Tadpegs: Let's All Jump For The Holly Jumpsuit!
I am so excited about this pattern I have literally been jumping about it. Well actually more like dorky dancing but still the sentiment is there. Of course it's the Holly jumpsuit form By Hand London. You may have noticed that I am huge fan of these ladies (not quite a stalker but not a million miles off). The patterns come in the most adorable packaging. They're DEFINITELY worth the extra pennies over some pdf patterns out there for this gorgeous design.
I made variation 1, the button up playsuit, and I haven't made a single alteration to the pattern. I patiently waited through their sew along to see if I would need to but decided to just go with a straight size 10/14 in the end. Technically I should have added a half centimetre to both sides of the crotch length, but decided 1/2 a cm wasn't worth the effort. (Gentlemen please avert your gaze while we discuss).
It fits just right around my bottom. Comfortable but not too baggy. Perfect.
I was pretty careful about pattern matching because I knew that it would be obvious with this tartan if I didn't. It's not quite perfect but it is close.
The invisible zip is perfect though, it is actually invisible. However the pattern matching along the side seams is pretty much non existent so don't look at this part too long.
I actually love the pattern. The shaping around the waist in the bodice and trouser is gorgeous. The ladies at By Hand London were claiming it is their most versatile pattern yet and I think they are 100% right. I am really looking forward to a few pattern hacks with it, and I will certainly be making a jumpsuit version (you know with the trouser length legs) at some point. I know the tartan is a more Autumn/Winter style but I thought it would be too much in full length. Ironically I plan to make a floral full length one for Spring/Summer.
My biggest concern came when I stitched the shorts to the bodice and tried it on. It looked like I had made myself some pyjamas. I decided to take a couple of inches off the short length and then tried it on with tights and it looked much better. At least I don't think it looks like I am about to catch some z's any more. What do you think?
Wow. this is super cute! Love the tartan - i personally believe tartan is a wardrobe staple at any time of the year... Also I cant wait to get this pattern - I chipped in on kickstarter and this is one of the patterns I was to get! super excited.
Thanks Jennifer, I love me some tartan. Would feel strange wearing it on the beach or something though? Although maybe a tartan swimsuit should be a future make? What do you think?
Ooh with the right size check it could work...maybe with the percut soma pattern?
Thanks Charlotte, I meant every word. Keep doing what your are doing!
Wow, this is lovely! Love the shape of the neckline in this variation. The tartan is fab.


"No Word For Welcome is written with an attention to narrative and prose that is rare among non-fiction works."
A few hours after the Los Angeles Premiere of No Word for Welcome ended on Wednesday evening, I arrived at the Studio City offices of KPFK, the Southern California Pacifica station, for an interview with morning host Hamid Khan. He and I had a most enjoyable conversation about everything from grassroots organizing strategies to shrimp farms to immigration to the history of globalization. You can listen to the twenty-minute interview here.
"Call's new book, No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy, is the result of a decade of research.... It is not only highly informative, but also engaging and personal. In light of current attempts by the US government to enter into NAFTA-like free trade agreements with nations around the world, the people of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec have much to teach us about the human side of globalization."
I am very grateful for his words, and just as grateful for the words of Bertha Rodríguez, an istmeña writer, activist, filmmaker and organizer (who is the Communications Coordinator for the fabulous Oaxaca-California group FIOB, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales), at the Los Angeles event: "I don't know why she called her book No Word for Welcome," Bertha told the audience, "We did welcome her there!"


