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"Climate Change" (AKA "Global Warming")... is it a scam?
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11th March 2017 02:06 Link to Post #1
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When we hear the term "Climate Change" we can make a pretty solid bet that this term is simply the latest PC way to say "Global Warming."
Yet most of us know that when either term is used, it is used under the assumption that this purported earthly condition is "bad" for Earth and all on her, accelerating at rates never that our impending doom is upon us and that "Man" is causing it.
I cannot know what is what in this regard... I just cannot know. What I also know is I cannot trust "men" (and "women") when they make claims about this either way... whether they are trying to tell us its real or they are trying to tell us its a scam. But can any reader of this forum say they would be surprised if it was all a scam?
But what if its true?
What if we simply looked at the history of where all this information came from? What if we found the actual original source of the information and that it was this same source who held classes on the matter that a young Al Gore attended?
Be Warned..... you are about to be presented with
an alternate history
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rh4g_17MHug
Last edited by Chester; 11th March 2017 at 03:06.
All the above is all and only my opinion - all subject to change and not meant to be true for anyone else regardless of how I phrase it.
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zen deik
Re: "Climate Change" (AKA "Global Warming")... is it a scam?
Discovery of how the earth is will continue for generations.... They don't know and I consider it an uneducated guess because man hasn't been doing the documented research long enough to have observed cycles that take generations to evolve...
ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD IS THE END OF THE WORLD AND THIS AIN'T IT
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Definitely a confusing topic, when you consider chemtrails, HAARP and other EMFs, and also the interesting point that there are those who profit from "global warming"... G. Edward Griffin has a lot to say on the topic. I posted an interview with him on another thread... here is one more recent:
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-YHWTpX8HHc
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its a scam. whether its warming or cooling the over publicity is meant to polarize and confuse.
its meant to entertain those who are bored and give problem to those who has not.
change is constant me thinks.
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the conclusion that I have for now is:
we are going into a grand solar minimum, the bottom of which will be 2030ish.
wether the resulting cooling will be minimized by the aleged manmade global warming or not is to be seen...
we can also expect increased earth quake and vulcano activity as always happens in solar minimums.
none of those will be the cause of man's activities.... yet vulcanic dust in the atmosphere can cause major cooling...
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In my humble opinion all this climate change BS is exactly that! bs. The real prove of the earth changes was layed on the ice , and scientist have research for decades finding several cicles of warming and cooling cicles without the burning of fossil fuels or too many cows expelling gas from the rear end! Is all bout a tax , is that simple, educate ( indoctrinate) the people to agree later being taxed , to pay a carbon tax. You don't believe? wait and see, but don't cry later! Just take a look at who is pushing the global warming agenda, who pay their checks, Follow the money....!
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too close to the hot air exhaust
The man who started the whole global warming meme later changed his mind but was silenced.
My guess..... because it was chosen as the big scam to finance and force into place a new kind of non national government, a NewWordOrder.
Carbon Tax, for one thing. Then there's the de industrialisation of advanced countries, to bring them down to a level where they can be more easily merged with 3rd world people under a single tyrannical financial elite gang of banksters and corporate scum.
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of a global unity. Just not one put together by stealth by the biggest crooks on the planet as their way of staying in power and crapping on the rest of us from their great height of self idealised superiority. There's only one thing correct in that. They certainly are different from the rest of us, that bit's true. Superior?.... FFS.....they're lower than a snakes belly, psychopaths, not superior.
There are observable crazy things happening to the climate. Do these crooks even have the technology to be causing that too?
There's plenty of evidence that they do.
Crooks, crooks, crooks. The biggest irony is that the whole world is going to unite to rise up and bust them. That's my kind of new world order
..................................................my first language is TYPO..............................................
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Tree-rings prove climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now - and world has been cooling for 2,000 years
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...trial-age.html
Study of semi-fossilised trees gives accurate climate reading back to 138BC
World was warmer in Roman and Medieval times than it is now
How did the Romans grow grapes in northern England? Perhaps because it was warmer than we thought.
A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.
German researchers used data from tree rings – a key indicator of past climate – to claim the world has been on a 'long-term cooling trend' for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.
This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.
These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.
They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists.
Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: 'We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.
'This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant, however it is not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1 deg C.'
In general the scientists found a slow cooling of 0.6C over 2,000 years, which they attributed to changes in the Earth's orbit which took it further away from the Sun.
The study is published in Nature Climate Change.
It is based on measurements stretching back to 138BC.
The finding may force scientists to rethink current theories of the impact of global warming
Professor Esper's group at the Institute of Geography at JGU used tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees originating from Finnish Lapland to produce a reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC.
In so doing, the researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling.
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Posted by Hervé (here)
Let's keep it simple here:
There is something happening to local weather which in turn is an indication of something happening with earth's climate.
The thing is this: robber barons - following JP Morgan's obsession of putting meters onto everything - couldn't tax gods nor volcanoes, comets and asteroids for spewing ashes or sowing orbiting dust all around.
So, AL Gore and followers, applying Rahm Emanuel's formula to a T:
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And, what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
- Rahm Emanuel
Decided to find a way to pin it onto humans/us and their/our activities to squeeze a few more $$ out of them/us and prevent any competition to develop in "Third World" countries (Rockefeller's moto).
Since then, that gigantic lie has been hammered on us, daily, in an attempt to convince everyone that square pegs do actually fit in round holes.
As for examples of acknowledging who is buttering their sliced breads with research grants:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1140098
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Troll-hood motto: Never, ever, however, whatsoever, to anyone, a point concede.
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Well most of you guys are gonna have a fun time over the next 5 years!
I will endeavour , as long as the net continues, to see how your notions are evolving over that span?
For those twittering about volcanoes go check the USGS figures on CO2/So2 outputs for a year and compare that to man's outputs ( over a year) As a 'heads up Pinatubo , the biggest blast in the past 150yrs , put out 0.02% of the CO2 man is currently pumping out each year...... and reflect on that as Pinatubo had a marked 2 year impact on global temps ( global Dimming). So the flip side of GHG warming is the cooling, ongoing, by the particulate/sulphates the pollution also carries.....
It is no coincidence the the last three , year on year, global temp records coincides with China's headlong surge into scrubbing technology and reduction in coal use ( in favour of renewables). The regions directly downwind of the pollution source have also seen the same '3 year' impact as both the warm phase of IPO took over in 2014 and PDO positive also went positive in 2014. both use sst temps as 'triggers' for their phase states and both switched from promoting cooling of the climate to warming.
In the mid noughties NASA told us 'Dimming' was reducing GHG warming by up to 50%.
Any return to a Maunder Min would reduce solar output by 0.2%........
As China continues to clean up its act ( cancelled 103 coal fired power stations this year) air qualities will improve ( spoke to a lass in Beijing 2 weekends back and her AQI was down in the low to moderate range whereas winters past had been so bad that folk stayed indoors or moved out to the countryside where air quality was better?) and dimming over the primary impact areas ( Pacific) will reduce allowing the full impact of the solar back to the surface where it can be absorbed and re-emitted as long-wave infra red for the GHG's to hold onto.
We now know that US/European/USSR dimming lowered temps over the 40's to 80's and allowed growth in Sea ice Thickness across the Arctic basin. Our rush into clean air acts and a better air quality then allowed the return to the enhanced warming ( we saw through the 80's/90's?) China may well have taken up our slack in 'dimming the planet' but the down range went from Atlantic/arctic to the Pacific basin. Did you never wonder why the IPO negative had acted like it was on steroids through the noughties ? Did you never wonder at the record trade winds we were measuring over that period? IPO-ve 'buries' heat in the ocean as opposed to the positive phase which keeps the warmed waters at the surface ( lighter winds) Was IPO-ve aided by the reduction in solar reaching the ocean surface? And what of more solar hitting the surface now we are in the 'surface heating' phase? What impact do you think that will have? Would it ,say, be warm enough to scrub out a forming La Nina by warmed surrounding waters 'mixing out' the cold Nina waters......... hmmm.......and a Nino back to back with a Super Nino? How common is that?
Arctic Sea ice is just about at max and Sea ice volume is at record low volumes ( less ice than the same time last year) with the number of accrued Freezing Degree Days over the basin far less than last years record low tally.
To bring folk up to speed last melt season was very poor for melt with all three of the high solar , 24hr day, months blighted by cloud and cool conditions. Ice sailed into joint second lowest Extent by September. It shared second place with 2007 which took a 'perfect melt storm' over all of the melt season to take ice extent that low....... so one of the worst ice melt seasons ( 'worse' for the lack of melt forcing) still managed to tie with 07'??? Area went even lower and was pretty close to 2012's record low Area.
So how will this year do ? We know that we are in worse shape than the same time last year with even less ice than then and that a repeat of last years 'poor melt' summer must leave us in record low states by sea ice min.
The 'Perfect melt Storm' in 2007 was part of a cycle of such events that return every 10 to 20 years across the Arctic. The two perfect melt storms before 2007 respected a ten year spacing. This year is ten years after the last perfect melt storm so ought we expect a summer melt season 'better for melt' than last year?
Last years open waters put about a Nino's worth of energy into the climate system. Most of that energy appeared to return to the basin as storm after storm entered the area raising mis winter temps there to above freezing ( 24hr dark yet melt occurred!!!).
How many Nino's of energy will this years open water throw into the mix?
How much extra energy will the reduction in dimming over the Pacific introduce in the system?
Will Nino again form up and affect next winter?
With so much 'New' energy now flooding into a climate system where the CO2 growth is well above the IPCC's 'worse case Scenario/Business as usual' levels what do you think must occur?
