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What happens with Grady Jarrett now?
The team's biggest remaining star is in the final year of his deal.
By Dave Choate Mar 24, 2022, 8:00am EDT
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With 110 games under his belt in Atlanta, Grady Jarrett is now the second-longest tenured active Falcon, behind Jake Matthews. He's one of just two stars on the defense—the other being A.J. Terrell—and a disruptive force in the middle of the defensive line, a locker room leader, and someone who has poured time and energy into the city of Atlanta. Jarrett is, in short, one of the great Falcons of the era and one of the better defensive linemen in team history.
All those plaudits don't secure his place with the Falcons, however, just like they didn't for Julio Jones or Matt Ryan. With the team speculation has turned to Jarrett's future in Atlanta. His current deal is up after this season, and to this point we've heard nothing about the team extending him. Is this a sign that Jarrett could be on his way out of Atlanta, too, or two sides working on an extension in silence that's customary for both parties?
There are three options for the Falcons and Jarrett.
Atlanta shed Julio, Ryan, and Josh Harris the past couple of seasons, and with no real pretense of staying hyper-competitive left, the Falcons may turn to Jarrett and Deion Jones (the subject of another article) next. They'd clear space this year to take a swing on some multi-year deals and rebuild the pretense of being competitive by doing so, but more importantly, they could acquire yet more draft capital.
What would Jarrett fetch in a trade? SportsTalkATL looked at that a while back and made the reasonable case that short of a first or a couple of second round picks the Falcons shouldn't consider it, but I think they'd struggle to get back a first for Jarrett even though his value is evident to teams across the league. A second rounder in the right landing spot, especially for a team willing to extend him when he gets there, would make a ton of sense. Atlanta doesn't have any hard deadlines to move him at the moment and could entertain offers throughout the summer if they want to, giving them time to build a market for his services.
Age—he's almost 30—and the lack of premium production as a pass rusher the past couple of years might make a second rounder unrealistic, but again, I think Jarrett is viewed as one of the best defensive tackles in football. I don't think you'd see the Falcons moving him for much less unless they simply do not want to give him a new deal.
Jarrett gets a new home—hopefully in a place he'd like to land—and the Falcons get yet another premium pick to help them accelerate the rebuild. If Jarrett isn't willing to re-up in Atlanta, this is the obvious solution. It's better than letting him...
Play one year, leave in free agency
This is the disaster outcome, and I can't see the Falcons getting here. You'd have Jarrett's swan song year in 2022 for a team that may not be headed anywhere, and then he'd hit the open market, where he'd presumably have a ton of suitors.
In this scenario, you get one more year of Jarrett, which is good. You also probably let Jarrett walk for nothing heading into a season where everyone inside and outside of Flowery Branch will be expecting the Falcons to make major strides, which is bad. I don't think Terry Fontenot and company have any interest in letting this play out unless there winds up being no alternative, which is hard for me to imagine.
My strong preference, if both sides can agree to it, is an extension that keeps Jarrett in Atlanta as one of the faces of the franchise. He can still play at a high level, this defense needs to hold on to its few quality players, and Atlanta's about to have more than enough cap space to absorb a new deal for him. I absolutely believe that this team will be better off with Jarrett the next few years than without him, and if they finally surround him with better talent on the defensive line, he'll have less yelling about double teams to do.
How much is he going to get? It'll be a cut below Aaron Donald again, obviously, but we could be talking an annual average of $20 million to keep Jarrett in Atlanta. Yes, this will bite into the team's windfall of 2023 cap space, but the Falcons should be trying to use some of that money on elite players. Jarrett is still one of those guys.
My gut feeling is that Jarrett stays. Dean Pees is as crusty as a fresh-baked baguette, but he was practically giddy talking about Jarrett back in December, a testament to the high esteem in which he holds the defensive tackle.
"I can't say enough great things about the guy in every aspect of his life, from my standpoint – as a football player, being around him as a person, everything about him," Pees said. "There's nothing I can find negative about the guy. To me, he's what all young players at the defensive line – all young players, period, on defense – that's what I should aspire to be like, that guy. That's a professional football player that takes his job serious on every aspect."
Does that sound like a guy Pees is eager to get rid of? The Falcons are going to revamp their defense significantly through free agency and the draft—they've already added Teez Tabor, Dee Alford and Casey Hayward in the secondary, Lorenzo Carter at outside linebacker, and Anthony Rush on the defensive line—but Pees needs leaders and players he can count on. Jarrett fits the bill, and unless you believe he's headed for a sudden dropoff, a 2-to-3 year extension would make a ton of sense for Atlanta.
The question becomes whether Jarrett's camp is interested in staying and whether they can reach terms, and the silence on that front tells us we really have no idea what's next. I'm hopeful Jarrett will still be here in 2022 and beyond, and that he'll finally get to be a part of a great Falcons defense at some point down the line.
Senior Bowl 2023: Day 1 practice recap The first day of Senior Bowl practices was hot and sunny and featured a number of standout performances, including OT Dawand Jones, DT Keeanu Benton, EDGE Will McDonald IV, WR Tank Dell, and many more. Read on for our takeaways from Day 1.


