Over the years, many skilled Tantrix players have donated their time to help improve this web site and develop new projects. If you would like to help too, there is likely to be a project "on offer" that suits your skills. Below is a listing and detailed description of projects currently planned.
Assistant Controllers, or "ACs" as they are usually known, are essential to the smooth running of Tantrix tournaments. We are always looking for volunteers to take on this role, which requires regular email access and good communication and problem-solving skills. A willingness to sacrifice a bit of popularity in the interests of fairness is also an important quality for any AC, but rest assured that players greatly appreciate the effort that ACs put in.
You will not be on your own - complex issues with the rules can be referred to the overall controller (OC). To be an AC in an international tournament, your english must be good, but if you come from a country where english is not the first language, and you can help players from your country whose english is not so strong, then so much the better!
Being an AC can be a stepping stone to becoming an OC for one of the major championships one day. The basic job of an AC should not take up more than a few minutes per day, though you can get more heavily involved if you decide you want to. So, if you have played in at least two Tantrix tournaments and you would like to be an AC, let us know.
We always have projects on the go related to graphic and web design. Do you have design skills and would like to help spice up the site? Then we'd like to hear from you. If you have designed a Tantrix image of your own, share it with us. If it fits the overall style and colour scheme of our site, we may include it somewhere. Real-life photos with a Tantrix angle are of interest too. To add a whole page of content to the site, we can provide a page template that can be used as a base design and later be placed on the server.
JAVA: The interactive playing environment is written in Java and maintained single-handedly by Dave Dyer. Dave could do with some help at times, especially to implement improvements requested by players. You would need a lot of experience in Java programming and be prepared for a longterm involvement. However, you would have the freedom to choose the most interesting task from a list of proposed modifications and additions. This project would be of interest to somebody who loves playing Tantrix online and would enjoy influencing the implementation of new features. Examples of projects that players would like to see implimented can be found here.
PERL: A less committing task would be to write new, or modify existing Perl scripts. The scripts generally create html pages on demand to analyse, alter or present Tantrix data in interesting ways. The various ranking tables and the new player analysis feature are such examples. So if Perl is your cup of tea and you'd like to help with improvements in this area, get in touch.
The aim of this project is to design a Robot that plays better than the currently reigning lobby Robot. To succeed, you will need sound java skills and a bit of dedication. The project has its own web page where you can find the relevant details.
The original application for Tantrix on the iPad was designed by Imre Fazekas in 2011. It has a robot that can play at differing levels, the ability to find and challenge your friends and is available in four different languages. We would love to have Apple savvy volunteers add more features and languages.
Tantrix is currently sold in over 30 countries. However, we are still seeking agents in several countries not already covered. We are interested in talking to locally based, prospective new agents, especially if they are motivated and talented people who already know Tantrix well. Our business philosophy for spreading the fame of Tantrix is different. Instead of relying on large distributors who deal with major toy chains, Tantrix is marketed by independent and dedicated agents. If this sounds like you, then you are welcome to enquire about the process of translating and launching Tantrix in your country.


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TRIUMPH WEARS VELOUR
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We have a snippet of Mark Mangino wearing his triumphant velour suit he donned for Saturday's win over the Texas A&M Aggies. We were going to add "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Baby" behind it, but Mike Patrick's sloooooooowed-dooooooooown voice sounds better and more thematically appropriate given the imagery shown here.
Do not, under any circumstances, actually pay attention to Kansas football--not to their 10.2 ppg allowed by the defense, or to the thunderous running of Brandon McAnderson, who's pounding the ball from Mangino's spread-formations like a post-pubescent Quentin Griffin. Not to the fact that they remain undefeated and could, in theory at least, win the Big 12 Championship game and be cruising to the heartiest golly-jeez flyover country BCS Championship Game ever with Ohio State.
Nope...we'll just keep talking about the tracksuit.

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Dimitri B. Papadimitriou: "Juncker's Stimulus Plan Is Unrealistic on Many Fronts"
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As part of the Bridging Dialogue Initiative, Dimitris Rapidis discusses with Levy Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou the ECB's interest rates policy, deflation, EC President Jean-Claude Junckers's fiscal stimulus plan, debt management and the Stability Pact, the US economy, and the economic crisis in Greece.


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Lagerlöf is een inslagkrater op de planeet Venus. Lagerlöf werd in 1985 genoemd naar de Zweedse schrijfster Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940).

De krater heeft een diameter van 56 kilometer en bevindt zich in het quadrangle Snegurochka Planitia (V-1).

