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Q: How to target specific rows returned by mysqli query Let's say I have a table with following columns: id-1, id-2, col-1, col-2, col-3
Here, id-1 is the primary key and is auto-incremented. id-2 is a different id and is not necessary to be unique. There are multiple instances of same id in that column. col-1, col-2, col-3 are just necessary columns.

I pass a query to select data from the table.
mysqli_query($connect, SELECT * FROM table WHERE id-2='some_specific_id')

It will return multiple rows. I would like to know how can I target specific rows, say row number 3.

A: Use LIMIT to get what you want like:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id-2='some_specific_id' LIMIT 2, 1;

Or, if you want to fetch from array, then use the 3rd index of array.

LIMIT Explanation:
The following illustrates the LIMIT clause syntax with two arguments:
SELECT
    column1,column2,...
FROM
    table
LIMIT offset , count;

Let's examine the LIMIT clause parameters:

*

*The offset specifies the offset of the first row to return. The offset of the first row is 0, not 1.

*The count specifies the maximum number of rows to return.

A: First, use ":
mysqli_query($connect, "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id-2 = 'some_specific_id'");

Target specific row? Do you mean to limit the fetched rows? Or get the 3rd row?
For limiting the fetched rows, you can use LIMIT:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id-2='some_specific_id' LIMIT 3

For getting the third row:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id-2='some_specific_id' LIMIT 2, 1

A: Well although it seems you just rather needed to learn basic SQL to get your answer, there is still the question in the title, that may attract other people whose problem is formulated exactly like that. So goes the answer:
Mysqli is not very convenient for this task, so we would use PDO.

*

*In case your query is intended to return multiple rows and you need to address one of them by number (which is rather makes little sense, but anyway), use fetchAll() method:
$stmt = $connect->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE id2=?");
$stmt->execute(['some specific id']);
$data = $stmt->fetchAll();

and you will be able to address returned rows by number, starting from zero:
echo $data[0]['col1'];

*However, it makes more sense to address the returned rows by some unique id. In this case just add this unique field fiset in the field list and then use the special PDO street magic:
$stmt = $connect->prepare("SELECT id1, table.* FROM table WHERE id2=?);
$stmt->execute(['some specific id']);
$data = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE);

and you will be able to address returned rows by that unique field :
echo $data[$id1]['col1'];


