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Italy's 5-star wants vote on euro, joining wave of referendums
Philip Pullella
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star movement, buoyed by big gains in local elections, has pressed demands for a referendum on whether to keep the euro, something that would add to a wave of plebiscites shaking politics across Europe.
Leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement Beppe Grillo gestures during a news conference in Rome April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
The fact that Britain is holding a referendum on whether to remain in the European Union showed the bloc was flawed and Italy needed to rethink its relations to the EU, 5-Star's Luigi Di Maio, vice president of the lower house of parliament, said.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front, has said she wants a vote on EU membership.
"All EU countries should have a referendum," she told TF1 television. "The EU is in meltdown, it's falling apart."
In recent months, the Netherlands has had a referendum on EU-Ukraine ties, and Italy on drilling rights, while Switzerland, which often holds plebiscites, is still at odds with the EU over a 2014 vote forcing the government to impose quotas on migrants from the bloc.
"We want a consultative referendum on the euro," Di Maio said during a talk show.
"The euro as it is today does not work. We either have alternative currencies or a 'Euro 2'."
5-Star has suggested Europe adopt two different currencies, one for the rich north and another for southern countries.
Any referendum on the euro would be merely a test of public opinion because Italian law does not allow such votes to change international treaties. It would also require a lengthy parliamentary procedure to organize and would be highly unlikely unless 5-Star first won power at a national election.
But if it were to eventually produce a popular rejection of the euro it would send a clear signal to the government.
Supporters of 5-Star say Sunday's mayoral election results, where the party won in 19 of the 20 cities that went to a runoff vote, including the capital Rome the northern industrial city Turin, as a possible springboard to national rule.
Its founder Beppe Grillo has also called for a referendum on whether Italy should stay in the European Union.
"We are now waiting for the results of the Brexit referendum. The mere fact that a country like Great Britain is holding a referendum on whether to leave the EU signals the failure of the European Union," Di Maio said.
Last week, Nigel Farage, leader of the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party, said the victory of 5-Star's Virginia Raggi as Rome's first woman mayor, followed by a British vote to leave the EU in Thursday's referendum, would be the start of the disintegration of the EU.
Writing by Philip Pullella and Andrew Heavens; Additional reporting by Gavin Jones; Editing by Robin Pomeroy


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Its supposed to supply a small electric charge to the camera when i push the button, but instead, it's Supplying current all the while, and then stopping when i press the button, any idea why?
I checked this by placing an LED on the points of the usb.
A) what does USB have to do with shutter?
B) You likely bought a normally closed switch, which opens when pressed.
C) I think you have the battery backwards.
B) No way to make use with this plug?
A) I still don´t see why would you want to put a 3V battery across the 5V usb port? You expect it to take a snapshot when you push the switch? I doubt that it would do that.
B) If the switch is NC then yes it won´t work the way you want it to.
B) Is NC normally closed? it seems so that it is NC needs to be NO?
Unless you want to hold the switch until you´re ready to take the picture, you need a normaly open switch. This kind of switch costs something like $0.2, or you can make a make-shift from pieces of wire, battery contacts or something like that.
Thanks for the guidance guys. I went out and bought the switch and a bunch of soldering tools. And plugged it in, it worked amazing. Even pulled out the housing of an invertor, and modded the circuit to place it in that.
Any of you guys know any step by step guides/ resources to make some usefull and easy circuits? Many micro controllers etc aren't available where i am. So I've got to use basic stuff. Something like an Audio Mixer.
My friend made an audio mixer to crossfade between two channels, along with a headphone outlet. and Volume Potentio-meter. I couldn't find the schematic for that. Anyone has that around?