The 98' 'Super Nino' caused record warm global temps. It took 8 years to catch up to that high. How long will it take for us to beat the 2016 record? 2017 is already now beating the other recent record warm years on a month by month basis so will nino forming give it a chance to challenge 2016 for the record???
Feb , last year, broke through 1.5c above pre-industrial. I know it was a nino temp and 0.3c above the record set by 2016 but it raises the question of how long before we see background temps make up that 0.3c? At 1.5c above pre-industrial we are told we will lose all the northern permafrost ( as occurred the last time temps were so high according to paleo data taken in 2013) and summer Sea ice.
So we now see the Stratosphere breaking. Feb 2016 saw 'the old faithful of the Stratosphere' fail to reverse. The QBO had been set to go easterly and propogated down but then just returned aloft without changing, for those who do not know the QBO is the primary controller of global weather via its interactions with the like of MJO/SSW/PV.
The Stratospheric 'polar vortex' has had a torrid winter of malformation, displacement and disruption and allowed the warmth/humidity into the Arctic Basin that now leaves us so prone to a record low ice year.
So for those who think 'Fake' or 'Scam' you are gonna need some pretty good excuses by September!!!! Remember our weather is tied to the expressions we all recognise. It cannot grow a special AGW flavour of weather. All you will see is more extreme weather more often. More heat related records falling compared to cold. How was the Northern Hemisphere winter this year? Warm for most? Extreme rainfall/snowfall events? Extreme wind events?
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The latest twist on the scam is that... "the ocean is trapping the CO2" but the day will come and come soon and we'll all become toast.
also, I have too often noticed the phrase "We now know."
all too often that phrase is followed with a statement which is nothing but opinion or is backed by cherry picked data from those with an agenda that is anything but the altruistic goals they pretend to hold.
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I just noticed this thread Sam, David Icke and others have been saying its
a scam for years ......
Trumps EPA Pruitt: Nobody knows What Drives Climate Change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPXGekalpgs
Published on 9 Mar 2017
In this recent debate climate 'believers' discuss Pruitt , they are genuine people
and sincerely think they are right. So the waters are well and truly muddied ,
which is what they are really discussing industrial pollution policy not climate change.
Pruitt Doesn't Know Carbon Dioxide Causes Climate Change!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI5YJUG_wk0
Big Picture Panel: Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC)
& Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org. Is new EPA head Scott Pruitt handing our
government over to the people former Vice President Henry Wallace
called "American fascists"?
In this video cast he connects the dots and opens up some of the flaws in the
Climate change debate.....
The Climate Change Scam, What its REALLY all about: The David Icke Videocast
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPgRv27lyu4
Published on 4 Dec 2015
David Icke talks about The Climate Change Scam, What its really all about?
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This is a compilation taken from one of Davids presentations and other
contributions from Alex Jones with slides to illustrate the point he is trying to make....
David Icke - Climate Change Isn't What You Think It Is
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l1xMuE9brkc
Published on 5 Jul 2016
Brian Cox is the front man for man made climate change, but there is still not
a proper debate on this as far as I can tell they have brainwashed the public to
stifle debate.......Piers Corbyn the brother of UK labour party Jeremy Corbyn is
a meteorologist and thinks climate change as portrayed being caused by humans
is a overblown hoax.
Brian Cox We Challenge you on Climate Change
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcfBpe4MCB0
Published on 23 Oct 2016
http://www.windowsontheworld.net Piers Corbyn issues a challenge to debate Brain
Cox on made made climate change.
Brian Cox resorts to trying to say Malcolm Roberts is a conspiracy theorist by
asking whether he believes whether NASA landed a man on the moon. Its like all
these debates when pushed the pro experts try to ridicule debate.
Brian Cox Baffled By Ignorance of Climate Change Denier Aug 15, 2016
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QaxVu3Uq6OI
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This is what I was looking for a recent presentation , to see if anything has changed
I am watching this now , you may find him a little hard to understand as it is not the
best quality but it does have a slide show to help....It is a bit heavy going and
could do with a better sound quality.
Piers Corbyn: The Climate Change Hoax
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yKAPOvDDRzw
Video courtesy of the non-political 'Keep Talking Group' and shared here with their kind permission.
Piers Corbyn is the sort of man who on examining any issue, (be it political, economic or scientific),
looks at the evidence, makes up his own mind and then is not afraid of voicing conclusions thus
reached. And he does so with an admirable fearlessness of the political correct enforcers that
currently tyrannize our world.
He is also one of Britain's foremost weather experts much sought after globally for his affordable and
uncannily accurate forecasts.He is also the brother of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party.
To commission a weather forecast contact him at:
http://www.weatheraction.com/
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Some interviews he did on the Ritchie Allen show with better sound , I have
posted these before and they are good source of info , they also discussed
the Big Question programme and Ritchie does a separate show thats
linked below and shows no one really knows whats going on and like other
global agendas are pushed in the mainstream by interest groups funded by
who ??
Piers Corbyn "China/US Climate Change Deal Is an Ideological Attack On Us All!"
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UOmJoOgPWyo
Published on 6 Sep 2016
Humans are only creating 4% of CO2 in the atmosphere.....
Piers Corbyn::"BBC Biased On Climate Change,Nobody Will Debate Me &
Geo-Engineering Is Happening!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urfPl8bahwc
Published on 22 Mar 2016
BBC's Nicky C gets heated Big Questions, Climate change pt 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooq_ZCmSIcY
part 2....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9ovyCKEgo
Richie Allen "BBC Climate Change Bias Is Shameful & Why Won't
The Green Party Debate Piers Corbyn?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2esXbzBtg
Piers Corbyn On Climate Change, Geo-engineering & The Media Treatment Of His Brother Jeremy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A45YlerAmog
Published on 8 Jan 2016
Fellow Aspirant
Posted by GrayWolfBG (here)
Thanks for this,GrayWolfBG. I occasionally come across a thread like this on the forum, but I can no longer muster the time or energy to debate with the deniers, so I'm glad that you have. In my experience, it is a fool's errand to even try to resolve this issue. All I know for sure is that the earth is getting warmer, and the warming has been accelerating since the start of the industrial revolution. Our planet's ice caps and glaciers are melting, and the ocean temperatures are rising. The energy within our biome is making our weather systems more chaotic and extreme. This set of conditions is clear to anyone who bothers to look. The opportunities we had to mitigate this in ANY way are long gone.
Debate, however, is futile.
But sincere thanks for the attempt.
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Posted by Fellow Aspirant (here)
Yet also... no one can really know if this is true when the folks that are telling other folks "this" are compromised. Maybe they are telling the truth... maybe the Earth is 'warming' but how can you believe folks who are compromised? How?
And so then... let's just say for a moment it is. Why is it? Not even the compromised folks can tell you why and certainly, when they try and tell you 'man' is causing it or causing most of it, they cannot produce any actual proof that this is the case much less come up with any proof that suggests a reasonably accurate percentage. I admit that if I fart, I add to the greenhouse effect. But my bet is that the percentage my own flatulence isn't even measurable much less are we able to pin down the actual percentages of the current favorite boogeymen.
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This from DABOO77
Heads Up! Stealth Bombers Dropping Chemtrails In New Mexico (So how much of Climate Change is manufactured?)
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=22BaypKpnL0
Blessed are the cracked, for they are the ones who let in the light!
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Former Chelsea FC striker Demba Ba suffered a horror broken leg in the Shanghai derby at the weekend, with his coach warning the injury could end the 31-year-old's playing career.
The Senegalese former Premier League marksman, who now plays for Shanghai Shenhua, tangled with Shanghai SIPG captain Sun Xiang as they both raced for the ball in the second half of Sunday's Chinese Super League clash.
Sun's leg hooked onto Ba's, instantly snapping the limb and sending him crashing to the ground as it flopped loosely, gruesome television footage showed.
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Murdoch's Ranch and Home Supply announced today that they will be moving into the Lone Star State. In a press release the company stated:
"The company is working on multiple leases on existing buildings and build-to-suits and will be focusing on the territory starting north in Temple, Killeen, and College Station, east to Houston, west to Del Rio, and then south to the US/Mexico border and the Gulf of Mexico. For the immediate future, Murdoch's will focus on Schertz, Temple, Killeen, College Station, Texas Hill Country, San Antonio, Austin, and cities and towns in that general area."
Murdoch's got their start in Bozeman back in 1994 and certainly isn't a stranger to expansion. The company currently has 34 stores in Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Wyoming with 1900 employees.
The press release stated that the Texas stores will carry the same products as the other Murdoch stores, as well as items that are specific to the region. The company also plans to build a new Texas distribution center to better serve the expansion.
The first store will be in the city of San Marcos, which is just southwest of Austin.
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Texas isn't the only place the company is growing. There are three new stores slated for Montana (Belgrade, Three Forks, and Anaconda) and two new stores in Colorado (Fort Collins, and Johnstown).
Murdoch's has been mentioned multiple times on the extremely popular television series Yellowstone and at one point, there is a scene where two of the characters do a little shopping in the store.
The press release states that the Lone Star State expansion will happen over several years and brings the possibility of dozens of new Murdoch stores in Texas.
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Occupational Health Southern Africa, the only dedicated journal for the occupational health disciplines in southern Africa, is the official journal of The South African Society of Occupational Medicine, The South African Society of Occupational Health Nursing Practitioners, The Southern African Institute for Occupational Hygiene, and The Mine Medical Professionals' Association. Its objective is to keep occupational health practitioners current with the latest research, especially African research. The journal is accredited by the Department of Education, and articles are peer-reviewed before publication. Occupational Health Southern Africa is published alternate monthly (six issues per annum). The focus is on occupational medicine, nursing and hygiene, as well as primary health care at the workplace, safety and other employee health benefits. Each issue contains articles with special relevance to a particular industry or service sector or theme as well as specialist advice on the application of legislation in specific contexts. It is relevant to managers, human resource consultants and the whole occupational health team. Primary health care at the workplace is included because many of the target health practitioners are located in a clinic or medical centre on companies' premises or in the public sector. In addition, many of these services are provided by mine hospitals and the doctors working there also form part of our subscriber base.


