The Guild of St. Michael – South was formed in 1988, the year after the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire's Silver Anniversary held at the original faire site in Agoura. A similar guild, St. Michael's North, was formed in the early 1980s by Gordon Frye and Carl Ontis, members of the Renaissance Military Society (RMS), itself created in November 1982 which comprised German Landsknechts (mercenaries) from the Black Point/Novato faire dating back to 1980 (and once members of the Guild of St. Helens, peasants), English company of foot soldiers (including gunners), and a later-dissolved company of mariners.
During the '80s, several guilds were started, grouping volunteer performers into class or trade categories so that they could be centrally coordinated and that a more common look could be maintained to easily identify who belonged to what part of their Renaissance society.
Up until 1988, there were numerous military and fighting groups "roaming" around the Agoura site of Southern Faire – except for the Scottish Highlanders. These were gathered, lumped, crunched, pushed and folded into a single package. Inside this "box", the larger components – or companies – were allowed a measure of independent identity. two separate groups of German Landsknechts or mercenaries, the Queen's Chair Bearers and various English soldiers (squads of pikemen, gunners and fighting sailors) were fitted into this new guild.
Now considered an "umbrella" organization for the military companies, this was unique among the rest of the faire's guilds and it set the standard for St. Michael's Guild structure to this day.
The original leaders of the German companies were Conn MacLir and Tim Finkas. The new Guildmaster was Kevin Brown (formerly Lord Burleigh from the Queen's Royal Court). Brown portrayed the Captain-General, "Sir John Norris (or Norrys)". The Chair Bearers, also known as the "Yeoman of the Guard" or "Queen's Guard" mostly carried the Queen in her platform chair and was one of the oldest groups, started in 1980 by Gereg Jones Muller who departed faire after 1988, when it left Agoura.
The Living History Centre (LHC), parent of the Renaissance Pleasure Faires (RPF), moved Southern Faire (RPFS) to Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino in 1989 and the Guild of St. Michael went with them. They established a military encampment along the side of the lake where each of the groups/companies set up a main tent and some peripheral, personal tents to give the look-and-feel of a battle camp. Each faire day, the combined military units marched to the peninsula in the middle of the lake to "take English land back from the enemy" which Scottish highlanders and Irish cohorts of St. Andrew's Guild had overrun earlier. There, the huge, "live-steel" Battle Pageant took place about noon.
Also that year, Tim Finkas, Assistant Guildmaster and former German leader, started a new group called the "Company of Mariners" who, while on land, set up and ran the "Drunken Soldier Inn". The Inn served both English sailors with nautical costume and props, and as a somewhat open forum for all military men (and women) to do some improvisation (similar to the Faire's "Green Man Inne"). The gunners in the Guild became a small company known as "Shotte". The English Company of Foote was known as "Cromwell's Company" for its captain, Thomas Cromwell. The Queen's Guard grew and Morgan was its Captain. The Company of Shotte was run by Walter Nelson who also acted as the Guild's Sergeant-Major. St. Michael's now had five companies.
Year Three at Glen Helen, 1991, saw the introduction of a few Gentleman Adventurers joining the Guild staff, un-attached to any of the separate companies. These semi-noble characters included Tim Finkas portraying "Sir Walter Raliegh", David Springhorn as "Capt. Courage", Bryan Norton playing "Maximillian Norris", the Captain-Generals trouble-making, younger brother, and "Lt. Loveless", played by Jeff Bissiri (later Guildmaster of St. George, the Queen's Court). The Barber-Surgeon from the Company of Foote also became a "Guild" character instead of being solely attached to an individual company ("Magnus Maxwell", a fictional character, played by Michael Foster.). The camp layout was changed and the Germans set up a "Military Museum" of weaponry and other displays in a large tent. The Company of Mariners actually had a boat to use on the lake. Some of the Queen's Guard rode on the Queen's Royal Barge across the lake while most of the able-bodied men in the Guild pulled on the ropes to tow Her Majesty and entourage over the water. Allan Treas became the Innkeeper of the Drunken Soldier Inn and Margaret Miller was the Mariner's group leader (or "captain"). The Company of Foote staged a "walkout" and marched, singing, back to London where they could return to their civilian occupations as mercers, grocers, tailors, etc.
By 1992, Kevin Brown had moved on, out of faire on a regular basis, and Chris Cook, former head of the Germans, became the new Guildmaster. His Assistant, Danny McGee, now a German called "Erasmus", had started in the Company of Shotte as a master gunner. The Gentleman Adventurers was all but gone, and only the Barber-Surgeon remained as the one, non-aligned character in the Guild. Danny, as Assistant had a personal "pet peeve" of guests and other participants climbing over the ropes to walk through the military encampment.
Chris Cook left the Guild before 1993, after serving just one year as Guildmaster and his Assistant, Danny McGee, took over. This year, his "pet peeve" was one errant English pikeman, Rick Sullivan, who had to take some time outs. The assembled Captains of the Companies (now six strong) began to exercise some say in Guild administration and they suggested (selected) Michael Foster, the Guild Barber-Surgeon, to be his Assistant Guildmaster, being someone recognized as "independent of individual companies and their politics" (according to notes from the 1993 Captains' Meetings.) Bill Pearson was then the Captain of the Queen's Guard. Jerry Wood, "Elwin Brookshire", was the administrator of Foote, although David Wine continued to portray "Nicholas Stoddard", the Foote's theatrical Captain. Margaret Miller was still in charge of the Mariners and their Inn became known as the "Serpent's Nest", named for their "ship", the "HMS Serpent" and their small boat, the "Serpent's Tongue".
The next year, 1994, saw Michael Foster as Guildmaster – Danny moved to Northern Faire and joined the Schwartz Fahnlein there. Michael chose two Assistant Guildmasters, approved by the Captains: Gary Kephart (the Lieutenant of the Company of Foote) and Kim Meyer (the Head Woman from the Queen's Guard). This began a trend or tradition of having one Assistant for each 60 Guild members, reaching a peak of 185 in 1999, the first "year of three Assistant Guildmasters".
This year also saw two other major changes in administering the Guild. First, the entire camp, still by the lakeside, turned inward or side-by-side instead of outward. There was still stage frontage for each group, but the idea was to get the separate Companies working together and getting along with each other, during and after hours. The second change was for the Guildmaster to delegate several duties to the "best and most experienced" as agreed on by the Assistants and the Captains. Such positions in the Guild staff now included Battle Pageant Coordinator (Lloyd Winter, "Ulrich van Baden", German group leader), Black Powder Safety Officer (Alan Hughes, "Wat Utley", Shotte group leader), Site Manager (Michael Cravens, "Heinrich Schultz the Engineer", former Queen's Guard Knight, now a German), etc. John Hawakaya took over as Captain of the Queen's Guard.
And, speaking of "after hours", 1994 became the first "official" year of both the St. Michael's "USO Party" (aka "Choir Practice") held on the Sunday night of Memorial, three-day, weekend, and the Memorial Service involving all of the military, members of the Queen's Court, Friends of Faire, St. Andrew's Clan MacColin and other faire participants. The latter was a Memorial Day presentation and remembrance for fallen military and for faire friends who had passed on. These two events continued until the Faire once again moved to a new location and no longer encompassed Memorial Weekend.
For 1995, there was more progression towards a friendly and cohesive working environment along with a change in title from the Lowland Scots to the "Border Horse". This company was still made of English and Scottish border families and "reivers" working as mercenaries (either for pay or punishment) as part of the Queen's armies. The Border Horse began building their famous "Scots' Tower", a two-story structure with a rock façade that allowed both for theatrical presentations – outside and on top – and storage – inside. Their Captain was "Stewart", played by Jeff Cupernell.
In 1996, the Barber-Surgeon dug a grave, outfitted it with bones and the famous German Lutheran Minister, Father Anders Gambolputy, played by Andy Bradshaw, would conduct daily services over it. While weeping friends and family members knelt around the grave, a shroud-covered soldier would climb out and walk away whenever the Danse Macabre ("Dance of Death") paraded by the site. Only audience members saw this as the mourners continued "unaware" of the departure. The Company of Foote had its only leader who wasn't named Stoddard. Gary Kephart portrayed "William Bond" as captain. Gary also remained Assistant Guildmaster, but Kim Meyer left and was replaced by Angela Phillips from the Germans.
The next "dread" Captain Stoddard, John Tiffany, took over Stoddard's Company of Foote and the parent organization for the Foote, Blackshires, brought its "Living Chess Match" to faire and it was set up in the middle of a "U" shaped military camp and staff by mostly St. Michael's Guild members. Also, in 1997, the Guild USO party was held in and around the Living Chess Match playing board/stage which made a HUGE dance floor. Justin Kocher takes over the group leadership of the Queen's Guard (until that company leaves after 2000).
A new Barber-Surgeon was assigned to the companies, :"William Clowes", portrayed by Michael Foster, after his predecessor mysteriously disappeared while being escorted to the North Country. His escorts, the Company of Border Horse returned with much of his equipment apparently given to them as "… thank you gifts for the 'safe' journey". The new Border Horse leader was John Holmes, known as "Kinmont Willie", a famous border reiver.
In 1998, the Faire was shifted within Glen Helen Park and St. Michael's was given the entire peninsula, formerly site of the Battle Pageant. The BP was moved to the Horse Tourney arena, now at the "back" of the Faire and it became more of a pageant, in truth, with members of St. Michael's acting as narrators and Col. Sir Charles Blount, Gary Kephart, giving a rousing opening speech taken from Shakespeare's "Henry the V" introduction. The camp was visible 360 degrees, so care had to be taken to hide "backstage" areas in between or in the middle of tents and structures. Jill Wood took Angie Phillip's place as the second Assistant Guildmaster. The next Captain Stoddard, Jerry Wood, was in charge of the Company of Foote. The Guild's Memorial Weekend USO Party took place on the "Island" which was a great venue for an after-hours dance and mixer.
Still on the peninsula, in 1999, the Guildmaster allowed Andy Bradshaw to put his long-time, dream proposal into reality: an Academy of Military Science which grew from two people to several and became one of the most visible, and well-liked spots in the St. Michael's encampment. The Academy eventually showcased representatives of a "College of War", and "Department of Engineering" and "School of Medicine" with participants giving internal and public presentations about their chosen, historical specialties. A third Assistant Guildmaster, Frank Licata, the Lieutenant from the Company of Foote, was added as the Guild population surpassed 180 (keeping the 60-to-1 ratio first decided in 1994).
The year 2000 found the County once more moving the faire to the far side of the lake and St. Michael's lost its most visual encampment. However, there were several advantages to now being at the back of the faire, next to the new Horse Tournament arena. First and foremost, the amount of space given to the Guild increased greatly and continued to increase until the last year at Glen Helen found the military encamped on both sides of the Tourney and wrapped around the corner onto the main roadway. Another great advantage, especially to a guild that has a lot of group- and personally-owned props and equipment, the new site was right next to the main participant entrance gate. This also gave quick and easy access to backstage, faire administration, security, restrooms, showers, the parking lot, and the participant campground. So, although the Guild site was no longer visible from front-to-back, side-to-side as on the peninsula, it had an extremely long stage front with performance, demonstration, eating, working and sleeping room for each of the companies.
During the second year of the faire's newest configuration, Patricia Foster, German Fraulein "Genoviva Fuger", was brought in to replace Jill Wood as an Assistant Guildmaster along with Frank Licata and Gary Kephart. In 2001, a small group of Gentlemen Adventurers was again attempted with Bill Watters, "Giovanni", Patricia Foster, "Breanna", and a few others acting independently of the other companies. This only lasted one year. Also that year, on Memorial Weekend, a winged apparition of "St. Michael, the Archangel" (Michael Foster) appeared during the Battle Pageant and wandered the faire in honor of "St. Michael's Apparition Day". This year, the Queen's Guard became an independent "troupe" at Southern Faire, the "Yeomen of the Guard" while an outside-faire Irish mercenary group, "Clan O'Neil" or "The O'Neils", joined St. Michael's.
In 2003, the next incarnation of St. Michael's Gentlemen Adventurers was brought into the Guild headed by Steve Leon. With the Academy, this made eight separate groups within the Guild. Gary Kephart took over as the Guild Database manager and Aaron Johnson was appointed Assistant Guildmaster. During the off-season, Guild members did cleanup and gardening almost monthly.
The year 2004 saw several more semi-permanent additions to the Guild site: trees were planted, grass over-seeded, small walls and structures erected or left from the run-of-faire. The Gentlemen Adventurers convinced the Faire to let them be their own troupe, so St. Michael's was back to seven groups or companies.
At the beginning of 2005, the newer Faire owners, Renaissance Entertainment Corporation (REC), moved the entire operation to the Sante Fe Dam Park in Irwindale.
In 2006, Michael Foster announced his retirement ending 12 years as Guildmaster and the faire's "director of military operations". His Assistant Guildmaster, Aaron Johnson was to take the reins at the end of the year.
In 2007, Aaron Johnson as the new Guildmaster, had Patricia Foster and Frank Licata as his Assistant Guildmasters. The Irish were dissolved so the Guild was back to six companies (counting the Academy).
In 2008, Aaron Johnson appointed all new Guild staff including Lynn Dekker, from Border Horse, and Alden Pelayo, from the Mariners, as his new Assistant Guildmasters. Scott Gayman, German, was replaced as the Site Manager with Joe Hawkins.


