For fundamentalist Protestants, one of the most horrifying (if not the most horrifying) seasons of the year in Catholic Philippines is Lent. Christmas they can live with as there is nothing excessively idolatrous or fanatically superstitious in our Christmas celebrations. But Lent in the Philippines revolts every thinking Protestant fundamentalist who believes in salvation by faith alone, without any kind of human contribution by way of good-works or sacrifice and penance.
Lent in Catholic Philippines is very colorful and festive, but its essence is sacrifice and penance. Although more and more are going on vacations to beaches and mountain resorts during Holy Week, for the average Filipino, the right thing to do during Holy Thursday and Good Friday (even if that isn't what he does) is to fast and/or abstain and despite the heat (which is always worse during these two days than other days), mix with the huge crowds at traditional lenten activies in church or in the streets. Holy Thursday and Good Friday processions are the rule everywhere. In some places, these processions are the only times when members of snobbish old-rich families can be seen on the public streets, dutifully, and with an effort at solemnity, walking behind or beside heirloom carosas and statues of saints and other characters involved in the passion narrative. Plazas are always crowded during procession days, so are cathedrals and churches where life-size images of Christ on the cross and the Santo Entiero draw devotees and penitents who clamber over these images in an effort to embrace, kiss, or wipe handkerchiefs and other things on these representations of Christ. Earlier in the day, there would have been community stations of the cross up mountains or through long distances, also street re-enactments of the passion and death of Christ.
In many parts of the country, flagellants and people who actually have themselves nailed to wooden crosses give a very literal interpretation to the Lenten call to sacrifice. After the Holy Thursday mass, there is also the "Bisita Iglesia," visits to the blessed sacrament in at least 7 churches as a way of keeping awake with Jesus during the hours of his passion.
Before Holy Week, the masses for Ash Wednesday are also well attended, and one can't be a good Catholic unless he or she has had ashes imposed on the forehead on this day. Other popular Lenten practices include Palm Sunday palms that are shaped into many different religious and non-religious symbols, blessed, then brought home, supposedly for blessing and protection from evil spirits. Holy Thursday includes the washing of the feet of the twelve apostles, a rite that takes place not just in Churches everywhere, but also in the homes of many as a family tradition that continues because of a vow to God or the saints.
The Maria Magdalena, the Image in the Carosa of the family of Enrica Alunan Lizares.
For Protestants, all of this religious frenzy can be very disturbing and pathetic. To them, Filipino Catholics appear like ignorant, deeply superstitious lost souls who are digging their pit of damnation ever deeper as they try to save themselves with their penitential rites and their abominable devotion to images. And yet, even among Filipino Protestants, there is a Lenten spirit which is not evident among Protestants in other countries. Here, Protestants have special retreats, special days of fasting and prayer, and special church services in observance of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. There should be no reason for these since Protestantism teaches that Christ has died once for all and our works add nothing to the efficacy of his sacrifice which took place and ended in Calvary. But since Filipino Protestants do have their Lenten practices, we have no choice except to see in them a clearer manifestation of Filipino religious psychology, sans the superstition and the fanaticism that make our Lenten observance a comedia to sophisticated eyes.
The San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish Church in Talisay. Notice the Carosas in the background.
What do our Lenten practices say about our religious psychology? Despite all of our western style education and all the influence of the west on us, most of us are still very superstitious and as some fundamentalists charge, animistic. In the spirit-sterile modern western world, superstition is almost impossible to appreciate .
But spirits are everywhere in the Philippines and one is not necessarily wiser or more sophisticated than others because he has no sense of the spirit world that surrounds him. Are we animistic? While it seems that many of our religious practices are pagan animistic practices that have been Christianized, it bears mentioning that people who criticize our practices as animistic are people who do not use their bodies much when expressing themselves. But expressing ourselves with our bodies and our actions as much as with our words is practically a need for us. So we kiss statues, join the jostling crowds behind the carosas in Holy Week processions, and in extreme cases, flagellate ourselves or have a few nails driven through our hands and feet in re-enactments of the crucifixion. There should be and certainly are more constructive ways of declaring and living our faith. But while faith is best lived out by loving neighbor as self, an objective view should show that our lenten practices are essentially like dance, drama, and ritual which also allow us to express the exuberance of our faith. In our minds, God deserves all of this action and art, no less. There will be other days for loving neighbor and doing good.
The fact is that there is much in our faith practices which is reminiscent of Old Testament worship. Think of the numerous obligatory Jewish feasts, the rituals detailed in the Old Testament, the bloody temple sacrifices, the strict food and cleanliness laws which kept the Jews separate and different from their neighbors, the regular times of prayer, the phylacteries they had to wear, the signs they had to post around their door-posts and in their houses. Jewish life was such that almost at every moment, there was some reminder of God and his special relationship to the Jews. Holy Week in the Philippines is meant to have the same effect. Of course the spirit of sacrifice and penance seems to say that we have not made the transition from the old covenant to the new. This is partially true because many, if not most Filipinos believe that God is a god who requires us to work our way to heaven and will send us to hell if our good works don't out-weigh our sins. Ever so often in a year, religious activities that require some sacrifice and penance are therefore helpful for correcting the imbalance somewhat.
But is this why we attend processions, church services, etc. during Holy Week? Surely, suffering is such a fact of life for most of our people that we have no need to invent or create suffering for ourselves. Many of us even experience purgatory in this life.
The fact is that all of these Lenten activities are occasions for families and friends to come together. For all the outward displays of repentant piety, Lent is fiesta time in the country. Instead of adding to our suffering, Lent enables us to cope with it, just as getting together with friends, laughing at our problems, and celebrating fiestas helps us to forget our troubles and live for another day. What's even better is that Holy Week always bears with it the promise of Easter, allows us year after year to be participants in a ritual of suffering and death becoming new and glorious life.
There is a lot of ignorance and superstition in the way we practice our religion. That is very true. There is a need for more integral faith development in our parishes. Many of us observe ritual obligations but fail to translate Sunday and Holy Week piety into a life of love and service for neighbor. This I think shows that despite the image of God as a punishing tyrant, we also know of God as father, Jesus as Santo Nino, and of course Mary as our all powerful mother and intercessor. Thus, there isn't really much to be worried about because only the really bad and unrepentant people go to hell. Filipino religious psychology still. Life's hard but basically, life's okay. We'll survive somehow and at the end of our days, get to heaven. What's important is that while we live, the family can stay together, and we can have our days of fun and fiesta once in a while.
And so the essence of Lent is not, after all, penance and suffering, but fiesta. Or maybe it is all of these in the same way that our people power ousters of Presidents are serious protests against social injustice and revolutions against corrupt rulers at the same time that they are pop festivals and religious feasts. I therefore like thinking that it is not superstition and ignorance which shape our Lenten practices, rather, our Lenten practices are shaped by the same religious psychology that gives us our distinctively peaceful and festive people power revolutions. I am happy with the Filipino version of Lent and of revolutions. Lent as in the west can only mean the demise of the Filipino soul.
This article is by Andrea Lizares Si who has a Masters in Divinity and a degree in Law. This Palmas del Mar Website is her way of sharing with the rest of the world, the magnificent heritage that she's been blessed with. In the picture, the author is posing with her great grandmother, Enrica Alunan Lizares, whose Balay ni Tana Dicang is featured in some of the photographs.