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One of the issues we need to nail is the old "Why Vietnam?"
In Nov. 1995, I was asked to give the Veterans' Day address here at the U.Va. Rotunda (sponsored by the various ROTC detachments), and my theme was that had we simply walked away from Vietnam in 1964 we might well have lost the Cold War.
I used quotes from Giap, Che, Lin Biao, and others to make the point that the entire world recognized that VN was a test case of whether America had the will and ability to stop "people's war" or "wars of national liberation," and had we given up the message both to communists and non-communists would be clear. It would have confirmed the wisdom of resorting to armed struggle (supporting the Chinese position in the Sino-Soviet dispute, and perhaps giving Moscow an incentive to make peace with Bejing), it would have told neutrals and third-world governments not to rely upon America and to cut the best deal they could with the communists to keep some power, and we might well soon have found ourselves facing a dozen or more "Vietnams" from Asia to Africa and Latin America. We simply could not have won a dozen Vietnams, and that would have given us the choice of watching the communists seize one country after another or responding (as Ike and Dulles threatened) with nukes. But we weren't going to endanger NY City or DC to save Phnom Penh or Bangkok.
In the end, after essentially winning the war on the ground by 1972, Congress legislated defeat. But by then Thailand and Indonesia had become much stronger than was the case in '64, and more importantly China had stopped supporting insurgencies.
I can't count the number of intelligent adults I meet who, when Vietnam comes up, ask whether there was really any "reason" for us to be there -- ignoring, again, the horrible human costs paid by those we betrayed after we left.


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November 11, 2020 Culture » Culture Features
For One Nonprofit, the Pandemic Has Meant a Loss of Recipients
Sparrow Clubs, a local nonprofit organization for medically compromised children, is experiencing a shortage of families to sponsor
By Jess McComb
Among pandemic business casualties, nonprofits face a challenging era. It can be assumed that most organizations feel that pinch in sponsorship losses. Sparrow Clubs, a nonprofit organization that financially aids families with children in medical need, says it's not struggling with funds, but instead, with finding families to receive their help.
"I don't have as many applications as I normally would. I think some families assume that they can't get into a school, that there's no funding. Normally we have 15 to 20 Sparrows each year; this year I have three," said Nancy Childers, Sparrow Clubs' regional director for Central Oregon.
Cheryl Bartz
PJ Bartz with her sisters and dad, celebrating the one-year anniversary of her heart transplant.
The mission of Sparrow Clubs is to connect medically compromised children, 0-18 years old, with a local school that then adopts the child as its "Sparrow" for a school year. School projects are sponsored by a company or organization, which donates $2,560 to the family. Then, a school's student body matches those funds with 256 hours of community service. Students get empowered to help others, while children and families gain support.
"Sparrow is awesome. They've provided funding for whatever we need. It can be for bills, for groceries, for school. It's been super helpful knowing that it's available even if that's for part of a house payment or an electric bill," said Cheryl Bartz, a Sparrow recipient. Bartz's 10-year-old daughter PJ was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy in July. The family joined Sparrow Clubs in Bend in September of 2019 as Lava Ridge Elementary Schools's Sparrow.
The $2,560 given to the Bartz family is the highest fund promised to Sparrows—though local high schools notoriously exceed this amount with independent fundraising through school-led pageants. Summit High School's Thunder Pageant, Mountain View's Cougar Pageant and Bend's Mr. BHS have raised tens of thousands of dollars for Sparrows in past years. Last year, Summit's Thunder Pageant raised $52,000 for its Sparrow, Titan. This year, the district-wide freeze on fundraising has made the pageants look a lot different.
"There will be a virtual application and virtual voting," explained Mimi Dioguardi, Thunder director. "Rehearsals and meetings will have to be socially distanced or virtual. It's through the school, so we have to work with their policies."
Courtesy Nancy Childers
An assembly at Pacific Crest Middle School for a 2019 Sparrow.
High school projects are typically announced at "kickoff assemblies" at local schools—but the constraints of distance learning have made them moot this year.
"At the assembly I tell the students that all it takes is an hour of community service to help and then I ask the students to stand up if they are willing to do that. The whole auditorium goes silent and you just watch as one by one every student stands up, everybody is clapping and cheering, the family is in tears. It's heartwarming," said Childers.
This year, that's all transferring to virtual platforms. Due to pandemic related restrictions, some schools that normally do Sparrow projects are holding off or passing this year. For schools that continue the projects virtually, student outreach will continue to impact the families.
"The money is helpful so that your electricity stays on, but the community outreach, seeing the support from other families and children, has been the big reward," said Bartz.
An assembly at Mountain View High Schoolfor the school's Sparrow. This year, the assembly portion is a no go.
Childers explains that for most Sparrow families, this is the reality.
"We're not Make a Wish and our families know that. To some of them, $2,560 is a lot of money, but for those facing humongous medical bills it's a drop in the bucket. The bigger picture is how their child's story is going to have an impact on students and the community," said Childers.
"These students realize that they do matter, that they can make a difference. Even if life isn't treating them great right now, they can do an hour of community service and help a family in need," said Childers. "Even if the sponsor can't match the hours that the school raises, it pays off in compassion towards the family. The win is that the community got more out of the project."
This year, families with medically compromised children have experienced extreme isolation from their communities. The threat of infection is too high a risk.
"We haven't been able to have much contact with friends; that aspect has been really difficult," said Bartz. "She has some neighborhood friends that she can play with outside, socially distanced, but sometimes those families are in contact with other families and feel that they need to spend a couple weeks away from PJ."
Those interested in learning more about Sparrow Clubs—either to donate or to take part as a Sparrow family—can visit sparrowclubs.org.
Jess McComb
Jess McComb is an intern at the Source Weekly but she'd like to pretend she's a full time employee. Her current occupation is high school but she prefers the title 'journalist.' Hobbies include: being the best female skier on the Mountain, color coordinating outfits, obsessively working out and bragging about...
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Q: Keep Focus on Input text after clicking somewhere else I was working on a input design i made from a youtube video and its working very well but i want to modify it a little bit, the code:

