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At the 44th annual Gather-In in Pittsfield, the Berkshire Center for Justice was on location with a Free Legal Clinic: from left Caesar Valdes, Attorney and BCF Director Eve Schatz, Janet O'Brien, Ziev Dalsheim-Kahane, and Iolani de Ris. The Center for Justice will have its booth set up this weekend, August 12 and 13, during the Pow Wow at the Great Barrington Fairgrounds.
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Great Barrington – For the past 11 years the Berkshire Center for Justice – also known as the Free Legal Clinic — has been offering free legal advice system on such matters as consumer protection, tenant rights, substance abuse, access to education, housing, homelessness, teen pregnancy, access to medical care, elder law, immigration, sexual harassment, foreclosure, bankruptcy and family law to those throughout the county who cannot afford a lawyer to defend their rights or have difficulty in realizing that they could have support navigating the legal system. So far, the center has helped more than 1,000 clients.
"We may be the best kept secret in the Berkshires, but we are really making a difference," explained the Center's founder and director Eve Schatz, during an interview at the modest BCJ office on the second floor of the Barrington House on Main Street. "BCJ is one of 23 nonprofit, sliding scale direct legal providers in the country, and the only organization to offer free legal clinics in the Berkshires. W modifying what a law office can be. We address social and community issues. We consider ourselves to be justice-minded."
Berkshire Center for Justice founder and director Eve Schatz with board member David Ornstil at the Center's office on Main Street in Great Barrington. Photo: David Scribner
Equal access to legal representation, she notes, "is the foundation of social justice. That's our primary our goal, to have everyone in need of legal advice to have access to it, regardless of income, immigration status, sexual orientation, income level, age, or mental ability. These are real issues that I see right here in the Berkshires. Our other goal is for the BJC to have all the resources to approach that aspirational goal."
She continued: "The per capita income in the Berkshires, on average, is a little more than half that of the state. And this Administration – the Trump Administration – is cutting after-school programming and our free food program. He and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are taking away from the most vulnerable: young children and the elderly who can't fend for themselves. DeVos wants to do away with student loan forgiveness and income-based repayment on education loans that can exceed monthly rent. And when someone defaults, it becomes a hornet's nest. Every day, I fight for justice."
As an example she related how her office had received a call from an elderly woman who was ill and being sued by an international bank. She was hospitalized when she received notification that she was in danger of losing her house unless she provided documents in a court hearing. Because she was in hospital, it was impossible for her to meet the deadline to provide documents. She called the Center in a panic.
"We were able to assemble the documents for her so that she didn't lose her house," Schatz recalled. "We managed to get the case dismissed for her. We really operate out of compassion for people."
She points out that the Center not only provides free legal support for those who would otherwise have no legal representation but also educates its clients – and the wider community – through programs that "empower the disenfranchised and under-represented." The Free Legal Clinic has a network of mediators, translators in Portuguese, Spanish and sign language, and a roster of life coaches to restore confidence.
And the Berkshire Center for Justice also has a broader outreach mandate, one expression of which is an initiative to make its services more accessible – and visible.
Every Wednesday, from 12 to 1 p.m., the Center conducts a free legal clinic during the Guthrie Center's Free Lunch Program on Van Deusenville Road.
And this Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13, the Center's volunteers and staff will offer a free legal clinic available at the 12th annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow being held at the Great Barrington Fairgrounds.
This year, the theme of the Pow Wow is "Rising Like Water."
"One of our volunteers is associated with the Pow Wow, so we were asked if we wanted to be involved," Schatz recounted. "They said they'd love to have our tent there. The theme – Rising Like Water – suggests that the community rises together in support of each other for justice. And that is the role of the Berkshire Center for Justice."
Three weeks earlier, on July 22, in collaboration with the Berkshire NAACP, the Center set up its booth – a 10 foot by 10 foot tent with a large banner — in Pittsfield at the 44th annual Gather-In, Berkshire County's longest running neighborhood festival designated this year as the Life Ev'ry Voice Festival to celebrate African-American culture and heritage in the Berkshires.
To contact the Berkshire Center for Justice, call 413-854-1955, or go online: https://berkshirecenterforjustice.org. The Center is located at 284 Main St., Suite 7, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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Readers Question: If monopoly is always bad, why do firms seek to become monopolists and why does government tolerate monopoly?
Monopolies have fewer incentives to be efficient.
Monopsony power in paying a lower price to suppliers.
Monopolies can gain political power and the ability to shape society in an undemocratic and unaccountable way – especially with big IT giants who have such an influence on society and people's choices.
In the late nineteenth-century, large monopolist like Standard Oil gained a notorious reputation for abusing their power and forcing rivals out of business. This led to a backlash against monopolists. But, in the Twenty-First Century, there are new monopolies which have an increasing influence on people's lives.
They can charge higher prices and make more profit than in a competitive market.
The can benefit from economies of scale – by increasing size they can experience lower average costs – important for industries with high fixed costs and scope for specialisation.
They can use their monopoly profits to invest in research and development and also build up cash reserves for difficult times.
It is difficult to break up monopolies. The US government passed a lawsuit against Microsoft, suggesting it should be split up into three smaller companies but it was never implemented.
Governments can implement regulation of Monopolies e.g. OFWAT regulates the prices of water companies. In theory, regulation can enable the best of both worlds – economies of scale, plus fair prices. However, there is concern about whether regulators do a good job – or whether there is regulatory capture with firms gaining generous price controls.
Innovation. With patents and monopoly power, drug companies would be unwilling to invest so much in drug research. The monopoly power of patent provides an incentive for firms to develop new technology and knowledge, that can benefit society.
However, this can also have downsides with drug companies able to charge excessively high prices for life-saving drugs. It also gives drug companies an incentive to push pharmaceutical treatments rather than much cheaper solutions of promoting good health and avoiding the poor health in the first place.
Firms with monopoly power are not necessarily bad. Google has monopoly power on search engines – but can we say Google is an inefficient firm who don't seek to innovate?
On the other hand, the dominance of the big IT firms Apple, Facebook and Google raises concerns over their undemocratic influence on society.
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Hi, I'm a first year economics student and just thought I'd add the theory of contestable markets to this discussion, as it provides another view on why monopolies might not always be 'bad'.
The theory of contestable markets suggests that if barriers to entry and exit are practically non-existent (or totally non-existent in the case of a perfectly contestable market), firms can freely enter and exit the market at will. Therefore, there is a constant threat of so-called 'hit and run' competition, where rival firms can enter the market as soon as they see an opportunity to make supernormal profits.
So if a monopolist attempted to exploit its position in a perfectly contestable market, e.g. by raising prices, it would be undercut and would lose profit.
But there are few contestable markets in existence. I believe my A-level teacher said that local bus or taxi industries are two examples.
Very Good Point John, this would definitely get a few evaluative marks at A Level.
It is true, there are few perfectly contestable markets. But it is always helpful to think in terms of degrees of contestability.
I think the formation of monopoly is very important , especially during the time of recession. They can push out infant firms and became internationally competetive.
The fact that they have an EOS can reflect cheaper prices of their products.
However they have to earn abnormal profits , therefore they have to minimise total costs , to do that they have to pay less to their employees. That is the only disadvantage.
Q. to what extent a petrol industry is classified as oligopolistic??
Equal standards suggests that if monopolies are bad for private industry, they are also bad for public industry. Holding AT&T and Microsoft to one standard, and allowing it for others isn't a fair administration of justice.
Further, capitalism that invokes competition as the reason for price controls and price reductions has been traditional in economics. Exclusive control isn't competitive, and cannot therefore produce competitive pricing.
Government holding itself to the same standards expected of private industry with regard to competition for lower cost potential seems logical, but isn't practiced, in a hypocrisy of sorts that should not be failed to be recognized as detrimental to democracy.
Surely it's benefit from economies of scale or disadvantage from diseconomies of scale?
– Insurance is a commodity service ( it provides cash in exchange for cash).
– Insurance is by its nature conservative and not subject to much innovation. Policies can be varied and complex, but the service provided is not essentially changed.
– A fair price for an insurance policy can be arrived at by a good mathematician (actuary).
The business of insurance is to redistribute wealth to those less fortunate. Redistribution of wealth sounds like a bad thing, but that's exactly what insurance is all about: people pooling their resources together in order to equally distribute risk and redistribute wealth to those that suffer misfortune. In this system, the larger the pool of insured, the more efficient the redistribution.
This is why having the federal government (not state and local government or a private company) provide insurance makes so much sense. FDIC, Social Security benefit from a large single provider. The same would be true of halth insurance.
Technically speaking, I think monopolies are good and bad, but mostly bad.especially since the government does not intervene in their affairs of running their company unless they violate the consumers' rights ,so they do what ever they like and that's what make it a bad thing.
Regulate, regulate, regulate! Monopolies may have benefits, but he government should regulate price gouging and unfairness to consumers.