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Márcio Roberto dos Santos (São Paulo, 15 de setembro de 1969) é um ex-futebolista brasileiro que atuava como zagueiro.

Carreira

Início
Em 1987, aos 18 anos, o zagueiro deu os seus primeiros passos pelo Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino, clube que defendeu por três temporadas, nas quais disputou a Série B e foi vice-campeão paulista em 1990.

Internacional e Botafogo
Em franca evolução, chamou a atenção e foi contratado pelo Internacional. Nos tempos de Inter, o zagueiro foi campeão gaúcho e ganhou a Bola de Prata da revista Placar como melhor zagueiro do Campeonato Brasileiro de 1991.

O destaque no clube gaúcho despertou a atenção do Bordeaux, da França. No entanto, como o time estava no meio da temporada francesa, ele acabou sendo emprestado para o Botafogo. Pelo alvinegro, Márcio Santos chegou até a final do Campeonato Brasileiro de 1992, onde foi vice-campeão.

Bordeaux
Então campeão da segunda divisão do Campeonato Francês (Ligue 2), o Bordeaux tinha um time modesto, mas competitivo. Em sua temporada de estreia, Márcio Santos ajudou os girondinos a terminarem o ano com a defesa menos vazada, a quarta posição na Ligue 1, além de conseguirem uma vaga para a Copa da UEFA. Por conta das boas atuações, o brasileiro foi escolhido como um dos melhores estrangeiros no país.

Na temporada seguinte, 1993–94, a equipe de Bordéus teve uma defesa menos sólida, mas repetiu a dose em termos de resultados no campeonato. Márcio sofreu com algumas lesões, mas foi um dos destaques do time ao lado do lateral-esquerdo Bixente Lizarazu, do atacante Christophe Dugarry, e dos meias Richard Witschge e Zinédine Zidane.

O treinador Carlos Alberto Parreira, então, confirmou o zagueiro na lista de convocados da Seleção Brasileira para a Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1994, realizada nos Estados Unidos.

Fiorentina
Campeão mundial com o Brasil e eleito para a seleção da Copa, Márcio entrou para o rol dos melhores zagueiros do mundo, o que naturalmente chamou a atenção de clubes maiores da Europa. Dez dias após o final da Copa, foi adquirido pela Fiorentina, que voltava à Serie A depois de um ano na segunda divisão. Contratado pela equipe de Florença, ele teria a chance de jogar no campeonato de futebol mais badalado da época, o Campeonato Italiano.

Na impossibilidade de fechar com Lilian Thuram, cuja saída do Monaco foi vetada pelo técnico Arsène Wenger, a equipe de Florença buscou a qualidade técnica e a força física do jovem brasileiro, que tinha atributos importantes para se firmar na Itália.

Durante a campanha da Fiorentina de Claudio Ranieri, o destaque ficou por conta do centroavante argentino Gabriel Batistuta, que anotou 26 gols dos 61 da equipe e terminou a Serie A de 1994–95 na artilharia do campeonato. A defesa violeta, por sua vez, foi uma protagonista às avessas: sofreu 57 gols e foi a terceira mais vazada da competição. Márcio Santos sucumbiu juntamente ao setor, já que foi titular em toda a campanha, atuando em 32 das 34 rodadas do certame, além de disputar as seis partidas dos gigliati na Copa da Itália. Um dos poucos motivos que teve para celebrar foi não estar em campo na vexatória derrota por 8 a 2 para a Lazio de Zdeněk Zeman.

Perguntado sobre o porquê de não ter dado certo na Itália, Márcio elogiou a Serie A, que definiu como o mais difícil do mundo, mas não teve meias palavras para avaliar a qualidade do elenco da Fiorentina:

De fato, aquela Fiorentina não era tão brilhante. Mas tinha um elenco condizente para terminar a temporada no meio da tabela, como aconteceu: os toscanos terminaram o Campeonato Italiano na 10º posição, a cinco e sete pontos de uma vaga na Copa da UEFA e da zona de rebaixamento, respectivamente. Porém, um time que tinha o próprio Márcio, além de jogadores como Francesco Toldo, Rui Costa e Batistuta, não poderia ser taxada como "muito ruim". Inclusive, grande parte da espinha dorsal da equipe permaneceu para a temporada seguinte, onde terminou a Serie A na terceira colocação.

Depois da desilusão, Márcio não deu prosseguimento à vida em Florença. O zagueiro chegou a ser especulado como substituto de Ronald Koeman no Barcelona e demonstrou interesse de se mudar para o futebol espanhol, mas acabou mesmo rumando à Holanda.

Ajax
Contratado sob badalação, teve ótimo início em seus primeiros jogos pelo clube de Amsterdã, sendo muito elogiado pela imprensa local, até sentir uma contusão em um amistoso pelo Brasil, em outubro de 1995, ficando de fora do time durante seis meses.

Após sua volta, não conseguiu se firmar na equipe titular, além de problemas de relacionamento com o técnico Louis van Gaal.

Em seu último jogo pelo Ajax, foi expulso com apenas 17 segundos de jogo, após perder o tempo de uma bola recebida e puxar um jogador do PSV que saía na cara do gol.

Atlético Mineiro e São Paulo
Deixou o Ajax e voltou ao Brasil, onde foi emprestado ao Atlético Mineiro no início do ano de 1997. Após curta passagem por Minas Gerais, continuou no Brasil e foi contratado pelo São Paulo (time de sua infância). No Morumbi, voltou a grande forma durante o Campeonato Paulista de 1998, período em que retornou a Seleção Brasileira.