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Die Burg Friedrichstein (slowenisch Grad Fridrihštajn) ist eine Burgruine auf dem Berg Stim im Gebiet Kočevje, Unterkrain, im heutigen Slowenien. Die Höhenburg liegt im Gottscheer Land, einer ehemaligen deutschen Sprachinsel, die aus einem Lehen der Oberkärntner Grafschaft Ortenburg im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert hervorgegangen war.

Geschichte
Die Burg wurde im frühen 15. Jahrhundert (zwischen 1423 und 1425) von Friedrich II., dem Sohn von Graf Hermann II. von Cilli, für seine Geliebte Veronika von Deschenitz erbaut, mit der er nach dem Tod seiner ersten Frau Elizabeta Frankopanska gegen den Willen seines Vaters verheiratet war.

Graf Hermann II. von Cilli ließ Veronika Deseniska auf Burg Osterwitz ertränken, nachdem sich das Gericht in Cilli geweigert hatte, sie als Hexe zu verurteilen. Seinen Sohn warf er ins Gefängnis und ließ die Burg zerstören. Nach dem Tod von Hermann II. wurde die Burg wiederhergestellt.

Nach dem Aussterben der Dynastie der Cillier gehörte die Burg ab 1456 dem habsburgischen Kaiser Friedrich III., der den Unterhalt der Burg einem Verwalter übertrug. Einer davon war Michel Pierss, der im November 1503 bekundete, dass er wie sein Vater zuvor, Sigmund Pirs(s), König Maximillian's Hauptmann in der Möttling, Schloß Frydrichstain samt dem Landgericht und allem Zubehör als gewöhnliche Burghut zur Pflege habe. Jörg von Eck, Vizedom in Krain und sein Vater Sigmund selbst siegelten.

Heutiger Zustand
Heute sind nur ruinöse Mauern und Überreste der Fundamente erhalten. Im Jahr 1993 begann die Restaurierung der Überreste. Bisher wurden die Wände restauriert und gegen weiteren Verfall geschützt. Die Ruinen der Burg sind ein bekannter Ausflugspunkt.

Literatur
 Ivan Stopar: Burgen und Schlösser in Slowenien. Ljubljana 1989, ISBN 86-361-0628-1, S. 292–295.