Zie ook
 Lijst van kraters op Venus

Inslagkrater op Venus

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Bienal de Curitiba 2013
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Antoni Abad, Jose Afonso Ajax, Ai Weiwei, Andy Hope 1930, Cleverson Antunes Oliveira, Amarildo Anzolin, Claudia Aravena, Michael Aschauer, Hugo Aveta, Lucas Bambozzi, Tzitzi Barrantes, Giselle Beiguelman, Rony Bellinho, Greta Benitez, Lauro Borges, Cristiane Bouger, Louise Bourgeois, Veronique Bourgoin, James Bridle, Wilson Bueno, Erik Bünger, Juan Burgos, Andre Butzer, Vivian Cafaro, Bonnie Camplin, Carlos Careqa, Arturo Carrera, Andreia Carvalho, Fredi Casco, Wang Cheng Yun, Luci Collin, Zeca Correa Leite, Adriano Costa, Bruno Costa, Bicicletaria Cultural, Lourival Cuquinha, Marcelo de Angelis, Tereza de Arruda, Milagros de la Torre, Jose de Quadros, Edson de Vulcanis, Ademir Demarchi, Mario Domingues, Dominique Dubosc, Daniel Duda, Coletivo E/OU, Maroan el Sani, Hamilton Faria, Kim Fielding, Nina Fischer, Bella Flor Canche The, Alexandre Franca, Anisio Garcez Homem, Leonarda Glück, Homero Gomes, Rachel Goodyear, Katharina Grosse, Rossana Guimaraes, Cao Guimaraes, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Luiz Henrique Schwanke, Young Joo Lee, Fernando Jose Karl, Ivan Justen Santana, Annika Kahrs, Jitish Kallat, William Kentridge, Gunilla Klingberg, Aaron Koblin, Raquel Kogan, Helena Kolody, Vladimir Kosak, Clemens Krauss, Peter Kubelka, Marilia Kubota, Bianca Lafroy, Pierre Lapalu, Margit Leisner, Estrela Leminski, Paulo Leminski, Paula Levine, Barbara Lia, Olia Lialina, Dora Longo, Dora Longo Bahia, Sabrina Lopes, Rosilene Luduvico, Jason Lujan, Angelo Luz, Heinz Mack, Michael Mandiberg, Milton Marques, Duniesky Martin, Alejandra Mastro, Sergio Medeiros, Jonathan Meese, Priscila Merizzio, Marcone Moreira, Adalberto Müller, Luis Felipe Noe, Julian Opie, Jill Orr, Marco Paulo Rolla, Ricardo Pedrosa Alves, Rene Peña, Emerson Pereti, Colecao Poty Lazarotto, Marcos Prado, Roberto Prado, Leila Pugnaloni, Armando Queiroz, Arne Quinze, Laerte Ramos, Joseph Ravens, Caio Reisewitz, Fernando Ribeiro, Baldomero Robles Menendez, Roosevelt Rocha, Lindsey Rocha Lagni, Vanessa Carneiro Rodrigues, Efigenia Rolim, Gustavo Romano, Michal Rovner, Alice Ruiz, Edwin Sanchez, Marcelo Sandmann, Willian Santos, Eder Santos, Fernado Severo, Ann Sofi Sidén, Regina Silveira, Estercilia Simanca Pushaina, Luzia Simons, Beatrice Steimer, Juliana Stein, Wolfgang Stiller, Tatiana Stropp, Max Sudhues, Juli Susin, David Svensson, Woki Toki, Dalton Trevisan, Carlos Trilnick, Ieke Trinks, Delson Uchoa, Adan Vallecillo, Camila Vardarac, Maira Vaz Valente, Martine Viale, Josely Vianna Baptista, Sergio Viralobos, Sakiko Yamaoka, Xiong Yu, Zmario
Adriana Almada , Maria Amelia Bulhoes , Teixeira Coelho , Ricardo Corona Ana Rocha , Stephanie Dahn Batista , Ticio Escobar
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Curitiba International Biennial begins August 31 In 2013 the Curitiba International Biennial will celebrate 20 years of giving priority to art that takes it to the streets, with activities that are not restricted to the museums and art galleries, but which instead take up urban space. Sponsored by Itaú-Unibanco and with support from Itaú Cultural, its general curators are art critics Teixeira Coelho and Ticio Escobar (Valencia Biennial); the festival takes place in the capital of Parana between August 31 and December 1, featuring works by artists from five continents in more than 100 spaces around the city.
"The only criteria for selecting the works is quality and pertinence: they should express quality and be capable of highlighting some of the countless issues of contemporary art," state the general curators in explaining why they opted to set aside the practice of choosing a theme and a title for biennials.
Under the curatorship of Coelho and Escobar, and of Stephanie Dahn Batista (curatorial coordination), Adriana Almada (adjunct general curator), Tereza de Arruda (associate), Maria Amélia Bulhões, Fernando Ribeiro, and Ricardo Corona (the three guest curators), 150 artists were selected. Considering the training of new professionals, the Biennial established the Young Curators Prize. In this edition, Angelo Luz, Debora Santiago, Kamilla Nunes, and Renan Araujo were selected. Among the artists are such names as Ai Weiwei (China), Ann-Sofi Sidén (Sweden), Antoni Abad (Spain), Luis Felipe Noé (Argentina), Katharina Grosse (Germany), Martine Viale (Canada), Peter Kubelka (Austria), Regina Silveira (Brazil), and William Kentridge (South Africa).
In this edition, urban art and performance art receive special attention, since not only are they ever stronger and more present on the international scene, but they also offer direct and immediate contact with the community. As if that were not enough, the street works help to fulfill the role of leaving a more lasting heritage, boosting their activities beyond the exhibition period. Literature and web art also receive ample space in the event.
"The Biennial is an excellent opportunity to have contact with what is most contemporary in the art world. By observing the works, viewing the performances, visiting a museum, it is possible to cross geographic frontiers and expand one's cultural repertoire. This year, the Biennial will involve the whole city, provoking people in a different way," affirms the Biennial's director-general, Luiz Ernesto Meyer Pereira.
Educational
The Votorantim Cimentos Educational Project, under the curatorship of Professor Luciano Buchmann, seeks to prolong and enhance the Biennial's effects in the public education system. The intention is to create a multiplying network of knowledge with lectures, roundtables, and guided visits. Educational material will be published (also available as a download), impacting professors, students, and the community in general. All the school libraries in Paraná will receive this publication.
History The Curitiba International Biennial had its first edition in 1993, when it was still called "VentoSul − Mostra de Artes Plásticas" ("SouthWind – Plastic Arts"), with artists from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. In 1995, it expanded to include participation by artists from Chile and Uruguay. The highlight of the 1997 edition was journeying, with works going to great cultural centers such as the Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Art Sao Paulo (MASP) and the Recoleta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires).
In 2007, the show became thematic, with works related to "Contemporary Narratives." In 2009, the broad theme was "Great Water: Altered Maps", bringing artists such as Bruce Naumann, Gary Hill, and Marina Abramovic. In 2011, it was titled the Curitiba Biennial, and transformed the city into a large space for contemporary art, highlighting the educational project seeking to democratize the visual arts. In 2013, the Curitiba International Biennial commemorates 20 years of history and has been established as one of the most important events of the global circuit.
+ Circuits In order to expand and consolidate local connections, the Biennial supports the realization of three circuits. FICBIC, the Curitiba Biennial International Cinema Festival, which takes place September 24-29, is curated by Eduardo Baggio. Programming includes the exhibition of domestic and international films and a competitive university show; the prize is a trip to the 64th International Cinema Festival in Berlin. CUBIC, the University Circuit of the Curitiba International Biennial, promotes debates and reflections and shows work by university artists. The Gallery Circuit includes special programming in the city's main contemporary art galleries.
Open Biennial During the three months when the Curitiba International Biennial takes place, public and private institutions will hold parallel programming. The Open Biennial, coordinated by artist and professor Tom Lisboa, seeks to bring art and community together, increasing its reach.
Itineraries
There are three types of itineraries for those wishing to visit the Biennial: by foot, by bicycle, and by van. Just choose the best trajectory, schedule your visit on the site, and enjoy everything that the city has to show. You can also get a bilingual pocket guide that shows where the works are located, whether they are in an exhibition hall or in the streets. This is a great option for tourists coming to Curitiba during the Biennial.
Itaú Unibanco It is not just today that the bank understands preservation and access to national culture to be the foundation for developing a critical and independent society. Among its initiatives in the area of culture, we can point out the creation of Itaú Cultural 25 years ago, the Itaú Cinema Space, and the bank's support of important popular festivals throughout Brazil in order to value initiatives in the communities where it has a presence, and to provide incentives for social and cultural development in these communities, such as the Curitiba Theater Festival, the Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), the Joinville Dance Festival, Carnaval in Salvador, and Rock in Rio, among others.


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Filip Jakub Robota (ur. 30 kwietnia 1841 w Gostomi, zm. 17 maja 1902 w Prudniku) – polski nauczyciel, publicysta, działacz oświatowy i społeczno-narodowy na Górnym Śląsku, propagator polskiego ruchu teatralnego i śpiewaczego.

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Filip Robota urodził się 30 kwietnia 1841 w Gostomi koło Białej Prudnickiej na Górnym Śląsku. Pochodził z chłopskiej rodziny. Był najmłodszym synem Macieja Roboty, właściciela niewielkiego gospodarstwa rolnego, znanego w okolicy ze swoich polskich przekonań, i jego żony Agnieszki z polskiej rodziny Kurspiot. Filip miał pięciu braci: Konstantego, Władysława, Hieronima, Antoniego i Jana. Władysław i Antoni zostali księżmi, Jan był sekretarzem i tłumaczem sądowym. Języka polskiego, a także polskich modlitw Filipa nauczyła matka. Od samego początku rodzice robili wszystko by Filip mógł się uczyć i został nauczycielem.

