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"Here we go again" – Sen. Dick Durbin attacks Mississippi gun laws during ACB confirmation
Frank Corder
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) attacked Mississippi as a cause for Chicago gun violence during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today as the panel vetted Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
"In the city of Chicago, more than 3,200 people have been shot just this year – 3,200," Durbin lectured to Barrett. "According to the city's gun trace report in 2017, the majority of illegally used or possessed firearms recovered in Chicago are traced back to states with less regulation over firearms such as Indiana and Mississippi."
In an interview on MSNBC in August, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sought to cast blame for the violence in her city beyond her borders, saying, "Sixty percent of the illegal guns that come into Chicago every year are from out of state, from Indiana, from Mississippi, from other states that have lax gun laws."
<<READ MORE: Chicago Mayor blames Mississippi, in part, for its gun violence – Tate Reeves fires back.>>
Sen. Durbin went on to speak about gun shows and lack of background checks, saying in the Senate hearing that there is a traffic of selling firearms where "gangbangers and thugs fill up the trucks of their cars with firearms and head into the city of Chicago and kill everyone from infants to older people."
When asked for comment from Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, he simply said, "Here we go again."
Governor Reeves took issue with similar comments in August when the Chicago Mayor sought to blame the Magnolia State's position on the 2nd Amendment for her city's failings, saying, "No serious person could think that murders are out of control and people are burning police cars in Chicago because of Mississippi's commitment to the constitution."
The report Sen. Durbin mentioned was provided to the Chicago Mayor by the city's police department. It asserts that 5% of the city's illegally used or possessed firearms are attributed as originating from Mississippi as their first point of sale.
But as ATF Supervisory Special Agent Jason Denham told WLBT in August, "the numbers may not be quite as shocking as the study makes them sound."
As reported by WLBT, "Indiana and Mississippi are listed as the second and third highest suppliers of crime guns of the 27,000 cited in the 2017 study, but in that study, only 12,000 of those guns were traceable. Altogether, 756 were traced to Mississippi – only 2.8% of the full 27,000 that were seized. That other 15,000 that couldn't be traced is a wild card that could skew the study either way."
"And yet some want to claim that Mississippi is a major source of illegal guns in Chicago, and I don't think any statistician in the country is going to say that less than three percent is a major source of anything," said U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, also reported by WLBT.
Sen. Durbin went on to raise a dissent offered by Judge Barrett in Kanter v. Barr, a Wisconsin case where the plaintiff was challenging his loss of ability to possess a firearm given that he was convicted of a non-violent felony. It came before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals last year where Barrett currently serves. Durbin, like many in the media, painted Barrett's dissent as wanting felons to have guns, but not vote.
However, the opinion offered by Judge Barrett was a history lesson into the Founder's intent for the 2nd Amendment and other rights granted citizens. She wrote:
"History is consistent with common sense: it demonstrates that legislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns. But that power extends only to people who are dangerous. Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons. Nor have the parties introduced any evidence that founding-era legislatures imposed virtue-based restrictions on the right; such restrictions applied to civic rights like voting and jury service, not to individual rights like the right to possess a gun. In 1791—and for well more than a century afterward— legislatures disqualified categories of people from the right to bear arms only when they judged that doing so was necessary to protect the public safety…"
"…While scholars have not identified eighteenth or nineteenth century laws depriving felons of the right to bear arms, history does show that felons could be disqualified from exercising certain rights—like the rights to vote and serve on juries—because these rights belonged only to virtuous citizens…"
"…In sum, the available evidence suggests that the right to arms differs from rights that depend on civic virtue for enjoyment. The Second Amendment confers an individual right, intimately connected with the natural right of self- defense, and not limited to civic participation (i.e., militia service)…"
Also in the hearing, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Judge Barrett if she owned a gun, which she replied that she and her family did own a gun. Graham followed up by asking if she could fairly decide a case even though she owned a gun. Barrett said, "Yes."
This exchange solicited the tweet below from CNN.
Amy Coney Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights https://t.co/OvxljdmxJe pic.twitter.com/czu8cE0nNj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 13, 2020
Mississippi is routinely ranked as a very pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment state where hunting is valued and the right to bear arms is seen as fundamental.
In the face of national calls for stricter gun laws, citizen advocates and lawmakers in Mississippi have worked to ensure that the state is a constitutional carry state, meaning it is legal to carry a firearm, either openly or concealed, without a license or permit.
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U.K. Tech Employment Stays Strong, New Report From Industry Association CompTIA Finds
Career Climbers / 21st June 2022
The United Kingdom is expected to add nearly 15,000 technology-related jobs this year, according to a new report released by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce.
CompTIA's "State of the Tech Workforce U.K." reports that organisations employed approximately 1.98 million tech workers1 in 2021. Job growth was slower than expected as the U.K. continued to navigate through the widespread economic impact of the pandemic, but the tech industry avoided the job losses that affected many other industry sectors in the region.
The tech industry accounts for 5.5% of the U.K. economy, or £82.6 billion.
Since 2016, tech employment increased by an estimated 62,140 new jobs or about 10,356 new jobs each year. "The tech sector in the U.K. is strong and growing stronger each year," said Graham Hunter, executive vice president at CompTIA. "The evidence is clear: A well-trained and certified tech workforce makes a significant impact on the nation's economy. And businesses of all sorts will need more skilled workers if we are going to maintain the growth resulting from the ongoing digital transformation efforts that accelerated during the pandemic."
Nearly 20% of all employer tech job postings in 2021 were for positions in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, blockchain and internet of things, or jobs requiring skills in those areas.
Most tech workers (591,335 employees) are tied to employers in IT consultancy and services, such as managed services providers (MSPs). Other industry sectors that are well represented include telecom, data processing and web portals (269,336); software and custom development (232,965); and tech manufacturing (109,868).
"Over the last few years, the technology industry and technology professionals have proven how vital they are to the entire nation," said Estelle Johannes, senior director of global communities at CompTIA. "The drastic changes and ongoing uncertainty highlighted how important a robust technology ecosystem is to the success of the economy."
There are 188,812 tech firms with payrolls across the UK with 44,831 tech business establishments in London. Other markets with strong tech sectors include Manchester (6,408 tech companies), Bristol (3,847) and Birmingham (3,129).
Northern Ireland is projected to see the largest percentage increase in net tech employment this year, with Scotland and England following and with tech employment expected to remain steady in Wales.
Other data points in the report illustrate the strength of the UK tech sector. For example:
The top four metropolitan areas (London, Manchester, Bristol and Glasgow) are home to more than 572,500 tech industry and tech occupation workers, or about 1 in 3 tech workers in the region.
Birmingham saw the highest increase in net tech employment year over year.
Six metropolitan areas (Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow and Nottingham) have a higher concentration of tech workers than the national benchmark of 6.3%.
CompTIA's "State of the Tech Workforce UK" report provides data and analysis on tech employment, economic impact, technology trends, salaries, hiring activity and other measures for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and 13 metropolitan regions across the U.K. The complete report is available here.

