Chelsea linked with Miralem Pjanic... but who is the Roma midfielder?
Chelsea have been linked with Miralem Pjanic, but who is the Roma midfielder?
With Antonio Conte taking over at Chelsea this summer, the Italian is reportedly keen to make Pjanic one of his first signings at Stamford Bridge.
Miralem Pjanic was born in former Yugoslavia but he and his family moved to Luxembourg shortly before the outbreak of war in his homeland, the youngster joining Schifflange 95.
It was not long before Pjanic attracted admiring glances from abroad and, aged just 14, he signed for Metz in France.
Three years later, after impressing in the club's youth academy, Pjanic was handed his first-team bow during the 2007/08 season, going on to play 32 games and score four times in Ligue 1 that campaign.
Pjanic soon became one of the first names on the Metz team sheet, his form at the Stade Municipal earning him both a Ligue 1 Player of the Year nomination and a £5.5m move to Lyon that summer, despite interest from Barcelona.
"I went to Barcelona, the negotiations were very fair and they made us a specific offer," his father Fahrudin revealed in an interview with the Guardian in 2009. "But it was a turbulent time for the club after (coach Frank) Rijkaard had left and I thought it wasn't smart for an 18-year-old to go to Barcelona at such a time."
But after replacing fans' favourite Juninho Pernambucano in central midfield in the summer of 2009 following the Brazilian's departure from the Stade de Gerland - helping Lyon to the 2009/10 Champions League semi-finals on the way - Pjanic asked to leave the club at the end of that season after losing his starting place in the team to Yoann Gourcuff.
Roma paid £8.5m to bring Pjanic to the Stadio Olimpico in the summer of 2010 and, although the Bosnian took time to adjust to life in Serie A, he had become a key member of coach Rudi Garcia's lineup come the 2013/14 campaign.
In the mould of Juventus veteran Andrea Pirlo, Pjanic has thrived in the Italian capital as a deep-lying playmaker.
The 24-year-old is capable of playing in the No 10 role but is far more effective at the base of midfield, where his accurate long-range passing can best be utilised.
Technically accomplished, too, he is also a more-than-useful set-play exponent.
"I've been taking them for a long time, practising every day," Pjanic, while at Lyon, said about honing his free-kick technique.
"I am a midfielder and it is important for me to have that quality, too. I have to have the power to score from the free-kicks.
"But I am aware that I have to learn more, to be more dangerous. My free-kicks have to be a strength of my team, so that everybody who plays against us is scared when we take them."
Can Conte get his man?
Pjanic might be nicknamed 'The Painter' for his creativity - no player crafted more than his 12 goalscoring chances during the group stages of the World Cup in 2014.
But with more than 60 caps for Bosnia and Herzegovina he appears to have the experience and temperament to take on the tough task of making the grade at Stamford Bridge.
It's been another impressive campaign in 2015/16 for the midfielder so far, as he has netted 11 goals in 36 games for Roma in all competitions.
However, with his contract still having more than two years to run, it seems Chelsea would have to make a huge offer - in fee and wages - to lure one of Serie A's shining lights.


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Q: List the details of employee ,department with a reference column Here I have 2 tables, Employee and Department, and the data as follows.
Employee:
Empid   Empname Deptid  salary
-----------------------------------------
1       rama    2       20000.00
2       sita    2       30000.00
3       gita    4       45000.00
4       rohit   4       40000.00
5       lata    5       50000.00
6       sami    2       23000.00
7       lala    3       35000.00
8       samta   4       41000.00
9       shika   5       55000.00
10      venu    4       4400.00

Department:
Deptid DeptName       DeptReference
---------------------------------------
1      HR                1
2      Engineering       2
3      marketing         1
4      Planning          2
5      Admin             1
6      sales             2

The required output is

*

*List of all departments with Employee details for any n number of employees where n = dept reference for dept.

*If n exceeds that actual employee count in that dept then as many existing employees to be shown while the rest would show null values

Output: (Deptid, Deptname, empid, empname)
Thanks in advance
Narendra

A: If query should ignore extra additional employees beyond count of n for each department, then Try this:
 with DeptEmps (deptId, empSequence) As
   (Select deptId, DeptReference
    From Departments d
    union all
    Select deptId, empSequence - 1
    From DeptEmps
    Where empSequence > 1)

 Select d.DeptId, DeptName,
    EmpId, EmpName, Salary
 From Departments d
    join DeptEmps de
       on de.deptId = d.DeptId
   Left Join Employees e
       on e.DeptId = d.DeptId
          And de.empSequence =
            (Select Count(*)
             From Employees
             Where DeptId = e.DeptId
                and EmpId <= e.EmpId)
  Order By d.Deptname

If query should include extra additional employees beyond count of n for each department, then it gets a bit more complex:
with DeptEmps (deptId, empSequence) As
  (Select deptId,
      Case When d.DeptReference >
          (Select Count(*) From Employees
           Where DeptId = d.DeptId) Then d.DeptReference
   Else  (Select Count(*) From Employees
              Where DeptId = d.DeptId) End empSequence
   From Depts d
      union all
   Select deptId, empSequence - 1
   From DeptEmps
   Where empSequence > 1)
Select  d.DeptId, DeptName,
   EmpId, EmpName, Salary
From Depts d
   join DeptEmps de
      on de.deptId = d.DeptId
   left Join Employees e
     on e.DeptId = de.DeptId
        And (Select Count(*)
             From Employees
             Where DeptId = e.DeptId
                and EmpId <= e.EmpId)
         = de.empSequence
Order By d.Deptname

A: The first step to doing this is to get n number of rows per department (where n is DeptReference), you can do this by cross joining to a numbers table, I will assume you don't have one and create one on the fly each time, but if you do then great you can just use that:
SELECT  *
FROM    Department d
        CROSS JOIN
        (   SELECT  Number = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY o.object_id)
            FROM    sys.all_objects o
        ) n
WHERE   n.Number <= d.DeptReference;

Or
SELECT  *
FROM    Department d
        CROSS JOIN Numbers n
WHERE   n.Number <= d.DeptReference;

So this will give something like
Deptid DeptName       DeptReference Number
1      HR                1          1
2      Engineering       2          1
2      Engineering       2          2

So engineering is duplicated. You then need to put your employees in some kind of order by department using ROW_NUMBER, I don't know what your order should be so will just use EmpID:
SELECT  e.DeptID,
        e.EmpID,
        e.EmpName,
        RowNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY e.DeptID ORDER BY e.EmpID)
FROM    Employee e;

So for DeptID = 4 this will give:
Empid   Empname Deptid  RowNUmber
3       gita    4       1
4       rohit   4       2
8       samta   4       3
10      venu    4       4

Then it is just a matter of joining the Number column created on department to the RowNumber column created for employee.
N.B. I can't work out if you want to limit the employees shown (i.e If DeptReference is 2 and there are 3 employees then only show 2), If you want to show all of them then just uncomment the clause commented out
SELECT  d.DeptID,
        d.DeptName,
        e.EmpID,
        e.EmpName
FROM    Department d
        CROSS JOIN
        (   SELECT  Number = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY o.object_id)
            FROM    sys.all_objects o
        ) n
        LEFT JOIN
        (   SELECT  e.DeptID,
                    e.EmpID,
                    e.EmpName,
                    RowNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY e.DeptID ORDER BY e.EmpID)
            FROM    Employee e
        ) e
            ON e.DeptID = d.DeptID
            AND e.RowNumber = n.Number
WHERE   n.Number <= d.DeptReference
--OR        e.EmpID IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY DeptID, EmpID;

