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(CNN) - Several protesters tried to block the motorcade of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Grand Junction, Colorado on Monday afternoon, but police dragged them out of the way in a dramatic encounter.
The incident - just feet from the car carrying Palin - was captured on video by CNN affiliate KKCO-TV.
Eight to 10 protesters broke away from a larger group of demonstrators and darted into the street in front of Palin's car just after the first police motorcycles in her motorcade had passed, said Acting Chief Troy Smith of the Grand Junction Police Department.
Wearing bandanas and with faces covered, they blocked the path and held up a large banner. Officers in the motorcade stopped their motorcycles, and grabbed protesters, dragging several out of the path of the oncoming motorcade.
At least two demonstrators were tackled and forced to the ground before being pulled away. One officer fell backwards into the path of an approaching vehicle but he was able to get out of the way in time.
Palin's vehicle passed without a problem as other protesters chanted on the sidewalk, about a block from a site where Palin had addressed a rally.
Smith said officers saved the protesters from injury because "the motorcade likely would not have stopped" for them. He said "we don't know what their intentions were" in trying to block Palin's motorcade.
Investigators in Grand Junction are reviewing videotapes to try to identify suspects in an "active criminal investigation," Smith said. The Secret Service is not involved in the investigation, he said.
The protesters were members of a group called "Red Pill," Smith said. A Web site that carried an announcement of the group's planned protest urged supporters to show Palin "that we as a community say no to war, no to corporate cronyism, and no to four more years of Bush-style leadership." It
encouraged people to bring "drums, noise makers, and your strength."
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red eys
Palin prays everyday for McCain to win the election so she and Todd will "do him"and take over the country for Alaska Independent Party.I hope McCain doesn´t win but if he does.....goodbye good ole America.Vote McCain and have Todd as President of the United States.
This is serious.
October 21, 2008 06:32 am at 6:32 am |
Kris K in RM CA
Voters do not like Palin and are afraid she may be President because of McCain's age. It is a huge issue people are talking about at work. People are voting for Obama because of Palin. More than half of my co workers have voted.They are voting against a possible Palin not the economy.
Scott Tucson
And do these Red Pill nuts actually believe Obama will CHANGE (whatever that means) anything in Washington if he's elected?
williefloyd
What a wonderful country we have that allows all people to express their views and opinions! Unfortunately in our zealousness to protest we sometimes go about it in the wrong way.
As a devoted supporter of Obama/Biden, I would ask those who so vehemently oppose McCain/Palin, myself included, to please channel your energy in ways that can be beneficial to our candidates. Go door to door, make phone calls, donate if you're financially able, anything you can do in a positive manner. Please, do not lower yourselves to the depths the Republicans have sunk.
God bless America, keep our candidates (ALL candidates) and their supporters safe.
As a grandmother I plead with the youth of our country, please do not allow yourself to feel that "my one vote can't make a difference". That in itself is true, but if a thousand people feel that way it can certainly make a difference.
PLEASE VOTE ON NOV. 4TH OR EARLIER IF POSSIBLE!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN
We as supporters of Obama must support him with our votes and carry ourselves in the calm and steady way that Obama carries himself. We are facing rough times in the Country in all aspects, it is at this time that we put into action and understand that UNITED WE STAND DEVIDED WE FALL.
justobserve
McCain and Palin run a very divisive campaign that incited people to become less civilized. They have to drink their own medicine.
Global J
The more roadblocks to her hate filled speeches and divisive politics the better!
(Thank goodness, Colin Powell has courageously spoken out on this subject and her unreadinesss for high office.)
McCain and Palin's kitchen sink strategy deserves nothign but contempt and derision from the American electorate this November.
I hope they both get washed down the sink of history with Joe the plumber.
Bring America Back!
Palin unleashed pented up anger at her rallies and now others are following pursuit. Does that not make her the instigator? Stirring up lies and deceit only makes a fire rage longer.
blaising
Mrs. Palin babbling about freedom of the press during FOX interview:
"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."
Somebody tape that moose's piehole shut!! She CANNOT speak with intelligence!!
Oh...and let's not forget that BOTH members of the GOP ticket have now been found GUILTY of violating ethics laws:
The report states: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin Abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."
Nuff said...Paylin's a drag on the ticket...
Kenneth Alaekwe
I am not an American but I have been following the this campain since the primaries. The McCain/Palin campaign has nothing to show. McCain used to be one of the American politicians I respected but he has done all he could to disappoint me.
The selection of Sarah Palin is a VP is really ridiculous and dangerous. This woman is out of touch and has shown that she is not smart enough to be even a governor. I believe that after the election the people of Alaska would really know how stupid and dumb their governor is. By not giving interviews to big US media is a prove of that. She does not know anything. I am surprised that this woman studied journalism.
A woman who refuses teaching young people the consequences of sexuality in the 21st century is out of touch. She should have woken up when her teenage daughter became pregnant. But she did not.
I want to call the Americans to show McCain and Palin the way out by giving Obama a landslide come Nov 4. I admire your country but the years of George W. Bush has brought your country nothing but disrespect and hate throughout the world. You can change this through your ballot. Vote for Obama.
Childish. This democrat is voting Maverick/Barracuda!
The best way to protest is to VOTE on Nov 4th. The republicans are counting on the fact that the young Obama supporters will not go vote and the others will have the "Bradley Effect" once in the voting booth.
Do the right thing and make sure to VOTE for the CHANGE we need,
Our country is in trouble, its not a red state or blue state issue, it effects us all.
OBAMA\BIDEN 2008!!!
Trasa, Texas
I admit, I don't like Sarah and her SugarDaddy McCain, but blocking the motorcade isn't the way to get your point across. You were doing find protesting and needed to stay with the group. People getting crazy out here and need to check themselves.
Go Obama/Biden 08
HouseDiva
9 times out of 10 rowdy protesters are usually COPS who infiltrate peaceful organizations to encourage violence.
wake up people!
Betty I have a sincere question for you. Let me start by saying that I had hoped to vote for Obama. I have done months of independent research. I have been listening to both sides and had to go out on my own to rid myself of all of the sensationalism from both parties. It gets old and really provides little service to the country. Sarah Palin has used strong language, but if you will do some research Senator Obama has truly sorrounded himself with people that I think very few would agree with in ideology or practice. He has worked on multiple projects with these people in order to advance the same agendas. Therefore it goes beyond poor judgement, he shares their ideology. I don't always agree with my government, but I love my country and it is our form of government that has made us a great nation. Obama's ideas ARE socialist as much as I hate to admit it. I think that the country is caught up in Obama mania and can't see the forest for the trees. There has never been an economically and politically strong socialist nation when you compare it the the Republic that we have in the United States. I would encourage you and everyone to spend the next few weeks digging in reputable independent sources over the next few weeks before you cast you vote.
Fatal Blow
I am an obama supporter, but we cannot allow ourselves to disrupt Palin's campaigning, she has a right to campaign as she pleases and we need to respectfully hammer away the points that Americans care about
iyke in spain
I believe the people of Colorado are angry, and have every reason to be . They have displayed anger and hate on the McCain/Palin campaign and that will also surface at the election by casting their votes on Obama/Biden.
I see the oil moguls are going to cut production, maybe twice; can't have the world receive cheap oil, my goodness, what would that do to the bottom line. why don't they let market forces dictate where the price ends up, instead of this contrived usage, similar to our ag programs..
I think that the Sarah Palin is dividing this country...Why because of several comments that she has said, Pro-Americians, socialism, Well lets bring back Joe McCarthy...Dividing this country is very dangerous. Look she may be a nice woman in all, but what comes out of her mouth is dangerous garbage. Joe the Plumber? Now that is getting tired...he could have been a plant...
Obama/Biden08/12
diakenpoy
Finally, documented, Obama praising ayers. . Now minions of Obama will be on denial again, saying these people are spreading hate and racism . Saying how low can GOP gets. Stay on the issues to deflect. The usual black defends.
Stephen in Bedford, TX
Protesting is a way of saying "we're mad a he-double hockey sticks and we're not going to take it anymore". It may not be the most effective way to protest, but they have a right. I expect her to say this is what she meant when certain parts of the country are not "pro-American", when, in reality it a demonstration of just how much people love America.
AmericanFeminist
Criminal investigation? It sounds like they have (dragged and/or tackled) the ones who blocked the motorcade. So, who are they investigating? The people who have a constitutional right to protest.
Funny, McCain, and especially Palin, love to incite their own crowd. But, non-supporters aren't allowed to get angry.
From Fox:
"Democratic hopeful to cancel nearly all campaign events for two days to visit his suddenly ill grandmother, 85, in Hawaii"
That is their sub-heading. Is it just me or does that smack of "let's be suspicious of whether she's 'really' sick"? I think it does. Their article also treats the fact that the family won't speak on the specifics of the illness as somehow suspicious as well. Of course they don't say that directly, but to me it seems subtly implied. This sort of thing sickens me.
I apologize for posting this here, but all the other blog entries are "permalinked." Thanks.
Marie Canada
Hopefully these types of protests won't be common place as Obama doesn't need or want them in his campaign.
The fact is most respectable and thoughful Republicans are now supporting Obama and see McCain as simply not Presidential material with irratic and irrational moves on a constant basis.
Many seem to think McCain will close a little ground as time goes on but from my perspective I believe Obama will widen the gap with McCain's campaign turnng off more and more voters on a regular basis.
I can't abide the thought of her as VP and she hasn't done herself any favours with her nasty inflammatory and divisive speeches in the campaign, nonetheless, I don't agree with what the protestors did. They should use their energy to get people out to vote against the horrid GOP.
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I've been playing this game a bunch recently and wanted to see who's interested in gathering to play online or learn the ropes. Its pretty simple at the surface but getting good is debatably even tougher than it is in what we play every week.
I'm currently a level 10 with 11 in game hours. I thought I'd make a discord.
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The government's plan to send some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda is "the opposite of the nature of God", the Archbishop of Canterbury is to say.
The archbishop carried a wooden cross as he marked Holy Week
In his Easter sermon, Justin Welby will say that Christ's resurrection is not a time for "subcontracting our responsibilities".
He will also call for a ceasefire in Ukraine and speak of his concern over the cost of living crisis.
The government says change is needed to protect lives from people smugglers.
Speaking at Canterbury Cathedral later, Mr Welby will say that the resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday is "not a magic wand that makes the world perfect" but a "tectonic shift in the way the cosmos works".
He will say: "Let this be a time for Russian ceasefire, withdrawal and a commitment to talks. This is a time for resetting the ways of peace, not for what Bismarck called blood and iron. Let Christ prevail. Let the darkness of war be banished."
This season is also "why there are such serious ethical questions about sending asylum seekers overseas", the archbishop will say.
His sermon continues: "The details are for politics. The principle must stand the judgment of God, and it cannot.
"It cannot carry the weight of resurrection justice, of life conquering death. It cannot carry the weight of the resurrection that was first to the least valued, for it privileges the rich and strong."
Mr Welby will say the plan "cannot carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by Christian values".
"Subcontracting out our responsibilities, even to a country that seeks to do well like Rwanda, is the opposite of the nature of God who himself took responsibility for our failures," the sermon will say.
The £120m scheme - which involves transporting people deemed to have entered the UK unlawfully to the east African country, where they will be allowed to apply for the right to settle - has faced widespread opposition.
More than 160 charities and campaign groups urged ministers to scrap the policy, describing it as "cruel", while it has also been criticised by opposition parties and some Conservatives.
