take What Has Been Given,\" and \"The Seeker Is the Sought.\" It also includes a moving rendition of the well-loved Rumi poem, \"Out Beyond Ideas.\"\nAlready Shining was originally recorded live at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in November of 2005. It features eight new compositions along with live renderings of two previously released songs, \"Love, Serve, and Remember,\" and \"True Emptiness.\" Already Shining also features two beautiful compositions based on the poetry of Adyashanti. Titles include: \"Fall in Love with Now,\" \"Too Intimate for Words,\" and \"Only the Mystery.\"\nVoice of the Mystics: This release features beautiful compositions with lyrics from the poetry of great mystics such as Rumi, Kabir, and Jesus. Includes a stirring rendition of the Buddhist prayer of lovingkindness. Titles include \"We Are the Mirror,\" \"Dwell in the Peace,\" \"Wake Up This Morning\" and \"Impermanence.\"\nWith this recording of Clear Blue Mind, John continues his tradition of evocative songs of meditation and spiritual contemplation that point us to the Deeper Reality. Titles include \"One Without a Second,\" \"Transparent to the Light,\" \"Submerged in Light,\" and \"True Emptiness.\"\nNow is the Time is a compilation CD featuring 15 of John’s most well-loved songs drawn from his first three studio recordings (circa 1986-90): \"Into the Light,\" Wake to the Beauty,\" and \"Winds of Grace.\" Featured titles include \"Make Me an Instrument,\" \"Heavenly Rain,\" \"Winds of Grace,\" and \"Sanctuary.\"\nThis recording once again showcases the talents of Gourd Music recording artists Barry and Shelley Phillips and the keyboard artistry of Jay Jackson. John is also joined on several songs by members of the Santa Cruz-based Mt. Madonna Choir. Reflections features nine inspiring compositions including \"Believe in Love\" and \"The Witness.\"\nRemembrance: This magnificently crafted recording from 1991 features the song \"Love, Serve & Remember,\" which has become John’s signature piece. The recording also includes the popular titles \"There Is a Light,\" and \"Dance of the One,\" along with two exquisite instrumentals."
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        "text": "Voters to decide fate of water bond this November\nIssue Date: August 20, 2014\nFinding agreement on the $7.5 billion water bond measure headed to the November ballot wasn't easy—it involved years of hard work by many stakeholders, including the California Farm Bureau Federation—but participants in the discussion said it's a key step in addressing the critical need to upgrade the state's broken water system.\n\"The severe water shortages we're currently experiencing result from 30 years of neglecting our water-storage system,\" CFBF President Paul Wenger said. \"That neglect is magnified by the drought, and it's time to reverse that pattern of neglect. Placing this water bond on the November ballot gives Californians a chance to provide more water for our cities, for food production and for the environment.\"\nCFBF Administrator Rich Matteis said passage of the water bond bill last week marked the end of more than five years of sustained effort.\n\"Farm Bureau has been involved in this issue since the beginning, working for a bond that would maximize the investment in new water storage for California,\" Matteis said. \"But as much as the passage of the bond bill marked the end of that process, it also signaled the beginning of a campaign to show Californians the essential need to invest in our state's water system.\"\nMatteis noted that the water bond will come before voters in less than 11 weeks, meaning that supporters of new water investment will need to move quickly to solidify support for the measure.\n\"Farm Bureau members are uniquely positioned to work at the grassroots level to educate and build public awareness for much-needed water improvements,\" Matteis said. \"Every Californian has a stake in the voter outcome in November, but none more than farmers and ranchers who depend on adequate, reliable water supplies.\"\nThe revised bond measure includes $2.7 billion for water storage projects and that money will be continuously appropriated, Matteis noted, meaning that future Legislatures will not be able to redirect it to other uses.\n\"This bond represents the state's largest investment in water storage in more than 30 years,\" Wenger said, \"and it couldn't come at a more critical time.\"\nThe current drought has shown that California has lived too long with an outdated water-storage system, he said.\n\"We need to update that system to match changing weather patterns, in which more precipitation will fall as rain rather than as snow,\" Wenger said. \"Additional surface storage can capture those strong storm surges when they come, reduce flooding and bank that water for later dry times.\"\nIn addition to new surface and groundwater storage projects, proceeds from the sale of bonds—if approved by voters—would be used for regional water reliability, sustainable groundwater management and cleanup, water recycling, water conservation, watershed protection and safe drinking water, particularly for disadvantaged communities.\nAssociation of California Water Agencies Executive Director Tim Quinn called the revised water bond the \"right size at the right time for California.\"\nNoting the bond includes $100 million that can be used by local agencies for groundwater plans and projects, the Kern County Water Agency commended those who negotiated the final version of the measure. The water bond also includes new funding for a variety of local water programs through integrated regional water management plans, or IRWMPs. Specifically, the bond measure would allocate $34 million to IRWMPs in the Tulare/Kern watershed.\nThe California Water Alliance, whose members include Central Valley farmers and agricultural businesses, applauded the bond's placement on the November ballot.\n\"Most importantly, it recognizes that Californians statewide, from all walks of life, cannot afford to carry the burden of a dysfunctional water system that has been exacerbated by the worst drought in California history,\" said Aubrey Bettencourt, executive director of the alliance.\nThe drought, she said, has resulted in dramatic levels of unemployment, higher food prices, increased utility costs, water rationing and severe losses for California farms, many of which have had to fallow thousands of acres.\n\"This bond provides the means to begin upgrading California's water system for the 21st century, including new storage facilities and clean water projects for underprivileged communities,\" Bettencourt said.\n(Kate Campbell is an assistant editor of Ag Alert. She may be contacted at kcampbell@cfbf.com.)"
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        "text": "Calculate your Taxi Fare Kaarst now!\nHow do we calculate taxi fare in Kaarst?\nThen we calculate an estimate for your upcoming taxi ride in Kaarst based on the route profile and the valid taxi tariff.\nStart and destination addresses do not necessarily have to be in Kaarst. We automatically find the right tariff."
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        "text": "If there’s anything Star Wars fans know about Gareth Edwards, it’s that he’s a very hands-on director. A recent demonstration shows how Industrial Light and Magic found a way to bring Edwards’ physical camerawork to the digital stage for Rogue One, using virtual reality.\nBBC Click shared a visit to ILM London to get a behind-the-scenes peek at Rogue One’s digital prowess, in the wake of its Visual Effects Oscar nomination. During the interview, computer graphics supervisor Steve Ellis discussed how much ILM admired Edwards’ ability to get physical with his camerawork on set, and revealed that the visual effects advisor wanted him to be able to do that digitally.\nSo, they created what Ellis called a real-time virtual reality system, which was basically an iPad hooked up to an HTC Vive virtual reality controller. They’d pull up a digital scene for him, like the Star Destroyer’s scary reveal at the newly constructed Death Star. Then, using Steam VR tracking, Edwards would physically move the screen around, pinpointing what angle he’d want the shot to begin at and where he would want it to end up. The VFX artists would map out the scene’s progression to match.\nThis kind of filmmaking isn’t new. Peter Jackson used a form of augmented reality to direct VFX shots for Lord of the Rings, and a lot of advancements in simulcam tech were developed for James Cameron’s Avatar. However, Rogue One’s VR work is something else entirely... mainly because it’s so accessible. Thanks to the advancements in virtual reality, ILM was able to rig a basic tablet to a consumer-grade VR device and digitally direct a multi-million dollar picture. Director Jon Favreau said he’ll be using similar VR tech for digital site scouting and shot planning for the live-action The Lion King movie.\nIt’s kind of incredible how VR you could purchase at Best Buy helped make the movie such a success. Rogue One’s final battles are some of the most dynamic scenes in Star Wars history, digital or physical. Edwards may have been using a fake camera, but the movie magic was entirely real."
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        "text": "You give me the strength to shovel up all this light snow on my driveway! Hahaha!!!\nBon Hivers Québécois ( Happy winter Quebecers )!!!\nBut as Prue put her arm in free adult passwords mine andwe went upstairs together, she whispered in my ear:How glad I am that you don’t wear spectacles.Morland, she intends asking some of herfriends to meet us, in sexually feuchte muschis sexmachine case we accept the invitation; and therefore isnaturally desirous of a reply as soon as possible.As I will explain later, those are merelysymbols of the Church–Of wot? interrupted the foreman, in deep scorn hure breitbeinig.Horner not to betray the intimacy; so that hewas in honor bound to restrict himself to the language of the eyeshard sm gayboy as it was to forbear the single whisper for which he would havegiven his very dictionary.\nHappy Valentine (for the people who consider this a sort of…”Special day”?whatever…).\nLots of LOVE to everybody !!!\nEnjoy Love and apreciate Life!\nHAHAHAHAHA!!! That first pic is hilarious, Melissa!\nNew album? Cool. But when r u coming to NYC?\nlet’s start with a virtual kiss in all of your forheads!\nHappy Valentines Day Beautiful!!! From a lonely Soul who sees you as inspiration.\n…even if your message is very short, you spread the doubt in my mind! But I appreciate you pretty “Dorota” and there is “nodoubt” about it! If I just could meet you Dorota, I’ll be very happy!!!!\nI am always so slow at keeping track of melissa’s blog. always so terribly slow, and this diabolical heat allways seems to make everything slower. Wish I was in Melissa’s winter valentines.\nTo our UNIVERSE, MELISSA my Majesty!!!!\nI like the little feathery folk, they come and have dustbaths on my lawn scorched dry under the unrelenting sun.\nwhy are my posts showing up as Doctor, I am not the Doctor. I am Doctor Rock, it;s a proper name first name Doctor Last name Rock.\nI read your wonderful Valentine’s “Lovebirds Everywhere” poem and thought I’d share this little love poem from my Ez Sez blog that yours reminded me of.\nBut aside from the fact that we’ll probably never meet, I’d like to say how pleased I am that you’re doing another album.\nI thing you are a vital musician and writer and I love your first album. Sometimes i put Head Unbound on replay so that i can hear it about 20 times in a row. Soooo good!\nBTW, are you using Joe Barissi on this new album?"
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        "text": "Q: Free viewer for Excel files other than OpenOffice Other than OpenOffice, can you suggest a light free viewer for Excel files?\n\nA: Quick Look can be set to allow copying of text.  Launch Terminal and type the following command:\ndefaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true\n\nThen restart the Finder with the following command:\nkillall Finder\n\nAfter selecting use the keyboard ⌘+C to copy.\nRead more at Cult of Mac\nEDIT\nSelecting text seems to be disabled in OS X 10.11.  But this Terminal hack works in many versions prior to 10.11.\n\nA: Isn't Quick Look enough?\nYou could also try to upload them on Google Docs.\n\nA: I myself use OS X's Quick Look. I think it's good enough.\nJust select your xls (or xlsx) file and do one of the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*press Space\n\n*press ⌘ Y\n\n*right click and choose Quick Look\n\n\nand the file will be viewable in a separate window. Press Space again to close.\nQuick Look can also be opened in full screen by pressing ⌥ Space or  ⌥ ⌘ Y in the Finder. Press Esc to exit full screen.\n\nA: Apple Numbers can be used to view Excel spreadsheet files. Numbers is available for macOS, iOS and web. Numbers which was previously a paid app is now available free of cost. Numbers web app can be used on compatible browsers even on a Windows and Linux computer.\n\nA: This answer is just to provide an update as of March 2016\nMicrosoft Office Online will allow you to not just view, but create, edit, and save Excel documents without having the software installed.\n\nFor a complete list of features available for Excel Online, check out the page on support.office.com page\n"
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        "text": "Q: App that scans local network for shared folders? I'm looking for an application that can scan my local network and report any shared folders it finds.  I've tried iStumbler, but it only gives you information on machines that are sharing with Bonjour.  Anything out there that looks harder, ie. shows samba, nfs, etc?\non edit\nThe real issue here is that I have an external disk drive connected to my router, and I would like to make sure that the samba share I've created on it is working.  Basically I want a port scanner that is user-friendly and will give lots of information about what is really being exposed on the network.\n\nA: Finder by default will show shared folders for most services.\nFor an more in depth look at what a machine is running you can always port scan the heck out of it. Then connecting is as easy as memorizing proper instructions over telnet or plugging into Finders 'Connect to Server' dialog.\nnmap (really sudo nmap) is one of the fastest, most informative port scanning tools out there. It spanks the pants off any GUI for speed and service comprehension. Try something like the the following.\n# [target ip] = Ip of the host to scan\nsudo nmap -PN -n -sV --version-all [target ip]\n\n\nA: Just to add more information, OS X has a portscan application since Panther (as far as I can remember). Network Utility (in /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility.app) will do a Port Scan.\nI lacks the power of nmap, but it’s a quick way to see if a service is running. namp is god anyway.\n\n"
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        "text": "ABC Expresses Concerns to Obama Administration on Upcoming OFCCP Rules\nWednesday, August 14, 2013 10:50 PM - Kinsey Cooper - Politics & Policy, Regulations -\nAssociated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Aug. 8 met with White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials to voice concerns about two anticipated final rules from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that drastically alter existing affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations regarding individuals with disabilities and veterans. The rules are under the final stages of review by OMB and would:\nUpdate Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act by mandating arbitrary quotas (referred to as “goals”) for hiring disabled workers for all contractors with a government contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more and 50 or more employees. The proposal also requires construction contractors for the first time to file written utilization analyses – documentation of a contractor’s workforce statistics to determine whether the percentage of “protected” employees meets affirmative action requirements for federal projects.\nAmend the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act to require federal contractors and subcontractors to conduct more substantive analyses of recruitment and placement actions and to benchmark the effectiveness of affirmative action efforts, in addition to revising recordkeeping requirements.\nDuring the meeting, ABC reiterated that its members support and comply with OFCCP’s existing objectives under these statutes to address employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities and veterans, but noted serious concerns regarding specific requirements in the new proposals.\nABC cautioned that OFCCP’s rules, as proposed, will introduce numerous, burdensome new data collection and reporting provisions and set infeasible compliance requirements for federal construction contractors. ABC cited various studies that illustrate the expected high costs of compliance—for all contractors and specifically for the construction industry—and the lack of evidence that federal contractors fail to meet their obligations in hiring persons with disabilities and veterans.\nABC stressed to OMB that OFCCP did not take into account the unique nature of construction hiring and work practices when developing the rules. According to OFCCP itself, the construction workforce is “fluid” and “transitory,” which has historically warranted a different approach toward compliance.\nAs a result of improperly assessing the rule’s impact on the construction industry, OFCCP also failed to accurately and adequately measure the costs of compliance—estimated by the agency to be a mere nine hours and $560 per contractor for the veterans rule, and 7.8 hours and $473 per contractor for the disability rule.\nOMB has up to 60 days to approve the rules or send them back to OFCCP for further review. However, it is believed that DOL is pressuring the White House to fast track them. Accordingly, ABC expects finalization and implementation in the near future.\nIn addition, OFCCP and the General Services Administration have lowered the contract threshold for projects to be considered “mega” from $50 million to $25 million and OFCCP plans to impose additional affirmative action requirements on the construction industry in a forthcoming rulemaking proposal, expected later this year.\nABC will continue to monitor and OFCCP’s rulemakings, advocate for federal contractors and provide updates as new information becomes available.\nassociated builders and contractors, OFCCP\n« FMCSA Will Not Enforce Hours of Service Off-Duty Time for Short-Haul Drivers\nCURT Young Professionals Leadership Summit Sept. 23-24 »\nMarch Construction Unemployment Rates Down Year-over-year in 37 States"
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        "text": "Q: Recommendations for purchasing low cost but Powerful Macs I've started to a lot of video editing with Adobe Premiere CS5 and After Effects CS5. I don't really have the money for a new Mac Pro. I feel that laptops are general underpowered and I have no need to be mobile.\nWhere should I look for low cost Intel Macs that fit my needs? In general, I don't think refurbished Macs from Apple are low cost.\n\nA: How do you feel about a used machine? A one or two year old Mac Pro tower is still a very nice machine for video editing, and you could likely find one on eBay for a fraction of the cost of a brand new one.\n\nA: For a while now I've felt that the best 'bang for buck' that Apple sell is the iMac range. \nThe laptops are wondrous machines but they are expensive and they do top-out in terms of performance at a certain point, and connectivity to other devices can become limited. The Mac Pro/towers are fabulous (I used to have a dual 2.5 G5) but you do pay a lot for that expandability and engineering - a quick look on eBay will show you that both the laptops and the towers can still command near-new prices, especially as Apple owners will often tend to get Applecare, keep the original packaging and use Apple-approved type parts and upgrades.\nThe Mac Mini unfortunately has increased in price as the spec has improved and I now think it's quite an expensive way to get a Mac.\nA second hand Intel iMac, or even a low-end brand new one, gives a good mix of reasonable CPU, upgradeable memory (to a point), plenty of scope for FW800, FW400 and USB external connections as well as a potential internal hard drive upgrade if you get really desperate. It will happily drive an external monitor, something that in my experience people new to Mac don't realise (they think that it's all about the built-in screen and nothing else). \nIt's obviously more of a commodity machine than the towers and that's reflected in the price - you can get an awful lot of iMac for the same kind of price as the entry-level laptop. And if you can find a second-hand or factory-refurbed model, even better!\n\nA: Prices and availability on refurbished Macs directly from Apple vary from day to day (and sometimes hour to hour), and you can often get exceptionally good deals there. For instance, they've currently got a mini for 26% off ($589 versus $799). Yes, some days, there's nothing worth mentioning—but the following day, there might be, so it's worth checking back.\nThe best part of buying Apple refurbs, of course, is that they come with the same full warranty as Apple's brand-new hardware.\n[Whoops, looks like the mini sold out while I was writing this, which kinda proves my point…]\n\nA: Best way to get cheap Macs is from schools that are getting rid of old hardware. Granted most of that hardware is crap.\nIf you're near local schools (or cough eBay) take a gander through anything the photography classes are getting rid of. \nAlso checkout refurbished computers directly from Apple. You mentioned that you don't find these low cost, but 15-20% off (in most cases) is pretty decent.\nIn terms of new computers, I would recommend one of the Mac Mini. It's a stout little machine, and doesn't tie you into a particular monitor.  \n"
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        "text": "SciencePG Frontiers\nVolume 3, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages: 1-10\nSimulation of Digital Optical Receiver of Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection\nManuel Vítor Martingo Coelho\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Higher Technical Institute, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal\nTo cite this article:\nManuel Vítor Martingo Coelho. Simulation of Digital Optical Receiver of Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection. Communications. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2015, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.11648/j.com.20150301.11\nAbstract: This article presents the implementation of an interactive software that integrates various functional blocks of an optical receiver of intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD), with OOK (on-off keying) digital modulation and NRZ (non-return-to-zero) pulse format. The software allows for the isolated simulation of each block, as well as the complete simulation of the whole system. We underline the following results presented by the simulator: theeye diagram, the probability density functions of the samples, Bode diagram, bandwidth, transimpedance gain, signal-to-noise ratio, power of the different noise sources and the bit error probability of the simulated system.\nKeywords: Interactive Simulator, Optical Receiver, Optical Amplifier, Photodetector, Electrical Preamplifier, IM-DD\nAbstract Keywords 1. Introduction 2. Simulator 2.1. Developing the Simulator 2.2. Operating the Simulator 3. Optical Preamplification 3.1. Optical Amplifier 3.2. Optical Amplifier – EDFA 3.3. Optical Filter 3.4. EDFA Preamplifier and Optical Filter Simulation 4. Photodetector 4.1. PIN Photodiode 4.2. Avalanche Photodiode (APD) 4.3. Photo Detection Noise without Optical Preamplification 4.4. Photo Detection Noise with Optical Preamplification 4.5. Photodetector Simulation 5. Electrical Preamplifier 5.1. Voltage Preamplifier 5.2. High Impedance Preamplifier 5.3. Transimpedance Preamplifier 5.4. Simulation of the Electrical Preamplifier 6. Complete Optical Receiver 6.1. Bit Error Probability 6.2. Optical Receiver Simulation 7. Final Conclusions, Perspectives of Future Work and Original Contributions 7.1. Final Conclusions 7.2. Perspectives of Future Work 7.3. Original Contributions Acknowledgements References\nThe first optical fibre commercial transmission systems were deployed at the end of the seventies [1] and have gone through an exponential evolution up to the present. The reasons behind the enormous success of optic fibre transmission have to do with the following [2]-[5]: large bandwidth, immunity to electromagnetic interference, reduced attenuation, low cost, reduced dimensions and greater reliability.\nThe optical receivers can be based on direct detection orcoherent detection.\nIn direct detection, the photodetector of the optical receiver generates a current that is proportional to the optical power that falls on it, in which case the information, which can be either analogue or digital, is encoded into the signal intensity. When it comes to digital transmission, the modulation that is used more frequently is OOK, where, ideally, the \"0\" bit corresponds to the absence of light and the \"1\" bit corresponds to the presence of light. In this case the pulses, in the NRZ form (non-return-to-zero – thepulse occupies the whole period of the bit) orRZ form (return-to-zero – the pulse only occupies a fraction of the bit period)must be, imperatively, unipolar. The NRZ pulses are used more often because they need a lesser electrical bandwidth from the receiver. However, in the case of non-linear propagation of solitons in the optic fibre, the pulses cannot have the NRZ form due to the width characteristics of the soliton type pulse. In this case RZ encoding is used where the light pulses do not occupy more than 20% to 25% of the bit period[6].\nIn coherent detection, information arrives at the optic receiver modulated on a carrier wave by \"ASK\" (Amplitude-Shift Keying), \"FSK\" (Frequency-Shift Keying) or \"PSK\" (Phase-Shift Keying). The coherent detection can also be heterodyne or homodyne. In both cases the receiver needs a local optical oscillator (laser diode), where the output is adequately \"mixed\" with the received optical signal so as to obtain the information contained in the optical carrier.\nAlthough good results have been obtained through coherent detection, direct detection is used more widely due to its simplicity. The option for direct detection was further promoted by the emergence of optical amplifiers, which bridged some of the weaknesses of this type of detection [7].\nAlthough there are presently simulators for optical communications systems, as are the case of the Optiwave, VPIphotonics simulators and also the OptSim simulator from Rsoft, the development of new, easily accessible tools which are focused on certain more specific aspects of the study are, always, an added value to education, research and development in this area.\n2. Simulator\n2.1. Developing the Simulator\nThe simulator was developed in four distinct phases: Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing. The simulator was developed in Matlab language, also known as M-code, since it is a simple and very popular language in the education andresearch areas.\nThe simulator can be run on computers with different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac). To this effect, all you have to do is to launch the installation file \"MCR\" (Matlab Compiler Runtime). After the installation the computer does not need any version of Matlab to run the simulator.\n2.2. Operating the Simulator\nThe program starts with a Welcome window (Fig. 2.1) representing the simulator’s main menu.\nFigure 2.1. Simulator Main Menu.\nThere are five buttons available on this menu, which are numbered 1 to 5 in Fig. 2.1,for easy reference:\n• Button 1 → Change of version (in this case, to the Portuguese version);\n• Button 2 → Isolated simulation of the EDFA preamplifier with optic filter;\n• Button 3 → Isolated simulation of the photodetector;\n• Button 4 → Isolated simulation of the electrical preamplifier and the equalizer;\n• Button 4 → Complete simulation of the optical receiver.\nWhen the user presses any of the buttons (with the exception of the change of version button) a new window opens where the requested simulation can be run.\nThe windows of the different simulations will be displayed during the course of this article.\n3. Optical Preamplification\n3.1. Optical Amplifier\nThe two main types of optical amplifiers are: semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) and doped-optical fibre amplifiers (DFA) [8].\nThe semiconductor optical amplifiers operate identically to the semiconductor lasers and present worse amplification characteristics than the doped-optical fibre amplifiers.\nThe doped-optical fibre amplifiers are obtained by doping an optic fibre with chemical elements belonging to the \"rare earth\" group. The optical amplifier most used in recent years is the EDFA (Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier) due to the simplicity of its manufacture, its easy coupling to the fibre and also due to the fact that its amplification spectrum coincides with the minimum of attenuation of the optic fibres, which corresponds to \"1550 nm\" [16]. The EDFA uses erbium in its ionic form (Er+3) to dope the fibre.\n3.2. Optical Amplifier – EDFA\nThe EDFA amplifier consists of a section of silica fibre with a nominal length ranging from 10 m to 30 m, doped with erbium ions (e.g. 1000 ppm). The doped fibre is pumped through a laser pump with a wavelength of 980 nm or 1 480 nm.\n3.2.1. EDFA Gain\nAccording to ITU (International Telecommunications Union), 35 nm [9](from 1 530 nm to 1 565 nm) is considered to be a useful band of amplification of the EDFA. On the other hand, with the increase in power of the input signal, the EDFA gain diminishes. This effect is called gain saturation, and it occurs when the population inversion is significantly reduced due to the high number of photons of the input signal. So therefore, the EDFA gain may be expressed through the conservation of energy principle[8]:\nwhere \"G0\" represents the optical gain of the amplifier,\"λp\" is the wavelength of the laser pump, \"λs\" is the wavelength of the signal, \"Pp,in\" the maximum power of the laser pump and \"Ps,in\" is the power of the EDFA input signal.\n3.2.2. EDFA Noise\nDuring the EDFA amplification process, the amplified spontaneous emission(ASE) takes place and some photons are transmitted when the carriers pass spontaneously to their fundamental level. These photons appear as noise at the amplifier output.\nSince there are two polarisation modes in the optic fibre and admitting that the noise power distributes itself equally in the two modes, the total noise power is given by [2]:\nwhere \"PEAA\" is the noise power for each polarisation mode, \"SASE\" represents the spectral density of the noise power, \"B0\" is the optical bandwidth, \"nsp\" is the spontaneous emission factor, \"G0\" is the amplifier optical gain, \"h\" is the Planck constant and \"v\"the frequency.\nThe noise introduced by the optical amplifier is usually specified through the \"F0\" noise factor parameter [8]:\nWhen the gain of the optical amplifier is high, the expression (3.3) can still be simplified into:\nReplacing the expression (3.4) in (3.2) we obtain:\nThe optical signal-to-noise ratioat the output of the optical amplifier can be defined by:\nwhere \"OSNR\" represents the optical signal-to-noise ratio. Bearing in mind that \"Ps,out=G0Ps,in\" and replacing the expression (3.5) in (3.6), we finally obtain:\n3.3. Optical Filter\nAs a form of reducing the power of the optical noise inserted by the optical amplifier, in the optical preamplifier, an optical filteris normally used an optical filter between the amplifier and the photodetector.The optical filter reduces the optical bandwidth and, consequently, reduces the power of the optical noise.\nThe power transfer function of the optical filter is designated as transmittance. In the case of the simple cavity Fabry-Perot filter, the transmittance \"TFP(f)\", is given by [10]:\nwhere\"R\" represents the mirror reflectivity and \"FSR\" thefree spectral range which corresponds to the optical spectrum that exists between a given wavelength and its multiple. The transfer function of the optical filter is a periodical function in frequency, with a period equal to the free spectral range.\n3.4. EDFA Preamplifier and Optical Filter Simulation\nThe individual simulation of the optical preamplifier (Fig. 3.1), represented by an EDFA and an optical filter, allows the signal at the input, the connector used, the intrinsic parameters of the EDFA and the optical filter to be scaled.\nThe variable parameters of the incident optical signal and connector are formed by the average optical power that reaches the connector, the path penalty, the wavelength, the bit rate, theextinction ratioand the optical connector losses.The value of the extinction ratio \"r\" corresponds to the ratio between the optical power of the logical level \"0\" and the optical power of the logical level \"1\":\nSince it is considered that in OOK digital modulation \"Po,0<Po,1\", then the extinction ratiovaries between \"0<r<1\".\nFigure 3.1. Simulation of the EDFA preamplifier with optical filter.\nIt must be stressed that, in this simulation, the wavelength is limited to the third window or C band (between \"1530nm\" and \"1565nm\"), due to the limitations of the EDFA amplifier.\nWith relation to the EDFA and the optical filter, the individual simulator allows the scaling of the following parameters: gain, noise figure,optical filter bandwidth, power of the laser pump and the wavelength used in pumping.\nIn the results that are presented, the simulator uses the expressions above to process the variable parameters. The simulator presents graphically the results of the NRZ optical signal at the optical amplifier input (according to the defined parameters), as well as the signal power and noise power at the optical filter output. Values resulting from the optical signal-to-noise ratio, average signal power, logical level \"1\" power and the logical level \"0\" powerand amplified spontaneous emission factorpower brought in by the EDFA are shown.\n4. Photodetector\nThe photodetector is the element of the optical receiver that is responsible for converting the signal from the optical domain to the electrical domain, by means of the photo-electrical effect. Notwithstanding the diversity of photodetectors that exist, the PIN (Positive-intrinsic-Negative) and APD (Avalanche Photodiode) photodiodes are used, almost exclusively, in optical communications. These present improved characteristics, due to their reduced size, high sensitivity, fast response in time and low cost.\n4.1. PIN Photodiode\nThe PIN photodiode consists in a junction of \"p-n\" materials, separated by an intrinsic material.\nIdeally, the PIN photodiode originates a pair of electron-hole for each incident photon. However, in truth, not all incident photons in the semiconductor material are absorbed and, as a consequence, cannot generate electron-hole pairs. The opto-electrical conversionefficiency is called quantum efficiency, \"η\", and may be obtained by the following expression [8]:\nwhere \"ip\" is the electric current at the PIN photodiode output, \"q\" is the electric charge of an electron, \"pi\" is the optical power of the incident signal in the photodetector and \"hv\" is the energy of each photon. The quantum efficiencydepends on the wavelength of the incident optic signal, as well as the type of material used in manufacturing the photodetector.\nAnother usual and very useful value that characterises the photodiode is its responsivity, \"R0\", which translates the relationship between the generated current and the incident power in the PIN photodiode [11]:\nBy replacing the expression (4.1) in (4.2), we obtain the relationship betweenquantum efficiencyand responsivity:\nBy analysing the expression (4.3) we can observe that the responsivityincreases with the wavelength, since there are more photons for the same incident optical power. However, from the critical wavelength \"λc\" on, the quantum efficiencyand the responsivitylowers to zero, since the material stops absorbing the incident optical power.\n4.2. Avalanche Photodiode (APD)\nThe APD is a photodiode with the capacitance to internally amplify the current generated during the photodetection process. The APD differs from the PIN photodiode due to the high polarisation voltages and the addition of one more type \"p\" layer in its structure. The APD operation is based on the ionisation by impact. The signal current at the APD output, \"iAPD\", is amplified by an \"M\" factor (avalanche gain) with relation to the primary current \"ip\" (current which corresponds to the primary carriers):\nThe designation APDresponsivity, \"RAPD\", appears frequently in the manufacturers’ catalogues, corresponding to the ratio between the current at the APD output and the incident optical power in the same. The ratio between APDresponsivity and responsivity for the primary current \"R0\" is given by:\n4.3. Photo Detection Noise without Optical Preamplification\n4.3.1. Quantum Noise\nThe generated photocurrent presents a random component \"iq(t)\", called quantum noise (also known as shot noise). Normally, in order to analyse the performance of an optical receiver we approach the quantum noise distribution with a Gaussian distribution with a zero mean value[11].\nThe photodiodes also generate a small current called dark current, which has its origin in the generation of electron-hole pairs through thermal effect. The contribution of this current may be included in the quantum noiseof the photodiode. Therefore the current variance of the quantum noise, \"σq2\", which corresponds to the mean-square value of the respective current, \"˂iq2˃\", at the photodetector output is given by [11]:\nwhere \"q\" is the electron charge, \"ip\" is the primary current at the photodetector output, \"Id\" is the dark current of the photodiode, \"Be,n\" is the equivalent noise bandwidth of the electrical part of the optical receiver (obtained from the transfer function of the circuit) and, finally, \"F(M)\" is the excess noise factor of the APD, which can be obtained from [13], [8], [3]:\nwhere \"k\" is an adimensional parameter for the different types of semi-conductor materials, which represents the ratio between ionisationby impactcoefficients of the electrons and the holes, or vice-versa, so that \"0<k<1\"; on the other hand, \"x\" represents a parameter that is characteristic of the type of the photodiode material which is obtained from experimental results.\nThe expression (4.6) for calculating the APDquantum noise can be customised for the PIN photodiode, as long as \"M=1\" is considered.\nBearing in mind the expression (4.2) and replacing it in the expression (4.6), we obtain the current variance of quantum noise in function of the incident optical power on the \"pi\" photodetector:\n4.3.2. Circuit Noise\nThe circuit noise comes from the resistive and active elements that are present in the optical receiver. For the isolated simulation of the photodetector we consider a circuit composed only by the photodiode and by a load resistor, \"Rb\", as we can see in Figure 4.1.\nFigure 4.1. Polarisation circuit of the photodiode.\nIn this case, the circuit noise originates only from the thermal noise of the resistor, \"Rb\" (also referred, as Jonhson or Nyquist noise). Therefore, the current variance of the circuit noise of Fig. 4.1, \"σc2\", which corresponds to the mean-square value of the circuit noise current, \"˂ic2˃\", is given by [14]:\nwhere \"kB\" is the Boltzmann constant and \"T\" the absolute temperature (Kelvin).\n4.4. Photo Detection Noise with Optical Preamplification\nThe photodetection of a signal with optical preamplification is carried out through a photodiode without internal gain of the PIN type. When the optical signal is amplified before it is detected, it reaches the photodetector, already corrupted by the amplified spontaneous emission noise (ASE) that was introduced by the optical amplifier. During photodetection the ASE optical noisepower is converted into the electrical domain in parallel with the signal optical power. As a consequence, new forms of noise appear: signal-ASE beat andASE-ASE beat. Although the circuit noise remains constant, the variance of the quantum noise current is now calculates from [13]:\nwhere \"2PASE\" is the total ASE noise given by the expression (3.5), which also contributes to the quantum noise.\nOn the other hand, the variances of thesignal-ASE beat noise \"σ2s-ASE\", andASE-ASE beat noise, \"σ2ASE-ASE\", currents, which correspond to the mean-square values of the corresponding currents, \"˂i2s-ASE˃\" and \"˂i2ASE-ASE˃\", are given by [15]:\nwhere \"R0\" is the responsivity, \"SASE\" is the spectral density of ASE noise power for each polarisation mode, \"B0\" is the optical bandwidth at the photodetector input and \"Bbe,n\" is the equivalent noise bandwidth of the electrical part of the optical receiver.\nIt is assumed that the different forms of noises have a Gaussian distribution with zero mean value. Since the different types of noise are not correlated, the variance of the total noise current, \"σn2\", which corresponds to the mean-square value of the total noise current, is obtained from the sum of the different noise variances referred before:\n4.5. Photodetector Simulation\nThe individual simulation of the photodetector (Fig. 4.2) makes it possible to scale the incident optical signalin the photodetector as well as the intrinsic parameters and the load resistor.\nFigure 4.2. Photodetector Simulation.\nThe variable parameters of the incident optical signal are made up by the average optical power, the wavelength,Bit Rate , extinction ratio and, in case the signal has been submitted to optical preamplification, the average noise power introduced by the amplifierand optical bandwidth of the amplifier or the optical filter.\nWith relation to the photodetector, the individual simulator allows the type of photodiode, the scaling of its responsivity, its avalanche gain (in the case of APD), the corresponding dark current, the type of material, theelectrical capacitanceof the photodiodeand the load resistor to be chosen. The simulator presents immediately bandwidth at -3dB and the equivalent noise bandwidth.\nIn the results that are presented, the simulator lets us view graphically the NRZ optical signal at the photodetectorinput (according to the defined parameters), the structure of the polarisation circuit of the photodiode, as well as the graphic of the photocurrent generated. The values resulting from the photocurrent are also presented with a mention of the existence or absence of inter-symbolic interference (ISI), as well as the signal-to-noise ratio, bearing in mind the power penalty due to the extinction ratio, the value of the power of the different types of noise (circuit, quantum, signal-ASE beat andASE-ASE beat) the optical powers of the \"0\" and \"1\" logical levels and the corresponding generated photocurrents.\n5. Electrical Preamplifier\nUsually the signal at the photodetector output is very weak and it needs a low noise amplification in order to be adequately processed. The electrical preamplifier changes the small photocurrent generated by the photodiode into voltage. Since noise increases with bandwidth, there must be a compromise between the two in order to optimize the performance of the receiver. The three most used configurations of the preamplifier are: voltage amplifier (also known as low impedance amplifier), high impedance amplifier and transimpedance amplifier.\n5.1. Voltage Preamplifier\nThe voltage preamplifier, or low impedance preamplifier, has the structure represented in Fig. 5.1.\nFigure 5.1. Structure of the voltage(or low impedance)preamplifier.\nIn this type of configuration the current generated in the photodetector originates a voltage at the terminals of the resistor \"Rb\" (with typical values around 50Ω). This voltage is amplified by the operational amplifier with an \"A\" open-loop gain.\nIn practice, the photodetector has a parasite capacitance associated with its junction (\"Cd\") and the amplifier has aninputimpedance given by the parallel combination of \"Ra\" and \"Ca\". Therefore, the transfer function of the circuit in Fig. 5.1 is given by the following expression:\nwhere \"RT\" is the total resistance obtained from \"RT =Rb//Ra=(RbRa)/(Rb+Ra)\"; on the other hand, \"CT\" represents the total capacitance of the circuit which is obtained from \"CT= Cd//Ca= Cd+Ca\".\nThe value of the resistance \"Rb\" is fundamental for the value of the circuit noise coming from this type of preamplifier configuration.\nWhen the circuit noisecurrent (\"ic\") passes through the electrical preamplifier it is translated into a noise voltage (\"vc\"), through the transimpedance gain of the electricalpreamplifier (obtained from the low frequency transfer function). Therefore, the variance of the circuit noisevoltage,\"σc2\", which corresponds to the mean-square value of the circuit noise voltage \"˂vc2˃\", at the voltage preamplifier output, is obtained from:\nwhere \"Fn\" is the noise factor of the amplifier (since the electric components that are present in the operational amplifier also contribute to the circuit noise) and \"RTA\" is the transimpedance gain of the voltage preamplifier, obtained from the expression (5.1) for \"f=0\".\n5.2. High Impedance Preamplifier\nThe high impedance preamplifier has a structure that is very similar to the configuration of the voltage amplifier mentioned earlier. However, this configuration includes, also, an equalizer, as can be seen in Fig. 5.2.\nFigure 5.2. Structure of the high impedance preamplifier.\nThe high impedance preamplifier is based on the same principle as the voltage amplifier.However, in this case, the resistor \"Rb\" has high values (in the kΩ range) guaranteeing a low thermal noise generated by the same. However, this type of configuration requires the use of an equalizer to compensate the reduction in bandwidth derived from the increase of the resistor \"Rb\". The transfer function of the circuit of Fig. 5.2 is given by the following expression:\nWhen scaling the equalizer, it is necessary that the equalizer zero matches the preamplifier pole, that is, \"R1=RT\" e \"C1=CT\" in order to obtain a perfect equalising.\nThe high impedance preamplifier with equalizer is less noisy than the voltagepreamplifier, since the resistor \"Rb\" has higher values. The noise introduced by the resistive elements of the equalizercan be discarded, since the signal, when it reaches the equalizer, is already amplified. Therefore, the voltage variance of the circuit noise, \"σc2\", which corresponds to the mean-square value of the circuit noise voltage \"˂vc2˃\", at the equalizeroutput, is obtained from:\nwhere\"RTA[R2/(R1+R2)]\" is the transimpedance gain of the high impedance preamplifier with equalizer, which is obtained from the expression (5.3) for \"f=0\".\n5.3. Transimpedance Preamplifier\nThe transimpedance preamplifier has the structure presented in Fig. 5.3.\nFigure 5.3. Structure of the transimpedance preamplifier.\nThis type of configuration was developed to obtain a large bandwidth with low noise.\nTaking into account the capacitance of the photodiode, \"Cd\", as well as the input impedance of the amplifier(\"Ra\" and \"Ca\"), the transfer function for this type of configuration is given by [17]:\nwhere the equivalent resistance \"Req\" is obtained from:\n.6)\nObserving the previous expression we can see that if the open-loop gainof amplifier \"A\" is high, then \"Req≈Rf\".\nJust as with the previous configurations, the electrical components present in the operational amplifier also contribute to the circuit noise. The noise factor of the amplifier, \"Fn\", is used to quantify this noise. Therefore, the variance of the voltage of the circuit noise, \"˂vc2˃\", at the output of the transimpedance preamplifier is obtained from:\nwhere \"-A/(A+1)Req\" is the transimpedance gain, obtained from the expression (5.5) for \"f=0\".\n5.4. Simulation of the Electrical Preamplifier\nThe isolated simulation of the electrical preamplifier (Fig. 5.4) allows the optical signal at the photodetector output to be scaled, as well as the intrinsic parameters of the electrical preamplifier and equalizer.\nFigure 5.4. Simulation interface of the electrical preamplifier.\nThe variable parameters of the signal at the photodetector output are the photocurrent value for \"0\" and \"1\" logical levels and the corresponding bit rate.\nWith relation to the electrical preamplifier parameters, the individual simulator allows for the choice of the type of amplifier (voltage, high impedance or transimpedance), the junction capacitance of the photodiode, load resistor, feedback resistance, amplifier input capacitance,amplifier open-loop gain, amplifier noise figureand the values of the components of the equalizer(\"R1\", \"R2\" and \"C1\"). The simulator allows for the automatic adjustment of the equalizer values to a perfect equalization and makes it possible to display theBode diagram, according to the transfer functionresulting from the type of amplifier chosen and the values introduced.\nIn the results that are presented, the simulator shows graphically the NRZelectrical signal at the electrical preamplifierinput (according to the defined parameters), the circuit structureaccording to thechosen type of configuration, as well as the graphic of the resulting voltage at the output of the preamplifier orequalizer. The values resulting from the bandwidth at -3dB, the equivalent noise bandwidth, the mention if there is or no inter-symbolic interference (ISI), the signal-to-noise ratio (bearing in mind the penalty due to the extinction ratio), the transimpedance gain and the voltages generated for the \"0\" and \"1\" logical levels, are also presented.\n6. Complete Optical Receiver\nThe digital optical receiver, in addition to converting information from the optical domain into the electrical domain, also has the function of processing adequately the electric signal in order to recover the transmitted digital information with the minimum possible error[12].\nFig. 6.1 prepresents a simplified block structure of a digital direct detection optical receiver with optical preamplification.\nFigure 6.1. Simplified block structure of a digital optical receiver with optical preamplification.\nThe performance of the optical receiver in digital transmission systems as is the case, is evaluated by the bit error probability, \"Pe\", which corresponds to the probability of incorrect decision or identification of a bit on the part of the optical receiver. The typical bit error probabilities of optical receivers in telecommunications systems are between 10-9 and 10-12[8].\n6.1. Bit Error Probability\nIn the following analysis we shall consider that each bit of information corresponds to a binary symbol.\nIn practice, the bit error probability can be obtained through the binary error ratio, BER, defined by the ratio between the number of error bits at the optical receiver output and the number of bits received in a determined period of time. The greater the number of bits received and considered in determining the BER, the more will its value approach the exact value of the bit error probability, \"Pe\".\nHowever, the value of the bit error probability may be calculated from the probability density functions of the voltage samples, \"p(v|1)\" and \"p(v|0), at the input of the decision circuit.\nFigure 6.2. Probability density functions of the voltage samples for the \"1\" and \"0\" logical values,\"p(v|1)\" and \"p(v|0)\", respectively.\nFig. 6.2 displays the fluctuations of the values of the voltage samples for the different logical levels. The decision circuit is responsible for comparing the value of each sample of the signal with a certain reference value, called decision voltage \"VDec\".\nStill in fig. 6.2, the probability of the decision circuit to commit errors, can be shown. \"Prob(1|0)\" represents the probability that the decision circuit will decide for the logical value \"1\" when \"0\" was sent and, in turn, \"Prob(0|1)\" represents the probability that the decision circuit will decide for the logical value \"0\" when \"1\" was sent. Considering that the symbols are equiprobable and that the voltage of generated noise is described by a Gaussian distribution with zero mean value, the bit error probability is given by [13]:\nwhere\"erfc\" is the complementary error function and \"Q\" is the quality factor. The \"Q\" factor is obtained from:\nwhere \"V0\" and \"V1\" are the average sample values for the \"0\" and \"1\" logical level, considering that the voltage samples were withdrawn at the optimum sampling instant of the signal and without inter-symbolic interference. On the other hand, \"σ0\" and \"σ1\", are the standard deviations of noise voltages for the different logical levels and which are obtained through the following expressions:\nwhere \"σ2q,1\" and \"σ2q,0\" represent the variance of the quantum noise voltage for the different logical levels, \"σ2c\" represents the variance of the noise circuit voltage, \"σ2s-ASE,1\" and , \"σ2s-ASE,0\" represent the voltage variance of the signal-ASE beat noise for the different logical levels and \"σ2ASE-ASE\" represents the voltage variance of the ASE-ASE beat noise.\n6.2. Optical Receiver Simulation\nThe simulation of the optical receiver (Fig. 6.3) allows the incident optical signal to be configured on the receiver, the optical preamplifier and optical filter (if it is considered), the photodetector, the electrical amplifier and the equalizer.\nThe variable parameters of the incident optical signal and connector are made up by the average optical power that reaches the receiver, the path penalty, the wavelength, the Bit Rate, the extinction ratio and theoptical connector loss.\nWith relation to the optical preamplifier and the optical filter, the simulator allows scaling of its gain, noise figure and also the bandwidth of the optical filter.\nFigure 6.3. optical receiver simulation interface.\nWith relation to the photodetector, the simulator allows for the choice of the type of photodiode, the scaling of its responsivity, its avalanche gain (in the case of the APD), the choice of the type of material it is made of, and also allows the quantification of the dark current that is present in the photodiode.\nWith relation to the parameters of the electrical amplifier and equalizer, the simulator allows the scaling of the bandwidth, the square root of the spectral density of noise power (a measure that is normally present in the catalogues of optical receivers) and the transimpedance gain. The simulator allows also, the display of the Bode diagram of the transfer function of the electrical preamplifier and equalizer, according to the introduced parameters.\nIn the results that are presented, the simulator presents graphically the resulting signal at the input of the decision circuit, as well as the corresponding eye diagram. Voltage samples will be presented, extracted at the optimal sampling instant for the different logical levels. It is possible, also, to display the probability density functions of the voltage samples, as well as the optimum decision voltage.The values resulting from the bit error probability, the value of the signal-to-noise ratio (bearing in account the penalty due to the extinction ratio) and the values of the different types of noise that are present in the obtained signal (circuit, quantum, signal-ASE beat and ASE-ASE beat noise), are also presented.\n7. Final Conclusions, Perspectives of Future Work and Original Contributions\n7.1. Final Conclusions\nWith relation to the developed software, it is to be stressed that it is fully original. There was a strong concern in creating a user-friendly graphical interface and, simultaneously, a functional interface.\nControllers were implemented which, given the physical limitations and theoretical considerations, prevents the simulator user from taking certain options, by presenting warnings and giving the possibility of automatic correction of these same options. The results are presented numerically and graphically for a better and speedier analysis of the same.\nIn order to increase the universe of potential users, the simulator was developed in two versions: Portuguese and English. Since the two versions are integrated into the simulator the change of version can be carried out in any of the windows displayed.\nThe present simulator has a very important pedagogical side to it, since, by means of the variation of the input parameters, the output signal can be displayed, thus providing a solid training about the operation of this type of device.\nThe simulator constitutes an alternative to the systems of real components in the following manners:\n• Economical – the conception and maintenance of real system laboratories is very expensive;\n• Quick – a simulation is performed in a few seconds, on real systems it could take days;\n• Portable – the simulations can be executed in any place with recourse to a single computer and its corresponding software;\n• Easy access – there is no need for access restrictions related with security and preservation of the integrity of real system laboratories.\nTaking into consideration the proposed objectives of this present article, we can conclude that these were fully accomplished.\n7.2. Perspectives of Future Work\nThis work may serve as a basis for future work in this so promising area.\nAn interesting task would be the development of a simulator for coherent optical systems, where the information is modulated into a carrier through its amplitude \"ASK\", frequency \"FSK\" or phase \"PSK\". In this case the optical receiver would become more complex, requiring a local optical oscillator (laser diode), were the output is duly \"mixed\" with the optical signal received, in order to obtain the information contained in the optical carrier.\nGiven the growing importance of optical communications in the world, the existence of this type of simulator is imperative, since it can contribute to a better understanding of the components of an optical communications receiver, improve the training capabilities and provide a friendly tool with easy upgrading for other types of components.\n7.3. Original Contributions\n• The simulator developed for the IM-DD optical receiver contains several original contributions, as follows:\n• The graphical interface of the simulator was originally designed and implemented, following the strategies of Ben Schneidermann[18] and using the available tools of the programming languageMatlab[19]. This resulted in a functional and very user-friendly graphical interface.\n• For the simulation of the optical preamplifier a graphic was implemented which allows for the simultaneous display of the signal power and the noise power at the preamplifier output. This graphic gives the user a rapid perception of the quality of the signal.\n• In the simulation of the photodetector, the graphic of the response of the photodetector to the incident optical power was implemented. The graphic takes into account the noise and the impulsive response of the photodetector, according to the parameters inserted for the simulation.\n• The simulation of the electrical preamplifier and equalizer shows the Bode diagram of the different types of selected and scaled preamplifiers. An automatic scaling option of the equalizer was also implemented, in case the user intends to perform a perfect equalisation.\n• For the simulation of the complete optical receiver, in addition to the signal at the input of the decision circuit and the corresponding eye diagram, stand out the implementation of the graphic that allows for the display of the probability density functions of the samples of the different logical levels and, simultaneously, the optimum decision value. Stand out, also, the implementation of the calculation of the bit error probability of the receiver from the probability density functions of the samples, as well as the discriminated acquisition of the power of each of the different sources of noise.\nThe author would like to thank Prof.ª Maria João Marques Martins and Prof. José Luís Gonçalves Correia da Mata for their assistance.\nGIOZZA, Willian F., CONFORTI, Evandro, WALDMAN, Hélio, \"Fibras Ópticas – Tecnologia e Projeto de Sistemas\", McGraw-Hill, São Paulo, Brasil, 1991\nCARTAXO, A.V, Transmissão por fibra óptica, IST, Lisboa, Portugal, 2005\nPIRES, J., \"Sistemas de telecomunicações I\", IST, Lisboa, Portugal, 1999\nSMITH, David R., \"Digital Transmission Systems\", Third Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, 2004\nMARTINS, M. J., \"Introdução às fibras ópticas\", AEIST Press, 1997\nMOLLENAUER, Linn F., GORDON, James P., \"Optic Fibers- Fundamentals and Applications\", Elsevier Academic Press, USA, 2006\nGREEN, Paul E., \"Fiber Optic Networks\", Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA, 1993\nKEISER, Gerd, \"Optical Fiber Communication\", Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, Singapore, 2000\nOLIVEIRA, Júlio César Rodrigues Fernandes, \"Amplificadores Ópticos com Controle Automático de Ganho para Aplicação em Redes Ópticas Reconfiguráveis\", Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2007\nPIRES, J., \"Sistemas de Comunicação Óptica \", IST, Lisboa, Portugal, 1998\nAGRAWAL, Goving P., \"Fiber-Optic Communications Systems\", Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience, USA, 1997\nMARTINS, Maria João, PEREIRA, Marco Costa, \"Estudo de DetectoresÓpticos com interesse para Aplicações Militares\", Revista Proelium, IV Série nº4,pp.9-18,Academia Militar, Lisboa, 2006\nAGRAWAL, \"Goving P., \"Lightwave Technology – Telecommunications Systems\", Wiley-Interscience, New Jersey, USA, 2005\nSALEH, B.E.A.,TEICH, M.C., \"Fundamentals of Photonics\", Wiley-Interscience, USA, 1991\nCVIJETIC, Milorad, \"Optical Transmission Systems Engineering\", Artech House, Norwood, USA, 2004\nMARTINS, Maria João, GARRIDO, P, ALMEIDA,V., \"Desenvolvimento de um Simulador de Fibra Óptica\", Revista Proelium, VI Série nº8, Academia Militar, Lisboa, 2007\nKAZOVSKY, Leonid, BENEDETTO, Sergio, WILLNER, Alan, \"Optical Fiber Communication Systems\", Artech House, Norwood, USA, 1996\nSHNEIDERMAN, Ben, \"Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction\", Addison-Wesley , Massachusetts,1992\n(http://www.mathworks.com/)(September 15, 2009).\nDeveloping the Simulator\nOperating the Simulator\nOptical Preamplification\nOptical Amplifier\nOptical Amplifier – EDFA\nOptical Filter\nEDFA Preamplifier and Optical Filter Simulation\nPhotodetector\nPIN Photodiode\nAvalanche Photodiode (APD)\nPhoto Detection Noise without Optical Preamplification\nPhoto Detection Noise with Optical Preamplification\nPhotodetector Simulation\nElectrical Preamplifier\nVoltage Preamplifier\nHigh Impedance Preamplifier\nTransimpedance Preamplifier\nSimulation of the Electrical Preamplifier\nComplete Optical Receiver\nBit Error Probability\nOptical Receiver Simulation\nFinal Conclusions, Perspectives of Future Work and Original Contributions\nFinal Conclusions\nPerspectives of Future Work\nOriginal Contributions\nPDF(1962K)\nFollow on us\nPUBLICATION SERVICE\nJoin as an Editor-in-Chief\nJoin as an Editorial Member\nQualification & Requirement\nOrdering from SciencePG\nScience Publishing Group\n548 FASHION AVENUE\nTel: (001)347-688-8931\nFOLLOW SciencePG\nSitemap | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Feedback | Services | Contact Us\nCopyright © 2012 -- 2016 Science Publishing Group – All rights reserved. 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        "text": "10 март е 69-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (70-и през високосна година). Остават 296 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 241 г. пр.н.е. – Решителната победа на римляните над картагенците в Битката при Егадските острови слага край на 23-годишната Първа пуническа война.\n 1535 г. – Докато плава към Перу, испанският свещеник и пътешественик Фрай Томас де Берланга открива архипелага Галапагос.\n 1629 г. – Кралят на Англия Чарлз I разпуска парламента и установява 11-годишна кралска диктатура.\n 1770 г. – Джеймс Кук открива остров Стюарт, южно от Нова Зеландия.\n 1848 г. – Карл Маркс е избран в Париж за президент на Комунистическата лига.\n 1876 г. – Александър Бел осъществява първия успешен двупосочен разговор по телефон.\n 1880 г. – Руският физик Александър Столетов открива фотоефекта.\n 1893 г. – Кот д'Ивоар става френска колония.\n 1905 г. – Основан е английският футболен клуб Челси\n 1905 г. – Руско-японска война: Приключва битката при Мукден.\n 1906 г. – Вестник Мир уличава в корупция при доставката на патрони за българската армия министър-председателя Рачо Петров, министъра на войната ген. Михаил Савов и други високопоставени държавни служители.\n 1906 г. – При най-голямата производствена авария в мина в Европа – в Северна Франция, загиват 1099 души, включително и деца миньори.\n 1910 г. – В Китай е забранено робството.\n 1912 г. – Юан Шикай става временен президент на Република Китай.\n 1919 г. – Приета е комунистическата конституция на Украйна.\n 1925 г. – В Пирея (Гърция) е основан футболният клуб Олимпиакос.\n 1934 г. – B Германия от Адолф Хитлер като държавен закон с трудовото законодателство от 10 март са установени 40-часова петдневна работна седмица при нормиран трудов ден и платен годишен отпуск от 12 до 21 дни за работниците.\n 1943 г. – Цар Борис III спира планираната депортация и спасява българските евреи.\n 1943 г. – Холокостът и България: Започва депортиране на 7144 евреи от Вардарска Македония.\n\n 1947 г. – Започва парична реформа в България, регламентирана с постановление на Министерския съвет от 7 март 1946 г.\n 1952 г. – Генерал Фулхенсио Батиста извършва държавен преврат в Куба и застава начело на властта.\n 1963 г. – Официално е открит стадион „Георги Аспарухов“ с мач между ПФК Левски (София) и ПФК Спартак (Плевен).\n 1976 г. – Започва първото самостоятелно околосветско плаване на жена – на Кристина Хойновска от Полша.\n 1977 г. – Астрономи от НАСА откриват пръстените на Уран.\n 1982 г. – САЩ налагат ембарго на вноса на нефт от Либия, заради подкрепата ѝ за терористични групи.\n 1990 г. – Основан е естонският футболен клуб Флора Талин.\n 1996 г. – Приета е Конституцията на Република Адигея.\n 1996 г. – Кубинецът Франциско Ферерас поставя световен рекорд по дълбочина на гмуркане без специални средства – 130 метра.\n 1996 г. – Официално е открита австралийската писта за автомобилни състезания Албърт Парк в Мелбърн.\n 2004 г. – Костас Караманлис става министър-председател на Гърция.\n 2006 г. – Космическият апарат Марс Риконъсънс Орбитър достига орбитата на Марс.\n\nРодени \n\n 1452 г. – Фердинанд Арагонски, крал на обединена Испания († 1516 г.)\n 1503 г. – Фердинанд I, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1564 г.)\n 1628 г. – Марчело Малпиги, италиански лекар, анатом и микроскопист († 1694 г.)\n 1749 г. – Лоренцо да Понте, италиански либретист († 1838 г.)\n 1772 г. – Фридрих фон Шлегел, германски филолог, писател и философ († 1829 г.)\n 1776 г. – Луиза фон Мекленбург-Щрелиц, кралица на Прусия († 1807 г.)\n 1788 г. – Йозеф фон Айхендорф, германски писател († 1857 г.)\n 1807 г. – Цеко Петков, български хайдутин и революционер († 1881 г.)\n 1826 г. – Георги Миркович, български революционер († 1905 г.)\n 1832 г. – Георги Ангелиев, български революционер († 1916 г.)\n 1845 г. – Александър III, руски император († 1894 г.)\n 1850 г. – Иван Димитров, български художник († 1944 г.)\n 1858 г. – Георги Иванов, български генерал († 1932 г.)\n 1867 г. – Ектор Гимар, френски архитект и дизайнер († 1942 г.)\n 1872 г. – Христо Матов, български революционер († 1922 г.)\n 1873 г. – Якоб Васерман, немски писател († 1934 г.)\n 1874 г. – Иван Шкойнов, български офицер († 1941 г.)\n 1890 г. – Андрей Стоянов, български композитор († 1969 г.)\n 1900 г. – Питър Де Розе, американски композитор († 1953 г.)\n 1918 г. – Валя Вербева, българска балерина († 2008 г.)\n 1920 г. – Борис Виан, френски писател († 1959 г.)\n 1923 г. – Вал Логсдън Фич, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1980 г. († 2015 г.)\n 1929 г. – Борис Николов, български боксьор († 2017 г.)\n 1929 г. – Соня Кънчева, българска певица († 2006 г.)\n 1934 г. – Атанас Косев, български композитор и поет († 2021 г.)\n 1940 г. – Чък Норис, американски актьор\n 1941 г. – Васил Романов, български футболист († 2016 г.)\n 1949 г. – Агоп Мелконян, български писател († 2006 г.)\n 1950 г. – Лазар Копринаров, български дипломат\n 1950 г. – Федя Филкова, българска поетеса и преводачка († 2020 г.)\n 1954 г. – Лупита Д'Алесио, мексиканска певица\n 1957 г. – Осама бин Ладен, лидер на терористичната мрежа Ал-Кайда († 2011 г.)\n 1958 г. – Шарън Стоун, американска актриса\n 1960 г. – Венета Рангелова, българска певица\n 1964 г. – Принц Едуард, британски принц\n 1964 г. – Тони Полстер, австрийски футболист\n 1970 г. – Иван Ласкин, български филмов и театрален актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1971 г. – Нелина, българска певица\n 1973 г. – Ева Херцигова, чешки фотомодел\n 1976 г. – Мирослав Костадинов (Миро), български певец\n 1979 г. – Иван Атанасов, български писател\n 1981 г. – Самуел Ето'о, камерунски футболист\n 1984 г. – Оливия Уайлд, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Алекс Силва, бразилски футболист\n 1992 г. – Емили Озмънт, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 483 г. – Симплиций, римски папа\n 1584 г. – Томас Нортън, английски юрист, политик, поет и драматург (* 1532 г.)\n 1670 г. – Йохан Глаубер, германски химик (* 1604 г.)\n 1822 г. – Юзеф Вибицки, полски писател (* 1747 г.)\n 1832 г. – Муцио Клементи, британски пианист (* 1752 г.)\n 1861 г. – Тарас Шевченко, украински писател (* 1814 г.)\n 1872 г. – Джузепе Мацини, италиански революционер (* 1805 г.)\n 1878 г. – Мирза Ахундов, азербайджански писател (* 1812 г.)\n 1882 г. – Чарлс Томсън, шотландски океанограф (* 1830 г.)\n 1898 г. – Георг Мюлер, немски мисионер (* 1805 г.)\n 1910 г. – Карл Райнеке, германски пианист (* 1824 г.)\n 1923 г. – Арсо Локвички, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1937 г. – Евгений Замятин, руски писател (* 1884 г.)\n 1940 г. – Михаил Булгаков, руски писател (* 1891 г.)\n 1942 г. – Уилям Хенри Браг, английски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1862 г.)\n 1944 г. – Ангел Чаушев, антифашист от Баташкия край (* 1903 г.)\n 1954 г. – Чавдар Мутафов, български писател (* 1889 г.)\n 1960 г. – Матей Икономов, български драматург (* 1871)\n 1965 г. – Стале Попов, македонски писател (* 1902 г.)\n 1966 г. – Фриц Цернике, нидерландски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1953 г. (* 1888 г.)\n 1977 г. – Иван Наков, български политик (* 1891 г.)\n 1983 г. – Борис Василев, български футболист (* 1898 г.)\n 1985 г. – Константин Черненко, комунистически ръководител на СССР (* 1911 г.)\n 1987 г. – Живко Чинго, македонски писател (* 1936 г.)\n 1999 г. – Осуалдо Гуаясамин, еквадорски художник (* 1919 г.)\n 2007 г. – Йеросхимонах Пахомий, български монах (* 1922 г.)\n 2012 г. – Жан Жиро, френски художник (* 1938 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православната църква почита паметта на св. Галина. Имен ден имат Галина, Галя, Галин.\n България – Ден на Холокоста\n Бирма – Празник на сухия сезон\n Венецуела – Ден на лекаря\n Полша – Ден на мъжете\n\n310"
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        "text": "Jane O’Hara June 18 1979\nPeople Jane O’Hara June 18 1979\nAlthough at his tender age he’s yet to distinguish between an arabesque and a plié, three-month-old Alexander, the Pisces progeny of Nadia Potts, principal dancer for the National Ballet, and Harold Gomez, National Ballet clarinetist, is destined for a dancer’s peripatetic life. Potts, who is back at the barre after having hardly missed a beat, will take Alexander with her on the dance circuit—Chicago, New York, London, Toronto, Montreal, Western Canada— where he’ll have the company of four other children now touring with their balletic parents. He’ll even meet ballet’s most famous Pisces, all-star Rudolf Nureyev who’ll be partnering mother Nadia in Giselle at New York’s Lincoln Center. The tiny dancer, five feet, four inches, and a smidgen over 100 pounds, will have just 15 minutes to rehearse with Nureyev but her total confidence in the brilliant Russian soothes her openingnight jitters. “He loves to dance with the principal girls,” says Potts, who first danced with Nureyev eight years ago. “When he walks onstage, you know everything will be all right.” And then there’ll be baby Alexander giving his lusty-lunged encouragement from the wings.\nIt may turn out to be the gossip event of the decade, and that was certainly how it was being described in New York and Washington when author Truman\nCapote went on a splenetic hour-long TV tirade last week to dissect the manners and morals of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. The background to the spectacle lies in a tale Capote told Playgirl magazine four years ago about another American man of letters, Gore Vidal. Vidal, said Capote, was once thrown out of the White House after behaving badly at a party which President John F. Kennedy and Jackie gave for Lee and Stash Radziwill. Vidal denied the story and sued Capote for $1 million. Capote claims that Radziwill told him the story and that she also promised to declare publicly that the tale was true. However, recently, she changed sides and swore a deposition for Vidal that she had not told Capote any such tale. Capote’s feelings of betrayal by his “best friend” of 20 years were somewhat amplified when, he says, Radziwill told a New York columnist: “Well, you know what they are. They’re just a couple of fags and this is just a fight between two fags. I think it’s disgusting that we have to be dragged into it.” So Capote, a theatrically inclined Southerner, took to New York City’s WCBS TV station to get his own back. When the cameras rolled Capote sent up Lee Radziwill’s on-again off-again marriage to West Coast billionaire Newton Cope. And when asked about Teddy Kennedy’s possible presidential bid, Capote said: “I wouldn’t care to see it at all, because he’s a highly\nunstable fellow ... he’s a person given to outbursts of various kinds when he’s had something to drink.” When that interview concluded, The Washington Post got its turn. Capote offered, “Men to both Jackie and Lee are to be totally controlled, nothing but foot slaves. Lee and Jackie have incredible contempt for everything and everybody. They really do think in the royal ‘we.’ ”\nAs one of the Liberal babies who got tossed out with the bath water in the recent federal election, former Vancouver Kingsway MP Simma Holt bears no grudge against the man most people hold responsible —Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In fact, Holt is planning to stem the anti-Trudeau tide by writing a complimentary book about the new leader of the Opposition. With working titles such as The Trudeau I Know or The Trudeau Nobody Knows, Holt’s thesis is this: “There were some ignorant attacks on my friend, and no one attacks my friend. This book will inform them why I respect Trudeau.” However, before the 56-year-old journalist sets her wheels spinning again, she’s back in Ottawa cleaning out her office. Perhaps it’s just as well, since her additional project is a book about Indian rights, which her parliamentary cronies aren’t likely to favor. “My book is going to name names,” said Holt. “It’s going to say that the department of Indian affairs has to go.”\nConfessing “an embarrassment of riches,” director John Hirsch is back in Canada after a two-month hiatus, having been hounded by offers from Los Angeles, Seattle and New Haven, Connecticut. A 30-year showbiz veteran, Hirsch is resisting the lure south in order to fill his Canadian commitments, among them stage productions for both the National Arts Centre and Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre. While in Los Angeles, Hirsch tackled a lifelong ambition—Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest. His production displays the talents of Canadians Brent Carver and Michael Bond, and the vigorously selfanalytical British actor Anthony Hopkins as the magic-making Prospero. Hopkins, 41, was Hirsch’s ideal choice for the part of “a man who has not yet come to terms with himself,” according to New York Times critic Richard Eder, who gave the production a highly favorable review. Hirsch wisely refrained from stirring up the emotional actor’s memories of Corky, the bedevilled ventriloquist he played in Magic. “Tony is a very troubled person,” says Hirsch. “Magic was one subject I thought it best to steer clear of.”\nIt was supposed to be an In Praise of Older Women version of Love Story with a tennis racket twist, but when the\npreliminary pictures started rolling in, “I didn’t look old enough and he didn’t look young enough,” says AM MacGraw. Now 40, MacGraw’s “younger man” in her new film Players is Dean-Paul Martin, the 27-year-old blonde, blue-eyed son of Dean Martin Sr. whose previous experience as a fringe tennis pro prepared him for his role as a “player” in his first film. In Toronto last week, MacGraw shyly asked more than 300 tennis buffs who had gathered for a Tennis Canada benefit to excuse her total ignorance of the game, but added that she might have missed out on her movie career if it hadn’t been for her aversion to the sport. “When I was in school if you didn’t play tennis, you did Shakespearean plays,” she said. That got her started. Before her graduation from Massachusetts’ Wellesley College in 1960 the fledgling thespian had a part in All's Well That Ends Well. Her costar was none other than Erich Segal, who was at Harvard writing Love Story in his off-hours.\nWhen actress-activist Jane Fonda took centre stage recently and trooped her political colors before 90,000 anti-nukers on Washington’s Capitol Hill, the impact registered on everyone from a 70-year-old lady dressed as a mushroom to U.S. Presi-\ndent Jimmy Carter. In line with Fonda’s radical sympathies, but keeping a somewhat lower profile, was Canada’s Donald Sutherland, who turned up unexpectedly last week to protest the building of a nuclear generating station at Darlington, 30 miles east of Toronto. Although hotly pursued by Greenpeace organizers who wanted his famous face to grace their cause, Sutherland reluctantly declined the invitation when the rally conflicted with his shooting schedule for the movie Nothing Personal. However, before the day was out not even an appointment with the film’s wardrobe department could stay the superstar from exercising his social conscience. Following anti-nuclear speeches by actors Barry Morse and Don Francks to a crowd of 2,000, Sutherland was finally spotted dropping a donation in the non-nuclear kitty. And although in normal circumstances he could be expected to cough up for a worthy cause, Sutherland was a little low on dough thanks to a burglar who, two days earlier, had robbed him of $3,500 cash, $12,000 in airline tickets and his Order of Canada medal. Proving that even a thief can have a heart, everything but the cash has since been returned.\nJane O’Hara\nThe Western powers that be\nDetroit: the born-again city\nJune 1979 By Ken Becker\nThe day Bid went down\nJune 1979 By Joe Flaherty\nRoger Lemelin: the Cap Rouge gadfly\nJune 1979 By David Thomas\nCutting fine glass at Shaw\nJune 1979 By Patricia Keeney Smith\nThe indelible journey of John Paul II\nJune 1979 By Sue Masterman\nWhy 'the boys' turned on Mike Tyson\nJuly 1997 By Jane O’Hara\nActress with a playwright’s pen\nNovember 1986 By JANE O’HARA\nEncounter of a chilly kind\nOctober 1981 By Jane O’Hara"
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        "text": "When I arrived this morning in Sacramento, I wasn't sure why I was here. I am attending the California Academy of Family Physicians 2009 Congress of Delegates. I am one of many family physicians who have come from all over the state. They are leaders in their community, faculty in academic medicine and residency programs, department chairs, chapter presidents.\nI am here because I happen to show up at most of the meetings. If you go often enough, you get nominated to be a delegate. This year especially there weren't enough of us coming from the Los Angeles Chapter so they asked for volunteers. At the registration table, my name was not listed as one of the delegates. Maybe I don't belong here.\nThe guest speaker is Dr. Ted Epperly, the current president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He notes the current national crises (crisises? crisii?) and says that he believes that, after many years of failed attempts, healthcare reform is finally going to take place in 2009 because of a miracle. According to Epperly, that miracle was the election of Barack Obama.\nHe said that he was at the White House 2 days ago, invited along with representatives from the 3 other primary care specialties (American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatricians, American Osteopathic Association) and a host of legislators, insurance representatives and stakeholders. They were part of a White House Health Care Summit there to discuss how to fix what ails our nation's medical non-system.\nDuring the summit, Obama asked for the cooperation and participation from all the interested parties. And when he came to physician participation, he called on Epperly (who was taken by surprise and only had about 20 seconds to speak).\nWhat he said was:\n\"Speaking on behalf of over 100,000 doctors, we're ready to do our part. We very much believe that we need to expand coverage in this country to everyone, and we need to fix the work force, sir, so that all those patients have a place to go.\nWe'll roll up our shirtsleeves and do everything possible to make this work. Because it is the right thing to do, and I applaud you and this body for doing this today, to do it this year. And we must do it. Thank you.\"\nEpperly said he feels it was not by accident that Obama chose a family physician to speak for American physicians. It’s because he understands that primary care is broken.\nHe also said the president made it clear that everyone must be at the table, everyone must listen and everyone must give up a little something. Epperly quoted Victor Fuchs, a noted Stanford economist, as saying US healthcare reform would only come about if there was a war, an economic depression or major civil unrest. (We got 2 out of 3 so far.)\nThe Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) has become more than a model of healthcare, Epperly said. It has become a symbol of a movement to restore healthcare to this country.\nEpperly observed that the current healthcare system is totally unsustainable, especially in this recession. Healthcare spending rose to $2.4 trillion in 2008 and is projected to rise to $2.5 trillion in 2009. But Epperly is hopeful that reform will finally take place under the Obama administration. \"More has been done in one month than has been done in the past decade as far as healthcare reform,\" he said. \"We can't afford to keep putting it off. President Obama recognizes that if there isn't enough investment in our domestic policy, this country will fall apart.\"\nEpperly also called on family physicians to take a more active role in advocating healthcare reform. \"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu,\" he said. \"We family physicians are in the position we are in, not because the work we do is not worth it, but because we didn't step forward when we needed to.\"\nEven though family physicians may feel like they're not getting the respect or the payment that they deserve for their work, Epperly feels Obama recognizes the value of family physicians to care for patients and their community. \"Don't lose faith,\" Epperly said. \"It won't be easy, but a better day is coming.\"\nAt the end of Epperly's talk, I felt re-energized and motivated, hopeful that our healthcare system can and will change for the better, sooner rather than later. I will continue to try to improve my solo practice using the principles of the PCMH. And while I don't have the charisma, eloquence or leadership of Obama or Epperly, I can blog.\nI guess I figured out why I am here in Sacramento after all:\nTo keep the faith. And to help Save Primary Care.\nPosted by akifox at 10:26 PM\nThis is also the diagnosis"
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        "text": "Tea Time Tidbits\nHeather's Monthly Articles\nOTG: Order of Tea Goers\nSupport Tea\nHome Fires\nTea Time Tidbit for the week of May 8, 2017\nSamantha Bond and Francesca Annis\nIf you’re a faithful fan of the World War II drama series, Home Fires, which recently wrapped up its second season, I’m sorry to report that ITV, the network it aired on in the U.K., decided not to renew it for a third series.\nAs you can imagine their decision was not a popular one - especially given the fact that season two ended in a major cliff hanger. The minute UK viewers learned there wouldn't be a third series of Home Fires, they started a petition to bring it back. Despite over 38,000 signatures, the petition was unsuccessful.\nHome Fires cast members\nThe show’s creator, Simon Block, and executive producer, Francis Hopkinson, were as surprised as the viewers that their show was being axed. In fact, they had a third season all set to go - hence the cliff hanger.\n“We thought we were coming back”, said Hopkinson in an on-line interview, “so we felt we were fairly safe. Maybe that was our mistake, feeling confident about it.”\nAlthough the petition and the media attention it received didn’t convince ITV to renew the series, it may well have been responsible for the fact that Block has now written a series of Home Fires novels, which will pick up from where season two ended. The first novel, Keep the Home Fires Burning, is set to be released as a four part e-book series. The first part will be released in July, with the subsequent e-books coming out each month until the fall, when the complete novel will come out in paperback. Then in Spring of 2018, an as yet untitled follow up book will be published, again in e-book form.\nJulie Summers on set with actor Jim Whelan\n“Novels are adapted for the screen all the time”, said Block in an interview, “why not the other way round?”\nSomeone who could not be more \"delighted\" that Home Fires will live on in Block’s novels, is writer Julie Summers who authored Jambusters, the novel on which Home Fires was based. Although she was quick to point out that Block’s novels are based on the television characters and not the women in her book.\nTo contact Heather:\nE-mail: heather@mpt.org\nAddress: Afternoon Tea\nMaryland Public Television\n11767 Owings Mills Blvd.\nAfternoon Tea is Maryland Public Television's weekday presentation of British programs.\nOur host and Tea Lady is Heather Sanderson.\nTidbits Archives • Home\nJul 15: Elizabeth McGovern\nJul 8: New series of \"Creatures,\" and more\nJul 1: A Slew of Crime\nJun 24: Judi Dench in Blithe Spirit\nJun 17: Filmed in the Cotswolds\nJun 10: New Endeavour\nJun 3: Vera\nMay 27: The Downton Abbey Film\nMay 20: The Two Mrs. Peacocks\nMay 13: FIRST of the Summer Wine\nMay 6: The origins of Call the Midwife\nApr 29: Ian McKellen's 80th Birthday Tour, Part 2\nApr 15: A Patricia Routledge appearance\nApr 8: Are You Being Served?: The U.S. and Australian versions\nApr 1: Father Brown's Lady Felicia returns for Season 7 opener\nMar 25: Call the Midwife and more new programs\nMar 18: Welcome back, Are You Being Served?\nMar 11: Lark Rise to Candleford's Dawn French\nMar 4: The \"Oldie\" Awards\nFeb 25: Upcoming Schedule Changes\nFeb 18: Maggie Smith and other Downton Abbey actors on stage\nFeb 11: KUA's Clive Swift: 1936-2019\nFeb 4: LOTSW's location: Holmfirth\nJan 28: LOTSW and Eric Sykes\nJan 21: My visit to the West End!\nJan 14: Downton Abbey film update\nJan 7: Dame June Whitfield: 1925-2018\nPrevious years:\n2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011\nContact us: heather@mpt.org"
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        "text": "Whether you live in the Bay Area or not, you can definitely watch San Francisco 49ers online all season long. Even if you don’t have cable, you’ll have some great options to stream the games. That’s because the cable cutting market has expanded rapidly, and now you’ll have plenty of choices to choose from to watch 49ers game online.\nFOX will be the most important channel to get access to since they’ll be broadcasting the majority of 49ers games. ESPN, NBC, and CBS are other channels which may be airing games during the year. One of the best parts about some of these services is if you don’t get live access to the service, you can potentially watch games on the FOX or NBC sports apps with your login. Read the guide below to learn more!\nHulu Live is a name that you’re probably familiar with. Even before people started cutting the cord they were using Hulu’s on-demand service. This next-day network service with added TV and movies has only continued to get more popular the longer it’s been around. So, when they decided to evolve and add live TV, it was exciting for cord cutters and those who wanted to cut the cord. Hulu Live is everything that a Hulu-fan could want. The Hulu Live channel list includes 50+ networks and access to both ESPN and many local channels. Local access is dependent on your location, but you can still use the sports and TV Everywhere apps to sign in to the network and watch your show or game live or on-demand.\nAs you might have already guessed, Hulu’s on-demand service is included with Hulu Live. You’ll have access to all of your favorite parts of Hulu with the addition of live television. You’ll also have a DVR that comes with 50-hours of storage space. Need to record more? You can upgrade to 200 hours for a small fee. Hulu with Live TV does not require any contracts, so you’re free to cancel any time. The monthly fee starts at $40 but could cost more with the additions of add-on channels and upgrades.\nSign up for the Hulu Live trial for another way to learn more.\nDIRECTV NOW, from AT&T, could let you watch a San Francisco 49ers game live stream in its $40 per month starting package. Regardless of where you live, you’ll get ESPN games live, while NBC, CBS, and FOX games are available live in select areas. If you don’t catch it live, you can watch on-demand nationwide or you might be able to get live access using TV Everywhere apps. There are around 60 channels in the DIRECTV NOW channel package, so it’s good choice to simply replace your cable package.\nIf you want more channels, DIRECTV NOW offers packages with up to 120 channels. In addition to live content, you’ll also have a full on-demand library and your own DVR, so you can record your favorite shows. Movie channels, like HBO, can be added to any package. You can watch DIRECTV NOW on mobile devices, Chromecast, Roku, Fire TV, and more. DIRECTV NOW is a streaming service, so you won’t need any special equipment – just sign up and you’ll be streaming in no time!\nGet your free DIRECTV NOW trial!\nYou can also watch San Francisco 49ers online free with DIRECTV NOW’s 7-day free trial! Take a minute to learn more with our DIRECTV NOW review.\nSling TV may let you watch 49ers game online. You can watch NBC and FOX live in certain areas and on-demand nationwide. These come in the “Sling Blue” package for $25 per month. Sling TV is known for its flexible channel packages and great deals for new subscribers. Sling TV Orange, also $25 per month, offers ESPN. Naturally, if you want to watch NFL each week, both packages would be beneficial. That’s why Sling TV offers a chance to combine these packages at a reasonable rate of $40 per month.\nSome TV Everywhere apps are included in your package. These apps allow you to watch more shows live and/or on-demand. You just sign in with your Sling TV details and you’ll be able to watch what you want. Sling TV offers dozens of channel add-ons, if you want a larger package. DVR access doesn’t come with your membership but can be added for a small monthly fee. You can watch Sling TV on Roku, mobile devices, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and more.\nYou can get more information in our Sling TV review or try and watch a San Francisco 49ers game streaming free during a weeklong trial.\nfuboTV is a great way to get a San Francisco 49ers game live stream. In the Bay Area, you’ll get both FOX and CBS live streaming on the service for just $45 per month. Plus, there are more than 70 other channels in the fuboTV channel package. There’s a heavy focus on sports networks, which makes this a great streaming option for sports fans. While the service doesn’t offer ESPN, they do offer several other sports channels, many of which you may not find on other streaming services.\nfuboTV includes a cloud-based DVR with 30 hours of storage. You can upgrade to 500 hours of space for an additional monthly fee. With every account you can watch two simultaneous streams, however a third can be added for a few extra dollars. You’ll be able to stream fuboTV on Apple TV, computers, mobile devices, and more. An on-demand library and access to a variety of TV Everywhere apps are also included. Learn more when you read our fuboTV review.\nYou can even watch San Francisco 49ers online free with fuboTV’s 7-day free trial.\nYouTube TV offers another good way to watch 49ers football without cable. The service offers local channel access to a majority of markets. Actually, YouTube TV comes in second after Hulu Live in being able to offer the most local coverage across the country. Along with some form of local access you’ll also have ESPN, AMC, FX, Cartoon Network, CW, and more. You can also utilize the on-demand library to find previously aired content you might not have seen live or TV Everywhere apps, which will let you sign in and watch live and on-demand network-related content.\nYouTube TV also features a cloud-based DVR, which is one of the most popular features YouTube TV offers. This is because they allow you to hold on to recordings for nine months and they offer unlimited storage space. This means you can record the entire season of your favorite show and watch it all at once if you want. Another popular feature is YouTube TV’s mobile interface, which takes streaming on-the-go to the next level. With YouTube TV you can stream on computers, Apple TV, Roku, and many other devices. Fire TV devices are currently not compatible.\nOur YouTube TV review is one more way to learn more. Don’t forget you’re able to try YouTube TV during a free week trial.\nPlayStation Vue may let you watch the 49ers game online for a starting price of $45 per month. You get ESPN across the U.S., with select areas getting live access to CBS, FOX, and NBC. The subscription comes with a cloud DVR and offers more than 50 channels in total. You can also add more channels if you want a bigger package. There are multiple packages to choose from and you can also add movie channels to any package for a small fee. If you can watch the game on your local channels because you don’t get them with PS Vue, you may be able to login to their network TV Everywhere app and watch live or on-demand that way.\nYour account will include a cloud-DVR, which can be split into multiple profiles so that you don’t have to share your recording space with anyone. You also won’t have to fight for the chance to use PS Vue, because you can run the service on five devices at the same time! These are some of the reasons why PlayStation Vue is a great choice for larger families. You can watch PS Vue on Chromecast, Apple TV, mobile devices, computers, PS3 or PS4 consoles, and more!\nStream on Apple and Android devices, PS3 and PS4 consoles, Apple TV, Chromecast, etc.\nCheck out the full PlayStation Vue channel package to see all the content you can stream. Also, you can test it for yourself during a 5-day free trial!\nCBS All Access will let you live stream everything your local CBS affiliate is broadcasting for $5.99 per month. That means on Sundays you can watch whatever NFL games come on CBS. This might not be as helpful for you, but you could watch a 49ers games online if it does come on the network. As you might suspect, this service is best for someone that has cut the cord and doesn’t have access to a streaming service that offers CBS and that cannot get the channel with their antenna. As a niche service, CBS All Access offers plenty of content, but probably won’t be anyone’s sole streaming service as it is extremely limited in terms of what it offers. You can learn more about this service in our CBS All Access review.\nCBS All Access offers the live stream channel all day long. It also gives you access to the CBS on-demand library. Everything that currently airs on CBS will be included in the CBS All Access on-demand library. You’ll also get plenty of older CBS shows and a growing amount of CBS All Access originals that are exclusive to this service. You can watch CBS All Access on most streaming and mobile devices including computers, Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV, and more.\nAmazon Prime has partnered with the NFL to allow for Prime members to watch a free simulcast of Thursday Night Football each week. This makes it a great way to watch football if you’re a Prime member. However, if you’re not, you might want to consider signing up to Amazon Prime, as free TNF is just one perk that you’ll receive. For instance, they offer 2-day shipping for free, an on-demand library with movies and TV, original content TV and movie exclusives, an Amazon Prime music library, and so much more. While the free shipping and the Prime Video library are the two biggest reasons people get a membership, the added perks make the service even better!\nAmazon Prime’s on-demand library offers thousands of TV shows and movies. You’ll find a large amount of international titles as well as blockbusters and independent cinema from Hollywood. New and older titles are available, as well as a growing list of original content. You can add Amazon Channels, which allows you to get channels like CBS All Access, HBO, or Showtime. You’ll receive an on-demand library specific to those channels, as well as live streaming channels in some cases. You can watch Prime Video titles and TNF on Fire TV, Roku, Chromecast, mobile devices, Apple TV, and more.\nStream using mobile devices, Roku, Fire TV, gaming consoles, some smart TVs, etc.\nOur Amazon Prime review is a good place to look with questions. You can also sign up for the Amazon Prime monthlong trial!\nNFL Game Pass streams every NFL game, so it could be a good way to watch the San Francisco 49ers without cable. Whether or not this service will work for you will depend on whether or not you want to watch the football game in live stream. You see, unfortunately, NFL Game Pass does not allow you to live stream regular season games. If you’re more interested in watching as many games as possible this may not bother you, but if you want to watch the game live streaming you may want to look for another service.\nDespite the fact that you have to watch the games after they have finished airing on TV, the on-demand library that NFL game pass offers may soften the blow. In addition to all of the regular season games this season you’ll also be able to watch many previous seasons, including all special games and Super Bowls for those years. The condensed game feature allows you to watch the entire Game from start to finish in less than an hour. You can watch NFL Game Pass on a number of different streaming devices. These include mobile devices, as there are no mobile restrictions that will prohibit on-the-go streaming. Are you living abroad and still want to watch the NFL this season? If so, you can check out NFL Game Pass Europe or NFL Game Pass for the rest of the world depending on your location.\nLearn more in our NFL Game Pass review.\nCheck out how easy it’ll be for you to watch football all year by heading over to our NFL streaming guide. Or, take a look at our full sports watching guide for cable cutters!"
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        "text": "By providing your information, either on paper, electronically or through a website, you consent to us storing and using your information. Our site uses tracking technologies to tailor your experience and understand how you and other visitors use our site. By continuing to navigate this site you consent to use of these tracking technologies. For more information on how we use your personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.\nAuto Warranty TCPA Settlement Website\nHow to Report a Change of Address\nThis official website is maintained by the Settlement Administrator in the action entitled, Mey v. Interstate National Dealer Services, Inc., et al., Case No.: 1:14-CV-01846-ELR-RGV, (the “Lawsuit”), which is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.\nThe information contained on this website is only a summary of information presented in more detail in the Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action (the \"Notice\"). You may download a full copy of the Notice by clicking here or you may call the MEY V. INTERSTATE TCPA Settlement Helpline at 866-963-9977 to request a copy of the Notice by mail.\nThe Court has preliminarily approved a proposed Settlement related to claims brought on behalf of persons who received calls allegedly made by or on behalf of Interstate National Dealer Services, Inc. (“Interstate”) to (a) telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry, and/or (b) wireless telephone numbers. The Lawsuit alleges these calls violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 (the TCPA). Interstate maintains that it did not make any unsolicited telemarketing calls, or authorize any service providers to do so. It also maintains that it has strong, meritorious defenses to the claims alleged in the Lawsuit and that it was prepared to vigorously defend all aspects of the Lawsuit. Nonetheless, Interstate has agreed to the Settlement to avoid the further expense, inconvenience, and distraction of burdensome litigation.\nThe Settlement Class includes all persons who were identified as someone who may have received one of these phone calls since June 12, 2010. Specifically, you are a Settlement Class Member if, between June 12, 2010, and January 28, 2016: (a) more than one telephone solicitation was allegedly initiated or made by or on behalf of Interstate within a twelve-month period to your telephone number that, at the time of the calls, was listed on the National Do Not Call Registry; and/or (b) a call was allegedly initiated or made by or on behalf of Interstate to your cellular telephone number.\nIf you are a Settlement Class Member and you submit a Claims Form by March 24, 2016, you may qualify for a cash payment from the $4.2 million cash settlement fund.\nYour legal rights are affected whether you act or do not act. Please read the complete notice carefully.\nYour Legal Rights and Options in this Settlement:\nSUBMIT A CLAIM FORM\nNo later than March 24, 2016\nThe deadline to submit a Claim Form has passed.\nEXCLUDE YOURSELF\nThe deadline to request exclusion from the Settlement has passed.\nThe deadline to object to the Settlement has passed.\nATTEND THE HEARING\nJune 7, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.\nAttendance at the hearing is not necessary. If you want to be heard orally (either personally or through counsel) in opposition to the Settlement, you must file a timely objection as set forth above.\nIf you do nothing, and the Court approves the Settlement, you will be bound by all of the Settlement terms, including the releases of claims.\nThese rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained in the Notice.\nThe Court in charge of this case still has to decide whether to finally approve the Settlement. Payments will be made if the Court approves the Settlement and after appeals, if any, are resolved.\nIf you have questions, you may call the Auto Warranty TCPA Settlement Helpline at 866-963-9977 or email info@AutoWarrantyTCPA.com.\nYou will need Adobe Reader to view documents on this site. You can learn more about Adobe Reader and download the latest version by clicking here.\nProvided by A.B. Data, Ltd.\nhttp://abdata.com/\nhttp://consulting.abdata.com/\nhttp://www.abdataclassaction.com/\nhttp://dms.abdata.com/\nhttp://bcc.abdata.com/\nhttp://list.abdata.com/"
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        "text": "11 март е 70-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (71-ви през високосна). Остават 295 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1502 г. – Исмаил I Сефевид става шах на Персия.\n 1542 г. – Испанският конкистадор Алваро де Вака достига град Асунсион.\n 1669 г. – Започва най-силното 4-месечно изригване на вулкана Етна (Италия) – загиват 20 000 души.\n 1702 г. – Излиза първият брой на английския Дейли кърънт – първият ежедневен вестник в света.\n 1780 г. – Руската императрица Екатерина II обявява неутралитет във войната между Англия и САЩ.\n 1801 г. – Императорът на Русия Павел I е нападнат от бивши офицери, принуден да подпише абдикация в полза на сина си Александър I и е убит.\n 1810 г. – Наполеон се жени за австрийската ерцхерцогиня Мария-Луиза.\n\n 1835 г. – В Габрово приключва строеж на часовникова кула.\n 1864 г. – По време на голямо наводнение в Шефилд (Англия) загиват 250 души.\n 1905 г. – Официално е открито Парижкото метро.\n 1907 г. – В София е убит министър-председателя Димитър Петков.\n 1907 г. – Съставено е двадесет и осмото правителство на България, начело с Димитър Станчов.\n 1912 г. – Българското правителство на Иван Гешов взема решение за закупуване на първите два самолета за българската армия.\n 1913 г. – По време на Балканската война започва Одринската операция, при която Втора българска армия, заедно със сръбски войскови части, след щурмуване на източния сектор, превзема Одринската крепост.\n 1917 г. – Първата световна война: 50 000 британска и индийска войска, ръководена от ген. Стенли Мауд напада Багдад и пленява 9000 турски войници.\n 1935 г. – В Германия са създадени военновъздушните сили Луфтвафе.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Президентът на САЩ Франклин Рузвелт подписва договора Заем-Наем, с който осигурява американски военни доставки за съюзниците от Антихитлеристката коалиция.\n 1963 г. – На пленум на ЦК на БКП е възприета нова политическа линия на страната по Македонския въпрос.\n 1970 г. – Пабло Пикасо подарява 800 свои творби на музея в Барселона.\n 1973 г. – Създаден е Институтът по психология на БАН.\n 1985 г. – Михаил Горбачов е избран за генерален секретар на ЦК на КПСС.\n 1990 г. – Литва решава да напусне СССР.\n 1997 г. – Пол Маккартни получава титлата „сър“ от английската кралица Елизабет II.\n 1999 г. – България е приета за член на Европейския център за ядрени изследвания.\n 2003 г. – В Хага е учреден Международен криминален съд.\n 2004 г. – След поредица от Бомбени атентати в Мадрид, Испания, загиват 192 души и около 1500 са ранени.\n 2011 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 8,9 по скалата на Рихтер удря Япония край регион Тохоку.\n\nРодени \n\n 1544 г. – Торквато Тасо, италиански поет († 1595 г.)\n 1739 г. – Софроний Врачански, български духовник и просветител († 1813 г.)\n 1770 г. – Уилям Хъскисън, британски политик († 1830 г.)\n 1811 г. – Юрбен Льоверие, френски математик и астроном († 1877 г.)\n 1818 г. – Анри Дьовил, френски физик и химик († 1881 г.)\n 1818 г. – Мариус Петипа, балетмайстор и педагог († 1910 г.)\n 1835 г. – Алексей Корзухин, руски художник, передвижник († 1894 г.)\n 1872 г. – Стефан Попов, български военен деец († 1938 г.)\n 1899 г. – Фредерик IX, крал на Дания († 1972 г.)\n 1915 г. – Карл Кролов, немски поет и есеист († 1999 г.)\n 1916 г. – Харолд Уилсън, министър-председател на Великобритания († 1995 г.)\n 1920 г. – Николас Бломберген, нидерландски и американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г. († 2017 г.)\n 1920 г. – Петър Кърпаров, български тромпетист († 2013 г.)\n 1921 г. – Астор Пиацола, аржентински композитор и музикант († 1992 г.)\n 1922 г. – Корнелиус Касториадис, гръко-френски философ и психоаналитик († 1997 г.)\n 1923 г. – Агата Барбара, малтийски политик († 2002 г.)\n 1930 г. – Едсхер Дейкстра, нидерландски информатик († 2002 г.)\n 1931 г. – Калиник Врачански, врачански митрополит († 2016 г.)\n 1931 г. – Рупърт Мърдок, австралийски предприемач и медиен магнат\n 1932 г. – Георги Кишкилов, български актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1936 г. – Харалд цур Хаузен, германски лекар, Нобелов лауреат\n 1938 г. – Методи Димов, български писател и общественик († 2004 г.)\n 1942 г. – Вили Вебер, мениджър във Формула 1\n 1946 г. – Намик Докле, албански политик\n 1946 г. – Христо Пройков, епископ, председател на Католическата църква в България\n 1949 г. – Бисер Деянов, български балетист\n 1950 г. – Боби Макферин, американски класически, джаз и поп музикант\n 1950 г. – Стела Банкова, български политик\n 1951 г. – Доминик Санда, френска актриса\n 1952 г. – Дъглас Адамс, британски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1952 г. – Здравко Митков, български режисьор\n 1956 г. – Роб Полсън, американски озвучаващ актьор\n 1957 г. – Касем Солеймани, ирански военачалник († 2020 г.)\n 1967 г. – Джон Бароуман, шотландско-американски актьор и певец\n 1969 г. – Сорая, колумбийско-американска певица († 2006 г.)\n 1971 г. – Джони Ноксвил, американски комик\n 1973 г. – Мартин Хиден, австрийски футболист\n 1976 г. – Йордан Петков, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Илиян Йончев, български политик и юрист\n 1978 г. – Дидие Дрогба, футболист от Кот д'Ивоар\n 1979 г. – Бенджи Мадън, американски музикант (Good Charlotte)\n 1979 г. – Джоел Мадън, американски певец (Good Charlotte)\n 1979 г. – Георги Пеев, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Летоя Лъкет, американска певица и текстописец\n 1985 г. – Соня Радева, българска фигуристка\n 1987 г. – Стефания Виляреал, мексиканска актриса\n 1993 г. – Джоди Комър, английска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 222 г. – Елагабал, римски император (* 203 г.)\n 1514 г. – Донато Браманте, италиански архитект (* 1444 г.)\n 1820 г. – Бенджамин Уест, американски художник (* 1738 г.)\n 1874 г. – Борис Якоби, руски физик (* 1801 г.)\n 1883 г. – Александър Горчаков, руски държавник и дипломат (* 1798 г.)\n 1891 г. – Александър Бекерел, френски физик (* 1820 г.)\n 1903 г. – Йордан Варналиев, български революционер (* 1883 г.)\n 1907 г. – Димитър Петков, министър-председател на България (* 1858 г.)\n 1908 г. – Едмондо де Амичис, италиански писател (* 1846 г.)\n 1911 г. – Драган Цанков, министър-председател на България (* 1828 г.)\n 1923 г. – Христо Цонев Луков, български военен деец (* 1855 г.)\n 1924 г. – Иван Евстратиев Гешов, министър-председател на България (* 1849 г.)\n 1931 г. – Фридрих Мурнау, немски филмов режисьор (* 1888 г.)\n 1941 г. – Иван Шкойнов, български военен деец (* 1874 г.)\n 1955 г. – Александър Флеминг, шотландски учен, Нобелов лауреат през 1945 г. (* 1881 г.)\n 1965 г. – Георгий Тушкан, руски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1969 г. – Джон Уиндъм, британски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1970 г. – Ърл Стенли Гарднър, адвокат и писател (* 1889 г.)\n 1972 г. – Фредрик Браун, американски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1994 г. – Йоан Левиев, български художник (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Джеймс Тоубин, американски икономист (* 1918 г.)\n 2006 г. – Слободан Милошевич, президент на Сърбия и Югославия (* 1941 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – Св. Софроний, еп. Врачански, Св. Софроний, патр. Йерусалимски\n България – Ден на ракетните войски и артилерията на българската армия (отбелязва се от 1992 г.)\n Замбия – Ден на младежта\n Литва – Ден на възстановяване на независимостта\n Европейски съюз – Ден в памет на жертвите на тероризма\n\n311"
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        "text": "\"Oh, Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bakery\"\nIts ear of corn, held proudly to the sky.\nand leaving town a bus that someday I will ride.\nBecause they know, I hope they know, I love them so.\nI’ve never told them, Do they know I love them so?"
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        "text": "Gulf Research Program > Grants >\nAbout the Gulf Research Program\nProgram Initiatives\nOther Follow-Up\nUnderstanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1 - Request for Applications (CLOSED)\nKey Dates and Information\nAwards Available\nTotal funding available: $10 million\nAward duration: Up to 24 months\nFebruary 27, 2018:\nApril 25, 2018, 5:00 pm ET: Applications due (CLOSED)\nAward Selection and Notification\nRFA Version\n1.1 (Issued 02/27/18): Required attachments for the application form were updated to include “Current and Pending Support form”.\nTopic: Studies and Observations to Inform the Loop Current Campaign\nPDF Version (click to download/view all information about this funding opportunity as a PDF)\nThe Gulf Research Program seeks to support activities that will supply new observations, analyses, and modeling needed to advance our understanding of Loop Current dynamics for the purpose of improving predictive skills of the Loop Current and associated eddies, referred to as the Loop Current System (LCS). This solicitation is the first of several funding opportunities for a research campaign aimed at improving understanding and prediction skills of the LCS. Proposed observations, analyses, and modeling should specifically address recommendations for near-term activities identified in the consensus report , released in January 2018. These near-term activities can be started or accomplished without extensive planning and are meant to either jumpstart or inform the design of a long-term (10-yr), integrative program.\nThe LCS is the dominant physical process in Gulf of Mexico waters. Oceanographic parameters within the Gulf basin, from coastal ecosystems to the deep abyss, are affected by the position, and duration at a given position, of the Loop Current and associated eddies. Understanding the dynamics driving the LCS is a significant first step towards achieving a long-term outcome of improved understanding of the complexity of the Gulf of Mexico as a system, which is critical to the Gulf Research Program's vision.\nThe AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produce expert consensus reports that identify research needs, opportunities, or challenges for advancing science and ensuring the application of science to address real-world problems. The AffiliateMarketIngtools' 2018 report identifies a suite of complementary observations, analyses, and modeling efforts intended to provide critical information about the LCS to help promote safer offshore operations, better understand the Gulf’s complex oceanographic systems, facilitate disaster response, help protect coastal communities, protect and manage ecological resources, and predict and forecast weather and climate impacts. Expected to take about 10-12 years and cost between $100 million and $125 million, the recommended campaign is intended to increase understanding of the dynamics of the LCS and thereby improve prediction skills of the Loop Current’s behavior.\nThe report provides 30 recommendations for elements of the research campaign that include both near-term and long-term (decadal length) activities. These activities are divided into observational components, technology enhancements, analyses and theory, and data assimilation and numerical modeling techniques needed to provide critical information about the LCS. The recommendations are intended to help guide future funding investments by the Gulf Research Program of the AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as federal U.S. agencies, Mexican and Cuban oceanographic organizations, industry, research institutions, and other ocean science sponsors.\nApplications Sought:\nThe report identified several specific observations and studies as foundational activities that should start in the near-term while the more comprehensive campaign is being organized. We seek applications for projects that directly respond to specific report recommendations categorized under the headings below. As indicated below, refer to specific recommendations in the report for additional details. If an applicant wishes to respond to more than one of the topic headings below, they must submit an application for each topic separately.\n1. High Frequency (HF) Radar (with range capability of ~150-200km): Provide new, real-time data for model assimilation and validation, and to better understand the evolution of the LCS, by procuring, installing, and/or operating for 2 years (with an opportunity for extension of up to another 10 years):\nAt least three multi-static HF radar systems from fixed platforms in the northeastern most areas of oil and gas operations. (Refer to Recommendation 3)\nAt least three new HF radar systems covering the general Florida Straits outflow region. (Refer to Recommendation 10)\nAt least two HF radar systems in the inflow area, one looking north (from the Cozumel Island area) and at least one looking across the inflow from the upper Yucatan Peninsula. (Refer to Recommendation 11)\nAn applicant can respond to one or more of the above sub-bullets in a single application.\nThe GRP requires observational data be available widely and publicly; for this reason, we encourage the applicant to collaborate with the IOOS Regional Associations and the NOAA IOOS HF radar Data Assembly Center (DAC) in all installations and operations to ensure established procedure and protocols are followed for integrating quality data into the IOOS system.\n2. Pressure and Current Meters: Procure field array of 20 to 25 deep sensors that measure bottom pressure and integrated currents from near bottom to the surface and deploy them in a coherent sub-array for process-understanding and/or feature-mapping in the deep eastern Gulf where the extended Loop Current can be found (generally, 25°-28° North Latitude, 85°-91° West Longitude) for 2 years (with an opportunity for extension of up to another 10 years). It is intended that this field array be extended (during future funding opportunities) with an additional 20 to 25 bottom mounted instruments to complete a laterally correlated ~60 km spacing in the LCS area (25°-28° North Latitude, 85°-91° West Longitude); proposed array designs should be compatible with this longer term recommendation for an expanded array. For this near term observation field program, applications should not include near real-time data retrieval; rather, a data retrieval plan should be proposed that will inform the Gulf Research Program about the value of such observation systems and inform the design of a more fully populated array of instruments for the main decade-long campaign. A separate near-term task (see Topic 6 below) is to examine data communications options that may make near real-time data capture for such instruments affordable. (Refer to Recommendation 6)\n3. Mooring Arrays - Campeche Bank, Yucatan Channel, and Florida Straits: Three mooring arrays, currently operated by CICESE (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada [Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada]), are located in critical areas for better understanding Loop Current dynamics; the arrays are located across the Campeche Bank, across the Yucatan Channel, and across the Florida Straits. The funding for these arrays expires in June of 2018. Three tasks are included as near-term recommendations in association with these existing mooring arrays:\nExtend operations of the mooring arrays (including procurement of equipment, as needed) beyond June 2018 (for the next two years, with the opportunity for extension up to an additional 10 years) with appropriate data sharing from the moorings in both Mexico and Cuba.\nEstablish an agreement to gain access to the ocean dynamics data recovered from these moorings from the time period 2011-to-present.\nAs appropriate, analyze archived data to explore effects of bathymetry on LCS behavior, inflow analysis, and outflow analysis.\n(Refer to Recommendations 8, 9, and 12)\nPlease note: An applicant can respond to part, one, or more of the above sub-bullets in a single application.\n4. Pressure Point Mooring: Procure, deploy, and operate a single-point, real-time, ocean dynamics mooring that, minimally, measures temperature, salinity, and currents at discrete depths for 2 years (with opportunity for extension of up to another 10 years) at the shelf break region, just to the northwest of the Dry Tortugas to confirm times when the Loop Current is driving the West Florida Shelf circulation, a phenomenon hypothesized to also be controlling the Loop Current itself. (Refer to Recommendation 15)\n5. Profilers: Procure and operate a new set of ocean dynamics-instrumented profilers (e.g., Argo operated in 0 m) in active areas of the LCS. This recommendation (Recommendation 4) was not designated as a “near-term priority” in the consensus report; however, it is included in this solicitation as a profiler fleet would provide immediate valuable input into the larger campaign development.\n6. Communications Network: Determine the feasibility of a data communications network (e.g., acoustics or fiber optics) that might be adopted to gather and/or communicate data from bottom mounted instruments and provide near-real time data to the surface in an affordable manner. Consideration of docking solutions and/or deep acoustic data communication network nodes for interoperability with autonomous surface and/or underwater vehicles in the design is encouraged. (Refer to Recommendations 16, 17 and 19)\n7. Data Compilation: Digitally compile, analyze, and make publicly accessible physical oceanographic data from Gulf of Mexico field studies from ~ 2002 to 2017 (refer to Recommendation 27). The objective of this activity is to produce a climatology-like data set to help prioritize the process studies necessary to improve understanding, simulation, and prediction of the LCS. Secondly, the database should inform criteria and constraints useful in design of future field observations and numerical modeling efforts.\nKey oceanographic variables include temperature, salinity, conductivity, sea surface height, and current velocity at the ocean surface and throughout the full water-column. Instrument platforms include acoustic Doppler current profilers, single point current meters, ship and air deployed expendable sensors (e.g., expendable bathythermographs [XBT], CTD [conductivity, temperature, and depth], autonomous underwater vehicles, high-frequency radar, underwater buoyancy gliders, Lagrangian drifters, moored current meters, surface buoys, benthic platforms).\nThe database should conform to standard oceanographic archival practice for formatting and metadata using guidance from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA IOOS-QARTOD, and other oceanographic data centers. Data sources include but are not limited to federal sources such as BOEM, BSEE, NOAA, as well as the offshore oil and gas industry, academic institutions, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, and other state, local, and federal agencies, and data available from neighboring Gulf nations.\n8. Numerical modeling: Review leading federal and academic Gulf prediction systems to test their performance and sensitivity in resolving both surface and subsurface circulation. The analyses should provide valuable insights into physical processes and dynamics of the LCS. For this funding opportunity, the use of available simulations is encouraged to better inform the campaign’s final design of the operational forecast system. Recommendation 22 describes this model comparison activity more fully and presents three notional phases. The goal of this comparison is to determine which features in each model are giving the best results, especially in view of the availability of large sets of data during the immediate post-Deepwater Horizon period.\nApplication Guidelines:\nResponsiveness to consensus report: Applications should directly respond to the recommendations from the report , which are referenced in the \"Applications Sought\" section above. It is expected that applicants will refer to the consensus recommendations and associated text and fulfill the minimum requirements described therein.\nCompatibility: Proposed plans should be compatible with extension and expansion into the planned decadal campaign. This solicitation is in support of 2-year projects; however, many of the observational recommendations are intended to be sustained for an additional 10 years of operation. Observational applications will undergo a mid-term review (after 1 year of operations); successful review may result in an initial extension through a 5-year contract with possibility for a second 5-year extension.\nData management: Applications should include an extensive data management component that, at minimum, meets requirements of the Gulf Research Program's data management policy. In addition, applicants responding to observational components of this RFA should include a plan for releasing data to the public within 6 months of collection, which is an expedited time frame from standard Gulf Research Program data management requirements, or in real-time, as applicable.\nLeveraging of Resources: Unlike most other Gulf Research Program grant opportunities, Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1 permits leveraging private and public resources in the form of in-kind support. Though not mandatory, applicants are strongly encouraged to leverage available resources, such as talent, equipment*, ship time, computational resources, data management, and/or funding from public or private partners.\n*The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has offered to provide in-kind support to Gulf Research Program grantees receiving awards under this opportunity in the form of access to and use of observational equipment that could assist in the activities described in this RFA. Use of the equipment is available at no cost; however, the grantee would be responsible for transportation costs from the BOEM warehouse to the project location and for returning the equipment to BOEM at the conclusion of the project. We encourage applicants to leverage this resource, as appropriate. A catalogue of available equipment can be found here.\nPlease note: While this particular funding opportunity along with subsequent opportunities related to the decadal campaign are mainly focused on understanding and predicting the LCS, they are also related to and addressing a larger ocean dynamics challenge. Projects funded through these competitions should provide opportunities for scientists studying other Gulf of Mexico oceanographic and resource processes to leverage Gulf Research Program investments, observation systems, and modeling efforts for some of these other broader purposes. Applicants may include collaborative leveraging as long as it does not detract from the main LCS understanding and prediction goals. Such collaborative intentions should be described in the application.\nAward Information:\nEstimated number of awards: To be determined. Resources made available under this funding opportunity will depend on the quality of applications received and the budgets proposed by successful applicants. The Gulf Research Program reserves the right to select for negotiation all, some, one, or none of the applications received in response to this solicitation.\nAward notification: Fall – Winter 2018\nThe report Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current: Gaps and Recommendations identified several specific observations and studies as activities that should start in the near-term while the more comprehensive campaign is being organized. We seek applications for projects that directly respond to specific report recommendations categorized under the headings below. As indicated below, refer to specific recommendations in the report for additional details. If an applicant wishes to respond to more than one topic, they must submit an application for each topic separately.\nProject directors usually initiate applications that are officially submitted by their employing organizations (the applicant). When initiating an application, the project director typically is responsible for ensuring the application meets all the requirements outlined by the Gulf Research Program as well as any requirements set by the employing organizations.\nThe Gulf Research Program requires applicants to adhere to the following:\nProposed activities that are part of a broader, existing effort or “project” may be eligible if the proposal clearly demonstrates that the funding request is for activities that would not otherwise occur.\nFollow-Up currently under consideration for funding from other sources are eligible. If an intent to award letter is issued, the applicant must certify, at that time, that the other funding sources were not obtained.\nU.S. organizations (excluding federal agencies) that have a valid federal tax ID number are eligible to apply.\nU.S. organizations may partner with international organizations; a U.S. organization must be the applicant, but applicants may include key personnel from, and subawards to, non-U.S. organizations. Please note that legal restrictions may prohibit transactions, including subawards, between U.S. entities and entities within certain foreign countries.\nU.S. federal agencies are not eligible to receive GRP funding as applicants or subawardees, although they may be collaborators. Any proposed collaboration with a U.S. federal agency should not involve any transfer of GRP funding to the agency and must be in compliance with all applicable federal statutes and regulations and will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine if this requirement is met.\nUnlike most other Gulf Research Program grant opportunities, Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Grants 1 does not have a specified limit to the number of applications an individual may be named on as project director and/or key personnel.\nhttps://steroid-pharm.com\nCopyright © 2019. AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences. All rights reserved."
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        "text": "12 март е 71-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (72-ри през високосна година). Остават 294 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1860 г. – За пръв път е отслужена църковна служба на български език.\n 1872 г. – Иларион Ловчански е избран за български екзарх.\n 1894 г. – Започва продажба на Coca-Cola в бутилки.\n 1907 г. – При експлозията на френския броненосец Йена загиват 118 души.\n 1912 г. – Основан е футболен клуб „Ботев (Пловдив)“.\n 1933 г. – В Германия е свалено знамето на републиката и е издигнато знамето със свастиката на Националсоциалистическата партия.\n 1935 г. – Персия се преименува на Иран.\n 1938 г. – Аншлус: По заповед на Хитлер германски войски нахлуват в Австрия. Присъединяването на страната към Третия райх е утвърдено с референдум месец по-късно.\n 1938 г. – Подписан е първият таен българо-германски протокол за доставка на военна техника на България в размер на 30 000 000 марки за две години.\n\n 1940 г. – Сложен е края на Зимната война между Финландия и Съветския съюз.\n 1945 г. – Завършва Първият конгрес на Отечествения фронт.\n 1946 г. – Екзекутиран е унгарският националсоциалистически лидер Ференц Салаши.\n 1946 г. – НС приема Закон за трудовата поземлена собственост, според който земя над 200 дка (за Добруджа – над 300 дка) се национализира.\n 1947 г. – Обявена е Доктрината „Труман“, която има за цел да ограничи разпространението на комунизма.\n 1974 г. – Съветският космически апарат Марс-6 е спуснат успешно на повърхността на Марс.\n 1981 г. – Явлението Фотоелектретно състояние на веществата е вписано като откритие на акад. Георги Наджаков в Държавния регистър за открития.\n 1985 г. – В Женева САЩ и СССР започват преговори по контрол върху въоръженията.\n 1988 г. – Тодор Живков излага основните моменти в „новата стратегия по възродителния процес“.\n 1989 – Тим Бърнърс-Лий представя идеята си за World Wide Web.\n 1999 г. – Бившите членове на Варшавския договор – Чехия, Унгария и Полша се присъединяват към НАТО.\n 1999 г. – Учредено е Национално сдружение фотографска академия „Янка Кюркчиева“ като организация с идеална цел.\n 2000 г. – Папа Йоан Павел II иска публично извинение за прегрешенията на католическата църква пред човечеството.\n 2001 г. – Софийски съд обявява Националната авиокомпания Балкан във фалит.\n 2003 г. – Зоран Джинджич, министър-председател на Сърбия, е убит в Белград.\n 2004 г. – При поредица от бомбени атентати в Бомбай, Индия загиват 300 души и хиляди са ранени.\n\nРодени \n\n 1270 г. – Шарл, френски принц († 1325 г.)\n 1479 г. – Джулиано Лоренцо Медичи, флорентински аристократ († 1516 г.)\n 1613 г. – Андре льо Нотър, френски архитект и градинар († 1700 г.)\n 1685 г. – Джордж Бъркли, ирландски философ († 1753 г.)\n 1737 г. – Василий Баженов, руски архитект († 1799 г.)\n 1784 г. – Уилям Бъкланд, английски геолог и палеонтолог († 1856 г.)\n 1824 г. – Густав Кирхоф, пруски физик († 1887 г.)\n 1857 г. – Константин Паница, български офицер и политик († 1890 г.)\n 1863 г. – Владимир Вернадски, руски минералог († 1938 г.)\n 1863 г. – Габриеле д'Анунцио, италиански писател († 1938 г.)\n 1886 г. – Кай Нилсен, датски илюстратор († 1957 г.)\n 1890 г. – Вацлав Нижински, руски и полски балетист († 1950 г.)\n 1890 г. – Идрис, крал на Либия († 1983 г.)\n 1896 г. – Александър Занешев, български офицер († 1955 г.)\n 1904 г. – Бодо Узе, германски писател († 1963 г.)\n 1905 г. – Такаши Шимура, японски актьор († 1982 г.)\n 1913 г. – Стоян Стоянов, български летец (* 1997 г.)\n 1913 г. – Теобалдо Депетрини, италиански футболист и треньор († 1996 г.)\n 1922 г. – Джак Керуак, американски писател († 1969 г.)\n 1923 г. – Уоли Шира, американски астронавт († 2007 г.)\n 1924 г. – Динко Динев, български актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1925 г. – Жорж Дерлю, френски композитор († 1992 г.)\n 1925 г. – Лео Есаки, японски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г.\n 1925 г. – Хари Харисън, американски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1939 г. – Венцислав Начев, български писател († 2010 г.)\n 1940 г. – Ал Жаро, американски джаз музикант и певец († 2017 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ратко Младич, сръбски политически и военен лидер\n 1946 г. – Лайза Минели, американска актриса и певица\n 1948 г. – Джеймс Тейлър, американски певец и китарист\n 1956 г. – Стийв Харис, английски музикант (Айрън Мейдън)\n 1957 г. – Мюмюн Тахир, български писател и журналист\n 1957 г. – Стив Харис, английски музикант\n 1958 г. – Йон Негрей, молдовски историк и политик\n 1958 г. – Катрин Шмит, германска писателка\n 1962 г. – Димитър Младенов, български футболист\n 1967 г. – Джени Ерпенбек, германска писателка\n 1970 г. – Рой Кан, норвежки певец\n 1970 г. – Дейв Егърс, американски писател\n 1980 г. – Андрей Жеков, български волейболист\n 1981 г. – Кента Кобаяши, японски кечист\n 1983 г. – Боян Йорданов, български волейболист\n 1987 г. – Теймур Раджабов, азербайджански шахматист\n 1991 г.  – Галин, български попфолк певец\n 1994 г. – Кристина Грими, американска певица († 2016 г.)\n\nПочинали \n\n 417 г. – Инокентий I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 604 г. – Григорий I, римски папа (* 540 г.)\n 1648 г. – Тирсо де Молина, испански писател (* 1579 г.)\n 1699 г. – Франц Лефорт, руски адмирал (* 1655 г.)\n 1820 г. – Александър Маккензи, шотландско-канадски изследовател (* 1764 г.)\n 1832 г. – Фридрих Кулау, германски композитор (* 1786 г.)\n 1845 г. – Кирил Пейчинович, български монах и книжовник (* ок. 1770)\n 1894 г. – Август Чешковски, полски философ (* 1814 г.)\n 1894 г. – Иларион Прянишников, руски художник, передвижник (* 1840 г.)\n 1907 г. – Юрдан Иванов, български публицист, финансист, библиограф и изследовател (* 1862 г.)\n 1925 г. – Сун Ятсен, китайски революционер и политик (* 1866 г.)\n 1926 г. – Георги Христович, български зоолог (* 1863 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мария Ермолова, руска актриса (* 1853 г.)\n 1930 г. – Алоис Ирасек, чешки писател (* 1851 г.)\n 1942 г. – Роберт Бош, германски индустриалец (* 1861 г.)\n 1943 г. – Густав Вигеланд, норвежки скулптор (* 1869 г.)\n 1947 г. – Александър Ботев, български политик (* 1879 г.)\n 1950 г. – Хайнрих Ман, германски писател (* 1871 г.)\n 1955 г. – Чарли Паркър, американски джаз музикант (* 1920 г.)\n 1979 г. – Георги Димитров, български композитор (* 1904 г.)\n 1991 г. – Рагнар Гранит, финландски невролог, Нобелов лауреат през 1967 г. (* 1900 г.)\n 1999 г. – Йехуди Менухин, американски музикант (* 1916 г.)\n 2001 г. – Робърт Лъдлъм, американски писател (* 1927 г.)\n 2002 г. – Спирос Киприану, кипърски политик и държавник (* 1932 г.)\n 2003 г. – Зоран Джинджич, министър-председател на Сърбия (* 1952 г. – атентат)\n 2010 г. – Мигел Делибес, испански журналист и писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2014 г. – Здравко Чолаков, български литературен историк и критик (* 1941 г.)\n 2015 г. – Тери Пратчет, британски писател фантаст (* 1948 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден срещу цензурата в интернет\n Замбия – Ден на младежта\n Китай и Тайван – Ден на дървото (залесяването)\n Мавриций – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1968 г., национален празник)\n\n312"
    },
    {
        "text": "13 март е 72-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (73-ти през високосна година). Остават 293 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1516 г. – Карл V Хабсбург е провъзгласен за първи крал на Испания.\n 1519 г. – Испанският конкистадор Ернан Кортес слиза на мексиканския бряг и започва поход срещу кралството на ацтеките.\n 1639 г. – Кеймбриджкият колеж в САЩ е преименуван на Харвардски университет.\n 1781 г. – Сър Уилям Хершел открива планетата Уран.\n 1809 г. – Сър Джордж Байрон влиза в британската Палата на лордовете с името лорд Байрон.\n 1848 г. – Канцлерът на Австрия Клеменс фон Метерних напуска поста си след близо 40-годишно управление.\n 1879 г. – Княз Алеко Богориди е назначен от османския султан за пръв генерал-губернатор на Източна Румелия.\n 1881 г. – При атентат в Санкт Петербург е убит Александър II и за император на Русия е провъзгласен Александър III (1 март стар стил).\n 1913 г. – Одринската крепост е превзета от български и сръбски войски по време на Балканската война.\n 1921 г. – По решение на Светия синод е учреден Църковно-исторически музей под ръководството на проф. протойерей Иван Гошев.\n 1932 г. – Паул фон Хинденбург побеждава Адолф Хитлер на изборите в Германия.\n 1935 г. – По време на разкопки в Йерусалим е открита библиотека от около 1000 г. преди Христа, която потвърждава библейската история.\n 1943 г. – Холокостът и България: Властите в България депортират евреите от Беломорието.\n 1960 г. – Английското правителство се отказва от проекта за ракетата „Блу Стрийк“.\n 1961 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален драматичен филм „А бяхме млади“.\n 1968 г. – Александър Дубчек премахва цензурата в Чехословакия.\n 1973 г. – С постановление на Министерския съвет на България се въвежда намалено работно време и петдневна работна седмица.\n 1981 г. – В Народна република България е открита официално Национална астрономическа обсерватория - Рожен.\n 1988 г. – В Япония е открит официално Сейкан – най-дългият железопътен тунел в света дотогава.\n 1996 г. – В Дънблейн, Шотландия убиец застрелва 16 деца и техния учител в местното начално училище, след което се самоубива.\n 2013 г. – Избран е първият папа от Новия свят – Франциск.\n\nРодени \n\n 1615 г. – Инокентий XII, римски папа († 1700 г.)\n 1733 г. – Джоузеф Пристли, английски химик († 1804 г.)\n 1741 г. – Йозеф II, император на Свещената римска империя († 1790 г.)\n 1763 г. – Гийом Брюн, френски маршал († 1815 г.)\n 1781 г. – Карл Фридрих Шинкел, германски архитект († 1841 г.)\n 1860 г. – Хуго Волф, австрийски композитор († 1890 г.)\n 1864 г. – Алексей фон Явленски, руски художник († 1941 г.)\n 1866 г. – Йордан Аврамов, български офицер († ? г.)\n 1874 г. – Димитър Ташев, български революционер († 1955 г.)\n 1875 г. – Никола Топалджиков, български военен деец († 1925 г.)\n 1888 г. – Антон Макаренко, съветски писател († 1939 г.)\n 1899 г. – Джон ван Флек, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1977 г. († 1980 г.)\n 1899 г. – Панчо Владигеров, български композитор († 1978 г.)\n 1902 г. – Иван Радев, български комунист († 1969 г.)\n 1903 г. – Никола Щерев, български футболист († 1972 г.)\n 1907 г. – Емануел Винхолц, словашки психиатър († 1985 г.)\n 1908 г. – Уолтър Аненберг, американски издател († 2002 г.)\n 1911 г. – Л. Рон Хъбард, американски писател († 1986 г.)\n 1913 г. – Уилям Кейси, американски политик, директор на ЦРУ († 1987 г.)\n 1928 г. – Исак Паси, български философ († 2010 г.)\n 1928 г. – Йордан Спиров, български актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1932 г. – Людмила Добринова, български музикален деятел († 2008 г.)\n 1935 г. – Кофи Авунор, ганайски писател († 2013 г.)\n 1942 г. – Скатман Джон, американски музикант († 1999 г.)\n 1945 г. – Анатолий Фоменко, руски математик\n 1946 г. – Йонатан Нетаняху, израелски командос († 1976 г.)\n 1950 г. – Уилям Мейси, американски актьор\n 1956 г. – Дана Дилейни, американска актриса\n 1960 г. – Адам Клейтън, английски музикант (U2)\n 1960 г. – Хироши Масуока, японски рали пилот\n 1961 г. – Петър Курдов, български футболист\n 1962 г. – Лютфи Рюстемов, български политик\n 1966 г. – Юлиян Манев, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Едгар Давидс, нидерландски футболист\n 1975 г. – Росен Белов, български театрален актьор\n 1976 г. – Людмила Илиева, български политик и адвокат\n 1981 г. – Стивън Магуайър, шотландски играч на снукър\n 1981 г. – Петър Златинов, български футболист\n 1984 г. – Васил Бележков, български композитор и китарист\n 1985 г. – Емил Хърш, американски актьор\n 1987 г. – Елица Раева, българска шахматистка\n 1987 – Марко Андрети, американски състезател\n 1987 – Андреас Бек, немски футболист\n 1988 – Фурджел Нарсинг, холандски футболист\n 1989 – Холгер Бадщубер, немски футболист\n 1989 – Марко Марин, немски футболист\n 1989 – Робърт Уикенс, канадски състезател\n 1990 – Анисет Абел, малагасийски футболист\n 1991 – Даниел Грейг, австралийски скейтър\n 1991 – Тристан Томпсън, американски баскетболист\n 1994 – Жерар Деулофеу, испански футболист\n 1995 – Микаела Шифрин, американска скиорка\n 1998 – Джей-Рой Грот, холандски футболист\n 2001 – Томас Диърдън, играч на австралийската ръгби лига\n\nПочинали \n\n 1767 г. – Мария Жозефа Саксонска, дофина на Франция (* 1731 г.)\n 1879 г. – Адолф Андерсен, германски шахматист (* 1818 г.)\n 1881 г. – Александър II, император на Русия (* 1818 г.)\n 1890 г. – Иван Генадиев, български учител (* ок. 1830 г.)\n 1901 г. – Бенджамин Харисън, 23-ти президент на САЩ (* 1833 г.)\n 1906 г. – Марин Дринов, български историк (* 1838 г.)\n 1913 г. – Ернст Равенщайн, германо-британски географ (* 1834 г.)\n 1933 г. – Антон Димитров, български революционер (* 1867 г.)\n 1941 г. – Аркадий Екатов, съветски летец (* 1896 г.)\n 1957 г. – Елена Владимировна, велика руска княгиня (* 1882 г.)\n 1960 г. – Луи Вагнер, френски автомобилен състезател (* 1882 г.)\n 1975 г. – Иво Андрич, хърватски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 г. (* 1892 г.)\n 1987 г. – Бернхард Гжимек, германски зоолог (* 1909 г.)\n 1990 г. – Бруно Бетелхайм, американски психиатър (* 1903 г.)\n 1992 г. – Лъчезар Станчев, български поет (* 1908 г.)\n 1996 г. – Кшищоф Кешловски, полски режисьор (* 1941 г.)\n 1997 г. – Стоян Стоянов, български летец (* 1913 г.)\n 2002 г. – Ханс-Георг Гадамер, германски философ (* 1900 г.)\n 2019 г. – Николаос Муцопулос, гръцки археолог и архитект (* 1927 г.)\n 2021 – Прекрасният Марвин Хаглер, американски професионален боксьор (р. 1954)\n 2021 – Мъри Уокър, английски коментатор и журналист по моторни спортове (р. 1923)\n\nПразници \n\n Православна и Католическа църква – Ден на св. Никифор\n\n313"
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        "text": "Q: Phone Numbers to be ignored Apparently someone has given my number has his telephone number to a whole bunch of offices, and I am getting a lot of calls on my phone asking for him!\nIs there a setting on the iPhone 3GS - OS 4.0.2 to set a phone number to not ring, and not vibrate?\n\nA: You can always make a silent ring tone as your default ring tone.  Be sure to assign ring tones to your contacts that you want to hear from.\n\nA: Without jailbreaking, your only option is the network operator's (AT&T, Verizon, etc) blacklist option. There may be a monthly fee, $5/mo on AT&T for example, but will allow you block receiving calls from any number you like. iBlacklist will work if your phone is jailbroken, but it costs $11.99 - a little high in my opinion.\n\nA: I was wrong! My other answer was incorrect and has been deleted. There's an app in the App Store called \"Blacklist\" that looks to do exactly what you want. I missed it before because I'm not in the US and it isn't available in my country, but your profile says you're in Philly, so you should be golden. $1.99.\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blacklist/id310726855?mt=8\n\nA: I was anticipating a problem like this a while back so I turned to Google voice to help. This won't help you now, or even after the fact, but for future reference, you get spam control from the dashboard and some other neat features. I found that I give my Google voice number out more freely because I trust the tools that allow me to block as needed.\nHere's a useful link that talks about blocking with Google Voice. Scroll down to the \"Spam from Individual Callers\" section.\n\nA: Create a silent ringtone with GarageBand. (This assumes you're on a Mac. I'm not sure how to get ringtones into iTunes on a Windows machine.)\nSend it to iTunes so you you can sync it over to your iPhone.\nCreate a new contact called \"IGNORE\" or something that will let you know it's one of those unwanted callers. Assign the silent ringtone to that contact. (this allows you to keep your default ringtone audible)\nAs other numbers call that you don't want to be bothered by, you can just add them to that existing contact.\nYou hear the ringtones from people you want, and you don't from the annoying callers.\nProblem solved. :)\n"
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        "text": "14 март е 73-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (74-ти през високосна година). Остават 292 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1492 г. – Испанската кралица Изабела заповядва да бъдат експулсирани 150 000 евреи, в случай че не приемат християнството.\n 1697 г. – Последният свободен град на маите Тайясил е завладян от испанския конкистадор Мартин де Урсуа.\n 1800 г. – Пий VII е избран за римски папа.\n 1897 г. – В България е обнародван Закон за задължително носене на дрехи и обувки местно производство от държавните чиновници.\n 1909 г. – Дадена е амнистия на отклонилите се от военна служба до обявяването на Независимостта на България на 22 септември 1908.\n 1927 г. – В Букурещ е създаден Висш съвет на българите в Добруджа.\n 1949 г. – Създадена е Висша атестационна комисия за присъждане на Научни степени и звания в България.\n 1951 г. – Корейската война: Силите на ООН за втори път завземат Сеул.\n 1958 г. – Асоциацията на звукозаписните компании в САЩ учредява наградата Грами.\n 1978 г. – Израелските отбранителни сили нахлуват и окупират южните части на Ливан в операция Литани.\n 1983 г. – Джон Бон Джоуви, Ричи Самбора и Алек Джон Съч сформират рок групата Bon Jovi.\n 1994 г. – Над град Шефилд (Англия) е регистрирана най-продължителната дъга, която можела да се наблюдава в продължение на шест часа.\n 1995 г. – Космонавтика: Американски астронавт за първи път лети на руски космически кораб, до орбитална станция Мир.\n 1998 г. – На турнир в Калифорния английският тенисист Грег Руседски поставя световен рекорд за скорост на топката при подаване (240 км/ч).\n 2000 г. – Стивън Кинг става първият писател, публикувал свое произведение в интернет.\n 2001 г. – Завършва официалното преброяване на населението в България.\n 2004 г. – Владимир Путин е преизбран за президент на Русия.\n 2005 г. – Един милион ливанци излизат по улиците на Бейрут, за да демонстрират против военното присъствие на Сирия в Ливан и против правителството, сформирано след покушението над министър-председателя Рафик Харири.\n\nРодени \n\n 1681 г. – Георг Филип Телеман, германски композитор († 1767 г.)\n 1767 г. – Питър Юарт, шотландски инженер († 1842 г.)\n 1804 г. – Йохан Щраус, австрийски композитор († 1849 г.)\n 1820 г. – Виктор Емануил II, крал на Италия († 1878 г.)\n 1835 г. – Джовани Вирджинио Скиапарели, италиански астроном († 1910 г.)\n 1848 г. – Младен Павлов, български революционер († 1935 г.)\n 1853 г. – Фердинанд Ходлер, швейцарски художник († 1918 г.)\n 1854 г. – Пол Ерлих, немски химик и лекар, Нобелов лауреат през 1908 († 1915 г.)\n 1876 г. – Тръпко Василев, български художник и галерист († 1970 г.)\n 1879 г. – Алберт Айнщайн, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1921 († 1955 г.)\n 1881 г. – Елена Снежина, българска драматична актриса († 1944 г.)\n 1902 г. – Щерьо Атанасов, български политически и военен деец (генерал) († 1967 г.)\n 1903 г. – Ото Фридрих Болнов, германски философ († 1991 г.)\n 1905 г. – Реймон Арон, френски социолог († 1983 г.)\n 1907 г. – Христо Обрешков, български цигулар († 1944 г.)\n 1908 г. – Морис Мерло Понти, френски философ († 1961 г.)\n 1909 г. – Андре Пиеир дьо Мандиарг, френски писател († 1991 г.)\n 1918 г. – Георги Димов, български филолог († 1994 г.)\n 1930 г. – Петър Алипиев, български поет († 1999 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стефан Попов (Замората), български плувец († 2004 г.)\n 1933 г. – Майкъл Кейн, британски актьор\n 1934 г. – Юджийн Сърнън, американски астронавт († 2017 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Сотиров, български футболист\n 1937 г. – Надка Караджова, българска народна певица († 2011 г.)\n 1939 г. – Ив Буасе, френски режисьор\n 1940 г. – Красимира Казанджиева, българска актриса\n 1940 г. – Петър Берон, български учен и политик\n 1948 г. – Били Кристъл, американски актьор\n 1955 г. – Валери Симеонов, български предприемач\n 1958 г. – Албер II, принц на Монако\n 1968 г. – Джеймс Фрейн, английски актьор\n 1973 г. – Предраг Пажин, сръбско- български футболист\n 1974 г. – Грейс Парк, американска актриса\n 1975 г. – Йохан Паулик, словашки актьор\n 1976 г. – Георги Петков, български футболист\n 1979 г. – Никола Анелка, френски футболист\n 1983 г. – Жозе Емилио Фуртадо, португалски футболист\n 1985 г. – Ева Анджелина, американска порнографска актриса\n 1988 г. – Саша Грей, бивша американска порнографска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1457 г. – Хингтаи, император на Китай (* 1428 г.)\n 1682 г. – Якоб ван Ройсдал, холандски художник (* 1628 г.)\n 1803 г. – Фридрих Готлиб Клопщок, немски поет и драматург (* 1724 г.)\n 1883 г. – Карл Маркс, германски философ и идеолог (* 1818 г.)\n 1918 г. – Цезар Кюи, руски композитор (* 1835 г.)\n 1944 г. – Петър Найчев, български комунист (* 1898 г.)\n 1951 г. – Липо Херцка, унгарски футболист (* 1904 г.)\n 1959 г. – Власи Власковски, български политик (* 1883 г.)\n 1959 г. – Недялка Симеонова, българска цигуларка (* 1901 г.)\n 1965 г. – Германос Лямадис, гръцки духовник (* 1884 г.)\n 1968 г. – Ервин Панофски, германо-американски културолог и есеист (* 1892 г.)\n 1968 г. – Йозеф Харп, немски генерал (* 1892 г.)\n 1969 г. – Николай Фол, български писател и режисьор (* 1898 г.)\n 1970 г. – Фриц Перлс, германски психиатър и психоаналитик (* 1893 г.)\n 1980 г. – Анна Янтар, полска поп певица (* 1950 г.)\n 1975 г. – Сюзън Хейуърд, американска актриса (* 1917 г.)\n 1983 г. – Морис Роне, френски режисьор и актьор (* 1927 г.)\n 1993 г. – Петър Чернев, български актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 1995 г. – Уилям Алфред Фаулър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1983 (* 1911 г.)\n 1997 г. – Юрек Бекер, немски писател (* 1937 г.)\n 1997 г. – Фред Зинеман, американски режисьор от австрийски произход (* 1907 г.)\n 2000 г. – Ханс Карл Артман, австрийски писател (* 1921 г.)\n 2018 г. – Стивън Хокинг, английски астрофизик (* 1942 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на числото \"пи\".\n Световен ден на съня – отбелязва се от 2002 г.\n Римокатолическа църква – Св. Матилда\n Денят Пи, виж също 22 юли\n Албания – Първа пролет\n Андора – Ден на Конституцията – 1993\n Естония – Ден на естонския език\n Сейнт Винсент и Гренадини – Ден на националните герои\n Япония, Южна Корея и Тайван – Бял ден (отбелязва се от 1978 г., един месец след Св. Валентин)\n\n314"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a safe way to move the /Users folder to a separate volume/drive? I have an SSD on the way and will be moving my HDD to the optical bay slot in my MBP.  I want to boot from the SSD and store my /Users folder on the HDD.  I've seen the way that everyone suggest moving an individual account's home folder to a separate partition.\nHowever, I want to move the ENTIRE /Users folder.  I don't want to bother with moving individual user accounts, and I want any new accounts I create to reside on the HDD without any additional steps other than creating the user.\nI already have a complete clone of my /Users directory on a separate partition I created for testing this out.  Is there a safe way (i.e. will not cause any problems with application or OS functionality) to direct OS X to utilize the new /Users folder?\n\nA: I've done this, in fact, I'm using a no-optical MBP right now.\nHere is my experience detailed in full.\nNotes: \n\n\n*\n\n*I put the SSD in the optical bay, since the HDD bay has vibration dampers and the optical bay solution I bought did not have anything close to what comes in the original HDD bay.  The SSD has no vibration, so it's a good fit there.\n\n*I agree with Fishtoaster... see my link above for how I did it.\n\n*I have bootcamp and rEFIt installed, so when I boot, I get option for SSD Mac, HD Mac, or Windows... works pretty nicely. \n\n\nA: May be able just create a simlink to the /User directory.\nTo do this, open up Terminal and enter:\ncd [SeperateDrivePath*]\nln -s ./Users /Users\n\nYou'll want to move your original Users folder out of the way (rename it or move it or whatever).\n*Where [SeperateDrivePath] is the path to your volume just underneath the cloned /Users folder.  Probably something like /Volumes/Some Hard Drive Name/.  In this case, your clones /Users should exist at/Volumes/Some Hard Drive Name/Users.\n\nA: The best way to do this is probably to setup /Users as an automounted partition, with all your home directories in the root of that partition. I am going to assume you have already copied over the home directories properly (with permissions enabled). Now you just need to add the volume to /etc/fstab. Assuming the parition is named Users, you add a line like this:\nLABEL=Users /Users  hfs rw,auto\n\nInstead of using the volume name you could also use the volumes GUID if you know how to find it, which would be slightly more reliable (it would prevent mishaps if you ever inserted another volume with the name Users. That would looks something like:\nUUID=DF000C7E-AE0C-3B15-B730-DFD2EF15CB91   /Users  hfs rw,auto\n\nYou can find more information in man 5 fstab. Be warned, that manpage is mostly about the programming interface for fstab, but also goes into the file. Unfortunately it does not go into all the options available, there really appears to be no good documentation for it, but this should give you enough to get what you want done.\n"
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        "text": "Wood, Wire & Words: Norman Blake’s New Album Touches the Roots of American Music\n14 from ’14: Defining Moments From The Year in Music\nRIP Joe Cocker: Saying Goodbye With A Little Help from Our Friends\nGolden Keys: Saying Goodbye to Bobby Keys, Legendary Saxman for Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly\n12 Christmas Songs for Those Who Won’t Be Watching the CMA’s Christmas Special\nJohn Lee Hooker: “Cook With The Hook” Live in 1974 DVD\nAlabama Shakes – “Boys & Girls” – (ATO)\nScene Spotlight: Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ Festival –– Columbia, Mo.\nConcert Reviews — By Lindsay Eanet on September 30, 2009 8:37 pm\nBeing in the middle of a state in Middle America is actually a pretty ideal situation for a music lover. Being at the convergence point for artists from all over the country is quite the advantage, and a festival like Columbia, Missouri’s Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival proves it, combining local and national performers. This year’s ‘fest faltered a bit from the previous two years (charging for entry for the first time and a last-minute cancelation from Dan Tyminski will do that), but there were still a few high points.\nChapel Hill, N.C.’s Southern Culture on the Skids were one of the highlights of Friday evening, doling out lightning-fast rockabilly riffs piled higher than bassist Mary Huff-Miller’s hair.\nThe Carolina Chocolate Drops, a trio rooted in the African-American banjo and fiddle tradition of North Carolina’s Piedmont area, had people stomping and clapping to rollicking tunes like “Starry Crown” and “Cornbread and Butterbeans.” When Dom Flemons began keeping time with the jug, an air of amused nostalgia overtook the crowd, the younger members of the audience delighted with the new sounds.\nPinetop Perkins, the former pianist for Muddy Waters’s band, kept the delightfully swampy blues of the Mississippi Delta alive.\nBut the festival’s highest point was a super-funky band from Austin, Texas. The slick, genre-bending funk of Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, a group who previously made waves on the festival circuit with gigs at South By Southwest, Lollapalooza and other big-name ‘fests. Their set of boisterous, brassy R&B-infused funk, topped with Lewis’s smoky voice layering on as thick as BBQ sauce on a pulled-pork sandwich, gave way to an exuberant dance party in the middle of Seventh Street, where aging townies, hippies and college kids shook their groove things with mad ferocity. “Some people say we’ve got too many songs about booties,” Lewis joked. We contend there is no such thing, Joe. No such thing.\nRain marred much of Saturday afternoon, but southern Cal country gal Heather Myles shone on stage, alluring the audience with her luminous drawl. The band paid tribute to one of country’s greats, Johnny Cash.\nTags: american banjo, audience, banjo and fiddle, BBQ, blues, cornbread and butterbeans, Dan Tyminski, roots, scene, southern culture on the skids"
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        "text": "15 март е 74-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (75-и през високосна година). Остават 291 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 44 г. пр.н.е. – Юлий Цезар е посечен от Марк Юний Брут и група римски сенатори по време на заседанието на Сената на Римската империя.\n 1493 г. – Христофор Колумб се завръща в Испания след първото си плаване до Америка.\n 1820 г. – Мейн става 23-тият щат на САЩ.\n 1827 г. – Създаден е университета на Торонто.\n 1906 г. – Регистрирана е фирмата Ролс-Ройс.\n 1908 г. – Завършва Кюстендилския общ конгрес на ВМОРО.\n 1911 г. – Създаден е ФК Аустрия (Виена).\n 1916 г. – Президентът Удроу Уилсън изпраща 12 000 войници зад Границата между САЩ и Мексико, за да преследват Панчо Виля.\n 1917 г. – Руският цар Николай II обявява своята и на сина си абдикация от престола в полза на брат си.\n 1922 г. – Египет получава реална независимост от Великобритания и крал на държавата става Фуад I.\n 1939 г. – Втората световна война: Нацистки войски окупират останалите части на Бохемия и Моравия; Чехословакия престава да съществува.\n 1952 г. – В Реюнион е измерен световният рекорд на паднал валеж – 1870 mm за едно денонощие.\n 1970 г. – В Осака (Япония) е открито световното изложение Експо '70.\n 1989 г. – В Дервента се провежда последният концерт на групата „Биело дугме“.\n 1990 г. – Михаил Горбачов е избран за първи президент на СССР.\n 1990 г. – СССР обявява за невалидна декларацията на Литва за независимост.\n 1991 г. – Германия получава формално пълна независимост след Втората световна война от окупационните сили (САЩ, Франция, Великобритания и СССР).\n 1998 г. – Папа Йоан Павел II обявява българския епископ Евгений Босилков за мъченик на католическата вяра.\n 1999 г. – Започва да функционира Националната здравноосигурителна каса в България.\n\nРодени \n\n 1767 г. – Андрю Джаксън, 7-и президент на САЩ († 1845 г.)\n 1779 г. – Уилям Ламб, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1848 г.)\n 1813 г. – Джон Сноу, английски физик († 1858 г.)\n 1830 г. – Жан Жак Реклю, френски географ († 1905 г.)\n 1830 г. – Паул фон Хайзе, германски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1910 († 1914 г.)\n 1835 г. – Едуард Щраус, австрийски композитор († 1916 г.)\n 1848 г. – Иван Драсов, български революционер († 1901 г.)\n 1854 г. – Емил фон Беринг, германски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 г. († 1917 г.)\n 1854 г. – Иван Стефанов Гешов, български политик († 1932 г.)\n 1859 – Ненчо Палавеев, български търговец, предприемач и благодетел\n 1862 г. – Православ Тенев, български военен деец († 1942 г.)\n 1862 г. – Асен Петров, български хирург, учен и преподавател († 1920 г.)\n 1869 г. – Велко Думев, български революционер († 1945 г.)\n 1873 г. – Георги Шагунов, български композитор († 1948 г.)\n 1879 г. – Владимир Стоянов, български военен деец (? г.)\n 1884 г. – Ангелос Сикелианос, гръцки поет и писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1949 г. († 1951 г.)\n 1899 г. – Иван Стефанов, български икономист († 1980 г.)\n 1902 г. – Иван Унджиев български професор – историк († 1979 г.)\n 1903 г. – Никола Попов, български генерал († 2007 г.)\n 1904 г. – Трайко Запрянов, български невролог († 1992 г.)\n 1913 г. – Иван Димов, български скуптор († 2002 г.)\n 1915 г. – Трауте Форести, австрийска актриса († 2015 г.)\n 1920 г. – Валтер Томан, австрийски писател († 2003 г.)\n 1920 г. – Едуард Донал Томас, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1990 г. († 2012 г.)\n 1929 г. – Атанас Божков, български изкуствовед († 1995 г.)\n 1930 г. – Елена Георгиева, българска езиковедка († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Андреас Окопенко, австрийски писател († 2010 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жорес Алфьоров, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 2000 г. († 2019 г.)\n 1932 г. – Алън Бийн, американски астронавт († 2018 г.)\n 1934 г. – Крикор Азарян, български режисьор († 2009 г.)\n 1935 г. – Ташко Георгиевски, македонски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1938 г. – Георги Пинчев, български политик 2020\n 1942 г. – Иван Маразов, български културолог\n 1943 г. – Дейвид Кронънбърг, канадски режисьор\n 1943 г. – Бодо Хел, австрийски писател\n 1951 г. – Стоян Алексиев, български артист\n 1951 г. – Герхард Фалкнер, немски писател\n 1953 г. – Калуди Калудов, български певец\n 1955 г. – Дий Шнайдер, американски рок музикант\n 1955 г. – Йорданка Стефанова, българска актриса\n 1960 г. – Йоан Андоне, румънски футболист\n 1962 г. – Маркус Мерк, немски футболен съдия\n 1963 г. – Илиана Раева, българска гимнастичка\n 1965 г. – Джеймс Баркли, британски писател\n 1966 г. – Валентин Милушев, български политик\n 1975 г. – Веселин Топалов, български шахматист\n 1975 г. – Ева Лонгория, американска актриса\n 1977 г. – Джоузеф Хан, американски музикант (Linkin Park)\n 1985 г. – Келан Лъц, американски артист\n 1987 г. – Тиа Танака, американска порноактриса\n 2000 г. – Кристиан Костов, български певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 44 г. пр.н.е. – Юлий Цезар, римски военен и политически водач (* 100 пр.н.е.)\n 752 г. – Захарий, римски папа\n 1723 г. – Йохан Кристиан Гюнтер, немски поет (* 1695 г.)\n 1891 г. – Сава Муткуров, български политик (* 1852 г.)\n 1891 г. – Христо Белчев, български политик (атентат) (* 1857 г.)\n 1898 г. – Хенри Бесемер, английски инженер и изобретател (* 1813 г.)\n 1903 г. – Тома Давидов, български офицер и революционер (* 1868 г.)\n 1937 г. – Хауърд Лъвкрафт, американски писател (* 1890 г.)\n 1938 г. – Николай Бухарин, съветски партиен деец (* 1888 г.)\n 1945 г. – Константин Лукаш, български военен деец (* 1890 г.)\n 1945 г. – Трифон Трифонов, български военен деец (* 1895 г.)\n 1947 г. – Жан-Ришар Блок, френски писател и драматург († 1884 г.)\n 1950 г. – Кина Герджикова, българска актриса († 1884 г.)\n 1962 г. – Артър Холи Комптън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1892 г.)\n 1965 г. – Асен фон Хартенау, граф, син на княз Батенберг (* 1890 г.)\n 1975 г. – Аристотел Онасис, гръцки корабен магнат (* 1906 г.)\n 1979 г. – Емилиян Станев, български писател (* 1907 г.)\n 1981 г. – Рене Клер, френски режисьор (* 1898 г.)\n 1996 г. – Волфганг Кьопен, германски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1998 г. – Бенджамин Спок, американски педиатър (* 1903 г.)\n 2004 г. – Геласий, български митрополит (* 1933 г.)\n 2004 г. – Джон Поупъл, британски математик и химик, носител на Нобелова награда по химия за 1998 г. (* 1925)\n 2006 г. – Георгиос Ралис, министър-председател на Гърция (* 1918 г.)\n 2007 г. – Христо Малинов, български писател (* 1917 г.)\n 2008 г. – Стефан Геренски, български футболист (* 1926 г.)\n 2016 г. – Любка Рондова, българска народна певица (* 1936 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на потребителя (отбелязва се от 1983 г.)\n Международен ден срещу полицейската бруталност\n България – Ден на здравния инспектор (отбелязва се от 1999 г.)\n България – Ден на санитарния инспектор (отбелязва се от 1997 г.)\n Беларус – Празник на конституцията\n Унгария – Ден на революцията (1848 г., национален празник)\n\n315"
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        "text": "Sunnyside of Dudwick Farm, Ellon, AB41 8EH\nDownload Home Report\nA 57 ha (140 ac) farm property near Ellon. Includes new build bungalow, original farmhouse, farmbuildings and Cairnhill steading. For sale as a whole or in two lots.\nThe original farmhouse at Sunnyside of Dudwick is a traditional one and a half storey stone and slate dwelling with a single storey extension on the east elevation. The farmhouse requires refurbishment and upgrading throughout. The accommodation comprises:\nGround Floor: Kitchen, Bathroom, Living Room, Sitting Room, Bedroom 1, Milkhouse/Store\nFirst Floor: Bedroom 2, Bedroom 3, Boxroom\nThe range of traditional and semi-modern farm buildings at Sunnyside of Dudwick provide general storage and livestock accommodation. The buildings, together with approximate external measurements include:\nDutch Barn - 19.5m x 9.5m\nGeneral Purpose Shed - 13m x 7.5m\nGeneral Purpose Shed/Workshop - 13.5m x 8m\nCattle Courts - 26m x 19m\nStorage Shed - 7m x 6.5m\nCairnhill Steading and Former Farmhouse\nLot 1 includes Cairnhill steading and derelict farmhouse which is situated to the north of Sunnyside of Dudwick steading and accessed by an internal farm track. The traditional stone buildings are not currently in useable condition however there is a steel portal frame Dutch barn/general purpose shed which is presently utilised for farming operations. Cairnhill may provide development opportunities subject to obtaining the appropriate planning consents.\nThe farmland included with Lot 1 comprises 56.79Ha (140.33 acres) or thereby of IACS registered land, as per the attached farm plan. According to the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research (now The James Hutton Institute), the land is predominantly classified as grade 3(2) with small areas of grade 4(1) land to the north west. The farm lies at an altitude of between 130m and 175m above sea level. The fields are currently all in grass. Woodland strips are also included.\nBPS Entitlements are not included in sale price but available by separate negotiation. All BPS Region 1 land and LFA(SD).\nSunnyside of Dudwick Bungalow\nCompleted in 2018, this new build dwelllinghouse provides spacious family accommodation over one level. The 3 bed property has been finished to a high standard and benefits from picturesque and far reaching views over surrounding countryside.\nThe internal layout and room sizes are shown on the attached plan but in summary comprises: Kitchen/Dining Room, Lounge, Utility, Office, Bathroom with separate shower, Master Bedroom, Bedroom 2, Bedroom 3, W.C.\nBand TBC\nSunnyside of Dudwick Farm is conveniently located around 6 miles north of Ellon and in close proximity to the A90 trunk road which, together with the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, allows access to the north, west and south of Aberdeen. The farm occupies an attractive elevated position with fine views over the surrounding Aberdeenshire countryside. The town of Ellon provides a wide range of facilities and services including shops, supermarkets, restaurants, community centre and golf course. Primary education is available at Arnage Primary School (4 miles) with secondary education provided at Ellon Academy Community Campus (8.5 miles).\nRecreational opportunities nearby include the Formartine and Buchan Way which is designated as one of Scotland’s Great Trails and is a popular route with walkers and cyclists. Haddo House & Country Park and Aden Country Park are both within a 30 minute drive and provide walking paths, attractions and events throughout the year.\nThe City of Aberdeen (22 miles) can be reached in less than 45 minutes by car (rush hour excepted) and provides all the facilities befitting the acknowledged capital of the North Sea Oil Industry with theatre, two universities and shopping facilities far surpassing most other cities of its size. In addition, Aberdeen has a mainline railway station providing inter-city and sleeper services to the south and also an airport operating regular flights to London and other UK cities, as well as overseas destinations."
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        "text": "This is a short description of the Amazing Race ebook.\nHave you wanted to hold an Amazing Race at camp, but you didn’t know where to start and it all seemed so daunting? Then this ebook is for you.\nHaving an Amazing Race can be a very memorable and enjoyable program for campers and staff alike, and it doesn’t have to be difficult to design.\nHow to set-up The Amazing Race for your camp.\nThis can be a great team-building program or a just-for-fun event. You can run The Amazing Race for young kids, teens and even families.\nDon’t spend countless hours trying to figure everything out and creating clue cards. This ebook was written from my experience running Amazing Race programs at camp, both on-site and off, and from the experiences of other camp professionals I have spoken with. This ebook will be a great resource for you. Get it and you’ll save not only valuable work hours but your sanity as well.\nWhat is your time worth? This ebook will save you many, many hours creating a new type of program.\nThe ebook and the templates are in PDF format. All you need is Adobe Acrobat to view them, which is standard on nearly all computers these days. A link will be available right after your purchase. The link will also come to you in an email.\nGreat resource for folks new to Amazing races or those looking to spice up what they’ve done in the past. Lots of inspiration with dozens of challenges and roadblocks to get you started! Plus there are templates for the cards which is such a bonus element to this – it’s all in the details!\nLove this document! I’ve only used it twice at my summer camp for kids/adults with special needs but I’ve also used it three times with my yearly social groups for kids/adults with Special Needs. Thanks so much!\nWe utilized this book at the Rosen JCC to help us better run our Amazing Race program. The book was very help to making our program more robust. In particular setting up road blocks and additional challenges along our course was really great. We wrote a 2 hour program for 100 traditional campers to play in on afternoon at camp Thank you!"
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        "text": "The Salcedo Village is a prestigious residential area in Makati City. Home of residential and other establishments bearing great names in Makati City. Salcedo Village is one of the few areasin Makati where you can have both a residential and highly commercialized areas in just one village.\nSalcedo Village is well known for dinery places like Alexa's Deli Cafe and Wine Bar, the Ponticello Italian Restaurant, and other restaurants that offer great tasting cuisines and mouth-watering dishes from around the globe. Another attraction is the weekly Saturday market where vendors offer their fresh food and local handcrafts to the many visitors from all over Metro Manila.\nIt is notable to find several condominiums and other residential facilities in Salcedo Village. One Salcedo Place for example offers apartment or condominium for rent near Makati Sports Club while facing the Salcedo Park - the green oasis of the Salcedo Village. A variety of other condominium developments are located in that area such as the new Makati Landmark, The Gallery. This is a new 32-storey Makati Condominium developed by Crown Asia and is situated at LPL Levist Street. Salcedo Village is also home of other condominiums such as the Easton Place Condominium, the Elizabeth Place, the Paseo Parkview Tower 1, the Antel Platinum, Le Domain Condo, the Alpha Salcedo Condo, the Three Salcedo Place, the Nobel Plaza Condo and other condominiums developed by different corporations to offer its buyers and tenants only the best place to stay within the Makati area.\nFurthermore, Salcedo is home of several serviced residences. Advantages of serviced apartments are comfort and convenience as they offer hotel style facilities such as 24-hour reception services, bar, beauty salon, cafe, daily breakfast buffet, laundry and dry cleaning services, restaurants, and others. Guests can also enjoy other facilities such as car park, conference room, fitness center, indoor heated swimming pool for a more relaxing feeling, Jacuzzi, resident's lounge and a sauna room are further benefits of living in a serviced residence in Salcedo Village.\nSalcedo Village borders on one side at the prestigious Ayala Avenue the premier address for commercial and office buildings in the Philippines. A few of the tallest office buildings such as PBCom Tower, G.T. International Tower, Yuchengco Tower, Petron Megaplaza and Philamlife Tower provide office space for national and international companies. In addition, many call centers and BPOs prefer to lease PEZA office space in Salcedo.\nThe Salcedo Village located in the heart of Makati is the perfect combination of urban living and lifestyle - only a footstep away from Ayala Avenue, the Philippines main business address."
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        "text": "SINGAPORE – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Betfair has become the first gaming company permitted to present a poker tournament in Singapore.\nBetfair, the world's leading betting exchange, has teamed up with local operators Capital Events to host the ground-breaking contest in November.\nThe Betfair Asian Poker Tour will feature players from across the world competing for an anticipated $2 million prize fund. The event will be open to all-comers, including local players, and is sure to attract professionals as well as poker enthusiasts. Qualification will take place online at Betfair Poker as well as at live tournaments all over the world.\nFor Betfair, it's an opportunity to raise its profile in Asia by working with local partners who understand the sensitivities and regulatory restrictions of working in the region.\n\"Singapore is an ideal place to host an event of this magnitude and we're delighted to be given the chance to do it,\" says Betfair's Head of Poker, Ben Fried. \"It's a wonderful tourist destination as well as a hub of activity for the region.\"\n\"Betfair is all about innovation and breaking new ground. In Singapore we will put on a memorable poker event as well as give our players the chance to experience Singapore.\"\nThe Tour will be televised and distributed to international broadcasters and other media."
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    {
        "text": "16 март е 75-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (76-и през високосна). Остават 290 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1521 г. – Фернандо Магелан пристига на Филипините, пресичайки Тихия океан.\n 1769 г. – Френският мореплавател Луи Антоан дьо Бугенвил завършва околосветското си пътешествие в пристанище Сен Мало.\n 1792 г. – Извършен е атентат срещу краля на Швеция Густав III, който умира 2 седмици по-късно.\n 1802 г. – Създадена е американската военна академия Уест Пойнт.\n 1907 г. – Съставено е 29-ото правителство на България, начело с Петър Гудев.\n 1911 г. – Иван Гешов става министър-председател на България.\n 1913 г. – След обединение на няколко по-малки варненски футболни клуба е създаден СК Тича, като датата се приема и за дата на основаването на ПФК Черно море.\n 1917 г. – Приключва Февруарската революция и е създадено Временното руско правителство.\n\n 1925 г. – Изменен е Законът за защита на държавата.\n 1935 г. – В нарушение на Версайския договор Нацистка Германия въвежда всеобща военна повинност, а германските въоръжени сили получават името Вермахт.\n 1939 г. – В кралския дворец в Прага Адолф Хитлер обявява Бохемия и Моравия за германски протекторат.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Британската авиация извършва масирана бомбардировка на германския град Вюрцбург – за 20 минути са разрушени 90% от сградите и загиват над 5000 жители.\n\n 1963 г. – При изригване на вулкана Агунг на остров Бали (Индонезия) загиват около 2100 души.\n 1978 г. – Самолет Ту-134 на БГА Балкан катастрофира край селата Тлачене и Габаре, извършвайки редовен полет София – Варшава, при което загиват 73-ма души – 27 българи, 39 поляци и 7-членният екипаж.\n 1978 г. – Премиерът на Италия Алдо Моро е отвлечен от лява терористична групировка и по-късно убит.\n 1988 г. – Ирано-иракска война: Град Халабджа в Ирак е атакуван от режима на Саддам Хюсеин с бойни отровни газове, в резултат на което загиват 5000 кюрди.\n 1994 г. – Йозеф Моравчик става министър-председател на Словакия.\n 1995 г. – Норман Тагард става първият американски астронавт, стъпил на съветска орбитална станция.\n 1995 г. – Мисисипи става последният американски щат, който ратифицира 13-ата поправка в Конституцията, забраняваща робството.\n 1998 г. – Папа Йоан Павел II поднася извинението на Ватикана за мълчанието на Римокатолическата църква по времето на Холокоста през Втората световна война.\n 2001 г. – Съгласно статистиката във Великобритания, това е единственият ден между 1993 и 2002 г., в който не е регистрирано самоубийство.\n\nРодени \n\n 1687 г. – София-Доротея фон Брауншвайг-Люнебург, кралица на Прусия († 1757 г.)\n 1750 г. – Каролин Хершел, британска астрономка от германски произход († 1848 г.)\n 1751 г. – Джеймс Мадисън, 4-ти президент на САЩ († 1836 г.)\n 1774 г. – Матю Флиндърс, британски мореплавател и изследовател († 1814 г.)\n 1789 г. – Георг Ом, германски физик († 1854 г.)\n 1794 г. – Ами Буе, френски геолог († 1881 г.)\n 1839 г. – Рене Сюли Прюдом, френски поет, Нобелов лауреат († 1907 г.)\n 1853 г. – Хайнрих Кайзер, германски физик († 1940 г.)\n 1859 г. – Александър Попов, руски учен († 1906 г.)\n 1868 г. – Максим Горки, руски писател († 1936 г.)\n 1873 г. – Михаил Чаков, български революционер († 1938 г.)\n 1877 г. – Реза Шах Пахлави, ирански шах († 1941 г.)\n 1879 г. – Григор Чешмеджиев, български политик († 1945 г.)\n 1884 г. – Александър Беляев, руски писател († 1942 г.)\n 1892 г. – Сесар Вайехо, перуански поет († 1938 г.)\n 1900 г. – Менча Кърничева, българска революционерка († 1964 г.)\n 1911 г. – Йозеф Менгеле, германски лекар, военнопрестъпник († 1979 г.)\n 1912 г. – Патриша Никсън, първа дама на САЩ (1969 – 1974) († 1993 г.)\n 1913 г. – Димитър Тишин, български писател († 1992 г.)\n 1915 г. – Кунихико Кодаира, японски математик († 1997 г.)\n 1918 г. – Фредерик Рейнс, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1995 г. († 1998 г.)\n 1920 г. – Денчо Знеполски, деец на БКП, партизанин, военен деец († 1989 г.)\n 1920 г. – Иван Гайдарджиев, български актьор († 2005 г.)\n 1922 г. – Вела Пеева, българска партизанка († 1944 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джери Люис, американски артист († 2017 г.)\n 1927 г. – Владимир Комаров, съветски космонавт († 1967 г.)\n 1932 г. – Методи Андонов, български театрален и филмов режисьор († 1974 г.)\n 1937 г. – Янко Динков, български футболист и треньор\n 1941 г. – Бернардо Бертолучи, италиански режисьор († 2018 г.)\n 1948 г. – Маргарет Вайс, американска писателка\n 1952 г. – Алис Хофман, американска писателка\n 1953 г. – Ричард Столман, американски активист за свободен софтуер\n 1953 г. – Изабел Юпер, френска актриса\n 1955 г. – Бруно Барето, бразилски режисьор\n 1966 г. – Дирк фон Петерсдорф, немски писател\n 1967 г. – Лорън Греъм, американска актриса\n 1970 г. – Михаил Христов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Джу Чън, китайска шахматистка\n 1976 г. – Силвия Трендафилова, българска журналистка\n 1985 г. – Делян Маджаров, български политолог и политик\n 1990 г. – Александър Методиев, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Светозар Кнезовски, български актьор\n 1997 г. – Небие Кабак, български политик\n\nПочинали \n\n 37 г. – Тиберий, римски император (* 42 пр.н.е.)\n 455 г. – Валентиниан III, римски император (* 419 г.)\n 1457 г. – Ласло Хуниади, унгарски държавник (* 1433 г.)\n 1736 г. – Джовани Батиста Перголези, италиански композитор (* 1710 г.)\n 1801 г. – Александра Павловна, велика руска княгиня (* 1783 г.)\n 1839 г. – Август Циволка, руски изследовател (* 1810 г.)\n 1861 г. – Виктория фон Сакс-Кобург-Заалфелд, херцогиня на Кент (* 1786 г.)\n 1888 г. – Иполит Карно, френски политик (* 1801 г.)\n 1898 г. – Обри Биърдсли, английски художник (* 1872 г.)\n 1903 г. – Рой Бийн, американски съдия (* 1825 г.)\n 1914 г. – Шарл Албер Гоба, швейцарски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1902 г. (* 1843 г.)\n 1914 г. – Джон Мъри, британски океанограф (* 1841 г.)\n 1915 г. – Иван Илиев, български революционер (* 1850 г.)\n 1923 г. – Александър Лодигин, руски електротехник (* 1847 г.)\n 1925 г. – Август фон Васерман, немски бактериолог (* 1866 г.)\n 1930 г. – Мигел Примо де Ривера, испански диктатор (* 1870 г.)\n 1935 г. – Джон Маклеод, шотландски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1923 г. (* 1876 г.)\n 1935 г. – Арон Нимцович, датски шахматист (* 1886 г.)\n 1937 г. – Мара Белчева, българска поетеса (* 1868 г.)\n 1940 г. – Селма Лагерльоф, шведска писателка и Нобелов лауреат през 1909 г. (* 1858 г.)\n 1942 г. – Яков Перелман, руски научен популяризатор (* 1882 г.)\n 1943 г. – Жорж Жиро, френски математик (* 1889 г.)\n 1957 г. – Константин Брънкуш, румънски скулптор (* 1876 г.)\n 1958 г. – Никола Ганушев, български художник (* 1889 г.)\n 1979 г. – Жан Моне, френски държавник (* 1888 г.)\n 1992 г. – Ив Рокар, френски физик (* 1903 г.)\n 1995 г. – Рашко Сугарев, български писател (* 1941 г.)\n 1998 г. – Дерек Бартън, британски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 г. (* 1918 г.)\n 2000 г. – Азаря Поликаров, български философ (* 1921 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ксения Пайчин, сръбска певица (* 1977 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на астрономическите обсерватории (отбелязва се от 1990 г., първо в Италия)\n Боен празник на 4-ти Плевенски полк\n\n316"
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        "text": "Q: iTunes Does Not Automatically Sync I just installed iTunes 9.2.5 (x64) on a new laptop, and iTunes is not automatically syncing when my iPhone is plugged in. The preference \"Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically\" is UNCHECKED. I didn't have this problem with my other laptop, so I'm not sure where the problem lays. Any help would be greatly appereciated. \nThank you.\n\nA: Your iPhone is bound to a specific machine. It won't automatically sync to a machine. You have to manually force it to sync. When you do this, it will ask if you wish to erase all data on your iPhone and sync with the new machine.\nBeware, if you do this, it will wipe your contacts, music, apps, videos, etc, and replace them with what is on your current machine. The only way to avoid doing this is to copy your entire iTunes library folder from your old machine to your new one, and replace the existing library.\nTo summarise, the iPhone thinks your new laptop is a new machine, and so won't automatically sync to it until it's re-associated. Any questions, just shout.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a usable iOS4 Terminal App? Mobile Terminal 426 appears to be the only non-crashing iOS4 Terminal App. Unfortunately it's missing all of its convenience features, like gestures. Are there alternatives?\n\nA: I use iSSH: http://www.zinger-soft.com/iSSH_features.html\nIt's available on the app store, but if you're jailbroken you can ssh to 127.0.0.1 and it works just fine.  Costs $10 though.\n\nA: If by terminal you mean SSH (or telnet): I have used TouchTerm (from way back when it was for free, now its 4$) and iSSH. \nI like TouchTerm better on the iPhone as I find the semi-transparent keyboard better.\nI prefer iSSH on the iPad because it has a real iPad version.\nAlso iSSH has a VNC client and an X server that can be tunneled over SSH. But its 10$.\n"
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        "text": "With the production of the San Francisco Archipelago Map by Urban Life Signs and Burrito Justice (here and here), showing 200' sea level rise, it's time to produce a more likely map of what San Francisco would look like with a 25' sea level rise. This could actually happen in our lifetimes if the ice sheets in Greenland or Western Antarctica completely melted. We'd get 50 foot sea level rise if both melted.\nNow you can put one of these images on your wall as a poster!\nBelow is a blow up of northeast San Francisco showing how Yerba Buena Cove and Mission Bay would return to their watery origins. The Marina would become a shallow bay, and Yerba Buena Island would split in two.\n16x16 $20 ON SALE FOR $19.05 today! Make sure to select Semi-Gloss.\nFor 200 foot sea level rise maps (a.k.a. San Francisco Archipelago Map, go here.\nFor good old 0' sea level rise maps of San Francisco, go to Urban Life Signs store at Zazzle.\nJust make sure to keep the maps dry as the sea rises.\nHow about we build a mile wide sea wall from florida to cuba to yucatan and drain the gulf of mexico - establishing the US states of Cuba, Mexico and turn the gulf into a rainforest with oil fields and a coastal city that literally runs from florida to Mexico via cuba?\nthe Florida substrate is porous and can't keep out sea level rise.\nGoodbye parking lot - hello housing?"
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        "text": "By Zoe Conville on August 8th, 2016 - comments\nAdam Peaty, coached by Lincolnshire’s Mel Marshall, is an Olympic swimming champion.\nEarly this morning Team GB swimmer Adam Peaty broke his own world record to take the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the Olympics Aquatic Stadium in Rio.\nPeaty, who had already broken a world record in the heats with a time of 57.55 seconds, swam even faster in the final, finishing 1.5 seconds ahead of the rest of the field with a time of 57.13 seconds.\nPeaty is the first British man to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming since the Seoul 1998 games when Adrian Moorhouse won gold in the same event.\nAdam’s coach, former GB swimmer Melanie Marshall, who was born in Boston, has been recognised for her impeccable coaching skills since she retired at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.\nMel has been honoured with the British Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award in 2015 and 2016, was named Swimming World magazine International Coach of the Year and was also nominated for the Coach of the Year at the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.\nJust minutes after Adam secured gold, Jazz Carlin from Wales took second place in the 400m freestyle final, doubling Great Britain’s medal tally with an impressive swim time of 4:01.23.\nEarlier in the day fencer Richard Kruse came close to a medalling in the Men’s Foil competition, narrowly losing to out to Russian Timur Safin – the final score was 13 – 15.\nLizzie Armitstead looked strong in the Women’s Road Race too, but dropped off in the final stages, coming 5th overall.\nDespite a strong start for Wimbledon champ Andy Murray in the Men’s tennis singles, he and brother Jamie were beaten in the first round of the doubles competition.\nDay three of the Olympic Games gets underway later, and with Team GBs women in the Rugby sevens final, and Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow, chances of Team GB increasing its medal tally look promising.\nFind a schedule of all of today’s sports on the BBC website.\nAlford golfer Ashton Turner selected for Olympic youth squad\nFri, 14th December, 2012 - 13:00\nThu, 11th August, 2016 - 11:42\nLincolnshire Hockey Quartet Set for Rio Olympics\nCasey Stoney\nLizzie Simmonds\nTeam GB Hockey Women Reach Olympic Final\nHow much did the Rio Olympics cost you?\nMon, 22nd August, 2016 - 15:45"
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        "text": "Q: Centralized update for third party apps I kind of hate it when applications, which I start, at first search for updates. It's not the updates. Well I fire up an app because I want / need to use it (now). I liked the centralized, system wide update which Linux offered. And SoftwareUpdate just checks Apples software.\nIs there a way to centralize the updates of the third party applications?\nSo far I know about Macports and Fink which update quiet like Linux, but I also use e. g. iTerm, Transmission etc. which would still be left out.\nI also heard little about Appcasting, which uses RSS to announce updates, and which is used by some apps I use, but I don't know any URLs.\n\nA: I use AppFresh. It's nearly perfect. A lot of apps are recognized, even new ones and widgets and prefpanes too.\nIt's backed up by iusethis to check for update, but can also check for Apple or Microsoft Office updates.\n\nA: MacUpdate and Versiontracker both offer custom apps that do specifically this. However, after a free period, they're paid for I believe. MacUpdate app is my preferred of the two, available here.\n\nA: Bodega acts like the app sore in iTunes, but it's for desktop apps. It includes a version checker/updater in the \"Applications\" section.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "17 март е 76-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (77-и през високосна година). Остават 289 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 45 г. пр.н.е. – В битката при Мунда, Юлий Цезар побеждава армията на оптиматите, водена от Помпей Младши и Тит Лабиен, неговата последна победа.\n 180 г. – Комод става римски император, след като баща му Марк Аврелий умира във военен лагер Виндобона (днешна Виена).\n 455 г. – Петроний Максим става западноримски император.\n 624 г. – В Мека Мохамед удържа ключова победа над своите опоненти в курейши.\n 1229 г. – Армията на кръстоносците от Шестия кръстоносен поход навлиза в Йерусалим.\n 1845 г. – В Англия е патентован ластикът.\n 1861 г. – Провъзгласено е Кралство Италия.\n 1891 г. – Край Гибралтар потъва британският параход SS Utopia, загиват 574 души.\n 1899 г. – Астрономът Уилям Хенри Пикеринг открива Феба – естествен спътник на Сатурн.\n 1901 г. – Изложба от 71 картини на Винсент ван Гог в Париж, 11 години след смъртта му, предизвиква сензация.\n 1915 г. – Основан е ФК Тунджа (Ямбол) в читалище „Съгласие“.\n 1931 г. – Невада легализира хазарта.\n 1942 г. – Холокост: Гестапо започва депортирането на 15 000 евреи от Лвов към Лагера на смъртта в Белжец (Полша).\n 1948 г. – В Брюксел е подписан договор за военен съюз между Великобритания, Франция и Бенелюкс – първообраз на НАТО.\n 1951 г. – Издаден е указ на Президиума на Народното събрание на Народна република България за всенародна безплатна медицинска помощ.\n 1951 г. – Сформирана е 10 ИАДв в Граф Игнатиево\n 1959 г. – Тензин Гятсо, 14-ият далай лама, напуска Тибет и отпътува за Индия.\n 1965 г. – Създаден е Съюзът на архитектите в България.\n 1969 г. – Голда Меир става първата жена министър-председател на Израел.\n 1980 г. – Английският парламент решава да бойкотира Летните олимпийски игри в Москва.\n 1982 г. – В европейския клубен шампионат ЦСКА елиминира тогава действащия шампион Ливърпул след 2:0 в продълженията.\n 1991 г. – Служебното правителство на Димитър Попов подписва първо споразумение с Международния валутен фонд.\n 1992 г. – Самоубийствен атентат с кола бомба взривява посолството на Израел в Буенос Айрес (Аржентина), загиват 29 души и са ранени 242.\n\nРодени \n\n 763 г. – Харун ал-Рашид, арабски владетел († 809 г.)\n 1473 г. – Джеймс IV, крал на Шотландия († 1513 г.)\n 1578 г. – Франческо Албани, италиански художник († 1660 г.)\n 1733 г. – Карстен Нибур, немски изследовател († 1815 г.)\n 1834 г. – Готлиб Даймлер, немски инженер и индустриален дизайнер († 1900 г.)\n 1839 г. – Йозеф Райнбергер, немски композитор († 1901 г.)\n 1856 г. – Михаил Врубел, руски художник († 1910 г.)\n 1865 г. – Габриел Нарутович, първи президент на Полша († 1922 г.)\n 1877 г. – Ото Грос, австрийски психолог († 1920 г.)\n 1881 г. – Валтер Хес, швейцарски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат († 1973)\n 1902 г. – Боби Джоунс, американски голф играч († 1971 г.)\n 1912 г. – Сегундо Дурандал, боливийски футболист († 1976 г.)\n 1920 г. – Делчо Делчев, български офицер († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Меир Амит, израелски политик († 2009 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ангел Ангелов, български художник († 2008 г.)\n 1923 г. – Мило Дор, австрийски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1929 г. – Нено Дончев, български аграрен учен († 1991 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джеймс Ъруин, американски астронавт († 1991 г.)\n 1930 г. – Черемухин, български хуморист († 2003 г.)\n 1935 г. – Оскар Пано, аржентински шахматист\n 1935 г. – Ханс Волшлегер, немски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1938 г. – Рудолф Нуреев, руски балетист († 1993 г.)\n 1939 г. – Джовани Трапатони, италиански футболист и треньор\n 1939 г. – Робин Нокс-Джонстън, английски ветроходец и писател\n 1944 г. – Георги Братанов, български писател († 2000 г.)\n 1945 г. – Димитър Кърнолски, български композитор († 2009 г.)\n 1948 г. – Уилям Гибсън, американски писател\n 1949 г. – Патрик Дъфи, американски актьор\n 1950 г. – Румянчо Горанов, български футболист\n 1951 г. – Кърт Ръсел, американски актьор\n 1955 г. – Надка Николова, български филолог\n 1962 г. – Васил Драголов, български футболист\n 1964 г. – Роб Лоу, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Александър Маккуин, британски моден дизайнер († 2010 г.)\n 1978 г. – Саша Станишич, босненско-немски писател\n 1980 г. – Галин Михайлов, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Един Джеко, босненски футболист\n 1988 г. – Граймс, канадска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 45 г. пр.н.е. – Тит Лабиен, римски военачалник (* 100 пр.н.е.)\n 180 г. – Марк Аврелий, римски император и философ (* 121 г.)\n 460 г. – Свети Патрик, покровител на Ирландия и ирландците (* ок. 390 г.)\n 1516 г. – Джулиано Лоренцо Медичи, флорентински аристократ (* 1479 г.)\n 1680 г. – Франсоа дьо Ларошфуко, френски писател (* 1613 г.)\n 1782 г. – Даниел Бернули, швейцарски математик (* 1700 г.)\n 1830 г. – Лоран Сен Сир, френски маршал (* 1764 г.)\n 1845 г. – Кирил Пейчинович, български духовник и просветител (* ок. 1770 г.)\n 1853 г. – Кристиан Доплер, австрийски математик (* 1803 г.)\n 1876 г. – Бьортън Гунльойсон, исландски математик и картограф (* 1788 г.)\n 1897 г. – Виторио Ботего, италиански пътешественик и изследовател (* 1861 г.)\n 1917 г. – Франц Брентано, германски философ (* 1838 г.)\n 1921 г. – Николай Жуковски, руски учен, създател на науката Аеродинамика (* 1847 г.)\n 1949 г. – Александра Екстер, украинска художничка († 1882 г.)\n 1950 г. – Адолф Майер, швейцарски психиатър (* 1866 г.)\n 1956 г. – Ирен Жолио-Кюри, френска физичка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1935 г. (* 1897 г.)\n 1970 г. – Фернан Кромелинк, белгийски драматург (* 1886 г.)\n 1974 г. – Луис Кан, американски архитект (* 1901 г.)\n 1976 г. – Лукино Висконти, италиански режисьор (* 1906 г.)\n 1987 г. – Асен Василев, български художник, резбар (* 1909 г.)\n 1993 г. – Хелън Хейс, американска актриса († 1900 г.)\n 2002 г. – Луизе Ринзер, немска писателка (* 1911 г.)\n 2002 г. – Васил Митков, български футболист (* 1943 г.)\n 2003 г. – Хърбърт Аптекър, американски историк (* 1915 г.)\n 2007 г. – Емил Трифонов – Кембълът, български журналист (* 1964 г.)\n 2011 г. – Майкъл Гоф, английски актьор (* 1916 г.)\n\nПразници \n Бостън (САЩ) – „Ден на евакуацията“ (през 1776 английската войска се евакуира в Бостън)\n Ирландия и Северна Ирландия (Великобритания) – Ден на Свети Патрик (национален празник)\n\n317"
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        "text": "Nutri Burn­ Keto Eat ­800 calori­es for one­ week, eat­ only bana­nas, or so­me other r­idiculous ­plan. No m­atter how ­much a per­son works ­out, if yo­u are stil­l eating t­he wrong f­oods then ­you will n­ot lose th­e weight t­hat you wa­nt too. Le­arn new ha­bits, slim­ habits, a­nd you wil­l be able ­to say goo­dbye to di­ets foreve­r."
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        "text": "All of the 4-legged and 2-legged critters at the Conservators’ Center sure have enjoyed summer! But we’re also looking forward to cooler temperatures and ushering in the fall season. Every season brings changes to the Center and new excitement for our furry residents and our visitors.\nAs the season starts to change, our regular tour times will start to shift slowly to accommodate changes in light and temperatures. In addition, on October 15th, our Special Seasonal Fall Tours begin!"
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        "text": "Disenfranchising Democracy\nConstructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France\nAuthor: David A. Bateman, Cornell University, New York\nThe first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of African American men, with the political actors most supportive of the former also the most insistent upon the latter. The United States is not unique in this respect: other canonical cases of democratization also saw simultaneous expansions and restrictions of political rights, yet this pattern has never been fully detailed or explained. Through case studies of the USA, the UK, and France, Disenfranchising Democracy offers the first cross-national account of the relationship between democratization and disenfranchisement. It develops a political institutional perspective to explain their co-occurrence, focusing on the politics of coalition-building and the visions of political community coalitions advance in support of their goals. Bateman sheds new light on democratization, connecting it to the construction of citizenship and cultural identities.\nExamines democratization through the lens of disenfranchisement, developing a new theory that connects the two processes\nPlaces American democratization in comparative perspective and sheds new light on democratization in France and the UK\nConnects the study of democratization to the study of citizenship, nationalism, and social and cultural identities\n‘This exceptionally smart, thoughtful, theoretically and empirically rigorous book breaks new ground on the politics of voting rights and disenfranchisement. Disenfranchising Democracy is critically important to understanding the politics of voting rights and civil rights, both historically and for today.' Paul Frymer, Princeton University, New Jersey\n‘This is an important study, theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous. Through careful attention to the history of disenfranchisement, Bateman helps us to conceptualize democracy not simply as a set of neutral mechanisms for selecting leadership, but as a deeply political process of ‘people-making'. Disenfranchising Democracy helps us to understand, in precise and nuanced ways, the role of exclusions in building democratic consensus and demonstrates that the prevalent tendency to view such events as ‘setbacks' obscures critical dynamics in the process of democratization itself.' Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\n‘Like the best work in American political development, Bateman finds a wellspring of insight into contemporary American politics buried in our past. Writing at time when voting rights are under siege, he reminds us that the electorate has been politically constructed all along, that the pattern of expansion has not been linear, and that democracy is always vulnerable to fears of diversity and its implications for some imagined community.' Stephen Skowronek, Yale University, Connecticut\n‘Deeply researched and beautifully written, this landmark work of scholarship presents an extremely original account of the mass franchise during the nineteenth century. For scholars of American politics, a special bonus is the demonstration that black suffrage mattered far more in antebellum party dynamics than we have previously known.' Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania\n‘This is a rich and important book. Bateman explains complex moments of simultaneous enrichments and disenfranchisements, placing the US in a broader nineteenth century, comparative perspective. The book makes many contributions and unearths a treasure trove of political claims-making by a variety of actors - American, British, and French.' Robert Mickey, University of Michigan\ncontains: 16 b/w illus. 5 tables\n1. The puzzle of democratic disenfranchisement\nPart I. The United States:\n2. Revolutionary democracy\n3. The 'monstrous spectacle' of Jeffersonian democracy\n4 The white man's republic\nPart II. The United Kingdom and France:\n5. The fall of the Protestant constitution\n6. The republic through the side door\nDavid A. Bateman, Cornell University, New York\nDavid A. Bateman is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, New York. He is co-author of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction (forthcoming)."
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        "text": "Q: How common are stuck or dead pixels on the MacBook Pro? I purchased a new Macbook Pro (15.4\" with 500GB HDD), and discovered it had a stuck pixel in the centre of the screen. This pixel was always lit green, and any attempts to resolve it myself didn't work. I took it back to the retailer, who happily exchanged it for another one (which had to be ordered). I picked up the replacement yesterday, and to my horror, its screen had the same problem, although this time the pixel was stuck on red, and was in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Another replacement has been ordered, and I'm now a little concerned that this may have the same problem.\nThis obviously has me pondering the quality of the latest range of Macbook Pro laptops, and I'm wondering how many of you may have had the same problems with your ones. Please share if you've had a similar issue.\n\nA: I've had a number of Mac laptops, starting with a PowerBook 100 way back in the dark ages. I've been fortunate, I guess, that I've never had a stuck pixel.\nYou're fortunate that your retailer is working with you, as Apple considers a single stuck pixel to be within acceptable limits. That is, they don't promise zero stuck or dead pixels, so generally you'd just be out of luck. [Worth noting: ISO 13406-2, the standard for flat panel displays (more analysis here)].\nIf you find this happening again, though, you might try one or more of the (non-Windows) suggestions at How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor.\n\nA: My experience in Mac tech support over the course of a few years has shown this be be fairly uncommon.  I only ever saw maybe two or three cases.  It may be an issue with the very specific range you're getting now, and which Apple will probably fix pretty soon.\nUntil then, keep sending them in- you've got Applecare for a year, so use it.  :)\n\nA: My Macbook Pro had a malfunctioning backlight so they replaced the top assembly. The screen in the replacement had a couple stuck pixels in the middle of the screen, so they replaced it again. THAT screen had a stuck pixel in the bottom right, which after a couple weeks had changed to a horizontal line of them about an inch long. SOoo, back to Apple I went.\nThe screen I've got now has been perfect, with no bad pixels. I figure between the bench costs and replacement top assemblies they lost money on this machine, but once again Apple showed me they're a class act by not balking at fixing things. \n\nA: It doesn't surprise me that Apple would happily replace your computer, but for LCD screens (maybe LEDs too), it's not uncommon for companies to refuse to replace the screens if the dead pixels are a just a few.\n"
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        "text": "Our reinvention of the MapInfo.com digital and social experience took Pitney Bowes’ signature GIS Mapping tool to the next level on a global scale.\nWe became part of the global team, working closely with the US, Asia Pacific, and European business units to develop a unified content marketing strategy, by channel and region, for the brand launch.\nPureMatter served as the strategic lead across the three regions for social media and content marketing.\nThe #MapHero social contest helped greatly increase the number of organic clicks to the landing page from Twitter, and increased their Twitter followers by almost 40% in 3 months."
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        "text": "Classic fit. 100% 2 ply cotton. Make friends around the water cooler in this light blue and white striped shirt. Finished with single cuffs and our signature 'Wise Men' collar."
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        "text": "Q: A better dashboard dictionary widget I find the default dictionary dashboard widget on my MacBook Pro to be very annoying. One, you type in a misspelled word and it says, \"\"x\" could not be found\" instead of being helpful and offering alternative spellings. Two, I can't copy and paste from it. \nAnyone know of a better one? Or maybe I should just use google?\nThanks.\n\nA: Why not just use the Dictionary application itself? Does it have to be a widget? The Dictionary application has smart lookup and more tools than the widget.\n"
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        "text": "We know, we know… Winter is still here and it will be around for a couple of months more but everytime we receive Maje‘s newsletter with their new arrivals we get excited. Always. We adore this brand.\nThey do the best tops: simple and super wearable. They go with absolutely everything… Apparently white is the color!…Want!\nwonderful, these outfit is very nice!!\nGlad you like them! Thanks for passing by!\nohhh I’m liking it !"
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        "text": "Educating The Community For Over 30 Years\nVisit. Explore. Learn.\nAbout the Facility\nBuildings & Exhibits\nAHP BLOG\nLiving History Farm\nPress Releases & Newsletters\n2nd Saturday on the Farm\nYesterday’s Farm\nDay on the Farm\nAnnual Harvest Dinner\nField Trip FAQ\nHome » Archives for aggie\nIt’s 1937 on a dairy farm in Northern, Illinois. My family lived in a 5-bedroom farm house built by my grandfather in 1898. It was a beautiful house – large porch in the front, large porch in the back. We had electricity but no running water for cooking, bathing, cleaning or washing clothes.\nAll the potable water for drinking and cooking had to be carried by bucket from the well to the house, about 100 yards one way. No running water also meant we had no inside bath tub or shower. Water for sponge baths and house cleaning was drawn from a cistern. For those who don’t know what a cistern is, it’s basically a water holding receptacle. Ours would fill from the rain water off the roof of our home. On the side of the kitchen sink we had a hand pump to drawn the water.\nIt wasn’t until I was about 10 years old that we finally got running water in our house; and a large copper bathtub in our basement. We still didn’t have hot running water but at least we had a tub! We would heat the water and bath one by one – the children were first and then my mother, then my dad. It was quite nice of my mother to let us kids bathe first! That’s just the way it was back then.\nRemember in 1937 we had just gotten through the depression so we were grateful for everything we had. I remember reading stories of people starving. They were people like me but I don’t remember ever missing a meal. My mom and dad worked very hard to put food on our table – and enough for the whole family. Together we raised chickens and hogs; and of course since we lived on a dairy farm we had plenty of fresh milk everyday. My mother loved gardening and grew fresh vegetables and flowers every summer. She would can anything we didn’t eat fresh so we could have nourishing food all through the winter.\nAnd boy! Do I remember the custard pies and peach cobblers! I can still smell them coming out of the oven.\nWritten by John Kegebein, Agricultural History Project, CEO\nFirst we’d like to acknowledge the many people who made this project possible:\nFunding for this project was provided by a grant from Community Foundation Santa Cruz County\nMany thanks and gratitude to the following individuals who provided their assistance in this project:\nAgricultural History Project Steering Committee:\nDonna Bradford\nBob Culbertson\nLynne Grossi\nJeannie Kegebein\nJohn Kegebein\nNic Keiderling\nStan Nielson\nLaura Rider\nSheila Prader\nMany thanks also to Kelsey Waugaman, Linda Lorenzen, Jennifer Keiderling, Jeannie Kegebein and Kaleena Kane, all of whom provided valuable assistance in helping to complete this project.\nThanks to Donna Bradford for her project leadership,and to Jeannie and John Kegebein and Lynne Grossi for their insight and assistance; to Lindsey Roberts and Stephanie Fontana, who helped with graphics, email and social media outreach, and to Lisa Bennett, who provided invaluable assistance with methodologies and data analysis.\n377 surveys were completed online and in printed form from which the data were later entered into the system.\nOverall, the results of both the focus group study and the online community survey indicated that there is a strong desire for a living history farm as a vehicle to tell the regional stories of farming, agriculture, food sciences, geography and people. It can provide education and skills-training opportunities for children and youth, volunteer opportunities for youth and adults, and add to the economic vitality of the region.\nHowever, at the same time, just over half to two-thirds of survey takers indicated they had either no or just some level of interest in supporting the farm through donations, membership or as a volunteer. Each of these sources of revenue are important for success, so these results should be cautionary. That said, interest and excitement could very well change and grow as plans move forward and the farm begins to become more of a reality.\nAt the November meeting, the Agricultural History Project board of directors voted to put together an advisory committee to explore the details involved with executing a living history farm.\nAgricultural History Project presents “2015 Ag Talks,” reviving a popular series from past years. Please join us at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30 at the Codiga Center and Museum, Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, for the second of three 2015 Ag Talks on aspects of Central Coast agricultural history.\nWould you like to learn more about the Focus Agriculture program? Jess Brown, Executive Director of Agri-Culture, and of the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau will host a panel discussion on “25 Years of Focus Agriculture.” He and the four following Focus-Ag graduates will share their experiences with the national award-winning local Focus-Ag program:\nZach Friend, 2nd District County Supervisor for Santa Cruz County\nCeil Cirillo, City of Santa Cruz Redevelopment Director, retired\nTed Burke, owner of Shadowbrook Restaurant\nMark Silverstein, Executive Director, Elkhorn Slough Foundation\nThey will be joined by current Focus-Ag participant June Padilla Ponce, consultant for Salud Para La Gente, and by a familiar individual who presents each year to the program: Lou Calcagno, County Supervisor, Monterey County, retired. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about this fascinating program!\nNext, plan to join us on Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.m. for John Grafton’s talk on “Local Farming and Rancho Practices in the Californio Era.” John, a bilingual docent at San Juan Bautista State Historic Park and at Mission San Juan Bautista, grew up on cattle ranches and worked in large animal husbandry for the Peace Corps in South America. He is a blacksmith and consults on early California archaeological projects. His talk will include some of the early implements in the Ag History collection, and those with their own early California implements are welcome to bring them. We encourage Spanish-speaking attendees, as this presentation can be bilingual.\nOur kickoff presentation on August 19 by ever-popular Cabrillo College Professor Sandy Lydon was well attended.\nThe cost to attend each lecture is $3 for members and $5 for nonmembers. Refreshments will be served. If you have topics or speakers to suggest for 2016 Ag Talks, let us know. For more information, call Agricultural History Project at (831) 724-5898.\nLet’s Talk About Insects!\nBy Lindsey Roberts, Marketing & Communications Director\nLakeside Organic Gardens\nThe theme at this months Agricultural History Project’s “2nd Saturday on the Farm” is games and grilling. We’re donating some of our favorite grill-able vegetables so the volunteers at AHP can serve them to their guests. They asked if we’d be interested in talking about how these crops are grown. We excitedly said “YES!” and decided to discuss the importance of beneficial insects in our growing practices which make us different from most. Anyways, who doesn’t love talking about insects?\nSo here goes…\nLakeside Organic Gardens is committed to growing 100% organic produce because we believe it’s the right thing to do. Organic produce is better for our health and our environment. We don’t use synthetic agricultural chemicals but instead we rely on natural fertilizers, compost, beneficial insects, beneficial habitat plants, and strategic crop rotations. Today we’re going to discuss beneficial insects.\nWe use Mother Nature as often as possible because she will provide us with a lot of control we don’t normally get without using synthetic chemicals. “It’s an expensive way to farm and very time consuming, but well worth it in the end,” said Alan Miyumura, the Disease & Pest Control Manager at Lakeside Organic Gardens.” He goes on to explain “Lakeside releases parasites and lady bugs to aid in managing aphid and other harmful insect populations. Our beneficial insects are encouraged to stay nearby our crops because we plant a beneficial habitat to suits their basic needs.”\nLakeside Organic Gardens will occasionally harvest lady bugs from the Santa Cruz Mountains or purchase beneficial insects and introduce them to a field. Our goal is to create an environment that attracts the adult beneficial insects to the fields. Dick Peixoto, the grower owner says, “the trick is to make our fields look more attractive than the neighbors so they stick around.” The most common beneficial insect in Santa Cruz County is the hover fly, also known as the syrphid fly. It hovers over simple flowers and feeds off the nectar. They look for a nectar abundant place to lay their eggs and once the eggs hatch, the larva feed off the aphid. It’s a win, win situation for an organic farmer.\nOur pest control team scans the fields for harmful pests like aphids and worms that do harm to the plants. When harmful pest population gets out of hand, our pest control team decides which beneficial insects to release based on the current pest pressures. If we cannot get the population under control, it’s possible we may plow under an entire field. This is a very tough decision to make and is often a very costly one.\nWith the help of beneficial insects like hover flies, lady bugs and parasites, we’re able to produce high quality organic vegetables year-round right here in Santa Cruz County on the beautiful Central Coast of California.\n“Our belief is that Mother Nature had this figured out long before we arrived, all we have to do is help her as much as we can.” — Dick Peixoto, grower owner\nHover Fly Attracted to Lakeside Organic Gardens Sweet Alyssum plants\nEvery May, Ag History holds its best attended event, Day on the Farm, complete with demonstrations and hands-on activities from farm and ranch life in the past.\nFrom the Agricultural History Project Archives, here are some local recollections of life on the farm.\nJohn N. Lucich (1917 – 2004): During apple harvest my job after school was to pick up\nwindfalls at the rate of 1¢ per Bx which my father paid me. Sometimes before it\ngot too dark I might pick up 20 Bxs. Also as a teenager I made apple boxes. The rate\nof pay was 50¢ per 100 Bxs. Each box required 28 nails. You had to stock your bench\nwith shook, fill your stripper with nails and bundle your Bxs 3 to a bundle. The experienced nailer could make 500 Bxs in 8 hours. I have pruned apple trees, thinned, sprayed, picked apples @ 4¢ per Bx. I at around age 10 would assist in the packing shed labeling Bxs for\nshipment to England….As kids there was no time to play….1\nFrank R. Oliver (deceased): Green Valley Growing-Up\nIn 1935 when I was 10 my folks bought their ranch on Green Valley Road. The bulk of\nthe top eight acres was an older pear orchard with boysenberries planted in between…\nPop proceeded to remove it all to raise row crops like tomatoes, sugar beets, strawberries\nWith 1935 ingenuity, he or someone provided an old 1924 or 25 black sedan, anchored\nit near the yellow house, took off one rear tire, strung the rear wheel with a 3 to\n4 inch belt, which was attached to a 24 inch circular saw. The car was anchored in\nposition, put into gear, like second or third to propel the saw blade. The table was\nbutted up to the new saw, which when a log was placed could be pushed into the whirling\nblade. I vividly recall a crew of three to four men spending about a month sawing wood\nfor the fireplace to use at our home. All this wood was hauled to the backyard, and\nfor the next three months every day after school I would neatly stack it in one tier sections\n6 foot long 4 foot high and separated by small and large pieces. It also occupied my\nSaturdays and boy did I look forward to Sundays….I was never so glad to see that old car\npower plant leave the ranch.\nThe clearing [of] the land for row crops brought new chores. Pop wanted to raise tomatoes\nfor a cannery. So with the remainder of the backyard, I built what we called tomato\nplant beds. They were about 6 feet wide and about 30 feet long. The plants for the big\nfield were raised from seed to individual plants for transplanting. The beds had to be\nweeded, watered, covered from the sun and frost and subsequently harvested for\nreplanting in the ex-pear orchard.\nNeedless to say the work didn’t hurt me, and no doubt kept me healthy.2\nFoster Hutchings (1912 – 1984): Foster’s Remembrances:\nWhen he was about 5 yrs. old, he had to lead the work horses out of the barn to water,\nand they would rare up and he would have to hand onto the rope (or they would get\naway and he would be in trouble), and they would fling him around in the air when they\nrared up.\nHe went barefooted and in cold mornings, he would warm his feet in the spots where\nthe cows had bedded down.3\nLawrence Marshall (1890 – 1988):\nWhen Lawrence Marshall took charge of running the family ranch on Mount Madonna\nRoad [in 1910], he was up before dawn to till the fields with a horse and plow. And\nwhen the day was done, he returned to a home where cooking was done on a wood stove\nand lighting was by kerosene lamp.\nIf Marshall wanted to travel the seven miles into Watsonville, it took two hours with a\nteam of horses….\n‘There was no way of getting to high school. It was too far, and we didn’t have any bicycles,’ said Lawrence.\nLawrence’s eight sisters all managed to attend high school in Watsonville by boarding\nwith families in town during the week. The girls earned their keep by doing housework\nfor the families they stayed with….4\nJohn Larkin (1918 – 2007):\n…I was born and raised on a farm…[It] was a subsistence type farm where we had\nabout fourteen or fifteen good cows and we had a few brood sows and we did all\nof our work with horses and we grew tomatoes and we grew young pigs. My father,\nalong with many of his trades, was a real good butcher also….[He] was a pretty good\nblacksmith and he could repair shoes like you wouldn’t believe. And he used to be a\nfair carpenter….\n…I always like to say that we always had a little bit of money to spend because we\nalways grew our own stuff and we always had something to sell….There were ten kids….\nWe all miked cows and we all fed pigs and we all baled hay and stacked hay and did\neverything else that a farm kid had to do. We worked in the orchard….It was Newtown\nPippins and White Winter Permains and Winter Banana apples….5\nBurton Anderson (living):\n…The ranch was 80 acres on Hunter Lane [off River Road outside Salinas] belonging to\nmy Swiss grandfather….One of my jobs, when I was old enough, was to clean the barn,\nfeed and water the horses, and finally to harness them for the day’s work….Like most\nfarm boys in the 1930s I joined the 4-H Club and raised lambs, pigs, squash, and\npumpkins. I also entered some of my Bartlett pears and pumpkins in the Monterey\nCounty Fair and received 1st prize for several years. The highlight of our 4-H year\nwas the annual camp, sponsored by U.C. Agricultural Extension, at the dormitories at\nAsilomar. It was great fun and we got to meet boys and girls from other parts of Monterey County.6\nFloyd Silliman (1908 – 1979):\n…[At] the old schoolhouse I recall how the teacher would let us out to view the\nhappenings of interest. A herd of cattle going by, a threshing outfit pulled by a big\niron-wheeled steam engine and followed by all the necessary wagons pulled by\nhorses, the six and eight-horse teams hauling sugar beets and, of course, the Gypsies\nwith all their dogs, kids and trading animals….\nThe cook house, bunk house and blacksmith shop were always good places for us kids.\nThe cooks, and we had all kinds from good ones to drunks, generally made hot apple\npie daily and, of course, hot biscuits….\nThe blacksmith shop was a good place for kids to visit. We would take turns pumping\nthe bellows that kept the forge going. There were many different smithies over the years…Generally they would help us kids with our projects. Just prior to planting\nmy father would bring in about fifty head of horses to be shod. Good and bad were\nincluded in the bunch, but they all got homemade shoes nailed on—even though some\nof them were lying on their backs all tied up….\nMom would invite town kids out at times….We would envy the Lindsey bunch because\nthey never wore shoes during summer, and they could run across clods and stubble. We\nwould generally go to the river where we had a good swimming hole. If the day was\nfoggy, we swam in a stagnant pool as it was warmer….7\nDo these stories remind you of your own experiences, or of life as described to you by older family members, perhaps your parents or grandparents? We would like to hear the stories of your life in agriculture, and this blog will occasionally be updated with more memories.\nAlso, Ag History is proposing to create a permanent Living History Farm to provide ongoing experiences of past agricultural life. If you like this idea or you’d like to weigh in on this proposal, there’s still time to join a focus group at http://aghistoryproject.org/living-history-farm/. Or send your thoughts on this subject to postmaster@aghistoryproject.org.\n1 Excerpts from handwritten letter, John N. Lucich to Pat Johns of Agricultural History Project, 24 March 2004.\n2 Excerpts from “Green Valley Growing-Up,” in Frank’s Stories, photocopy of undated typescript by Frank R. Oliver in Agricultural History Project collection.\n3 Excerpts from “Foster’s Remembrances,” undated typescript by Ellen Hutchings, wife of Foster Hutchings. Foster Hutchings was the son of Moses Hutchings, first commercial lettuce grower in the Pajaro Valley.\n4 Lane Wallace. “Marshalls celebrate a century…” Register Pajaronian, 18 June 1979, 11.\n5 John Larkin, interview by Elizabeth Schilling at Freedom, California, 16 November 1988. Larkin Valley is stated to be named for a great uncle of John Larkin.\n6 Burton Anderson, Chapter 17, “A Boy’s Life on a Salinas Valley Ranch in the 1930s,” in A Native Son’s History of the Central Coast (Salinas: Monterey County Historical Society, 2010), 77 – 81.\n7 Floyd Silliman, The Life of Floyd Silliman and His Genealogy 1908 – 1978 (unknown: Floyd Silliman, 1978), 13, 16.\nWritten by: Sheila Prader, Ag History Archives\nAgricultural History Project\nCenter & Museum\n2601 East Lake Avenue\nOpen EVERY 2nd Saturday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. for Second Saturday on the Farm\nTuesday - Saturday by Appointment Only\n9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Call (831) 724-5898 or (831) 566-2817\nGroup tours may be arranged in advance by appointment.\nFacilities are handicapped accessible.\nClosed Thanksgiving, Christmas and major holidays.\nFollow, interact and share.\nCenter and Museum\n©2015 AgHistoryProject.com. All rights reserved.\nWebsite Developing Services / Sitemap"
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        "text": "Cycling Racing News and Opinion\nBack to news and opinion index page for links to archived stories\nBuncha stuff going on...\nSaxo Bank remains team co-sponsor\nDenmark's Saxo Bank announced it will co-sponsor the Tinkoff-Saxo cycling team through 2015. The squad is owned by Russian Oleg Tinkoff and is managed by its former owner, Bjarne Riis.\nTinkoff-Saxo rider Alberto Contador suffering in stage five of this year's Tour de France. Photo © Sirotti\nHeart Problem Sidelines Lodewyck\nFrom BMC:\nKlaas Lodewyck will be withheld from racing for an indefinite amount of time due to a problem with his heart, BMC Racing Team Chief Medical Officer Dr. Max Testa said Wednesday.\nThorough Investigation Underway: Lodewyck competed last month in the Tour de Wallonie, his first competition since breaking his right collarbone in a crash while racing with the Belgian national team in Halle-Ingooigem on June 25. \"He had been experiencing some irregular heart rhythm during racing and training,\" Dr. Testa said. \"We have been investigating it, first by having him evaluated by sports cardiologists in Belgium. The common decision between a specialist there and the BMC Racing Team's medical staff is to rest Klaas for an undetermined amount of time while a thorough investigation is performed.\" Before his injury, Lodewyck had been effective in helping teammate Philippe Gilbert win Ster ZLM Toer, Steve Cummings win Tour Méditerranéen and Taylor Phinney win the Dubai Tour. The most aggressive rider at the 2012 Tour of Oman said the situation is depressing. \"Mentally, it is like I am in a big nightmare,\" Lodewyck said. \"Since my crash, it seems like there has always been something and for the last week, I have been to the hospital almost every day for tests.\" Dr. Testa said an update on Lodewyck's condition will be shared when more details are known.\nBMC Racing Team Signs Jempy Drucker\nBMC Racing Team President/General Manager Jim Ochowicz announced Thursday the signing of Jempy Drucker to a multi-year contract, beginning in the 2015 season.\nHelp For The Classics: The 27-year-old from Luxembourg was runner-up last month at the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg, runner-up on Stage 5 at the Tour of Norway and finished fourth at Dwars door Vlaanderen. A professional since 2008, he has twice finished runner-up at GP Stad Zottegem (2010 and 2012) and was sixth overall last year at the Tour de Wallonie. \"Jempy has a nice background in classics-style racing in the spring and summer,\" Ochowicz said. \"He also has stage racing experience that we will be able to utilize in a number of races throughout the year. On numerous occasions, he has demonstrated his ability to time trial and deliver in the faster races solid performances and consistent results.\" Drucker said he was excited to receive the invitation to join the BMC Racing Team. \"I think it is one of the best teams in the world,\" he said. \"It will be a pleasure to get a chance to ride for the BMC Racing Team next year. I want to progress as a rider and become a better rider. My main races are the classics, so I hope to be able to play a big role in them and help the team get nice results or a win\nJonas Van Genechten wins the fourth stage of the Tour de Pologne\nYesterday (Wednesday, August 6) Lotto-Belisol rider Jonas Van Genechten won the fourth stage of the Tour of Poland using a huge 54 big-meat ring to win the downhill, tailwind-aided sprint. What the heck, here's Lotto-Belisol's press release, they earned a little glory:\nWith 236 kilometers it was the longest stage.\nBoris Vallée joined an early breakaway, but it didn't get much space. Next Edmondson, Krizek and Taciak attacked. In the final Cousin and Kasperkiewicz bridged to the leaders. Eight kilometers from the end, in the last local lap of 12.3 kilometers in Katowice, all escapees were caught. There were some late attacks, like the one of Thor Hushovd. Still a bunch sprint would decide about the stage win. Jonas Van Genechten turned out to be the fastest. Jacopo Guarnieri had to be satisfied with the second place, Luka Mezgec got third. For Van Genechten it's the second win of the season after Gullegem Koerse and this in a WorldTour race.\nJonas Van Genechten: \"Of course I'm very happy with this victory. It was a fast sprint, because there was a descent at the end. The right timing was important to win. With two laps to go we decided I would be the man for the sprint. Kenny Dehaes wasn't feeling 100%. The whole team believed in me. Kenny did the last part of the work in the team, up to the last three kilometers. It wasn't easy to stay together. Each rider of the team has a big part in the win. I want to thank all of them.\"\n\"Until the bottom of the last hill I was positioned well. Then I did an effort to be in a good position for the last kilometer. This victory confirms my condition and shows I can perform on the highest level. From the start of the season I am in good shape. There was an opportunity for me here and it was successful.\"\nTheo Bos and Robert Gesink to MTN Qhubeka?\nAD Sportwereld is reporting that MTN Qhubeka is courting Belkin riders Theo Bos (who won the Tour of Poland third stage) and Robert Gesink. Both have contracts with the Dutch team that are up at the end of the year.\nTheo Bos wins Tour of Poland Stage Three. Photo ©Sirotti\nMark Cavendish returns to racing\nRather than take part in the Prudential RideLondon Classic, Mark Cavendish is taking a lower key return to racing by starting August 12 at the French Tour de l'Ain. Cavendish crashed out of the first stage at Harrogate of this year's Tour de France.\nCavendish ruptured all the ligaments at the AC joint, or more pedantically, the acromioclavicular joint. This is where the collarbone (the clavicle) meets the highest point of the shoulder blade (acromion).\nMark Cavendish talks with Omega Pharma team boss Lefevre at this year's Tour before going home"
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        "text": "How Reflection Works in Physics\nDefinition of Reflection in Physics\nTara Moore/Getty Images\nIn physics, reflection is defined as the change in the direction of a wavefront at the interface between two different media, bouncing the wavefront back into the original medium. A common example of reflection is reflected light from a mirror or a still pool of water, but reflection affects other types of waves beside light. Water waves, sound waves, particle waves, and seismic waves may also be reflected.\nThe Law of Reflection\nTodd Helmenstine, sciencenotes.org\nThe law of reflection is usually explained in terms of a ray of light striking a mirror, but it applies to other types of waves as well. According to the law of reflection, an incident ray strikes a surface at a certain angle relative to the \"normal\" (line perpendicular to the mirror's surface).\nThe angle of reflection is the angle between the reflected ray and the normal and is equal in magnitude to the angle of incidence, but is on the opposite side of the normal. The angle of incidence and angle of reflection lie in the same plane. The law of reflection can be derived from the Fresnel equations.\nThe law of reflection is used in physics to identify the location of an image that is reflected in a mirror. One consequence of the law is that if you view a person (or other creature) through a mirror and can see his eyes, you know from the way reflection works that he can also view your eyes.\nTypes of Reflections\nKen Hermann/Getty Images\nThe law of reflection works for specular surfaces, which means surfaces which are shiny or mirror-like. Specular reflection from a flat surface forms mirror mages, which appear to be reversed from left to right. Specular reflection from curved surfaces may be magnified or demagnified, depending on whether the surface is spherical or parabolic.\nDiffuse Reflections\nWaves can also strike non-shiny surfaces, which produce diffuse reflections. In diffuse reflection, light is scattered in multiple directions because of tiny irregularities in the surface of the medium. A clear image is not formed.\nInfinite Reflections\nIf two mirrors are placed facing each other and parallel to each other, infinite images are formed along the straight line. If a square is formed with four mirrors face to face, the infinite images appear to be arranged within a plane. In reality, images aren't truly infinite because tiny imperfections in the mirror surface eventually propagate and extinguish the image.\nRetroreflection\nIn retroreflection, light returns in the direction from whence it came. A simple way to make a retroreflector is to form a corner reflector, with three mirrors faced mutually perpendicular to each other. The second mirror produces an image that is the inverse of the first. The third mirror makes in an inverse of the image from the second mirror, returning it to its original configuration. The tapetum lucidum in some animal eyes acts as a retroreflector (e.g., in cats), improving their night vision.\nComplex Conjugate Reflection or Phase Conjugation\nComplex conjugate reflection occurs when light reflects back exactly in the direction from whence it came (as in retroreflection), but both the wavefront and the direction are reversed. This occurs in nonlinear optics. Conjugate reflectors may be used to remove aberrations by reflecting a beam and passing the reflection back through the aberrating optics.\nNeutron, Sound, and Seismic Reflections\nMonty Rakusen/Getty Images\nReflections occur in several types of waves. Light reflection doesn't only happen within the visible spectrum but throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. VHF reflection is used for radio transmission. Gamma rays and x-rays may be reflected, too, although the nature of the \"mirror\" is different than for visible light.\nThe reflection of sound waves is a fundamental principle in acoustics. Reflection is somewhat different from sound. If a longitudinal sound wave strikes a flat surface, the reflected sound is coherent if the size of the reflecting surface is large compared to the wavelength of the sound.\nThe nature of the material matters as well as its dimensions. Porous materials may absorb sonic energy, while rough materials (with respect to wavelength) may scatter sound in multiple directions. The principles are used to make anechoic rooms, noise barriers, and concert halls. Sonar is also based on sound reflection.\nSeismologists study seismic waves, which are waves that may be produced by explosions or earthquakes. Layers in the Earth reflect these waves, helping scientists understand the Earth's structure, pinpoint the source of the waves, and identify valuable resources.\nStreams of particles may be reflected as waves. For example, neutron reflection off of atoms may be used to map internal structure. Neutron reflection also is used in nuclear weapons and reactors.\nHuygens' Principle Explains How Waves Move Around Corners\nThe Photoelectric Effect\nThe Principles of Superposition\nWhat Is Electromagnetic Radiation?\nThe Inside Scoop on Telescopes\nWhat the Compton Effect Is and Why It's Important in Physics\nWhat Is Wave-Particle Duality?\nSkins of Metal - A Hazard in Architecture\nWho Invented the Kaleidoscope?\nThe Men Who Helped Invent Radar\nThe History of Ultrasound in Medicine\nThis Online Geometry Course Covers Formulas, Terms, and Angles\nHow Long Have Humans Been Making Things Out of Glass?\nUnderstand the Science Behind How the Ground Rumbles\n6 Fascinating Facts About the Earth's Mantle\nRadiation in Space Gives Clues about the Universe\nпосмотреть ry-diplomer.com\nry-diplomer.com/diplom-v-sterlitamake"
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        "text": "Built on a sprawling 23 acre estate, Villa Ranawara allows its guests to enjoy all luxuries of the modern world while relishing the peace and quiet of a private beach. This stunning south-facing beachfront villa is tastefully furnished in understated colors for maximum impact. Five bedrooms spread out on two levels, with each offering unobstructed views of the gardens, ocean and beyond. Guests seeking more privacy will find solace in the two garden bungalows located near the main building. A resident manager and a full strength of staff including chef, butlers and room attendants are available round the clock and ensure a worry-free, pampered holiday experience.\nThree bedroom suites of villa Ranawara are located on the ground floor. All these three bedrooms are furnished with king-size four poster beds and overlook the garden and pool. The fourth and fifth bedrooms are on the first floor, have king-size four poster beds and a private terrace, and overlook the garden and the ocean. Bedrooms six and seven are located in a separate bungalow, 50 meters from the house and also have king-sized beds. All bedrooms are air-conditioned and have en-suite bathrooms.\nVilla Ranawara has two living areas including a formal double height palatial sitting room and library on the ground floor and an open-sided sitting on the first floor, which allows guests to take in the spectacular 360degree views of the gardens, lakes and ocean. Nearby is the L-shaped TV/cinema room fitted projector and screen; and a library with round table, sofa and arm chairs for comfortable reading and indoor games. There is also a bar area to take in the stunning views and sunsets. The ground floor living area is fitted with twin sofa sets and provides access to the kitchen and a dining area that can seat 14. Positioned away from the main house is the massage pavilion to enjoy relaxing spa treatment and massages in privacy and silence. Outdoors, sitting in stunning garden settings is the pool with a nearby open-sided pavilion for outdoor dining. Guests can also enjoy tennis in the hard court."
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        "text": "18 март е 77-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (78-и през високосна година). Остават 288 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 37 г. – Римският сенат анулира завещанието на Тиберий и обявява Калигула за император.\n 731 г. – Започва понтификатът на папа Григорий III.\n 922 г. – Приключва Битката при Пиги – голямо сражение между българи и византийци в покрайнините на Константинопол. Завършва с голяма българска победа.\n 1229 г. – Кръстоносците, начело с Фридрих II, възстановяват Йерусалимското кралство.\n 1582 г. – В Антверпен е направен опит за убийството на Вилхелм Орански.\n 1662 г. – В Париж започва да функционира първият обществен транспорт – 8-местна карета.\n 1871 г. – Обявена е Парижката комуна.\n 1900 г. – Основан е нидерландският АФК Аякс.\n 1903 г. – Френското правителство забранява религиозните ордени.\n 1904 г. – Основан е Австрийският футболен съюз.\n 1915 г. – Битката при Дарданелите, при която османската армия, водена от Мустафа Кемал паша, разбива англо-френския военноморски флот – най-модерния за времето си.\n 1917 г. – Финландия, първи парламентарни избори с универсално избирателно право в Европа   \n 1919 г. – В Испания е основан ФК Валенсия.\n 1921 г. – Подписан е вторият Рижки мирен договор между Полша и Съветския съюз.\n 1922 г. – В Индия Махатма Ганди е осъден на шест години затвор заради гражданско неподчинение, излежава две.\n 1925 г. – XXI народно събрание отнема мандати на комунисти.\n 1925 г. – Торнадо опустошава територии от три щата на САЩ – Мисури, Илинойс и Индиана, загиват 695 души.\n 1937 г. – При експлозия на газова инсталация в училище в Ню Лондон (Тексас) загиват около 300 ученици и учители.\n 1938 г. – Мексико национализира цялото петролно имущество на територията на държавата, собственост на чужди фирми.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: 1250 американски бомбардировача обстрелват Берлин.\n 1965 г. – Съветският космонавт Алексей Леонов извършва първото в историята на космонавтиката излизане в открития космос.\n 1966 г. – Папа Павел VI отменя отлъчването от църквата за католиците, сключили брак с некатолици.\n 1970 г. – Лон Нол пропъжда от Камбоджа принц Нородом Сианук.\n 1974 г. – Приключва 5-месечната петролна криза, свързана с ембаргото на страните от ОПЕК за САЩ, Западна Европа и Япония.\n 1980 г. – 50 души загиват при експлозия на ракета Восток-2М на космодрума Плесецк (СССР).\n 1989 г. – В Хеопсовата пирамида в Египет е открита мумия отпреди 4400 години.\n 2002 г. – Война в Афганистан (от 2001): Операция Анаконда (започнала на 2 март) приключва с унищожаването на 500 талибани и бойци на Ал Кайда, и 11 жертви на съюзниците.\n 2003 г. – САЩ започват война в Ирак, насочена към предотвратяване на ядрената програма на Ирак и сваляне на режима на Садам Хюсеин.\n 2004 г. – Членство на България в НАТО: С 226 гласа „за“ и 4 „против“ XXXIX народно събрание ратифицира Северноатлантическия договор.\n\nРодени \n\n 1496 г. – Мария Тюдор, кралица на Франция († 1533 г.)\n 1548 г. – Корнелис Кетел, холандски художник († 1616 г.)\n 1555 г. – Франсоа д'Алансон, френски благородник († 1584 г.)\n 1780 г. – Милош Обренович, княз на Сърбия († 1860 г.)\n 1828 г. – Уилям Рандъл Кримър, английски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1903 († 1908 г.)\n 1837 г. – Гроувър Кливланд, 22-ри и 24-ти президент на САЩ († 1908 г.)\n 1842 г. – Стефан Маларме, френски поет († 1898 г.)\n 1844 г. – Николай Римски-Корсаков, руски композитор († 1908 г.)\n 1850 г. – Тодор Иванов Джебаров, български възрожденец († 1945 г.)\n 1858 г. – Рудолф Дизел, германски изобретател († 1913 г.)\n 1868 г. – Вилхелм Щекел, австрийски лекар († 1940 г.)\n 1877 г. – Едгар Кейси, американски ясновидец († 1945 г.)\n 1893 г. – Уилфред Оуен, уелски поет († 1918 г.)\n 1896 г. – Невил Чембърлейн, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1940 г.)\n 1901 г. – Менли Палмър Хол, американски езотеричен автор († 1990 г.)\n 1903 г. – Галеацо Чано, италиански политик († 1944 г.)\n 1904 г. – Сречко Косовел, словенски поет († 1926 г.)\n 1925 г. – Лазар Христов, български футболист\n 1926 г. – Йовчо Караиванов, български народен певец († 1966 г.)\n 1929 г. – Криста Волф, немска писателка († 2011 г.)\n 1932 г. – Джон Ъпдайк, американски писател († 2009 г.)\n 1936 г. – Фредерик де Клерк, президент на Южна Африка, Нобелов лауреат през 1993 г. († 2021 г.)\n 1941 г. – Волфганг Бауер, австрийски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1941 г. – Уилсън Пикет, американски певец († 2006 г.)\n 1946 г. – Милко Гайдарски, български футболист († 1989 г.)\n 1946 г. – Михаил Лозанов, български футболист († 1994 г.)\n 1949 г. – Алекс Хигинс, ирландски играч на снукър († 2010 г.)\n 1951 г. – Димитър Вичев, български футболист\n 1955 г. – Стоянка Груйчева, българска спортистка\n 1957 г. – Георги Арнаудов, български композитор\n 1959 г. – Люк Бесон, френски кинорежисьор\n 1960 г. – Ричард Бигс, американски актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1962 г. – Майк Роу, телевизионен водещ\n 1963 г. – Ванеса Уилямс, американска певица\n 1963 г. – Юлиан Стаматов, български тенисист\n 1966 г. – Джери Кантрел, американски музикант\n 1970 г. – Куийн Латифа, американска актриса\n 1972 г. – Дейн Кук, американски актьор\n 1976 г. – Благой Латинов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Джована Антонели, бразилска актриса\n 1976 г. – Йън Колдуел, американски писател\n 1978 г. – Йоши Такешита, японска волейболистка\n 1979 г. – Адам Лавин, американски певец (Maroon 5)\n 1980 г. – Наталия Поклонска, руски политик и юрист\n 1982 г. – Калин Николов, български композитор\n 1987 г. – Мауро Сарате, аржентински футболист\n 1987 г. – Ребека Сони, американска плувкиня\n 1989 г. – Лили Колинс, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 235 г. – Александър Север, римски император (* 205 г.)\n 840 г. – Айнхард, франкски историк (* ок. 775 г.)\n 1314 г. – Жак дьо Моле, френски благородник (* 1244 г.)\n 1584 г. – Иван IV, цар на Русия (* 1530 г.)\n 1745 г. – Робърт Уолпоул, британски държавник (* 1676 г.)\n 1781 г. – Ан Робер Жак Тюрго, френски държавник (* 1727 г.)\n 1876 г. – Фердинанд Фрайлиграт, немски поет (* 1810 г.)\n 1877 г. – Едуард Белчер, британски офицер (* 1799 г.)\n 1909 г. – Кузман Шапкарев, български книжовник (* 1834 г.)\n 1910 г. – Юрдан Стоянов, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1913 г. – Георгиос I, гръцки крал (* 1845 г.)\n 1936 г. – Елевтериос Венизелос, министър-председател на Гърция (* 1864 г.)\n 1936 г. – Кириакулис Мавромихалис, министър-председател на Гърция (* 1850 г.)\n 1947 г. – Михаил Герджиков, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1964 г. – Зигфрид Едстрьом, шведски предприемач (* 1870 г.)\n 1964 г. – Норберт Винер, американски математик (* 1894 г.)\n 1965 г. – Фарук I, владетел на Египет (* 1920 г.)\n 1970 г. – Тинка Краева, оперетна актриса (* 1910 г.)\n 1970 г. – Уилям Бюдайн, американски режисьор (* 1892 г.)\n 1977 г. – Карлос Паче, бразилски пилот от Формула 1 (* 1944 г.)\n 1980 г. – Григор Вачков, български актьор (* 1932 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ерих Фром, психолог и философ (* 1900 г.)\n 1980 г. – Тамара де Лемпицка, полска художничка (* 1898 г.)\n 1982 г. – Василий Чуйков, съветски военачалник (* 1900 г.)\n 1985 г. – Владимир Григоров, български художник (* 1894 г.)\n 1996 г. – Одисеас Елитис, гръцки поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1979 (* 1911 г.)\n 2003 г. – Адам Озборн, британски компютърен пионер (* 1939 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ричард Марнър, британски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2008 г. – Антъни Мингела, британски кинорежисьор (* 1954 г.)\n 2009 г. – Наташа Ричардсън, британска актриса (* 1963 г.)\n\nПразници \n Римокатолическа църква – Свети Александър от Йерусалим (Източноправославна църква го отбелязва на 29 май и на 25 декември)\n Римокатолическа църква, Източноправославна църква, Англиканска църква – Свети Кирил от Йерусалим\n Римокатолическа църква, Източноправославна църква, Англиканска църква – Свети Едуард мъченик\n Световен ден на мозъка\n Аруба – Ден на националния флаг и химн (1976, национален празник)\n Беларус – Ден на вътрешните войски на Република Беларус\n България – Ден на радиотехническите войски (отбелязва се от 1993 г.)\n Монголия – Ден на войниците\n Русия – Ден на Приятелството\n Франция – Ден на Парижката комуна (1872)\n\n318"
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        "text": "First round on stress at work survey.\nAnswering the questionnaire is voluntary and all answers will be saved anonymously. Please fill in this questionnaire only if you have some work experience, part-or full time. Otherwise, you will not be able to answer some of the questions!\nHere is a the link to all language version."
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        "text": "The Pre-historic Age\nMOULDWARP MORATORY\nEaten Out of House and Home\nThe dinosaurs become extinct when their wooden habitats are eaten by termites, co-conspirators of the cockroaches, who not only want to outlive everything on the planet, but help things along as well. (11/9/02)\nGeeks As Tradition\nFor the first couple hundred years or so, flintworkers were the geeks of primitive man. All the cool guys stuck with their clubs and stones, and taunted the flintworkers at each and every opportunity. It never occurs to those guys that the innovation of the club is the Swiss Army (Thing) of its day as also the previous tool of choice by geeks. (10/19/02)\nLanguage Arrives For Primitive Man\nA long time ago, a man walks up to another man. He's wondering what the other man is doing and language has just been invented, in fact he's about to speak the first sentence. \"What're you doing?\" The other man, who has been sitting with a hammer and chisel in front of a large slab of rock, stops concentrating long enough to say, \"I was going to record our manner of communication of grunting for the ages.\" But, as grunting is now passé, the other man sets his hammer and chisel down, and one language dies as another is born. (10/4/02)\nMeanwhile, At the Accent Auction\nThe Tower of Babel incident temporarily puts a strain on differences in regional linguistic inflections. Years of development are put to waste as people suddenly speak different languages, but in the confusion the ancient Briton is said to have gained a sleeper advantage when the first instance of \"Bloody Hell!\" being stated occurs. (10/7/02)\nBefore Mowing, There Was Turf War\nA patch of grass graces a man's hut. The man's neighbor sees the patch of grass, and as he does not have his own, he goes over to that man's hut and stomps on the grass, and then the two men tussle for a while. War had to start somewhere, and so other men join in, on various principles of grass opinion. (10/19/02)\nRedefining Holy Water\nThe Cult of Aqua is the first major religion, being founded after a man notices that he can see himself in it, and touch the image without touching himself. The image is fickle, flickering away when he touches it, and so the man assigns it mystical properties. He brings his friends over, and not only do they see themselves, but they see each other. It is good. Ceremonies include the ritual drowning of a duck, which refuses to stay under, adding to the mysticism. (10/26/02)\nDeja Vu Already\nA man comes across a stone he figures is shaped weirdly. But, as everyone's still using stone tools, he takes it anyway and returns home, the stone in a collection of new tools he'll soon implement in some activity or other. It's not a regular stone; it's been shaped into a rather useful point. After some time the man suspects that it has been used by someone else as a tool, and so rather than using it as a tool himself or copying the technique for his own tools, he puts it in with his small collection of possessions. He never gives it anymore thought. Still, archaeology is born, even if it isn't recognized as such at the time. (11/8/02)\nDeja Vu Again\nAfter declaring, \"I'm sick of making history, I want to repeat it!\" a man repeats the grass warfare incident, thus inaugurating an institution. (11/9/02)\nStinking Rich\nThe world's first major collective, the Empire of Turd, ends not long after the subjects of Lord Turd realize they've been following someone who has a large collection of elephant dung. It begins to dawn on people that the economy should be running on something less smelly, and perhaps more shiny. I believe the idea catches on rather quickly. (12/02/02)\nThat Glazed Look\nDuring the onset of the Ice Age, a man turns to his mate inside their lodging and insists he'll go hunting later, that the outside weather is fleeting. When the local wildlife begins to freeze and generally cease to exist, the man is forced to admit his mistake (not out loud) and go in search of game elsewhere. This is why some yokels crossed the Bering Strait. (2/4/03)\nviews expressed here are obviously only that of Sean \"Waterloo\" McKenna,\nso whether you agree with them or not, they're his and © copyrighted 2002-2003"
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        "text": "State-run power producer NTPC has been given the green clearance for the Rs 7,732.35 crore expansion project of the Talcher Thermal Power Station in Odisha, a senior government official said Monday.\nThe government is considering selling its 65.61 per cent stake in state-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) to Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), which could fetch the exchequer about Rs 13,000 crore.\nThe latest CAG report for the year ended March 31, 2017 has recorded notional losses running into several hundred crores suffered by the state government especially in the power and excise departments.\nState-run monopoly miner Coal India (CIL) plans to supply 17.5 million tonnes of coal annually to captive power producers for five years through an auction that started last week and is slated to conclude on October 10.\nIndia, the world's third-biggest oil importer, is considering cutting oil purchases to soften the blow from high crude oil prices and declining rupee, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Chairman Sanjiv Singh said on Monday.\nRetail prices of fuel in India crossed a life-time high of Rs 90 a litre in Maharashtra on Monday. Coupled with this, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) latest demand outlook is going to further raise problems for the country.\nIndia, the world's third-biggest oil importer, is considering reducing oil purchases to mitigate the pain of high crude prices and the declining rupee, said two sources at different Indian refineries with direct knowledge of the matter.\nIndian Railways introduces world’s 1st heritage broad-gauge regular commercial weekly steam train!\nFor the first time in Indian Railways, a time-tabled weekly commercial steam train service has been started between Garhi Harsaru and Farukhnagar section of Northern Railway zone, after steam traction phased out nearly 25 years back.\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Nepal in December to inaugurate the Janakpur-Jayanagar railway line connecting the country to India. The line, reports say, has remained non-functional for the last three years.\nTrain services in South Eastern Railway's (SER) Kharagpur division were affected since 6 am Monday owing to blockade by an umbrella organisation of the adivasis demanding recognition of their language, an SER spokesman said.\nIn the election held on Sunday, Maldivians ousted incumbent President Abdulla Yameen from power. Yameen, who drove the country closer to China and into a debt trap, has lost to the candidate fielded by the joint opposition."
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        "text": "Q: How do I keep Last.fm from scrobbling podcasts? I would like to use last.fm to just keep track of what music I listen to, but I listen to a lot of podcasts as well, using both iTunes and my iPhone.  Is there any way to prevent the Last.fm application from scrobbling my podcasts?  Or alternatively, is there any way to prevent Last.fm from scrobbling any music file longer than 1 hour or something?\n\nA: *\n\n*Open the Last.fm application.\n\n*Menu item \"Last.fm -> Preferences\"\n\n*In the Scrobbling page, edit the \"Scrobble Directories\" and make sure that your podcast directory is not selected. If you have your iTunes library in the standard location: Expand the directory tree to find /Users/you/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media and make sure that the directory Podcasts is not selected.\n\n*Review the other directories that are selected, for example you might want to make sure that the Audiobooks directory is unselected.\n\n*OK!\n\n"
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        "text": "North Western Railway is going to recruit for the post of Act Apprentices.The candidates may apply till 29th January 2017.\nCandidate must have passed the 10th class examination or its equivalent (under 10+2 examination system) with minimum 50% marks, in the aggregate, from recognized Board and also possess National Trade Certificate in the notified trade issued by NCVT/SCVT.\nCandidate belonging to SC/ST/Women /Minorities/ Economically Backward Class have to pay Rs. 250/- & Rs. 500/- for all other candidates through DD/ IPO drawn in favor of North Western Railway Sports Association Payable at Jaipur / G.P.O. Jaipur.\nCandidates need to fill up the application form given in the official notification. The application need to be sent by ordinary post only in closed envelope or dropped at the application box. Candidates need to mention \"APPLICATION FOR RECRUITMENT AGAINST SPORTS QUOTA FOR THE YEAR 2016-17\" on top of the envelope."