Najpierw Filip uczęszczał do znajdującej się w jego rodzinnej Gostomi dwuklasowej szkoły prowadzonej w języku niemieckim. Nauczył się gry na skrzypcach i fortepianie. Następnie trafił do tzw. preparandy (), szkoły przygotowującej do zawodu nauczyciela znajdującej się w Białej. Po jej ukończeniu w 1859 trafił do seminarium nauczycielskiego w Głogówku. W tej szkole dały się już odczuć skutki reformy radcy szkolnego Bernarda Bogedaina (obowiązywała w latach 1848–1863). Wprowadził on do szkół naukę literackiego języka polskiego. Polakom zapewniono dostęp do polskich podręczników (i polsko–niemieckich, szczególnie ważny był dwujęzyczny elementarz Onderskiego z 1845, wydany we Wrocławiu) i nauczycieli znających język polski. Robota, który znał język polski mówiony dzięki swojej matce, teraz mógł się go uczyć w pełnym zakresie, na co pozwalali mu i zachęcali tacy nauczyciele jak Józef Dorn, Jan Besta i Augustyn Cygan, a nawet dyrektor Juliusz Jüttner, wszyscy mówiący po polsku. Pod ich kierunkiem Filip zdobył gruntowne wykształcenie: pedagogiczne, dydaktyczne i metodyczne. W ówczesnej szkole dużą wagę przywiązywano do nauki grania i śpiewu. Nauczyciel był z młodzieżą obowiązkowo obecny w kościele na mszy i jeśli była taka potrzeba, grał i prowadził chór. W seminarium muzyki i śpiewu uczyli go Leopold Heinze, specjalista śpiewu kościelnego, oraz ksiądz Jan Hauschke, utalentowany muzycznie mistrz gry na organach. 28 sierpnia 1861 Filip Robota zdał w seminarium egzamin dojrzałości z wynikiem dobrym.

Kariera pedagogiczna

Po egzaminie dojrzałości Robota kilka miesięcy przebywał w domu rodzinnym, a następnie jako adiuwant (czyli pomocnik, nauczyciel praktykant) objął posadę nauczycielską w Bełku koło Rybnika. Pracował tam 4 lata w trudnych warunkach. Miał jednoizbową szkołę ze zmurszałą i zapadającą się podłogą, bez podręczników, ilustracji i innych pomocy naukowych. Oficjalnie do nauki zobowiązanych było 150 dzieci, ale spora ich część nie chodziła na lekcje, na jesieni i wiosną z powodu robót w gospodarstwie, zimą zaś z powodu braku obuwia. Robota wiele czasu poświęcał nauce języka polskiego, co miało negatywny wpływ na wyniki nauczania języka niemieckiego. Dokumenty powizytacyjne z 1863 zarzucają mu "lekceważenie języka niemieckiego, który dzieci znają jedynie w sposób bierny". Dalej wizytator pisał: "Nauczyciel podpowiada dzieciom wyrazy polskie, które to wyrazy dzieci tłumaczą na język niemiecki i stosują w zadaniach wyuczonych na pamięć".

W roku 1865 Robotę przeniesiono do Hajduków Wielkich, obecnie Chorzów-Batory. Przez dwa następne lata pracował w trudnych warunkach materialnych, ale już w nowej i lepiej wyposażonej szkole. Stamtąd został przeniesiony do Bujakowa. Uczył tam najmłodsze dzieci, a przy okazji poznał hrabinę Schaffgotsch, sprawującą patronat nad szkołą. W szkole, wbrew pozorom mimo tak znaczącego patronatu, nie działo się dobrze. Klasy były przepełnione, ławki popsute, zaś czwarta część uczniów nie przychodziła do szkoły. Robota ponownie skupiał się na nauce języka polskiego poświęcając niemieckiemu mniej uwagi. Mimo to kolejna wizytacja wypadła pomyślnie. Wizytator w sprawozdaniu zauważył jego dobrą postawę moralną, pilność i zaangażowanie w pracy. Filip Robota wciąż był adiuwantem, nie dość, że dostawał tylko część pensji nauczyciela, to jeszcze jak wszyscy był uzależniony od dyrektora szkoły, u którego musiał mieszkać i stołować się, za co oddawał mu większość z otrzymywanej kwoty. Na dodatek ze swej kieszeni musiał też pokrywać koszty najmniej tygodniowych wizytacji inspektora oświaty. Wieczorami należało dbać o przyjazną i wesołą atmosferę. Robota wtedy z pasją grał różne muzyczne utwory. Wykonania spodobały się proboszczowi Bujakowa – księdzu Ludwikowi Edlerowi, który zaproponował mu posadę organisty w Kościanie w Prowincji Poznańskiej. W 1868 roku objął tam posadę nauczyciela i organisty. Otrzymywane teraz dwie pensje pozwoliły mu stać się niezależnym, ale szybko zauważył niedogodności wybranego miejsca – inni ludzie, inne środowisko i odległość od stron rodzinnych. Powrócił na Śląsk, gdy udało mu się dostać pracę w Starych Tarnowicach. Mieszkając w okolicy Bytomia miał możliwość kontaktów z silnym ośrodkiem polskiego ruchu narodowego i jego przywódcami.

Robota od 1869 roku czynnie uczestniczył w akcji uświadamiania narodowego ludu polskiego na Śląsku, wtedy też z tą myślą podjął pierwsze próby pisarskie. Jego pierwsze społeczno-pedagogiczne artykuły, opisujące i podkreślające wartość polskich, miejscowych obyczajów ludowych, potrzebę rozwijania i utrzymania języka, eliminacji z niego wtrętów niemieckich ukazały się w "Zwiastunie Górnośląskim" (1869). Pisał: "My Górnośląscy dozwalamy sobie naszą ojczystą mowę niemieckimi wyrazami zepsuć, jak gdybyśmy polskich nie mieli lub nie znali". Starał się dotrzeć do wszystkich, dlatego swoje artykuły wysyłał do różnych gazet z językiem polskim ukazujących się na Śląsku, w Wielkim Księstwie Poznańskim oraz na Warmii i Mazurach. Nie stosował pseudonimu, swoje teksty podpisywał imieniem i nazwiskiem. Przekonanie o słuszności tego co robi i myśli dodawała mu odwagi. Już po roku przeniesiono go do Białej. Przez dwa kolejne lata uczył języka polskiego 235 dzieci z Białej, Szonowa, Wasiłowic, Józefowa.

Filip Robota usilnie starał się o pracę w Prudniku. Został przeniesiony do Prudnika w roku szkolnym 1871/1872. Tymczasem do rejencji opolskiej wpłynęło z Torunia doniesienie w związku z jego publikacjami w "Gazecie Toruńskiej". Robota pisał tam, że na Śląsku, z powodu praktyk germanizacyjnych, Polacy z Białej i Prudnika posyłają swoje dzieci poza Śląsk, na byłe terytorium Królestwa Polskiego, po to aby w spokoju mogły uczyć się języka polskiego. Policja dopatrzyła się w tym antypruskiej działalności i żądała wyjaśnień. Rejencja opolska nadała sprawie bieg nakazując przeprowadzenie stosownego dochodzenia starostwu powiatu prudnickiego. Robota od razu potwierdził swoje autorstwo i śledztwo skończyło się na rozmowie.