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Also known as Gye Fiane.
A tune by this name has been recorded together with Contentment Is Wealth (a few times) and Tom Ward's Downfall (a few times).
The Wild Geese has been added to 28 tunebooks.
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# Added by RootlessAgrarian 3 years ago .
# Added by DonaldK 3 years ago .
# Added by stefanremy 3 years ago .
This is an air, not a waltz. Also, I probably have the mode listed wrong. Sorry, but 'three sharps' is the level I am currently operating on. If you know, please correct the entry.
I heard the tune for the first time in this video for a book launch, where a beautiful version is given around the 24 minute mark. I realized that I don't have any airs yet, and decided that this one would make a great first victim.
This is the version given in O'Neill's.
From the playing of Paddy Maloney on Bonaparte's Retreat.
Thanks a bunch, I love this tune and have been looking for a pipe-friendly setting or recording.
# Posted by An Draighean 3 years ago .
I first heard it I think on YouTube played by a very traditional solo fiddler; then listened to the Jean Redpath version. The plaintive tune and the odd repeated bars in the chorus caught my imagination as did the (to my ear) peculiar phrasing throughout. I found it again on "The Mad Buckgoat" by the Baltimore Consort — really liked this version — and was determined to learn it. I've now memorised the fiddle part, but am hoping to find someone who can contribute the chords (as heard on the Buckgoat album). If no one steps up I'll puzzle them out myself and add an updated abc file. The file I posted here is from the Bruce Olson collection.
# Posted by RootlessAgrarian 3 years ago .
I'm not sure I would call it a waltz — a "lament" maybe? — and I'm sorry about overriding the tags, but L:8 produced rather disturbing notation :-) I'm not an abc wizard so correcting it to Olson's original L:4 was the easiest way to fix the problem.
I think this is more like what I hear from the recording in question.
# Posted by DonaldK 3 years ago .
I pointed out in your discussion about this tune that there were already 2 versions posted here in the last year, so your submission is a duplication.
You say you listened to Jean Redpath's "version". Did you really ? Because I just listened to a clip of her singing "The Wild Geese" on "iTunes", and also on "Youtube", and as I thought yesterday , she's singing the song "The Wild Geese" which was a poem by the Angus poet Violet Jacob and set to music by the late Jim Reid of Arbroath. It has absolutely nothing to do with the tune played by "The Baltimore Consort", and also recorded by "The Chieftains".
I suggest you go back and listen a bit closer.
"Baltimore Consort" - playing "Gye Faine", from the "Neal Collection" of 1724.
Sorry, Kenny, was just trying to correct a pretty poor transcription.
No apology required from you, "DonaldK", the above wasn't aimed at you, but the OP, who started a discussion on the tune yesterday.
Man, these comments can sure get confusing when these submissions get merged.
For what it's worth, I never really had much luck with this tune, but I'm looking forward to playing through this new setting.
# Posted by Cheeky Elf 3 years ago .
I loved Eilís Lavelle's phrasing in the book review video that you originally posted Cheeky Elf. I used JACKB's setting (X: 2) to get the basic notes, and the video for her (Eilís's) phrasing. I had it worked up just in time to play it at my dad's funeral last month; it fit my feelings well and I got lots of compliments on it.
Thank you for sharing, An Draighean. I'm sorry for your loss, but glad you at least had a tune to share. Is that your Geoff Wooff set in the photograph?
Thanks Cheeky Elf; he had severe dementia and was 95-1/2 years old so it was a blessing and a release for him to go.
That is my new Martin Preshaw B set in the photo.
Thanks a lot Cheeky Elf.
Just transposed your transcription into whistle friendly version. It's easier to read the dots and listen carefully to the beautiful harp.
# Posted by stefanremy 3 years ago .
It's nice to see this tune getting some attention. I've been playing it on the whistle and flute for the last couple of days and I have just tried it again on the fiddle. I'm much happier with my results now than when I first tried playing it a year or so ago.
@ Cheeky Elf played it last evening for hours and hours, couldn't stop. It's one of the most haunting airs I ever came across and also one of the most difficult to interprete. Eilís Lavelle's phrasing is indeed marvelous but next to impossible to achieve on a whistle. I'm sure it will take me a hell of a lot more of those evenings before I can fit in every emotion it deserves. After succeeding with this first big step, I'm convinced the air will evolve with me while aging and it will be different each time I play it depending on my own mood. The air breaths perfect intimate beauty.
The video Cheeky Elf linked (for Eilís Lavelle), although interesting, is quite long, so if you want to go straight to the tune in question, note that it's introduced at right about the 23:45 mark.
# Posted by Paul Patrick 2 years ago .
I had a go at this today on my Hammered Dulcimer & English Concertina.
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Entrepreneurs of Color Fund Awards Nearly $3 Million to Detroit Businesses
Dec 16, 2016 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital
Since the launch of Entrepreneurs of Colors Fund last year, JPMorgan Chase has awarded $2.75 million to nearly 30 minority-owned small businesses, to start up and expand in the Detroit area. More than two-thirds of the loans are supporting neighborhood businesses, creating approximately 79 jobs, and 45% are supporting minority women-owned businesses.
As part of JPMorgan Chase's $100 million commitment to Detroit's economic recovery, this program is supporting Detroit-based neighborhood businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color and businesses that primarily hire people of color.
Economic Empowerment of Black Businesses
There are 50,000 minority-owned small businesses in Detroit, making it the fourth largest city for minority entrepreneurship. The EOC Fund is designed to increase economic opportunity by providing these businesses with greater access to capital and business assistance, allowing them to grow, hire locally, and further contribute to the city's economic recovery. According to the JPMorgan Chase Institute, spending at Detroit small businesses has grown significantly–from being down over 4% in early 2014, to up 4% in mid-2016.
Created by the Detroit Development Fund, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the $7 million EOC Fund, which is facilitated by DDF, a Michigan 501(c)3 Community Development Financial Institution, provides financing to Detroit small businesses that lack access to traditional forms of credit and capital. Funding for the EOC Fund is provided by a $3.5 million grant from JPMorgan Chase and a $3.5 million investment from the Kellogg Foundation, as part of its larger, roughly $25 million, annual investment in the city and commitment to promoting equity.
"Small business owners, like the ones benefiting from the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund, are critical to Detroit's comeback," said Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase, in a statement. "The lessons learned from this fund are not only paying off in Detroit, but have allowed us to develop similar programs for minority-owned, small businesses in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City."
Female Business Owners Granted Loans
Examples of loan recipients include Benkari Mechanical, Rowe Trucking, and Detroit Vegan Soul.
"As a female, minority, small business owner, accessing capital can be challenging," said Adrienne Bennett, owner of Benkari Mechanical, in a press statement."Because of this program, the Detroit Development Fund, JPMorgan Chase, and WKKF, we were able to secure our largest contract to date, the domestic plumbing systems for Building C on the Little Caesars Arena, which demonstrated our ability to successfully compete with larger contractors," she added.
"As a small business owner, this money made it possible for me to keep running my business, because sometimes it takes 30 to 60 days to get paid from some of the contractors that we work for," noted Rhonda Rowe, owner of Rowe Trucking. "I am grateful to the whole team at the Detroit Development Fund, for working with me to keep my business running."
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Chelsea star not heading to Ligue 1 tonight
Chelsea supporters in the Football Transfer Tavern look massively relieved with the news from Sky Sports that Chelsea playmaker Juan Mata will be staying at the club despite interest from a whole host of European clubs.
Mail Online had earlier reported to wide eyed punters in the tavern that Paris Saint-Germain were planning to take Juan Mata to France in a last minute deal.
The big spending Ligue 1 outfit have already spent over £100 million this summer but are still willing to splash more of their massive transfer budget.
Reports suggested that Mata was being lined up as a replacement for Javier Pastore who had been linked to Arsenal in a surprise deadline day deal but now it seems that Pastore will stay at the Parc des Princes after the Gunners failed to agree a fee with the French side for the 24-year-old, who only joined PSG for £33.7 million from Palermo in 2011.
Mata's future at Stamford Bridge has looked uncertain after the summer arrivals of Willian and Andre Schurrle plus the return of Kevin de Bruyne and that has led to speculation that the Spanish international could leave in a crucial World Cup year.
Mata did not feature during Chelsea's 0-0 draw against Manchester United in the Premier League last week and was also an unused substitute during their Super Cup penalty shootout defeat to Bayern Munich on Friday.
Premier League rivals Arsenal and Tottenham are thought to be interested in Chelsea's Player of the Year but Mourinho would rightly be unwilling to sell to an English club after failing to land Wayne Rooney this summer.
Are you happy with the news that Chelsea will hang on to the supremely talented Spaniard? Let us know your thoughts below.
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Migraine rates in a comprehensive Norwegian health study have climbed by 1% in a decade—that may not sound like much, but in the Norwegian context, it means 45,000 more migraine sufferers—and if the trend were to hold for the European Union, that would be an additional 5 million more people plagued by migraines. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are baffled by the cause of this trend.
The findings, in which researchers compared data from a survey conducted in the mid-1990s to data collected in 2006 to 2008, shows that people aged 20 to 50 years are more prone to migraines now than in the mid 1990s.
The numbers are derived from the second and third phases of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, called HUNT 2 and 3 after their Norwegian acronyms, which represents one of the largest comprehensive health studies in the world. HUNT 2 involved the collection of a health history during 1995 to 1997 from 74,000 people, with the collection of blood samples from 65,000 people. The follow-up in 2006 to 2008, called HUNT 3, involved 48,289 people, many of whom were represented in the earlier study.
The findings showed that while 12% of the population met the medical criteria for having migraine headaches in the HUNT 2 survey, 13% of the HUNT 3 respondents 11 years later met the medical criteria for having migraines.
The increase is most marked in the age group 20 to 50 years, but is also found in older age groups. Hagen does not have data for people younger than 20.
The most puzzling aspect of the finding is that it has no obvious scientific explanation, Hagen says. Diagnostic criteria were the same in the 1990s as they are today, and the level of self-reported migraine did not increase. The number of migraines caused by medicines has also not increased between the HUNT 2 and HUNT 3 databases, he said.
"This last finding is really good news because the use of pain relievers has risen sharply since these drugs have been available for sale in stores without a prescription," says Hagen.
A more likely explanation for the increase in migraines is a change in the external environment, Hagen says.
But Hagen was clear that 1 possible candidate—radiation from mobile devices—was not a cause of the increase, based on the results of a previous NTNU study, which found no evidence that radiation from mobile phones contributed to an increase in headaches.


