Today is May 20th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It's good to be here with you today at the end of another week. We've done it. We've done it and we get to turn around and do it all over again tomorrow with a fresh start, and I guess we haven't done it, finished today yet. Today is still today so we're kind of putting the finishing touches on this week and part of that is the next step forward in the scriptures. This week we've been reading from the Names of God Bible, which we will continue to do and we'll continue with this saga that is Israel's first king, Saul, and this other man that has risen to prominence who has had to spend a lot of his time running for his life, David. So we'll pick up where we left off yesterday, 1 Samuel chapter 26, verse 1 through 28, verse 25 today.
We have a lot going on. It's a big day of drama in the Bible today in every way. So this whole Saul thing, I mean, we're watching Saul sort of dismantle himself. The kingship comes upon him and it is so weighty and he is so insecure that it is destroying him. We've been watching this for days.
So Samuel has died. Saul doesn't have a prophet to turn to. The last thing Saul knew about Yahweh is that God had rejected him, which is one of the things that is catapulting Saul forward to try to find and kill David because Saul knows that, at least according to the prophet, David is the next in line, not Saul's line of children, not Jonathon who is the prince. It is not going to be Saul's family that is taking over the kingship and that is kind of how kings work. The family line is a family business and Saul is the first king of Israel being told you're the only one. Your family is out of the picture and somebody better than you is coming along.
So we can kind of understand the insecurity but the length that it has gone to, this kind of behavior has always been what Saul did and it has gotten so bad that Saul has to go into battle. He doesn't know what to do. He's already done this kind of stuff before, right? He's already gone into battle before and sacrificed when the prophet was supposed to do that. That is the thing that tore the kingdom from him in the first place. So now he is not going to do something with God. He knows God has rejected him. He is just looking for Samuel and he's willing to go try to conjure him from the grave. That is how far this has gone with Saul.
It happens. Samuel comes up and tells him something sobering and ominous. "Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me." Probably the worst news Saul could hear and he is freaked out and he won't eat and all this stuff. We'll have to see, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out if that is what happens to Saul. Are we at the end of Saul's life? Is Israel's first king about to not be in the picture anymore? That is a story for another day. That is a story for tomorrow.
It's the craziest thing. I can't really get my mind around it until I start looking at my own life and the ways in which I've watched God do things that were clear to me, clear to me, only to walk a couple miles away and then forget the whole thing and find myself wondering what is going on. We do this kind of stuff but when we read it in black and white, when we read it or observe it in someone else's life it is easy for us to see. It is harder when we're looking in the mirror.
That is harsh. That is a harsh reality to look at in the scriptures and in our own lives because it is this fear-based compromise that is going on. It is sort of like this settling into a reality that there could be no other way that is going on. What is so harsh and really, really heartbreaking is the people of God, the people who are leading the people of God, so the priests, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin, the scribes, the teachers, the people who are supposed to know God the most because they are able to immerse themselves in the ways of God as a vocation, they are the ones rejecting God outright and then making plans to kill God. Wow. That is right up in your face because it is this trust versus our own strength issue that gets brought up right away.
God will always force us to the precipice of faith, always. The path that we are on is never not going to lead us to a precipice where we have to take a leap of faith. We will have to. And then the next time it will be a higher ledge because we have got to learn to reunite our spirit and our body and live by faith. It's the activator. It's the power. It's the thing that makes this work. So in this story, the most religious of the religious people are being brought to this precipice to really consider what they are about to do and their choice is to have Jesus killed somehow one way or the other so they can protect what they already have and what they already know. For them it's a pretty good life. It's working out pretty good for them. Yes, lots of people are being marginalized and oppressed, but they are doing pretty good. They've got it pretty well. There is going to be no leap of faith. There is just going to be the black betrayal and execution of an innocent person who happened to be God in the flesh.
We're going to continue to be brought to these precipices, but we have to take a leap of faith where we have to step out there where we think there is nothing only to find God is there. That is where he is. That is where he lives. He is just beyond our own strength, just beyond what we can do on our own without him. That is where he is. And the invitation is always there: Come deeper. Come further. There is more to this story. I have so much to show you. It's bigger than this. It's larger than you know. There is so much we can do together in collaboration, in relationship, but you're going to have to come out here. You're going to have to come out beyond where you can save yourself. You're going to have to come out here beyond your own control. This is where the power is. This is where we intersect. So may we consider ourselves today and our lives. God is on the move. There is no doubt about that. Are we on the move with him?
Jesus, we invite you into that question. It is a sobering one indeed. I think our lives are compartmentalized enough that we could say on some levels yes, on some levels no, but you're just even in that revealing what we were invited into, to love you with all of our heart, all of our mind, all of our strength, that being the activator of faith, allowing us to do what the examples in the Bible reveal, people committed, and God who is unstoppable. We just lose sight of that. We just lose sight of that almost every day at one point or other, so come Holy Spirit. Give us the margin in our lives that allows us to take a beat and remind ourselves of the story that we are actually in rather than getting sucked into some sort of narrative that isn't true at all and that only pulls us away from you. Come Holy Spirit, remind us once again, we ask, in your precious name. Amen.
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Hi DAB family. This is Brittany. I've actually been listening for about a year, but this is actually my first time calling in. I'm here in Atlanta, GA and I'm just thankful for this community of people who pray together and study together and just the group of people who care enough to pray for one another. I'm actually calling to submit a prayer request for one of my coworkers. Her daughter is 12 years old and was recently diagnosed with lupus. My coworker's mother actually passed away from lupus when she was a child, so this is something she has already experienced. Her daughter was supposed to have a kidney biopsy yesterday. Unfortunately, they saw a lot of inflammation in her kidneys and then they also found her blood pressure to be extremely high. They have been giving her blood pressure medication, but her body is not responding to it. I really ask that you all would pray for Leah, that her body would be healed, that the doctors would have some clear instruction and direction on where to go. Just keep her parents and brother in prayer as well. Thank you so much DAB family. Bye-bye.
Good evening Brian and Daily Audio Bible family. This is Pam from Florida. Brian, I just want to thank you for your faithfulness in reading every day. Daily Audio Bible family, thank you so much for your prayers for one another. I am asking for prayers for my marriage. My husband is in an affair and I am going to be asking for a divorce. He is asking me for a divorce, but has not acted on it. I have found evidence and letters to the lady he is involved with. I'm just asking for prayers for strength as I go through this dark valley. I am distressed. I am nervous. I am not fully employed and I would like your prayers, Daily Audio Bible family. Please remember me as I remember all of you. I listen daily and this is my first time calling. I crave your prayers. Pam from Florida. Thank you.
Hi. My name is Mya. I'm calling from __ England. I've been listening to the Daily Audio Bible for about a year now and it is the 17th of May and I've been really quite inspired about today's reading about Saul and I've been overwhelmed with I guess the parallel between all the things that he did, all the things that he struggled with and his way of behaving with that. You know what? Let's just pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you that this __ that we can find truth in it, that we can know who we are by your word. Lord, every one of us might find somebody else who is like a David who might seem __ bigger than us or stronger than us, but thank you, God, that you made us individually. You made us __ for a reason and I just pray, dear God, that we would be able to walk in that strength and in that reason, that we will not be intimidated by others but will be strong in our purpose because you designed us for a purpose that is individual to us. I thank you for everyone who calls in and everyone who doesn't and I pray that you will meet every need and that you'll bring about your peace so that even when we feel like you're not there, or when we feel like you're far away, I thank you, Lord God, that you will never leave nor forsake us, that we have a confidence in you knowing that you are the beginning and end of everything, that whatever we face, Lord God, you are here. You said lo, I am with you even to the end of the earth. So dear Heavenly Father, please meet the needs of my brothers and sisters in the DAB family and help us continue to walk all out for your namesake so that we can be a light in a dark world. Amen.
Hello DAB family. This is Seth A. from __, ME. I have a prayer request I want to set before you guys. After a series of just the Lord speaking, my wife and I are prayerfully considering basically selling everything we have and becoming missionaries. Due to a series of events, some things and opportunities have opened up and I'm pretty confident that the Lord is speaking and really tugging on my heartstrings. This is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. My wife is just a little but more hesitant and it is really important to me that we're in unity and oneness in this decision. So if you guys could just pray that God's perfect will would be made known to us both and that we would make this huge decision together, that would be awesome. Really love you guys. Pray for every single one of you guys and it's awesome you guys are there for me. So God bless and let him be glorified. Bye-bye.
Yes, my name is Marty and I'm calling and I'm trying to draw near back to God. I'm __ again. Two years ago we lost our daughter. We had been in deep grief and I just want to turn everything over to God. I pray that someone would just pray, reach out to us. Please pray for us. I desperately need a job and I desperately need a good relationship with another godly man and I just pray God, hear me. God, please hear me. Deliver me. Please, dear God. I'm too __ and draw us back to you and renew my relationship with you. Please, dear God. Please pray for us, everyone. Thank you.


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Q: User data in evince and cups Some days ago my evince stopped printing. After reinstalling it and trying different versions without success I figured out that it works from other user accounts on the same box.
So which files stores evince and cups per user basis such that I can remove or modify some files for the user where evince makes problems?
Edit #1
Printing from all other applications works. Evince from the particular user account just feeds out empty pages.
Edit #2
The user accounts where it worked didn't have any ./config/evince/ and ./cups. I just deleted those directories in the account where it doesn't work, but it doesn't help.
Any ideas what may be different between the users regarding evince printing?