The Home Office defended the plan from the archbishop's criticisms, saying the UK has a "proud history" of supporting those in need and resettlement programmes have provided "safe and legal routes to better futures" for hundreds of thousands.
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It is only the second time such a ministerial direction has been issued at the Home Office in the last 30 years.
Civil service unions said the policy was "inhumane" but that officials would have to implement it or leave.
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He will say the struggle to pay for essentials is their first thought of the day and they feel "overwhelmed by the pressures".
Others bereaved in the pandemic grapple with "the continued deep sense of loss", including those who could not say a proper farewell to loved ones, the archbishop is to say.
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Growth strategy for Belmont discussed for more than a year
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The talk has gone on for more than a year.
Now, Belmont's new comprehensive land-use plan is coming down to the wire.
On Tuesday, the City Council is expected to vote on what has been described by leaders as a road map for future land use in the fast-growing city.
"The real challenge is that the plan doesn't end up on a shelf gathering dust," said councilman Irl Dixon. "We want to make sure it'll be used and looked at and enforced."
Mayor Pro Tem Charlie Flowers still hadn't made up his mind on how he'll vote.
"I have some reservations about some of it," he said. "I'm afraid it could be used to discriminate against the poor and middle class. I'll be studying and praying over this all weekend."
The plan was drafted by HNTB, a national consulting firm with an office in Charlotte.
City Manager Barry Webb said the land-use plan cost $118,000 and a separate transportation plan $25,000. The city got $22,950 in state money for the transportation part, he said.
To get input from residents, Belmont and HNTB held three public forums before a public hearing in July at the Gaston College East Campus and Textile Technology Center.
Residents have praised the plan's vision, but asked how it will address issues beyond Belmont's control, such as crowded Gaston County schools and congested state roads.
A few also have asked whether the plan is focused on creating a bedroom community for newcomers instead of preserving small-town character for longtime residents.
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Dixon said the land will be a guide as Belmont continues to grow.
"Nobody will ever be completely satisfied with it," he said. "But without the plan there would be chaos."
The Belmont City Council meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 115 N. Main St. For information, call 704-825-5586.
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My last post on Kentucky was about how Republicans were taking over legislative control in Kentucky in 2017, after 95 years of Democratic control. So it's not surprising that as the new party took over, there was a pent-up demand for all sorts of legislation.
I assume this is going to be a 2017 theme: rapid legislation…. to the extent the rapid legislation is removing prior bad ideas, that's great. But I do wonder about sloppy activity, which may make for rapid slapdowns of legislation as well. Already saw it for a a sloppily-written background check for gun sales law in Nevada.
Living and working in two states where I have no hope of these changes occurring within my lifetime, I'm interested in the right-to-work legislation just passed in Kentucky.
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a bill on Saturday [January 7] making it the 27th U.S. state to allow workers the right to work in union-represented shops and receive union-negotiated benefits without paying dues to the representing body.
Republican lawmakers in a handful of states have passed similar so called "right-to-work" and anti-union laws in recent years. Supporters say the measures spur economic growth while opponents cast the laws as assaults on organized labor and blue-collar workers that limit union revenues.
A Kentucky Senate committee on Friday passed the "right-to-work" bill, sending it to the full Senate, which passed it during a rare Saturday session.
"I personally have no problem with an individual opting to be part of a labor union … but government shouldn't stand in the way of someone who opts not to join a union," said Speaker of the House Jeff Hoover in a statement earlier this week.
It is widely expected that Republican Governor Matt Bevin will sign the bill into law in the coming days. If so, Kentucky will immediately become the 27th state and last Southern state to enact "right-to-work" legislation.
Kentucky has been unable to pass "right-to-work" legislation in the past because of its strong union ties across the state, labor leaders said. The Republican-led state Senate had passed similar bills in recent years, but House Democrats refused to hear the bills.
Well, that sets a theme to kick off the legislative year.
Kentucky's prevailing wage act, similar to other states', required contractors to pay certain hourly rates based upon job classification and duty to workers employed on public construction projects. Those rates are considered "prevailing" because they are based upon union contract wage rates for similar work. Opponents of these acts say that they drive up the cost of public projects. Adherents say they force employers doing public work to maintain wages and working conditions.
In Kentucky, hundreds of demonstrators packed into the Capitol building Saturday to protest the state Legislature's passage of a slew of controversial bills, including an anti-union "right-to-work" law and extreme anti-choice legislation that bans abortions after 20 weeks and requires a woman to have an ultrasound before having an abortion. The surprise emergency legislative session Saturday came after Republicans seized a supermajority in the House of Representatives, giving the Republicans control of the House, the Senate and the governorship for the first time in Kentucky state history. On Saturday, the Legislature also repealed a law that had guaranteed higher wages for workers on publicly financed construction projects. We go to Louisville, Kentucky, for an update from Richard Becker, a union organizer with Service Employees International Union, and we speak with Lisa Abbott, a community organizer with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.
AMY GOODMAN: For more, we're joined by two guests. Joining us in New York, Lisa Abbott is community organizer with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. And in Louisville, Kentucky, Richard Becker is a union organizer with Service Employees International Union.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Richard, let's start with you. The capital is actually not Louisville. The capital is in Frankfort. But you're speaking to us from Louisville. Describe what happened in the Legislature and outside.
RICHARD BECKER: Well, thanks, Amy, for having me on this morning. What we saw on Saturday was a response to what had been a week of legislation being passed out of this new House of Representatives at an unprecedented breakneck speed. On Tuesday, new members were sworn in, and by Wednesday the House Economic Development Committee was passing right-to-work out of committee before freshman members had even had phone lines set up or office space set up. And the bills were, of course, as you said, passed out of both chambers on Saturday and got the governor's signature later in the weekend.
Union members flooded in from across the state, from Paducah to Pikeville, to come to Frankfort so that they could have their voices heard. They had been shut out of the committee rooms on Wednesday, while members of Americans for Prosperity were allowed into the committee room. Union members had been thrown out of the House gallery for daring to take photos of vote counts as they happened. And so, you had a lot of angry people, people whose very livelihoods, the way they feed their families, were on the line. And they came out in droves Saturday, bright and early, before the sun even came up, to make their voices heard, as you heard in that video of Representative Rand speaking.
RICHARD BECKER: Yeah, so, we had House Bill 1, which was the so-called right-to-work legislation. There is, of course—before Kentucky passed it, 26 other states under this recognition. And that, just to quickly touch on what that is, is a law that allows workers in a unionized workplace to opt out of paying union dues, even while enjoying union representation and the benefits of a collective bargaining agreement. What it does is it erodes solidarity in the union, in that workplace, and it forces—unions under the law have to represent everybody in a workplace, whether they pay dues or not. So it sets up a scenario that really weakens unions in the state that it's passed.
The other bill we had was House Bill 3, which was repeal of the prevailing wage law, which is a law that sets a minimum wage for skilled construction work on publicly funded projects and encourages local hiring for publicly funded projects. That bill passed, repealing prevailing wage. And then we had Senate Bill 6, which, as you referred to it—they call it the "paycheck protection act," or we call it sometimes "paycheck deception act," because, like all these bills, its true purpose is shrouded in a lot of mystery.
That's how Kentucky state Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, describes the successful push for right-to-work legislation that went down during Saturday's special session of his state's General Assembly.
Nemes was elected in November along with a Republican wave that delivered the Kentucky House of Representatives to his party for the first time since 1921.
"I'm calling it promises made, promises kept because we ran on worker freedom, we ran on right-to-work, and we ran on paycheck protection and on repealing the prevailing wage law. We delivered in just the first week of the new General Assembly," Nemes told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
Kentucky labor unions, which held loud and boisterous protests in and around the statehouse in Frankfort, Kentucky, throughout the week and into Saturday, remain ardently opposed to the legislation the governor is set to sign into law.
UAW Local 2164, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 227, and the Kentucky State AFL-CIO are among the unions that expressed strong opposition to the right-to-work bill and other labor-related bills that passed Saturday.
Hmmm. Let me see what the Kentucky State AFL-CIO has to say.
The Kentucky House and Senate convened on January 3, 2017 and in 5 days passed three anti-union Bills in an unprecedented manner. They were each signed by the Governor (above) under an Emergency Clause and went into effect on January 9, 2017.
With one lone exception, every Democrat voted with Labor to oppose these Bills. A handful of Republicans voted with us to support the working families of their Districts. Labor's interest in public policy go way beyond our own self-interest. Our goal to achieve and maintain a middle-class for all Kentuckians suffered a devastating blow last week.
I have spoken with many active and retired union members who voted for Republican Legislators or the straight Republican ticket. Elections have consequences and we're experiencing that now. No one will be immune from these policies that attack labor. Working members help fund retiree health care and pensions and as man-hours decrease so will the funding.
Neuberger said it could therefore take as long as two to three years for Kentucky's law to have an impact on currently unionized workforces.
The new law also contains a provision preventing public employees from striking.
Oh, I missed that bit. That will really kneecap public employee unions.
3) Pay to any charity or other third party, in lieu of these payments, any amount equivalent to or pro rata portion of dues, fees, assessments or other charges required of a labor organization.
Additionally, under a new section of KRS Chapter 336, a public employer or a labor organization representing public employees shall not deduct membership dues of an employee organization, association or union from the wages, earnings or compensation of a public employee without the express written consent of the employee. The consent must be given prior to any deductions, and consent may be revoked by the employee at any time with written notice to the employer.
That's for both public and private employees.
How about public employees specifically?
High for the South, but about average otherwise. 22% for public employees in Kentucky in 2014.
….and I see New York has the highest public unionization rate at 72%. I guess I should tamp down my hope for any NY right-to-work laws. Connecticut is well up there, too.
Legislative leaders gave a "sneak preview" Monday of the upcoming law-making session, saying Republican majorities in both the House and Senate will focus on jobs.
Other major issues like tax and pension reform and constitutional amendments will have to wait, they said at a legislative preview conference of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce at Lexington's Marriott Griffin Gate Resort. About 300 people attended.
The priority of Kentucky's 2017 General Assembly, which begins Jan. 3, will be "to figure out how to create a better business environment to create jobs," said Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester. He was joined on a leadership panel with Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, and new House Majority Leader Jonathan Shell, R-Lancaster.
The session will mark the first time Republicans have controlled the House since 1921. They have controlled the Senate since 2000 and gained control of the governor's office last year.
Thayer said the state's business community "will be pleased" with the 2017 law-making session that runs for 30 days through March 30.
So we've got three laws passed, which can affect employers with unionized workers (or workers that others are trying to unionize), as well as government contracts. All in the first few weeks of a 30-day session.
The KY legislature doesn't plan on dealing with pensions til the fall, and I guess I understand that prioritization given each legislative session is only 30 days.
But that's not my prioritization — look for a couple more Kentucky posts next week, specifically about the pensions.
Go here for a compilation of Kentucky-related posts.