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Cast of Wonders 390: The Tale of Descruptikn and the Product Launch Requirements Documentation
Author : Effie Seiberg
Narrator : Emily E. Smith
Cast of Wonders 390: The Tale of Descruptikn and the Product Launch Requirements Documentation is a Cast of Wonders original.
The Tale of Descruptikn and the Product Launch Requirements Documentation
by Effie Seiberg
Once upon a time there was an associate project manager named Jaime. She knew she was lucky to have this job – so many others in her graduating class were still juggling nanny gigs and catering gigs and tutoring gigs and so many side hustles they could've been a dodecahedron.
It was at a small company that ostensibly helped foreign students find scholarships for American colleges, but actually if you looked closely you could see that the company didn't do much and was just a vanity project so the founder could say he was innovating and disrupting and other such nonsense buzzwords. Considering how little the company actually accomplished, Jamie was astonished that she was the one hundredth person to join the team.
Jaime wanted to like her job, but it was hard. Her boss had the sort of privileged white dude entitlement that comes of an upbringing full of nothing but other privileged white dudes. He was singularly unqualified for his job, but since he and the founder had been frat brothers in college, his position was unshakeable. And her colleagues were mostly cut from the same cloth.
One day, her boss came into her small gray cubicle.
"Jaime, check it out," he said, putting an elbow on top of the cubicle's half-wall and leaning. "The website launch you're working on? We gotta get it out in a month. You're good for that, right?" He brought out an apple and gave it a noisy crunch. A droplet of spit and apple juice splatted down onto a pile of papers on Jaime's desk.
"Um, why?" she asked. "I thought we had three more months for it. I mean, we haven't even gotten everyone to agree what needs to go in the website, and coding it up will take a few weeks on its own, and we haven't even started on design yet."
"Yeah," he said through a noisy mouthful, "but now it's gotta be next month. You can deliver, right? I'm countin' on ya. Or yanno, if you can't then we aren't really getting the project management we're supposed to be getting from you, so…" He gave a half smile and some finger guns, and left.
This was a disaster. There was no way she'd be able to pull this off in one month with everybody squabbling, especially without the clout she needed to get people to listen to her in the first place. And if she was fired…the job market was dire for recent grads, and she didn't have the five-plus years experience every entry-level job paradoxically required.
With a sigh, she set up a meeting with all the stakeholders for the next day, and started the product launch requirements documentation. Perhaps if she used a Gantt chart, broke everything that needed to happen into the minutest steps, and gave each of them a deadline, they'd make it on time. And maybe a genie would pop out of her laptop, pay off her student loans, and give her a pony.
She searched for "Gantt chart template", but couldn't find one she liked. "Easy Gantt chart template" and "Thorough Gantt chart template" didn't give better results. But when she searched for "Gantt chart template for participants who are egotistical morons", her phone buzzed with a text from an unknown number.
"So u got a proj mgmt issue & some idiots," it said.
It had to be from someone who overheard the conversation with her boss. Her Google searches were that insecure. But she'd made sure not to give out her cell number to anyone at the office…
"Who is this? How'd you get my number?" she texted back.
"Look down," came the reply.
Uneasily, she looked under her desk. There, sitting on the power brick for her laptop, sat a small troll-like creature. It sort of looked like a ball of cottage cheese with skinny limbs and a pointy hat, and it was uniformly greenish-brown. Sort of like a bad choice of khaki, which made its bulbous nose look like a tiny pickle. The creature waved.
Jaime looked around to see if anyone was watching, then crouched under her desk. "Who are you? How'd you even get in here?"
It reached into its cottage-cheesy flesh and pulled out an employee swipe card. "You folks should really tighten up your security. Anyway, never mind all that. You need to spin these meetings into gold and I'm just the person to help you."
"Why would you help me? What do you want in return?" Jaime had learned very quickly that nothing was free in corporate America – it cost your soul to enter, and then the rest of your life, all for a chance at semi-subsidized healthcare.
"Tsk tsk, so distrusting!" it said, shoving the card back into its side. Its flesh absorbed it soundlessly. "But yes, I do want something in return. I'll make tomorrow's meeting work beautifully… in exchange for your annual dental exam."
"You want… like how? Like you want to have it instead of me?"
The creature nodded.
Jaime shrugged. "Eh, why not." Her teeth were fine, and she could hold out another year.
"Good!" crowed the creature. "I'll text you the contract."
The next day, Jaime's meeting went smooth as butter. People came to agreements. Decisions were made. There was no bickering, only collaboration. Her insurance even confirmed that her annual dental exam had happened and been paid for. And for a full week, every single deadline was met.
Until things started to slip again. Stakeholders bickered, decisions were held up in endless loops of debate, a legal snarl showed up, and everything stalled.
Jaime went to her boss' desk. "Um, I don't think we're going to make the website deadline. We can't legally say that we're going to get people into American colleges, and the immigration lawyer we're working with just went on maternity leave with nobody to cover her. It's going to take a little while to find a new lawyer to review our material. Can you let the CEO know?"
Her boss grudgingly looked up from his online poker game. "Jaime, you've been working here for what, a few weeks now?"
"Eight months."
"Right. You're in the big leagues now. Nobody's going to hold your hand through your job, or do your homework for you."
"No of course not, I didn't mean-"
"So this lawyer who went on maternity leave, she's been pregnant for a while, yeah? So it's your job to know these things and prepare. See the risks that are coming and fix them before they're a problem."
"Sure, but she had an emergency iss-"
"Her emergency is not my problem, and you should know that." He turned back to his screen, which was now flashing a countdown for how long he had left before he automatically folded his poker hand. "Just find a way to get it done, Jaime. Freakin millennials."
Jaime nodded and calmly walked to the ladies' room, where she shut herself into a stall and burst into tears. There was no way she could possibly control every little thing that could go wrong with this launch. Certainly no way she could've prevented the car from hitting the lawyer, who had to have an emergency early C-section to save the baby, and who was fortunately now recovering with her (now healthy) child.
It wasn't fair. But neither was the world, and she still had a chance to salvage things. Boss wanted her to do her homework? Fine. Homework she would do.
Jaime dried her eyes, splashed cold water on her face until she looked refreshed, and calmly walked back to her desk. Some quick internet searches for immigration lawyers led to a series of calls and "we'll get back to you"s.
And once again, the creature showed up under her desk.
"Soooooo, how's it going?" it asked with a smug smile.
"You know damn well how it's going," snapped Jaime. "Can you fix it?"
"Of course! All it will cost you is… your annual medical exam."
She'd actually been looking forward to her annual medical exam because she thought she had a good chance of getting a referral to a therapist for her raging anxiety and depression. Both had increased dramatically since she'd started this job. But, she reasoned, if she was out of a job both conditions would get even worse, and perhaps she could hold out a little longer without getting treatment? Maybe? Surely there were some online listicles that could help keep both issues at bay a little bit longer.
"Fine," she said. "Take the annual medical exam. But I want things to work for more than just one week this time!"
"Of course, of course!" said the little creature, using the same tone that one would use to soothe a toddler crying about something silly. "I'll text you the contract."
"Condescending little shit," muttered Jaime under her breath as it left.
But yet again, her meetings were spun into gold. Despite the previous delays, everything got back on track. Her lawyer emailed from the hospital about the text changes they'd need. The design team and the web front-end team were working side-by-side. Even the back-end engineers were collaborating with the front-end.
Jaime's insurance sent her a note that said that since her annual exam was done, and she was declared healthy, they would not be paying for anything else short of an ER visit. That was fine. She'd get through this launch, try the new mindfulness exercises Buzzfeed had recommended, and just hold out for another year…by which time she could get a new job and new benefits. Maybe.
Everything was going swimmingly two weeks before the launch, and then one week before the launch, and then….
On the day before launch, it turned out that the site didn't work on iOS because a big feature on the front page was using a third party API, whose update in the last hour broke everything on the platform. An issue that was genuinely outside the team's control.
Jaime had done her homework. Hell, she'd done many other people's homework too, much in the spirit of any group project. This wasn't anything she could've foreseen.
She poked her head into her boss' office.