11 maja 1871 Robota objął posadę w prudnickiej żeńskiej szkole elementarnej. Uczył także w tamtejszej szkole zawodowej, prowadząc ćwiczenia gimnastyczne oraz chór. Aktywnie działał też w organizacji nauczycielskiej, a przy różnych okazjach udzielał się jako muzyk. Jeszcze w Starych Tarnowicach przygotował modlitewnik – Skarby niebieskie (1870) oraz 4 chóralne antyfony na cześć Matki Bożej. Podarował je ojcom Paulinom z okazji 300–rocznicy powstania klasztoru i kościoła na Jasnej Górze w Częstochowie (1872). Wynikiem jego działalności muzycznej w Prudniku było wydanie 24 stronicowej książeczki pt. "Mały śpiewak, czyli zbiór pieśni dla szkół polskich" (Prudnik 1871). Robota doceniał rolę i znaczenie pieśni ludowych w rozbudzaniu uczuć narodowych dzieci i młodzieży. Wybrał i umieścił w Śpiewniku 25 pieśni, w tym 8 dwujęzycznych (od 1872 roku zabroniono lekcji w języku polskim, czyniąc wyjątek dla religii), kilka miejscowych piosenek ludowych oraz pieśni pozwalające poznać twórczość polskich poetów. Dwa utwory mają w twórczości Roboty wartość szczególną. Autorska przeróbka Wiosny zawiera aluzje do prowadzonego przez pruskie władze Kulturkampfu, natomiast całkowicie własnym utworem jest pięciozwrotkowa pieśń pt. "Szczepy Spokrewnione", nawiązująca do panslawistycznej myśli czeskiej.

Działalność polityczna
W 1893 "Nowiny Raciborskie" wysunęły Robotę na kandydata do Koła Polskiego w pruskim parlamencie. 15 maja 1893 w Raciborzu przy szczelnie zapełnionej sali mógł przedstawić swój program wyborczy. Domagał się swobód obywatelskich, przywrócenia nauki języka polskiego we wszystkich szkołach, równych praw dla Polaków i Niemców. Stwierdził, iż "Rząd nie ma prawa do przymusowego germanizowania dziatwy polskiej". Postulaty Roboty spotkały się z uznaniem w postaci hucznych oklasków. Niestety nie zapewniło to kandydatowi wygranej podczas głosowania. Przegrana zniechęciła go do polityki, lecz nie do propolskiej kulturalno-oświatowej działalności. W 1891, po 30 latach pracy pedagogicznej, przeszedł na emeryturę i więcej czasu poświęcał kontaktom rodzinnym. Zwłaszcza chętnie jeździł do Krakowa, gdzie osiadł jego brat Jan. Z Prudnika miał blisko do Gostomi i Wierzchu. Zwłaszcza tam, ale również w powiecie rybnickim organizował i uczestniczył w pracach polskich kółek śpiewaczych i teatralnych. Pomagał odbywającemu w 1892 roku w Prudniku służbę wojskową młodemu polskiemu poecie Jakubowi Kani ze Starych Siołkowic pogłębiając jego świadomość narodową i rozbudzając jego potrzeby kulturalne.

Życie prywatne

Dwukrotnie był żonaty i dwukrotnie owdowiał. Obie żony wywodziły się z zamieszkałej w Browińcu Polskim polskiej rodziny Sobotów, z której wywodził się m.in. Stanisław Sobota. Ponieważ dzieci nie było, pozostawiany majątek Filip Robota przeznaczył na budowę w Prudniku–Lesie, gdzie często grywał na organach w klasztorze franciszkanów, groty wzorowanej na grocie z Lourdes. W swym testamencie przedstawił, jak ma wyglądać fundowana przez niego grota, lecz ostatecznie grotę sześciometrowej wysokości zbudowano według projektu ojca Wincentego (Andrzeja) Bolczyka.

Twórczość
W 1871 w Prudniku nakładem A. Picza została wydana 24-stronnicowa książka "Mały śpiewak, czyli zbiór pieśni dla szkół polskich" w opracowaniu Filipa Roboty. Zawierała górnośląskie pieśni ludowe, pieśni ogólnopolskie i pieśni autorstwa Roboty. Przed wydaniem "Małego śpiewaka", Robota wydał książkę modlitewną w 1870 pt. "Skarby niebieskie", która w 1896 doczekała się drugiego wydania. Wydał też książkę modlitewną "Święta Familija", która została przetłumaczona na język niemiecki.

Upamiętnienie

Zmarłego nauczyciela i poetę pochowano na Cmentarzu Komunalnym w Prudniku. Opiekę nad jego grobem przez długi czas pełnili nauczyciele i młodzież z Zasadniczej Szkoły Zawodowej w Prudniku, której 12 stycznia 1976 nadano imię Filipa Roboty (szkołę zlikwidowano). Obecnie Filip Robota jest patronem II Liceum Profilowanego w Prudniku i Szkoły Podstawowej w Łączniku. Z okazji 700–lecia Prudnika (1960) na domu, w którym mieszkał (Młyńska 8), wmurowano tablicę pamiątkową. W Prudniku, na Kolonii Karola Miarki znajduje się upamiętniająca go ulica.

Robota jest jedną z osób wpisanych na tablicę na Głazie upamiętniającym nauczycieli walczących o polskość Ziemi Prudnickiej w Prudniku.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne
 Twórczość Filipa Roboty w serwisie Polona.pl

Polscy działacze oświatowi
Polscy nauczyciele
Polscy publicyści XIX wieku
Polscy działacze narodowi na Śląsku
Polacy w Niemczech 1795–1918
Ludzie związani z Białą
Ludzie związani z Prudnikiem
Ludzie związani z Głogówkiem
Ludzie związani z Kościanem
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Urodzeni w 1841
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Q: Java threading - How to properly wait for threads to finish? I had a test at university telling me to fix the code below, so it waits for the threads to finish
before printing "END". content of MyThread was unknown:
Thread s1 = new MyThread();
Thread s2 = new MyThread();
s1.start();
s2.start();
s1.sleep(1000);
s2.sleep(1000);
System.out.println("END");

My solution at first was to join() the 2 threads, however that did not work.
Thread s1 = new MyThread();
Thread s2 = new MyThread();
s1.start();
s2.start();
s1.sleep(1000);
s2.sleep(1000);
s1.join();
s2.join();
System.out.println("END");

Then I tried checking if the Threads were alive with a while loop.
Thread s1 = new MyThread();
Thread s2 = new MyThread();
s1.start();
s2.start();
s1.sleep(1000);
s2.sleep(1000);
while(s1.IsAlive() || s2.IsAlive){
  continue;
}
System.out.println("END");

But this one did not work either. Apperantly the correct answer was to join the threads AND remove the 2 sleeps:
Thread s1 = new MyThread();
Thread s2 = new MyThread();
s1.start();
s2.start();
s1.join();
s2.join();
System.out.println("END");

My question is: Why are none of my answers acceptable?
Asked my lab leader, but he could not give me an answer. Coded the test out at home and it seems to work just fine.
Thanks in advance for the help!

A: The solution with join() is for sure correct.
If we look at the official docs we can see the following ...

public final void join(long millis) throws InterruptedException
Waits at most millis milliseconds for this thread to die. A timeout of 0 means to wait forever.
This implementation uses a loop of this.wait calls conditioned on this.isAlive. As a thread terminates the this.notifyAll method is invoked. It is recommended that applications not use wait, notify, or notifyAll on Thread instance

This method was designed precisely to handle this use case.
The reason why you might not be getting the expected results is because of the t.sleep() calls you call on a reference to another thread, see one of the comments to the original post.

A: Imagine a future scenario: you now work in a bank or worse yet a nuclear power station. The importance of knowing precisely when those background tasks are completed is much higher.
Note that sleep is a static method so should not be referenced via instance s1 or s2 - the sleep affects the current thread only.
The solutions that use Thread.sleep(x) may appear to work if the task is short lived, but a sleep gives no guarantee that the operations were completed. What if each MyThread takes 1 millisecond and your code is called a million times? Using sleep(1000) means that your program will run for an excessively long time without knowing the transactions definitely ended.
The solution with while(s1.IsAlive()... may appear to work but is a fail because your calling thread is running a tight loop. It will be consuming excessive CPU because it is always running while others task are, and therefore that is at the detriment of the CPU allocated for MyThread tasks.
The correct answer uses Thread.join. Your calling thread blocks - no CPU wasted - until each MyThread ends. The elapsed time is exactly matched to their running time, and you know the MyThreads were ended.