Since there are no employees in the Sales department in your sample data, and the DeptReference is 2, then this will generate the following for Sales:
DeptID  DeptName    EmpID   EmpName
6       sales       (null)  (null)
6       sales       (null)  (null)

Example on SQL Fiddle

A: You don't say what criteria you will use to choose which employees you want to see for each department.  My example shows the highest paid employee(s).  You should be able to change this easily for whatever you choose.
select
    *
from
(
    select
        e.*
        ,d.DeptReference
        ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (partition by e.Deptid order by e.salary desc) as Row
    from Employee as e
    inner join Department as d
        on e.Deptid = d.Deptid
)as xx
where xx.Row <= xx.DeptReference;

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Home Huawei Laptop News Huawei MateBook X Pro 2021 with New Upgrades and Smart Borderless Experience is Priced for Only Php89,999
Huawei MateBook X Pro 2021 with New Upgrades and Smart Borderless Experience is Priced for Only Php89,999
Staff ni Anjie April 24, 2021 Huawei, Laptop, News,
The HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2021 has been upgraded, according to Huawei Philippines. The new HUAWEI MateBook X Pro is an ambitious reinterpretation of a classic, with a full range of enhancements providing efficient performance, all-scenario intelligence, and a superior user experience. It inherits the aesthetic, creativity, and intelligent DNA of previous Huawei laptops.
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Here's how test scores could count in teacher evaluations for first year of TNReady
By Grace Tatter
PHOTO CREDIT: Kyle Kurlick
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Tennessee teachers likely will have the option in their evaluations this year to waive student test scores from the first year of the state's troubled TNReady test. But even if they choose that option, test scores still will make up to 50 percent of their evaluation scores in one way or another.
After the failed online rollout of the state's new TNReady test in February, Gov. Bill Haslam responded to calls for flexibility by offering up a sure-to-pass proposal to give teachers three options, including one that would nix TNReady scores from this year's evaluations.
"Teachers will be able to choose the best of results for themselves," Haslam told reporters.
His proposal, which requires legislative approval, would be an extension of last year's Teacher Evaluation Enhancement Act, which temporarily reduces the weight of current test scores from evaluations in the transition to TNReady, the state's new assessment aligned to the state's current academic standards.
However, while granting temporary flexibilities in the new TNReady era, the state continues to hold fast to inclusion of student test scores in teacher evaluations — a lynchpin of sweeping education reforms ushered in during the last five years under the state's Race to the Top plan. The evaluations are used by local districts to make personnel decisions.
To incorporate test scores into teacher evaluations, Tennessee uses TVAAS, a formula that's supposed to show how much teachers contributed to individual student growth.
TVAAS, which is short for the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System, typically comprises data based on three years of testing, but this year teachers will have the options of only using scores from this year's tests — or from the past two years before that. How is that possible? Although TVAAS, in theory, measures a student's growth, it really measures how a student does relative to his peers.
The state examines how students who have scored at the same levels on prior assessments actually perform on TNReady in 2015-16. Students are expected to perform about as well on TNReady as their peers with comparable prior achievement. But if they perform better than their peers, no matter how their performance compares to last year's, they will positively impact their teacher's score.
Here are the options* for this year's teacher evaluations. (For details, move your cursor over the pie charts.)
Option 1: As always, 50 percent of the evaluation would be comprised of "qualitative" data from teacher observations. The other 50 percent is based off of quantitative data. Teachers can choose from a menu of options to count toward the "achievement" part of their score, which counts for 15 percent of their overall evaluation. Options include AP scores, the school's graduation rate, or school-wide TVAAS. TVAAS comprises the remaining 35 percent of the evaluation score overall, with 10 percent coming from TNReady scores and 12.5 percent each from the final two years of TCAP.
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Option 2: Only value-added including TNReady would count in the TVAAS portion of the evaluation score, for 35 percent.
Option 3: The third option would totally discount this year's TNReady scores.
*Depending on the district, teachers of some non-tested subjects can use portfolios rather than TVAAS for that portion of their evaluation score.
Grace Tatter @GraceTatter gtatter@chalkbeat.org
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Nickname:Kausalya
Full Name:Nandini, Tamilselvi
Profession:Actress, Model
Nationality:Indian
Date of Birth:December 30, 1979
Birthplace:Bengaluru, India
Religion:Hinduism
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Kausalya, an Indian actress, and model who works in South Indian cinema and is known for her incredibly amazing work. She is known as Nandini in the Malayalam film industry. She started her career as a lead actress, but later, she continued appearing as a supporting actress.
Kausalya pursued a career as a model. Later, she made her film debut in 1996 with the Malayalam film 'April 19′ which was directed by Balachandra Menon.
She then made her first appearance in a Tamil film titled 'Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga (1997) with Murali and went on to star in several successful films in Tamil, like; 'Pooveli' in 1998, 'Kutty' in 2000, and many more that are worth sharing.
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I wanted to share some of my recent Target purchases during their liquidation sale here in Canada.
Over the last month or so I have made a few visits to my local Targets and as others have said, the prices are definitely not what you would expect for a liquidation sale. Actually, I found much better deals on Target's clearance items before they went belly-up here in Canada. I know Target didn't bring a lot of what us Canadians wanted, but, I for one will definitely miss them. It was a peaceful place to shop and I REALLY love target for good quality, high fashion, inexpensive shoes and boots. I also love some of their store brands that I cannot find elsewhere, like Mossimo and Merona.
As you can see from the parking lot, the store is much busier now than it was before they announced their liquidation.
I only got clearance prices on a couple of items, all of the others were marked back up to their regular prices and then they were 30% off. And, I know for a fact, that before the liquidation the Jeans were already on sale for the same prices that I paid. But, these were items that I just had to have!
On the same trip I grabbed this distressed/ worn looking V-neck T-shirt by Mossimo. It is super soft and I love the over-sized, loose, casual style. It was reg. $14.99 and I paid $10.50. The key necklace came with 3 pair of stud earrings and the set was only $6!
There were only 2 items that I somehow managed to get at clearance prices. The coloured case is by Sonia Kashuk and was reg. $24.99 on sale for $7, and the dark wash Mossimo jeans were reg. $29.99 on sale for $8.99. I bought the cosmetics case with the thought in mind that it would be perfect for when I downsize my makeup collection (see all the pockets inside?) and it could all fit in here- yeah, right!!
Some departments have been pretty much wiped out ie. food, jewelry and cosmetics, but, other departments like clothing have had a sudden influx of new goods, including summer wear! So, if you need some new clothes it might be a good place to check out. Hopefully they will drop their prices a lot more! Here are some other shots of housewares, jewelry and women's clothing.
Have you scored any deals at your Target? I would love to hear about what deals you found. I'm always on the lookout for a good bargain!