Einzelnachweise

Höhenburg in Slowenien
Erbaut in den 1420er Jahren
Burgruine in Slowenien
Kočevje
Friedrichstein, Slowenien

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Kronos by Guy Adams
by Guy Adams
Published by Arrow Books, 2011.
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter, was a Hammer film from 1974 containing everything Hammer was good at, action, blood, tongue in cheek humour and Caroline Munro. Unfortunately for Hammer the likes of The Exorcist, The Wicker Man and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were all released around the same time and had all pushed the genre in new and interesting ways. It left Hammer looking old fashioned and outdated continuing a decline it never (at least not yet) recovered from. What was originally planned as a series of movies or TV shows starring Kronos, ended up as a relatively obscure movie remembered with affection by many, including me. That's why this novelisation at the hands of Guy Adams and under the Hammer imprint (recently introduced by Arrow books) had me excited, but let's see if it met my expectations.
Captain Kronos is a fairly obscure, blonde locked, foreign accented, ex-soldier who along with trusty sidekick Professor Grost, wander the countryside seeking out and dealing with vampires. It's during one of these adventures that they meet the feisty Carla who joins them as they seek the cause of premature ageing in a small village. Cue, scheming villagers, rich and mysterious landowners and several hired mercenaries who are set to stop Kronos and his gang.
As a novelisation it sticks, as you would expect, pretty closely to the film storyline and that's no bad thing. Brian Clemens, the original creator (and who contributes a foreword to this book) had invented an interesting take on the vampire mythos. Here were vampires who had different strains of the "disease" meaning some could venture out in daylight, others couldn't be killed by staking, others didn't mind garlic..you get the idea. That coupled with the mystery surrounding Kronos and Grost's history and the strong female character of Carla, contributed to an interesting plot which has been retained in all it's glory here. We do get some added backstory which illuminates several characters and fills in some of the many blanks from the film which were presumably to be filled in with the sequels.
My biggest problem with the book is the chapter structure used. Each chapter is narrated by that chapters lead character a clever device which, not only provides the reader with multiple viewpoints but also lets us get into the minds of many of the characters. The only problem is the character development is not strong enough to make these narrators particularly distinctive. This just led to me frequently trying to remind myself which character was speaking, this was particularly noticeable with the minor characters where a lack of distinct voice was an issue.
For those who haven't seen the film and have an interest in sword wielding heroes taking on vampires, then this is recommended. For fans of the film it fills in some useful backstory, but I hope this is just a prelude to further adventures from Kronos and the gang, where hopefully a writer with Guy Adam's talent could spread his wings a bit more and really explore the mythos. Finally, Hammer seem determined to adorn these books with frankly soppy images more suited to the paranormal romance shelves than the beating heart of gothic filmmaking, but ignore the boy band wanabbee on the cover and enjoy the book for the fun adventure it is.
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Q: OpenCL clEnqueueNDRangeKernel in loop I am developing a simple radix-2 FFT algorithm using using opencl 1.2 on Mac. I am trying to use the HD 5000 graphics in my laptop
my host code is like this:
gws=4;
lws=1;

for (cur_iter=0; cur_iter <= 2; cur_iter++){
    ret = clSetKernelArg(r2kernel, 3, sizeof(cl_int), (void *)&cur_iter);
     printf("iter %d \n", cur_iter);
    ret = clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(command_queue, r2kernel, 1, NULL, &gws, &lws, 0, NULL, &kernelDone);
    // printf("ret %d \n", ret);
    ret = clWaitForEvents(1, &kernelDone);
    // printf("ret %d \n", ret);
}

cur_iter means the current stage of FFT. My kernel code is like this:
kernel void radix2(global float2 * x, global float2 * w,int iter, int cur_iter)
{

int gid = get_global_id(0); // number of threads

int butterflySize = 1 << (iter-cur_iter-1);
int butterflyGrpDist = 1 << (iter-cur_iter);
int butterflyGrpBase = (gid >> (iter-cur_iter-1))*(butterflyGrpDist);
int butterflyGrpOffset = gid & (butterflySize-1);

int a = butterflyGrpBase + butterflyGrpOffset;
int b = a + butterflySize;

 printf("gid %d pass %d, %d, %d ,total iter %d \n", gid,cur_iter,a,b,iter);

float2 u0 = x[a];

float2 u1 = x[b];

float2 tmp;

 DFT2(u0,u1,tmp);

int waddr=butterflyGrpOffset<<cur_iter;

float2 twiddle = w[waddr];

MUL(u1,twiddle,tmp);

x[a] = u0;

x[b] = u1;

}

I printed out the gid and cur_iter in kernel. I expect to get 4 kernels (for 8 point FFT) at each iteration. But what I get is like this
iter 0
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
iter 1
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 1, 0, 2 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 1, 1, 3 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 1, 4, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 1, 5, 7 ,total iter 3
iter 2
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 1, 0, 2 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 1, 1, 3 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 1, 4, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 1, 5, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 0, 0, 4 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 0, 1, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 0, 2, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 0, 3, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 1, 0, 2 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 1, 1, 3 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 1, 4, 6 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 1, 5, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 0 pass 2, 0, 1 ,total iter 3
gid 2 pass 2, 4, 5 ,total iter 3
gid 3 pass 2, 6, 7 ,total iter 3
gid 1 pass 2, 2, 3 ,total iter 3

Which means at each iteration, the cur_iter being passed to my kernel always start from zero and the instances of kernel initiated is also wrong, even its value is 2 or 3 . I want to know why. Any kind of help will be appreciated !

A: It looks like the printf buffer is getting re-output for each iteration (each iteration contains the entirety of what's been printed before, plus more. There's no way that you'd get the same gid multiple times in a pass. If you use clFinish instead of clWaitForEvents does it change anything?

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Selena Re-Follows Bella Hadid On Instagram After Both Stars Split Up From The Weeknd
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By:Rosa Sanchez
Nov. 6 2019, Published 11:23 a.m. ET
Selena Gomez is ending at least one of her celebrity feuds as she continues to celebrate her musical comeback. As RadarOnline.com has learned, the singer re-followed former nemesis Bella Hadid on Instagram, months after the supermodel ended her relationship with The Weeknd.
As fans know, Gomez, 27, and Hadid, 23, unfollowed each other after The Weeknd, 29, dumped the Victoria's Secret angel to date the pop diva. Despite Hadid's heartbreak, Gomez and The Weeknd made their relationship extremely public, showing up on each other's social media feeds, walking the 2017 Met Gala red carpet together, and even appearing in each other's music. Gomez reportedly wrote "Bad Liar" and "Fetish" about the hunk, while he wrote "Call Out My Name" about Gomez, following their split.
The stars called it quits in October 2017, after about 10 months of dating. Around that time, Gomez also announced she'd had a kidney transplant due to complications with her lupus. As soon as she recovered, though, she ran back to on-again-off-again love, Justin Bieber.
The two dated for a few months, but Gomez's loved ones, including her mother, made it clear they disapproved of the reunion. They believed she and Bieber, 25, brought out the worst in each other. In an effort to make things work, however, Bieber and Gomez attended couple's therapy and went to church together. Still, they decided to end things in March 2018. Two month later, Bieber rekindled his romance with Hailey Baldwin. The two married later that year.
While The Weeknd voiced his heartbreak over Gomez's short-lived reunion with Bieber, he too rekindled things with Hadid. The two got back on track following their year-long separation, and allegedly even moved in together. Insiders assumed they would be engaged in no time, but before anyone could speculate about their wedding plans, they called it quits once more.
The reason for their split is still unclear, but shortly after, The Weeknd closed his Instagram and fell off the radar entirely. This October, he was spotted at Hadid's birthday party, but sources said the two are not getting back together.
Now that all is said and done, Gomez is hoping to mend ties with Hadid. The singer has also re-followed the model's sister, Gigi Hadid following their years-long feud.
While the younger Hadid has yet to follow Gomez back, the singer has much bigger celebrity feuds to worry about these days. As Radar readers know, she recently rose to the top of the music charts with her revenge singles "Lose You To Love Me" and "Look At Her Now" about her shattered relationship with Bieber. And while the "Sorry" singer has yet to respond to his ex's songs, Baldwin, 22, recently admitted she will not be reacting publicly to Gomez's music, and all claims that she is shading her husband's famous ex are "complete BS."