"If you're not here to tell me that everything is perfect and on-time for tomorrow, so our founder can show off the site at the big networking event at his country club, I don't want to hear it. Honestly, how entitled can you be, Jaime?"
She nodded, and without another word, dragged her feet back to her desk and started to pack up her things. Why bother sticking around another day to see the axe drop? They could fire her whether she made the commute in tomorrow or not. At least she could get unemployment benefits if they fired her.
But as she reached under her desk to unplug the power strip she'd brought in from home, the one that was there because there weren't enough outlets for her company-mandated electronics but for which they refused to reimburse her, there again was the little creature.
"What the hell?" she shouted, this time not caring if anyone heard her. "I read the contract, it said the launch would happen on time!"
"Ah ah aaaaah, the launch can happen on time!" It moved to block the plug of the power strip. "I guaranteed your team would produce the needed requirements on time. I gave no guarantees about third party tools. And I have delivered! Everything your team needed to decide on and do, they did."
"But we still can't launch if nothing works on iOS! If the founder's going to demo this at some country club with potential investors, every single one of them who wants to check out the site will pull it up on an iPhone."
"Not my problem," said the creature, "unless… do you have something else to trade?"
Jaime sat back in her seat, dejected. "No, nothing else. I have no other annual exams, and nothing else that'll be paid for unless I essentially get hit by a truck."
"Oh but that's not true!" The creature rubbed its hands together. "You have signing power for the company, right? They gave you that so you could sign the API contract so things could keep moving while all of management was at Burning Man. So all you need to do is sign over your next big product launch. And then everything will launch tomorrow, on time, functional as can be."
"What… what does that even mean, signing over the next launch. Like you'd have the rights to the new product offering?"
The creature giggled. "You could say that, yes! Come on, what do you care? You need to meet this deadline, the website isn't a product anyway, and if nothing else this'll give you more of a buffer to find your next job. You will get hired or fired in no relation to whether what you produce makes money or the company gets screwed over. And they sure won't hesitate to screw you over too."
Jamie thought about it. She thought about her friend Shayna who was babysitting third graders instead of working as a third grade teacher. She thought about her friend Joji who was driving for Lyft and designing company logos for five bucks a pop instead of having an actual full-time graphic design position. She thought of her friend Arden who still lived with his parents along with five other grown siblings, all stuck in the same house. She thought about her friend Mara who'd committed suicide last year after her depression was left untreated for too long.
She needed this job. It would only take one unexpected bill, one car crash, one tiny hiccup to put her right where her friends were. Even if it was just to tide her over until the next job. Unemployment benefits weren't great, and she didn't know when she'd get another chance as good as this one, for all that this chance was looking like a real shit sundae.
"Damn it. Fine."
"Good good good!" cried the creature with glee. "I'll text you the contract."
"But this time we're putting in something bigger. I don't want just this website to go out on time. I want a career. That means you help me land the next job, and the next one after that, until I get a really successful product launch. Then you can have that one."
The creature sniffed, annoyed, but then nodded.
After this, Jaime's career flourished. She got the website out on time, worked that into a promotion and a raise, and worked that into a better position at another company. Soon she was a product manager, not a project manager, a job with a better path for growth and responsibility, and soon after that she even had a team of her own.
Things were good. And she'd almost forgotten about the strange little creature she'd made a deal with two years ago.
But of course, as these stories always go, the bill always comes due. Your word needs to be your bond, a deal's a deal, and all that other folksy whatnot.
So the night before Jaime's first big launch as a Director-level Product Manager, when she was working late in her office (her office, not just a depressing cubicle) making sure every last detail was indeed taken care of, her phone once again buzzed with a text.
"Here 2 collect," said the message, listed as coming from "Weird Blob Guy".
And sure enough, down by her foot sat the creature, a big grin going from side to side of its whole head.
"So," it said, "what're we launching? And don't give me the whole 'oh no, this launch is my baby, I couldn't possibly' crap. We both know what you signed."
"Hm," said Jaime. "I'm not sure that's true." She twirled her stylus and went back to her very large touchscreen monitor. Two years of therapy had left her much better able to manage tense situations.
"Do you need me to spell it out for you? Because actually, I know a great deal more than you about what you signed, and I can use very small words to explain why the rights to this launch are all mine. And if you don't sign them over right now, you'll have a very unpleasant patent dispute starting tomorrow which will tank the company's profile. I'll extend it out for years, extracting every dollar the company has on the series of lawsuits I'll throw at you. Your company will be ruined, and with it, your reputation as a product manager who can catch such things before a launch."
"Hm," said Jaime again. "What a nice theory. But if you'll excuse me, I'm quite busy." If this new launch hit a million downloads, she had a bonus waiting for her. It would be enough to invest in Arden and Joji's new business, which would get Arden out of his parents' house and Joji out of their Lyft gig. The marketing for this launch was due to hit in about an hour, and the first press release out in two.
"You stupid little girl, playing at being in business!" shouted the creature, stamping its foot. "Pay! Attention! To! Me! I OWN YOU."
Jaime sighed and turned her chair. "You're a patent troll, a real parasite on society. But the trouble is, while you're making your scammy little deals, you aren't even very good at them."
"But we have a contract! You signed it!" it shrieked.
"We don't have a contract. First of all, the initial contract was invalid because I don't have the rights to this product myself, and thus I can't transfer them to you. I suppose it might be valid if I ever own the company and the rights to a future product, but that's unlikely because of point two. Which is that the initial contract was with a company called Rumple, Inc. And just like with any good project management, I did my homework and actually looked into what my risks and liabilities are. Rumple, Inc. is owned by a series of shell companies that ends with one called "Descruptikn to go here", which I can only assume meant it was set up with a typo in its name. And that one is owned by you, a person banned from owning or controlling any patent enforcement company by a 2009 US Patent and Trademark Office ruling after your previous patent trolling companies were deemed too abusive. Meaning that the contract is void and unenforceable.
She turned her chair back to her screen. "So I don't owe you anything, and if you don't disappear I'll call security on you. Not to mention it seems as though you've been pulling this same trick with countless other people, based on what I've heard from other folks' in my community. I'm sure the FBI's fraud division will be delighted to get a good long description of everyone's case. And of course I'll give them the photo of you I grabbed the first time we met. So if you don't mind, I'm very busy." She turned a few more cells in her Gantt sheet green, clearing the elements for launch.
"You can't do that!" it shrieked. "I made you! You'd be nothing without me!"
"Sadly for you, that's just not true. I'm an excellent product manager, and you know why? Because I do. My. Homework. There's nothing you've done or can do that can take that away."
The little creature screamed and stamped its feet until it disappeared in a cloud of poorly-researched vitriol and strawman arguments, and was never heard from again.
And so the moral of the story, because fairy tales and fables always have morals, is to read your contracts before you sign them, and to never ever feed the trolls.
Genres: Comedy, Fairy Tale, Modern Fantasy
contracts, Effie Seiberg, Emily E Smith, fairy tale, Jeremy Carter, legal, Marguerite Kenner, rumplestiltskin, Young Adult fiction
Effie Seiberg
Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer. Her stories can be found in the "Women Destroy Science Fiction!" special edition of Lightspeed Magazine, Galaxy's Edge, Analog, and Fireside Fiction, amongst others, as well as on PodCastle and Escape Pod.
Effie lives in San Francisco. She likes to make sculpted cakes and bad puns. You can follow her on twitter at @effies, or read more of her work at effieseiberg.com.
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Emily E. Smith
Emily E. Smith is an anesthesiologist by trade and is now enjoying the unique experience of training new anesthesiologists when she isn't raising a small child or narrating podcasts or reading or listening to audiobooks or gardening or building things or repainting the house. She is always busy but always has time for one more story.
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Bussy-le-Grand est une commune française située dans le département de la Côte-d'Or en région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Elle fait partie de la communauté de communes du Pays d'Alésia et de la Seine.