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The Barnet Times reports that Mayor of Barnet and all round embarrassment to the Conservative Party, Brian Coleman, is assisting the police with their inquiries.
It is alleged that he made an intimidating phone call to independent candidate Linda Edwards in contravention of election law.
If convicted, Coleman faces suspension from office and almost certain expulsion from the Conservative Party, which would put paid to his as yet undeclared candidature for leadership of the council.
Hmmm ... the rabbi's revenge?
Coleman told the Times he couldn't recall the phone call. Does anyone believe him? Even someone as important as our great and wonderful Mayor would remember a phone call like that. If he didn't make the comments he is alleged to have made, why didn't he just say "Not me, guv"?


Recent heavy snowfall gave the new Xinhua water front park in Shanghai, China, an 'extra shiny colour', according to its designer, Dutch landscape architect firm West 8. The urban park was officially opened to the public on 31 December.
The 16 km new waterfront is the first part of the greater Huangpu Waterfront Revitalization project that has the ambition to transform 45 km of the waterfront along the Huangpu River of Shanghai.
The planned transformation of 45 km of the waterfront along the Huangpu River is often nicknamed 'mission impossible'. However, In 2016 landscape architect firm West 8 started, in collaboration with the Tongji University, the design process for the first part of the revitalization project, the 16 km long Xinhua waterfront park.
The construction was kicked off halfway 2017 and within 6 months' time the park could be opened to the public.
West 8 designed the corridor as an 'urban cultural living room' for the Shanghai citizens to enjoy this new open space day and night, and in all seasons.
The weather in Shanghai has surprised many at the beginning of this year, erratic snowfall in the city.
According to West 8 the snow has given some extra shiny colour to the yet newly constructed urban park, literally very much reflecting its design motto: 'simple yet beautiful, relaxed and romantic'.
The photos were taken during the last week of January, showing a glimpse of the new waterfront park where old and young can come and enjoy this slow-living and inclusive space in Shanghai, jogging or biking, while looking over the stunning skyline of Shanghai Huangpu.


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Energetic and very experienced 4-6 piece band.
Smaller 2-3 piece line up available.
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The band are based in Glasgow but regularly play across Scotland and the UK and throughout Europe.
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Formed in February 1997, The Picts have become one of the most popular live acts on the Folk-Rock and concert scene. They have reached out with their unique brand of Celtic Rock and captivated hundreds of audiences both at home and abroad. There is a considerable influence of original material combined with the traditional. The songs and instumentals are upbeat, powerful and irresistible for dancing, yet retain their original sentiment, feeling and intimacy.
These days the band are never far from the limelight. In 1997/98 they headlined the Hogmanay bash at George Square, Glasgow in front of 40,000 people. They have appeared twice at the famous Interceltique Festival in Lorient, Brittany to great acclaim from the French press and enthusiastic appreciation from the audiences. This led to a considerable amount of interest in the band throughout Europe. Amongst countless festivals, concerts and ceilidhs they played at the James Bond Ball in Aberdeen (Britain's biggest ever student event) for two years running, headlined the Celtic stage of the Stirling Millenium Hogmanay celebrations, took part in the Gael 2000 concert in Coventry with comedian Roy Walker and returned to France to headline 'Celtifolies' the first ever Celtic festival in Lyon. The band have had a number of sell out concerts in Glasgow's Cottier Theatre and played at the wedding of Dougie Payne (Travis) and Kelly MacDonald (Trainspotting). In August 2004 The Picts were asked back for the third time to do the closing night of the Tennent's West Highland Week Yatching Festival in Oban and at Hogmanay 2004 they played the last gig at Cottier's Theatre in Glasgow before it shut down for refurbishment.
Among their many radio interviews and appearances The Picts were on BBC Radio Scotland's program 'The Lemontree' bringing their music to a wider audience and they took part in BBC Radio nan Gaidheal's live broadcast 'Tiompan' for BBC music live. The Picts have also played live on breakfast TV and appeared on a live Millenium Hogmanay show for LTV. In October 2000 they were filmed for a Gaelic music program '@ Ire' for the BBC.
In 2006 the band began the year by playing at the 02 Burns supper, and the TV celebrity-packed tenth aniversary year of the Comedy Unit in Glasgow. A trip to the Celtic Festival of Wales near Cardiff, followed this and a magical trip to headline the Festival des Hautes Terres at St Flour in the south of France. On their return to Scotland they played at 'T in The Park' for the tenth time.
Among other festivals and concerts, The Picts played at the 'Drams in the Field' Festival, which was held in beautiful Glen Elg, and they took part in the 'Thunder in the Glen' Rally for the second consecutive year in August 2007. On St Andrews Day 2007 The Picts returned to play in George Square, Glasgow, almost ten years after they had headlined the Hogmanay bash there. The event was 'Shindig in the Square' - Glasgow's celebration of Scotland's Winterfest Festival, which featured an appearance from the Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. In 2008 the band played at the Microsoft Burns Supper in Edinburgh, and at the closing night of the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, before is closed down for long term refurbishment. They also appeared at the Highland Hospice in Inverness for St Andrews Day.
The Picts began the Homecoming year of 2009 playing at the Highland Hospice Burns supper, which also featured Donnie Monro (Ex Runrig frontman) and other celebrities. Following this they played at Aberdeen's 'Burns Extravaganza' for the Homecoming celebrations and in May 2009 they took part in the East Lothians' Homecoming celebrations.
Apart from concerts and festivals, much of the year's schedule is taken up by playing at various functions throughout the year - these take the band far and wide, the length and breadth of Scotland and as far afield as the south of England and on the continent.
At present the band have two CDs available. The first is their highly acclaimed album 'The Island' and the second is their latest and equally acclaimed album 'Moving Sands'. Both albums have been used by BBC Scotland for Gaelic television programmes and 45,600.
Copies of The Island's opening track 'The Peak' was put on a French compilation CD, and the band have also been the subject of great interest in Argentina. As a result all the songs from their albums have been translated into Spanish! Some of The Picts also played on the album 'Ghosts' - The Picts frontman Douglas McQueen Hunter's debut album.
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  var makeDataBlocks = function(data) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      var dataArr = [];
      var startPos = 0;
      var endPos = 0;

      for (var i = 0; i > -1; i++) {
        /** Get starting and ending position of each block */
        startPos = data.indexOf('<!-- build:', startPos + i);
        endPos = data.indexOf('<!-- end build -->', endPos + i);

        /** Only succeed if both (start/end) anchor tags were found. If none is found end the loop */
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          i = -5;
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          i = -5;
          reject('Error: Missing End Anchor Tag');
        } else if (startPos < 0 && endPos > -1) {
          i = -5;
          reject('Error: Missing startPos Anchor Tag');
        } else {
          var currentBlock = (data.slice(startPos, endPos + 18));
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      }
      resolve(dataArr);
    });
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  /**
   * Make Data Rows.
   * Go through block array.
   * Split each block into its rows.
   * Put all rows into one arr.
   *
   * @param {Array} dataBlocks - array of <link>/<script> tags that are between "build:" and "end build".
   * @return {Promise} - resolve: array with rows.
   */
  var makeDataRows = function(dataBlocks) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      var dataRows = [];
      var curLines = [];

      dataBlocks.forEach(function(curBlock) {
        /** Get content of first Line. */
        var endPos = curBlock.indexOf(' -->');
        var firstLine = curBlock.slice(11, endPos).trim();

        /** Identify .js or .css. Then split on <script> or <link> tag. */
        if (firstLine.indexOf('.js') > -1) {
          curLines = curBlock.split('</script>');
        } else if (firstLine.indexOf('.css') > -1) {
          curLines = curBlock.split('<link ');
        } else {
          reject('Error: Unable to identify build Type');
        }