    *{
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      box-sizing: border-box;
    }
    body{
      display: flex;
      justify-content: center;
      align-items: center;
      min-height: 100vh;
      flex-direction: column;
      gap: 30px;
      background: #1d2b3a;
    }

    /******************** Input Box - Not Required ********************/
    .inputBox{
      position: relative;
      width: 250px;
    }
    .inputBox input{
      width: 100%;
      padding: 10px;
      border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.25);
      background: #1d2b3a;
      border-radius: 5px;
      outline: none;
      color: #fff;
      font-size: 1em;
      transition: 0.5s;
    }

    .inputBox span{
      position: absolute;
      left: 0;
      padding: 10px;
      pointer-events: none;
      font-size: 1em;
      color: rgba(255,255,255, 0.25);
      text-transform: uppercase;
      transition: 0.5s;
    }
    .inputBox input:invalid ~ span,
    .inputBox input:focus ~ span{
      color: #00dfc4;
      transform: translateX(10px) translateY(-7px);
      font-size: 0.65em;
      padding: 0 10px;
      background: #1d2b3a;
      border-left: 1px solid #00dfc4;
      border-right: 1px solid #00dfc4;
      letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    }
    .inputBox input:invalid,
    .inputBox input:focus{
      border: 1px solid #00dfc4;
    }

    /******************** Input Box - Required ********************/

    .inputBox_r{
      position: relative;
      width: 250px;
    }
    .inputBox_r input{
      width: 100%;
      padding: 10px;
      border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.25);
      background: #1d2b3a;
      border-radius: 5px;
      outline: none;
      color: #fff;
      font-size: 1em;
      transition: 0.5s;
    }

    .inputBox_r span{
      position: absolute;
      left: 0;
      padding: 10px;
      pointer-events: none;
      font-size: 1em;
      color: rgba(255,255,255, 0.25);
      text-transform: uppercase;
      transition: 0.5s;
    }
    .inputBox_r input:valid ~ span,
    .inputBox_r input:focus ~ span{
      color: #00dfc4;
      transform: translateX(10px) translateY(-7px);
      font-size: 0.65em;
      padding: 0 10px;
      background: #1d2b3a;
      border-left: 1px solid #00dfc4;
      border-right: 1px solid #00dfc4;
      letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    }
    .inputBox_r input:valid,
    .inputBox_r input:focus{
      border: 1px solid #00dfc4;
    }

    .inputBox_r input:valid ~ span,
    .inputBox_r input:focus ~ span{
      background: #00dfc4;
      color: #1d2b3a;
      border-radius: 2px;
    }
**HTML:**

          <input type="text" name="">
          First Name

          <input type="text" name="" required>
          Last Name

As you can see there are two inputs one is not mandatory and the other one is mandatory with the required attribute.When you enter text inside the second input box it stas in focus state because of the required attribute and this is exactly what i want with the first input box.
The First input box does not have the required attribute and thats why even if i enter text inside it and click somewhere else it goes out of focus and its messing up my css styling.
So is there any way to keep focus on the first input when text is entered but without passing the required attribute?
I searched for this everywhere but couldnt find anything.
Sorry if i said anything wrong, i am new to HTML & CSS

A: Here's a simple bit of JS that will check if a field has a value in it and add/remove a class of .filled accordingly. Then the CSS is adjusted as well

// Get all .inputBox
const inputBoxes = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('inputBox'));

// Get all .inputBox_r
const rInputBoxes = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('inputBox_r'));

// Merge both .inputBox and .inputBox_r into 1 array
const allInputBoxes = inputBoxes.concat(rInputBoxes);

// For each box
allInputBoxes.forEach( box => {
  // Get input as first child element
  const input = box.firstElementChild;

  // add event listener for any change on the input
  input.addEventListener('input', () => {

    // if input is not empty add class filled
    // else remove class filled if is empty
    input.value ? input.classList.add('filled') : input.classList.remove('filled')
  })
});
* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  min-height: 100vh;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 30px;
  background: #1d2b3a;
}

/******************** Input Box - Not Required ********************/

.inputBox {
  position: relative;
  width: 250px;
}

.inputBox input {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 10px;
  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
  background: #1d2b3a;
  border-radius: 5px;
  outline: none;
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 1em;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

.inputBox span {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  padding: 10px;
  pointer-events: none;
  font-size: 1em;
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
  text-transform: uppercase;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