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Shaggy and Scooby win tickets for a WWE City trip. All five go. While there, they're attacked by a huge monster ghost bear. Wrestlers help them. The five have a mystery to solve.
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Earth note: Normally I love rendering the planet against stars (it's pretty), but in this case having it just hanging there against black really makes the composition.
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import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
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import com.google.sps.utils.DatastoreUtils;
import com.google.sps.utils.RecipeCollector;
import com.google.sps.utils.UserCollector;
import com.google.sps.utils.UserConstants;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

@WebServlet("/api/favourites")
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Q: src2(la)tex doesnt really interpret mathematica notebook? src2(la)tex is a linux application that takes input from different commercial file formats like maple, mathematica,... notebooks and emits them as (la)tex code.
But when I feed it a certain notebook it comments on stdout that it recognizes the file to be Mathematica notebook, but the resulting latex is simply the text contents of the .nb notebook prettyfied in latex, i.e. no interpretation of graphs etc...

A: I do not believe that is how src2(la)tex is supposed to work.  It is really just a very simple pretty printer for source code, that will allow you to insert TeX commands in your code (like formula and even images).  You have to insert these in TeX format first, marking them by {\ ... }, $ ... $ or $$ ... $$, then src2(la)tex will copy them directly to the output file without pretty printing them.  As far as I can tell, it cannot interpret any of the source code itself.
For example, if your source code contains:
void plot_f (float a, b) /* will plot the function $f(x) = \sqrt{x^2 - 1}$ from $a$ to $b$,
                resulting in a plot like {\includegraphics{plot}} */
{
   /* do something */
}

it will be translated into
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}

\ifx\sevenrm\undefined
  \font\sevenrm=cmr7 scaled \magstep0
\fi

\newread\MyStyle
\openin\MyStyle=src2latex.s2t
\ifeof\MyStyle
  \closein\MyStyle
\else
  \input src2latex.s2t
  \closein\MyStyle
\fi

\ifx\gtfam\undefined
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    \ifx\tendm\undefined
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    \else
      \def\mc{\tendm}
    \fi
  \else
    \def\mc{\dm}
  \fi
  \ifx\dg\undefined
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    \fi
  \else
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\fi
\ifx\sc\undefined
  \def\sc{\null}
\fi