A: You don't say in your question but are you able to print using other applications? The command line? I'd confirm that you're printer is still configured and working correctly by doing the following:
1. confirm that printer is setup and accessible using:
lpq
# check for jobs on the default printer
% lpq
mfc-8480dn is ready
no entries

# check for any jobs on all printers
% lpq -a
no entries

lpinfo -v
% sudo lpinfo -v
network beh
direct scsi
network socket
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
network http
network ipp
network https
network lpd
network dnssd://Canon%20S820%20%40%20scully._ipp._tcp.local/cups
direct hp
network smb
direct hpfax
network lpd://mfc-8480dn.bubba.net/BINARY_P1
%

test print from command-line
lpr somefile.txt

Try using the Troubleshooting Wizard

There is a troubleshooting wizard in system-config-printer (System ->
  Administration -> Printing in GNOME classic, Gear icon at the upper
  right of the screen -> Printers in Unity). You find it in the "Help"
  menu of system-config-printer. It produces a text file with a lot of
  useful information to attach to bug reports. Follow the instructions
  of the wizard. If you reach the test page step, you can either click
  the button to print the test page or you can print a job to the
  selected printer from any application or from the command line. The
  job will be shown in the integrated job viewer. Wait until it
  completes or goes into "Stopped" state. ONLY THEN AND NOT BEFORE mark
  the checkbox at the job, answer whether the job got printed correctly,
  and click "Forward". After that the file will get generated. Save it
  and attach it to your bug report.

Further details are available in the Ubuntu Debugging Printing Problems Wiki Topic.
2. Issues with Ubuntu and Evince printing blank pages
During researching this issue I did come across a lot of people having issues with printing and blank pages on various versions of Ubuntu.

*

*Document Viewer 2.32.0 (Evince) prints a blank page - bugid#: 186655

*Some pages appear blank when printing/previewing PDFs - bugid#: 186655

*How to get 12.10 fix for PDF Printing Problem (where some pages print blank) in 12.04?
There was a somewhat involved fix that I found here, Fixing PDF printing problems on Ubuntu 12.04. In the comments the fix mentioned fixed the issue for some but not all of the commenters.
3. The directory: $HOME/.gnome2/evince
You might try either deleting the print-settings file under $HOME/.gnome2/evince or even just deleting that directory entirely.
$ rm -fr $HOME/.gnome2/evince

A: You should compare the following file between your account and an account for which printing works:
~/.config/evince/print-settings

(and/or backup your copy and replace with one from another user). If that doesn't help you might try to replace the whole ~/.config/evince directory.

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SharpSpring allows you to paste your own code into the Landing Page Builder.
This article will detail how to add your own landing page HTML code and how to make those sections editable within SharpSpring.
In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click Content > Pages.
In the left panel, select Edit Code.
For every section, add the text class="vt-section" within the <section> tags.
For every paragraph, add the text class="vt-content-editable" within the <p> tags.
For every header, add the text class="vt-content-editable" within the <h> tags.


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Q: Android gallery problem setting image size via xml In the gallery tutorial they create a new ImageView in code and apply Gallery.LayoutParams.
I use a gallery with a custom adapter and want to inflate a imageview from xml and use that as the gallery item. The problem is, that the given size (see item xml definition underneath) is disregarded.
Custom Adapter:
public View getView(final int position, View convertView,
     final ViewGroup parent) {

  ViewHolder holder;
  if(convertView == null) {
     convertView = m_inflater.inflate(R.layout.coverflow_item, null);
     holder = new ViewHolder();
     holder.coverImage = (ImageView)convertView;
     convertView.setTag(holder);
  } else {
     holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
  }

  m_imageCache.download(m_imageUrls.get(position), holder.coverImage);
  return convertView;
}

Item xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ImageView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:layout_width="120dp"
     android:layout_height="120dp"
     android:scaleType="centerInside"/>

Is there a way to apply the Gallery.LayoutParams in the xml?
PS: I know that i could apply the Gallery.LayoutParams in code, but this is only a simplefied case ... the gallery item in my case is a bit more complex and that is the reason why i want to do it in the xml.


Motorcyclists suffer some of the most severe and catastrophic injuries on the road. In fact, there are well over 4,000 motorcycle fatalities each year, accounting for roughly 15% of all motor-vehicle fatalities, which is a highly out of proportion percentage given that very few trips are made by motorcycle. Unfortunately, a common perception is that these riders are all reckless, even when they were not at fault in the accident. In 2009, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 62 percent of motorcycle fatalities involved another vehicle and of those fatalities, 42 percent were caused when the motorcycle was going straight while the other vehicle turned left into the motorcyclist. As with all motor vehicle operators, motorcyclists are prone to speeding and drunk driving as well. In those instances where there were no other vehicles present in the motorcyclist's' death, which only arose 38 percent of the time, 48 percent of the motorcyclists that died had been speeding and 42 percent had been driving under the influence of alcohol.
Riding a motorcycle is dangerous primarily because a motorcycle offers no protection against larger vehicles and they are more difficult to see, especially in blind spots. With the rising number of distracted drivers on the roadways thanks to increased electronics use, sadly, riding a motorcycle can be an extremely dangerous mode of transportation for those people that do it for joy, to help the environment, or to save on gas costs or other expenses.
If you or someone you love was involved in a motorcycle accident, you need an experienced Nashville motorcycle accident lawyer who can properly investigate your case, determine the cause of the collision, and aggressively pursue your right to compensation.
To many motorcyclists, it may not feel like it at times when cars and other large automobiles fail to yield or provide enough space, however motorcyclists have the same rights to the road as other road users. This includes the full right to the lane and the standard right of way when a car would have as well. Likewise, motorcyclists have the same responsibilities to ride lawfully by not riding on the shoulder or swerving in between cars between lanes during periods of slow traffic.
At Calhoun Law, PLC Nashville, Tennessee, we have extensive experience handling a range of accident claims, including complex cases involving motorcycle accidents. As your advocates, we will take the time to understand your concerns, answer your questions, and aggressively pursue your case.
We understand the significant challenges faced by any family — whether you yourself have suffered a serious injury, or you are the spouse, sibling, or parent of a motorcycle accident victim. Our Nashville motorcycle accident lawyers will work hard to protect your rights and help your family securely transition through recovery.
As road users, we all have the same responsibility to operate our vehicles safely and to never put the lives of others at risk. Legally, this responsibility is called our duty to act with care, and when it is violated by speeding, distracted driving, swerving, changing lanes improperly, or any other infringement upon the rules of the road, the negligent party may be found liable to pay for your damages. However, proving negligence is sometimes the hardest, as well as most important, step in the legal process of compensation following an accident. The more evidence gathered at the scene of the crash, the easier it is to prove negligence. This evidence can be gathered in the form of witness testimony; photographs of your damaged motorcycle, the scene of the crash, the other party's automobile, and your injuries; and, of course, a detailed police investigation immediately following the crash, which should include both parties' accounts of the collision in the official accident report. This may not be possible for an injured motorcyclist to collect or ensure that others do, because the first and most important step following a bad accident is to seek medical attention immediately. However, even medical records and an honest discussion with the doctor providing the care has a place within the evidence that will be used. If you or a loved one was injured in a motorcycle crash, it is important to hire an experienced Nashville motorcycle accident lawyer who can gather and piece together the vital bits of evidence to prove negligence of the party that caused your injury.
Motorcycle accident claims are different than other Nashville automobile accident claims, because the victim is most often the rider. Also, the motorcyclist often sustains very serious injuries and may not be able to give an account of the accident. If someone you love was involved in a motorcycle accident, you need an experienced Nashville motorcycle accident lawyer who can review the evidence of your case, work with appropriate experts and present a compelling case to the court. We will fight hard to ensure that your family recovers the full compensation you are entitled to.
Call now at 615-250-8000 for a free consultation or contact us by e-mail to speak directly with an experienced Nashville motorcycle accident lawyer.