        /** Put each line into array */
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          if (curLine) {
            dataRows.push(curLine);
          }
        });
      });
      resolve(dataRows);
    });
  };
  /**
   * Make Paths.
   * Slice out each destination file path from  <!-- build:path/file.ext -->
   * Slice out each src/href path from <script>/<link> tag.
   * Put each src/href path to its destination file to which it finally goes.
   *
   * @param {Array} dataRows - array of rows.
   * @return {Promise} - resolve: Obj = {filename1:arrOfPaths, filename2:arrOfPaths, ..}. reject: err.
   */
  var makePaths = function(dataRows) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
      var curFileName;
      var startPos;
      var endPos;
      var type = false;
      var pathObj = {};

      dataRows.forEach(function(curRow) {
        /**  If current row has a start anchor tag, extract file name. */
        if (curRow.indexOf('<!-- build:') > -1) {
          startPos = curRow.indexOf('<!-- build:');
          endPos = curRow.indexOf(' -->');
          curFileName = curRow.slice(11, endPos).trim();

          /** If the current File name has no Property in the Object yet,
           * create a new Property with filename as name and with empty arr as value. */
          if (!pathObj[curFileName]) pathObj[curFileName] = [];
        }

        /** Define if current row is of css or js type. */
        if (curRow.indexOf('href') > -1) {
          type = 'css';
          startPos = curRow.indexOf('href');
        } else if (curRow.indexOf('src') > -1) {
          type = 'js';
          startPos = curRow.indexOf('src');
        } else {
          type = false;
        }

        /** Extract path from line */
        if (type) {
          /** look for " and ' */
          var curPath = curRow.slice(startPos);
          var trySingleQuote = curPath.indexOf('\'');
          var tryDoubleQuote = curPath.indexOf('"');

          if (trySingleQuote === -1 && tryDoubleQuote === -1) {
            /** If no quotes '' or "" are found after src/href attr => Err */
            reject('Error: src/href path not escaped with "" or \'\'');
          } else if (trySingleQuote !== -1 && tryDoubleQuote !== -1) {
            /** If both '' or "" are found after src/href attr => Choose the type that is closer to src/href attr. */
            if (trySingleQuote < tryDoubleQuote) {
              startPos = trySingleQuote;
              endPos = curPath.indexOf('\'', startPos);
            } else {
              startPos = tryDoubleQuote;
              endPos = curPath.indexOf('"', startPos);
            }
          } else if (trySingleQuote === -1) {
            /** If '' are found after src/href attr => Choose ''. */
            startPos = tryDoubleQuote + 1;
            endPos = curPath.indexOf('"', startPos);
          } else if (tryDoubleQuote === -1) {
            /** If "" are found after src/href attr => Choose "". */
            startPos = trySingleQuote + 1;
            endPos = curPath.indexOf('\'', startPos);
          }

          /** If Path was found, add base dir to it and put into array. Else error. */
          if (endPos === -1) {
            reject('Error: missing " or \' in path string.');
          } else {
            curPath = curPath.slice(startPos, endPos).trim();

            /** complete path */
            var srcBaseDir = path.dirname(om.srcIndexPath);
            if (srcBaseDir) {
              curPath = srcBaseDir + '/' + curPath;
            }
            curPath = path.normalize(curPath);
            /** Normalize Path */

            pathObj[curFileName].push(curPath);
          }
        }
      });
      resolve(pathObj);
    });
  };
  /**
   * Uglify JS and Save.
   * @param {Array} paths - array containing all src files of one block, that are to be uglified and concatenated.
   * @param {String} destDir - base dir of destination file.
   * @param {String} curDestFile - destination file name.
   */
  var uglifyJSAndSave = function(paths, destDir, curDestFile) {
    var miniJs = UglifyJS.minify(paths);
    saveFile(destDir + '/' + curDestFile, miniJs.code);
  };
  /**
   * Clean CSS and Save.
   * @param {Array} paths - array containing all src files of one block, that are to be minified and concatenated.
   * @param {String} destDir - base dir of destination file.
   * @param {String} curDestFile - destination file name.
   */
  var cleanCSSAndSave = function(paths, destDir, curDestFile) {
    var miniCSS = new CleanCSS({rebase: false}).minify(paths).styles;
    saveFile(destDir + '/' + curDestFile, miniCSS);
  };
  /**
   * Process each source files.
   * loops over each block.
   * Checks if current block is JS or CSS.
   * Processes block accordingly.
   * @param {Object} pathObj - Object with destination file name and all its src files.
   */
  var processData = function(pathObj) {
    var i = 0;
    for (var curDestFile in pathObj) {
      if (pathObj.hasOwnProperty(curDestFile)) {
        i++;
        var paths = pathObj[curDestFile];
        var destDir = path.dirname(om.destIndexPath);
        if (curDestFile.split('.').pop() === 'js') {
          uglifyJSAndSave(paths, destDir, curDestFile);
        } else if (curDestFile.split('.').pop() === 'css') {
          cleanCSSAndSave(paths, destDir, curDestFile);
        }
      }
      /** If all new files created, minified and saved, end the loop */
      if (i >= Object.keys(pathObj).length) {
        console.log('Useref done...\n');
      }
    }
  };
  /**
   * Make Destination File Content.
   * Replace each build tag block (<!-- build:... -->...<!-- end build -->)
   *    with tag to its resulting scr file.
   *
   * @param {String} sourceData - content of source html file.
   * @param {Array} dataBlocks - arr with blocks of <!-- build:... -->...<!-- end build -->.
   * @return {String} - new file content. Blocks replaced by single <script> or <link> tag.
   */
  var makeDestFileContent = function(sourceData, dataBlocks) {
    var newFileName;
    var newTag;
    var newData = sourceData;

    dataBlocks.forEach(function(curBlock) {
      var endPos = curBlock.indexOf(' -->');
      newFileName = curBlock.slice(11, endPos).trim();

      if (newFileName.indexOf('.js') > -1) {
        newTag = '<script src="' + newFileName + '"></script>';
        newData = newData.replace(curBlock, newTag);
      } else if (newFileName.indexOf('.css') > -1) {
        newTag = '<link href="' + newFileName + '" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">';
        newData = newData.replace(curBlock, newTag);
      }
    });
    return newData;
  };
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   * Useref Constructor
   * Streaming would probably make sense?
   */
  om.srcIndexPath = path.normalize(srcIndexPath);
  om.destIndexPath = path.normalize(destIndexPath);
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    /** Read Index Source File */
    readSourceIndexFile(om.srcIndexPath)
      .then(function(fileContent) {
        om.srcFileContent = fileContent;
        /** Make Data Blocks */
        return makeDataBlocks(om.srcFileContent);
      }).then(function(dataBlocks) {
        om.dataBlocks = dataBlocks;
        /** Make Rows out of Data Blocks */
        return makeDataRows(dataBlocks);
      }).then(function(dataRows) {
        /** Make paths out of Rows */
        return makePaths(dataRows);
      }).then(function(pathObj) {
        /** Make destination index HTML File Content and Save. */
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        saveFile(om.destIndexPath, newDestFileContent);
        /** minify/uglify each input file. Concatenate each group of files. Save new dest files. */
        processData(pathObj);
        resolve();
      }).catch(function(err) {
        /** Echo any caught err */
        reject(err);
      });
  });
};

module.exports = om;

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A double-digit spike in vegetable prices pushed the wholesale price-based inflation to 0.79 per cent in May, prompting the industry to demand policy action for addressing supply side constraints. With the firming up of both wholesale and retail inflation the Reserve Bank may delay the interest rate cut despite a sluggish industrial output.
The April WPI-based inflation was at 0.34 per cent and in March it was (-)0.45 per cent while it stood at (-)2.20 per cent in May last year.
Inflation in vegetables stood at 12.94 per cent, a sharp rise from 2.21 per cent, a month earlier. Pulses inflation remained stubborn at 35.56 per cent. Food inflation rose to 7.88 per cent in May as against 4.23 per cent in April, a government data showed.
"Policymakers need to address through supply side responses the continuous rise in prices of commodities like pulses, food articles, cereals, wheat and other items," Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said. Experts said a favourable base effect and a good monsoon would lead to some dip in wholesale food inflation in the immediate term.
"The trajectory of the WPI inflation would be shaped by global commodity price movements. If crude oil prices sustain at current levels, average WPI inflation is likely to exceed 3 per cent this fiscal," ICRA Senior Economist Aditi Nayar said. As per the data, manufactured products inflation too inched up to 0.91 per cent from 0.71 per cent in April. Fuel and power inflation was (-)6.14 per cent in May.
The hardening of WPI food inflation follows the trend of retail inflation, released on Monday. RBI mainly takes into account retail inflation while formulating monetary policy.
Retail inflation touched a 21-month high of 5.76 per cent in May mainly due to rising prices of food items. Industrial output contracted by 0.8 per cent in April, the first decline in three months, due to drastic fall in capital goods production and manufacturing activities. Assocham said the declining trend in IIP and rising WPI may have negative impact in the long run since it states that prices may have risen due to a cut in supply.
The hardening of inflation could further dent the chances of an interest rate cut by the apex bank in its policy review in the months ahead. In its policy review earlier this month, RBI had retained January 2017 retail inflation target at 5 per cent, though with an upward bias on account of firming of oil prices and implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendations.