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The Anarchist Revolution
Revolt Library >> Anarchism >> Anarchist Revolution, The
Author : Errico Malatesta
(1853 - 1932) ~ Italian, Anarchist Intellectual, Anti-Capitalist, and Anti-Fascist : There have almost certainly been better anarchist writers, more skilled anarchist organizers, anarchists who have sacrificed more for their beliefs. Perhaps though, Malatesta is celebrated because he combined all of these so well, exemplifying thought expressed in deed... (From : Cunningham Bio.)
• "If it is true that the law of Nature is Harmony, I suggest one would be entitled to ask why Nature has waited for anarchists to be born, and goes on waiting for them to triumph, in order to destroy the terrible and destructive conflicts from which mankind has already suffered. Would one not be closer to the truth in saying that anarchy is the struggle, in human society, against the disharmonies of Nature?" (From : "Peter Kropotkin - Recollections and Criticisms of....)
• "...the agelong oppression of the masses by a small privileged group has always been the result of the inability of the oppressed to agree among themselves to organize with others for production, for enjoyment and for the possible needs of defense against whoever might wish to exploit and oppress them. Anarchism exists to remedy this state of affairs..." (From : "Anarchism and Organization," Authored by Errico M....)
• "We want to make the revolution as soon as possible, taking advantage of all the opportunities that may arise." (From : "Revolution in Practice," by Errico Malatesta, fro....)
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"The revolution is the creation of new living institutions, new groupings, new social relationships; it is the destruction of privileges and monopolies; it is the new spirit of justice, of brotherhood, of freedom which must renew the whole of social life, raise the moral level and the material conditions of the masses by calling on them to provide, through their direct and conscientious action, for their own futures. Revolution is the organization of all public services by those who work in them in their own interest as well as the public's; Revolution is the destruction of all coercive ties; it is the autonomy of groups, of communes, of regions; Revolution is the free federation brought about by desire for brotherhood, by individual and collective interests, by the needs of production and defense..."
"The great majority of anarchists, if I am not mistaken, hold the view that human perfectibility and anarchy would not be achieved even in a few thousand years, if first one did not create by the revolution, made by a conscious majority, the necessary environment for freedom and well being."
"The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people."
"...our efforts must in the first instance be directed to making the revolution and in such a way that it is in the direction of anarchy. We have to provoke the revolution with all the means at our disposal and act in it as anarchists, by opposing the constitution of any authoritarian regime and putting into operation as much as we can of our program. Anarchists will have to take advantage of the increased freedom that we would have won. We will have to be morally and technically prepared to realize within the limits of our numbers, those forms of social life and cooperation which they consider best and most suitable for paving the way for the future."
"Insurrections will be necessary as long as there are power groups which use their material force to exact obedience from the masses. And it is only too clear that there will be many more insurrections before the people win that minimum of indispensable conditions for free and peaceful development, when humanity will be able to advance towards its noblest objectives without cruel struggles and useless suffering."
"Our task then is to make, and to help others make, the revolution by taking advantage of every opportunity and all available forces: advancing the revolution as much as possible in its constructive as well as destructive role, and always remaining opposed to the formation of any government, either ignoring it or combating it to the limits of our capacities."
"Revolutionaries yes, but above all anarchists."
"ONE: Destruction of all concentrations of political power is the first duty of oppressed people. TWO: Any organization of an allegedly provisional revolutionary political power to achieve this destruction cannot be other than one trick more, and would be as dangerous to the people as are all present governments. THREE: In refusing every compromise for the achievement of the revolution, workers of the world must establish solidarity in revolutionary action outside the framework of bourgeois politicians."
"...for us and all anarchists, the abolition of political power is not possible without the simultaneous destruction of economic privilege."
"Social reorganization is something we must all think about right now, and as the old is destroyed we shall have a more human and just society as well as one more receptive to future advances. The alternative is that 'the leaders' will think about these problems, and we shall have a new government, which will do exactly as all previous governments have done, in making the people pay for the scant and poor services they render, by taking away their freedom and allowing them to be oppressed by every kind of parasite and exploiter."
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The revolution is the creation of new living institutions, new groupings, new social relationships; it is the destruction of privileges and monopolies; it is the new spirit of justice, of brotherhood, of freedom which must renew the whole of social life, raise the moral level and the material conditions of the masses by calling on them to provide, through their direct and conscientious action, for their own futures. Revolution is the organization of all public services by those who work in them in their own interest as well as the public's; Revolution is the destruction of all coercive ties; it is the autonomy of groups, of communes, of regions; Revolution is the free federation brought about by desire for brotherhood, by individual and collective interests, by the needs of production and defense; Revolution is the constitution of innumerable free groupings based on ideas, wishes, and tastes of all kinds that exist among the people; Revolution is the forming and disbanding of thousands of representative, district, communal, regional, national bodies which, without having any legislative power, serve to make known and to coordinate the desires and interests of people near and far and which act through information, advice and example. Revolution is freedom proved in the crucible of facts—and lasts so long as freedom lasts, that is until others, taking advantage of the weariness that overtakes the masses, of the inevitable disappointments that follow exaggerated hopes, of the probable errors and human faults, succeed in constituting a power, which supported by an army of conscripts or mercenaries, lays down the law, arrests the movement at the point it has reached, and then begins the reaction.
The great majority of anarchists, if I am not mistaken, hold the view that human perfectibility and anarchy would not be achieved even in a few thousand years, if first one did not create by the revolution, made by a conscious majority, the necessary environment for freedom and well being. For this reason we want to make the revolution as soon as possible, and to do so we need to take advantage of all positive forces and every favorable situation which arises.
The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people.
And since the environment today, which obliges most people to live in misery, is maintained by violence, we advocate and prepare for violence. That is why we are revolutionaries, and not because we are desperate men thirsting for revenge and filled with hate.
We are revolutionaries because we believe that only the revolution, the violent revolution, can solve the ills we face. We believe further-more that the revolution is an act of will—the will of individuals and of the masses; that it needs for its success certain objective conditions, but that does not happen of necessity, inevitably, through the single action of economic and political forces.
Our task is to be revolutionary not only in the philosophical meaning of the word but also in the popular and insurrectionalist sense; and I can say this to clearly distinguish between my views and those of others who call themselves revolutionaries, but who interpret the world so as not to have to bring in the face of violence, the insurrection which must open the way to revolutionary achievements.
Anarchy cannot be achieved until after the revolution which will sweep away the first material obstacles. It is clear then that our efforts must in the first instance be directed to making the revolution and in such a way that it is in the direction of anarchy. We have to provoke the revolution with all the means at our disposal and act in it as anarchists, by opposing the constitution of any authoritarian regime and putting into operation as much as we can of our program. Anarchists will have to take advantage of the increased freedom that we would have won. We will have to be morally and technically prepared to realize within the limits of our numbers, those forms of social life and cooperation which they consider best and most suitable for paving the way for the future.
We do not want to wait for the masses to become anarchist before making the revolution, since we are convinced that they will never become anarchist if the institutions which keep them enslaved are not first destroyed. And since we need the support of the masses to build up a force of sufficient strength and to achieve our specific task of radical change of society by the direct action of the masses, we must get closer to them, accept them as they are, and from within their ranks seek to push them forward as much as possible. That is of course, if we really intend to work for the practical achievement of our ideals, and are not content with preaching in the desert for the simple satisfaction of our intellectual pride.
We don't take revolution as synonymous with progress, with an historic view of life. I sense that all kinds of people are revolutionary. When one introduced the centuries into the argument, everyone will agree with everything he says. But when we speak of revolution, when the masses speak of revolution, as when one refers to it in history, one simply means the insurrection triumphant. Insurrections will be necessary as long as there are power groups which use their material force to exact obedience from the masses. And it is only too clear that there will be many more insurrections before the people win that minimum of indispensable conditions for free and peaceful development, when humanity will be able to advance towards its noblest objectives without cruel struggles and useless suffering.
By revolution we do not mean just the insurrection, but we must avoid replacing one state of coercion by another. We must clearly distinguish between the revolutionary act which destroys as much as it can of the old regime and puts in its place new institutions, and government which comes afterwards to halt the revolution and suppress as many of the revolutionary conquests as it can.
History teaches us that all advances that are the result of revolutions were secured in the period of popular enthusiasm, when either a recognized government did not exist or was too weak to make a stand against the revolution. But once the government was formed, so reaction started which served the interest of the old and the new privileged classes and took back from the people all that it could.
Our task then is to make, and to help others make, the revolution by taking advantage of every opportunity and all available forces: advancing the revolution as much as possible in its constructive as well as destructive role, and always remaining opposed to the formation of any government, either ignoring it or combating it to the limits of our capacities.
We will no more recognize as republican constitution than we would a parliamentary monarchy. We cannot stop it if the people want it; we might even occasionally be with them in fighting attempts to bring about a restoration of a monarchy; but we will want and will demand complete freedom for those who think as we do and who wish to live outside the tutelage and oppression of the government; to propagate their ideas by word and deed. Revolutionaries yes, but above all anarchists.
ONE: Destruction of all concentrations of political power is the first duty of oppressed people.
TWO: Any organization of an allegedly provisional revolutionary political power to achieve this destruction cannot be other than one trick more, and would be as dangerous to the people as are all present governments.
THREE: In refusing every compromise for the achievement of the revolution, workers of the world must establish solidarity in revolutionary action outside the framework of bourgeois politicians.
These anarchist principles which were formulated under the inspiration of Bakunin at the Congress of St. Imier, 1872, continue to point a good direction for us today. Those who have tried to act in contradiction to them have disappeared, because however defined, government, dictatorship and parliament can only lead the people back to slavery. All experience so far bears this out. Needless to say, for the delegates of St. Imier as for us and all anarchists, the abolition of political power is not possible without the simultaneous destruction of economic privilege.
There is a need for a revolution to eliminate the material forces which exist to defend privilege and to prevent every real social progress. This conviction has led many to believe that the only important thing is the insurrection, and to overlook what has to be done to prevent an insurrection from remaining a sterile act of violence against which an act of reactionary violence would be the eventual reply. For those who believe this, all of the practical questions of organization, of how to make provisions for the distribution of food, are idle questions: for them these are matters which will solve themselves, or will be solved by those who come after us. Yet the conclusion we come to is this: Social reorganization is something we must all think about right now, and as the old is destroyed we shall have a more human and just society as well as one more receptive to future advances. The alternative is that "the leaders" will think about these problems, and we shall have a new government, which will do exactly as all previous governments have done, in making the people pay for the scant and poor services they render, by taking away their freedom and allowing them to be oppressed by every kind of parasite and exploiter.