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Here's why cannabis convictions should be erased
By Murray RankinOpinion
Thu., Dec. 6, 2018timer3 min. read
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that all Canadians are equal under the law. We have the right to equal protection and equal benefits without discrimination based on race.
So why in Halifax were black people five times more likely than white people to be arrested for cannabis possession? And why in Regina were Indigenous people nine times more likely than white people to be arrested for cannabis possession? The unassailable truth is that black and Indigenous people have been disproportionately burdened with criminal convictions for possession of small quantities of cannabis.
The Liberal government has acknowledged this injustice. But instead of supporting a bill I introduced to expunge criminal records for simple possession, the government will commit only to introducing a bill sometime in the future that would create an expedited pardon process.
It's important to understand the difference between a pardon and expungement.
An expunged record is erased: it is completely destroyed. The offence is deemed at law never to have occurred. So a person whose record has been expunged can truthfully say they've never been convicted of a criminal offence.
A pardon — sometimes called a record suspension — merely reclassifies the record. It may still be released and even revoked in the future. Most importantly, with a pardon, an individual can still face obstacles when they try to work or volunteer, find housing, or travel abroad.
Now that cannabis is legal, why won't the government properly erase these records for people with the convictions for activities that are no longer criminal in nature? According to the Minister of Public Safety, the Liberal government is not considering expungement for minor possession of cannabis because "expungement is intended for cases that would be contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
This statement might give the impression that it's beyond the ability of the government to issue expungements for cannabis related activities, but that's simply untrue.
If the government wanted to erase the records for simple possession offences that unjustly targeted racialized and Indigenous communities for decades, there is no legal or principled reason for not doing so. Indeed, that's what delegates to the Liberal Party of Canada convention voted to do in 2012 when they passed a policy resolution to legalize cannabis, extend amnesty to Canadians previously convicted of simple possession and "eliminate" all related criminal records. The Liberal government's apparent decision to walk away from that part of the resolution is simply a policy choice, not a legal requirement.
Even so, the Charter protects us all not just against discriminatory laws, but against the application of valid laws in a discriminatory manner. A law against jay-walking doesn't offend the Charter, but enforcing it only — or nine times more often — against a particular group of Canadians certainly does.
In 2013, Justin Trudeau unapologetically admitted to having smoked cannabis a handful of times, including while serving as a Member of Parliament. He likely felt comfortable disclosing this because he understood that our society has moved past the stigma once associated with cannabis use.
Yet thousands of racialized people were treated unfairly under the same the law the Prime Minister admitted to breaking. Their ability to rent an apartment, get a job, or coach a soccer team are in jeopardy. After years of injustice, why should they have to settle for a process that won't fully relieve the burden of a criminal record?
The only way to right this wrong and finally give thousands of Canadians a fair chance is to expunge and erase records for simple possession of cannabis. I call on Prime Minister Trudeau to support my bill to expunge their criminal records.
Murray Rankin is the MP for Victoria and Justice Critic for the New Democratic Party.

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Personal Grounds, the group show at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808, is a strong overview of the resident artists' work.
Sharon Licata's Whirling Dervish is twisting carved form in black chlorite. The execution is looser than normal for Licata, and it works. The raw chisel marks on the surface of the stone add to the piece's sense of movement.
The blue-green and brownish red colors in Laura Spong's large dark piece in the main gallery shouldn't work. But they do. Their dissonance pushes the viewer towards the lighter area in the center.
Jeff Donovan's two ceramic heads in the center of the gallery are companion pieces that use a dry ironic wit to compare opposite states of mind.
Baptism is a departure for David Yaghjian in its more contemplative, pensive quality. His "everyman" figure appears again, just the torso this time, rising up from the rippling water of a pool. There is no other movement and no expression on the figure's face.


Few things in this world are as precious as the sight of Ted Danson doing the floss. In case you missed it, the 71-year-old actor was filmed back in November trying to learn how to "floss" — which is basically a dance where you move your hips side to side while swinging your arms in the opposite direction. Ted's costars on NBC's The Good Place were giving him a thorough tutorial on how to master the jig. And after a couple of months of practice, he took his skill from the 'gram to late-night television.
During his Tuesday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host showed the clip of Ted first learning how to floss. Ted then excitedly got up and showed the world that he's now fine-tuned his technique and can still get down with the best of them — sort of. Although his floss has improved, there's just one side effect that will probably keep him from ever doing the dance again. Watch him bust a move before revealing why he's not too keen on cavorting quite like that in the clip above!


This is the format used by levels in Jazz Jackrabbit 2.
Here is a more comprehensible C struct. "Version" is 514 for 1.23, 1.10o, and Battery Check levels, 515 for TSF levels, and 256 for A Gigantic Adventure levels.
The header is followed by 4 zlib streams. Data1 contains general level data, Data2 contains events, Data3 is the dictionary of "8-byte" tile groups (4 tiles per group), and Data4 contains "words", which it takes from the dictionary and outputs as proper level data.
MAX_TILES is 1024 for 1.23 and 1.10o/Battery Check levels, and 4096 for TSF and A Gigantic Adventure levels.
char SecAndLayer; // Upper 4 bits are set if passworded, zero otherwise. Lower 4 bits represent the layer number as last saved in JCS.
long LayerMiscProperties; // Each property is a bit in the following order: Tile Width, Tile Height, Limit Visible Region, Texture Mode, Parallax Stars. This leaves 27 (32-5) unused bits for each layer?
long LayerRealWidth; // for when "Tile Width" is checked. The lowest common multiple of LayerWidth and 4.
char "DetailLevel"; // is set to 02 for layer 5 in Battle1 and Battle3, but is 00 the rest of the time, at least for JJ2 levels. No clear effect of altering. Name from Michiel.
char TileTypes[MAX_TILES]; // translucent=1 or caption=4, basically. Doesn't work on animated tiles.
char "XMask"[MAX_TILES]; // tested to equal all zeroes in almost 4000 different levels, and editing it has no appreciable effect.  // Name from Michiel, who claims it is totally unused.
Animated_Tile Anim; // or  in TSF.
// only the first [AnimCount] are needed; JCS will save all 128/256, but JJ2 will run your level either way.
Each event is a long (4 bytes long), so this buffer should be (Layer4Width * Layer4Height * 4) bytes long. The first byte is the Event Number, and the next three bytes make up an extended bitfield that houses all the parameters for the events. The first four bits of that bitfield are reserved for Difficulty, Illuminate Surroundings, and (in-game and in save files only) whether the object is active, and the other twenty are up for grabs for event-specific code.
Is Active: Next 1 bit.
Use JCS.ini to get the numbers of parameters and their offsets.
Generator-events are events with ID 216.
In levels of version 256, Data2 has a very different format. There are two major sections. First the file lists every event that is used in the level, each one padded out with null bytes to be sixty-four bytes long.
The strings each have two parts, a filename before the slash '\' and a sprite name after the slash. The filename is literally the name of a .res/.bres file pair, and the sprite name is an individual set of sprites stored within that .res file. For instance, the Chicken food pickup is written as Goodies\Chicken (plus 64-15 = 49 null bytes), meaning that the level includes the Chicken event stored in Goodies.res.
After that are the actual events. Unlike in later versions of .j2l files, each event includes its position in layer 4. There does not seem to be any explicit statement of how many events there are in the level, so a reader must simply know to stop at the end of the section.
//the rest of the structure is only included if the highest bit of Marker is set.
short AreThereStrings; //02 if yes, 00 otherwise?
AGAString [???]; //I guess it just keeps looking for strings until it hits the LengthOfParameterSection length?
Note that the "EventID" does not refer to a universal list of events like in JJ2 (as seen in JCS.ini). Rather, it refers to the list of events used in the level from the first part of Data2. So if one level has Goodies/Chicken as its first listed event, and another as its second, the first will use 00 00 and the second 01 00 for the EventID.
The purpose of the Marker long is so far unknown, although it seems to be a series of bit booleans. If the highest bit is set, then the event has parameters, which follow it; the only other bits that are ever set are 5-14 (32-16385). A given event ID does not always correspond to the same bits being set among those ten.
Similarly, although most instances of the same event have the same number of parameters, this is not always true. At a guess, if the two last longs are both blank, they will not be saved.
This is probably an unusual way of defining a buffer, but I use dictionary because it contains a lot of "words", which cannot be used individually but have to be stringed together by Data4 to create something meaningful.
The size of this buffer is (WordCount * 8), but I'm not sure if the number of words is actually defined in the file, so I use UData3 instead. Each word contains 4 "Tiles", and each Tile is a short which corresponds to that tile index in the J2T declared. If a Tile has its 0x1000 (4096) bit (TSF) or 0x400 (1024) (1.23) bit set, it is a flipped tile.
Note that because it can use shorts, there can be a maximum of 65535 words (in theory). Each word is unique, so it usually a LOT less words, if similar tilegroups are used all over the level. This concept should not be difficult if you are already familiar with LWZ.
This section maps the Tiles in the previous section to the layers. Words are only defined for LayersThatHaveAnyTiles (refer to data1). For example, battle1.j2l again: the first layer that is "defined" is layer 3, which is 128×128. The width is 128, so that means it reads 32 words per row (remember there are 4 tiles per word). Note that it rounds up, so a 124 width would read 31 words per row, but 125 would be 32.
The first 32*128 words belong to layer 3, the next 32*128 words to layer 4, and the last 15*12 words to layer 8 (15 because its 60\4).
Since each reference to a word is 2 bytes long, we should have 8372 words in Data4, thus a buffer size 16744. So basically, this is just a sort of "mapping" done which copies and paste those "words" in the dictionary onto a larger screen.