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#358: Adventures in Self-Publishing – Untouchable (2016) by Robert Innes
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I'd promised TomCat that I'd attempt to find a quality modern locked room mystery this week, but the book I was going to look at — Lord Darcyverse continuation novel Ten Little Wizards (1988) by Michael Kurland — has (miraculously…?) vanished. So instead, here's a revival of another occasional series: a selective pick through some self-published impossible crime stories in search of the gold that doubtless exists there somewhere.
Untouchable (2016) is the first in a series that currently runs to five volumes featuring newly-relocated Detective Sergeant Blake Harte. Abandoning the bustle of Manchester following the end of a relationship, he finds himself in the quaint Heartbeat-esque surrounds of Harmschapel just in time for a seemingly impossible murder to occur: a man locked alone in a secure shed (abandon every hope, all ye who seek gaps in the walls), a shot rings out, and the door is opened to reveal a fresh corpse. CCTV shows no-one nearby except someone who is provably innocent, so who- and howdunnit?
Now, I can't deny that this has flaws. It is, especially in the resolution of its impossible murder, a problematic piece of work. But there's also something quite promising at the heart of this that I have to confess has me more interested in Innes' other self-published novellas than I feel I should be. In many ways, Innes is clearly feeling his way as a writer here — most of the framing here is rather heavy on familiarity (we open with Harte lost down county lanes in search of his new home, and have the whole "he wakes up in the morning and bangs his head on the low ceiling" routine), and his grammar is a little distracting at times — but there is also some wonderfully dry humour, like prising information from a reluctant interview subject being akin to "trying to ask a teenager to do the washing up", or the following when Blake meets his superior for the first time:
"Inspector Royale." The man said, shaking Blake's hand. "Welcome aboard. Found the place alright, then?"
"Sir." Replied Blake. He had never understood why anyone asked that question to people standing right in front of them.
Oh, yeah, we should address the dialogue attribution thing, just for disclosure. Where in the middle of action the dialogue is typically ended with a comma and then a lower case attribution, Innes tends to put a full stop as if starting a new sentence. So, that second paragraph above should begin:
"Sir," replied Blake. He had never…
I don't love this, but at least his dialogue sounds like words that real people would say to each other, so it's not super distracting once you get used to it. And I really do think Innes deserves some extra credit for telling his story in as efficient a way as possible — this novella is (you're informed at the start) 33,000 words, and Innes ain't hanging around just to pad his word-count. You get backstory, new house, flirty landlady, new colleagues (a suitably diverse bunch), murder, investigation, a few personal asides, resolution, and then…
Well, we'll come to "and then" in due course.
The murder and the investigation are, for my money, reasonably well-handled, and hit a few grace notes for the enthusiast. We get the good old "investigator fancies the chief suspect" motif (and the suspect fancies him right back…), since Harrison Baxter is under suspicion for the murder of his abusive boyfriend, and a moderate puzzle element creeps into the setup as things progress, with a couple of nice little reversals come the ending that show a slightly tighter plot than might have been expected and bode well for future instalments. It's all hewn out of the sort of things people would do, and plays well off the different tensions within both the Baxter household and the team of investigators trying to unpick it all. Sure, it's not James Ellroy, but you've definitely read worse attempts at this.
No mud shall be slung today.
So it's with regret that I have to tell you that the answers offered are a bit of a shame. The "how" of Daniel Donaldson's murder is…look, I can completely see what Innes was trying to do. I really can. From a certain perspective, his method is bloody brilliant and deserves credit for the…if not originality (this could be argued as a mash-up of two methods from different yet well-known sources) then at least the linking of two similar ideas. It's smart. But, dude, it is neither realistic nor practicable, or at least there's no reason to believe it is since it's not prepared for in any way. There's no such thing as a clue in there at all…but, in fairness, that must be at least partly down to the clewing for such an outcome being, like, hard. You can't even guess at it because the necessary description isn't there, and in order to keep it as a surprise Innes resorts to a certain amount of "Blake read the report and suddenly saw how the thing was done…" non-declaration, but that was the one real chance to provide a hint as to the workings. It's difficult to recommend, because it really does come out of nowhere in a way that's difficult to defend beyond its potential.
As to the "why" and the need for this to be an impossible murder…well, 50% of the motive is superb, and 50% doesn't work at all until you realise one of the plot developments that Innes hides pretty well and how closely these things interweave. This is part of why I can't just dismiss Innes out of hand, because the guy really does have something good here; no, this won't be the best thing I read this year, it's not even the best of my Adventures in Self-Publishing, but the promise displayed gives me hope that at some point he's going to pull it all together a bit more convincingly and write if not quite a masterpiece then at least something that'll be worthy of the time and money of most people.
See, because that dangling "and then" from above comes into play at the end, and it just makes this a bit more accomplished for me. I don't know how to get into it without spoiling it — it's not a twist or any sort of narrative shock, more just something that shows a fidelity to his characters that I admire quite hugely. He could tell his story and round up on an entirely understandable note, but instead we get a wrinkle that nudges this more towards the sort of universe I'd return to. And someone who is clearly in the early days of trying their hand at this making such a mature decision elevates it as an undertaking to something that displays a keen insight behind the failings on display. And I will take that — hell, I want to see that in these AiSP, and so while I can't recommend this unconditionally, I possess the next in this series and have high hopes for Innes in the long run.
Blake Harte will return…
Previous Adventures in Self-Publishing:
1. The Third Gunman (2016) by Raymond Knight Read
2. The Mysteries of Reverend Dean [ss] (2008) by Hal White
3. Impossible Bliss (2001) by Lee Sheldon
4. Impossible Mysteries: The Message in a Bottle (2017) by Merapi Omnut
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I took a brief look at Robert Innes books – great covers. From your review, I detect the author may have missed a key issue of engrossing the readers' mental participation in solving the crime, a point worthy of deep study on my part.
Yeah, some really good work has gone into the presentation of these — the covers and the chapter headings all look superb. He's not got the clewing quite down, but at the same time he's done something interesting and difficult enough, and with enough talent in some key areas, to make this an interesting start for me. I'll defintely have a look at the next one, and if there's progress made there I'll probably continue. Someone committing to this in novella form is actually a good sign — not trying to over-reach himself with a full narrative first time out, and all that. Here's hoping…
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Well, you've sold me on trying this one, at least. Character sways me more than plot so if an author takes care of those properly I can forgive a fair bit, especially on a first attempt.
It won't break the bank, and it won't take up too much of your time, so go right ahead. I'd love to hear another opinion on this, to be honest!
This one does sound interesting, even if it is flawed. Hopefully the author knocks it out of the park with the next one!
…or the one after that, the one after that, or even the one after that!
I only recently got a copy of Blyton's The Mystery of the Invisible Thief and now you dump this recommendation in my lap. Well, it has been added to my wish list. I hope you can live with yourself.
I gotta say, I don't think you'll go for this at all. Perhaps allow me to read a bit further in the series to see if there's anything that would fall more into your sphere. This, I believe, would infuriate you beyond all measure…
Not much to say about your take on this book. I do not read self-published fiction (99% of it is in eBook format and I don't own an eReader), though this review almost tempts me to breakdown and invest in a Kindle just so I can read it. But I felt it necessary to leave some oracular comments on your future posts.
I predict that you will absolutely hate TEN LITTLE WIZARDS. Very sloppy solutions, utter disregard for fundamental fair play plotting rules, among other infuriating flaws. Perhaps it's best that you misplaced your copy. Or that it disappeared into the Cloud if it's a digital book. I reviewed the book in great detail on my blog. So maybe not a post to read prior to your locating your copy.
On the other hand I think you may very much enjoy THE DEVIL DRIVES for its impossible crime problem, if not for Markham's eccentric prose. It's certainly one of the more ingenious solutions in this subgenre. I don't think you've read the two obscure books (I've reviewed both on my blog, but I won't name them) that have similar plot gimmickry so you won't have any reference points.
Looking forward to both posts…or at least the Markham one. The Kurland review may never be written unless you recover the book.
Haha, thanks, John — I enjoyed a couple of Kurland's short stories for his prose in spite of the plotting flaws, so your assessment of TLW doesn't exactly shock me. I'd still like to find my (physical) copy and read it, but I'll come at it with a little more caution than I'd originally intended. Watch this space…or don't, as it may never turn up.
As to the Markham — I finished it last night and will keep my opinions to myself until I get round to writing them down, but I actually loved the prose and would be especially eager to track down any other Markham novels on that basis alone. He has something of the pulp sensibility that I do really enjoy when it's pitched in that particular way — not too cheap or exploitative, but merely intent on telling a story in a loose, fun, creative way.
Review on Thursday, of course; hopefully that will give me time to get my ducks in a row.
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I just bought four of these and I wish I had been more selective. This first one is hardly a mystery at all! It read like a mediocre soap opera. You don't mention that over 95% of the book is about the melodrama of domestic violence that haunts so many of the characters. I detested the platitudes that the characters relied on in their many "emotional" conversations. The whole thing read like a PC lecture to uninformed people who knew nothing about the world of domestic violence. I wonder if Innes had personal experience in this or knows someone involved in a bad relationship. UNTOUCHABLE seemed like what I call a "purge piece" — something a novice creative writer needs to get out of his system before he can move on to mature work. I think this whole series is going to be more about the gay personal life of Blake and will touch on various "hot topics". At least it was easy to move through speedily. I used to work for a domestic violence hotline and I know everything there is about this horrible world. A lot of the hidden aspects are not even discussed though I did like that all the victims were men, both gay and straight. but I had to skip over all the Lifetime Channel Movie of the Week moments because they were handled so ineptly and naively. Though Innes clearly means well he doesn't have the maturity to discuss this complex and emotionally volatile topic without resorting to the worst of clichés. The powerful messages he intends to deliver come off trite and ineffectual.
As for the mystery and the solution to the impossibility. Meh. I pegged the culprit immediately. Actually, I preferred P.C. Mattison's simple solution to the genuine one which was outlandish and fantastical. Something you'd expect in a James Bond movie.
Finally, Innes — like most self-published writers — is in dire need of an editor. Apart from some occasional awkward sentence construction and frequent redundancies, the book is sloppily produced. It's littered with typos: lots of unclosed quotations marks in dialogue sections, and poor layout that resulted in blank lines and blank pages. You mention in your review the incorrect full stop instead of a comma at the end of a dialogue section, but I am positive it is not a conscious choice. It is an error of poor typing. The comma and the period are next to each other on a standard keyboard and most keyboards have auto capitalization option following full stops. He also doesn't know that you punctuate addresses with a comma before the person's name. "Hand me that paper, Matti." is properly punctuated. Innes types it out "Hand me that paper Matti" without the comma. All similar sentences that are forms of address appear without the comma 99% of the time. Drove me batty! There is also the problem of substituting pronouns for proper names and getting a capital letter to start the pronoun. Throughout the text you see "He" a lot in the middle of a paragraph and not as the first word. I'm sure this is because he wanted to replace "Blake" with "he" but his software automatically capitalized the word he replaced regardless of where the name appeared. So all those "He" appearances make it look as if Blake is the Second Coming of Christ. And "Alright" is not one word. AARGH!! Ever. Even if it appears in dialogue. I don't care if it appears in Whomever's Dictionary. It is never to appear as one word in formal writing. My final pet peeve — Blake started too many of his replies to his colleagues with "Well…" This abundance of amateur mistakes infuriated me and made me think a teenager had written the book.
Oh, it's a problematic work, I agree, but fairness to Innes, he does improve pretty quickly — the second one is already much more mature in tone (and typing!), and he's learning very quickly, as the third and forth show.
I don't disagree that issues with the punctuation can be distracting, and it's an issue with a lot of self-published work, but at the same time I guess many of us learned how to do this sort of thing in private — without much external scrutiny, before the option of trying one's hand at this in public existed — and while that in no way excuses sloppiness in these issues (I know you'll say — and I agree — that perhaps one should learn how to do it before showing it to the world) don't worry that the others are all like this. As I say, he learns and improves very quickly, and I'm sure when he's done (this has been, it seems, a long-game ten-part plan, with the tenth and final instalment out soon) I would imagine he'll go back and address the editorial issues here.
Maybe jump head to Ripples if you have it — the puzzle is a good one, the plot pretty dense, and if you agree that he shows improvement you can go back to Confessional afterwards (though be aware that the killer in book 2 is named in book 3).
I didn't realise you'd be jumping into these, John — I'm impressed that someone is paying attention to what I write. Hopefully you have a happier time with some of the others and don't feel I've given you a bum steer 🙂
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…well, from one angle, certainly. Of course, though, there is much more than that to Raduan Nassar's story (I hesitate to even stretch to novella; at forty-seven pages of text, some of which are almost blank, I don't think it quite makes the novella grade). A Cup of Rage is less about what happens, but how it happens, a sparse collection of actions inviting the reader to follow the writer's long, mesmerising sentences and fill the gaps in later.
This arrogance continues throughout the story, leaving the reader to reflect on what his relationship with the younger woman involves, and whether she really is as obsessed with her lover as he seems to think.
The structure of the story is notable for its lack of balance, with a few brief chapters, some only a page or so, followed by the lengthy fight scene and one last short section to finish off the book. Each of these chapters, including the main one, is written in one extended sentence, with the only full stops appearing at the end of each part. As you can imagine, this calls for complex, rambling, run-on sentences (with some deft use of punctuation), and Tobler manages this nicely for the most part, with the first sections in particular a joy to read.
If you want to look for one, there is almost certainly an allegorical nature to the book too. Quite possibly there's a political element to the work, or you might just see it as an examination of the age-old battle of the sexes. However you choose to read it, there's no escaping the fact that it's a powerful, emotional read, packing a lot into a very short space. Whether you see it as a success or not may just depend on what you want from it, though.
Not for me. I suspect that Nassar's book will be extremely divisive, with supporters passionate in its defence – but not too many of them. I enjoyed the writer's style to begin with, but as the argument started, and the couple began to exchange barbs, I slowly found myself losing interest. It's all very well to start the story in media res, and it actually works quite well, but at some point the reader really needs to find a reason to invest in the book – I struggled to find one.
I'd also have to say that while I thought the translation was excellent in places, I wasn't a huge fan of the dialogue. There was a lot of stilted, old-fashioned vocabulary, and the conversation was a bit wooden at times. I suspect that this reflects the original, with the words the man uses being deliberately trite compared to the wave of words swirling around in his head, but if I'm being honest, I'd still have to say that the writer(s) lost my interest well before the end.
I doubt it. There are a lot of great books on this longlist, and I can't see the judges pushing this one into the top six. Someone on the panel obviously likes this a lot and will undoubtedly fight its corner, but I'd be surprised if it got enough support from the panel as a whole to progress further in this year's prize.
I really was not a fan of this one – don't think it should have been anywhere near the longlist.
It's quite a feat for a 47 page book to get the comment "lost my interest well before the end".
I have got to 10 of the 13 so far (A Whole Life, Man Tiger and Ladivine to come) and this was comfortably my least favourite.
The Vegetarian, Death by Water, the Lost Child and Mend the Living are all locks for my personal shortlist.
No strong feelings amongst the other 5 at this stage.
I don't think this will make the short list either but I did admire it for standing out – in good ways! The honesty and rawness of the subject matter, and the style – I, too, felt the anachronistic language was intentional but I felt it added to the diatribe.
One difference from the other books which didn't generally exist with the IFFP (as opposed to BTBA which allows dead authors) is the length of time this has taken to be translated.