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Гончаров Йосип Семенович (1796—1879) — останній отаман нижньодунайських козаків-некрасовців. Народився в с. Сарикиой (Добруджа) в родині Семена Гончара, який 1790 перейшов до некрасовців у Добруджу. Протягом 1829–31 брав активну участь у переселенні близько 300 родин некрасовців на лівий берег Дунаю до м. Тучков (нині м. Ізмаїл), слобід Стара Некрасівка та Нова Некрасівка (нині села Ізмаїльського району Одеської обл.). 1837 таємно повернувся в Туреччину, де займався торгівлею. Відстоював права некрасовських козаків перед турецькою адміністрацією, підтримував ідею створення Білокриницької ієрархії (1846). 1853–56 Г. – гетьман об'єднаного Добруджанського козацтва (некрасовців, задунайців та ногайців), яке штучно створив М.Чайковський (Мохамед Садик-паша). 1864, після ліквідації турецьким урядом пільг для некрасовців, Г. звернувся до російського уряду з проханням дозволити йому перебратися до Росії. Отримавши дозвіл, оселився у Саратовській губернії (1870). Прийняв офіційне православ'я і став ченцем. Помер у м. Хвалинськ (нині місто Саратовської обл., РФ).

Джерела та література
 Прігарін О.А.  Гончаров Йосип Семенович  //

Посилання
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Feeling The Force Of Star Wars In VR
At Disneyland Paris scenes from Star Wars are projected onto a giant tower which becomes one of the world's biggest movie screensDISNEYLAND PARIS
Before he passed away in 2004, John Hench, one of the original designers of Disneyland, claimed that the park in California was one of the first examples of virtual reality. "We were doing this 40 years ago," he proclaimed. It is no exaggeration.
Disney was so far ahead of the game when it comes to creating fantasy environments that it now uses VR as a tool to achieve its aims rather than an attraction in itself as it is in some theme parks.
Disney specializes in taking your breath away in its parks. Just when you think you've seen it all, it ups the ante. One ride sees guests gliding past 3D screens and aiming cannons at them which appear to launch everything from baseballs to custard pies. Unlike most rides this one fights back meaning that you get blasted with bursts of air cleverly timed to the 3D projectiles hurled at the screen.
Another attraction is an indoor ride through soaring sets which gives guests the impression they are rats scampering through a restaurant. Super-sized screens are seamlessly integrated into the sets and show images which are so sharp that it's hard to tell the virtual from the actual. It culminates in a visit to the kitchen where scents are pumped in so you can actually smell the cooking on-screen.
Even the shows leave you asking 'how did they do that?' Theme park attractions are often said to be immersive but that really is the only appropriate way to describe Star Wars: A Galactic Celebration at Disneyland Paris. The 15-minute son et lumière runs during the resort's annual Star Wars season at the start of the year and is the closest guests can get to being in the middle of a space battle without actually leaving the earth's atmosphere. It starts in a suitably cinematic style.
As the lights dim, spotlights start to dance across the night sky and a hushed silence falls across the crowd. Tension builds as everyone looks towards a huge tower looming in the distance before a familiar theme tune thunders from hidden speakers. The famous yellow titles of Star Wars are beamed onto the tower and then a technical tour-de-force begins.
The tower itself is a nearly 183-feet mock-up of a faded Art Deco hotel containing a drop ride which rockets guests up and down the elevator shafts. During the show it becomes one of the world's biggest open-air movie screens as scenes from the Star Wars series are projected onto it in time to fireworks which erupt from the roof.
Thanks to some technical wizardry, the images appear to be flat even though they are being beamed onto turrets and protrusions. During one scene a huge red banner appears to unfurl down the walls of the tower before it turns into a futuristic cityscape followed by a starfield as the iconic Death Star ominously looms into view. The action spills out onto the surrounding buildings as scenes are projected onto them too but that's just the start.
Lasers in the walls of the tower shoot out in time with the action to make it seem like they are coming from the spaceships on screen. There's even return fire from the buildings opposite which beam lasers over the heads of the crowd onto the tower. The sound too appears to be coming from all around the audience as speakers are hidden in the surrounding buildings.
The effect is so convincing that it seems like the floor is swaying during the scenes where spaceships weave through an asteroid field and down the trench at the heart of the Death Star.
Further blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, costumed characters appear at the foot of the tower on a sweeping stage in front of a series of giant video screens showing landscapes from the movies. There's a parade of sleek white Stormtroopers, uber-villain Darth Vader and his successor Kylo Ren who makes his entrance between plumes of fire which shoot up from the stage.
The show combines projections, surround sound and live performers to make guests feel like they are in the middle of a space battleDISNEYLAND PARIS
The entire Star Wars gang comes out on stage for the finale when a giant spotlight makes it look like Star Wars' signature light-sabre is extending from the top of the tower. It takes much more than the wave of a magic wand to pull it off.
Behind the scenes there are more than 100 lights hidden on the tower as well as 17 4K projectors, which double project so that there is always a backup ready. There's also a dedicated team of staff, aptly known as Cast Members due to the role they play on a themed set.
"Like in an orchestra, we are the conductors," says Aurélien Berda, show director at Disneyland Paris. "We have a scenic designer, costumers and five people who are required to operate the show. For the fireworks they have to put everything in place and test it. We also have people on the ground listening to the audio because it sounds completely different when you have a small audience of, for example, 1,000 people to when you have 6,000 there. Suddenly the sound is very low so you have to push it a bit more."
The show had its première in 2017 but has been repeatedly upgraded since then. The number of video screens and live performers on the stage has been increased and, crucially, scenes have been added from the new Star Wars movies. This year's edition came to a close last week and featured footage from the latest instalment in the saga, The Last Jedi, as well as last summer's spin-off movie Solo: A Star Wars Story. It isn't as easy as it sounds.
The first hurdle is timing. When Disney's Lucasfilm subsidiary puts a Star Wars movie into production the plot details are a kept closely-guarded secret, even from other divisions of the Mouse. Disneyland Paris came up against this when it launched its Star Wars show and wanted to include a scene from spin-off movie Rogue One. It was offered a stunning sequence featuring an assault on a beach by the enemy's walking tanks and Tie Fighter spaceships. However, the show designers were kept in the dark about how this fitted into the movie.
"As Rogue One hadn't been released, we knew this sequence was in the movie without knowing exactly what else was going on," says Berda. "This was created for our tower but all we knew was that it was on this beach which was being attacked." He adds that the scene for the show was created using Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) in partnership with Industrial Light & Magic, the division of Lucasfilm which produces the special effects for the Star Wars movies. It was a whole new world.
"It is not just video projection, it is mapping," says Berda adding that Disney pioneered it in France. The objective is creating an image that can be 'wrapped' onto the contours of the tower so that it appears to be flat when viewed from below. Instead of trial and error, or experimenting on a miniature model of the tower, Berda reveals that Disney "are using virtual reality. We recreate everything and put glasses on to view it. We built a 3D CGI model of the tower and project on it so we have the real version.
"It is very close to the end result and you can move around, even behind the tower. When you are projecting on this kind of surface you won't see the same thing at the side as when you are in front of it. Of course it is better if you are just in front but we are creating projections which can be seen from everywhere. So using VR we are able to see what is going on on the sides as well to make sure it is not too weird or strange for the guests. Some show directors would rather just have the thing built and project on it as well but we have the VR systems here."
He adds that the new scenes have to be approved by Lucasfilm and ILM and creating them isn't the work of a moment. "I started planning this in July last year," he says of the latest updates.