A boa fase continuou até a chegada do treinador Paulo César Carpegiani, em 1999. Desentendimentos entre os dois fizeram com que ele fosse afastado do time, sendo dispensado após o Campeonato Brasileiro de 1999.

Santos
Após sua saída do São Paulo, acertou contrato com o Santos. Porém, seu início não foi dos melhores; as falhas em alguns jogos e as contusões atrapalharam sua vida na Vila Belmiro. Durante esse período perdeu a vaga no time titular, o que acarretou em um conturbado relacionamento com o técnico Giba, que o afastou da equipe após declarações públicas de insatisfação. Pouco tempo depois, o zagueiro tetracampeão do mundo acabou sendo dispensado do clube. Atrasos salariais também contribuíram para sua saída.

Márcio Santos ainda atuou por Shandong Luneng (China), Al-Arabi (Catar), entre outros, encerrando sua carreira na Portuguesa Santista.

Seleção Nacional
Estreou pela Seleção Brasileira em 1990, ainda como jogador do Novorizontino, na primeira convocação do treinador Paulo Roberto Falcão. Estreou numa derrota de 3–0 para a Espanha, em amistoso.

Convocado para a Copa América de 1991, foi reserva nos três primeiros jogos na competição até tomar a posição de Wilson Gottardo, após derrota para a Colômbia, passando a formar a dupla titular com Ricardo Rocha. Depois do vice-campeonato e da demissão de Falcão, Márcio perdeu espaço com Carlos Alberto Parreira e demorou a ter sequência com a amarelinha.

Sob o comando de Parreira, foi convocado novamente para alguns amistosos e para a US Cup de 1993. Não disputou a Copa América daquele ano, mas foi titular nos primeiros cinco jogos das Eliminatórias.

Copa do Mundo de 1994
Márcio Santos foi convocado para a Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1994 na reserva do experiente Ricardo Gomes, mas herdou o posto de titular após o zagueiro do Paris Saint-Germain ser cortado às vésperas do jogo de estreia na competição.

Apesar de novo (24 anos) em seu primeiro mundial, além da desconfiança de muitos comentaristas esportivos, Márcio fez uma Copa surpreendentemente boa, formando uma grande dupla de zaga com Aldair. O ápice individual na competição aconteceu no segundo jogo, contra Camarões, partida em que marcou um gol de cabeça na vitória por 3–0.

Chegando à final, a Seleção Brasileira terminou a partida empatada em 0–0 contra a Itália. Nas cobranças de pênalti, Márcio foi o primeiro cobrador dos cinco batedores do Brasil. Apesar de ser o jogador com melhor índice de aproveitamento nos treinos, o zagueiro perdeu sua cobrança, defendida por Gianluca Pagliuca. Em entrevista posterior, ele alegou que acabou mudando o canto que batia na hora, facilitando a defesa para o goleiro italiano. No entanto, o Brasil sagrou-se campeão.

Seguro e preciso nos desarmes, Márcio Santos foi eleito para o time da Copa como um dos melhores zagueiros do mundial, além do tetracampeonato.

Era Zagallo
Repetiria a dupla com Aldair, dessa vez sob o comando de Zagallo, durante a conquista da Copa Umbro de 1995 e em alguns amistosos. Porém, perderia espaço para a concorrência nos anos seguintes por conta de contusões.

Em 1997, foi reserva no Torneio da França e na conquista da Copa América, após perder a vaga de titular por uma falha na derrota de 4–2 para a Noruega, em um amistoso naquele ano. Esse acabou sendo seu último jogo pela Seleção.

Mesmo assim, e para a surpresa de todos, acabou sendo convocado para a Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998, realizada na França. No entanto, faltando apenas um mês para o Mundial, foi cortado devido a uma lesão sofrida na final do Campeonato Paulista. Para seu lugar, André Cruz, do Milan, foi convocado.

Estilo de jogo
Fisicamente forte e habilidoso no jogo aéreo, era um zagueiro acostumado a encontrar o caminho para o gol.

Pós-aposentadoria
No dia 19 de abril de 2008, sofreu um acidente vascular cerebral e foi internado em Balneário Camboriú, em Santa Catarina. Sem sequelas graves, deixou o hospital cinco dias depois.

Foi coordenador de futebol do Santos entre outubro de 2020 e janeiro de 2021.

Títulos
Internacional
Campeonato Gaúcho: 1991

Ajax
Eredivisie: 1995–96

São Paulo
Campeonato Paulista: 1998

Gama
Campeonato Brasiliense: 2001

Seleção Brasileira
Copa do Mundo FIFA: 1994
Copa América: 1997

Ligações externas

Naturais da cidade de São Paulo
Futebolistas do estado de São Paulo
Futebolistas do Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino
Futebolistas do Sport Club Internacional
Futebolistas do Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas
Futebolistas do Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux
Futebolistas da Associazione Calcio Firenze Fiorentina
Futebolistas do AFC Ajax
Futebolistas do Clube Atlético Mineiro
Futebolistas do São Paulo Futebol Clube
Futebolistas do Santos Futebol Clube
Futebolistas da Sociedade Esportiva do Gama
Futebolistas do Shandong Taishan Football Club
Futebolistas do Paulista Futebol Clube
Futebolistas do Club Bolívar
Futebolistas do Joinville Esporte Clube
Futebolistas da Associação Atlética Portuguesa
Jogadores da Seleção Brasileira de Futebol
Jogadores da Copa América de 1991
Jogadores da Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1994
Jogadores da Copa América de 1997
Jogadores campeões da Copa do Mundo FIFA
Sobreviventes de acidente vascular cerebral

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Q: SQL Server 2012 Error 26 I downloaded SQL Server 2012 Express. Using http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2694/getting-started-with-sql-server-2012-express-localdb/. I created a local database. Now when I tried to connect to that database using Visual Studio 2010 it throws me error 26
Here is my code:
using(SqlConnection connectionString = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\SQLEXPRESS;database=master;Trusted_Connection=True;")
{
    connectionString.Open(); //error 26
    sql = "insert into Main ([Cable Length1], [Cable Length2]) values(@3',@5')";

    using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, connectionString))
    {
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@3'", 1);
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@5'", 2);
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
              }
}

Also, I am able to login through SQL Server Management Studio 2012. Can anyone tell me what am I missing?

A: Ignoring all the other problems1, you should make up your mind as to whether you're using SQL Server LocalDB or not. I am highly doubtful you've made a private LocalDB instance called SQLEXPRESS.
You likely want something along the lines of:
new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Trusted_Connection=True;")

Or
new SqlConnection(@"Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Trusted_Connection=True;")

1 being the following:

*

*Your SqlConnection is called connectionString.

*Parameters with quotes in their names.

*Using master and then trying to insert into a table called Main. System databases are for the system. You are not the system.

I'd expect to see something along the lines of:
using (var connection = new SqlConnection(@"Server=(localdb)\v11.0;Database=MyDatabaseName;Integrated Security=true;")
{
    connection.Open();

    using (var command = connection.CreateCommand())
    {
            command.CommandText = "INSERT INTO [Main] ([Cable Length1], [Cable Length2]) VALUES(@3, @5)";

            command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@3", 1);
            command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@5", 2);

            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
    }
}

A: I got the solution: Make sure you are connected to Database and when you launch sql management studio under server name-->select browse for more-->select database engine and then select your local database. You should see the Green Icon and then you do get connected. Thanks for the help guys!

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Q: What is done in IntelliJ "Make" phase? Running an Android project in IntelliJ seems to be much slower than in Eclipse. It sometimes does this "Make" for tens of seconds:

This is before compiling Java sources or even DEX-ing.
What actually happens in this "Make" phase? Is this checking the filesystem for modified files?
(on Mac OS X 10.9.1 with ~5.5 GB free RAM)

A: *

*Make Project
All the source files in the entire project that have been modified since the last compilation are compiled. Dependent source files, if appropriate, are also compiled. Additionally, the tasks tied to the compilation or make process on modified sources are performed. For example, EJB validation is performed if the corresponding option is enabled on the Validation page.