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By Timothy Means
Inside classrooms, 10 to 100 or more people are isolated from the outside world in a room with doors that do not lock to keep danger out. In the eyes of campus safety experts, this is the perfect setting for a potentially bad situation.
The amount of time college students spend inside classrooms—from two to six hours daily—causes a sizeable gap in mass notification system coverage for most colleges and universities. To penetrate the protected learning environment, schools must employ precision notification systems.
On college campuses, professors have taken a hard line against the use of cell phones and laptops in class because of the disruptions caused by calling, texting and surfing the Internet. Most classrooms have signs posted prohibiting use of cell phones, and many professors include similar language in the class syllabus. A National Education Association survey shows that 85 percent of professors on college campuses support banning cell phones in their classrooms.
So it's clear that the classroom is one of education's sacred spaces. But what happens when events outside demand that emergency information penetrate the protective cocoon of the classroom?
Mass notification layers fail to penetrate
Unfortunately, the predominant methods of mass notification on university campuses—cell phone/text messaging, e-mails and Web announcements—are minimally effective in the classroom.
On average, only 40 to 50 percent of students opt into a school's calling program, which equates to 10 to 12 students in a classroom of 25. If, say, 75 percent have their phones turned off in class, then only two or three students would be able to receive a message pushed through the school's cell phone-based emergency notification system (ENS). Given that calling systems cannot target specific classrooms, it may be 30 minutes or more before a message appears on one of those phones. Even fewer students bring laptops to class, but the same logic applies.
"I think that someone would have to personally come to the classroom if we had an emergency scenario," said Emily Drill, an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny College. She added that while students are familiar with fire alarm drills, their experience with other emergency evacuation events is minimal.
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"Emergency notifications in the classroom setting must be made by more effective tools than e-mail, text messages or Web pages. Two-way communication systems, radio receivers, digital signage or VoIP phones provide the most rapid means for emergency notification," said Dennis Sullivan, assistant EHS director and emergency manager at Louisville University
The most effective way to alert a classroom is to use a precision notification system that connects to dedicated, networked alerting devices inside the room. These may include proprietary alerting devices made by manufacturers such as Metis Secure Solutions or VoIP phones similar to those made by Cisco Corporation. A precision notification system targets alerting devices by location and uses network infrastructure independent of consumer communications networks. These systems can send messages to one or all classrooms without alerting the entire campus population and are a faster, more-accurate way to deliver a warning.
In all its classrooms, the University of Louisville has installed VoIP phones set to dial the University Police if the receiver is picked up. They also communicate emergency messages in the classrooms using a text screen, audio and a flashing light.
"During a recent tornado warning, every classroom was provided timely warning that was faster than text messages, e-mails or our Web page," Sullivan said. "This system is not for everyone and would be extremely costly unless you already have converted the university from analog phones to digital phones."
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It is important that text and voice information about the need for sheltering in place be conveyed immediately. One EHS director confided that she worries about a scenario where a dangerous situation outside occurs five minutes before classes are dismissed, resulting in thousands of students potentially walking headlong into a crisis. Many fire alarms and outdoor sirens produce a warning tone only and cannot provide detailed instructions. In the event of a chemical spill, severe weather, violent crime or similar situation, leaving the classroom to see what is happening may be dangerous.
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According to a survey, fewer than 20 percent of higher education institutions have deployed in-building ENS. Therefore, there are many students who won't get emergency notifications during class. Administrators who make the effort to deploy precision notification systems will fill a gap left by the other commonly deployed ENS layers. It is the best way to inform and protect more students while respecting the integrity of the classroom and the learning experience.
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Elseworlds - DC Scions
So an idea popped into my head? What would the DC universe be like if (almost all) superheroes and villains were Scions? Who would be whose child? How would things change? Would Batman be a Scion or the Saint of "I already thought of that"?
So to go for the low hanging fruit, if Wonder Woman were a Scion, she could be the daughter of Ares (DCAU... maybe), one of the many daughters of Zeus (New 52), or the daughter of Hippolyta (if we promote her to Godhood).
What are some other possibilities?
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Aquaman could be a Scion of Poseidon, but Mannanan Mac Lir would be a better choice.
The Joker could be a corrupted Scion of several different deities. Given the recent spate of images that use his pallid complexion and rictus grim as an image of death I might prefer Anubis as the divine parent.
Corax
.The Flashes are all Chosen of Hermes.
.Cyborg is Created by Ogun
. Robotman is Created by Osiris. He was ripped into a thousand pieces in a car accident and the god took sympathy on him and remade him into a mechanical body.
. Negative Man is actually fused with a Manitou spirit. When he became the bigendered Rebis during Grant Morrison's psychedelic run, that was them reconciling their contrasting mortal and spiritual nature and becoming a new type of god. (Doom Patrol is weird)
Shakespeare in The Sandman is Chosen of Morpheus.
(Spoilers for The Sandman) The first Dream dying and being reborn as Daniel is a pretty explicit example of a god dying and his Mantle being passed on to a Incarnate.
Robotman and Osiris don't fit. I got your idea, he saw a guy on same situation and helped, but it would be more "osirish" to rise him as undead... I would make him related to a god of knowledge and skills, like Athena or Thot (maybe induced by Osiris).
Perhaps Thoth or another God of Forge/Wisdom might be a better fit?
I'm also trying to think of what Doom Patrol's nemesis Mr. Nobody would be. He's definitely a Trickster but I don't know who his parent should be, hell maybe he's actually the Titanspawn of a Chaos Titan like Ma'at?
His portrayal in the new DCU series as a fractured, jigsaw puzzle of a man plus his origin as a Nazi experiment makes me think he was the product of a Titantic cult.
Hawkman is clearly a scion of Horus. Hawkgirl could be a scion of Sekmet. Yes, I know the ancient Egyptians had no problems with incest, yes Hawkgirl is logically a scion of Horus too. I do have issues with incest, Hawkgirl is a scion of Sekmet.
FallenEco
They are also (re)Incarnates (and were likely originally Chosen).
In other news the House of El has been descended from Rao himself, so maybe Superman and family are descended from some homebrew Primordial?
Thoughts ripple out, birthing others
Originally posted by FallenEco View Post
Superman and his cousin are clearly scions. Grant Morrison says they're sun gods.
The so called "New Gods" would actually be Titans, if Darkseid's True Form is anything to go by.
Originally posted by Corax View Post
The Endless would also be examples of Titans, since they are the physical avatars of universal constants, rather than beings who govern over them.
Dragonchild
I like this, I was trying to think of what the lanterns might be, but I just can't figure that one out, other than they're all obviously chosen.
My first thought on firestorm is he makes sense as a scion of Khepri since many in modern times associate Khepri with alchemy, though I'm not sure that's accurate to ancient Egyptian myth.
Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman would eventually become the gods of Truth, Justice, and Hope, respectively.
Given that Superman was essentially conceived as the Jewish Messiah and is so closely tied to the sun, I'd suggest someone like Aten of the Netjer or Mithra of the Yazata. However, someone like Svarozhich of the Russian Bogovi, Amaterasu of the Kami, or Surya of the Deva would make an interesting alternate version.
As amusing as it would be to have Batman as a scion of Khonsu, an interesting pick would be the Goddess Styx, making him the brother of Victory, Zeal, Strength, and Force. There's also goddesses like Nemesis and Adrestia. Or he could be the chosen of the Furies. Vidarr of the Aesir might also be interesting.
I prefer a modified version of Wonder Woman's post-Crisis origin, with her being crafted out of clay and given blessings by the various Greek goddesses (and none of the gods). The strength of the earth from Rhea and Demeter, speed from Iris, wisdom and skill from Athena, knowledge from the Muses, beauty and grace from Aphrodite and the Graces, kinship with the beasts of the earth from Artemis, a warm and caring heart from Hestia, empathy and mercy from Persephone, the will to win from Nike, and the power of womankind from Hera.
Originally posted by Dragonchild View Post
They'd be more akin to some kind of cult, and one tasked with enforcing order and stability throughout the the universe. Lanterns don't really have any powers of their own, they just carry around a mass produced Relic. Plus, the Book of Oa could be interpreted as some kind of holy text.
The Guardians are the ones who might have some connection to the divine, however.
No One of Consequence As for Batman, let's keep in mind that he's actually very afraid of bats. In order to master fear, he took on the mantle of something that he himself was afraid of. I'm not familiar with many legends or myths relating to stories like that, though.
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Batman is meant to be a badass normal, really. I think he probably shouldn't be a scion. It's Mary Suish I guess, but then Batman's kind of a Mary Sue, though arguably one of the few well done ones.
But... he's also extremely multitalented, he's got all the money, he's called the world's greatest detective, he mastered all the major martial arts and used them to make one unique to him (according to a huge batman fanboy I know, at least.) He also knows a thing or two about just about everything he pays people to do. Which is pretty much everything. He could be a Scion of Lugh.
Lugh makes the most sense for Batmans Divine parent. Dragonchild has an insight here. However, the other members of the Bat family are different. Robin, Batgirl, Batwoman, Alfred, are all somebody's kids.
He could be a Legendary mortal?
Alternatively, what about a chosen of Athena?