Géographie

Accès

Communes limitrophes

Urbanisme

Typologie
Bussy-le-Grand est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Venarey-les-Laumes, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (83,9 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (83,9 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (70,1 %), forêts (15,2 %), prairies (12,9 %), zones urbanisées (0,9 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (0,9 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
La toponymie est attestée sous la forme capellanus Buxeii en 1176.

Il s'agit du nom d'homme latin Buccius suivi du suffixe -acum.

Histoire

Politique et administration

Démographie

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 Château de Bussy-Rabutin.
 Église Saint-Antonin

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693), officier, écrivain, membre de l'Académie française.
 Jean-Andoche Junot (1771-1813), général de la Révolution et de l'Empire, né sur la commune.
 André Frénaud (1907-1993), poète.
 Douglas Gorsline (1913-1985), peintre et écrivain américain.

Voir aussi
 Château de Bussy-Rabutin
 Liste des communes de la Côte-d'Or

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Liens externes

 Bussy-le-Grand sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Musée Gorsline

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10 Surprising Facts About The Beatles
by The List Love · April 14, 2014
The Fab Four changed the face of music when they formed in Liverpool in 1960. Instead of sharing a bunch of well-known facts about the band, we thought we'd share 10 surprising facts about The Beatles.
1. Can't Buy Me Love
While The Beatles' fans couldn't buy them love, they could buy them Jelly Babies. The band had to dodge incoming Jelly Babies during a performance, as fans learnt George Harrison was a big fan of the sweet treat. One even hit him the eye.
2. I Should Have Known Better
The Beatles is a cool name for a band, right? So, do you think they'd have been as successful if they'd have gone with their initial band name of Johnny and the Moondogs? We doubt it!
3. Help!
We all know that John Lennon was murdered by a crazed gunman, but did you know George Harrison was stabbed 7 times back in 1999? Michael Abram broke into the guitarist's home, calling out his name. While his wife, Olivia, rang the police, George confronted the trespasser and was stabbedmultiple times. He suffered a punctured lung and head injuries. The attacker was arrested and served 19 months in prison.
This has to be one of the weirdest facts on this list. The Beatles wanted to star in a movie version of Lord of the Rings, with Stanley Kubrick as director. However, Kubrick turned the project down and Tolkien being against the idea.
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles are classed as one of the most influential bands in music history – yet not one of them could read music. Paul McCartney tried to learn, yet he gave up due to impatience.
6. Drive My Car
The White Beetle car featured in the famous Abbey Road photo had its licence plate stolen multiple times, as many people wanted the plate with the number LMW 281F. The car was sold at auction and went on display in Germany in 2001.
If you listen carefully at 2:58 on Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney quietly saying "Oh, fucking hell" as he made a mistake when recording the song.
8. Nowhere Man
Back in 2008, Liverpool erected a topiary tribute of The Beatles in 2008. However, after Ringo Starr said he missed nothing about his hometown, proud and loyal Liverpudlians chopped off his head. Revenge is sweet!
9. And I Love Her
Yoko Ono would never have had the chance to break up The Beatles if Paul hadn't told her to see John Lennon about a book she and mutual friend John Cage were working on. She followed up his advice and love blossomed between the two.
After much squabbling, John Lennon sealed The Beatles fate when he signed the paperwork to break up the band in Walt Disney World's Polynesian Resort, of all places!
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Bitcoin: How Terrorist Organizations are Using Cryptocurrency to Fund Operations
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Bitcoin is the new talk on the streets these days. You may have heard about it on the news recently or in everyday talk and commotion. It is the new hot commodity that has features similar to Venmo and PayPal but is essentially its own unique type of currency. Bitcoin has been called a cryptocurrency, "that was created in 2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto." [1] Bitcoin is unique in the sense that there is no official bank of Bitcoin, so trading Bitcoin is as easy as sending it from you to me and vice versa. This means that "transactions are made with no middlemen" but can come at a cost as Bitcoin is not insured by the FDIC [1]. Altogether, Bitcoin's "hype" has come this past year in multiple accounts of people investing in Bitcoin and over time, have turned into millionaires.
How does Bitcoin relate to terrorism?
Terrorist groups, especially and mainly ISIS, have caught on to the use of Bitcoin and now may be using it to fund their efforts. It seems to be the perfect avenue for channeling money as stated before how loose the regulations are on the cryptocurrency. Essentially, it can operate and function perfectly for what the terrorist organizations need. Anonymous wallet ID's, no federal insurance, and no limits. A true terrorist organization's dream has been presented.
© Wikimedia Commons-ISIS propaganda encourages the use of Bitcoin in the form of donations
Back in December of 2017 a, "resident of Long Island in New York, Zoobia Shahnaz, allegedly used Bitcoin and other virtual currencies to launder $85,000 and send it to ISIS." [2] Although a large amount of money being donated such as this may raise eyebrows as it did in this case, smaller increments of money are not as easily detected. According to The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the "ISIS-affiliated website Akbar al-Muslimin" has posted a link for acceptance of Bitcoins that "are allegedly for the website, but in the ITIC [The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center] assessment they may be used for ISIS broader goals, one of which is rehabilitating its propaganda machine and possibly also for funding terrorist attacks abroad." [3]
What has been done?
Countries around the world have begun to implement and update their regulations on the cryptocurrency such as Japan, China, and Australia. [1] Malaysia has also begun to place tighter regulations in their country. The "Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), its central bank, has required that conversions of cryptocurrencies into cash must be reported under the strict transactions under anti-money laundering laws." [4] Measures such as these allow the country to fully oversee the operations of terrorism financing and tracking which is essential in the battle to slow and stop it. [4] The United States Congress has also followed similar measures. New York Democratic Representative Kathleen Rice has pushed for a bill deemed "House Resolution 2433, the Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists' Use of Virtual Currencies Act, would require the DHS to conduct a threat assessment on if, when, how, and why terrorist groups like ISIS are using cryptocurrencies to fund violence at home and abroad." [5] Bills such as these are what will make up the core of the fight against illegal donations and funding to ISIS. The bill passed the House of Representatives and is currently in the Senate.
It's simply a matter of understanding what is going on and how terrorist organizations are using Bitcoin to their advantage. Tighter regulations must be put into place and counterterrorism measures must be at the forefront of slowing down illicit donations and funding to ISIS through Bitcoin. As our society has been engulfed in the features and benefits of the technological age of the 21st century, here is a firsthand problem faced by intelligence and cyber analysts. The more measures and standards that are put into place, the harder it is for the trafficking of Bitcoin. There will always be loopholes and channels that terrorist organizations can move their funding, but tightening Bitcoin standards is a key to resolving this problem.
http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-bitcoin/
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/09/bitcoin-can-help-terrorists-secretly-fund-their-deadly-attacks.html
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/893151/Bitcoin-price-latest-news-ISIS-terror-cryptocurrency
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fears-over-bitcoin-use-in-terror-financing
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Q: CC.Net Build Server -- how to find the NUnit test that does not complete at all? I have a test suite of ~ 1500 tests and they generally run and finish within 'reasonable time'.
Recently, however, I've changed parts of the code to use threads -- and now my builds fail from time to time by simply timing out. I imagine that a thread refuses to die and the build waits until reaching the maximum build time.
My problem is how to detect which test is causing the problem?
Can I activate some logging that shows me that a test has started/finished? I can of course be done by inserting code in every single test method - or just the fixtures, but that is A LOT of work that I'd rather avoid.