*Make Module
Compiled are all the source files that have been modified since the last compilation in the selected module as well as in all the modules it depends on recursively.
You can check this link out ,
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/compilation-types.html


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By Wendy McElroy
First We Conquer Iceland
The law of unintended consequences states that actions, especially governmental ones, always have unintended and unpredictable effects. These unanticipated effects can be far more powerful than the planned ones. Thus, economists often use this law as a warning to politicians that policies commonly 'achieve' the opposite of their intentions. For example, raising the minimum wage to ease the burden on workers usually causes more unemployment, especially among marginal workers. Similarly, raising taxes often diminishes tax revenues.
But sometimes unintended consequences are nothing short of delightful. Consider the prospect of Iceland abandoning the krona and adopting the dollar as its currency. No, no, not the US Greenback but the Canadian "loonie," so named for the water fowl imprinted on the flipside of its one-dollar coin.
[Disclaimer: the author admits to being a Canadian who wishes to vacation in Iceland and, so, she may be biased in deciding what is delightful.]
Since the 2008 financial crisis in which its top three banks collapsed, Iceland has eyed other currencies with the goal of establishing both stability and liquidity even at the cost of losing control of its own monetary policies.
Why is the possibility of adopting the loonie "an unintended consequence"? Because up until now, the currency overwhelmingly favored for adoption was the euro. Iceland applied to join the European Union in 2009 and formal negotiations began in 2011, with the issue of fisheries being particularly sensitive. Iceland has exclusive fishing rights to the 200 nautical miles surrounding its shores and fish constitute its largest export by far. There is understandable reluctance to entering an agreement that would open up Iceland's fishing zone to competitors.
Moreover, the recent rockiness of the Eurozone and the euro itself cannot be encouraging to Icelanders. Indeed, given that Iceland rebounded from its fiscal crisis by defaulting on debts and not bailing out banks, it is unlikely to sympathize with the hysteria surrounding a Greek default. A recent Capacent Gallup poll found that 60 percent of Icelanders now oppose union with the Eurozone. The Finance Minister is among them. Who knew that strict fishing policies and the coddling of Greece would make the loonie glimmer in Icelandic eyes?
And, so, prominent Icelandic businessmen, opposition politicians and much of the public are favoring a move toward the loonie; the Canadian Ambassador Alan Bones had been scheduled to address the possibility of currency sharing at a political conference in Reykjavik over the weekend. But the Canadian government apparently reconsidered the appropriateness of the venue for such a discussion; the conference had been sponsored by a specific political faction within Iceland. Instead, last Friday, the Canadian Ambassador announced on the Icelandic national broadcaster RUV that Ottawa was quite open to holding talks on the subject. The Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson stated "I'm all in favor of discussing the alternatives we may have to the krona."
On the street level, the Canadian public seems tickled. Indeed, in a recent column entitled "Five reasons why Iceland should adopt the Canadian dollar," Michael Babad offered as the concluding reason:
"5. Our glowing hearts. For Iceland, do not underestimate friendship in this post-crisis era of currency manipulation and mounting trade tensions. We're a wonderful people, they're a wonderful people. We've got a beautiful country, they've got a beautiful country. True, it gets cold in Canada in the winter, but remember we're talking about Iceland.
"And surely we can forgive them for Björk." [Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic singer-songwriter.]
Icelanders seem receptive as well. According to the Globe and Mail, "In a recent Gallup poll, seven out of 10 Icelanders said they would happily dump their volatile and fragile krona for another currency. Their favoured alternative is the Canadian dollar, easily outscoring the US dollar, the euro and the Norwegian krone." There are no reports of the Icelandic government opening discussions, however.
There are several reasons for the Canadian dollar — usually viewed as the Greenback's poor cousin — to be preferred over the euro. The loonie has a AAA sovereign debt rating and Canada has very little debt compared to every other Western nation. The Globe and Mail provides other reasons:
"It [the loonie] offers the tantalizing prospect of a stable, liquid currency that roughly tracks global commodity prices, nicely matching Iceland's own economy, which is dependent on fish and aluminum exports, and in the future, energy.
There's also a more sentimental reason. They're both cold, Arctic countries. "The average person looks at it this way: Canada is a younger version of the US. Canada has more natural resources than the US, it's less developed, has more land, lots of water," explained Heidar Gudjonsson, an economist and chairman of the Research Centre for Social and Economic Studies, Iceland's largest think tank. "And Canada thinks about the Arctic."
Economic commentator ZeroHedge (Tyler Durden) ends his report on Iceland's longing look at the loonie with a warning, "So be careful Canada: with great power, comes great a desire to distribute wealth. And we have all seen what happens next."
Will currency imperialism go to Canada's head? Fear not, ZeroHedge. I still remember the contest run by Canada's national magazine Macleans years ago. It wanted to come up with a phrase that captured what was quintessentially Canadian, similar to the down-under phrase "As American as apple pie." And, so, Macleans invited readers to fill in the blank: "As Canadian as _________." The challenge was distinguishing Canada from its neighbor who was louder, flashier, (then) richer, sexier and, well, add "er" onto almost any adjective.
The winner? "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances." Arrogance is not a problem.
Wendy McElroy,
for The Daily Reckoning
About Wendy McElroy:
Wendy McElroy is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute. Her books include the Independent Institute volumes, Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century, and The Art of Being Free. A contributor to numerous books, Ms. McElroy was Series Editor for Knowledge Products' audio-tape series, The World of Philosophy, The World's Political Hot Spots, The United States at War, and The United States Constitution, and she authored the scripts for Vindication of the Rights of Woman, The Liberator, Civil Disobedience, and Discourse on Voluntary Servitude in the Audio Classics Series. Her scripts have been narrated by George C. Scott, Harry Reasoner and Walter Cronkite. She is a contributing editor to the magazines, the Freeman, Free Inquiry, and Liberty, and the author of numerous articles in The Independent Review, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Literature of Liberty, National Review, Reason, SpinTech, Freedom Daily, Maire Claire, Penthouse, and Toronto Globe and Mail.

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Household Dance Protocol/ Hushållets Dansprotokoll/ Huushollin Tanssiprotokolla (HDP) is a project that investigates our relation to household work through dance and somatic- and physical movement methods. The project's aim is to awaken a discussion about the household movement's status in society and to offer a playground in which household tasks are creative movement rituals or pauses of physical and spiritual contemplation.
Between 2017 and 2019 HDP will offer different household workshops, podcasts, installations and performances.


Twitter has advised its more than 300m users to change their passwords after a bug caused "unmasked" passwords to be stored internally.
It added there was "no indication" that the details had been misused but warned users to update their login information as a precaution.
The company said in a statement: "We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.
"We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone.
"As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you've used this password".
Twitter practice is to store passwords encrypted, or "hashed," so they are masked to even people inside the company, Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal explained in a blog post.
"Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process", he said.
"We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again".
The company did not specify how many passwords were exposed or how long the glitch made data vulnerable to snooping.
The stumble comes as the sector faces intense scrutiny over the protection of personal data online, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw information from tens of millions of Facebook users hijacked and misused.
Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said recent changes made to the service have helped "engagement", a measure of how often people turn to the social network and how long they stay.
The company has stepped up efforts to boost its user base and engagement, adding streaming video partnerships, doubling the character limit on tweets to 280 and making it easier to create "tweet storms" by stringing messaging together.


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Music » Makin' the Scene
Absenstar
With Miss Derringer, and Either/Origami. 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14, $5, 21 and over/$18, 20 and under (all ages). Lime Spider, 207 S. Main St., Akron, 330-762-2350.
by D.X. Ferris
Absentstar rockabilly Miss Derringer
Chicago's AbsentStar is working on its major-label debut with Dan Wilson, the Semisonic singer and Dixie Chicks collaborator. And until it's available, the band is working its way around the Midwest, introducing crowds to its aggressive, melodic rock. Band members claim Radiohead and Muse as influences, but their music is more radio-ready than their idols' tunes. Twin guitars coil around the rhythm section in bass-driven songs. And frontman Derek Ingersoll lends the tracks introspective edge, as in "Give In to Me," where he croons, "What it's about is finding your own way out." So come find out what it's about. And show up early for opening act Miss Derringer, who's been described as "Patsy Cline meets Bauhaus."
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BHARAT COOPERATIVE BANK MUMBAI LTD
States: -- State Name -- GUJARATKARNATAKAMAHARASHTRA
BHARAT COOPERATIVE BANK MUMBAI LTD List of IFSC Code Branches States
Gujarat Karnataka
BHARAT COOPERATIVE BANK MUMBAI LTD State wise list:
BHARAT COOPERATIVE BANK MUMBAI LTD has branches in the following state(s) :- Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra.
Bharat Sahakari Bank Limited was established on 21st August 1978. It was inaugurated by the Minister of State for Maharashtra – Hashu Advani.
The kid stood on his feet in his very first year, making a profit of Rs 2,785 on a business mix of Rs 28.61 lakh with a share capital of Rs 6.73 lakh.
The bank grew rapidly and had a network of 5 branches with a business of Rs 82 crore in 1991. The entry of the bank in 1991 was coincided with the dynamic Shri Jaya C Suvarna taking over as the Chairman. The adrenalin rush of teens was so great that the bank became known as the banking industry's "fastest growing co-operative bank".
As of 1995, the bank had 11 branches and was doing business of 193.63 crores. The bank shifted its corporate office from the rented premises to the huge owned building at Goregaon.
1996 saw the bank graduate to scheduled bank status, with the RBI including the bank in its second schedule. This was another achievement in the range as Bharat Bank was the youngest bank to get "Scheduled Bank Status".
In 1997 the RBI and the Central Registrar granted the status of a multi-state co-operative bank and the bank rapidly entered the state of Karnataka in 1998 by opening branches at K H Road, Victoria Road and Indira Nagar branch in Bangalore.
Come August 2003 and Bharat Bank became the "first urban co-operative bank" to successfully implement Core Banking Solution (CBS) offering new features like any branch banking etc.
In 2006 the Billawar Association, Mumbai inaugurated a beautiful and spacious Bilwa Bhawan in Santacruz.
In 2009 Bharat Bank obtained AD-CATEGORY-I license from RBI.
In 2012 the bank launched VISA INTERNATION DEBIT CARD which enabled its customers to use the card at ATMs or shops anywhere in the world.
The bank opened its 50th branch in 2012 at Bantwal, Mangalore.
The bank has set a target to open 100 branches by 2016 and grow manifold in the next few years. To support this ambitious growth plan, the bank needed a strong technical backbone with scalable architecture and chose Finacle – a flagship product from the stables of tech giant Infosys.
August 2014 saw the bank take a giant technology leap. Bharat Bank sees one of the fastest implementation of Finacle v10.2.14
The entire Finacle implementation life-cycle and change management was completely managed by the Bank's own technology team without the involvement of any consultant/system integrator. This is perhaps another first in the entire banking industry.