In recent years Disney has doubled down on VR. Its Accelerator venture capital firm has backed 360 streaming platform Littlstar, 360 video production studio Jaunt and The Void location-based VR arcade. The Void has an outpost at Disney's sprawling theme park complex in Orlando, Florida and has offered VR games themed to Star Wars and the CGI movie series Wreck-It Ralph. Last year Disney launched Cycles, its first VR short film, and a follow-up is reportedly in the works.
Berda expects that the VR system at Disneyland Paris will be put to use again soon as it is likely that a new scene will be added to the show from the next Star Wars movie. It will be released in December with the next edition of the show due to debut the following month. "We are going to of course try to update it as much as we can," he says.
As we revealed, Disney has spent more than $1.3 billion making Star Wars movies since it bought Lucasfilm in 2012 so promoting them on one of its grandest stages seems to be a no-brainer.
Berda tells his team that the show "has to be perfect every time because for some guests it's a once in a lifetime experience. Maybe their kids will be sick, maybe it will be raining or there could be long queues so this could be the only thing they see during the day. It could be the only Disney show they see in their lives so it has to be perfect." It may seem like an overly high standard but for Disney it's child's play.
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Arts & Events » Arts and Culture
Double Visions
Todd Raviotta's and Joe Carabeo's films prove that Richmond has a face for movies.
by Daryl Grove
Two Virginia filmmakers are offering up a double feature of locally made movies at the Byrd Theatre Saturday, a much nicer location than the seedy, run-down "grindhouses" favored by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
Todd Raviotta, 29, and Joe Carabeo, 25, both came to Richmond to study film and photography at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since then, they've worked on countless local productions and decided that Richmond was as good a place as any to shoot their first feature-length films.
Like all good double-bills, the two films will come at you from very different angles. Raviotta says that "Mediated: The 21st Century Lifestyle" is about "a reclusive guy who lives in a one-room apartment where he surrounds himself with media. … an entire wall of televisions."
"It's about this current century and the birth of a new media era," he says, "and the way that TVs, computers and cameras enrapture all of us." Influenced by the media reaction to 9/11, Raviotta wanted the central character "to be an American, a metaphoric America" — and so "Mediated" functions as both psychological drama and social commentary.
The claustrophobic feel can be attributed to the influence of Roman Polanski, particularly such films as "The Tenant" and "Rosemary's Baby."
"[Polanski will] work with a very confined location, confine the cast and exploit the psychology of those characters," Raviotta says. "Polanski was also a big influence on the cinematography. All the French and Polish apartments he's shooting his films in — they're all old and have those really interesting textures on the wall, and a Fan apartment has that same sort of history."
Carabeo's "The Madcap Three" contains two parallel stories. One is about a girl who witnesses an accidental murder; the other is about the three guys responsible for it. It's influenced by the Coen brothers, both stylistically (think "Fargo") and in the way it was co-directed with his friend Bryan Sarvis. Each wrote half the movie before combining the two very different halves into a cohesive whole.
"We come from different worlds," Carabeo says. "He's from Norfolk and I'm from D.C. He loves drag racing and I love reading comic books." Those drag-racing skills came in handy on the day the two met.
After bonding over shared disgruntlement during a film-class screening ("In the time we've been sitting here on our asses, we could have made a movie" was the consensus), the two went to work. They came up with "Broken Glass," a quick car-chase film.
"The same day Bryan met me is the same day he hit me with his car like ten times and we made a film," Carabeo recalls. "Technically, I'm not sure how fast he was going, but it was enough to cause a huge screech when he put the brakes on." Such spontaneous thinking is also how Carabeo came up with the idea for this double bill after he became frustrated with the increasingly business-oriented festival circuit, which favors films with a star name attached.
"I said to Todd, 'Hey, we're not getting into film festivals right now, and it's all political. Let's just run our own show.' It's all about making your own destiny," Carabeo says.
And if you're wondering why the show is $9: "When Todd premiered his film, he charged $5, and when I premiered mine, I charged $4," Carabeo says. So the $9 double feature was born. It was a success at a screening in Fairfax last month, but Carabeo and Raviotta are looking forward to showing their work in Richmond, especially because both films were made here.
"We got locations at the New York Deli, and we got alleyways off of Boulevard and Belvidere," says Carabeo of "The Madcap Three." "We shot in the dark basement of the Westchester Hotel — just complete darkness — and in lots of local hotels and office buildings. That's what I like about Richmond: Places are very open towards catering to the arts and giving us locations, as long as we're respectful to them."
Raviotta goes even further. "I feel like right now this could be one of those scenarios like Haight-Ashbury in the '60s or Greenwich Village in the '50s," he says. "Just different areas where there's a lot of creative people surrounding a university, creating art and music and doing shows and events. It's really conducive to creating more work, and I feel great about this place." S
"Mediated: The 21st Century Lifestyle" and "The Madcap Three" will be screened back-to-back at the Byrd Theatre Saturday, May 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $9. 353-9911.
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Facial masks are an important part of most women's skin care regimens. Depending on the ingredients, masks can hydrate skin, clean pores, and fight acne.
Ideally, you already have an effective skin care regimen, consisting of cleanser, toner, moisturizer, and sunscreen. A mask does not replace your existing skin care products; rather, the mask should work in conjunction with the other products. In fact, the right mask can actually improve the performance of your other skin care products. By removing impurities and opening the pores, masks allow cleansers and toners to penetrate skin for a deeper cleanse.
Wash the face and neck with warm water (this opens the pores) and your usual cleanser.
Pat the skin dry--do not rub.
Spread the mask over the face and neck. With most products, a thin layer is adequate. Be careful to avoid the eyes and lips.
Let the product dry on the skin.
Rinse off the mask with warm water or peel it off, depending on the type of mask used.
Use your toner, unless your skin is dry. Then continue with your usual regimen.
Fresh Rose Mask: Uses crushed roses, rose water, and cucumber to tighten pores and hydrate skin. It is gentle enough for daily use.
Astara Activated Sea Mineral Mask: Uses kelp, sea vegetables, spirulina, jojoba, and other natural ingredients to exfoliate skin and boost antioxidants.
Joey New York Pure Pores Masque: This clay-based mask utilizes camphor and sulfur to clean clogged pores and absorb oil.
If you want to save money, it is easy to make facial masks from ingredients you already have in your pantry. Although many people report excellent results with homemade skin care products, your results may vary. Problem skin, especially, may benefit from store-bought or prescription products.
Basic Oatmeal: Start with three teaspoons of oatmeal. Add warm water gradually and mix until a smooth paste forms.
Oatmeal and Honey: Start with three teaspoons of oatmeal, then add honey gradually until a smooth paste forms.
Oatmeal and Yogurt: Mix two tablespoons oatmeal and two tablespoons of yogurt together in a bowl until the concoction is creamy.
Not all masks are suitable every skin type. Opt for a mask that is appropriate for your skin type and offers optimal benefits to improve its overall health.
Acne prone: Look for mask treatments that contain honey, which soothes and smooths the skin. Another effective ingredient for acne-prone skin is cinnamon. Cinnamon is an astringent that gives skin a deep clean.
Sensitive: An effective choice for sensitive skin is rose clay. A rose clay-based mask mixed with avocado and chamomile oil can calm redness and soothe irritation.
Dry: Don't dry the skin out further with a harsh mask. Milk- and yogurt-based masks are gentle and exceptionally hydrating.
Normal: Fruit masks are a great option for normal skin types. Try an apple or strawberry mask (simply mash and blend with a gentle oil or honey).
Combination: Go bananas with a fresh mashed banana mask. A drop of sandalwood oil and honey creates a rejuvenating mask that degunks pores and hydrates dry spots.
Give yourself a treat by using facial masks weekly. Not only will your skin feel smoother and healthier, but you'll also enjoy the therapeutic benefits of regular pampering. Even if you have a busy schedule, spoil yourself - and do right by your skin - with your favorite store-bought or homemade facial mask.