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Coming Soon to North Yorkshire?
Tim Hicks April 3, 2021 Police
by TIM HICKS
Background: The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill
Recently demonstrators and protestors have changed tactics. They have avoided violent protest, preferring to use disruption tactics to bring cities and transport to a halt. The sit-down protests in key locations by Extinction Rebellion protestors last year were a classic example of this.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill would give Police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop this type of non-violent but disruptive protest. It also brings in measures to protect monuments following the widespread vandalism against statues and monuments in the Black Lives Matter protests, with a new offence making damaging a statue punishable by up to ten years in prison.
The bill would also make trespass a criminal offence to allow the Police to deal with the problems caused by unauthorised encampments. The Police would have the power to seize vehicles and arrest trespassers. Conviction for the new offence could result in a fine of up to £2,500, or up to three months in prison.
Introduction: The Bristol Riots
The NYE readership is highly intelligent and articulate and keeps abreast of current affairs, so I am quite sure that all of our readers will have seen the coverage of the rioting in Bristol.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is controversial and some people chose to express their opposition to this proposed legislation by marching through Bristol. According to media reports, about 3,000 people assembled to march to protest against the bill. An estimated 400 to 500 of them used the protest march as cover to assemble in force and riot, by attacking the Police and vandalising property.
Police cars were set on fire and the Police – who were completely outnumbered – had to retreat into the Bridewell Police Station and call for reinforcements from other Police Forces. At this point the rioters had seized control of the streets and then vandalised the Police Station by spraying it with graffiti and breaking the windows while the Police watched on. They also damaged civilian vehicles and property including cars parked in spaces in a National Car Park reserved for NHS workers.
Statement by Avon & Somerset Police (A&SP) Chief Constable Marsh below:
"Let's be clear, the wanton violence and destruction had nothing to do with protest – it was committed by those looking for an excuse to commit disorder. The scenes we witnessed yesterday were shameful and I know will be condemned by the whole city.
We've received messages of support from across the policing, emergency service and political landscape. No-one wants to see Police Officers abused or attacked in this way. These men and women put their safety on the line every day to keep the public safe, and do not deserve to be on the forefront of this abhorrent criminal behaviour.
20 of our brave Officers suffered various injuries – including two who suffered more serious injuries which needed hospital treatment. I was at a Bristol station last night and can tell you the feeling of anguish was felt by all our Officers and staff at seeing colleagues injured while on the frontline.
Ahead of every protest or significant gathering, we assess the appropriate level of policing resources. There was no prior intelligence that violent acts would be committed on this scale. No specific organiser was identified prior to the event but we did engage with a number of organisations who had expressed an interest in attending to discourage them due to the current COVID-19 restrictions. We hoped stressing the sacrifices the Bristol community had made over the past year would deter people from attending.
A tactical decision was made to deal with these criminals retrospectively and not make a significant number of arrests last night, which would have impacted significantly on our resources at the scene and created a greater risk of damage to property and injuries to the reduced number of Officers left to deal with the disorder.
What the public will see now is a huge Police investigation in which we'll be gathering evidence from CCTV, Body Worn Video, social media content and images/video sent in by the public. We are appealing for people to send in footage so all those responsible can be identified – full details of where to send these will be issued on our website and social media later.
This will undoubtedly lead to one of the biggest appeals for wanted suspects that we've ever done. There will be significant consequences for behaviour like this and we will leave no stone unturned.
The cost of policing this operation, carrying out the subsequent investigation and repairing and replacing our vehicles and damage to our city centre station will run into the millions. This is money which could have been spent on safeguarding and protecting the most vulnerable in our society."
Because the organisers of the riot could not be identified I could not get a statement from them, but a comprehensive national media report can be seen here.
A few observations
It seems to me that there are a number of factors in the rioting that have not been fully aired by the media, even though this is a major issue. These are as follows:
Failure of Police Intelligence
The scale of the rioting caught the Police completely unprepared, because there was no intelligence. This could be because following the furore over the tactics used by undercover Officers in the past, the National Domestic Extremism Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU), which is responsible for infiltrating extremist groups, is more cautious and less effective in gathering intelligence on extremists.
It may also be the case that the various organisations that plan violence against the Police are more cautious now and better able to detect undercover Policemen. This makes the task of gathering intelligence on them very much more difficult and dangerous than in the past.
As a result, the Police were taken by surprise and completely outnumbered.
Why Bristol?
One of the questions that has not been asked, but should have been, is why did the rioters select Bristol as their preferred location to assemble and riot?
One reason may be that it is a former slaving port and therefore because of this aspect of its history, a controversial location. However, I believe there is a different explanation.
In June 2020, a group of removed toppled the statue of local philanthropist and slaver Edward Colston from its pedestal and dropped it into Bristol Harbour, while A&SP watched, but did not make any attempt to intervene. No arrests were made at the time, although a number of people were subsequently arrested and are currently awaiting trial accused of causing criminal damage over the incident. Their decision not to take any action was praised at the time by the Mayor of Bristol.
The concern must be that the rioters chose Bristol for a show of force, because they assessed that they would face a similar response from A&SP when they started rioting.
Criticism of the inconsistent policing of the Sarah Everard vigil by the Metropolitan Police
It has been suggested that senior Police Officers were reluctant to use force due to the criticism the Metropolitan Police received over the way it broke up the vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common, London the previous weekend.
PC Wayne Couzens has been charged with Sarah Everard's murder and many women gathered on Clapham Common to hold a vigil in her memory. The vigil was broken up by the Metropolitan Police; the same force that PC Couzens is from.
According to the Met it broke up the vigil because it was contrary to the Coronavirus Lockdown Regulations. However, it had previously allowed Black Lives Matter demonstrations which were also in violation of the regulations to proceed. This has –understandably- given rise to allegations that the Police are applying a two tier system of policing to demonstrations, by allowing those they approve of and disrupting any they do not like.
This caused a storm of criticism of the Police handling of the vigil, with calls for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to resign, because the Police response to the Sarah Everard vigil was alleged to be disproportionate and heavy handed.
In these politically correct times, Chief Officers are much more conscious of the impact of media and political criticism on the reputation of the Police. It must be a concern that A&SP did not want to be seen cracking down on a demonstration against increasing Police powers, having previously refused to intervene in a Black Lives Matter demonstration and having seen the criticism Commissioner Dick received over the Met's inconsistent policing of protests.
The responsibility of peaceful protesters for the rioting
The presence of large numbers of protesters who were not participating in the violence still assisted the rioters because they could disappear into the crowd and the Police could not isolate troublemakers from the crowd to arrest them.
Those that protested peacefully on Tuesday the 23rd and Friday the 26th of March will have known that there would probably be violence, that they were breaching the Coronavirus lockdown regulations and risking lives. But they still attended.
So in my view anyone that attended any of the protests -even if they did not participate in the rioting- nevertheless has some degree of responsibility for the violence that transpired from it.
The level of violence employed by the rioters
It is obvious that the rioters came armed and ready to inflict violence and criminal damage.
Some had spray paint to vandalise with graffiti, others brought items like skateboards which while innocent enough on their own could be used as improvised weapons or shields. Others had baseball bats. One man is alleged to have come armed with a home-made spear. He denies the offence. Guardian report here.
More concerning, some rioters had what were described by the media as "fireworks". Having seen the size of the explosions caused by these "fireworks" it is clear that these were not Guy Fawkes Night bangers. Video here. They appear to me to be pyrotechnics, possibly improvised/home-made. Be that as it may, they were nevertheless thrown at the Police and into the crowd.
Lasers were shone at the Police. I believe this is the first time lasers have been used in a riot in the UK. BBC Report here. It appears to be a tactic copied from the riots in Portland USA last year, when three federal Police Officers were blinded by lasers. This was at first thought to be permanent, but fortunately they recovered their eyesight in time.
The Police were also pelted with bottles, paint and bricks.
The Police Federation accused the mob of trying to murder Officers by setting fire to the van in which they were trapped. Video of this incident here. Photograph of the incident and the man that is believed to have tried to set the Police van on fire is below.
One of the tactics used by the rioters is even more chilling. This Bristol Post article quotes Inspector Andy Roebuck as stating that the perpetrators had come armed with a substance which they squirted onto the visors of Officers, preventing them from seeing properly. Police then had to remove the visors, he went on to say the rioters "then launched missiles at them and targeted isolated or vulnerable Officers and then dragged them out. You had 10 people attacking them, jumping up and down on them." Chief Constable Marsh has been quoted as saying: "For Officers who were effectively trapped at close quarters, close enough to rip their shields from them and pull their helmets off, there wasn't space to advance or retreat. It was an incredibly frightening evening for the Officers there."
I am old enough to remember the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm riots of 1985. Briefly, a group of eleven constables and a sergeant were protecting firefighters during a riot when they were overwhelmed by the rioters. PC Blakelock was surrounded while he was on the ground, kicked and stamped on, his helmet was ripped off and he was stabbed in the neck. His colleague PC Richard Coombes was also overwhelmed and had his helmet ripped off. He was then slashed across the face, his neck was cut open and he was stamped on so severely that his jaw was broken. PC Michael Shepherd, was hit with a spike and collapsed on the ground next to PC Coombes and both were kicked by the crowd. PC Coombes never recovered from his injuries.
This is very similar to the description given by Chief Constable Marsh above. The conclusion is inescapable that the rioters were trying to rip the Officer's helmets off and drag then into the crowd, so they could overwhelm them and inflict similar injuries.
The organisation of the rioters
It has to said that the rioters were exceptionally well organised at each stage of the riot. Prior to the riot they maintained good security, during the riot they used a higher level of force and more sophisticated weapons than have been seen before and they had legal representation arranged and organised through a website.
There was no advance intelligence of the riot, so the rioters operational security was good, with nothing seeping out via social media or Police informants.
Some of the rioters were from Bristol, but others have travelled from other parts of the country to Bristol. They were able to do this bringing with them the weapons and equipment they used without detection by the Police.
The rioting occurred on three nights, Sunday the 21st, Tuesday the 23rd and Friday the 26th of March 2021 so some of the rioters had accommodation arranged. Further this accommodation was not raided by the Police, so they appear to have been able to keep these locations secret. Again indicating effective security.
After the riots, posters appeared all over Bristol congratulating the rioters and giving advice on how to destroy evidence, advising them not to talk to the Police, not to put footage online or identify themselves and others on line. Showing the rioters were forensically aware and had taken steps to defeat the Police investigation they knew would follow the rioting.
The posters gave the contact details for solicitors, who had been arranged in advance for those who were arrested. It is unclear who arranged this. These two websites https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/ and https://greenandblackcross.org/ give advice to rioters on what to do if they are arrested. One of the websites gives advice on how to avoid Police electronic surveillance of their 'phones and computers, demonstrating that the rioters are electronic surveillance aware.
The poster gives advice on how to write witness statements describing Police brutality and how to make complaints against the Police. There were people there who labelled themselves as "Legal Observers" whose purpose is unclear. It may be to act as witnesses in support of allegations of misconduct against the Police. Video clip of a rioter having her hair pulled out by another rioter when he was trying to prevent her arrest, then alleging to the media that the Police had done it here.
Full text of the poster can be read in this Bristol Post article
The riots in Bristol were obviously organised and are probably the most sophisticated ever seen in the UK. They may also be amongst the most violent. I am very surprised that no Police Officers were seriously injured or killed.
I suspect that those who went to the protest looking for trouble will have by now assessed the outcome and concluded that they scored a major victory over the Police.
In my opinion – as it currently stands – they probably did.
The rioters demonstrated that they could organise securely and apply a much higher level of violence than has been seen in disorder in the UK since 1985. They were able to seize control of the streets and force the Police onto the defensive. They then humiliated the Police by making them watch while they vandalised a Police station and Police cars with impunity. Very few arrests have been made.
I say "as it currently stands" because if the investigation into the riots identifies large numbers of the rioters and they are convicted and robustly sentenced by the courts, this will change this perception and may help deter further disorder. We shall see.
Photographs of those sought by Police can be seen by clicking this link: Avon & Somerset Police Images released as part of investigation into Bristol disorder. The investigation into the riots is ongoing and the images will be added to as the investigation progresses.
The role of the media when covering rioting