It's natural to have questions about your future. Will you be successful? Will you find love? Have children? You could ask your mum or even your best mate, but we can't guarantee that the answers will be what you're after.
We can think of someone else to ask though - meet Paris Debono at The Fortune Teller. A professional psychic reader since 1990 who's been published in various magazines across Australia and Europe, we reckon he's a better bet for finding answers.
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Phil Cornelius Remembrance
I met the iconic Phillip Cornelius in the 80's during my graduate studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio while I was an intern resident artist at the former Southwest Craft Center. Phil came to the Center as a visiting artist for one month when he guided me in the craft but importantly the concepts of clay as a medium of abstract artistic expression. Three years later while co- director under John Wilson at the Lakeside Studios in Lakeside Michigan I invited Phil to Michigan. Youth with a degree overestimates its wisdom. He taught me as well as others without condescension or criticism the power of an artist and the purpose of its works. Lakeside Studios sent me to Latvia and Phil to Lithuania in 1989 where we met up in the former Soviet Union, and our worlds changed. Over the years we met and talked. Each time I learned. The world will miss his presence with only some clay to view. But his spirit still prevails. His greatest contribution to the world of art is not the work he left behind but the minds he expanded.
I cannot do any more justice than his obituary:
Phillip G. Cornelius (1934- 2015)
Phillip Age 80, an artist, mentor, and longtime friend, Ceramic Professor at Pasadena City College, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 19. Born in San Bernardino in 1934, he grew up in Ontario, CA and graduated from Chaffey High School. He led a colorful life traveling several paths as a young grocery bagger, a US Army soldier, a science major at San Jose State University, a certified pilot, and as an acclaimed artist and professor. He obtained his MFA degree in 1965 at the Claremont graduate School and has been working as an artist and ceramist ever since. While many universities have closed their ceramics programs over the years, Phillip is credited with making the Pasadena City College Ceramic Department a premier studio and envy of art programs everywhere. His science background served him well when he discovered his passion for ceramics and in the early 1970's developed his signature "thinware", which is ultra-thin and fired "right to the edge." Phillip once said he was very aware of his ability to "do the wrong thing and have it come out right." Colleagues believe he shattered the ole image of ceramics as a craft and he boldly moved this age-old skill into the world of the fine arts. His abstract expressionism, cutting edge construction and imagery are seen within his art. Phillip's work includes his signature porcelain pieces , which resemble tanks, airplanes, and ships in the form of an abstract teapot. The teapots represent so much more than what the eye beholds. Many of his pieces can be seen in major museum collections throughout the world including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Phil is survived by: his oldest son Charles Cornelius, his wife Tana, their three children, Ashley, Brooke, and West; his youngest son, Andrew and his wife Tara Cornelius.
Joyce Jablonski, Professor of Art, Head of Ceramics, University of Central Missouri
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The Element Dining Table is a stunningly sculptural table designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for Desalto. The table is in the form of a round top balanced delicately on a slanting square pole rising from a rectangular base, a bold design made possible by Desalto's expertise in metal construction. The distinctive shape of the table makes it ideal as a centrepiece in a dining room or as a display table in a commercial space. The Element Dining Table is a winner of multiple awards, including the Wallpaper Design Award and the Interior Innovation Award.
The Element Dining Table is made of reinforced steel and aluminium base with the top made of MDF. The base and top are both finished in a black lacquer or white lacquer, please make your selection in the options below. We also offer the Element Dining table with a rectangular top as well as in a smaller occasional table version.
The Element Dining Table can also be specified in other sizes and finishes, please enquire for more details.
Tokujin Yoshioka is a highly regarded Japanese designer and architect known for his original, artistic approach. He has designed spaces and products for a long list of prestigious clients including Moroso, Desalto, Cassina, Swarovski, Issey Miyake and BMW.


It is with regret and sadness that we must say goodbye to our longest-serving and most venerable member.
Ann Ottaway directed, acted, supervised, prompted and advised in many productions over many years, most recently directing 'Generations Apart' last year, and playing our favourite Moley in 'Toad of Toad Hall' in November. This year she was the assistant director for 'Ladies Day'.
Ann was liked and respected by everyone in Dorchester Drama and her knowledge and guidance will be sorely missed.
All our thoughts go out to her family.
So final night has finished, and DD wraps another production up, short of the packing everything into the store again, which I'm just about to do.
This has been a cracking little play to do and if the audience enjoyed it half as much as we have, job done. If you were not able to come to see it, that's a real pity, but we're already working on the next project. News to come.
We've got a couple of clips for you to watch, grabbed from the last couple of performances.
This week sees Dorchester Drama's production of Ladies Day open at Sunninghill hall in Dorchester.
Tickets are still available, both to pre order and will be available on the door. The Cast and Crew have worked very hard towards this, and had a lot of fun as well. Lots of credit must go to Pete the director, who was there for the dress rehearsal, but is away for the next few nights as he's appearing in another play as a favour to the Wool Players.
Below are a few quick rough and ready shots taken during the dress rehearsal.


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Die römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Altenfelden steht südwestlich am Ortsrand auf einer nach Süden und Westen abfallenden Anhöhe im Ort Altenfelden in der Marktgemeinde Altenfelden im Bezirk Rohrbach im oberen Mühlviertel in Oberösterreich. Die dem Patrozinium hl. Sixtus II. unterstellte Pfarrkirche gehört zum Dekanat Altenfelden in der Diözese Linz. Die Kirche steht unter Denkmalschutz ().

Geschichte
Eine Pfarre wurde um 1100 angenommen. Urkundlich wurde 1242 eine Pfarre genannt. 1324 nennt eine Schenkungsurkunde eine Pfarre.

Vorgängerbauten der heutigen Kirche wurden aufgrund der bestehenden Kapellen noch nicht erkannt. Das Langhaus in der heutigen Größe wurde spätestens im 14. Jahrhundert erbaut. Die Michaelskapelle wurde wohl im 14. Jahrhundert erbaut. Der Chor in seiner Breite wurde spätestens im ersten Drittel des 15. Jahrhunderts angenommen. Zur Blumauerkapelle wurde um 1430 oder 1431 eine Altarweihe angenannt. Ein grundlegender spätgotischer Umbau des Langhauses erfolgte zum Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts, mit Jahresangaben 1495, 1498, ohne gotische Wölbung, da im Dachboden ein Innenputz des Langhauses mit rotem Abschlussband zur ehemaligen Flachdecke erhalten ist. Die Wölbungen der Kapellen entstanden im Ende des 15. und Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. Ab 1523 erfolgte ein Umbau und Neubau des Chores einschließlich der Sakristei und wurde 1532 geweiht.

1685 erfolgte die Barockisierung und Einwölbung des Chores. Nach einem Brand (1711) erfolgte 1717 eine Aufzonung um 1,5 Meter und Barockisierung und Einwölbung des Langhauses. Ein Brand (1875) zerstörte den Dachstuhl und Turmhelm. Der Dachstuhl wurde 1930 erneuert. 1949 und 1980 wurde die Kirche außen, 1951 und 1985 innen restauriert.

Architektur
Der Kirchenbau zeigt einen vielgliedrigen gewachsenen Zustand mit spätgotischen Umbauten und Neubauten mit barocken Änderungen mit Gewölben und der Aufzonung des Langhauses.

Ausstattung
Der Hochaltar, gebaut vom Bildhauer Franz Oberhuber (1859), wurde 1880/1890 ergänzt und 1904 renoviert. Das Mittelbild zeigt Sixtus II., gemalt von Leopold Schulz (1858).

Die bemerkenswerte Kanzel aus 1719 am Triumphbogen hat einen polygonalen Korb mit gedrehten Säulchen und Figuren der Evangelisten vor Muschelnischen, auf dem Schalldeckel mit einem laternenartigen Aufsatz mit einer Akanthusbügelkrone mit der Figur hl. Paulus.

Die Orgel stammte von Ignaz Egedacher und wurde 1927 abgerissen. 1991 schuf die Oberösterreichische Orgelbauanstalt ein neues Instrument mit einem Klangkonzept nach barocken mitteldeutschen Vorbildern und ungleichstufiger Stimmung. Es verfügt über 22 Registern auf zwei Manualen.

Literatur
 Altenfelden, Pfarrkirche hl. Papst Sixtus II., Baugeschichte, mit Grundrissdarstellung, Charakteristik, Blumauerkapelle, Friedhof. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio Mühlviertel 2003. S. 27–31.

Weblinks

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Dekanat Altenfelden
Kirchengebäude in Oberösterreich
Bauwerk in Altenfelden
Gotische Kirche
Gotisches Bauwerk in Oberösterreich
Barockisierte Kirche
Baudenkmal (Oberösterreich)
Kirchengebäude in Europa


It was all going so well... I was feeling fairly happy, motivated, getting work done. And now I'm just sitting here randomly flipping windows. Argh.
Well, MS Word has a lot to answer for. I'm a moody bugger when I'm stressed, which I have been recently. And it can flip on the most trivial of things. So when that broke my flow earlier, it was going to take something to get me back to some productive level. Having to stop to put my contacts in didn't help either - and they do seem to work, while I can keep them in. Nor does looking back and seeing that I made three posts in an hour doesn't really bode well.
The problem is that this job relies very heavily on maintaining a stream of thought for a very long time, or being able to switch into and out of it rapidly. And it's hard to force yourself back into the mood, but that's what I'm going to try and do now.
It occurs to me that going out for some fresh air at lunchtime might be a good re-motivational tool.
Update: I've just been told I'm "far too practical". By a Senior Engineer.