A: I'd suggest upgrading to NUnit 2.5 and decorating your tests with Timeout attribute, specifying maximum per-test run time. For example, you can put this in your AssemblyInfo.cs:
[assembly: NUnit.Framework.Timeout(100)]

NUnit will now launch each test in a separate thread and cancell it if it exceeds its time slot. However, this might be costly, so it's probably better to identify long-running tests and then remove assembly-level attribute in favor of test-fixture time slots. You can also override this on individual tests, assigning them more time to run.
This way you move the timeout/hang detection from CruiseControl.Net to NUnit and get information inside the report on the tasks that did not complete properly. Unfortunately there's no way for CC.Net to get this information when it has to kill the process because of timeout.

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After a hearing today before the Federal Election Commission, one reporter said, "Even a gifted comedian can't make campaign-finance law funny." But Stephen Colbert did get at least part of what he asked for, permission to form the Colbert SuperPAC, or Political Action Committee, so he could collect and spend campaign money, without being required to disclose where it came from. Dave Levinthal is communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics, and edits its website, OpenSecrets.com.


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Duxbury, town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on Duxbury Bay (an inlet of Cape Cod Bay), 33 miles (53 km) south of Boston, and includes the villages of Duxbury and South Duxbury. Settled about 1628, it counts among its founders the Pilgrim colonists Myles Standish, William Brewster, and John Alden. Named for Duxbury Hall in Lancashire, England, seat of the Standish family, it was incorporated in 1637, becoming the second town in the Plymouth colony. Following the American Revolution, shipbuilding and fishing were significant activities. The town is now mainly residential, and many of its residents commute to work in Greater Boston. Colonial monuments include the Alden House (1653; last home of John and Priscilla Alden), the Standish Monument State Reservation (a granite viewing tower built in 1898 and renovated in 1988), and the Old Burying Ground, with the graves of Standish and Alden. Area 24 square miles (62 square km). Pop. (2000) 14,248; (2010) 15,059.
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When SYTYCD Art Meets SYTYCD Structure: Stacey Tookey's Carefully Designed "Mad World"
When Art Meets Structure: Stacey Tookey's Carefully Designed "Mad World"
I've spent a lot of time during So You Think You Can Dance's seventh season discussing the non-dancing parts of the show, primarily in terms of the producers' decisions in regards to the changes to the series' format. I think this is ultimately because I don't actually know anything more about dancing than what the show tells me, and because this season has (for better or for worse) been defined my competition elements other than dancing – injuries, All-Stars and choreographer conflict have been key topics of discussion, and frankly all of that takes away from the fact that I actually think there are four legitimate contenders for this year's title of "America's Favorite Dancer."
This week, it's tempting to go down the same path: we have Adam Shankman dropping a "Balls Out," we've got Nigel Lythgoe showing just how much attention he's paying to this competition as he accidentally drops an "American Idol" in there (which he chalks up to his mind being elsewhere, as he's returning to Idol as its executive producer for Season 10), and you've even got yet another injury, with Lauren being attended to by the medics following her Foxtrot with Adechike (and making for a woeful final sendoff where Cat Deeley has to inform America that the judges, minutes after cheering about the lack of injuries, that they had jinxed it.
And yet, for once I want to focus on the dancing, and one dance in particular. Stacey Tookey's societal piece with Billy and Ade was perhaps not the most emotional dance of the season, but it by far (for me) the most impressive conceptually. And while I think that part of this has to do with its artistic value, which I don't entirely feel comfortable discussing what I do want to briefly analyze is how the dance is the perfect mediation of the choreographer's artistic image and this season's structural challenges, delivering something which is capable of standing as a piece of art while also being something which seems to absolutely capture not just the vague "spirit of dance" but instead the show's competitive elements.
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The Irony of Monotony: Why SYTYCD's Season of Reinvention Still Feels Stale
Earlier in the seventh season of So You Think You Can Dance, I commented at length on how the All-Star structure seemed to take away some of my favourite parts of the series, including seeing the contestants develop chemistry as a team and working together to overcome challenging choreography. However, as the season has gone on, the show was willing to break up the All-Star format to allow the dancers to pair up with each other, which helped bring some of that chemistry back to the table even if we didn't get to see it develop over the weeks.
And yet, I think that the structure of the season has run into another roadblock tonight: when I heard word that they had chosen to send no one home, sparing an injured Billy Bell and a struggling Jose from their potential exits, I realized that the show's biggest problem this season is how monotonous it has become. Sure, I'm not the kind of fan who has that moment of relief when my favourite is saved and gets to dance another day, but the biggest problem with So You Think You Can Dance this season is that even with all of the various reinventions I'm getting really tired of seeing these people dance.
Which I think is more of a reflection of the way the season has been structured than a reflection of the dancers themselves.
Tagged as All-Stars, Analysis, Billy Bell, Double Elimination, Elimination, Kenny Ortega, Monotony, Nigel Lythgoe, Reality Competition, Reality TV, Review, SYTYCD, Tabitha and Napoleon, Television, Top 6, Twitch, Voting
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All-Stars, No Story: Confusion reigns over So You Think You Can Dance Season 7
All-Stars, No Story: SYTYCD Season 7
When it was announced that So You Think You Can Dance would be changing its structure for its seventh season, in theory there shouldn't be any complaints: after all, many of the show's fans were frustrated by the sixth season, where the series felt stale for the first time. However, that staleness wasn't really the result of the show's structure so much as the decision to schedule the series in the fall (only weeks after the fifth season ended) and an unfortunate new stage which sucked some of the life out of the series. We were suffering from fatigue more than anything else, and while some small changes could bring us back to the franchise it seems as if Nigel Lythgoe decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
While we've known for a while that the series was throwing out its Top 20 structure and going with a Top 10 (in fact a Top 11) and teaming up the individual competitors with All-Stars from previous seasons, it wasn't entirely clear just how that would work. The show is still a collection of 11 dance routines as it was before, but there are newfound conflicts in who we're supposed to be paying attention to (the competitor or the All-Stars), and with Mia Michaels sitting in for Mary Murphy there is simply something different in the air.
And it's proving to be, at least right now, a diversion from what used to make the show so engaging – while my choice of title may make it seem like the problem is that the show is focusing too much on the All-Stars (I couldn't resist the play on No Guts, No Glory), the truth is that they didn't focus on the all-stars at all, which is even more distracting and confusing for audiences and judges alike.
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So You Think You Can Dance Season 6 – "Top 20"
"Season Six – Top 20"
The season started out with such promise: the Top 20 was touted as one of their best ever, and the network even gave them an hour of primetime to prove it last night when the dancers got to showcase their own personal styles in a series of group numbers. It made for a really engaging bit of television, a celebration of the individual dancers that Americans would be voting on.
However, as tonight's performance show demonstrated, this season has very much been taken out of America's hands, not in any substantial way but through a series of unfortunate circumstances. Just as viewers may have started falling in love with Billy Bell illness pulled him from the competition, and Noelle suffered a knee injury that seems likely to pull her from the competition considering the huge honkin' brace she was sporting during tonight's performance show. And to top it all off, with the World Series dominating Fox's airwaves, America didn't even get to vote for their favourites, meaning that two dancers were sent home without ever using their fingers to make numbers in front of millions of Americans.
It was an unfortunate turn of events because it takes a show that more than any other democratizes reality competition programming, emphasizing the America and Favourite in "America's Favourite Dancer" with gusto, and turns it into a charade that this talented group of contestants doesn't particularly deserve.
Tagged as Adam Shankman, Ariana, Billy Bell, Bottom Two, Dave Scott, Duncan, Elimination, Krump, Mary Murphy, Nathan and Mollee, New Stage, Nigel Lythgoe, Noelle, Paul Abdul, Russell, Season 6, Top 20, Travis Wall, Voting