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Sometimes, two people that are destined to be together actually do find each other. And no, we're not talking about Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde. More than just a muse, the pop singer's creative kinship with Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele has taken the two from the red carpet to the stage (see: the theatrical Gucci jumpsuits Harry Styles has been wearing on tour). And now, the fashionable friends have birthed a collection of comical wares: Gucci HA HA HA.
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Q: PHP if null or false return empty array by default? Why this line of code does not work in php like as in JS:
$id = [];

$id = null || [];

if (count($id)) {
  echo 'd';
}

Why $id still is null instead empty array []? Therefore count() gives an error.

A: In PHP, logical operators like || always return a boolean, even if given a non-boolean output.
So your statement is evaluated as "is either null or [] truthy?" Since both null and an empty array evaluate to false, the result is boolean false.
There are however two operators which would do something similar to JS's ||:

*

*$a ?: $b is short-hand for $a ? $a : $b; in other words, it evaluates to $a if it's "truthy", or $b if not (this is documented along with the ternary operator for which it is a short-hand)

*$a ?? $b is similar, but checks for null rather than "truthiness"; it's equivalent to isset($a) ? $a : $b (this is called the null-coalescing operator)

A: <?php

// PHP < 7
$id = isset($id) ? $id : [];

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I find PHP's handling of empty to be highly questionable:

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*empty($unsetVar) == true (fabulous, no need to check isset as warning is suppressed!)

*empty(null) == true

*empty('') == true

All fine, until we get to this nonsense:

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*empty(false) == true. Wait, WHAT???
You've GOT to be kidding me. In no world should false be taken to mean the same thing as no value at all!  There's nothing "empty" about a false assertion. And due to this logical fallacy, you cannot use empty to check ANY variable that might have a VALUE of false.
In my projects, I use a static method:
public static function hasValue($value) {
    return isset($value) && !is_null($value) && $value !== '';
}

Of course, using this method, I no longer get the free warning suppression provided by empty, so now I'm also forced to remember to call the method above with the notice/warning suppression operator @:
if(self::hasValue(@$possiblyUnsetVar)) {}

Very frustrating.

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Light Box with Emilie Peyre Smith and Lea Renée Vajda
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Shape. For this session, Da Luz Collective collaborates with PADA studios, inviting Emilie Peyre Smith and Lea Renée Vajda, two artists who are developing a research through a residency program in the arts organisation. The idea of shape can guide the understanding of the two artists' poetic, in a perspective of tangibility and inner tensions of the artworks.
Emilie Peyre Smith (1985, Delaware, USA) is a French/Dutch multidisciplinary artist who works predominantly in sculpture. Emilie aims to find the susceptibility of commonplace and utilitarian materials and hopes to find parallels with the continual over-mechanisation of human experience. Her artistic practice presents evidence of fundamental forces within a material reality to create anxious, uneasy works. Emilie is currently studying for an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Three Times Removed, Tontine, Glasgow in 2018 and Upriver, Center of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2017.
Lea Renée Vajda (1992 Munich, Germany) is working between Munich and Lisbon. Her work is mainly focused on photography and sculpture - questioning and challenging the two-dimensionality of the photographic format, the capturing processes within photography and its' representation. Materiality play a central role in her practice, such as the relation of the material to its representation, its inherent structure and rule. Raised in Germany, Lea studied Psychology, Philosophy and Art in Amsterdam followed by Fine Art Studies in Lisbon and the Independent Study Programme at Maumaus - Escola de Artes Visuais Lisbon in 2018.
PADA is an artist-led, non-profit arts organisation based in Barreiro in Lisbon's South Bay, founded in 2018 by Tim Ralston (UK) and Diana Cerezino (PT).
Set in a derelict industrial park within the old Companhia União Fabril (CUF) industrial zone in Barreiro, the site of PADA studios has a history of fabrication as a jute factory. The studios are surrounded by industrial history as well as contemporary craftsmen and artists providing inspiration, material knowledge and the resources for experimentation and production. PADA's facilities reinforce this with large studios and technical support to encourage and facilitate ambitious work. PADA residency programme welcomes 6 artists per month offering them time and space to develop their practice through the exploration of technique and process.
PADA gallery exhibits artwork that connects with and responds to the history of the location , with an emphasis on fabrication and materiality that will take inspiration from the industrial past.
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Permission granted for Second Appeal in Landlord and Tenant Break Clause Case
January 24, 2017 /0 Comments/in Frontpage Article, Housing, Land and Property, Publications /by Lisa Lyons
Court of Appeal Grants Permission for Second Appeal in Landlord and Tenant Break Clause Case
Lewison LJ has granted a tenant permission to appeal in a case concerning the correct construction of a break clause in a residential letting and the application of sections 21(1A) and 21(1B) of the Housing Act 1988. In particular the case is concerned with whether the express terms of certain starter tenancies used by social landlords require service of a notice complying with section 21(1B) of the Housing Act 1988.
The appellant is represented by Russell James of chambers who specialises in all areas of landlord and tenant and property litigation.
Non-Matrimonial Assets and Sharing – the Correct Approach
January 13, 2017 /0 Comments/in Family Law, Frontpage Article, News /by Rupert Chapman
The issue of the distribution of property acquired by a party to divorce proceedings acquired by them outside of the marriage has for some time been a topic of debate. The court has, since the landmark case of White v White, applied the principle of sharing the assets of the parties, with a yardstick of equality being applied to those assets. From the start, however, the issue arose of how to treat assets acquired by parties by gift or inheritance outside of the marriage.
The Privy Council (Lady Hale, Lord Wilson and Lord Carnwath) have given recent guidance on this in their judgment in the case of Scatliffe v Scatliffe [2016] UKPC 36, a financial remedy case involving a divorcing couple of relatively modest means.
The case originated in the British Virgin Islands. The husband was 70 years old and the wife 63. They had been married for 38 years and had two adult children. The relevant local law was based upon the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the criteria for decisions have 'striking similarities' to s. 25 of that Act, though in the BVI version the court is required to exercise its jurisdiction, so far as is practicable, to place the parties in the position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down.
The parties' finances were modest. The husband was of an age where he could no longer work and the wife had a small income of $23,000. The parties owned four properties;
An apartment rented out for $19,000 a year and had been the parties' first matrimonial home valued at $600,000;
An apartment in which the husband lived that was worth $350,000 (with potential to increase its value with various works, which would on completion also lead to a rental income);
A leasehold property comprising various apartments from which the husband received $40,000 a year in rental income and which was valued at $425,000; and
A fourth property owned by the wife and the parties' son, but in which the wife had no interest.
The husband had also received a payment of $219,000 for some work he had done in recent years. The total assets were therefore around $1,594,000 – about £1,300,000 plus a nominal share portfolio. The judge transferred the first property to the wife, gave the husband a life interest in the second reverting to the children and allowed the husband to retain the third. The Court of Appeal varied the order to allow the wife a further $50,000 lump sum, leaving her with around $657,000 and the husband with $944,000. Findings were also made that the husband had other undisclosed, and unvalued, assets.
The husband appealed, unsuccessfully. The Privy Council observed that the above distribution was eminently fair, but went on to express concern about a perceived misunderstanding of the phrase 'matrimonial property' within the BVI Court of Appeal and at first instance, on which the Board gave guidance as follows;
Non-matrimonial property refers to property owned by one or other of the parties by definition and therefore it runs contrary to the Act to disregard it.
The manner in which the court should have regard to such property depends on the facts of the case. Having reviewed various cases in which the issue had arisen it was clear that the sharing principle (of entitlement to a share of property as a result of the marriage rather than to meet a party's needs) could apply to non-matrimonial property but rarely would, with no reported case being highlighted where non-matrimonial property had been shared other than to meet needs. The importance of the issue wil, however, diminish over time.
The proper approach, therefore, is to apply the sharing principle to matrimonial property and then ask whether, in light of the various statutory criteria, the result is overall an appropriate outcome, particularly having regard to the principles of need and (more unusually) compensation, which may require an additional distribution, potentially including the non-matrimonial assets.
Given the distribution of the assets and the fact that there was, after all, some non-matrimonial but undisclosed property, the husband's appeal was hopeless.
The judgment, however, has a broader importance. It represents an approval at the highest level of the approach to non-matrimonial property built up in the authorities reported over the past 15 years since White v White. Non-matrimonial property is not to be ring-fenced but sharing should first apply (in the ordinary case) to the matrimonial property and, if the outcome is fair and meets the needs of each party then there will be no need to distribute the balance.
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Russia has revealed some new details of 'Poseidon' underwater nuclear drone.
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Also, TASS claimed that the newest Russian underwater UAV will be impossible to attack due to the peculiarities of its maneuvering.
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Modern Russian drone was officially announced in March 2018 along with other upcoming weapon systems, meant to counter the development of anti-ballistic missile technologies by the US.
The drone is included in Russia's state armament program for 2018-2027 and the Poseidon is expected to enter service before the program ends, the source added.