\tt\mc

\noindent
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\noindent
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\tt\mc

\noindent
{}{\tt\char'173}

\noindent
{}{\tt\mc \kern1.500em}\tt\mc {\tt /}{\tt *}\kern0.500em do\kern0.500em something\kern0.500em {\tt *}{\tt /}
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Note that the result is in an old LaTeX 2.09 format.  Changing the first line and loading the graphicx package I was then able to produce this:

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We weren't ready, because of the meltdown of the JBU server last week, but we decided to go ahead and start looking at submissions anyway.
While we were away, we were soundly thrashed by Mike Resnick for the poor quality of the stuff we were letting through.
So we are going to be fierce.
Nothing less than a 10 gets passed on. JBU is the premier venue now, and we are getting the premier content...and it is going to get harder to get published in it.
I, being completely honest, ptui ptui, must say that I do not write well enough to make it into JBU. I wouldn't give my own stuff the rating Mike and Eric are demanding.


Time: 2001, the year of eleventh grade.
Place: Office of my mental health therapist.
I've made a little gorilla for you.
You can place him here by the tissues.
He's made of beeswax shaded ecru.
He'll listen as I talk of my issues.
A quarrel between mind and heart.
The rules of society which surround me.
Sam over there, that boy ignores me.
Why does he do so? Does he abhor me?
I have a best friend, but I truly hate her.
A closeted lesbian? Do I want to date her?
I don't understand why I hate my friends.
No one has depth, it's just clothes and trends.
I want to date, but I'm not attractive.
My brain clouds my face, it's psychoactive.
No longer have I personality.
I'm a victim of sheer rationality.
My intuition, it's now extinct.
You, my therapist, always tell me to cope.
That's why I've sculpted this ecru gorilla.
He'll stand his ground with quiety.
He'll fight away my anxiety.
That's why I'm here today.
And my illness will go away.
It seems Vanilla the gorilla did his work well, better than the simply rational words of the therapist. Thanks for this evocation of strength.