In order to abolish the police and all the harmful social institutions we must know what to put in their place, not in a more or less distant future but immediately, the very day we start demolishing. One only destroys, effectively and permanently, that which one replaces by something else; and to put off to a later date the solution of problems which present themselves with the urgency of necessity, would be to give time to the institutions one is intending to abolish to recover from the shock and reassert themselves, perhaps under other names, but certainly with the same structure.
Our solutions may be accepted by a sufficiently large section of the population and we shall have achieved anarchy, or taken a step towards anarchy; or they may not be understood or accepted and then our efforts will serve as propaganda and place before the public at large the program for a not distant future. But in any case we must have our solutions provisional, subject to correction and revision in the light of practice, but we must have our solutions if we do not wish to submit passively to those solutions imposed by others, and limit ourselves to the unprofitable role of useless and impotent grumblers.
I believe that we anarchists, convinced of the validity of our program, must make special efforts to acquire a predominating influence in order to be able to swing the movement towards the realization of our ideals; but we must acquire this influence by being more active and more effective than the others. Only in this way will it be worth acquiring. Today we must examine thoroughly, develop and propagate our ideas and coordinate our efforts for common action. We must act inside the popular movements to prevent them from limiting themselves to, and being corrupted by, the exclusive demand for the small improvements possible under the capitalist system, and seek to make it serve for the preparation o the complete and radical change of our society. We must work among the mass of unorganized, and possibly unorganizable, people to awaken in them the spirit of revolt and the desire and hope for a free and happy existence. We must initiate and support every possible kind of movement which tends to weaken the power of the government and of the capitalists and to raise the moral level and material conditions of the people. We must get ready and prepare, morally and materially, for the revolutionary act which has to open the way to the future.
And tomorrow, in the revolution, we must play an active part in the necessary physical struggle, seeking to make it as radical as possible, in order to destroy all the repressive forces of the government and to induce the people to take possession of the land, homes, transport, factories, mines, and of all existing goods, and organize themselves so that there is a just distribution immediately of food products. At the same time we must arrange for the exchange of goods between communities and regions and continue to intensify production and all those services which are of use to the people.
We must, in every way possible, and in accord with local conditions and possibilities, encourage action by associations, cooperatives, groups of volunteers—in order to prevent the emergence of new authoritarian groups, new governments, combating them with violence if necessary, but above all by rendering them useless.
And if there were not sufficient support among the people to prevent the reconstitution of government, its authoritarian institutions and its organs of repression, we should refuse to cooperate or recognize it, and rebel against its demands, claiming full autonomy for ourselves and for all dissident minorities. We should remain in a state of open rebellion if possible, and prepare the way to convert present defeat into a future success.
I do not think that what matters is the triumph of our plans, our projects and our utopias, which in any case will need the confirmation of practice and experiment, and may as a result have to be modified, developed or adapted to the true moral and material conditions of time and place. What matters most of all is that the people, all people, should lose their sheep like instincts and habits with which their minds have been inculcated by an age-long slavery, and that they should learn to think and act freely. It is to this task of liberation that anarchists must devote their attention.
Once the government has been overthrown, or at least neutralized, it will be the task of the people, and especially of those among them who have initiative and organizing ability, to provide for the satisfaction of immediate needs and to prepare for the future by destroying privileges and harmful institutions and in the meantime seeing to it that those useful institutions which today serve the ruling class either exclusively or primarily, shall operate in favor of all equally.
Anarchists have the job of being the militant custodians of liberty against all aspirants to power and against the possible tyranny of the majority.
We are agreed in thinking that apart from the problem of assuring victory against the material forces of the adversary there is also the problem of giving life to the revolution after victory.
We are in agreement that a revolution which were to result in chaos would not be a vital revolution.
But one must not exaggerate, it should not be thought that we must, and can find a perfect solution for every possible problem. One should not want to foresee and determine too much, because instead of preparing for anarchy we might find ourselves indulging in unattainable dreams or ever becoming authoritarians, and consciously or otherwise, proposing to act like a government which in the name of freedom and the popular will subject people to its domination. The fact is that one cannot educate the people if they are not in a position, or obliged by necessity, to act for themselves, and that the revolutionary organization the people, useful and necessary as it is, cannot be stretched indefinitely: at a certain point if it does not erupt in revolutionary action, either the government strangles it or the organization itself degenerates and breaks up—and one has to start all over again from the beginning.
I would be unable to accept the view that all past revolutions though they were not anarchist revolutions were useless, nor that future ones which will still not be anarchist revolutions will be useless. I believe that the complete triumph of anarchy will come by evolution, gradually, rather than by violent revolution: when an earlier or several earlier revolutions will have destroyed the major military and economic obstacles which are opposed to the spiritual and material development of the people, and which are opposed to increasing production to the level of needs and desires.
In any case, if we take into account our sparse numbers and the prevalent attitude among most people, and if we do not wish to confuse our wishes with reality, we must expect that the next revolution will not be the anarchist one, and therefore what is more pressing, is to think of what we can and must do in a revolution in which we will be a relatively small and badly armed minority. But we must beware of ourselves becoming less anarchist merely because he people are not ready for anarchy. If they want a government, it is unlikely that we will be able to prevent a new government being formed, but this is no reason for our not trying to persuade the people that government is useless and harmful or of preventing the government from also imposing on us and others like us who don't want it. We will have to exert ourselves to ensure that social life and especially economic standards improve without the intervention of government, and thus we must be as ready as possible to deal with the practical problems of production and distribution, remembering that those most suited to organize work are those who now do it. If we are unable to prevent the constitution of a new government, if we are unable to destroy it immediately, we should in either case refuse to support it in any shape or form. We should reject military conscription and refuse to pay taxes. Disobedience on principle, resistance to the bitter end against every imposition by the authorities, and an absolute refusal to accept any position of command.
If we are unable to overthrow capitalism, we shall have to demand for ourselves and for all who want it, the right of free access to the necessary means of production to maintain an independent existence.
Advise when we have suggestions to offer; teach if we know more than others; set the example for a life based on free agreement between men; defend even with force if necessary and possible, our autonomy against any government provocation…but command, govern or rule—NEVER!
In this way we shall not achieve anarchy, which cannot be imposed against the will of the people, but at least we shall be preparing the way for it. We do not have to wait indefinitely for the state to wither away or for our rulers to become part of the people and to give up their power over us if we can talk them out of their position.
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Anarchist Morality, by Peter Kropotkin
Anarchist Movement Today, The, by Alexander Berkman
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Anarchist Synthesis, The, by Sébastien Faure
Anarchists Behind Bars, by Gaston Leval
Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles, by Errico Malatesta
Anarchists in Israel, by Sam Dolgoff
Anarchists in the Present Time, by Errico Malatesta
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Haiku Salut are three-piece Derbyshire Dales in the UK who perform live without ever speaking a word on stage. Such a feature might come off as down right unsocial, but it reinforces the idea that sometimes it's best to just let the music do the talking. And Haiku Salut's music has plenty to say, evoking worlds of their own, but also giving a commentary of sorts with each deliberate note. The trio will release their new album, Tricolore in March on How Does It Feel To be Loved?, following their 2011 extraordinarily-titled How We Got Along After The Yarn Bomb EP. Below you can watch the video for one of the new album tracks, "Los Elefantes" which follows the arrival of a young man in London who is soon led astray by a gas mask-wearing girl with a bunch of red balloons. Soon he's transported to an idyllic forest where he's stalked by spirits (played by the band members) in a series of wonderfully executed shots.The track's a mystical affair, too, with plenty of accordion that will bring to mind Yann Tiersen but which also manages to makes steps past that comparison. Watch the Joshua Dunlop-directed video below, and you can head over here to download the track for free.
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Nov. 6: Mark Harris (R) declares victory over Dan McCready (D) late on election night with a 2,000-vote lead and 99 percent of districts reporting.
Nov. 7: With all precincts reporting, McCready — facing a 1,900-vote deficit — concedes to Harris.
Nov. 12–16: Harris, along with other freshman legislators, attends orientation in Washington, DC.
Nov. 27: By this time Harris's lead drops to 905 votes due to absentee ballots. The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), which is composed of four Democrats, four Republicans, and one independent, agrees to delay certifying the race. Joshua Malcolm, a Democrat on the Board, only cites "unfortunate activities" as the reason behind the delay. Although the Republicans on the board object, all nine members unanimously vote to delay certification.
Nov. 28: It is revealed that immediately after the election, the NCSBE's chief investigator, Joan Fleming, visited Elizabethtown in Bladen County to analyze voting records, including absentee-by-mail ballot request forms and their return addresses. Harris had won Bladen County by 1,557 votes.
A woman claims she was visited by someone who collected her absentee ballot. She claims the collector never sealed the envelope or asked her to sign it.
An affidavit from a polling worker claims that election officials viewed early voting data improperly, while the polling worker then notes that a "large number of absentee ballots" came in from Bladen County.
Another affidavit alleges that political operative Leslie McCrae Dowless claimed in April that he was hired by Harris to "do absentees" and that he doesn't "take checks" only cash. Dowless then told this voter that up to 80 people were working under him. A separate sworn affidavit claims that at the Bethel precinct on Election Day, one person mentioned that Dowless would get a $40,000 bonus from the Harris campaign if Harris won. Dowless, who once served six months for a felony fraud charge and had also been charged with perjury once, has become a focal point of the NCSBE's investigation.
Dec. 3–4: Two women, Ginger Eason and Cheryl Kinlaw, come forward and say that they were paid $75-100 by Dowless to collect the ballots, despite such action being illegal. "I feel bad now that I know that it wasn't legal, but I didn't know at the time," one of the women said. Making things worse, after picking up the ballots, the women did not mail them in, but rather handed them over to Dowless at his office, which has a big Mark Harris sticker on the door.
It is theoretically possible that Dowless, who was paid by the Harris campaign, could then review the unsealed ballots and selectively mail the Harris ballots in and destroy or store the McCready ballots.
Investigative efforts have revolved around Bladen County.
There are a number of irregularities with the absentee-by-mail votes in Bladen County. First, the total vote share of absentee ballots in the district's other counties hovered around 2 percent of the total vote, but in Bladen the vote share skyrocketed to over 7 percent.
Second, whereas McCready won every district's absentee vote (with an average of +27), Harris won the absentee vote in Bladen by a whopping 24 points — a 51-point swing.
Third, as political scientist Michael Blitzer notes, only 19 percent of absentee ballots in Bladen County were cast by registered Republicans, while 42 percent were cast by registered Democrats, and 39 percent were cast by unaffiliated voters.
Is it possible for Harris to win 61 percent of the absentee-by-mail vote when only 19 percent of those who voted were registered Republicans? Such a scenario would require Harris to win all registered Republicans, all 39 percent of unaffiliated voters, plus an additional swath of registered Democrats.
Dec. 4: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the incoming House Majority Leader, says Harris will not be seated if the investigation is incomplete.
A hearing on the investigation is scheduled to take place on or before December 21.