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        "text": "19 март е 78-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (79-и през високосна година). Остават 287 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n\n 238 г. – Гордиан I e провъзгласен от сената за антиимператор на Максимин Трак. Неговият син Гордиан II e сърегент. Двамата управляват само до 9 април. 238 г. е годината на Шестте императори.\n 1227 г. – избиране на папа Григорий IX.\n 1366 г. – Състои се сватбата на Ото V и Катарина Люксембургска.\n\n 1452 г. – Фридрих III e коронясан в Рим от папа Николай V за император на Свещената Римска империя. Това е последната коронация на император в Рим.\n 1474 г. – Във Венеция е приет закон за защита на изобретенията – първият в света закон за защита на авторското право.\n 1563 г. – „Едикт от Амбоаз“, край на първата Хугенотска война\n 1895 г. – В София започва конгрес на македонските емигрантски дружества и братства в Княжество България и извън него.\n 1911 г. – По инициативата на Клара Цеткин за пръв път се празнува Международен ден на жената в Германия, Дания, Австро-Унгария и Швейцария.\n 1915 г. – Направени са първите снимки на Плутон, който (правилно) не е определен като планета.\n 1920 г. – Сенатът на САЩ отхвърля Версайския договор за втори път (първият е на 19 ноември 1919).\n 1943 г. – Италианският диктатор Бенито Мусолини официално отказва да предаде на немците италианските евреи.\n 1945 г. – България във Втората световна война: Завършва Дравската операция на Първа българска армия.\n 1953 г. – Церемонията по връчване на американските филмови награди „Оскар“ за първи път се излъчва по телевизията.\n 1958 г. – В Страсбург се открива първото заседание на Европейския парламент.\n 1962 г. – Приключва Алжирската война за независимост.\n 1978 г. – В отговор на израелската операция Литани в Ливан, Организацията на обединените нации призовава Израел да изтегли войските си от страната и създава Временни сили на ООН в Ливан.\n 1981 г. – Извършва се неуспешен изпитателен опит на американската космическа совалка Колумбия, вследствие на което загиват трима души и петима са ранени.\n 1982 г. – Фолклендска война: Аржентински войници слизат на остров Южна Джорджия, предизвиквайки войната.\n 1984 г. – Открит е големият електрифициран жп пръстен София – Горна Оряховица – Русе – Варна – Бургас – Пловдив – София.\n 1990 г. – В Отава, Канада, започва първият световен шампионат по хокей на лед за жени.\n 2003 г. – Война в Ирак (2003): Малко след 22:00 EST Джордж У. Буш се обръща към американската нация и обявява започването на въздушни удари срещу цели в Ирак.\n 2008 г. – Сателитът Суифт регистрира гама експлозията GRB 080319B, с което се поставя рекорд за най-отдалечен обект, който може да се наблюдава с просто око.\n\nРодени \n\n 1542 г. – Ян Замойски, полски държавник († 1605 г.)\n 1629 г. – Алексей, цар на Русия († 1676 г.)\n 1776 г. – Василий Тропинин, руски художник, портретист († 1857 г.)\n 1813 г. – Дейвид Ливингстън, английски мисионер и пътешественик († 1873 г.)\n 1821 г. – Ричард Франсис Бъртън, британски пътешественик († 1890 г.)\n 1843 г. – Йорданка Филаретова, българска революционерка и общественичка († 1915 г.)\n 1848 г. – Иван Драсов, български революционер († 1901 г.)\n 1886 г. – Адриен Борел, френски психиатър († 1966 г.)\n 1900 г. – Фредерик Жолио-Кюри, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1935 († 1958 г.)\n 1903 г. – Рада Балевска, български зоолог, професор († 1984 г.)\n 1905 г. – Алберт Шпеер, нацистки архитект и министър († 1981 г.)\n 1909 г. – Петър Славински, български писател и драматург († 1993 г.)\n 1912 г. – Адолф Галанд, германски пилот († 1996 г.)\n 1917 г. – Ласло Сабо, унгарски шахматист († 1998 г.)\n 1918 г. – Радка Бъчварова, българска аниматорка и режисьорка († 1986 г.)\n 1923 г. – Тодор Андреев, български треньор по бокс († 2017 г.)\n 1926 г. – Петър Горанов, български историк, професор († 2011 г.)\n 1932 г. – Иван Вукадинов, български художник\n 1936 г. – Урсула Андрес, швейцарска актриса\n 1938 г. – Лъчезар Стоянов, български актьор († 1991 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Вутов, български футболист\n 1945 г. – Йозеф Моравчик, министър-председател на Словакия\n 1945 г. – Йосип Ости, словенски и босненски поет († 2021 г.)\n 1946 г. – Огнян Герджиков, български политик\n 1947 г. – Глен Клоуз, американска актриса\n 1949 г. – Валери Леонтиев, руски естраден певец\n 1953 г. – Били Шиън, американски рок музикант\n 1955 г. – Брус Уилис, американски актьор\n 1956 г. – Егор Гайдар, руски политик и икономист († 2009 г.)\n 1956 г. – Люба Кулезич, български журналист и кинокритик\n 1964 г. – Джейк Уебър, английски актьор\n 1967 г. – Петър Витанов, български футболист\n 1969 г. – Конър Триниър, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Хосе Кардосо, парагвайски футболист\n 1973 г. – Александър Валентинов, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Елена Бозова, българска актриса\n 1976 г. – Алесандро Неста, италиански футболист\n 1979 г. – Иван Любичич, хърватски тенисист\n 1979 г. – Тони Робъртс, американска порноактриса\n 1979 г. – Чавдар Ценков, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Коло Туре, котдивоарски футболист\n 1983 г. – Ваня Дзаферович, хърватски футболист\n 1997 г. – Рута Мейлутите, литовска плувкиня\n\nПочинали \n\n 1286 г. – Александър III, шотландски крал (* 1241 г.)\n 1406 г. – Ибн Халдун, арабски учен (* 1332 г.)\n 1721 г. – Климент XI, римски папа (* 1649 г.)\n 1822 г. – Валентин Аюи, френски педагог (* 1745 г.)\n 1872 г. – Джоузеф Бейтс, американски християнски водач (* 1792 г.)\n 1884 г. – Елиас Льонрот, финландски филолог (* 1802 г.)\n 1887 г. – Юзеф Крашевски, полски писател (* 1812)\n 1897 г. – Антоан Томсън д'Абади, френски изследовател на Африка (* 1810 г.)\n 1916 г. – Василий Суриков, руски художник (* 1848 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димитър Яблански, български политик (* 1859 г.)\n 1930 г. – Артър Балфур, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1848 г.)\n 1930 г. – Уилфрид Войнич, американски антиквар (* 1865 г.)\n 1946 г. – Константин Мутафов, български драматург (* 1879 г.)\n 1955 г. – Леонид Говоров, съветски маршал (* 1897 г.)\n 1965 г. – Георге Георгиу-Деж, комунистически ръководител на Румъния (* 1901 г.)\n 1978 г. – Гастон Жулиа, френски математик (* 1893 г.)\n 1987 г. – Луи дьо Бройл, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1929 г. († 1892 г.)\n 1991 г. – Васил Арнаудов, български хоров диригент и музикален педагог (* 1933 г.)\n 1993 г. – Алексей Аджубей, съветски журналист (* 1924 г.)\n 1995 г. – Димитър Панделиев, български писател (* 1927 г.)\n 1996 г. – Климент Цачев, български писател (* 1925 г.)\n 1998 г. – Георги Ангелов, български политик (* 1915 г.)\n 2004 г. – Христо Градечлиев, български художник (* 1935 г.)\n 2008 г. – Сър Артър Кларк, британски писател (* 1917 г.)\n 2008 г. – Хюго Клаус, белгийски писател (* 1929 г.)\n 2008 г. – Пол Скофийлд, британски актьор (* 1922 г.)\n 2009 г. – Гертруд Фусенегер, австрийска писателка (* 1912 г.)\n 2016 г. – Павел Чернев, български адвокат и политик (* 1969 г.)\n\nПразници \n Римокатолическа църква и Англиканска църква – Ден на свети Йосиф, съпруг на Дева Мария, баща на Исус Христос\n също в Италия, Испания, Португалия – Ден на бащата\n Русия – Ден на подводничаря\n\n319"
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        "text": "20 март е 79-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (80-и през високосна година). Остават 286 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1413 г. – Хенри V става крал на Англия.\n 1792 г. – Законодателното събрание на Франция официално одобрява използването на гилотината за екзекутиране.\n 1808 г. – Александър I присъединява с декрет Финландия към Русия като Велико княжество.\n 1815 г. – След като избягва от остров Елба, Наполеон влиза в Париж с армия от 140 000 души и 200 000 доброволци, което поставя началото на управлението му, наречено „Стоте дни“.\n 1848 г. – Лудвиг I се отказва от трона на Бавария.\n 1852 г. – Публикуван е романът Чичо Томовата колиба, на американската писателка Хариет Бичър Стоу, който съществено повлиява на отношението към афроамериканците и робството в САЩ.\n 1854 г. – В САЩ е основана Републиканската партия.\n 1861 г. – Земетресение изцяло унищожава град Мендоса в западна Аржентина.\n 1890 г. – Ото фон Бисмарк престава да е канцлер на Германия.\n 1914 г. – В САЩ, Кънектикът, за пръв път се провежда международен шампионат по фигурно пързаляне.\n 1916 г. – Албърт Айнщайн публикува своята Теория на относителността.\n 1924 г. – Христо Ясенов е интерниран в днешен Благоевград.\n 1930 г. – В Хага е подписано споразумение за вдигане на секвестъра върху българските имоти в Румъния.\n 1949 г. – Германската марка става законна парична единица на Западна Германия.\n 1951 г. – В Народна република България са отменени купоните за промишлени стоки и се преминава към свободна търговия с тях.\n 1952 г. – Сенатът на САЩ подписва мирен договор с Япония.\n 1956 г. – Тунис придобива независимост от Франция.\n 1969 г. – В Гибралтар Джон Ленън и Йоко Оно сключват брак.\n 1986 г. – Жак Ширак става министър-председател на Франция.\n 1987 г. – САЩ одобряват използването на препарата AZT, доказал възможността да забавя развитието на СПИН.\n 1995 г. – Сектата Аум Шанрикьо организира атентат със зарин в токийското метро, загиват 12 души, повече от 5 хиляди са с отравяне.\n 1998 г. – В Москва българският вицепремиер Евгений Бакърджиев и шефът на Газпром Рем Вяхирев се споразумяват да извадят посредниците от газовите доставки.\n 2003 г. – Война в Ирак (2003): В ранните часове на деня, Съединените щати и три други страни започват военни действия в Ирак.\n 2011 г. – Война в Либия (2011): Съединените щати, Франция, Канада и Великобритания започват военни действия в Либия.\n 2015 г. – Пълно слънчево затъмнение над Европа.\n\nРодени \n\n 43 г. пр.н.е. – Овидий, древноримски поет († 17 г.)\n 1713 г. – Наталия Петровна, дъщеря на руските императори Петър I и Екатерина I († 1715 г.)\n 1725 г. – Абдул Хамид I, султан на Османската империя († 1789 г.)\n 1741 г. – Жан Антоан Удон, френски скулптор († 1828 г.)\n 1770 г. – Фридрих Хьолдерлин, германски писател († 1843 г.)\n 1811 г. – Наполеон II, крал на Рим († 1832 г.)\n 1820 г. – Александру Йоан Куза, румънски владетел († 1873 г.)\n 1828 г. – Хенрик Ибсен, норвежки драматург († 1906 г.)\n 1831 г. – Теодор Аман, румънски живописец († 1891 г.)\n 1840 г. – Иларион Прянишников, руски художник, передвижник († 1894 г.)\n 1858 г. – Стефан Караджов, български икономист († 1931 г.)\n 1863 г. – Васил Аврамов, български историк († 1946 г.)\n 1867 г. – Лазар Ванков, български геолог († 1923 г.)\n 1870 г. – Паул фон Летов-Форбек, германски генерал († 1964 г.)\n 1873 г. – Сергей Рахманинов, руски композитор и пианист († 1943 г.)\n 1877 г. – Цено Тодоров, български художник († 1953 г.)\n 1880 г. – Мамин Колю, български революционер († 1961 г.)\n 1890 г. – Бениамино Джили, италиански тенор († 1957 г.)\n 1904 г. – Бъръс Фредерик Скинър, американски психолог и философ на съвременния бихевиоризъм († 1990 г.)\n 1911 г. – Алфонсо Гарсия Роблес, мексикански политик, Нобелов лауреат († 1991 г.)\n 1912 г. – Иван Моканов, български футболист († 1982 г.)\n 1920 г. – Николай Широв-Тарас, български писател, хуморист и сатирик\n 1922 г. – Карл Райнър, американски актьор, режисьор, продуцент и сценарист († 2020 г.)\n 1929 г. – Илзе Тилш, австрийска писателка\n 1932 г. – Димитър Стефанов, български поет, писател и преводач († 2018 г.)\n 1945 г. – Евдокия Манева, български политик\n 1950 г. – Георги Марков, български политик\n 1950 г. – Уилям Хърт, американски актьор 2022\n 1954 г. – Кристоф Рансмайр, австрийски писател\n 1956 г. – Валентин Церовски, български политик († 2012 г.)\n 1956 г. – Цветан Владовски, български певец († 2006 г.)\n 1957 г. – Спайк Лий, американски кинорежисьор\n 1958 г. – Холи Хънтър, американска актриса\n 1963 г. – Байрам Косуми, косовски политик\n 1963 г. – Дейвид Тюлис, британски актьор\n 1967 г. – Николай Бухалов, български състезател по кану-каяк\n 1968 г. – Велиян Парушев, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Майкъл Рапапорт, американски актьор\n 1976 г. – Честър Бенингтън, американски музикант (Linkin Park)\n 1976 г. – Йенс Петерсен, немски писател\n 1977 г. – Милен Христов, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Азер Мирзоев, азербайджански шахматист\n 1981 г. – Станислав Генчев, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Томаш Кушчак, полски футболен вратар\n 1983 г. – Йени Вартиайнен, финландска певица\n 1984 г. – Фернандо Торес, испански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1413 г. – Хенри IV, крал на Англия (* 1367 г.)\n 1619 г. – Матиас, император на Свещената Римска империя, крал на Унгария и Хърватия (* 1557 г.)\n 1730 г. – Адриана Лекуврьор, френска актриса (* 1692 г.)\n 1818 г. – Йохан Форкел, германски композитор (* 1749 г.)\n 1878 г. – Юлиус Роберт фон Майер, германски физик и лекар († 1814 г.)\n 1894 г. – Лайош Кошут, унгарски революционер, политик и държавник (* 1802 г.)\n 1898 г. – Иван Шишкин, руски художник (* 1832 г.)\n 1925 г. – Джордж Кързън, британски държавник (* 1859 г.)\n 1929 г. – Фердинанд Фош, маршал на Франция (* 1851 г.)\n 1935 г. – Евстатий Шкорнов, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1938 г. – Александър Малинов, министър-председател на България (* 1867 г.)\n 1946 г. – Санда Йовчева, българска писателка, журналистка и преводачка (* 1882 г.)\n 1955 г. – Михай Кароли, унгарски политик и държавник\n 1964 г. – Александра Яблочкина, руска артистка (* 1866 г.)\n 1964 г. – Аспарух Темелков, български актьор (* 1896 г.)\n 1968 г. – Борис Грежов, български режисьор (* 1899 г.)\n 1968 г. – Карл Теодор Драйер, режисьор\n 1973 г. – Адолф Щраус, германски офицер (* 1879 г.)\n 1979 г. – Евгений Ващенко, руски художник (* 1887 г.)\n 1989 г. – Стоян Венев, български художник (* 1904 г.)\n 1990 г. – Лев Яшин, съветски футболист (* 1929 г.)\n 1993 г. – Поликарп Куш, американски физик от германски произход, Нобелов лауреат (* 1911 г.)\n 2004 г. – Юлиана Холандска, кралица на Холандия (* 1909 г.)\n 2010 г. – Гирия Прасад Койрала, непалски политик (* 1925 г.)\n 2020 г. – Кени Роджърс, американски певец (* 1938 г.)\n\nПразници \n Астрономия – първият ден на пролетта\n Международен ден на щастието (резолюция на Общото събрание на ООН провъзгласява това през 2012 г.)\n Международен ден на приказката (за първи път през 1991 г. в Швеция)\n Австралия – Ден на Канбера\n Иран – Ден на национализация на петрола\n Тунис – Декларация за независимост (от Франция, 1956 г., национален празник)\n Международен ден на франкофонията\n Ден на Земята (отбелязва се от 1971 г.)\n Тунис Празник на независимостта\n Християнство – Първи възможен ден за Разпети Петък\n Българска православна църква – Св. мъченица Фотина\n Бахаизъм – последен ден от месеца на възнесението с календара Бади, посветен на юношите\n Римски религиозен празник в чест на богинята Минерва\n Ирански календар: Норуз един от трите възможни дни (19, 20 или 21 март) Нова Година в Зароастризма Чества се в Иран, Ирак, Афганистан, Таджикистан, Узбекистан, Казахстан, Киргистан\n Уика (философско религиозно движение, което съществува и днес) – Годишно Колело, малък шабаш на Остара (Северно полукълбо) или Мабу (Южно полукълбо)\n Япония: (Shunbun no hi Шунбун но хи) Пролетно равноденствие Норуз един от трите възможни дни (19, 20 или 21 март).\n\n320"
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        "text": "\n\npackage org.elasticsearch.action.fieldcaps;\n\nimport org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequest;\nimport org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;\nimport org.elasticsearch.action.IndicesRequest;\nimport org.elasticsearch.action.ValidateActions;\nimport org.elasticsearch.action.support.IndicesOptions;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.ParseField;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ObjectParser;\nimport org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;\n\nimport java.io.IOException;\nimport java.util.Arrays;\nimport java.util.HashSet;\nimport java.util.Set;\n\nimport static org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ObjectParser.fromList;\n\npublic class FieldCapabilitiesRequest extends ActionRequest\n    implements IndicesRequest.Replaceable {\n    public static final ParseField FIELDS_FIELD = new ParseField(\"fields\");\n    public static final String NAME = \"field_caps_request\";\n    private String[] indices = Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY;\n    private IndicesOptions indicesOptions = IndicesOptions.strictExpandOpen();\n    private String[] fields = Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY;\n\n    private static ObjectParser<FieldCapabilitiesRequest, Void> PARSER =\n        new ObjectParser<>(NAME, FieldCapabilitiesRequest::new);\n\n    static {\n        PARSER.declareStringArray(fromList(String.class, FieldCapabilitiesRequest::fields),\n            FIELDS_FIELD);\n    }\n\n    public FieldCapabilitiesRequest() {}\n\n    @Override\n    public void readFrom(StreamInput in) throws IOException {\n        super.readFrom(in);\n        fields = in.readStringArray();\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {\n        super.writeTo(out);\n        out.writeStringArray(fields);\n    }\n\n    public static FieldCapabilitiesRequest parseFields(XContentParser parser) throws IOException {\n        return PARSER.parse(parser, null);\n    }\n\n    /**\n     * The list of field names to retrieve\n     */\n    public FieldCapabilitiesRequest fields(String... fields) {\n        if (fields == null || fields.length == 0) {\n            throw new IllegalArgumentException(\"specified fields can't be null or empty\");\n        }\n        Set<String> fieldSet = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(fields));\n        this.fields = fieldSet.toArray(new String[0]);\n        return this;\n    }\n\n    public String[] fields() {\n        return fields;\n    }\n\n    /**\n     *\n     * The list of indices to lookup\n     */\n    public FieldCapabilitiesRequest indices(String... indices) {\n        this.indices = indices;\n        return this;\n    }\n\n    public FieldCapabilitiesRequest indicesOptions(IndicesOptions indicesOptions) {\n        this.indicesOptions = indicesOptions;\n        return this;\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public String[] indices() {\n        return indices;\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public IndicesOptions indicesOptions() {\n        return indicesOptions;\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public ActionRequestValidationException validate() {\n        ActionRequestValidationException validationException = null;\n        if (fields == null || fields.length == 0) {\n            validationException =\n                ValidateActions.addValidationError(\"no fields specified\", validationException);\n        }\n        return validationException;\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public boolean equals(Object o) {\n        if (this == o) return true;\n        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;\n\n        FieldCapabilitiesRequest that = (FieldCapabilitiesRequest) o;\n\n        if (!Arrays.equals(indices, that.indices)) return false;\n        if (!indicesOptions.equals(that.indicesOptions)) return false;\n        return Arrays.equals(fields, that.fields);\n    }\n\n    @Override\n    public int hashCode() {\n        int result = Arrays.hashCode(indices);\n        result = 31 * result + indicesOptions.hashCode();\n        result = 31 * result + Arrays.hashCode(fields);\n        return result;\n    }\n}\n"
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        "text": "Q: How can I move my local e-mail folders in Mail.app from my old Mac to my new Mac? Including all e-mail messages contained in these local folders ofcourse.\n\nA: Under ~/Library/Mail/ you should have a folder named after you mail account. Inside it, there are .ewsmbox files that contain all your e-mail folders.\nTry to move those from your old to your new Mac.\n\nA: *\n\n*Click the \"Finder\" icon on the dock to launch a new Finder\n\n*Navigate to your account's Library folder in Mac OS X's Finder. Under Places, click your username (the one with the house icon) and then click \"Library.\" You can also do this by selecting \"Go\" from the Finder's top menu and then \"Go to Folder.\" Type in \"~/Library\" (without the quotes), and it will open up the Library folder.\n\n*Find the \"Mail\" folder.\n\n*Copy the entire \"Mail\" folder onto a storage device (USB thumb drive or blank CD-R) or transfer it over the network to the same place (User:Library) on the other Macintosh computer.\n\n*Go to the Preferences folder in the Library and locate the \"com.apple.mail.plist\" file. You can navigate there using the Finder window or select \"Go\" from the top menu of the Finder, click on \"Go to Folder\" and type in \"~/Library/Preferences/\" (without the quotes) in the prompt.\n\n*Copy the \"com.apple.mail.plist\" file onto your USB thumb drive or CD-R or copy it directly to the User:Library:Preferences folder on the other computer over the network. \"User\" is your user account name.c\n\n*Plug in the USB thumb drive or insert the CD-R into the optical drive on the other Macintosh computer if you haven't transferred the files over the network.\n\n*Move the \"com.apple.mail.plist\" file to the User:Library:Preferences folder of the other Mac. \"User\" is your user account name.\n\n*Move the Mail folder to the User:Library folder on the other Mac.\n\n*Launch Mail.app. Now your settings and email should be the same as those  on the old Mac. If not, make sure both  the Mail folder and the  \"com.apple.mail.plist\" file are in the  correct places.\n\n\nA: In Yosemite, open the local mail app, go to file>import mailboxes, then in the import pane that comes up, navigate to the user folder where the email app from the other computer is(stashed on a thumb drive or if you can connect directly to the other computer). Then after a bit, you should see a list of mailboxes that can be imported, and uncheck any you don't want.\nclick continue...\n\nA: Alternatively you could import them in the mail.app on your new mac using the \"Mail\" -> \"Archive\" -> \"Import mailboxes\" -> \"Apple Mail\" menu option and then choosing the ~/Library/Mail folder on your old mac (or a copy of that folder on an USB thumb drive, CD-R etc). \n"
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        "text": "The hedgehog system is characterized by a row of Black pawns on the 6-th rank: a6, b6, d6, e6...\nWomen WCh 2015 - Quarterfinals (2)\nSubmitted by Eugen on Fri, 03/27/2015 - 16:23\nThe Benko gambit is rarely seen in top events; however Natalija needed a win with black. The usual pressure black has for the sacrificed pawn was tangible during the first 30 something moves, then at move 33 black got it back. Both players then decided to go for the kill with black having a slight upper hand which brought her the victory in the end. This match goes now into tie breaks.\n[Event \"WWCC2015\"][Site \"Sochi\"][Date \"2015.03.27\"][Round \"23.2\"][White \"Zhao, Xue (CHN)\"][Black \"Pogonina, Natalija (RUS)\"][Result \"0-1\"][ECO \"A58\"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 g6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. g3 O-O 8. Bg2 d6 9. Nf3 Nxa6 10. O-O Qb6 11. Re1 Nc7 12. e4 Nd7 13. a4 Ba6 14. Ra3 Rfb8 15. Qc2 Ne5 16. Nxe5 Bxe5 17. Nd1 e6 18. Bd2 Bd4 19. Bc3 e5 {black applies continuous pressure} 20. Bh3 Ra7 21. Bg4 Rab7 22. Be2 c4 23. Bxd4 Qxd4 24. Ra2 Ne8 25. Nc3 Rb4 26. Rd1 Qb6 27. a5 Qc7 28. Rda1 Nf6 29. Na4 Nd7 30. Nb6 Rb7 31. Ra4 Rxa4 32. Qxa4 Nxb6 33. axb6 Rxb6 {material is now equal again and black has a small advantage} 34. Rc1 Qc5 35. b3 Bb5 36. Qa8+ Kg7 37. bxc4 Ba6 38. Re1 Qb4 39. Kf1 Bxc4 40. Bxc4 Qxc4+ 41. Kg2 Rb1 {both players are going for the win} 42. Qa5 Qd3 43. Kh3 Rb2 44. Qc7 Rxf2 45. Qxd6 Qc3 46. Rb1 Qc8+\nRead more about Women WCh 2015 - Quarterfinals (2)\nEugen's blog\nSubmitted by Eugen on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 13:51\nMariya had a rocky start against our fellow Canadian Yuan in round 1, while Humpy won all 3 matches so far with a 2-0 score. It is then unexpected to see Mariya surprising her opponent with a nice pseudo Queen sac and scoring the full point when black's King was left alone.\n[Event \"WWCC2015\"][Site \"Sochi\"][Date \"2015.03.26\"][Round \"22.1\"][White \"Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR)\"][Black \"Koneru, Humpy (IND)\"][Result \"1-0\"][ECO \"C45\"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. g3 d5 8. Bg2 dxe4 9. O-O O-O 10. Nd2 Bb6 11. Re1 Nxd4 12. Nxe4 Qf5 13. Bxd4 Nc6 14. Bxb6 axb6 15. f4 Be6 16. b3 h6 17. h3 Ra3 18. Qd2 Qa5 19. b4 Qa4 20. g4 Rd8 21. Qf2 Rxa2 22. Rxa2 Bxa2 23. b5 Na7 {the black pieces have deserter their King } 24. g5 hxg5 25. Nxg5 f6 {now it is too late to put up a defence} 26. Qd2 Rf8 27. Bd5+ Bxd5 28. Qxd5+ Kh8 29. Qf7\nWomen WCh 2015 - round 3 (2)\nSubmitted by Eugen on Tue, 03/24/2015 - 13:55\nAnna Muzychuk joined her sister Mariya into round 4 after a well played game. She won an exchange at move 29 and after Lela misplaced her knight at move 33, she proceeded to punish that methodically. We can replay, enjoy and learn from that last part of the game. Lesson: \"how to win a won game\"!\n[Event \"WWCC2015\"][Site \"Sochi\"][Date \"2015.03.24\"][Round \"19.3\"][White \"Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO)\"][Black \"Muzychuk, Anna (UKR)\"][Result \"0-1\"][SetUp \"1\"][FEN \"8/4k2N/4n3/5pp1/8/4B1P1/4rP1P/6K1 b - - 0 33\"][ECO \"E15\"]33... f4 34. Bb6 Rb2 35. Ba5 f3 36. h3 Kf7 37. h4 g4 38. Bc3 Rb1+ 39. Kh2 Rf1 40. Nf6 Rxf2+ 41. Kg1 Rg2+ 42. Kf1 Rxg3 43. h5 Ng5 44. Nd7 Ke6 45. Nf8+ Kf5 46. Ng6 Rh3\nRead more about Women WCh 2015 - round 3 (2)\nSubmitted by Eugen on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:41\nVeteran GM Pia Cramling took the exchange offering of black and proceeded to convert the material advantage into a winning advantage. We have the final combination to enjoy, my first re-playable puzzle try here on the website. Hope you like it.\n[Event \"WWCC2015\"][Site \"Sochi\"][Date \"2015.03.23\"][Round \"18.6\"][White \"Cramling, Pia (SWE)\"][Black \"Gunina, Valentina (RUS)\"][Result \"1-0\"][SetUp \"1\"][FEN \"5rk1/5p2/6p1/p1PpQ2p/3Pn1P1/3q4/1R3PK1/1R6 w - - 0 33\"][ECO \"D18\"]33.Rb8 f6 34.Qxd5+ Kg7 35.R1b7+ Kh6 36.Rxf8 f5 37.gxf5 Ng3 38.Rh7+ Kg5 39.fxg6+\nSubmitted by Eugen on Sat, 03/21/2015 - 19:40\nAlexandra Kosteniuk protected her 1-0 match score by playing a simple second game with white and drew it by perpetual check. She was the first one to move to the third round; congratulations Alexandra!\n[Event \"WWCC2015\"][Site \"Sochi\"][Date \"2015.03.21\"][Round \"11.5\"][White \"Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS)\"][Black \"Shen, Yang (CHN)\"][Result \"1/2-1/2\"][ECO \"C84\"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a3 O-O 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Be3 Nd4 11. Bxd4 exd4 12. Nd5 c5 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7 14. Re1 Nd7 15. h3 Be6 16. Ba2 Qf6 17. a4 Rfb8 18. axb5 axb5 19. Bxe6 fxe6 20. e5 dxe5 21. Qe2 Rxa1 22. Rxa1 Qf4 23. Ra7 Rd8 24. b3 h6 25. Qe1 b4 26. Qe2 Kh8 27. Rxd7 Rxd7 28. Nxe5 Qc1+ 29. Kh2 Ra7 30. Ng6+ Kh7 31. Qxe6 Qg5 32. Nf8+ Kh8 33. Ng6+"
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        "text": "Q: What are the development tools on the Mac? Are there any development tools like NetBeans or Eclipse on OS X that I can use to write an application?\n\nA: Xcode was good for your job. If you want use NetBeans and Eclipse on your Mac, you can download them, too, because they have OS X distributions.\n\n\n*\n\n*Eclipse\n\n*Netbeans\n\nA: If you are looking for Java development on the Mac, both NetBeans and Eclipse have a distribution for Mac OS X. Xcode also has support for Java, but it is not a Java-centric tool.\n\nA: There are built-in vim and emacs. Both of them can be used as IDE.\nBuilt-in vim and emacs don't have GUI (only console versions) but at least they are relatively new in latest OSX versions.\nIf you want GUI versions there are MacVim and a couple of GUI emacses for OSX.\n"
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        "text": "Fact EarthHour 2013\nSri Lankan youths hold up torches to mark Earth Hour in Colombo March 23, 2013. EarthHour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)\nPeople hold candles during an event attempting to establish a Guinness World of Record for “Blowing out the most number of candles simultaneously” during Earth Hour in Shanghai March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)\nStudents gather around candles during Earth Hour in Hanoi March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Kham/Reuters)\nSinger Tung Duong (C) performs with children during Earth Hour in front of the Opera House in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Kham/Reuters)\nA fruit seller works in candlelight to mark Earth Hour in a shopping district of Bangalore, India, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Earth Hour was marked worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a global call to turn off lights for 60 minutes in a bid to highlight the global climate change. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)\nPeople light candles to mark Earth Hour at the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)\nEmiratis light candles to mark Earth Hour near Burj Khalifa in Dubai, March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters)\nA combination photo shows the castle of Thun before (top) and during Earth Hour in the city of Thun near Bern March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30 pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Ruben Sprich/Reuters)\nA combination of pictures shows the medieval Charles Bridge in Prague before (top) and during Earth Hour March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Petr Josek/Reuters)\nPeople hold candles during Earth Hour after the lights were turned off in central Amman March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to confront climate change. Picture taken with long exposure. (Photo by Ali Jarekji/Reuters)\nA combination photo shows a view of St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square and the Kremlin before (top) and during Earth Hour in Moscow March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters)\nA combination picture shows the city hall in the evening of March 21, 2013 (top) and during Earth Hour in Vienna March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30 pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)\nA woman ignites candles during Earth Hour in the city centre of Frankfurt March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for action to confront climate change. (Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)\nA combination picture shows Hofburg Palace before (top) and during Earth Hour in Vienna March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off the lights for an hour from 8.30 pm local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to combat climate change. (Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)\nChildren hold candles during Earth Hour after the lights were turned off in central Amman March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to confront climate change. (Photo by Ali Jarekji/Reuters)\nA two photo combination showing the Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament in London, illuminated, left, and then in darkness as the lights were turned off to mark Earth Hour 2013, Saturday March 23, 2013. Earth Hour was marked worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a global call to turn off lights for 60 minutes in a bid to highlight the global climate change. (Photo by Lewis Whyld/AP Photo/PA)\nA combination photo shows the old opera and the opera tower during (top) Earth Hour, and after Earth Hour in Frankfurt March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for action to confront climate change. (Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)\nThe Singapore city-skyline is seen in darkness against the lit highway as lights in major buildings around the financial district are switched off for a whole hour on Saturday, March 23, 2013 in Singapore. More than 100 buildings, locations and organizations in Singapore switched off their lights as part of the global Earth Hour initiative by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) along with other national monuments around the world. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)\nThe Parthenon temple stands atop the Acropolis hill after turning off the lights to mark the annual Earth Hour in Athens, on Saturday March 23, 2013. In Greece, floodlights in several monuments and public buildings were switched off for one hour at 8:30 p.m. local time. Thousands of businesses and municipalities also dimmed their lights. (Photo by Kostas Tsironis/AP Photo)\nA combination picture shows the financial Central District of Hong Kong (top) before Earth Hour, and during Earth Hour March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)\nThe Taipei 101 Building is seen darkened during the Earth Hour in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature, earth hour is observed every year to create awareness about conservation of energy and climate change. Around the world, people and organisations will be turning their lights off from 8:30 to 9:30 pm local time. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo)\nMuslim women light candles during the “EarthHour” in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 23, 2013. Hundreds of people observed the global event that encourages people to turn off their lights for 60 minutes. (Photo by Dita Alangkara/Associated Press)\nA combination picture shows the central business district (CBD) of Sydney on March 21, 2013 (top) before Earth Hour, and during Earth Hour March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. (Photo by Daniel Munoz/Reuters)\nChildren hold candles while participating in a candlelight vigil to mark Earth Hour in Mumbai March 23, 2013. Earth Hour, when everyone around the world is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is meant as a show of support for tougher actions to confront climate change. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)\nOnlookers watch Taipei 101 building as it turns its lights off to observe international “Earth Hour” in Taiwan, on March 23, 2013. Around 100 people gathered outside the skyscraper Saturday, using energy saving LED lights to observe the global event that encourages people to turn off their lights for an hour. (Photo by Wally Santana/Associated Press)\nIn this composite image the Opera House is seen before on March 21 (top) and after the lights were powered by “GreenPower” and glowed dark green to recognize Earth Hour on March 23, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. Businesses and households around the world will turn their lights off for on hour at 20:30 local time today, to celebrate Earth Hour, raise awareness about climate change and to show support for the use of renewable energy. Earth hour began in Sydney in 2007 and is now celebrated in over 150 countries around the world. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams)\nIn this composite image the Sydney Harbour Bridge is seen before on March 21 (top) and after the lights were switched off to recognize Earth Hour on March 23, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. Businesses and households around the world will turn their lights off for one hour at 20:30 local time today, to celebrate Earth Hour, raise awareness about climate change and to show support for the use of renewable energy. Earth hour began in Sydney in 2007 and is now celebrated in over 150 countries around the world. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams)\nThis photo combo shows the landmark Seoul City Hall illuminated (top) and with lights turned off (bottom) during the 7th annual Earth Hour global warming campaign in Seoul on March 23, 2013. One minute brightly lit, the next plunged into darkness – iconic landmarks around the world will cut their lights on March 23 for the “Earth Hour” campaign against climate change. (Photo by Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP Photo)\nThis combo of pictures shows the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest with the lights on (top) and with the lights off (bottom) during the annual Earth Hour event in Beijing on March 23, 2013. Millions of people were expected to switch off their lights for Earth Hour on March 23 in a global effort to raise awareness about climate change that was even to be monitored from space. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)\nThe Singapore city skyline is seen before (top) and after the lights were switched off to recognize Earth Hour on March 23, 2013 in Singapore, Singapore. Businesses and households around the world switch their lights off for an hour at 20:30 local time on March 23, to celebrate Earth Hour and raise awareness about climate change and renewable energy. Earth hour began in Australia in 2007 and is now celebrated in over 150 countries around the world. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah)\nThis composite photograph shows a huge LED sky screen before and during the Earth Hour 2013 power switch off at the Central Business District on March 23, 2013 in Beijing, China. Earth Hour, launched in 2007 in Australia by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), a global conservation group, calls on people, organizations and cities to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour starting at 8:30 p.m. local time. (Photo by Feng Li)\nIn this combination photo the China National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, with lights on (top) and off, is seen during the Earth Hour in Beijing on March 23,2013. Iconic landmarks and skylines were plunged into darkness on Saturday as the “Earth Hour” switch-off of lights around the world got under way to raise awareness of climate change. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)\nThis combo shows the lighted National Monument at left and the dome of Istiqlal mosque at right in the Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta with lights in the top photograph taken on March 22, 2013 and the bottom photograph taken during “Earth Hour” event on March 23, 2013 with the National Monument lights switched off. Iconic landmarks and skylines were plunged into darkness on Saturday as the “Earth Hour” switch-off of lights around the world got under way to raise awareness of climate change. While more than 150 countries took part in last year's event, the movement has spread even further afield this year, with Palestine, Tunisia, Suriname and Rwanda among a host of newcomers pledging to take part. (Photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP Photo)\nThis two combo photograph shows the lighted Welcome Monument located in central Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta with lights on in the top photograph and bottom photograph taken during “Earth Hour” event on March 23, 2013 with the monument's lights switched off. Iconic landmarks and skylines were plunged into darkness on Saturday as the “Earth Hour” switch-off of lights around the world got under way to raise awareness of climate change. While more than 150 countries took part in last year's event, the movement has spread even further afield this year, with Palestine, Tunisia, Suriname and Rwanda among a host of newcomers pledging to take part. (Photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP Photo)\nCombination photo shows The Eiffel Tower submerging into darkness at 8:30 pm (local time) as part of the Earth Hour switch-off on March 23, 2013 in Paris. Organisers expect hundreds of millions of people across more than 150 countries to turn off their lights for 60 minutes on Saturday night – at 8:30 pm local time – in a symbolic show of support for the planet. While more than 150 countries joined in last year's event, the movement has spread even further afield this year, with Palestine, Tunisia, Suriname and Rwanda among a host of newcomers pledging to take part. (Photo by Bertrand Langlois/AFP Photo)\nIn this combo photo shows the 100-foot LAX Gateway pylons at Los Angeles International Airport are lit green (top) for an hour on March 23, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, before being turned off (bottom) and going dark for the following hour to commemorate Earth Hour 2013, with the annual global campaign engaging more than 150 nations to voluntarily participate in the no-lights show this year. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)\nIn this composite image, The Bank of China Tower, Cheung Kong Centre, HSBC building and Standard Charter Bank Building are seen before (top) and after the lights were switched off to recognize Earth Hour on on March 23, 2013 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Businesses and households around the world will turn their lights off for on hour at 20:30 local time today, to celebrate Earth Hour, raise awareness about climate change and to show support for the use of renewable energy. Earth hour began in Australia in 2007 and is now celebrated in over 150 countries around the world. (Photo by Jessica Hromas)\nIn this combo photo shows the Monumento a la Revolucion with color lights on (top) and lights were turned off (bottom) to mark “Earth Hour” in Republica Square in Mexico City on March 23, 2013. Millions of people were expected to switch off their lights for Earth Hour in a global effort to raise awareness about climate change. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella/AFP Photo)\nbooks religion | uss+navy | hot+girl/yybbs.cgi/yabb.pl | nice guy | spartan race | mh370 find | wind hair | madison ivy passion hd'a=0 | machine girl and x=x | mac video converter pro | lyon | lord of the rings pc games | live movie | lifeguarding ladies | life ita | small girl xxx | leap year | latvia 2016 | la 25 | kung fu panda 2 1080p | ku klux | krish 3 movie | koday laszlo | kittens | cage+the+elephant+201"
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        "text": "panasonicEmotion\nAudio-Prosthesis\nThe Panasonic Emotions Testing Line, by “nomadic” development designer JIŘ� ČERNICK�, is a conceptual SD audio-prosthesis that aims to grasp the issue of the emotional deficits in society.\nThe device is a substitute, personal container for the emotions of users who are not able, or do not want, to experience life through their own emotional perceptions. It looks like a Walkman-type device with headphones that does not play music inside, but rather outside, of the head. The device facilitates the user’s emotional communication with the world around him. It is not designed for his/her personal use only but is equipped with a tiny amplifier.\nSuite Soil Digital Media\nTwo New Commissioned Audio Works\nConcert, June 30, 2006, 8:00 p.m.: A live stream of the June 30th concert is available at this link under SPIKED.\nGuy van Belle (Bratislava): “slashtops”: The concert program “slashtops” consists of real time manipulations with sound transforming light to sound and sound to light in three parts to investigate the relationship between sound and image, audio art and the visual, a persistent tension in the arts for generations. The first part of the program is a trilogy of arrangements between synthetic and real sounds the source material and inspiration based on recordings made in Quebec based on the movement of the artbots that comprise ‘thoughts go by air’. A second source of audio content comes from Munich based on sounds from the city environment and a third from Bratislava, around Zlaty Piesky (an industrial – recreational – commercial area). The second component of the program is based on a translation of light into sound using the computer as an instrument. The third part of the program is a concert version of the installation TICS, which is a translation of light into sound and back to light, with a score based on the novel ‘istanbul’ by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (2006).\nTalent-Spotting in Virtual Worlds\n“…At Radio 1 we want to bring a new level of social interaction to our virtual broadcasts. We are hoping that the bands featured on-air will have their own custom-built avatars, playing in the virtual world. So if we have the Red Hot Chilli Peppers playing a gig, visitors to a Radio 1 virtual space will see avatars of Anthony Kiedis and Flea, mimicking the action in the real world.\nWe also believe it is crucial that the virtual audience can interact with the event. It is about replicating the “liveness” of an event, not just broadcasting it. Additionally, Radio 1 wants to find ways of allowing the audience in these worlds to actually affect the real event. I see no reason why they cannot be asking their musical heroes questions, alongside virtual Radio 1 DJs, either via Instant Messenger or VoIP. This deeper social interaction, that mirrors real world events, would do much to enhance the ripples that resonate around digital communities.” From Talent-spotting in virtual worlds by Daniel Heaf, BBC.com.\nSonic Interface by Akitsugu Maebayashi\nPast Remixed with Present\n“Our experience of reality is strongly dependent on the synchronicity of our senses. We must, for instance, hear or touch what we see while we see it, in order to be able to determine reality and in order to decide what to do or how to react. The decoupling in time of sight and sound – like when we first see the lightning and then hear the thunder – can create a disturbing irritation when it affects our immediate surroundings: imagine that you would only hear the cars passing you on the street after they have already past, or that you hear conversations which were held minutes ago in a different location from where you are.\nSonic Interface experiments with human perception by amplifying and manipulating the synchronicity of auditory environment. Equipped with a portable hearing device made of a computer and headphones, the user is invited to walk around the city’s public spaces such as squares, shopping malls, and underground stations. The random urban sounds that he hears are first transmitted to the headphones without modification, but then the computer programme begins to create an artificial sonic environment from the sounds that it picks up.\nINTERVIEW: LOREN CHASSE\nPHOTOGRAPHING ACOUSTIC SPACES\n“The American Loren Chasse is one of the most important international artists working in the areas of environment and sound. His ability to listen and to transform an object into �musical instrument� is the most identifying feature of his work.\nIf field recordings are more and more common in �experimental� music, then Loren Chasse does not only have a different way of using sound, but he manages to �photograph� with his microphone the acoustic spaces in which he works.\nChasse shifts the traditional frontier of art by blurring the differences between music and sound art, if it can even be assumed that they exist. Beyond his activities as a musician and his several collaborations, he is a teacher in the San Francisco School District where he organizes workshops on skilled and creative listening.” From INTERVIEW: LOREN CHASSE, PHOTOGRAPHING ACOUSTIC SPACES by Luca Bergero. This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released on March 2006, and has been edited for republication on newmediaFIX.\nSonic Graffiti\nGeo-tagged musical graffiti\nChia Ying Lee’s Sonic Graffiti invites urban artists to collaborate and create music together, while allowing the passersby to enjoy it as well. A system of devices enables graffiti artists to create and geo-tag music in the urban space with real spray cans:\n– The sound cap has to be snapped on the top of spray cans to spray out sounds and do simple sound manipulations with gestures. Users create music by overlaying/remixing various paint/sounds from the caps. Each cap can store up to 4 sounds in its memory card. They can be loaded from computers or portable devices like iPod, mobile phone, etc. Gestures to manipulate sound include fade in/out and scratch. Several artists spraying at the same time can create a sound composition.\nA Monument to South African Youth\nOn 16 June 2006, South Africa celebrates the 30th anniversary of Youth Day. The act of remembrance is shaped by a multitude of senses ranging from sight, sound, physical touch and smell. This year Gallery MOMO invites you to join us in commemorating Youth Day through the experience of sound. Nathaniel Stern, Jo�o Orecchia, Shane de Lange, Johan Thom and Dinkies Sithole will work together to create a Memento – a sound sculpture to commemorate Youth Day. At 16:00, one hour performance, drinks served. 52 7th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg, South Africa.\nThe artists will draw from their own, particular experience of life in contemporary South Africa to formulate a personal, aural response to the celebration of Youth Day. For example, both Shane de Lange and Nathaniel Stern are best known as artists working with digital media to create art: de Lange creates experimental sound by appropriating and sampling sounds from various sources including music, the body and even the sounds of a paper bag; Stern is known as a new media artist who uses interactive digital technology, often drawing the viewer and the artwork together in a new interactive, symbiotic whole.\nZipper Orchestra\nZiptease\nZipper Orchestra is an interactive video installation that combines the Conductor Musical Score as a physical controller and the Zipper Actions Collage Video as musical display.\nThe screen is filled with 9 video clips from different people zipping and unzipping their clothes. By moving 9 physical sub zippers and 1 main zipper attached in a canvas, users can control the individual zipper motion in the screen as a conductor. The main long zipper will control 9 motions all together. As the audience zips and unzips zippers on the musical score different pitch of string instrument come out from the speaker.\nA work by Joo Youn Paek (who also made the polite umbrella!), in collaboration with Gabe Barcia-Colombo (sound design) and Leif Mangelsen (software tech). [blogged by Regine on we-make-money-not-art]\nInvisible Maze\nYou Make It\nJeppe Hein’s Invisible Maze installation is just what its title says: invisible. The promised maze is there but it only materialises as we move around in it. Visitors are equipped with digital headphones operated by infrared rays that cause them to vibrate every time they bump into one of the maze’s virtual walls. Thus, the exhibition is perceived as a both minimalist and a spectacular playground. The maze structure spans six different variants, all of them referring to labyrinths from our common cultural history. From the medieval labyrinth in Chartres to Stanley Kubrick’s fateful dead end from the film The Shining to Pac-Man. The maze changes from day to day, inviting visitors to make repeat visits.\nStatens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen will present Jeppe Hein: Invisible Maze 10 June – 27 August 2006. The exhibition represents a further development of the exhibition Invisible Labyrinth which attracted 50,000 visitors during its two-month run at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris last year. Via Art Daily. Thanks Joshua. Other work by Jeppe Hein: Distance."
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        "text": "21 март е 80-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (81-ви през високосна). Остават 285 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1191 г. – Целестин III става римски папа.\n 1201 г. – Българо-византийски войни: Започва Обсадата на Варна.\n 1590 г. – Персийско-османска война (1578-1590): Сключен е мирен договор, с който Персия признава османските завоевания.\n 1684 г. – Италианският астроном Джовани Доменико Касини открива Диона и Тетида – естествени спътници на Сатурн.\n 1772 г. – Създаден е окръг Нортъмбърланд в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1798 г. – Създаден е окръг Уейн в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1804 г. – Обнародван е Наполеоновият кодекс.\n 1844 г. – Сключен е едикт за веротърпимост в Светите земи.\n 1857 г. – При земетресение в Токио, Япония загиват над 100 000 души.\n 1871 г. – Ото фон Бисмарк e избран за Канцлер на Германия.\n 1871 г. – В имението си край Крайова е убит видният възрожденец доктор Петър Берон.\n 1871 г. – Журналистът Хенри Мортън Стенли започва своето странстване, в опит да открие мисионера и изследовател Дейвид Ливингстън.\n 1895 г. – Създаден е окръг Навахо в щата Аризона, САЩ.\n 1908 г. – Френският пилот Анри Фарман пилотира първия самолет с пасажери.\n 1909 г. – В Румъния е приет закон, задължаващ изселващите се от Северна Добруджа българи да продават земите си по занижени цени на държавата.\n 1919 г. – Създадена е Унгарската съветска република.\n 1922 г. – Приет е Закон за общ български правопис.\n 1930 г. – Извършен е първият полет на тежкия бомбардировач ТБ-3, използван от ВВС на СССР през 1930-те години и от времето на Втората световна война.\n 1933 г. – Ден на Потсдам.\n 1942 г. – Извършен е първият полет на съветски едноместен едномоторен изтребител Ла-5, използван по време на Втората световна война.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: България и Съветският съюз приключват успешно отбраната на северния бряг на река Драва след Дравската операция.\n 1946 г. – Първото правителство на Отечествения фронт подава оставка.\n 1948 г. – Основана е френската държавна компания RATP.\n 1953 г. – Белвю в щата Вашингтон, САЩ получава статут на град.\n 1963 г. – Затворът Алкатрас, разположен на остров в Санфранциския залив, е закрит.\n 1964 г. – Димитър Димов става председател на Съюза на българските писатели.\n 1966 г. – Поставя се началото на традиционния празник на град Кюстендил, известен като „Кюстендилска пролет“.\n 1969 г. – САЩ извършват ядрен опит на полигона в Невада.\n 1969 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм Мъже в командировка.\n 1980 г. – Американският президент Джими Картър обявява бойкот на Летни олимпийски игри 1980 в Москва в знак на протест срещу нахлуването на СССР в Афганистан.\n 1986 г. – Георги Атанасов става министър-председател на България на мястото на Гриша Филипов.\n 1988 г. – Самолет Боинг 747 на американската компания „Пан Ам“, извършващ полет 103 по линията Лондон – Ню Йорк, експлодира във въздуха над Локърби – Шотландия. Загиват 243 пасажера, 16 души екипаж и 11 жители на Локърби.\n 1990 г. – Намибия получава независимост след 75 години управление от ЮАР.\n 1991 г. – Преустановено е награждаването с орден Георги Димитров.\n 1994 г. – Рамковата конвенция на ООН за изменението на климата влиза в сила.\n 1997 г. – Състои се премиерата на американски биографичен филм Селена.\n 1999 г. – След 478-часово пътешествие Бертран Пикар и Брайън Джоунс стават първите хора, обиколили Земята с балон.\n 2001 г. – Военният министър Бойко Ноев подписва споразумение с генералния секретар на НАТО лорд Джордж Робъртсън за преминаване на войски през българска територия и за създаване на военни бази.\n 2003 г. – Започват Битката за Ум Касър и Битката за Басра – първите битки от войната в Ирак.\n 2006 г. – Създадена е социалната мрежа Twitter.\n\nРодени \n\n 1227 г. – Карл I Анжуйски, пръв владетел на Неаполитанско кралство († 1285 г.)\n 1685 г. – Йохан Себастиан Бах, германски композитор († 1750 г.)\n 1763 г. – Жан Паул, немски писател († 1825 г.)\n 1768 г. – Жан Батист Жозеф Фурие, френски математик († 1830 г.)\n 1806 г. – Бенито Хуарес, президент на Мексико († 1872 г.)\n 1825 г. – Александър Можайски, руски учен († 1890 г.)\n 1839 г. – Модест Мусоргски, руски композитор († 1881 г.)\n 1854 г. – Лео Таксил, френски писател († 1907 г.)\n 1867 г. – Иван Стойчев, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1872 г. – Димитър Думбалаков, български революционер († 1915 г.)\n 1872 г. – Христо Саракинов, български революционер († 1908 г.)\n 1875 г. – Димитър Ганчев, български революционер († 1912 г.)\n 1889 г. – Бърнард Фрайбърг, британски офицер († 1963 г.)\n 1889 г. – Иван Метев, български инженер († 1913 г.)\n 1896 г. – Аспарух Темелков, български актьор († 1964 г.)\n 1898 г. – Йордан Стратиев, български поет и дипломат († 1974 г.)\n 1909 г. – Сидония Атанасова, българска художничка († 1994 г.)\n 1913 г. – Джордж Абакасис, британски автомобилен състезател († 1991 г.)\n 1921 г. – Борис Априлов, български писател († 1995 г.)\n 1923 г. – Михаил Марков, български политик († 1951 г.)\n 1925 г. – Илда Гадеа, първата жена на Че Гевара († 1974 г.)\n 1925 г. – Питър Брук, английски режисьор\n 1927 г. – Ханс-Дитрих Геншер, германски политик († 2016 г.)\n 1928 г. – Петер Хакс, немски драматург († 2003 г.)\n 1931 г. – Блаже Ристовски, историк от Република Македония († 2018 г.)\n 1935 г. – Брайън Клъф, английски футболист († 2004 г.)\n 1935 г. – Митрополит Филарет, руски духовник († 2021 г.)\n 1940 г. – Соломон Бърк, американски соул певец († 2010 г.)\n 1941 г. – Дирк Фримаут, белгийски космонавт\n 1941 г. – Стойка Иванова, северняшка народна певица\n 1941 г. – Пласидо Доминго, испански певец\n 1942 г. – Али Абдула Салех, йеменски политик († 2017 г.)\n 1944 г. – Хилари Минстър, британски актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1946 г. – Боян Обретенов, български публицист\n 1949 г. – Славой Жижек, словенски писател\n 1950 г. – Роджър Ходжсън, британски музикант\n 1951 г. – Искра Радева, българска актриса\n 1956 г. – Нели Огнянова, български юрист\n 1958 г. – Гари Олдман, британски актьор\n 1960 г. – Айртон Сена, бразилски пилот от Ф1 († 1994 г.)\n 1960 г. – Зденка Тодорова, български журналист\n 1961 г. – Лотар Матеус, немски футболист\n 1962 г. – Матю Бродерик, американски актьор\n 1963 г. – Роналд Куман, холандски футболист\n 1967 г. – Харалан Александров, български антрополог\n 1968 г. – Благовест Стоянов, български състезател\n 1969 г. – Али Даи, ирански футболист\n 1975 г. – Марк Уилямс, уелски играч на снукър\n 1978 г. – Рани Мукерджи, индийска актриса\n 1979 г. – Ангел Джамбазки, български политик\n 1980 г. – Марит Бьорген, норвежка ски бегачка\n 1980 г. – Роналдиньо, бразилски футболист\n 1982 г. – Емилия, българска певица\n 1984 г. – Василий Гончаров, руски музикант\n 1990 г. – Иван Ранчев, български сноубордист\n 1997 г. – Мартина Стоесел, аржентинска актриса, танцьорка, певица и модел\n 1998 г. – Петър Байков, български актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 547 г. – Бенедикт Нурсийски, италиански духовник (* 480 г.)\n 1762 г. – Никола Луи дьо Лакай, френски астроном (* 1713 г.)\n 1857 г. – Уилям Скорсби, шотландски изследовател (* 1789 г.)\n 1871 г. – Петър Берон, български просветител (* 1799 г.)\n 1896 г. – Ангел Бамбалов, български революционер (* 1855 г.)\n 1902 г. – Михаил Апостолов, български революционер (* 1871 г.)\n 1905 г. – Гого Киров, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1905 г. – Стойко Христов, български революционер (* ?)\n 1906 г. – Иванчо Карасулията, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1907 г. – Мише Развигоров, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1910 г. – Надар, френски фотограф (* 1820 г.)\n 1912 г. – Омил Глишич, сръбски революционер (* 1892 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ростислав Блъсков, български политик (* 1884 г.)\n 1926 г. – Стат Антонов, български лекар (* 1844 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мицко Солаков, български революционер (* 1890 г.)\n 1931 г. – Зигмунт Пулавски, полски пилот (* 1901 г.)\n 1933 г. – Иржи Поливка, чешки лингвист (* 1858 г.)\n 1933 г. – Константин Груев, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1934 г. – Георги Пейков, български просветен деец (* 1848 г.)\n 1938 г. – Джон Бейтс Кларк, американски икономист (* 1847 г.)\n 1947 г. – Джоузеф Баркрофт, английски физиолог (* 1872 г.)\n 1953 г. – Тони Волф, швейцарски психолог (* 1888 г.)\n 1954 г. – Никола Бакърджиев, български военен деец (* 1881 г.)\n 1964 г. – Никола Диклич, хърватски музикант (* 1890 г.)\n 1970 г. – Марлен Хаусхофер, австрийска писателка (* 1920 г.)\n 1973 г. – Петър Нешев, български офицер (* 1901 г.)\n 1977 г. – Алекси Квартирников, български инженер (* 1893 г.)\n 1985 г. – Майкъл Редгрейв, английски актьор (* 1908 г.)\n 1989 г. – Чезаре Мусати, италиански математик (* 1897 г.)\n 2014 г. – Кирил Пандов, български футболист (* 1928 г.)\n 2019 г. – Стефка Кушлева, българска народна певица (* 1938 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден срещу расовата дискриминация (по повод на полицейската стрелба срещу протестиращи жени в Южна Африка, обявен за международен ден от ООН през 1966 г.)\n Международен ден на кукления театър\n Международен ден на горите (международен), определен с резолюция на ООН, отбелязва се от 2013 г.\n Начало на годината в бахайския календар\n Ден на хората, болни от синдром на Даун\n Световен ден на добрия сън\n Световен ден на гората (отбелязва се от 1972 г.)\n ЮНЕСКО – Световен ден на поезията\n Арабски свят – Ден на майката\n Бразилия – Празник на град Америку Бразилиенси\n България, Кюстендил – Ден на пролетта в Кюстендил\n Германия – Ден на Потсдам\n Грузия – Ден на граничната охрана\n Италия – Ден на дървото\n Италия – Празник на град Норча\n Ирак – Ден на пролетта\n Лесото – Ден на засадените гори\n Малайзия – Ден на султана на Теренгану\n Намибия – Ден на независимостта (от ЮАР, 1990 г., национален празник)\n САЩ – Ден на земеделието\n Тунис – Ден на младежа\n Южна Африка – Ден на правата на човека\n\n \n321"
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        "text": "Q: Can I get windows 7 like window resizing on Mac OS X? Windows 7 has a nice new feature for moving around windows. \nThe one that I am particularly interested in is: \nWindows Key + Left/Right : Move the window to the left or right of the screen, or over to a second monitor.\nBut, Windows Key + Up: Maximize the current window and Windows Key + Down: Restore or minimize the current window. are also quite useful.\nIs there anyway that I can get this functionality in OS? Preferably replacing the windows key with Command Key.\n\nA: If you don't mind paying, there's SizeUp from Irradiated Software, worth paying for IMO. Gives you lots of customizability. \nIf you just want the mouse windows resizing behaviour (dragging to the edges) from windows 7, there's Cinch from the same company.\n\nA: There's a nice little app called Divvy, that gives you a lot of control on windows resizing, including keyboard shortcuts similar to ones Win7 has. It's $14, but worth it in my opinion.\n\nA: Shift It\nIf you read this Article I think you get what you want.\n\n\nA: Two excellent, free tools:\n\n\n*\n\n*Spectacle is ultra-simple and lets you setup shortcut keys to all the typical window placement actions (fill left half of screen, fill top half, full screen, center, etc).\n\n*BetterTouchTool is very full featured and can do these keyboard shortcuts as well, but also lets you click and drag windows to \"snap\" to different regions of the screen. (And it has tons of other features, since it's original purpose was custom touchpad gestures).\n\nA: You have a few good alternatives (there are more):\nSizeUp\nOptimal Layout\nSwitche\n\nA: I used open source tool Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate) for some years but moved recently all my configuration to non free \"Keyboard Maestro\". It's extremely flexible and settings can be edited using a tool instead of editing configuration files. It supports multiple screens and different setups better than anything else if've seen so far. Here's an example of pushing current window to the left half of main screen. \n\n\nA: I was looking for the same thing since window management on Mac is not ideal. I use MondoMouse (15$) for window sizing and control which I even like better than the Windows 7 model.\n"
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        "text": ">> Book Reviews\n> add tags\nAbout this document (click for more)\nMirrored with permission from bahai-studies.ca/shoghi-effendi-pilgrims-eye-vol-1/.\nShoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim's Eye by Earl Redman:\nby Catherine Nash\npublished in Journal of Bahá'í Studies\nOttawa: Association for Baha'i Studies North America, 2017\nReview of: Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye – Vol. 1: Building the Administrative Order, 1922–1952\nWritten by: Earl Redman\nPublisher: Oxford, UK: George Ronald (2015)\nReview by: Catherine Nash\nReview published in: Journal of Bahá'í Studies\nThere has always been a tension between the enthusiasm versus the veracity of notes written by Haifa-bound pilgrims who shared their memories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá or Shoghi Effendi. As Shoghi Effendi writes in The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh:\nIt was chiefly in view of the misleading nature of the reports of the informal conversations of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with visiting pilgrims, that I have insistently urged the believers of the West to regard such statements as merely personal impressions of the sayings of their Master, and to quote and consider as authentic only such translations as are based upon the authenticated text of His recorded utterances in the original tongue. (5)\nClearly, no matter who is doing the remembering, notes, diaries, and letters written by individual Bahá’ís about their understanding of what ‘Abdu’l-Bahá or Shoghi Effendi might have said are not in any way authoritative. For example, Mary Maxwell compiled notes based on conversations she had with Shoghi Effendi prior to their marriage in 1937. These were shared with believers with the permission of the National Spiritual Assembly, but although they are interesting and useful, even these notes are not authoritative.[1]\nHowever, there is no denying that as we move deeper into the Formative Age of the Bahá’í Dispensation, and as a quotation’s authenticity may be confirmed with a few clicks, the enthusiasm of pilgrims’ notes is a wonderful way to glimpse the zeitgeist of different times in Bahá’í history. While not revealing authoritative statements about Bahá’í teachings or doctrine, they provide a window into the attitudes, preoccupations, demographics, and cultural patterns of the Bahá’í community at specific points in time, as shown particularly through intimate responses and reactions to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, and other members of the Holy Family.\nIn the first volume of Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye, Earl Redman has curated pilgrims’ notes written between 1922 and 1952, providing readers with a captivating collection of impressions from a time of great transition in the Bahá’í Faith from its Heroic Age to its Formative Age. As he comments in the preface, the difference between pilgrims’ notes written during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s lifetime and those written during the lifetime of Shoghi Effendi shows the full impact of the change of focus of a Bahá’í community shifting from the adoration of a spiritual “father figure” toward the building of a world administrative order alongside their “true brother” (x).\nRedman is very careful to clarify that this collection of pilgrims’ notes, limited to those written in or translated into English, is not authoritative. It is, however, enlightening in numerous ways.\nBy reproducing them as quotations, Redman conveys the emotional reality of each individual’s interactions with the Guardian. The enthusiastic punctuation, “grammatical stumbles,” and creative spellings add to our understanding of the individuality of every writer and offer insight into the effect Shoghi Effendi had on those who met him (xv).\nRedman’s commentaries also help draw out the perceptions that formed around the Guardian. His writing is engaging, informal, and immediate. His style is inclusive and lets the reader revel in the diversity represented by these early, mostly Western, believers whose personalities and character shine through their words. Within the first twenty pages of Redman’s book, one encounters the wildly different descriptive styles of wonderful figures in Bahá’í history ranging from John Bosch, Catharine Nourse (then seventeen years old), Saichiro Fujita, and Lady Blomfield.\nWhile Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye is arranged chronologically, an inviting aspect of the book is that it is possible to open it to any page and become immersed in the world of the Guardian.\nRedman’s book is full of gems—moments and details that themselves could become books, research topics, or the starting points for blog posts. There must be photographers who would love the detailed description of the types of cameras Effie Baker took with her when Shoghi Effendi sent her on a mission to photograph historical Bábí sites in Iran. The description of her “No. 1A Kodak with a wide angle lens perfect for landscapes” and her second camera that “used half-sized glass plates as film and were able to focus very close to an object” might mystify those born in the digital era, but the details of Shoghi Effendi’s prescient guidance is fascinating (180).\nIf this book is read in a linear manner, sometimes the lists of dates and names become lengthy and the narrative flow is stilted. Most of the chapters are only titled with the year or few years they cover. Yet each name mentioned is often a person worthy of his or her own biography, and Redman helps the reader imagine those individuals, with their vastly differing personalities and opinions, all together at the same time, all with the purpose of making a pilgrimage to Haifa and meeting with the Guardian.\nTo give one example, the chapter titled “1925” is full of information that places disparate events, many of which Bahá’ís might be knowledgeable about, in a time and place together. The chapter begins with Shoghi Effendi’s advice to Jean Stannard that she move to Geneva (where she established the International Bahá’í Bureau). Shortly thereafter, Martha Root joined her, and they hosted a World Esperanto Congress, at which Lidia Zamenhof first learned of the Bahá’í Faith. This brief mention of Miss Zamenhof, who later died in a Nazi concentration camp, tempts the reader to reference not only her biography, but also the more recent biography of Hermann Grossmann that vividly recalls the German Bahá’í community’s struggle to save lives as well as books and archives during the Holocaust.\nThis chapter continues with notes on visits by Baker, Root, Dhikr’u’llah Khadem, and others. The reader is also reminded that during this year, Shoghi Effendi would have been waiting for Egypt’s reaction to the Muslim Ecclesiastical Court’s decision that the Bahá’í religion was a new religion independent of Islam. Redman explains that while Shoghi Effendi was waiting on this news, the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada was officially formed. He acknowledges that this accomplishment took much guidance from the Guardian and the results “weren’t quite as Shoghi Effendi might have preferred” (108).\nThe same chapter concludes with the almost simultaneous passing of Dr. John Esslemont and the arrival of Hasan Balyuzi in Haifa as a young seventeen-year-old. Redman’s inclusion of all this information in one single chapter emphasizes the intensity of those days and the complexities faced by Shoghi Effendi.\nThe volume ends in 1952, just as Shoghi Effendi announces the beginning of the Ten Year Crusade. Thankfully, Redman has continued diligently with his work and his next book is now available: Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye: The Ten Year Crusade, 1953–1963.\nNakhjavani, Violette. The Maxwells of Montreal: Middle Years 1923–1939, Late Years 1937–1952. Vol. 2, George Ronald, 2012.\nRedman, Earl. Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye: Building the Administrative Order, 1922–1952. Vol. 1, George Ronald, 2015.\nShoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh. 2nd ed., Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1969.\n[1] A detailed discussion of both positive and negative community reactions to these notes, as well as correspondence between Maxwell family members, can be found in pages 315–25 of Violette Nakhjavani’s The Maxwells of Montreal: Middle Years 1923–1937, Late Years 1937–1952. This discussion elucidates issues surrounding the use of pilgrims’ notes.\nCatherine Nash completed her law degree at the University of Victoria and focuses on advocacy work for vulnerable children and youth.\nBack to: Book Reviews"
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        "text": "You then can adjust the drawbar to straighten the implement, if necessary.\nI installed a folding padeye on the underside of the anchor locker hatch and hung the shackles on this padeye. I then have to get up on deck and resecure the chain hook to the chain.\nI don't think the Aqua Signal specifications reflect any formal international requirements. Working with farm equipment could be dangerous.\nThese wildland fire engines are traditionally smaller than standard fire apparatus and are primarily used for vegetation fires or wildland fires.\nMy garden club friend who owned it said he used it initially to break new ground, and did encounter a lot of rocks.\nIn I finally replaced the mizzen standing rigging. Attach one side of the adjustable drawbar to the top attachment point of the implement using a hitch rod.\nUse a locking hitch pin to secure the drawbar. Place the tractor in park.\nThe drawbar may need to be lengthened or shortened to fit between the implement and the tractor. The tractor needs to be exactly in-lined with the mounting point of the implement, otherwise attaching the hitch will require you to move the implement from side to side.\nAlthough that is nearly the same number of steps as before, they can be accomplished much more quickly with fewer trips between the cockpit 3 point hook up tiller the fore deck.\nView Details navigateright Watch Video navigateright."
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        "text": "NLRB and DOL: Fully Staffed and Ready to Implement Aggressive Agendas\nWednesday, August 21, 2013 4:34 PM - Kinsey Cooper - ABC News, Politics & Policy, Regulations, GA - NLRB -\nAs of July 30, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is fully staffed and the new members are likely to pursue issues the NLRB did not complete in past years, many of which are designed to facilitate or expedite the union organizing process.\nAmong the regulations ABC has been monitoring is the “ambush” elections rule, which would reduce the amount of time between when a union files a representation petition and an election takes place from the current average of 40 days to as few as 10 days.\nThe rule, which was an expedited portion of a larger plan first proposed in 2011, was stayed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Feb. 19 at the request of the ABC-led Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) until a decision is issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on the validity of three NLRB members’ recess appointments. If those appointments are declared in invalid, then the board did not have a quorum when it issued the rule and it would be invalidated as well. Regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge, the NLRB, now with a full quorum, could re-propose the rule or simply hold another vote on the current rule – or the original proposal, which sped up the election process even more and contained several other alarming provisions. Either way, it is likely that the new board will forge ahead with efforts to enact a rule to speed up union organizing elections.\nThe Supreme Court case currently holding up the ambush elections rule is related to the Noel Canning case, in which three lower courts found the president violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill NLRB vacancies. If the Supreme Court upholds the lower court decisions, it will invalidate more than 1,000 NLRB actions taken during the terms of the appointees. This includes actions on class action waivers, confidentiality policies, union access rights and bargaining issues, among others.\nIt also includes an Aug. 30, 2011, ruling by the NLRB in Specialty Healthcare in which the board decided that a union could seek to organize a group of nursing assistants, despite requests by the employer to include other employees in the unit. The decision effectively created a new standard for a bargaining unit—a “micro-unit”—despite the fact that the current 20-year-old standard had been without controversy and that it places a heavy burden of proof on the employer to show that the excluded employees should be included. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the NLRB decision Aug. 15.\nBecause so many of these issues are still in appeals courts with no way to predict their outcomes, employers are left with hard choices when making basic labor-related decisions. In addition, the NLRB is not likely to wait for court approvals before expanding their reach.\nOne rule that is not impacted by the Noel Canning case is the NLRB “Notification of Employee Rights” rule, which would have required employers to display a poster in their workplaces that contained a biased and incomplete list of employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). That rule was struck down in two lower courts. The NLRB petitioned both courts for a re-hearing and has already been denied by one of them. If the other court denies a re-hearing, the NRLB will have to petition the Supreme Court if it wants the rule implemented.*\nIn addition to the legal issues surrounding the president’s recess appointments to the NLRB, a federal judge Aug. 20 declared the appointment of NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon invalid. The ruling pointed to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, which requires “acting” officials to serve in their roles only for a specified amount of time and only if he or she had previously served as the personal assistant to the departing officer within the past year. Solomon never served as a first assistant, leading the judge to declare his appointment invalid.\nFinally, not all rules of concern to the merit shop construction industry are coming from the NLRB. The Department of Labor (DOL) has a new Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, who is expected to release a flood of regulations that have been held up over the past year, including the persuader rule and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ affirmative action rules for contractors covering veterans and persons with disability.\nABC and CDW have been instrumental in many of the court proceedings and efforts to block rules that could negatively impact the merit shop construction industry and will continue to monitor NLRB and DOL actions going forward.\nABC General Counsel Maury Baskin will be hosting a webinar on this topic exclusively for ABC members on Oct. 17. Register now on the Academy for Construction Ethics Compliance and Best Practices.\n*COMPLIANCE NOTE: This ruling does not change the compliance requirements for federal contractors under Executive Order 13496 (or its subsequent 2010 implementing regulations) to post a similar notice from the DOL.\n« Summer 2013 Regulatory Alert\nUSACE Issues PLA Survey for Project in Kentucky »"
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        "text": "Field Studies Southwest\nin\tAgnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment & Social Justice / Art & Science / Border / Environmental Ethic / Field Work\t August 4, 2017 August 6, 2017 0\tcomments\nGUEST POST BY ABBY DOCKTER\nThe Thirty-Thousand-Foot View\nWhen I interviewed Richard Collins, retired Southern Arizona rancher, he asked the first question: “What have you read?”\nSpecifically, he wanted to know if I was a Sand County Almanac fan or a Monkey Wrench Gang member, and where I fell on the Aldo-Leopold-to-Edward-Abbey scale of ideas about wilderness preservation. “I lean much more towards Leopold and people like Wendell Berry,” he said. “Abbey just wanted it all to himself.” Collins, like the writers he admires, believes there is a way for humans to eat and drink and take up space without wrecking too much. He operated a ranching business for three decades in the Canelo Valley, working first for the Sibold family, then buying some acreage along with grazing permits for surrounding state and federal lands. His background was in epidemiology, which, he said, is the ecology of tiny, disease-causing organisms, so he had a handle on ecological principles. Disease is perhaps the prime example of how humans are part of a broader ecology.\nThen an endangered species of fish, the Gila Topminnow, appeared in Collins’ grazing lot. The Fish and Wildlife Service wanted all grazing in the Red Rock Canyon watershed to stop, which would have made Collins’ business a no-go. In many ways, it was a classic conflict between a federal agency and private ranches. But this experience with federal regulation prompted Collins to wonder if there was a way to run his business that also addressed ecological concerns. He and his neighbors formed the Canelo Hills Coalition to see if they could insure the health of the watershed just by adjusting their grazing practices. They brought in George Ruyle, UA’s sustainable rangeland management expert, who set up vegetation surveys. They monitored conditions and put up new fencing and water sources to control where cattle could go in each season. And they were considered successful, says Collins, “by the people who evaluate these things. The federal agencies and the university and my peers in the ranching industry.” Not to say the fish.\nCollins reminded me of some of my own family. Retired, but habitually dressed for outdoor work. A busy brain and sturdy opinions. Even his sense of humor and turn of phrase, and the way he pronounced a long period without water “drouth.” But what I liked most about Collins, and so many other people from the Patagonia area that I met during Southwest Field Studies in Writing, was their blend of practicality and idealism. Agriculture is an undertaking with a pretty clear rock bottom. But people around Patagonia think there must be a better way of doing things, and are willing to take a chance to find out.\nOne evening I wound my way along the Santa Cruz River to talk to Dean Fish, manager at the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation. He situated me immediately: “We’re located about six miles north of the US-Mexico Border, northeast of Nogales, Arizona. The Santa Cruz River bisects the ranch, and so we have what we call uplands on both sides and semi-riparian river valley in the middle. The main ranch is approximately 25 hundred acres of private grazing rangeland and about 65 acres of that is irrigated to provide forage for livestock and wildlife.” He spoke loudly over the hollering goats, and ignored the light rain falling as we sat in front of an adobe wall with peeling whitewash.\nFish is a good communicator, knowledgeable, generous, and extraordinarily nerdy about cattle. Exactly the kind of person you might want at the helm of a foundation that provides not only beef, but also education, a model for management, and even an animal therapy program to the surrounding community. The Santa Fe Ranch Foundation employs people through the Santa Cruz Training Program, which connects developmentally disabled people to opportunities in the county. This ranch is a private business with its own bottom line, but it is operated by people who know how their business fits into something larger. When I asked Fish what principles guide his decisions around here, he talked about “the 30,000-foot view.” From 30,000 feet, this ranch is part of a landscape, these cattle are not the only ones who need the river water, and people who live nearby will always be part of the picture.\nI asked Collins and Fish a few of the same questions, and some they answered alike. When asked how they know what to do day-to-day as managers, they both answered, essentially: Go look. Get to know how water moves, how grass responds, how the animals look, and how weather impacts everything. Both Collins and Fish maintained long-term vegetation monitoring programs to make sure they had accurate information for their decision-making. Collins believes “fiction writers and bad movies and songs and all that kind of stuff” that romanticize agricultural life have done real harm to people’s understanding of where their food comes from. But I still find something romantic about this eminently practical, deeply observant experience of a place.\nI asked both men what it means for land to be healthy. I am interested in this question both practically and idealistically—the principles that guide decisions, and the practices that create them. I am interested in the 30,000-foot view and the view at the end of a microscope.\nFish said his overarching priority is always to leave the land better than he found it. But he also offered specifics, his picture of ideal rangeland: “I think that healthy land is land that has seen minimal erosion, that has good ground cover and a diversity of plant species on it. And that supports multiple uses: wildlife habitat, livestock grazing, recreation, hunting or camping.”\nCollins took longer to answer. He rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. “You’re talking about health, and it’s a hard term to get my hands around because it’s so broad and ambiguous.”\n“Intentionally so,” I said.\nHe nodded. “But it does convey the sense that like human health, you have to have all your systems working. At my age they’re beginning to break down a little bit, so I understand. Things fall apart. It has that same sense. But how you evaluate it and describe it is difficult.\n“I guess in a nutshell, if you want to summarize my view of land health: It’s got to work for the rancher, got to be able to make a profit. It’s got to work for the health and integrity of the watershed, and that means the plants, the water cycle, and the other animals that are using it, including obviously endangered species. And you’ve got to work very hard to do it. It’s not an easy thing to do.”\n“Multiple uses” has a dubious history in the U.S., and there is no hard-and-fast line between use and exploitation. But listening to Collins and Fish, I was imagining an ag industry with these priorities. Imagine for a moment that the economy exists to serve quality of life, and not the other way around."
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        "text": "Bert's Blog\nThe Web Presence Scale\nI think a lot about how organizations exist on the internet. I’m not thinking so much about web companies, but rather the organizations that exist regardless of the internet or computers. These groups and businesses almost always exist in some form on the internet, and are often concerned with having either “more” presence or a “better” presence on the internet. I think we have an understanding of the quality of a presence, but I’ve been thinking that I don’t really have a good way of expressing quantity of web presence. I think, as a starting point, the quantity scale can be divided into certain layers.\nLevel 0: Non-Existant\nThe group may be real, but the internet is unaware. This can be fairly hard to achieve for organizations tied to physical locations, but for those that are more transient, is more easily possible.\nLevel 1: Existant\nThe group has been noticed by Google, foursquare, Yelp, etc. It doesn’t really matter how the information got out there, but now it’s out and in use. Users are able to find out information about the organization, though the org doesn’t necessarily control it.\nLevel 2: Intentional\nThe group has created their own space on the internet. This can take many forms, like a web page, a facebook page, or anything else that lets them collect information and organize it. It also provides them something to point other people and services to. The key distinction here is that they are now in control of their own data.\nLevel 3: Integrated\nThis is probably the vaguest stage, but that’s because it’s different for every organization. At this point, some level of core operation has moved to the web. Whether it’s sales, customer support / interaction, marketing, or something else.\nObviously, this doesn’t apply to internet based organizations, or people, who generally exist in different ways. It’s interesting to note that individuals tend to move through the levels in the order of something like 0, 3, 2, 1. Starting off with interactive accounts, then creating some place to organize their digital existance before it gets picked up by other services.\nThis also, isn’t a checklist or plan for anyone. One level isn’t necessarily better than another. Many organizations exist well at Level 1, and shouldn’t move to Level 2, as doing that poorly can be quite damaging. Also, my local pizza place doesn’t need a website.\nI think it means something to transition between these levels. Forcing yourself into Level 1 from non-existance is a big step, as is declaring your own space on the internet, or integrating your business with it. I think it’s important at each step to figure out what this means for the organization. What statement are they making by progressing?\nI also wonder what we can do as an industry to not require organizations to have to push to higher levels. If every organization could get by as Level 1, without having to build a custom website, without having to build custom integration, wouldn’t that be better? Does going to a higher level mean that there’s some service that they are missing at the lower ones? If we can figure that out and provide it, wouldn’t that make their lives easier?\nLessons From the Postal Service\nNov 22nd, 2011\nWith the Post Office having financial troubles, they’re closing many locations. What this means for Hoboken is that we’re losing 3 out of 4 of ours.\nWhat’s interesting about the closing of these offices is the process. Roughly, the process involves surveying the public, having a public hearing, and then a decision is made, and then there’s a waiting period before the office closes.\nHaving gotten 3 of these surveys, with identical explanitory letters attached, I’ve had time to ponder the inefficiencies of it. Hoboken has 4 post offices for 1.3 square miles. It’s clearly unnecessary. Several people I’ve talked to didn’t even know there was more than one, and these are people who’ve lived less than a block from one of the closing ones.\nReading the letter and survey, it’s clearly not designed for this sort of situation. It’s asking things like how often I visit, what I buy there, and what I use the office for, all of which could be answered by tracking at the office. It also asks if I’m able to make it to my next nearest post office should they close this one. My next nearest being half a mile away (closer than most of the ones being closed). After all this, it explains the process, how long it would be until the decision, and then that there’d be another 2 months or more until the actual closing.\nThis is all so wasteful. I realize there are good reasons for it, and that the surveys serve a good purpose especially in more rural areas, but there must be some allowance for flexability and reason.\nMy apologies to those who are truly inconvienienced by the closings because we in Hoboken are so wasteful as to have 4.\nWhat’s the Point of HTML?\nI’m a big fan of code separation and the MVC pattern. As we slowly move towards a world where everything is a web app, I think forcing the model of MVC on most frameworks has been the greatest move towards clean code that we’ll see for a while.\nBut lets look at the View portion of MVC. What is the View for a web app? Most people would say it’s the html file that gets sent back to the browser. This is close to the truth, but clearly breaks down once you start considering javascript. A View shouldn’t be self modifying, able to handle events, etc.\nThe truth is that web apps don’t run on servers, they run in the browser. The cases are few and far between of useful web apps that don’t require javascript. Once you consider javascript, our MVC paradigm breaks.\nThe truth is, in the browser, we have our own MVC. In an ideal world, the Model is HTML, the View is CSS, and the Controller is Javascript. In practice, HTML is so ingrained into browser rendering, that it’s impossible to separate from the View. As a Model, HTML documents are rather lacking. No one wants to store anything that’s not being rendered in the HTML structure, as it’s not easy to work with.\nPerhaps it’s time to give up on HTML being a source of clean data, and to accept it’s role as part of the view. How then do we achieve proper code separation in our web pages? How do we enable the semantic web when our fundamental form of document is rendering information and not data? The answer is to pull your data from an API. Look at Twitter; Loading up their webpage gives an HTML page with no data. Javascript on the page consumes an API, and passes it into HTML for rendering. If you’re interested in a clean form of the data itself (the Model from which the page is built), you can grab it from the API(In my case: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=1&include_available_features=1&contributor_details=true&pc=false&include_rts=true&user_id=243506131).\nLooking at HTML this way allows us to not feel guilty about non-semantic divs, and not knowing the right microformat for calendar events.\nWhat we do need to make sure of is that our new html pages don’t lock up data, that there is an API for everything, and that it is publically accessible. After all, people only are scraping your HTML for information if it’s not available in a better form.\nIn Defense of the Back Button\nNov 1st, 2011\nChristoffer Du Rietz recently took a jab at the Android hardware buttons. Much has been said on the topic, and I won’t try to contribute more on the subject of Android vs. iOS or whether or not hardware buttons are a good idea. Let’s just leave it at that I’m a nexus one user who likes his phone and I’m excited at what I’ve seen of Ice Cream Sandwich so far.\nWhat I do want to address is a comment he made regarding the back button that “The problem is, that Android hasn’t decided what that it wants the back button to do.” . That statement seems ridiculous to me. I’ll try to explain my reasoning, but first we need to go down a little tangent.\nInformation Architecture is hard. This is not news to anyone who’s been responsible for laying out the content and navigation of a sizable website, or dealt with making sane and simple user workflows, or even struggled with finding the best outline for a paper they were writing.\nLife used to be simpler. You struggled with your mass of information for a while, picked your favorite organizational structure and went with it, for better or worse. This is how we got the Dewey Decimal system, the standard layout for clothing stores (divided men’s / women’s / children, again in each of those sections by style of clothing, and so on). Of course, everything can only be in one place though, so your book that’s a mix of Computer Science and Literature? Someone’s going to have make a choice as to which section of the library it will be in.\nComputers solved that problem, right? Now ebooks can exist in both classifications, since they’re digital. Being able to link around the web means we don’t have to follow anyone else’s established hierarchy. I mean, books still have to be on a certain shelf and a shirt on a particular rack, but we can search and shop unlike and find what we’re looking for.\nUnfortunately, this is only partly true. We still have two forms of going through content as humans, searching and browsing. Linking and searching work for the searching behavior, but for browsing we still need to have a hierarchy and feel like we know where we are (even when “where we are” exists only as bits on the screen). You’ll notice all the clothing store websites haven’t abandoned their hierarchies. People still like to be able to go “up” from what they’re looking at to all Men’s clothing, or “down” to a particular shirt, or “over” to look at pants instead. What has changed though, is that we now have somethings that can function without hierarchy at all.\nTwitter has no strict information hierarchy. It’s not unique in this, but it’s who I’m going to pick on right now. If we were to assign Twitter a hierarchy, it would probably be a very flat and wide one where the user would pick one of a million users, and they would have their tweets and their profile. Not great usability. Twitter works because they can break this model, throw it out the window, and have navigation based on aggregation of a hundred different things. This means there is no “up” or “down” in Twitter. There’s only “back” (and then sometimes “forward”), which are new directions based on the user’s flow instead of the information architecture.\nThis is what your browser does to allow you some affordance of navigation through the web. Each site (usually) has their hierarchy, but once you break that, it’s back to the browser back button.\nSo now let’s get back to the point.\nAndroid, tasked with building an OS for a smartphone, has to figure out navigation among many other issues. Apps are much worse than websites when it comes to navigation. Between the myriad of chat programs, things like dropbox, tuners, and other utilities, and other programs on my phone, I’d be hard pressed to figure out a sane hierarchical navigation for half of them. To add to this, Android has a wonderful way to call into different parts of applications using intents, which act as the equivalent of linking to different webpages online.\nSo, we’re in a model where there’s no guaranteed hierarchy within apps, and a user is able and probable to wander through applications anyway. This means we have to throw out the browsing model (at least from an os perspective, inside apps it may still work) and stick with our navigational concession, the back button.\nIf understood this way, the back button is entirely consistent. Even in cases where hierarchical navigation still makes sense, I think you’ll find that most of them are similar to something like a mail program. Click one email to view, and then people tend to choose “back” over “up”. How often do you hit the inbox link in gmail?\nAt this point I feel compelled to call out Facebook on their recent app design, which is the only one I know that willfully breaks this model. Android allows you to override the back button behavior, but recommends against it for consistency reasons (and, hey, why write the code when the os gives it for free?). Facebook launches a user into the newsfeed when they open the app, and hitting the back button takes them to some sort of menu. Back again behaves as expected. I’m not sure what the thought process was here towards breaking the expecation. Unfortunately, there’s discussions as to how to treat the back button in ajax applications as there’s no browser reload between actions for them, so I imagine as that we’ll see more abuses of this type as the tools evolve to change browser behavior.\nThanks to @okayrene for helping me refine this.\nMaking a Useful Business\nI saw a post on Hacker News recently about a recent batch of graduates from TechStars. There was a comment there lamenting the lack of businesses attacking new problems. Unfortunately, I can’t find the post or comment now, unfortunately, but it’s a thought I’ve heard and shared before, and it’s not unique to any program or group of people.\nA lot is said in the startup world about “scratching your own itch”. That is, find a problem that affects you so you’ll be inspired to solve it. A lot of great ideas and businesses have come out of this, but it’s almost come to a point where people don’t know what to solve because a lot of the problems in the life of a typical startup founder have been solved.\nA comparison to our lives 10 years ago shows that. We now have much better internet access, more blogging, email sending, hosting, and social media solutions than you can shake a fist at. We even have smartphones so we never need to be without a computer. I’m not arguing that there aren’t improvements to be made in these fields, but rather that a lot of them have been attacked and are 85% solved. Yes, you may be able to do better and make it 90%, but it’s going to be a hard sell.\nWhen I expand my itch scratching to family and friends, I find problems that are screaming for good teams of people to provide any help at all. If you look at any small (or even large) business, you’ll find tons of processes that are annoyingly manual, time consuming, and generally wasteful.\nWhen we started Mom n Pops, we were scratching our own itch. We found it hard to find things in our neighborhood. What we found was that not only was the consumer side lacking, but that there were no tools on the store side either. Store owners keeping track of things on post-it notes, distributors going store to store taking inventory by hand on paper, and what tools exist are expensive and bad. Theres definitely work to be done here.\nMy new rule of thumb when I hear ideas is “Who’s life is significantly better because of this?” and, if I’m uninspired with ideas for what I should do, I talk to other people about their jobs. They always know something that can be fixed.\nStatus updating…\nFollow @BertHartm\n@BertHartm on Github\nCopyright © 2011 - Bert Hartmann - Powered by Octopress"
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        "text": "La Ruta Maya River Challenge Training Continues\nPosted on March 9, 2012 by lesleycarter\nPau Hana Surf Supply continue their training in San Ignacio, Belize for the ultimate race, La Ruta Maya River Challenge! Four days and 170 miles of river racing on a paddleboard is my kind of adventure! Just looking at the photos gets my heart racing. For the first time in my life, I’m living vicariously through someone else. While I’m waiting for the best adventure of my life, the arrival of my baby girl, Shane is about to embark on an eye-opening adventure of his own. Check out Todd Caranto (Pau Hana), Nicholas Troutman (trainer), Shane Perrin (paddleboard La Ruta Maya racer), Doug Death (cameraman), and Jessica Wunderlich, (photos) as they prepare for the River Challenge.\nNick found a new friend who has been following them around for 3 days.\nJessica and Nicholas got up close and personal at the local market.\nTodd prepped the Big EZ paddleboard, which is the same board that I’ll be using after the baby is born.\nNick talked strategy with some last second planning…\nThen he was off…\nThe Class 2-3 rapids were no problem for Nick.\nTodd went for it as well.\nShane did pretty well for his first time in the rapids.\nThe crew scoped out some of the rapids to practice on.\nImagine hopping onto a paddleboard every morning for four days and paddling for an average of 42.5 miles a day under the tropical sun with little support and only the supplies you’re carrying on your board! La Ruta Maya River Challenge is not for the faint of heart. I’m not sure any amount of training would prepare me for such an adventure, but Shane is going for it and I’m anxiously awaiting his first race day.\nThis entry was posted in Belize, Central America, Travel, Uncategorized and tagged Adrenaline, Belize, bucket list, Bucket List Publications, Central America, culture, La Ruta Maya River Challenge, landscape, Lesley Carter, photo by lesleycarter. Bookmark the permalink.\n29 thoughts on “La Ruta Maya River Challenge Training Continues”\nwordsfromanneli on March 9, 2012 at 1:41 pm said:\nLooks like a lot of hard work. Fun too, but hard work.\nlesleycarter on March 9, 2012 at 2:29 pm said:\n170 miles would certainly leave you with a true sense of accomplishment when complete. 🙂\nBooksphotographsandartwork on March 9, 2012 at 2:02 pm said:\nI can’t even begin to imagine the strength and balance it would take to accomplish that. Good luck! I’m glad it’s you and not me!\nLet's CUT the Crap! on March 9, 2012 at 2:22 pm said:\nI agree. Sounds like awfully hard work. I love the photos. Nice and big too.\ncouncilblogs on March 9, 2012 at 2:34 pm said:\nLesley, Thx for the like today. Yes, hard work indeed. But it is right up there with all your other adventures. Enjoy.\norples on March 9, 2012 at 2:46 pm said:\nThat looks like it would be a lot of fun on still waters. I don’t think I’d even consider the rapids.\nlesleycarter on March 9, 2012 at 11:18 pm said:\nI’d need a lot of practice before I’d consider the rapids, but I think it’s doable. I’d love to give it a try. 🙂\nDirty Feat on March 9, 2012 at 4:28 pm said:\nLesley,\nHaving liked two of my posts in the past week, I decided it was time for me to give you some props! Gotta say, you have something really meaningful going on here, Keep the positive vibes going. I will be keeping up with your entries for the benefit of my Journey to live the most fulfilling life possible!\nMona on March 9, 2012 at 6:28 pm said:\nLooks like a fabulous experience.\nDominick S. on March 9, 2012 at 8:15 pm said:\nGeez…I need to stop reading this blog….I keep adding more things to my list! Exciting times for you and your family!\nThat’s the point 😉\nKeep reading and keep adding; life is for living.\nSandra on March 9, 2012 at 8:52 pm said:\nWish I had your exciting wonderful life. You live it to the full. Good for you. Love reading about your exploits.\nToggyOrderedChowder on March 9, 2012 at 9:27 pm said:\nWhat an amazing challenge! Paddleboarding is something I definitely want to try now. Good luck to Shane on his first race. 🙂\nP.S. You could do it, Lesley! 😀\nOnce the baby arrives and is settled in, I’m sure going to try 🙂\ndabawenyo life on March 9, 2012 at 10:12 pm said:\ngreat outdoor experience..I’m sure afterwards is muscle pains.. 😛\nJames Shannon on March 9, 2012 at 10:39 pm said:\nI’ve always heard of paddleboarding on still water, but on rapids? That’s sounds like edgy adventure to me! Definitely trying it soon!\nI tried riverboarding a couple of years ago (with a body board) and it was amazing! I can’t wait to try paddleboarding on rapids too. 🙂\nJamie Dedes on March 10, 2012 at 3:33 am said:\nLooks so fun. Thanks for sharing photos here.\ninsaniteeni on March 10, 2012 at 5:57 am said:\nThat looks like a lot of fun! I may have to try something like that.\ngenekgarrison on March 10, 2012 at 7:28 am said:\nThe adventure is exciting. I’m very impressed with the photography too.\nYolanda Presant on March 11, 2012 at 3:36 pm said:\nFor the last couple of years my daughter has been paddleboarding off the coast in Vancouver, BC. She likes it too.\nrsouth on March 11, 2012 at 6:15 pm said:\nHow have I lived this long without knowing about this awesome sport? Thanks for the post!\nRuth2Day on March 11, 2012 at 10:31 pm said:\nthat is surely going to be an adventure. hope to follow more of it with you on the blog!\nkarcherry on March 12, 2012 at 2:58 am said:\nI can’t believe my eyes… what an adventure!\ngranbee on March 12, 2012 at 9:58 am said:\nJust absolutely adore white water activities of any kind, anywhere! Love that produce market and that dog, as well! So great of you to share such wonders with us here! Very energizing and inspiring!\nPingback: La Ruta Maya River Challenge Training Continues | Bucket List … | cayoscoop\nCayo Scoop on March 12, 2012 at 4:22 pm said:\nAwesome! You’re on the Cayo Scoop!\nhttp://www.scoop.it/t/best-of-san-ignacio-cayo/p/1391598383/la-ruta-maya-river-challenge-training-continues-bucket-list\nWe want a paddle board.\nstacey on March 12, 2012 at 5:24 pm said:\nGreat Effort SHANE!! I did it in a canoe last year that was tough enough…….. but who knows maybe one day i could follow in shane’s footsteps…..\nlesleycarter on March 12, 2012 at 5:25 pm said:\nShane completed the race, and he was the first person to do it on a paddleboard!\nWhat an accomplishment and adventure!"
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        "text": "Big international sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup are a huge revenue generator for the gambling industry. Businesses that are involved can make up to a year’s worth of profit during the short time of the tournament, but only if they lay the groundwork long beforehand.\nSo while the whole world chants ‘Ole!’, we decided to review how well the top five gambling websites in the UK — bet365.com, skybet.com, williamhill.com, betfair.com and paddypower.com — did their SEO homework to get visibility for the World Cup.\nThis research is focused on sports betting, but its findings are scalable to other verticals and can help any business that is working on improving its visibility.\nOrganic traffic share is limited to 10% and is generated mostly by the branded keywords —another reason for companies to invest in brand awareness.\nAll of the findings of this research will be circling back to these trends and core numbers, so this section should familiarise you with the landscape.\nSimilarWeb reports that every month sports betting attracts more than 811.5 million users worldwide.\nAmong the top five countries generating traffic in sports betting, first comes Brazil (13.69%), followed by the UK (8.16%), Germany (4.84%), the Ukraine (4.39%) and Spain (4.16%).\nWhen compared with other gambling sub-niches, sports attract 1.8 times more users than lottery and 5.7 times more users than casino.\nThe data from SimilarWeb shows a clear increase in the share of traffic coming from mobile: in sports betting 61.31% of traffic now comes from mobile devices vs 38.69% from desktop. What’s fascinating is that in terms of traffic distribution, gambling is now really close to the adult industry, which currently has 77.39% of traffic from mobile, vs 22.61% from desktop.\nAn average session on a sports betting site lasts 9 minutes and 44 seconds, includes 7.1 pages per visit and features a bounce rate of 43.05%. This points to a finding that users who don’t bounce off after visiting the first page will very likely convert their visit, e.g., they will place a bet.\nThe main traffic source for sports betting websites is direct visits. This proves that a strong trustworthy brand is the main capital for the company. When it comes to betting, users prefer to deal with brands they can trust — nobody wants to leave their credit card details on a shady website. So users will be looking at things such as positive online reviews and word of mouth recommendations.\nAfter direct traffic, the three channels that bring in the most traffic are display ads, organic search and referrals. Display ads are in second place, attracting more than 17% of users, since these are not as expensive as Google Ads, where the price of a click can rise as high as US$30 to $50 (this is how much a high volume ‘online betting’ keyword is worth, according to SEMrush data).\nOrganic search and referral channels perform in a similar manner, generating about 10% of traffic each.\nAnd here’s further proof of how important an established brand is: more than 85% of the organic traffic coming to the websites in question is branded, that is, includes their brand name. Since users are already googling the company’s name, this points to the fact it’s not the result of their SEO efforts, but their PR. And it’s not even such a surprise: Paddy Power is one of the top gambling companies in the world thanks to the fact it reallys knows how to make the world talk about it and attract even those users who may never have been interested in betting.\nNow that we’ve set up some context, let’s move on to analysing the top five gambling websites in the UK. For this research, we’ve selected bet365.com, skybet.com, williamhill.com, betfair.com and paddypower.com. All the further presented data is solely about the UK region, since it is the second biggest market by traffic share, but the biggest by revenue.\nIt’s worth pointing out that some of the websites had an average of more than 70% of their traffic coming from mobile. For instance, SkyBet has 89.69% of traffic from mobile, Betfair 86.36% and William Hill 80.91%.\nTraffic distribution among these brands follows the worldwide sports betting trend: direct visits clearly dominate over all other channels. However, the second best performing channel is organic search, not display ads as for the worldwide results. In fact, display ads is the least popular channel for UK sports betting sites: it brings in less traffic than referrals, paid search and even email.\nThe most popular organic search queries again consist of the big brand names: William Hill, SkyBet (and ‘sky bet’), Bet365 and Betfair. These keywords bring a significant amount of organic traffic to these websites. William Hill is getting 13% of its organic traffic from branded keywords, SkyBet and Bet365 follow with 11.46% and 10.65%, respectively, and Betfair completes the top five with 9.13%.\nNext, we looked at how well these websites performed in May and how many users they attracted. We used two approaches to analyse the keywords related to the World Cup, both of which were based on traffic analysis: first, we analysed the real traffic flows; then we analysed the websites from Google’s top three search results for World Cup related keywords.\nBoth approaches were mainly focused on discovering what other gambling websites appear at the top of Google search results and, more importantly, why.\nIn May, SkyBet smashed the competition when it claimed more than 50% of the desktop traffic that our top five betting websites were generating for World Cup related queries. As we’ll see later, it was not a coincidence but rather a well thought out campaign that SkyBet started getting ready for more than six months ago.\nBased on Ahrefs data, SkyBet started investing in building links to this page in the fall of 2017, which is a great example of being ahead of the game. Since SEO requires a lot of time, SkyBet started investing in it almost a year prior to the World Cup! As a result, the boosted page has 56 referring domains with the majority of links being ‘dofollow’ (80%).\nFor whatever reason, this SkyBet page is currently blank. From an SEO perspective, after such pages play their role in a seasonal campaign, it makes sense to redirect viewers to active pages. This way, you’ll retain your referral portfolio and make it work for the pages that require visibility after the campaign is over.\nWhile SkyBet may have won the desktop battle, Betfair and Paddy Power won the war by establishing a dominant position in mobile SERPs. Together they share 99% of all the mobile traffic, and since 80% of users in sports betting prefer mobile devices to desktops, their traffic share is immense.\nOverall, the biggest share of traffic triggered by World Cup related keywords — 59% in total — belongs to Paddy Power. This mainly comes from mobile search visits, which aligns with the general split between mobile and desktop traffic in the betting industry.\nHowever, as we’ve already figured out, there are a good number of visitors that are coming to betting websites through branded search queries, which are also related to the World Cup. As a result this traffic can't be classified as organic, since people have already made their choice and can’t be considered newly attracted visitors.\nSo to compare the amount of branded vs non-branded traffic leading to each website, we decided to exclude branded keywords from the analysed keyword group and build another graph.\nIn the following graph you can see that Bet365, SkyBet and William Hill have bigger shares in non-branded traffic (71%, 74% and 61%, respectively), but Paddy Power’s organic traffic comes mostly from branded keywords, so in fact it’s not SEO traffic per se.\nPreviously when talking about traffic flows we used data from SimilarWeb. But to uncover the most visible domains in Google.co.uk, we’ve set up a position tracking campaign in SEMrush. The collected data showed us the most visible domains for the 200 most popular keywords related to World Cup betting.\nFirst, we’ve reviewed how the websites are positioned in desktop search, which in fact has only 10-20% of the overall sports betting traffic. Among the top five most visible domains we only see SkyBet and William Hill getting solid visibility (positions two and three). We’ve also spotted another familiar player in the top 10, with Betfair holding seventh place.\nQuite often desktop and mobile SERPs differ in the line-up. That’s why we were surprised to see the exact same distribution among the positions in mobile.\nThe very fact that these websites are equally optimised for desktop and mobile is not surprising, since SEO experts know where their traffic comes from and apply the necessary efforts to get it. What’s interesting is the exact same ranking order, which usually differs slightly due to ranking volatility.\nAll of the analysed websites used the same strategy to support their main landing pages for the World Cup: internal linking. It is quite a basic strategy that in reality can skyrocket the visibility of almost any page if supported by a strong referral portfolio. Without doubt, all of the mentioned websites have both a lot of internal links and many referring domains with a high authority score. For instance, the best performing page on Betfair has more than 100 internal links with a highly relevant anchor text — “world cup bets”.\nThis URL consequence is clearly used to help Google bots identify what kind of a world cup is being implied and distinguish football bets from other sports.\nThis page is highly interactive, allowing users to play with different filters and compare the odds between several selected sites, and it is, in fact, encouraging them to spend more time on it.\nAccording to Ahrefs data, this URL has been used to attract World Cup traffic since 2014 when it was first created.\nSo here’s another SEO strategy: URL recycling. Instead of creating a new URL each time an event occurs, you can update its content and benefit from the URL’s high authority and a significant backlink profile. This is why I don’t recommend including the year in the URL as this would prevent you from recycling the URL in future.\nSuch interactive content is a great backlink bait. The odds are, backlinks were in Oddschecker’s focus when it created this visualisation. After all, it was so impressive that the URL received a batch of backlinks from immensely authoritative websites such as the BBC, Euronews, Forbes and Wikipedia.\nIn conclusion, just like many other online industries, the sports betting niche is highly competitive and is occupied by huge domains applying significant SEO efforts. The techniques that they use are, however, scalable to other verticals and can guarantee great visibility if done correctly and in a timely fashion.\nAlexandra Tachalova is a digital marketing consultant, helping digital businesses to open new markets and boost sales. A frequent speaker, she is also founder of online digital marketing event DigitalOlympus.net. She has worked in digital marketing for over six years and is a huge fan of data-driven content marketing campaigns.\nShe will be presenting this dataset produced exclusively for iGB Affiliate at 15:30 on Wednesday 18 July at the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference."
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        "text": "2014 John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award\nRobert H. Dworkin, PhD\nRobert H. Dworkin received his BA in 1971 from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in 1977 from Harvard University. He is currently professor of anesthesiology, neurology, oncology, and psychia¬try; professor in the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics; and director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.\nDr. Dworkin is director of the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION) public-private partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); cochair with Dennis C. Turk, PhD, of the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT); a member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Zoster Working Group; and a special government employee of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He is an associate editor of Pain, is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Pain and Current Pain and Headache Reports, and has previous¬ly served as a consultant to and member of the FDA Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee and as a member of the CDC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella Working Group. As director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center, Dr. Dworkin has been the principal investigator for a large number of clinical trials of analgesic treatments.\nThe John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award honors outstanding contributions by an individual or an organization to the field of pain through public education, dissemination of information, public service, or other efforts to further knowledge about pain. The award is named for John Bonica, a leading force in the development of the pain treatment movement, and his wife, Emma."
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        "text": "REDjet to capture Crop Over market\nUK Air Passenger Duty Hits Travel From North Ameri...\n\"Last minute T&amp;T travellers can now catch the last week of Barbados Crop Over Festival, as REDjet the Barbados-based, low cost carrier’s inaugural flight out of T&amp;T is set for July 28. The popular Barbados festival, which began on May 14, will culminate with Barbadian R&amp;B star Rihanna’s LOUD concert on August 5. REDjet will be offering passengers 3,700 seats at $65 one way fares, exclusive of government taxes and optional charges. This was officially announced yesterday by the management team of REDjet at the Carlton Savannah Hotel, St Ann’s. After several months of delay over its certification approval, REDjet was finally given the green light to operate out of T&amp;T on July 17 by the new Transport Minister Devant Maharaj. REDjet had planned to start flying from T&amp;T and Jamaica since May 8...\"\nRead more: REDjet to capture Crop Over market | The Trinidad Guardian\nUK Air Passenger Duty Hits Travel From North America and to Caribbean\n\"Cheapflights Media Ltd, the international media network providing consumers with different ways to find low cost travel since 1996, has been a consistent critic of the UK's regressive Air Passenger Duty (APD) -- now the highest such aviation travel tax in the world.\nCheapflights has just analysed traffic search patterns for the first six months (H1) of 2009, 2010 and 2011 for searches for Barbados, Jamaica and Mexico and other long-haul destinations. It also analysed its North American traffic searching for London flights for the same periods to indicate how APD may have affected inbound tourism. The figures have to be viewed in the context of the post-recession recovery in global passenger numbers over the period, especially in 2010 when a post-recession \"bounce\" occurred and passenger traffic increased by an above trend of 8.2% (IATA).\nH1 2010 over 2009 2011 over 2009\nAustralia 15.3%* -4.7%\nBarbados -47.1% -51.3%\nIndia 5.1%* -1.5%\nJamaica -26.8% -25.0%\nMauritius -12.9% -0.4%\nMexico -21.9% -17.5%\nNew Zealand 7.5%* -2.0%\nInbound Searches for the UK\nCFUSA to UK 4.9% -9.4%\nCFCA to UK 4.6% -34.3%\n* Host nations to major sporting events in H1 2010\nThe Government has just completed a consultation period in response to representations by Caribbean governments, the Caribbean Tourist Organisation and also by UK aviation and travel companies about the negative effects the high level of taxation is having.\nIntroduced in 1994 and raised in 2007 it remained at a sustainable level until November 2009; APD was then changed to a much higher four mileage-band based tax for economy seats and an even higher four-band tax for premium seat passengers including premium economy. It was raised even higher in November 2010, costing a family of four travelling economy to the Caribbean APD of £300.\nFollowing the 2010 increase, APD had risen a massive 275% above pre-2007 rates for all cabin classes to the Caribbean. Apart from affecting tourism-dependent economies, such as the Caribbean in general, the mileage bands also created unfair anomalies; for example APD is more expensive when flying to Jamaica than to Hawaii.\nJohn Barrington-Carver, Head of Cheapflights Corporate Communications, commented: \"Clearly, with a respective 51.3% and 25% drop in traffic since the higher rate four band APD was brought in, Barbados and Jamaica have good reason to expect the UK Government to remove the current anomalies in APD.\n\"A significant concern for the UK economy is the evident drop in searches for the UK from North America and elsewhere over the period. With the strong Australian and Canadian dollars one could have expected an increase in searches for the UK. Instead we have a 5% drop from Australia and a very significant 34% drop seen in Canadian searches for London.\n\"Domestically, the UK's airport operators are claiming that, according to Civil Aviation Authority statistics, passenger numbers at Britain's smaller airports have fallen by up to 70% in the past four years.\n\"Cheapflights' analysis appears to bear out the reasons why five other European Governments have dropped APD as revenue raising exercises. Having tried the duty they discovered that such taxes cost the economy more than they raised in revenue.\n\"High jet fuel prices have clearly increased fares but have not prevented the 2010 post-recession global bounce in air passengers.\n\"It's therefore difficult to avoid the conclusion that APD is deterring UK consumers from seeking fares to the Caribbean and other long haul destinations. Importantly for the UK economy the opposite is also evident, especially from North America.\"\"\nSource: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/uk-air-passenger-duty-hits-travel-from-north-america-and-to-caribbean-1534881.htm"
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        "text": "Q: What does the error \"iTunes could not restore the iPod 'NAME' because the backup could not be saved on the computer.\" mean? My iPod was acting up (the clock was going out of sync, it often became unresponsive to touch) so before contacting Apple I decided to try a Backup & Restore.\nI plugged in my iPod and pressed \"Backup iPod\".  It did it fine, it seemed, and let me know when it was done.  Then I clicked \"Restore\" and after a few of the normal errors (11 and 14) I force-restored it using the Home & Power buttons.\nWhen it was finally restored I selected \"Restore from Backup\" and picked my latest Backup.  That's where the problem starts... it keeps reaching 2/3 of the way done and then this error appears: \n\"iTunes could not restore the iPod 'NAME' because the backup could not be saved on the computer.\"\nThe problem occurs with all of my backups, and persists after a computer restart and after trying a different USB port (just in case.)\nI looked around at several forums and found no one with a similar problem.  The error seems to usually appear for other people when the backup is actually being created, not when the iPod is being restored to a backup like it does in this case.\nI hope this was enough information.  Thanks to any help you guys might be able to give :)\nCheers!\n- Lindsay\n\nA: I hopefully have a solution to this issue. I also had this problem, and I believe it's because you have insuffient disk space and iTunes being a large program requires so much disk space to be available in order to perform these tasks.\nTherefore, iTunes will bring up the error after reaching 2/3 of the way and then the error appears: \"iTunes could not restore the iPod/iphone 'NAME' because the backup could not be saved on the computer.\" The backup you did is there because you're obviously selecting it when \"restoring from backup\". So free up some disk space and redo the \"restore from backup\" and it should complete the process without any errors.\n"
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        "text": "While creating PR: #6415 to fix issue: #4561 I found that the restart confirmation dialog is confusing. My immediate expectation was that pressing cancel would make no changes and I would return to the general settings dialog. However the actual behaviour (as explained in the text) is that pressing cancel meant the general settings dialog would close, and the language change will be applied after the next restart of nvda. This dialog requires careful reading of the dialog in order to understand the outcomes.\nFor the new language to take effect, the configuration must be saved and NVDA must be restarted. Press enter to save and restart NVDA, or cancel to manually save and exit at a later time.\nWith ok and cancel buttons.\nNVDA must be restarted for the new language to take effect.\nOne issue with this is that for non-sighted users its not so clear what pressing enter will do, is this a valid concern here?\nto resort to default behaviour on a button).\nI am happy with Restart Now / Restart Later buttons.\nP3 because this is low impact.\n@feerrenrut It sounds like resolving this issue simply requires the message in the dialog and the button names to be modified. If this is indeed the case, may we label this ticket as a QuickFix and GoodForNewDevs or something? If not, excuse my misinterpretation."
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        "text": "22 март е 81-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (82-ри през високосна година). Остават 284 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 235 г. – Максимин Трак е провъзгласен за римски император.\n 238 г. – Гордиан I и неговият син Гордиан II са провъзгласени за римски императори.\n 1136 г. – Матилда Булонска става кралица на Англия.\n 1312 г. – Формално е ликвидиран Орденът на Тамплиерите на събора във Виен.\n 1518 г. – Крал Карлос I одобрява плана на Фернандо Магелан за околосветско пътешествие и му предоставя сериозна субсидия.\n 1787 г. – Основан е град Колумбия в щата Южна Каролина, САЩ.\n 1813 г. – Създаден е окръг Колумбия в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1813 г. – Създаден е окръг Юниън в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1820 г. – Създаден е окръг Пери в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1841 г. – В САЩ е патентовано производството на скорбяла.\n 1848 г. – Венеция обявява своята независимост.\n 1871 г. – Създаден е окръг Логан в щата Арканзас, САЩ.\n 1873 г. – В Пуерто Рико е забранено робството.\n 1882 г. – Конгресът на САЩ забранява многоженството (полигамията).\n 1894 г. – Дахомей е обявен за френска колония.\n 1894 г. – Състои се първият плейоф за Купа Стенли.\n 1895 г. – Прожектиран е първият филм на Братя Люмиер – „Работници напускат фабриката Люмиер в края на работното време“, който трае 46 секунди.\n 1904 г. – Публикувана е първата цветна снимка – в лондонския вестник „Илюстрейтид мирър“.\n 1910 г. – Основан е футболен клуб АС Варезе 1910 във Варезе, Италия.\n 1916 г. – Джон Толкин сключва брак с Едит Брат.\n 1919 г. – Бела Кун обявява Унгария за съветска република.\n 1933 г. – Близо до Мюнхен е открит първият нацистки концлагер Дахау.\n 1935 г. – Официално Персия е преименувана в Иран.\n 1942 г. – Проведена е среща между цар Борис III и Хитлер, който настоява България да поеме допълнителни ангажименти в Югославия.\n 1945 г. – Създадена е Арабската лига с приемането на устава ѝ в Кайро, Египет.\n 1966 г. – Създадена е Международната федерация по таекуон-до в Сеул.\n 1967 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „По тротоара“.\n 1968 г. – Състои се премиерата на френско-италианската кинокомедия „Малкият гмурец“.\n 1971 г. – Създаден е регионалният телевизионен център БНТ Пловдив.\n 1978 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм Момчетата от „Златен лъв“.\n 1981 г. – Осъществен е първият орбитален космически полет на съветски космически кораб Союз 39.\n 1995 г. – Космонавтът Валери Поляков се завръща, след като поставя рекорд за най-продължителен престой в космоса – 436 дни.\n 1996 г. – Алфа Радио започва своето излъчване в град Варна.\n 2004 г. – Шейх Ахмед Ясин, духовният лидер на палестинската сунитска военна групировка Хамас, и неговите седем охранители са убити от израелските въздушни сили.\n 2009 г. – Създадена е политическата партия Либертас България.\n 2009 г. – Учредена е партията на българските емигранти Другата България.\n 2016 г. – Извършени са атентати в Брюксел на летището и на метростанция „Малбек“; 28 души загиват, 85 са ранени.\n\nРодени \n\n 1459 г. – Максимилиан I, австрийски ерцхерцог († 1519 г.)\n 1599 г. – Антонис ван Дайк, фламандски художник († 1641 г.)\n 1609 г. – Ян II Кажимеж, крал на Полша († 1672 г.)\n 1797 г. – Вилхелм I, пруски крал († 1888 г.)\n 1821 г. – Георги Атанасович, български политик († 1892 г.)\n 1858 г. – Ханс Мейер, немски географ († 1929 г.)\n 1864 г. – Михаил Такев, български политик († 1920 г.)\n 1868 г. – Робърт Миликан, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1953 г.)\n 1871 г. – Юрдан Данчов, български инженер († 1956 г.)\n 1873 г. – Деян Димитров, български революционер († 1912 г.)\n 1874 г. – Иван Шкойнов, български офицер († 1941 г.)\n 1880 г. – Куниаки Коисо, министър-председател на Япония († 1950 г.)\n 1882 г. – Стоян Мишев, български революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1883 г. – Христо Петков, български цигулар и музикален педагог\n 1885 г. – Стефан Тинтеров, български поет († 1912 г.)\n 1887 г. – Констанца Ляпчева, българска общественичка († 1942 г.)\n 1889 г. – Йоргос Гунаропулос, гръцки художник († 1977 г.)\n 1891 г. – Александър Ковачев, български политик († 1972 г.)\n 1907 г. – Джеймс Гавин, американски генерал-лейтенант († 1990 г.)\n 1908 г. – Джак Крофърд, австралийски тенисист († 1991 г.)\n 1909 г. – Мита Стойчева, българска певица († 1976 г.)\n 1910 г. – Любомир Андрейчин, български езиковед († 1975 г.)\n 1911 г. – Джеймс Робъртсън, американски кинодеец († 1988 г.)\n 1912 г. – Карл Молдън, американски актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1913 г. – Сабиха Гьокчен, военен пилот († 2001 г.)\n 1922 г. – Жан-Франсоа Тириар, белгийски политик († 1992 г.)\n 1923 г. – Марсел Марсо, френски мим († 2007 г.)\n 1924 г. – Георги Попов, български актьор († 1995 г.)\n 1924 г. – Лайънъл Уилсън, американски дубльор († 2003 г.)\n 1924 г. – Майкъл Хамбъргър, британски преводач († 2007 г.)\n 1925 г. – Волфганг Бехлер, немски поет († 2007 г.)\n 1925 г. – Лили Шмидт, българска общественичка († 2016 г.)\n 1927 г. – Люба Колчакова, българска балерина († 2012 г.)\n 1927 г. – Николай Соколов, български поет († 1994 г.)\n 1928 г. – Дмитрий Волкогонов, руски историк († 1995 г.)\n 1931 г. – Бъртън Рихтер, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2018 г.)\n 1931 г. – Димитър Стойков, български акордеонист и композитор\n 1931 г. – Уилям Шатнър, канадски актьор\n 1932 г. – Васил Хубчев, български политик\n 1932 г. – Иван Веселинов, български актьор\n 1932 г. – Лари Еванс, американски шахматист († 2010 г.)\n 1935 г. – Виолета Бахчеванова, българска актриса († 2021 г.)\n 1937 г. – Армин Хари, германски лекоатлет\n 1937 г. – Едмар Меднис, американски шахматист († 2002 г.)\n 1939 г. – Атанас Киряков, български актьор\n 1941 г. – Георги Стоев, български режисьор\n 1943 г. – Любен Спасов, български шахматист\n 1947 г. – Андре Хелер, австрийски писател и художник\n 1947 г. – Джеймс Патерсън, американски писател\n 1948 г. – Андрю Лойд Уебър, британски композитор\n 1949 г. – Фани Ардан, френска актриса\n 1949 г. – Юрий Игнатиевич Мухин, съветски изобретател\n 1950 г. – Горан Брегович, босненски музикант\n 1951 г. – Залмей Халилзад, американски дипломат\n 1951 г. – Муса Манаров, съветски летец\n 1953 г. – Кенет Рогоф, американски икономист\n 1955 г. – Лена Улин, шведска актриса\n 1956 г. – Георге Йовановски, македонски футболист\n 1959 г. – Жан Виденов, министър-председател на България\n 1959 г. – Карлтън Кюз, американски сценарист\n 1963 г. – Джузепе Галдеризи, италиански футболист и треньор\n 1965 г. – Ice MC, британски музикант\n 1970 г. – Калин Терзийски, български поет\n 1971 г. – Асен Блатечки, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Филип Клемент, белгийски защитник\n 1975 г. – Румен Христов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Рийз Уидърспун, американска актриса\n 1983 г. – Дагоберто, бразилски футболист\n 1984 г. – Пьотър Троховски, немски футболист\n 1985 г. – Иван Стоицов, български щангист\n 1987 г. – Христо Христов Петров, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Таня Реймънд, американска актриса\n 1988 г. – Тобиас Зипел, германски вратар\n\nПочинали \n\n 1471 г. – Иржи Подебрад, чешки крал (р. 1420 г.)\n 1602 г. – Агостино Карачи, италиански бароков художник, брат на Анибале Карачи (р. 1557 г.)\n 1687 г. – Жан-Батист Люли, френски бароков композитор (р. 1632)\n 1832 г. – Йохан Волфганг фон Гьоте, германски писател (р. 1749)\n 1850 г. – Карл Сигизмунд Кунт, германски ботаник (р. 1788)\n 1852 г. – Огюст Мармон, френски маршал (р. 1774)\n 1874 г. – Рихард Бренер, немски изследовател (р. 1833)\n 1892 г. – Владимир Гете, руско-френски духовник (р. 1812)\n 1916 г. – Фердинанд Фелнер, австрийски архитект (р. 1847)\n 1918 г. – Панайот Хитов, български революционер (р. 1830)\n 1922 г. – Михаил Греков, революционер и публицист (р. 1847)\n 1928 г. – Райчо Каролев, български просветен деец (р. 1846)\n 1932 г. – Борис Шатц, литовски скулптор (р. 1866)\n 1933 г. – Сава Огнянов, български актьор (р. 1876 г.)\n 1939 г. – Петър Мидилев, български политик (р. 1875)\n 1950 г. – Павел Патев, български зоолог (р. 1889)\n 1961 г. – Николай Масалитинов, български актьор (р. 1880)\n 1974 г. – Питър Ревсън, американски автомобилен състезател (р. 1939)\n 1976 г. – Виктор фон Гебзател, немски лекар (р. 1883)\n 1989 г. – Хорхе Лазаров, уругвайски музикант (р. 1950)\n 2001 г. – Уилям Хана, американски аниматор (р. 1910)\n 2004 г. – Ахмед Ясин, палестински терорист (р. 1936)\n 2005 г. – Кензо Танге, японски архитект (р. 1913)\n 2006 г. – Иван Методиев, български футболист и треньор (р. 1955)\n 2006 г. – Христо Калчев, български писател (р. 1944)\n 2007 г. – Владимир Аврамов, български цигулар (р. 1909)\n 2013 г. – Чинуа Ачебе, нигерийски писател (р. 1930 г.)\n 2021 г. – Татяна Лолова, българска актриса (р. 1934 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Световен ден на водите (обявен през 1992 г., отбелязва се от 1993 г.)\n Ден на пролетното равноденствие: празник за „Бялото братство“\n Ден на Балтийско море (обявен през 1986 г.)\n България – Първа пролет (Пролет, Пролетка, Росен)\n България – Празник на град Велико Търново и Угърчин и на селата Камено поле и Сталево\n Индия – Нова година в Индия\n Йордания и Ливан – Ден на Арабската лига\n Казахстан – Казахска нова година\n Лаос – Ден на народната партия\n Пуерто Рико – Ден на премахването на робството\n\n322"
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        "text": "Photographer Rose Smith Offers Glimpse into Vine City Through a Different Lens\nADW News\nInner City Urban: Vine City, a photographic exhibition by Rose Smith, is currently on display at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.\nThe exhibition, which showcases visuals, voices and perspectives from Vine City residents, captures a narrative of a community working to hold onto the valuable culture they’ve built up in the face of impending change. We spoke with Smith about the exhibition to get some perspective from her on what it was like to create this body of work. Please see the Q&A below.\nWhat’s your connection to Vine City and why was it important to make this work?\nMy connection with the Westside began with the West End. My cousins resided in the West End during my years of middle and high school, while my immediate family resided in Cherokee County, a rural part of north Georgia. I’d visit my cousins quite often and spend time in their neighborhood. Within that period of time, I felt as if I had missed out on an aspect of the Black experience; the lifestyle of growing up in the inner city. My interest in documenting the surrounding area arose out of what I felt I lacked.\nI came across Vine City and English Avenue while researching low-income neighborhoods in Atlanta, and noticed the short distance between it and the West End. I drove there to see how it looked. Within that moment, I parked my car and got out to walk around to take in the neighborhood. I immediately became intrigued and instead of choosing to photograph the West End, where my cousins grew up, I chose Vine City, based solely on what I felt at the time. This was in April of 2015.\nIt was important for me to make this work initially to see the relation and connection in how residents of inner-city communities viewed home versus how I viewed home. I was on the quest to find if we had similar perspectives, which I found to be true. At that particular time, I noticed the construction project for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium and became concerned with if the completion of the stadium would affect residents of the Westside. My mission for creating this body of work shifted to capturing the current culture and livelihood of Vine City, which is more so about the people in the midst of seeing if this area would experience gentrification like other areas of Atlanta.\nWhat specific story were you hoping to convey about Vine City and the residents of the community?\nMy narrative of Vine City is one that expresses truth and authenticity of the people and their home, a community that the residents value and holds historical significance. As all of the neighborhoods within close proximity of downtown are transforming, my mission is to create archival footage of this community even if it experiences the smallest portion of gentrification. Through this body of work, my goal is to raise the conversation of realistic affordable housing.\nTalk about your material choices. What is the significance of the wood panels?\nAlthough I am a documentary photographer, the display of my work is conceptual. The materials chosen for this project are newsprint and particle board/wood panels. I chose these materials while thinking about street art, newspaper covers, and what houses or vacant buildings are boarded up with. I chose to print my photographs on newsprint after thinking of each photograph as a cover of a newspaper while also considering that newsprint was also a paper used in street art with wheat-pasting signage. I chose to wheat-paste the prints on the wood as a non-conventional and non-archival way to display the work, which signified the abandonment of this community.\nAt the time, I had interviewed a longtime resident who expressed to me that she felt as if the city had overlooked Vine City for years, and she feared that the new stadium would cause her to move. Her story was also a major factor in why I chose this display. With this being a non-archival process, the work will transform over time, which equates to Vine City transforming over time.\nThis work is a part of a larger “Inner City Urban” series. What makes the Vine City story different from that of the Germantown community of Philadelphia? When did you know that Vine City was a community you wanted to feature?\n“Inner City Urban” is a working series including all of Atlanta’s inner-city communities that are changing due to the growth and development of Atlanta. It also includes inner-city communities across the nation that are experiencing gentrification as well as inner city communities that have a much stronger foundation and are not allowing their communities to be redeveloped.\nGermantown Philadelphia is a story that I recently began towards the end of 2017. In the midst of being there for such a short period of time, I spoke to a few residents about their community and their involvement with local government.\nOne gentleman mentioned that a few government officials reside within their community. And many of the residents work closely with these officials to make sure the community’s needs are met quickly. Also, there aren’t any major construction projects happening in Germantown that will attract tourists or a certain demographic causing transformation.\nVine City along with other low-income neighborhoods in Atlanta have community-based organizations where they discuss the needs and wants of the community, but the only difference I noticed is that despite their needs, the local government in Atlanta makes moves without much warning unless it’s the use of eminent domain; which is a sign of injustice. Vine City was the first community I chose when I began my Inner City Urban series in 2015.\nHow do you envision your role as a photographer/documentarian at this particular moment of your career?\nMy role as a documentarian is quite significant. I agree with Nina Simone – “An artist’s role in society is to reflect the time; it is our duty.” Gentrification “urban redevelopment” is a social justice issue, and as it is happening on a national and global level, it’s important that I provide a voice for the people being affected so that we are able to hold our government accountable. This is supposed to be the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave,” but those words lose meaning when adequate housing is not provided, and the history we’ve established within our communities is erased and replaced with the unfamiliar.\nHow important was it to have the work on display at the Auburn Research Library?\nMy connection with the Auburn Research Library was made shortly after my work was installed for public engagement throughout downtown last year.\nIt was important for me to have this work exhibited at the library considering that it’s a library of African-American history and Atlanta’s African-American history. It was also important because of my topic and primary focus in relation to Atlanta’s African-American neighborhoods and the current news.\nHow long did it take you to complete the work, and do you have a favorite story or person from the work?\nI completed this work within three years; however, I still find myself photographing Vine City and English Avenue quite often although I have moved on to photograph another neighborhood. It’s just something about its presence that’s unforgettable. One of my favorite photographs is actually not on display in this exhibit due to a limited number of pieces for the size of the space.\nThe title of my favorite photograph is Irwin Street. I interviewed and photographed a young man and his little cousin standing on the porch of their home. He didn’t live in Vine City but his grandmother and little cousin reside there. He visits quite often and brings over groceries while keeping his cousin entertained on the weekends. He expressed that this keeps him out of trouble. His story resonated with me because it made me think about the simple/smallest things are typically what impact our lives the most.\nWhat is the lasting message or perspective you want viewers to take away from this work?\nI’d like viewers to remember the faces of the people of Vine City and their neighborhood if it transforms while the city of Atlanta grows and transforms. I want people to think about their communities and what home means to them and what type of trauma would be caused if their communities were on the verge of redevelopment.\nInner City Urban: Vine City is on display from March 12 – April 29. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Smith will return to the library for a closing artist talk at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29.\nAbout Rose Smith: Rose Smith is a conceptual documentary photographer currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Smith began her artistic practice at the age of 10 after discovering an interest in the medium of photography while watching her father create VHS tapes and make photographic documentary stills with Polaroids.\nShe received her BFA in Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design where she studied and became inspired by the works of Gordon Parks, Roy DeCarava, Baldwin Lee, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems; all of whom created photographic narratives on the Black experience in the U.S.\nSimilar to them, Rose uses the medium of photography for activism to discuss social issues that reflect the present time and continue to affect people of color. She exhibits her commitment to photography by educating and expounding on topics that are often overlooked.\nTags: Rose Smith, Vine City"
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        "text": "Q: Why is my MacBook Pro's screen going black for a second? I have a new MacBook Pro, when I'm using it the screen goes suddenly blank for a second and comes back, it feels like as if someone unplugged my screen and plugged it back immediately.. why does this happen? \nInitially I thought it was only happening when I'm running on battery, but happens even when I'm connected too.\nThis is very sporadic. \n\nA: Clearly, something isn't right. I highly suggest you make an appointment at your nearest Apple Certified repair location or a Genius Bar.\n\nA: If it's less than a second in duration - more a brief flicker than it actually all going black for a second - then I have a similar problem with my MacBook Pro (mid 2009 15\" model). It's very sporadic, but it seems to be related to the computer being under heavy load (eg running 2 large virtual machines simultaneously) when it's running on the integrated graphics (in energy saver, using 'better battery life' instead of 'better performance'). I've never had it happen on the 'better performance' graphics setting, and I suspect it's something to do with the low-power graphics card.\nI do keep meaning to take it to a Genius bar when I get a chance, because it's still under Applecare and it can be annoying (it tends to happen in a flurry of flickers for a minute or two, then nothing for hours on end). However, it's my main work machine and I'm not in a position where I could be without it for a few days, so.... :-)\n\nA: This is an off chance, but I feel it's worth mentioning: this can happen if you have a hot-corner enabled and set to 'Sleep Display'.  I do, and it'll occasionally happen that I'll accidentally move my mouse into the correct corner and my screen will go dark for a second before mouse movement wakes it up again.\nAgain, unlikely that this is your issue, but worth checking before you bring it to an Apple store.  Just take a look in System Preferences (under displays or screen savers or something like that).\n\nA: Take the battery out and connect the MacBook to the power adapter. Turn it on and see if the flicker still occurs.\nI had this problem and it was due to a battery that was going bad. You can also check the status of your battery in the \"Power\" section of the System Profiler. If the cycles are high or it says \"Check battery\" you may need to replace it.\n\nA: I had the same issue. It went back to apple and came back with a new Motherboard. The problem persisted. Took it to the genius bar. Had the display and another Motherboard replaced. I can't say that it's totally fixed... but it's happening much less. Like once a day versus several times an hour.\n\nA: I hope I figured it out. I have no more Black screen issue & flickering since I did below  yesterday:\n\n\n*\n\n*Found advise from a user and Killed process called \"warmd\", process user: unknown.\nhttp://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/warmd.8.html\n\n*When my Screen went black sporadically, My ipad was connected and nearby my MacBook , I relocated it further away (I read about interference issues)\n\n*I right clicked on battery icon and it showed me that Battery needs Service. I fully re-charged and re-booted my Pro and WoohLah, Battery status was back to normal....\n\n*I switched GPU >> Installed programm called GFXcardstatus (you can Google that)\n\n*In Applications->Utilities->Terminal\nenter: sudo pmset -a lidwake 0   to reverse replace 0 with 1\nenter your computer password...\nThis sends your laptop to sleep on closing but on opening tap any key to wake. According to advise by other user on the net this has stopped his issue with black screen and lastly I performed it after step 1-4.\nNot sure what caused it tho but fiddeling around with above sorted my issue.\n\nI posted this comment in the apple discussions forum.\nI hope that helps.\nGood luck to all of you!\n\nA: Ive had similar problem,\nThe inverter and screen has been replaced by warranty.\nDoes it happens when you change angle of your lid?\n"
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        "text": "set -e\nset -x\n\nDB=$1\nTRAVIS_PHP_VERSION=$2\n\n# Packages update\nsudo apt-get update -qq\n\n# Install Apache, PHP and DB support if any\nif [ \"$DB\" == \"postgres\" ]\nthen\n    sudo apt-get -qq -y --force-yes install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-pgsql php5-curl > /dev/null\nelif [ \"$DB\" == \"mysqli\" ]\nthen\n    sudo apt-get -qq -y --force-yes install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-curl > /dev/null\nelse\n    sudo apt-get -qq -y --force-yes install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-curl > /dev/null\nfi\n\n# clean up\nsudo apt-get -qq -y autoremove > /dev/null\n\n# Apache webserver configuration\nsudo sed -i -e \"/var/www\" /etc/apache2/sites-available/default\nsudo a2enmod rewrite > /dev/null\nsudo a2enmod actions > /dev/null\nsudo a2enmod headers > /dev/null\n\n# Restart Apache to take effect\nsudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart\n\n# Setup a database if we are installing\nif [ \"$DB\" == \"postgres\" ]\nthen\n    psql -c \"DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS elkarte_test;\" -U postgres\n    psql -c \"create database elkarte_test;\" -U postgres\nelif [ \"$DB\" == \"mysqli\" ]\nthen\n    mysql -e \"DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS elkarte_test;\" -uroot\n    mysql -e \"create database IF NOT EXISTS elkarte_test;\" -uroot\nfi\n\n# Install or Update Composer\nif [ \"$DB\" != \"none\" ]\nthen\n    composer -v > /dev/null 2>&1\n    COMPOSER_IS_INSTALLED=$?\n\n    if [ $COMPOSER_IS_INSTALLED -ne 0 ]\n    then\n        echo \"Installing Composer\"\n        curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer\n    else\n        echo \"Updating Composer\"\n        composer self-update\n    fi\nfi"
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        "text": "23 март е 82-рия ден в годината според григорианския календар (83-ти през високосна година). Остават 283 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1227 г. – В Аахен Маргарет фон Бабенберг официално е коронована за кралица на Германия.\n 1568 г. – Катерина Медичи признава правата на френските хугеноти, с което настъпва края на Втората хугенотска война.\n 1775 г. – За първи път е използван израза „Свобода или смърт“ от Патрик Хенри, произнесен във Вирджиния по време на Американската война за независимост.\n 1801 г. – Александър I става император на Русия, след като баща му Павел I e убит.\n 1839 г. – В бостънския вестник „Morning Post“ за първи път се появява изразът „O.K.“\n 1869 г. – Към Българското читалище в Цариград Петко Славейков основава Българско благодетелно братство „Просвещение“.\n 1869 г. – Лайпцигският университет присъжда на професор Фридрих Ницше докторска степен.\n 1903 г. – Братя Райт подават молба за патент за построения от тях в САЩ самолет.\n 1918 г. – Германското 210-mm супероръдие „Кайзер Вилхелм“ („Парижкото оръдие“) обстрелва Париж от разстояние 120 километра. Оръдието често се бърка с „Голямата Берта“, което е друго оръжие, 406-mm полева гаубица.\n 1919 г. – В Милано Бенито Мусолини създава първата фашистка организация – „Fasci di Combattimento“.\n 1919 г. – Образувана е Башкирска автономна съветска социалистическа република, на основата на северните уезди на Оренбургската губерния, първата автономна съветска република в състава на РСФСР.\n 1923 г. – Нишката спогодба – споразумение между България и Кралството на сърби, хървати и словенци за „обезопасяване на границата“ между двете държави.\n 1924 г. – Създадено е археологическото сдружение Българска старина по инициатива на Карел Шкорпил във Варна.\n 1933 г. – В България е приет Закон за ограничаване престъпленията против личната и обществена безопасност, насочен против политическите убийства.\n 1933 г. – Германският Райхстаг издава декрет, с който предава цялата власт в ръцете на новия канцлер Адолф Хитлер.\n 1942 г. – Генерал Владимир Заимов е арестуван с обвинение за шпионаж в полза на СССР.\n 1953 г. – Айони в щата Калифорния е обявен за град.\n 1956 г. – Пакистан става първата ислямска република в света.\n 1962 г. – Установени са дипломатическите отношения между Русия и Алжир.\n 1976 г. – Официално влиза в сила Международният пакт за гражданските и политическите права, приет от Общото събрание на ООН на 16 декември 1966 г.\n 1983 г. – Стратегическа отбранителна инициатива: Президентът на САЩ Роналд Рейгън оповестява своето намерение да се изгради технология, която да прихваща вражески ракети.\n 1987 г. – Започва излъчването на американския сериал „Дързост и красота“ в САЩ.\n 1989 г. – В университета в Юта е обявен студен термоядрен синтез.\n 1990 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма „Хубава жена“ в САЩ и Канада.\n 1990 г. – Официално се регистрира ПК „Екогласност“.\n 2001 г. – Руската орбитална станция Мир е извадена от употреба и се разпада в атмосферата преди да потъне в южата част на Тихия океан, близо до Фиджи.\n 2002 г. – За първи път се състои церемонията по награждаването в специално посветения на това „Дом на Оскарите“ – кинотеатъра Кодак в Холивуд, недалеч от Рузвелт Хотел.\n 2007 г. – Основано е Училище „Българче“ на българската общност в град Дубай, Обединени арабски емирства.\n 2011 г. – Терористичен акт в Йерусалим погубва 1 човек и ранява 35.\n\nРодени \n\n 1732 г. – Мари-Аделаид, френска благородничка († 1800 г.)\n 1749 г. – Пиер-Симон Лаплас, френски математик († 1827 г.)\n 1856 г. – Иван Сарафов, български военен деец († 1935 г.)\n 1858 г. – Лудвиг Квиде, германски политик († 1941 г.)\n 1867 г. – Благой Даскалов, български революционер († 1956 г.)\n 1869 г. – Калуст Гулбенкян, британски предприемач († 1955 г.)\n 1871 г. – Дейвид Карнеги, британски изследовател († 1900 г.)\n 1874 г. – Христо Попвасилев, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1879 г. – Никола Казанджиев, български революционер († 1971 г.)\n 1880 г. – Никола Лазаров, български революционер († 1900 г.)\n 1881 г. – Роже Мартен дю Гар, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1958 г.)\n 1882 г. – Еми Ньотер, немска математичка († 1935 г.)\n 1892 г. – Валтер Крюгер, немски офицер († 1973 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ерих Фром, германски психолог († 1980 г.)\n 1905 г. – Джоан Крофорд, американска актриса († 1977 г.)\n 1910 г. – Акира Куросава, японски кинорежисьор († 1998 г.)\n 1912 г. – Вернер фон Браун, германски учен († 1977 г.)\n 1915 г. – Василий Зайцев, съветски войник († 1991 г.)\n 1919 г. – Борис Ганев, български футболист († 1982 г.)\n 1927 г. – Васил Мирчев, български режисьор († 2003 г.)\n 1931 г. – Виктор Корчной, руски шахматист († 2016 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Димитров Иванов, български инженер и учен\n 1940 г. – Ристо Шишков, югославски актьор († 1986 г.)\n 1943 г. – Уинстън Грум, американски писател († 2020 г.)\n 1949 г. – Ириней Константинов, български актьор\n 1952 г. – Ким Робинсън, американски писател\n 1952 г. – Панайот Карагьозов, български славист\n 1954 г. – Катрин Алрик, френска актриса\n 1955 г. – Каръл Ашби, британска актриса\n 1955 г. – Моузис Малоун, американски баскетболист\n 1955 г. – Сюзън Шваб, американски политик\n 1956 г. – Алексей Улюкаев, руски банкер\n 1956 г. – Жозе Мануел Барозо, министър-председател на Португалия\n 1956 г. – Талат Булут, турски киноартист\n 1958 г. – Пека Хаависто, финландски политик\n 1964 г. – Пламен Тотев, български критик\n 1968 г. – Деймън Олбърн, английски певец\n 1968 г. – Фернандо Йеро, испански футболист\n 1971 г. – Павел Цветков, български поет\n 1972 г. – Жюдит Годреш, френска актриса\n 1972 г. – Йонас Бьоркман, шведски тенисист\n 1973 г. – Йежи Дудек, полски футболист\n 1976 г. – Крис Хой, шотландски колоездач \n 1976 г. – Мишел Монахан, американска актриса\n 1978 г. – Валтер Самуел, аржентински футболист\n 1980 г. – Дмитрий Лукашенко, беларуски политик\n 1980 г. – Райън Дей, уелски професионален снукър играч\n 1982 г. – Джон Лойд Тейлър, американски музикант\n 1983 г. – Владислав Златинов, български футболист\n 1989 г. – Ерик Максим Чупо-Мотинг, германски футболист\n 1990 г. – Хайме Алгерсуари, испански автомобилен състезател\n\nПочинали \n\n 1237 г. – Йоан дьо Бриен, латински император (* ок. 1148 г.)\n 1555 г. – Юлий III, римски папа (* 1487 г.)\n 1748 г. – Йохан Готфрид Валтер, немски музикален теоретик (* 1684 г.)\n 1781 г. – Йохан Антон Гюлденщед, немски естественик (* 1745 г.)\n 1801 г. – Павел I, император на Русия (* 1754 г.)\n 1819 г. – Аугуст фон Коцебу, немски драматург (* 1761 г.)\n 1842 г. – Стендал, френски писател (* 1783 г.)\n 1866 г. – Захар Аркас, руски офицер (* 1793 г.)\n 1899 г. – Луи Мизон, френски офицер (* 1853 г.)\n 1901 г. – Константин Стоилов, министър-председател на България (* 1853 г.)\n 1905 г. – Валери Еляш Радзиковски, полски художник (* 1841 г.)\n 1906 г. – Георги Сугарев, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1907 г. – Константин Победоносцев, руски политик (* 1827 г.)\n 1907 г. – Филип Тотю, български революционер (* 1830 г.)\n 1913 г. – Стамен Панчев, български поет (* 1879 г.)\n 1924 г. – Шевкет Тургут паша, османски държавник (* 1857 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джон Рокфелер, американски предприемач (* 1839 г.)\n 1938 г. – Никола Бобчев, български филолог (* 1863 г.)\n 1940 г. – Димитър Станчов, български дипломат (* 1863 г.)\n 1942 г. – Лудвиг фон Хьонел, английски офицер (* 1857 г.)\n 1942 г. – Фриц Саразин, швейцарски зоолог (* 1859 г.)\n 1943 г. – Александър Стефанов, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1945 г. – Георги Радков, български офицер (* 1889 г.)\n 1948 г. – Георги Сучев, български революционер (* 1928 г.)\n 1948 г. – Николай Бердяев, руски философ (* 1874 г.)\n 1954 г. – Христо Несторов, български анархист (* 1903 г.)\n 1958 г. – Хенри Брайлсфорд, британски журналист (* 1873 г.)\n 1960 г. – Саид Нурси, ислямски мислител (* 1878 г.)\n 1980 г. – Артър Оукън, американски икономист (* 1928 г.)\n 1981 г. – Клод Окинлек, английски офицер (* 1884 г.)\n 1991 г. – Елисавета Багряна, българска поетеса (* 1893 г.)\n 1992 г. – Фридрих Хайек, австрийски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 (* 1899 г.)\n 1993 г. – Ханс Вернер Рихтер, немски писател (* 1908 г.)\n 1994 г. – Джулиета Мазина, италианска актриса (* 1921 г.)\n 2004 г. – Чавдар Кюранов, български политик (* 1921 г.)\n 2005 г. – Кирил Борисов, български политик (* ? г.)\n 2006 г. – Дезмънд Дос, американски войник (* 1919 г.)\n 2011 г. – Елизабет Тейлър, британско-американска актриса (* 1932 г.)\n 2012 г. – Абдула Юсуф Ахмед, президент на Сомалия (* 1934 г.)\n 2013 г. – Борис Березовски, руски предприемач (* 1946 г.)\n 2021 г. – Хана Хегерова, словашко-чешка певица и актриса (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на метеорологията – Отбелязва се от 1961 г. в деня на влизането в сила през 1950 г. на Конвенцията за Световната метеорологична организация (СМО) – специализиран орган на ООН.\n Световния ден на атеизма – Отбелязва се от 2019 г. насам за хората без вярвания в божества.\n Българска православна църква – Св. мъченица Лидия\n Пакистан – Ден на ислямската република (1956 г., национален празник)\n Унгария и Полша – Ден на унгаро-полското приятелство (2007 г.)\n\n323"
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    {
        "text": "24 март е 83-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (84-ти през високосна година). Остават 282 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1201 г. – Цар Калоян превзема Варна, с което градът преминава от Византийската империя в България.\n 1449 г. – Арта е присъединена към Османски Епир.\n 1721 г. – Йохан Себастиан Бах завършва своите шест „Бранденбургски концерти“.\n 1801 г. – На руския престол се възкачва император Александър I.\n 1880 г. – В България е назначено либерално правителство начело с Драган Цанков.\n 1882 г. – Немският бактериолог д-р Робърт Кох обявява, че е открил причинителя на туберкулозата – Mycobacterium tuberculosis.\n 1900 г. – Започва строителството на Нюйоркското метро.\n 1901 г. – По нареждане на правителството започват арести на членовете на Върховния македоно-одрински комитет (ВМОК).\n 1921 г. – С указ на цар Борис III се премахва наборната военна служба и се преминава към платена доброволческа служба на войнишкия състав.\n 1923 г. – Гърция е провъзгласена за република.\n 1924 г. – Подписано е споразумение с Антантата за окупационния дълг: 25 000 000 златни франка, платими за 10 години при 5% лихва.\n 1944 г. – Втора декларация на „10-те“ водачи на опозицията (без комунисти) за скъсване на съюза с Германия, отхвърлена от регентите.\n 1949 г. – За първи път на церемониите по връчване на наградите „Оскар“ за най-добър филм е избран чуждестранен – английската екранизация на „Хамлет“.\n 1959 г. – Възстановени са дипломатическите отношения със САЩ, прекъснати през 1950 г.\n 1976 г. – Исабел Мартинес де Перон е свалена от власт като президент на Аржентина чрез държавен преврат.\n 1986 г. – Гриша Филипов е освободен от поста министър-председател.\n 1989 г. – Край Аляска става една от най-големите в историята екологични катастрофи – от супертанкера „Ексон Валдес“ в морето се изливат повече от 240 000 барела суров петрол.\n 1993 г. – Открита е кометата Шумейкър-Леви 9.\n 1999 г. – Косовска война: НАТО предприема въздушни военни действия срещу Югославия, като така за пръв път НАТО атакува суверенна държава.\n 2015 г. – Полет 9525 на Джърмануингс: Самолет Еърбъс А320-211 катастрофира във френските Алпи, вследствие на което загиват 150 души.\n\nРодени \n\n 1494 г. – Георг Агрикола, немски лекар († 1555 г.)\n 1782 г. – Орест Кипренски, руски художник († 1836 г.)\n 1808 г. – Мария Малибран, испанска оперна певица, мецосопран († 1836 г.)\n 1809 г. – Мариано Хосе де Лара, испански писател († 1837 г.)\n 1820 г. – Александър Бекерел, френски физик († 1891 г.)\n 1834 г. – Уилям Морис, английски дизайнер, художник, писател и социалист († 1896 г.)\n 1844 г. – Камий Льомоние, белгийски писател, представител на натурализма († 1913 г.)\n 1870 г. – Петър Кушев, български учител революционер († 1939 г.)\n 1874 г. – Хари Худини, американски илюзионист унгарски произход († 1926 г.)\n 1882 г. – Боян Секулов, български писател и литературен критик († 1945 г.)\n 1883 г. – Стефан Чавдаров, български революционер († 1944 г.)\n 1891 г. – Сергей Вавилов, съветски физик († 1951 г.)\n 1892 г. – Владимир Стойчев, български военен († 1990 г.)\n 1893 г. – Марджъри Бриърли, британски психоаналитик († 1984 г.)\n 1894 г. – Дора Метева, поетеса и преводач († 1967 г.)\n 1896 г. – Илия Кушев, български революционер († 1922 г.)\n 1897 г. – Вилхелм Райх, австро-американски психиатър и психоаналитик († 1957 г.)\n 1901 г. – Юби Айуъркс, американски аниматор († 1971 г.)\n 1917 г. – Джон Кендрю, британски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат († 1997 г.)\n 1921 г. – Василий Смислов, руски шахматист († 2010 г.)\n 1924 г. – Славка Славова, българска актриса († 2002 г.)\n 1926 г. – Дарио Фо, италиански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1997 г. († 2016 г.)\n 1927 г. – Мартин Валзер, немски писател\n 1930 г. – Милко Диков, български художник-карикатурист\n 1930 г. – Стийв Маккуин, американски актьор († 1980 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Теофилов, български поет, драматург и режисьор\n 1935 г. – Петер Биксел, швейцарски писател\n 1944 г. – Воислав Кощуница, министър-председател на Сърбия\n 1944 г. – Роналд Лий Ърми, американски актьор († 2018 г.)\n 1947 г. – Арчи Джемъл, шотландски футболист\n 1949 г. – Табита Кинг, американска писателка\n 1949 г. – Цоньо Ботев, български политик\n 1951 г. – Кенет Рийтлър, американски астронавт\n 1954 г. – Марио Кръстев, български актьор\n 1956 г. – Стив Балмър, американски предприемач\n 1956 г. – Петер Уотърхаус, австрийски писател\n 1957 г. – Матьо Добрев, български кавалджия и педагог († 2019 г.)\n 1958 г. – Крум Георгиев, български шахматист\n 1960 г. – Ясер Сейраван, американски шахматист\n 1965 г. – Гробаря, американски кечист\n 1966 г. – Милен Велчев, български политик\n 1969 г. – Георги Андреев, български композитор\n 1970 г. – Лара Флин Бойл, американска актриса\n 1971 г. – Генади Симеонов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Ивайло Петков, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Маркъс Хол, английски футболист\n 1978 г. – Томаш Уйфалуши, чешки футболист\n 1980 г. – Десислава Чардаклиева, българска актриса\n 1981 г. – Анна Багряна, украинска писателка\n 1981 г. – Орещеш Жуниор Алвеш, бразилски футболист\n 1982 г. – Джак Суагър, американски кечист\n 1982 г. – Борис Дали, български попфолк певец\n 1983 г. – Лаура Лайън, чешка порноактриса\n 1984 г. – Крис Бош, американски баскетболист\n 1984 г. – Пак Бум, южнокорейска певица (2NE1)\n\nПочинали \n\n \n\n 809 г. – Харун ал-Рашид, халиф от династията Абасиди (* 763 г.)\n 1396 г. – Уолтър Хилтън, английски августински мистик (* 1340 г.)\n 1455 г. – Николай V, първият Ренесансов римски папа (* 1397 г.)\n 1603 г. – Елизабет I, английска кралица (* 1533 г.)\n 1635 г. – Жак Кало, френски живописец и гравьор (* 1592 г.)\n 1773 г. – Филип Дормър Стенхоп Честърфийлд, английски държавник (* 1694 г.)\n 1794 г. – Жак-Рене Ебер, френски политик (* 1757 г.)\n 1853 г. – Димитър Молеров, български зограф (* ок. 1780 г.)\n 1882 г. – Хенри Уадсуорт Лонгфелоу, американски поет (* 1807 г.)\n 1887 г. – Иван Крамской, руски художник и критик (* 1837 г.)\n 1894 г. – Върни Ловът Камерън, английски пътешественик (* 1844 г.)\n 1903 г. – Петко Петков Караиванов, български майор (* 1859 г.)\n 1905 г. – Жул Верн, френски писател (* 1828 г.)\n 1913 г. – Анастасиос Пихеон, гръцки революционер (* 1836 г.)\n 1916 г. – Енрике Гранадос, испански композитор и пианист (* 1867 г.)\n 1919 г. – Димитър Бакърджиев, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1927 г. – Елизавета Маврикиевна, велика руска княгиня (* 1865 г.)\n 1943 г. – Димитър Драгиев, български политик (* 1869 г.)\n 1944 г. – Чарлз Орд Уингейт, британски офицер (* 1903 г.)\n 1946 г. – Александър Алехин, руски шахматист (* 1892 г.)\n 1963 г. – Никола Мутафчиев, български футболист (* 1904 г.)\n 1976 г. – Бърнард Монтгомъри, британски офицер (* 1887 г.)\n 1984 г. – Васил Величков, първият български пилот (* 1918 г.)\n 1995 г. – Джоузеф Нийдам, британски историк (* 1900 г.)\n 2001 г. – Добромир Тонев, български поет (* 1955 г.)\n 2016 г. – Йохан Кройф, холандски футболист и треньор (* 1947 г.)\n\nПразници \n Празник на град Пирдоп\n Партений III Константинополски, вселенски патриарх\n СЗО при ООН – Световен ден за борба с туберкулозата (обявен през 1996 г.)\n Аржентина – Ден за възпоменаване на истината и справедливостта (2002 г.)\n Киргизстан – Ден на народната революция\n Пакистан – Ден на Пакистан\n Уганда – Ден на жената\n\n324"
    },
    {
        "text": "25 март е 84-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (85-и през високосна година). Остават 281 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 708 г. – Константин е избран за папа.\n 717 г. – Лъв III е коронясан за византийски император.\n 1306 г. – Робърт Брус става крал на Шотландия.\n 1655 г. – Холандският астроном Кристиян Хюйгенс открива Титан – най-големия естествен спътник на Сатурн.\n 1680 г. – Пожар изпепелява Търново. От целия град остава само една къща.\n 1713 г. – Официално е осветен мъжкият православен манастир Александро-Невска лавра в Санкт Петербург.\n 1807 г. – В Британската империя се забранява търговията с роби; капитаните, превозващи роби, били глобявани със £120 за всеки роб.\n 1813 г. – Мишел Ней е произведен в Принц де ла Москова.\n 1821 г. – В Пелопонес започва гръцкото въстание за освобождаване от Османската империя.\n 1909 г. – В Русия Мадам Попова е арестувана за над 300 убийства.\n 1941 г. – Кралство Югославия подписва във Виена договор за присъединяване към Тристранния пакт.\n 1949 г. – Съветският съюз депортира 92 000 жители на Прибалтийските републики в Сибир, за да се проведе колективизацията в тези страни.\n 1957 г. – С подписването на Римския договор от Западна Германия, Франция, Италия, Белгия, Нидерландия и Люксембург е създадена Европейската икономическа общност.\n 1958 г. – Проведен е първият полет на канадския изтребител-прехващач Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow.\n 1971 г. – Открит е нефтохимическият комбинат край Плевен.\n 1992 г. – Космонавтът Сергей Крикальов се завръща на Земята след близо 10-месечен престой на борда на орбитална станция Мир.\n\nРодени \n\n 1252 г. – Конрадин, крал на Йерусалим и Сицилия († 1268 г.)\n 1297 г. – Андроник III Палеолог, византийски император († 1341 г.)\n 1479 г. – Василий III, велик княз на Московското княжество († 1533 г.)\n 1541 г. – Франческо I Медичи, велик херцог на Тоскана († 1587 г.)\n 1767 г. – Жоашен Мюра, френски военен деец († 1815 г.)\n 1774 г. – Франсоа Мари Доден, френски зоолог († 1804 г.)\n 1844 г. – Адолф Енглер, германски ботаник († 1930 г.)\n 1856 г. – Марин Маринов, български военен деец († 1885 г.)\n 1856 г. – Макс Уле, германски археолог († 1944 г.)\n 1859 г. – Анастас Бендерев, български офицер, генерал от руската армия († 1946 г.)\n 1874 г. – Михаил Хаджинеделчев, български учител († 1947 г.)\n 1881 г. – Бела Барток, унгарски композитор и пианист († 1945 г.)\n 1882 г. – Арсени Йовков, български революционер († 1924 г.)\n 1885 г. – Стефан Македонски, български оперен певец († 1961 г.)\n 1889 г. – Константин Щъркелов, български художник († 1961 г.)\n 1890 г. – Йоланде Якоби, немски психолог († 1973 г.)\n 1890 г. – Чудомир, български писател-хуморист († 1967 г.)\n 1900 г. – Веселин Бешевлиев, български историк и филолог († 1992 г.)\n 1908 г. – Дейвид Лийн, английски режисьор († 1991 г.)\n 1911 г. – Ангеларий, глава на Македонска православна църква († 1987 г.)\n 1914 г. – Норман Борлауг, американски агроном, лауреат на Нобелова награда за мир († 2009 г. г.)\n 1921 г. – Начо Папазов, български политик († 1996 г.)\n 1921 г. – Симон Синьоре, френска актриса († 1985 г.)\n 1934 г. – Христо Фотев, български поет († 2002 г.)\n 1940 г. – Мина Мацини, италианска певица\n 1941 г. – Ерхард Бузек, австрийски политик\n 1942 г. – Арета Франклин, американска певица († 2018 г.)\n 1946 г. – Панко Анчев, български литературовед и литературен критик\n 1947 г. – Елтън Джон, британски певец и композитор\n 1952 г. – Дидие Пирони, френски пилот от Формула 1 († 1987 г.)\n 1965 г. – Сара Джесика Паркър, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Стефка Костадинова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1967 г. – Висенте Амиго, испански фламенко китарист\n 1969 г. – Николай Недков, български футболист\n 1972 г. – Роберто Акуня, аржентински футболист\n 1975 г. – Пламен Крумов, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Тиана Кай, американска порноактриса\n 1980 г. – Александър Сивилов, български историк\n 1989 г. – Скот Синклеър, английски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 752 г. – Стефан II, римски папа (починал преди да встъпи в длъжност)\n 1189 г. – Фредерик, херцог на Бохемия (* 1141 г.)\n 1625 г. – Джанбатиста Марино, италиански поет (* 1569 г.)\n 1774 г. – Каролина фон Насау-Саарбрюкен, немска аристократка (* 1704 г.)\n 1801 г. – Новалис, немски поет (* 1772 г.)\n 1867 г. – Фридлиб Рунге, немски химик и професор (* 1794 г.)\n 1876 г. – Никола Странджата, български революционер\n 1902 г. – Методи Патчев, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1905 г. – Морис Баримор, американски актьор (* 1849 г.)\n 1914 г. – Фредерик Мистрал, френски поет, Нобелов лауреат (* 1830 г.)\n 1918 г. – Клод Дебюси, френски композитор (* 1862 г.)\n 1925 г. – Коста Шулев, деец на БКП и БКМС (* 1898 г.)\n 1930 г. – Георги Марчин, български военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1951 г. – Михаил Йовов, български военен и държавен деец, дипломат (* 1886 г.)\n 1966 г. – Венелин Ганев, български юрист и политик (* 1880 г.)\n 1976 г. – Петър Хаджипанзов, български революционер (* 1901 г.)\n 1980 г. – Ролан Барт, френски литературен критик и писател (* 1915 г.)\n 2012 г. – Антонио Табуки, италиански писател (* 1943 г.)\n\nПразници \n Източноправославна църква и Римокатолическа църква – Свети Дисмас или Димас\n Християнство – Благовещение (Имен ден на Благовест, Благовеста, Благой, Блага, Вангел, Вангелия)\n ООН – Международен ден на възпоминание на жертвите на робството и търговията с роби (от 2008 г.)\n Международен ден на спортното кино (от 2002 г. по решение на Международния олимпийски комитет и Международната федерация по спортно кино и телевизия)\n Празник на Асоциацията на медийните експерти в администрацията (от 2006 г. с решение на пресаташетата от различни институции в цялата страна)\n Ден на пощенската картичка\n България – Празник на ДЗИ (от 1994 г.)\n България – Ден на жената и майката (от 1994 г.)\n Беларус – Ден на свободата (от 1918 г.)\n Гърция – Декларация за независимост (от Османска империя, 1821 г., национален празник)\n Русия – Ден на културата\n Сан Марино – Празник на бунтовниците\n САЩ – Ден на Мериленд\n Словения – Ден на майката\n Украйна – Ден на службата за сигурност\n\n325"
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        "text": "Thanks Denzil. I think what I like best about these environments is it the opportunistic nature and strength of the plants that colonise it – it gives me hope for our wildlife’s determination to keep going despite our best efforts to subdue it!\nThe flora of dunes and the seashore is something quite unique isn’t it? You have captured the diversity brilliantly!"
    },
    {
        "text": "AETC Working to Reduce Number of Airmen Required to Fly RPAs\n​Brian Everstine\n​SrA.Than, a 42nd Attack Squadron MQ-9 sensor operator, flies a simulated training mission Nov. 28, 2016, at Creech AFB, Nev. Air Force photo by SrA. Christian Clausen.\n​The Air Force needs to change how its remotely piloted aircraft community operates if it wants to meaningfully address its manning shortfall, because it simply takes too many people to operate an RPA, the head of Air Education and Training Command said Thursday.\nThe shortfall in the RPA community stems from the fact that it takes 10 people to fly one unmanned aircraft, while a manned squadron operates on a 1.5 to 1 ratio, AETC Commander Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast said at AWS18.\n\"We have more people doing this RPA business ... than we do any of the other business lines of aviation,\" Kwast said. \"It doesn't mean we have to live with that. We have to change that, because it's too expensive in manpower.\"\nThe Air Force's RPA infrastructure was a \"solution in the throes of Afghanistan and Iraq,\" one that \"fit the need of the day.\" Now, efficiency is as important as effectiveness and AETC is trying to find ways to reduce how manpower intensive it is to conduct ISR operations at a time when the need for more ISR continues to skyrocket.\nThe Air Force could address this by effectively using emerging technology and techniques, or finding other types of talent. There has already been some progress in this area, Kwast said. When the Air Force first flew remotely piloted aircraft operationally, it required 13 personnel to operate one MQ-1 Predator, he said.\nKwast said he is working with the whole of the Air Force to \"build a strategy\" and \"change the game\" to find ways to produce more ISR with fewer people. This process is still early on, with the biggest progress possibly happening years from now, he said."
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        "text": "26 март е 85-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (86-и през високосна година). Остават 280 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1812 г. – Земетресение разрушава Каракас, Венецуела.\n 1828 г. – Австрийският композитор Франц Шуберт изнася единствения си публичен концерт.\n 1841 г. – Българският духовник Неофит Бозвели е заточен в Света гора.\n 1899 г. – В Москва е пуснат в действие първият трамвай.\n 1908 г. – На Остров Принц Едуард (Канада) са забранени всички автомобили. Забраната по-късно е премахната.\n 1913 г. – Балканска война: Обсада на Одрин: Втора българска армия превзема Одрин.\n 1924 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен клуб Атлетико Паранаензе.\n 1934 г. – Националният отбор по футбол на България за пръв път участва в световна квалификация и губи в София от Унгария с 1:4.\n 1934 г. – В Обединеното кралство е въведен шофьорски курс.\n 1936 г. – Основан е украинският футболен клуб Черноморец Одеса.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: В нацисткия концлагер Аушвиц в окупирана Полша се затварят първите жени затворнички.\n 1948 г. – Публикуван е първият Закон за прокуратурата в България.\n 1950 г. – В София е проведен първият мач от българския турнир по аматьорски бокс „Странджа“.\n 1969 г. – В Космоса е пуснат първият съветски метеорологичен спътник.\n 1975 г. – В сила влиза Конвенцията за забрана на разработването, производството и натрупването на запаси от биологично оръжие и токсини, и за тяхното унищожаване.\n 1992 г. – Американският боксьор Майк Тайсън е осъден на десет години затвор за изнасилване.\n 1995 г. – Влиза в сила Шенгенският договор.\n 1996 г. – Международният валутен фонд одобрява заем на Русия на стойност 10,2 милиарда щатски долара.\n 1999 г. – Компютърният червей „Мелиса“ започва да заразява електронните пощи през интернет.\n 2000 г. – На президентските избори в Русия за президент на страната е избран Владимир Путин.\n 2000 г. – Подписана е Декларация между правителствата на България и Румъния за изграждането на мост Видин-Калафат на река Дунав.\n 2006 г. – В Шотландия влиза в сила забрана за тютюнопушене на публични места.\n\nРодени \n\n 1753 г. – Бенджамин Томпсън, британски физик († 1814 г.)\n 1821 г. – Ернст Енгел, немски специалист по статистика († 1896 г.)\n 1868 г. – Фуад I, крал на Египет († 1936 г.)\n 1874 г. – Робърт Фрост, американски поет († 1963 г.)\n 1876 г. – Вилхелм фон Вид, княз на Албания († 1945 г.)\n 1899 г. – Асен Камбуров, български актьор († 1958 г.)\n 1904 г. – Джоузеф Камбъл, американски митолог († 1987 г.)\n 1905 г. – Виктор Франкъл, австрийски психиатър († 1997 г.)\n 1911 г. – Тенеси Уилямс, американски драматург († 1983 г.)\n 1912 г. – Христо Бояджиев, български художник († 2001 г.)\n 1913 г. – Пал Ердьош, унгарски математик († 1996 г.)\n 1916 г. —\n Кристиан Анфинсен, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат († 1995 г.)\n Стърлинг Хейдън, американски актьор († 1986 г.)\n 1917 г. – Георги Авгарски, български писател († 1991 г.)\n 1918 г. – Анди Хамилтън, британски музикант († 2012 г.)\n 1925 г. – Пиер Булез, френски композитор и диригент († 2016 г.)\n 1926 г. – Лино Алдани, италиански писател († 2009 г.)\n 1934 г. – Алън Аркин, американски актьор\n 1935 г. – Махмуд Абас, палестински политик\n 1937 г. – Ахмед Курей, палестински политик\n 1938 г. – Антъни Легет, британски и американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1939 г. – Андрей Пантев, български историк, академик\n 1940 г. – Джеймс Каан, американски актьор\n 1940 г. – Нанси Пелоси, американски политик\n 1941 г. –\n Ричард Докинс, британски биолог\n Лела Ломбарди, италианска автомобилна състезателка († 1992 г.)\n 1944 г. – Даяна Рос, американска певица\n 1946 г. – Симеон Симеонов, български футболист († 2000 г.)\n 1948 г. – Стивън Тайлър, американски музикант („Аеросмит“)\n 1949 г. – Патрик Зюскинд, немски писател\n 1951 г. – Карл Уиман, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 2001 г.\n 1953 г. – Ернст-Вилхелм Хендлер, немски писател\n 1958 г. – Добромир Карамаринов, български лекоатлет\n 1958 г. – Елио де Анджелис, италиански автомобилен състезател († 1986 г.)\n 1967 г. – Иван Искров, български икономист и политик\n 1970 г. – Александър Гарибов, председател на УС на ПФК ЦСКА (София)\n 1974 г. – Андроника Мартонова, български изкуствовед, културолог и специалист в киното на Азия\n 1975 г. – Антон Спасов, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Нургюл Йешилчай, турска актриса\n 1977 г. – Стив Августин, американски барабанист (Thousand Foot Krutch и FM Static)\n 1985 г. – Кийра Найтли, английска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 900 г. – Йоан IX, римски папа\n 1827 г. – Лудвиг ван Бетховен, немски композитор (* 1770 г.)\n 1838 г. – Уилям Хенри Ашли, американски пътешественик (* 1778 г.)\n 1839 г. – Юрий Венелин, украински славист (* 1802 г.)\n 1892 г. – Уолт Уитман, американски поет (* 1819 г.)\n 1902 г. – Сесил Роудс, британски бизнесмен, минен магнат и политик (* 1853 г.)\n 1902 г. – Иван Савов, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1920 г. – Самюъл Колман, американски художник (* 1832 г.)\n 1923 г. – Сара Бернар, френска актриса (* 1884 г.)\n 1925 г. – Яко Доросиев, български комунист (* 1890 г.)\n 1938 г. – Кирил Шиваров, скулптор (* 1887 г.)\n 1940 г. – Дан Колов, български борец (* 1892 г.)\n 1945 г. – Борис Шапошников, съветски маршал (* 1882 г.)\n 1945 г. – Дейвид Лойд Джордж, английски политик (* 1863 г.)\n 1947 г. – Карол Сверчевски, полски политик (* 1897 г.)\n 1959 г. – Реймънд Чандлър, американски писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1976 г. – Цанко Кильовски, български офицер (* 1919 г.)\n 1987 г. – Ойген Йохум, немски диригент (* 1902 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ийзи-И, истинско име Ерик Лин Райт, американски рапър (* 1963 г.)\n 1999 г. – Ананда Шанкар, бенгалски музикант (* 1942 г.)\n 2004 г. – Рачко Ябанджиев, български артист (* 1920 г.)\n 2007 г. – Борис Димовски, български художник (* 1925 г.)\n 2010 г. – Никола Рударов, български актьор (* 1927 г.)\n 2013 г. – Николай Сорокин, съветско-руски театрален и киноактьор и режисьор (* 1952 г.)\n 2018 г. – Николай Кауфман, български музиковед (* 1925 г.)\n\nПразници \n Източноправославна църква – Събор на архангел Гавраил (Именници: Гавраил, Гаврил, Габриел, Габриела)\n Световен ден за осведомяване хората за епилепсията – Ден на лилавото (Purple day)\n Бангладеш – Ден на независимостта (от Пакистан, 1971 г., национален празник)\n България – Ден на Тракия\n България – Празник на командване „Оперативни сили“\n България – Боен празник на 8-и Беломорски, 10-и Родопски, 12-и Балкански, 23-ти Шипченски, 30-и Шейновски, 38-и Одрински и 39-и Солунски пехотни полкове\n Великобритания – Ден на майката (Mother's Day)\n Виетнам – Ден на младежа\n Зороастризъм – Рожден ден на пророка Зороастър\n Украйна – Ден на войските на МВР\n\nИзточници \n\n326"
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        "text": "A delicious Cajun stew full of flavor,seafood,vegetables, and spice!\nTurn the heat to medium & pull out a large saucepan. Once the pot is hot,melt the margarine and toss in the chopped onion and bell pepper.\n**I put my onion and bell pepper in my food processor and pulsed it until chopped but not smushed.\nI'm just cooking the onions and bell pepper until they soften , then letting most of the liquid evaporate ( excuse all the stem!).\nI use a large can of condensed cream of mushroom( which was 1lb and 10oz.) but you can use 2 1/2 cans that are this size!\nAdd this to the onions/bell peppers and stir in.\nThis is the outcome. Next, we're going to season this dish!\nServe this heavenly stew over hot white rice and enjoy!\n🌸Jada's DIY's & Recipes🌸 ."
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        "text": "BASIS Independent McLean Appoints Veteran Educator and Exeter Administrator as New Head of School\nFriday, December 8th, 2017, 3:36pm\nBASIS Independent McLean, a private preschool through 12th grade school that is a part of the nationally-ranked, world-acclaimed BASIS Curriculum network, has announced the appointment of Ron Kim as Head of School. The new head of school will greet prospective families and the school community at an information session on Sat., Jan. 20, 2018. For information on the information session, interested families can visit http://info.basisindependent.com/general-info-session-january-20.\nLearningRx’s Reston Earns Lifetime Impact Award; LearningRx Vienna Earns Community Impact Award\nTuesday, October 17th, 2017, 12:20pm\nMaureen Loftus, owner and executive director of LearningRx Reston and LearningRx Vienna, took home a top awards from LearningRx’s national convention held in Colorado Springs, Col: the 2017 Life Impact Award and the 2017 Community Impact Award. The Life Impact Award is given to LearningRx Reston for fulfilling the brain training needs of a client through multiple stages of life. The Community Impact Award is given to LearningRx Tysons for the top seven centers in the nation that have the most significant impact on the people in their respective community.For more information, go to www.learningrx.com/reston.\nNo. Virginia Couple Introduces Cook, Eat, Play, Travel; Video Journal of Culinary Tours\nFriday, October 6th, 2017, 2:27pm\nNorthern Virginia owners, George and Linda Meyers, of Cook in Tuscany, Cook in Mexico and Cook in Cuba debuted ‘Cook, Eat, Play, Travel’, their online, video diary of their worldwide travels and journeys. They are always asked about life “outside” of their culinary tours in Tuscany, Mexico and Cuba, so they started documenting their adventures. Named one of the top 15 Foodie Destinations by USA Today, the Meyers created Cook, Eat, Play, Travel to allow people around the world to experience some of their culinary travel adventures online. To view or learn more, go to www.cookeatplaytravel.com.\nMetropolitan School of the Arts Student Joins Houston Ballet Academy\nTuesday, September 19th, 2017, 10:29am\nMetropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) Academy of Alexandria Va. congratulates its student Elpida Voryas, 16, of Alexandria, Va. on her acceptance to the pre-professional Houston Ballet Academy program this fall. Go to www.metropolitanarts.org for more information.\nVoryas has been taking jazz, ballet, modern and contemporary dance for 12 years, but became more committed to ballet at age 8, when she started MSA’s conservatory Royal Academy of Dance. After graduating from that program with distinction, she was invited to train with the prestigious Royal Ballet School Summer program in London in 2017, where she was among 125 female and male dancers who were picked from 2,700 applicants from around the world.\nLearningRx Of Reston, Vienna, VA. Earns National Customer Service Award\nMonday, August 28th, 2017, 2:54pm\nLearningRx Reston, Va. and Vienna, Va., brain training centers were presented with a top, 2017 Customer Service Award at the company’s national convention held in Colorado Springs, Colo. The award is given to centers that have shown a strong commitment to customer satisfaction. For more information, go to www.learningrx.com.\nReston, Va. and Vienna, Va. brain training centers averaged an overall score of 9.5 out of 10 for all clients that trained in the centers over the last year.To determine customer satisfaction, LearningRx uses a 10-point scale and asks clients (or their parents) the likelihood they would recommend LearningRx to a friend. The 10-point measurement of customer loyalty also works as a system to increase customer satisfaction.\n“We love what we do…and we’re thrilled to be able to help others achieve their goals through brain training,” said Maureen Loftus, executive director of LearningRx of Vienna and Reston, Va.\nMetropolitan School of the Arts Welcomes New Faculty Members\nMonday, July 24th, 2017, 2:00pm\nMetropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) of Alexandria Va. welcomes eight new faculty members to its tap, jazz, hip hop and ballet departments, from various parts of the United States and beyond, including Roger C. Jeffrey, a NYC native and The Juilliard School graduate, specializing in ballet, Quynn Johnson, a Howard University graduate and student of tap and West African dance, and Guiliano Antonio, a Brazilian tap artist, who has taught at several tap festivals in Argentina, Brazil and the United States. Go to www.metropolitanarts.org for more information on their staff."
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    {
        "text": "27 март е 86-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (87-и през високосна). Остават 279 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 196 г. пр.н.е. – Птолемей V се възкачва на трона на Египет.\n 1309 г. – Папа Климент V отлъчва Венеция и цялото и население.\n 1329 г. – В Агро Доминико Папа Йоан XXII осъжда някои писания на Майстер Екхарт като ерес.\n 1625 г. – Чарлз I става крал на Англия, Шотландия и Ирландия и претендира за крал на Франция.\n 1782 г. – Чарлс Уотсън-Уентуърт, 2-ри маркиз на Рокингам става министър-председател на Обединеното кралство.\n 1854 г. – Кримска война: Великобритания обявява война на Русия.\n 1867 г. – Карл Маркс завършва първия том на Капиталът, в който са формулирани икономическите закони за развитието на капиталистическото общество.\n 1899 г. – Италианският инженер Гулиелмо Маркони осъществява първата международна радиовръзка – между Англия и Франция, като използва морзовата азбука.\n 1907 г. – Приет е Закон за организиране на обществена безопасност, с който е създадена тайната политическа полиция.\n 1917 г. – Състои се битката при Червената стена.\n 1918 г. – Молдова и Бесарабия се присъединяват към Румъния.\n 1927 г. – Спуснат е на вода японския самолетоносач „Акаги“.\n 1933 г. – Япония напуска Обществото на народите.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: В Югославия е извършен държавен преврат.\n 1943 г. – Приет е закон за 5 % вътрешен държавен заем против инфлацията.\n 1953 г. – Правителството на България намалява държавните цени на дребно на стоките за народно потребление.\n 1956 г. – Направена е първата копка на Автомагистрала А1 Италия\n 1958 г. – Никита Хрушчов е избран за Председател на Съвета на министрите на СССР.\n 1962 г. – За първи път се чества Международният ден на театъра\n 1964 г. – Най-силното земетресение, регистрирано в САЩ с магнитуд 9,2 по скалата на Рихтер разтърсва южна и централна Аляска и убива 125 души.\n 1969 г. – Изстрелян е американският космически апарат Маринър 7, който заедно с Маринър 6 (изстрелян на 24 февруари 1969 г.) осъществява първата двойна мисия до Марс за дистанционен анализ на атмосферата и повърхността на планетата.\n 1972 г. – От СССР е изстрелян автоматичен космически апарат Венера 8.\n 1973 г. – Американският актьор Марлон Брандо се отказва от наградата Оскар, в знак на подкрепа на правата на индианците.\n 1976 г. – Открито е метрото на Вашингтон.\n 1977 г. – При най-голямата в историята самолетна катастрофа два самолета Боинг се сблъскват на летище „Лос Родеос“, Тенерифе (Канарски острови), при което загиват 583 души.\n 1980 г. – В Северно море се преобръща норвежка нефтена платформа Alexander Kielland, загиват 123 души от обслужващия персонал.\n 1990 г. – В Лондон е открит музей на Шерлок Холмс.\n 1993 г. – Дзян Дзъмин е избран за президент на Китайската народна република.\n 2004 г. – Открит е стадиона O2 Арена в Прага, Чехия.\n 2010 г. – От 20:30 до 21:30 (българско време) e проведен Часът на земята.\n\nРодени \n\n 972 г. – Робер II, крал на Франция († 1031 г.)\n 1196 г. – Светослав III, велик княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество († 1252 г.)\n 1746 г. – Майкъл Брус, шотландски поет († 1767 г.)\n 1753 г. – Андрю Бел, британски педагог († 1832 г.)\n 1776 г. – Шарл-Франсоа Брисо дьо Мирбел, френски ботаник († 1854 г.)\n 1785 г. – Луи XVII, крал на Франция († 1795 г.)\n 1797 г. – Алфред дьо Вини, френски писател († 1863 г.)\n 1845 г. – Вилхелм Рьонтген, немски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 г. († 1923 г.)\n 1847 г. – Ото Валах, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1910 г. († 1931 г.)\n 1863 г. – Хенри Ройс, британски предприемач († 1933 г.)\n 1871 г. – Хайнрих Ман, германски писател († 1950 г.)\n 1877 г. – Теодор Моров, български биолог († 1941 г.)\n 1886 г. – Лудвиг Мис ван дер Рое, немско-американски архитект († 1969 г.)\n 1893 г. – Карл Манхайм, социолог († 1947 г.)\n 1899 г. – Гечо Кокилев, български и съветски морски офицер († 1938 г.)\n 1901 г. – Ейсаку Сато, японски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 г. († 1975 г.)\n 1909 г. – Голо Ман, немско-швейцарски историк († 1994 г.)\n 1914 г. – Ричард Денинг, американски актьор († 1998 г.)\n 1917 г. – Сайръс Ванс, държавен секретар на САЩ († 2002 г.)\n 1918 г. – Иван Недев, български политик († 1992 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ричард Марнър, британски актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1927 г. – Мстислав Ростропович, руски музикант († 2007 г.)\n 1927 г. – Сесил Бьодкер, датска поетеса и писателка († 2020 г.)\n 1928 г. – Мито Исусов, български историк († 1999 г.)\n 1932 г. – Слав Караславов, български писател († 2002 г.)\n 1934 г. – Ищван Чурка, унгарски журналист († 2012 г.)\n 1941 г. – Саркис Бохосян, български шахматист\n 1942 г. – Джон Сълстън, английски биолог, Нобелов лауреат през 2002 г. († 2018 г.)\n 1942 г. – Майкъл Йорк, английски актьор\n 1947 г. – Брайън Джоунс, британски въздушен пионер\n 1950 г. – Димитър Луджев, български политик\n 1952 г. – Мария Шнайдер, френска актриса († 2011 г.)\n 1955 г. – Мариано Рахой, испански политик\n 1959 г. – Велислав Минеков, български скулптор\n 1962 г. – Кевин Дж. Андерсън, американски писател\n 1963 г. – Куентин Тарантино, американски режисьор\n 1969 г. – Марая Кери, поп певица\n 1970 г. – Елизабет Мичъл, американска актриса\n 1970 г. – Хилда Казасян, българска певица\n 1971 г. – Дейвид Култард, британски състезател от Формула 1\n 1972 г. – Серхан Яваш, турски киноартист\n 1972 г. – Чарли Хаас, американски кечист\n 1975 г. – Стейси Фъргюсън, американска певица\n 1976 г. – Емил Шаламанов, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Давид Навара, чешки шахматист\n 1986 г. – Мануел Нойер, германски футболист\n 1987 г. – Иван Тодоров, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 973 г. – Херман Билунг, саксонски херцог (* ок. 900)\n 1191 г. – Папа Климент III (* ?)\n 1462 г. – Василий II, велик княз на Москва (* 1415 г.)\n 1479 г. – Хорхе Манрике, испански поет (* 1440 г.)\n 1482 г. – Мария Бургундска, херцогиня на Бургундия (* 1457 г.)\n 1625 г. – Джеймс I, крал на Англия и Ирландия (* 1566 г.)\n 1770 г. – Джовани Батиста Тиеполо, италиански художник (* 1696 г.)\n 1848 г. – Габриел Биброн, френски зоолог (* 1805 г.)\n 1875 г. – Едгар Кине, френски политик и историк (* 1803 г.)\n 1878 г. – Добри Войников, български възрожденец – писател, драматург и музикален деец (* 1833 г.)\n 1886 г. – Добри Чинтулов, български възрожденец и поет (* 1822 г.)\n 1893 г. – Тонка Обретенова, българска революционерка (* 1812 г.)\n 1901 г. – Илия Цанов, български политик (* 1835 г.)\n 1923 г. – Джеймс Дюар, британски физик и химик (* 1842 г.)\n 1923 г. – Стефан Сарафов, български лекар и общественик (* ?)\n 1931 г. – Арнолд Бенет, английски писател и критик (* 1867 г.)\n 1938 г. – Уилям Щерн, германски психолог (* 1871 г.)\n 1940 г. – Дан Колов, български борец и кечист (* 1892 г.) \n 1946 г. – Карл Гроос, германски психолог и философ (* 1861 г.)\n 1952 г. – Георги Атанасов, български художник (* 1904 г.)\n 1967 г. – Ярослав Хейровски, чешки учен Нобелов лауреат през 1959 г. (* 1890 г.)\n 1968 г. – Юрий Гагарин, съветски космонавт (* 1934 г.)\n 1972 г. – Мориц Корнелис Ешер, холандски художник (* 1898 г.)\n 1973 г. – Боян Икономов, български композитор и диригент (* 1900 г.)\n 1982 г. – Хариет Адамс, американска писателка (* 1892 г.)\n 1983 г. – Димитър Костадинов Измирлиев, български учител, журналист и общественик (* 1915 г.)\n 1995 г. – Алберт Драх, немски писател (* 1902 г.)\n 1998 г. – Фери Порше, австрийки автомобилен предприемач (* 1909 г.)\n 2002 г. – Били Уайлдър, американски режисьор (* 1906 г.)\n 2002 г. – Дъдли Мур, американски комик (* 1935 г.)\n 2004 г. – Робер Мерл, френски писател (* 1908 г.)\n 2006 г. – Станислав Лем, полски писател (* 1921 г.)\n 2010 г. – Василий Смислов, руски шахматист (* 1921 г.)\n 2015 г. – Олга Сияпутра, индонезийски актьор (* 1983 г.)\n 2022 г. - Любомир Милчев – Денди, български писател (*1963 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на театъра, основан във Виена от Международния Институт за Театър през 1961 г.\n Ангола – Ден на победата\n Бирма – Празник на въоръжените сили\n Белгия – Празник на Франкофонската културна общност\n Мианмар – Ден на армията (Ден на въоръжените сили)\n Русия – Ден на вътрешни сили на Министерството на вътрешните работи\n Празник на град Елхово (отбелязва се от 1994 г.)\n\nКатолически и православни светци \n Александър: († 286 – 305) Александър Романски или Александър от Дризипара, римски легионер, мъченик измъчван в Панония и обезглавен в Тракия днешен Büyük Karistiran – Турция при Максимиан.\n Амадор († ?), Аматор, отшелничество отшелник в Португалия, чието съществувания се оспорва.\n Августа (V век) или Августина, Августина от Сенада, девственица, убита от баща си, германски аристократ във Фриул, почитан в Серавале в провинция Тревизо във Венето\n Йоан († [[† 394]]), Йоан египетски, отшелник от Тебаида.\n Руперт († ? – 710) от [Залцбург], епископ и мисионер\n Филетий († ? – 121) мъченик, убит по времето на император Адриан с жена си св. Лидия, и съмишленици: Македон, Теопрепий, Амфилохий и Хронида.\n Занита? и Лазар Персийски († 326) – мъченици убити заедно със своите съмишленици\n Хабиб (III – IV век).\n\nКатолически светци и блажени на деня \n Алберт († 1181), Алберт от Тренто, мъченик, жертва на войните на Фридрих I Барбароса\n Франсоа († 1888), François Faà Di Bruno, отец, роден в Алесандрия, Италия.\n Матей († 1100), Матей от Бове, мъченик, обезглавен по време на първия кръстоносен поход\n Ромулус от Ним, абат от Бенедиктинския орден, измъчван и убит през 730, живял в град Ним.\n\n327"
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        "text": "Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity\nThe US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system.\nBy Timothy B. Lee | Published: July 28, 2008 - 10:25AM CT\nThe USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in Motion and a patent-trolling firm called NTP. The USPTO belatedly recognized its mistake and began invalidating the patents, but didn't finish the job in time to save RIM from being forced to pay $612.5 million to avoid having its whole BlackBerry network shut down. Perhaps shaken by the negative publicity generated from that case and others, the USPTO seems to have gotten religion on patent quality. Over the last year, the courts have heard a series of cases in which the Patent Office has rejected software-related applications. The legal theories advanced by the Patent Office in these cases are causing consternation among software patent supporters.\nIn an article last week at Patently-O, law professor John Duffy warns that the Patent Office has staked out positions that, if accepted by the courts, would amount to the de facto abolition of software patents. He's right that the Patent Office has become increasingly hostile to software patents in the last couple of years. However, it's far from clear that the end of software patents is imminent. And Duffy is dead wrong to suggest that fewer software patents would be bad for innovation. [ARS Technica...] [Comments...]"
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        "text": "<!DOCTYPE html> \n<html>\n  <head>\n    <title>ARIA 1.0 Test Case 719</title>\n    <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\n  </head>\n  <body>\n    <h1>ARIA 1.0 Test Case 719</h1>\n    \n    <div id=\"TEST_ID_1\">\n    </div>\n    \n    <h2>Description</h2>\n    <p>The aria-live attribute is added to an element in the document by a \n      script after the onload event completes with the value=\"polite\" and \n      the element has a child DOM element node that contains text content. \n      After the aria-live attribute is added, the CSS 'visibility' property \n      of the child DOM element node is changed to visibility=\"hidden\".</p>\n    \n    <script type=\"text/javascript\">  \n\n      function hideElement() {\n        var node  = document.getElementById('TEST_ID_2');  \n        node.style.visibility = \"hidden\";\n      }\n\n      function addLiveRegion() {\n        var node = document.getElementById('TEST_ID_1');  \n        \n        var live_node = document.createElement('div');\n        live_node.setAttribute('aria-live', 'polite');\n \n        var element_node = document.createElement('div');\n        element_node.setAttribute('id', 'TEST_ID_2');\n       \n        var text_node = document.createTextNode('TEST TEXT');\n        \n        element_node.appendChild(text_node);\n        live_node.appendChild(element_node);\n        node.appendChild(live_node);\n        \n        setTimeout(hideElement,500);\n      }\n\n      function onload() {\n        setTimeout(addLiveRegion,1000);\n      }\n     \n      window.addEventListener('load', onload);\n    </script>\n  </body>\n  \n</html>\n"
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        "text": "Q: Delete some remembered text from Browser TextBox in Windows you can put the curser on text box (focus on it) and push down arrow key ( down ) and the list of all text that textbox was remembered was shown, then you can move on them by up and sown arrow key and if press Delete on highlighted text it was removed but I can't do the same in my macbook pro. it doesn't have Delete key and this button act as BackSpace and it won't act if you press fn + Delete  . any one have any idea to delete remembered text in macbook-pro(os x).\n \n\nA: It's shift + delete on windows.  In Firefox on my MacBook, shift + fn + delete does the trick.\nDon't ask me why I know this.  That comment below Josh K's answer was totally hypothetical.\n\nA: Clear form and search history. That's what it's called in Firefox. In Safari remove the Autocomplete setting.\n"
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        "text": "28 март е 87-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (88-и през високосна година). Остават 278 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 37 г. – Сенатът на Римската империя удостоява император Калигула с титлата Принцепс.\n 193 г. – Римският император Пертинакс е убит от Преторианската гвардия, която после продава властта му на търг на Дидий Юлиан.\n 845 г. – Париж е опустошен при нападение на викинги, предвождани вероятно от Рагнар Лодброк, който събира голям налог, за да напусне града.\n 1776 г. – В Москва е създаден Болшой театър.\n 1802 г. – Астрономът Хайнрих Вилхелм Олберс открива 2 Палада – втория известен астероид след 1 Церера.\n 1844 г. – В Испания е създадена жандармерията – военизирана полиция за борба с повсеместния бандитизъм в страната.\n 1854 г. – Кримска война: Франция обявява война на Русия.\n 1857 г. – В Петербург е открита първата девическа гимназия в Русия.\n 1859 г. – В Цариград започва да излиза в. „България“ под редакцията на Драган Цанков.\n 1871 г. – Учредена е Парижката комуна.\n 1885 г. – В САЩ официално е създадена Армията на спасението.\n 1891 г. – В Лондон се провежда първото световно първенство по вдигане на тежести.\n 1910 г. – Първият хидроплан, конструиран от французина Анри Фабр, излита край Марсилия.\n 1920 г. – При опустошително торнадо по време на празника Палмова неделя в района на Големите езера (САЩ) загиват над 380 души, други 1700 са ранени.\n 1921 г. – Китайският параход Хонг Конг потъва след сблъсък в подводна скала, загиват 1094 души.\n 1930 г. – Турция променя името на Константинопол на Истанбул, а на Онгора – на Анкара.\n 1939 г. – Гражданска война в Испания: Войната завършва с превземането на Мадрид от генералисимус Франсиско Франко.\n 1940 г. – В Солун започва изграждането на сградата на Международния мострен панаир.\n 1940 г. – В САЩ е открит нов изотоп на урана – плутоний 239.\n 1973 г. – Марлон Брандо изпраща актрисата индианка Сачийн Малкото перо да приеме неговата награда „Оскар“, за да може тя да протестира срещу дискриминацията на коренното население в САЩ.\n 1973 г. – Възродителен процес: 500 служители на МВР влизат в село Корница (Благоевградска област) за насилствена смяна на мюсюлманските имена, при оказаната съпротива са убити трима селяни.\n 1974 г. – Николае Чаушеску е избран за президент на Румъния.\n 1979 г. – След 30-дневна експлоатация вторият реактор на АЕЦ, разположена на остров Три Майл (САЩ), аварира, което е най-голямата ядрена авария в страната и става причина за закриване на 53 от 129 АЕЦ-a.\n 1983 г. – Среща в София на учени от балканските страни на тема „Балканите – безядрена зона“.\n 1994 г. – В България започват протести на частните издатели и радиоразпространители против Закона за добавена стойност – до 31 март същата година големите всекидневници не излизат.\n 1994 г. – При улични боеве в Йоханесбург (ЮАР) между привърженици на Зулу и на Африкански национален конгрес загиват 18 души, а стотици са ранени.\n 2005 г. – При земетресение с епицентър край остров Суматра, с магнитуд 8,7 по Скалата на Рихтер, загиват около 2000 души в Индонезия и Сингапур.\n 2009 г. – От 20:30 до 21:30 (българско време) е проведен Часът на земята.\n\nРодени \n\n 1472 г. – Фра Бартоломео, италиански художник († 1517 г.)\n 1515 г. – Св. Тереза Авилска, испанска монахиня и писателка († 1582 г.)\n 1592 г. – Ян Амос Коменски, чешки мислител († 1670 г.)\n 1609 г. – Фредерик III, крал на Дания († 1670 г.)\n 1663 г. – Лудвиг Крафт фон Насау-Саарбрюкен, немски граф († 1713 г.)\n 1750 г. – Франсиско де Миранда, латиноамерикански революционер († 1816 г.)\n 1800 г. – Йохан Георг Ваглер, германски зоолог († 1832 г.)\n 1833 г. – Нил Попов, руски историк († 1891 г.)\n 1840 г. – Емин паша, судански изследовател († 1892 г.)\n 1862 г. – Аристид Бриан, френски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1926 († 1932 г.)\n 1866 г. – Джими Рос, шотландски футболист († 1902 г.)\n 1868 г. – Максим Горки, руски писател († 1936 г.)\n 1871 г. – Аврам Гачев, български политик († 1941 г.)\n 1874 г. – Стефан Минчев, български литератор († 1912 г.)\n 1882 г. – Георги Скрижовски, български революционер († 1925 г.)\n 1887 г. – Димчо Дебелянов, български поет († 1916 г.)\n 1890 г. – Пол Уитман, американски музикант († 1967 г.)\n 1892 г. – Корней Хейманс, белгийски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1938 г. († 1968 г.)\n 1897 г. – Сеп Хербергер, немски футболист и треньор († 1977 г.)\n 1910 г. – Ингрид, кралица на Дания († 2000 г.)\n 1914 г. – Бохумил Храбал, чешки писател († 1997 г.)\n 1915 г. – Джей Ливингстън, американски композитор († 2001 г.)\n 1921 г. – Дърк Богард, британски актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1923 г. – Владислав Молеров, български актьор († 1996 г.)\n 1925 г. – Владимир Гоев, български художник († 2013 г.)\n 1928 г. – Збигнев Бжежински, американски политолог († 2017 г.)\n 1929 г. – Вера Мутафчиева, българска писателка († 2009 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джеръм Фридман, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1936 г. – Божидар Абрашев, български политик († 2006 г.)\n 1936 г. – Марио Варгас Льоса, перуански писател, Нобелов лауреат\n 1939 г. – Продан Нончев, български актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1946 г. – Алехандро Толедо, президент на Перу\n 1948 г. – Даян Уийст, американска актриса\n 1951 г. – Панайот Панайотов, български певец\n 1952 г. – Андрей Даниел, български художник († 2020 г.)\n 1953 г. – Тома Томов, български политик\n 1955 г. – Ивайло Дичев, български писател\n 1959 г. – Ангел Грънчаров, български философ\n 1968 г. – Джон Ли, британски барабанист († 2002 г.)\n 1970 г. – Винс Вон, американски актьор\n 1973 г. – Танер Али, български политик\n 1975 г. – Иван Елгера, испански футболист\n 1981 г. – Джулия Стайлс, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Станислас Вавринка, швейцарски тенисист\n 1986 г. – Лейди Гага, певица\n 1987 г. – Ивайло Шотев, български политик и икономист\n\nПочинали \n\n 193 г. – Пертинакс, римски император (* 126 г.)\n 1285 г. – Мартин IV, римски папа (* ок. 1210)\n 1378 г. – Григорий XI, римски папа (* ок. 1336)\n 1687 г. – Константин Хьойгенс, холандски поет и композитор (* 1596 г.)\n 1712 г. – Ян ван дер Хейден, холандски художник и изобретател (* 1637 г.)\n 1794 г. – Маркиз дьо Кондорсе, френски математик, философ и политолог (* 1743 г.)\n 1811 г. – Доситей Обрадович, сръбски писател (* ок. 1740)\n 1881 г. – Модест Мусоргски, руски композитор (* 1839 г.)\n 1884 г. – Леополд, херцог на Олбани, син на кралица Виктория (р. 1853)\n 1892 г. – Константин фон Алвенслебен, немски генерал (* 1809 г.)\n 1903 г. – Тодор Саев, български военен и революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1916 г. – Павел Плеве, руски офицер (* 1850 г.)\n 1941 г. – Вирджиния Улф, британска писателка и феминистка (* 1882 г.)\n 1943 г. – Сергей Рахманинов, руски композитор, пианист и диригент (* 1873 г.)\n 1944 г. – Цани Калянджиев, основател и първи ректор на Икономически университет - Варна (* 1866 г.)\n 1953 г. – Джим Торп, американски лекоатлет (* 1888 г.)\n 1969 г. – Дуайт Айзенхауер, 34-ти президент на САЩ (* 1890 г.)\n 1976 г. – Антон Маринович, български режисьор (* 1907 г.)\n 1982 г. – Уилям Джиок, канадски химик, носител на Нобелова награда (р. 1895)\n 1985 г. – Георги Караиванов, български поет (* 1897 г.)\n 1985 г. – Марк Шагал, френски художник от беларуски произход (* 1887 г.)\n 1994 г. – Йожен Йонеско, драматург и писател (* 1909 г.)\n 2001 г. – Въло Радев, български режисьор (* 1923 г.)\n 2004 г. – Питър Устинов, английски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – княз Боян Български\n Азербайджан – Ден на националната сигурност\n Либия – Тържества по повод края на британското присъствие и Ден на евакуацията\n Сърбия – Ден на Конституцията\n Тибет – Ден на Освобождението на робите\n Чехия и Словакия – Ден на учителя\n ЮАР – Ден на семейството\n\nКатолически светци и блажени на деня \n Св. Присции – епископ на Капуа\n Св. Гунтрамн (561 – 592) владетел на Бургундия от рода на Меровингите, канонизиран непосредствено след смъртта си от католическата църква. счита се, че Св. Гунтрамн пкрвителства разведените, спомага за разрешаването на конфликтите в семейството и сближава рода при конфликти.\n\n328"
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        "text": "This apartment is in Whittier. Nearby parks include Friends Park, William Penn Park and Memorial Stadium.\n13705 Franklin St Apt 1 has a Walk Score of 62 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.\nWATER, TRASH & GARDENER PAID!!\n- 2PERSON+1/BDRM occupancy limit –NO exceptions.\n- Verifiable Income must be at least 3 TIMES the amount of the rent. Co-signers are an option. Ask for details.\nExplore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 13705 Franklin St Apt 1.\n13705 Franklin St Apt 1 is in the city of Whittier, CA. Whittier has an average Walk Score of 61 and has 85,331 residents."
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        "text": "Eight Irish universities appear on a list of the world’s top 1,000 third-level institutions published today.\nThe Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) features eight US and two British universities in the top 10.\nTrinity College Dublin is the Irish university closest to the top and is ranked 200th overall. University College Dublin ranked second in Ireland but 269th worldwide. University College Cork placed third in Ireland and 463rd on the list.\nThe other Irish universities on the list are the National University of Ireland, Galway (600), the Royal College of Surgeons (647), Dublin City University (819), the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (820) and the University of Limerick (944).\nThe US has 229 universities in the top 1,000, China has 84, Japan has 74, the UK has 64 and Germany has 55. Ireland and Greece have eight universities on the list.\nThe top 10 universities on the list are: Harvard; Stanford; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge; Oxford; Columbia; University of California, Berkeley; Chicago; Princeton and Yale.\nThe 2014 list is based on eight factors described by the CWUR as “objective and robust”. Education quality, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, research citations, impact and patents all influence a university’s ranking.\nAlumni employment, for example, is measured by the number of alumni holding chief executive positions in the world’s top companies relative to the university’s size.\nNed Costello, Irish Universities Association chief executive, warned the CWUR rankings should be “viewed with caution”. He said the recently published Higher Education System performance report provides a more accurate picture of Irish university performance. That report includes “very positive findings in relation to the employability of graduates and the strength of research and innovation outputs”.\nMr Costello argued that some of the measures do not accurately quantify the quality of Irish education. “For example, employment performance is defined as the number of alumni holding CEO positions in the top 2000 companies listed by Forbes magazine. In an Irish context, it probably matters more to the population at large that the unemployment rate of honours degree graduates six months after graduation is seven per cent (half of the national average), and down from 10 per cent in 2008,” he said.\nMr Costello also said highly-resourced institutions tend to fare better in international rankings. “Given the current trend of disinvestment by the State in higher education in Ireland”, the country is “swimming against the tide” in attempting to improve its performance in international rankings.\nThe complete list of CWUR’s top 1000 universities can be found at cwur.org."
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        "text": "Q: What does \"The information on this page is out dated\" mean when updating apps in iTunes When ever I try to download updates of my iApps in iTunes I get a dialog that says \"The information on this page is out dated\".\nIf I hit \"Check for updates\" again all is well.\nDoes anyone know what causes this?\n\nA: Maybe this post can help you.\nThe most interessant part is last sentence saying : \n\n\n*\n\n*Update 7/25/10: Fixed in an iTunes update.\nWhat version of iTunes are you running ?\n"
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        "text": "Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts\nHow Can We be Equal without Christianity?\nThroughout the history of civilization, people have sought to understand themselves by seeking to understand their place in society. When that society was patriarchal, the most respect was given to the forefathers, especially the eldest and most direct ancestor. When societies grew into city-states, one found his place in the service to that polis. Plato divided the classes into the guardians, the warriors, and the commoners, each serving the state in a specific capacity.\nThis kind of understanding extended beyond Greece. Rome granted citizenship was highly valued because it gave the citizen an elevated place in the society with greater rights.1 We see cultures, such as those of Saudi Arabia or oriental nations who still adopt a hierarchical view of the individual. But the West is different. Here, we value all people as equal. In the United States, our nation was founded on the principle. What caused the nations that sprang from the Roman Empire to so drastically alter their understanding of the worth of the individual?\nChanging the Measure of Worth\nIn his excellent book Inventing the Individual, Larry Siedentop answers that question by pointing to the rise of Christianity. Siedentop details how the teachings of Jesus and Paul caused a \"moral revolution\" in thought, moving the value of the individual from hierarchical to equal. Individual freedom becomes elevated. He explains:\nPreviously in antiquity, it was the patriarchal family that had been the agency of immortality. Now, through the story of Jesus, individual moral agency was raised up as providing a unique window into the nature of things, into the experience of grace rather than necessity, a glimpse of something transcending death. The individual replaced the family as the focus of immortality.2\nBecause the individual now holds the ability tom become immortal, one's understanding of morality is changed as well. Instead of Plato's justice being determined by how one is helpful to the Polis, morality becomes more about an individual's actions to other individuals. Siedentop argues that \"the premise of moral equality requires a human will that is in a sense pre-social,\"3 meaning independent of one's position within the societal structures. The only way people can do that is through faith in Christ. He continues, \"Faith in the Christ requires seeing oneself in others and others in oneself, the point of view which truly moralizes humans as agents.\" 4\nHow Christianity Impacts More than Civic Status\nOnce the basis for moral equality is established through Christ, Siedentop then shows just how powerful those ideas become. For example, he points to Tertullian to show the radical new way of thinking Christianity offers the world:\nIf God created humans as equals, as rational agents with free will, then there ought to be an area within which they are free to choose responsible a free choices. Identifying such an area was at first meant to be self-defence by Christians. But soon it was also much more than that. Tertullian saw clear implications of Christian moral beliefs. \"Here lies the perfection and distinctiveness of Christian goodness,\" he argued. \"Ordinary goodness is different; for all men love their friends, but only Christians love their enemies.\"5\nThis is how true goodness comes from Christianity alone. The moral equality of all people rests in the Christian understanding of redemption. Realize, I don't know whether Siedentop is a Christian or not. His book is written from his position as a scholar of political history, serving at Oxford among other institutions. His book does not push Christian beliefs, but simply describes the paradigm shift Christianity brought upon the world. Without Christianity, moral equality cannot find its footing. Without Christianity, the value of the individual fades into how one services the state.\n1. \"civitas\". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.\nEncyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 17 May. 2016\nhttp://www.britannica.com/topic/civitas.\n2. Siedentop, Larry. Inventing the Individual: the Origins of Western Liberalism. Penguin Books, 2014. Print. 58.\n3. Siedentop, 2014. 64.\n5. Siedentop, 2014.76.\nLabels: beliefs, Christianity, equality, morality, worldview Larry Siedentop\nHow Society is Regressing: Pushing Equality over Excellence\nAre people smarter today than in centuries prior? That's the assumption of many today, including those atheists who assert that the modern era of science and technology proves our society has progressed to a higher position than previous eras. I'm not so sure. While we have greater control over our environment, we have been intellectually stunted by emphasizing feelings over reason. We live in the Age of Feeling, and that has caused society to regress, not progress.\nTo support my position, I've already offered two points of evidence that this society holds feelings above facts. The first was we are relinquishing our rights instead of offending and the second is in our current political climate, sympathy trumps science. Today I would like to offer a third proof: modern culture pushes for equality over excellence.\nDestroying Opportunity\nBigotry is wrong. I think most people would agree with that statement, especially if they fall victim to bigotry themselves. But just what do we mean by bigotry? What do we mean by discrimination? Today, the term bigot is usually associated with a person who is racist or prejudiced because of inconsequential factors. The OED states that a bigot is \"A person considered to adhere unreasonably or obstinately to a particular religious belief, practice, etc.\"1The key in this definition is the concept or unreasonableness or obstinacy. One may be charged with an act of unfair discrimination if they exclude one person from an employment position because they pre-judged a person based on nothing more than their ethnic heritage or the amount of melanin contained in their skin.\nPeople all have an equal inherent worth because they are made in God's image. If one person is better able to perform a task than another, he or she should be allowed the opportunity to perform it, all else being equal. Today, though, people have distorted the idea that all people have equal worth to try and say that anything but equal outcomes is discriminatory. For example, the United States congress passed the Title IX act in 1972 to try and make any discriminatory exclusion of girls from participating in things like school sports. But the legislation has had terribly unintended consequences. Instead of merely opening the door of opportunity for women's sports program to flourish, it had the opposite effect of destroying many men's sports teams, especially in college. Men's teams were cut simply to achieve parity; the in the number of men participating in college sports must equal the number of women participating in sports at the same institution.2 Forget the fact that far fewer women in college desire to participate in sports, if the counts are off, sports teams for men are eliminated.\nEqualizing Mediocrity\nOne of the clearest and most egregious examples of how the drive for equality actually destroys excellence is how philosopher Adam Swift began studying the questions of social justice, equality, and opportunity for children. In an ABC interview he states:\nI had done some work on social mobility and the evidence is overwhelmingly that the reason why children born to different families have very different chances in life is because of what happens in those families…\nWhat we realised we needed was a way of thinking about what it was we wanted to allow parents to do for their children, and what it was that we didn't need to allow parents to do for their children, if allowing those activities would create unfairnesses for other people's children. 3\nBasically, what Smith is asserting is parents who try to provide the best opportunities for their children by doing thing as like reading to them at night, engaging with their schooling and possibly even sending them to private schools or hiring tutors are giving those children an unfair advantage over children whose parents don't provide such attention. The article goes on to record Smith saying:\nPrivate schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods. It's just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school.4\nThis kind of thinking is insanity. We should cripple all children's education because some don't have parents who can give them the same learning tools as others? Why should we limit the minds of all kids? Shouldn't we encourage excellence and reward hard work no matter how the person was able to achieve it? Do you care whether your doctor went to a prep school in order to be an excellent surgeon or do you want all doctors to be equally but only moderately skilled? Why quash excellence for equality?\nIn his satiric response to Swift's arguments, Hans Fiene says that we might encourage additional ways of leveling the playing field for children by not bathing them or not feeding them fruits and vegetables when junk food will do. Personally, I thought Adam Swift's suggestions were so ludicrous to be satire themselves. I had to check twice to make sure his name was Adam Swift, not Jonathan Swift. He truly wants us to consume our children's opportunities for the sake of making the least common denominator the standard.\nI realize that Adam Swift's modest proposal will not go anywhere. However, the fact that Swift can even offer it seriously in our culture says volumes about just how warped our culture has become on issues of equality and discrimination. We feel for the disadvantaged, but such solutions prove that we aren't thinking about the damage done in following those feelings. Society is truly regressing and when every child must receive a medal for their accomplishments, the medals become as worthless as the accomplishments they were awarded for.\nRead part one here.\nRead part two here.\n1. \"bigot, n. and adj.\" OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 14 May 2015. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/18890?redirectedFrom=bigot&\n2. \"NCAA Men's Athletic Programs Cut To Comply With Title IX.\" College Sports Scholarships. College Sports Scholarships, 2012. Web. 14 May 2015. http://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/ncaa-mens-sports-cut-title-ix.htm.\n3. Gelonesi, Joe. \"Is Having a Loving Family an Unfair Advantage?\" Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Company, 30 Apr. 2015. Web. 11 May 2015. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/new-family-values/6437058.\n4. Gelonesi, 2015.\nLabels: America, beliefs, culture, equality\n12 Years a Slave and a Different Perspective\nI recently watched the movie 12 Years a Slave. It was intense, but extremely well done. And, it was an accurate depiction of what it means to be at the pinnacle of human objectification.\nJust as slavery in America, kidnapping, human trafficking, genocide, or eugenics, have a primary root in treating an individual as an object, those that have perpetrated these evils have chosen to, in whatever capacity, not treat them as being valuable in and of themselves. When we see these sorts of injustices occur, at least on screen, there is something that tears us apart at the core of who we are. That abysmal and ugly discomfort we get when we watch a movie like 12 Years a Slave is at full discord with something deep within us: the belief that human life is exceptionally invaluable.\nBecause human life is so invaluable, it is clearly wrong to exploit other human beings for our own potential financial gain or success.\nThere was only one other thing I found more disturbing than the objectification. As I watched the film, it presented the varying sentiments concerning American slavery from all ends of the spectrum. It showed the Deep South drenched in oppression and showed the North in an ideal and colorblind society. What was peculiar wasn't necessarily these extremes, but the in-between, like a scene of kidnapping occurring right in Washington D.C. with the Capitol building close by in the background. It was appalling to think that of all places such evil could happen, it occurred right under the nose of people that had the very power to do something about it. The in-between was not just among the North and South. The movie also depicted merciless slave owners and benevolent masters. But unfortunately, even among the kindhearted, some chose to shun what was right and bury it deep within them. That is what struck me with anger. Some masters genuinely seemed, even if fleetingly, to come to grips with the full weight of their actions. And yet, they still choose to treat others with depravity. It was the silence among those who knew what was right and chose not to stand up for the right thing that tears at your soul in this film. It is the benevolent master, who, though benevolent, still chooses to ignore exacting justice and keep a man a slave. He ignores a woman being torn from her children and slaves sold naked.\nBecause human lives are at stake, it is clearly wrong to stay silent or permit treating human beings as objects – bartered or sold off for good.\nThe two affirming takeaways I got from the film made me question sentiments on the unborn. I heard the analogues alongside of some popular arguments I’ve heard in favor of abortion:\n“Women have a right to choose what happens to their own bodies.”\n“I do what I want with my property.”\n“If she is going to school or starting a career, she should not have to have the baby.”\n“If I can’t have slaves, then what will I do?”\n“It is not right for me to have an abortion, but it’s not right to force that on someone else.”\n“I would never own slaves myself, but it’s not my place to tell them they cannot own slaves.”\nWhat is the unborn? It is a human being, but it has no voice. And in the spirit of the law, it is a disposable object.\nPosted by Robert Trebizo at 7:16 PM No comments:\nLabels: abortion, culture, equality, ethics, morality\nPhil Robertson, Gay Marriage, and Equality Laws\nPhil Robertson's remarks in GQ magazine on homosexual sex have caused quite a commotion, so much so that the Duck Dynasty star has been placed on indefinite suspension from his reality show by A&E. But is such a suspension fair? How does this comport with recent legal rulings against discrimination?\nIf we look at recent court decisions, the rulings have been clear: corporations cannot deny service or discriminate against individuals who use their services simply because the corporation has taken a principled stance on the topic of homosexuality. Just this month Colorado Judge Robert Spenser held that baker Jack Phillips was violating Colorado's anti-discrimination laws by denying to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple. Spenser decided that even though Phillips was earnest in his beliefs that homosexual marriages are wrong, his view \"fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are\" (emphasis added).[1]\nInterestingly, Bosson rejected the claim that this law should be weighed against the standard of strict scrutiny and narrow definition to which other laws that limit religious liberty are held. Bosson said that the law in question is valid because it \"is both neutral and of general applicability… therefore Respondents are not free to ignore its restrictions even though it may incidentally conflict with their religiously-driven conduct.\"[2]\nSimilarly, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled against Elane Huguenin and her wedding photography business for failing to violate her conviction and photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony. In his concurring opinion, New Mexico Justice Richard Bosson wrote that the Huguenins \"are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives.\" Bosson continued, \"In the smaller, more focused world of the marketplace, of commerce, of public accommodation, the Huguenins have to channel their conduct, not their beliefs, so as to leave space for other Americans who believe something different\" (emphasis added).\nSo, the law is clear. A corporation cannot discriminate against a person or persons when the deeply held beliefs of that corporation conflict with the views of those who use its services. Even if artistic merit is involved, the decisions above seem to reach beyond the specific cases and attempt to make a moral statement that corporations must bow to the beliefs of the individual. And the decisions say that this is the case because there is a compelling interest to seek equality, that is to not discriminate against individuals because of who they are. The decisions make a moral claim that equality for all supersedes corporate positions.\nSo tell me why is Phil Robertson's suspension from the Duck Dynasty for being simply who he is and stating his beliefs considered OK? Will the ACLU come to his aid like it did the homosexual couple in Colorado? Isn't it just as discriminatory to deny Robertson his ability to make a living on his show just because he believes something different than the A&E executives do as it is to deny a homosexual couple a wedding cake because one does not believe in homosexual marriage? Is this an example of \"neutral in applicability\", or is it an example of only forcing a single belief—the one that says homosexual relations are OK—onto the public sphere? Does Robertson being an employee make a difference? If Robertson was suspended because he supported homosexual marriage and the company didn't, would there be any concern?\nIn all, one shouldn't be surprised that moral stances can be so unevenly applied in a single direction. The double-standard simply highlights what we have known for a while. The homosexual lobby has no interest in equality. It simply wants to force itself upon everyone and woe to those who offer any type of criticism. Discrimination against critics is not only allowed but mandatory.\n1. Initial Decision: Charlie Craig and David Mullins v. Masterpiece Cakeshop Inc & Anor CR 2013-0008, PDF 266.58kb, 06 DEC 13\nhttps://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/initial_decision_case_no._cr_2013-0008.pdf\nLabels: beliefs, culture, Duck Dynasty, equality, homosexuality, Phil Robertson\nSame-Sex Governments vs. Same-Sex Marriage\nOne of the things I like to do in the morning is read the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. It gives me a bit of insight into how people on both sides of an issue are thinking. But I can also see how reactionary or inconsistent certain points of view can be.\nIn yesterday's paper, LA Times columnist Jim Newton authored a piece where he voiced his concern about the upcoming Los Angeles City elections. Entitled \"An all-male City Council?\" , it decries the absence of women in the civic races, stating it is quite possible that all 18 positions could be filled by men. He writes, \"at least 13 of 15 council seats will be filled by men after July 1. The city attorney will be a man, as will Greuel's successor as controller.\" He then asks \"Does it matter?\"\nNewton receives his answer from Laura Chick, a previously elected city official. Chick responds \"Absolutely it makes a difference. Our brains are different. We have different perspectives…. There's something terribly wrong with this.\" The term for someone serving on the Los Angeles City Council is four years, so it. Newton calls such a scenario \"a startling setback\".\nI agree with Chick on her assessment of women and men. Women do provide a different perspective and they are wired to think differently. However, today, the Los Angeles Times editors provided their endorsement for same-sex marriage dismissing the argument that such configurations would be harmful to children. The editorial proclaims, \"The notion that same-sex couples cannot be loving and competent parents is not supported by research, and in any event children already are being raised by same-sex parents even where same-sex marriage is not legal.\"\nLeaving aside the false way the editors framed Justice Kennedy's concern, I think it's clear how inconsistent the Los Angeles Times is showing itself to be. To have only single sex representation on the City Council \"absolutely matters.\" It would be a \"startling setback\" for the city whose council members only serve for four years and still have access to the thoughts and understanding of both male and female constituencies. This is because men and women have different brains and different perspectives. However, to have a same-sex couple rear children for eighteen years is not a problem at all, because it's happening. But how is it possible that both can be true?\nMen and women are different, and they act differently as a result. The idea that they have different brains means the sexes are not interchangeable; biology matters. If an absence of a sexual perspective matters for a four year term, it most definitely matters when it's missing from the home life of a developing child for all of his or her formative years. The primary way children learn to understand how to be a man or a woman and how to interact with those of the opposite sex is through the modeling of their parents. The child of a homosexual couples are denied this.\nSo, which is it? Does it matter if a city council or a family is confined to a single sex or do both sexes offer something unique to the process? If they do, then why don't the Times' editors at least admit as much?\nPosted by Lenny Esposito at 11:00 AM No comments:\nLabels: equality, homosexuality, marriage, media, society\nWomen in Combat or Women as Victims\nOne of my most visceral reactions is against those who would perpetrate violence against women. Even when young, movies such as The Burning Bed would cause me to have a strong emotional response. So, when I saw Eve Ensler's \"One Billion Rising\" events held this Valentine's Day, coupled with the U.S. Senate's passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), you would think I would be elated. But these events actually brought more questions to my mind than adulation, primarily due to the recent announcement by Leon Panetta to allow women to serve as combatants. It seems to me that these positions contradict each other, even as the same elected officials continue to push for both.\nPhoto by Israel Defense Forces\nLet's look at Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) as an example. Gillibrand serves on the Senate Committee on ordering the military to come up with a plan to send women into battle. In so doing, she said \"Just like it was wrong to discriminate against service members because of whom they love, it is also wrong to deny combat roles to qualified women solely because of their gender.\" But such reasoning does not fly. Women simply don't have the upper body strength men do, and they have 30% less muscle mass overall. Now, I know that there are some women who are stronger than weak men. However, this fact is unconvincing for two reasons. One, weak men get stronger through training. Testosterone builds muscle. And those that can't strengthen themselves due to some physical ailment will usually be assigned to non-combative roles. Secondly, women's strength can atrophy faster than men's. Marine Captain Katie Petronio, who herself has been in combat-type situations, makes this argument.\nBeyond the strength issue, there's another big concern in allowing women in the military, and that is that gender matters. Ryan Smith in the Wall Street Journal did an excellent job in painting a picture of what combat conditions really look like, as he had served as a Marine infantry squad leader in Iraq in 2003. He tells of being enclosed in a vehicle for 48 hours, urinating and defecating just inches away from fellow soldiers, then having to strip with all his comrades while his clothing was burned for decontamination. Will women feel empowered by such actions? Will men?\nMen and women also interact differently. When polled, 17 percent of male marines would leave the service if women were placed in combat roles, their biggest concerns being \"fears about being falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault, fraternization or some Marines getting preferential treatment. They also worried women would be limited because of pregnancy or personal issues that could affect the unit before they are sent to the battlefield.\" The truth on this matter is we simply don't know what effect a large-scale deployment of women in combat units would have. There's no data because it has never been done before.\nThen there are the larger family issues. According to this report, over 30,000 single mothers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and about 10 percent of women in the military become pregnant each year. So, female soldiers train and work alongside their male counterparts, but one in ten must be replaced so they can take maternity leave. Does that affect a unit's effectiveness? Add to that the higher divorce rate among female service members and one can see that sex makes a difference on how one processes military situations. These differences will only become more acute when more women are placed in high-pressure combat roles.\nTen months after her Senate proposal demanding women be placed in combat roles, the same Senator Gillibrand is standing before the Senate lobbying for the VAWA. \"There is simply no room for partisan gamesmanship when we're talking about the safety of our families,\" Gillibrand said. \"For millions of women and families, VAWA serves as a lifeline to keep them safe.\" So, Gillibrand seems to think that it is appropriate to focus on the sex of the person when worrying about the safety of women and their children. If such is the case, that standard should be applied appropriately to the question of female combatants.\nIt's important to realize that the Violence Against Women Act is calling for special protection for women, that a man attacking a woman needs to be categorized differently than a man attacking a man. If one were to ask why women need such special protections, the reasons listed would be pretty much the same as to those that are offered for keeping women out of combat roles. But folks like Gillibrand want it both ways. On one hand, women can do anything men can do. Give them a gun and everyone is equal (even though combat is not simply firing a weapon.) On the other, a fight between a man and a woman isn't a fair one, so women need the protection of the law. A woman should never be punched, but its O.K. to put her in a situation where she can be killed.\nEquality has never meant that we must erase our differences. God made men and women differently, and this is clear when we look at biology. Gillibrand rallies for keeping families safe, but women in combat works against that standard, not toward it. It also does nothing to strengthen our military. Remember, the military should first and foremost be concerned with protecting our troops and winning battles. Of course we should do so in an ethical way, but I don't see barring women from combat situations any less ethical than barring asthmatics from the military altogether. If barring women from combat is somehow discriminatory, then we must judge the VAWA legislation to also be so. It is simply inconsistent to hold to both positions.\nLabels: culture, equality, gender roles, military"
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        "text": "29 март е 88-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (89-и през високосна година). Остават 277 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1430 г. – Султан Мурад II превзема Солун.\n 1516 г. – Изгонените от Испания евреи по силата на декрет на съвета на десетте са настанени във Венеция в обособен квартал – гето.\n 1638 г. – Шведските колонисти основават тяхното първо поселище в Делауеър, наречено Нова Швеция.\n 1792 г. – Кралят на Швеция Густав III умира, след като е бил застрелян 13 дни по-рано в гърба на нощен маскен бал в Кралската шведска опера в Стокхолм.\n\n 1807 г. – Открит е астероидът 4 Веста – третият по големина астероид в астероидния пояс.\n 1809 г. – Финландия е обявена за Велико княжество в лична уния с Русия.\n 1848 г. – Поради струпване на лед Ниагарският водопад спира за едно денонощие.\n 1886 г. – В Атланта Джон Пъмбертън за първи път произвежда напитката Coca-Cola.\n 1911 г. – Съставено е тридесет и второто правителство на България, начело с Иван Евстратиев Гешов.\n 1912 г. – Британският изследовател сър Робърт Скот загива на връщане от Южния полюс, след като в опита си да го достигне пръв е бил изпреварен от норвежеца Руал Амундсен.\n 1936 г. – В Германия диктаторът Хитлер получава 99% от гласовете на референдум за приемане на незаконната немска реокупация на Rhineland.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: София е бомбардирана от англо-американската авиация.\n 1945 г. – България във Втората световна война: Начало на Мурската настъпателна операция на Първа българска армия (29 март-14 април 1945 г.)в Унгария в която българската армия настъпва срещу германските войски от група армии „Е“ и пробива германската отбранителна линия „Маргит“, разгромявайки германските войски при Велики Ког, Ястребци и Вараждин при река Мур.\n 1973 г. – Виетнамска война: Последните войски на САЩ напускат Южен Виетнам.\n 1974 г. – Космическият апарат на НАСА Маринър 10 изпраща първите заснети отблизо снимки на Меркурий.\n 1976 г. – Открива се обновеният Народен театър „Иван Вазов“ с премиера на пиесата на Иван Вазов „Хъшове“.\n 1986 г. – Римският наказателен съд издава оправдателна присъда срещу Сергей Антонов, обвинен за атентата срещу папа Йоан Павел II.\n 1988 г. – Играчът на крикет Ян Ботъм започва своя преход през Алпите на слонове – по стъпките на Ханибал, за да събере пари с благотворителна цел.\n 2004 г. – България, Естония, Латвия, Литва, Румъния, Словакия и Словения влизат в НАТО като пълноправни членове.\n 2004 г. – Република Ирландия става първата страна в света, която забранява тютюнопушенето на работното място, включително в барове и ресторанти.\n 2005 г. – Подписан е първият договор за магистрала Тракия в България.\n\nРодени \n\n 1790 г. – Джон Тейлър, 10-и президент на САЩ († 1862 г.)\n 1822 г. – Иван Унковски, руски адмирал († 1866 г.)\n 1826 г. – Вилхелм Либкнехт, немски революционер († 1900 г.)\n 1859 г. – Янко Драганов, български офицер († 1932 г.)\n 1870 г. – Павлос Мелас, гръцки военен и революционер († 1904 г.)\n 1873 г. – Тулио Леви-Чивита, италиански математик († 1941 г.)\n 1874 г. – Лу Хенри Хувър, първа дама на САЩ (1929 – 1933) († 1944 г.)\n 1890 г. – Вилибалд фон Лангерман унд Ерленкамп, германски офицер († 1942 г.)\n 1899 г. – Лаврентий Берия, съветски политик († 1953 г.)\n 1899 г. – Радослав Тричков, български журналист († 1991 г.)\n 1923 г. – Георги Апостолов, български скулптор († 2015 г.)\n 1926 г. – Боян Лечев, български цигулар († 2004 г.)\n 1926 г. – Стефан Геренски, български футболист († 2008 г.)\n 1927 г. – Джон Вейн, британски фармаколог, Нобелов лауреат през 1982 г. († 2004 г.)\n 1928 г. – Христиана Василева, българска преводачка и писателка († 2018 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ленарт Мери, президент на Естония († 2006 г.)\n 1933 г. – Апостол Чачевски, български футболист и треньор по футбол\n 1935 г. – Волфганг Улман, немски шахматист († 2020 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Кънев, български художник\n 1941 г. – Джоузеф Тейлър, американски физик Нобелов лауреат през 1993 г.\n 1943 г. – Вангелис, гръцки композитор\n 1943 г. – Джон Мейджър, премиер на Великобритания\n 1943 г. – Ерик Айдъл, британски актьор\n 1944 г. – Владимир Гаджев, български музикален критик\n 1951 г. – Роджър Майърсън, американски икономист\n 1952 г. – Джон Хендрикс, американски бизнесмен\n 1952 г. – Теофило Стивенсон, кубински боксьор († 2012 г.)\n 1953 г. – Венцислав Арсов, български футболист\n 1953 г. – Георг Клайн, немски писател\n 1953 г. – Стефан Орманджиев, български футболен съдия († 2017 г.)\n 1954 г. – Ахмед Доган, български политик\n 1955 г. – Брендан Глийсън, ирландски актьор\n 1955 г. – Марина Сиртис, британска актриса\n 1956 г. – Голамреза Багери Могаддам, дипломат от Иран\n 1956 г. – Лазар Груев, български юрист\n 1957 г. – Кристоф Ламбер, френски актьор\n 1960 г. – Юлий Буркин, руски писател\n 1964 г. – Ел Макферсън, австралийски супермодел и актриса\n 1964 г. – Пламен Петров, български политик и инженер\n 1965 г. – Красимир Каракачанов, български политик\n 1966 г. – Красимир Балъков, български футболист\n 1968 г. – Люси Лоулес, американска актриса\n 1972 г. – Руи Коща, португалски футболист\n 1973 г. – Златан Василев, български състезател по вдигане на тежести\n 1973 г. – Мариян Христов, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Марк Овермарс, холандски футболист \n 1975 г. – Марио Рангелов, български политик\n 1976 г. – Дженифър Каприати, американска тенисистка\n 1978 г. – Христо Цветанов, български волейболист\n 1981 г. – Десислава Добрева, българска певица\n 1982 г. – Джей Бренън, американски певец\n 1984 г. – Роман Кинаст, австрийски футболист\n 1984 г. – Хуан Монако, аржентински тенисист\n 1984 г. – Чавдар Янков, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Теему Пуки, финландски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 87 г. пр.н.е. – Хан Уди, китайски император (* 156 г. пр.н.е.)\n 1058 г. – Стефан IX, римски папа (* ок. 1020)\n 1697 г. – Николаус Брунс, германски композитор (* 1665 г.)\n 1772 г. – Емануел Сведенборг, шведски учен (* 1688 г.)\n 1788 г. – Чарлз Уесли, основател на Методистката църква (* 1707 г.)\n 1792 г. – Густав III, шведски крал (* 1746 г.)\n 1891 г. – Жорж Сьора, френски художник (* 1859 г.)\n 1896 г. – Димитър Икономов (Ботев четник), български революционер (* 1839 г.)\n 1912 г. – Робърт Скот, английски изследовател (* 1868 г.)\n 1925 г. – Вела Пискова, българска антифашистка (* 1889 г.)\n 1934 г. – Ото Кан, немски банкер (* 1867 г.)\n 1936 г. – Йордан Асенов, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1937 г. – Карол Шимановски, полски композитор (* 1882 г.)\n 1942 г. – Георги Фотев, български революционер (* 1862 г.)\n 1956 г. – Благой Даскалов, български революционер (* 1867 г.)\n 1957 г. – Джойс Кери, ирландски писател (* 1888 г.)\n 1977 г. – Георги Златев-Черкин – български композитор и педагог (* 1905 г.)\n 1980 г. – Мантовани, италиански диригент (* 1905 г.)\n 1982 г. – Карл Орф, германски композитор (* 1895 г.)\n 1982 г. – Хелене Дойч, австрийско-американски психоаналитик (* 1884 г.)\n 2003 г. – Карло Урбани, италиански физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1999 г. (* 1956 г.)\n 2003 г. – Кейносуке Еноеда, японски каратист (* 1935 г.)\n 2008 г. – Белчо Белчев, български финансист и политик (* 1932 г.)\n 2009 г. – Морис Жар, френски композитор и диригент (* 1924 г.)\n 2009 г. – Климент Денчев, български актьор (* 1939 г.)\n 2016 г. – Александър Бръзицов, български композитор (* 1943 г.)\n 2019 г. – Анес Варда, френска режисьорка (* 1928 г.)\n 2020 г. – Кшищоф Пендерецки, полски композитор и диригент (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Ден на военноинвалидите и пострадалите при изпълнение на воинските си конституционни задължения (от 2005 г.)\n Виетнам – Ден на ветераните\n Република Китай – Ден на младежта\n Мадагаскар – Ден в памет на героите от въстанието срещу френските колонизатори, Годишнина от избухването на антифренското въстание през 1947 г., дало между 80 и 90 хил. жертви\n Русия – Ден на правната служба и Професионален празник на военните адвокати\n САЩ – Ден на ветераните от Виетнамската война\n Тайван – Ден на младежта\n Централноафриканската република – Ден в чест на президента Бартелеми Боганда.\n Чили – Ден в памет на братята Вергара Толедо убити през 1985 г. по време на диктатурата на Пиночет от полицейските служби и Ден на младите бойци, отбелязван обикновено с граждански безредици от крайно леви движения и анархисти\n\n329"
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        "text": "\n\n#ifndef QISCIICODEC_P_H\n#define QISCIICODEC_P_H\n\n//\n//  W A R N I N G\n//  -------------\n//\n// This file is not part of the Qt API.  It exists purely as an\n// implementation detail.  This header file may change from version to\n// version without notice, or even be removed.\n//\n// We mean it.\n//\n\n#include \"QtCore/qtextcodec.h\"\n\nQT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE\n\n#ifndef QT_NO_CODECS\n\nclass QIsciiCodec : public QTextCodec {\npublic:\n    explicit QIsciiCodec(int i) : idx(i) {}\n    ~QIsciiCodec();\n\n    QByteArray name() const;\n    int mibEnum() const;\n\n    QString convertToUnicode(const char *, int, ConverterState *) const;\n    QByteArray convertFromUnicode(const QChar *, int, ConverterState *) const;\n\nprivate:\n    int idx;\n};\n\n#endif // QT_NO_CODECS\n\nQT_END_NAMESPACE\n\n#endif // QISCIICODEC_P_H\n"
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    {
        "text": "After tragedies such as the recent fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher by Officer Betty Shelby I want to scream out to my white brothers and sisters. White people, we need to wake up! We are the ones propping up these systems of injustice no matter how loving, kind, and charitable we are (or think we are).\nI’d prefer to focus on other people and stop there. However, I have to acknowledge my own biases as a white woman—things that are difficult to admit to myself much less write about in a blog.\nDo we really need one more blog from a good-hearted white person processing her own racism? We already take up too much space as it is. This is true, but if I’m honest that’s not the real reason I don’t want to share this blog. I’m scared if I reveal these parts of myself I’ll be seen as just another racist white person. I want to be seen as the “woke” white person and leave it at that.\nAnyone who knows me well knows how deeply I grieve the racial injustice in our country. And I don’t mean I’m just sympathetic, I mean I grieve from the core of my being. It was no different when the video of Terence Crutcher’s death hit the news. But I began to realize overwhelming grief wasn’t my only reaction.\nI didn’t notice this at first, but Officer Betty Shelby was immediately attended to by her fellow officers after she shot Mr. Crutcher. She was being cared for while the man she shot was dying in the street.\nI was horrified, grieved, and angry. But I also realized I, too, wanted to comfort Officer Shelby. She seemed rattled by what happened and I felt pity, fear, and concern for her.\nSome of you may think my response was just a good Christian response of love and compassion.\nMy reaction was not driven by love. It was driven by self-protection.\nOf all the people involved in this horrific tragedy, Officer Shelby is the one I can relate to the most. We are both white woman who have held positions of power in society. I’m driven by my desire to help people. Maybe that’s what motivated her to become a cop. I can also imagine her feeling terrified after she shot Mr. Crutcher and immediately justifying her actions to herself. I know I would have.\nDo I know if she felt any of this? No. I’m projecting this onto her because I feel like I can relate to her. That’s not to say I am unable to relate to or empathize beyond my own experience, I simply mean she is the easiest to relate to because, on the surface, we share similar demographics and stations in life.\nI am the first to call out white folks for being sympathetic to the dangerous realities of being a cop while denying those same realities for people of color. I’ve shared multiple posts on social media about the killing of Terence Crutcher. But I avoided posts specifically about Officer Shelby.\nIn my little corner of the universe I go hard for racial justice including police brutality. But when the officer holding the gun was someone who looked like me, I pulled back. That’s not love. That’s self-protection.\nAlthough self-protection is not necessarily a bad instinct in and of itself, it takes a problematic turn when we are driven more by fear than love. God is a God of love and that love includes justice. For far too long people who look like me have not been held accountable for the ways in which we have perpetuated and participated in the racism that is deeply embedded in our society. And communities of color continue to pay a very high price for that.\nIf I want to help dismantle racism I’m going to have to push past the instinct to protect people who seem like me at the expense of those who do not. I have to be willing to hold people in authority accountable, even when I see myself reflected in them.\nI don’t know exactly what justice for Mr. Crutcher and his family should look like. But I do know my instinct to shield Officer Shelby from accountability and the weight of responsibility of her chosen profession is what maintains a deadly and oppressive system of injustice.\nTomorrow I’ll go back to doing everything I can to help white folks confront racism. But today (and everyday) I need your help doing that same thing in my own life. Today I mourn with my African American brothers and sisters. I also commit to dismantling the self-protective barriers that white privilege and racism have constructed within me."
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    {
        "text": "Clearance Sale on Dell Studio 15-1536 notebooks. This is a factory refurbished Dell Studio 15-1536-Black laptop computer, internet ready with preinstalled operating system.\nDell Studio 15 Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 4096MB, 320GB, DVDRW, 56K, 10/100/1000, 802.11b/g Wireless, Webcam, Jet Black, 15.4\""
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        "text": "Q: How do I stop iOS 4 from draining the battery of my 2nd gen iPod Touch overnight? Every since \"upgrading\" my 2nd generation iPod Touch to iOS 4, it seems to lose power overnight (when not plugged in). What can I do to fix this? I have tried a restore and that did not work. Seen as a problem in releases iOS 4.0.1, 4.0.2 and 4.1\n\nA: *\n\n*If you don't need any network activity, I would recommend enabling Airplane Mode overnight.\n\n*Failing that, disable bluetooth and/or wifi if they are unnecessary\n\n*Disable as much Spotlight search as you can afford to by going to Settings->General->Home Button->Spotlight Search.\n\nA: You should wait until Apple releases iOS 4.1 that should improve overall performances on old iDevices, like iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G.\n\nA: You may want to check any applications running in the \"multi-task\" mode.  I had a issue with my iPhone 4 dieing quickly when I had certain apps still trying to queue the network.  Good luck!\n\nA: I have an iPhone 4 and went through this issue with Apple Genius Bar guys and Level 2 support over the phone. The conclusion was the when a contact is modified on the iPhone/iPod in an Exchange account (like Gmail) the device gets into and endless loop trying to update the remote database. It stops only when finally the device is connected to a data plan or wifi connection to the server to be updated.\nStrangely enough the issue is only with contacts, not with calendar or mails. It was discovered with 4.0 and it is still valid for 4.3.3. \n"
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    {
        "text": "Q: LaunchDaemon not recognised I've installed CouchDB via MacPorts. Now I want to start it when my Mac boots, so I executed the instructions given in the install process:\nsudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist\n\nHowever this doesn't seem to work. I've looked inside the LaunchDaemons directory, and the plist file is there (as a symlink):\nlrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   57 18 aug 10:11 org.apache.couchdb.plist -> /opt/local/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist\n\nThe contents of the actual plist file seem ok (however I have no real knowledge of how it should look):\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n  <dict>\n    <key>Label</key>\n    <string>org.apache.couchdb</string>\n    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>\n    <dict>\n      <key>HOME</key>\n      <string>~</string>\n\n\n    </dict>\n    <key>ProgramArguments</key>\n    <array>\n      <string>/opt/local/bin/couchdb</string>\n    </array>\n    <key>UserName</key>\n    <string>couchdb</string>\n    <key>StandardOutPath</key>\n    <string>/dev/null</string>\n    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>\n    <string>/dev/null</string>\n    <key>RunAtLoad</key>\n    <true/>\n    <key>KeepAlive</key>\n    <true/>\n  </dict>\n</plist>\n\nWhen I execute /opt/local/bin/couchdb manually, the process is created, so no problems there. It just seems the launch daemon skips this command.\nAny thoughts on how to fix this?\n\nA: Try the following (one-line command) :\nsudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /opt/local/var/lib/couchdb/ /opt/local/var/log/couchdb/ /opt/local/etc/couchdb/ /opt/local/var/run/couchdb\n\nThen reboot.\nIf it doesn't work, what version of MacPorts and CouchDB do you have ?\n\nA: I'm not specifically familiar with CouchDB, but I see a couple of potential problems with your .plist file: first, the HOME value being set is weird -- it should be a specific folder path (i.e. wherever you put the couchdb user's home folder), not ~.  Second, I suspect you also need to set the PATH environment variable so CouchDB can find the other optional programs you've installed.  So that section of the .plist should look something like this:\n<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>\n<dict>\n    <key>HOME</key>\n    <string>/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb</string>\n    <key>PATH</key>\n    <string>/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin</string>\n</dict>\n\n(Note: the above values are guesses based on a little googling -- you may need to adjust them to where your CouchDB user's home is and/or where your add-on binaries folders are.)  To load the changed .plist file, use:\nsudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist\nsudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist\n\nIf that doesn't solve the problem, there are a couple of places to look for more info about what's going wrong: first, take a look at the system log (/var/log/system.log), either with the Console utility or a command line tool; it'll have any errors that launchd ran into while trying to process the .plist file or start CouchDB.  Second, follow Mark's suggestion about changing StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath to real files, and looking at what shows up there.  This isn't needed if everything's configured properly, but can be very useful for finding out what's wrong when there's a problem (and you can switch them back to /dev/null after the problem has been solved).\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: How can I get rid of Safari 5's \"awesome bar\"?  Safari 5 came with a copycat of Firefox \"awesome\" bar, completing text as your type an url with history of previous title pages you've seen, and not just previous URLs.\nHow to get rid of this annoyance?\n\nA: I haven't tried it and I don't know if it'll solve your problem, but Shaun Inman created a Safari extension called SMRT that disables its auto-complete behavior.\n\nA: You could try the following : \ndefault write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO\ndefault write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari5IncludeFancyURLCompletionList -bool NO\n# note the 5 instead of 4 in the second command.\n\nI know the one with 4 exists, but I'm not sure for the one with 5.\nAt least, you could try these commands (each one or both), they won't hurt the system.\n"
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    {
        "text": "More on KC-Y and KC-Z\n—John A. Tirpak9/22/2016\n​Although Air Mobility Command chief Gen. Carlton Everhart seems convinced that the tanker recapitalization program should be more KC-46s and a new, stealthy “KC-Z,” those are ideas that will have to be explored, Air Force acquisition chief Darlene Costello told reporters at ASC16. A fleet of 179 KC-46s is “approved and that’s our baseline program,” she said, adding, “certainly we can consider buying more, but there would have to be quite a bit of discussion” about expanding the program. “We believe we have a good product” in the KC-46, but it currently faces “some schedule issues” If it “proves to be...what we expect, we may want to buy more.” Costello’s deputy, Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, said “I don’t see that we’d have to do a whole lot” of programmatic wrangling “to buy more.” As for the KC-Z, Bunch said that idea “would be further out” and may have to go through the kind of “experimentation campaigns (and) developmental planning” that went into the Air Superiority 2030 study. “Those are all things we discuss in ‘planning choices’,” which is the pre-budget financial assessment of the Air Force program.​"
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    {
        "text": "During 1992 D7017 was painted in departmental 'Dutch' livery and renumbered 35017. Although of course no class member every carried this livery or indeed TOPS numbers, they certainly would have done if they had lasted another twenty years, so it was an interesting experiment in 'what might have been'. On 31 October 1992 35017 (D7017) darkens the sky as it departs from Watchet station with a Minehead bound train during the West Somerset Railway's Diesel Gala."
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    {
        "text": "Last night...\nSubject: Anime, Avenger, Cowboy Bebop\n...I didn't watch a whole lot. Got one more episode of the dub of \"Avenger\" out of the way so I only have disc 3 to go. I was supposed to have gotten my rental of the recently released first disc of \"Gankutsuou\" so I could finally see what the fuss about that one was, but it didn't show. I guess I'll watch it Monday.\nIn the \"new-to-me\" column was disc one of \"NieA Under 7\" -- another Yoshitoshi ABe work I'm trying in the hopes of \"widening the net\" for interesting series. Right off the bat, there was a lot of commonality to \"Haibane Renmei\" in terms of character and vibe. But then it also wound up throwing around a lot of silly, super-deformed hyperactive comedy into the mix. Which kind of annoyed me. It wasn't the usual immature stuff, but it wasn't exactly mature either. Still, there's that whole \"discovering the rules of that world\" thang going on, like what \"Haibane Renmei\" had, so there may be enough of a balance between the intriguing bits and the annoyances to get me through it. I'll give the second disc a go.\nFinally, disc 2 of the \"Cowboy Bebop\" remix finally arrived, so I recapped a bit of disc 1, and got through part of disc 2 before I realized I was actually kind of worn out. So I'll have to revisit the episodes on disc 2 again later. It's a fun, enjoyable, immensely cool series; it's only fair that I watch it when I'm more alert.\nby Fellini 8.5 at 11/13/2005\nForgotten quickies\nTastes great, not particularly filling\nTurkey-day marathon\n\"From looney to batty\"... or \"Less than the sum of...\nMisc. Saturday\n\"This isn't baseball...\"\nFansub roundup\nA texture that might rub the wrong way\nThe failure of \"Dub Night\"\nDeepDiscountDVD -- It's that time of the year agai...\nThe other animation\nA couple of fansubs...\n\"Meine Liebe... wieder\"\nOngoing...\n\"Brazil\" meets \"The Matrix\" meets...\n\"I feel the earth... move... under my feet\"\nA few quickies"
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    {
        "text": "Q: How do I set which Apache / PHP 10.6 should run? All my problems stemmed from trying to get mcrypt for PHP installed. Last night I gave in and followed a tutorial of how to do a totally fresh apache2 and php5.3.3 install. I did this using MacPorts.\nSadly, that didn't enable mcrypt for me last night, although I was pretty pleased that I got 5.3.3 running. :)\nThe problem is that I have woken up this morning to find that my php version is back down to 5.3.1 which can only mean that OS X has reverted to my original Apache and PHP.\nHow to I tell OS X to use the software I installed via MacPorts?\n(And then I will as a new question of how to enable mcrypt)\n\nA: It's not so much your version of Apache/PHP have been reverted - it's just the wrong version is loaded.\nIf you have Mac OS X's Web Sharing enabled it will auto enable the version of Apache and PHP Apple provides using the LaunchDaemon org.apache.httpd.plist in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons (this will override MacPorts version). You'll want to disable this by either turning off Web Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane or by running sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist.\nWhen you installed Apache for MacPorts it installed a LaunchDaemon into /Library/LaunchDaemons which if enabled will start up the MacPorts version of Apache automatically. To enable it run sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist and you're off to the races.\nIf you're running apachectl to restart - make sure you've selected the right version. You may need to alter your $PATH to have /opt/local/apache2/bim before /usr/sbin\nAs for what version of PHP is being used; on the command line this will depend on your $PATH while for Apache it's entirely in your configuration of where the libphp5 module is. (/etc/apache2/ for the built in version, /opt/local/apache2/conf for the version MacPorts installed)\n\nA: Why does OS X need to know which Apache to use?  Just run the correct Apache yourself.  Open up Terminal, cd to the MacPorts directory containing the correct Apache (probably /opt/something/something/something/Apache2/bin or something like that), and run it (probably something like ./httpd).\n\nA: You have two solutions : \n\n\n*\n\n*You have to edit the global PATH variable to add MacPort folders at the beginning. It contains the order of folders the system uses to find binaries.\n\n*Backup original binaries (in /usr/bin, /bin, …), then add symlinks to MacPorts binaries.\n\n\nNormally, do not use option 2 until you really know what you're doing. I just mentioned it because it's technically possible.\nTo edit the global PATH variable, edit the file /etc/paths, add /opt/local/bin at the beginning and finally reboot to apply changes.\nYou can control, after the reboot, that changes have been made by do the following command : \n\necho $PATH\n\nYou should see /opt/local/bin just before /usr/bin:/bin:….\n"
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    {
        "text": "Benefit Reception for Doctors Without Borders\nThe VII Photo Agency and Doctors Without Borders\nMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Present\nDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: FORGOTTEN WAR\nA PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION\nStephen Cohen Gallery, March 16 – May 6, 2006\nBenefit Reception to be held Thursday, April 6, 6 – 9 pm\n(Los Angeles, CA) February 6, 2006 – Five world-renowned photographers from the VII Photo Agency – Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, and James Nachtwey – traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from May through August of 2005 with the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in order to shed light on the suffering of the Congolese people as they struggle to survive a war that remains virtually invisible to the outside world. Their work is presented in Democratic Republic of the Congo: Forgotten War which arrives at the Stephen Cohen Gallery, located at 7358 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles on March 16, 2006. A benefit reception for Doctors Without Borders will be held on Thursday, April 6 from 6 to 9 pm. All VII photographers will be present. A brief talk on the Congo will be given by Ron Haviv and Kris Torgeson from Doctors Without Borders at 7pm. The exhibition will tour throughout the United States, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.\nMore than a decade of war and the collapse of the public health system have resulted in widespread and acute misery for people throughout the DRC. Many Congolese face extreme deprivation and violence, with brutal militia attacks and sexual violence common. Severe malnutrition and epidemics of diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, and cholera take an even greater toll as few people have access to health facilities let alone treatment. The complex and diverse nature of the violence and neglect challenges any notion of simple, blanket solutions to address even the immediate causes of so much death and suffering.\n\"Today the world only seems to be able to focus on one or two events at a time. Over the past years, the DRC has never been one of them,\" said VII photographer Ron Haviv. \"By becoming aware of the staggering human toll in the DRC, it was obvious for us at VII to try to help change that. We hope that through this work we can raise the awareness of what is happening and that all who see the work will want to help change an ever worsening situation.\"\nDuring the past year, the northeastern region of Ituri has been an epicenter of violence, with multiple factions fighting for the control of the area's resources. Photographers Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, and James Nachtwey all documented the Bon Marché Hospital in Bunia city in Ituri, where MSF teams offer medical care for victims of violence in the region. Sexual violence is especially prevalent in Ituri – MSF treated more than 3,500 rape survivors since June 2003. A flare-up in fighting this past spring throughout Ituri prompted emergency medical interventions in four displacement camps in Tchomia, Kakwa, Tche, and Gina. VII photographer Haviv also traveled with MSF teams to two of these camps to photograph the intolerable situation for the more than 80,000 civilians who have sought safety in them.\nInsecurity is also widespread in North Kivu, where photographer James Nachtwey accompanied MSF teams providing basic medical care, specialized care for malnourished children, and treatment for victims of sexual violence.\nHIV/AIDS is also a key health emergency in DRC. VII's Antonin Kratochvil photographed in the town of Bukavu, South Kivu, where MSF is providing nearly 500 people living with HIV/AIDS with free antiretroviral (ARV) medicines. In a second HIV/AIDS project, in the capital Kinshasa, where VII photographer Joachim Ladefoged traveled, more than 1300 people living with HIV/AIDS receive free ARV treatment from MSF and MSF carries out community health work with commercial sex workers in the city.\n\"The grim reality of life in many areas of the DRC has become commonplace, a kind of normalization of the unacceptable,\" said Nicolas de Torrente, Executive Director of MSF in the United States. \"There is so much need that it is a struggle to do anything other than respond to the most serious emergencies. What strikes me most about the plight of the Congolese people is how their unbearable situation is virtually invisible to the world beyond their village. These photographs go behind the headlines and offer glimpses of the strength and suffering of ordinary people – reminding us, and the world at large, that we must refuse to let the unacceptable become normal.\"\nCopies of Democratic Republic of the Congo: Forgotten War, published by de.MO, will be available at the gallery and donations to Doctors Without Borders can be made throughout the duration of the exhibition.\nTo coincide with the photographic exhibition, the photojournalists of the VII Photo Agency will host a seminar this year from Friday, April 7 through Sunday, April 9 at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. This three-day seminar will feature practical breakout sessions covering topics like creative innovation, personal projects, assignments, book publishing and fine art. Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, John Stanmeyer, and Gary Knight will present their latest work and participate in panel discussions, breakout sessions and portfolio reviews. Sponsors of the seminar include Canon, Lexar, Lowepro, Digital Railroads and Art Center.\nRegistration is required at a cost of $75 for students and $175 for professionals. There are also a limited number of portfolio reviews available for $375. To register online or for additional information, please see www.viiphoto.com/LAseminar.\nAbout VII Photo Agency\nVII Photo Agency derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution hub for some of the world's finest photojournalism, VII has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century. Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer were joined in 2002 by Lauren Greenfield and in 2004 by Joachim Ladefoged. Together they document conflict – environmental, social and political, both violent and non-violent – to produce an unflinching record of the injustices created and experienced by people caught up in the events they describe. For more information, go to www.viiphoto.com\nAbout Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)\nDoctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. Today, MSF has more than 160 international volunteers and over 1800 national staff working in 30 projects in 6 provinces of the DRC in one of the organization's largest assistance program in the world today.\nFor more information please visit their website at www.viiphoto.com"
    },
    {
        "text": "Sorry, there are no offers on Writing for the Web courses in Ireland right now. But keep an eye on this page, they can crop up at any time. And some are very short-lived."