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Stefano Montanari BIOGRAPHY VIDEO GALLERY NEWS REVIEWS DISCOGRAPHY
La Cenerentola
Simone Alberghini
Stefano Montanari
Simone Alberghini stars in La Cenerentola
on tour with the Opéra de Lyon at the Edinburgh International Festival
Stefano Montanari conducting
Edinburgh, International Festival, Festival theatre, August 24, 25, 26
Simone Alberghini (Alidoro)
Stefano Montanari (conductor)
Stefano Montanari conducts Mahler's 9th Symphony with the Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari
Markus Werba and Adolfo Corrado star in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia for the season opening of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts the modern premiere of Bononcini's Astarto in a new production by Silvia Paoli in Innsbruck. Francesca Ascioti, Ana Maria Labin, Paola Valentina Molinari and Theodora Raftis star in the cast
Markus Werba stars as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opernhaus in Zurich, Lea Desandre stars as Cherubino
Stefano Montanari makes his Wiener Staatsoper debut conducting Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Vienna
Stefano Montanari returns to Stuttgart conducting Rameau's Platée at the Staatsoper, production by Calixto Bieito
Stefano Montanari makes his Bayerische Staatsoper debut conducting Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Munich
Stefano Montanari returns to I Pomeriggi Musicali conducting Delibes, Malipiero and Beethoven
Stefano Montanari adds a new title to his repertoire conducting Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London
Stefano Montanari returns to Lyon conducting the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon in a thrilling Mozart/Haydn concert
Stefano Montanari conducts a thrilling concert with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio in Turin. In the cast Adolfo Corrado stars in Berlioz' Lélio with Toni Servillo as narrator
Stefano Montanari conducts New Year and New Year's Eve concerts at the Opéra in Lyon
Stefano Montanari conducts Handel's Messiah at the Opéra de Lyon, in a stage version by Deborah Warner
Paola Valentina Molinari and Luca Cervoni star in Hasse's Enea in Caonia with Enea Barock Orchestra at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Herne, Stefano Montanari conducting.
Stefano Montanari conducts Donizetti's Anna Bolena at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Mariame Clément directing
Stefano Montanari conducts Ann Hallenberg in an exciting Baroque Gala at the Drottningholms Slottsteater
Stefano Montanari adds a new title to his repertoire conducting Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the Teatro Regio in Turin. In the cast Andrea Giovannini sings Peppe
Stefano Montanari conducts Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
Stefano Montanari to perform Chaconne e from J. S. Bach's Partita in D minor for solo violin in a special solidarity concert in support of the refugee crisis in Bosnia Herzegovina, broadcast from the Teatro Regio in Turin
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Gluck's Tragédie Orphée et Euridice
Stefano Montanari returns to the podium of the I Pomeriggi Musicali conducting 2s special concerts in live streaming
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Donizetti's Le Nozze in villa broadcast from the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo. Daniele Lettieri completes the cast as Anselmo
Stefano Montanari returns to the podium of I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan conducting Handel and Mozart
Nahuel Di Pierro stars in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts I Bollenti Spiriti ensemble in a special all-Vivaldi concert in Lyon
Markus Werba stars in Die Lustige Witwe at the Circus Maximus in Rome, Stefano Montanari conducting
Chiara Amarù stars as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Circus Maximus in Rome, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts Mozart's Requiem (concert and recording) at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Nahuel Di Pierro stars in the cast
#The Renaissance. Stefano Montanari conducts Vivaldi's Four Seasons with I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan, first Italian live concert with audience after the lockdown.
Stefano Montanari returns to the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducting Bach's Mass in B minor in Warsaw
Stefano Montanari conducts an exciting concert "Mozart and Salieri" at Zaryadye Hall in Moscow
Stefano Montanari conducts a series of exciting all- Vivaldi concerts with Marie-Nocole Lemieux and I Bollenti Spiriti Orchestra in Lyon and on tour in France and Russia
Michele Angelini stars as Don Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola, with Stefano Montanari conducting the production by Emma Dante
Gezim Myshketa stars as Thoas in a new production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, Stefano Montanari conducting and Krzysztof Warlikowski directing
Stefano Montanari takes to the Royal Opera House podium for the first time conducting Mozart's Così fan tutte in London
Krystian Adam stars in a new production of Händel's Rodelinda at the Opéra in Lyon, Stefano Montanari conducting and Claus Guth directing
Stefano Montanari conducts a new Graham Vick's production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Rome Opera; in the cast, Emanuele Cordaro, Andrea Giovannini and Daniela Cappiello
Stefano Montanari conducts Sandrine Piau and I Bollenti Spiriti Orchestra in an all-Haendel concert in Lyon
Simone Alberghini stars in La Cenerentola on tour with the Opéra de Lyon at the Edinburgh International Festival, Stefano Montanari conducting
Eleonora Buratto stars as Donna Anna in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Lyon, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari returns to the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen conducting a new production of La Clemenza di Tito, Michael Hampe directing
Stefano Montanari stars in an all-Mozart exciting concert at the Opéra de Lyon beside Alexander Lonquich at the piano
Stefano Montanari returns to the podium of the State Chamber Orchestra of Russia (Moscow Chamber Orchestra) conducting Don Giovanni in Moscow
Stefano Montanari conducts Mosè in Egitto at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Marco Ciaponi and Krystian Adam will sing the role of Aronne
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Léhar's Die Lustige Witwe at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Damiano Michieletto directing
Stefano Montanari returns to the podium of I Pomeriggi Musicali
Simone Alberghini stars as Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the Opéra de Lyon, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts an exclusive baroque concert Gala at the Opéra de Lyon and on tour
Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore and Antonio Poli star in Don Giovanni at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Stefano Montanari conducting
Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari featuring Cinzia Forte, Fabrizio Beggi, Gaia Petrone, Salvatore Salvaggio conducted by Stefano Montanari
Stefano Montanari stars in Corelli's sonatas op.5 at the Ravenna Festival
Stefano Montanari conducts Il Viaggio a Reims in Rome, Damiano Michieletto directing. Gaia Petrone completes the cast as Maddalena
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Alceste at the Opéra de Lyon, Alex Ollé directing
Stefano Montanari conducts an all-Mozart exciting concert at the Opéra in Lyon
Stefano Montanari conducts Agrippina at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp
Stefano Montanari returns to the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, in two exciting concert with the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra
Veronica Cangemi and Marco Ciaponi star in Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Warsaw Philarmonic Orchestra, Stefano Montanari conducting
Simone Alberghini stars as Don Giovanni on tour with the Opéra de Lyon in Muscat, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari conducts L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
Stefano Montanari conducts the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in concert in Florence
Stefano Montanari returns to Opéra de Lyon, conducting a new exciting production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Stefano Montanari conducts Il Barbiere di Siviglia at La Fenice in Venice
Stefano Montanari plays and conducts virtuoso violin concertos with Il Pomo d'Oro in Grenoble
Stefano Montanari in concert with Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino in Turin
Stefano Montanari returns to the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in concert with the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra
Stefano Montanari conducts Handel's Rinaldo on an European tour with Il Pomo d'Oro
Stefano Montanari returns to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, conducting Così Fan Tutte
Stefano Montanari in concert with L'Estravagante ensemble in Rome, for the opening night of the Stravaganze Armoniche concert series
Stefano Montanari conducts La Clemenza di Tito in Moscow with the State Chamber Orchestra of Russia (Moscow Chamber Orchestra), celebrating the 260 anniversary of Mozart's birthday
Stefano Montanari in concert at the Opera di Firenze
Stefano Montanari conducts the 7th "Giorgio Ambrosoli" civil concert with the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan
Stefano Montanari conducts Le nozze di Figaro for the OperaLombardia circuit, Carlo Checchi in the cast.
Stefano Montanari conducts an all-Haydn series of concert for MiTo with Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Turin and Milan
Stefano Montanari performs the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Bach at the Settimane Musicali in Stresa
Francesca Aspromonte stars in the title role of Caldara's Dafne in Venice, Stefano Montanari conducting
Stefano Montanari makes his debut at the Arena in Verona conducting Don Giovanni. Saimir Pirgu stars as Don Ottavio
Stefano Montanari conducts I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in "La Montagna Incantata" by Gianluigi Trovesi, a jazz project around Thomas Mann's masterpiece, with Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet) and Fabrizio Bosso (trumpet)
Stefano Montanari conducts Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona
Stefano Montanari in concert with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan
Francesca Aspromonte and Adriana Di Paola star in Dido and Æneas at the Opera di Firenze, Stefano Montanari conducting
Mario Cassi and Biagio Pizzuti star in the new production of Il Viaggio a Reims in Amsterdam, Stefano Montanari conducting and Damiano Michieletto directing. Alessandro Carletti signs the lights
Stefano Montanari conducts L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon in an exciting baroque concert from Handel to Muhly
Stefano Montanari to lead two exciting baroque programs with the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence
Sara Mingardo and Krystian Adam star in Bach's Mass in B Minor in Florence, Stefano Montanari conductor
Stefano Montanari conducts Don Giovanni at the Teatro La fenice in Venice
Stefano Montanari conducts L'Inganno Felice at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
Stefano Montanari conducts a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
Stefano Montanari conducts the first modern production of Cavalli's L'Eritrea in Venice. Giulia Semenzato and Francesca Aspromonte appear in the main roles of the opera.
Stefano Montanari conducts new production of Così Fan Tutte at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
Stefano Montanari conducts Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona
Stefano Montanari returns to Verona, conducting the baroque ballet Barocco Remix: Casanova at the Teatro Filarmonico
Stefano Montanari returns to Lyon conducting new production of Le Comte Ory, Laurent Pelly directing
Stefano Montanari leads the Christmas Concerts at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro La Fenice. The Venetian concerts will see the participation of soprano Silvia Frigato.
Stefano Montanari in concert with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Zurich
Stefano Montanari conducts L'Elisir d'Amore at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in the cast the young and promising Arianna Donadelli
Stefano Montanari returns to Palermo, conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Stefano Montanari conducts Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra in Lyon
Stefano Montanari conducts Mozart's Così fan Tutte at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo
Stefano Montanari conducts Carmen at the Opéra de Lyon
Congratulations to Stefano Montanari Grammy Award nominee, for his recording of Purcell's O Solitude with Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux and Accademia Bizantina for Decca.