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Angelos Anastasiadis (; born 8 March 1953) is a Greek football manager and former international footballer. He previously coached numerous clubs in Greece including PAOK, Panathinaikos, Platanias and PAS Giannina as well as the Greece and Cyprus national teams.

Playing career

Club
Anastasiadis began his playing career in his hometown with PAOK. After eight years at the Thessalonian club, he moved to Athens to play for Panathinaikos in 1981. In 1984, he transferred to Korinthos before finishing his playing career at Diagoras F.C. in 1987.

International
Between 1975 and 1980, Anastasiadis earned 12 caps for the Greece national team.

Coaching career

Early management
Anastasiadis began his managerial career in July 1994 at Kavala F.C. but left after three months following a seven-game run that included one draw and six losses. In 1995, he was appointed as manager of Edessaikos F.C., leading the club to a ninth-place finish in the 1995–96 Alpha Ethniki. After a poor run midway through the 1996–97 season that included two wins and four draws in 14 matches, Anastasiadis left the club in January 1997.

PAOK and Iraklis
Within a month of leaving Edessaikos, Anastasiadis took over PAOK for the remainder of the 1996–97 season, leading the club to a fourth-place finish in the league with 13 victories in 15 matches, along with a spot in the second qualification round for the 1997–98 UEFA Cup. Under his leadership the following season, PAOK finished in fourth place in the 1997–98 Alpha Ethniki while overcoming Arsenal F.C. before losing to Atlético Madrid in the first two rounds of the UEFA Cup. After being briefly succeeded by Oleg Blokhin for the 1998–99 Alpha Ethniki season, Anastasiadis returned to PAOK in September 1999 before leaving the following February. During his second tenure, he managed 10 victories and one draw in 13 matches.

Anastasiadis moved to Iraklis in 1999 leading the club to a sixth-place finish and an opportunity to qualify for the 2000–01 UEFA Cup. Iraklis qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup, overcoming Aris and Panionios in the league playoffs.

Panathinaikos
Following his success at Iraklis, the Thessaloniki native moved to Athens to manage Panathinaikos in 2000. Managing in his first UEFA Champions League, the club finished second after facing Deportivo La Coruña, Hamburger SV, and Juventus in the first group stage. In the second group stage, Panathinaikos lost the first two matches to Sturm Graz, prompting Anastasiadis to resign in February 2001.

Return to Thessaloniki
The next month, Anastasiadis returned to his home town to lead Iraklis for a second time but managed two wins and a draw in the last ten matches of the 2000–01 Alpha Ethniki season to a fifth-place finish. He stayed on for the following season and the club finished in sixth place in the league, earning a place in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup qualification round.

Anastasiadis returned to PAOK a month after leaving Iraklis in May 2002. The club finished the 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki season in fourth place, earning a spot in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup. The same season, Anastasiadis led PAOK to the Greek Cup, overcoming league champions Olympiacos and cup holders AEK, before defeating Aris in the final. The following season, the club finished in third place domestically, earning direct qualification to the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League.