Gouda is known not only for its cheese, but also for its pipes and candles. This lovely little town 25 mi/40 km southwest of Amsterdam has a large market square with a beautiful 15th-century town hall sitting in the center. Walk the narrow streets, especially in the area around St. Jans Church. Note the stained glass and 16th-century carillon, and be sure to see De Moriaan, the world's largest pipe museum. There's a wonderful cheese market on Thursday morning in July and August. Allow a full day to see Gouda.


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Q: Is it safe to backup a local-only Git repository by zipping the project folder containing the .git folder? Simple question - is it safe to backup a local-only Git repository with no other collaborators by zipping the project folder containing the .git folder? I've read other questions saying zipping the folder is not atomic if somebody edits the repository in the middle of the backup however I'm just wondering if you have a git repository that only you are working on if then it is safe to zip the project folder to back it up. Thanks.

A: If the repository is idle (that is, there are no processes, including editor or background git gc processes running inside it), then this is safe.  If you are on Unix, it's generally better to use a tar file instead of a zip file because it's more likely to preserve permissions and because you don't generally want to compress the archive (since all the data in .git is compressed).
There are two things to be aware of:

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*First, if you restore this, git status or any other process reading the repository will have to re-process the entire working tree because the metadata stored in the index will have changed.

*Second, it is not safe to share a working tree between users, since anyone who can modify the repository configuration can cause arbitrary code to be executed.  Thus, you should only restore backups like this you've created yourself and not ones created by others.

A: as long as you work alone and do not modify the folder while zipping it is safe.

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if somebody edits the repository in the middle of the backup

While this is a caveat to be aware of, for a "local only" repo, you should be the only user that has access to do anything to the repo. So there shouldn't be any issues.