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Q: Turn cited docs into appendices I have a set of TeX documents {d}. These documents need to refer to one another. To achieve this, I have a references.bib with one entry for each document in {d}. Inside each element of {d}, there are various \cite lines referring to the elements in references.bib.
Now I write a PhD thesis and I want to include the items in {d} as appendices. If I \cite them, they show up in the text as e.g. "[4]", which is not how one normally refers to appendices. I want references to the appendices to show up as e.g. "Appendix A". How an we achieve this?
If I \label the elements in {d} and then \ref them in the main text, I get what we want. However, this fails where the appendices refer to each other, because they would have to use \cite when compiled alone and \ref when part of the PhD thesis.
Is there a solution? The best thing I've thought of is making a separate appendices.bib for the PhD thesis. The question then becomes, how do I make the \cite commands show only the referent's title and also prevent the referred item from showing up in the bibliography?
Minimal Working Example
The following files are just a set of stand-alone documents (the set {d} described above). In bananaMilkshake.tex, there is a normal citation using \cite.
./banana-docs/bananaMilkshake.tex
\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{import}

\begin{document}

\subimport*{./}{bananaMilkshake-content}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

./banana-docs/bananaMilkshake-content.tex
First, peel a banana \cite{Sank:peelBanana}.
Then put it in the blender.

./banana-docs/peelBanana.tex
\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{import}

\begin{document}

\subimport*{./}{peelBanana-content}

\end{document}

./banana-docs/peelBanana-content.tex
Separate the top part and then pull the peel off in three sections.

./banana-docs/references.bib
@misc{Sank:bananaMilkshake,
  author = {Sank, Daniel},
  title={How to Make a Banana Milkshake}
}

@misc{Sank:peelBanana,
  author = {Sank, Daniel},
  title={How to Peel a Banana}
}

Now we have a PhD thesis which wants to use the documents defined above as appendices:
./thesis.tex
\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{import}
\usepackage{appendix}

\begin{document}

For details on how to make a banana milkshake, see appendix \ref{appendix:bananaMilkshake}.

\subimport*{./}{appendix}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{banana-docs/references}

\end{document}

./appendix.tex
\begin{appendices}

\chapter{How to Make a Banana Milkshake} \label{appendix:bananaMilkshake}
\subimport*{./banana-docs/}{bananaMilkshake-content}

\chapter{How to Peel a Banana} \label{appendix:peelBanana}
\subimport*{./banana-docs/}{peelBanana-content}

\end{appendices}

If you build thesis.tex, you find a line
For details on how to make a banana milkshake, see appendix A.

which is nice. However, in appendix A, you see
First, peel a banana [1]. Then put it in the blender.
and in the bibliography you see
[1] Daniel Sank. How to peel a banana.

which is not so nice. You want to be able to \ref Appendix B from within Appendix A, but you can't because a \ref in bananaMilkshake.tex has nothing to point to.
One thing that almost works is to make a separate .bib file for the thesis and \ref to the appendices inside it. This at least puts "Appendix A" in the bibliography, but that's not quite what we want.

A: I have figured out how to do this.
The basic idea is to use a home-made macro name in place of \cite and define that macro differently based on whether we're compiling as a stand-alone document or as part of a thesis.
A complete example is shown below.
Do not be intimidated by the large number of files; what's actually going on is really simple so just follow each step.
/cite_as_appendix.tex
\newcommand{\mycitetype}{Appendix}
\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{
  \ref{#1}
}

/cite_as_external.tex
\newcommand{\mycitetype}{Ref.}
\newcommand{\mycite}[1]{
  \cite{#1}
}

/packages.tex
\usepackage{import}

/references-local.bib
@misc{qubits,
author = {Sank, Daniel},
title = {Qubits}
}

@misc{iq_mixer,
author = {Sank, Daniel},
title = {IQ mixer}
}

/iq-mixer/as-article.tex
\documentclass{article}
\input{../packages.tex}
\input{../cite_as_external.tex}
\author{Daniel Sank}
\title{IQ Mixer}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\subimport*{./}{content}
\bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{../references-local}
\end{document}

/iq-mixer/as-appendix.tex
\chapter{IQ Mixer} \label{iq_mixer}
\input{content.tex}

/iq-mixer/content.tex
This is a discussion of IQ mixers.
It will be useful when reading \mycitetype \mycite{qubits}.