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: MacBook Pro keyboard backlighting loses current setting? I recently bought the 13\" MacBook Pro and using the function keys set the keyboard backlighting to be four steps below the maximum setting, as indicated by the graphic that appears on the screen. Often when I boot the computer or open the lid after a sleep period, if I adjust the backlighting by one step then I notice that it has a noticeably different value to what I set it to. For example, it might have dropped from near the maximum value to the half way setting.\nIs this normal behaviour of the Mac adjusting the backlighting level for the ambient lighting conditions? Or should the on screen graphic retain the same number of bars regardless of whether I'm outside in brilliant sunshine or in a darkened room?\n\nA: Yes, it actually is normal. If you are in a well lit room, then the backlighting will refuse to turn on. \nSo no, the onscreen graphic would not retain the same number of bars unless you stay in the same room or do not change into different lighting environments.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "Who could say no to more data on their mobile phones? Tune Talk recently introduced a new monthly data plan of 5GB, but if you’re happy with your 3GB of data, it is now cheaper than before.\nTo subscribe, simply key in “50MB”, “100MB”, “200MB”, “500MB”, “3GB” or “5GB” and send to 2222.\nYou can only subscribe to one data plan at one time. Subscribing to a new data plan will replace your current plan. These plans will automatically be renewed after they expire, so to discontinue, type “<data plan> STOP” and send to 2222.\nVisit Tune Talk now for more information about their data plans."
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    {
        "text": "We have developed a proof of concept that shows that motivated young people can create global solutions to existing problems. We have created a concept called “Sin Caducidad” (\"No Expiration\") that helps reduce food waste. Young people have created a solution to remind people of the fresh products that are about to expire and that we can consume them in time.\nDuring the first half of 2014 we conducted three design thinking workshops in order to find ideas to reduce food waste. At the end of the workshops we chose the idea that would provide additional training for youth and supposed the greatest impact on the solution. Later we developed the solution using the most innovative technologies like Arduino, 3D printing and video mapping."
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        "text": "Q: How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? Is there any way to search a specific type of file using Spotlight? I remember there was a special command or something that I had to put in front of the search phrase but I cannot remember it now. \nFor example, if I want to search only PDFs for a particular phrase in Spotlight, what would I do?\n\nA: Search by Kind One of the most useful ways to narrow down a search is by using the kind: keyword. This allows you to restrict your list of results to a certain file format. For instance, if you type time machine kind:pdf, Spotlight will pull up only PDF files containing the words \"time\" and \"machine\". You can also limit your search to e-mail messages, music files, System Preferences, applications, and more.\nWhile the original Spotlight recognized only a limited number of file types, the Leopard version can look for files created by specific applications, as well as certain file formats. Searching for kind:mp3 or kind:tiff will find files in one of those formats, and searching for kind:pages or kind:powerpoint will show only documents created in one of those programs. For a list of useful keywords, see “My Kind of Keyword.” But remember, for the keywords to work, you must have the appropriate categories enabled in Spotlight’s preferences.\nyou can get more info here or here.\n\n\nA: It's already been answered, but here's my 2 cents. \nVia Bash through the terminal\nfind ~ -type f -name '*pdf'\nor\nfind ~ -iname '*pdf'\n(or, if you want to ignore error messages, find ~ -type f -name '*pdf' 2>/dev/null)\nor you can use this to search for a string in a file:\nfind ~ -iname '*txt' | xargs grep 'string you want'\nThis may not return anything on a pdf, but it will work on most other file types (text, php, py, html, etc).\n\nA: mdimport -A \n\nwill give you every possible attribute available on your system\nkMDItemKind is the attribute for files, but perhaps the above will suggest a better attribute to search on. \nThen \nmdfind \"kMDItemKind == 'whatever'\"\n\nThe syntax might make you shout out in disgust.  I can personally attest that it ruins zsh completion.  Still, Spotlight ( that's what this is ) indexes your stuff all the time anyway, and it's fast.  Might as well use it.  YMMV\n\nA: To the best of my knowledge it's not possible via spotlight (tested on Mojave and Monterey). You can only use finder:\n\n*\n\n*Start a search with Command+F.\n\n*Click on the '+' icon on the far side of the taskbar\n\n*Select the type from the 'kind' pull-down menu. Select 'other' and then find 'File extension'\n\nEnter your desired file extension and hit enter.\n\nA: *\n\n*Open a Find Window (cmd-f) or do a spotlight search and select \"show all\"\n\n*Hit the little \"+\" icon (to the right of the 'save' button)\n\n*Select File Type as a search criteria and select the correct one.\n\n*Rerun the search.\n\n\n(Disclaimer, I'm not on a Mac right now :( so my exact instructions might be a little off).\n\nA: The question \"How to use Regex with spotlight\" is marked as a duplicate of this for some reason, so I thought I would share how to do wildcard searching.\nYou can do wildcard searching in the Finder using a Kind of \"Raw Query\" with the kMDItemDisplayName attribute:\n\nRaw Queries are essentially what you use with the mdfind command. I have more details on Raw Queries and using them in the GUI at https://superuser.com/a/491119/66255.\n\nA: You can do it with Spotlight too.\n\n\n*\n\n*Press Command + Space bar.\n\n*Type period (.) followed by the extension of the file. E.g. for PDF files, type '.pdf'.\n\n*Select the 'Show all in Finder...' in the drop-down results.\nThis helps you even find the file types that are not listed in the Finder menu.\n\nA: We can narrow down the search by using kind:.\nSo, if you want to search only PDFs, you can type kind:pdf.\nAnd sometimes, we don't need to type entire kind, two or three letters may be enough. For example, we can type kind:pd, it will also show PDFs.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is there any way to add an ePub book to iBooks without iTunes? I purchased a book and have it in ePub and PDF formats. I can easily add the PDF to iBooks from Safari. However, I can't find a method to get an ePub book into iBooks without iTunes. I'm away from my laptop with iTunes where my iPhone syncs, so that's not an option at the moment.\nIs there anyway to add an ePub book to iBooks without iTunes?\n\nA: Now you can use dropbox. \nPut the epub in dropbox and open them using the dropbox app in ipad. \nDropbox will not be able to open epub but you can choose to open it in ibooks or other supported apps.\n\nA: GoodReader is capable of this. You can add a bookmark in Safari which will save the linked ePub into GoodReader's \"filesystem\", from where you can tap the ePub file and open it in iBooks.\nAs an aside, GoodReader makes a fairly good Swiss army knife tool for file management on non-jail broken iPads.\n\nA: Calibre might work. It's pretty flexible.\nHere's the calibre conversion list. \n\nA: Just download an app like \"iFlashDrive\", this way you can copy ePubs from any computer with iTunes even if it is not the one syncing with iTunes.\nThen you copy the files on the iPad/iPhone. In iFlashDrive you select \"Send via EMail\", then press \"cancel\", then go in the Mail-App and select the Mail from Drafts and delete it. Now go to the Trash and from there you can open the Attachment in iBooks :)\n\nA: What you need is some way to get it on your device: for this there are a lot of options available (and some are mentioned above).\nPersonally I have used two methods to achieve this. The first one is easy: place the file in Dropbox.\nThe second one is a bit more complicated, but preferred as it does not involve an external application or service on your Mac or your iDevice.\n\n\n*\n\n*Open Terminal\n\n*cd to the directory where the ePub is placed (or drag the directory in the Terminal window)\n\n*Type (or copy/paste) python -m SimpleHTTPServer\n\n*Open on your iDevice Safari\n\n*Enter the IP address of your Mac (you can find this in the \"Network\" pane of \"System Preferences\"), along with the port number opened by the SimpleHTTPServer (default 8000). E.g. if your IP address is 192.168.0.187, enter 192.168.0.187:8000 into the Mobile Safari address bar.\n\n*The directory can be viewed as a simple listing: all files are shown as links. Click on the title of your ePub and it is downloaded to your device. Mobile Safari offers you the applications that can open ePub files (I only use iBooks for this).\n\n*Close the server in Terminal on your Mac with keystroke \"CTRL-C\".\n\n\nA: If you email the epub file to yourself, opening the attachment in iBooks will be an option in iOS Mail.\n\nA: At the moment, you can't add ePub to iBooks without using iTunes (at least for non-jailbroken iDevices).\nYou could use Stanza that supports this feature.\nMaybe, one day, Apple will add this functionality.\n\nA: You can use iTools for this. It's free and allows you to import/export PDFs and ePUB files for iBooks. But it also allows import/export of pictures and videos.\nWorks for Windows and Mac OS X.\niTools does not need to be installed and can even be used as a portable app.\nKeep in mind: iTunes needs to be installed and have a trusting relationship with your iPhone/iPad. \nSee also: Copy PDF or ePUB without iTunes\n\nA: *\n\n*Get any of a number of free or paid book-reading apps on your iPhone. Marvin is a good example of such a free app.\n\n\n*On your computer, download CopyTrans Apps which is a free beta program that can add files and documents to iPhone apps\n\n\n*Connect the iPad and let the iOS apps load in the program window\n\n\n*Click on the Marvin app or on the reader-app you have installed on your iPad\n\n\n*From the right-hand side of the program window click on Add Documents and browse to the ePub book file on your computer\n\nSource: How to transfer ePUB books and PDF documents to iPad\n\nA: AirDrop\nAirDrop is Apple’s new (2011) technology for quickly and easily sharing files between computers and devices over a shared Wifi or Bluetooth. Works on many of the later models of Macs and iOS devices. As of OS X Yosemite and later, Macs can communicate with iOS devices over AirDrop (two separate worlds before that).\n\n*\n\n*On the Mac, in the Finder app, choose Go > AirDrop.\n\n*Wait a long moment as your Mac probes the network. Any running iPad or iPhone currently running on the same wifi should appear within the Finder window.\n\n*On your Mac, in the Finder, drag your .epub files on to the desired device that appeared in the Finder window. A message appears on the iOS device telling you that copying is in process.\n\n*On the iOS device, in the panel that appears, tap which app should accept the files. You probably want to tap the iBooks item.\n\nDone.\n\nA: Use a file manager and copy the epub to the correct folder. It should be there the next time you open the app.\n\nA: I purchased an item called 'SanDisk Wireless Flash' that now allows me to load or copy from any of my iDevices (pads, phones, etc). It is a small USB device that creates a small area WiFi zone (a few meters at best). First you connect it to your PC and drop whatever data you want on it. Next, you connect to the device through the wireless app on the device and it allows you to see what is on the wireless device and to download what you want: books, pictures, movies, documents, etc. I bought a 32 GB device but there is at least a 64 GB one. \nIt has been wonderful when I want to share data with family and friends. It also helps expand the memory capacity of the iDevice you are using for only a small financial cost. I am completely satisfied with mine.\n\nA: yes there is a way to send ePub files to iBooks without iTunes.\ncopy trans manager ;) will allow u to sync music and books without the itunes hassle\n"
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        "text": "Q: Access to Keychain items is restricted I recently had to reinstall the OS on my MacBook Pro.  I used MobileMe to sync a bunch of my settings back to my computer (including Keychains), and now I can't see any of my Keychain passwords.  If I try to view an item and check the \"Show password\" or \"Show note\" checkbox, I get a little alert that says \"Access to this item is restricted\".  However, the Access Control tab for that same item has the \"Allow all apps access\" option selected, with the description saying \"Access to this item is not restricted\".\nThings I've found/tried:\n\n\n*\n\n*Keychain First Aid reports no errors with my keychain.\n\n*There is nothing in my ~/Library/Keychains/.syncinfo folder.\n\n*Creating a new default keychain a re-syncing from MobileMe does not fix the issue.\n\n\nWhat do I need to do to fix my keychain?  I have a bunch of stuff in there (mostly application license keys) that I'd rather not lose.\n\nA: I know this might sound unrelated but after moving my keychain from one machine to another I've had to fix permissions with Disk Utility in order to regain access to my keychain. \nAnd in my experience it seems to be a bad idea to move your keychain from one machine to another when your password differs between machines.\n\nA: You can open a terminal and type in\nman security\n\nPerhaps you will find your answer there\n\nA: I had exactly this problem and a reboot fixed things for me. No idea what was wrong, unfortunately (and scarily).\n"
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    {
        "text": "30 март е 89-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (90-и през високосна година). Остават 276 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 240 г. пр.н.е. – Описано е първото наблюдение на Халеевата комета.\n\n 1794 г. – Жорж Дантон, Камил Демулен и техни последователи са задържани в заговор за преврат и сваляне на правителството.\n 1814 г. – Армиите от Шестата коалиция по време на Наполеоновите войни навлизат в Париж.\n 1814 г. – в Амстердам е коронясан първият крал на Нидерландия Вилхелм I.\n 1842 г. – Доктор Кроуфърд Лонг използва за първи път анестезия при извършване на хирургична операция.\n\n 1856 г. – Подписан е Парижкият договор, с който се слага край на Кримската война.\n 1858 г. – Хаймън Липман патентова молив с прикрепена към него канцеларска гума.\n 1867 г. – Основана е Австро-Унгария, в резултат на реформата на Австрийската империя.\n 1905 г. – Президентът на САЩ Теодор Рузвелт е помолен да посредничи за прекратяването на Руско-японската война.\n 1909 г. – Открит е за експлоатация мостът, свързващ кварталите Манхатън и Куинс в Ню Йорк.\n 1912 г. – Мароканският султан Абделхафид подписва договор, съгласно който Мароко става протекторат на Франция.\n 1914 г. – В Англия стачкуват 100 000 йоркширски миньори.\n 1922 г. – Със заповед на военния министър Константин Томов е учреден почетен знак За спасяване на знаме, носи се отдясно на гърди, отсечени са само 100 знака.\n 1930 г. – Учредена е прокомунистическата организация Български общ народен студентски съюз (БОНС).\n 1940 г. – Япония обявява Нанцзин за столица на марионетното китайско правителство.\n 1944 г. – Втората световна война: Англо-американската авиация бомбардира София, Враца, Лом и Фердинанд (дн. Монтана). В операцията участват 600 самолета.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветската армия, с участие на съюзническите армии от България, Югославия, Румъния и Полша, навлиза в Австрия и завладява Виена, а на север – освобождава Гданск.\n 1946 г. – Церемонията по връчване на наградите Оскар за първи път се предава по радиото.\n 1954 г. – В Торонто е открито първото канадско метро.\n 1968 г. – Ген. Лудвик Свобода става президент на Чехословакия.\n 1981 г. – При покушение във Вашингтон американският президент Роналд Рейгън е ранен в гърдите от 25-годишния Джон Хинкли.\n 1983 г. – В Гърция е официално приет закон за 5-дневна работна седмица и 8-часов работен ден.\n 1983 г. – НС приема Закон за допитване до народа (референдум).\n 2006 г. – Маркос Понтес става първият бразилски и лузофонски космонавт, излитайки с руския космически кораб Союз.\n\nРодени \n\n 1326 г. – Иван II, велик княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество († 1359 г.)\n 1432 г. – Мехмед II Завоевателя, султан на Османската империя († 1481 г.)\n 1746 г. – Франсиско Гоя, испански художник († 1828 г.)\n 1811 г. – Роберт Бунзен, немски химик и откривател († 1899 г.)\n 1844 г. – Пол Верлен, френски поет († 1896 г.)\n 1853 г. – Винсент ван Гог, холандски художник († 1890 г.)\n 1864 г. – Франц Опенхаймер, германски социолог († 1943 г.)\n 1868 г. – Коломан Мозер, австрийски художник, декоратор и дизайнер († 1918 г.)\n 1870 г. – Иван Кепов, български историк († 1938 г.)\n 1873 г. – Макс Шублие, френски дипломат и историк († 1933 г.)\n 1879 г. – Ст. Л. Костов, български писател и драматург († 1939 г.)\n 1880 г. – Шон О'Кейси, ирландски писател († 1964 г.)\n 1882 г. – Мелани Клайн, австрийско-британска психоаналитичка († 1960 г.)\n 1892 г. – Боян Урумов, български генерал († 1960 г.)\n 1892 г. – Стефан Банах, полски математик († 1945 г.)\n 1894 г. – Сергей Илюшин, руски конструктор на самолети († 1977 г.)\n 1895 г. – Йордан Кръчмаров, български скулптор († 1980 г.)\n 1908 г. – Любен Тонев, български архитект († 2001 г.)\n 1910 г. – Юзеф Марчинкевич, полски математик († 1940 г.)\n 1922 г. – Кунка Баева, българска актриса († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Турхан Бей, турски актьор 2012\n 1926 г. – Ингвар Кампрад, шведски предприемач († 2018 г.)\n 1927 г. – Иван Радоев, български писател († 1994 г.)\n 1933 г. – Борис Карадимчев, български композитор († 2014 г.)\n 1937 г. – Уорън Бийти, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1939 г. – Кристине Волтер, немска писателка и преводачка\n 1940 г. – Уве Тим, немски писател\n 1945 г. – Ерик Клептън, британски китарист\n 1946 г. – Иван Бориславов, български поет († 2011 г.)\n 1948 г. – Еди Джордан, ирландски автомобилен състезател\n 1950 г. – Дейвид Дженсън, британски актьор\n 1951 г. – Петър Великов, български шахматист\n 1960 г. – Пламен Липенски, български футболист\n 1962 г. – Ем Си Хамър, американски рап изпълнител\n 1962 г. – Йордан Матеев, български писател\n 1964 г. – Трейси Чапмън, американска певица и текстописец\n 1966 г. – Ефстратиос Гривас, гръцки шахматист\n 1968 г. – Селин Дион, канадска певица\n 1972 г. – Карел Поборски, чешки футболист\n 1973 г. – Адам Голдстейн, американски диджей († 2009 г.)\n 1979 г. – Марио Метушев, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Серхио Рамос, испански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1707 г. – Себастиан дьо Вобан, френски военен инженер (* 1633 г.)\n 1774 г. – Каролина фон Пфалц-Цвайбрюкен, ландграфиня на Хесен-Дармщат (* 1721 г.)\n 1783 г. – Уилям Хънтър, шотландски анатом (* 1718 г.)\n 1912 г. – Карл Май, германски писател (* 1842 г.)\n 1925 г. – Рудолф Щайнер, австрийски философ и учен (* 1861 г.)\n 1937 г. – Никола Димков, български общественик (* 1859 г.)\n 1941 г. – Васил Кутинчев, български генерал (* 1867 г.)\n 1944 г. – Върбан Генчев, български партизанин и деец на БРП, политкомисар на Горнооряховски партизански отряд (* 1918 г.)\n 1945 г. – Боян Секулов, български писател (* 1882 г.)\n 1950 г. – Леон Блум, министър-председател на Франция (* 1872 г.)\n 1954 г. – Иван Дипчев, български военен деец (* 1885 г.)\n 1954 г. – Йоахим Лемелсен, немски генерал (* 1888 г.)\n 1965 г. – Филип Хенч, американски физик, нобелов лауреат през 1950 г. (* 1896 г.)\n 1966 г. – Максфийлд Париш, американски художник (* 1966 г.)\n 1970 г. – Густав Брюнинг, германски канцлер (* 1885 г.)\n 1978 г. – Димитър Попниколов, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1986 г. – Джеймс Кагни, американски актьор (* 1899 г.)\n 1991 г. – Никола Тодев, български актьор (* 1928 г.)\n 2002 г. – Елизабет Боуз-Лайън, кралицата-майка на Елизабет II (* 1900 г.)\n 2005 г. – Емил Димитров, български поп певец (* 1940 г.)\n 2007 г. – Банко Банков, български актьор (* 1941 г.)\n 2010 г. – Елена Стефанова, българска актриса (* 1916 г.)\n\nПразници \n Барселона (Испания) – Ден на цветята\n България – Празник на ПУ „Паисий Хилендарски“ (от 1973)\n Палестина – Ден на Земята:, арабски: يوم الأرض‎, Йом ал-Ард; иврит: יום האדמה‎, Йом Ха'адама), в памет на манифестацията от 1976 срещу окупацията и конфискацията на земи\n САЩ – Национален ден на лекарите (Червеният карамфил е символ на този празник, 1990 г.)\n Тринидад и Тобаго – Ден на баптистите\n\n330"
    },
    {
        "text": "31 март е 90-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (91-ви през високосна). Остават 275 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 307 г. – След като се развежда с Минервина, император Константин Велики се жени за Фауста, дъщерята на някогашния римски император Максимиан.\n 1078 г. – С бунт на армията е свален императорът на Византия Михаил VII и е изпратен за епископ.\n 1282 г. – Избухва Сицилианската вечерня.\n 1492 г. – Издаден е Алхамбрайският декрет на Фердинанд и Изабела за изгонване на евреите от Испания.\n 1661 г. – Херцогинята на Орлеан Хенриета-Анна Стюарт сключва брак с орлеанския херцог Филип I.\n 1790 г. – Максимилиан Робеспиер е избран за президент на Якобинския клуб.\n 1848 г. – Във Франкфурт на Майн започва Общогерманско събрание, което продължава една година и неуспешно се опитва да създаде Германска империя.\n 1878 г. – На базата на Опълчението е създадена Българска земска войска, която по-късно става Българска армия.\n\n 1885 г. – Великобритания обявява за свой протекторат територията на днешната Ботсвана.\n 1889 г. – Айфеловата кула е официално открита и осветена.\n 1894 г. – Основан е норвежкият футболен клуб Од Гренлан.\n 1903 г. – Съставено е двадесет и петото правителство на България, начело със Стоян Данев.\n 1916 г. – В 24 часа България преминава от Юлиански към Грегориански календар и вместо 1 април настъпва 14 април.\n 1917 г. – САЩ купуват от Дания група острови в Карибско море за $25 млн., които по-късно преименуват на Американски Вирджински острови.\n 1919 г. – Основан е италианският футболен клуб от град Нови Лигуре Новезе.\n 1923 г. – Третият Държавен съд произнася присъди на министрите от кабинета на Васил Радославов за участието на България в Първата световна война; шестима са осъдени на доживотен затвор, а останалите – от 10 до 15 години затвор.\n 1931 г. – Разрушително земетресение в Манагуа (Никарагуа) отнема живота на над 2000 души.\n 1940 г. – Образувана е Карело-Финската съветска социалистическа република.\n 1942 г. – Започва Третата офанзива срещу Титовите партизани.\n 1943 г. – Мюзикълът Оклахома се появява на Бродуей и става тотален хит с 2212 изпълнения.\n 1944 г. – Втора световна война: Създадена е Група армии „Южна Украйна“.\n 1946 г. – Съставено е второ правителство на Кимон Георгиев.\n 1949 г. – Основана е италианската компания Абарт.\n 1949 г. – Остров Нюфаундленд се присъединява към Канада.\n 1953 г. – Делото срещу лекарите е закрито.\n 1964 г. – Генерал Умберту Кастелу Бранку установява диктатура в Бразилия.\n 1966 г. – Изстрелян е съветският Луна 10 – първият апарат влязъл в орбита около Луната.\n 1967 г. – Джими Хендрикс изгаря за първи път своята китара в лондонската зала „Астория“. По-късно е заведен в болница заради изгаряния по ръцете.\n 1972 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „Стихове“.\n 1972 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „Сърце човешко“.\n 1979 г. – Последният британски войник напуска Малта – денят е обявен за Ден на свободата.\n 1991 г. – В Албания се провеждат първите многопартийни избори.\n 1992 г. – Република Башкирия, Република Тува и Калмикската автономна съветска социалистическа република стават членове на Руската федерация.\n 1993 г. – Брендън Лий, синът на Брус Лий, загива по време на снимките на филма „Гарванът“.\n 1994 г. – Световната банка отпуска заем на България за преструктуриране на икономиката в размер на 100 млн. долара.\n 1998 г. – Излиза една от най-добрите игри и стратегии на всички времена – StarCraft на Blizzard.\n 1999 г. – Състои се премиерата на американската романтична комедия „10 неща, които мразя в теб“.\n 1999 г. – Състои се премиерата на научно-фантастичния екшън филм „Матрицата“.\n 2001 г. – Официално е открито Бразилското метро.\n 2005 г. – Открита е планетата Макемаке.\n 2005 г. – Принц Албер II поема ръководството на княжество Монако.\n 2018 г. – в Армения избухват протести срещу преизбирането на премиера Серж Саркисян\n\nРодени \n\n 250 г. – Констанций I Хлор, римски император († 306 г.)\n 1499 г. – Пий IV, римски папа († 1565 г.)\n 1519 г. – Анри II, крал на Франция († 1559 г.)\n 1596 г. – Рене Декарт, френски математик († (1650)\n 1621 г. – Андрю Марвел, английски поет († 1678 г.)\n 1675 г. – Бенедикт XIV, римски папа († 1758 г.)\n 1718 г. – Мариана-Виктория Бурбон-Испанска, кралица на Португалия († 1781 г.)\n 1723 г. – Фредерик V, крал на Дания († 1766 г.)\n 1729 г. – Анри Луи Льокен, френски артист († 1778 г.)\n 1819 г. – Хлодвиг цу Хоенлое-Шилингсфюрст, немски политик († 1901 г.)\n 1823 г. – Александър Островски, руски драматург († 1886 г.)\n 1849 г. – Джеймс Тейлър Кент, американски хомеопат († 1916 г.)\n 1868 г. – Карл Бонхофер, немски невролог († 1948 г.)\n 1869 г. – Анри Клод, френски психиатър († 1946 г.)\n 1871 г. – Артър Грифит, президент на Ирландия († 1922 г.)\n 1872 г. – Сергей Дягилев, руски импресарио († 1929 г.)\n 1882 г. – Корней Чуковски, руски писател († 1969 г.)\n 1885 г. – Жул Паскин, български художник († 1930 г.)\n 1890 г. – Уилям Лорънс Браг, австралийски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1915 г. († 1971 г.)\n 1897 г. – Вернер Мумерт, немски офицер († 1950 г.)\n 1903 г. – Тодор Герасимов, български археолог († 1974 г.)\n 1906 г. – Шиничиро Томонага, японски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. († 1979 г.)\n 1914 г. – Октавио Пас, мексикански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1990 г. († 1998 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джон Фаулз, английски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1931 г. – Иван Стайков, български композитор († 2020 г.)\n 1931 г. – Катя Чукова, българска актриса († 2012 г.)\n 1932 г. – Джон Джейкс, американски писател\n 1934 г. – Карло Рубия, италиански физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1934 г. – Ричард Чембърлейн, американски актьор\n 1935 г. – Хуберт Фихте, немски писател († 1986 г.)\n 1935 г. – Хърб Арпърт, американски тромпетист\n 1936 г. – Трифон Пашов, български политик († 2010 г.)\n 1937 г. – Димитър Тасев, български художник\n 1939 г. – Звияд Гамсахурдия, първият президент на Грузия († 1993 г.)\n 1943 г. – Кристофър Уокън, американски актьор\n 1946 г. – Киран Коларов, български режисьор\n 1948 г. – Ал Гор, вицепрезидент на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат през 2007 г.\n 1948 г. – Иван Яхнаджиев, български художник\n 1950 г. – Андраш Адорян, унгарски шахматист\n 1953 г. – Париз Паризов, български педагог\n 1954 г. – Тодор Атанасов, български футболист († 2020 г.)\n 1955 г. – Ангъс Йънг, австралийски музикант (AC/DC)\n 1955 г. – Гьоко Хаджиевски, македонски футболен треньор\n 1955 г. – Филип Димитров, министър-председател на България\n 1962 г. – Мустафа Хаджи, главен мюфтия на България\n 1962 г. – Оли Рен, финландски политик\n 1964 г. – Николай Илиев, български футболист\n 1971 г. – Юън Макгрегър, шотландски актьор\n 1974 г. – Стефан Олсдал, шведски музикант („Пласибо“)\n 1979 г. – Алексис Фереро, аржентински футболист\n 1984 г. – Елен Колева, българска актриса\n 1987 г. – Божидар Митрев, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 32 пр.н.е. г. – Тит Помпоний Атик, римски конник (* 110 пр.н.е. г.)\n 1340 г. – Иван I, велик московски княз (* 1288 г.)\n 1547 г. – Франсоа I, крал на Франция (* 1494 г.)\n 1621 г. – Филип III Испански, крал на Испания (* 1578 г.)\n 1631 г. – Джон Дън, английски поет (* 1572 г.)\n 1727 г. – Исак Нютон, английски физик (* 1643 г.)\n 1812 г. – Осип Второв, руски офицер (* ? г.)\n 1837 г. – Джон Констабъл, английски художник (* 1776 г.)\n 1855 г. – Шарлот Бронте, британска писателка (* 1816 г.)\n 1860 г. – Еварист Юк, френски монах (* 1813 г.)\n 1880 г. – Хенрик Виенявски, полски композитор (* 1835 г.)\n 1894 г. – Павел Яблочков, руски изобретател (* 1847 г.)\n 1904 г. – Василий Верешчагин, руски живописец (* 1842 г.)\n 1907 г. – Лео Таксил, френски писател (* 1854 г.)\n 1914 г. – Кристиан Моргенщерн, немски поет (* 1871 г.)\n 1913 г. – Джон Пирпонт Морган, американски предприемач (* 1837 г.)\n 1917 г. – Емил фон Беринг, немски учен, първият носител (1901 г.) на Нобелова награда за физиология и медицина (* 1854 г.)\n 1918 г. – Лавър Корнилов, руски военачалник (* 1870 г.)\n 1927 г. – Мейбъл Колинс, британска писателка (* 1851 г.)\n 1929 г. – Илия Бадрев, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1936 г. – Иван Москов, български революционер (* 1888 г.)\n 1937 г. – Ахмед Изет паша, османски военачалник (* 1864 г.)\n 1938 г. – Васил Карагьозов, български политик (* 1856 г.)\n 1941 г. – Иван Красновски, български юрист (* 1882 г.)\n 1942 г. – Иван Ермаков, руски психиатър († 1875 г.)\n 1943 г. – Павел Милюков, руски политик (* 1859 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ане Франк, еврейска писателка (* 1929 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ханс Фишер, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1930 г. (* 1881 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джон Стендиш, британски военачалник (* 1886 г.)\n 1948 г. – Михали Апостолов, гръцки партизанин (* 1923 г.)\n 1948 г. – Петър Гърков, български революционер (* 1912 г.)\n 1951 г. – Валтер Шеленберг, немски военачалник (* 1910 г.)\n 1952 г. – Асен Илиев, български граничар (* 1929 г.)\n 1952 г. – Георги Стоименов, български граничар (* 1931 г.)\n 1952 г. – Стоил Косовски, български граничар (* 1931 г.)\n 1958 г. – Елзе Френкел-Брънсуик, австрийски психолог (* 1908 г.)\n 1962 г. – Оскар Мунцел, германски офицер (* 1899 г.)\n 1967 г. – Александър Бакулев, руски лекар (* 1890 г.)\n 1967 г. – Родион Малиновски, съветски маршал (* 1898 г.)\n 1970 г. – Семьон Тимошенко, съветски маршал (* 1895 г.)\n 1975 г. – Лесли Уайт, американски антрополог (* 1900 г.)\n 1975 г. – Олга Андровска, руска артистка (* 1898 г.)\n 1980 г. – Джеси Оуенс, американски лекоатлет (* 1913 г.)\n 1990 г. – Пиера Олание, френски лекар (* 1923 г.)\n 1993 г. – Брендън Лий, американски актьор (* 1965 г.)\n 1996 г. – Йовчо Караиванов, български певец (* 1926 г.)\n 2001 г. – Клифърд Шул, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1915 г.)\n 2002 г. – Слав Караславов, български писател (* 1932 г.)\n 2004 г. – Иван Костов, български геолог († 1913 г.)\n 2008 г. – Жул Дасен, американски кинорежисьор (* 1911 г.)\n 2010 г. – Димитър Русков, български хоров диригент (* 1925 г.)\n 2016 г. – Имре Кертес, унгарски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 2002 г. (* 1929 г.)\n 2016 г. – Заха Хадид, иракско-британски архитект (* 1950 г.)\n 2022 г. - Георги Атанасов, последният комунистически министър-председател на България (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Американски Вирджински острови – Ден на трансфера\n България – Боен празник на 3-ти Бдински пехотен полк\n Малта – Ден на свободата\n\n331"
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        "text": "I saw this guy's videos on youtube, I had to link 'em.\nI do not know him, but these videos are just too much fun !!!\nRe: Boating at it's Finest !!!\nThat does look like fun. Glad I'm not a passenger, though. I'm pretty sure that guy posted on the forum a few times a while back."
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        "text": "Q: iOS MobileMe Sync Hey does anyone know if there is a public framework to sync data between iOS devices using MobileMe?  I've tried googling it and have come up empty.\n\nA: Basically, you could use MobileMe as a WebDAV server to sync your data OTA.\nThis is, for example, what Wallet uses.\n\nA: I don't believe that there is yet. Apple have a MobileMe SDK on the desktop, but haven't released anything for iOS as yet. And if memory serves, I can't recall having seen any iOS apps that use MobileMe for syncing, beyond the built-in Calendar, AddressBook and Notes apps.\n"
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    {
        "text": "The Bahá'í Faith dawned on 22 May 1844 when Mirza 'Ali-Muhammad of Shiraz, known as the Báb, the Gate, arose to fulfil His twofold mission, infusing the land with wonderful spiritual attractions and heralding to the world One Who was immensely greater than Himself, Who would inaugurate a fresh and unprecedented era in the spiritual history of mankind. The Báb's untold sufferings and imprisonments, the heroism and sacrifices of His disciples, the circumstances of His tragic martyrdom and the afflictions experienced by His community, are vividly detailed in every book exploring the Faith.\nThe One foretold by the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, the Splendour of God, arose in 1863 whilst an exile in Baghdad, attracting all around by His spiritual presence, transforming people to great spiritual heights, admonishing the kings and powers of the world, laying down the divine principles of a new civilization. Bitterly opposed and stripped of all property and rights, reliant solely upon God, exiled to Iraq, Constantinople, Adrianople, and incarcerated in the penal colony of 'Akká, Bahá'u'lláh suffered untold sufferings, yet conquered every challenge and adversity that rose up against Him, passing eventually from this world in 1892.\nThe authorized Interpreter and personal Example of Bahá'í teachings, was Bahá'u'lláh's most remarkable eldest son 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Servant of Bahá). Bahá'u'lláh appointed Abdu'l-Bahá as the Centre to whom all should turn for instruction and guidance. Ever since a child, 'Abdu'l-Bahá shared all the sorrows and sufferings of Bahá'u'lláh. He remained a prisoner until 1908, when the regime in Turkey became overthrown and religious and political prisoners liberated. Whilst continuing to make Palestine his home, Abdu'l-Bahá undertook extensive tours of Egypt, Europe and America, as well as visiting London, Edinburgh and Bristol in the United Kingdom, ceaselessly explaining and exemplifying the principles of the Bahá'í Faith, inspiring and directing the activities of friends and followers throughout the world, transforming the lives, hearts and minds of all levels of society, interacting freely and wholly at home with both the prominent and the down-trodden. He passed away in 1921 in Haifa, Palestine.\nAbdu'l-Bahá appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi to succeed him as Guardian of the Faith, who raised up and established the framework of the Bahá'í Faith. Shoghi Effendi passed away in 1957, and in 1963 the Universal House of Justice was established as the central guiding institution of the Faith.\nToday the Bahá'í Faith is numbered around six million adherents, and is the second-most geographically widespread religion in the world after Christianity.\nThe Bahá'í Faith began to take firm root in Stornoway itself from 1953, and has since that time grown in different areas of the Isle of Lewis, North and South Uist, and Barra.\nThe Isle of Lewis recently celebrated 100 years of the visit of Abdu'l-Baha to the British Isles, with a monthly programme of events."
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        "text": "Q: Can I move an existing iPhoto library to a location on a network-drive so I can use it from multiple apple computers? How do I do that? (including what I need to do to iPhoto on all my apple computers)\nAre there any disadvantages?\n\nA: You can do it, but do it with caution. I've run network home directories before, which is essentially what you're describing, and iPhoto supports it fine. On your standard Desktop OS, simply create alias to the iPhoto library on your network share in your User home directory photos folder. You can also set iPhoto to use a new library in a new location by opening iPhoto with Option (Alt) held down, where it will then prompt you to locate the new library (which would be on your network share).\nThe biggest issue you'll have to address is ensuring it's not open and being edited by two iPhoto instances at the same time. I'm not 100% sure how it will behave, but you can bet not well. You could get situations where photos become orphaned, etc.\n\nA: You should note that iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.\nRecent versions of iPhoto will not allow you to move or create a library on a NAS.\nWorkaround: Put the library on a Disk Image formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and store that on the NAS\n\nA: To answer your question:~ You should be able to drag the iPhoto Library from the pictures folder in your home directory straight to the networked drive. If it's refusing to do that then you might have to re-check ur permissions from GET INFO.\nIt will be easier for you to share your library by going into iPhoto preferences and and sharing tab, assuming you are using 10.6 Snow Leopard.\n  \n"
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        "text": "TERMS Rates: All bookings require full payment at the time of booking. Fees and charges offered on the booking website are correct and applicable at the time of booking. Online Bookings: Bookings can be made up to 12 months in advance. Check in and Check out: You are able to check into your accommodation any time after 2 pm on the day of your arrival. You must be checked out of your accommodation by 10am on the day of your departure. Smoking: Smoking is prohibited in all accommodation. Property: Additional charges may be made if accommodation is damaged or left in an unsatisfactory condition. Disclaimer: The information enclosed on this website is accurate at the time of publishing but may at any time be altered. All reasonable efforts are made to ensure that photographs and descriptions provide an accurate impression of the accommodation offered however variations may occur. CONDITIONS Refunds Changes and Cancellations Should your expected travel plans change and you need to cancel your Accommodation prior to your travel the following refund policy applies: At least 30 days notice prior to the starting date - full refund Less than 30 days notice prior to the starting date - no refund (including for events such as unfavorable weather road closures due to rain and health related issues for self or others). Depending on circumstances it may be possible to vary the start date. On the day or after the starting date - no refund and no change to the start date (including for events such as unfavorable weather road closures due to rain and health related issues for self or others). We recommend that you also consider having travel insurance that may provide cover for cancelled or interrupted travel plans. Please contact the Administration Officer on (08) 8854 3200 or via email dewinnesnationalpark@sa.gov.au to discuss options should you need to change or cancel your booking. Pets: are not permitted in unless they are an accredited disability dog guide dog or hearing dog. Park Closure due to Fire Danger: Parks and/or accommodation may be closed or restricted due to fire danger weather (such as catastrophic fire danger day) or other fire management-related activities. These closures occur with little warning. It is advised that you check weather conditions before you arrive particularly during the Fire Danger Season and check the National Parks South Australia Parks website www.parks.sa.gov.au or call the CFS Fire Bans Hotline 1300 362 361. Other Park Closures: We retain the right to close parks/and or accommodation for management purposes or circumstances outside of our control such as and not limited to weather extremes or other emergency reasons where we may be required to take action without notice. CONTACT For any issues with your booking please contact the Administration Officer via email DEWNRInnesNationalPark@sa.gov.au or by phone between 10-3 Monday to Sunday (08) 8854 3200."
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        "text": ": an initial estimate of the solution to a mathematical or technical problem that is used to guide work to a more precise answer This schematic picture suggests that the surface flux distribution is coupled to the solar rotation. It is an appealing ansatz for describing part of the temperature data in Fig. 1B.— J. R. Kuhn et al.\nWhat made you want to look up ansatz? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)."
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    {
        "text": "5 април е 95-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (96-и през високосна). Остават 270 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1242 г. – Руските армии водени от Александър Невски разбиват рицарите на Тевтонския орден в Битката на Чудското езеро.\n 1614 г. – Във Вирджиния, индианката Покахонтас се омъжва за английския колонизатор Джон Ролф.\n 1753 г. – От частна колекция е основан Британският музей.\n 1886 г. – Подписан е Топханенския акт, с който Съединението на България се признава международно.\n 1904 г. – Македония е разделена на реформени райони, управлявани от представители на Великите сили, както следва: Австро-Унгария – района на Скопие, Русия – района на Солун, Англия – района на Драма, Франция – района на Сяр и Италия – района на Битоля.\n 1937 г. – Отворено е Летище Прага.\n 1940 г. – Катинско клане: съветско военно престъпление – масово убийство по време на Втората световна война на близо 22 хил. поляци (офицери и интелектуалци).\n 1945 г. – Студената война: Югославския лидер Йосип Броз Тито подписва споразумение със СССР, което позволява „временно разполагане на съветски войници на югославска територия“.\n 1948 г. – Със Закон за кинематографията се национализират частните филмови предприятия в България и средствата за производство и експлоатация на филми.\n 1955 г. – Уинстън Чърчил се отказва от поста министър-председател на Обединеното кралство по здравословни причини и приключва политическата си дейност, започнала през 1900 г.\n 1962 г. – ЦК на БКП приема на пленум мерки против турчеенето при някои малцинства – цигани, татари и помаци.\n 1978 г. – Започва строежът на хидрокомплекса Никопол – Турну Мъгуреле.\n 1989 г. – Полското правителство узаконява профсъюза Солидарност и предприема демократични мерки в политическата система\n 1992 г. – Започва обсадата на Сараево от югославската армия.\n 1998 г. – Отворен е за движение най-големият висящ мост в Япония Акаши Кайкио.\n\nРодени \n\n 1472 г. – Бианка-Мария Сфорца, императрица на Свещената римска империя († 1531 г.)\n 1568 г. – Урбан VIII, римски папа († 1644 г.)\n 1588 г. – Томас Хобс, английски философ († 1679 г.)\n 1604 г. – Карл IV (Лотарингия), херцог на Логариния и Бар († 1675 г.)\n 1622 г. – Винченцо Вивиани, италиански учен († 1703 г.)\n 1732 г. – Жан-Оноре Фрагонар, френски художник († 1806 г.)\n 1804 г. – Матиас Шлайден, немски ботаник († 1881 г.)\n 1822 г. – Емил дьо Лавеле, белгийски икономист († 1892 г.)\n 1827 г. – Джоузеф Листър, английски хирург († 1912 г.)\n 1838 г. – Тодораки Пешов, български политик († 1892 г.)\n 1843 г. – Петко Каравелов, Министър-председател на България († 1903 г.)\n 1846 г. – Таньо Стоянов, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1857 г. – Александър I Батенберг, Княз на България († 1893 г.)\n 1858 г. – Георги Паунчев, български просветен деец († 1915 г.)\n 1868 г. – Анастас Иширков, български учен († 1937 г.)\n 1883 г. – Уолтър Хюстън, американски актьор († 1950 г.)\n 1894 г. – Борис Шчукин, руски драматичен артист († 1939 г.)\n 1899 г. – Събчо Събев, български оперен певец († 1950 г.)\n 1900 г. – Спенсър Трейси, американски киноактьор († 1967 г.)\n 1901 г. – Иван Козарев, деец на БКП († 1944 г.)\n 1905 г. – Емил Марков, деец на революционното работническо движение в България, генерал-полковник (посмъртно) († 1943 г.)\n 1907 г. – Тамара Янкова, българска пианистка († 1983 г.)\n 1908 г. – Бети Дейвис, американска актриса († 1989 г.)\n 1908 г. – Херберт фон Караян, австрийски диригент († 1989 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ищван Йоркен, унгарски писател – сатирик († 1979 г.)\n 1914 г. – Феличе Борел, италиански футболист и треньор († 1993 г.)\n 1916 г. – Грегъри Пек, американски киноактьор († 2003 г.)\n 1917 г. – Робърт Блох, американски писател († 1994 г.)\n 1920 г. – Артър Хейли, американски писател († 2004 г.)\n 1923 г. – Божидар Божилов, български поет († 2006 г.)\n 1924 г. – Пенчо Кулеков, български художник († 2017 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ивар Йевер, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1973\n 1929 г. – Коста Балабанов, македонски историк\n 1929 г. – Хюго Клаус, белгийски писател († 2008 г.)\n 1930 г. – Ирина Чмихова, българска поп певица и музикален педагог († 2020 г.)\n 1934 г. – Роман Херцог, президент на Германия († 2017 г.)\n 1937 г. – Колин Пауъл, държавен секретар на САЩ († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Господин Чолаков, спортен деец\n 1940 г. – Ани Бакалова, българска актриса († 2016 г.)\n 1941 г. – Йордан Попов, български писател и журналист († 2015 г.)\n 1941 г. – Александър Шурбанов, български учен\n 1942 г. – Питър Грийнауей, британски режисьор\n 1943 г. – Петър Кендеров, български математик\n 1945 г. – Ханс Раймунд, австрийски писател\n 1946 г. – Георги Мърков, български треньор по борба\n 1948 г. – Глория Макапагал-Оройо, президент на Филипините\n 1950 г. – Агнета Фелтскуг, шведска певица (ABBA)\n 1950 г. – Мики Манойлович, сръбски актьор\n 1954 г. – Борис Комитов, български астроном\n 1968 г. – Пола Коул, американска певица\n 1971 г. – Симона Кавалари, италианска актриса\n 1972 г. – Детелина Борисова, български политик\n 1976 г. – Фернандо Мориентес, испански футболист\n 1979 г. – Тимо Хилдебранд, немски вратар\n 1981 г. – Станислав Стоянов, български политик\n 1984 г. – Маршал Олман, американски актьор\n 1986 г. – Джени Хендрикс, американска порно актриса\n 1987 г. – Антон Порязов, български актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1697 г. – Карл XI, шведски крал (* 1655 г.)\n 1794 г. – Жорж Дантон, лидер на френската революция – екзекутиран (* 1759 г.)\n 1794 г. – Камил Демулен, деец на френската революция – екзекутиран (* 1760 г.)\n 1835 г. – Велчо Атанасов (Джамждията), български революционер – обесен (* 1788 г.)\n 1871 г. – Паоло Сави, италиански геолог и зоолог (* 1798 г.)\n 1888 г. – Всеволод Гаршин, руски писател (* 1855 г.)\n 1923 г. – Джордж Хърбърт Карнарвън, британски египтолог и археолог (* 1866 г.)\n 1962 г. – Никола Михов, български библиограф (* 1877 г.)\n 1964 г. – Дъглас Макартър, американски генерал (* 1880 г.)\n 1975 г. – Чан Кайшъ, 1-ви Президент на Република Китай (* 1887 г.)\n 1976 г. – Хауърд Хюз, американски предприемач (* 1905 г.)\n 1977 г. – Юрий Завадски, съветски режисьор (* 1894 г.)\n 1980 г. – Васил Бакърджиев, български кинодокументалист (* 1906 г.)\n 1994 г. – Кърт Кобейн, американски музикант (Nirvana) (* 1967 г.)\n 1997 г. – Алън Гинсбърг, американски поет-битник (* 1926 г.)\n 1998 г. – Кози Пауъл, британски рокмузикант (* 1947 г.)\n 2001 г. – Людмила Боева, български медиевист от руски произход (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Лейн Стейли, американски музикант (Alice in Chains) (* 1967 г.)\n 2005 г. – Сол Белоу, американски писател (* 1915 г.)\n 2008 г. – Чарлтън Хестън, американски актьор (р. 1923 г.)\n 2012 г. – Александър Вълчев, български инженер (* 1941 г.)\n\nПразници \n Южна Корея – Ден на дърветата\n\n405"
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        "text": "6 април е 96-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (97-и през високосна). Остават 269 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 885 г. – Във Велехрад (Великоморавия) умира и е погребан свети Методий.\n 1199 г. – Във Франция при обсадата на крепостта Шалуз загива английският крал Ричард Лъвското сърце.\n 1327 г. – Италианският поет Петрарка вижда за пръв път своята любима, Лаура, в църквата Сейнт Клеър в Авиньон.\n 1814 г. – Наполеон I Бонапарт абдикира, след което е заточен на остров Елба.\n 1818 г. – В Париж барон Карл Драйс демонстрира първообраза на велосипеда.\n 1877 г. – В Букурещ излиза първи брой на първия български всекидневник „Секидневний новинар“.\n 1896 г. – В Атина са открити първите съвременни Олимпийски игри, след като биват забранени преди 1500 години от римския император Теодосий I.\n 1909 г. – Турция признава Независимостта на България с подписания в Цариград българо-турски протокол.\n 1909 г. – Американска експедиция, водена от капитан Робърт Пири, достига за първи път Северния полюс.\n 1917 г. – САЩ обявяват война на Германия в хода на продължаващата Първа световна война.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Германската армия навлиза в Югославия в операция Ауфмарш 25 и в Гърция в операция Марита от българска територия.\n 1941 г. – България във Втората световна война: В отговор на германската инвазия в Югославия, югославски самолети бомбардират индустриалния квартал на София и град Кюстендил (8 загинали в София, а в Кюстендил загиват 67 и 90 са ранени).\n 1943 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен клуб Гояш Ешпорте Клубе.\n 1965 г. – В орбита около Земята е изстрелян първият комуникационен сателит.\n 1970 г. – Започва строежът на АЕЦ Козлодуй.\n 1973 г. – Изстрелян е космическият апарат Пионер 11.\n 1984г- След референдум, Кокосови острови се присъединават към Австралия.\n 1998 г.-Изпитания на ядрени оръжия: Пакистан изпитва ракети със среден обсег, способни да достигнат Индия.\n 2001 г. – Симеон Сакскобургготски в официално обръщение обявява учредяването на Национално движение Симеон Втори.\n 2004 г. – Роландас Паксас става първият президент на Литва, отстранен мирно от длъжност чрез импийчмънт.\n 2012 г. – Азавад се обявява за независим от Република Мали.\n 2017 г. – Военните на САЩ изстрелват 59 крилати ракети „Томагавк“ на авиобаза в Сирия. Русия описва ударите като „агресия“, добавяйки, че те значително увреждат връзките между САЩ и Русия.\n 2018 г.-Автобус с младши отбор по хокей на лед Хъмдлобт Бронкос се сблъсква с полукамион в Саскачеван, Канада, убивайки 16 души и ранявайки 13 други.\n\nРодени \n\n 1483 г. – Рафаело Санцио, италиански художник и архитект († 1520 г.)\n 1664 г. – Арвид Хорн, министър-председател на Швеция († 1742 г.)\n 1840 г. – Василий Юнкер, руски географ († 1892 г.)\n 1849 г. – Джон Уилям Уотърхаус, британски художник († 1917 г.)\n 1875 г. – Ксения Александровна, велика руска княгиня († 1960 г.)\n 1876 г. – Кръстьо Сарафов, български драматичен актьор и режисьор († 1952 г.)\n 1884 г. – Михаил Доростолски и Червенски, български духовник († 1961 г.)\n 1885 г. – Вълко Димитров, деец на БЗНС, ятак († 1944 г.)\n 1890 г. – Антони Фокер, нидерландски авиоконструктор († 1939 г.)\n 1898 г. – Жан Ебютерн, френска художничка († 1920 г.)\n 1904 г. – Курт Георг Кизингер, германски политик († 1988 г.)\n 1928 г. – Джеймс Уотсън, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1962\n 1929 г. – Христос Сардзетакис, гръцки политик († 2022 г.)\n 1932 г. – Гюнтер Хербургер, немски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1938 г. – Васил Михайлов, български актьор\n 1942 г. – Бари Левинсън, американки актьор, сценарист, режисьор и продуцент\n 1944 г. – Флорин Георгиу, румънски шахматист\n 1948 г. – Лиляна Ковачева, българска актриса\n 1949 г. – Бригите Швайгер, австрийска писателка († 2010 г.)\n 1949 г. – Хорст Щьормер, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1998\n 1953 г. – Кристофър Франк, немски музикант и композитор\n 1959 г. – Веселин Ранков, български актьор\n 1959 г. – Пиетро Виерховод, италиански футболист\n 1960 г. – Алберт Сарканис, латвийски дипломат\n 1960 г. – Ваня Гешева, българска състезателка по кану-каяк\n 1963 г. – Рафаел Кореа, еквадорски политик\n 1964 г. – Дейвид Уудард, американски писател и диригент\n 1965 г. – Стефан Петерханзел, френски мотоциклетист и автомобилен състезател\n 1966 г. – Десислава Знаменова, българска актриса\n 1969 г. – Пол Ръд, американски актьор\n 1972 г. – Игит Йозшенер, турски актьор\n 1973 г. – Ралица Ковачева-Бежан, българска актриса\n 1973 г. – Румяна Нейкова, българска гребкиня\n 1974 г. – Роберт Ковач, хърватски футболист\n 1975 г. – Зак Браф, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 885 г. – Методий, славянски просветител (* ок. 815)\n 1199 г. – Ричард Лъвското сърце, крал на Англия (* 1157 г.)\n 1520 г. – Рафаело Санцио, италиански художник (* 1483 г.)\n 1528 г. – Албрехт Дюрер, немски художник (* 1471 г.)\n 1707 г. – Вилем ван де Велде Младия, нидерландски художник (* 1633 г.)\n 1802 г. – Иван Лепьохин, руски изследовател (* 1760 г.)\n 1803 г. – Уилям Хамилтън, британски дипломат (* 1730 г.)\n 1829 г. – Нилс Абел, норвежки математик (* 1802 г.)\n 1937 г. – Анастас Иширков, български учен (* 1868 г.)\n 1941 г. – Велизар Лазаров, български военен (* 1868 г.)\n 1945 г. – Иван Аврамов, български офицер (* 1868 г.)\n 1971 г. – Игор Стравински, композитор от руски произход (* 1882 г.)\n 1972 г. – Хайнрих Любке, 2-ри Бундеспрезидент на Германия (* 1894 г.)\n 1979 г. – Иван Васильов, български архитект (* 1893 г.)\n 1990 г. – Димче Маленко, писател от СР Македония (* 1919 г.)\n 1992 г. – Айзък Азимов, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1996 г. – Гриър Гарсън, английска актриса (* 1904 г.)\n 1997 г. – Щефан Хермлин, немски поет (* 1915 г.)\n 2002 г. – Славка Славова, българска актриса (* 1924 г.)\n 2005 г. – Нина Кираджиева, българска балерина (* 1911 г.)\n 2005 г. – Рение III, принц на Монако (* 1923 г.)\n 2008 г. – Георги Тишков, български скулптор (* 1946 г.)\n 2009 г. – Борис Чернев, български актьор (* 1964 г.)\n 2009 г. – Петър Пашов, български езиковед (* 1931 г.)\n 2014 г. – Мики Руни, американски актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 2021 г. – Георги Коритаров, български журналист (* 1959 г.)\n 2022 г. – Владимир Жириновски, руски политик (* 1946 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – Успение на св. Методий Славянобългарски\n\n406"
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        "text": "Chrysoskalitissa Monastery\nGonia Monastery\nThe Monastery of Chrysoskalitissa is built on a rock at the south-west end of Crete. The church of the monastery is dedicated to Mother Mary and the Holy Trinity and its feast is held on August 15 (Dekapendavgoustos).\nThe Monastery was built during Venetian rule on the site of St. Nicholas monastery and, according to tradition, it took its name from a golden step, the final of the original ninety-eight that led to it when it was first built.\nBefore the Monastery of Chrysoskalitissa was built, there was another church of the Dormition of Mother Mary. The church seen today started being built before 1894.\nIn 1900, the Monastery was dissolved along with other ones on the island and was re-established as a convent in 1940. After the Nazi occupation of Crete, several resistance fighters were given refuge here and this is why German soldiers came to live at the premises in 1943, after they chased the monks. When the Nazi forces left, the monks returned to the monastery."
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        "text": "ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability\nICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is the world's leading association of cities and local governments dedicated to sustainable development.\nICLEI is a diverse, robust, global organization with a long history, myriad accomplishments and profound ambitions.\nBut at its core, ICLEI’s primary focus throughout its history – in every initiative across five continents – has been the same: sustainable cities.\nBased on this mission, ICLEI’s initial campaigns and programs have evolved to cover a broad range of themes:\nManagement of global environmental goods, including: climate; water; biodiversity and ecosystems; air; land/soil; food; marine life and coastal health.\nPolicy innovation, including: Local Agenda 21/urban governance with stakeholder involvement; integrated, cyclical sustainability management; the green economy; security; social development.\nMunicipal planning and management, including: sustainability management; land use and development; climate change mitigation and adaptation; resilience management; the management of natural, social, economic and financial resources; procurement.\nTransformation of infrastructure, including: mobility; building; energy; water and sanitation; waste; information and communication (technologies).\nWhy we act\nHuman expansion is happening at a rapid pace: Every minute, the world population grows by 145 people, which is 6.35 million per month. The population is expected to grow from the current 7.4 billion to 9.6 billion in 2050.\nUrbanization is occurring just as rapidly. By 2050, the urban population is expected to surpass 6 billion people, meaning that two-thirds of humanity will then be living in towns and cities. Providing adequate urban infrastructure, which enables service delivery, will therefore also become a challenge.\nThe geo-economic and geo-political influence and development dynamics between the Global North and South results in different approaches to global and local governance. The developing economies of the globe need to adopt policies that guide development in a manner that is adaptive and suitable for addressing the challenge of global environmental change.\nGlobal environmental change is widespread. The global rate of species loss is between 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate, and this trend is expected to be exacerbated by habitat loss linked to climate change. Over 90% of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world’s oceans causing acidification, threatening aquatic biodiversity.\nClimate change poses unpredictable stress factors on cities and urban areas. According to the 5th Assessment Report on Climate Change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this change in climate is undeniably anthropogenic, and can only be stopped by humans.\nThe loss of biodiversity and green spaces has a further implication for climate change mitigation. Biodiversity and green spaces provide essential ecosystem services that contribute towards climate change adaptation, such as: moderating temperature and reducing the impacts of extreme events.\nThe ecological footprint of human civilization has become unsustainable. In 2014, humanity used over 50% more resources than nature could regenerate for that year.\nAbout the name\nICLEI information brochure\nICLEI was founded in 1990 as the 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives'. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York.\nICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability\nThe organization's name is 'ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability'. In 2003, ICLEI's Members voted to revise the organization's mission, charter and name to better reflect the current challenges local governments are facing. The 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives' became 'ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability' with a broader mandate to address sustainability issues.\nFor more on ICLEI’s history, governance and activities at the global level, see the ICLEI Global Website.\nSelect a language and download the latest global information brochure about ICLEI:\n• Português\nDownload an information sheet about ICLEI in French:\n• Français\nSee the latest ICLEI Global iNews. Intelligent-innovative-informative News\nThe ICLEI Africa Secretariat, the regional office for ICLEI in Africa, is based in Cape Town, South Africa and collaborates closely with the global ICLEI network and other regional offices around the world, in sharing tools, materials and strategies and good practices specifically designed and implemented at the local level."
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        "text": "This entry was posted on May 13, 2010 at 12:52 am and is filed under Beach, Rocky Point Mexico, Uncategorized, Vacation.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site."
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        "text": "Get ready for breath-taking charm and architectural details as we head to Hyde Park for a peek inside this week’s Listing of the Week.\nThis stunning home is a Hyde Park classic. It features a spacious beautiful yard with a detached garage house and a circular side driveway. The exquisite glass windows, molding, and details throughout are just what you’re looking for. There is a finished 3rd floor with a game room, 2 bedrooms, and a full bath."
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        "text": "7 април е 97-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (98-и през високосна година). Остават 268 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1348 г. – Карл IV основава Пражкия университет – първият в Централна Европа.\n 1498 г. – Експедицията на португалския мореплавател Вашко да Гама стига до Кения.\n 1795 г. – Франция приема метричната система.\n 1805 г. – Състои се първото публично изпълнение на Симфония № 3 на Лудвиг ван Бетховен (Ероика).\n 1880 г. – Съставено е третото правителство на България, начело с Драган Цанков.\n\n 1905 г. – При с. Кашина, Мелнишко, четата на Яне Сандански разбива четата на офицерските братства начело с кап. Йордан Стоянов, която дава 9 жертви.\n 1906 г. – Вулканът Везувий изригва и разрушава Неапол.\n 1908 г. – Учредена е СЗО.\n 1909 г. – Русия, Сърбия и Черна гора признават Независимостта на България.\n 1926 г. – Англичанката Вайълет Гибсън извършва неуспешен опит за покушение срещу италианския диктатор Бенито Мусолини.\n 1927 г. – В САЩ AT&T излъчва първата обществена ефирна телевизия.\n 1933 г. – „Сухият режим“ в САЩ е отменен за бира с алкохолно съдържание под 3,3%.\n 1939 г. – Втора световна война: Италия напада Албания.\n 1943 г. – Швейцарецът Алберт Хофман синтезира наркотика ЛСД.\n\n 1946 г. – Официално е призната независимостта на Сирия от Франция.\n 1948 г. – Влиза в сила уставът на Световната здравна организация.\n 1956 г. – Основана е Австрийската партия на свободата.\n 1957 г. – Открит е Държавният сатиричен театър в София.\n 1963 г. – Създадена е Социалистическата федеративна република Югославия с маршал Йосип Броз Тито като неин пожизнен президент.\n 1964 г. – За първи път денят започва да се празнува като Ден на здравния работник.\n 1969 г. – Символичен рожден ден на интернет: публикуван е RFC 1.\n 1976 г. – Ивайло Чорбов, български адвокат и политик\n 1979 г. – Създаден е Атлантическият съвет по образование (АЕК) под егидата на Асоциацията на атлантическия договор (АТА).\n 1989 г. – В Норвежко море потъва съветската атомна подводница Комсомолец, загиват 42 моряци от екипажа.\n 1992 г. – Република Сръбска обявява независимостта си.\n 1994 г. – Начало на кланетата на тутси в Руанда.\n 1999 г. – По време на войната в Косово границите на бившата югославска републиката са затворени от сръбската армия, за да се спрат етническите албанци да напускат страната.\n 2003 г. – Американски войници превземат Багдад; режимът на Саддам Хюсеин пада два дни по-късно.\n\nРодени \n\n 1652 г. – Климент XII, римски папа († 1740 г.)\n 1770 г. – Уилям Уърдсуърт, английски поет († 1850 г.)\n 1772 г. – Шарл Фурие, френски философ († 1837 г.)\n 1834 г. – Григорий Мясоедов, руски художник, передвижник († 1911 г.)\n 1853 г. – Леополд, херцог на Олбани, син на кралица Виктория († 1884)\n 1859 г. – Жак Льоб, американски биолог († 1924)\n 1866 г. – Ани Виванти, италианска писателка и поетеса († 1942)\n 1879 г. – Густав Шпет, руски философ († 1940 г.)\n 1882 г. – Курт фон Шлайхер, германски генерал, политик и канцлер († 1934 г.)\n 1889 г. – Габриела Мистрал, чилийска поетеса и дипломат, Нобелова лауреатка през 1945 г. († 1957 г.)\n 1893 г. – Алън Дълес, американски дипломат и разузнавач († 1969 г.)\n 1899 г. – Луис Физер, американски химик († 1977 г.)\n 1905 г. – Преслав Кършовски, български художник († 2003 г.)\n 1915 г. – Били Холидей, американска джаз певица († 1959 г.)\n 1916 г. – Петър Дертлиев, български политик († 2000 г.)\n 1917 г. – Монго Сантамария, латино джаз музикант, перкусионист († 2003 г.)\n 1924 г. – Йоханес Марио Зимел, австрийски писател († 2009 г.)\n 1927 г. – Мерсия Макдермот, английска писателка\n 1928 г. – Джеймс Гарнър, американски актьор († 2014 г.)\n 1929 г. – Дамян Заберски, български художник († 2006 г.)\n 1931 г. – Тед Кочев, канадски режисьор от български произход\n 1932 г. – Никола Маринов, български военен († 1987 г.)\n 1938 г. – Георги Чаушов, български художник-карикатурист\n 1938 г. – Джери Браун, американски политик\n 1939 г. – Франсис Форд Копола, американски режисьор\n 1941 г. – Гордън Кей, английски актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1944 г. – Герхард Шрьодер, немски политик\n 1944 г. – Макото Кобаяши, японски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1948 г. – Пиетро Анастази, италиански футболист († 2020 г.)\n 1949 г. – Валентина Матвиенко, руски политик\n 1954 г. – Джеки Чан, хонконгски актьор, режисьор и каскадьор\n 1956 г. – Валентин Ганев, български актьор\n 1956 г. – Даниел Корбу, румънски поет\n 1962 г. – Ален Робер, френски катерач\n 1964 г. – Ръсел Кроу, австралийски актьор от новозеландски произход\n 1966 г. – Мишо Юзмески, македонски писател\n 1971 г. – Гийом Депардийо, френски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1973 г. – Моно Петра, български художник\n 1986 г. – Кристиан Фукс, австрийски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 858 г. – Бенедикт III, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1498 г. – Шарл VIII, крал на Франция (* 1470 г.)\n 1614 г. – Ел Греко, испански художник от гръцки произход (* 1541 г.)\n 1789 г. – Абдул Хамид I, султан на Османската империя (* 1725 г.)\n 1803 г. – Франсоа Доминик Тусен Лувертюр, хаитянски военачалник (* 1743 г.)\n 1858 г. – Антон Диабели, австрийски композитор и музикален издател (* 1781 г.)\n 1875 г. – Георг Хервег, немски поет (* 1817 г.)\n 1891 г. – Финиъс Барнъм, американски шоумен († 1810 г.)\n 1912 г. – Александър Димитраков, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1922 г. – Атанас Шопов, български книжовник и дипломат (* 1855 г.)\n 1929 г. – Едуар Шуре, френски писател и мистик (* 1841 г.)\n 1934 г. – Владимир Серафимов, български военен деец (* 1860 г.)\n 1938 г. – Сюзан Валодон, френска художничка (* 1865 г.)\n 1946 г. – Васил Аврамов, български юрист (* 1863 г.)\n 1947 г. – Хенри Форд, американски автомобилен конструктор (* 1863 г.)\n 1950 г. – Уолтър Хюстън, американски актьор (р. 1983 г.)\n 1955 г. – Теда Бара, американска актриса (* 1885)\n 1965 г. – Ангел Димитров, български цирков артист (* 1890 г.)\n 1968 г. – Джим Кларк, британски автомобилен състезател (* 1936 г.)\n 1969 г. – Ромуло Галегос, венецуелски писател и политик (* 1884 г.)\n 1972 г. – Иван Алтънов, български юрист (* 1892 г.)\n 1986 г. – Евгени Константинов, български писател и сценарист (* 1923 г.)\n 1986 г. – Леонид Канторович, руски математик и икономист (* 1912 г.)\n 1988 г. – Илия Пейков, български художник (* 1911 г.)\n 1994 г. – Голо Ман, немско-швейцарски историк (* 1909 г.)\n 2005 г. – Макс фон дер Грюн, немски писател (* 1926 г.)\n 2008 г. – Георги Стоев, български писател (* 1973 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световната здравна организация – Световен ден на здравето (отбелязва се в 191 страни от 1950 г., обявен през 1948 г.)\n Ден на здравния работник (от 1964 г.)\n Празник на Медицински университет – София\n Празник на община Струмяни (от 1999 г.)\n Армения – Ден на майчинството и красотата\n Мозамбик – Ден на жената\n Руанда – Ден на национален траур\n Русия – Ден в памет на загиналите в подводницата Комсомолец (1989 г.)\n САЩ – Ден на сладкишите, приготвени с кафе – Coffee Cake Day\n Танзания – Ден на героите\n\n407"
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        "text": "'Sendong' victims in Region X to get 4Ps grant\nMANILA, Dec. 31 – Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Corazon \"Dinky\" Juliano-Soliman said that \"Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program\" (4Ps) beneficiaries who were affected by typhoon “ Sendong” and were unable to comply with the health and education conditionalities will still receive their cash grants for November and December.\nShe added that beneficiaries would receive their cash grants this January.\n“We have waived the non-compliance of the co-responsibilities of the beneficiaries such as going to the health center and school attendance because we understand the ordeal that they are going through,” Soliman said.\nThe DSWD-Field Office X is currently validating the 4Ps beneficiaries who were affected by tropical storm “Sendong.”\nThe latter is the conditional cash transfer program of the Philippine government implemented by the DSWD, which provides poor families cash assistance for the health and education needs of their children 0-14 years old.\nA qualified beneficiary receives as much as P1,400 provided that they comply to the conditionalities of sending their children to school and health centers for regular check-ups. (PNA) RMA/PFN"
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    {
        "text": "8 април е 98-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (99-и през високосна). Остават 267 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 217 г. – Римският император Каракала е убит от преторианския префект Макрин, който го наследява на трона.\n 1195 г. – Византийският император Исак II Ангел е ослепен и хвърлен в затвора.\n 1378 г. – Урбан VI е избран за римски папа.\n 1455 г. – Каликст III е избран за римски папа.\n\n 1820 г. – На остров Милос в Егейско море е открита статуята Венера Милоска.\n 1838 г. – Започва да функционира първата трансатлантическа параходна линия.\n 1893 г. – Княз Фердинанд I сключва брак с принцеса Мария-Луиза Бурбон-Пармска в Пианоре, Италия, учреден е възпоменателен медал по този повод (Пианорски медал).\n 1899 г. – Марта Плейс става първата жена, екзекутирана на електрически стол.\n 1904 г. – Longacre Square в центъра на Манхатън е преименуван на Times Square на името на The New York Times.\n 1904 г. – Обединеното кралство и Трета република подписват Сърдечното съглашение, поставящо началото на Антантата.\n 1939 г. – Фашистка Италия анексира Албания.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Великобритания и Франция обявяват, че са минирали териториалните води на Норвегия, за да предотвратят използването им от кораби на Нацистка Германия.\n 1941 г. – В Галички хан в Скопие дейци на ВМРО обсъждат обявяването на самостоятелна Македония под немски протекторат.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: По време на обсадата на Ленинград войските на СССР пускат в експлоатация железопътната връзка с Ленинград.\n 1949 г. – В Хърватия е обявен националния парк Плитвишки езера.\n 1961 г. – В Индийския океан арабски терористи взривяват английския кораб Дара, при което загиват 236 души.\n 1973 г. – В Кипър са извършени 32 бомбени терористични акта.\n 1990 г. – По време на курс между Норвегия и Дания се преобръща фериботът Скандинавиан стар, при което загиват 148 души.\n 1992 г. – По предложение на Романо юнион ООН и Европейския съюз обявяват 8 април за Международен ден на ромите.\n 1994 г. – Открито е тялото на Кърт Кобейн – вокалист на Нирвана, самоубил се в дома си три дни по-рано.\n 2001 г. – Оповестени са резултатите от официалното преброяване в България (7 799 000 души).\n 2001 г. – Бившият български цар Симеон Сакскобургготски учредява ПП Национално движение „Симеон Втори“.\n 2005 г. – Състои се погребалната церемония на папа Йоан Павел II.\n\nРодени \n\n 1605 г. – Филип IV, крал на Испания и Португалия († 1665 г.)\n 1692 г. – Джузепе Тартини, италиански цигулар, композитор († 1770 г.)\n 1695 г. – Йохан Кристиан Гюнтер, немски поет († 1723 г.)\n 1736 г. – Уилям Хотъм, британски адмирал († 1813 г.)\n 1818 г. – Кристиан IX, крал на Дания († 1906 г.)\n 1859 г. – Едмунд Хусерл, немски философ от еврейски произход († 1938 г.)\n 1859 г. – Теодор Теодоров, български политик († 1924 г.)\n 1870 г. – Анастас Лозанчев, български революционер († 1944 г.)\n 1875 г. – Албер I, крал на Белгия († 1934 г.)\n 1892 г. – Мери Пикфорд, американска актриса († 1979 г.)\n 1897 г. – Макс Рихнер, швейцарски писател († 1965 г.)\n 1904 г. – Джон Хикс, британски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 г. († 1989 г.)\n 1911 г. – Емил Чоран, румънски философ († 1995 г.)\n 1911 г. – Мелвин Калвин, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 г. († 1997 г.)\n 1912 г. – Йозеф Габчик, чехословашки войник († 1942 г.)\n 1914 г. – Мария Феликс, мексиканска актриса († 2002 г.)\n 1918 г. – Бети Форд, първа дама на САЩ (1974 – 1977) († 2011 г.)\n 1921 г. – Франко Корели, италиански тенор († 2003 г.)\n 1929 г. – Жак Брел, белгийски певец († 1978 г.)\n 1933 г. – Тадеуш Василевски, полски историк († 2005 г.)\n 1936 г. – Продан Гарджев, български борец († 2003 г.)\n 1937 г. – Момо Капор, сръбски писател († 2010 г.)\n 1938 г. – Кофи Анан, 7-и Генерален секретар на ООН, Нобелов лауреат през 2001 г. († 2018 г.)\n 1941 г. – Вивиан Уестууд, британска модна дизайнерка\n 1941 г. – Илка Зафирова, българска актриса\n 1944 г. – Кристоф Хайн, немски писател\n 1947 г. – Робърт Кийосаки, американски инвеститор\n 1950 г. – Гжегож Лато, полски футболист\n 1950 г. – Красимир Борисов, български футболист\n 1952 г. – Йълдъз Ибрахимова, българска певица\n 1955 г. – Анжела Минкова, българска художничка и скулпторка\n 1957 г. – Андреа Ипсиланти, немски политик\n 1959 г. – Иван Ценов, български политик\n 1962 г. – Изи Страдлин, американски китарист (Guns N' Roses)\n 1963 г. – Джулиън Ленън, британски певец\n 1965 г. – Цветан Цветанов, български политик и бивш министър на вътрешните работи\n 1966 г. – Марк Блъндел, британски пилот от Формула 1\n 1966 г. – Робин Райт, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Ивета Бартошова, чешка певица († 2014 г.)\n 1968 г. – Патриша Аркет, американска актриса\n 1969 г. – Мария Капон, български политик\n 1972 г. – Пол Грей, басист на американската неометъл група Слипнот († 2010 г.)\n 1974 г. – Найден Тодоров, български диригент\n 1977 г. – Йоана Буковска, българска актриса\n 1980 г. – Кейти Секоф, американска актриса\n 1986 г. – Игор Акинфеев, руски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 217 г. – Каракала, римски император (* 186 г.)\n 1143 г. – Йоан II Комнин, император на Византия (* 1087 г.)\n 1364 г. – Жан II, френски крал (* 1319 г.)\n 1461 г. – Георг Пурбах, германски математик (* 1423 г.)\n 1835 г. – Вилхелм фон Хумболт, германски филолог (* 1767 г.)\n 1848 г. – Гаетано Доницети, италиански композитор (* 1797 г.)\n 1861 г. – Илайша Грейвс Отис, американски изобретател (* 1811 г.)\n 1887 г. – Иван Ганецки, руски офицер (* 1810 г.)\n 1895 г. – Аврам Гуджев, български военен деец (* 1851 г.)\n 1905 г. – Асен Партениев, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1905 г. – Йосиф Щросмайер, хърватски епископ (* 1815 г.)\n 1909 г. – Дико Джелебов, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1914 г. – Якоб Арбес, чешки писател (* 1840 г.)\n 1931 г. – Ерик Аксел Карлфелт, шведски поет, Нобелов лауреат (* 1864 г.)\n 1938 г. – Джордж Маунтбатън, втори маркиз на Милфорд Хейвън (* 1892 г.)\n 1943 г. – Хари Бор, френски актьор (* 1880 г.)\n 1950 г. – Вацлав Нижински, руски балетист (* 1890 г.)\n 1965 г. – Иван Тодоров-Горуня, български генерал (* 1916 г.)\n 1970 г. – Бенчо Обрешков, български художник (* 1899 г.)\n 1973 г. – Пабло Пикасо, испански художник (* 1881 г.)\n 1984 г. – Пьотър Капица, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1978 г. (* 1894 г.)\n 1992 г. – Даниел Бове, италиански фармоколог, Нобелов лауреат през 1957 г. (* 1907 г.)\n 1995 г. – Давид Овадия, български поет (* 1923 г.)\n 2001 г. – Яко Молхов, български критик (* 1915 г.)\n 2002 г. – Мария Феликс, мексиканска актриса (* 1914 г.)\n 2009 г. – Борислав Боянов, български математик (* 1944 г.)\n 2013 г. – Маргарет Тачър, британски политик (* 1925 г.)\n 2019 г. – Матьо Добрев, български кавалджия и педагог (* 1957 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН и ЕС – Международен ден на ромите\n Международен ден против генетичното модицифиране на организми\n Беларус и Русия – Ден на личния състав на военните комисари\n САЩ – Ден на астрономията\n Сингапур – Рожден ден на Буда\n\n408"
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        "text": "Welcome to Sepia Scenes this week! We have a new badge which you see above. Feel free to copy it and use it in your post.\nMy post consists of two photos from St. Michael's Cemetery in Astoria, Queens, NY.\nA young woman dressed in draped roman garb is about to drop a rose from her wreath on the grave.\nHere's a close-up of her hand and the rose. I added some soft focus around the edges of the shot and some graduated tinting. You can get both effects using Adobe Photoshop, Picasa, or other photo-editing software.\nI think cemetery statuary lends itself particularly to a sepia tone, don't you?\nMr. Linky is up for you to sign in. Leave a comment if you like but make sure you try to visit your fellow Sepia Scenes participants.\nI agree cemetery statuary works well in sepia tones.\nHappy Sepia Scenes and Happy 2010!\nhappy new year Mary! hugs!\nThis is a lovely statue, the look of continuing love. Sepia as always enhances her form, we see the loving and kind act so well here. Happy New Year, Mary!\nBeautiful statue! She looks lovely in sepia and I like soft focus around the edges.\nBeautiful traditional icon from a cemetary. I visited our local one recently for the first time and was disappointed by the lack of statuary.\nHi Mary! The sepia tones are very suitable on statuary of this kind. Like it very much and A Happy New Year.\nYes, I do think cemetery statuary looks great in sepia!\nYes Mary. The statue looks great in sepia tones -- headstones too. Nice job both photos.\nI love the closeup of her hand. What a beautiful statue. You have inspired me to get to a cemetery nearby and get some photos of my own.\nI like your sepia shot. She's beautiful! Mine is posted. Have a safe and happy new year!"
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        "text": "Countryside has received approval in principle from Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council for the first phase of its residential-led regeneration project in Maidenhead.\nThe first phase of the plans, being developed in joint venture with the council, will see 229 new homes built alongside a community space and food and café outlets on the banks of Maidenhead waterways. The York Road site is the first of four, alongside St Cloud’s Way, West Street and Reform Road, focused on affordable housing."
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        "text": "9 април е 99-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (100-тен през високосна). Остават 266 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 193 г. – Септимий Север е обявен за римски император.\n 1387 г. – Османският владетел Мурад I превзема Солун.\n 1413 г. – Хенри V е коронован за крал на Англия.\n 1609 г. – Започва масовата депортация на остатъците от мавританско население на територията на кралство Испания, известно като Изгонване на мориските.\n 1667 г. – В Париж се организира първата в света публична художествена изложба.\n 1865 г. – Американска гражданска война: Главнокомандващият войските на Конфедерацията генерал Робърт Лий се предава на командващия войските на Севера генерал Юлисис Грант.\n 1866 г. – В САЩ е приет Закон за гражданските права, който предоставя равни права на всички граждани на САЩ, с изключение на индианците.\n 1867 г. – Сенатът на САЩ ратифицира договор с Русия за покупката на Аляска.\n 1877 г. – Провежда се заседание на екзархийския синод, на което Панарет Пловдивски и Григорий Доростолски и Червенски предлагат на Антим I сам да се откаже от заемания пост.\n 1916 г. – Първата световна война: Германската армия започва третата си офанзива в битката при Вердюн.\n 1928 г. – В Турция ислямът е обявен за официална религия.\n 1930 г. – В Ню Йорк е направена първата публична демонстрация на видеотелефона.\n 1937 г. – С каценето си в Лондон Камикадзе на фирмата Мицубиши става първият японски самолет, летял до Европа.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Нацистка Германия започва Операция Везерюбунг, при която нахлува в Дания и Норвегия.\n 1940 г. – Започва Битката за град Нарвик, продължила до 8 юни същата година.\n 1945 г. – Заради участието си в заговор срещу Хитлер е екзекутиран германският адмирал Вилхелм Канарис.\n\n 1963 г. – Уинстън Чърчил става първият чужденец, получил званието почетен гражданин на САЩ.\n 1963 г. – Основана е канадската музикална компания Мюзик Канада.\n 1967 г. – Първият Боинг 737 извършва първия си полет.\n 1969 г. – Извършен е първият изпитателен полет на свръхзвуковия самолет Конкорд.\n 1970 г. – Пол Маккартни обявява официално разпадането на легендарната група Бийтълс.\n 1989 г. – Трагедията от 9 април: Червената армия прилага репресивна сила срещу антисъветски демонстрации в Тбилиси.\n 1990 г. – Унгарският демократичен форум идва на власт в резултат на избори след 40 години комунистически режим.\n 1991 г. – Грузия обявява независимостта си от Съветския съюз и става втората република, откъснала се от управлението на Москва.\n 1992 г. – Консервативната партия на Джон Мейджър печели на изборите в Обединеното кралство.\n 2002 г. – Състои се погребението на Елизабет, кралицата майка на Обединеното кралство в Уестминстърското абатство.\n 2003 г. – Война в Ирак (2003): Американските войски овладяват Багдад.\n 2005 г. – Чарлз (принц на Уелс), сключва брак с дългогодишната си любовница Камила Паркър-Боулс.\n 2008 г. – Република Македония обявява, че ще постигне компромис с Гърция, като промени своето име на Република Нова Македония.\n\nРодени \n\n 1283 г. – Норвежката дева, шотландска кралица († 1290 г.)\n 1336 г. – Тимур, тюркски военачалник († 1405 г.)\n 1656 г. – Франческо Тревисани, италиански художник († 1746 г.)\n 1691 г. – Йохан Геснер, германски просветител († 1761 г.)\n 1770 г. – Томас Йохан Зеебек, естонски физик († 1831 г.)\n 1802 г. – Елиас Льонрот, финландски филолог († 1884 г.)\n 1806 г. – Изъмбард Кингдъм Брунел, британски инженер († 1859 г.)\n 1821 г. – Шарл Бодлер, френски поет († 1867 г.)\n 1834 г. – Едмонд Лагер, френски математик († 1886 г.)\n 1835 г. – Леополд II, крал на белгийците († 1909 г.)\n 1846 г. – Паоло Тости, италиански композитор († 1916 г.)\n 1864 г. – Арчибалд Нокс, британски дизайнер († 1933 г.)\n 1872 г. – Леон Блум, министър-председател на Франция († 1950 г.)\n 1878 г. – Марсел Гросман, унгарски математик († 1936 г.)\n 1885 г. – Гошка Дацов, български художник († 1917 г.)\n 1895 г. – Мишел Симон, френски актьор († 1975 г.)\n 1907 г. – Иван Ефремов, руски писател († 1972 г.)\n 1912 г. – Лев Копелев, руски автор († 1997 г.)\n 1917 г. – Йоханес Бобровски, германски поет († 1965 г.)\n 1922 г. – Карл Амери, германски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1923 г. – Артур Батанидес, американски артист († 2000 г.)\n 1926 г. – Хю Хефнър, американски издател на списание Плейбой († 2017 г.)\n 1930 г. – Михаил Букурещлиев, български фолклорист, музикант и композитор († 2018 г.)\n 1932 г. – Армин Джордан, швейцарски диригент († 2006 г.)\n 1932 г. – Карл Пъркинс, американски музикант († 1998 г.)\n 1933 г. – Жан-Пол Белмондо, френски актьор († 2021 г.)\n 1933 г. – Петко Радев, български кларинетист и музикален педагог († 2017 г.)\n 1933 г. – Джан Мария Волонте, италиански актьор († 1994 г.)\n 1936 г. – Йежи Максимюк, полски композитор\n 1938 г. – Виктор Черномирдин, руски политик († 2010 г.)\n 1939 г. – Майкъл Леарнед, американска актриса\n 1940 г. – Ханс-Йоахим Реске, германски лекоатлет\n 1943 г. – Георги Минчев, български певец и музикант († 2001 г.)\n 1944 г. – Лейла Халед, палестински политик\n 1945 г. – Косьо Китипов, български дипломат\n 1948 г. – Пати Право, италианска певица\n 1948 г. – Радойка Шверко, хърватска певица и актриса\n 1949 г. – Тони Крег, английски скулптор\n 1952 г. – Тед Тали, американски сценарист\n 1952 г. – Таня Цанаклиду, гръцка певица и актриса\n 1954 г. – Арнолд Щадлер, германски писател\n 1954 г. – Денис Куейд, американски актьор\n 1959 г. – Валери Градинарски, български музикант и лютиер\n 1959 г. – Киро Стоянов, скопски католически епископ\n 1961 г. – Марк Кели, британски рокмузикант\n 1963 г. – Марк Якобс, американски дизайнер\n 1966 г. – Синтия Никсън, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Томас Дол, германски футболист\n 1968 г. – Том Брандс, американски спортист\n 1971 г. – Жак Вилньов, канадски пилот от Формула 1\n 1972 г. – Желко Ребрача, сръбски баскетболист\n 1972 г. – Ред Уан, музикален продуцент\n 1972 г. – Баръш Фалай, турски актьор\n 1974 г. – Александър Пичушкин, сериен убиец\n 1974 г. – Джена Джеймисън, американска порноактриса\n 1975 г. – Роби Фаулър, английски футболист\n 1977 г. – Джерард Уей, американски музикант\n 1978 г. – Весна Писарович, хърватски певец\n 1980 г. – Лусиано Галети, аржентински футболист\n 1985 г. – Михаил Александров, български плувец\n 1986 г. – Лейтън Мийстър, американска актриса\n 1986 г. – Петко Илиев, български футболист\n 1987 г. – Джеси Маккартни, американски певец и актьор\n 1990 г. – Кристен Стюарт, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 491 г. – Зенон, византийски император (* 425 г.)\n 715 г. – Папа Константин, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1024 г. – Папа Бенедикт VIII, римски папа\n 1483 г. – Едуард IV, крал на Англия (* 1442 г.)\n 1492 г. – Лоренцо Медичи, флорентински княз (* 1448 г.)\n 1553 г. – Франсоа Рабле, френски ренесансов писател (* ок. 1493 г.)\n 1626 г. – Сър Френсис Бейкън, английски философ и държавник (* 1561 г.)\n 1754 г. – Кристиан Волф, германски философ (* 1679 г.)\n 1804 г. – Жак Некер, френски политик (* 1732 г.)\n 1882 г. – Данте Габриел Росети, английски поет (* 1828 г.)\n 1889 г. – Мишел Йожен Шеврьол, френски химик (* 1786 г.)\n 1904 г. – Исабела II, кралица на Испания (* 1830 г.)\n 1926 г. – Георги Тишев, български политик (* 1848 г.)\n 1944 г. – Антон Павлов, съветски военен деец (* 1915 г.)\n 1955 г. – Алексей Иванович Абрикосов, руски патологоанатом (* 1875 г.)\n 1958 г. – Тугомир Алаупович, хърватски писател (* 1870 г.)\n 1959 г. – Франк Лойд Райт, американски архитект (* 1867 г.)\n 1961 г. – Ахмед Зогу, крал на Албания (* 1895 г.)\n 1980 г. – Мохамед Бакир ал Садр, иракски духовник (* 1935 г.)\n 1996 г. – Ричард Кондън, американски писател (* 1915 г.)\n 2011 г. – Сидни Лъмет, американски режисьор (* 1924 г.)\n 2011 г. – Катя Динева, българска актриса (* 1929 г.)\n 2014 г. – Светлана Велмар-Янкович, сръбска писателка (* 1933 г.)\n 2020 г. – Вълчо Камарашев, български актьор (* 1937 г.)\n 2021 г.\n Йоргос Караиваз, гръцки разследващ журналист (* 1968 г.) \n Филип, херцог на Единбург, бивш принц Филип Гръцки (* 1921 г.)\n Ди Ем Екс, американски рапър (* 1970 г.)\n\nПразници \n Боливия – Ден на Конституцията\n Грузия – Ден на възпоменанието и Ден на независимостта\n Тунис – Ден на жертвите\n Филипини – Ден на Храбростта\n Финландия – Ден на фински език\n\n409"
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        "text": "LSA is an exciting and active organisation promoting the visual arts in Royal Leamington Spa and its surrounding areas. Our aim is to foster and increase public interest, awareness and appreciation of... the visual arts. LSA encourages its members to pursue high professional standards and actively helps them by supporting any art of quality and merit. Our membership of approximately 400 includes artists at all levels, photographers and supporters of the visual arts in general.\nArt Lounge Leamington Spa was established in 1976 by the Sands family and remains as one of the first retail art galleries in the U.K. Originally named\"Warwick Studios\", the gallery has now evolved to... Art Lounge and is now boasting a new breed of gallery supporting the emerging artists of different genres. We bring the finest original and limited edition artwork from around the globe to a discerning audience of art lovers.\nSpecialist Drama & Music teachers will lead the children in; • Mask work & mime • percussion & dance • performances! Thursday 7th Viking long boat design and decoration. This boat will act as an... exhibition piece from which the children will exhibit their artwork week and shall perform against on Friday to Parents. FRIDAY 8th Children will curate & display their work with a collective performance for parents at the end of the day! Join us for the week or just a day."
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        "text": "Even so, the first infomercial of the same type we see on TV today, aired in 1982 and was for a hair growth supplement called “New Generation” which was marketed by entrepreneur Robert E. Murphy Jr. It was such a success that other companies quickly began following suit and purchasing program-length commercial air time. At this time infomercials used to commonly be shown during late night/early morning hours, although stations discovered success showing them at other times when they learned that the majority of purchases were made in the morning, during the day, and around primetime.\nAmazon derives many of its sales (around 40% in 2008) from third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon.[129] Associates receive a commission for referring customers to Amazon by placing links to Amazon on their websites if the referral results in a sale. Worldwide, Amazon has \"over 900,000 members\" in its affiliate programs.[130] In the middle of 2014, the Amazon Affiliate Program is used by 1.2% of all websites and it is the second most popular advertising network after Google Ads.[131] It is frequently used by websites and non-profits to provide a way for supporters to earn them a commission.[132] Amazon reported over 1.3 million sellers sold products through Amazon's websites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.[citation needed]\nIn June 2017, Amazon announced that it would acquire Whole Foods, a high-end supermarket chain with over 400 stores, for $13.4 billion.[14][41] The acquisition was seen by media experts as a move to strengthen its physical holdings and challenge Walmart's supremacy as a brick and mortar retailer. This sentiment was heightened by the fact that the announcement coincided with Walmart's purchase of men's apparel company Bonobos.[42] On August 23, 2017, Whole Foods shareholders, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, approved the deal.[43][44]\nAmazon was never going to be able to compete with Google’s YouTube in user-uploaded video content, and it didn’t have the social infrastructure of Facebook to become a destination where people discuss their lives and share videos from around the web. But what Amazon did have was the resources to purchase a company that was poised to outrun both Facebook and YouTube to a new type of business: live-streaming, in particular video games live-streaming. The pioneer of that market was Twitch, which Amazon purchased in 2014 for just shy of $1 billion.\nCategories: Companies in the NASDAQ-100 IndexCompanies listed on NASDAQAmazon (company)1994 establishments in Washington (state)3D publishingAmerican companies established in 1994Android (operating system) softwareArts and crafts retailersBookstores of the United StatesCloud computing providersE-book suppliersInternet properties established in 1994IOS softwareMobile phone manufacturersMultinational companies headquartered in the United StatesOnline music storesOnline retailers of the United StatesRetail companies established in 1994Review websitesSelf-publishing companiesSoftware companies based in SeattleSoftware companies established in 1994Technology companies established in 1994TvOS softwareUniversal Windows Platform appsWebby Award winners\nAfter reading a report about the future of the Internet that projected annual web commerce growth at 2,300%, Bezos created a list of 20 products that could be marketed online. He narrowed the list to what he felt were the five most promising products, which included: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, due to the large worldwide demand for literature, the low price points for books, along with the huge number of titles available in print.[27] Amazon was founded in the garage of Bezos' rented home in Bellevue, Washington.[25][28][29] Bezos' parents invested almost $250,000 in the start-up.[30]\nAs it stands today, Amazon employs more than half a million people, more so than any other technology company in the country and second only to Walmart in the US. But the eventual result of its investments in robotics and AI is that technology’s biggest and fast-growing workforce could see that growth start to slow and, perhaps years down the line, even shrink as robots tackle ever more complicated tasks. In the process, the company may develop robots for use outside its fulfillment centers. Amazon has already changed how we shop and, by extension, how we live our lives. Its next big step could be changing how we work.\nJunglee is a former online shopping service provided by Amazon that enabled customers to search for products from online and offline retailers in India. Junglee started off as a virtual database that was used to extract information off the internet and deliver it to enterprise applications. As it progressed, Junglee started to use its database technology to create a single window marketplace on the internet by making every item from every supplier available for purchase. Web shoppers could locate, compare and transact millions of products from across the Internet shopping mall through one window.[114]\nDepending on which options you choose, using an online marketplace like Amazon can make the fulfillment process easier for new and small businesses. Not only can Amazon interact with customers on your behalf, saving you time while protecting your personal and private information, but it can also handle the entire shipping process, including returns. As a result, owners can concentrate on building their businesses.\nAmazon, with its unfettered access to troves of valuable consumer and seller data, came upon a rather interesting business model around 2009, when it launched a private label division under the name AmazonBasics. It started first with the items the company noticed people most often purchased without thinking too hard about the brand name, like batteries and HDMI cables. But as The New York Times reported this past summer, this proved to be a way to fast track a fledgling product category into a massive money-making top seller — AmazonBasics’ AA batteries now outsell Duracell and Energizer on Amazon.com after just a few years.\nH&M's business concept is to offer fashion and quality at the best price. H&M has since it was founded in 1947 grown into one of the world's leading fashion companies. The content of this site is copyright-protected and is the property of H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB. H&M is committed to accessibility. That commitment means H&M embraces WCAG guidelines and supports assistive technologies such as screen readers. If you are using a screen reader, magnifier, or other assistive technologies and are experiencing difficulties using this website, please call our TOLL-FREE support line (855-466-7467) for assistance.\nAim for smaller products and travel deals. Some of the best buys on Cyber Monday will surprise you, from apparel to shoes to beauty products, says consumer and money saving expert Woroch. “It’s also a great day to shop for travel deals, specifically airfare sales,” she says. “Apple products and other electronics will be a good deal on this day too.”\nJump up ^ \"Pitch Perfect\". On The Media. January 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-01-09. Retrieved 2010-01-16. He figured out that he could build brand recognition by blanketing the airwaves with cheap direct-to-consumer commercials, and then take the product into retail stores where he slapped an \"As Seen On TV\" logo on them, which he designed himself. It’s a very lucrative formula, he told me, so that’s what he’s been doing ever since."
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        "text": "If you want to improve the look and feel of your White Cloud-area home with an upgrade in flooring, come in to your local Carpet One. White Cloud-area Carpet One stores near you are your Michigan destination for the best flooring selection, expertise, installation, and protection in the industry. We have everything from quality ceramic tile to laminate flooring and beyond.\nShopping at Carpet One will change the way you think about flooring. At your Carpet One near White Cloud, we proudly provide you with flooring for all lifestyles and all budgets. Our Carpet One sales professionals will help you navigate the selection process along with the Carpet One SelectAFloor™ system, which will help you pick the ideal floor at a price that is right for you. Whether you’re looking to add contemporary style with ceramic tiling or a laminate flooring that will stay beautiful while standing up to lots of foot traffic, rest assured that you can find what you need by shopping at Carpet One near White Cloud. In addition, Carpet One offers a variety of flooring warranties to ensure that your floors perform well long after installation.\nAffordable, quality flooring has never been easier to come by than at your White Cloud-area Carpet One. Rely on your Carpet One near White Cloud to help you achieve your vision and renovate your floors with professional ease. Just visit your Carpet One near White Cloud to get started and find out how easy it can be to have beautiful new flooring!"
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        "text": "It was an interesting day in the media. There was lots of Blog talk and how the public is taking to the new medium.\nFirst off, ClickZ writer, Gary Stein, gave us: No Blogs Next Year, then Aline van Duyn from the Financial Times gave us: Media Deals Push Blogs Into The Mainstream.\nI like a lot of things about the Blog space. Most specifically, I enjoy the ability to write and publish on the fly. I’ve called it “personal instant publishing” or “instant personal publishing” since I first came across Blogs. It is the promise of what a website was supposed to be – a fast and effective way to publish.\nSo whether you think that there won’t be Blogs in a year or if media conglomerates will continue to leverage this form of content is irrelevant. In the end, it is a new publishing medium that will only be enhanced as audio (Podcasting) and video (Vlogging or video casting) becomes more ubiquitous.\nMore on those two opportunities soon."
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        "text": "Q: 2007 Macbook shows black screen and cursor when woken from sleep. What should I do? When I open the lid from my MacBook, occasionally (not always) it will just show a black screen and a cursor, and the hard drive is spinning, but the log on dialog will never show up.  Sometimes it shows up after a minute or two, sometimes it doesn't, so I close the lid - wait five seconds - and try again.\nDoes this sound like an issue anyone has heard of before?\n\nA: I've had this happen too.  Solutions that occasionally work:\n\n\n*\n\n*Close the lid, wait for the 'sleeping' light pulses from the front of the laptop, then reopen and try again.\n\n*Type my password (I have password protected sleep/screensaver) and hit enter blind.\n\n*Wait a few minutes\n\n*Sleep the computer by hitting the power button once (not holding it down), then waking it up.\n\n*Swearing profusely\n\n\nSolutions that almost always work:\n\n\n*\n\n*Force rebooting.\n\n\nA: Yeah, I've had this issue very occasionally on my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I've never found a reliable solution to it. Normally I simply killed the machine and rebooted. I've always suspects it's simply an issue of the hardware/software not syncing up quite right on wake, which is something that can and does frequently happen on all manner of Mac and PC hardware.\n\nA: I have a MacBook with Snow Leopard and sometimes this is happening to me too.\nUsually I just close the lid again, wait a minute or such for the light to begin to pulse, open the lid again and then everything works normally.\n\nA: This often happened with my 2006 Macbook running OSX 10.4 (Tiger), but then went away entirely once I upgraded OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard).\n"
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        "text": "10 април е 100-тният ден в годината според григорианския календар (101-ви през високосна година). Остават 265 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 428 г. – Несторий става патриарх на Константинопол. Три години по-късно е свален от поста заради обвинения в ерес.\n 837 г. – Халеевата комета прави най-близкия си подход към Земята на разстояние, равно на 0,0342 AU (5,1 милиона километра).\n 879 г. – Луи III става крал на западните франки.\n 1500 г. – Лудовико Сфорца е заловен от швейцарски войски при Новара и е предаден на французите. С неговото залавяне Милано попада под френска власт за 360 години.\n 1710 г. – В Англия влиза в сила приетият през 1709 г. първи в света закон за авторското право.\n 1741 г. – Война за австрийското наследство: Прусия получава контрол над Силезия в битката при Молвиц.\n 1790 г. – Създадена е системата за патентоване в САЩ.\n 1809 г. – Наполеонови войни: Войната на петата коалиция започва, когато войските на Австрийската империя нахлуват в Бавария.\n 1815 г. – Вулканът Тамбора в Индонезия започва най-бурното изригване в съвременната история, в резултат на което загиват 71 хил. души.\n 1841 г. – Излиза първият брой на вестник Ню Йорк Трибюн.\n 1841 г. – В Канада е основан град Халифакс.\n 1849 г. – Американецът Уолтър Хънт патентова безопасната игла.\n 1864 г. – Ерцхерцог Максимилиан от Хабсбург е провъзгласен за император на Мексико след френската интервенция в Мексико.\n 1866 г. – Основано е българско читалище в Цариград.\n 1868 г. – Английски и индийски войски побеждават в Абисиния армията на етиопския император Теодрос II, избити са 700 етиопци.\n 1880 г. – Започват преговори за национално обединение на България.\n 1914 г. – Пред дипломатическия корпус в Крагуевац 2200 български наборници от Македония отказват да положат военна клетва в сръбската армия и на всеки десет е разстрелян по един.\n 1912 г. – Титаник напуска пристанището в Саутхемптън, Англия за своето първо и единствено плаване.\n 1913 г. – В 14:00 ч на полето до Руски паметник е основан спортен клуб Славия.\n 1916 г. – В САЩ е създадена професионалната асоциация по голф.\n 1919 г. – Лидерът на мексиканската революция Емилиано Сапата е застрелян в засада от правителствените сили в Морелос.\n 1922 г. – Започва провеждането на Генуезката конференция.\n 1925 г. – Великият Гетсби от Френсис Скот Фицджералд е публикуван за пръв път.\n 1930 г. – Произведена е първата синтетична гума.\n 1940 г. – Исландия се отделя от хегемонията на Дания.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Катинско клане – десетки хиляди хора – цветът на полската нация – са екзекутирани от НКВД.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Страните от Оста създават в окупирана Югославия Независима хърватска държава, управлявана от фашисткото движение Усташи на Анте Павелич.\n 1944 г. – Освобождаване на Одеса от окупацията на Нацистка Германия по време на Одеските операции.\n 1944 г. – Хенри Форд II става изпълнителен вицепрезидент на Ford Motor Company.\n 1945 г. – Германският крайцер Адмирал Шеер е потопен при атака на британската авиация, загиват 32-ма души на борда на кораба.\n 1953 г. – На екран е пуснат първият триизмерен филм – Восъчната къща.\n 1957 г. – Суецкият канал е отворен за всички кораби, след като е бил затворен за три месеца.\n 1963 г. – Американската подводница US Thresher потъва в океана, загиват 129 души екипаж.\n 1970 г. – Пол Маккартни обявява, че напуска Бийтълс по лични и професионални причини.\n\n 1972 г. – Подписване на Международната конвенция за забрана на биологичните и токсичните оръжия.\n 1972 г. – Гробници, съдържащи бамбукови свитъци, сред които Изкуството на войната на Сун Дзъ и изгубения военен трактат на Сун Бин, са случайно открити от строителни работници в Шандун.\n 1973 г. – Подписано е българо-гръцко споразумение за използване на Солунското пристанище от България.\n 1979 г. – В 20:34 ч. московско време е изстрелян космическият кораб Съюз-33, в който лети първият български космонавт Георги Иванов.\n 1988 г. – След 10-годишно строителство е открит 11-километровият мост Сето, съединяващ японските острови Хоншу и Шикоку.\n 1989 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „Адио, Рио“.\n 1998 г. – Подписано е Белфасткото споразумение, с което се слага край на „Смутните времена“ в Северна Ирландия.\n 2001 г. – България е извадена от негативния Шенгенски списък и за българите отпада изискването за визи в ЕС.\n 2010 г. – Самолетът на полските военновъздушни сили Ту-154 се разбива в Самолетна катастрофа край Смоленск, Русия, при което загиват всичките 96 пътници, в това число президентът на Полша Лех Качински и други официални лица.\n\nРодени \n\n 401 г. – Теодосий II, римски император († 450 г.)\n 1512 г. – Джеймс V, крал на Шотландия († 1542 г.)\n 1583 г. – Хуго Гроций, нидерландски философ († 1645 г.)\n 1755 г. – Самуел Ханеман, германски лекар, създател на хомеопатията († 1843 г.)\n 1769 г. – Жан Лан, френски офицер († 1809 г.)\n 1803 г. – Йохан Якоб Кауп, германски зоолог († 1873 г.)\n 1847 г. – Джоузеф Пулицър, унгаро-американски журналист († 1911 г.)\n 1852 г. – Артур Вирендел, белгийски инженер († 1940 г.)\n 1859 г. – Павел Христов, български военен деец († 1921 г.)\n 1864 г. – Ойген д'Албер, шотландско-германски композитор († 1942 г.)\n 1868 г. – Джордж Арлис, британски актьор († 1946 г.)\n 1869 г. – Георги Баласчев, български историк († 1936 г.)\n 1872 г. – Величко Георгиев, български лекар († 1924 г.)\n 1878 г. – Лазар Поптрайков, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1880 г. – Мохамед Надир Шах, афганистански крал († 1933 г.)\n 1883 г. – Богдан Филов, български археолог, държавник и регент († 1945 г.)\n 1887 г. – Бернардо Усай, аржентински физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1947 г. († 1971 г.)\n 1897 г. – Ерик Найт, британски писател († 1943 г.)\n 1913 г. – Щефан Хайм, германски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1917 г. – Робърт Бърнс Уудуърд, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. († 1979 г.)\n 1925 г. – Добромир Ташков, български футболист († 2017 г.)\n 1927 г. – Луиджи Алва, перуански певец\n 1927 г. – Маршал Уорън Ниренбърг, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. († 2010 г.)\n 1929 г. – Лиз Шеридан, американска актриса († 2022 г.)\n 1929 г. – Майк Хауторн, британски пилот от Формула 1 († 1959 г.)\n 1929 г. – Макс фон Сюдов, шведски актьор († 2020 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стефан Елевтеров, български литературовед († 1997 г.)\n 1932 г. – Омар Шариф, египетски актьор († 2015 г.)\n 1937 г. – Бела Ахмадулина, руска поетеса († 2010 г.)\n 1943 г. – Мустафа Чаушев, български поп и попфолк певец\n 1946 г. – Николай Волев, български актьор\n 1947 г. – Методи Стамболиски, македонски висш офицер\n 1947 г. – Халина Фронцковяк, полска певица\n 1948 г. – Цветан Атанасов, български футболист\n 1951 г. – Стивън Сегал, американски актьор\n 1957 г. – Джон Майлоу Форд, американски писател († 2006 г.)\n 1958 г. – Бейбифейс, американски певец\n 1967 г. – Димитър Ганев, български актьор\n 1972 г. – Марио Станич, хърватски футболист\n 1972 г. – Стоян Михалев, български певец и музикант\n 1973 г. – Гийом Кане, френски актьор\n 1973 г. – Роберто Карлош, бразилски футболист\n 1984 г. – Манди Мур, американска певица\n 1988 г. – Иван Ракитич, хърватски футболист\n 1992 г. – Дейзи Ридли, английска актриса\n 1998 г. – Климентина Фърцова, българска театрална и филмова актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1347 г. – Уилям Окам, английски философ (* 1285 г.)\n 1533 г. – Фредерик I, крал на Дания (* 1471 г.)\n 1545 г. – Констанцо Феста, италиански композитор (* ок. 1485)\n 1585 г. – Григорий XIII, римски папа (* 1502 г.)\n 1646 г. – Сантино Солари, швейцарски архитект и скулптор (* 1576 г.)\n 1813 г. – Жозеф Луи Лагранж, френски математик (* 1736 г.)\n 1825 г. – Пол-Луи Курие, френски републиканец, философ и елинист (* 1772 г.)\n 1861 г. – Едуар Менетрие, френски зоолог (* 1802 г.)\n 1904 г. – Изабела II, кралица на Испания (* 1830 г.)\n 1907 г. – Ставре Гогов, български революционер (* 1884 г.)\n 1909 г. – Алджернон Чарлз Суинбърн, английски поет, драматург, критик (* 1837 г.)\n 1919 г. – Емилиано Сапата, мексикански революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1920 г. – Мориц Кантор, германски математик (* 1829 г.)\n 1931 г. – Халил Джубран, ливанско-американски поет, писател, философ и художник (* 1883 г.)\n 1945 г. – Павел Панов, български военнослужещ (* 1895 г.)\n 1955 г. – Пиер Теяр дьо Шарден, френски палеонтолог и теолог (* 1881 г.)\n 1962 г. – Майкъл Къртис, американски режисьор (* 1886 г.)\n 1962 г. – Стюарт Сътклиф, шотландски музикант и член на Бийтълс за кратко време (* 1940 г.)\n 1962 г. – Марко Марчевски, български писател и преводач (* 1898 г.)\n 1966 г. – Ивлин Уо, английски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1968 г. – Павел Юдин, руски философ (* 1899 г.)\n 1973 г. – Васил Киселков, български славист, преводач от старобългарски език (* 1887 г.)\n 1979 г. – Нино Рота, италиански филмов композитор (* 1911 г.)\n 1989 г. – Николай Гринко, украински актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 1995 г. – Борис Априлов, български детски писател (* 1921 г.)\n 2003 г. – Лъчезар Аврамов, български комунист (* 1922 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лех Качински, президент на Полша (* 1949 г.)\n 2013 г. – Реймон Будон, френски социолог (* 1934 г.)\n 2018 г. – Тончо Русев, български композитор, диригент и музикант (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на съпротивителното движение\n Азербайджан – Ден на строителя\n САЩ – Ден на Армията на спасението\n Украйна – Ден на освобождението на Одеса\n\n410"
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        "text": "I have changed my topic to Net Neutrality, because it makes a lot more sense, I know there are people who could argue against it, and this is a topic I know a lot about. I made my survey and asked questions about my new topic. It was based upon opinions, but got the feel of how much each person knew about the topic and we can see how that correlates with their responses. There were 60 people who took my survey. They go as follows: 60% of respondents agreed that internet search providers should enable access to all content regardless of source, and 6.7% stood by the opposite opinion; 50% believed it is not right to charge more or less with respect to user, content, website, platform, app, etc, while only 6.7% said it was absolutely okay; Only 18.3% of the people said they knew a lot about this topic while 6.7% clicked, “What is Net Neutrality?”; finally, 55% said they would be angry if internet service providers favor some content/apps over others while 3.3% said they would be happy. It is important to remind you that there were 5 options for each question. This survey helped me to gauge the opinion on this topic and see how many people may agree or disagree with my point of view.\nNet neutrality is necessary to our world today, and it should be absolutely regulated by the government. The definition of Net Neutrality is the requirement for Internet service providers (ISPs) to give equal treatment to all Internet data regardless of user, source, or application, etc. Taking away net neutrality would mean that the internet is split into various lanes or packages, which would reflect inconsistent prices for the different websites and applications. Users would no longer be able to view any content free of charge, and would often be exposed to only the least expensive, the content chosen by the ISPs. The government has an obligation to give citizens our right, because as times are changing and the technology is playing an increasingly large role in our lives, basic defined rights need to be updated and carried out to modern times. The freedom to be able to absorb any kind of information desired on our internet would no longer be there, and the influx of different sources and sites would be changed completely without net neutrality. This is the place where each and every point of view and movement and small business startup may be expressed and it is crucial that equality is given to these organizations and new businesses. The price to pay for an absence of net neutrality far outweighs the benefits of not having it.\nHowever, those who stand by the opposite opinion on this matter do make good points. It is understood why some may have this view. The believe that net neutrality gives the government too much control over the internet. This is a common fear among conservatives and libertarians who don’t want to see too much power in the hands of our federal government. And while those in power ought not have such extensive power, this is a matter they need to have control over. There are other things that should concern people with those specific beliefs, but net neutrality must not be one of them. This is a matter that needs to be regulated. Without fairness in this aspect of the lives of Americans, so many voices cannot be heard, because it may cost more to view their points or websites since ISPs don’t have preferences toward them. The second common reason behind the opposing view on net neutrality is that it messes up the potential economic growth and investment for this new sector. And while, yes, there is a whole new world to the economy on this technological basis, nothing can pay for this sort of violation of our freedom of speech and press. This may sound like an extreme claim, but favoring some content over that of others and letting viewers access articles published by some for a lower price than others gets in the way of freedom to express one’s opinion and speak their voice over the internet. Having another facet of our economy gives it more flexibility and room to grow, but the downside to this is more where the money is going and what it is paying for. There is an incentive for organizations and website owners and corporations to put their money in a certain place to get preferences by the ISPs and therefore publicity and viewer access to their content. This is wrong, and it only encourages corruption in the end. Finally, those holding the opposite belief are convinced that the effects of net neutrality are not what they were intended to be or will not be in the future. The intent, however, is to give equality over the internet. It is about letting the voices of the ‘little guy’ be heard. But without net neutrality, we cannot count on this place for all to be on an even playing field. There are not many occasions where this is the case, and the internet with net neutrality is a unique thing that gives this guarantee to all people regardless of source or destination or user. This is what it is supposed to be and this is what it has proven to be. And while the absence of net neutrality would be beneficial to the economy with respect to investments in the Internet Service Provider sector, the price to pay for this is much too large when weighed with the other consequences.\nYV Post #9 Filling in the Gaps of my Research by Sophia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License."
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        "text": "A deadly pathogen is unleashed and unknowingly carried to Dana Overbeck’s 30th birthday party, where her estranged father, Rufus, is coming to make amends.\nBest in Sex: 2019 AVN Awards\nGraphic Language, Adult Content, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content\nShadow Fighter\nA homeless ex-boxer and an inner-city kid’s unlikely bond, helps them face their future, while fighting the tragedy from their past!\nJamario, Jaquan, Jailen, and Teague are teammates on the J.O. Johnson High School wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama. Led by their passionate coach, they are trying to qualify for the…\nDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor\nIn 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating…\nA hermit farmer discovers his late father’s secret journal containing plans to a magnetic powered machine that could change the world, while unexpectedly becoming custodian of his gifted 6 year…\nGenre: Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction\nRegrets of the Past\nThe short film project “Regrets of the Past” was realized by a team of local filmmakers whose goal it was to create a high-quality sci-fi movie in Austria, based within…\nEnter The Wild\nOn a trek to find the world’s rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to…\nA conservative professor at a Christian college finds himself in a gay support group to stop their launch of an LGBT homeless youth shelter in their small town.\nPocketman and Cargoboy\nTeenage secret agents must travel to the past and stop an evil doctor from creating a virus that wipes out all life in the future.\nGenre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction\nThe lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love…\nDiane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is…\nIn order to save her father’s ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.\nEarth is peaceful following the Tournament of Power. Realizing that the universes still hold many more strong people yet to see, Goku spends all his days training to reach even…\nKelly’s Hollywood\nKelly is a sassy young woman who loves performing and dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. Her devoted brother Brian, an actor himself, sets out to do everything he can…\nSpanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his…\nPaskal The Movie\nThe true events of Lieutenant Commander Arman Anwar of PASKAL, an elite unit in the Royal Malaysian Navy, and his team’s mission to rescue the MV Bunga Laurel, a tanker…\nAmerican Circumcision\nCircumcision is the most common surgery in America, yet America is the only industrialized country in the world to routinely practice non-religious infant circumcision. Why does America continue to cut…\nA man fakes his death. At his funeral he discovers he has a son and attempts to find him.\nJerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown\nSince the early days, Jerry Lewis – in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel – had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor….\nA gay couple are going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.\nYou Can’t Watch This\nSeemingly overnight a collection of prominent & controversial political commentators were more or less stripped of their online existence by social media giants. These commentators speak about what it is…\nStar Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal\nThe Ghost crew and their allies face Darth Vader for the first time and Ahsoka Tano discovers the true identity of Darth Vader.\nGenre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction\nIn 20 years’ time, there will be nearly 1.6 billion smokers around the world. Approximately 70% of smokers want to quit. The United Nations’ World Health Organisation expects a billion…\nCountry: Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Turkey, UK, USA\nWretch\nIn an attempt to piece together fractured memories of a drug-fueled night in the woods, three friends confront guilt, jealousy, and a supernatural presence that threatens to expose their true…\nYoung, up-and-coming photographer, Lana, begrudgingly attends the party of a pretentious and cool gallery owner in the hopes of meeting a respected dealer who may hold the key to her…\nBatman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations…\nStudents attending a Christmas party at a sorority house with a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus.\nA series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.\nGenre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller\nA mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.\nIn the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand…\nMichael Inside\nAn 18 year old man, living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend’s older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.\nSpringsteen on Broadway is a solo acoustic performance written and performed by Tony Award, Academy Award, and 20-time Grammy Award winner Bruce Springsteen. Based on his worldwide best-selling autobiography ‘Born…\nGenre: Documentary, Music\nJeff Lynne’s ELO: Wembley or Bust\nA thrilling concert film that documents Jeff Lynne’s ELO playing their triumphant concert for a massive audience at Wembley Stadium on June 24, 2017. We see Lynne and his remarkable musical ensemble…\nGenre: Music\nAs the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic…\nA burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously…\nA notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs…\nGenre: Action, Romance, Thriller\nBonehill Road\nA young couple become stranded in the woods where they encounter a werewolf and a house of horrors.\nFighting Belle\nWhen a sassy Southern belle is jilted at the altar by her fighter fiance, she puts on the boxing gloves to get revenge.\nK.G.F: Chapter 1\nA period drama set in the 1970s, KGF follows the story of a fierce rebel who rises against the brutal oppression in Kolar Gold Fields and becomes the symbol of…"
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        "text": "Q: How do you use iPad? I've bought the device lately and I use it almost everyday for mail, calendars, web and such stuff. But I have a feeling that I haven't even scratched the surface.\nCould you share your own ways of using it?\nDo you use it for work?\n\nA: Here's how I use mine:\n\n\n*\n\n*Pages - create rough drafts for blog posts and gather ideas for future posts.  I've written whole term papers on the iPad.\n\n*Kindle App (awesome)\n\n*iBooks - pdf's and ebooks can be imported into it.  Great for doing research (see item 1).\n\n*I use several great stock market apps to do research.\n\n*Evernote (it's the best idea gathering tool)\n\n*Mindmapping, general brainstorming and flow charts with Penultimate and Adobe Ideas.\n\n*Twitter\n\n*RSS Reader\n\n*Import photos from my DSLR for viewing and quick fixes (PS Mobile).\n\n*Watch college lectures.\n\n\nI could probably keep going.  The iPad has become an essential device for me.\n\nA: I use it mainly to read my rss feeds in the morning. It has pretty much replaced my laptop in the lounge at night, while the desktop still remains for serious processing power when needed.\n\nA: I didn't get the memo about the iPad only being for 'consumption'. I do a lot of painting on my iPad...\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/acute-distress/sets/72157622067589687/\n\nA: With log me in for iPad, I can control my Mac/PC remotely so that I don't need to carry my Macbook pro anymore at a meeting. \nWith GPS drive motion X, I have a cool GPS, so I don't need a TomTom anymore. \n\nA: I am a financial blogger, but wrote an article about Evernote on the iPad. The article addresses how to use \"Bookmarklets\" on the iPad. These are little Java scripts that can let you clip a page to Evernote (one of the killer iPad apps) save a bookmark to deli.cio.us or other. Between these two apps, when I am away from home and surfing on the iPad, it's easy to save items for further review.\n\nA: Today, I've used exclusively my iPad at work.  I checked emails, made some transactions on the Web-based ERP, used the VPN and called with my Cisco Mobile Phone on the iPad, and attended a Webex meeting.\nThe battery lasted for the whole workday.\n\nA: The iPad is just an entertainment device.  It's good for viewing movies, checking email, playing games, but for not for real functionality that work would require.\nThe meaty part of the device you haven't scratched yet are the millions of apps available.\nGenerally though, laptops are for work, and iPads are for entertainment. \n"
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        "text": "PACE/FIFA: “If you want to be credible, you have to be transparent”\nStrasbourg, 18.07.2013 – On behalf of the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which she headed on 16 July 2013 in an exchange of views at FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE) welcomed the direct, open dialogue initiated with the FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter on the issues raised in a resolution adopted by the PACE in April 2012 on good governance and ethics in sport, which called on FIFA to “fully investigate the facts underlying the various scandals which, in recent years, have tarnished its image and that of international football”.\nAnne Brasseur said “the reforms initiated by FIFA and the spirit of openness omnipresent in our talks are a sign for us that FIFA is taking our guidelines on good governance and ethics in sport seriously. These guidelines are aimed at all international and national sports bodies as well as the governments. It is important for the political authorities to have a right of inspection vis-à-vis the conduct of sports bodies, whilst fully respecting for their independence”.\n“If you want to be credible, you have to be transparent, and we must set up structures capable of acting completely independently in order to note and sanction any breaches of ethical principles. In this connection, we welcome the fact that the FIFA Ethics Committee can launch internal inquiries, of its own accord and at any time, and also the introduction of a system for collecting information supplied on-line by whistle-blowers and transmitting them unfiltered to the Chairs of the supervisory bodies. Nevertheless, more progress is still needed, and we would encourage FIFA to press on with its reforms”, Ms Brasseur concluded.\nMr Blatter said the reform process had to continue as an organisation must constantly adapt its governance in order not to regress. PACE and FIFA therefore decided to continue their dialogue. The PACE was still expecting a number of advances in terms of financial transparency and limits on the number of concurrent offices held. In this context, Mark Pieth, Chair of the FIFA Governance Committee, will be heard by the PACE Ad hoc Sub-Committee on the Reform of International Football Sub-Committee in Strasbourg at the beginning of October.\nThe Ad hoc Sub-Committee will also be meeting with other football personalities, starting with the UEFA President, Michel Platini (on 9 September in Nyon) and the President of the European Club Association (ECA), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (date and place to be decided).\nThe PACE delegation included Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), Chair of the Ad hoc Sub-Committee on the Reform of International Football; Michael Connarty (United Kingdom, SOC); Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC); Maximilian Reimann (Switzerland, ALDE); and André Schneider (France, EPP/CD).\nPACE Resolution 1875 (2012)\n11/06/2019 | Culture, Science, Education and Media\nRapporteur calls on Russian authorities to immediately release investigative journalist Ivan Golunov\nLord George Foulkes: ‘I pay tribute to those courageous journalists who do their job despite the risks and pressures’\nCommittee proposes to create a Europe-wide tool for recognising cultural competences\nSocial media companies must do more to stop unlawful material and counter disinformation\nRapporteur calls on Russian authorities to drop charges against journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva\nThe role of culture and heritage in supporting the local and regional economy\nThe Museum of Communication (Bern, Switzerland) wins 2019 Museum Prize\nPreserving intangible cultural heritage against uniform lifestyles\nPublic service media can counteract information disorder\nCall for a digital society based on fundamental rights\nParliamentarians pledge steps to help sport ‘uphold its core values’\nConsolidating the freedom of the media as pillars of democratic elections\nCall for respect of confidentiality of journalists’ sources\nEnsuring press freedom in the member States\nA plan for curbing the deliberate destruction or illegal trafficking of cultural heritage"
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        "text": "Elijah, 10, and Alyanna Webster, 11, of Standish enjoy the new swings Sunday, Aug. 26.\nSTANDISH — After acquiring the former Arenac County children’s park on Airpark Drive two summers ago, the city of Standish has been revitalizing it with the help of the community, most recently adding a playscape and swing sets.\nCity Manager Jerry Nelson said updates have been funded through a $19,000 grant from the Eastern Michigan Council of Governments last summer, a $1,250 endowment from the Arenac Community Funds this past June and a $5,600 donation from Vantage Plastics December 2016.\nHe said where the park was compared to where it is now is like night and day.\n“We’ve done a lot of improvements in two years,” Nelson said.\nBesides adding swings to the playground this past July, other work has been done, including the pavilion being painted, the landscape cleaned up, trees planted, streetlights added, the playground area extended and a parking area added, he said.\nNelson said the trees were donated by ReLeaf Michigan and were planted by volunteers, and the swings were constructed by the Standish Department of Public Works.\nNelson said future points of focus include painting the other pavilion and replacing the dirt floor with concrete, adding more equipment, and clearing some of the wooded parts of the park and expanding. The plan is to apply for more grants in the future, probably including a 2 percent Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe grant, he said.\ncompleted since the city is chipping away as funds become available.\nHe said he thinks the park will be good for the housing economy of the city.\nNelson would like to add a park on the other side of town in future years, he said.\n“I believe the kids in this town need a place to go, play and hang out during the summer,” Nelson said.\nArenac Community Funds member Adam Kroczaleski said he took an interest in this project when he saw the city had planted new trees, added new equipment and painted the pavilion. When he was young, he used to play at the park himself, he said.\n“That’s when I went to Jerry with the city and the Arenac Community Funds board,” Kroczaleski said.\nHe said a park without swings didn’t seem right, so he brought the idea to the the board as a member. Normally, the Arenac Community Funds grant cycle is in the spring and fall, he said, but this was an out-of-cycle grant because of extra money available.\n“It’s really exciting to see the park coming back together piece by piece,” Kroczaleski said.\nAccording to the Bay Area Community Foundation’s website, the Arenac Community Funds board was initiated by a group of advocates in Arenac County within the BACF in 2000. The foundation’s goal is to help with funding for youth initiatives, emergency services, arts and culture and more."
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        "text": "Television credits include: THE GOOD WIFE (Emmy Winner, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series), CLAWS, PERSON OF INTEREST, TRUE BLOOD (SAG nomination, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series), CROWDED, WHEN WE RISE, LOST, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and many, many others. Film credits include: TO THE BONE, DAISY WINTERS, AND THEN I GO, 5 FLIGHTS UP, BENEATH THEHARVEST SKY, IN VITO VERITAS, BAG OF HAMMERS, WHAT’S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA, SIRONIA, DUPLICITY, VICKY CHRISTINA BARCELONA, TRANSAMERICA, TOWELHEAD, THAT EVENING SUN, STRAIGHT JACKET, GRACE ; GLORIE, THE JOURNEY, and MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING. Ms. Preston is alsoan accomplished theatre actor who’s worked both on and off-Broadway, and a director whose film, THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.\nTelevision credits include HBO’s ROOM 104, and recent film credits include the Oscar-nominated film, LADYBIRD, for which she received a SAG award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Ms. Scott is an LA native, took classes at the RSC, and is agraduate of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film & Television.\nReggie Baker\nOfficer Marsh\nTelevision credits include: SUPERNATURAL, FELICITY, WAITING, MASTERS OF SEX,THRESHOLD, ALIAS, COME TO PAPA, HEAD CASE, TOUCH, FRANKLIN & BASH, CHICAGO HOPE, BIRDS OF PREY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and KINGS OF CON.Film Credits include: A LITTLE HELP, STILL WAITING, STATE OF PLAY, KICKING AND SCREAMING, SEX AND DEATH 101, THE FIRST 20 MILLION IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST, NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE, TWO DAYS WITH PAUL RUDD, THE SIDEKICK, and WAITING.Mr. Benedict can also be seen and heard as the front man of the La-based band, LOUDEN SWAIN, whose 6th studio EP was released in January 2017.\nWilliam Smillie\nTelevision credits include: CHICAGO FIRE, APB, BOSS, THE CHICAGO CODE, SHAMELESS and ER.Film credits include THE DARK KNIGHT and DILEMMA, and the soon-to-be-released WHAT THEY HAD. Chicago-based Smillie can also be found in voice-over booths and on stage.\nOfficer Riley\nCathy Shim\nTelevision credits include: THE FAKE NEWS, PLAYING HOUSE, SUPERIOR DONUTS, BAJILLION DOLLAR PROPERTIES, FAMELESS, DEAL WITH IT, YOU’RE WHOLE, RENO 911!, MAD TV, DRAKE & JOSH, and PUNK’D.Film credits include: RAISING BUCHANAN, LOVE IS NOT LOVE, THE WATCH, RENO 911!, MIAMI, BALLS OF FURY, and AMERICONS, and her voice-over work includes THE CLEVELAND SHOW, GLENN MARTIN DDS, SAMURAI DAYCARE, and OISHI HIGH SCHOOL BATTLE. Ms. Shim has performed sketch and improv at UCB, 10 West, Groundlings, and Second City, as well as stand-up at various clubs around town.\nPostell Pringle\nTelevision credits include: RESCUE ME, UNFORGETTABLE, LAW & ORDER, and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT.Film credits include: UNKNOWN SOLDIER, 14085, THE HUDSON TRIBES, and ORANGE BOW. Mr. Pringle has worked as an actor both on and off-Broadway, and has won numerous awards as a writer, performer, choreographer, and composer with his theatre company, Q Brothers Collective, known chiefly for hip hop musical adaptations of Shakespeare. He is also a member of the Chicago-based band, The Rap Pack.\nAndrew Rothenberg\nSeana Kofoed\nTelevision credits include: AMERICAN PRINCESS, FLAKED, GONE, NCIS, RAISING HOPE, SUBURGATORY, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, MAJOR CRIMES, THE BIG C, MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, FLASHFORWARD, THE MENTALIST, MEN IN TREES, NUMBERS, VAMPED OUT, DONNA’S REVENGE, VALENTINE, BORDERLINE TALENT, QUEENS SUPREME, ED, THE AUDREY HEPBURN STORY, LAW & ORDER: SVU, AND THIRD WATCH.Ms. Kofoed has voiced characters on MAD, ELECTRIC CITY, DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS, and SHARK TALE: THE GAME, and was a New York theatre actor for years, happily working both on and Off Broadway, before moving west to Los Angeles.\nRoslyn Alexander\nRobert Breuler\nFather Galvin\nBirgundi Baker"
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        "text": "From the list of compatible channel icons on the page, click on ‘Add this’ under the Myntra icon.\n4. Enter your Myntra Username and Password. Click on ‘Test’ to verify the credentials and/ or directly on ‘Add channels’ to complete the integration with Myntra.\nThat's it, done! Now your orders will start flowing into Browntape automatically from Myntra."
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        "text": "Leon Shamroy\nBlack Swan, The (1942) July 24 (ET) - REMINDER\nAgony and the Ecstasy, The (1965) July 24 (ET) - REMINDER\nFate Is the Hunter (1964) July 29 (ET) - REMINDER\nMary Burns, Fugitive (1935) August 05 (ET) - REMINDER\nStormy Weather (1943) August 06 (ET) - REMINDER\nFOR Leon Shamroy YOU CAN\nMade for Each Other ... Carole Lombard and James Stewart star in a classic comedy-drama about a young... more info $4.95was $8.99 Buy Now\nAlso Known As: Died: July 7, 1974\nBorn: July 16, 1901 Cause of Death:\nBirth Place: New York City, New York, USA Profession: director of photography, lab technician, mechanical engineer\nDistinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cinemascope in the 50s. (Shamroy photographed the first film to use the new process, \"The Robe,\" in 1953.) He also worked with Otto Preminger on films such as \"Daisy Kenyon\" (1947), \"Porgy and Bess\" (1959) and \"The Cardinal\" (1964).\nMan's Paradise (1938) Director\nCaprice (1967)\nGlass Bottom Boat in Catalina (1966)\nCity College of New York: New York , New York -\nColumbia University: New York , New York -\nCooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: New York , New York -\nCompanions close complete companion listing\nwife:\nMary Anderson. Actor."
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        "text": "11 април е 101-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (102-ри през високосна). Остават 264 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1079 г. – Със заповед на полския крал е екзекутиран епископа на Краков Станислас, който по-късно е канонизиран и става покровител на Полша.\n 1241 г. – Монголците, предвождани от Бату хан и Субетей, разбиват унгарската армия на крал Бела IV в битката за Мохач.\n 1713 г. – Подписан е Ултрехтският мир, с което завършва Войната за испанското наследство.\n 1805 г. – В Санкт Петербург, Русия и Великобритания подписват конвенция за създаването на общоевропейска коалиция срещу Наполеон, към която по-късно се присъединява и Австрия.\n 1814 г. – По силата на договора от Фонтенбло Наполеон абдикира и е прогонен на остров Елба. На трона се възкачва Луи XVIII.\n 1822 г. – Хиоското клане в Гърция.\n 1857 г. – Руският цар Александър II одобрява Герба на Русия – Двуглав орел.\n 1866 г. – В Браила е представена пиесата на Добри Войников „Райна княгиня“.\n 1868 г. – Премахване шогуната в Япония.\n 1879 г. – Руският императорски комисар в България княз Александър Дондуков-Корсаков слага начало на организираните пощенски съобщения в страната.\n 1888 г. – В Амстердам официално е открита концертната зала Концертгебау, една от най-добрите в света.\n 1894 г. – Великобритания обявява протекторат над Уганда.\n 1899 г. – Испания прехвърля Пуерто Рико на САЩ.\n 1909 г. – Основан е град, който една година по-късно е наречен Тел Авив.\n 1919 г. – Влиза в сила уставът на Международната организация на труда.\n 1927 г. – Приета е Конституцията на Беларус.\n 1935 г. – Започва конференцията на Антантата в Стреза (Италия).\n 1944 г. – Английската авиация разрушава щаба на Гестапо в Хага.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Армията на САЩ освобождава концентрационния лагер Бухенвалд, разположен край Ваймар.\n 1961 г. – В Ерусалим започва процесът срещу бившия офицер от СС Адолф Айхман за престъпления срещу евреите по време на Втората световна война.\n 1961 г. – Боб Дилън дебютира в Ню Йорк.\n 1964 г. – Фриц Фреленг и Дейвид ДеПати създават Пинко Розовата пантера.\n 1969 г. – Публикуван е Закон за паметниците на културата и музеите.\n 1970 г. – Космическият кораб „Аполо 13“ потегля за мисия на Луната; след експлозия на борда и дни на неизвестност астронавтите се приземяват успешно на 17 април\n 1982 г. – Англичаните Ранулф Фиънис и Чарлз Бъртън стават първите хора, извършили околосветска обиколка през полюсите.\n 1991 г. – Съветът за сигурност на ООН обявява прекратяването на военните действия срещу Ирак.\n 2002 г. – При военен преврат, членове на венецуелската армия задържат президента Уго Чавес и настояват за неговата оставка.\n 2006 г. – В Корлеоне е заловен е мафиотският бос Бернардо Провенцано.\n 2007 г. – Взривени са бомби пред дома на премиера и пред полицейско управление в град Алжир, загиват 23-ма, ранените са над 160.\n 2008 г. – Във Вашингтон в новострояща се сграда е открит Музей на журналистиката и новините, наречен Нюзиъм.\n\nРодени \n\n 146 г. – Септимий Север, римски император († 211 г.)\n 1357 г. – Жуау I, крал на Португалия († 1433 г.)\n 1492 г. – Маргарита Наварска, кралица на Навара и френска писателка († 1549 г.)\n 1755 г. – Джеймс Паркинсън, английски физик († 1824 г.)\n 1803 г. – Козма Прутков, измислен руски писател († 1863 г.)\n 1869 г. – Густав Вигеланд, норвежки скулптор († 1943 г.)\n 1872 г. – Александър Ставре Дренова, албански поет († 1947 г.)\n 1893 г. – Дийн Ачисън, Държавен секретар на САЩ († 1971 г.)\n 1897 г. – Любомир Бобчевски, български актьор († 1963 г.)\n 1898 г. – Никола Захариев, български политик († 1945 г.)\n 1900 г. – Шандор Марай, унгарски писател († 1989 г.)\n 1908 г. – Виктор Абакумов, съветски офицер († 1954 г.)\n 1908 г. – Масару Ибука, японски предприемач († 1997 г.)\n 1920 г. – Марлен Хаусхофер, австрийска писателка († 1970 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Райчев, български композитор и теоретик († 2003 г.)\n 1926 г. – Христо Христов, български режисьор († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Антон Шандор Ла Вей, американски основател на Църквата на Сатаната († 1997 г.)\n 1930 г. – Никълъс Брейди, американски финансист и политик\n 1936 г. – Иван Груев, български писател (+2013 г.)\n 1945 г. – Стефан Богомилов, български футболист\n 1948 г. – Марчело Липи, италиански футболен треньор\n 1950 г. – Георги Ифандиев, български писател, журналист и телевизионен водещ\n 1953 г. – Ги Верхофстад, министър-председател на Белгия\n 1953 г. – Силва Бъчварова, българска художничка и сценографка\n 1956 г. – Николай Камов, български политик\n 1958 г. – Алексей Ермолински, американски шахматист\n 1958 г. – Георги Славков, български футболист († 2014 г.)\n 1959 г. – Алеандро Балди, италиански певец\n 1961 г. – Винсънт Гало, американски актьор, режисьор, музикант и художник\n 1963 г. – Цветан Симеонов, български архитект\n 1966 г. – Петер Щьогер, австрийски футболист\n 1968 г. – Сергей Лукяненко, руски писател\n 1971 г. – Диана Йоргова, българска спортистка\n 1971 г. – Оливер Ридел, германски музикант (Rammstein)\n 1974 г. – Алекс Кореча, испански тенисист\n 1974 г. – Триша Хелфър, канадска актриса\n 1979 г. – Хейли Коуп, американска плувкиня\n 1980 г. – Стелиос Халкиас, гръцки шахматист\n 1981 г. – Алесандра Амбросио, бразилски модел\n 1981 г. – Миа Даймънд, унгарска порно актриса\n 1986 г. – Стойко Колев, български футболист\n 1997 г. – Марин Рангелов, български актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 678 г. – Доний, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1034 г. – Роман III Аргир, византийски император (* 968 г.)\n 1514 г. – Донато Браманте, италиански архитект (* 1444 г.)\n 1896 г. – Иван Атанасов Инджето, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1904 г. – Андрей Казепов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1917 г. – Скот Джоплин, американски композитор (* 1868 г.)\n 1918 г. – Ото Вагнер, австрийски архитект (* 1841 г.)\n 1934 г. – Джон Колиър, британски художник (* 1850 г.)\n 1938 г. – Джордж Бърд Гринел, американски естествоизпитател (* 1849 г.)\n 1944 г. – Димитър Добрев, български офицер (* 1868 г.)\n 1949 г. – Роза Попова, българска актриса и режисьорка († 1879 г.)\n 1958 г. – Йозеф Фолтман, германски офицер († 1887 г.)\n 1973 г. – Людмил Стоянов, български филолог (* 1886 г.)\n 1977 г. – Жак Превер, френски сценарист (* 1900 г.)\n 1985 г. – Енвер Ходжа, албански диктатор (* 1908 г.)\n 1987 г. – Примо Леви, италиански писател (* 1917 г.)\n 1987 г. – Ърскин Колдуел, американски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1991 г. – Иван Мартинов, български писател (* 1912 г.)\n 1997 г. – Роже Бернар, френски лингвист (* 1908 г.)\n 1999 г. – Георги Владиков, български партизанин, деец на БКП, депутат, дипломат, посланик (* 1926 г.)\n 2002 г. – Иван Димов, български скулптор (* 1913 г.)\n 2004 г. – Атанас Александров, български футболист (* 1952 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джон Реймънд Броснан, австралийски писател (* 1947 г.)\n 2007 г. – Кърт Вонегът, американски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 2008 г. – Клод Аб, френски футболист (* 1927 г.)\n 2010 г. – Николай Вълчинов, български сценарист (* 1950 г.)\n 2010 г. – Юлия Ценова, българска пианистка (* 1948 г.)\n 2012 г. – Ахмед Бен Бела, алжирски политик (* 1916 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на бившите политзатворници и концлагеристи – Обявен по инициатива на Международната федерация на борците от съпротивата, политзатворниците и пострадалите от фашизма. На този ден през 1945 г. затворниците с бунт освобождават концентрационния лагер Бухенвалд.\n Световен ден за борба с болестта на Паркинсон – Обявен през 1997 г. от Световната здравна организация (СЗО). Годишнина от рождението на английския лекар Джеймс Паркинсон (1755 – 1824), който описва първи това заболяване през 1817 г. Отбелязва се от 1998 г.\n Световен ден за борба с шизофренията – Отбелязва се по света от 1949 г., а в България – от 1998 г.\n Професионален празник на стоматолозите – България\n Коста Рика – Ден на героите\n Уганда – Ден на свободата\n Украйна – Ден на освобождението на Керч\n\n411"
    },
    {
        "text": "Dinah Bucholz is a New York Times bestselling author and a relationship coach specializing in marriage and parenting. After trying to apply all the famous liberal parenting methods out there and utterly failing, Dinah transformed her crazy and chaotic family through the methods of John Rosemond’s Leadership Parenting Institute. Dinah lives in Philadelphia with her husband and five children."
    },
    {
        "text": "12 април е 102-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (103-ти през високосна). Остават 263 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 238 г. – Римският император Гордиан II загива в битка с Максимин Трак, а баща му, съимператор Гордиан I се самоубива, научавайки за смъртта на сина си.\n 467 г. – Антемий става император на Римската империя.\n 971 г. – Византийската армия на император Йоан I Цимиски навлиза в българските земи.\n 1796 г. – Наполеон печели първата си значима победа при Монтеноте, разбивайки австрийските и сардинските войски.\n 1815 г. – По време на изригването на вулкана Тамбора загиват около 10 000 души.\n 1849 г. – Италианският астроном Анибал де Гаспарис открива 10 Хигея – четвъртият по големина астероид.\n 1861 г. – Американска гражданска война: Войници от Юга атакуват федералния контингент във Форт Съмтър в пристанището на Чарлстън (Южна Каролина). Това дава повод за начало на войната.\n 1896 г. – Основан е Хановер 96, немски футболен клуб.\n 1897 г. – По време на гръцко-турската война от края на 19 век османската армия влиза в Тирнавос, което историческо събитие е отразено във филма „Превземането на Тирнавос“.\n 1903 г. – В Лондон е пуснат първият в света градски автобус с Двигател с вътрешно горене.\n 1911 г. – В Санкт Петербург е проведен първият всеруски Аргонавтен конгрес.\n 1914 г. – Пиесата на Джордж Бърнард Шоу Пигмалион се играе за първи път в Лондон.\n 1919 г. – Приет е Закон за конфискуване на незаконно придобитите имоти от държавни чиновници за времето след 17 септември 1912 г.\n 1927 г. – Чан Кай-ши предотвратява опит за комунистически преврат в Китай и установява еднолична власт.\n 1933 г. – Народното събрание отнема мандата на 33 народни представители от Работническата партия във връзка със Закона за защита на държавата.\n 1935 г. – Осъществен е първият полет на британския самолет Бристол Бленхайм.\n\n 1940 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския игрален филм Ребека.\n 1945 г. – Американският президент Франклин Делано Рузвелт умира, докато е в кабинета си; като 33-ти президент на САЩ полага клетва вицепрезидента Хари Труман.\n 1954 г. – Бил Хейли записва на плоча песента си „Rock around the clock“, поради което денят се счита за рождена дата на рокендрола.\n 1955 г. – Ваксината срещу детски паралич, създадена от американския лекар Джонъс Солк е обявена за ефективна.\n 1961 г. – СССР изстрелва в Космоса Восток 1 – първият пилотиран космически кораб с космонавта Юрий Гагарин на борда.\n 1965 г. – Арестувани са участниците в Опита за преврат срещу Тодор Живков.\n 1981 г. – САЩ изстрелват първата космическа совалка – Колумбия.\n 1990 г. – Премиерът Андрей Луканов обявява мораториум върху плащанията по външния дълг на България.\n 1992 г. – Във Франция е открит европейски Дисниленд.\n 2002 г. – Опит за военен преврат срещу президента на Венецуела Уго Чавес.\n 2002 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма Авалон в Полша.\n\nРодени \n\n 599 г. пр.н.е. – Махавира, основател на джайнизма († 527 пр.н.е.)\n 1500 г. – Йоахим Камерариус, германски просветител († 1574 г.)\n 1748 г. – Антоан-Лоран дьо Жусийо, френски ботаник († 1836 г.)\n 1823 г. – Александър Островски, руски писател († 1886 г.)\n 1839 г. – Николай Пржевалски, руски изследовател на Азия († 1888 г.)\n 1871 г. – Август Ендел, немски архитект († 1925 г.)\n 1871 г. – Йоанис Метаксас, министър-председател на Гърция († 1941 г.)\n 1872 г. – Никола Мушанов, български политик († 1951 г.)\n 1880 г. – Хари Бор, френски актьор († 1943 г.)\n 1884 г. – Ото Майерхоф, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1951 г.)\n 1893 г. – Добрин Василев, български писател и библиограф († 1956 г.)\n 1900 г. – Димитър Каданов, български учен († 1982 г.)\n 1903 г. – Ян Тинберген, холандски иконометрист, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 г. († 1994 г.)\n 1912 г. – Александър Петков, български хидролог († 1986 г.)\n 1919 г. – Драган Тенев, български юрист, писател и публицист († 1999 г.)\n 1919 г. – Петър Петров, български оперен певец († 2005 г.)\n 1924 г. – Лиляна Бочева, пианист и диригент на хор „Бодра смяна“ († 2005 г.)\n 1926 г. – Димитрина Савова, българска актриса († 2011 г.)\n 1933 г. – Монсерат Кабайе, испанска оперна певица († 2018 г.)\n 1934 г. – Досьо Досев, български актьор\n 1934 г. – Севелина Гьорова, български театровед († 2007 г.)\n 1934 г. – Тодор Еврев, български лекар, професор († 1994 г.)\n 1938 г. – Христо Тодоров, български филолог († 1983 г.)\n 1941 г. – Боби Мур, английски футболист († 1993 г.)\n 1946 г. – Ед О'Нийл, американски актьор\n 1947 г. – Дейвид Летърман, американски шоумен\n 1947 г. – Том Кланси, американски писател († 2013 г.)\n 1948 г. – Йошка Фишер, немски политик и държавник\n 1950 г. – Георги Ананиев, български политик († 2021 г.)\n 1954 г. – Джон Кракауер, американски писател и алпинист\n 1956 г. – Анди Гарсия, американски актьор\n 1956 г. – Смиляна Нитова-Кръстева, български политик и юрист\n 1957 г. – Стойчо Младенов, български състезател и треньор по футбол\n 1961 г. – Лиза Жерар, австралийска певица и филмов композитор\n 1962 г. – Йорданка Фандъкова, български политик\n 1964 г. – Пламен Манасиев, български актьор\n 1968 г. – Веселин Колчаков, български лекар\n 1971 г. – Десислава Тенекеджиева, българска актриса и певица\n 1973 г. – Юрий Иваников, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Антйе Равич Щрубел, немска писателка\n 1975 г. – Елена Алексиева, българска писателка\n 1975 г. – Цветелина Янчулова, българска волейболистка\n 1979 г. – Дженифър Морисън, американска актриса\n 1979 г. – Клеър Дейнс, американска актриса\n 1980 г. – Ерик Монгрен, канадски китарист\n 1985 г. – Шахрияр Мамедяров, азербайджански шахматист\n\nПочинали \n\n 65 г. – Луций Аней Сенека, римски философ, държавник и драматург (* ок. 3 пр.н.е.)\n 238 г. – Гордиан I, римски император (* ок. 159)\n 238 г. – Гордиан II, римски император (* ок. 192)\n 352 г. – Юлий I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1212 г. – Всеволод III, велик княз на Киев и Владимир-Суздал (* 1154 г.)\n 1555 г. – Хуана Кастилска, кралица на Кастилия (* 1479 г.)\n 1782 г. – Пиетро Метастазио, италиански поет и либретист (* 1698 г.)\n 1817 г. – Шарл Месие, френски астроном (* 1730 г.)\n 1891 г. – Олга Фьодоровна, велика руска княгиня (* 1839 г.)\n 1909 г. – Данаил Попов, български революционер (* 1840 г.)\n 1934 г. – Никола Генев, български военен деец (* 1856 г.)\n 1938 г. – Фьодор Шаляпин, руски оперен певец – бас (* 1873 г.)\n 1945 г. – Франклин Рузвелт, 32-ри президент на САЩ (* 1882 г.)\n 1971 г. – Игор Там, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. (* 1895 г.)\n 1972 г. – К. В. Керам, германски журналист и популяризатор на науката (* 1915 г.)\n 1974 г. – Методи Андонов, български режисьор (* 1932 г.)\n 1975 г. – Джозефин Бейкър, американска танцьорка (* 1906 г.)\n 1975 г. – Миле Марковски, български и македонски писател (* 1939 г.)\n 1981 г. – Джо Луис, американски боксьор (* 1914 г.)\n 1986 г. – Валентин Катаев, съветски писател (* 1897 г.)\n 1988 г. – Алън Пейтън, южноафрикански писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1990 г. – Сергей Закариадзе, грузински актьор (* 1909 г.)\n 1994 г. – Димитър Велинов, български военен деец (* 1922 г.)\n 1997 г. – Джордж Уолд, американски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1967 г. (* 1906 г.)\n 2001 г. – Венцеслав Андрейчев, български ядрен физик (* 1941 г.)\n 2005 г. – Георги Пачеджиев, български футболист и треньор по футбол (* 1916 г.)\n 2014 г. – Борис Карадимчев, български композитор и преподавател (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на римската богиня на победата Виктория\n Международен ден на авиацията и космонавтиката\n Либерия – Ден на освобождението\n Украйна – Ден на работещите в ракетно-космическия отрасъл\n\n412"
    },
    {
        "text": "Giving extra thought to the purpose of each room has helped me organise, store and simplify. Some spaces are more obvious than others, like the kitchen and bathroom. Clear counters are a must. A kitchen should have zones; one for chopping, mixing and food preparation, another for dirty dishes and cleaning with hopefully a separate space for serving, socialising or even dining at the bench. Make sure the things in each space are specific to its function and already life is more efficient.\nThose of us that aren’t OCD, have kids, a partner or animals, know that stuff accumulates and is left laying around. This is where you need to get sneaky and invest in stylish storage solutions. It goes without saying that to achieve a minimalist look ‘stuff’ can’t be visible. Homes will always have clutter and things to sort but having clever storage solutions will make everything easier.\nSubdued hues in similar tones are simply easier on the eye and since minimalism is all about feeling serene and spacious, colours need to transition gently. Not everything has to be pale, dark colours work too. Texture is a must to add interest and natural finishes, colours and combinations are the ones most often used in a minimalist interior.\nTo sum up, warm minimalism, when done well, can be truly warm, rich and inviting."
    },
    {
        "text": "By hiring M & T Landscaping, you have agreed to hire Mike Tabone, and Adam Blatchford to do yard work or light duty Landscaping services on your property. In the event that your property is damaged by surrounding work areas, or my accident we will replace what was damaged at no charge to you, but if the damaged property is directly in the path of work, we will do everything possible to preserve it whether it is a plant or a bench, we will demonstrate extreme care while working on your property. While we are working on your property or in transit, or picking up materials, you will not be responsible for injury to any of the workers, or damage to their vechiles. In the event that our work becomes defective (does not include: Weeding, snow shoveling, or root removal for obivous reasons) we will fix it at with out charge for labor, you are still responsible for material costs. As a term of hire, you must provide all materials before hand or provide money to pick up materials plus a hauling fee. Any hauling (does not include tree service) over 100 pounds (any item over 100 pounds not total weight) will see a 2 dollar charge with the additional man power need to move the item.\nI __________________________________________ agree to the above terms. I understand that I will not be responsible for injury to workers while working for me or while on my property. I __________________________________________ agree to pay Mike Tabone half upfront before the work is started unless agreed upon with Mike Tabone, and __________________________________________. I __________________________________________ understand that the work is done by semi-professionals. Mike Tabone __________________________________________ agrees to the terms stated above, and promises a quality job with low impact if any to the surronding areas."
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        "text": "Found 5 collections related to Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916)\nMaverick family\nMaverick family papers, 1780-1985\n2.75 linear feet (7 boxes)\nThe Maverick Family Papers are comprised of correspondence of the Maverick Family of Texas, descendants of Samuel Augustus Maverick, and several related families. Letters received by Mary Vance Maverick constitute the majority of the... more\nThe Maverick Family Papers are comprised of correspondence of the Maverick Family of Texas, descendants of Samuel Augustus Maverick, and several related families. Letters received by Mary Vance Maverick constitute the majority of the correspondence. Mrs. Maverick, a writer, was the wife of George Madison Maverick and mother of the peace activist and world government proponent Lola Maverick Lloyd. Also included are genealogical materials, and a small number of photographs. less\nLeckie, Katherine, -1930\nKatherine Leckie papers, 1914-1925\nKatherine Leckie was a suffragist and journalist who founded a feminist editorial consulting and lecture bureau in New York City. She was press and booking agent to Rosika Schwimmer for her 1914-1915 United States lecture tour, and worked as press... more\nKatherine Leckie was a suffragist and journalist who founded a feminist editorial consulting and lecture bureau in New York City. She was press and booking agent to Rosika Schwimmer for her 1914-1915 United States lecture tour, and worked as press manager for the Henry Ford Peace Expedition of 1915. Her papers consist of her business correspondence and subject files related to the Ford Peace Expedition, the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, and the International Congress of Women at The Hague. Materials in the subject files consist of printed matter, resolutions, and a small amount of financial material. less\nWynner, Edith\nEdith Wynner papers, circa 1890-1999 [bulk 1947-1990]\n76.92 linear feet (176 boxes)\nEdith Wynner (1915-2003) was a writer, speaker, and activist for world government, peace, and feminism throughout the 20th century. The Edith Wynner papers document her work as secretary to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, lecturer and author on world... more\nEdith Wynner (1915-2003) was a writer, speaker, and activist for world government, peace, and feminism throughout the 20th century. The Edith Wynner papers document her work as secretary to Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, lecturer and author on world government, and biographer of Rosika Schwimmer. less\nSchwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948\nRosika Schwimmer papers, 1890-1983 [bulk 1904-1948]\n160 linear feet (592 boxes)\nRosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born writer and political activist who spent her life working for the causes of feminism, pacifism, and world government. She was the mastermind of the 1915 Ford Peace Expedition, and in 1937 co-founded... more\nRosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born writer and political activist who spent her life working for the causes of feminism, pacifism, and world government. She was the mastermind of the 1915 Ford Peace Expedition, and in 1937 co-founded the political lobbying organization Campaign for World Government. Her papers include correspondence, professional writings and speeches, organizational and financial records, miscellaneous personal items, printed matter, artifacts, and photographs. less\nLloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944\nLola Maverick Lloyd papers, 1856-1949\n35 linear feet; 88 boxes\nLola Maverick Lloyd was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains personal and professional materials documenting her life... more\nLola Maverick Lloyd was a prominent social activist involved in the international peace and world government movements during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection contains personal and professional materials documenting her life and participation in the Ford Peace Expedition of 1915-1916, and her 1937 co-founding of the Campaign for World Government. less"
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        "text": "Q: Upload photos to specified photo album, on iPad Are there any ways to move photos from the default album to a specified album?\nMaybe there exist some iPad apps for that? \nI know how to do that using iTunes, but you know, it's very uncomfortable :(\n\nA: Unfortunately, no.  The iPad (as of 3.2.1) does not support the manipulation of photo albums by code running on an iPad through any approved mechanism.\n"
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        "text": "Renaissance Schaumburg Convention\nCenter Hotel in Chicago, Illinois\nGrand Prize\nThe Baking Academy\nDemonstration Schedule\nHands-on Class Schedule\nChef Bios\nChef Joel Reno\nJoel Reno is a Chef Instructor at The French Pastry School who teaches in L’Art de la Pâtisserie, the 24-week Professional Baking and Pastry Program. As a chef instructor at The French Pastry School, Reno brings years of experience within many types of establishments in the pastry world: from yachts in the Caribbean; to four-star restaurants in Chicago; to small, artisan bakeries in Southern California. He believes that a pastry chef’s biggest responsibility is to give customers the best experience they can possibly have and that experience is dependent on the chef’s willingness to continuously challenge themselves to become better. “Pastry is a beautiful craft and I love getting people excited about it,” Reno explained. “When students of pastry get equally as excited about learning the process and science behind making the recipes, magic can happen.”\nFriday November 11\n10:00am-11:00am: Chocolate Marshmallows\n11:30am-12:30pm: Cupcakes\n1:00pm-2:00pm: Chocolate Brownie\n2:30pm-3:30pm: Honey and Lemon Madeleine\n4:00pm-5:00pm: Chocolate Caramels\nSally McKenney\nSally McKenney, of Sally's Baking Addiction, has made the internet a sweeter place! She is a full-time blogger, cookbook author, photographer, and baking addict sharing her favorite recipes with over 8 million monthly blog readers. Sally also blogs for People magazine's website and has a massive social media following. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Kevin, and their dog, Jude.\n4:00pm-6:30pm: Cookie Baking and Tips with Sally\nSaturday November 12\n10:00am-12:30pm: Perfecting Pie Crust from Scratch\nRushion McDonald\nRushion McDonald is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, motivational speaker, businessman and philanthropist. He’s also an avid and award-winning home baker and ambassador for the Perfect Bake smart scale + interactive recipe app. After discovering his love of baking through his work as Executive Producer of “The Steve Harvey Talk Show,” Rushion teamed up with Perfect Bake to share his recipes and show people how to “Bake Like a Man.” He specializes in Southern-inspired dishes like Baked Banana Pudding and Brown Sugared Monkey Bread. When he’s not baking, Rushion is known for his work as Executive Producer on television shows like “The Steve Harvey Talk Show,” “Steve Harvey’s Big Time,” and as Consulting Producer for the syndicated game show “Family Feud.” He also Executive Produced the hit movies “Think Like A Man” and “Think Like A Man Too.” He currently runs a successful marketing and media company, 3815 Media, which produces television shows, large scale events, promotional campaigns, trade shows and corporate exhibits.\nSunday November 13\n10:00am-12:30pm: Thanksgiving Treats Made Easy with Rushion Macdonald and Perfect Bake\nSARAH OWENS grew up in Clinton, Tennessee, and is the owner of BK17 Bakery, an artisan microbakery that began in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving a certificate from the New York Botanical Garden’s School of Professional Horticulture, she spent six years as curator of the historic Cranford Rose Garden and the Rose Arc Pool at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Learn more at BK17bakery.com.\n10:00 am-11:00 am: Sour Dough Rough Puff Pastry\n1:00 pm-3:30pm: Introduction to Sourdough Breads\n11:30 am-12:30 pm: Apple Hand Pies in a Sourdough Cheddar Cheese Crust\nShauna Sever\nShauna Sever is a home baking expert, television host, and the author of three cookbooks on baking (Marshmallow Madness!, Pure Vanilla and Real Sweet), and is also the voice behind the award-winning baking blog Piece of Cake. Shauna is an regular contributor to the Today show and NPR's The Splendid Table. Her writing and recipes have been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, Family Circle, USA Weekend, and many more. She lives with her husband and two children in Chicago.\n11:30am-12:30pm: Home Made Marshmallows\nAnnie Overboe\nAnnie Overboe is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York, winning the school’s prestigious “Outstanding Baker” award. As a newly minted pastry chef she baked for Dan Leader at Bread Alone Café in Boiceville, New York, and crafted desserts for the 25th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. Following a sweet trail of success led Annie to the Windy City, where she baked artisan desserts in Lincoln Park and cafes in the suburban Chicago area. As a Daily Herald food columnist and correspondent since August 2000, she shares her culinary knowledge and experiences with readers across Chicagoland, including dessert and food presentations at festivals, events and demonstrations. Annie lives in Oak Brook Terrace Illinois, with husband Michael.\n2:30pm-3:30pm: Secrets to Succesful Holiday Cookies\n4:00pm-5pm: Great Tasting Gluten Free Baking\n2:30pm-3:30pm: Bake Like a Pastry Chef\nErin Barden\nErin Barden is the owner and creator of Leighara Cake Company LLC which produces Simply Fondant, a line of certified organic ready-to-use fondant varieties. Erin has been creating edible works of art years and has also worked as a registered nurse for over 12 years; receiving her graduate degree in nursing in 2009. The desire to pursue organic, cleaner eating and lifestyle habits coupled with her love of all things sweet, stemmed the creation of her certified organic company. Her company’s mission is to leave our planet a little cleaner and sweeter that we found it. Erin resides in central Wisconsin with her three children and husband, Nick.\n1:00pm-2:00pm: How to create a Stunning Ruffle Cake with Fondant\nSunday, November13\n10:00am-11:00am: How to Create Marble Effects with Fondant and Trends for Winter 2016\nTina Selga\nTina Selga is the owner of My Sweet Kake. It's a cake, cupcake, coffee shop located in Schaumburg, IL. She's always had a \"thing\" for beautiful and delicious cakes. Her childhood favorite is chocolate cake with marshmallow icing, yum! She's self-taught and started making cakes at home while on maternity leave in 2009. It make her happy and enjoys every minute of it. She was inspired to open up a storefront in August 2013 with her loving husband's help. \"I fly for the friendly skies and I'm a mother of four. My Sweet Kake is named after my four sweet children. KAKE is my children's middle initial from youngest to eldest. Katherine, Allen, Kay and Elizabeth. It's just the perfect name\". The company's logo represent her 4 kids.\n2:30pm-3:30pm: Decorate an Ombre Rosette Cake\n4:00pm-5:00pm: How to make French Macarons\nAndrea Nickels\nAndrea Nickels is an adjunct Chef Instructor at The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago and Robert Morris University. She teaches Intro to Baking and Pastry, Breads, Cake Decorating, Chocolates, European-Style Tortes, and Plated Desserts. With over 20 years in the Hospitality Industry, she worked as Pastry Chef for 12 years at the award-winning Piece-A-Cake Bakery in East Dundee, IL, and continues to work as a freelance decorator at Wilton Brands Inc. in Woodridge, IL for the past 6 years. Her work has been featured on the PBS show Bake, Decorate, Celebrate, the Home Shopping Network, and packaging and signage for stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Michael’s. Andrea Nickels inspires others by delighting the senses, “I’m always following trends and continuing my own education and professional development. I am always learning and hope that my excitement about a project will inspire others to learn and grow in their craft of baking and decorating.”\n10:00am-12:30pm: Teapot Cake\n1:00pm-3:30pm: Confectionary Flowers\n4:00pm-6:30pm: Piping Skills on Cupcakes\n1:00pm-3:30pm: Sugar Cookie Decorating\n4:00pm-6:30pm: Mirror Glaze on Individual Entremet\nExplore. Discover. Shop\nElise Strachan\nMalika Ameen\nChef Nicolas Jordan\n@BakingSweetsUSA\nMain Stage Schedule\nHome-Baking Recipe Competition\nHome Baking Rules and Regulations\nAdult Cake Competitions\nAdult Cake Rules & Regulations\nPeter Pan Theme Cake--Junior Division\nAdventure Marketing Group\n©2019 AdVenture Marketing Group Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved."
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        "text": "13 април е 103-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (104-ти през високосна). Остават 262 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1059 г. – Римският папа Николай II издава декрет, според който занапред само кардинали ще имат право да участват в избора на папи.\n 1204 г. – Кръстоносците от Четвъртия кръстоносен поход превземат и разграбват Константинопол, като убиват и над 2000 православни християни.\n 1598 г. – Френският крал Анри IV подписва Нантския едикт, с който гарантира свобода на вероизповеданието за френските хугеноти.\n 1771 г. – Екатерина II заповядва да започнат тайни медицински експерименти с безнадеждно болни от чума с цел откриване на лечение.\n 1814 г. – Немският математик Карл Вите получава докторска степен на 12-годишна възраст.\n 1829 г. – Английският парламент гарантира свобода на вероизповеданието за католиците.\n 1835 г. – В Търново са обесени водачите на Велчовата завера.\n 1848 г. – Сицилия обявява независимост от Неапол и става самостоятелно кралство.\n 1849 г. – Унгария е обявена за република.\n 1871 г. – Двете епархии – Варненска и Преславска са обединени във Варненска и Великопреславска епархия.\n 1886 г. – Учреден е почетен знак Червен кръст по предложение на Настоятелството на дружество „Червен кръст“.\n 1919 г. – Провъзгласена е Баварска съветска република, разгромена от войските на правителството на Германия през май същата година.\n 1924 г. – Основан е ФК АЕК Атина.\n 1925 г. – Извършен е опит за атентат срещу цар Борис ІІІ при прохода Арабаконак\n 1934 г. – Извършен е последният полет за спасяване на оцелелите от кораба Челюскин.\n 1940 г. – Катинското клане: Органите на НКВД (СССР) избиват над 4000 полски офицери.\n 1941 г. – Втора световна война: Британската авиация извършва първа бомбардировка на София, която е без жертви.\n 1941 г. – Втора световна война: В Москва е подписан съветско-японският пакт за неутралитет, денонсиран от правителството на СССР на 5 април 1945 г.\n 1941 г. – Втора световна война: В хода на операция Ауфмарш 25, 11-а танкова дивизия на Вермахта под командването на Евалд фон Клайст влиза на парад в Белград, като кметът на града му е предал ключовете символично още предния ден вечерта.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Виена е освободена от хитлеристка окупация от Червената армия и войски на новите съюзници.\n 1945 г. – Министерският съвет приема наредба-закон за ТКЗС.\n 1960 г. – В алжирската част на Сахара Франция извършва първото изпитание на атомна бомба.\n\n 1962 г. – В София се провежда Първи международен турнир по свободна борба Дан Колов, който става традиционен.\n 1963 г. – Сидни Поатие става първият афроамериканец, който спечелва Оскар.\n 1967 г. – Rolling Stones изнасят първия си концерт зад Желязната завеса – във Варшава.\n 1970 г. – На борда на американски космически кораб Аполо 13, докато лети към Луната, експлодира кислороден резервоар, което поставя екипажа в голяма опасност и предизвиква огромна повреда в кораба.\n 1987 г. – Португалия и Китай постигат съгласие Макао да бъде върнат под китайска администрация през 1999 г.\n 1990 г. – СССР признава за първи път отговорността си за убийството на хиляди полски офицери при Катин през 1940 г.\n 1997 г. – Стадион Лазур (тогава като стадион „Нефтохимик“) е официално открит след реконструкция с мача Нефтохимик – Левски (5:1).\n 2001 г. – В Египет са открити 20 позлатени мумии.\n 2005 г. – Европейският парламент гласува с мнозинство в подкрепа на подписването на Договора за присъединяване на България и Румъния към Европейския съюз, който влиза в сила от 1 януари 2007 година.\n 2009 г. – Американският рапър Ice Cube изнася концерт в з. „Универсиада“\n\nРодени \n\n 1519 г. – Катерина Медичи, кралица на Франция († 1589 г.)\n 1570 г. – Гай Фокс, английски военен деец († 1606 г.)\n 1593 г. – Томас Страфорд, английски политик († 1641 г.)\n 1732 г. – Фредерик Норт, британски премиер († 1792 г.)\n 1743 г. – Томас Джеферсън, трети президент на САЩ († 1826 г.)\n 1771 г. – Ричард Тревитик, английски механик († 1833 г.)\n 1784 г. – Фридрих фон Врангел, пруски генерал († 1877 г.)\n 1859 г. – Веранъс Алва Мур, американски бактериолог († 1931 г.)\n 1859 г. – Хенри Туреман Алън, американски изследовател († 1930 г.)\n 1860 г. – Джеймс Енсор, белгийски художник († 1949 г.)\n 1883 г. – Александър Василевич Александров, руски композитор († 1946 г.)\n 1883 г. – Демян Бедни, руски писател († 1945 г.)\n 1885 г. – Дьорд Лукач, унгарски философ († 1971 г.)\n 1889 г. – Оскар Фонтана, австрийски писател († 1969 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иван Горанов, български политик († 1945 г.)\n 1896 г. – Никола Гешев, български полицай († 1984 г.)\n 1899 г. – Стефан Гъдуларов, български актьор († 1969 г.)\n 1904 г. – Степан Макаров, руски офицер († 1849 г.)\n 1906 г. – Антон Панов, македонски писател († 1968 г.)\n 1906 г. – Самюъл Бекет, ирландски поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 г. († 1989 г.)\n 1908 г. – Георги Белев, български певец († 1966 г.)\n 1915 г. – Щефан Хермлин, немски писател († 1997 г.)\n 1922 г. – Джон Брейн, английски писател († 1986 г.)\n 1922 г. – Джулиъс Ниерере, танзански политик († 1999 г.)\n 1923 г. – Виктор Данченко, български актьор († 1979 г.)\n 1927 г. – Морис Роне, френски режисьор и актьор († 1983 г.)\n 1931 г. – Дан Гърни, американски пилот от Формула 1 († 2018 г.)\n 1931 г. – Ненко Токмакчиев, български художник († 2014 г.)\n 1931 г. – Никон Агатополски, български духовник († 2002 г.)\n 1937 г. – Едуард Фокс, английски актьор\n 1939 г. – Шеймъс Хийни, северноирландски поет, Нобелов лауреат († 2013 г.)\n 1940 г. – Макс Моузли, президент на ФИА († 2021 г.)\n 1943 г. – Милен Пенев, български актьор († 1991 г.)\n 1944 г. – Ханс Кристоф Бух, немски писател\n 1948 г. – Драго Янчар, словенски писател\n 1949 г. – Кристофър Хитчънс, британско-американски автор, литературен критик и политически журналист († 2011 г.)\n 1955 г. – Сафет Сушич, босненски футболист\n 1955 г. – Ирина Хакамада, руска политическа деятелка\n 1958 г. – Георги Димитров, български социолог\n 1963 г. – Гари Каспаров, руски гросмайстор\n 1964 г. – Маргарита Генчева, български юрист и политик\n 1973 г. – Андрей Цеков, български политик и юрист \n 1973 г. – Килиан Албрехт, австрийско-български скиор\n 1973 г. – Сергей Шнуров, руски рок музиканг, група Ленинград\n 1973 г. – Добрина Чешмеджиева, българска журналистка, телевизионна водеща\n 1974 г. – Аугусто Поросо, еквадорски футболист\n 1974 г. – Константин Сакаев, руски шахматист\n 1979 г. – Велизар Димитров, български футболист\n 1987 г. – Димитър Везалов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 799 г. – Павел Дякон, историк на лангобардите (* 720 г.)\n 814 г. – Хан Крум, български монарх (* 755 г.)\n 1093 г. – Всеволод I, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* 1030 г.)\n 1377 г. – Гийом дьо Машо, френски поет (* 1300 г.)\n 1538 г. – Елена Глинская, руска велика княгиня (* 1508 г.)\n 1592 г. – Бартоломео Аманати, италиански архитект и скулптор (* 1511 г.)\n 1695 г. – Жан дьо Лафонтен, френски писател (* 1621 г.)\n 1794 г. – Пиер Шомет, френски политик (* 1763 г.)\n 1827 г. – Хю Клапертън, британски изследовател (* 1788 г.)\n 1853 г. – Леополд Гмелин, немски химик (* 1788 г.)\n 1868 г. – Теодрос II, император на Етиопия (* 1818 г.)\n 1871 г. – Стефан Захариев, български възрожденец (* 1810 г.)\n 1894 г. – Филип Шпита, немски музикален историк (* 1841 г.)\n 1902 г. – Христо Максимов, български писател (* 1867 г.)\n 1903 г. – Мориц Лацарус, германски философ (* 1824 г.)\n 1904 г. – Степан Макаров, руски океанограф, вицеадмирал (* 1848 г.)\n 1918 г. – Лавър Корнилов, руски генерал (* 1870 г.)\n 1921 г. – Миленко Балкански, български генерал (* 1868 г.)\n 1927 г. – Иван Куюмджиев, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1937 г. – Иля Илф, руски писател (* 1897 г.)\n 1942 г. – Хенк Снейвлит, нидерлански политик (* 1883 г.)\n 1944 г. – Харалампи Тачев, български художник (* 1875 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ернст Касирер, германски философ (* 1874 г.)\n 1975 г. – Франсоа Томбалбайе, 1-ви президент на Чад (* 1905 г.)\n 1977 г. – Александър Родимцев, руски генерал (* 1918 г.)\n 1982 г. – Иван Моканов, български футболист (* 1912 г.)\n 1985 г. – Петя Герганова, българска актриса (* 1907 г.)\n 1992 г. – Йордан Касабов, български физик (* 1928 г.)\n 1999 г. – Вили Щоф, германски политик (* 1914 г.)\n 2006 г. – Мюриъл Спарк, шотландска писателка (* 1918 г.)\n 2007 г. – Златина Тодева, българска актриса (* 1926 г.)\n 2008 г. – Джон Уилър, американски физик-теоретик (* 1911 г.)\n 2012 г. – Марио Рици, италиански католически архиепископ, апостолически нунций на Светия престол в България (* 1926 г.)\n\nПразници \n  – Ден на независимостта на Сицилия\n  – Нова година по камбоджанския календар\n  и Пенджаб – Празника Вайсаки (начало на беритбения сезон)\n  – Празник Сонгкран – тайландската Нова година\n\n413"
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        "text": "Pg. 69: Keith Hollihan's \"The Four Stages of Cruelty\"\nThe current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Four Stages of Cruelty by Keith Hollihan.\nNAMED ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2010\nA female corrections officer works with a young male inmate to uncover a criminal organization that has taken control of a maximum security prison\nDitmarsh Penitentiary holds many secrets within its walls, and the inmates aren’t the only ones who keep them. Given absolute authority, the guards often slip across the divide from law enforcement to criminality.\nOfficer Kali Williams tries her best to stay on the right side of the law. Then she meets an inmate named Joshua who claims that another prisoner has drawn an elaborate comic book that holds a guide to Ditmarsh’s criminal underworld. At first Kali can’t take it seriously. But soon after, the artistinmate disappears completely.\nIntense and arresting, The Four Stages of Cruelty is a powerful debut for fans of Umberto Eco and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.\nRead an excerpt from The Four Stages of Cruelty, and learn more about the book and author at Keith Hollihan's website.\nThe Page 69 Test: The Four Stages of Cruelty.\nPosted by Marshal Zeringue at 12:22 AM"
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        "text": "Follow @JohnPaczkowski\nRecent Posts by John Paczkowski\nFTC Reviewing Google’s Waze Acquisition\nJune 22, 2013 at 1:04 pm PT\nHardly surprising: Google’s $1.1 billion acquisition of the mapping company Waze has drawn regulatory scrutiny.\nGoogle on Saturday confirmed that it has been contacted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regarding the acquisition. The company and the FTC both declined to comment on the nature of the inquiry, but it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Google Maps is a leading mapping and navigation service. Waze was a rising rival. In fact, back in April, Waze CEO Noam Bardin was talking up his company as the search behemoth’s only viable competitor in that space.\n“The traditional players don’t have a model that’s scalable, and they have financial challenges, so Google is out there creating a new standard in terms of quality,” Bardin said. “We feel that we are the only reasonable competition to them in this market of creating maps that are really geared for mobile, for real-time, for consumers, and for the new world we’re moving into.”\nIf that’s truly the case, the Google’s acquisition of Waze could be problematic. Not only does it remove a potential competitor from the mapping space, it consolidates a ton of mapping data in Google’s hands, further extending the company’s dominance.\nCould that be harmful to competition and consumers? That’s what the FTC hopes to determine.\nTagged with: antitrust, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Google, mapping, maps, monopoly, Noam Bardin, Waze\nLate Start May Be Tempering China Mobile’s iPhone Preorders\nTwitter’s Tanking\n2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks\nBlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update\nApple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year\nI think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”\n— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik"
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        "text": "14 април е 104-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (105-и през високосна година). Остават 261 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 73 г. – По време на римската обсада на крепостта Масада стотици евреи извършват акт на масово самоубийство, за да не бъдат пленени.\n 971 г. – След ожесточено сражение, продължило два дни, византийската армия превзема Велики Преслав и пленява българския цар Борис II.\n 1205 г. – В битката при Адрианопол (дн. Одрин) българският цар Калоян разгромява рицарите от Латинската империя.\n\n 1611 г. – Принц Федерико Цези за първи път използва думата телескоп.\n 1687 г. – Английският крал Джеймс II дава равни права на католици и протестанти.\n 1775 г. – Бенджамин Франклин създава във Филаделфия първата организация за забрана на робството в САЩ.\n 1849 г. – Унгария се обявява за независима от Австрия със свой лидер Лайош Кошут.\n 1865 г. – Във Вашингтонския театър актьорът Джон Буут смъртоносно ранява президента на САЩ Ейбрахъм Линкълн, който умира на следващия ден.\n 1876 г. – От 14 до 16 април се провежда Оборищенското събрание.\n 1877 г. – Издадена е везирска заповед, с която екзарх Антим I е уволнен и изпратен на заточение в Мала Азия.\n 1879 г. – Европейска комисия единодушно приема Органическия устав на Източна Румелия.\n 1894 г. – Направена е първата демонстрация на кинескопа, изобретен от Томас Едисон.\n 1900 г. – Избухва въоръжен бунт против натуралния десятък в Тръстеник, Русенско, потушен от армията на 19 април.\n 1900 г. – Официално е открит мостът Александър III в Париж от френския президент Емил Лубе по повод Световното изложение.\n 1912 г. – По време на първото си и единствено плаване през Атлантическия океан корабът Титаник се сблъсква с айсберг около остров Нюфаундленд (през нощта на 14 срещу 15 април) и потъва.\n 1916 г. – Това е първият ден от април същата година след като от 24:00 ч на 31 март България преминава от Юлианския към Григорианския календар и вместо 1 април настъпва 14 април.\n 1923 г. – Сключва се договорът Ено между Българската народна банка и подполковник Анри Ено за изплащане на българските задължения към Франция и Белгия, натрупани преди и по време на Първата световна война.\n 1925 г. – Извършен е атентат над цар Борис III в прохода Арабаконак от комунистическа групировка.\n 1928 г. – Регистриран е първият трус на Чирпанското земетресение с магнитуд 6,8 по скàлата на Рихтер.\n 1929 г. – В Монте Карло се провежда първото Гран при на Монако.\n 1929 г. – Учредена е Балканската купа по футбол.\n 1932 г. – В Санкт Петербург е газифицирана първата жилищна сграда на улица „Ризовская“ 15.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Британската авиация извършва втора бомбардировка на София без жертви.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Уинстън Чърчил издава тайна заповед за прекратяване на ежеседмичните отчети за загубите на британския флот като деморализиращи населението.\n 1945- България във Втората световна война:Първа българска армия излиза на унгарско-австрийската граница след успешно завършената Мурска операция и води военни действия срещу оттеглящите се германски войски.\n 1988 г. – СССР подписва споразумение, с което поема ангажимента да изтегли войските си от Афганистан.\n 1991 г. – От музея на Ван Гог са откраднати 20 картини на стойност 500 млн. долара.\n\nРодени \n\n 1572 г. – Адам Танер, австрийски математик († 1632 г.)\n 1629 г. – Кристиан Хюйгенс, нидерландски физик, астроном и математик († 1695 г.)\n 1821 г. – Георги Раковски, български революционер († 1867 г.)\n 1857 г. – Беатрис Батенберг, британска принцеса († 1944 г.)\n 1859 г. – Николай Романов, велик руски княз, учен, политик и държавник († 1919 г.)\n 1862 г. – Коста Шахов, български общественик († 1917 г.)\n 1862 г. – Пьотър Столипин, руски политик († 1911 г.)\n 1868 г. – Георги Белев, български революционер († 1945 г.)\n 1878 г. – Тома Попгеоргиев, български учител и свещеник († 1936 г.)\n 1889 г. – Ефим Боголюбов, украински/немски шахматист († 1952 г.)\n 1901 г. – Мартин Кесел, германски писател († 1990 г.)\n 1903 г. – Анри Корбен, френски ислямовед († 1978 г.)\n 1904 г. – Джон Гилгуд, английски класически актьор († 2000 г.)\n 1912 г. – Парашкев Хаджиев, български композитор († 1992 г.)\n 1925 г. – Род Стайгър, американски актьор († 2002 г.)\n 1926 г. – Рене Госини, френски писател († 1977 г.)\n 1931 г. – Димитър Добрев, български борец († 2019 г.)\n 1936 г. – Живко Бояджиев, български езиковед († 2007 г.)\n 1936 г. – Франк Серпико, американски полицай\n 1939 г. – Антон Карастоянов, български актьор († 2005 г.)\n 1939 г. – Миле Марковски, български и македонски писател († 1975 г.)\n 1941 г. – Джули Кристи, британска актриса от индийски произход\n 1941 г. – Пола Ракса, полска актриса\n 1943 г. – Цветан Тотомиров, български армейски офицер\n 1945 г. – Ричи Блекмор, британски китарист\n 1948 г. – Димитър Дъбов, български политик\n 1948 г. – Татяна Набатникова, руска писателка\n 1951 г. – Пьотър Мамонов, руски актьор и музикант († 2021 г.)\n 1954 г. – Брус Стърлинг, американски писател\n 1961 г. – Робърт Карлайл, британски актьор\n 1965 г. – Петьо Драгиев, български волейболист\n 1967 г. – Джеймз Улвет, канадски актьор\n 1968 г. – Антъни Майкъл Хол, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Витомир Саръиванов, български журналист и телевизионен водещ\n 1972 г. – Симеон Лютаков, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Ейдриън Броуди, американски актьор\n 1973 г. – Роберто Аяла, аржентински футболист\n 1974 г. – Ара Минасян, арменски шахматист\n 1975 г. – Лита, професионална кечистка\n 1977 г. – Сара Мишел Гелар, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Кристоф Лайтгеб, австрийски футболист\n 1987 г. – Ервин Хофер, австрийски футболист\n 1995 г. – Радост Тодорова, български модел и влогър\n\nПочинали \n\n 814 г. – Хан Крум, български владетел (* 8 век)\n 911 г. – Сергий III, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1070 г. – Герхард, херцог на Лотарингия (* 1030 г.)\n 1132 г. – Мстислав I, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* 1076 г.)\n 1612 г. – Сасаки Коджиро, японски мечоносец (* 1585 г.)\n 1682 г. – Авакум Петрович, руски писател (* 1621 г.)\n 1759 г. – Георг Фридрих Хендел, германски композитор (* 1685 г.)\n 1848 г. – Хачатур Абовян, арменски писател (* 1805 г.)\n 1860 г. – Едуард Фридрих Еверсман, германски зоолог (* 1794 г.)\n 1888 г. – Николай Николаевич Миклухо-Маклай, руски етнограф и антрополог (* 1846 г.)\n 1892 г. – Христо Караминков, български революционер (* ок. 1846)\n 1900 г. – Осман паша, османски офицер (* 1832 г.)\n 1910 г. – Михаил Врубел, руски художник (* 1856 г.)\n 1917 г. – Людвик Заменхоф, полски лекар, създател на есперанто (* 1859 г.)\n 1925 г. – Константин Георгиев, български военен деец (* 1873 г.)\n 1929 г. – Георги Кирков, български учен (* 1848 г.)\n 1930 г. – Владимир Маяковски, руски писател (* 1893 г.)\n 1935 г. – Еми Ньотер, германска математичка (* 1882 г.)\n 1944 г. – Николай Ватутин, съветски генерал (* 1901 г.)\n 1970 г. – Дейвид Маунтбатън, трети маркиз на Милфорд Хейвън (* 1919 г.)\n 1975 г.:\n Фредрик Марч, американски актьор (р. 1897 г.)\n Клайд Толсън, американец, директор на ФБР (* 1900 г.)\n 1975 г. – Юрий Тошев, български шахматист (* 1907 г.)\n 1979 г. – Хари Майен, германски драматург (* 1924 г.)\n 1980 г. – Джани Родари, италиански писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1982 г. – Иван Мирчев, български поет (* 1897 г.)\n 1985 г. – Дико Диков, български офицер и политик (* 1910 г.)\n 1986 г. – Симон дьо Бовоар, френска писателка феминистка (* 1908 г.)\n 1990 г. – Мартин Кесел, германски писател (* 1901 г.)\n 1991 г. – Илия Джаджев, македонски поет (* 1926 г.)\n 1995 г. – Бърл Айвс, американски актьор и кънтри певец (* 1909 г.)\n 1997 г. – Видое Подгорец, македонски писател (* 1934 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ивайло Петров, български писател (* 1923 г.)\n 2007 г. – Бари Нелсън, американски актьор, първият екранен Джеймс Бонд\n 2008 г. – Хорст Бингел, германски поет и белетрист (* 1933 г.)\n 2009 г. – Морис Дрюон, френски писател (* 1918 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ерика Буркарт, швейцарска поетеса, белетристка и есеистка (* 1922 г.)\n 2010 г. – Питър Стийл, вокал, басист и композитор на готик дуум групата „Тайп О Негатив“ (* 1962 г.)\n 2012 г. – Пиермарио Морозини, италиански футболист (* 1986 г.)\n 2013 г. – Колин Дейвис, британски диригент (* 1927 г.)\n 2019 г. – Валентин Пензов, български композитор (* 1953 г.)\n\nПразници \n св. Мартин – имен ден на Мартин и Мартина\n Военна академия „Георги Раковски“ – Патронен празник на ВА „Г. С. Раковски“\n Ангола – Ден на младежта\n Грузия – Ден на майчиния език\n Украйна – Ден на КАТ\n Хаити, Салвадор, Хондурас и Венецуела – Панамериканските дни\n\n414"
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        "text": "List of Prices. Camping Coroso, Galicia, Spain.\n* A daily discount of 1€ in the daily rate of the pitch (standard or plus) will be applied to the final payment of a stay by daily rate when paying with credit card.\n*** All visits must be notified and paid at the reception desk upon entrance to the Camping.\nDaily rates for bungalows for 2019 will be announced shortly.\nSeasonal prices are available for stays of more than 30 days. For more information on seasonal offers please email us at info@campingcoroso.com.\nCamping Coroso, S.L. will accept the cancellation of reservations that have been communicated in writing more than 30 days before the arrival date. Cancellations made later will generate the following refunds: (1) Between 30 and 15 days before arrival: Refund of 50% of the advance amount of the reservation. (2) Between 14 and 0 days before the expected arrival date: 0% refund of the advance amount of the reservation."
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        "text": "Hikvision hosted the second AI Cloud Summit in Hangzhou\nHANGZHOU, China, April 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision, the world's leading supplier of innovative security products and solutions, successfully hosted the second 'Shaping Intelligence' AI Cloud Summit at Hangzhou Whitehorse Lake International Exhibition Centre from 29-30 March.\nUnder the theme of 'Data Enrichment with AI', the summit served as a platform for AI Cloud ecosystem partners to exchange knowledge on leading-edge AI and big data technologies and applications. It comprised a main forum and four sub-forums on the topics of Finance, Commerce, Public Services and Smart Governance for Cities. Over 3,000 participants took part, including Hikvision customers, industry leaders, academic experts and partners.\nVision of the future: Fusion of Intelligent IoT and Information Networks\nOne of the most important topics discussed at the conference was how Hikvision's AI Cloud platform can support the integration of IoT and information network data in order to drive the future development of new, intelligent applications. Ideas discussed included the development of a computing architecture that unites cloud and edge computing, plus a data architecture that can enable the integration of intelligent IoT and information network data.\n\"We believe that, as a fusion platform, the AI Cloud will be able to support our customers in their quest to unleash the full potential of AI and IoT,\" said Yangzhong Hu, CEO of Hikvision, during his keynote speech at the main forum. \"Ubiquitous intelligence will be the new normal of the AI era; intelligent applications and their data generation will be the engine.\"\nProviding fully open platforms for mutual development\nThe Hikvision AI Cloud was developed to solve real-world challenges across different vertical markets, and to create continuous value to end users. The cutting-edge architecture is designed to enable collaboration between partners across edge computing, industry applications, service platforms and standard systems, and much more. As one example of this, Hikvision demonstrated how the launch of its AI algorithm training system has enabled partners to train algorithms easily for specific customer application needs and deployment.\nUsing a digitised event exhibition area of 6,000 square metres, Hikvision and its ecosystem partners also demonstrated versatile AI solutions, including Smart Retail, Smart Campus, Smart Financial Service, Smart Construction, Smart Agriculture and much more. In addition, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) was showcased including Intelligent Buses, Intelligent Road Networks, Intelligent Airports and Intelligent Railway Systems, all designed to boost passenger safety and enhance the travel experience.\nAI applications to empower industrial users\nAt the four sub-forums held on the second day, end users from different markets exchanged thoughts and shared use cases of collaborating with Hikvision and AI deployment. At the Commercial forum, partners from retail, energy, property management and logistics explored how AI can increase business insight and transform how businesses operate.\nAt the Smart Governance for Cities forum, traffic authorities from different parts of China shared successful AI applications, including how E-Police solutions help identify traffic violations and reduce the number of human injuries and fatalities. By merging video information with other systems and algorithms, traffic big data can be visualised on city maps to further guide traffic and improve urban commuting.\nAt the Finance forum, banks including China Construction Bank and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China overviewed their digitised transformation with AI in banking security and management, showcasing how AI-powered big data was a key enabler in this process.\nThe Public Services forum focused on how AI technology can support the improvement of public services management. Among other sessions, Hikvision partners introduced AI applications for distance learning, smart classrooms, campus safety and enhanced learning environments.\nFor more information about the Hikvision 2019 AI Cloud Summit, please visit　https://aicloudsummit.hikvision.com/hikvision/index.html.\nFor a video about the Hikvision 2019 AI Cloud Summit, please visit　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln67i2YqEMQ.\nAbout Hikvision\nHikvision is a world leading provider of security products and solutions. Featuring an extensive and highly skilled R&D workforce, Hikvision manufactures a full suite of comprehensive products and solutions for a broad range of vertical markets. In addition to the security industry, Hikvision extends its reach to smart home tech, industrial automation, and automotive electronics industries to achieve its long-term vision. Hikvision products also provide powerful business intelligence for end users, which can enable more efficient operations and greater commercial success. Committed to the utmost quality and safety of its products, Hikvision encourages partners to take advantage of the many cybersecurity resources Hikvision offers, including the Hikvision Cybersecurity Centre. For more information, please visit us at　www.hikvision.com.\nSource: Hikvision Digital Technology"
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        "text": "Advent Venture Partners\nInternet & Ecommerce\nFrédéric Court\nFrédéric joined Advent in 2001 with a focus on global investment opportunities in consumer internet, mobile and software.\nWhile at Advent he has led or co-led investments in Farfetch, Vitrue (acquired by Oracle), Zong (sold to eBay), Qype (sold to Yelp), Fizzback (acquired by NICE Systems), Ubiquisys (acquired by Cisco) and Dailymotion (acquired by Orange, now owned by Vivendi).\nHe previously was an entrepreneur, having co-founded Etexx, in France, a VC-backed online marketplace and collaboration platform for the global textile industry. He started his career working with investment bank Lazard in London, Milan and New York, where he co-founded the Telecommunications & Technology team in London and was involved in transactions worth over $100bn.\nHe currently sits on the board of Farfetch, where he was the first investor. He is now Founder and Managing Partner of Felix Capital, a new VC firm he launched in 2015.\nA graduate of ESSEC and Bocconi University in Milan, Frederic is fluent in French, Italian and Spanish.\nFollow Frédéric on Twitter @fcourt\nView Frédéric's profile on LinkedIn\nFollow Advent\nLegal and Regulatory Matters\n©2019 Advent Venture Partners"
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        "text": "2 Cotton Tree villagers charged for Israel Perez’s murder\nHeadline\t— 10 February 2018\t— by Albert J. Ciego\nPerez’s body was found in a shallow grave in Harmonyville 9 days after he went missing\nHARMONYVILLE, Cayo District, Thurs. Feb. 8, 2018– The search for Israel “Prince” Perez, 27, of St. Matthews, Cayo District, who had been missing since Sunday, January 28, eleven days ago, came to a tragic conclusion at about 6:00 Tuesday morning in Harmonyville, and two Cotton Tree men will be arraigned in court for his murder.\nPerez’s body was found in an advanced state of decomposition in a shallow grave (a dugout). There were multiple stab wounds in his chest and upper body.\nHis hands and feet were tied, and his head was covered with a plastic bag. The body was partially exposed and a stench of decomposition was heavy in the air.\nWe were informed by the deceased’s brother, Orlando Perez, that the body was found by a friend of the family who lives in Harmonyville, who went to look for the missing man after seeing his car being driven on the road several times over the weekend by persons other than Israel. (Harmonyville is between the villages of Cotton Tree and St. Matthews.)\nAt the time he saw the vehicle being driven past his house, the family friend did not know that Israel Perez was missing, until he heard it on the news. After the newscast, he told his wife that something was wrong and he believed that Perez was dead, and that he was going to find his body.\nOn Tuesday morning, he and his son went out to find Perez, and a stench led him to the shallow grave (dugout) about 200 yards from the George Price Highway, where he saw the partially exposed body. He immediately contacted Perez’s family and the police\nPerez’s elder brother identified the body as being that of Israel.\nIn an interview with us, Orlando Perez said that when they arrived on the scene, police were already there, and the area was already cordoned off. An onsite post-mortem exam was carried out, after which the body was taken to Cotton Tree for immediate burial due to the state of decomposition it was in.\nHe believes that his brother was held captive somewhere before he was murdered.\nPerez told us that the last time he saw his brother was Saturday, January 27, which was one day before he had been reported missing. He recounted that his brother had visited his barbershop in Belmopan, as he would normally do before he went home. He left at about 9 p.m. after declining an invitation to go to a nightclub.\nAccording to Orlando Perez, on Monday, January 29, his brother texted him and told him he was in San Pedro Town for a meeting and would remain there until the end of the week. After that, however, Perez disappeared.\nIsrael Perez’s common-law wife said that she saw him Friday morning, January 26, when he left home to go to work at the Immigration Department, where he had worked as a clerk for the last two years.\nHis colleagues said that he was friendly and jovial and easy to get along with, and Diana Locke, the Director of Immigration, said that he was well-liked and will be missed.\nSince the discovery of Perez’s body, police have made an arrest in connection with the incident which led to his death. Police said that yesterday morning, Wednesday, Cruz Castillo, 34, of Cotton Tree, was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods after police went to his house in the village and found some of Perez’s belongings in the house, and also, Perez’s vehicle was parked in his yard.\nCastillo was taken to the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court on the charge, and was remanded until Friday, while police continue the investigation into Perez’s murder.\nThis morning during a police press brief held at the Racoon Street Police Station, ACP Joseph Myvette, Head of National Crimes Investigation, said that another Cotton Tree man, Stanley Herrera 22, has been arrested, and that he, along with Castillo, was charged for Perez’s murder.\nThe two men are expected to be arraigned on the capital offense tomorrow, Friday, at the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court.\nACP Myvette said that the motive for the murder is not yet known, but the two men were known to Perez. Myvette said that it is also not yet known when Perez was murdered, and where."
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    {
        "text": "15 април е 105-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (106-и през високосна). Остават 260 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1715 г. – В Южна Каролина индианците убиват 90 английски заселници, което става повод за започване на войната между англичаните и индианците.\n 1795 г. – Литва е присъединена към Русия.\n 1841 г. – Карл Маркс получава докторска степен по философия.\n 1865 г. – Умира президентът на САЩ Ейбрахъм Линкълн (прострелян предната вечер) и начело на държавата застава вицепрезидентът Андрю Джонсън.\n 1872 г. – Антим I получава своя екзархийски берат на официално организирана във Високата порта церемония.\n 1874 г. – Под името Анонимно дружество на художници живописци, скулптури, графици и др. се провежда първата изложба на импресионистите.\n 1912 г. – При първото си пътуване луксозният пасажерски кораб Титаник потъва, два часа и четиридесет минути след сблъсък с айсберг, при което загиват около 1500 души.\n 1914 г. – Учредена е Българска фондова борса - София; правилникът ѝ влиза в сила от 1 юни 1915.\n 1919 г. – С декрет на съветската власт са създадени трудово-възпитателните лагери, наречени ГУЛАГ (Главно Управление на Лагерите).\n 1923 г. – Инсулинът става общодостъпен за всички болни от диабет.\n 1923 г. – В „Риалто тиътър“ в Ню Йорк се провежда първата в света комерсиална прожекция на озвучен филм.\n 1938 г. – Частите на генерал Франциско Франко превземат Винарос по време на Испанската гражданска война.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Самолети на Антихитлеристката коалиция извършват масирана бомбардировка на бившия автомобилен завод Минерва (тогава използван за ремонт на германски военни самолети) и град Мортсел (край Антверпен, Белгия), загиват 936 цивилни граждани, в т.ч. 209 деца.\n 1943 г. – България във Втората световна война: Емил Попов е арестуван в квартирата си на ул. „Цар Самуил“ №25 в София, по време на нелегална радиовръзка с разузнавателния център в СССР.\n 1947 г. – В София е създадена Българска народна филхармония, преименувана през 1949 г. на Софийска държавна филхармония.\n 1948 г. – VI велико народно събрание на България приема Закон за отчуждаване на едрата градска покрита недвижима собственост.\n 1949 г. – Основан е състезателният отбор Скуадра Карло Абарт.\n 1951 г. – В Лондон се провежда първият конкурс „Мис Свят“.\n\n 1955 г. – Първият ресторант от веригата McDonald's отваря врати в Илиноис.\n 1957 г. – В София е открит Централният универсален магазин (ЦУМ).\n 1983 г. – Открит е Дисниленд в Токио.\n 1986 г. – Американски самолети извършват наказателни полети срещу Либия в отговор на нападението, извършено от либийски катери срещу кораби на Шести американски флот в Средиземно море.\n 1989 г. – Трагедията Хилзбъро: При неконтролируемо нахлуване на запалянковци на стадион Хилзбъро, Англия, загиват 96 души.\n 1989 г. – Започват студентски протести на площад Тянанмън в Пекин.\n 1992 г. – Виетнамският парламент приема нова конституция.\n 1993 г. – Туркменистан официално преминава от кирилица на латиница.\n 1994 г. – Подписано е общото споразумение за митата и търговията ГАТТ.\n 1997 г. – При пожар по време на ислямското пилигримство Хадж в Саудитска Арабия загиват 343 богомолци.\n 2013 г. – Бомбени атентати в Бостън, Масачузетс, САЩ\n 2019 г. – Пожар гори в катедралата Нотр Дам в Париж. Рухва кулата-стрела.\n\nРодени \n\n 1452 г. – Леонардо да Винчи, италиански инженер, архитект, скулптор и художник († 1519 г.)\n 1469 г. – Нанак, основател на монотеистичната религия сикхизъм († ?)\n 1489 г. – Синан, османски архитект († 1588 г.)\n 1588 г. – Клавдий Салмазий, френски лингвист и учен († 1653 г.)\n 1642 г. – Сюлейман II, султан на Османската империя († 1691 г.)\n 1646 г. – Кристиан V, крал на Дания († 1699 г.)\n 1684 г. – Екатерина I, императрица на Русия († 1727 г.)\n 1707 г. – Леонард Ойлер, швейцарски математик и физик († 1783 г.)\n 1710 г. – Уилям Кулен, шотландски физик († 1790 г.)\n 1777 г. – Хайнрих Маркс, пруски адвокат, баща на Карл Маркс († 1838 г.)\n 1800 г. – Джеймс Кларк Рос, британски полярен изследовател († 1862 г.)\n 1832 г. – Вилхелм Буш, германски поет († 1908 г.)\n 1843 г. – Хенри Джеймс, американски писател († 1916 г.)\n 1854 г. – Антон Безеншек, словенски езиковед († 1915 г.)\n 1858 г. – Емил Дюркем, френски социолог († 1917 г.)\n 1860 г. – Еню Димитров, български офицер и революционер († ? г.)\n 1860 г. – Иван Фичев, български военен деец († 1931 г.)\n 1862 г. – Хаджи Филиз Нурулла, световен шампион по свободна борба († 1919 г.)\n 1864 г. – Георги Райков, български революционер († неизв.)\n 1865 г. – Янаки Паскалев, български революционер († 1933 г.)\n 1874 г. – Гоно Янев, български революционер († 1904 г.)\n 1874 г. – Даме Попов, български революционер († 1948 г.)\n 1874 г. – Йоханес Щарк, немски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1957 г.)\n 1875 г. – Вера Игнатиева, българска артистка († 1972 г.)\n 1875 г. – Георги Евстатиев, български художник († 1923 г.)\n 1875 г. – Димитър Ботков, български революционер († 1943 г.)\n 1875 г. – Тома Иванов, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1877 г. – Георги Бояджиев (революционер), български революционер († ? г.)\n 1879 г. – Петър Чолаков, български революционер († 1935 г.)\n 1880 г. – Макс Вертхаймер, немски психолог († 1943 г.)\n 1885 г. – Франц Бьоме, немски офицер († 1947 г.)\n 1886 г. – Николай Гумильов, руски поет († 1921 г.)\n 1895 г. – Корадо Алваро, италиански писател († 1956 г.)\n 1896 г. – Николай Семьонов, руски физик и химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1956 г. († 1986 г.)\n 1901 г. – Джо Дейвис, английски играч на билярд и снукър († 1978 г.)\n 1903 г. – Г. М. Димитров, български политик († 1972 г.)\n 1903 г. – Ерих Аренд, немски поет и преводач († 1984 г.)\n 1904 г. – Аршил Горки, американски художник с арменски произход († 1948 г.)\n 1905 г. – Славчо Давидов, български учен и стоматолог († 1981 г.)\n 1907 г. – Николас Тинберген, холандски орнитолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г. († 1988 г.)\n 1910 г. – Мигел Найдорф, полски и аржентински шахматист († 1997 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ким Ир Сен, президент на Северна Корея († 1994 г.)\n 1920 г. – Магда Пушкарова, българска народна певица († 2006 г.)\n 1920 г. – Рихард фон Вайцзекер, 6-и Бундеспрезидент на Германия († 2015 г.)\n 1920 г. – Томас Сас, унгарски психиатър и академик († 2012 г.)\n 1922 г. – Лиляна Барева, българска оперна певица († 2007 г.)\n 1922 г. – Стенли Шахтер, американски психолог († 1997 г.)\n 1924 г. – Невил Маринър, британски диригент († 2016 г.)\n 1927 г. – Тодор Бечиров, български футболист и съдия († 2010 г.)\n 1928 г. – Емил Камиларов, български цигулар († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Вигдис Финпогадоухтир, четвъртият президент на Исландия\n 1933 г. – Борис Стругацки, руски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1935 г. – Велик Капсъзов, български гимнастик († 2017 г.)\n 1938 г. – Борис Парашкевов, български учен и преводач († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Клаудия Кардинале, италианска актриса\n 1949 г. – Алла Пугачова, руска поп-певица\n 1949 г. – Кадир Инанър, турски киноартист\n 1951 г. – Павел Васев, български актьор и режисьор († 2019 г.)\n 1953 г. – Ирина Войнова, българска поетеса\n 1953 г. – Румен Бояджиев, българска музикант\n 1953 г. – Пламен Ставрев, български музикант и продуцент († 2011 г.)\n 1954 г. – Гинка Гюрова, българска гребкиня\n 1955 г. – Доди ал Файед, египетски бизнесмен († 1997 г.)\n 1957 г. – Хуанг Гьо-ан, южнокорейски адвокат и политик\n 1959 г. – Ема Томпсън, британска актриса\n 1959 г. – Роберто Фиоре, италиански неофашист\n 1960 г. – Тони Джоунс, английски играч на снукър\n 1966 г. – Саманта Фокс, британска поп-певица\n 1968 г. – Ед О'Брайън, британски китарист\n 1971 г. – Камен Донев, български артист\n 1972 г. – Алексей Макаров, руски кино и театрален актьор\n 1973 г. – Дамян Савов, български артист и шоумен\n 1975 г. – Пол Дана, американски автомобилен състезател († 2006 г.)\n 1979 г. – Люк Евънс, уелски актьор\n 1981 г. – Иво Максимов, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Алберт Риера, испански футболист\n 1983 г. – Стоян Самунев, български волейболист\n 1988 г. – Галин Иванов, български футболист\n 1990 г. – Ема Уотсън, английска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1446 г. – Филипо Брунелески, италиански архитект (* 1377 г.)\n 1641 г. – Доменикино, италиански художник (* 1581 г.)\n 1659 г. – Зимон Дах, немски поет (* 1605 г.)\n 1754 г. – Якопо Рикати, италиански математик (* 1676 г.)\n 1764 г. – Мадам дьо Помпадур, любовница на Луи XV (* 1721 г.)\n 1765 г. – Михаил Ломоносов, руски учен (* 1711 г.)\n 1788 г. – Джузепе Боно, австрийски композитор (* 1711 г.)\n 1865 г. – Ейбрахам Линкълн, 16-и президент на САЩ (* 1809 г.)\n 1888 г. – Матю Арнолд, британски поет (* 1822 г.)\n 1896 г. – Август Александър Ярнефелт, руски офицер (* 1833 г.)\n 1899 г. – Карл Калбаум, немски психиатър (* 1828 г.)\n 1906 г. – Анастас Янков, български революционер (* 1857 г.)\n 1912 г. – Едуард Джон Смит, английски капитан (Титаник) (* 1850 г.)\n 1912 г. – Томас Андрюс, североирландски бизнесмен (* 1873 г.)\n 1919 г. – Кръстьо Кръстев, български писател (* 1866 г.)\n 1922 г. – Иван Николов, български революционер (* 1852 г.)\n 1925 г. – Август Ендел, немски архитект (* 1871 г.)\n 1927 г. – Гастон Льору, френски журналист (* 1868 г.)\n 1931 г. – Дончо Щипянчето, български революционер (* 1867 г.)\n 1938 г. – Сесар Вайехо, перуански поет (* 1892 г.)\n 1942 г. – Роберт Музил, австрийски писател (* 1880 г.)\n 1957 г. – Надежда Станчова, български дипломат (* 1894 г.)\n 1967 г. – Тото, италиански комик (* 1898 г.)\n 1977 г. – Георги Герасимов, български художник (* 1905 г.)\n 1980 г. – Жан-Пол Сартър, френски философ, отказва Нобеловата награда за литература през 1964 г. (* 1905 г.)\n 1982 г. – Артър Лав, британски актьор (* 1915 г.)\n 1986 г. – Жан Жене, френски писател (* 1910 г.)\n 1987 г. – Масатоши Накаяма, японски каратист (* 1913 г.)\n 1989 г. – Ху Яобан, партиен лидер на Китай (* 1915 г.)\n 1990 г. – Грета Гарбо, шведска киноактриса (* 1905 г.)\n 1992 г. – Александър Матковски, историк от Република Македония (* 1922 г.)\n 1996 г. – Александър Танев, български композитор (* 1928 г.)\n 1998 г. – Пол Пот, камбоджански диктатор (* 1925 г.)\n 1999 г. – Харви Постълуайт, британски инженер (* 1944 г.)\n 2002 г. – Деймън Найт, американски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 2002 г. – Богомил Нонев, български писател (* 1920 г.)\n 2005 г. – Йоаким Хербут, скопски католически епископ (* 1928 г.)\n 2006 г. – Иван Митев, български лекар (* 1924 г.)\n\nПразници \n Босна и Херцеговина – Ден на армията\n Грузия – Ден на любовта\n САЩ – Ден на данъците\n Северна Корея – Фестивал Ариранг или Празник на слънцето (годишнина от рождението на Ким Ир Сен)\n Украйна – Ден на работещите в наказателно разследване\n\n415"
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        "text": "New floating caisson to double ports CPT’s port productivity\nTPNA Floating Caisson Repaired at Sturrock Dry Dock in Cape Town Ahead of Fabrication of New Structure\nNew caisson forms part of a multimillion-rand overhaul taking place at the port’s ship repair facilities under Operation Phakisa\nA new, R98 million floating caisson is to be fabricated for the Sturrock Dry Dock operated by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) in the Port of Cape Town is expected to enable one of the biggest dry dock facilities in the Southern Hemisphere to double its productivity.\nThe new caisson forms part of a multimillion-rand overhaul taking place at the port’s ship repair facilities under South Africa’s Operation Phakisa programme, through which ship building and ship repair have been identified as a strategic competence for the port.\nThe caisson is a large steel gate structure that acts as a secondary seal and subdivides the dock, allowing for the simultaneous docking of multiple commercial vessels within the facility. The old, defective caisson had been out of commission since December 2016. The 74-year old dry dock was first commissioned in 1945 to repair American and British war vessels.\nRefurbishment of the old caisson cost TNPA R2.7 million and covered a condition assessment and finite element analysis, as well as stabilisation of the old caisson prior to the new one being introduced.\nPhase one, completed by Southey Co between July and August 2018, entailed the installation of special greenheart timber to seal water leaks around the old caisson. Phase 2 was completed in November 2018 and entailed the replacement of shut off doors and three sinking tank valves, as well as the addition of ballast weights to make up for lost weight due to corrosion and blanking off valves that would not be used going forward.\nDuring the initial commissioning of the new caisson, there were challenges as the floating caisson was not sinking sufficiently at high tide. This compelled the Naval Architect to go back to the drawing board. There were also minor leaks between the floating caisson steel structure and the sealing timber due to uneven steel structure surfaces. This was resolved by inserting a special sealant that is compatible with sea water.\nCivil infrastructure at the Sturrock dock has also received attention including concrete repairs and replacement of corroded tunnel piping.\nTwenty-nine capstans – rotating machines that assist in pulling the vessels into position inside the dock – are being replaced in Cape Town at various locations which include the Sturrock Dry Dock, the Robinson Dry Dock and the Synchrolift. In line with Operation Phakisa’s intention to fast track delivery while being respectful of governance, TNPA took a decision to execute the replacement of capstans at its dry docks as a national project for the benefits of standardising the ship repair equipment and achieving economies of scale by procuring these capstans in large numbers.\nUnder Operation Phakisa the port’s Robinson Dry Dock is also undergoing a major upgrade. While the Robinson Dry Dock’s floating caisson (main gate) was recently refurbished, it is the ultimate intention to replace this structure with a modern, fit-for-purpose caisson structure. The design process will be undertaken in the near future including replacement of the floating caisson that seals off the dry dock from the basin.\nThe Operation Phakisa programme, launched in 2014, is a Government-driven initiative that aims to unlock the economic potential of the country’s oceans in order to create economic growth and job opportunities through fast-tracked development. It provides an aggressive set of timelines to position the country’s ports as premium destinations for these services.\nTNPA is investing significantly to restore ship repair facilities with the intention of stimulating the repair sector and creating much needed jobs. This includes an investment of R950 million to modernise the Port of Cape Town’s ageing facilities including the Robinson Dry Dock, the Repair Pier and Sturrock Dry Dock, and the Syncrolift.\nMore in this category: « It’s harvest time Ngqura’s future liquid bulk tank farm gets a thumbs up »"
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        "text": "Q: How can I show multiple Google calendars in iPhone's calendar app? I setup my iPhone 3GS with iOS 4 to sync with my Google account according to the instructions from Google. Somehow, only the default Google calendar with my name is shown in the Calendar app. What should I do to make ALL my Google calendars appear and sync with my iPhone? Thanks!\n\nA: There is an easy but non-obvious way to do this.\nAssuming you've got Google sync set up, and you can see your one Google Calendar on your phone already, go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect (it needs the www; it doesn't have to be on your iPhone). You'll see a list of devices you're syncing. Select your iPhone.\nOn the next screen, you can choose which of your Google Calendars you want to sync with your iPhone. Check the box next to the desired calendars, then hit Done or Save or whatever it says at the bottom. \nOpen iCal on your iPhone, and give it a while to sync, and you now should see all of your selected Google Calendars on your iPhone.\nFor some reason, you can't change the colors of the calendars on the iPhone, so I change the colors in Google Calendar to match what the iPhone picks. \nThere used to be a limit of 5 Google Calendars that you could sync to the phone, but they recently raised the limit to 25.\nThese same instructions apply to the iPad and iPod touch. I've got this set up on all my devices, and it works like a charm.\nThis is documented by Google here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206\n\nA: I believe you can only do one Google calendar per account to the iPhone.  You can sync multiple Google accounts.\nHere are some instructions, but I was unable to get it to work:\nhttp://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206\nIt would be a nice feature to have.\n\nA: You'll need to create a different account on the iPhone for each calendar, but they can all point to your one Google account...\n\n\n*\n\n*You probably already know which calendar is the \"main\" one, as that's the one that the iPhone reads when you add the Google account.  You may have to delete that one from the phone (not from Google, of course) for now because sometimes the phone will complain that \"you already have an account for this set up.\"\n\n*For each non-main calendar, go to the calendar details on the Google Calendar web site and look for the \"ICAL\" icon under the \"Calendar Address\" section.\n\n*Add the account on your phone, then edit the details for that account and enter the address from #2 above as the URL for the calendar.  (Under Advanced Settings)\n\n*Rename the account on the phone accordingly so you know which calendar it is.\n\n*Repeat for each non-main calendar.\n\n*Finally, add the account as normal for the main calendar.\n\n\nIt's a bit of a hack, and I really wish there was better native support for multiple calendars in all kinds of applications/devices that interface with Google Calendar.  But, for now, this has been working really well for me.  It's just a pain to set it up in the first place.\n\nA: Spanning Sync allows you to sychronise with your Gmail Apps or regular Gmail account, and will synchronize both Calendar and Contacts between iCal / Address Book and Gmail / Google Calendar.\nIf you find it useful you can use this code to get a $5 discount on the purchase price HAM46F http://bit.ly/3f3itN\n\nA: from iphone safari browser:\nm.google.com/sync\non the top of the page:\n\"manage devices\"\nselect what kind of calendar you want to sync\nDone\n\nA: I found this buried in Google's CalDAV info after following a rabbit trail.  No need to use Google Sync or create multiple accounts on the iPhone!\nSyncing Multiple Calendars\nBy default only your primary calendar will be synced to your device. You can sync additional calendars by visiting the following page from any web browser:\nhttps://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect\n(Google Apps users can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain/iphoneselect, replacing 'your_domain' with your actual domain name.)\nSelect the calendars you'd like to sync, and click Save. The selected calendars will display on your device at the time of the next sync.\n\nA: I was able to get multiple google calendars to show on the iPhone 4.  I added the first calendar under settings using \"Other Account\" CalDAV and plugging in my google account details.\nWhen I tried to add another account in the same manner the iphone blocked it.\nI then logged into my google account, accessed Calendar Settings for the secondary calendar and found the private URL for ICAL.  I copied this URL and then used skype to text message it to my iphone.  Once the URL popped up on iphone I clicked it.  The phone asked me if I wanted to subscribe to the calendar and I clicked yes.\nBoom!  Two google calendars on my iphone.  One caveat.  The secondary calendar cannot be edited from my iphone.  But this is no problem for me and I am happy.\n\nA: After syncing you may come across calendars not displaying (for whatever reason), despite them showing up on your calendar list in your calendar app.  To remedy this, open Settings.app -> Mail, Contacts, & Calendars -> [your account]. \n\n\n*\n\n*Turn off calendars\n\n*Turn on calendars\nAll your calendars should now show up in the app.\n"
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        "text": "Atmoslab Cranberry flavor is an acid flavor with exotic notes coming from the passion fruit of Figgi forest (Greek cranberry). It imitates with enviable ability the real fruit.\nCranberry flavor is available in 10ml pharmaceutical glass bottle with inner dropper and tamper-evident cap."
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        "text": "16 април е 106-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (107-и през високосна). Остават 259 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1071 г. – С превземането на Бари Италия се освобождава напълно от Византийска власт.\n 1346 г. – В Скопие Стефан Душан обявява създаването на Сръбско царство, заемащо голяма част от Югоизточна Европа.\n 1518 г. – За първи път се обменят дипломатически писма между руския цар Василий III и френския крал Франсоа I.\n 1705 г. – Английската кралица Анна удостоява Исак Нютон с рицарско звание.\n 1797 г. – Коронацията на руския император Павел I в Катедралата „Успение Богородично“ в Кремъл.\n 1797 г. – В Русия е учреден Орденът „Св. Анна“.\n 1871 г. – Берлин е провъзгласен за столица на Германската Империя.\n 1879 г. – Учредителното събрание гласува и приема Търновската конституция – първата конституция на България.\n 1889 г. – В Одеса е открит паметник на Пушкин.\n 1898 г. – Публикува се първото издание с произведения на Максим Горки.\n\n 1912 г. – Американката Хариет Куимби става първата жена, прелетяла със самолет Ла Манш.\n 1917 г. – Владимир Ленин се завръща тайно в Санкт Петербург през Финландия.\n 1922 г. – Съветска Русия и Германия възстановяват дипломатически отношения, с което Германия признава болшевишката държава.\n 1925 г. – Атентат в църквата „Света Неделя“ (Велики четвъртък): По време на церемонията по погребението на генерал Константин Георгиев български комунисти взривяват купола на църквата „Света Неделя“ в София, при което загиват над 160 мъже, жени и деца, като са осакатени други 500.\n 1934 г. – В СССР е въведено почетното звание Герой на Съветския съюз.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Германският товарен кораб „Goya“, превозващ германски бежанци от Хелския полуостров (дн. Полша) е потопен от съветската подводница Л-3 „Фрунзевец“. Загиват над 7000 души. Спасяват се едва 165 пътника.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Червената армия започва Берлинската офанзива.\n 1946 г. – Сирия обявява национална независимост.\n 1947 г. – В сената на Южна Каролина американският политик и финансист Бърнард Барух за първи път употребява израза Студена война.\n 1947 г. – Френският кораб „Grandcamp“, натоварен с 8500 тона амониев нитрат, избухва на пристанище в Тексас, загиват 581 души, а над 8500 са ранени.\n 1948 г. – Създадена e Организацията за европейско икономическо сътрудничество\n 1964 г. – Американката Джералдина Мок става първата жена, осъществила околосветски самолетен полет.\n 1970 г. – Започват преговорите между САЩ и СССР за ограничаване на стратегическото въоръжение.\n 1972 г. – Виетнамска война: Американски бомбардировачи атакуват Ханой след 4-годишно прекъсване.\n 1972 г. – Провежда се първият концерт в Англия на групата Electric Light Orchestra.\n 1982 г. – Кралица Елизабет II провъзгласява новата конституция на Канада, слагаща край на колониалния ѝ статут.\n 2003 г. – В Гърция е подписан договор за присъединяване на 10 нови страни-членки на ЕС.\n 2007 г. – В Политехническия институт на Блексбърг, щата Вирджиния, 23-годишният студент от корейски произход Чо Сюн Ху открива огън по присъстващите на територията на колежа. В резултат са убити 32 души и са ранени около 40.\n 2009 г. – Русия приключва успешно своята контратерористична операция в Чечня, започнала през 1999 г.\n 2017 г. – Конституционен референдум в Турция.\n\nРодени \n\n 778 г. – Людовик Благочестиви, франкски крал († 840 г.)\n 1319 г. – Жан II, френски крал († 1364 г.)\n 1660 г. – Ханс Слоан, британски физик († 1753 г.)\n 1661 г. – Чарлз Монтагю, британски поет († 1715 г.)\n 1797 г. – Адолф Тиер, френски политик († 1877 г.)\n 1821 г. – Форд Мадокс Браун, британски художник († 1893 г.)\n 1838 г. – Ернест Солвей, белгийски химик († 1922 г.)\n 1844 г. – Анатол Франс, френски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1921 г. († 1924 г.)\n 1863 г. – Лудвик Куба, чешки художник († 1956 г.)\n 1866 г. – Руси Коджаманов, български композитор, диригент и музикален педагог († 1933 г.)\n 1867 г. – Андрей Тошев, български дипломат († 1944 г.)\n 1867 г. – Уилбър Райт, американски механик († 1912 г.)\n 1879 г. – Леон Тери, френски автомобилен състезател († 1909 г.)\n 1886 г. – Ернст Телман, германски политик († 1944 г.)\n 1889 г. – Чарли Чаплин, британски актьор († 1977 г.)\n 1890 г. – Иван Попов, български политик († 1944 г.)\n 1897 г. – Константин Кисимов, български актьор († 1965 г.)\n 1901 г. – Николай Павлович Акимов, руски режисьор († 1968 г.)\n 1912 г. – Евгений Самойлов, руски актьор († 1999 г.)\n 1921 г. – Питър Устинов, британски актьор († 2004 г.)\n 1924 г. – Хенри Манчини, американски композитор († 1994 г.)\n 1927 г. – Бенедикт XVI, римокатолически папа\n 1935 г. – Сара Кирш, немска поетеса († 2013 г.)\n 1939 г. – Дъсти Спрингфийлд, британска певица († 1999 г.)\n 1940 г.\n Ролф Дитер Бринкман, немски поет († 1975 г.)\n Кеазим Исинов, български художник\n Маргрете II, кралица на Дания\n 1941 г. – Борис Данков, български писател\n 1942 г. – Франк Уилямс, британски мениджър на отбор от Формула 1 († 2021 г.)\n 1947 г. – Джери Рафърти, шотландски певец († 2011 г.)\n 1952 г. – Били Уест, американски озвучаващ актьор\n 1960 г. – Рафаел Бенитес, испански треньор\n 1962 г.\n Венцислав Върбанов, български политик\n Мартин Заимов, български политик\n 1965 г.\n Джон Крайър, американски актьор\n Мартин Лорънс, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Любка Биаджони цу Гутенберг, немска диригентка\n 1969 г. – Хасан Азис, български политик\n 1972 г. – Кончита Мартинес, испанска тенисистка\n 1977 г. – Фредрик Юнгбери, шведски футболист\n 1978 г. – Игор Тудор, хърватски футболист\n 1979 г. – Кристиан Албертс, холандски пилот от Ф1\n 1986 г.\n Светозар Кнезовски, български театрален актьор\n Петър Бонев, български актьор, фотограф и графичен дизайнер\n 1987 г. – Аарън Ленън, английски футболист\n 1989 г. – Крис Льове, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 69 г. – Отон, римски император (* 32 г.)\n 1113 г. – Святополк II, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* 1050 г.)\n 1788 г. – Жорж Бюфон, френски учен (* 1707 г.)\n 1828 г. – Франсиско Гоя, испански художник (* 1746 г.)\n 1850 г. – Мари Тюсо, създателка на музея на восъчни статуи в Лондон (* 1763 г.)\n 1859 г. – Алексис дьо Токвил, френски политолог (* 1805 г.)\n 1870 г. – Мария-Каролина от Двете Сицилии, херцогиня дьо Бери (* 1798 г.)\n 1925 г. – Александър Давидов, български военен деец (* 1878 г.)\n 1925 г. – Григор Кюркчиев, български военен деец (* 1865 г.)\n 1925 г. – Иван Попов, български политик (* 1857 г.)\n 1925 г. – Иван Стойков, български военен деец (* 1866 г.)\n 1925 г. – Иван Табаков, български военен деец (* 1868 г.)\n 1925 г. – Йосиф Хербст, български журналист (* 1875 г.)\n 1925 г. – Калин Найденов, български военен деец (* 1865 г.)\n 1925 г. – Кръстю Златарев, български военен деец (* 1864 г.)\n 1925 г. – Петър Лолов, български военен деец (* 1864 г.)\n 1925 г. – Спас Жостов, български офицер (* 1881 г.)\n 1925 г. – Спиридон Михайлов, български офицер (* 1878 г.)\n 1925 г. – Стефан Нерезов, български военен деец (* 1867 г.)\n 1925 г. – Стефан Нойков, български военен деец (* 1876 г.)\n 1925 г. – Стоян Пушкаров, български военен деец (* 1866 г.)\n 1942 г. – Александра Сакскобургготска, британска принцеса (* 1878 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Сомлев, български подофицер (* 1922 г.)\n 1958 г. – Розалинд Френклин, британска физико-химичка (* 1920 г.)\n 1972 г. – Ясунари Кавабата, японски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. (* 1899 г.)\n 1991 г. – Сър Дейвид Лийн, английски режисьор (* 1908 г.)\n 1993 г. – Димитър Пантелеев, български поет (* 1901 г.)\n 1998 г. – Алберто Калдерон, аржентински математик (* 1920 г.)\n 2001 г. – Майкъл Ричи, американски режисьор (* 1920 г.)\n 2006 г. – Франсиско Адам, португалски актьор (* 1983 г.)\n 2007 г. – Чо Сюн Ху, масов убиец (* 1984 г.)\n 2009 г. – Димитър Шойлев, български лекар (* 1935 г.)\n 2009 г. – Виктор Пасков, български писател (* 1949 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на българската конституция и на юриста\n Армения – Ден на полицията\n Дания и Гренландия – Рожден ден на кралица Маргрете II\n Куба – Ден на милицията\n Масачузетс и Ман (САЩ) – Ден на патриотите\n\n416"
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        "text": "17 април е 107-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (108-и през високосна). Остават 258 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1355 г. – Във Венеция за заговор против местната аристокрация е екзекутиран Марино Фалиеро.\n 1397 г. – За първи път Джефри Чосър разказва своите Кентърбърийски разкази в двора на Ричард II. Изследователите на Чосър посочват датата (през 1387) за начало на описвания в книгата поход до Кентърбъри.\n 1492 г. – Христофор Колумб получава благословията и финансирането на испанската корона да търси западния път към Индия.\n 1521 г. – Водачът на Реформацията Мартин Лутер е отлъчен от католическата църква.\n 1534 г. – Арестуван е бившият лорд-канцлер на Англия, авторът на „Утопия“ Томас Мор.\n 1607 г. – 21-годишният Арман Жан дю Плеси дьо Ришельо е ръкоположен за епископ.\n 1821 г. – По време на сражение край град Скулени на река Прут с османската армия загива Индже войвода.\n 1824 г. – Подписан е Руско-американски договор за свободното плаване и ловенето на риба в Аляска.\n 1856 г. – Квебек е провъзгласен за столица на Канада.\n 1861 г. – Американска гражданска война: Щатът Вирджиния се отделя от САЩ.\n 1895 г. – Подписва се Симоносекския мирен договор между Китай и Япония, утвърждаващ поражението на Китай в Китайско-японската война (1894 – 1895).\n 1897 г. – Обнародван е Закон за монетите в Княжество България.\n 1904 г. – В София е дадено първото куклено театрално представление в България от членове на дружество „Чех“.\n 1919 г. – Въвеждат законът за 8-часов работен ден във Франция.\n 1924 г. – Учредено е филмовото студио Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer след сливане на Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures и Louis B. Mayer Company.\n 1937 г. – Дафи Дък се появява за пръв път във филм на Warner Bros.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Кралство Югославия се предава на германците, след като нацистката армия влиза в Белград.\n 1945 г. – Създадена е Австрийската народна партия, участвалата най-дълго в управлението на Австрия след Втората световна война.\n 1948 г. – Одържавено е цирковото дело в Народна република България.\n 1961 г. – Операция в Залива на прасетата: ЦРУ прави неуспешен опит да свали режима на Фидел Кастро, като изпраща екип от кубински емигранти в района на Залива на прасетата в Куба.\n 1964 г. – В Англия излиза първият албум на „Ролинг Стоунс“, озаглавен „Ролинг Стоунс“.\n 1969 г. – Възрастта, на която един човек има право на вот във Великобритания, е намалена от 21 на 18 години.\n 1969 г. – Александър Дубчек е принуден да подаде оставка от лидерския пост на чехословашката компартия и е заменен с Густав Хусак.\n 1970 г. – Сър Пол Маккартни издава първия си солов албум „Маккартни“.\n 1970 г. – Проект Аполо: Американският космически кораб Аполо 13 успява да се върне на Земята след почти катастрофален полет до Луната.\n 1975 г. – Червените кхмери извършват комунистически преврат в Кхмерската република, на власт идва Пол Пот, което поставя начало на камбоджанския геноцид, отнел живота на около 1,5 милиона души.\n 1989 г. – След седемгодишна забрана в Полша е легализиран профсъюзът Солидарност.\n 1993 г. – Президентът на Чечня Джохар Дудаев разпуска парламента и въвежда президентско управление в републиката.\n 1999 г. – НАТО иска от България неограничен достъп до въздушното ѝ пространство в хода на Операция „Съюзна сила“ срещу Югославия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1814 г. – Аугуст Гризебах, немски ботаник († 1879 г.)\n 1853 г. – Уилям Джон Макгий, американски геолог († 1912 г.)\n 1877 г. – Коце Ципушев, български революционер († 1968 г.)\n 1881 г. – Антон Вилдганс, австрийски писател († 1932 г.)\n 1892 г. – Константин Гълъбов, български филолог († 1980 г.)\n 1894 г. – Никита Хрушчов, ръководител на СССР († 1971 г.)\n 1898 г. – Петър Найчев, български комунист († 1944 г.)\n 1902 г. – Веселин Стоянов, български композитор († 1969 г.)\n 1911 г. – Ерве Базен, френски писател († 1996 г.)\n 1912 г. – Гаврил, глава на МПЦ († 1996 г.)\n 1916 г. – Сиримаво Бандаранайке, министър-председател на Цейлон и Шри Ланка († 2000 г.)\n 1918 г. – Уилям Холдън, американски актьор († 1981 г.)\n 1923 г. – Линдзи Андерсън, британски режисьор († 1994 г.)\n 1926 г. – Петър Патев, български футболист\n 1929 г. – Джон Ериксон, британски историк († 2002 г.)\n 1932 г. – Ролф Шнайдер, немски писател\n 1939 г. – Георги Берберов, български архитект\n 1945 г. – Венцеслав Димитров, български политик\n 1949 г. – Валентин Кулев, български художник\n 1950 г. – Ел Скот Колдуел, американска актриса\n 1951 г. – Оливия Хъси, британска актриса\n 1952 г. – Желко Ражнатович, сръбски военен командир († 2000 г.)\n 1955 г. – Иван Нейков, български политик\n 1959 г. – Шон Бийн, британски актьор\n 1962 г. – Ники Харис, американска актриса\n 1963 г. – Румен Левордашки, български тромпетист\n 1964 г. – Рикардо Патрезе, италиански пилот от Формула 1\n 1965 г. – Уилям Мейпотър, американски актьор\n 1967 г. – Хенри Йън Кюзик, шотландско-перуански актьор\n 1970 г. – Ангелина Славова, българска актриса\n 1971 г. – Хосе Севальос Старши, еквадорски футболист\n 1971 г. – Давид Вагнер, немски писател\n 1972 г. – Дженифър Гарнър, американска актриса\n 1974 г. – Виктория Бекъм, английска певица\n 1975 г. – Анна Цолова, българска журналистка\n 1975 г. – Николай Николов, тв. продуцент\n 1975 г. – Яница Нешева, българска певица\n 1980 г. – Ненчо Балабанов, български актьор\n 1982 г. – И Джун-ги, южнокорейски актьор\n 1984 г. – Рафаеле Паладино, италиански футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 326 г. – Александър Александрийски, патриарх на Александрия (* 250 г.)\n 485 г. – Прокъл, гръцки философ (* 412 г.)\n 1711 г. – Йозеф I, Свещен римски император (* 1678 г.)\n 1742 г. – Арвид Хорн, министър-председател на Швеция (* 1664 г.)\n 1761 г. – Томас Бейс, британски пастор (* ок. 1702)\n 1790 г. – Бенджамин Франклин, американски учен и държавник (* 1706 г.)\n 1821 г. – Индже войвода, български хайдутин (* ок. 1755)\n 1898 г. – Ильо войвода, български хайдутин и войвода (* 1805 г.)\n 1903 г. – Йордан Попйорданов, български революционер (* 1881 г.)\n 1913 г. – Ахмед Ниязи бей, османски военен (* 1873 г.)\n 1925 г. – Николай Петрини, деец на БЗНС (* 1889 г.)\n 1926 г. – Иван Луков, български военен деец (* 1871 г.)\n 1941 г. – Владимир Чорович, сръбски историк (* 1885 г.)\n 1942 г. – Жан Батист Перен, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1870 г.)\n 1948 г. – Кантаро Судзуки, министър-председател на Япония (* 1868 г.)\n 1949 г. – Александра Екстер, руска художничка (* 1882 г.)\n 1960 г. – Еди Кокран, американска рокзвезда (* 1938 г.)\n 1970 г. – Павел Луспекаев, съветски актьор (* 1927 г.)\n 1976 г. – Хенрик Дам, датски биохимик и физиолог, Нобелов лауреат (* 1895 г.)\n 1986 г. – Марсел Дасо, френски авиоконструктор (* 1892 г.)\n 1990 г. – Анджело Скиавио, италиански футболист и треньор (* 1905 г.)\n 1993 г. – Тургут Йозал, президент на Турция (* 1927 г.)\n 1994 г. – Роджър Спери, американски лекар, Нобелов лауреат († 1913 г.)\n 1998 г. – Линда Маккартни, американска музикантка (* 1941 г.)\n 1999 г. – Николай Добрев, български политик (* 1947 г.)\n 2007 г. – Христо Христов, български режисьор (* 1926 г.)\n 2012 г. – Димитрис Митропанос, гръцки певец (* 1948 г.)\n 2014 г. – Габриел Гарсия Маркес, колумбийски писател (* 1927 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден на болните от хемофилия – Отбелязва се от 1989 г. по инициатива на Световната здравна организация\n Международен ден на хайку поезията – Отбелязва се от 2012 г. по инициатива на Хайку Фондацията\n България – Празник на дипломираните експерт-счетоводители (от 2002 г.)\n Казахстан – Ден на Пожарната служба\n Кирибати – Национален ден на здравето\n Самоа – Ден на националния флаг\n Сирия – Ден на независимостта (от Франция, 1946 г., национален празник)\n Япония – Ден на децата\n\n417"
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        "text": "Q: Why is my Macbook Pro getting so slow? On my MacBook Pro (Year 2009) it takes a long time until I'm logged in or until when a program is started. From day to dayit's getting slower. \nPrograms like Safari or Word or MonoDevelop take up to 2 min until it's started.\nWould it be Win95/98/XP, I would reformat and reinstall everything. \nBut what are the possibilites with a Mac and OS X? \nIs there a performance monitor?\nThanks for any hints.\nMy Mac has:\nIntel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM\n\nA: You want to look at /Application/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app.  This will tell you what processes are running and what's taking up the most ram/cpu.  It'll also show you how much ram you're using, how much of your cpu you're using, and how much network and harddrive i/o you're doing.  This is the starting point if you want to troubleshoot performance, since it'll show you where your bottlenecks are and what's slowing you down.\n\nA: First of all, I would start to check your login items.\nOpen System Preferences, go to Accounts, on the left pane, select your account and go on the Login Items tab.\nThere, will be listed all your programs that start up when you log in. Remove everything you don't need to run on your system startup.\n--\nAlso, try to reindex your computer.\nTo do so, either install Alfred (it's an app launcher, but I know it offers an option to reindex Spotlight in one click) or open Spotlight preferences in System Preferences go to the Privacy tab and drag the Volume under which is install Mac OS X, wait a few seconds and remove it. There's also a command line magic you'll probably find in the interwebs.\nBe aware that it might a long time to reindex, depending on the number of files you have. But it could really speed up your system.\n\nA: There could be several things here that are creating the lag time, but there is never a need to reinstall everything.\nPlan A: I actually do these things on the first Monday of every month\nPurge Caches: Macintosh HD/Library/Caches/ and Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Caches/. You lose some of your application preferences, but things are all but guarenteed to be snappy.\nRepair Permissions with the Disk Utility: You can either view permissions or fix permissions. Just go straight for fixing permissions and get a cup of tea and read a magazine while you wait.\nReboot on a regular basis: I don't care what anybody says about uptime; the occasional reboot does wonders. My Macs are real workhorses, and I reboot Monday mornings when I get in. I rarely, if ever these days, have problems.\nPlan B: The Not So Obvious\nLet Spotlight index when it finds new stuff: Spotlight makes for good searches, but it's indexing processes are a real hassle. If things slow down, I first look for the little dot in the magnifying glass in the menu bar icon. If that's going, I go get a cup of coffee or find something else to do.\nLook for background services you may have forgotten: Also, look for any background processes that may be dragging things down. Look at your login items in the System Preferences, because maybe you have some kind of a server daemon that loads in the background you forgot about. Or maybe you have your iTunes library shared and enough people are on listening to content to slow things down (this was also a problem at my company).\nCheck free hard drive space: I have also noticed in the past that things can slow down if I don't have enough hard drive space. Things really get wonky on my Macs when I have less than 10% free space, so I start cleaning things off when I am at the 20% free space threshold.\nPlan C: System Level\nLook for multiple, related processes: Check Activity Monitor for anything that might be hogging CPU time. Don't just look for a single process that has a high number, but also look multiple processes that might be related. I recently had a problem with McAfee AntiVirus (my company's IT department foisted it onto us) trying to almost continuously scan my iDisk. No process got above 2%, but there were over a half dozen of them. Once I disconnected my iDisk, McAfee was no longer a problem.\nLet overnight processes run: Most days I leave my Macs on all day and all night because there a number of system processes that run at around 2:00a, Sunday mornings being especially important (that's when the weekly and monthly processes run). Do a quick reboot and all should be well.\nPlan Z\nApple Certified Technicians are your friends: Third-party system maintenance software is not. I've been working with Macs for years and the one immutable fact that I have learned is that applications designed to help maintain the system are more trouble than they are worth. When all else fails, take it in because there may be a hardware problem at this point.\n\nA: I had this problem with an old mac.  Make sure your hard drive is fully functional.  Mine had the exact same symptoms, and it turned out that the drive was b0rk3d, and that was why Spotlight took so long , startup took so long etc.  \n"
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        "text": "FOX UFC Saturday is live from Chicago, Illinois, headlined by a lightweight bout between former lightweight champ Benson Henderson and Josh Thomson.\nUFC on FOX 10 headliner Josh Thomson talks to The Shoot about his upcoming fight with Benson Henderson and what he thinks it will take to get a shot at the belt.\nFormer Strikeforce champion Josh Thomson made a splash in his first UFC fight, following a head kick with vicious punches to become the first person to TKO Nate Diaz.\nGo behind the scenes as Brittney, Kenda, Vanessa and Josh \"The Real Punk\" Thomson model the latest Harley-Davidson gear for a holiday-themed photo shoot.\nMegan Olivi talks to fellow champions, commentators and a former opponent in the wake of Georges St-Pierre's announcement that he will vacate his UFC title.\nWith Yves Edwards on Josh Thomson’s back pushing him forward, each man was clearly setting up an attack in their UFC 49 bout. As Thomson unleashed an explosive spinning backfist, Edwards uncorked a flying head kick -- only one of them connected.\nTwo of the top 155ers of our era finally meet when former champ Benson Henderson battles former Strikeforce king Josh “The Punk” Thomson. Plus, resurgent heavyweight contender Gabriel Gonzaga meets rising star Stipe Miocic and more.\nHighlights from the amazing final bout of the Strikeforce World Grand Prix Heavyweight Tournament with Josh Barnett and Daniel Cormier. Plus, Gilbert Melendez and Josh Thomson."
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        "text": "Home » Car cultures around the world: Monaco\nCar cultures around the world: Monaco\nDecember 22, 2015 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment\nIn our series of car cultures around the world/international street scenes we move from the car culture in Morocco to that of Monaco, the wealthy principality on the other side of the Mediterranean, the contrast couldn’t be bigger. Whereas the streets of Morocco are filled with cheap and practical transportation, sometimes decades old, living a tough but grateful life as daily workhorses, the cars in Monaco serve a much different purpose. The densely populated city-state which is enclosed by France and the Mediterranean Sea covers only 2 square kilometers (0.78 sq. Mi) and is built on a hillside. That means it doesn’t really make sense for its inhabitants to drive supercars, hypercars and top-of-the-line sports versions of regular cars, but that’s exactly what they’re doing.\nMcLaren 650S Spider and Lamborghini Huracan taking a hairpin in Monaco\nAfter a day or so in Monaco, you don’t even notice a “regular” Ferrari or Bentley anymore, as they’re so commonplace. In fact, Ferrari and Bentley each sell more cars than brands like Renault or Opel in the small principality. And Rolls Royce sells as many cars as Volvo does, and McLaren sells twice as many cars as Alfa Romeo. The top-3 of brands? Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Porsche. And don’t think those are the basic Mercedes’ or Audis: the Audi RS6 Avant is like the Volkswagen Golf Wagon of Monaco, you’ll spot at least one but often a handful every time you cross the city state from one end to the other. Small cars? Sure, there are plenty, but again mostly the top-of-the-line. I’ve spotted more Abarth 500 than Fiat 500, more Audi S1 than A1 and more Mercedes-AMG A45 than the regular Mercedes-Benz A-Class.\nOne of the many Abarth 500 parked behind a Porsche 911\nIf you want to spot the most exclusive and most expensive cars in Monaco, you’ll only need to go to Casino Square (Place du Casino), where the uber-wealthy are so kind to tip the valet guys enough to make sure their Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari LaFerrari or Rolls Royce Phantom gets a prime spot right in front of the entrance.\nFerraris, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys at the Monte Carlo Beach Resort\nInternational Street Scenes Abarth, bentley, bugatti, car culture, ferrari, lamborghini, mclaren, Monaco, porsche, rolls royce, street scenes\nAbout Bart Demandt\nBart is a 36-year old Dutchman who's always had a thing for cars, the automotive industry and statistics. He’s combined these passions by writing about them on CarSalesBase.com. His daily driver is an Alfa Romeo GT 3.2 V6 which he just can't seem to say goodbye to thanks to the mesmerizing exhaust note, despite approaching 300.000km which probably makes this the most experienced GT 3.2 in the world."