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Tetrarch Kaitar knows how to foretell the future by throwing bones of the undead. Every month he does a telling to prepare for any disaster to the Dark Elves, and he asks you to retrieve the undead bones.
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3. Отнесите их к Tetrarch Kaitar - получите 1000a и 3000 exp.
Я за квест получил 8.470 аден.
а на х1 сколько дают?


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require "test_helper"

class ArtefactExternalLinkTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  context "validating a link" do
    should "not be valid without a title or URL" do
      refute ArtefactExternalLink.new.valid?
    end

    should "not be valid with URL missing" do
      refute ArtefactExternalLink.new(:title => "Foo").valid?
    end

    should "not be valid with title missing" do
      refute ArtefactExternalLink.new(:url => "http://bar.com").valid?
    end

    should "be valid with both fields supplied" do
      link = ArtefactExternalLink.new(:title => "Foo", :url => "http://bar.com")
      assert link.valid?
    end

    should "only be valid if the URL is valid" do
      link = ArtefactExternalLink.new(:title => "Foo", :url => "notreal://foo.com")
      refute link.valid?
    end

    should "be valid with an https URL" do
      link = ArtefactExternalLink.new(:title => "Foo", :url => "https://bar.com")
      assert link.valid?
    end
  end
end

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: If Torian Graham gets another year of eligibility and the bigs including Romello White continue to get better I think we are looking at a special season. Boy Kodi Justice really improved this season along with several others. Tre Holder is a real leader and I like the chemistry. On a side note it seemed like this team gel'd much better after the departure of Sam Cunliffe.
Had not thought of SC, but I agree with your observation. Seemed like CBH was forced to get him PT, and perhaps this was an issue.
I think CBH squeezed the most out of this roster, and appreciate the effort - on all facets.
I did not know about Green Light Graham getting another year - perhaps. any idea about the basis for this, and the timing for the decision? Has his school been earmarked for another player?
: : If Torian Graham gets another year of eligibility and the bigs including Romello White continue to get better I think we are looking at a special season. Boy Kodi Justice really improved this season along with several others. Tre Holder is a real leader and I like the chemistry. On a side note it seemed like this team gel'd much better after the departure of Sam Cunliffe. : Had not thought of SC, but I agree with your observation. Seemed like CBH was forced to get him PT, and perhaps this was an issue. : I think CBH squeezed the most out of this roster, and appreciate the effort - on all facets. : I did not know about Green Light Graham getting another year - perhaps. any idea about the basis for this, and the timing for the decision? Has his school been earmarked for another player?


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=head1 NAME

Archive::Zip::FAQ - Answers to a few frequently asked questions about Archive::Zip

=head1 DESCRIPTION

It seems that I keep answering the same questions over and over again. I
assume that this is because my documentation is deficient, rather than that
people don't read the documentation.

So this FAQ is an attempt to cut down on the number of personal answers I have
to give. At least I can now say "You I<did> read the FAQ, right?".

The questions are not in any particular order. The answers assume the current
version of Archive::Zip; some of the answers depend on newly added/fixed
functionality.

=head1 Install problems on RedHat 8 or 9 with Perl 5.8.0

B<Q:> Archive::Zip won't install on my RedHat 9 system! It's broke!

B<A:> This has become something of a FAQ.
Basically, RedHat broke some versions of Perl by setting LANG to UTF8.
They apparently have a fixed version out as an update.

You might try running CPAN or creating your Makefile after exporting the LANG
environment variable as

C<LANG=C>

L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682>

=head1 Why is my zip file so big?

B<Q:> My zip file is actually bigger than what I stored in it! Why?

B<A:> Some things to make sure of:

=over 4

=item Make sure that you are requesting COMPRESSION_DEFLATED if you are storing strings.

$member->desiredCompressionMethod( COMPRESSION_DEFLATED );

=item Don't make lots of little files if you can help it.

Since zip computes the compression tables for each member, small
members without much entropy won't compress well.  Instead, if you've
got lots of repeated strings in your data, try to combine them into
one big member.

=item Make sure that you are requesting COMPRESSION_STORED if you are storing things that are already compressed.

If you're storing a .zip, .jpg, .mp3, or other compressed file in a zip,
then don't compress them again. They'll get bigger.

=back

=head1 Sample code?

B<Q:> Can you send me code to do (whatever)?

B<A:> Have you looked in the C<examples/> directory yet? It contains:

=over 4

=item examples/calcSizes.pl    -- How to find out how big a Zip file will be before writing it

=item examples/copy.pl         -- Copies one Zip file to another

=item examples/extract.pl      -- extract file(s) from a Zip

=item examples/mailZip.pl      -- make and mail a zip file

=item examples/mfh.pl          -- demo for use of MockFileHandle

=item examples/readScalar.pl   -- shows how to use IO::Scalar as the source of a Zip read

=item examples/selfex.pl       -- a brief example of a self-extracting Zip

=item examples/unzipAll.pl     -- uses Archive::Zip::Tree to unzip an entire Zip

=item examples/updateZip.pl    -- shows how to read/modify/write a Zip

=item examples/updateTree.pl   -- shows how to update a Zip in place

=item examples/writeScalar.pl  -- shows how to use IO::Scalar as the destination of a Zip write

=item examples/writeScalar2.pl -- shows how to use IO::String as the destination of a Zip write

=item examples/zip.pl          -- Constructs a Zip file

=item examples/zipcheck.pl     -- One way to check a Zip file for validity

=item examples/zipinfo.pl      -- Prints out information about a Zip archive file

=item examples/zipGrep.pl      -- Searches for text in Zip files

=item examples/ziptest.pl      -- Lists a Zip file and checks member CRCs

=item examples/ziprecent.pl    -- Puts recent files into a zipfile

=item examples/ziptest.pl      -- Another way to check a Zip file for validity

=back

=head1 Can't Read/modify/write same Zip file

B<Q:> Why can't I open a Zip file, add a member, and write it back? I get an
error message when I try.

B<A:> Because Archive::Zip doesn't (and can't, generally) read file contents into memory,
the original Zip file is required to stay around until the writing of the new
file is completed.

The best way to do this is to write the Zip to a temporary file and then
rename the temporary file to have the old name (possibly after deleting the
old one).

Archive::Zip v1.02 added the archive methods C<overwrite()> and
C<overwriteAs()> to do this simply and carefully.

See C<examples/updateZip.pl> for an example of this technique.

=head1 File creation time not set

B<Q:> Upon extracting files, I see that their modification (and access) times are
set to the time in the Zip archive. However, their creation time is not set to
the same time. Why?

B<A:> Mostly because Perl doesn't give cross-platform access to I<creation time>.
Indeed, many systems (like Unix) don't support such a concept.
However, if yours does, you can easily set it. Get the modification time from
the member using C<lastModTime()>.

=head1 Can't use Archive::Zip on gzip files

B<Q:> Can I use Archive::Zip to extract Unix gzip files?

B<A:> No.

There is a distinction between Unix gzip files, and Zip archives that
also can use the gzip compression.

Depending on the format of the gzip file, you can use L<Compress::Zlib>, or
L<Archive::Tar> to decompress it (and de-archive it in the case of Tar files).