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package com.palantir.docker.compose.configuration;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.palantir.docker.compose.reporting.ReportingConfig;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;

public class DockerComposeRuleConfigTest {
    @Rule
    public final TemporaryFolder temporaryFolder = new TemporaryFolder();

    @Rule
    public final ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none();

    @Test
    public void can_derserialize_config_found_one_dir_up() throws IOException {
        File config = temporaryFolder.newFile(".docker-compose-rule.yml");
        Files.write(
                config.toPath(), ImmutableList.of("reporting:", "  url: http://example.com/"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        File startDir = temporaryFolder.newFolder("start-dir");

        assertThat(DockerComposeRuleConfig.findAutomaticallyFrom(startDir))
                .hasValue(DockerComposeRuleConfig.builder()
                        .reporting(ReportingConfig.builder()
                                .url("http://example.com/")
                                .build())
                        .build());
    }

    @Test
    public void optional_empty_when_config_does_not_exist() {
        assertThat(DockerComposeRuleConfig.findAutomaticallyFrom(temporaryFolder.getRoot()))
                .isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void throws_when_config_file_is_invalid() throws IOException {
        File config = temporaryFolder.newFile(".docker-compose-rule.yml");
        Files.write(config.toPath(), ImmutableList.of("reporting:", "  whoops: oh no"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        assertThatExceptionOfType(RuntimeException.class)
                .isThrownBy(() -> DockerComposeRuleConfig.findAutomaticallyFrom(temporaryFolder.getRoot()))
                .withMessageContaining("deserialize config file");
    }
}

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text:
<?php

namespace GoogleApi\Contrib\Books\Bookshelves;

use GoogleApi\Service\ServiceResource as AbstractServiceResource;

/**
 * The "bookshelves" collection of methods.
 * Typical usage is:
 *  <code>
 *   $booksService = new apiBooksService(...);
 *   $bookshelves = $booksService->bookshelves;
 *  </code>
 */
class ServiceResource extends AbstractServiceResource {

    /**
     * Retrieves a list of public bookshelves for the specified user. (bookshelves.list)
     *
     * @param string $userId Id of user for whom to retrieve bookshelves.
     * @param array $optParams Optional parameters. Valid optional parameters are listed below.
     *
     * @opt_param string country ISO-3166-1 code to override the IP-based location.
     * @opt_param string source String to identify the originator of this request.
     * @return Bookshelves
     */
    public function listBookshelves($userId, $optParams = array()) {
        $params = array('userId' => $userId);
        $params = array_merge($params, $optParams);
        $data = $this->__call('list', array($params));
        if ($this->useObjects()) {
            return new Bookshelves($data);
        } else {
            return $data;
        }
    }
    /**
     * Retrieves a specific bookshelf for the specified user. (bookshelves.get)
     *
     * @param string $userId Id of user for whom to retrieve bookshelves.
     * @param string $shelf Id of bookshelf to retrieve.
     * @param array $optParams Optional parameters. Valid optional parameters are listed below.
     *
     * @opt_param string country ISO-3166-1 code to override the IP-based location.
     * @opt_param string source String to identify the originator of this request.
     * @return Bookshelf
     */
    public function get($userId, $shelf, $optParams = array()) {
        $params = array('userId' => $userId, 'shelf' => $shelf);
        $params = array_merge($params, $optParams);
        $data = $this->__call('get', array($params));
        if ($this->useObjects()) {
            return new Bookshelf($data);
        } else {
            return $data;
        }
    }
}


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Pānui & Events
MANDATE FOR TREATY SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS
The Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) is seeking a mandate from Te Iwi o Maniapoto to negotiate a comprehensive settlement of all the Maniapoto Historical Treaty of Waitangi claims on behalf of Te Iwi o Maniapoto.
The MMTB will present its mandate proposal to its members and provide you with an opportunity to discuss the proposal with Trust Board representatives. We now invite all members of Maniapoto to participate in this process by attending information hui, and voting on the following resolution:
"That Te Iwi o Maniapoto mandate the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board to enter into negotiations with the Crown to negotiate a comprehensive settlement of all Maniapoto Historical Treaty of Waitangi Claims on behalf of Te Iwi o Maniapoto".
Mandate information hui to be held across the country are as follows:
• Sunday 9 October 2016 10.00am Tauranga Moana Māori Trust
Board Community Centre Hall, Tauranga
• Monday 10 October 2016 5.30pm Te Puea Memorial Marae, Auckland
• Tuesday 11 October 2016 5.30pm Ngā Hau E Wha Marae, Christchurch
• Wednesday 12 October 2016 5.30pm Te Hotu Manawa o Rangitāne o Manawatu
Marae, Palmerston North
• Thursday 13 October 2016 5.30pm Takapuwāhia Marae, Porirua
• Saturday 15 October 2016 10.00am Mōkau Kohunui Marae, Piopio
• Sunday 16 October 2016 10.00am Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa, Hamilton
• Sunday 16 October 2016 3.00pm Mangatoatoa Marae, Tokanui
• Monday 17 October 2016 5.30pm Mōkai Kainga Marae, Kawhia
• Tuesday 18 October 2016 5.30pm Wharauroa Marae, Taumarunui
• Wednesday 19 October 2016 5.30pm Te Kuiti Pā, Te Kuiti
All registered members of the Maniapoto tribal register 18 years of age and over will be sent a voting pack. If you are not yet a registered member, you can also vote by contacting the Independent Returning Officer on free phone 0800 666 030 or iro@electionz.com for a special voting pack. Alternatively, a special voting pack can be obtained at any of the information hui. Special votes will be counted subject to confirmation of Maniapoto whakapapa. Votes can be cast:
by post (by completing and returning the voting form);
online (using the information on your voting form); or
at an information hui (by bringing the voting form and casting it there).
Voting opens at 12pm, Friday 7 October 2016 and closes at 12pm, Friday 28 October 2016.
For more information please visit www.maniapoto.iwi.nz. If you have any queries, please contact the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board on (07) 878 6234 or office@maniapoto.iwi.nz or the Independent Returning Officer on 0800 666 030 or iro@electionz.com
Maniapoto Mandate Strategy
Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) is seeking a mandate to represent Maniapoto in negotiations with the Crown for the comprehensive settlement of all the historical claims of Maniapoto. The Office of Treaty Settlements is running a submissions process in parallel with the mandate process set out above.
Following consideration of submissions and the mandate vote, the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and Minister for Māori Development will decide whether to recognise that a mandate has been conferred.
The Office of Treaty Settlements (OTS) invites submissions, views or inquiries on the mandate proposal as set out in the mandate strategy submitted by MMTB.
You can find the strategy under 'Supporting documents' below.
Submissions must be sent to:
Settlement Development Team
Office of Treaty Settlements
SX 10111
or by email: OTS_subs@justice.govt.nz
They must be received by 28 October 2016.
All correspondence will be subject to the Official Information Act 1982 and shared with MMTB.
MMTB's mandate strategy sets out the mandate proposal including: the claimant and claim definitions (including ancestors, hapū, marae and Wai claims) of the proposed mandate, MMTB's representative structure and MMTB's process for seeking a mandate.
The mandate sought is to negotiate all of the historical claims of Maniapoto, whether registered or unregistered, relating to Crown actions and omissions that occurred prior to 21 September 1992.
This will include Wai numbers: 37, 48, 50, 74, 329, 399, 424, 440, 446, 457, 472, 478,. 483, 529, 535, 551, 556, 577, 586, 587, 616, 630, 651, 656, 691, 729, 753, 762, 788, 800, 845, 846, 847, 849, 868, 870, 928, 933, 948, 986, 987, 991, 993, 1004, 1015, 1016, 1031, 1054, 1058, 1059, 1094, 1095, 1098, 1099, 1100, 1115, 1132, 1133, 1136, 1137, 1138, 1139, 1190, 1230, 1255, 1309, 1352, 1360, 1361, 1376, 1377, 1386, 1387, 1389, 1396, 1409, 1435, 1437, 1439, 1450, 1455, 1469, 1480, 1481, 1496, 1497, 1498, 1499, 1500, 1504, 1523, 1584, 1585, 1586, 1593, 1595, 1597, 1598,1599, 1606, 1608, 1612, 1704, 1747, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1798, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1812, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1823, 1824, 1834, 1894, 1898, 1908, 1926, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2068, 2070, 2074, 2075, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2090, 2101, 2102, 2103, 2117, 2120, 2121, 2127, 2128, 2129, 2130, 2131, 2132, 2133, 2135, 2136, 2168, 2238, 2271, 2274, 2291, 2304, 2312, 2313, 2314, 2335, 2349
View Mandate Strategy HERE
View Appendices HERE
Proposed Māori Land Service Wānanga – Te Puni Kōkiri
Please follow below link to view proposed Māori Land Service Wānanga information including hui dates
Māori Land Service Wānanga
He Pānui – Stock exclusion from water bodies
Proposals in Next steps for fresh water: Consultation document
The Government proposes to introduce a requirement for farmers to ensure their stock cannot enter streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands.
The dairy industry has made progress in voluntarily keeping stock out of water bodies. The Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord has resulted in over 24,000 kilometres of fencing to keep dairy cattle on milking platforms out of more than 94 per cent of streams over 1 metre wide and 30 centimetres deep. In 2014, the Government committed to requiring the exclusion of dairy cattle from waterways by 1 July 2017.
Excluding stock from a water body can improve water quality, improving its suitability for recreation, harvesting food, and as a habitat for fish. Livestock with access to water bodies can trample the banks, causing erosion and more sediment in the water. Water quality and the risk to human health are affected by stock faeces and urine. Riparian areas are important to filter the effects of adjacent land use, as habitats and for recreation.
What stock will be excluded from water bodies?
The Government proposes to regulate to exclude dairy cattle on milking platforms from water bodies by 1 July 2017. We intend to extend this to land used for dairy support, beef cattle and deer at a later date (see table 2) to give these farmers time to comply. Sheep and goats will not be covered by this proposal as they do less damage to our streams and rivers.
Stock will only be nationally required to be excluded from water bodies on flat land and lowlands and rolling hills (< 15˚ slope) due to the practicality of fencing on steep country and the high costs relative to the environmental benefits. This would not override more stringent council rules and councils will still have the ability to apply stock exclusion rules more widely where they see this as necessary or desirable.
Table 2: Proposed deadlines for stock to be excluded from water bodies
Farm type Plains (0–3°) Lowland/rolling hills
(4–15)°
Dairy cattle on milking platform 1 July 2017
Dairy support (owned by dairy farmer) 2020
Dairy support (third party grazing) 2025
Beef 2025 2030
Deer 2025 2030*
Pigs 1 July 2017
*Intensive farms only
How stock will be excluded
Farmers will need to put up permanent fences unless there is a natural barrier preventing stock from getting to the water. Temporary fencing will be allowed where this is more appropriate, for example, for short-term grazing or where flooding is a problem.
Water bodies where stock will be required to be excluded
We propose to apply a national stock exclusion regulation to:
permanently flowing waterways and drains greater than 1 metre wide and 30 centimetres deep, (and smaller ones on the plains, but giving these landowners until 2020 to comply)
natural wetlands, but not including damp gully heads or places where water temporarily ponds, or built structures, such as effluent ponds, reservoirs or channels.
What enforcement will there be for the proposed stock exclusion regulations?
Some councils already have some degree of stock exclusion requirement in their regional plans. There are problems with practical enforcement because the expense to councils and ratepayers of taking a Court prosecution can seem excessive. The Resource Legislation Amendment Bill currently before Parliament provides explicit provision for these proposed national regulations. It also introduces a nationally standardised infringement regime with instant fines.
Will riparian buffers be required?
It is not proposed to require a riparian buffer between a fence and the waterway. If managed well, riparian buffers can benefit water quality, bank stability, and biodiversity. However, the optimum buffer width and how it should be managed depends on the circumstances and aims. The high cost of managing riparian buffers (eg, planting, weed control) is not justified by the environmental benefits in all cases. Some councils are already working with farmers to promote riparian management in high value and at-risk areas.
Read LAWF's recommendations on stock exclusion.
Media Release – Te Iwi o Maniapoto me ona hapu maha
Media Release for immediate use
Te Iwi o Maniapoto me ōna hapū maha
The Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) is seeking the mandate of iwi members to negotiate Maniapoto's outstanding historical Treaty of Waitangi claims. MMTB will be working with Maniapoto kaumātua and Wai Claimants to take this process forward.
After being informed by the Crown that the claims process for Maniapoto had stalled, MMTB decided to go out and ask our people to support us in negotiating a settlement on their behalf.
"We have an opportunity to get the settlement process moving again and bring our people together to achieve the best possible outcome for Maniapoto," says MMTB Chairman, R. Tiwha Bell.
"The first step has been to meet with the Kaumātua Kaunihera who gave us their support. The next step will be to meet kanohi ki te kanohi with all of the Wai claimants. Then we will go out to our people to explain how we would work on their behalf and how they can be involved.
"It is our intention to be open and inclusive with te iwi o Maniapoto and that will start with information hui to explain the proposed process and to answer questions. Details of the hui across the rohe and for taurahere will be announced next week.
"Given the importance of settling our claims for all of Maniapoto, our iwi now has the opportunity to make some solid progress and this needs to be put to our people for their consideration. A muri kia mau ki tēnā, kia mau ki te kawau mārō, whanake ake, whanake ake " states Mr Bell.
Katherine Barry
katherine.barry@maniapoto.co.nz
Communications Co-ordinator
Maniapoto Māori Trust Board
pdf copy available below:
media-release-te-iwi-o-maniapoto-me-ona-hapu-maha
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Graymont (NZ) Scholarship
Education, Cultural, Social & Community Grants
Annual & Event Grants
Recipient Stories
Tribal Register
MMTB Panui
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Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer
Blog Item
Sue Farrington Smith – an inspiration
Two minutes with...
23 February 2017 by Elise O'Kelly
Today our Chief Executive Sue Farrington Smith is at Buckingham Palace for an investiture ceremony at which she will receive her MBE for services to brain tumour research and awareness raising.
On October 1st 2010 I joined Sue at Brain Tumour Research as the first full time employee. Back then we were based on her farm in the Buckinghamshire countryside. I hadn't worked for a charity before but Sue's energy, vision and ambition pulled me along as we established our first dedicated research centre at the University of Portsmouth. Using statistical analysis Sue had discovered that brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under the age of 40 yet research funding levels were woefully low. Armed with this type of information we talked to anyone who would listen encouraging them to lobby their MP's, to get their stories in the media, to support Wear A Hat Day and to help us fund the fight against brain tumours.
Six and a half years later Brain Tumour Research has raised over £10 million, we have taken our message to national media, we have engaged with high profile celebrities and are just embarking on a game changing Wear A Hat Day partnership with Hobbycraft. We have galvanised our community to support an e-petition, achieving 120K signatories and resulting in the current Department of Health working group looking into the historic underfunding of research
Sue has pushed, dragged, carried and led the team at Brain Tumour Research as we have grown and grown and we are now hugely experienced, talented and driven team operating from modern offices in the heart of Milton Keynes.
I remember the early days of Brain Tumour Research when it was all hands-on deck counting out pin badges, assembling collection boxes and Sue always available on her mobile to anyone who needed to chat meaning she was frequently dealing with her mountain of emails until the early hours of the morning before getting up to get the kids to school and then coming into the office.
Some things haven't changed! Sue is still the same, as passionate about making a difference as ever and working around the clock to support the brain tumour community. The only difference is that she is now Sue Farrington Smith MBE and I am proud to have stood alongside her as we continue to get closer to a cure.
On this special day please join me in wishing Sue a wonderful but poignant day and as many of you will have your personal memories of standing alongside Sue in our fight then please do feel free to share them below.
Hugh Adams
Head of External Affairs.