.inputBox input:invalid~span,
.inputBox input:focus~span,
.inputBox input.filled~span {
  color: #00dfc4;
  transform: translateX(10px) translateY(-7px);
  font-size: 0.65em;
  padding: 0 10px;
  background: #1d2b3a;
  border-left: 1px solid #00dfc4;
  border-right: 1px solid #00dfc4;
  letter-spacing: 0.2em;
}

.inputBox input:invalid,
.inputBox input:focus,
.inputBox input.filled {
  border: 1px solid #00dfc4;
}

/******************** Input Box - Required ********************/

.inputBox_r {
  position: relative;
  width: 250px;
}

.inputBox_r input {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 10px;
  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
  background: #1d2b3a;
  border-radius: 5px;
  outline: none;
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 1em;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

.inputBox_r span {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  padding: 10px;
  pointer-events: none;
  font-size: 1em;
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
  text-transform: uppercase;
  transition: 0.5s;
}

.inputBox_r input:valid~span,
.inputBox_r input:focus~span,
.inputBox_r input.filled~span{
  color: #00dfc4;
  transform: translateX(10px) translateY(-7px);
  font-size: 0.65em;
  padding: 0 10px;
  background: #1d2b3a;
  border-left: 1px solid #00dfc4;
  border-right: 1px solid #00dfc4;
  letter-spacing: 0.2em;
}

.inputBox_r input:valid,
.inputBox_r input:focus,
.inputBox_r input.filled {
  border: 1px solid #00dfc4;
}

.inputBox_r input:valid~span,
.inputBox_r input:focus~span,
.inputBox_r input.filled~span {
  background: #00dfc4;
  color: #1d2b3a;
  border-radius: 2px;
}

  <input type="text" name="">
  First Name

  <input type="text" name="" required>
  Last Name

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Die Bahnstrecke Löbau–Radibor war eine Nebenbahn in Sachsen, die ursprünglich als Teilabschnitt der Sächsischen Nordostbahn (Löbau–Riesa) projektiert worden war. Sie verlief von Löbau über Weißenberg/OL. nach Radibor und hatte dort Anschluss an die Verbindung Bautzen–Hoyerswerda.

Geschichte

Vorgeschichte und Bau

Löbau–Weißenberg
Bereits in den 1860er Jahren war das Projekt einer durchgehenden Verbindung von Weißwasser in der preußischen Oberlausitz über Löbau nach Böhmen zum Anschluss an die Strecken der Böhmischen Nordbahn diskutiert worden. Obwohl das Vorhaben vom sächsischen Landtag am 8. Mai 1868 genehmigt wurde, kam es nicht zur Ausführung. Als 1874 die preußische Verbindung Kohlfurt–Falkenberg der Oberlausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Betrieb ging, wurde das Projekt endgültig zu den Akten gelegt.

Erst der ab 1879 begonnene Bau von Sekundärbahnen in Sachsen ermöglichte letztlich auch für Weißenberg den ersehnten Bahnanschluss. Es sollte jedoch noch über ein Jahrzehnt vergehen, bis das Projekt einer Strecke von Löbau nach Weißenberg im März 1892 im sächsischen Landtag genehmigt wurde. Erste Vermessungsarbeiten waren schon im Herbst 1891 durchgeführt worden; der eigentliche Streckenbau begann am 1. April 1894. Die Trasse führte unschwierig entlang des Löbauer Wassers, sodass neben einigen Wegüberführungen keine weiteren Kunstbauten nötig waren.
Am 1. August 1895 wurde die Strecke als normalspurige Sekundärbahn eröffnet.

Weißenberg–Radibor
Um 1900 bestanden nördlich der Sächsisch-Schlesischen Eisenbahn in der östlichen Oberlausitz nur die beiden Sekundärbahnen Löbau–Weißenberg und Bautzen–Königswartha. Vor allem für die nahe der Grenze zu Preußen gelegenen Orte waren die Bahnhöfe der preußischen Linie Kohlfurt–Falkenberg die nächstgelegenen.

Bei Großdubrau waren Betriebe entstanden, welche die vor Ort lagernden Kaoline und Tone zu keramischen Produkten verarbeiteten. Die Margarethenhütte in Großdubrau begann um 1900 mit der Produktion von keramischen Hochspannungsisolatoren, die deutschlandweit nachgefragt wurden. Da diese nicht mit den vor Ort lagernden Rohstoffen gefertigt werden konnten, geriet eine Eisenbahnanbindung somit zur Existenzfrage. Die nahe gelegene Adolfshütte ließ darum 1891 eine eigene schmalspurige Anschlussbahn zum Bahnhof Quoos an der Strecke Bautzen–Königswartha errichten.

1898 begannen die Vorarbeiten für eine parallel zur preußischen Grenze verlaufende Sekundärbahn Weißenberg-Radibor. Da man die Strecke als ein Teilstück der noch im Planungsstadium befindlichen Sächsischen Nordostbahn betrachtete, wurde auf die Möglichkeit des späteren Ausbaues zu einer zweigleisigen Hauptbahn geachtet.