After failing to qualify for the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League and facing elimination from the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, PAOK announced their decision to sack Anastasiadis in September 2004.

Cyprus
Three months later, Anastasiadis ventured into international management, replacing Momčilo Vukotić as Cyprus national team manager, in December 2004. Taking over midway through the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, the Greek coach managed just one victory, a 3–0 win over the Faroe Islands, in the last five qualification matches, finishing in fifth place and failing to qualify from a group that also included France, Switzerland, Israel, and the Republic of Ireland.

During the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers, Anastasiadis led the team to a 5–2 victory over the Republic of Ireland, a 2–1 victory over Hungary, a 3–1 victory over Wales, and a 1–1 draw with Germany before finishing sixth in Group D, which also included the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Despite failing to qualify for the tournament, the Cyprus Football Association renewed the Greek's contract in November 2007.

Cyprus did not qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa but Anastasiadis led the team to a fourth-place finish that included a 4–1 victory over Bulgaria.

In his fourth international campaign, Anastasiadis led the island nation in their quest to UEFA Euro 2012. After a 4–4 draw with Portugal, the side only managed two points in their first four qualification matches, leading to Anastasiadis's dismissal from the post.

Return to club management
Following his experience in Cyprus, Anastasiadis returned to club management in November 2011 to lead PAS Giannina in the Greek Super League. The club finished in eighth place with ten wins and eight draws out of 30 matches, including a 2–1 away victory over PAOK.

Moving to Crete, Anastasiadis succeeded Giannis Chatzinikolaou at Platanias F.C. Despite managing to defeat Panathinaikos both times during the league season as well as in the Greek Cup, the club finished in ninth place. Though initially leaving in May 2013, Anastasiadis return to the club to oversee the final ten matches of the 2013–14 season, leading the club to finish in 14th place, saving the club from relegation.

Anastasiadis returned to PAOK for the third time in May 2014. Despite a successful start to the season, the club gradually relinquished its first-place position in the league and was eliminated in the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. The club dismissed Anastasiadis in March 2015 after managing just one victory in his last seven matches.

In June 2016, A.E. Larissa president Alexis Kougias announced Anastasiadis as the club's new manager, replacing Sakis Tsiolis. The appointment generated controversy as fans expressed their unhappiness due to Anastasiadis's past association with PAOK FC.

Greece national team
After being out of management for two years, Hellenic Football Federation president Vangelis Grammenos appointed Anastassiadis, in October 2018, to lead the Greece national team, becoming the first Greek manager to hold the post on a permanent basis since Vassilis Daniil in 2001. With the team gaining six points in four matches in the UEFA Nations League and sitting behind first placed Finland, Grammenos added that the federation took a conscious decision to hire a Greek coach "to instill the characteristics required in a national squad."

With the objective to earn promotion in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League, Anastasiadis introduced several new players into the squad including Odisseas Vlachodimos, Spyros Risvanis, Manolis Siopis, and Giorgos Masouras. Greece resumed the campaign in November 2018 with a 1–0 victory over Finland but failed to earn a promotion after a 1–0 defeat to Estonia following an own goal from Vassilis Lambropoulos.

Greece faced Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Armenia, and Liechtenstein for the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers. In March 2019, Anastasiadis opened the campaign with a 2–0 victory over Liechtenstein before a 2–2 draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina witnessed the team level the score after falling behind by two goals.

Anastasiadis's position came under question following 3–0 and 3–2 defeats to Italy and Armenia respectively, resulting in a public conflict with team captain Sokratis Papastathopoulos. On 15 July 2019, Grammenos announced the dismissal of Anastasiadis as manager.

Managerial statistics

Honours

As a player
PAOK
Greek Championship: 1976
Greek Cup: 1974

Panathinaikos
Greek Championship: 1984
Greek Cup: 1982, 1984

As a manager
PAOK
 Greek Cup: 2003

References

1953 births
Living people
Greek footballers
Greece international footballers
Greek football managers
Greek expatriate football managers
People from Thessaloniki (regional unit)
Super League Greece players
PAOK FC players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
Korinthos F.C. players
Association football midfielders
Super League Greece managers
Kavala F.C. managers
PAOK FC managers
Panathinaikos F.C. managers
Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C. managers
Cyprus national football team managers
PAS Giannina F.C. managers
Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C. managers
Greece national football team managers
Diagoras F.C. players
Footballers from Central Macedonia

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Myriopteris viscida, formerly known as Cheilanthes viscida, is a species of lip fern known by the common names viscid lip fern and viscid lace fern.

It is native to southern California, at elevations of . It is an uncommon member of the flora in rocky areas of the higher Mojave Desert mountains, and in the ecotone of the Peninsular Ranges and the Colorado Desert. Its distribution extends into northern Baja California.

Description
This fern produces frilly leaves up to about 30 centimeters long, each divided into segments which are subdivided, the ultimate segments just a few millimeters long and widely lance-shaped to oblong. The leaf segments bear resin glands which exude a very sticky, clear fluid.

The leaves are also somewhat hairy. The leaf segments have curled edges along which are located the sori with their brown sporangia.