/qubits/as-article.tex
\documentclass{article}
\input{../packages.tex}
\input{../cite_as_external.tex}
\author{Daniel Sank}
\title{Qubits}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\subimport*{./}{content}
\bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{../references-local}
\end{document}

/qubits/as-appendix.tex
\chapter{Qubits} \label{qubits}
\input{content.tex}

/qubits/content.tex
This is a discussion of qubits.
You should read \mycitetype \mycite{iq_mixer} first.

/thesis/main.tex
\documentclass{book}

\input{../packages.tex}
\input{../cite_as_appendix.tex}
\author{Daniel Sank} \title{Book}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Introduction}
This is a book about quantum computing.

\chapter{Science!}
To understand superconducting qubits, you should read \mycitetype \mycite{qubits} and \mycitetype \mycite{iq_mixer}.

\begin{appendix}
\subimport*{../iq-mixer/}{as-appendix}
\subimport*{../qubits/}{as-appendix}
\end{appendix}

\end{document}

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Q: Look it to this Statement : System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name; Look at this statement :
messageBox.show( System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name);

the output of this statement is :

Roshan\mohdibrahim.tasal

but i want to display me only :

mohdibrhaim.tasal

how can i do this?

A: You can just split the name on the "\" and retrieve the 2nd item.
e.g.
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.Split('\\')[1]

Edit:
You'll want to make this safe by first checking for the existence of a backslash - if there isn't one, you just want to take the Name as-is.

A: Why don't you trim returned value until '\' is reached,
following code does the trick
WindowsIdentity current = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
if(current!=null)
{
     string name = current.Name;
     string value = name.Substring(name.IndexOf('\\') + 1);
}

A: Environment.UserName should work without any splitting or additional logic.


...okay, so I wouldn't have actually made out with him, but the thought crossed my mind, briefly.
you know, the one that comes when you're getting stuff that's too big for the regular mail man to bring?
So do ya wanna know what he brought?
haha..just kidding. wanna see what's inside the boxes?
A half yard of Cosmo Cricket Tailor Made Scissors in Cream....for me.
And a full yard of Alexander Henry's Cupcakes in Mocha Pink... also for me.
Not quite sure what I'm going to do with them yet but I'll think of something.
A half yard each of The Grand Tour from the Victoria and Albert Collection!
This fantabulous bundle will be making it's way into a quilt for my big sis for her birthday...shh, don't tell her.
I purposely am not showing anymore of the line so she will be surprised when she gets it... although I guess she could just google the fabric and see what it looks like... BUT SHE WON'T...WILL SHE?! Trust me Tan, you're going to love it...wine bottles, books, trees...it's like it was made for you.
I'm seeing a little fold up play mat...maybe backed in corduroy? For me and Sam? My friends Matt and Jen and their little sea monkey? hmmmm. I'll get back to this.
Sorry for the dark photo... just a sampler of fat quarter solids to have on hand and use as needed.
At one time available at Urban Outfitters but the link now takes you to a page that's says no longer available... dang.
I need robots to hold my toothbrush right?
right? okay who's with me? guys? hello?
never mind then... now where was I?
Sam had fallen asleep and it's so rare for me to be able to peruse the fabric without Sam trying to grab things or getting fussy.
So I planned on just browsing but when I saw this it screamed _______!
So I'll be making a little somethin' somethin' and sending it her way!
Oh, about the roboty tooth-brush holder thingy - love it but tooth-brush next to razor? Bad idea, trust me, I thought one of those razors was a lollipop once. Not pretty and so easy to grab it instead of the brush of the teeth stick...ouch!
hmmm... of course it's going to you!!
Hurraaaah!!! I still love a cookie and a Sam too! xoxoxox for all of you!
They are... i've just started sewing them and they're a dream to work with!