The Arthur Rousbey company made some interesting scheduling decisions on this Scottish tour. The Bohemian Girl was recognised as a big crowd pleaser, and was performed twice in Edinburgh (to be confirmed), Aberdeen and Glasgow. They didn't play it at all on the third week of the tour, in Dundee, doing Don Giovanni and Rose of Castille instead.
Cast is as reviewd in the Aberdeen Journal.


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O Pico da Cancela é uma elevação portuguesa localizada no concelho de Angra do Heroísmo, ilha Terceira, arquipélago dos Açores.

Este acidente montanhoso de origem vulcânica encontra-se dentro da Reserva Florestal Natural da ilha Terceira geograficamente localizado na parte Oeste da ilha Terceira, eleva-se a 635 metros de altitude acima do nível do mar e encontra-se intimamente relacionado com a formação geológica dos contrafortes do vulcão da Serra de Santa Bárbara do qual faz parte, fazendo com esta montanha parte da maior formação geológica da ilha Terceira que se eleva a 1021 metros acima do nível do mar e faz parte do conjunto montanhoso denominado como Serra de Santa Bárbara.

Nas imediações do Pico da Cancela encontra-se o Pico Gaspar, e o Pico da Lomba bem como o local denominado Mistério Negro, sítio de especial importância pela grande quantidade de plantas endémicas das Florestas da Macarónesia que nesta área se encontra.

Ver também
 Montanhas dos Açores
 Lagoas dos Açores

 Mapa dos Açores, Série Regional, 5º Edição ISBN 978-989-556-071-4
 Áreas Ambientais dos Açores, Edição da Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar, Governo Regional dos Açores ISBN 972-9171-12-2

Ligações externas

Angra do Heroísmo
Montanhas dos Açores


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Opened in early 2018, the Hilton Penang is a new resort hotel located just above a small beach (Miami Beach), on the road down to the main beach area of Batu Ferringhi.
The DoubleTree Resort by Hilton in Batu Ferringhi is one of Penang's newest luxury resorts and is set in what used to be the Hydro Hotel, having undergone a complete refurbishment and upgrading.
The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Penang will offer a total of 318 luxurious rooms and suites, many with a private balcony overlooking the coastline, with either full or partial sea views.
Suites at the Hilton Batu Ferringhi are much more spacious and come with a separate living area, walk in shower and bathtub, as well as a furnished balcony.
Interested in stay at this Batu ferrighi Hotel?
The Hilton Hotel Penang offers a large outdoors swimming pool, fitness centre, massage and spa centre and access to a the small and secluded Miami Beach, via the overhead bridge that leads directly from the hotel across the road, then down a few steps to the beach.
This family friendly hotel in Penang has a kids club, an outdoors recreation area and a separate swimming pool for children, with its own artificial beach.
The resort will also feature a teddy bear themed museum - TeddyVille.
The property is located just a short drive before from the main area of Batu Ferringhi where you will find dozens of restaurants, the night market and the main beach with all its water sports.
To reach Batu Ferringhi you can use a local Rapid Penang bus or the hotels own complimentary shuttle service.
The hotel also provides a free shuttle bus service to see the sights of George Town or you can take the 101 bus that you can wave down just in front of the hotel.
From Penang Airport to the DoubleTree by Hilton Penang, you can either take a taxi, private transfer or a local island bus.
The drive from the airport should take between 45 minutes and one hour.


Dr. Godehard Guenther, a talented physicist and an accomplished pianist, started to work for NASA in 1966. His musical education and deep passion for good music made him disillusioned in the quality of sounds he heard out of cosmetically attractive audio devices. He asked to send his Braun hi-fi system from home and very soon everyone around was asking if it is possible to buy such systems in the US. Starting from a few systems very quickly Braun delivered them by full containers. In such a way Godehard became a sole distributor of Braun hi-fi in the United States. In 1974 Dr. Guenther left NASA and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in importing Braun drivers, and selling them in the US. In the course of time having all the components he started designing and making his own devices which he sold under the name of a/d/s/.
In 1993 after Dr. Guenther retired, a new company Museatex, ADS Technologies appeared as a result of merging with a high-grade Canadian audio company. With a new managing team ADST started a new life setting a goal to attract professional producers wishing to allocate production capacities and totally control quality and manufacturing with research and development totally refocused. Kurien Jacob, a genuine audiophile, having a good financial basis, became the head of ADST. A/D/S design team was headed by Ed Meitner. In 1994 the acquisition of Orion Industries has much strengthened the company because Orion audiosound was out of competition as well as modern electronic production lines. Since then various products have been marketed separately, at the same time a/d/s/, Orion and Museatex engineering and production operated.
Our mission is to render assistance to A/D/S clients and fans all over the world in restoration and renovation the old-time loudspeakers. We can offer original A/D/S parts of German production designed by Dr.Kurt Muller which are impossible to find anywhere since 2000. This also applies to any A/D/S speakers.
Richard started to work for ADS in 1987 in Wilmington, Massachusetts, then in Tempe, Arizona. He worked as an acoustical engineer in A/D/S/Technologies together with Mike Stawat, Enrique Stiles and Alex DeKoster. Today Richard So Electronics has a highly qualified, experienced, faithful and impassioned specialist realizing both complexity and legacy of working in A/D/S.


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Q: Postgresql jsonb column with spring jpa nativequery issue I have a native query defined in a spring JpaRepositroy as:
@Query(value="Select * from Employee WHERE....", nativeQuery=true)
List<Employee> getEmployees(....)

In entity, I have a jsonb field defined as:
import com.vladmihalcea.hibernate.type.json.JsonBinaryType;
....
@Type(type = "jsonb")
@Column(name = "properties", columnDefinition = "jsonb")
private ObjectNode properties;

This setup works perfect, and it fetches the records for me correctly.
But if I try to fetch only some specific columns by changing query as:
@Query(value="Select emp_name, properties from Employee WHERE....", nativeQuery=true)
List<Object[]> getEmployees(....)

This gives me error as:
Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: No Dialect mapping for JDBC type: 1111

And I get this error only if properties field is in SELECT clause, else this too works fine.
What is the reason? And how to get it working with properties field?

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Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the greatest musicians in jazz history," GRAMMY winner Lovano has a rich history with Jazz at Lincoln Center dating back to 1994. His performances include more than 15 appearances in Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Theater and The Allen Room, and more than 10 engagements at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Lovano's diverse programs at JALC include a duet performance with Hank Jones in Dizzy's Club Coca- Cola, as a member of the SFJAZZ Collective, and the annual Playing Our Parts benefit concert. Most recently, Lovano appeared on JALC's Music of the Tenor Masters concert in March 2012.
The Allen Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, located in the Time Warner Center in New York, NY.
Ticket prices are $65 for the 7:30pm sets and $55 or $10 for the 9:30pm sets.
All tickets can be purchased through jalc.org or CenterCharge at 212- 721-6500, open daily from 10am to 9pm. Tickets can also be purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office, located on Broadway at 60th Street, ground floor. Box Office hours: Monday-Saturday from 10am to 6pm (or 30 minutes past curtain) and Sunday from noon to 6pm (or 30 minutes past curtain).
Note: Hot Seats, $10 seats for select 9:30pm performances in The Allen Room, are available for purchase to the general public on the Wednesday of each performance week. Subject to availability. Hot Seats are available only by walk up at the Box Office, maximum of two per person.