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Organizing a great project kickoff ensures that the project starts off on the right foot. See, the thing is, a project kickoff doesn't only signify the launch of a project. It's also a foundation to work with – it sets a general direction that the team is supposed to head towards.
Why does the Project Kickoff Matter?
When you're pitching the project to upper management, you probably have a good grasp on what the project entails, what your general direction is, etc.
For project kickoff, though, you'll really have to dive deep and figure out all the essential details. You'll have to come up with things such as the general direction and vision, team member responsibilities, KPIs, and a bunch of other things.
Then, you'll have to communicate all that with your team on the project kickoff meeting, ensuring that everyone knows what they're getting into. As you could've guessed, if you don't start the project the right way, your team might be left pretty clueless.
You've won the senior management over with your project. Now you have to do the same with your team. You'll have to communicate what the project is about, exactly, and why it matters. The way you do this really does matter – your team needs to be motivated enough and know that what you're working towards is really significant in the grand scheme of things.
If the project is something they've been forced into by their supervisor, they won't be too happy to give their all and participate.
You'll need to make sure you have everyone you need for the project. If you realize you need someone new sometime mid-way to project completion, you'll have to onboard them from the beginning, and that can be very time-consuming. Make sure to get people from different departments, as well as someone from the senior management (if the project is about process re-engineering, for example, and needs the approval from management to really make some changes).
Then, you'd want to put down all the project team member information in one place. Think, names, departments, how to contact, etc. Make sure to get several different ways to contact the employees, however. While an e-mail can work most of the time, there are times you might have to get them on the line ASAP.
You can't really tell whether a project is successful or not without the right means of measuring it. There are usually 2 ways of doing this, depending on the type of the project. If it's something marketing related, you'd go for KPIs. i.e, you'd measure online traffic, conversion rate, profit growth, and so on. This is essential for both internal and external projects – but your boss and an external client would want to see what the ROI of the project is.
If on the other hand, you're developing a new product or software, you'd go for a timeline. Meaning, you'd map out the length of the project, and when you're supposed to have what feature or aspect ready. For your internal team, this provides accountability and ensures that you'll get the project out on time. For the client, this can be a sort of quality assurance.
Project Management Methodology – As in, how, exactly, you're going to be doing things. Methodologies such as Scrum, Agile, Kanban, etc.
Communication & Planning Tools – tools such as Slack for chat, Skype for online meetings, Tallyfy for process management, etc.
Communication Strategy – How often are you going to communicate with your team? Weekly? Monthly? In what form, online or offline?
Now that you've figured out all the details on how you'll be running the project, you'll need to communicate all this with your team through a project kickoff meeting.
First and foremost, you'll need to notify your team about the meeting in advance. The project kickoff meeting is really something you can't miss. Ensure that if a team member isn't able to attend physically, they're still online to participate in the meeting.
Then, you'll have to explain everything you've planned for the project to your team. Who's in charge of what, what the general vision is, etc. Unless you're the type to be really good at winging meeting, you should have an agenda for. So, you should put all this down on paper (or powerpoint). Or, you could even create a project charter, something that'll end up coming handy throughout the duration of the whole project.
All this, of course, you'll need to send to your team members in advance so they have an idea on what you'll discuss on the meeting.
Project Vision and Goals. Give the team a basic overview of the project and what the client's needs are (if it's an external project, of course). Share your objectives for the project and your vision for the end results, as well as the KPIs and timeline.
Team Introductions. Unless you're working in a small or medium company, your team members come from a number of different departments. So, introduce yourself to the group and then have everyone on the team introduce themselves by their name and their role on the project. If you've already made a contact information file, make sure to share it with everyone.
Tools & Communication. What tools / project management methodology you'll be using and how you'll be communicating with the team.
Define Steps Going Forward. What's the next step for the project? When's the next meeting? What are the initial tasks that need to be taken care of?
Questions and Answers. Now that you have outlined the project for the team, have a brief question and answer session. This is a great opportunity to have other team members share their feedback and to proactively address any concerns they may have.
Did you already carry out the project kickoff? How did it go, everything as expected? Do you have any tips or tricks that tend to help? Let us know down in the comments!