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Book of Ezekiel
Title: Book of Ezekiel
Subject: Nevi'im, Books of the Bible, Ezekiel, Book of Isaiah, Book of Hosea
Collection: 6Th-Century Bc Books, Book of Ezekiel, Nevi'Im
Tanakh (Judaism)
Torah (Instruction)
Brʾeišyt
Šemot
Wayiqra
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Yehoshua
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Shemuel
Melakhim
Yeshayahu
Yekhezqel
Ketuvim (Writings)
Təhillîm
Mishlei
Iyov
Five Megillot (Scrolls)
Eikhah
Daniyyel
Ezra–Nehemiah
Dibh're Hayyamim
Old Testament (Christianity)
1 and 2 Samuel
1 and 2 Kings
1 and 2 Chronicles
Major prophets
Deuterocanonical
Additions to Esther
1 Maccabees
Baruch / Letter of Jeremiah
Additions to Daniel
Orthodox only
1 Esdras
Prayer of Manasseh
Orthodox Tewahedo
1 Enoch
1, 2, and 3 Meqabyan
Paralipomena of Baruch
Broader canon
Bible portal
The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Major Prophets in the Tanakh and one of the major prophetic books in the Old Testament, following Isaiah and Jeremiah.[1] According to the book itself, it records seven visions of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years 593-571 BCE, although it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.[2] The visions, and the book, are structured around three themes: (1) Judgment on Israel (chapters 1–24); (2) Judgment on the nations (chapters 25–32); and (3) Future blessings for Israel (chapters 33–48).[3] Its themes include the concepts of the presence of God, purity, Israel as a divine community, and individual responsibility to God. Its later influence has included the development of mystical and apocalyptic traditions in Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism and Christianity.
Life and times of Ezekiel 3.1
Textual history 3.2
Critical history 3.3
Themes 4
Later interpretation and influence 5
Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism (c. 515 BCE–500 CE) 5.1
Christianity 5.2
Ezekiel has the broad three-fold structure found in a number of the prophetic books: oracles of woe against the prophet's own people, followed by oracles against Israel's neighbours, ending in prophecies of hope and salvation:
Prophecies against Judah and Jerusalem, chapters 1–24
Prophecies against the foreign nations, chapters 25–32
Prophecies of hope and salvation, chapters 33–48[4]
A mid-12th century Flemish piece of copperwork depicting Ezekiel's Vision of the Sign "Tau" from Ezekiel IX:2–7. The item is currently held by the Walters Museum.
The book opens with a vision of YHWH (יהוה), one of the Names of God; moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as God's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.[5]
Inaugural vision (Ezekiel 1:1–3:27): God approaches Ezekiel as the divine warrior, riding in his battle chariot. The chariot is drawn by four living creatures, each having four faces (those of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle) and four wings. Beside each "living creature" is a "wheel within a wheel", with "tall and awesome" rims full of eyes all around. YHWH commissions Ezekiel as a prophet and as a "watchman" in Israel: "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites." (2:3)
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah (Ezekiel 4:1–24:27) and on the nations (Ezekiel 25:1–32:32): God warns of the certain destruction of Jerusalem and of the devastation of the nations that have troubled his people: the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Philistines, the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon, and Egypt.
Building a new city (Ezekiel 33:1–48:35): The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.
Some of the highlights include:[6]
The "throne vision", in which Ezekiel sees God enthroned in the Temple among the heavenly host (Ezekiel 1:4–28);
The first "temple vision", in which Ezekiel sees God leave the Temple because of the abominations practiced there (meaning the worship of idols other than YHWH, the official God of Judah (Ezekiel 8:1–16);
Images of Israel, in which Israel is seen as a harlot bride, among other things (Ezekiel 15–19);
The "valley of dry bones", in which the prophet sees the dead of the house of Israel rise again (Ezekiel 37:1–14);
The destruction of Gog and Magog, in which Ezekiel sees Israel's enemies destroyed and a new age of peace established (Ezekiel 38–39);
The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel sees a new commonwealth centered around a new temple in Jerusalem, sometimes called the Third Temple, to which God's Shekinah (Divine Presence) has returned (Ezekiel 40–48)
Life and times of Ezekiel
The Book of Ezekiel describes itself as the words of the Ezekiel ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of Babylon between 593 and 571 BCE. Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a "school" of later followers of the original prophet.[7] While the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.[2]
According to the book that bears his name, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c.623 BCE, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah. Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c.630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God of Israel. Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became a vassal of the new regional power, the Neo-Babylonian empire. In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians. He appears to have spent the rest of his life in Mesopotamia. A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests. The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic call, and 52 at the time of the last vision c.571.[8]
Textual history
The Jewish scriptures were translated into Greek in the two centuries immediately before the birth of Christ. The Greek version of these books is called the Septuagint. The Jewish Bible in Hebrew is called the Masoretic text (meaning passing down after a Hebrew word Masorah; for Jewish scholars and rabbis curated and commented on the text). The Greek (Septuagint) version of Ezekiel differs considerably from the Hebrew (Masoretic) version – it is shorter and possibly represents an early interpretation of the book we have today (according to the masoretic tradition) – while other ancient manuscript fragments differ from both.[9]
Critical history
The first half of the 20th century saw several attempts to deny the authorship and authenticity of the book, with scholars such as C.C. Torrey (1863–1956) and Morton Smith placing it variously in the 3rd century BCE and in the 8th/7th. The pendulum swung back in the post-war period, with an increasing acceptance of the book's essential unity and historical placement in the Exile. The most influential modern scholarly work on Ezekiel, Walther Zimmerli's two-volume commentary, appeared in German in 1969 and in English in 1979 and 1983. Zimmerli traces the process by which Ezekiel's oracles were delivered orally and transformed into a written text by the prophet and his followers through a process of ongoing re-writing and re-interpretation. He isolates the oracles and speeches behind the present text, and traces Ezekiel's interaction with a mass of mythological, legendary and literary material as he developed his insights into Yahweh's purposes during the period of destruction and exile.[10]
Monument to Holocaust survivors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; the quote is Ezekiel 37:14