The media must be balanced and impartial in its coverage of civil disorder and this presents particular challenges for the media. Going into the crowd puts journalists at risk, both from the rioters and from any action the Police may take. It has been alleged that Police confronted a journalist and in response Avon and Somerset Police issued this statement:
"We're aware of a video showing a journalist being confronted by Officers during last night's protest in Bristol. We're making efforts to contact him. A free press is a cornerstone of democracy & we fully respect the media's vital role in reporting events fairly and accurately"
However, if journalists stay safely behind the Police lines, they are accused of bias and not seeing events from the rioter's perspective. We should not forget that one journalist was attacked by the rioters. It is unclear why, but it may have been because they did not want his footage to be used to identify them.
Following any crime, the media has a duty to assist the Police in its investigations by publishing appeals for information. Many media sources have published photographs of those the Police wish to speak to like the one below.
Other than the use of the word "Fireworks" referred to above, I think that the media coverage has been balanced and accurate. The footage of the events has shown what actually unfolded on all three nights of disorder.
The morality of protestors and the implications for North Yorkshire
Protestors assert that they are more virtuous and intelligent than the rest of us. They then attach themselves to whatever issue is current at the time e.g. Extinction Rebellion, outrage over the death of Sarah Everard, Black Lives Matter, concerns about the erosion of civil liberties caused by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill etc. and assert they are acting for a higher moral purpose.
This false proposition is then used to justify them breaking the law, doing whatever they please and inflicting whatever level of violence they deem appropriate on the Police. But are absolved from any responsibility for the consequences of their actions because they are acting for a higher moral cause. A classic example is Extinction Rebellion refusing to let an ambulance pass during the disruption they caused.
The violent disorder at Bristol occurred at one Police station. A&SP had to call for assistance from several forces before order could be restored. If the disorder had been coordinated with attacks on other stations in the area, the Police may well have been overwhelmed. The concern must be that, encouraged by their success in Bristol, other riots will be organised at multiple locations.
The inconsistent approach taken by many Police forces to enforcing the Coronavirus Lockdown Regulations means it is now impossible for the Police to avoid the allegation of bias when trying to enforce the regulations on protests, further inflaming the situation.
As an example, the response by North Yorkshire Police (NYP) to members of the public that wanted to make a tribute to Sarah Everard was very well handled (NYP Statement here). But how can NYP prohibit a protest on the grounds that it contravenes the lockdown regulations, when Chief Constable Winward has refused to apply the regulations to herself and over thirty of her Officers? NYE report here.
I remember the riots across many towns and cities across the UK in 1981. The willingness of protestors to attach themselves to any cause, coupled with the level of organisation and security they obviously have, means that any demonstration for any cause anywhere could be taken over in the same way as the Bristol event was.
I therefore fear that we will see other acts of disorder this year in many British towns and cities, including some in North Yorkshire.
If you are mentioned in this article and do not agree with the views expressed in it, or if you wish to correct any factual inaccuracy, please let me know using the letters@nyenquirer.uk e mail address. Your views and a correction will be published if appropriate.
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R6 Gerraint: Fort Guinnon, part 2 of 3
March 5, 2019 February 21, 2019 M G Kizzia Leave a comment
Things were going along so well by the late fall, when the first snows fell, Arthur thought to take a trip out of York. He went guarded by five hundred men, so the journey moved rather slow, but he needed to get out, not the least from under Meryddin's gaze. Curiously, it was Meryddin who suggested the visits.
Arthur visited Loth first, and Loth made a grand show of welcoming him. Loth declared how pleased he felt that things with the Scots appeared to be settling peacefully, and without bloodshed—though there were a few minor incidents. Arthur accepted Loth's praise, but he did not stay long. Seeing Gwenhwyfach and Medrawt made him uncomfortable.
He brought his five hundred along the wall itself until he reached Kai's home in the Fort called Guinnon. Kai said he felt uncertain about what might really be happening among the Scots. He said there seemed to be something else going on besides the families peacefully emigrating into Britain. Arthur did not want to hear that, but Kai's worry proved valid when they awoke one morning to find the fort surrounded by several thousand Scottish warriors. Arthur had telegraphed where he headed by moving along the wall, and the Scots concluded if they could get rid of Arthur, Britain, or at least north Britain might be theirs for the taking.
Kai had three hundred men stationed regularly at the fort, and with Arthur's five hundred, that made a considerable force. But eight hundred men was not exactly a fair match against several thousand, even if the eight hundred had fort walls to hide behind. Arthur knew he got in a bind. His army remained scattered all over the countryside in small groups. There were an additional eight hundred foot soldiers at York he could call on, but he had no way of sending them word of his predicament.
The assault on the fort that first day was not serious. The Scottish commander tested their defenses, and the Scots were soundly beaten back. After that, it looked like the Scots appeared in no hurry. They must have figured they had a couple of weeks before word of what was happening reached York, and probably a couple of weeks after that before all of Arthur's men could be gathered.
As it turned out, on that first morning, Lord Pinewood found Gerraint with his troops traveling slowly up a back road. Gerraint immediately sent fairy messengers to all the other troop commanders and to Captain Croydon in York. He made a command decision not to gather all the troops back at York and then make a long march to Fort Guinnon. He told everyone to ride to Arthur's relief as soon as possible. He feared the time might be short.
Peredur and his troops were the first to arrive, and they made a dash for the front gate. They found too many Scots outside the gate. Peredur got part way to his goal and stalled. It would have been worse if Arthur had not seen. He hobbled together two hundred men and made a dash out of the gate to come to Peredur's relief. It became enough to break the hold around Peredur's men, but the sheer numbers of Scots soon began to tell, even if they were initially caught by surprise. Peredur and his men were able to make a break for the open countryside and escape. Arthur had to withdraw again behind the strong fort walls. But Peredur lost nearly a quarter of his men, and they accomplished nothing.
The Scots did not chase Peredur out into the wilderness. The Scottish commander may have concluded that one of Arthur's wandering groups got closer than his scouts reported, but the numbers of any given group would be small. They would watch, but not worry about it.
Pelenor arrived and found Peredur licking his wounds. "We need to wait for one or two others," Pelenor concluded. "Let's watch first and see what their plans are, and then see if we can disrupt them." So, they set in to watch while the Scots felled lumber and built great siege towers they could push up to the wall.
The towers were built in the woods where they could remain hidden from the fort, but Peredur and Pelenor watched closely. Peredur argued for a quick strike to set the towers on fire before they could be used. Pelenor insisted in this late fall mud the contraptions would never reach the walls before they bogged down or fell apart. They were still watching when Tristam arrived and almost rode to the relief of the fort before they could stop him. Since Peredur's attack on the front gate, the Scots had entrenched their position and would have shredded Tristam's men.
Tristam also argued in favor of destroying the towers before they could be completed, and Pelenor conceded to being out voted. They were just in the process of drawing up plans when Gerraint arrived and changed the plans again.
"You are focused on the wrong thing," he said. "We need to strike at the workers and drive them off, but leave the towers standing as a temptation for more men to come and continue the work. Then we hit them again. They suffer enough casualties and they won't be able to convince enough men to finish the job."
"I see that working twice, maybe." Tristam said. "Then they will post a large guard on the work."
"So we burn the towers on the second strike," Pelenor said.
"Yes," Peredur agreed. "But Gerraint has a point. Our effort needs to be focused on disrupting the army, not their building project."
They argued for a time before they were set, and in the process, they realized that the main force of the enemy collected outside the small, back gate rather than the front. Gerraint offered the obvious conclusion.
"They strike the front gate at dawn with enough men to draw the fort defenders to the front. When the fighting gets fierce, they bring up their main force with the towers to the back and break in against light resistance."
"Like a fox," Pelenor said. "But considering where they are building the towers, I have no doubt what you say is true."
Arthur was not about to be fooled, especially after word arrived via fairy messenger. He could see the Scots gathering by the front gate, but he could not really tell what might be happening out back. He might have been taken in by the ruse if Gerraint had not warned him. Even so, he realistically had to split his forces, with half up front to repel the attack there. He felt sure, given the overwhelming numbers of Scots, all eight hundred might not be enough to repel the frontal assault, much less the bigger assault on his rear.
Lord Pinewood came to the fort with his fairy archers, flying over the wall in the dark, and that became some relief for Arthur. But Pinewood told Arthur he had been commanded only to watch the walls on the sides, the one overlooking the farm fields and the one overlooking the village, long since burned to the ground. He was not allowed to participate in the fight at the front and back gates, and had strict instructions to leave if the Scots broke in.
"I'm grateful for whatever you do," Arthur said. He understood. He did not want to see the fairies killed any more than Gerraint.
Pinewood had not finished. "Of course, a square has a front side and a back side too, you know." Arthur wisely said nothing.
When the expected dawn came, and it felt hard to tell because the sky turned so grey and overcast, the attack got delayed. Out back, the Scots managed to save three of the seven towers they were building and decided that was enough. Three thousand men were chomping at the bit, wondering what might be wrong up front.
Up front, the commanders of the attack were being pinned down by elf archers. Percival had prevailed on Gerraint's fairy messenger to seek out Deerrunner and his troop to meet them at the fort. He picked up Bedwyr on the way, and with Ederyn only a half day behind, he only hoped to arrive in time. The only trouble was two of every three men were foot soldiers. When Ederyn caught up with a forced march, that gave Percival three hundred on horseback. The six hundred foot soldiers would need rest, even those not on the forced march, but Percival became determined to waste no more time. He and Bedwyr rode off into the night. They imagined the footmen might arrive sometime late the next day.
Deerrunner managed to pin down the commanders for the frontal assault. No amount of circling around was able to fool the elves, though the Scots did not know who they were. The Scots imagined they were some of the men who harassed the tower construction and sent a troop of horse men to roust them out. But the horsemen were slain with inhuman skill, the elves rarely needing more than one arrow to finish the job, and the Scots still could not move.
Somehow, word went out to the line officers, and the attack began, but things did not go as well for the Scots at the front gate as they might have gone. The fort, built like many forts in the day, had stone six feet high and whole logs rising another ten feet above that with a walkway on the back, also wood, four feet from the top.
The Scots had three catapults, not the small, portable ones Arthur and Gerraint so cleverly devised, but good old fashioned clunkers. They might have done some real damage heaving stones into the fort. They might have been a real problem heaving stones against the wooden part of the wall. But the Scots were so impressed with the damage and terror caused by Arthur's pitch and tar mix, they tried to do the same. They did not have Arthur's formula for the oil and grease mess that spattered fire and could not be put out with water, but they did their best with pine branches full of tars and resins. Most shots hit the wall, whether intended or not, and they did set sections of the wall aflame.
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Peter Paul Gillen (1858-1896), shopkeeper and politician, was born on 7 July 1858 at Golden Grove, Adelaide, second son of Thomas Gillen, labourer, and his wife Bridget, née McCan, both formerly of Cavan, Ireland. They moved up-country to Clare in 1862 where Peter attended R. Graham and L. W. Stanton's schools. An early bout of rheumatic fever left him weak, with a heart malfunction. He worked at Andrew Clarke's general store and on 24 May 1881 married Mary Gertrude Cousins at St Aloysius Church, Sevenhill.
Later he partnered his uncle Philip in a general storekeeping business, P. & P. P. Gillen. An active debater and land reformer, in 1882 he became secretary of the Irish Land League committee. Although never a shearer, he helped form the local branch of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia. He was committed to his depressed district's development, and urged farmers to diversify. In 1887 he was elected a town councillor.
Gillen was also actively involved in the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, several Adelaide Catholic literary societies, the Catholic Southern Cross, the Australian Natives' Association and several Western Australian mining companies.
Disregarding medical advice, he won the House of Assembly seat of Stanley, at a by-election in 1889, supported by the Catholics and the Licensed Victuallers' Association (although he was a teetotaller). In parliament his aggressive, excitable nature, rapid speech, and uncompromising attitude drew criticism. He favoured protection, Federation, the expansion of South Australia's rural industries and the resumption of large estates for small farmers, although he opposed the single tax. He soon lost his stridency, became very popular, and aligned himself with the radical liberals.
In 1892 Gillen was commissioner of crown lands and immigration in the short-lived Holder ministry, and he held the same portfolio with C. C. Kingston next year. He sponsored village settlements, a device to place unemployed men on the land which was seen by conservatives as socialistic. At his death he was working on a major revision of pastoral legislation and on a speech for the new bill's second reading (passed in December).
Gillen's doctor had warned him against excitement; he did not expect to live long. On 22 September 1896 he suffered a heart attack during a cabinet meeting and died. He was survived by his wife (d.1929), five sons and a daughter and, after a state funeral, was buried at Sevenhill, near Clare. His colleagues' eulogies stressed Gillen's love for the poor and Kingston recalled that his last words had been 'benevolent counsels for the aid of the necessitous'. Gillentown near Clare and Gillen on the River Murray were named after him. His brother, Francis James Gillen, was a prominent ethnologist and explorer.
Chronicle (Adelaide), and Weekly Herald (Adelaide), 26 Sept 1896.
Rob Van Den Hoorn, 'Gillen, Peter Paul (1858–1896)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gillen-peter-paul-6384/text10909, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 20 April 2019.