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Бори́с Хату́евич Темирка́нов (; 6 апреля 1937, Зарагиж, Кабардино-Балкарская АССР — 25 октября 2018, Санкт-Петербург) — советский и российский дирижёр и композитор, старший брат Юрия Темирканова. Народный артист Российской Федерации (1996), председатель союза композиторов Кабардино-Балкарской Республики.

Биография
Борис Темирканов получил начальное музыкальное образование в музыкальной школе Нальчика, куда они с младшим братом Юрием были приняты в августе 1946 года. Там он занимался на виолончели в классе Николая Яковлевича Лобач-Жученко. Первое его публичное выступление состоялось 1 сентября 1951 года в республиканском драматическом театре в составе трио, в котором партию скрипки исполнял Юрий Темирканов. После окончания музыкальной школы Борис, в отличие от уехавшего в Ленинград брата, продолжил обучение в Орджоникидзе (ныне Владикавказ). Затем он окончил Саратовскую консерваторию.

Вернувшись в Нальчик после окончания консерватории, Борис Темирканов играл на виолончели в местном оркестре. В это же время он начал заниматься композицией и дирижированием. В середине 1970-х годов он в течение года проходил стажировку в Ленинграде. За это время он продирижировал несколькими спектаклями в театре оперы и балета им. М. П. Мусоргского. Вернувшись в Нальчик, Темирканов начал дирижировать местным симфоническим оркестром. Первое его выступление в качестве дирижёра этого оркестра состоялось 13 апреля 1975 года. Позже он начал гастролировать, управляя оркестрами разных городов России.

На протяжении многих лет Борис Темирканов был главным дирижёром симфонического оркестра Кабардино-Балкарской государственной филармонии. Он — автор первых сочинений для кабардинской гармоники в сопровождении симфонического оркестра. До августа 1991 года Темирканов занимал пост министра культуры Кабардино-Балкарии.

Скончался Б. Х. Темирканов 25 октября 2018 года в Санкт-Петербурге. Похоронен 27 октября 2018 года на Мусульманском кладбище в Нальчике.

Награды и звания
 Заслуженный артист РСФСР (31.08.1981)
 Народный артист Российской Федерации (09.03.1996)
 Орден Дружбы народов
 Народный артист Кабардино-Балкарской Республики
 Народный артист Калмыцкой Республики
 Лауреат Государственной премии КБР
 Орден «За заслуги перед Кабардино-Балкарской Республикой» (6 апреля 2017 года) — за выдающиеся заслуги в развитии музыкального искусства

Произведения
 Фантазия-экспромт для струнного квартета (1962)
 Каприччио для симфонического оркестра (1968)
 Сюита для виолончели с оркестром в трех частях (1967)
 Токката для виолончели и фортепиано (1966)
 «Горский танец» — песня для хора с симфоническим оркестром на слова Кайсына Кулиева (1970)
 «Эхо гор» — песня для хора и симфонического оркестра на слова Бориса Темирканова (1969)
 Кантата «Триптих эпохи», сл. Инны Кашежевой для двух солистов (меццо-сопрано и бас), чтеца, смешанного хора и симфонического оркестра (1982)
 «Лирическая» — песня для сопрано в сопровождении оркестра на слова Зубера Тхагазитова (1970)
 «Шикапшина» — песня для тенора в сопровождении симфонического оркестра на слова Мугаза Кештова (1971)
 «Кабардинский напев» для сопрано в сопровождении симфонического оркестра на слова Психамихова (1970)
 «Жду тебя» — песня для баса в сопровождении симфонического оркестра на слова Зубера Тхагазитова (1971)
 Сюита для симфонического оркестра (1983)
 Вариации для симфонического оркестра (1984)
 «Кантата» по поэме Танзили Зумакуловой «Вся моя надежда на тебя» (для меццо-сопрано, баса, хора и чтеца с симфоническим оркестром) (1984)
 Пьесы для симфонического оркестра и национальной гармоники на темы музыки народов Кавказа (1989)

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 О Борисе Темирканове на информационно-новостном портале «Кабардино-Балкария. Мир и мы»

Академические музыканты России
Народные артисты Кабардино-Балкарии
Похороненные в Нальчике