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Trans Woman Alleges Sexual Abuse in Squad Car by Chicago Cop
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
A Chicago transwoman says that one of the Windy City's finest detained her last March 5 as she was walking along the street on her way home, drove her to an alley in a marked police car, and forced her to perform oral sex on him under threat of arrest, according to a story broken by the Chicago Tribune.
meaww.com picked up the story, reporting that the woman in question went to a hospital that same night in order to preserve "DNA evidence" to prove that she had been sexually assaulted, but she was afraid to come forward. She told her story several weeks later, after being arrested for shoplifting.
The department opened an investigation into the incident. The officer in question retired, and has not as yet been charged, media sources said.
Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported on a study that indicates that sexual misconduct by police is widespread.
"Research on 'police sexual misconduct' — a term used to describe actions from sexual harassment and extortion to forcible rape by officers — overwhelmingly concludes that it is a systemic problem," the article said.
Phil Stinson, the researcher behind the study — himself a former police officer — looked into more than 500 cases of sexual assault by police officers around the country and found that about half the cases of purported sexual assault by police officers took place when the officers were on duty. The other instances of alleged misconduct were "often facilitated by the power of the badge or the presence of an official service weapon," the Washington Post article said.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Assistant Arts Editor. He also reviews theater for WBUR. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
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[ARCHIVED] Mansfield Teacher Kim King Named Connecticut Teacher of the Year
Click here to view the announcement celebration held at Southeast School in Mansfield on Thursday, October 28: https://mansfieldct.gov/pressconference
GOVERNOR LAMONT ANNOUNCES MANSFIELD EDUCATOR NAMED CONNECTICUT'S 2022 TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Art Teacher Ms. Kim King Earns State's Highest Teaching Recognition
(MANSFIELD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Education Commissioner Charlene M. Russell-Tucker today announced that Ms. Kim King, a PK-4 art teacher in Mansfield at both the Southeast Elementary School and the Annie E. Vinton School, has been selected as Connecticut's 2022 Teacher of the Year, the state's highest recognition honoring extraordinary teachers.
The governor, commissioner, and other state and local officials delivered the news to King this morning during a surprise visit to Southeast Elementary School, which was followed by a schoolwide assembly celebrating the recognition with the honorees' fellow educators, family, and students from both schools.
"Connecticut has the best public school teachers of any state in the nation, which is why selecting one recipient for this honor each year is a challenging task, but it is an honor for me to announce that Ms. Kim King is Connecticut's 2022 Teacher of the Year," Governor Lamont said. "Ms. King embodies so many of the qualities that delivers success in our schools, and her colleagues in Mansfield Public Schools have been singing her praises. I am fortunate enough to have had several inspiring teachers when I was growing up, and I understand the impact that an educator can have on the lives of students. We owe so much of the success that happens in our communities to the generous teachers who have dedicated themselves to this noble profession. I thank Ms. King and every teacher in Connecticut for what they provide our schools each and every day."
"Ms. Kim King's commitment to continuous reflection and refinement of her craft is admirable," Commissioner Russell-Tucker said. "Her students are privileged to learn under the guidance of not only such a talented artist and educator, but a lifelong learner who demonstrates the very love for discovery that we hope to instill in our students."
"Kim exemplifies the highest standards of professionalism and dedication to her students, her colleagues, and her community," Connecticut Education Association President Kate Dias said. "The arts are central to a well-rounded education. As an art teacher, Kim inspires student creativity and enriches the lives of her students, providing opportunities for them to express themselves artistically. A role model to her students, she is committed to her own growth and learning, ensuring that her leadership and teaching practices continue to evolve. Equity, empathy, and respect are at the heart of her teaching, and we are proud to see Kim recognized for the invaluable work she does and for the talent, passion, and dedication she brings to the teaching profession."
"The Connecticut Teacher of the Year Council extends our heartiest congratulations and a warm welcome to Kim King," Dave Bosso, president of the Connecticut Teacher of the Year Council, said. "Kim is an exceptional educator who strives to give all her students a voice through art and creativity, and in doing so, empowers them as young learners and citizens to learn more about themselves and the world beyond the walls of the classroom. It is abundantly evident that Kim, like excellent teachers everywhere, strives each day to ensure that all of her students have a meaningful, memorable, engaging, and powerful educational experience."
King has served as a K-4 art teacher at Mansfield public schools for the past six years. Prior to that, she served at Riverside Magnet School in East Hartford and Westbrook High School in Westbrook. King uses art education to nurture and stretch her students' thinking while also helping them recognize the commonality between their own stories and experiences to those of others. She believes that student growth goes hand-in-hand with teacher growth, which is why she is committed to always seeking out new learning opportunities for her professional development. Beyond her classroom, King has worked towards creating safe and equitable spaces of learning for her students and the greater community.
She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in art photography from Syracuse University and her Masters in Art Education from New York University. While at graduate school, King received a graduate assistantship to teach reading in the Bronx, New York through New York University's Metro Center for Urban Education and John Hopkins University. In 2002, she received an Aetna fellowship to attend UConn's Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute. In 2020, she received a grant from Fund for Teachers to study the art and culture of South Korea in an effort to help foster a greater understanding of universal humanity among her students.
"Kim is deeply committed to student-centered practices and supports children to find their voice and express themselves through a discovery-focused process of making art," Mansfield Public Schools Superintendent Kelly Lyman said. "Kim will be a wonderful advocate for all teachers."
"When thinking about Ms. King's classroom, I realized that the foundation of her work is her ability to foster creative confidence in her students," Mike Seal, principal of Annie E. Vinton School, said. "This sets the stage for the creation of the beautiful work that we so proudly exhibit."
"Kim's warm and caring heart comes through in all that she does with our students, families, and staff," Lauren Rodriguez, principal of Southeast Elementary School, said. "Our children love her because they know how much she cares about them. They also trust that she will help them create their best work – work that shows students' individuality and creative spark. This is one of the many reasons we value and support the arts in our schools."
The designation of Connecticut Teacher of the Year is decided annually by the Connecticut Teacher of the Year Council, a group comprised of former recipients of the honor and representatives from educational organizations, businesses, and the community. The council reviewed nearly 100 district-level Teachers of the Year through a rigorous selection process that included candidate applications, virtual interviews and site visits, including focus groups with faculty, parents, administration, and students.
King will now become Connecticut's representative for 2022 National Teacher of the Year. She succeeds Connecticut's 2021 Teacher of the Year Ms. Rochelle Brown, a kindergarten teacher from Poquonock School in Windsor.
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Program Focus
Trade Issues
Continental Free Trade Area
Intra-African Trade Fair 2020
The Africa CEO Forum - March 25-26, 2019 - Kigali, Rwanda
Trade Issues - International Contact
Satradehub.org
The USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub (SATH) aims to increase international competitiveness, intra-regional trade, and food security in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region
Website: www.satradehub.org
Watradehub.org
The USAID Western Africa Trade Hub (SATH) plans to work with stakeholders across West Africa, building capacity to improve trade and investment competitiveness, reduce the costs of transport, improve access to finance and promote further implementation of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme.
Website: www.watradehub.org
Africasunnews.com
Africa Sun News is an Africa news headline service providing its readers with up to the half-hour access to Africa news from over 100 African news sources. ASN is aggregated news, re-indexed to place the entire scope of human endeavour in Africa.
Website: www.africasunnews.com
Seatini.org
Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute, SEATINI is an African initiative to strengthen Africa's capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of Globalization.
Website: www.seatini.org
Wto.org
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.
Website: www.wto.org
Southcenter.org
The South Centre (the Centre) is an intergovernmental organization of developing countries established by an Intergovermental Agreement (Treaty) which came into force on 31 July 1995 with its headquarters in Geneva. The South Centre has grown out of the work and experience of the South Commission and its follow-up mechanism, and from recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation.
Website: www.southcentre.org
Twnside.org.sg
Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, Third World and North-South affairs. TWN was formed in November 1984 in Penang, Malaysia at the concluding session of an International Conference on "The Third World: Development or Crisis?"
Website: www.twnside.org.sg
Untad.org
Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy.
Website: www.unctad.org
Ti.au.int/en/content/division-trade
African Union, Trade Division - The objective of the Division is to build Africa's trade capacities and enhance the competiveness and diversification of its economy for the attainment of sustainable economic growth and development, eradication of poverty, continental unity and integration, as well as effective integration of Africa into the global economic and trading systems as strong and respected partners.
Website: www.ti.au.int/en/content/division-trade
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Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) - http://www.igad.int/
Southern African Development Community (SADC) - http://www.sadc.int/
The Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in 2009 by 35 founding national business chambers to influence government policy and create a better operating environment for business.
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Q: Do we need to make the response secure? Most of the time we are using JWT access token validation to make sure that the request to e.g. an API is secure. However do we need to make sure that the response that comes back from that system (or API) is secure enough? Do we need to be worry? and how should we mitigate it?
appreciate all kind of advice.

A: As usually with those things, the answer is it depends ;)

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*Who is the owner of the API that you're calling? If you're calling your own API then you can be pretty sure about the validity and safeness of the response. If you're calling a third-party API then you might add some checks. Maybe scan files for malicious code if you're downloading any files from that API? Or check whether the response is not trying to inject any code, etc. It might not be the easiest thing to do, though.

*Are you using a secure connection to the API? If you use SSL then you're sure that no one has tampered with the response. Additionally you can verify certificate chains to verify that you're connecting to the right API endpoint and not to a malicious one. If you're not using SSL then you might want to verify the response from the API, whether it's been tampered or not. How to do that verification again might not be trivial, but maybe the response can be signed?

*Where is the client which is talking to the API? If you have a backend client talking to an API then you should not worry that response might be altered at client side. If you have an SPA running in a browser, then the response might be altered by a man-in-the-browser attack. Such response can be altered even if you use SSL to connect to the API, as SSL is terminated in the browser and a compromised user-agent will grant the attacker access to the decrypted API response. You can also have an XSS attack which alters responses in your app. Again, to protect from that threat you would need responses to be signed, or have another way of verifying integrity.
One way of verifying integrity of a response is to use signed JWTs with asymmetric signing. The API can sign the response with its private key, and then you can verify whether it's not been tampered with. E.g. the JARM spec uses that for OAuth flow responses.


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using DonkeySuite.DesktopMonitor.Domain.Model.Requests;
using DonkeySuite.DesktopMonitor.Domain.Model.Settings;

namespace DonkeySuite.DesktopMonitor.Domain.Model.Providers
{
    public interface IRequestProvider
    {
        IAddImageRequest ProvideNewAddImageRequest(IImageServer server, string fileName, byte[] imageBytes);
    }
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DJ in attendance (DJ Joker) will entertain you as well as a performance by Belly Phunk.
Mish has tried a variety of dancing in her lifetime, including modern jazz, contemporary dancing and hip hop dancing and trained as a hip hop dancer until she fell in love with oriental dancing (belly dancing) in 2005. Mish loves to promote this age old dance as an art form and it should be well respected.
Her fresh, funky style has been well noted in the Cape Town entertainment industry and her ability to re-invent herself through belly dance is remarkable.
Belly dancing is for women of all shapes, sizes and is not prejudiced on fitness levels.
Give it a try, YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!
"BELLY PHUNK - EXPERIENCE THE JOY AND FULFILLMENT OF ORIENTAL DANCING"
Our main objective is to achieve, through our type of dancing, the upliftment of women and the girl-child in surrounding areas of Cape Town and to get them involved in the art of dancing, to gain confidence, obtain fitness and experience the joy and fulfillment of oriental dancing. Belly Phunk is more than just a dancing school, more than just a bunch of women getting together to shake their stuff...we are a UNIT; we share a love for dance.
"Training at Belly Phunk was a really fun experience and easy way to lose weight"
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This role will report into the assistant finance manager and will involve providing financial support to the wider business. The role will undertake a wide range of tasks within the finance department; this will include support at month end to produce final numbers and reconciling large amounts of e-commerce transactions to achieve a correct web debtors report.
Responsible for reconciling payments against a large amount of e-commerce sales & returns.
Responsible for reviewing reports for accuracy and methodically tracing errors back to their source.
Helping to produce month end numbers alongside the Assistant and Finance manager.
Responsible for completing balance sheet reconciliations after month end in a timely manner.
Ensuring all debtors are fully reconciled at the end of each period (month).
Assisting with the cashflow on a weekly basis.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with both employees at all levels and external stakeholders.
Flexible and willing to support other team members.
Have an organised and structured nature with ability to prioritise and schedule workload in order to meet deadlines.
Good numerical and analytical skills with ability to investigate queries thoroughly and accurately.
Show personal accountability, escalating issues and seeking guidance when required.
Strong, effective communication skills (verbal & written) with a confident and articulate manner.
Proactive, self-starter with a can-do attitude.