I am the great nephew of James Crozier. I had never really heard of James until about 5 years ago. Actually, not until the book, Forgotten Solders, Irishmen Shot at Dawn was brought to my attention. My father recently passed away but before his death, as the oldest mail relative of James, my Dad received the letter of pardon. It meant a great deal to him, his sisters and the rest of our family. I recently had the honor of traveling to the Somme, I visited the cellar were James was reported held and found and paid my respects at his grave.
And by the way, he was not underage.
yes, it is true that "Posthumous pardons are about rebuilding a person's legacy." But just as important – and maybe even more important! – it is about authorities recognizing a wrong and, in some respect at least, taking some ownership of that. Of course a wrong done cannot usually be undone, and certainly not a wrong such as this! But at least there is recognition, and perhaps – just maybe – there will be fewer such wrongs committed in the future, at least in the near future, from the time of that recognition.
I am working on a sympathetic audio visual on the fate of James Crozier following a visit to the Somme and the National Arboretum at Arlewas. For a complete picture I have tried to find a photograph of James but without success. I am prepared to forward a copy of the AV to anybody interested or can supply a photograph.
Found the original story while searching family name Crozier. I remember how it bothered me for some time after reading such a tragic story. I'm glad to see he was eventually pardoned. It is does help set things right. Poor guy.
Posthumous pardons are about rebuilding a person's legacy. It's for that person's friends and family. That's why Pvt. Slovik's wife has lobbied 7 presidents to pardon him. The thing about this story is the brutality with which it was carried out. It's simply unbelievable what people can be capable of.