It's been eight years since we've heard from our beloved Gilmore Girls. But thanks to Netflix, we're being given one last trip back to Stars Hollow. The streaming behemoth has closed in on a deal with Warner Brothers to produce four 90-minute episodes/mini movies. All of the major players are expected to return, along with series writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino, who left just before the final season. What happened to Rory after following President Obama on the campaign trail? Did Luke and Lorelei finally tie the knot? No release date or additional filming information has been announced. Just try to think of it as more time for coffee and wild speculation.
Laura Studarus is a staff writer at RELEVANT. She likes catsup and pie. Now there's nothing left to discuss on the second date. Follow her on Twitter @Laura_Studarus.


Can Your Business Meet the Demands of Cyber-Ransom?
Online criminality has become a big business and new faces of social engineering and fraud are sweeping the globe. News articles regularly report on major breaches and outages, but rarely, if ever, do we see the underlying ransom demands that are presented before a business is attacked. The stand that organizations often take is that they do not negotiate with terrorists or pirates. But this approach, while noble, can become costly to a business, some may lose everything.
We know you are hosted behind a CDN, and we know it costs you money to serve content. We have decided that we will load content from your website, non-stop, across all of the nodes of the CDN using our botnets and other reflection mechanisms to raise your bill by $100,000 per month. This will go on indefinitely unless you pay us $50,000.
If you were an online business, what do you do if you saw that letter? Would you leave your CDN provider?
A CDN provider is designed to serve content and charge you for it, but they do not guarantee your protection. To repeat – your CDN provider does not guarantee your protection. Our team has seen instances of customers receiving monthly bills in excess of $1.5 Million from their CDN provider because of this misunderstanding because they thought they were protected.
The letter above was similar to what Feedly, the popular news aggregator application, received. And as you may know from the news, the attackers were not successful in extorting the money. Feedly, however, was offline for many days in a row and had major reputation damage following this incident. Would you pay the ransom next time?
Often people think about protecting themselves after the fact. You can't buy car insurance after an accident, so why consider insuring your safety only after a breach occurs. The best course of action is to defend against cyber-attacks before they occur and this should include a hybrid defense solution, one that pairs on-premise and cloud mitigation. Having a good defense in place ahead of time is necessary if you wish to stop attacks when they do happen. Otherwise, you may find that paying ransom is an acceptable option that would minimize the damage to your business, despite the cost.
As Director of Security Solutions, David Hobbs is responsible for developing, managing, and increasing the company's security practice in APAC. Before joining Radware, David was at one of the leading Breach Investigation Firms in the US. David has worked in the Security and Engineering arena for over 20 years and during this time has helped various government agencies and world governments in various cyber security issues across all sectors.
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You are probably here because you are thinking about making some changes in your life. Perhaps you would like to learn how to cope better, feel better, or expand your understanding of your purpose in life. Whatever the reason, I congratulate you on taking this first step by researching your options for help and support.
You are the one who decides it is time for change. Sometimes this is greeted with mixed emotions and uncertainty about how to proceed. Often the decision is accompanied by ambivalence, emotional discomfort and fear associated with taking the initial steps. The "pain" of the present moment can often aid the movement forward to a different place. I will help you explore these initial feelings and provide help in translating your goals into realistic, concrete and measurable steps.


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March 06, 2014 Reviews
by Noah Berlatsky
Spy narratives as a genre usually involve über-competent assassins performing death-defying feats in exotic locales with advanced weaponry and smoldering sex appeal. Even supposedly realistic takes like John le Carré's novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold present spies as grimly competent soldiers occupying a moral universe that's glamorous in its grayness. Spies, popular culture insists with almost one voice, are cool.
The spies in Bethlehem aren't cool, they're a combination of bureaucrats and thugs. Razi (Tsahi Halevi), an Israeli intelligence officer dealing with Palestinian terrorist threats, doesn't have neat gadgets or exciting missions like James Bond. He just has a list of contacts he pumps for information, using a combination of bribery and bullying. One of those contacts is a teenager named Sanfur (Shadi Mar'i), whom Razi recruited by threatening his father when the boy was 15. Razi doesn't have cleverness or martial-arts skills. Instead, he has a shameless, amoral willingness to take advantage of those with less power. In fact, to the extent that Razi attempts to protect Sanfur and treat him as a human child rather than as a thing, he ceases to be good at his job.
Sanfur, for his part, is effectively a spy as well. He passes information to Razi, and he also secretly works to funnel money from Hamas to his brother, resistance fighter Abu Ibrahim (Tarek Copti). Though in some sense he's Razi's double agent, that doesn't indicate any particular competence on his part—just confusion and divided loyalties. He's a kid who loves his brother and wants his dad and friends to admire him, but he's also an undercover agent. The contradictions are insupportable; everything starts to fall apart when Sanfur is injured after daring a friend to shoot him while he's wearing a bulletproof vest. He's living a life of incredible risk, danger, and deception, but he needs to prove his manliness through idiotic swagger.
He isn't alone, either. The Palestinian resistance is presented less as an organized battle against the oppressor, and more as a fragmented, endless pissing match—in one emblematic scene, two rival factions almost shoot each other over which of them gets to bury a martyr. In another sequence, rebel leader Badawi (Hitham Omari) challenges a rival to run up several flights of stairs in boyish horseplay, then, when the guy is exhausted, cold-bloodedly pushes him over a railing. There's no heroism here, just petty betrayal and banal violence. That goes for the Israelis as well. The one big blow-out fight scene occurs in some poor Palestinian family's home, after Ibrahim flees there. Razi saves the day not with derring-do, but by discovering that the wife has cancer, and using that to blackmail her for the floor plan.
"There's nothing I hate more than dishonesty," Razi's spymaster boss Levy (Yossi Eini) tells him. The irony is that it's Razi's job to lie; that's what spies do. But the further irony is that the boss is right; dishonesty is unforgivable. But in a police state like Palestine, it's also inescapable, corroding everything it touches: relationships between brother and brother, between neighbors, between friends. In a spy story, Bethlehem insists, there are no good guys or bad guys, and no victor—just day-in, day-out deceit and betrayal, the weary work of hate.
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Q: Java repaint() flick i have a custom paint method in java
@Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
    super.paintComponents(g);
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) buffer.getGraphics();
    g2.setColor(java.awt.Color.WHITE);
    g2.fillRect(0, 0, jPanel1.getWidth(), jPanel1.getHeight());
    //paint some custom graphic forms
    g2 = (Graphics2D) jPanel1.getGraphics();
    g2.drawImage(buffer, 0, 0, jPanel1.getWidth(), jPanel1.getHeight(), null);

}

and when the user drag the mouse i update the position of the graphic forms and call
repaint();
at the end of the method
My problem is that the forms update correctly but there is a annoying flick. How can i solve the flick? thanks in advance

A: It's impossible to answer this question well without seeing more code, preferably a minimal compilable, runnable example program or MCVE but I can make suggestions:

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*If you're drawing within a top-level window such as a JFrame, JApplet or similar, don't.