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Q: Why React-Tooltip is generated several times in array.map()? lately I've started to work with ReactJS and I'm a super beginner. It might be a really easy question, but I don't know how to fix this error.
I had 3 images in this.state , and spread them out to the screen by using .map(). And there's ReactTooltip which I downloaded from https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-tooltip
But there's some error that I can't fix, it isn't even shown to console screen. The problem is whenever you put your mouse point on an image, ReactTooltip has been generated multiple times. Can anyone please help me out to fix this?
Here's my code and example demo.
Demo:http://tooltip-test-moonformeli.c9users.io/
Code:
Thank you for your time!

A: It seems you are using ReactTooltip component incorrectly. You only have to include ReactTooltip component once and you should specify your tooltip text to each element with data-tip attribute. So you can change your render function to something like follows.
render(){
    const mapToState = this.state.data.map(planet, i) => {
      return (

      );
    };

    return (

        {mapToState}
        <ReactTooltip/>

    );
}


The campaign aims to broaden the use of outdoor cookers to include gourmet seafood and meat dishes as well as the traditional steaks and snags.
Snags - strine for sausages.
They were nice old blokes who would cruise into the butcher shop, have a cup of tea and a scone or a biscuit with the butcher. The inspector would have a fag with him. Mr Deputy Speaker, you would know this, because you are a good bloke... In lots of cases, if honourable members went to the pubs and had a talk to a few of the butchers who drink in them, they would learn that their income per year is about $15,000 to $20,000.. It really saddens me that these poor butchers are battling away trying to make a quid against all the odds. These days, they have the supermarkets to compete with, and all sorts of pressures.
Members opposite should get down to their butchers, do the right thing and buy a kilo of fillet steak. They should let him make a few bob. They should buy a couple of kilos of snags. They should make a donation to the little businessmen in their electorates, instead of going to the big supermarkets with their wives at 5.30 on Saturday afternoon to get all of the specials. They should go down to the butcher on Saturday morning and give the bloke a few bob.


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Q: Best way to do cumulative sum over binary encoded columns in Pandas I have written the following code to apply cumulative sums over several binary columns (grade levels for employees). It does so for each employee ID in a long format month-indexed dataset. However, it's extremely slow and results in NaNs. Any help is appreciated!
# Prepare
df = df.set_index(['Employee ID']) # index
grade_cols = df.filter(regex="Grade").columns # 1hot encoded grades
cum_colnames = [f"{g}_cum" for g in df[grade_cols]]
df[cum_colnames] = 0 # initialize

# Calculate cumulative sum
df = [df.loc[emp_id, cum_colnames].cumsum(axis=0) for emp_id in df.index]

# Sum into 1 column
df['Months in Grade'] = df[cum_colnames].sum(axis=1)
df = df.drop(cum_colnames, axis=1)

Example:

Employee ID
Date
Grade A
Grade B
DESIRED OUTPUT:

1001
2022-01-01
1
0
1

1001
2022-02-01
0
1
1

1001
2022-03-01
0
1
2

1002
2022-01-01
0
1
1

1002
2022-02-01
0
1
2


So I used Kaseya agent wizard to create an agent that already has admin credentials saved into it. I then email out the link to a number of very remote staff who are suppose to be able to click the link, download the exe, and install it all with out having to be a local admin or enter admin credentials. We don't allow our staff to be local admins over their own machines so if they get prompted for an admin name and password they won't be able to install the agent. I've opened a support request but I keep getting a "we have sent it to engineering" response every few days.
Has anyone else seen this and found a way around it? I was under the impression that adding the admin credentials during the package creation was suppose to encrypt them into the exe so that non-admin staff could install with out needing a admin level permissions.
hahah.. when I read your "We have sent it to engineering" answer you got from the Kaseya Support, I smirked (sorry).
Unfortunately those are the only answers you get (in different forms), but I also received deceiving / wrong answers, I was asked for money, and I was asked "How did you resolve it by yourself?" but never EVER I had one of my ticket resolved.
I don't bother making support tickets any longer, today I asked them to close the last ticket un-resolved after 28 days in the Void. It is utterly useless.
To be honest there are 2 guys (one is Nicolas Ponce) that are actually helpful and try their best, but they can't do everything and they are only hovering in those forums.
If they see your message they may be your only hope in my opinion.
My personal take on your issue is that if your users are not local administrators of their own machine the UAE will block you no matter what. This is the purpose of the UAE and unless it is deactivated it will continue to block your setup. That is unless there's some magic I am not aware of.
You could create via Login Script that creates a temporary Task in the Task Scheduler that would execute the Kaseya Setup running from a specific directory.
You would then ask your users to simply copy the file in that particular place the Task expects to find the setup.
Tasks can be created so that they bypass UAE and can run as Administrator with the provided credential.
If you have an RRAS available where your remote user can connect to, you may ask them to connect to it and try to deploy using GPO.
Let me know if you found a better way.


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Ex-Norwich City and King's Lynn ace Dom Dwyer living the American dream
Ex-Norwich City and King's Lynn prospect Dom Dwyer is on the verge of a senior US debut. Picture: MIKE GUNNOE - Credit: Archant
Former King's Lynn and Norwich City youngster Dom Dwyer is on an 'amazing' journey as he prepares to make his USA debut.
The 26-year-old, who was in the Canaries' junior set-up and also played at The Walks under ex-Lynn manager Keith Webb back in 2009, became a US citizen earlier this year and is now part of Bruce Arena's 23-man roster.
Dwyer could make his international bow in tonight's friendly against Ghana, after moving to America to chase his football dream before emerging as one of the best strikers in the MLS at Sporting Kansas City.
"This is an absolute dream come true," he said. "I think for any footballer, you want to play on the international stage. That's the biggest there is. To play for your country would be amazing.
"I wasn't born here but this is, if not my second home, my home. This country has given me a lot. It's something I've really worked hard for, and it's really nice to actually be here now and be around the guys.
"I think that's the beautiful thing about the US. They're very welcoming to all, and it's an opportunity for me.
"My wife is American, my son is American, I've grown a lot of my life here as well and I'm delighted to have this opportunity. I hope the nation can welcome me as well and I can pay back some love."
MORE: Watch Dwyer impress his team mates
Dwyer did speak to ex-US coach Jurgen Klinsmann about representing his adopted homeland but injury forced him to miss a training camp earlier this year, following a call-up from former LA Galaxy chief and current national coach Arena.
The potent hitman is determined to grab his international chance as part of a US squad targeting a sixth Gold Cup title this month, which could catapult him into contention for a spot at next summer's World Cup finals in Russia.
"There's a lot of excitement," he said. "I'll bring my passion and I really just want to go for it. I hope I can bring some goals to the side and help them succeed. Right now the goal is to win the tournament, and that's what we're really focused on.
"I think this became a reality for me maybe three or four years ago. It's something that I started to work really hard for since then. I'm delighted to be here, and I really hope I can give back to the country."


Portugal is located on the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, it's a fascinating varied country and also, one of the most visited due to it's idyllic climate, affordable travel costs and exceptional attractions.
Portugal's varied geography ranges from the verdant mountains and vineyards of the North, to the rolling farmland and medieval villages of the Central region, till the glamorous beaches of Algarve along the southern coastline.
The two main cities, Lisbon and Porto, show the role that Portugal had as a maritime world superpower, they're authentic "museum cities", however, these places have some of the best clubs in Europe and a bold modern architecture.
Walking further into the interior of Portugal, we will discover endless possibilities: from touring wine estates to walking, cycling or kayaking down inland rivers, discover amazing hiking trails through mountains and forests. However, it's the coast line, that turns out to be more attractive: from cliff-covered coves to endless expanses of sandy dunes, we'll rarely be far from finding a gorgeous beach.
For the surfing community, the east coast boasts some of the best spots in the world to practice. To the south, the calmer and warmer waters of the Algarve offer a relaxed and very pleasant beach experience.
Portugal also has 2 archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean, Azores and Madeira, both with unique lush landscapes and a high quality gastronomy.
Definitely one of the best destinations in Europe: great food, lovely people, incredible coast lines, varied natural beauty spots… all in all, a marvelous and peaceful country!