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package com.evolveum.midpoint.model.impl.lens;

import com.evolveum.midpoint.model.common.expression.evaluator.caching.AssociationSearchExpressionEvaluatorCache;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.provisioning.api.ResourceObjectChangeListener;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.provisioning.api.ResourceObjectShadowChangeDescription;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.provisioning.api.ResourceOperationDescription;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.provisioning.api.ResourceOperationListener;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.schema.result.OperationResult;
import com.evolveum.midpoint.task.api.Task;

/**
 * @author Pavol Mederly
 */
class AssociationSearchExpressionCacheInvalidator implements ResourceOperationListener, ResourceObjectChangeListener {

	private AssociationSearchExpressionEvaluatorCache cache;

	public AssociationSearchExpressionCacheInvalidator(AssociationSearchExpressionEvaluatorCache cache) {
		this.cache = cache;
	}

	@Override
	public void notifyChange(ResourceObjectShadowChangeDescription change, Task task, OperationResult parentResult) {
		cache.invalidate(change.getResource(), change.getCurrentShadow());
	}

	@Override
	public void notifySuccess(ResourceOperationDescription operationDescription, Task task, OperationResult parentResult) {
		notifyAny(operationDescription);
	}

	// we are quite paranoid, so we'll process also failures and in-progress events

	@Override
	public void notifyFailure(ResourceOperationDescription operationDescription, Task task, OperationResult parentResult) {
		notifyAny(operationDescription);
	}

	@Override
	public void notifyInProgress(ResourceOperationDescription operationDescription, Task task, OperationResult parentResult) {
		notifyAny(operationDescription);
	}

	private void notifyAny(ResourceOperationDescription operationDescription) {
		cache.invalidate(operationDescription.getResource(), operationDescription.getCurrentShadow());
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return "AbstractSearchExpressionEvaluatorCache invalidator";
	}
}

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We were wowed by all the beautiful work that was created in our Hand-Coloring Photographs class with Kate Breakey! The participants made digital prints of their images, coated them with a variety of media to prepare the surface, and then applied color in the form of transparent oil paints, colored pencils, and chalk pastels. Over the four-day class our students were able to relax and get in the groove of coloring, and Kate shared many valuable insights on how to achieve certain color tones and textural effects. What a fun class!


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Mikołaj z Błażejowa, Mikołaj z Błażejowic herbu Odrowąż (ur. ok. 1405, zm. 21 lipca 1474 w Brzozowie) – biskup przemyski, kanclerz Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w 1434 roku, sekretarz Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w 1432 roku, sekretarz królewski w 1451 roku, dziekan sandomierski w 1452 roku, prepozyt wileński w 1449 roku, kustosz krakowski w 1454 roku, kanonik gnieźnieński w 1452 roku.