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Księga Rodzaju [Rdz], Pierwsza Księga Mojżeszowa [1 Mojż] (hebr. בראשית Bereszit (od pierwszych słów Na początku), gr.  Γένεσις Genesis) – pierwsza księga Biblii, należąca do Starego Testamentu, zaliczana do Pięcioksięgu (Tory).

Autorstwo i czas powstania

Spisanie Księgi Rodzaju tradycja żydowska i chrześcijańska przypisywała Mojżeszowi. Według teorii źródeł sformułowanej przez K.H. Grafa i J. Wellhausena, proponowanej przez wielu współczesnych biblistów, księga ta została zredagowana z kilku źródeł, stąd niektóre wydarzenia są opisane na kilka różnych sposobów (także sprzecznie, np. według 6,19 Noe miał zabrać na arkę po parze zwierząt każdego rodzaju, zaś 7,2 mówi o siedmiu parach zwierząt czystych i 1 parze nieczystych).

Zgodnie z inną hipotezą, przedstawioną przez Wisemana, zwaną teorią tabliczek, twórcą Księgi Rodzaju był prawdopodobnie jednak Mojżesz, który zestawił w niej zapisy z tabliczek glinianych pozostawionych przez bohaterów księgi. Podstawą do tego sformułowania był dowód w postaci analogicznych tabliczek znajdowanych masowo na terenie Mezopotamii. Hipoteza ta jest jednak odrzucana przez biblistów.

Według tradycyjnej teorii przyjmującej autorstwo Mojżesza księga została napisana w XIII-XII wieku p.n.e. Według teorii źródeł Księga Rodzaju kształtowała się między IX (tradycja jahwistyczna) i V wiekiem (tradycja kapłańska). Niemniej w wielu miejscach (np. opis wyprawy czterech królów w Rdz 14) wykorzystano znacznie starsze źródła ustne lub pisane.

Gatunek literacki
Księga Rodzaju jest księgą historyczną, to znaczy opisuje wydarzenia w sposób chronologiczny, ze związkami przyczynowo-skutkowymi. Na kanwie historii pierwotnej i historii patriarchów osadzone są opowiadania o charakterze ludowym, etiologicznym lub pouczającym. Według większości współczesnych biblistów nie relacjonują one dokładnie faktów, a jedynie zawierają echa pewnych faktów historycznych i doświadczeń dziejowych narodu żydowskiego. Niektóre opowiadania (np. historia potopu, wieży Babel) mają tworzywo wspólne z kulturalnym dorobkiem starożytnego Wschodu, zostały jednak opracowane teologicznie.

Bibliści zauważają, że mimo ubóstwa języka hebrajskiego pod względem gramatyczno-leksykalnym, niektóre partie księgi są napisane bardzo pięknym stylem literackim.

Grecka nazwa księgi (genesis) wiąże się ze słowem "geneza", czyli "początek", staropolski rodzaj (czyli ród).

Treść Księgi Rodzaju
Księga składa się z 50 rozdziałów i dzieli na dwie części.

Pierwsza część (rozdziały 1-11) opisuje historię pierwotną, odpowiada m.in. na pytania o początek ludzkości i źródło grzechu. Jest kompilacją dwóch źródeł: jahwistycznego (od Rdz 2,4b) i kapłańskiego (Rdz 1,1-2,4a), które wykorzystują częściowo materiały mitologiczne, jak babiloński enuma elisz (koniec II tysiąclecia p.n.e.) czy epos o Gilgameszu (2 poł. III tysiąclecia p.n.e. – tabliczka XI eposu mówi o wężu, który pokrzyżował plany człowieka).
 Świat stworzony przez Boga (zob. stworzenie świata według Biblii oraz pierwszych ludzi, Adama i Ewy);
 Pierwotny stan szczęścia w ogrodzie Edenu, zapowiedź odkupienia (tzw. Protoewangelia);
 Upadek pierwszych ludzi (grzech pierworodny);
 Zabójstwo Abla przez Kaina (Kain i Abel); Potomkowie Kaina; Set i jego potomstwo;
 Wybrani przez Boga potomkowie Adama (Setyci);
 Zepsucie moralne ludzkości; Boże postanowienie zagłady; zapowiedź potopu; budowa Arki;
 Potop;
 Przymierze Boga z Noem;
 Noe przeklina Kanaana, a błogosławi Sema;
 Dzieje potomków Noego; pochodzenie ludzkości popotopowej;
 Wieża Babel; potomkowie Sema; rodzina Abrama;
Druga część (rozdziały 12-50) poświęcona jest historii patriarchów: od Abrahama do Józefa, oraz ponawianego przymierza z Bogiem Jahwe. Do źródeł J i P dołączona jest tradycja elohistyczna (E).
 Historia Abrahama i Izaaka:
 Powołanie Abrama przez Boga;
 Abram w Egipcie;
 Błogosławieństwo króla Melchizedeka;
 Obietnica licznego potomstwa;
 Narodziny Izmaela, pierworodnego syna Abrama;
 Przymierze z Bogiem, obrzezanie, zmiana imienia na Abraham;
 Zniszczenie Sodomy i Gomory;
 Narodziny Izaaka i oddalenie Izmaela;
 Ofiarowanie Izaaka Bogu w kraju Moria;
 Śmierć i pogrzeb Sary, żony Abrahama;
 Małżeństwo Izaaka z Rebeką;
 Historia Jakuba:
 Narodziny Ezawa i Jakuba;
 Jakub oszustwem zdobywa pierworództwo i błogosławieństwo ojca;
 Jakub w Charanie, praca dla stryja Labana i małżeństwo z jego córkami – Rachelą i Leą;
 Walka Jakuba z aniołem;
 Pojednanie Jakuba z Ezawem;
 Dwunastu synów Jakuba;
 Historia Józefa:
 Bracia sprzedają Józefa kupcom izmaelickim;
 Józef niewolnikiem Potifara;
 Józef w więzieniu;
 Objaśnienie snu faraona i powierzenie urzędu zarządcy Egiptu;
 Pierwsza wizyta braci w Egipcie;
 Józef ucztuje z braćmi i poddaje ich próbie;
 Pojednanie i osiedlenie się domu Jakuba w Egipcie;
 Charakterystyka rządów Józefa w Egipcie;
 Błogosławieństwo Jakuba dla swoich synów, śmierć Jakuba i Józefa.

Kontynuacją Księgi Rodzaju jest Księga Wyjścia.

Wydania samodzielne
 Chamisze Chumsze Tora – Chumasz Pardes Lauder. Księga Pierwsza Bereszit, , Kraków 2001. – przekład rabiniczny z hebrajskiego z komentarzami
 Hebrajsko-polski Stary Testament. Księga Rodzaju: wydanie interlinearne z kodami gramatycznymi, transkrypcją oraz indeksem rdzeni, tłum. i oprac. A. Kuśmirek. Warszawa 2000. Kolejne wydania wchodziły w skład Hebrajsko-polskiego Pięcioksięgu.