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Czech Republic's Para ice hockey coach Jiri Briza hopes that a home world championship success can attract new players to his team to help end the USA and Canada's dominance of the sport.
"The average age of our team is getting older and older and we need to bring to the light for everyone in this country to know that this sport is interesting and that we need some new, young players to join our team," he said.
As the 2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, approach – competition starts on 27 April – the 43-year-old hopes for sold-out venues, increased exposure of the sport – and a bronze medal. Either USA or Canada have won every Paralympic title since 2002 and every world title since 2008, leaving Briza feeling that for his team to reach the final is an unrealistic goal.
"The average age of our team is getting older and older and we need to bring to the light for everyone in this country to know that this sport is interesting and that we need some new, young players to join our team."
"There's still an open spot for the bronze," he said. "We are looking forward and ready to get on the same level as Norway, South Korea and Italy and battle for that spot.
His team is, however, on the right path: they were unbeaten and ultimately victorious at the Ostersund Open in Sweden in January. The Czechs proved in the six-day tournament that age often means experience, as 36-year-old Zdenek Habl, who played in the last Worlds to be held in Czech Republic in 2009, emerged as the competition's top scorer with six goals.
They followed that up with victory in the Slovakia Cup in March.
But Briza feels there is still a long way to go before Czech Republic and others can battle with the USA and Canada for the gold medal.
"They're just too fast and their skills, especially playing and shooting with both hands, are their biggest advantage to their game," he said.
Briza cites investment from sponsors as a key factor to enable teams such as his to match the two dominant nations: players would work less and get on the ice every day. Another factor, the coach believes, would be attracting new athletes who have been sportive for their whole lives, not just after an injury.
"If you have some former hockey players with a hockey mindset, or if people were sportsmen before their injury, then it's a lot easier to be a part of a hockey game because the conditions to use your body to be strong and fast are there already," he said.
Two-time Paralympic champion Declan Farmer of the USA agrees with Briza and hopes soon to face strong competition from teams other than Canada, even if it could mean that his trophy cabinet fills up more slowly.
"You want to win and you want to have the best chance to win but as a sled hockey (Para ice hockey) player I want the sport to be as competitive as possible and that is a bad thing for the sport for people to think that the gold and silver is already set," he said.
Farmer believes programmes to develop new players are key and hopes that a good result in the world championships could help teams such as Czech Republic to recruit a new generation of players.
"I think that if other countries start to devote more resources to looking for inexperienced players, kids, newly wounded adults and just get them involved in the sport, that's what one day will make it so that it's not a two-horse race," he said.
Finalists or not, Briza looks forward to the tournament in the eastern Czech city with excitement.
"I think that people will be very interested in this championships and I'm sure that the organising committee will do their best so that we can host the best tournament we can offer," he said.


"What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy?"
"He shunned IMF aid to protect what he called "unorthodox" measures from oversight."
"Orban has shunned the IMF since taking office in 2010 to prevent interference in what he called his "unorthodox" measures."


Other people are interested in how to make their bubble more tangible, more real, an actual community. Continual protests large and small in major cities are translating this interest into mass spectacle. But after the photos are tagged on Facebook and the crowds disperse, is there any lasting effect? Has community occurred?
can be seen as a model for reframing virtual engagement (the Facebook bubble) into physical community (actual people, albeit still surrounded by likeminded peers).


Ancient Shade is a rare neutral minion card, from the League of Explorers set.
Two copies of regular Ancient Shade are obtained by completing the Temple of Orsis, the first wing of The League of Explorers.
Like all on-draw effects, Ancient Curse will only activate when it is successfully drawn into the player's hand. If it is overdrawn due to the player's hand being full, or is discarded by a card effect or Tracking, it will be removed from the game, and no damage will be dealt and no card will be drawn.
Ancient Curse can be cast as a spell (for example, copies created by Chromaggus or Thoughtsteal) but it does not have any effect since the copy itself is not drawn.
Similarly to all other on-draw triggered effect, although being a spell, Ancient Curse does not have its damage increased by either player's Spell Damage or Prophet Velen.
However, as with all other spells, damage dealt by Ancient Curse will trigger Hallazeal the Ascended.
This is a good option for aggro decks. Its 7 Attack and decent 4 Health make it a terrifying early game presence, countered by the Ancient Curse card it shuffles into the player's deck. However, in decks aiming to win quickly, the Ancient Curse is unlikely to be drawn before the end of the match, effectively removing the drawback. Aggro decks also tend to care less about their own Health, focused purely on dealing damage. There is also the possibility of using cards like Fel Reaver, Tracking, and the Golden Monkey to attempt to completely negate its drawback by simply removing the Ancient Curse.
In slower decks the Ancient Shade can still provide good value, but also runs the risk of a shock later on.
The biggest drawback to Ancient Shade is that it is still extremely easy to remove, with only 4 Health leaving it vulnerable to poor trades against the likes of Piloted Shredder or removal by Flamecannon, and its 7 Attack opening it up to Big Game Hunter. If the opponent removes the Shade before it can attack, the player will still run the risk of suffering the Ancient Curse.
Shades are disembodied spirits and are similar to ghosts in that they are the spectral remains of a once-living person. These often restless spirits are mostly found in the Plaguelands, other undead-infested areas, and the village surrounding the mysterious tower of Karazhan. Because they do not have a real body, some shades are immune to physical damage.


Nannari Sarbath is one of my all time favorite drink and it's made from lemon juice and nannari syrup. Nannari syrup is prepared from Nannari roots(Indian Sarsaparilla).But here in the recipe i have used the store brought nannari syrup which i got from my recent India trip. During our summer vacation in school days, there were lot of small vendors selling this nannari sarbath,but nowadays i hardly seen any vendors selling this sarbath in our native.I think all the fancy cool drink shop took over the place of this small vendors.But nothing can beat the place of nannari sharbat those who have had this sharbat will agree with me.
When we were in hosur, i used to buy this nannari syrup regularly during summer to quench our thirst till we move to US.So this time during our india trip, this nannari syrup is the first thing i brought to bring it here and now summer is peak here in Texas, it really helps to keep our body cool & hydrated.Yes, it's a natural body coolant and it's way better than the aerated drinks.
Take all the ingredients and cut the lemon and squeeze the juice. Then add the nannari syrup,water & give a good stir. Tada!!! Your Nannari Lemon Sarbath is ready. Add few ice cubes while serving.
Depends on the tartness of lemon, you may need less or more of nannari syrup.
Based on the brand, you may need more or less of nannari syrup.
Adding ice cubes will dilute the sharbat and reduce the sweetness, so while adding nannari syrup take that into account.


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VIDEO: 'Emotional' Nancy Pelosi Storms Around Capitol, Slams Podium After Trump's Second Acquittal
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Immediately following President Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment acquittal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made a surprise visit to the House impeachment managers, and revealed her rage at the decision to the media.
Initially, Pelosi walked to the podium and began gesticulating wildly as she damned the Senate for acquitting President Trump.
"What is so important that the political survival of any of us, that is more important, than our Constitution that we take an oath to defend?" asked Pelosi. "What we saw in that Senate today was a cowardly group of Republicans who claim they have no options because they were afraid to defend their job."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the senators who made Donald Trump's acquittal possible as a 'cowardly group of Republicans' and blamed McConnell for not allowing the House to deliver the impeachment charge to the Senate while Trump was still in the White House pic.twitter.com/cVu6gtT8uL
As Pelosi began to leave the podium, a reporter apparently asked Pelosi about whether she would move to censure President Trump in the House of Representatives.
In response, Pelosi began talking loudly and emotionally before returning to the podium, hands and arms flailing wildly to express her disapproval.
"They let everybody off the hook, all these cowardly Senators," she said, slamming the podium. "Who couldn't face up to what the President did, and what was at stake for our country, are now going to have a chance to give a little slap on the wrist? We censure people for using stationary for the wrong purpose, we don't censure people for inciting insurrection."
"Nancy Pelosi is far too emotional to hold public office," wrote reporter Jon Miller.
Nancy Pelosi is far too emotional to hold public office. First she was ripping up speeches she didn't like, now she is storming about the Capitol babbling like a loon and hitting the podium when she doesn't get her way. I thought the "adults" were in charge. pic.twitter.com/EN9srSKkMM
— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) February 14, 2021
"First she was ripping up speeches she didn't like, now she is storming about the Capitol babbling like a loon and hitting the podium when she doesn't get her way." He continued, "I thought the 'adults' were in charge."
Some Republicans seem to have given Pelosi's words credence, however, including Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who immediately contradicted his vote in a speech delivered after President Trump's acquittal.
In the speech, McConnell claimed that – despite his vote to the contrary – President Trump was "practically and morally responsible" for the events of January 6, and seemingly called for a criminal investigation into President Trump. This came after McConnell allegedly used the threat of a conviction in the Senate to blackmail President Trump and ensure that he did not pardon Julian Assange and other anti-establishment whistleblowers.
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You do well. Scarlet soles!
Ben Brooks first novel is called Fences and is out on Fugue State Press. He has two other novels forthcoming. His furniture is oriental.


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L'Escadron bleu est le nom donné à l'unité mobile n° 1 de la Croix-Rouge, composée d'un groupe de femmes volontaires de la Croix-Rouge française chargées en 1945 d'organiser le retour en France des prisonniers de guerre et des déportés des camps de concentration. Le surnom « Escadron bleu » a été donné au groupe en raison de la couleur de ses uniformes, offerts par l'armée américaine.