Studiował w Akademii Krakowskiej w 1422 roku. Po studiach, został kustoszem katedry krakowskiej i sekretarzem królewskim. W dniu 11 sierpnia 1452 prekonizowany biskupem przemyskim. Od króla Kazimierza Jagiellończyka otrzymał liczne przywileje dla diecezji. Rozpoczął budowę nowej katedry. Wprowadził nowe prawodawstwo kapitulne. Erygował wiele nowych parafii na terenie diecezji przemyskiej. Brał czynny udział w działalności politycznej.

Za jego rządów do diecezji przybyli bernardyni, którzy w 1465 objęli klasztor świętej Barbary w Przeworsku, ufundowany cztery lata wcześniej przez Rafała Jakuba Jarosławskiego.

Był gwarantem pokoju toruńskiego 1466 roku.

Bibliografia
 ks. Piotr Nitecki: Biskupi Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce w latach 965-1999. Słownik biograficzny, wyd. II popr. i uzupeł., Warszawa 2000, k. 34. .

Literatura dodatkowa
  Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989,

Przypisy

Absolwenci i studenci Akademii Krakowskiej
Biskupi przemyscy (Kościół rzymskokatolicki)
Duchowni katoliccy – szlachta I Rzeczypospolitej
Duchowni łacińskiej diecezji przemyskiej (I Rzeczpospolita)
Dziekani sandomierskiej kapituły kolegiackiej
Gwaranci pokoju toruńskiego (1466)
Kanonicy gnieźnieńscy
Kustosze krakowskiej kapituły katedralnej
Odrowążowie
Prepozyci wileńskiej kapituły katedralnej
Sekretarze Kazimierza IV Jagiellończyka
Zmarli w 1474
Urodzeni w XV wieku
Urzędnicy kancelarii królewskiej I Rzeczypospolitej

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The United States has already imposed sanctions against Maduro for human rights abuses and blamed him for Venezuela's current economic and political crises.
But the narcotics trade charge, leveled in a U.S. Treasury statement justifying sanctions on Socialist Party official Diosdado Cabello, sharpened Washington's accusations against Maduro as he prepares for Venezuela's controversial presidential elections on Sunday.
"As of March 2017, Cabello seized drug loads from small-scale drug traffickers, and combined and exported them through a Venezuelan government-owned airport," the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.
"Cabello, along with President Maduro and others, divided proceeds from these narcotics shipments," the Treasury said.
Venezuela's Information Ministry, which handles media requests for the government, did not respond to a request for comment.
It also blacklisted businessman Rafael Alfredo Sarria Diaz, who it said was Cabello's front man, and blocked his three Florida-based companies - 11420 Corp, Noor Plantation Investments LLC and SAI Advisors Inc.
The latest sanctions come as Washington ramps up pressure on senior Venezuelan figures for their role in the country's severe economic and social crisis, with millions suffering food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and growing insecurity.
It also comes ahead of Sunday's presidential elections, which Maduro is expected to win amid a boycott by opposition parties.
It said he had laundered money through Costa Rica and Russia, and organized drug shipments from Venezuela through the Dominican Republic into Europe.
"The Venezuelan people suffer under corrupt politicians who tighten their grip on power while lining their own pockets," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
"We are imposing costs on figures like Diosdado Cabello who exploit their official positions to engage in narcotics trafficking, money laundering, embezzlement of state funds, and other corrupt activities," he added.
Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Robert Menendez in January called on the Justice Department to investigate allegations of drug trafficking by senior officials in Maduro's government.
Washington has used sanctions to pressure Maduro's government, cutting off its access to the financial system and restricting travel by senior officials.
Maduro has blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for the deep recession and hyperinflation that has caused food shortages in Venezuela and sent an exodus of migrants into neighboring countries.
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It's every parent's nightmare to watch their adorable kid turn into a raging mess within seconds, especially in public (worst nightmare). These tantrums are just your tyrant's way of saying something which they are unable to express in a civil manner that does not scare the innocent bystanders in the surrounding area. Whether these tantrums are executed at home or in public, here are some tips (with insights from some of our favourite Pakistani mummy bloggers) to help you brace yourself and nip them in the bud.
Most temper tantrums occur between the ages of 18 months to 4 years. Kids don't have the ability to fully express how they're feeling.
"The only way to effectively shut down a child's temper tantrum is to deal with it beforehand. Make sure you keep your kid busy. Make sure they're not tired, not hungry or there's nothing that's really upsetting them. So, it's really about communication," says Mishayl Naek from Yummy Mummy Network. If they're upset, an explosion of anger is likely to occur.
If you lose your cool, it'll only result in temper escalation (which is something you don't want). Your child takes cues from you on how to react to a situation. They won't calm down till you do. Move your child away from the source of their anger and give them a chance to recover. Keep your voice steady and get down to their level, look them in the eye and talk to them calmly about what's upsetting them.
Face it; in a tantrum situation, your child is the boss. Okay, we all know you're the real boss here but in this situation, your child has more control over you than you have over him. Remember what we said about keeping calm?
Shaharbano from @themeinm0mmy suggests, "Take a deep breath and then try and divert their attention. Telling them to stop or trying to reason won't get you anywhere. Distracting is a strategy that works!" Save your no's for really important situations.
Unless your child is physically endangering himself or others, ignore him. By taking away your attention completely, you won't reinforce his undesirable behavior. Help your child develop understanding of his wants, needs and emotions. Walk out of the room and set a timer for a few minutes to check on him. Take away a privilege and put him in a timeout if necessary. But save time-outs for harmful behavior; the more you use them, the less effective they become.
Bear in mind that prevention is better than cure. Making sure your child is well-rested and not overly stressed can prevent many tantrums.
Temper tantrums are inevitable and unavoidable. They are just a part of life. What matters is how effectively, you choose to deal with them – there is no such thing as an impossible tantrum.