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Can De Bruyne and Lukaku fire Belgium football team to maiden UEFA Euro title?
Martinez's fluid tactics to Lukaku's imperious form - assessing Belgium's chances at Euro 2020
Belgium have previously finished as the runners-up as well as in third-place at the Euros.
It was during the 2018 FIFA World Cup when Belgium announced their arrival among the heavyweights of world football. Though their run ended in the semi-finals against eventual winners France, certain individual performances had cemented the belief that there were bigger things to come from Les Diables Rouges.
Belgian talisman Eden Hazard had won the silver ball in the 2018 WC, while his compatriots Romelu Lukaku and Thibaut Courtois were honoured with the Bronze Boot and the Golden Glove, respectively.
Three years later, a talented and experienced Belgium football team looks more prepared to claim their maiden Euro title.
Having previously finished as the runners-up in 1980 and in third place in 1972, winning the European Championship has remained elusive for the Belgians. However, with a proven manager at the helm now and some world beaters playing under him, the side looks more than capable of getting it done.
Belgium squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois, Simon Mignolet, Mats Selz
Defenders: Toby Alderweireld, Dedryck Boyata, Jason Denayer, Thomas Vermaelen, Jan Vertonghen.
Midfielders: Timothy Castagne, Nacer Chadli, Yannick Carrasco, Kevin De Bruyne, Leander Dendoncker, Thorgan Hazard, Thomas Meunier, Dennis Praet, Youri Tielemans, Hans Vanaken, Axel Witsel.
Forwards: Michy Batshuayi, Christian Benteke, Jérémy Doku, Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku, Dries Mertens, Leandro Trossard
Despite coming to Euro 2020 with one of the most decorated squads that include numerous league and individual title winners from the recently concluded European football season, one of Belgium's biggest strengths will be their manager, Roberto Martinez.
Replacing Marc Wilmots as the Belgium head coach after Euro 2016, the Spaniard managed to indoctrinate a solid system into the Belgian squad. His 3-4-3 formation, which has also been modified into 3-5-2 and 3-4-2-1 at times, ensured that Belgium's success relied more on teamwork than individual talents. And though it has taken years, Belgium do look to be on the right track now.
The Red Devils have scored an astounding 40 goals to win all their 10 games and qualify for Euro 2020. Martinez's tried and tested system saw his team concede just three goals during their Euro qualifying campaign.
Since their semi-final loss at the 2018 World Cup, Belgium have lost only two matches and Martinez looks like the man who could give tournament favourites France a run for their money.
Belgium's three-man defence aided by wing-backs make them difficult to break down. Expected to play out from the back, Martinez will want his defenders to play with confidence and caution. However, their ageing defenders haven't had the best of domestic campaigns to take momentum with them into the Euros.
Belgium's first-choice defenders in a three-man defence are Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur), Jan Vertonghen (Benfica) and Jason Denayer (Lyon). The defensive trio has seen their clubs concede a joint 115 goals in 110 league games last season.
This has been the year of Romelu Lukaku. The towering centre-forward led Inter Milan to their first Serie A title since 2010, scoring 30 goals and providing 10 assists in all competitions.
Having scored 60 goals in 93 international appearances for Belgium, Lukaku will start as the designated poacher up front. Under Martinez, Lukaku has scored 61 goals and provided 21 assists in 126 games so far, and this will be a great opportunity for him to finally reach the potential that was promised in Everton years back.
What makes Belgium threatening is their ability to seamlessly unlock defences in the final third. Belgium have some of the best players in the business playing in the attacking third. From Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne to Youri Tielemans and Dries Mertens, they boast some of the most creative minds in the business. Their technical prowess and ability to resist pressure and pressing is second to none.
While Hazard had an underwhelming season with Real Madrid, De Bruyne ended the 2020-21 Premier League season with not only the league title but also the PFA Men's Players' Player of the Year award. He had six goals and 14 assists across 23 appearances. His compatriot Tielemans, who plays deeper in midfield, ended his season as an FA Cup winner with Leicester City with him scoring a memorable goal in the grand finale.
Having been clubbed into Group B alongside Denmark, Finland and Russia, Belgium will be eyeing a smooth path to the knockout stages, and their power-packed squad will certainly have the confidence to go all the way and help the Red Devils win their first-ever UEFA Euro title.
Written by: Subhayan Dutta
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The Elder House of Welf was a Frankish noble dynasty of European rulers documented since the 9th century. Closely related to the Carolingian dynasty, it consisted of a Burgundian and a Swabian group. It has not been definitively clarified, however, whether the two groups formed one dynasty or whether they shared the same name by coincidence only. While the Elder House became extinct in the male line with the death of Duke Welf of Carinthia in 1055, his sister Kunigunde married into the Italian House of Este and became the ancestor of the (Younger) House of Welf.
According to a family tradition, the ancestry of the Welfs can be traced back to the Skirian prince Edeko (d. 469), a confidant of King Attila the Hun, and to his son Odoacer, King of Italy from 476. Nevertheless, an early ancestor may have been the Frankish nobleman Ruthard (d. before 790), a count in the Argengau and administrator of the Carolingian king Pepin the Younger in Alamannia.
The origin of the name Welf (also Guelph, from Italian: Guelfi) has not been conclusively established. A late medieval legend first documented in 1475 referred to a (non-historical) Duke Balthazar of Swabia, whose marriage had remained childless and who presented Bundus, the newborn son of one of his hunters, as his own heir and successor. When Bundus came of age and was betrothed to a duchess of Guelders, his mother secretly informed him of the circumstances of his birth. The shocked young man waived both the duchess' hand and the rule in Swabia. Retired, he spent the rest of his life at the Altdorf monastery. Only on his deathbed he revealed the truth about his descendance and was called Herzog Wolf (Duke Wulf) henceforth. Another popular version refers to the eleven (elf) sons of one Count Isenbart of Altdorf, whose mother wanted them to be drowned and years later was faced with her children who escaped death.
The older of the two groups was the Burgundian group. Its oldest known member was Welf, the first Count of Altdorf. He was mentioned in 819 as father of Empress Judith. The younger sons of the first count of Altdorf, Conrad and Rudolf accompanied their sister to the court of her husband, Louis the Pious, where their ambitious spirit maintained their hereditary rank, and where they shared the happy, as well as the adverse fortunes of that sister. When Judith was surprised and confined by her stepsons, her brothers were shaven as monks but claimed and obtained permission to stand beside the throne. Judith's sister Hemma (* 808 † 876) later married Judith's stepson Louis the German and became Queen of the Franks.
Conrad had two sons: Conrad II, who succeeded him; and Hugh, from his church preferment, styled the Abbot. He is traditionally given a third son, Welf I of the Swabian group.
Conrad II succeeded his father in the dignity of Count of Paris, and recovered the estates of his grand-uncle Otkarius, in the province of Burgundy. He left an only son Rudolph, who assumed the royal crown, at the abbacy of St Maurice en Valais, in 888, and whose independence being confirmed by two victories over Arnulf, the emperor, was at last acknowledged, in a general diet of the German empire. His son, Rudolph II succeeded to this new-formed state, which included the French or western part of Switzerland, Franche-Comté, Savoy, Dauphiné, Provence, and the country between the Rhine and the Alps, and was known as the kingdom of Burgundy. He twice attempted the conquest of Italy, and for a period of three years, governed in that kingdom.
His son and successor, Conrad III, reigned upwards of fifty-six years, from 937 to 993, and enjoyed the friendship and support of the Saxon emperors. Otto I married his sister Adelaide, and she was the mother of Otto II, and the grandmother of Otto III. Conrad was succeeded by his son Rudolph III, surnamed the Lossy. When Rudolph III, died childless in 1032 without issue, the sovereignty of the kingdom of Burgundy devolved as a fief or legacy to his nephew Conrad of Swabia, who was elected emperor in 1024. With Rudolph, this branch became extinct in the male line.
The last member of the Burgundian group was King Rudolph III of Burgundy, who died childless in 1032.
The oldest known member of the Swabian group was Welf I, a count in Swabia who was first mentioned in 842. According to legend, Welf I was a son of Conrad, son of Welf, count of Altdorf, the ancestor of the Burgundian group. This relationship is considered probable because both Conrad and Welf I were counts of Linzgau and Alpgau. The relationship between Welf I and all later members of the Swabian group (Welf, Duke of Carinthia, and his relatives, who were counts of Altdorf) is, again, known only through legend.
The Elder House of Welf became extinct when Welf, Duke of Carinthia, died childless in 1055. The property of the House of Welf was inherited by the elder branch of the House of Este that came to be known as the younger House of Welf, or House of Welf-Este.