Zobacz też

 Kreacjonizm młodej Ziemi

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Rodzaju, księga

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Why do living things strive to continue?
We look around and everywhere, plants, animals...even microbial organisms struggle to live and reproduce. What is the motivation? Why does an ant work so hard?
The bible says "go forth and multiply" and our goal is to get into heaven (and again, to live forever.) All the other life is here for us to use as we desire. It's a nice package that answers all of these question. I suspect that all religions and gods are really an attempt to answer this question.
Perhaps there is no motivation, except it is the nature of life to strive to continue. It is what we are, What all biologics simply ARE. We, who are "self aware" end up inventing fantastical purposes to simply be what we just are. Death is us failing to be what we are, especially death without reproduction. I am childless and sometimes people actually get very mad at me for that. To survive with limited resources, we do need to be more clever than to simply overpopulate the planet, because that would result in a collective failure. Perhaps human diseases and aging and maybe even wars are a built-In part of us that help temper the population explosion so that we may keep on "keepin' on".
While I agree with a lot of your points Darwin says that the struggle is what is keeping these things alive in order to propagate the species and continue it's genetic diversity.
But I guess the question is why.....Because life clings to this planet like mold on a piece of bread, it knows nothing more then this place and to do its thing to survive and continue, because much like a beach isn't going to miss the few pieces of sand stuck to your shoe...so the universe isnt going to miss us the human race if we were to die out.
Were I disagree: Wars and disease are part of life yet the former wars need not to be...We need to be a many planet species so we can make it to the future enough to possibly meet aliens and warp drive and be a part of the universe and its laws and its gatherings and scatterings of the varying species and life within it.
I was sure there had to be at least 1 day when there was no war going on at all across our species across our bloody history. So far I haven't been able to determine when that was.
I just read in a history of the years before the European Enlightenment that for twelve years during the 1600s there were no wars.
I'm having trouble imagining that. But I wasn't there; I have to acknowledge its possibility.
But be careful. If you don't laugh, you will cry.
Maybe they were too busy burning witches at the stake and throwing cats off clock towers in order to purge their town of demons to bother with a war.
Yeah, why let a lack of evidence slow the story?
Doesn't he say the opposite? Namely, that the struggle kills off individuals with disadvantageous traits in greater numbers than those with advantageous traits.
Gee, I wish wars weren't necessary. Maybe we should have stayed home instead of participating in WW2, though I doubt I'd like to be living in that world. I'm sure the Brits wouldn't.
Our DNA strives to continue....through all life on Earth.
It seems so. Does DNA have an agenda or a purpose?
Odd behavior for creatures like microbes that are apparently not even aware they are alive. We take it for granted that life and living is "good" and has value (well most of us), but a jellyfish has no such concern, yet it goes on for millions of years. It mutates, adapts, survives, yet gets no enjoyment or self awareness even.
You assume...Are you a jelly fish? No ....See humans assume that just because it has no brain we know of it feels nothing...No sorry but we may never know what it feels because we are not them we did not come from them.
Odd behavior for creatures like microbes that are apparently not even aware they are alive.
...but a jellyfish has no such concern, yet it goes on for millions of years. It mutates, adapts, survives, yet gets no enjoyment or self awareness even.
Your evidence for those conclusions?


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RLL Racing
Bryan Sellers aims to be first Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY Champion
By Dan BeaverOct 23, 2018, 6:30 PM EDT
Bryan Sellers will remain within the familiar confines of his Paul Miller Lamborghini Huracan GT3, but will also spread his wings in a new series in 2019.
At the age of 36, Sellers has 25 years of competitive racing behind him and is adding to his racing plate the battery-powered Jaguar I-PACE sedan that he will drive for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing – something he describes as "the way of the future."
Racing for Ohio native Bobby Rahal, it is a connection that brings him home to his roots. Sellers was born in Centerville, Ohio.
"I'm very proud to be a part of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing," Sellers said in a press release. "I grew up in Ohio watching Bobby (Rahal) win races and build an incredible racing program and it will be nice to finally get to see it from the inside."
Sellers' electric-powered Jaguar won't have the same horsepower as the V10 Lamborghini that he steered to victory in the 2018 IMSA Weather Tech Sports Car championship with co-driver Madison Snow.
At his heart, Sellers is a racer chasing a championship and it's not the horsepower but the potential for close competition that drives him. Next year, he has an opportunity to win the first ever Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY Championship.
In 2016, Jaguar joined the Formula E series. Now they are looking to make history with the world's first all-electric production-based international race series that will compete at 10 venues next year in support of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship.
The series' 10 venues will be international, racing on tracks in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, China, Italy, Mexico, France, Monaco, Germany and the USA, which will showcase electric cars on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, in July.
"Electric cars are clearly the way of the future and to be involved with the first electric production car racing series is very important to me," Sellers said. "I'm very thankful to everyone at RLL and Jaguar for giving me this opportunity."
🐎 400PS
💪 700Nm max torque.
🚙 0 – 100km/h in 4.5s.
⚡ Max speed of 195kph.
🏋♀ Weighing in at 1,965kg.
This is the #Jaguar #IPACE #eTROPHY racecar.#JaguarElectrifies pic.twitter.com/44TjyoelPU
— Jaguar Racing (@JaguarRacing) October 11, 2018
Sellers raced fulltime in the American LeMans Series from 2005 through 2013 – amassing four victories and two other podium finishes. In 30 career races in the Grand-Am Series, he added three more visits to the podium.
But it was last year that was clearly the highlight for Sellers. For the second time in his career, he scored multiple wins in a series (Sellers had two wins in ALMS in 2011), but he stood on the podium eight times in addition to winning the championship.
Joining Sellers in the I-PACE eTROPHY Championship Jaguar next year will be Katherine Legge, who he raced against in 2018 for the IMSA GTD championship.
"Experience, maturity and pace are very important qualities that I was looking for when we chose our driver lineup," said Rahal, the former IndyCar Champion and Indy 500 winner.
The series will kickoff with the Formula E season-opener in Riyadh on December 15, 2018. They will not run in conjunction with the next two Formula E rounds and will rejoin for most of the remainder of the 2019 season.
Tags: ABB FIA Formula E Championship, Bobby Rahal, Bryan Sellers, electric car, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY Championship, Katherine Legge, Madison Snow, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, RLL Racing
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Adware is a type of malware that, once your Mac or PC is infected, displays adverts for software and services that are at best highly questionable on websites you visit or directly as pop-up windows on your computer. Crossrider is a type of of adware that comes in many different guises.
What is the new Crossrider variant?
Discovered in 2018, this new Crossrider variant is similar to other versions of Crossrider in that it is bundled with potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) such as Advanced Mac Cleaner and masquerades as an apparently legitimate download. In this case, the download is a fake Adobe Flash updater and the process involves a user arriving at a website that tells them they need to update Adobe Flash and supplying a link. If the user clicks the link, it downloads the fake Flash updater and installs the adware.
The new Crossrider variant also installs a Profile in System Preferences, called AdminPrefs. This profile, which has also been seen in browser hijackers like Any Search forces Safari and Chrome to redirect their homepage to chumsearch.com. The Profile also makes it impossible to change the homepage settings in both browsers without first removing the Profile.
The most noticeable change will be what you see as soon as you launch Safari or Chrome, since your homepage will have changed from whatever you had it set at to chumsearch.com.
There's no evidence that Crossrider will do any damage to your Mac. However, by re-directing your homepage, it allows hackers to gather information about the sites you visit and what you do on those sites. It also allows it to display adverts and otherwise make your browsing experience much less enjoyable. It could also slow down your Mac by consuming resources such as RAM to display ads or for other purposes.
The latest Crossrider variant uses a fake Adobe Flash Updater to install itself on your Mac. To avoid it and other malware, you should never click on a link in any window that tells you that you need to update Flash. If you still have Flash installed on your Mac, and want to keep to, click on the Flash Player pane in System Preferences, and choose the Update tab. If you haven't got it set to "Allow Adobe to Install Updates", choose "Check for Updates." That's the only method you should use for updating Flash. If you don't use it or don't know if you use it, uninstall it.
1. Go to your Applications, locate Advanced Mac Cleaner (since Crossrider is bundled with it) and drag it to the Trash. Empty the Trash.
This will remove malicious admin profiles installed by the virus.
2. Choose the General tab, and in the Homepage text box enter the name of the website you want to use as your browser homepage.
9. Click on the dropdown menu next to "Search engine used in address bar" and pick the search engine you want to use.
That's quite a long process with several steps. Thankfully, there is an easier way. CleanMyMac X has a malware utility that recognises Crossrider and can remove it from your Mac at the press of a button. It's also very easy to use. CleanMyMac's malware database is updated regularly and so it knows about all the latest malware threats. When you select it and press Scan, it scans your Mac for malware. If out doesn't find anything, it gives your Mac a clean bill of health. If it does find something, it shows you what it's found and allows you to either remove it at the press of a button, or review the results first and then remove it. Because it knows where all the different elements of each piece of malware are stored, it can remove them all in one go.
The latest Crossrider variant masquerades as an update to Adobe Flash and is bundled with an app called Advanced Mac Cleaner. It also installs a Profile in System Preferences that changes settings in Safari and Chrome in order to redirect your browser homepage.
To avoid downloading it, never update Flash from anywhere else but its own System Preferences pane. If you've already been infected, you can remove it manually using the steps above or by using the malware utility in CleanMyMac X.