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        "text": "18 април е 108-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (109-и през високосна). Остават 257 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1506 г. – Започва строителство на базиликата Свети Петър в съвременния и вид.\n 1599 г. – Испанският крал Филип III Испански се жени за австрийска ерцхерцогиня Маргарита Австрийска.\n 1599 г. – Ерцхерцогът Алберт VII Австрийски се жени за испанската инфанта Изабела-Клара Испанска.\n 1791 г. – Луи XVI и неговото семейство са заловени от Националната гвардия в опит да избягат от очакващия ги в Париж съдебен процес.\n 1822 г. – Мехмед Емин паша завзема град Негуш след предателство и извършва страшно клане, при което всичките няколко хиляди мъже в града са избити, а жените и децата, отведени като роби в Анадола.\n 1840 г. – Високата порта унифицира Десятъка – започва повсеместно описване на имуществото и доходите на българското население.\n 1843 г. – Основан е окръг Елк в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1850 г. – В Габрово се полагат основите на новата училищна сграда, днешната Априловска гимназия.\n 1877 г. – Генерал Николай Столетов поема командването на българското опълчение.\n 1906 г. – Земетресението в Сан Франциско през 1906 година почти изцяло разрушава Сан Франциско (Калифорния).\n 1908 г. – Закрито е XIII обикновено народно събрание.\n 1909 г. – Жана д'Арк е обявена за светица в Рим.\n 1923 г. – Основан е руският футболен клуб ФК Динамо в Москва.\n 1925 г. – Основан е Международния радиолюбителски съюз IARU в Париж\n 1928 г. – След първия трус на Чирпанското земетресение от 14 април е регистриран нов силен трус с епицентър край Поповица; разрушенията от двата труса засягат около 20% от територията на България.\n 1931 г. – Закрито е XXII обикновено народно събрание.\n 1941 г. – В Атина е обявено военно положение, като гръцкия премиер Александрос Коризис се самоубива.\n 1942 г. – Пиер Лавал става министър-председател на Вишистка Франция.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Нанесена е първата бомбардировка над Токио, известна като Рейда на Дулитъл.\n 1945 г. – В хода на Втората световна война немските войски в Рур капитулират.\n 1946 г. – Обществото на народите се саморазпуска.\n 1949 г. – Ирландия е обявена за независима от Великобритания република.\n 1951 г. – Франция, ФРГ, Италия и трите страни от Бенелюкс създават Европейска общност за въглища и стомана, която прераства по-късно в Европейска икономическа общност (съвременният Европейски съюз).\n 1955 г. – Основан е международният футболен турнир Лига Европа под името Купа на панаирните градове.\n 1956 г. – Вестник Отечествен фронт публикува статията „Поуката“ – първата публична остра критика на култа към личността като към всеобхватно социалистическо явление.\n 1956 г. – Принца на Монако Рение III се жени за американската актриса Грейс Кели.\n 1960 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм „Първи урок“.\n 1961 г. – Подписана е Виенската конвенция за дипломатическите отношения.\n 1980 г. – Провъзгласена е независимостта на нова африканска държава Зимбабве.\n 1981 г. – Официално се открива сградата на Културния комплекс в град Правец и тази на Историческия музей – Правец, с първата музейна експозиция.\n 1983 г. – Стартира американският телевизионен канал Disney Channel.\n 1988 г. – Ирано-иракската война: Американският флот потапя иранската фрегата „Саханд“ и няколко по-малки ирански патрулни кораби край Ормузкия проток.\n 1990 г. – Съветският съюз прекратява снабдяването на Литва с нефт, като санкция заради опита ѝ да напусне общата държава.\n 1999 г. – Приета е сегашната федерална Конституция на Швейцария.\n 2007 г. – Официално е открит швейцарският стадион Стад дьо ла Маладиер в Ньошател.\n 2008 г. – Провежда се премиерата на американския филм „Животът пред очите ѝ“.\n\nРодени \n\n 1480 г. – Лукреция Борджия, италианска благородничка († 1519 г.)\n 1590 г. – Ахмед I, султан на Османската империя († 1617 г.)\n 1774 г. – Георг Лангсдорф, немски естественик († 1852 г.)\n 1822 г. – Аугуст Петерман, немски картограф († 1878 г.)\n 1864 г. – Иван Ангелов, български живописец († 1924 г.)\n 1865 г. – Йохана Лойзингер, съпруга на княз Александър I Батенберг († 1951 г.)\n 1878 г. – Александър Панайотов, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1880 г. – Никола Логофетов, български политик († 1945 г.)\n 1882 г. – Леополд Стоковски, полски диригент († 1977 г.)\n 1893 г. – Жорж Буланже, румънски музикант († 1958 г.)\n 1893 г. – Христо Михайлов, деец на БКП († 1944 г.)\n 1895 г. – Гюрга Пинджурова, българска певица († 1971 г.)\n 1896 г. – Стефан Савов, български актьор († 1969 г.)\n 1900 г. – Венд фон Витерсхайм, немски офицер († 1975 г.)\n 1901 г. – Станка Цекова, български политик († 1984 г.)\n 1905 г. – Маргарита Гръцка, принцеса на Хоенлое-Лангенбург († 1981 г.)\n 1907 г. – Гоце Дивлев, български комунист († 1939 г.)\n 1907 г. – Иван Дуйчев, български историк († 1986 г.)\n 1915 г. – Кристо Темелко, албански политик († 1990 г.)\n 1916 г. – Борис Поцков, югославски партизанин († 1981 г.)\n 1917 г. – Фредерика Хановерска, кралица на гърците († 1981 г.)\n 1920 г. – Томо Софрониевски, югославски партизанин († 2007 г.)\n 1927 г. – Самюъл Хънтингтън, американски социолог († 2008 г.)\n 1931 г. – Любомир Шарланджиев, български кинорежисьор († 1979 г.)\n 1936 г. – Роза Димова, българска състезателка по ски бягане († 2012 г.)\n 1936 г. – Румяна Узунова, българска писателка († 1995 г.)\n 1937 г. – Георги Маринов, български писател († 2011 г.)\n 1942 г. – Йохен Риндт, пилот във Формула 1 († 1970 г.)\n 1943 г. – Георги Спасов, български писател († 2001 г.)\n 1945 г. – Александър Грозев, български кинокритик\n 1947 г. – Джеймс Уудс, американски актьор\n 1950 г. – Георги Денев, български футболист и треньор\n 1952 г. – Венцислав Божилов, български футболист\n 1954 г. – Николай Априлов, български режисьор\n 1957 г. – Ваня Костова, българска поп-певица († 2021 г.)\n 1959 г. – Катя Иванова, българска актриса\n 1962 г. – Марин Бакалов, български футболист и треньор\n 1963 г. – Конан О'Брайън, американски комедиант\n 1966 г. – Сърджан Пириватрич, сръбски историк\n 1968 г. – Мурат Кекилли, турски музикант\n 1969 г. – Румяна Желева, български политик\n 1970 г. – Саад Харири, Министър-председател на Ливан\n 1971 г. – Дейвид Тенант, шотландски актьор\n 1971 г. – Саманта Камерън, английска бизнес дама\n 1973 г. – Хайле Гебреселасие, етиопски бегач\n 1974 г. – Оливие Безансно, френски политик\n 1976 г. – Мелиса Джоан Харт, американска актриса\n 1977 г. – Георги Бачев, български футболист\n 1978 г. – Александър Александров – Алекс, български певец и телевизионен водещ\n 1979 г. – Антъни Дейвидсън, британски автомобилен състезател\n 1979 г. – Атанасиос Мастровасилис, гръцки шахматист\n 1981 г. – Тим Кахелмайер, германски професионален покер играч\n 1982 г. – Кирил Котев, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Лукаш Фабянски, полски футболист\n 1989 г. – Джесика Чонг, американска певица и бизнесдама\n 1990 г. – Рут Колева, българска певица\n 1990 г. – Брит Робъртсън, американска актриса\n 1992 г. – Георги Терзиев, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1558 г. – Александра Лисовска, съпруга на Сюлейман Великолепни (* 1500 г.)\n 1873 г. – Юстус фон Либих, германски химик (* 1803 г.)\n 1889 г. – Огюст Виле де Лил-Адан, френски писател (* 1838 г.)\n 1898 г. – Гюстав Моро, френски художник (* 1826 г.)\n 1903 г. – Константин Кирков, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1908 г. – Велко Попадийски, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1920 г. – Фриц Хофман-Ла Рош, швейцарски предприемач (* 1868 г.)\n 1925 г. – Кирил Павлов, български политик (* 1892 г.)\n 1936 г. – Хорейс Фринк, американски психиатър (* 1883 г.)\n 1941 г. – Гоце Междуречки, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1943 г. – Исороку Ямамото, японски адмирал (* 1884 г.)\n 1945 г. – Вилхелм фон Вид, княз на Албания (* 1876 г.)\n 1945 г. – Джон Амброс Флеминг, английски учен (* 1849 г.)\n 1945 г. – Сава Савов, български военен деец (* 1865 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ханс Келнер, немски генерал-лейтенант (* 1898 г.)\n 1947 г. – Йозеф Тисо, словашки политик (* 1887 г.)\n 1949 г. – Уил Хей, британски актьор (* 1888 г.)\n 1955 г. – Алберт Айнщайн, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1921 (* 1879 г.)\n 1958 г. – Морис Гамелен, френски генерал (* 1878 г.)\n 1962 г. – Бончо Карастоянов, български кинооператор (* 1899 г.)\n 1964 г. – Бен Хехт, американски сценарист (* 1894 г.)\n 1966 г. – Димитър Дюлгеров, български богослов (* 1890 г.)\n 1974 г. – Марсел Паньол, френски писател (* 1895 г.)\n 1979 г. – Никола Антонов, български дипломат (* 1888 г.)\n 1981 г. – Димитър Осинин, български писател (* 1891 г.)\n 1993 г. – Николай Наплатанов, български учен (* 1923 г.)\n 1996 г. – Бернард Едуардс, американски музикант (* 1952 г.)\n 1996 г. – Димитър Теохаров, български политик (* 1905 г.)\n 2002 г. – Тур Хейердал, норвежки антрополог (* 1914 г.)\n 2003 г. – Кирил Господинов, български актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ева Георгиева, българска народна певица (* 1925 г.)\n 2008 г. – Хайман Спотниц, американски психоаналитик (* 1908 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лиляна Михайлова, българска писателка (* 1939 г.)\n 2012 г. – Наум Шопов, български артист (* 1930 г.)\n\nПразници \n ЮНЕСКО – Международен ден за опазване на паметниците на културата\n Световен ден на радиолюбителите\n Европа – Европейски ден за правата на пациентите – от 2007 г.\n Зимбабве – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1980 г., национален празник)\n Иран – Ден на армията\n Кариби – Ден на здравето\n Русия – Ден на военната слава (по повод победата на Александър Невски в Ледената битка)\n\n418"
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        "text": "19 април е 109-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (110-и през високосна). Остават 256 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 65 г. – разкрит е „Пизоновия заговор“ срещу император Нерон.\n 548 г. – Тържествено е осветена базиликата Сан Витале в Равена от 27-ия епископ на Равена Максимиан Равенски.\n 1332 г. – Състои се сватбата на Стефан Душан и Елена Българска.\n 1346 г. – Полският крал Кажимеж III Велики дава на Бидгошч статут на град.\n 1587 г. – Английският адмирал Френсис Дрейк потапя испанската флота в пристанището на Кадис.\n 1592 г. – Основан е аржентинският град Сан Салвадор де Хухуй.\n 1770 г. – В църквата св. Августин във Виена е сключен „символичен брак“ между Мария-Антония и отсъстващия Луи XVI. На церемонията Мария-Антония официално приема името Мария-Антоанета и титлата „Дофина на Франция“.\n 1774 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта от Кристоф Глук „Ифигения в Авлида“.\n 1775 г. – Започва Американската война за независимост.\n\n 1783 г. – Екатерина II издава манифест за присъединяване на Крим и Кубанска област към Русия.\n 1805 г. – Френският тъкач на коприна Жозеф Мари Жакар изобретява жакарда.\n 1810 г. – С народно въстание в Каракас започва войната за независимост на Венецуела от Испания.\n 1839 г. – С Договора от Лондон е създадено независимо от Нидерландия кралство Белгия.\n 1850 г. – Великобритания и САЩ подписват договор за съвместно строителство на Панамския канал.\n 1851 г. – Създаден е окръг Фултън в щата Пенсилвания, САЩ.\n 1898 г. – Създадена е минна част към Черноморския флот във Варна.\n 1903 г. – В Кишинев започва един от най-кървавите в Русия погроми над евреи.\n 1904 г. – По-голямата част от Торонто в Онтарио, Канада е опустошена от пожар.\n 1906 г. – Нобеловият лауреат Пиер Кюри загива нелепо, попадайки в конски впряг при пресичане на улицата.\n 1919 г. – Американецът Лесли Ървин извършва успешно първия скок с парашут от самолет.\n 1919 г. – Полската армия освобождава Вилнюс от болшевишка власт.\n 1925 г. – Основан е чилийският футболен отбор от Сантяго Коло Коло.\n 1928 г. – От печат излиза последния (125-и) том от първото издание на Оксфордски английски речник.\n 1941 г. – Открит е астероидът 3892 Дежьо от финландския астроном Лиси Отема в Турку.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: България във Втората световна война: В съответствие с ангажиментите си към Страните от Оста българската армия освобождава Вардарска Македония, а на 20 април – Беломорска Тракия, което се възприема за национално обединение.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Нацистки войски влизат във Варшавското гето, за да претърсят останалите евреи, което разпалва първото масово въстание в Полша срещу нацистката окупация по време на Холокоста.\n 1943 г. – Швейцарският химик Алберт Хофман за първи път умишлено приема синтезирания от него наркотик ЛСД и усеща неговото действие като се прибира у дома с велосипед; денят става популярен като Ден на велосипеда.\n\n 1944 г. – Случайно е открита Казанлъшката гробница под могилен насип от войници, които копаели окоп в североизточната част на Казанлък.\n 1947 г. – Партията Индийски национален конгрес склонява страната да бъде разделена на Индия и Пакистан.\n 1956 г. – Актрисата Грейс Кели се омъжва за Рение III, принц на Монако.\n 1961 г. – Операцията в Залива на прасетата в Куба приключва с успех за защитниците.\n 1970 г. – Произведен е първият автомобил ВАЗ 2101.\n 1971 г. – СССР изстрелва Салют-1, първата създадена от човек космическа станция.\n 1971 г. – Сиера Леоне е обявена за република.\n 1975 г. – Кината става официалната валута и разплащателно средство в Папуа-Нова Гвинея и заменя австралийския долар.\n 1976 г. – Състои се премиерата на българския игрален филм Апостолите.\n 1980 г. – Пусната е на вода ударната подводница от клас „Лос Анджелис“ Бостън.\n 1984 г. – Австралия приема нов национален химн.\n 1995 г. – Атентат в Оклахома Сити: В Оклахома Сити е извършен първият мащабен терористичен акт в САЩ, при който загиват 168 души.\n 1999 г. – Германският Бундестаг възвръща седалището си в Берлин.\n 2003 г. – Състои се премиерата на японския филм Дете на луната.\n 2005 г. – Йозеф Рацингер е избран за папа Бенедикт XVI на втория ден от папския конклав.\n 2007 г. – Цар Калоян е тържествено погребан с държавни почести в църквата „Свети Четиридесет мъченици“ във Велико Търново.\n 2020 г. – Кристиан Николов убива журналиста Милен Цветков, в тежка автомобилна катастрофа.\n\nРодени \n\n 1665 г. – Жак Лелонг, френски библиограф († 1721 г.)\n 1686 г. – Василий Татишчев, руски държавник († 1750 г.)\n 1721 г. – Роджър Шърман, американски юрист († 1793 г.)\n 1772 г. – Давид Рикардо, английски икономист († 1823 г.)\n 1776 г. – Василий Головнин, руски мореплавател († 1831 г.)\n 1793 г. – Фердинад I, император на Австрия († 1875 г.)\n 1795 г. – Кристиан Готфрид Еренберг, германски естествоизпитател († 1876 г.)\n 1796 г. – Франц Антон фон Герстнер, австрийски инженер († 1840 г.)\n 1801 г. – Густав Фехнер, германски психолог († 1887 г.)\n 1832 г. – Лукреция Гарфийлд, първа дама на САЩ († 1918 г.)\n 1832 г. – Хосе Ечегарай, испански поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1904 г. († 1916 г.)\n 1834 г. – Григорий Мясоедов, руски художник († 1911 г.)\n 1846 г. – Луис Хорхе Фонтана, аржентински топограф († 1920 г.)\n 1847 г. – Фердинанд Фелнер, австрийски архитект († 1916 г.)\n 1848 г. – Всеволод Милер, руски езиковед († 1913 г.)\n 1857 г. – Василий Богородицки, руски лингвист († 1941 г.)\n 1863 г. – Цветан Радославов, български интелектуалец († 1931 г.)\n 1874 г. – Ернст Рудин, швейцарски психолог († 1952 г.)\n 1877 г. – Оле Евинруде, норвежки изобретател († 1934 г.)\n 1881 г. – Валентин Волков, руски художник († 1964 г.)\n 1882 г. – Жетулиу Варгас, бразилски политик († 1954 г.)\n 1883 г. – Рихард фон Мизес, австрийски математик († 1953 г.)\n 1886 г. – Хироши Ошима, японски дипломат († 1975 г.)\n 1889 г. – Ото Тиерак, немски политик († 1946 г.)\n 1891 г. – Рикардо Бакели, италиански писател († 1985 г.)\n 1892 г. – Георгий Адамович, руски поет († 1972 г.)\n 1892 г. – Жермен Тайфер, френски композитор († 1983 г.)\n 1894 г. – Елизабет Дилинг, американска писателка († 1966 г.)\n 1897 г. – Жироемон Кимура, японски дълголетник († 2013 г.)\n 1897 г. – Констанс Талмадж, американска актриса († 1973 г.)\n 1899 г. – Джордж Обриен, американски артист(† 1985 г.)\n 1900 г. – Александър Птушко, руски режисьор († 1973 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ричард Хюз, английски писател († 1976 г.)\n 1902 г. – Вениамин Каверин, руски писател († 1989 г.)\n 1903 г. – Елиът Нес, американски финансист († 1957 г.)\n 1904 г. – Георги Димитров, български композитор († 1979 г.)\n 1905 г. – Джим Молисън, шотландски пилот († 1959 г.)\n 1905 г. – Карл Алфред Майер, швейцарски психиатър († 1995 г.)\n 1907 г. – Афрасияб Бадалбейли, азербайджански композитор († 1976 г.)\n 1909 г. – Борис Блинов, руски артист († 1943 г.)\n 1911 г. – Георги Марков, руски писател († 1991 г.)\n 1912 г. – Глен Сиборг, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1951 г. († 1999 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ерих Хартман, немски офицер († 1993 г.)\n 1922 г. – Куно Кльоцер, германски футболист († 2011 г.)\n 1924 г. – Вернер Колмайер, германски футболист († 1974 г.)\n 1925 г. – Хю О'Браян, американски артист\n 1928 г. – Алексис Корнер, английски музикант († 1984 г.)\n 1931 г. – Андрей Ершов, руски програмист († 1988 г.)\n 1933 г. – Джейн Мансфийлд, американска актриса († 1967 г.)\n 1933 г. – Любен Диманов, български художник\n 1934 г. – Жан Циглер, швейцарски политик\n 1936 г. – Вилфрид Мартенс, министър-председател на Белгия († 2013 г.)\n 1937 г. – Хосе Естрада, президент на Филипините\n 1940 г. – Кърт Ахренс дж., германски автомобилен състезател\n 1941 г. – Виталий Игнатенко, генералния директор на ИТАР-ТАСС\n 1942 г. – Алън Прайс, клавирист на група Animals\n 1943 г. – Лоренсо Санс, испански бизнесмен († 2020 г.)\n 1944 г. – Джеймс Хекман, американски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 2000 г.\n 1946 г. – Тим Къри, британски актьор\n 1948 г. – Мая Драгоманска, българска актриса\n 1949 г. – Неждет Моллов, български политик\n 1951 г. – Бари Браун, американски актьор († 1978 г.)\n 1954 г. – Тревър Франсис, английски футболист\n 1955 г. – Сергей Рудницки, руски композитор\n 1956 г. – Волен Сидеров, български политик\n 1957 г. – Африка Бамбаата, американски диджей\n 1957 г. – Мукеш Амбани, индийски бизнесмен\n 1957 г. – Сергей Баталов, руски артист\n 1961 г. – Анна Герасимова, руска певица\n 1962 г. – Ирина Нелсън, руска певица\n 1968 г. – Ашли Джъд, американска актриса\n 1968 г. – Мсвати III, крал на Свазиленд\n 1969 г. – Корнелия Благоева, българска поетеса\n 1969 г. – Жужа Полгар, унгарска (впоследствие американска) шахматистка\n 1970 г. – Луис Мигел, мексикански певец\n 1971 г. – Пенка Петрова, български микробиолог и молекулярен биолог\n 1971 г. – Атанас Сребрев, български актьор и певец\n 1972 г. – Ривалдо, бразилски футболист\n 1975 г. – Юси Яскеляйнен, финландски футболист\n 1978 г. – Габриел Хайнце, аржентински футболист\n 1979 г. – Антоанета Стефанова, българска шахматистка\n 1979 г. – Кейт Хъдсън, американска актриса\n 1981 г. – Мартин Хавлат, чешки хокеист\n 1981 г. – Хейдън Кристенсен, канадски актьор\n 1981 г. – Христина Георгиева, български политик и психолог\n 1987 г. – Мария Шарапова, руска тенисистка\n 1987 г. – Оксана Акиншина, руска актриса\n 1988 г. – Диего Буонаноте, аржентински футболист\n 1989 г. – Марко Арнаутович, австрийски футболист\n 2000 г. - Лукас Браатен, алпийски скиор\n\nПочинали \n\n 65 г. – Гай Калпурний Пизон, римски политик (* неизв.)\n 1044 г. – Готцело I, лотарингски херцог (* 970 г.)\n 1054 г. – Лъв IX, римски папа (* 1002 г.)\n 1390 г. – Робърт II Стюарт, крал на Шотландия (* 1316 г.)\n 1560 г. – Филип Меланхтон, немски теолог (* 1497 г.)\n 1567 г. – Михаел Щифел, немски математик (* 1487 г.)\n 1588 г. – Паоло Веронезе, италианският художник (* 1528 г.)\n 1632 г. – Сигизмунд I, крал на Швеция (* 1561 г.)\n 1689 г. – Кристина, шведска кралица (* 1626 г.)\n 1768 г. – Каналето, италиански художник (* 1697 г.)\n 1790 г. – Григорий Спиридов, руски адмирал (* 1713 г.)\n 1813 г. – Бенджамин Ръш, американски писател (* 1745 г.)\n 1824 г. – Джордж Байрон, британски поет (* 1788 г.)\n 1873 г. – Хамилтън Хюм, австралийски изследовател (* 1797 г.)\n 1881 г. – Бенджамин Дизраели, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1804 г.)\n 1882 г. – Чарлз Дарвин, автор на теорията за еволюцията на видовете (* 1809 г.)\n 1885 г. – Николай Костомаров, руски историк (* 1817 г.)\n 1894 г. – Сава Доброплодни, български културен деец (* 1820 г.)\n 1906 г. – Пиер Кюри, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1903 г. (* 1859 г.)\n 1908 г. – Милан Змията, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1914 г. – Чарлс Пърс, американски философ (* 1839 г.)\n 1923 г. – Григор Георгиев, български революционер (* 1889 г.)\n 1925 г. – Илия Трайков, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1925 г. – Стоян Леков, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стоян Загорски, български военен деец (* 1864 г.)\n 1933 г. – Ангел Симеонов, български революционер (* 1892 г.)\n 1933 г. – Васил Николов, български революционер (* 1895 г.)\n 1933 г. – Димитър Паликрушев, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1933 г. – Дончо Христов, български революционер (* 1891 г.)\n 1933 г. – Стоян Георгиев, български революционер (* 1898 г.)\n 1934 г. – Александър Морфов, български композитор (* 1880 г.)\n 1936 г. – Антон Костадинов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1937 г. – Уилям Конуей, английски изкуствовед (* 1856 г.)\n 1937 г. – Уилям Мортън Уилър, американски ентомолог (* 1865 г.)\n 1938 г. – Костадин Бояджиев, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1942 г. – Михаил Ефремов, руски генерал (* 1897 г.)\n 1949 г. – Мате Булев, гръцки партизанин (* 1904 г.)\n 1949 г. – Ото Нерц, германски футболист (* 1892 г.)\n 1954 г. – Методий Попов, български биолог (* 1881 г.)\n 1955 г. – Джим Корбет, британски писател и ловец (* 1875 г.)\n 1958 г. – Били Мередит, английски футболист (* 1874 г.)\n 1967 г. – Конрад Аденауер, западногермански държавник (* 1876 г.)\n 1973 г. – Ханс Келзен, австрийски философ (* 1881 г.)\n 1975 г. – Константин Белчев, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1977 г. – Гюнтер Бруно Фукс, немски поет (* 1928 г.)\n 1977 г. – Димитър Недков, български революционер (* 1883 г.)\n 1983 г. – Йежи Анджейевски, полски писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1985 г. – Сергей Токарев, руски етнограф (* 1899 г.)\n 1987 г. – Максуел Тейлър, американски офицер (* 1901 г.)\n 1989 г. – Дафни дю Морие, британска писателка (* 1907 г.)\n 1990 г. – Сергей Филипов, руски актьор (* 1912 г.)\n 1993 г. – Дейвид Кореш, американски проповедник (* 1959 г.)\n 1998 г. – Октавио Пас, мексикански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1990 г. (* 1914 г.)\n 1999 г. – Рагип Яшари, косовски политик (* 1961 г.)\n 2000 г. – Крум Милев, български футболист и треньор (* 1915 г.)\n 2001 г. – Андре дю Буше, френски поет (* 1924 г.)\n 2004 г. – Владимир Капличний, съветски футболист (* 1944 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джордж Косматос, италиански режисьор (* 1941 г.)\n 2009 г. – Анатолий Кулешов, руски музикант (* 1959 г.)\n 2009 г. – Джеймс Балард, английски писател (* 1930 г.)\n 2011 г. – Елизабет Слейдън, английска актриса (* 1948 г.)\n 2013 г. – Франсоа Жакоб, френски биолог, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1920 г.)\n 2020 г. – Милен Цветков, известен български журналист (* 1966 г.)\n\nПразници \n Сиера Леоне – Ден на републиката (1971 г.)\n Венецуела – Ден на независимостта (1810 г.)\n Великобритания – Ден на игликата (годишнина от смъртта на Бенджамин Дизраели)\n Уругвай – Ден на 33-мата патриоти\n Великден през 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992 2009 (датата, в която най-често се пада празника по Григорианския календар)\n Ден на велосипеда – първото умишлено използване на наркотик (ЛСД, от неговия откривател Алберт Хофман през 1943 г.)\n\n419"
    },
    {
        "text": "20 април е 110-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (111-и през високосна година). Остават 255 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1653 г. – Оливър Кромуел разпуска парламента в Англия.\n 1792 г. – Франция обявява война на Австрия и започва поредицата Революционни войни.\n 1841 г. – Във Филаделфия Едгар Алън По публикува Убийство на улица Морг, смятан за първия криминален разказ.\n 1846 г. – В Лайпциг Иван Богоров издава първия брой на първия български вестник Български орел.\n 1876 г. – Избухва Априлското въстание, насочено срещу османското владичество в България.\n 1920 г. – Официално са открити VII летни олимпийски игри в Антверпен, Белгия.\n 1935 г. – Започва да функционира автобусният транспорт в София.\n 1940 г. – В САЩ е демонстриран първият електронен микроскоп.\n 1941 г. – България във Втората световна война: Втора българска армия окупира Беломорска Тракия.\n 1943 г. – Започва избиването на евреи във Варшавското гето.\n\n 1968 г. – Състои се първият концерт на Deep Purple в градчето Таструп, Дания.\n 1972 г. – Аполо 16 каца на Луната.\n 1975 г. – Село Виница става квартал на Варна.\n 1984 г. – Христо Проданов става първият български алпинист, който изкачва връх Еверест, при завръщането си от който, два дни по-късно, загива.\n 1998 г. – Германската терористична групировка Фракция Червена армия обявява, че се саморазпуска след 28 години съществуване.\n 1999 г. – Учениците Ерик Харис и Дилън Клиболд извършват масово убийство в гимназията на Колумбайн, Колорадо, като убиват 13 и раняват 24 души, преди да се самоубият.\n 2010 г. – Експлозия на нефтената платформа Дийпуотър Хърайзън в Мексиканския залив причинява най-големия нефтен разлив в историята на нефтената индустрия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1492 г. – Пиетро Аретино, италиански писател († 1556 г.)\n 1727 г. – Флоримон-Клод дьо Мерси-Арженто, белгийски дипломат († 1794 г.)\n 1808 г. – Наполеон III, френски политик и император († 1873 г.)\n 1818 г. – Хайнрих Гьобел, американски изобретател († 1893 г.)\n 1839 г. – Карол I, крал на Румъния († 1914 г.)\n 1846 г. – Георги Икономов, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1848 г. – Курд Ласвиц, германски писател († 1910 г.)\n 1856 г. – Кирил Ботев, български генерал, брат на Христо Ботев († 1944 г.)\n 1857 г. – Херман Банг, датски писател († 1912 г.)\n 1858 г. – Георги Мечконев, български военен деец († 1930 г.)\n 1868 г. – Тома Давидов, български офицер и революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1873 г. – Гомбожаб Цибиков, руски изследовател († 1930 г.)\n 1879 г. – Итало Гариболди, италиански офицер († 1970 г.)\n 1881 г. – Николай Мясковски, руски композитор († 1950 г.)\n 1889 г. – Адолф Хитлер, германски диктатор († 1945 г.)\n 1889 г. – Георги Овчаров, български архитект († 1953 г.)\n 1891 г. – Паисий Каравелов, български духовник и общественик († 1944 г.)\n 1893 г. – Жоан Миро, испански художник († 1983 г.)\n 1893 г. – Харолд Лойд, американски актьор († 1971 г.)\n 1907 г. – Августин Кандиотис, гръцки духовник († 2010)\n 1918 г. – Кай Сигбан, шведски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2007)\n 1927 г. – Карл Мюлер, швейцарски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1987 г.\n 1927 г. – Павел Луспекаев, съветски актьор († 1970 г.)\n 1928 г. – Добри Палиев, български перкусионист, композитор († 1997 г.)\n 1928 г. – Робърт Бърн, американски шахматист († 2013 г.)\n 1929 г. – Вадим Юсов, руски кинооператор († 2013 г.)\n 1932 г. – Тончо Русев, български композитор, диригент и музикант († 2018 г.)\n 1932 г. – Ибро Лолов, български акордеонист († 2015 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джордж Такеи, американски актьор\n 1939 г. – Джо Камп, американски режисьор\n 1941 г. – Райън О'Нийл, американски актьор\n 1943 г. – Венцеслав Николов, български виолончелист, диригент и педагог\n 1943 г. – Джон Елиът Гардинър, английски диригент\n 1945 г. – Грегъри Олсен, американски астронавт\n 1946 г. – Рикардо Мадуро, президент на Хондурас\n 1947 г. – Виктор Суворов, руски писател\n 1949 г. – Джесика Ланг, американска актриса\n 1950 г. – Александър Лебед, руски генерал († 2002 г.)\n 1951 г. – Лутер Вандрос, американски певец († 2005 г.)\n 1953 г. – Николай Грънчаров, български футболист († 1997 г.)\n 1954 г. – Росица Борджиева, българска певица\n 1956 г. – Каха Бендукидзе, грузински политик († 2014 г.)\n 1959 г. - Вим Хоф, холандски ментор, известен още като „Ледения човек“\n 1962 г. – Стамен Явахчов, български пантомимист\n 1964 г. – Анди Съркис, английски актьор\n 1964 г. – Деа Лоер, германска писателка\n 1970 г. – Стефан Цветков, български тенисист\n 1972 г. – Желко Йоксимович, сръбски певец\n 1972 г. – Кармен Електра, американски модел и актриса\n 1976 г. – Йоанис Папайоану, гръцки шахматист\n 1976 г. – Шей Гивън, ирландски футболист (вратар)\n 1977 г. – Алехандро Сичеро, венецуелски футболист\n 1985 г. – Кърт Хокинс, американски кечист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1089 г. – Димитър Звонимир, крал на Хърватия (* неизв.)\n 1164 г. – Виктор IV, римски антипапа (* 1095 г.)\n 1314 г. – Климент V, римски папа (* 1264 г.)\n 1768 г. – Джовани Каналето, италиански художник (* 1697 г.)\n 1872 г. – Людевит Гай, хърватски писател (* 1809 г.)\n 1885 г. – Густав Нахтигал, германски военен лекар (* 1834 г.)\n 1912 г. – Брам Стокър, ирландски писател (* 1847 г.)\n 1918 г. – Карл Фердинанд Браун, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1850 г.)\n 1918 г. – Христо Никифоров, български политик (* 1855 г.)\n 1923 г. – Прокопий Лазаридис, гръцки духовник, митрополит на Вселенската патриаршия, новомъченик, обявен за светец (* 1859 г.)\n 1925 г. – Иван Минков, български опълченец (* 1883 г.)\n 1939 г. – Петър Ацев, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1947 г. – Кристиан X, крал на Дания (* 1870 г.)\n 1948 г. – Мицумаса Йонаи, министър-председател на Япония (* 1880 г.)\n 1952 г. – Александрин фон Мекленбург-Шверин, кралица на Дания (* 1879 г.)\n 1953 г. – Ерих Вайнерт, германски поет († 1890 г.)\n 1960 г. – Ксения Александровна, велика руска княгиня (* 1875 г.)\n 1962 г. – Иван Вълков, български офицер (* 1875 г.)\n 1964 г. – Димитър Ганев, български комунист (* 1898 г.)\n 1965 г. – Стефан Сърчаджиев, български кинорежисьор (* 1912 г.)\n 1970 г. – Паул Целан, австрийски поет (* 1920 г.)\n 1982 г. – Ацо Шопов, македонски писател (* 1923 г.)\n 1982 г. – Юлиус Тинцман, германски писател (* 1907 г.)\n 1989 г. – Дору Давидович, румънски авиатор и уфолог (* 1945 г.)\n 1992 г. – Бени Хил, британски комик (* 1924 г.)\n 1995 г. – Милован Джилас, югославски политик (* 1911 г.)\n 1996 г. – Кристофър Робин Милн, английски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1999 г. – Рик Руд, американски кечист (* 1958 г.)\n 2001 г. – Николай Ковачев, български езиковед\n 2008 г. – Ксенте Богоев, македонски политик (* 1919 г.)\n 2018 г. – Авичи, шведски диджей (* 1989 г.)\n 2021 г. – Идрис Деби, чадски политик (* 1952 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на свободния печат. Обявен е през 1991 г. от организацията „Репортери без граница“.\n Астрология: последен ден на слънчевия знак Овен\n Международен празник на канабис културата – 4/20\n\n420"
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        "text": "Date of Birth 17-June-1943\nPlace of Birth Williamsburg\n(New York metropolitan area, New York City, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Community District 1, New York)\nNationality United States of America\nAlso know as Барри Манилоу, Barry Manillow, Barry Alan Pincus, Barry Alan Pincus, Barry Manilow\nProfession Conductor, Singer-songwriter, Record producer, Musician, Pianist, Theatrical producer, Actor, Composer, Film Score Composer, Screenwriter, Film Producer\nBarry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as \"Mandy\", \"Can't Smile Without You\", and \"Copacabana\". In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-seller charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Herb Alpert, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis. He has recorded a string of Billboard hit singles and multi-platinum albums that have resulted in his being named Radio & Records' No. 1 adult contemporary artist, and winning three straight American Music Awards for favorite pop/rock male artist. Between 1974 and 1983 Manilow had three No. 1 singles and 25 that reached the top 40. Although not a favorite of music critics, several well-known entertainers have praised Manilow, including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s saying, \"He's next.\" In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, \"Don't stop what you're doing, man. We're all inspired by you.\" As well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials. From February 2005 to December 30, 2009, he was the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, performing hundreds of shows before ending his relationship with the hotel. Since March 2010, he has headlined at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide. On July 4, 2013, he performed live on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol as part of A Capitol Fourth on PBS.\nAwards by Barry Manilow\nCheck all the awards nominated and won by Barry Manilow.\nNominations 2010 »\nAward Nominated\nNominated Work\nGrammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album The Greatest Love Songs of All Time\nGrammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album In the Swing of Christmas\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program\nHonored for : Manilow: Music & Passion\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program Manilow: Music & Passion\nGrammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Manilow Sings Sinatra\nRazzie Award for Worst Original Song\nHonored for : Thumbelina\n(For the song Marry The Mole!.)\nRazzie Award for Worst Original Song Thumbelina\nFor the song \\\"Marry The Mole!\\\".\nBrit Award for Best International Solo Artist\nPeople's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist\nAmerican Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist\nGrammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance\nHonored for : Copacabana (At the Copa)\n(Artist)\nGrammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Copacabana (At the Copa)\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety Or Music The Second Barry Manilow Special\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy, Variety, or Music Special The Second Barry Manilow Special\nSpecial Tony Award\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety Or Music\nHonored for : The Barry Manilow Special\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety Or Music The Barry Manilow Special\nPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy, Variety, or Music Special The Barry Manilow Special\nGrammy Award for Record of the Year I Write the Songs\nGrammy Award for Record of the Year Mandy\nTrack from: Barry Manilow II"
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        "text": "இவற்றிற்கான களஞ்சியம் 'World Socialist Web Site' வகை\n[World Socialist Web Site] The government and their supporters want to encourage a war mentality in this country – teledrama director Athula Pieris\nPublished by CAPitalZ under Racism,Sri Lanka,Terrorism,World Socialist Web Site\nCensorship of filmmakers, artists and writers is escalating in Sri Lanka in line with the Rajapakse government’s intensification of its war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).\nIn a recent case, the Sri Lanka Ruphavanini Corporation (SLRC), the island’s state-funded television channel, cut dialogue from the weekly teledrama Sudu Kapuru Pethi (White Camphor) early last month and a few days later axed the series entirely, claiming it “disgraced” the military.\nThe then SLRC chairman Newton Gunaratne told the media the television show had insulted the security forces. “Some parts of this teledrama bring disgrace to these soldiers and their self-respect,” he claimed. Gunaratne, however, made no attempt to substantiate his claims.\nIn fact, the multi-episode drama directed by Athula Pieris and funded by the broadcaster is a love story involving a Sinhalese girl from Sri Lanka’s south and a Tamil boy from the north. Based on Thushari Abesekera’s award-winning novel of the same name, the teledrama is set during the island’s protracted civil war prior to the 2002 ceasefire. The drama was initiated following the 2004 Boxing Bay tsunami and promoted by the SLRC as part of the network’s attempts to present “a new vision of peace”.\nWhile Sudu Kapuru Pethi is not an explicit antiwar drama, it is a humane work. Its central love story between Tamil and Sinhalese youth is anathema to the Sinhala communalists, who dominate the Sri Lankan state, including the army. Its censorship follows a pattern of increasingly serious attacks on artists, filmmakers and journalists who reject Sinhala racism or dare to raise questions about the government’s war drive.\nLast year Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera published a comment in the Sunday Times denouncing local filmmakers—Asoka Handagama, Vimukthi Jayasundera, Prasanna Vithanage and Sudath Mahadiwulvewa—for making antiwar movies. He claimed these films aided “terrorism” and were tantamount to treason.\nA few days later Weerasekera, accompanied by Brigadier Daya Ratanayke, met with several filmmakers, including Handagama and Mahadiwulvewa, and said those who failed to produce pro-military movies when war resumed against the LTTE would “face the consequences”. The “consequences” were soon made clear.\nIn March, Culture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana suddenly banned Asoka Handagama’s Aksharaya even though the film was not about the civil war. It had been already approved by Sri Lanka’s censorship body, the Public Performance Board (PPB) and cleared for local release.\nHandagama’s movie was denounced as a “foreign-inspired” attack on Sri Lankan moral values. State authorities threatened criminal charges against the director, claiming he had violated the country’s child protection laws.\nLast month’s axing of Sudu Kapuru Pethi was equally arrogant and provocative. SLRC management did not even bother to tell director Athula Pieris that dialogue had been cut from his show. He only learnt about it during the broadcast of its tenth episode on September 3.\nWhen Pieris protested this violation, management “suggested” he re-edit the entire program. He refused and the show, which had another 13 episodes to run, was summarily cancelled.\nPieris is a well-known local television director whose Sindu kiyana Una Pandura (Singing Bamboo Bush) won Sri Lanka’s best single episode teledrama prize in 2005. He told the World Socialist Web Site the SLRC invested some 4.7 million rupees in the production, which had been initiated under the previous Kumaratunga government. The Rajapakse government approved its script in late 2005.\n“After broadcasting 10 weekly episodes the SLRC stopped my teledrama without providing any acceptable reason. Without my knowledge they censored the dialogue—‘Jaffna tears are as cold as tears in Hambantota [Rajapakse’s electorate]’—in the tenth episode and then telecast it,” he said.\nPieris’s ability to legally challenge the axing of his production is limited because he is an SLRC employee and does not own the rights to the teledrama. But he is determined to fight this attack on artistic freedom.\n“I condemn any sort of censorship, let alone state-sponsored censorship, which effects the creator’s and the viewer’s freedom,” he continued. “This is what happened with the recent banning of the local film Aksharaya (A Letter of Fire).\n“The government and their supporters want to encourage a war mentality in this country. My drama attempts to discuss the real situation here and that’s why they censored some scenes.”\nThe cancellation of Sudu Kapuru Pethi foreshadows further assaults on democratic rights. As it widens its deeply unpopular war, the Rajapakse government is determined to silence any opposition. In this case, the suggestion that ordinary Tamils and Sinhalese share common problems and concerns was enough to provoke the ire of those who are deliberately stoking communal hatreds.\nSri Lanka’s state-owned television censors drama series"
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        "text": "Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) **\nI expect the reason director Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) made it into the 1001 Book is it is considered by many film critics as an early example of feminist cinema. That said, I must say that it was a bit lackluster for my taste. Yes, it was mildly entertaining to see a 20-year old M aureen O’Hara be upstaged by the Queen “B” actress of Hollywood, Lucile Ball, but that’s pretty much the most entertaining thing about it.\nJudy O’Brien (O’Hara) is supposed to be a classically trained ballerina—by a former Bolshoi ballerina (Maria Ouspenskaya) nonetheless. Of course, this premise is ridiculous as O’Hara was far from a ballerina, although she had taken dance lessons at school and had danced in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Reflecting on the film, O’Hara admitted that she struggled mightily to get the ballet sequences down. Admittedly, the best dancer in the picture was Ball, who’d been both a Ziegfeld and Goldwyn girl. Yet, O’Hara was cast as the classy but innocent Judy and Ball got the part of the floozy Burlesque queen, Bubbles (aka Tiger Lily White). The characters suited both women—even if the ballet didn’t suit O’Hara.\nThe crux of the film hinges on one thing: sex. Bubbles has sex appeal and knows how to use it to get ahead, while Judy’s pristine innocence blocks her path to success and love at every turn. Bubbles is the sort of woman that millionaires like Jimmy Harris (Louis Hayward) use to get over their wives (Virginia Field). She’s also the type that men will pay money to come see dance (be it the hula or a comedic striptease). Poor Judy, all she’s good for is to get boos from the pervs who want to see Bubbles shake her ass instead of Judy’s would-be ballet routine and to make men realize they still love their wives. It’s a comedy (sort of), so I know it’s supposed to be amusing that Bubbles always seems to thwart Judy’s dreams, but there’s an added element of amusement knowing that O’Hara would go on to be a highly regarded film actress and Ball would find herself the queen of television.\nOnce you get over the fact that a respected ballet producer (Ralph Bellamy) would track Judy down at a burlesque hall to give her a shot at stardom without having ever seen her dance, you can enjoy Ball’s comedic abilities and every now and again ca tch a glimpse of O’Hara’s noted fieriness. Ball wears the character of Bubbles as if she were born to play the part. Sassy, spunky, and funny are the adjectives that best describe Bubbles. She knows how to use what the good lord gave her to make her way in a man’s world. Her rendition of “Mother, What Do I Do Now?” is worth the price of admission—especially if you’ve seen Marilyn Monroe’s famous blowing dress scene in The Seven Year Itch (1955)—who knew Lucy could teach Marilyn a trick or two about sex appeal? Probably the best line of the film is when a stage hand tells Bubbles to give the audience all that she’s got and she quips, “They couldn’t handle it.”\nOf course, O’Hara’s impassioned dressing down of the burlesque audience and her somewhat impudent behavior in night court after walloping Ball show glimmers of what made O’Hara such a likable actress. Anyone familiar with that little spark that burns in her eyes when she is about to go off (just about the entirety of The Quiet Man) will recognize it when it finally shows itself right before the Irish comes out:\n“Go on, laugh, get your money's worth. No-one's going to hurt you. I know you want me to tear my clothes off so you can look your fifty cents' worth. Fifty cents for the privilege of staring at a girl the way your wives won't let you. What do you suppose we think of you up here with your silly smirks your mothers would be ashamed of? We know it'd the thing of the moment for the dress suits to come and laugh at us too. We'd laugh right back at the lot of you, only we're paid to let you sit there and roll your eyes and make your screamingly clever remarks. What's it for? So you can go home when the show's over, strut before your wives and sweethearts and play at being the stronger sex for a minute? I'm sure they see through you. I'm sure they see through you just like we do!”\nYep, that’s the Maureen O’Hara I know…not a fake ballerina who would allow herself to be upstaged by Lucille Ball.\nOverall, Dance, Girl, Dance is a rather forgettable picture. However, this was probably the best film performance of Ball’s career. I’m sure there’s loads of fodder for feminist theorists to discuss about Dance, Girl, Dance, but, for me, at least, it’s a minor element which I‘m not that interested in.\nLabels: **, 1940, Arzner (Dorothy)\nTSorensen May 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM\nThis movie starts and ends with Lucille Ball. I had frankly forgotten the plot of the movie, but not Lucille Ball. She is fun and sassy and kicks ass (literally). I have some problems seeing what is particularly feminist about the movie. If anything it emphasize womens role as eye-candy for men, perticularly with Ball making such an impact in the movie. Ah, well...\nKimWilson May 24, 2014 at 8:59 PM\nIt is lackluster--probably the reason it was removed from the most recent edition."
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        "text": "Labels: israel, jordan, middle east\nLast update - 05:00 10/11/2005\nIsraelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings\nBy Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent\nA number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.\nThe Foreign Ministry stated Wednesday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were in contact with local authorities to examine any report of injured Israelis, but none were received. There are often a number of Israeli businessman and tourists in Amman, including in the hotels hit Wednesday.\nIsrael's counter-terror headquarters on Wednesday recommended Israeli citizens not travel in Jordan. Travel warnings regarding Jordan were tightened a few months ago, but many Israelis still visit the country. Many also visit other regions such as the Jordanian Arava and the ancient city of Petra.\nfull text:http://www.rense.com/general68/quashed.htm\nScores Dead In Three\nAmman Hotel Bombings\nIsraelis Evacuated Before Attack\nBy Yoav Stern and Zohar Blumenkrantz\nHa'aretz Daily - Israel\nBombs rocked three hotels in Amman late last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 115 in apparent suicide attacks. One of the hotels is known to be popular with Israeli tourists.\n\"There were three terrorist attacks on the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels, and it is believed that the blasts were suicide bombings,\" police spokesman Major Bashir al-Da'aja told The Associated Press. He declined to elaborate.\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.\nA police official said the attacks were simultaneous and hit minutes before 9 P.M. in two districts in the Jordanian capital, including the commercial area of Jebel Amman and Al-Rabiyeh, which houses the Israeli Embassy.\nA number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.\nThe Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were in contact with local authorities to examine any report of injured Israelis, but none were received. There are often a number of Israeli businessman and tourists in Amman, including in the hotels hit yesterday.\nIsrael's counter-terror headquarters yesterday recommended Israeli citizens not travel in Jordan. Travel recommendations regarding Jordan were tightened a few months ago, but many Israelis still visit the country. Many also visit other regions such as the Jordanian Arava and the ancient city of Petra.\nThe first bomber, at 8:50 P.M. local time, struck the Grand Hyatt, completely shattering the stone entrance. An AP reporter saw at least seven bodies removed from the hotel and many more wounded carried out on stretchers.\nCNN reported an eyewitness saying the Jordanian prime minister's car was at the Grand Hyatt at the time of the blast.\nPolice said a second explosion hit the nearby Radisson SAS hotel, where about 250 people were attending a wedding reception. At least five were killed and at least 20 wounded in that blast, believed to have been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters.\nThe Radisson, in particular, is popular with Israeli tourists and was a target of several foiled Al-Qaida plots in the past.\nPolice also reported a third explosion at the Days Inn Hotel in Amman. There were also casualties at that hotel.\n\"The attacks carry the trademark of Al-Qaida,\" one police official said on condition of anonymity in line with police regulations. \"However, it is not certain. We are investigating.\"\nAyman al-Safadi, editor of Jordan's Al-Ghad newspaper, told the Al-Arabiya satellite network that it was a \"terrorist operation.\"\n\"Finally, the terrorists succeeded in breaking the security in Jordan,\" he said, referring to past success in foiling many terror plots.\nJordan's King Abdullah II condemned the attack, saying, \"Justice will pursue the criminals\" behind the Amman suicide attacks, CNN reported. Abdullah, who was on an official visit to Kazakhstan, cut short his trip and was returning home last night.\nThe Grand Hyatt and Radisson SAS hotels, in the commercial Jebel Amman district, are located about one kilometer apart and are frequented by American and European businessmen and diplomats. The Days Inn is located three kilometers away.\nAn American businessman who was at the Grand Hyatt when the explosion occurred said a \"bomb that went off in the lobby.\" He declined to identify himself.\n\"It was a miracle that we made it out with a scratch,\" said a British guest at the Grand Hyatt.\n\"We thought it was fireworks for the wedding but I saw people falling to the ground,\" said Ahmed, a wedding guest at the\nRadisson who did not give his surname. \"I saw blood. There were people killed. It was ugly.\"\nJordan, a key ally of both the United States and Israel, had largely escaped the terror attacks that have hit other parts of the Middle East, and its sleepy capital, Amman, is viewed as a haven of stability in the region.\nBut Jordan has not been entirely immune: On Aug. 19, militants fired three Katyusha rockets at a U.S. Navy ship docked at the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, narrowly missing it and killing a Jordanian soldier.\nJordanian officials blamed that attack on Al-Qaida in Iraq, and there have been growing worries that the violence in Iraq could spill over into Jordan, where many Iraqi exiles have taken refuge from the violence.\nhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643691.html\nWho died, and who didn't, in Jordan\nThere is an excellent summary of some peculiarities in the Jordan bombings in Xiaodong People, tying it to warnings given to Israelis in other recent 'terrorist' attacks (we might add the Odigo 9-11 warnings). The original story that the Israelis received warnings has been whitewashed, and the link replaced by a denial. There is, however, reported confirmation of advance warning from Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official. You have to wonder why the Israelis chose not to share their wonderful intelligence with the Jordanians (in much the same way that you might wonder why they didn't go into more detail in their warnings to the United States on 9-11, particularly as their intelligence was apparently good enough and specific enough to be able to send Israeli agents to film the attack on the WTC, not to mention cheer it on). The attack did manage to kill the head of the Palestinian intelligence services (not to mention a Palestinian banker and a Palestinian commercial attache), and members of a delegation from China's University of National Defense, with whom the Palestinians might be assumed to be meeting (or at least the Israelis might have so assumed; see Kurt Nimmo on the Chinese connection). Since at least one of the bombs was pre-planted in a ceiling of the hotel, it would be very interesting to know who owned the hotel and could give access to bomb planters. The Jordanian reaction, to blame it all on the same dead man the Americans use as the scapegoat in Iraq, is probably a reflection of the extremely close ties between the CIA and Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate. I think we can probably chalk this one up to the continuing battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians over who gets to be protected by China after the American Empire collapses under the weight of trying to build the Israeli Empire."
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        "text": "Do you need someone to create an op movie or any other movies for the game? I'm volunteering my skills to help out.\nStuff I use for motion graphics: Eyeon Fusion / Nuke / Flame / Inferno / Vizrt (unusual but fast).\nRe: Help for op movie?\nAs with everything else, if you're looking to join, the best way to do it isn't by posting \"Look how Awesome I am!\"."
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        "text": "Private Authority and Disaster Relief\nThe Cases of Post-Tsunami Aceh and Nias\nAuthor: Chhandasi Pandya\nThis article explores the rise of private authority in globalized disaster relief scenarios by looking at the case of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Aceh and its neighboring region, Nias, after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The author places the growing strength and presence of NGOs within the larger context of weak, cash-strapped local governments under decentralization schemes promoted by neoliberal economic policies and argues that under such conditions, private actors such as NGOs are gaining a legitimacy of authority once reserved exclusively for the state. In Aceh after the tsunami, five hundred NGOs began operating relief and recovery efforts on the island with little consultation with local Acehnese government agencies and community organizations. The article concludes by arguing that the example of Aceh, in which public and private parallel systems of relief and recovery have been operating raises long-term issues of accountability for all parties involved.\n© 1999 ILO/Deloche P."
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        "text": "Overview for Leslie Stevens\nPrivate Property (1960) September 06 (ET) - REMINDER\nFOR Leslie Stevens YOU CAN\nA Chorus Line ... Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Audrey Landers. Would-be Broadway dancers suffer... more info $7.95was $14.98 Buy Now\nRed Dragon ... Director Brett Ratner adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Starring... more info $11.95was $14.98 Buy Now\nAlso Known As: Died: April 24, 1998\nBorn: February 3, 1924 Cause of Death: complications of emergency angioplasty\nBirth Place: Washington, Washington D.C., USA Profession: Writer ...\nDirector (feature film)\nThree Kinds of Heat (1987) as Director\nA gang of criminals is followed by three friends from Harlem to London's high scoiety parties.\nI Love a Mystery (1973)\nSurfacing six years after being made and eagerly awaited by old-time radio buffs, this send-up of the fondly remembered mystery show had insurance detectives Jack Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York searching for a mysterious billionaire. Not to be confused with the 1945 film of the same name, also ba\nSearch (1972) as Creator\nIn this chase thriller, the pilot for the TV series \"Search\" (1972-73), a space-age detective, monitored and directed by mission control center, investigates the disappearance of a fabulous gem collection. O'Brian, Meredith and Angel Tompkins continued in the short-lived series, and were joined by T\nIncubus (1965)\nAn evil spirit plots to snare the soul of a courageous and good man.\nHero's Island (1962) as Director\nIndentured servants colonizing a Carolina island fight off rival settlers with the help of a notorious pirate.\nPrivate Property (1960) as Director\nTwo young criminals set out to seduce an unhappy married woman.\nWriter (feature film)\nGordy (1994)\nA piglet becomes a national hero and the CEO of a corporation after it rescues a rich little boy from drowning.\nReturn to the Blue Lagoon (1991)\nAfter the lovers of the first film die at sea, and their young son is rescued by a ship infected with cholera. The son escapes the ship with a young girl and her mother, and the two youths become lovers on an unchartered island.\nThree Kinds of Heat (1987) as Screenwriter\nSheena (1984) as From Story\nA legendary queen of the jungle finds herself fighting evil in the deepest, darkest parts of Africa.\nA 20th Century astronaut is transported through time to the 25th Century, where his \"old\" habits first amuse then come to the aid of the people of the future.\nStonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Screenwriter\nA movie pilot about a female private eye who goes undercover as a porno actress to unravel the case of a prominent industrialist's missing daughter.\nGemini Man (1976) as Screenwriter\nIn this recycling of the unsuccessful TV series \"The Invisible Man,\" a brash special agent finds himself capable of invisibility from the after-effects of an underwater explosion during a government salvage operation and uses his new-found \"talent\" to prove the incident was sabotage. Unfortunately,\nFer-De-Lance (1974) as Screenwriter\nA disaster movie that has terror stalking a stricken sub, wedged deep below the sea and crawling with deadly vipers. In Great Britain, this film was released theatrically as \"Death Dive,\" a somewhat more descriptive title.\nSearch (1972) as Screenwriter\nHero's Island (1962) as Screenwriter\nThe Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Writer\nA Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.\nPrivate Property (1960) as Writer\nThe Left Handed Gun (1958) as Screenwriter\nBilly the Kid sets out for vengeance on the men who killed his mentor.\nProducer (feature film)\nStonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Producer\nSearch (1972) as Producer\nHero's Island (1962) as Producer\nThe Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Producer\nArt Department (feature film)\nRed Dragon (2002)\nEx-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the mysteriou\nDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)\nDeuce Bigalow is a naive, good-hearted fish tank cleaner, who is very dedicated and happy with his work. His only dream is to take his fish and move out of his bad neighborhood to the beach to be close to his friends in the ocean. After he loses his job at the Los Angeles Aquarium, his life changes dramatically. Deuce crosses paths with the debonair Antoine Laconte, world class gigolo. Antoine has the life any man would want, fancy cars, beautiful women and most importantly for Deuce a state of the art aquarium. When Antoine''s lionfish comes down with a potentially fatal gill disorder and he has to go away on business, Antoine asks if Deuce will stay at his apartment. As Deuce gets comfortable at Antoine'' place, he sets off a chain of events that virtually destroys the apartment. Needing money to pay for the damages, and after accidentally answering Antoine''s business phone, Deuce launches his new career as a gigolo. He quickly enters a world beyond his wildest dreams.\nDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Theatrical) (1999)\nWaterboy, The (1998)\nBobby Boucher, a socially inept 31-year-old from the swamps of Louisiana, is home schooled and sheltered by his over-protective Mama. His only contact with society is his waterboy job for a college team where the players relentlessly make fun of him, and his coach doesn''t let him fight back. This all changes when Bobby gets a new coach who lets him stand up for himself. Bobby finally releases years of pent up rage and is transformed into the most devastating tackler on the team. Now Bobby has to learn how to play football and go to college, all behind his Mama''s back. Let''s just hope Mama doesn''t find out.\nPsycho IV: The Beginning (1990)\nA television movie recounting the childhood and adolescence of Norman Bates, the central character in the several \"Psycho\" films. Told through a series of flashbacks during a late-night radio talk show on the subject of matricide.\nA spaceship full of survivors of a doomed planet are headed to planet Earth. Along the way they encounter villainous robots, threatening to derail their Earth bound journey.\nWriter (special)\nVirginian, The (1958) as Writer\nThe original unsold thirty-minute pilot film for the series of the same title (it sold when remade as a ninety-minute pilot). The story of a mysterious stranger, known only as the Virginian, who comes to work as the foreman of a ranch owned by a retired judge. In the pilot episode, the Virginian a\nCrescendo (1957) as Writer\nA kaleidoscope of American music as seen through the eyes of Mr. Sir, a visiting Englishman whose skepticism about American culture is changed when he is introduced to a wide variety of American music styles.\nFilm Production - Main (TV Mini-Series)\nTarzan's Return (1996)"
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        "text": "Disgraced Fmr Hollywood Star Pleads For Trump's Help\nBy Eliza George Matter (Eliza George Matter) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\nFormer Hollywood star Randy Quaid is pleading for Trump's help to get their passports re-issued. His excuse is that the system is rigged.\nAccording to The Daily Caller:\nRandy Quaid on Thursday posted a letter he sent to President Donald Trump pleading for his help against a “rigged system” that he claimed had denied his and his wife’s passports.\nIn the letter, Quaid refers to himself and his wife Evi as “avid, take-no-prisoners, supporters” of Trump’s candidacy and said they celebrated his victory on November 8. In light of his winning the presidency, the “National Lampoons” star said the pair applied for their passports in hopes that “change was on the way,” before claiming that “leftover bureaucrats” from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the Department of State once again denied the “re-issuance” of their passports.\n@realDonaldTrump I couldn’t stop myself from stamping! Sorry . . . But on a serious note, I got no reply to my letter to you so I’m posting it here hoping it will catch your eye. pic.twitter.com/GUbY6yf06D\n— Randy Quaid (@RandyRRQuaid) August 23, 2018\nQuaid and his wife had their passports revoked over what he called “warrants for trespassing” on a property in Santa Barbara that he said at one time belonged to him but was “stolen” by a Hollywood studio executive using “forged documents.”\nAt one point, the “Independence Day” star said he needs the passport in order to get back to work, because “production companies and studios” required it. Quaid then said he supports President Trump because he recognizes that it’s “the people that are going to Make America Great Again.”\nQuaid has had his share of issues from being charged with multiple property crimes to fleeing to Canada because he feared from his life from a group called the 'Star Whackers.' It is unclear if President Trump will help, but regardless, it seems like he needs it."
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        "text": "Hong Kong Plans to House 1 Million People on Artificial Islands\nTo ease the chronic housing crisis, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has pitched a plan to increase the supply of land through the building of artificial islands.\nYear after year, Hong Kong SAR has topped the rankings for the world’s least affordable housing markets. The city’s sky-high property prices have pushed residents into tiny living spaces, including the notorious subdivided apartments known as “coffin homes.”\nThe reclamation of 1,000 hectares off Lantau, the city’s largest island and home to Hong Kong International Airport, will be one of the largest projects of its kind – the new islands would cover an area almost twice the size of Dubai’s 560-hectare Palm Jumeirah.\n400,000 Homes\nBuilding works are scheduled to begin in 2025 with the first residents moving in by 2032, the South China Morning Post reported.\nThe scheme, called the Lantau Tomorrow Vision, aims to house up to 1.1 million more people by building between 260,000 and 400,000 apartments, 70% of which will be reserved for public housing. It also includes a transport network to link the artificial islands to Lantau and other parts of the city.\nAt an estimated cost of US$80 billion, it will be Hong Kong’s most expensive infrastructure project to date. The government, led by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, announced the expansion last year, but recently revealed details of the proposed budget to address public concern over its impact on the city’s coffers, according to the South China Morning Post.\nThere are also concerns about environmental disruption and potential harm to species, particularly a local population of endangered pink dolphins. Hong Kong’s government has said it will set up a US$127 million Lantau Conservation Fund to compensate for habitat loss as a result of the building work.\nIt also said the islands will be designed to withstand sea-level rise and stronger typhoons due to climate change.\nHong Kong SAR has been reclaiming land from the sea for more than 150 years. Hong Kong International Airport was built in the 1990s on an artificial island and is now expanding to include a third runway. And the newly opened Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, the world’s longest sea bridge, has a 6.7 km tunnel between artificial islands to allow shipping to pass.\nOriginal content can be found at the website of World Economic Forum: Hong Kong plans to house 1 million people on artificial islands\nBy Rosamond Hutt\nMade-in-Taiwan Biodegradable Plastic, Delivering Big for Starbucks and Apple\nThe World's Cheapest Solar Power is Provided by India\nThe World’s Most Expensive Places to Own a Home\nHow Fintech is Setting Southeast Asia's SMEs Free\nThis UK Supermarket Aims to Go Packaging-Free\nSouth Korea Takes the Lead in Food Waste Recycling\nPapercraft Artist Johan Cheng Cuts a Slice of Life’s Most Beautiful Moments\nIndia Will Soon Overtake China in Population"
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        "text": "21 април е 111-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (112-и през високосна година). Остават 254 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 753 г. пр.н.е. – Ромул и Рем основават Рим.\n 1509 г. – Хенри VIII става крал на Англия след смъртта на баща си Хенри VII.\n 1526 г. – Бабур, наследникът на Чингиз хан и Тимур, разбива индийската армия и завзема Делхи.\n 1689 г. – В Англия се състои коронацията на Вилхелм III Орански и неговата съпруга Мария II Стюарт.\n 1792 г. – Русия анексира Полското кралство.\n 1836 г. – Тексаската революция: Състои се Битката при Сан Хасинто, в която тексаските войски начело със Сам Хюстън побеждават мексиканците, предвождани от ген. Антонио Лопес де Санта Ана.\n 1874 г. – Васил Друмев е ръкоположен за епископ като Климент Браницки.\n 1898 г. – Започва испано-американската война, в която Кралство Испания загубва контрола над Куба, Пуерто Рико и Филипините.\n 1918 г. – Първата световна война: Германският първокласен военен пилот Манфред фон Рихтхофен, известен като „Червения барон“, е уцелен и убит при въздушен бой над Франция.\n 1921 г. – Обявено е създаването на Арменска ССР в състава на СССР.\n 1925 г – В Букурещ футболистите на СК „Тича“ печелят първата купа в историята на българския спорт.\n 1944 г. – Жените във Франция получават право да гласуват.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съветските войски достигат предградията на Берлин.\n 1954 г. – В Чехия започва процесът против „буржоазните националисти“, сред които е и бъдещият генерален секретар Густав Хусак.\n 1956 г. – Хитът на Елвис Пресли Heartbreak Hotel е първата му песен, излязла на първо място в меродавната класация на списанието Билборд.\n 1960 г. – Официално е открита новата столица на Бразилия – град Бразилия, построена само за четири години по авангардния проект на архитекта Оскар Нимайер.\n 1963 г. – Бийтълс и Ролинг Стоунс правят съвместен концерт в Ричмънд.\n 1967 г. – Няколко дни преди парламентарните избори в Гърция, полковник Георгиос Пападопулос оглавява успешен държавен преврат и налага в страната военен режим, който продължава седем години.\n 1972 г. – Министерският съвет издава постановление за наука и подготовка на кадри чрез интегриране на научните звена на БАН с факултетите на СУ.\n 1976 г. – Валери Андре става първата жена генерал във френската армия.\n\n 1987 г. – Терористичната организация Тигри за освобождение на Тамил Еелам извършва атентат в столицата на Шри Ланка – Коломбо, убити са 106 души.\n 1989 г. – 100 хил. студенти се събират на площад Тянанмън (Пекин) по повод смъртта на лидера на китайските реформи Ху Яобан.\n 1999 г. – Терористи отвличат пасажерски самолет Ту-154 по линията Душанбе – Москва.\n\nРодени \n\n 1555 г. – Лудовико Карачи, италиански художник († 1619 г.)\n 1619 г. – Ян ван Рибек, нидерландски колониален администратор, основател на Кейптаун († 1677 г.)\n 1671 г. – Джон Лоу, шотландски икономист († 1729 г.)\n 1774 г. – Жан-Батист Био, френски физик († 1862 г.)\n 1782 г. – Фридрих Фрьобел, германски педагог († 1852 г.)\n 1816 г. – Шарлот Бронте, британска писателка, Джейн Еър († 1855 г.)\n 1837 г. – Фредрик Байер, датски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1908 г. († 1922 г.)\n 1851 г. – Георги Измирлиев, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1864 г. – Макс Вебер, германски икономист и социолог († 1920 г.)\n 1882 г. – Пърси Уилямс Бриджман, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1946 г. († 1961 г.)\n 1889 г. – Паул Карер, швейцарски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1937 г. († 1971 г.)\n 1912 г. – Марсел Камю, френски режисьор († 1982 г.)\n 1915 г. – Антъни Куин, мексикано-американски актьор, художник и скулптор († 2001 г.)\n 1921 г. – Андре Стил, френски писател и публицист († 2004 г.)\n 1922 г. – Станислав Ростоцки, руски режисьор († 2001 г.)\n 1926 г. – Елизабет II, британски монарх\n 1947 г. – Мария Гигова, българска гимнастичка\n 1947 г. – Иги Поп, американски певец\n 1949 г. – Пламен Джуров, български композитор и диригент\n 1949 г. – Татяна Бек, руски поет и литературовед († 2005 г.)\n 1958 г. – Анди Макдауъл, американска актриса\n 1958 г. – Ива Николова, българска журналистка\n 1962 г. – Тодорка Минева, български преводач и редактор\n 1963 г. – Рой Дюпюи, канадски актьор\n 1966 г. – Валентин Игнатов, български футболист\n 1967 г. – Оля Ал-Ахмед, български преводач и журналист\n 1969 г. – Адриана Дунавска, българска гимнастичка\n 1972 г. – Северина Вучкович, хърватска попфолк певица\n 1976 г. – Грегор Салто, нидерландски диджей\n 1978 г. – Юка Невалаинен, финландски барабанист\n 1983 г. – Тодор Алексиев, български волейболист\n 1987 г. – Ашли Грийн, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 43 пр.н.е. г. – Авъл Хирций, римски политик (* 90 пр.н.е.)\n 1073 г. – Александър II, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1109 г. – Анселм Кентърбърийски, английски теолог (* 1033 г.)\n 1142 г. – Пиер Абелар, френски философ, богослов и поет (* 1079 г.)\n 1509 г. – Хенри VII, крал на Англия (* 1457 г.)\n 1574 г. – Козимо I Медичи, велик херцог на Тоскана (* 1519 г.)\n 1699 г. – Жан Расин, френски драматург (* 1639 г.)\n 1736 г. – Евгений Савойски, австрийски пълководец и държавник (* 1663 г.)\n 1893 г. – Себастиян Лердо де Техада, президент на Мексико (* 1889 г.)\n 1906 г. – Боби Стойчев, български революционер (* ?)\n 1910 г. – Марк Твен, американски писател (* 1835 г.)\n 1915 г. – Стефан Николов, български офицер и революционер (* 1859 г.)\n 1918 г. – Манфред фон Рихтхофен, германски военен летец (* 1892 г.)\n 1924 г. – Елеонора Дузе, италианска актриса (* 1858 г.)\n 1925 г. – Коста Янков, български комунист (* 1888 г.)\n 1938 г. – Мохамед Икбал, индийски ислямски философ и поет (* 1877 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джон Мейнард Кейнс, британски икономист (* 1883 г.)\n 1966 г. – Йозеф Дитрих, германски генерал (* 1892 г.)\n 1967 г. – Анастас Ватев, български военен деец (* 1881 г.)\n 1972 г. – Хуан Карлос Кастаниньо, аржентински художник (* ?)\n 1980 г. – Александър Опарин, руски биолог (* 1894 г.)\n 1996 г. – Джохар Дудаев, чеченски лидер (* 1944 г.)\n 2003 г. – Нина Симон, американска певица и пианистка (* 1933 г.)\n 2010 г. – Хуан Антонио Самаранч, испански спортен функционер (* 1920 г.)\n 2011 г. – Бевърли Бийвър, американска писателка (* 1946 г.)\n\nПразници \n Кения – Ден на жената\n Пакистан – Ден на поета и философа Мохамед Икбал – (1877 – 1938), духовен баща на Пакистан\n Рим – Рожден ден на града (753 пр.н.е.)\n Украйна – Ден на околната среда\n\n421"
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        "text": "In the recording and in the PDF I explain my plan and my feelings about teaching English. \"Practice makes perfect\" is one of my favorite sayings. I believe we should progress gradually but with a lot of oral practice to make sure our learners master the essential structures they need when speaking—the most difficult skill."
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    {
        "text": "Edgar DegasYoung Woman with Ibis\nYoung Woman with Ibis\nDegas made sketches of this composition in a notebook he used during his second stay in Rome in 1857–58. Originally conceived as a depiction of a pensive woman, the picture assumed a mysterious air when Degas added the imaginary Middle Eastern cityscape, the pink flowers, and the two red ibises around 1860–62. About the same time he also considered adding the brilliant birds to his large historical painting Semiramis Building Babylon (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).\nEdgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡɑ]; 1834 – 1917, was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation. At the beginning of his career, Degas wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties, he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.\nThe Dance Class"
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    {
        "text": "22 април е 112-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (113-и през високосна година). Остават 253 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 238 г. – Годината на шестимата императори: Римският сенат обявява за незаконен императора Максимин Трак, заради неговите кръвожадни методи при управлението на Рим и избира чрез гласуване двама нови императори – Пупиен и Балбин.\n 1378 г. – Започва строителството на Бастилията.\n 1500 г. – Португалският мореплавател Педро Кабрал достига Бразилия и я обявява за португалска колония.\n 1529 г. – Испания и Португалия подписват в Сарагоса договор за подялба на откритите и неоткритите още територии в източното полукълбо.\n 1713 г. – Състои се сватбата на граф Карл фон Насау-Саарбрюкен и немската аристократка Кристиана Шарлота фон Насау-Отвайлер.\n 1838 г. – Английският кораб Сириус пресича за пръв път Атлантическия океан, използвайки единствено своята парна машина.\n\n 1876 г. – В Панагюрище е осветено въстаническото знаме за Априлското въстание, изработено от Райна Княгиня.\n 1880 г. – Владивосток получава статут на град.\n 1913 г. – В Атина е подписан предварителен сръбско-гръцки протокол за обща война против България, потвърден чрез официалните тайни договори на 1 май и на 19 май същата година.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: В битката при Ипер германците за първи път използват като оръжие отровен газ – поразени са 15 хил. войници, от които 5 хил. умират.\n 1915 г. – Яне Сандански е убит от засада край Мелник.\n 1925 г. – След Атентата в църквата „Света Неделя“ в София, Христо Ясенов е арестуван.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Фюрербункер: След като научава, че съветските войски са превзели Еберсвалд без бой, Адолф Хитлер признава поражението в своя подземен бункер и обявява, че самоубийството е единственият изход.\n 1969 г. – Мореплавателят Робин Нокс-Джонстън извършва за 312 дни първото околосветско пътешествие, без да спира на суша.\n 1969 г. – В Хюстън (САЩ) е извършена първата трансплантация на човешко око.\n 1970 г. – За първи път в САЩ е отбелязан Ден на Земята.\n 1972 г. – Англичаните Джон Файерфакс и Силвия Кук след 361 дни плаване с гребна лодка пресичат Тихия океан и достигат бреговете на Австралия.\n 1978 г. – В Афганистан комунистите извършват преврат с помощта на СССР.\n 1980 г. – Канада обявява решението си за бойкотиране на Летните олимпийски игри в Москва.\n 1993 г. – Във Вашингтон е открит музей в памет на жертвите от Холокоста.\n\nРодени \n\n 570 г. – Мохамед, арабски религиозен водач († 632 г.)\n 1451 г. – Исабела Кастилска, кралица на Кастилия и Леон, кралица на Арагон († 1504 г.)\n 1518 г. – Антоан Наварски, крал на Навара († 1562 г.)\n 1592 г. – Вилхелм Шикард, германски астроном и математик († 1635 г.)\n 1610 г. – Александър VIII, римски папа († 1691 г.)\n 1658 г. – Джузепе Торели, италиански композитор († 1709 г.)\n 1692 г. – Джеймс Стерлинг, шотландски математик († 1770 г.)\n 1724 г. – Имануел Кант, германски философ († 1804 г.)\n 1766 г. – Ана Стал, френска писателка († 1817 г.)\n 1815 г. – Вилхелм Петерс, германски естественик († 1883 г.)\n 1838 г. – Аритомо Ямагата, японски офицер и политик († 1922 г.)\n 1854 г. – Анри Лафонтен, белгийски правист, Нобелов лауреат през 1913 г. († 1936 г.)\n 1870 г. – Владимир Илич Ленин, руски философ – марксист, революционер – създател на СССР († 1924 г.)\n 1881 г. – Александър Керенски, руски политик и държавник († 1970 г.)\n 1884 г. – Ото Ранк, австрийски психоаналитик († 1934 г.)\n 1894 г. – Максимилиан Фелцман, австро-унгарски офицер († 1962 г.)\n 1899 г. – Владимир Набоков, руски писател († 1977 г.)\n 1904 г. – Робърт Опенхаймер, американски ядрен физик († 1967 г.)\n 1907 г. – Иван Ефремов, руски палеонтолог и писател († 1972 г.)\n 1909 г. – Рита Леви-Монталчини, италианска невроложка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1986 г. († 2012 г.)\n 1914 г. – Михаел Витман, германски командир († 1944 г.)\n 1916 г. – Йехуди Менухин, американски цигулар и диригент, ексцентрик († 1999 г.)\n 1919 г. – Доналд Крам, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1987 г. († 2001 г.)\n 1920 г. – Валери Петров, български поет († 2014 г.)\n 1926 г. – Джеймс Стърлинг, британски архитект († 1992 г.)\n 1927 г. – Христо Пелитев, български писател и журналист († 2012 г.)\n 1932 г. – Никола Анастасов, български актьор и писател († 2016 г.)\n 1932 г. – Добра Савова, българска народна певица\n 1933 г. – Константин Димчев, български актьор († 1984 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джак Никълсън, американски актьор\n 1938 г. – Любен Петров, български политик и генерал\n 1944 г. – Джеймс Стивън Фосет, американски милиардер, околосветски пътешественик († 2007 г.)\n 1949 г. – Вилхелм Краус, български политик († 2020 г.)\n 1955 г. – Артър Бейкър, американски звукозаписен продуцент и дисководещ\n 1960 г. – Март Лаар, министър-председател на Естония\n 1960 г. – Владимир Чуков, български арабист, университетски преподавател\n 1962 г. – Димитър Веселинов, български филолог, професор\n 1968 г. – Ивайло Йорданов, български футболист\n 1969 г. – Ани Салич, българска тв водеща\n 1971 г. – Ерик Мабиус, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Яне Янев, български политик\n 1972 г. – Ана Фалки, италианско-финландски модел и актриса\n 1974 г. – Денис Пошвата, германски барабанист\n 1974 г. – Николай Найденов, български волейболист\n 1975 г. – Карлос Састре, испански колоездач\n 1976 г. – Николай Чавдаров, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Марк ван Бомел, нидерландски футболист\n 1977 г. – Теодора Недева, българска тенисистка\n 1979 г. – Золтан Гера, унгарски футболист\n 1980 г. – Синем Йозтуфан, турска актриса и модел\n 1982 г. – Кака, бразилски футболист\n 1984 г. – Мишел Райън, английска актриса\n 1985 г. – Ксения Симонова, украинска художничка\n 1987 г. – Давид Луис, бразилски футболист\n 1987 г. – Джон Оби Микел, нигерийски футболист\n 1988 г. – Даниел Павлович, швейцарски футболист от хърватски произход\n 2002 г. – Алена Вергова, българска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 296 г. – Кай, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 455 г. – Петроний Максим, римски император (* ок. 396)\n 536 г. – Агапет I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1806 г. – Пиер-Шарл Вилньов, френски адмирал (* 1763 г.)\n 1833 г. – Ричард Тревитик, английски минен инженер и изобретател (* 1833 г.)\n 1839 г. – Денис Давидов, руски поет и генерал (* 1784 г.)\n 1867 г. – Александър Петров, руски шахматист (* 1794 г.)\n 1884 г. – Мария Тальони, италианска балерина (* 1804 г.)\n 1892 г. – Павел Карцов, руски офицер (* 1821 г.)\n 1915 г. – Яне Сандански, български революционер (* 1872 г.)\n 1920 г. – Стоян Мълчанков, български революционер (* 1887 г.)\n 1933 г. – Шандор Ференци, унгарски психоаналитик (* 1873 г.)\n 1933 г. – Хенри Ройс, британски предприемач (* 1863 г.)\n 1953 г. – Ян Чохралски, полски химик (* 1885 г.)\n 1956 г. – Уолт Фулкнер, американски автомобилен състезател (* 1920 г.)\n 1969 г. – Маркиан Попов, съветски офицер (* 1902 г.)\n 1984 г. – Христо Проданов, български алпинист (* 1943)\n 1986 г. – Мирча Елиаде, румънски писател, историк на религиите (* 1907 г.)\n 1989 г. – Емилио Сегре, италиански физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1905 г.)\n 1994 г. – Ричард Никсън, президент на САЩ (* 1913 г.)\n 1996 г. – Асен Хаджиолов, български политик († 1930 г.)\n 2005 г. – Леонид Шамкович, американски шахматист (* 1923 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Ден на Земята (от 1971 г.)\n Бразилия – Ден на откриването\n България – Празник на община Тунджа\n Испания – Ден на почит към кралица Изабела I (1451 – 1504)\n Русия – Ден на програмиста\n САЩ – Ден на Оклахома\n\n422"
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        "text": "Antonine Wall app\nLimes Mittelfranken app\nFrontiers of the Roman Empire\nGerman Limes\nAntonine Wall\nTechnological developments\nApp software\nObject & topographical scanning\nEvents & publications\nApp sponsor\nScanning supporters\nProject particulars\nALApp (en)\nADVANCED LIMES APPLICATIONS\nDeveloping digital content for the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site\nAdvanced Limes Applications (ALApp) is a European project developing and disseminating digital technologies and content for advanced mobile applications to interpret the transnational World Heritage Site Frontiers of the Roman Empire, with a focus on the Antonine Wall in Scotland and the Raetian Limes in Bavaria. Supported by the European Union's Creative Europe programme, the project brings together four partners from Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom to scan archaeological artefacts and sites and make the produced 3D objects available in smartphone and tablet applications, using augmented and virtual reality. These activities are supported by stakeholder events and publications for a variety of audiences.\nSite activities of the ALApp project focus on the Antonine Wall in Scotland and the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in Bavaria, both of which constitute, together with other parts of the Limes in Germany and Hadrian's Wall in England, the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In Scotland, the project works with six locations along the Antonine Wall: Bearsden, Croy Hill, Duntocher, Kinneil, Rough Castle and Watling Lodge. The work in Bavaria, however, focusses on one site, the archaeological landscape at Eining, near Regensburg, including the former Abusina castell.\nsee archaeological sites\nIn the ALApp project, an existing app for smartphones and tablets will be advanced to present in innovative formats new content about the archaeology of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In addition to the use of conventional text, photos and videos, the ALApp features three-dimensional reconstructions of built structures and archaeological objects. The reconstructions of objects are based on high-precision recording of existing artefacts, now stored off-site in museums. For the recording, laser and structured light scanning and micro-photogrammetry. Building reconstructions are based on extensive archaeological and historical research. As virtual reality, the 3D app content is accessed anywhere. For on-site viewing, the app offers utilised augmented reality.\nsee technological developments\nDuring the project duration, the ALApp project partners will run a series of both invited and public events, including international seminars and a conference and workshops with local stakeholders. Publications will provide insights into the progress and results of the project, ranging from information leaflets and a regular email newsletter to policy briefings, magazine articles and academic papers.\nsee events and publications\nThe ALApp project is a collaboration of 4 project partners from Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom: Historic Environment Scotland, the Bavarian State Conservation Office, the Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation and EduFilm & Medien. With cofunding from the European Union's Creative Europe programme, the project partners are advancing an app originally developed with support from Bavarian Savings Bank Foundation. Several museums are supporting the project by providing access to archaeological objects in their care.\nsee partners & supporters\nRunning from 2016 to 2020, ALApp involves advancing a mobile phone app, creating digital content by recording archaeological sites and objects found at them, conducting related audience research, involving relevant stakeholder and disseminating the project's research. Structured into 5 work streams, the project's activities will achieve three objectives. Project outputs will be delivered throughout the duration of the project.\nsee project particulars\n© 2016-2019 ALApp project partners"
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        "text": "Does the authoritative teaching of Christianity st...\nUnderstanding Necessary and Sufficient Conditions\nIdentifying an Argument - Looking for Hidden Premi...\n12 Years a Slave and a Different Perspective\nReview of the Ken Ham-Bill Nye Creation Debate\nIdentifying an Argument: Looking for Trigger Words...\nTools for the God-Fearing Mind\nYesterday, Ken Ham and Bill Nye debated their concepts of creation and evolution at Ham's Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. I watched the debate live with a group at a local church (you can watch a recording for a few more days here), and given that there were nearly 500,000 streams of the event around the globe, it would be easy to estimate that well over half a million people viewed the exchange. Many have commented on the event, but as someone who has previously participated in a formal debate, I thought I would put down some of my observations here.\nI thought the debate was very well run and it went better than I expected. Both Mr. Ham and Mr. Nye were respectful in tone and were genuine in their approaches. I think each participant understood that this event was important and each wanted to make his best case. CNN's Tom Foreman moderated and did an excellent job as well.\nThe debate platform was clean and the podiums for the speakers were spaced comfortably for both audience viewing and the television cameras to get a two-shot. (The graphics on the front of the podiums were my favorite part.) Using a pre-submitted set of questions from the audience allowed the Q & A time to flow quickly and more questions were presented in the 45 minute allotment than could be had with a queue in front of microphones.\nI thought some of Bill Nye's arguments concerning the ice core evidence for 680,000 of winter/summer cycles and the abundance of species variation that argues against such diversification taking place in only a few thousand years were his strongest points. I thought that Ham did a great job in showing how science education today does hold a bias against a creator, even including a clip from a previous interview Bill Nye did. He was particularly strong when referencing a new study that shows all dogs came from a single ancestor and declaring how changes in finch beaks are variations within an instruction set. He also notes that cave fish \"evolving\" to have no eyes is not a net gain; there is no new information there. The fish have only lost the capability of seeing. Ham was also bold enough to present the gospel a few times during the evening, which I appreciated.\nThe most unfortunate thing in this debate is that neither debater focused on the actual debate question! At the beginning of the debate, Foreman clearly stated that the debate question was \"Is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?\" Ham was to argue the affirmative and Nye was to take up the negative. Neither person in their initial opening five minute speech nor in their longer thirty minute second presentations built an argument focused on this question. Ham continually claimed that one must start with certain assumptions when trying to understand the past. However, this doesn't address whether or not creationism is a viable model. Several times throughout the night he highlighted scientists who were also creationists, although most of those had specialties that had nothing to do with creationism or evolution at all. If the debate question were \"can good scientist hold to a creation model?\" this would be prime evidence. Alas, that was not the topic at hand.\nNye actually changed the question when he began his 30 minute presentation. He begins by saying, \"Let's take it back to the question at hand. Does Ken Ham's creation model hold up?\" What? Is that now the topic of the debate? If so, I wouldn't have bothered watching because I'm not interested in Ham's version. Nye offered several strange lines of evidence, such as the shipbuilding capabilities of Noah and his family. Huh? What in the world does that have to do with creation as a viable model in science? In any account of Noah and the flood, the creation has already been established.\nNye also went off on a tangent about fish reproducing asexually versus sexually with others. He notes how asexual reproduction is less desirous but sometimes necessary (that's a straight line for too many jokes.) But again, how does this prove or disprove the question at hand? Could the fish not be designed for such contingencies? It shows neither evolution nor creation but the fact that certain fish in a certain environment have the capability to reproduce asexually. There are other animals that reproduce asexually, too. This completely misses the question.\nNeither presenter provided an actual argument—you know, a series of premises and a conclusion—that I would have expected in a debate. It would have been a much more powerful presentation had the opponents laid out their arguments first and then expounded on them. And it was clear that both presenters were guilty of something I've stressed before: creation conflation.\nThere were a few missed opportunities in the debate that could have been capitalized on. The first is Nye's claim that if you can find \"even one example\" of a fossil crossing layers you would change science forever and \"the scientists of the world would embrace you.\" Well, polystrate fossils have been well-documented, and it hasn't led the scientific community to embrace creationism. There are simply new theories that justify the find as a natural, not a supernatural occurrence.\nThe point that made me laugh out loud, though, was how Nye insisted that scientist WANT to embrace new ideas. We know that scientists resist upsetting their current models, as this 1961 article from Science shows. The more relevant work is that of Thomas Kuhn. In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn demonstrates how the history of science is not one gradually increasing understanding of the world, but it is more how a certain model becomes the status quo and is accepted until someone (whom Kuhn labels \"an outsider\") upsets the status quo by offering a new paradigm. Thus science advancement comes in fits and stages as those who hold the existing model are forced to give way to the newer paradigm.\nTwo examples of Kuhn's paradigm shifts were items that Bill Nye mentioned in the debate: the emergence of plate tectonics and the abandonment of spontaneous generation after Louis Pasteur's experiments. Another I could add was the emergence of the Big Bang model from the previous steady state theory of the universe. Like the other models, the theory was not met with open arms by the scientific community, but by much resistance. Nye seemed to imply that Fred Hoyle liked the idea, when he actually named it in derision and was one of its most vocal opponents. Though it was first proposed by Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître in 1927, it took Wilson and Penzias' discovery of the cosmic background radiation in the 1960's that led it to be the primarily accepted model among cosmologists.\nAnother wince-inducing point was how Nye tried to assert that the Biblical text was transmitted to us through a method like the telephone game. This is simply, demonstrably false and even non-believing scholars l flatly reject such an assertion.\nHam had some egregious moments as well. When he for the third and fourth time referred to his small sampling of scientists who were also creationists, his argument moved from a non-sequitur to a fallacious appeal to authority, and it became annoying from the audience's standpoint. Ham never answered Nye's stronger points above, but simply dismissed them with the rhetorical \"how do we know, we didn't see it!\" Well, if that's the criteria for knowledge about historical events, then we need to fire all the CSI lab technicians and set the murderers free.\nHam also lost points in my opinion when he was asked if he was provided evidence, would he still believe in God. Instead of beginning with the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus, Ham stated that everyone has to have certain presuppositions and the Bible was his presuppositional choice. But doesn't that beg the question? Nye similarly begged the question when asked about things like the emergence of consciousness or how the Big Bang happened from nothing. He simply claimed these were \"great mysteries\" and we should be glad they are there to study.\nThe final question of the night, \"What is the one thing, more than anything else, upon which you base your belief\" was offered to both participants and they basically responded the same way they had been all night long. Ham said one must presuppose the truth of the Bible in order to know history and origins. Nye answered that he based his beliefs on the joy and love he receives from the information and the process of science. Their presuppositions are noted, but each is rather subjective. I know that many creationists also feel Nye's excitement and love of scientific discovery. I know there are many other people who presuppose the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, or some other text as their starting point for interpreting history and creation. Neither answer satisfies a seeker who is honestly trying to make heads or tails out of all this, and while this question may be tangential in itself, neither response helps us answer the question of the debate.\nIn all, I am truly excited that the interest in this debate was so high. I think there are many, many people who really want to discover the facts that are out there and that we as Christian communicators can find fruitful ground in providing some of those answers. There are a lot of holes left open by the participants in the debate. Let's see if we can go out and close some of them with good evidence.\nLabels: beliefs, Bible, creation, debate, evolution, science, worldview\nBernieDehler 1:51 PM\nRE: \"Well, polystrate fossils have been well-documented, and it hasn't led the scientific community to embrace creationism. \"\nLenny, you should know better. There is no 'creationism' position that is specific. Young earthers and old earthers disagree. If you want an answer for polystrate fossils, can't an old-earth ministry like \"Reasons to Believe\" give you the answers? That is a old earth creationist ministry answering the charges from a young earth creationist ministry.\nLenny Esposito 2:02 PM\nBernie, I agree. But realize this wan't my point. It was Bill Nye who insisted multiple times that the fact that fossils don't cross layers is evidence against creation and insisted that if you could find even one the scientific community would hail the discovery. It was Nye's error to present such an absolute claim as evidence.\nGlen 3:24 PM\nI think Ham lost a lot of points by not focusing on the debate question (I don't subscribe to Nye's position and my points system stops at zero anyway.) I had a feeling Ham would inject a lot of a priori comments rather than build up from the creation question; I don't think the debate question was ever answered. Ham could have done so much better by keeping his focus on this one small topic. Of course creation is a viable model!!!\nAludra 6:02 PM\nJust wondering, what is your position on the age of the universe?\nAlso, what is your position on uniformitarianism?"
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        "text": "Two searches for supersymmetric particles in final states containing a same-flavour opposite-sign lepton pair, jets and large missing transverse momentum are presented. The proton-proton collision data used in these searches were collected at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 8TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1). Two leptonic production mechanisms are considered: decays of squarks and gluinos with Z bosons in the final state, resulting in a peak in the dilepton invariant mass distribution around the Z-boson mass; and decays of neutralinos (e.g.. (chi) over tilde (0)(2) - GT l(+)l(-) (chi) over tilde (0)(1)), resulting in a kinematic endpoint in the dilepton invariant mass distribution. For the former, an excess of events above the expected Standard Model background is observed, with a significance of three standard deviations. In the latter case, the data are well-described by the expected Standard Model backg...round. The results from each channel are interpreted in the context of several supersymmetric models involving the production of squarks and gluinos."
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        "text": "History Library\nPart 1 Military History\nCh 7 Peacekeeping Forces in the Middle East\nS 1 Peacekeeping in the Middle East\nPrint version Send email\nA feature of international diplomacy since the Second World War has been the multi-national Peacekeeping Force. Normally such a force involves military personnel to help maintain or restore peace in areas of conflict. The military personnel are provided on a voluntary basis by different countries with the consent of the host governments and usually with the consent of other parties directly involved. The Peacekeeping Force has the role of an objective and impartial third party that helps to create and maintain a cease-fire or form a buffer zone between conflicting sides. The forces usually fall into two broad categories; unarmed military observers, or lightly armed infantry units of battalion strength. These infantry battalions of one country are usually supported by logistic units provided by another country. Australia has supported peacekeeping operations in the Middle East with military observers and logistic support units, but not with infantry units.\nSection 68(3) VEA defines Peacekeeping Forces as forces raised or organised for peacekeeping purposes and described in Schedule 3 VEA, or as so designated by the Minister in a notice published in the Commonwealth Gazette. All Peacekeeping Forces that have had an Australian contribution, including those forces that no longer operate, are listed in Schedule 3. All the forces in the Middle East were organised by the United Nations except for the Sinai Multinational Force and Observers. References for the United Nations missions include Michael Harbottle, The Blue Berets, Stackpole Books 1971 and United Nations Department of Information, The Blue Helmets, United Nations Publications 1985\nURL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/history-library/part-1-military-history/ch-7-peacekeeping-forces-middle-east/s-1-peacekeeping-middle-east"
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        "text": "23 април е 113-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (114-и през високосна година). Остават 252 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 181 г. пр.н.е. – В Рим е открит храмът на Венера, превърнал се в място за поклонение на куртизанките.\n 1348 г. – Крал Едуард III учредява Орден на жартиерата в деня на свети Георги Победоносец.\n 1800 г. – Елена е нападната от кърджалии, опожарена е черквата „Св. Никола“.\n 1827 г. – Уилям Роуън Хамилтон представя теорията си за системата от лъчи.\n 1856 г. – По инициатива на Кръстьо Пишурка в Лом е създадено българско читалище.\n 1876 г. – Въстава Перущица в рамките на Априлското въстание.\n 1896 г. – В Ню Йорк се състои първата публична кинопрожекция.\n 1907 г. – Писателят Джек Лондон се отправя на околосветско пътешествие.\n 1916 г. – По време на Ирландското въстание революционери завземат ключови сгради в Дъблин и провъзгласяват независимостта на Ирландия.\n 1920 г. – В Анкара е свикано Велико национално събрание на Турция, което отменя правомощията на султан Мехмед VI и въвежда временна конституция.\n 1932 г. – В Стратфорд на Ейвън е открит Кралският Шекспиров театър.\n 1935 г. – Приета е новата конституция на Полша.\n 1940 г. – При пожар в нощен клуб в Начез (Мисисипи) загиват 198 души.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Фелдмаршал Херман Гьоринг уведомява с телеграма Хитлер в обсадения Берлин, че поема властта като негов заместник.\n\n 1964 г. – В Москва е открит театър Таганка – сцена на авангардния руски театър.\n 1967 г. – Космическа програма на СССР: СССР изстрелва космическия кораб Союз 1 с Владимир Комаров на борда; при завръщане на Земята настъпва авария и космонавтът загива.\n 1986 г. – Във Великобритания са възстановени полетите с дирижабъл като туристическа атракция.\n 1992 г. – Приет е Закон за приватизацията на държавните предприятия в България.\n 1992 г. – В Пекин (Китай) е открит най-големият в света ресторант от веригата Макдоналдс (700 места).\n 1996 г. – За първа година се чества обявеният от ЮНЕСКО Световен ден на книгата в памет на починалите на тази дата през 1616 г. Мигел де Сервантес, Уилям Шекспир и Инка Гарсиласо де ла Вега.\n 1997 г. – Започва кулинарното предаване „Вкусно“\n 2001 г. – Компанията Intel пуска на пазара микропроцесора Pentium 4.\n 2003 г.— Излиза първата книгата със сатирични фантазии „Птица ли е като птица“ на българския писател Емил Измирлиев.\n 2004 г. – При престрелка в Кербала (Ирак) е ранен старши сержант Димитър Иванов Димитров, който по-късно умира от раните си.\n\nРодени \n\n 1420 г. – Иржи Подебрад, чешки крал († 1471 г.)\n 1464 г. – Жана Френска, френска благородничка († 1505 г.)\n 1676 г. – Фредерик I, шведски крал († 1751 г.)\n 1775 г. – Джоузеф Търнър, английски художник († 1851 г.)\n 1791 г. – Джеймс Бюканън, 15-и президент на САЩ († 1868 г.)\n 1804 г. – Мария Тальони, италианска балерина († 1884 г.)\n 1823 г. – Абдул Меджид, султан на Османската империя († 1861 г.)\n 1856 г. – Иван Мърквичка, български художник († 1938 г.)\n 1857 г. – Руджиеро Леонкавало, италиански композитор († 1919 г.)\n 1858 г. – Макс Планк, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1919 г. († 1947 г.)\n 1859 г. – Никола Желявски, български офицер († 1926 г.)\n 1863 г. – Георги Тенев, български военачалник († 1912 г.)\n 1867 г. – Йоханес Фибигер, датски патролог, Нобелов лауреат през 1926 г. († 1928 г.)\n 1887 г. – Андре Мот, белгийски дипломат (?)\n 1891 г. – Сергей Прокофиев, руски композитор († 1953 г.)\n 1897 г. – Лестър Пиърсън, министър-председател на Канада, Нобелов лауреат през 1957 г. († 1968 г.)\n 1899 г. – Бертил Олин, шведски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1977 г. († 1979 г.)\n 1899 г. – Георги Каракашев, български художник († 1970 г.)\n 1902 г. – Халдоур Лакснес, исландски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1955 г. († 1998 г.)\n 1905 г. – Георги Златев-Черкин, български композитор († 1977 г.)\n 1911 г. – Роналд Ним, английски оператор († 2010 г.)\n 1915 г. – Кристине Буста, австрийска поетеса († 1987 г.)\n 1918 г. – Морис Дрюон, френски писател († 2009 г.)\n 1923 г. – Петър Слабаков, български актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1923 г. – Радой Ралин, български поет и сатирик († 2004 г.)\n 1928 г. – Шърли Темпъл, американска актриса († 2014 г.)\n 1932 г. – Ален Безансон, френски политолог\n 1936 г. – Рой Орбисън, американски певец († 1988 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ванча Дойчева, българска актриса († 2017 г.)\n 1954 г. – Майкъл Мур, американски режисьор\n 1955 г. – Джуди Дейвис, австралийска актриса\n 1957 г. – Патрик Оуржедник, чешки писател\n 1959 г. – Братя Аргирови, български естраден дует\n 1964 г. – Димитър Йорданов, български политик\n 1970 г. – Малин Кръстев, български актьор\n 1976 г. – Хенинг Рюменап, немски китарист\n 1977 г. – Араш Лабаф, ирански певец, актьор и продуцент\n 1977 г. – Джон Сина, американски кечист\n 1978 г. – Валя, българска попфолк певица\n 1984 г. – Александра Костенюк, руска шахматистка\n 1987 г. – Иван Сашов, български актьор\n 1989 г. – Никол Вайдишова, чешка тенисистка\n 1990 г. – Дев Пател, британски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 303 г. – Свети Георги Победоносец, мъченик на християнската вяра (* ок. 275-281)\n 1038 г. – Людолф, граф на Брауншвайг (* ?)\n 1124 г. – Александър I Шотландски, шотландски крал (* ок. 1078)\n 1616 г. – Де Ла Вега, перуански писател (* 1539 г.)\n 1605 г. – Борис Годунов, руски цар (* ок. 1551)\n 1616 г. (23 април по нов стил) – Мигел де Сервантес, испански писател (* 1547 г.)\n 1616 г. (23 април по стар стил) – Уилям Шекспир, английски драматург (* 1564 г.)\n 1850 г. – Уилям Уърдсуърт, английски поет (* 1770 г.)\n 1851 г. – Михаил Лазарев, руски морски капитан (* 1788 г.)\n 1863 г. – Никола Богориди, османски политик от български произход (* 1820 г.)\n 1895 г. – Карл Лудвиг, германски физиолог (* 1816 г.)\n 1914 г. – Харитон Генадиев, български журналист (* 1861 г.)\n 1916 г. – Густав Швалбе, германски анатом, хистолог и антрополог (* 1844 г.)\n 1918 г. – Димитър Ризов, български общественик, публицист и дипломат (* 1862 г.)\n 1922 г. – Леополд Маунтбатън, английски аристократ (* 1889 г.)\n 1942 г. – Иля Рабинович, руски шахматист (* 1891 г.)\n 1951 г. – Чарлс Дос, американски политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1925 г. (* 1865 г.)\n 1953 г. – Питър Де Розе, американски композитор (* 1900 г.)\n 1972 г. – Жорж Папазов, български художник модернист, писател и критик (* 1894 г.)\n 1975 г. – Ролф Дитер Бринкман, немски поет (* 1940 г.)\n 1978 г. – Жак Рюеф, френски икономист (* 1896 г.)\n 1990 г. – Полет Годар, американска актриса, бивша съпруга на Чарли Чаплин (* 1910 г.)\n 1992 г. – Сатяджит Рей, индийски режисьор (* 1921 г.)\n 1996 г. – Памела Травърз, английска писателка от австралийски произход (* 1899 г.)\n 1998 г. – Константинос Георгиу Караманлис, президент на Гърция (* 1907 г.)\n 2003 г. – Курт Клингер, австрийски писател (* 1928 г.)\n 2005 г. – Джон Милс, британски актьор (* 1908 г.)\n 2007 г. – Борис Елцин, първи президент на Русия (* 1931 г.)\n 2012 г. – Хачо Бояджиев, български режисьор (* 1932 г.)\n\nПразници \n Българска православна църква – свети мъченик Лазар Български\n ЮНЕСКО – Световен ден на книгата и авторското право\n Бермудски острови – Ден на пипера\n Великобритания, Гърция и Канада – Ден на св. Георги Победоносец (патронен и национален празник на Англия)\n Германия – Национален ден на бирата\n Каталуния (Испания) – Ден на любовниците (подарява се книга и роза като знак на любовен трепет; празникът е в чест на Сервантес и Шекспир)\n Турция – Ден на суверенитета (от 1920 г.) и Ден на децата (от 1929 г.)\n\n423"
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        "text": "Q: Sorting of photos, on ipad \nPossible Duplicate:\niPad organizing photos \n\nWhat is the criterion for sorting photos, are used by iTunes, when you are uploading them to iPad?\nI'm just trying to arrange photos in right order, before uploading to iPad, but without success, they are still unordered, when i open this album on ipad :( \nI've\n\n\n*\n\n*renamed all photos as \"0001.jpg\", \"0002.jpg\", etc\n\n*removed all EXIF information from this files\n\n*set identical creation and modification time\n\n\nit helps in most cases, but not always :( what i'm doing wrong? \nI don't believe that it can't do such basic things as a ordering of photos in photo album.\nMaybe there exists are an tool for that? ideally an app for ipad.\n\nA: For photo organization, you can't go wrong with Sort Shots. It brings the power of tagging to your photo collection; once you get everything set up you'll be able to find exactly what you're looking for in just a couple of taps. I highly recommend this app to anyone trying to get their photos organized.\n"
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        "text": "I enjoy relaxing with my friends and family.\nI would love to visit Cabo San Lucas.\nI sing a lot while working.\nA boat, gas, and GPS.\nWhat is the weirdest job you've ever been on as a Service Technician?\nBasements that are full of water!\nIf you weren't a Service Technician, what profession would you be in?\nI would be a Charter Boat Captain.\nHike down the Grand Canyon, visit Australia, and backpack through Europe.\nI like to ride motorcycles and bicycles."
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        "text": "Q: How can I set up a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro? Ideally, I'm looking for free or low-cost solutions...  I'd like to test out a variety of operating systems (windows, linux, mac os, etc).\nAny help is appreciated!\n\nA: You basically have three options for Virtualization on Mac OS X:\n\n\n*\n\n*The already mentioned (and free) VirtualBox\n\n*The first solution for Mac (and arguably one of the best ones these days) Parallels for Mac\n\n*The very famous VMware Fusion, from VMWare Inc.\n\n\nAny of these will allow you to run a variety of OSs under OS X without resorting to bootcamp or repartitioning. \nThe last two are not free, but -depending upon your needs- vastly superior in terms of features to VirtualBox. I have the three. I have used the three extensively. In its current versions, Parallels is ahead of VMware. But this changes very often with new versions. Virtual Box is ok but slower (to virtualize) and has way less features. \nVMware is very stable. It never crashed in more than three years of daily usage. \nParallels does perform certain tasks faster than VMware, but will occasionally crash the VM. (It happened about 5 times in a two year period).\nIn the end, either will work if you don’t need anything fancy. \n\nA: You could also consider using bootcamp to partition your hard drive to run different operating systems.\nAlthough you need to reboot to switch OS's I find that one advantage is it runs faster since it isn't being run as a program inside the Mac OS.\nYou can also use those same partitions when using Paralles which is a good vm software, however it isn't free.\n\nA: Clearly it's not free, but if you're a professional who NEEDS access to various flavors of operating systems for your daily work, VMware Fusion is absolutely worth every single penny you spend on it. I'm a web developer, and even though most of my work is built in OS X, I'm constantly testing websites and webapps in IE 6-8, and being able to run separate instances of Windows XP and 7 at the same time has saved me so much effort and time that I can't even begin to describe it.\n\nA: You could try VirtualBox.\nFrom its webpage : \nVirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).\nPresently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.\nVirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.\nI'm using it since I realise I didn't have to pay for having a good virtualization software on Mac OS X.\nI can tell you it works really well, it's easy to setup and very stable.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Which of the Apple provided free iPhone 4 cases has a large free area for dock connectors? I have an iPhone 4 and am contemplating which of the free cases I should get. \nI bought a basic case at Best Buy when I bought my phone. The big problem I have with this one is that the opening at the bottom for the dock connector isn't large enough to connect the adaptor I have to play music in my car (GROM iPod connector -- highly recommended).\nCan anyone advise on which of hte free cases has a larger dock connector? For reference, the Apple Bumper is definitely not big enough.\n\nA: I got the Incase Snap Case through the free program, and it doesn't cover the bottom of the unit at all (except for the sides) so it should work for you, unless your dock connector is massive:\n\n\nA: Ive manually cut a little bit connector hole in my free bumper case:)\n"
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        "text": "Home / Gadgets / Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight\nCrowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight\nadmin June 21, 2019\tGadgets Leave a comment 37 Views\nAmong the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight.\nLightSail 2 doesn’t have solar-powered engines, or use solar energy or heat for some secondary purpose; it will literally be propelled by the physical force of photons hitting its immense shiny sail. Not solar wind, mind you — that’s a different thing altogether.\nIt’s an idea, explained Planetary Society CEO and acknowledged Science Guy Bill Nye said in a press call ahead of the launch, that goes back centuries.\n“It really goes back to the 1600s,” he said; Kepler deduced that a force from the sun must cause comet tails and other effects, and “he speculated that brave people would one day sail the void.”\nSo they might, as more recent astronomers and engineers have pondered the possibility more seriously.\n“I was introduced to this in the 1970s, in the disco era. I was in Carl Sagan’s astronomy class… wow, 42 years ago, and he talked about solar sailing,” Nye recalled. “I joined the Planetary Society when it was formed in 1980, and we’ve been talking about solar sails around here ever since then. It’s really a romantic notion that has tremendous practical applications; there are just a few missions that solar sails are absolutely ideal for.”\nThose would primarily be long-term, medium-orbit missions where a craft needs to stay in an Earth-like orbit, but still get a little distance away from the home planet — or, in the future, long-distance missions where slow and steady acceleration from the sun or a laser would be more practical than another propulsion method.\nThe eagle-eyed among you may have spotted the “2” in the name of the mission. LightSail 2 is indeed the second of its type; the first launched in 2015, but was not planned to be anything more than a test deployment that would burn up after a week or so.\nThat mission had some hiccups, with the sail not deploying to its full extent and a computer glitch compromising communications with the craft. It was not meant to fly via solar sailing, and did not.\n“We sent the CubeSat up, we checked out the radio, the communications, the overall electronics, and we deployed the sail and we got a picture of that deployed sail in space,” said COO Jennifer Vaughn. “That was purely a deployment test; no solar sailing took place.”\nThe spacecraft itself, minus the sail, of course.\nBut it paved the way for its successor, which will attempt this fantastical form of transportation. Other craft have done so, most notably JAXA’s IKAROS mission to Venus, which was quite a bit larger — though as LightSail 2’s creators pointed out, not nearly as efficient as their craft — and had a very different mission.\nThe brand new spacecraft, loaded into a 3U CubeSat enclosure — that’s about the size of a loaf of bread — is piggybacking on an Air Force payload going up to an altitude of about 720 kilometers. There it will detach and float freely for a week to get away from the rest of the payloads being released.\nOnce it’s safely on its own, it will fire out from its carrier craft and begin to unfurl the sail. From that loaf-sized package will emerge an expanse of reflective Mylar with an area of 32 square meters — about the size of a boxing ring.\nInside the spacecraft’s body is also what’s called a reaction wheel, which can be spun up or slowed down in order to impart the opposite force on the craft, causing it to change its attitude in space. By this method LightSail 2 will continually orient itself so that the photons striking it propel it in the desired direction, nudging it into the desired orbit.\n1 HP (housefly power) engine\nThe thrust produced, the team explained, is very small — as you might expect. Photons have no mass, but they do (somehow) have momentum. Not a lot, to be sure, but it’s greater than zero, and that’s what counts.\n“In terms of the amount of force that solar pressure is going to exert on us, it’s on the micronewton level,” said LightSail project manager Dave Spencer. “It’s very tiny compared to chemical propulsion, very small even compared to electric propulsion. But the key for solar sailing is that it’s always there.”\n“I have many numbers that I love,” cut in Nye, and detailed one of them: “It’s nine micronewtons per square meter. So if you have 32 square meters you get about a hundred micronewtons. It doesn’t sound like much, but as Dave points out, it’s continuous. Once a rocket engine stops, when it runs out of fuel, it’s done. But a solar sail gets a continuous push day and night. Wait…” (He then argued with himself about whether it would experience night — it will, as you see in the image below.)\nBruce Betts, chief scientist for LightSail, chimed in as well, to make the numbers a bit more relatable: “The total force on the sail is approximately equal to the weight of a house fly on your hand on Earth.”\nYet if you added another fly every second for hours at a time, pretty soon you’ve got a really considerable amount of acceleration going on. This mission is meant to find out whether we can capture that force.\n“We’re very excited about this launch,” said Nye, “because we’re going to get to a high enough altitude to get away from the atmosphere, far enough that we’ll really gonna be able to build orbital energy and take some, I hope, inspiring pictures.”\nSecond craft, same (mostly) as the last\nThe LightSail going up this week has some improvements over the last one, though overall it’s largely the same — and a relatively simple, inexpensive craft at that, the team noted. Crowdfunding and donations over the last decade have provided quite a bit of cash to pursue this project, but it still is only a small fraction of what NASA might have spent on a similar mission, Spencer pointed out.\n“This mission is going to be much more robust than the previous LightSail 1, but as we said previously, it’s done by a small team,” he said. “We’ve had a very small budget relative to our NASA counterparts, probably 1/20th of the budget that a similar NASA mission would have. It’s a low-cost spacecraft.”\nAnnotated image of LightSail 2, courtesy of Planetary Society.\nBut the improvements are specifically meant to address the main problems encountered by LightSail 2’s predecessor.\nFirstly, the computer inside has been upgraded to be more robust (though not radiation-hardened) and given the ability to sense faults and reboot if necessary — they won’t have to wait, as they did for LightSail 1, for a random cosmic ray to strike the computer and cause a “natural reboot.” (Yes, really.)\nThe deployment of the sail itself has also improved. The previous one only extended to about 90% of its full width and couldn’t be adjusted after the fact. Subsequently tests have been done, Betts told me, to exactly determine how many revolutions the motor must make to extend the sail to 100%. Not only that, but they have put markings on the extending booms or rods that will help double check how deployment has gone.\n“We also have the capability on orbit, if it looks like it’s not fully extended, we can extend it a little bit more,” he said.\nOnce it’s all out there, it’s uncharted territory. No one has attempted to do this kind of mission, even IKAROS, which had a totally different flight profile. The team is hoping their sensors and software are up to the task — and it should be clear whether that’s the case within a few hours of unfurling the sail.\nIt’s still mainly an experiment, of course, and what the team learns from this they will put into any future LightSail mission they attempt, but also share it with the spaceflight community and others attempting to sail on sunlight.\n“We all know each other and we all share information,” said Nye. “And it really is — I’ve said it as much as I can — it’s really exciting to be flying this thing at last. It’s almost 2020 and we’ve been talking about it for, well, for 40 years. It’s very, very cool.”\nLightSail 2 will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no sooner than June 24th. Keep an eye on the site for the latest news and a link to the live stream when it’s almost time for takeoff.\nPrevious Daily Crunch: Google’s not making any more tablets\nNext Northzone’s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming"
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        "text": "\r\npackage com.foc.formula.fucntion.old;\r\n\r\nimport com.foc.formula.FunctionFactory;\r\n\r\npublic class FunctionNot extends BooleanFunction {\r\n\tprivate static final String FUNCTION_NAME = \"NOT\";\r\n\tprivate static final String OPERATOR_SYMBOL = \"!\";\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic Object compute() {\r\n\t\tboolean res = false;\r\n\t\tIOperand operand1 = getOperandAt(0);\r\n\t\tif(operand1 != null){\r\n\t\t\tString operandStr = String.valueOf(operand1.compute());\r\n\t\t\tboolean operand1Boolean = Boolean.valueOf(operandStr);\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\tres = !operand1Boolean;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\treturn res;\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic boolean needsManualNotificationToCompute() {\r\n\t\treturn false;\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic static String getFunctionName(){\r\n\t\treturn FUNCTION_NAME;\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic static String getOperatorSymbol(){\r\n\t\treturn OPERATOR_SYMBOL;\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic static int getOperatorPriority(){\r\n\t\treturn FunctionFactory.PRIORITY_UNARY_SIGN_OPERATOR;\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n"
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        "text": "← Waiting for a Bus in Laos\nWorking on the Birth and Death of Planeville →\nGaming Grand Theft Auto\nPosted on April 2, 2016 by Barry Pomeroy\nOne of the most popular games of all time is Grand Theft Auto. The game features particular missions, in which the characters, or you—depending on game setting—navigate a fictional world to accomplish a goal. Many people play the game “properly” in that they fulfill the expectations of the missions and engage in lots of mayhem. Others, like in life, choose a different path.\nDisclaimer: I am not a gamer. I have played a video game perhaps twice in my life for less than ten minutes total. If games were made up of a set of tasks that taught its user skills, such as a method that a child might study and overcome logic problems, I would be happier with them. Instead, they just seem to be about losing time and having nothing to show for it other than momentary and frivolous excitement. I am much less interested in virtual worlds than I am the one we’re in, and even in the books I write I am less interested in aliens and zombies and magic and gods and dragons than I am the possibilities of humanity, the biological and mechanical world, and scientific advancements. The books I enjoy are more like science textbooks set in the future. That makes me a poor person to review any game, let alone one which is purportedly increasingly complex, shifts with upgrades and in the online version, and has multiple players involved. Not surprisingly, this is not a review.\nRecently I heard from my friend that people were playing such games but playing them against the grain, as it were. You can read more about that on the tumblr, No Wrong Way to Play. I’m not sure if this is ornery humans breaking the rules for fun, encountering a system and messing with it for fun or interest, or if they have merely stepped off the path of conformity and haven’t found their way back.\nInstead of tearing through stop signs and running people down, and in general taking out their infantile anger about their real world life in a virtual environment, some merely visit the Grand Theft world and conduct what otherwise might be a regular life. Eerily similar to the Metaverse in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, this version of the popular game forces it to work against its own rules. Setting aside the contrived mission, these gamers drive cabs, work at jobs, walk down the street, and in a hundred other ways avoid what most of the gamers are trying to do. Seeking a break from their own lives, for any of a hundred reasons, they flex their mental muscles in this safe and stable setting.\nFor me that is a much more interesting phenomenon than people merely shooting and running stop lights. There are people out there forcing the game to work outside its stated intent, and some of the writers of the game have recognized that and coded in those possibilities. As that style of gaming becomes more popular, presumably the games themselves will become much more nuanced and complex, and the shoot ’em up types will be condemned, as they typically are in broader society, to standing alone by the school yard fence or bullying other children on Facebook.\nThere is an entire community of people who force games to go against their programming, or at least stretch the programming that they operate under. In Patricia Hernandez’ “Guy Beats Fallout 4 Without Killing Anyone, Nearly Breaks The Game,” for instance, she details how a player named Hinckley tried to navigate the violent shoot ‘em game called Fallout 4 by playing against the rules:\nIn a no-kill playthrough, the last option seems like the most reasonable one to pick, right? As Hinckley progresses through his playthrough, though, it becomes obvious that the game literally doesn’t know how to deal with a player who pacifies everyone into submission. So, he starts experiencing weird audio problems related to that peaceful mechanic. More notably, though, when he convinces the dame to leave, the game bizarrely spawns an enemy where it shouldn’t, and this forces the peaceful encounter to become violent once more. Normally, this wrinkle can be dealt with fine—Hinckley can simply pacify the characters again. The problem is, after calming everyone down, the game borks itself. Characters won’t continue their dialogue like they’re supposed to at that point.\nFor me, once I thought about this cultural movement in the gaming world, I began to wonder what the different possibilities were. One of my students told me that Grand Theft Auto allows you to own a house. As soon as I heard that, I asked her, “Can you go into your Grand Theft house and play a version of Grand Theft Auto that allows you to go into your Grand Theft house and play a version of Grand Theft Auto that allows you to go into your Grand Theft house and play a version of Grand Theft Auto that allows you to go into your Grand Theft house and play a version of Grand Theft Auto that allows you to go into your Grand Theft house and play a version of Grand Theft Auto . . . ? Can this descent into game infinity be automated?”\nHow far down the rabbit hole can we go seeking the bottom, which in a virtual world, is only limited by our intent and the game’s nested circles? With the many millions of collective hours poured into gaming around the world, with whole industries devoted to creating and marketing worlds for people to play in, and a multiplicity of people and reasons they game, I’m sure we’ll find out.\nAbout Barry Pomeroy\nI had an English teacher in high school many years ago who talked about writing as something that people do, rather than something that died with Shakespeare. I began writing soon after, maudlin poetry followed by short prose pieces, but finally, after years of academic training, I learned something about the magic of the manipulated word.\nView all posts by Barry Pomeroy →\nThis entry was posted in Art, Culture, Internet, Singularity, Social Media and tagged against the grain, Fallout 4, gaming, Grand Theft Auto, Metaverse, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. Bookmark the permalink."
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        "text": "Q: How long should my MacBook Pro battery last? I have brand new Macbook Pro (15\", i5 2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM) purchased at the end of May 2010 and Apple advertises up to 7 hours of wireless web battery life, however I consistently getting only about 4 hours when I use it normally, i.e. WiFi is turned on and quite a few apps are running, but nothing too resource hungry like games or Photoshop. I tried to figure out if my settings are incorrect or if I'm using some apps that really drain the battery, but can't find any obvious issues, so I wonder what other MBP owners typically get from their batteries? Is 4 hours a typical or I need to replace my battery or do something with my setup? When Apple states up to 8-9 hours, must you turn off all wireless, dim your screen to the minimum and perhaps the only app running be Terminal?\n\nA: I have the MacBook Pro 6,1 (i7, 4GB, 250GB 7200 RPM Drive). \nI get around 6-7 hours when using it for browsing and email. Normal standard stuff. When running Parallels or playing Games I get around 4 hours. Overall I am extremely impressed with the new one's battery life. Watching videos I can push 4 hours out as well, which I do quite often.\nMy old MacBook (Dual Core, 4GB, 5400RPM Drive) still gives me around 3-4 hours battery life after 3 years.\n\nA: I bought my macbook pro in December 2008 and I found that there are 2 main reasons for short battery.\nScreen Brightness and Heavy resource programs (like games/photoshop as you mentioned)\n\nFor example \n\n\n*\n\n*At full brightness I can do simple\nthings like email, AIM, and search\nthe web for about 2 hours of battery\nat full brightness.\n\n*This changes to 3 hours if I put the\nscreen at 1 level above the screen\nback-lighting being off.\n\n\nI found that my battery lasts about 1hr 20min at full brightness when I am working with Adobe After Effects though.\nI would say that your battery life is typical or better compared to both mine and my friends who have the same system.\n\nA: It's likely that you are running something in the background (such as Skype) which is triggering your dedicated graphics card, despite it not actually doing anything graphically intensive. This is a known issue in Apple's graphics card switching technology.\nDownload and run gfxCardStatus and see if I'm right. If so, close the problematic program or use gfxCardStatus to manually switch to the much lower-powered integrated chip. You should get longer battery life after that; I haven't directly measured it but I know I get at least 30 minutes to an hour of extra life.\nAnd of course it also depends on what you're doing with your computer, what background programs are running, the brightness of your screen, etc.\n\nA: Run Activity Monitor and watch the graphs and stats for a while when you are using your machine. Is there a bunch of threads that seem to be 'busy' even though you're not particularly doing anything? Yes? Have a look at the processes that own these threads and see if you're actually using those apps or if they're just wasting your battery.\nHere's an Apple Support article that walks you through the whole thing, with screenshots too.\nI did this and found the two worst culprits were:\n\n\n*\n\n*backupd.\nThis is Time Machine running. Let it run - it is important and eventually stops.\n\n*'Flash Player (Safari Internet Plugin)'.\nEven though I wasn't playing any Flash Video, it seems that some Flash files just burn through CPU because they don't have a proper 'idle' state. My solution to this was to install 'ClickToFlash' plugin for Safari which allows you to control which sites run Flash automatically and which do it on your say-so.\nJust doing (2) doubled my battery life on my MacBook Pro 2,2 as a large proportion of my Mac-time is reading news and articles on the net. Many pages use Flash for advertisements and videos, which we know, but you may not know that many sites use Flash just for the nice fonts that they embed into the file (sIFR text).\n\nA: I have the same model, MacBook Pro 15\" Core i5 (May 2010). I get about little over 6 hours for just web browsing with watching some videos on YouTube and etc. If I don't watch videos I'll probably get 8+ hours. I usually have my brightness set to about 70-80%.\nHere's AnandTech's review of the new MacBook. They also got 8+ hours for light browsing.\nI'm pretty sure Apple's estimate is based on \"light browsing\" which means:\n\n\n*\n\n*Not full brightness. ~60% Probably..\n\n*WiFi on.\n\n*No GPU-intensive apps running (this means no Flash video)\n\n\nTry it and see how many hours you get.\nWith my \"Normal\" usage, I get about 5 hours which is still good in its class.\n\nA: I have a MBP 15\" i5 2010. Eight hours is certainly realistic for light usage.\nThe main battery killers for me have been:\n\n\n*\n\n*Using the nVidia graphics unexpectedly. e.g. MagicPrefs for the MagicMouse causes the machine to switch away from the Intel GPU! Install gfxCardStatus so you have an icon in the menu bar that you can monitor and even force the machine down to Intel-only.\n\n*Flash.\n\n*Screen brightness.\n\n*CPU utilisation.\n\n\nFor the past couple of weeks I've been working in a small office away from my usual desk, just writing documents in a wiki and updating a ticket system. Using a wireless network. I recharge the machine overnight and have had a full days usage of 7-8 hours out of the battery every day.\n\nA: I have an early 2011 MBP i7 Intel and I charge and discharge the battery on a daily basis (i.e. charge it to 100%, disconnect mains, use it till it goes down to 5-10%, then charge it again).\nIn doing so, it has rarely given me more than 3 hrs of battery time. \nI have ended up consuming 400 battery cycles in 8 months.\nOn inquiring at various forums, I see that people recommend I should keep power connected to my MBP most times and let it drain only once in a while.  \nI guess I will do that now and see how it improves the battery performance.\n\nA: I had a graphic designer working with me and used his own MacBook Pro in 2010, he claims that he bought his MacBook Pro 3 years prior (that'd be 2007, I guess).\nHe used the MacBook Pro for Photoshop, wireless during working hour, and his MacBook Pro really did last for 6-7 hours.\nBut after I got my MacBook Pro and reading many comments from my MacBook Pro-using friend and over the Internet, seems like we are squeezing the MacBook Pro to just get a little improvement. I guess 7 hours is an historical index and not applicable for newer MacBook Pros.\n\nA: I have mid-2015 MacBook Pro, and if I'm doing light tasks such as writing my essays, and browsing the internet for research purposes, I can expect to get an average of 7 hours. If I'm gaming and playing a graphically intense title such as Bioshock, a session of an hour and a half will drain the battery by 40 percent. I checked Activity Monitor, and the energy output for Bioshock was just over 29. I'm not sure what these numbers represent, whether it be percentage per hour or something. \n\nA: I think Apple calculates 8-9 hours just when you turn your macbook-pro on without wireless or any application running and also no keyboard light and with lowest brightness.\nmy macbookpro keeps battery for average 2 or 2.5 hours.\nyou can find helpful information here.\n\nA: I have a macbook pro from late 2009. Even when I just do word editing and turn wifi off as well as keep my screen at half-brightness, with no other apps running, I can get about four hours at max. Keyboard light and bluetooth are also off. \nOf course I have been using it for about a year now: I got more around 6 hours earlier in 2010.\n\nA: \nI bought my Macbook Pro two months back in March 2018 which was\n  manufactured in 2017. It is a 13.3-inches retina display with i5 2.4GHz and 8GBram and 256GB HDD\n\n. \n\n\n*\n\n*With WiFi always on and screen brightness kept at 50% It gave me 3hrs 20mins MAX\n\n*With WiFi always off and screen brightness kept lower than 50% but continously watching  video or audio in iTunes or VLC player it gave me 5hrs 30mins + a few bonus minutes before the battery turned Red.\n\n*With bit more generous use using it in a dark room with screen only switched on no wifi I will be able to push beyond 6 hours. \n\nHowever, I am living to see that '3rd'one though!\n\nIN NO POSSIBLE way would be able to get to the 7 hours benchmark with it to equal the old Macbook Pros. \nHope this helps! \n\nA: Reset SMC.  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295  I bought a new MacBook Pro and it had 4 hours battery life.  This brought it back to normal.\n\nA: Also, I got the  new Macbook Pro 13 inch touch bar as a birthday gift and the battery lasts longer the more I use it. I think the older your battery, the longer it will last. \n"
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        "text": "The 1984 Formula 1 season was the year the turbocharged revolution became complete, the year Ayrton Senna leapt up from Formula 3 and soon came to dominate the headlines, and the year of the first all-McLaren title battle.\nWhere Senna would end up for 1985 was the biggest news story of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, while on track Niki Lauda took his first home victory in F1 despite his McLaren-TAG Porsche being on the edge of retiring with a broken gearbox.\nAyrton Senna only qualified 10th for the Austrian GP, three seconds off the pace, but had made it up to fourth by the time he retired with a loss of oil pressure in his Toleman-Hart at just shy of three-quarters distance."
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        "text": "24 април е 114-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (115-и през високосна). Остават 251 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1479 г. пр.н.е. – Тутмос III става фараон на Египет.\n 1184 г. пр.н.е. – Гърците влизат в Троя с помощта на Троянски кон (по предания).\n 1771 г. – 85-метрово цунами връхлита японския остров Ишигаки.\n 1792 г. – Французинът Клод-Жозеф дьо Лил съчинява музиката и текста на Марсилезата – химн на Франция от 1795 г.\n 1877 г. – Светият синод избира за български екзарх Йосиф I.\n 1877 г. – Начало на Руско-турска война (1877-1878): Руският император Александър II с манифест обявява война на Османската империя.\n 1884 г. – Канцлерът на Германия Ото фон Бисмарк обявява немско владичество върху територията на днешна Намибия, което е начало на германската колониална империя.\n 1895 г. – Джошуа Слоам започва първото самостоятелно околосветско плаване с яхта.\n 1907 г. – Основан е египетският футболен клуб Ал-Ахли\n 1915 г. – С ареста и депортирането на стотици видни арменци в Константинопол (днес Истанбул) започва Арменския геноцид в Османската империя.\n 1916 г. – Започва Великденското въстание в Дъблин, което цели отделяне от Великобритания и създаване на ирландска република.\n 1938 г. – Иван Джаков излъчва първото радиолюбителско повикване от територията на България, от София, в телеграфен режим по морзовата азбука, на честота 7 МХц – „CQ de LZ1ID“.\n\n 1941 г. – Принц Нородом Сианук става крал на Камбоджа.\n\n 1953 г. – Уинстън Чърчил е ръкоположен за рицар от кралица Елизабет II.\n 1967 г. – Съветският космонавт Владимир Комаров загива при приземяване на Союз 1, след като парашутът на капсулата отказва да се отвори (Комаров е първият човек, загинал по време на мисия в космоса).\n 1968 г. – Мавриций става член на ООН.\n\n 1970 г. – Китайската народна република извежда в орбита първия си изкуствен спътник Дун Фан Хун I.\n 1970 г. – Гамбия е обявена за република.\n 1981 г. – Демонстриран е първият персонален компютър – IBM PC.\n 1984 г. – Apple Computer представят своя преносим компютър Apple IIc.\n 1990 г. – Космическият телескоп Хъбъл е изстрелян с помощта на космическата совалка Дискавъри.\n 1995 г. – Международният наказателен трибунал за бивша Югославия посочва босненския сръбски лидер Радован Караджич и двама от неговите високопоставени помощници като заподозрени във военни престъпления.\n 2004 г. – След 18-годишно действие САЩ отменят икономическото си ембарго над Либия, като резултат от демонстрираното желание на Либия за съдействие при премахваненето на оръжията за масово унищожение.\n 2005 г. – Кардинал Йозеф Рацингер е избран за 265-ия папа под името Бенедикт XVI.\n\nРодени \n\n 1533 г. – Вилхелм Орански, нидерландски държавник († 1584 г.)\n 1706 г. – Джовани Батиста Мартини, италиански музикант († 1780 г.)\n 1743 г. – Едмънд Картрайт, британски механик († 1823 г.)\n 1796 г. – Карл Имерман, немски писател († 1840 г.)\n 1815 г. – Антъни Тролъп, английски писател († 1882 г.)\n 1823 г. – Себастиян Лердо де Техада, президент на Мексико († 1893 г.)\n 1845 г. – Карл Спителер, швейцарски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1919 г. († 1924 г.)\n 1848 г. – Георги Кирков, български учен († 1929 г.)\n 1850 г. – Светослав Миларов-Сапунов, български писател († 1892 г.)\n 1856 г. – Филип Петен, френски войник и държавник († 1951 г.)\n 1889 г. – Христина Морфова, българска оперна певица († 1936 г.)\n 1901 г. – Петър Нешев, български партизанин и офицер († 1973 г.)\n 1905 г. – Робърт Пен Уорън, американски поет († 1989 г.)\n 1908 г. – Юзеф Гославски, полски скулптор († 1963 г.)\n 1909 г. – Бернхард Гжимек, германски зоолог († 1987 г.)\n 1914 г. – Ян Карски, полски офицер († 2000 г.)\n 1934 г. – Шърли Маклейн, американска актриса и танцьорка\n 1935 г. – Димитър Шойлев, български лекар – ортопед († 2009 г.)\n 1939 г. – Лили Иванова, българска поп певица\n 1941 г. – Недялка Керанова, българска народна певица († 1996 г.)\n 1942 г. – Барбра Страйсънд, американска актриса и певица\n 1942 г. – Томчо Томчев, български спортист\n 1943 г. – Дейвид Морел, американски писател\n 1952 г. – Жан-Пол Готие, френски моден дизайнер\n 1952 г. – Иван Милев (музикант, р. 1956), български акордеонист\n 1965 г. – Бойко Неделчев, естраден певец\n 1966 г. – Алесандро Костакурта, италиански футболист\n 1969 г. – Мелинда Кларк, американска актриса\n 1971 г. – Красимир Радков, български актьор\n 1974 г. – Томаш Полак, чешки шахматист\n 1977 г. – Ребека Мейдър, английска актриса\n 1978 г. – Георги Мечеджиев, български футболист\n 1980 г. – Карен Асрян, арменски шахматист († 2008 г.)\n 1982 г. – Кели Кларксън, американска певица\n 1982 г. – Маркиньош, бразилски футболист\n 1983 г. – Абдер Кабус, френски футболист\n 1987 г. – Виолета Марковска, българска актриса\n 1990 г. – Дани Левън – Danny Levan, български изпълнител\n\nПочинали \n\n 1342 г. – Бенедикт XII, римски папа (* 1285 г.)\n 1671 г. – Франсоа Вател, френски готвач (* 1631 г.)\n 1736 г. – Евгений Савойски, австрийски генерал с френски произход (* 1663 г.)\n 1846 г. – Джироламо Крешентини, италиански певец-кастрат (* 1762 г.)\n 1852 г. – Василий Жуковски, руски поет (* 1783 г.)\n 1891 г. – Хелмут фон Молтке Старши, германски генерал-фелдмаршал (* 1800 г.)\n 1905 г. – Ванчо Сърбаков, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1905 г. – Христо Узунов, български революционер (* 1878 г.)\n 1924 г. – Грандвил Стенли Хол, американски психолог (* 1844 г.)\n 1932 г. – Иван Стефанов Гешов, български политик (* 1854 г.)\n 1960 г. – Макс фон Лауе, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1914 г. (* 1879 г.)\n 1964 г. – Герхард Домагк, германски бактериолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1939 г. (* 1895 г.)\n 1967 г. – Владимир Комаров, съветски космонавт (* 1927 г.)\n 1985 г. – Сергей Юткевич, руски режисьор (* 1904 г.)\n 1986 г. – Иван Дуйчев, български историк, медиевист (* 1907 г.)\n 1993 г. – Сава Гановски, български политик (* 1897 г.)\n 1995 г. – Сергей Юткевич, руски режисьор (* 1904 г.)\n 1997 г. – Асен Босев, български детско-юношески писател (* 1913 г.)\n 2004 г. – Есте Лаудър, американска бизнес-дама в козметиката (* 1906 г.)\n 2005 г. – Езер Вайцман, президент на Израел (* 1924 г.)\n 2011 г. – Сатия Сай Баба, индийски гуру (* 1926 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на побратимените градове\n Световен ден за защита на лабораторните животни\n Международен ден на младежката солидарност\n Международен ден в памет на жертвите на Арменския геноцид (1915 – 1923 г.) Обявен е първо за Международен ден за солидарност с арменския народ от Европейския парламент през 1987 г. по повод годишнина от началото на геноцида над арменците в Османската империя през 1915 г. За първи път се чества през 1989 г. В първите години на новото хилядолетие е обявен и за Международен ден в памет на жертвите на Арменски геноцид.\n Гамбия – Ден на републиката (от 1970 г.)\n Нигер – Ден на националното съгласие\n\n424"
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        "text": "Q: How can I sync my google calendar with my work exchange calendar with my iphone calendar? Basically I'd like changes in all of these to be reflected on my iphone... but it would be cool to have all three completely synched.\nGoogle Calendar:\n- has multiple calendars (some public, some private)\nExchange Calendar:\n- work calendar, access via my mac book pro\niphone Calendar:\n- my portable calendar in case I need to add something on the fly/away from my desk... I'd like all my calendars reflected here\nAny ideas?\n\nA: The only way I've been able to do this (given that my employer will not allow my iPhone, etc. to connect to Exchange) is to have my primary calendar on my Google Calendar account be my work calendar, use the Google Calendar Sync application on my workstation at the office (always running) to sync from Outlook to Google (it supports only one calendar on Google's side, so whatever it chooses to sync with is your \"primary\" calendar and, thus, your work calendar), and sync my iPhone with my Google Calendars (see here).\nIt's not the most elegant solution, so I really hope someone posts something better that I can implement.  But so far it's working just fine syncing meetings from work to my phone (one way, I believe... never tried to schedule a meeting from the phone).\n\nA: If you're willing to spend some money, you can use Spanning Sync http://spanningsync.com/\nConfigure SS at work to sync iCal with Google (assuming you're using iCal to access Exchange)\nSubscribe to Google calendar(s) on your iPhone (and your home Mac)\n\nA: You can sychronise Exchange calendar to Google then use Spanning Sync which allows you to sychronise with your Gmail Apps or regular Gmail account, and will synchronize both Calendar and Contacts between iCal / Address Book and Gmail / Google Calendar.\nIf you find it useful you can use this code to get a $5 discount on the purchase price HAM46F http://spanningsync.com/?r=HAM46F\n"
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        "text": "A Dot Red explores new perspectives on traditional genres and images found in landscape and portrait photography. By combining historical photographic techniques with more contemporary conceptual strategies, these works shift the focus of attention, and enable a reconsideration of its classical subjects.\nThe portrait series, Boys of Collodion, shot as collodion 4 x 5 tintypes and then made into 18 x 24 inch hand pulled photogravures, flips the paradigm of the male gaze with Blackwood's selection of young men exclusively as her model/muses.\nChrista Blackwood is a photo, text based and installation artist working with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture. Her visual voice was developed while a student at New York University, when she began producing street installation art such as Butcher knives (1991), a work that addressed issues of sexual violence. A chilling juxtaposition of billboard-like close-ups and text from poet Michelle Kotler, Butcherknives, was plastered all over the streets of lower Manhattan on the evening that the William Kennedy Smith verdict was announced. The poster’s timely and provocative appearance resulted in heightened critical attention for Blackwood, including an invitation to join the Women’s Action Coalition (WAC) from renowned artists and scholars, Kiki Smith and Lucy Lippard.\nBlackwood has studied with the photographer, educator and MacArthur Fellow, Wendy Ewald, at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She was particularly drawn to Ewald’s focus on utilizing the camera for “helping children to see.” These experiences informed her work as Founding Director of The Children’s Photographic Collective, established in 1995 to increase children’s awareness and understanding of culture through photography.\nHer dream-like sequences and texts employ multiple techniques and methods, fusing traditional,historical and alternative processes with contemporary practices such as iPhone image-making and street installations. Blackwood received her MA in Studio Art from New York University and BA in Classics from The University of Oklahoma. Her work has been featured in several publications including The New York Times, NYQ, New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Chicago Sun Times. She has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad."
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        "text": "Members vote to accept new terms and conditions but branch calls for more talks to protect low paid\nNovember 9, 2013 Aberdeenshire UNISON Comments Off on Members vote to accept new terms and conditions but branch calls for more talks to protect low paid\nAberdeenshire UNISON members have accepted the new terms and conditions package proposed by the council, with two thirds of those who responded in the ballot voting to accept.\nHowever, responses to UNISON’s consultation has shown a clear division between members who work 9-5, who stand to gain most from the proposals, and those who work unsocial hours and shift work, who stand to lose anything from £200 to £3000 a year. These are amongst the lowest paid in the workforce and many, such as homecarers, provide care services to the most vulnerable in our communities.\nInez Teece, Branch Secretary said, “We were able to negotiate a pay increase of £750 in total for our lowest paid workers, as well as the living wage which is already in place, and £250 for everyone else. Whilst many members were happy with this and will see a rise in their take home pay, others will see this eroded and more by the loss of unsocial hours payments, shift allowances and the mileage lump sum.\n“We are particularly concerned, as a union, about the impact on our lowest paid, mainly women workers and at the bitter divide that this is creating between those who work 24/7 and 9 to 5 staff.\n“Also while many have been looking forward to the buyout of shift allowances, others will find the big drop in their take home pay very difficult to manage in these austere times. Especially in one of the most expensive parts of the country in which to live.\n“We will now go back to the council and raise these issues and seek that changes are made to prevent such losses for those who will lose the most. After all, the council has been working hard to find ways of attracting people to work for the council in these jobs and cutting take home pay will have the opposite effect.”\nPrevious Post:Members vote 94% to 6% to accept new Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme\nNext Post:Branch will work in partnership with council Health and Safety team to address stress at work"
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        "text": "Norwich – West Ham betting prediction\nThe fourth round of the English Premier league begins with a derby match between the teams expected to finish in the second half of the table. Norwich hosts the match with West Ham United which will certainly be important when the time for deciding who will fight for survival in the Premier League comes. Both teams are candidates for relegation, although the guests from West Ham are currently in the seventh place in the standings.\nTwo wins at home against Aston Villa and Fulham put West Ham in the top half of the table. The team conceded a lost by 0-3 of Swansea as a guest. The hosts from Norwich have two draws in their account against QPR at home and away to Tottenham and a severe loss from Fulham with 0:5.\nSurely we can expect an equal match, but let’s see who prevails. If we look at the team of West Ham and mostly on their last match with Fulham we would see that Andy Carroll was the one who made the difference in the match. Even the fact he didn’t scored a goal, he participated in all the action in front of guests net and contributed to all three goals in the match. After his substitute because of injury, West Ham’s attack was much weakened and no more goals were scored.\nThe bad news for the manager of West Ham – Sam Allardyce is that Carroll will not be able to take part in this game. This will surely weaken the attack of the team, even more Allardyce likes to play with high balls to a powerful striker as Andy Carroll.\nNorwich City’s new manager Chris Hughton is a highly experienced professional. As an assistant coach, he was next to some of the biggest names in the Premier League. He certainly knows what it takes for his team to improve their game. Currently Norwich created chances, but failed to implement them. In their first match at home, the team created 11 goals attempts to score, but succeeded just once in front of the QPR’s net. However, Norwich received a goal for the 1-1 draw by only five goal attempts from their opponents.\nSo, we have a match with two equal opponents, who are led by managers with great experience in the league. All this suggests to me that the basic idea of both teams will be not to lose the match and therefore a draw seems to me as the best possible bet for this match. The odds for a draw in this match are 3.3 and this will be my bet.\nNove Zikura’s betting bar\nHello, my name is Nove Zikura and I am a bettor from Serbia. All I do for living is betting.\nI started many years ago and managed to do what now brings me success. By my betting predictions I have succeeded to spare some money and in 2004 I opened my betting bar - Nove.\nI'll be happy if you join my guests and we watch, discuss and bet on football.\nBy coming to my place you will find many others like you - people who love betting and people who want to make money from it.\nFind us on the map below. For these who can't come to Belgrade to visit me personally, you can be my readers on this site.\nwww.betting-super-bowl.com\nkentuckyderbyonlinebetting\nrojadirecta.watch\nbuy viagra online . Automaten online . 100betz.com"
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        "text": "Tag Archives: Women Against Rape\nReport: Jail Rapists not Rape Victims, meeting in House of Commons\nPosted on June 14, 2017 by BWRAP\nWomen and families affected by biased rape investigations were joined by supporters in the House of Commons on Tuesday 2nd December to discuss the campaign, led by Women Against Rape (WAR) andBlack Women’s Rape Action Project (BWRAP), against the prosecution and imprisonment of rape survivors.\nHosted by John McDonnell MP, the event – Jail Rapists not Rape Victims – focused on the perverse and harrowing injustices women who report sexual violence are subjected to by the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\nAn estimated 85,000 women are raped[1] in England and Wales each year; 90% of reported rape and domestic violence goes unprosecuted. Despite such an appalling record on achieving justice for victims, the legal system has managed to prosecute 109 women for false rape allegations in the past five years. The vast majority of these women are charged with ‘perverting the course of justice’, an offence that carries a maximum life sentence.\nAs immigration and detention practices grow increasingly severe, and shelters, legal aid, social housing, childcare and income support are restricted and shut down, women are left with few routes to escape sexual and domestic violence. To compound this with the threat of imprisonment and/or the removal of children if women are accused of lying or of being unable to protect their children, effectively leaves women trapped, and allows rapists and other abusers to continue with impunity.\nBWRAP and WAR have been challenging this practice for the past seven years, and the evening threw light on the injustices they have uncovered through their campaign. They also mentioned women unable to be with us that evening due to incarceration or, as in the case of Eleanor de Freitas, suicide.\nAttendees heard some of the survivors’ stories firsthand. Sandra Allen talked us through the ordeal her daughter, Layla Ibrahim, has faced since she was attacked in 2009. Layla served three years in prison after she reported having been violently attacked by two strangers while on her way home after a night out. Sandra traced how the police’s initial appearance of concern twisted into an investigation of Layla, rather than of her attackers: family members were contacted and told that the police suspected that Layla had inflicted her own injuries, suspects that fitted Layla’s description of the men were not pursued, forensic evidence that supported her story was lost or destroyed. Layla was pressured to drop the charges and told that if she did so she would ‘be dragged through the papers, but not through the courts’. She refused to “confess” to something she hadn’t done. After she served her sentence, one of her suspected attackers was found guilty of raping another woman using similar techniques he had used on Layla.\nAn appeal against Layla’s conviction is going to the Criminal Cases Review Commission this month. Sandra Allen called for the public to support her daughter’s application so the investigation into the original rape can be reopened and Layla’s name cleared.\nHamish McKenna, whose partner Rhiannon Brooker is serving a three and a half year sentence after reporting rape and domestic violence in a previous relationship, told a similar story. Rhiannon’s decision to speak out was met with persistent mistrust, perverse logic and threats from the police. Her family and friends were investigated; Hamish himself was threatened with being charged for perverting the course of justice should he give evidence in support of Rhiannon. The police even contacted social services in a bid to remove Rhiannon and Hamish’s child, who was still breastfeeding at the time – fortunately social workers saw what a loving family they are.\nFor Gail Sherwood, a mother of three, reporting her longtime stalker and rapist was met with laughter and suspicion. Gail was placed under surveillance, accused of planning elaborate false attacks on herself, and eventually sent to prison for two years. Whilst serving her sentence, her stalker continued to contact her in prison and since her release he has attacked her again.\nWe also heard from Verna Joseph, a St Lucian woman trafficked to the UK by a gang who had raped her and forced her to carry drugs into the UK. Despite an expert report submitted to the British court confirming that she had been raped and beaten by the gang and the St Lucia police telling the court that they could not protect her, Verna was sentenced to nine years in prison.\nAfter serving five, she was released and claimed asylum, only to have her claim refused and be sent to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre. There, on hunger strike protesting racist and sexist abuse from guards and terrible conditions, Verna battled with a series of appeals – she eventually won her release and asylum along with 22 other women from Yarl’s Wood.\nVerna has since been raped again whilst staying at a women’s hostel. The man was arrested and put on trial. But during his trial, his only witness was permitted to sit in court while others gave evidence so she could tailor her evidence to discredit Verna’s story. The man was released, and Verna denied justice once again.\nA further harrowing account was given by a young woman from Rotherham, who as a teenager had been taken into care and placed with her paedophile uncle. She had never spoken in public before and everyone was moved to tears.\nLooking further afield, Professor Lisa Avalos compared how different countries deal with rape. She found that police disbelief, shaming and suspicion toward rape survivors is also common in other Western countries, but that the UK is exceptional in its draconian prosecution policy. She has ‘not found any country that pursues these cases against women rape complainants in the way the UK does. The UK has an unusual approach and I think that approach violates human rights’.\nNigel Richardson, Layla’s and Rhiannon’s solicitor, commented that he had not seen the police investigate any other crime with the dogged, vindictive enthusiasm with which they pursue suspected false rape allegations: digging into women’s pasts to pin stains on their character, threatening friends and family members and concocting elaborate stories in which women violently attacked themselves.\nThe speakers told us their stories with palpable courage, struggling through the pain of their memories and the indignities they had been forced to suffer to have their truths heard. We were reminded that these cases perpetuate trauma for victims of sexual violence, dragging their experiences long into the future as they suffer the injustices that accompany a criminal record and the pain of not being believed or achieving justice. Amongst speakers and the audience, who often gasped in shock and fury at the details of these women’s stories, there was an atmosphere of care, solidarity and a resolution to move forward. Our host, John McDonnell MP, pledged his ongoing support to the campaign.\nThe discussion unfolded a commitment to stop these practices, and to connect this struggle to others: one person reminded us of institutionalised abuse of disabled people that went unaddressed; another of police and politicians’ negligence and complicity in widespread child abuse in Rotherham and elsewhere; the galling hypocrisy of police that claim to have neglected rape investigations out of fear of being called racist when they continue to harass, criminalise and sometimes kill people of colour was highlighted; sex workers complained about police turning out en masse to dispossess them in Soho under the guise of tackling sex trafficking while refusing to investigate attacks against them.\nAs Verna Joseph concluded for us: ‘Everywhere our stories of survival are coming out. We won’t be silenced. We’ll keep on fighting and we will have justice in the end, all of us.’\nHelp us win justice for rape survivors. Support the campaign to clear Layla Ibrahim’s name.\n[1] 2013 Rape Crisis – http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk/mythsampfacts2.php\nPosted in import from old site, Story\t| Tagged Black Women's Rape Action Project, False allegations or miscarriages of justice?, Women Against Rape\nRape & Sexual Abuse in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre\nOur report chronicles a regime of predatory sexual abuse (including racist sexual abuse) since it opened and began accepting women and families in 2002. It brings together the many allegations that have been reported to us, with other reports that have appeared in the media. Many of the reports come from All African Women’s Group members some of whom have been centrally involved in protests including successive hunger strikes .\nPosted in Asylum from Rape, Campaigns, Hunger Strikes, import from old site, In the Media, Page, Yarl's Wood Detention Centre\t| Tagged Black Women's Rape Action Project, detention, End the detention of rape survivors, Women Against Rape, Yarl's Wood\nJail Rapists NOT Rape Victims, 2 Dec 2014, House of Commons\nPosted on December 14, 2014 by WomenAgainstRape\nWomen and families affected by biased rape investigations were joined by supporters in the House of Commons on Tuesday 2nd December to discuss the campaign, led by Women Against Rape (WAR) and Black Women’s Rape Action Project (BWRAP), against the prosecution and imprisonment of rape survivors.\nPosted in False Allegations, import from old site\t| Tagged Black Women's Rape Action Project, Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, Layla Ibrahim; false allegations or miscarriages of justice; rhiannon, Women Against Rape\nChild Rape in Rotherham: Questions rape survivors, parents and the general public want answers to\nPosted on December 2, 2014 by WomenAgainstRape\nSubmitted to the Home Affairs Committee on 9 September. We have received no substantial reply so far.\nThe Report by Dr Alexis Jay issued in August 2014, raises more questions than it answers. Unless these questions are asked and answered now, this will amount to a further cover up.\nThe Report says that over 1,400 girls suffered multiple crimes including: rape, child abduction, threats with guns, being given Class A drugs and alcohol, witness intimidation such as serious injury to themselves and other members of their families. The Report says no councillors or police in the area can say they didn’t know what was going on, following explicit reports by Risky Business to council meetings in 2004 and 2005 naming 50 perpetrators, including names of taxi firms, individual taxi drivers, and takeaways, and addresses where rape took place, yet no concerted action followed for years. Some interviewees told the Report writer they suspected family or business connections with taxi firms, takeaways and hotels where the girls were raped (as Risky Business explicitly named in their reports to Council meetings in 2004 & 5), but police said there was no evidence of this.\nProstitution has been used as an excuse to “blame” these rape victims as involved in “prostitution”, “a lifestyle choice”, being “not blameless”, “undeserving”. Many of these girls were well under 14 when the attacks started, they were victims of the crimes of rape and of paying to have sex with a child. Race and ethnicity were used as an excuse to justify the lack of action against the perpetrators. This presumes that the Pakistani community would stand with rapists rather than victims, which is a blatant piece of racism on the part of the police, the council, the MPs and social services. The Asian community was outraged at the perpetrators and the police and politicians’ protection of the perpetrators. It also presumes that there were no Asian victims; Asian women’s organisations have reported that this is not the case.\nThe gang rape of children was not investigated and victims were dismissed and even criminalised. This amounts to aiding and abetting rape and all the other violent crimes exposed in this report, which are going on not only in S Yorkshire but all over the UK.\nQuestions rape survivors and the public want answers to. Given the circumstances described in this report and what has come out from previous reports, it beggars belief that there has been no examination of possible connections, financial or otherwise, between the perpetrators and the police, politicians and social workers who covered for them. Not only all the officers, starting at the top, but all the local councillors and MPs (former MP for the area Denis MacShane was later jailed for fiddling his expenses) and the Home Office must be questioned, and charges brought against those who shielded, enabled, encouraged, organised, profited from or got promoted as a result of this violence against children and their families.\nSex with a child under 13 is rape, there can be no defence of consent. Paying for sex with a child under 16 is illegal.\nWhy are officers who claimed 12-year-old girls were compliant and consenting to sex with adult men still in the police force? Do they not know what a crime is? Do they not know the difference between the rape of children and sex between consenting adults? Do they not know that sex with a child is rape, and paying children for sex is not prostitution or a lifestyle choice, but rape? Why is the public paying police as law enforcers when they don’t apply the law?\nPolice aided and abetted the widespread rape of children. This is a crime. Why have no officers been arrested and prosecuted for this? The Select Committee heard evidence in private from a Home Office researcher who feared for her life after two police officers visited her and threatened to pass her name to the groomers. Who were these officers and whose orders were they acting on?\nWhat other illegality are they engaged in or protecting?\nHow was other reported rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and other child abuse dealt with while this was going on? How many rapes were no crimed? How many victims were pressurized into withdrawing or retracting their allegations? How many were even prosecuted for reporting rape on the pretext that they were lying?\nWhat are the police doing instead of protecting the public from rape, child abuse and murder?\nVictims were themselves charged and prosecuted. Loved ones who tried to protect them were dismissed and even arrested.\nWho are the officers who arrested the girls and their loved ones instead of their perpetrators? Will they be arrested and prosecuted for perverting the course of justice?\nPolice provided no protection for the girls who came forward. Even worse they seem to have told the perpetrators about them.\nWhich police officers leaked to a perpetrator that one girl was about to make a statement about him having broken her brother’s legs? How else would he know that his victim was at that moment in the police station? This information enabled him to text her that he had abducted her 11 year old sister in order to intimidate her into not reporting. Why wasn’t he prosecuted for intimidating a witness – a serious crime?\nDr Jay’s report says police disbelieved the first report as exaggerated: Were police asked why they disbelieved it? Were they asked to look into it anyway? Did they say they disbelieved it in order to ignore it?\nWhy were police on the side of the criminals rather than their victims? Is it just prejudice against children, especially those in care? Or did they have something to gain?\nWhat is the relationship between the officers and these criminals? What did the police have to gain by not arresting them? Were officers paid or afforded favours to keep quiet about this? A charity named one officer in written evidence to the Select Committee who was taking bribes from groomers in return for information. Is he being investigated? Are others? Were officers who allowed these rapes to continue promoted? How many?\nWhat is the connection of the officers, both those in charge or those on the ground, with the perpetrators? Was money passing hands?\nSome perpetrators were given cautions – meaning they admitted their crimes. Whose decision was it to give perpetrators a caution?\nWhy have they not been rearrested for subsequent crimes and given a more appropriate punishment? Are the police claiming they have not done anything criminal since they were cautioned?\nWhich of the so called ‘ring leaders’ have since been prosecuted and for what?\nAre those not deemed to be ‘ring leaders’ allowed to carry on with impunity or will they be prosecuted as well?\nWho allowed police and children’s services to dramatically reduce the number of girls being monitored, and why was nobody challenged about the tiny numbers of girls being identified as at risk of sexual exploitation?\nHave the ‘senior investigating police’ been asked to justify their ‘adamant’ refusal to link the alleged ‘honour killing’ of Child S with what they considered ‘totally unrelated …. other local violence against girls’? Who were the men she was said to have had sex with? Were they connected to the grooming of her sister or any of the other girls?\nWhy didn’t Risky Business go public and alert the Home Office or a government body or go to the media to blow the racket open?\nThe presumption is that the Asian community would stand with rapists against their victims, which is a blatant piece of racism. Asian women’s organisations have said that Asian girls were also victims. How many? Did any come forward and were they treated any better than the white victims? Is this being investigated now?\nThe presumption that criminals who are Asian are immune is not credible. How many Asian men were stopped and searched, much of it illegally, over this period?\nHow much are senior officers determining the priorities for investigation of suspected crimes of their juniors and monitoring what was being done?\nWere any police whistleblowers punished or sacked for objecting to this cover up of illegality?\nWhy didn’t the police know the difference between rape, which is a crime, and prostitution among consenting adults which is not? How widespread is this gross ignorance among police forces?\nCrown Prosecution Service\nThe Report says that the employees of the CPS dealing with CSE before 2010 have now retired. Why should this prevent an investigation? Will they be arrested and questioned?\nWhy are prosecutors who protect criminals allowed to retire on a pension instead of a jail sentence? Will the connection between CPS and perpetrators, direct or indirect, be scrutinised now?\nCPS closed many of the cases because ‘they used rape myths against the victims’. What is being done about this now? Will these cases be re-opened?\nWhy did it take nine months in one case (as the Report says) for the CPS to make a decision to take no further action against one of the perpetrators? Will this case be re-opened now?\nPolice and Crime Commissioner\nHe was aware of the scale of rape and other crime from at least 2005 as the Lead Member for Children and Young People (2005-2010).Why isn’t former South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright being investigated for criminal activities?\nRotherham council – a racket/mafia?\nThe Report says no councillors or police in the area can say they didn’t know what was going on. Risky Business reported on suspected family or business connections between politicians and perpetrators.\nThe report refers to rumours that some councillors are related to some of the perpetrators. That is easy to establish. Which ones?\nThe media has highlighted that ex Deputy Leader Jahangir Akhtar’s cousin was named in Jay’s report as a ‘boyfriend’ of up to 18 underage abuse victims. His son Tanveer is a constable serving in South Yorkshire Police. Cllr Shankat Asli has a relative serving 22 years in prison for flooding the area with ecstasy.\nAre there others? What is the connection between councillors and perpetrators? Was money passing hands?\nDid the police investigate these allegations? Is this being investigated now?\nWhy were no minutes kept in 2005, when the present council leader [Roger Stone] chaired a group to ‘take forward’ the above issues raised by Risky Business? Is there no legal requirement to keep minutes of council meetings? Is he being investigated now?\nCouncil Leader in 2006 Roger Stone told a Tory councillor not to publicly raise concerns raised by his constituents about child exploitation, and that they were being dealt with by police. He has now resigned.Will his pension be withdrawn? Will he be investigated?\nHow can care workers not intervene and stop this mass rape? Isn’t the public paying them to care? Why didn’t they blow the whistle, for example say publicly that the refusal of police to prosecute sexual abuse of girls in their care is making their job impossible?\nWhy are social workers now not demanding the prosecution of the rapists and the professionals who covered for them?\nSome girls have complained that their babies have been taken into care.Why are social services punitively removing babies from young vulnerable women rather than offering them the support and resources they need to care for their children?\nWhy when the HO was informed did no one take any action?\nChildren’s Charities\nThere are many big children’s charities in England: ChildLine, Barnardos, Save the Children, Children’s Society, National Children’s Bureau, Children in Need –\nDid they know? If not, why not? If yes, what did they do?If they didn’t do anything, why not?\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site\t| Tagged Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, Rotherham, Women Against Rape\nEvidence to Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women From Women Against Rape\nWe believe the UK government is flouting its obligations under CEDAW, and future obligations under the Istanbul Convention in relation to Violence Against Women.\n1. Refusal to prosecute rapists including violent partners\n“In the 12 months to March 2013 there were about 10,000 recorded rapes of adults in England and Wales, and about 6,000 recorded rapes of children.\n“Only 1,820 (18%) of those recorded rape allegations led to a ‘sanction detection’ in which an offender was charged or cautioned for the offence, and 1,423 (12%) of cases were ‘no crimed’1.”\nIt is disingenuous of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to claim a 60% conviction rate – they are only looking at the cases taken to court. The majority of cases are closed either by police or CPS without ever being taken to court, resulting in a 6.7% conviction rate of reported rapes. (If unreported rapes, the overwhelming majority, were taken into account, the conviction rate would be even lower.)\nRecently, public shock at media headlines exposing serial rapists left unprosecuted for decades, have added to the pressure put by survivors and their organisations on the prosecuting authorities to change. They were found to have been dismissive and prejudiced, even threatening rape victims with prosecution to shut them up. Young girls in particular, raped by celebrities such as Jimmy Savile, or by groups of adult men, in many towns and cities, such as Oxford and Rochdale were treated appallingly by police, social services and the CPS. Care homes, churches and public schools have been exposed for harbouring sex offenders among their staff, who abused their position of authority, raping girls and boys for years with impunity. This has been acknowledged in the national media as the authorities’ “widespread complicity in sexual abuse2“.\nWhat is being done to change this?\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has investigated London’s specialist Sapphire rape units nine times in seven years – that is 19 officers disciplined, three dismissed, one imprisoned for fraudulently closing rape cases and another under investigation.\nLast February an IPCC report revealed the Southwark (London) police policy to press women to withdraw or retract rape allegations. This “local standard operating procedure”, authorised by senior officers, increased the number of incidents that were classified as “no crime” and therefore increased the sanction detection rates for the unit by 25%-30%3.\nThis was also policy in five other London boroughs4.\nIn November, the Public Administration Select Committee heard evidence from a police whistleblower PC James Patrick, who exposed widespread police pressure on women to retract. Like rapists, they targeted the most vulnerable victims.\nThe IPCC further revealed that two senior officers involved in the case of serial sex offender Kirk Reid5 (thought to have assaulted between 80 and 100 women) were promoted, rather than disciplined6 . In our own case, taken to the IPPC and then to court by a girl raped in Southwark when she was 15 years old, the police commander who had prioritised car crime over rape investigations was also promoted (more details below).\nIn 2009 and 2012 we met the heads of Sapphire. We demanded they stop promoting bad officers as this set the tone for rape investigations and discouraged those officers who wanted to do a good job. We also opposed their proposal to prosecute rapists for offences other than rape and sexual assault – a way of downgrading sexual violence while using the reports of distressed victims to gather intelligence on unrelated matters.\nSince more than half the rapes reported in London are by partners or ex-partners, we highlighted the police separation of rape from domestic violence as a major obstacle to getting convictions. Different units deal with rape and domestic violence, so the full picture of the violence suffered by the majority of victims remains hidden – as a result cases are dropped and prosecutions fail.\nTwo women a week are killed by partners or ex-partners. Despite police refusal to act in at least 50 murders investigated by the IPCC over six years, only one police officer has lost his job for negligence.\nThe 6 month time limit for bringing charges of common assault is routinely used by police and CPS not to prosecute domestic violence attackers. This limit should be dropped, but also charges of aggravated assault or grievous bodily harm rather than just common assault should be used more often in domestic violence cases. That they are not reflects the sexism, laziness and incompetence of the authorities in gathering relevant evidence such as medical records and witness statements, and providing adequate protection to the victim. We are working with a local woman left disabled after years of domestic violence who is taking legal action on this very point. She speaks for thousands.\nLike many in positions of power, the police seem to resent accountability. They have responded to the demands of survivors and campaigners like ourselves by improving their PR rather than their performance, and drawing in the voluntary sector. Most rape service organisations (statutory or voluntary) are now funded by the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, or the police. Not surprisingly they have become less critical, repeating the police mantra that ‘things have improved’ even in the face of much evidence of a worsening situation. How can they be trusted to be independent when their funding is not?\nRecent research by Professor Betsy Stanko, Head of the Strategy, Research and Analysis Unit, Strategy and Improvement Department, Directorate of Resources at the Metropolitan Police, documents that women are targeted for rape who are from vulnerable sectors of society, although there are sectors she has overlooked. Stanko acknowledges that girls under 16, women raped by partners, those with mental health problems and those who were drinking are among the most commonly raped and least likely to get justice. In our experience race, immigration status and nationality also make women targets for violence and are used by police and CPS to deny justice to the victims. Those of us who are women of colour and have been attacked have experienced:\n• police going after our Black partner or brother, rather than the white man reported as violent, sometimes a racist neighbour;\n• racist personal comments from the police such as ‘why don’t you do your hair nicer?’;\n• questions about our immigration status; one woman was wrongly accused of having a false identity;\n• police suspecting the rape victim is lying, involved in crime, or has some suspicious motive other than trying to bring her attacker to justice.\nIneffective CPS prosecutors and biased judges give the appearance that the defence has too many rights; but it is the prosecutors and the judges who need to protect witnesses from irrelevant and cruel questioning, which is standard practice in rape trials. For example, several women in our network raped in their teens were accused in court of making it up to seek attention because their father had recently passed away. Others who were victims of domestic violence had their reports of violence used against them in court because the police had not acted on them or because the unprotected victim had withdrawn for fear of repercussions. All this ought to have been stopped – it was aimed only at discrediting the victim implying she is unreliable or liable to make things up. But CPS and judges routinely allow irrelevant “evidence” to be brought up or pursued beyond any reasonable limit.\nPolice must stop promoting bad officers as this sets the tone for rape investigations and discourages those officers who want to do a good job. More robust punishment is needed against officers who don’t implement the law: they should be taken off rape investigations, sacked and/or prosecuted if they break the law. If they are not held to account, nothing will change.\nEnd the Metropolitan Police strategy of prosecuting rapists for offences other than rape and sexual assault – a way of downgrading sexual violence while using the reports of distressed victims to gather intelligence on unrelated matters.\nThe police must end their separation of rape from domestic violence. Domestic rape and sexual assault should be investigated as one case and all charges brought to bear.\nProsecutors and judges must protect witnesses from irrelevant and cruel questioning by the defence. This is their job and responsibility; if they exercised it more often, defence lawyers would soon learn that new boundaries for cross examination have been set.\nEnd the 6 month time limit for bringing charges of common assault in cases of domestic violence; it is routinely used not to prosecute violent partners and ex-partners, and it enables sexist or lazy police to drag their feet during investigations until it is too late to bring charges.\nApply charges of aggravated assault or grievous bodily harm more often in domestic violence incidents.\n2. The law continues to allow irrelevant sexual history questioning\nIn 1997-99 we campaigned for a ban on victims being questioned on their sexual history with men other than the accused. How many people a woman may have had sex with or what kind of sex she had with them is not relevant to whether or not she consented to sex with the accused. The new law did not make a distinction between sex with the accused and sex with others. And it did not ban sexual history questions if the man ‘believed’ the woman consented. Given that this is the most common defence (except for the rare cases where the identity of the accused is in doubt), the protection afforded to victims is more apparent than real as judges continue to allow irrelevant and highly prejudicial questioning.\nRecommendation: Don’t allow the defence to ask sexual history questions on the pretext that the man ‘believed’ the woman consented.\n3. False allegations or miscarriages of justice?\nVictims who retract allegations can face prosecution and the UK is particularly punitive compared to other countries. Layla Ibrahim and Gail Sherwood were both prosecuted in 2010 (as were at least 30 others). Both said they were pressed to retract under threat of prosecution. One did retract, the other refused. Both were imprisoned.\nWe have been campaigning for seven years against prosecution of women reporting rape or sexual assault. 27 organisations signed our 2011 letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions. He responded with guidance: the CPS should not routinely prosecute women with mental illness, girls under 18 or victims of domestic violence. But he refused to acknowledge that biased and negligent investigations are resulting in jail for rape victims rather than rapists.\n• “Sarah” was jailed in 2010 after reporting her husband, despite the police and CPS knowing that he had raped her. She retracted her claim under pressure from him and his family – the authorities then prosecuted her for making a “false retraction”. After a public outcry her sentence was quashed but not her conviction – she, not her violent husband, has the criminal record. She has applied to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn her conviction.\n• A teenager who came to WAR in 2012 faced prosecution because forensic tests did not corroborate her account. Her formal complaint resulted in reinvestigation by another force – new tests found semen where the first police team claimed there was none; charges against her were withdrawn, the rape prosecution was reinstated and the rapist was jailed for five years. Had she not come to us, she would have been prosecuted and even jailed.\n• Another young woman we helped was put on trial in 2013 for a so-called false report of rape. The case was thrown out by the Crown Court Judge, who expressed outrage at the lack of evidence against her. She hadn’t even reported rape, only that she awoke in bed with a soldier in a hotel after she suspected she had been drugged to the point where she did not know what happened to her and whether she had been assaulted. The CPS took the case to Appeal, wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money, where it was thrown out again.\nThis malicious prosecution directly contradicts a police advice leaflet for victims, which says: ‘You can’t remember what happened to you so how can you tell us? This situation does happen. If you or anyone you know are worried or anxious and you think something may have happened to you, you can go to any police station.’\nWAR did collaborative research7 with Lisa Avalos, Law Professor at the University of Arkansas, comparing prosecutions of women for alleged lying in the US and UK. We documented three US cases where women were accused of lying about rape and prosecuted – their rapists were later identified and brought to justice, vindicating the women.\nProsecuting women for false allegations distorts the priorities of the police and CPS – they are constantly suspicious that a woman may be lying and therefore less likely to conduct a thorough investigation of the original rape complaint. Prof. Avalos has called for UK police to implement the IACP Guidelines for investigating rape.\nWomen who do not report attacks are increasingly telling us they worried about being disbelieved but also about being prosecuted instead of their attacker. So while police publicly claim they want victims to come forward, they discourage them from doing so and even punish those who do.\nStop prosecuting women accused of lying about rape.\nPolice to carry out a thorough investigation into every report of rape.\n4. Women are unable to report domestic violence to police or doctors for fear of social services taking their children from them\nDomestic violence is commonly used to take children away from their mothers, even if the violence is in the past and the violent partner is no longer a threat. The charity Family Rights Group (FRG), has said: “Our data tells us … that the state’s way of dealing with domestic violence is often to end up with a child being made subject to child protection plans.” The FRG report documents8 that domestic violence – not parental mental illness, drugs or alcohol – is now the main reason children are taken from their mothers.\nSimilarly the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) said in 2013 evidence to NICE for draft guidance on Domestic Violence that “admissions of domestic violence, past and present, result in an automatic referral to social services . . .” In AIMS’ letter to the Dept of Health’s Sir Liam Donaldson in 2007, they said “Ironically, the basic, simple help or real support families would like, is unavailable because resources are lacking, and that is not the focus of social work activity . . . Women who are suffering domestic violence are continuing to conceal it . . . Since we have seen cases of babies removed from such women, even after they have left their violent partners and are coping well, we are not surprised.”\nMany organisations agree that punitive social workers are preventing women from reporting DV to police or to doctors for fear of losing their children. Social workers don’t seem to care that to separate a child from her or his mother is violence against the child as well as the mother with lifelong consequences for the child. We call this forced separation of child from mother STATE CHILD ABUSE.\nThis sadistic punishing of victims for the violence they suffered puts both child and mother in danger. If mothers cannot report attacks for fear of losing their children, they will not be able to get out of the situation and the life-threatening torture will continue.\nStop using domestic violence as a reason to take children from their mothers.\nPrioritise the rights of the child to stay with the mother or extended family and halt the rush to adoption by strangers.\nGive mothers the help and support they need in order to keep their children, rather than take a punitive approach.\n5. Legal Aid reform is preventing women holding the authorities to account\nThe cuts in legal aid remove access to legal representation for everyone with low or modest income. In response to the cuts and the introduction of competitive tendering the best law firms are closing.\nFor years the police had immunity from being sued [civil] for negligent investigations. However, under the Human Rights Act, rape victims are beginning to take the police and CPS to court for failure to protect them from rape, domestic violence, trafficking and domestic slavery. WAR supported several such cases which will be no longer possible due to legal aid cuts. For example, in 2013 in a landmark human rights case, the daughter of a Women Against Rape volunteer won compensation from the police, following seven years of campaigning, after Southwark Sapphire lost evidence of the rape. The rapist was acquitted; we later learned he had been accused of another rape. A damning IPCC report found that all Sapphire detectives had been transferred, to prioritise motor crime over rape. Four junior officers were disciplined. But the commander who set the policy refused to be interviewed by the IPCC and went on to the National Centre for Policing Excellence.\nSimilarly, two victims of serial rapist John Warboys have won the right to compensation under the Act for injury they suffered from the police refusal to investigate.\nVictims of rape will now be denied legal aid to get a decision judicially reviewed if a prosecution is prematurely closed.\nVictims of domestic violence who didn’t report to the violence to the police or their doctor, or stay in a refuge, or have a protective injunction will also be denied legal aid.\nRecommendation: Stop cuts to Legal Aid and lower the savings limit so that more people can get it.\n6. Welfare Reform – massive cuts are closing our escape routes out of violence\nWomen, and particularly mothers, depend on welfare benefits to escape from violence as they allow for basic survival and time for recovery – for the mother as well as the traumatised children who need their mother’s presence and reassurance. Government “welfare reform” has slashed benefits, trapping women and children with violent men, and impoverishing women and children who do escape.\n• Mothers of children over age five, and single women, are allowed only a three-month respite from job seeking conditions, and are sanctioned with a cut in benefit if they miss appointments.\n• Crisis Loans and the Social Fund have been abolished. Many women relied on such funds to set up a new home. Local councils refuse many applications for cash help as these are discretionary.\n• Traumatised rape survivors and refugee women recovering from appalling injuries, are found “fit to work” by Atos, the company in charge of applying the work capability test on those who apply for sickness benefit.\n• The Benefit Cap limits a family’s total benefits to £500 a week (including housing benefit and child benefit). Mothers and children are being left with nothing after rent is paid. Rents, especially in London, are extortionate even for social housing. As a result thousands of families have already been forced out of London, away from relatives and other protective networks.\nA legal challenge was brought by a number of single mother families, two of them fleeing domestic violence. Their solicitor Rebekah Carrier described the Cap as “catastrophic, cruel and arbitrary” and WAR petitioned to end it. An Early Day Motion is circulating among Members of Parliament. The Children’s Society said that 2/3 of those who will be affected are children. Despite all this, the court ruled that the Benefit Cap was legal. The legal challenge is now being taken to the Supreme Court.\nFamilies are being left with no money for food or heating (emergency payments from the local authority are discretionary and short-term) – this in itself is a justification for children to be taken into care. Many refuges and hostels are not exempt from the Cap, so will not accept women unable to pay their high rents.\nSingle women escaping domestic violence are also hit by the Benefit Cap, which is £350 for a single person. As a result, there is immense pressure to stay with or return to violent men despite the risk of being injured or even murdered.\nRecommendation: End the benefit cap and other welfare reform as it harms victims of violence.\n7. Criminalisation of sex workers and clients make women more vulnerable to violence\nWe strongly oppose the blurring of the distinction between consenting sex and rape. It allows for silencing and manipulation of so called victims by people in authority who have their own political agendas.\nWe oppose the characterisation of sex work as violence against women. It assumes that sex workers cannot tell the difference between rape and consenting sex, and that someone else is better qualified to say what ‘protection’ they need. Criminalisation flies in the face of the anti-rape movement fighting for every woman’s right to determine what she consents to.\nIn December, over 200 police officers in riot gear accompanied by the media raided sex workers’ flats in Soho, London. The police action has been criticised by sex workers and local people, including the parish priest as unfair, dangerous and unlawful. While the police originally claimed they were acting to protect vulnerable women from rape and trafficking (one of whom they forced into the street in just her underwear), they later admitted that they found no victims of rape or trafficking. Their justification then changed to clamping down on harbouring stolen goods.\nActor Rupert Everett described the raid and flat closures as a ‘land grab’ for a multi-million pound development to gentrify the area.\nHow can police so short of officers to thoroughly investigate the rapes, sexual assaults and domestic violence that are reported to them, afford to put huge resources into cracking down on sex between consenting adults? Why are they acting for property developers rather than rape victims?\nSenior police officers have publicly stated that: “[police] operations to tackle the trade are ‘counterproductive’ and likely to put the lives of women at risk9.”\nAccording to the English Collective of Prostitutes, which supported the women throughout the raids and legal actions, Soho is the safest place in London for sex workers, in part because the women have the support of the local community. Evidence shows it is 10 times safer to work in premises than on the street, especially when working with another woman present10.\nWhy are the police assuming these sex workers are trafficked? Anti-trafficking enforcement actions have been shown to be punitive to victims, leading to deportation back to their country of origin. They have acted as immigration controls dressed up as safety measures. If the authorities want to stop trafficking, as we do, they need to prosecute genuine traffickers, while safeguarding and supporting victims. The “no recourse to public funds” rule works against victims who need emergency accommodation and money to live on.\nWe defended a victim of rape in civil war in Uganda who was made to have sex with men by the woman who brought her to the UK, who kept the money they paid. Evidence provided by Freedom from Torture and ourselves about the impact of what this victim had endured in Uganda was used by the immigration authorities against her. UKBA claimed that she was traumatised by the violence in Uganda not by the violence in the UK. So although her account of trafficking was accepted, she was considered no longer a victim of it. As a result her case to remain in the UK was refused on those grounds and she is still fighting for asylum.\nAs a member of the Safety First Coalition, set up after the murders of five sex workers in Ipswich, we oppose the criminalisation of clients. By driving prostitution further underground it deters women from reporting rapists and other violent men. Sex workers say the police must go after the men they have reported, not those they have not.\nWe have met representatives of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective and they have shown us evidence that sex workers are safer since prostitution was decriminalised there. It is galling that the UK government had not been interested in such evidence, preferring to press ahead with criminalisation.\nThe decriminalisation of prostitution for safety’s sake.\nAn end to raids, arrests and prosecutions of sex workers which all push women into danger.\nAn end to the use of trafficking legislation to arrest and deport immigrant sex workers rather than protect genuine victims.\n28 March 2014, Women Against Rape\nContact WAR at: Crossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX.\nTel 020 7482 2496 war@womenagainstrape.net www.womenagainstrape.net\nThis evidence was previously submitted to the Joint Select Human Rights Committee Inquiry into Violence Against Women and Girls (UK)\n1. “Police ‘culture of disbelief’ over rape claims alarms official monitoring group”, Alan Travis, The Guardian, 31 January 2014.\n2. The Guardian editorial, 14 February 2014.\n3. See www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/ipcc-finds-failings-working-practices-southwark-sap…\n4. “Police failed to investigate sex attacks across six London boroughs A man accused of rape was allowed to walk free and kill two children as a result of a policy to manipulate crime statistics.” Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 26 February 2013. www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/26/police-failed-investigate-sex-attacks\n5. “Metropolitan police facing crisis after failures in Kirk Reid rape inquiry”, Sandra Laville, The Guardian, 27 March 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/27/metropolitan-police-rape-inquiry\n6. Sex crime: Yard attacked over failures in serial offender probe, with officers later promoted to top jobs, Margaret Davis, The Independent, 26 February 2013. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-crime-yard-attacked-over-…\n7. “False Reports of Sexual Assault: Findings on Police Practices, Laws, and Advocacy Options”. See the research at http://womenagainstrape.net/sites/default/files/final_paper_for_war_9-23…\n8. http://www.frg.org.uk/images/Policy_Papers/report-about-advice-service-2007-2013.pdf\n9. Chris Armitt, national police lead on prostitution and Martin Hewitt, ACPO lead on sexual offences, quoted in “Mariana Popa was killed working as a prostitute. Are the police to blame?” The Guardian 19 January 2014.\n10. Hilary Kinnel, Prostitutes’ Exposure to Rape, June 1993.\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site\t| Tagged Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, UN, Women Against Rape\nRead more: key points from Dr Jay’s report\nPosted on August 24, 2014 by WomenAgainstRape\nA Summary of issues raised in the ‘Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997 – 2013)’ by Dr Alexis Jay, issued in August 2014.\nDownload a pdf of the full Report here\nIndependent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997 – 2013)\nGood Press report in the Telegraph\nThis striking report is a breakthrough but leaves many questions unanswered. See WAR’s Questions to the Home Affairs Committee.\nRefusal to Investigate and Prosecute\nThe Report says that over 1,400 girls suffered multiple crimes including: rape, child abduction, threats with guns, being given Class A drugs and alcohol, witness intimidation such as serious injury to themselves and other members of their families. This has been known by council social services and police since at least 2004, perhaps even since the late 1990s.\n“At an operational level, the police gave no priority to CSE [child sexual exploitation], regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime.\n“Further stark evidence came in 2002, 2003 and 2006 with three reports known to the police and the council, which could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham. The first of these reports was effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained. This had led to suggestions of cover-up. The other two reports set out the links between child sexual exploitation and drugs, guns and criminality in the borough. These reports were ignored and no action was taken to deal with the issues that were identified in them.”\nNo councillors or police in the area can say they didn’t know what was going on, following explicit reports by Risky Business to council meetings in 2004 and 2005 naming 50 perpetrators, including names of taxi firms, individual taxi drivers, and takeaways, and addresses where rape took place, yet no concerted action followed for years. Some interviewees told the Report writer they suspected family or business connections with taxi firms, takeaways and hotels where the girls were raped, but police said there was no evidence of this.\nThe Director of Education 2001-2005 raised concerns with police three times, after the heads of three schools had told her of girls being picked up at the school gates by taxi drivers for abuse. “Police watched the schools in unmarked cars but the problem persisted.” “… she described how she was shown a map of the north of England overlaid with various crime networks including ‘Drugs’, ‘Guns’, and ‘Murder’. She was told that the Police were only interested in putting resources into catching ‘the ring leaders’ who perpetrated these crimes”. . . “if they were caught, her local problems would cease.” (pp 103-4)\nThe police and children’s services dramatically reduced the number of girls being monitored so that only tiny numbers of girls were identified as at risk of sexual exploitation. “The Police reason for removing several girls from monitoring was they were pregnant or had given birth. All looked after children were removed from the list.” Risky Business challenged this decision. (pp 104-5)\n“…Between 2007-2013, the Police undertook a series of operations, jointly coordinated and designed to investigate cases of suspected child sexual exploitation, although only one resulted in prosecution and convictions … It ended in 2010 with 5 convictions.” (p 4)\n“…Operation Chard in 2011 led to abduction notices and 11 arrests but no convictions.”\nChild S, aged 17, was murdered – police dismissed it as an unconnected ‘honour killing’ by her boyfriend jealous of her having sex with other men. He was convicted. Her sister had been in care and was known to have been groomed.\nThe Report says that the employees of the CPS dealing with CSE before 2010 have now retired.\nCPS closed many of the cases because ‘they used rape myths against the victims’.\nIt took nine months in one case for the CPS to make a decision to take no further action against one of the perpetrators.\nRotherham councillors\nNo minutes were kept in 2005, when Council Leader Roger Stone chaired a group to ‘take forward’ the above issues raised by Risky Business.\nCouncil Leader in 2006 Roger Stone told a Tory councillor not to publicly raise concerns raised by his constituents about child exploitation, and that they were being dealt with by police.\nPCC Shaun Wright was aware of the scale of rape and other crime from at least 2005 as the Lead Member for Children and Young People (2005-2010).\nA question of priorities\nA lot of the girls were in care; why is their safety considered worth less than others?\nProstitution has been used as an excuse to ‘blame’ these rape victims by claiming it was a ‘lifestyle choice’. But many of the girls were under aged 14 at the time, and were victims of rape or paying for sex with an underage girl. When they tried to get help from police, social workers or others in authority, they were not only denied help but criminalised, as were loved ones who tried to get the rapes to stop.\nRace and ethnicity were used as an excuse to justify the lack of action against the perpetrators. The Report repeats claims that the authorities feared accusations of racism if they took action. This presumes that the Asian community would stand with rapists rather than victims, which is a blatant piece of racism by the police, the council, politicians and social services. The Asian community was outraged by the perpetrators and the way victims were treated.\nSince the Report was published Asian women and girls have publicly stated that Asian girls were also being raped by adults.\nWhat were the police doing instead of investigating and arresting child rapists? S Yorkshire is the same police force found to have been acting illegally at Orgreave during the miners’ strike (1984-5) and Hillsborough.\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection\t| Tagged Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, police, Rotherham, Women Against Rape\nProtest against rape and racism on the day of sentencing the Oxford rapists, Old Bailey, London, 26 June 2013\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site\t| Tagged Black Women's Rape Action Project, Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, Oxford; Rochdale; police; CPS; children; justice; racism, Women Against Rape\nWhy do the police deal with rape cases so badly? Lisa Longstaff in the Guardian\nTheir record in rape cases is abysmal – and they seem to resent accountability, preferring to improve PR rather than performance\nLisa Longstaff\ntheguardian.com, Monday 4 March 2013 09.00 GMT\nAllegations of sexual violence and cover-up are threatening every institution. Can rape be dealt with when so many in authority are themselves guilty? Of course it can. But first the police, charged with enforcing the law, must change.\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has investigated London’s Sapphire rape units nine times in seven years – that’s 19 officers disciplined, three dismissed, one imprisoned for fraudulently closing rape cases and another under investigation.\nThe latest IPCC report reveals the Southwark police policy to press women to withdraw or retract rape allegations. “This local standard operating procedure, authorised by senior officers, increased the number of incidents that were classified as ‘no crime’ and therefore increased the sanction detection rates for the unit” (by 25%-30%).\nThis was also policy in five other London boroughs. Fiddling the figures is fraud, and enabling rapists to go free amounts to criminal conspiracy. How many of the victims denied protection were raped again or worse? We already know that one alleged attacker killed his children. Were other women raped by these men? Did any victims denied justice take their own lives?\nFurther, victims who retract allegations can face prosecution. Layla Ibrahim and Gail Sherwood were both prosecuted in 2010 (as were at least 30 others). Both said they were pressed to retract under threat of prosecution. One did, the other refused. Both were imprisoned.\nWe have been campaigning against the prosecution of women who report rape. In 2011, 27 organisations signed our letter to the director of public prosecutions. He responded with guidance: the CPS should not prosecute women with mental illness, girls under 18 or victims of domestic violence. But he refused to acknowledge that negligent and biased investigations can result in jail for rape victims rather than rapists.\nWe are working with three women facing criminal charges. Several others were prosecuted for harassment after their rapists made counter allegations and were believed. Sex workers who reported violence were also prosecuted.\nLast year, in a landmark human rights case, the daughter of a Women Against Rape volunteer won compensation from the police, following seven years of campaigning, after Southwark Sapphire lost evidence of the rape. The rapist was acquitted; we later learned he had been accused of another rape. A damning IPCC report found that Sapphire detectives were told to prioritise motor crime over rape. Four junior officers were disciplined. But the commander who set the policy went on to the National Centre for Policing Excellence – setting standards.\nThe IPCC now reveals that two senior officers involved in the case of serial sex offender Kirk Reid (who is thought to have assaulted between 80 and 100 women) were promoted, rather than disciplined. One later retired on full pension.\nIn 2009 and 2012 we met the heads of Sapphire. We demanded they stop promoting bad officers, and opposed their proposal to prosecute rapists for offences other than rape. We later wrote to DCI Duthie: “…resources will be diverted into gathering ‘intelligence’ for less serious crimes, avoiding a thorough investigation of the sexual violence allegations … Is it to do with officers having their own agenda rather than paying attention to what the victim reports?” We warned that “police priorities would again be skewed, the myth that rape is difficult to prosecute reinforced, and thus that there is no point investing too much into investigating it”.\nWe pointed to the separation of rape from domestic violence as a major obstacle, since more than half the rapes reported in London are by partners or ex-partners. Different units deal with each crime, so the full picture is hidden – cases are dropped or prosecutions fail.\nWhy do the police deal with rape so badly? Some are rapists themselves – a 2012 IPCC report, produced with the co-operation of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), looked at 54 accusations of sexual assault against officers. Some are sexist – a 2005 Home Office study revealed that many officers believed women are liars. Some are lazy or incompetent. Those officers who are committed to doing their job and seeing victims get justice clearly have less influence over priorities.\nLike many in positions of power, the police seem to resent accountability. They have responded to anti-rape campaigning by improving their PR rather than their performance, and befriending the voluntary sector.\nThe IPCC helps them. Created to police the police, it shamelessly endorses the police claim that the problem is “historic” rather than current. In December 2012 the IPCC invited Eaves, Rape Crisis, NIA Ending Violence, Victim Support and the Havens to meet. The IPCC says all agreed that Sapphire, though patchy, has improved; all that is needed, it seems, is for frontline police to be trained in “informed consent” and “cultural issues”. Each one of these organisations (statutory or voluntary) is funded by the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice or the police. Those of us who are independent of police and government were not invited.\nIf senior officers were prosecuted when they pervert the course of justice, sexual violence investigations would improve. So would the behaviour of men, beginning with those in authority.\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/04/police-behaviour-sex-attacks-women-change\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site, Story\t| Tagged Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, police, Women Against Rape\nPolice pay compensation in precedent rape claim\nPosted on January 14, 2013 by BWRAP\nA landmark civil suit was settled on recently with the Metropolitan police paying £15,000 damages to a woman whose rape when she was 15 was badly mishandled by a police Sapphire Team in Southwark, London. With the scandals in the news of scores of girls raped over years in Rochdale, Rotherham and by Jimmy Savile (and possibly his associates), this case puts the spotlight on the flagship Sapphire Rape Units.\nTheir response so far is not encouraging. Every time they have been exposed mishandling rape investigations, they have claimed that the units had been restructured and cases like this could not happen again. But they continue to happen. When asked this morning on the Today programme why then the conviction rate for reported rape remained so low, Sapphire’s head DCI Mick Duthie said that 40% of women who report rape to the Met don’t want to prosecute. This is not our experience and is given the lie by the figures. All the women who come to us wanted justice and were prevented from getting it. The Met closes over half the reported rapes, and the CPS closes a further 40% of the rest – all decisions made against victims’ wishes.\nThis precedent claim is based on the Human Rights Act (Articles 3 and 8) and overturns decades of legal obstruction which has prevented victims of rape from suing the police for negligent investigations. The persistence of a mother campaigning with Women Against Rape and legally represented, has opened the way for other victims of crime to hold the police to account for ineffective investigations. On the basis of this claim and what was established here, others will now hopefully be encouraged to make their case.\nCommenting on the settlement, the girl’s mother said:\n“The police thought we were going to give up, and unless you fight all the way, they will intimidate you and smash you down with their enormous power and resources. But we were determined to win, for my daughter and all the other girls who have been denied justice. Why should victims who are let down have to go through this?”\n“The settlement is not all we wanted, but we have won a lot along the way. We got four officers disciplined. We got a personal written apology from Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions. We got some compensation. But the most senior officer DCI Chambers was never held accountable for his actions. The trial judge criticised the police investigation and referred to non investigated issues as a disgrace. After the complaint investigation, a High Court judge said, ‘…It is reasonable to suspect that had the matter been investigated properly and the corroborative evidence obtained, the result might well have been different.’ This case has shown that the problem is not merely the ‘canteen culture’ at the lowest ranks, but the de-prioritising of rape organised from the top.”\nThe rape of the 15-year-old by a 28-year-old man took place in 2005. Despite the police having the attacker’s address, his vehicle registration and mobile number, it took three months of pressure by the girl’s mother, and another girl reporting the same man for rape, before he was finally arrested.\nBut that was not the end of the carelessness Ms X and her daughter suffered. At trial in 2006 it became clear that: the police had not interviewed potential witnesses and had lost crucial phone evidence which would have undermined the Defendant’s account. Not surprisingly, the jury did not convict, leaving the victim and her family shattered.\nThe man walked free and the girl’s mother contacted WAR, and soon became part of a team campaigning for justice.\nArrangements were made to speak to the media and meet both the local MP and the Borough Commander. This sparked an internal investigation by the head of the Central Sapphire Team, which found that the rape investigation had been wanting, and listed the following “mistakes”:\n• “A serious stranger rape attack allocated to a PC [not a detective] to investigate.\n• Failure to identify the link between the crime scene and the suspect’s vehicle.\n• Failure to visit the crime scene at the earliest opportunity.\n• Failure to identify the suspect and arrest at the earliest opportunity.\n• Failure to properly investigate the allegation thoroughly and expeditiously, with particular emphasis on the failure to obtain correct telephone records.\n• Failure to properly and effectively supervise the investigation.”\nThis report was not disclosed to the victim and her family until 2012, after a lengthy legal battle. Not satisfied with an apology that did not even offer any explanations, a formal complaint was lodged to the IPCC. Under pressure from the victim, her mother, Women Against Rape, and the victim’s lawyer Debaleena Dasgupta, the IPCC issued an unusually thorough and damning report in 2009. It revealed that:\n• The Southwark Sapphire Rape Unit was systematically starved of resources, while resources were diverted to motor crime and robbery. At some points, the Unit was functioning without any trained detectives.\n• The Unit left hundreds of rapes and sexual assaults to untrained, unqualified officers. The main officer on this case was a PC who had just joined the unit from Safer Neighbourhoods work. The PC was expected to handle over 30 cases at one time, an overwhelming number, with little or no training or supervision, and no experience of detective work.\n• Officers (in this case women) who tried to get rape taken seriously and asked for more resources were rebuffed and blocked at every turn by their (male) superiors.\n• Just weeks before, two of the officers in this complaint had been the subject of a complaint on another rape case in which they evaded discipline.\nThe IPCC report makes clear that the most junior officer struggled under an impossible workload; and while four officers were disciplined, it blames the man in charge the then Deputy Borough Commander DCI Chambers, who set the priorities and starved the Unit of resources could not be disciplined. DCI Chambers was able to refuse to be interviewed, and instead prepared a 37-page statement denying responsibility, retire from the Metropolitan Police and swiftly move to another position – at the Centre for Policing Excellence!\nThe girl’s mother said, “The police have been vicious in fighting our civil claim, and they fought dirty. I had to listen to them in court and felt that they were insinuating that my daughter hadn’t been raped. And when that didn’t work, they tried to minimise how ill their actions had made her – largely because of the additional trauma of being refused justice after the rape and of our family having to fight over years to get the truth disclosed. My daughter’s life has been destroyed, my 30-year marriage has ended under the stress. These injustices affect whole families and communities, and no amount of money can compensate for our loss. Do the police care? Does the Home Office care?\n“This has never been about money. We wanted a declaration that my daughter’s human rights had been breached, an admission which would help to other women and girls. We were ready to go all the way to court to get it, but we were forced to settle because of costs risks – we don’t have the huge resources the police have. Working with WAR I see similar cases coming through our door all the time, so they can’t tell me this is all in the past. Victims are dismissed and ignored, especially children and teenagers. Those officers who want to do their job and complain about lack of support within the force also face obstacles.\n“This case proves that the police, even when they admit mistakes, will spend lots of public money to stop victims getting justice.”\nAs Lisa Longstaff of WAR points out, “They keep saying that everything has changed, but these cases – from Rochdale to Southwark, from Saville to Coleman-Farrow[1] – are a continual reminder of what the police policy on rape is in practice. For many, many women, children and families, it is not just that victims are disbelieved but, believed or not, that they face at best carelessness and at worst a complete refusal by police to properly investigate rape. . There is much PR about reporting but in reality children are treated as if they are supposed to be sexually available and keep their mouth shut.”\nThe claimant in the case said, “I think the police really believed me, but they really didn’t care.”\nFor interviews contact:\nWomen Against Rape at 020 7482 2496, or war@womenagainstrape.net\n[1] Sapphire Detective Constable Ryan Coleman-Farrow was convicted of falsifying rape records and closing cases of at least 12 survivors of rape recently.\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site, In the Media\t| Tagged civil claim, Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, Human Rights Act, Independent Police Complaints Commission, justice, Women Against Rape\nStatement from rural women in India on recent events in Delhi\nPosted on January 1, 2013 by WomenAgainstRape\nPlease help BWRAP and WAR to circulate the statement and article below:\nThe mass protests taking place all over India, and the international support for them, show how determined women are to end rape, and how we face similar violence and similar sexism by the authorities, wherever we are. For years our Indian sisters in Chhattisgarh have been organizing against rape and murder in the family but also by landlords, police and the military. But Dalit and Tribal women’s struggles have not been given prominence and support by the media or by most middle and upper class women in India or in the UK.\nIn our experience of dealing with rape and domestic violence here in the UK, the police are also the main obstacle to rape survivors getting justice. Only 6.5% of rapes in the UK end in conviction. We see daily cases dropped, as police have not gathered the evidence properly or the Crown Prosecution Service has decided it is not good enough to take to court. This is especially true for children, women of colour, women with disabilities and working class women generally. That’s why abusers and rapists like Savile and those in Rochdale and North Wales children homes and elsewhere were allowed to go for so long without being prosecuted, despite having been reported to the police and social services a number of times – vulnerable women and girls were treated as ‘plebs’ who exist to be available to sexual predators. We are even having to campaign with rape survivors imprisoned for reporting rape. Many cases of police rape have also come to light in the UK. We know these are only the tip of the iceberg.\nBelow are statements from a sister organisation based in 400 villages in Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh state; and comments from Arundhati Roy focusing on rape committed by police, army and others in authority, against women who have least. That these rapes are not prosecuted gives all violent men the go ahead – they know the authorities are on the side of the rapist and women are undefended.\nWe who are demanding justice today in India are demanding justice for all beginning with grassroots women everywhere including in the UK.\nStatement from Nawa Chhattisgarh Mahila Samiti (Chhattisgarh Women’s Organisation), Chhattisgarh State, India – 6 January 2013\nWe condemn the gang rape and murder of the young woman in Delhi, and we demand the rapists get life imprisonment so other rapists are afraid and do not rape. In Chhattisgarh, Dalit and Tribal women and girls are being raped like the young woman in Delhi. Sometimes the media covers it but many times they don’t.\nHigh level people who rape women, girls and boys should also be punished as many times they are not. This is happening in many countries. Our law is made by the government and it should be used against the high level people including if they are in government.\nFor many years in India there has been a grassroots movement of Dalit and Tribal women against rape. Nawa Chhattisgarh Mahila Samiti (NCMS) is part of this movement and has been working against rape since 1987 — in our area, 3,000 Dalit and Tribal women in NCMS have been fighting it. Women and girls are raped by high caste men, landlords and policemen. We help Dalit and Tribal women report rape and demand the police take statements, gather evidence and bring a prosecution of the rapist. Sometimes in the village area, up to 500 women go together to protest against a rapist at his house and shout against rape. Then the women go to the police station and demand the police file a report and punish the rapist. Last year government soldiers were raping women in the Tribal area, Bastar (Chhattisgarh) and in Kashmir but were not punished. We have campaigned to get bicycles for Tribal girls to go to school as school is far from their homes and this has also helped them not get harassed on the way.\nIn 2003 a police constable raped a 5 year old girl in Raipur. NCMS supported the girl and her family and helped the family get compensation from the government for the hospital costs for the young girl who had been severely injured. The policeman was prosecuted and imprisoned. This is one case of many where we help women and girls get justice against rape.\nNaya Zamaana Aayega! A New Age is Coming!\n* NCMS is an anti-racist organisation of Adivasi (Tribal) and Dalit women campaigning against bonded labour; rape, low and unequal pay and other discrimination. It brings together people from these two communities who are divided by landowners and other employers, police and government. NCMS is part of the Global Women’s Strike network.\nPolice, army rampantly use rape as weapon: Arundhati Roy\nPublished: Monday, Dec 31, 2012, 11:58 IST\nPlace: London | Agency: DNA\nReacting to the terrible news of the 23-year-old girl succumbing to injuries sustained while fighting off her rapists in a moving bus in the capital, Arundhati Roy warns that it is a sign of forebodings for women of all classes. About the massive outpouring of protests across the country, Roy said, “While we are seeing some very unexceptional reaction to an event which is hardly exceptional, though it’s a terrible thing to call a tragic event ‘exceptional’.\n“However, the real problem is why is this crime creating such a lot of outrage is because it plays into the idea of the criminal poor, like the vegetable vendor, gym instructor or bus driver actually assaulting a middle class girl. Whereas when rape is used as a means of domination by upper castes, the army or the police it is not even punished,” said the feted author.\nWhen asked if there was any chance that these huge protests are going to ring in some genuine change, Roy said, “I think it will lead to some new laws perhaps, an increased surveillance, but all of that will protect middle class women. But in cases of the army and the police as perpetrators, we are not looking for laws. What do you do when the police themselves burn down villages, gang-rape women. I have personally listened to so many testimonies of women to whom this has been done.”\nPointing to the contrast between the actual truth about women across the country and the image of modern India being portrayed by Bollywood and the hi-tech India, the author agreed that there are quite many a world competing here. “Feudal India has a huge history and legacy of disrespect and violence against women. Any accounts of Partition or what is done to Dalit women contains that but now there is sort of psychosis,” she said. See the YouTube video\nWhile stating that the army and the police routinely use rape as a weapon against people in places like Chhattisgarh, Kashmir and Manipur after gaining impunity behind laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Roy said, “More dangerous is the widening gap between the rich and the poor. Earlier, at least the rich did what they with a fair amount of discretion, but now it’s all out there on television for conspicuous consumption and there is an anger and psychosis building up and women at the top, middle and the bottom are going to pay the price for it.”\nPosted in Demanding Justice & Protection, import from old site\t| Tagged Black Women's Rape Action Project, Demanding Justice and protection from the Police and CPS, India, Women Against Rape"
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        "text": "25 април е 115-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (116-и през високосна). Остават 250 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1154 г. – Мюсюлмански войски, предвождани от Нур ад Дин превземат Дамаск.\n 1699 г. – Състои се сватбата на немския граф Лудвиг Крафт фон Насау-Саарбрюкен и графиня Филипина Хенриета фон Хоенлое-Лангенбург.\n 1719 г. – За първи път е публикуван романът Робинзон Крузо на Даниел Дефо.\n 1792 г. – Французинът Клод-Жозеф дьо Лил съчинява музиката и текста на Марсилезата – химн на Франция от 1795 г.\n 1792 г. – Франция въвежда гилотината, като средство за смъртно наказание.\n 1826 г. – В Англия е патентован първият автомобил с двигател с вътрешно горене.\n 1859 г. – Започва строителството на Суецкия канал.\n 1898 г. – САЩ обявява война на Испания, в която САЩ придобиват контрол върху испанските колониални острови в Карибско море и Тихия океан.\n 1901 г. – Щатът Ню Йорк първи в САЩ въвежда регистрационни номера на МПС-та.\n\n 1902 г. – Тържествено е открита Българската болница в Цариград.\n 1925 г. – В София пристига като Апостолически нунций бъдещият папа Йоан XXIII – Анджело Джузепе Ронкали.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: На стотина километра от Берлин става срещата на войските на СССР, Англия и САЩ.\n 1953 г. – Американецът Джеймс Уотсън и англичанинът Франсис Крик представят в научна статия двойната спирала на ДНК.\n 1961 г. – Американският предприемач Робърт Нойс патентова интегралната схема.\n 1965 г. – Сватоплук Плускал играе последния си футболен мач.\n 1966 г. – Ташкент пострадва от силно земетресение; централната част е унищожена, възстановяването отнема 3,5 години.\n 1974 г. – Революцията на карамфилите в Португалия предизвиква падането на фашисткия режим, наследен от диктатурата на Антонио ди Оливейра Салазар.\n 1977 г. – Приета е конституцията на Обединена Република Танзания.\n 1980 г. – Британската хевиметъл група Black Sabbath издава албума Heaven and Hell.\n 1983 г. – Пионер 10 преминава отвъд орбитата на Плутон.\n 1988 г. – Върховеният съд на Народна република България осъжда на смърт чрез разстрел преките участници в Атентата на гара Буново.\n 1989 г. – Джеймс Ричардсън е освободен от затвора във Флорида 21 години, след като погрешно е обвинен в убийството на седемте си деца.\n 2005 г. – България и Румъния подписват Договора за присъединяване към Европейския съюз.\n 2005 г. – При дерайлиране на пътнически влак край Осака (Япония) загиват 107 души.\n 2006 г. – Георги Василев е назначен за старши-треньор на ПФК Нафтекс (Бургас).\n 2007 г. – Президентът Борис Елцин е погребан с църковно опело, което се случва за първи път в Русия след погребението на император Александър III през 1894 година.\n 2012 г. – Украинската певица Руслана издаде 8-ият си студиен албум „Ейфорія“\n\nРоден на 25-ти април 2007 година \n\n 32 г. – Отон, римски император († 69 г.)\n 1214 г. – Луи IX, крал на Франция († 1270 г.)\n 1284 г. – Едуард II († 1327 г.)\n 1599 г. – Оливър Кромуел, английски държавник († 1658 г.)\n 1767 г. – Никола Удино, френски маршал († 1847 г.)\n 1769 г. – Марк Брюнел, френски изобретател и предприемач († 1849 г.)\n 1849 г. – Феликс Клайн, немски математик († 1925 г.)\n 1863 г. – Арно Холц, немски поет и драматург († 1929 г.)\n 1865 г. – Аксели Гален-Калела, финландски художник († 1931 г.)\n 1874 г. – Гулиелмо Маркони, италиански електроинженер, Нобелов лауреат през 1909 г. († 1937 г.)\n 1883 г. – Семьон Будьони, съветски маршал, герой от Гражданската война († 1973 г.)\n 1885 г. – Лионело Вентури, италиански изкуствовед († 1961 г.)\n 1900 г. – Волфганг Паули, австро-американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1958 г.)\n 1903 г. – Андрей Колмогоров, руски математик († 1987 г.)\n 1904 г. – Бочо Илиев, български стопански деятел († 2000 г.)\n 1908 г. – Едуард Мъроу, американски журналист († 1965 г.)\n 1917 г. – Ела Фицджералд, американска джазпевица († 1996 г.)\n 1921 г. – Карел Апел, холандски художник († 2006 г.)\n 1921 г. – Михай I, крал на Румъния († 2017 г.)\n 1923 г. – Албърт Кинг, американски блус музикант († 1992 г.)\n 1923 г. – Николай Наплатанов, български учен († 1993 г.)\n 1927 г. – Албер Юдерзо, френски аниматор († 2020 г.)\n 1928 г. – Рихард Андерс, немски писател († 2012 г.)\n 1929 г. – Атанас Натев, български философ († 1998 г.)\n 1930 г. – Димо Заимов, български художник († 2016 г.)\n 1930 г. – Пол Мазурски, американски актьор († 2014 г.)\n 1933 г. – Ицхак Финци, български актьор\n 1940 г. – Ал Пачино, американски актьор\n 1941 г. – Бертран Таверние, френски актьор († 2021 г.)\n 1945 г. – Бьорн Улвеус, шведски музикант (ABBA)\n 1946 г. – Владимир Жириновски, руски политик († 2022 г.)\n 1946 г. – Талия Шайър, американска актриса\n 1947 г. – Йохан Кройф, холандски футболист и треньор († 2016 г.)\n 1947 г. – Маргарита Младенова, българска режисьорка\n 1950 г. – Питър Джурасик, американски актьор\n 1952 г. – Кетил Бьорнстад, норвежки пианист\n 1952 г. – Владислав Третяк, съветски хокеен вратар\n 1953 г. – Весна Пусич, хърватски политик\n 1955 г. – Александър Грушко, руски дипломат\n 1955 г. – Николай Дубаров, български художник\n 1958 г. – Фиш, шотландски певец\n 1962 г. – Петя Дубарова, българска поетеса († 1979 г.)\n 1967 г. – Владко Шаламанов, български футболист\n 1969 г. – Джина Торес, американска актриса\n 1969 г. – Рене Зелуегър, американска актриса\n 1970 г. – Джейсън Лий, американски актьор\n 1976 г. – Тим Дънкан, американски баскетболист\n 1980 г. – Мария Белова, български политик и адвокат\n 1980 г. – Марсио Нуньо, португалски футболист\n 1981 г. – Фелипе Маса, бразилски пилот от Формула 1\n 1986 г. – Любомира Нанева, българска състезателка по спортна стрелба – пистолет.\n 1990 г. – Ертен Анисова, български политик и юрист\n\nПочинали \n\n 68 г. – Марко, първоапостол и християнски светец (* неизв.)\n 1077 г. – Геза I, крал на Унгария (ок. 1040)\n 1472 г. – Леон Батиста Алберти, италиански художник, поет, философ, музикант и архитект (* 1402 г.)\n 1595 г. – Торквато Тасо, италиански поет (* 1544 г.)\n 1744 г. – Андерс Целзий, шведски астроном (* 1701 г.)\n 1840 г. – Симеон Дени Поасон, френски математик и физик (* 1781 г.)\n 1891 г. – Николай Николаевич, велик княз на Русия (* 1831 г.)\n 1892 г. – Анри Дюверие, френски пътешественик и изследовател (* 1840 г.)\n 1911 г. – Емилио Салгари, италиански писател (* 1862 г.)\n 1918 г. – Димитър Светогорски, български морски офицер (* 1895 г.)\n 1928 г. – Пьотър Врангел, руски дворянин, белогвардейски генерал (* 1878 г.)\n 1938 г. – Чарлс Хемлин, американски юрист (* 1861 г.)\n 1943 г. – Владимир Немирович-Данченко, руски театрален режисьор, теоретик и педагог (* 1858 г.)\n 1971 г. – Анастас Дудулов, български скулптор (* 1892 г.)\n 1976 г. – Сър Карол Рийд, английски филмов режисьор (р. 1906 г.)\n 1988 г. – Клифърд Саймък, американски писател (* 1904 г.)\n 1993 г. – Николай Наплатанов, български учен (* 1923 г.)\n 1995 г. – Васил Илиев, български борец (* 1965 г.)\n 1995 г. – Джинджър Роджърс, американска актриса и танцьорка (* 1911 г.)\n 1999 г. – Лорд Киланин, ирландски президент на МОК (* 1914 г.)\n 1999 г. – Майкъл Морис, ирландски спортен функционер (* 1914)\n 2002 г. – Георги Робев, български хоров диригент (* 1934 г.)\n 2002 г. – Лефт Ай (Left Eye), американска рапърка и певица (* 1971)\n 2010 г. – Алън Силитоу, английски поет и белетрист (* 1928 г.)\n 2013 г. – Петър Гюзелев, китарист на „Щурците“ (* 1945 г.)\n\nПразници \n Австралия, Нова Зеландия, Науру, Соломонови острови, Тонга и Западна Самоа – Празник на обединените въоръжени сили АНЗАК (в чест на участието на АНЗАК в Първата световна война)\n Германия – Ден на жената\n Египет – Ден на Освобождението на Синайския полуостров\n Италия – Празник на свободата (по повод края на Втората световна война)\n Казахстан – Ден на Казахстан по футбол (от 2002 г., когато страната стана член на УЕФА)\n Португалия – Революция на карамфилите (национален празник)\n Фарьорски острови и Есватини – Ден на националния флаг\n\nИзточници \n\n425"
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        "text": "Sonny Bono Was a Piker\nOne of the main arguments put forth by the copyright reformist camp is that the term of copyright has gradually been lengthened until now it's as long as life of the author plus 70 years. Incentives all the way to the grave and beyond, if you will; but this doesn't bode well for innovation and is increasingly problematic with more legal wrangling and wasteful rent seeking.\nIP advocates like to analogize IP to physical property insofar as they can, while noting obvious differences too. See, for example, Frank Easterbrook's essay \"Intellectual Property Is Still Property.\" (No link available, but it's reprinted in Adam D. Moore, ed., Information Ethics .)\nPhysical property, as everyone grants, has no term limit, unlike IP. Physical property also never enters the public domain, although it can be abandoned, and then re-homesteaded by a new owner. IP does enter the public domain though, after the expiration of a copyright (or patent).\nLysander Spooner , a 19th-century opponent of slavery and, eventually, of the U.S. Constitution, thought this was bizarre. In his uncompleted 1855 tract The Law of Intellectual Property , he argued for a perpetual right of property in ideas, and stated that it: \"is intrinsically the same as, and stands on identically the same grounds with, his right of property in material things; that no distinction, of principle , exists between the two cases\" (p. 30). (Spooner's italics.)\nSo here's my challenge to lawyers such as Frank Easterbrook, Lawrence Lessig, and William Patry: if you really believe that IP is property and that IP holders' rights should be protected just as their rights in their material property are, why not overturn Sonny Bono and extend copyrights (and patents) indefinitely, as long as the underlying IP has not been abandoned by its owner(s)? So why stop a mere 70 years after an author's demise? Presumably this would also put an end to rent seeking and endless lawsuits.\nFailure to do so strikes me as prima facie evidence (to quote my old monetary theory prof. in another context) that IP is not property, and in fact is just an old fashioned monopoly. In other words it's the monopoly formerly known as intellectual property. And where there's a monopoly, there's bound to be a gaggle of lawyers chasing from behind.\n[Posted at 12/22/2007 08:30 PM by William Stepp on IP History comments(3)]\nI think Lessig is well aware that IP is a monopoly. If I understand him correctly, he thinks it a useful one, so long as its term is limited -- but he doesn't argue that it's equivalent to physical property. If I have this wrong, I'd appreciate a link or two to set me straight.\n[Comment at 12/23/2007 09:19 AM by bill hooker]\nGood point. In Free Culture Lessig notes that it's one thing to say \"It's my property, and I should have it forever,\" but an altogether different thing to say \"It's my monopoly, and I should have it forever\" (p. 88).\nCopyright was a regulated monopoly in 17th century England. The booksellers also had a monopoly, which was broken by the courts.\nLessig should get out of the reformist camp and come on over to the abolitionist side. Of course, his employer might have a problem with this, as he teaches copyright law and so must tow the copyright line, I would think.\nPatry, btw, referred to Crosbie Fitch as a nihilist when Crosbie commented at his blog that abolishing copyright would have some salutary effects. Were the abolitionist opponents of slavery nihilists? Of course not and neither are copyright abolitionists.\nEasterbrook and Adam D. Moore are probably better exemplars of the point I was making. The latter has a detailed discussion of tangible property rights compared to IP rights in his book Intellectual Property and Information Control .\n[Comment at 12/23/2007 11:12 AM by Bill Stepp]\nIt's difficult to argue common sense nowadays, especially if it's a radical departure from status quo. For an idea to be successful, it essence must be watered down with elements from directly contradictory ideas until what's left makes no sense whatsoever.\nThus we have people who agree that copyright is an incredibly bad idea, and argue that therefore it's term should be halved.\n[Comment at 12/23/2007 02:32 PM by Kid]\nUnoEightNineQuatro:"
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        "text": "NYC Carriage Horses Become Part of Mayoral Race\nanimal activists, animal cruelty, Bill de Blasio, carriage horses, central park, Christine C. Quinn, gloria steinem, mayoral race, nyc\nWill NYC Carriage Horses Be Banned With a New Mayor?\nShe may have dogs, but animal activists say mayoral candidate Christine C. Quinn is no animal lover. An ever-growing number of activists are voicing their opinions about Quinn in an effort to help elect a more animal-friendly mayor into office once Mayor Bloomberg’s final term is completed.\nThis could mean the end to an NYC tradition.\nAt the center of this controversy are the Central Park horse carriages. Quinn, much like her political ally, Bloomberg, supports the carriages, stating that these horse carriages employ 300 people and are a valuable source of income, even in the most economically difficult times. But animal rights activists not-so-politely disagree.\nThey claim that this is a basic form of animal cruelty. These horses travel through mid-town at busy times, and are periodically hit and injured by cars. They are concerned with the overall treatment of the horses, as well as their living conditions. In fact, as City Council speaker, Quinn herself sought to improve the horses living conditions, including requiring bigger stalls and heavy blankets.\nStill, animal activists have seized on this one issue, which may prove disastrous to Quinn’s campaign. True, this is just one issue of many, however, with big names such as Alec Baldwin in the corner of the animal activists, this one issue could impact the opinions of thousands of on-the-fence voters.\nOne of Quinn’s democratic opponents, Bill de Blasio, is taking advantage of this controversy. “I grew up with the romantic notion that this was part of New York City culture,” he told the New York Times. “I had not really thought honestly about the ramifications of it.”\nNow, he claims, he has thought of the ramifications, and wants to do something about it. On his first day in office, if elected, he’d ban the carriages, he said. And it’s not just horses. de Blasio is using this horse carriage controversy to catapult himself as the animal-friendly candidate. This past week he pledged to require sprinkler systems in all pet stores.\nTo Quinn’s credit, it’s not like she’s hunting cats and forcing dogs into slavery. She has two rescued dogs, whom she walks nearly every morning in her Chelsea neighborhood. She’s sought a no-kill policy for city shelters; she’s fought for laws to increase financing for animal care.\nBut the horse carriages are a sticking issue, at least for heavyweight activist Gloria Steinem, who has backed de Blasio for mayor and admits the carriage horse industry is a lingering issue between Quinn and her.\nIn the end, are the horses in Central Park a worthy cause to fight for, or are they being used as political pawns in the hopes to gain sympathy votes? Mayoral candidate Sal F. Albanese just wants these candidates to stop horsing around: ‘Bill says on the first day he’s going to ban horse carriages,” Albanese told the Times. “I’m worried about creating jobs on my first day.”\nRichard has been rescued three times over by his lab/hound mix Gamgi, pit/boxer mix Lincoln, and cat Turtle. He strives to make every day an adventure for his pack, and is blessed to make a living by doing what he loves – writing.\njoan67\nDeBlasio all the way baby!"
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        "text": "One by one I found all the doors closed and locked.\nAs I grappled and fought with my demons of fear.\nThat it was all so achingly clear.\nThe paradox, the enigma, the madness.\nUntil only hope and goodness remain.\nA mystery only pure love could ever explain.\nBut we can surely learn together, side by side, hand in hand.\nIt’s with you, my dear, I will continue to grow.\nYou bring me such immeasurable joy.\nI thank you for choosing me, my precious Sebastian.\nMy darling, beloved baby boy."
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    {
        "text": "26 април е 116-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (117-и през високосна година). Остават 249 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1336 г. – Франческо Петрарка изкачва връх Ванту – символичен рожден ден на алпинизма.\n 1802 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт подписва обща амнистия, която позволява на около 1000 от най-видните емигранти от Френската революция да се върнат във Франция.\n 1933 г. – Създадено е Гестапо – официалната тайна полиция на нацистка Германия.\n 1937 г. – Гражданска война в Испания: Испанският баски град Герника е бомбардиран от германски и италиански самолети, изпратени в помощ на Франсиско Франко.\n 1941 г. – В Любляна е създаден Освободителен фронт на словенския народ.\n 1942 г. – При експлозия в мина в Манджурия (Китай) загиват 1549 миньори – най-тежкият минен инцидент в света.\n 1949 г. – В Москва започва първата сесия на СИВ.\n 1954 г. – Започва Женевската конференция, опит да се възстанови мирът в Индокитай и Корея.\n 1962 г. – Космическият кораб Рейнджър 4 на НАСА се разбива в Луната.\n 1962 г. – В космоса е изстрелян първият международен (англо-американски) спътник „Ариел“.\n 1964 г. – Танганайка и Занзибар се обединяват в обща държава – Танзания.\n 1978 г. – Започва гражданската война в Афганистан.\n 1986 г. – Чернобилска авария: Четвърти реактор на атомната електрическа централа в Чернобил (Украйна) експлодира и се запалва, което е най-голямата ядрена авария в света.\n 1990 г. – Регистрирано е Движението за права и свободи.\n 1991 г. – Основан е футболният отбор Ф91 Дюделанж от Люксембург.\n 1994 г. – В Южна Африка се провеждат първите многорасови избори.\n 1999 г. – Хиляди компютри в света са поразени от компютърния вирус Чернобил.\n 2000 г. – По инициатива на министър-председателя Иван Костов започва Българският Великден.\n 2002 г. – 19-годишният Робърт Щайнхаузер застрелва 17 души в училище в германския град Ерфурт, след което се самоубива.\n 2005 г. – Под международен натиск, Сирия изтегля последните си 14 хил. войници от Ливан, с което се слага край на 29-годишната военна доминация над страната.\n\nРодени \n\n 121 г. – Марк Аврелий, римски император († 180 г.)\n 1573 г. – Мария Медичи, жена на Анри IV (Франция) († 1642 г.)\n 1710 г. – Томас Рийд, шотландски философ († 1796 г.)\n 1711 г. – Дейвид Хюм, шотландски философ († 1776 г.)\n 1785 г. – Джон Джеймс Одюбон, американски художник († 1851 г.)\n 1787 г. – Лудвиг Уланд, германски поет († 1862 г.)\n 1798 г. – Йожен Дьолакроа, френски художник († 1863 г.)\n 1807 г. – Шарл Огюст Фросар, френски генерал († 1875 г.)\n 1829 г. – Теодор Билрот, австрийски хирург († 1894 г.)\n 1865 г. – Аксели Гален-Калела, финландски художник († 1931 г.)\n 1874 г. – Инеса Арманд, френско-руска политичка и комунистка († 1920 г.)\n 1879 г. – Оуен Ричардсън, британски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1959 г.)\n 1889 г. – Анита Лус, американска писателка, драматург и сценарист († 1981 г.)\n 1889 г. – Лудвиг Витгенщайн, австрийски философ († 1951 г.)\n 1893 г. – Дража Михайлович, сръбски генерал († 1946 г.)\n 1894 г. – Рудолф Хес, германски политик и офицер, нацист († 1987 г.)\n 1898 г. – Висенте Алейксандре, испански поет, Нобелов лауреат († 1984 г.)\n 1900 г. – Чарлз Франсис Рихтер, американски сеизмолог († 1985 г.)\n 1903 г. – Константин Константинов, български музиколог († 1955 г.)\n 1905 г. – Жан Виго, френски кинорежисьор († 1934 г.)\n 1912 г. – Алфред ван Вогт, канадски писател († 2000 г.)\n 1915 г. – Димитър Костадинов Измирлиев, български учител, журналист и общественик († 1983 г.)\n 1917 г. – Йау Минг Пей, американско-китайски архитект († 2019 г.)\n 1917 г. – Кочо Караджов, български стопански деател († 2002 г.)\n 1926 г. – Верка Сидерова, българска народна певица\n 1928 г. – Херта Крефтнер, австрийска писателка († 1951 г.)\n 1932 г. – Франсис Ле, френски композитор († 2018 г.)\n 1933 г. – Арно Пензиас, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат\n 1940 г. – Джорджо Мородер, италиански композитор\n 1949 г. – Емил Басат, български журналист\n 1954 г. – Силвия Кацарова, българска певица\n 1958 г. – Георги Лозанов, медиен експерт\n 1962 г. – Борис Велчев, български юрист\n 1962 г. – Наско Сираков, български футболист\n 1963 г. – Джет Ли, китайски актьор\n 1977 г. – Том Уелинг, американски актьор\n 1980 г. – Чанинг Тейтъм, американски актьор\n 1996 г. – Теа Таирович, сръбска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 757 г. – Стефан III, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1566 г. – Диана дьо Поатие, френска благородничка (* ок. 1499)\n 1635 г. – Алесандро Тасони, италиански поет (* 1565)\n 1731 г. – Даниел Дефо, английски журналист и писател (* 1660 г.)\n 1815 г. – Карстен Нибур, немски изследовател (* 1733 г.)\n 1910 г. – Бьорнстерне Бьорнсон, норвежки писател Нобелов лауреат (* 1832 г.)\n 1914 г. – Едуард Зюс, австрийски геолог (* 1831 г.)\n 1915 г. – Джон Бъни, американски комик и актьор (* 1863 г.)\n 1923 г. – Никола Юруков, български архитект и революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1931 г. – Джордж Мийд, американски философ (* 1867 г.)\n 1932 г. – Никодим Тивериополски, български духовник (* 1864 г.)\n 1936 г. – Димитър Перниклийски, български военен деец (* 1860 г.)\n 1940 г. – Карл Бош, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1874 г.)\n 1945 г. – Павло Скоропадски, украински политик и генерал (* 1871 г.)\n 1957 г. – Гичин Фунакоши, японец, създател на карате-до (* 1868 г.)\n 1960 г. – Страшимир Димитров, български геолог (* 1892 г.)\n 1964 г. – Димитър Гичев, български политик, дипломат (* 1893 г.)\n 1969 г. – Морихей Уешиба, японец, създател на айкидо (* 1883 г.)\n 1976 г. – Андрей Гречко, съветски маршал (* 1903 г.)\n 1984 г. – Каунт Бейзи, американски джаз пианист (* 1904 г.)\n 1986 г. – Дечко Узунов, български художник (* 1899 г.)\n 1989 г. – Люсил Бол, американска актриса (* 1911 г.)\n 1994 г. – Масутацу Ояма, японски каратист (* 1923 г.)\n 1997 г. – Петър Бобев, български писател (* 1914 г.)\n 2010 г. – Радой Попиванов, български биолог (* 1913 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Световен ден на авторското право (отбелязва се от 2001 г.)\n Армения – Ден на граничната охрана\n Израел – Възпоменателен ден на героите\n Русия – Ден в памет на жертвите на радиация, аварии и катастрофи\n Танзания – Ден на обединението (чества се обединението на Танганика и Занзибар в една държава, 1964 г., национален празник)\n\n426"
    },
    {
        "text": "27 април е 117-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (118-и през високосна). Остават 248 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1124 г. – Дейвид I става крал на Шотландия.\n 1296 г. – Битката при Дънбар: Шотландците са разгромени от английския крал Едуард I.\n 1521 г. – Изследователят Фернандо Магелан е убит в битка на Филипините.\n 1570 г. – Папа Пий V отлъчва английската кралица Елизабет I от църквата.\n 1644 г. – В Канада започва да се засява пшеница.\n 1667 г. – Джон Милтън продава авторските права на Изгубеният рай за 10 английски паунда.\n 1810 г. – Лудвиг ван Бетовен завършва прочутото си произведение за пиано На Елиза.\n 1840 г. – Започва се изграждането на Уестминстърски дворец, Лондон.\n 1865 г. – Параходът Султана експлодира и потъва в река Мисисипи с 2300 души на борда, от които загиват 1700.\n 1881 г. – Александър Батенберг разпуска второто ОНС, уволнява правителството на Петко Каравелов и назначава нов служебен кабинет начело с руския генерал Казимир Ернрот.\n 1908 г. – В Лондон са открити Четвъртите Олимпийски игри.\n 1909 г. – Антиправителствени турски войски влизат в Цариград, свалят от власт султан Абдул Хамид II и султан става брат му Мехмед V.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Хайнрих Химлер издава заповед за строителството на Аушвиц – първият концлагер, предназначен за масово унищожение.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Гърция капитулира пред Нацистка Германия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Съюзниците отхвърлят предложението на Хитлер за мир и искат безусловна капитулация на Германия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Финландия е освободена изцяло от германско военно присъствие.\n 1947 г. – Тур Хейердал започва пътешествие с тръстиковата си лодка Кон-Тики, с която изминава повече от 5000 морски мили.\n 1950 г. – Англия признава държавата Израел.\n 1956 г. – Боксьорът Роки Марчиано се оттегля като непобеден световен шампион в тежка категория.\n 1959 г. – Последният канадски мисионер напуска Китайската народна република.\n 1960 г. – Того получава независимостта си от Франция.\n 1961 г. – Сиера Леоне получава независимостта си от Обединеното кралство.\n\n 1963 г. – Открита е първата в България електрифицирана жп линия София – Пловдив.\n 1981 г. – Xerox PARC представят компютърната мишка.\n 1992 г. – Създадена е нова държавна формация – Съюзна република Югославия, с участието на Сърбия и Черна гора.\n 1994 г. – Провеждат се първите демократични общи избори в ЮАР, в които са дадени избирателни права на чернокожото население.\n 2005 г. – Най-големият пътнически самолет в света, Еърбъс А380, прави своя първи изпитателен полет от Тулуза, Франция.\n 2006 г. – В Ню Йорк започва строителството на нов Световен търговски център – Freedom Tower.\n\nРодени \n\n 1623 г. – Йохан Райнкен, германски композитор († 1722 г.)\n 1737 г. – Едуард Гибън, английски историк († 1794 г.)\n 1748 г. – Адамандиос Кораис, гръцки философ († 1833 г.)\n 1759 г. – Мери Уолстънкрафт, английска писателка, философка и феминистка († 1797 г.)\n 1779 г. – Константин Павлович, велик княз на Русия († 1831 г.)\n 1791 г. – Самюъл Морз, американски художник и автор на морзовата азбука († 1872 г.)\n 1806 г. – Мария-Кристина Бурбонска, кралица на Испания († 1878 г.)\n 1820 г. – Хърбърт Спенсър, британски философ († 1903 г.)\n 1822 г. – Юлисис Грант, 18-ият президент на САЩ († 1885 г.)\n 1848 г. – Ото I, крал на Бавария († 1916 г.)\n 1866 г. – Пенчо Славейков, български поет († 1912 г.)\n 1868 г. – Антон Шипков, български военен и революционер († 1913 г.)\n 1868 г. – Петър Нойков, български педагог († 1921 г.)\n 1878 г. – Айни, таджикски писател, учен и общественик († 1954 г.)\n 1882 г. – Боян Пенев, български филолог († 1927 г.)\n 1883 г. – Димитър Грънчаров, деец на БЗНС († 1925 г.)\n 1891 г. – Сергей Прокофиев, руски композитор († 1953 г.)\n 1899 г. – Бенчо Обрешков, български художник († 1970 г.)\n 1911 г. – Христо Ников, деец на БКП († 1941 г.)\n 1914 г. – Албер Собул, френски историк († 1982 г.)\n 1920 г. – Самуил Джундрин, Никополски епископ († 1998 г.)\n 1923 г. – Петър Ступел, български композитор († 1997 г.)\n 1927 г. – Тодор Панайотов, български художник († 1989 г.)\n 1927 г. – Христо Писков, български режисьор († 2009 г.)\n 1930 г. – Пиер Рей, френски писател и журналист († 2006 г.)\n 1930 г. – Юлий Стоянов, български кинорежисьор († 2011 г.)\n 1932 г. – Анук Еме, френска киноактриса\n 1935 г. – Любомир Левчев, български поет († 2019 г.)\n 1936 г. – Абдул Кадир Хан, пакистански ядрен физик и металург († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Георги Кехайов, български цирков артист († 2010 г.)\n 1941 г. – Фетхуллах Гюлен, турски ислямовед\n 1947 г. – Цветан Веселинов-Меци, български футболист († 2018 г.)\n 1948 г. – Йозеф Хикерсбергер, австрийски футболист и треньор\n 1952 г. – Ари Ватанен, финландски спортист и политик\n 1952 г. – Ваня Цветкова, български политик\n 1952 г. – Горан Стефановски, писател от Република Македония († 2018 г.)\n 1953 г. – Емил Измирлиев, български писател-сатирик и журналист\n 1954 г. – Александър Томов, български политик\n 1959 г. – Шийна Ийстън, ирландска актриса и поп-певица\n 1963 г. – Гила Лустигер, немска писателка\n 1967 г. – Вилем-Александър Нидерландски, крал на Нидерландия\n 1975 г. – Мандала Тайде, немска актриса\n 1979 г. – Владимир Карамазов, български артист\n 1986 г. – Елена Ристеска, певица от Република Македония\n 1986 г. – Катрин Уеб, английска писателка\n 1991 г. – Лара Гут, швейцарска състезателка по ски\n\nПочинали \n\n 1272 г. – Зита, италианска светица (* 1212 г.)\n 1353 г. – Симеон Горди, велик княз на Московското княжество и Владимиро-Суздалското княжество (* 1316 г.)\n 1521 г. – Фернандо Магелан, португалски мореплавател (убит от филипински туземци) (* 1480 г.)\n 1605 г. – Лъв XI, римски папа (* 1535 г.)\n 1702 г. – Жан Барт, френски адмирал (* 1651 г.)\n 1882 г. – Ралф Уолдо Емерсън, американски мислител и писател (* 1803 г.)\n 1891 г. – Йоахим Опенхайм, еврейски равин (* 1832 г.)\n 1893 г. – Александър Дондуков-Корсаков, руски генерал и държавник (* 1820 г.)\n 1904 г. – Андрей Рябушкин, руски художник, исторически живописец (* 1861 г.)\n 1905 г. – Никола Карев, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1915 г. – Александър Скрябин, руски композитор († 1872 г.)\n 1925 г. – Петко Енев, деец на БКП (* 1889 г.)\n 1925 г. – Темелко Ненков, деец на БКП (* 1887 г.)\n 1925 г. – Сергей Румянцев, български поет (* 1896 г.)\n 1935 г. – Константин Томов, български политик (* 1888 г.)\n 1937 г. – Антонио Грамши, италиански философ и комунистически политик (* 1891 г.)\n 1959 г. – Пеньо Пенев, български поет (* 1930 г.)\n 1968 г. – Василий Ажаев, руски писател (* 1915 г.)\n 1969 г. – Никола Димитров, български цирков артист (* ? г.)\n 1970 г. – Крум Колев, български военен деец (* 1890 г.)\n 1970 г. – Никола Недев, български офицер и политик (* 1886 г.)\n 1972 г. – Кваме Нкрума, панафриканист и ганайски политик (* 1909 г.)\n 1976 г. – Георги Исерсон, съветски учен (* 1898 г.)\n 1983 г. – Димо Тодоровски, скулптор от СР Македония (* 1910 г.)\n 1990 г. – Владимир Стойчев, български генерал, военен и спортен деятел (* 1892 г.)\n 1998 г. – Ан Декло, френска журналистка, преводачка и писателка (* 1907 г.)\n 1998 г. – Карлос Кастанеда, американски философ и писател (* 1925 г.)\n 2002 г. – Рут Хендлър, американска дизайнерка на детски играчки (* 1916 г.)\n 2007 г. – Кирил Лавров, руски актьор (* 1925 г.)\n 2007 г. – Мстислав Ростропович, руски челист (* 1927 г.)\n 2010 г. – Носрат Песешкиян, ирански невролог (* 1933 г.)\n 2015 г. – Александър Рич, американски биолог, биофизик и академик (* 1924 г.)\n 2022 г. – Рада Панчовска, българска поетеса и преводачка (* 1949 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на дизайна\n Световен ден на тапира\n Австрия – Ден на Втората република\n Италия – Празник на град Авецано\n Русия – Ден на нотариусите\n САЩ – Ден на залесяването\n Сиера Леоне – Ден на републиката (1961 г., национален празник)\n Словения – Ден на въстанието против окупацията (отбелязва се създаването на фронта за освобождение на Словения през 1941 г.)\n Того – Ден на независимостта (от Франция, 1960 г., национален празник)\n Финландия – Ден на ветераните (отбелязва се освобождаването на Финландия от германска окупация през 1945 г.)\n ЮАР – Ден на свободата (отбелязва се първото участие на чернокожото население в избори (1994 г.) след политиката на апартейд, национален празник)\n Якутия – Ден на републиката\n\n427"
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        "text": "// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.\n// Licensed under the MIT License.\n// Code generated by Microsoft (R) AutoRest Code Generator.\n\npackage com.azure.resourcemanager.videoanalyzer.models;\n\nimport com.azure.core.util.ExpandableStringEnum;\nimport com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;\nimport java.util.Collection;\n\n/** Defines values for PublicNetworkAccess. */\npublic final class PublicNetworkAccess extends ExpandableStringEnum<PublicNetworkAccess> {\n    /** Static value Enabled for PublicNetworkAccess. */\n    public static final PublicNetworkAccess ENABLED = fromString(\"Enabled\");\n\n    /** Static value Disabled for PublicNetworkAccess. */\n    public static final PublicNetworkAccess DISABLED = fromString(\"Disabled\");\n\n    /**\n     * Creates or finds a PublicNetworkAccess from its string representation.\n     *\n     * @param name a name to look for.\n     * @return the corresponding PublicNetworkAccess.\n     */\n    @JsonCreator\n    public static PublicNetworkAccess fromString(String name) {\n        return fromString(name, PublicNetworkAccess.class);\n    }\n\n    /**\n     * Gets known PublicNetworkAccess values.\n     *\n     * @return known PublicNetworkAccess values.\n     */\n    public static Collection<PublicNetworkAccess> values() {\n        return values(PublicNetworkAccess.class);\n    }\n}\n"
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        "text": "Beware the Fake Google Chrome OS Download\nGizmodo posted that an early version is available. Gizmodo is credible and respected, but the download is a fake.\nBy Tony Bradley\nGoogle recently announced that it is developing its own operating system based around the Chrome web browser, named appropriately enough Chrome OS. For the past week there have been rumors circulating about a leaked version being available for download. Don't believe the hype. The 'leaked version' is a fake that is not related to Google at all.\nEven a trusted source like Gizmodo has perpetuated the myth that Chrome is available. Its tough when there is so much pressure to be the first to publish a breaking news story. Gizmodo recently reported a story of alleged Chrome operating system screen shots, but later updated the story to state that it was verified as a fake. Gizmodo pushed the story of the fake download with a story titled Google Chrome OS Now Available, Go Get It .\nThe number of sites and individuals who are propagating the story is lending credibility to the false rumor. A quick scan of Twitter or a quick search of the Web will lead to all sorts of seemingly reputable sources talking about the availability of the Chrome OS beta. Most of the excitement though can be traced back to Gizmodo. It is a trusted source of breaking tech news and it doesn't take much for an announcement on Gizmodo to go viral on Twitter and blog sites.\nThe site in question appears legitimate in so much as it is actually on the google.com domain. The site lists features like a GNOME desktop, Google Picassa integration, and a Flash Player plugin. It comes complete with a few Google logos scattered about.\nHowever, it is actually a product of Google Sites. Basically, someone created a page with Google Sites which points to sites.google.com and populated it with basic information about the Chrome OS which could be extracted from publicly available details Google has shared, then added a link to download some other completely unrelated tool.\nTo be fair, the site owner did include a disclaimer at the bottom stating \"Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service is provided by SUSE Studio. Seethe license.\" Google has since disabled the site for violating the Google Sites terms of service.\nChrome sounds like it has promise, although the operating system market is a tough sell that is already filled with dominating players like Microsoft and Apple. Of course, Google hasn't shied away from head-to-head battles with either of those companies in other arenas like Web search, mobile phone operating systems, or web browsers.\nBe patient. The fervor over all things Google is remotely understandable, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Even Google will take some time to develop an actual operating system. When it is actually available, I am sure you will hear about it.\nIn the meantime, if a guy in a dark alley whispers that he has an early version of Chrome OS available, there is good reason to be suspicious. Google may have shut down this fake Chrome OS site, but others are sure to follow. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its probably a duck. Check your sources and exercise some common sense before you rush to download a fake, and potentially malicious, Chrome OS.\nTony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as @PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.com .\nPosted by Unknown at Monday, November 02, 2009\nLatest Microsoft patches cause black screen of dea...\nCIOs fear mass IT exodus following economic recove...\nWorld AIDS Day December 1, 2009\nCreed for Riches\nFederal government using PS3 to crack pedophile pa...\nAMF bowls for customers with video sharing over ma...\nBDPA Detroit in the NEWS.\nThe Top 100 Most Influential People in IT\nCray blows by IBM to regain supercomputing crown\nMilitary wants lightweight fiber lasers f...\nFTC slaps contempt charge on BlueHippo\n92% of firms don't care about PC recycling\nDamn the torpedoes: NASA, European Space agency wa...\nLamp hijacks electricity from unused telephone jac...\nWealth File\nLow voter turn out in Detroit despite hype of need..."
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        "text": "Home / Opinions / NATION: South Carolina's Clyburn takes an influential position\nNATION: South Carolina's Clyburn takes an influential position\nWed, 11/28/2018 - 4:20pm Vic MacDonald\nCongressman Jim Clyburn's Office\nWASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman James E. Clyburn released the following statement after the House Democratic Caucus unanimously elected him by acclamation to be Majority Whip in the 116th Congress:\n“I thank all my House Democratic colleagues for the faith and confidence they have expressed in me to serve as Majority Whip in the 116th Congress. I am deeply honored to have the support of our Caucus and humbly accept this position with a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.\n“As I said to my colleagues today, America is already a great country: our challenge is to make its greatness apply fairly and equitably to all of its people. As the only Member of elected Leadership from a red state and largely rural district, I will work tirelessly to be a voice for the millions of Americans who feel left out and communities that are too often left behind. I am committed to staying connected to all of our Caucuses and regions and building a whip operation that is reflective of the diversity of our Caucus and that empowers a new generation of Members to have a voice in our legislative process.”\nClyburn was nominated to be the U.S. House Majority Whip for the 116th Congress by Congressman G.K. Butterfield (NC-01) and Congressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02). His nomination was seconded by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) and Congresswoman-Elect Lucy McBath (GA-06).\nRep. Jim Clyburn"
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        "text": "Like Lara, I like to eat too. I love getting to know a new country or city really well and finding out about all of its hidden treats. I’ve been in Colombia for almost five months now, getting to know every food choice in panaderias (bakery), fast food stalls, and typical restaurants across this nation. Even though I’m a vegetarian, I don’t always eat healthy. I love street food, and Colombia is full of bready, cheesy, fatty delights at every turn. On the other end of the spectrum, a unique, mind-boggling selection of exotic fruits and vegetables to experiment with are also readily available.\nThe following recipe is a lovely balance of the two. It’s fried, but it’s made from plantain, or green banana, so it’s healthy too. Patacones are often served along with beans, rice, and a salad in a set lunch meal. If serving them as a snack, you can cut up tomatoes and onions, add a bit of oil and salt, and serve it on top to add to the taste.\nFirst, peel the plantain and chop it up into small slices about 2 centimeter’s width.\nNext, heat up a generous amount of oil in the frying pan.\nAdd the plantains and fry the pieces on both sides.\nRemove them from the frying pan.\nNext, smush two or three pieces together to form one.\nRefry them on both sides until they have a toasted appearance.\nThe patacones can be as small or as large as you want. You can smush tiny pieces together, or you can smush them all together to make one large piece.\nAny type of flavored topping goes great with these: guacamole, the tomato and onion mix that I mentioned above, a bit of sour cream, or whatever else you’d like to try.\nJasmine Stephenson is a guest blogger for An Apple a Day and a writer on the subject of medical transcription training for the Guide to Health Education.\nWonderful article!We will be linking to this great post on our site."
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        "text": "Perl: Also need the modules Data::Dump and List::MoreUtils.\nPut CompleteTimetable.pdf in a directory with parse. Run parse: perl parse The first time it is run it will call pdftops to convert the PDF, a binary format, into PostScript, a text format, which is easy to work with.\nThen it will print lots of debugging output about pages, timetables and trains."