Am 14. Juni 1900 wurde der Bahnbau genehmigt. Der eigentliche Streckenbau begann am 1. Oktober 1902. Als einziges größeres Bauwerk musste nahe Weißenberg ein zehnbogiger Viadukt über das Löbauer Wasser errichtet werden, der in der damals neuartigen Betonbauweise entstand. Die Arbeiten führte die darauf spezialisierte A-G für Beton- und Monierbau aus.

Am 10. November 1903 wurde der Abschnitt Weißenberg–Baruth eröffnet. Der Weiterbau nach Radibor verzögerte sich jedoch. Erst um die Jahreswende 1904/1905 genehmigte der sächsische Landtag insgesamt 2 Mio. Mark für die Fertigstellung der Strecke. Am 7. März 1905 begannen die Bauarbeiten. Neben der Spreebrücke mit den notwendigen Flutöffnungen war insbesondere auch ein Neubau des Bahnhofes Radibor notwendig, der zur Abzweigstation umgebaut werden musste. Am 1. Mai 1906 wurde die Gesamtstrecke Löbau–Radibor eröffnet.

Betrieb
In den Anfangsjahren verkehrten nur vier Zugpaare über die Gesamtstrecke. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit betrug 30 km/h. Der Bau der Sächsischen Nordostbahn wurde 1927 endgültig abgebrochen, sodass ein weiterer Ausbau der Strecke unterblieb.

Am 17. Dezember 1913 wurde die Strecke Görlitz–Weißenberg der Görlitzer Kreisbahn eröffnet. Diese eröffnete ihre eigenen Gleisanlagen an der Ostseite des bestehenden Bahnhofes. Ein Verbindungsgleis ermöglichte den Austausch von Güterwagen.

Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges sprengte die Wehrmacht neben einigen Wegüberführungen auch den Gröditzer Viadukt. Am 7. Juni 1945 wurde der Verkehr nach Weißenberg wieder aufgenommen. Der Viadukt wurde später wieder aufgebaut.

Stilllegung

Ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre machte sich ein Rückgang der Beförderungsleistungen bemerkbar. Neue Buslinien, die direkt nach dem Oberzentrum Bautzen fuhren, zogen Fahrgäste ab. Im Güterverkehr war die Strecke allerdings für die Margarethenhütte und das Basaltwerk Baruth unverzichtbar.

Zum Fahrplanwechsel am 27. Mai 1972 wurde der Personenverkehr zwischen Löbau und Baruth eingestellt. Zum Fahrplanwechsel im Herbst verlor auch die Reststrecke ihren Personenverkehr. Fortan bestand nur noch Güterverkehr zwischen Baruth und Radibor.

Im Frühjahr 1973 wurde die Strecke Löbau–Baruth abgebaut. Allerdings wurde 1978 zwischen Löbau und Kittlitz wieder ein neues Gleis verlegt, welches für Panzerverladungen des NVA-Standortes Löbau genutzt wurde.

Als die Margarethenhütte Ende 1993 ihre Produktion einstellte, kam auch das Ende der Reststrecke. Zum Jahresende 1994 endete offiziell der Güterverkehr zwischen Baruth und Guttau. 1997 wurde auch der Güterbahnhof Guttau geschlossen. Die Stilllegung der Strecke erfolgte am 1. September 1996 (Baruth–Guttau) bzw. 15. August 1998 (Guttau–Radibor). 2004 wurden die verbliebenen Gleise abgebaut.

Literatur
 Hans von Polenz: Eisenbahnen im Bautzener Land; Ostsächsische Eisenbahnfreunde e.V., Löbau 2006; ISBN 3-00-018243-8
 Wilfried Rettig: Eisenbahnen im Dreiländereck Ostsachsen (D)/Niederschlesien (PL)/Nordböhmen (CZ) – Teil 2: Neben-, Klein- und Schmalspurbahnen, Bahnbetriebs- und Ausbesserungswerke, Bahnpost, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-388255-733-6; S. 57–65

Weblinks

 Streckenbeschreibung bei sachsenschiene.de

Bahnstrecke in Sachsen
Bahnstrecke LobauRadibor
Bahnstrecke LobauRadibor
Schienenverkehr (Landkreis Görlitz)

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China sets up first 'commercial' quantum network for secure communications
A man poses inside a server room at an IT company in this June 19, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/Illustration
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has set up its first "commercial" quantum network in its northern province of Shandong, state media said, the country's latest step in advancing a technology expected to enable "hack proof" communications.
China touts that it is at the forefront of developing quantum technology. In August it said it sent its first "unbreakable" quantum code from an experimental satellite to the Earth. The Pentagon has called the launch of that satellite a year earlier a "notable advance".
Now the country's "first commercial quantum private communication network" has been setup for exclusive use by more than 200 government and official users in Shandong's provincial capital Jinan, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Tuesday.
It did not elaborate on how the system would be commercially operated.
"Hundreds of pieces of equipment connected by hundreds of kilometers of fiber optics were installed within five months," Xinhua said.
The network provides secure telephone and data communication services and is expected to be connected to a Beijing-Shanghai quantum network, the news agency said.
Quantum channels send messages embedded in light, and experts say that attempts to disrupt or eavesdrop on them would create detectable disturbances in the system.
Other countries, including the United States, have been working on their own quantum networks for years.
Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Eric Meijer