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Q: Dynamic count of rows between two dates based on ID in python I have been trying to count number of rows for each ID between dynamically changing dates.
My dataset looks following:

Date
ID
Minimum_Date
Min + 6m
Min + 12m
Min + 18m

2017-07-31
1
2017-07-31
2018-01-31
2018-07-31
2019-01-31

2018-05-08
1
2017-07-31
2018-01-31
2018-07-31
2019-01-31

2018-11-10
1
2017-07-31
2018-01-31
2018-07-31
2019-01-31

....
...
...
...
...
...

2019-07-08
13
2019-07-08
2020-01-08
2020-07-08
2021-01-08

2019-08-10
13
2019-07-08
2020-01-08
2020-07-08
2021-01-08

2019-09-19
13
2019-07-08
2020-01-08
2020-07-08
2021-01-08

2019-12-23
13
2019-07-08
2020-01-08
2020-07-08
2021-01-08

The result should be something similar (min date row not included in the total row count):

ID
Minimum_Date - Min + 6m
Min + 6m - Min + 12m
Min + 12m -  Min + 18m

1
0
1
1

13
3
0
0

Normally, I would do this exercise in excel using simple Countifs, but due to dataset size, it is not possible.
All suggestions are appreciated!

A: I suppose you're starting with just the Date and ID columns. In that case you can construct your other columns pretty easily, with the help of transform:

*

*groupby.transform can get you the group's min date in the right shape for comparisons against the Date column

*series.transform with a dictionary argument can get you a dataframe of the boundary dates you want, by shifting by a number of months every time. This must be done with DateOffset.

>>> dates = df.groupby('ID')['Date'].transform('min')
>>> dates
0   2017-07-31
1   2017-07-31
2   2017-07-31
4   2019-07-08
5   2019-07-08
6   2019-07-08
7   2019-07-08
Name: Date, dtype: datetime64[ns]
>>> dates = dates.transform({f'min + {n}m': lambda s, months=n: s + pd.offsets.DateOffset(months=months) for n in [0, 6, 12, 18]})
>>> dates
    min + 0m   min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
0 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
1 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
2 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
4 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
5 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
6 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
7 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08

From there comparing all those dates is easy, but requires using .le() and .gt() rather than <= and > to specify against which dimension we're comparing:
>>> dates.le(df['Date'], axis='index').groupby(df['ID']).sum()
     min + 0m  min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
ID
1           3         2          1          0
13          4         0          0          0

Those are cumulated, as in all 3 dates of ID 1 are counted in column min + 0m even though they are also in the next columns. We can correct that in one of 2 ways, either diffing this cumulated result:
>>> cumul = dates.le(df['Date'], axis='index').groupby(df['ID']).sum()
>>> cumul.diff(-1, axis='columns').fillna(cumul).astype(int)
     min + 0m  min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
ID
1           1         1          1          0
13          4         0          0          0

The other way is by comparing that the date is less than one boundary date but greater than the next:
>>> dates
    min + 0m   min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
0 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
1 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
2 2017-07-31 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31
4 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
5 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
6 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
7 2019-07-08 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08
>>> next_date = dates.shift(-1, axis='columns', fill_value=pd.Timestamp.max)
>>> next_date
    min + 0m   min + 6m  min + 12m                     min + 18m
0 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
1 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
2 2018-01-31 2018-07-31 2019-01-31 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
4 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
5 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
6 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
7 2020-01-08 2020-07-08 2021-01-08 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854775807
>>> between = dates.le(df['Date'], axis='index') & next_date.gt(df['Date'], axis='index')
>>> between
   min + 0m  min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
0      True     False      False      False
1     False      True      False      False
2     False     False       True      False
4      True     False      False      False
5      True     False      False      False
6      True     False      False      False
7      True     False      False      False
>>> between.groupby(df['ID']).sum()
     min + 0m  min + 6m  min + 12m  min + 18m
ID
1           1         1          1          0
13          4         0          0          0