After a few weeks of putting this together, I finally created a forum (http://www.howrsehelper.com/forum) for HowrseHelper! You can now post questions there where myself and other experience players can answer you! There is also a spot for advertising and games and riddles. Because I added this, the Players' Page will probably be removed. I will provide a second post in the forum with a link to everyone's name that was listed on the Players' Page.
I ask that all users of the forum to please follow forum rules. I feel they aren't too strict and shouldn't be a pain to follow. I mainly ask that everyone respects one another and provides a safe environment for everyone. Please note that advertising Howrse services is allowed! This will only include the following: selling/buying a horse or BM item, training horses, and advertising one's EC. Keep in mind there are some people who scam others on Howrse – I am not responsible if you have been scammed due to false advertising on the forum. Remember to always look into who you are trading with and fully trust them.
Guests may post and view threads in the forum, although I highly suggest to register. This allows other players to message you through the forum system. You will probably receive more help that way since players will most likely remember your user name and link it to a previous question you might have had.
If there is a question you have, please file it under the correct category so you may receive help faster. I will try to check the forum posts every few hours to provide help for everyone. You can also subscribe to the thread, which will send e-mail updates once a new post has been added on to your thread.
Sorry there is so much writing but I thought it was best to explain it here. ;) Have fun!


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Q: How to test postgresql credentials from bash? I have a Django application that runs from a virtual environment. I am writing a bash script to test the virtual environment.
The postgresql username and password are environment variables in the virtual environment, that Django pulls into settings.py.
In order to test the connection to the database, I have written the following:
echo -n 'Testing database connection  ...'

export COMMAND="from psycopg2 import connect; import sys; c=connect(dbname='myappdb',\
user='$POSTGRESQL_USER', password='$POSTGRESQL_PWD', host='127.0.0.1', port=5432); \
sys.exit(c.closed)"

test `python -c "$COMMAND" 2>/dev/null && echo true `

Where test is a function:
function test {
  [ $1 ] && echo "[OK]" || echo "[FAIL]"
}

It seems that even with the wrong credentials, no exception is raised and c.closed is always zero. Is there a way I can test if the credentials are right in the virtual environment?

A: Do you not have psql on your machine? It'd be more simple to use a command app than python to do what you want.
if PGHOST=127.0.0.1 PGPORT=5432 PGUSER=$POSTGRESQL_USER PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRESQL_PWD \
        PGDATABASE=myappdb psql -c \q 2>/dev/null
then
    echo "[OK]"
else
    echo "[FAIL]"
fi

PGHOST=127.0.0.1 ... is temporarily exporting variables to psql.
 The \q just tells the client to quit immediately if the connection was successful.

A: It's bash, not python, so not sure if it fits you needs:
vao@vao-X102BA:~$ psql -d "postgresql://p:goodpassword@localhost/t" -c "select now()"
              now
-------------------------------
 2017-07-14 11:42:40.712981+03
(1 row)

vao@vao-X102BA:~$ echo $?
0
vao@vao-X102BA:~$ psql -d "postgresql://p:badpassword@localhost/t" -c "select now()"
psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "p"
FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "p"
vao@vao-X102BA:~$ echo $?
2

If you want to suppres output, instead of select now(), you can just quit with -c "\q"

A: It turns out that the pg_hba.conf file that was in use was:
local   all             all                                     trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust

I changed it to:
local   all             all                                     md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5

and both answers above work.


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Q: SQL Sever 2012+ to return non-alphanumeric characters, excluding spaces Ok, have tried [^a-zA-Z0-9], [^a-zA-Z0-9 ] (LIKE OR NOT LIKE), as well as PATINDEX('%[^a-zA-Z0-9]%',mycol) > 0
None of these exclude spaces and therefore always return valid entries- I want only those with non-numeric, non-alpha, and non-space.  I know I have a record with HTML code in one varchar field.  I also know I have special characters such as ?, #,*, ect.
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This survey of selected works, designed for both students and general readers with an interest in the Trojan war, Greek mythology and the ancient tradition of Troy stories, provides a background that should help readers to recognize and appreciate the ancient, unbroken and continually recreated tradition. The first chapter explores the historical and archaeological background of the Mycenaean Bronze Age and the city of Troy. Next comes an overview of ancient Greek poetry and the Troy Cycle. Subsequent chapters deal with selected Troy stories from Homer through to the 20th century. The final chapter surveys the rich variety of Troy-related materials available, including novels, plays, games, films and Internet sites.


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The youth are taking over the NHL -- and this may just be the beginning
Connor McDavid, Patrik Laine and Auston Matthews are among the league's top scorers, and this might only be the start of the youth movement.
Many scoffed at thetwo gimmick teams when the World Cup format was announced. That attitude quickly evaporated once Team North America actually hit the ice in September, however.
The best Canadian and American players aged 23 or younger formed one of the most exciting teams ever created. Their elimination was disappointing, but the spirit of the team wasn't forgotten. It's been one of the biggest stories this season: the youths are taking over.
Auston Matthews opened his NHL career with a four-goal game, and his teammates Mitch Marner and William Nylander have been sensational, too. Patrik Laine vaulted himself into the NHL goal scoring lead on the strength of two hat tricks in his first 14 games. The top three scorers at the time of writing – Connor McDavid, Mark Scheifele and Nikita Kucherov – are 23 or younger. There are young guns on nearly every team playing exceptional hockey.
The kids are gradually becoming a bigger part of the NHL. Roughly 26 percent of goals have been scored by someone 23 or younger. In 2005-06 that number was about 20 percent.
Anyone who thinks the league is becoming more of a young man's game is bang on, but the trend is not new. Based on the coverage, you'd suspect the NHL has never been younger, but that's far from the truth. There may be more teenagers than ever, but in terms of which age group contributes most, this season is only the highest since 1992-93. You may remember that as the year some other Finnish rookie led the league in scoring. Deja vu much?
Even more interesting is the league's youth scoring at that point was already on the decline. The last time the kids made up as little as 26 percent was 1972-73. Halfway there, 1981-82, was the peak of the youth boom, when an astonishing 41 percent of goals were scored by players 23 or younger. Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 92-goal season helps, but so does having 10 of the top 20 scorers under the age of 23, something few people remember. They also probably won't remember that in 1987-88, Mario Lemieux was the oldest player in the top five in goal scoring at 22.
So the current youth movement is nothing new, and it's not even close to '80s levels, but maybe this is just the start of where the league is going. The trend since modern expansion appears almost generational. There was a big jump in the '70s, a peak in the '80s, a crash in the '90s and now another rise in the new millennium.
This generation is on a youthful upswing, and the current climate of the league may accelerate that. The salary cap means cost effectiveness is vital, and the kids generally provide the best value. The recent analytics revolution suggests a player's prime is generally much younger than many think (around 23 to 25, in case you're wondering). And then there's future expansion to Las Vegas and likely a 32nd team after that, which creates more jobs likely to be filled by younger players. That was one of the biggest reasons for the youth movement in the 1970s, as the league rapidly expanded.
All those factors mean the NHL should see even more offense coming from the kids. The youth movement is on in full force, and if history is any indication, this might only be the beginning.
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Diagnosed with a Concussion, Maple Leafs' Muzzin Doesn't Like to Make Excuses
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Conan the Barbarian #1 was a spectacular issue and one I will very likely read and reread throughout the year. As single issues go, this feels an easy contender for either a Top 10 or Top 20 of the year. In terms of comic series, the same applies. When the run on this comic concludes, the creators will have made something magnificent to behold and one of the greatest comics of the 2010s-2020s.
This was a fun read and the ending to the mystery felt very satisfying. Cate and Kate are exciting characters and it'll be great to learn more about them in future issues.Pick this up at your local LCS or through Comixology.
Exorsisters #2 is a very good issue and I recommend picking it up wherever possible. It is a not to be missed issue if you've picked up issue #1.
Shatterstar #1 is an excellently made first issue and it has me hyped for issue #2. It is a neat retooling of a Shakespeare play. Pick it up at your LCS or through Comixology.
West Coast Avengers #1 is a can't miss book. The team behind this really hit it out of the park and I am excited to read every single issue. Kelly Thompson continues to have a deft hand at creating a dissonance between comedy and danger which makes for a great reading experience.
West Coast Avengers #3 is an absolute must pick-up. It'll help you feel good during a dark time. I can't recommend enough reading this series. It has given me so much joy since the beginning. Issues can be found at your local LCS or through Comixology, with trades likely coming soon. As individual series go, I believe this will be among the top 5 in 2018 for me.
As with the previous issues of West Coast Avengers, #4 is a must-buy. It feels unreal how good this series has been.
I'm glad for what happens in this issue because it truly felt necessary. A comedy series like this needs that emotional shake up every so often to allow the reader to gain insight into the characters' personalities. Otherwise, the characters would have felt like they lacked depth and were at best caricatures.
If you're a fan of Bryan Edward Hill, you'll enjoy this issue. Even if not, I still think it's worth picking up and giving a read.