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In 1975 Adam Purple was inspired. Squatting in an apartment at 184 Forsyth Street on New York City's Lower East Side, Purple (nee David Lloyd Wilkie and aka the Rev. Les Ego, Hy Patia, John Peter Zenger 2d, P. E. Ricles and General Zen of the Headquarters Intergalactic of Psychic Police Uranus) watched as children played among the rubble. Born and raised in Missouri, Purple sensed these children were missing out on something simple: feeling the earth beneath their feet. He was inspired to build a garden.
This Garden of Eden grew and grew. As buildings came down Purple moved onto the derelict land and planted. Locals planted corn, berries, tomatoes and cucumbers. This was place of life and nature.
But to the city's burghers the Garden of Eden was "vacant" land. On January 8, 1986, the bulldozers moved in. In 75 minutes, years of work and nurturing was destroyed, replaced by low-to-mid income housing. New homes. But no gardens.
Mr. Purple has been something of a fringe fixture ever since he moved to the city 30 years ago. His appearance and his moniker were striking even in a city known for its eclectic characters and wild sartorial tastes. During much of the 70's and early 80's, he dressed almost entirely in the royal hue: purple shirts, purple sweaters, purple pants. With his beard, gray hair, floppy green stocking cap, sunglasses and twinkling blue eyes, he looks like Santa Claus if Santa hit the skids and lost the belly.
Purple recorded his works in Environmental "Radical Transformation" in the 1985 tome Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association.
Purple's garden was demolished in 1986. The fight had become so heated that, as The Villager reported back then, future Councilmember Margarita Lopez had fumed she would tear the green oasis down with "my bare hands" if she had to.
The Garden of Eden covered 15,000 square feet between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts. near Stanton St. With planting beds in Zen-like concentric circles, it featured corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, asparagus, raspberries and 45 trees.
"It was a work of art — an earthwork, a work of art that was also ecologically based," Purple told Amy Brost in a 2006 interview.
Adam and Eve would bike up to Central Park to collect horse manure and bring it back to fertilize the garden's soil.
Purple died on September 14, 2015, at the age of 84. He had a heart attack whilst bicycling across the Williamsburg Bridge.
Mr. Purple renounced the internal combustion engine, Mr. Wang said, and ceased riding in cars, preferring to travel by bicycle. He became a vegan and refused to wear leather. And because of his abhorrence of waste, he salvaged and repurposed everything he could, including empty glass bottles, rusty nails and even buckets of lost tennis balls found on the street.
His most ambitious project began in 1975 on several abandoned, rubble-filled lots outside his building on Forsyth Street and was called the Garden of Eden. It was a meticulously planted 15,000-square-foot collection of fruit trees, plants and flowering shrubs that emanated in circles from the garden's center, a yin-yang symbol. Publications including National Geographic published photographs of the garden, which drew admiring comparisons to works by Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria and Agnes Denes.
Mr. Purple envisioned a continuing expansion of the garden, said Amy Brost, who interviewed him for StoryCorps in 2006 and made a short filmabout him with Mr. Wang. The plan included rows of greenhouses, underground living spaces and what Mr. Purple called a "Great Circle" hemispheric sculpture.


Several ground-based telescopes operated by the National Solar Observatory took detailed observations of a powerful solar flare, which erupted on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 1:04 EST. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Service, based in part on these observations, predicts strong disturbances to Earth's magnetic field on January 9 and 10 as energetic material from the flare passes by the Earth.
The January 7 flare occurred near the center of the visible solar disk close to a large group of sunspots. Sunspots are produced by strong magnetism, in this case measured to be at least 7,000 times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Flares are sudden releases of energy built up and stored in the magnetism extending above the sunspots. The details of how the energy is stored and catastrophically released are subjects of intense study by solar researchers. Observations of this flare will help these studies because unique measurements were made of the magnetism and flows of material at various heights above the solar surface. The figures show some of the observations.
Images of the Sun at the peak time of bright flare emission. Both images are taken with red light of hydrogen but showing different altitudes above the Sun's surface.
Bright flare emission is seen at the start of the flare; then 5, 25, and 85 minutes later. These images show a portion of the solar disk in the red light of hydrogen. A movie of the flare observed with the GONG H-alpha instrument located at Cerro Tololo, Chile. These observations are supported by the US Air Force Weather Agency.
Dark sunspots (left) and corresponding image of bright flare emission (right). These images were taken with infrared light of calcium and reveal differences at two heights in the solar atmosphere.
Spectra of light from a cut across the brightest part of the flare. These images allow accurate measurements of the intensity, motions, and magnetic field of the flare over a large height range. The arrow indicates a dark feature moving rapidly upward from the surface. The black ovals show the flaring region intensity. The lower frame indicates (light and dark pairs) a strong magnetic field in the flaring region.
The National Solar Observatory operates several telescopes to monitor and study flares and other solar activity. The observations are provided to the public, researchers, and various government agencies to aid in understanding the causes and effects of these outbursts and to help predict consequences that can affect our modern technological society. The ground-based observations complement solar observations from space.
SOLIS and GONG are synoptic facilities for solar observations over a long time frame. They are operated by the NSO Integrated Synoptic Program (NISP), managed by the National Solar Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.


John M. Murrin, et al., eds., Liberty Equality Power: A History of the American People, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1999), 435-36.
Many Americans in 1850 took this prodigious growth for granted. They considered it evidence of God's beneficence to this virtuous republic, this haven for the oppressed seeking refuge from Old World tyranny, this land where all (white) men stood equal before the law. During the 1840s a group of expansionists affiliated with the Democratic Party began to call themselves the "Young America" movement. They proclaimed that it was the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to grow from sea to sea, from the Arctic Circle to the tropics. It is "our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty," wrote John L. O'Sullivan, editor of the Democratic Review, in 1845. "Yes, more, more, more!...till our national destiny is fulfilled and…the whole boundless continent is ours." Not all Americans thought this unbridled expansion was a good thing. For the earliest Americans, whose ancestors had arrived on the continent thousands of years before the Europeans, it was a story of defeat and contraction rather than of conquest and growth. By 1850 the white man's diseases and guns had reduced the Indian population north of the Rio Grande to fewer than half a million, a fraction of the number who had lived there two or three centuries earlier. The relentless westward march of white settlement had pushed all but a few thousand Indians beyond the Mississippi.
How to Cite This Page: "Manifest Destiny (Murrin, 1999)," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/16894.


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La Voz de la Ciencia es el undécimo disco-libro de divulgación científica del grupo musical Aviador Dro editado en el año 2012 por el sello "PIAS Spain".

Bajo un punto de vista más genérico "La Voz de la Ciencia" se trata de un proyecto abierto y multidisciplinar promovido por la Asociación La Voz de la Ciencia, Aviador Dro y un conjunto de científicos, artistas y expertos en cultura científica.
El proyecto se enmarca en la interconexión Arte Ciencia Tecnología y Sociedad (ACTS), sobre los desafíos científicos y tecnológicos del siglo XXI desde la óptica de su impacto en la sociedad y la mentalidad humana desde una doble visión unificada, la científica y la artística.