You can unzip PKZIP/WinZip/etc/ archives using Archive::Zip (that's what
it's for) as long as any compressed members are compressed using
Deflate compression.

=head1 Add a directory/tree to a Zip

B<Q:> How can I add a directory (or tree) full of files to a Zip?

B<A:> You can use the Archive::Zip::addTree*() methods:

   use Archive::Zip;
   my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
   # add all readable files and directories below . as xyz/*
   $zip->addTree( '.', 'xyz' );
   # add all readable plain files below /abc as def/*
   $zip->addTree( '/abc', 'def', sub { -f && -r } );
   # add all .c files below /tmp as stuff/*
   $zip->addTreeMatching( '/tmp', 'stuff', '\.c$' );
   # add all .o files below /tmp as stuff/* if they aren't writable
   $zip->addTreeMatching( '/tmp', 'stuff', '\.o$', sub { ! -w } );
   # add all .so files below /tmp that are smaller than 200 bytes as stuff/*
   $zip->addTreeMatching( '/tmp', 'stuff', '\.o$', sub { -s < 200 } );
   # and write them into a file
   $zip->writeToFileNamed('xxx.zip');

=head1 Extract a directory/tree

B<Q:> How can I extract some (or all) files from a Zip into a different
directory?

B<A:> You can use the Archive::Zip::extractTree() method:
??? ||

   # now extract the same files into /tmpx
   $zip->extractTree( 'stuff', '/tmpx' );

=head1 Update a directory/tree

B<Q:> How can I update a Zip from a directory tree, adding or replacing only
the newer files?

B<A:> You can use the Archive::Zip::updateTree() method that was added in version 1.09.

=head1 Zip times might be off by 1 second

B<Q:> It bothers me greatly that my file times are wrong by one second about half
the time. Why don't you do something about it?

B<A:> Get over it. This is a result of the Zip format storing times in DOS
format, which has a resolution of only two seconds.

=head1 Zip times don't include time zone information

B<Q:> My file times don't respect time zones. What gives?

B<A:> If this is important to you, please submit patches to read the various
Extra Fields that encode times with time zones. I'm just using the DOS
Date/Time, which doesn't have a time zone.

=head1 How do I make a self-extracting Zip

B<Q:> I want to make a self-extracting Zip file. Can I do this?

B<A:> Yes. You can write a self-extracting archive stub (that is, a version of
unzip) to the output filehandle that you pass to writeToFileHandle(). See
examples/selfex.pl for how to write a self-extracting archive.

However, you should understand that this will only work on one kind of
platform (the one for which the stub was compiled).

=head1 How can I deal with Zips with prepended garbage (i.e. from Sircam)

B<Q:> How can I tell if a Zip has been damaged by adding garbage to the
beginning or inside the file?

B<A:> I added code for this for the Amavis virus scanner. You can query archives
for their 'eocdOffset' property, which should be 0:

  if ($zip->eocdOffset > 0)
    { warn($zip->eocdOffset . " bytes of garbage at beginning or within Zip") }

When members are extracted, this offset will be used to adjust the start of
the member if necessary.

=head1 Can't extract Shrunk files

B<Q:> I'm trying to extract a file out of a Zip produced by PKZIP, and keep
getting this error message:

  error: Unsupported compression combination: read 6, write 0

B<A:> You can't uncompress this archive member. Archive::Zip only supports uncompressed
members, and compressed members that are compressed using the compression
supported by Compress::Zlib. That means only Deflated and Stored members.

Your file is compressed using the Shrink format, which isn't supported by
Compress::Zlib.

You could, perhaps, use a command-line UnZip program (like the Info-Zip
one) to extract this.

=head1 Can't do decryption

B<Q:> How do I decrypt encrypted Zip members?

B<A:> With some other program or library. Archive::Zip doesn't support decryption,
and probably never will (unless I<you> write it).

=head1 How to test file integrity?

B<Q:> How can Archive::Zip can test the validity of a Zip file?

B<A:> If you try to decompress the file, the gzip streams will report errors
if you have garbage. Most of the time.

If you try to open the file and a central directory structure can't be
found, an error will be reported.

When a file is being read, if we can't find a proper PK.. signature in
the right places we report a format error.

If there is added garbage at the beginning of a Zip file (as inserted
by some viruses), you can find out about it, but Archive::Zip will ignore it,
and you can still use the archive. When it gets written back out the
added stuff will be gone.

There are two ready-to-use utilities in the examples directory that can
be used to test file integrity, or that you can use as examples
for your own code:

=over 4

=item examples/zipcheck.pl shows how to use an attempted extraction to test a file.

=item examples/ziptest.pl shows how to test CRCs in a file.

=back

=head1 Duplicate files in Zip?

B<Q:> Archive::Zip let me put the same file in my Zip twice! Why don't you prevent this?

B<A:> As far as I can tell, this is not disallowed by the Zip spec. If you
think it's a bad idea, check for it yourself:

  $zip->addFile($someFile, $someName) unless $zip->memberNamed($someName);

I can even imagine cases where this might be useful (for instance, multiple
versions of files).

=head1 File ownership/permissions/ACLS/etc

B<Q:> Why doesn't Archive::Zip deal with file ownership, ACLs, etc.?

B<A:> There is no standard way to represent these in the Zip file format. If
you want to send me code to properly handle the various extra fields that
have been used to represent these through the years, I'll look at it.

=head1 I can't compile but ActiveState only has an old version of Archive::Zip

B<Q:> I've only installed modules using ActiveState's PPM program and
repository. But they have a much older version of Archive::Zip than is in CPAN. Will
you send me a newer PPM?

B<A:> Probably not, unless I get lots of extra time. But there's no reason you
can't install the version from CPAN. Archive::Zip is pure Perl, so all you need is
NMAKE, which you can get for free from Microsoft (see the FAQ in the
ActiveState documentation for details on how to install CPAN modules).

=head1 My JPEGs (or MP3's) don't compress when I put them into Zips!

B<Q:> How come my JPEGs and MP3's don't compress much when I put them into Zips?

B<A:> Because they're already compressed.

=head1 Under Windows, things lock up/get damaged

B<Q:> I'm using Windows. When I try to use Archive::Zip, my machine locks up/makes
funny sounds/displays a BSOD/corrupts data. How can I fix this?

B<A:> First, try the newest version of Compress::Zlib. I know of
Windows-related problems prior to v1.14 of that library.

If that doesn't get rid of the problem, fix your computer or get rid of
Windows.

=head1 Zip contents in a scalar

B<Q:> I want to read a Zip file from (or write one to) a scalar variable instead
of a file. How can I do this?

B<A:> Use C<IO::String> and the C<readFromFileHandle()> and
C<writeToFileHandle()> methods.
See C<examples/readScalar.pl> and C<examples/writeScalar.pl>.

=head1 Reading from streams

B<Q:> How do I read from a stream (like for the Info-Zip C<funzip> program)?

B<A:>	This isn't currently supported, though writing to a stream is.