References

External links
Calflora Database: Myriopteris viscida (viscid lip fern, viscid lipfern) — (formerly Cheilanthes viscida).
Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Myriopteris viscida — (formerly Cheilanthes viscida).
USDA Plants Profile for Cheilanthes viscida
Flora of North America
UC Photos gallery — Cheilanthes viscida

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Ferns of California
Ferns of Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of Baja California
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Natural history of the Colorado Desert
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Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges


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Sports Logo News
Portland Trail Blazers new logo
By Gothamite, May 9, 2017 in Sports Logo News
still not quite there
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Location:Miami, Florida
Favourite Logos:Miami Marlins and too many others to name...
1 minute ago, Webfooter said:
It's supposed to represent the 5 members of each team in motion on a court. I never got that until I finally read an interview with the people who helped design the initial logo.
Well that's awesome. Does it have any connection to the Trailblazers name or not?
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3 hours ago, McCarthy said:
Agreed. Always loved their logo. It's a true icon and the spiky one they've been using made it overly busy. In business logo design we tend to let more abstract works pass because businesses deal in thoughts and ideas while sports tend to be more concrete and obvious, but when your name is something like Trail Blazers an abstraction is the best way to go rather than a covered wagon or a flaming basketball like you said. Your second paragraph is my only complaint. In their animation (good job by whoever did it) there is a brief second where all of the lines are open and then are closed and it looks better without it.
I took a crack at their logo and here's what I would've done
thats what i was getting at. having those lines open like this makes it feel like there is some rotation or folding going on here. i really prefer this version. good job
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51 minutes ago, SilverBullet1929 said:
5-on-5 basketball blazed a lot of trails in the 20th century.
I guess I like the update too, though it's close enough to subtle, that I don't have really strong feelings. So the uniforms will make or break this update.
Thanks to this board, I actually "get" this logo, which I always thought was just some abstract connection to their name. Thanks specifically to this thread and @BrandMooreArt for pointing out the genius of this logo being more a nod to the sport than the team but in a less obvious/overdone way of using equipment. It's still kinda seems 70s to me, but it's kind of earned its staying power and I am glad they don't overhaul the look.
I do think it's unfortunate, though not surprising, that they are still going to "officially" perpetuate this "Rip City" nonsense.
As an aside, the Blazers logo, in a sense, acknowledges their opponents. That's fairly rare.
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1 minute ago, OnWis97 said:
The Rip City nickname is almost as iconic as the pinwheel logo at this point. It originated in their first season when their legendary play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely exclaimed it after a long shot by guard Jim Barnett. It's stuck around ever since, and if anything it's only grown in popularity over the years. It's become synonymous with not only the team, but the city of Portland as a whole. Blazers fans love it, and they love the Rip City logo as well. It's more than just a nichname to Blazers fans, so to suggest that it's nonsense is almost an insult.
11 minutes ago, upperV03 said:
But how long has "Rip City" been an official mark?
I like things that happen organically, like the "Dawg Pound," or Lightning fans calling their team "the Bolts." "Rip City" fits into that category. I just don't really like seeing that kinda thing on uniforms. "Rip City" on a jersey is kinda like "Motor City" on the Pistons jersey...OK, Rip City is more derivative of the basketball team whereas Motor City is independent of the team, but I don't like seeing uniforms go that informal: Rip City, Sens, Bolts, Motor City, the 'Ville, the Beach, PHX, ATL, etc.
I guess if the team wants to produce t-shirts that say "Rip City" that's fine and it's certainly fine with me if fans embrace it. I also like Browns fans embracing the Dog Pound, but I don't think a dog should go on the Browns helmet.
Anyway, I'll back off of "nonsense" regarding having an official marketing "Rip City" logo. But if goes on the uniform, I'll stand by it.
On a local Blazers radio show yesterday, the Blazers' CMO gave some more insight into the new logos and uniforms. No surprise here, but he said there was never any thought about going away from the pinwheel logo, and he also said that Nike did not assist in the design process of the updated logo set. He mentioned that the italicized wordmarks on the jerseys will be gone, which means they'll presumably be replaced by the "PORTLAND" wordmark that was unveiled yesterday, and likely a matching "BLAZERS" version as well. Lastly, he said the uniforms should be unveiled in July, and I would guess it'll be late July since all of the other info I've seen has said "late summer".
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4 hours ago, upperV03 said:
Disagree completely. The silver always seemed like an inappropriate accent color to use in the pinwheel, and I think most Blazers fans would agree that switching back to a primarily red/black/white color scheme is more fitting. I'm fine with them keeping gray(s) as secondary colors to be used sparingly for merchandising and promotional materials, and possibly even the alternate uniforms, but the main scheme should absolutely be red/black/white.
To me, not having the silver makes the logo look unfinished on a white or light background, like they forgot to color half of it in.
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The pinwheel itself is a downgrade for me..
I'm glad they're going away from the goofy parallelogram, but oversimplifying and losing a bit of modern character is a bit of a misstep imo.. The uniforms will still help form my opinion, but from a logo perspective, I'm not impressed
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He mentioned that the italicized wordmarks on the jerseys will be gone, which means they'll presumably be replaced by the "PORTLAND" wordmark that was unveiled yesterday, and likely a matching "BLAZERS" version as well.
21 minutes ago, Conrad. said:
I'd definitely be in favor of that, it looks really clean without all of the silver trim. And the one color wordmarks and numbers work surprisingly well. Nice work! I am curious though to see if they tweak the striping pattern to something more along these lines, except obviously with the two color treatment:
They've used that striping pattern in a lot of their promotional materials in the last 2-3 seasons, and I just wonder if they'll use it on the new primary uniforms. It'd be a bit more consistent with the lines in the logo, so I think it's atleast a possibility.
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I liked it best when the logo resembled a lower case b. The logo has always sucked in my mind.
3 hours ago, SilverBullet1929 said:
No, and it's why I've never cared for any Blazers logo. The current update is certainly better, but it's more or less just the 90s logo with a few tweaks. Which surpassed the version that unnecessarily added points and silver.
As I said though, none of the Blazers' logos have impressed me. The look is a relic of that 70s aesthetic that gave us the Brewers' ball-in-glove and the Canucks' stick-in-rink. Logos that emphasized the sport and not the team identity.
That can work in a lot of cases, but I just feel like both Portland as a city and the name "Trailblazers" have so much to offer in terms of a visual identity. An abstract representation of 5 on 5 basketball just seems underwhelming. Even when executed properly.
And the "Rip City" stuff is just sad. I actually thought it was a legimate local name for Portland until @Bucfan56 explained the story behind it. I don't know why they don't commit to "Rose City" when "Rip City" feels so manufactured.
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How is "Rip City" manufactured when it was started by the team's long-time play-by-play announcer and the team, fans and city embraced it? It may seem odd to those outside of Portland and the NW, but it makes plenty of sense for those who have lived with its history and the team.
6 minutes ago, Webfooter said:
Exactly, and it's a name that's been around for nearly 50 years, since the team's first season. It essentially is a legitimate local name. Sure, it's obviously associated with the Blazers, but they're a huge part of the city's identity and culture. Locals know the city as "Rip City" in the context of the Blazers, just like they know it as "Rose City", "Bridgetown", "Stumptown", etc. in other contexts.
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I'd never heard of Rip City until they started wearing those jerseys. Is that my fault? Maybe it is, or maybe it's not a famous enough moniker to be used on an official team uniform. When you think about it the first thing a uniform is supposed to do is identify who is wearing it and in that moment I had no idea what team was from Rip City. I know who the Motor City is and even then I still think it's a dumb thing for the Detroit Pistons to wear on a jersey.
If you want to call yourself Rip City or whatever go ahead, but I think putting it on a jersey is silly.
5 minutes ago, McCarthy said:
So because you and a few others don't get a city or region-specific nickname, it's not fit to be on a jersey? That's just plain stupid. When the Blazers and their fans wear it, it's an acknowledgement of the history and connection between the team and the city.
35 minutes ago, Webfooter said:
How is "Rip City" manufactured when it was started by the team's long-time play-by-play announcer and the team, fans and city embraced it?
Wasn't it coined by said announcer during a loss? Hardly stuff worth memorializing.
I think it's more than a few others who don't get it. Like @McCarthy I only heard of it when the Blazers started wearing it.
Meanshile I knew Portland was the Rose City for considerably longer. So it seems like one of those monikers is more widely known (and thus more appropriate to a jersey you're selling the world over) than the other.
That's what I mean when I say manufactured. "Rose City," "Motor City," and "the Windy City" are all names that have endured for decades, if not centuries. "Rip City" was coined by someone associated with the team, for the team.
A (very unscientific) sample size indicates that it's not well known outside of Portland.
And agajn. I'm only harping on this because the city of Portland has a legitimately authentic nickname in the form of "Rose City" they passed over for something not nearly as well known.
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I'd like to see an early 00's throwback night and the jersey wordmark is 'Jail Blazers'.
49 minutes ago, Ice_Cap said:
I don't mean to sound dense, but does it really matter whether non-Blazers fans know the nickname and the reasoning behind it? Portlanders, Oregonians, and most importantly Blazers fans, from Portland and beyond, know and love the "Rip City" monicker and the history behind it. Blazers fans across the country and globe are aware of what it means, and that's the primary target of the organization. You say they're "selling the world over" on it, but they really aren't. Like @Webfooter said, when fans and the team wear it, it's an acknowledgement of the history and connection between the team, it's fan base, and the city of Portland. The team only wears the uniforms at home in front of their fans (with the exception being a couple of road games a few seasons ago), and that's because the connection between the two is what makes Portland "Rip City" in the context of basketball.