Ce groupe est composé de 11 femmes, infirmières, ambulancières, volontaires de la Croix-Rouge française, qui effectueront près de 200 missions au départ de Varsovie entre le 27 juillet et le 11 novembre 1945.

Composition de l'Escadron bleu
Originaires pour la plupart des départements de la Seine, Seine-et-Oise et Seine-et-Marne, les membres de l'Escadron sont très jeunes, entre 22 et 29 ans.

Les identités de ces membres sont les suivantes.
 Violette Guillot, chef d'unité,
 Micheline Reveron dite « Miche »,
 Aline Tschupp,
 Simone Saint-Olive dite « Sainto », infirmière,
 Elisabeth Blaise,
 Cécile Stiffler,
 Jeannine Robert dite « Petit Bob »,
 Charlotte Pagès dite « Pagès »,
 Simone Braye,
 Françoise Lagrange,
 Jacqueline Heiniger.

L'histoire de l'Escadron bleu est étroitement rattachée à celle de Madeleine Pauliac qui, sans être officiellement membre du groupe, lui affectait ses missions.

Fonctionnement et missions de l'Escadron bleu
L'unité mobile n° 1 de la Croix-Rouge, surnommée l'Escadron bleu, a été créée le 13 avril 1945 par un arrêté du ministère des Prisonniers, Déportés et Réfugiés (PDR) pour participer au retour des Français libérés des camps de concentration et camps de prisonniers. Cependant, ce n'est qu'en juillet 1945 que le groupe se rend en Pologne afin de commencer sa mission de rapatriement.

L'unité part le 23 juillet de Constance, en Allemagne, à destination de Varsovie où l'attend Madeleine Pauliac, médecin lieutenant, en charge de l'hôpital français de la ville (). Les membres de l'Escadron bleu conduisent cinq ambulances, des Austin, offertes à la Croix-Rouge française par le roi George VI.

Au cours des mois suivants, l'Escadron bleu va réaliser plus de  et parcourir plus de .

Hommages

Bibliographie
Le 16 février 2017 , le neveu de Madeleine Pauliac, Philippe Maynial, publie une biographie de sa tante aux Éditions XO. Dans cette biographie il retrace la vie de cette dernière ainsi que les exploits de l'Escadron Bleu.

Filmographie
En 2019, l'auteur et réalisatrice Emmanuelle Nobécourt co-produit avec Philippe Maynial un documentaire nommé Les Filles de l'Escadron bleu qui est diffusé sur France 5 en mars 2020. Ce documentaire revient sur la vie et les missions de l'Escadron bleu, avec la voix de Bruno Debrandt et la musique de Jean Poulhalec. Le documentaire est projeté au Festival de Luchon en 2020.

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Toronto Dogs Directory: Should You Buy Your Pet's Medications Online?
Should You Buy Your Pet's Medications Online?
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Veterinary experts remind us that it is important that our pets visit the vet regularly and obtain prescriptions to ensure they are receiving the correct medication.
So throw Fido a bone and always ensure you do your research before purchasing animal drugs online.


Thanks for the card info, I'll get it added to the wiki.
Hi! I've been farming cards, and just recently hit the 100 card milestone. I'm really not comfortable with monkeying around with wiki pages, but I've transcribed the raw data in case anybody else wants to update it. I'm not sure which ones the wiki has/is missing, though.
Abyss Banshee: "Increases the duration of the Ward buff when applied to your Death creatures by 1 turn."
Abyss Spectre: "Increases the potency of your Death creatures' healing effects by 10%".
Agor Apocalypse: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with Chaos spells by 5%".
Anguish Banshee: "Increases your Death creatures' base intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Ashbone Efreet: "Increases your creatures' Intelligence by 3%."
Ashmouth Cerberus: "Decreases the Mana cost of your creatures' Chaos spells by 10%."
Ashwood End: "Increases the potency of your Nature creatures' healing effects by 10%."
Asura Bonebreaker: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with attacks by 2%."
Blood Hound: "Increases your Death creatures' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Blood Slime: "Increases your Sorcery creatures' Health by 7%."
Bone Reaper: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with Death spells by 5%."
Canopy Arachnalisk: "Increases your Nature creature's Defense by 5%."
Carnage Antagonizer: "Increases the duration of the Weak debuff your Death creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Carnage Destructor: "Increases your Death creatures' Speed by 5%."
Carver Shadowstalker: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with spells by 2%."
Castitas Sanctus: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with Life spells by 5%."
Chillbreeze Yeti: "Increases the duration of the Leech buff when applied to your Sorcery creatures by 1 turn."
Colossal Giant: "Increases your Nature creatures' Health by 7%."
Creep Mummy: "Increases your Death creatures' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Crystal Smith: "Increases the duration of the Protect buff when applied to your Sorcery creatures by 1 turn."
Cursed Reaper: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with spells by 2%."
Cyclone: "Increases your Nature creatures' base Health by 2 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Deranged Gorgon: "Increases your Sorcery creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Diabolic Commander: "Increases the duration of the Bleed debuff your Chaos creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Diabolic Observer: "Increases the potency of your Chaos creatures' healing effects by 10%."
Diabolic Rebel: "Increases your Chaos creatures' Defense by 5%."
Diabolic Spectator: "Increases your Chaos creatures' base Speed by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Djinn Evoker: "Increases the duration of the Arcane buff when applied to your Sorcery creatures by 1 turn."
Doomblight Angel: "Increases the Mana cost of the enemies' Life spells by 5."
Dread Wight: "Increases the duration of the Burn debuff your Death creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Exalted Spirit: "Increases the amount of healing your Life creatures receive by 15%."
Faded Grimoire: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from attacks by 3%."
Fallen Carnage: "Increases your Death creatures' base Health by 2 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Favored Masochist: "Decreases the enemy Sorcery creatures' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Fire Priest: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from Chaos attacks by 10%."
Firewound Angel: "Increases the duration of the Burn debuff your Life creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Flailing Manticore: "Increases your Chaos creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Flood Familiar: "Increases the duration of the Mend buff when applied to your Sorcery creatures by 1 turn."
Forest Priest: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from Nature attacks by 10%."
Forsaken Rotmongerer: "Increases your Death creatures' base Attack by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Gimp Mummy: "Increase the duration of the Blind debuff your Death creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Goliath Arachnalisk: "Increases your Nature creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Griffon Divebomber: "Increase your Life creatures' Speed by 5%."
Gula Sin: "Increase the amount of healing your Death creatures receive by 15%."
Harpy Screamer: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with attacks by 2%."
Hemlock Ent: "Decreases the enemy Nature creatures' chance to deal critical damage with attacks by 3%."
Heretic Hunter: "Increases your Nature creatures' Attack by 5%."
Holy Crusader: "Increases your Life creatures' Speed by 5%."
Imp Necromancer: "Increases your Nature creatures' Intelligence by 5%."
Imp Ritualist: "Increases the duration of the Ward buff when applied to your Nature creatures by 1 turn."
Imp Shaman: "Increases the Mana cost of enemies' Nature spells by 5."
Impaler Banshee: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from Chaos spells by 10%."
Incursion Reaper: "Increases your Death creatures' chance to extract from creatures by 20%."
Inox Apocalypse: "Increases your Chaos creatures' base Speed by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Krampus: "Increases your Chaos creatures' attack by 5%."
Lich Hellcaster: "Increases your Death creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Lich Priest: "Decreases the Mana cost of your creatures' Death spells by 5."
Masochist Witch: "Increases your Sorcery creatures' base Speed by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Mimic: "Mimics drop extra loot."
Mouth of Hell: "Increases your Chaos creatures' Health by 7%."
Phase Marauder: "Decreases the enemy Sorcery creatures' chance to deal critical damage with attacks by 3%."
Phase Spellblade: "Increases your Sorcery creatures' damage dealt with attacks by 5%."
Planetary Amaranth: "Increases the amount of Power received from battles by 50."
Priest Vizier: "Increases the amount of Power Balance received from battles by 1%."
Raven Acolyte: "Increases your creatures' Intelligence by 3%."
Raven Batmaster: "Decreases the enemy Sorcery creatures' chance to deal critical damage with attacks by 3%."
Red Storm: "Decreases the Mana cost of your creatures' Nature spells by 5."
Revenant Sealord: "Increases your Death creatures' base Defense by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Rimefist Yeti: "Increases your Sorcery creatures' Attack by 5%."
Ruby Paragon: "Increases your creatures' chance to extract from creatures by 15%."
Sapphire Paragon: "Increases your chance to find Exalted Emblems slightly."
Shadow Carnage: "Increases your Death creatures' damage dealt with attacks by 5%."
Silverclaw Griffon: "Increases the duration of the Poison debuff your Life creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Siren Beguiler: "Increases the potency of your Life creatures' healing effects by 10%."
Siren Purifier: "Increases your Life creatures' Intelligence by 5%."
Sphinx Justicar: "Increases the duration of the Bleed debuff your Life creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Spider Occultist: "Increases your creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Springtime Aspect: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with Nature spells by 5%."
Stone Giant: "Decreases the enemies' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Sun Crusader: "Increases the duration of the Scorn debuff your Life creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Superbia Sin: "Increases the duration of the Scorn debuff your Death creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Temperantias Sanctus: "Increases the duration of the Leech buff when applied to your Life creatures by 1 turn."
Thrasher Fiend: "Increases the duration of the Splash buff when applied to your Chaos creatures by 1 turn."
Troll Arsonist: "Increases the duration of the Burn debuff your Nature creatures apply to enemies by 1 turn."
Troll Necksnapper: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from attacks by 3%."
Twisted Devil: "Decreases the enemy Chaos creatures' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Undolim Sereph: "Increases your Life creatures chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Unicorn Stormbringer: "Increases your Life creatures' base Health by 2 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Urhul Tremor: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with attacks by 2%."
Valkyrie Knight: "Increases your Life creatures' chance to dodge attacks by 3%."
Vampiric Volpertiger: "Increases the amount of healing your Nature creatures receive by 15%."
Vanelin Seraph: "Decreases the Mana cost of your creatures' Life spells by 10%."
Volcanic Volpertiger: "Increases your Nature creatures' Speed by 5%."
War Priest: "Decreases your creatures' damage taken from Death attacks by 10%."
Waspid Infiltrator: "Increases your creatures' damage dealt with spells by 2%."
Waspid Soldier: "Increases your Nature creatures' base Speed by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Waspid Worker: "Increases your Nature creatures' base Defense by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Willow Spirit: "Increases your Life creatures' base Intelligence by 1 or 10%; whichever is higher."
Wyvern Daybreaker: "Increases your Chaos creatures' Speed by 5%."
Wyvern Windrider: "Increases the amount of healing your Chaos creatures receive by 15%."
I plan to keep farming cards and might pop by with some more data when I hit 150 or 200.
There's a "Mages" section in the wiki explaining the differences between each mage class. Also there's an ingame library that explains the basics.
This makes another good example of what I'm talking about. I put mages into the search bar and found my way to "Mages and perks". It did not tell me anything about classes except by inference from the fact that the perks were divided into sections. Still no explanation of what all the implications are of choosing one kind of mage over another.
Really it was a page about perks, except that it didn't say anything about how one gets perks, or how one uses them. The word "Perk" was never a link to an explanation of what a perk is. I tried putting "Perks" into the search bar, and that didn't get me anywhere.
There is a LOT to learn in this game, and it would be a big help if all the most basic terms had a page each to explain what they are and how they relate to everything else.
As a complete newbie, I went to the wiki to find out what importance the choice of class has. For example, will a life mage synergize better with life creatures? I have no idea.
There is no page for "class" or "mage class". I found the same for a few other fundamental game concepts that old hands probably take for granted but which are not so clear to a new player like myself. I wondered what intelligence does, but there was no page for intelligence. I looked up stats, but there is no page for stats. I did eventually find an answer under "Creatures guide" but I think the wiki would be a lot more useful if the basic concepts each had a page.
Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute to the wiki!
No problem, I like having a resource to refer to and help me build teams, and hopefully other people are making use of it as well.
I went to go update the mage page with the new perks, and you had already beat me to it. Thank you so much for all the work you've been doing on the wiki!
I ended up finding 30ish more creatures that had this problem and fixed them. Let me know if you find any that I missed.
I went ahead and fixed this; I think some of the older entries have the data in the wrong format which makes them not show up in the table, if you find anymore just make a post and they can be fixed pretty easily.
Some bestiary entries don't get added to Material. Crazed Leper, at least. I added another one and it was added but the original is still there.
I made a form that will build the page for you and the lists are now dynamically built from the data blocks on the creature pages. Just put the information in once now.
You'll still have to go to the creature page to put the photo up, but that's it.