As a priest, Ezekiel is fundamentally concerned with the Kavod YHWH, a technical phrase meaning the presence (shekhinah) of YHWH (i.e., one of the Names of God) among the people, in the Tabernacle, and in the Temple, and normally translated as "glory of God".[11] In Ezekiel the phrase describes God mounted on his throne-chariot as he departs from the Temple in chapters 1–11 and returns to what Marvin Sweeney describes as a portrayal of "the establishment of the new temple in Zion as YHWH returns to the temple, which then serves as the center for a new creation with the tribes of Israel arrayed around it" in chapters 40–48.[12] The vision in chapters 1:4–28 reflects common mythological/Biblical themes and the imagery of the Temple: God appears in a cloud from the north – the north being the usual home of God/the gods in ancient mythology and Biblical literature – with four living creatures corresponding to the two cherubim above the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant and the two in the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Temple; the burning coals of fire between the creatures perhaps represents the fire on the sacrificial altar, and the famous "wheel within a wheel" may represent the rings by which the Levites carried the Ark, or the wheels of the cart.[12]
Ezekiel depicts the destruction of Jerusalem as a purificatory sacrifice upon the altar, made necessary by the "abominations" in the Temple (the presence of idols and the worship of the god Tammuz) described in chapter 8.[13] The process of purification begins, God prepares to leave, and a priest lights the sacrificial fire to the city.[14] Nevertheless, the prophet announces that the small remnant who will remain true to Yahweh in exile and return to the purified city.[14] The image of the valley of dry bones returning to life in chapter 37 signifies the restoration of the purified Israel.[14]
Previous prophets had used "Israel" to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes; when Ezekiel speaks of Israel he is addressing the deported remnant of Judah; at the same time, however, he can use this term to mean the glorious future destiny of a truly comprehensive "Israel".[15] In sum, the book describes God's promise that the people of Israel will maintain their covenant with God when they are purified and receive a "new heart" (another of the book's images) which will enable them to observe God's commandments and live in the land in a proper relationship with Yahweh.[16]
The theology of Ezekiel is notable for its contribution to the emerging notion of individual responsibility to God – each man would be held responsible only for his own sins. This is in marked contrast to the Deuteronomistic writers, who held that the sins of the nation would be held against all, without regard for an individual's personal guilt. Nonetheless, Ezekiel shared many ideas in common with the Deuteronomists, notably the notion that God works according to the principle of retributive justice and an ambivalence towards kingship (although the Deuteronomists reserved their scorn for individual kings rather than for the office itself). As a priest, Ezekiel praises the Zadokites over the Levites (lower level temple functionaries), whom he largely blames for the destruction and exile. He is clearly connected with the Holiness Code and its vision of a future dependent on keeping the Laws of God and maintaining ritual purity. Notably, Ezekiel blames the Babylonian exile not on the people's failure to keep the Law, but on their worship of gods other than Yahweh and their injustice: these, says Ezekiel in chapters 8–11, are the reasons God's Shekhinah left his city and his people.[17]
Later interpretation and influence
Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism (c. 515 BCE–500 CE)
Ezekiel's imagery provided much of the basis for the Second Temple mystical tradition in which the visionary ascended through the Seven Heavens in order to experience the presence of God and understand his actions and intentions.[1] The book's literary influence can be seen in the later apocalyptic writings of Daniel and Zechariah. He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah (a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the "great sages" of Israel) and 4 Maccabees (1st century AD). In the 1st century AD the historian Josephus said that the prophet wrote two books: he may have had in mind the Apocryphon of Ezekiel, a 1st-century BCE text that expands on the doctrine of resurrection. Ezekiel appears only briefly in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but his influence there was profound, most notably in the Temple Scroll with its temple plans, and the defence of the Zadokite priesthood in the Damascus Document.[18] There was apparently some question concerning the inclusion of Ezekiel in the canon of scripture, since it is frequently at odds with the Torah (the five "Books of Moses" which are foundational to Judaism).[1]
Ezekiel is referenced more in the Book of Revelation than in any other New Testament writing.[19] To take just two well-known passages, the famous Gog and Magog prophecy in Revelation 20:8 refers back to Ezekiel 38–39,[20] and in Revelation 21–22, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God where his people will enjoy a state of perfect well-being.[21] Apart from Revelation, however, where Ezekiel is a major source, there is very little allusion to the prophet in the New Testament; the reasons for this are unclear, but it can be assumed that not every Christian or Hellenistic Jewish community in the 1st century would have had a complete set of (Hebrew) scripture scrolls, and in any case Ezekiel was under suspicion of encouraging dangerous mystical speculation, as well as being sometimes obscure, incoherent, and pornographic.[22]
The Visionary Ezekiel Temple plan drawn by the 19th-century French architect and Bible scholar Charles Chipiez.
The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones by Gustave Doré, 1866
Painting by Marten de Vos, c. 1600
Apocryphon of Ezekiel
Biblical numerology
Temple in Jerusalem
^ a b c Sweeney 1998, p. 88.
^ a b Joyce 2009, p. 16.
^ Petersen 2002, p. 140.
^ McKeating 1993, p. 15.
^ Redditt 2008, p. 148
^ Blenkinsopp (1990)
^ Blenkinsopp 1996, p. 8.
^ Drinkard 1995, pp. 160–161.
^ Blenkinsopp 1996, p. 130.
^ Sweeney 1998, pp. 165–166.
^ Sweeney 1998, pp. 91–91.
^ a b Sweeney 1998, p. 92.
^ Goldingay 2003, p. 624.
^ Kugler & Hartin 2009, pp. 261–261.
^ Block 1997, p. 43.
^ Buitenwerf 2007, p. 165.
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^ Block 1998, p. 502.
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Q: DuplicateKeyException raised when using Spring JdbcMetadataStore (Oracle) My current configuration of file:inbound-channel-adapter is working fine. I'm running the application in multiple servers and only one is actually processing the file. Database table INT_METADATA_STORE also updated successfully. Issue I'm facing is that one of the servers are still trying to insert the record and below exception is raised:
org.springframework.messaging.MessagingException: nested exception is
org.springframework.dao.DuplicateKeyException: PreparedStatementCallback;
SQL [INSERT INTO INT_METADATA_STORE(METADATA_KEY, METADATA_VALUE, REGION) SELECT ?, ?, ? FROM INT_METADATA_STORE WHERE METADATA_KEY=? AND REGION=? HAVING COUNT(*)=0];
ORA-00001: unique constraint (SMS_OWNER.INT_METADATA_STORE_PK) violated;
nested exception is java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (SMS_OWNER.INT_METADATA_STORE_PK) violated