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The Beauty with Golden Hair by Madame d'Aulnoy
Fairy Tales, Madame d'Aulnoy, Short Stories for Kids
There was once a Princess so lovely that no one could see her without loving her. Her hair fell about her shoulders in waving masses, and because it was the color of gold, she was called Pretty Goldilocks. She always wore a crown of flowers, and her dresses were embroidered with pearls and diamonds.
The fame of her beauty reached a young King, who determined to marry her, although he had never seen her. He sent an ambassador to ask her hand in marriage; and so confident was he that the Princess would return with him, that he made every preparation to receive her. The ambassador arrived at the palace of the Princess with a hundred horses and as many servants. With great ceremony, he presented the King's gifts of pearls and diamonds, together with his message. The Princess, however, did not favor the King's suit, and sent back his gifts with a polite refusal. When the ambassador returned without the Princess, every one blamed him for his failure; and the King's disappointment was so great that no one could console him.
Now at the King's court was a young man so handsome and clever that he was called Charming. Every one loved him, except some who were envious because he was the King's favorite. One day Charming rashly remarked that if the King had sent him for the Princess, she would have come back with him. His enemies at once went to the King and used the remark to influence him against Charming.
"He thinks himself so handsome that the Princess could not have resisted him, although she refused his King," they told his Majesty.
The boastful words so offended the King that he ordered Charming to be shut up in the tower, where he had only straw to lie on and bread and water to eat. In this miserable state he languished for some time, not knowing why he had been imprisoned. One day the King happened to be passing the tower and heard him exclaim:
"I am the King's most faithful subject; how have I incurred his displeasure?" Then, in spite of the protests of Charming's enemies, the King ordered the tower-door opened and Charming brought forth. His old favorite sadly knelt and kissed his hand, saying:
"Sire, how have I offended?"
The King told him of the boast his enemies had repeated.
"True, Sire, I did say that had I been sent to plead your cause, it would not have failed for lack of eloquence. Could the Princess see you as my tongue would picture you, I would not return without her."
The King at once saw that he had been deceived, and restored Charming to favor. While at supper that night, he confided to him that he was as much in love with Goldilocks as ever, and could not be reconciled to her answer.
"Do you think," asked the King, "that she could be induced to change her mind?"
Charming replied that he was at the King's service and willing to undertake the task of winning the Princess for him. The King was delighted and offered him a splendid escort, but he asked only for a good horse.
Early the next day he set forth, with a resolute heart and the King's letter to the Princess. One day when he had ridden a great distance, he dismounted and sat down under a tree that grew beside a river. He took from his pocket a little book, in which he jotted down some happy thoughts that he meant to use in his plea to the Princess. Not far from where he sat, a golden carp was springing from the water to catch flies, and a bound too high landed it on the grass at Charming's feet. It panted helplessly, and would have died had he not taken pity on it and thrown it back into the river. It sank out of sight, but presently returned to the surface long enough to say:
"Thank you, Charming, for saving my life. Some day I may repay you." Naturally, he was greatly surprised at so much politeness from a fish.
A few days later, while riding along his way, he saw a raven pursued by an eagle. In a moment more the eagle would have overtaken the raven, had not Charming aimed his arrow in time and killed the pursuer. The raven perched on a tree near by and croaked its gratitude:
"You have rescued me from a dreadful fate," it said. "Some day I will repay you."
A day or two afterward, in the dusk of early morning, he heard the distressful cries of an owl. Hunting about, he found the unfortunate bird caught in a net which some birdcatchers had spread. "Why will men persecute and torment harmless creatures!" exclaimed Charming, as he set the bird free. The owl fluttered above his head, saying:
"You have saved me from the fowlers, who would have killed me. I am not ungrateful, and some day I will repay you!" After that it flew swiftly away.
Charming at last reached the palace of the Princess, and asked an audience. His name so pleased her that she at once received him. He was ushered into the presence of the Princess, who sat on a throne of gold and ivory. Her satin dress was embroidered with jewels, and her golden hair was confined by a crown of flowers. Soft music and perfume filled the air, and Charming was so awed by all this splendor that at first he could not speak. Recovering himself in a moment, he told of his mission, and set forth the good qualities of the King in such glowing terms that the Princess listened.
"You have argued so eloquently," replied she, "that I regret to deny you; but I have made a vow not to marry, until the ambassador can return to me a ring which I lost in the river a month ago. I valued it more than all my other jewels, and nothing but its recovery can persuade me to your suit."
Charming could urge no more, but offered an embroidered scarf and his little dog Frisk as tokens of devotion. These were declined, so bowing low, he reluctantly took leave of the Princess. He believed that she had but used this means to put him off, and his disappointment was so great that he could not sleep.
In the morning he and Frisk were walking by the riverside when the dog ran to the water's edge, barking furiously. Joining the little animal, he saw that his excitement was caused by a golden carp which came swimming swiftly toward them. In its mouth was a beautiful ring which it laid in Charming's hand.
"You saved my life by the willow-tree," said the carp, "and I now repay you by giving to you the Princess's ring."
Charming lost no time in presenting it to the Princess and claiming his reward.
"What fairy aids you?" asked the Princess.
"Only my wish to serve you," Charming replied.
"Alas!" said the Princess, "I cannot marry until Galifron, the giant, is dead. Because I would not take him for my husband, he persecutes my subjects and lays waste my land."
"Princess, I will bring back the giant's head to you or die in your defense," bravely declared Charming.
The Princess and all the people tried to dissuade him, but he mounted his horse and rode off, accompanied only by his little dog, Frisk. He traveled straight to the giant's castle. All about it were strewn the bones of Galifron's victims. Inside the castle the giant was singing in a terrible voice:
"Little children I love to eat;
Their bones are tender, their flesh is sweet.
I do not care, I eat so many,
If their hair be straight, or if they haven't any."
Charming called out loudly in reply:
"Be not so boastful, Galifron,
Till you've met a knight, who
May be good to feed upon,
But is here to fight you."
The giant appeared at the door, club in hand. When he saw Charming fearlessly awaiting him, he came toward him in a terrible rage. But before he could wield his club, a raven lit on his head and pecked at his eyes, so that he dropped his weapon and was at Charming's mercy. When the valiant knight had killed the giant, the raven croaked from a tree near by:
"You saved me from the eagle, and I in turn have saved you from the giant."
Charming cut off the head of the giant, and carried it back with him to the Princess. Then the people shouted until they were hoarse, and welcomed him as a great hero.
"Your enemy is dead," Charming told the Princess. "Will you now make my master the happiest of kings?"
"There is," replied the reluctant Princess, "some water which gives eternal health and beauty to those who drink it. I would regret to leave my kingdom without possessing some of it; but no one has dared to brave the two dragons that guard the cavern where the fountain is to be found."
"You do not need the water, Princess; but my life is yours to command," gallantly replied Charming; and he set out at once on the perilous mission.
When he came to the mouth of the cavern, black smoke issued forth; and presently he perceived the terrible form of a dragon, from whose mouth and eyes fire was darting. Bidding good-by to faithful Frisk, he grasped his sword in one hand and the crystal flask which the Princess had given him in the other. Just then he heard his name called twice, and, looking back, he saw an owl flying toward him.
"I can enter the gloomy cavern without danger," the owl said. "Give the flask to me, and I will repay the debt I owe you for having saved me from the net."
Charming gladly surrendered the flask to the owl, who in a short time returned it to him filled with the precious water.
The Princess this time consented to marry the King, and after many preparations she and Charming started for his kingdom. The journey was made so entertaining for the Princess that she one day said to Charming:
"Why did I not make you King, and remain in my own country?" Charming replied that he must have considered his duty to his King, even before a happiness so great.
The King, with presents of rich jewels and a splendid escort, met them on the way to the palace. The marriage was celebrated with great pomp, and Charming stood first in the King's favor. His good fortune, however, did not continue long, for envious enemies pointed out to the King that the Princess was never happy unless Charming was near. The unhappy knight was again put into prison, where he was cruelly chained and fed on bread and water.
When Goldilocks learned this, she wept and implored the King to set him free. "But for him I never would have been here," she said. "Did he not perform every task I required, even that of getting for me the water whereby I shall never grow old?"
The Princess's grief only made the King more jealous, but he determined to make use of this wonderful water of which she had told. It so happened that one of the Princess's ladies had broken the crystal flask and spilled all of the water. Not daring to confess, she put another in its place that exactly resembled it in appearance. This, however, contained a deadly poison. When the King bathed his face with it, he fell into a sleep from which he never awoke.
There was great confusion in the palace when the King was found dead. Frisk ran immediately to Charming and told him the news. In a short time Goldilocks also appeared, unlocked his chains, and set him free.
"You shall be my husband," said she, "and I will make you King."
Charming fell at her feet and expressed his gratitude and joy. They were married soon afterward, and they reigned together for many happy years.
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#include "MediaInfoDlg.h"