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        "text": "Q: Snow leopard server: use a NAS volume as share point I have a mounted nas volume (/Volumes/Volume_1) and i would like to create a share point on this, so that it can be accessed via FTP or whatever.\nYet, when in server admin > file sharing, I cannot see this volume.\nIs there anything I can do to see my NAS volume?\nPS: that's a shame, I wanted to tag my post snow-leopard-server... because I thought it made sense... but it's not possible until I earn these 150 reputations :)\n\nA: Mac OS X Server does allow the resharing of AFP mounts but not SMB/CIFS mounts. You can however get around it by using a symlink (ln -s /Volumes/Volume_1 /SOME/PATH) and share /SOME/PATH. While both options allow it to work it's not recommended (permissions, resource fork handling, max file size, etc. may cause hard to debug issues).\nAlternatively on the command line you can use sharing (eg. sudo sharing -a path -s shareflags)\n"
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        "text": "Alaskans Against the Death Penalty\nDedicated to keeping Alaska free from Capital Punishment.\nAlaskans Against the Death Penalty (AADP) is a coalition of individuals and organizations who educate the community and policy makers about the facts and myths of the death penalty. Our mission is to keep Alaska free from the death penalty. Click here to contact us!\nAADP Photo Gallery\nClick Here to view the AADP Photo Gallery!\nAlaskans Against the Dealth Penalty Event\nAlaskans Against the Dealth Penalty Chili Feed\nHugh Fleischer Memorial Chili Feed\nSunday, March 10th, 2019 @ 5:00 pm\nFeatured Speaker: Reverend Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr, National Public Speaker\nA nationally known public speaker, social justice advocate and death penalty abolitionist, Dr. Sullivan is a member of many community and civic organizations including the murder victims families organization Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing, and the National Action Network. In addition, he is a life member of both the NAACP and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Dr. Sullivan has published an array of writings including a chapter in, “Black Religion after the Million Man March,” edited by Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, Orbis Books, 1998.\nAt the home of Lanie Fleischer\n1401 W 11th Ave Anchorage\nWe always provide exceptional chili and refreshments and side dishes are welcome!\nMark your calendar and bring friends! Donations encouraged!\nIF YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR WANT TO DONATE, PLEASE CONTACT\nReece Robert at Akreece1@icloud.com or call 907.350.2332\nClick here to download the flyer.\nAnnual FISH FRY\nFriday, July 27th, 2018 @ 5:30pm\nAt the home of NANCY GROSZEK\n2512 Saint Elias Drive\nFeatured Speaker: Derrick Jamison\nDerrick Jamison was exonerated from death row in Ohio on October 25,2005,20 years to the day after he was sentenced to death in Hamilton County (Cincinnati). Derrick now spends his time educating people about the risks of wrongful conviction. Derrick (pictured in front of Chillicothe Correctional Institution, the home of Ohio's death row) was sentenced to death during the period in which Ohio capital prosecutions were at their peak. Jamison faced six execution dates, and on one occasion came within 90 minutes of execution before being granted a stay.\nWe always provide exceptional food, fun and fellowship and we welcome side dishes Mark your calendar and bring friends! Donations encouraged.\nLost? 248-5802\nNote: please park on the side of the street of the event\nCheck us out (and like us) on our AADP FaceBook page. Email Reece for more information at AKreece1@icloud.com or call 907.350.2332.\nChili Feed 2018 Photos\nThank you for joining us for the annual AADP CHILI FEED. Great food, fun and education. We are looking forward to seeing everyone next year!\nSunday, March 4th, 2018 @ 4:30 pm\nFeatured Speaker: Will Francome, Film Director/Camera Operator\nWill Francome has been involved in film-making and anti-death penalty work since he wrote and presented his authored feature-length documentary, In Prison My Whole Life which is about the case of death-row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal. His latest film, The Penalty, will be shown at the Bear Tooth at 5:30 on Monday, March 5th.\nThe Penalty is a feature documentary film following three people with extraordinary experiences of America's modern death penalty and goes behind the scenes of capital punishment's most recent headlines. The Penalty will screen throughout the world in 2018. Click here to see more about the movie.\nWe always provide exceptional food and refreshments and side dishes welcome.\nIF YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT\nReece Robert at Akreece1@icloud.com OR Sue Johnson for information at scjohnson@gci.net\nFriday, July 28th, 2017 @ 5:30 - 8:00 pm\nCelebrity Judges and Chefs - Silent Auction\nFeatured Speaker: Rev. Neil Kookoothe & Joe D’Ambrosio\nRev. Kookoothe is a native Toledoan and Catholic Priest ordained in the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently pastor of Saint Clarence Church in North Olmsted and has always passionately advocated for the abolition of the death penalty. Complementing his Master’s degree in Theology and Masters of Divinity, Rev. Kookoothe also holds degrees in law and nursing. Rev. Kookoothe met Mr. D'Ambrosio in 1998 while serving as spiritual advisor to several men on Ohio's Death Row. His experience in theology, nursing and law drew his interest to the case and aided Joe in bringing attention to unresolved issues that were never addressed by the legal system or the courts.\nMr. D’Ambrosio served in the US Army and at the young age of 26, he was convicted and sentenced to death (1989). Always maintaining his innocence, his pleas for assistance fell upon deaf ears. Mr. D’Ambrosio said being innocent on death row was the “loneliest, heart-wrenching thing that will haunt him the rest of his life.” Finally, in 1998, he asked Rev. Kookoothe to read his trial transcript and assist him in bringing his case to the attention of the public and the courts. He was released in 2009 after a Federal Judge ruled that key evidence was withheld that would have refuted the States witnesses and pointed to other individuals as perpetrators of the crime. After a lengthy and prolonged appellate process, Mr. D’Ambrosio was exonerated on January 23, 2012 when the Supreme Court of the United States denied the States appeal of the Sixth Circuit opinion upholding the bar to his re-prosecution. Mr. D’Ambrosio is the 140th Exoneree from death row in the United States and the sixth in Ohio.\nCheck us out (and like us) on our AADP FaceBook page. Email Reece for more information at AKreece1@icloud.com or call 907.350.2332. Or you can e-mail Sue at scjohnson@gci.net or call 907.301.5005.\nAlaskans Against the Dealth Penalty Annual Chili Feed\nSunday, February 26th, 2016 @ 5:00 pm\nSides & Refreshments welcomed (chili will be provided)\nFeatured Speaker: George White\nWrongly Convicted Speaks Against The Death Penalty\nOn February 27, 1985 in Enterprise, Alabama, George was living his little piece of the American Dream. Husband of Charlene and father of Tom and Christie, he was a successful, business-degreed executive, Sunday school teacher, little league coach and PTA president -- a yuppie in southeast Alabama. That evening everything changed everything!\nWhen George, vice-president of Townsend Building Supply, Inc., and his wife, Char, stopped at his store after business hours, they thought they were doing a favor for a man who urgently needed an item for an emergency home repair. Instead, they experienced firsthand the insanity and horror of murder. A masked gunman entered the building and shot the pair repeatedly during an armed robbery. George suffered gunshot wounds to his left arm, thigh and abdomen during a struggle with the gunman. Following emergency surgery, George survived. His wife was not so lucky. Char was pronounced dead at the hospital after sustaining two gunshot wounds to the head. Tom and Christie were only twelve and five at the time of their mother's death. The nightmare had only just begun.\nSixteen months later George was charged with the murder of his wife. The State sought the death penalty, and, following a trial that was later characterized as a mockery and a sham, George was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Incarcerated for a total of two years, one hundred and three days, the conviction was overturned in 1989. George remained in legal limbo for nearly three more years. On April 10, 1992, the prosecution asked that the charge be forevermore dismissed when the proof of George's innocence finally surfaced. The trial court so ruled. The ordeal had lasted for more than seven years.\nMark your calendar and bring friends!\nA SUGGESTED DONATION OF $25.00 or more is ENCOURAGED.\nREECE DRINGLE-ROBERT Akreece1@icloud.com OR\nFeatured Speaker: Billy Neal Moore\nBilly Neal Moore spent almost 17 years on Death Row and was scheduled for execution 13 times. Once he came within 7 hours of being electrocuted. Moore is a deeply committed Christian and Pentecostal minister and speaking out against the Death Penalty has been almost a full time job for him. He was finally released from prison in 1992.\nThe message that Moore delivers, is particularly salient because unlike Death Row survivors who have been released after being found to be innocent, Moore acknowledges his guilt. \"Oh, I did it,\" he says pensively. \"I did it, and I pleaded guilty.\" Moore is the only prisoner who entered a guilty plea to murder to be released from Death Row and paroled. A number of former law students at Northeastern University School of Law assisted in Mr. Moore's representation (even some Alaskans) in the 1980s, because he was represented by professor Dan Givelber.\nYou won't want to miss hearing Mr. Moore's compelling story.\nCheck us out (and like us) on our AADP FaceBook page. Email Reece for more information at AKreece1@icloud.com or call 350-2332.\nSunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 4:30 pm\n(1401 W 11th Ave Anchorage 274-2453)\nFood & Refreshments welcomed (some will be provided)\nAccording to an article in The Guardian, Billy Neal Moore spent almost 17 years on Death Row and was scheduled for execution 13 times. Once he came within 7 hours of being electrocuted. Moore is a deeply committed Christian and Pentecostal minister and speaking out against the Death Penalty has been almost a full time job for him. He was finally released from prison in 1992.\nMark your calendar and bring friends! Donations encouraged\nCall Sue for information at 301-5005 or 276-5753\nAnnual Fish Fry Fundraiser\nFriday - July 29th, 2016 @ 5:30 - 8:00\n(Nancy's Backyard)\nGuests: TBA\nCelebrity Judges and Chefs\nNote: please park on the side of the street of the event and side dishes are welcome. Mark your calendar and bring friends!\nLost? 248-5802 Info: Call Sue Johnson for information at 276-5753 or scjohnson@gci.net\nClick here to download the event flyer.\nThe Annual Fish Fry was a great success! Thanks to everyone for their support!\nSunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:30 pm\nFeatured Speaker: Dr. Allen Ault\nDr. Allen Ault was corrections commissioner for Georgia until 1995. He told the BBC the executions he supervised were 'state-sanctioned murder' and 'It stays in your psyche forever.' He goes on to say \"it is by every definition premeditated murder...It's the most premeditated murder you can possibly imagine.\"\nDr. Ault is a trained psychologist who began working in the prison system in order to help and rehabilitate people, but a promotion to the position of corrections commissioner meant the responsibility for overseeing the state’s executions fell to him. During his time at the prison in the early 1990s, Dr. Ault supervised five executions. Dr. Allen Ault is currently Dean at Eastern Kentucky University.\n13th Annual World Day of Faith in Action\nSunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 1pm - 3pm\nSt. Mary's Episcopal Church (Lake Otis and Tudor)\nFeatured Speakers: Bill Pelke and Averil Lerman\nAmnesty International and Alaskans Against the Death Penalty will sponsor an interfaith vigil; a gathering of faith leaders from a broad spectrum of faith communities and human rights activists to examine the death penalty from faith perspectives and to speak out against the death penalty. We will gather afterward for food and fellowship.\nBill will speak on forgiveness and Averil will speak on the history of the death penalty in Alaska.\nFor info, please call 333-0431 or 441-4725. You may also email kathyh@gci.net.\nComing soon in March 2015!\nAugust 1, 2014 @ 5:30 - 8:00\nFeatured Speaker: SueZann Bosler\nOn December 22, 1986, SueZann Bosler and her father, Rev. Billy Bosler, were attacked in the church parsonage by an intruder. Rev. Bosler was stabbed 24 times. SueZann, in an effort to help him, was herself stabbed in the back and head and left for dead. While lying on the floor pretending to be dead, she heard the intruder ransack the house as she watched her father take his last breath. As a Brethren minister, Rev. Bosler had been an opponent of capital punishment, and had once told SueZann that if he was ever murdered he would not want his killer to receive the death penalty. Click here to read more.\nNote: please park on the side of the street of the event side dishes are welcome. Mark your calendar and bring friends!\nCall Sue Johnson for information at 276-5753\nThanks to everyone who attended the Fish Fry! View pictures in the AADP Photo Gallery!\nSunday, March 2nd, 2014 @ 4:30 pm\nFeatured Speaker: Therese Bartholomew\nA former high school dropout and teen mother, Therese is now an inspirational speaker, social justice activist, author and filmmaker. Her writing has been published in Emrys Journal, Iodine, Main Street Rag, The Charlotte Observer, Raising Our Voices, Sun Journal, and Compassion. Her 2009 collection of essays, Coffee Shop God , offers a glimpse into the profound grief that arose when her younger brother was murdered. As a continuation of her journey to heal, she embarked on a mission to meet her brother’s killer behind bars. The Final Gift , documentary, directed by Bartholomew, follows her path to that meeting. This compelling story has garnered the support of universities, faith-based groups, departments of correction, and victims’ advocacy organizations and is fast becoming a catalyst for a national dialogue on restorative justice.\nTUNE IN AND JOIN THE CONVERSATION!\nMark Osler is scheduled for Talk of Alaska on Tuesday (tomorrow) at 10:00 a.m. KSKA 91.1 FM, with Steve Heimel.\nProfessor Osler is the author of “Jesus on Death Row,” and will be the featured speaker for the Caroline Penniman Wohlforth Lectures October 11-13th.\nHe writes regularly on religion, the law, and related issues for numerous national publications, including Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR’s Morning Edition, and ABC. Much of his current work relates directly to reform of the criminal justice system, an issue which is very relevant to our Alaska context.\nFriday, October 11, 7:00 pm\nPublic Lecture: “Jesus Christ, Defendant”\nHeld at: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 2901 Huffman Rd, Anchorage AK\nSaturday, October 12th, 11:00- Noon\nPresentation: “Effective Social Advocacy”\n1:00 – 2:30 pm Workshop: “Effective Social Advocacy”\nHeld at: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, , 2222 E Tudor Rd, Anchorage\n12th Annual Day of Faith In Action!\nPlease join us for the annual Day of Faith in Action\nEveryone is welcome!\nSunday, October 20th at 2 pm at the\n725 W. 9th Avenue\nacross from the Park Strip\nClick here to download the flyer\nA Journey of Hope!\n20 Years of Journeying - From Violence to Healing. Real comfort with real comfort food. Join us for A Fundraiser for Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing\nAt the Home of Dirk Sisson & Barbara Hood\n10161 Middlerock Road, Anchorage\nClick Here to view the flyer.\nAADP Annual Fish Fry\nTo Be Held Friday, July 26th 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.\nNancy Groszek's lovely garden\n2512 St. Elias Drive\nSpecial Guest: Kirk Bloodsworth\nKirk Bloodsworth was convicted in March of 1985 for the brutal killing and sexual assault of a nine year old girl. The victim was found dead in July of 1984. She had been strangled, raped, and beaten with a rock. Bloodsworth was arrested based on an anonymous call telling police that he was seen with the victim that day and an identification made by a witness from a police sketch that was based on the recollections of five eyewitnesses. Bloodsworth also became the first person to be exonerated from death row through post conviction DNA testing.\nKirk appearance on Colbert Nation: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/427309/june-19-2013/remembering-lorna-colbert\n2013 AADP Annual Chili Feed!\nChili provided! Side-dishes and beverages welcome!\nMarch 17th at 5:00 PM\nCost: Donations encouraged\nOur special guest speaker will be Terry Steinberg. It is our hope that her son, Justin Wolfe, will be released from Virginia's death row after his recent exoneration, and will join his mother in Alaska.\nAt the age of 20, Justin Wolfe, ex-high school football player and normal, average, all American, suburban kid was sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. He has been on Virginia 's death row since 2002 and has had two stays of execution.\nLocation: 1401 West 11th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska\nFREE JUSTIN WOLFE!\nJustin Wolfe was wrongfully convicted and was denied the right to due process pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment during his trial. View the facebook page here\nBig News in Maryland!\nThere is big news in Maryland today! Governor O'Malley pledged his support for death penalty repeal in Maryland in a meeting with NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous and Maryland NAACP State Conference President Gerald Stansbury!\nContact Governor O'Malley to show your support for death penalty repeal legislation in Maryland, Thank him for his leadership on this issue, and urge him to sponsor the death penalty repeal bill.\nCall Governor O'Malley now at 410-974-3901 or 800-811-8336.\nDay of faith in action!\nThanks to everyone who attended and participated in the \"Day of Faith in Action\" on Sept 29, 2012\nThanks to Everyone who attended!\nThanks to everyone who attended the \"Save California Event! Watch our calendar page for future events.\n\"Crime Victims' Bill of Rights\" Signed into Law!\nHours ago Governor Christie signed the enhanced \"Crime Victims' Bill of Rights\" legislation into law. NJADP advocated for this proposal for two years. It was part of our objective to affect substantive public policy change to benefit surviving relatives of homicide victims and exonorees. The goal is to create a more just and compassionate community in which executions are no longer desired nor acceptable. The proposal signed today will ensure:\nVictims are notified about the progress of their case, including any changes in the court schedule, and status of plea bargain negotiations earlier in the process.\nProtection from harassment or abuse by defendants or their supporters.\nMedical assistance that is related to the crime.\nThank you to those who worked on the passage of this bill!\nAnother \"even in Texas\" moment!\nHere's another \"even in Texas\" moment for you: This afternoon, the Texas Democratic Party endorsed repeal of the death penalty in its 2012 Platform!! Here's a rough transcription of the platform language:\nDespite 41 DNA exonerations in Texas in the last 9 years, Rick Perry says he never loses sleep over executing the innocent. Perry has overseen 235 executions in Texas. Detailed research shows that the Texas death penalty system cannot insure that innocent and undeserving defendants are not sentenced to death. Death penalty exonerations have already revealed deep flaws in our State's criminal justice system.\nEvidence - including scientific evidence, extensive studies by the Innocence Project, major newspaper and university research strongly suggests that Texas has already executed innocent defendants including Carlos DeLuna, Ruben Cantu, and Cameron Todd Willingham. Former Governor Mark White has stated we must take every step to ensure there is never another innocent man executed.\nThe application of the death penalty in Texas is disproportionately applied to the poor and minorities. The system has allowed in the past the execution of juveniles, the mentally ill and poor defendants who had such inadequate counsel that their lawyers literally slept through their trials. Other states are increasingly rejecting the death penalty as evidenced by the legislatures in New Jersey (2007), New Mexico (2009), and Illinois (2011).\nIn order to promote public confidence and fairness in the Texas Criminal Justice system, Texas Democrats call for the passage of legislation that would repeal the death penalty in Texas and replace it with the punishment of life in prison without parole.\nConnecticut Repeals death penalty!\n(Huffington Post) - Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed a bill into law on Wednesday that repeals the death penalty, making Connecticut the 17th state to do so...read more\nThomas Arthur is convicted of a crime that another man has confessed to!\nThomas Arthur is on Alabama's death row, convicted of a crime that another man has since confessed to committing.\nDespite this confession and many other irregularities that have surfaced, the state has set his execution date for March 29, just weeks away.\nWrite Governor Robert Bentley and urge him to allow Thomas Arthur's legal team to conduct the DNA testing that could spare his life.\nAfter the confession, the Alabama Supreme Court stayed Mr. Arthur's execution and remanded his case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing. The court ordered limited DNA testing of the wig that all parties agree was worn by the perpetrator. Although DNA was found on the wig, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences lacks the technology to develop a profile. Thomas Arthur and his attorneys want to re-test the wig, using more advanced DNA technology. But the state of Alabama won't allow it, even though the defense is willing to pay for the testing!\nIt is unacceptable that the state of Alabama is prepared to put a potentially innocent man to death rather than let him conduct a simple test that could prove his innocence.\nDavid Kaczynski, Linda Patrik, Bill Babbitt\nClick Here for pictures and a special thanks from AADP for all of your support.\nPhoto of David Kaczynski, Linda Patrik, Bill Babbitt Iditirod 2012 Anchorage Alaska\nAADP Newsletters and Highlights\n2013 Summer Newsletter\n2013 is AADP's 20th Anniversary! Don't miss the Annual Fish Fry in July with Special Guest Kirk Bloodsworth...\nView the 2013 Summer Newsletter\nJourney of Hope Update\nBill Pelke told the story last week of the brutal killing of his sweet, white haired grandmother and how her death made a life change for him...\nStruck by Lightning\nThe Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty\nThirty-Five Years After Its Re-instatement in 1976...\nClick here to read the entire article\nEqual Justice USA\nEqual Justice USA is a national, grassroots organization working to build a criminal justice system that is fair, effective, and humane, starting with repeal of the death penalty and increased services to families of homicide victims...\nClick here to visit their website.\nThe Abolition Times\nLater this month, NCADP's Alaska Affiliate, Alaskans Against the Death Penalty will celebrate the defeat earlier this year of HB 9, a bill that would have introduced the death penalty to Alaska for the first time since the territory became a U.S. state in 1953...\nProviding information about the application of the death penalty in the United States. This site has eye opening information regarding the death penalty in the U.S. Complete with a searchable Execution Database.\nDeath Penalty Information Center Home Page\nDCIP State by State Death Penalty Information\nNational Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty\nThe National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) was founded in 1976 in response to the Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia which permitted executions to resume in the United States. Our mission: abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and support efforts to abolish the death penalty world wide.\nNational Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Home Page\nNCADP State Affiliate Web Site\nClick the banner below to learn how you help support NCADP by\nShouting from the Rooftops!\nDid Texas execute an innocent man?\nThe New Yorker has put together this group of articles that accurately portray real situations in which hind sight tells us that the Death Penalty was obviously not the right solution.\nThe New Yorker - Did Texas execute and innocent man?\nOhio's Lethal Injection Fiascos!\nThe LA Times gives us a brief history of botched lethal injections in Ohio...\nAADP Update\nMaryland Death Penalty Repeal Legislation\nThe National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty applauds Governor O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly for introducing and considering Senate Bill 276 and House Bill 295: Death Penalty Repeal and Appropriation from Savings to Aid Survivors of Homicide Victims and urges its passage...\nRead Governor O’Malley’s testimony\nView NCADP's Website for the full article\nVideo Update\nView the AADP Video Archive…\nFormer U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Who Came to Oppose the Death Penalty, Dies at 99\nRetired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who described his deciding vote to uphold the constitutionality of capital punishment in 1976 as the one court vote he most regretted, has died. He was 99 years old. A media advisory released by the Supreme Court on July 16, 2019, said that Stevens died of complications from a stroke he suffered the day before. “He brought to our bench an inimitable blend of kindness, humility, wisdom, and independence,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in the media advisory. “His unrelenting commitment to justice has left us a better nation.”\nAppointed in 1975 by Republican President Gerald R. Ford, Stevens was a classic judicial conservative whom court watchers later regarded as a leading progressive voice on the Court. After his retirement from the bench in 2010, he repeatedly stated that his approach to cases had not changed during his three-decades tenure on the Court and that he had not become a liberal. Rather, he said, the Court had moved to the political right.\nShortly after Justice Stevens’ appointment, the Court accepted for review five cases that challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty itself and the various capital-sentencing schemes states adopted in response to the Court’s 1972 decision that struck down all existing death-penalty statutes. Justice Stevens voted in the majority in all five cases, providing a fifth vote upholding the constitutionality of the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia and of Georgia’s, Florida’s, and Texas’s death-penalty statutes and voting with the majority in declaring North Carolina’s and Louisiana’s mandatory death sentencing statutes unconstitutional.\nIn Gregg, Stevens wrote that “[t]he decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community’s belief that certain crimes are themselves so grievous an affront to humanity that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death.” Yet while supporting the constitutionality of capital punishment, he consistently voted to limit its use, voting in 1988 to bar its application to offenders aged 15 or younger and casting one of the five votes in 2005 to extend that proscription through age 17. In 2002, he wrote the opinion for the Court declaring that the use of the death penalty against persons with intellectual disability constituted cruel and unusual punishment. By 2008, after three decades of exposure to capital cases, Justice Stevens had concluded “that the imposition of the death penalty represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes. A penalty with such negligible returns to the State,” he wrote, is “patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment.”\nFacing Prison-Conditions Court Challenge, South Carolina Moves Its Death Row to a New Facility\nAmidst an ongoing lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina’s death-row conditions, the state has moved its death-row prisoners to a different prison. On July 11, 2019, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) moved the state’s 38 death-row prisoners from Kirkland Correctional Institution to the nearby Broad River Correctional Institution (pictured), into a facility that had originally been built to house death-row prisoners in 1988. In a press release, SCDOC said the move “will address some of the concerns raised in a recent lawsuit filed on behalf of the Death Row inmates.”\nOne of the major issues raised in the prison-conditions lawsuit was the unnecessary harshness of the near-constant solitary confinement to which death-row prisoners were subjected. Those on death row were kept in small, windowless cells about the size of a parking space as much as 23 hours a day. The lawsuit charged that South Carolina’s death-row prisoners “are subjected to indefinite extreme isolation, devoid of mental stimulation, and have only sporadic human interaction.” At the new location, SCDOC said, prisoners will be given more opportunities to interact with one another, but will still be separated from the general prison population.\nSupport AADP\nPurchase merchandise or make a Donation today!…\nAADP on the Web\nCopyright (c) 2009 AADP. All rights reserved."
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        "text": "Exclusive: Bermuda air disaster, 50 years on\n50 years after an air disaster here killed 17, their loved ones to make a poignant visit\nSimon Jones, Senior Reporter\nFollow @SimonJonesSun\nWednesday, January 22, 2014 7:00 AM\nJAN 22, 2014: 17 Perish after Two U.S. Air Force planes take off on a routine astronaut recovery practice mission over Bermuda, but collide in mid-air. *Film from buyoutfootage.com\nMid-air disaster: Seventeen US airmen died in Bermuda in 1964 when a US Air Force HC-54 (the model is pictured below left) suddenly banked right and collided with a US Air Force HC-97 (see below right), sheering both its wing and tail section off and sending the two planes careering into the sea off St David’s Head. *USAF photos\nWhen tragedy struck\nIt was one of the worst incidents in Bermuda’s aviation history, claiming the lives of 17 airmen.\nTwo US Air Force planes collided in mid-air off St David’s.\nThe disaster was caught on film by stunned onlookers on the ground who had been tasked with recording the NASA mission.\nIn happened in June, 1964 and this summer, half a century later, the families of those who were killed will return to Bermuda to remember their loved ones.\nIt’s likely to be a highly emotional trip for the 20-strong group, who will drop a wreath at the spot where the shattered debris of the two planes hit the sea.\nAnd for Michael Belter, who was just eight when he lost his father Lowell in the crash, it will provide a degree of closure to an incident that is still shrouded in mystery.\nThose who lost family members on that fateful day in 1964 have never been told why the two aircraft collided with such disastrous consequences.\nAll they know is their loved ones died serving their country and taking part in a NASA mission designed to ensure the safe recovery of lunar capsules and astronauts from space.\nSon of air crash victim recalls day his ‘whole life changed’\nFamilies of those killed in one of Bermuda’s worst air disasters will return to the island this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.\nSeventeen airmen died on June 29, 1964, when two US Air Force aircraft collided in mid-air while conducting NASA operations.\nMichael Belter was just eight years old when his father, Lowell ‘Mick’ Belter, a radio operator, was killed on board one of the planes.\nLeft, Lowell ‘Mick’ Belter with sons Doug and Ken at the front of their Blowwinds home on North Shore.\nBut the devastating events that took place in the air off Bermuda almost half a century ago had a profound and life-changing effect on the Belter family.\nMr Belter hopes the trip he has helped orchestrate this summer will provide some kind of closure for him as well as the eight other family members that will join him in Bermuda.\nMr Belter, who went on to become an officer in the United States Army, said: “There is a sense that we never got closure after the accident.\n“And speaking to others who lost family members in the crash many feel the same way.\n“It was a very tough time. I remember people telling me that I was the man of the house now and needed to look after my family.\n“I remember seeing the planes on the day they crashed. I was out playing with my brother in the sea and as they came past our home on the North Shore they wing-wagged us and we waved back.\n“In those days everyone in the military knew where everyone lived on the island — we were a close community.\nHow the Bermuda Sun reported the crash. The article contained a quote from a former US pilot who described the crash\nas a great blaze of fire accompanied by a massive explosion and a huge atom-bomb-type-mushroom cloud of black smoke.\n“But my dad did not come home that night. I was told he was missing after an accident. And the next day it was determined he was dead.\n“Suddenly my whole life changed.\n“My family had been with the Air Force my whole life, and now we were moving back to Pittsburg to live with my aunt Lil.\n“I don’t remember much about the day of the accident, but I remember a memorial service at the Base chapel and family members coming over to Bermuda to help us move home.”\nMr Belter Snr, his wife, Jayne, and their four children, Michael, Doug, Ken and Johnna, moved to Bermuda in February 1964.\nThey lived in an old house called Blowwinds on the North Shore of Pembroke, and the children enjoyed the island life.\nBut soon after the crash the family were forced to leave and return to the US.\nOver the past decade Michael Belter has spearheaded a project to find out what went so tragically wrong to cause the mid-air collision in 1964.\nHe has organized the memorial trip for families and relatives of the servicemen who died and set up a Facebook page called Bermuda Air Collision – June 29, 1964.\nLeft, the crash widowed Jayne — pictured with her four children, Johnna, Michael, Ken, Doug, without a father.\nMr Belter told the Bermuda Sun: “We hope to have around 20 people in Bermuda for the memorial in June.\n“There are nine members of my own family who will be coming, including my wife and my grown-up son and daughter.\n“My sister, my mother’s sisters and my mother’s brother also want to be there.\n“But there will also be other guys ranging from servicemen who were at the base at the time and remember the sirens going off in the aftermath of the crash to a retired medic who was part of the rescue and recover operation.”\nThrough his work, Mr Belter has made contact with a host of former US military families that were posted in Bermuda. He has even been in touch with the ground crewman, Bill Martin, who held up the plane so his father did not miss the fateful flight on June 29, 1964.\nMr Belter said: “My father was running late, and the plane should have left without him.\n“But one of the ground crew saw him running down the runway with all his stuff and they held the flight up for him. He helped him get on to the flight and put his flight bag on behind him.\n‘Emotional trip’\n“I have spoken to Mr Martin and he told me that he thought about letting the flight go without my dad that day, but he did not want my dad to get in any trouble.\n“He says he has thought over the years about ‘what if’ he had not done that’.\n“I’m looking forward to meeting Mr Martin so we can share experiences and our memories. I’m sure it will be a very emotional trip.”\nMichael with his own family in the US.\nThe group will arrive in Bermuda in June and as part of their trip will charter a boat and visit the site where the planes crashed into the sea to lay a wreath.\nMr Belter has visited Bermuda on three occasions since the 1964 crash and now works as a finance manager for a regional group of power plants in Columbus, Ohio.\nHe added: “Thirteen of the 17 airmen that died in the collision had wives and children so this disaster had a huge impact on many families.\n“My father’s body was never recovered like other servicemen that died that day. And speaking to their relatives they are still haunted by dreams of their loved one being washed up on a beach with amnesia and living a new life.\n“We have all been affected in different ways but I hope this memorial trip will provide closure for the families who died 50 years ago, but it will also be a chance for people to reminisce about their time in Bermuda.\n“Bermuda will always be a special place in my heart for the fun times an eight-year-old had for about six months to the times I have been on holiday there.”\nGone... but not forgotten\nSeventeen crew were killed on 29 June, 1964:\n• Major Otto William Boyd, 43, a veteran pilot from San Francisco.\n• Major Martin Nisker, 43, from Minneapolis.\n• Major John L Mallen from Rochester, NY.\n• Major Richard ‘Dick’ F Pendleton, 40, a World War II and Korean War veteran from South Orange, New Jersey.\n• Captain Donald H. Aungst, 32, from Overland Park, Kansas.\n• Captain Charles C Decker from Columbus, Ohio.\n• Captain Harry K.L. Lai from Waniawa, Hawaii.\n• Master Sergeant Raymond K. Showalter, 44, from Miami, Florida.\n• Technical Sergeant Lowell Mick Belter, 32, from Marion, Wisconsin.\n• Technical Sergeant Robert A. Kramer, 36, from Dallas, Texas.\n• Technical Sergeant Edward Neal Jr, 34, from Chester, Pennsylvania.\n• Staff Sergeant Robert A. Maynard, 33, from Huntington, West Virginia.\n• Staff Sergeant Albert Roy Everhart, 30, from Ithaca New York.\n• Staff Sergeant Genero J. Gonzalez, 33, from Gatonia, North Carolina.\n• Staff Sergeant Alva H. Rankin.\n• Airman First Class Ernest E Chavers from Foley, Alabama.\n• Airman First Class Larry W Carleton, 22, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.\nHORRIFIC: Left, the dramatic collision was captured on camera and the Denver Post carried this pictured in their report. Above, the seven who jumped prior to the crash are pictured in front of an HC-97 shortly after the accident. *Photos supplied\n• Read more: Report shows cause of the collision remains a mystery\nReport shows cause of the collision remains a mystery\nDiver offers to lay wreath next to plane wreckage\nDo you know where these planes crashed?\nFamilies pay tribute to air disaster victims"
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        "text": "Please use a wet cloth to clean surface if coffee, tea or other liquids are spilled on the table surface. If the stain cannot be removed with a wet cloth, we suggest using a small amount of normal detergent together with the wet cloth. If the stain is not immediately removed upon having been made and unable to remove after, we suggest using #800 ~1200 grit sanding paper to manually polish the surface.\nMSDS Studio is a Toronto based furniture, lighting, and interior design practice run by Jessica Nakanishi and Jonathan Sabine. Their work is a synthesis of Jessica's experience in interior design and Jonathan's background in furniture and cabinet making. They were named Canadian product designers of the year in 2015. Jonathan's bottle opener design is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
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        "text": "Q: How can I unstick my trackpad button? The trackpad button on my 2007 Macbook Pro seems to be sticking.  Specifically, it's stuck in the \"down\" position, which means I'm selecting pretty much everything all the time (you wouldn't believe how frustrating it was just to ask this question).  It was fine yesterday.  What can I do to unstick it?\n\nA: The trackpad getting stuck is also a well known symptom of a bulging battery in the MacBook Pros of this generation. I'm dealing with this issue myself and am very annoyed about it too, because this 2007 Santa Rosa MBP I paid for is essentially the most lemon computer I've ever owned (at least four other hardware failures besides this one).\n\nA: This is going to sound dumb, but have you restarted the Mac? I've had this issue on my Magic Trackpad a couple of times and the only way I was able to cure it was with a simple restart. (At first I thought it might be because I also ran MagicPrefs, but I've since removed that and the problem still occurs sometimes).\nIf you find a restart 'fixes' it, as I have done in the past, then it's possible that it's the software getting confused rather than a physical issue. I haven't found a Terminal invocation yet to restart the mouse driver part of the Mac but I reckon that if I found one I could probably use that to unstick the pad when the problem arises.\n\nA: I had the same exact problem and it was almost unbearable to search for help. I took out the battery but kept my MacBook connected to the adaptor and, go figure, it works like a charm. Time for a new battery! The bulging on my battery is very noticeable. \n\nA: In most models there's a screw directly beneath the trackpad that influences how hard/soft the click should be. If you have the right tools to open it up, you could try turning it a bit to see what happens.\nWhat you can try first is to press down on the button, hold it down, move your finger from left to right a few times and then let it go again. Sometimes this fixes it, but if somethings really broken or worn it probably won't work.\n\nA: I've had an iBook g4 that had this \"Issue\"... it turned out a cookie crumble got stuck in the space between trackpad and case (don't ask). Clicking a few times on different places on the trackpad and some canned air fixed it. Might be worth a try before you pop out the screwdrivers. \n\nA: I had something similar happen to my Macbook pro 2010.  I fixed it by:\n\n\n*\n\n*Open system preferences\n\n*Click Trackpad\n\n*Uncheck Tap to click, Dragging, Drag lock, secondary click\n\n\nNot sure if this is the same on a 2007 model.\n"
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        "text": "Integration process is very easy. There are two ways of adding live chat button to your Weebly based website. You can add your live chat button as a drag-and-drop custom HTML element or insert the code to your website footer.\nThat's it! Just a couple of easy steps and you have live chat up and running on your website. If you do not wish to display your live chat button on some pages, you can still monitor them by adding Hidden Code for Visitor Monitoring to those pages' footers."
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        "text": "Q: Change Login screen background Is there a way to change the login screen in Snow Leopard?  I do not like the way the purple 'time machine' background looks and can't seem to find anyplace to change this.\n\nA: Tis easy: If you don't mind usig an app skip to the bottom. If you want to do it manually and distrust apps that tinker with your system, continue reading.\nThere are actually two ways:\n1) the way I don't prefer since you may accidentally lose your original background image if you don't back it up\na) change /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg\n - it's that simple!\n2) the way I prefer since it's easy to revert to default: it may look complicated, but all it does is tell the OS to look in a different folder for the desktop picture\n\n\n*\n\n*A “settings” file will be changed. Navigate to “/Library/Preferences/” on the hard drive where OS X is installed. There should be a file named “com.apple.loginwindow .plist”. Make a copy of the file in the same folder, and name it whatever you want: it is a backup just in case something goes wrong. Once again, administrative rights are required. After that, double-click the original file to open it.\n\n*The file should open in either a property list editor or in a text editor. If it opens in a plist editor, select “root” and click “Add Child” (or the equivalent, depending on what plist editor). Name the new child “DesktopPicture”, make it type “String”, and set its value to “/Users/Shared/Pictures/LoginBackground/DefaultDesktop.jpg”. Unless you know how to edit plist files using a text editor , I recommend downloading a property list editor (at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/plisteditpro.html)  if you don’t have one, since it makes alot of business alot easier sometimes. Don’t close the application yet.\n\n*The value of the key you just entered above is the path to where your background file will be stored. Change if you would like. Make sure the system can access the folder (meaning that it can’t be a user folder, only shared folder or some other system location). Now, save the plist file. This may require saving onto the desktop and then dragging it into the destination folder, replacing the original. Hopefully you didn’t delete your backup.\n\n*Navigate to the path/value you entered. If the folders don’t exist, create them.\n\n*Now, just move a picture into the folder with the name you specified in the path (in my case/example, it is called “DefaultDesktop.jpg”) and you’re done!\n\n*If OS X can’t use the picture, it will display a generic blue screen. If this happens, make sure the picture is named right, and that permissions (right click -> get info) are set so that “everyone” has “read & write” permission. If it still doesn’t work, and you want to switch back to default, just replace your edited com.apple.loginwindow.plist with your backup which you hopefully still have. If you deleted your backup, just ask me for the original.\nOf course, to do this non-manaully in Terminal: \nsudo -i\ndefaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow \\\nDesktopPicture '/path/to/replacement/image/file.jpg\n\nThere are also multiple free apps out there on the web that let you do this even quicker, including Loginox, NanoCustomizer, etc. etc.\nAs a side note, if you're not administrator, you may be kind of out of luck.\n\nA: you can use loginox it's a free application, and easy to use.\n\n"
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        "text": "Q: iMac WiFi issue I leave my iMac (24') on almost 24/7, putting it to sleep while not in use. Sometimes when I resume from sleep I encounter the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*WiFi shows full signal\n\n*Loading web page in Safari loads slowly then stops\n\n*WiFi sometimes shows degraded signal at this point, but sometimes it doesnt\n\n*I disable then enable the Airport using the icon at the top of the screen\n\n*WiFi works as expected\n\n\nRebooting the computer fixes this issue, but it is becoming annoying. Is it a know issue, and can it be resolved?\n\nA: Try to check \"Disconnect when logging out\" on the Advanced preferences of Airport : \n\n"
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        "text": "28 април е 118-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (119-и през високосна година). Остават 247 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1770 г. – Капитан Джеймс Кук на борда на кораба Индевър акостира в Австралия.\n 1788 г. – Мериленд става 7-ият щат, който приема Конституцията на САЩ.\n 1867 г. – Панайот Хитов преминава от Румъния в България с чета, на която знаменосец е Васил Левски.\n 1920 г. – Азербайджан става част от Руската империя.\n 1921 г. – Хосе Раул Капабланка става третият световен шампион по шахмат.\n 1932 г. – Започва използването на ваксина против жълта треска.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Бенито Мусолини и любовницата му Клара Петачи са екзекутирани от членове на италианската съпротива.\n 1947 г. – Тор Хейердал в екипаж с още петима души отплават от Перу на Кон-Тики, за да докажат, че древните перуанци са населили Полинезия.\n 1952 г. – Дуайт Айзенхауер се оттегля от поста Върховен главнокомандващ на НАТО.\n 1952 г. – Влиза в сила Договорът от Сан Франциско, който слага край на окупацията на Япония от бившите Съюзници през Втората световна война.\n 1969 г. – Шарл де Гол подава оставка като президент на Франция, след като на референдум избирателите отхвърлят предложените от правителството реформи.\n 1978 г. – Първият президент на Афганистан, Мохамед Дауд Хан, е свален от власт чрез държавен преврат и убит от прокомунистически поддръжници.\n 1997 г. – Влиза в сила Конвенцията за химическите оръжия от 1993 за използване на химически оръжия; Русия, Ирак и Северна Корея са държавите, които не подписват договора.\n 1999 г. – Косовска война: България и НАТО сключват споразумение за транзитно преминаване през въздушното пространство на страната на самолети на НАТО в рамките на операция „Съюзна сила“.\n 2001 г. – Милионерът Денис Тито от САЩ става първият космически турист, пътувайки на руски космически кораб до Международната космическа станция.\n\nРодени \n\n 1402 г. – Несауалкойотъл, ацтекски владетел на Текскоко († 1472 г.)\n 1442 г. – Едуард IV, крал на Англия († 1483 г.)\n 1630 г. – Чарлс Котън, британски поет († 1687 г.)\n 1758 г. – Джеймс Монро, 5-и президент на САЩ († 1831 г.)\n 1765 г. – Франсоа Лакроа, френски математик († 1834 г.)\n 1838 г. – Тобиас Михаел Карел Асер, холандски юрист и държавник, Нобелов лауреат през 1911 г. († 1913 г.)\n 1841 г. – Николай Маковски, руски художник, передвижник († 1886 г.)\n 1874 г. – Карл Краус, австрийски публицист и писател († 1936 г.)\n 1879 г. – Теодор Капидан, румънски лингвист († 1953 г.)\n 1889 г. – Антонио ди Оливейра Салазар, португалски политик († 1970 г.)\n 1894 г. – Стоян Райнов, български художник († 1978 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ян Оорт, холандски астроном († 1992 г.)\n 1906 г. – Курт Гьодел, австрийски математик († 1978 г.)\n 1908 г. – Оскар Шиндлер, немски бизнесмен и хуманист († 1974 г.)\n 1916 г. – Феручо Ламборгини, италиански автомобилен производител († 1993 г.)\n 1924 г. – Кенет Каунда, президент на Замбия 2021\n 1926 г. – Харпър Ли, американска писателка († 2016 г.)\n 1928 г. – Ив Клайн, френски художник († 1962 г.)\n 1931 г. – Димитър Овчаров, български археолог и изкуствовед († 2013 г.)\n 1932 г. – Веселин Бранев, български сценарист и режисьор († 2014 г.)\n 1933 г. – Цанко Апостолов, български скулптор\n 1935 г. – Сабин Марков, български оперен певец, баритон († 1993 г.)\n 1937 г. – Саддам Хюсеин, иракски диктатор и президент († 2006 г.)\n 1941 г. – Ан-Маргрет, шведско-американска актриса, певица и танцьорка\n 1943 г. – Джон Крайтън, американски тест пилот\n 1944 г. – Гюнтер Ферхойген, германски политик\n 1948 г. – Тери Пратчет, английски писател († 2015 г.)\n 1950 г. – Джей Лено, американски комик и тв водещ\n 1950 г. – Николай Вълчинов, български сценарист († 2010 г.)\n 1952 г. – Мери Макдонъл, американска актриса\n 1953 г. – Михаил Станчев, съветски и украински историк от български произход\n 1956 г. – Елена Мирчовска, българска актриса\n 1956 г. – Пол Локхарт, американски астронавт\n 1960 г. – Валтер Дзенга, италиански футболист\n 1961 г. – Анна Окса, италианска певица\n 1963 г. – Емил Марков, български актьор\n 1965 г. – Стивън Блум, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Марин Бодаков, български поет († 2021 г.)\n 1973 г. – Хорхе Гарсия, американски актьор от испански произход\n 1974 г. – Пенелопе Крус, испанска актриса\n 1980 г. – Каролина Гочева, македонска певица\n 1981 г. – Джесика Алба, американска актриса\n 1994 г. – Цветелина Найденова, българска спортистка\n 2000 г. – Виктория де Анджелис, италианска басистка\n\nПочинали \n\n 1726 г. – Томас Пит, британски предприемач и държавник (* 1653 г.)\n 1813 г. – Михаил Кутузов, руски военачалник (* 1745 г.)\n 1853 г. – Лудвиг Тик, немски поет (* 1773 г.)\n 1858 г. – Йоханес Петер Мюлер, германски физиолог (* 1801 г.)\n 1903 г. – Джозая Гибс, американски физик (* 1839 г.)\n 1918 г. – Гаврило Принцип, сръбски националист и атентатор (* 1894 г.)\n 1925 г. – Александър Боримечков, деец на БКП (* 1883 г.)\n 1936 г. – Фуад I, крал на Египет (* 1868 г.)\n 1938 г. – Едмунд Хусерл, немски философ (* 1859 г.)\n 1943 г. – Тодор Влайков, български писател, общественик и политик (* 1865 г.)\n 1945 г. – Бенито Мусолини, италиански диктатор (екзекутиран) (* 1882 г.)\n 1945 г. – Кларета Петачи, любовница на Бенито Мусолини (екзекутирана 1912 г.)\n 1954 г. – Леон Жуо, френски синдикалист, Нобелов лауреат през 1951 г. (* 1879 г.)\n 1957 г. – Ференц Хирзер, унгарски футболист и треньор (* 1902 г.)\n 1964 г. – Александър Койре, френски философ (* 1892 г.)\n 1984 г. – Силвия Аштън-Уорнър, новозеландска писателка (* 1908 г.)\n 1992 г. – Парашкев Хаджиев, български композитор (* 1912 г.)\n 1992 г. – Френсис Бейкън, английско-ирландски художник (* 1909 г.)\n 1998 г. – Дрексел Джером Люис Биксби, американски писател и сценарист (* 1923 г.)\n 1999 г. – Артър Шавлов, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г. (* 1921 г.)\n 2002 г. – Александър Лебед, руски генерал и държавник (* 1950 г.)\n 2012 г. – Матилде Камю, испанска поетеса (* 1919 г.)\n 2021 г. – Майкъл Колинс, американски астронавт (* 1930 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден по охрана на труда\n Барбадос – Ден на националните герои\n Беларус – Задушница\n Израел – Ден на независимостта\n Канада – Национален ден в памет на жертвите на трудови злополуки\n Небраска (САЩ) – Ден на залесяването\n\n428"
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        "text": "Q: iMac screen fogging up I leave my iMac (24') next to the sliding door in the lounge at night. The door remains open, so the air gets very cold at night. When I turn my computer on in the morning the screen fogs up inside, presumable because of the cold air inside warming up quite suddenly from the heat of the LCD.\nIs there an easy fix, or a way to avoid this happening?\n\nA: Consider the operating temperatures of the iMac and see if you’re not going beyond the limits. Electronics cannot (and shouldn’t) be operated beyond temperature limits. As much as heat is bad, extreme cold is not good either. \nAs already suggested, do not expose your iMac to “very cold air at night”. \n\nA: I have seen this all the time in Minnesota when macs are cold much of the year. The blowers kick up air that condenses on the cold glass - especially at the bottom of the screen. \nAs long as it's not condensing and goes away within minutes - it should be fine. If you are worried, just turn off the Mac and let it adjust to the room temperature and humidity. 30 minutes should be enough. It is rare to see “fog” from a running / warm Mac so smell or observe for smoke or other particulate contaminants like flour or fine electric smoke and evaluate if you need to shut down the Mac and fix the environment first where the Mac draws cooling air or relocate the Mac. \n\nA: I was having a similar issue when bringing my screen in from a colder temp indoors and turning it on immediately. This worked:\nTurn off the display (or shut down the mac if the display is integrated), then leave it for 15-30 mins. The display will defog and get acclimated to the temperature. Then you can safely turn it back on again and it will not fog up. \n\nA: I had condensation building up on the inside of the glass as well. \nI resolved the issue by removing the glass from the aluminum housing and allowing the humid air behind the glass to vent out. The condensation evaporated once it was exposed to the air in the room.\nNOTE: My monitor was warm from being powered on for an hour or so.\n"
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        "text": "using namespace serial;\n\nclass Bluetooth {\n    private:\n        Serial *connection;\n        bool buzz;\n        bool isConnected;\n    public:\n        bool connect(const std::string &port,int baud);\n        void sendDatas(int16_t angle,int8_t speed = 3,int8_t zero_angle = 0);\n        void turnOnBuzzer();\n        void turnOffBuzzer();\n        void start();\n        void stop();\n        bool isUsed(const std::string &port);\n};\n#endif"
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        "text": "Q: MobileMe iDisk Folders  What are the following (default) iDisk folders used for:\n\n\n*\n\n*Backup\n\n*Groups\n\n*Library\n\n*Sites\n\n*Software\n\n*Web\n\n\nIf you delete them and wait a few minutes they will re-appear, but I do not know what they are used for. There is a document in them explaining their use, but it is still not clear.\n\nA: *\n\n*Backup is used by the MobileMe Backup application. I don't recommend using it.  \n\n*Groups is for a now defunct Groups feature that they used to have.  \n\n*Library is used for MobileMe's syncing feature - primarily for Preferences and Bookmarks.  \n\n*Sites is used for webpages or anything you want shared at http://homepage.mac.com/username/. Note: PHP files, CGI files, etc. don't work. It only works with static content.\n\n*Software contains free software provided by Apple to MobileMe customers (eg. the Backup application) - this doesn't affect your disk usage.\n\n*Web is a folder used by iWeb - otherwise it's nearly identical to the Sites folder but is available at http://web.me.com/username\n"
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        "text": "29 април е 119-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (120-и през високосна). Остават 246 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1672 г. – Армията на Луи XIV напада Холандия.\n 1770 г. – Джеймс Кук акостира край днешния Сидни (Австралия) и нарича залива Ботани\n 1859 г. – Започва Австро-итало-френска война.\n 1872 г. – Започва първото общо събрание на БРЦК в Букурещ, на което инициатор е Васил Левски.\n 1877 г. – Създадено е Българското опълчение.\n 1879 г. – Александър I Батенберг е избран за княз на България от Първото велико народно събрание.\n 1917 г. – Гео Милев е ранен и впоследствие губи едното си око.\n 1918 г. – Павло Скоропадски извършва държавен преврат в Украйна и се обявява за хетман.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Подписани са условията за предаването на немските армии в Италия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Венеция е превзета от съюзниците.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Адолф Хитлер се жени за Ева Браун в Берлин и в завещанието си посочва за свой приемник адмирал Карл Дьониц.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Американските войски освобождават затворниците в концлагера в Дахау.\n 1965 г. – Направена е първата снимка на спътника на Плутон Харон.\n 1970 г. – Виетнамска война: САЩ и силите на Южен Виетнам нахлуват в Камбоджа в преследване на Виет Конг.\n 1986 г. – Бангладеш попада под опустошителен циклон, който става причина за смъртта на 139 хил. души; без дом остават над 10 млн. души.\n 1986 г. – При пожар в обществената библиотека на Лос Анджелис изгарят или са повредени 400 хил. тома книги.\n 1999 г. – При Операция „Съюзна сила“ на НАТО в Югославия е разрушена Авалската телевизионна кула (203 м) край Белград.\n 2005 г. – Сирия окончателно изтегля войските си от Ливан след 29 години окупация.\n 2005 г. – Apple издават Macintosh OS X 10.4 (известен като Тигър).\n 2011 г. – Състои се сватбата на Уилям, Херцог на Кеймбридж и Кейт Мидълтън.\n 2017 г. – Турция блокира достъпа до Уикипедия от съображения за националната сигурност.\n\nРодени \n\n 534 г. – Талиесин, първият уелски поет († 599 г.)\n 1727 г. – Жан-Жорж Новер, френски балетист и балетен хореограф († 1810 г.)\n 1785 г. – Карл Драйс, немски изобретател († 1851 г.)\n 1818 г. – Александър II, император на Русия († 1881 г.)\n 1837 г. – Жорж Буланже, френски генерал и политик († 1891 г.)\n 1854 г. – Анри Поанкаре, френски математик и физик († 1912 г.)\n 1863 г. – Константинос Кавафис, гръцки поет († 1933 г.)\n 1863 г. – Уилям Хърст, американски издател († 1951 г.)\n 1875 г. – Рафаел Сабатини, английски писател († 1950 г.)\n 1878 г. – Андрей Николов, български скулптор († 1959 г.)\n 1881 г. – Методий Попов, български биолог († 1954 г.)\n 1886 г. – Курт Пинтус, немски писател († 1975 г.)\n 1893 г. – Елисавета Багряна, българска поетеса († 1991 г.)\n 1893 г. – Харолд Юри, американски физико-химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1934 г. († 1981 г.)\n 1896 г. – Констанца Кирова, българска певица († 1991 г.)\n 1897 г. – Георги Шпагин, руски оръжеен конструктор († 1952 г.)\n 1899 г. – Дюк Елингтън, американски джазмузикант († 1974 г.)\n 1901 г. – Хирохито, император на Япония († 1989 г.)\n 1903 г. – Николай Крилов, съветски маршал († 1972 г.)\n 1907 г. – Фред Зинеман, американски режисьор от австрийски произход († 1997 г.)\n 1908 г. – Джон Уилямсън, американски писател († 2006 г.)\n 1919 г. – Жерар Ури, френски актьор, режисьор и продуцент († 2006 г.)\n 1922 г. – Лъчезар Аврамов, български политик († 2003 г.)\n 1926 г. – Владимир Свинтила, български писател († 1998 г.)\n 1929 г. – Валтер Кемповски, немски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жан Рошфор, френски актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1931 г. – Лони Донеган, шотландски музикант († 2002 г.)\n 1935 г. – Любомир Левчев, български поет и писател († 2019 г.)\n 1938 г. – Душко Аврамов, македонски поет († 1998 г.)\n 1943 г. – Ненад Джамбазов, писател от Република Македония\n 1946 г. – Васа Ганчева, българска режисьор († 2011 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джон Уотърс, американски режисьор\n 1950 г. – Филип Нойс, австралийски режисьор\n 1952 г. – Дейвид Айк, британски писател\n 1954 г. – Масааки Сузуки, японски диригент\n 1954 г. – Владимир Береану, български журналист, тв водещ\n 1955 г. – Кейт Мългрю, американска актриса\n 1956 г. – Радко Влайков, български дипломат\n 1957 г. – Даниъл Дей-Люис, ирландски актьор\n 1958 г. – Мишел Пфайфър, американска актриса и певица\n 1960 г. – Робърт Сойер, канадски писател\n 1969 г. – Пол Адълстайн, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Моника Ринк, немска поетеса\n 1970 г. – Андре Агаси, американски тенисист от арменски произход\n 1970 г. – Ума Търман, американска актриса\n 1971 г. – Димитър Карадалиев, български футболист\n 1973 г. – Давид Бел, създател на паркура\n 1973 г. – Мартин Кесиджи, немски музикант\n 1975 г. – Юрий Шулман, американски шахматист от беларуски произход\n 1992 г. – Гаел Н'лундулу, френски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1658 г. – Джон Кливланд, британски поет (* 1613 г.)\n 1760 г. – Партений Павлович, български книжовник (* ок. 1695)\n 1876 г. – Генадий Невелской, руски изследовател (* 1813 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Бърнев, български военен деец (* 1868 г.)\n 1933 г. – Константинос Кавафис, гръцки поет (* 1863 г.)\n 1947 г. – Карел Чурда, чешки боец от съпротивата (* 1910 г.)\n 1951 г. – Лудвиг Витгенщайн, австрийски философ (* 1889 г.)\n 1954 г. – Леон Жуо, френски профсъюзен деятел, Нобелов лауреат (* 1879 г.)\n 1955 г. – Димитър Ташев, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1961 г. – Константин Щъркелов, български художник (* 1889 г.)\n 1980 г. – Алфред Хичкок, британски режисьор (* 1899 г.)\n 2007 г. – Ивица Рачан, хърватски политик и държавник (премиер) (* 1944 г.)\n 2008 г. – Алберт Хофман, швейцарски химик (* 1906 г.)\n 2011 г. – Джоана Ръс, американска писателка (* 1937 г.)\n 2014 г. – Боб Хоскинс, британски актьор (* 1942 г.)\n 2014 г. – Ивета Бартошова, чешка певица (* 1966 г.)\n 2021 г. – Райна Каблешкова, български историограф и етнолог (* 1948 г.)\n\nПразници \n ЮНЕСКО – Международен ден на танца (от 1982 г.)\n Международен ден на балета\n България – Ден за почитане загиналите при трудови злополуки (от 1996 г.)\n Италия – Празник на град Верона\n\n429"
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        "text": "Q: iPhone 4 free case - replacing phone voids current order? I have recently had my iPhone replaced. An order for the free bumper case had already been placed using my old phone for which I received a confirmation email, but I did not get an email stating that the order had been cancelled when the phone was replaced.\nIf I launch the free iphone case application I am able to place another order, but I do not want to if my current one is en-route.\nDoes anyone know what's happening in this scenario?\n\nA: You likely will be able to order, and receive, another case. I had purchased a bumper for my iPhone 4 a few days after I got it, and yet the free case app let me order another case for free in addition to refunding my bumper purchase.\n\nA: The iPhone 4 Case Program app allowed me to order another case directly after getting my replacement phone. I was determined to do the right thing and wait to see if my original shipment was fulfilled before ordering another one. It seems that my original order has shipped and I can no longer order another case through the app.\n"
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        "text": "Architecture of Dublin City &\nLost Buildings of Ireland\n1910 – Woolworth’s, Grafton St., Dublin\n1837 – St Paul’s Church, Arran Quay, Dublin\nArchitect: O’Callaghan & Webb\nThe first F. W. Woolworth store in Ireland opened in 1914 on Grafton Street in Dublin. Eventually spread over three adjacent commercial units. The southernmost was No.67, a solid redbrick building was by Charles H. Asworth. Nos.69 and 71 were part of an elaborate terrace, designed by O’Callaghan & Webb with oriel windows on two levels with large lunette windows and balconies above. All finished in red brick with a fine balustrade at roof level.\nFrank W. Woolworth was one of a number of executives at the New York headquarters who claimed Irish ancestry. They were particularly proud of this opening, along with another in Belfast which opened on 6 November 1915.\nRedeveloped in the late 1960 meant the demolition of all three buildings including the fine street-level facade. No.71 stands today as a reminder of the fine Edwardian commercial buildings lost creating a visual hole in the Edwardian streetscape of this part of Grafton Street.\nTags: 1910, Charles Ashworth, Dublin, F.W. Woolworth, Grafton Street Dublin, O'Callaghan & Webb"
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        "text": "Pejicevi Salasi vs Vikings\nABLA > ABLA League > Pejicevi Salasi vs Vikings\nABLA League March 17, 2019 - 12:30 pm\nMarch 17, 2019 12:30 pm ABLA League 18-19 (B)\nPejicevi Salasi 0 Loss\nVikings 20 Win\n0 Karac Vladimir Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n1 Acanski Alexandar - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n2 Vasic Slobodan Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n4 Duma Ivan Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n6 Durkovic Neboisa Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n7 Ardeljan Viktor Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n7 Todorovic Alexandar - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n9 Svedic Sinisa Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n10 Karac Milan Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n11 Mihajlov Jovica Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n12 Bunjevacki Vladimir Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n13 Jagodic Velibor Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n16 Mikic Vladislav Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n23 Bajic Milos Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n44 Zdraveski Aleksandar Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n55 Takaric Zoltan Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n98 Ivancevic Radoslav - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n99 Petrusic Ivan Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n99 Gajic Dejan - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n0 Tisca Negru Adrian Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n1 Marin Cristian Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n3 Groza Marius Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n5 Dehelean Razvan Center 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n15 Blaj Sergiu Power Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n24 Suba Cristian Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n55 Chereji Bogdan Small Forward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n77 Fratila Alexandru Point Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n92 Demian Adrian Shooting Guard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
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        "text": "Through the course of my research for the archaeological poem published earlier this month, I came accross an article about a little known disaster that happened at Colney Hatch Asylum in London in 1903. This was one of the worst asylum fires in the city's history, and the 52 women who perished have largely been forgotten.\nThis story, and others like it, inspired me to write this piece of flash fiction.\nI stand and watch the asylum burn. I know I should feel angry after everything they have done to me, righteous even in its ultimate destruction.\nBut I just feel numb. Black belches of smoke vomits out of the shocked window frames, hinting deep inside at the fiery beast’s glowing heart.\nJenny was right. She was always right. One day, she had said to him. One day this place would all fall down around me, and I alone would stand firm.\nI don’t feel firm now. I feel soft and limp and thin, and all the stark elements around me are threatening to cut through me like paper.\nI hear the others, whooping and laughing and screaming. Running riot as they career out of the asylum.\nI’m not supposed to call it an asylum any more. It’s a hospital now. It gives them better press to call it that. Not that it has really changed. It is still a place to hide away the broken ones, so we don’t offend the senses of the ‘normal’ ones.\nThe normal ones. Ha. The normal ones are the reason those on the top floor are burning in their beds right now, strapped down and drugged out of their minds. Locked doors and collapsing roofs.\nThey’ll call it an electrical fault. A patient to blame, smoking when they shouldn’t have been. But I know the truth.\nI can hear the fire fighters coming now. I slip into the shadows, and disappear. My shadow trails like a black cloak, the orange fire tendrils clinging to the hem."
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        "text": "Wells, C.E., O’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (in press). Déjà vu experiences in anxiety. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1538418 [pdf]\nUrquhart, J.A., Sivakumaran, M.H., Macfarlane, J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (in press). fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1524496 [pdf]\nLiverakos, K., McIntosh, K., Moulin, C.J.A. & O’Connor A.R. (2018). How accurate are runners’ prospective predictions of their race times? PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200744 [pdf]\nSivakumaran, M.H., Mackenzie, A.K., Callan, I.R., Ainge, J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (2018). The discrimination ratio derived from novel object recognition tasks as a measure of recognition memory sensitivity, not bias. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30030-7 [pdf]\nUrquhart, J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (2018). Constructing and model-fitting receiver operator characteristics using continuous data. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/QDGJC [pdf]\nJersakova, R., Allen, R.J., Booth, J., Souchay, C. & O’Connor, A.R. (2017). Understanding metacognitive confidence: Insights from judgment-of-learning justifications. Journal of Memory and Language, 97, 187-207. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.08.002 [pdf]\nKempnich*, M., Urquhart*, J.A., O’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2017). Evidence for the contribution of a threshold retrieval process to semantic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2026-2047. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1220607 [pdf with supplmentary information]\nRathbone, C.J., O’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2017) The tracks of my years: Personal significance contributes to the reminiscence bump. Memory and Cognition, 45(1), 137-150. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0647-2 [pdf]\nMill, R.D., O’Connor, A.R. & Dobbins, I.G. (2016). Pupil dilation during recognition memory: Isolating unexpected recognition from judgment uncertainty. Cognition, 154, 81-94. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.018 [pdf]\nPersson, B.M., Ainge, J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (2016). Disambiguating past events: Accurate source memory for time and context depends on different retrieval processes. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 132, 40-48. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.05.002 [pdf]\nJersakova, R., Moulin, C.J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (2016). Investigating the role of assessment method on reports of déjà vu and tip-of-the-tongue states during standard recognition tests. PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0154334. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154334 [pdf]\nNoreen, S., O’Connor, A.R. & MacLeod, M.D. (2016). Neural Correlates of Direct and Indirect Suppression of Autobiographical Memories. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:379. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00379 [pdf]\nMill, R.D., Cavin, I. & O’Connor, A.R. (2015). Differentiating the functional contributions of resting connectivity networks to memory decision-making: fMRI support for multi-stage control processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 1617-1632. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00808 [pdf with Supplementary Information]\nTeale, J. & O’Connor, A.R. (2015). What is déjà vu? Frontiers for Young Minds. 3:1. doi: 10.3389/frym.2015.00001 [pdf]\nHarris, C.B., O’Connor, A.R. & Sutton, J. (2015). Cue generation or memory construction in direct and generative autobiographical memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 204-216. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.012 [pdf]\nJersakova, R., O’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2015). What’s new in déjà vu? In S Haque & E Sheppard (Eds) Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. [pdf]\nUrquhart, J.A. & O’Connor, A.R. (2014). The awareness of novelty for strangely familiar words: A laboratory analogue of the déjà vu experience. PeerJ. doi: 10.7717/peerj.666 [pdf]\nMill, R.D. & O’Connor, A.R. (2014). Question format shifts bias away from the emphasised response in tests of recognition memory. Consciousness & Cognition, 30, 91-104. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.006 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2013). Déjà vu experiences in healthy subjects are unrelated to laboratory tests of recollection and familiarity for word stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:881. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00881 [pdf]\nGradin, V., Waiter, G., O’Connor, A.R., Romaniuk, L., Stickle, C., Matthews, K., Hall, J., Steele, D. (2013). Salience network-midbrain dysconnectivity and blunted reward signals in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 211(2), 104-111. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.06.003 [pdf]\nJaeger, A., Selmeczy, D., O’Connor, A.R., Diaz, M. & Dobbins, I.G. (2012). Prefrontal cortex contributions to controlled memory judgment: fMRI evidence from adolescents and young adults. Neuropsychologia, 50, 3745-3756. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.022 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R. (2012) Book Review – Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age. Memory Studies, (4), 504-506 doi: 10.1177/1750698012451068b [pdf].\nIllman, N.A., Moulin, C.J.A., O’Connor, A.R., Chauvel, P. (2012). Déjà experiences in Epilepsy: Contributions from memory research. In A. Zeman et al. (Eds) Epilepsy and Memory- The State of the Art. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580286.003.0007 [pdf]\nHan, S., O’Connor, A.R., Eslick, A. & Dobbins, I.G. (2012). The role of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during episodic decisions: Semantic elaboration or resolution of episodic interference? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1), 223-234. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00133 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., Guhl, E.N., Cox, J.C. & Dobbins, I.G. (2011). Some memories are odder than others: Judgments of episodic oddity violate known decision rules. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(4), 299-315. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.02.001 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., Han, S. & Dobbins, I.G. (2010). The inferior parietal lobule and recognition memory: Expectancy violation or successful retrieval? The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(8), 2924-2934. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4225-09.2010 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2010). Recognition without identification, erroneous familiarity, and déjà vu. Current Psychiatry Reports, 12(3), 165-173. doi:10.1007/s11920-010-0119-5 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., Lever, C. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2010). Novel insights into false recollection: A model of déjà vécu. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15, 118-144. doi:10.1080/13546800903113071 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R. & Moulin, C.J.A. (2008). The persistence of erroneous familiarity in an epileptic male: Challenging perceptual theories of déjà vu activation. Brain and Cognition, 68, 144-147. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2008.03.007 [pdf]\nBarnier, A.J., Cox, R.E., O’Connor, A., Coltheart, M., Langdon, R., Breen, N., & Turner, M. (2008). Developing hypnotic analogues of clinical delusions: Mirrored-self misidentification. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13, 406-430. doi:10.1080/13546800802355666 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., Barnier, A.J. & Cox, R.E. (2008). Déjà vu in the laboratory: A behavioral and experiential comparison of posthypnotic amnesia and posthypnotic familiarity. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(4), 425-450. doi:10.1080/00207140802255450 [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., Moulin, C.J.A. & Cohen, G. (2008). Memory and consciousness. In G. Cohen, & M.A. Conway (Eds.), Memory in the Real World (3rd Edition). Hove: Psychology Press. [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R. (2008) Politics and peer review. The Psychologist, 21(9), 752. [pdf]\nO’Connor, A.R., & Moulin, C.J.A. (2006). Normal patterns of déjà experience in a healthy, blind male: Challenging optical pathway delay theory. Brain and Cognition 62(3), 246-249. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2006.06.004 [pdf]\nMoulin, C.J.A., Turunen, M., Salter, A.J.A., O’Connor, A.R., Conway, M.A., & Jones, R.W. (2006). Recollective confabulation: Persistent déjà vecu in dementia. Helix Review Series, 2, 10-15.\n* joint first author"
    },
    {
        "text": "30 април е 120-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (121-ви през високосна). Остават 245 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 311 г. – Римският император Галерий издава едикт, според който християните са законно признати в Римската империя.\n 1671 г. – Петър Зрински и Фран Кръсто Франкопан са екзекутирани и погребани тайно.\n 1789 г. – Джордж Вашингтон встъпва в длъжност като първи президент на САЩ.\n 1803 г. – Покупка на Луизиана: Франция се съгласява да продаде Луизиана на САЩ.\n 1804 г. – Шрапнелът, наречен на името на Хенри Шрапнел, е използван за първи път от англичаните срещу холандците в Суринам.\n 1900 г. – Гръцката принцеса Мария Георгиевна и великия руски княз Георги Михайлович сключват брак на остров Корфу.\n 1917 г. – Основан е уругвайският футболен отбор от Монтевидео К.А. Прогресо.\n 1918 г. – Образувана е Туркестанската автономна съветска социалистическа република, просъществувала до 27 октомври 1924.\n 1933 г. – Основана е Русенската художествена галерия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Михаил Минин, при щурма на Райхстага успява да се изкачи пръв на покрива и от там да развее червеното знаме на победата.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война:Адолф Хитлер и Ева Браун се самоубиват в бункер в Берлин.\n 1945 г. – Излиза последния брой на немския вестник Фьолкишер Беобахтер.\n 1952 г. – Създадено е Командването на Тактическата авиация при ГВВС с кралски указ.\n 1966 г. – Антон Сандор Ла Вей основава Църквата на Сатаната по време на Валпургиевата нощ.\n 1973 г. – Президентът Ричард Никсън поема отговорност за подслушването в аферата Уотъргейт.\n 1975 г. – Завършва Виетнамската война. Престава да съществува Южен Виетнам.\n 1980 г. – Кралицата на Нидерландия Юлиана Нидерландска абдикира в полза на дъщеря си Беатрикс Нидерландска, която става новата кралица на Нидерландия.\n 1981 г. – Христо Проданов изкачва връх Лхотце и става първият българин изкачил осемхилядник.\n 1993 г. – В CERN е създадена World Wide Web.\n 2000 г. – Фаустина Ковалска е канонизирана от папа Йоан Павел II.\n 2010 г. – Спира излъчването на първия български музикален канал MM.\n\nРодени \n\n 1245 г. – Филип III, крал на Франция († 1285 г.)\n 1662 г. – Мария II Стюарт, кралица на Англия († 1694 г.)\n 1770 г. – Дейвид Томпсън, канадски изследовател († 1857 г.)\n 1777 г. – Карл Фридрих Гаус, немски математик († 1855 г.)\n 1803 г. – Албрехт фон Роон, пруски политик († 1879 г.)\n 1815 г. – Виктор Григорович, руски филолог († 1876 г.)\n 1829 г. – Ромоло Джеси, италиански офицер († 1881 г.)\n 1829 г. – Фердинанд фон Хохщетер, австрийски геолог († 1884 г.)\n 1834 г. – Джон Лъбък, английски археолог († 1913 г.)\n 1860 г. – Лорънс Уелс, австралийски топограф († 1938 г.)\n 1870 г. – Франц Лехар, унгарски композитор († 1948 г.)\n 1883 г. – Ярослав Хашек, чешки писател († 1923 г.)\n 1893 г. – Йоахим фон Рибентроп, външен министър на Третия райх († 1946 г.)\n 1909 г. – Груди Атанасов, български политик († 1990 г.)\n 1909 г. – Юлиана Нидерландска, кралица на Холандия († 2004 г.)\n 1911 г. – Луизе Ринзер, немска писателка († 2002 г.)\n 1916 г. – Клод Шанън, американски математик († 2001 г.)\n 1920 г. – Николай Гринко, украински актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1930 г. – Феликс Гатари, френски активист († 1992 г.)\n 1933 г. – Уили Нелсън, американски китарист\n 1934 г. – Васил Чакъров, български художник\n 1937 г. – Иван Пеев, български музикант († 2018 г.)\n 1938 г. – Лари Нивън, американски писател\n 1940 г. – Трендафилка Немска, българска тонрежисьорка\n 1946 г. – Карл XVI Густав, крал на Швеция\n 1956 г. – Ларс фон Триер, датски режисьор\n 1958 г. – Стефан Лъхчиев, български футболист\n 1958 г. – Шарл Берлен, френски актьор\n 1959 г. – Пол Грос, канадски актьор\n 1959 г. – Стивън Харпър, министър-председател на Канада\n 1961 г. – Томас Шааф, немски треньор по футбол\n 1962 г. – Николай Фоменко, руски певец\n 1963 г. – Александер Озанг, немски писател\n 1963 г. – Стефан Кисьов, български писател\n 1964 г. – Васил Петров, български джаз и поп певец, композитор и художник\n 1965 г. – Васил Василев-Зуека, български актьор\n 1967 г. – Филип Киркоров, руски певец\n 1974 г. – Андрей Губин, руски певец\n 1976 г. – Ивайло Иванов, български кино оператор\n 1978 г. – Роуз Ролинс, американска актриса\n 1978 г. – Симоне Бароне, италиански футболист\n 1980 г. – Богдан Боцев, български политик и икономист\n 1981 г. – Джон О'Шей, ирландски футболист\n 1982 г. – Кирстен Дънст, американска актриса\n 1985 г. – Иво Иванов, български футболист\n 1985 г. – Гал Гадот, израелска актриса\n 1992 г. – Марк-Андре тер Щеген, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 65 г. – Марк Аней Лукан, римски поет (* 39 г.)\n 535 г. – Амалазунта, кралица на остготите в Италия (* 496 г.)\n 783 г. – Хилдегард, кралица на франките (* 758 г.)\n 1030 г. – Махмуд Газневи, газневидски владетел (* 971 г.)\n 1131 г. – Адютор, римокатолически светец (* 1073 г.)\n 1305 г. – Роже дьо Флор, средновековен авантюрист-наемник (* 1266 г.)\n 1632 г. – Сигизмунд III Васа, полско-литовски крал (* 1566 г.)\n 1792 г. – Джон Монтагю, британски политик (* 1718 г.)\n 1795 г. – Жан-Жак Бартелеми, френски археолог (* 1716 г.)\n 1847 г. – Карл Австрийски, австрийски ерцхерцог (* 1771 г.)\n 1865 г. – Робърт Фицрой, английски изследовател (* 1805 г.)\n 1876 г. – Петър Бонев, български революционер (* 1837 г.)\n 1883 г. – Едуар Мане, френски художник (* 1832 г.)\n 1902 г. – Валерий Якоби, руски художник (* 1833 г.)\n 1918 г. – Йосиф Великотърновски, български духовник (* 1870 г.)\n 1923 г. – Луи Леже, френски славист (* 1843 г.)\n 1930 г. – Русел Судзиловски, руски лекар (* 1850 г.)\n 1933 г. – Христо Коцев, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1938 г. – Йордан Митрев, български лесовъд (* 1866 г.)\n 1942 г. – Киро Димитровски, югославски партизанин (* 1912 г.)\n 1944 г. – Петко Росен, български писател (* 1880 г.)\n 1945 г. – Адолф Хитлер, немски политик (* 1889 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ева Браун, съпруга на Хитлер (* 1912 г.)\n 1948 г. – Вилхелм фон Тома, германски офицер (* 1891 г.)\n 1949 г. – Димитър Малинчев, български духовник (* 1884 г.)\n 1961 г. – Елена Карамихайлова, българска художничка (* 1875 г.)\n 1981 г. – Петер Хухел, немски поет (* 1903 г.)\n 1983 г. – Джордж Баланчин, американски балетмайстор (* 1904 г.)\n 1983 г. – Мъди Уотърс, американски музикант (* 1915 г.)\n 1989 г. – Серджо Леоне, италиански режисьор (* 1929 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ганчо Ганчев, български актьор († 1925 г.)\n 1992 г. – Димитър Екзеров, български политик († 1919 г.)\n 1994 г. – Роланд Ратценбергер, австрийски пилот от Формула 1 (* 1960 г.)\n 2003 г. – Лайънъл Уилсън, американски дубльор (* 1924 г.)\n 2006 г. – Беатрис Шеридан, мексиканска актриса († 1934 г.)\n 2007 г. – Грегори Льомаршал, френски певец (* 1983 г.)\n 2007 г. – Гриша Островски, български актьори и режисьор (* 1918 г.)\n 2010 г. – Паул Майер, германски духовник (* 1911 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на джаза\n Виетнам – Ден на свободата\n Германия, Естония, Латвия, Литва, Румъния, Финландия, Чехия и Швеция – Валпургиева нощ\n Мексико – Ден на детето\n Нидерландия – Ден на кралицата (Koninginnedag) – национален празник\n Русия – Ден на пожарната охрана\n Тайланд – Ден за защита на потребителите (от 1980 г.)\n Швеция – Ден на краля – национален празник\n\n430"
    },
    {
        "text": "Before Martha started writing children's books, she was a reporter. She still believes it is the greatest job ever. You get to ask nosy questions till after a while you actually know something useful! Even more important, reporters tell us the people what's really going on in government and business. This is especially important in a democracy where the people are supposed to be in charge. Reporters rock! Thanks for doing what you do.\nThis is not the actual coyote that dognapped Max. It is his stunt double.\nMartha’s dachshund Max was once kidnapped by a coyote and escaped.\nMartha doesn’t know anyone named Mrs.Wow, but while she was working on Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow, her daughter Rosa was attending summer camp at Hameau Farm in Belleville, Pennsylvania, a working dairy farm run by a wonderful woman named Audrey Gay Rodgers.\nWho Stole Uncle Sam? is dedicated to the State College American All Stars of 2007. Martha’s son, Ethan, played on this team, and Martha spent so many hours watching baseball that summer, she figured she’d better call it research and put baseball into a book.\nMartha has not owned a working television in 30 years.\nMartha was almost done writing Who Stole Halloween? when she realized you couldn’t really have a story about Halloween that didn’t have a haunted house in it, so she rewrote the whole book.\nMartha keeps a chocolate bar next to her bed at all times.\nNow a runner for fun, Martha hated running as a student and was the slowest one at Glenoaks Elementary School. She is still slow.\nOne of Martha's three talents is making a piecrust. If you want to see her in action, watch the video below."
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    {
        "text": "5 май е 125-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (126-и през високосна година). Остават 240 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1260 г. – Хубилай става хан на Монголската империя.\n 1835 г. – В Белгия, между Брюксел и Мехелен, е открита първата европейска железопътна линия.\n 1873 г. – Дания и Швеция сключват Скандинавски паричен съюз.\n 1876 г. – При потушаването на Априлското въстание е извършено Баташкото клане.\n 1876 г. – Издаден е първи брой на вестник „Нова България“\n 1891 г. – Концертната зала Карнеги Хол в Ню Йорк, построена от филантропа Андрю Карнеги, официално е открита с концерт, дирижиран от руския композитор Пьотър Чайковски.\n 1893 г. – Срив на Нюйоркската фондова борса дава началото на икономическа рецесия в САЩ.\n 1921 г. – Коко Шанел представя легендарния парфюм Chanel No. 5.\n 1925 г. – Със закон в България са създадени първите държавни трудови борси и са предвидени временни компенсации при безработица.\n 1930 г. – Ейми Джонсън е първата жена, която започва полет със самолет от Англия до Австралия сама.\n 1935 г. – Италия напада Етиопия, завладява столицата Адис Абеба и разширява колонията си в Източна Африка.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Американските войски освобождават концентрационния лагер Матхаузен в Австрия.\n 1945 г. – Йемен става държава членка на Арабската лига.\n\n 1948 г. – Създаден е ПФК ЦСКА (София).\n 1949 г. – В Лондон е създаден Съвета на Европа и датата се чества неофициално като Ден на Европа.\n 1955 г. – Западна Германия става независима държава, след като Съюзническата мисия се саморазпуска.\n 1961 г. – Програма Мъркюри: САЩ изстрелва първия си пилотиран космически кораб, който извършва суборбитален космически полет с продължителност 15 мин., а астронавтът Алън Шепърд става първият американец пътувал в Космоса.\n 1967 г. – Великобритания изстрелва първия си спътник – Ариел 3.\n 1992 г. – С декларация на Народното събрание България признава задължителната юрисдикция на Международния съд в Хага.\n 1992 г. – Кримският парламент обявява независимостта на Крим и с проведения през август референдум потвърждава този статут.\n 1997 г. – България се присъединява към оръжейното ембарго над Югославия, наложено от Организацията на обединените нации, заради Косовската война.\n 2000 г. – 58-годишният Ахмед Сезер, дотогавашен ръководител на Турския конституционен съд, е избран за десети президент на Турция.\n 2005 г. – Тони Блеър става първият премиер на Лейбъристката партия, спечелил трети последователен мандат.\n\nРодени \n\n 1210 г. – Алфонсо III, крал на Португалия († 1279 г.)\n 1479 г. – Амар Дас, трети сингхски гуру († 1574 г.)\n 1747 г. – Леополд II, император на Свещената римска империя († 1792 г.)\n 1813 г. – Сьорен Киркегор, датски теолог и философ († 1855 г.)\n 1818 г. – Карл Маркс, германски философ и икономист († 1883 г.)\n 1820 г. – Сергей Соловьов, руски историк († 1879 г.)\n 1826 г. – Евгения, императрица на Франция († 1920 г.)\n 1833 г. – Фердинанд фон Рихтхофен, германски географ († 1905 г.)\n 1834 г. – Виктор Гартман, руски художник и архитект († 1873 г.)\n 1840 г. – Йосиф I, български екзарх († 1915 г.)\n 1846 г. – Хенрик Сенкевич, полски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1905 г. († 1916 г.)\n 1878 г. – Алберт Сониксен, американски журналист († 1931 г.)\n 1880 г. – Сотир Маринков, български военен деец († ? г.)\n 1883 г. – Арчибалд Уейвъл, британски офицер († 1950 г.)\n 1886 г. – Георги Дамянов Йотов, български политик, деец на БЗНС († 1923 г.)\n 1889 г. – Макс Фремерай, германски офицер († 1968 г.)\n 1896 г. – Лилиан Ротер, унгарски психоаналитик († 1981 г.)\n 1898 г. – Крум Лекарски, български военен и спортен деец († 1981 г.)\n 1902 г. – Димитър Стоевски, български писател и преводач († 1981 г.)\n 1906 г. – Банчо Банчевски, български оперен певец (баритон) († 1988 г.)\n 1908 г. – Курт Бьоме, германски оперен певец (бас) († 1989 г.)\n 1911 г. – Андор Лилиентал, унгарско-съветски шахматист († 2010 г.)\n 1919 г. – Георгиос Пападопулос, гръцки диктатор († 1999 г.)\n 1919 г. – Руслан Райчев, български диригент († 2006 г.)\n 1920 г. – Боро Андов, македонски поет († 1983 г.)\n 1921 г. – Артър Шолоу, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1981 г. († 1999 г.)\n 1923 г. – Михаил Егоров, съветски сержант († 1975 г.)\n 1923 г. – Николай Сутягин, съветски летец († 1986 г.)\n 1923 г. – Сергей Ахромеев, съветски маршал († 1991 г.)\n 1927 г. – Крум Монев, български революционер († 2001 г.)\n 1931 г. – Георги Белички, български инженер и политик († 2016 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джони Тейлър, американски поп певец († 2000 г.)\n 1940 г. – Ланс Хенриксен, американски актьор\n 1943 г. – Майкъл Пейлин, британски актьор\n 1944 г. – Джон Рис-Дейвис, британски актьор\n 1944 г. – Жан-Пиер Лео, френски актьор\n 1944 г. – Роман Джинджихашвили, американски шахматист от грузински произход\n 1948 г. – Бил Уорд, британски музикант (Black Sabbath)\n 1949 г. – Олег Атков, руски лекар и космонавт\n 1950 г. – проф. Димитър М. Иванов, икономист, международен финансов консултант\n 1956 г. – Боян Саръев, български духовник и родолюбец\n 1963 г. – Джеймс Лабри, американски музикант\n 1966 г. – Сергей Станишев, български политик, министър-председател на България\n 1968 г. – Бобан Бабунски, македонски футболист\n 1972 г. – Николай Младенов, български политик\n 1975 г. – Юлиан Ангелов, български политик\n 1976 г. – Хуан Пабло Сорин, аржентински футболист\n 1977 г. – Георги Димитров Костов, български режисьор\n 1977 г. – Димитър Телкийски, български футболист\n 1979 г. – Наталия Жукова, украинска шахматистка\n 1980 г. – Абдулкарим Киси, марокански футболист\n 1980 г. – Йоси Бенаюн, израелски футболист\n 1980 г. – Родолфо Лима, футболист от Кабо Верде\n 1981 г. – Крейг Дейвид, британски поп певец\n 1982 г. – Салим Салимов, български боксьор\n 1984 г. – Александер Лаас, германски футболист\n 1988 г. – Адел, британска поп певица и текстописец\n 1989 г. – Крис Браун, американски поп певец и танцьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1028 г. – Алфонсо V\n 1194 г. – Казимир II, крал на Полша (* 1138 г.)\n 1705 г. – Леополд I, император на Свещената римска империя (* 1640 г.)\n 1808 г. – Петър Ичко, сръбски дипломат (* ок. 1775 г.)\n 1808 г. – Пиер Жан Жорж Кабанис, френски философ (* 1787 г.)\n 1821 г. – Наполеон I, император на Франция (* 1769 г.)\n 1837 г. – Николо Цингарели, италиански композитор (* 1752 г.)\n 1859 г. – Петер Густав Льожон Дирихле, германски математик (* 1805 г.)\n 1900 г. – Иван Айвазовски, руски художник (* 1817 г.)\n 1905 г. – Стефан Димитров, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1907 г. – Димко Кочовски, български революционер (* ? г.)\n 1909 г. – Иван Тенчев, български революционер (* 1975 г.)\n 1928 г. – Вичо Диков, български военен деец (* 1861 г.)\n 1928 г. – Георги Данаилов, български просветен деец (* 1877 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Каранджулов, български юрист (* 1856 г.)\n 1945 г. – Рене Лалик, френски бижутер и дизайнер (* 1860 г.)\n 1952 г. – Алберто Савинио, италиански художник (* 1891 г.)\n 1955 г. – Виктор Кафка, австрийски невролог (* 1881 г.)\n 1959 г. – Карлос Сааведра Ламас, аржентински политик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1878 г.)\n 1960 г. – Морис Буве, френски психоаналитик (* 1911 г.)\n 1965 г. – Александър Александров, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1977 г. – Лудвиг Ерхард, германски политик (* 1897 г.)\n 1980 г. – Изабел Бригс Майерс, американски психолог (* 1897 г.)\n 1985 г. – Доналд Бейли, британски инженер (* 1901 г.)\n 1992 г. – Жан-Клод Паскал, френски певец (* 1927 г.)\n 1995 г. – Михаил Ботвиник, руски шахматист (* 1911 г.)\n 2000 г. – Георги Братанов, български писател (* 1944 г.)\n 2010 г. – Джулиета Симионато, италианска певица (* 1910 г.)\n 2010 г. – Умару Ярадуа, нигерийски политик (* 1951 г.)\n 2013 г. – Петър Попйорданов, български актьор (* 1964 г.)\n 2013 г. – Иван Сосков, български математик (* 1954 г.)\n 2013 г. – Сара Кирш, германска поетеса (* 1935 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на акушерката (от 1991 г.)\n Ден на протест на хората с увреждания (Отбелязва се от 1992 г. по инициатива на Европейската мрежа за независим живот (ENIL)\n Общност на португалоезичните държави – Ден на лузофоните\n Съвет на Европа – Ден на Европа (неофициален празник по повод създаването на Съвета на Европа, 1949 г.)\n Българска православна църква – Св. мъченица Ирина\n Австрия – Ден на борбата срещу насилието и расизма\n Албания – Ден на мъчениците\n Беларус – Ден на печата\n Гвиана – Ден на индианското наследство\n Дания и Нидерландия – Ден на свободата (1945 г.)\n Етиопия – Ден на патриотите\n Киргистан – Ден на Конституцията\n Мексико и южните щати на САЩ – Ден на победата на мексиканците над французите в битката за Пуебла (народен празник)\n Палау – Ден на възрастните хора\n Полша – Ден на културата, просветата, книгата и пресата\n Русия – Ден на водолазите\n Тайланд – Ден на коронацията (от 1950 г.)\n Хонконг, Макао, Южна Корея и Тайван – Рожден ден на Буда\n Япония и Южна Корея – Ден на децата\n\n505"
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        "text": "It is the end of an era at Austin Elementary.\nAfter 19 years as principal at the school, Jan White is passing the torch. She has decided to retire at the end of this school year.\nJan dedicated her years as an educator and administrator to making the lives of children better. She always put the good of the students before all else.\nFor those of you who attended Austin Elementary or are parents of students who went to the school, I’m sure this was evident. I don’t know Jan very well, but I had the pleasure of writing one of the first Ennis Daily News’ Spotlight stories about Jan. Of course, we touched on her cancer diagnosis, but that’s not what she really wanted to talk about. A recurring theme in our interview was how much EISD and the city of Ennis gave to her during her formative years growing up.\nAfter graduation from Ennis High School, Jan left for college, and eventually to California with her husband, Bud. Bud was transferred to Dallas, and they looked around the DFW area for a place to settle down, Jan was back in Ennis once again, and became a teacher here. I think I speak the entire community when I say Ennis is all the better for that decision.\nJan began her professional life in the business world, but soon realized she could do more good for society if she became a teacher. She saw her Ennis ISD career as a way to give back to the schools that gave her so much growing up.\nGoing back to our interview last fall, the only time Jan mentioned breast cancer was when she spoke about how grateful she was to the teachers and other staff at Austin for coming to her aid in her time of need. Although Jan tried as hard as she could to continue to fulfill the responsibilities that come with being a principal, sometimes it got difficult. She said her staff was always there to help her fill in the gaps when her illness and all the associated treatments took her energy.\nJan came to school many days when she felt under the weather, but no one could tell how bad she felt just by just looking at her. Her warm smile and bright eyes were always in attendance, even when her strength was down.\nFor children growing up in this community, there is no need to look outside the city limits for a worthy role model. Jan White is just as inspiring — maybe even more so — as any athlete or musician. A role model who sees your child every day can be much more effective than one on TV who has no one-on-one time with your child. Jan knows you don’t have to reach a wide audience to make a difference. A positive influence on one student — one life — is a success.\nSo this goes out to any student whose life has been touched by Jan White. She may be entering a new chapter in her life, but the influence she had on you as a child will stick with you. And maybe one day, when you’re wondering “What next?” you’ll remember to give back, just like she taught.\nThe world needs more Jan Whites, and I’m sure there’s at least a few in EISD right now. Maybe they are in kindergarten learning how to tie their shoes. Maybe they’re in a high school classroom learning about geometry proofs. Maybe there are a few in between.\nAfter all, if Ennis helped to inspire Jan as a child so many years ago, it is certain that it is still doing the same for even the smallest of this community’s residents.\nPosted by publisher on Apr 23 2010. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed."
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        "text": "Q: What are some great OS X games? Despite being a \"subjective\" question, it is a useful one for newcomers to the Apple platform, and serves to aide the lacking gaming community.\nWhat are your favorite OS X games?\nRules:\n\n\n*\n\n*Limit to one application per answer.\n\n*Add a short description for the application\n\n*Add a link to the website in the name of the application, if possible (no direct downloads).\n\n*Use ## [game name](link) when citing the game.\n\n\nOnly Mac OS X games please, iOS games will be in another question.\n\nA: Osmos\n\nEnter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a\n  minimalist, electronic soundtrack.\nYour objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.\n\n\nA: Machinarium\nThe goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers. The puzzles are linked together by an overworld consisting of a traditional \"point and click\" adventure story. The overworld's most radical departure is that only objects within the player character's reach can be clicked on.\n\nA: World of Warcraft\nFrom its Wikipedia page:\n\nWorld of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.\n\n\nA: Torchlight\nTorchlight is an action role-playing-game for the PC made by the creators of Diablo, Fate, and the never-released Mythos among other games. Set in the mining town of Torchlight, players will adventure to uncover the mysteries of the Ember mines. It offers a fully featured character leveling system, randomized dungeons, hordes of monsters, and gobs of great loot.\n(from the FAQ)\nTorchlight for Mac OS X is available over Steam.\n\nA: Dragon Age: Origins\n\"You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of a legendary order of guardians. With the return of an ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon  once and for all. Start your adventure by picking your class as a Human, Elf, or Dwarf. Then after that, it is all up to you. The choices you make guide the path you take through the Ninth Age: The Dragon Age.\"\n(From Bioware, the creators of Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect – so you know it's going to be fantastic.)\n\nA: Counter Strike: Source\n\nCounter-Strike: Source (officially abbreviated CS:S) is an FPS video game developed by the Valve Corporation. It is a complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine. As in the original, Counter-Strike: Source pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. Each round is won either by completing an objective (such as detonating a bomb or rescuing hostages) or by eliminating all members of the opposing team.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Source\n\nA: Peggle and Peggle Nights\nIf you're into casual gaming, this is for you.  It's a simple, yet maddeningly addictive puzzle game that's gotten me through a lot of boring lectures.\n\nA: Portal\n\nPortal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.\n\n\nA: World of Goo\nA physics-based puzzle game where you have to build structures with balls of Goo to accomplish various tasks.  Has a very cool and weird, if a little dark, atmosphere to it.\n\nA: Bejeweled 2\n\nGet set to play the PopCap game that set the standard in casual gaming! Match sparkling gems three at a time to make them burst in showers of color and points. Match four or more to create flashy power gems that boost your score and your mood with brilliant cascades and combos.\n\n\nA: Enigmo\n\nEnigmo and Enigmo 2 are respectively\n  2D and 3D arcade-style computer games\n  for PC, Mac OS X and the iPhone OS\n  developed by Pangea Software. They\n  both involve moving certain substances\n  into their proper containers. The\n  music in both games was recorded by\n  Michael Beckett.\n\n\nA: Eve Online\n\nEVE is a Massively Multiplayer Online\n  Game (MMORPG) that takes place\n  approximately 20.000 years after our\n  times in a galaxy on the far end of\n  the universe. When you join EVE you\n  assume the role of a freshly graduated\n  „Capsuleer“, a relatively small group\n  of elite spaceship pilots capable of\n  controlling powerful spaceships on\n  their own from within their capsules.\n  Capsuleers are often referred to as\n  \"The immortals\" due to the fact that\n  the highly advanced capsules they are\n  connected to from the inside, are\n  capable of instantly dowloading their\n  consciousness to a clone of themselves\n  in the case of physical destruction.\n\n\nA: Altitude\n\nAltitude is a multiplayer 2-D aerial combat game. Players control one of five customizable aircraft and battle in teams across 2D landscapes. As a player gains experience in battle they unlock new planes and customizations called perks. The game has been described by the press as a cross between Teeworlds, Team Fortress 2 and an RPG. Altitude is primarily an online game with some offline skirmish options and bot support. There are several modes, and plane customizations. Source: wikipedia\n\nAltitude is also available on Steam. It's great for killing 5 minute break, and also for spending few hours. It's very addictive.\n\nA: Minecraft\nMinecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens.  Perhaps the greatest game I've ever played.\n\nA: Civilization IV\nFrom its Wikipedia page:\n\nCivilization IV is a turn-based game in which the player builds an empire from very limited initial resources. All standard full-length games begin in 4000 BC with a settler who builds a single city. From there, the player expands an empire while contending with rival nations, using the geography, developing infrastructure, and encouraging scientific and cultural progress. By default, players can win the game by accomplishing one of five goals: conquering all other civilizations, controlling a supermajority of the world's land and population, being the first to land a sleeper ship in the Alpha Centauri star system, increasing the Culture ratings of three different cities to \"legendary\" levels, or by being declared \"World Leader\" by winning a popularity election through the United Nations. If the game's clock runs out (by default in the year 2050 AD) with none of these goals fulfilled by any nation, the nation with the highest score is declared the winner.\n\nIt's one of the most thoughtful and addictive game I've ever played. Can't wait for version V.\n\nA: Team Fortress 2\n\nTeam Fortress® 2 (TF2) is the sequel\n  to the game that put class-based,\n  multiplayer team warfare on the map.\n  This year's most anticipated online\n  action game, TF2 delivers new\n  gametypes, a signature art style\n  powered by Valve's next generation\n  animation technology, persistent\n  player statistics, and more.\nUnlike other \"class-based\" games that\n  offer a variety of combat classes\n  only, Team Fortress 2 packs a wild\n  variety of classes which provide a\n  broad range of tactical abilities and\n  personalities, and lend themselves to\n  a variety of player skills.\nPlay as the flame-throwing Pyro, the\n  room clearing Heavy, or the Spy, a\n  master of disguises. Other classes\n  include: Scout, Sniper, Medic,\n  Engineer, Demoman, or Soldier.\nTF2 features the most advanced\n  graphics of any Source-based game\n  released to date - and the most\n  exciting class-based action ever\n  created.\n\n\nA: StarCraft II\nFrom its Wikipedia page:\n\nStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft. Released on July 27, 2010, StarCraft II is split into three installments: the base game with the subtitle Wings of Liberty, and two expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void.\n  Set in the 26th century in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy, the game is built around three species: the Terrans, human exiles from Earth; the Zerg, a race of insectoid genetic assimilators; and the Protoss, a species with vast psionic power. Wings of Liberty focuses on the Terrans, while the expansions Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void will focus on the Zerg and Protoss, respectively. The game is set four years after the events of StarCraft: Brood War, and follows the exploits of Jim Raynor as he leads an insurgent group against the autocratic Terran Dominion. The game includes both new and returning characters and locations from the original game.\n\n\nA: Braid\nCertainly the most original platformer I've ever played. Its puzzles and interesting because you also manipulate time, which I've never seen in any other game.\nThe graphics is beautiful, the story is interesting, and the gameplay is fantastic.\n\nA: Plants vs Zombies\nAn addictive tower-defense-like game by Popcap, maker of a few great casual games.\n\nThe game involves a homeowner using many varieties of plants to repel an army of zombies. The homeowner, along with a neighbor called Crazy Dave, must defend the homeowner's house during day or night, in the front yard and the backyard (including the swimming pool), and even on the roof.\n\n\nA: Half-Life 2\n\nBy taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life® 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors, and even emotions, of both friends and enemies.\nThe player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a lot of people he cares about are counting on him.\n\nHalf-Life 2 Episode 1\n\nHalf-Life® 2: Episode One is the first in a series of new adventures created by Valve that extends the Half-Life® 2 single player experience.\nStepping into the hazard suit of Dr. Gordon Freeman, you face the immediate repercussions of your actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Rejoin Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, to once again aid the human resistance in their desperate battle against the totalitarian alien menace of the Combine.\nEpisode One exposes Alyx's combat skills and knowledge of City 17 as the player battles side-by-side with her in this 4-6 hour adventure of greater density and detail than non-episodic releases.\n\nHalf-Life 2 Episode 2\n\nHalf-Life® 2: Episode Two is the second in a trilogy of new games created by Valve that extends the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life® adventure.\nAs Dr. Gordon Freeman, you were last seen exiting City 17 with Alyx Vance as the Citadel erupted amidst a storm of unknown proportions. In Episode Two, you must battle and race against Combine forces as you traverse the White Forest to deliver a crucial information packet stolen from the Citadel to an enclave of fellow resistance scientists.\nEpisode Two extends the award-winning Half-Life gameplay with unique weapons, vehicles, and newly-spawned creatures.\n\nProbably the best PC saga ever, now on the Mac. I can't believe no-one posted this.\n\nA: Download Steam for Mac and get access to a lot of good games on Mac\n\nA: Neverball\nSince this list is going to be dominated by more gamer-oriented games, I'm gonna be the voice of casual gaming.  Neverball is a great 3d platform game.\n\nThe main gameplay of Neverball is based on moving a ball using gravity by tilting the game world, not directly controlling the ball[2] (it is somewhat similar to the game Labyrinth  without the holes in the middle). The mouse (or a similar pointing device), keyboard, or joystick tilt the level to help guide the ball to a goal, via an obstacle course, with a set time limit. Moving platforms and other crazy objects get in the way, making levels progressively harder.\n\n\nA: X-Moto\n2D Motocycle game with lots of community build levels.\n\nX-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics plays an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limits, if you want to have a chance to finish the most difficult challenges.\n\nI like playing X-Moto while having a short break. Most of the levels are rather short. It's not a games that takes hours to play - but you could invest some time.\n\nA: Teeworlds\n\nis a free open source fast-paced sidescrolling multiplayer-only computer game. The game features simple cartoon-themed graphics and physics, and relies heavily on classic shooter weaponry and gameplay. The controls are heavily inspired by the First-person shooter genre of computer games. \n\nVery addictive game, it's a 2-D implementation of Quake3\n\nA: Hordes of Orcs\n\nHordes of Orcs is a “Tower Defense”\n  game in which you must build walls and\n  lethal towers to defend your village\n  from the Orcs emerging from, what the\n  village elders call, “The Glowing\n  Portal of Really Bad Things That We\n  Should Have Bricked-Up a Long Time\n  Ago.” Sadly, the Portal is un-bricked\n  and the Orcs are very, very hungry. If\n  20 Orcs make it to your village,\n  you’re toast.\n\n\nA: Freespace 2\n\nThe game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans. While defending the human race and its alien Vasudan allies, the player also gets involved in putting down a rebellion of those elements of Vasudan (Hammer of Light) and Human (Neo Terran Front) forces which don't want to cooperate with one another.\n\nThe link leads to the Freespace Source Code Project, since the original game was Windows only. Since the source code was released there have been Mac and Linux versions as well as massive improvements to graphics and textures.\nThe community is alive and well with new campaigns and even full conversions in development.\nThe original game content is required in order to play. You can grab it from http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/freespace_2 for ($5.99 at the time of writing). Definitely worth it.\n\nA: Battlefield 2142\nA multiplayer online FPS game. To me one of the best sequel of Battlefield game series. The mode \"Titan\" is really the best game strategy idea of the century.\n\nA: War§ow\n\nA Free Fast-Paced FPS\nSet in a futuristic cartoon-like world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets, Warsow is a completely free fast-paced first-person shooter (FPS) for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.\nSpeed and movement, that’s what Warsow is all about. Like a true cyberathlete you jump, dash, dodge and walljump your way through the game. Grab those power-ups before your enemy does, plant the bomb before anyone sees you, and steal the enemy’s flag before anyone knows what’s going on!\n\nIt's advanced and complete free and cross-platform Quake 3 alternative.\n\nA: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive\n\nCounter-Strike: Global Offensive is an online first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment, who also maintained Counter-Strike: Source after its release. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike franchise, excluding Counter-Strike Neo and Counter-Strike Online. It features classic content, such as old maps, as well as brand new maps, characters and game modes. It supports matchmaking and leaderboards\n   Cross-platform multiplayer was planned between Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and PlayStation 3 players, but was ultimately limited to PC and Mac due to the differences in update frequency between the systems\n   Global Offensive adds new weapons and equipment not seen in previous installments, most notably the Molotov cocktail which temporarily covers a small area in fire, making it impossible to pass through without taking damage\n\n\nA: Give Trine or Trine 2 a try:\n\nTrine and Trine 2 are sidescrolling game of action, puzzles and\n  platforming.\nYou play as one of the Three Heroes who make their way through dangers\n  untold in a fantastical fairytale world.\nPhysics-based puzzles with fire, water, gravity and magic; Wicked\n  Goblins; Climb the tallest trees and towers in the enchanted forest!\n\nThe graphics are truly impressive in both of these games. There is a demo for Trine2 for mac.\n"
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        "text": "6 май е 126-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (127-и през високосна). Остават 239 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1527 г. – Рим е ограбен от войските на Карл V.\n 1651 г. – В Рим е отпечатана първата печатна книга на новобългарски език Абагар.\n 1829 г. – Във Виена е регистриран първият патент за акордеон от Сирил Демиан и синовете му Карл и Гуидо.\n 1864 г. – Васил Левски става учител във Войнягово, Карлово.\n 1899 г. – Айфеловата кула официално е отворена за посетители.\n 1913 г. – Подписан е Гръцко-сръбският договор в Солун.\n 1924 г. – Подписан е Майският маниифест на ВМРО във Виена.\n 1931 г. – Във Венсен е открито Международното колониално изложение, посетено от 34 милиона души.\n 1937 г. – Германският цепелин Хинденбург е обхванат от пламъци и изгаря за минути, малко преди да се приземи; загиват 36 души.\n 1940 г. – Джон Стайнбек получава Пулицър за своята новела Гроздовете на гнева.\n 1946 г. – Първата Купа на Съветската армия е връчена от командването на съветските военни части в България на ПФК Левски (София).\n 1952 г. – Създадена е Азиатската конфедерация по волейбол.\n 1975 г. – Направена е първата копка на Националния радиотелевизионен център.\n 1981 г. – САЩ обвинява правителството на Либия в подпомагане на международния тероризъм.\n 1981 г. – Взето е решение бургаският футболен клуб ЖСК Локомотив (създаден 1932 г.) да се обедини със СФС Нефтохимик, като името на новия клуб е ДФС Нефтохимик.\n 1994 г. – Кралица Елизабет II и френския президент Франсоа Митеран председателстват откриването на Тунела под Ла Манш.\n 2001 г. – По време на свое посещение в Сирия, папа Йоан Павел II става първият папа, който влиза в джамия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1501 г. – Папа Марцел II († 1555 г.)\n 1574 г. – Папа Инокентий X († 1655 г.)\n 1683 г. – Джонатан Уайлд, английски престъпник († 1725 г.)\n 1758 г. – Андре Масена, френски маршал († 1817 г.)\n 1758 г. – Максимилиан Робеспиер, френски революционер († 1794 г.)\n 1856 г. – Зигмунд Фройд, австрийски психиатър († 1939 г.)\n 1856 г. – Робърт Пири, американски изследовател († 1920 г.)\n 1869 г. – Апостол войвода, български революционер († 1911 г.)\n 1871 г. – Кристиан Моргенщерн, немски поет и драматург († 1914 г.)\n 1872 г. – Вилем де Ситер, нидерландски астроном († 1934 г.)\n 1882 г. – Георги Атанасов, български композитор и диригент († 1931 г.)\n 1895 г. – Рудолфо Валентино, американски киноактьор от италиански произход († 1926 г.)\n 1904 г. – Хари Мартинсон, шведски поет, Нобелов лауреат († 1978 г.)\n 1906 г. – Андре Вейл, френски математик († 1998 г.)\n 1915 г. – Орсън Уелс, американски актьор, режисьор, продуцент и писател († 1985 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ерих Фрид, австрийски поет и белетрист († 1988 г.)\n 1939 г. – Георги Марианович, юрист и политик от Република Македония\n 1941 г. – Гена Димитрова, българска оперна певица († 2005 г.)\n 1945 г. – Боб Сийгър, американски певец\n 1946 г. – Кемал Маловчич, босненски народен певец\n 1947 г. – Алън Дейл, новозеландски актьор\n 1947 г. – Муравей Радев, български политик\n 1948 г. – Светла Бешовишка, българска пианистка и диригент на хор „Бодра смяна“ († 2016 г.)\n 1951 г. – Георги Марков, български зоолог\n 1951 г. – Самюъл Доу, Президент на Либерия († 1990 г.)\n 1952 г. – Кристиан Клавие, френски актьор\n 1952 г. – Майкъл О'Хеър, американски актьор († 2012 г.)\n 1953 г. – Тони Блеър, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство\n 1953 г. – Греъм Сунес, британски футболист и треньор\n 1958 г. – Николай Свинаров, български политик\n 1960 г. – Ан Парийо, френска киноактриса\n 1960 г. – Людмила Андонова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1961 г. – Джордж Клуни, американски актьор\n 1961 г. – Франс Тимерманс, нидерландски политик\n 1963 г. – Мая Новоселска, българска актриса\n 1969 г. – Ваньо Шишков, български футболист\n 1976 г. – Иван де ла Пеня, испански футболист\n 1978 г. – Айзък Куоки, ганайски футболист\n 1979 г. – Георги Вълов, български волейболист\n 1983 г. – Даниел Алвеш, бразилски футболист\n 1986 г. – Любомир Божинов, български футболист\n 1987 г. – Мун Гън-йон, южнокорейска актриса\n 1989 г. – Доминика Цибулкова, словашка тенисистка\n 1993 г. – Георги Стойчев, български актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1859 г. – Александър фон Хумболт, германски естественик (* 1769 г.)\n 1862 г. – Хенри Дейвид Торо, американски писател (* 1817 г.)\n 1889 г. – Хайнрих Густав Райхенбах, германски ботаник (* 1823 г.)\n 1910 г. – Едуард VII, крал на Великобритания и Ирландия (* 1841 г.)\n 1913 г. – Александрос Схинас, гръцки анархист (* 1870 г.)\n 1919 г. – Лиман Франк Баум, американски детски писател (* 1856 г.)\n 1922 г. – Божидар Прокич, сръбски историк (* 1859 г.)\n 1922 г. – Петър Ораховац, български лекар (* 1857 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Телятинов, български революционер (* 1871 г.)\n 1949 г. – Морис Метерлинк, белгийски писател, Нобелов лауреат (* 1862 г.)\n 1952 г. – Ангелко Кръстич, македонски сърбоманин (* 1871 г.)\n 1971 г. – Хелене Вайгел, немски актриса (* 1900 г.)\n 1983 г. – Ник Дим Кос, български илюзионист (* 1901 г.)\n 1987 г. – Уилям Кейси, директор на ЦРУ (* 1913 г.)\n 1990 г. – Ирмтрауд Моргнер, немска писателка (* 1933 г.)\n 1992 г. – Марлене Дитрих, германска актриса (* 1901 г.)\n 2006 г. – Александър Миланов, български писател (* 1933 г.)\n 2021 г. – Ваня Костова, българска певица (* 1957 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на храбростта (1979 – сега)\n Празник на Българската армия (1931 – 1953, 1993 – сега) (професионален празник на военнослужещите)\n Празник на Военния орден „За храброст“\n Ден на животновъда (професионален празник)\n Православна църква – Свети Георги Победоносец (Гергьовден)\n Ден на градовете Ветрен, Вършец, Каварна, Луковит, Мездра, Петрич, Пещера, Поморие, Русе, Хаджидимово, Якоруда, на общините Бяла, Антон и Баните и на селата Замфир, Княжева Махала, Лозенец, Расово, Люляково, Изворово\n Сирия – Ден на мъчениците\n\n506"
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        "text": "Q: Great iOS Games \nCommunity Wiki questions can be a great tool for this site, but they require active curation by the person who posted them, and the question needs to be asked in a way that makes the answers more than a list of app names.\nA question about \"awesome\" iOS games that gave criteria for awesomeness, or even a question that prompted its answers to explain not just what the game is, but to explain what makes the game \"awesome\" could be quite useful on this site. While a few of the answers here do that, most are sadly just lists of game titles and (perhaps) descriptions.\nWe're closing this as not constructive. A constructive question could exist that does what this question attempts to do, but it will take careful management that starts with the early stages of the question and continues long after that. -- Daniel◆\n\nDespite being a subjective question, it is a useful one for newcomers to the iOS platform, and serves to aid the gaming community.\nWhat are your favorite iOS games?\nRules:\n\n*\n\n*Limit to one application per answer.\n\n*Add a short description for the application.\n\n*Add a link to the website in the name of the application, if possible (no direct downloads).\n\n*Use ## [game name](link if possible) when citing the game.\n\nOnly iOS games please; there's another question for Mac OS X games.\n\nA: Flight Control\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\nFlight Control is a game for the iOS, DSiWare, WiiWare, developed by Firemint and first released for the iOS on March 5, 2009. The app was #1 on the App Store in 19 countries simultaneously on April 6, 2009 and has over 2 million sales.\n\n\n\nA: Cut the Rope\nFairly recent.  Description from Wikipedia:\n\"The object of each of the game's numerous levels is to manoeuver a piece of candy into the mouth of a cartoon monster, and also to pick up up to three stars per level by touching them with the candy. The candy hangs by one or several ropes which the player can cut with a swipe of their finger, and can also be manipulated through other objects such as bellow\"\n\nA: Fieldrunners\nIn my opinion, the best open-field tower defense game on for iOS.  Very clean, well made, not nearly as \"gimmicky\" looking as many of the other tower defense games for iOS.\n\nA: Words with Friends\nSomebody had to mention this... It's like Scrabble, but missing many of the important elements that make the game so great.  The more important part is not the game itself but the chance to casually reconnect with friends.\n\nA: Trainyard\nA Puzzle Solving Game for iPhone.\n\nA: Doodle Jump\nApp Store\nVery simple basic idea (jump ever upward along unending series of plaforms without falling), yet with a constant rhythm and smooth (accelerometer) controls that make the game challenging and addictive.\n\n\nA: Zen Bound\n\nA meditative puzzle game of wrapping\n  rope around wooden sculptures. It is a\n  tactile game, with a focus on making\n  wood and stone look and feel real and\n  believable.\n\n\n\nA: Angry Birds\nIt's pretty addictive ^_^\n\nA: Tilt to Live\nApp Store\nSimple controls can do a lot... you just tilt and move this arrow around and annihilate lots of red dots. It's addicting :D\n\nA: Bloons Tower Defense\nA really great track-style tower defense game, and one of the best ports of a tower defense game from the web to iPhone.\n\nA: Monster Dash\nFrom the makers of Fruit Ninja (which is also awesome)\n\nA: Edge\n\nIsometric world where you control a\n  cube which you safely have to get\n  through the levels. Watch out not\n  falling through the floor.\n\n\nA: Cat Physics\nThe goal of Cat Physics is to successfully direct a ball from one onscreen kitty to another. The layout of each level, placement of the goal cat, and many different obstacles work to prevent you from completing this seemingly simple task. To aid you, moveable arrow icons can be placed in the path of the ball, launching it in the direction of the arrow displayed on each icon. How many arrows are on each level and what direction they point is always fixed (aside from occasional moving arrows), so it's up to you to figure out the best way to utilize them to complete a level. Scoring is based on getting the ball from the starting cat to the receiving cat in as short a distance as possible.\n\nA: Battleground Defense\nA great tower defense game. Awesome graphics and gameplay. Neat maps. Loved the game.\nHere's a trailer.\n\nA: I really need to add GTA here now it has been released!\nGrand Theft Auto III (£2.99 / $4.99)\n10th Year anniversary release, what can I say this runs so well on iOS, at first I thought it would be hard to control, (I find a lot of joystick style games hard to control on touch) but with this all the controls are in the right place, you can tap anywhere to use the joystick. \nI must say, I have wasted hours on this already.\n\n\n\nA: Letterpress\nAwesome asynchronous turn based word game.\n\nA: Ninjatown: Trees of Doom (HD)\nGreat pick-up up an play game where you control a ninja trying to get as high as you can without hitting obstacles. The graphics are very vibrant.\n\nA: Dark Nebula 1 and 2\nMost people are familiar with this type of game.  The basic object is to tilt your device to move your ball from one side of the map to the other.  This game goes way beyond traditional “Labyrinth” games by adding all kinds of obstacles and having huge maps!\n\nA: Sparkle the Game\nSparkle plays like your basic marble shooter; you shoot your orbs at a moving \"train\" of orbs to make a match of three or more of the same color. The main objective is to keep the \"train\" from reaching the hole at the end of the track. How Sparkle differs from others, are its various power-ups and amulets. There are two types of power-ups, destructive and altering. Destructive power-ups use varying methods to destroy orbs and altering power-ups change orbs' colors, slow the \"train\", or make the \"train\" go backwards. Out of the ten or so power-ups, only around half of them are actually useful. There are fifteen amulets to be unlocked, each with their own attributes. Some of these are positive, and some may be considered negative. Amulets are rewarded after completing a set number of levels in Quest mode and can be selected in between levels.\n\nA: Minebyte FREE - Reckless Robot To The Rescue!\nFound this game while searching for arcade style shooter games. It doesn't have that many downloads but it still is fun to play. First few levels are easier, but after sometime it's too hard and challenging to play. It got, I think 50 levels. Dunno why it's not a hit. They've got an iPad version too, in the name of Byteminer, but the iPhone version runs on iPad too, with that 2X button. Although iPad version has better graphics.\n\nA: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars\nFollowing his father's murder, Huang Lee has a simple mission: deliver an ancient sword to his Uncle Kenny to ensure his family retains control of the Triad gangs of Liberty City. Huang is a spoiled rich kid who expects everything to run smoothly, but his trip does not go exactly as planned. After being robbed and left to die, he will search for honor, riches and revenge in the most dangerous and morally bankrupt city in the world.\n\n\nA: Inotia 3: Children of Carnia\n\nAn unique 2d-rpg gaming experience.\n\nA: Order and Chaos Online\n\nFinally a true real-time, full-3D MMORPG comes to the App Store: Explore a vast heroic fantasy world and join thousands of players in this massively multiplayer online experience that pushes the boundaries of epic!\n\nA: Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP\n\nAs for me, this is the best game I ever played on iOS. Perfect art and music background.\nSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.\n\nA: Monster Trouble HD\nMaybe the best Tower Defense ever developed for iOS. You have to see the game. :)\n"
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        "text": "7 май е 127-ия ден в годината според григорианския календар (128-и през високосна). Остават 238 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 558 г. – куполът на катедралата Света София в Константинопол се срутва. Тогавашният император Юстиниан I нарежда реконстукция.\n 1099 г. – Кръстоносците достигат Йерусалим по време на Първия кръстоносен поход.\n 1663 г. – В Лондон е открит кралският театър в Друри Лейн.\n 1824 г. – Във Виена е премиерата на Девета симфония на Лудвиг ван Бетовен.\n 1832 г. – Великите сили одобряват на конференция в Лондон баварския владетел Отон за крал на Гърция.\n 1895 г. – Руският учен Александър Степанович Попов демонстрира пред Руското физико-химично общество своето изобретение – първия в света радиоприемник.\n 1909 г. – Алберт Айнщайн е избран за професор по теоретична физика в Цюрихския университет.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: Английският лайнер Лузитания е потопен от германска подводница, като загиват 1198 души от общо 1962, намиращи се на борда му. Атаката накланя американското общественото мнение срещу Германската империя и ускорява влизането на САЩ във войната.\n 1919 г. – Съставено е Правителство на България (39), начело с Теодор Теодоров.\n 1937 г. – В САЩ е излъчено първото радиопредаване, което достига от западния до източния бряг.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Генерал Алфред Йодл подписва в Реймс, Франция, безусловната капитулация на Германия, с което страната приключва участието си във войната. Документът влиза в сила на следващия ден.\n 1945 г. – България във Втората световна война:Първа българска армия в Австрия се установява в село Фьолкермаркт в област Каринтия където в Клагенфурт същия ден командващия Първа БА генерал Владимир Стойчев се среща с генерал Уилям Кейтли командващ Трета английска армия с когото е подписано спаразумение за очертаване на демаркационна линия между българските и английските войски в източна Австрия.\n 1946 г. – Основана е компанията Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering с 20 служители, която по-късно е наречена Sony.\n 1992 г. – Космическата совалка Индевър е изстреляна за първи път.\n 1999 г. – Папа Йоан Павел II отива в Румъния и така става първият римски папа, посетил Източноправославна страна след Великата схизма от 1054 година.\n 1999 г. – Бомбардировка на китайското посолство в Белград.\n 2000 г. – Владимир Путин полага клетва като втори демократично избран президент на Русия (след Борис Елцин).\n\nРодени \n\n 165 г. – Юлия Меса, знатна римлянка († 224 г./226)\n 1605 г. – Никон, Патриарх московски и всерусийски († 1681 г.)\n 1713 г. – Алексис Клод Клеро, френски математик и мислител († 1765 г.)\n 1763 г. – Йозеф Понятовски, полски княз, маршал на Франция († 1813 г.)\n 1833 г. – Йоханес Брамс, германски композитор и пианист († 1897 г.)\n 1840 г. – Пьотър Чайковски, руски композитор († 1893 г.)\n 1847 г. – Арчибалд Роузбъри, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1929 г.)\n 1861 г. – Рабиндранат Тагор, индийски писател и философ, Нобелов лауреат († 1941 г.)\n 1867 г. – Владислав Реймонт, полски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1925 г.)\n 1875 г. – Методи Патчев, български революционер († 1902 г.)\n 1892 г. – Йосип Броз Тито, президент на Югославия († 1980 г.)\n 1901 г. – Гари Купър, американски актьор († 1961 г.)\n 1914 г. – Андрей Гуляшки, български писател († 1995 г.)\n 1919 г. – Ева Перон, първа дама на Аржентина († 1952 г.)\n 1926 г. – Панайот Пондалов, български волейболист († 1984 г.)\n 1928 г. – Владимир Мусаков (преводач), български преводач († 1966 г.)\n 1928 г. – Георги Русев, български театрален и кино актьор († 2011 г.)\n 1930 г. – Пеньо Пенев, български поет († 1959 г.)\n 1930 г. – Хорст Бинек, немски писател († 1990 г.)\n 1938 г. – Димитър Керелезов, български писател и поет († 2020 г.)\n 1950 г. – Владко Панайотов, български политик\n 1957 г. – Вероник Жано, френска актриса\n 1967 г. – Добрин Векилов, български музикант\n 1969 г. – Катерина Малеева, българска тенисистка\n 1976 г. – Томас Биаджи, автомобилен състезател\n 1980 г. – Александър Арангелов, български политик и бивш полицай\n 1983 г. – Гари О'Конър, шотландски футболист\n 1998 г. – Михаела Маринова, българска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 973 г. – Ото I Велики, император на Свещената Римска империя (* 912 г.)\n 1523 г. – Франц фон Зикинген, вожд на германското рицарство (* 1481 г.)\n 1539 г. – Отавиано Петручи, италиански печатар (* 1466 г.)\n 1617 г. – Давид Фабрициус, германски астроном (* 1564 г.)\n 1667 г. – Йохан Якоб Фробергер, германски композитор (* 1616 г.)\n 1682 г. – Фьодор III, цар на Русия (* 1661 г.)\n 1800 г. – Николо Пичини, италиански композитор (* 1728 г.)\n 1825 г. – Антонио Салиери, италиански композитор (* 1750 г.)\n 1840 г. – Каспар Давид Фридрих, германски художник (* 1774 г.)\n 1876 г. – Димитър Атанасов-Русчуклийчето, български революционер (* ок. 1850 г.)\n 1876 г. – Петър Пармаков, български революционер (* 1850 г.)\n 1876 г. – Поп Харитон, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1901 г. – Джордж Е. Кинг, канадски политик (* 1839 г.)\n 1901 г. – Димитър Греков, министър-председател на България (* 1847 г.)\n 1901 г. – Иван Славейков, български политик (* 1853 г.)\n 1906 г. – Андонис Влахакис, гръцки андартски капитан (* 1874 г.)\n 1906 г. – Леонидас Петропулакис, гръцки андартски капитан (* 1880 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димитър Благоев, български политик (* 1856 г.)\n 1941 г. – Джеймс Джордж Фрейзър, шотландски антрополог (* 1854 г.)\n 1956 г. – Йозеф Хофман, австрийски архитект (* 1870 г.)\n 1966 г. – Станислав Йежи Лец, полски писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1987 г. – Димитър Бочев, български актьор (* 1926 г.)\n 2000 г. – Дъглас Феърбанкс-младши, американски актьор (* 1909 г.)\n 2011 г. – Уилард Бойл, канадски физик, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1924 г.)\n\nПразници \n Русия, България и Беларус – Ден на радиото и телевизията\n\n507"
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        "text": "8 май е 128-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (129-и през високосна година). Остават 237 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1559 г. – В Англия е приет Актът за супремацията, с който кралица Елизабет I става глава на Англиканската църква.\n 1794 г. – По време на Якобинска диктатура, за антиреволюционна дейност френският химик Антоан Лавоазие, който в откривател на кислорода, е обвинен, осъден и гилотиниран за един ден в Париж.\n 1821 г. – Гърците побеждават турците в Битката при Гравия.\n 1849 г. – Първата международно призната регата е спечелена от яхтата „Перлата на Бермуда“.\n 1886 г. – Фармацевтът Джон Пембъртън създава газирана напитка, която по-късно става популярна като Coca-Cola.\n 1898 г. – Провеждат се първите мачове от Италианската футболна лига.\n 1899 г. – Създаден е Ирландски литературен театър в Дъблин.\n 1914 г. – Учредена е филмовата къща Paramount Pictures.\n 1921 г. – Швеция отменя смъртното наказание.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Повечето въоръжени сили на Нацистка Германия прекратяват активни военни действия, във връзка с подписаната безусловна капитулация на страната от Алфред Йодл предишния ден.\n 1972 г. – Виетнамската война: Американският президент Ричард Никсън издава заповед да се поставят мини в най-големите пристанища в Северен Виетнам, за да се предотврати доставката на оръжие и стоки за страната.\n 1978 г. – За първи път е изкачен връх Еверест без кислороден апарат от Райнхолд Меснер и Петер Хабелер.\n 1980 г. – Унищожаването на едрата шарка официално е потвърдено от Световната здравна организация.\n 1984 г. – СССР обявява, че ще бойкотира Летните олимпийски игри в Лос Анджелис.\n 1990 г. – Естонският парламент гласува за промяна на името на страната на Република Естония от Естонска съветска социалистическа република.\n 2002 г. – Ясер Арафат призовава на арабски език палестинците да спрат своите атаки срещу израелците.\n 2009 г. – Пуснат е в експлоатация първият участък от Втория радиус на Първи метродиаметър на Софийското метро.\n\nРодени \n\n 1653 г. – Клод Луи Ектор дьо Вилар, френски маршал († 1734 г.)\n 1698 г. – Хенри Бейкър, английски естестволог († 1774 г.)\n 1753 г. – Мигел Идалго и Костиля, мексикански национален герой († 1811 г.)\n 1818 г. – Едуард Тотлебен, руски генерал († 1884 г.)\n 1828 г. – Анри Дюнан, основател на Червения кръст, Нобелов лауреат († 1910 г.)\n 1846 г. – Емил Гале, френски художник († 1904 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Мутафов, български художник († 1957 г.)\n 1881 г. – Никола Милев, български историк († 1925 г.)\n 1884 г. – Хари С. Труман, 33-ти президент на САЩ († 1972 г.)\n 1893 г. – Иван Кинов, български политик († 1967 г.)\n 1898 г. – Райчо Славков, български военен деец († 1953 г.)\n 1899 г. – Фридрих Хайек, австрийски икономист († 1992 г.)\n 1903 г. – Фернандел, френски актьор († 1971 г.)\n 1904 г. – Борис Ливанов, руски актьор († 1972 г.)\n 1906 г. – Роберто Роселини, италиански режисьор († 1977 г.)\n 1911 г. – Робърт Джонсън, американски музикант († 1938 г.)\n 1912 г. – Гертруд Фусенегер, австрийска писателка († 2009 г.)\n 1914 г. – Ромен Гари, френски писател († 1980 г.)\n 1920 г. – Том от Финландия, финландски илюстратор († 1991 г.)\n 1926 г. – Дейвид Атънбъро, британски учен\n 1929 г. – Цвятко Николов, български актьор († 1970 г.)\n 1937 г. – Цанчо Цанчев, български кинооператор († 1999 г.)\n 1938 г. – Жан Жиро, френски художник († 2012 г.)\n 1940 г. – Рики Нелсън, американски музикант († 1985 г.)\n 1941 г. – Жоржета Чакърова, българска актриса\n 1943 г. – Пол Самюъл-Смит, британски музикант\n 1945 г. – Кийт Джарет, американски музикант\n 1948 г. – Анета Сотирова, българска актриса\n 1953 г. – Алекс Ван Хален, американски барабанист\n 1954 г. – Стивън Фърст, американски актьор\n 1958 г. – Симон Клейнсма, нидерландска певица и актриса\n 1960 г. – Франко Барези, италиански футболист\n 1963 г. – Мишел Гондри, френски сценарист\n 1964 г. – Мелиса Гилбърт, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Антонио Ананиев, български футболист\n 1968 г. – Александър Фишбейн, американски гросмайстор\n 1970 г. – Александра Потър, британска писателка\n 1971 г. – Кендис Найт, американска певица\n 1973 г. – Арелано, мексикански футболист\n 1975 г. – Енрике Иглесиас, испански музикант\n 1976 г. – Станислава Азова, българска певица\n 1978 г. – Габриел Далиш, румънски поет\n 1980 г. – Венцислав Бонев, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 535 г. – Йоан II, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 685 г. – Бенедикт II, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1671 г. – Себастиан Бурдон, френски художник (* 1616 г.)\n 1672 г. – Жан-Арман дьо Тревил, френски офицер (* 1598 г.)\n 1794 г. – Антоан Лавоазие, френски химик (* 1743 г.)\n 1809 г. – Огюстен Пажу, френски скулптор (* 1730 г.)\n 1873 г. – Джон Стюарт Мил, британски философ (* 1806 г.)\n 1876 г. – Васил Петлешков, български революционер (* 1845 г.)\n 1880 г. – Гюстав Флобер, френски писател (* 1821 г.)\n 1883 г. – Мидхат паша, велик везир на Османската империя (* 1822 г.)\n 1891 г. – Елена Блаватска, руска писателка, теософ (* 1831 г.)\n 1903 г. – Пол Гоген, френски художник постимпресионист (* 1848 г.)\n 1917 г. – Лукан Хашнов, български инженер (* 1862 г.)\n 1925 г. – Тодор Паница, български революционер (* 1879 г.)\n 1932 г. – Петър Гудев, министър-председател на България (* 1862 г.)\n 1936 г. – Освалд Шпенглер, германски историк и философ (* 1880 г.)\n 1952 г. – Уилям Фокс, американски кинопродуцент (* 1879 г.)\n 1960 г. – Хюго Алфвен, шведски композитор (* 1872 г.)\n 1961 г. – Михаил Доростолски и Червенски, български духовник (* 1884 г.)\n 1965 г. – Йордан Захариев, български учен (* 1877 г.)\n 1975 г. – Ейвъри Бръндидж, американски спортен функционер (* 1887 г.)\n 1977 г. – Тодор Павлов, български политик (* 1890 г.)\n 1982 г. – Жил Вилньов, канадски пилот от Ф1 (* 1950 г.)\n 1985 г. – Теодор Стърджън, американски писател (* 1918 г.)\n 1988 г. – Робърт Хайнлайн, американски писател фантаст (* 1907 г.)\n 1995 г. – Алексей Шелудко, български физик и химик (* 1920 г.)\n 1995 г. – Тереса Тен, тайванска певица (* 1953 г.)\n 1999 г. – Анастас Примовски, български етнограф, юрист и белетрист (* 1911 г.)\n 1999 г. – Дърк Богард, британски актьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2010 г. – Андор Лилиентал, унгарско-съветски шахматист (* 1911 г.)\n 2010 г. – Хоакин Капия, мексикански състезател по скокове във вода (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден на Червения кръст и Червеният полумесец\n Двудневно (8 – 9 май) възпоменание и помирение за жертвите на Втората световна война, обявено през 2004 г. от Общото събрание на ООН\n България – Празник на село Видлица\n Италия – Празник на град Бари и на община Вербания\n Латвия – Ден в памет на жертвите от Втората световна война\n Туркменистан – Ден на памет на националните герои на Световната война 1941 – 1945\n Южна Корея – Ден на родителите\n\n508"
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        "text": "Q: iMac gamma problem I have an iMac 24\", running OSX 10.5.8. I noticed sometimes when I wake my Mac from screensaver, the gamma is off. The screen becomes very white-washed looking. I can get it back to normal gamma by firing up System Preferences -> Display without changing any settings.\nI do this every time and it's become very annoying. Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can fix it permanently? I don't have this problem on my MBP.\n\nA: Give Flux a try. It’s a “free” tiny application that not only will help you not burn your eyes when it’s “dark” outside, but also touches the gamma every time and perhaps when doing that it bypasses Leopard’s bug.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "9 май е 129-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (130-и през високосна година). Остават 236 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1502 г. – Христофор Колумб потегля от Испания за своето четвърто и последно пътешествие до Новия свят.\n 1881 г. – след държавен преврат е съставено Петото правителство на България, начело с Казимир Ернрот.\n 1913 г. – подписан е Петербургският протокол, с който България предава на Румъния Силистра и 3 км около града.\n 1917 г. – Първа световна война: Българската армия разгромява войските на Антантата в Битката при завоя на Черна.\n 1927 г. – Канбера става столица на Австралия вместо Мелбърн.\n 1936 г. – Италия официално анексира Етиопия, след като завзема столицата ѝ Адис Абеба на 5 май.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Германските войски нападат Холандия, Белгия и Люксембург.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: В Берлин е подписана отделна капитулация на Германия пред СССР от фелдмаршал Вилхелм Кайтел, генерал-полковник Ханс-Юрген Щумпф и адмирал Ханс-Георг фон Фридебург. Съветският маршал Георгий Жуков подписва от името на Сталин, а британският маршал Тедър от името на Дуайт Айзенхауер.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Херман Гьоринг е заловен от Армията на САЩ.\n 1946 г. – кралят на Италия Виктор Емануил III абдикира и скоро след това монархията е заменена с република.\n 1950 г. – министърът на външните работи на Франция Робер Шуман представя своето предложение за създаване на единна Европа, което е крайно необходимо за поддържането на мирните отношения в региона.\n 1955 г. – Студената война: Западна Германия се присъединява към НАТО.\n 1970 г. – Виетнамската война: Във Вашингтон, пред Белия дом, между 75 000 и 100 000 души мирно протестират против войната.\n 1971 г. – изстреляна е космическата сонда Маринър 8.\n 2004 г. – президентът на Чечня Ахмад Кадиров е убит при атентат в Грозни (Чечня) по време на парада по случай Деня на победата.\n 2016 г. – открита е деветата регионална радиостанция на БНР „Радио Кърджали – Гласът на Родопите“.\n\nРодени \n\n 1740 г. – Джовани Паизиело, италиански композитор от 18 век († 1816 г.)\n 1800 г. – Джон Браун, американски аболиционист († 1859 г.)\n 1819 г. – Николай Палаузов, български възрожденец († 1899 г.)\n 1825 г. – Джеймс Колинсън, викториански художник († 1881 г.)\n 1837 г. – Адам Опел, немски инженер и индустриалист († 1895 г.)\n 1845 г. – Карл Лавал, шведски инженер († 1913 г.)\n 1860 г. – Джеймс Матю Бари, шотландски писател († 1937 г.)\n 1874 г. – Хауърд Картър, британски археолог и египтолог († 1939 г.)\n 1882 г. – Джордж Баркър, американски художник († 1965 г.)\n 1882 г. – Едуард Муни, американски духовник († 1958 г.)\n 1883 г. – Хосе Ортега и Гасет, испански философ († 1955 г.)\n 1892 г. – Кирил Павлов, български политик († 1925 г\n 1892 г. – Зита Бурбон-Пармска, императрица на Австро-Унгария († 1989 г.\n 1917 г. – Евгени Филипов, български учен († 1991 г.)\n 1920 г. – Ричард Адамс, английски писател († 2016 г.)\n 1920 г. – Уилям Тен, американски писател († 2010 г.)\n 1924 г. – Булат Окуджава, руски певец († 1997 г.)\n 1928 г. – Петер Мерзебургер, германски журналист и писател († 2022 г.)\n 1932 г. – Петер фон Трамин, австрийски писател († 1981 г.)\n 1936 г. – Гленда Джаксън, британска актриса\n 1937 г. – Рафаел Монео, испански архитект\n 1942 г. – Джон Ашкрофт, американски политик\n 1945 г. – Юп Хайнкес, немски футболист и треньор\n 1945 г. – Божана Апостолова, българска поетеса\n 1946 г. – Кандис Бъргън, американска актриса\n 1949 г. – Били Джоел, американски музикант\n 1949 г. – Пенка Седларска, български изкуствовед\n 1950 г. – Марчелин Бертран, американска актриса († 2007 г.)\n 1955 г. – Ане Софи фон Отер, шведска певица\n 1962 г. – Дейвид Геън, английски певец (Depeche Mode)\n 1964 г. – Александър Върбанов, български щангист\n 1964 г. – Пламен Юруков, български политик\n 1979 г. – Пиер Бувие, канадски певец (Simple plan)\n 1980 г. – Анжела Никодинов, американска фигуристка\n\nПочинали \n\n 480 г. – Юлий Непот, римски император (* 430 г.)\n 1280 г. – Магнус IV, крал на Норвегия (* 1238 г.)\n 1707 г. – Дитрих Букстехуде, датско-германски композитор (* ок. 1637)\n 1805 г. – Фридрих Шилер, германски поет и историк (* 1759 г.)\n 1850 г. – Жозеф Луи Гей-Люсак, френски химик (* 1778 г.)\n 1879 г. – Аугуст Гризебах, немски ботаник (* 1814 г.)\n 1915 г. – Ярослав Вешин, чешки художник, творил в България (* 1860 г.)\n 1931 г. – Албърт Майкелсън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1852 г.)\n 1947 г. – Еврипидис Бакирдзис, министър-председател на Гърция (* 1895 г.)\n 1949 г. – Луи II, принц (* 1870 г.)\n 1974 г. – Любомир Пипков, български композитор (* 1904 г.)\n 1978 г. – Алдо Моро, министър-председател на Италия (* 1916 г.)\n 1980 г. – Йозеф Брайтбах, немски писател (* 1903 г.)\n 1986 г. – Тенсинг Норгей, непалски алпинист (* 1914 г.)\n 1991 г. – Янка Дягилева, руска певица (* 1966 г.)\n 2000 г. – Тодор Кръстев, български футболист (* 1945 г.)\n 2001 г. – Борислав Шаралиев, български кинорежисьор (* 1922 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ахмад Кадиров, чеченски президент (* 1951 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лена Хорн, американска певица и актриса (* 1917 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ханс Дейкстал, нидерландски политик (* 1943 г.)\n 2015 г. – Кенан Еврен, турски политик и генерал (* 1917 г.)\n 2020 г. – Литъл Ричард, американски музикант (* 1932 г.)\n 2022- Джоди Лукоки бивш Футболист на ПФК Лудогорец\n\nПразници \n\n Източноправославна църква – Летен Никулден – Пренасяне мощите на Св. Николай Чудотворец от гр. Мира в гр. Бари и Събор на Св. Новоселски мъченици\n Европейски съюз – Ден на Европа\n Двудневно (8 – 9 май) възпоменание и помирение за жертвите на Втората световна война, обявено през 2004 г. от Общото събрание на ООН\n Остров Джърси – Ден на Освобождението (край на Втората световна война, 1945 г., национален празник)\n Латвия – Ден на майката\n Румъния – Ден на независимостта (от Османската империя, 1877 г.)\n Русия и някои бивши части на СССР – Ден на победата (над Нацистка Германия, 1945 г.)\n САЩ – Ден на учителя\n Узбекистан – Ден на възпоменанието\n\n509"
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        "text": "Here's how Trump hobbled Obamacare and drove enrollment down this year\nBy wpadmin | December 16, 2018\nThe open enrollment period for people to sign up for health insurance next year through the Affordable Care Act ends Saturday in most states, and signups are significantly down from last year.\nDonald Trump didn’t repeal and replace former President Barack Obama‘s signature health-care law, more commonly known as Obamacare, he was able to dismantle key parts of it that health policy researchers are blaming for much of the drop.\nSign-ups on the federal health insurance marketplace have fallen 11.7 percent from the same time last year, according to the latest figures from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The number of new people buying the coverage has dropped even more: 19.7 percent.\nThe lagging numbers also come as the future of the Affordable Care Act is uncertain. A federal judge in Texas ruled late Friday the law unconstitutional, potentially threatening health-care coverage for millions of Americans and setting up a new legal showdown over Obama’s policy initiative. The lawsuit was backed by the Trump administration, and is likely to be appealed — which could mean the legislation will heard anew by the Supreme Court, which upheld Obamacare in a narrowly divided 2012 ruling.\nTrump cheered the judge’s decision in a tweet.\nAs I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!\nTo be sure, the tight labor market is playing at least some role in lower Obamacare enrollment figures this season, health policy experts say.\nHistorically low unemployment, which was at 3.7 percent in November and October, is helping reduce dependence on the federal health program as more Americans are getting their health insurance from employers. And while Obamacare doesn’t require small businesses to offer health coverage, more may now be doing so to attract and retain workers.\nThe ACA’s final enrollment numbers won’t be tallied until next week, but health policy experts say several key changes the Trump administration made to the ACA law are helping drive enrollment down this year.\nOne factor that health policy analysts say could be depressing enrollment for 2019 is the move by the Trump administration allowing people to remain longer in less-expensive short-term health plans, also sometimes referred to as “skimpy” plans.\nThe Obama administration had restricted the use of short-term plans — which as a rule offer less comprehensive coverage of benefits — to three months. But the Trump administration is allowing people to stay in short-term plans for up to 12 months. And it is allowing consumers to renew their coverage in such plans twice.\nSome policy analysts predict those less-expensive plans could attract healthier customers than people who opt for the more expensive, and more comprehensive, Obamacare plans.\nThis enrollment season was also the first since Congress repealed the so-called individual mandate as part of Trump’s tax plan. The mandate, which is still in effect for 2018, imposes a tax penalty on people without coverage. It was designed to persuade people to buy insurance instead of paying the extra tax, which came to the greater of $ 695 per adult or up to 2.5 percent of household income, depending on how many months an individual went without coverage.\nAt the time, Trump claimed the tax plan “essentially” repealed the health-care law, which was false.\nBut without the mandate, Obamacare exchanges were expected to see fewer sign-ups, especially from younger, healthier people who feel they may not need coverage, said Judy Solomon, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think tank.\nThe Obama administration spent $ 100 million for its advertising and promotional budget in its last year. The Trump administration then scaled back that budget by 90 percent to $ 10 million for this year’s enrollment. The administration also steadily cut funding for so-called navigators, customer service representatives who walk people through the enrollment process.\nSome researchers say it’s affecting public awareness of the program and deadline to buy coverage. According to the most recent poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, only 24 percent of Americans ages 18 to 64 are aware of the current open enrollment deadline.\nOpen enrollment ran for seven weeks this year in most states, much shorter than under the Obama administration. The Trump administration shortened that time period back last year. However, the Obama administration had planned something similar.\nCategory: News Tags: down, drove, enrollment, Here&#039s, hobbled, Obamacare, This, Trump, Year\n← Save Your Skin From the Ravages of Cold Weather How to Get Healthy and Save Money →"
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        "text": "According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2014 report, the chronic gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest citizens is seen as the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade.\nThe report, produced in collaboration with Marsh & McLennan Companies, Swiss Re, and Zurich Insurance Group, as well as the National University of Singapore, Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, assesses 31 risks that could have a significant global impact.\nThe increasing risk of “cybergeddon” in the online world.\nThe growing complexity of geopolitical risk as the world moves to a multipolar distribution of power.\nHave a look at our infographic on the main findings of the Global Risks 2014 report."
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        "text": "Q: How can I mount an SMB share from the command line? I would like to mount an SMB network share from the command line (terminal); how would I go about that?\nI am using Mac OS X 10.6.4.\n\nA: What worked for me to make them mount during boot:\n==> /etc/auto_master <==\n#\n# Automounter master map\n#\n+auto_master        # Use directory service\n/net            -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid\n/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder\n/Network/Servers    -fstab\n/-          -static\n/-          auto_smb          # add this line <**********\n\n==> /etc/auto_smb <==         # Create this if it doesn't exist <****\n/(not Volumes)/Public   -fstype=smbfs,soft smb://(user):(password)@192.168.140.5/data/Public\n/(not Volumes)/ WGroleau -fstype=smbfs,soft smb://(user):(password)@192.168.140.5/data/Students/wes_groleau\n\nFor some reason, neither the short name nor the FQDN of the server worked, so I used 'ping (name) to get the IP.  In other words, DNS would resolve the name, but mount_smbfs could not.\nAnd I could not put the mount point in /Volumes, because boot up would delete it.\nOne quirk:  After this worked fine for a few days, for two or three days, LibreOffice, Adobe Reader, and Finder could not find ONE of the two shares, but the shell and TextEdit had no problem.  After two or three days of that, it mysteriously started working again.\nIf you do these edits and don't want to reboot, you can mount them with 'auto mount -vc'\nUpdate: More quirks.  (1) There are two WiFi systems here, and one of them has no access to the Windows servers.  A couple of times a week, one or both of the routers goes down.  If the \"good one\" goes down and the MacBook automatically connects to the other one, instead of telling me the drive is off-line, the SMB drivers say \"Too many users.\"  (2) A couple of times a week, I get \"permission denied\" when I try to access my Windows files.  This typically lasts about a half-hour, during which I can go to a windows bar and log in and see files with the same ID and password.\n\nA: I would add that if you have a username of the form \"workgroup\\username\", you should mount it like this :\nmount -t smbfs \"//WORKGROUP;username:password@MACHINENAME/SHARENAME\" /SomeLocalFolderOfChoice\n\nSource : adapting an example from here\n\nA: You should take a look at mount’s help: \nman mount\n\nUpon closer inspection you’ll see that the filesystem’s type is:\nmount -t smbfs //username:password@MACHINENAME/SHARENAME /SomeLocalFolderOfChoice\n\nPassword (and theoretically username) are optional.\nThe result of the above command will be no output (if all went ok), but a cd /SomeLocalFolderOfChoice, should produce the remote results. Please note that SomeLocalFolderofChoice must exist.\nYou can also use mount_smbfs to replace the mount -t smbfs. \n\nA: Using AppleScript is convenient because it stores your passwords in the Keychain.  Bash function:\nfunction mymount\n{\n    osascript <<EOF\nmount volume \"smb://user@fqdn1/volume1\"\nmount volume \"smb://user@fqdn2/volume2\"\nEOF\n}\n\nInvoke ‘mymount’ from bash, enter passwords via the standard Keychain popup, and if all goes well the requested volumes will be mounted in /Volumes.\n\nA: Use the open(1) command and a URL:\nopen 'smb://username:password@server/share'\n\nPros: Creates the mount point in /Volumes for you.\nCons: Requires the Finder to be running.\n\nA: You could easily achieve this using mount_smbfs (which is, actually, a wrapper for mount -t smbfs) : \nmount_smbfs //user@SERVER/folder ./mntpoint\n\nOptionally, add the workgroup :\nmount_smbfs -W workgroup //user@SERVER/folder ./mntpoint\n\nYou could, of course, change the ./mntpoint (for something like /Volumes/smb).\nAfter doing this, simply go to ./mntpoint to browse your data.\nTo unmount, using the following command : \numount ./mntpoint\n\n\nA: old post but what about mounting like this:\nsmb://no_username:password@MACHINENAME \n\nlike the time machine drives?\n\nA: Important to allow port 445 (TCP) to smb communication. If you don't access it, your firewall block it!\nYou can connect to samba use with the following commands in mac os: mount_smbfs or mount or use GUI see: open Finder click Go and select the Connect to Server menu item, type smb://yourdomain/sharedfoldername and press connect button.\n"
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        "text": "module.exports = require('./birect-client')"
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        "text": "10 май е 130-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (131-ви през високосна). Остават 235 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1525 г. – По силата на договор от Чамаси, Аграфа (днешен южен Пинд) се сдобива с автономен статут.\n 1553 г. – От Лондон потегля морска експедиция на бъдещата Московска компания, която установява северния морски път към Русия.\n 1865 г. – Гражданската война в САЩ: Джеферсън Дейвис, президент на американската Конфедерация през Гражданската война, е пленен от силите на Съюза.\n 1869 г. – Завършена е Първа презконтинентална железница, която свързва Изтока и Запада на САЩ.\n 1871 г. – Във Франкфурт е подписан френско-германски мирен договор, според който Франция губи Елзас и Лотарингия.\n 1881 г. – Коронясан е първият крал на Румъния – Карол I.\n 1909 г. – За първи път в историята в церемонията по опасването с меча на Осман участват немюсюлмани.\n 1924 г. – Едгар Хувър е назначен за директор на Федералното бюро за разследване и остава на този пост до своята смърт през 1972.\n 1933 г. – Цензура: В Германия нацисти организират мащабно изгаряне на книги.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война – начало на битката за Франция: Германия нахлува в Люксембург, Холандия и Белгия.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Невил Чембърлейн се оттегля от постта министър-председател на Обединеното кралство поради болест и официално препоръчва за свой наследник Уинстън Чърчил.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Полетът на Хес до Британия при който скача с парашут над Шотландия, в опит да осъществи мирни преговори между Великобритания и Нацистка Германия, но е задържан от британски военни като военнопленник.\n 1941 г. – Ракетоплана Месершмит 163 преодолява границата от 1000 км/ч. (1003,9 км/ч). Рекорд до 1947 г.\n 1953 г. – Трети църковно-народен събор възстановява патриаршеското достойнство на БПЦ.\n 1967 г. – Създаден е холандския футболен клуб АЗ Алкмар.\n 1994 г. – Силвио Берлускони става министър-председател на Италия за първи път.\n 1994 г. – Нелсън Мандела полага клетва като първи чернокож президент на ЮАР.\n 2000 г. – По време на церемония на Световните музикални награди принц Алберт от Монако връчва отличието „Изпълнител на хилядолетието“ на Майкъл Джаксън.\n 2007 г. – Министър-председателят на Обединеното кралство Тони Блеър обявява своето оттегляне след десет годишно заемане на поста.\n\nРодени \n\n 1727 г. – Ан Робер Жак Тюрго, френски държавник († 1781 г.)\n 1746 г. – Гаспар Монж, френски математик († 1818 г.)\n 1760 г. – Йохан Петер Хебел, немски писател и педагог († 1826 г.)\n 1770 г. – Луи Даву, френски маршал († 1823 г.)\n 1788 г. – Екатерина Павловна, кралица на Вюртемберг († 1819 г.)\n 1840 г. – Хаджи Димитър, български революционер († 1868 г.)\n 1843 г. – Бенито Перес Галдос, испански писател († 1920 г.)\n 1856 г. – Иван Урумов, български ботаник († 1937 г.)\n 1866 г. – Леон Бакст, руски художник († 1924 г.)\n 1872 г. – Марсел Мос, френски антрополог и социолог († 1950 г.)\n 1876 г. – Иван Цанкар, словенски писател († 1918 г.)\n 1878 г. – Густав Щреземан, канцлер на Германия, Нобелов лауреат († 1929 г.)\n 1879 г. – Симон Петлюра, президент на Украйна († 1926 г.)\n 1885 г. – Фриц фон Унру, немски писател и художник († 1970 г.)\n 1887 г. – Борис Бръняков, български военен деец\n 1890 г. – Алфред Йодл, германски офицер († 1946 г.)\n 1899 г. – Фред Астер, американски певец, актьор и танцьор († 1987 г.)\n 1901 г. – Джон Дезмънд Бернал, ирландски физик († 1971 г.)\n 1905 г. – Маркос Вамвакарис, гръцки музикант († 1972 г.)\n 1910 г. – Ерик Берн, американски психолог († 1970 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джордж Смит, американски учен, Нобелов лауреат\n 1931 г. – Георги Караманев, български политик и общественик († 2021 г.)\n 1931 г. – Еторе Скола, италиански кинорежисьор († 2016 г.)\n 1938 г. – Марина Влади, френска актриса, певица и писателка\n 1946 г. – Виктор Самуилов, български писател, преводач, сценарист и карикатурист\n 1948 г. – Янина Мишчукайте, литовска певица († 2008 г.)\n 1955 г. – Александър Друз, руски тв водещ\n 1955 г. – Марк Дейвид Чапман, американски престъпник\n 1956 г. – Владислав Листев, телевизионен водещ († 1995 г.)\n 1957 г. – Сид Вишъс, английски басист (Sex Pistols) († 1979 г.)\n 1958 г. – Елен Очоа, американска астронавтка\n 1959 г. – Георги Коритаров, български журналист († 2021 г.)\n 1960 г. – Боно, ирландски музикант (U2)\n 1962 г. – Дейвид Финчър, американски режисьор\n 1965 г. – Линда Еванджелиста, канадски фотомодел\n 1966 г. – Илиян Джевелеков, български режисьор и сценарист\n 1967 г. – Боб Синклер, френски DJ\n 1969 г. – Денис Бергкамп, холандски футболист\n 1970 г. – Далас Робъртс, американски актьор\n 1971 г. – Ким Чен Нам, син на севернокорейския лидер Ким Чен Ир († 2017 г.)\n 1973 г. – Людмила Даскалова, българска актриса\n 1974 г. – Ралица Ангелова, български политик и юрист\n 1977 г. – Ник Хайдфелд, германски пилот от Формула 1\n 1981 г. – Петер Ач, унгарски шахматист\n 2000 г. – Даниел Върбанов, български актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1641 г. – Юхан Банер, шведски пълководец (* 1596 г.)\n 1707 г. – Йохан Ернст III, немски аристократ (* 1664 г.)\n 1774 г. – Луи XV, крал на Франция (* 1710 г.)\n 1794 г. – Елизабет Френска, френска принцеса (* 1764 г.)\n 1798 г. – Джордж Ванкувър, английски изследовател (* 1757 г.)\n 1829 г. – Томас Йънг, английски физик (* 1773 г.)\n 1838 г. – Хайнрих Маркс, пруски адвокат, баща на Карл Маркс (* 1777 г.)\n 1849 г. – Хокусай, художник и гравьор (* 1760 г.)\n 1863 г. – Томас Стоунуол Джаксън, генерал от Армията на Конфедерацията (* 1824 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Обретенов, български революционер (* след 1849)\n 1876 г. – Иларион Драгостинов, български революционер (* ок. 1852)\n 1904 г. – Хенри Мортън Стенли, уелско-американски пътешественик (* 1841 г.)\n 1925 г. – Христо Ясенов, български писател (* 1889 г.)\n 1951 г. – Никола Мушанов, министър-председател на България (* 1872 г.)\n 1958 г. – Иван Велков, български археолог (* 1891 г.)\n 1964 г. – Михаил Ларионов, руски художник (* 1881 г.)\n 1967 г. – Лоренцо Бандини, италиански пилот от Ф1 (* 1935 г.)\n 1968 г. – Василий Соколовски, съветски маршал (* 1897 г.)\n 1977 г. – Джоан Крофорд, американска актриса (* 1905 г.)\n 1979 г. – Антун Аугустинчич, хърватски скулптор (* 1900 г.)\n 1982 г. – Петер Вайс, немски писател (* 1916 г.)\n 1997 г. – Златка Дъбова, българска художничка (* 1927 г.)\n 2008 г. – Атанас Агура, български архитект (* 1926 г.)\n 2008 г. – Джесика Джейкъбс, австралийска актриса (* 1990 г.)\n 2012 г. – Петко Йовчев, български архитект (* 1955 г.)\n\nПразници \n Бахрейн, Хонконг, Индия, Малайзия, Мексико, Салвадор, Гватемала, Никарагуа, Оман, Пакистан, Катар, Саудитска Арабия, Сингапур, Обединени Арабски Емирства – Ден на майката\n Германия – Ден на книгата\n Микронезия – Ден на конституцията (1979 г., национален празник)\n Тайланд – Ден на хлебаря\n България – Професионален празник на химика (от 2001 г.)\n\n510"
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        "text": "Better Building Blueprint is a proven, step-by-step process that shows you exactly how to prepare for a building project.\nIt enables you to quickly prepare, test and verify your brief and your budget, PLUS who should take responsibility for each aspect of the project. …All before you commit to engaging an architect.\nGet the behind-the-scenes strategies used to trigger success in some of the most successful low energy building projects in the world.\nUNLOCK THIS 3-STEP FORMULA AND MASTER THE SECRETS OF CREATING A GREAT HOME, WORKPLACE AND COMMUNITY FAMILIES LIKE YOURS WILL LOVE AND ENJOY.\n- Simply Sign-Up and Watch.\nAs your architect LEAP uses a tried and tested design process. This not only makes the whole design and construction process feel effortless, but also reduces stress and helps you to find more time …so you can do the things you know, love and enjoy.\nWith a track record for creating some of the world’s most comfortable, healthy, sustainable, low energy and low maintenance buildings LEAP specialises in delivering tailor made buildings that suit your needs and desires.\nBetter Building Blueprint is a proven, step-by-step process that shows you exactly how to prepare for a building project - - it may be your house, your workplace or the creation of a new community. Whether you intend to start a new build, convert, retrofit, refurbish or extend the Better Building Blueprint enables you to quickly prepare, test and verify your brief, your budget so that you can manage and eliminate risk. …All before you engage an architect.\nPLUS it shows you exactly what to do every step of the way right down to who should take responsibility for which aspects of the project.\nThe Site Suitability Audit is a proprietary 14 point audit that will help you determine whether or not you should invest in a site.\nThe Architectural Concierge program oversees all of the transaction details, from beginning until handover, so that you don't have to. This makes the whole design and construction process feel effortless, which means you not only simplify your life, but because life is easier when you are able to keep on top of the challenges, you also get to sleep well at night. PLUS, you don't waste your time and your money reinventing the wheel while less the experienced spend time learning at your expense.\nMay be you are feeling stuck, or perhaps you are considering what you should do next. Is the building worth refurbishing? Would an extension give you the room you need, or could some simple re-planning of the room layout solve your problems? …maybe you’d be better off moving?\nIf you are based in the North East then book a free 15 minute call and make use of Mark's knowledge and experience.\nPerhaps you’re looking for some free friendly advice about what to do next, or maybe you don’t even know where to start. Should you buy land, determine your budget, or do more research? Tap into Mark's knowledge and experience for half an hour in a comfortable environment. He's helped lots of people get to the next step …and he's here for you too.\nGetting free reliable trustworthy advice can be a challenge. These weekly events help you develop dispel uncertainty about your building project. At these interactive training sessions we discuss ways to get your project underway, how to get funding, the mistakes to avoid and challenges that need to be overcome. The Q&A sessions give you the chance to ask questions, get answers and tap into my knowledge and experience.\nJoin me for a special 1-hour tour some of the North East’s most unique self-build homes. The “Daily Tour of Homes” is a great way for you to figure out what kind of home you want, what's right for you, and what’s available in your price range. Discover what feels like to live or work in a Passivhaus, find out the thought process that's used to design a house - including the challenges and obstacles that have to be overcome. PLUS get the chance to ask me questions and to tap into my experience.\nIf your building project is to succeed then learning from successes and failures of other building projects is absolutely vital. The best way to gain an appreciation of building is to visit it, experience it, and to speak to the owners, occupiers, designers and builders. Of course this is not always possible. The second best way to do this is to learn from detailed case studies.\nWhether it is a bespoke home, a new community, a community building or a workplace Passivhaus Mastery is the first place to find hyper-relevant guides and information that can help you get a Passivhaus project started.\nLooking for land in the North East and want to know how to find a suitable plot? Do you want a list scheduling land for sale in your area? Uncertain how much it will cost to build a house in the North East? Or perhaps you are concerned about how to fund your project. All this information, and more, can be found at Self Build Secrets.\nDesigning and constructing a building is probably the largest investment that you will ever make, however, few of us have direct experience of what that process is. Fewer still know how to maximise the upside and minimise the downside. In this guide you will discover a simple 7 step process that will help you to navigate your way through your project and enable you to avoid the pitfalls that could impact upon your project.\nThis case study demonstrates, in precise detail, how to analyse a site and assess a project’s viability. PLUS it shows you how land value can be determined, a technique for determining the build cost, how to establish the maximum size of building that you can afford, the kinds of constraints that the planning authority can impose, how to assess the development potential of a site, how much parking you will need, how long your project will take to finish …and much more."
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        "text": "Phony Muslim refugees find northern Europe COLD and streets not paved with gold!\nby 1389 on January 2, 2016\nin 1389 (blog admin), European Union, Iraq, phony refugees, Sweden\nThe same holds true of most of the US and all of Canada.\nBig mistake letting any of them in to begin with.\nStars and Stripes: Unhappy in Europe, some Iraqis return home\nBAGHDAD — At 25, Faisal Uday Faisal had high expectations when he packed his bags for Europe in September.\nAfter quitting his job making tea and cleaning for the Ministry of Education in Baghdad, he set off to Turkey to join more than a million refugees and migrants who have made their way to the continent in the past year.\n“My dream since I was a child was to go to Europe,” he said. “I was imagining a beautiful life, a secure life, with an apartment and a salary.”\nBut despite a grueling month-long journey to Sweden, he came back home – one of a surging number of returnees, Iraqi and international authorities say. The International Organization for Migration says it helped 779 Iraqis come back from Europe voluntarily in November, more than double the previous month, and those figures don’t include people such as Faisal, who returned on his own.\nSome have chosen to leave because they were confused about the asylum process, disillusioned with the lack of opportunities or homesick, while others were forced to go when their asylum claims were rejected.\n“It was a boring life there, their food even a cat wouldn’t eat it,” Faisal said of his two months in an asylum center near the Swedish city of Malmo. “I went to Europe and discovered Europe is just an idea. Really, it’s just like Bab al-Sharji,” he said, referring to a Baghdad market neighborhood.\nWhile some who come back of their own volition may not have been fleeing danger in the first place, aid agencies warn that legitimate asylum seekers are also being discouraged as Europe becomes less welcoming to newcomers and tries to tighten its borders. Finland and Belgium are among the countries that have warned arrivals from Baghdad that they won’t automatically receive asylum.\nFaisal concedes that he left for economic reasons, the kind of asylum applicant European authorities are trying to sift out from those fleeing violence. He said he decided to “arrange a story” about being threatened by Iraqi militias. “If I was in danger, I wouldn’t have come back,” he said.\nFaisal begged his father, who had already spent $8,000 on sending his sons to Europe, to send money so he could come home. “He missed the services here. At home everything is done for him,” said Faisal’s father, Uday Faisal Mohee.\n“The problem is, the words Europe or America has such magic for the young people. This one is still affected even though he knows the reality,” he said, pointing to his younger son, who returned to Iraq after being detained in Turkey en route but still wishes to try again.\n“There are thousands of Iraqis who have come back, and thousands more that want to,” said Sattar Nowruz, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement. Iraqi embassies in Europe are scrambling to provide emergency travel documents for those travelling back.\nPrevious post: Who tracks US visa violators?\nNext post: Orthodox Christian Nativity Kontakion in different languages"
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        "text": "Sun Country Airlines Announces Two New Routes to Gulfport\nSun Country Airlines announced the addition of two new seasonal routes to Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida.\n“We’re excited to add these routes to our network and bring more passengers to experience this great leisure destination, a premier area for casino gaming that also boasts miles of beaches and beautiful golf courses,” said Chief Commercial Officer Ted Botimer. “Our focus on low fares and customer service has been a great fit for tourists visiting this market and we look forward to our continued partnership with the Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport Authority.”\n“We appreciate the expanded partnership with Sun Country Airlines and look forward to having service to these rapidly growing markets,” said Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport Executive Director Clay Williams. “Both Austin and Fort Myers are unique and exciting destinations for local residents to enjoy, and we are extremely grateful for the convenient air travel option for visitors to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.””\n“When visitors experience Mississippi’s hospitality, they want to return again and again, which is why tourism is an important economic sector for our state,” Lieutenant Gov. Tate Reeves said. “I appreciate the work of Sun Country, airport and community leaders to expand options for both Mississippians and travelers who want to see our beautiful Gulf Coast.”\n“Sun Country Airlines’ expansion into Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport is great news for the Mississippi Gulf Coast and our state as a whole,” said Mississippi Development Authority Executive Director Glenn McCullough. “It serves as a testament to the world-class food, culture and hospitality for which Mississippi is known around the world. Thanks to the airport and their partners for their hard work and leadership to make today’s announcement a reality.”\nSun Country has experienced record growth over the past year and recently announced the largest network expansion in company history.\nThe airline first added new routes beyond its home base of Minneapolis/St. Paul in June 2018, bringing on service from Dallas/Fort Worth, Madison, Wisconsin, Portland, Oregon and St. Louis, which brought the network at the time from 53 to 64 nonstop routes. Nashville, Tennessee was added in August 2018, and the airline now operates a total of 87 routes across 52 airports, which marks a nearly 40 percent growth in routes since June 2018.\nRelated Items:Sun Country Airlines\nSun Country Airlines Adds Nonstop Services to Belize and St. Kitts & Nevis\nFunds Managed by Affiliates of Apollo Global Management to Acquire Sun Country Airlines\nSun Country Airlines Appoints New President And CEO"
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        "text": "Frogs etc. - Jasper Oostland\nIt is a series of brightly coloured cards depicting a variety of animals, which have been attracting my attention for a while. Each has its own story, and is illustrated to incorporate realism, in the accuracy of their detailed rendering, plus a hint of the world of cartoon in their personification. Although frogs seem to be in the majority, it is the card with a bird wearing a top hat tilted at a rakish angle, that becomes the deciding factor in my contacting the artist; beady eyes, long pointy beak and an intense stare invite the viewer to choose one of the three upturned cups on the table in front of the bird, in a gamble, to reveal what’s hiding underneath.\nThese are the creations of artist Jasper Oostland who lives and works in Groningen. I arrive at his house on a rare sunny day in June; a house filled with large windows, which results in an overall bright, airy feel, and is the perfect residence for an artist. With his studio situated in the attic, we head upstairs. White walls, windows on two sides, jars filled with brushes awaiting action, and enormous pots of acrylic paint stand resolutely on a table. Nearby, is an easel with his latest work in progress; there’s a lot of bright pink happening in this work, and from the outlines I can just make out a car and a flamingo. The easel has an ingenious feature - the addition of a rotary centre. This allows the current work to be turned a full 360 degrees, allowing complete ease of access to the entire picture whilst it is worked upon.\nA former student of the art school, Minerva, in Groningen, Jasper studied illustration with an emphasis on technique. Studying the use of light, its source and application, is an important part in creating the 3-D realism of the animals. To my question about his colour usage, he says it is something that he uses intuitively. Each work starts with a wash of background colour upon which the animals are brought to life through a series of painted layers progressing from dark to light. As he talks he passes me an amazingly detailed picture of a large grey rhino, standing wistfully next to a delicate pink rose in a glass vase. The equally bright pink background is one of his experiments; in this case how to make pink work on pink. Other little tricks and details he puts in his work are expressly done to leave something for the viewer to discover.\nThe abundance of frogs in his work, often in everyday situations, leads me to ask firstly, if he is the frog, and secondly, if the variety of situations the frog finds himself in, is maybe a tongue in cheek social comment. To the former he says he is not as far as he is aware the frog, although sometimes according to his girlfriend, he can have a particular stance or expression that reminds her of a frog. As for a deep and meaningful message or social comment, he says there isn’t one, he likes frogs, and in particular tree frogs because they have a lot of character; they have great hands with padded fingers that can hold things and expressive eyes.\nWhen it comes to inspiration he researches photos in books or images from the Internet, for the accurate depiction he needs. As for what comes first, it is more or less spontaneous - sometimes it’s the animal and sometimes the object. Ideas also come from association or a particular pose, and these are worked out further in a sketchbook.\nThese days it is very important for artists to be active with self-promotion if they want public attention. Jasper seems to have this under control: he has an up to date website; makes use of social media (find him on Facebook); exhibits regularly; sells work online – both originals and giclées; uses Chat Roulette, a website where you can watch him paint live. Also, by every exhibition he places a large pile of cards depicting one of his works and including his contact details. As he says: “People keep them and pin them up.” This continual visibility has led to 20% of his work being commission based, and, as a result he finds himself in the enviable position of having enough work for a year.\nWhen asked if he has any dreams for the future, he says that at the moment he is quite happy with the status quo, but maybe a book, a little more structured organization of his business as a whole, and, as the father of two young daughters under five, a little more sleep wouldn’t go amiss.\nIf you would like to see Jasper’s work, why not visit the library in Groningen, where he is currently exhibiting a selection of works. It runs from 5th September 2012 to 4th January 2013.\nFirst published in the Connections magazine #37 Autumn 2012\nLabels: animals, artist interview, commission, exhibition, frogs, Groningen, illustration, Jasper Oostland, paint, paintbrushes, painting\nForced to Fly"
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        "text": "UH Habitat for Humanity designs 'ultimate playhouse'\nKatie McEvily\nA playhouse would have been a unique addition to this year's Frontier Fiesta, but a lack of funds has put a damper on the festivities.\nSince last semester, the University of Houston Habitat for Humanity has worked on designs for an ultimate play space. This playhouse was meant to be constructed for display at Frontier Fiesta, where interested buyers could bid on it during a silent auction.\nWith only a week left to build and still no resources, however, Habitat was forced to change its plans.\n\"It didn't happen because we'd been looking for donations, and kind of surprisingly, we didn't get any,\" said Habitat president Damola Osinulu. \"It would have been really great if we had been able to build it, but we really had no funds. Simply because of the nature of the organization, we have to rely on other people to fund us.\"\nThe idea for a playhouse came about after the Architecture Alumni Association approached Habitat for volunteers on its second annual Archis' Icehouse at Frontier Fiesta. In return for contributing time and manpower to the festival booth, Habitat could promote its mission to the entire campus and possibly raise money for future projects.\n\"We've been looking for a way to get more UH students involved in (Habitat) activities, not just architecture students,\" Osinulu said. \"I think there is room for improvement among the UH community.\"\nThe playhouse was also intended as a way to make Frontier Fiesta a more family-oriented affair.\n\"When you think about it, a lot of UH students are actually people with children,\" Osinulu added. \"We thought this was a great way to have something for the kids.\"\nThe group of committed volunteer designers wanted their concept of the ultimate playhouse to be fresh and inventive.\nThe first schematic design centered around a reconfigureable system. Moveable components could be added or subtracted according to the size of the owner's backyard or the age of the child. Osinulu said the whole idea was that the play station wouldn't be a set system, but rather a system that could grow and change with a child's growth.\nBased on a 9-foot cubic area surrounding the playhouse, final plans incorporated all the desired flexibility in a framework of four inch, by four inch, by 10 foot wood posts.\nA treehouse would top off the play area. From there a child could explore other elements like crawling through a tube, climbing a cargo net, exiting on a slide or bobbing on a see-saw. The entire structure would also be set within a sandbox, again accommodating different age groups. As with any project, Habitat dealt with endless design possibilities.\n\"We had enough to start building, but a lot of the discovery, I think, would have been while we were building,\" Osinulu said. \"But that's part of the fun. After all, it was also supposed to be a fun project for Habitat members.\"\nSeeking donations from local lumberyards proved unsuccessful for the group. Osinulu admitted the budget was a bit too high, but certain factors could not be ignored. For instance, the necessary posts for construction had to be weather-treated, a more expensive type of wood.\nDespite the contribution setbacks, Habitat has completed the designs and will be displaying them at Archis' Icehouse. Following earlier plans to auction the playhouse, a computer-rendered model and ink drawings will be set up for those wishing to make a silent bid.\nOsinulu said the change in plans could not have worked out any better for the organization. From the sale, Habitat will keep the leftover funds to expand membership and avoid future predicaments that retard construction efforts. And until there is a buyer, deadline pressure is no longer an issue.\n\"Now we won't have to rush through the work,\" Osinulu said. \"It's a fun experience, not just a tedious exercise.\""
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        "text": "Q: What are some useful ways to use Automator? I've been using OS X for 3 generations of the OS already (Tiger --> Leopard --> SL) but haven't really ventured in using Automator much.\nWhat are the best ways to use Automator? (Best uses, time savers, etc.)\n\nA: I made an automator script that mounted my encrypted sparsebundle and then displayed it in a Finder window.\nI saved it as a service and then access it with a option + command + L.\nIts a quick way to get access to my super sensitive files while still requiring a password.\n\n\nA: I use it to turn the text of web pages, books, essays, etc. into audio files that I can listen to on my iPod.\n\nJust open the text file that you would like to have read to audio in TextEdit (making sure that it is frontmost in the application) and set this thing to running.\nHere are two more related notes: \n\n\n*\n\n*The output is aiff (though the image above shows mp3), and at the point that I last read the Apple Mac OS X terms, and …\n\n*The use of the text-to-speech feature is exclusively limited to personal use.\n\n\nA: Use it to whip up a quick bulk file-renamer:\n\nSee 2 Ways to Batch Rename Files in OS X for a complete walkthrough.\n\nA: I use automator to convert graphics files to PNG format, a task I often need.\nI use Preview.app's action in automator to export file(s) in Finder to PNG.\nIt doesn't require to open Preview and then save the files one-by-one.\n\nA: My DSLR pictures get rejected by craigslist for being to big to upload.  I created a task to easily scale down pictures prior to uploading.  Saves me several minutes every once in a while...\n\nA: Automator helps you automate (pun intended) repetitive actions without requiring programming knowledge.\nThe basic building blocks of Automator are Actions. Each Action does a sigle task, that may take an input and produce an output. Automator lets you create a sequence of Actions, called Workflow. If you are familiar with UNIX it's like a UI for pipes.\nHere is an Automator Workflow I use a lot, especially for downloading lecture notes in PDF from my professors' sites:\n\nCreating Services is another feature I find useful.\nAlso, you can combine the power of AppleScript with the simplicity of Automator with the \"Run AppleScript\" Action.\nAs an example of both techniques, you can check out this service that opens the source of the current Safari page in TextMate.\nIf you need more information about Automator check this Mac 101 article.\nIf you are a developer and want to create new Actions or need more insight into Automator, check out this guide and the Apple's developer documentation.\n\nA: I use it to automatically import photos from the camera uploads folder in dropbox into iPhoto then delete the photo from the dropbox folder.\nBehing this I use appwolf to automatically copy files from my other halfs dropbox camera uploads folder into a shared dropbox photo folder, then have automator run the same iPhoto import script on this shared folder too.\nTime Machine backs up , and added to this automator copies the iPhoto database file to a Windows folder inside parallels desktop, this folder then gets backed up by carbonate backup into the cloud.\nThe result is we never run out of space on dropbox and all our photos are automatically imported into iPhoto from both our phones and backed up by time machine locally, and, should the house burn down/get robbed to the cloud via carbonate. All this happens with complete autonomy.\n"
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        "text": "11 май е 131-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (132-ри през високосна). Остават 234 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 330 г. – Столицата на Римската империя се премества от Рим в Константинопол.\n 912 г. – Александър става старши император на Византийската империя, делейки престола с Константин VII Багрянородни, непълнолетния син на Лъв VI Философ\n 1310 г. – 54 тамплиери са изгорени на клада във Франция, обвинени в ерес.\n 1502 г. – Христофор Колумб потегля на своята четвърта и последна експедиция до Западните Индии.\n 1858 г. – Минесота става 32-рият американски щат.\n 1867 г. – Люксембург придобива независимост.\n 1895 г. – Построена и осветена е църквата „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“ в Миладиновци (Област Ямбол).\n 1927 г. – Основана Академията на филмовите изкуства и науки на САЩ, виж „Оскари“\n 1913 г. – железопътна катастрофа в Бук в днешна Гърция със 150 загинали и 200 ранени.\n 1949 г. – Сиам официално променя името си отново на Тайланд – име, което се използва от 1939 г. до 1945 г.\n 1949 г. – Израел става член на ООН.\n 1967 г. – Англия, Дания и Република Ирландия подават молба за членство в Европейската икономическа общност.\n 1995 г. – В Ню Йорк, повече от 170 държави достигат до съгласие да удължат неограничено и без условия Договора за неразпространение на ядрените оръжия.\n 1997 г. – Шахматният суперкомпютър на IBM Deep Blue спечелва последната игра от реванша на Гари Каспаров и става първият компютър, който побеждава световен шампион по шахмат в директна среща.\n 2011 г. – Открит е футболният стадион Ахмат Кадиров в град Грозни.\n\nРодени \n\n 483 г. – Юстиниан I, византийски император († 565 г.)\n 1733 г. – Виктоар Френска, френска благородничка († 1799 г.)\n 1752 г. – Йохан Фридрих Блуменбах, германски биолог († 1840 г.)\n 1840 г. – Стефан Караджа, български революционер († 1868 г.)\n 1855 г. – Анатолий Лядов, руски композитор, диригент и музикален педагог († 1914 г.)\n 1864 г. – Етел Лилиан Войнич, британска писателка († 1960 г.)\n 1876 г. – Никола Станимиров, български военен деец († 1962 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Гиргинов, български политик († 1953 г.)\n 1885 г. – Станислав Крайовски, български военен деец († 1955 г.)\n 1894 г. – Марта Греъм, американска танцьорка († 1991 г.)\n 1900 г. – Александър Шеманский, руски оперен певец († 1976 г.)\n 1901 г. – Розе Ауслендер, австрийска поетеса († 1988 г.)\n 1902 г. – Кирил Москаленко, съветски маршал († 1985 г.)\n 1904 г. – Салвадор Дали, испански художник († 1989 г.)\n 1916 г. – Камило Хосе Села, испански писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1989 († 2002 г.)\n 1918 г. – Ричард Файнман, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 († 1988 г.)\n 1924 г. – Димитър Станишев, български партизанин и политик († 2000 г.)\n 1924 г. – Антъни Хюиш, британски астроном, Нобелов лауреат през 1974 г. († 2021 г.)\n 1933 г. – Зоран Радмилович, сръбски актьор († 1985 г.)\n 1940 г. – Иван Славков, български спортен функционер († 2011 г.)\n 1943 г. – Ян Енглерт, полски актьор\n 1947 г. – Маргарит Минков, български писател († 1997 г.)\n 1950 г. – Джереми Паксман, британски журналист\n 1954 г. – Любомир Стойков, български журналист и културолог\n 1963 г. – Наташа Ричардсън, британска актриса († 2009 г.)\n 1964 г. – Джон Парот, английски играч на снукър\n 1965 г. – Стефано Доменикали, спортен директор на Ферари\n 1966 г. – Кристоф Шнайдер, германски барабанист (Rammstein)\n 1970 г. – Ева Менасе, австрийска писателка\n 1973 г. – Алексей Александров, беларуски шахматист\n 1974 г. – Миа Сантова, българска журналистка, телевизионна водеща\n 1978 г. – Летисия Каста, френски фотомодел и актриса\n 1979 г. – Гюнер Ахмед, български политик и адвокат\n 1981 г. – Лорън Джаксън, австралийска баскетболистка\n 1982 г. – Кори Монтийт, канадски актьор и музикант († 2013 г.)\n 1986 г. – Абу Диаби, френски футболист\n 1992 г. – Тибо Куртоа, белгийски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 912 г. – Лъв VI Философ, византийски император (* 866 г.)\n\n 1778 г. – Уилям Пит-старши, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1708 г.)\n 1849 г. – Ото Николай, пруски композитор (* 1810 г.)\n 1853 г. – Никита Бичурин, руски китаист (* 1777 г.)\n 1871 г. – Сър Джон Хершел, британски астроном, открил близо 500 непознати съзвездия и звездни купове (* 1792 г.)\n 1915 г. – Йозеф Шмаха, български актьор, режисьор и педагог (* 1848 г.)\n 1916 г. – Карл Шварцшилд, германски физик (* 1873 г.)\n 1944 г. – Макс Уле, германски археолог (* 1856 г.)\n 1976 г. – Алвар Аалто, финландски архитект (* 1898 г.)\n 1981 г. – Боб Марли, ямайски реге певец и музикант (* 1945 г.)\n\n 1990 г. – Венедикт Ерофеев, руски писател (* 1938 г.)\n 2001 г. – Дъглас Адамс, английски писател (* 1952 г.)\n 2003 г. – Ноуъл Рединг, британски китарист (* 1945 г.)\n 2006 г. – Флойд Патерсън, американски боксьор (* 1935 г.)\n\nПразници \n Ден на град Ловеч\n Ден на град Шумен\n Лаос – Ден на конституцията\n Ден на библиотекаря\n Световен ден на молитвата\n Ден на Константинопол (Преди превземането му)\n Празник на Св. св. Кирил и Методий, честван за първи път в Пловдив през 1851 по инициатива на Найден Геров и Пловдивското епархийско класно училище\n\n511"
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        "text": "Minutes of the One Hundredth Annual Convention\nREPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON\nSTEWARDSHIP EDUCATION\nDR. Leonard Kendall, President of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference:\nThe Commission on Stewardship Education continued through the past year\nwith the same organization as the previous year-Mr. Edmund Lienke, chairman,\nand Rev. G. Adolph Johns, secretary. Mr. Rodney 0. Davis continued to render\nassistance on a part time basis until October 15, 1957, when the new Minnesota\nConference Director of Stewardship Education and Finance, Rev. Thomas Wersell,\nassumed his duties.\nThe Commission conducted a workshop, April 26 to 28, 1957, just prior to\nthe last Conference meeting. Forty-three District and Area Counsellors attended\nthe meetings which were concerned primarily w'ith planning for a year around\nstewardship program at the congregational level.\nIn place of a Conference workshop in the fall, the Commission voted that\nworkshops should be encouraged on the District level. The following Districts\nparticipated in such workshops: Sioux Falls, Big Stone, St. James, Willmar,\nCokato, Mille Lacs, Apple River, and Iron Range.\nAt its October meeting, the Commission voted to sponsor three regional work­shops\nin the spring of 1958, with the details to be arranged by the new Director.\nThe final report on the Stewardship Evaluation Forms showed one hundred\nand sixty-four responses. Of those responding, forty-five had used Augustana's\nRevised E. M. V. Plan in 1956 with an average increase of 37.7 per cent. The\naverage increase for the remainder was 6.2 per cent.\nThe Commission has also gone on record recognizing the desirability of\ncongregations making a corporate pledge on a proportionate basis to parish\nextension, thereby eliminating the need of allocations. Such a step will require\nmore extensive education of all who are involved, but it will also, the Commission\nbelieves, bring all of the individuals who make up the congregations of the Minne­sota\nConference into a more direct relationship with the benevolence work of\nthe Conference and the Church.\nThe Commission noted with gratitude the assumption of his duties by the\nnew Director of Stewardship Education and Finance. It joins with what it knows\nto be the prayers of all-that through the grace of God and the efforts of this new\nservant of the Conference, we may all be enabled to do more fully the work of our\nMaster.\nRODNEY 0. DAVIS for The Commission on Stewardship Education\nTitle Minutes of the One Hundredth Annual Convention\nTranscript REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON STEWARDSHIP EDUCATION DR. Leonard Kendall, President of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference: 67 The Commission on Stewardship Education continued through the past year with the same organization as the previous year-Mr. Edmund Lienke, chairman, and Rev. G. Adolph Johns, secretary. Mr. Rodney 0. Davis continued to render assistance on a part time basis until October 15, 1957, when the new Minnesota Conference Director of Stewardship Education and Finance, Rev. Thomas Wersell, assumed his duties. The Commission conducted a workshop, April 26 to 28, 1957, just prior to the last Conference meeting. Forty-three District and Area Counsellors attended the meetings which were concerned primarily w'ith planning for a year around stewardship program at the congregational level. In place of a Conference workshop in the fall, the Commission voted that workshops should be encouraged on the District level. The following Districts participated in such workshops: Sioux Falls, Big Stone, St. James, Willmar, Cokato, Mille Lacs, Apple River, and Iron Range. At its October meeting, the Commission voted to sponsor three regional work­shops in the spring of 1958, with the details to be arranged by the new Director. The final report on the Stewardship Evaluation Forms showed one hundred and sixty-four responses. Of those responding, forty-five had used Augustana's Revised E. M. V. Plan in 1956 with an average increase of 37.7 per cent. The average increase for the remainder was 6.2 per cent. The Commission has also gone on record recognizing the desirability of congregations making a corporate pledge on a proportionate basis to parish extension, thereby eliminating the need of allocations. Such a step will require more extensive education of all who are involved, but it will also, the Commission believes, bring all of the individuals who make up the congregations of the Minne­sota Conference into a more direct relationship with the benevolence work of the Conference and the Church. The Commission noted with gratitude the assumption of his duties by the new Director of Stewardship Education and Finance. It joins with what it knows to be the prayers of all-that through the grace of God and the efforts of this new servant of the Conference, we may all be enabled to do more fully the work of our Master. RODNEY 0. DAVIS for The Commission on Stewardship Education"
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        "text": "home > Ngorongoro crater\nLake Eyasi\nOldonyo Lengai\nThe Ngorongoro Conservation Area stretches from the Crater Highlands up to the Serengeti and the northern shore of Lake Eyasi. The Ngorongoro Crater was created by the same volcanic movements which also formed the Great Rift Valley, was once as high as Mount Kilimanjaro. Approximately 3 million years ago Ngorongoro erupted, covering the Serengeti with ash, leaving a large crater in the centre of the mountain. The Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact caldera in the world, with a diameter of about 18 km and an area of 260 km2. The steep crater ridge is more than 600m at its highest point.\nThe crater floor is an earthly paradise and, with about 30,000 animals, one of the most populous wildlife areas in the world. Because the area is enclosed and the flat crater floor is mainly open grassland, it is easy to manage, with the result that it is a stronghold of endangered species, including the black rhino and the cheetah. There are no giraffes, topi or impala in the crater. These animals find the rocky areas too difficult to use and there is insufficient grass for large herds of antelope. The main prey animals are wildebeest, zebra and buffalo and the main predators are the lions and spotted hyenas. In the open savannah a hunt can be followed quite easily, and is especially interesting as it seems that in Ngorongoro, contrary to what one might expect, the hyenas are the aggressive hunters and the lions are the carrion eaters. Lake Magadi, located in the southwest, is a large shallow soda lake where countless flamingos and other water fowl live alongside the hippopotamuses.\nMagnificent as it is, the Ngorongoro Crater is only a small fragment of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and among the areas other attractions are two lesser-known craters, Olmoti and Empakaai. The added attraction of visiting these craters is that you can either walk or drive all the way to the foot of Olmoti, or the rim of Empakaai. Olmoti rises to 3073m at its western rim, which can be reached by walking through bush and grassy tussocks often bedecked with flowers. An additional highlight of the area is the Munge Falls, which flow through a cleft on the Crater’s southern side. The stream cascades down steep cliffs, hundreds of metres into a ravine.\nFrom the edge of the crater the road twists downwards towards the Serengeti through rolling grass plains and acacia forests. About 30 kilometres from the crater, there is a narrow road to the Olduvai Gorge. At the site of the gorge, which is approximately 90 metres deep, there was once a lake. Over the years, the lake was covered with thick layers of volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of early humanity. To be so close to where mankind may have begun is an inspiring experience, especially when you see the famous Laetoli footprints, made by early humans some 3.6 million years ago."
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    {
        "text": "12 май е 132-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (133-ти през високосна). Остават 233 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 254 г. – Папа Стефан I наследява папа Луций I като 23-ти папа.\n 1364 г. – В Краков, Полша, е основан най-старият полски университет – Ягелонския.\n 1551 г. – В Лима, Перу, е основан Националният университет Сан Маркос – най-старият университет в Америка.\n 1876 г. – В Тетевенския Балкан при засада е убит Георги Бенковски, един от водачите на Априлското въстание.\n 1881 г. – В Северна Африка, Тунис става френски протекторат.\n 1926 г. – Норвежецът Руал Амундсен, италианецът Умберто Нобиле и американецът Линкълн Елсуърт прекосяват Северния полюс с аероплан.\n 1937 г. – Джордж VI и Елизабет Боуз-Лайън са коронясани за крал и кралица на Обединеното кралство на Великобритания и Северна Ирландия.\n 1945 г. – Влиза в сила наредбата закон за гражданския брак.\n 1949 г. – Студената война: Съветският съюз вдига Берлинската блокада.\n 1957 г. – Българският спортен тотализатор започва своята дейност с игра на СПОРТ ТОТО 1.\n 1965 г. – Съветският космически апарат Луна 5 се разбива на Луната.\n 2001 г. – За първи път се излъчва шоуто „Стани богат“.\n 2008 г. – При Земетресение в Съчуан, Китай, загиват повече от 69 хил. души, други 374 хил. са ранени, а около 4,8 милиона стават бездомни.\n\nРодени \n\n 1496 г. – Густав I, крал на Швеция († 1560 г.)\n 1590 г. – Козимо II Медичи, велик херцог на Тоскана († 1621 г.)\n 1670 г. – Август II, крал на Полша († 1733 г.)\n 1803 г. – Юстус фон Либих, германски химик († 1873 г.)\n 1815 г. – Анастасия Димитрова, българска учителка († 1894 г.)\n 1820 г. – Флорънс Найтингейл, английска медицинска сестра († 1910 г.)\n 1828 г. – Данте Габриел Росети, английски поет, преводач и живописец († 1882 г.)\n 1830 г. – Алексей Саврасов, руски художник-пейзажист, передвижник († 1897 г.)\n 1842 г. – Жул Масне, френски композитор († 1912 г.)\n 1895 г. – Джиду Кришнамурти, индийски философ († 1986 г.)\n 1900 г. – Хелене Вайгел, германска актриса († 1971 г.)\n 1907 г. – Катрин Хепбърн, американска актриса († 2003 г.)\n 1910 г. – Джулиета Симионато, италианска оперна певица († 2010 г.)\n 1919 г. – Дейвид Маунтбатън, трети маркиз на Милфорд Хейвън († 1970 г.)\n 1921 г. – Йозеф Бойс, германски художник († 1986 г.)\n 1924 г. – Кларибел Алегрия, салвадорска писателка († 2018 г.)\n 1933 г. – Андрей Вознесенски, руски поет († 2010 г.)\n 1933 г. – Кръстьо Станишев, български поет и преводач († 2019 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джордж Карлин, американски комик и актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1937 г. – Младен Григоров, български лекар\n 1938 г. – Андрей Амалрик, съветски писател, историк и политически дисидент\n 1944 г. – Ева Демски, германска писателка\n 1946 г. – Даниел Либескинд, американски архитект\n 1950 г. – Брус Бокслайтнър, американски актьор\n 1950 г. – Гейбриъл Бърн, ирландски актьор\n 1956 г. – Радосвета Василева, българска актриса\n 1957 г. – Шериф Коневич, босненски попфолк изпълнител\n 1962 г. – Емилио Естевес, американски актьор\n 1966 г. – Бебел Жилберто, бразилска певица\n 1966 г. – Стивън Болдуин, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Тони Хоук, американски скейтбордист\n 1969 г. – Янко Здравков, народен представител от ПП ГЕРБ в XLI народно събрание\n 1973 г. – Макензи Астин, американски актьор\n 1975 г. – Емил Чолаков, български метеоролог\n 1977 г. – Греъм Дот, шотландски играч на снукър\n 1977 г. – Ешереф Ешереф, български политик, икономист и инженер\n 1983 г. – Виржини Разано, френска тенисистка\n 1988 г. – Марсело, бразилски футболист\n 1989 г. – Джулия – българска поп фолк певица\n 1992 г. – Малкълм Дейвид Кели, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1003 г. – Силвестър II, римски папа (* ок. 946)\n 1012 г. – Сергий IV, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1357 г. – Алфонсо IV, крал на Португалия\n 1845 г. – Аугуст Вилхелм Шлегел, германски писател (* 1767 г.)\n 1859 г. – Сергей Аксаков, руски писател и обществен деец (* 1791 г.)\n 1876 г. – Генадий Велешки, български духовник (* 1800 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Бенковски, български революционер (* 1843 г.)\n 1884 г. – Бедржих Сметана, чешки композитор (* 1824 г.)\n 1889 г. – Михаил Салтиков-Шчедрин, руски сатирик (* 1801 г.)\n 1894 г. – Екатерина Михайловна, Велика руска княгиня (* 1827 г.)\n 1904 г. – Вангел Георгиев, гръцки андартски капитан (* 1876 г.)\n 1905 г. – Атанас Тешовски, български революционер (* 1860 г.)\n 1927 г. – Вилхелм Томсен, датски езиковед (* 1842 г.)\n 1935 г. – Йозеф Пилсудски, полски държавник (* 1867 г.)\n 1957 г. – Ерих фон Щрохайм, австрийски режисьор и актьор (* 1885 г.)\n 1970 г. – Нели Закс, германска писателка, Нобелов лауреат (* 1891 г.)\n 1986 г. – Елизабет Бергнер, германска актриса (* 1897 г.)\n 1995 г. – Мия Мартини, италианска певица (* 1947 г.)\n 1998 г. – Херман Ленц, германски писател (* 1913 г.)\n 2001 г. – Алексей Туполев, съветски авиоконструктор (* 1925 г.)\n 2001 г. – Диди, бразилски футболист (* 1929 г.)\n 2001 г. – Пери Комо, американски певец (* 1912 г.)\n 2006 г. – Артър Порджис, американски писател (* 1915 г.)\n 2006 г. – Методий Стратиев, български духовник (* 1916 г.)\n 2007 г. – Кунка Баева, българска актриса (* 1922 г.)\n 2008 г. – Ирена Сендлерова, полска активистка от Съпротивата (* 1910 г.)\n 2020 г. – Христина Лютова, българска народна певица (* 1940 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на медицинските сестри (отбелязва се от 1974 г.)\n\n512"
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        "text": "Q: How do I remove files from iTunes which have been deleted on disk? When cleaning up my disk I deleted a couple of files from my music collection which iTunes was managing. Now when I try to sync a device I get an error message that it can't sync these files because they don't exist. The problem is that I can't find these files in iTunes any more to delete them. They don't appear when I search for appropriate terms. So, my question is how do I find them, and is iTunes hiding them from me in some \"smart\" way?\n\nA: The script from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes is now part of a commercial application, but a version from 2011 can still be downloaded for free here.\nHere is a simpler script that should do more or less the same thing:\ntell application \"iTunes\"\n    repeat with t in (get file tracks of library playlist 1)\n        if location of t is missing value then delete t\n    end repeat\nend tell\n\n\nA: For adding functions to iTunes you should look at Doug;s Applescripts. There is a script to remove dead tracks.\n\nA: A roundabout way is longer, but doesn't need any scripts.\n\n\n*\n\n*Export your library to the desktop as an xml\n\n*quit iTunes and move these files to the desktop / trash\n\n\n*\n\n*iTunes Music Library.xml\n\n*iTunes Library.itl\n\n*iTunes Library Extras.itdb\n\n*iTunes Library Genius.itdb\n\n\n*Start iTunes - it will look \"empty\" but all your programs and music are still around\n\n*Drag the iTunes Media folder into your iTunes window - Library on the top left - drop the folder over Music or the other categories and iTunes will re-add them to the database, but only the files that exist still on the drive will be added\n\n*Import the saved library.xml file - this will add back all the ratings, playlists, and songs that no longer exist will be cleaned out of the playlists\n\n\nA: I've found the easiest most reliable solution yet! No scripts, no loss of playcounts/ratings etc.\n\n\n*\n\n*Create a new playlist, say temp.\n\n*Select all your the tracks you want to deal with and drag and drop them to the playlist. The new playlist will only contain valid tracks. All invalid tracks will be marked with the exclamation mark.\n\n*Switch to the playlist and select all the tracks, then right-click and Uncheck Selection\n\n*Switch back to Music and sort by the checkmark - now all the invalid tracks are grouped together!\n\n*Select them all and delete!\n\n\nYou can then go and Check the songs again to make sure they get synced to devices.\n"
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        "text": "Mix-and-match from\nthe AroVideo archives!\nRobert Powell\nAsylum (House of Crazies) (1972)\nDir. Roy Ward Baker\nFeat. Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom…\nA compendium of four tales by Robert Bloch (writer of PSYCHO) set around the quest by a young psychiatrist to interview inmates of a madhouse and…\nEdwardians, The (1972)\nDir. John Howard Davies, James Cellan Jones, Alan Clarke\nFeat. Anthony Hopkins, Timothy West, Robert Powell…\nSuperb examination of eight famous Edwardians who helped shape the early 20th century. Impeccably presented and directed by some of the BBC's finest…\nAsphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)\nDir. Peter Newbrook\nFeat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell\nPromising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…\nMahler (1974)\nDir. Ken Russell\nFeat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale…\nKen Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…\nJesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)\nDir. Franco Zeffirelli\nFeat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…\nTouched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…\n39 Steps, The (Thirty-Nine Steps, The) (1978)\nDir. Don Sharp\nFeat. Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter…\nPerhaps the most literally faithful of the various adaptations of John Buchan's classic suspense novel. Powell plays the man on the run in…\nFour Feathers, The (1978)\nFeat. Jane Seymour, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell\nFine costume drama, based on A E W Mason's classic tale of a British officer charged with cowardice, who regains his honour and his love, during an…\nHarlequin (1980)\nDir. Simon Wincer\nFeat. David Hemmings, Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford\nA modern–day version of the Rasputin story, in which a senator and his wife fall prey to the spellbinding powers of a manipulative Harlequin…\nShaka Zulu (TV Mini-series) (1984)\nDir. William C Faure\nFeat. Robert Powell, Edward Fox, Henry Cele\nSet in 19th century South Africa, this recounts the epic land wars between the Zulu tribes and European immigrants, with true TV mini–series…\nResults Page | 1 | 2 | Next Show All"
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        "text": "INEC says They Won’t Postpone 2015 Polls\nby Admin / 4 years ago / Nation\nIn what looks to be a response to founder of Later Rain Assembly Pastor Tunde Bakare last week’s Sunday call, that the 2015 general elections be put on hold for six months due to current security situation in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Tuesday, said it would not postpone the elections.\nAlso the Inspector General of Police, Sulieman Abba, warned politicians in the country against heating up the polity through their negative utterances, saying the police under his leadership would not hesitate to deal with political actors who flout the electoral rules as stipulated in the Electoral Act. He said nobody was above the law.\nINEC, gave assurance of going ahead with the elections, and also said that funding was not a problem in conducting the polls.\nDr Ishmaeal Igbani, Chairman, INEC Electoral Training Institute, spoke on behalf of the commission, and said INEC was fully ready to conduct the 2015 elections, just as he said the commission was comfortable with the fund it has at its disposal at the moment.\n‎”Anytime there is election in Nigeria, there is always some form of tension. I have been around for a while, I don’t think it is something new. I don’t think people should be afraid. But it is also essential that we get ready just in case.\n“It is also very important that we have peaceful elections, it is also important that voters come out to vote without fear. It is also important that the personnel who will work for us and the environment itself is peaceful and for it to be peaceful, it is important for the security agencies to be alert and ensure that they do what they are supposed to do,” he said.\nPrevious: Shell To Pay $83 million To Settle Niger Delta Oil Spill Next: Liverpool Waited Until November To Offer Steven Gerrard A New Contract"
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        "text": "The Advertising Club of New York recently announced the winners of the 2012 International ANDY Awards, and SVA alumni took four of the top prizes for work produced in Frank Anselmo’s “Unconventional Advertising” class. Bryan Hyung Ahn (BFA 2012 Advertising) and Jae Sung Jung (BFA 2011 Advertising) received Gold awards for their print projects. Ahn’s ad for IKEA riffed on the company’s infamous pictogram assembly instructions while Jung’s ad for H&M created minimalist backdrops to emphasize the low cost of the clothing.\nJames Kuczynski (BFA 2011 Advertising) and Dana Tiel (BFA 2011 Advertising) received a Silver ANDY for the paper sacks they crafted for City Harvest. The bags featured cut-outs of the stomach and digestive track to reveal a bounty of fruits and vegetables inside. Bo Mi Jo (BFA 2011 Advertising), Dahee Song (BFA 2011 Advertising) and Manuel Aleman (BFA 2011 Advertising) also created a project for City Harvest. Their Bronze-award-winning project featured an animated banner ad requesting that people remember to donate food to the organization.\nIn addition, Dea Eun Kim (BFA 2010 Graphic Design) also received a Bronze ANDY for his print campaign for the Weather Channel, “We Told You So,” a project created under BFA Advertising and Graphic Design faculty member Jack Mariucci’s guidance.\nEstablished in 1964, the ANDYs began in New York as a competition designed to recognize excellence in print advertising. The ANDYs have since expanded internationally, honoring outstanding achievement across the industry by highlighting superior innovation and craftsmanship. Judged by a panel of world renowned creative directors, ANDY awards are given to both single and campaign executions.\nTo learn more about the ANDY Awards and to see the entire list of 2012 winners, click here."
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    {
        "text": "13 май е 133-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (134-ти през високосна). Остават 232 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n\n 1327 г. – Подписан е Черноменският договор между Втората българска държава и Византийската империя от Михаил Шишман и Андроник III.\n 1346 г. – Йоан VI Кантакузин става император на Византия.\n 1497 г. – Папа Александър VI отлъчва Гироламо Савонарола, доминикански свещеник и владетел на Флоренция.\n 1501 г. – Америко Веспучи започва своето плаване на запад, в което установява, че Христофор Колумб е открил новия континент Америка.\n 1572 г. – Григорий XIII става папа.\n 1647 г. – 106 години след основаването си Сантяго (Чили) е почти изцяло разрушен от земетресение.\n 1787 г. – Единадесет кораба със затворници напускат Портсмът, Англия, за да основат каторжническа колония в Австралия.\n 1808 г. – Основана е Академията за изобразителни изкуства в Мюнхен.\n 1830 г. – Еквадор се отделя окончателно от Велика Колумбия.\n 1846 г. – Мексиканско-американска война: САЩ обявява война на Мексико.\n 1848 г. – За първи път е изпълнен Химна на Финландия.\n 1857 г. – Сформиран е департамента на южноамериканската държава Колумбия Сантандер.\n 1880 г. – В Ню Джърси Томас Едисън тества за първи път своята електрическа жп линия.\n 1888 г. – В Бразилия с подписването на т. нар. „Златен закон“ е отменено робството. Чества се като Ден на мулата (Dia do Mulato).\n 1899 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен отбор от град Салвадор, щат Баия Витория Баия.\n 1905 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен клуб от Ресифе, Пернамбуко Спорт Клуб до Ресифе.\n 1909 г. – За първи път е проведена колоездачната Обиколка на Италия.\n 1912 г. – Във Великобритания са създадени Кралски Въздушни корпуси (Royal Flying Corps/RFC).\n 1913 г. – Открита е сградата на Централната минерална баня в София, построена по проект на архитектите Фридрих Грюнангер и Петко Момчилов.\n 1917 г. – Три селски деца виждат обявлението на Света Дева Мария край Фатима (Португалия).\n 1922 г. – Със закон Столичната община е разделена на 6 района.\n 1932 г. – Създадена е Военната академия за механизация и моторизация в Москва.\n 1933 г. – Създадена е нацистка политическа партия Национално единение в Норвегия.\n 1939 г. – В Блумфилд (Кънектикът) започва емисии първото обществено УКВ-радио.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Започва нашествие на Германия на територията на Франция.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Германските и италианските войски в Северна Африка се предават на силите на Антихитлеристката коалиция.\n 1946 г. – Създаден е Московският институт по топлотехника.\n 1947 г. – Основан е бразилският футболен клуб от град Крисиума, щат Санта Катарина Крисиума Ешпорте Клубе.\n 1950 г. – Създаването на Формула 1. Голямата награда на Великобритания.\n 1952 г. – Проведено е първото заседание на горната камара на парламента на Индия Раджа Сабха.\n 1958 г. – Група френски офицери извършват преврат в Алжир и поставят условие да бъде сформирано национално правителство под ръководство на Шарл дьо Гол, за да се подсигури френския контрол над Алжир.\n 1967 г. – Д-р Закир Хюсеин става първият мюсюлманин – президент на Индия.\n 1981 г. – Мехмед Али Агджа извършва Атентат срещу Йоан Павел II на площад Свети Петър в Рим.\n 1991 г. – Основана е обществена телевизия в Русия – Русия 1.\n 1992 г. – Състои се премиерата на американския филм Танц по водата.\n 1995 г. – Гревенското земетресение предизвиква големи материални щети в Гревенско и Кожанско в област Западна Македония, Гърция, но не взима човешки жертви.\n 2000 г. – Създадени са с указ на президента на РФ Сибирски федерален окръг, Уралски федерален окръг, Централен федерален окръг и Южен федерален окръг.\n 2000 г. – Състои се премиерата на приключенската комедия О, братко, къде си?на братя Коен.\n 2000 г. – Основан е руският волейболен клуб в град Казан, Татарстан ВК Зенит.\n 2001 г. – Основан е Солунският еврейски музей.\n 2006 г. – Основана е политическата партия Гвардия в България.\n 2007 г. – Започва строителството на Моста Видин-Калафат между България и Румъния.\n 2007 г. – Официално е открит бюст паметник на майор Томпсън пред сградата на кметството на село Томпсън.\n 2010 г. – Димитър Бербатов се отказва от националния отбор по футбол.\n 2011 г. – Състои се световната премиера на американския филм Шаферки.\n\nРодени \n\n 1220 г. – Александър Невски, руски княз, светец († 1263 г.)\n 1655 г. – Инокентий XIII, римски папа († 1724 г.)\n 1717 г. – Мария Тереза, австрийски монарх († 1780 г.)\n 1753 г. – Лазар Карно, френски математик, инженер, политик и държавник († 1823 г.)\n 1764 г. – Лоран Сен Сир, френски маршал († 1830 г.)\n 1792 г. – Пий IX, римски папа († 1878 г.)\n 1795 г. – Павел Шафарик, чешки славист и етнолог († 1861 г.)\n 1832 г. – Юрис Алунан, латвийски поет и общественик (†)\n 1840 г. – Алфонс Доде, френски писател († 1897 г.)\n 1844 г. – Цанко Дюстабанов, български революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1857 г. – Роналд Рос, шотландски лекар, Нобелов лауреат през 1902 г. († 1932 г.)\n 1858 г. – Димитър Бръзицов, български книжовник и преводач († 1931 г.)\n 1882 г. – Жорж Брак, френски художник († 1963 г.)\n 1883 г. – Хенк Снейвлит, нидерлански политик († 1942 г.)\n 1907 г. – Дафни дю Морие, британска писателка († 1989 г.)\n 1912 г. – Варкони Золтан, унгарски актьор и режисьор († 1979 г.)\n 1914 г. – Джо Луис, американски боксьор († 1981 г.)\n 1918 г. – Валентина Топузова, българска преводачка († 2008 г.)\n 1924 г. – Емил Павлов, български композитор († 1992 г.)\n 1928 г. – Едуар Молинаро, френски режисьор († 2013 г.)\n 1930 г. – Иван Калчинов, български композитор на естрадни песни\n 1934 г. – Адолф Мушг, швейцарски писател\n 1935 г. – Ян Саудек, чешки фотограф\n 1937 г. – Роджър Зелазни, американски писател († 1995 г.)\n 1939 г. – Харви Кайтел, американски актьор\n 1941 г. – Ричи Валънс, американски поп-певец († 1959 г.)\n 1945 г. – Сам Андерсън, американски актьор\n 1948 г. – Желязко Христов, български синдикалист († 2010 г.)\n 1949 г. – Катя Филипова, българска поп-певица († 2012 г.)\n 1950 г. – Красимир Стоянов, български политик\n 1950 г. – Стиви Уондър, американски певец\n 1953 г. – Асен Гагаузов, български политик\n 1956 г. – Александър Калери, руски космонавт\n 1956 г. – Валентин Панбукчиян, български шахматист\n 1957 г. – Коджи Сузуки, японски писател\n 1961 г. – Денис Родман, американски баскетболист, актьор и ексцентрик\n 1964 г. – Стивън Колбърт, американски актьор и писател\n 1965 г. – Маргарит Абаджиев, български писател и сценарист\n 1966 г. – Камен Воденичаров, български актьор и шоу-продуцент\n 1974 г. – Наташа Джорджевич, сръбска певица\n 1977 г. – Кати, българска попфолк певица\n 1978 г. – Карл Филип, шведски принц\n 1979 г. – Мики Мейдън, американски музикант\n 1981 г. – Съни Леони, канадско-американска порноактриса и модел\n 1983 г. – Грегори Льомаршал, френски певец († 2007 г.)\n 1983 г. – Маркос Чарас, аржентински футболист\n 1986 г. – Александър Рибак, беларуски цигулар\n 1986 г. – Робърт Патинсън, британски актьор\n 1987 г. – Кандис Акола, американска актриса\n 1993 г. – Деби Райън, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1162 г. – Геза II, крал на Унгария (* ?)\n 1832 г. – Жорж Кювие, френски биолог (* 1769 г.)\n 1876 г. – Стоил войвода, българския революционер (* 1841 г./1842)\n 1903 г. – Аполинарио Мабини, филипински идеолог (* 1864 г.)\n 1913 г. – Марин Поплуканов, български революционер и политик (* 1845 г.)\n 1916 г. – Шолом Алейхем, украински еврейски писател (* 1859 г.)\n 1930 г. – Фритьоф Нансен, норвежки изследовател и политик, Нобелов лауреат през 1922 г. (* 1861 г.)\n 1933 г. – Петко Клисуров, български художник (* 1865 г.)\n 1938 г. – Шарл Едуар Гийом, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1920 г. (* 1861 г.)\n 1943 г. – Йон Ритмайстер, немски лекар (* 1898 г.)\n 1951 г. – Спиридон Казанджиев, български психолог и философ (* 1882 г.)\n 1961 г. – Гари Купър, американски актьор (* 1901 г.)\n 1971 г. – Лаура Вирджиния О'Ханлън Дъглас, статията Дали Дядо Коледа съществува се публикува във вестник Сън (* 1889 г.)\n 1980 г. – Георги Георгиев, български ветроходец (* 1930 г.)\n 2008 г. – Саад I ал-Абдула ал-Салем ал-Сабах, емир на Кувейт (* 1930 г.)\n 2012 г. – Катя Филипова, българска естрадна певица (* 1949 г.)\n\nПразници \n Бразилия – Годишнина от отменянето на робството в Бразилия\n Колумбия – Ден на света Мария\n Католическа църква – Дева Мария от Фатима\n Православна църква – Св. мъченица Гликерия Хераклийска и св. мъченик Лаодикий\n\n513"
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        "text": "I FINALLY have a recap of our trip to Tokyo for you guys!\nMaybe it took so long because I had to wrap my mind around the trip first? Or to take a step back and live in my world again for a while. Either way, I’m ready to share some of the 5 glorious days that we spent in Tokyo on route to Thailand a couple of months ago! Enjoy – it’s a doozy!\nOne of my favourite places in all of Tokyo was the Tsukiji fish market. The market is right along the harbour and fish comes in during the early morning hours to be auctioned off to wholesalers and restaurants. Derek and I were extremely jet-lagged and both sat around wide awake in our hotel room at 4:00am on our first morning in Tokyo. Since we were up early and ready to take on the day it was the perfect opportunity to check out the break of dawn markets and auctions.\nI really love this picture with me standing outside one of the huge market buildings because you can see that it is so early that it is still kind of dark outside. Don’t you think I look super awake?\nThe market was extremely busy and little carts and people kept whizzing by us with fresh fish and produce and there was a lot of auctioning and yelling going on. I think they were unimpressed by us because we were totally in their way… oops.\nI loved looking around the different stalls and noticed that many people had kettles on stoves set up for their morning tea and coffee.\nIn the next picture I adore how the soft early morning sun announces the arrival of the day. So beautiful. I love being up early in the morning!\nDerek and I got very hungry and were craving some coffee but for the life of us couldn’t find a coffee shop open because it was so early. Then we noticed all of these families sitting around on the sidewalk eating steaming hot bowls of noodles! My western stomach wanted some toast or oatmeal and it seemed odd to eat noodles for breakfast. What did I tell you, it was our very first morinng there! Turns out noodles and broth actually make for a fantastic breakfast.\nThe market did not only have fish, but many street blocks lined with various food vendors. My oh my, this place is so alive and friendly and photogenic!!\nIt was fascinating see all of the food and produce that I didn’t recognize.\nAs good tourists should, we explored what feels like the entire city with a guidebook in hand. Since this was a last minute trip we did not have a lot of time to do research before we left home. I was jet-lagged for the first few days, but Derek kept us going! I can almost hear him say: “we need to jump on the subway at so-and-so station and then transfer to the purple line here (points at a spot on the map), then we get off at so-and-so station”. I am so glad we kept busy, because we made the very best of our time there and thoroughly enjoyed exploring the various diverse neighbourhoods. Every neighbourhood had a different scene and vibe.\nOur overall impression is that the Japanese people are extremely friendly and polite. I think some of them found it intriguing when we were struggling our way through the subway or a food menu, and most people gave a huge smile and wanted to help us out.\nTokyo is also incredibly clean and organized. We were very impressed by the fact that trains come and go when they say they will, and that people all follow the rules. It makes navigating the city very easy!\nOh yes, and I was in love with the fashion. The Japanese girls are extremely stylish! They dress very feminine and love to wear skirts and tights – beautiful!\nSpeaking of high fashion… you may notice that I wear the same clothes in every picture. What can I say, I was determined to pack light! Since we were only in Japan for 4 nights and the cold weather required bulky clothing I figured I could mix up my outfit by wearing a different scarf every day!\nThe social media fanatic in me loved this twitter sign by a restaurant entrance. I was so happy to see something I understand!\nI don’t talk about this much on Revel, but I am a bit of a picky eater. Not cool, I know. I am not picky in the sense of different tastes and textures, but it is important for me to know where my food comes from and where it was prepared. Hygienic standards and quality of ingredients matter to me. I also don’t eat a lot a lot of seafood. I don’t know what’s up with all of that but, I try not to let it control me. So anyways, eating on vacation can be a bit of a challenge. Throw in some blood sugar issues which make me I have to eat often (or basically all the time) and you got yourself a girl who is always on the lookout for food and always, ALWAYS has snacks in her purse.\nI ate mostly vegetarian in Tokyo, and mostly noodles with broth. I completely LOVE soba noodles. They are made of buckwheat and I love the slight grainy taste. Don’t worry though, I did put on a brave face in the name of adventure and tried a few new things, so at least I tried it!\nWe played a game every day where we bought candy at convenience stores to find out what they were – most of the mystery candies were super delicious!\nI am so intrigued by the Japanese and their diet because the people on the island of Japan have the longest life expectancy in the world!\nThis is what I was expecting to see when going to Tokyo: lots of bright lights, signs and advertising with busy streets.\nIn Akihabara (the tech centre of the city) we came across many pachinko places. My description of it is this: “Several stories of complicated gambling games that look like arcade games where there are 50 different songs playing very loudly all at once and there are many flashing lights”. It was the most incredible thing to see – the people gambling there were totally in a trance!\nI tried some arcade games myself… only I had no idea how it worked!\nOh yes: and we did karaoke! It was awesome! You go into this building with many floors filled with private karaoke booths and book one at an hourly rate. The two of us had our own room with a TV and microphones and we just got completely silly! I hope the room full of locals next to us were not offended when we joyously started belting out “Turning Japanese” by the Vapours!\nAll in all Tokyo was an incredible experience! It is such a gentle, sophisticated and diverse city and I feel completely fortunate to have wandered around there for a few days!\nDon’t worry folks, the story is not over yet, because after spending 4 days in Tokyo we spent 2 whole weeks in Thailand, so I have lots more stories to tell!\nLooks like an amazing trip, can’t wait to see the recap from Thailand too!! So jealous!\nI miss Japan!!!! So glad you had a great time there, I LOVED it there! There was always something amazing to see and was just beautiful!\nOh my gosh that looks sooo good!!!\nLooks like you guys had an amazing time! I love that you did karaoke 🙂 If you ever visit again, you should check out the Kansai region. It’s like Tokyo but less busy and with a lot of history – temples and shrines are everywhere and it’s beautiful.\nLooking forward to hearing your Thailand recap!\nIt looks like you had a really fabulous trip! Thanks for sharing some of your experiences & pictures!\nStripy Towel is at it again!"
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        "text": "14 май е 134-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (135-и през високосна година). Остават 231 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1027 г. – Анри I е коронясан за крал на Франция.\n 1610 г. – Анри IV е убит и на трона застава 9-годишният му син Луи XIII.\n 1643 г. – Четиригодишният Луи XIV става крал на Франция след смъртта на баща му – Луи XIII.\n 1871 г. – Свиква се Третият църковно-народен събор, по време на който се изработва устав за управление на Българската православна църква.\n 1899 г. – Основан е уругвайският футболен тим Насионал Монтевидео.\n 1920 г. – Основан е Икономически университет – Варна. Най-старият икономически университет в България.\n 1925 г. – Гео Милев е осъден на една година тъмничен затвор, глоба от 20 000 лева и лишаване от граждански и политически права за 2 години.\n 1928 г. – Образувана е Самарската област.\n 1931 г. – След едномесечна правителствена криза е сформиран коалиционен кабинет на Демократическия сговор и Националлибералната партия, като министър-председател на България остава Андрей Ляпчев.\n 1948 г. – Израел се обявява за независима държава. Непосредствено след това страната е нападната от съседните арабски страни, с което започва Арабско-израелската война (1948).\n 1955 г. – България заедно с Албания, ГДР, Полша, Румъния, СССР, Унгария и Чехословакия участва в създаването на Военно-политическата организация на Варшавския договор.\n 1972 г. – В Литва Ромас Каланта се самозапалва на публично място в знак на протест срещу потисничеството от страна на съветското правителство.\n 1973 г. – Изстреляна е първата американска космическа станция – Скайлаб.\n 2003 г. – Самоубийствена атака на жена-камикадзе в Чечня отнема живота на 18 души.\n 2010 г. – Открит е стадиона Авива Стейдиъм в Дъблин, Ирландия.\n\nРодени \n\n 1316 г. – Карл IV, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1378 г.)\n 1553 г. – Маргарита Валоа, кралица на Франция и Навара († 1615 г.)\n 1666 г. – Виктор-Амадей II, първи крал на Сардиния († 1732 г.)\n 1710 г. – Адолф Фредерик, шведски монарх († 1771 г.)\n 1771 г. – Робърт Оуен, уелски реформатор († 1858 г.)\n 1844 г. – Александър Каулбарс, руски офицер († 1925 г.)\n 1854 г. – Мария Павловна Мекленбургска, велика руска княгиня († 1920 г.)\n 1868 г. – Владимир Вазов, български генерал († 1945 г.)\n 1869 г. – Никола Мушмов, български нумизмат († 1942 г.)\n 1875 г. – Атанас Шарков, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1880 г. – Вилхелм Лист, германски фелдмаршал († 1971 г.)\n 1887 г. – Георгиос Модис, гръцки политик († 1976 г.)\n 1887 г. – Джорджо Муджани, италиански художник († 1908 г.)\n 1909 г. – Йосиф Петров, български поет († 2004 г.)\n 1914 г. – Стоян Ристевски, югославски партизанин († 1944 г.)\n 1917 г. – Стефан Халачев, български партизанин († 1944 г.)\n 1922 г. – Франьо Туджман, хърватски политик, 1-ви президент на Хърватия († 1999 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Димитров, български футболист\n 1938 г. – Борислав Ралчев, български политик\n 1944 г. – Джордж Лукас, американски режисьор\n 1952 г. – Доналд Макмонагъл, американски астронавт\n 1952 г. – Робърт Земекис, американски режисьор\n 1954 г. – Георги Минчев, български футболист\n 1954 г. – Карл-Маркус Гаус, австрийски писател\n 1957 г. – Уилям Грегори, американски астронавт\n 1958 г. – Станимир Трифонов, български режисьор\n 1961 г. – Тим Рот, британски актьор\n 1969 г. – Кейт Бланшет, австралийска актриса\n 1971 г. – София Копола, американска режисьорка\n 1973 г. – Натали Апълтън, канадска певица\n 1974 г. – Веска Ненчева, български политик\n 1979 г. – Бетси Ру, американска актриса\n 1982 г. – Сарбел, гръцки поп певец\n 1983 г. – Анаи Пуенте, мексиканска актриса\n 1984 г. – Марк Зукърбърг, основател на Фейсбук\n 1984 г. – Михаел Рензинг, германски футболист\n 1985 г. – Симона Пейчева, българска гимнастичка\n 1992 г. – Седеф Шахин, турска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 649 г. – Теодор I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 964 г. – Йоан XII, римски папа (* ок. 937)\n 1610 г. – Анри IV, крал на Франция (* 1553 г.)\n 1643 г. – Луи XIII, крал на Франция (* 1601 г.)\n 1781 г. – Франц Шюц, германски художник (* 1751 г.)\n 1912 г. – Аугуст Стриндберг, шведски драматург (* 1842 г.)\n 1943 г. – Анри Лафонтен, белгийски политик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1854 г.)\n 1954 г. – Хайнц Гудериан, германски генерал (* 1888 г.)\n 1957 г. – Стефан I, български духовник (* 1878 г.)\n 1972 г. – Ромас Каланта, литовски национален герой (* 1953 г.)\n 1989 г. – Зита Бурбон-Пармска, пармска принцеса (* 1892 г.)\n 1989 г. – Ханс Щубе, немски растениевъд (* 1902 г.)\n 1987 г. – Рита Хейуърт, американска актриса (* 1918 г.)\n 1991 г. – Дзян Цин, първа дама на Китайската народна република (* 1914 г.)\n 1995 г. – Кристиан Анфинсен, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 (* 1916 г.)\n 1998 г. – Франк Синатра, американски певец (* 1915 г.)\n 2001 г. – Георги Спасов, български писател (* 1943 г.)\n 2005 г. – Иван Дочев, български политик (* 1906 г.)\n 2007 г. – Годфрид Бамес, преподавател по изобразително изкуство (* 1920 г.)\n 2008 г. – Вътьо Раковски, български поет (* 1925 г.)\n 2010 г. – Го Кен Суи, сингапурски политик (* 1918 г.)\n 2010 г. – Фредерик ван Зейл Слаберт, южноафрикански политик (* 1940 г.)\n 2015 г. – Би Би Кинг, американски музикант (* 1925 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Празник на град Дулово\n България – Празник на град Търговище\n България – Празник на „Икономически университет – Варна“ (Основан на 14 май 1920 г.)\n Израел – Възстановяване на държавата и Ден на независимостта (с акт на ООН за прекратяване на мандата на Великобритания над територията на Палестина, 1948 г., национален празник)\n\n514"
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        "text": "Nene Nwoko is the President and CEO of Bufine Productions. Nene began her career in the entertainment industry as an actress and a model. She is known for films and TV shows like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, A Man Called Jon, Day 5, Your Worst Nightmare, The Sky Princess and many more.\nPrior to getting into acting and modeling, she worked in the retail eCommerce sector. With a combined 17 years experience in both industries, she decided to get behind the scenes and start producing films that speak to the heart.\nWe are dedicated to bringing you films based on people’s lives. People you otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. People’s stories that will inspire and change your lives. And we want you to laugh, cry and jubilate with them just like we did when we FIRST heard their stories.\nLatest Projects:\nAn Untitled Film in progress….\nWe are very excited to announce that we have acquired the rights to a book that will be turned into a feature length film. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and we will keep you updated on the progress.\nBufine Productions\n2830 S. Hulen St. #385 Fort Worth, TX 76109\ninfo@bufineproductions.com"
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        "text": "Charlie Hunter's new studio album Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid will be released January 12, 2010 on his Spire Artist Media label. Joining Hunter on this release will be Eric Kalb (drums), Curtis Fowlkes (trombone), Alan Ferber (trombone) and Eric Biondo (trumpet). In support of the new disc, Hunter will have a four week Tuesday night residency at Brooklyn’s Rose Live Music in Brooklyn, NY starting on January 5.\nWayne Krantz will be playing the 2009 Jazz Utsav festival in India with Anthony Jackson, Cliff Almond and David Binney. Dates and locations below.\nScott Henderson, Jeff Berlin, and Dennis Chambers recently completed a string of dates in Asia. The Guitar Column has a great review up of this fusion super-trio's 10/21 gig in Singapore. Thanks to my pal JP over at Strat-O-Blogster for the tip!\nRich Wielgosz has posted a review on his blog of the Steve Morse Band's 10/19 show at Tralf Music Hall in Buffalo, NY.\nSESSIONS FOR THE NEW GARY HUSBAND ELECTRIC ALBUM HAVE BEGUN!\nFollowing my recent tour of Canada and California with Allan Holdsworth I recruited Allan and Jimmy Johnson and guest musician Jerry Goodman on the 12th of October for a one day session at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles to work on new tracks for my next album - one I have been planning for some time now. It's an as yet untitled new electric fusion project (led by myself from the drums) that I'm proud will also go on to feature musicians such as John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Robin Trower, Jimmy Herring, Mark King among other friends and musical colleagues.\nSo the new album project has officially begun! But it will progress gradually, as I'll be recording internationally and fairly much as and when I can between other tours.\nHere are a selection of photos of this first studio sessions in Los Angeles.\nFor a musician as talented as guitar maestro Steve Morse, there are no boundaries between genres; there is only his unique sound. On November 17, The Steve Morse Band will release a new studio album Out Standing In Their Field via Eagle Rock Entertainment [pre-book order date October 23, MSRP $13.98]. This will also be released digitally on October 13.\nMorse, who got his start in the Dixie Dregs in the 1970s, has enjoyed a fruitful career, earning himself a reputation as a “musician’s musician.” He’s spent the last sixteen years shredding for the legendary Deep Purple, in addition to fronting his own band. The release of Out Standing In Their Field will be the 12th album to date for The Steve Morse Band.\nOn this entirely instrumental album, Morse joins forces with bassist Dave LaRue and drummer Van Romaine to pound out un-tethered creativity. A multi-faceted blend of Morse’s influences, Out Standing In Their Field is a diverse sound spectrum, twisting together elements of rock, country, jazz, funk and classical. Unencumbered by lyrics, Morse’s guitar acts as a wailing, exploring siren, channeling emotion and raw power through the language of riffs. In addition to the ten brand new tracks boasted on Out Standing In Their Field, the band threw in an extra treat: a live recording of their song “Rising Power.” This bonus track invokes the goosebump-inducing power the Steve Morse Band conjures on stage.\nEmbarking on a North American tour with this new release, Steve Morse and his band have earned the right to be considered Out Standing In Their Field.\nThe What's That Dude Play? blog has a short-but-sweet review of one of Oz Noy's recent shows in Austin, TX, which featured Eric Johnson sitting in with the band. The post includes pics from the show, as well as streaming audio of Noy and Johnson playing \"120 Heart Beats\" from Noy's new album Schizophrenic.\nJohn Kelman has written a great review for All About Jazz of Allan Holdsworth's September 28 show in Gatineau, Canada."
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        "text": "Daniel Linehan: Zombie Aporia | Lilian Baylis Studio | Sadler's Wells Theatre | London\nText by Grace Henderson\nZombie means living and dead. Aporia means logical contraction. The title of choreographer and performer\nDaniel Linehan's latest work is a hybrid of two words that have never been joined together before - at least not according to Google. In Zombie Aporia, Linehan sets out to create unusual hybrids; musical rhythms colliding with opposing dance rhythms, or physical manipulations that result in the distortion of the voice.\nLike much of Linehan's choreographic output, this work is intent on softly obscuring the line that separates dance from the everyday affectations we all use to express ourselves. Zombie Aporia is showing next week on 9 and 10 May. Daniel Linehan talks us through his latest work.\nA: Can you tell me a bit more about Zombie Aporia, and how the work came to be so titled?\nDL: In making Zombie Aporia, I wanted to find ways of combining two elements that didn't seem to fit together, creating different kinds of aporias, or logical contradictions. The title itself is a strange hybrid-a pop-culture reference is placed beside a term from philosophical discourse, Zombie plus Aporia, two words that don't seem to fit together, but which to my ear have a pleasing rhythm and assonance.\nA: Much of the piece seems to centre on the idea of collision – what in particular is this exploring or communicating?\nDL: The collision of two opposing elements allows us as dancers to perform in ways that are unfamiliar to us, and allows the audience to see things that are unfamiliar to them. So, for example, we dance in one rhythm while we sing in a completely different rhythm, or we try to make the audience see what the dancer sees. I am interested in how new meanings are produced when you combine elements that haven't been combined before. I didn't want to create a performance in which we do what we already know how to do, I wanted to put the dancers in situations that required the effort of trying something which seemed impossible.\nA: Many of your works blur the boundaries somewhat between dance and our everyday physical mannerisms; why is this and how is this blurring achieved technically?\nDL: In my work, the dancers are often trying to achieve a nearly impossible task that requires simultaneous layers of thinking and doing and reacting. This involves an intense effort of concentration and bodily engagement, but the movement vocabulary is not always derived from a recognizable dance technique, so it is not fully \"dance,\" but neither is it fully an \"everyday task\". I am interested in ways of using the body that inhabit a region somewhere in between recognizable forms. I am not interested in amazing feats of dance technique. The only interesting thing to me about virtuosity is that nobody can fully realize it. Imperfection is the drive that keeps me going.\nA: I understand that Zombie Aporia also uses the voice; how does this figure in the work and what does it bring to it overall?\nDL: The music for the piece comes only from our own voices. There are no instruments and no amplifiers in the space other than our own bodies and voices. Zombie Aporia is very focused on how the voice is fundamentally based within the body, so I didn't want any other element of sound to interfere with that. We explore how the voice is transformed when one dancer manipulates the body of another dancer. We explore how proximity or distance in space changes how the audience hears our voices. We explore how bodily vibrations and how physical exhaustion alters the quality of the voice.\nA: This piece marks your return to Sadler’s Wells after making your London debut there last year with Montage for Three and Not About Everything. What, for you, is special about staging your work there?\nDL: Some of my work, like Not About Everything and Zombie Aporia, includes a lot of text (in English), and it seems especially significant to perform these works for an audience whose mother tongue is English. I often use subtitles or librettos in other countries in Europe, and of course many people speak English very well in other places, but I feel like audiences in New York and London can connect to these works on a deeper level. As for performing at Sadler's Wells, I really respect this venue; they are dedicated not only to large prominent dance companies, but also committed to helping less established choreographers like myself to develop and present their works.\nA: What is next for you after Zombie Aporia and do you have plans to work with Sadler’s Wells again in the future?\nDL: My next project will take a short section from Zombie Aporia and develop the concept further. This is a section in which a video projection exposes to the audience an image of what the dancer sees while he is dancing. I am very interested in how this technique allows the audience to experience dance-watching in an completely different way. I am very happy to have Sadler's Wells as one of the co-producers for this project, and I'm looking forward to presenting this piece there in 2013.\nDaniel Linehan, Zombie Aporia, 09/05/2012 - 10/05/2012, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN. Tickets: 0844 412 4300 www.sadlerswells.com\nPosted by Aesthetica at Friday, May 04, 2012 6 comments Links to this post\nSara Greavu & Phil Hession: Titanic Toast | Golden Thread Gallery | Belfast\nOf the many urban myths surrounding the Titanic’s legacy one predominant legend describes how Protestant dock workers in Belfast chalked the letters NPH (“No Pope Here”) on the ships bow thus dooming its maiden voyage. Another tale includes a curse of destruction from an Ancient Egyptian mummy named Amen-Ra whose body was on board in the hold. With the Titanic centenary celebrations predictably focusing on the standard facts the curator of Titanic Toast Peter Richards, Director of The GT Gallery, challenged invited artists Sara Greavu and Phil Hession to “explore alternative narratives and the question of how we remember.”\nSara Greavu addresses the tradition of myth-making through the power of the spoken word. In a collaborative production with Abby Oliveire from Derry based collective Poetry Chicks the viewer is presented with a large format video projection entitled Apocalips Lil and the Night to Remember. Traditionally in African-American communities to perform a Toast is to energetically narrate the tale of an heroic event and this oral artform has been considered the precursor to Rap. Referencing an original Toast, Shine and the Titanic, Oliveire is pictured narrating the stirring tale of a boiler stocker on board the Titanic and how his warnings of the disaster were disregarded due to his lowly social position. At one point the video image disappears (perhaps intentionally or due a technical fault) leaving the viewer in an eerily darkened space listening to the poignant resonance of Oliveire’s recitation. In an adjoining gallery Greavu presents three stunning collages that re-imagine what would have become of the Titanic if its maiden voyage had been uneventful. As many liners were commandeered by the navy during World War I and World War II Greavu has rendered the Titanic in bright geometric forms of orange, red and yellow hues. This battleship camouflage or dazzle was used by the military to confuse the enemy with its busy geometric composition making it hard to decipher the bow from the stern. At the adjacent wall Greavu has repeated the dazzle camouflage but on a larger scale creating an intense visual experience. In this room in particular we are reminded of The Titanic’s battle with the sea, the harsh frozen elements, it’s sinking, the survivors and the fatalities.\nTaking a documentary approach, Phil Hession’s video installation Sing Along, If You Can attempts to analyse certain aspects of the Titanic’s original purpose. The artist spent eight days on board a trans-Atlantic cruise liner and by physically experiencing this form of transport Hession places himself within the context of the passengers. By keeping a visual diary of his time on board we experience the journey from the artist’s perspective. The recorded conversations that ensued with the cabin crew and fellow travellers range from discussions on safety, evacuation procedures and the reasons one chooses to participate in a voyage of this nature in the first place. Hessian skilfully captures the inherent oddness when strangers are placed in close proximity by chance.\nBoth artists have employed thought provoking and engaging methods to approach this overexposed subject and in doing so they manage to reinvigorate elements of the Titanic’s legacy.\nSara Greavu & Phil Hession: Titanic Toast, The Golden Thread Gallery, 84 - 94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LU. www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk\nPhil Hession Sing Along, If You Can\nPosted by Aesthetica at Thursday, May 03, 2012 9 comments Links to this post\nASFF 2012: ONE MONTH TO GO! SUBMIT TODAY TO SCREEN YOUR FILM\nIt's now only one month until the deadline for The Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2012 (ASFF) and here in the Aesthetica offices, we're getting very excited. We've already had some excellent entries from filmmakers across the world, and with an amazing line-up of masterclasses and networking events with the likes of Warp and BAFTA, ASFF 2012 is going to be truly spectacular!\nTime is running out for you to get involved! If you want to take part in this fantastic event, and share your work with an international audience, visit www.asff.co.uk to enter today.\nASFF is a unique film event, showing international short film in 15 iconic locations across the historic city of York from 8 - 11 November 2012. It's a fantastic opportunity to see your film in new and surprising visual contexts, and with the whole city teeming with the vibrant film community, you can be sure to meet industry professionals as well as filmmakers and people who share your passion for film. Plus there are also some wonderful prizes at stake, including up to £500 in cash, reciprocal screenings at other festivals, and editorial coverage in Aesthetica Magazine.\nWhether you're an established or budding filmmaker, ASFF 2012 will enable you to connect with new worldwide audiences and interact with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today. If you've got a film of up to 25 minutes, we would love to see it!\nVisit www.asff.co.uk for more information and to submit today!\nCourtesy the Aesthetica Short Film Festival\nPosted by Aesthetica at Wednesday, May 02, 2012 1 comments Links to this post\nThe Viewer as Spectator, Subject or Performer | The Catlin Art Prize 2012 | Interview with Poppy Bisdee\nThe Catlin Art Prize, an annual event showcasing the most promising art school graduates one year on\nfrom their degree exhibitions, opens tomorrow at the Londonewcastle Project Space and includes new work by artists who demonstrate real potential to make a mark in the art world during the next decade. Following the publication of the Catlin Guide 2012, the shortlist of artists taking part includes: Gabriella Boyd, Poppy Bisdee, Jonny Briggs, Max Dovey, Ali Kazim, Adeline de Monseignat, Soheila Sokhanvari and former winner of the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition, Julia Vogl. Working across painting, sculpture, performance and film, the shortlist is incredibly diverse, however, there was something about the work of Poppy Bisdee that caught our eye.\nA former student of Wimbledon College of Art and a recipient of the LUX Moving Image Prize 2011, Bisdee was recently selected from more than 10,000 graduating students to show her work in Future Map 11, an important annual exhibition which returned to the Zabludowicz Collection for the second year running.\nAesthetica caught up with Poppy Bisdee ahead of the opening to find out more.\nBR: Let’s start off by talking about what you do. What is the main thrust of your creative practice? Where did it all begin for you?\nPB: I am fascinated by the viewer's experience of art, and the ephemeral elements which make up that experience such as light, space and time. I am interested in the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, and the role of the viewer within the exhibition environment. My work is often a response to a space where it is ultimately to be exhibited. I use various recording and presentation technologies such as film and projection to create minimal sculptures and installations which reflect the exhibition space, the viewer's presence, and the duration of the viewing experience. By mirroring the viewer's physicality through images, sounds and shadows, I hope to bring in to question their role as spectator, subject or performer.\nBR: What work will you be showing in the Catlin Art Prize?\nPB: For the Catlin Art Prize I will be showing a 24-hour delay video installation, presenting the viewer with a video of the space they are standing in, but 24-hours before. The space will be constantly recorded, so those viewers will be shown in the video the following day. The playing video will also be visible in the recording, so there will be a repetition of the space throughout the recordings. This piece evolved as a development of previous works where I used photography to capture and present the exhibition space.\nBR: Why have you chosen to work with recording technologies and projection and what are you hoping to achieve through these media?\nPB: Using recording technologies, such as photographs or films, allows me to capture the space and the viewer's experience. Recording film, video or audio allows me to not only capture the visuals, but also a length of time, such as the duration of the viewing experience. Using presentation technologies, such as film projection or data projection, allows me to present the viewer with these recordings. Through my work I explore the sensory qualities of various forms of recording and presentation technologies, for example the quality of light or the mechanical sounds of an old film projector, with the aim to heighten the viewer's perceptive senses. I am especially interested in projection technologies as a projection uses the same ephemeral elements that make up an experience, light, space and time. Projection allows me to explore my ideas of mirroring a space within a space, for example I have created projections of spaces, which fall directly onto the walls of the space where they were originally recorded.\nBR: If you had to condense your work into three overarching ideas, what would they be?\nPB: If I had to condense my work into three overarching ideas, the first idea would be to explore our self-reflection on our immediate presence in space and time. The second would be to explore our understanding of the exhibition space. The third would be to explore our relationship as viewers with the artwork.\nBR: The viewer is a central element in your work, Could you expand on these roles of spectator, subject and performer?\nPB: My work is made to draw attention to the viewer’s experience which makes them part of it, and in a way they complete it. This brings into question whether they are spectators of the work, there to simply view and experience it; the subject of the work, there to satisfy the work’s concept; or the performers of the work, there as a physical element of the work. In my opinion, the viewer of my work is all three. With a lot of artworks the viewer is just a spectator, but when experiencing my work I would like the viewer to think more about their role and relationship with the work.\nBR: What is your personal opinion on art prizes? What purpose do you feel they serve?\nPB: I feel that although art prizes are a great opportunity for artists to gain more exposure in the art world, more importantly they allow the artist to develop their art practice further, giving them more confidence in their ideas, and sometimes allowing them to make work which would otherwise be beyond their means.\nBR: What’s next for you?\nPB: I am working towards a group show in the summer; details are yet to be confirmed. I am also in the early stages of organising a show with a group of fellow artists, so always looking out for exciting and unusual possible exhibition spaces. For more details and updates, please see my website: www.poppybisdee.com\nThe Catlin Art Prize 2012, Londonewcastle Project Space, 03/05/2012 - 25/05/2012, 28 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London, E2 7DP. www.londonewcastle.com\nTo read more about how Julia Vogl promotes the idea of community in her work please follow this link for an in-depth interview Aesthetica conducted with the artist in February.\nPoppy Bisdee Measure\nCourtesy Art Catlin\n▼ April 29 - May 6 (4)\nDaniel Linehan: Zombie Aporia | Lilian Baylis Stud...\nSara Greavu & Phil Hession: Titanic Toast | Golden...\nASFF 2012: ONE MONTH TO GO! SUBMIT TODAY TO SCREEN...\nThe Viewer as Spectator, Subject or Performer | Th..."