The monument comprises a holy well, known as Ffynnon Angoeron (the freezing or very cold well). It is a covered spring of probable medieval date. It is located low within a deep and narrow stream valley that emerges from the eastern slopes of Mynydd Garn Wen and is set into the base of a steep, south-facing bank above the stony bed of the stream, which its waters join a few metres to the east. The well is recessed into the southern end of a crudely built wall of undressed Old Red Sandstone and conglomerate blocks, forming a revetment to the uphill slope. The chamber opening measures 2.4m in length by 1.2m in height. The chamber is water-filled and is constructed of squared and finely jointed sandstone blocks, extending 0.75m back from the opening, which is 0.64m wide and 0.8m high. A single large, flat slab forms the roof, the rear of which is crossed by the rocky path along the valley. Immediately outside the chamber a pair of ruinous, boulder walls abut the revetment to define an irregular curving forecourt or pool 1.5m in diameter with a floor of flat slabs through which the spring water runs down to the stream. Tradition holds that the well had healing properties and when reportedly cleaned out in the 1890s, bent pins, coins and buttons were found. Coins were visible when visited and the silts within the well may retain similar offerings. Ffynnon Angoeron is difficult to date due to its vernacular construction but it appears to be undisturbed and there is no reason to doubt that the elements of the present structure date back to the medieval period.
The monument is national importance as a well-preserved example of a medieval or early post-medieval well with medicinal or religious associations. It has the potential to enhance our knowledge of contemporary religious practices and of folk rituals and customs. It shares group value with a series of other settlement and water management features further up the same valley to the west including a dam and a pair of platform buildings.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described above and an area around them within which related evidence might be expected to survive. It is rectangular in shape on plan and measures 15m east-west by 10m transversely.


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Otmuchów (pronounced: ; ) is a town in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,581 inhabitants (2019).

Etymology
The city was mentioned for the first time as Otemochow in 1155. It was named in its Old Polish form Othmuchow in the 13th-century Book of Henryków. The name Othmuchow was also listed in the Chronicles of the Kingdom of Poland written in the years 1455-1480 by Jan Długosz and the Latinized name Othmuchouie appeared in the Statuta synodalia episcoporum Wratislaviensium from 1475.

In 1613 the Silesian regionalist and historian Nicholas Henkel stated in his own work entitled Fri Silesiographia two names in Latin, Otmuchovia and Othmuchaw.

The Germanized form was Ottmachau, and the Polish name in the modern Polish spelling was restored in 1945.

History

The first known mentioning of Otmuchów comes from 1155, however, it certainly existed, along with the castle, already in the 11th century. It was a seat of a castellany within medieval Poland ruled by the Piast dynasty. It was a property of the Diocese of Wrocław and a result of the fragmentation of Poland, it formed part of the Duchy of Nysa. In the 14th century the city was surrounded by defensive walls. Establishment of the coat of arms of the city dates back to 1347, when Bishop of Wrocław Przecław of Pogorzela vested Otmuchów with town rights. The coat of arms is an open city gate in white on a blue field. From the 14th century it was used as the town seal. Destroyed by many wars throughout history, the town lost its importance due to a nearby developing city of Nysa, which was the capital of the principality of the bishop. In 1428, 1430 and 1443 the town was captured by the Hussites. In the 15th century conflicts occurred between indigenous Poles and German settlers. Germans tried to oust the Polish language from local churches. Local Polish church superior lodged a complaint against a German priest who threatened to expel Poles from the church.

The town was plundered during the Thirty Years' War. After the war the town was revived thanks to Polish prince and Bishop of Wrocław Karol Ferdynand Vasa, who turned the castle into an episcopal seat. In 1741 the town was captured and plundered by the Prussians, who annexed it afterwards. The town declined, and after secularization in 1810 it passed from episcopal authority under Prussian administration.

Between 1871 and 1945 the area was part of Germany. During the Second World War, the Germans operated two forced labour subcamps (E276, E282) of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for English-speaking POWs in the town. In 1944 the men were transferred to the oil refinery at Trzebinia (E738). The Germans also established and operated the Polenlager 86 forced labour camp for Poles in the town. Following the defeat of Germany in the war, the town became again part of Poland.

The town holds the headquarters for the 1952 founded confectionary joint-stock company Otmuchów Group.

Sights
Among the historic sights of Otmuchów are the medieval Otmuchów Castle, the Baroque palace, now housing the municipal government, medieval town walls, the Church of St. Nicholas and St. Francis, and numerous historic townhouses.

Transport
There is a train station in Otmuchów, and the Polish National road 46 also passes through the town.

Sports
The local football team is . It competes in the lower leagues.

Twin towns – sister cities
See twin towns of Gmina Otmuchów.

References

External links

 Jewish Community in Otmuchów on Virtual Shtetl

Cities and towns in Opole Voivodeship
Nysa County
Cities in Silesia


GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A pair of five-foot-nine guards, senior Conor McGuinness (New City, N.Y.) and freshman Ronnie Silva (Nashua, N.H.), combined for 44 points on 60 percent shooting to lead Adelphi University to a 92-82 win over Bentley University, the 24th-ranked team in Division II, in Northeast-10 Conference men's basketball Wednesday night at the Center for Recreation and Sport.
McGuiness finished with 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting and Silva sank eight of 14 shots on his way to 20 points. The two also combined for seven three-pointers (four by Silva) and 11 assists (6 by McGuiness).
Bentley's second straight loss dropped the Falcons to 15-4 overall and 8-4 NE10. Adelphi, which shot 59 percent for the game and 64 percent in the second half, improved to 12-7 overall and 6-5 conference.
Silva scored five during an early 7-0 run that broke a 7-7 tie and put the Panthers in front to stay. After the Falcons answered with five straight to pull within one, McGuinness buried a triple from the right wing and a foul-line jumper to restore the seven-point advantage.
Bentley closed within three multiple times before a pair of lay-ups from senior forward Nick Cambio (Tewksbury, Mass.) sent Adelphi into halftime up seven, 41-34.
A 12-8 Adelphi run to start the second half, one that included five points from McGuinness, produced the game's first double-figure lead at 53-42.
Bentley, after trailing by as many as 14, got back in the contest on the strength of a 13-2 run. That burst, which included a traditional three-point play and a trey from the right wing by sophomore guard Jordan Mello-Klein (Sharon, Mass./Thayer Academy), made it a one-possession game, 63-60 with 11:17 remaining.
The Panthers countered with seven straight and Bentley never got closer than eight the rest of the way. Adelphi put the game away with 11 unanswered, a run that included both Silva and McGuinness connecting from downtown. That made it a 19-point differential, 88-69, with 4:46 to go.
In addition to the contributions of Silva and McGuinness, Adelphi received 18 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals off the bench from Cambio.
Junior forward Chris Hudson (Hodgdon, Maine/Williston Northampton) led Bentley with 19 points and eight rebounds. Mello-Klein followed with a career-best 18 and both senior guard Ryan Richmond (Toronto, Ont./Thomson Collegiate) and sophomore guard Colton Lawrence (Myerstown, Pa./ELCO HS) had 16.
Richmond, the reigning NE10 Player of the Week, scored seven below his season norm on an uncharacteristic 6-of-16 shooting, but helped with nine rebounds and three assists.
Bentley shot .435 for the game, including .485 in the second half, and made a dozen three-balls in 29 attempts. The Falcons also had the rebounding edge, 35-31, and two more free throws, 10-8.
Bentley will look to bounce back Saturday with a 3:30 pm game at Southern Connecticut State.