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import webob

from nova.api.openstack.compute import extension_info
from nova import test
from nova.tests.unit.api.openstack import fakes

class ExtensionInfoV21Test(test.NoDBTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super(ExtensionInfoV21Test, self).setUp()
        self.controller = extension_info.ExtensionInfoController()

    def test_extension_info_show_servers_not_present(self):
        req = fakes.HTTPRequest.blank('/extensions/servers')
        self.assertRaises(webob.exc.HTTPNotFound, self.controller.show,
                          req, 'servers')

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I have been to many private sessions and many workshops in the years that I've known Heiko and Selina Niedermeyer.
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Let's talk about MONEY, baby. Truth is, many of us have a love/hate relationship with it. We truly have good experiences and love for money, and what it represents, what it flows to us, what we can offer the world through it – yet we carry deeper root thoughts that don't serve us (and that get passed down generation to generation).
Keep what's working for you in regard to your money beliefs – but let's take a look at what's not working.
– You have to spend it to make it.
– Gotta work hard, fingers to the bone, for it.
I want to give you permission to not believe those things anymore, regardless of what you were taught, what was passed down to you, or what you experienced.
What then to believe? The opposite. We really make this harder than need be. You need to stay conscious and believe the opposite.
– Money is energy and energy is love, so money is love.
– Money is abundant like leaves on a tree.
– I love the way money flows in and out of my life.
– Money is energy – it's pure and clean and rich.
– Got to be a match for money – intuitive, connected, worthy, allowing, focused, joyful, passionate etc.
Today, wear these money beliefs. Better yet, write a new operating system. "Money is, XYZ… " Don't hold back.
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    /// <see cref="FancyScrollView{TItemData, TContext}"/> のセルを実装するための抽象基底クラス.
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    public abstract class FancyCell<TItemData, TContext> : MonoBehaviour where TContext : class, new()
    {
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        /// </summary>
        public int Index { get; set; } = -1;

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        /// <summary>
        /// <see cref="FancyScrollView{TItemData, TContext}.Context"/> の参照.
        /// セルとスクロールビュー間で同じインスタンスが共有されます. 情報の受け渡しや状態の保持に使用します.
        /// </summary>
        protected TContext Context { get; private set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// <see cref="Context"/> をセットします.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="context">コンテキスト.</param>
        public virtual void SetContext(TContext context) => Context = context;

        /// <summary>
        /// 初期化を行います.
        /// </summary>
        public virtual void Initialize() { }

        /// <summary>
        /// このセルの可視状態を設定します.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="visible">可視状態なら <c>true</c>, 非可視状態なら <c>false</c>.</param>
        public virtual void SetVisible(bool visible) => gameObject.SetActive(visible);

        /// <summary>
        /// アイテムデータに基づいてこのセルの表示内容を更新します.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="itemData">アイテムデータ.</param>
        public abstract void UpdateContent(TItemData itemData);

        /// <summary>
        /// <c>0.0f</c> ~ <c>1.0f</c> の値に基づいてこのセルのスクロール位置を更新します.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="position">ビューポート範囲の正規化されたスクロール位置.</param>
        public abstract void UpdatePosition(float position);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// <see cref="FancyScrollView{TItemData}"/> のセルを実装するための抽象基底クラス.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TItemData">アイテムのデータ型.</typeparam>
    /// <seealso cref="FancyCell{TItemData, TContext}"/>
    public abstract class FancyCell<TItemData> : FancyCell<TItemData, NullContext>
    {
        /// <inheritdoc/>
        public sealed override void SetContext(NullContext context) => base.SetContext(context);
    }
}