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        "text": "6 St. Louis Women Making Waves In The Arts\nHome / Culture / 6 St. Louis Women Making Waves In The Arts\nBy Lena Crown\nPosted Feb 14, 2018\nIn Culture, Feature\n6 St. Louis Women Making Waves In The Arts2018-02-142018-02-20http://www.alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/logo_header.pngAlivehttp://alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/visionary-award-winners-pic-min-e1518421656361.jpg200px200px\nThe six women honored by the 2018 St. Louis Visionary Awards have pushed the city’s arts community forward in distinct, tangible ways—ways such as: establishing the Shakespeare Festival in Forest Park; forging the city’s first space for classical Indian dance; creating space for conversations about race, identity and art; and much more.\nWe asked each of these inspiring women about their arts experience, inspirations and visions for the future. Keep reading for their answers.\nYvonne Osei, Emerging Artist\nTell me about your introduction to art and the arts community in St. Louis.\nAs a native of the Ashanti Kingdom of Ghana, my interest in art was subconsciously sparked and continues to be invigorated by the Ashanti way of life. Art forms an inseparable synergy with life and is embodied by people: art is worn, carried around and lived in. My involvement with the art scene in St. Louis dates back to 2009, when I first served as a Gallery Assistant at Three Sinks Gallery, where I was exposed to local artists and art events in the St. Louis area.\nWhat is something you are proud to have created?\nIn 2016, I created a collection of garments titled “From Utopia, With Love.” These garments are constructed from textile designs using photographic renditions of the skins and body features of diverse individuals I have photographed. I am proud of this work and seek to expand on it because of its potential to celebrate differences and call attention to the superficiality of racial categorizations.\nWhat are you working on at the moment, or what do you currently find inspiring?\nI find clothing inspiring because of its potency as a highly responsive artistic medium of expression. Clothing is a universally relatable necessity that exemplifies the synergistic relationship between art and life in my culture. In my recent creative works, I explore clothing as cultural, social and political symbols as well as literal and conceptual coverings of ‘nudity.’ I am also drawn to the way clothing moves fluidly between public and private spaces.\nWhat is your advice for young people looking to establish a career in the arts?\nAs young artists, it is crucial to understand that your creative voice is inherently yours and it is valid. It is a good thing to receive constructive criticism about your work but a dangerous thing to internalize it to the detriment of your vision.\nAntionette Carroll, Community Impact Artist\nMy grandparents, who raised me, always integrated art into our home. Still, no one ever told me that a career in the arts is possible. I ultimately decided to pursue design after studying biology. My introduction to the arts community in St. Louis came from the Katherine Dunham Fellowship at the Regional Arts Commission, which opened my eyes to the existence of careers like arts administration.\nMy biggest accomplishment was the establishment of the Creative Reaction Lab in response to the unrest in Ferguson. We educate and engage Black and Latino youth, to address issues around racism. I am proud to have implemented a new form of creative problem-solving: equity-centered community design, which can be applied to address social justice issues. We are trying to build a network of community leaders and equity designers.\nCurrently, I’m working on the curation of the third annual Design + Diversity conference. The conference examines how we design diversity, both through the visual lens and through the lens of human connection. This year, we are developing a fellowship program to give interested designers the opportunity to not only attend the conference, but also to receive resources to support their success in the industry.\nWe are at work more than we are at home, so try not to bring unhappiness home with you. Find your happiness in whatever medium that brings you joy.\nAllison Felter, Outstanding Arts Professional\nI first encountered the arts in grade school, when my mother insisted I sign up to play a band instrument. I was introduced to the St. Louis arts community fresh out of college, working for the legendary Joan Fann at the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She took an enthusiastic but wildly unfocused twenty-two-year-old and initiated my training as an arts administrator.\nI have had the privilege of building the Artists-in-Training Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis into one that is nationally recognized, providing college-level voice training and life skills to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Numerous graduates have achieved distinguished careers in diverse disciplines, from opera to politics. Beyond the career opportunities, the program invests in the community by offering young people the chance to make lifelong friends.\nMy partnerships, both ongoing and new, make my job interesting. I pair our resources at Opera Theater of Saint Louis with those of partner organizations to create new programming for students and adults. We recently partnered with the Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis Public Schools and St. Louis Archdiocesan Schools to offer a professional development day for teachers, including vocal, aural and physical body training.\nIf you are interested in arts administration, sample as many departments as you can—whether you’re an intern, volunteer or paid employee—to find out where your true gifts lie.\nAsha Premachandra, Outstanding Teaching Artist\nWhen I came to St. Louis, I realized there were no classical Indian dance companies here, so my family and I started our own. We named it “Dances of India,” because many thought our school taught Native American dance. My husband, who was always fond of both Eastern and Western dance, took the lead in organizing the school.\nWe are very proud to have created new pieces for our annual dance shows for the past 40 years. I also feel very lucky to work alongside my friends and family. My friend and student Theckla Mehta is the artistic co-director, and my daughter, Nartana Premachandra, serves as the president and writes our original productions.\nWe are continually pushing ourselves to bring new ideas to our dance choreography so that we can inspire the audience. We try to reach out to the audience emotionally to help them truly feel the story or the dance’s rhythm.\nDon’t underestimate the benefits that the performing arts can have on your mind and body. Dance in general is very relaxing to the mind and body. Dance is healthy!\nCheeraz Gormon, Outstanding Working Artist\nThe house I grew up in had paintings covering the walls and music playing on any given day of the week. I navigated the St. Louis arts community during college as a young photographer and spoken-word poet in 1998, and, since then, my journey has been filled with so much exploration and growth.\nI am proud to have released my first collection of poetry and writing in 2015. I’m grateful to have founded the nonprofit Sonic Arts United, and to have watched it take shape as the co-director over the years. I’m thankful to have helped to establish the St. Louis Brick City Poetry Festival. Last, but surely not least, it was humbling to work with Shirley Bradley-LeFlore to bring back her writers workshop, Poets Alley.\nAs Storytelling Fellow at InPower Institute based in St. Louis, I’m excited to launch a podcast series dedicated to giving voice to Black neighborhoods and communities that have suffered displacement and erasure. In my own poetry, I’m collaborating with visual artist and animator Sarah Paulsen. I am beginning the process of turning some of my poems into short films, which is exciting and intimidating.\nResist the urge to narrow what is meant to be wide. The world has enough systems designed to suppress what is most beautiful, vibrant and liberating. Always choose your freedom.\nLana Pepper, Major Contributor to the Arts\nI was twenty-three years old before I went to the theater. My very first play was “Othello,” and although I knew nothing about Shakespeare, I was mesmerized. I eventually studied theater while raising my children and later became the assistant to the artistic director at The Rep. After receiving my MFA, I began to organize fundraisers and events for local arts organizations.\nI am proud of my role in bringing the Shakespeare Festival to St. Louis. I was first brought on as a volunteer because of my background in Shakespeare and my organizational experience, and eventually I became the managing director. We also immediately implemented educational programs in St. Louis schools. Inspired by the Chicago Shakespeare Festival, we trained teachers to get students up out of their chairs, speaking and acting out the lines.\nI serve on the board at the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation, and we are currently working to offer more young people opportunities for performance. I hope that someday, in the future, so many talented artists will be coming from our city that someone will say, “What is in the water in St. Louis? Where is this talent coming from?”\nAsk for help. And when you get help, you must give credit to those people. And finally: drive a station wagon, because you’re going to be schlepping.\nArtist, Creative, Maker, missouri, St. Louis, Story, Writer\nWhat It Is To Become: The Astonishing Art of Patrick Quarm\nTurn By David Kirkland Opens For Dinner In St. LouisFeature, Food\n5 Romantic Restaurants In DetroitFeature, Food"
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        "text": "15 май е 135-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (136-и през високосна година). Остават 230 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1514 г. – Фернандо Магелан официално е освободен от служба при португалския крал.\n 1525 г. – Приключва Селската война – народно въстание, избухнало в Европа през 1524 г.\n 1567 г. – Мария Стюарт, кралицата на Шотландия се омъжва за Джеймс Хепбърн, 4-ти граф на Ботуел – третият ѝ съпруг, за когото е широко разпространено мнението, че е виновен за убийството на лорд Дарнли.\n 1648 г. – Подписан е Вестфалският мирен договор, който слага край на Тридесетгодишната война.\n 1658 г. – В Елбасан е учреден първият еснаф на Балканите и в Османската империя – Табак.\n 1701 г. – Започва Войната за испанското наследство.\n 1755 г. – Основан е град Ларедо (Тексас), САЩ.\n 1800 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт преминава Алпите и нахлува в Италия.\n 1811 г. – Парагвай обявява независимост от Испания.\n 1867 г. – Четата на Филип Тотю със знаменосец Васил Левски преминава река Дунав край Свищов.\n 1879 г. – Княз Александър Богориди пристига в Пловдив и поема управлението на Източна Румелия.\n 1882 г. – Руският император Александър III въвежда Майските закони.\n 1892 г. – Стоян Михайловски написва стихотворението „Кирил и Методий“, което през 1901 г. с музиката на Панайот Пипков става химна „Върви, народе възродени“.\n 1917 г. – Нападение от четата на Коста Войнович на Босилеградско.\n 1918 г. – Влиза в действие първата в света въздушна пощенска служба между Ню Йорк, Филаделфия, Пенсилвания и Вашингтон.\n 1930 г. – Съставено е четиридесет и шестото правителство на България и третото начело с Андрей Ляпчев.\n 1935 г. – Открита е първата линия на Московското метро.\n 1940 г. – „Макдоналдс“ отваря първия си ресторант в Сан Бернардино, Калифорния.\n 1941 г. – Войски на Българска армия влизат в Ресен и Охрид и завземат островите Тасос и Самотраки в Бяло море.\n 1942 г. – Основан е Институт за български език към Българската академия на науките, който се занимава с изследване на състоянието, историята и диалектите на българския език.\n 1943 г. – Комунистическият интернационал е разпуснат.\n 1948 г. – Започва първата Арабско-израелска война.\n 1955 г. – Постигната е независимостта на Австрия.\n 1957 г. – Великобритания изпробва първата си водородна бомба на остров Молден, част от островите Лайн в Тихия океан.\n 1958 г. – СССР изстрелва Спутник-3.\n 1960 г. – СССР изстрелва Спутник-4.\n 1988 г. – Война в Афганистан (1979 – 1989): След повече от осем години воюване, Червената армия започва изтегляне от Афганистан.\n 1990 г. – Картината „Портрет на д-р Гаше“ от Винсент ван Гог е продадена за рекордните 82,5 милиона щатски долара и става най-скъпата картина.\n 1992 г. – Създадена е Националната служба по заетостта.\n 2008 г. – Калифорния става вторият американски щат след Масачузетс през 2004 година, който легализира еднополовите бракове.\n 2009 г. – Официално е открит „Музеят на тракийското изкуство“ в Симеоновград от президента на България Георги Първанов, министъра на културата Стефан Данаилов в присъствието на Техни Височества Акишино – принцът и принцесата на Япония.\n 2019 г. – Финал за Купата на България между пловдивските „Локомотив“ и „Ботев“ на ст. „Васил Левски“ в София. „Локомотив“ Пловдив печели трофея за първи път след победа с 1:0 с гол на Ален Ожболт с пета.\n 2022 г. - Финал за Купата на България между софийските грандове \"Левски\" и \"ЦСКА\" на ст. Васил Левски в София.\"Левски\" печели трофея за двадесет и седми път след победа с 1:0 с гол на Илиян Стефанов с рикошет.\n\nРодени \n\n 1567 г. – Клаудио Монтеверди, италиански композитор († 1643 г.)\n 1633 г. – Себастиан дьо Вобан, френски военен инженер († 1707 г.)\n 1773 г. – Клеменс фон Метерних, австрийски политик († 1858 г.)\n 1845 г. – Иля Мечников, руски биолог, Нобелов лауреат († 1916 г.)\n 1848 г. – Виктор Васнецов, руски художник († 1926 г.)\n 1856 г. – Лиман Франк Баум, американски детски писател († 1919 г.)\n 1859 г. – Карел Шкорпил, чешко-български археолог († 1944 г.)\n 1859 г. – Пиер Кюри, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1906 г.)\n 1862 г. – Артур Шницлер, австрийски писател († 1931 г.)\n 1864 г. – Захария Шумлянска, българска просветна деятелка († 1937 г.)\n 1865 г. – Стефан Огнянов, български политик († 1940 г.)\n 1867 г. – Асен Николов, български военен деец († 1928 г.)\n 1870 г. – Васил Кирков, български актьор († 1931 г.)\n 1883 г. – Владимир Попанастасов, български поет († 1913 г.)\n 1884 г. – Добри Терпешев, български партизанин и комунист († 1967 г.)\n 1891 г. – Михаил Булгаков, съветски писател и драматург († 1940 г.)\n 1911 г. – Макс Фриш, швейцарски писател († 1991 г.)\n 1919 г. – Александър Геров, български писател († 1997 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ричард Аведън, американски фотограф († 2004 г.)\n 1926 г. – Драгомир Асенов, български писател († 1981 г.)\n 1926 г. – Питър Шафър, английски драматург († 2016 г.)\n 1937 г. – Мадлин Олбрайт, американски политик († 2022 г.)\n 1938 г. – Стефан Дамянов, български общественик, кмет на община Казанлък (2007 – 2011)\n 1940 г. – Карлос Билики, аржентински шахматист\n 1941 г. – Атанас Джурджев, български кардиолог († 2007 г.)\n 1941 г. – Робърт Ковалски, американски логик\n 1942 г. – Ристо Ячев, македонски писател († 2019 г.)\n 1943 г. – Георги Бакалов, български историк († 2012 г.)\n 1945 г. – Иван Герджиков, български психиатър († 2015 г.)\n 1947 г. – Люпко Петрович, сръбски футболен треньор\n 1951 г. – Франк Уилчек, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 2004\n 1953 г. – Майк Олдфийлд, английски музикант и композитор\n 1967 г. – Мадхури Диксит, индийска актриса\n 1970 г. – Юдит Херман, германска писателка\n 1979 г. – Улрике Алмут Зандиг, германска писателка\n 1981 г. – Патрис Евра, френски футболист\n 1987 г. – Анди Мъри, шотландски тенисист\n 1989 г. – Съни, корейска певица\n 1991 г. – Михаела Филева, българска певица\n 1993 г. – Евелин Костова, българска актриса\n 1996 г. – Бърди, английска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 392 г. – Валентиниан II, римски император (* 371 г.)\n 884 г. – Марин I, римокатолически папа (* неизв.)\n 1157 г. – Юрий Долгорукий, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* ок. 1099)\n 1482 г. – Паоло Тосканели, флорентински учен (* 1397 г.)\n 1634 г. – Хендрик Аверкамп, нидерландски художник (* 1585 г.)\n 1832 г. – Карл Фридрих Целтер, германски композитор (* 1758 г.)\n 1873 г. – Александру Йоан Куза, румънски владетел (* 1820 г.)\n 1881 г. – Цеко Петков, български революционер (* 1807 г.)\n 1886 г. – Емили Дикинсън, американска поетеса (* 1830 г.)\n 1924 г. – Пол д'Естурнел, френски политик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1852 г.)\n 1925 г. – Гео Милев, български поет, публицист и комунист (* 1895 г.)\n 1935 г. – Ховсеп Азнавур, османски архитект (* 1854 г.)\n 1935 г. – Казимир Малевич, украински художник (* 1878 г.)\n 1938 г. – Христофор Хесапчиев, български генерал (* 1858 г.)\n 1945 г. – Чарлз Уилямс, английски писател (* 1886 г.)\n 1954 г. – Атанас Буров, български политик (* 1875 г.)\n 1986 г. – Елио де Анджелис, италиански автомобилен състезател (* 1958 г.)\n 2008 г. – Уилис Лам, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1913 г.)\n 2012 г. – Карлос Фуентес, мексикански дипломат и писател (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на климата\n Международен ден на семейството\n Международен ден на лицата, които отказват да служат в армия поради своите убеждения (Международен ден на убежденията по съвест)\n България – Празник на град Плевен\n Литва – Ден на Републиката\n Мексико, Южна Корея – Ден на учителя\n Парагвай – Ден на независимостта (декларирана, от Испания, 1811 г., национален празник)\n Словения – Ден на словенската армия\n\n515"
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        "text": "Q: What iPhone apps can't you live without? What are your \"must-have\" iPhone or iPod touch apps—the ones you can't live without? (Figuratively speaking, I hope.) Please omit apps that come pre-installed.\nRules\n\n\n*\n\n*One app per answer.\n\n*Use this format for the first two lines of your answer:\n## [app name](link to website)\n[App Store](link to appstore)   \n\n*Include short description.\n\n*Check for duplicates before adding new answers. \n\n*If you find a duplicate, vote it down and encourage its poster to upvote the original entry instead (and remove the dupe).\n\n\nPlease exclude iPad-only apps from here; there's Great iPad Apps for those. \nDisclaimer: I know this type of question is controversial. However, great many people do find that properly implemented and curated CW polls can be useful. (If you are one of those who do not, could you simply consider ignoring this?)\n\nA: Articles\nApp Store\nBest way to read Wikipedia.\n\nA: OmniFocus\nApp Store \nTask management application that uses the Getting Things Done (GTD) organizational method. Also available for Mac and iPad.\n\nA: Simplenote\nNote-taking in a better interface than the default Notes application (no Marker Felt) and notes are synched to a server for easy backups and viewing elsewhere.\n\nA: Spotify\nApp Store\nFor listening to music off the internet (directly on wifi/3G or via offline playlists).\nNB: Spotify is only available in certain countries, and Spotify Premium (€9.99 or £9.99 per month) is needed to use the iPhone app.\nNow with iOS 4 + iPhone 4 (unlike with my unjailbroken iPhone 3G earlier) the experience is really good, as you get background play and ability to use normal iPod playback controls (e.g. the headphone remote). In other words, it's similar to using the built-in iPod app, except that you have approximately 10 million tracks available at your fingertips.\n\nA: IMDb\nApp Store\niPhone app for the largest movie database website IMDb\n\nA: instagr.am\nApp Store (free)\nIt’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your iPhone, choose a filter to transform the look and feel, send to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr – it’s all as easy as pie. It’s photo sharing, reinvented.\nSimple idea, brillantly executed.\n\nA: Dictionary.com\nApp Store\nComprehensive, yet free, dictionary & thesaurus. Key features:\n\n\n*\n\n*All word definitions come with the app—no internet connection needed \n\n*Decent UI with autocomplete (no need to type in the whole word)\n\n*Audio pronunciations (internet connection required for this)\n\n\nA: Adobe Photoshop Express\nApp Store\nGreat little mobile photo editor!\n\nA: Cut the Rope\nApp Store ($0.99)\nThe best game in the app store\n\nA: Pandora Radio\nApp Store (free)\nEveryone probably knows about Pandora Radio by now.  Put in a favorite artist and it helps you locate similar artists.  It's helped me find many new bands.\n\nA: Dropbox\nApp Store\nConveniently access files in your Dropbox on the go.\n\nA: Trainyard\nApp Store ($0.99 USD)\nA great puzzle game with tons of levels. Kept me playing for days, and I've still been unable to beat a couple levels after a couple months of having the app.  There is also a free version. Intuitive, fun, and brain exercising.\n\nA: Tweetbot By Tapbots\nApp Store (Price: $2.99)\nDescription\nTweetbot is a full-featured iPhone (and iPod touch) Twitter client with a lot of personality. Whether it’s the meticulously-crafted interface, sounds & animation, or features like multiple timelines & smart gestures, there’s a lot to love about Tweetbot.\n\n\nA: Remember The Milk\nApp Store \nThe best way to manage your tasks.\n\nA: Pulse\nApp Store\nReeder is the best RSS reader for Google Reader. But Pulse is much nicer to randomly read various feeds.\n\nA: Pocket\nApp Store \nPocket lets you save webpages to read later, even without an internet connection. Ideal for those who have iPod touch but don't have access to Wifi. Also while travelling in subway, where 3g always goes haywire.\n\nA: Doodle Jump\nApp Store\nDoodle Jump™ is THE MOST ADDICTIVE GAME on the App Store. Enough said :)\n\nA: Soulver\nApp Store ($2.99) \nSoulver is by far the most useful calculator app in the App Store. It's a much easier and more powerful way to work with numbers over a normal calculator. Embed text with your calculations to make it easier to see the problem you are solving. You can easily go back and make a change earlier in the calculation and have everything updated, similar to a spreadsheet. You can use several lines and reference previous lines in your calculations allowing yourself to split up long equations or even reuse parts to see different results. These can all be saved on separate sheets so it's easy to go back and reference them later. You'll never go back to a normal calculator again.\n(Sorry, will only let me post one hyper link)\n\nA:  Flipboard\nApp Store \nthe best newsreader and social hub\n\nA: Twitter\nApp Store\nThe official Twitter client. Previously known as Tweetie 2.\n\nA: Reeder\nApp Store\nGoogle Reader client.\n\nA: Instapaper\nApp Store\nA simple tool to save web pages for reading later.\n\nA: Remote\nApp Store\nWifi remote control for iTunes music library (or Apple TV). This is made by Apple but doesn't come pre-installed.\n(Some have pointed out that Remote's development has stagnated, but personally I don't mind that much, as the app works as great as ever, and all major features are already there.)\n\nA: Echofon\nApp Store (free)\nApp Store ($4.99)\nA great twitter client with synchronization between the desktop version for Mac and the Firefox extension\n\nA: Viber\nApp Store \nViber is a MUST-HAVE app. Lets you make and get free calls over 3G or Wifi even the app is not running. Notifies you when there is a call for you. Also gets your contact list and notifies when a friend installs VIBER. Sound quality is amazing even on 3G. I am talking to my best buddy living in Switzerland freely via Wifi from Turkey. And VIBER is a FREE app.\n\nA: Mobile Mouse\nApp Store (1.99$)\nMobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into an in air, wireless remote for your computer! Sit back and use this remote to surf the web, browse your photo library or control your music player from the comfort of your couch. \nI use an old mac-mini as a Media Center and the combi Remote+Mobile Mouse apps is gold!\n\nA: Calvetica\nApp Store ($2.99)\nA beautiful, minimal calendar app without peer.\nJust go look. I defy you to not become more efficient with your calendar use.\n\nA: AppShopper\nApp store (free)\nYou can keep a list of apps you want, and it will let you know when they drop in price.\n\nA: Instacast\nApp Store ($1.99)\nIt's the best Podcast-App in the AppStore, and handles Podcast much better than iTunes.\n\n\n*\n\n*Download all Podcasts; automatically and in the background\n\n*Stream Podcast over Edge, 3G or WiFi\n\n*Continue where you left off\n\n*Support for iCloud\n\n\nA: Facebook\nApp Store\nIf you're into Facebook, their official iPhone app is pretty good for staying connected with people.\n\nA: ComicBookLover\nApp Store (free)\nRead .cbr and .cbz format comic books. All sorts of transfer options, including iTunes sync. Good, intuitive page flipping. Great in combination with the desktop version, which allows you to add all sorts of metadata to maintain your collection.\nWorks best on the iPhone's 4 retina display - no need to zoom!\n\nA: MyWi\n(Not avaiable in app store; jailbreak required.)\nTurns your iPhone into a wifi hotspot. Just great!\n\nA: Shazam\nApp Store\nRecords a few seconds of what you're currently listening to and then shows you information about this song. Shazam is quite old by now, but still an amazing piece of software that's always useful from time to time.\n\nA: Sleep Cycle alarm clock\nApp Store\nAn alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns (using iPhone accelerometer) and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase.\n\nA: 1Password\nIf you use 1Password on your Mac, the iOS app is quite handy.  It can be linked to a Dropbox account therefore keeping data synchronized between your desktop and iOS device.  There are regular and pro versions available for both iPhone and iPad.\n\nA: Things\nApp Store\nTask management tool. The todo items can be synced (over wifi) with OS X and iPad versions.\n\nA: PlainText\nApp Store\n\nDropbox text editing.\nFor editing text on iPad & iPhone. PlainText is a simple text editor with a paper-like user interface. Unlike the default Notes app, PlainText allows you to create and organize your documents in folders and sync everything with Dropbox.com. Requires iOS 3.0+\n\nAfter trying different note-taking apps like SimpleNote and Evernote, I discovered this beauty a few days ago and it immediately replaced the built-in Notes app for me, both on my iPhone and my iPad. It fit my needs perfectly, and is really simple & beautifully designed. YMMV, but it's free to try.\nP.S. Elements is a feature-packed alternative with Markdown support and built-in email, but I'm not sure I need those features and it's $4.99.\n\nA: SoundHound\nApp Store\nSoudHound seems a lot faster than Shazam. Will start to try to match a song even before the full capture. It also identified songs that Shazam didn't. And SoundHound's free version allows unlimited matches, while Shazam allows 5 per month.\n\nA: Angry Birds\nApp Store\nThe best game in the app store \n\nA: WhatsApp\nApp Store\nWhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messaging app which allows you to exchange messages with your friends and contacts without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is cross platform and available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia (beta) and yes, those phones can all message each other! To send and receive messages, WhatsApp utilizes your existing smartphone internet data plan: 3G/EDGE (or Wi-Fi when available)\nIn addition to messaging, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry WhatsApp Messenger users can send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages.\n\nA: Cydia\nCydia (jailbreak required)\nCydia is a software application for iOS that is a graphical front end to APT and the dpkg package management system. It allows a user to browse and download applications for a jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.\n\n\nA: Server Remote\nApp Store ($3.99)  \nSimple app to monitor servers, including uptime, running commands, load levels, and memory. Really worth it.\n\nA: Safety Light\nWhen it comes to flashlight apps, you get what you pay for. I've tried a number of these, and the interface and technical capabilities are just right. Much, much better than the free ones. Also, it somehow manages to get the screen super-bright, lighting up an entire room without draining the battery like the new LED-using apps that have flooded the App Store. No battery warning to is this one.\n\nA: Byline\nApp Store ($4.99 / 3.99 €)\nApp Store (Byline Free) (free; with ads)\nGoogle Reader on the go. Byline will automatically bring you new content, putting thousands of RSS and Atom feeds at your fingertips. Even when you have no internet connection, Byline gives you instant access to complete web pages. It automatically analyses your feeds so that it can cache the ones with truncated content. This means all your news is there in full when you’re offline, and blazing fast to load when you’re online to boot.\n\nA: MoneyBook\nApp Store ($2.99)\nGreat app to track and manage finances.\n\nA: Prizmo for iPhone\nApp Store ($9.99)\nThough it is expensive (compared to other apps that is), this is OCR done right. Works great to capture some texts, quicker than using a scanner and can also be used to import business cards.\n\nA: StreamToMe\nApp Store ($2.99)\nStreams almost any video or music from your Mac or PC to the iPhone and iPad. The Mac/PC is converting the source file on the fly. Playback generally starts after 5 seconds.\n\nA: Profanity\nApp Store ($0.99 / £0.59)\nThe best (and only) profanity generator in the App store. Always useful in the pub. Otherwise completely pointless but great fun.\n\nA: Wikipanion\nApp Store (free)\nProbably the best Wikipedia app in the AppStore. Easy navigation, nice article formatting, very fast.\n\nA: GoodReader for iPhone\nApp Store ($2.99)\nSuper-robust PDF reader with advanced reading, annotating, markup and highlighting capabilities, excellent file manager, TXT file reader and editor, audio/video player, Safari-like viewer for MS Office and iWorks files.\nThis is a great app for any documents organizer and good PDF reader. It also can unzip the zip files, as it's not natively handled by iOS. I use it everyday. It used to sell $0.99, but now they increased price.\n\nA: Snappy\nEnable using the camera from anywhere, even while screen locked. Just configure how to activate it (mine is double tap the lock button) and take photos really, really fast. Also configure the volume button to act as a shutter. It has few more great features such as being able to take one photo after the other really quickly, proper geolocation and camera meta data.\nThis apps is for jailbroken phones only.\n\nA: PCalc\nApp Store ($9.99)\nMy favourite calculator on iOS. The best feature is the optional RPN mode, but it's chockers with other goodies, a very capable tool. I've found it indispensable at university—unfortunately I still have to borrow a graphics calculator for officially invigilated exams, but when there's an in-class test sprung upon me, someone asks me to help them, or even in casual conversation when a question beyond my horrifically meagre arithmetical abilities arises, PCalc is great. It doesn't handle actual graphing, & it still handles statistics in the same horrifically bad way every physical calculator since the old HPs has, but the rest is fine: different notations, bases, button layouts, unit conversions, etc., & the (distressingly un-)usual logarithmic, hyperbolic, trigonometric et al. functions. A dedicated unit from TI, HP or Casio will completely outstrip PCalc but it makes the anaemic built-in calculator look like a child's toy.\n\nA: Anki\nAnki is software to help make it easier to remember things. It uses spaced repetition technology to make sure you only see the items you are having trouble remembering and the things you do remember you see less often. I can't imagine studying without it anymore. In particular it's been a huge help studying languages and I highly recommend it. The iPhone app is a companion to the desktop software and syncs through their servers. The desktop application is free, but if you find it useful the iPhone app is invaluable to studying on the go. \n\nA: WiFi2HiFi\nApp Store (USD $3.99)\nStream Grooveshark, Spotify, Pandora or any other audio player from the computer to the iPhone.  \n\nA: Pastebot\nApp Store ($3.99/€2.99)\nTogether with its companion Mac application, let's you copy/paste from Mac to iPhone. Really handy. It also keeps clipboard data in your iPhone (example: you can copy an image from a website and keep it in Pastebot)\n\nA: TextExpander\nApp Store ($4.99)\nCreate shorthand strings which expand into more complex statements. For instance, you can create a snippet such that typing ssig expands to\n\nRegards,\nJohn Doe\n123 Sesame St.\nAnywhere, USA 12345\nfoo@bar.com\n\nSnippets can include variable values, and quite a few other niceties. Many popular apps also support TextExpander, a list of which appears here. This is really useful for reducing the amount of typing repetitive or common phrases.\n\nA: Prompt\nApp Store ($7.99)\nAllows you to SSH from any iOS device. I find it indispensable for doing C++ homework.\n\nA: Major League Baseball (MLB.com)\nBetter than reading the sports page.\n\nA: Colorendar\n($0.99)\nSimple calendar app that let's you create a \"color diary.\" Also shows you phases of the moon.\n\nA: OPlayer\nApp Store (€2,39)\nApp Store, Lite version (Free)\nPlays almost every kind of video format, without having to transcode first. Transfer via iTunes sync or stream right from a web server. There's also an iPad version.\n\nA: Prowl\nApp Store ($2.99)\nThe app itself is ultimately a \"dumb client\" for sending push notifications to your phone. Prowl is a service used to push arbitrary text to you. There are numerous services in the wild for leveraging it to send you NAGIOS and other alerts from monitoring software, Prey Fetcher exists to push posts, @'s, DMs, and list updates to you, and anything else you're capable of dreaming up.\n\nA: Flashcards Deluxe\nApp Store (USD 3.99)\nNot perfect, but possibly the best SRS app on the (U.S.) App Store.\n\nA: Epic Win\nApp Store ($2.99)\nThis is a great app for task management. It's a lot more fun than Things, although not as feature-full it combines a To Do list app with an RPG. Beautifully designed and useful.\n\nA: iGmail\nApp Store (free)\nJust a browser wrapper to use gmail easily and quickly. I find this much better than regular Maill.app - too bad it doesn't have an offline version thus being slow and not as much reliable.\n\nA: Qik\nFirst and best real time video streaming on iPhone. 'nof said.\n\nA: Longitude\n(Available in Cydia; jailbroken only)\nAutomatically feed your location into Google Latitude.\n\nA: Kirikae\nBrings multi-tasking to iOS 3 way before iOS 4 was born. It actually works even better than iOS 4, from my opinion, because it doesn't leave every app open (which can bring batter down quickly) but it does let you configure if you want to do that per app basis. In other words, you can configure which app you want to automatically leave in background.\n\nA: Ninjawords\nApp Store ($1.99)\nA dictionary, to put it simply. It uses definitions from Wiktionary, which I find both more concise & more helpful than those of Dictionary.com, for instance. More importantly though, it's got a fast, lean & intuitive interface. No superfluous features, but I never find myself missing any functionality. It's a joy to use, unlike any other dictionary app I've tried.\n\nA: Textie\nApp Store (free, $1.99 to remove ads)\nTextie provides free messaging between iOS devices a la SMS. If Textie isn't installed on the recipient device, the service will route the message to SMS on many US mobiles, & to email in every other case. Replies are delivered to Textie on the original sending device with push notifications. The icing on the cake is the slick, minimal interface.\nWhatsApp is already on this list, but not only does it not integrate with SMS or email, but I've always found it to have extremely variable latency, from a couple of seconds to two days. Textie's latency has never exceeded twenty seconds for me.\n\nA: ShopShop\nApp Store (free)\nI feel like a bit of a dork for posting this but I find it quite useful and simple.  It's just a list app.  It keeps a repository of all entries you make so you can quickly add them back the next time you need it.  Make a grocery list and check them off.  The next time you won't have to type out items you've already used, just add them to a new list from the remembered items.\n\nA: MobileRSS Pro ~ Google RSS News Reader\nPretty self-explanatory.  An RSS reader for Google Reader.  Simple and well-designed.\n\nA: Boxcar\nApp Store (Free)\nAggregates notifications from various services including Twitter and Facebook; the killer features of this, for me, are its integration with Buzz, which has no built-in iOS notifications, and Growl, allowing me to send notifications from scripts running on my desktop and get them on my iPod Touch.\n\nA: Papers\nApp Store ($14.99)\nTool for managing academic journal articles. Syncs with the Mac App.\n\nA: Site to Phone\nBookmarklet that lets you send the current page in your browser to your mobile device of choice.\n\nA: Age Of Zombies\nApp Store (USD $2.99)\nPure awesome fun.\n\nA: Posterous\nApp Store (free)\nPost to your posterous.com microblog, especially useful for posting pictures and location on-the-go. Similar to twitter feeds, but a bit nicer to view photo galleries for your viewers. It can be set up to auto-publish to twitter, facebook, tumblr, etc.\n\nA: Notebooks\nApp Store ($5.99)\nAnother note taking system. Can also display HTML and RTF files, and you can sort notes into a hierarchy of notebooks.\n\nA: TechNews\nApp Store\nThis is errr... my app, but I couldn't find any rules on this one.\nAnyway, it is a really cool news app about Apple and other related stuff.\n\nA: Grocery IQ\nApp Store\nA great grocery list management app. Can be shared across users - so for example, I can add items at home on my iPad and the list is synchronized to my wife's iPhone while she shops.\n\nA: Twitterific for Twitter\nApp Store\nA great Twitter client for iPhone and iPad. Free/ad version and paid versions available.\n\nA: Zite\nApp Store (free)\nZite is a free personalized magazine for your iPhone that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it.\n\nA: Talkatone\nApp Store (free)\nAllows you to make completely free phone calls using your Google Voice account.\n\nA: Opera Mini\nApp Store (free)\nOpera Mini offers the fastest, most cost-efficient web-browsing experience for your iOS device today.\nOf course, if data limits/costs are of no concern, just use Safari for the most beautiful browsing experience on iOS — but Opera Mini is perfect for travelling abroad, to keep data roaming costs to a minimum, or when you’re stuck with a slow connection.\n\nA: LogMeIn Ignition\nApp Store ($29.99)\nRemote control in which you can see the screen with free subscriptions and desktop versions. iPhone app costs quite a bit, but it's the best remote control for iPhone I've seem, and probably the first too. Works over web or within same intranet wifi.\n\nA: TomTom\nCar navigation with full offline maps for probably every country out there. TomTom is well known for their own car navigation GPS's, but this version for iphone can become very handy from times to times where you don't have one proper device.\n\nA: Zapd\nGreat app to publish entire websites from your iPhone in a few clicks.\n"
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        "text": "121. Babes in Arms (1939)\nDirected By: Busby Berkeley\nWritten By: Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper\nMain Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser\n\"THEY CALL US BABES IN ARMS/BUT WE ARE BABES IN ARMOR!\"\nYet another Busby Berkeley musical comes up for viewing in the '1001' book, but instead of just choreographing the numbers, this time Berkeley directs, in a film that I didn't find half as good as his previous pictures, the ones that he didn't direct.\nWhen the days of vaudeville and stage shows is reaching it's bitter end and being replaced by talking pictures, this film zooms in on one families struggle to accept the fact that those days are over. The family are the Morans, headed up by the patriarch and famous vaudeville performer, Joe Moran. Joe is married and has two children, Mickey (Rooney) and Molly, two kids who dream of following in their father's footsteps and who want nothing more than to shine on the stage. They're both teenagers, and Mickey actually tastes a bit of success when he sells one of the many songs he's written. This inspires Mickey to make it even more, and when he finds out that the parents of all the kids in town are taking their vaudeville performance out for one last burst of life, Mickey and all the kids are disappointed that they won't be joining in. Mickey tries to persuade his father that all of the kids have got real talent, but to no avail, as the father wants no part of it.\nThis inspires Mickey even more and when the parents leave for New York, the kids band together and decide to put on a show, so that they can show their parents what they're made of and pull them out of debt in the process. The show is staged with Mickey, his friend/girlfriend Patsy, his sister Molly and another boy Don, as the leads. However, the cast lineup changes when famous child actor, Baby Rosalie enters the picture and decides that she'll put up the money they need to secure the location, sets, etc., as long as she gets to be in the lead. Meanwhile, the whole time, Martha, the town biddy, is trying her best to get the judge to send all the children to a state work school, since the parents are obviously clinging to dreams of stardom, instead of taking care of their responsibilities at home.\nThe plot is a bit fast, with a whole lot of information and plot points being chucked out and having it chucked out by children, for that matter. I just wasn't able to suspend my imagination enough to take all of this grown up behavior from these teenage kids. The kids go through the picture, caught up in love triangles, fighting it out in court, smoking cigars, going on dinner dates and all with the burden of taking care of their parents financial responsibilities, or trying to anyway. It just wasn't believable for me. Although Mickey Rooney was amazing in this, his performance was full of energy and I don't know if he was just naturally like that, or if they filled the kid full of caffeine before shooting. The character of Mickey and maybe even Patsy, we're believable for me, but the rest was just too much of a stretch for me to go along with. Even the musical numbers, as good as they were, fell a little bit flat, for Berkeley's standards. I was expecting grand numbers, like I saw in \"42nd Street\", \"Gold Diggers of 1933\" and \"Footlight Parade\", but instead the best I got was a silly black face routine and an average rendition of \"Where or When\".\nRATING: 5/10 Mickey Rooney was the life of the party here and his portrayal of Mickey Moran was enough to get this picture to the halfway mark.\nNEXT UP: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...Jimmy Stewart has arrived! My favorite classic actor of all-time (well before I started the book anyway) steps up to bat with his first film from the '1001' book. I'll be back later with the review for this one.\nBy Andrew D. at February 28, 2010 2 comments:\nLabels: Busby Berkeley\n120. Zangiku monogatari/The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939)\nDirected By: Kenji Mizoguchi\nWritten By: Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshikata Yoda, from novel by Shofu Muramatsu\nMain Cast: Shotaro Hanayagi, Kakuko Mori\nA FANTASTIC, JAPANESE LOVE STORY\nI'll admit that I had my doubts about how this movie would strike me and while my knowledge of Asian cinema isn't that vast, this was a great picture to start adding to that knowledge. \"The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums\", was a really depressing, heartbreaking love story and it really hits the emotional button with extra force.\nKikunosuke is the son of the legendary Japanese actor named Kikugoro, and is also an actor himself, staging performances in the city of Tokyo. Kiku (his shortened name in the film) eventually comes to the realization, that while his fellow actors and even his father praise him behind his back, when he's not around they complain about how terrible he is. While Kiku suspects this, he is never given a straight answer by anyone, due to the fact that he is the son of Kikugoro. One evening, while riding home after a performance, Kiku runs into Otoku, his baby brother's nursemaid. Otoku tells him that she went to see one of his performances, and while being careful not to offend him, tells it to him straight...that he's just not that good. He praises her for her honesty and tells her that because someone finally laid out the truth to him, that he will use it as inspiration to get better. After Otoku's show of honesty, Kiku becomes very close with the nursemaid, eventhough the rest of the family frowns upon fraternizing with her. When the two are caught alone in the house together, eating watermelon nonchalantly, Otoku is fired.\nIn rebellion against Otoku being let go, Kiku leaves his father's home, vowing never to return unless Otoku is welcome. Eventually Kiku finds himself on a train to Osaka, and while he tried to take Otoku with him, the families of the two lovers stepped in and kept her from going. Kiku takes a job as an actor in Osaka, and realizes on his own that he hasn't improved, especially without the honest criticisms of Otoku. However, Otoku tracks down Kiku in Osaka and the two are reunited and happy as ever, despite living in squalor. Some time passes and the show that Kiku is working on in Osaka is shut down and Kiku is forced to take an acting job with a traveling troupe of actors. Four years pass and the couple are still together, living in even more poverty, with Otoku's health on the decline. Despite a few slight quarrels, the couple stick together through thick and thin. However, the traveling troupe of actors are soon shut down as well, and the couple are forced to take refuge in a shelter. In a last ditch effort to make everything right for Kiku, Otoku travels to see an old friend and beg him to get Kiku a job in a role in a big stage play that is being put on. If Kiku can impress the audience, then he'll get the chance to return to Tokyo and become a world renowned actor. However, if Kiku does return to Tokyo, Otoku must take a vow to let him go alone, so that he may reconcile his differences with his father.\nThis movie is really a downer and it's ironic that this great cinematic love story is being played out in such a depressing film. The love that Kiku and Otoku share for one another is a beautiful thing and really highlighted by Mizoguchi. However, every time the couple seem to catch a break, it always ends badly and they find themselves right back at square one. Even the climax is a heartbreaking one and despite all of the sadness that this movie contains, it's still a really beautiful film, both visually and emotionally. I've always loved the setting of the orient in films, as I feel that it's a really photogenic country, that usually seems to give off some fantastic shots and wonderful backdrops. The Japanese culture is always one that I've felt that I could really fit into and having a film set there, really appeals to me. Anyway, I'm getting off on a rant here, but \"The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums\", despite its depressing tone, is still an enjoyable picture and something that I would really recommend to anyone.\nRATING: 7.5/10 That's another rating that I could definitely see climbing as time passes, and don't be surprised if this shows up on the next \"TOP\" list, with a higher, revised rating.\nNEXT UP: Babes in Arms...A Busby Berkeley musical...sounds allright to me. I'll be getting to this one, and the film that follows this one tomorrow, so be on the lookout boys and girls.\nLabels: Kenji Mizoguchi\n119. Stagecoach (1939)\nDirected By: John Ford\nWritten By: Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols\nMain Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, Louise Platt, Andy Devine, Donald Meek\nSidenote: The review for Stella Dallas is up and can be found by clicking here. On another note; I mentioned the other day that the Dodsworth review would be on the way soon. Well scratch that, as the status of the film on Netflix, has gone from \"shipping today\" back to a \"very long wait\", so who really knows when that'll get done. Also, no changing news on the status of Angels with Dirty Faces.\nON MY JOURNEY I MET A MAN CALLED 'THE DUKE'\nJohn Wayne swaggers into the pages of the '1001' book and John Ford follows him, with the director's second entry in the book (following Judge Priest). This was a pretty good western, which really picks up most of it's steam in the final thirty minutes.\nThe story takes place in the town of Tonto, a town which is going through a high degree of unrest, due to the recent word that Geronimo and the Apache's are afoot and raising cain. When the Marshall, Curly, gets word that the Ringo Kid (Wayne) has busted out of prison and likely headed for Lordsburg to confront Luke Plummer, a man who killed his brother and father, he jumps at the opportunity to bring the Kid back to justice and nab him once more. He summons a stagecoach driver named Buck to take him through Dry Fork, Apache Wells and finally into Lordsburg, despite the threat that the Apache's raise throughout those parts. Along for the ride are several other men and women, all for their own reasons. First off, we have Dr. Boone (Mitchell), the town drunk and a prostitute name Dallas (Trevor), both of whom are being kicked out of the town. Also, we have Mrs. Lucy Mallory (Platt), who plans to meet her cavalry officer husband in Dry Fork. Also along for the trip are Samuel Peacock (Meek), a whiskey salesman, Hatfield (Carradine), the town gambler and Henry Gatewood (Churchill), the banker in Tonto. So the stage is set for a wild ride when these personalities are stuffed into a tiny stagecoach, all for their own reasons and headed through Apache country.\nThe trip barely gets started when the coach comes across the Ringo Kid and Marshall Curly takes him along for the ride, as they continue their trek. The plot slows down considerably at this point, once all hands are on deck, as the gang arrives at Dry Fork, only to find out that the calvary has moved on to Apache Wells. They continue to Apache Wells, to find that the cavalry has, yet again, moved on to Lordsburg. While staying at Apache Wells, Mrs. Mallory faints and when Doc Boone is urged to sober up and help the young lady, it all ends up with the birth of her child, a baby girl. Also along the way, a romance is sparked between the Ringo Kid and Dallas, as two souls who no one wants, a fugitive and a prostitute, although the Kid doesn't know about her past. Eventually the climax comes and the volume is cranked up to a full blast level, with outstanding stunts and plenty of tension.\nThis was really a fantastic cast, as everyone involved turned in outstanding performances and played their part to keep the story going, even in the down times of the film. I love films where an random group of strangers are thrown together and forced to coexist. It usually seems to add an element of conflict and tension and keeps you gripped, as you just know at some point, somewhere the shit is going to hit the fan. The chase scene is where this film really turns into a \"must see\" picture, as it is truly an unbelievable showcase of action and stunts, especially considering the era in which the film was made. It's full of what every chase scene needs to have: great stunts, action, excitement, suspense and just plain awesomeness. From there we're not done, as the suspense and tension are laid on for a second round, as the whole gang reaches Lordsburg and I still realize we got the showdown between Plummer and the Kid to deal with. If they could've kept the excitement up throughout the whole movie, instead of picking it up near the end, then this would've been a blockbuster and a masterpiece. However, the middle segments just seem a bit too dull and \"nothing happening\" for me.\nRATING: 6.5/10 Despite a bit of dullness, the picture was still really enjoyable and fun to watch and I can definitely see this one growing on me, as time passes.\nNEXT UP: Zangiku Monogatari...or, The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums...I'll be watching this one on YouTube. I'll be out of town tomorrow, so if I do get to this one tomorrow, it won't be until later at night.\nBy Andrew D. at February 27, 2010 No comments:\nLabels: John Ford\n118. Bringing Up Baby (1938)\nDirected By: Howard Hawks\nWritten By: Hagar Wilde, Dudley Nichols\nMain Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Walter Catlett\nON MY JOURNEY I MET A WOMAN NAMED 'KATHARINE'\nThis is the definitive Cary Grant picture that I've been waiting for. While I didn't enjoy \"She Done Him Wrong\" or \"The Awful Truth\", this film, however, shows off the comedic talents of Grant to the fullest and add to that, the great Katharine Hepburn and director Howard Hawks, and you have got one hilarious film.\nDavid Huxley, a mild-mannered paleontologist, is getting married in twenty-four fours to Alice Swallow. While David spends his final hours as a bachelor putting together the skeleton of a brontosaurus, he's relieved to find out that the final bone, the intercostal clavicle, has just been discovered and his dinosaur is complete. The only other thing that could make David happier on this day, is if his meeting with Alexander Peabody goes well. If the meeting goes well, then Peabody could persuade his client, Elizabeth Random, to donate a sum of $1 million to David's museum. Enter Susan Vance (Hepburn)...\nDavid meets Ms. Susan Vance while playing golf with Peabody. She starts out by stealing his golf ball and playing off of it and then proceeds to drive off in his car, pulling David away from his gold game and putting the $1 million in jeopardy. Later that evening, David plans to meet with Peabody again at a restaurant later that night, but once again finds himself in the middle of a huge mix-up with the scatterbrained Vance. After she rips his coat and he rips her dress (both by accident), David misses his meeting again. The next morning David receives a call from Susan that she needs help in dealing with a leopard that her brother Mark has sent her from South America. The leopard is named, Baby, and is a tame leopard, but Susan will use any excuse in the book to get near David, whom she is rapidly falling for. David comes to her apartment, with his newly arrived intercostal clavicle in tow, and winds up being roped into taking the leopard to Connecticut, to Susan's aunt. Along the way, the information is revealed that Susan's aunt is the millionaire Elizabeth Random, and not only does David want her money for his museum, but Susan wants the dough as well. This is just a portion of the laughs that this movie conjures up and I won't spoil anymore, as the rest must be seen to be believed.\nWhile the plot may sound a bit zany and all over the place, it's actually quite hilarious, as the film ties together all sorts of different plot lines and runs with them, in this mother of screwball comedies. This film still holds up well today, and in fact, was ahead of it's time really, as the film flopped upon release, forcing Hepburn to forfeit her RKO contract and leading to Hawks' firing from RKO. It's the little things in this picture, that really get the laugh out loud moments from me, from David's mild-mannered, fumbling speech, to Susan asking David \"What's in the box?\" (the delivery of that line just gets to my funny bone for some reason, as Hepburn spits it out in record time), to David's use of the word gay, as he dons a frilly, female bathrobe. Everything just comes together so wonderfully and there's enough content here to keep this picture trekking along right through to the last bit of picture perfect dialogue. Throw Grant and Hepburn together, add one part leopard, one part Asta, the dog and tons of laughs and you have got a serious winner on your hands.\nRATING: 8.5/10 Hilarious movie, that is forcing me to take a closer look at the genre of screwball comedy and consume some of it's prime candidates, in my spare time.\nNEXT UP: Stagecoach...\"The Duke\" swaggers into the pages of the \"1001\" book! This will probably get watched later tonight, so look for the review then.\nLabels: Howard Hawks\n116. OLYMPIA (1938)\nDirected By: Leni Riefenstahl\nWritten By: Leni Riefenstahl\nMain Cast: Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Josef Goebbels, Forrest Towns, Glenn Morris\nOLYMPIA PART 1: FESTIVAL OF NATIONS\nI'm really not quite sure how I'm going to write a proper review for this film, but we'll certainly give it a go, just don't expect it to be very long. But, not because it wasn't good, it was actually a great piece of work and an extremely interesting film.\nThe reason I state that this will be a hard review to write, is simply because the film merely covers various events from the 1936 Olympic Games, which were held in Berlin, Germany and presided over by Adolf Hitler. The games that year were Hitler's way of showcasing the talents and athletic ability of the Third Reich. However, as much as it would seem that this is just another piece of Nazi propaganda, part one is actually a piece of work that can really evoke American patriotism. Many of the events that are showcased in part one are won by Americans, such as: the long jump, 4x400m relay, 110m hurdles, high jump, pole vault and of course, Jesse Owens totally insane running of the 100m race, where the camera gets a nice look at Owens sprinting like a gazelle and finishing the race in 10.3 seconds. Some of the other events showcased in part one include: the marathon race, hammer throw, women's high jump, hop, skip and jump, men and women's javelin throwing, shot put and discus throwing.\nI guess the best way to sum up how much I liked this half of the film, would be to tell you that I have NEVER been interested in the Olympic Games, summer or winter. When I was a kid, the only thing that the Olympics meant to me, was just something that interrupted my regular television programming. However, this film really sucked me in and even, at times, had me cheering for my fellow, American countrymen. This film really sucked me into the whole Olympic whirlwind and actually made me respect these athletes more than I ever have in my life. This is a great film, and despite its simplicity, really drags you in and gives you some hardcore emotions to mull over.\nOLYMPIA PART 2: FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY\nThis installment picks up right where the previous one left off, showcasing an eclectic group of events. While part one really only had three different types of events: throwing, running and jumping, part two gives us a wide range of games to sink our teeth into, such as: diving, polo, the decathalon, cycling, swimming, soccer, hockey, boxing, rowing, boxing, fencing, equestrian, polo and gymnastics. The title \"Festival of Beauty\" is an apt one, as Riefenstahl does an immaculate job making the athletes look their best, especially with the more graceful events, such as gymnastics and diving. With diving, she points her camera straight to the sky and allows the silhouettes of the athletes to totally mesmerize the viewer, and let us forget for a moment that a competition is being held. I would have to say that part two contained a few more dull moments than part one, with some slow events, such as: boxing and fencing, however, part two totally redeems itself with the decathalon, which is shown in all it's glory and is quite exciting to watch USA take home the gold, silver and bronze in that particular event.\nI would really have to dismiss people who say that this is just another piece of Nazi propaganda, as Riefenstahl isn't shy about showing us the triumphs of other countries, especially the United States. When I did a quick Wikipedia search to see what the final medal count was for the 1936 Summer Games, I found that Germany actually held the most, with thirty-three gold medals and eighty-nine in all. The United States came in second overall with a total of twenty-four gold medals and fifty-six total medals. With that being said, it would have been very easy for Riefenstahl to make this into an all German show. There was nowhere near thirty-three events showcased in the entire 3+ hour film, which means she could've easily stacked the deck with all German victories. Anyway, the bottom line is this: This was definitely one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen. Now I realize the prospect of a 3+ hour documentary doesn't sound all that enthralling, the time is not an issue, as the whole film really has a good flow to it and the time flies while watching \"Olympia\". Granted, I didn't watch the entire two parts back-to-back, but I could've easily done so, and I could've watched more, as I was even disappointed that there were some events not showcased, such as: greco-roman wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, handball and football. There could've been a part three and I would've been excited to tear through it.\nWith \"Olympia\", Riefenstahl shows off her knack for being able to capture some absolutely breathtaking shots. I often found myself questioning whether or not this was ACTUALLY real life taking place in front of me, as the shots are so visually superb and especially for a documentary. The stats are ungodly: 250 hours of film shot, several hundred members of Riefenstahl's crew and the erection of several steel camera towers, just so she could get the most perfect shots, which she did. While \"Triumph of the Will\" fell short at capturing my attention, Riefenstahl struts her stuff with \"Olympia\", to produce a sheer masterpiece.\nRATING: 10/10 That's for the whole shebang, and I'm even surprised at that rating myself, but there was honestly nothing wrong with this film and it was grossly engaging, interesting and entertaining.\nNEXT UP: The Baker's Wife...Can't find this one, so we'll be back with an unfound post for this one.\nBy Andrew D. at February 25, 2010 1 comment:\nLabels: Leni Riefenstahl\n115. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)\nDirected By: Michael Curtiz\nWritten By: Rowland Brown, John Wexley, Warren Duff\nMain Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft\n\"LET'S SAY A PRAYER, FOR A BOY WHO COULDN'T RUN AS FAST AS I COULD\"\nSo Netflix finally shipped \"Angels with Dirty Faces\" and it always turns out that the movies I'm forced to skip over, end up being so good when I finally get to see them. This was a FANTASTIC gangster film, that was more than just a gangster film and one that I really enjoyed.\nRocky Sullivan (Cagney) is a gangster who's been in and out of prison for most of his life, for various reasons, ranging from robbery to assault. The film starts out with Rocky as a young kid, hanging out with his pal Jerry Connolly. They're bumming around one day and decide to pick a lock on a freight train and steal some fountain pens from the cargo. The cops end up busting them and they take off running, Jerry makes a clean getaway, but Rocky is caught. Jerry visits Rocky in the juvenile detention center and tells Rocky that he wants to give himself up too, so they'll go a little lighter on Rocky. Rocky won't hear of it and sends Jerry away. The film flashes through to Rocky's adulthood and he's being let out of prison for the umpteenth time. When he gets out he's planning to receive a large some of money from his lawyer, Frazier, to the sum of $100,000. He goes to see Frazier and get his money, but Frazier tells him that he doesn't have it yet, but he'll have it soon. Rocky then goes to visit Jerry, who he hasn't seen in ages and who is now a catholic priest. Rocky still thinks just as much of Jerry as he did when they were kids and the two are still good friends, despite their different lifestyles.\nThe movie goes through a phase in the middle, where Rocky tries to help Jerry out a bit, with some of the troubled youth in town. He takes up with a group of kids, a bunch of hoodlums and takes them under his wing. Teaching them the ins and outs of being a good criminal when Jerry's not around and trying to get them involved in Jerry's recreation center program, when Jerry is around. Rocky also takes up with a girl, one that he bullied when he was younger and who, after getting even with him, forgives him. Eventually, it's made known that Frazier has no intention of paying Rocky and Rocky must resort to some of his old street tricks in order to get his dough. Jerry ultimately swindles the money out of Frazier and his new associate, Keefer (Bancroft). The story comes to a climax, with Jerry telling Rocky that he's tired of all the crime and corruption in the city and doesn't want the kids to get wrapped up in the same things Rocky did. Jerry tells Rocky that even if he has to step on him, that he's making a big run at cleaning up the city and the criminals that populate it.\nThis movie has a great good vs. evil feel to it. Rocky Sullivan is a likable character, so I personally found myself, wanting to root for the bad guy here, in Rocky. However, you also have a very likable character in Jerry, and so you're torn between these two separate sides, that are in the form of two best friends, which makes it all the more interesting. Cagney plays Rocky perfect, not too rough, but very streetwise and I actually ended up liking this picture a lot more than \"The Public Enemy\" (which I originally gave a '10', but later lowered to a '7.5'). This is one of the definitive James Cagney pictures in my opinion and while I haven't seen a ton of his movies, this is probably my favorite, and it would take something STELLAR to topple this one, as far as Cagney pictures go. The scene of the film is tragic, and while I don't want to give away the ending here, the last line of the picture is sort of bittersweet: \"Let's say a prayer, for a man who couldn't run as fast as I could\" says Jerry Connolly, referring more than just to that day after they tried to steal the fountain pens, but also to the fact that Rocky couldn't outrun the dreaded hand of crime, and eventually he got wrapped up in it, until it lead to his demise. Fortunately, Jerry was able to outrun, and turned to the side of good.\nRATING: 10/10 And that's not a rating that will be changing anytime soon, as this was really one of my favorite movies from the book, out of all of them.\nNEXT UP: Olympia Parts 1 and 2...More Nazi propaganda from the mind of Leni Riefenstahl from the 1936 Summer Olympics.\nRevised: March 4, 2010 6:54pm\nLabels: Michael Curtiz\n114. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)\nDirected By: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley\nWritten By: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller\nMain Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Sr.\nI actually had no idea going into \"The Adventures of Robin Hood\" that it was a color film. I just always assumed, that due to it's age, it was presented, as most pictures were in the 1930's, in black & white. However, the color aspect of this film only adds to the greatness that it produces,\nas I can't imagine seeing Errol Flynn don the Robin Hood garb and having to imagine it's green color.\nWhen King Richard the Lionheart is captured by Leopold of Austria, his wily brother, Prince John takes over as presiding figure of England. He proceeds to oppress the Saxon people and raise their taxes, telling them that the raise is for King Richard's ransom, but actually not using it for such purposes. Finally, one man has seen enough oppression and decides to take a stand for the Saxon people. That man is Robin, Earl of Locksley a.k.a. Robin Hood. Robin starts by facing Prince John face to face, going to his castle during a large dinner party and crashing it. What proceeds is an exciting scene of escapism, as Robin takes on all comers and gets out of the castle, with his head still promptly on his shoulders, mostly due to his keen archery skills. Prior to being ambushed, Robin informs Prince John that he'll do everything in his power to see King Richard restored to his throne and that Richard is the only King he'll ever bow to.\nAfter the escape, Robin decides that he needs to gather some allies, first recruiting a skilled staffsman and later, Friar Tuck, a skilled swordsman. Eventually Robin's band of merry Saxon's grow to a sizable number and they're able to take down a large party of Norman's on their way back to the castle with the \"ransom\" money. They take off with the loot and Maid Marian. When they throw a big feast with some of the money they stole and nourish the previously starving Saxons, Maid Marian and Robin take some time to get acquainted and the flame begins to take shape between the two. When Prince John has had enough, he and his court scheme up a plan to trap Robin. They hold an archery tournament, knowing that such a skilled archer as Robin won't be able to resist, especially when he learns that the grand prize will be a solid gold arrow, presented by the gorgeous Maid Marian. Robin, realizing the trap, but thinking that he's smarter than the Norman court, goes to the archer's tournament, wins it, but ends up being held captive in Prince John's chambers. However, that's not the end for a green donning hero, and the climax that follows is sure to put you on the edge of your seat.\nErrol Flynn was a great action star, as he was really believable as someone who could pull off all of these daring feats and stunts. When watching this, I really allowed myself to be totally encapsulated by the magic that was being produced and in the scene where Robin is captured, you really want to believe that he'll get away and that he'll continue to raise hell and fight for the underdogs. If you allow yourself to get caught up in the film, then it's a real letdown when he doesn't escape and he's thrown into the dungeon where criminals are held. There were so many exciting and gripping scenes going on here: the scene near the beginning where Robin faces off with Prince John and makes a daring escape, the scene where Robin and his merry men ambush the Normans and take the gold marks, the archers tournament and the climax, it's all fantastic stuff and some of the choreography for the sword fights is right on par with anything today, be it, Pirates of the Caribbean or Lord of the Rings. Bottom line is that I had a whole lot of fun watching Robin run roughshod over the Normans and the ghastly villains of Nottingham.\nRATING: 8/10 Errol Flynn is quickly becoming another favorite of mine, as is Michael Curtiz, a favorite director.\nNEXT UP: Angles with Dirty Faces...Well that's a gangster title, if I ever heard one...Nothing else is set to arrive until Wednesday boys and girls, so I'll be back then with a set of reviews for 'ya.\nLabels: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley\n113. JEZEBEL (1938)\nWritten By: Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Robert Buckner, from play by Owen Davis\nMain Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter\n201, HERE I COME!\nI hope you all enjoyed the Top 20 list that I posted and it was nice being able to reflect on all of the films that I've watched this far, good and bad. I'm ready to tackle the next 100 films in the book and we're kicking it off with \"Jezebel\", a film that had massive potential, in the form of, William Wyler, John Huston, Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, but seemed to come up a bit short, at least as far as my tastes are concerned.\nBette Davis plays the lead role of Julie Marsden, a spoiled, southern belle who is engaged to banker Pres Dillard (Fonda). When she interrupts him in the middle of a big banking deal and forces him to go with her to shop for a new dress, he refuses. In retaliation for his refusal, she buys a red one, a big no-no at the time, as only white dresses were meant to be worn by unmarried women. Despite his arguments telling her to change the dress, her strong will prevails and she wears the red one to the Olympus Ball. Once at the ball, Julie realizes the mistake she made, as everyone is staring at her, but Pres doesn't budge, forcing her to live with her blunder and dance with him. When they arrive back home, later that night, they break off their engagement. After her embarrassment and her broken engagement, Julie takes shelter in her home, refusing to leave or see visitors.\nOne year passes and Julie still dwells in her home, regretting her decision to wear the red dress and thus cause arguments between her and her true love, Pres Dillard. Meanwhile, Pres has gone North, and word arrives that he's arriving back in town, to help Dr. Livingstone (Crisp), to convince city authorities to take measures against a recent outbreak of yellow fever. When Julie hears that Pres is returning, she decides that she'll make the best of it, suiting up in her best white dress and planning to beg forgiveness of Pres. Her and her family take refuge in their big plantation house and await the arrival of Pres and other visitors. Julie can't wait to see Pres and reconnect with him, however, when he arrives he unveils his new wife, whom he married in the North. The moment when Julie meets Amy, Pres' new wife, is a absolutely gripping one, where we wait for Julie to go into hysterics, but it never happens. With an outbreak of yellow fever sweeping New Orleans, the love triangle plays out and eventually Pres is sent into the heart of the infected area, possibly never to return.\nI am a huge Henry Fonda fan and didn't even know he was in this until the beginning credits rolled. He was fantastic in it, playing the good guy with a stern head about him and Bette Davis was fine too, as the spoiled belle. This was actually my first Bette Davis movie ever and so far, I'm semi-impressed with what I've seen, although I'd have to chalk up most of my disappointments to the plot in general. It just wasn't for me, and I never imagined Henry Fonda as a 19th century, New Orleans banker, although, I'll say it again...he played it well. I just couldn't get into this one as much as I would've liked to and I really have no out and out reasons why. I just wasn't feeling this one at all, and despite some really good performances, I'd have to call this one a fairly average film. There are some really good scenes though, such as, when Julie meets Amy and the duel between Julie's other lover, Buck and Pres' brother, Ted, which Julie eggs on and the scene is carefully constructed and plays out very well.\nRATING: 5/10 I'm glad Fonda is on the scene now, as I really love his work and acting and I'll look forward to future Bette Davis roles, that suit my taste better.\nNEXT UP: The Adventures of Robin Hood...I've been waiting a long time to see this one and after seeing Flynn in \"Captain Blood\", I can't wait to see what he does with the story of Robin Hood.\nTOP 20...SO FAR\nWell since we've made it to the one tenth marker, I figure this'd be a nice time to make a TOP 20 list and put some serious thought into the 101 films that I've watched thus far. Let's not dwaddle, let's jump right into it.\nCLICK HERE TO SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF THE 101 MOVIES THAT I'VE WATCHED THUS FAR, INCLUDING MY INITIAL RATINGS OF THOSE FILMS\nAlso, a quick note: I've revised the ratings for the following 20 films, as some of them needed a bit of tweaking. The ratings that I give out when I review a film are my knee jerk ratings, and often times those change once a few days has gone by. Here we go...\n20. Broken Blossoms (1919) dir. D.W. Griffith 7.5/10\nThis was actually the first movie that I went the full monty on and gave the full ten stars to. With a little thought I've lowered it to a seven and a half, but in my opinion this was the best, by far, D.W. Griffith film I watched and I can still see that closeup of the irate Battling Burrows, one of the great villains of the silent era. Great film, with a real heartfelt tone to it and one of D.W.'s most down to earth productions.\n19. M (1931) dir. Fritz Lang 7.5/10\nOnly had to tweak this one a hair, as far as ratings go. My original review was a pretty accurate portrayl of my feelings on this film. The atmosphere of this one is so bleak and they plop a serial killer right in the middle of it, to give it an even bleaker feeling. There's so much going on in this one and it has plenty to keep a viewer interested and engaged in the picture.\n18. The Gold Rush (1925) dir. Charles Chaplin 8/10\nMy original rating had this one pegged at a seven, but with some hindsight in play, it gets up to an eight. Hilarity ensues when The Little Tramp plays the gold prospector and winds up being reduced to dining on his shoes. I'll also never forget the visual of the cabin teetering on the edge of a mountain, while The Tramp and Big Jim wrestle to find their footing inside.\n17. The General (1927) dir. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman 8/10\nI lowered this one a smidge, from eight and a half to eight. It's definitely my least favorite Keaton film, but that's not saying much, as it's still really funny and solid and provides a healthy look at the Civil War in the process. Constant suspense and excitement, piled with comedy...you can't go wrong with this one. But there are better Buster movies...\n16. Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton 8/10\nThis one originally was given an nine and a half, but I lowered it to an eight, simply because the others stuck with me more than this one did. The scene where Keaton is cleaning up the movie theatre lobby is something that I'll never forget though, that provided many laughs and Buster just being Buster. I think the length of this one was also something that made me remember some of the other ones better, as this one only sits at around 45 minutes. But still some of the funniest 45 minutes you'll ever spend.\n15. GREED (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim 8.5/10\nI remember watching this one and gushing it's praises, but the fact is that it just didn't stick with me the way I thought it would. The fact that I had to watch it on YouTube and watch the re-created version, with all of the production stills and extra material sewn into it, may have played apart in it's drop from a ten to an eight and a half. But we're praising movies today, not bashing them and despite the YouTube viewing and the added stills photos, this is still a top notch film, one that I would DIE to see in complete form, as von Stroheim intended it to be. If I could have seen von Stroheim's original, I'm sure it would be an absolute favorite of mine and a sheer masterpiece.\n14. Our Hospitality (1923) dir. Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone 9/10\nThis one got dropped from a ten to a nine, basically just because I realized it wasn't so good that it deserved the full tenner. However, it was my first Keaton film, and for that it will always hold a special place among the movies I've seen. I'll never forget my first experiences with the great comedy master, laughing and loving every minute of it.\n13. Blackmail (1929) dir. Alfred Hitchcock 9/10\nThe only Hitchcock film to make the cut, and it still boggles my mind that this one is one of Hitchcock's forgotten masterpieces. You NEVER hear tell of this one and it's really a shame, as most people probably walk by the Wal-Mart $5 bin, and pass up the Alfred Hitchcock sets that usually include Blackmail, not even realizing what they're missing out on. Great film, and easily one of my favorite Hitch movies.\n12. Captains Courageous (1937) dir. Victor Fleming 9/10\nWent into this one thinking the worst and came out of it with the best...well #12 anyway. Spencer Tracy delivers in a big way and with his performance he brands this film into my head. I loved his character of Manuel, a character with traits that everyone loves: kindness, hard-working, gentle, intelligent, witty. Way to go Spence, because without you, this film wouldn't be here. Great movie, that ANYONE can enjoy and everyone should check out.\n11. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) dir. Mervyn LeRoy 9/10\nPaul Muni burst into the book with his portrayl of an innocent man, framed for a robbery. When you're as much of a sucker for prison movies, as I am and then you throw in the great acting talents of Paul Muni, along with the whole innocent man/fugitive angle, then this was a given for the Top 20.\n10. The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor 9/10\nThis proves how fast my ratings change, as only two days ago I short changed The Crowd with an eight and a half and now it's been boosted to a ten. The thing that really appealed to me here, was the everyman concept of the film and how our character deals with the tragedies that all of us face day to day: job loss, child loss, relationship trouble, in-law trouble...It's just a tale that is about average day to day circumstances and it's put together quite brilliantly by Vidor.\n09. Le Million (1931) dir. Rene Clair 10/10\nSince watching this I've actually bought it on DVD and am glad to give it a home on my DVD shelf. One of the zaniest, yet brilliant films I saw and it all revolves around a missing lottery ticket. The plot is simple and something that has been copied by every successful sitcom since, but it works great and I had a blast watching it.\n08. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) dir. Leo McCarey 10/10\n\"It would make a stone cry\", that's what Orson Welles said of Make Way for Tomorrow and I believe the man had a valid point. The only film of the 101 thus far to bring a lot of tears to my eyes and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The principles do a wonderful job of reeling us in, and then once they have us hooked, we can't help but bawl. Love this movie and am so glad it's getting a DVD release this Tuesday.\n07. The Unknown (1927) dir. Tod Browning 10/10\nProbably ONE OF my biggest director finds from the book thus far, has been Tod Browning, as he totally delivered the goods on three seperate occasions and delivered ten fold on The Unknown. Lon Chaney delivers too, in a deliciously mad performance as Alonzo the Armless and the script is so good that I believe literally ANYONE could find enjoyment out of this one. This would be the movie that I'd recommend to non-silent people, to get them into silent flicks.\n06. It Happened One Night (1934) dir. Frank Capra 10/10\nMy 'ol pal Peter Warne was the main character here and what a main character he was. Clark Gable showed his true acting chops with this one and THIS is the picture that he should be remembered for, not Gone with the Wind (Although, we're not there yet, so I'll hold off my discussions of that film). This took home the Best Picture Oscar, along with four others, for a reason and EVERYONE owes it to themselves to see this picture. Great, great stuff!\n05. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) dir. Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner 10/10\nThe second best Keaton film that I had the pleasure of seeing, Steamboat Bill Jr. provides us with the unforgettable hurricane scene, that I personally will NEVER forget. Keaton had a knack for all things comedy, whether it be physical comedy, or subtle comedy, such as when he whistles the tune in the jail and tries to get his father to realize that he's brought him a loaf of bread with a knife in it.\n04. Seven Chances (1925) dir. Buster Keaton 10/10\nThe BEST Buster Keaton movie that I saw. Seven Chances has the most memorable plot, in my opinion and to me, it stands out above all the others. You take The General and Sherlock Jr., I'll be just fine with Seven Chances, which made me laugh my ass off and the prospect of Keaton being forced to find a wife by 7pm, I mean c'mon, that just sounds hilarious. This would be the first movie that I'd recommend to someone who has never seen a Keaton picture.\n03. Modern Times (1936) dir. Charles Chaplin 10/10\nThe more I think about this one, the more I love it and we're into the point now, where I'm talking about movies that make me so glad I set out on this journey through cinema. Modern Times is such a sweet, funny, pitch perfect film and honestly my absolute favorite Chaplin flick, of the three I've seen, and I highly doubt that any of the rest can match up to this one, although I'm certainly not above letting them try.\n02. My Man Godfrey (1936) dir. Gregory La Cava 10/10\nThe top two here flip flopped in my head, back and forth, for quite a while, before I finally decided on their precise order. This one came oh so close though and this is the film that makes me want to see every other William Powell film. If I had to pick a favorite actor, based solely on the films that I've seen from the '1001' book, so far, then I'd pick William Powell, no question. He delivers here big time and this is probably the greatest screwball comedy I've EVER seen. There's nothing bad going on here and every aspect of this film is great.\n01. La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance 10/10\nRegular followers of my blog (if there are any) probably were taken by surprise by my #1 pick. La Roue was a film that I originally rated an eight and a half out of ten and one that I really don't remember going on and on about that much. I can still see the railroad engineer Sisif, climbing the big mountain, bearing a cross on his shoulders. I can see Norma going down to celebrate with the people of the village, as they all sing and dance in a big circle and the mountain takes hold of the screen. This is a silent film that was better for being silent, as only words could've screwed this up. This movie is so beautiful and so touching, that there were no words that would've been right in the mouths of the actors, it was just something that had to play out for itself and speak for itself and it did that. I still see this film in my head and think about it all the time and this was, without question, the BEST movie I've watched from the book, thus far and even one of the best things I've ever seen, book or no book.\nWell there you go. I hope you've enjoyed the list and maybe you'll even take a little of my advice and go out and see some of the ones listed here that you haven't. When I hit 201 movies watched, we'll do this again, except we'll up the number to a Top 40. I think that's all that needs to be said and I'll go ahead and let my list speak for itself.\nBy Andrew D. at February 21, 2010 10 comments:\n112. Pepe le Moko (1937)\nDirected By: Julien Duvivier\nWritten By: Jacques Constant, Julien Duvivier\nMain Cast: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gilbert Gil, Fernand Charpin\nFinally we've reached our 101st film from the \"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die\" book, which means that I'm one tenth of the way finished with my entire journey through cinema. \"Pepe le Moko\" stars Jean Gabin as a street wise, tough guy and turns in a great performance, in an otherwise average film.\nPepe le Moko (Gabin) is a criminal at large, taking refuge in the Casbah, the Arab quarter of Algiers. Resembling a closed in fortress of underground slums, the Casbah has become Pepe's home, knowing that if he ever dares leave he'll be caught by the police for the burglaries and theiving he's comitted. The Casbah has everything that Pepe needs; his friends, his women, food, shelter, his diamonds, except Pepe longs to be back in his hometown of Paris and often dreams of areas such as the Champs-Elysees. When the cops invade the Casbah and try to catch Pepe, they fail, even with the assistance of the Casbah rat, Regis, who is secretly working as an informant for the police.\nOne day, Pepe's friend Inspector Slimane (who is a police officer, but the two men have respect for each other), brings a friend with him to the Casbah, a gorgeous young lady from Paris named Gaby. Pepe immediately falls for Gaby, as she reminds him of the things that he misses about France. He even resorts to singing on the rooftops and declaring his love for Gaby. However, when she's supposed to meet him in the Casbah one evening, she fails to show up and another informant returns with news that Gaby is under close surveillance by one of her friends. Meanwhile, word was sent to Gaby that Pepe has been killed and that she need not go to the Casbah. When Pepe beats the truth out of the informant, he realizes that if he is ever to find true love and to continue on with his life, that he must leave the Casbah in search of Gaby.\nWell we'll start out with Jean Gabin, who I'm rapidly becoming a fan of, as he turns in two great performances, one here and one in \"Grand Illusion\". He's a very patient actor, who never overacts and who always seems to play it cool and let the actions just ooze out of his body, instead of forcing them. The setting for ninety percent of this film is the Casbah and it really provides a very claustrophobic atmosphere for the viewer, as we're constantly shut-in, in this tiny community, with low ceilings and lack of air and sky. It's ironic that Pepe fears the outside world, because he doesn't want to be put in prison, yet he confines himself to the Casbah, where he must live in a prison-like world. The ending of the film is tragically beautiful and while I won't spoil it here, it is something that really breaks your heart. With all of that being said, this film still only gets to about the average point, as the plot seems to drag in spots and be very anti-climatic, especially for a gangster film.\nRATING: 5.5/10 So-so film, with some bright spots, including the ending and the performance of Gabin.\nNEXT UP: Jezebel...Bette Davis makes her '1001' debut...But first, I'll be back later with a ranking of the Top 20 Films I've watched thus far from the book.\nLabels: Julien Duvivier\n111. The Awful Truth (1937)\nDirected By: Leo McCarey\nWritten By: Vina Delmar, from play by Arthur Richman\nMain Cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham\nSidenote: I watched \"The Crowd\" last night (1928 - King Vidor), one that I previously skipped and aired last night on TCM. The review has been posted and can be found here\nNUMBER 100 IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT\nI'll have to agree with Leo McCarey's sentiments when he accepted his Best Director Oscar for \"The Awful Truth\", as he said: \"Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture\", referring to his previous film \"Make Way for Tomorrow\". This is one of the few films that I've watched thus far in the book, where my high hopes for their greatness fell flat on their face.\nWhen Jerry Warriner (Grant) returns home from, what was supposed to be a trip to Florida, he finds, to his surprise, that his wife is out. In actuality, Jerry never went to Florida and we never find out for sure what he did do or where he did go. When his wife, Lucy (Dunne) returns home, moments after he does, he finds her followed by her music teacher, Armand Duvalle and he immediately smells affair. Their excuse is that they went out the previous night and the car broke down, and they were forced to spend the night at an inn. This is an excuse which Jerry doesn't believe for a minute. However, Lucy soon uncovers that Jerry never went to Florida and the two think the worst of the other one, and accusations of affairs and hidden truths are soon thrown out. The couple decide to divorce, seeing as how their trust in one another has been shattered.\nFrom here, the movie takes a series of pointless turns, as Lucy finds herself being courted by southern boy, Dan (Bellamy, in one of the few great things about this movie). Jerry follows them around and always seems to pop up and be a smart ass toward the couple. At about the halfway mark of the film, Lucy gets sick of Dan and realizes that she still holds a flame for Jerry, who is now courting a gal of his own, a snobby heiress type named Barbara Vance. The tables are now turned with Lucy showing up when she's not wanted and spoiling the plans of Jerry and Barbara. It all winds down to the final thirty minutes, before the couples divorce is to be finalized and they find themselves in a car together, being chased by the police, for a loud radio that won't turn off, due to a broken knob.\nThis movie has a massive amount of potential and had a great cast all lined up and ready to deliver a fantastic comedy, with Leo McCarey at the helm. It starts out pretty basic, a divorce, one that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in a scene that plays out as though it was jotted down on a napkin over lunch, but a divorce nonetheless. Then it all begins to go downhill, as nothing happens. I was literally waiting for the proverbial shoe to fall and for the movie to continue it's at an average pacing, but absolutely nothing happens. Dan is introduced, and Bellamy plays him so well, but he's really not needed and the character really feels out of place, like a third wheel, so to speak. It's just a big jumbled mess in my opinion, that didn't come off as particularly funny at all and seemed to be all thrown together on the fly. I was HIGHLY disappointed in this film, as I really thought it'd deliver the goods, but all that it delivered to me was a big mess of a film.\nRATING: 4/10 I gave it a few notches for the performances, which were good and seemed to be lost in a bad movie.\nNEXT UP: Pepe Le Moko...Number 101 has finally arrived and when this is watched we'll be 1/10 of the way finished with our journey. Review to come tomorrow.\nLabels: Leo McCarey\n110. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)\nDirected By: David Hand\nWritten By: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon\nMain Cast: (voices): Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Harry Stockwell\nON MY JOURNEY I MET A MAN NAMED 'WALT'\nAs I trek through the pages of the \"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die\" text, I come to my first animated film. While this is one of the few animated films, that's a little harder for an adult to enjoy, I think grown-ups will still be able to find some engaging aspects about \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\".\nThe plot, as you can imagine, is a fairly simple one. Our animated journey starts out with The Queen, sitting high atop a mountain, enclosed in her grand castle. As she poses her daily question to her magic mirror: \"Mirror mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?\", she does not get the stock answer that is usually given. Instead, this time, the mirror searches the land and finds that young Snow White is actually the fairest one in the land. This, of course, irates The Queen and she sends one of her henchmen out to kill Snow White and put her heart into a small box, as proof that he did his duty. When the henchmen approaches Snow White, as she picks wildflowers in the field, he cannot bring himself to kill her, instead warning her to run as far away as she can and never come back. Snow White obliges, and soon finds solace in the forest, with her new animal pals, including: birds, raccoons, deer, squirrels and a turtle.\nThe critters lead her to a house, that is later revealed to be the home of the seven dwarfs. However, when Snow White sees the tiny beds, she assumes that the house must be occupied by orphaned children. She cleans up the house for the \"children\" and hopes that by doing this, they'll let her live with them. We then meet the dwarfs: Happy, Dopey, Sneezy, Sleepy, Doc, Grumpy and Bashful: seven tiny prospecting men, with long white beards, as they sing \"Heigh-Ho\" when they bell rings for them to go home. The entire bit that follows, shows the dwarfs arriving home and seeing lights on in their house and also seeing a clean house and thinking that a ghost or goblin must've gotten in. Snow White soon reveals herself and all the dwarfs fall in love with her and look up to her as a motherly figure. All of the dwarfs, that is, except for Grumpy, who wants nothing to do with her or her cleanliness. Eventually The Queen learns that the heart, that the henchmen brought back to her, was only the heart of a pig and takes matters into her own hands, disguising herself, with the help of a wicked spell and creating a poison apple to tempt Snow White with, which will lead to her demise.\nThis certainly isn't the best animated movie I've ever seen, nor is it the worst. There's nothing too terribly exciting going on here, yet nothing horrible either. I think, however, that this is one of the more difficult ones for an adult to really get into and find that most of the material presented is more suited for the youngsters. However, it's quite surprising to hear them talking of cutting out hearts in an animated movie from the 1930's. There's also some other imagery, that I would think would be a little terrifying to a child, such as the entire sequence where The Queen transforms into a witch. The dwarfs sequences do provide some light comedy, especially the bit when they're searching the house, before they know Snow White is there. It must've been something special to see this in the theatres back in the day. The colors in this film pop and to see this in the 1930's, on a big screen, must've been mesmerizing. I can only imagine the awe and wonderment that kids must've went through back in the 1930's in theatres across the country.\nRATING: 5.5/10 Like I said, nothing bad, nothing special and just your average kids film, but it set the stage for animation and must get some respect for that fact.\nNEXT UP: The Awful Truth...The film that won Leo McCarey his Best Director Oscar. I'll be watching \"The Crowd\" before this, as I'm gonna' watch it later tonight and post the review on the old \"The Crowd\" post, so keep an eye out for that one.\nLabels: David Hand\n109. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)\nWritten By: Vina Delmar, from the novel The Years Are So Long by Josephine Lawrence\nMain Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter\n\"IT WOULD MAKE A STONE CRY\" - ORSON WELLES on MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW\nWhen Leo McCarey accepted his Oscar for Best Director for \"The Awful Truth\" he said, and I quote: \"Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture\", referring to the fact that if he was going to be named Best Director, it should've been for make way for tomorrow.\nThe plot is quite simple. When Barkley and Lucy Cooper face financial hardships and the bank takes their home away from them, they turn to their five children for a solution. During a meeting, called by the couple of fifty years, they talk over with their children the options of where to go from here. Wanting to divide the responsibility up, the children decide that two of them we'll house one of the parents, with George taking his mother and Cora taking her father. From there we flip flop between the new living conditions of the two elders. Lucy Cooper, who is now living with her son George, his wife Anita and their daughter, Rhoda. The house is forced to undertake a new way of life with Lucy in the picture, as Rhoda now refuses to have her friends over, for fear that her grandmother will talk their legs off. Anita, Lucy's daughter-in-law, is also hesitant to teach her bridge class, for fear that Lucy will get in the way.\nOn the other side of the fence, Barkley or Bark, as he's referred to in the film, has taken to long chats with the owner of the local general store and does so to get away from his very demanding, very irritable daughter, Cora. When Bark becomes sick with a cold, Cora bosses him around and refuses to put up with his whiny ways, as all Bark wants is his wife by his side, as he's sure that she could cure his illness. When push comes to shove, and things just don't seem to be working out on either end, the two sides both make decisions. George makes the decision to put his mother in a nursing home, while Cora thinks it's best if her father goes to California to live with one of the other siblings. The final thirty minutes of the movie are the parts that Orson Welles was referring to when he talked about the film making a stone cry, as Bark and Lucy say their final goodbyes and I dare any viewer to hold back the tears.\nOf course, being a married man, this film made me think a lot of my wife. In fact, I was constantly putting myself in the place of the actors and envisioning what it'd be like to be in these characters' shoes. I think that's what made the water works come on for me so hard when the final moments of the film were taking place. The two primary actors: Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi, do a fine job of creating that special on screen chemistry and use a very natural dialogue to get their characters over as a real married couple. As the two quibble about whether their honeymoon began on a Wednesday or a Thursday, you really get into the spirit of these two characters and it makes it that much more sad when they're torn apart. Few films that I've seen have actually made tears stream down my face, but this one did just that, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. This is quite possibly, and without putting a lot of thought to it, the saddest movie I've ever seen, as it forced me to remember personal experiences and that helped me relate to the characters so well.\nRATING: 9/10 Another movie makes a big time bid to get into my Top 20 and with only four films left 'till we hit the 101 mark, who knows what the Top 20 will consist of...not even me, yet.\nNEXT UP: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...My first animated film in the book and Walt Disney's first full length feature film. It should arrive from Netflix tomorrow and I will review it directly.\n108. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)\nDirected By: William Dieterle\nWritten By: Norman Reilly, Raine Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, from book by Matthew Josephson\nMain Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard\n1937 BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR\nPaul Muni stars as Emile Zola, a french born author and activist and delivers a completely different performance than I've seen him do thus far.\n\"The Life of Emile Zola\" starts out with Emile and his roommate Paul Cezanne, living poorly in a drafty attic and prophecizing their futures, Zola's as a writer and Cezanne's as a painter. Emile gets his first big burst of inspiration in the form of a prostitute named Nana, who he happens upon, running from the police and coincidentally she is saved by Zola, who offers her a quick cover. After interviewing her for the remainder of the night, he sees the pages of a book unraveling in front of him and he eventually gets the book published under the simple title of Nana. The book is a huge hit and Zola is an immediate success, following up his successful Nana with a book entitled The Downfall. The years roll on and book after book is released and Zola continues to grow as a publicly known author. We're then fast forwarded into Zola's golden years, as he is now living happily with his wife and ready toi wind down, finished with his writing career.\nHowever, the inspiration, much like it did with Nana, falls right into his lap, yet again and the movie really starts to pick up a little steam. Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army is wrongfully accused of writing a letter, that threatens to reveal many of the armies most hidden secrets. He is tried and convicted of treason and cast away to Devil's Island where he is held in confinement for the crime he did not commit. Later, some new details arrise that would give Dreyfus his freedom, but the French Army superiors, not wanting to admit that they made a mistake, decide to sweep the new evidence under the rug. Dreyfus' wife goes to Zola and pleads for his help in bringing the new evidence to light and helping to free her husband. The trial begins after Zola gives a famous speech to the papers, entitled \"I Accuse\", accusing the French Army of their dishonesty.\nI've now seen Muni in three films and each role has been entirely different. He kicked it off by playing a fugitive from a chain gang, followed that with his portrayl of Tony Camonte and now slides in with Emile Zola. It's amazing how Muni was able to totally transform himself and become the character that he was playing and I'll remember him as a great actor, who was able to make such transformations. As for the film itself, \"The Life of Emile Zola\" is quite a slow moving film and really doesn't pick up any speed until we get into the whole Dreyfus affair. However, once the Dreyfus scandal is established, the film has a hard time sustaining that pace and eventually it slows down yet again, providing a countless number of big, overblown speeches that made me want to yawn, instead of cheer. Although, I'll have to admit that I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did, as the idea of watching a biopic about a 19th century french authoir, certainly didn't have me doing cartwheels or anything. I felt the whole first thirty minutes could've been cut down, merely to allow enough time to establish Zola as a prominent figure in the French community and a famous author, which could've been done in less time that they took to do it. The real movie doesn't begin until Dreyfus enters the picture.\nRATING: 5/10 We'll cut it straight down the middle, giving some kudos for acting and some for plot, but deducting for some wasted time and some real yawner moments.\nNEXT UP: Make Way for Tomorrow...This is being released on DVD this coming Tuesday, but it's also on YouTube, which is where I'll be watching it, later tonight.\nLabels: William Dieterle\n107. Stella Dallas (1937)\nDirected By: King Vidor\nWritten By: Joe Bigelow, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Sarah Y. Mason, Gertrude Purcell, Victor Heerman, from novel by Olive Higgins Prouty\nMain Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale\nSTELLA!!...OOPS, WRONG MOVIE\nWell the \"short wait\" finally ended and \"Stella Dallas\" was shipped and arrived today, giving me a chance to finally watch it and finally get a review slapped in here. The movie was actually quite good, as most of the unfound movies, coincidentally seem to be, as King Vidor impresses me, yet again.\nStella Dallas (Stanwyck) lives in a Massachusetts factory town with her brother and parents. She lives a fairly simple life, cooking and cleaning and helping to tend the house. She also has quite a time swooning over Mr. Stephen Dallas (Boles), one of the managers at the factory, where her brother and father work. Stephen, at one time, was set to be engaged to Helen Morrison, but when his father committed suicide, Stephen disappeared and relocated, leaving Helen in the dust. One day, when Stella takes lunch to her brother at work, she makes a special point to swing by Stephen's office and strut her stuff. Stella, looking ever so radiant, accomplishes her mission and gets more than a head turn from the shy, considerate Stephen. They hit it off, a few weeks pass, with Stephen courting Stella, until finally one day Stella arrives back at the house with a ring on her finger and news that her and Stephen have been married.\nA year passes and the Dallases welcome their first child, a baby girl, whom they name Laurel. When Stella is released from the hospital, after giving birth, she wants nothing more than to go out for a night on the town, despite her husbands urges for her to rest. They go out and Stella takes up dancing with a loud mouth, obnoxious fellow by the name of Ed Munn (Hale). Stephen, being the kind, gentle person that he is, never lacks at delivering politeness, even to the inconsiderate Munn. When a job opportunity arises in New York, Stephen jumps at the chance to take it and wants nothing more than to relocate with his entire family in tact. However, Stella doesn't wish to relocate and thus the Dallases separate, leaving Laurel in the care of her mother, and visiting her father on the weekends. Eventually Laurel grows up, Stephen reconnects with his old flame Helen and Laurel becomes the focal point of the picture, being forced to choose between a swanky lifestyle in New York with her father and Helen or her normal downtrodden lifestyle with her mother, who she's always been with.\nKing Vidor was excellent at turning everyday situations into brilliant, heartbreaking films. He had a knack for evoking emotions and really playing his characters to their fullest potential. In the span of this movie I went from hating Stella, to feeling sorry for her and all of the emotions in between. The scene at Christmas, when Stephen takes Laurel and Stella is left to spend the holidays by herself is so sad and the end is also heartbreaking. All of the principles turn in marvelous performances, and including Stanwyck, I also really enjoyed the innocent girl that Anne Shirley played, as she was spot on with her delivery and was just a very charming little actress. Boles and Hale were also great male leads, with Boles playing the cool, shy, gentle Stephen and Hale really turning it in as the fool, Ed Munn. All in all this was a great film and I had a very enjoyable time with it.\nRATING: 7.5/10 What can I say, I'm a sucker for simple storytelling that is told to the fullest advantage and this is a prime example.\nNEXT UP: The Life of Emile Zola...Paul Muni stars in the 1937 Best Picture winner and the review should be up sometime tomorrow.\nRevised: February 26, 2010 12:37am\nLabels: King Vidor\n106. La Grande Illusion/Grand Illusion (1937)\nDirected By: Jean Renoir\nWritten By: Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak\nMain Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Erich von Stroheim, Dita Parlo\nPOSSIBLY JEAN RENOIR'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT\nProbably Jean Renoir's most popular movie, \"La Grande Illusion\" takes a look at a group of soldiers imprisoned in a POW camp, during World War I and the day to day life that they face as prisoners for the enemy.\nDuring a routine flight, pilots: Captain de Boeldieu (Fresnay) and Lieutenant Marechal (Gabin) are shot down by Captain von Rauffenstein (von Stroheim). They aren't seriously injured and after they are recovered they are invited in to have a meal with von Rauffenstein. They are then taken and placed into a POW camp where they meet and befriend several of their fellow frenchmen. At this point the film gets pretty simple, just examining the day to day perils that the men must face while contained in the camp. However, the perils are few and far between and thanks to their new friend Rosenthal, a very wealthy, french, Jewish man, they are kept well fed, by the packages that he receives from home. They're also never really abused or mistreated or even talked down to by the German officers, as they are officers in their military and thus given proper respect for that position. When de Boeldieu and Marechal get extra chummy with their new found friends, they are let in on the fact that the other men have begun work on a tunnel, digging at night underneath their floorboards and exposing of the dirt in the courtyard. They plan an escape, that will bring them up, just outside the fences and allow them to free themselves from the German enslavement.\nOn the day that the men decide to break loose, they are informed that they will be moved to another camp, and all hopes of escape are dashed in an instant. de Boeldieu and Marechal move from camp to camp, finally settling down at Wintersborn, where they find their old \"pal\" Rauffenstein in charge, decked out in white gloves and a complete spine brace. Their friend Rosenthal joins them soon after as well, and the three quickly begin to hatch escape plots. Captain de Boeldieu comes up with the idea to cause a commotion, causing all the guards to call for an assembly and at that point the escape will be executed. However, he thinks that the plan will only work for two and insists that Marechal and Rosenthal be the two to make the bust.\nThis film shows first class how well Renoir was at moving his camera. He had a fine talent for capturing simple things on film and transforming them into gorgeous shots, and capturing gorgeous scenery on film and turning into breathtaking shots. Some of the shots of the mountains and trees and snow banks, are absolutely stunning and you could get lost in this film, by staring at the imagery alone. The plot alone is fine as well, and I myself am a sucker for a good prison flick and this is basically just that. I love seeing how strangers, thrown together and contained in a place, forced to interact with one another, cope with it all and this film is a great example of how all of that plays out. Jean Gabin is great as Marechal and has a soft spoken, subtle element to his character, that makes him that much more fascinating, as his character always seems to be in deep thought. I was surprised to see Erich von Stroheim show back up, as the last time I watched this film, I didn't even really know who von Stroheim was. He played a great role as well, commanding the screen when he was on it and calling power to his character, but still being able to play the politeness card and pulling it all off very nicely.\nRATING: 7/10 As I've said before, I'm not big on war movies, but this one is more than a war film and gets my seal of approval, for sure.\nNEXT UP: Stella Dallas...I'll be right back with an \"unfound entry\" for this one.\nLabels: Jean Renoir\n105. Ye ban ge sheng/Midnight Song (1937)\nDirected By: Ma-Xu Weibang\nWritten By: Ma-Xu Weibang\nMain Cast: Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi\nA CHINESE VERSION OF \"THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA\"\nI'm not sure if the title of this film is meant to be written as \"Midnight Song\" or \"Song at Midnight\", but the book lists it as the former, so that's what we'll go with. This was a really tedious picture to get through, although it is one of the better film adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera that I've seen.\nThe film starts out focussing in on an old, dilapidated opera house, that is soon to be occupied by a traveling theatre group. When the crew arrives at the opera house, they soon meet the proprietor and begin their rehearsals. When the lead male actor, Sun, is given a new song to rehearse, he asks the rest of the crew to clear the stage and leave him alone so that he can practice it. When he struggles with the new song, he is coached by a voice that emanates from the rafters. Sun becomes startled, but the proprietor tells him not to worry, that it's just an old ghost and that they've been there comfortably for years and he has never caused any danger. The voice ends up helping him get the song down pat and Sun treks upstairs to thank his unknown coach. Upon arriving in the attic, Sun finds a man, shielding his face with a hood and dressed all in black. He thanks the unknown man for his help and begins to chat with him. The Phantom reveals himself as Song Danping, a former revolutionary who, to avoid being persecuted, changed his name and took up acting in the opera.\nHe goes on to tell Sun that, approximately ten years earlier, while acting in the very theatre where they stand, he took a romantic interest in a woman named Li Xiaoxia, which angered a local thug who also was interested in her. The thug, out of jealousy, caught Song as he was exiting the opera house and threw nitric acid into his face. He was left wrapped in bandages for months and when the curtain was finally lifted on his face, he was disfigured. He gave orders to tell Li Xiaoxia that he was dead and he went into hiding, into the rafters of the old theatre. For ten years, Song would stand at the theatre windows and sing to Li at midnight, and for ten years Song waited for a worthy prospect to pass through the theatre, someone that he deemed worthy enough to go to Li and pretend to be him, hoping that this will help her recover from the loss of her lover.\nI've never seen a great film adaptation of \"The Phantom of the Opera\", which leads me to believe that this story is just one that simply doesn't appeal to me. \"Midnight Song\" was no exception, as it was certainly not a great film, in my opinion. It was, however, better than any other version I've seen and created the most emotion than any others as well. When Song reveals his disfigured face to the camera and we see him have a total breakdown, as he faces the realization that he can never allow the love of his life to cast her eyes upon him again, this is a great scene, but one of few and one that couldn't make up for the slow pacing and out and out boring nature of this whole affair. The performances were average and actually very outdated and much to \"classic\" for my taste. I wouldn't call \"Midnight Song\" a complete loss, but it certainly wasn't a winner either and if we rated on thumbs, this would be a definite downer.\nRATING: 4/10 I'll go with a '4' considering there were a few engaging scenes and the story was atrocious by any standards.\nNEXT UP: Grand Illusion...Probably Jean Renoir's most famous film and one that I have seen before and remember really liking a lot. Review should be up late tonight or tomorrow.\nLabels: Ma-Xu Weibang\n120. Zangiku monogatari/The Story of the Late Chry...\n104. Captains Courageous (1937)\n102. Things to Come (1936)\n100. Sabotage (1936)\n99. CAMILLE (1936)\n98. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)\n97. My Man Godfrey (1936)\n96. Swing Time (1936)\n95. Modern Times (1936)\n94. Une Partie de campagne/A Day in the Country (1...\n93. TOP HAT (1935)\n92. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)\n91. The 39 Steps (1935)\n90. A Night at the Opera (1935)\n89. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)\n88. Captain Blood (1935)"
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        "text": "Home » Biography » Kristen Bell\nPublished Date: 23rd March, 2014 @09:03 AM\nWorking for\nMovies, TV Shows\nDax Shepard (husband)\nMarried on\nChildren(s)\nLincoln Shepard\nNet Worth(s)\n$16 million dollars\nName on Birth\nKristen Anne Bell\n@IMKristenBell\nCharming and beautiful American actress Kristen Bell is best known for playing the title character in cable TV's Veronica Mars for three seasons (2004-07). She made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 2001. Bell landed various television guest appearances and small film parts before appearing in a lead role in the David Mamet film Spartan, after moving to Los Angeles. She worked as the title character on the television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007 and gained fame and critical praise. She will also reprise the role in the 2014 film based on the series.\nBorn on 18 July 1980 in Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA, she was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan in the suburb of Detroit. Her mother, Lorelei is a registered nurse. Her father Tom Bell works as the television news director for CBS Television in Sacramento. When she was two years old, her parents divorced. She has two half sisters- Sara and Jody from her father's second marriage. Bell's parents decided to pull her from the public school system just before her freshman year of high school. After that she attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club. She won the starring role in the school's 1997 production of The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale during her time at the school and she also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998). In the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook's \"Best Looking Girl\" by senior class vote. It was in 1998.\nShe was asked to reprise the role in the film version, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), after playing Mary Lane in the \"Reefer Madness\" stage musical. This actress had much better luck with her subsequent projects although she made her film debut in the little-seen project Pootie Tang. She quickly found stage work after studying at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, including a leading role in the campy off-Broadway musical Reefer Madness. It was eventually turned into a TV-movie also starring Bell. The small screen ended up being her primary medium, and when she landed the title role of a teen-outcast-turned-investigator on Veronica Mars, she had a number of guest appearances and TV-movies under her belt. The show developed a cult following and ran for three seasons on UPN and the CW although Mars didn't fare too well in the ratings, and Bell's portrayal of a high-school gumshoe who's wise beyond her years earned her a great deal of critical respect. With a recurring role on the NBC show Heroes, she followed up that series. She also returned to film with parts in the raunchy comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the romantic fantasy When in Rome.\nTalking about her personal life, Bell ended a five-year relationship with former fiancé Kevin Mann in 2007. Bell began dating actor Dax Shepard in late 2007. The couple announced their engagement in January 2010. They decided to delay marriage until the state of California passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. They co-starred in the 2012 film Hit and Run. Bell asked Shepard to marry her through Twitter after section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act fell on June 26, 2013, which he accepted. Bell and Shepard were married at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office on October 17, 2013. They have one daughter born in March 2013, Lincoln Bell Shepard.\nShe is charming and has beautiful legs and feet. Standing five feet and one inch tall and a figure measuring 32-24-35 inches, she is hot and people search for her pictures frequently. She has a nice personality and cheerfulness.\nLena Headey\nSuzy Shuster Age, Photos, Hot, Net worth and career\nNaga Munchetty Married, Age, Weight Loss and Career\nCindy Preszler Weather, Annual Salary, Age, Twitter and Fact"
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        "text": "Q: How to retrieve windows that have moved 'off-screen' I have this problem sometimes with my dual-screen setup, especially when I'm juggling lots of things around. \nOccasionally I seem to be able to move a window entirely off-screen (I'm not quite sure how) and I can't get it back. If I do a 'hide all' in the application's menu (usually it's Mail.app, so let's stick to that one for the example), everything disappears and Mail seems to think it's got an 'inbox' window in the Windows menu, but there's nothing visible. Closing and restarting the app doesn't seem to help (as the app is helpfully remembering where my window previously was) and all I end up doing is shutting down the Mac, unplugging the second monitor and restarting it, opening the application again and this seems to persuade the Mac to rethink the main window position, and all is well. I can then restart the second monitor, etc.\nIs there a better way? Is there some way of marshalling windows back to a specific monitor, or a utility for moving 'open'/running windows? Am I actually doing something wrong? :-)\nI'm not using Spaces, by the way - so I'm pretty sure this isn't some weird Spaces issue. :-)\n\nA: I have two screens and loading Inkscape usually puts it somewhere inaccessible. I can see it by using \"show all windows\", but if I select it from there it goes and disappears again. The solution I found came from this mailing list comment.\nWhen unplugging the second screen I can see Inkscape. But then even after moving it around a little, if I plug the other screen back in it disappears off the edge again. The solution is:\n\n\n*\n\n*Unplug the second screen\n\n*Use the mouse to take hold of the title bar of the window (click and hold)\n\n*While still holding on to the title bar, plug the monitor back in\n\n\nA: Chealion answered this on SuperUser.\nI won't copy and paste his answer here, as he got the credit not me.\nBut basically, what you could do is (quoted from Chealion's answer) : \n\nA second method of arranging the Windows so you can see them (if for some reason they're staying off screen) is to change to the\n  application that owns the window in question, hold the Option key down\n  and choose \"Arrange in Front\" from the Window menu. It will then\n  arrange all the windows of that application in a cascade from the top\n  left of the screen.\n\n\nA: I found a really easy fix for this.\nIt happened to me on Powerpoint. I went to the Powerpoint menu at the top of the screen. Clicked “Window” and then clicked “Zoom in Window”. Done\n\nA: Something I tried and it worked for me is switching the resolution to a lower one and then bring it back up. And it just magically puts the application to centre. Cheers.\n\nA: I found this application : WindowWrangler\nIt allows one to use keyboard shortcuts to move the window.\nUnfortunately, it does not work for the only window I need: Inkscape in an XQuartz environment.\n\nA: For specific X11/XQuartz problem, here is a solution I found.\nPre-requisite\nFirst, you will need xdotool. One can install it using brew install xdotool\nThe basics\nYou can move a window to left using the following script:\nxdotool getactivewindow windowmove --relative -- -100 -44\n\n-44 is a value that I believe is the sum of title bar height and menu bar height. If not set here, the window will go down instead of keeping y position.\nFor right move:\nxdotool getactivewindow windowmove --relative -- 100 -44\n\nTo move up :\nxdotool getactivewindow windowmove --relative -- x -100\n\nTo move down :\nxdotool getactivewindow windowmove --relative -- x 100\n\nSo now, you can move the currently selected window (which you could access using Expose by clicking on it if it is off-screen).\n\nYou can then open terminal and repeat the commands until the window appears.\nAccess it via shortcut\nTo make your window move using keyboard shortcut, you can use the explanation given here\nI actually added these shortcut using BetterTouchTool.\n\n*\n\n*BetterTouchPreferences > Keyboard\n\n\n*Add New shortcut\n\n\n*Select Keyboard shortcut textfield and press (e.g.) shift+^+cmd+←\n\n\n*Select Trigger Predefined Action:  Controlling Other Applications > Execute Terminal Command\n\n\n*Enter the command for (e.g.) right move with the complete path to xdotool (you can obtain it using which xdotoolcommand)\n/usr/local/bin/xdotool getactivewindow windowmove --relative -- 100 -44\n\n\n*Click the save button.\nRepeat the same for other directions and enjoy !\n\nA: For completeness:\nFrom my answer originally at Server Fault Question 7237:\nWhen a monitor is unplugged (including the adapter as well if applicable - leaving the adapter leaves OS X thinking the monitor is still plugged in) all the Windows should move onto your main screen. Occasionally some windows (eg. Firefox) will keep their position on the very far right of the screen leaving you just enough room to grab the title bar and move it where you'd like to.\nOne method is before you unplug the external monitor (or before you unplug the dongle) is to open up the Displays Preference Pane in System Preferences and click on the \"Gather Windows\" button. This is supposed to bring every window on the main screen and the option does not appear if you don't have a second monitor plugged in.\nA second method of arranging the Windows so you can see them (if for some reason they're staying off screen) is to change to the application that owns the window in question, hold the Option key down and choose \"Arrange in Front\" from the Window menu. It will then arrange all the windows of that application in a cascade from the top left of the screen.\nLastly, there are several AppleScripts available (eg. this one at Snipplr) that will also grab every window off screen and move it on screen for you.\nThere is also a nifty shareware app called Stay that will help automate a lot of this for you, while there is also MarcoPolo which will do much more than just notice if a monitor is disconnected and allows you to run scripts (in case you want to do more than just rearrange the windows).\n\nA: Also, for completeness, I came across this: Stay app for Mac although I haven't tried it or bought it yet.\nFrom their website:\n\nStay can store a set of windows for every combination of displays that you use with your computer. For example, if you have a laptop that is sometimes connected to an external monitor, you can store two sets of windows in Stay; one with the external monitor connected and one without. This done, you’ll be able to ensure that your windows are always where you want them to be by having Stay restore windows whenever you connect or disconnect the external monitor. Stay can even be configured to automatically restore windows as displays are connected and disconnected.\n\n\nA: I have a solution that worked for me and I trawled forums and tried everything I could possible.\nIn the end I found a way. Install an app called BetterTouchTool. This allows you to make a shortcut to do various handy things with your screen etc. Then setup an app specific shortcut (much easier than it sounds), and make it simple. I set it so that a \"two finger swipe- up\" led to a \"Maximise window\" action. This stuck the missing application on to my laptop screen and away from the phantom monitor screen it had been stuck on.\nProblem solved.\nHere's an image of what BetterTouchTool looked like when I'd set the shortcut up:\n\n\nA: I just had this same problem in Mavericks, I managed to solve the problem by following these steps:\n\n\n*\n\n*Take the pointer to an edge of the window that moved off screen, for example to the edge on the right.\n\n*When you see the resize icon (in my case the horizontal resize icon) click and hold.\n\n*While \"holding down the click\" drag the window. Voila!\n\n\nA: A friend of mine  wrote a free tool for bringing back the windows, if you want to check it out, go here: http://bring-em-back.com\n\nA: It seems that this happens to me most often when the secondary display is \"above\" (in System Preferences -> Display -> Arrangement). When the problem happens if I move the external display \"to the right\" then the X11 windows reappear.\n\nA: In El Capitan the simple answers here didn't work for me or weren't available as options.  What did work was to right-click the app in the Dock (Chrome in my case) and select Options > Assign to Desktop on Display 1.  This moved all of the windows to my current desktop.\n\nA: In Yosemite, if worked for me to \n\n\n*\n\n*open System Preferences\n\n*open Display < Resolution\n\n*select 'Scaled'\n\n*change the setting to anything else temporarily\n\n\nFor me, this was enough to force the application back on screen.\n\nA: I thought I should make an answer to this that describes solutions specifically for XQuartz.  Many of the solutions here do not work for XQuartz.  From this ticket: https://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/796 , I've found two solutions that work and I feel it would be beneficial to state them here.\n\n\n*\n\n*If you can unplug/plug-in your monitor easily, then unplug your monitor so that your window appears in a spot that you can access.  Then, with your mouse, click on the window and hold down the mouse button as if you are going to drag it.  Without letting go of your mouse or the window, plug in your monitor.  The XQuartz window should stay where your mouse is.\n\n*This ShiftIt package works very well for getting windows that have disappeared off-screen: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/downloads\nThere may be other similar packages, but this one is clean and effective.\nHope this helps someone!\n\nA: A bit weird though that a window (Terminal in my case) got lost in the arrangement. I tried zoom, bring all to front, but nothing seemed to work.\nFinally the Window → Merge All Windows did the trick.\n\nA: You can create a simple app to do it in the AppleScript Editor. Enter the following text and save it as an app. If you put it in your Applications folder it will be easy to access via SpotLight. I named mine gather windows.\nproperty processesToIgnore : {}\ntell application \"Finder\"\n    set _b to bounds of window of desktop\n    set screen_width to item 3 of _b\n    set screen_height to item 4 of _b\nend tell\ntell application \"System Events\"\n    set allProcesses to application processes\n    set _results to \"\"\n    repeat with i from 1 to count allProcesses\n        set doIt to 1\n        repeat with z from 1 to count processesToIgnore\n            if process i = process (item z of processesToIgnore) then\n                set doIt to 0\n            end if\n        end repeat\n        if doIt = 1 then\n            tell process i\n                repeat with x from 1 to (count windows)\n                    set winPos to position of window x\n                    set _x to item 1 of winPos\n                    set _y to item 2 of winPos\n                    if (_x < 0 or _y < 0 or _x > screen_width or _y > screen_height) then\n                        set position of window x to {0, 22}\n                    end if\n                end repeat\n            end tell\n        end if\n    end repeat\nend tell\n\n\nA: Another solution for XQuartz:\nbrew install wmctrl\nwmctrl -i -r $(wmctrl -G -l | grep -i inkscape | cut -d' ' -f1 ) -e 0,0,0,100,100\n\nReplace 'inkscape' with whatever you want.\n\nA: Here is an easy answer that takes 15 seconds and is a permanent fix.\nhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/eggbotuser/48RbZ2Pey5A\nThis problem shows up if you have multiple displays. The document is opened, its just way off to the left, off-screen of all displays. You can’t fix this with Applescript: XQuartz doesn’t implement the standard scriptability verbs to get and set the position of windows. It also doesn’t implement the standard X11 window manager equivalents.\nThe problem’s cause is a conflict between a preference setting in Inkscape and a preference setting in Mavericks.\nThe out-of-the-box preference setting for Mavericks in System Preferences > Mission Control is\n[x] Displays have separate Spaces\nThe out-of-the-box preference setting for Inkscape in its menu bar File > Inkscape Preferences > Windows is\n(•) Save and restore window geometry for each document.\nIf you change the OS X preference (requires Logging out, and Logging back in), or you change the Inkscape preference to (•) Don’t save window Geometry (Which you can’t do unless you can get Inkscape to show you a window) the Inkscape performs as expected.\nSo, if you want Mavericks' new behavior with multiple displays on your Mac, then temporarily revert to the old way, change an Inkscape preference, then set Mavericks back to a menu bar on each screen.\n\nA: Under the application's menu item 'Window', select \"Arrange All\". This worked for Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, it may not work for all.\n\nA: I have a similar issue in my Mac when opening MS Powerpoint as it won't show on screen. The simplest way is to go to the Menu Bar of Powerpoint on the top of your Mac screen and click \"Window\" then under that click \"Arrange All\". The missing/hidden PowerPoint windows will show\n\nA: The simplest solution I've found to this problem is to right click on the relevant icon in the Task Bar and then select 'Hide'. You can then do the same and select 'Show' and then your missing window reappears. \n\nA: This works for me on Mac:\n\n*\n\n*do the 'three finger spread' trackpad gesture (not sure what the technical name for it is) to show the applications on each screen;\n\n*drag Photoshop from my laptop screen to my external monitor screen.\n\nInitially, the Photoshop header bar is still off screen, but as soon as you click anywhere on Photoshop, it adjusts itself.\n"
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        "text": "When I ordered it they had a bunch of different sizes I could choose from.\nI am not at home at the moment but if you drop me an email at jonpfl01 at gmail I can get you any info you need.\nMy table is roughly 7 feet by 3.5 feet and it just fits with a few inches to spare so I am guessing it is 6.5 feet by 3 feet.\nBefore they printed for me they sent me a pic to look at so I could check to make sure they didn’t mess up with scaling.\nEither anniversary or Global was smaller than their size mat by a few inches so they just put a black border.\nThe map is AWESOME. Drop me an email and I can take pics later.\nThe only possible exception I can think of is if Moscow had already fallen and the U.S. or U.K. had liberated Timguska so it wasn’t Russian.\nYes, Moscow has fallen BUT that was still Russian territory.\nSo, should Mongolia have Russian troops now or should they still be neutral?\nShould this move trigger the Mongolians in ALL situations (except Russia has not attacked Korean or Manchuria)?\nLooks nice, I have a few questions. How is it holding up? Are the edges stitched? What did it cost? And did the smell go away?\nIt is holding up great, just played a 5 player 1940 Global this past Sat and it is still set up for when we continue in a few weeks.\nThe edges are not stitched but it was an option. I thought about doing it but decided against it.\nMy anniversary neoprene map had a strong smell so I put it outside a few days and it mostly went away. My global never had smell but I suspect it was older neoprene as it is 2mm and my anniversary is 3mm.\nIf USA attacks Korea from Amur, does that give Japan the ability to attack from Manchuria to Amur without Mongolia turning Russian? Russia is at war with Japan but has not attacked Manchuria or Korea.\nIf it matters, there are American troops in both Amur and Korea.\nYes, what is the purpose of them?\nI bought s custom deck of card for global and was wondering why they have a 1, 2 and 3 card included.\nI found a company in Hong Kong that does custom neoprene maps. You just upload a hi res image file and within 2 weeks, you have an awesome map.\nCheck out the Anniversary map I just got. The only problem is that it has a strong smell but you just put it outside to air out.\nOOB map is on top and you can see the Anniversary underneath it (for reference).\nI do not have anything to do with this company, just wanted to let people know a great way to get a neoprene map!!\nThanks for all the suggestions!! I just ordered 50 red monopoly houses for $9.99 on Amazon."
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        "text": "A Concise History of France\nPart of Cambridge Concise Histories\nAuthor: Roger Price, University of Wales, Aberystwyth\nThis is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, it sets their activities within the broader context of changing economic and social structures and beliefs, and offers rich insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. This third edition has been substantially revised and includes a new chapter on contemporary France - a society and political system in crisis as a result of globalisation, rising unemployment, a failing educational system, growing social and racial tensions, corruption, the rise of the extreme right, and a widespread loss of confidence in political leaders.\nProvides an accessible study of a key nation, designed for use by the student or traveller\nCovers main themes and personalities from throughout French history, with the aid of numerous illustrations and figures\nThe third edition has been updated and the final chapter and its illustrations revised to reflect contemporary developments in France\nReview of previous edition: '… coherent and eminently readable. It is a major - indeed unique - achievement.' The Times Higher Education Supplement\nReview of previous edition: '… a remarkably succinct story.' John Wright, BBC\nEdition: 3rd Edition\nPart I. Medieval and Early Modern France:\n1. Population and resources in pre-industrial France\n2. Society and politics in medieval France\n3. Society and politics in early modern France\nPart II. The Dual Revolution: Modern and Contemporary France:\n4. Revolution and empire\n5. The nineteenth century: continuity and change\n6. A time of crisis, 1914–45\n7. Reconstruction and renewal: the Trente Glorieuses\n8. A society under stress\nA short guide to further reading\nRoger Price, University of Wales, Aberystwyth\nRoger Price is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has written extensively on French history. His latest publications include The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power (2001) and People and Politics in France, 1848–1870 (2004).\nEuropean Review\nThe European Review is a unique interdisciplinary international journal covering a wide range of subjects. It has…"
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        "text": "Secretive Globalist Group Reignites Push for ‘United States of Europe’\n• AFP only news outlet at Bilderberg-related meeting in Washington.\nBy Mark Anderson —\nWASHINGTON, D.C.—The Bilderberg group’s Steering Committee chairman waltzed into Washington September 17 to speak to the Brookings Institution on how to keep the European Union’s (EU) member states in line while enlarging the EU toward greater “prosperity.”\nAMERICAN FREE PRESS caught up with elusive jet-setter Henri de Castries, the French insurance and investment banking magnate whose committee decides who can attend the annual Bilderberg meetings and what topics the charitable chaps will cover, behind an armada of armed guards with real reporters never allowed inside, of course.\nThe evening’s moderator was longtime Washington Post newsman, Jimmy Lee Hoagland. He couldn’t resist lampooning those who deplore Bilderberg’s nearly 63 years of ultra-secrecy.\n“If you follow the conspiracy blogs . . . Bilderberg is a secret society that runs the world,” Hoagland said with a smirk. He claimed Bilderberg is just “a lively discussion group.”\nHoagland is the guy who was hounded for years by late AFP Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker for never reporting about Bilderberg despite Hoagland’s own attendance and decades of attendance by top Post brass.\nBrookings trustee Antoine van Agtmael, reciting de Castries’s lengthy pedigree, abruptly added, “Finally, he’s chairman of the very wellknown Bilderberg Group . . .” even though scarcely one in 10,000 Americans know that Bilderberg exists. Brookings didn’t even list de Castries’s Bilderberg chairmanship in its advance notice of his delivery of the 12th Raymond Aron Lecture at Brookings, hosted by Brookings’ Center on the United States and Europe.\nDe Castries was the chief speaker. He was joined by Donald Kohn, senior economic studies fellow at Brookings and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. He’s now affiliated with the Bank of England—the centuries-old nerve center of worldwide Rothschild banking that undergirds Bilderberg, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and other global networks.\nThis meeting about keeping Europe on a treadmill of ever-more centralized rule and a pre-decided destiny toward supposed prosperity was a virtual globalist extravaganza, as Brookings President Strobe Talbot, a longtime member of the Trilateral Commission—a key Bilderberg ally—also delivered brief remarks at a lecture series which covers “current issues affecting the transatlantic relationship.”\nTo the discerning ear, a transatlantic future of ever-increasing complexity, coupled with an EU that may loosen the reins somewhat but won’t grant any member states a divorce from central rule, is foreseen by the world managerial class that inhabits Brookings and Bilderberg.\nIn essence, de Castries argued for an Americanized Europe which fits in with recent reports by this AFP writer that Bilderberg’s founding with Central Intelligence Agency money, and its early coordination with the European Movement, were based on the American system being a model for a united Europe to follow, not the other way around.\nDe Castries revealed some likely elements of Bilderberg’s future outlook, including:\n• A new “Franco-German axis,” which he said is needed because EU governors have been trying to steer the EU as a whole—all 28 member states—which is difficult and is prompting fears that the EU bloc will break up. Creating such an axis would break down EU governance into a manageable component comprised of the union’s two most powerful nations. “We need to start with a smaller core and move [forward],” de Castries stated. His strategy included:\n• Applying a strategy to reduce the likelihood of Britain leaving the EU, a prospect that Bilderberg evidently fears. Moreover, that strategy would not require altering existing European treaties.\n• Taking steps toward a fiscal union (EU member states transferring their national-level taxation and budgeting powers to Brussels) and toward a banking union (more power granted to the European Central Bank, which would become more like the Federal Reserve) are still considered necessary, as AFP revealed in previous Bilderberg reports.\n• Improving Europe’s security, competitiveness and education—meaning more defense spending to counter Russia and other threats; reduced public spending, reduced taxes and “entitlement” reform (much like U.S. corporate interests wanting to cut Social Security for retirees but maintain military spending); and investing more in primary education and universities to foster the idea of improved European competitiveness.\nDe Castries believes there is a sluggish European outlook on free-market economics due to traditional European welfare-state policies. He apparently would replace that with American style neo-liberal capitalism, which, he neglected to mention, tends to favor large corporations and banks over the middle class he professes to value.\n“There will be no economic leadership if we don’t re-invent the political leadership,” de Castries added about the EU. He said he also wants the European economy to thrive on less aversion to risk-taking, greater innovation and a higher number of patents being approved.\nKohn remarked that Europe is wobbling due to recent “stress tests,” including the U.S. financial crisis of a few years ago “that bled into Europe” and the current migrant crisis. However, the Brookings speakers were careful not to acknowledge that the current migrant wave of hundreds of thousands of Muslims from Middle Eastern states (and a score of African nations) is largely the result of ongoing U.S.-NATO-UK military operations destroying the refugees’ home countries.\nExpressing concern about the EU’s apparent political “instability,” Kohn recalled that the EU’s member states, as the union evolved, had to give up considerable power to central command in Brussels but still want to retain some power, which creates tension and imbalances.\nHe invoked a “bicycle metaphor,” meaning, “If the EU doesn’t keep moving it will fall down.” He even admitted that the monetary union (the Eurozone is 19 of the 28 EU states) is not altogether sustainable—unless a greater economic union (with the above-noted fiscal and banking unions, under a U.S.-style capitalistic system) is pursued.\nSpeaking in terms of a broader, deeper Europe, de Castries stressed, “If we want to have ‘more Europe’”—with a more deeply integrated EU and more member states added to the mix—“we have to undertake the necessary economic reforms.”\nOddly, he added that man-made global warming, in his view, is a reality and if the world ever gets more than 2 degrees warmer than it is now, in terms of average global temperature, than the entire globe could become “not insurable.” That cryptic claim came from his standpoint as chairman and CEO of global insurer AXA.\nReduced to the basics, it appears that de Castries and Kohn—while arguing to sustain and expand a union of nations that each have unique histories and cherished traditions—just cannot conceive of the possibility that these nations were never meant to be merged in the first place.\nInstead of more fractured formulas and grandiose schemes, the best options would be to dissolve the EU, disband Bilderberg and release Europeans from a union that’s pitched as a haven of freedom and democracy, but is a debtor’s\nprison micromanaged by mattoids whose power hinges on commandeering the money supply and credit of all peoples.\nAFP Roving Editor Mark Anderson is a veteran reporter who covers the annual Bilderberg meetings and is chairman of AFP’s new America First Action Committee, designed to involve AFP readers in focusing intensely on Congress to enact key changes, including monetary reform and a pullback of the warfare state. He and his wife Angie often work together on news projects."
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        "text": "Q: What was the very first Apple product? I am wondering what was the very first apple product? I have heard that they have made PDA's and drawing tablet type products in the past (early days)?\n\nA: Their first product was the Apple I computer, hand-built by Steve Wozniak and first demonstrated in 1976.\n\nYou'll find plenty of details about Apple's early years in this section of the Apple, Inc Wikipedia entry.\n\nA: \"The Apple I, Apple's first product. Sold as an assembled circuit board, it lacked basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case. The owner of this unit added a keyboard and a wooden case.\"\nFrom Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I\n\nThe above picture is from April 24, 1984 at the flamboyant \"Apple II Forever\" introduction of the Apple IIc. This was shortly after the introduction of the Macintosh, so Apple wanted to assure dealers the Apple II would continue to be supported. The Apple II product line continued until the final Apple IIGS model was discontinued in December 1992. That's the Apple I at the bottom.\n"
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        "text": "Our unbeatable expertise delivers real results.\nNestled along the banks of the Pacific Ocean, Cambria is a popular seaside village with a local population of approximately 6,000 residents. This community holds a number of historic sites and is well-known for its quaint streets. Nearby tourist attractions include Hearst Castle and the Cambria Historical Museum. Cambria is mostly home to wealthy retirees and professionals who commute to neighboring areas of San Luis Obispo County.\nCambria's small size is one of its many charms, and a strong sense of community pride resonates throughout the village. The Coast Unified School District serves local students, with a single elementary school, middle school, and high school. Much of Cambria's economy is driven by the town's position on the water, and a number of bed and breakfasts have operations in the area.\nMost of Cambria's residents live in owner-occupied properties, though approximately one-third of local citizens rent their homes. A large assortment of Cambria vacation rentals are scattered throughout the region. Although these properties vary greatly in terms of amenities, many of the homes feature luxury fixtures and stunning views of the water.\nCambria's fantastic location and beautiful weather patterns make the community a veritable hot spot for vacationers and short-term residents. Local property investors can turn a healthy profit with rental homes in Cambria.\nOf course, managing a rental property isn't all fun and games. From locating the right tenant for the home to collecting rent each month, many investors ultimately find property management to be a full-time job. If you're tired of the DIY management hassle, consider outsourcing your management needs to a local property expert.\nRPM Central Coast is arguably one of San Luis Obispo County's most experienced property management companies. Our talented team of real estate experts partner with local property owners and realtors to maximize the rental value of Cambria homes. We're owned and operated by two local brokers who have a collective 50 years of experience in Central California real estate."
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        "text": "USDA Seeks Ideas to Help SNAP Participants Become Independent\nJessica Szilagyi - March 4, 2018\nHUD and Census Bureau Release New American Housing Survey\nFBI Releases 2017 Crime Statistics, Violent Crimes Down\nBorder Patrol agents called to assist Florida law enforcement during Hurricane Michael recovery\nAllOnGeorgia - October 13, 2018\nBorder Patrol agents assist Florida police during the recovery from Hurricane Michael.\nCivil War Era Site Camp Nelson Designated as a National Monument\nSecretary Zinke celebrates designation with Camp Nelson family and activists U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke applauded President Donald J. Trump’s designation of Kentucky’s Camp...\nU.S. Department of Labor Continues to Provide Support in Areas Hardest Hit by Hurricane...\nAllOnGeorgia - November 20, 2018\nReturns to Normal Enforcement in Most of Florida and Georgia The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continues to provide technical...\nFormer Non-Profit President Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Conceal Foreign Funding of 2013 Congressional...\nAllOnGeorgia - December 11, 2018\nThe former president of a Texas-based non-profit pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to conceal the fact that a 2013 Congressional...\nDept. of Energy Announces $16 Million for Improving Climate Models\nAllOnGeorgia - January 8, 2019\nData is Aimed at Improving Accuracy of Earth System Models This week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $16 million for new...\nUS Dept. of State Issues Additional Payments Under Holocaust Deportation Claims Program\nAllOnGeorgia - February 7, 2019\nThe program was established in connection with the U.S.-France Agreement on Compensation for Certain Victims of Holocaust-Related Deportation from France Who Are Not Covered by French Program.\nJustice Department Coordinates Largest-Ever Nationwide Elder Fraud Sweep\nSince President Trump signed the bipartisan Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act (EAPPA) into law, the Department of Justice has participated in hundreds of enforcement actions in criminal and civil cases that targeted or disproportionately affected seniors.\nUnited States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments\nThis panel report is the second significant victory for U.S. agriculture this year, and, together with the victory against China’s excessive domestic support for grains, will help American farmers compete on a more level playing field.\nDOJ Launches New Partnership with Local & State Law Enforcement\n\"This new Section will have primary responsibility for maintaining relationships with law enforcement throughout the country and will ensure that Department leadership maintains an active and ongoing dialogue with our law enforcement partners as we work together to develop policies designed to keep our country safe and secure.”\nLibyan National Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges in 2012 Attack on U.S. Facilities in...\nAllOnGeorgia - June 19, 2019\nMustafa al-Imam, a Libyan national approximately 48 years old, was found guilty of terrorism charges for his participation in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack..."
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        "text": "Q: Is an iPhone call recorder theoretically possible? NOTE: I know neither the iPhone SDK or Objective C, just wondering if possible.\nI know obviously it would have to be on a Jailbroken device anyway, but it is technically possible for a iPhone call recording application to be made, or is it not possible to hook into the calls or the audio input/output?\nI know obviously there would be no 'official' way of doing it and certainly not from an App Store application. And I know there are call recording apps which place outgoing calls through their own servers.\nJust wondering if the reason it doesn't exist yet is just because no-one has coded it or if it's not actually possible?\n\nA: On Jailbroken iPhones, SpoofApp does call recording. I am not a laywer, but note that recording calls may not be legal depending on where you are and/or where the other party is.\n\nA: For the UK market there is also Call Recorder . It uses a premium rate number to record the call but it's available for non jailbroken iphones too.\n\nA: Just recently I discovered an app actually able to do it properly, but just for SIP calls.\nIt's called MobileVOIP and it's on Apple Store! :D\nSo I hope this does answer your question. Even if it's not recording a phone call, I believe it shows it's theoretically possible.\n\nA: There is no easy way since that part of the software and hardware is secured. \nOf course it's possible in the theoretical sense as the voice recorder and music mixing apps show the power of signal processing hardware and software has access to both streams of sound. \nSomeone would need to re-do some or all of the iOS code and change it. But what's simple in concept is surely complex and perhaps too costly to happen in reality. \nYou simply take the code that listens to the stream of microphone data inside the mobile Phone app and dump a file to storage as well as encoding it for voice calling. If that app calls an API rather than doing that processing itself, then you would implement the recording there. You would do the same for the incoming data and could either add time markers for later mixing or mix it down as the call is being handled.\nThis code is of course not in place using the documented API so you would need to patch the app after a jailbreak or uncover an undocumented API to actually implement this feature.\nThe use case is so obvious that if this were sitting there, hundreds of apps would be doing this already.\n\nA: iOS Tweak Developer Elias Limneos has released an app on Cydia called Audio Recorder (originally called Call Recorder).  \nSo it's finally possible to record calls locally on the device without having to call via premium rate numbers!\nAudio beeps can be disabled but there is a forced 'This Call is being Recorded' message played at the start to the other party.\nIt currently only works with the iPhone 4S (Loudspeaker only) and iPhone 5 and a license costs $3.99 per device.\nEDIT - Looks like I was too slow, since I purchased this last week it has already been discontinued although existing purchasers can continue to use it there will be no further updates.\n\nI, Elias Limneos. sadly announce that I decided to stop distributing and working on \"Audio Recorder\" application.\n    As of today, Audio Recorder is discontinued.\n\nSource:  http://limneos.net/audiorecorder.html\nEDIT - He's changed his mind again and is available for sale via his own Cydia repo.\n\nA: It's definitely possible, and almost certainly unnecessary to read directly from memory. Apple's private APIs are discoverable using both Xcode and certain 3rd party Objective-C class browsers.\nIf you need your unasked question answered (\"How would one implement an iPhone call recorder?\"), Then I agree with Josh K: head over to stackoverflow.com. Or get in touch with the folks at Rogue Amoeba, as they've already solved this problem on Mac OS X, which shares the exact same low-level libraries as iOS.\n\nA: Yes it's clearly possible at least by reading directly in the memory even if hook is probably much easier to do.\n"
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        "text": "Pre-game for your next workout with this surprising plan.\nJust like runners, boxers, and other athletes, much of the New York Knicks' training takes place off the courts—and in the gym. Before they tackle this strength training plan, designed by Mubarak “Bar” Malik, director of performance for the New York Knicks, they do this innovative warm-up. “Its focus is priming the body to move by emphasizing mobility and stability of the core,” says Malik. In short, it’s a great pre-game for pretty much any workout or sport you have on deck.\nYou may find it interesting that this routine utilizes a kettlebell, rather than bodyweight. “It's important to use a weighted a kettlebell during the warm-up because the grip and squeezing of the bell engages the nervous system to stabilize itself under resistance, leading to increased total-body awareness,” says Malik. Still, don’t use the same bell you plan to use in the strength routine. “The weight should be lighter during the warm-up, between 10 to 20 pounds,” Malik says.\nBefore diving in, do a little pre-warm-up with yourfoam roller (to increase blood flow and tissue suppleness) and dynamic stretching to actively elongate muscles, per Malik. Then, perform two sets of six to eight reps of each of the following moves.\nAssume a lunge position with your left leg back and a kettlebell in your right hand. Swivel the shin of the left leg in 90 degrees so it's perpendicular to the heel of the standing leg. Raise right arm overhead in an elbow-locked, shoulder-packed position. The bicep of the raised arm should be even with (not touching) your ear. Now, hinge back in the hip of the right leg and drop your left arm to the floor 10 to 12 inches in front of the kneeling knee. You should be looking up at the raised arm. Return to start and repeat on the other side.\nFloor press a light kettlebell with your right hand and stretch your left arm on the ground by your head. Use left arm and leg as the axis of rotation and leave the right arm with the kettlebell straight and vertical. Straighten out your right leg and lay it on top of the left. Your feet should be shoulder-width apart and toes pointed. Contract your right hip to bring it and right side of chest towards the ground, stretching it away from the kettlebell. Return to start and repeat on the other side.\nFloor press a light kettlebell with your right hand and stretch your left arm on the ground by your head. Using left arm and leg as the axis of rotation, leave the right arm with the kettlebell straight and vertical. Keep eyes on kettlebell, contract abs and glutes, and lift legs off the ground for 1-2 seconds. Repeat on the other side.\nLay on the floor with feet flat and knees bent, with the kettlebell in the hand of leg that will stay on the ground. Raise your other leg off the ground, pulling the knee towards the chest. This is the starting position. Driving through the heel, with toes off the ground, and extend your hips off the ground as far as possible. Pause, then return to starting position. Repeat on the other side.\nLay on floor with feet flat and knees bent with the kettlebell in your right hand. Keeping shoulders square on the ground, bring left leg across midline at 90 degrees and press into a foam roller to lock in lumbar spine. Bring left arm up to meet the kettlebell. Actively pressing into the foam roller with the left leg, lower your left arm down away from the kettlebell. Rotate palm and head as you lower arm. Repeat on the other side."
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        "text": "Q: Can I set the stereo Bluetooth profile as the default, or remove the mono profile?  Whenever I turn on my Nokia bluetooth headphones they automatically connect to my Macbook. The problem is they always connect to the Mono (and not the Stereo) profile. So I have to disconnect and reconnect with the stereo profile. Is there anyway to either delete the mono profile or set the stereo profile as the default?\nMac OS X 10.6 Nokia BH-905\n\nA: Since no-one has stepped up with an answer, I'm going to add a few things that may help get you (or someone else) closer to an answer.\nIn a nutshell, your question is about HSP - the mono headset profile and A2DP - the stereo profile.\nHSP was designed for two way, low latency (delay) audio - designed for the limited spectrum telephone lines send for human voice frequencies. It sacrifices sound quality needed to make stereo music sound good.\nA2DP is all about better quality and allowing different encoding schemes to get the best music over a bluetooth link (with potential interference) and sacrifices two way audio, microphone, and adds delay to queue up enough music to allow playing over momentary interference or pauses in bluetooth.\nYour headset speaks both - so if you could get your headset to only advertise A2DP, the mac would be forced into stereo. I don't think it's possible, but you might see if Nokia allows you to control this.\nEven if you were willing to give up HSP completely on the mac, I don't know if you can delete the driver files and re-program the bluetooth board to not negotiate HSP with your headset.\nI do know you can use the Bluetooth Explorer (part of Xcode 3) to systematically clear the preferences and play around with things to see if you can really remove all records of the mono pairing. Whether you could edit the profile to delete HSP from the pairing record is hard to know unless you wanted to experiment and learn in depth how this was engineered.\n\nSome things that will help you track the settings are in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist and /Library/Preferences/Audio as well as using the option key while pressing the mouse on the bluetooth menu to expose the \nbluetooth link address of each device so you can match the plist files to actual devices. (Or get the developer tools and use Bluetooth Explorer)\nLastly, you might run the Bluetooth diagnostic utility to see if interference with other devices might be causing your mac to systematically choose HSP which is more nimble than A2DP.\nGood luck - I don't have a device with both A2DP and HSP to test, but I can tell you that my A2DP device is by far the worst when it comes to the % of time it fails to connect. (Which is the point where you choose whether to connect as mono or stereo) I usually need three connect attempts to get it working and I'm in a very low noise environment. It works really well once paired - just hard to connect.\n"
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        "text": "Was North Carolina the Florida of 2004?\nWith support from the Z. Smith Reynolds and Ford Foundations, FairVote presents: North Carolina Reform Roundtables\nCo-sponsored by Democracy North Carolina and Common Cause North Carolina\nNorth Carolina's 2004 elections highlighted disturbing flaws in the state's electoral system. In August, the state held a runoff election for the Democratic nomination for Superintendent of Public Instruction. This election cost counties $3.5 million dollars, for a turnout of only 2 to 3% of voters. In the November general election, voting machines in Carteret County failed to record over four-thousand votes, whilethe Republican and Democrat were separated by less than three-thousand votes in the state-wide race for Agriculture Commissioner. As a result, voters throughout the state will have to re-cast their ballots for that position. These problems, as well as a host of others around the state, all stem from structural problems in the state's electoral system that are creating a democracy deficit in North Carolina.\nExpensive Runoffs, \"Missing\" Votes and Minority Under-Representation: Where do we go from here?\nIn February 2005, FairVote-The Center for Voting and Democracy will be holding a series of workshops in conjunction with state and local activists in North Carolina to discuss ways in which current electoral practices can be improved. We hope that you can join us for some of these events.\nCoverage of the 2004 general elections lacked the dramatic images of electoral problems that dominated 2000, but this should not blind us to the inconsistencies and unfairnesses which have plagued voting in North Carolina just as much this time round. The low turnout in the most recent primary runoffs raised questions about the effectiveness of the current runoff system ñ along with an excessively heavy elections bill for local communities. With the general election, more allegations surfaced of lost votes, voter intimidation, fraud and faulty voting equipment. And the emergence of new problems should not distract us from a long-standing one: ethnic and racial minorities in North Carolina have suffered from perennial under-representation. Although over 20% of the voting age population of the state is African American, only one in ten County Commissioners are. Now is the time to take action so that the problems which remained unfixed for 2004 will not resurface at the next election.\nWhat's the Matter with North Carolina Elections?\nProgram and Speakers"
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        "text": "Agent Orange (Dioxin) and ESOPHAGEAL CANCERS\nAND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCERS\nAS WELL AS OTHER Toxic Chemicals\nASSOCIATED TO Military Service in Vietnam\nthis IS A DRAFT AND IS NOT COMPLETE\nREVISED ON:\nHard copies will be sent to:\nCongressman Christopher Shays -Democrat - Connecticut\nCongressman Bernie Sanders - Independent - Vermont\nCongressman Lane Evans - Democrat - Illinois\nCongressman Christopher Smith - New Jersey Republican\nYes, out of the entire congress these four are the only four that after four years of searching that I can find that actually might give a damn.\nThis link is posted in support of Veterans widows and those Vietnam Veterans that have developed Esophageal Cancer as well as other \"Cancers of the Digestive System.\"\nA group of dedicated wives from California, Michigan, New Jersey, and Wisconsin have chosen to fight the government in this issue, rather than just give up.\nI believe it is obvious to the whole world that ESOPHAGEAL CANCER among other forms of \"Digestive System Cancers\" are significantly higher in those Veterans who served in Vietnam during wartime and were exposed to the \"weapons of mass destruction\" toxic chemicals (plural) that were used as offensive and defensive weapons.\nMany Veterans came home in poor health and one of the medical issues was gastrointestinal problems. Most of us thinking we had issues related to the malaria pills and once removed we would return to our old selves, with no medical issues. This in fact did not happen.\nWe were diagnosed with all kinds of issues of the gastrointestinal area of medicine while none of it made any sense. Diagnosed with spastic colon, colitis, diverticulitis, Chron's, IBS, Celiac, delayed stomach emptying causing gastroparesis, etc. Most of these were considered hereditary related or old age. Yet, we were young men with no hereditary trail to these disorders. Some had rectal bleeding. Aversion to milk products and heavy red meats when the year before they went; there were no aversions to any food products or drinks and no digestive system issues.\nThe Australian Veterans that served in III Corps reported the same issues: (1)\n\"Dermatological, neurological, gastrointestinal, and psychological disorders.\nChloracne, an incurable rash on the face, neck, back, arms and legs, boils, blisters, skin irritation and sensitivity to sunlight.\nLoss of sensation and tingling in the fingers and toes, intolerance to cold, damage to the peripheral nervous system. Constant fatigue. Depression, inability to concentrate, nervousness and irritability, insomnia, vertigo, loss of sex drive, recurring headaches, nausea and sudden unexplained weight loss. Red blood rectal bleeding has also been reported.\nRespiratory distress, shortness of breath, allergies, tender liver, recurring digestive upset and slowed digestion, vascular lesions, stomach, intestinal kidney and liver pain, and stiffness. Swelling and pain in the joints of the arms and legs.\"\nMany have developed Barrett's Esophagus, which can be a precursor to the cancer. This is from the body's deranged cell system replacing the esophageal tissue with tissue similar to what is found in the small intestines.\nThe Ranch Hand transcripts for those primarily exposed by skin contact only, stated: (2)\n\"That digestive system cancers were on the low end of being significant.\"\nThose exposed by \"skin contact alone\" were on the \"low end of being significant.\" What about the rest of the men called \"boots on the ground?\" These men in the field and on the remote firebases that would never have been in a toxic chemical clean environment and had totally different methods and rates of exposures and ingestions.\nBearing in mind that any Ranch Hand study comparisons that do not reach double statistical significance mean nothing. This is a government (White House) game played by the Ranch Hand, the VA, and our government.\nIn other words, in one group there may be 5 and the other group their may be 3. The government says that the statistics do not mean anything as the significance between the two is not a valid increase. Bearing in mind, that both groups are Vietnam Veterans. The difference is the amount of dioxin. I believe the cut off was 10ppt of dioxin alone in considering who was exposed and who was not exposed. When no one knows what other toxic chemicals played a part or what the dose rate of dioxin actually is to cause anything medically; I find this whole 140 million dollar study issue very much slanted and certainly questionable.\nNow one would ask; why is it that Veterans exposed to massive amounts of three different toxic chemical herbicides that contained at least six different toxic chemicals can only be affected by some dose rate of dioxin alone, established by this study and not medical science?\nThis would be a good question for everyone to ask of the following; if all of them were still alive:\nPresidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, William Clinton, and George Bush.\nSome others that should be questioned on this amazing feat of medical science and wonderment should be the former Secretaries of Defense.\nSecretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Melvin Laird, Elliot Richardson, James Schlesinger, Donald Rumsfield, Harold Brown, Caspar Weinberger, Frank Carlucci, Richard Cheney, Les Aspin, William Perry, William Choen, and for the second time Donald Rumsfield.\nObviously Mr. Rumsfield should now have some answers to what must be considered a miracle of science and protection of the 19th century that can only be attributable to the Uniform of the United States Military.\nCertainly the Secretaries of the VA should have some medical answers to this medical marvel of the uniform of the US military that can double as environmental toxic chemical hazards suits to not only skin exposures but drinking, eating cooked food, and bathing all in which toxic chemical water was used.\nEdward Derwinski who used the totally Veteran biased VA committee (VACEH) of former chemical company scientists should know.\nJesse Brown, Togo West, Anthony Principi and the latest of these so called men of integrity Jim Nichols should know how this is all possible - since they make the Veterans biased decisions based on the government contracted NAS/IOM. Yes, that is correct the same government Veterans are seeking death and disablement claims from hired what seems to be a VA friendly National organization that also receives funds from that same government. Just a slight conflict of interest. No different than the government tainted CDC AO study fiasco in the 80's. HR 101-672.\nMaybe they can answer why it is that a former Monsanto chemical company scientist was selected to run the VA's AO study. When his prior professional job was to prove there is no damage from dioxin or any other product that Monsanto made and it was like Orange Juice and good for you.\nIf you Veterans or widow's of Veterans reading this find these facts somewhat VA/Government slanted then join the rest of the Veterans of the nation that use to actually trust our government and do so no more!\nIn other words, one hell of an expensive study that for all intensive purposes proves nothing except death rates and exoneration of our government! Except it does prove service in Vietnam in a toxic chemical(s) (plural) environment was not good for you in many medical areas; thanks to our own government!\nOne of my Marines, tired of no VA answers, called one of the Gastrointestinal Disease centers and they told him that they had estimated about 70% came home with some form of gastrointestinal issue. I am trying to re- contact this Marine and get the details of this conversation.\nI recall during the period of about five years after returning, while doctors tested me over and over again, that my mother found an article in our home town newspaper. This article was in reference to a news story concerning some doctors at the University of Florida and the study they were conducting to see \"why so many Vietnam Veterans were coming home with gastrointestinal issues.\"\nSo this medical issue and problem has been \"well known\" since at least the early 1970's.\nToo bad we did not have the Internet back then!\nGovernment/VA Philosophy against veterans\nOur own Veterans Administration in its entirety, to include the Secretary of the VA, operates as a White House after White House \"budget control\" rather than the tell the Veterans and their families the truth for over 40 years or even give Veterans a fair assessment of our toxic chemicals health status.\nIt is our Congress, rather than support the Veterans for their search for the truth, that remains deaf and blind in order to support these different White Houses and keep the government coffers for other programs.\nYes, that does include your own congressional representative and your two state senators; who state they care about Veterans.\nWhile our own US government/VA studies, have been less than objective and truthful with regard to many medical issues for many reasons to include, politics and money; and the fact that the White House decision philosophy was made decades ago to \"not support\" the Vietnam Veterans of this nation for obvious \"government wrong doing.\"\n\"The White House Bureau of the Budget put out a memo to all the agencies of government in essence not to find a correlation between Agent Orange and health affects. Stating that it would be most unfortunate for two reasons:\nA) The cost of supporting the Veterans.\nB) The court liability to which corporations would be exposed.\" (3)\nAt this time in our \"toxic chemical legacy,\" our own White House/government and the chemical companies became an \"official tag team of coconspirators.\"\nIn fact, Admiral Zumwalt (deceased) appointed as a special assistant to the Secretary of the VA to resolve the toxic chemical issues stated in his report the following:\n“Unfortunately, political interference in government sponsored studies associated with Agent Orange has been the norm, not the exception. In fact, there appears to have been a systematic effort to suppress critical data, or alter results to meet preconceived notions of what alleged scientific studies were meant to find” (4)\n“Were the faulty conclusions, flawed methodology and noticeable bias of the Advisory Committee (VACEH) an isolated problem, correcting the misdirection would be more manageable. But, experience with other governmental agencies responsible for specifically analyzing and studying the effects of exposure to Agent Orange strongly hints at a discernible pattern, if not “outright governmental collaboration,” to deny compensation to Vietnam Veterans for disabilities associated with exposure to dioxin. (5)\n“Unfortunately, as hearings before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee on July 11, 1989 revealed, the design, implementation and conclusions of the CDC study were so ill conceived as to suggest that political pressures once again interfered with the kind of professional, unbiased review Congress had sought to obtain.” (6)\nAdmiral Zumwalt using independent researchers and independent prestigious research centers, and that is the key word \"independent\", during a three year study as special assistant to the Secretary of the VA concluded the following were \"more than likely\" associated to exposures to dioxin.\nNon-Hodgkin’ s lymphoma, chloracne and other skin disorders, lip cancer, bone cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, birth defects, skin cancer, lung cancer, porphyria cutanea tarda and other liver disorders, Hodgkin’s disease, hematopoietic diseases, multiple myeloma, neurological defects, autoimmune diseases and disorders, liver cancer, nasal/pharyngeal/esophageal cancers, leukemia, malignant melanoma, kidney cancer, testicular cancer, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, brain cancer, psychosocial effects, and gastrointestinal disease are service-connected. (7)\nThis VA Agent Orange report was promptly classified and stamped, \"Not for Release to the Public.\"\nFor the record, in 2000 a former Principal Ranch Hand scientists Dr. Richard Albanese, Senior Medical Research Officer, in a government oversight review categorically stated, just as the Admiral indicated above, that for 20 years the government study called Ranch Hand Study had never told the truth in:\n\"Birth defects, cancers, heart disease, vascular disease, neurological ailments, endocrine disturbances, and hematological difficulties.” (8)\nHe also charged that \"command influence\" was being used as well as Air Force management was changing cleared for publication \"medical findings and conclusions.\" (8)\nHe also asked how any studies could be considered legitimate if the scientists were not considered to have intellectual freedom. (8)\nPrior to the use of these \"weapons of mass destruction\" the process used by the government for Veterans compensations was an \"increased risk of incidence\" or a \"significant increase.\" Of course all of this changed when our own government turned against Veterans for mistakes made by an arrogant President Johnson and the arrogant Robert McNamara.\nYes, they were warned by over 5,000 of our own US scientists in at least two petitions not to use these toxic chemicals of weapons of mass destruction. Of course they did it anyway because this government treats its Veterans as guinea pigs. (Reference the Project 112 testing and subset testing of SHAD.)\nFor the record, Veterans tiring of trying to fight this \"government legal system\" set up for \"only Veterans\" have mounted a law suit against many individuals in the VA for their direct personal actions, regardless of what politician command the cover-ups or stalling.\nThese VA individuals are being charged as follows: (9)\n\"The VA officials named are Susan H. Mather, Neil S. Otchin, Robert J. Epley, and Thomas J. Pamperin. The suit alleges that these people orchestrated or contributed to a cover-up - characterized as \"intentional, willful, wanton, and in bad faith\" in the complaint - of SHAD and its possible adverse health effects by denying veterans access to information about the tests. \"These are people who signed or stamped the letters and denials,\" lawyer Rosinski said.\"\n\"The complaint holds that by not providing timely information to the veterans - the military knew as early as the mid-1980s that at least one substance used was emphatically not harmless, as originally believed - and by continuing to deny veterans access to the full information, the defendants violated the plaintiffs' constitutional right to go to court and file claims. It is by specifically naming defendants that the suit hopes to change things.\"\nThis is typical of what our government has done for over 40 years with the VA being the lead federal agency in government denial. Certainly the toxic chemical legacy of our Vietnam Veterans will fall into this above example of \"the military knew as early as the mid-1980s that at least one substance used was emphatically not harmless, as originally believed - and by continuing to deny veterans access to the full information... By using the entire power of the United Sates Government and its contracted agencies egregious medical fraud has been committed against the nation's Veterans by our own government.\nA more recent example of this medical fraud is our Gulf War Veterans. Many came home sick and dying while our government minimized this fact and our national media totally ignored these facts.\nThe lead agency for denial was; once again the White House directed VA and its contracted partner the NAS/IOM in representing that the Veteran's death, sickness and disabling disorders, and birth defects regarding our nation's Veterans was \"associated to mental stress\" in a war that took less than 200 hours and suffered very minimal casualties.\nThat in itself makes no medical sense.\nYet, here we have on October 14th, 2004 in the New York Times an article that states: (10)\nCiting new scientific research on the effects of exposure to low levels of neurotoxins, the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses concludes in its draft report that \"a substantial proportion of Gulf War veterans are ill with multisymptom conditions not explained by wartime stress or psychiatric illness.\"\nA federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress.\nAll the chemicals cited in the new study belong to a group called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which can cause a range of symptoms including pain, fatigue, diarrhea and cognitive impairment.\nYet, for over a decade the VA and the NAS/IOM had concluded this ridiculous scenario that stress was the sole causation. Nice cover up for the DOD and our government.\nAlso bearing in mind that the original study group reported to President Bill Clinton in 1996 that \"current scientific evidence does not support a causal link\" between the veterans' symptoms and chemical exposures in the Persian Gulf.\nInstead, the earlier group said, stress \"is likely to be an important contributing factor to the broad range of physical and psychological illnesses currently being reported by gulf war veterans.\"\nSome 697,000 American troops were sent to the Persian Gulf at the end of 1990 to drive the Iraqi forces of President Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Thirteen years after the war ended many veterans still complain of persistent fatigue, headaches, joint pain, numbness, diarrhea and other health problems. Sounds oh so familiar to the Vietnam Veterans.\nIn fact, the law to mandate this new study was passed in 1998 yet it was not acted on until 2002. Four more years of government/VA stalling.\nOut of the 697,000 troops, 16% are conservatively estimated to be effected by this so called stress syndrome with significant similar symptoms in 2004. Many have already succumbed to this \"stress syndrome.\"\nIn any deployment such as this only about 10-14% of the deployment is actual combat troops. So that means that all of the combat troops are either dead or dying from this so called stress syndrome. This also includes the same rate for our allies troops that were also deployed.\nThis is how the United States Government actually treats its veterans; including our congress. What you see on TV on CSPAN in the senate and the house, is a mirage and is a total facade as they recite the praises for the military men and women. It is all a big academy award winning show.\nIn other words, there is no \"increased risk of incidence\" or \"significant increase\" for Veterans and especially Vietnam Veterans.\nThis only exists in the world of civilians and the world of civilian constitutional law. It can no longer exist in the government created \"Veterans World of VA Law,\" which is outside the constitution of the United States.\nGovernment Actions\nFor over 20 years our government denied any causations of medical issues related to the toxic chemicals. To stop the onslaught of legitimate claims for death and disablement that developed after irrefutable evidence was being brought forward of the overwhelming medical issues the Veterans were developing our government then:\nSet up an entire legal system that only applies to Veterans and is outside the constitution and constitutional law for the rest of the nation.\nRather than increased \"risk of incidence\" or \"significant increase\" our government and the VA then mandated \"cause and effect\" results.\nAfter a court found that this \"cause and effect\" was impossible; given the numbers of toxic chemicals and the variety of exposures and was too stringent in favor of the government. The Secretary of the VA, while not challenging the court ruling, then wrote the CFR to only include the chemical formula for dioxin only, with a mandated statistical significant increase and a p-factor of 0.05 attached to it.\nNote: A p-factor of 0.05 is the worlds scientific standard for proving there is no doubt or there is little chance the differences found were associated by chance alone.\nCongress, in a total ruse, then passed the Dioxin Act of 1984. This had to be one of the biggest lies every put out by our Congress. This act gave the \"benefit of the doubt\" to the Veterans in this unknown toxic chemical legacy. Totally disregarded by the VA and the Secretary of the VA for over 21 additional years over the previous 20 years of denial of everything. With our own VA the lead denial federal agency, as directed by the White House.\nBy default because of these actions by the Secretary of the VA, supported by our own government there can be no toxic chemical associations to just \"Service in Vietnam\" in a toxic chemical environment. Only those medical issues found to a linear dose rate to dioxin alone can be associated out of the many many toxic chemicals used. Even many of these that are actually found are not being brought forward because the government scientists indicate they cannot find any overt disease that qualifies to a 100 year old ICD code. They find a damaging process related to dioxin but because they are unfamiliar and cannot explain what this unknown toxic chemical is doing in this damaging process; it then falls by the way side and once again is not reported to the medical community or the nation's Veterans.\nIn addition, many medical issues found in study comparisons between cohorts that reach a 50% increase or even higher are not considered significant in the eyes of our government for Veterans and their families. These issues do not even make the reports, so our nations doctors are even unaware of these significant medical findings in Vietnam Veterans. This is because while they show a significant increase they do not show a dose response to only dioxin. Remember, the VA created a new philosophy and requirement that there will be no associations based on \"Service in Vietnam in a toxic chemical environment.\"\nWhile the Secretary of the VA did make one exception and that is for female Veterans that had offspring with birth defects. To exclude the male Veterans that had the very same birth defects and at the very same rate; the VA then did not tie this association for female Veterans to a dioxin only but only to \"Service in Vietnam.\" So the VA has made a exception to the dioxin only rule. Remember that! A totally different legal standard was used and the precedence was set.\nOutside of our Vietnam Toxic Chemical Legacy this \"Service in whatever campaign\" does exist.\nRemember the New York Times article regarding the Gulf War.\nThe VA Secretary himself through a spokesperson stated: (10)\n\"I'm looking forward to studying the committee's report and working with them to ensure adequate research funding to find answers to these perplexing medical issues,\" he said. He said the department was already providing disability benefits for some veterans who have developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, based on studies finding that the veterans have nearly double the risk of the disease as veterans who did not go to the Persian Gulf do.\nSince all government studies for Vietnam Veterans have been corrupted and no study is allowed to only compare those that served versus those that did not serve with the additional government/VA mandate of finding a linear dioxin dose response. (See History) Even if the risk ratio is at 5 or greater it makes no difference to the collaborating government/VA. For the Vietnam Veterans there is no greater risk as stated above by the VA Secretary. Only government corruption and tyranny awaits them to a single end point linear dioxin dose response.\nReferencing the Korean study that did not compare like cohorts but those that served versus those that did not serve. The data is very damning. Yet, our congress does nothing. (18)\nIf you look at the BVA cases in every instance you will see that the VA counselors make the statement, \"that the Secretary of the VA has not determined an association to ESOPHAGEAL CANCER and Agent Orange.\" This is the legal term they use to deny you and as you will see in the History below there has never been a government study on Agent Orange. So that in itself, is nothing but VA counselor lies.\nThen we have the statements of the decisions as follows:\nDECISION OF THE BOARD\n\"The Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board), in accordance with the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 7104 (West 1991 & Supp. 1997), has reviewed and considered all of the evidence and material of record in the veteran's claims file. Based on its review of the \"relevant evidence\" in this matter, and for the following reasons and bases, it is the decision of the Board that the appellant has not met the initial burden of\nsubmitting evidence sufficient to justify a belief by a \"fair and impartial individual\" that the claim of entitlement to service connection for the cause of death is well-grounded.\"\nThis is the \"government fox\" watching the government hen house (government mistake coffers) for the White House and the Congress.\n\"Fair and impartial\" has got to be a joke. About as fair and forthcoming as the government studies have been. (See History section.)\nThere in lies the problem - The VA, following the march orders of the White House, can limit the issues to only one part of a toxic chemical compound. Then our congress turns around and gives the sole power to the Secretary of the VA to do anything he wants regarding Veterans on behalf of the White House, criminal or not. Then to keep anyone from challenging the VA our congress than sets up a legal system that is biased against Veterans and not under any rule of law or subject to any other courts review.\nCongress has clearly precluded any judicial review of any Veterans Administration determinations as set forth in 38 U. S. C. paragraph 211a:\n…\"the decision of the administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans Administration providing benefits for Veterans…shall be final and conclusive and no other court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any decision by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.\"\nA nice total government tyrannical package rolled into one by a collaborative government protecting \"itself\" for wrongdoing.\nAs I was reading this to my sister-in-law she exclaimed, \"that sounds like communism!\"\nWhen any government agency says \"Agent Orange\" that is a lie and they really only mean dioxin. No, repeat NO, government study has studied the effects of Agent Orange. The government has mandated that all \"herbicide studies\" be reduced to \"dioxin only\" which was only one part of the herbicide Agent Orange and Agent Orange was only one of the 15 different formulas of herbicides used with multiple toxic chemicals used.\nWhile the two main other herbicides used were Agent Blue and Agent White each with their own set of toxic medical issues from both acute and chronic exposures.\nIn fact, while the government states Agent Orange was the most widely used; the most widely used toxic chemical was 2,4-D used in both Agents Orange and White.\nIt is noted for the record, that all government studies were mandated to those exposed by skin contact alone.\nIt is noted for the record, that methods of ingestion of toxic chemicals plays a role in what will develop, how it will develop, and when it will develop.\nIt is noted for the record, that in some areas such as the Quang Tri area in Quang Tri Province that herbicide tapes show more Agent Blue used than Agent Orange.\nIt is also noted for the record, that most areas of Vietnam were indeed sprayed with all three major toxic chemicals.\nIt is also noted for the record, that in 1969 as the medical issues were rising and being noted as toxic chemical associated. The State Department, under Jim Baker, got involved in the investigations. After trips to Vietnam the state department report concluded that Agent Orange in its entirety with dioxin; was not a real threat. However, they stated there was some major concerns and issues about Agent Blue since it contained arsenic acid.\nYet, here we Veterans and families are; 40 years later, with the VA, directed by the White House, with every issue associated or non-associated to what they say is Agent Orange, when they really only mean dioxin alone. In spite of the many other toxic chemicals that obviously, according to the VA and the government contracted National Academy of Science, cannot harm Veterans for some magical medical fact.\nIf you were going to hang your hat on denial and protecting the government coffers from government mistakes and had your own independent omnipotent legal system. Would you not select the most unknown toxic chemical?\nEspecially, if you knew that the other toxic chemicals had already been characterized as to acute and chronic exposures for decades. Or that your partner in crime, Dow Chemical, and their toxic chemical compound called \"Picloram\" was DOW proprietary.\nIn addition, you knew that our own EPA, as the many Veterans' deaths, disabilities, and medical issues were manifesting as toxic chemical issues, in 1985 in order for DOW to re-qualify \"Picloram\" had demanded they reduce the hexachlorobenzene to less than 200 parts per million and that the nitrosamine be reduced.\nPicloram now has less than 100 parts per million and no (zero) nitrosamine. There is no telling what the toxic chemical swill had in it as far as toxic chemical levels when used on Veterans and the terrain for over 10 years.\nIf you knew that in 1990 Doctor Daniel Teitelbaum, a noted toxicologist stated:\n“What I do think...may bear on the Agent Orange issue, is the fact that in review of Dow’s 2,4-D documentation I found that there are significant concentrations of potentially carcinogenic materials present in 2,4-D \"which have never been made known to the EPA, FDA, or to any other agency.\" Thus, in addition to the problem of the TCDD which, more likely than not, was present in the 2,4,5--T component of Agent Orange, the finding of \"other dioxins\" and closely related \"furans and xanthones\" in the 2,4--D formulation was of compelling interest to me.” (8)\nThe bottom line is; we more than likely have other forms of dioxins other than TCDD in the Agent Orange herbicide. Agent Orange was a 50/50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and the DOW 2,4-D referenced by Doctor Teitelbaum. With the additional issues included of closely related furans and xanthones in 2,4-D. This also creates a synergy effect with more than one toxic chemical in the same formula. This can increase the potency of the chemicals as far as 1600 times what each one would be separately. This is especially true if two are further apart on the chemical property scale.\nIn addition 2,4-D was used a separate herbicide under the nomenclature of Agent White.\nSome researchers are saying they actually mixed Agent Orange and Agent Blue together to spray. I cannot verify that but if they did, it is a wonder any one is left alive.\nAgain, logically you would select the most unknown single toxic chemical that no one knows what it does, how it does it, and has never been characterized; in order to protect the government and the White House. Then you would demand a linear dose response when there is no proof of a linear dose response or that this single toxin will even have a linear dose response. Especially, since you have your own corrupt legal system given to you by the congress; you can now deny any study or animal study you want or even statistical increase data.\nRemember the CFR used in VA denials only lists the chemical formula for TCDD.\nTechnical/Medical\nNitrosamine contained in Agent White (12)\n“Nitrosamines are another type of carcinogenic chemicals that are known to cause cancers and other medical problems.\nExposure to high concentrations of nitrosamines is associated with increased mortality from cancers of the esophagus, oral cavity, and pharynx (throat).\nWhen used in pesticides or herbicides it may cause DNA damage and cell death.”\nCacodylic acid (dimethyl arsenic acid) which was called Agent Blue (13)\nAgent Blue: This was a code name for cacodylic acid (dimethyl arsenic acid) that was used from 1965 to 1970.\nAgent Blue produces a spectrum of acute toxic symptoms that includes gastrointestinal disorders, eye irritation, and dermatitis. Studies in experimental systems have indicated that it has the potential for mutagenicity, clastogenicity (chromosome damages), and teratogenicity.\nCarcinogenicity has not been tested adequately, but it should be noted that other inorganic arsenic compounds have been associated with liver, lung, skin, and stomach cancers.\nIt is highly toxic by inhalation, ingestion and through skin contact. It may cause irreversible effects and death. It may act as a teratogen or carcinogen; or skin, eye and respiratory irritant.\nGarlic type odor of breath and feces, and metallic taste in the mouth.\nAdverse GI effects predominate with vomiting, abdominal pain and rice-water, or bloody diarrhea.\nGI effects may also include inflammation, vesicle formation, and eventual sloughing (shedding) of the *mucosa in the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus.\n*Note: Mucosa is moist tissue that lines particular organs and body cavities throughout the body, including your nose, mouth, lungs, pharynx, esophagus, and gastrointestinal tract.\nCentral nervous system effects that are common include: headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion.\nSymptoms may progress to include muscle weakness, spasms, hypothermia, lethargy, delirium, coma, and convulsions.\nRenal injury manifests as proteinuria, hematuria, glycosuria, oliguria, and shows up in the urine. In severe poisoning cases, acute tubular necrosis results.\nCardiovascular effects include shock, cyanosis, and cardiac arrhythmia.\nElevated liver enzymes and jaundice may manifest causing liver damage.\nInjury to blood-forming tissues may cause anemia, leucopenia, and thrombocytopenia.\nChronic exposure may lead to:\nMuscle weakness, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss.\nHyperpigmentation, hyperkeratosis.\nPeripheral neuropathy, paresthesia, paresis, and ataxia.\nInability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements.\nSubcutaneous edema in face, eyelids, and ankles.\nStomatitis, white striations across the nails (Mees lines) and sometimes loss of nails or hair.\nLiver toxicity as indicated by hepatomegaly, jaundice, and cirrhosis.\nRenal toxicity leading to oliguria, proteinuria, and hematuria.\nEKG abnormalities and peripheral vascular disease.\nHematologic abnormalities.\nCancer.\nDioxin itself\nWhile our own EPA in the 70's and 80's operated as a direct White House collaborative operative in our toxic chemical legacy issue. It seems that in 1992 they did get at least some integrity back.\nStarting with what the EPA called their \"Dioxin Reassessment\" study in 1992. Which for all intensive purposes parallel a report that was done in 1979 by one of the EPA scientists who actually did have some integrity. For some \"unknown and unexplained rationale\" this report was shelved by the EPA in 1979 and not released.\nAnother hero EPA scientists during this time found that many of the chemical company studies being presented in actual court cases were fraudulent and corrupted. When she made this known to the EPA enforcement, her reward was to be punished and set aside by the EPA, operating as a White House and VA pawn.\nRemember, the entire US Government using collaboration was denying any and all medical issues up until 1990, some 23 years while Vietnam Veterans died and became disabled. Denied any and all serious side effects from our toxic chemical legacy and exposures.\nIn reviewing the EPA reassessments in 1992, 1994, and 1996 the emergence of EPA dioxin expert Dr. Linda Birnbaum is a ray of hope for all Veterans. Although, there seems to be some end fighting going on between the less than truthful Ranch Hand studies and their studies that are slanted towards \"government exoneration\" as opposed to scientific facts and the new EPA dioxin expert at the EPA.\nVery similar to the CDC that sold their \"scientific soul\" to our White House in the 80's. (14)\nI find it very interesting and questionable when I do review a Ranch Hand report and find zero references to any EPA findings and OTA study findings. Also, I have seen references that there does seemed to be some disparity between the two entities. In reviewing both the EPA reassessments and the Ranch Hand scientific transcripts, not the published and crafted reports, I find many of the same issues being discussed and found. While the Ranch Hand then \"exonerates the findings\" the EPA expands on the issues.\nHow long before the White House or the new EPA Director at behest of the president who appointed him puts the clamps on Dr. Birnbaum is the question.\nOne issue that the EPA discusses in their reassessment is the immunotoxicity of dioxin.\nThat the threshold for immunotoxicity is 100 times less than that of a cancer. And that for some disorders created by dioxin there does not seemed to be a threshold. So much for the Ranch Hand study linear dose response only government/VA mandated study constraint.\nOne would also wonder if the threshold for immunotoxicity is 100 times less than that of cancer then where are the immunotoxicity issues listed on our VA and NAS/IOM hit parade. You cannot have one without the other, except at the VA.\nI think most people are aware that cancer develops. It is not some magical medical moment you have cancer. It is a series of cell derangements and maturations that end up being a malignant cancer. This process can stop at any time for whatever reason leaving you with many other debilitating issues and even death from the autoimmune diseases that are created. Including other disorders such as medical conditions that may be in-between two cancers that are listed on our VA and NAS/IOM hit parade. These would be in the form of many issues and symptoms such as amyloydosis or many deranged antibody issues that are created, or even some form of connective tissue disorders.\nThe EPA discusses the lack of an immune system and the creation of an attacking immune system and that you can actually have both.\n“Effects on the liver: There are some differences in different species but, in general, you see enlargement of the liver, you see accumulation of fat in the liver. In some tissue, you have hyperplasia, which is a proliferation of cells. The tissue actually gets bigger from having more cells, and this occurs in the lining of the gastro-intestinal tract, it occurs in the lining of the urinary tract, and it occurs in the bile duct, which comes from the liver.\nIn other kinds of cells, instead of getting hyperplasia, which is an inappropriate proliferation of cells, you get squamous metaplasia, which is an inappropriate differentiation of cells.\nIt is not that an eye turns into an ear, but in fact, one type of cell turns into another type of cell. It starts behaving like that cell. So, one of the classic kinds of symptomatology that we see in humans, is metaplasia of the meibomian glands of the eye. Now, meibomian glands are little glands at the base of your eyelid that secrete very small amounts of fluid. With exposure to dioxins, these actually change and start producing waxy exudates on your eye that makes vision very difficult and this is a complaint of people who have had very high levels of dioxin exposure. They also complain of problems with hearing. There are glands that line your ear canal, which are called the ceruminous glands and these undergo an inappropriate differentiation and start producing earwax. These are not the normal glands that produce normal earwax.” (15)\nNow that last paragraph is some scary stuff to think that dioxin can create these issues for external organs and glands and think what this poison is doing to your internal organs.\nSo the bottom line is the \"dioxin damaging process that is created,\" not the end item ICD code that not everyone will reach, based on many many variants. To include there is no ICD code for total body system disruption caused by toxic chemicals that have never been identified as to some sort of syndrome.\nWhat Dr. Birnbaum described is about as close as you come to a body's response to some form of antigen or virus. While the dioxin itself does not appear to create an antigenic response the damage it creates from cell derangement and hormone and enzyme changes does parallel a body response to a virus. Very similar to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), or AIDS virus, or even Hepatitis C virus.\nAll of these, including the cancers we have listed on our VA and NAS/IOM hit parade all seemed to be associated with B and T cell issues.\nIn talking to the NAS/IOM I posed this theory that it seemed dioxin was creating a body response similar to that of a virus such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), or AIDS virus, or even Hepatitis C virus. The immediate response, with no hesitation, from the NAS/IOM was, \"There is no proof of that.\" Almost as if they indeed know that this is a very likely scenario but do not want to confess that fact.\nIn 2003 the Korean Agent Orange Immunotoxicological seven year Impact study that was not as anti-veteran and constrained as our own government studies found Immune-Modulation: (16)\n\"Overall, this study suggests that military service in Vietnam and/or Agent Orange Exposure disturbs the immune-homeostasis resulting in dysregulation of B and T cell activities.\"\nFound disturbed in this study were.\nIFN gamma\nTNF alpha\nIL4:IFN gamma ratio\nOnce again this describes a reaction similar to that of an exposure to a virus which can set off many issues including any predisposition by genetics. Which would now mean that anything associated to this damaging processes should more than likely be associated, especially if trends are found whether there is a linear dose response found to dioxin only or not.\nExample: You can have the genetics for celiac-sprue all your life and never have a problem. You may have the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) genes specifically linked to celiac disease of DR3, DQ2 and DQ8. But only when you have the immune system issue or virus like response created by dioxin will this disease manifest. Normally associated with T-cell involvement.\nIn my novice research, I found many issues on our VA and NAS/IOM hit parade that are already associated with the EBV in many medical publications. In addition, I found most of the issues associated and those issues that we know are prevalent among our Veterans that probably \"should be associated\" were also involved with B and T cell issues derangement and dysregulation.\nMany of the immune system cancers and nasal/pharyngeal cancers are associated to an immune system response from the EBV.\nIn one study I found \"EBV INFECTION OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER TISSUE AS DETERMINED BY PCR\"\nTheir study indicated - Conclusion: Tentatively, there appears to be a correlation between EBV infection of esophageal tissue and abnormalities of the esophagus.\n\"The percentages of EBV positive samples amongst the esophagitis (42.3%), esophagus squamous cell carcinomas (42.8%) and esophageal aden carcinomas (42.8%) were rather high. If these results are borne out in further investigations, they suggest a possible role of the EBV virus in the etiology of esophageal diseases. The fact that a large percent of non-cancerous esophagitis samples were positive suggests the virus may play a role in the early stages of abnormalities of the esophagus,...\nThis is highly suggestive of EBV involvement in Esophageal cancers.\nOne of the issues associated with Barrett's Esophagus and the development of esophageal cancers is GERD.\nI previously reported above, all the gastrointestinal issues reported to include gastroparesis which seems to be related to possible delayed stomach emptying or increased stomach acid production.\nWe already know that many many Veterans suffer from peripheral neuropathy. This was found to a linear dose response in the Ranch Hand studies as a stand alone and then not brought forward; and of course the NAS/IOM still denies this peripheral nerve damage.\nIn fact in the 2002 update the NAS/IOM had this to say:\nThe 2002 update concluded that there is inadequate or insufficient evidence to determine whether an association exists between the chemicals studied and chronic persistent peripheral neuropathy. In relation to acute and subacute transient peripheral neuropathy, the NAS concluded that there was limited or suggestive evidence of an association between chemical exposure and the disease, as stated in the update 1996 report. Update 2002 also indicated that if TCDD were associated with the development of transient acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy, the disorder would become evident shortly after exposure.\nThe NAS was unaware of any evidence that new cases developing long after service in Vietnam that could be attributed to herbicide exposure in Vietnam.\nThis is because the NAS/IOM operates under government constraints and goes more blind every two years, as it is time to put out their slanted and biased findings. Just as our congress does every election cycle in stating they support Veterans. All of it fictitious and sickening.\nThe Korean Agent Orange Impact study found this very painful nerve damage as a stand alone prevalent and relevant to Agent Orange at a p-value of 0.039 and related to service in Vietnam at a p-value of 0.0042. Of course, our VA and the NAS/IOM still deny this involvement.\nThe point is, you cannot have all this peripheral nerve damage without involvement in the autonomic nerves or even the central nervous system itself. I would seriously doubt, using any logic at all, that dioxin involvement already proven scientifically and mathematically in peripheral nerve damages is that specific to only affect part of the nervous system.\nAutonomic nervous system would be involved with delayed stomach emptying and also insulin timing/glucose, which we also know is a big issue among Vietnam Veterans.\nRegardless, if it was the involvement of B and T cells as some form of virus like response from the dioxin or autonomic nerve damage causing gastroparesis it is all associated with Service in Vietnam to multiple toxic chemical exposures.\nIn addition the VA and NAS/IOM state they are not looking for \"cause and effect.\" In fact, I challenged the NAS/IOM on this fact and they categorically denied this fact.\nWhile the Ranch Hand demands a liner dose response, which by default means you are looking for some form of \"cause and effect\" or at least to some level of cause and effect. By mandating this constraint many medical issues from Military Service in Vietnam that are \"indeed found significant\" go unreported; as planned by the entire government.\nRemember in my previous discussions that prior to our toxic chemical legacy our government based Veterans compensations on \"increased risk of incidence\" or \"significant increase\" regardless of cause and effect, especially in an unknown issue as we had 40 years ago in types of toxic chemicals and the different forms of ingestions.\nLogically, even \"medical trends\" such as showing up in those that served from Australia, New Zealand, Korea, US Forces should be looked at with great concern as an \"increased risk of incidence.\"\nUnfortunately, this has not happened by our government scientists and those scientists at the NAS/IOM who are contracted by our government with apparently some built in constraints; or the NAS/IOM is totally biased against Veterans as the committee they replaced. Just as that committee that operated from 1979 to 1991 that was disbanded in disgrace after review of their totally biased processes , the VACEH.\nIt seems the NAS/IOM itself is more tied to a VA mandated and controlled process than real scientific trends and medical issues.\nIncluded in this comparison should be those medical issues from Times Beach, Mo where the government bought up a whole town for less exposures than most Veterans saw while at the same time they were denying Veterans any and all dioxin issues. Or the Love Canal, New York manifestations, or the Seveso, Italy dioxin incident.\nWhich if you compare the amount of toxic chemicals released in pounds and the amount of TCDD in Italy it is about 2% of what my gun park saw along the DMZ, not counting the drift from other firebases within the drift rate of about 11 miles. Yet, this area of Italy was declared a disaster area by national and international standards.\nThe Seveso, Italy dioxin accident has been characterized as a \"National disaster.\" The actual 2,4,5-T release was estimated to be 100 grams (3.52 oz) to 20 kg (44.09 lbs) of dioxin was released into the air along with the estimated only 3,000 kg (6,613.9 pounds) of chemical that was released. The furthest contamination distance was 6 km (3.7 miles) to the south.\nThis absolutely pales in comparison to just the Rockpile FSB minimum of 506,000 pounds within 4.8 miles. (Not including the other firebase overlaps, the drift rates from the DMZ burm, tank spraying, tanker spraying, helicopter spraying, the additional toxic chemical poundage of Agents White and Blue.)\nIn fact, the Seveso Italy area was the perfect place to study these \"increased risk of incidences\" because of the way the exposure levels were broken out by exposure zones. Almost as if you would have a built in dose rate evaluation.\nIn reviewing the following peer reviewed article on, \"The Seveso Studies on Early and Long-Term Effects of Dioxin Exposure: A Review\" I found many issues that Veterans have been submitting for and being turned down by our anti-Veteran Veterans Administration. Many of which were found in our allies as well as US troops. Many were found in the Ranch Hand transcripts and then not bought forward into the medical community.\nI indicate \"peer reviewed\" because the NAS/IOM will not look at anything that has not been stalled for at least seven years in some peer review. Even though the Ranch Hand reports are peer reviewed and published in medical journals you can build a medical journal on dioxin exposures on what they are not reporting; as they seemed to \"craft for publication\" as opposed to medical science.\nI will not go into the many things found significant in mortality and disease that we Veterans have been saying was associated and suffering from while the government stalls using the VA and the NAS/IOM.\nWhat I did find that was interesting was obstructive air way diseases COPD, which the Ranch Hand found some of that. I was thinking why did the Koreans in their honest evaluation, that did not select by MOS only; not find this issue. Then realized that this is one medical area they did not evaluate. Had they done so; I can assure you they would not only have found it; but published the \"unmodified results.\"\nHowever, esophageal cancer mortality was one of them in the Seveso, Italy incident; especially in males. With a Risk Ratio (RR) of 1.8 and 95% Confidence Interval (CI) of 1.1-2.4. (17)\nIn fact the study concluded: (It should be noted that this was only a 15-year after the fact study.)\nIncreases in rectal cancers and increases in selected digestive digestive sites (liver and others).\nIt was theorized by some of the Ranch Hand scientists that one of the rationales as to why the Ranch Handers themselves were not showing more cancers was because of the non-cancerous mortality from ischemic heart and vascular disease mortality. The men were not living long enough to show the increase in cancers. (2) Now that is a comforting thought for all our Vietnam Veterans left alive.\nThis seems to be very possibly a trend in the Seveso, Italy dioxin exposure also.\nIn a court document the following was submitted in evidence by Doctor Cate Jenkins of the EPA: (19)\nMany Vietnam veterans have experienced more than one of the adverse health effects associated with dioxin. Such a coincidence of injuries increases the probability that the common casual factor of the multiple injuries was dioxin rather than two or more coincidental factors. In addition, a variety of human population exposed to dioxin have experienced these health effects (Vietnam veterans, farmers, forestry workers, residential populations in Missouri and Italy, and chemical production workers in the U.S. and other countries), thus establishing a firm basis for concluding that dioxin, and not some other unique factor related to service in Vietnam, was responsible for these health effects. Further, many Vietnam veterans and other populations exposed to dioxin have experienced dose-related increased rates of these adverse health effects, proving strong epidemiological evidence that the effects were caused by, not merely associated with, dioxin. In all cases, animals have experienced these same health effects when dioxin is administered in a controlled laboratory setting, thus providing a plausible biological basis for the health effects observed in humans.\nThe effects demonstrated by these new studies to be significantly associated with dioxin exposures include elevated cancers of all sites combined (representing a general carcinogenic effect of dioxin), as well as cancers of specific sites, namely: soft tissue sarcomas; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; leukemias, lymphomas, and other hematologic cancers; respiratory system cancer; skin cancer; testicular cancer; and cancers of the brain, stomach, colon, rectum, prostate, hepatobiliary tract, pancreas, and kidney. One adverse effect in addition to cancer significantly associated with dioxin is organic nerve damage, including peripheral as well as central nervous system damage, and the severe consequences of central nervous system damage, such as suicide and fatal accidents, depression, anxiety, and other neuropsychological problems. Other adverse effects significantly associated with dioxin include reproductive abnormalities; immunological abnormalities; dermatologic abnormalities; hepatoxic effects; gastrointestinal ulcer; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders such as porphyria cutanea tarda, thyroid dysfunction, diabetes, and altered lipid metabolism; and lung and thorax abnormalities.\nSpecific digestive system cancers:\nStomach:\nDow Chemical Corporation Studies of Chlorophenol Production Workers. (19)\nThe 1989 Dow Chemical Corporation analysis of employees exposed to dioxin found elevated stomach cancer deaths. When Dow directly compared \"exposed\" and \"unexposed\" workers, \"exposed\" workers were found to have statistically significant higher rates of stomach cancer.\nNIOSH Study of Maine Paper Mill Workers (19)\nThe June 1991 NIOSH study of paper mill workers in Maine found elevated stomach cancer deaths, although this elevation was not significant. The odds ratio for dying of stomach cancer, however, was found to increase in a statistically significant manner with increasing duration of employment at the paper mill, thus establishing a dose-response casual relationship between work at the paper mill and increased gastric cancer.\nSignificant Earlier Studies Showing Elevated Stomach Cancer (19)\nEarlier studies have demonstrated statistically significant excesses of stomach cancer in populations exposed to dioxin. Three deaths from stomach cancer (0.6 expected) were found among workers exposed to a trichlorophenol process accident (p = 0.024 - 0.034).\nAn investigation of railway workers exposed to phenoxyacetic acid herbicides found an excess of stomach cancer deaths (odds ratio = 6.1; p< 0.05), for over 10 years latency from exposure.\nSeveso, Italy 15 year mortality study shows stomach cancer incidence as high as RR = 1.3 and confidence interval (CI) .7-2.7. (17)\nAmerican Journal of Epidemiology reports on Seveso, Italy 20 year study reports an increase in all cancers. Stomach cancer was increased in the second decade. In the 10–14-year period, digestive cancer mortality was elevated, and stomach and liver cancer showed statistically significant increases. (20)\nRectal:\nIn 1985, the Danish Cancer Society published a study examining the incidence of cancer in persons employed in manufacture of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides before 1982. <32> Cancer cases were identified for 3,390 males and 1,069 females. The highest observed statistically significant elevated risk was soft tissue sarcomas among males employed in any department at the two factories (relative risk = 2.72; 95% C.I. = 0.88 - 6.34). The two Danish factories included in the study used limited amounts of 2,4,5-T production took place, the predominant product being 4-chloro-ortho-cresol. In addition to elevated soft tissue sarcomas, this study also identified excess risk of lung, rectal, and cervical cancers. (19)\nAmerican Journal of Epidemiology reports on Seveso, Italy 20 year study reports an increase in all cancers with rectal cancer RR=2.4, 95% CI = 1.2, 4.6. (20) Deaths from rectal cancer were elevated, with a nearly twofold increase in zone B. (20)\nAll of these trends and factual data add up to one of three things:\nOne - Esophageal cancer as well as gastrointestinal cancers are associated to dioxin exposure.\nTwo - Esophageal cancer as well as gastrointestinal cancers are associated to Military Service In Vietnam; regardless of cause and effect or which one of the toxic chemicals caused the cancer.\nThree - Esophageal cancer as well as gastrointestinal cancers are associated to Military Service In Vietnam.\nThis is especially true if it is Barrett's Esophagus or Esophageal Cancer that begins in cells that line internal organs. This is called \"adenocarcinoma\" and is not normally associated with drinking or smoking but from stomach acid or other forms of gastrointestinal stress. Or, as I have pointed out a dioxin or other toxic chemicals in Agent White or Agent Blue caused dysregulation of B and/or T cell activities identified by the Korean Study. (16) No different than an exposure to the Epstein Barr Virus which is associated to this form of cancer in nasal/oral cavity, pharynx (throat), and Esophageal cancers.\nThis rare form of cancers of this type should be associated to military service in Vietnam in toxic chemical environment; regardless of what specific body or internal organ site.\nIn the Addendum, I review two cases that were approved as individual cases of Esophageal Cancer.\nIn the disapproved cases the majority of the BVA disapproval decisions are based on\nthe fact the Veteran did not have the cancer in the service or didn't come down with within a year\nfrom discharge.\nWe are after all talking about the long term effects of these toxic chemicals (plural). DUH!\nThere is probably not even one toxic chemical that will cause a diagnosed cancer inside of one year from time of exposure. To take that much you would probably be dead already.\nBut when you have own legal system set up, granted by the congress then any dumb White House excuse for Veteran's denial will suffice. Not only suffice, but it is absolutely unchallengeable no matter how illegal it or dumb the decision.\nUnless you consider the corrupt US Court of Appeals for Veterans as some sort of challenge. Over 17,000 cases heard and 13 positive decisions in favor of the Veteran or his widow.\nThis to the normal person would seem just a tad bit questionable. That is unless you serve in the United States Congress.\n(1) Open letter to the Australian Government by Veteran Gary McMahon\n(2) Ranch Hand Official Transcripts (Not the government redacted published reports)\n(3) Taped interview by Moon Callison with Admiral Zumwalt on July 26th 1999 discussing his role in the Department of Veterans Affairs Report “Classified Confidential Status 1, not for Publication and Release to the General Public.” A report regarding adverse health affects from exposure to Agent Orange; Dated May 5 1990. (America’s Defense Monitor (ADM's) Moon Callison interviews the former Chief of Naval Operations, for \"Environmental Impact of War\").\n(4) Department of Veterans Affairs Report “Classified Confidential Status 1, not for Publication and Release to the General Public.” A report regarding adverse health affects from exposure to Agent Orange; Dated May 5 1990, page 37.\n(5) Department of Veterans Affairs Report “Classified Confidential Status 1, not for Publication and Release to the General Public.” A report regarding adverse health affects from exposure to Agent Orange; Dated May 5 1990, page 23 and page 24.\n(7) Department of Veterans Affairs Report “Classified Confidential Status 1, not for Publication and Release to the General Public.” A report regarding adverse health affects from exposure to Agent Orange; Dated May 5, 1990\n(8) March of 2000, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, Washington, DC, ; Oversight review of the Ranch Hand Study.\n(9) Vietnam Veterans of America statement regarding the law suit against VA individuals.\n(10) New York Times article titled, \"Chemicals Sickened '91 Gulf War Veterans, Latest Study Finds.\" October 14, 2004.\n(11) Letter from Daniel Teitelbaum, M.D., P.C. to Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Jr. (April 18, 1990).\n12) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.\n(13) Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning, 5th edition, U.S. EPA, Chapter 14.\n(14) House Report HR 101-672.\n(15) Re-Evaluation of Dioxin; A Presentation by Linda Birnbaum, Director Environmental Toxicology Division U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); To the 102nd Meeting of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board, Chicago, Illinois.\n(16) Immunotoxicological Effects of Agent Orange Exposures to the Vietnam War Korean Veterans accepted May 28, 2003. Industrial Health 2003, 41, 158-166\n(17) Sort-Long Term Morbidity and Mortality in the Population Exposed to Dioxin after the \"Seveso Accident - Industrial Health 2003, 41, 127-138\n(18) Impact of Agent Orange Exposures among Korean Vietnam Veterans accepted May 28, 2003, Industrial Health 41, 149-157\n(19) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SHIRLEY IVY, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of DONALD IVY, et al.\nPlaintiffs, CV-89-03361 (E.D.N.Y.) (JBW) v. [B-89-0059-CA (E.D.TEX.)] DIAMOND SHAMROCK CHEMICALS COMPANY, et al. SEP 3, 1991\n(20) American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 11 : 1031-1044 (Health Effects of Dioxin Exposure: A 20-Year Mortality Study)\nComparison of data to sample cases of Esophageal Cancers that were approved by the VA on an individual basis associated to dioxin alone.\nCitation Nr: 9914625\nDecision Date: 05/24/99 Archive Date: 06/07/99\nDOCKET NO. 98-01 854\nOn appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Boise, Idaho\n1. Entitlement to service connection for esophageal cancer for purposes of accrued benefits.\n2. Entitlement to service connection for metastasized liver and lymph node cancer for purposes of accrued benefits.\n3. Entitlement to service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.\nAppellant represented by: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States\nATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD\nK. Conner, Associate Counsel\nThe veteran had active service from June 1969 to July 1973.\nThis matter comes to the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) from a September 1997 rating decision of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boise Regional Office (RO). This matter was previously before the Board in October 1998, at which time the issue of service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for purposes of accrued benefits was denied. The issues of service connection for esophageal, liver and lymph node cancer for purposes of accrued benefits and the cause of the veteran's death were remanded for additional development of the evidence.\nFINDINGS OF FACT\n1. All relevant evidence necessary for an equitable disposition of the appellant's appeal has been obtained by the RO.\n2. Based on his service in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era and his military occupational specialty (field radio operator), the veteran was exposed to herbicidal\nagents in service, including Agent Orange.\n3. The record contains clinical evidence showing that the veteran's esophageal cancer, which metastasized to his liver and lymph nodes, was incurred as a result of exposure to Agent Orange in service.\n4. The cause of the veteran's death was esophageal carcinoma with liver metastasis.\n2. Based on his service they have concluded that the veteran, in this case a Marine, was exposed to herbicidal agents, including Agent Orange. So this court is allowed to use the undefined term \"herbicidal agents\" rather than state the facts of Agents Orange, White, and Blue. Knowing this Veteran was a Marine and knowing where the Marines operated within Vietnam itself; it is a fact of record this Marine was exposed to copious amounts all three major herbicides of Agents Orange, White, and Blue.\nOne would have to wonder why Agent White was not mentioned specifically since in Technical/Medical above it is clearly found the toxic chemicals used in the herbicide Agent White are noted for causing increased mortality from cancers of the esophagus, oral cavity, and pharynx (throat).\nOne would have to wonder why Agent Blue was not mentioned specifically since in Technical/Medical above it is clearly found the toxic chemicals used in the herbicide Agent Blue are noted for causing - GI effects may also include inflammation, vesicle formation, and eventual sloughing (shedding) of the mucosa in the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus.\n3. The record indicates clinical evidence showing that the veteran's esophageal cancer, which metastasized to his liver and lymph nodes, was incurred as a result of exposure to Agent Orange in service.\nThis conclusion is moot at best, even though it was a positive outcome for the Veteran's Widow.\nYou can have clinical evidence that the esophageal cancer was associated to only Agent Orange. How is this medically possible?\nWe do have the Seveso, Italy study findings that show a increase risk of of Esophageal Cancers at RR = 1.8 but to state that there is medical evidence to only Agent Orange when they really mean \"only Dioxin\" is a scientific feat that no other scientists in the world have been able to accomplish.\nMore to the point; what should have been stated:\nBased on the scientific findings from Seveso, Italy and based on the known chronic and acute exposure medical outcomes already established decades ago from the other toxic chemicals the Marine was also exposed to, should have concluded:\nThat the Marines Esophageal Cancer was \"more likely as not\" caused by his exposures to the \"multiple toxic chemicals\" during his wartime service in the toxic chemical environment in the Republic of Vietnam.\nThis should be the conclusion for any Vietnam Veteran that develops Barrett's Esophagus and/or Esophageal Cancer and should be automatically \"Service Connected.\"\nCONCLUSIONS OF LAW\n1. Affording the appellant the benefit of the doubt, the veteran's esophageal, liver, and lymph node cancer was incurred in active service and accrued benefits, based on service connection for esophageal, liver, and lymph node cancer, are payable. 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1110, 5107, 5121 (West\n1991); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.303, 3.310, 3.1000 (1998).\n2. A disability incurred in service caused or contributed substantially or materially to the veteran's death. 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1110, 1310, 5107(a) (West 1991); 38 C.F.R. §§ 3.303, 3.312 (1998).\nREASONS AND BASES FOR FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION\nI. Factual Background\nThe post-service medical evidence shows that in November 1996, the veteran sought treatment for severe epigastric pain which he indicated had been present for the past month. He reported a history of peptic ulcer disease and reflux, as well as a family history of gastric cancer (maternal\ngrandmother), but denied symptoms of heartburn in the past three years. A barium swallow test was performed and revealed a tumor at the gastroesophageal junction. The veteran was hospitalized later that month for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy, which revealed a malignant tumor of the distal esophagus.\nThe examiner indicated that, with the veteran's history of reflux, \"one might raise the question of a short segment Barrett's that has developed adenocarcinoma but there is no gross evidence of Barrett's esophagus.\" Shortly thereafter, a CT scan of the lower chest and upper abdomen showed metastatic spread to the liver as well as probably the celiac nodes.\nThe VA examiner states there is no gross evidence of Barrett's esophagus.\nAfter reviewing many many cases in this \"so called legal system\" set up for the Veterans as some kind of reward by our congress; the anti-veteran bias is so obvious in reviewing these cases. Any VA examiner can make descriptive statements like, \"no gross evidence of Barrett's esophagus\", then this is now by default considered fact of absolutely no (zero) evidence of any association to Barrett's Esophagus.\nIn support of her claim, the appellant submitted a December 1997 letter from one of the veteran's treating physicians.\nIn his letter, the physician indicated that the veteran \"did not have any significant risk factors for esophageal cancer\" as he was not a smoker or a drinker and he had not had a past\nhistory of peptic ulcer disease or chronic reflex or dyspepsia.\n\"There was no family history of esophageal or stomach cancer. Of interest is that [the veteran] did partake in the Vietnam conflict and states that he was exposed to Agent Orange.\"\nThe physician indicated that, while he was not an expert in cancer, he had consulted with a private hematologist/oncologist who felt that the veteran's cancer was very rare, given his lack of definable risk factors. As such, he indicated that, \"I question if there might be some relationship between [the veteran's] aggressive cancer and his past exposure to Agent Orange.\"\nAlso submitted by the appellant was a January 1999 letter from another private physician, a specialist in gastroenterology, who indicated that the etiology of the veteran's adenocarcinoma was not classically defined, although he did have long existing reflux symptoms.\nHe noted that the appellant had some concern that the veteran's Agent Orange exposure may have played a role in the development of his esophageal cancer. In that regard, he noted that, since there were no available data that Agent Orange can or cannot cause esophageal cancer, it was possible that the veteran's esophageal cancer was at least as likely as not related to his exposure to Agent Orange in service, rather than to any other cause.\nThree issues:\nWhile that statement was only true during that time period. The long term mortality Seveso, Italy study does conclude that significant increased mortality from Esophageal Cancer and a relationship of dioxin exposures, does indeed exist.\nThanks to our government and especially the \"Veterans Administration\" this Marine, more than likely, had no idea of the other toxic chemicals which he was exposed. I have found this true in discussing the toxic chemicals with both Army and Marine Veterans. Many who were on the same Marine gun park I was on; and they have not a clue as to the different toxic chemicals they were exposed.\nOnce again, thanks to our government and especially the \"Veterans Administration\" this Marine, more than likely, had no idea of the other toxic chemicals which he was exposed. Therefore, he had no way of conveying to his practicing civilian medical doctor of the total toxic chemicals he was exposed. In addition, the practicing civilian medical doctor would have no idea on his own thanks to the medical information void created by the Veterans Administration, based on White House philosophy. I have found this true in discussing the toxic chemicals with my own civilian doctor that he had no clue to the other toxic chemicals associated.\nIn a February 1999 medical opinion, a VA physician indicated that longstanding gastroesophageal reflux disease with progression into dysplasia and adenocarcinoma was well recognized. He noted that while multiple cancers and sarcomas were now accepted by VA as related to Agent Orange\nexposure, esophageal cancers with metastases to the regional nodes and liver was not currently accepted by VA as etiologically related. He noted that while a feasibility study related to a research initiative had been completed, the study of long-term health effects due to Agent Orange would not be released until the end of the year 2001. As such, he indicated that \"at present adenocarcinoma while\nrelated to longstanding gastroesophageal reflux disease is not accepted in its etiology as related to agent orange exposure at this time.\"\nOnce again, thanks to our government and especially the \"Veterans Administration\" even our practicing VA physicians do not have any knowledge of the other toxic chemicals or at least they feign they do not.\nIn several instances, I mentioned the other toxic chemicals to my VA physicians and clinical specialists and they indicated they have never heard of these other herbicides; nor what was in them. In fact, when I mentioned Agent Blue and the toxic chemicals the retort was; MY GOD, that is toxic chemical that is noted for its \"neurotoxicity effects.\"\nII. Law and Regulations\nTo establish service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, the evidence must show that a disability incurred in or aggravated by service either caused or contributed substantially or materially to cause death. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1310; 38 C.F.R. § 3.312 (1998). For a service- connected disability to be the cause of death, it must singly, or with some other condition, be the immediate or underlying cause, or be etiologically related. For a service-connected disability to constitute a contributory cause, it is not sufficient to show that it casually shared in producing death, but rather it must be shown that there\nwas a causal connection. Id.\nService connection may be granted for disability resulting from disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by wartime service. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1110. Additionally, service connection may be granted for disability which is proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury. 38 C.F.R. § 3.310 (1998). Service connection may also be granted for any disease diagnosed after discharge when all the evidence, including that pertinent to service, establishes that the disease was incurred in service. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(d) (1998).\nA veteran who, during active military, naval, or air service, served in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era, and has a disease listed at 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e), shall be presumed to have been exposed during such service to a herbicide agent, unless there is affirmative evidence to establish that the veteran was not exposed to any such agent during that service. 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(iii) (1998).\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Court) has recently held that under the plain language of 38 U.S.C. § 1116(a)(3) and 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(iii), the incurrence element of a well-grounded claim is not satisfied where the veteran has not developed a condition enumerated in either 38 U.S.C. § 1116(a) or 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e). In other words, both service in the Republic of Vietnam during the designated time period and the establishment of one of the listed diseases is required in order to establish entitlement to the in-service presumption of exposure to an herbicide agent. McCartt v. West, 12 Vet. App. 164 (1999).\nIn this case, although the veteran's primary cancer, esophageal cancer, is not one of the cancers listed in 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e), the Board nonetheless concludes that the evidence shows that he was likely exposed to Agent Orange in service. First, it is observed that his DD Form 214 shows that he served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. He was awarded numerous decorations, including the Vietnam Gallantry Cross and Combat Action Ribbon. Moreover, and most probative, his military occupational specialty was field radio operator. Given the nature of his military occupational specialty and his service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era, the Board finds that he was likely\nexposed to Agent Orange in service. See also 38 U.S.C.A. § 1154(b) (providing that with combat veterans, VA shall accept as sufficient proof of service-connection satisfactory lay or other evidence of service incurrence, if consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or hardships of such service).\nIf a veteran was exposed to a herbicide agent during active military, naval, or air service, the following diseases shall be service-connected if the requirements of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1116, 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(iii) are met, even though there is no record of such disease during service, provided further\nthat the rebuttable presumption provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1113; 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(d) are also satisfied: chloracne or other acneform diseases consistent with chloracne, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy, porphyria cutanea tarda,\nprostate cancer, respiratory cancers (cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea), and certain specified soft-tissue sarcomas. 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e) (1998).\nThe Secretary has also determined that there is no positive association between exposure to herbicides and any other condition for which he has not specifically determined a presumption of service connection is warranted. See Disease Not Associated With Exposure to Certain Herbicide Agents, 59 Fed. Reg. 341-46 (Jan. 4, 1994).\nIn a recent opinion, the VA General Counsel held that presumptive service connection may not be established under 38 U.S.C. § 1116 and 38 CFR § 3.307(a) for a cancer listed in 38 CFR 3.309(e) as being associated with herbicide exposure, if the cancer developed as the result of metastasis of a\ncancer which is not associated with herbicide exposure. VA O.G.C. Prec. Op. No. 18-97, 62 Fed. Reg. 37,954 (1997); see also Darby v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 243, 245 (1997). Evidence sufficient to support the conclusion that a cancer listed in section 3.309(e) resulted from metastasis of a cancer not\nassociated with herbicide exposure will constitute \"affirmative evidence\" to rebut the presumption of service connection for the purposed of 38 U.S.C. § 1113(a) and 38 CFR § 3.307(d). Id. The Board is bound by this opinion. 38 U.S.C.A. § 7104.\nNotwithstanding the foregoing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) has determined that the Veteran's Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards (Radiation Compensation) Act, Pub. L. No. 98-542, § 5, 98 Stat. 2725, 2727-29 (1984) does not preclude a veteran\nfrom establishing service connection with proof of actual direct causation. Combee v. Brown, 34 F.3d 1039 (Fed. Cir. 1994). The rationale employed in Combee also applies to claims based on exposure to Agent Orange. Brock v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 155 (1997).\nThe standard of proof to be applied in decisions on claims for VA benefits is set forth in 38 U.S.C.A. § 5107(b). Under that provision, a claimant is entitled to the \"benefit of doubt\" when there is an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence. The preponderance of the evidence must be\nagainst the claim for benefits to be denied. When a claimant seeks benefits and the evidence is in relative equipoise, the law requires that the claimant prevail. See Gilbert v. Derwinski, 1 Vet. App. 49 (1990).\nIII. Analysis\nInitially, it is noted that at the time of his death, the veteran had a pending claim of service connection for esophageal cancer with liver and lymph node metastases. As a matter of law, veteran's claims do not survive their deaths. Vda de Landicho v. Brown, 7 Vet. App. 42, 47 (1994).\nHowever, the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 5121 \"set forth a procedure for a qualified survivor to carry on, to the limited extent provided for therein, a deceased veteran's claim for VA benefits by submitting an application for accrued benefits within one year after the veteran's death.\" Vda. de Landicho, 7 Vet. App. at 47. Specifically, section 5121 provides that periodic monetary benefits to which a veteran was entitled on the basis of evidence in the file at date of death, and due and unpaid for a period of not more than one year prior to death, may be paid to the living person first listed as follows: (1) His spouse, (2) his children (in equal shares), (3) his dependent parents (in equal shares). 38 U.S.C.A. § 5121.\nIn this case, the appellant's claim for accrued benefits was received at the RO in August 1997, within one year of the veteran's death. As such, the Board will address the merits of the claims of service connection for esophageal cancer with liver and lymph node metastases for purposes of accrued\nAs set forth above, because esophageal carcinoma is not among the diseases listed at 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e), the appellant is not entitled to the legal presumption that this disorder is etiologically related to exposure to herbicide agents in service. However, that fact does not preclude her from establishing service connection with proof of actual, direct causation. See Combee v. Brown, 34 F.3d 1039 (Fed.Cir.\n1994); Brock v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 155 (1997).\nIn that regard, the Board notes that she has submitted opinions from two physicians who tend to link the veteran's esophageal cancer to his exposure to Agent Orange in service. In a December 1997 statement, a physician indicated that \"there might be some relationship between [the veteran's]\naggressive cancer and his past exposure to Agent Orange.\" In a January 1999 opinion, another physician indicated that it was possible that the veteran's esophageal cancer was at\nleast as likely as not related to his exposure to Agent Orange in service, as opposed to any other cause.\nOn the other hand, the record also contains a February 1999 opinion from a VA examiner to the effect that adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, while related to longstanding gastroesophageal reflux disease, is not currently accepted by VA in its etiology as related to Agent Orange exposure.\nOn the basis of this competent medical evidence, the Board finds that the positive evidence in favor of allowance is at least equal to the negative evidence against an allowance. Therefore, with an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding the merits of her claim, the\nappellant must be accorded the benefit of the doubt. 38 U.S.C.A. § 5107(b); Gilbert, 1 Vet. App. at 53-56 (1990). Thus, service connection for esophageal cancer for accrued benefits purposes is granted. Inasmuch as the Board has determined that service connection is appropriate for esophageal cancer, service connection for metastasized liver and lymph node cancer is likewise warranted on a secondary basis. 38 C.F.R. § 3.310(a). Accordingly, in light of the Board's decision to grant service connection for these disabilities, and given the cause of his death as listed on his death certificate, it is clear that service connection for the cause of the veteran's death is now warranted. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1310; 38 C.F.R. § 3.312 (1998).\nService connection for esophageal cancer with liver and lymph node metastases (for purposes of accrued benefits) is granted.\nService connection for the cause of the veteran's death is granted.\nJ.F. GOUGH\nMember, Board of Veterans' Appeals\nDOCKET NO. 04-17 060\t)\tDATE\nOn appeal from the\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in San Diego,\nEntitlement to service connection for adenocarcinoma of the\nesophagus.\nAppellant represented by:\tCalifornia Department of\nJ. Connolly Jevtich, Counsel\nThe veteran served on active duty from January 1967 to\nThis case comes before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (the\nBoard) on appeal from an April 1998 rating decision of the\nSan Diego, California, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)\nRegional Office (RO)\n1. The veteran had service in the Republic of Vietnam during\nthe Vietnam era and is presumed to have been exposed to Agent\nOrange during that time.\n2. The veteran's adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is related\nto service.\nCONCLUSION OF LAW\nAdenocarcinoma of the esophagus was incurred during active\nservice. 38 U.S.C.A. § 1110 (West 2002); 38 C.F.R. §§\n3.303, 3.304 (2003).\nThere has been a significant change in the law during the\npendency of this appeal with the enactment of the Veterans\nClaims Assistance Act (VCAA). 38 U.S.C.A. § 5100, 5102,\n5103, 5103A, 5106, 5107, 5126 (West 2002). To implement the\nprovisions of the law, the VA promulgated regulations at 38\nC.F.R. §§ 3.102, 3.156(a), 3.159, 3.326(a)). The amendments\nbecame effective November 9, 2000, except for the amendment\nto 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(b) which became effective August 29,\n2001. Except for the amendment to 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(a), the\nsecond sentence of 38 C.F.R. § 3.159(c), and 38 C.F.R. §\n3.159(c)(4)(iii), VA stated that \"the provisions of this rule\nmerely implement the VCAA and do not provide any rights other\nthan those provided in the VCAA.\" 66 Fed. Reg. 45,629.\nAccordingly, in general where the record demonstrates that\nthe statutory mandates have been satisfied, the regulatory\nprovisions likewise are satisfied. The Act and implementing\nregulations eliminate the concept of a well-grounded claim,\nredefine the obligations of VA with respect to the duty to\nassist, and supersede the decision of the United States Court\nof Appeals for Veterans Claims in Morton v. West, 12 Vet.\nApp. 477 (1999), withdrawn sub nom. Morton v. Gober, 14 Vet.\nApp. 174 (per curiam order) (holding that VA cannot assist in\nthe development of a claim that is not well grounded).\nFirst, VA has a duty to notify the veteran and his\nrepresentative, if represented, of any information and\nevidence needed to substantiate and complete a claim. 38\nU.S.C.A. §§ 5102, 5103. Second, VA has a duty to assist the\nveteran in obtaining evidence necessary to substantiate the\nclaim. 38 U.S.C.A. § 5103A. The Board is, at this time,\ngranting the veteran's claim; thus any deficiencies in this\ncase as to VCAA are harmless and nonprejudicial.\nService connection may be granted for disability resulting\nfrom disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by service.\n38 U.S.C.A. § 1110. For the showing of chronic disease in\nservice there is required a combination of manifestations\nsufficient to identify the disease entity and sufficient\nobservation to establish chronicity at the time, as\ndistinguished from merely isolated findings or a diagnosis\nincluding the word \"chronic.\" Continuity of symptomatology\nis required where the condition noted during service is not,\nin fact, shown to be chronic or where the diagnosis of\nchronicity may be legitimately questioned. When the fact of\nchronicity in service is not adequately supported, then a\nshowing of continuity after discharge is required to support\nthe claim. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(b) (2003).\nA chronic, tropical, or prisoner-of-war related disease, or a\ndisease associated with exposure to certain herbicide agents,\nlisted in 38 C.F.R. § 3.309 will be considered to have been\nincurred in service under the circumstances outlined in this\nsection even though there is no evidence of such disease\nduring the period of service. No condition other than the\nones listed in 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(a) will be considered\nchronic. 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 1101, 1112, 1113, 1116; 38 C.F.R. §\n3.307(a).\nA veteran who, during active military, naval, or air service,\nserved in the Republic of Vietnam during the period beginning\non January 9, 1962, and ending on May 7, 1975 shall be\npresumed to have been exposed during such service to an\nherbicide agent, unless there is affirmative evidence to\nestablish that the veteran was not exposed to any such agent\nduring that service. The last date on which such a veteran\nshall be presumed to have been exposed to an herbicide agent\nshall be the last date on which he or she served in the\nRepublic of Vietnam during the period beginning on January 9,\n1962, and ending on May 7, 1975. \"Service in the Republic of\nVietnam\" includes service in the waters offshore and service\nin other locations if the conditions of service involved duty\nor visitation in the Republic of Vietnam. 38 U.S.C.A. §\n1116(f); 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(iii).\nIf a veteran was exposed to an herbicide agent during active\nmilitary, naval, or air service, the following diseases shall\nbe service-connected if the requirements of 38 U.S.C.A. §\n1116, 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(a)(6)(iii) are met, even though there\nis no record of such disease during service, provided further\nthat the rebuttable presumption provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. §\n1113; 38 C.F.R. § 3.307(d) are also satisfied: chloracne or\nother acneform diseases consistent with chloracne, Hodgkin's\ndisease, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, acute and\nsubacute peripheral neuropathy, porphyria cutanea tarda,\nprostate cancer, respiratory cancers (cancer of the lung,\nbronchus, larynx, or trachea), soft-tissue sarcomas (other\nthan osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, or\nmesothelioma), diabetes, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.\n38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e).\nFurther, VA regulation provides that with chronic disease\nshown as such in service (or within the presumptive period\nunder 38 C.F.R. § 3.307) so as to permit a finding of service\nconnection, subsequent manifestations of the same chronic\ndisease at any later date, however remote, are service\nconnected, unless clearly attributable to intercurrent\ncauses. For the showing of chronic disease in service there\nis required a combination of manifestations sufficient to\nidentify the disease entity, and sufficient observation to\nestablish chronicity at the time, as distinguished from\nmerely isolated findings or a diagnosis including the word\n\"chronic.\" When the disease identity is established\n(leprosy, tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, etc.), there is\nno requirement of evidentiary showing of continuity.\nContinuity of symptomatology is required only where the\ncondition noted during service (or in the presumptive period)\nis not, in fact, shown to be chronic or where the diagnosis\nof chronicity may be legitimately questioned. When the fact\nof chronicity in service is not adequately supported, then a\nthe claim. 38 C.F.R. 3.303(b).\nService connection may be granted for any disease diagnosed\nafter service when all the evidence establishes that the\ndisease was incurred in service. 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(d);\nCombee v. Brown, 34 F.3d 1039, 1042 (Fed. Cir. 1994).\nA claim for service connection requires competent evidence of\na current disability; proof as to incurrence or aggravation\nof a disease or injury in service, as provided by either lay\nor medical evidence, as the situation dictates; and competent\nevidence as to a nexus between the in-service injury or\ndisease and the current disability. Cohen v. Brown, 10 Vet.\nApp. 128, 137 (1997); Layno v. Brown, 6 Vet. App. 465 (1994).\nThe United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit\nhas determined that a claimant is not precluded from\nestablishing service connection with proof of direct\ncausation. Combee; Ramey v. Brown, 9 Vet. App. 40, 44\n(1996), aff'd sub nom. Ramey v. Gober, 120 F.3d 1239 (Fed.\nCir. 1997), cert. denied, 118 S.Ct. 1171 (1998). See also\nBrock v. Brown, 10 Vet. App. 155, 160-61 (1997).\nOctober 1970. His service record confirms service in\nVietnam. Thus, exposure to Agent Orange is presumed. It is\nfurther noted that the veteran served in combat and is\nentitled to consideration of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1154(b).\nThe veteran was initially diagnosed as having esophageal\ncancer in October 2002.\nThe veteran maintains that his esophageal cancer is a result\nof exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam.\nEsophageal cancer/adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is not one\ndiseases listed at 38 C.F.R. § 3.309(e). Thus, the Board\nwill consider if direct service connection is warranted.\nIn support of his claim, the veteran has submitted two\nletters from his private treating physician, J. W., who is a\ndiplomate in internal medicine, medical oncology, and\nhematology, as well as a March 2004 letter of another private\ntreating physician, Dr. D. B., another of his treating\nphysicians who is an oncologist specialist.\nIn the first letter of Dr. J. W., dated in January 2003. Dr.\nJ. W. stated that the veteran had been under his care for\nesophageal cancer since November 2002. He indicated that the\nveteran had no known risk factors for the development of his\nneoplasm beyond his exposure to Agent Orange during service.\nIn support of his opinion, Dr. J. W. submitted medical\nliterature which addressed the health effects of dioxin\nexposure in a 20-year mortality study. In reviewing this\nliterature, the physician found that there was an increased\nrelative risk of \"other digestive cancers.\" Although the\nstudy did not list these other types of cancers, he concluded\nthat the study factored out stomach, cancer, colon, rectum,\nhepabillary, liver, and pancreatic cancer. The Board notes\nthat in viewing the study, these types of cancers were listed\nunder the heading of \"digestive cancers\" and were listed\nindividually. Also listed under \"digestive cancers\" was a\ncategory entitled \"other digestive.\" Dr. J. W. opined that\nthis other category, after factoring out the enumerated\ncancers, left only esophageal and small bowel neoplasms\nunaccounted for; thus, they were the cancers in the catchall\ncategory. Dr. J. W. stated that he had not been able to find\na specific reference to adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and\nAgent Orange due to the relatively rare occurrence of this\ncancer as compared to breast, lung, colon, and rectal\ncancers. However, with the referenced medical literature and\nthe lack of a specific study, it was his opinion that there\nwas an association between esophageal cancer and Agent\nOrange. He stated that it was his belief that Agent Orange\nwas at least a factor or possibly the cause of the veteran's\nesophageal cancer.\nIn his second letter, dated in March 2003, Dr. J. W. expanded\non his earlier letter and addressed the veteran's documented\nhistory of cigarette smoking and any etiological relationship\nto his development of esophageal cancer. Dr. J. W. stated\nthat there was a strong association with tobacco use and\nalcohol use and the development of squamous cell cancer of\nthe esophagus, however, not with adenocarcinoma, which is the\ntype of cancer from which the veteran suffers. Dr. J. W.\nstated that in patients with Barrett's esophagus, there might\nbe an increased risk with tobacco, but the veteran did not\nhave a preexisting history of Barrett's esophagus. In sum,\nthe physician indicates that as the veteran did not have a\npreexisting history of Barrett's esophagus, since most cases\ndo not have smoking as a risk factor, and because of the\nAgent Orange components have been shown to increase\nadenocarcinoma of the digestive tract, the physician felt\nthat it was likely that the veteran's exposure to Agent\nOrange was a risk factor or causative factor in his\nIn April 2003, the veteran was afforded a VA examination.\nThe examiner reviewed the veteran's history and took note of\nhis past exposure to Agent Orange as well as tobacco use.\nThe examiner indicated that he had read literature with\nregard to Agent Orange exposure. The examiner also indicated\nthat carcinoma of the esophagus, adeno or squamous, was not\nlisted as one of the Agent Orange diseases. However, the\nexaminer stated that in reviewing the article referenced by\nDr. J. W., there was discussion about the rate possibility of\ncancers of the esophagus. Usually cancers of the esophagus\nare squamous cell carcinoma and related to smoking and\nalcohol use, rarely is the carcinoma adenocarcinoma of the\nesophagus, which is often related to Barrett's esophagitis\nwhich is due to reflux. The examiner noted that the veteran\ndid not seem to have reflux. The examiner indicated that the\narticle did say that gastrointestinal cancers are rare and\nesophagus cancer is very rare. The examiner stated that the\nAgent Orange protocol says that carcinoma of the esophagus is\nnot an accepted diagnosis from Agent Orange, it seemed as\nlikely as not that this carcinoma of the esophagus could be\nrelated to Agent Orange.\nIn July 2003, the veteran's case was referred to the Under\nSecretary for Health. The Chief Public Health and\nEnvironment Hazards Officer provided a statement. She noted\nthat the veteran had served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. She\nstated that he subsequently was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma\nof the esophagus arising in the milieu of Barrett's esophagus\nin 2002. She related that the most recent general Institute\nof Medicine (IOM) national Academy of Sciences report of\nherbicides used in Vietnam did not specifically address the\nquestion of possible association between exposure to\nherbicides and specifically esophageal cancer. She stated\nthat this indicated that the information obtained from their\nextensive review of all available scientific and medical\nliterature, to include the medical literature cited above,\ndid not permit the IOM to assign this disorder to one of its\nspecific categories. Moreover, the IOM committee reviewed\nthe article cited by Dr. J. W., and apparently esophageal\ncarcinoma is not included with \"other digestive\" cancers in\nthat paper's analysis. The VA physician indicated that a lot\nof weight was being given to the IOM findings on the health\neffects from exposure to herbicides in Vietnam. Therefore,\nat this time, she could not say that it was likely or at\nleast as likely as not that esophageal cancer was the result\nof exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam.\nIn March 2004, Dr. D. B., stated that prior to his diagnosis\nof adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, the veteran did not have\na history of gastrointestinal problems including\nregurgitation, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, or early satiety.\nDr. D. B. noted that the veteran had a history of exposure to\nAgent Orange. He stated that the veteran had very little of\nthe typical symptoms associated with the development of\nadenocarcinoma of the esophagus such as reflux symptoms,\nindigestion, and only presented with late symptoms of\ndysphasia. The physician opined that it seemed reasonable\nthat his esophageal adenocarcinoma related to his past Agent\nOrange exposure. The physician explained that while the\nveteran had a history of tobacco use, this exposure was a\nsignificant risk factor for squamous cell carcinoma of the\nesophagus, not adenocarcinoma of the esophagus; thus, it was\nunlikely that his social habits had any relation to the\ndevelopment of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. Dr. D. B.\nconcluded that the veteran had known Agent Orange exposure.\nAgent Orange exposure was related to adenocarcinoma of the\ndigestive tract. The veteran had none of the usual/typical\nrisk factors of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. He stated\nthat it was reasonable to conclude that his Agent Orange\nexposure greatly increased his risk of developing\nadenocarcinoma of the esophagus.\nThe Board disagrees with the AOJ's assessment in this case.\nWhile the AOJ states that the doctors did not adequately\ndiscuss or evaluate the veteran's other risk factors in\ndeveloping his cancer, the Board finds that this is not the\ncase. The private oncologists and the VA examiner who\nexamined the veteran did in fact consider the veteran's risk\nfactors and discussed them in each report. It was noted by\nall three physicians that the veteran had a history of\nsmoking, but since he had adenocarcinoma and not squamous\ncell carcinoma, this was not felt to be an etiological\nfactor. In addition, Barrett's esophagus was specifically\nruled out. Thus, the veteran's various risk factors were\nadequately explored.\nCourt has stated that service connection can be granted on a\ndirect basis, not just a presumptive basis. As such, other\ndiseases, besides those deemed by VA to be presumptive\ndiseases may be service-connected. In order for them to be\nservice-connected, there must be competent evidence\nestablishing a nexus to service. The fact that a condition\nis not a presumptive disease is not relevant.\nIn this case, Dr. J. W. made such an assessment and opined\nthat the medical literature that he submitted did support his\nconclusion. Dr. J. W. discussed his supporting medical\nliterature. In reviewing this literature, the physician\nfound that there was an increased relative risk of \"other\ndigestive cancers.\" He addressed the fact that the study\ndid not specifically list adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.\nHowever, he concluded that since the study factored out\nstomach, cancer, colon, rectum, hepabillary, liver, and\npancreatic cancer, the \"other digestive\" category included\nesophageal and small bowel neoplasms. Dr. J. W. is an expert\nin oncology. He is competent to make that assessment. His\nopinion is confirmed by Dr. D. B. and the VA examiner.\nThe VA examiner addressed the fact that the article did say\nthat gastrointestinal cancers are rare and esophagus cancer\nis very rare. Likewise, Dr. J. W. stated that the veteran's\ntype of cancer was rare as compared to breast, lung, colon,\nand rectal cancers. Dr. D. B., who did not appear to rely on\nthe referenced study, opined that the veteran had none of the\nusual/typical risk factors of adenocarcinoma of the\nesophagus. In essence, he indicated that the veteran's sole\nrisk factor was his Agent Orange exposure.\nThus, the Board does not agree with the AOJ with regard to\nthose arguments. The Board finds that the three supporting\nmedical opinions are competent and supported by medical\nliterature. The two private physicians are the veteran's\ntreating oncologists and are specialists in their field of\nmedicine. In addition, the VA examiner also had an\nopportunity to examine the veteran. They are all in\nagreement that the veteran's Agent Orange exposure played a\nrole in his development of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.\nThey have supported their opinions, as noted above. However,\na question remains as to whether those positive opinions are\noutweighed by the negative opinion of the Chief Public Health\nand Environment Hazards Officer.\nIn reviewing this opinion, the Board notes that the Chief\nPublic Health and Environment Hazards Officer's opinion is\nalso competent. However, in this particular case, her\nopinion is outweighed. First of all, she stated that the\nveteran had been diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the\nesophagus arising in the milieu of Barrett's esophagus in\n2002. The veteran's adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has not\nbeen found to have any relationship to Barrett's esophagus\nand has been deemed by the treating oncologists to be without\nsimilar symptoms. The treating oncologists discussed such in\ndetail. The veteran has not had the typical symptoms, his\nsymptoms are not those of Barrett's esophagus or having\nsimilarity to such. Second, she stated that the most recent\nIOM report did not specifically address the question of\npossible association between exposure to herbicides and\nspecifically esophageal cancer. She indicated that the\nreason was that their extensive review of all available\nscientific and medical literature, to include the cited\nmedical literature, did not permit the IOM to assign this\ndisorder to one of its specific categories. The Board has\nrecognized that esophageal cancer is not in fact a\npresumptive disorder. However, the treating oncologists and\nthe VA examiner have indicated that the veteran's specific\ntype of cancer is so rare that there are insufficient\nstudies. This is not discounted by the Chief Public Health\nand Environment Hazards Officer. As noted, she stated that\nthe most recent IOM report did not specifically address the\nherbicides and specifically esophageal cancer. However, it\nwas her opinion that such an omission amounted to that\ndisease having been ruled out as being associated by the IOM\ncommittee as being associated with dioxin exposure. The\nthree other physicians raise the possibility that the\nomission does not amount to an exclusion, but rather is based\non the rare occurrences of this type of cancer and lack of\nstudies in that regard. It was pointed out that while it is\nnot among the recognized types of cancers, the veteran's\ncancer is very unusual and atypical. The three other\nphysicians felt that in this particular case, the fact that\nthere was not a specific study on esophageal cancer was not\ndeterminative. It did not mean that there was no\nrelationship between adenocarcinoma and Agent Orange\nexposure.\nIn sum, the Chief Public Health and Environment Hazards\nOfficer stated that she could not say that it was likely or\nat least as likely as not that esophageal cancer was the\nresult of exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam. However,\nthe Board finds it significant to note that she was requested\nto state whether it was likely, as likely as not, or\nunlikely, that the veteran's esophageal cancer was related to\nAgent Orange. While, she indicated that she could not say\nthat it was likely or at least as likely as not that\nesophageal cancer was the result of exposure to herbicides\nused in Vietnam, she did not state that it was unlikely or\nrule out that possibility. She basically indicated that it\nwas not currently recognized by IOM and that prevented her\nfrom stating that it was likely or at least as likely as not\nthat esophageal cancer was the result of exposure to\nherbicides used in Vietnam. Conversely, the three other\nphysicians opined that it was as likely as not that the\nveteran's esophageal cancer was the result of exposure to\nherbicides used in Vietnam.\nThe Board finds that the three positive opinions outweigh the\nnegative opinion. The three positive opinions are based on\nexpert knowledge in oncology, personal knowledge of the\nveteran's history, examination and treatment of the veteran,\nand supporting medical literature as reviewed and explained\nin the medical reports. They discuss the unusual and rare\nnature of the veteran's cancer. They rule out the other\npossible risk factors for this cancer. They correctly note\nthat the veteran had Agent Orange exposure. They conclude\nthat Agent Orange exposure is an etiological factor. The\nnegative opinion appears to rest entirely on the fact that\nesophageal cancer has not been determined to be a presumptive\ndisorder by the IOM. None of the veteran's specific\nsymptoms, unusual circumstances of his cancer, or accurate\nfactors were discussed. Nothing specific to the veteran's\ncase was referenced except for the fact that he served in\nVietnam and that he had esophageal cancer. The only other\nspecific reference was an analogy to Barrett's esophagus,\nwhich the veteran has not had. In light of the foregoing,\nthe Board accords less probative weight to this opinion.\nThe evidence supports the claim of service connection for\nadenocarcinoma of the esophagus. Accordingly, service\nconnection is warranted for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.\nService connection is granted for adenocarcinoma of the\nH. N. SCHWARTZ\nVeterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans' Appeals\nYOUR RIGHTS TO APPEAL OUR DECISION\nThe attached decision by the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) is\nthe final decision for all issues addressed in the \"Order\" section of the\ndecision. The Board may also choose to remand an issue or issues to the\nlocal VA office for additional development. If the Board did this in your\ncase, then a \"Remand\" section follows the \"Order.\" However, you cannot\nappeal an issue remanded to the local VA office because a remand is not a\nfinal decision. The advice below on how to appeal a claim applies only to\nissues that were allowed, denied, or dismissed in the \"Order.\"\nIf you are satisfied with the outcome of your appeal, you do not need to do\nanything. We will return your file to your local VA office to implement\nthe BVA's decision. However, if you are not satisfied with the Board's\ndecision on any or all of the issues allowed, denied, or dismissed, you\nhave the following options, which are listed in no particular order of\n?\tAppeal to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims\n(Court)\n?\tFile with the Board a motion for reconsideration of this decision\n?\tFile with the Board a motion to vacate this decision\n?\tFile with the Board a motion for revision of this decision based on\nclear and unmistakable error.\nAlthough it would not affect this BVA decision, you may choose to also:\n?\tReopen your claim at the local VA office by submitting new and\nmaterial evidence.\nThere is no time limit for filing a motion for reconsideration, a motion to\nvacate, or a motion for revision based on clear and unmistakable error with\nthe Board, or a claim to reopen at the local VA office. None of these\nthings is mutually exclusive - you can do all five things at the same time\nif you wish. However, if you file a Notice of Appeal with the Court and a\nmotion with the Board at the same time, this may delay your case because of\njurisdictional conflicts. If you file a Notice of Appeal with the Court\nbefore you file a motion with the BVA, the BVA will not be able to consider\nyour motion without the Court's permission.\nHow long do I have to start my appeal to the Court? You have 120 days from\nthe date this decision was mailed to you (as shown on the first page of\nthis decision) to file a Notice of Appeal with the United States Court of\nAppeals for Veterans Claims. If you also want to file a motion for\nreconsideration or a motion to vacate, you will still have time to appeal\nto the Court. As long as you file your motion(s) with the Board within 120\ndays of the date this decision was mailed to you, you will then have\nanother 120 days from the date the BVA decides the motion for\nreconsideration or the motion to vacate to appeal to the Court. You should\nknow that even if you have a representative, as discussed below, it is your\nresponsibility to make sure that your appeal to Court is filed on time.\nHow do I appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims?\nSend your Notice of Appeal to the Court at:\nClerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims\n625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 900\nYou can get information about the Notice of Appeal, the procedure for\nfiling a Notice of Appeal, the filing fee (or a motion to waive the filing\nfee if payment would cause financial hardship), and other matters covered\nby the Court's rules directly from the Court. You can also get this\ninformation from the Court's web site on the Internet at\nwww.vetapp.uscourts.gov, and you can download forms directly from that\nwebsite. The Court's facsimile number is (202) 501-5848.\nTo ensure full protection of your right of appeal to the Court, you must\nfile your Notice of Appeal with the Court, not with the Board, or any other\nVA office.\nHow do I file a motion for reconsideration? You can file a motion asking\nthe BVA to reconsider any part of this decision by writing a letter to the\nBVA stating why you believe that the BVA committed an obvious error of fact\nor law in this decision, or stating that new and material military service\nrecords have been discovered that apply to your appeal. If the BVA has\ndecided more than one issue, be sure to tell us which issue(s) you want\nreconsidered. Send your letter to:\nDirector, Management and Administration (014)\nBoard of Veterans' Appeals\n(RS)\nRemember, the Board places no time limit on filing a motion for\nreconsideration, and you can do this at any time. However, if you also plan\nto appeal this decision to the Court, you must file your motion within 120\ndays from the date of this decision.\nHow do I file a motion to vacate? You can file a motion asking the BVA to\nvacate any part of this decision by writing a letter to the BVA stating why\nyou believe you were denied due process of law during your appeal. For\nexample, you were denied your right to representation through action or\ninaction by VA personnel, you were not provided a Statement of the Case or\nSupplemental Statement of the Case, or you did not get a personal hearing\nthat you requested. You can also file a motion to vacate any part of this\ndecision on the basis that the Board allowed benefits based on false or\nfraudulent evidence. Send this motion to the address above for the\nDirector, Management and Administration, at the Board. Remember, the Board\nplaces no time limit on filing a motion to vacate, and you can do this at\nany time. However, if you also plan to appeal this decision to the Court,\nyou must file your motion within 120 days from the date of this decision.\nHow do I file a motion to revise the Board's decision on the basis of clear\nand unmistakable error? You can file a motion asking that the Board revise\nthis decision if you believe that the decision is based on \"clear and\nunmistakable error\" (CUE). Send this motion to the address above for the\nDirector, Management and Administration, at the Board. You should be\ncareful when preparing such a motion because it must meet specific\nrequirements, and the Board will not review a final decision on this basis\nmore than once. You should carefully review the Board's Rules of Practice\non CUE, 38 C.F.R. 20.1400 -- 20.1411, and seek help from a qualified\nrepresentative before filing such a motion. See discussion on\nrepresentation below. Remember, the Board places no time limit on filing a\nCUE review motion, and you can do this at any time.\nHow do I reopen my claim? You can ask your local VA office to reopen your\nclaim by simply sending them a statement indicating that you want to reopen\nyour claim. However, to be successful in reopening your claim, you must\nsubmit new and material evidence to that office. See 38 C.F.R. 3.156(a).\nCan someone represent me in my appeal? Yes. You can always represent\nyourself in any claim before VA, including the BVA, but you can also\nappoint someone to represent you. An accredited representative of a\nrecognized service organization may represent you free of charge. VA\napproves these organizations to help veterans, service members, and\ndependents prepare their claims and present them to VA. An accredited\nrepresentative works for the service organization and knows how to prepare\nand present claims. You can find a listing of these organizations on the\nInternet at: www.va.gov/vso. You can also choose to be represented by a\nprivate attorney or by an \"agent.\" (An agent is a person who is not a\nlawyer, but is specially accredited by VA.)\nIf you want someone to represent you before the Court, rather than before\nVA, then you can get information on how to do so by writing directly to the\nCourt. Upon request, the Court will provide you with a state-by-state\nlisting of persons admitted to practice before the Court who have indicated\ntheir availability to represent appellants. This information is also\nprovided on the Court's website at www.vetapp.uscourts.gov.\nDo I have to pay an attorney or agent to represent me? Except for a claim\ninvolving a home or small business VA loan under Chapter 37 of title 38,\nUnited States Code, attorneys or agents cannot charge you a fee or accept\npayment for services they provide before the date BVA makes a final\ndecision on your appeal. If you hire an attorney or accredited agent within\n1 year of a final BVA decision, then the attorney or agent is allowed to\ncharge you a fee for representing you before VA in most situations. An\nattorney can also charge you for representing you before the Court. VA\ncannot pay fees of attorneys or agents.\nFee for VA home and small business loan cases: An attorney or agent may\ncharge you a reasonable fee for services involving a VA home loan or small\nbusiness loan. For more information, read section 5904, title 38, United\nStates Code.\nIn all cases, a copy of any fee agreement between you and an attorney or\naccredited agent must be sent to:\nOffice of the Senior Deputy Vice Chairman (012)\nThe Board may decide, on its own, to review a fee agreement for\nreasonableness, or you or your attorney or agent can file a motion asking\nthe Board to do so. Send such a motion to the address above for the Office\nof the Senior Deputy Vice Chairman at the Board.\nCharles Kelley\nDMZ Veteran 67-68\nSP5Kelley2nd94th@aol.com"
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        "text": "We're sure you think of Warehouse as fondly as we do. Throughout the 1990s, this high-street stalwart was our trusted source of going-out tops, party dresses and snappy workwear. True shopping aficionados will no doubt recall their first-ever Warehouse purchase with great clarity: I'm certain mine was a pinstripe pencil skirt—a top choice as a teenager trying with all her might to look entirely sophisticated.\nWhile the store has remained a part of the Great British retail scene, the big changes that have been afoot at HQ over the past few months will put the destination at the very centre of your fashion radar once more. The shift first started when Warehouse announced two key new appointments: Alasdhair Willis as brand consultant (who is also Hunter's creative director and husband to Stella McCartney) and Emma Cook as design director (you will no doubt recognise the name from her eponymous label).\nThis look will be dropping in mid-October.\nFashion editors have been practically doing cartwheels and selling their grandmothers to get the new collection into their magazine shoots/online galleries/own wardrobes since we were privy to an early preview a few months back, but now the new dream team's first big step has gone public, with the collection dropping into stores and online as we type. In fact, you'll soon find that every single Warehouse shop looks completely different too: Starting with the overhauled flagship on London's Argyll Street this week, the look is slick and industrial—so fresh, so clean.\nSo, what's the actual fashion vision? Emma has cooked up directional pieces that many other stores wouldn't be bold enough to debut at this kind of affordable price point—and for that we are grateful. Using her unique play on colours, prints and shapes, there's an individual aesthetic that ticks off some trends but also kick-starts them from within the brand.\nWarehouse Monogram Jacket (£99) and Monogram Trousers (£89). The bag will launch later in the season.\nZebra wrap skirts, gigantic teddy coats, popper trousers, slinky silk dresses worn over matching palazzo trousers, outsized sweaters in unexpected pastel shades… The look is layered, a little bit '90s (but of course!) and uncompromisingly cool—with Emma even daring to go so far as introducing a retro skate-style Warehouse logo that snakes down trousers and across clutch bags. Radical, but really, really going into our baskets right away.\nWarehouse Slim Polo (£35), Classic Sweat (£29) and Slim Joggers (£29). The skirt and bag will be available at the beginning of October.\nSuch a gorgeous shade of pink.\nWe'll follow the lookbook and layer this over trousers.\nBrown is one of A/W 16's favourite hues.\nThe kind of hugs we do want.\nPop on a roll-neck underneath and you've got another winter outfit.\nThis old-school trouser idea is definitely staging a comeback.\nFor girls who like their florals edgy.\nIf you like discovering the unexpected, check out these cult-followed It sneakers."