I've tried different flavors of isolation and no luck. Is this something related to the transaction manager used since I'm using XML with Spring Integration + Java? See below some configurations:
<int-file:inbound-channel-adapter directory="file:/tmp/input/" prevent-duplicates="true" filter="compositeFileListFilter">
  <int:poller max-messages-per-poll="1" cron="*/10 * * * * *">
    <int:transactional transaction-manager="transactionManager" isolation="READ_COMMITTED" timeout="5" />
  </int:poller>
</int-file:inbound-channel-adapter>

and
@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class MetadataStoreConfiguration {

    @Value("${input.file.pattern:(DUMMY)(_).*\\.(xml)}")
    private String pattern;

    @Bean
    @Qualifier("fileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter")
    public FileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter fileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter(final DataSource dataSource) {
        return new FileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter(metadataStore(dataSource),"");
    }

    @Bean
    @Qualifier("metadataStore")
    public JdbcMetadataStore metadataStore(final DataSource dataSource) {
        JdbcMetadataStore metadataStore = new JdbcMetadataStore(dataSource);
        return metadataStore;
    }

    @Bean
    public CompositeFileListFilter<File> compositeFileListFilter(FileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter fileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter) {
        CompositeFileListFilter<File> filter = new CompositeFileListFilter<>(Arrays.asList(fileSystemPersistentAcceptOnceFileListFilter, new RegexPatternFileListFilter(pattern)));
        return filter;
    }

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(final DataSource dataSource) {
        return new DataSourceTransactionManager(dataSource);
    }

}

I'm using Spring Boot 2.2.4.RELEASE, Java 8 and Oracle as database. Any help will be much appreciated.