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Zachary Lee found in New Hampshire
Updated: 8:42 AM EST Jan 28, 2014
A missing 12-year-old Vermont boy has been found safe in New Hampshire, and authorities say his mother has been charged as a fugitive from justice.Authorities say they found Zachary Lee of Sunderland late Monday night at a hotel in Lyme, N.H.Vermont State Police has issued an Amber Alert earlier in the evening after Zachary Lee was dropped off at his foster home by a school bus, but never made it inside.Authorities say they received reports that indicated Lee was with his mother, 49-year-old Patricia Kane, and his 17-year-old sister. Law enforcement officers found the three at the hotel.State police say Kane was arrested by Hanover police and was being arraigned Tuesday.
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A missing 12-year-old Vermont boy has been found safe in New Hampshire, and authorities say his mother has been charged as a fugitive from justice.
Authorities say they found Zachary Lee of Sunderland late Monday night at a hotel in Lyme, N.H.
Vermont State Police has issued an Amber Alert earlier in the evening after Zachary Lee was dropped off at his foster home by a school bus, but never made it inside.
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Q: How to select values inside list? How to select values inside MultiSelect? I just want to select some items inside a dropdownlist from URL Variables
Issue: following line is not selecting items Colors.add(TempArray[i]);
debug: If I remove this line than it works ok and selects values. if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(result)) ... foreach (var item2 in TempArray) but I need this line to check for null values. Code will get error otherwise
Also If I remove Post Method and it goes to Get directly than it works fine (items get selected). how can I make it work by using post method
Form
<form asp-page="./Index" method="post">
<select asp-for="Colors" asp-items="@Model.Colors_SELECT " class="MultiSelect" multiple>
     ....
</select>
...

back-end variables
[BindProperty(SupportsGet = true)]
public List<string>? Colors { get; set; }
public SelectList? Colors_SELECT { get; set; }

OnPost() Method - here I am change the URL format. for ex: localhost/index?Colors=red&Colors=Black to localhost/index?Colors=red,Black
    public async Task<IActionResult> OnPostAsync()
    {
        var CurrentFilters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        var ColorsTemp = string.Join(",", Colors);
        CurrentFilters.Add("Colors", ColorsTemp);

        string query = "";
        foreach (var p in CurrentFilters)
        {
            query += $"{p.Key}={p.Value}&";
        }
        query = query.TrimEnd(query[query.Length - 1]); //remove last '&'
        var url = $"{HttpContext.Request.Path}?{query}"; // create URL
        return Redirect(url); // Send new url - call get Method()
    }

on OnGet() method
public async Task OnGetAsync()
{
    // here i want to get URL values and select those items
    string result = Request.Query["Colors"];
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(result))
    {
        string[] TempArray = result.Split(",");
         foreach (var item2 in TempArray)
         {
             Colors.add(TempArray[i]);
         }
    }
}


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Q: Home Back button in Navigation bar doesn't work in my android app After activating Navigation Up Button in Action Bar, Home Back button in Navigation bar doesn't work in my app. Where am I doing wrong? when I click on the navigation app up button, it works. But, Navigation back button as you can see on the pivture doesn't work...
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public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.action_email:
            emailMenuItem();
            break;
        case R.id.action_settings:
            settingsMenuItem();
            break;
    }
    return true;
}

A: First understand following things:
@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
    // executed this when hardware back button is pressed
}

is called when you press back button.
AND
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();
    switch(id) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            // executed this when back button on Actionbar is pressed
            return true;
        default:
            break;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

is called when you press back button on Actionbar.