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class Reward < ActiveRecord::Base
  include I18n::Alchemy
  include RankedModel
  include ERB::Util
  include Shared::CommonWrapper

  before_destroy :check_if_is_destroyable

  belongs_to :project
  has_many :payments, through: :contributions
  has_many :contributions, dependent: :nullify
  has_many :shipping_fees, dependent: :destroy
  has_one :survey
  has_one :reward_metric_storage, dependent: :destroy

  mount_uploader :uploaded_image, RewardUploader

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :shipping_fees, allow_destroy: true
  ranks :row_order, with_same: :project_id

  validates_presence_of :minimum_value, :description, :deliver_at, :shipping_options # , :days_to_delivery
  validates_numericality_of :minimum_value, greater_than_or_equal_to: 10.00, message: 'Valor deve ser maior ou igual a R$ 10', if: ->() {!project.is_sub?}
  validates_numericality_of :minimum_value, greater_than_or_equal_to: 5.00, message: 'Valor deve ser maior ou igual a R$ 5', if: ->() {project.is_sub?}
  validates_numericality_of :maximum_contributions, only_integer: true, greater_than: 0, allow_nil: true
  scope :remaining, -> {
    where("
             rewards.maximum_contributions IS NULL
             OR (
              rewards.maximum_contributions IS NOT NULL
              AND (
                    SELECT
                    COUNT(distinct c.id)
                    FROM
                      contributions c JOIN payments p ON p.contribution_id = c.id
                    WHERE
                      (p.state = 'paid' OR
                      p.waiting_payment)
                      AND reward_id = rewards.id
                  ) < maximum_contributions)")
  }
  scope :sort_asc, -> { order('id ASC') }

  delegate :display_deliver_estimate, :display_remaining, :name, :display_minimum, :short_description,
           :medium_description, :last_description, :display_description, :display_label, to: :decorator

  before_save :log_changes
  after_save :expires_project_cache
  after_save :index_on_common

  def log_changes
    self.last_changes = changes.to_json
  end

  def to_s
    display_description
  end

  def decorator
    @decorator ||= RewardDecorator.new(self)
  end

  def sold_out?
    # maximum_contributions && total_compromised >= maximum_contributions
    pluck_from_database('sold_out')
  end

  def any_sold?
    total_compromised > 0
  end

  def total_contributions(states = %w[paid pending])
    payments.with_states(states).count('DISTINCT contributions.id')
  end

  def total_compromised
    paid_count + in_time_to_confirm
  end

  def refresh_reward_metric_storage
    pluck_from_database('refresh_reward_metric_storage')
  end

  def paid_count
    pluck_from_database('paid_count')
  end

  def in_time_to_confirm
    pluck_from_database('waiting_payment_count')
  end

  def remaining
    return nil unless maximum_contributions
    maximum_contributions - total_compromised
  end

  def check_if_is_destroyable
    if any_sold?
      project.errors.add 'reward.destroy', "can't destroy"
      false
    end
  end

  def expires_project_cache
    project.expires_fragments 'project-rewards'
  end

  def common_index
    id_hash = common_id.present? ? {id: common_id} : {}

    {
      external_id: id,
      project_id: project.common_id,
      minimum_value: (minimum_value*100),
      maximum_contributions: maximum_contributions || 0,
      shipping_options: shipping_options,
      deliver_at: deliver_at.try(:strftime, "%FT%T"),
      row_order: row_order,
      title: title,
      welcome_message_subject: welcome_message_subject,
      welcome_message_body: welcome_message_body,
      description: description,
      created_at: created_at.strftime("%FT%T")
    }.merge!(id_hash)
  end

  def index_on_common
    common_wrapper.index_reward(self) if common_wrapper
  end

  private

  def pluck_from_database(attribute)
    Reward.where(id: id).pluck("rewards.#{attribute}").first
  end
end

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IPTV for Xbox 360 in '08
Microsoft has revealed an IPTV service for the Xbox 360, with plans to launch the on-demand service by the end of this year.
The new service will allow 360 owners to use their console as a digital recorder, with crossover features such as the ability to record while playing Xbox 360 games, and chatting to users on a friends list while viewing TV channels.
Revealing the international deals already in place, AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsch Telecom and Swiss Telecom have already signed up as partners, with another 11 companies trialling the service.
"This is going to be the next-generation of channel surfing," said Microsoft while demoing the service this week as part of Bill Gates's keynote address at CES 2007 in Las Vegas.
The IPTV service is the latest initiative by Microsoft to establish the Xbox 360 as not just a games console, but an entertainment device.
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La feuille d'exposition est un outil de l'animation décrivant pour chaque plan d'un film, image par image, les décors, objets ou dessin et leur ordonnancement, ainsi que les bruitages et dialogues accompagnant le plan.

La feuille d'exposition est généralement décomposée en lignes, chaque ligne représentant une image durant plus ou moins longtemps, selon la fréquence du film (8, 12, 16, 24, 25 ou 30 images par seconde dans les cas les plus courants).

Elle permet aux animateurs de donner des références au preneur de vue afin qu'il puisse connaître les différentes images à utiliser ainsi que leur ordre lors de la prise de vue.

L'ingénieur du son ou le monteur la suivent également afin de synchroniser les sons avec la prise de vue.

Il n'y a pas de format standard de feuille d'exposition, cependant on retrouve la plupart du temps les mêmes informations.

En informatique
Les outils informatiques dédiés à l'animation reportent cette feuille d'exposition de différentes façons.

Techniques traditionnelles
Dans les techniques traditionnelles de prise de vue (animation en volume, dessin animé traditionnel, etc.), ou en animation numérique ou les dessins sont faits image par image, il y aura n lignes par seconde en fonction de la cadence de l'animation.

Animation numérique vectorielle
En imagerie de synthèse, que ce soit en trois dimensions ou en deux dimensions vectorielles, où les phases intermédiaires seront calculées numériquement, la technique consistera le plus souvent à mettre des points clés dans une échelle de temps également vectorielle, l'ordinateur recalculant l'interpolation au moment de la sortie de la composition.

Certains programmes d'animation permettent également de déplacer, tourner et zoomer vectoriellement des objets constitués de séquences animés par image. C'est le cas par exemple, lorsque, pour la marche d'un personnage, les étapes d'un pas sont dessinés image par image à l'aide d'un crayon (numérique ou non), puis le pas recopié et déplacé numériquement.

Pour chaque clé ou image, il faut décrire un nombre important d'éléments par « acteur » du plan. Position, orientation, ordre dans le plan, ainsi que d'autres caractéristiques qui seront dépendantes de la technique utilisée.

Techniques d'animation


On Sunday 29 January 2012, in the roof gardens that were created and opened in May 1938, members of the Hancock family, the Roof Gardens Gardening Club and The Roof Gardens Head Gardener, David Lewis gathered to unveil a plaque commemorating the life and work of Clarence Henry Ralph Hancock f.r.h.s.
The Green Plaque, similar to the English Heritage Blue Plaques, is of a simple design. A dark green background with white lettering and a white border. Made of aluminium, the plaque will act as a lasting memorial and tribute to the man who not only created the Roof Gardens in Kensington. He was a multiple Gold Medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show and the designer and builder of elaborate roof gardens on the 11th floor roof of the Rockefeller Center in New York. As well as hundreds of beautiful gardens both here in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America.
Above all else, Ralph Hancock was a loving husband to Muriel. A devoted father to Bramley, Denys and Sheila and a true gardening genius who lived his tempestuous life to the full.
When Ralph Hancock passed away in August 1950, his widow Muriel placed a small plaque in the rose garden that her late husband had designed and built at Knightsbridge Green. A small island of land donated by Tattersalls, the bloodstock company.
The wording of the plaque was simple. It stated that the garden was the last commission that Ralph had undertaken. For just a short while it was the only physical reminder of the incredible life that Ralph had lead and once it was removed Muriel felt that there was no longer a permanent mark to him or his work.
Fast forward to the summer of 2007. Brothers Andrew and Robin Hull (Andrew is married to Ralph's granddaughter Belinda) approached Sir Richard Branson, the owner of The Roof Gardens in London with a proposal. Simply, it was to seek his endorsement of their plan to lobby English Heritage to have installed, at 99 Kensington High Street one of their famous historic Blue Plaques. The response from Sir Richard was overwhelmingly positive.
The following spring (2008) saw the proposal, along with Sir Richard's supporting statement sent to the Blue Plaques Panel at English Heritage. The selection criteria has a number of caveats which must be met even before the panel consider the proposal. These include; Twenty years passing since the candidate's death; at least one building associated with the figure surviving; the building must survive in a form that the commemorated person would have recognised and the building must have no more than two plaques already.
Nominations are subject to thorough historical research and discussion, and English Heritage's Blue Plaques Panel of experts meets three times a year to decide the shortlist.
After an agonising wait a letter from English Heritage was received by Andrew and Robin. Sadly the news which it contained was not good. It said that despite the merits of the candidate and that although he had met all of the caveats, they felt that it was not appropriate to recognise a Landscape Architect with one of their Blue Plaques. The letter went on to say that they (English Heritage) hoped to be able to recognise Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with a plaque in the near future. It took them a further three years to do so.
The news from English Heritage did not deter either of the brothers with their endeavour. Now they turned their attention to an alternative proposal. If a Blue Plaque wasn't an option, how about a Green Plaque?
With the help of David Lewis, the Roof Gardens Head Gardener and with the continued support of Sir Richard and Virgin Limited Editions, Andrew and Robin's alternative plan was simple. To approach the Heritage and Conservation team at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Planning Department with a design for a Green Plaque to be installed within the roof gardens. The Heritage and Conservation team are responsible for all building work associated with the Grade II* listed roof gardens.
After much negotiation and many meetings it was agreed that the plaque could be installed in the gardens that Ralph Hancock designed some 74 years earlier.
Simon read a few words from his mother, Sheila Dure-Smith (nee Hancock): "My husband Peter and I much appreciate this chance to be a part of the dedication of a plaque to the memory of my father Ralph Hancock, who designed and built these gardens in 1936 to '37. We are also glad to be able to thank The Roof Gardens and Richard Branson, along with David Lewis, for offering a permanent home for the plaque. As a byproduct of their making the gardens an established and familiar feature of Kensington, they have also created a showplace for my father's work.
If neglected a garden quickly crumbles and dies; these gardens are lovingly and skilfully tended.
My father's vision of using his professional knowledge to put gardens on city rooftops, providing green oases which lift the spirits of city dwellers, has even more significance today with new concerns for the health of the environment. That he did so in two of the world's largest metropolises, London and New York, and met the challenges involved, is a measure of his talent and ingenuity.
I would like to say a little about my mother also. When she first met Ralph he was a dashing young artillery officer; she was strictly brought up but high-spirited, one of the first group of educated young women to be employed by the Bank of England as wartime replacements for their young clerks. She eloped with him when she was 19, and steadfastly remained at the centre not only of their eventual family of five, but constantly as the focus of his sometimes tempestuous life.
We understand that some of my father's younger descendants will be here today to represent us all - we only hope the weather will defer to the occasion!
The plaque, supported by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Limited Editions and David Lewis and financially supported by Sheila and Peter Dure-Smith (Ralph's daughter and son-in-law), sits in a quiet spot in the Woodland Garden on a wall of red brick. And is just a few feet away from the plaque featuring Trevor Bowen, the man who gave inspiration for the 'Garden in the Sky'.
The Hancock family: Ralph's grandchildren - Angela Buck (right centre); Miranda Rota (left centre) and Simon Dure-Smith (centre) and their children, Ralph's Great-grandchildren. Also in this photo are; Christine (Simon's wife) and Bob Priddle . Bob has been instrumental in raising the profile of Ralph Hancock.
David Lewis, Head Gardener, The Roof Gardens and Angela Buck, Ralph's Granddaughter and co-organiser of the unveiling of the plaque.