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Kicking off today's post is a gift from my fellow #soulmate Steph who needs no introduction. Lovely Stephanie sent me a parcel filled with goodies when I was still in the UK and this was one of the many items she sent!
Shiseido's Perfect UV Protector is a product I swear by. I am currently in the process of using up my third bottle and moving on to the fourth. Having used this since early this year (February/March), this is the best sunscreen I have used up to now and I have been through many sunscreens from various brands as my skin cannot live without it. I will not go on and rave about this product as I can go on and on all day. If you haven't tried this, please give it a go!
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NEW YORK – Austrian Cultural Forum New York makes part of its mission supporting chamber musicians from Austria, bringing them to the United States for concerts. One of the best of these concerts I have attended was this past Thursday's New York debut of Ensemble Lux, a string quartet with formidable technique and ambitious tastes in programming. Their concert ranged across a century's worth of music, from Anton Webern's 5 Movements for String Quartet (1909), to la pureté de l'envie blanche, a piece from 2010 by the Lux's second violinist, Thomas Wally.
The concert opened with Olga Neuwirth's settori, a showcase for extended techniques: alternate bowings, rapping on the wood of the instruments, Bartôk pizzicatos, altissimo register filigrees and harmonics. Neuwirth uses this expansive palette as the means to fascinating, expressive ends. Hans Erich Apostel (1901-'72) was a student of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. The musical materials and aesthetics of the Second Viennese School are on display in Apostel's 6 Epigramme. While the pieces are well constructed miniatures, his last name is telling of his relative place in the 12-tone pantheon.
More engaging was Schoenberg's String Trio. Written after the composer's heart attack, a program reflecting this experience is often ascribed to the work. Whether one thinks it appropriate to do so, the piece is a remarkable late work by Schoenberg, juxtaposing the techniques of twelve-tone music and neoclassical phrasing with some of the visceral gestural language of his earlier Expressionism. Lux's performance paid note both to the work's Apollonian and Dionysian features. Correspondingly, Webern's 5 Movements, aphoristic vignettes written at the beginning of atonality's appearance, were played with exquisite care by the quartet.
la pureté de l'envie blanche juxtaposed periods of silence with angular runs nearly at the instruments' bridges. There were also tremendously quiet sustained passages. One was struck by the dynamic range the quartet had been able to deploy in ACFNY's small performance space, from thunderous outbursts in settori to the extreme pianissimos of Wally's work. Ensemble Lux's precision and control mark them as a group with a promising future. Hopefully, their next visit to New York will be soon.