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Camp Dawson Returns to The Dawson with Fright-Themed Cocktails & Wood-Fired Dishes
Events and Festivals Fulton River District
Adult camp, Camp Dawson, will return to The Dawson for a second year this summer, but this time with a terrifying twist. As summer camp has been a setting for horror films, from 1980's cult classics to icons such as Friday the 13th, Camp Dawson 2: I Know What You Did Last Summer…Camp will pay homage to the genre a summer cocktail menu and activities. Camp Dawson 2 will begin on Sunday, June 3 and run through the end of August during normal business hours.
The cocktail menu will give new meaning to the term "scared stiff". Patrons can choose from frozen drinks, craft cocktails, and large-format punches. Specialty cocktails ($13) include the frozen Camp Crystal Lake with Bacardi 8, wray & nephew rum, blood orange syrup, Doggie Paddle with vodka, sherry, crème de cocoa, amaro, pine nut horchata, Bunk Buddies with rum, matcha, allspice, blue curaçao and the Bark at the Moon with rum, macadamia nut, kalamansi and coconut. Draft options ($13) include the G.T.O. and the Death to Short Shorts with tequila, black tea, aloe, agave and pineapple. Groups can share large-format cocktails including the Hot Mess Hall ($95) with bourbon, raspberry, lemon, champagne or Mean Canteen ($55) with gin, Campari, vermouth, and madeira.
The Dawson's wood-fired grill allows for fireside dining where guests can choose from gluten-free menu items including the shareable Texas Redfish Tacos ($48) with guacamole and napa cabbage slaw or the Butcher Pork Chop ($32) with roasted poblano and chihuahua grits then. Additional wood-fired dishes include Oysters (six for $20) with giardiniera butter and grilled ciabatta, Carrots ($9) with tahini yogurt and Grilled Elotes($7) with black lime-chili aioli, cotija cheese. For brunch, snack on a Cheddar Bacon Biscuit ($12) with house-made biscuit, sausage gravy, eggs, and bacon, PB&J French Toast ($14) with house-made peanut butter, fresh blueberries, and candied peanuts or The Dawson's Bacon Flight ($20) with rosemary honey, allspice jowl, Hungarian-style, and dill pickle bacon.
Corporate Pastry Chef Greg Mosko, who recently joined Gage Hospitality Group, will offer an outdoor made-to-order S'mores Bar ($10) with house-made graham cracker, dark chocolate and a rotating flavored marshmallow along with a Red Velvet Milkshake ($10) with bourbon ice cream, strawberry whipped cream and pink pearls. Campers can also add a liquor shot ($2) to any milkshake.
Finally, camp wouldn't be camp without activities. Campers can bask in the sunlight or sit under the stars and listen to weekly Live Music, enjoy bi-weekly Scary Movie Screenings, and attend Dawson Beverage Academy classes. Live music will occur every Sunday beginning June 3 from 4 to 7 p.m. while every other Wednesday beginning June 5, classic horror films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer & Scream will play on the patio with complimentary popcorn. The Dawson Beverage Academy classes will continue on the second Sunday of every month ($35-$50 per person) where campers can learn how to craft their own Camp Dawson cocktails firsthand.
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730 W Grand Ave
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Home Community Anarchy and Ashes
Anarchy and Ashes
Remembering July 23-27, 1967, when the 'model city' of Detroit erupted into a war zone
In those years before an explosion of anarchy made "riot" the ugliest four-letter word in Detroit's lexicon, the 12th Street neighborhood was like no other, Darryle Buchanan says. It was a robust city-within-a-city crowded with attractions ranging from the respectable to the roguish.
"There were stores, there were theaters, there were restaurants, I mean, it was a fully self-contained area," recalls the 61-year-old Detroiter, who grew up on Virginia Park. "There was no reason for you to ever leave that neighborhood." Hustlers, street vendors, and speakeasies thrived in what was the most densely populated section of Detroit.
Then came that one hot stretch in July 1967, when the youngster's comfortably circumscribed world fell to ashes. Buchanan remembers indiscriminate looting, raging fires, burning rats fleeing collapsed buildings, and the numbed fascination with which he watched a week of unfathomable chaos unfold.
Despite family warnings to stay off 12th Street, he kept returning. "Each time I went back, there was less and less of 12th Street than I remembered," he says. The soundtrack to the ongoing havoc was the "constant drone of sirens that just never went away. After a while, it just started to sound like wailing, like crying. It's almost like the city was dying and it's that crying sound that you heard. It was eerie, you can't forget it, you never forget that."
There's no chance Detroit will ever forget.
National Guardsman Gary Ciko of Hamtramck watches for snipers on Linwood Street. This photo was taken by Tony Spina of the Detroit Free Press, who said he had to edge along buildings to avoid flying debris. The photo was used all over the world and was part of the entry that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Free Press.
From Melee to Mobocracy
It all began in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, the start to another scorching summer day. The 10th Precinct vice squad conducted a routine raid on an after-hours joint above the Economy Printing Company at 12th Street and Clairmount Avenue. They expected to find 15 or 20 people inside the blind pig. Instead there were more than 80 partygoers celebrating the homecoming of two soldiers back from Vietnam. A call went out for paddy wagons to transport the revelers.
A growing crowd of onlookers, initially more curious than confrontational, was milling around when David Bruce and his partner were among the first uniformed officers on the scene. There was some good-natured ribbing. A chant went up: "Let 'em go. Let 'em go."
"There was this one guy across the street, he had a green polyester shirt … he was the one that was agitating," says Bruce (whose reminiscences, like some others in this narrative, are from the "oral histories" gathered by the Detroit Historical Museum and its Detroit 67 project). "The auto got there, that was prisoner transport, men started coming down, getting into the prisoner transport. The last one that came down was drunk, I mean he was drunk-drunk. When he went to step onto the auto to go in the back, he fell. Guy across the street — the guy I call Mr. Greensleeves — said, 'Look, they knocked him down.' That's when the bottles and stuff came at us. We started calling for help."
A police lieutenant arrived and took a brick to the head. With that, 12th Street slid into mobocracy. Windows were smashed. Alarms clanged. Sirens sang. Reinforcements came but were instructed to hang back. The hands-off approach emboldened the crowd. Events spiraled out of control. "There was a shoe store there called Cancellation Shoes and they had very good quality shoes, so people were breaking in there, stealing the shoes," Bruce says. "They were breaking into the restaurants. The thing about it is, white people were helping black people steal, black people were helping white people steal, so it definitely wasn't a race thing, it was definitely — I guess they call it a 'civil disobedience.' "
There was an almost carnival atmosphere. "We saw people cutting through the alley carrying couches, carrying chairs, carrying dinette sets, refrigerators," recalls Albert Colbard, who lived a few doors down from Economy Printing. "This one guy had a refrigerator on a dolly. On a dolly!"
Word of the shopping spree raced through the neighborhood. The frenzy may have spent itself as soon as all of the shelves were emptied and the temperature climbed. But fires soon started breaking out. Black youths threw rocks and bricks at responding firefighters, some of whom pulled the lids off garbage cans to use as shields. An all-black unit was sent out, but it, too, was assaulted.
One of the first buildings to go up was a furniture store — a spectacular blaze, says Colbard, who was forced to hose down his roof. "Now it got really, really serious. Because then you have the fire department coming to put the fires out, and somebody started shooting at the fire department. They would leave and just let something burn." It was a breezy day, which helped disperse the fluttering waves of twinkling red embers. Twenty percent of the buildings on 12th Street around Virginia Park were destroyed.
Neighbors help each other move possessions out of an apartment building near Linwood and Pingree streets.Neighbors help each other move possessions out of an apartment building near Linwood and Pingree streets.
Spreading Unrest
As Sunday wore on, a dirty gray haze spread ominously across the clear blue sky. The crowd watching the Tigers-Yankees doubleheader at Tiger Stadium began to stir. There appeared to be a major fire in the distance. Those listening to the game on WJR were kept in the dark. Announcers Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane were instructed to talk nothing but baseball.
The curl of smoke drifting from the backyard of Alice Nigoghosian's home on Central Avenue near West Chicago signaled a good meal in the making. Her mother was grilling lamb chops in the small brick fireplace. One of the dinner guests had a police scanner in his car. "Do you know what's going on?" he said upon arriving. "There's trouble in Detroit."
Nigoghosian went inside and turned on the TV. Nothing. There was a news blackout.
"So all afternoon, I kept returning to the car for updates," the Dearborn resident recalls. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing. You could hear yelling, screaming, firemen were being shot at."
All Sunday the rioting spread through the west side — along 14th Street, Linwood, Dexter, Grand River, Livernois — with looting and fires breaking out on the east side around Mack and Van Dyke. Local black leaders, including U.S. Rep. John Conyers and City Councilman Nicholas Hood, were jeered and run off when they tried to calm rioters.
Some business owners scrawled "Soul Brother" and "Afro All the Way" on their storefronts to dissuade looters. Sometimes it worked; often it didn't. Some stores were singled out because the owner had a poor reputation with customers.