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#NoDAPL
November 01 2016 . 08:21pm
As you probably know by now, the Standing Rock Sioux have been engaged in a protest against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which will destroy sacred sites, and pose a huge ecological risk that extends to potentially poisoning their water supply. There's a lot that's fucked about this situation, including the social and racial dynamics surrounding its approval, the arrests of hundreds of peaceful protesters and the geo-targeting of prayer camps by the Morton County Sheriff's Department via Facebook check-ins (which is probably why you've seen all your friends checking in). But it's also been difficult to figure out how to help activists and show support for the protest, thanks to what many are calling a media blackout by several major news networks. So in lieu of traveling to North Dakota to protest alongside the Standing Rock Sioux, we've rounded up five of the most effective ways of helping the #NoDAPL protestors right now.
Donate money and supplies to the Sacred Stone Camp
You can contribute money to the protester camp's official GoFundMe account, which will go toward purchasing water, food, propane, blankets and other supplies. Checks, cash or supplies (an extensive list of what they need is here) can also be sent through the mail to:
Sacred Stone Camp, P.O. Box 1011, Fort Yates, ND 58538
202 Main Street, Fort Yates, ND 58538
Alternatively, you can also supplies via the group's Amazon WishList.
Donate to the Standing Rock Sioux
The Standing Rock Sioux are currently soliciting donations for legal, sanitary and emergency purposes. You can either donate via their PayPal account or by mailing checks (payable to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – Donations) to:
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Attention: Donations, PO Box D, Building #1, North Standing Rock Avenue, Fort Yates, ND 58538
Donate to the Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund
Protesters have also set up a legal defense fund to help defray the legal bills of those involved in the protests. To save the group processing fees, you can also donate directly to their PayPal account at freshetcollective@gmail.com.
Call the people in power
You can call the people who have the ability to do something.
A. Jack Dalrymple, Governor of North Dakota: 701-328-2200
B. Army Corps of Engineers (demand to reverse the permit): 202-761-5903
C. The executives at Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline.
i. Lee Hanse
ii. Glenn Emery
iii. Michael (Cliff) Waters
Lead Analyst
Sign the petition asking the White House to stop DAPL construction.
You can sign here.
UPDATE: Donate to Standing Rock's Health Clinic
As brought to our attention by BrokeAssStuart, UCSF's Do No Harm Coalition is setting up the Mni Wiconi (Water is Life) Health Clinic, which is a free, integrative and volunteer-based clinic that seeks to provide care to everyone in the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. They are currently raising funds to open the doors, obtain equipment and medications — an essential component of the protests as there is no local healthcare access for the people assembled at Standing Rock. Donate here.
Source: PaperMag.com
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Blogger: GemSen With war comes bravery and here at Forces War Records we are constantly exposed to moving stories, war diaries and personal accounts involving lashings of courage.There's nothing quite like reading a personal account of war, as history unfolds itself through the eyes of somebody who was actually there. One diary in particular that stands out is the account of Reverend Alan Maitland Fairweather, an Army Chaplain taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II - now available for you to read on the Forces War Records website, free of charge.
Reverend Fairweather joined the Royal Army Chaplains in 1941 and during World War II, just after D-Day, he was posted to France during the North West Europe Campaign. It was during his time in France that he was captured by the Germans and reported missing. The Allied invasion of southern France in the late summer of 1944 marked the beginning of one of the most successful campaigns of World War II. As the German defence lost control, isolated groups began to surrender, with Paris becoming liberated on the 25th August 1944. Fairweather's son, Kenneth who passed the diaries on to Forces War Records said: "When we received a telegram reporting that he had gone missing we presumed the worst, but rather miraculously he turned up two weeks later". Reverend Fairweather was then reported as an escaped prisoner of war and his diary enshrines his personal account of the events surrounding his capture, almost 70 years ago. "I'm not sure whether it is true, but our understanding was that my father went to get some men that had gone missing at the time. He was told not to but disobeyed orders and ended up walking straight into German patrol and that was when the diary started." The account talks about how the Chaplain had to spend his time in various cowsheds and barns by the Germans – often walking for miles and going without food. One exert from Sunday 25 August 1944 says: "Warned at midnight to be ready for a quick move. Marched 15km to another cowshed and warned that guards would shoot if we broke formation." The diary also talks about the "excitable Nazi temper being much in evidence". Kenneth Fairweather told Forces War records that: "One morning the German's just vanished. My father was in a cowshed overnight and by the next morning they were gone and he escaped." Luckily for Reverend Fairweather at the time of his capture in August 1944 the allies were closing in with a powerful offensive, and the Germans were on the retreat with isolated groups beginning to surrender. "I think my father and the fellow prisoners felt extremely lucky that the Germans didn't throw a couple of grenades in before they left," said Kenneth Fairweather. Reverend Fairweather who passed away in August 1978 was Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) three times for recognition of his gallant action in the face of the enemy, Fairweather also had four medals including the 1939-45 Star and War Medal 1939-45. See the original war diary and many others for yourself by visiting the 'historic documents' section under the War diaries category on the Forces War Records website. Who knows, you may even have an ancestor who had similar experiences to Reverend Fairweather, or some of the other individuals featured in our new 'war diary' section. You can also interact with Forces War Records online - we have a daily blog and social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ where you can keep up to date with all the latest military genealogy news and war features.


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The final ROM code is almost done.
TAQOZ is just getting a little smarter.
Monitor can now locate,load and run files using R<filename><cr> where filename is the usual 8.3 short filenames.
We can jump backand forth (fourth) between TAQOZ and Monitor.
SD boots if the card is installed.
Flash boots if the CS pullup is present.
Serial boots on a pullup, and will not run with a pulldown.
Serial/TAQOZ/Monitor have all been tested to run with the FPGA 20MHz clock sending at 3,000,000 baud !!!
Expecting to see a new BeMicroCV-A9 with the final ROM in a few hours for very brief testing before the ROM is given to OnSemi.
Why not a Prop123-A9 image as well?
Other images will come later. Peter and I need to do a final check with the real image in ROM.
Great, in the quest for fastest boot times, and easiest sense of reset exit, every 1000us saved is significant !
On the topic of fastest possible times, I wondered about a Prop_Pin command that allows a loading MCU to very quickly define the pin states, then it can continue loading.
It would use the common syntax, but have fields that defined light pullups, or inputs, or a simpler version could just set all pins as light pullups.
What would be the point in setting pin states up when the downloaded program is about to take over, anyway?
It seems that reset-to-serial times are going to be all over the place, considering how things work these days. If there's anything critical, I would think the designer would put a pull-up or pull-down where needed.
It seems that reset-to-serial times are going to be all over the place, considering how things work these days..
Not if someone is loading from a local small secure microcontroller, the variance then is all inside the P2.
@jmg - perhaps if you program up a small support chip like that MAX device you could test your theory and let us know how it goes. Are you doing any testing?
Physical testing is not possible, with no FPGA board, but I use that more common and proven code test path, of pencil and paper.
With the boot code somewhat published, there is less `theory` involved, as many delays are already documented.
Out of curiosity, has everything been handed over to OnSemi now? Or is the chip being delayed again?
cgracey 10:27AM We had the weekly status meeting with OnSemi a few hours ago. They are wait for us to deliver the ROM. I hope we get it right.
See my post here about submitting the ROM code to Chip.
Chip, Cluso, and I were on another 2 hour skype call last night and they left it with me as I wanted to add some high level SD support into the boot ROM. I didn't have time to transcribe all my code across but I did get the SD part along with the virtual memory layer. If we have SD though then that means we can boot a full-blown version of Tachyon anyway.
How are you finding the P1 to P2 code transcribing process, Peter? Fairly easy?
0 FLUSH DUP @sector !
SDCLK DUP _sdrd ! @scrc !
See what happens, I spotted a bug as that _IF+12 should now be +11 due to a change. I could use labels and mess with them but it is mostly faster to manually count the word displacement.
Well, we have a bit of a wait. Honestly, I was feeling angst over the commit time. It's not like anyone wants it longer, but being able to get it right is worth a lot!
I personally am quite pleased with how this is all turning out. Staying quiet. Let you guys do this well. important.
Travel prevents me from testing right at this time. Major bummer!
There was a last minute change to the boot sequence. Serial pull-up is checked first, then Flash, and last SD. IF SD exists but is faulty or there is no P2 boot data/file then the code shuts down the prop because it's not possible to jump back to the booter.
Nice! I am looking forward to playing with TAQOZ.
Latest BeMicroCV-A9 boots SD (requires an external SD as the on-board SD causes internal pullup issues), Serial which can then go to the Monitor or TAQOZ. I haven't tried Flash but Chip is happy with this part.
Is there going to be a Prop123-A9 image that contains the new ROM?
Chip is making sure the code works on the CVA9 first since we can test it straight away and then compile images for 123-A9 and DE2 etc.
Not sure about DE0s though, they just don't have enough resources to test properly.
Does Chip have a CVA9 board? I thought the Prop123-A9 board was supposed to be the official development board for P2. That's why I bought it.
David, I see Chip sent a new image for CVA9 and 123-A9 so I have these files in the FPGA_v32e folder in my P2 folder.
Thanks! Now how do I get to TAQOZ? I can't seem to remember what control character to type after the ">" that does the auto baud.
Never mind. I figured it out. I typed ">" to auto baud and then ESC to get into TAQOZ. I even ran an incredibly complicated Forth program and it worked!
Now I'm waiting for the TAQOZ docs like Chip. BTW, I'm using PuTTY to talk to TAQOZ. What can I do to try to duplicate the problem you said that Chip was having? So far I've just used 115200 baud.
Anytime you try something that appears to be stuck like BEGIN AGAIN you can hit escape four times in a row to bring you back.
Use ^D to go to Cluso's debugger and ESC<CR> from there to come back to TAQOZ.
Is there a way to reset the P2 other than power cycling the Prop123-A9 board? It takes forever to load the FPGA configuration on power on.