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Benign gut virus may be older than humanity, might be useful as therapy
Rob Edwards, a San Diego State University researcher who studies bacteria-killing viruses called phages.
(Scott Hargrove for SDSU)
By Bradley J. Fikes
Helped by a global search through sewage, San Diego State University researchers have found that a benign gut virus appears to be older than the human race itself.
Moreover, different strains of this common virus can be traced to countries or even individual cities, said study leader Rob Edwards. Travelers rapidly pick up the local strain, providing a genetic map of their journey.
"For example, we can detect San Diego vs. New York," Edwards said.
There are also hints that the virus might be usable to treat certain diseases related to imbalances of intestinal bacteria, he said. There's no evidence the virus causes any human disease.
The study was published Monday in Nature Microbiology.
This virus is a bacteriophage or phage, a group of viruses that kill bacteria. Called a cross-assembly phage, or crAssphage, it infects Bacteroidetes, a genus of anerobic bacteria. The virus was first reported in 2014, by a group including Edwards.
The virus might be used to alleviate disorders such as Crohn's disease, and possibly diabetes and obesity, he said. There are hints that imbalances in the gut bacterial population are involved in such disorders. So strains of the phage might be engineered to deliver medicines.
"Presumably, because the phage has been around so long, it's adapted to our immune system, so it's not going to cause a big response," Edwards said. "This is a really exciting area of opportunity for us right now, to understand how we can shape the human microbiome with the bacteriophages that we have available to us."
However, he said a fuller understanding of these gut microbial interactions will first be needed.
Phage therapy has been around for more than a century. In recent years, it has received more attention, as bacterial resistance to antibiotics proliferates. UC San Diego has established a center for phage therapy.
With the help of colleagues around the world, Edwards was able to get the genetic sequences of crAssphage from their locales. This greatly simplified the task.
"We put out requests by email and Twitter for scientists to get samples from their local sewage plants," Edwards said. "It was kind of a global coming together where everybody got their own samples, sequences them, and sent us the data by email. So we have sequences from 67 countries."
The virus was found to be widespread, and also related to other phages found in Old World and New World primates. This pattern suggests that crAssphage and its ancestors were present in primates before the human lineage split off, Edwards said.
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Connecting Collections: The Battle of Trenton and Princeton
December 19, 2018 by Ed Redmond
During the winter of 1776-1777, two key battles became an important turning point for George Washington's Continental Army and the American struggle against the vaunted British Empire. In this blog post we will explore three maps that depict the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, all from different collections in the division and drawn by various nations: Andreas Wiederholdt's Sketch of the engagement at Trenton; Colonel John Cadwalader's Plan of Princeton, 1776; and William Faden's Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops in New Jersey. The first two maps are eyewitness accounts of engagements while the third map documents movement of both the Continental and British armies in the struggle to control New Jersey.
The first map, Sketch of the engagement at Trenton, a battle taking place on the 26th of December between the American troops under command of General Washington, and three Hessian regiments under command of Colonel Rall, was produced by Lieutenant Andreas von Wiederholdt (1752-?), a Hessian officer present at the battle. The map recounts in great detail the movement of the Continental Army from its crossing of the Delaware River at "Johns Ferry" to the actual engagement at Trenton. Von Wiederholdt also denotes the location of each Hessian regiment, the roads into Trenton, the "Road to Princeton," as well as the location where General George Washington coordinated the attack.
The manuscript map was acquired as part of the Papers of Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, commander-in-chief of the French army in North America, in 1883 following an act of Congress authorizing the purchase from Eugène Achille Lacroix de Vimeur, Marquis de Rochambeau. In addition to manuscript and archival materials, the purchase included 122 manuscript maps which were transferred to the Library's Geography and Map Division. It is interesting to note that this map, prepared by a Hessian engineer for a British audience, came into the possession of the Comte de Rochambeau, commander of the French Army in North America!
Sketch of the engagement at Trenton… Map by Wiederholdt, Andreas, 1776. Rochambeau Collection. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
A second, and somewhat related, map from the collections is entitled Plan of Princeton, December 31, 1776 and was produced by Colonel John Cadwalader (1742-1786), a commander of the Pennsylvania militia. Following the success of the Battle of Trenton, General George Washington led another attack on the city of Princeton, New Jersey in the hope of capturing much needed supplies. To prepare for the engagement, General Washington sent a spy into Princeton to gather intelligence. The spy, likely a student at the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University), made eyewitness observations and relayed that information for Colonel Cadwalader. On December 31, 1776, Cadwalader prepared a map of Princeton based on those observations and sent it along with a letter to General George Washington. The hand drawn map is housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division while the letter is housed in the Papers of George Washington in the Library's Manuscript Division.
Plan of Princeton. Map by John Cadwalader, 1776. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: John Cadwalader to George Washington, December 31, 1776. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
The third and final map in our review was published in London in April 1777, four months after the eight day period depicted on the map. Entitled Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops in New Jersey, from the 26th of December to the 3d of January 1777, the map depicts the Battles of Trenton and Princeton as well as the British response by moving forces led by General Cornwallis westward across New Jersey. It should be noted that information about the war in North America was somewhat scarce in London and this "after action report" intended for a British audience, filled that void by depicting movements of both the Continental and British armies. The map is part of the William Faden Collection which consists of 101 manuscript maps and plans of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution assembled by Faden, geographer to King George III. The collection was acquired by the Library in 1864.
Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops in New Jersey, from the 26th of December to the 3d of January 1777. Map, April 1777. Faden Collections. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
The three maps discussed here graphically illustrate the intersection between history and geography. Equally important, the maps were produced by the three nations present in the battle, Germany, America, and England. The maps not only show the different viewpoints of each army but are also an excellent example of connecting material within different collections of the division together!
Washington at the Battle of Trenton. Engraving by Illman Brothers from the original in the possession of Charles J. Peterson, 1870. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Read an account of the battle written by George Washington to the Continental Congress on December 26, 1776 from the Manuscript Division. For a transcript of the letter, click here!
Explore classroom ideas about the American Revolution through the Library's page for teachers!
View more maps of the period through the digital collection, American Revolution and its Era!
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