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1. The fantastic festivals
© Provided by Wanderlust Dancing during the Festival Kreol (Peter Moore)
2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Seychelles as a nation and a year-long program of events, concerts and festivals have been organised to celebrate. Many of the biggest events will be held in Victoria, centred around Freedom Square and the beautifully restored, colonial-era Law Courts.
This is on top of an already packed calendar of annual festivities celebrated in the tiny capital. A raucous Carnival celebrations takes over Victoria for three days every February, the same month the local Hindu community in Seychelles lead a procession through the streets of the city to observe Thaipusam Kavadi Festival. There's a festival celebrating French culture in March, an Arts Festival in May and a Festival of Classical Music in June.
The biggest and most colourful celebration, however, is the annual Festival Kreol, held across the all the islands in October.
Victoria is the centre of most of the big events of the Festival Kreol, with a grand opening ceremony that involves food stalls and performance by some of the Seychelles's biggest music stores. Other events celebrating Creole culture include a traditional creole wedding ceremony.
The festival culminates in the parade, where colourfully decorated floats rumble through town centre, accompanied by bands and dancers, out to Stade Linité, the sports stadium, where festivities go long into the night.
2. The fabulous food
© Provided by Wanderlust Fresh tropical fruit for sale in Victoria (Peter Moore)
Creole cuisine in the Seychelles is fresh, tasty and unlike anything you've ever tasted before. It's a delicious mix of the flavours of the cuisines that make up the melting pot that is Creole culture, and Victoria is the best place to sample creole cuisine in all its forms.
For an overview of Creole cuisines most famous dishes, head to Marie Antoinette, a Creole restaurant situated in a beautifully restored wooden house overlooking the city. The taster menu, offered every lunchtime, is a great way to sample all of the cuisine's most iconic dishes.
To sample every day Creole food, follow the lead of the city's office workers and get a lunchtime takeaway from one of the local food stalls. Served in eco-friendly containers – plastic has been banned here – these tasty curries are best enjoyed in one of the parks overlooking the harbour or on benches in front of the National History Museum. The takeaway stall at the Maritime Charter Association seems to get the biggest queues.
Further out of town, The Boat House, right on the beach at Beau Vallon, has an all-you-can-eat creole buffet most nights of the week. And every Wednesday night hawkers set up food stalls along the tree covered path there selling authentic creole staples that are hard to find anywhere else, including Bat Curry, usually only found only Praslin Island.
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3. The tranquil botanical gardens – and their rather large residents
© Provided by Wanderlust One of the Aldabra tortoise wandering in the botanical gardens (Peter Moore)
On the southern edge of town, just opposite the hospital, you'll find Victoria's Botanical Gardens, a lush, 15-acre retreat from the tropical heat. Reclaimed from tangled undergrowth, set between two streams, it was laid out in 1901 by the French botanist, Rivaltz Dupont, and features both exotic and endemic plants that he collected in his travels.
The Gardens are dissected by a single path that will lead you past a spice garden, a ginger lawn and rainforest to a Chinese garden, gift to the city by the Chinese Government. Make sure to stop an admire the Garden's mature Coco De Mer tree. This is the only place in Victoria to see this rare and exotic palm, famous for its salacious seeds that look like a female bottom.
The Botanic Gardens is also the best place to see Aldabra giant tortoises. Turn right on to the path just before the Duke of Edinburgh Garden and you'll be led to a spacious enclosure where about 20 or so of this amazing creatures live.
As big as their more famous cousins in the Galapagos, Aldabra tortoises come from an atoll of the same name and love to wallow in the mud and ponds here. For a small fee, you can walk amongst them, feeding them with a bunch of tasty leaves, provided by guards at the gate.
4. The museums and galleries
© Provided by Wanderlust National Museum of History (Peter Moore)
As the only settlement of any size in the Seychelles, Victoria is also home to the best museums and galleries in the islands. Most of them are clustered around Freedom Square, right next to the Clock Tower, a quaint Victorian-era replica of the clock near Victoria Station in London.
It sits in the middle of a roundabout on Independence Avenue, shaded by trees. Sadly, it's not working at the moment. They're waiting for a part from India, where the clock was made back in 1901.
The newly renovated National Museum of History, situated in the old Law Court buildings, charters the short but intriguing history of the Seychelles and is where you'll find the Stone of Possession, placed by the French in 1756 to claim the islands and a statue of Queen Victoria, just outside, under a shady tree.
The National Museum of Natural History is just down Independence Avenue, easily spotted by the life-size crocodile and dugong statues either side of the entrance stairs. It is currently getting updated, but is a great place to learn about the natural wonders of the island, including everything you ever wanted to know about Aldabara tortoises. The plan is for it to reopen in time for the anniversary celebrations.
Art lovers will want to visit Kaz Zanana (Pineapple House), the restored wooden creole house featuring the work of the Seychelles' most famous artist, George Camille. Situated just on the edge of the CBD, such as it is, it is full of Camille's incredibly colourful works that capture the creole spirit and lifestyle of these islands. The cafe there makes a great fruit smoothie.
5. The islands and beaches
© Wanderlust
While there are no beaches in Victoria itself, gorgeous white sand beaches, just like the ones you see in the brochures, can be found on the outskirts of the city.
Beau Vallon, the beachside town to the northwest of the capital, is considered one of the most beautiful in the Seychelles and definitely the most popular. There are beaches to the south too, largely deserted and used primarily by locals. Catch a bus towards Au Cap, get off anywhere after the airport and cross the road to the water. If you're lucky you'll stumble across some locals playing dominoes under the shade of a palm tree and be invited to join in.
Saint Anne island, visible from the harbour, is a popular day trip, offering snorkelling in clear waters, glass bottom boat tours and picnicking on deserted beaches. There's also the chance to 'pop' over to the Seychelles other island paradises, Praslin and La Digue, with regular ferries setting off from the Inter-island Quay at the end of Flamboyant Avenue.
If hiking, is more your speed, head for Morne Seychellois National Park. Starting just behind Beau Vallon, the parks covers 20% of the island of Mahe, stretching from sea level to the top of Morne Seychellois, the tallest peak at 905 metres. There's a series of relatively well-marked trails that will take you through secondary forest and cinnamon trees to the top of the mountain.
6. The impressive churches and temples
© Provided by Wanderlust Capuchin House (Peter Moore)
As the capital of the Seychelles nation, Victoria is home to the largest and most impressive places of worship in the islands.
St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, on the corner of Albert Street and Revolution Avenue, is the oldest chapel in Victoria. Consecrated in 1859, it is an open and airy church, perfect for tropical climes and features island-themed satin glassed windows.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Maradan Street, just past the markets, is a solid granite building, backed by green hills and framed by frangipani trees, a particularly beautiful sight when the trees are in bloom.
Right next door you'll find the Spanish-style Capuchin House, a three-story building of arched doors, wide verandas and imposing balustrades. It is the most impressive building in the capital.
For something completely different, head back towards the markets and onto Quincy Street, where you'll find the colourful Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar Hindu Temple. Only built in 1992, it has already become of the capital's most colourful and popular attractions.
7. The colourful Mont Fleuri cemetery
© Provided by Wanderlust Mont Fleuri cemetery (Peter Moore)
The Mont Fleuri cemetery, just south of the city centre, is one of the largest and oldest burial sites in the Seychelles.
Spilling down a gentle slope and backed by granite peaks that are fringed with green forest, this beautifully situated cemetery was opened in 1875. It is final resting place of Victoria's great and good, and its less notable citizens too.
Princess Reshia is buried here. She was one of the wives of the ex-sultan of Perak, Abdullah Jaafar Moratham Shah, who was sent into exile in Seychelles in 1877. And there is a moving memorial to the 289 young Seychellois men who died in East Africa during the First World War and whose bodies were never brought home.
Peaceful and tranquil most of the year, the cemetery gets a little more lively around on All Souls Day, celebrated every year on 2 November. Like Mexico's famous Day of the Dead, families descend upon the cemetery to clean plots, whitewash headstones and lay colourful wreaths of flowers, as well as 'gifts' of alcohol.
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Alito gets religion.
By Emily Bazelon
Nov 22, 20053:55 PM
Your own personal Jesus
Judge Samuel Alito's rulings on religious liberty have been trotted out as evidence that he is a freethinker. The opinions show off the nominee's "libertarian streak," according to this Cato Institute post. They demonstrate that Alito is no Scalito, argued University of Wisconsin law professor and blogger Ann Althouse in a New York Times op-ed (sorry, you have to pay to read it; here are her follow-up comments for free). Religious groups have approvingly emphasized that Alito "is very respectful of religious liberty," as Kevin Hasson, chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told the Religious News Service.
Sam Alito, Champion of the Religiously Downtrodden—it has a certain ring. Alas, it also largely falls apart upon closer examination. Constitutional law on religion splits into two categories. The first is religious-liberty cases, which center on what rights the faithful have to practice their religion when doing so violates a law or regulation that applies to everyone. The second is church-state cases, in which courts decide when the government can associate itself with a religious group and when it can't.
Alito's religious-liberty opinions are mechanistic applications of precedent. They reveal little about the stance he'd take toward religious liberty as a justice of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, his church-state opinions are consistently, predictably, conservative. When his rulings on religion are taken as a whole, their most noteworthy aspect isn't Alito's independence. Rather, it's his fealty to the view—fervently espoused on the current court by Antonin Scalia—that the government must give religious groups the same access to public benefits that it gives secular ones. As in, if the Boy Scouts or the town fire department can meet in a public-school classroom, then so can the local Bible-study group.
Here are the much-touted religious-liberty rulings. In a 2004 case, Alito ruled in favor of Dennis Blackhawk, a Lenape Indian by birth who began to see bears in a recurring dream, bought two, and used them in religious ceremonies. ("Some consider him to be a holy man," Alito writes, ever deadpan.) Blackhawk went to court after the Pennsylvania Game Commission told him he had to pay $200 a year for an exotic wildlife license and then took the bears away when he pleaded hardship and refused. Alito ordered the commission to back off, saying that because the state's wildlife code allowed for exemptions to the licensing requirement at the discretion of state officials, the government had to show it had a compelling reason for denying Blackhawk an exemption—a test it had failed to meet. In a 1999 case, Alito stopped the Newark police department from disciplining two Muslim police officers who refused to shave their beards. Again, the problem was that the department made exemptions to its no-beard policy for secular reasons (like medical ones) and didn't give a good enough reason for refusing similarly to exempt the Muslim officers on religious grounds.
Score one for bear-dreaming Indians and beard-wearing Muslims. But don't assume Alito is so for religious liberty that he will next embrace a sect that imports hallucinogenic tea in defiance of federal law and an international treaty, the Religiously Dowtrodden group in this year's Supreme Court lineup. Or that he's so for religious liberty that he'll favor creating an across-the-board exemption from some state laws for religious groups, the prize they're really after.
What's at issue in the religious-liberty cases is a question left open by the Constitution's Free Exercise Clause: When a state passes a law that applies to everyone but has particular implications for religious groups, when should those groups be exempt from following the law—never, sometimes, whenever they say so? As this instructive post by Eugene Volokh explains, in the 1963 case Sherbert v. Verner, the Supreme Court decided that religious groups are presumed to have the right to an exemption. But there were always lots of exceptions to the exception—the faithful weren't allowed to go around murdering and pillaging on religious grounds, of course. They also had to observe more mundane laws like the nation's tax code. In the 1990 case Employment Division v. Smith, the court refused to protect the right of the Native American Church to use small amounts of peyote and in the process moved away from the more religion-friendly rule in Sherbert. The court gave the state the benefit of the doubt: Laws were constitutional as long as they didn't discriminate against religious objectors.
Post Smith, the partisan politics have gotten scrambled. Religious freedom used to be the cause of the quintessential liberal Justice William Brennan; law-and-order types like Chief Justice William Rehnquist wanted the state to be allowed to enforce its laws against fringe groups unhindered. Since Smith, however, the churchy right tends to think more religious liberty is a good idea, too.
Alito may turn out to be their man, but you can't tell that from Dennis Blackhawk's case or the one involving the Muslim police officers. Alito simply followed the Supreme Court, which has said (even in Smith) that the state doesn't get a free pass when it offers an exemption to a law to people who ask for special treatment based on a secular rationale but denies the same exemption to other people who ask for special treatment for a religious reason. Pennsylvania exempted circuses and zoos, among others, from paying licensing fees for their wild animals. Newark let police officers keep their beards if they asked to because of a medical condition. So, why couldn't Dennis Blackhawk keep his bear and the Muslim cops keep their beards? Pennsylvania and Newark lost because they didn't have a good enough answer. Alito didn't stick his neck out to promote religious liberty by finding in favor of Blackhawk and the Muslims, argues Cardozo law professor Marci A. Hamilton, author of the recent book God vs. the Gavel. In light of Supreme Court precedent, he didn't have to.
In church-state cases, Alito's opinions are conservative but not daringly so. In two cases, Alito let stand hybrid crèche-menorah-Frosty the Snowman displays (the kind whose real offense is that they're kitsch). The church-state case that stands out is Child Evangelism Fellowship of New Jersey v. Stafford Township School District, decided in 2004, because it tracks precedents that Scalia in particular would dearly like to take further. In that case, the evangelical Good News Club asked the Stafford school district if it could use the classrooms of McKinley Elementary School for weekly after-school meetings. The district agreed. But the superintendent balked at letting the Good News-ers pass out flyers and staff a table at an annual back-to-school night for fear of creating the appearance of endorsing the group's religious message.
In its own words, the Christian fellowship that runs the Good News Clubs is "composed of born-again believers whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living." How likely are parents, much less grade-school students, to understand that the presence of Good News at back-to-school night has nothing to do with the school's approval of Good News' teachings? Likely enough, Alito said, just as Scalia has argued in the Supreme Court cases that gave Alito his foundation. Religious liberty is nice. But if you're on the side of the faithful, giving the church the keys to the elementary school is better.


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3) At least linux clients?
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I leave this bug open for further tracking.
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