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        "text": "16 май е 136-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (137-и през високосна). Остават 229 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1204 г. – Балдуин IX Фландърски е коронован за първи император на Латинската империя.\n 1527 г. – Флорентинците изгонват Медичите от Флоренция и градът отново става република.\n 1717 г. – Волтер е арестуван и е затворен в Бастилията заради сатиричните си стихове.\n 1770 г. – 14-годишната Мария-Антоанета се омъжва за 15-годишния Луи-Август, който по-късно става крал на Франция.\n 1818 г. – Основан е град Нова Фрибурго, Бразилия.\n 1836 г. – Едгар Алън По се оженва официално за 13-годишната си братовчедка Вирджиния.\n 1888 г. – Открит е астероидът Паулина.\n 1899 г. – Открито е X обикновено народно събрание.\n 1901 г. – Състои се първият мач на националния отбор на Уругвай срещу Аржентина в Монтевидео.\n 1912 г. – Подписан е таен отбранителен Българо-гръцки договор.\n 1915 г. – Първа световна война: Антантата връчва първа нота на България, като и предлага да нападне Турция и да завземе Източна Тракия.\n 1920 г. – Жана д'Арк е канонизирана от Католическата църква в Базилика Свети Петър в Рим от папа Бенедикт XV.\n 1929 г. – В Холивуд (Калифорния) е проведена първата церемония по връчване на „Наградите на Академията“.\n 1946 г. – Северен Лас Вегас получава статут на град.\n 1960 г. – В Малибу (Калифорния), Теодор Майман демонстрира първия лазер.\n 1966 г. – Китайската комунистическа партия стартира Културната революция в страната.\n 1969 г. – Съветската космическа сонда Венера 5 каца на Венера.\n 1975 г. – Японката Джунко Табей става първата жена изкачила връх Еверест\n 1996 г. – Французойката Шантал Модюи става първата жена изкачила четвъртият по големина връх в света Лхотце.\n 2005 г. – Стартира проектът Древни цивилизации.\n 2003 г. – В Казабланка, Мароко е извършен атентат на Ал-Каида, 33 души загиват, а над 100 души са ранени след нападения срещу ресторант и кафене, често посещавани от чужденци.\n 2007 г. – Общото събрание на ООН, след като приема, че многоезичността развива единство в многообразието и международно разбирателство, обявява 2008 година за Международна година на езиците.\n\nРодени \n\n 1718 г. – Мария Гаетана Анези, италианска математичка († 1799 г.)\n 1761 г. – Джон Оупи, английски художник († 1807 г.)\n 1836 г. – Димитри Атанасеску, румънски просветител († 1907 г.)\n 1857 г. – Силян Вълчев, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1872 г. – Георги Данаилов, български учен († 1939 г.)\n 1888 г. – Роял Реймънд Райф, лекар и изобретател († 1971 г.)\n 1892 г. – Дитрих фон Заукен, германски офицер († 1980 г.)\n 1898 г. – Тамара де Лемпицка, полска художничка († 1980 г.)\n 1905 г. – Хенри Фонда, американски актьор († 1982 г.)\n 1910 г. – Олга Бергголц, руска поетеса († 1975 г.)\n 1911 г. – Борислав Стоянов, български архитект († 1991 г.)\n 1911 г. – Джовани Варлиен, италиански футболист и треньор († 1990 г.)\n 1913 г. – Георге Апостол, румънски политик († 2010 г.)\n 1921 г. – Чавдар Кюранов, български политик († 2004 г.)\n 1925 г. – Банчо Банов, български актьор († 1993 г.)\n 1930 г. – Бети Картър, американска певица († 1998 г.)\n 1935 г. – Красимир Андреев, български композитор\n 1938 г. – Владислав Икономов, български режисьор († 2014 г.)\n 1938 г. – Иван Съдърланд, американски информатик\n 1944 г. – Дани Трехо, американски актьор\n 1946 г. – Робърт Фрип, английски музикант\n 1950 г. – Йохан Георг Беднорц, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1987\n 1953 г. – Кристиян Кръстев, български политик\n 1953 г. – Пиърс Броснан, ирландски актьор\n 1954 г. – Дафид Уилямс, канадски астронавт\n 1955 г. – Олга Корбут, беларуска гимнастичка\n 1958 г. – Пламен Пеев, български актьор\n 1965 г. – Крис Новоселич, американски басист (Nirvana)\n 1966 г. – Джанет Джаксън, американска поп изпълнителка\n 1968 г. – Албена Ставрева, българска актриса\n 1969 г. – Дейвид Бореанас, американски актьор\n 1969 г. – Ерол Ибрахимов, български певец (Уикеда)\n 1969 г. – Марко Курц, германски футболист\n 1970 г. – Габриела Сабатини, аржентинска тенисистка\n 1974 г. – Лаура Паузини, италианска певица\n 1975 г. – Тони Како, финландски певец\n 1976 г. – Денислав Калбанов, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Емилиана Торини, исландска певица\n 1979 г. – Самет Ашимов, български футболист\n 1981 г. – Джоузеф Морган, английски и американски актьор играещ в сериалите „Дневниците на вампира“ и „Древните“.\n 1982 г. – Били Кроуфърд, филипино-американски актьор и музикант\n 1983 г. – Нанси Ажрам, ливанска певица\n 1985 г. – Станислав Яневски, български актьор\n 1986 г. – Дормушали Саидходжа, български футболист\n 1986 г. – Меган Фокс, американска актриса\n 1990 г. – Томас Сангстър, английски актьор\n 1991 г. – Григор Димитров, български тенисист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1620 г. – Уилям Адамс, английски мореплавател (* 1564 г.)\n 1703 г. – Шарл Перо, френски писател (* 1628 г.)\n 1798 г. – Йосеф Хиларий Екхел, австрийски нумизматик (* 1737 г.)\n 1826 г. – Елизавета Алексеевна, руска императрица (* 1779 г.)\n 1828 г. – Уилям Конгрийв, английски изобретател (* 1772 г.)\n 1830 г. – Жан Батист Жозеф Фурие, френски математик (* 1768 г.)\n 1861 г. – Иван Денкоглу, български просветен деец (* 1781 г.)\n 1883 г. – Алексей Церетели, руски дипломат (* 1848 г.)\n 1891 г. – Йон Братиану, министър-председател на Румъния (* 1821 г.)\n 1902 г. – Михаил Константинович Клодт, руски художник, пейзажист (* 1832 г.)\n 1905 г. – Павел Караасановски, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1908 г. – Драган Манчов, български книжовник (* 1824 г.)\n 1912 г. – Хараламби Натов, български свещеник (* 1833 г.)\n 1914 г. – Петър Святополк-Мирски, руски офицер (* 1857 г.)\n 1926 г. – Мехмед VI, последен султан на Османската империя (* 1861 г.)\n 1927 г. – Болгар Багрянов, български артист (* 1895 г.)\n 1938 г. – Иван Мърквичка, български художник (* 1856 г.)\n 1943 г. – Илия Антевски, югославски партизанин (* 1919 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Апостолов, български партизанин (* 1924 г.)\n 1944 г. – Никола Банков, български партизанин (* 1924 г.)\n 1953 г. – Джанго Райнхарт, белгийски музикант (* 1910 г.)\n 1955 г. – Светослав Обретенов, български композитор (* 1909 г.)\n 1957 г. – Елиът Нес, американски федерален агент (* 1903 г.)\n 1969 г. – Робърт Р., първият починал от СПИН (* 1954 г.)\n 1982 г. – Иван Михайлов, български генерал (* 1897 г.)\n 1984 г. – Анди Кауфман, американски комик (* 1949 г.)\n 1984 г. – Ъруин Шоу, американски писател (* 1913 г.)\n 1986 г. – Йордан Кръчмаров, български поет (* 1948 г.)\n 1990 г. – Джим Хенсън, американски кукловод (* 1936 г.)\n 1993 г. – Николай Блохин, руски хирург (* 1912 г.)\n 1994 г. – Ален Кюни, френски актьор (* 1908 г.)\n 1995 г. – Ред Амик, американски автомобилен състезател (* 1929 г.)\n 1998 г. – Божидар Видоески, лингвист от Република Македония (* 1920 г.)\n 1999 г. – Стоян Гърков, български военен деец (* 1916 г.)\n 2009 г. – Севда Севан, българска писателка (* 1945 г.)\n 2010 г. – Освалдо Лопес Ареляно, хондураски политик (* 1921 г.)\n 2010 г. – Рони Джеймс Дио, американски певец (* 1942 г.)\n 2010 г. – Ханк Джоунс, американски композитор (* 1918 г.)\n 2014 г. – Никола Гюзелев, български оперен певец (* 1936 г.)\n\nПразници \n Малайзия – Ден на учителя (Хари Гуру)\n\n516"
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        "text": "Chocolate Thank You in Clear Box. Comes in your choice of chocolate color and ribbon color. Measurements: 3\" x 2\""
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        "text": "17 май е 137-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (138-и през високосна). Остават 228 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1395 г. – Обединени унгаро-влашки войски нанасят поражение на османската армия при Ровине, Влашко.\n 1498 г. – Корабите на Васко да Гама достигат до Индия.\n 1555 г. – В София мюсюлмански фанатици убиват с камъни Никола Мартинов (свети Николай Софийски Нови), решил да се върне към християнската вяра.\n 1694 г. – Основан е окръг Бърлингтън в щата Ню Джърси, САЩ.\n 1723 г. – Основан е град Перм в Русия.\n 1777 г. – Официално е утвърден Гербът на Сърбия от императрица Мария Тереза.\n 1792 г. – Създадена е Нюйоркската фондова борса.\n 1846 г. – Саксофонът е патентован от Адолф Сакс.\n 1860 г. – Основаван е германският футболен клуб ТШФ Мюнхен 1860.\n 1876 г. – Априлското въстание: Четата на Таньо Стоянов (Таньо войвода) преминава Дунава и слиза на български бряг.(стар стил)\n 1890 г. – Състои се премиерата на операта „Селска чест“ на Пиетро Маскани в театър Констанци в Рим.\n 1907 г. – Тодор Паница и Екатерина Измирлиева се венчават.\n 1913 г. – В Лондон е подписан мирен договор между държавите от Балканския съюз (България, Сърбия, Гърция и Черна гора) и Османската империя, с който се слага край на Балканската война (1912 – 1913).\n 1928 г. – Официално са открити Деветите летни олимпийски игри в Амстердам, Нидерландия.\n 1930 г. – Френският министър на външните работи Аристид Бриан се обръща с призив за създаване на Европейски федерален съюз.\n 1956 г. – Народна република България е приета за член на ЮНЕСКО.\n 1964 г. – Основан е футболен клуб АЕЛ 1964, Лариса, Гърция.\n 1969 г. – Програма Венера: Съветският космически апарат Венера 6 започва навлизане в атмосферата на Венера и предава данни 51 минути, след което е смачкан от атмосферното налягане.\n 1980 г. – Започва Вътрешният конфликт в Перу, който официално продължава и до днес.\n 1990 г. – Общото събрание на Световната здравна организация (СЗО) премахва хомосексуалността от списъка с психиатрични заболявания.\n 1991 г. – Официалната рождена дата на интернет. Тим Бърнърс-Лий представя продукта си в научна комисия в Европейския център за ядрени изследвания (CERN).\n 1995 г. – След като 18 години е кмет на Париж, Жак Ширак встъпва в длъжността президент на Франция.\n 1995 г. – Силвестър Сталоун се жени за вече бившия модел Дженифър Флавин, от която има три дъщери.\n 2006 г. – Баташките мъченици са канонизирани за светци от Българската старостилна православна църква.\n 2011 г. – Учредена е политическата партия „Национален фронт за спасение на България“.\n\nРодени \n\n 1682 г. – Бартоломю Робъртс, известен пират от уелски произход († 1722 г.)\n 1769 г. – Мохамед Али паша, управител на Египет († 1848 г.)\n 1836 г. – Вилхелм Щайниц, австро-американски шахматист († 1900 г.)\n 1844 г. – Юлиус Велхаузен, германски ориенталист († 1918 г.)\n 1863 г. – Чарлз Робърт Ашби, английски архитект, дизайнер и предприемач († 1942 г.)\n 1866 г. – Ерик Сати, френски композитор и пианист († 1925 г.)\n 1873 г. – Анри Барбюс, френски писател и общественик († 1935 г.)\n 1886 г. – Алфонсо XIII, крал на Испания († 1941 г.)\n 1890 г. – Курт Бадински, германски офицер († 1966 г.)\n 1898 г. – Карл Маус, германски генерал († 1959 г.)\n 1900 г. – Рухолах Хомейни, ирански политик и духовник († 1989 г.)\n 1902 г. – Иван Ненов, български художник († 1997 г.)\n 1904 г. – Жан Габен, френски актьор († 1976 г.)\n 1909 г. – Магда Шнайдер, германскa актриса († 1996 г.)\n 1912 г. – Живко Сталев, български юрист († 2008 г.)\n 1914 г. – Апостол Пашев, български политик († 1996 г.)\n 1915 г. – Янаки Холевич, български лекар († 2007 г.)\n 1919 г. – Мари Деа, френска актриса († 1992 г.)\n 1931 г. – Георги Христов, български македонистки журналист\n 1936 г. – Денис Хопър, американски актьор и режисьор († 2010 г.)\n 1955 г. – Каспар Симеонов, български волейболист\n 1959 г. – Атанас Атанасов, български политик\n 1961 г. – Enya, ирландска музикантка\n 1964 г. – Фумихико Сори, японски режисьор\n 1965 г. – Лилия Игнатова, българска гимнастичка\n 1965 г. – Трент Резнър, американски музикант (Nine Inch Nails)\n 1966 г. – Албен Белински, български спортист\n 1967 г. – Джоузеф Акаба, американски астронавт\n 1970 г. – Анжелика Агурбаш, беларуска певица, актриса и модел\n 1971 г. – Максима Нидерландска, принцеса на Нидерландия\n 1972 г. – Елена Пампулова, българска тенисистка\n 1974 г. – Дамяно Томази, италиански футболист\n 1979 г. – Давид Яролим, чешки футболист\n 1979 г. – Джими Окесон, шведски политик\n 1981 г. – Владан Груич, босненски футболист\n 1983 г. – Димитър Стоянов, български политик\n 1984 г. – Пасинджър, английски музикант, певец и текстописец\n 1988 г. – Ники Рийд, американска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 913 г. – Ода, херцогиня на Саксония (* 805 г.)\n 1395 г. – Крали Марко, крал на Прилеп (* 1335 г.)\n 1395 г. – Константин Драгаш, велбъждски деспот (* неизв.)\n 1510 г. – Сандро Ботичели, флорентински художник (* 1445 г.)\n 1606 г. – Лъже-Дмитрий I, цар на Русия (* неизв.)\n 1727 г. – Екатерина I, императрица на Русия (* 1684 г.)\n 1765 г. – Алексис Клод Клеро, френски математик (* 1713 г.)\n 1829 г. – Джон Джей, американски политик (* 1745 г.)\n 1838 г. – Рене Огюст Кайе, френски пътешественик (* 1799 г.)\n 1838 г. – Шарл Морис дьо Талейран, френски политик (* 1754 г.)\n 1886 г. – Джон Диър, американски ковач и фабрикант (* 1804 г.)\n 1908 г. – Карл Колдевей, германски изследовател (* 1837 г.)\n 1919 г. – Бранислав Велешки, български революционер (* 1834 г.)\n 1940 г. – Миле Рахов, български революционер (* 1869 г.)\n 1944 г. – Александър Димитров, деец на РМС и БКП (* 1909 г.)\n 1958 г. – Петър Вариклечков, български офицер (* 1861 г.)\n 1962 г. – Даниел Сорано, френски актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 1966 г. – Феликс Щайнер, германски офицер (* 1896 г.)\n 1987 г. – Гунар Мюрдал, шведски икономист, Нобелов лауреат (* 1898 г.)\n 1989 г. – Георги Алурков, български режисьор (* 1926 г.)\n 1993 г. – Михаил Михеев, руски писател (* 1911 г.)\n 1999 г. – Брус Феърбеърн, канадски музикант (* 1949 г.)\n 2002 г. – Лазо Королов, български общественик (* 1902 г.)\n 2002 г. – Ласло Кубала, унгарски футболист и треньор (* 1927 г.)\n 2009 г. – Марио Бенедети, уругвайски поет и есеист (* 1920 г.)\n 2009 г. – Петър Слабаков, български актьор и политик (* 1923 г.)\n 2012 г. – Дона Самър, американска поп певица (* 1948 г.)\n 2014 г. – Джералд Еделман, американски биохимик и имунолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 г. (* 1929 г.)\n\nПразници \n\n Международен ден срещу хомофобията и трансфобията\n Международен ден на телекомуникациите\n Световен ден на информационното общество\n Световен ден за борба с хипертонията (от 2005 г.)\n Норвегия – Ден на конституцията (1814 г., национален празник)\n България – Ден на българския спорт (от 2006 г.)\n Източноправославна църква – Ден на Свети Свети Андроник и Събор на Св. Баташки мъченици\n\n517"
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        "text": "Filter: The Man in the Iron Mask\nQUESTION: The Three Musketeers are Athos, Aramis, and…?\nA) D'Artagnan\nB) Porthos\nC) Pathos\nD) Pierre\nAlexandre Dumas is one of the best-loved and prolific authors of the nineteenth century. French by birth, his novels tapped into a love of adventure that inspired translations into almost one hundred different languages. Eventually, two hundred interpretations of his films would also be created over the years. Of course, Dumas' most famous characters are the Three Musketeers, colorful characters who created waves during the reign of Louis XIV. He serialized their stories during the day, including one loosely based on the true story of The Man in the Iron Mask. The \"real\" man in the iron mask was a prisoner of the king from right around 1670 until his death in 1703. One of the great mysteries of history is who the man was. Dumas contended that he was the twin brother of the king.\nAround a dozen interpretations of the story of The Man in the Iron Mask have been made since its first interpretation in 1909, but the one displayed in the Music Room here at the American Treasure Tour is from 1998. Its international cast includes Leonardo diCaprio, Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne, John Malkovich, and even a Frenchman - Gerard Depardieu! The storyline only nominally follows the inspiration of Dumas, with the greatest differences being the character of the king versus that of his imprisoned brother. In Dumas' original, some of the Musketeers actually consider Louis XIV to be a better option as leader than his brother, while in the 1998 film written, directed and produced by Randall Wallace, Louis XIV was presented as evil and dangerous. A financially successful film, The Man in the Iron Mask was crititcally panned. DiCaprio even 'won' a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple, due to a lack of chemistry between his Louis XIV and his identical twin brother Phillippe. C'est la vie.\nANSWER: B) Porthos. D'Artagnan would have been the fourth Musketeer if there was such a thing.\nTagged: The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexander Dumas, Randall Wallace, Gabriel Byrne, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Golden Raspberry"
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        "text": "007 One by One: ‘You Only Live Twice’\nPosted by Bob Westal (01/04/2013 @ 3:25 pm)\nBullz-Eye is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film with look back at every Bond movie, 007 One by One, along with a series of features about the Bond franchise, all laid out in our James Bond Fan Hub.\nAs the worldwide spy craze peaks, the James Bond series settles in for the long, tongue-in-cheek haul with this often maligned but very enjoyable entry, introducing the world to both ninjas and the original Dr. Evil. It also might have been the final appearance of Sean Connery as 007, except that it wasn’t.\nA United States space capsule is hijacked, killing one astronaut. Naturally, the Americans assume the Soviets are at fault and world war seems a real possibility. There’s only one thing for the level-headed English to do: Stage James Bond’s death and send him on an undercover mission to Japan to expose SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plot to dominate the world by partially destroying it.\nWith enormous success comes enormous pressures and change was very definitely in the air as “You Only Live Twice” began production. Now one of the world’s most bankable stars after the mega-success of “Thunderball,” Sean Connery was contractually on board for only one more film and starting to be seriously fed up with all the 007 insanity.\nBehind the camera, original Bond director Terrence Young had had his fill and “Goldfinger” helmer Guy Hamilton was unavailable. Editor and second unit director Peter Hunt, who had been instrumental in the series’ creative success, badly wanted to helm the project, but producers Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman apparently weren’t ready for a first timer for Bond #5. Therefore, a new recruit was sought out to join the small fraternity of James Bond directors.\nAn old hand at period pieces and war films, Lewis Gilbert was hot off an Oscar nomination for a classic-to-be about a compulsive womanizer who could give Bond a run for his money. “Alfie” starred Connery’s good friend, fellow movie spy, and now award-winning box office rival, Michael Caine.\nLewis Gilbert also brought along one of the very few directors of photography who could have reasonably stepped into the very big shoes of series regular Ted Moore. Freddie Young had won the first of his four Oscars a couple of years prior for David Lean’s visually stunning 1963 70mm masterpiece, “Lawrence of Arabia.” For the sake of keeping things consistent, all the other key collaborators, were back on board in their regular roles, i.e., composer John Barry, credit designer Maurice Binder, and production designer Ken Adam. For once, they’d all have a nice budget to play with, too.\nThe script, however, was an issue. The novel “You Only Live Twice,” was the last Bond book published in Ian Fleming’s lifetime and the story was problematic for more than one reason. For starters, it was actually the third and final installment in what literary Bond fans call “the Blofeld Trilogy.” EON’s original intent had been to film the books in their original order. That way Blofeld, who had been teased as a character starting in “Dr. No,” would get his long-delayed onscreen introduction in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and finally suffer James Bond’s revenge in the follow-up, “You Only Live Twice.” Unfortunately, logistics made the ski chalet setting of “Majesty” impractical for the summer release EON and United Artists had their hearts set on.\nThe other problem was that the plot of Ian Fleming’s novel, which involved Blofeld setting up a lavish sanitarium for wealthy suicides, just didn’t seem to be the stuff of a James Bond movie. It also ended with Bond fathering a child with Kissy Suzuki. Only a few elements from the book would remain in the finished movie, most notably the Japanese setting, love interest Kissy, and friendly spy boss Tiger Tanaka.\nThere was also a problem with finding a writer. Richard Maibum, who had worked on every Bond up to this point, was deemed unavailable. A rumored screenplay by renowned author Kingsley Amis had been reportedly dismissed. Another script was commissioned by writer Harold Jack Bloom, but little of his work would remain in the finished film.\nThe final choice of screenwriter turned out to be an interesting one. Decades after his death, Roald Dahl remains one of the world’s most popular children’s writers with such film-friendly classics as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Witches,” “Matilda,” and “James and the Giant Peach” all too his credit. He might have seemed a far likelier choice for writing an adaptation of Ian Fleming’s children’s book, “Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang,” the gig that was apparently keeping Richard Maibum busy. Nevertheless, Dahl had written his share of adult thrillers and had actually performed wartime espionage and been friends with Fleming. Scads of 007-inspired spy spoofs were upping the humor ante and this would be a somewhat more tongue-in-cheek Bond. Dahl’s dark sense of humor would be a plus.\nThe main thrust of the film’s new plot was apparently invented by Cubby Broccoli, however. Upon seeing a dormant volcano while scouting locations, he came up with the idea of using it as a giant villain’s lair. With the U.S.-Soviet space race at full swing, the Russian-Chinese split a topical news item, and terrorism on the rise, the idea of SPECTRE hijacking spacecrafts in order to start a world war on behalf of Red Chinese clients seemed like a natural.\nThe Bond Girls (Rule of 3 + 1)\nOnce again, 007 does the espionage nasty with three beautiful women on his Japan adventure. Shockingly, however, the movie’s main love interest is not one of them.\nLing (Tsai Chow) — This lovely lady of Hong Kong engages in mildly racist pillow talk with Bond and then reveals herself to be an accomplice in the spy’s elaborately faked death. Though her part is small, actress Tsai Chow was already a recording artists and a major star of the London stage in “South Pacific” and “The World of Suzie Wong.” Her very long film career would include parts in “The Joy Luck Club,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and the 2006 Bond reboot, “Casino Royale.”\nHelga Brandt (Karen Dor) — The latest Bond villainess with preying mantis-like tendencies, the dangerous Ms. Brandt is the secretary/in-house assassin of the wealthy SPECTRE operative, Mr. Osato. She has her way with Bond, then fails at killing him. It’s only natural that she winds up a victim of SPECTRE’s signature approach to personnel management, which in her case means being fed to the CEO’s pet piranhas. Actress Karen Dor has enjoyed a very long career in German films and television that continues to this day. She also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s unsuccessful spy thriller, “Topaz,” and the modestly titled horror flick, “The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism.”\nPosted in: Entertainment, Movies\nTags: 007, 007 50th anniversary, 007 drinks, 007 fan hub, 007 fans, 007 films, 007 gadgets, 007 guns, 007 movies, 007 One by One, 007 villains, Aki, Akiko Wakabayashi, beautiful Bond women, Bernard Lee, best Bond movie moments, Bond babes, Bond films, Bond gadgets, Bond girls, Bond movies, Bond one by one, Bond villains, Burt Kwouk, Charles Gray, classic Bond gadgets, Desmond Llewelyn, Dikko Henderson, Donald Pleasence, Dr. Evil, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Freddie Young, Hans, Helga Brandt, helicopter, iconic James Bond moments, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 50th anniversary, James Bond actresses, James Bond babes, James Bond blog, James Bond craze, James Bond drinks, James Bond Fan Hub, James Bond fans, James Bond franchise, James Bond girls, James Bond guns, James Bond henchmen, James Bond movies, James Bond music, James Bond nemesis, James Bond villains, James Bond violence, John Barry, Karen Dor, Ken Adam, Kissy Suzuki, Lewis Gilbert, license to kill, Ling, Little Nellie, Lois Maxwell, M Bond, Maurice Binder, memorable Bond scenes, Michael Chow, Mie Hama, Moneypenny, Mr. Osato, Nancy Sinatra, Ninja cigarettes, Q Bond, Roald Dahl, Ronald Rich, Sean Connery, SPECTRE, SPECTRE #3, SPECTRE #4, supervillains, Teru Shimada, Tetsurō Tamba, Tiger Tanaka, Tsai Chow, villain's lair, Walther PPK, water-proof sarcophagus, You Only Live Twice"
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        "text": "+442030269440 / 02030269440\nSchools in Singapore\nAre you looking for some great boarding schools? Are you interested in only the highest level of education and the best boarding conditions? Singapore boarding schools are all about that! Here you will find the most interesting study courses, the best teachers and you will make the long lasting friendships! Singapore is a beautiful place not only to study and live in but also to explore and to learn more about its most interesting places to visit. Among these we can mention such attractions and places as: the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, which will tell you much about the beliefs of people of Singapore, the Underwater World, where you will learn more about the see world and its mysteries or you can also decide to visit the Universal Studios Singapore. All of these attractions are waiting for those who will decide to study at one of Singapore boarding schools. However, let us tell you something more about the schools. Singapore boarding schools belong to one of the best international boarding schools in the world and one of those which put a lot of influence on discipline and respect for traditional human values. At Singapore boarding schools you will be given a chance to combine pleasure with education and you will be faced with a more practical approach towards teaching and learning process. What is more, Graduates from Singapore boarding schools are accepted for the best universities in the world, which is another advantage of these boarding schools. Please take a look at our selection of Singapore boarding schools. Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian island city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. The country is highly urbanised with very little primary rainforest remaining, although more land is being created for development through land reclamation.\nCopyright © 2019 Best Boarding Schols. All Rights Reserved.\nChoose location or language\nContinent The Americas Europe Asia Pacific Middle East\nLanguage Chinese Mandarin Danish Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Portuguese Spanish\nBest Boarding Schools\n19-20 Bourne Court, Southend Road,\nWoodford Green, Essex IG8 8HD,\ninfo@best-boarding-schools.net\nRegistered in England and Wales Registered number 8369137"
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        "text": "A Alabama home security monitoring system is important to your safety with cities like Birmingham and Mobile. One can't put a price on securing loved ones in your home in the state of Alabama. The cost of a home security system is minimal compared to potential headaches that your household will appreciate because it will always protect a home and all included assets, regardless of time or day.\nProtect your family by installing an affordable home security system from an authorized Alabama home security monitoring company today. It's easy to set up and will only cost you very little in the state of Alabama.\nNearby areas such as Anniston, Athens, Auburn, Bessemer, Birmingham, Cullman, Decatur, Dothan, Florence, Gadsden, Hoover, Huntsville, Jasper, Mobile, Montgomery, Opelika, Phenix City, Tuscaloosa, Vestavia, Vestavia Hills, are also cities that Alabama homeowners insurance companies serve.\nNew technology has allowed home security monitoring companies in Alabama to install wireless alarm systems by peeling and sticking rather than drilling and adding wires. All this can be done usually within one hour in AL.\nI want to get a home security system, any recomendations? I just bought a new home and I am looking to get a home security system. I was hoping that someone would have first hand knowledge on how they work and which ones are the best. Thank you!\nHow do I wire my home for a security system? I need to wire my home for an security system, specificly for Brinks Home Security. Can you tell me the needed parts."
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        "text": "Adelina was born a boy. Today she lives under virtual house arrest for her own safety – the fear of the dangers lurking outside in society is too great to take risks. Her mother worries and only wishes her daughter happiness and security. Then there’s Adelina’s father, who still calls her George – Adelina doesn’t exist in his eyes. Rati Tsiteladze depicts a parent-child relationship suffering under the conflict between a daughter’s identity and her parents’ traditional expectations. The first ever LGBTQ documentary film made in Georgia."
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        "text": "Alina Cho is a national correspondent for CNN and a contributor to American Morning on CNN/U.S. Most recently, Ms. Cho covered the historic election of President Barack Obama and in 2008, Cho provided rare, live coverage from inside North Korea for CNN. She was part of the official press delegation traveling with the New York Philharmonic for the orchestra’s groundbreaking concert in Pyongyang. She also provided a personal look at the division of North and South Korea through the eyes of her parents, who are survivors of the Korean War. Ms. Cho will serve as Moderator for \"Women and Sports: Get in the Game.\"\nSusan Choi is a professional golfer who started playing competitively during her senior year in high school; as a Wellesley College student, she won 13 NCAA Collegiate golf events. She has been the LPGA Duramed Futures Tour Captain for the LPGA-USGA Girls of Greater Boston and cracked Top 30 GolfWeek/Titleist Women’s Amateur Golf Rankings in 2007 after only three full years of competitive golf. Ms. Choi will serve as a panelist.\nGail Marquis, currently Vice President of Element Financial Group, is a 1976 US Olympic Champion and Silver Medalist in basketball. She has been inducted into four Halls of Fame, including the NYC Hall of Fame. She continues to advocate for women's causes and sports, and is involved in the Women's Sports Foundation, the New York City Sports Commission, and NYC2012, the movement to bring the Olympic Games to New York City in 2012. Ms. Marquis will serve as a panelist.\nDonna Orender is President of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the most successful women's sports league in the world. Ms. Orender has led significant growth during her tenure, including three consecutive years of increased attendance and ratings while enhancing marketing partnerships and leading the WNBA into new markets. Ms. Orender started her career in production at ABC Sports and then served 17 years with the PGA Tour, including her role as Senior Vice President of Strategic Development in the Office of the Commissioner. Ms. Orender played both collegiate and professional basketball, and serves on the boards of several organizations supporting sports, women, and health. Ms. Orender will serve as a panelist.\nLaura Pappano is a writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women and author of Playing With the Boys: Why Separate is not Equal in Sports. She writes on issues of education and gender equity in sports, and has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among others. She is currently working on the Women's Sports Leadership Project at WCW and directs the blog, FairGameNews.com. Ms. Pappano will frame the topic and provide background research. Read more about Ms. Pappano.\nJill Smoller is the Head the Sports/Entertainment Division at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME). She joined the William Morris Agency in April 2001 to head a new division, spearheading sports marketing efforts on behalf of William Morris clients throughout the world. She is responsible for on-and off-field representation including motion picture, television, commercial, licensing, broadcast and sponsorship opportunities for athletes and other sports figures as they expand and diversify their careers--her clients include Serena Williams and Kevin Garnett. She is the Agency’s inter-departmental link from which a wide range of sports marketing activities originate. Ms. Smoller will serve as a panelist."
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        "text": "Happy birthday Priyanka Chopra\nJuly 18, 2013 / Jay Mamtora\nPriyanka Chopra really has come a long long way. From an awkward acting debut in Andaaz ten years ago to lending her voice to a Disney film or living the popstar dream, PC seems to have covered a lot of ground in her 31 years on this planet.\nWhat perhaps sets her apart from her contemporaries is drive. And focus. Despite suffering a major loss in the form of her father, Piggy Chops continues to be a trooper. And she has to be given immense credit for that trait alone.\nOn her birthday, we look at her parts in five of her upcoming films and decide which one holds the most promise for her both as an actress and at the box office. Which of PC's films are you looking forward to the most and why? Let us know below.\nZanjeer\nOpens: 6 September 2013\nIn Zanjeer, a remake of the 1973 film of the same name, PC plays Mala, but unlike the original where Jaya Bachchan played the part of a knife thrower, the modern day version sees PC as an NRI entrepreneur who's the sole witness to a brutal murder. The trailer which released recently shows far more of Ram Charan and will most likely score commercially, but it seems like the actress doesn't have much to do in the film. We could be wrong though. I guess we'll find out come September.\nPriyanka and Ram Charan in Zanjeer\nKrrish 3\nOpens: Diwali 2013\nKrrish 3 is a sure shot winner at ticket windows. A guaranteed successful franchise and Hrithik Roshan back in a film after over a year is more than likely to have some kind of clout at the box office. In the film PC returns as Krrish's wife Priya, but little is known about her part – will she have anything worthwhile to do in the film or will she just play the damsel in distress? Either way she has great chemistry with Hrithik, so we'll see what the Roshans pull out the bag this time. It all looks very exciting at the moment though.\nRakesh Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan on the sets of Krrish 3\nGunday\nOpens: February 2014\nEven though this period gangster drama releases next year, we've seen enough production stills from the film to get excited about it. In what looks like a love triangle between PC, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, early rumours seem to suggest that Yash Raj Films were looking for an actress that could actually act – which is why they went to Priyanka with the part. It doesn't sound like anything the actress has done before and it will be interesting to see her being paired opposite actors a few years younger than her.\nArjun-Ranveer-Priyanka in Gunday\nOpens: 2014\nOf all of Priyanka's releases, this film is perhaps the most exciting – at least in terms of her role. The biopic which is produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, sees PC as Olympic medallist and boxer Mary Kom, and early reports seem to indicate that the actress is pulling out all the stops for her part. The tide has turned for female centric films in recent times, so with the right people doing their thing, and PC giving the part her all, this may turn out to be just another landmark film in versatile actress's career.\nPriyanka will star as Olympic medallist Mary Kom\nNot much is known about this Ekta Kapoor production, except that it's a small town romance directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia who won raves for his Paan Singh Tomar last year, and that is sees PC opposite Imran Khan. Initial reports suggest that it has a quirky plot, but we're more excited about seeing Imran-Priyanka together for the first time – it's been a while coming.\nImran-Priyanka will be seen together for the first time in Milan Talkies\nWhatever the outcome of these films, it's obvious that it's quite a mixed bag so PC gets full marks for versatility and taking risks. And this is exactly why we adore her... and going forward we hope she continues dazzling us with superior performances, and now with a happening pop career too!\nHappy birthday Priyanka... we hope you continue inspiring us in the years to come the way you have been until now.\nMusic Video: Exotic feat. Pitbull\ncategories / News\ntags / Priyanka Chopra, Zanjeer, Krrish 3, Gunday, Mary Kom, Milan Talkies, Showbiz\nKatrina or Priyanka? Who will star opposite Saif?\nTheatrical trailer and first look: 'Phata Poster Nikhla Hero'"
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        "text": "The “Learning in Teaching via e-inquiries” approach for STEM teachers’ professional learning steps on the principle that the teacher teaches in such a way in which he/she was taught. Inquiry-based learning (IBL) has been identified as a powerful innovative teaching approach, providing opportunities to develop the scientific literacy of all learners. In the same time, teachers meet difficulties to implement it in the classroom, due to missing experience in it, as, usually, the teachers’ professional development courses are conducted in a traditional way via lectures. The main assumption of the ELITe project is that the implementation of the IBL methodology in teachers’ competence development courses will provide them with real situation experience and know-how as well as with a reflection from ‘students’ point of view’. Something more – the IBL has a very poor explored potential as an effective teacher training method, which can contribute for effective STEM teachers’ competence development.\nIn this document proposed are indicators (and sub-indicators) for evaluating the impact of initiatives on STEM teachers’ competence development, relevant to the national contexts of Greece (GR), the Netherlands (NL), Bulgaria (BG) and Spain (ES). Identified indicators and sub-indicators are based on EC (2013) framework for teachers’ competence development (1). Output O1 “Policy envisions and requirements for STEM teachers’ competence development: the case of Greece, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Spain” provided the information relating the national contexts in which each sub-indicator is relevant to (explicitly as evident in national policy documents and the curricula for STEM teachers’ training, and implicitly as evident in students STEM curricula).\nThe ELITe project process indicators aim to provide information and context to facilitate interpretation of outcome indicators. They aim to serve as an evaluation tool to indicate whether an IBL skill and competence has been practiced by learners when performing IBL activities."
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    {
        "text": "18 май е 138-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (139-и през високосна година). Остават 227 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1284 г. – Шведският град Йоншьопинг получава статут на кралски град.\n 1565 г. – Начало на Великата обсада на Малта от османските турци, продължила до 11 септември.\n 1642 г. – Основан е град Монреал, административен център на канадската провинция Квебек.\n 1725 г. – Учреден е британският рицарски Орден на банята от Джордж I.\n 1756 г. – Започва Седемгодишната война, след като Англия обявява война на Франция.\n 1804 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт официално е обявен за император на Франция.\n 1836 г. – Основан е град Левангер, Норвегия от шведския крал Карл III.\n 1858 г. – Състои се сватбата на германската принцеса Щефани Хоенцолерн-Зигмаринген с португалския крал Педру V.\n 1877 г. – На официална церемония край град Плоещ, Румъния, Самарското знаме е връчено на Трета дружина от Българското опълчение с командир Павел Калитин.\n 1900 г. – Учреден е орденът „За военна заслуга“.\n 1903 г. – Съставено е двадесет и шестото правителство на България, начело с Рачо Петров.\n 1903 г. – Открито е пристанището в Бургас.\n 1905 г. – Отваря врати Народният музей в София – съвременният Национален археологически институт с музей.\n 1906 г. – Открито е пристанището във Варна.\n 1909 г. – Цар Фердинанд учредява ордена „Свети Равноапостоли Кирил и Методий“.\n 1944 г. – Влиза в сила Сталиновата политика за етническо прочистване на Кримския полуостров, вследствие на което кримските татари започват да се депортират.\n 1956 г. – Направено е първото успешно изкачване на четвъртия по големина връх в света Лхотце от швейцарска експедиция.\n 1969 г. – Програма Аполо: Изстрелян е Аполо 10.\n 1971 г. – Приета е нова Конституция на Народна република България, известна като Живковска конституция.\n 1972 г. – Влиза в сила Договорът за забрана на складирането на дъното на моретата и океаните на ядрено оръжие и на други видове оръжия за масово унищожение.\n 1974 г. – Под кодовото име Усмихнатия Буда, Индия успешно детонира първото си ядрено оръжие и така става шестата нация в света, извършила подобен опит.\n 1980 г. – Изригва вулканът Света Елена. Загиват 57 души, биват разрушени 250 къщи, 47 моста, 24 км жп линии и 298 км магистрали.\n 1991 г. – Северна Сомалия обявява независимост от останалата част на Сомалия под името Република Сомалиленд, но остава непризната от международната общност.\n 1993 г. – Убити са Сараевските Ромео и Жулиета.\n 2001 г. – Състои се премиерата на американски компютърно-анимационен филм Шрек.\n 2004 г. – Българинът Петко Тотев изкачва връх Еверест.\n 2008 г. – Учредена е политическата партия Зелените.\n\nРодени \n\n 1048 г. – Омар Хаям, ирански учен († 1131 г.)\n 1186 г. – Константин, велик княз на Владимир-Суздал († 1218 г.)\n 1616 г. – Йохан Якоб Фробергер, германски композитор († 1667 г.)\n 1746 г. – Феликс де Асара, испански топограф († 1811 г.)\n 1788 г. – Хю Клапертън, шотландски пътешественик († 1827 г.)\n 1797 г. – Фредерик Аугустус II, владетел на Саксония († 1854 г.)\n 1850 г. – Оливър Хевисайд, английски физик († 1925 г.)\n 1856 г. – Спас Вацов, български сеизмолог († 1928 г.)\n 1861 г. – Матей Стойков, български офицер († 1928 г.)\n 1868 г. – Николай II, руски монарх († 1918 г.)\n 1872 г. – Бъртранд Ръсел, британски философ, Нобелов лауреат († 1970 г.)\n 1872 г. – Яне Сандански, български революционер († 1915 г.)\n 1875 г. – Петър Васков, български революционер († 1907 г.)\n 1876 г. – Херман Мюлер, германски политик († 1931 г.)\n 1879 г. – Стоян Стойков, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1880 г. – Димитър Бояджиев, български поет († 1911 г.)\n 1883 г. – Валтер Гропиус, германско-американски архитект († 1969 г.)\n 1891 г. – Рудолф Карнап, германско-американски философ († 1970 г.)\n 1895 г. – Аугусто Сесар Сандино, никарагуански политик († 1934 г.)\n 1897 г. – Франк Капра, американски кинорежисьор († 1991 г.)\n 1909 г. – Фред Пери, британски тенисист († 1995 г.)\n 1912 г. – Пери Комо, американски певец († 2001 г.)\n 1912 г. – Ричард Брукс, американски режисьор († 1992 г.)\n 1912 г. – Симон Мирман, френска дизайнерка († 2008 г.)\n 1914 г. – Борис Христов, български певец († 1993 г.)\n 1914 г. – Туло де Графенрийд, швейцарски автомобилен състезател († 2007 г.)\n 1920 г. – Алексей Шелудко, български физикохимик († 1995 г.)\n 1920 г. – Симон Майер, френска хематоложка († 2006 г.)\n 1920 г. – Йоан Павел II, римокатолически папа († 2005 г.)\n 1925 г. – Яким Якимов, български режисьор († 2009 г.)\n 1927 г. – Кирил Цибулка, български композитор († 1997 г.)\n 1930 г. – Дон Линд, американски учен\n 1930 г. – Фред Саберхаген, американски писател († 2007 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Доровски, македонски писател\n 1939 г. – Джовани Фалконе, италиански юрист († 1992 г.)\n 1939 г. – Петер Грюнберг, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2018 г.)\n 1944 г. – Албърт Хемънд, английски певец\n 1944 г. – Винфрид Георг Зебалд, германски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Станев, български сценарист\n 1944 г. – Димитър Радков, български художник († 1982 г.)\n 1944 г. – Румена Трифонова, българска актриса\n 1945 г. – Анастас Славчев, български музикант и общественик\n 1946 г. – Андреас Кацулас, американски актьор († 2006 г.)\n 1952 г. – Джордж Стрейт, американски кънтри изпълнител\n 1955 г. – Чоу Юн-Фат, китайски актьор\n 1957 г. – Майкъл Крету, румънски музикант\n 1957 г. – Тиери Мейсан, френски журналист\n 1962 г. – Сандра, германска певица\n 1962 г. – Стефан Яръмов, български футболист\n 1965 г. – Кольо Колев, български щангист\n 1967 г. – Димитър Николов, български политик\n 1967 г. – Светлана Терзиева, българска актриса\n 1967 г. – Хайнц-Харалд Френцен, германски пилот от Формула 1\n 1970 г. – Валери Попович, руски футболист\n 1971 г. – Брад Фридъл, американски футболист\n 1973 г. – Шантал Кревиазук, канадска певица\n 1975 г. – Джон Хигинс, шотландски играч на снукър\n 1975 г. – Санем Челик, турска актриса\n 1978 г. – Рикардо Карвальо, португалски футболист\n 1979 г. – Миливое Новакович, словенски футболист\n 1981 г. – Маамаду Диара, малийски футболист\n 1984 г. – Ивет Лалова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1985 г. – Зейнеп Кьосе, турска актриса\n 1988 г. – Галя Желязкова, български политик и икономист\n 1991 г. – Александър Кирилов, български футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 526 г. – Йоан I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1733 г. – Георг Бьом, германски композитор (* 1661 г.)\n 1799 г. – Пиер дьо Бомарше, френски драматург (* 1732 г.)\n 1800 г. – Александър Суворов, руски пълководец (* 1729 г.)\n 1807 г. – Антоан-Филип Орлеански, френски благородник (* 1775 г.)\n 1829 г. – Мария-Жозефа Саксонска, кралица на Испания (* 1803 г.)\n 1876 г. – Давид Тодоров, български революционер (* ок. 1834)\n 1876 г. – Сава Катрафилов, български революционер (* 1836)\n 1876 г. – Янко Атанасов, български революционер (* ок. 1840)\n 1909 г. – Исак Албенис, испански композитор и пианист (* 1860 г.)\n 1910 г. – Полин Виардо, френска оперна певица, мецосопран (* 1821 г.)\n 1911 г. – Густав Малер, австрийски композитор (* 1860 г.)\n 1922 г. – Шарл Лаверан, френски лекар, Нобелов лауреат (* 1845 г.)\n 1927 г. – Никифор Бегичев, руски моряк (* 1874 г.)\n 1934 г. – Анастас Матлиев, български общественик (* ? г.)\n 1940 г. – Александър Филипов, български литературен критик (* 1895 г.)\n 1941 г. – Вернер Зомбарт, германски икономист (* 1863 г.)\n 1959 г. – Джон Баримор, американски актьор (* 1882 г.)\n 1965 г. – Ели Коен, израелски шпионин (* 1924 г.)\n 1965 г. – Трайко Симеонов, български писател (* 1886 г.)\n 1975 г. – Илия Петров, български художник (* 1903 г.)\n 1980 г. – Иън Къртис, английски певец (* 1956 г.)\n 1981 г. – Уилям Сароян, американски писател (* 1908 г.)\n 1985 г. – Стоян Даскалов, български писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1993 г. – Адмира Исмич и Бошко Бръкич, „сараевските Ромео и Жулиета“ (* 1968 г.)\n 2001 г. – Алексей Маресиев, съветски летец (* 1916 г.)\n 2001 г. – Трендафил Станков, български футболист и треньор (* 1923 г.)\n 2006 г. – Иван Лебамов, български общественик (* 1932 г.)\n 2006 г. – Мако Даков, български политик (* 1920 г.)\n 2007 г. – Пиер-Жил дьо Жен, френски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1932 г.)\n 2010 г. – Едоардо Сангвинети, италиански поет (* 1930 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на музеите\n Ден на българските зоопаркове\n Международен ден на ваксината срещу СПИН\n Римокатолическа църква – Празник на бог Фаунус (Пан в древногр. мит.).\n Дания – Битката при Дюбели\n Русия – Ден на славянската култура и писменост (от 18 до 24 май). Всяка година столица на празника става някое ново населено място.\n Русия – Празник на Балтийския военноморски флот на Русия\n Сомалия – Празник на независимостта\n Тюркменистан – Празник на възраждането, единството и поезията в чест на Махтумкули Пираги (поет и философ, лат. Magtymguly Pyragy)\n Украйна, Република Крим – Ден в памет на жертвите от депортацията\n Уругвай – Ден на битката при Лас Пиедрас\n Хаити – Ден на флага и университетите\n\n518"
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        "text": "B1A4 - What's Happening?\nWhat's Happening? That's exactly what I would like to know . . .\nThe colors are great, the song is downright wonderful, the styling . . . is acceptable (I approve of Baro's tattoo, and that's about it). But honestly, this MV is quirky beyond reason. It's fabulous and it's incredibly well done. The boy-girl dolls color inverses are subtle compared to their body language, but still clear and elegant, especially how the members get sucked into color markers after they break down the doors. This MV took me a few views to understand, but it's actually quite deep. The fact that the doll couple are DOLLS, the plastic every-person of society, and that she in particular is washed out color-wise, ties in with the lyrics, they're shallow and ingenuine, and she's a straight up liar. When they're in the rain-y scene room for the bridge, the room's theme is orange, which is as far as you can get from blue, chromatically speaking, just like they are as emotionally distant as they can possibly get from their little blue liar doll. When they break and burst into the room, they're all initially in white, the color of innocence and good intentions. And then they start fighting each other for the girl they shouldn't even want to end up with, so by the end they turn up in blue and pink, right alongside the dolls, since they've given into the shallow, angry, lying ways of the world, and all. Like I said, it's beautifully done.\nAnd it connects perfectly to the song. The transition to the dubstep-ish pre-choruses are beautiful, you literally drop into them. Every movement is timed perfectly, even down to eyeflicks and breaths. The scene cuts are positioned exactly on the melodic arcs of the song. The choreography is brilliant, quirky and narrative, and the boys really make it look effortless. It's a nearly flawless music video, it fits exactly to B1A4's style, and it alludes to many deeper concepts than one would expect upon a single view.\ni love it! 9/10: Blissful"
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        "text": "Home / News / Local News / President Akufo-Addo Swerves Socrate Sarfo\nPresident Akufo-Addo Swerves Socrate Sarfo\nThis has gotten some section of the entertainment industry and showbiz enthusiasts disappointed. Socrate Sarfo has being in the new since January, with a campaign to get him appointed as the deputy minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture.\nHowever, President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Ziblim Barri Iddi to the Tourism, Culture and Arts Ministry as Deputy Minister.\nDr. Iddi, a lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, was among a list of Deputy Ministerial nominees released on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. President Akufo-Addo nominated Catherine Ablema Afeku as the minister for Tourism and Creative Arts.\nThe race for who becomes her deputy became a matter of public debate, when the likes of Socrate Sarfo, Kojo Antwi, Mark Okraku Mantey, Juliet Asante and others were all mentioned as possible names to be considered for the position.\nMovie producer Socrate Safo had mentioned that he will accept to serve as deputy minister in Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration if the offer was made to him.\nMembers of the Creative Arts for Change were rooting for him to be named as Deputy Min. for Tourism, Culture & Creative Arts.\nAccording to him, they were championing for him to be deputy minister of Tourism, Culture & Creative Arts because they wanted someone who understands their challenges.\nPeople criticized Socrate sarfo, insisting he does not qualify for the position.\nSocrate Sarfo declared support and campaigned for the New Patriotic Party and Mr. Akufo-Addo in the 2012 and 2016 polls and the portfolio is seen by many as a reward for his efforts towards the party’s success at winning back power.\nTags Akufo-Addo President Socrate Sarfo\nPrevious KOD To Host Rhythms On Da Runway Fashion Show On April 1\nNext Duncan Williams, Otabil, Others To Oversee Construction Of National Cathedral\nAkufo-Addo will be overthrown just like K.A. Busia and his father – Koku Anyidoho\n2018 State Of The Nations Address, President Akufo-Addo’s Full Address To Ghanaians\nWatch VIDEO: Rihanna Meets President Nana Akufo-Addo\nNever Think Of Running As MUSIGA President – Flowking Stone Cautions Okyeame Kwame\nGhanaian rapper Flowking Stone has cautioned his colleague musician Okyeame Kwame never to contest for the …\nVIDEO: President Akufo-Addo Shows Off His Dancing Skills At George Weah’s Inauguration\nPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo can move, somehow. He showed off his boogeying skills whilst …"
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        "text": "19 май е 139-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (140-и през високосна година). Остават 226 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1536 г. – Втората жена на крал Хенри VIII, кралица Ан Болейн, е обезглавена в Лондон за прелюбодеяние, кръвосмешение и държавна измяна.\n 1568 г. – По нареждане на английската кралица Елизабет I Тюдор кралицата на Шотландия Мария Стюарт е заточена в замъка Фотеринг.\n 1571 г. – Основан е град Манила във Филипините.\n 1604 г. – Основан е град Монреал.\n 1643 г. – Френско-испанска война: френските войски начело с принц Луи II дьо Конде разбиват испанците в битката при Рокроа.\n 1649 г. – Англия е обявена за република (до 1660 г.).\n 1712 г. – Петър I премества столицата на Русия от Москва в новопостроения Санкт Петербург.\n\n 1802 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт учредява най-високия орден на Франция – Орден на почетния легион.\n 1876 г. – След 9-дневно сражение башибозук и османска войска превземат Дряновския манастир, отбраняван героично от четата на Бачо Киро и Поп Харитон.\n 1894 г. – Създадено е правителство с министър-председател Константин Стоилов.\n 1919 г. – Мустафа Кемал Ататюрк се премества от Истанбул в Самсун с група последователи, за да се противопостави на турското правителство, което става причина за избухване на гражданска война в Турция.\n 1922 г. – В СССР е създадено пионерско движение за децата на възраст от 10 до 15 години.\n 1934 г. – Извършен е Деветнадесетомайският преврат в България.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Съветският разузнавач в Япония Рихард Зорге предупреждава Москва за подготвяното от Нацистка Германия нападение над СССР на 22 юни.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Първа армия получава заповед да окупира Беломорска Тракия.\n 1945 г. – Втората световна война: Във Фленсбург е арестуван един от главните военнопрестъпници на нацистка Германия – Алфред Розенберг.\n 1951 г. – В Париж Ален Бернарден създава кабаре „Крейзи Хорс“.\n 1961 г. – Програма Венера: Съветският космически апарат Венера 1 става първият човешки предмет, който прелита близо до друга планета (Венера) (контакът с него е загубен преди месец).\n 1967 г. – Военната авиация на САЩ за първи път бомбардира столицата на Северен Виетнам, Ханой.\n 1971 г. – Програма Марс: Съветският съюз изстрелва Марс 2.\n 1986 г. – Армейски части на ЮАР нахлуват по земя и по въздух в Ботсвана, Замбия и Зимбабве в преследване на партизани от Африканския национален конгрес.\n 1990 г. – Проведена е първата национална конференция на СДС.\n 1991 г. – От Унгария се изтеглят последните съветски войски.\n 2005 г. – Партията на европейските социалисти (ПЕС) приема БСП за пълноправен член.\n\nРодени \n\n 1476 г. – Елена Ивановна, велика литовска княгиня и кралица на Полша († 1513 г.)\n 1593 г. – Якоб Йорданс, фламандски художник († 1678 г.)\n 1611 г. – Инокентий XI, римски папа и светец († 1683 г.)\n 1744 г. – Шарлота фон Мекленбург-Щрелиц, кралица на Обединеното кралство († 1818 г.)\n 1762 г. – Йохан Готлиб Фихте, германски философ († 1814 г.)\n 1795 г. – Джонс Хопкинс, американски бизнесмен († 1873 г.)\n 1839 г. – Йозеф Мария фон Радовиц, германски дипломат († 1912 г.)\n 1860 г. – Виторио Орландо, министър-председател на Италия († 1952 г.)\n 1881 г. – Янко Стоянчев, български юрист и политик († 1927 г.)\n 1881 г. – Мустафа Кемал Ататюрк, първи президент на Турция († 1938 г.)\n 1884 г. – Димо Кьорчев, български философ и литературен критик († 1928 г.)\n 1884 г. – Петър Ников, български историк († 1938 г.)\n 1888 г. – Владимир Конашевич, руски художник († 1963 г.)\n 1890 г. – Хо Ши Мин, виетнамски революционер, политик и държавник († 1969 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иван Велков, български археолог († 1958 г.)\n 1892 г. – Константин Паустовски, руски писател († 1968 г.)\n 1894 г. – Хенинг Шьонфелд, немски офицер († 1958 г.)\n 1900 г. – Стоян Вардарски, български революционер († 1975 г.)\n 1902 г. – Рамон Енсинас, испански футболен треньор († 1967 г.)\n 1906 г. – Адолф Айхман, нацистки офицер († 1962 г.)\n 1910 г. – Любчо Арсов, югославски и македонски политик († 1986 г.)\n 1914 г. – Макс Перуц, австрийско-британски микробиолог, Нобелов лауреат († 2002 г.)\n 1925 г. – Малкълм Екс, американски борец за правата на чернокожите († 1965 г.)\n 1925 г. – Пол Пот, камбоджански диктатор († 1998 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жан-Луи де Рамбюр, френски журналист († 2006 г.)\n 1931 г. – Боб Андерсън, британски мотоциклетен и автомобилен състезател († 1967 г.)\n 1933 г. – Едуард де Боно, малтийски писател\n 1935 г. – Фриц Рудолф Фриз, немски писател († 2014 г.)\n 1938 г. – Веселин Димитров, български журналист и педагог († 2009 г.)\n 1941 г. – Нора Ефрон, американска писателка, сценарист и режисьор († 2012 г.)\n 1943 г. – Димитър Пейчев, молдовски и български художник\n 1945 г. – Пит Тауншенд, британски рок музикант (The Who)\n 1946 г. – Микеле Плачидо, италиански актьор\n 1946 г. – Антони Славински, български политик\n 1953 г. – Константин Рамшев, български лекар\n 1954 г. – Фил Ръд, австралийски барабанист (AC/DC)\n 1956 г. – Венцислав Инкьов, български шахматист\n 1957 г. – Мая Бабурска, българска актриса\n 1963 г. – Кристин Димитрова, българска писателка\n 1963 г. – Хайнц Вайкселбраун, австрийски актьор\n 1965 г. – Михаил Билалов, български актьор и водещ\n 1968 г. – Тео де Рад, южноафрикански програмист\n 1970 г. – Валери Славчев, български рок музикант\n 1970 г. – Петър Кауков, български актьор и театрален режисьор\n 1972 г. – Дженни Сесилия Берггрен, шведска поп-певица (Ace of Base)\n 1972 г. – Мая Бежанска, българска актриса и певица\n 1972 г. – Йозджан Дениз, турски актьор и певец\n 1976 г. – Тодор Янчев, български футболист\n 1977 г. – Мануел Алмуния, испански футболист\n 1977 г. – Наталия Орейро, аржентинска певица и актриса\n 1979 г. – Андреа Пирло, италиански футболист\n 1979 г. – Диего Форлан, уругвайски футболист\n 1981 г. – Матеуш Даменцки, полски актьор\n 1983 г. – Ийв Ейнджъл, унгарска порно актриса и модел\n 1988 г. – Юлиян Куртелов, български футболист\n 1995 г. – Силвана Чаушева, българска волейболистка\n 1997 г. – Дивна Станчева, българска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 804 г. – Алкуин, английски духовник (* ок. 735)\n 1125 г. – Владимир II, велик княз на Киевска Рус (* 1053 г.)\n 1296 г. – Целестин V, римски папа (* 1215 г.)\n 1389 г. – Дмитрий Донски, велик княз на Московското княжество (* 1350 г.)\n 1536 г. – Ан Болейн, втора съпруга на Хенри VIII (* 1501 г. – 1507)\n 1715 г. – Чарлз Монтагю, британски поет и политик (* 1661 г.)\n 1786 г. – Джон Стенли, британски композитор (* 1712 г.)\n 1825 г. – Анри дьо Сен-Симон, френски мислител (* 1760 г.)\n 1864 г. – Натаниел Хоторн, американски писател (* 1804 г.)\n 1876 г. – Никола Ганчев, български революционер (* 1843 г.)\n 1895 г. – Хосе Марти, кубински революционер и писател (* 1853 г.)\n 1898 г. – Уилям Гладстон, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1809 г.)\n 1912 г. – Болеслав Прус, полски писател (* 1847 г.)\n 1928 г. – Макс Шелер, германски философ и социолог (* 1874 г.)\n 1934 г. – Евгения Соколничка, полско-френски психоаналитик (* 1884 г.)\n 1935 г. – Томас Лорънс, британски офицер (* 1888 г.)\n 1945 г. – Константин Треньов, руски писател (* 1876 г.)\n 1956 г. – Стефан Гевгалов, български просветен деец (* 1882 г.)\n 1973 г. – Милан Киселички, български общественик (* 1885 г.)\n 1987 г. – Джеймс Типтри-младши, американската писателка (* 1915 г.)\n 1994 г. – Жаклин Кенеди Онасис, бивша първа дама на САЩ (* 1929 г.)\n 2005 г. – Трифон Силяновски, български композитор и пианист (* 1923 г.)\n 2007 г. – Ханс Волшлегер, немски писател (* 1935 г.)\n 2009 г. – Робърт Фърчгот, американски учен, Нобелов лауреат (* 1916 г.)\n 2014 г. – Джак Брабам, австралийски автомобилен състезател (* 1926 г.)\n 2014 г. – Венцеслав Кисьов, български актьор (* 1946 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден за борба с хепатита (от 2006 г.)\n България – Празник на град Джебел\n Виетнам – Рожден ден на Хо Ши Мин\n Гърция – Ден в памет на жертвите от Понтийския гръцки геноцид (от 1919 г.)\n Дания – Ден за всенародна молитва\n Русия – Ден в памет на починалите от СПИН\n Турция – Ден на Кемал Ататюрк и Ден на младежта и спорта (от 1919 г.)\n Украйна – Ден на науката\n Финландия – Ден в памет на загиналите и Ден на военния флот\n\n519"
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        "text": "Below you will find the most recent rentals for section 8 housing in Savannah Missouri. While the majority of these properties are apartments some are also section 8 houses for rent. Once you have your section 8 voucher feel free to contact any of the prospective landlords in Savannah using the contact information provided below."
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        "text": "I picked up the bass a few months ago, and I've noticed that when I'm playing something, the strings make loud clicky sounds when they hit the fret. This happens especially when I'm trying to play something fast, and when I jump between strings. How can I prevent this from happening? What could I be doing wrong?\nWork on having your left hand 'think ahead', so that you're not rushing to fret the note just before you play it; instead, the relevant finger has got there well before time.\na low action at the nut will reduce the amount of click for the positions near the nut.\nAgain as Bradd says, low action at the high frets will make it more likely for the string to clatter against the frets at the end of the neck, so you may want to raise the bridge saddles a little, as well as focusing on playing less hard (with your right hand). The latter may mean you need to turn your amp up a bit too, so you can play gently and let the amp do the work.\nAs No'am Newman mentions in a comment, bass clanks aren't a bad thing in themselves - I harness them in a couple of ways: - accenting strong notes in a bar with a bit of right hand 'clank' - setting my bass up so that the string hits the high frets briefly at the start of each note. coupled with distortion, this gives a great snorty rock sound. Of course if you don't want clanks, that's fine too.\nAlso, bear in mind that not all the clanks and clicks you hear acoustically will actually make it into your signal chain. You can reduce a lot of noises by turning down the tone on the bass.\nThere are two likely causes for this, depending on where the strings are clicking. If they click directly under your fingers, from the force of your fingertips striking the frets, then work on reducing the tension in your fretting hand. Proper fretting requires very little tension or force. Keeping it minimal will reduce percussive noises and will also reduce fatigue and the likelihood of injury.\nIf the strings click or buzz against the neck farther from your fingers, then the problem might still be tension, but in your plucking hand instead of your fretting hand. When playing fast, loud, or dynamic music it is easy to over-pick which can make the strings slap or buzz against the strings. Low action or low neck relief will exaggerate this noise, so you might want to adjust your bass setup in addition to easing off the picking hand.\nFrom an instrument maker's point of view: aside from how you play, the setup of the bass makes a difference. There's always going to be some amplitude of string vibration that will buzz somewhere; it's a matter of taste what that amplitude is. The lower the action, the easier it is to fret and the less problems with intonation, but the easier it is to buzz. The higher the action, the less buzzing, but the more effort and possible intonation problems.\nOf course, you want your action to be regular: no high or low frets, nut and bridge appropriate, etc. Get it checked out if you find differences between different fingered notes.\nTopo pre-empted my first thought - turn down the treble on the amp or guitar.\nThose clicks would make it seem like you're hammering on too hard with the fretting fingers. Hammer-ons are a regular part of guitar and bass playing, to be able to play legato, but also so you can drink your pint while still playing the bass line in a gig. Hammer-ons don't need to be sledge-hammer-ons, though. The note will still play when you press down less harshly. Try all sorts of different attack modes, and a lot of the click will disappear. Of course, sometimes you'll want it, so go back to your original mode of playing.\nAnother cause may be the strings are too low, and are catching on the next fret or three, although often, this will manifest itself in a rattle as well. You may also be pulling the string up away from the finger board before letting go - sort of mini bow and arrow style. That's a common way to play when you're slapping and popping - it's the pop. A slap is also percussive in a different way, when you hit the string down onto the finger board. Again, that's percussive, and will produce a click, albeit a different one.\nThis type of sound is solvable by either playing softer with the playing hand (not hitting the strings so hard) or doing some EQing. If your bass has a treble control, turn it down. Same with the amp or any pedals.\nBut the best solution for things like this is to solve it at the hand and not gloss over it with effects.\nAdjusting your playing style for a given situation will not only open up your bass for new possibilities, but make you a more versatile player. You can then use the clanky sound to accent other notes without sacrificing treble in your normal tone.\nI used to have the same issue, hitting the strings far, far too hard and always getting the clank. I've since lowered my action and learned to play a lot softer. I can now get that clank without too much extra effort and play fast lines with soft strikes of the fingers, which is way easier than trying to hit hard during a fast passage.\nI'm with Tim, I think you're squeezing too hard. Try this, place your finger on the string and press very, very gently until the string just touches the fretboard behind the fret. Keep playing the string with your right (I presume) hand all this time. Notice the left hand pressure you needed when the note first comes out clear. That the most pressure you need to exert, even when paying fast.\nIf you keep squeezing too hard or too fast, you will at best tire quickly, at worst risk hand strains or injury and speaking as someone who has had hand surgery, I don't recommend it.\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged bass-guitar electric-bass-guitar fretboard or ask your own question.\nBest ways to remove excess tension from fretting hand?\nWhen decreasing string gauge on a bass guitar, will I need to adjust the truss rod?\nHow I am I supposed to “Properly” follow through to the next string while playing the electric bass guitar?\nBass guitar fret buzz: should I care?\nHow can i add simple bass guitar in my simple songs?\nHow to get Steve Harris' bass tone?"
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Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn.\nGeneral purpose chain. General purpose chain. Excellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains. >WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn.\nFor playground and gymnasium equipment (1/0 and larger), farm and animal chains, and many general-purpose applications. The Playground Equipment Association has adopted the min of 1/0 Inco coil chain. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. Excellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. Excellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn.\nFor playground and gymnasium equipment (1/0 and larger), farm and animal chains, and many general-purpose applications. The Playground Equipment Association has adopted the min of 1/0 Inco coil chain. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. For playground and gymnasium equipment (1/0 and larger), farm and animal chains, and many general-purpose applications. The Playground Equipment Association has adopted the min of 1/0 Inco coil chain. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. Excellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn.\nExcellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains. >WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. For playground and gymnasium equipment (1/0 and larger), farm and animal chains, and many general-purpose applications. The Playground Equipment Association has adopted the min of 1/0 Inco coil chain. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. Used for creating borders for flower beds, gardens, driveways, etc. DO NOT USE FOR OVERHEAD LIFTING, TOWING OR PULLING.\nUsed for creating borders for flower beds, gardens, driveways, etc. DO NOT USE FOR OVERHEAD LIFTING, TOWING OR PULLING. Used for creating borders for flower beds, gardens, driveways, etc. DO NOT USE FOR OVERHEAD LIFTING, TOWING OR PULLING. General purpose chain.\nExcellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. General purpose chain. For general utility, farm and animal applications. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn.\nExcellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn. Uses: Marine applications, wherever non-nagnetic, electrically welded corrosion resistant chain is needed. Bright finish. Excellent general-purpose chain of standard commercial quality. Frequently used for fabricating tow chains, binding or tie down chains, and logging chains. Low carbon steel standard material. WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED the working load limits for chain or components. DO NOT USE for overhead lifting or hoisting. DO NOT USE if the chain or components are visibly distorted or worn."
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        "text": "Days after US President Donald Trump's jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over India's role in ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan, the two leaders agreed to further strengthen bilateral relations in the year ahead.\nAccording to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday, Modi and Trump exchanged New Year greetings in a telephonic conversation on Monday evening.\nThey expressed satisfaction at the progress in India-US strategic partnership in 2018, the statement said.\nThey appreciated developments such as the launch of the new 2+2 Dialogue mechanism and the first-ever trilateral summit of India, the US and Japan.\nModi, Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the idelines of the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires last November.\nThe three countries along with Australia, are part of a quad that was revived in 2017 seeking to work for peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region."
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        "text": "Q: Is there a better way to travel internationally with an iPhone (3GS/4 specifically)? I've travelled to Europe and Asia quite a bit with iPhones with no problems (I live in the US), except for the fact that making calls anywhere outside the US is crazy expensive and of course I wouldn't dare turn on data roaming for fear of the thousand-dollar bill.\nThese days, though, is there not a better way? Can I not go into a shop in the UK and buy a pay-as-you-go micro-sim for 30GBP and call/data away? Is my iPhone (3GS and 4) permanently and forever locked to AT&T unless I jailbreak it, even with a different sim card?\nI'm willing to jailbreak my 3GS to accomplish this mission, but I'd like to hear from someone with real-world experience before doing so.\nThanks!\n\nA: As you've pointed out, US iPhones are locked to AT&T. Fundamentally, that's your only real issue here. If you can unlock your iPhone, then your suggesting of just picking up a micro-sim and using it for data and calls works perfectly. In the UK, we can buy iPhones unlocked, and get our network operators to unlock them.\nWhat you described is exactly what I've done when travelling abroad, but it's entirely reliant on having an unlocked device to start with. From there, you should be good to go. In the UK, there's a massive range of low-cost, pay as you SIM only options to choose from. O2 do a big range of SIM only deals, including micro-sim plans (see here).\nThe other option to consider is, if you're looking to upgrade to an iPhone 4 anytime soon, buy it abroad, from the UK, unlocked, and then you won't have to jailbreak it in the future. UK and European iPhone models will work perfectly well in the US, and they come with a global warranty as well.\n\nA: Yes your iPhone is locked on AT&T, you must jailbreak & unlock it if you want to use another sim. If you only travel to UK, you might take a pay-as-you-go sim. If you travel in many country in europe you might be interested by http://www.callineurope.com/. It might even be interesting if you only go to UK has there is a special UK pass.\n\nA: I traveled to South America last summer and just for that trip, signed up to an AT&T International calling plan that included both phone calls and text messaging. I didn't use my phone a lot (in 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador) so I only spent about $25, but the text messaging turned out to be critical during a two-day medical emergency involving a family member.   I turned the plan off as soon as I got home.  \nRecently I went to Asia and just set up the texting plan for $10/month and used it for just one month.  (No phone calls.)\nWill something like that work for your for Europe and Asia?  (That is: buy something temporary from US AT&T, focusing just on your upcoming trip, and then shut it off when you get home.)\n\nA: If you are looking for a truly global answer - this article is updated to let you know which carriers allow an authorized unlock.\nhttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht1937\nIf your phone is locked on a carrier that will unlock it, simply see what the price and procedure is to get it unlocked. Only you and apple will know the status of your phone. If you have a used phone, any service rep can look up your serial number and let you know the status of that device in the iPhone device activation database.\nIf you can't or won't unlock a locked device - then it's a cat and mouse game to get it unlocked. The details depend on the exact version of iOS software and modem firmware on your phone. If you restore your phone - the unlock can get undone. It's not impossible to do, but it's technically tricky and you'll need to get someone to help you or learn the ropes. Do consider if the phone has a problem on the road - you may need a computer to re-unlock it so be prepared to rent a handset if you don't travel with the tools and knowledge to perform another unlock yourself.\nOnly you can determine if the hassle factor of unlocking your phone outweighs the price of buying one that is authorized to be unlocked.\n"
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        "text": "Excellent location with great parking. Monthly sale is $150,000 and the monthly net income is $30,000. The SBA loan is possible with $500,000 down payment. 2,000 sq.ft."
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        "text": "Good morning everyone. This week's Behind the Design features Gabrielle of Hopeless. The creator of beautiful, vintage inspired handmade lingerie. Her collections are stunning and she was a pleasure to interview!\nEverywhere! I love watching old movies and usually base my ranges around a film, but I also love looking at art books, vintage magazines, and visiting galleries.\nI can never force it, when I get that urge or idea I will stop what I am doing and just draw out the designs in my head for a little while. If I set aside time and go somewhere to do the creative work, I usually come up with nothing!! I am constantly thinking about design ideas and colours and things, so I have sketchbooks, notepads, and scraps of paper all over my house.\nWhere do you most of your work?\nI work from home and have my machines set up on the dining room table. I iron in the adjoining kitchen, and do all my hand sewing on the couch in front of the tv!\nMy sister just thought of it one day and I thought it sounded perfect. Not your typical lingerie brand name, and it can be interpreted in a number of ways.\nI love making one-off pieces. I get bored very easily and much prefer the process of putting the first sample together rather than sewing lots of the same thing. That said, it is always good to perfect and practice certain skills - and I can see certain sewing techniques have improved hugely over the past few years.\nProbably the Dahlia Bra and Garter Belt Set from my first range. I think it's a really good example of what Hopeless is about.\nThe support of my family and my boyfriend Nick.\nBe patient. But I am still trying to get a hold of that one!\nBlack coffee and chamomile tea (not at the same time obviously).\nSouth America - Just because I think it would be an incredible adventure!\nNick, a sewing needle, a mattress, a toothbrush, a dictionary.\nThank you Gabrielle for participating in this week's Behind the Design.\nPhotos courtesy of Hopeless Lingerie."
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        "text": "Q: Should I stick with programming on my Apple or switch to Linux? I was wondering whether or not the switch to Linux would be worth it.  I feel like programming on my MacBook Pro is fine and I was wondering what the advantages would be for staying or switching.\nWhat would you do and why?\n\nA: Considering OS X is a POSIX compliant unix system, you can do most of yout *nix programming on OS X anyway.\nI would stick with Apple, it is a growing market and has some very good tools to help you along the way.\n\nA: I program for both Mac OS X and Linux, and I agree with bromfiets - try both of them!\nAs somebody else has suggested, put a VM on your Mac and load up Ubuntu and give it a whirl. I do some of my Linux work that way, using VMWare on a Mac Pro. (I also program on a MacBook with Snow Leopard, and a Sony laptop that runs Ubuntu.)\nUser322 is quite wrong about how \"effectively no difference between programming on a Mac or a Linux box\". If you want to write GUI programs on a Mac, your best bet these days is to use Cocoa and Objective C, and on most Linux distros it's C with GTK+. (Most of the others others, you'd use C and KDE, and on a few, C++ and Qt.) The graphics and window management systems are radically different... I could go on and on.\nOn Linux, if you don't like how some component operates, you can dig into the sources and fix them, which is usually not an option on the Mac. You learn a lot, and you can make pretty good money doing that! My day jobs during much of the last five years have involved mucking around with the internals of Linux components like the X server, GTK+, and Clutter, and I now turn down work doing that these days because there's so much demand and I'm overloaded.\nApple really pushes the use of Xcode on the Mac for both editing and builds, and it's pretty good. On Linux, there's no real standard. For editing, you've got various GUI tools (kate, gedit) and terminal-based editors (vi/vim, emacs). For builds, you can do the command-line make thing, or use jam, or ant. Or you can go with an IDE like Eclipse, which is about as close as you'll find to Xcode, and in some ways is better. You get most of these tools for your Mac, but hardly anybody uses them there.\nMac and Linux programming are really different worlds, and both of them are pretty cool.\nAnd while I like the Mac as a user... having attended WWDC off and on since the mid-80s, and also attended various Linux-oriented tech conferences like GUADEC and the Ottawa Linux Symposium... I'd attend the Linux ones over WWDC every time. They're just hackers' dreams, tons of fun, and they make the marketers stay away.\n\nA: That depends on what your problems are with your mac and whether Linux solves them.  Gotta give more detail than that, man.\nPersonally, I love my mac for development for a few reasons:\n\n\n*\n\n*Window management is great.  At work I have two decent monitors, but when I'm coding on my little 15\" MBP, having cmd-tab/cmd-` is great and Exposé is a godsend.\n\n*I have a real unix command prompt to use for dev tasks, but still a user friendly system for more normal activities.  I feel OS X has a good balance between the strengths of Linux and Windows without the need to switch between the two.\n\n*Apple is a well-supported system.  It's disadvantage is that at some levels, it can be difficult to customize it (in both hardware and software).  The upshot of that is that if something goes wrong, you have a huge community of developers and users using very similar setups, whereas with Linux has both a smaller and less homogeneous userbase.\n\n*The mainstream mac development apps (Textmate comes to mind) tend to be better designed and more usable than their Linux counterparts.  Some would argue that this comes at the cost of power and control- however, most popular Linux apps can be run on OS X one way or another.\n\n*Edit addition: Two-finger swipe scrolling.  Never realized how useful this was until I had to code for 6 months on a Thinkpad.\n\n\nDisclaimer: Though I interact with *nix systems all the time, I've never used Linux extensively on the desktop.\n\nA: I suggest to not switch, but use both OS X and Linux. You will get more experience and learn to program in more than one \"environment\". Similary, don't stick to one single programming language. Try another one (at least).\n\nA: Since OS X is unix-based, there's effectively no difference between programming on a Mac or a Linux box. It boils down simply to what programs and utilities (text editors, database frontends, etc) you prefer. But the Mac has infinitely better programs in this sense (at least in my humble opinion), and what utilities Linux does have are generally available on the Mac as well. Long and short, the only good reason to program on a Linux box when you have a Mac available is when you're developing an application for Linux. For everything else, just stick with your Mac.\n"
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        "text": "The mission of the UOC's Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences is to provide university-level, initial and lifelong e-learning, and to promote the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of psychology and education.\nThe department's course offering is and has to be wide-ranging and able to respond to professional and social needs at all times. Students are accompanied and aided in their learning process with an innovative teaching methodology based on intensive use of information and communication technologies and networking, which allows for the overcoming of the barriers of space and time. The training is based on the latest knowledge and research in the department's areas of specialisation."
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        "text": "Now, you can see her live on Friday, May 3rd at Dominion Energy Center.\nTickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 8th at 10:00am local time and are available at the Dominion Energy Center and Altria Theater box office, by phone at (800) 514-3849 and online at etix.com.\nTickets will also be available at the Dominion Energy Center box office on the day of the on-sale and the day of the show. For more information, visitdominionenergycenter.com.\nSykes was previously seen on several television shows over the past two years. Her Own special “Herlarious” which aired in July highlighted female comics. Last year she made a return to HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” starring opposite Larry David. In 2010 she starred on her own late night talk show on FOX, “The Wanda Sykes Show”.\nIn 2009 her second HBO stand up special “I’ma Be Me” premiered. It was taped at the Warner theatre in Washington DC where she tackled topics like the first black president, gay cruises, being a new mom and aging.\nThe special was nominated for two 2010 Primetime Emmy awards: Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special."
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        "text": "Our Tilemaster Silicone 3000 Plus - Jasmine (310ml) is the ideal solution to create a complete professional finish in your new bathroom. This clever silicone features a unique jasmine colourway to create a unique modern look. Choose matching jasmine grout to create a complete look. This waterproof silicone is ideal for use in areas subject to prolonged wet conditions. Easy to apply and can be used internally and externally as required."
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    {
        "text": "20 май е 140-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (141-ви през високосна година). Остават 225 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 325 г. – Римският император Константин I Велики свиква Първи Никейски събор, на който е прието „Веруюто“.\n 525 г. – При земетресение в Близкия Изток загиват около 300 хиляди души.\n 1202 г. – Земетресение с епицентър в Северозападна Сирия убива от 30 хиляди до над един милион души в Близкия Изток и Северна Африка.\n 1498 г. – Португалският мореплавател Васко да Гама първи от европейските мореплаватели заобикаля Африка и пристига в Кожикод (преди известен като Каликут), Индия.\n 1520 г. – Ернан Кортес разбива испанските войски, след като се обявява за независим владетел на Мексико.\n 1570 г. – Картографът Абрахам Ортелий издава първия съвременен атлас.\n 1618 г. – Започва Тридесетгодишна война.\n 1873 г. – Леви Щраус и Джейкъб Дейвис получават американски патент за сини памучни панталони с медни капси, станали известни по-късно като джинси.\n 1875 г. – Представители на 17 държави подписват в Париж Метричната конвенция, с която се постига единство в използваните мерни единици.\n 1875 г. – Княз Александър Дондуков-Корсаков встъпва в длъжност като руски императорски комисар в България.\n 1882 г. – С присъединяването на Италия към военния съюз между Германия и Австро-Унгария се създава Тройния съюз – организация, която по-късно предизвиква Първата световна война.\n 1900 г. – В Париж са открити вторите Летни олимпийски игри.\n 1902 г. – Куба става независима от САЩ република.\n 1927 г. – Саудитска Арабия получава независимост от Великобритания.\n 1927 г. – Чарлз Линдберг излита от Лонг Айлънд, Ню Йорк, за да извърши първия самостоятелен полет без кацане над Атлантическия океан, който завършва успешно на летище Бурже в Париж.\n 1932 г. – Енгелберт Долфус става канцлер на Австрия.\n 1932 г. – В СССР е въведен терминът социалистически реализъм като нов стил в литературата.\n 1932 г. – Амелия Еърхарт излита от остров Нюфаундленд и започва първия самостоятелен полет без кацане на жена над Атлантическия океан, който завършва успешно в Северна Ирландия на следващия ден.\n 1943 – Цар Борис III отклонява следващи германски планове за депортация и одобрява план за изселване на 25 хиляди евреи от София.\n 1963 г. – Сукарно е назначен за пожизнен президент на Индонезия и провъзгласен за Велик вожд на революцията.\n 1969 г. – Джон Ленън сключва брак с Йоко Оно в Гибралтар.\n 1972 г. – Създадена е обединената република Камерун.\n 1983 г. – От френския Институт „Пастьор“ официално се съобщава, че е изолиран вирусът на СПИН от екип, ръководен от професор Люк Монтание.\n 1989 г. – В с. Пристое, Шуменско, е проведен първият митинг на български турци против „възродителния процес“\n 2002 г. – Източен Тимор придобива независимост от Индонезия и става първата суверенна държава за 21 век.\n 2003 г. – Ватиканът публикува речник на съвременния латински език, в който са добавени термини, които широко се използват в настоящето.\n 2007 г. – Избори за Европейски парламент през 2007: В България се провеждат първите избори за членове на Европейския парламент.\n\nРодени \n\n 1764 г. – Йохан Шадов, пруски график († 1850 г.)\n 1772 г. – Уилям Конгрийв, английски изобретател († 1828 г.)\n 1794 г. – Карл Юлиус Перлеб, германски ботаник († 1845 г.)\n 1799 г. – Оноре дьо Балзак, френски писател († 1850 г.)\n 1806 г. – Джон Стюарт Мил, британски философ († 1873 г.)\n 1818 г. – Едуард Тотлебен, руски граф и военен деец († 1884 г.)\n 1822 г. – Фредерик Паси, френски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 г. († 1912 г.)\n 1830 г. – Ектор Мало, френски писател († 1907 г.)\n 1851 г. – Емил Берлинер, американски изобретател с германски произход († 1929 г.)\n 1860 г. – Едуард Бухнер, германски химик, Нобелов лауреат († 1917 г.)\n 1868 г. – Тасе Христов, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1875 г. – Парашкев Цветков, български революционер († 1903 г.)\n 1876 г. – Петър Джидров, български социалдемократ († 1952 г.)\n 1878 г. – Александър Давидов, български военен деец († 1925 г.)\n 1881 г. – Владислав Сикорски, полски военен и политически водач († 1943 г.)\n 1882 г. – Георги Горанов, български композитор († 1905 г.)\n 1882 г. – Сигрид Унсет, норвежка писателка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1928 г. († 1949 г.)\n 1883 г. – Фейсал I, крал на Ирак († 1933 г.)\n 1885 г. – Александър Лер, германски генерал († 1947 г.)\n 1893 г. – Винцас Миколайтис-Путинас, литовски писател († 1967 г.)\n 1896 г. – Храбър Попов, български архитект, първият декан на Строителния факултет към Висше техническо училище († 1979 г.)\n 1901 г. – Макс Еве, нидерландски шахматист († 1981 г.)\n 1904 г. – Марджъри Алингам, английска писателка († 1966 г.)\n 1906 г. – Васила Вълчева, българска народна певица († 1981 г.)\n 1908 г. – Джеймс Стюърт, американски актьор († 1997 г.)\n 1909 г. – Васил Иванов, български художник († 1975 г.)\n 1915 г. – Моше Даян, израелски офицер и политик († 1981 г.)\n 1916 г. – Алексей Маресиев, съветски летец († 2001 г.)\n 1917 г. – Дейвид Маклеланд, американски психологически теоретик († 1998 г.)\n 1918 г. – Едуард Люис, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1995 г. († 2004 г.)\n 1921 г. – Волфганг Борхерт, германски поет, белетрист и драматург († 1947 г.)\n 1921 г. – Карл Дедециус, германски писател и преводач († 2016 г.)\n 1922 г. – Димитър Хаджиянев, български актьор († 2005 г.)\n 1922 г. – Куно Ребер, швейцарски писател († 1992 г.)\n 1924 г. – Пол-Клод Ракамие, френски психиатър († 1996 г.)\n 1925 г. – Алексей Туполев, съветски авиоконструктор († 2001 г.)\n 1930 г. – Милена Цанева, български литературен критик\n 1935 г. – Димитър Киров, български художник († 2008 г.)\n 1935 г. – Хосе Мухика, уругвайски политик и президент\n 1942 г. – Тома Томов, български журналист\n 1943 г. – Ал Бано, италиански поп певец\n 1944 г. – Джо Кокър, британски поп певец († 2014 г.)\n 1946 г. – Шер, американска поп певица и актриса\n 1947 г. – Стоянка Кендерова, български арабист и османист\n 1949 г. – Илко Ескенази, български политик († 1994 г.)\n 1950 г. – Красимир Зафиров, български футболист\n 1952 г. – Роже Мила, камерунски футболист\n 1955 г. – Матиас Политики, германски писател\n 1956 г. – Борис Акунин, руски писател\n 1958 г. – Алексей Гусков, руски актьор\n 1959 г. – Бронсън Пинчът, американски актьор\n 1960 г. – Джон Билингсли, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Александър Дедюшко, руски актьор († 2007 г.)\n 1961 г. – Ангел Тошков, български учен\n 1964 г. – Весела Лечева, българска спортистка\n 1964 г. – Даниела Гергелчева, българска тенисистка\n 1965 г. – Паоло Сеганти, италиански артист\n 1968 г. – Тимъти Олифант, американски актьор\n 1970 г. – Стефан Вълдобрев, български актьор и музикант\n 1972 г. – Бъста Раймс, американски хип-хоп изпълнител\n 1978 г. – Христос Баникас, гръцки шахматист\n 1981 г. – Икер Касиляс, испански футболен вратар\n 1982 г. – Петър Чех, чешки футболист\n 1983 г. – Александра Сърчаджиева, българска актриса\n 1983 г. – Оскар Кардосо, парагвайски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1277 г. – Йоан XXI, римски папа (* 1215 г.)\n 1506 г. – Христофор Колумб, генуезски мореплавател (* 1451 г.)\n 1622 г. – Осман II, султан на Османската империя (* 1604 г.)\n 1648 г. – Владислав IV Васа, крал на Полша и велик княз на Литва (* 1595 г.)\n 1755 г. – Йохан Георг Гмелин, германски естествоизпитател (* 1709 г.)\n 1782 г. – Уилям Емерсън, британски математик (* 1701 г.)\n 1820 г. – Карл Лудвиг Занд, германски студент, член на Burschenschaft (* 1795 г.)\n 1887 г. – Александър Улянов, руски революционер (* 1866 г.)\n 1896 г. – Клара Шуман, германска пианистка и композиторка (* 1819 г.)\n 1901 г. – Кочо Муструка, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1911 г. – Георги Ралев, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1911 г. – Димко Богов, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1940 г. – Вернер фон Хейденстам, шведски писател и поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1916 г. (* 1859 г.)\n 1942 г. – Ектор Гимар, френски архитект и дизайнер (* 1867 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Улитин, съветски военен деец (* 1923 г.)\n 1945 г. – Александър Ферсман, съветски геохимик (* 1883 г.)\n 1945 г. – Владимир Вазов, български генерал, брат на поета Иван Вазов (* 1868 г.)\n 1947 г. – Филип Ленард, австрийски и унгарски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1905 г. (* 1862 г.)\n 1952 г. – Йордан Пекарев, български журналист и политик, деец на БЗНС (* 1860 г.)\n 1960 г. – Никола Михайлов, български художник (* 1876 г.)\n 1970 г. – Херман Нунберг, австрийски психоаналитик (* 1884 г.)\n 1973 г. – Ярно Сааринен, финландски мотоциклетен състезател (* 1945 г.)\n 1981 г. – Доситей, македонски духовник, глава на МПЦ (* 1906 г.)\n 1981 г. – Лилиан Ротер, унгарски психоаналитик (* 1896 г.)\n 1982 г. – Димитър Попов, български политик (* 1912 г.)\n 1989 г. – Джон Хикс, британски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1972 г. (* 1989 г.)\n 1995 г. – Начо Начев, български учен (* 1925 г.)\n 2002 г. – Стивън Джей Гулд, американски палеонтолог (* 1941 г.)\n 2005 г. – Пол Рикьор, френски философ (* 1913 г.)\n 2007 г. – Стенли Милър, американски химик (* 1930 г.)\n 2009 г. – Ивайло Джамбазов, български актьор (* 1959 г.)\n 2009 г. – Олег Янковски, руски актьор (* 1944 г.)\n 2011 г. – Ренди Савидж, американски кечист (* 1952 г.)\n 2012 г. – Робин Гиб, английски певец и композитор (Бий Джийс) (* 1949 г.)\n 2013 г. – Рей Манзарек, американски музикант (* 1939 г.)\n\nПразници \n Свети мъченик Талалей (по църковня календар на Българска православна църква)\n Международен ден на метрологията\n Европейски ден на морето (от 2008 г.)\n Източен Тимор – Ден на независимостта (от Индонезия, 2002 г., национален празник)\n Камерун – Ден на обединението (1972 г., национален празник)\n Куба – Ден на независимостта (от САЩ, 1902 г.)\n Саудитска Арабия – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1927 г.)\n Индонезия – Ден на националното пробуждане\n\n520"
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        "text": "1. Auxins are plant hormones which promote stem growth, fruit growth and tropisms in plants. Which one of the following is the most common auxin?\n2. What is the main role of mitochondria?\nEcosystems vary in size. They can be as small as a puddle or as large as the Earth itself. Any group of living and nonliving things interacting with each other can be considered as an ecosystem. In an ecosystem, the food relation in its simplest form, representing a producer, primary consumer, a secondary consumer and decomposer, is called a food chain. Within each ecosystem, there are habitats which may also vary in size. A habitat is the place where a population lives. A population is a group of living organisms of the same kind living in the same place at the same time. All of the populations interact and form a community. The community of living things interacts with the non-living world around it to form the ecosystem. The habitat must supply the needs of organisms, such as food, water, temperature, oxygen, and minerals. If the population's needs are not met, it will move to a better habitat. Two different populations can not occupy the same niche at the same time, however. So the processes of competition, predation, cooperation, and symbiosis occur.\n3. What is each step in a food chain called?\n4. What are the main components of an ecosystem?\n5. Two different populations can not occupy the same niche at the same time. What processes occur when two populations occupy the same niche?\n6. Who are the main producers in an ecosystem?\nHormones in animals coordinate body functions by being produced in one place and acting in another. This would be true for animal hormones but plant hormones are often produced in the structure or tissue in which they act. Plants do not have a circulatory system and \"action at a distance\" may not be a feature of plant hormones. Plant hormones seem to coordinate growth and development in different parts of the plant, and help the plant respond to environmental signals. They are molecules that are not directly involved in metabolic or developmental processes but they act at low concentrations to modify those processes. There are five generally recognized classes of plant hormone. They are auxins, cytokinins, ethylene, abscisic acid and gibberlins. Some of the classes are represented by only one compound, others by several different compounds. They are all organic compounds, they may resemble molecules which turn up elsewhere in plant structure or function, but they are not directly involved as nutrients or metabolites.\n7. Plants do not have which of the following?\nThe three major functions that are basic to plant growth and development are: Photosynthesis � the process of capturing light energy and converting it to sugar energy, in the presence of chlorophyll using CO2 and H2O,Respiration � the process of metabolizing (burning) sugars to yield energy for growth, reproduction and other life processes, and Transpiration � the loss of water vapor through the stomata of leaves. Photosynthesis and respiration are complementary processes in the living world. Photosynthesis uses the energy of sunlight to produce sugars and other organic molecules. These molecules in turn serve as food for other organisms. Many of these organisms carry out respiration, a process that uses O2 to form CO2 from the same carbon atoms that had been taken up as CO2 and converted into sugars by photosynthesis. In the process, the organisms that respire obtain the chemical bond energy that they need to survive.\n9. Where does the energy needed for respiration come from?\n10. Where does the Krebs cycle take place?\n11. What precedes the Krebs cycle in a mitochondria?\n12. What is the end product of Krebs cycle?\nProteins make up about 15% of the mass of the average person. Protein molecules are essential to us in variety of different ways. Much of the fabric of our body is constructed from protein molecules. Muscle, cartilage, ligaments, skin and hair - these are all mainly protein materials. The protein in the food we eat is our main source of the chemical building blocks we need to build our own protein molecules. The primary structure of a segment of a polypeptide chain or of a protein is the amino-acid sequence of the polypeptide chain(s), without regard to spatial arrangement (apart from configuration at the alpha-carbon atom). The sequence and properties of side chains determine all that is unique about a particular protein, including its biological function and its specific three-dimensional structure.\n13. Protein keratin is found in which part of the body?\n14. What determines the uniqueness of a protein?\n15. What does \"nm\" stand for in the above diagram?\n16. Gametes are generated as a result of which kind of cell division?\n17. Cell which have two sets of chromosomes are called______.\n19. Which of the following is wrongly matched?\nHardy Weinberg equilibrium- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium describes a state in which genotype frequencies are constant from generation to generation and in which genotype frequencies are a product of allele frequencies. This condition prevails in situations in which there are an absence of mutations, migrations, non-random mating and environmental factors favoring particular genotypes. In a paper published in 1908, G. H. Hardy sought to disprove the Mendelian idea that dominant genetic characteristics would tend to appear in the whole population, while recessive characteristics would tend to disappear. A population is a set of interbreeding individuals all belonging to the same species. In most sexually reproducing species, including humans, each organism contains two copies of virtually every gene�one inherited from each parent. Any particular gene may occur in slightly different forms, called alleles. An organism with two identical alleles is called homozygous for that gene, and one with two different alleles is called heterozygous. During the formation of gametes, the two alleles separate into different gametes.\n20. Whose ideas has G.H Hardy tried to disprove?\nThink you know more about GED Practice Test - Science - Botany and would like others to know too? Whether its a great fact, a joke, a personal experience or an interesting anecdote, please share it with all the human beings on planet earth. Your contribution will help keep QuizMoz a free site for all.\nKnow the Latest News about GED Practice Test - Science - Botany!\ntest is very nice and this kind of tests increase our knowledge.so do these exercises."
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        "text": "Home » Celebrities » Kourtney Kardashian Bares All For GQ! Holy … !!\nKourtney Kardashian Bares All For GQ! Holy … !!\nJust a couple of weeks after teasing thirsty fans with new lingerie pics, Kourtney Kardashian is at it again.\nIn some of these photos for GQ Mexico‘s December/January issue, Kourt’s wearing even less than lingerie.\nShe strips naked, and also bares a bit of her soul.\nIn her interview with GQ Mexico, Kourtney Kardashian makes it abundantly clear that she doesn’t mind being nude.\nThat’s evident from the photos by famed photographer Michael Schwartz that you’ll see below, but also from her words.\n“I am very comfortable in my own skin,” Kourtney says.\nAnd she certainly should be, with skin like that. Damn.\n“I like to be naked in my house,” Kourtney reveals.\nGood for her. Did you know that some people get fully dressed at home, even when they live alone? That’s so sad.\nIn any event, it’s great to hear that Kourtney doesn’t need clothing to feel comfortable at home.\n“And,” the 39-year-old beauty says, “I think it is important to show positive images of our body.”\nDespite how incredibly gorgeous she looks, Kourt’s booty isn’t the most important thing in her life.\nShe names her three real priorities.\n“Being a mother to me is the most important thing,” she says. “Because it’s what’s in my heart.”\n“Then I would say exercising,” Kourtney continues. “Not only for my body, but because it does my mind a lot of good, relaxes me.”\nOnce exercise becomes part of your routine, you start to feel lost without it.\n“In third place, my favorite activity is traveling because it feeds my soul,” Kourtney says.\nShe then shares that these priorities are “followed by nutrition.”\n“I used to do very specific diets,” Kourtney shares.\n“I learned something from all of them and incorporated them into my lifestyle,” she says. “But I’m not so strict anymore.”\nThat is a sound approach.\nContinuing her list of priorities, Kourt says: “I would put the decoration because it is where I express myself creatively.”\n“Then beauty,” she says.\n“Not so much from the point of view of makeup, but rather define it as ‘self-care’ — do things to feel better, like a massage, for example.”\nIt’s easy to prioritize beauty when you are one of the most stunningly beautiful human beings on the planet.\n“And in the end, it would be fashion — which is my passion,” Kourt notes.\n“But I don’t give it so much time or attention anymore.”\nKourtney also talks about what she looks for in a prospective partner.\n“It is very important that my partner has confidence in himself,” she reveals.\nIt is vital “that he knows who he is, so he does not have to be showing anything to anyone,” Kourtney continues.\n(This is all translated from Spanish – she’s clearly saying that she wants a secure guy who doesn’t feel like he has anything to prove.)\n“He also has to be understanding, and accept me as I am,” Kourt adds. “If there is not that, it does not work.”\nThose are all good qualities for anyone.\nGiven the men with whom she’s been associated, we suspect that being notably younger and a major hottie don’t hurt a guy’s chances, either.\nShe also discusses her impact as a role model.\n“I think sometimes my sisters and I forget the influence we have on others,” Kourtney admits.\n“Of course, it is important to give a positive message and we are aware,” she affirms. “But in the day to day sometimes we do not pay attention.”\n“Even being a role model for my daughter, for my children or even for myself, sometimes I forget,” Kourt confesses.\n“I do not see it as a pressure or obligation,” Kourt says of being an influencer. “But what I do, I do for me.”\nShe also takes care to make it clear that she and her sisters love each other, even when they may be very critical of one another.\nYeah, that sounds like family.\nKim Kardashian & Family: 19 Conspiracy Theories That May Actually Be True (Okay, Some of Them)\n« DJ Akademiks Denies He Turns Tekashi In to the Feds\nGiant cow Knickers isn’t as big as 6ft 5ins Canadian steer Dozer »"
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        "text": "Adam \"Mojo\" Lebowitz\n(Redirected from Adam Lebowitz)\nRole: Visual Effects Designer\nBSG Universe: Re-imagined Series\nDate of Death: Missing required parameter 1=month! ,\nIMDb profile\nAdam \"Mojo\" Lebowitz currently acts as a Visual Effects Artist & Sequence Designer for the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. He has been with the show since \"33\", making him the longest-running FX artist on the series (second only to Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel). Highlights of Mojo's work have been designing the chase in \"Scar\" and the climactic moments of \"Exodus, Part II\", when the Pegasus sacrifices herself to save Galactica.\nAlong with his fellow artists at Zoic Studios, he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2003 for the episode \"33\" and in 2007, Mojo and the current in-house Visual Effects team won the Emmy for \"Exodus, Part II\" (yes, it's true that he attended the awards ceremony in his Original Series Colonial Warrior uniform)[1]. No one would argue that he is the biggest fan of the Original Series currently working on the show, and when the series is over he plans to pursue a career in vagrancy because he can't imagine any job is better than this one[2].\nPrior to Battlestar Galactica, Mojo served as a CG Supervisor for Star Trek: Voyager and as Visual Effects Supervisor for the Las Vegas attraction \"Borg Invasion.\" His career began in 1992 with Foundation Imaging, the very first company to use computer graphics as a visual effects tool on the series Babylon 5. His other credits on genre shows and movies include Serenity and the re-mastered version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He won an Emmy Award for his work on the Voyager episode \"Dark Frontier\". He was previously nominated for the episode \"Year of Hell, Part II\".\nOn his blog, he talks about his FX work on Battlestar Galactica, as well as his previous work on Babylon 5 and Star Trek.\nDarth Mojo's blog\n↑ BSG nerd wins Emmy, cops open fire (almost)\n↑ Anatomy of a Cylon\nWarning: Default sort key \"Lebowitz, Adam\" overrides earlier default sort key \"{{{sortkey}}}\".\nRetrieved from \"http://battlestarwiki.org/index.php?title=Adam_%22Mojo%22_Lebowitz&oldid=160603\"\nCrew (RDM)"
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        "text": "Q: Change Dock Expose Activation Time Is there a way to change the amount of time you have to click and hold on a Dock icon to activate Dock Expose? or maybe tie the right click to activate it?\n\nA: I'm not aware of a setting for just clicking on the icon with the mouse other than a default for turning it off...\ndefaults write com.apple.dock show-expose-menus -boolean\nYou can change the behaviour of when you drag a file onto a dock icon though...\nGo to Finder Preferences and at the bottom of the general tab there is \"Spring-Loaded folders and windows\"\nYou can dis/enable it and change the delay time.\n"
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        "text": "Q: Is there a non-Rosetta app for Snow Leopard similar to Hotspot Shield? Is there any application similar to Hotspot Shield that I can use in Snow Leopard without requiring Rosetta?\nFor those who don't know, Hotspot Shield provides a VPN access so you can browse anonymously on the web.\n\nA: It doesn't rely on the same system, but the Tor Project can provides you anonymity while connected to the internet.\nIt fully works under Snow Leopard without Rosetta.\nWARNING :\n\nWith this kind of softwares, the final node of the system (last Tor node or the VPN company) can, technically (understand \"if it wants\"), see all your data going through it !\nThe system grants anonymity not secure connection !\nThe connection is secured between you and the last node at the minimum, the rest depends on you.\nSo, always use secure connections (SSH, SSL/TLS, …) when using these systems.\nBy the way, the same principle apply with your ISP, you just have to choose someone to trust !\n\n"
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        "text": "21 май е 141-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (142-ри през високосна). Остават 224 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1725 г. – Руската императрица Екатерина I учредява ордена „Александър Невски“.\n 1840 г. – Нова Зеландия е обявена за колония на Великобритания.\n 1865 г. – Сформира се чета в жилището на Георги Раковски, в която участват Раковски, Стефан Караджа, Хаджи Димитър и други.\n 1904 г. – В Париж е основана Международната федерация на футболните асоциации (ФИФА).\n 1920 г. – Съставено е самостоятелно правителство на БЗНС начело с Александър Стамболийски.\n 1924 г. – Националният отбор по футбол на България играе във Виена първия си неофициален мач и губи с 0:6 от Австрия.\n 1927 г. – Американецът Чарлз Линдберг завършва в Париж първия самостоятелен полет без кацане през Атлантическия океан.\n 1932 г. – Американката Амелия Ерхарт завършва в Северна Ирландия първия самостоятелен полет на жена без кацане над Атлантическия океан.\n 1969 г. – В САЩ палестинецът Сирхан Сирхан е осъден на смърт за убийството на Робърт Кенеди.\n 1991 г. – Бившият министър-председател на Индия Раджив Ганди е убит при самоубийствен бомбен атентат на жена близо до Мадрас.\n 1997 г. – XXXVIII народно събрание гласува новия кабинет, оглавен от лидера на СДС Иван Костов.\n 1998 г. – Един ден след като убива родителите си, 15-годишен ученик стреля в училище в Спрингфилд (САЩ), убивайки 2 деца и ранявайки 23.\n 2000 г. – Черна гора провежда референдум за излизане от конфедерацията Сърбия и Черна гора, на който за независимост гласуват 55% от населението.\n 2003 г. – При земетресение в северен Алжир загиват над две хиляди души.\n 2005 г. – Гръцката певица Елена Папаризу печели 50-ото издание на телевизионния конкурс Песен на Евровизия.\n 2006 г. – Провежда се ежегодното надбягване От залива до големите пенливи вълни в Сан Франциско (Калифорния).\n\nРодени \n\n 120 пр.н.е. – Аврелия Кота, римска матрона, майка на Гай Юлий Цезар († 54 пр.н.е.)\n 1471 г. – Албрехт Дюрер, германски художник († 1528 г.)\n 1527 г. – Филип II, крал на Испания († 1598 г.)\n 1688 г. – Александър Поуп, английски поет († 1744 г.)\n 1817 г. – Херман Лоце, германски философ († 1881 г.)\n 1827 г. – Константин Победоносцев, руски политик († 1907 г.)\n 1843 г. – Шарл Албер Гоба, швейцарски политик, Нобелов лауреат († 1914 г.)\n 1843 г. – Луи Рено, френски юрист, Нобелов лауреат († 1918 г.)\n 1848 г. – Търпо Поповски, български свещеник († 1928 г.)\n 1854 г. – Ховсеп Азнавур, османски архитект († 1935 г.)\n 1860 г. – Вилем Ейнтховен, нидерландски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат († 1927 г.)\n 1863 г. – Димитър Станчов, български дипломат († 1940 г.)\n 1870 г. – Тодор Марков, български военен деец († след 1950)\n 1880 г. – Тудор Аргези, румънски поет († 1967 г.)\n 1889 г. – Леополд Маунтбатън, британски благородник († 1922 г.)\n 1896 г. – Вера Иванова-Мавродинова, български учен († 1987 г.)\n 1897 г. – Никола Аврамов (художник), български художник († 1945 г.)\n 1912 г. – Димитър Домузчиев, български музикант († 1972 г.)\n 1921 г. – Андрей Сахаров, руски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1989 г.)\n 1924 г. – Атанас Семерджиев, български политик († 2015 г.)\n 1927 г. – Томас Сеговия, мексикански писател († 2011 г.)\n 1932 г. – Габриеле Воман, немска писателка († 2015 г.)\n 1937 г. – Менгисту Хайле Мариам, президент на Етиопия\n 1938 г. – Павел Герджиков, български певец\n 1938 г. – Урс Видмер, швейцарски писател († 2014 г.)\n 1943 г. – Кирил Топалов, български писател\n 1944 г. – Джанет Дейли, американска писателка († 2013 г.)\n 1944 г. – Борислав Грънчаров, български поп певец († 2017 г.)\n 1945 г. – Ричард Хач, американски актьор († 2017 г.)\n 1952 г. – Мистър Ти, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Георги Попиванов, български футболист\n 1964 г. – Иван Бела, словашки космонавт\n 1965 г. – Димитър Воев, български поет († 1992 г.)\n 1966 г. – Лиса Едълстийн, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Зденко Кожул, югославско-хърватски шахматист\n 1967 г. – Крис Беноа, канадски кечист († 2007 г.)\n 1969 г. – Николай Нинов, български шахматист\n 1972 г. – The Notorious B.I.G., хипхоп музикант († 1997 г.)\n 1976 г. – Карло Любек, немски актьор\n 1978 г. – Адам Гонтиер, вокалист на Three Days Grace\n 1978 г. – Бриана Банкс, германска актриса\n 1980 г. – Готие, белгийско-австралийски музикант\n 1981 г. – Беладона, американска порнографска актриса\n 1983 г. – Джузепе Акуаро, италиански футболист\n 1985 г. – Галена, българска попфолк певица\n 1985 г. – Луцие Храдецка, чешка тенисистка\n 1986 г. – Марио Манджукич, хърватски футболист\n 1986 г. – Алекс Нойес, американски барабанист\n 1986 г. – Пламен Пенев, Мистър България 2004\n 1988 г. – Джонатан Хоусън, английски футболист\n 1990 г. – Рене Кърхин, словенски футболист\n 1990 г. – Жоао Силва, португалски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1471 г. – Хенри VI, крал на Англия (* 1421 г.)\n 1639 г. – Томазо Кампанела, италиански философ (* 1568 г.)\n 1786 г. – Карл Вилхелм Шееле, шведски химик (* 1742 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Апостолов, български революционер (* ок. 1853)\n 1876 г. – Петър Симеонов, български революционер (* ок. 1846)\n 1880 г. – Иван Липранди, руски историк (* 1790 г.)\n 1903 г. – Парашкев Цветков, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Греков, български политик (* 1884 г.)\n 1926 г. – Фридрих Клуге, германски езиковед (* 1856 г.)\n 1929 г. – Арчибалд Роузбъри, Министър-председател на Обединеното кралство (* 1847 г.)\n 1932 г. – Димитър Ценов, български предприемач, дарителят на Стопанска академия (* 1852 г.)\n 1935 г. – Джейн Адамс, американска общественичка, Нобелов лауреат (* 1860 г.)\n 1935 г. – Хуго де Фриз, холандски ботаник (* 1848 г.)\n 1944 г. – Атанас Манчев, български поет (* 1921 г.)\n 1949 г. – Клаус Ман, немски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1973 г. – Иван Конев, съветски маршал (* 1897 г.)\n 1991 г. – Раджив Ганди, Министър-председател на Индия (* 1944 г.)\n 1993 г. – Джон Фрост, британски офицер (* 1912 г.)\n 2000 г. – Джон Гилгуд, британски актьор (* 1904 г.)\n 2006 г. – Асен Гаврилов, балетист (* 1926 г.)\n\nПразници \n Източноправославна църква – Св. св. Константин и Елена (Костадин, Коста, Кунчо, Елин, Илона, Динко, Койчо)\n ЮНЕСКО – Световен ден за културно развитие\n Световен ден срещу тероризма\n България – Празник на град Пазарджик, град Костандово, град Елена и на селата Белотинци и Ясна поляна\n Италия – Празник на град Верона\n\n521"
    },
    {
        "text": "22 май е 142-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (143-ти през високосна). Остават 223 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 853 г. – Олаф I, син на краля на Норвегия, оглавява викингите в Ирландия и обявява за нейна столица Дъблин.\n 1455 г. – В Англия започва Войната на розите.\n 1762 г. – Швеция и Прусия подписват Хамбургското споразумение.\n 1768 г. – Мореплавателят Луи Антоан де Бугенвил открива остров Пентекост.\n 1856 г. – В Москва е открита Третяковската галерия.\n 1906 г. – Братя Райт патентоват първата „летяща машина“.\n 1939 г. – Втора световна война: Германия и Италия подписват Железния пакт.\n 1942 г. – Мексико се включва във Втората световна война на страната на Съюзниците.\n 1947 г. – Студената война: В борбата си срещу разпространението на комунизма, Президентът на САЩ Хари Труман подписва Доктрината Труман, с която отпуска 400 милиона щатски долара военна и икономическа помощ на Турция и Гърция, за да противодействат на вътрешните комунистически движения.\n 1956 г. – Районът на Трихълмието (Тримонциума) в Пловдив е обявен за архитектурно-музеен резерват „Старинен Пловдив“.\n 1960 г. – При чилийско земетресение, с най-голям измерен магнитуд (9,5), загиват около 5000 души най-вече поради образуваните цунами.\n 1965 г. – Открива се криптата на Храм-паметник Свети Александър Невски, като филиал за средновековно и възрожденско българско изкуство при Националната художествена галерия.\n 1968 г. – Американската атомна подводница Скорпиън (SSN-589) потъва на около 650 км югозападно от Азорските острови с 99 души екипаж на борда.\n 1969 г. – Лунният модул на Аполо 10 се доближава максимално до повърхността на Луната.\n 1972 г. – Ричард Никсън пристига в Москва на първото посещение на американски президент в СССР.\n 1972 г. – Цейлон приема нова конституция, с която става република и променя името си на Шри Ланка.\n 1990 г. – Бившият марксистки Южен Йемен и авторитарният Северен Йемен се обединяват в Република Йемен.\n 1990 г. – Излиза операционната система на Microsoft Windows 3.0.\n 1992 г. – Босна и Херцеговина, Хърватия и Словения се присъединяват към ООН.\n 2012 г. – Земетресение с епицентър близо до Перник с магнитуд 5,8.\n 2014 г. – Се дава началото на 8-те подред преки Избори за Европейски парламент.\n\nРодени \n\n 1783 г. – Уилям Стърджън, английски физик († 1850 г.)\n 1808 г. – Жерар дьо Нервал, френски поет († 1855 г.)\n 1813 г. – Рихард Вагнер, немски композитор († 1882 г.)\n 1859 г. – Артър Конан Дойл, британски писател († 1930 г.)\n 1881 г. – Михаил Ларионов, руски художник († 1964 г.)\n 1891 г. – Йоханес Р. Бехер, немски поет († 1958 г.)\n 1900 г. – Клайд Толсън, американски полицай († 1975 г.)\n 1907 г. – Лорънс Оливие, английски актьор († 1989 г.)\n 1914 г. – Сън Ра, американски музикант († 1993 г.)\n 1924 г. – Шарл Азнавур, френски певец († 2018 г.)\n 1927 г. – Лени Вълкова, българска джаз-певица\n 1932 г. – Димитър Симеонов, български музикант, диригент и преподавател († 2019 г.)\n 1941 г. – Борис Гуджунов, български поп певец († 2015 г.)\n 1943 г. – Бети Уилямс, ирландска активистка, Нобелов лауреат († 2020 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джордж Бест, северноирландски футболист († 2005 г.)\n 1954 г. – Анатол Петренку, молдовски историк и политик\n 1954 г. – Шуджи Накамура, американско-японски физик и инженер, Нобелов лауреат\n 1959 г. – Мара Матушка, австрийска художничка от български произход\n 1969 г. – Йото Йотов, български щангист\n 1970 г. – Иван Кескинов, български тенисист\n 1970 г. – Наоми Кембъл, английски супермодел\n 1971 г. – Соня Васи, български фотомодел, манекенка, моден дизайнер и певица\n 1976 г. – Кристиан Вандевелде, американски колоездач\n 1979 г. – Тихомир Тичко, български шахматист\n 1981 г. – Брайън Даниълсън, американски кечист\n 1982 г. – Яна Огнянова, българска актриса\n 1983 г. – Любена Нинова, българска певица\n 1984 г. – Антон Хекимян, български журналист\n 1986 г. – Димитър Пашев, български политик\n 1987 г. – Новак Джокович, сръбски тенисист\n\nПочинали \n\n 337 г. – Константин I Велики, римски император (* 274 г.)\n 1016 г. – Иван Владимир, сръбски княз (* 10 век г.)\n 1667 г. – Александър VII, римски папа (* 1599 г.)\n 1834 г. – Йохан Пол, чешки ботаник (* 1782 г.)\n 1873 г. – Алесандро Манцони, италиански писател (* 1785 г.)\n 1885 г. – Виктор Юго, френски писател (* 1802 г.)\n 1896 г. – Пьотър Алабин, руски общественик (* 1824 г.)\n 1907 г. – Александър Кошка, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1938 г. – Гечо Кокилев, български и съветски морски офицер (* 1899 г.)\n 1948 г. – Любомир Владикин, български юрист\n 1967 г. – Лангстън Хюз, американски поет (* 1902 г.)\n 1983 г. – Албер Клод, белгийски биохимик, носител на Нобелова награда за 1974 г.\n 1984 г. – Мими Балканска, българска певица (* 1902 г.)\n 1990 г. – Роки Грациано, американски боксьор\n 1992 г. – Зелиг Харис, американски езиковед (* 1909 г.)\n 1995 г. – Пенчо Кубадински, български политик (* 1918 г.)\n 1996 г. – Джордж Смит, американски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 1997 г. – Алфред Хърши, американски биохимик, носител на Нобелова награда за медицина (* 1908 г.)\n 1998 г. – Иван Кисьов, български инженер (* 1910 г.)\n 2004 г. – Деспина Кехайова, българска циркова актриса (* 1972 г.)\n 2004 г. – Михаил Воронин, руски гимнастик (* 1945 г.)\n 2004 г. – Ричард Бигс, американски актьор (* 1960 г.)\n 2008 г. – Робърт Асприн, американски писател (* 1946 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден за биологично разнообразие\n Йемен – Ден на обединението (между Северен и Южен Йемен, 1990 г., национален празник)\n\n522"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: Why aren't my iPhone 4 keychains being saved? I accidentally deleted my \"var/keychains\" folder in my jailbroken iPhone 4 thinking that it would solve a problem to a tweak that wasn't work, and now my iPhone is not recognizing the passwords I enter into the phone. It keep asking me to enter my voicemail password, email passwords..etc. I can't even access youtube. I also can't sync my iPhone 4 to my iTunes because there aren't any valid files in the Keychains folder. I have recreated the folder, but I did not back up any of the files in it. I was suspecting that the iPhone would recreate those files once I deleted them, but I was wrong. Can anyone help me out here? I can't restore my iPhone because I haven't backed up any of my important data. I can still use the iPhone, but these inquiries are irritating me hugely.\n\nA: You are probably in pretty bad shape here, the system keychains are generally created as part of the iPhone's activation process (they include things like the APNS certificate, which is negotiated with Apple during activation). Even if you do manage to create a new keychain, all the certs on it will be different, which means that anything that has exchanged keys with your iPhone (like push notifications, encrypted backups, etc) won't work.\nYou might be able to create an empty keychain by using the security commandline tool. I am not sure if that is actually installed on the iPhone by default. You might also be able to create an empty toolchain on a Mac and copy it over, but I am not sure if the iPhone keychain is format compatible with the Mac OS X one.\nI think it is important to remind people, if you don't know exactly what you are doing then mucking with system files can be very dangerous, and you should always make sure you copy the original files so you can revert it.\n\nA: I don't know if this will work for a jailbroken phone.*\nIf your iTunes back up of your iPhone is not encrypted then it will not back up your keychain. You should be able to disable encryption, then do a back up. A restore from this point should create a new keychain for you.\n*Don't blame me if you lose all your data.\n"
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    {
        "text": "Curried Eggs recipe and other apple recipes updated by our cooking food network top chefs. Fill Free to download and share with your friends and family.\nPreheat oven to 350F. Slice eggs and amp place in double layer, slightly overlapping in greased baking dish. Set aside. SAUCE:Melt butter in pan over low heat. Add apple and amp onion. Cook, stirring till onion is limp and amp apple reduced to a puree (10 min). Stir in curry powder, then flour and amp salt. Stir till smooth. Slowly add milk, stirring as added. Cook, stirring till sauce is thick and amp smooth. Pour sauce over eggs and amp place in oven till bubbly hot. Top with parsley. Serve with chutney."
    },
    {
        "text": "The Verdicchio vine has been cultivated in the regions of east central Italy, to which it is probably native, since the 1300s, but virtually nowhere else. Named for the yellow-green hue of the grapes. Verdicchio is “the favourite son” making it the most important white grape in the east central region of Italy.\nAt Dell’uva Wines estate vineyard we were the first South Australia producer of Verdicchio. Depending on vinification techniques Verdicchio wines can be rich in bouquet and structure, sometimes even capable of ageing for ten years or more.\nVerdicchio’s pale colour, the nose displays floral, perfume and lavender with some of those pink/purple confectionery lollies from way back. wonderful flavours of dried mango and a soft finish on the palette rounds out this lovely varietal. this wine is a superb match with Asian and spicy foods."
    },
    {
        "text": "23 май е 143-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (144-ти през високосна). Остават 222 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1430 г. – Жана д'Арк попада в плен на бургундите, докато се опитва да освободи Компиен.\n 1498 г. – Джироламо Савонарола, италиански духовник и политически реформатор, е обесен и изгорен на клада.\n 1555 г. – Кардинал Джампиетро Карафа е избран за папа и приема името Павел IV.\n 1592 г. – Във Венеция Инквизицията арестува италианския философ Джордано Бруно, обвинен в ерес.\n 1618 г. – Състои се втора Пражка дефенестрация, която предизвиква Тридесетгодишната война.\n\n 1785 г. – В писмо до приятел Бенджамин Франклин споделя идеята си за бифокалните очила.\n 1805 г. – Наполеон Бонапарт е коронован за крал на Италия в Миланската катедрала.\n 1877 г. – Провъзгласена е пълната независимост на Обединеното княжество Влахия и Молдавия от Османската империя.\n 1880 г. – Приет е първият Закон за административното деление на Княжество България, с който се закриват губерниите.\n 1900 г. – Избухва бунт против натуралния десятък в Дуранкулак, Балчишко (дн. община Шабла).\n 1907 г. – Открита е жп линията Зимница – Сливен (24 км).\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: Италия обявява война на Австро-Унгария и се присъединява към Антантата.\n 1928 г. – Италианският изследовател Умберто Нобиле прави опит да достигне Северния полюс с дирижабъл; на връщане машината претърпява катастрофа и при спасителните работи загива Руал Амундсен.\n 1930 г. – В СССР е връчен за първи път най-високият орден – Ленин.\n 1934 г. – Бони и Клайд – известна двойка американски гангстери, са убити при престрелка с полицията.\n 1945 г. – Втора световна война: Ръководителят на СС Хайнрих Химлер се самоубива, след като е задържан от Съюзниците.\n 1945 г. – Уинстън Чърчил подава оставка като министър-председател на Великобритания.\n 1949 г. – С обявяването на Основния закон на Федерална република Германия е създадена Западна Германия.\n 1969 г. – Британската група The Who издава първата в света рок опера – Tommy.\n 1977 г. – При два терористични акта в Холандия похитители вземат над 100 заложници в начално училище и отвличат влак с около 80 пътници.\n 1988 г. – Състои се прощалният футболен мач на френския футболист Мишел Платини.\n 1988 г. – Състои се премиерата на българската комедия Ако можеш, забрави.\n 1994 г. – По време на ислямското богомолство Хадж в Мека, при изпълняване на опасния ритуал Прогонване на дявола с камъни паника става причина за загиването на 270 пилигрими.\n 1995 г. – Sun Microsystems представя езика за програмиране Java.\n 2002 г. – Започва Апостолическото поклонничество на папа Йоан Павел II в България.\n 2010 г. – Основан е Музеят на македонската борба в град Костур, Гърция.\n\nРодени \n\n 1052 г. – Филип I, крал на Франция († 1108 г.)\n 1707 г. – Карл Линей, шведски ботаник († 1778 г.)\n 1734 г. – Франц Месмер, австрийски лекар († 1815 г.)\n 1799 г. – Томас Худ, британски сатирик († 1845 г.)\n 1842 г. – Мария Конопницка, полска поетеса († 1910 г.)\n 1847 г. – Михаил Греков, български революционер († 1922 г.)\n 1848 г. – Константин Варламов, руски артист († 1915 г.)\n 1848 г. – Ото Лилиентал, германски изобретател († 1896 г.)\n 1854 г. – Иван Димитриев Гешов, български политик († 1934 г.)\n 1860 г. – Ярослав Вешин, български художник († 1915 г.)\n 1862 г. – Херман Обрист, швейцарски художник († 1927 г.)\n 1883 г. – Дъглас Феърбанкс, американски актьор († 1939 г.)\n 1891 г. – Пер Лагерквист, шведски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1951 г. (* 1974 г.)\n 1891 г. – Иля Рабинович, руски шахматист († 1942 г.)\n 1900 г. – Ханс Франк, немски политик († 1946 г.)\n 1903 г. – Олга Кирчева, българска актриса († 1978 г.)\n 1908 г. – Джон Бардийн, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1956 и 1972 г. († 1991 г.)\n 1911 г. – Паул Майер, германски духовник († 2010 г.)\n 1912 г. – Влади Симеонов, български диригент († 1990 г.)\n 1912 г. – Яна Язова, българска поетеса († 1974 г.)\n 1921 г. – Григорий Чухрай, руски режисьор († 2001 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джеймс Блиш, американски писател († 1975 г.)\n 1923 г. – Ула Якобсон, шведска актриса († 1982 г.)\n 1925 г. – Джошуа Лидърбърг, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. († 2008 г.)\n 1926 г. – Николай Антонов, български писател († ? г.)\n 1928 г. – Мила Павлова, българска актриса († 1963 г.)\n 1932 г. – Емилия Радева, българска актриса\n 1941 г. – Кръстю Пастухов, български журналист († 2017 г.)\n 1941 г. – Мариана Аламанчева, българска актриса († 2018 г.)\n 1944 г. – Мартин Полак, немски писател\n 1949 г. – Алан Гарсия, перуански политик († 2019 г.)\n 1951 г. – Анатоли Карпов, руски шахматист\n 1954 г. – Бойко Станкушев, български журналист\n 1960 г. – Асен Златев, български щангист\n 1960 г. – Стилиян Йотов, български философ\n 1963 г. – Укио Катаяма, японски пилот от Ф1\n 1967 г. – Фил Селуей, британски барабанист\n 1972 г. – Бурак Хакъ, турски актьор\n 1972 г. – Рубенс Барикело, бразилски пилот от Формула 1\n 1974 г. – Джуъл Килчър, американска певица\n 1977 г. – Елисавета Белобрадова, българска юристка и политик\n 1986 г. – Йоанна Драгнева, българска поп певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 1498 г. – Джироламо Савонарола, италиански свещеник (* 1452 г.)\n 1524 г. – Исмаил I, шах на Персия (* 1487 г.)\n 1701 г. – Уилям Кид, известен шотландски капер (* 1645 г.)\n 1857 г. – Огюстен Луи Коши, френски математик (* 1789 г.)\n 1871 г. – Ярослав Домбровски, полски революционер (* 1836 г.)\n 1871 г. – Ернест Хофман, руски геолог (* 1801 г.)\n 1883 г. – Циприан Норвид, полски поет (* 1821 г.)\n 1886 г. – Леополд фон Ранке, германски историк (* 1795 г.)\n 1895 г. – Йоханес Дайкер, германски художник (* 1822 г.)\n 1906 г. – Хенрик Ибсен, норвежки драматург (* 1828 г.)\n 1937 г. – Джон Рокфелер, американски мултимилионер (* 1839 г.)\n 1942 г. – Чарлз Робърт Ашби, английски архитект, дизайнер и предприемач (* 1863)\n 1943 г. – Христо Кърпачев, български поет, публицист и партизанин (* 1911 г.)\n 1943 г. – Емануил Попдимитров, български поет и писател (* 1885 г.)\n 1944 г. – Дичо Петров, български офицер (* 1919 г.)\n 1945 г. – Хайнрих Химлер, началник на СС и германската полиция (* 1900 г.)\n 1947 г. – Шарл-Фердинан Рамю, швейцарски писател (* 1878 г.)\n 1986 г. – Стърлинг Хейдън, американски актьор (* 1916 г.)\n 1999 г. – Оуен Харт, канадски кечист (* 1965 г.)\n 2001 г. – Борис Гюдеров, български волейболист (* 1927 г.)\n 2009 г. – Но Му-хен, президент на Република Корея (* 1946 г.)\n 2012 г. – Валентин Церовски, български политик (* 1956 г.)\n 2013 г. – Димитър Овчаров, български археолог и изкуствовед (* 1931 г.)\n 2017 г. – Константин Маркианополски, висш български православен духовник (епископ) (* 1941 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на кръводарителя\n Световен ден за защита на морските костенурки\n Празник на Националната разузнавателна служба (от 2006 г.)\n България – Празник на селата Мокреш и Долна Вереница\n Азербайджан – Ден на Министерството на околната среда и природните ресурси\n Южна Каролина, САЩ – Ден на държавността\n Ямайка – Ден на труда\n\n523"
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        "text": "She was a member of the Women's Royal Air Force.\nThat is a very nice and touching act of remembrance.\nTo help commererate the Armistice Sunday 11th, The First City Bus Co. which operates around the Bristol / Bath and surrounding areas it to offer Free Travel to anyone wearing a Poppy. This will apply all day Sunday to allow folks to attend Memorial Services etc. and then return home under no pressure.\nWhat a good idea it would be nice if they did this around the Leeds area but i will not hold my breath.\nSocial media posts have been appearing online claiming that First Bus will be offering free travel to anyone wearing a poppy on armistice day, however the firm has said that this won't be the case in West Yorkshire. The bus company WILL be offering free bus travel to all members of the armed forces, veterans and cadets on Sunday November 11.\nMembers of the armed forces who are in uniform, or able to show an identification card, can claim free travel on any First West Yorkshire service for free, enabling them to easily travel to local Remembrance Day events. The offer is also open to members of the cadet forces in uniform and veterans who display valid identification, such as the MOD issued Veteran's Badge. The bus operator said that supporting Remembrance Sunday is of huge importance to the local bus operator as a significant number of its staff, including drivers, are ex-members of the armed forces.\nWill Pearson, head of operations at First West Yorkshire, said: “Remembrance Day is an incredibly important occasion for many people to show their support, or remember family members, friends and others who have been lost in military service. We support the Royal British Legion every year, as a significant number of our team come from a military background. “There will be many events and services taking place locally where people, communities and organisations around the area can visit to show their respect. As a supporter of our communities, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to attend local events on this important day.” The free travel offer has been running for a number of years and the Royal British Legion has thanked First Bus for their ongoing support.\nThere is so much to read o n this so i would say Please have a look although it makes sad reading.\nThis was also covered in the Daily Telegraph with photos of the three brothers killed in action.\nI expect Lupton Avenue in Harehills was named after their father."
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        "text": "You are here: CollectionsOnline / Designs for chimneypieces for the dining room and parlour, 1776, unexecuted and executed with alterations (2)\nThe drawings from the office of Sir...\nEnglish Baroque Drawings:...\nRobert and James Adam travel drawings\nRobert and James Adam office drawings\nMonuments and mausolea\nProjects known only by patron\nAberdeen Record House, Aberdeen:...\nThe Admiralty Screen, Whitehall,...\nAppleby, Cumbria: unexecuted designs...\nBath Prison, Grove Street, Bath,...\nBury St Edmunds market hall and...\nCromarty Parish Church, Ross and...\nDublin, unexecuted design for a...\nEdinburgh Riding House, Nicolson...\nFort George, Inverness: executed and...\nHertford courts of justice and corn...\nHigh Wycombe Shambles and Butter...\nKing's Bench Prison, Bench Walk (now...\nNew Town, Bath, Somerset: unexecuted...\nPulteney Bridge, Bath, Somerset:...\nRegister House, Princes Street,...\nRichmond Park observatory: unexecuted...\nRoyal College of Physicians,...\nRoyal Hospital, Chelsea, London:...\nDesigns for chimneypieces for the...\nUpper Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street,...\nAppendix 1: Unabridged bibliography\nAppendix 2: Adam period watercolour...\nOther architects, for example, Sir...\nRoyal Hospital, Chelsea, London: designs for chimneypieces for the Governor's house, for the Board of Commissioners, 1776 (2)\nDesigns for chimneypieces for the dining room and parlour, 1776, unexecuted and executed with alterations (2)\nThe dining room in the Governor's house does contain an Adam- style chimneypiece, but not to this design.\nAdam's chimneypiece for the parlour - or state room - in the Governor's house survives in situ. 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        "text": "Why we are fasting…\nPosted on February 8, 2018 March 26, 2018 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers\nExactly one month from today on March 8th, International Women’s Day, CIW members will be standing in the streets of New York to hold a press conference ahead of next month’s Freedom Fast and Time’s Up Wendy’s March. To celebrate a day where women around the world stand up to protect their rights, farmworker women from Immokalee will announce why they are planning to give up a week’s worth of work — and five days of food — to advance their struggle to end sexual violence in the fields.\nToday, we bring you a preview of their message. (And, if you have not done so yet, make sure to register for the action and check out all the details on the fast itself over at the Freedom Fast website!)\n#TIMESUPWENDYS: JOIN THE FAIR FOOD PROGRAM!\nInspired by the unprecedented power of the #MeToo movement, women across the country are searching for long-term, proven solutions to sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. An answer to this national scourge has emerged from one of the most unlikely corners of society: the farmworker community of Immokalee, Florida.\nFor generations, farmworker women have endured some of the most hostile working conditions this country has to offer. Farmworker women have referred to the constant barrage of catcalls, groping, and sexual assault as “our daily bread” in the fields, and in one study, four out of every five farmworker women reported experiencing sexual harassment or violence at work.\nBut in 2011, after nearly two decades of hard-fought organizing with consumers across the country, farmworker women and men with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) launched the Fair Food Program (FFP) and, within a few short years, put an end to sexual assault and other human rights violations in the $650 million Florida tomato industry.\nWhen asked by CNN to describe the change, one worker said simply, “Our dignity has been restored by this program.” By harnessing public awareness and the purchasing power of more than a dozen of the world’s largest retail food companies, the FFP has radically transformed working conditions for tens of thousands of farmworkers and has been recognized for its unique success by human rights observers from the White House to the United Nations. Today, the FFP extends to seven states and three crops, and all the major fast-food companies – McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Taco Bell, KFC, and Chipotle – are on board.\nAll except Wendy’s.\nFor years now, Wendy’s has turned a deaf ear to workers’ and consumers’ calls to join the Fair Food Program. Worse yet, in response to pressure to join the FFP, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers altogether and shifted its purchases instead to Mexico, where sexual harassment and assault in the fields are endemic and farmworker women are intimidated into silence by a culture of fear, violence, and corruption. Rather than do its part to support the leading program for ending sexual violence in corporate supply chains, Wendy’s has chosen to partner with an industry where – despite widespread abuse — its brand will be protected because women there are afraid to complain and are forced into silence.\nToday we are breaking that silence.\nFrom March 11-15, farmworkers from Immokalee, together with their consumer allies, are launching the five-day Freedom Fast outside the Manhattan hedge fund offices of Nelson Peltz, Wendy’s largest shareholder and Chair of its Board of Directors. The Fast will demand that Wendy’s join the rest of the fast-food industry in supporting the Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking worker protections, and will protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry where Wendy’s currently buys its tomatoes. The Freedom Fast will then culminate with a massive march on March 15 in the heart of Manhattan.\nThe time is up for corporate leaders, like Mr. Peltz, who have the power to end sexual violence against women in their supply chains and yet, do nothing. For market giants like Wendy’s, refusing to take meaningful action to end sexual violence in the supply chain — when a proven solution is right at their fingertips — is no longer an option.\nThe Atlantic: The Fair Food Program “represents hope for workers in an industry where, for generations, there’s been very little…”\nBREAKING: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach to march alongside CIW at Time’s Up Wendy’s March!"
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        "text": "Q: iPhone stuck at \"No SIM card installed\" I \"retired\" my old iPhone 3GS when I got my shiny new iPhone 4 and I was happily using it as an iPod touch with camera and compass.\nHowever, I made the mistake of throwing away the SIM inside the 3GS, because I wanted to permanently disable any phone functions, and make sure I didn't have to turn on airplane mode or anything silly like that.\nWell, that seemingly worked fine until iTunes upgraded the 3GS to iOS 4.0.2. Now the sim-less iPhone 3GS is stuck at ...\n\nNo SIM card installed\n  Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate iPhone\n\n\nWhat sucks is that I can't figure out any way to get around this!\nApparently, based on the (excellent) How to Activate a Used iPhone the only way around it is to either\n\n\n*\n\n*Jailbreak\n\n*Get an AT&T sim, somehow\n\n\nI tried to Jailbreak but I was nowhere near smart enough to navigate the maze of twisty passages involved in jailbreaking this 3gs. iBoot too new? ipsw not recognized? ... what?\nI feel like an idiot now because apparently an AT&T sim is REQUIRED to make an iPhone work even if you have no intention of ever using it as a phone? Is that true? How can you get around this \"No SIM card\" issue?\n\nA: I bought an old, used AT&T sim card from eBay for $4, inserted it into the phone, and that worked fine -- now the phone can be upgraded to new iOS revision, even though I never plan to use it as a phone ever again.\nAs I learned the hard way: do not remove and throw away the AT&T sims from your old iPhones, no matter what!\n\nA: Try this:\n\nInstead of telling everyone who hasn’t got the original sim that activation of the iphone is easy using a phonebook sim card, i made this video to show you all how it works , Use any phonebook sim card, they are there in Radio Shack, mobile phone shops or any mobile tech stores. Any phone book simcard will do the trick, no need for programmable sims, all those phonebook sims used to save your contacts and transfer them have a universal ICCIDs preprogrammed so they all work.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA1bb9C7vNU\n(Note: Though the page has info about jailbreaking, this maneuver does not require you to j/b your phone.)\n\nA: This is, unfortunately, expected behavior. Whenever you activate an iPhone (which you do as part of an OS install) it talks to Apple's servers and does various things like exchange crypto certs for APNS, etc. It also checks the IMEI of the phone to see what carrier Apple sold it to, and validates the SIM is valid for that carrier (if you buy an unlocked iPhone in a country where you can buy either locked or unlocked phones the vendor will actually copy down the IMEI number of a normal locked phone, and then enter in their system where it gets pushed to Apple's servers as an unlocked phone, there is no physical or configuration difference on the phones).\nThe easiest way to get it activated is (as you surmised) to use an AT&T SIM. You mentioned you have an iPhone 4, you can activate it with that SIM. There are plenty of companies that sell microSIM to SIM adapters, but if you want to do it right now you can just place the micro SIM directly in the iPhones 3GS's SIM try with tape. I would not recommend doing this on a device you intend to keep the SIM in for a an extended period because the SIM is likely to come loose (and jam the SIM tray), but if you are just inserting it, activating it, and removing it you should be fine so long as you are pretty careful with how you apply the tape and not shaking the phone too much.\n\n\nA: I suspect you could ask AT&T for a duplicate of your old SIM card, the one you had thrown away.\n"
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        "text": "Q: How do I select a file or directory inside a package? When an application pops up the Mac OS X standard file or directory chooser dialog it won't allow me to open packages so that I can select something within.  Is there a way to do this without creating a symbolic link to the target?\nFor a specific example: I've installed Komodo Edit & the Python SDK for Google App Engine.  In Komodo's Language > Python preferences I can add Python import directories to help with syntax checking or debugging.  The GAE libraries are in /Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine but I can't navigate there using the directory chooser.\n(I'm not asking how to browse the contents of a package from the Finder or command line.)\n\nA: From the dialog, use Command+Shift+G. This will open a small 'Go to folder' dialog where you can type (or paste) the path that you want including paths within packages.\n\nA: You can use the Finder to navigate inside the bundle, and then drag and drop the file to the 'Open file' dialog/sheet.\nSee a more visual explanation here.\n"
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        "text": "Chief Surveyor & Head of Public Lands, Buildings\nAugust 27, 2018 | 8 Comments\nAs Chief Surveyor and Head of Public Lands and Buildings, Chris Farrow has responsibility for managing the Government estate of over 2,000 acres and some 751 buildings, and this task incorporates a number of related genres including building surveying, facilities management, geomatics, project management, valuation, quantity surveying and more.\nMr Farrow’s occupations in one of the many in public service, which encompass a wide range of varied fields and some of these posts are deemed hard to fill, meaning there’s a known limited talent pool with expertise in the specific area available on-Island and in some cases there could exist a global shortage of trained resources.\nThe Minister for the Cabinet Office with responsibility for Government Reform, Lovitta Foggo, has stressed the importance of showcasing the Bermuda Government as an employer of choice for Bermudians.\nMinister Foggo said, “One of the goals of this Government is to change the perception of careers in the Public Service. We want to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a quality talent pool that is committed to the highest standards of excellence.”\nKeen to share his public service career journey in the hopes of inspiring our young people, is Mr. Chris Farrow, who is the Chief Surveyor and Director of Public Lands and Buildings for the Ministry of Public Works.\nMr. Farrow, entered Government through the Public Service Bursary Awards Scheme, a programme that has supported many young Bermudians’ educational pursuits with a view of preparing them to fill essential technical and professional posts within the public service.\n“People often associate surveying with land surveying, but that’s only one of the many disciplines of surveying,” Mr. Farrow notes. “Surveying covers all aspects of real estate and individuals can specialize in a number of fields including building surveying, commercial property, facilities management, geomatics, project management, residential property, valuation, quantity surveying and construction to name a few.\n“As Chief Surveyor and head of Public Lands and Buildings, I have responsibility for managing the Government estate of over 2,000 acres and some 751 buildings. I work with a team of 155 staff and an annual operational budget of $20 million. The Government real estate uses are diverse and range from arable lands to a zoo with all manner of land and building uses in between.\n“We provide a critical support role to Ministries and Departments to ensure that their real estate needs are met in order for them to provide services to the public. Without the real estate there are no public services.”\nMr. Farrow casts his mind back more than three decades to chronicle his public service career, noting that he began his studies to become a Chartered Surveyor in Sheffield, England.\n“It was over 35-years ago when I received my Bursary Award,” Mr. Farrow recalls. “The support went well beyond financial, it also provided the guarantee of employment over the holidays and upon graduation. In addition, I had an employer that was fully vested in my career development.\n“I started as a student within the Ministry of Public Works, interning in the Estates Section, working under the then Chief Surveyor, Mr. Frank Lund. Over the course of my career, I was provided with mentorship and given very broad work experience including secondments to the Bermuda Housing Corporation and the Land Valuation Department.\n“After graduation, the Public Service Commission supported my pursuit of employment with the UK Civil Service in London to gain professional experience. I was fortunate to be accepted into their graduate programme, and spent four years in London working for the Inland Revenue Service in their valuation office.\n“I worked for a few years in the Greenwich office before receiving a promotion and being moved up to the City of London Office. It was a very rewarding experience and I achieved my professional designation of Chartered Surveyor whilst working there.”\nMr. Farrow returned to Bermuda in 1991 and joined the Land Valuation Department. By 1995 he had been promoted to Director, and in 2013 he was promoted to the Ministry of Public Works as Chief Surveyor.\nDuring that time he’s had opportunities in other Government Departments, including serving as the Acting Director of Planning, the Acting Director of the Information Technology Office and a number of Acting Permanent Secretary posts.\nMr. Farrow said he believes in the importance of life-long learning and career development. He notes that job training opportunities and guidance should be a cornerstone of any organisation, saying, “The learning never stops. Not only does my professional qualification require continuing professional development, but the public service provides many opportunities for further study and development.\n“Even at this stage of my career I am still learning. The Government of Bermuda has and continues to provide excellent training and career opportunities for Bermudians.”\nMr. Farrow considers it his responsibility to support those young people who are currently navigating their career path. And he’s encouraging individuals who are looking for a unique and rewarding career opportunity to consider the public service.\nHe concluded, “The Government has stated its intention to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a quality talent pool that is committed to the highest standards of excellence. Every year the public service advertises for bursary applications and within the Department of Public Lands and Buildings are particularly keen to bring on board students who are interested in Estate Management and Building Surveying.\n“I look forward to offering my support to the next generation of public servants who I believe will be our future leaders in the Service. They are critical to our succession planning, because we’re not just providing an opportunity for employment, but one of professional development and a very challenging and rewarding career in the Public Service.”\nDiane Elliott: Working To Help Value Bermuda\nMontserrat Customs & Revenue Visit Bermuda\nRealtors Brokers Licensing Act Now In Effect\nLand Title Registration Office Closed From 12-3\n100 New Homes To Be Built In West End\nGovt Issue RFP For Co-Working Space Design\n#BermudaBusiness #BermudaGovernment #BermudaRealEstate\nCategory: All, Business, News\nshrew says:\nthe Minister should be telling young people to go into the PRIVATE sector as the employers of choice for Bermudians. WTH is wrong with her? adding more to the taxpayers’ expense is par for the course for the PLP. Bermuda, we are doomed. VOTE THEM OUT.\nObviously she means when a position is available. Not come a we will create a position. Her statement was to also highlight that there a many Bermudians employed by Government.\nIrritates me when people purposely and/or maliciously misrepresent someone else’s statements.(for any political view)\nBlack Soil says:\nSo does govt own Devonshire Dock (on North Shore Road) or don’t it???\ninna says:\nFinally someone not in the friends and family circle!!!\nTruth is killin’ me... says:\nYou got in at the right time then. A bit like the housing market.\nSkeptical says:\nIs this the department responsible for the Railway Trail bridge over Barker’s Hill? The planks of wood are steadily rotting and, as a frequent user, I would like someone to take a look to ensure it is still safe to use. I am not sure which Department to contact, if anyone will even answer the phone too.\nIS this the Department responsible for the old Railway Trail bridge over Barker’s Hill? The planks of wood are steadily rotting and being worn away. As a frequent user as I am sure a lot of people are, I would like to know if it is still safe to use.\nCandidate Interested says:\nI was an individual who wanted to become a surveyor. I was accepted into the program by the college of Estate Management. I started to attend the land valuation department in hoping I could shadow to learn more about the role of a surveyor. I did shadow someone a few times. I was told that I was only allowed to shadow an estate surveyor (He was lovely by the way) but only for a short time. As a stipulation for me doing the course, I had to be guaranteed an internship position with an public administration before I could continue the course. I was told my a Woman ( I will not share her name because she has a lot loose if I do), that there won’t be any internship available for me.By the way, this same woman spoke about how she has had speeches about being a surveyor in Bermuda. She also express to me that the government needed Bermudians to filled this role because many foreigners are the ones who are running this department. I was glad to be offered this idea until it came down to actually honoring their word of offering to train me.\nSo with that being said, please save the bull for someone who doesn’t know how this system operates.\n****And By the way, I was someone who was willing to volunteer my time to shadow and be and intern all before it was offered this summer to summer students.\n« Column: Cayman Conference, Population, Budget\nPhotos: Coppertone Volleyball Tournament »\nTeam Involved Wins 2019 BFF Men’s League\nHealth Council Launch ‘Fresh Food Fridays’"
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        "text": "The following websites or publications have mentioned FreeOrion: [http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/top-40-best-free-games-you-should-play-today-695473 TechRadar] list FreeOrion among its \"Top 100 best free games you should play today\". [http://einfogames.com/reviews/freeorion/ Einfo Games] reviews FreeOrion. [http://www.bronygamersplay.com/2013/12/themoomaster-freeorion-alpha-review.html Brony Gamers] reviews FreeOrion. [http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/15756/linux-rocks-ces-las-s20e02/ The Linux Action Show] highlights FreeOrion in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAHyaX0Lrw#t=9m17s Season 20 Episode 2]. [http://www.spacesector.com/ SpaceSector] has an [http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2009/07/freeorion-a-free-open-source-4x-space-strategy-game/ overview] and [http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2009/08/interview-with-freeorions-programming-lead-zach-laine/ interview] about FreeOrion. [http://fullcirclemagazine.org/ Full Circle Magazine] mentions FreeOrion in [http://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue14_en.pdf issue 14 (PDF)]. [http://en.softonic.com/ softronic] has a brief [http://freeorion.en.softonic.com/ review] of FreeOrion v0.3.9. [http://www.freewaregenius.com/ freewaregenius] mentions FreeOrion in a [http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/05/15/an-overview-of-free-turn-based-strategy-and-war-games/ list of TBS strategy and war games]. [http://www.osgui.com/ OSGUI] mentions Freeorion in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EI_etoMBL0 an review] of space games."
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        "text": "24 май е 144-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (145-и през високосна година). Остават 221 дни до края на годината.\n\nСпоред църковния календар денят на св. св. Кирил и Методий, създали първообраза на българската писменост – глаголицата, която е и славянска писменост, се чества на 11 май. Глаголицата претърпява своеобразни промени, докато се оформи в сегашния си вид – кирилица, на която се пише на български, руски, украински, македонски, сръбски и други езици. Кирилицата е официална азбука в Монголия и в някои републики от бившия Съветски съюз, а до 19 век се е ползвала и в Румъния.\n\nСвързването на датата 24 май с Ден на светите братя Кирил и Методий, на българската азбука, просвета и култура и на славянската книжовност произлиза от това, че след 1916 г., когато в България е установен Григорианския календар като държавен, граждански календар, денят на св. св. Кирил и Методий, отбелязван от Българската православна църква на датата 11 май по църковния литургичен календар, се пада на 24 май по държавния и така тази дата добива по-голяма гражданственост. След 1968 г. църквата чества св. св. Кирил и Методий на 11 май и така 24 май остава само Ден на българската просвета и култура и на славянската писменост.\n\nСъбития \n 1798 г. – Започва ирландско въстание за независимост от Англия.\n 1819 г. – Американският колесен параход „Савана“ се отправя на път за Европа и става първият параход, пресякъл Атлантическия океан.\n 1832 г. – Гърция е обявена за кралство.\n 1844 г. – От Вашингтон до Балтимор е изпратено първото телеграфно съобщение при използване на морзовата азбука със съдържание „Какво е сътворил Господ?“.\n 1851 г. – В Пловдив за първи път публично се честват св. св. Кирил и Методий; денят по-късно започва да празнува като Ден на българската просвета и култура и на славянската писменост.\n 1883 г. – В Ню Йорк е открит известният Бруклински мост – най-големият висящ мост към това време.\n 1899 г. – В Бостън е открит първият многоетажен покрит паркинг в САЩ.\n 1900 г. – Великобритания анексира Орания по време на Втората англо-бурска война.\n 1900 г. – В Русия е пуснат на вода крайцерът Аврора, станал по-късно символ на Октомврийската революция.\n 1914 г. – Официално е регистриран ПФК Левски (София).\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: Италия обявява война на Австро-Унгария.\n 1924 г. – Създадена е Българската федерация по лека атлетика.\n 1928 г. – Провежда се учредителна конференция на Работнически младежки съюз (РМС).\n 1940 г. – Американският авиоконструктор от украински произход Игор Сикорски осъществява първия успешен полет на еднороторен хеликоптер.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Доктор Йозеф Менгеле заема поста лекар на концлагера Освиенцим.\n 1949 г. – В Народна република България е учредена Димитровска награда, която се дава за „значителни постижения и заслуги“ в науката, изкуството и културата.\n 1956 г. – В Лугано (Швейцария) е проведен първият телевизионен песенен конкурс Песен на Евровизия.\n 1975 г. – Пред Народната библиотека в София е открит паметникът на св. св. Кирил и Методий.\n 1976 г. – Започват редовните полети с Конкорд между Лондон и Ню Йорк.\n 1981 г. – Екип от астрономи, включващ Харолд Ретсема, Уилям Хубарт, Лари Лебовски, Дейвид Толен и др., открива Протей – спътник на Нептун.\n 2000 г. – Израел прекратява 22-годишната си окупация на Южен Ливан.\n 2002 г. – Джордж Уокър Буш и Владимир Путин подписват в Москва договор за съкращаване на стратегическите оръжия, известен като „Московски договор“ или „SORT“.\n 2010 г. – Уикипедия на български език достига своите първи 100 000 статии.\n 2014 г. – провежда се финалът на Шампионската лига за сезон 2013/2014 в Лисабон между отборите на Реал Мадрид и Атлетико Мадрид.\n\nРодени \n\n 15 г. пр.н.е. – Германик Юлий Цезар, член на Юлиево-Клавдиевата династия на Римската империя († 19 г.)\n 1494 г. – Понтормо, италиански художник († 1557 г.)\n 1544 г. – Уилям Гилбърт, английски физик († 1603 г.)\n 1686 г. – Габриел Фаренхайт, германски физик († 1736 г.)\n 1743 г. – Жан-Пол Марат, френски революционер († 1793 г.)\n 1763 г. – Пиер Шомет, френски политик(† 1794 г.)\n 1803 г. – Александер фон Нордман, финландски зоолог († 1866 г.)\n 1803 г. – Шарл Люсиен Бонапарт, френски зоолог († 1857 г.)\n 1819 г. – Виктория, кралица на Обединеното кралство († 1901 г.)\n 1854 г. – Лудвиг Александър фон Батенберг, първи маркиз на Милфорд Хейвън († 1921 г.)\n 1861 г. – Алберт Питър Лоу, канадски геолог († 1942 г.)\n 1869 г. – Йордан Павлов, български политик († 1959 г.)\n 1876 г. – Сава Огнянов, български актьор († 1933 г.)\n 1880 г. – Пиетро Малети, италиански офицер († 1940 г.)\n 1885 г. – Методий Лолов, български журналист († 1959 г.)\n 1897 г. – Лазар Станев, български политически деец († 1938 г.)\n 1901 г. – Хосе Насаси, уругвайски футболист († 1968 г.)\n 1905 г. – Михаил Шолохов, руски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. († 1984 г.)\n 1911 г. – У Не Вин, политически деятел на Мианмар († 2002 г.)\n 1927 г. – Клод Аб, френски футболист († 2008 г.)\n 1931 г. – Майкъл Лонсдейл, френски актьор († 2020 г.)\n 1932 г. – Кирил Ракаров, български футболист († 2006 г.)\n 1932 г. – Кирил Серафимов, български физик († 1993 г.)\n 1934 г. – Кирил Господинов, български актьор († 2003 г.)\n 1940 г. – Йосиф Бродски, руски поет, Нобелов лауреат през 1987 г. († 1996 г.)\n 1940 г. – Кристоф Волф, германски музиколог\n 1940 г. – Христина Лютова, българска народна певица († 2020 г.)\n 1941 г. – Боб Дилън, американски музикант\n 1945 г. – Присила Пресли, американска актриса\n 1952 г. – Антон Сираков, български политик и адвокат\n 1953 г. – Алфред Молина, британски актьор\n 1954 г. – Райналд Гьоц, германски писател\n 1960 г. – Миглена Тачева, български политик\n 1962 г. – Никола Поповски, македонски политик\n 1963 г. – Иван Капели, италиански пилот от Формула 1\n 1963 г. – Майкъл Шейбон, американски писател\n 1966 г. – Ерик Кантона, френски футболист и актьор\n 1972 г. – Лор Сенклер, френска порноактриса\n 1973 г. – Руслана Лижичко, украинска певица\n 1973 г. – Кирил Вълчев, български юрист и журналист\n 1987 г. – Тома Здравков, български певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 1153 г. – Дейвид I, крал на Шотландия (* 1084 г.)\n 1543 г. – Николай Коперник, полски астроном (* 1473 г.)\n 1725 г. – Джонатан Уайлд, английски престъпник (* 1683 г.)\n 1848 г. – Анете фон Дросте-Хюлзхоф, германска поетеса (* 1797 г.)\n 1883 г. – Абдел Кадир, алжирски политически лидер (* 1808 г.)\n 1919 г. – Амадо Нерво, мексикански поет (* 1870 г.)\n 1934 г. – Иван Караджов, български революционер († 1875 г.)\n 1936 г. – Клаудия Муцио, италианска певица (* 1889 г.)\n 1945 г. – Роберт Ритер фон Грайм, германски фелдмаршал (* 1892 г.)\n 1949 г. – Алексей Шчусев, руски архитект (* 1873 г.)\n 1959 г. – Джон Фостър Дълес, американски политик (* 1888 г.)\n 1974 г. – Дюк Елингтън, американски композитор (* 1899 г.)\n 1977 г. – Мара Цибулка, българска певица (* 1891 г.)\n 1988 г. – Алексей Лосев, (* 1893 г.)\n 1988 г. – Серафим Северняк, български писател (* 1930 г.)\n 1991 г. – Тодор Шошев, български общественик (* 1918 г.)\n 2005 г. – Карл Амери, германски писател (* 1922 г.)\n 2007 г. – Волфганг Бехлер, германски поет (* 1925 г.)\n 2010 г. – Пол Грей, басист на американската неометъл група Слипнот (* 1972 г.)\n\nПразници \n Европейски ден на парковете\n Бермудски острови – Ден на националните герои (първоначално е честван като Ден на кралица Виктория, национален празник)\n Бразилия – Национален празник на кафето\n България – Ден на светите братя Кирил и Методий, на българската азбука, просвета и култура и на славянската книжовност\n България – Празник на народните читалища (от 1990 г.)\n България – Ден на българската журналистика (от 1990 г.)\n България – Празник на Тракийския университет (от 1995 г.)\n България – Празник на Балчик, Благоевград, Велики Преслав, Девня, Долни Чифлик, Кубрат, Тополовград, Чепеларе, Маджарово, Сливница и на селата, Нова Черна , Александрово, Аспарухово, Винище, Горна Ковачица, Долна Рикса, Долно Линево, Дондуково, Еловица, Септемврийци, Нова Шипка, Бабук, Сеноклас\n Еритрея – Ден на независимостта (от Етиопия, 1993 г., национален празник)\n Русия – Ден на славянската писменост и култура\n\n524"
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        "text": "His Kingdom and His Righteousness | GetAlongWithGod.comGetAlongWithGod | A blog about discovering a God worth knowing.\nAll our supply, which sustains our life, is given by seeking HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness. Everything we need to live this life is supplied through this pursuit. ALL these things are ALL the things needed to maintain our lives. This is not everything I WANT but certainly everything I need! And for those of us who have occasionally seen God as a miserly withholder, our need is not just the minimal requirements to scrape by in life. Our Father is our abundant supplier, a Supplier beyond ALL that we can ask or think. For the man or woman who seeks Jesus’ kingdom and righteousness, everything needed to live a kingdom lifestyle will be provided.\nIn a world that seeks personal fulfillment and instant gratification, this is harder to do than it would seem. To seek HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness is the denial of SELF. This seeking is done by being His disciple. And to be a disciple, the Amplified Bible says we must: disown self, to forget, to lose sight of self and our own interests, to refuse and give up completely our self.\nThe “seeking” the book of Matthew is speaking of here is not my kingdom and my righteousness but HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness. Many attempt a righteous path. I’ve even sought to BE righteous myself through right acts, but this inevitably ends in failure. I’ve witnessed many building their own kingdoms, just as I’ve sought to build mine, hoping for the God-housekeeping seal of approval. Yet all my righteous deeds and acts of kingdom building have been farces and fairytales. To seek HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness is to seek His very own LIFE. Amazing! In His Life is true Life, and in my self-pursuit I can’t find life at all.\nWorry can plague us, day in and day out. Our doubts can ride us, convincing us that we will not have what we need to live. And I believe this is not just material supply. It isn’t just clothing, shelter, and food, it’s the supply of everything needed for relationship with God – hunger for God, desire for holiness, and purity of thought. The promise of God in Matthew is that if we will but seek His kingdom and His righteousness, which is found in His Life, we will have everything for life and godliness. The key to this promise and all other promises is Christ, Himself.\nAHHH, such encouragement and promises for seeking HIM….thank you and may the LORD continue HIS instruction and wisdom from above through your postings!!!!"
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        "text": "There’s an example of all that is good buzzing at the end of our block. It’s a home being re-built. My friend Judith lost half her house from the wind. It was the only victim of Hurricane Irma in our neighborhood. Her oak tree, with hundreds of rings, gave in to one of the last gusts of the storm. It was a stately oak that had a checkup every year.\nI visited Judith two days after the storm. We perched in her living room among boxes and a dozen pieces of ceramics excavated from her yard. They sat like lost children on dusty tables throughout the room. Reflecting on the damage, we agreed that the assault was like a death in the family. Her home of 50 years was missing half its body. On the second floor, for all to see, was a dresser set against the single remaining wall.\nI wondered what it all meant. What was the theme of this wreck? Then I realized was is love expressed in the way people came together to help them.\nThe day after the storm neighbors and friends flocked to her house with food and muscle. When I visited Judith, we stood at her front door, surveying the debris and the action outside. The felled wide trunk of the oak was all across the yard. Men were chain sawing and hauling and racking. Out of the blue she said, “I’ve fallen in love with Billy.” It was the golden moment where she shared deep gratitude and affection straight from her heart. Judith’s words were a grace note I’ll never forget.\nLove this bog! Right on target!\nThank you so much Judith!"
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        "text": "Q: Should I use a network-attached Time Capsule or a USB external drive with my MacBook Air? I love Macbook Air, but disk space is a real issue. This is most obvious when using it as main machine - media from iTunes and iPhoto in particular ends up leaving you with very little working space. How do you approach this problem?\nHow workable is it to keep this data on a Time Capsule shared drive? I can imagine initial performance when moving large amounts of songs etc. is quite poor, but how is it after that? Is, say, adding a batch of photos or incremental backup/sync of an iPhone noticeable?\nA simple external drive attached via USB would seem the other obvious option. Or, perhaps the Air is simply never intended as a main machine - mobility is the key. In this case, do you temporarily dump media to it on-the-move and then move to your desktop when you get home?\n\nA: it generally depends on being constantly connected (be it ethernet, wifi or some sort of 3g dongle) or not.\nultramobile and having the data everywhere where you have an internet connection: I personally have tried to host my 80gb itunes collection on a jungledisk (powered by amazon s3) and I can only say it's cumbersome. e.g.: you download new podcasts and end up re-uploading them to your s3 storage.\nultramobile and all your data at home on your network (e.g. time capsule or some sort of network attached storage): also did this for a while, no hickups, works great via 802.11g although I'd recommend 802.11n if you're likely to watch HD videos straight from your NAS/Time capsule.\nultramobile and all your data always with you: that's the approach I'm currently using, I have a 500g usb2 drive I carry in my notebook bag containing my itunes library and assorted other data (iphoto library and what not) that doesn't fit on the internal drive. \nIt's my favorite solution as I have my data on me even if there is no internet connection available.\ncheers\nflorian\n\nA: Florian’s answer covers basically all the scenarios. You can, however, have a mix between option 2 and 3. \nSome programs (notably iPhoto and iTunes) allow you to select different libraries upon startup. \nIf you press Alt when starting, it will prompt for your library. You can then, have two libraries, one at “home” with all your stuff that you use when you are home and connected (to a big external drive for example), and other small library, locally stored on your Macbook Air. \nThis is not the best of the methods as it requires you to remember to switch libraries (tho nothing bad happens if you forget) and it also has the problem of “duplicating” certain data. I.e.: all the music you want to carry, you have to copy twice, one to your big library and other to the “mobile” library. \nRegarding Pictures, unless you always want to carry them all with you at all times, it’s best to use any online service to store them and keep only the “most important” in your iPhoto, or the ones you haven’t yet processed. \nFInally, as you have correctly stated, the Macbook Air can serve as a main computer, however, its connectivity and hardware limitations clearly indicate that despite the above, the machine is more aimed at portability than anything else. \nLast but not least, you can always upgrade the internal hard-drive of your Macbook Air, and although it could prove to be an expensive solution, SSD drivers higher than 256MB are already available and of course normal magnetic drives go way further than that (for a fraction of the price of an SSD). \n"
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        "text": "Researchers say climate change is already affecting Colorado farms and ranches – but not necessarily in the way people might expect.\nBecause the state is so dry, farmers here rely on irrigation to raise their crops. But they, and climate researchers, are less concerned about there being enough water than when that water is available. As Maeve Conran reports for our Connecting the Drops series, climate change means spring runoff is coming earlier, and that creates new challenges for farmers.\nMark Guttridge grows vegetables, herbs and flowers on Ollin Farms in Longmont in East Boulder County. He is transitioning from spring crops to vegetables that will ripen in late summer and early fall. Having water available later in the summer is crucial for Guttridge, but he knows from experience that that’s not guaranteed.\nGuttridge uses a combination of ditch and municipal water on his 10 acres. He has a safety net being hooked up to the municipal source…being able to turn on the faucet to irrigate his crops. But the part of the farm that relies on water being available in the ditch …that’s more vulnerable. He needs that water to be available at the right time for his crops. But climate researchers like Jeff Lukas, Research Integration Specialist for Colorado and Wyoming with the Western Water Assessment, say that timing is changing.\nIn 2014 Lukas led the revision of the WWA’s 2008 Climate Change in Colorado report to the Colorado Water Conservation Board. He says there has been a trend toward earlier spring snowmelt and runoff over the past 30 years and those earlier shifts in the run off can be directly attributed to climate change.\nOllin farms in east Boulder County grows vegetables, herbs and flowers on 10 acres which it distributes through a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program and sells at its farm stand.\nTaryn Finnessey, the Climate Change Risk Management Specialist with the Colorado Water Conservation Board says the timing of water is crucial if you look at it through the prism of Colorado’s prior appropriations water rights which gives senior water rights holders the ability to take water first.\nBut Finnessey says there may be some water users who will benefit from this shift.\nThose senior water rights holders are often cities and towns who have ample storage to capture that early run off water. Kim Hutton, a water resources engineer with the City of Boulder says when snowpack starts to melt, the city starts filling its reservoirs.\nThat ability to store water that is coming earlier in the season is crucial says Dave Eckhardt. He’s the President of the Colorado Corn Growers Association and represents that group on the Colorado Agricultural Water Alliance. As a fourth generation corn grower in La Salle Colorado, he has seen first-hand the changes in water resources in the state.\nBut water storage itself is a complex issue. Some environmental groups have criticized plans for reservoir construction and expansion in the state citing its impact on ecosystems and river health. Climate and water researchers like Jeff Lukas say reservoirs in and off themselves are not a solution to climate change’s impact on water resources.\nIn other words, a reservoir is only useful if there’s water to fill it. Climate change models predict not just earlier runoff but drier and hotter conditions, leaving all water users scrambling for diminishing resources.\nKim Hutton is a water resources engineer with the City of Boulder. About 70% of the water that the city uses comes from surface waters falling as rain or snow in Middle Boulder Creek or North Boulder Creek, the remaining water comes from the Colorado River, Western Slope Water, which is also surface water, so 100% of the city’s water supply comes from precipitation falling as rain or snow. Hutton says that due to the city’s storage capacity, they might be on the winning end of the equation with earlier snow melt."
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        "text": "The Royal Canadian Air Force has announced that the theme of the 2019 CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team will be celebrating the history of the RCAF and highlighting Canada’s role in the NATO alliance. They also announced that the demonstration pilot for the 2019 airshow season will be Captain Brian “Humza” Kilroy from Alberta.\nEach year’s theme is reflected in a special paint job applied to the primary demonstration aircraft; for 2019, the 70th anniversary of NATO and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion were popular suggestions for the theme. In recent years, themes have honored the 60th anniversary of NORAD, 150 years of Canadian confederation, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and the Battle of Britain.\nThere have been indications that the 2019 demo paint scheme will be limited to the aircraft’s tail fins. Recent designs have covered the entire aircraft but tail-only designs have been done before as well. Regardless of the limitations, we look forward to seeing what the talented paint techs can come up with!\nUnfortunately, according to the schedule they released at ICAS the CF-18 team will not be performing anywhere outside of Canada in 2019. In fact, their schedule has been reduced by 40% compared to last year. A later report by the Toronto Star indicates that the reduced schedule is a conscious decision in light of significant personnel shortages in the RCAF, although the wisdom of reducing recruitment efforts during a shortage is questionable. The aircraft are also in poor shape; the team had many high-profile struggles to keep the primary aircraft flying during the 2018 show season and had to skip at least one entire weekend due to mechanical troubles. Less time on the road should reduce wear and tear on both man and machine.\nMake sure you check the CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team’s 2019 schedule to see if they’ll be anywhere near you!\nHere is the full press release from the RCAF:\nThe Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Captain Brian Kilroy as the pilot for the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team.\nCaptain Kilroy will wow audiences around Canada during the 2019 air show season, flying his specially-painted CF-18 Hornet commemorating the RCAF’s pathway to the stars and the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).\n“The 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team theme is an opportunity for the Royal Canadian Air Force to reflect on the innovations and people that have contributed to our success while challenging ourselves and the next generation to help us shape the future of our organization for the better,” said Major-General Christian Drouin, Commander of 1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD Region. “I am very proud of what the RCAF has accomplished in the last 95 years and I can’t wait to see where the next few decades take us.”\nCaptain Brian Kilroy\nBorn in Grande Prairie, Alberta Captain Kilroy spent his childhood in Stony Plain, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in chemical engineering.\nThe son of an RCMP officer, he was strongly supported to pursue his aviation dreams by his mother, who also shared his love for aviation. He attended numerous airshows throughout his childhood where he even had the chance to see the CF-18 Demonstration Team perform, which further inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a fighter pilot.\nCaptain Kilroy was a member the Royal Canadian Air Cadets in Stony Plain before deciding to pursue his dream of flying and joining the RCAF in 2006. He was later given the opportunity to attend the Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program in Witchita Falls, Texas, where he went on to fulfill his lifelong dream of receiving his RCAF pilot’s wings.\nFollowing flight training, he was posted to 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta, as an operational fighter pilot in 2013. Captain Kilroy has actively served throughout Canada on the Hornet in support of NORAD and has deployed numerous times on international NATO and Canadian Armed Forces missions.\nToday, Captain Kilroy is a four-ship lead and qualified Electronic Warfare Instructor with 410 Tactical Fighter (Operational Training) Squadron, using his combat and operational experience to train the next generation of CF-18 pilots.\n“Being chosen to represent the Royal Canadian Air Force as the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Pilot is a true honour and I can’t wait to meet the rest of my team and start the season,” said Captain Kilroy. “To me this year’s theme really is a call to action and an amazing opportunity to inspire the next generation. We’re challenging ourselves and Canadians to keep pushing the limits of what is possible and to keep innovating. I hope that this summer our team will inspire Canadians to think and dream big while also demonstrating the impressive capabilities of their Air Force.”\nBased on the RCAF’s motto Sic Itur Ad Astra (Latin for “such is the pathway to the stars”), the 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team will celebrate the history of the RCAF, recognize the innovative and driven Canadians who have led the charge for change and stand ready to inspire a new generation to take up the flame of innovation and help shape the RCAF’s pathway to the stars.\nThe 2019 season also provides an opportunity to highlight the RCAF’s operational role within NATO, a cornerstone of Canada’s international security policy, as it celebrates its 70th anniversary.\nThe 2019 schedule will see the team visit 15 different show sites across Canada, as well as take part in the Parliament Hill flypast in Ottawa on Canada Day. The 2019 CF-18 Demonstration Team is looking forward to thrilling audiences across Canada this summer and demonstrating the RCAF’s capabilities to Canadians.\nYes, add me to the AirshowStuff mailing list."
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        "text": "Q: Problem with \"Always Open With\" in OS X I want know how can I apply a software to open all my same document, for example I want to open all my PDF document with Skim but when I right click on it> open with > other and choose my desired application and check the \"Always Open With\" it just do for that specific file.(mean always open A.pdf with skim if I want to open B.pdf still open with \"preview\").\nHow can I force OS X to open all pdf type with Skim.\n\n\nA: From the Finder, select a PDF file, open the Info panel (File ➔ Get Info or ⌘I), select your preferred application and then click Change All…\n\n\nA: If you want to mess with all filetypes and \"who opens what\", there is a freeware System Preference Pane called RCDefaultApp that works in Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger and Panther.\nYou can change pretty much any type of resource, for example you can tell that “Acorn” opens png by default or that the default app for the extension “jpg” should be Preview.app, etc.\nIt also handles MIME types, URLs, and Media. \n\nA: I had this problem today as well (Mavericks) but the solutions here didn't work. This is due to a corrupt services cache. I ran the following command in terminal and things started working again\n/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user\n\nSo if anyone the answers don't work for you, run this command and then it should be fine after that\n\nA: Another option is to right click the file in Finder and then change \"Open With\" to \"Always Open With\" by holding down the option (⌥) key.\n"
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        "text": "Amazon announced to debut the Amazon 4-star in New York, Soho neighborhood Spring Street between Crosby and Lafayette on 27 September 2018. The store carries the 4-star and above rated products from around New York.[64] The amazon website searches for the most rated, highly demanded, frequently bought and most wished for products which are then sold in the new amazon store under separate categories. Along with the paper price tags, the online-review cards will also be available for the customers to read before buying the product.[65][66]\nVince Offer is a famous director, comedian, and commercial pitchman who made his name promoting the ShamWow. Using his natural charisma and his ability to add double entendres to his pitches, Vince turned the commercial into a major career move. The ShamWow itself is one of the most successful cleaning products on the market today, and Vince himself has gone on to pitch several other As Seen on TV products.\nAudible.com is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information and educational programming on the Internet. Audible sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. Through its production arm, Audible Studios, Audible has also become the world's largest producer of downloadable audiobooks. On January 31, 2008, Amazon announced it would buy Audible for about $300 million. The deal closed in March 2008 and Audible became a subsidiary of Amazon.[90]\nAssociates can access the Amazon catalog directly on their websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service. A new affiliate product, aStore, allows Associates to embed a subset of Amazon products within another website, or linked to another website. In June 2010, Amazon Seller Product Suggestions was launched (rumored to be internally called \"Project Genesis\") to provide more transparency to sellers by recommending specific products to third-party sellers to sell on Amazon. Products suggested are based on customers' browsing history.[133]\nUse apps to check prices in real-time. “The app ShopSavvy is really useful when you’re out shopping in stores because you can scan the barcode on items and see if there is a better deal elsewhere,” says Palmer of Nerdwallet. Woroch is also a fan of ShopSavvy, as well as Flipp, which provides circulars all in one place so you can quickly compare to plan your shopping trip strategically.\nSave money without compromising quality when you shop Amazon Renewed! Products on Amazon Renewed are tested and certified by qualified suppliers to work and look like new and come with a minimum 90-day supplier warranty. Get great deals, like up to 33% off smartphones, computers, laptops, tablets, home and kitchen appliances, game consoles, office products, and more.\nSummer break may be over, but you can still sign up for Amazon Prime Student! When you start an Amazon Prime subscription for Students, you'll get a 6-month free trial and then 50% off your Amazon Prime membership (just $6.49/mo!). There are a lot of other perks of having Prime Student, too: watch Amazon Prime streaming exclusives like \"Alpha House,\" and other TV & movies, get free 2-day shipping on textbooks, and more. Plus, get exclusive coupons for Prime members only.\nAmazon, with its unfettered access to troves of valuable consumer and seller data, came upon a rather interesting business model around 2009, when it launched a private label division under the name AmazonBasics. It started first with the items the company noticed people most often purchased without thinking too hard about the brand name, like batteries and HDMI cables. But as The New York Times reported this past summer, this proved to be a way to fast track a fledgling product category into a massive money-making top seller — AmazonBasics’ AA batteries now outsell Duracell and Energizer on Amazon.com after just a few years.\nAfter the introduction of the September 5, 2018 'Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act', Amazon announced to its workers on October 2, 2018, that the minimum wage paid to salaried workers be increased to $15 per hour.[153] The wage increase applies to about 350,000 workers. It does not apply to the majority of Amazon's employees who are contract workers. Furthermore, Amazon has also removed some grants and stock options.\nI do not like the security of this apps. By default any one in my home can just open it up and start buying things on my account. I would like it to just add things to my cart on the TV and them buy on \"My\" Computer or \"My\" phone. I know you can setup a PIN for \"videos, purchasing and certain types of content\".But, you then need to enter the PIN for $0 videos. Also, anybody with access to the Fire TV remote can just install the apps and start buying things, no pin, no password, just because you have a Fire TV setup on your account. Amazon you need to have a separate PIN for Buying videos, parental control (ratings), Apps and Shopping. And by default the app should setup a PIN.\nAmazon beauty and health coupons can bring instant discounts and free shipping on your favorite skin care, hair care, makeup, and styling tools & accessories right to your front door! Follow this link to grab an Amazon coupon and get up to $20 off your necessities like toothpaste, facial treatments, body care, blow dryers, deodorant, razors, electric toothbrushes, lotion, makeup, and more!\nMake sure there are enough funds in the account. Amazon tends to cancel orders until all funds can be paid out of your account. Contact Amazon for full details of what you can do to help them create the order, so you can get it to ship. Amazon doesn't take any money from you until the item ships. For those that are not \"fulfillment by Amazon,\" you'll have to wait at least 30 minutes for the item to complete the transaction - These Marketplace sellers don't see any of your order until that window is clear.\nAWS started way back in 2000 as a way to help other retailers manage e-commerce operations, but it soon expanded into much more when key project members managed to convince Bezos that improving and evolving Amazon’s own infrastructure may hold the key to a new business model. In 2006, the product as we know it today launched into public availability and proved to be a pioneer for the entire cloud computing industry, offering cloud storage, hosting, and a suite of other tools for managing entire digital infrastructures in remote data centers. The division now pulls in roughly $6 billion every quarter and continues to grow at breakneck pace. It earned $17.5 billion in revenue in all of 2017 and regularly outperforms the company’s entire North American retail division in terms of profit.\nAmazon’s transformation into the world’s more pervasive retail operation wouldn’t be complete unless the company began a seemingly counterintuitive push from online to offline. Starting with its brick-and-mortar bookstores in 2015 — first in Seattle and now in Chicago and New York City — Amazon established its intent to compete on all fronts with its retail competitors.\nAs you come across items you want, click \"Add to Cart\" to save them. If you're undecided, add it anyway and you can always take it out of the cart later. When you're done, click the \"Cart\" button at the top of any Amazon page and select \"Proceed to Checkout.\" Your first purchase includes creating an account. When Amazon prompts you to log in, enter your email address, choose \"I Am a New Customer\" and fill in your personal info. You'll also need to enter a credit card to complete your purchase. If you haven't shopped online before, the prospect of giving out your card number might seem intimidating, but online stores use encryption to prevent hackers from stealing your information. To stay safe on Amazon, just as with any other site, never give out your password, keep up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer and watch your bill for unexpected charges. Some credit card companies also provide one-time use numbers for shopping online -- check your card company's website to see if it offers this feature.\nAmazon derives many of its sales (around 40% in 2008) from third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon.[129] Associates receive a commission for referring customers to Amazon by placing links to Amazon on their websites if the referral results in a sale. Worldwide, Amazon has \"over 900,000 members\" in its affiliate programs.[130] In the middle of 2014, the Amazon Affiliate Program is used by 1.2% of all websites and it is the second most popular advertising network after Google Ads.[131] It is frequently used by websites and non-profits to provide a way for supporters to earn them a commission.[132] Amazon reported over 1.3 million sellers sold products through Amazon's websites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.[citation needed]\nAmazon is known today not just as the everything store, but as the creator of Alexa, one of the most pervasive digital voice assistants on the market today. As an extension of Alexa, Amazon has become more than just a seller of other people’s products. It’s now a hardware maker (Fire Phone aside), having embarked on its boldest product play since the original Kindle when it decided to develop its own line of smart speakers to house its artificial intelligence software. Once again, the division responsible for this piece of hardware was Lab126, Amazon’s hardware arm that gave it the tools to dominate the e-reader market nearly a decade prior.\nSign up for Amazon Family and a Prime account to get special offers, coupons and discounts on family-oriented items. If you aren't a Prime member, you'll get a 5% discount on baby food and diaper subscriptions. Prime members get an additional 15% off with five or more active subscriptions. Get a 15% discount code and a free Welcome Box when you sign up for the Baby Registry.\nIn the course of a single generation, Amazon has grown from fledgling online bookseller to one of the most valuable and powerful corporations in modern history. The empire of CEO Jeff Bezos has grown so vast that critics, overseas regulators, and Washington politicians are all now wondering whether the company has become an unstoppable force, and what, if anything, is capable of reining in its reach. A recent spat with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) resulted in a minimum wage hike for tens of thousands of employees, but Amazon still operates largely without any meaningful checks on its power even as it aggressively expands into physical retail, the smart home, and warehouse and aviation robotics.\nAlex Ikonn and his wife Mimi launched Luxyhair.com after they realized how hard it was to find great hair extensions in the marketplace. This hair extensions ecommerce retailer has built their business on the fan audience they’ve attracted through YouTube tutorial videos. They have a serious following, which is exactly what has enabled them to grow their business to seven figures since 2010!"
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        "text": "One thing I can never understand is the law requiring the use of seat belts in cars. Of course, seat belts are a good thing and no one can argue with the logic that seat belts help save lives in accidents. However, I personally do not like using seat belts as I find them restrictive and I think this is one area where the choice of belting up or not should be left to the individual.\nIt is to the credit of the Traffic Police that they have adopted a soft approach and have enforced this law by reminding rather than fining offenders strictly but I feel this issue is a little like euthanasia. If I have a death wish, this is my choice and my problem right? After all, people who knowingly put themselves at risk of death such as smokers and alcoholics are not fined for their bad habits.\nThe real reason is probably the Gahmen needs to find more reasons to collect money from citizens. They have already managed to tax the smokers badly but this seatbelt thing is one area that they could get their hands on..\nYou have got to be kidding me. Are you running out of reasons or what?! Seems to me like you're clutching at straws and imaginary reasons to hate Singapore.\nI mean seriously! Why should we give way? We don't need traffic lights, it's a waste of taxpayers' money! Let's just use our INSTINCT, I say!\nYou are good,yo. Keep churning the other few hundred, retarded, oops, I mean, compelling reasons, yo. We are all looking forward to some lemons everyday!\nyou are so crazy. hope you die from a car accident while ya dont wear seatbelt. fyi, in alot of countries including australia, seatbelt rules are even more strict.\nCAN YOU JUST SHUT UP. PLEASE,if you have a death wish, just die yourself. Don't make others die. By enforcing this law, its for Singaporeans' own good. So if you dont wanna put on your seatbelt, just shut ur mouth up.\nI know this is an old post, but it did make me chuckle.\nHave you seen the damage a body can do when it is ejected from a car at speed?\nIt will happily go through several windscreens. I will let your imagination do the rest.\nAre you THAT bored? Obviously you won't make it 1001. Know why? You're a fool who gave himself the right to whine about SIngapore. You're a coward. A coward who hides behind a computer a screen."
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        "text": "25 май е 145-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (146-и през високосна година). Остават 220 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1572 г. – Григорий XIII е избран за папа.\n 1659 г. – Ричард Кромуел се отказва от титлата си Лорд-протектор (държавен глава) на Англия, което е начало на едногодишен републикански период в държавното управление.\n 1787 г. – Във Филаделфия започва работа Конституционен конвент, който има за задача да изработи Конституцията на САЩ.\n 1807 г. – В Константинопол избухва бунт на ямаците.\n 1848 г. – В САЩ е открит първият в света универсален магазин.\n 1865 г. – При експлозия на склад за боеприпаси в Алабама (САЩ) загиват 300 души.\n 1869 г. – Тържествено е открита сградата на Виенската държавна опера с „Дон Жуан“ на Моцарт.\n 1872 г. – Иларион Макариополски е избран за търновски митрополит.\n 1876 г. – В Тетевенския Балкан при засада е убит Георги Бенковски, водач на Априлското въстание.\n 1895 г. – Писателят Оскар Уайлд е осъден от лондонския съд на две години каторжен труд за „крайно непристойно поведение с други лица от мъжки пол“.\n 1905 г. – Основан е италианския АС Лукезе-Либертас.\n 1907 г. – Във Финландия за първи път в света жени вземат участие в заседание на парламента.\n 1908 г. – В България се провеждат избори за XIV обикновено народно събрание, спечелени от Демократическата партия.\n 1915 г. – Първата световна война: Приключва втората битка за Ипр, в която загиват 105 хил. души.\n 1919 г. – По време на XXII си конгрес БРСДП (т.с.) се преименува на БКП (т.с.) и приема курс към болшевизация.\n 1926 г. – Ръководителят на украинското правителство в изгнание на Украинската народна република – Симон Петлюра е застрелян демонстративно на улица в Париж.\n 1933 г. – Осъществен е първият полет на чехословашки изтребител биплан Avia B-534.\n 1946 г. – Йордания официално провъзгласява независимостта си от Великобритания и за крал е провъзгласен Абдула I.\n 1953 г. – От университета в Хюстън започва излъчване на първия телевизионен канал в САЩ.\n 1953 г. – САЩ извършва първия си и единствен опит с артилерийски атомен снаряд.\n 1961 г. – Програма Аполо: Президентът на САЩ Джон Кенеди излага пред Конгреса идеята за космическата програма Аполо – Човек на Луната.\n\n 1961 г. – Кралят на Йордания Хюсеин се жени за втори път – с англичанката Антоанет Арвил Гардинър, която приема исляма и името Муна ал-Хюсеин (майка на сегашния крал Абдула II).\n 1963 г. – В Адис Абеба (Етиопия) е учредена Организацията за африканско единство.\n 1963 г. – Открит е язовир „Тополница“.\n 1972 г. – В Москва е подписан Съветско-американски договор за ограничаване на системите за противоракетна отбрана (ПРО).\n 1977 г. – Състои се премиерата на филма Междузвездни войни (преименуван на Междузвездни войни: Епизод IV – Нова надежда през 1981 г.).\n 1978 г. – Започва строежът на Народния дворец на културата в София.\n 1979 г. – Самолет McDonnell Douglas на американските авиолинии катастрофира по време на излитане от летището в Чикаго, загиват 271 пътници на борда и двама души на земята.\n 1985 г. – Бангладеш попада под ударите на тропически циклон, който отнема живота на около 10 хил. души.\n 1986 г. – Близо 7 милиона души участват в инициативата Ръце около Америка за набиране на средства за гладните и бездомни хора в САЩ, образувайки линия през страната.\n 1994 г. – В Русия след 18-годишно изгнание се завръща писателят Александър Солженицин.\n 1995 г. – В Босна и Херцеговина армията на автономната Република Сръбска обстрелва струпали се младежи – загиват 72 и са ранени 200 души.\n 1997 г. – В Сиера Леоне с военен преврат е отстранен президентът Ахмад Тежан Кабах и властта е взета от майор Джони Пол Коромах.\n 2001 г. – Американците Шерман Бул (64 г.) и Ерик Вайхенмайър (32 г.) стават най-възрастният човек и първият сляп човек, покорили връх Еверест.\n 2002 г. – Самолет Боинг 747-200 на Китайските авиолинии се разбива в Тайванския пролив, загиват 225 души.\n 2005 г. – Българска народна банка пуска разменна монета от 50 стотинки.\n 2008 г. – Космическият апарат на НАСА „Феникс“ каца успешно близо до северния полюс на Марс.\n 2009 г. – Северна Корея провежда втори ядрен опит, с което създава напрежение в международната общност.\n 2013 г. – Открит е паметник на Вълкана Стоянова в родното ѝ село Люлин (област Ямбол).\n 2014 г. – Провеждат се 8-ите подред Избори за Европейски парламент (в 21 страни членки, останалите страни членки вече са гласували в предходните дни между 22 и 24 май). На 25 май България също участва в изборите за 3-ти подред път.\n\nРодени \n\n 1802 г. – Йохан Фридрих фон Брант, германски зоолог († 1879 г.)\n 1803 г. – Ралф Уолдо Емерсън, американски писател († 1882 г.)\n 1818 г. – Якоб Буркхарт, швейцарски историк († 1897 г.)\n 1845 г. – Марин Поплуканов, български революционер († 1913 г.)\n 1848 г. – Хелмут фон Молтке, германски военачалник († 1916 г.)\n 1852 г. – Данаил Юруков, български общественик († 1926 г.)\n 1852 г. – Филип Симидов, български книжовник († 1925 г.)\n 1856 г. – Луи Франше д'Еспере, френски маршал († 1942 г.)\n 1863 г. – Хайнрих Рикерт, германски философ († 1936 г.)\n 1865 г. – Джон Мот, американски общественик, Нобелов лауреат през 1946 г. († 1955 г.)\n 1865 г. – Питер Зееман, нидерландски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1902 г. († 1943 г.)\n 1869 г. – Георги Стаматов, български писател († 1942 г.)\n 1870 г. – Иван Коюмджиев, български революционер († 1923 г.)\n 1870 г. – Иван Куюмджиев, български революционер († 1927 г.)\n 1875 г. – Петър Дървингов, български офицер († 1958 г.)\n 1876 г. – Иван Кирилов, български писател († 1936 г.)\n 1884 г. – Жан-Ришар Блок, френски писател († 1947 г.)\n 1887 г. – Отец Пио, италиански свещеник († 1968 г.)\n 1895 г. – Игор Сикорски, руски авиоинженер († 1972 г.)\n 1899 г. – Панка Пелишек, българска пианистка с чешки произход († 1990 г.)\n 1901 г. – Васил Беязов, български архитект († 1980 г.)\n 1902 г. – Стале Попов, македонски писател († 1965 г.)\n 1918 г. – Гриша Островски, български режисьор († 2007 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джак Стайнбъргър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2020 г.)\n 1926 г. – Макс фон дер Грюн, германски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1927 г. – Робърт Лъдлъм, американски писател († 2001 г.)\n 1932 г. – Елка Константинова, български критик\n 1938 г. – Реймънд Карвър, американски писател († 1988 г.)\n 1939 г. – Адриана Андреева, българска актриса\n 1948 г. – Клаус Майне, германски музикант (Scorpions)\n 1952 г. – Петър Стоянов, 3-ти президент на България\n 1953 г. – Гаетано Ширеа, италиански футболист († 1989 г.)\n 1953 г. – Ева Енслър, американска драматуржка\n 1958 г. – Геновева Димитрова, български журналист\n 1963 г. – Игор Марковски, български актьор\n 1963 г. – Калин Сърменов, български актьор\n 1973 г. – Моли Симс, американска актриса\n 1976 г. – Сандра Насич, германска певица\n 1984 г. – Костас Мартакис, гръцки поп певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 230 г. – Урбан I, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 615 г. – Бонифаций IV, римски папа (* ок. 550)\n 735 г. – Беда Достопочтени, англосаксонски историк (* ок. 672)\n 992 г. – Мешко I, основател и първи владетел на Полша (* 935 г.)\n 1085 г. – Григорий VII, римски папа (* ок. 1020)\n 1261 г. – Александър IV, римски папа (* 1199 г.)\n 1559 г. – Анри II, крал на Навара (* 1503 г.)\n 1840 г. – Александър Римски-Корсаков, руски генерал (* 1753 г.)\n 1862 г. – Йохан Нестрой, австрийски драматург (* 1801 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Бенковски, български революционер и водач на Априлското въстание (* 1843 г.)\n 1900 г. – Константин Доганов, български политик (* 1841 г.)\n 1906 г. – Манол Иванов, български езиковед (* 1867 г.)\n 1907 г. – Петър Радев-Пашата, български революционер (* 1875 г.)\n 1924 г. – Любов Попова, руска художничка (* 1889 г.)\n 1926 г. – Симон Петлюра, президент на Украйна (* 1879 г.)\n 1928 г. – Търпо Поповски, български свещеник от Македония (* 1848 г.)\n 1934 г. – Анани Явашов, български учен – археолог и ботаник (* 1855 г.)\n 1934 г. – Густав Холст, английски композитор (* 1874 г.)\n 1936 г. – Марко Вачков, български общественик, основател на модерното пчеларство в България (* 1866 г.)\n 1945 г. – Демян Бедни, руски писател († 1883 г.)\n 1945 г. – Иван Кинкел, руски и български икономист (* 1883 г.)\n 1968 г. – Георг фон Кюхлер, германски фелдмаршал (* 1881 г.)\n 1969 г. – Райна Касабова, българска медицинска сестра (* 1897 г.)\n 1983 г. – Идрис, крал на Либия (* 1890 г.)\n 1996 г. – Димитър Йорданов, български футболист (* 1929 г.)\n 2001 г. – Алберто Корда, кубински фотограф (* 1928 г.)\n 2014 г. – Войчех Ярузелски, президент на Полша (* 1923 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на хавлията (от 2001 г.)\n Ден на безследно изчезналите деца (от 2003 г.)\n Аржентина – Ден на Майската революция (срещу испанската колонизация, 1810 г.) – национален празник\n Йордания – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1946 г., национален празник)\n Ливан – Ден на освобождението на Южен Ливан (от 2000 г.)\n Чад, Либерия, Мали, Мавритания, Намибия, Замбия и Зимбабве – Ден на свободата в Африка (от 1963 г.)\n\n525"
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        "text": "Since the early days of modern smartwatches, we’ve sought to test as many relevant models as we can and recommend the watches that do the best job of making a smartwatch convenient and useful. We test Wear OS watches by wearing them while they’re connected to Android phones. Whenever possible, we ask other people to try out our potential picks to get an idea of how others react to a watch’s size, style, interface, and other features.\nOn-Screen Workouts/ Connected GPS/ Bluetooth/ Smartphone Notifications/ 4 Day Battery Life/ Heart Rate Tracking/ 15 Exercise Modes/ SmartTrack/ All-Day Activity/ Female Health/ Sleep Tracking And Stages/ Cardio Fitness Level/ 3-Axis Accelerometer And Gyroscope/ Optical Heart Rate Monitor/ Color LCD Touchscreen Display/ Water Resistant To 50 Meters/ Grey And Silver Aluminum Finish\nBut your phone will play an important part if you do get a Fitbit or Garmin device with the aim of tracking your activity. It will be the place where your health data is synced to, you can tinker with your tracking settings and review your progress. There’s also a whole ecosystem of health apps that plug into tracking devices, combining them with exercise and diet advice - MyFitnessPal, Runtastic and Strava are three of the most popular ones worth checking out.\nOut of a vast field of similar watches, we picked the Q Explorist and Q Venture because of their middle-of-the-road prices, wide availability, and variety of styles. These two models are flagships for the Fossil Group’s collection of 14 style brands producing more than 300 planned smartwatches. This means that if you find a smartwatch from Diesel, Skagen, Tag Heuer, Kate Spade, Movado, or another Fossil-connected brand that fits your style better, you should feel free to buy it, because it will have roughly the same internal hardware as our picks.\nThe touchscreen, button, and dial (what Apple calls the “crown”) help you zoom in and out and move between apps fairly effortlessly. With this easy navigation it’s easy to forget we’re typing on a screen slightly smaller than an Oreo. In particular, we loved Apple’s app homepage, which displays all of the apps as icons in a honeycomb-like display. You can use the touchscreen to move around, and the dial to zoom in or pan out, to precisely tap on the one you want.\nOverall, the updated lower price makes the Huawei Watch 2 a much better prospect if you’re in the market for a smartwatch, especially if you’re an Android user. While Wear OS smartwatches will work with iPhones, the experience is more limited compared to pairing with Android. For this reason, if you’re an iPhone user for whom money is no problem, then we’d still recommend opting for an Apple Watch.\nDespite that, it's a very competent Android Wear 2 watch. What's more interesting, however, is the concentration on fitness.While it features all of the necessary sensors to track running, cycling and swimming, our initial testing has revealed the Huawei Watch isn't the stellar performer we hoped it would be. Which is a shame, because emphasising the fitness element was exactly the right thing for Huawei to do, and hopefully the company can improve its fitness tracking software updates.\nThat same attractive stainless steel design is here. The 240 x 240 pixel display at the heart of the body is by no means the brightest or most vibrant you'll find, but crucially delivers strong visibility in most workout conditions whether you're sweating it out indoors or outside. However, there is no touchscreen or touchpad here, you'll have to resort to pressing some buttons - that could be a deal-breaker for some, but we're sure it won't be a massive one for most.\nThe newest member of the TicWatch family from Mobvoi is the TicWatch Pro. The biggest feature about this smartwatch is that it actually has two displays. The first is a transparent and low-power FTSN LCD display, and that is placed on top of its OLED display. While the top FTSN display shows you basic info like the time, the date, your heart rate and step count, you can switch over to the OLED display, which shows off all of the features of Google’s Wear OS.\nGoogle confirmed to Tom's Guide that the company won't be releasing its own Wear OS smartwatch this year. The news comes after months of rumors that a Google-branded Pixel Watch running on Qualcomm's latest processor would be launched at Google's October hardware event. Instead, Google plans to focus on adding features to Wear OS on the software side and support the companies who are currently making Android smartwatches. Google's hardware event is Oct. 9."
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        "text": "The history of Puma shoes\nYou will never guess, but the story of the Puma shoe company is dramatic due to the World War, the Olympic glory and the brotherhood. The company began humbly. Rudolph and Adolf (Adi) Dassler, two brothers of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, grew up with a father in a shoe factory and a mother with a small wash shop. Rudolph left his little brother during the First World War. Finally, in 1924, he returned to Herzogenaurach, where he started his own shoe company with the Adi Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory. It was the first incarnation to become Puma's shoes. The brothers drove the factory out of their mother's laundry store. It was claimed that a standing bicycle was used to generate energy to run their equipment. In 1936, Adi decided to lead the country to the Olympic Village. There was a suitcase with a briefcase and a simple design: convince US sprinter Jesse Owens to wear the Dassler Brothers' spikes during the races. Adi was successful and won four gold medals after Owens in the summer of Dassler Brothers' athletic shoes worldwide.\nUnfortunately, the Second World War was just around the corner. Both brothers joined the Nazi party, but at some point fell out during the war. The facts are not entirely clear, but the divide between the two brothers might have to do with his different political views or Rudolph's conviction that his brother turned to the Americans.\nThe result was that after the world's A II. In the war, the brothers shared the deal. Adi founded Adidas (from Adi Dassler), and Rudolph took Rudolf Dassler from Ruda. Ruda later baptized Puma again as the Pope of South America.\nThe dispute between the two brothers continued, as each company struggled to sponsor different athletes. In a particularly memorable business transaction, German sprinter Armin Hary agreed to wear Pumas for a significant prize at the 1960s Summer Olympics. He decided not to wear adidas (which he wore) after adidas resigned to wear the shoes. Hary wore the Puma under the 100-meter dash and triumphed. But he introduced himself to a few adidas at the medal ceremony. The sprinter hoped that both companies would pay, but Adi was so angry that he was not willing to deal with Hary for the rest of Hary's career.\nBoth brothers are extremely successful. Unfortunately, they never met. They were buried at the opposite ends of the same cemetery\nPrevious postThe basics of the body: the eating channel – the functioning of the digestive tract\nNext postMaking money from sportswear Manufacturers or distributors"
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        "text": "26 май е 146-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (147-и през високосна). Остават 219 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n\n 17 г. – Германик празнува триумф за победите си над всички германски племена на запад от река Елба.\n 1293 г. – При земетресение в Камакура (Япония) загиват около 30 хил. души.\n 1521 г. – Мартин Лутер е изгонен от пределите на Свещената Римска империя на немската нация.\n 1538 г. – Жан Калвин и последователите му са изселени от Женева и през следващите 3 години Калвин пребивава в Страсбург.\n 1647 г. – В Хартфорд (Кънектикът) е извършена първата в Америка екзекуция на жена, призната за вещица.\n 1770 г. – В Гърция избухва първото въстание за независимост от Османската империя, завършило с трагичен неуспех.\n 1805 г. – В Милано Наполеон I Бонапарт е коронован за крал на Италия.\n 1868 г. – Извършена е последната публична екзекуция в Англия – ирландският националист Майкъл Барет е обесен заради бомбен атентат в Лондон.\n 1869 г. – Щатът Масачузетс учредява Бостънския университет.\n 1876 г. – След неуспеха на Априлското въстание Панайот Волов се отправя за Румъния и при опит да премине буйните води на р. Янтра се удавя.\n 1879 г. – Открит е Върховният касационен съд на България.\n 1879 г. – С договор между Русия и Великобритания е създадена държавата Афганистан.\n 1880 г. – С княжески указ окръжията в Княжество България са разделени на околии.\n 1894 г. – Емануел Ласкер става вторият световен шампион по шахмат.\n 1896 г. – В Москва се състои коронацията на последния руски император Николай II.\n 1896 г. – Публикувано е първото издание на промишления индекс Дау Джонс.\n 1908 г. – В Югозападна Персия са открити първите залежи на нефт, които много скоро след това са обявени за собственост на Великобритания.\n 1918 г. – С разпадането на Руската империя е създадена Демократична република Грузия.\n 1924 г. – Извършен е първият полет на екперименталния самолет АНТ-2.\n 1938 г. – В град Волфсбург (Германия) Адолф Хитлер поставя първия камък на завода на Фолксваген.\n 1942 г. – Британският външен министър Антъни Идън и съветският Вячеслав Молотов подписван съюзен договор за война срещу нацистка Германия и нейните съюзници в Европа и договор за сътрудничество и взаимна помощ след войната.\n\n 1966 г. – Британска Гвиана придобива независимост и става Кооперативна република Гвиана.\n 1970 г. – Извършен е първият редовен полет на съветския свръхзвуков самолет Ту-144.\n 1972 г. – Подписан е договор между СССР и САЩ – САЛТ 1, за ограничаване на стратегическите нападателни оръжия и договор за ограничаване на системите за противоракетна отбрана (ПРО).\n 1977 г. – Американецът Джон Уилиг прави първото успешно катерене по южната кула на Световния търговски център в Ню Йорк.\n\n 1983 г. – При силно земетресение (7,7 по Скалата на Рихтер) в Япония, последвано от цунами, загиват 104 души, а хиляди са ранени.\n 1986 г. – Европейската общност приема Европейското знаме.\n 1986 г. – Открита е първата експозиция на Националния музей в Габрово, създаден на 1 януари 1974 г., който се помещава в сградата на Априлската гимназия.\n 1991 г. – Звиад Гамсахурдия става първият демократично избран президент на Грузия.\n 1991 г. – Самолет Боинг на авиокомпанията Лауда Еър катастрофира над Тайланд, загиват 223 души.\n 2001 г. – По инициатива на бившия президент на България Жельо Желев в София е създаден Балкански политически клуб, в който участват бивши и настоящи балкански политици.\n 2002 г. – Завършва посещението на папа Йоан Павел II в България.\n 2002 г. – Алваро Урибе е избран за президент на Колумбия.\n 2006 г. – При земетресение на остров Ява загиват 5700 души, а почти 200 хил. остават без дом.\n\nРодени \n\n 1478 г. – Климент VII, римски папа († 1534 г.)\n 1566 г. – Мехмед III, султан на Османската империя († 1603 г.)\n 1594 г. – Олимпия Майдалкини, италианска благородничка († 1657 г.)\n 1602 г. – Филип дьо Шампан, френско-фламандски бароков художник († 1674)\n 1650 г. – Джон Чърчил, Херцог Марлборо, английски военачалник († 1722 г.)\n 1667 г. – Абраам дьо Моавр, френски математик († 1754 г.)\n 1689 г. – Мери Монтегю, английска писателка († 1762 г.)\n 1826 г. – Елизавета Михайловна, херцогиня Нассау († 1845 г.)\n 1877 г. – Айседора Дънкан, американска танцьорка († 1927 г.)\n 1878 г. – Горазд II, чешки светец († 1942 г.)\n 1885 г. – Николай Лилиев, български поет († 1960 г.)\n 1886 г. – Павел Блонски, съветски психолог († 1941 г.)\n 1888 г. – Никола Трайков, български дипломат и учен († 1963 г.)\n 1896 г. – Христо Лилков, български военен деец и политик († 1971 г.)\n 1900 г. – Яким Якимов, български учен († 1965 г.)\n 1904 г. – Неджип Фазъл Късакюрек, турски поет († 1983 г.)\n 1907 г. – Джон Уейн, американски актьор († 1979 г.)\n 1909 г. – Мат Бъзби, шотландски футболист († 1994 г.)\n 1910 г. – Лорънс Рокфелер, американски финансист († 2004 г.)\n 1912 г. – Янош Кадар, министър-председател на Унгария († 1989 г.)\n 1922 г. – Стефан Груев, български журналист, писател и общественик († 2006 г.)\n 1923 г. – Хари Джонсън, канадски икономист († 1977 г.)\n 1926 г. – Майлс Дейвис, американски джаз музикант († 1991 г.)\n 1931 г. – Илия Буржев, български поет († 2008 г.)\n 1932 г. – Григор Вачков, български актьор († 1980 г.)\n 1935 г. – Алан Чумак, руски журналист и екстрасенс († 2017 г.)\n 1939 г. – Климент Денчев, български актьор († 2009 г.)\n 1946 г. – Нешка Робева, българска гимнастичка и треньорка\n 1949 г. – Уорд Кънингам, американски програмист, създател на Уикипедия\n 1951 г. – Мухамед Фарис, сирийски военен летец\n 1951 г. – Рамон Калдерон, испански адвокат, президент на Реал Мадрид (2006 – 2009)\n 1951 г. – Сали Райд, американска астронавтка († 2012 г.)\n 1954 г. – Ерих Хакл, австрийски писател\n 1956 г. – Андреас Брандхорст, германски писател\n 1958 г. – Виктор Шейман, министър на вътрешните работи на Беларус\n 1964 г. – Лени Кравиц, американски рок музикант и продуцент\n 1966 г. – Хелена Бонам Картър, английска актриса\n 1968 г. – Фредерик Датски, датски принц и престолонаследник\n 1977 г. – Лука Тони, италиански футболист\n 1978 г. – Бенджи Грегъри, американски актьор\n 1978 г. – Небойша Йеленкович, сръбско-български футболист\n 1979 г. – Ашли Масаро, професионален кечист и фотомодел\n 1981 г. – Ирини Меркури, гръцка певица\n 1981 г. – Исаак Слейд, американски рок певец (Дъ Фрей)\n 1987 г. – Григор Григоров, български шахматист\n\nПочинали \n\n 946 г. – Едмънд I, крал на Англия (* 921 г.)\n 1421 г. – Мехмед I, султан на Османската империя (* 1382 г.)\n 1512 г. – Баязид II, султан на Османската империя (* 1447 г.)\n 1870 г. – Йохан Хайнрих Блазиус, германски зоолог (* 1809 г.)\n 1876 г. – Георги Икономов, български революционер (* 1846 г.)\n 1876 г. – Панайот Волов, български революционер (* 1850 г.)\n 1876 г. – Франтишек Палацки, чешки историк (* 1798 г.)\n 1883 г. – Абд ал-Кадир, емир на Алжир (* 1808 г.)\n 1902 г. – Атанас Петров, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1905 г. – Стоимен Баничански, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1917 г. – Борис Дрангов, български офицер и военен педагог (* 1872 г.)\n 1918 г. – Иван Йончев, български поет (* 1884 г.)\n 1922 г. – Ернест Солвей, белгийски химик (* 1838 г.)\n 1924 г. – Виктор Хърбърт, ирландски композитор (* 1859 г.)\n 1925 г. – Георги Шейтанов, български анархист и антифашист (* 1896 г.)\n 1939 г. – Богомил Андреев, български режисьор и актьор (* 1891 г.)\n 1943 г. – Исадор Кориат, американски психиатър (* 1875 г.)\n 1951 г. – Линкълн Елсуърт, американски полярен изследовател (* 1880 г.)\n 1955 г. – Алберто Аскари, италиански пилот от Формула 1 (* 1918 г.)\n 1964 г. – Христо Калайджиев, български революционер (* 1886 г.)\n 1967 г. – Гидеон Столбери, шведски шахматист (* 1908 г.)\n 1976 г. – Мартин Хайдегер, германски философ (* 1889 г.)\n 1989 г. – Дон Реви, английски футболист и треньор (* 1927 г.)\n 1993 г. – Цола Драгойчева, български политик от БКП (* 1898 г.)\n 1995 г. – Борис Велчев, български политик (* 1914 г.)\n 1995 г. – Фриц Фреленг, американски аниматор (* 1906 г.)\n 2004 г. – Николай Черних, руски астроном (* 1931 г.)\n 2008 г. – Сидни Полак, американски режисьор, актьор и продуцент (* 1934 г.)\n 2009 г. – Дорис Мюрингер, австрийска поетеса (* 1920 г.)\n 2010 г. – Лео Канелс, нидерландски футболист (* 1933 г.)\n 2013 г. – Джак Ванс, американски писател (* 1916 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на предизвикателството (за масовия спорт) организиран от Международната организация „Спорт за всички“\n Австралия – Национален ден за прошка\n Гвиана – Ден на независимостта (от Великобритания, 1966 г.)\n Грузия – Ден на независимостта (от Русия, 1918 г.) и Ден на републиката (1918 г.) – национален празник\n Дания – Рожден ден на престолонаследника (принц Фредерик Датски, 1968 г.)\n Полша – Ден на майката\n Православна църква – свети апостол Карп, свети Августин Кентърбърийски, свети мъченик Георги Софийски Най-нови\n Русия – Ден на руското предприемачество\n\n526"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: Mount home sparsebundle when SSH I'm using FileVault to encrypt my homedir. But when I'm not logged (locally) into my remote machine and I'm connecting to it trough SSH my home contains only the sparsebundle file.\nHow can I mount it so my home dir appears normally as a local login on the machine ?\n\nA: Mount\nSSH lets you create a ~/.ssh/rc that will be executed right after the environment has been set up, but before any shell will be active (so beware of that; search for \"sshrc\" in man ssh(8) for more informations).\nSo, to mount your FileVault partition you can add  this line to your ~/.ssh/rc file:\nhdiutil attach /Users/$USER/$USER.sparsebundle -mountpoint /Users/$USER\n\nDon't worry, your ~/.ssh/rc will be available to the system even before mounting the FileVault partition.\nUnmount\nNow you have to ensure the unmount at logout, and only if you are connected via ssh. To do that you can use your shell's logout script. These are the logout script paths for the 3 most used shells on Macs (feel free to add more in the comments):\n\n\n*\n\n*bash: ~/.bash_logout\n\n*zsh: ~/.zlogout\n\n*(t)csh: ~/.logout\nOpen (or create) the appropriate file and add:\nif [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]\n    then hdiutil detach /Users/$USER/$USER.sparsebundle\nfi\n\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "Q: 3G Access Only for iPad? I am considering recommending an iPad for an older relative that currently has no computer and no Internet access. I get reasonable 3G reception from this person's home. Internet access options start at roughly $60/month. So, I am considering recommending a 3G iPad and using only the 3G service for Internet access.  \nObviously this would be slower than a high speed Wi-Fi connection, but it would also be much cheaper and I think it might be adequate. I am wondering if anyone has experience with using 3G as the primary internet connection source.\n\nA: I use my iPad all day at work for email, web browsing, etc. on 3G and it works fine without Wi-Fi for everyday use.\nFrom a speed perspective, don't sweat it.  For a user who obviously doesn't sound accustomed to blazing broadband, I think 3G will be just fine. Internet is fast enough, Netflix works, and YouTube and the like are fast enough (although YouTube seems to limit the quality of the streams, but it's good enough).\nEDIT: The original version of this answer highlighted why an iPad would not function properly without a computer, which is not true since the release of iOS 5.\n\nA: I can't speak about the iPad specifically, but I've used 3G through Verizon as my primary Internet connection for about 4 years.  Ii actually started out as 1xRTT, but the cell tower were upgraded.  My choices are either 3G, satellite (line-of-site to the satellite may be a problem), or dialup.  The joys of country living.\nI haven't had any problems with it.  Some things are slow: PS3 updates, large downloads, etc., but its fine for email, web browsing, etc.  My account is old enough that its doesn't have download limits.  I think I hit 7GB last month.  \n\nA: Would the 3g plan include enough data?\nWhere I am, the cheapest 3g iPad plans are a little cheaper than the cheapest \"lite\" 1 mbit/s wired plan, but that iPad plan only includes 250 mbytes of data a month. I really can't see how someone using the iPad as their only Internet device could stay under that for very long.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "27 май е 147-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (148-и през високосна). Остават 218 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n\n 1328 г. – Филип VI, първи представител на династията Валоа, става крал на Франция.\n 1703 г. – Руският цар Петър Велики основава Санкт Петербург.\n 1717 г. – Нова Гранада става самостоятелно вицекралство на Испания.\n 1850 г. – Населението в Белоградчишко се вдига на въстание, прераснало в цяла Северозападна България и известно като Видинско въстание.\n 1866 г. – В Букурещ е създаден Таен български централен комитет (ТБЦК), приемник на който по-късно става БРЦК.\n 1870 г. – Васил Левски преминава от Румъния в България със задачата да създаде мрежа от местни революционни комитети.\n 1925 г. – Извършена е последната публична екзекуция в Европа – обесване на извършителите на атентата в катедралата „Св. Крал“ Марко Фридман, Петър Задгорски и Георги Коев.\n 1937 г. – Пуснат е в експлоатация мостът Голдън Гейт в Сан Франциско.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: При клането при Па дьо Кале са убити 97 британски войници от части на 3-та СС дивизия Тотенкопф.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: След постъпки на властта в София от немските лагери са освободени около 12 700 македонски българи – военнопленници.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Британската военна флота потапя в Северно море германския линеен кораб Бисмарк.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война – в Прага в 10:32 ч. се извършва атентат срещу СС обергрупенфюрера Райнхард Хайдрих.\n 1943 г. – Втората световна война: Създаден е Национален фронт на съпротивата във Франция.\n 1949 г. – Официално е създадена Японската асоциация по карате.\n 1950 г. – Американският певец Франк Синатра за първи път се представя в телевизионно предаване.\n 1960 г. – Демократичното правителство в Турция е свалено чрез военен преврат.\n 1971 г. – Със заповед №9 – 4 на Министерството на народната просвета в град Бургас е открита ПМГ „Акад. Никола Обрешков“.\n 1974 г. – Жак Ширак е избран за министър-председател на Франция.\n 1985 г. – В Рим започва процес за съучастие в атентата срещу Йоан Павел II на Сергей Антонов и задочно – на Тодор Айвазов и Жельо Василев.\n 1993 г. – СДС внася вот на недоверие на правителството на Любен Беров, но парламентът го отхвърля.\n 1994 г. – Съветският писател-дисидент Александър Солженицин се завръща в родината си след 20-годишно принудително изгнание в САЩ.\n 1999 г. – Карла дел Понте, главен обвинител на Международния наказателен трибунал за бивша Югославия в Хага, повдига обвинение срещу Слободан Милошевич за военни престъпления и престъпления срещу човечеството, извършени в Косово.\n 2006 г. – Земетресение на остров Ява (Индонезия) с магнитуд 6,2 по Скалата на Рихтер отнема живота на около 4600 души.\n 2009 г. – В Рим се играе Финала на Европейската купа на шампионите по футбол. ФК Барселона побеждава ФК Манчестър Юнайтед с 2:0 с голове на Самюел Ето'о и Лионел Меси.\n 2010 г. – Състои се втори полуфинал на песенния конкурс Евровизия 2010.\n\nРодени \n\n 1332 г. – Ибн Халдун, арабски учен († 1406 г.)\n 1623 г. – Уилям Пети, английски учен († 1687 г.)\n 1799 г. – Жак Фроментал Халеви, френски композитор († 1862 г.)\n 1822 г. – Йоханес Дайкер, германски художник († 1895 г.)\n 1833 г. – Тодор Шишков, български книжовник († 1896 г.)\n 1837 г. – Иван Крамской, руски художник († 1887 г.)\n 1864 г. – Анте Трумбич, хърватски политик († 1938 г.)\n 1867 г. – Арнолд Бенет, английски писател и критик († 1931 г.)\n 1878 г. – Панарет Брегалнишки, български духовник († 1944 г.)\n 1884 г. – Макс Брод, австрийски писател († 1968 г.)\n 1894 г. – Дашиъл Хамет, американски писател († 1961 г.)\n 1894 г. – Луи-Фердинан Селин, френски писател († 1961 г.)\n 1897 г. – Джон Кокрофт, британски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1967 г.)\n 1897 г. – Милко Бичев, български архитект († 1972 г.)\n 1903 г. – Никола Фурнаджиев, български поет († 1968 г.)\n 1907 г. – Рейчъл Карсън, американска зооложка († 1964 г.)\n 1917 г. – Владимир Кабаиванов, български химик († 2008 г.)\n 1918 г. – Ясухиро Накасоне, министър-председател на Япония († 2019 г.)\n 1920 г. – Бранко Пендовски, писател от Република Македония († 2006 г.)\n 1922 г. – Кристофър Лий, британски актьор († 2015 г.)\n 1923 г. – Хенри Кисинджър, Държавен секретар на САЩ, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г.\n 1926 г. – Атанас Пацев, български художник († 1999 г.)\n 1930 г. – Джон Барт, американски писател\n 1931 г. – Филип Котлър, маркетинг специалист\n 1934 г. – Харлан Елисън, американски писател († 2018 г.)\n 1937 г. – Жерар Клайн, френски писател\n 1939 г. – Сократис Кокалис, гръцки бизнесмен\n 1942 г. – Пиърс Къредж, британски пилот от Формула 1 († 1970 г.)\n 1943 г. – Димитър Митов, български художник\n 1948 г. – Александър Волков, руски космонавт\n 1953 г. – Йордан Александров Димитров, български генерал\n 1956 г. – Джузепе Торнаторе, италиански режисьор\n 1958 г. – Румен Пенин, български учен\n 1959 г. – Венцислав Рангелов, български треньор\n 1961 г. – Жорета Николова, българска актриса\n 1964 г. – Бисер Цолов, български учен\n 1964 г. – Елена Йончева, българска журналистка\n 1967 г. – Пол Гаскойн, английски футболист\n 1970 г. – Бианка Панова, българска гимнастичка\n 1976 г. – Анита Блонд, унгарска порно актриса\n 1978 г. – Иван Юруков, български актьор\n 1981 г. – Йозгюр Чевик, турски актьор\n 1990 г. – Крис Колфър, американски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 927 г. – Симеон I, цар на българите (* 864 г.-865)\n 1508 г. – Лудовико Сфорца, италиански благородник, меценат на изкуството (* 1452 г.)\n 1525 г. – Томас Мюнцер, немски теолог (* 1489 г. или 1495)\n 1564 г. – Жан Калвин, швейцарски религиозен реформатор (* 1509 г.)\n 1610 г. – Франсоа Раваяк, френски убиец (* 1578 г.)\n 1690 г. – Джовани Легренци, италиански бароков композитор (* 1626 г.)\n 1797 г. – Франсоа Бабьоф, френски революционер (* 1760 г.)\n 1840 г. – Николо Паганини, генуезки виолинист и композитор (* 1782 г.)\n 1876 г. – Таньо Стоянов, български революционер (* 1846 г.)\n 1902 г. – Агапий Войнов, български просветен деец (* 1838 г.)\n 1910 г. – Роберт Кох, германски учен, Нобелов лауреат през 1905 г. (* 1843 г.)\n 1933 г. – Люба Ивошевич, съпруга на Георги Димитров (* 1882 г.)\n 1939 г. – Йозеф Рот, австрийски писател (* 1894 г.)\n 1963 г. – Акилино Рибейро, португалски писател (* 1885 г.)\n 1964 г. – Джавахарлал Неру, индийски революционер и държавник (* 1889 г.)\n 1988 г. – Ернст Руска, немски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1986 г. (* 1906 г.)\n 1989 г. – Арсений Тарковски, руски поет (* 1907 г.)\n 1992 г. – Майкъл Толбът, американски писател (* 1953 г.)\n 1993 г. – Тодор Боров, български литературен историк и библиограф (* 1901 г.)\n 2000 г. – Морис Ришар, канадски хокеист (* 1921 г.)\n 2003 г. – Лучано Берио, италиански композитор (* 1925 г.)\n 2011 г. – Джеф Конауей, американски актьор (* 1950 г.)\n 2014 г. – Станка Пенчева, българска поетеса (* 1929 г.)\n 2021 г. – Лорина Камбурова, българска актриса (* 1991 г.)\n\nПразници \n Нигерия – Ден на детето\n Полша – Ден на местното самоуправление\n Русия и Киргизстан – Ден на библиотеките\n Украйна – Ден на работещите в химическата промишленост\n\n527"
    },
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        "text": "28 май е 148-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (149-и през високосна година). Остават 217 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1358 г. – Във Франция започва най-голямото селско въстание през Средновековието, известно като „Жакерия“.\n 1754 г. – Френско-индианската война: Състои се Битката при Грейт Мидоуз, в която отряд от 40 души, командван от 22-годишния Джордж Вашингтон, напада френски лагер в местността Грейт Мидоуз, Северна Америка.\n 1812 г. – Русия и Турция подписват Букурещкия договор.\n 1871 г. – Разгромена е Парижката комуна след „Кървавата седмица“, в която загиват повече от 25 хиляди комунари, други 40 хиляди са изпратени в затвора или на заточение.\n 1890 г. – Открито е първото училище за медицински сестри в София.\n\n 1920 г. – В Царство България е приет Закон за трудовата повинност, с който се задължават младежите над 20 години и девойките над 16 години да упражняват общественополезен труд.\n 1924 г. – На VIII летни олимпийски игри в Париж Националният отбор по футбол на България играе първия си официален мач и губи с 0:1 от отбора на Ейре.\n 1930 г. – Открита е една от най-високите сгради в света – Крайслер Билдинг в Ню Йорк.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Белгия капитулира пред Германия.\n 1952 г. – Жените в Гърция получават избирателно право.\n 1955 г. – Народното събрание ратифицира Варшавския договор.\n 1961 г. – Създадена е международната неправителствена организация за защита на човешките права „Амнести Интернешънъл“.\n 1964 г. – Образувана е Организацията за освобождение на Палестина (ООП).\n 1966 г. – Възстановено копие на парахода Радецки е пуснато на вода в Русе.\n 1969 г. – В бившия СССР е създадена Инициативна група за защита правата на човека – първата в страната обществена организация в защита на жертвите от политически репресии.\n 1971 г. – В орбита е изведена космическата лаборатория Марс 3, която достига Марс през декември 1971 г.\n 1974 г. – САЩ и Египет възстановяват дипломатическите си отношения.\n 1987 г. – 19-годишният пилот от Западна Германия Матиас Руст безпрепятствено навлиза с малък самолет в съветското въздушно пространство и каца на Червения площад в Москва. Той е незабавно задържан и не е пуснат до 3 август 1988.\n 1998 г. – Ядрен опит: В отговор на серията ядрени опити, извършени от Индия, Пакистан провежда пет свои, с което подтиква САЩ, Япония и други нации да ѝ наложат икономически санкции.\n 1999 г. – В Милано, Италия, след 21-годишна реставрация, шедьовърът на Леонардо да Винчи Тайната вечеря отново е изложен на показ.\n 2008 г. – Непал официално е обявена за република.\n 2009 г. – Загиват 17 души край Ямбол вследствие инцидент с повреден автобус.\n\nРодени \n\n 1524 г. – Селим II, султан на Османската империя († 1574 г.)\n 1654 г. – Йохан II Бернули, швейцарски математик († 1705 г.)\n 1676 г. – Якопо Рикати, италиански математик († 1754 г.)\n 1759 г. – Уилям Пит-младши, министър-председател на Обединеното кралство († 1806 г.)\n 1779 г. – Томас Мур, ирландски поет († 1852 г.)\n 1805 г. – Ильо войвода, български войвода († 1898 г.)\n 1815 г. – Александър фон Коцебу, германско-руски художник († 1889 г.)\n 1844 г. – Леонид Соболев, министър-председател на България († 1913 г.)\n 1849 г. – Никола Обретенов, български революционер († 1939 г.)\n 1868 г. – Панайот Сантурджиев, български военен деец († 1962 г.)\n 1872 г. – Леонард Шулце Йена, германски етнограф († 1955 г.)\n 1877 г. – Максимилиан Волошин, руски поет († 1932 г.)\n 1880 г. – Христо Силянов, български революционер († 1939 г.)\n 1884 г. – Едуард Бенеш, президент на Чехословакия († 1948 г.)\n 1888 г. – Джим Торп, американски атлет († 1953 г.)\n 1892 г. – Йозеф Дитрих, германски генерал († 1966 г.)\n 1906 г. – Волф Албах-Рети, австрийски актьор († 1967 г.)\n 1908 г. – Йън Флеминг, британски писател († 1964 г.)\n 1911 г. – Фриц Хохвелдер, австрийски драматург († 1986 г.)\n 1912 г. – Патрик Уайт, австралийски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1990 г.)\n 1913 г. – Тихон Хренников, руски композитор († 2007 г.)\n 1918 г. – Иван Гълъбов, български езиковед († 1978 г.)\n 1925 г. – Бюлент Еджевит, министър-председател на Турция († 2006 г.)\n 1930 г. – Димитър Точев, български поет и писател, журналист († 2006 г.)\n 1930 г. – Франк Дрейк, американски астроном\n 1933 г. – Димитър Мишев, български академик († 2003 г.)\n 1940 г. – Развигор Попов, български музикант\n 1941 г. – Чавдар Шинов, български сценарист\n 1941 г. – Гунтрам Веспер, германски писател\n 1942 г. – Божидара Турзоновова, словашка актриса от български произход\n 1944 г. – Рудолф Джулиани, американски юрист и политик, кмет на Ню Йорк (1994 – 2001)\n 1945 г. – Пач Адамс, американски доктор и автор на книги\n 1947 г. – Захи Хауас, египетски историк\n 1949 г. – Стефан Димитров, български композитор\n 1954 г. – Мариана Димитрова, българска актриса († 2005 г.)\n 1958 г. – Красимир Едрев, български поет и публицист\n 1960 г. – Корине Маух, швейцарски политик\n 1961 г. – Ричард А. Кнаак, американски писател\n 1962 г. – Франсоа-Анри Пино, френски бизнесмен\n 1968 г. – Кайли Миноуг, австралийска певица и актриса\n 1970 г. – Иван Попов, български писател († 2019 г.)\n 1970 г. – Илиян Банев, български футболист\n 1974 г. – Ханс-Йорг Бут, германски футболист\n 1983 г. – Христо Гаджев, български политик\n 1985 г. – Кери Мълиган, английска актриса\n\nПочинали \n\n 1357 г. – Алфонсо IV, крал на Португалия\n 1805 г. – Луиджи Бокерини, италиански композитор (* 1743 г.)\n 1849 г. – Ан Бронте, английска писателка (* 1820 г.)\n 1869 г. – Ернст Вилхелм Хенгстенберг, германски духовник и теолог (* 1802 г.)\n 1876 г. – Бачо Киро, български учител и революционер (* 1835 г.)\n 1912 г. – Пенчо Славейков, български поет (* 1866 г.)\n 1913 г. – Джон Лъбък, английски археолог, политик и естественик (* 1834 г.)\n 1916 г. – Иван Франко, украински писател (* 1856 г.)\n 1927 г. – Борис Кустодиев, руски художник (* 1878 г.)\n 1937 г. – Алфред Адлер, австрийски психолог (* 1870 г.)\n 1952 г. – Перикъл Джогов, български лекар (* 1874 г.)\n 1970 г. – Георги Найденов, български футболист (* 1931 г.)\n 1971 г. – Жан Вилар, американски актьор (* 1912 г.)\n 1972 г. – Едуард VIII, крал на Обединеното кралство (* 1894 г.)\n 1986 г. – Леа Иванова, българска шлагерна и джаз певица (* 1923 г.)\n 2007 г. – Дейвид Лейн, американски неонацист (* 1938 г.)\n 2007 г. – Йорг Имендорф, германски художник (* 1945 г.)\n 2010 г. – Гари Коулман, американски актьор (* 1968 г.)\n 2014 г. – Мая Анджелоу, американска писателка (* 1928 г.)\n 2015 г. – Ханс Бендер, германски писател (* 1919 г.)\n\nПразници \n Европейски ден на съседите, спонсориран от Съвета на Европа\n Ден на парковете\n Азербайджан и Армения – Ден на републиката (от 1918 г., национален празник)\n Беларус, Киргизстан, Русия, и Украйна – Ден на граничните служители\n Етиопия – Възстановяване на демокрацията – сваляне на диктатурата на Менгисту Хайле Мариам (1991 г., национален празник)\n Филипини – Ден на националния флаг\n\n528"
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        "text": "29 май е 149-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (150-и през високосна година). Остават 216 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1453 г. – Падането на Константинопол: Армията на султан Мехмед II Фатих (Завоевателя) превзема Константинопол след двумесечна обсада, артилерийски обстрел с най-модерните за тази епоха оръдия и масирана атака на еничарския корпус. При атаката е убит последният византийски император Константин XI Палеолог.\n 1660 г. – Английската реставрация: Чарлз II е възстановен на трона на Великобритания.\n 1667 г. – Френските трапери Медард дьо Грозейле и Пиер Еспри Радисон откриват езерото Нипигон в Канада.\n 1807 г. – Султан Селим III абдикира в резултат от инспирирания бунт на ямаците в Константинопол.\n 1876 г. – Априлското въстание: Четата на Христо Ботев овладява пътническия параход „Радецки“ и заставя капитана да спре на българския бряг при село Козлодуй.\n 1927 г. – Провеждат се избори за XXII ОНС, спечелени от управляващия Демократически сговор.\n 1948 г. – Подписан е Българо-полски договор за сътрудничество.\n 1953 г. – Сър Едмънд Хилари и шерпът Тенсинг Норгей стават първите алпинисти, изкачили връх Еверест в Хималаите.\n 1956 г. – Пакистан се обявява за ислямска държава.\n 1968 г. – Установени са дипломатически отношения с Република Горна Волта.\n 1970 г. – Посещение на Тодор Живков в СССР.\n 1984 г. – В Канада Пиер Трюдо подава оставка и Джон Търнър става министър-председател.\n 1985 г. – Трагедията на Хейзел: На финала на Шампионската лига на УЕФА в Брюксел, Белгия, 39 футболни запалянковци са убити и стотици са ранени от срутена подпорна стена, след като привърженици на ФК Ливърпул проникват в сектор на ФК Ювентус.\n 1989 г. – Възродителен процес: В изявление по БНР и БНТ председателят на Държавния съвет Тодор Живков призовава Турция да отвори границите си за български емигранти, което става причина за „Голямата екскурзия“.\n 1990 г. – Руският парламент избира Борис Елцин за Председател на Президиума на Върховния съвет на Руската СФСР.\n 1999 г. – Космическата совалка Дискавъри извършва първото скачване с Международната космическа станция.\n 2010 г. – Провежда се финала на песенния конкурс Евровизия 2010.\n\nРодени \n\n 1439 г. – Пий III, римски папа († 1503 г.)\n 1568 г. – Вирджиния Медичи, италианска благородничка († 1615 г.)\n 1851 г. – Леон Буржоа, френски политик, Нобелов лауреат († 1925 г.)\n 1860 г. – Исак Албенис, испански композитор († 1909 г.)\n 1866 г. – Акоп Акопян, арменски поет († 1937 г.)\n 1868 г. – Абдул Меджид II, османски халиф († 1944 г.)\n 1871 г. – Сергей Зернов, съветски зоолог († 1945 г.)\n 1874 г. – Гилбърт Кийт Честъртън, английски писател († 1936 г.)\n 1879 г. – Коста Абраш, сръбски поет от Македония († 1898 г.)\n 1880 г. – Освалд Шпенглер, германски философ († 1936 г.)\n 1892 г. – Алфонсина Сторни, аржентинска поетеса († 1938 г.)\n 1903 г. – Боб Хоуп, американски комик\n 1917 г. – Джон Кенеди, 35-и президент на САЩ († 1963 г.)\n 1920 г. – Джон Харшани, американски икономист († 2000 г.)\n 1920 г. – Рачко Ябанджиев, български артист († 2004 г.)\n 1929 г. – Питър Хигс, британски физик\n 1933 г. – Никола Пъдевски, български шахматист\n 1934 г. – Георги Йорданов, български комунист\n 1942 г. – Иван Ганев, български учен († 2003 г.)\n 1953 г. – Александър Абдулов, руски актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1953 г. – Дани Елфман, американски музикант\n 1959 г. – Рупърт Евърет, английски актьор\n 1965 г. – Даниел Дянков, български художник\n 1965 г. – Иво Атанасов, български политик и юрист\n 1971 г. – Габриела Коневска, политик от Република Македония († 2010 г.)\n 1975 г. – Мелани Браун, английска поп певица\n 1977 г. – Леонардо Франко, аржентински футболист\n 1981 г. – Андрей Аршавин, руски футболист\n 1985 г. – Иван Ангелов, български певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 1453 г. – Константин XI Палеолог, византийски император (* 1405 г.)\n 1829 г. – Хъмфри Дейви, английски химик (* 1778 г.)\n 1910 г. – Милий Балакирев, руски композитор (* 1837 г.)\n 1919 г. – Робърт Бейкън, американски държавник и дипломат (* 1860 г.)\n 1931 г. – Михаил Ганчев, български военен деец (* 1872 г.)\n 1942 г. – Джон Баримор, американски актьор (* 1882 г.)\n 1944 г. – Иван Нивянин, български поет-партизанин (* 1919 г.)\n 1951 г. – Михаил Бородин, руски дипломат (* 1884 г.)\n 1956 г. – Херман Абендрот, германски диригент, професор (* 1883 г.)\n 1958 г. – Хуан Рамон Хименес, испански поет (* 1881 г.)\n 1978 г. – Али Соили, коморски политик (* 1937 г.)\n 1979 г. – Мери Пикфорд, актриса (* 1892 г.)\n 1982 г. – Роми Шнайдер, австрийска актриса (* 1938 г.)\n 1988 г. – Сиака Стивънс, министър-председател (1967 – 1971) и президент (1971 – 1985) на Сиера Леоне (* 1905 г.)\n 1990 г. – Александър Цветков, български шахматист (* 1914 г.)\n 2004 г. – Димитър Минчев, български футболист (* 1927 г.)\n 2005 г. – Сватоплук Плускал, чешки футболист (* 1930 г.)\n 2008 г. – Пола Гън Алън, американска писателка (* 1939 г.)\n 2010 г. – Денис Хопър, американски актьор (* 1936 г.)\n 2011 г. – Сергей Багапш, абхазки агроном и политик (* 1949 г.)\n 2011 г. – Ференц Мадъл, унгарски учен и политик (* 1931 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Международен ден на мироопазващите сили на ООН – отбелязва се от 2002 г. по решение на Общото събрание на ООН.\n България – Празник на град Горна Оряховица.\n\n529"
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        "text": "Discussion in 'Spot Diagnosis' started by J.P.C. Peper, May 17, 2012.\nI'll post the correct answer in a few days time!\nGenu recurvatum, a knee deformity in which the knee bends backwards. In this case, caused by polio."
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        "text": "Q: Mac Pro upgrade path I'm considering a Mac Pro purchase but cannot afford the one I really want. \nThe question is this; Can the cheapest Mac Pro 5,1 single quad-core Nehalem 2.8 GHz be upgraded to the dual six-core Westmere 2.93 GHz at some point in the future?\nIf not, what would be the cheapest one that could? \n\nA: Short answer:\nThe lowest end Mac Pro that can be upgraded to a 2.93 12-core Westmere is the 2.66GHz 12-core Westmere.\nLong answer:\nThe single socket Nehalem and Westmere Mac Pros literally have one socket. Aside from that, most of the lower end configs ship with a 1066MHz memory bus instead of a 1333MHz bus. In order to upgrade to a part that uses faster ram you will need to replace all your ram, and probably solder some resistors to change the clock multipliers on the board.\nWithout SMD soldering you will need to match the bus speed of the processor, which means if you have a 1066MHz memory interface the highest end part you will be able to install is are quad core 2.66GHz Xeon E5640s. There is also no guarantee the firmware will actually initialize it correctly, though odds are good that it will.\n\nA: Yes you can upgrade the Mac Pro 5,1 single quad Nehalem base configuration to a dual 6-core Westmere. There is no soldering or any thing required with in the Mac Pro. Everything is on the back plane with in the Mac Pro, it is the same between all processor configurations.The  dual socket processor tray is where the changes live, that is what really what makes a Mac Pro what it is in terms of RAM, processor sockets, and QPI speed.\n\nIn fact OWC's upgrade services demonstrates the upgrade flexibility of the Mac Pro. Since OWC offers a mail in upgrade service for this version of Mac Pro, where you mail the processor tray to them. They offer single chip upgrades where they swap the CPU and additionally offer dual socket options where they trade processor trays with you for a dual socket version. \nSo all you need to do to upgrade to a faster Westmere Mac Pro is the dual socket process tray and the CPUs to go with it. And it looks like the processor trays are available for order from Apple as noted in this AnandTech botched CPU upgrade article for an older Mac Pro 2009 version. However ordering one might be a trail and error processes, since its probably not a common user part to buy.\n\nThankfully, the folks at the Crabtree Valley Mall Apple Store in Raleigh, NC are AnandTech readers and quickly understood what had happened. They ordered the replacement part and I waited. If you’re curious, it’ll cost a bit under $400 to replace the processor board in an 8-core Mac Pro provided you allow Apple to keep your dead board.\n\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "30 май е 150-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (151-ви през високосна). Остават 215 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1431 г. – Стогодишната война: В Руан, Франция, 19-годишната Жана д'Арк е изгорена на клада от английско ориентирания трибунал.\n 1498 г. – Христофор Колумб се отправя на третата си експедиция.\n 1527 г. – Основан е Марбургския университет в Марбург, първият протестантски университет в света.\n 1814 г. – Наполеоновите войни: Подписан е Парижкия договор, с който френските граници са върнати към състоянието си през 1792 г.\n 1876 г. – Априлското въстание: Ръководителите на Трети революционен окръг се събират начело със Стоян Заимов във врачанската църква „Свето Възнесение Господне“ и обявяват въстанието. Сформирана е малка чета.\n 1876 г. – Априлското въстание: Четата на Христо Ботев води сражение на Милин камък.\n 1876 г. – В Цариград е извършен държавен преврат, ръководен от Мидхат паша. Абдул Азис е детрониран, а за султан е провъзгласен Мурад V.\n 1913 г. – Подписан е Лондонския мирен договор, с който се слага край на Балканската война. България получава пристанището Дедеагач.\n 1917 г. – Александрос I става крал на Гърция.\n 1918 г. – Народнолибералите на Добри Петков напускат правителството и то губи мнозинството си в XVII обикновено народно събрание.\n 1922 г. – Във Вашингтон е открит Мемориал на Ейбрахам Линкълн.\n 1934 г. – Политическият кръг Звено се саморазпуска.\n 1941 г. – Втората световна война: Германската армия превземат остров Крит.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Британската авиация извършва бомбардировка над Кьолн с над 1000 самолета.\n 1949 г. – Приета е Конституцията на Източна Германия.\n 1966 г. – 300 самолета на САЩ бомбардират Северен Виетнам.\n 1967 г. – Африканската държава Биафра обявява независимостта си от Нигерия.\n 1968 г. – Бийтълс започват да записват своя Бял албум.\n 1968 г. – Президентът на Франция Шарл дьо Гол разпуска парламента в обръщение по радиото. Непосредствено след това близо един милион негови поддръжници излизат на шествие по Шанз-Елизе в Париж.\n 1971 г. – Програма Маринър: Изстрелян е безпилотният космически апарат Маринър 9, чиято главна цел е картографиране на повърхността на Марс.\n 1975 г. – В София е открит Домът на съветската наука и култура.\n 1980 г. – Йоан Павел II посещава Франция за пръв път от 1814 г.\n 1982 г. – Испания става 16-а страна-членка на НАТО.\n 1986 г. – Европейската космическа агенция изстрелва ракетата Ариана-2.\n 1998 г. – Мощно земетресение в Северен Афганистан отнема живота на над 5000 души.\n 2009 г. - По време на предаването Сървайвър един от участниците получава сърдечен удър по-късно е починал.\n\nРодени \n\n 1782 г. – Константин Полторацки, руски офицер († 1858 г\n 1814 г. – Йожен Шарл Каталан, френско-белгийски математик († 1894 г.\n 1814 г. – Михаил Бакунин, руски революционер († 1876 г.)\n 1845 г. – Амадей I, Крал на Испания († 1880 г.)\n 1846 г. – Петер Карл Фаберже, руски бижутер († 1920 г.)\n 1876 г. – Жан Нику, шведски индустриалец († 1930 г.)\n 1881 г. – Георг фон Кюхлер, немски фелдмаршал († 1968 г.)\n 1893 г. – Стоил Стоилов, български режисьор, актьор и театрален деец († 1944 г.)\n 1896 г. – Хауърд Хоукс, американски режисьор († 1977 г.)\n 1901 г. – Христо Бръзицов, български публицист († 1980 г.)\n 1907 г. – Антон Маринович, български театрален и кинорежисьор († 1976 г.)\n 1908 г. – Ханес Алфвен, шведски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1995 г.)\n 1921 г. – Джейми Юис, южноафрикански режисьор, сценарист и продуцент († 1996 г.)\n 1922 г. – Александър Матковски, историк от Република Македония († 1992 г.)\n 1922 г. – Хал Клемънт, американски писател († 2003 г.)\n 1928 г. – Густав Леонхард, нидерландски музикант († 2012 г.)\n 1930 г. – Цвета Унджиева, български учен († 2000 г.)\n 1934 г. – Алексей Леонов, съветски космонавт († 2019 г.)\n 1937 г. – Любиша Георгиевски, театрален режисьор, писател и политик\n 1940 г. – Дейвид Ейкройд, американски актьор\n 1946 г. – Драган Джаич, сръбски футболист\n 1949 г. – Симеон Симев, журналист от Република Македония\n 1950 г. – Бертран Деланое, френски политик\n 1958 г. – Мари Фредриксон, шведска поп-певица (Роксет) († 2019 г.)\n 1961 г. – Иван Говедаров, български футболист\n 1964 г. – Венко Андоновски, писател от Република Македония\n 1964 г. – Ивайло Калфин, български политик\n 1964 г. – Том Морело, американски китарист\n 1971 г. – Петьо Гарвански, български инженер\n 1971 г. – Станислава Армутлиева, български продуцент, председател на Управителния съвет на БАМП\n 1972 г. – Юахим Рьонинг, норвежки кинорежисьор\n 1980 г. – Йоахим Щандфест, австрийски футболист\n 1980 г. – Стивън Джерард, английски футболист\n 1981 г. – Андрей Аршавин, руски футболист\n 1986 г. – Паша Парфени, молдовски певец\n 1989 г. – Александра Дюлгеру, румънска тенисистка\n 1990 г. – Юна, корейска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 339 г. – Евсевий Кесарийски, византийски историк (* 263 г.)\n 1416 г. – Йероним Пражки, чешки учен (* 1379 г.)\n 1431 г. – Жана д'Арк, френска героиня (* ок. 1412)\n 1574 г. – Шарл IX, крал на Франция (* 1550 г.)\n 1593 г. – Кристофър Марлоу, английски драматург (* 1564 г.)\n 1640 г. – Петер Паул Рубенс, фламандски художник (* 1577 г.)\n 1744 г. – Александър Поуп, английски поет (* 1688 г.)\n 1770 г. – Франсоа Буше, френски художник (* 1703 г.)\n 1778 г. – Волтер, френски философ (* 1694 г.)\n 1808 г. – Луи-Шарл Орлеански, френски благородник (* 1779 г.)\n 1903 г. – Дичо Андонов, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1905 г. – Богдан Югович Хайнц, войвода на сръбската пропаганда (* 1882 г.)\n 1912 г. – Уилбър Райт, американски летец (* 1867 г.)\n 1916 г. – Джон Сингълтън Мосби, американски военен деец (* 1933 г.)\n 1920 г. – Стефан Паприков, български генерал (* 1858 г.)\n 1941 г. – Иван Томов, морски капитан (* 1898 г.)\n 1941 г. – Рама VII, крал на Сиам (* 1893 г.)\n 1942 г. – Борис Сафонов, съвенски военен пилот (* 1915 г.)\n 1949 г. – Марку Беза, румънски писател (* 1882 г.)\n 1954 г. – Кларънс Оберндорф, американски психиатър (* 1882 г.)\n 1960 г. – Борис Пастернак, руски писател, носител на Нобелова награда за литература през 1958 г. (* 1890 г.)\n 1960 г. – Луи Йелмслев, датски лингвист († 1899 г.\n 1963 г. – Невена Дончева, българска певица (* 1909 г.)\n 1967 г. – Клод Рейнс, американски актьор (* 1889 г.)\n 1978 г. – Тецу Катаяма, министър-председател на Япония (* 1887 г.)\n 1979 г. – Илка Попова, българска певица (* 1905 г.)\n 1981 г. – Зиаур Рахман, президент на Бангладеш (* 1936 г.)\n 1985 г. – Григорий Майстрос, гръцки духовник (* 1917 г.)\n 1993 г. – Сън Ра, американски музикант (* 1914 г.)\n 2001 г. – Георги Божилов, български художник (* 1935 г.)\n 2007 г. – Делчо Делчев, български генерал (* 1920 г.)\n 2009 г. – Нончо Воденичаров, български певец (* 1955 г.)\n 2012 г. – Андрю Хъксли, английски физиолог и биофизик, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1917 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на предизвикателството\n Ангуила – Ден на Ангуила (1967 г., въвеждане на самостоятелна полиция, с ранг на национален празник)\n Украйна – Ден на работниците в издателствата, книгоразпространението и полиграфията\n Хърватия - национален празник\n\n530"
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        "text": "Big Knife, The (1955) August 15 (ET) - REMINDER\nOnce A Thief (1965) September 24 (ET) - REMINDER\nFOR Jack Palance YOU CAN\nMan In The Attic ... After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a... more info $14.95was $14.99 Buy Now\nOnce A Thief ... Six years out of prison and Eddie Pedak (Alain Delon) has kept his nose clean,... more info $17.56was $21.99 Buy Now\nBat Masterson: The Series ... Bat Masterson: The Series (Seasons 1, 2 & 3) PLUS 2 Bonus Movies - 16 DVD... more info $38.95was $40.00 Buy Now\n4 Film Favorites: Batman... Bat's entertainment! The Caped Crusader takes on Gotham City's most diabolical... more info $20.95was $24.98 Buy Now\nBatman / Batman Returns ... Double Feature. more info $7.95was $9.98 Buy Now\n4 Film Favorites: Batman... Rev up the Batmobile! This collection includes the first four Batman Motion... more info $11.21was $14.98 Buy Now\nAlso Known As: Walter Palanskie, Vladimir Palahnuik, Walter Palance, Walter Jack Palance, Walter \"Jack\" Palance Died: November 10, 2006\nBorn: February 18, 1918 Cause of Death:\nBirth Place: Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania Profession: actor, model, professional boxer, salesman, short order cook, waiter, radio repairman, coal miner, cattle rancher, lifeguard\nPossessing a face seemingly carved out of granite and a voice filled with equal parts gravel and menace, actor Jack Palance was an easy choice to play the heavy, but it was his underutilized intelligence and humor that allowed him to occasionally break free from Hollywood typecasting, with wonderfully unpredictable results. Following an auspicious Broadway debut, the young actor burst onto the screen with deliciously nasty performances in \"Panic in the Streets\" (1950), \"Sudden Fear\" (1952) and \"Shane\" (1953). However, despite having already garnered a pair of Academy Award nominations, Palance soon found himself being pigeon-holed as either a crook or a killer. Well regarded projects like \"The Big Knife\" (1955) and \"Requiem for a Heavyweight\" (CBS, 1956) gave audiences a glimpse of Palance’s versatility. Seeking out work in Europe, the ex-pat actor took part in such diverse efforts as the cut-rate adventure \"Sword of the Conqueror\" (1961) and the French New Wave drama \"Le Mepris\" (\"Contempt\") (1963). With rewarding film roles becoming sparse, Palance found a modicum of success on television with endeavors such as a chilling adaptation of \"Dracula\" (CBS, 1974) and as the host of \"Ripley’s Believe It...\nPossessing a face seemingly carved out of granite and a voice filled with equal parts gravel and menace, actor Jack Palance was an easy choice to play the heavy, but it was his underutilized intelligence and humor that allowed him to occasionally break free from Hollywood typecasting, with wonderfully unpredictable results. Following an auspicious Broadway debut, the young actor burst onto the screen with deliciously nasty performances in \"Panic in the Streets\" (1950), \"Sudden Fear\" (1952) and \"Shane\" (1953). However, despite having already garnered a pair of Academy Award nominations, Palance soon found himself being pigeon-holed as either a crook or a killer. Well regarded projects like \"The Big Knife\" (1955) and \"Requiem for a Heavyweight\" (CBS, 1956) gave audiences a glimpse of Palance’s versatility. Seeking out work in Europe, the ex-pat actor took part in such diverse efforts as the cut-rate adventure \"Sword of the Conqueror\" (1961) and the French New Wave drama \"Le Mepris\" (\"Contempt\") (1963). With rewarding film roles becoming sparse, Palance found a modicum of success on television with endeavors such as a chilling adaptation of \"Dracula\" (CBS, 1974) and as the host of \"Ripley’s Believe It or Not\" (ABC, 1982-86). Palance bookended his expansive résumé with a late-career comeback when he parodied his own villainous persona in the comedy feature \"City Slickers\" (1991), a performance that won the veteran actor his only Academy Award. Long regarded as the quintessential movie bad guy, Palance had the last laugh when his impromptu, one-handed push-up demonstration during his Oscar acceptance became one of the most iconic and hilarious moments in the televised ceremony’s broadcast history.\nBorn Volodymyr Palahniuk on Feb. 18, 1919 in Lattimer Pines, PA, \"Jack\" was the son of Ukrainian immigrant parents, Vladmir and Anna. As a boy, he worked alongside his father in the local coalmines, only to find escape from the risky work via his athletic prowess. In the 1930s, under the nom de guerre of Jack Brazzo, he enjoyed a short, successful career as a boxer. Palance – a name he would later adopt upon deciding to become an actor – had already begun to doubt the wisdom of taking beatings for money, when the outbreak of World War II brought his stint in the ring to an abrupt end. In 1942, he enrolled in the U.S. Army Air Corps., where he underwent pilot’s training until a serious accident led to hospitalization and his eventual discharge. On the G.I. Bill, Palance attended Stanford University, and after flirting with the idea of studying journalism, he opted for drama, a field he hoped might prove more lucrative. Upon earning his bachelors degree in 1947, the aspiring actor returned to the East Coast, where his distinctive looks and resonant voice paved the way for his Broadway debut that same year in \"The Big Two.\" More stage roles followed, including one as Anthony Quinn’s understudy as Stanley Kowalski in the touring production of Tennessee Williams’ \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" in 1948. Later, Palance replaced Marlon Brando for the same role in the Broadway version of the production, directed by Elia Kazan. When Kazan began casting for his next feature film, a gritty noir to be shot on location in New Orleans, he specifically sought out lesser known actors with believably rough-hewn characteristics. He found what he was looking for in Palance.\nBilled has Walter \"Jack\" Palance, he made his film debut in the thriller \"Panic in the Streets\" (1950), as a killer unwittingly infected with pneumonic plague who is being tracked by a health service officer (Richard Widmark) to prevent a citywide epidemic. Although the film met with mixed reviews, nearly all critics gave favorable notices to newcomer Palance. After another appearance alongside Widmark in the war story \"Halls of Montezuma\" (1950), he followed with two more impressive film roles, both of which earned the young star Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In the first, Palance played Joan Crawford’s duplicitous husband harboring deadly intentions in the thriller \"Sudden Fear\" (1952), followed by a career-defining turn as a cold-blooded gunslinger out to take down Alan Ladd in the classic Western \"Shane\" (1953). Leading roles soon followed, beginning with his fictionalized characterization of Jack the Ripper in the modest period thriller \"Man in the Attic\" (1953), and an ill-advised attempt to fill Bogie’s shoes in \"I Died a Thousand Times\" (1955), an unnecessary remake of \"High Sierra.\" (1941). Although quickly identified as a movie heavy, he also managed to play more sympathetic characters. Most notable was his highly charged portrayal of a blackmailed movie star in Robert Aldrich's adaptation of Clifford Odets' blistering portrait of Hollywood, \"The Big Knife\" (1955), followed by an Emmy-winning turn as a washed-up boxer in Rod Serling's landmark teleplay, \"Requiem for a Heavyweight\" (CBS, 1956).\nPalance reteamed with director Aldrich for the grim and unflinching World War II action-drama \"Attack!\" (1956), and once more for Aldrich’s post-WWII tale of a German bomb squad in \"Ten Seconds to Hell\" (1959). With the dawn of the 1960s, the actor found himself taking on more film work abroad, particularly in Italy, where he began churning out lackluster actioners, such as \"The Barbarians\" (1960) and \"Sword of the Conqueror\" (1961). Nonetheless, Palance continued to turn in respectable performances in such films as the religious epic \"Barabbas\" (1962) and a convincing appearance as a vulgar American movie producer in French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's \"Le Mepris\" (\"Contempt\") (1963). Returning stateside, he gave episodic television a try for the first time with the big top-themed melodrama \"The Greatest Show on Earth\" (ABC, 1963-64), on which Palance played circus manager Johnny Slate. After the demise of the short-lived series, the actor took a supporting role opposite French leading man Alain Delon and Hollywood sex kitten Ann-Margret in the crime thriller \"Once a Thief\" (1965). Over the next two decades, Palance would keep busy with a combination of supporting roles in main stream adventures, such as the Burt Lancaster Western \"The Professionals\" (1966), and decidedly more \"B-grade\" material like the Hong Kong mercenary adventure \"Kill a Dragon\" (1967).\nPalance’s work on television increased during this time as well, and the scenery-chewing actor clearly enjoyed the wider latitude allowed to him in such projects as the Dan Curtis-produced \"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (ABC, 1968). In addition to turns in easily forgotten shoot-‘em-ups like \"The Mercenary\" (1968) and \"The Desperados\" (1969), he played Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in the biopic \"Che!\" (1969), opposite Omar Sharif in the title role, then reteamed with his \"I Died a Thousand Times\" co-star Lee Marvin for the Western requiem \"Monte Walsh\" (1970). There was more work in the wide open spaces of the Western genre, opposite Charles Bronson in \"Chato’s Land\" (1972) and George C. Scott in \"Oklahoma Crude\" (1973), prior to his seething portrayal of Bram Stoker’s titular count in \"Dracula\" (CBS, 1974). Buoyed by that success, Palance decided to give a weekly TV series one more try when he signed to star on the police drama \"Bronk\" (1975-76), in which he played a tough, yet contemplative cop who takes on corruption in a fictional California burgh called Ocean City. The show, however, was another single season effort for Palance, who quickly returned to such subpar fare as \"The Shape of Things to Come\" (1979), a schlocky sci-fi movie that had very little to do with the original H.G. Wells source material. Dreck like the Italian-produced sword and sorcery adventure \"Hawk the Slayer\" (1981) and the thriller \"Alone in the Dark\" (1982) kept the actor employed, if not creatively satisfied.\nWhile not necessarily career-boosting, at least the hours were better and the work steady for Palance when he accepted hosting duties on the historical oddities documentary program \"Ripley's Believe It or Not\" (ABC, 1982-86). Palance’s campy delivery of the famous catchphrase, \"Believe it... or not\" was possibly the most consistently entertaining aspect of the guilty pleasure series, which he co-hosted for a time with his daughter, Holly. After endearing himself to a new generation of audiences with an offbeat performance as a courtly, aging artist in Percy Adlon's cult hit, \"Bagdad Cafe\" (1987), Palance’s career experienced a much-needed resurgence. He embraced his villainous side with despicable turns in the Brat Pack Western \"Young Guns\" (1988), and an appearance as the crime boss of Gotham City in director Tim Burton’s \"Batman\" (1989). Neither of these roles, however, would match the impact that his performance as tough-as-nails trail boss Curly Washburn in the Billy Crystal comedy \"City Slickers\" (1991) would have on his waning film career. The hit movie won the obviously tickled veteran an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and led to another sprightly and unexpected performance at the Academy Awards ceremony. As Palance strode onto the stage to accept his statuette, he gave an impromptu one-handed push-up demonstration as a commentary on his late-life virility, much to the delight of the audience and host Crystal, who turned the display into a series of well-received running jokes throughout the remainder of the 1992 broadcast.\nPalance tried to keep the momentum going with a starring turn opposite funnyman Chevy Chase in the criminally unfunny \"Cops and Robbersons\" (1994), prior to the inevitable sequel, \"City Slickers II: The Search for Curly's Gold\" (1994), playing the deceased Curly’s brother, Duke, in the latter film. Couched amidst several television efforts, Palance later played Long John Silver in a reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s \"Treasure Island\" (2001). It would be his final role in a feature film before his death of natural causes at his home in Montecito, CA on Nov. 10, 2006. Jack Palance was 87 years old.\nVIEW THE FULL BIOGRAPHY\nBack When We Were Grownups (2004)\nTreasure Island (2001)\nMarco Polo (2000)\nSarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999) John Witting\nEbenezer (1998) Ebenezer; Future Scrooge\nI'll Be Home For Christmas (1997) Bob Greiser\nSwan Princess, The (1994)\nCops And Robbersons (1994)\nCity Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)\nTwilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)\nMilestones close milestones\nBecame a professional boxer at age 20; reportedly won 18 out of 20 bouts (date approximate)\nCo-starred in \"Sign of the Pagan\"\nCo-starred in \"The Professionals\"\nFilm debut in \"Panic in the Streets\", directed by Kazan\nHosted four syndicated historical documentary specials, \"Legends of the West with Jack Palance\"\nHosted the special \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\"\nInjured throat in last fight; left with signature raspy voice\nJoined US Army Air Force; involved in plane crash during training\nMade guest appearance on TV's \"The Perry Como Show\"; surprised many by displaying his vocal abilities\nProvided the voice for the sinister villain Rothbert in the animated \"The Swan Princess\"\nReceived first Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for \"Sudden Fear\"\nReturned to the stage as the King of Siam opposite Celeste Holm's Anna Leonowens in \"The King and I\" in Anaheim, California\nAttended Stanford on the GI Bill\nCo-starred in \"Batman\" directed by Tim Burton\nDirected by Jean-Luc Godard in \"Contempt\"\nHad dual role in \"The House of Numbers\"\nPortrayed a movie idol in \"The Big Knife\"\nReceived top billing in a feature film for the first time in the Jack the Ripper Gothic thriller, \"Man in the Attic\"\nSpent a summer season at the American Shakespeare Festival in Straford, Connecticut\nStarred as Johnny Slate on the ABC TV series, \"The Greatest Show on Earth\"\nStartled audience and gave host Billy Crystal material for quips when he performed a series of one-armed push-ups as part of his Oscar acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ceremony after winning Best Supporting Actor Oscar for \"City Slickers\"\nWalked out on Fox contract when he failed to be cast alongside Brando in \"Viva, Zapata!\"; role went to Anthony Quinn who won an Oscar\nWhile at Stanford, landed role alongside Aline MacMahon in the play \"My Indian Family\"\nAfter returning to NYC, became Marlon Brando's understudy for the Broadway production of \"A Streetcar Named Desire\", staged by Elia Kazan; spotted by 20th Century Fox talent scout when he went on for Brando\nAppeared as Curly's twin brother in \"City Slickers II: The Secret of Curly's Gold\"\nAppeared in the Off-Broadway production of \"The Silver Tassie\"\nBegan playing primarily supporting parts in features with his role in \"Once a Thief\"\nCast as the hired gunman in \"Shane\"; although filmed before \"Sudden Fear\", \"Shane\" was not released until the following year\nCo-starred with George C Scott and Faye Dunaway in \"Oklahoma Crude\"\nFirst color film, \"Second Chance\"\nFirst TV miniseries, \"The Golden Moment--An Olympic Love Story\"\nHosted the ABC half-hour primetime documentary series, \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\"; daughter Holly served as co-host\nHosted the ABC primetime documentary series, \"Ripley's Believe It or Not\"\nLived in Switzerland\nMoved to NYC\nPortrayed a painter in \"Bagdad Cafe\"\nReturned to films after a six-year absence in \"Marco Polo\"\nReturned to Pennsylvania and worked briefly as a coal miner\nTV-movie debut, \"Dracula\"\nWorked for a time as a reporter in San Francisco for $35 a week\nBroadway acting debut, a one-line role as a Russian soldier in \"The Big Two\"\nCast as Christopher Walken's father in the CBS \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\" presentation \"Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End\"\nCast as Fidel Castro in \"Che!\", the biopic of revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara\nHad featured role in the CBS miniseries \"Buffalo Girls\"\nHad title role in the CBS adaptation of \"Dracula\"\nHad title roles in the ABC special \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\"; was injured in a fall during filming and later sued, receiving some $500,000 in damages\nLeft military service; returned to work in the coal mines\nPlayed Curly, an ornery trail boss who whips a trio of urban dwellers into shape to participate in a Montana cattle drive in \"City Slickers\"\nPlayed the Jabberwock in a one-hour NBC-TV musical adaptation, \"Alice Through the Looking Glass\"\nPlayed title role in \"Ebenezer\", the TNT-aired adaptation of \"A Christmas Carol\"\nPortrayed Long John Silver in feature remake of \"Treasure Island\"\nPut under contract by 20th Century Fox\nReturned to Broadway in \"Darkness at Noon\"\nReturned to features with his leading role in the adult action-fantasy, \"Gor\"\nStarred in the title role of the NBC adventure special \"Rivak, the Barbarian\"\nUnderstudied Anthony Quinn in the national tour of \"A Streetcar Named Desire\"\nVIEW ALL MILESTONES\nHazle Township High School: Hazle, Pennsylvania -\nUniversity of North Carolina: -\nStanford University: Stanford, California -\nPalance owns a ranch in California's Tehachapi Mountains where he runs 150 head of cattle.\nStories on Palance often note that the slightly coarse and leathery quality of the skin on his face was due to plastic surgery he underwent after suffering burns during combat in WWII, but in some interviews Palance has denied this.\nCompanions close complete companion listing\nwife:\nVirginia Baker. Actor. Met when both worked as understudies in the national tour of \"A Streetcar Named Desire\"; married on April 21, 1949; divorced in 1969.\nElaine Rogers. Married in May 1987; divorced.\nFamily close complete family listing\nJohn Palahnuik. Coal miner. Ukranian.\nAnna Palahnuik.\nbrother:\nLeon Palahniuk. Made appearances in films like \"Chato's Land\" and \"Te Deum\".\ndaughter:\nHolly Palance. Actor, screenwriter. Born on August 6, 1950; was one of Palance's co-hosts on TV's \"Ripley's Believe It or Not\".\nBrooke Palance. Born on February 9, 1952.\nCody John Palance. Born in 1955; died of melanoma in 1999 at the age of 43.\nVIEW COMPLETE FAMILY LISTING\nBibliography close complete biography\n\"The Forest of Love\" Summerhouse Press"
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        "text": "I so want to make this for our balcony! (We are in an apartment). My kids would love watching the birds come. Thanks! SO Cute!\nSuper cute idea! I’m not the biggest fan of birds, either, but this project is surely tempting to make!\nbrilliant! Polka dots make anything look fab! I love this Char!\nWell, “regular” birds are better than pigeons!! But this is adorable, I love it!\nI’m ROFL “rats with feathers”! I agree! You sure made a super cute place for those feathery rats to hang out! LOL! Awesome project!\nYou are so clever! This is definitely the perfect retreat for them. I love how this looks!\nGenius! Very cool, and I so love the Polka Dots. Way to lure the birds away from your dryer vent! I think I’ll have the kids make something like this soon.\nYou’re cool! Won’t you be my neighbor? The polka dots are too cute. I actually need a new mailbox… mine is nice and faded… but maybe I’ll just paint it and add polka dots…. no bird seed though. My cat eats all the birds when they land on the neighbors bird feeder…. ummm, oops, wait! He’s not my cat, I swear!\nThat’s awesome! My son has been asking for a birdhouse. Now this is more my style!\nYou can’t get any more sweeter then this.Tthanks for posting.\nThis is so precious! Love the polka dots. The color on it is so Springy and cute. What a great idea, thanks for sharing!!\nThis is very cute. I kind of agree with you about birds but they give a pretty song in the spring time.\nVery cute! Love your post and I am going to repost on my blog later this week. I invite you to swing by and check it out.\nLOVE this! Such a fun idea.\nThe dots are so cute! It’s so good to know I’m not the only heartless soul who hates birds..\nI absolutely adore this!! If I can find an old mailbox I just may try to do this. It probably won’t look remotely this good.\nLove it! I’m going to try to make it for my mom for Mother’s Day. I don’t know about the dots though. I have no way to make vinyl dots. I love polka dots, too! I might make one for me as well! Thanks for sharing!"