Uno de los elementos centrales del proyecto ha sido la publicación por parte de PIAS Spain del libro-CD "La Voz de la Ciencia" en una edición limitada de 1000 copias. El libro, de 172 páginas, incluye 18 artículos ilustrados de divulgación científica de frontera firmados por ilustres personalidades científicas como Rosalind Picard, Adolfo Castilla, Manuel Toharia, Yaiza Martínez, Antonio Martínez Ron o Manuel Martín-Loeches y Aubrey de Grey entre otros y un CD con 13 nuevos retos científico-bailables del Aviador Dro.

Cada canción del CD se corresponde con un artículo del libro (Véase lista de canciones, artículos y autores de ambas). La mayoría de dichos artículos están publicados en la web https://web.archive.org/web/20120831102133/http://www.lavozdelaciencia.com/ por separado y en algunos casos incluyendo enlaces a vídeos y canciones en directo o grabadas.

Lista de canciones, artículos y autores de ambas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial de Aviador Dro.
 Página oficial del proyecto La Voz de la Ciencia.

Álbumes de Aviador Dro
Álbumes de España de 2012


Biotechnologist Ashley Uys has developed through his company, Medical Diagnostech, a "rapid test" kit which can diagnose malaria as well as which strain you are suffering from. He explains it can also identify if your suggested course of treatment is working effectively. Using blood samples, the test can offer results in less than 30 minutes.
"I decided to look at what is the most needing product in Africa at the moment. And malaria, malaria is big," says Uys.


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On The Buses: Beware of the mob
On 21 November 2016 By Frank Regan
I've been walking about modern South Leeds thinking about Ancient Rome. Why? Because if we ignore the lessons of the past we are condemned to repeat them.
Classics scholars, public schoolboys, and anyone who's seen Gladiator, will have some knowledge of the concept of the Roman mob. These weren't the slaves but were free Romans, sometimes unemployed or under-employed citizens of the great city state. The thing is, the rulers of Rome understood the power of these people in a way that today's leaders don't.
The term "bread and circuses" comes from the desire of the rulers of Rome to occupy (or preoccupy) the citizens so that they wouldn't turn on them. Keep them distracted with the spectacles of the colosseum and keep them fed to ensure they remained passive. Those politicians understood the power of the people. Of course these days we've got the X-Factor, football and celebrity magazines to keep us from thinking about how the rule of the Establishment (really just a term meaning "the rich and those who have a vested interest in the status quo") is a massive confidence trick.
If you want to know what I mean by this, consider the days of the British Empire: a handful of British soldiers and politicians managed to control hundreds of millions of Indians. If the Indians had revolted en masse they could have kicked out the foreign invaders who were stripping their country of its wealth but didn't because of the trick of appearing much more powerful than you really are.
But the politicos around the world have forgotten what the Romans always knew, that it's the mob (and that's me and you, by the way) who hold the real power. Elected power has the veneer of legitimacy but real power resides in the people, even when they use the ballot box to assert it.
A year of voting shockwaves has seen the choice favoured by the Establishment rejected. I'm speaking more of the Brexit vote because it's still too early to analyse the Trump victory although at first glance it would appear to have some similarities. But the Brexit vote has been analysed and the fact seems to be that the voting split was on grounds of class. And the reason it was a massive shock isn't hard to guess why. The working class has become invisible.
Take a look at the average daytime TV schedule on the nation's broadcaster. It's a mix of antiques programmes, with middle class contestants, property development programmes, with people rich enough to buy extra homes "as a project" or to build their property portfolios, or shows in which people are seeking to relocate house – "John and Samantha have a budget of £750,000", or my particular bete noire, the programme where a jolly-hockeysticks presenter intercepts people who are about to throw some unwanted piece of furniture, or other broken junk, away at the local tip, takes it from them, hands it to artisan hipster-types and then sell its on to people who have more money than sense at the kind of prices that only people who are above asking the price would ever pay.
The daytime schedule is not aimed at the unmoneyed. If the working class appear at all it is in one of the programmes looking at police procedure, and so the only vision we have of the working class is one of criminality. This is important because in our modern society of social media bubbles, and where work and social life revolve around others just like us, we rarely meet people whose lives are different to our own. In George Orwell's classic, Down And Out in London and Paris he captured how this lack of knowledge of each other worked against the working class – "He is kept at work. ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him."
The reason that a million bowls of muesli went uneaten on the morning of the 24th June was that the middle class didn't know who these people who'd voted Leave were. The next shock was that they were entitled to vote.
Almost immediately the fightback began – the middle class began namecalling. The bitter words have been a constant backdrop ever since the referendum. The working class were bigots, racists, too uneducated to vote. The very same people who wept at films about suffragettes suddenly decided that the suffragettes, the unions and even the RAF didn't overcome the odds to win universal suffrage just so the bloody working class could use it. Fear of the mob was back in fashion.
The narrowness of the victory, the 52/48 split, means that real skill will be required to negotiate an exit that works for everyone. No one really wants an ochlocracy – mob rule – and so the tyranny of the majority must be tempered by the desire to achieve what is best for all. Not something, I might add, that the 48% have always concerned themselves with. Money and location insulated them against the harshest changes that those whose concerns are immediate and local experienced, unheeded, unlistened to, forgotten.
This week I sat down with my son and rewatched Julien Temple's film "London: The Modern Babylon". It's a wonderfully evocative picture of a dynamic, ever-changing city that has absorbed every change, every bomb, every new wave of immigrants, and emerged always better and more bustling than before. London is its people and so is Britain. And the British are whoever live here at any particular moment – you're not more British if you can trace your family back to the Saxons. All of us who live here and share the bounties and woes of these islands are equally as British.
In the film the voice of Malcolm McLaren, former Sex Pistols manager, can be heard talking about the London Mob. He understood the power of the people. Now we have exercised some small degree of that power and caught the attention of the Establishment once more, we must ensure that our concerns remain top of their agenda. And we want more than bread and circuses.
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Farmer Joe says:
Still it is "them & us" 5 months on from the vote. Sweeping generalistons of 52% "racist" leavers, and the ignorant, selfish 48%. Where are the working class remainers, or the super rich leavers represented this otherwise insightful analysis?
Chingford Plains Drifter says:
Racist, dumb, and deserving of what's coming next – it's open season. I think my fave so far has been Matthew Parris's suggestion that perhaps, post-Brexit and Trump, this whole democracy thing has been taken too far.
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It is apparent that the child suffering from leukaemia is not fully understood and that teaching staff find the handling of him/her difficult due to much ignorance about the disease. The leukaemia sufferer is subjected to vigorous treatment schedules with short-term and long-term effects. The child in his/her totality is affected by the illness and the treatment procedures. This emphasizes the responsibility of the school for the successful reintegration and support of the patient so that he/she may become a worthy, well-adjusted and respected member of society. This study found that the adolescent leukaemia sufferer experiences adjustment problems within the family and at school, and is dependent on accompaniment within both environments.


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Q: Converting DDM to DEC (Decimal degrees) I have a set of coordinates in the format DDM (Degrees decimal minutes), that i need to convert to decimal degrees.
From the function found here i can convert DMS, but i have failed to find a function or formula that will allow me to change DDM into DEC.
For example the coordinate could be:
64 Degrees 0 Minutes N, 22 Degrees 33 Minutes W
From the conversion tool here i know that the result is: 64, -22,55
So the question is how can I convert the DDM format ?
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The data comes from a table that looks like this:
[Latitude_degrees]: 64
[Latitude_minutes]: 0
[Latitude_hemisphere]: N
[Longitude_degrees]: 22
[Longitude_minutes]: 33
[Longitude_hemisphere]: W

A: Simple mathematics
As pseudocode:
Latitude = Latitude_degrees + Latitude_minutes / 60
if Latitude_hemisphere = 'S' then
    Latitude = -Latitude

and the equivalent for Longitude