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Home » Global » Europe » Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR
Guest commentary/My 70 years and the departed GDR
By Victor Grossman posted on September 9, 2022
Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin
August 2022 — It's a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it's nothing special. But for me! Just 70 years ago, in nervous panic, I took off my U.S. Army jacket, shoes and sleeve insignia, and stepped into the swift Danube River which, at Linz in still-occupied Austria, divided the U.S. Zone from the USSR Zone. Although very wet at this short sector, it was part of the long Iron Curtain. And I was swimming across it in what most [U.S.] Americans would consider a very wrong direction!
Author Victor Grossman (left) greets Pete Seeger at Schönefeld Airport, GDR, in 1986. Credit: Gabriele Senft
It was not really my free choice! In 1950 the McCarran Act ruled that all members of a long list of "Communist Front" organizations must immediately register as foreign agents. I had been in a dozen: American Youth for Democracy, the Anti-Fascist Spanish Refugee Committee, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (I gave them a dollar in solidarity), the Sam Adams School, the American Labor Party, Young Progressives and — most heinous of all, the Communist Party. The maximum penalty for not registering could be $10,000 — PER DAY! — and five years in prison!! Neither I nor anyone else bowed to that monstrosity!
But in January 1951, during the Korean War, I was drafted — and required to sign that I was never in any of those on that long, long list. Should I risk years in prison by admitting my infamy? Or sign and, by staying mum, hope to survive two army years with no one checking up?
I signed.
However, they did check up! Decades later, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 1,100 pages (!) of FBI files about me (at 10 cents a page) revealed that J. Edgar Hoover's boys had watched me closely, as a leftist Harvard student (the names of seven informants were redacted) and as a worker in Buffalo, where I had hoped to help in saving the fighting 1930s character of the CIO unions.
In August 1952 a Pentagon letter listed seven of my memberships and ordered me to "report on Monday to HQ." The threatened penalty for my perjury: up to five years, perhaps in Leavenworth. By then dozens of Communists had been indicted; many were sent to prison. I had luckily been sent not to Korea but to Bavaria, next to Austria. With no one to advise me, I chose the Danube.
Across the river
Across the river, in a surprisingly quiet Sunday landscape, in no way like an Iron Curtain, the Soviets kept me two weeks in a barred but polite lockup, then drove me north to the German Democratic Republic, East Germany. I was lucky again; the GDR was the most successful, most untroubled of all in the "East Bloc." For the next 38 years, as an American, raised with a broad, varied education (six public schools, Bronx Science, Dalton, Fieldston, Harvard), I watched, with left-leaning but not dogmatically limited eyes, the rise and then fall of this western outpost of socialism (or Communism, "state socialism," "totalitarianism" or whatever).
I found neither Utopia nor, back then or ever, the hunger, poverty and general misery the American media might have led me to expect. Even in the crucial, difficult year 1952-1953, less than eight years after the war, while shop offerings were limited, lacking variety, style and often just that very item you were looking for, they were stocked well enough with the basics.
East Germany was much smaller and, in terms of industry and natural resources, far poorer than West Germany. It had borne over 90% of the war reparations burden; the heavily destroyed USSR did not drop these until 1953.
The GDR lacked the huge investment possibilities for war criminal monopolies like Krupp, Siemens, Bayer or BASF, whose factories it nationalized, as well as the politically aimed assistance of the Marshall Plan. Large numbers of its scientific, management and academic staffs, mostly pro-Nazi, had fled from the occupying Red Army — and the leftist, mostly Communist administrators who came with it — and got jobs with their former bosses, who were soon prospering again along the Rhine and Ruhr. This seriously weakened the [GDR] economic revival, but I felt happy that the war criminals were gone.
As an ardent (and Jewish) anti-fascist, I rejoiced to find that the entire atmosphere was anti-Nazi! Unlike West Germany, the schools, universities, courts, police departments, all were cleansed of the swastika crowd, even when at first this meant new, barely trained replacements, like my father-in-law, a pro-union carpenter as village mayor, or my two brothers-in-law as teachers. My spouse trembled when she was reminded of her brutal teachers before 1945. In the altered East German schools, corporal punishment was immediately forbidden.
Of course there were countless problems in a country ruled by Hitler & Co. for 12 years, where cynicism was widespread and Stalin's cultural views and anti-Semitism exerted undue influence until his death in 1953. Luckily, the aged Communist leader Wilhelm Pieck was able to shield the GDR to a large degree in this regard. And from the start, anti-Nazi leftists, often returned Jewish exiles, became leaders in the entire cultural scene — theater, music, opera, literature, journalism and film, where true masterpieces were created, often against fascism, but boycotted and hence unknown in West Germany and the U.S.
In the all-powerful Politburo of the ruling [GDR] party, Hermann Axen had barely survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald (his brother and parents did not). Albert Norden [another Politburo member] had escaped to the U.S.; the Nazis killed his father, a rabbi, in Theresienstadt.
In the GDR, except for three or four mild word-clichés, I met no anti-Semitism in all those 38 years. Those still infected with fascist ideology were careful, except with family or buddies, to keep their mouths shut. Which was okay with me!
Step by step our living standard — of my very dear spouse, Renata Kschiner Grossman, who saved me from homesickness, our two sons and myself — kept improving, like that of nearly everyone in the GDR, as [the country] pulled itself up by its own thin bootstraps. Impressing me most as an American: no layoffs, no unemployment; there were jobs for everyone.
No student debt
Rents averaged less than 10% of most incomes; evictions were forbidden by law. In the early years, large apartments were divided up when needed; no-one slept in the streets or went begging. Food pantries were unneeded; even the word was unknown. So was student debt. All education was free, and monthly stipends covered basic costs, making all jobbing while at college unnecessary.
A monthly medical tax on wages or fees (maximum 10%) covered everything. In my case, nine (free) hospital weeks with hepatitis, plus four weeks at a health spa to recuperate, and four more a year later in Karlsbad. My spouse had three rheumatism cures, four weeks each, in the Polish and Harz mountains.