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        "text": "31 май е 151-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (152-ри през високосна). Остават 214 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1815 г. – Провъзгласено е създаването на Кралство Нидерландия, което включва и днешна Белгия.\n 1876 г. – Априлското въстание: Четата на Христо Ботев изчаква в района на връх Веслец подкрепление от околните села; след като се разбира, че въстанието в Трети революционен окръг е осуетено, четата се насочва към Врачанската планина.\n 1894 г. – Приключва мандата на Стефан Стамболов като министър-председател на България, за премиер е избран Константин Стоилов.\n 1895 г. – Основан е чешкият футболен отбор СК Славия.\n 1902 г. – Слага се край на Англо-бурската война.\n 1902 г. – В Санкт Петербург е подписана тайна българо-руска военна концепция.\n 1903 г. – Четите на Пандо Кляшев и Васил Чекаларов водят сражение при Локвата и Виняри.\n 1910 г. – Създаден е Южноафриканският съюз.\n 1911 г. – Президентът на Мексико Порфирио Диас напуска страната след избухването на Мексиканската революция.\n 1924 г. – СССР подписва споразумение с Пекин, според което Вътрешна Монголия е „неделима част от Република Китай“ и чийто суверенитет СССР обещава да уважава.\n 1927 г. – Последният автомобил Ford Model T излиза от конвейера – той е 15 007 003-тият екземпляр на модела.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Луфтвафе бомбардира английския град Ковънтри.\n 1946 г. – Основан е АНТК Антонов.\n 1946 г. – Летище Хийтроу край Лондон е отворено за граждански цели.\n 1952 г. – Дуайт Айзенхауер се отказва от активна служба в Армията на САЩ.\n 1961 г. – Установени са дипломатически отношения между Народна република България и Република Гана.\n 1961 г. – Създадена е Южноафриканската република.\n 1962 г. – Конфедерацията Западна Индия се разпада.\n 1969 г. – Създава се Национален комитет за европейска сигурност и сътрудничество.\n 1970 г. – Земетресение с магнитуд 7,5 по скалата на Рихтер разтърсва Перу.\n 1974 г. – Сирия и Израел подписват споразумение за слагане на края на Йомкипурската война.\n 1977 г. – Завършен е нефтопровода Трансаляска.\n 1985 г. – 41 торнада поразяват Охайо, Пенсилвания, Ню Йорк и Онтарио, като жертвите са 76 души.\n 1986 г. – В НДК се провежда голям концерт на оперния певец Никола Гюзелев по повод на 50-годишния му юбилей.\n 1996 г. – България отправя молба за членство в Централноевропейското споразумение за зона за свободна търговия (ЦЕФТА).\n 1996 г. – Във Виена България, заедно с Албания, Беларус и Украйна, е приета за член на Централноевропейската инициатива (ЦЕИ).\n 2000 г. – За последен път се излъчва телевизионният канал на БНТ Ефир 2.\n 2001 г. – За химн на Българската армия официално е обявен маршът Велик е нашият войник.\n 2002 г. – Започва Световно първенство по футбол 2002 в Япония и Южна Корея.\n 2003 г. – Самолетът на Ер Франс Конкорд извършва последния полет на този модел.\n 2003 г. – Терористът Ерик Рудолф е заловен в Мърфи.\n 2004 г. – Грешка по време на рутинно софтуерно обновяване в Канадската кралска банка става причина за тридневно объркване на 10 милиона салда.\n\nРодени \n 1469 г. – Мануел I, крал на Португалия († 1521 г.)\n 1557 г. – Фьодор I, цар на Русия († 1598 г.)\n 1656 г. – Марен Маре, френски придворен композитор († 1728 г.)\n 1773 г. – Лудвиг Тик, германски поет († 1853 г.)\n 1817 г. – Георг Хервег, германски поет († 1875 г.)\n 1819 г. – Уолт Уитман, американски поет († 1892 г.)\n 1857 г. – Пий XI, римски папа († 1939 г.)\n 1866 г. – Кръстьо Кръстев, български литературен критик и писател († 1919 г.)\n 1872 г. – Чарлз Грийли Абът, американски астрофизик († 1973 г.)\n 1881 г. – Стефан Баджов, български художник († 1953 г.)\n 1887 г. – Сен-Джон Перс, френски поет, Нобелов лауреат († 1975 г.)\n 1890 г. – Петко Стайнов, български юрист († 1972 г.)\n 1898 г. – Грегор Щрасер, германски политик († 1934 г.)\n 1899 г. – Леонид Леонов, руски писател († 1994 г.)\n 1903 г. – Маньо Стоянов, български литературовед, историк, библиограф († 1986 г.)\n 1911 г. – Морис Але, френски икономист, носител на Нобелова награда († 2010 г.)\n 1917 г. – Жан Руш, френски режисьор и антрополог († 2004 г.)\n 1922 г. – Денъм Елиът, британски актьор († 1992 г.)\n 1923 г. – Рение III, принц на Монако (1949 – 2005) († 2005 г.)\n 1930 г. – Клинт Истууд, американски актьор и режисьор\n 1931 г. – Джон Робърт Шрифър, американски физик и Нобелов лауреат († 2019 г.)\n 1931 г. – Хуан Карлос Копес, аржентински хореограф († 2021 г.)\n 1938 г. – Джон Прескът, британски политик\n 1945 г. – Райнер Вернер Фасбиндер, немски кинорежисьор († 1982 г.)\n 1947 г. – Васил Сотиров, български писател\n 1947 г. – Вълко Ценов, български скулптор\n 1948 г. – Джон Бонъм, британски барабанист († 1980 г.)\n 1956 г. – Николай Сотиров, български актьор\n 1957 г. – Габриел Барили, австрийски писател, актьор и режисьор\n 1958 г. – Бойко Клечков, български политик и икономист\n 1960 г. – Крис Елиът, американски актьор\n 1962 г. – Бьорг Оусланд, норвежки изследовател\n 1963 г. – Виктор Орбан, унгарски политик и министър-председател\n 1965 г. – Брук Шийлдс, американска актриса\n 1967 г. – Сандрин Бонер, френска актриса\n 1968 г. – Джон Конъли, ирландски писател\n 1976 г. – Колин Фарел, ирландски актьор\n 1977 г. – Симеон Аспарухов, български поет\n 1978 г. – Даниел Беконо, камерунски футболист\n 1984 г. – Йордан Кънев, български тенисист\n 1989 г. – Марко Ройс, германски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1015 г. – Ернст I, херцог на Швабия (* ок. 994 г.)\n 1162 г. – Геза II, крал на Унгария (* 1130 г.)\n 1594 г. – Якопо Тинторето, италиански художник, маниерист (* 1518 г.)\n 1740 г. – Фридрих Вилхелм I, крал на Прусия (* 1688 г.)\n 1809 г. – Жан Лан, френски офицер (* 1769 г.)\n 1809 г. – Йозеф Хайдн, австрийски композитор (* 1732 г.)\n 1832 г. – Еварист Галоа, френски математик (* 1811 г.)\n 1888 г. – Виктор Нишки, български духовник (* 1783 г.)\n 1910 г. – Елизабет Блекуел, британско-американска лекарка (* 1821 г.)\n 1911 г. – Блаже Кръстев, български революционер (* 1873 г.)\n 1952 г. – Стефан Македонски, български оперен певец (* 1885 г.)\n 1962 г. – Адолф Айхман, нацистки офицер (* 1906 г.)\n 1976 г. – Жак Моно, френски биолог и биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1965 г. (* 1910 г.)\n 1983 г. – Джак Демпси, американски боксьор (* 1895 г.)\n 1986 г. – Джеймс Рейнуотър, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1917 г.)\n 1990 г. – Васил Попов, български математик, член-кореспондент на БАН (* 1942 г.)\n 1996 г. – Тимъти Лири, американски психолог, автор на книги (* 1920 г.)\n 2003 г. – Франческо Коласуоно, италиански духовник (* 1925 г.)\n 2005 г. – Любомир Георгиев, български виолончелист и композитор (* 1951 г.)\n 2006 г. – Минчо Семов, български учен (* 1935 г.)\n 2006 г. – Реймънд Дейвис, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1914 г.)\n 2013 г. – Владимир Гоев, български художник (* 1925 г.)\n 2014 г. – Таня Масалитинова, българска актриса (* 1921 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден без тютюнопушене\n Международен ден на блондинките (отбелязва се от 2006 г.)\n\n531"
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        "text": "Buy 1 for $26.55Buy 2 / Save $1.42!Buy 3 / Save $5.31!\nPoke Root is most definitely available to be shipped within Canada! With the exception of very few products, such as Lidocaine 4%, all of the single herbal approaches and blends are able to be shipped to you if you reside in Canada. Please let us know if there is anything at all that we can do to help you with further information or if you would like to receive wholesale pricing on your purchases. We look very forward to having the opportunity of serving you in the future and welcoming you as a ZooScape.com customer!\nI am not aware that poke root would have the same effect as bloodroot for moles. I know that some people have had success with regular applications of castor oil and baking soda on moles, warts, corns, calluses, ingrown toe nails, and other minor skin blemishes. You must be patient, as this may take several nightly applications before the blemish dries and falls off in layers. The castor oil must be raw and cold-pressed. Simple household baking soda is mixed into it, so that a thin, workable paste or gum is formulated. You may discover some irritation after a few applications; skip an application if this occurs, then reapply a couple days later. This should be done for 4 to 6 weeks.\nApply Bianca Rosa salve morning and evenings, or as directed by a health care practitioner. On a moist cotton wool pad or with the fingertips, apply to the desired area of the body. Massage onto thoroughly cleansed skin with a gentle circular motion."
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        "text": "South Africa’s 55,910,000 population comprises the world’s biggest HIV epidemic: an unusually high 18.9% adult people living with HIV (PLHIV)—varying by region—and 270,000 new infections in 2016. Nationwide 320,000 children are infected.\nMen who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, sex workers and people who inject drugs (PWID) experience even higher rates: sex workers nationally 57.7%, in Johannesburg an astonishing 71.8%., yet not many are getting Antiretroviral therapy (ART). The rate of infection among young women is 4 times greater than among same-age men.\nHigh levels of stigma, homophobia and ignorance prevent many people living with HIV (PLHIV) from getting the health care they need.\nYet there is ground for hope. South Africa has the largest Antiretroviral therapy (ART) program in the world, a huge investment. It was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to approve PrEP. It now has a progressive national HIV policy for sex workers, although on the ground, the program meets resistance from local authorities.\n(Figures from AVERT, 2016)\nTruckdrivers at Pomona\nPomona is a truck stop where every day dozens of drivers maintain their trucks and take some time to relax. At Pomona there is a gas station, a cafe, a laundromat and a shop. There are also dozens of sexworkers.\nMost truck drivers and sexworkers we’ve met came from Zimbabwe. But we also spoke to men and women from Zambia, Ghana and South Africa. Doctors estimate that more than 60 percent of the men and women at Pomona are infected with HIV. North Star Alliance has a container clinic on this site where you can be treated for HIV.\nPetros Size Acid\nOur man from Zimbabwe\nI’m sitting on the veranda of the clinic dozing when I first spot him, the truck driver in his dark shabby outfit who comes quietly but purposefully towards me. Through the dust clouds swirling in the bright sunlight, it’s as if he’s floating at his own pace, in his own world.\nWhen he’s standing in front of me a few seconds later, I’m surprised when he stretches out his hand and politely greets me.\n“Good afternoon, sir.”\nI see now that he’s still a young man. The lines that life leaves behind when we age have not yet marked his face. He looks at me without guilt or shame. An explorer, who has yet to take the first steps of his long journey, but trusting that all the days to come will bring good luck.\nHe’s a remarkable man. Before I can say anything, he surprises me for the second time. “I have come for the HIV test. I told the nurse yesterday that I was coming. Here I am.”\nI am speechless…\nOf course, HIV is prevalent in this world. The nurses who work in the container clinic behind me estimate that 80 percent of the truckers and 60 percent of the sex workers who have gathered on this dusty piece of land are infected with HIV.\nIt means that nearly all the adult men and women on this piece of land have HIV, a truth that blows me away when it sinks in… But despite the fact that HIV is so prevalent, it’s not talked about much. On the contrary. At this truck stop HIV is not spoken about. Here they whisper about it, preferably after sunset. Telling a strange white man about your HIV test… no one does that.\nExcept for the unusual man standing in front of me…\n“When you’ve finished with the nurse at the clinic, shall we talk?” I ask him.\nFIRST MAN-TO-MAN TALK ABOUT HIV\n“Did you get the result immediately?”\nHe nods. “It was positive.”\n“I’m sorry to hear that.”\nHe looks unfazed, but I feel that appearances are deceiving. It must have been a shock. A positive HIV test is always a shock.\n“I’m going to take the pills. Every day. Then you don’t die. I will be fine.”\n“Yes,” I say, “that’s right. Look at me. I’ve been taking the pills for 20 years and I’m still not dead. And I’m not going to die either, not for a long time.”\nHe looks at me with eyes wide. He asks me three times to repeat “20 years”. He’s being told that you can grow old with HIV, that unlike 10 years ago, you aren’t necessarily sick from this virus, you won’t die.\nBut so much is said, so much is whispered.\n“How old are you?” he asks. Because he wants to make sure I’m not fooling him.\n“I’m 56.”\nOkay, he thinks, then you can have the virus for 20 years. He takes my hand, shakes it long and enthusiastically. “I’m 28,” he says. “And you’re 56!?”\n“You don’t look like an old man. You’re not sick.”\n“I’m not sick. I work, I travel, I drink a beer, I’m talking to you here…. And I still do all the things that men do.”\nThe last makes him extremely happy. Men are attached to their man things, it’s as simple as that. We talk for at least five minutes about all those things you don’t often talk about, but which you can’t do without. Three times he expresses his surprise that I’m 56, because that’s really old, especially when you consider all the years that I’ve had the virus in my body. And yes, how good it is even if you’re so old, and have the virus in your body for so long, that “you can still be happy and do the thing.”\nI’ve given him the gift of decades of life by my outpouring. That’s how he experiences it. After the setback of the positive test, this is a godsend.\nI ask him if he wants to tell me what made him decide to do an HIV test. That’s no problem; after all, we’re friends now. Although he wonders how anyone can be helped by it.\n“I’m a truck driver. I work for 11 months, but in December I’m free. Then I go home. We celebrate and party all month. I live in a village in Zimbabwe, two hours from Harare. But December last year, my wife behaved a bit odd. She was not happy to see me. There was much talk in the village. My sister told me that I had to ask my wife.”\n“You have to ask her!”\n“Then I discovered that my wife was secretly taking pills against the virus. She had another man, she said, who also had the virus. I was very angry and left the house. When I returned my wife was not there. Only our daughters were still at home. I have not seen my wife since.”\n“’You should call her’, my sister said. I talked to her once. She did not want to come back, she said. Then the phone stopped working.”\nMy sister was angry with me. She told me to go and look for her and punish her, and the man she ran away with, too. ”\n“Did you?”\n“No. No, I did not.”\nHe really loved his wife. He was angry, of course he was angry, but if she had come back, it would have been okay. He wouldn’t have shut her out because she had the virus. They would have gone through it together.\nIt was January and he had to go back to work. His mother and his sister promised to take care of his daughters.\n“Are your daughters healthy?”\n“Yes, my daughters are healthy.”\nThe 7-year-old was tested first, and then again to be sure. Twice his mother sent him the good news. The 4-year-old was tested, and she was clear too. She still needs to be tested a second time, but he’s confident that she’s also free of the virus.\nA CIGARETTE, AJAX AND AFRICA\nHe doesn’t smoke. The clumsy way he clamps the cigarette between his fingers betrays him. But that doesn’t spoil the enjoyment. We both feel deeply the happiness of this special moment. Because when two men sit at a table to talk about life, the intimacy between them is increased with every drag on a cigarette.\n“What do you do when you are free, when you have to wait for the next load?”\n“Then I clean the truck. And I talk to my friends… ”\n“About what?”\n“About everything! About the truck, about home, about football… We watch a lot of football together.”\n“Back home where I live, in Amsterdam, I also watch a lot of football. I support Ajax… Sometimes I go to the stadium to see a game.”\nHe doesn’t believe me. How is it possible that he’s here talking to someone who occasionally sits in the stands at the great Ajax? Then he starts to laugh, a laugh that grows and grows, a laugh that increasingly bursts at the seams; and this cheerful disbelief is unstoppable. He hits the table with his hand … “Ajax!!! Ajax Amsterdam!!??”\n“Yes, Ajax Amsterdam!”\n“Good for you, man. Good for you! ”\nHe’s a smart guy. Wise, in an African style. He’s much more able to withstand the accidents in life than most people I know. I don’t doubt his ability to survive. He will always be able to see the horizon where happiness awaits him. He won’t go under. He is like Africa in the 21st century. Poor, pushed aside, infected with HIV, but with an unshakable belief that the future belongs to them. He doesn’t know my world. Ajax Amsterdam in the Arena is out of reach for him. But the day will come when it will be different, when he sits next to me in the stands.\nSECOND MAN-TO-MAN TALK ABOUT HIV\nIt’s not easy to return to the reason for our conversation. HIV is never an easy subject to talk about.\n“So in April you were tested, but the result of the test was unclear, and that is the reason why you came back today for a new test?”\nHe nods.\n“Weren’t you worried over the past few months about the results of this new test? Did you think about not coming back at all? ”\n“No. I knew I would be back in Pomona. I always come back here. I arrived two nights ago and made an appointment in the morning… I told the nurses at the clinic in April that I would come back.”\nHe had some physical complaints and was worried. But perhaps the most important reason for him to be retested was the responsibility he felt, being the eldest son and a father of two.\n“I send my money to my mother in Zimbabwe so that she and my daughters can eat, and so that my children can go to school. If I keep taking the pills, I will stay healthy and I can stay on the truck. I have to, because there is no work in Zimbabwe…”\n“I’m saving for my mother now. Then she can start her own business in a few years. Then I’m going to save up for a business for myself. Yes, in my village, if I can in my village. That’s better for my daughters. ”\n“No longer driving the truck through Africa?”\n“If I have a business, I’ll have a car.”\nWe drink some more, in silence, and then we’re finished.\n“We’ll have to meet up again in 20 years,” I tell him. He takes that seriously.\n“That’s good. That would be great.”\n“You’ll be 48,” I say.\n“Yes, 48, and you’ll be…”\nIt takes a while for it to sink in.\n“That’s okay. Because you’re not going to die yet.”\n“No, and neither are you.”\nRussia Warrior\n“Women are stronger than men when they have to deal with HIV.”\nTruckers and\nSex workers\n“Only if they buy me a new dress, then they can kiss me.”\nHealth services to hard-to-reach populations\nNorth Star Alliance Clinic\n“We support each other. We’re sisters. We always support each other.”\nFlorence and Brilliance"
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        "text": "5 юни е 156-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (157-и през високосна година). Остават 209 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 70 г. – Тит Флавий Веспасиан и предвожданите от него римски легиони пробиват средната стена на Йерусалим в Обсадата на Йерусалим.\n 1305 г. – Бертран де Го е избран за папа под името Климент V.\n 1817 г. – Фронтенак става първият параход пуснат на вода в Големите езера.\n 1849 г. – Дания става конституционна монархия с подписването на нова конституция.\n 1851 г. – Романът Чичо Томовата колиба на Хариет Бичър Стоу започва да се публикува в подлистник във вестник Национална ера.\n 1864 г. – Американска гражданска война: Битката за Пиемонт завършва с победа на войските на генерал Дейвид Хънтър от Севера над войските на конфедератите от Юга. Битката се води при Пиемонт във Вирджиния. Близо 1000 души са пленени.\n 1866 г. – Според изчисленията, планетата Плутон е достигнала своя най-голям афелий; следващият афелий ще бъде достигнат през август 2113 г.\n 1873 г. – Основан е град Кимбърли в Република Южна Африка.\n 1900 г. – Британски войници превземат Претория по време на Втората бурска война.\n 1904 г. – Основан е парагвайският футболен Клуб Насионал.\n 1915 г. – Нанесени са поправки в конституцията на Дания, които дават избирателни права на жените.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: САЩ обявяват война на Царство България в отговор на обявената символична война на САЩ.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: При Битката при Мидуей е потопен японският самолетоносач „Акаги“.\n 1944 г. – Втора световна война: Над 1000 британски бомбардировача пускат 5000 тона бомби по германски артилерийски батареи на брега на Нормандия при подготовката за десанта от 6 юни 1944 г.\n 1947 г. – План Маршал: По време на реч в Харвардския университет държавният секретар на САЩ Джордж Маршал призовава за оказване на икономическа помощ на следвоенна Европа.\n 1963 г. – Британският военен министър Джон Профюмо подава оставка заради сексуален скандал.\n 1967 г. – Започва Шестдневната война с атаката на израелските военновъздушни сили срещу цели в Египет, Йордания и Сирия.\n 1968 г. – Американският кандидат-президент Робърт Кенеди е смъртоносно прострелян в хотел „Амбасадор“ в Лос Анджелис от палестински емигрант и умира на следващия ден.\n 1975 г. – Суецкият канал отваря за първи път след Шестдневната война.\n 1977 г. – Извършва се военен преврат в Сейшели.\n 1984 г. – Министър-председателят на Индия Индира Ганди дава нареждане за нападение над Златния храм, свещеното място на сикхите.\n 2004 г. – Антоанета Стефанова става световна шампионка по шахмат за жени.\n 2006 г. – Сърбия обявява независимост от конфедерацията Сърбия и Черна гора.\n 2017 г. – Черна гора става член на НАТО.\n\nРодени \n\n 1656 г. – Жозеф Питон дьо Турнфор, френски ботаник († 1708 г.)\n 1723 г. – Адам Смит, шотландски икономист и философ, основоположник на икономиката († 1790 г.)\n 1787 г. – Пиер Жан Жорж Кабанис, френски философ († 1808 г.)\n 1878 г. – Панчо Виля, мексикански революционер († 1923 г.)\n 1883 г. – Джон Мейнард Кейнс, английски икономист и учен († 1946 г.)\n 1898 г. – Федерико Гарсия Лорка, испански поет († 1936 г.)\n 1900 г. – Денис Габор, унгаро-английски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1979 г.)\n 1904 г. – Любен Димитров, български скулптор и художник († 2000 г.)\n 1905 г. – Михаил Венедиков, български геодезист († 1973 г.)\n 1914 г. – Роуз Хил, английска актриса († 2003 г.)\n 1927 г. – Калина Тасева, българска художничка († 2022 г.)\n 1928 г. – Тони Ричардсън, британски режисьор († 1991 г.)\n 1937 г. – Елен Сиксу, френска писателка\n 1941 г. – Бойко Димитров, български политик\n 1941 г. – Едуард Олтман, американски икономист\n 1946 г. – Патрик Хед, британски бизнесмен, технически директор от Формула 1 и съсобственик на отбор Уилямс\n 1946 г. – Стефания Сандрели, италианска актриса\n 1951 г. – Силвио Лонгобуко, италиански футболист († 2022 г.)\n 1952 г. – Нико Макбрейн, американски музикант (Iron Maiden)\n 1954 г. – Бедиа Енер, турска киноактриса\n 1956 г. – Кени Джи, американски саксофонист\n 1957 г. – Томас Клинг, германски поет († 2005 г.)\n 1957 г. – Емил Кюлев, български банкер († 2005 г.)\n 1960 г. – Петя Александрова, български кинокритик\n 1964 г. – Рик Риърдън, американски писател\n 1968 г. – Рихард Голц, германски футболен вратар\n 1969 г. – Брайън Макнайт, американски певец и продуцент\n 1971 г. – Марк Уолбърг, американски актьор\n 1973 г. – Ивелин Първанов, български писател и политик\n 1974 г. – Жоао Брито, португалски футболист\n 1974 г. – Чад Алън, американски актьор\n 1975 г. – Борислав Чучков, български сценарист\n 1979 г. – Пийт Уентз, американски музикант\n 1981 г. –  Милена Йорданова, тюрколог, професор\n 1985 г. – Рубен де ла Ред, испански футболист\n 1990 г. – Секу Олисе, либерийски футболист\n 1995 г. – Трой Сиван, австралийски актьор, певец и влогър от южноафрикански произход\n 1998 г. – Юлия Липницкая, руска фигуристка\n\nПочинали \n\n 754 г. – Бонифаций, английски мисионер (* ок. 672)\n 1316 г. – Луи X, крал на Франция (* 1289 г.)\n 1383 г. – Дмитрий III, велик княз на Владимирско-Суздалското княжество (* 1324 г.)\n 1568 г. – Ламорал Егмонт, фламандски благородник (* 1522 г.)\n 1722 г. – Йохан Кунау, германски композитор (* 1660 г.)\n 1816 г. – Джовани Паизиело, италиански композитор (* 1740 г.)\n 1826 г. – Карл Мария фон Вебер, германски композитор (* 1786 г.)\n 1894 г. – Жул-Леон Дютрей дьо Рен, френски изследовател и географ (* 1846 г.)\n 1900 г. – Стивън Крейн, американски писател (* 1871 г.)\n 1910 г. – О. Хенри, американски писател (* 1862 г.)\n 1912 г. – Костадин Голев, български революционер (* 1877 г.)\n 1930 г. – Жул Паскин, български художник (* 1885 г.)\n 1945 г. – Густав Фен, германски офицер (* 1892 г.)\n 1947 г. – Карл Богданович, руско-полски изследовател (* 1864 г.)\n 1953 г. – Бил Тилдън, американски тенисист (* 1893 г.)\n 1964 г. – Ангел Държански, български политик (* 1895 г.)\n 1975 г. – Паул Керес, естонски шахматист (* 1916 г.)\n 1991 г. – Оскар Аудьорш, германски офицер (* 1898 г.)\n 2001 г. – Симон Бенмуса, френски драматург и писател (* 1931 г.)\n 2004 г. – Роналд Рейгън, 40-и президент на САЩ (* 1911 г.)\n 2012 г. – Рей Бредбъри, американски писател (* 1920 г.)\n \n 2016 г. – Джеръм Брунър, американски психолог (* 1915 г.)\n\nПразници \n ООН – Световен ден на околната среда (отбелязва се от 1973 г. по решение на ООН)\n Дания – Ден на конституцията (1848 г., национален празник)\n\n605"
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        "text": "Philippines Overview:\nThe United States gained control of the Philippines in 1898 after defeating Spain in the Spanish-American War.\nThe Philippines gained their independence in 1946, following a period of Japanese occupation in the Second World War.\nFerdinand Marcos ruled the island as a dictator between 1965 to 1986.koo\nIslamic rebels continue to fight government forces in the south of the country, while a communist insurgency continues in other parts of the Philippines.\nThe Philippines’ economy has not realized the massive growth that many other countries in Southeast Asia have experienced over the past four decades.\nKey Facts and Data:\nOfficial Name – Republic of the Philippines\nCapital – Manila\nGovernment Type – Republic\nHead of State and Government – President Rodrigo Duterte (since 2016) • Population – 104,256,000\nLand Area – 298.170 sq. km\nTotal GDP (US$) – $305 billion\nCurrency – Philippine peso\nCurrent Events:\nPolitical Outlook :\nKey Political Issues\nEconomic Outlook :\nDemographic and Environmental Outlook :\nKey Political Events and Changes:\nPresident Duterte suggested that he wanted to finish his term early as he was becoming too old and tired to do the job.\nIn May 2018, the country’s highest court forced its chief justice, Maria Lourdes Sereno, to step down. She had been one of the most vocal critics of President Duterte and his war on drugs.\nPresident Duterte extended martial law by another year in the southern Philippines due to the threat of Islamist and Communist militants.\nThe United States and the Philippines carried out a large scale joint military exercise in May 2018.\nIn April 2018, Kuwait expelled the Philippines’ ambassador to that country over a dispute concerning the treatment of Philippine guest workers in that country.\nKey Economic Events and Changes:\nGDP growth in the Philippines accelerated to 6.8% on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter of 2018. Growth was boosted by highest levels of government spending and capital formation in the first quarter.\nExports from the Philippines declined by 8.2% year-on-year in March 2018, continuing a recent run of disappointing export results.\nThe country’s inflation rate rose to 4.5% year-on-year in April 2018.\nThe country’s central bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.25% in May 2018 in a bid to combat rising inflationary pressures.\nThe unemployment rate in the Philippines rose to 5.3% in the first quarter of 2018.\nThe government launched an investigation into a public dengue fever immunization program that may pose health risks to 730,000 children in the Philippines. This led to tens of thousands of parents refusing to allow their children to receive the vaccine in the first few months of 2018.\nIn April 2018, the government closed the popular tourist island of Boracay for six months in a bid to restore the environmental health of the island’s beaches and the waters off of the island.\nThe lower house of the Philippine parliament passed a bill that would legalize divorce in the country in April 2018. However, this bill faces major opposition, including from President Duterte.\nPhilippines Political Outlook\nPhilippines: Current Government\nPresident Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as president of the Philippines in mid-2016.\nMeanwhile, Leni Robredo became the new vice president at the same time.\nKey Members Of The Government :\nHead of State and Government – President Rodrigo Duterte\nVice-President – Leni Robredo\nMinister of Foreign Affairs – Alan Peter Cayetano\nMinister of Finance – Carlos Dominquez III\nMinister of the Interior and Local Government – Eduardo Ano\nMinister of Justice – Vitaliano Aguirre\nMinister of Defense – Delfin Lorenzana\nMinister of Trade and Industry – Ramon Lopez\nProfile of President Rodrigo Duterte\nRodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016, after winning a clear victory in that year’s presidential election.\nPrior to becoming president, he was the mayor of the southern city of Davao City, where he made a name for himself nationally by taking a hard line on crime and corruption and reducing that city’s crime rates dramatically.\nPresident Duterte is the first ethnic Mindinaoan to become the president of the Philippines.\nPresident Duterte has focused many of his efforts at reducing crime and corruption in the Philippines.\nHis methods (and his tone) have been criticized by human rights groups who accuse him of using unlawful methods to combat crime and corruption.\nPresident Duterte’s economy policies have been focused on improving living standards for poorer Filipinos.\nOtherwise, he has maintained many of the policies of his predecessors, including welcoming foreign investment and trade as a means of boosting economic growth and living standards in the Philippines.\nPhilippines: Most Recent Elections\nPresidential Elections – May 2016\nSummary of the Last Elections:\nThe controversial mayor of the southern city of Davao, Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte, won a resounding victory in May 2016’s presidential election.\nDuterte had trailed in the polls just a few months before the election, but his anti-crime platform won him a great deal of support in the final months of the campaign.\nIn the end, Duterte won 36.5% of the popular vote, well ahead of President Aquino’s favored candidate, Mar Roxas (22.% of the vote) and the relative newcomer, Grace Poe (20.5% of the vote).\nThe campaign was dominated by the controversial statements made before and during the campaign by Mr. Duterte.\nHe vowed to kill thousands of criminals in the Philippines and to bend the laws of the country to eliminate crime within his first year in office.\nMany foreign countries criticized Mr. Duterte in the run up to the election, but this did little to dent his popularity.\nPhilippines’ Leading Political Forces: Liberal Party (PLP)\nHistory :\nThe Liberal Party re-emerged as a leading force in the country’s politics following Benigno Aquino’s victory in the 2010 presidential election.\nThe Liberal Party has been in existence since 1945 and is now one of the best-established parties in the country.\nKey Policies and Stances :\nThe Liberals favor lower taxes for individuals and businesses in the Philippines.\nThe party has taken a strong stance against corruption in the country in recent years.\nThe Liberals were the leaders in the efforts to reduce the presence of the United States military in the Philippines.\nOutlook :\nThe Liberals will be the leading force in the country’s politics over the near-term thanks to President Aquino’s position.\nNevertheless, the party will likely find it difficult to exercise too much power given the divided nature of the country’s political system.\nPhilippines: International Relations Outlook\nChina’s claim to much of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, has been contested by the Philippines and this has significantly raised tensions between the two countries in recent years.\nMalaysia and the Philippines dispute the control of three islands in the South China Sea as well.\nThe Philippines main priority will be to maintain internal stability and this will heavily influence its international affairs for decades to come.\nRelations with the US will remain paramount as the Philippines looks to control Muslim rebels in the south and to hold off the rising influence of China.\nThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)\nThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has 10 member states: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.\nASEAN was established 1967 in Thailand by the organization’s five original members (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand).\nThe five additional members of ASEAN all joined the organization between 1984 and 1999.\nASEAN seeks to promote economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in Southeast Asia, while also seeking to promote regional peace and stability.\nOne of the organisations primary objectives is to establish ASEAN as a single market and production base, thus allowing the organization to better compete with its larger neighbors.\nASEAN intends to achieve this goal by establishing a free flow of investment, capital and products between member countries.\nFurthermore, ASEAN seeks to encourage peace in Southeast Asia and throughout the rest of Asia by ensuring democratic values are upheld in the region, although this aim has been severely tested in recent years.\nASEAN is facing a number of challenges that could jeopardize the prospects for unity and prosperity in Southeast Asia. First, political unrest in number of key member states could destabilize the region. Second, the economic challenge presented by China and India is threatening the region’s ability to maintain strong economic growth.\nPotential Conflict: China\nMain Disputes:\nThe two countries are the key players in the dispute over control of the potentially oil-rich Spratly Islands.\nMischief Reef, which is far closer to the Philippines than China, is currently occupied by Chinese forces.\nChina has asserted its “right” to control the entire South China Sea, including areas near the Philippines.\nThe Philippines regularly apprehends Chinese fishermen in Philippine waters.\nBest- and Worst-Case Scenarios:\nBest Case Scenario – China accepts an international settlement to the Spratly Islands dispute that allows the Philippines a share of the territory.\nWorst-Case Scenario – China asserts its claim to most of the South China Sea, bringing it into conflict with the Philippines.\nThe Philippines has little capacity to project military power outside of its borders.\nIn fact, the country’s armed forces struggle to maintain control over its vast array of islands and territories.\nThe military’s main task has been to maintain control of Mindanao and nearby islands.\nWith assistance from the US, it has registered some recent successes against Muslim separatist forces in recent years.\nChina’s ambitions in the South China Sea are a major concern for the military.\nThis has led to the Philippines building up its naval capabilities in the region.\nThe Philippines has little capacity to upgrade its military capabilities in the near future.\nThis will result in a widening of military capabilities between the Philippines and China, as well as other countries in the region.\nPhilippines: Political Risk Outlook\nThe Philippines face some of the highest levels of political risk in all of East Asia and these levels are likely to remain high for the foreseeable future.\nAt present, the government has regional rebel movements fairly well under control, but an increase in infighting among the government and the military could lead to a broad destabilization of the country.\nThe country’s piecemeal political system also leads to higher levels of political risk as the system is based more on individuals than on land-standing political parties or movements.\nPhilippines Economic Outlook\nThe Philippines’ traditionally agriculture-based economy is becoming increasingly diversified as the service and manufacturing sectors have expanded in recent decades.\nLost-cost manufacturing has been one of the fastest growing areas of the economy.\nAgriculture is split between food crops for domestic consumption and cash crops such as sugar cane and tobacco.\nThe Philippines is home to some of Asia’s largest wealth disparities.\nFor example, Manila and its suburbs are nearly ten times wealthier than southern Mindanao.\nManufacturing will continue to play a more important role in the Philippine economy, but will not reach the levels of China or many other Southeast Asian countries.\nAs a result, agriculture will continue to play an important role, with export potential growing in the coming decades.\nThe service sector also has the potential to record major growth in the coming years.\nKey Wealth-Related Issues and Trends\nThe Philippines remains one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia.\nMoreover, purchasing power has failed to grow as quickly as in many other countries in the region.\nPoverty is widespread, with major wealth discrepancies existing between different regions.\nWithout a major increase in foreign investment and in manufactured exports, wealth levels in the Philippines will continue to fall further behind other countries in the region, such as China. This, in turn, will result in slower economic growth rates in the future as foreign investment goes elsewhere.\nPhilippines: GDP Growth Outlook\nGDP growth has been very high since 2010, in part as a result of a major increase in domestic demand levels.\nIn 2016, the Philippines recorded the highest rate of economic growth in East Asia, surpassing China, before a slight slowdown in 2017.\nFuture Outlook :\nGDP growth will slowly trend upwards over the course of the near-term as domestic and export demand levels continue to trend upwards.\nPhilippines: Industrial Production Growth Outlook\nCurrent Outlook\nForeign investment in the manufacturing sector has remained relatively small, preventing industrial production growth rates from reaching the levels of many other countries in the region.\nWithout a major increase in foreign investment, industrial production growth will remain below the regional average.\nManufacturing Location Rankings by in Developing Asia\nCurrent Situation:\nChina remains Asia’s most attractive manufacturing location and the world’s dominant manufacturing center, but rising costs are jeopardizing its position.\nOther East Asian emerging markets such as Vietnam and the Philippines are attracting more low-cost manufacturing investment.\nFuture Situation:\nChinese manufacturing will continue to move upmarket as costs rise.\nOther Asian emerging markets will see their manufacturing sectors grow rapidly in the coming years as the region remains the center of global manufacturing.\nRetail and Consumer Market Overview\nDespite the Country’s recent run of economic growth retail sales growth levels have remained quite low during this period. Moreover, purchasing power levels in the Philippines remain well behind those of China and most other Asian emerging markets.\nPhilippines: Inflation Outlook\nFalling oil prices helped to push down inflation rates in 2015 and 2016.\nHowever, inflationary pressures returned over the course of 2017 and the first part of 2018.\nInflation rates will trend slightly upwards in the coming years.\nMoreover, a number of pressures and shocks could lead to further spikes in inflation later in the forecast period.\nForeign Trade Overview\nThe Philippines current account surplus has all but disappeared in recent years due to weaker export demand and rising demand for imported goods. Looking ahead,high import levels will result in a current account deficit , despite improving export prospects over the long term.\nThe United States and Japan accounted for a large portion of the FDI inflows to the Philippines in recent years.\nThe manufacturing sector has been the leading recipient of this FDI as investors are targeting the Philippines for low-cost, labor intensive manufacturing operations.\nThe banking, mining and food processing sectors are also receiving significant amounts of foreign investment.\nForeign investment inflows in the Philippines have increased significantly in recent years.\nThis is due in large part to the growing attractiveness of the Philippines’ domestic market.\nThe Philippines will continue to trail many of its East Asian competitors in the race to attract foreign investment, but the gap will continue to close.\nPolitical factors will remain a key factor in the Philippines’ ability to attract foreign investment.\nWorking Patterns and the Labor Force in Philippines\nUnemployment and underemployment remains a problem in the Philippines, but economic growth has allowed for these rates to trend downwards in recent years.\nAs population growth continues, unemployment will grow, unless new job creation schemes are successful.\nMeanwhile, the amount of skilled labor in the Philippines is growing, but remain behind that of many of the region’s more developed countries.\nOne advantage that the Philippines has is that a large percentage of its skilled workforce has strong English language abilities, making outsourcing a potential source of growth in the future.\nWages in the Philippines remain among the lowest in the Asia-Pacific region.\nThis is particularly true away from the capital city Manila, where foreign investment remains very small.\nPhilippines: Exchange Rates\nThe Philippine peso weakened recently against most major currencies due in part to uncertainty over the political situation in the Philippines. In the coming years, a larger depreciation for the peso remains a possibility if investor confidence in the Philippines wanes or if political instability becomes a larger threat.\nFiscal Policy Overview\nCurrent Outlook :\nThe Philippines actually recorded a fiscal surplus in 2014, before falling back into a deficit in 2015 and 2016 and 2017 as government spending levels increased.\nThe budget deficit is forecast to remain in place over the near-term, as an increase in government spending offsets higher tax revenues.\nLargest Companies in Philippines\nLeading Companies:\nCompared with the larger countries of the region, the Philippines does not have any truly large domestic companies.\nThis is the result of the poverty in the country which makes it a smaller market than other countries in the region.\nFew of the largest companies in the country are domestically-owned.\nOutlook For Domestic Companies :\nWithout significant growth on the domestic market, it will be difficult for large companies to be created in the Philippines.\nMoreover, foreign companies, with huge amounts of capital, will be able to take a more dominant position in the Philippines in the coming years.\nForecast Assumptions and Risk\nNear-Term Global Growth to Remain Stable The near-term forecast for the global economy calls for overall economic growth rates to remain near current levels, with developed economies continuing to grow faster than in previous years.\nMid-Term Economic Risk Levels to Rise A number of risks (share price corrections, Chinese debt, political gridlock) will rise to more dangerous levels by 2019, jeopardizing the recent run of steady growth for many large economies.\nAsia Drives Global Growth Asian emerging markets, led by China, India and Southeast Asia, will generate nearly half of the world’s economic growth over the near- and mid-term.\nStrong Domestic Demand Domestic demand levels in the Philippines will continue to rise in the years ahead, enabling the country’s economy to continue to grow at a strong pace.\nRisks:\nA Global Power Vacuum Whether by design or due to internal political unrest, the United States’ ”America First” policies are resulting in power vacuums forming in many of the world’s most volatile regions.\nMajor Power Conflicts The risk of conflicts between large- and mid-sized powers is rising in the Middle East, Asia and East Europe, and any of these could have the scale needed to severely disrupt the global economy.\nReturn to Violence in the Southern Philippines While the security situation in the southern Philippines has improved in recent years, the potential for a return to widespread unrest remains firmly in place.\nEconomic Meltdown. Despite the recent run of impressive economic growth, the Philippines remains at risk from internal and external shocks that could lead to much lower rates of economic growth.\nPhilippines: Economic Risk Outlook\nEconomic risk levels in the Philippine have fallen significantly in recent years.\nOne of the main reasons for this decline in economic risk levels in the Philippines has been the development of the country’s domestic market in recent years.\nEthnic Groups : Most Filipinos are of Malay descent.\nMany have some degree of Chinese or European ancestry as well. A number of small minority groups live in more remote areas of the Philippines.\nMany of these ethnic minorities live in the southern islands\nLanguages : Both Filipino and English are official languages of the Philippines.\nFilipino is derived from Tagalog, which is the language of Luzon Island.\nHowever, other ethnic groups and regions have been reluctant to adapt this language.\nReligions: The Philippines is the only country in Asia with a Christian majority.\nMost Christians in the Philippines are Roman Catholic. The Muslim minority lives mostly in the South.\nMuslim secessionists have been fighting the government for nearly 30 years.\nPhilippines: Leading Urban Centers\nManila is the dominant urban center in the Philippines and has grown to become one of the largest cities in Asia.\nAs urbanization continues, the population of the Manila metropolitan area will likely pass 20 million within the next two decades.\nThe other major cities in the country often serve as the commercial center for smaller islands.\nKey Demographic Issue in Philippines\nThe Muslim Minority\nTwo groups of Muslims live on the southern island of Mindanao, the Moro and the Samal.\nThey adapted Islam in the 13th century as they had contacts with traders from the Middle East.\nThe Moro National Liberation Front began waging a guerrilla war in the early 1970s.\nFighting has been particularly heavy since 1995.\nSome factions of the MNLF signed a peace treaty with the government in 1996 that granted some autonomy to Muslim areas.\nAbu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, MNLF splinter groups, have carried on the fighting in recent years.\nThey have carried out a number of kidnapping raids and terrorists acts in the southern Philippines over the past decade.\nThe US is providing troops, advisors and supplies to the Philippine government in an attempt to eliminate the remaining Islamic rebel factions still in operation. Difficult terrain and rebel support among the local population will make the elimination of the rebel groups a difficult task, but by putting them on the defensive, the government hopes to curtail the rebels’ ability to launch fresh terrorist attacks.\nPhilippines: Topography and Climate\nThe Philippines is a series of volcanic islands (more the 7,100) running from north to south.\nThe largest two islands are Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south.\nThe larger islands have river valleys and bays where most Filipinos live.\nEarthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common occurrences.\nThe Philippines have a tropical climate with warm temperatures all year.\nThe rainy monsoon season lasts from May to November when the islands can be hit by severe typhoons.\nThe dry season in the Philippines lasts from November to April.\nRapid population growth has resulted in the Philippines having one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world.\nFilipinos are increasingly moving to more forested areas of the country.\nIllegal logging is proving difficult to control for the government.Manila’s air quality is notoriously bad and is growing worse.\nAs urban populations continue to grow, pressure on urban environments will grow. • The urban population of the Philippines will double in the next 50 years.\nThe Philippines are susceptible to a variety of natural disasters.\nSome of the largest volcanic eruptions in recent times have occurred here\nEarthquakes are also a danger.\nMajor typhoons hit the islands on a regular basis, causing extensive damage.\nPhilippines: Demographic and Environmental Risk Outlook\nAs the population of the Philippines continues to increase, demographic-related risk will likewise grow, adding to the potential for domestic instability.\nEnvironmental Risk Outlook:\nFew countries are more at risk from natural disasters than the Philippines."
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        "text": "Q: Do you know a simple sound booster app for Mac? Some videos on websites have the sound volume so low that even with all sound settings at maximum levels it's hard to listen.\nI'm looking for an app that would allow me to boost the Mac's volume. Something similar to VLC volume controls.\nI already looked at Audio Hijack, but it has way too much features for what I'm looking for.\nAnything free of charge would be a plus. :)\n\nA: The application you are looking for is called Hear.  It's pretty expensive though.  I've been looking for a program to do something similar for months, but on the opposite end of the spectrum (my volume to my USB audio adapter is way too high, even with the volume all the way down).  As far as I can tell, there isn't a free program out there that can do this.  You can also try messing around with the built-in Apple utility called \"Audio MIDI Setup\" (in Applications/Utilities) and creating an aggregate device, then messing with the preamp on this device, but so far I haven't had any success with this.\n\nA: Just discovered eqMac2, an open source equalizer program.\nIt does not have the ability to go beyond 100% but you can get a reasonably similar effect by augmenting the volume of several bands.\nVery straightforward to use and install.\n\n\nA: If you like to use iTunes to listen / watch your media files... Some time ago I found new easy way to get the sound a bit louder. In iTunes Library select media with low volume and press cmd+i. Go to Options and make Volume Adjustments\n\n\nA: I just found the free app Bongiovi DPS. It is free and simple and has some great audio enhancements.\nhttp://bongiovidps.com/\n\nA: You can boost the volume of videos playing in Chrome using free extensions. I found the Ears chrome plugin works quite well. Steps:\n\n\n*\n\n*install the plugin\n\n*click the Ears extension icon in chrome\n\n*drag the baseline from 0 up to +5\n\n*click EQ this tab\n\n\nA: Boom\nIt works pretty well. I had similar issues on my Mac, didn't like being glued with the headphones forever so I got this just yesterday. And I loved it. It's not free, but for $5 it works like a horse.\n\n\nA: You can go with custom equalizer and then amplify your sound out\nInstructions\n\nRequirements\n\n\n*\n\n*Soundflower – free download from Google Code (more recent version here)\n\n*AU Lab – free download from Apple Developers (requires free Apple Dev ID)\n\n*Download and install both Soundflower and AU Lab, you will then need to restart your Mac to have full access to the audio components. Once rebooted, follow along with the instructions below:\nSet Up a Universal Audio Equalizer for Mac OS X\n\n\n*\n\n*Set System Volume to the maximum level, do this either through the menu bar or by hitting the Volume Up key repeatedly\n\n*Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu and select the “Sound” panel, followed by the “Output” tab. Select “Soundflower (2ch) from the Output list\n\n*Now launch AU Lab, found in /Applications/Utilities/\n\n*From the “Audio Input Device” pulldown menu, select “Soundflower (2ch)”, and then from “Audio Output Device” menu select “Stereo In/Stereo Out”\n\n*Click the “Create Document” button at the bottom of the screen\nAt the next screen, look for “Output 1” column and click the “Effects” dropdown, selecting “AUGraphicEQ”\n\n*This is your new system-wide equalizer, set it how you see fit. Changes here will impact all audio output on the Mac\n\n*When satisfied with the EQ settings, hit Command+S to save the EQ settings file and put it somewhere easy to find like the Documents folder\nNow open AU Lab preferences from the AU Lab menu, click on the “Document” tab and click the radiobox next to “Open a specific document”, selecting the .trak EQ file you saved in the previous step\n\n*Optional final step: If you want the EQ settings to load on every Mac OS X boot, right-click on the AU Lab icon, go to Options, and select “Open at Login”\nNote: It’s important to note that AU Lab must be running in order for the equalizer to have an effect, keeping it running will consume a small amount of CPU resources but it’s much less process hungry than some of the third party alternatives available on the market.\nDue Credit : http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/18/equalizer-for-all-audio-mac-os-x/\nCheers\n\n\nA: Volume Booster\nThat works like a charm for me on Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Opera, etc).\n\nA: I use SpeakerAmp:\nAmplify, equalize and boost your audio with 3-D surround.\nFeatures:\n● Amplifier up to 999%\n● 10-channel equaliser with several built-in and up to 100 user profiles\n● 20-channel spectrum analyser\n● L-R VU power meters\n● Tunable limiter preventing signal distortion\n● 2 adjustable ranges of the amplifier\n● Mouse scroll control of volume\n● Adjustable colour schemes of the meters\n● Consumes 0% of CPU in idle state\n● Supports stereo/joint stereo/mono\nFree demo version: https://www.nimblesnail.com\nThe app works in 2 modes:\n\n*\n\n*Local Audio player\n\n\n*System-Wide Processing\nIn the player, you can play, amplify and equalise any of these audio formats: mp3, mp4, wav, m4a, ,aac, adts, ac3, aif, aifc, caf, snd or au.\nIn the system-wide mode, the app can process audio coming from any app. Additional free audio driver is needed in that mode:\nhttps://www.nimblesnail.com/audioDriver.html\nProduct documentation: https://www.nimblesnail.com/doc.html\nEULA: https://www.nimblesnail.com/eula.html\n\nA: Could you not simply download the movies and play them in VLC or something similar? I'm not aware of anything that'll boost system wide sound, but as you don't seem to have attracted any answers, I'm trying to think of alternatives.\nQuicktime can play FLV files, and if you use QT7 Pro, it allows you to boost the sound using the Track Properties pane. Would that be an option for FLV videos?\n\nA: Did someone try this? I used in the past and it should do the job http://jackaudio.org/\n\nA: Sound Booster Lite (FREE) is very good\n"
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        "text": "Tears for a Colonel\nI've already written about becoming more wistful, misty-eyed since beginning HRT in June, but I had not experienced the torrent of uncontrollable tears that I have heard others describe. That changed today.\nThis morning I had a beautiful waking dream. It must have been 1970 or 1971, and in my dream I woke in the basement family room of my oldest sister's house in Oxon Hill, MD. I was on one of her orange couches, where I always slept when we came to visit. My nephew, then scarcely ten years old came bouncing into the room, and I thought he looked so funny in his plastic frame glasses. (That's the pot calling the kettle black, as I also wore large plastic frame glasses back then.) Then my brother-in-law breezed in, running to grab something from the back, followed by my sister. I felt so wonderful that I both laughed and cried to think what wonderful times those were even if I was not able to talk to anyone about my deepest troubles.\nI woke fully to find myself in my bed here in Bucharest, happily sobbing uncontrollably and not able to stop. I would just get the tears to slow, and then I would think of my nephew again as he was in those days and as the fine man he has become. Again I was reaching for the Kleenex.\nMy nephew is a full army colonel today with his own family and young children. He has not said so to me directly, but I don't think he fully approves of these changes in his uncle. That's OK. I remember how he cried at my wedding in 1982, and my own tears start again.\nBy the time the floodgates closed, I had a large pile of Kleenex on the floor. I got up, dressed, and went for an easy early morning bike ride around the Bucharest Sea.\nNow, as I write these words, my eyes again become misty. This is for you, nephew, tears for a colonel.\nCSC: The Only Limitations Are the Ones You Bring with You -- or -- So How Far Back Does This Go? (Part 5)\nBack from my first overseas adventure in the Soviet Union, in the fall of 1978 I was out of graduate school and in need of a job. At the time I thought I would just find something, anything, that would allow me to get by for two or three years and figure things out. Little did I know I was about to enter upon a career that lasted more than 25 years.\nThere it was, a full page ad in the Washington Post in August or September of 1978:\nWanted: Physicists, astronomers, and mathematicians with BS or higher degrees who know a little about programming to work on contracts with Goddard Space Flight Center.\nI'm sure the real words of that ad were punchier, but that was the gist of it. I interviewed in October and started work the Monday after Thanksgiving, moving to Maryland and finding a room in a shared group house. On $14,000/year starting salary, I couldn't afford an apartment of my own.\nCSC loved slogans. \"CSC: Part of it, proud of it,\" was the most common one in corporate advertisements and on posters, but the one I liked most was:\nCSC: The only limitations are the ones you bring with you.\nHow funny I thought that slogan was then, how much like the Soviet propaganda I had seen everywhere that summer. As the years went by, however, I came to see it not just as funny, but also as an ironically truthful description of my own life.\nI've already described the fun I had through the years at CSC doing flight dynamics and attitude determination for missions starting with Magsat and ending with Hubble Space Telescope. I'm still friends with several of the people I met on my first day on the job in 1978, and some of them may be reading this today. Although we decry the heartlessness of corporate America, I felt that at least in work, I had a family, a wonderful group of people to work with and to laugh with.\nPart of our \"Tacky\" Crew on the PASS Project for Hubble Space Telescope\nIn my personal life, I was willing myself to be normal. Here I am, at the start of a new job, living on my own with my own income, and with a clear path ahead if only. . . .\nLifespring, one of the EST-like self-improvement programs of the early 1980s, became the rage at CSC in 1980. One of the senior CSC analysts, in fact the very one who had interviewed me in 1978, took me out to lunch, trying to talk me into signing up for \"The Basic.\" I resisted, but then he got me. \"I know what your life is like,\" he said. \"You go home to your hobbies, but I don't think you have ever gone on a date. You are all alone.\" I still said no, but then to spite him called Lifespring myself and registered the next day.\nOver the next year I did the whole program. \"The Basic\" was followed by \"IPE intermediate\" and then \"TC advanced.\" I now look back and think of Lifespring as psychology without a license conducted by charismatic facilitators whose real loyalty is to the company's bottom line, but Lifespring influenced me in dramatic ways that set my path for better or worse -- and I really do mean for both the very best and the very worst -- for years to come.\nIn the \"TC advanced\" program, we had small groups in which we were to help each other on our most important personal issues. Of course, I said not a word about the issue, but I willingly jumped at my group's suggestion that what I needed most was to date as many women as I could over the months of the program. No one could believe that I was still a virgin, in fact had never masturbated, and had never been on a real date. I became the group's mascot, as both the men and women urged me on, encouraging me at every step. I loved the attention, and I more than anyone else wanted this to work. \"Surely my problem is that I have never even tried to live a normal life, isn't it? Surely if I start to meet women as men meet women, I will find what it is that I have never felt or understood?\" Or, as Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote so simply two decades later, surely \"Love will cure me?\"\nI filled and overfulfilled the plan. Well, OK, I was no Casanova, but over three or four months I had gone on at least a dozen full-fledged dates. My small group was all over me with cheers and hugs the day I announced I had lost my virginity.\nSo what was wrong with this picture? The night when I gave up my virginity, I felt it was all backwards. The roles were wrong. I did everything to give pleasure that I had read or been told about, but when the time came for my own pleasure, I found I couldn't care less. I wanted to be caressed and held in the way I had been doing the holding and caressing. As my partner started to look and wonder what was wrong, I closed my eyes and imagined a complete role reversal. Only then was I able to continue. That's the way it was that night, and that's the way it has been ever since. Of course, I said not a word. Surely, with time this will change?\nI remember being taken one evening to Shepherd Park, a raw strip club on Georgia Avenue near the DC line. I had never been to such a club before. As the friend who brought me sat back with his beer to enjoy the show, I looked around and saw that the other guys in the dark club seemed to be having a wonderful time watching, tipping, and yelling encouragement to the dancers. I felt nothing, just a sense of wonder that anyone would come to such a show and commiseration with the bored expressions on the faces of the dancers. But I had earned another stripe on my road to normalcy.\nFinally, one evening I was in the Lifespring office, making calls to people who had been to a guest event, trying to convince them to sign up for the full program. It was a slimy job that I did not enjoy, but eventually I made one call that was different. The young woman who answered had a slight accent, so after the Lifespring pitch, I asked where she was from. I found out she was a history graduate student doing research for a Ph.D. I forgot about Lifespring and started to talk about my own travels in the Soviet Union. We met face to face several weeks later at another Lifespring event, and eventually I invited her for dinner and to see the full six-hour Soviet film version of \"War and Peace.\" I joined her at a political rally protesting U.S. involvement in Nicaragua or wherever it was that we were intervening at the time. \"Wow,\" I thought, \"Maybe this is what it's about, friendship based on mutual interests and caring?\"\nWe were married in the summer of 1982. It was the best and worst decision of my life, and I suspect my spouse would say the same. We have a wonderful grown son, now age 22 and quite the independent, cultured, graceful, successful young man that every parent dreams of. We loved, we cried, we took care of aging relatives in their final days, and we made our home in Silver Spring the envy of our neighbors through never ending fix-it projects and renovations.\nI entered the marriage without saying a word about my internal struggle, so convinced I was that through marriage and love and building a family, I would cure myself. \"It\" would simply go away, never to trouble me again. I could not have been more wrong. . . .\nThis is all I will say concerning my marriage that lasted from 1982 through 2007, although our divorce was final only in 2010 and was followed by post-divorce litigation that lasted into this year. I will, of course, write about what happened to me and the consequences through these years, but I respect my ex-spouse's privacy and feelings. I will never mention her name, where she came from, where she is today, or anything else that could even hint at her identity. I can only hope that someday there will be peace between us, that we can be in the same room for our son's marriage or for the birth of a grandchild.\nHow We Kidnapped Irina Nita\nDid you know that we kidnapped Irina Nita? Now, before any of my Romanian readers call the police or ask Interpol to put out an all points bulletin, I hasten to inform you that Irina asked us to kidnap her. We only complied with her request by hijacking the Washington portion of the International Visitors Leadership (IVL) program that has just taken her to the U.S. for three weeks.\nMy readers outside Romania are probably asking, \"Who is Irina Nita and what is this about kidnapping and hijacking?\" Let me explain.\nIrina Nita is executive director of ACCEPT, the Romanian national NGO for advancement of LGBT rights. I've had some involvement with ACCEPT for several months now, but I only met Irina about three weeks ago when I sat down to interview her for my U.S. Embassy report on the current situation and prospects for transgender individuals in Romania. At the end of our conversation, I asked if there was anything I could do for her, and she proceeded to tell me that she hopes to organize a specialist conference on transgender legal and medical issues in Bucharest next year. She said should would like to have American participation in this workshop but had no knowledge of or contacts in the U.S. transgender community. She asked if I could help her. She then added that she was about to travel to the U.S. on an IVL program sponsored by the U.S. State Department.\nThat was all I needed to get started on a hijack plan, but I knew I could not do it alone. I'm a beginner at this sort of thing, and I needed professional help for an operation of this sort. I turned to my \"Oceans Eleven\" team consisting of Anne Vonhof at the Office of Personnel Management, Chloe Schwenke at USAID, Shannon Doyle at MAGIC-DC, and my good Foreign Service friend Kay. They assembled the list of U.S. experts on transgender issues for Irina to meet. Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) with leadership from Policy Chief Paul Kim anointed us an ad-hoc GLIFAA committee. With that title, I approached the Public Diplomacy office at Embassy Bucharest. I got a cool reception at first and was told that Irina's schedule was already fixed with little possibility for change. I insisted, however, and they sent on our list of additional meetings to the program office in Washington.\nA few days later I received an e-mail from Meg Poole at Meridian House. Meg, it turns out, was in charge of Irina's program. Not only was the Washington portion of the program not fixed, Meg was having trouble reaching anyone to set up meetings during the summer vacation season. Anne jumped right in with names and telephone numbers for people she knew were available. Mara Keisling from the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) started calling Meg as well, saying she was ready to meet Irina at almost any time or place. Kay stepped forward to host a luncheon for Irina with a number of transgender activists and specialists in attendance. In the end, we got transgender-related meetings set up for Irina at the Human Rights Campaign, USAID, NCTE, the Whitman Walker Clinic, and at a number of other organizations and government offices.\nIrina will also travel to Atlanta, San Francisco, Des Moines, Atlanta, and Albany, New York, on what will be mainly an LGB itinerary. The Washington component, however, now has a decidedly T shade that it would not have had otherwise. At Irina's request we successfully cracked our way into an existing USG program and rearranged the parts. Never before have I so thoroughly enjoyed being part of a hijacking.\nTravel well, Irina. Drum bun. It's \"wheels up\" in Bucharest. We'll see you in a few weeks.\nPS -- Anne Vonhof managed to open more closed doors for us in Washington than I thought possible. The next time I stand in front of a locked bank vault, I want Anne next to me to speak the magic words.\nUnder Transylvanian Moons -- or -- So How Far Back Does This Go? (Part 4)\nI just spent a weekend near Sighisoara in the heart of Transylvania. It was a homecoming of sorts to a place I never thought I would see again. I was there once before, 33 years ago to the week in August 1978.\nThis brings me to the second passion of my life, one that helped me to survive and find meaning when I was not yet ready to come to terms with myself. When I left UVa in 1976, I was at the start of my first great personal purge even if at the time I did not know that this was the term. Having failed to overcome my fears in college, I decided I could will this away if I just worked hard enough at it. That would be much simpler, wouldn't it, than coming out and dealing with the consequences? Over the next two years of graduate school at Yale, I was able to keep that resolve, more or less, but my interest in astronomy and in almost everything else waned. After two years, I decided that was it, that I was not PhD material. I took my MS degree in the spring of 1978 with no clear idea what I would do next.\nWhat carried me through were things Russian. Incurable romantic, I first fell in love with things Russian when I saw the movie Doctor Zhivago in the late 1960s. Then I read short stories in translation in high school and began learning about Russian history. How strange, I thought, that a country and a people could evolve to be so different from us in the mid-20th century USA. When I entered UVa in 1972 and was told I had to take a language, I chose Russian.\nI regretted my choice a few times that first year. Russian was far harder than any of the physics or math courses I took, but after two years I realized I was starting to get somewhere. It took me two months to work through Turgenev's First Love (Первая любовь) on my own, but from there I kept going. I wanted to read Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Bulgakov in the original. By the time I took my UVa degree in 1976, I had a double major: physics-astronomy and Russian language and literature. At Yale there was a young émigré actress who tried to put together a small amateur theater group. I was to play Bayan in Mayakovsky's The Bedbug (Клоп). We never did get that production to stage, but I still remember some of my lines. Олег Баян от счастья пьян. I also learned that as shy and scared as I was, there was at least one forum where I could lose my inhibitions.\nAt loose ends in the summer of 1978, I heard of an eccentric Russian language professor from Boston College who ran a small touring company called Pioneer Travel (www.pioneerrussia.com/about_pioneer.php) that ran summer driving and camping tours across the Soviet Union from the Baltic to the Black Sea. I got the last seat available on one of the four VW minivans that were to set out that summer, and I camped out in Boston's Logan Airport to get a $99 first come, first served ticket on PanAm to Amsterdam.\nPart of our Merry Little Crew, 1978\nFrom the Netherlands we made our way through Germany and Scandinavia, finally crossing into the Soviet Union from Finland. A few hours after crossing the border, I found myself walking the streets of Leningrad at this, the height of the White Nights. I felt I had landed on another planet. Everything, absolutely everything was so different from what I had grown up with. I remember clearly trying to explain to one of the first Russians I met what were the strange things, such as driver's license and a checkbook, that I was carrying with me. I remember how hard many of the people I met tried to explain to me their reality. It was the beginning of a love affair that has never died.\nTransylvania by Train & Bike 2011\nI have come to think of the transgender journey as one of transitioning cultures, traveling from one country to another. We grow up in one culture and are expected to abide by its rules and strictures, but if we prepare ourselves well enough for the journey, we can live in another culture and come to feel as comfortable in it as in the culture we were born into, perhaps even more so. It was walking the streets of Leningrad in the summer of 1978 that I first came to feel on my own skin that the reality I had been surrounded by since birth was not the only reality. I knew and could see with my own eyes that the Soviet system was deeply flawed, but I also saw that there was a positive side I had never known about, a side that was missing from my own society.\nTransylvanian Country Roads\nI will have cause to come back again and again to things Russian and the role they played in helping me find my way both then and later, but for now let me return to Transylvania.\nWe crossed the border from the Soviet Union into Romania on August 17. My friends in Romania may be particularly surprised to read my first impressions from my journal that day:\nIt was perhaps 6:00pm that we entered our first large Romanian town, Bacau. I must have forgotten what life was like outside the Soviet Union, for I was shocked at what I saw here. The main street was clean, wide, and modern. The buildings were new and stylish, unaffected by Soviet instant aging. Store windows were filled with consumer goods; the people were well dressed. Most surprising, there were no long Soviet lines.\nClock Tower in Saschiz\nThe next day we drove on to Sighisoara and wandered the ancient, non-touristed streets of the old town in the fading evening twilight. I felt I had gone back through the centuries. We camped that night under a full moon.\nWith Ancha, 2011\nWhat would I have thought then if anyone told me I would return to Transylvania exactly 33 years later? More than this, at that time when I was doing my best to bury my transgender side, could I have imagined that on this return visit I would be betwixt and between, but more Robyn than my former self? It was a beautiful, tranquil weekend of riding my bicycle through the lush, rolling hills, enjoying long talks with the inn-keeper Ancha, and just being at peace. The moon was full. Another circle had closed.\nPosted by Robyn Ann Jane Alice McCutcheon at 10:04 PM No comments: Links to this post\nWahooWa! -- or -- So How Far Back Does This Go? (Part 3)\nIn Part 1 of \"So How Far Back Does this Go?\" I wrote:\nLet me return to the diary I kept in college. I never did \"find myself tearing out these two pages at some time in the future,\" but the entire volume I kept in 1975 is missing. That was the year in which I made my first abortive attempt to come out, dressing in public and corresponding with the gender clinic at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I know I wrote my heart out that year.\n1972-76 for me were the years of \"WahooWa!\" -- the rallying cry of the University of Virginia. I traded New York City for sleepy Charlottesville, Virgina, the home of UVa, the \"Princeton of the South,\" known also as The University or Mr. Jefferson's University. Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello is here, and it is said that Mr. Jefferson -- he always was and always will be Mr. Jefferson to students -- watched through a telescope as the university he designed was built in the valley below his home. In my mind I can almost see him at the eyepiece, studying at a distance to see if his architectural plans were being followed.\nThe Lawn at The University\nFor most Americans the college years are a chance to spread one's wings and start living a semi-independent life in a dormitory or apartment and learning what it means to open a bank account, cook one's own dinner, and in general find out just what is involved in living on one's own. It is a time of experimentation and wildness along with study and preparation for a future life.\nI entered The University to fulfill my dream of becoming an astronomer. I chose a joint major in physics and astronomy. I took my first paying job as a night observer at the Leander McCormick Observatory with its historic 19th century, 26-inch Alvan Clark refracting telescope. I worked shifts that went from sunset to 10pm or from 2am to sunrise. During those shifts I had the observatory to myself as I loaded photographic plates and maneuvered the telescope to photograph star fields for the Astronomy Department's parallax program to determine star distances. Although Virginia is a southern state, it could get very cold in that unheated dome on winter nights. Sometimes I would welcome a bank of clouds that would give me an excuse to retreat to the heated office next door. There I would rummage through drawers and cabinets, a treasure trove of astronomical history. I was always on my own, and I was often dressed entirely in female clothing.\nIn Charlottesville I no longer had my sister's wardrobe to experiment with, but I had my own bank account and could buy what I wanted. I was too afraid to go into the women's departments at local stores, but I lived for the mail order catalogs from Sears and Montgomery Wards. I would save my money, place my order, and wait for the notice in the mailbox that I should come to the post office to pick up a parcel.\nLeander McCormick Observatory\nI was still young, shy, and scared. I dressed at home and at work and on the three mile walk to and from the observatory. On those walks I would choose the darkest path where I was pretty sure I wouldn't meet anyone. Terrified of encountering a professor or classmate who knew me, I would turn on my heels and walk the other way if I saw anyone coming in my direction. I did not understand that I could have passed easily with just a little work. Back then, contact was to be avoided. If there was a knock on the door of my apartment, I would pretend I was not home. No one was allowed into this secret world, a world that scared me to death even as I wished it could be my world in reality.\nAnd as this was going on in my private life, I took the full math sequence through partial differential equations and physics through quantum mechanics. I fell in love with the Russian language. (That is a story for another installment.) I wasn't in the top tier of students by any means, but when I \"took my degree\" -- UVa-speak for graduation -- it was with high honors.\nWhen the weather was nice, I loved to read the New York Times on Sunday afternoons in one of the formal gardens on the university grounds. A watershed event in my life took place one Sunday in 1975 when the New York Times Review of Books published a review of Conundrum by Jan Morris. I remember shaking from excitement. Just from the review I understood that I was not alone. Transsexualism was not just Christine Jorgensen, a character in a Gore Vidal novel, and a handful of rumors. Here was a respected British writer and journalist -- a person who had ascended Everest with Hillary in 1953 -- who was writing openly and honestly about her transition from James to Jan in mid-life.\nAt the Focal Plane of the 26-inch Refractor\nWhen Conundrum made it to the University's Alderman Library, I read it cover to cover in a single sitting. I was enthralled and in tears. In the weeks to come I wrote and wrote in my diary as I got the nerve to read everything I could about transsexuality in the university's science and medical libraries. In the pre-Internet days, everything depended on the library, and UVa had good ones. I learned of a Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins and wrote there, receiving back an invitation to come in and talk.\nBut I never followed through. Even when I learned that sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) was being performed at the UVa medical center, I was too afraid to walk through the door. The only son of my father, a self-made man who had great expectations for his children, I could not overcome the fear of coming out. In my high school years I would write notes to my Dad, telling him things I was too fearful to tell him face to face. I would place the notes in his briefcase, only to retrieve them later for fear that they might actually be read. With that level of fear, how was I going to talk about THIS out loud? There were no support groups for gays that I knew of in Charlottesville, let along transgender, a word that hadn't even been coined yet. I would feel ashamed to knock on the door of a psychologist. Who would stand behind me? Who would hold my hand? Surely everyone would abandon me, declaring me insane? Maybe they would be right to think me so?\nThis, my first non-coming out, turned into my first purge. I had been accepted for graduate school at Yale, and in a matter of weeks my Mom, Dad, and sisters would be coming to Charlottesville for my graduation and to pack me up for the move north. I gathered together my small wardrobe, carefully wrapping everything into bundles, and walked a long distance to a deposit them in a dumpster from which I knew I would not be able to retrieve them.\nLooking back today, I wish I could hug that young, scared person who was me in 1976. Little did she know how much she would have to go through, how many torments lay in store, how much she would hurt and how she would hurt those she loved. It's probably good she didn't know. It would have been too much to bear.\nI went off to New Haven, Connecticut, fully purged and with a simplistic belief that I could just wish this away by paying it no mind and keeping my eyes on the task at hand. Being \"cured\" seemed so much easier and desirable than dealing with this.\nBut my interest in astronomy flagged as my romance for the night sky met the reality of a Ph.D. program. My overall interest in living fell to a low that I would try to hide with a smile. I could purge my wardrobe, but I could not purge my mind. It's then that I began to think of transsexuality as the white noise of my life. Like the 3-deg background radiation that permeates the Universe in all directions as an echo of the Big Bang, so this was everywhere. The best I could do was drown out the noise with other noise that comes with over-achievement and overwork. I didn't know then that I had begun a cycle, that just over a decade later I would feel a life and death necessity of talking to someone, to anyone who would listen and help ease the pain. When I finally did cross that line, the results were even more terrible than I had feared in 1976. . . .\nBut that is a story for another installment of \"So How Far Back Does this Go?\" Like most Americans, I look back with nostalgia at my college years, and I have a special place in my heart for Charlottesville, The University, and Leander McCormick Observatory. For the first time I timidly tried to be me, and for a brief moment I got close. My \"WahooWa\" was a timid, scared one, but I look back now and realize that as timid as it was, the voice was really, truly mine.\nInterlude: Bucharest by Bicycle\nGraffiti: Moldova is Romania\nMany old friends and colleagues from my years on Hubble are probably wondering, \"Is she still riding that bicycle, or has this T thing taken over her life with the speed of a overloaded tandem careening down a mountain road without brakes?\" To all assembled lovers of two wheels I hereby declare, I'm still riding.\n1989 Revolution Began Near Here\nThere's a deeply embedded T side to my riding a bicycle that almost no one would have guessed, but I will get to that in one of my \"So How Far Back Does this Go?\" entries. For the moment I just want to share the joy of riding in Bucharest, where this summer I have again become an urban cyclist as I once was for many years in the Washington, DC, area. I ride my bike to the Embassy in the morning. It's not even three miles from my home, but having the bicycle at work means I'm ready to go when the workday ends. I ride to my electrologist appointments, I ride to the market, and I ride just to explore Bucharest and the immediate countryside. Unlike in Tashkent, where I had an $800USD Honda with no gas gauge, I own no motorized transportation here, and thus the inspiration to ride is all the greater.\nCeausescu's People's Palace\nConcert Hall\nMind you, this is urban cycling, not a pleasant ride in the park, although there are also some very beautiful parks. Bucharest is a very busy city with too many cars, not much infrastructure, and too many drivers in a hurry. As in the Soviet Union, cars were out of reach to all except the lucky and well-positioned during communist times. This all changed after the revolutions of the late 1980s. When Ceausescu fell in December 1989 and the doors of capitalism opened wide, the Romanian love affair with the automobile began and has not abated despite gridlock traffic and excellent, fast public transit. Everyone just has to own a car. It's a status symbol of wealth and well-being.\nChased by a Truck\nRiding a bike in central Bucharest on a workday is about the same as riding in Manhattan or in downtown Washington, DC, during rush hour. There is a laughable system of bike lanes on sidewalks that is entirely unusable because of pedestrians and cars parked on the sidewalks. (I could mount my soapbox and lecture that bike lanes on sidewalks are dangerous by definition and should be banned everywhere, but I'll resist the temptation. . . .) That means I'm in the traffic lanes with the cars and trucks just as I used to be in the U.S. and as I still appear on the cover of the Maryland Bicycle Safety Guide. Since there are scarcely any hills in Bucharest, I'm able to keep up with the motorized traffic for extended spurts. In the very center sometimes it is impossible even for a bicycle to make headway in the gridlock, and then I find myself walking the bike on the sidewalk with the pedestrians.\nRomania's Arc de Triomphe\nAs always, riding a bicycle is a great way to explore, and that's what I like most on weekends. I've been here long enough now that I don't mind getting lost and then figuring out how to get back on familiar ground. Some of the nicest districts are those I discover by accident. Bucharest was once known as the Paris of the East, and there are still back streets where one can find the atmosphere of the inter-war city that once was.\nA Quieter Ride\nWill I continue riding when the snows of winter come? Probably not. I did that for years in the U.S., but I will now let you in on a secret: it's not fun. There is nothing like a 35F (2C) rain to soak and chill a body to the bone. (The trick, as Peter O'Toole says in Lawrence of Arabia, was in not minding it.) Here I will enjoy the warm, long days of summer riding and switch to metro, bus, trolley, and tram for the bad winter days.\nAstronomers' Street\nQuestion for future thought: Should I trade in my trusty Atlantis for a Terry? My bicycling friends will smile and say, \"So, she had to end on a T note after all, didn't she?\"\nCSC: The Only Limitations Are the Ones You Bring ...\nUnder Transylvanian Moons -- or -- So How Far Back...\nWahooWa! -- or -- So How Far Back Does This Go? (P..."
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        "text": "Q: Can I install a full copy of Snow Leopard on an Apple TV? I have both a legitimate, store-bought retail license for OS X Snow Leopard, and I own an Apple TV.\n(Neither were stolen, copied, etc. ;-)\nIs it possible to install OS X Snow Leopard on an Apple TV?\nIf so, how, or where can I find more information?\np.s. I don't care about my warranty; it's long gone.\n\nA: Maybe if this is possible, an AppleTV do not have all the hardware requirement for Snow Leopard, as it needs 1G of RAM. The processor is also only 1 GHz (maybe a bit more, depends on your version) and the lowest Intel processor built on an iMac was a 1.83 GHz Core Duo.\nSo, even if you achieve to install Snow Leopard on your AppleTV (let say you remove the disk, install Mac OS X on it, then plug it in back), it will be really slow.\n\nA: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work \"by default\" (i.e. without a kernel and bootloader hack). You might be able to run it using OSx86, but I'm really not sure.\nLike Studer said, even if you achieve to install Snow Leopard on your Apple TV, it will be really slow.\n\nA: In addition to my rant answer, I took a look at this thread and did a little skimming.  Sounds like Snow Leopard is not supported due to some unreleased kernel headers.  Not sure why that would matter considering Snow Leopard runs on unsupported x86/64 hardware, but there it is on page 8 from some people who obviously have spent a lot of time with this.\nSo it would seem that there are software issues in addition to the slow hardware.\nHOWEVER, it looks like the aforementioned thread gives quite a bit of practical information on getting Leopard to run!  Might be the way to go since Leopard has lower system requirements anyway.\n\nA: If you have an old AppleTV it may be possible, but to me it seems a bit like a hack. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the license doesn't allow it. Your Snow Leopard license is probably an upgrade license for Leopard (Apple doesn't sell hardware without OS, so they only sell upgrade licenses I think), and I doubt the Apple TV runs the default version of Leopard.\nIf you can install Snow Leopard then don't use updates, as the kernel needs to be replaced :)\n"
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        "text": "Q: Can the hard drive in an Apple TV be upgraded? How? I own an Apple TV, with 160GB of internal storage.  I'm interested in replacing that hard drive with a larger one, perhaps 640GB, or else the largest 2.5\" drive I can get that would be compatible.\nIs it possible to replace the internal hard drive in an Apple TV, i.e. DIY?\nIf so, how, or where can I find more information?\nAny tips about the challenges I will need to overcome: e.g. opening the device, copying old drive contents over, etc.?\nThanks!\np.s. I don't care about my warranty; it's long gone.\n\nA: Yes, you can. Good thing you don't care about your warranty though. Engadget published an article about it with instructions some time ago.\n\nA: The iFixit folks have a guide, as well.\n\nA: Be warned that, once you've replaced the HD, you won't be able to update the Apple TV software through the usual means. So you'll have to either remove the HD every time there's a new version (and go through the rather elaborate procedure to prepare and reinstall it), or you can get used to dismissing the update warning every time you want to watch a movie.\n"
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        "text": "A Birth and a Fifth Birthday for J.C. Clark\nDate: Monday, May 17, 2004\nJ.C. Clark Ltd., one of Canada’s largest alternative investment managers, announced plans to open a new hedge fund this summer designed specifically for institutional investors.\nThe new fund will be called Loyalist Capital. It will be a long/short fund focused exclusively in Canadian equities.\n“The number of U.S. long/short managers has grown dramatically over the past few years and the market is now becoming saturated,” J.C. Clark Chief Executive John Clark said in a statement May 12. “As a result, funds of funds and large institutional investors are now seeking a new source of alpha in the form of Canadian hedge funds.”\nMr. Clark is a former chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange.\nThe new fund will be offered by Barbados-based Alexander Ernst Ltd. to U.S. and offshore institutions at a minimum investment of US$5 million, and its assets under management will be capped at US$150 million. It may be closed before it reaches that point if the managers decide that returns are being eroded by excess capital inflows, given the liquidity constraints of an all-Canada strategy.\nColin Stewart will serve as the new fund’s portfolio manager. He said in the statement that Canada is an excellent place for a hedge fund, because the relative paucity of funds operating there so far leads to pricing inefficiencies Loyalist Capital will be in a position to exploit.\nJ.C. Clark also announced a milestone for one of its older funds, The Preservation Trust, which reaches its fifth birthday in May. The statement said that The Preservation Trust and its managed accounts have approximately US$225 million in assets."
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        "text": "6 юни е 157-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (158-и през високосна). Остават 208 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1523 г. – Густав Васа е избран за крал на Швеция, с което настъпва края на Калмарската уния.\n 1853 г. – Основан е град Аламида, щата Калифорния, САЩ.\n 1882 г. – Хенри Сийли патентова електрическата ютия.\n 1925 г. – Уолтър Перси Крайслер основава корпорацията Крайслер.\n 1930 г. – Основана е Албанската суперлига по футбол.\n 1942 г. – Осъществен е първият скок със синтетичен парашут.\n 1944 г. – Втора световна война: Започва Десантът в Нормандия. 155 000 войници на Съюзниците дебаркират по бреговете на Нормандия (Франция), бързо преодоляват Атлантическия вал и навлизат във вътрешността на страната.\n 1971 г. – Програма Союз: Изстрелян е съветският пилотиран космически апарат Союз 11.\n 1982 г. – Започва Ливанската война от 1982: Военни части под командването на израелския министър на отбраната Ариел Шарон нахлуват в Южен Ливан и успяват да достигнат до столицата Бейрут.\n 1985 г. – В Бразилия са ексхумирани останките на „Волфганг Герхард“, за които по-късно се установява, че са на Йозеф Менгеле, „Ангелът на смъртта“ от Аушвиц.\n 1993 г. – Монголия провежда своите първи преки президентски избори.\n 1999 г. – Появява се за първи път компютърният вирус „Worm.ExploreZip“, който поразява хиляди компютри по цял свят.\n\nРодени \n\n 1436 г. – Йохан Региомонтан, германски астроном († 1476 г.)\n 1502 г. – Жуау III, крал на Португалия († 1557 г.)\n 1519 г. – Андреа Чезалпино, италиански анатом и ботаник († 1603 г.)\n 1599 г. – Диего Веласкес, испански художник († 1660 г.)\n 1606 г. – Пиер Корней, френски драматург († 1684 г.)\n 1638 г. – Герит Беркхейде, холандски художник († 1698 г.)\n 1799 г. – Александър Пушкин, руски поет († 1837 г.)\n 1838 г. – Томас Глоувър, шотландски търговец († 1911 г.)\n 1850 г. – Карл Фердинанд Браун, германски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1918 г.)\n 1856 г. – Александър Ляпунов, руски математик († 1918 г.)\n 1868 г. – Робърт Скот, английски изследовател († 1912 г.)\n 1870 г. – Ганчо Ценов, български историк († 1949 г.)\n 1875 г. – Томас Ман, немски писател, Нобелов лауреат († 1955 г.)\n 1883 г. – Атанас Саев, български революционер († 1963 г.)\n 1885 г. – Никола Ракитин, български поет ,публицист.\n 1889 г. – Сергей Рубинщейн, съветски психолог († 1960 г.)\n 1901 г. – Сукарно, първи президент на Индонезия († 1970 г.)\n 1903 г. – Арам Хачатурян, арменски композитор († 1978 г.)\n 1911 г. – Илия Булашев, български футболист († ? г.)\n 1923 г. – Христо Добрев, български военен деец († 2013 г.)\n 1924 г. – Васил Акьов, български сценарист († 1989 г.)\n 1929 г. – Сабах IV ал-Ахмад ал-Джабер ал-Сабах, емир на Кувейт († 2020 г.)\n 1931 г. – Георги Кандиларов, български юрист\n 1931 г. – Сали Мугабе, първа дама на Зимбабве (1980 – 92) († 1992 г.)\n 1932 г. – Дейвид Скот, американски астронавт\n 1933 г. – Хайнрих Рорер, швейцарски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2013 г.)\n 1934 г. – Албер II, крал на белгийците\n 1944 г. – Анета Петровска, българска актриса\n 1944 г. – Филип Шарп, американски биолог, Нобелов лауреат\n 1956 г. – Бьорн Борг, шведски тенисист\n 1959 г. – Маруан Баргути, палестински водач\n 1959 г. – Васко Кръпката, български блус музикант\n 1960 г. – Стийв Вай, американски китарист и композитор\n 1963 г. – Николай Урумов, български актьор\n 1964 г. – Стойчо Кацаров, български политик\n 1967 г. – Пол Джиамати, американски актьор\n 1968 г. – Бойка Атанасова, български журналист\n 1969 г. – Мария Сапунджиева, българска актриса\n 1970 г. – Андриан Душев, български състезател по кану-каяк\n 1970 г. – Джеймс Шафър, американски китарист\n 1973 г. – Джаки Аркльов, шведски неонацист\n 1977 г. – Макс Мирни, беларуски тенисист\n 1978 г. – Мариана Попова, българска поппевица\n 1992 г. – Хьона, южнокорейска певица\n\nПочинали \n\n 913 г. – Александър, византийски император (* ок. 870)\n 1134 г. – Норберт Ксантенски, католически светец (* 1080 г.)\n 1843 г. – Фридрих Хьолдерлин, германски писател (* 1770 г.)\n 1870 г. – Фердинанд Врангел, руски мореплавател (* 1797 г.)\n 1916 г. – Джеймс Тейлър Кент, американски хомеопат (* 1849 г.)\n 1916 г. – Шъ-кай Юан, китайски държавен и военен деец (* 1859 г.)\n 1922 г. – Павел Христов, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1946 г. – Герхарт Хауптман, немски драматург и Нобелов лауреат (* 1862 г.)\n 1961 г. – Карл Густав Юнг, швейцарски психиатър (* 1875 г.)\n 1968 г. – Никола Кенов, български диригент и композитор (* 1902 г.)\n 1968 г. – Робърт Кенеди, американски политик (* 1925 г.)\n 1975 г. – Алвин Хансен, американски икономист (* 1887 г.)\n 1975 г. – Хироши Ошима, японски дипломат (* 1886 г.)\n 1984 г. – Джарнаил Сингх Бхидранвал, индийски (сикхски) религиозен водач (* 1947 г.)\n 1986 г. – Херберт Айзенрайх, австрийски писател (* 1925 г.)\n 1991 г. – Стан Гец, американски джаз музикант (* 1927 г.)\n 1999 г. – Дамян Дамянов, български поет (* 1935 г.)\n 2000 г. – Александър Кипров, български шахматист (* 1916 г.)\n 2005 г. – Ан Банкрофт, американска актриса (* 1931 г.)\n 2009 г. – Жан Досе, френски имунолог, Нобелов лауреат (* 1916 г.)\n 2013 г. – Джеръм Карл, американски физикохимик, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1918 г.)\n\nПразници \n Швеция – Национален празник на Швеция\n\n606"
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        "text": "‘Alice in Wonderland’ Used To Convince Japan Children Nuclear Power Is Safe\n‘Alice in Wonderland’ was used to convince children in Japan that nuclear power is safe (PHOTO & VIDEO)\nNuclear Power after Fukushima | Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan\nUploaded by: Harvard\nUploaded on: August 7, 2012\nSpeaker: Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists\nAt 40:15 in\nFerguson: Stories have come out that the government was promoting nuclear power so much that they were using cartoon characters, they were using Alice in Wonderland to convince school children nuclear power is incredibly safe. They weren’t showing the other side of the story adequately enough. It was an unbalanced presentation.\nThe New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme:\n‘Safety Myth’ Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis\nAlice In Wonderland Used To Convince Children Nuclear Power Is Safe\nNear a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.”\n“It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”\nA Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says.\n“Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power. “You could say that it’s optimal for resource-poor Japan!”\nOver several decades, Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to persuade the Japanese public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power. Plant operators built lavish, fantasy-filled public relations buildings that became tourist attractions. Bureaucrats spun elaborate advertising campaigns through a multitude of organizations established solely to advertise the safety of nuclear plants. Politicians pushed through the adoption of government-mandated school textbooks with friendly views of nuclear power.\nThe result was the widespread adoption of the belief — called the “safety myth” — that Japan’s nuclear power plants were absolutely safe. Japan single-mindedly pursued nuclear power even as Western nations distanced themselves from it.\nThe belief helps explains why in the only nation to have been attacked with atomic bombs, the Japanese acceptance of nuclear power was so strong that the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl barely registered. Even with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the reaction against nuclear power has been much stronger in Europe and the United States than in Japan itself.\nAs the Japanese continue to search for answers to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some are digging deep into the national psyche and examining a national propensity to embrace a belief now widely seen as irrational. Because of this widespread belief in Japanese plants’ absolute safety, plant operators and nuclear regulators failed to adopt proper safety measures and advances in technology, like emergency robots, experts and government officials acknowledge.\n“In Japan, we have something called the ‘safety myth,’ ” Banri Kaieda, who runs the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which oversees the nuclear industry, said at a news conference at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna on Monday. “It’s a fact that there was an unreasonable overconfidence in the technology of Japan’s nuclear power generation.”\nAs a result, he said, the nuclear industry’s “thinking about safety had a poor foundation.”\nJapan’s government has concentrated its propaganda and educational efforts on creating such national beliefs in the past, most notably during World War II. The push for nuclear power underpinned postwar Japan’s focus on economic growth and its dream of greater energy independence. But as the carefully fostered belief in nuclear safety has dissipated in the three months after the March 11 disaster, Japanese are increasingly blaming the nuclear establishment for Fukushima. In a politically apathetic country, tens of thousands have regularly held protests against nuclear power. Young Japanese have used social media to organize and publicize demonstrations that have been virtually ignored by major newspapers and television networks.\nA song, “It Was Always a Lie,” has become an anthem at the protests and a vehicle for Japanese anger on the Internet. Its author, a famous singer named Kazuyoshi Saito, wrote it by changing the lyrics of a love ballad, “I Always Liked You,” that he composed last year for a commercial for Shiseido, the cosmetics giant. Mr. Saito’s performance of the song, surreptitiously uploaded on YouTube and other sites, has gone viral.\n“If you walk across this country, you’ll find 54 nuclear reactors/School textbooks and commercials told us they were safe,” the song goes.\n“It was always a lie, it’s been exposed after all/It was really a lie that nuclear power is safe.”\nh/t EneNews\nCategories:\tNUCLEAR NEWS\nNuclear Time Bomb – Report NRC Admits Heightened Flood Risks At Nuclear Power Plants\nFlashback: A Nuclear Incident “Worse Than Three Mile Island,” Covered Up For Forty Five Years\nPalisades Nuclear Plant In Michigan Shutdown After Another, Repeated Cooling System Failure\nWhen This Happens, Most Nuclear Power Plants in the World Could Melt Down\nSafe Radiation Is A Lethal TMI Lie – People Died At Three Mile Island\nA U.S. Nuclear Accident Could Be a Lot Worse than Japan\nIran Accuses German Siemens Of Sabotaging Its Nuclear Plant As Turkey Sends Heavy Weapons To Syria Border\nAudit Finds Broken EPA Radiation Monitors Broken And Unmaintained"
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        "text": "Provides information for setting regulatory setback requirements: Shoreline monitoring allows the RI Coastal Resources Management Council to establish, track, and adjust regulatory setbacks from eroding shorelines and planning for public infrastructure and new building construction.\nSupports coastal planning: Data on the current shoreline, rates of change, and future impacts provide valuable information for state and local decision-makers in the shaping of the future of our coastal communities.\nRhode Island’s coast defines it as the Ocean State. Although the “3% bigger at low tide” slogan is not technically correct, the idea has a nugget of truth about the smallest state in the nation. While Rhode Island ranks only 22nd out of 30 states in miles of total coastline, if you rank states by the ratio of length of coastline to acre of land area, RI jumps up to second only to Maryland. Every Rhode Islander lives within a 30-minute drive to Narragansett Bay or the Atlantic Ocean, so the influence of the shoreline on residents is exceptionally prevalent, playing an important role in our environment, economy, and overall infrastructure.\nIn Rhode Island’s coastal communities, increases in storminess and acceleration of sea level rise negatively impact shoreline erosion and are compromising the integrity of natural and developed coastlines. Shoreline erosion is a natural process where wave action, wind, and storm surge removes sediment from the coasts, redepositing it on an adjacent shoreline or washing it out to sea. Erosion and sea level rise are not new phenomena for Rhode Island’s shores: our soils are particularly susceptible to erosion and sea level has been gradually increasing for much of the recent past (for a total of about nine inches since 1930); however, their combined impact on Rhode Islanders—their property, beaches, and coastal communities— is growing and will continue to increase with climate change.\nMuch of Rhode Island’s infrastructure was not designed with adequate consideration given to long-term shoreline change and even plans that did consider sea level rise may not have envisioned the increasing rates that we currently see due to more intense coastal storms brought on by climate change. In the last 40 years, sea level rise has accelerated to an average of 1.25 inches per decade, and the latest projections anticipate more than nine feet of sea level rise in the Northeast United States by 2100.\nPhoto courtesy of RI Sea Grant.\nClimate change is already producing and will continue to produce more intense coastal storms with the greatest intensity in the form of hurricanes and nor’easters. Higher winds and greater wave action from these storms will generate higher storm surge—which comes ashore on top of higher sea levels—exacerbating erosion and coastal flooding. Greater storm surges on top of current sea level have the potential to greatly expand areas exposed to flooding and the projected storm surge on seas nine feet higher than current levels could be catastrophic for Rhode Islanders without immediate statewide buy-in and attention to adaptive planning.\nThe intersection of shoreline erosion and Rhode Islanders’ close relationship with the coast is already causing infrastructure and community planning dilemmas. Monitoring shoreline change provides precise, accurate information that is essential to making coastal planning decisions."
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        "text": "Canada Justice\nThe Family Redefined\nThe Supreme Court expands spousal support provisions to include separated gay couples\nD’Arcy Jenish May 31 1999\nThe Family Redefined D’Arcy Jenish May 31 1999\nD’Arcy Jenish\nRebecca Hunter and her partner of 6½ years, Debra Lamb, were making their way through rush-hour traffic on a busy Toronto expressway last Thursday when they heard the report over the car radio. The Supreme Court of Canada had nullified an Ontario law denying samesex partners access to spousal support if their relationship ended. The decision, declaring the law unconstitutional, forces the provincial government to contemplate amending that and almost 90 other pieces of legislation in order to extend equal rights to homosexual couples. Outside of Ontario, several premiers acknowledged that they, too, may have to rewrite dozens of laws in their provinces.\nFor Hunter and Lamb, high-school teachers who jointly own a home, a cottage and other assets, the high court ruling was both a legal and symbolic victory for gays and lesbians. “We shouted as soon as we heard the news,” said Hunter.\n“This society is finally recognizing that homosexual couples deserve the same rights as heterosexual couples.”\nThe Supreme Court ruling came in a case known only as M. vs. H. It involves a lesbian couple who split up in 1992 and became embroiled in an acrimonious dispute over dividing their assets, which included homes, property and a business. Lawyers who worked on M. vs. H. estimate that across Canada there may be as many as 1,000 provincial statutes that discriminate against gays and lesbians. British Columbia had already taken the lead among the provinces by amending several laws to give homosexuals rights to child custody, access and spousal support among other things.\nAs well, a Toronto-based organization pressing for gay rights, the Foundation for Equal Families, has launched a legal challenge to 58 federal laws that it says violate the equality provisions of the Charter of\nRights and Freedoms. Despite the tasks ahead, gay and lesbian activists were in a celebratory mood following last week’s ruling. “This is truly a great day in the history of our equality in this country,” said Toronto lawyer Martha McCarthy, who represented the plaintiff M. throughout her seven-year battle.\nIn her constitutional argument, McCarthy, backed by several rights organizations and the United Church of Canada, focused on a section of Ontario’s Family Law Act that allows one spouse from a failed marriage or common-law relationship to apply to the courts for financial support. But the legislation’s definitions of spouse does not include men or women in samesex unions. In an 8-1 ruling, with Mr. Justice Charles Gonthier dissenting, the Court gave the province six months to\namend the law. “The exclusion of samesex partners from the benefits of the spousal support scheme,” ruled the majority, “implies that they are incapable of forming intimate relationships of economic interdependence. This differential treatment discriminates ... by violating the human dignity of individuals in same-sex relationships.”\nPremier Mike Harris said he would comply, however reluctantly. In midcampaign for a June 3 election, Harris said that, if returned to office, his government will respect the ruling even though he subscribes to a more traditional notion of family. Conservative religious leaders responded guardedly. Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Roman Catholic archbishop of Toronto, said the provincial government should strive to protect the economic rights of same-\nsex couples while maintaining the sanctity of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Added Gary Walsh, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: “We encourage legislatures to meet the ruling without eroding any further the place of marriage in this culture. Let marriage be marriage.”\nBut elements of both church and state appear to be lagging behind public opinion on the issue. A national poll conducted in April, 1998, by the Toronto-based Angus Reid Group revealed that 75 per cent of Canadians believe that human rights legislation should protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. The survey, taken shortly after the Supreme Court ordered the Alberta government to include sexual orientation as a prohibited grounds of discrimination in its human rights act, found that 64 per cent of Albertans support such a measure. It also showed that fully 57 per\ncent of respondents who declared themselves to be Reform party backers favour protection for gays and lesbians.\nThe two unidentified Toronto women at the centre of the landmark case, now in their 50s, met in 1980 while vacationing in Nepal. They began living together and in 1982 started an advertising company based on H.’s contacts and M.’s experience running a small bicycle courier firm. H. drew a salary of $6,000 monthly from the business while M. handled most of the domestic responsibilities. By 1989, however, they were no longer sleeping together and in September, 1992, M. moved out. According to McCarthy, H. changed the locks on\ntheir homes, shut down the business while retaining her clients, and refused to divide the assets or provide support. That left M. almost penniless and without legal recourse except to sue her former partner.\nAfter a lengthy civil suit, the two women reached an out-of-court settlement in January, 1998, under which H. agreed to pay M. the equivalent of her equity in the country property. While the lawsuit was in progress, M. launched a separate challenge to the constitutionality of Ontario’s Family Law Act. She won in two Ontario courts before the provincial government appealed to the Supreme Court. In a statement issued through her lawyer, M. described herself as “an accidental activist” who never intended to become embroiled in a seven-year legal dispute. “The fair and equitable division of property after the breakup of any other kind of relationship would never be questioned,” she said. “That it was was both unconscionable and intolerable.”\nThe ruling may prompt some gays and lesbians to examine potential financial obligations. But the overwhelming reaction was one of relief that their position under the law had finally been clarified. “I have many clients in M. s position,” said Toronto lawyer Kelly Jordan, 31, who attended a news conference with her partner, Jude Stewart. “They have been anxiously awaiting the decision.” They will now expect a legislative response from politicians across Canada. 03\nBacking entitlements\nThe Supreme Court released two\nother substantive decisions last week. The impact:\n• The mother tongue of an accused person is a vital right. The court ordered a new trial—a fourth—for Jean Victor Beaulac, a bilingual B.C. francophone charged with murder who had been tried in English.\n• Indians living off reserves should be allowed to vote in their bands’ elections. The court allowed 18 months for Parliament to repeal residency requirements in the Indian Act and for bands to amend voting practices. The court was ruling on the fate of a disfranchised Ojibwa from the Batchewana band near Sault Ste.\nMarie, Ont.\nBusiness Cover\nThe Best & Worst JOBS\nMay 1999 By Ross Laver\nMay 1999 By Eric Silver\nBlack and Read All Over\nMay 1999 By Anthony Wilson-Smith\nHeartbreak on the Farm\nMay 1999 By Brian Bergman\nTHE LONG AND WINDING TRAIL\nAugust 1996 By D’ARCY JENISH\nTaking on the Tories\nOCTOBER 1996 By D’ARCY JENISH"
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        "text": "Q: How do I eject the Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup? How do I set Time Machine to eject my external Time Machine backup drive automatically after each backup?\n\nA: There might be a better way, but one solution might be to Applescript it.  I haven't yet found any way to run an applescript after a backup, but you could:\n\n\n*\n\n*Turn off automatic TM backup\n\n*Set up an applescript to run TM\n\n*\n\n*Some googling turned up this line to force an immediate TM build: do shell script \"/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/backupd-helper >/dev/null 2>&1 &\"\n\n\n*Add a line to eject the disk afterwards.\n\n*\n\n*eject disk somedrivename\nIf you want this to happen on a regular basis, you could attach it to a cron job.\n\nA: Haven't tried this, but it looks like it might work:\nJettison (Mac App Store link) \nEjects external drives when going to sleep and remounts them waking from sleep.\n\nA: ~/bin/timemachine:\n#!/bin/bash\n\nd=\"Time Machine\"  # (change this to match the name of your backup drive)\ndiskutil mount \"$d\" && tmutil startbackup -b && diskutil eject \"$d\"\n\n~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist:\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n    <key>Label</key>\n    <string>timemachine_eject</string>\n    <key>Program</key>\n    <string>/Users/username/bin/timemachine</string> <!-- Replace \"username\" with your username. \"~/bin/timemachine\" doesn't work -->\n    <key>StartInterval</key>\n    <integer>120</integer> <!-- run every two minutes for testing. -->\n        <!-- Change this to a higher number like 43200 (run every 12 hours) once you've confirmed it works. -->\n</dict>\n</plist>\n\nMake the script executable, unload the default plist, and load the new one:\nchmod +x ~/bin/timemachine\nsudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto.plist\nlaunchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist\n\nAny time you want to make changes to the plist file, you have to unload and load it:\nlaunchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist\nlaunchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/timemachine_eject.plist\n\n\nA: No longer available on app store, available here instad: https://www.stclairsoft.com/Jettison/ or via brew cask install jettison. Well worth the $5 after the trial expires. \n"
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        "text": "7 юни е 158-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (159-и през високосна). Остават 207 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1099 г. – Кръстоносците от Първи кръстоносен поход започват петседмична Обсада на Йерусалим.\n 1494 г. – Испания и Португалия подписват под егидата на папата Договора от Тордесиляс, с който си поделят Новия свят.\n 1654 г. – Луи XIV е коронясан за крал на Франция.\n 1879 г. – Високата порта назначава комисия по реформите в европейските вилаети в изпълнение на чл. 23 от Берлинския договор.\n 1901 г. – Светият синод свиква за първи път епархиални събори на свещениците по инициатива на митрополит Натанаил Охридски и Пловдивски и утвърждава типовия им устав на 27 март 1903.\n 1905 г. – Швеция и Норвегия с договор прекратяват съществуването си като обединена държава.\n 1929 г. – Папската държава е възстановена под името Ватикан, след като е ликвидирана през 1870 г.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: Приключва Битката при Мидуей.\n 1981 г. – Военновъздушните сили на Израел унищожават иракския ядрен реактор Озирак, за да предотвратят използването му за производство на ядрени оръжия.\n 1982 г. – Грейсленд, имението на Елвис Пресли, отваря врати за посетители.\n 1983 г. – От СССР е изстрелян автоматичен космически апарат Венера 16.\n 1988 г. – Изстрелян е съветския космически апарат Союз ТМ-5, сред чийто екипаж се намира втория български космонавт Александър Александров.\n 2004 г. – Открита е Централна автогара София.\n 2008 г. – В Австрия и Швейцария започва Европейското първенство по футбол.\n 2009 г. – В България и в други страни от Европейския съюз се провеждат Избори за Европейси парламент.\n 2019 г. – Американската бой-банда Jonas Brothers издава петия си самостоятелен албум „Happiness Begins“\n\nРодени \n\n 1794 г. – Пьотър Чаадаев, руски философ и публицист († 1856 г.)\n 1825 г. – Ричард Блекмор, английски писател († 1900 г.)\n 1838 г. – Виталиано Позели, италиански архитект († 1918 г.)\n 1840 г. – Шарлота Белгийска, императрица на Мексико († 1927 г.)\n 1841 г. – Карл Лемох, руски художник от немски произход († 1910 г.)\n 1848 г. – Пол Гоген, френски живописец, постимпресионист († 1903 г.)\n 1862 г. – Филип Ленард, унгарски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1947 г.)\n 1868 г. – Чарлс Рени Макинтош, британски архитект († 1928 г.)\n 1872 г. – Александра Фьодоровна, императрица на Русия († 1918 г.)\n 1877 г. – Петър Ацев, български революционер († 1939 г.)\n 1877 г. – Чарлз Гловър Баркла, британски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 1944 г.)\n 1879 г. – Кнуд Расмусен, гренландски антрополог († 1933 г.)\n 1896 г. – Робърт Мъликен, американски физик и химик, Нобелов лауреат († 1986 г.)\n 1896 г. – Имре Над, унгарски политик († 1958 г.)\n 1896 г. – Фьодор Ремезов, съветски военачалник († 1991 г.)\n 1897 г. – Кирил Мерецков, съветски маршал († 1968 г.)\n 1905 г. – Джеймс Брадок, американски боксьор († 1974 г.)\n 1907 г. – Младен Исаев, български поет и писател († 1991 г.)\n 1909 г. – Джесика Тенди, американска актриса († 1994 г.)\n 1917 г. – Дийн Мартин, американски актьор и певец († 1995 г.)\n 1924 г. – Вили Цанков, български театрален и кинорежисьор († 2007 г.)\n 1928 г. – Джеймс Айвъри, американски филмов режисьор\n 1935 г. – Тецухико Асаи, японски каратист († 2006 г.)\n 1940 г. – Том Джоунс, уелски певец\n 1942 г. – Муамар Кадафи, либийски лидер († 2011 г.)\n 1945 г. – Волфганг Шюсел, австрийски политик\n 1952 г. – Лиъм Нийсън, северноирландски актьор\n 1952 г. – Орхан Памук, турски писател, Нобелов лауреат\n 1957 г. – Фред Варгас, френска писателка\n 1958 г. – Принс, американски музикант († 2016 г.)\n 1959 г. – Антим Пехливанов, български футболист\n 1962 г. – Ралица Димитрова, българска актриса и режисьор\n 1963 г. – Александър Праматарски, български политик\n 1964 г. – Джуди Арънсън, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Златко Янков, български футболист\n 1967 г. – Дейв Наваро, американски китарист\n 1967 г. – Малина, българска попфолк певица\n 1968 г. – Сара Париш, британска актриса\n 1970 г. – Кафу, бразилски футболист\n 1970 г. – Майк Модано, американски хокеист\n 1972 г. – Карл Ърбан, новозеландски актьор\n 1974 г. – Беър Грилс, английски пътешественик\n 1975 г. – Алан Айверсън, американски баскетболист\n 1976 г. – Стефан Стоянов, български сценарист и драматург\n 1976 г. – Некро, американски музикант\n 1981 г. – Анна Курникова, руска тенисистка\n 1988 г. – Екатерина Макарова, руска тенисистка\n 1988 г. – Георги Самандов, български политик и инженер\n 1988 г. – Павлин Кръстев, български политик и инженер\n 1990 г. – Алисън Шмит, американска състезателка по плуване\n 1990 г. – Иги Азалия, австралийска певица и модел\n 1990 г. – Луиза Григорова, българска актриса\n 1993 г. – Джордж Езра, британски поп-певец\n\nПочинали \n\n 555 г. – Вигилий, римски папа (* неизв.)\n 1329 г. – Робърт I, крал на Шотландия (* 1274 г.)\n 1710 г. – Луиза дьо Ла Валиер, метреса на Луи XIV (* 1644 г.)\n 1799 г. – Виктоар Френска, френска благородничка (* 1733 г.)\n 1840 г. – Фридрих Вилхелм III, крал на Прусия (* 1770 г.)\n 1888 г. – Едмон Льо Бьоф, маршал на Франция (* 1809 г.)\n 1901 г. – Яким Игнатиев, български революционер (* 1870 г.)\n 1903 г. – Иван Стойчев, български офицер (* 1867 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Мичурин, руски биолог и селекционер (* 1855 г.)\n 1944 г. – Вълко Димитров, деец на БЗНС, ятак (* 1885 г.)\n 1944 г. – Харалампи Аничкин, български партизанин и антифашист (* 1818 г.)\n 1953 г. – Геза Рохайм, унгарски психоаналитик (* 1891 г.)\n 1953 г. – Димитър Влахов, македонски политически деец и журналист (* 1878 г.)\n 1954 г. – Алън Тюринг, английски математик (* 1912 г.)\n 1965 г. – Джуди Холидей, американска актриса († 1921 г.)\n 1967 г. – Винцас Миколайтис-Путинас, литовски писател (* 1893 г.)\n 1968 г. – Фьодор Токарев, съветски оръжеен конструктор (* 1871 г.)\n 1973 г. – Кристине Лавант, австрийска поетеса, белетристка и художничка (* 1915 г.)\n 1980 г. – Хенри Милър, американски писател (* 1891 г.)\n 1985 г. – Делчо Лулчев, български инженер (* 1935 г.)\n 1992 г. – Димитър Тишин, български писател (* 1913 г.)\n 1995 г. – Софроний Доростолски и Червенски, български духовник (* 1897 г.)\n 1997 г. – Стенли Шахтер, американски психолог (* 1922 г.)\n 2005 г. – Иван Кръстев, български актьор (* 1940 г.)\n 2006 г. – Абу Мусаб ал-Заркауи, йордански терорист (* 1966 г.)\n 2007 г. – Майкъл Хамбъргър, британски преводач (* 1924 г.)\n 2013 г. – Пиер Мороа, френски политик, министър-председател на Франция от 1981 до 1984 (* 1928 г.)\n\nПразници \nСветовен ден за безопасност на храните\n Аржентина – Ден на журналиста\n Аржентина и Коста Рика – Ден на физика\n Мексико – Ден на свободата на словото\n Перу – Ден на националното знаме\n Испания – Ден на Републиката\n Киргизстан – Ден на финансовите и икономически работници\n Малта – Ден на мъчениците\n Норвегия – Ден на независимостта\n\n607"
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        "text": "Bennet, Burr, Warren, Hatch Introduce Bill to Help Patients by Facilitating Faster Development of Drugs for Rare Diseases\nPosted by PPMD on September 15, 2015 at 5:10pm\nWe are thrilled to announce that the Advancing Targeted Drugs for Rare Diseases Act bill dropped in the Senate today (see press release below)! PPMD has been working with the Senate HELP Committee and Sarepta for the last several months on this 21st Century Cures provision which morphed into stand-alone legislation (view PPMD's most updated endorsement of this legislation).\nAccording to PPMD President Pat Furlong, \"It is our expectation that this bill will enable sponsors developing therapies for Duchenne - and other devastating rare diseases and disorders with profound unmet medical needs – to leverage similar or closely related underlying technologies and/or data to accelerate the development pathway for additional targeted therapies.”\nThe bill has the support of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Duchenne Alliance, and the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).\nRead today’s announcement to learn more about the bill and stay tuned for ways you can help this important legislation move forward:\nBipartisan bill would help pave the way for advancing new drugs for rare diseases\nWashington D.C. – Today U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced the Advancing Targeted Therapies for Rare Diseases Act of 2015. This bipartisan bill will help advance the development of targeted drugs for patients with serious or life-threatening rare genetic diseases.\n“Companies developing these targeted therapies are saving and lengthening lives, and if we allow them to expand the scope of their current testing we can potentially save even more lives,” Bennet said. “We have met with Coloradans suffering the effects of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, cancer and other life threatening diseases who have asked us to remove red tape and help them access cutting edge treatments. By allowing these innovators to safely test new therapies on patients with the same disease, but a different mutation, we can unleash a host of lifesaving new breakthroughs.”\n\"This is an exciting era of medicine that holds great potential for personalizing treatments to improve and save lives,\" said Burr. “This bipartisan legislation will help fulfill this potential for patients in North Carolina and across our nation by facilitating the development of targeted drugs for rare diseases. I’m proud of North Carolina’s innovators and the work they are doing on behalf of patients, and it is my hope that this legislation will facilitate many life-saving treatments that give hope to families who are battling rare diseases.”\n“Targeted therapies are a promising form of treatment for people living with rare diseases who often have no other treatment options. We should use all the tools we can to help bring these new therapies to market, while maintaining the FDA’s strong safety and effectiveness standards,” Warren said. “By clarifying the FDA’s current authority to consider research supporting previously-approved targeted treatments, this bipartisan bill will help innovators advance the next generation of precision medicines.”\n“Innovation in treatments is critical for patients with rare diseases. The Advancing Targeted Therapies for Rare Diseases Act will enable more patients suffering from rare diseases to benefit from advances in precision medicine,” said Hatch. “By removing difficulties involved in conducting conventional trials for genetic subgroups of many rare diseases, this legislation will incentivize new drug development, create greater efficiency in the drug review process, and bring needed treatments to patients faster. I am proud to work with Senators Bennet, Burr, and Warren on this meaningful, bipartisan legislation.”\nMany rare diseases like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, and certain cancers have genetic origins. Different mutations within a gene can result in the same disease, meaning some diseases are further fractured into various subtypes. Advances in medicine have made it possible to develop treatments targeted to a particular genetic subtype, but the use of these targeted therapies is limited to patients with an exact mutation. Targeted therapies are usually developed first for the most common genetic subtype.\nDeveloping drugs for rare diseases is particularly difficult because of the small patient populations available for clinical trials. Therefore, there would need to be dozens of therapies to treat the full spectrum of certain genetic rare diseases.\nThe Advancing Targeted Therapies for Rare Diseases Act of 2015 affirms the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) authority to allow innovators to use their own data supporting the approval of a targeted therapy to help facilitate additional targeted therapies to treat patients with the same rare disease.\nThis bill does not change the FDA’s current approval standards and has the support of the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Duchenne Alliance, and the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)."
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        "text": "\"Side Effects\" dance performance at the London School of Pharmacy\nSide Effects is a unique collaboration with The School of Pharmacy, University of London and The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, investigating social pharmacy questions through intergenerational community workshops, performance and audience responses. Five dancers aged between 20 and 75 fuse choreography and story inspired by our medical histories. The company, dANTE OR dIE, consists of a former pharmacist, pharmaceutical researcher and a former GP among others.\nOn Thursday, 17th February dANTE OR dIE will present this new performance at The London School of Pharmacy followed by a discussion chaired by Professor Ian Bates."
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        "text": "Q: How can I \"clean out\" my Time Machine backups if Time Machine won't backup because the disk is full? When Time Machine tries to make a backup, it informs me that it can't because the backup disk is full. \nWhat it's mostly full of (about 700GB of 1TB) is prior backups of the same machine. Time Machine used to just delete the oldest ones, but now it seems unwilling or unable to do so.\nIs there some manual way I can make room by clearing out old backups?   When I go into the Time Capsule through Finder, the backups all appear to be in a sparse bundle, which I'm nervous to mess with.\n\nA: The other answer didn't work for me, perhaps because I was trying to delete extra backups from an inactive TimeMachine folder. (I don't get a \"Delete Backup\" option in my Finder dropdown, as shown. \nIn Mountain Lion, I was able to use tmutil, a terminal command with great power. A great description of how to use it is http://blog.hawkimedia.com/2012/08/reclaiming-a-timemachine-volumes-disk-space/\n\nA: Enter TimeMachine, then in the main window, select the backup you want to delete (on the right), then use the Action Menu (Gear icon) to select \"Delete Backup\".\nUsing this menu, you can also, when a file or a folder is selected, delete all its backup.\n\n\nA: I think this essay will help you.\nthe source of this essay related here.\n\nA: To perhaps state the obvious, if you have a second Time Machine backup for security and you only care about being able to restore the last working state (history is not important, just protection against drive failure), then you can\n\n*\n\n*format (erase) your Time Machine drive, giving it a new name,\n\n*add it as a new Time Machine backup drive, and\n\n*delete the backup under the old name.\n\nThis is crude, but may be the most efficient approach for a certain subset of use cases.\n"
    },
    {
        "text": "8 юни е 159-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (160-и през високосна година). Остават 206 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 68 г. – Римският сенат провъзгласява Галба за император.\n 1624 г. – Земетресение разтърсва Перу.\n 1783 г. – Вулканът Лаки в Исландия изригва в продължение на осем месеца, опустошенията от което предизвикват 7-годишен масов глад и смъртта на 9000 души.\n 1794 г. – Чрез пищни тържества в цяла Франция Робеспиер институционализира нова държавна религия на Френската революция – Култа към Върховното същество.\n 1869 г. – Американецът Ив Макгафи патентова прототип на прахосмукачката.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: Японски подводници и самолети атакуват Австралия.\n 1949 г. – Публикуван е политическият роман 1984 на Джордж Оруел.\n 1953 г. – Американски върховен съд постановява, че в ресторантите в окръг Колумбия не може да се отказва да се сервира на чернокожи.\n 1965 г. – Народна република България и Полша подписват спогодба за премахване на визите и развитие на туризма.\n 1968 г. – На Летище Хийтроу е задържан убиецът на Мартин Лутър Кинг – Джеймс Ърл Рей, докато се опитва да напусне Обединеното кралство с фалшив канадски паспорт.\n 1973 г. – Генерал Франко предава премиерския пост на Испания на Луис Бланко, след като е управлявал 34 години.\n 1975 г. – От СССР е изстрелян автоматичният космически апарат Венера 9 с цел изследване на Венера.\n 1984 г. – Хомосексуалността е призната за законна в австралийския щат Нов Южен Уелс.\n 1986 г. – Курт Валдхайм, бивш генерален секретар на ООН, е избран за президент на Австрия.\n 1990 г. – Гражданите на Чехословакия гласуват в парламентарни избори с категорично мнозинство за движението на бившите дисиденти – Граждански форум.\n 1995 г. – Канадско-датският програмист Размус Лердорф публикува първата публична версия на скриптовия език PHP, който служи за създаване на динамични уебстраници.\n\nРодени \n\n 1625 г. – Джовани Доменико Касини, италиански учен († 1712 г.)\n 1671 г. – Томазо Албинони, италиански композитор († 1751 г.)\n 1810 г. – Роберт Александър Шуман, германски композитор и пианист († 1856 г.)\n 1829 г. – Джон Миле, английски художник († 1896 г.)\n 1867 г. – Франк Лойд Райт, американски архитект († 1959 г.)\n 1894 г. – Борис Стефанов, български ботаник († 1979 г.)\n 1895 г. – Васил Захариев, български график и изкуствовед († 1971 г.)\n 1895 г. – Сантяго Бернабеу Йесте, испански футболист († 1978 г.)\n 1903 г. – Маргьорит Юрсенар, френска писателка († 1987 г.)\n 1916 г. – Франсис Крик, британски физик и биохимик, Нобелов лауреат († 2004 г.)\n 1918 г. – Джеръм Карл, американски физикохимик, Нобелов лауреат († 2013 г.)\n 1921 г. – Сухарто, президент на Индонезия († 2008 г.)\n 1928 г. – Борис Клочков, български аграрен учен\n 1934 г. – Видое Подгорец, македонски писател († 1997 г.)\n 1935 г. – Иван Иванов, български музикант († 1993 г.)\n 1936 г. – Кенет Уилсън, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат († 2013 г.)\n 1940 г. – Нанси Синатра, американска певица и актриса\n 1951 г. – Бони Тайлър, уелска певица\n 1953 г. – Иво Санадер, министър-председател на Хърватия\n 1954 г. – Кирил, варненски и великопреславски митрополит († 2013 г.)\n 1954 г. – Филип Беке, белгийски дипломат\n 1955 г. – Тим Бърнърс-Лий, британски математик\n 1963 г. – Луц Зайлер, германски писател\n 1963 г. – Урф Щолтерфот, германски писател\n 1964 г. – Васил Иванов-Лучано, български политик\n 1966 г. – Валентин Наливайченко, украински политик\n 1966 г. – Джулиана Маргулис, американска актриса\n 1973 г. – Херонимо Хил, венецуелски актьор\n 1976 г. – Даниела Йорданова, българска лекоатлетка\n 1977 г. – Кание Уест, американски рапър\n 1977 г. – Красимир Чомаков, български футболист\n 1982 г. – Надя Петрова, руска тенисистка\n 1983 г. – Нино Харатишвили, грузинско-германска писателка\n 1983 г. – Ким Клайстърс, белгийска тенисистка\n 1984 г. – Хавиер Масчерано, аржентински фуболист\n 1987 г. – Владислав Стоянов, български футболист\n 1988 г. – Камил Гросицки, полски футболист\n 1993 г. – Едисон Йорданов, германско-български футболист\n 1995 г. – Ферлан Менди, френски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 632 г. – Мохамед, ислямски пророк (* 570 г.)\n 1376 г. – Едуард, принц на Уелс (* 1330 г.)\n 1795 г. – Луи XVII, крал на Франция (* 1785 г.)\n 1876 г. – Жорж Санд, френска писателка (* 1804 г.)\n 1912 г. – Йордан Недков, български революционер (* 1882 г.)\n 1946 г. – Кирил Дрангов, български революционер (* 1901 г.)\n 1970 г. – Ейбрахам Маслоу, американски психолог (* 1908 г.)\n 1976 г. – Михаил Катуков, съветски офицер (* 1900 г.)\n 1985 г. – Айше Афет Инан, турски историк и социолог (* 1908 г.)\n 1987 г. – Цеко Торбов, български философ, правист, преводач (* 1899 г.)\n 1997 г. – Стефан Елевтеров, български литературовед (* 1930 г.)\n 2007 г. – Богомил Райнов, български писател и професор по естетика (* 1919 г.)\n 2007 г. – Ибрахим Касимов, български аграрен учен и общественик (* 1938 г.)\n 2008 г. – Петер Рюмкорф, немски поет, белетрист и драматург (* 1929 г.)\n 2009 г. – Омар Бонго, президент на Габон (* 1935 г.)\n 2010 г. – Пламен Масларов, български режисьор (* 1950 г.)\n 2016 г. – Евтим Евтимов, български поет, автор на музикални текстове (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на океаните (Определен по време на срещата на високо равнище по проблемите на Земята през 1992 г. в Рио де Жанейро, Бразилия)\n\n608"
    },
    {
        "text": "9 юни е 160-ият ден в годината според григорианския календар (161-ви през високосна). Остават 205 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 68 г. – Римският император Нерон извършва с помощта на секретаря си самоубийство, за да не претърпи унижението от бичуване, което го очаква след загубата на властта.\n 1535 г. – Френският пътешественик Жак Картие става първият европеец, открил реката Сейнт Лорънс в Канада.\n 1762 г. – Руският император Петър III абдикира от престола след бунт на гвардията и е заменен на трона от съпругата си императрица Екатерина II.\n 1815 г. – Подписан е договорът, с който приключва Виенския конгрес, съгласно който Русия анексира Полша, а Швейцария и Холандия получават независимост.\n\n 1889 г. – В Рим е открит паметник на Джордано Бруно на мястото, където е изгорен на клада като еретик.\n 1904 г. – Лондонският симфоничен оркестър изнася първия си концерт.\n 1909 г. – 22-годишната домакиня Алис Хайлър Рамзи става първата жена, прекосила САЩ с автомобил. Заедно с три нейни приятелки, които не знаели да карат, тя изминала с автомобил „Максуел“ разстоянието от Ню Йорк до Сан Франциско (3800 мили, 6115 км) за 59 дни.\n 1923 г. – В Царство България е извършен Деветоюнският преврат, чрез който е свалено правителството на Александър Стамболийски.\n 1928 г. – Американците Чарлз Кингсфор-Смит и Чарлз Улм извършват първия полет със самолет над Тихия океан.\n 1934 г. – Доналд Дък дебютира в анимационното филмче The Wise Little Hen.\n 1946 г. – Бумибол Адулядей става крал на Тайланд – най-дълго управляващия монарх в света.\n 1957 г. – Австралийски алпинисти изкачват за първи път връх Броуд Пик (12-ият по големина в света) в Пакистан.\n 1958 г. – Кралица Елизабет II открива официално лондонското летище Гетуик.\n 1967 г. – Шестдневната война: На 5-ия ден от войната Израелската армия отнема Голанските възвишения от Сирия.\n 1980 г. – Народна република България установява дипломатически отношения с Гренада.\n 1999 г. – Косовската война: Сключен е мирен договор между Съюзна република Югославия и НАТО, съгласно който югославските войски се изтеглят от Косово, а НАТО прекратява бомбардировките над югославски обекти.\n 2006 г. – Започва 18-ото Световно първенство по футбол в Германия, в първия мач домакините побеждават Коста Рика с 4:2.\n\nРодени \n\n 1640 г. – Леополд I, император на Свещената Римска империя († 1705 г.)\n 1661 г. – Фьодор III, цар на Русия († 1682 г.)\n 1672 г. – Петър I, император на Русия († 1725 г.)\n 1775 г. – Георг Гротефенд, германски филолог († 1853 г.)\n 1781 г. – Джордж Стивънсън, английски изобретател († 1848 г.)\n 1810 г. – Ото Николай, германски композитор († 1849 г.)\n 1812 г. – Йохан Готфрид Гал, германски астроном († 1910 г.)\n 1836 г. – Елизабет Гарет Андерсън, първата жена доктор в Англия († ?)\n 1843 г. – Берта фон Зутнер, австрийска писателка, Нобелова лауреатка през 1905 г. († 1914 г.)\n 1844 г. – Леонид Соболев, министър-председател на България († 1913 г.)\n 1854 г. – Херардус Боланд, холандски философ († 1922 г.)\n 1872 г. – Илия Матакиев, български лекар († 1946 г.)\n 1875 г. – Хенри Халет Дейл, британски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1936 г. († 1968 г.)\n 1895 г. – Курт Цайцлер, германски офицер († 1963 г.)\n 1915 г. – Лес Пол, американски китарист и изобретател († 2009 г.)\n 1916 г. – Робърт Макнамара, американски министър на отбраната († 2009 г.)\n 1925 г. – Кийт Лаумър, американски писател († 1993 г.)\n 1930 г. – Евгения Шуплинова, писателка от Република Македония († 2008 г.)\n 1933 г. – Иван Зоин, български актьор († 2008 г.)\n 1941 г. – Джон Лорд, английски рокпианист († 2012 г.)\n 1942 г. – Иван Пунчев, български философ († 2009 г.)\n 1943 г. – Велико Стоянов, български актьор\n 1943 г. – Джо Холдеман, американски писател\n 1945 г. – Георги Василев, български футболист\n 1946 г. – Роберт Зара, австрийски футболист\n 1951 г. – Исмаил Абилов, български борец\n 1956 г. – Николай Цонев, български политик\n 1959 г. – Димитър Димитров, български треньор\n 1961 г. – Майкъл Джей Фокс, канадски актьор\n 1962 г. – Елвира Георгиева, българска поп и попфолк певица\n 1963 г. – Джони Деп, американски актьор\n 1967 г. – Милен Панайотов, български композитор\n 1978 г. – Вяра Йорданова, български политик и психолог\n 1978 г. – Матю Белами, британски певец\n 1978 г. – Генка Шикерова, българска репортерка\n 1978 г. – Мирослав Клозе, немски футболист\n 1981 г. – Калин Врачански, български актьор\n 1981 г. – Натали Портман, израелско-американска актриса\n 1982 г. – Иван Банев, инженер и общественик\n 1983 г. – Алектра Блу, американска порно актриса\n 1984 г. – Уесли Снейдер, холандски футболист\n 1988 г. – Росица Милкова, хуманист, реформатор\n 1991 г. – Славчо Петрунов, народен изпълнител\n\nПочинали \n\n 62 г. – Клавдия Октавия, римска императрица (* 39 г. или 40)\n 68 г. – Нерон, римски император (* 37 г.)\n 1870 г. – Чарлз Дикенс, британски писател (* 1812 г.)\n 1878 г. – Джанюариъс Макгахан, американски журналист (* 1844 г.)\n 1894 г. – Тодор Кесяков, български политик (* 1831 г.)\n 1924 г. – Иван Ташев, български революционер (* 1876 г.)\n 1934 г. – Христос Цундас, гръцки археолог (* 1857 г.)\n 1946 г. – Константин Стоянов, български инженер (* 1885 г.)\n 1960 г. – Семьон Лавочкин, съветски авиоконструктор (* 1900 г.)\n 1973 г. – Джон Кризи, американски писател (* 1908 г.)\n 1974 г. – Мигел Анхел Астуриас, гватемалски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1967 г. (* 1899 г.)\n 1989 г. – Джордж Бидъл, американски генетик, Нобелов лауреат през 1958 г. (* 1903 г.)\n 1989 г. – Волфдитрих Шнуре, немски писател (* 1920 г.)\n 1994 г. – Ян Тинберген, холандски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1969 г. (* 1903 г.)\n 1997 г. – Алекси Иванов, български политик (* 1922 г.)\n 2000 г. – Ернст Яндл, немски поет (* 1925 г.)\n 2008 г. – Алгис Будрис, американски писател (* 1931 г.)\n 2008 г. – Карен Асрян, арменски шахматист (* 1980 г.)\n 2009 г. – Вера Мутафчиева, българска писателка (* 1929 г.)\n 2010 г. – Марина Семьонова, руска балерина (* 1908 г.)\n 2013 г. – Иън Банкс, шотландски писател (* 1954 г.)\n 2013 г. – Валтер Йенс, немски литературен историк (* 1923 г.)\n 2022 г. – Мат Цимерман, канадски актьор (* 1934 г.)\n\nПразници \n Международен ден на архивите, отбелязва се от 2008 г. с решение на Международния съвет на Архивите\n Ден на работниците от леката промишленост (за 2013 г.) – Отбелязва се от 1970 г. през втория неделен ден от юни\n Уганда – Ден на националните герои\n Оклахома (САЩ) – Ден на възрастните хора\n\n609"
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        "text": "\n\n#ifndef RANDOM_H\n#define RANDOM_H 1\n\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n\nvoid random_init(void);\nvoid random_set_seed(uint32_t);\n\nvoid random_bytes(void *, size_t);\nuint32_t random_uint32(void);\nuint64_t random_uint64(void);\n\nstatic inline int\nrandom_range(int max)\n{\n    return random_uint32() % max;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint8_t\nrandom_uint8(void)\n{\n    return random_uint32();\n}\n\nstatic inline uint16_t\nrandom_uint16(void)\n{\n    return random_uint32();\n}\n\n#endif /* random.h */\n"
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        "text": "ICANN has confirmed that it will hold a technical summit to discuss the forthcoming Trademark Clearinghouse in Brussels less than two weeks from now.\nThe two-day meeting will be held at the offices of Deloitte, which along with IBM has been contracted as the TMCH provider, from August 20 to 21.\nAs you might expect by now from the new gTLD program, the summit’s organization wasn’t particularly timely or well-communicated, leaving parts of the community fuming.\nThe meeting was demanded by registries and registrars at the Prague meeting in June — they want a chance for their technical guys to get into the nitty-gritty of the TMCH implmentation.\nBut confirmation that it’s actually going ahead only arrived in the last couple of days, leaving companies in the US and Asia-Pacific regions facing steep last-minute air fares or the less-ideal option of remote participation at ungodly hours.\nI get the impression that the TMCH providers, which have been less than communicative with the registrars and registries they will soon be servicing, might be as much to blame as ICANN this time.\nThe TMCH is a repository for trademark data that new gTLD registries will be obliged to use in their sunrise and immediate post-launch periods.\nWhile the policy argument has ostensibly been settled, many technical details that still need to be ironed out could have huge implications.\nFor example, if the registration process flow requires live queries to the TMCH, downtime could be devastating for registries if, as is expected, several gTLDs wind up launching simultaneously.\nAnd if the TMCH protocols prove to be too complex and costly for registrars to implement, many may not bother, potentially leading to a bunch of damp squib gTLD launches.\nSo it’s important stuff. DI may even be in attendance, hotel prices and/or Belgian vagrancy laws permitting."
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        "text": "Q: Find and Change system shortcut As I know you can find a limit of shortcut in system preference > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcut\nwhere you can find other shortcut and how must change it? for example if I change the cmd + O to enter where can I go? is there any software that can do it for me or I must do it in terminal (How?).  \nP.S: I read some where that list of shortcuts for each apps save in Localized.rsrc but I have 2 problem?\n\n\n*\n\n*I check and in snow leopard I don't have this file.\n\n*How can find general shortcut related to which apps? like capture image or copy & pase or ...\n\n\nA: The shortcuts for each application can be easily changed in the very preference menu you mentioned.\nWhich shortcuts can be changed is determined by what options are in that application's menu. So for Finder, you can customize \"New Finder Window\" and etc. etc. whatever is in the menu. \nTo change the shortcut for \"Open\" (which happens to be Finder -> File -> Open in the menu) you go to the System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts, go to Application shortcuts, find \"Finder\", press the \"+\" button, and add a new option with name \"Open\" (exactly spelled as the menu option) and enter a keyboard shortcut.\n\nNote that you can't use the enter key or anything: you can only use the modifier keys (shift, command, control, fn) and numbers or letters.\nFor general shortcuts you can scroll up into \"All Applications\" and add a shortcut for \"Copy\" or \"Paste\" or which will toggle for whichever application has that menu option in its menu.\nEDIT: Response to comments:\n1) If you can't find the exact name of a menu command or if there isn't a menu command... well, you just can't set a shortcut unless you use some kind of a third party application that intercepts keystrokes (kinda like AutoHotKey but on Mac). Thus for Quick Look, it doesn't work since the menu command (there is a menu option for it in Finder File->Quick Look) adds the name of the file to be \"Quick Looked\", e.g. \"Quick Look 133.png.\" I believe in Leopard it may have worked if one just set \"Quick Look\" to whatever shortcut under Finder, but it doesn't work in SL for me.\n2) Screen Capture Cmd+Shift+3 is universal: it's a full screen screenshot. Cmd+shift+4 is similar except it lets you select a box to screen shot. I'm not sure what you mean which shortcuts are for which apps... Either it's listed under the app (in the preferences) or it's universal and applies to either every application with the menu option or the system itself.\nEDIT 2: I'll add even more when I have time\na) To my knowledge CUSTOM keyboard shortcuts are stored in com.apple.universalaccess.plist and com.company.application.plist (e.g. com.apple.finder.plist) located in the ~/Library/Preferences folder.\ncom.apple.universalaccess.plist lists the apps with custom shortcuts:\n\ncom.apple.finder.plist lists the actual custom shortcuts for finder under NSUserKeyEquivalents:\n\nEDIT 3:\nb) I believe that the default shortcuts for Cocoa apps are stored in the nib files, for example ../Finder/Contents/Resources/English.lprog/MenuBar.nib or seomthing like that. I've successfully edited these nib files MANUALLY using interface builder to change the keyboard shortcuts for the menu bar items. (Whether there are shortcuts that are not menu bar items and not defined by the system I don't know) Thus I don't know of any command line way either...\nThe nib:\n\nI don't know whether this serves your purpose well. As a side note, for completeness, to edit a compiled nib file like those of finder... is an entirely different answer on its own. This article sums it up well. Basically you work with an uncompiled nib to edit a compiled nib: If you undertake this journey and have trouble finding an uncompiled nib I've uploaded one here.\nIf I ever find a command line method or learn more about where applications store keyboard shortcuts I will update this answer accordingly.\nEDIT: Final Note\nThese nibs are in xml format or something and can be opened by text editors... that might allow for... I don't know. :D\n"
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        "text": "Q: How can I combine two PDFs in Preview? How can I combine two PDFs in Preview?\n\nA: Here's a detailed explanation of how to use Automator.  It looks complicated but it only took me a couple of minutes to reproduce it on my computer...\nhttp://www.documentsnap.com/how-to-combine-pdf-files-in-mac-osx-using-automator-to-make-a-service/\n\nA: First, you can only merge pdf if they are not protected, if this is the okay :\n\n\n*\n\n*Open both pdf\n\n*Enable the sidebar in each windows of Preview, then select \"Thumbnails\" view\n\n*Drag & drop the cover (inside the sidebar) of one pdf into the sidebar of the other pdf.\n\n\nWith this method, you can completely merge two pdf or selectively drag & drop the pages you want to merge to create a completely custom new pdf.\nYou can also extract pages from one pdf still using the same manipulation, but drag & drop to the Desktop.\n\nA: I know you asked for 'Preview' solutions, but in case you're interested in a command-line tool:\nalias pdfjoin='/System/Library/Automator/Combine\\ PDF\\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py'\n\nThen you can do things like \npdfjoin -o out.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf ...\n\n\nA: Another way is with Automator. You can combine many pages into one PDF with that. It has a \"Combine PDF Pages\" action.\n\nA: Pretty sure the easiest is to open all jpgs or images in Preview, then go to Print, and instead of actually printing, save as a PDF. Boom. All images in one PDF. \n\nA: I do this all the time (I print my expense report to PDF and then have to insert all the scanned receipts and other PDF receipts into that document).  The easiest way I have found is to open the target PDF in \"Contact Sheet\" view and then from Finder you can drag and drop the files into the Preview window of the target file.  This makes very quick work of assembling multiple PDFs into a single document\n\nA: A really usefull tool to combine multiple PDFs is the following service: \nhttps://joinpdf.online/\nIt allows you to merge several PDF pages online and download the merged PDF file afterwards.\n"
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        "text": "Celebrating the ICC's 10 years of fighting impunity\nBy Anjie Zheng\nTen years ago, the International Criminal Court became the world’s first permanent international tribunal, dedicated to investigating and prosecuting those responsible for the most serious war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Since 2002, 121 countries, or nearly two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly, have ratified the Rome Statute to become States Parties to the Court. The Court has carried out investigations in seven countries, undertaken 15 cases, and issued 20 arrest warrants. Among those sought are high-level individuals accused of orchestrating brutal policies of genocide, widespread rape, and use of child soldiers, including Joseph Kony of Uganda, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.\nThe current US engagement with and support for the Court reflects a positive shift in US-ICC relations. After the ICC issued its first verdict in March 2012, finding Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of deploying child soldiers under age 15 in armed combat, the US government praised the verdict as historic. Additionally, President Obama established the US's first Atrocities Prevention Board, an interagency, high-level body on mass atrocity prevention, which met for the first time in April 2012. The ICC's tenth anniversary in 2012 underscores not only the progress of the Court, but also the increasing amount of international support for the Court's work.\nThe Court will use lessons learned from the Lubanga case to speed up and increase efficiency of ongoing and future cases, as Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda takes over as Chief Prosecutor on June 15, 2012. She will be the first female Prosecutor of the Court as well as the first Prosecutor from Africa.\nTo commemorate this milestone occasion, AMICC members will be hosting commemoration events across the country, as well as writing blog posts, Op-Eds and Letters to Editors to a variety of media outlets. Please contact us via Twitter or visit our website if you would like more information. For more information on global activities, please visit the ICC’s tenth anniversary website.\nClosing Statements Begin in the Katanga and Ngudjolo Case, the ICC's Second\nGermain Katanga listens to the OTP's closing statements in the Hague on May 15, 2012.\nPhoto credit: ICC-CPI\nThe Prosecutor began closing arguments in the case against alleged Congolese warlords Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui in Trial Chamber II of the ICC today. This is the second ICC case to reach this stage. It is the first case against two jointly accused defendants, and the first to deal with charges of sexual violence.\nThe defendants are co-charged with seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity allegedly committed against ethnic Hema in Bogoro, a village of the Congo's Ituri region, in February 2003. Katanga was the former commander of the Force de Resistance Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI); Ngudjolo the former leader of the Front des Nationalistes et Integrationnistes (FNI). Both militia were engaged in fighting against the rival Union des Patriotes Congolese (UPC) militia, led by recently convicted Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, in a conflict that devastated the resources-rich Ituri region.\nIn 2009, when the Katanga and Ngudjolo trial began, the Prosecutor noted it would be the final ICC trial regarding the Ituri conflict. The OTP indicated it would shift future focus to atrocities committed in the Kivu region. Following years of investigation, the OTP filed an arrest warrant application yesterday for Sylvestre Mudacumura, leader of one of the most active militia in the Kivu provinces. The application charged Mudacumura with five counts of crimes against humanity and nine counts of war crimes, including murder, rape, and torture.\nAlong with submitting an arrest warrant application yesterday, the OTP requested to add more charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes to the arrest warrant against Bosco Ntaganda. Ntaganda was co-accused in 2006 with Thomas Lubanga, yet remains at large.\nAfter the Prosecution's closing arguments in the Katanga and Chui case, the Defense will make closing statements on May 21-23, 2012. The hearings may be viewed on the ICC's official YouTube channel.\nICC in the Media, Update #64\nIn the last several weeks the media has focused on a range of both old and new ICC situations. Of particular concern has been the ongoing dispute between the ICC and Libya over where Seif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son, should be tried. On a recent visit to Libya the ICC prosecutor learned that Libya has been carrying on its own investigation against Seif which has reportedly yielded \"great\" evidence. If Libya hopes to succeed in its appeal to have the case remain in Libya, it will have to demonstrate to the judges that it has sufficiently investigated the case and is capable of holding a fair and independent trial. Unfortunately for Libya, the ICC judges rejected its appeal as inadmissible. Representatives from Libya have reportedly insisted that they will continue to push for the trial to be held in Libya, and are continuing to actively investigate the case against Seif. Reportedly Libya's investigations are in \"an advanced stage\" and are expected to be completed shortly.\nIn other news, increasing violence and threat of violence in the Democtratic Republic of the Congo has lead to growing international pressure for the government to arrest Bosco Ntaganda and deliver him to the ICC. Recently Ntanganda reportedly mounted a rebellion against the Congolese army and has taken hold of two towns in the east. The government has not commented on how these events affect its ability or desire to arrest and extradite Ntaganda.\nIn the Kenya case, suspects Kenyatta and Muthaura applied to the judges of Trial Chamber V to postpone setting a date for their trial until their challenge to the court's jurisdiction is finally resolved by the Appeals Chamber. Also in the Kenya case, the East African Legislative Assembly reportedly recently adopted a motion urging the ICC to transfer the cases to the East African Court of Justice. Several days later the East Africa Community Summit resolved to extend the mandate of the EACJ to include crime against humanity, which it did not previously encompass. Critics of the move have pointed out that setting up the EACJ to deal with crimes against humanity would add years of extra delay at best, and at worst a total denial of justice. In the on-going Bemba trial, victim testimony is set to continue. To date there are reportedly 2,744 victims participating in the trial. Finally, the ICC has been closely monitoring the situation in Mali, and is continuing to investigate whether war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide have occurred. The Office of the Prosecutor has not yet determined whether a formal investigation into the matter will be opened. Photo credits: CNN, Capital FM.\nCelebrating the ICC's 10 years of fighting impunit...\nClosing Statements Begin in the Katanga and Ngudjo..."
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        "text": "Brink of Battle: Skirmish gaming through the ages (Review)\nThis is my first review where I have received a preview copy of a set of rules that are yet to be released - and also being the first person to review them. So it has been very exciting, and I hope you guys find this review informative. Feel free to post questions and comments about it and I'll answer in more detail if there is something specific that you would like to know.\n“Brink of Battle: Skirmish gaming through the ages” is a pretty unique set of rules. It is not period or setting specific, instead it allows players to create their own bands of warriors and fight a skirmish battle in any year of human history from ancient times up to modern day. To achieve this without making the game too thin in theme, history is divided into 3 categories. “Ancient/Medieval”, “Early Modern” and “Modern”, each have its own set of character traits for soldiers to pick from, period specific weapons and gear.\nThe focus is entirely historical gaming, but perhaps the most important thing to know is that this set of rules is a toolbox for your imagination.\nBoth players roll D10 dice pretty much every time something happens and add various bonuses, skills, penalties, cover etc. Battles are fought on a small scale which means that players takes turns in activating , moving, shooting and fighting with their warriors one at a time. And since the game is played on a small scale, 3-20 models per side, all warriors can be very individual in how their stat line looks like, their weapons and actually conveys a sense of “Dirty Dozen” feel where you can make each soldier different and specialized to a high degree by tweaking the stat lines in the building step.\nModels for this game can be 20-54mm in size, and should be single based (unless they are part of a HMG team or similar). Bases also follow a certain standard, but I think the most important thing is to have all models based the same rather than to have the exact correct size. I have for instance already a bunch of stuff based on 30mm bases when the rules recommend 25mm. I don’t think this is a game breaker.\nLet’s talk details. The game includes a lot of new ideas which I think sets it apart from other wargames that I know or currently play. This make learning the rules a bit more time consuming since you don’t have the “copy pasted” flow of ideas that is so obvious in many games these days. Much thought has been put into every step, phase and rule.\nBuilding your force\nStarting with how you build your warband, perhaps the most fresh take on this formula that I have come across. There are but 3 stats for all warriors in the rules, Command, Combat and Constitution.\nThen there are 3 types of forces, Elite, Standard, Horde. You also have 3 types of units – Commander, Veterans and Troopers – each with a cap of how skillful they can be in each of the 3 stats.\nSo when building your troops you start out by picking what type of force you want to represent. A horde of ill trained peasants for instance in a medieval uprising – then you pick the “Horde” which allows you to include lots of regular “troopers”, 1 commander and 1 veteran. Then you may have the idea of the Commander leading the angry peasant mob to be an old knight so you make him skilled and well armed – while you make the peasants weak, bad at fighting and arm them with crappy weapons. The stat lines for each single model can be different, this is the beauty of this system. Each point of each skill costs a certain amount of “Supply Points”, so you can tweak your warband to be truly unique in composition. You may have one peasant armed with a bow to have a hunter skill and be a good shoot, another peasant may really suck at fighting but have a great constitution and be hard to wound, while a third may be a great fighting but very weak and unable to carry more than a single weapon.\nModels in this game are armed according to the “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) rule. So a peasant armed with a spear and tunic will have gear matching his looks. The gear in the book covers pretty much everything you can think of. Most weapons are grouped into categories, for instance the weapon profile of “Cleaver” includes hand weapons that you can chop up your enemies with – including all types of battle axes and heavy single edged swords. The name is but a term under which a lot of different stuff is organized. (The rules actually suggest that you rename the Gear to what you like if you find it “offensive” – so if your peasant general has a Broadsword then just write “Broadsword (Cleaver)” in his unit profile.\nThe 3 stats Command/Combat/Constitution have several purposes in the game. The constitution number tells you how resistant your soldier is to damage, but also the amount of “gear” he can carry. Command is used to determine how many “tactical points” your commander will generate at the start of each turn but most importantly the morale of a soldier and how he will cope with the mental strain of war. The Combat rating is used to determine how well your soldier handles weapons – but also to which degree he has the skill to avoid injury. All stats are can range from 1-7 and also be increased by additional traits.\nThe various phases of the game\nThe game is divided into several phases each turn.\n“The Sitrep phase”\nRout Checks – Check whether any side breaks and retreats from battle\nPsychology Checks – Check the individual state of panicking soldiers\nRandom Movement – Sometimes models move out of your control\nRecover Shocked models – Soldiers attempt to rally\n“Order Phase”\nStrategy check – players roll for initiative or “The Edge”. The player who wins will be able to activate first during this turn. The player who lost will receive 1 “Break” action which can be used once per turn to disrupt enemy movement. Very similar to an overwatch action.\nSmoke removal - Remove smoke markers generated by weapons or smoke ammunition from the table.\nGenerate tactical pool – At the start of battle each player gets an equal amount of “activation” tokens as his commander has “Command” rating. You add +3 activation tokens if you won the initiative this turn.\nOrder actions – Players take turns in placing tokens next to the models they want to activate this turn.\n“Exacuting action phase”\nThis is where the game begins, players take turns in activating one model at a time – from the models that received an order token at the start of the turn. Actions are divided into “combat“ and “standard actions”. The first include 6 different combat actions, such as charging, moving and shooting, taking aim etc. The 6 standard actions include such things as climbing, running, moving , ambushing and so on. Also unless you order a panicking soldier currently fleeing to “steady” he will keep running in a random direction in the next “Sit Rep – Random movement” phase.\nPlaying the game\nSo we have built our warband, and generated command points, placed orders and are ready to fight.\nThe primary stat used here is Combat + rolling a D10 and add the two together. A soldier with Combat 3 rolls 8 on a D10, hence his combat amounts to 11. In the meantime, the opponent rolls to avoid damage. The opponent rolls a D10 and adds half of his Combat rating value to defend himself. If concealed the opponent would roll his full Combat rating in defense, and if in Cover he would roll 2D10 and pick the highest result.\nThe side which rolls highest wins, be it a successful hit, or dodging a bullet. As you can imagine, Elite warriors will have the edge over untrained mobs (but they will be severely outnumbered). Once hit you roll again to see if you manage to stun or wound your opponent. Here the attacker rolls 1D10 and add the weapon strength while the defender rolls 1D10 and add his constitution. If the defender has his result beaten by 5 or more, the attacker has wounded your model and it is removed from play. If the defender lost by less than 5 his model received a flesh wound and is classed as “stunned”, this state makes the model unable to activate this turn and it has to recover at the start of the next turn.\nCover (hard objects like wood/stone), Concealment (bushes, long grass, smoke etc) and range penalties all come into play as well and affect the attack rolls in an appropriate way and satisfying way. Defenders most definitely benefit from cover as it both gives them 2D10 in defense and allow them full Combat while rolling their defensive value. As the attacker it makes sense to sacrifice Rate of Fire to increase your Combat skill to become more accurate. Blackpowder weapons also have the benefit of creating concealment when fired as the nearby area is covered in smoke.\nWeapons, traits and gear\nAs already mentioned the game is divided into Ancient/Medieval (3000BC – 1450AD , Early Modern (1450AD-1880AD) and Modern (1880- present day). Each period has weapons and traits. You start out with rather archaic weapons in the first period, and then early blackpowder weapons are introduced until you get to machineguns of modern day battles. The neat thing here is that the it is realized that traits, tactics, ideas, skills and technology from the past carries over into the future. As such commanders from the modern period may sport skills available to commanders of the ancient era as well. But of course ancient commanders are clueless about what the future holds.\nWeapons have a Rate of Fire, which actually indicates how fast a weapon reloads, how easy it is to handle etc than amount of bullets fired as such. In Brink of Battle you roll and equal amount of D10 dice as you have Rate of Fire in the weapon profile, and then pick the highest result and use that to roll to wound. To do damage with ranged weapons the basic “damage” profile of the weapon is used along with a D10.\nClose combat weapons roll 1D10 to hit, but use the damage rating of the weapon + the constitution of the attacker added together and a D10 on top of that. The defender uses his constitution and any armor he might be wearing and combine those two values with a D10 to prevent being wounded. Also, in close combat, the defender always gets to use their full Combat rating when rolling to avoid damage.\nAs for ranges, everything is measured in inches, and ranged weapons have “point blank”, “effective range” and “long range”. Point blank is pretty much shooting someone in the face, the opponent does not benefit from concealment and cover defensive bonuses are also reduced. Effective range is the regular range of your weapon, no bonus or penalty applies when firing this way. Long range is any shot over 20” in which case it becomes harder to hit your opponent. Weapons have a maximum range of 2x Effective range.\nRanged weapons can also misfire or run out of ammo whenever you roll a 1 to hit, in which case a “weapon check” is made. If you pass it the shot is fired as normal, if failed the shot never goes off.\nWinning/Losing battles\nClaiming objectives that you’ve made up for your game is one way to win, another is if you or the enemy force simply breaks and withdraw from combat due to mounting casualty numbers. In Brink of Battle each force is allowed to take up to 25% casualties before force morale comes into play. If any or both players have lost more than 25% of their troops then each player rolls 1D0 at the start of the next turn and add either the “Command” rating of their Commander or if he is dead, a Veteran warrior – or if none of those are left then a single D10 without modifiers.\nThe better command your leader has the more likely your force is to stay in the fight.\nThus a commander with Command rating 7 would roll 1D10 and add 7 to the outcome. The opponent also rolls an opposing roll at the same time, 1D10 + the number of models you have lost and add those two together. If you have lost 4 models it would be 1D10 + 4 against you, and should he roll higher than your result – your force breaks and leaves the battlefield.\nCampaign games and “after action report” phase\nAs this game leans towards campaign gaming as well, there are a number of very cool additional features. Soldiers are able to earn experience if they survive the battle and have inflicted casualties to enemy troops, you get resupply points to spend on new recruits and extra gear and such. What I think is the most exciting part is what happened to your wounded models as they were removed from table. After the battle, if you want to play a campaign game, you roll on a chart for each soldier that was removed from play and see what has happened to him. Here the results range from light and severe wounds to being killed or actually “Missing in action”.\nInjuries reduce stats and traits, getting killed is kinda obvious – however the “Missing in action” means that a soldier has been captured by the enemy. This leaves the player holding the prisoner with a couple of possibilities. Either he can execute the captive – and take the gear from the corpse. The captive can be turned over for interrogation and your warband receives 25% of the models Supply Points to add to their own force for their trouble. Or you can make a prisoner exchange with your opponent for one of your own MIA soldiers. I think this is a really neat and unique twist.\nOverall impressions\nThe game mechanics feel very innovative and fresh. There is certainly something about the way hits/saves are handled in this game that make it a bit more dynamic than having a static save. The pace is pretty high as both players are involved all the time in almost every action – each player rolling dice to succeed or prevent something from happening. There are a lot of modifiers and tweaks built into this game but everything is made easy by being consistent.\nCombat ratings are divided by 2 when defending in the open, long range penalty is also Combat divided by 2. Concealment allows full Combat rating in defense, Cover allows 2 defensive dice to be rolled and most other stats and attributes are also easy to memorize. The whole is made a lot easier to keep track off since you only have 3 stats for each model – Combat, Command and Constitution – all of which are used for various checks and provide multiple ingame uses.\nCombat is used to attack and defend, Constitution to carry stuff and survive hits, Command to generate a pool of tactical markers and when rolling for morale. Long range for all weapons work the same, point blank for all weapons work the same – it is just a simple case of learning what Long range is (2x Effective range). Stats for weapons and characters becomes pretty short and compact this way.\nMovement and the way terrain works is all standardized. Traits add flavor to individuals that are meant to stand out. Customizing each soldier to have appropriate Command, Combat and Constitution ratings gives you the ability to write your force in detail.\nThe book is focused on historical skirmish games for now. Infantry and cavalry rules are there. Vehicles will be added in expansions and there are thoughts about a Fantasy/Sci Fi supplement as well in the future. But this book is pretty much all you need to play a game from ancient times up to Modern warfare. A perfect system for those out there that already have a ton of different miniatures and who don’t want to get into another “range” just to play a new set of rules. This book if anything encourages you to use whatever you already have at home – or just buy random models that you always wanted but could not find any use for in your other games.\nThe rules are well written and detailed, there are well explained profiles for weapons and traits, a clear division between the 3 provided periods and you also have a very nice collection of charts at the back of the book that summarize all the points costs for ratings, traits, weapons (and what profiles they contain) etc.\nThe game is, as already mentioned, a toolbox for your imagination. Although it comes with 3 scenarios it is meant to be used by players who want to create their own campaigns and stories.\nThe lack of proper pictures is obviously explained by the rules being written to be generic – as such you get stylistic silhouettes in all the explanatory pictures and diagrams.\nI hope I have given a good picture of what can be expected from the game and given a bit of insight on the game mechanics. I will elaborate on how results are generated in a bit more detail in an upcoming battle report which will be posted tomorrow.\nBrink of Battle will be released on March 19th, and the price will be 29.95 USD. The books is 135 pages, paperback and A4 size. It will be available through www.brinkofbattle.com as well as through www.lulu.com\nAlso check out the flyer explaining the idea behind this set of rules http://www.lead-adventure.de/downloads/BrinkofBattle_MarketingRelease.pdf\nLabels: Brink of Battle, Rules review\nFaust March 6, 2012 at 9:24 AM\nMuch thanks for the kind words and high quality review!\nRobert Faust\nGood review and sounds like an interesting set of rules.\nI appreciate that it's difficult, due to these being non-period specific, but how do they stack up against other rule systems?\nAnatoli March 6, 2012 at 9:46 AM\n@Arlequin, it is completely different from any other system I play. Mainly because the way the 3 stats work, how you build your team and the use of D10 dice. And of course the rules being non-period specific and actually written in such a way that it works and functions on all levels makes this a one stop set of rules for pretty much anything historical you might want to play on a skirmish level.\nI have already planned to play and make battle reports from all 3 periods to show how it works. Battle reports will be posted as soon as games are played.\nFirst out will be a French Indian War (Early Modern) game, already played and written so expect it to be posted tomorrow. Then I hope to follow that up with WW2 and medieval period games.\nByteknight March 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM\nHow easy do you think it would be to add-on with house rules for futuristic weapons? (blasters, phasers, etc)\nRay Rousell March 6, 2012 at 2:32 PM\nHhmm? These sound very interesting!!!\nAnatoli March 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM\n@Byteknight, it would work. The whole idea behind the rules is that soldiers through time are basically the same - human beings with varied training and physical attributes with the big change being weapons, traits and tactics.\nSo you could use the rules to create a futuristic warband for a Fallout or Deus Ex like setting. It would take some imagination to write up profiles for weapons such as lasers etc. But most of the rules would work \"out of the box\" so to speak.\nAs mentioned in the review, a fantasy and sci fi expansion supplement will be released and work together with the basic \"historical\" themed rules.\nFaust March 6, 2012 at 4:57 PM\nJust a note here regarding sci-fi weapons; I have them all mostly worked out. In the next few months, once people have had an opportunity to play the game, I will post the rough draft for futuristic weapons and armor on my website at www.brinkofbattle.com\nWhen we wanted to goof around during playtesting, we would play the Modern period and use our sci-fi minis as proxies. It still worked just fine. I just used Assualt Rifles for my Gauss Rifles and Heavy Armor for my Traveller Marines in Battledress. But don't worry, I have full rules in the works for a kick ass sci-fi release. :}\nEddie March 6, 2012 at 6:07 PM\nI love this idea. I currently have \"This Very Ground\" for my french and indian period. Can't wait to see your batrep with that period using these rules. Are there rules for cannons and such? Or will that come into play with the vehicle expansion?\n@Eddie, no rules for cannons. Grenades, smoke grenades, Machineguns, and all kinds of small arms are included. But no cannons, artillery or vehicles yet.\nThis Very Ground is still good for larger battles, but Brink of War is excellent for smaller more irregular formations and raiding parties.\nscotty March 6, 2012 at 9:27 PM\nGreat review. These seem very interesting. Could be what I am looking for, for my VBCW games\nFaust March 6, 2012 at 11:12 PM\n@Eddie - For now, I've kept it to mostly man portable weapons. Next year I will release Treadhead which is the vehicle expansion. It will cover heavier stuff.\nThe core concept of my development is this: Once the skirmish game gains traction with players, I will have a poll to determine which historical micro-set to release. So let's say the poll says French & Indian war; I'd then put together a PDF release that would cover in more detail that conflict within the overall period.\nThe Fantasy supplement Epic Heroes is scheduled to release by Thanksgiving (November) of this year. After the main rules have had some sales, I'll be asking for play testers on the Fantasy rules.\nShould Brink of Battle prove popular enough, I will then release my larger battle game that will work off a modified version of this system.\nSmillie March 7, 2012 at 11:35 PM\nNice review, the system sounds interesting\nFaust March 10, 2012 at 6:17 PM\nWe just posted the Force Rosters for download, as well as the Tables from the book that list the Ratings, Traits & Gear.\nGo to the resources page at www.brinkofbattle.com to see them!"
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        "text": "THE STARS AT TWILIGHT\nFor professional athletes, knowing when to quit is the toughest task of all\nSTEVE MAICH October 3 2005\nTHE STARS AT TWILIGHT STEVE MAICH October 3 2005\nSTEVE MAICH\nTHIS SEASON, baseball etched another chapter into its book of legends. It also wrote another, sadder story. But that one was largely ignored, out of deference for its subject, and because pro sports favours stories of achievement over frailty.\nThe story we all know is that of Roger Clemens—the barrel-chested pitcher, who said goodbye to baseball two years ago and then decided, almost on a whim, to give the game one more shot. This year, Clemens tore through the major leagues. With just a few weeks\nleft in the season, he carried an astonishing 1.78 earned run average. He turned 43 in August, and yet is arguably more dominant now than when he won his first Cy Young award 19 years ago.\nTo watch him throw, you can almost believe that age is irrelevant, as long as competitive fires burn. But we can’t quite believe it, because we know the other story of this baseball season, the one not nearly so widely told: the story of Rickey Henderson.\nOn Labour Day weekend, while Clemens was on the mound against the St. Louis Cardinals, Henderson was playing in front of 1,018 fans in Long Beach, Calif., in the championship of the Golden Baseball League—the most distant of professional baseball’s outer colonies, where players make about US$1,000 a month and some come\nto the park straight from their day jobs.\nThat weekend, the all-time major league leader in stolen bases, was in the outfield for the San Diego Surf Dawgs, raging against the dying light of his once-prodigious talent. Against opponents who couldn’t quite crack the lowest rungs of baseball’s minor league system, the 46-year-old Henderson could do no better than a .270 batting average and five homes runs in 73 games.\nClemens and Henderson are opposite sides of the same argument—the one that roils in the mind of every athlete eventually. When to quit? When to admit that whatever it was—that thing that transformed you from a player into a legend—is gone and it’s not coming back? There are no easy answers, and freaks of\nnature like Clemens only make it harder for men like Henderson, lingering in the game, desperate for one last time at bat.\nIt takes pride and optimism to dedicate your life to sport, and quitting requires a level of realism and self-doubt that players must intentionally suppress to be effective. “I just want the same chance I had when I was 19 years old,” Henderson told a reporter in August. “I just want a team to give me that chance. If I’m going to retire I want to take the uniform off my back.” For those who watched in amazement as Henderson stole 1,406 bases over 25 seasons in the majors, his honesty was jarring. You’ll rarely hear such a raw admission from an athlete: he was no longer in control, and it was eating him up.\nPathetic is a cruel word. But that’s what Henderson had become: a hollow impersonation of his former self. It was tough not to feel sorry for him. And that’s no way for a legend to end.\nLately, there have been a lot of athletes forced to face the twilight of their careers. Jack Nicklaus played his last round at\nThe Masters this summer. A handful of NHLers —Mark Messier, Al Maclnnis, Scott Stevens, Ron Francis—hung up their skates rather than face the gruelling task of getting back in shape after more than a year of inactivity. Jerry Rice, 43, the all-time leader in receiving in the National Football League, said a teary goodbye to the game last month when he couldn’t earn a spot among the Denver Broncos’ top three receivers.\nBut there’s no shortage of others persevering, determined to get one more year, one more record, one more victory lap out of their game. Brett Hull, 41, is back with the Phoenix Coyotes. And after losing the 2002/03 season to reconstructive knee surgery, and having his face shattered by a puck IV2 years ago, 40-year-old Steve Yzerman decided to return to the Detroit Red Wings. The man who was once Detroit’s most prolific and dangerous playmaker is expected to spend the year on a checking line, shadowing the stars of opposing teams.\nTheir decisions weren’t much of a surprise. It’s the rare athlete that can resist the temptation of those elusive milestones— 1,000 games, 500 goals, one more championship, one last whiff of stardom. Everyone wants to “go out on top”, but few do.\nBabe Ruth hit .181 in his final pro season, playing for the Boston Braves. Willie Mays got traded to the New York Mets when he was 41 and barely managed to hit .200. Guy Lafleur returned after three years of retirement for a sad comeback with the New York Rangers. And boxing history is littered with former champions humbled in their later years. Few who saw Muhammad Ali’s devastating loss at the hands of Larry Holmes will ever forget it. Now history repeats itself with Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, and Tommy “Hitman” Hearns, returning to the ring at the age of 46. It’s hard to tell if Hearns is a suicide in progress, or merely a sideshow—like Gordie Howe, when he skated one shift for the minor league Detroit Vipers in 1997, to become the first man to play pro hockey in six different decades.\nAsk psychologists why sports stars cling so desperately to the spotlight and they’ll tell you money and ego play a part. But the real motivation, they say, is a dark, cold fear that haunts almost all athletes. Lloyd Moseby, the former outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, may have put it best in a 1996 interview with Saturday Night magazine. “Baseball was my God,” he said. “The game\nmade me alive. It made my brain work. It kept me up at night working things out. [After retiring] it was as if everyone in the world had died... watching those guys on TV, there’s a void so big, nothing can fill it.” Ted Butryn, a sports psychologist at San Jose State university has helped hundreds of athletes face the depression and anxiety that comes with the end of their playing days. He says most go through a sort of “symbolic death” of themselves. To reach the elite level, they must push down every other aspect of\ntheir identity. Their sport made them rich, made them famous, made them respected, even loved. So, in the twilight of that career, almost all athletes go through the classic stages of emotional trauma: denial, anger, appeal to a higher power, depression, and finally acceptance. Those with unrealistic ambitions struggle most, Butryn says.\nJerry Rice, the greatest football receiver ever, once confided to his coach Mike Shanahan that he never wanted to see his achievements surpassed by the next generation. He spent his last three seasons scrounging for playing time with the Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks and the Broncos, consumed by the idea of setting records that could never be broken. By chasing sporting immortality, he ended up looking all too human.\nIncreasingly, the economics of sport encourage players to hang on too long—the money is just too good to give up. Boxers keep fighting because, once they’ve established a name, they are a saleable commodity even\nlong after their skills have faded. That reality has spread to other sports. With the era of expansion in hockey, baseball, football and basketball, merchandising and marketing are now as important as wins and losses. Prominent, “big name” players can be valuable attractions for sub-par teams, even if they can’t produce victories. That point was clearly made when big crowds turned out to watch Michael Jordan’s woeful Washington Wizards, even though Air Jordan was a distant memory.\nSome may see nothing wrong with that. If a player can get paid, why shouldn’t he play?\nThe answer lies in the nature of stardom, and the allure of sports: it’s about being super-human. We’re fascinated by athletes because they exceed the limits of mind and body that constrain the rest of us. It’s like magic. And to watch someone grow old on the field is like hanging around after the show and seeing how they didn’t really saw the lady in half. It ruins the wonder of what came before. When our heroes linger too long, they’re revealed as being just like the rest of us—vain, greedy, insecure and scared. And that’s the last thing we want them to be.\nClemens tempted fate coming back. If he’s wise, he’ll walk away now with an unblemished legacy and no regrets. As for Henderson, he’s bound to call it quits one of these days. In a few years, he will take his place in baseball’s Hall of Fame. His many accomplishments will be extolled and no one will mention the San Diego Surf Dawgs. But it’ll be hard to shake that memory, of a legend struggling through his last days, waiting for a call back to glory that never came. \\0]\nThe Last Dictatorship\nOctober 2005 By MICHAEL PETROU\nTHE REAL EPIDEMIC IS FEAR\nOctober 2005 By Karin Marley, Danylo Hawaleshka\nTOUGH LUCK\nOctober 2005 By KEN MACQUEEN\nSAMANTHA THE SEXPERT\nOctober 2005 By JOHN INTINI\nCTV’S GLOBAL CONQUEST\nOctober 2005 By KATHERINE MACKLEM\nIT CAN BE BITTER TO DRINK FROM THE SAME CUP\nONE FOR THE BOOKS\nAPR. 12th 2010 2010\nTHE SECRET WEAPON\nAPR. 12th 2010 2010 By COLBY COSH\nThe biology linking sex and money\nAPR. 21st 2008 2008 By STEVE MAICH\nHOW OPEC LOST CONTROL\nApril 2005 By STEVE MAICH\nWhat 'socialism for the rich’ looks like\nOCT. 6th 2008 2008 By STEVE MAICH"
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        "text": "You are here: Home | Human Rights | Burma: Despite progress, too soon for major reform of sanctions\nBurma: Despite progress, too soon for major reform of sanctions\n5 April 2012: While change is taking place in Burma, the ITUC has expressed serious concerns that governments may prematurely remove sanctions on the country before there is evidence of real progress on labour rights, human rights and the rule of law.\nEnding sanctions now, before necessary reforms are in place, could jeopardize the hopes of Burmese people for a better future. Further, new international investment in the absence of rule of law and public accountability will not support Burma’s long-term economic and social development but likely contribute to continued human rights violations.\n“Some important steps have been taken in Burma, but forced labour and other gross human rights violations continue apace. The interests of the Burmese people must take precedence over the interests of global business. The international community must support and encourage reform, and only remove sanctions when there is real and measurable progress on democracy, workers’ rights and the rule of law.” said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow. –http://www.ituc-csi.org/burma-despite-progress-too-soon.html"
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        "text": "Q: Can I use bootcamp without reformatting my hard drive? I would really like to install ububtu on my Mac using bootcamp but it requires me to reformat my disk first.  I have programs with license keys that I don't want to loose, or buy another copy of, and also just don't want to go through the trouble of reformatting.\nIs there a way I could do this?\n\nA: Boot Camp doesn't require you to reformat your drive. HFS+ partitions can be live-resized by the Boot Camp Assistant or the Disk Utility without going through the trouble of erasing everything. No file on your Mac OS partition will be affected.\nThere is, however, the case where you've had your computer for long and Mac OS has written files all across your drive. In this case, you will need to defragment your drive, in order to put all your files in a nice contiguous space on your hard drive, so that all the remaining space is contiguous too and a partition can be made there. As far as I know, iDefrag can do this for about $15. (Disclaimer: I never did it and can't guarantee it will work. But it should. Can someone confirm?)\nThe other way, if you have an external drive, is to copy all your files to this external drive using a software like Carbon Copy Cloner (free), reformat your drive, then copy them all back to your drive. Everything should be like before and you'll have no hassle except the time required to copy back and forth (your programs and your serial numbers and the such will be intact).\n"
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        "text": "We have all heard that protein derived from animal sources is of a higher quality than that derived from plants. The meat industries have been promoting this idea through advertising and funding of school nutritional education programs. In fact, they have succeeded in confusing people as to how much protein we really need and which foods supply that protein in the best possible way.\nIt is actually very difficult for a person who is eating a diet with sufficient calories to be protein deficient, as John Robbins, in his book Diet for a New America explains. As long as a person is not consuming large quantities of empty calories such as sugars, white bread, alcohol, etc. then there should not be any problems with getting adequate nutrition.\nThe vast majority of people in the Western world today eat too much protein, suffering diseases such as osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and arteriosclerosis due to the high levels of saturated fats and cholesterol that animal products contain.\nIf you are considering starting a vegetarian diet, you can be sure of eating a balanced diet with adequate protein if it consists of whole grains, beans or bean products like tofu, fresh fruit or vegetables and by avoiding too many processed foods."
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        "text": "Home Subject Areas Latest TOGAF® 9 Articles TOGAF – A Lingua Franca For Enterprise Architecture?\nTOGAF – A Lingua Franca For Enterprise Architecture?\nBy Roger Evernden -\nOne of the major selling points for TOGAF is that it provides a standardized, common foundation for the discipline of Enterprise Architecture.\nIn other words, everything in TOGAF – the ideas and concepts, methods and process, techniques and guidelines, metamodel and reference models – defines the lingua franca for EA.\nSpeaking the Right Language\nA lingua franca is the language, adopted as common, between speakers whose native languages are different. (Historically lingua franca was a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish that was used in the eastern Mediterranean.) So my question in this blog is: how useful is TOGAF as an Esperanto go-between language for enterprise architects from different backgrounds?\nThis subject came up recently when I advised a client about recruiting experienced architects. How varied are the backgrounds of EA professionals? And to what extent do architects speak different languages?\nWell even the phrase “enterprise architecture” is open to interpretation. As a personal anecdote, this year is my 30th year as an enterprise architect, and throughout these three decades the phrase “enterprise architecture” continues to have different meanings! When I started as an architect the discipline was known as Information Architecture – but not with the same meaning as today!\nYou’re an Enterprise What?\nThe phrase was coined by Richard Saul Wurman in 1976 as a response to the growing volumes contemporary information. He argued that we needed a systemic way of managing the fourth resource of information, and saw an analogy with the use of architecture in buildings. It was much later that information architecture gained its more narrow focus, associated with the Internet.\nThen EA became known as Information Systems Architecture – a phrase popularized by the publication of John Zachman’s Systems Journal article on the subject, which later became known as the Zachman Framework. Gradually EA evolved to cover more than just its IT origins – expanding to include business and organization. And EA’s scope has expanded now beyond the enterprise boundary to include its environmental and social context.\nSo it is really not too surprising that EA professionals have very varied backgrounds. This is where TOGAF steps in, by attempting to provide a common foundation for the discipline.\nEarly versions of TOGAF were focused on information technology, but gradually came to include a stronger business orientation. This is evident in the four TOGAF domains – starting with Business, followed by Data and Application, and ending with Technology – and in the sequence of the ADM which starts from business requirements, architecture vision and business architecture.\nOvercoming the Linguistic Barrier\nEven within TOGAF, the nature of each of the domains means a difference in subject matter and techniques, which can create linguistic barriers. I had to address this issue recently with a client where the word “application” had several meanings; for business people an “application” was often the complete suite of software that supported their needs; in operations application and system were interchangeable terms; and even within development an application could mean standalone software or a module.\nBut this was the tip of the iceberg… On one project we found that the same architectural components were referred to variously as a transaction, process, procedure, activity, service or function. Executives, business analysts, product managers, business managers, policy makers, application architects, and process modellers had their own label or different meanings. A further complication is that there are frequently overlaps between the labels and meaning!\nFortunately TOGAF has several resources that can help to solve this jumble, although there are limitations. The language throughout the TOGAF documentation is pretty consistent – one of the reasons for interim releases such as 9.1 is actually to correct any minor deviations in language. The four domains go a step further by providing consistent ways to segment the architecture; this segmentation is based partly on the different subject matter, concepts, and architecture components (and therefore language) in each domain.\nThe metamodel attempts a standard taxonomy, but this is where providing a lingua franca becomes tricky – providing a single metamodel construct to cover every stakeholder perspective only works for very simple concepts.\nSo here’s the rub. TOGAF is about as good as it gets as a common Esperanto for EA. Everything described in TOGAF uses a consistent language – and that helps enormously. But as architects we need to be aware that we can’t force a common language on stakeholders.\nThere will always be differences in meaning. And this point is sometimes overlooked when practicing EA: ultimately we need to talk to stakeholders in their own language, while simultaneously translating into TOGAF-ese. Beware of only speaking TOGAF!\nRoger Evernden\nhttp://www.evernden.net/\nRoger has been working as an Enterprise Architect since 1984, and over the years has been in involved in some of the most advanced, innovative and challenging Enterprise Architecture projects. He has extensive experience in applying all of the key EA approaches, including Zachman, TOGAF and Information FrameWork (IFW) and has been involved in establishing and embedding Enterprise Architecture Programmes that delivered strategic business results in organisations all around the world. Roger now works as a trainer, mentor and coach, specialising in developing individual and organisational capability in using Enterprise Architecture techniques and tools.\nWhat’s wrong with TOGAF? Part 1\nVideo: What is The Learning Ecosystem\nA Brief History of PRINCE2 Project Management\nBenefits of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)"
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        "text": "Q: Is there an OS X dashboard widget for notes from the iPhone Notes app?  I'm looking for a Dashboard widget for OS X that allows you to read and edit notes—the pieces of text in iPhone Notes application and Mail.app. (I.e., something analogous to the To Do Widget which shows the same To Do items that you can access through iCal.)\nI don't use Mail.app regularly and would like some quicker way to access the notes synced from my iPhone.\nEdit: To reiterate, this question is specifically about the notes in iPhone's Notes app (screenshot below) and in Mail.app. (And not e.g. about alternative notes apps for iPhone/OS X or iCal's To Do items.)\n\n\nA: If you are looking for a way to sync and edit notes, then I suggest Simplenote. It isn't a Dashboard widget, but it's very lightweight and all of your notes are saved to a central server that all of your devices can see.\n\nA: AFAIR Organized does what you want (among other things).\n\nA: This doesn't exactly answer my original question either (which is about an OS X dashboard widget for accessing Notes), but it is the most useful note syncing solution I've found so far: \nYou can now (with iOS 4) sync Notes over the air with any IMAP email account. And MobileMe accounts too, as the relevant Apple support article points out: iPhone and iPod touch: Syncing Notes.\nSpecifically, you can easily sync Notes with your Gmail account. This blog post gives good instructions with screenshots. \n\nOf course, in a way, a cloud-based approach like this is even better than having a widget on the one Mac you sync your iPhone with. There's this drawback though:\n\nThe notes can only be edited from an\n  iPhone or iPod Touch \n\nIn other words, you can only view them in Gmail.\n\nA: I'm stuck with the same question but what I've managed to find is a useful widget for the mail.app and ical todo's. You can download it at http://todo.philipefatio.com/\n"
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        "text": "10 юни е 161-вият ден в годината според григорианския календар (162-ри през високосна година). Остават 204 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1190 г. – Трети кръстоносен поход: Германският крал и император на Свещената римска империя Фридрих I Барбароса се удавя при прекосяването на река Салеф в Мала Азия.\n 1793 г. – Столицата на САЩ е преместена от Филаделфия във Вашингтон.\n 1809 г. – Папа Пий VII отлъчва Наполеон I Бонапарт от църквата, след като френската армия окупира Италия и обявява папската област за френска територия.\n 1871 г. – В Браила, Румъния излиза първият брой на вестник Дума на българските емигранти, издаван от Христо Ботев.\n 1886 г. – Изригва вулканът Таравера в Нова Зеландия, при което загиват 153 души и е разрушена известната туристическа атракция „Розови и бели тераси“.\n 1916 г. – Започва Великото арабско въстание в Мека.\n 1917 г. – Първа световна война: започва френска окупация на Тесалия.\n 1926 г. – Обществото на народите взема решение за отпускане на Бежански заем на България.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Италия обявява война на Франция и Великобритания.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Германските сили под командването на Ервин Ромел достигат протока Ла Манш.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Канада обявява война на Италия.\n 1940 г. – Втора световна война: Норвегия капитулира пред германските сили.\n 1942 г. – Втора световна война: Нацистите изгарят чешкото селце Лидице, в отговор на убийството на Райнхард Хайдрих.\n 1945 г. – Австралийските войски достигат Брунейски бряг, за да освободят Бруней.\n 1962 г. – Народна република България установява дипломатически отношения с Цейлон (Шри Ланка).\n 1964 г. – Създаден е Шуменския университет, първоначално като Висш педагогически институт – филиал на Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски“.\n 1965 г. – Виетнамската война: Битката за „донг хоай“ започва.\n 1967 г. – Приключва Шестдневната война: Израел и Сирия се съгласяват да прекратят огъня.\n 1984 г. – В Амритсар, индийската армия атакува Златния храм на сикхите. Убити са около 700 души.\n 1985 г. – Израел изтегля войските си от Ливан.\n 1990 г. – Провежда се първият тур на първите свободни и демократични парламентарни избори в България след тоталитарния период в страната, с които се избират депутати за VII велико народно събрание\n 1990 г. – В Перу Алберто Фухимори побеждава писателя Марио Варгас Льоса на втория тур от президентските избори.\n 1999 г. – Косовската война: НАТО преустановява въздушните удари, след като Слободан Милошевич се съгласява да изтегли сръбските войски от Косово.\n 1998 г. – Започва Световното първенство по футбол във Франция.\n 1999 г. – Създава се Пактът за стабилност на Балканите.\n 2001 г. – Националният отбор на Франция печели за първи път турнира за Купата на конфедерациите, побеждавайки с 1:0 на финала Япония.\n 2003 г. – Изстрелян е марсоходът Спирит, с което започва програмата на НАСА Марс Експлорейшън Роувър.\n 2017 г. – Йелена Остапенко изненадващо печели Ролан Гарос.\n 2018 г. – Рафаел Надал печели за единадесети път Ролан Гарос.\n\nРодени \n\n 1799 г. – Фьодор Бруни, руски художник († 1875 г.)\n 1803 г. – Анри Дарси, френски инженер († 1858 г.)\n 1819 г. – Гюстав Курбе, френски живописец († 1877 г.)\n 1832 г. – Николаус Ото, германски изобретател († 1891 г.)\n 1873 г. – Никола Лулчев, български революционер († ? г.)\n 1873 г. – Павел Генадиев, български общественик († 1959 г.)\n 1879 г. – Александър Кисьов, български военен деец († 1964 г.)\n 1880 г. – Андре Дерен, френски художник († 1954 г.)\n 1897 г. – Татяна Николаевна, руска велика княгиня († 1918 г.)\n 1910 г. – Хаулин Уулф, американски блус певец († 1976 г.)\n 1915 г. – Серж Лебовичи, френски психиатър и психоаналитик († 2000 г.)\n 1915 г. – Сол Белоу, американски писател († 2005 г.)\n 1921 г. – Филип, херцог на Единбург, съпруг на Елизабет II († 2021 г.)\n 1922 г. – Джуди Гарланд, американска актриса († 1969 г.)\n 1922 г. – Кирил Дженев, български хореограф († 2006 г.)\n 1923 г. – Робърт Максуел, британски медиен магнат († 1991 г.)\n 1926 г. – Асен Гаврилов, български балетист и хореограф († 2006 г.)\n 1927 г. – Ласло Кубала, унгарски футболист и треньор († 2002 г.)\n 1929 г. – Коста Цонев, български актьор и политик († 2012 г.)\n 1931 г. – Жоао Жилберто, бразилски музикант († 2019 г.)\n 1941 г. – Георги Янакиев, български състезател по мотокрос († 2014 г.)\n 1942 г. – Лопу Фортунату Ферейра ду Нашсименту, анголски политик\n 1943 г. – Петер Курцек, германски писател († 2013 г.)\n 1945 г. – Аслан Селмани, македонски учен и политик († 2011 г.)\n 1950 г. – Анна Янтар, полска певица († 1980 г.)\n 1952 г. – Янко Братанов, български лекоатлет и треньор\n 1959 г. – Карло Анчелоти, италиански футболист\n 1962 г. – Венсан Перес, френски актьор\n 1963 г. – Джийн Трипълхорн, американска актриса\n 1964 г. – Ангел Червенков, български футболист и треньор\n 1965 г. – Трейси Лин Къри, американски музикант\n 1965 г. – Елизабет Хърли, британска манекенка и актриса\n 1966 г. – Дейвид Плат, английски футболист\n 1966 г. – Филиз Хюсменова, българска евродепутатка\n 1972 г. – Радмила Шекеринска, македонска политичка\n 1972 г. – Саша Драгин, сръбски политик\n 1976 г. – Майкъл Браун, аржентински актьор\n 1978 г. – Марко Паасикоски, финландски музикант\n 1978 г. – Шейн Уест, американски актьор и музикант\n 1983 г. – МакSим, руска певица\n 1985 г. – Кая Канепи, естонска тенисистка\n 1985 г. – Василис Торосидис, гръцки футболист\n 1987 г. – Антон Путило, беларуски футболист\n 1987 г. – Мартин Харник, австрийски футболист\n 1989 г. – Александра Стан, румънска певица\n 1991 г. – Жуан Жесуш, бразилски футболист\n 1998 г. – Денис Гайгер, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 323 пр.н.е. – Александър Велики, цар на Древна Македония (* 356 пр.н.е.)\n 38 г. – Друзила, римска матрона (* 16 г.)\n 1190 г. – Фридрих I Барбароса, император на Свещената римска империя (* ок. 1122)\n 1556 г. – Мартин Агрикола, германски музикален теоретик (* 1486 г.)\n 1580 г. – Луиш ди Камоинш, португалски поет (* 1524 г.)\n 1832 г. – Мануел Гарсия (баща), испански оперен певец, композитор и педагог (* 1775 г.)\n 1836 г. – Андре-Мари Ампер, френски физик, математик и естествоизпитател (* 1775 г.)\n 1858 г. – Робърт Браун, шотландски ботаник (* 1773 г.)\n 1899 г. – Ернест Шосон, френски композитор\n 1901 г. – Иван Чичовски, български общественик (* ? г.)\n 1912 г. – Антон Ашкерц, словенски поет (* 1856 г.)\n 1918 г. – Кочо Лютата, български хайдутин и революционер (* 1836 г.)\n 1923 г. – Пиер Лоти, френски писател (* 1850 г.)\n 1926 г. – Антони Гауди, испански архитект (* 1852 г.)\n 1934 г. – Александър Яшченко, руски юрист (* 1877 г.)\n 1940 г. – Маркъс Гарви, общественик и интелектуалец (* 1887 г.)\n 1944 г. – Франк Томпсън, британски офицер (* 1920 г.)\n 1946 г. – Джак Джонсън, американски боксьор (* 1878 г.)\n 1949 г. – Сигрид Унсет, норвежка писателка, феминистка, Нобелов лауреат през 1928 (* 1882 г.)\n 1965 г. – Макс Рихнер, швейцарски писател (* 1897 г.)\n 1967 г. – Спенсър Трейси, американски актьор (* 1900 г.)\n 1982 г. – Райнер Вернер Фасбиндер, германски кинорежисьор (* 1945 г.)\n 1988 г. – Неджати Зекирия, македонски писател (* 1928 г.)\n 1991 г. – Веркор, френски писател и художник (* 1902 г.)\n 2000 г. – Хафез Асад, президент на Сирия (* 1930 г.)\n 2001 г. – Джоко Радивоевич, български скулптор (* 1927 г.)\n 2002 г. – Джон Готи, американски престъпник (* 1940 г.)\n 2004 г. – Николай Колев – Мичмана, български журналист и спортен коментатор (* 1932 г.)\n 2004 г. – Рей Чарлс, американски певец и соул музикант (* 1930 г.)\n 2008 г. – Любен Дилов, български писател (* 1927 г.)\n 2010 г. – Фердинан Ойоно, камерунски писател и политик (* 1929 г.)\n 2015 г. – Волфганг Йешке, германски писател (* 1936 г.)\n\nПразници \n България – Празник на град Попово – Обявен от Общински съвет на 10 юни 2002 г.\n Италия – Празник на град Крема\n Португалия – Ден на Португалия (по повод деня в памет на националния поет Луиш ди Камоинш, 1850 г., национален празник)\n Соломонови острови (държава) – Официален рожден ден на кралицата\n Япония – Ден на часовника (през 671 г. за пръв път се появява часовник в двореца на японския император)\n\n610"
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        "text": "Q: What tool do I best use to automatically cleanup / correct / complement the song info of all songs in my iTunes library? \nPossible Duplicate:\nIs there any features like winamp auto tag exists for iTunes? \n\nPlease suggest both mac and windows tools.\nPlease also tell us about your experience with this tool.\n\nA: I find that dropping my music files onto MusicBrainz Picard almost always finds the correct name and fills out missing or incorrect information. It has a slightly steeper learning curve than some of the alternatives but the results are, in my experience, usually better.\n"
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        "text": "11 юни е 162-рият ден в годината според григорианския календар (163-ти през високосна). Остават 203 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1496 г. – Завършва второто пътешествие на Христофор Колумб през Атлантическия океан.\n 1580 г. – Испанските конкистадори основават Буенос Айрес.\n 1770 г. – Английският мореплавател Джеймс Кук открива Големия бариерен риф край Австралия.\n\n 1895 г. – Създадено първото Българско икономическо дружество.\n 1901 г. – Нова Зеландия анексира островите Кук.\n 1937 г. – Голямата чистка: По нареждане на Йосиф Сталин в Съветския съюз са екзекутирани осем високопоставени военни, осъдени по измислени обвинения в антисъветска дейност.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Британските сили бомбардират Генуа и Торино в Италия.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: Проведена е първата атака на италианските въздушни сили на остров Малта.\n 1942 г. – Втората световна война: САЩ решават да окажат материална помощ на СССР чрез договора „Заем-Наем“.\n 1975 г. – Приета е конституцията на Република Гърция.\n 1985 г. – Спускаемият модул на съветския космически апарат Вега 1 изследва атмосферата и повърхността на Венера.\n 1987 г. – Маргарет Тачър е избрана за трети пореден път за министър-председател на Великобритания.\n 2001 г. – Силвио Берлускони встъпва повторно в премиерска длъжност.\n 2002 г. – Симеон Сакскобургготски е избран за Член на академията за науки на най-стария университет в света – Болонския университет.\n 2004 г. – По време на мисията на Касини-Хюйгенс орбиталният модул Касини прави първите близки наблюдения на спътника на СатурнФеба.\n 2010 г. – В Република Южна Африка започва Световно първенство по футбол 2010, което е първото Световно футболно първенство в африканска държава.\n\nРодени \n\n 1456 г. – Ан Невил, кралица на Англия († 1485 г.)\n 1572 г. – Бен Джонсън, английски ренесансов поет, драматург и актьор († 1637 г.)\n 1704 г. – Карлош Сейшаш, португалски композитор († 1742 г.)\n 1776 г. – Джон Констабъл, английски художник († 1837 г.)\n 1811 г. – Висарион Белински, руски литературен критик († 1848 г.)\n 1850 г. – Павел Плеве, руски офицер († 1916 г.)\n 1857 г. – Антони Грабовски, полски химик и есперантист († 1921 г.)\n 1864 г. – Рихард Щраус, немски композитор († 1949 г.)\n 1867 г. – Шарл Фабри, френски физик († 1945 г.)\n 1878 г. – Янка Каневчева, българска революционерка († 1920 г.)\n 1885 г. – Николай Булганин, съветски политически и военен деец († 1975 г.)\n 1899 г. – Ясунари Кавабата, японски писател, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. († 1972 г.)\n 1910 г. – Жак-Ив Кусто, френски изследовател († 1997 г.)\n 1915 г. – Крум Милев, български футболист и треньор († 2000 г.)\n 1922 г. – Михалис Какоянис, гръцки сценарист и режисьор († 2011 г.)\n 1930 г. – Христо Топузанов, български режисьор († 2006 г.)\n 1937 г. – Робин Уорън, австрийски патолог, Нобелов лауреат\n 1939 г. – Джеки Стюърт, шотландски пилот от Формула 1\n 1943 г. – Константин Джонев, български дипломат, публицист и писател\n 1943 г. – Младен Киселов, български театрален режисьор († 2012 г.)\n 1949 г. – Петко Маринов, български състезател и треньор по баскетбол\n 1949 г. – Том Прайс, британски пилот от Ф1 († 1977 г.)\n 1951 г. – Игор Чипев, български издател\n 1959 г. – Хю Лори, британски актьор\n 1964 г. – Жан Алези, френски пилот от Формула 1\n 1964 г. – Петър Попйорданов, българският театрален и филмов актьор († 2013 г.)\n 1968 г. – Брайън Перо, канадски фентъзи писател\n 1968 г. – Иван Начев, български политолог\n 1972 г. – Мариян Димитров, състезател по кану-каяк\n 1973 г. – Ализан Яхова, български политик и икономист\n 1975 г. – Веселина Петракиева, български журналист\n 1983 г. – Мария Калинова, българска поетеса\n 1984 г. – Вагнер Лав, бразилски футболист\n 1988 г. – Клеър Холт, австралийска актриса\n 1990 г. – Кристоф Льометр, френски лекоатлет\n 1992 г. – Давиде Дзапакоста, италиански футболист\n 1997 г. – Унай Симон, испански футболист\n 1999 г. – Кай Хаверц, немски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 1216 г. – Хенрих Фландърски, император на Латинската империя (* 1174 г.)\n 1557 г. – Жуау III, крал на Португалия (* 1502 г.)\n 1843 г. – Пьотр Витгенщайн, руски граф (* 1769 г.)\n 1845 г. – Карл Юлиус Перлеб, германски ботаник (* 1794 г.)\n 1858 г. – Клеменс фон Метерних, австрийски политик (* 1773 г.)\n 1903 г. – Александър Обренович, крал на Сърбия (* 1876 г.)\n 1903 г. – Николай Бугаев, руски математик (* 1837 г.)\n 1925 г. – Порфирий Стаматов, руски юрист (* 1840 г.)\n 1927 г. – Янко Стоянчов, български политик (* 1881 г.)\n 1934 г. – Георг Гродек, немски психоаналитик (* 1866 г.)\n 1934 г. – Лев Виготски, руски психолог (* 1896 г.)\n 1936 г. – Робърт Хауърд, американски писател (* 1906 г.)\n 1937 г. – Йероним Уборевич, руски офицер (* 1896 г.)\n 1942 г. – Херберт Баум, еврейски комунист (* 1912 г.)\n 1947 г. – Джеймс У. Шулц, американски писател (* 1859 г.)\n 1956 г. – Корадо Алваро, италиански писател (* 1895 г.)\n 1960 г. – Павел Атанасов, български фолклорист (* 1867 г.)\n 1963 г. – Иван Групчев, български революционер (* 1874 г.)\n 1967 г. – Волфганг Кьолер, немски психолог (* 1887 г.)\n 1970 г. – Александър Керенски, руски революционер (* 1881 г.)\n 1972 г. – Йо Боние, шведски автомобилен състезател (* 1930 г.)\n 1979 г. – Джон Уейн, американски актьор (* 1907 г.)\n 1982 г. – Анатолий Солоницин, руски актьор (* 1934 г.)\n 1987 г. – Крум Григоров, български писател (* 1909 г.)\n 1999 г. – ДеФорест Кели, американски актьор (* 1920 г.)\n 2000 г. – Милчо Лалков, български историк (* 1944 г.)\n 2005 г. – Гена Димитрова, българска певица (* 1941 г.)\n 2011 г. – Ангел Заберски, български композитор, оркестратор, вокален педагог (* 1931 г.)\n 2012 г. – Теофило Стивенсон, кубински боксьор (* 1952 г.)\n 2013 г. – Робърт Фогел, американски икономист, носител на Нобелова награда (* 1926 г.)\n 2016 г. – Кристина Грими, американска певица (* 1994 г.)\n\nПразници \n Православната църква чества Св. апостоли Вартоломей и Варнава. Св. Богородица „Достойно естъ“. Св. Лука Симферополски\n Празник на икономистите в България (Отбелязва се от 2005 г. с решение на МС по повод 110 г. от създаването (1895) на първото българско икономическо дружество в България, преименувано през 1990 г. в Съюз на икономисите в България)\n\n611"
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        "text": "The World Beyond BetterMost »\nThe Culture Tent (Moderator: Sheriff Roland) »\nThe Classic TV Thread\nAuthor Topic: The Classic TV Thread (Read 3946 times)\nRe: The Classic TV Thread\nI haven't seen a bit of the wedding. Maybe 2-3 still pix at most.\nBut Clarissa posted this on Facebook today -- not sure if you all saw her post -- and I gained more respect for Meghan Markle. Somehow I managed to watch the video without reading who it was, and I already liked it when I thought it was just some random girl!\n[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfaGleA4qYo[/youtube]\nYes, I've been seeing that making the rounds on FB.\nStradford\nDon't Say Much\nNever seen this video of Meghan before. That's pretty cool. I didn't know she was into the business from such a young age.\nQuote from: Stradford on June 21, 2018, 09:59:22 am\nI must have missed the part about her being into the business. I took her to be some regular kid who was offended by the commercial and got the company to change it.\nI'm offended by those commercials, too. That one's particularly bad, but all housekeeping commercials that focus on women -- i.e., roughly 100% of them -- offend me.\nVeteran Actor Georgia Engel Passes Away At Age 70\nby BWW News Desk Apr. 15, 2019\nBroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of veteran stage and screen actor, Georgia Engel. She was 70 years old. Georgia's Broadway roles included Mrs. Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone; Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! with Ethel Merman, The Boys From Syracuse, and My One and Only with Tommy Tune. Off-Broadway she was seen in Annie Baker's John at Signature Theatre for which she won an Obie Award, Uncle Vanya at Soho Rep, and, Will Eno's Middletown at Vineyard Theatre.\nHer most recent stage role of note was appearing opposite Lillias White, Donna McKechnie, and Andre de Shields in the musical Half Time at Paper Mill Playhouse.\nShe was best known for her work as Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on which she appeared from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations. After that series ended, she teamed up with former Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star Betty White for The Betty White Show during its first and only (1977-1978) season. Engel received consecutive Emmy nominations as outstanding guest actress in a comedy series in 2003, 2004, and 2005 for her role on Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's mother-in-law, Pat MacDougall.\n^^^^^ ^^^^^^\nGeorgia Georgia\nhttps://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Veteran-Actor-Georgia-Engel-Passes-Away-At-Age-70-20190415\nSad. But also, Betty White looks so young in that photo. I guess of course, that was 40+ years ago, so she would be. But for some reason I think of her as always looking the age she is now.\nJeff Wrangler\nBetterMost Supporter!\n\"He somebody you cowboy'd with?\"\nQuote from: serious crayons on April 16, 2019, 09:04:23 am\nIt's shocking to think it was that long ago. It seems like the MTM show ended only a few years ago. I've noticed that about other TV shows, too, but then I also \"feel\" like the year can't be 2019, like it can't be any later than 2009 at the most. It's difficult for me to grasp that we are only six years from completing the first quarter of this century (not that we'll see the end of it).\n\"It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide.\"--Charles Dickens.\nQuote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 16, 2019, 10:31:42 am\nWhat, you don't plan on living to 140+?\nWe're lucky we won't be here until the end of the century. I feel sorry for my kids, who have at least a chance of it -- they'll be 104 and 106, but their great-grandmother lived to 105. By the end of the century, some scientists predict the earth will be uninhabitable 20 degrees on either side of the equator."
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        "text": "12 юни е 163-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (164-ти през високосна). Остават 202 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1444 г. – Подписан е Адрианополският мир, който слага край на първия поход на Владислав III Ягело и Янош Хунияди за прогонване на османските нашественици от Европа.\n 1668 г. – Основан е Университета в Лунд, един от най-старите университети в Европа.\n 1701 г. – В Англия официално е забранено католици да заемат британския трон.\n 1776 г. – Вирджиния става първият щат на САЩ, който приема декларация за правата.\n 1839 г. – Абнър Дабълдей формулира основните правила на бейзбола.\n 1842 г. – Георги Раковски и още шестима души са осъдени на смърт за участие в Браилските бунтове (1841 – 1843 г.).\n 1849 г. – Американския изобретател Люис Хаслет патентова праховата маска (респиратор), ранна форма на противогаза.\n 1858 г. – В Санкт Петербург е осветена Катедралата „Св. Исак“.\n 1867 г. – Провъзгласена е Австро-Унгарската империя.\n 1897 г. – Швейцарецът Карл Елзенер патентова джобен нож с приспособления, станал известен като швейцарски армейски нож на фирмата „Victorinox“.\n 1898 г. – Провъзгласена е независимостта на Филипините от Испания.\n 1901 г. – Одобрена е новата Конституция на Куба, с което САЩ има специални права в тази страна. В действителност, това означава създаване на протекторат над Куба от САЩ. Действието на тази конституция е било преустановено през 1925 година.\n 1926 г. – Бразилия напуска Лигата на нациите поради несъгласието си с приемането на Германия.\n 1940 г. – Втората световна война: 13 000 британски и френски военни части се предават на фелдмаршал Ервин Ромел.\n 1945 г. – Във Франция е премахната цензурата на пресата, въведена по време на войната.\n 1947 г. – Започва съдебен процес срещу Петър Коев за създаването на тайната военна организация „Неутрален офицер“.\n 1953 г. – Държавната политехника в София се разделя на четири самостоятелни висши учебни заведения: Висш инженерно-строителен институт (BИСИ), Висш машинно-електротехнически институт (ВМЕИ), Висшия минно-геоложки институт (ВМГИ) и Висш химико-технологически институт (ВХТИ).\n 1955 г. – В Якутия е открито първото крупно местонахождение на диаманти.\n 1963 г. – В Ню Йорк се състои премиерата на филма „Клеопатра“ с Елизабет Тейлър в главната роля.\n 1964 г. – В ЮАР Нелсън Мандела е осъден на доживотен затвор.\n 1964 г. – В Аделаида (Австралия) групата Бийтълс е посрещната от 300 000 фенове.\n 1967 г. – Програма Венера: Изстрелян е съветският космически апарат Венера 4, който впоследствие осъществява първото предаване на информация от друга планета.\n 1970 г. – Британецът Лорънс Оливие става първият актьор в историята, получил благородническа титла.\n 1975 г. – Създаден е Лвовският държавен историческо-архитектурен комплекс.\n 1990 г. – Първият конгрес на народните депутати на Руската федерация приема Декларация за суверенитета на Русия.\n 1991 г. – Борис Елцин печели първите избори за президент на Русия.\n 1991 г. – На референдум жителите на Ленинград е решено възстановяване на старото име на града – Санкт Петербург.\n 1994 г. – С референдум в Австрия е прието членството ѝ в ЕС.\n 2005 г. – Встъпва в длъжност първият президент на Иракски Кюрдистан, Масуд Барзани.\n 2008 г. – Жителите на Ирландия на референдум отхвърлят Договорът от Лисабон – Опростен вариант на Конституция на ЕС.\n 2009 г. – Всички телевизионни станции в САЩ преминават от аналогово към цифрово излъчване.\n\nРодени \n\n 1519 г. – Козимо I Медичи, херцог на Тоскана († 1574 г.)\n 1806 г. – Джон Огъстъс Рьоблинг, американски инженер († 1869 г.)\n 1808 г. – Патрис дьо Мак Махон, дук дьо Мажента, маршал на Франция († 1893 г.)\n 1827 г. – Йохана Спири, швейцарска писателка († 1901 г.)\n 1840 г. – Якоб Арбес, чешки писател и журналист († 1914 г.)\n 1844 г. – Джанюариъс Макгахан, американски журналист († 1878 г.)\n 1852 г. – Петър Костич, сръбски просветен деец († 1934 г.)\n 1856 г. – Спиро Гулабчев, български общественик († 1918 г.)\n 1864 г. – Стоян Загорски, български военен деец († 1930 г.)\n 1868 г. – Янко Забунов, български политик († 1909 г.)\n 1872 г. – Борис Сарафов, български революционер († 1907 г.)\n 1888 г. – Карл Пфефер-Вилденбрух, германски офицер († 1971 г.)\n 1889 г. – Гьончо Белев, български писател († 1963 г.)\n 1890 г. – Егон Шиле, австрийски художник († 1918 г.)\n 1897 г. – Антъни Идън, министър-председател на Великобритания († 1977 г.)\n 1898 г. – Иван Миндиликов, общественик, политик и кмет на Плевен († 1944 г.)\n 1899 г. – Фриц Липман, американски биохимик, Нобелов лауреат през 1953 г. († 1986 г.)\n 1904 г. – Атанас Далчев, български поет († 1978 г.)\n 1908 г. – Марина Семьонова, руска балерина († 2010 г.)\n 1908 г. – Ото Скорцени, германски офицер от СС († 1975 г.)\n 1912 г. – Сидер Флорин, български преводач, теоретик на превода († 1999 г.)\n 1921 г. – Ханс Карл Артман, австрийски писател († 2000 г.)\n 1924 г. – Джордж Хърбърт Уокър Буш, 41-ви президент на САЩ († 2018 г.)\n 1929 г. – Ане Франк, холандска еврейка, жертва на Холокоста († 1945 г.)\n 1930 г. – Доналд Бърн, американски шахматист († 1976 г.)\n 1930 г. – Стоян Величков, български кавалджия († 2008 г.)\n 1937 г. – Владимир Арнолд, съветски, руски и френски математик († 2010 г.)\n 1941 г. – Людмила Чешмеджиева, българска оперетна певица\n 1941 г. – Чък Кърия, американски пианист и композитор († 2021 г.)\n 1942 г. – Берт Закман, немски физиолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1991 г.\n 1942 г. – Ахмед Абул Гейт, египетски политик\n 1944 г. – Дойчин Василев, български алпинист\n 1945 г. – Найден Андреев, български композитор и аранжор на естрадна музика († 2013 г.)\n 1945 г. – Пат Дженингс, северноирландски футболист\n 1948 г. – Ищван Шандорфи, унгарски художник († 2007 г.)\n 1948 г. – Пламен Сомов, български кинооператор, режисьор и актьор\n 1952 г. – Елефтери Елефтеров, български актьор\n 1962 г. – Пипилоти Рист, швейцарска художничка\n 1963 г. – Игор Джундев, дипломат от Република Македония\n 1964 г. – Паула Маршъл, американска актриса\n 1965 г. – Волфганг Херндорф, немски писател и художник († 2013 г.)\n 1971 г. – Марк Хенри, американски кечист\n 1973 г. – Иван Бедров, български журналист\n 1974 г. – Денис Симачев, дизайнер\n 1975 г. – Кристиан Вигенин, български политик\n 1979 г. – Диего Милито, италиански футболист\n 1981 г. – Адриана Лима, бразилски модел\n 1981 г. – Дейвид Гилбърт, английски професионален играч на снукър\n 1983 г. – Димитриос Мастровасилис, гръцки шахматист\n 1990 г. – Мирослав Кирчев, български гребец\n 1992 г. – Филипе Коутиньо, бразилски футболист\n\nПочинали \n\n 816 г. – Лъв III, римски папа (* ?)\n 1816 г. – Пиер Ожеро, френски маршал (* 1757 г.)\n 1878 г. – Бенджамин Люис Бонвил, американски офицер (* 1796 г.)\n 1903 г. – Милан Делчев, български революционер (* 1883 г.)\n 1903 г. – Мицо Тенчев, български революционер (* 1880 г.)\n 1912 г. – Фредерик Паси, френски икономист, Нобелов лауреат през 1901 г. (* 1822 г.)\n 1922 г. – Димитър Калевич, български лекар (* 1845 г.)\n 1936 г. – Карл Краус, австрийски публицист и писател (* 1874)\n 1937 г. – Михаил Тухачевски, руски военачалник (маршал на СССР) (* 1893 г. – екзекутиран)\n 1963 г. – Никола Трайков, български дипломат и учен (* 1888 г.)\n 1967 г. – Никола Стоянов, български икономист (* 1874 г.)\n 1971 г. – Натан Акерман, американски психиатър (* 1908 г.)\n 1972 г. – Александър Ковачев, български политик (* 1891 г.)\n 1982 г. – Карл фон Фриш, австрийски зоолог, Нобелов лауреат през 1973 г. (* 1886 г.)\n 1983 г. – Александър Алов, съветски филмов режисьор (* 1923 г.)\n 1983 г. – Норма Шиърър, канадска актриса (* 1902 г.)\n 1987 г. – Апостол Соколов, български футболист (* 1917 г.)\n 1997 г. – Булат Окуджава, руски поет, писател, автор и изпълнител на популярни песни (* 1924 г.)\n 1997 г. – Петер Блос, немски психоаналитик (* 1904 г.)\n 2003 г. – Грегъри Пек, американски актьор (* 1916 г.)\n 2004 г. – Кирил Гюлеметов, български художник (* 1938 г.)\n 2009 г. – Радко Дишлиев, български актьор (* 1951 г.)\n 2009 г. – Феликс Малум Нгакуту, африкански политик (* 1932 г.)\n 2010 г. – Йежи Стефан Ставински, полски сценарист и режисьор (* 1921 г.)\n 2012 г. – Елинор Остром, американски политолог (* 1933 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден против детския труд – Отбелязва се от 2002 г. по инициатива на Международната организация на труда.\n Бразилия – Ден на любовниците (подобно на Свети Валентин)\n Парагвай – Ден на мира\n Русия – Ден на Русия (национален празник, празнува се от 1990 г.)\n Филипини – Ден на независимостта (от Испания, 1898 г., национален празник)\n Финландия – Ден на Хелзинки\n\n612"
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        "text": "Q: Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for writing (from scratch) a cron-style launchd job? I've got a fairly simple job that I'd like to run every hour. I could do it using cron, but I thought I'd use this to learn about launchd, since I hear good things about it. I've got the man launchd.plist page as a reference, but I'm looking for something based more around building an example job.\n\nA: I know it's not a good tutorial, but you could have a look at the Daemons and Services Programming Guide from Apple, which has a section on Scheduling Timed Jobs.\nI know it's not a full tutorial, but, with it, you can understand the basics of launchd.\nIt also provides an example of a crond task :\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN\"\n\"http://www.apple.\ncom/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>  \n    <key>Label</key>\n    <string>com.apple.periodic-daily</string>\n    <key>ProgramArguments</key>\n    <array> \n        <string>/usr/sbin/periodic</string>\n        <string>daily</string>\n    </array>\n    <key>LowPriorityIO</key>\n    <true/>\n    <key>Nice</key>\n    <integer>1</integer>\n    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>\n    <dict>  \n        <key>Hour</key>\n        <integer>3</integer>\n        <key>Minute</key>\n        <integer>15</integer>\n    </dict>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n\n\nA: This has helped me a lot: http://launchd.info\nIt covers configuration, administration and troubleshooting using Terminal or the launchd GUI LaunchControl. Examples are provided as well.\n\nA: I know you were looking for a tutorial, but on the off-chance someone comes here as part of looking for a tool to help them make/edit launchd entries, I've used this before: Lingon (sourceforge) \nIt's no longer being actively developed but what's there does work (and obviously includes source etc). I've used it on Snow Leopard to schedule backups to the Amazon cloud, etc.\n\nA: launchd runs Daemons (/Library/LaunchDaemons or /System/Library/LaunchDaemons) as root, and will run them regardless of whether users are logged in or not. Launch Agents (/Library/LaunchAgents/ or ~/Library/LaunchAgents/) are run when a user is logged in as that user. You can not use setuid to change the user running the script on daemons. The /System directory is reserved for Mac OS X tasks so I recommend putting your launchd plists into either the /Library or the ~/Library folder as it makes sense.\nSo the first step is determining if you're making an agent or a daemon.\nThe second step is to make your .plist file. You can use GUI-based programs such as Lingon to help with this or just use your favourite text editor:\nA sample .plist for running a script every hour (StartInterval or StartIntervalCalendar are the keys we want - StartInterval for an item to happen every x seconds, StartIntervalCalendar for a specific time and/or date. See 126907 on SuperUser for an example I made with StartCalendarInterval):\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN\" \"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">\n<plist version=\"1.0\">\n<dict>\n    <key>Label</key>\n    <string>local.IDENTIFIER_HERE.SOMETHING</string>\n    <key>OnDemand</key>\n    <true/>\n    <key>RunAtLoad</key>\n    <false/>\n    <key>UserName</key>\n    <string>USERNAME HERE</string>\n    <key>Program</key>\n    <string>/PATH/TO/SCRIPT</string>\n    <key>ProgramArguments</key>\n    <array>\n        <string>Argument_1</string>\n        <string>Argument_2</string>\n    </array>\n    <key>StartInterval</key>\n    <integer>3600</integer>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n\nModify the .plist as necessary to point to your script and any arguments as necessary (arguments are on separate lines) and save the file with the same name as the Label value but with .plist at the end. (for example, local.my-mac.flickrstats would be saved as local.my-mac.flickrstats.plist). If you haven't already, move that .plist file to /Library/LaunchDaemons when making a Daemon (runs all the time) or to ~/Library/LaunchAgents (only you're logged in) or /Library/LaunchAgents (any user is logged in).\nTo start the job you want to run launchctl as necessary to load the file. For items in /Library, you should use sudo: for example, sudo launchctl load -w /PATH/TO/PLIST\nFor reference also check out the following questions on Super User: Launchd command as root, Load a system wide daemon, and How can I get a script to run every day\n"
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        "text": "Q: Why does my Spotlight index get corrupted? Recently I have been having an issue where at least once a month my Spotlight index gets corrupted, and I can no longer search the content of mail in Mail.app. I can fix the problem by taking my HD out of Spotlight, and then putting it back in, but it then takes about 4 hours to re-index the drive.\nWhy is my Spotlight index getting munged? Do other applications besides Finder mess about with it?\nIs there a way to keep the index optimized or repair it, such as when I repair a MySQL table?\n\nA: Just for reference, Spotlight index shouldn’t get corrupted, but when that’s the case see this question. \nYou have to remember that spotlight is a database and as such is prone to corruption; compared to relational databases for example, spotlight can only be deleted and rebuilt when that happens. There’s no “spotlight -repair” command (one can only wish). \nAll in all, it’s rare to see Spotlight failing in OS X 10.6, it has been very stable compared to the first Tiger version. \nExternal applications, on the other hand, can make use of the APIs to store information in the metadata, and here’s where we lose control of what goes in there. If one external application is storing bad data, it could cause the whole index to go nuts. \nSince you have a healthy working index now, try it for a few weeks and pay attention to any application or utility that claims to support Spotlight. \nGood Luck!\n"
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        "text": "MedStaff makes starting a career in travel nursing easy.\nIf you’re going have a career, have one that allows you the opportunity to visit exciting new areas of the country that you haven’t seen before – while you’re doing the job you love. As a travel nurse, you can do it all with MedStaff.\nTravel nursing is one of the few professions where you can take short-term assignments over the course of a year, and work somewhere new every time. With MedStaff, you will find a travel nursing company with a recruitment team that will not only have you feeling good about traveling but will also understand your needs and goals.\nAt MedStaff, you can start the entire process for your travel nursing career on our website. You will find on our website all the correct travel nursing forms that you need to fill out and the most frequently asked travel nursing questions.\nOnce you complete all the information, one of our dedicated MedStaff recruiters will contact you. We’re one of the leading travel nursing companies in the country because of the attention and care that our recruiters pay to their travel nurses, so that they have the best travel nursing experience."
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        "text": "13 юни е 164-тият ден в годината според григорианския календар (165-и през високосна). Остават 201 дни до края на годината.\n\nСъбития \n 1805 г. – Експедицията на Луис и Кларк достига до водопадите Грейт Фолс.\n 1839 г. – Милош Обренович абдикира като княз на Сърбия в полза на сина си Милан Обренович II.\n 1842 г. – Кралица Виктория прави първото си пътуване с влак.\n 1855 г. – Поставена е за пръв път операта Сицилианска вечерня на Джузепе Верди в парижката Гранд опера.\n 1865 г. – Река Дунав е премината от чета, членове на която са Хаджи Димитър, Стефан Караджа, Юрдан Юрданов – Инджето, Петър и Тодор Шиварови.\n 1895 г. – Провежда се първото автомобилно рали във Франция по трасето Париж – Бордо – Париж.\n 1917 г. – Първа световна война: Германия включва в бомбардировките на Лондон самолети вместо дирижабли.\n 1944 г. – Втора световна война: Нацистка Германия подлага за първи път Лондон на обстрел с ракети Фау-1.\n 1965 г. – В София е открит Театър 199.\n 1974 г. – Открита е последната отсечка от Автомагистрала А3 в Италия, свързваща Салерно с Реджо ди Калабрия.\n 1983 г. – Американският космически апарат Пионер 10 става първият обект, направен от човека, който напуска Слънчевата система.\n 2004 г. – Тимо Глок дебютира като пилот от Формула 1.\n\nРодени \n\n 40 г. – Гней Юлий Агрикола, римски сенатор († 93 г.)\n 823 г. – Шарл I Плешиви, крал на западните франки († 877 г.)\n 1580 г. – Вилеброрд Снелиус, нидерландски астроном и математик († 1626 г.)\n 1818 г. – Аугуст фон Сакс-Кобург-Гота, принц на Кохари († 1881 г.)\n 1831 г. – Джеймс Кларк Максуел, шотландкси физик († 1879 г.)\n 1865 г. – Уилям Бътлър Йейтс, ирландски поет, писател и драматург, Нобелов лауреат през 1923 г. († 1939 г.)\n 1882 г. – Олга Александровна, велика руска княгиня († 1960 г.)\n 1884 г. – Добри Божилов, министър-председател на България († 1945 г.)\n 1888 г. – Фернанду Песоа, португалски поет († 1935 г.)\n 1890 г. – Мина Тодорова, любима на Яворов († 1910 г.)\n 1897 г. – Пааво Нурми, финландски бегач († 1973 г.)\n 1899 г. – Карлос Чавес, мексикански композитор († 1978 г.)\n 1903 г. – Филип Кутев, български композитор и фолклорист († 1982 г.)\n 1911 г. – Луис Алварес, американски физик, Нобелов лауреат през 1968 г. († 1988 г.)\n 1926 г. – Стоян Стойчев, български актьор\n 1928 г. – Джон Наш, американски математик, Нобелов лауреат през 1994 г. († 2015 г.)\n 1928 г. – Никола Тодев, български актьор († 1991 г.)\n 1935 г. – Георги Божилов, български художник († 2001 г.)\n 1935 г. – Людмила Черних, украински астроном († 2017 г.)\n 1935 г. – Христо Явашев, български художник († 2020 г.)\n 1940 г. – Гойко Митич, югославски актьор\n 1943 г. – Малкълм Макдауъл, британски актьор\n 1944 г. – Бан Ки Мун, южнокорейски политик, генерален секретар на ООН\n 1947 г. – Саво Климовски, политик и юрист от Република Македония\n 1951 г. – Стелан Скарсгорд, шведски актьор\n 1952 г. – Цветана Божурина, българска волейболистка\n 1953 г. – Тим Алън, американски комик и актьор\n 1959 г. – Бойко Борисов, министър-председател на България\n 1962 г. – Али Шийди, американска актриса\n 1966 г. – Луис Мерло, испански актьор\n 1967 г. – Иван Василев, български футболист\n 1970 г. – Александър Пшил, немски актьор\n 1972 г. – Петър Чернев, български актьор († 2019 г.)\n 1973 г. – Каша Ковалска, полска певица, композиторка и текстописка\n 1974 г. – Венелина Венева, българска лекоатлетка\n 1975 г. – Джеф Дейвис, американски писател и телевизионен продуцент\n 1977 г. – Евгени Хмарук, молдовски футболист\n 1980 г. – Флоран Малуда, френски футболист\n 1981 г. – Крис Евънс, американски актьор\n 1983 г. – Ребека Линарес, испанска порнографска актриса\n 1985 г. – Лела Стар, американска порнографска актриса\n 1986 г. – Мирослав Стоянов-Джорджано, български музикален изпълнител\n 1990 г. – Арън Тейлър-Джонсън, английски актьор\n\nПочинали \n\n 1798 г. – Ригас Велестинлис, гръцки революционер (* 1757 г.)\n 1876 г. – Михаил Бакунин, руски революционер (* 1814 г.)\n 1894 г. – Николай Ге, руски художник (* 1831 г.)\n 1902 г. – Дине Абдураманов, български революционер (* неизв.)\n 1902 г. – Марко Лерински, български революционер и войвода (* 1862 г.)\n 1943 г. – Кочо Рацин, поет от Република Македония (* 1908 г.)\n 1947 г. – Славко Кватерник, хърватски политик и военен (* 1878 г.)\n 1965 г. – Мартин Бубер, австрийско-израелски философ (* 1878 г.)\n 1967 г. – Иван Гулев, деец на БРП († 1908 г.)\n 1972 г. – Георг фон Бекеши, унгарски биофизик, Нобелов лауреат през 1961 г. (* 1899 г.)\n 1977 г. – Тур Бержерон, шведски метеоролог (* 1891 г.)\n 1982 г. – Рикардо Палети, италиански пилот от Ф1 (* 1958 г.)\n 1982 г. – Халид, крал на Саудитска Арабия (* 1912 г.)\n 1986 г. – Бени Гудман, американски джаз музикант (* 1909 г.)\n 1986 г. – Дийн Рийд, американски певец (* 1938 г.)\n 1987 г. – Джералдин Пейдж, американска актриса (* 1924 г.)\n 1987 г. – Хайнц Клос, немски езиковед (* 1904 г.)\n 2012 г. – Уилям Ноулс, американски химик, Нобелов лауреат (* 1917 г.)\n\nПразници \n Световен ден на безвъзмездното кръводаряване и Световен ден на донора – Чества се от 2004 г. по инициатива на Световната здравна организация (СЗО), Международната организация на Червения кръст и Червения полумесец, Международното дружество за кръвопреливане и Международната федерация на организациите на кръводарителите с цел осигуряване за медициински нужди на безопасна кръв от доброволни кръводарители без парично обезщетение\n Италия – Празник на градовете Амантеа, Анакапри и Анцио\n Латвия, Литва и Естония – Ден в памет на жертвите на комунистическите репресии\n Тибет – Вси светии\n\n613"
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        "text": "Q: Why does my computer freeze when I unplug my headphones? Whenever I plug in or unplug my headphones into my computer, it freezes for about 10 seconds before it is able to do anything which is rather annoying.  This didn't use to happen though, would anyone know the cause of this or how to fix it?\n\nA: I faced a similar problem. I had a bluetooth headset and a wired one. Whenever I disconnected my wired one, sometimes the mac tried to connect to the bluetooth headset, and when it was switched off/out of range, the system would hang for sometime.\ncould be something similar. Can you give the list of speakers/headphones configured on your mac and their order (a screenshot would be convinient)\n\nA: It is certainly not normal and it is indeed a software problem. Although low level drivers are normally for all users, it wouldn’t harm if you try this either under a new fresh user (just create one, reboot your computer, log in with the new one and do the plug-unplug thing).\nAlso, you can try rebooting and plugging-unplugging in the login screen. If it also hangs there, then there’s certainly something “odd” about your sound drivers and further investigation (and/or system logs analysis) will be required. \nIf you have a spare drive, and to make sure there isn’t anything hardware related, you might want to try to install a fresh copy of your OS into that drive and see if it happens there, on the fresh install. \nThere might be a problem with the headphone’s internal hard/soft as well, so testing on another machine wouldn’t hurt to rule out an external problem.\n\nA: Happens the same in my MacBook, but I think it is because it is switching the software (OS) to send the sound signal to the speakers or the headphones plug. In my MacBooks takes 3 seconds, maybe in yours is more (10 seconds) because you have a lot of software running in the background.\n"
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        "text": "National Park air tours restricted at sunrise and sunset for first time\nHuman impacts Add comments\nIt’s not much, but it’s a start. The troubled FAA/NPS collaborative planning process has completed an actual final plan to manage air tours at a national park. But don’t get too excited: it’s not a full-on Air Tour Management Plan, as was the goal for all national parks with sightseeing flights when the two agencies were charged with the task fifteen years ago. Taking advantage of new rules encouraging voluntary agreements with air tour providers, Biscayne National Park in Florida is on the verge of finalizing such agreements with two flight providers.\nThe good news is that these agreements limit flights from 8am to 6pm, which leaves sunrise free from flights year-round, while sunsets only occur a bit before 6pm for a couple months in the heart of winter. Similar provisions for flight-free times extending an hour before sunset and an hour after sunrise at the Grand Canyon were derailed at the last minute by Senators McCain and Reid in a rare show of bipartisan meddling. The Grand Canyon remains the only National Park with a formal air tour plan, thanks in part to the fact that the FAA was not part of that process, which predated the start of the FAA/NPS efforts (the FAA and NPS have different approaches to the EIS process, which they’ve been unable to resolve). So it may be an encouraging sign that the first agreements to come out of the joint planning do manage to keep the magic hours on each end of the day free for quieter recreation.\nOf course, Biscayne is not your typical National Park. Within sight of Miami, there is plenty of boat traffic and most of the action takes place near the seashore, with all of its natural and human soundscapes, as well as on and under the waters of Biscayne Bay. Plus, the number of air tours is small (200 annual flights, most from November to May), and there is probably little demand for sunrise and sunset flights. Still, perhaps this first small step will set a precedent for plans at other parks."
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        "text": "Burt Stark Mansion (c. 1841)\nMcGowan - Barksdale - Bundy House (1888)\nAbbeville Opera House\nErskine College\nTrinity Episcopal Church (1860)\nHome > About Abbeville County > Places to See > Burt Stark Mansion (c. 1841)\nDavid Lesley, lawyer and planter, built this fine Greek Revival two-story mansion in 1841 within walking distance of the Square. It is most famous for being the site of Jefferson Davis’ last war council during Armistead Burt’s residency. Davis, a close friend of the Burt’s, finally disbanded his war cabinet here in May 1865 before fleeing to Georgia.\nIn 1900 J. S. Stark bought the house and restored it to its former antebellum glory. The last surviving member of the family, Mary Stark Davis, donated it and the furnishings to the Historic Preservation Commission in 1971. It is now a National Landmark and is open to the public for tours. www.burt-stark.com"
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Seller information utopiadreamglobal With stand – width: BTW, I didn’t know that display was 10 bit, those don’t tend to show color banding, very nice.\nAbout this product Product Information This inch DoubleSight monitor is capable of bringing you excellent graphics and taking your work productivity up a notch as you enhance your dds-307w performance.\nWhat is the contrast ratio? The camera amplified the light or something weird. Audio Output Form Factor. Surprisingly though the monitor doesn’t sway at doiblesight.\nEstimated on or before Wed. Special financing available Select PayPal Credit at checkout to have the option to pay over time. I imagine it’s only noticeable when the screen is blank though. If you put it next to a monitor that was professionally calibrated, you more than likely odublesight spot any differences.\nI would estimate my viewing distance with current setup would be about 50″ for a 30″ display. It doesn’t show how to anywhere in the user’s manual included with the monitor The user manual can be downloaded from DoubleSight’s webpage, it is too large to attach it here on the forum so I don’t know the model number or who makes the panel. And will always do our best to serve our customers, we are customers too. It does happen d-s307w not often.\nNo doubleaight or reviews yet. Payment received before 6: Believe it or not in the user manual for the monitor it states to sit no closer than 16 inches and no further than 30 inches and the optimal viewing distance is 25 inches.\nA stuck pixel is still coloured and might be fixed by applying light pressure exactly onto the pixel until it restores itself. Sometimes I may sit another few inches closer most likely about 19 to 20 inches. What does LCD stand for? Like you said most big panels are going to have some and it makes a big difference under what conditions it’s viewed and photoed, and they can actually vary a fair bit from one display to another even in the same model.\nCouldn’t find the manual that you were looking for? Maybe not so good to say now! Last edited by jmm; at I like that feature.\nDoes the monitor have an external power supply like the last model? Learn more – opens in doublesightt new window or tab. Compatible Model or Part: Just wish I could afford that much for one.\nI used the pieces of wood between the underside of the top and the steel legs to raise it up.\nEmail to friends Share on Facebook – opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter – opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest – opens in a new window or tab Add to watch list. Although this is the first IPS panel that I have owned. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.\nMastakill , Apr 19, Enter new zip code to refresh estimated delivery time. Not Specified by Manufacturer. Image Image Aspect Ratio. Apr 18, 9. Add an extra monitor to your computer Add an extra monitor to your computer by Donald Bell.\nAny banding you can see is moire between my camera iezo the pixels on the Eizo panel. Flat Panel Mount Interface. This computer monitor allows you to view crisper spreadsheets, digital photos, and video games with its excellent x screen resolution.\nMastakillApr 19, Newegg’s Cyber Monday deals are available now, including 43 percent off a inch LG gaming monitor. Reviews 0 Write a review. I was thinking of using a PS3 with it for movies and games.\nBecause eeizo EIZO SW includes an excellent ekzo screen, you can reap the benefits of enhanced computing productivity. I hope when I get a it looks close to what you have displayed. Are any of those avalible for background? Video Input Digital Video Standard. Microsoft’s snazzy Surface Hub 2 gets a backwards-compatible sibling in It hasn’t yet brought the Surface Hub 2 collaboration platform to general availability, but Microsoft’s outlined the Hub strategy in broad strokes.\nBe respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.\nS2411q to hear your thoughts about these monitors. Newegg’s Cyber Monday deals are available now, including 43 percent off a inch LG gaming monitor. Apr 21, Cyber Monday deals at Costco: Found them in stock at a couple places: Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Apr 23, Chippy, thanks for the pictures. ChippyX2411w 19, With the sale the Eizo SW http: Cyber Monday deals you can still get: Skip to main content.\nIMHO if you’re in eioz market for a top of the range widescreen monitor look no further. JuardisApr 19, Image Image Aspect Ratio.\nLaptops by Justin Jaffe Nov 27, Mechanical Display Position Z2411w. 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