Mutual respect appears to have saved the Grande Ballroom on Grand River, just a few blocks from the riot's epicenter. The rock venue's impresario, Russ Gibb, rushed to the site with two musician friends, hoping to load valuable equipment into a trailer before rioters got to it. Gibb was admittedly scared. To his surprise and relief, neither his crew nor the building was touched. According to Gibb, "We had cut a deal with some of the neighbors that we would pick up the mess that our kids made after each show. We tried to treat them as though we were a guest in their community."
Thousands of police and National Guardsmen were hastily mobilized, many called back from vacation. A 9 p.m. curfew was imposed. Liquor and ammunition sales were banned. Families huddled behind locked doors, away from windows, and tried to process what was happening.
Curiosity got hold of Richard Rybinski, a lifelong Detroiter then living on Hancock. After watching the fires from the roof of his apartment building with friends, he rode his bike down Grand River in the wee hours of Monday for a closer look. He came across a kid, maybe 12 years old, pulling a wagon. In it was a large television set. Rybinski asked if he could bum a cigarette.
"What kind you smoke?" the boy asked.
"Camel."
"Wait a minute," the kid said. "Watch my TV."
"He stepped through the window of this convenience store," Rybinski recalls. "He obviously knew his way around it. Went over to a counter, came out, had a couple of packs with him, and he handed me a pack of Camels." Rybinski thanked him, and both continued on their separate ways.
Mack Seyburn of Florida stands guard to prevent looting of the businesses on Mack Avenue near Belvidere Street on Detroit's East Side.
Deadly Encounters
Not all encounters were so innocuous. The riot's first "official" victim, 45-year-old Walter Grzanka, had been shot dead a couple hours earlier by a shopkeeper while stealing cigars and shoelaces from the Temple Market on Fourth Street. Nearly all of the looters who would die the next few days were young to middle-age black males, several of them employed family men caught up in their greed. Their number included two men, both autoworkers, found asphyxiated in the basement of Brown's Drugstore on 12th Street.
Some business owners stubbornly defended their property. One of them, 68-year-old George Messerlian, was barely 5 feet tall. Nonetheless, when teens burst into his shoe repair shop on Linwood on the first day of the riot, he stood his ground. He was struck repeatedly with a thick 30-inch club. He died four days later.
Most of the pillaging was over by Sunday night, as groups of National Guardsmen were deployed as needed to protect firemen, guard property, man checkpoints, and enforce the curfew. Then the sniping began in earnest. At least a dozen persons were struck by bullets on Monday. Rumors flew that the sniping was organized, with gunmen brought in from out of town, but most of the firing was slapdash. One police official dismissed it as "a damn poor performance for a professional ring, if there is such a thing."
Firefighters battle a blaze set during the civil unrest atGrand River and Myrtle on the west side of Detroit.
It would later turn out that much of the gunfire was the work of skittish, undertrained, and trigger-happy guardsmen. One member, Jim Atkin of Dearborn, admits today that the weekend warriors were unprepared for what they encountered. "Yes, most of the fellows in my unit all had our marksmanship medals and stuff, and we can take orders, we can march, we can do our job, but to be confrontive on the street situation? No, it was all new to us."
The result would be numerous tragedies in the coming days. On one occasion, a businesswoman turned on a lamp and looked down from her motel window. Bullets flew out of the darkness, killing her. On another, a tank took aim on an apartment where a sniper was supposedly holing up. Machine-gun bullets ripped through the flimsy wooden walls, shredding 4-year-old Tanya Blanding. She was the riot's youngest victim. According to the Detroit Free Press, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage, guardsmen were involved in 11 deaths, nine of them innocent.
Monday, July 24, was Detroit's 266th birthday, an occasion marked by more than 600 alarms and a long string of deaths, mostly looters. Tigers owner John Fetzer offered to have the team play a televised game inside a closed, empty Tiger Stadium, hoping to keep baseball-loving arsonists indoors. Instead, the scheduled home series with the Orioles was moved to Baltimore. Mickey Lolich couldn't go; the pitcher was instructed to report for National Guard duty.
Law-abiding folks in the affected areas tried to make sense of what was going on. Anita Hadley, then 11 years old, recalls being sequestered at night with siblings and visiting cousins in the basement of the family home on Helen, between Vernor and Charlevoix, as gunshots popped and smoke drifted over the neighborhood. "We had a corner store that was on Vernor," she says, "and they were owned by some Italian people, and they were very good to everybody. They would let you buy stuff and pay for it later, and I remember that my dad and a lot of people got together to protect the guy's store, and said, 'We're going to take care of Al's store. We're not going to let anybody burn or mess with his store.'"
The inferno engulfing Detroit dominated print and broadcast news. The images were frightening. There was no denying the city resembled a war zone, complete with tanks and helicopters. Miles from the action, adults gathered on lawns, talking in hushed tones while pointing at the sky. Hunting rifles were brought out of closets. Several suburbs enacted curfews. Orville Hubbard, the unapologetically racist mayor of Dearborn, stationed police along its border with Detroit. The less paranoid sat on roofs in the muggy night air and marveled over the soft orange glow in the distance.
Federal troops called in to quell the civil disturbance in Detroit arrive at Selfridge Field near Mount Clemens.
A State of Emergency
Late Monday night, responding to requests by Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and Gov. George Romney, President Lyndon Johnson went on national TV to announce a federal state of emergency now existed in Detroit and that 4,700 members of the 82nd and 101st Airborne would be sent to help restore order. The first contingents of paratroopers, many combat-tested, began arriving early Tuesday.
The airborne units, their ranks thoroughly integrated, were assigned to the east side of Woodward. Displaying the kind of breezy self-confidence that comes from jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, they used a light hand in quickly securing that part of town. Richard Rybinski approached one trooper guarding the Detroit Institute of Arts. How did all this compare with Vietnam? "Piece of cake, man," he replied.
The area surrounding Warren and Grand River avenues on the west side of Detroit is consumed by fires set during the civil unrest of 1967.
On the west side, guardsmen and Detroit and state police continued to employ a heavy, uneven hand. The most infamous incident to emerge from the riot occurred the night of July 25-26. Cops and guardsmen stormed the rundown Algiers Motel on Woodward at Virginia Park. Among the occupants they encountered were three black teens — Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard, and Fred Temple —and two young white girls, runaways from Ohio. The three males were killed with shotgun blasts at close range, though the exact circumstances remain unsettled. The three Detroit officers ultimately charged with their murders claimed the victims were snipers. John Hersey, author of 1968's The Algiers Motel Incident, speculated that the death of Jerry Olshove, the only policeman killed during the riot, may have set the cops off.
"Fred was not someone who would handle a gun," insists Michael "Doc" Holbrook, a streetwise 68-year-old Detroiter who was friends with Temple. Holbrook spent part of his childhood in the South and respected the outsized power of a white man with a badge and a grudge. Temple "was in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. "I know his crime, his sin, was he was there with white girls, and I know how that could go down because I was in a situation similar to that but had the smarts to leave. Wasn't going to stick around and say, 'Well, we're not doing nothing. We have the right.' No.
"See, that's the type of thing where a lot of people, they get in trouble. And they can easily lose their lives if you don't understand the situation. And when you're looking at someone who has a weapon that can take your life and they have the authority, there's no reasoning, no rational discretion, if they are of the mindset that you are something less than."
Heavy publicity surrounding the case would cause the officers' trials to be moved outstate. All were acquitted, enraging the black community. The killings underscored the belief that July '67 really was a "police riot," an unrestrained expansion of the everyday police brutality that helped lead to the riot in the first place. Twenty-four blacks were killed by white policemen or guardsmen. Several were shot under murky circumstances, where official reports clashed significantly with eyewitness accounts.
Looters and curfew violators accounted for the majority of the 7,200-plus arrests. Prisoners were stuffed into precinct cells, station house basements and garages, buses, and the elephant cage at the Belle Isle zoo. They ate baloney sandwiches and baked in the heat as they waited their turn before a judge. One defendant admitted to torching a building, but only to burn out his cheating girlfriend and lover inside. Another was asked about the new appliance found in his car trunk. "I didn't loot that," he argued. "I bought it from a guy at a traffic stop. I gave him a five-dollar bill for a washing machine." Only 3 percent of the cases ever went to trial, and just half of those wound up in convictions. Not a single person was convicted of sniping.