*You should not be calling a super painting method that is different from the overridden one. Here you're calling super.paintComponents within a paint method, a very dangerous thing to do.

*You should draw within a JPanel's paintComponent method as this will automatically grant you double buffering.

*And as noted above, should be calling super.paintComponent within the override.

*You should avoid using Graphics objects obtained by calling getGraphics() on a Swing GUi component since this gives you an object which is short-lived, and this risks your image disappearing or worse, a NullPointerException being thrown.

A: simply use this repaint:
repaint(0, 0, 1, 1);
instead of yours


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EventHandler

				Class Eve

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				Eve

Defined in:  EH.js.

Class Summary

						Constructor Attributes
						Constructor Name and Description

								Eve(oEvent)

Eve
this class is used to normalize the event not depending of browser that owns the user

Field Summary

							Field Attributes
							Field Name and Description

							<static>

								Eve.buttonMouseDown

buttonMouseDown returns the correct object to be used to detect the mouse button when pressed down

Method Summary

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							Method Name and Description

init()

Init method must be called to normalize the Eve instance to be used the same way in cross browsing mode.

							<static>

Eve.instance(oEvent)

instance is the method to be called each time we need a normalized event object

normalize(oEvent)

normalize is the method that returns a normalized event object in cross browsing way.

preventDefault()

preventDefault stops the default behaviour on the element where the event is attached

stopImmediatePropagation()

stopImmediatePropagation force the stop bubbling propagation

stopPropagation()

stopPropagation stops bubbling propagation

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						Eve(oEvent)

					Eve
this class is used to normalize the event not depending of browser that owns the user

Author: Tomas Corral.

Parameters:

								 oEvent

Returns:

Eve

					Field Detail

<static>

					Eve.buttonMouseDown

						buttonMouseDown returns the correct object to be used to detect the mouse button when pressed down

					Method Detail

					init()

						Init method must be called to normalize the Eve instance to be used the same way in cross browsing mode.
Sets default values if properties are not defined and normalize the Eve object with the original event.

Returns:

Eve

<static>

					Eve.instance(oEvent)

						instance is the method to be called each time we need a normalized event object

Parameters:

									{Object} oEvent

Returns:

Eve instance

					{Event}
					normalize(oEvent)

						normalize is the method that returns a normalized event object in cross browsing way.

Parameters:

									oEvent

					preventDefault()

						preventDefault stops the default behaviour on the element where the event is attached

Returns:

Eve

					stopImmediatePropagation()

						stopImmediatePropagation force the stop bubbling propagation

Returns:

Eve

					stopPropagation()

						stopPropagation stops bubbling propagation

Returns:

Eve

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Q: equality of derivative Let $f$ be deivatived in $x=x_0$.
Prove that $\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0-h)}{2h}=f'(x_0)$.
The problem is, that I think that I disproved it (but I know I have a mistake somewhere:
$\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0-h)}{2h}=\frac{1}{2}\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)-f(x_0-h)+f(x_0)}{h}=
\frac{1}{2}(\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)}{h}-\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)}{h})=\frac{1}{2}(f'(x_0)-f'(x_0))=0$
But $f'(x_0)$ is not neccesserley equal to 0. Thanks.

A: You have to be aware that $\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0-h)-f(x_0)}{h} \neq f'(x_0)$ but $-f'(x_0)$. In the following all steps are correctly presented:
\begin{align*}
\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0-h)}{2h}
&=\frac{1}{2}\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)-f(x_0-h)+f(x_0)}{h} \\
&=\frac{1}{2}\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)-\big(f(x_0-h)-f(x_0)\big)}{h} \\
&=\frac{1}{2}\Big(\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)}{h}-\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0-h)-f(x_0)}{h}\Big) \\
&=\frac{1}{2}\Big(\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0+h)-f(x_0)}{h}+\lim_{h\to 0}\frac{f(x_0-h)-f(x_0)}{-h}\Big) \\
&=\frac{1}{2}\big(f'(x_0)+f'(x_0)\big)=f'(x_0)
\end{align*}


FORT MILL -- Carl Gullick's tempestuous relationship with the South Carolina Republican Party almost cost him his state House seat on Tuesday.
But Gullick eked out a narrow victory in District 48, relying on strong backing from River Hills and Laurel Creek to overcome political newcomer Kyle Boyd.
A Christian school principal and resident of Regent Park, Boyd ran as a "true conservative light" for northern York County. He was heavily supported by a Columbia-based school choice group, South Carolinians for Responsible Government.
"They spent some money," Gullick said Tuesday night. "Kyle Boyd seems to be a nice guy. That wasn't the issue. The issue was SCRG. They attempted to buy a seat, and they almost got it."


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By chopping and splitting at the same time, the Chopper1 makes wedges and mallets unnecessary. And the Chopper1's design makes it practically impossible for the axe to become wedged in the wood.
Since 1977, the Chopper1 has taken the frustration out of splitting wood. And now it's back, and available exclusively through this site.
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We made some really great progress this week, but unfortunately most of it isn't the kind of progress that looks nice in a blog post. I updated the ship generation to (kind of) intelligently place doors around the ship, include hallways to connect zones, and handle placing unique rooms in random or predetermined spots!
Unfortunately it's still not pretty to look at, and a screen shot wouldn't even convey the updates very well so you'll all just have to wait on that.
Every week we scoot closer to that alluring public demo, and that's what has really been driving us forward. We can't wait to start sharing our work with people and getting feedback, so if you're interested in testing the demo shoot us an email at contact@runnerupstudios.com!
Thanks again for checking in with us this week, and we'll see you all next Saturday!


Internet Digitalisation and Youth Employment: Job Creator or Job Disruptor?
Internet Digitalisation and Youth Employment: Job Creator or Job Disruptor? is the theme for this year's Interns with a Mission event. The panel discussion, followed by a networking reception, will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. DiploFoundation's Dr Roxana Radu will moderate the discussion, which is this year organised by the United Nations Oce at Geneva (UNOG), in collaboration with DiploFoundation, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Geneva Internet Platform.
The annual Interns with a Mission event brings together interns from permanent missions, international organisations, and NGOs, to share their experiences and to develop a sense of community among the next generation of diplomats.
This year's theme, 'Internet, digitalisation and youth employment: Turning the challenge into an opportunity?', will discuss the issue of automation which has increasingly been placed on the international agenda. More and more jobs are being automated, making a rising number of workers redundant on the labour market. The world is living through the reality of the fourth industrial revolution, one of the inherent parts of which is automation and wide-scale use of cyber-physical systems. Should the wider public, and especially youth, be afraid of automation and consider themselves doomed for a future of unemployment? In an interactive discussion, four panellists will discuss the impact of digitalisation and automation on the job market.
For more details, download the flyer, and the poster.


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