#include <boost/format.hpp>

#include "Func/MediaInfoHelper.h"
#include "Gui/GuiTools.h"
#include "Func/WinUtils.h"
#include "Core/Settings/WtlGuiSettings.h"

// CMediaInfoDlg
CMediaInfoDlg::CMediaInfoDlg()
{
    auto* settings = ServiceLocator::instance()->settings<WtlGuiSettings>();
    infoType_ = static_cast<InfoType>(settings->MediaInfoSettings.InfoType);
    generateTextInEnglish_ = !settings->MediaInfoSettings.EnableLocalization;
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnInitDialog(UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, BOOL& bHandled)
{
    CenterWindow(GetParent());
    boldFont_ = GuiTools::MakeLabelBold(GetDlgItem(IDC_FILEINFOLABEL));
    DlgResize_Init(false, true, 0); // resizable dialog without "griper"
    LOGFONT logFont;
    WinUtils::StringToFont(_T("Courier New,8,,204"), &logFont);

    editFont_.CreateFontIndirect(&logFont);
    SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, WM_SETFONT, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(editFont_.m_hFont), MAKELPARAM(false, 0));
    editControl_.AttachToDlgItem(m_hWnd, IDC_FILEINFOEDIT);

    // Translating controls' text
    TRC(IDOK, "OK");
    SetWindowText(TR("Information about file"));
    TRC(IDC_COPYALL, "Copy to clipboard");
    TRC(IDC_SUMMARYRADIOBUTTON, "Summary");
    TRC(IDC_FULLINFORADIOBUTTON, "Full information");
    TRC(IDC_GENERATETEXTINENGLISHCHECKBOX, "Disable localization");

    SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, TR("Loading..."));

    GuiTools::SetCheck(m_hWnd, infoType_ == InfoType::itFullInformation ? IDC_FULLINFORADIOBUTTON: IDC_SUMMARYRADIOBUTTON, true);

    GuiTools::SetCheck(m_hWnd, IDC_GENERATETEXTINENGLISHCHECKBOX, generateTextInEnglish_);

    ::SetFocus(GetDlgItem(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT));
    FixEditRTL();
    GenerateInfo();
    return 0;
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnClickedOK(WORD wNotifyCode, WORD wID, HWND hWndCtl, BOOL& bHandled)
{
    if(!IsRunning())  EndDialog(wID); // Don't allow user to close dialog before thread finishes
    return 0;
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnClickedCancel(WORD wNotifyCode, WORD wID, HWND hWndCtl, BOOL& bHandled)
{
    if(!IsRunning())  EndDialog(wID);
    return 0;
}

void CMediaInfoDlg::ShowInfo(HWND parentWnd, LPCTSTR FileName)
{
    m_FileName = FileName;
    DoModal(parentWnd);
}

DWORD CMediaInfoDlg::Run()
{
    CString ShortFileName = WinUtils::TrimString(WinUtils::myExtractFileName(m_FileName), 40);
    if(!WinUtils::FileExists(m_FileName))
    {
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOLABEL, CString(TR("Error:")));
        std::wstring infoEditText;
        try {
            infoEditText = str(boost::wformat(TR("File \"%s\" not found!")) % ShortFileName.GetString());
        }
        catch (std::exception& ex) {
            LOG(ERROR) << ex.what();
        }
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, infoEditText.c_str());
        return 0;
    }

    std::wstring fileInfoLabel;
    try {
        fileInfoLabel = str(boost::wformat(TR("Information about file \"%s\" :")) % ShortFileName.GetString());
    } catch (std::exception& ex) {
        LOG(ERROR) << ex.what();
    }

    SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOLABEL, fileInfoLabel.c_str());

    MediaInfoHelper::GetMediaFileInfo(m_FileName, summary_, fullInfo_, !generateTextInEnglish_);
    bool fullInfo = GuiTools::GetCheck(m_hWnd, IDC_FULLINFORADIOBUTTON);
    SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, fullInfo ? fullInfo_ : summary_);
    return 0;
}

void CMediaInfoDlg::GenerateInfo() {
    if (!IsRunning()) {
        generateTextInEnglish_ = GuiTools::GetCheck(m_hWnd, IDC_GENERATETEXTINENGLISHCHECKBOX);
        Start(); // Starting thread which will load in background information about file m_FileName
    }
}

void CMediaInfoDlg::FixEditRTL() {
    HWND editControl = GetDlgItem(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT);

    if (ServiceLocator::instance()->translator()->isRTL()) {
        LONG styleEx = ::GetWindowLong(editControl, GWL_EXSTYLE);
        LONG style = ::GetWindowLong(editControl, GWL_STYLE);
        //DWORD isStyle = style & ES_RIGHT;

        if (generateTextInEnglish_) {
            styleEx = styleEx & ~(WS_EX_RTLREADING | WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL | WS_EX_RIGHT);
            style = style & (~ES_RIGHT);
        } else {
            styleEx = styleEx | WS_EX_RTLREADING | WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL | WS_EX_RIGHT;
            style = style | ES_RIGHT;
        }
        ::SetWindowLong(editControl, GWL_EXSTYLE, styleEx);
        ::SetWindowLong(editControl, GWL_STYLE, style);
    }
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnBnClickedCopyall(WORD /*wNotifyCode*/, WORD /*wID*/, HWND /*hWndCtl*/, BOOL& /*bHandled*/)
{
    // Copying text to clipboard
    SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, EM_SETSEL, 0, -1);
    SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, WM_COPY, 0, 0);
    SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, EM_SETSEL, static_cast<WPARAM>(-1), 0);
    return 0;
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnInfoRadioButtonClicked(WORD, WORD, HWND, BOOL&) {
    bool fullInfo = GuiTools::GetCheck(m_hWnd, IDC_FULLINFORADIOBUTTON);
    auto* settings = ServiceLocator::instance()->settings<WtlGuiSettings>();

    SetDlgItemText(IDC_FILEINFOEDIT, fullInfo ? fullInfo_ : summary_);
    settings->MediaInfoSettings.InfoType = fullInfo ? 1 : 0;
    return 0;
}

LRESULT CMediaInfoDlg::OnShowInEnglishCheckboxClicked(WORD, WORD, HWND, BOOL&) {
    generateTextInEnglish_ = GuiTools::GetCheck(m_hWnd, IDC_GENERATETEXTINENGLISHCHECKBOX);

    FixEditRTL();
    auto* settings = ServiceLocator::instance()->settings<WtlGuiSettings>();
    settings->MediaInfoSettings.EnableLocalization = !generateTextInEnglish_;
    GenerateInfo();
    return 0;
}