When Adam was created it was that he might be the Lord of this world. To him was given "the dominion" [Gen. 1:28] after "the likeness" of God; to be an "image" or miniature representation of the Lord of all. When Adam fell, he, of course, lost his birthright—if we may so express it. His dominion and possessions passed into the hands of the crafty conqueror. Since then Satan has been the Prince and God of this world.
Paul calls him "the god of this world," "the prince of the power of the air," etc. Jesus recognized his position in the words of the title of this article. (John 14:30.) In the great temptation (Matt. 4:1-11), when Satan could neither make our Lord to doubt or tempt the Father, his last desperate stake was "the dominion." He evidently knew that the mission of the Christ was to win back "the kingdom" which he (Satan) now held and ruled through his minions, the blood-thirsty kings of earth. This offer was no farce; it was the climax of the temptations, the last resort of a baffled enemy.
Sickness, disease, accidents and other mysterious dispensations of Providence (so-called) are but the instruments of Satan; and the messengers—not of light but of darkness—by which he gathers in his harvest.
The arch-deceiver, he who was a liar from the beginning, has carefully instructed his messengers to blame the God of love for all the misery that exists and comes upon the world.
When the cherished little rose-bud baby is secretly stricken by the arrow of the arch-enemy, it is said to be the Lord's hand who has transplanted it in Paradise. A very pretty thought, if there was any truth in it, although even this fiction (as was intended) does not reconcile the parents to the act of the spoiler. Frequently it is just the opposite. The widow and orphan in their anguish doubt the love and goodness of Him whom they blame for robbing them of their loved protector. This is just what the deceiver wanted.
When the hidden shaft suddenly strikes some one who had been apparently well before, ignorance delivers the verdict, "Died by the hand of God." When a promising and useful member of society falls by the hand of a hell-inspired ruffian, we are told to bow to the decision of the All-wise.
If our Lord set up his kingdom eighteen hundred years ago and has been ruling ever since, would there not be an excuse for the citizens who sent the message: "We will not have this one to reign over us"? Can any one look calmly at the misery of the past six thousand years and not discern who has been the ruler of this world? Surely they would exclaim with Job: "The earth is given into the hand of the wicked one; he covereth the faces of [deceiveth] the judges thereof: if not, where and who is he [the rightful ruler]?
Let those who have the truth stand up for the character and glory of the Father and of His Son, who is about to take to himself His great power and reign.
Then there will be no more appalling accidents [?] as are now so common—caused frequently by a refusal to bear the expense of safeguards and preventatives.


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Игра стаклених перли (), познат и под преводом Игра ђинђувама, роман је немачко-швајцарског књижевника и нобеловца Хермана Хесеа. Роман је настајао дуже од десет година. Хесе га је започео фебруара 1932, непосредно пре него што се преселио из Цириха у Монтањолу. Иако су одломци штампани у појединим књижевним часописима, роман је у целости први пут штампан 1943, када га је у два тома објавила издавачка кућа Фрец унд Васмут у Цириху, након што су нацисти забранили Хесеовој дотадашњој кући С. Фишер Верлаг да га објави у Немачкој. Сматра се његовим најбољим делом. Уједно је и Хесеов последњи роман. Када је 1946. Хесе добио Нобелову награду, Шведска академија је у образложењу нагласила да Игра стаклених перли заузима посебно место у његовом опусу.

Радња романа се одиграва у будућности у измишљеној држави Касталији, где су смештени елитни универзитети на којима се подучава игра стаклених перли. Сама игра није представљена конкретно, већ путем метафора и алузија. Игра је описана метафорички као универзални језик и метод који спаја науку и уметност, то јест, целокупно људско стваралаштво у један јединствени облик. У игри посебно место заузима музика. Њени играчи живе аскетски и у заједници строго хијерархијски одређеној. Сам заплет је обликован у форми образовног романа, током којег читалац прати одрастање и интелектуално сазревање Јохана Кнехта, који временом постаје легендарни Мајстор игре. Књига се штампа заједно са Кнехтовим песмама и три школска састава. Филозофски и идејно Игра стаклених перли комбинује западну филозофију (Фридрих Шилер, Фридрих Ниче, Карл Густав Јунг) и далекоисточну културу и спиритуалност (будизам, медитација, Ји Ђинг).

Српски превод Игре стаклених перли је први пут штампан 1960. Превод је начинио Михаило Смиљанић. Други превод начинио је Бранимир Живојиновић, који је објављен под насловом Игра ђинђувама 1992.

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(L-R): Warren Battsen, Mid-Hudson RC Society, Eric Williams, and Michael DiGiacomio.
Representatives of the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) attended the 50th Anniversary Rhinebeck Jamboree, held September 9-11, 2016, to help celebrate its success and recognize the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome as a National Aeromodeling Historic Landmark.
With support from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and the AMA, the Mid-Hudson Radio Control Society hosted the inaugural Jamboree in 1967—the first such event dedicated exclusively to World War I models. The annual gathering has grown throughout the years, attracting thousands of modelers from around the world to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. The Mid-Hudson Radio Control Society continues to host the Jamboree, one of the longest-running World War I events.
During this year's Jamboree, AMA District II Vice President Eric Williams presented two plaques recognizing the site as a National Aeromodeling Historic Landmark to the president of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Michael DiGiacomio.
Established by the AMA Executive Council in 2003, the Heritage Program is an official list of organizations, businesses, and sites significant in the history of aeromodeling. Nominations for the Heritage Program are submitted to the AMA's National Model Aviation Museum. The museum's steering committee reviews each nomination and makes a recommendation about its eligibility to the AMA Executive Council for final approval.


Philipp Leitsinger, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with a note that they resettled to the colony of Straub in 1768. The 1767 census of Leitsinger records that Philipp is serving as the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony.
The 1767 census also records that Philipp Leitsinger is the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony. It is after him that the colony was named.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Leitsinger came from the German village of Aschaffenburg in the Kurmainz region.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #589.


The other night, I was lying in bed, ruminating on what I might write for my next posting. As I began to drift off to sleep, I thought about my husband's hair and how it was a metaphor for the manuscript revision process. No, I wasn't just floating in that place between consciousness and unconsciousness–let me explain.
Over the course of our marriage, my husband has had a long and arduous struggle with his hair. When I first met him, his hair was a light brown color and fell almost to his shoulders. Even though it didn't have a lot of style, it was one of the things I really liked about him.


The video was recorded and produced by my sixth grade daughter, using iMovie on her iPhone.
I never created a video as a youngster. In fact, I created my first video several years into my marketing career. To do so, I hired a video production company to source the video, edit it and create the finished product.
Today, kids can source video, edit, publish and share. All from their smartphones. These phones afford them a powerful, yet cost-effective tool to create and publish content. With this dynamic in mind, what will content marketing look like in the future?
I asked a few content marketing experts for their thoughts.
What Happens When Everyone Publishes Content?
Today's smartphones have more power than the supercomputers of my youth (which were largely inaccessible to me). They also have free apps to aid the content creator: iMovie, Google plus, Pinterest, WordPress, Google Docs, Instagram and more.
For Brian Honigman (@BrianHonigman), content marketing consultant and CEO of Honigman Media, the proliferation of easy-to-use content publishing tools raises the bar for everyone. On the one hand, your audience will have higher expectations. On the other hand, you'll need to find better ways to distribute your content.
In fact, my daughter and her friends are careful about what they share online and do more private sharing than public sharing (e.g. privately sharing a Pinterest pin with a friend).
As consumers of content, what will the future hold for us? How will we make smart choices among an endless sea of content?
I'm already a voracious consumer of content. I enjoy just about everything: personal stories, blog posts, SlideShares, longform articles and white papers (some of them, at least). If a friend tells me of an interesting experience, I'll say, "you should write about it." So I'm looking forward to the day where even more content choices are available. Finding great content is like panning for gold: discovering a valuable nugget is well worth the time spent finding it.
Dennis is director of content marketing at DNN (@DNNCorp). Dennis is a contributing author to the book "42 Rules of Product Marketing" and is editor of the DNN blog. Reach out to Dennis via email, or find him on Twitter, @dshiao.