A: No, your configuration is fully OK. It really doesn't matter because it is read only once at start up. At runtime you have only beans and they are wired properly. So, it's OK to have that PlatformTransactionManager and compositeFileListFilter in Java config and use them as references from XML one.
I think the problem is not about transactions. More over it even looks like they work!
Both of your transactions try to insert and don't see a value. Of course, one of them is OK on commit, but another fails because the value is already inserted. With IINSERT INTO .. SELECT ... HAVING we achieve an atomicity for the current transaction. But it really doesn't give us a chance to avoid conflict on commit...
It looks like our JdbcMetadataStore.putIfAbsent() should be improved to catch this SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException as a fact of data presence and return the current value.
Please, raise a GH issue and we'll think how to proceed!


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Meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council
The President of Russia took part, via videoconference, in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State Council.
Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
The meeting held in Dushanbe under the chairmanship of President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Rahmon EmomaliPresident of Tajikistan . The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Modi NarendraPrime Minister of India , President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Tokayev Kassym-JomartPresident of the Republic of Kazakhstan , President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping Xi JinpingPresident of People's Republic of China , President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov Japarov SadyrPresident of the Kyrgyz Republic , Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev Mirziyoyev ShavkatPresident of Uzbekistan .
Apart from the SCO Background information Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) heads of state, the organisers have invited to the meeting President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Lukashenko AlexanderPresident of Belarus , President of Iran Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi Raisi EbrahimPresident of Iran , and President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh Khurelsukh UkhnaagiinPresident of Mongolia in their capacity as heads of SCO observer states, as well as President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Berdimuhamedov Gurbanguly as a guest of the current SCO Chair.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Guterres AntonioSecretary-General of the United Nations sent a video message to the summit.
A package of documents was signed following the summit, including the Dushanbe Declaration on the 20th Anniversary of the SCO.
Decisions adopted at the summit approved, in particular, the SCO Programme of cooperation in combating terrorism, separatism and extremism for 2022–2024; the Working Plan (2021–2023) on implementing the action programme for fulfilling the Anti-Drug Strategy of SCO member states for 2018–2023; the plan for SCO cooperation in ensuring international information security in 2022–2023, and the plan on joint measures of SCO member states on countering the adverse socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021–2023.
Decisions on signing memorandums of understanding between the SCO Secretariat and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the Arab League Secretariat-General, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) were also adopted.
In addition, it was decided to launch the accession process for the Islamic Republic of Iran to join the SCO, and to grant the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the SCO's dialogue partner status.
The participants also adopted statements by the SCO Heads of State Council on promoting cooperation in science, technology, innovation, and food security.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Rahmon, colleagues,
First of all, I would like to join the words of gratitude to our Tajikistani friends and President Emomali Rahmon for the considerable amount of work being done in the course of Tajikistan's chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Profiting by this occasion, I would also like to join the greetings to the Prime Minister of India. I wish Mr Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi a very happy birthday. I would like to wish you, my dear friend, good health and every kind of success.
Symbolically, the SCO's anniversary meeting is being held in Dushanbe, as it has been mentioned, where in July 2000 the leaders of the Shanghai Five – Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – called for the establishment of a regional organisation for multilateral cooperation, which would act in the spirit of good-neighbourliness, mutual trust, and respect for the interests of each other.
This organisation was created and has functioned successfully for the past 20 years. The SCO is by right one of the most influential centres of the multi-polar architecture of international cooperation, making a significant contribution to security in the Eurasian region, its sustainable socioeconomic growth, and international peace and stability as a whole.
Right now, our organisation is facing an urgent task of launching a common coordinated policy, which would take into account the serious risks related to the surge of tension in Afghanistan after the hasty pull-out, if not to say flight, of the US forces and their NATO allies from that country. All of us are well aware that the developments in Afghanistan are directly projected to the security interests of the SCO member states, all the more so that a number of SCO states have a common border with Afghanistan.
I believe that we must use the organisation's potential to provide all-round assistance to launching an inclusive intra-Afghan peace process and, simultaneously, to block the threats of terrorism, drug trafficking and religious extremism coming from that country.
It is true that the change of power there was almost bloodless, which is definitely a positive factor. The Taliban currently controls nearly the entire territory of Afghanistan, and it would be reasonable to encourage the new Afghan authorities to implement their own promises of peace, normal civil life and security for all. In this context, we can discuss the possibility of relaunching the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, which was created in the past for working with our Afghan partners.
You are all aware that the algorithm of our rapid joint response to the threats coming from Afghanistan was discussed in detail yesterday at the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting. Of course, we would like the decisions adopted at the meeting to be supported and accepted by our SCO partners.
Therefore, I regard the initiative of holding a joint meeting of the SCO and CSTO leaders today as very important and useful. This will allow us to hold an in-depth discussion of our two organisations' practical interaction on the Afghan track and to coordinate our efforts with due regard for the specific features and powers of the SCO and the CSTO.
As for cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation proper, we believe that it would be useful to strengthen the capabilities of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure by expanding its staff to include experts on money laundering, financing of terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
I would like to point out that Russia will contribute most energetically to the implementation of the SCO Programme on Cooperation in Combating Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism for 2022–2024, the SCO Anti-Drug Strategy until 2023, and the SCO Cooperation Plan in Ensuring International Information Security for 2022–2023, to be approved today.
For all the particular attention required by the need to ward off threats emerging in our common space, the SCO member states still have many traditional tasks on their agenda, namely those related to the deepening of partner relations in the economic and social spheres.
The COVID-19 pandemic – our colleagues have just talked about this in detail – has led to a decline in international trade, provoked volatility on the financial and raw material markets, and limited investment flows. The crisis state of the world economy has sparked a rise in unemployment and poverty levels.
Of course, all of this has affected the economic ties between SCO members. Last year, the volume of mutual trade between Russia and the SCO states dropped by 6.4 percent to $141.6 billion. But today, there is every reason to believe that we can remedy the situation, bringing cooperation to its former level and even strengthening it. This is being facilitated by the large-scale anti-crisis measures undertaken by all SCO states.
Russia, for one, has allocated about three trillion rubles – this, for the sake of clarity, is over 4.5 percent of Russia's GDP in comparable figures – to preserve jobs and incomes, support businesses, re-launch the investment cycle, and help the regions, specific people and families, primarily families with children.
We regard digitalisation and the wider use of environmentally clean technologies and other innovative solutions in all spheres of life, including public administration, transport and communications, as the key tools in incentivising further economic growth. The SCO member states have established collaboration in all these areas, and it must be vigorously promoted.
The SCO Green Belt Programme and the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Concept of Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection for 2022–2024, which we are to approve today, are due to assist the introduction of modern resource-saving technologies.
I would also like to mention the role played by the Comprehensive Plan of Joint Measures to Counter the Threats of Epidemics in restoring the pace of economic cooperation in the SCO space amid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. It was promptly adopted at the Organisation's summit last year during Russia's chairmanship. It is important that all SCO member states are implementing this plan actively and willingly.
It is worth saying in this context that Russia has sent nearly 1.2 million free COVID-19 test kits to the SCO member states. We continue providing help by sending our leading medical specialists and researchers to our partners. Incidentally, we have invited the SCO countries to send their delegates to an international exercise of rapid epidemic emergency response teams, which will be held in Kazan, Russia, in October.
I would also like to say that Russia stands for the further expansion of the legal framework of the SCO countries' humanitarian cooperation. A major step towards this will be the approval of the member states' decisions on cooperation in the protection of cultural heritage landmarks, working with young people, cooperation in the sphere of culture and the arts in general, as well as regulations on the SCO tourism and cultural capital.
All of us are paying considerable attention to the SCO's cooperation with the states that are trying to develop an open and equal dialogue with our Organisation and are considering the possibility of joining in its efforts.