As the week wore on, firefighters struggled to contain the seemingly endless number of blazes. "I learned a great respect for firemen at that time," Jim Atkin says, "because it didn't matter what the color was of the area. If there was a fire, they went to put out the fire." By the time the last of the 1,600 fires had been doused, more than 1,700 firefighters from Detroit and 44 nearby communities, including Windsor, had risked their lives. Two Detroit firemen died. One was shot; the other was electrocuted.
By Thursday, July 27, some 17,000 soldiers and cops were keeping the peace. The last looter had been killed the previous night, a young white man caught stealing a $4 part in an auto junkyard. The city had finally calmed down. Thousands of prisoners were released and guardsmen were ordered to unload their weapons and sheath their bayonets. There was a general air of exhaustion, even among suburbanites who had done nothing more stressful than watch news coverage all week with a pellet gun next to the sofa. Federal troops began withdrawing on Friday. Camera-toting gawkers toured gutted neighborhoods, auguring Detroit's future as a destination for ruin-porn aficionados. The last victims of the violence lingered in hospital beds. The final death was Roy Banks, who succumbed Aug. 14 to gunshot wounds received three weeks earlier. The 46-year-old deaf-mute had been walking to work when police mistook him for a looter.
Michigan National Guard equipment rolls out of Detroit while a woman weeps quietly as she heads for the funeral of a young victim of the unrest.
Aftermath and Exodus
Many people believe the riot's death toll was higher than reported, insisting that bodies were cremated inside burning buildings, dumped into sewers, or secretly buried. The official figure stands at 43 deaths: 33 blacks and 10 whites. (Read more).
Property damage was in the range of $40-80 million. About 2,500 stores were looted or burned, and 690 buildings had to be torn down. Nearly 400 families were left homeless. Many businesses never reopened or moved, a blow to devastated neighborhoods. Price gouging was rampant.
Sociologists describe the 12th Street riot as an opportunistic uprising against society's ingrained inequality.
From a child's simple perspective, the "revolt" was as incomprehensible as it was overwhelming. "Everything you knew that was familiar was gone … the dry cleaners, the grocery stores, meat market, and everything was just burnt and gone," says Anita Hadley, recalling the widespread despair left in its wake. "To this day it's still gone … it was always so nice because these people that we shopped with … they knew us by name, and a lot of them were white. Italians, Jewish people, most the people that owned the businesses were white people. But, it was sad … we wouldn't see them again, they wouldn't see us … everything that we knew that was familiar wasn't there anymore."
There were various public and private initiatives in response to the riot, including a state housing act that was stronger than existing federal law and aggressive minority hiring programs. The Detroit Police Department doubled its number of black officers while the State Police hired the first black trooper in its 50-year history. Programs like Focus: Hope and New Detroit arose to address social and economic inequities. Nothing stemmed the exodus of families, businesses, and tax dollars from the polarized city, a migration that accelerated with the election of its first black mayor six years later.
"I was taking over the administration of Detroit because the white people didn't want the damn thing anymore," Coleman Young said. The seminal event in Detroit's long history would remain the country's deadliest riot until Los Angeles blew up over the Rodney King verdict in 1992.
Twelfth Street was renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard in 1976, its scorched contours reworked beyond recognition. It still occupies a bittersweet spot in Darryle Buchanan's heart. It once was the city's most vibrant neighborhood, he says, and then suddenly it wasn't. "It was like it just died, and it never, ever came back."
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Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's son Utpal Parrikar on Monday criticised Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar for claiming that the late Bharatiya Janata Party leader resigned as defence minister because of the Rafale jet deal.
He said in a letter to Pawar that the remark was an "unfortunate and insensitive attempt" to use his father's name "to push blatant falsehoods for political gains", ANI reported.
Pawar had told reporters last week that Parrikar, who died after a battle with pancreatic cancer in March, resigned as the defence minister in 2017 because the deal between India and France was not acceptable to him. Parrikar had quit as defence minister when he moved to Goa as the chief minister in March 2017.
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In today's selection - in his controversial and best-selling new book, Zealot, Reza Aslan relates that there is no separate historical evidence for either the census that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem (which was important since the Old Testament had prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem), nor Herod's massacre of all the sons born in and around Bethlehem in a fruitless search for the baby Jesus:
"As interest in the person of Jesus increased after his death, an urgent need arose among some in the early Christian community to fill in the gaps of Jesus's early years and, in particular, to address the matter of his birth in Nazareth, which seems to have been used by his Jewish detractors to prove that Jesus could not possibly have been the messiah, at least not according to the prophecies. Some kind of creative solution was required to push back against this criticism, some means to get Jesus's parents to Bethlehem so that he could be born [there].
"For Luke [in his gospel], the answer lies in a census. 'In those days,' he writes, 'there came a decree from Caesar Augustus that the entire Roman world should be registered. This was the first registration to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. Everyone went to his own town to be registered. Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem, the city of David.' Then, in case his readers may have missed the point, Luke adds, 'because Joseph belonged to the house and the lineage of David' (Luke 2:1-4).
Depiction of The Virgin and St. Joseph registering for the census before Governor Quirnius. Byzantine mosaic c. 1315
"Luke is right about one thing and one thing only. Ten years after the death of Herod the Great, in the year 6 C.E., when Judea officially became a Roman province, the Syrian governor, Quirinius, did call for a census to be taken of all the people, property, and slaves in Judea, Samaria, and Idumea -- not 'the entire Roman world,' as Luke claims, and definitely not Galilee, where Jesus's family lived (Luke is also wrong to associate Quirinius's census in 6 C.E. with the birth of Jesus, which most scholars place closer to 4 B.C.E., the year given in the gospel of Matthew). However, because the sole purpose of a census was taxation, Roman law assessed an individual's property in the place of residence, not in the place of one's birth. There is nothing written in any Roman document of the time (and the Romans were quite adept at documentation, particularly when it came to taxation) to indicate otherwise. Luke's suggestion that the entire Roman economy would periodically be placed on hold as every Roman subject was forced to uproot himself and his entire family in order to travel great distances to the place of his father's birth, and then wait there patiently, perhaps for months, for an official to take stock of his family and his possessions, which, in any case, he would have left behind in his place of residence, is, in a word, preposterous. ...
"The readers of Luke's gospel, like most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality; the two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal -- indeed, expected -- for a writer in the ancient world to tell tales of gods and heroes whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false but whose underlying message would be seen as true.
"Hence, [the Gospel of] Matthew's equally fanciful account of Jesus's flight into Egypt, ostensibly to escape Herod's massacre of all the sons born in and around Bethlehem in a fruitless search for the baby Jesus, an event for which there exists not a shred of corroborating evidence in any chronicle or history of the time whether Jewish, Christian, or Roman -- a remarkable fact considering the many chronicles and narratives written about Herod the Great, who was, after all, the most famous Jew in the whole of the Roman Empire."
Author: Reza Aslan
Title: Zealot
Publisher: Random House
Date: Copyright 2013 by Aslan Media, Inc.
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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Título Amino-acid sequence of bone Gla protein from the African clawed toad Xenopus laevis and the fish Sparus aurata.
As an initial step in the analysis of bone Gla protein (BGP; osteocalcin) function in lower vertebrates, we have developed a simple and rapid method for the isolation of BGP from bone and have applied this to the isolation of BGP from the African clawed toad Xenopus laevis and the fish Sparus aurata. We have also determined the complete amino-acid sequence of Sparus and Xenopus BGP, including the identification of the sites of y-carboxylation. Since the addition of Xenopus and Sparus BGP sequences significantly extends the range of species whose BGP structures are known, we have compared the 18 presently known BGP sequences. Twelve amino acids are invariant in these 18 BGP sequences and are therefore presumably critical to BGP conformation or function. Eight of these 12 invariant amino acids are also invariant in all presently known matrix Gla protein sequences (shark, mouse, rat, cow, human), an observation which strongly supports the evolutionary relationship between these two vitamin K-dependent bone proteins and suggests that the proteins may adapt similar tertiary structures.
Alternate Journal Int. J. Pept. Protein Res.


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