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SUBPRIME LANGUAGE: The Precarious Value of Words in an Age of Linguistic Capitalism, Digital Advertising and #FakeNews
As the value of words shifts from conveyor of meaning to conveyor of capital, has Google become an all powerful usurer of language, and if so, how long before the linguistic bubble bursts?
I'm giving a talk at Trinity College Dublin next week as part of the CONNECT centre and Engineering Fictions. I'll be using a lot of the material from the talk I gave at NUIG a couple of weeks ago, but I also want to try out some of the new ideas I've been developing around the idea of subprime language and linguistic liquidity. Below is an extended abstract/intro for the new stuff. It is work in progress – any thoughts are welcome…. I hope also to develop these ideas at the AAG in Boston and at the RGS-IBG in London later this year.
As tech companies such as Google increasingly mediate and monetise the informational landscape through search and advertising platforms such as AdWords and AdSense, the ongoing effects on and of the language they auction, sell and exploit are becoming more and more palpable. In the viral spreading of fake news and political click-bait, and in the daily battles for exposure, it seems that words are being lent against a narrative so tenuous as to make their linguistic function negligible. Infused with a neoliberal logic which favours advertising dollars over truth and the systemic bias of algorithmic processing, the discursive side-effects of this semantic shift reveal a deep-rooted weakness in the linguistic marketplace which reaches far beyond the linguistic sphere and into the political, with powerful and potentially devastating consequences. Were it not for an overriding metanarrative of neoliberal logic, this evolution in the ontology of digital language may seem like an obvious manifestation of the postmodern condition. But as the value of words shifts from conveyor of meaning to conveyor of capital, should we be thinking of Google as the all powerful usurer of language, and if so, how long before the linguistic bubble bursts?
In this paper I set out some recent thoughts about the idea of subprime language – asking questions such as how much and how often language can be bought, sold or 'borrowed' before it becomes exhausted of meaning and restrictive of expression and understanding. How resilient is language to a quasi-capitalist operating system, and what happens if/when linguistic capitalism crashes? And finally, knowing the historical and cultural power that a control of language can have, the fragility and unpredictability of the economic system which now seems to underpin it, and with a growing awareness of the power wielded by technology companies such as Google, should we not be more aware of the the potential dangers in these techno-linguistic shifts?
In recent weeks the fake news debate has been evoking numerous references to Newspeak, the language of thought control and state propaganda employed to further the ideology and control of English Socialism (INGSOC) in George Orwell's 1984. It is an interesting analogy, but I think rather than a straight forward comparison to the misinformation and alternative facts seemingly employed during the Trump campaign, there are deeper problems within today's informational infrastructure that a more thorough reading of Orwell's text draws out. Firstly, there is the assumption in Newspeak that "thought is dependent on words", a somewhat problematic yet entirely relevant causal linkage when it comes to debates about search results, auto-predictions, filter bubbles and algorithmically generated social media newsfeeds, which can be instrumental in the cultivation of extreme views and hate crime.
The second issue concerns the limitations and restrictions of language that is so important to the idea of Newspeak, a language which "differed from most all other languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year". We can see echoes of this in the shrinking of creative vocabulary of digital language in favour of words which might be cheaper, easier to find, or more alluring either to algorithms or to human readers.
The third point I want to explore takes the culmination of the first two – i.e. that words have a real effect on how we think, yet the way information flows through the digital spaces encourages the shrinking of our online vocabulary and discourages non-normative language – and complicates this already worrying formula with an overriding motive not of state political control (as in Orwell's dystopia), but of private capital gain (as in advertisers and tech/media companies). In the digital networks of information and communication we have created, the potential for political control comes often as a side effect of the economic incentive, or as a manipulation of a system which allows language, and therefore thought, to be so dependent on and subject to a neoliberal logic which is itself so precariously mediated by algorithmic systems and networks.
Pip Thornton February 6, 2017 February 6, 2017
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It hasn't taken long for Josh Howard to transition from an All-Star player to a successful head coach. The Winston-Salem native is in his third year as head coach of Piedmont International University, and has quickly helped the program reach new heights.
After being hired in the summer of 2016, Howard led the Bruins to a 14-10 season. The team was ranked as high as 7th in Division II and ended the season in 14th. 2017's season saw the same record at 14-10, but the team enjoyed a huge improvement on the defensive side of the ball, ranking 5th in the division in overall defense. Howard was also able to bring the best out of star player Nash Carter, who finished the season as the second leading scorer in the nation. He was named Player of the Year and won All-Conference honors.
Enjoy some pictures of Howard and the Bruins from this season below. We wish Josh and the kids continuing success this season. If you are in the area please come out and support PIU athletics!
These 2 ladies have been with the Josh Howard Foundation the last 2 years, tutoring and being big sisters for the No Excuses after school program. They have put in many hours giving back the the community on the south side of Winston-Salem making sure the youth in the program excel in Math & Reading. We at the Josh Howard Foundation would like to say thank you ladies for your time, patients and helping the kids master there craft and also completing your goals at WSSU! Congrats Ladies, the world awaits!
– Josh Howard & Steve Nivens Jr.
He played high school ball at Glenn, then starred for Wake Forest U., a decade plus in the NBA; Josh Howard talks with WXII 12's Chris Lea about returning home for his 1st head coaching job.
Josh Howard becomes "ACC Legend"
Josh Howard shares how Hargrave Military Academy helped prepare him for success.
Josh Howard Inducted into the Wake Forest Hall of Fame!
Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame inductee Josh Howard and his induction speech from Sept. 13, 2013.


I hear that Google allows App Data sync with their servers. I would look into this as a possibility for data sync.
I will be glad to test it!
Maybe use the user's Google Drive to save the ompl/playlist/read and unread/etc.? Just have the program check the Drive for an updated/newer version of the file. Don't save audio to it though, just the config and metadata. That way, there's no more server work for you, as Google Drive takes the brunt of the bandwidth. Plus, the user will have complete control over their data, and they have it backed up somewhere safe.
This way, no matter what device you're using, if it's online (should be for a podcast app), it'll be able to keep the sync file up to date. If it's not online, then it'll just default to the local copy.
That way, if I have Podcast Addict on my phone, my tablet, and installed in Chrome (it works), then I, as a user, don't have anything to worry about, and there's no central device to worry about.
https://gpodder.net/ will allow you to keep track of your podcasts shows and playbacks, there are several android, iphone, mac, windows and linux applications that do support this service.
It has beem several months.. any more progress on this?
This feature would be great. I have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7 and it would be great to switch from device to device and pickup where I left off on my last podcast with read and playlist synced between each.
This would be great, especially if you get a new phone at times.
Would love to have podcast subscriptions, read/unread status and playlist work across multiple devices (e.g. phone & tablet) and even better, to be able to also have desktop access as well. Would love this feature!!
Even if Podcast Addict implements its own format to fully support all Podcast Addict features it would be great to see gPodder support for cross-platform synchronization; organizing large lists of Podcasts is more comfortable on a PC.
I just want to sync the part of a podcast I'm up to between my tablet and phone, although since I go through phones a lot, having an account that would immediately grant me access to all my feeds without setting up again would be awesome.
This has probably been said before, but this would be awesome as a part of the paid app feature.
Any thoughts on my idea?
Use Google drive for sync. Google chrome uses it and it does a great job.
You could create your own information storage schema. This would allow you to store whatever you want (like pod casts that have already been listened to).
The only down side is that if the user does not have a Google account that it may not work.
A plus side is that if you make the schema like an XML then it would only take like 1kb to store your information. This is usually available on the user's profile.
If you are only distributing the app on Google play then Google drive is a good idea. But if you are distributing it elsewhere then look into alternatives.
Or you can just support multiple services like MS one drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or logmein cubby.
Hope this may further your efforts on implementing this feature!
As my phone has recently broken (won't charge or turn on), this feature looks a lot more important. I would also suggest gpodder.net. This would allow cross platform synchronisation.
I want to sync the actual downloaded podcasts between devices. ATM I do it by HD File Manager creating a simple anonymous FTP server, and then browsing to it and downloading the entire podcast directory. It's a clunky way of doing it but gpodder has no value to me at all as I cannot stream data.