In this context, Russia supports the decision, which has been submitted for approval to the Council of the SCO Heads of State, on launching the procedure of granting SCO membership to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
We have always advocated Iran's full participation in the work of our Organisation, proceeding from the premise that this country plays an important role in the Eurasian region and has been fruitfully cooperating with the SCO for a long time. There is no doubt that Iran's accession to the SCO will further strengthen the Organisation's international standing.
Of course, we welcome the granting of the dialogue partner status to Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Russia proactively supports efforts to get these countries involved in various aspects of the SCO's activities.
There is also a robust portfolio of applications from other countries seeking to cooperate with our Organisation in one way or another, and it definitely deserves our close attention.
From a practical standpoint, we believe that we need to think about ways to upgrade the participation of observers and dialogue partners in the SCO's work so that they become more effective. In our opinion, it would be advisable to accompany SCO leaders' summits with the so-called SCO-plus format at the top or high level and invite all our partners to attend such meetings.
There is one more thing I wanted to say. I would like to highlight the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed today between the SCO Secretariat and the Eurasian Economic Commission. It is clearly designed to further Russia's idea of establishing a greater Eurasian partnership covering the SCO, the EAEU, ASEAN and China's Belt and Road initiative.
I am certain that by aligning various ongoing integration projects across Eurasia and creating a common space within this vast region for open, equal and mutually beneficial cooperation will serve the interests of all our countries.
In conclusion, I would like to thank once again Mr Rahmon for arranging this meeting, and of course I wish Mr Mirziyoyev every success as Uzbekistan is next in line for the SCO presidency.
Thank you for your attention.
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Japarov Sadyr
Khurelsukh Ukhnaagiin
Lukashenko Alexander
Mirziyoyev Shavkat
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SunOpta Completes Upgrade and Expansion of Aseptic Packaging Operations and Commences Production of Aseptic Broth Products
TORONTO, Feb. 23, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SunOpta Inc. ("SunOpta" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:STKL) (TSX:SOY) today announced that the SunOpta Grains and Foods Group has completed an upgrade and retrofit at its Alexandria, Minnesota aseptic processing and packaging facility and has commenced its first production of natural broth and soup products for a major international packaged goods company.
The Alexandria, Minnesota aseptic packaging facility has the capacity to produce the equivalent of approximately 170 million liters annually of natural and organic alternative beverages such as soy, rice, almond and others as well as broth and soup products. The recently completed upgrade and retrofit expands packaging size capabilities for these products to include 500 ml and 1.5 liter packages in addition to existing 1 liter and 2 liter package formats. The additional configuration also enables packaging the full array of aseptic pint, quart, 11/2 quart and 1/2 gallon sizes.
In hand with the completion of the upgrade and retrofit, the Company has commenced production of aseptically processed and packaged natural broth products for a global consumer products company under the terms of a three year packaging agreement. The products will be produced in both 16 oz and 48 oz formats for retail and food service distribution. This business positions the Company for continued expansion in natural and organic broths and soups and is consistent with the Company's long-term objective of building an integrated natural and organic aseptic broth and soup business to profitable annualized revenues in excess of $25 million.
Allan Routh, President of the SunOpta Grains and Foods Group commented, "Expansion of our value added processing and packaging capabilities into natural and organic broths and soups has been a strategic objective designed to leverage our integrated sourcing, processing and packaging capabilities. We are extremely pleased to have completed this upgrade and retrofit and commenced production of natural broth products for our new customer and look forward to continuing to leverage our capabilities into complementary natural and organic products categories."
Certain statements included in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities legislation, which are based on information available to us on the date of this release. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, management's expectations regarding production volumes and continued expansion and leveraging of our capabilities. Terms and phrases such as "anticipated", "positions", "continued expansion" and "continuing to leverage" and other similar terms and phrases are intended to identify these forward looking statements. Forward looking statements are based on information available to us on the date of this release and are based on estimates and assumptions made by the Company in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments as well as other factors the Company believes are appropriate in the circumstances including, but not limited to, plant capacity, customer requirements and preferences and capabilities of the Company's suppliers. Whether actual timing and results will agree with expectations and predications of the Company is subject to many risks and uncertainties including the success of the Company's relationship and expected volumes with its new customer and potential manufacturing and processing issues or delays as well as those detailed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q (available at www.sec.gov). Consequently all forward-looking statements made herein are qualified by these cautionary statements and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by the Company will be realized.
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Two million Muslims from across the globe are converging on Makkah in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, a religious duty and for some pilgrims the journey of a lifetime.
This year sees the return of pilgrims from Shia Iran, regional rival to Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, and comes with the Gulf mired in political crisis and Islamic State group jihadists squeezed in Iraq and Syria.
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"I'm so excited because many people dream of coming to this place," said 47-year-old Eni from Indonesia, her face framed in a sand-coloured veil trimmed with lace.
"We feel more religious when we leave this place," she said.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, and it also provides the largest number of pilgrims for the hajj.
Eni's compatriots throng Jeddah airport 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Makkah, as tens of thousands of pilgrims pass through the gateway to the hajj every day.
But Eni is almost oblivious to the hubbub that surrounds her as she studies her Koran in the oppressive heat, pearls of sweat beading her face.
"After my first pilgrimage I felt I wanted to come back to feel myself close to him," she said of the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) before returning her attention to Islam's holy book.
The hajj is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith, which every Muslim is required to complete at least once in a lifetime if he or she has the means to do so.
"This year we expect around two million pilgrims," Abdelmajeed Mohammad Al-Afghani, director of hajj and umra (lesser pilgrimage) affairs, told AFP.
POLITICS AND THE HAJJ
Iranians are back after not attending in 2016 following a deadly Makkah stampede the previous year that killed nearly 2,300 pilgrims.
It was the worst catastrophe in the history of the hajj, with 464 people from the Islamic republic among the dead.
Following the disaster, Tehran railed against Saudi Arabia's organisation of the pilgrimage.
The two countries then severed diplomatic relations in January 2016 after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was ransacked by a crowd protesting against the execution in the kingdom of a Shia religious dignitary.
Analysts say that neither Riyadh nor Tehran has any wish to prolong the dispute.
"To politicise an event like this does no good," according to Slimane Zeghidour, author of "La vie quotidienne à La Mecque: De Mahomet à nos jours" (Daily Life in Mecca from Mohammed to Today).
Accusations of the hajj being politicised have marred the region for some time.
For nearly three months, the Gulf has been embroiled in its worst ever political crisis, with Saudi Arabia and its allies facing off against Qatar, which they accuse of being too close to Iran and backing extremism.
A boycott imposed on the small but gas-rich emirate since June 5 has resulted in Qatar's land, sea and air links being badly affected.
This has also had a knock-on effect on hajj-related travel, although Riyadh announced it was relaxing certain restrictions for pilgrims.
EVERY TIME IT'S DIFFERENT
In the arrivals hall at Jeddah airport, determined pilgrims walk hastily to avoid losing contact with other members of their group.
"I'm so happy to be a part of it this year," said 43-year-old Nigerian Mohammed Said, in the seamless two-piece white garment or "ihram" worn by male pilgrims.
"I want to do it every year if I can afford it," added Said who is in Saudi Arabia for his third hajj.
"Every time it's different -- it's like I'm doing it for the first time."
For author Zeghidour, going on the hajj takes pilgrims to another level altogether.
"The pilgrim has to run, move, and perform several stages" of the ritual.
"It is so physically and mentally demanding that he doesn't have time to think about the crisis in the Gulf. For him this is literature.
"Many pilgrims come from Asia or Africa, far from the Middle East, and they come to a place where they can try to forget their lives back home."
Murderous jihadist attacks across the world in recent years will be on the minds of many pilgrims, especially those from Iraq and Syria where the IS has suffered a series of setbacks.
But the threat from extremists has not put off pilgrims such as Fatima, from Perpignan in southern France.
"I've been waiting to go on this journey for a long time," she said, wearing a red veil like the other people in her group.
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রাশিয়ার হাতে দখল হয়ে যাওয়া অঞ্চল পুনরুদ্ধারসহ যুদ্ধের মোড় ঘুরিয়ে দিতে পশ্চিমা দেশগুলোর কাছে ট্যাংক চেয়ে আসছিল ইউক্রেন। এ নিয়ে কয়েকমাস ধরে অনিচ্ছা প্রকাশের পর অবশেষে ইউক্রেনকে সহায়তার জন্য ট্যাংক...
৩০ মিনিট আগে|বাংলাদেশ
২৫ টাকায় ইলিশ, ৩৫ টাকায় গরুর মাংস
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Cheetah - plush on backorder
Cheetahs inhabit the savannah and arid open grassland of Africa, south of the Sahara Arabia, Iran and as far as east Turkistan. Cheetahs are the world's fastest land animals and are capable of sprinting at speeds up to 70 miles per hour. Unlike other big cats, cheetahs do not roar and have small feet with blunt claws that do not retract. The population of mature cheetah continues to drop. The population last reported was under 7,000 animals.
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