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2020 Mardi Gras Party will stay at Hordern Pavilion while RHI is redeveloped
21 August 2019 Festivals, News
The biggest LGBTQI Party of the year, the spectacular Mardi Gras Party is confirmed to be held at the Hordern Pavilion and surrounding precinct after the Parade on Saturday 29 February 2020.
The Royal Hall of Industries (RHI) will be under redevelopment in summer 2020, so next year's Mardi Gras Party will transform the Hordern Pavilion, Max Watts, PJ Gallagher's, Backyard Burger Bar and other new event spaces, uniting over 10,000 partygoers with sensational shows from visiting stars, the best local/international DJs, plus stunning lighting and sound production.
The Mardi Gras team continues to work closely with Playbill Venues to ensure the annual Party remains the biggest and best in the southern hemisphere and continues to be held at the Hordern Pavilion and surrounding precinct for as long as possible into the future.
Following a NSW State Government tender process, both the Hordern and RHI are now under lease by the PlayOn Group, a partnership between Playbill Venues and the Sydney Swans. $65 million will be invested to revitalise the Hordern and RHI.
Playbill Venues will rejuvenate the Hordern – making it even better as a Party space with vastly improved facilities – while the Sydney Swans will repurpose the RHI as their new headquarters and community centre. The RHI plans include a multipurpose indoor recreation space which will be available for community events, and a forecourt plaza offering a new outdoor event destination.
The multipurpose space within the RHI will be available for use at future Parties should Mardi Gras wish to continue using it. It's expected the multipurpose space will be available for use from the 2021 Party onwards.
The Hordern Pavilion has recently submitted a Development Application to the City of Sydney to allow the planned refurbishment works to commence. Some minor works will be undertaken prior to February 2020 with all significant works scheduled to take place post the 2020 Mardi Gras Party. Playbill Venues has guaranteed that the Hordern Pavilion will be fully operational for the 2020 Party.
"Both buildings (Hordern & RHI) will remain available for the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which has been an important part of the precinct since the 1980s," say the Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust.
Further information about the 2020 Mardi Gras Party and many exciting announcements about the guest entertainment line-up will be made in spring when the 2020 season of events is launched. For more information, visit: www.mardigras.org.au for details.
Image: The Mardi Gras Party – courtesy of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras


HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Memorial Day weekend has two solid sequels set to pack cinemas --- Hangover II and Kung Fu Panda II. The films which will show on multiple screens start on THURSDAY, so that means "last showings" of product not held over will be Wednesday. With Monday a holiday, most theatres will have matinee showings through Monday.


The WinPath4 continues the carrier-grade Ethernet focus of its predecessors as the fourth generation of WinPath products. Next generation protocols have been added along with a new level of performance, all the while supporting legacy applications and continuing Microsemi's proven formula as a complete networking solution.
The WinPath4 integrates control plane and enhanced data plane processing components. Control plane processing is based on two high-performance MIPS 34K multi-threaded processors. Data plane processing uses dedicated hardware accelerators for packet classification, hierarchical shaping, additional security standards and more to off-load common processing tasks. The accelerators are flexibly combined with a field-proven, fully-programmable, high-performance multi-threaded multi-core data path processor subsystem. 48 cores are available (up from 12 in the WinPath3) and operating speed has increased.
The WinPath4 leverages a broad set of supplied protocols developed over the years and hardened in production environments all over the world. These include support for interworking (MPLS, IPv4/IPv6 Routing, VLAN-aware bridging), QoS (policing, shaping, per-flow queuing, WRED), Packet Network Synchronization (IEEE 1588v2, Synchronous Ethernet, adaptive and differential clock recovery), OAM (Ethernet, MPLS, ATM), L2 and L3 termination (Ethernet, ML-PPP, IMA, CES), PWE3 (Ethernet, TDM, HDLC, ATM) and more.
The WinPath4 family is supported with WDS4 reference boards for early software development while a customer's own board is being developed. WDS4 boards are also valuable for verifying functionality when migrating to new software releases and for duplicating system conditions for support purposes. They are available with various I/O options and adapter cards to provide equivalent configurations for a range of applications.


Members of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), a global coalition of whistleblowing-support NGOs, call on PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Luxembourg to withdraw its complaint against Antoine Deltour, the whistleblower at the heart of the Luxleaks scandal.
"[Antoine] Mr Deltour acted in the tradition of public interest whistleblowers. His disclosure is consistent with international principles and standards that inform a growing body of national whistleblowing statutes. There is no evidence to suggest that he acted untruthfully. His disclosures were manifestly in the public interest. He did not seek to profit from his disclosures. Nor did he have reason to believe that, had he used internal channels to make his disclosures, his concerns would occasion remedial action. His prosecution because of your company's criminal complaint suggests his assessment was accurate."


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MANICALAND & MASH EAST
Man rapes minor in kraal
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Manicaland Correspondent
A Marange man has appeared in court on allegations of raping his neighbour's minor daughter in a kraal.
Hondo Chikara (58), of Chikara Village under Chief Marange, appeared at the Mutare Magistrates' Court facing charges of raping his neighbour's 11-year-old daughter.
Chikara was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before magistrate Ms Perseverance Makhala charged with rape.
Ms Makhala remanded Chikara in custody to February 11 and advised him to approach the High Court for bail application.
State counsel Ms Perseverance Musukuto alleged that sometime in July last year at around 5pm, Chikara spotted the girl while she was searching for one of her father's cattle.
The court heard that Chikara approached her when she was nearing his kraal, grabbed and floored her.
It is the State's case that the girl screamed, but no one came to her rescue.
Chikara, the State alleged, then raped the minor.
The court heard that the girl's father arrived near the scene while calling his daughter.
"Chikara released the minor who ran and stood a few metres away while crying," Ms Musukuto said. "The complainant's father asked her why it took her long to return home and this is when the complainant spilled the beans."
In December last year, the 11-year-old developed some genital warts, which forced her mother to take the matter to the police, leading to Chikara's arrest.
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On 5 October 2017, at the prestigious location of Leonardo da Vinci's Vineyards – Casa degli Atellani – Milan, Vegea presented Its biobased technical textiles obtained from wine industry biomass.
The event, sponsored by Milan's City Hall, had the aim to show the great potential and versatility of the biobased material, which has been proven to be suitable for fashion, furniture, automotive and packaging applications.
Supported by H&M Foundation and in collaboration with ecodesigner Tiziano Guardini, winner of the last Green Carpet Competition held during Milan Fashion Week (from 20 to 25 September), Vegea developed the first prototypes for dresses, handbags and shoes. Many worldwide brands, investors and media attended the event, this proving how the apparel Industry in particular, is interested in the development of ecosustainable materials and is willing to use solutions like Vegea for Its collections, in alternative to the traditional materials that are currently used.
"Vegea's purpose is to reduce industry waste through the valorisation of agroindustry byproducts and their transformation into innovative low environmental footprint materials." said Gianpiero Tessitore, Owner of Vegea. "I am deeply delighted with the success and the appreciations we received from prestigious worldwide fashion brands. It is the proof that we are investing and going in the right direction", continued Tessitore.


DO YOU WORRY BECAUSE YOUR CHILD IS FALLING FURTHER BEHIND IN READING AND YOU HAVE NOT FOUND THE ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM?
I want you to know this is not anyones fault and it can be corrected as you will see below.
You need not wait to wait any longer. Together we can stop your worry and begin improving your child's reading and self esteem.
In fact, by acting now, we can have your child caught up in reading before the Fall semester begins.
I will find the real problem causing your child's reading struggles and show it to you.
You will be able to actually see the problem and we will discuss your questions.
Afterward we will consider solutions to correct the problem.
We can have this completed in about an hour.