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/*
 *Ваши права на использование кода регулируются данной лицензией http://o-s-a.net/doc/license_simple_engine.pdf
*/
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Windows;
using OsEngine.Entity;
using OsEngine.Language;

namespace OsEngine.OsTrader.Panels.Tab.Internal
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Логика взаимодействия для StrategOneSecurityManualControlDialog.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class BotManualControlUi
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// настройки стратегии
        /// </summary>
        private BotManualControl _strategySettings;

        /// <summary>
        /// конструктор
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="strategySettings">настройки которые будем настраивать</param>
        public BotManualControlUi(BotManualControl strategySettings)
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            try
            {
                _strategySettings = strategySettings;

                // стоп

                CheckBoxStopIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.StopIsOn;
                TextBoxStopPercentLenght.Text = _strategySettings.StopDistance.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));
                TextBoxSlipageStop.Text = _strategySettings.StopSlipage.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));

                // профит

                CheckBoxProfitIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.ProfitIsOn;
                TextBoxProfitPercentLenght.Text = _strategySettings.ProfitDistance.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));
                TextBoxSlipageProfit.Text = _strategySettings.ProfitSlipage.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));

                // закрытие позиции
                CheckBoxSecondToCloseIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.SecondToCloseIsOn;
                TextBoxSecondToClose.Text = _strategySettings.SecondToClose.TotalSeconds.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));

                CheckBoxSetbackToCloseIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.SetbackToCloseIsOn;
                TextBoxSetbackToClose.Text = _strategySettings.SetbackToClosePosition.ToString();

                CheckBoxDoubleExitIsOnIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.DoubleExitIsOn;
                ComboBoxTypeDoubleExitOrder.Items.Add(OrderPriceType.Limit);
                ComboBoxTypeDoubleExitOrder.Items.Add(OrderPriceType.Market);
                ComboBoxTypeDoubleExitOrder.SelectedItem = _strategySettings.TypeDoubleExitOrder;
                TextBoxSlipageDoubleExit.Text = _strategySettings.DoubleExitSlipage.ToString();

                // открытие позиции

                CheckBoxSecondToOpenIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.SecondToOpenIsOn;
                TextBoxSecondToOpen.Text = _strategySettings.SecondToOpen.TotalSeconds.ToString(new CultureInfo("ru-RU"));

                CheckBoxSetbackToOpenIsOn.IsChecked = _strategySettings.SetbackToOpenIsOn;
                TextBoxSetbackToOpen.Text = _strategySettings.SetbackToOpenPosition.ToString();

                Title = OsLocalization.Trader.Label85;
                LabelStop.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label86;
                LabelProfit.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label87;
                LabelPositionClosing.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label88;
                LabelPositionOpening.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label89;
                LabelCloseOrderReject.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label90;
                CheckBoxStopIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label91;
                CheckBoxProfitIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label91;
                LabelSlippage1.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label92;
                LabelSlippage2.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label92;
                LabelSlippage3.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label92;
                LabelFromEntryToStop.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label93;
                LabelFromEntryToProfit.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label94;
                CheckBoxSecondToCloseIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label95;
                CheckBoxSetbackToCloseIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label96;
                CheckBoxSetbackToOpenIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label96;
                CheckBoxSecondToOpenIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label97;
                ButtonAccept.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label17;
                CheckBoxDoubleExitIsOnIsOn.Content = OsLocalization.Trader.Label99;

            }
            catch (Exception error)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(error.ToString());
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// кнопка принять
        /// </summary>
        private void ButtonAccept_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                if(Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSecondToOpen.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSecondToClose.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxStopPercentLenght.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageStop.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxProfitPercentLenght.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageProfit.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSetbackToClose.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSecondToOpen.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSetbackToOpen.Text) <= 0 ||
                    Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageDoubleExit.Text) < -100)
                {
                    throw new Exception();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(OsLocalization.Trader.Label13);
                return;
            }

            try
            {
                // стоп
                _strategySettings.StopIsOn = CheckBoxStopIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                _strategySettings.StopDistance = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxStopPercentLenght.Text);
                _strategySettings.StopSlipage = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageStop.Text);

                // профит
                _strategySettings.ProfitIsOn = CheckBoxProfitIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                _strategySettings.ProfitDistance = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxProfitPercentLenght.Text);
                _strategySettings.ProfitSlipage = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageProfit.Text);

// закрытие позиции

                if (CheckBoxSecondToCloseIsOn.IsChecked.HasValue)
                {
                    _strategySettings.SecondToCloseIsOn = CheckBoxSecondToCloseIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                }
                _strategySettings.SecondToClose = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSecondToClose.Text));

                if (CheckBoxSetbackToCloseIsOn.IsChecked.HasValue)
                {
                    _strategySettings.SetbackToCloseIsOn = CheckBoxSetbackToCloseIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                }
                _strategySettings.SetbackToClosePosition = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSetbackToClose.Text);

                if (CheckBoxDoubleExitIsOnIsOn.IsChecked.HasValue)
                {
                    _strategySettings.DoubleExitIsOn = CheckBoxDoubleExitIsOnIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                }

                Enum.TryParse(ComboBoxTypeDoubleExitOrder.SelectedItem.ToString(),
                    out _strategySettings.TypeDoubleExitOrder);

                _strategySettings.DoubleExitSlipage = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSlipageDoubleExit.Text);

// открытие позиции

                if (CheckBoxSecondToOpenIsOn.IsChecked.HasValue)
                {
                    _strategySettings.SecondToOpenIsOn = CheckBoxSecondToOpenIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                }
                _strategySettings.SecondToOpen = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSecondToOpen.Text));

                if (CheckBoxSetbackToOpenIsOn.IsChecked.HasValue)
                {
                    _strategySettings.SetbackToOpenIsOn = CheckBoxSetbackToOpenIsOn.IsChecked.Value;
                }
                _strategySettings.SetbackToOpenPosition = Convert.ToInt32(TextBoxSetbackToOpen.Text);

                _strategySettings.Save();
            }
            catch (Exception error)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(error.ToString());
            }

            Close();
        }

        private void CheckBox_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {

        }
    }
}


There are a lot of smart investors on Wall Street. It makes sense to watch and learn, and sometimes follow along for the ride. However, even smart investors make mistakes. So you need to step back and look at the risks and rewards when examining the trades they make. With that in mind, here are two stocks that look worthwhile and one that you might want to pass on (despite the big name that's backing it): Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE), Franco-Nevada Corporation (NYSE:FNV), and CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS).
These days, however, the company is firing on all cylinders. The digital media division is the de facto system for use by designers, photographers, and animators. And the recent splash into e-commerce -- via the acquisitions of Marketo and Magento -- offer an interesting growth avenue in the years ahead.
One of the big reasons to consider Franco-Nevada today is the stock market's high valuation in the face of ongoing headwinds, notably including slowing economic growth in key global markets. If investors start to panic, sending equity prices sharply lower, there will likely be a flight to safe haven investments like precious metals. Over 80% of Franco-Nevada's business is tied to commodities like gold and silver.
GOLD EBITDA Margin (TTM) data by YCharts.
Check out the latest earnings call transcripts for Adobe, CVS Health, and other companies we cover.