All costs were covered, and we also got 90% of our salaries. Prescribed drugs were fully covered, also dental care, glasses, hearing aids; I had no need of my wallet or checkbook to pay for my daily insulin shots or my 10-year active pacemaker. Nor for my spouse's two maternal leaves (six months paid, [additional] if wanted with guaranteed job). No charge for full child care, participation in sports, summer camps, nor for contraception aid nor for free abortions after a new law was passed in 1982. So many fears were gone — so many were totally unknown!
I participated fully in the generally very normal life. First as a factory worker, an apprentice lathe operator, then a student, editor, director of a new Paul/Eslanda Robeson archive, finally as a freelance journalist, lecturer and author. I was not treated as a privileged "American," as some assume, but my last three occupations meant that — in my series of four little two-stroke Trabant cars — I really "got around" to nearly all areas, with all age levels, in all possible milieus.
This may really seem almost Utopian. Then why did some risk their lives to leave? Why was a wall built to keep them in? Why did they vote to join West Germany — and ditch the GDR? Why did it fail?
There were all too many reasons. East Germany was occupied by a country it had been taught to hate, whose soldiers had fought it hardest [and] were often violent in the first weeks and were poorer and more difficult to love than prosperous, hence generous, gum-chewing GIs, who came from a wealthy, undamaged homeland.
Many but certainly not all East Germans appreciated the Soviets' major role in defeating the Nazis and their pressure and guidance in confiscating major industry and breaking the power of those worst enemies of the world and the Germans — the Krupps, Siemens and IG Farbens, and the ousting of giant Prussian landowners, the Junkers, who so often officered Germany into mass bloodshed and disaster.
Enticements, propaganda and real problems
The Russians offered lots of good culture, such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky; top-quality dancing; "Peter and the Wolf"; and "The Cranes Are Flying." But these could rarely compete in mass popularity with the Beatles and Stones, Elvis Presley and suspense-laden Hollywood B-films.
Such enticements, which included some of high quality, based on an unusual American mix of Anglo-Scot, Irish, Jewish, Italian and especially Black cultures, were cleverly misused to increase political and economic influence and power in the world, especially in the East Bloc. They were paired, above all in Germany, with clever propaganda adapted from both Goebbels and that master peddler-publicist of anything from toothpaste to capitalism, Edward L. Bernays [known as the "father of propaganda"].
While GDR leaders, in full power, did aim at noble goals, how could such elderly men, hardened by years of life-and-death struggle against Nazi murderers but usually trained with Stalinist clichés, grow flexible enough to find rapport in printed or spoken word with the average, changeable citizen? There were indeed successes — but too few and far between.
In the 1980s difficulties increased, upward trends slowed and slipped downward. The USSR, with its own problems, offered no assistance. Such problems were difficult but, in a changing world, hardly rare or insurmountable — except that every problem was utilized in the [West's] unceasing attempts to retake East Germany, use its skilled but exploitable working class and move eastwards from there. The State Security or "Stasi," created to oppose such doings, was crude enough to make the situation worse.
And yet the GDR had probably come closer than any country in the world to achieving that legendary goal of abolishing poverty, while sharply decreasing the frightful, growing rich-poor gap based on an obscene profit system. But it could not afford the immense assortment of goods — foods, apparel, appliances, electronics, vehicles and travel, which the West offered, above all the U.S. and West Germany.
The GDR citizenry took all its amazing social advantages for granted and dreamt of scarce bananas and unavailable VWs, of Golden Arch and Golden Gate — without realizing that these are largely available and affordable due to poverty, of children in West Africa or Brazil, of exploited pickers in Andalusian or Californian fields and orchards.
Some are just now beginning to realize that those billionaire giants, after cheating so many people of color, wrecking world climate and wielding ever deadlier weapons of annihilation, may soon feel impelled to squeeze and break the comfortable middle classes in their own countries. The start is already felt by many families.
I look back at my 70 years as an ex-pat and still consider myself a patriotic American — never for the USA of Morgan or Rockefeller — but for that of John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Eugene Debs and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Du Bois, Robeson, Malcolm and Martin.
I also love and admire great Germans — Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Liebknecht, the great Polish-German Rosa Luxemburg — and great writers: Gotthold Lessing, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht. And I respect and empathize with people from all lands, my brothers and sisters, from Guam to Guatemala — and Gaza.
Learn from the GDR
I can only hope that new generations learn from the GDR and not only from its blunders, nasty habits and limitations, born of its history and all too realistic fears of being overthrown.
The GDR was finally overthrown and stands no longer as a barrier to renewed billionaire expansion — economic, political and military — to the south and east. It is still being belittled or maligned — largely out of fear that it has not yet been sufficiently erased and forgotten.
Despite my sometime feelings in those years of despair, even anger at mistaken paths or missed opportunities, I still look back with a mixture of nostalgia, regret and also pride at its many hard-won achievements, in culture, in living together, in partly overcoming the cult of greed and rivalry, in unflinching GDR support for the Mandelas, the Allendes and Ho Chi Minhs, for Angela Davis, too. And not, like its ultimately stronger and victorious opponents in Bonn, for the Pinochets, Francos, racists and apartheid tyrants.
I recall our achievements in avoiding war and striving for lives without fear or hatred. By and large they were good years. I am glad I lived through them.
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Bloo is the debut extended play by American model, singer and songwriter Kacy Hill. It was released through GOOD Music, Def Jam Recordings and PMR Recordings on 9 October 2015.

Background
In 2014, Hill signed with GOOD Music, a record label run by Kanye West, and later with Def Jam Recordings. Her debut single, "Experience", was released on 14 September 2014.

In 2015, Hill announced that she was working on writing and producing new music, specifically a song called "Foreign Fields". Early in the second half of 2015, she revealed the details of her debut EP, Bloo, with "Foreign Fields" being the lead single. The single was released on 16 September 2015, and the EP was released on 9 October 2015.

In early 2016, Hill embarked on a tour as a guest act alongside Jack Garratt, who co-produced Bloo.

Track listing

Notes
  indicates an additional producer
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References

GOOD Music EPs
Def Jam Recordings EPs
2015 debut EPs