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Q: React Router V4 - Uncaught TypeError: location.search.charAt is not a function Since React Router change from "query" to "search".
I use the following code to query from search
Query function:
  setFilter(query) {
        this.props.history.push({ pathname: this.props.location.pathname, search: query });
  }

Search Parameter:
 applyFilter() {
    const newFilter = {};
    if (this.state.content) {
        newFilter.content = this.state.content;
    }
    if (this.state.fromDate) {
        newFilter.fromDate = this.state.fromDate;
    }
    if (this.state.toDate) {
        newFilter.toDate = this.state.toDate;
        }
    this.props.setFilter(newFilter);
  }

But I get the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: location.search.charAt is not a function

How can I fix this problem?

A: You have to pass a string to search property as explained on docs, not an object

A: Something else that worked for me is this:
  setFilter(query) {
        const searchParamsObject = new URLSearchParams(query);
        this.props.history.push({ pathname: this.props.location.pathname, search: searchParamsObject.toString() });
  }

A: As mentioned in comments. You need to remove query object to fix the issue
setFilter(query) {
    this.props.history.push({ pathname: this.props.location.pathname});
    //use query object here or wherever required
}

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Police have come across a toy in bushland near Kendall during a forensic search to help uncover fresh evidence in the case of missing boy William Tyrrell.
Other bags of evidence were also collected during the first day of a four-week search into the disappearance of the then 3-year-old, who vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's yard in 2014, but it is too early to confirm if any of these findings are linked to William.
On Wednesday, about 50 officers from the public order and riot squad spent the day raking through about 600 square metres of bush with picks, hoes and shovels. Sniffer dogs were also deployed in the area.
Police are set to move across the road today but will likely cover a slightly smaller area due to thick and tough terrain.
This new operation, announced on Tuesday, has high hopes of uncovering clues that will give investigators insight into what happened to little William, who hasn't been seen or heard from since his disappearance on September 12, 2014.
Over four weeks, officers will conduct an extensive search of roughly 3 square kilometres of bushland in Kendall, on the mid-north coast of NSW.
The main difference between this search and the initial search when William first disappeared is the intention behind the operation.
"The initial search, while extensive, was focused only on finding William - a little boy who was lost - and not with a view of deliberate human intervention," said police in a statement.
Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin has said that the purpose is now on finding definitive evidence that can be used in court to prove that William may have met with foul play.
"Based on the original search and from our investigation it's reasonable to draw conclusion that William's disappearance was result of human intervention and not misadventure," said Detective Jubelin.
At this stage, police still have hope that William could still be alive and will not lose faith until they find conclusive evidence that his is not. In saying this, Detective Jubelin said they have, "grave, grave fears" for the boy's wellbeing.
He also believes people do know what happened to William and reiterated the $1 million reward for information leading to his recovery.
The search will resume later this morning.


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The robot trained with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm learnt to walk straight after about 20000 episodes.
The reinforcement learning model was implemented with Tensorflow.
The physical model was created with PyChrono the Python Extension of Project Chrono (https://projectchrono.org/).
Chrono has several advantages over MuJoco since, for instance, it's free, it's open source and can handle stiff contacts and deformable bodies.
Welll done! Let us see the code on github!


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IFC picks up Kids in the Hall miniseries, brings Onion News Network to TV
To everyone who thought the latest Kids in the Hall miniseries would make its American debut on HBO...surprise!
IFC announced today (as relayed by friend of the blog, Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times) that it had picked up the U.S. TV rights to Death Comes to Town, the KITH 8-episode miniseries, which will air this August. Previously: See the trailer.
But that's not all! IFC also will be taking everyone's favorite fake Internet news parody, Onion News Network, and turning it into an actual fake half-hour TV news program.
This is in addition to the previously known news that IFC had acquired the U.S. rights to David Cross' upcoming series, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret." I had showed you the pilot. But don't feel like it's a spoiler, because I've learned that it's being reshot due to a cast change (Cross is still starring, so chill). It'll air here in October.
Here's the most recent Onion News Network segment to hit the Internets, focusing on the "new" "book," "Wake Up! He's a Shapeshifter!" Roll it.
And here's another for good March Madness measure, since Kentucky hasn't busted your brackets. Yet.
Mar 22, 2010 3:36:42 PM | David Cross, Kids in the Hall, The Onion
Scenes from outside Gotham, Bryson Turner, #67 in line for auditions for NBC's Last Comic Standing As I scanned the line outside of Gotham Comedy Club overnight, with several hours still remaining before NBC production staff for Last Comic Standing would arrive to open the doors for the "open call" auditions for season 7, I was...
Sinbad: Where U Been? Not quitting his night job, obviously getting fired from Celebrity Apprentice Spoiler alert! No, not really. Despite Joan Rivers prevailing the last time Donald Trump played the celebrity bored game of Apprentice, this TV competition is not kind to stand-up comedians, and after Carol Leifer was first to get the boot,...


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Q: Lebesgue- integrability of powers 2 and 3 of a function Let $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ , and $f^2$ is L-integrable, is $f$ also L-integrable? What if $f^3$ is L-integrable?

A: If $A$ is a non-measurable subset of $[0,1]$ then
$$
f(x)=\begin{cases} 1 & \text{if }x\in A \\ -1 & \text{if }x\not\in A \end{cases}
$$
is not measurable, but its square is Lebesgue-integrable.
However, if $f$ is measurable, then integrability of $f^2$ does imply that of $f$.  To show this you need to rely on the fact that the measure of the domain is finite.  You have
$$
\int_{[0,1]} |f| \le \int\left.\begin{cases} |f| & \text{on }\{|f|\le 1\} \\  f^2 & \text{on } \{f>1\} \end{cases}\right\} \le 1 + \int |f|^2.
$$

A: Since $x^2$ is a convex function and $[0,1]$ has measure $1$, Jensen's Inequality says that
$$
\left(\int_0^1|f|\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^2\le\int_0^1|f|^2\,\mathrm{d}x
$$
Furthermore, Cauchy-Schwarz says
$$
\int_0^1|f|\cdot1\,\mathrm{d}x\le\left(\int_0^1|f|^2\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^{1/2}\left(\int_0^11^2\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^{1/2}
$$

For any $p\ge1$
Since $x^p$ is a convex function and $[0,1]$ has measure $1$, Jensen's Inequality says that
$$
\left(\int_0^1|f|\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^p\le\int_0^1|f|^p\,\mathrm{d}x
$$
However, we need to use Hölder's Inequality instead of Cauchy-Schwarz:
$$
\int_0^1|f|\cdot1\,\mathrm{d}x\le\left(\int_0^1|f|^p\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^{1/p}\left(\int_0^11^q\,\mathrm{d}x\right)^{1/q}
$$
where $\dfrac1p+\dfrac1q=1$.