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Q: Is there any way to group and random some data in one sql? I have a table with id from 1 to 10, now I need to random some data from 1 to 2, 3 to 5 and 6 to 10, such as random select 1,4,9, is there any way using one sql to resolve it?

A: SELECT tablename.*
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JOIN ( SELECT ROUND(1 * RAND() + 1) random UNION ALL
       SELECT ROUND(2 * RAND() + 3) UNION ALL
       SELECT ROUND(4 * RAND() + 6) ) randoms ON tablename.id = randoms.random


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In the wake of recent attacks in France, Australia, and Canada, the United States has issued a worldwide travel alert.
"Recent terrorist attacks, whether by those affiliated with terrorist entities, copycats, or individual perpetrators, serve as a reminder that US citizens need to maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness," the alert reads.
The alert does not reference any particular events specifically, but does make note of "increasingly prevalent" kidnappings and hostage situations around the world. Last year, a gunman killed a soldier near Canada's parliament while a hostage situation in Sydney, Australia left two innocent people dead.
Additionally, the State Department noted that "reprisal attacks" from the Islamic State against the US and its coalition partners are more likely to take place overseas. The extremist group has promised to strike back against the US for trying to destroy the group, which has currently taken over wide swathes of Iraq and Syria.
"In response to [US] airstrikes, [the Islamic State] called on supporters to attack foreigners wherever they are," the warning reads. "Authorities believe there is an increased likelihood of reprisal attacks against US, Western and coalition partner interests throughout the world, especially in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and Asia."
"These facilities may temporarily close or periodically suspend public services to assess their security posture. In those instances, US embassies and consulates will make every effort to provide emergency services to US citizens."


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Halfdan Bryn (20 May 1864 – 5 March 1933) was a Norwegian physician and physical anthropologist.
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Bryn was born in Trondheim, Norway, the son of physician Thomas Bryn (1813–1902) and Kristine Emilie Karoline Richter (1826–1869). He was a grandson of Thomas Bryn, Sr., and a brother of Knud Ørn Bryn and Alfred Jørgen Bryn. In November 1892, he married Wilhelmine "Willa" Thane (1873–1929). He was also an uncle of Alf Bonnevie Bryn and Finn Bryn.[1]
Bryn took his examen artium in 1882 and graduated cand.med. from the University of Oslo in 1889.
Military career
Bryn first practiced as a physician in Dakota and New York between 1890 and 1891, before working as a chief resident at the hospital in Trondheim from 1891 to 1892, and then starting his own medical practice. However, he was conscripted as an army doctor, at first with the rank of lieutenant. He served at first as a military doctor in Trondheim, from 1894 holding the rank of captain. He was head of the Decorative Line Company from 1901 to 1904 and of the land conservation partnership from 1904 to 1907. In 1911, he was appointed brigade major and from 1916 was medical physician to 5 Brigade, remaining in this position until 1924, when he was discharged from the military.[1]
As an army doctor, Bryn had good opportunities to study men from different parts of the country. His work with military recruits inspired him to do research on physical anthropology. Recognizing his interest, Colonel Hans Daae made it possible for him to conduct studies in the field, sometimes almost on a full-time basis. In 1914, he published his first anthropological work, Anthropological surveys I, and in 1917, he won the King Haakon VII gold medal for another work. That same year he received a scholarship from the Nansen Fund for conducting anthropological studies in Norway.[1]
Anthropological career
After Bryn left the military, he concentrated on anthropological research. Despite his relatively advanced age, he was extremely productive and provided a number of interesting contributions to the country's anthropology, at a time when industrialization and restructuring of society had not yet managed to put their mark on the population. Already in 1921, he had presented two remarkable works, Selbu and Tydal and also published the controversial article En nordisk Cro-Magnon type, which claimed that people in Tydal were descendants of the Cro Magnon. He released volume one of the uncompleted work Anthropologia Norwegica in 1925, and Die Somatologie der Norweger together with Kristian Schreiner in 1929. In 1932, he published Norwegische Samen, being one of the first to take an interest in the physical anthropology of the Sami people.[1][2]
Despite not holding a doctoral degree, Bryn was a fellow of the learned societies Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1892, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1923.[1] He was also a member of Trondhjem city council from 1898 to 1914 and, in 1919, he was invited to join the Norwegian Society for Heredity Research.[3] From 1921 to 1922, he chaired the Norwegian Medical Association. From 1926 to 1933, he served as praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters,[4] during which time he received an honorary degree from Uppsala University in 1927.
Bryn initially experienced great success and influence through his earlier works; for instance in 1920 he was referred to as "Norway's most famous anthropologist"[5] by Kristian Emil Schreiner. At this time Bryn was considered a well-established and fairly uncontroversial member of Norwegian academia. Norway's leading academic contemporaries on issues of genetics and heredity such as Kristinne Bonnevie, Otto Lous Mohr Kristian & Alette Schreiner belonged to his academic circle. Toward the later years of his life the same prominent members of that society would develop a more critical attitude towards his research methods; he would become a controversial figure among anthropologists. This was due to Bryn's contributions to scientific racism; his tendency to promote unorthodox, speculative, anthropological theories from scant and inconclusive evidence.
He was a close colleague of the notorious racial theorist
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^ a b c d e f Holck, Per. "Halfdan Bryn". In
^ Halfdan Bryn, 'Norwegische Lapp, Eine anthropologische Study', in Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 52 (1932)
^ Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne. Kortskaller og langskaller. Scandinavian Academic Press, 2004, p. 161.
^ Bratberg, Terje (1996). "Vitenskapsselskapet". In Arntzen, Jon Gunnar. Trondheim byleksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. pp. 599–600.
^ Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne. Kortskaller og langskaller. Scandinavian Academic Press, 2004, p. 93.
^ http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Halfdan_Bryn/utdypning
^ a b Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne. Kortskaller og langskaller. Scandinavian Academic Press, 2004, p. 164.
[1] He died in March 1933, in Trondheim (the new city name from 1931).[7]
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