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The Night the Beastie Boys Got Punked by Liverpool
Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA, 1987. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)Lynn Goldsmith
As British teens obsessed with American break-boy culture, my friends and I drew a sense of identity and inspiration from their music. But when the band's License To Ill tour brought them to our hometown, we saw a darker side of our heroes—and of ourselves.
By Roger Bennett
One May afternoon in 1987, toward the end of my senior year of high school, our English teacher was in the midst of an hour-long interpretation of Dr. Faustus's downward spiral when the door was smashed open. The shock caused Mr. Weakstone to leap a good five inches out of his desk chair. But my friend Gripper had more modern concerns than Elizabethan tragedy. In fact, he had astonishing news to break. "The Beastie Boys are coming to Liverpool!" he screamed, losing all decorum in the enormity of the moment. "The fucking Beastie Boys are going to be HERE ... playing a gig and everything ... live and in bloody person." At my desk, I held my head in my hands, unable to process this news.
It was true. My current heroes the Beastie Boys would indeed be rolling into Liverpool on the last night of the short British leg of their Licensed to Ill Tour. "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" was now played so often on the jukebox at the Rose of Mossley, the closest pub to the school, that the landlord had taped up a sign prohibiting its selection, a sign that Gripper routinely ignored, slipping in fifty pence and choosing the song three times back-to-back on repeat.
The Beasties' hold on our imaginations was enormous. And we were not alone. By the time their eight-city swing began, the English tabloid media had worked themselves into a frenzy over the prankster band and their bawdy behavior. Journalists reveled in every detail of the trio's stage set, which featured gigantic Budweiser cans, barely clad female go-go dancers grinding away in cages, and the pièce de résistance, a twenty-foot-high hydraulic pink phallus that sprang open like a crude jack-in-the-box at the climax of the show. As the Beastie circus rumbled across England, from London to Birmingham up to Manchester, the press were frothing at the mouth at the moral corruption these horrid Americans were spewing. Every article was expertly constructed to make readers like my father, who wanted to be disgusted, seethe as these debased destroyers kept rolling north. Amid tabloid talk of bans and lawsuits, the Beastie Boys' Mike D declared, "We're going by the blitzkrieg theory on this tour: hit hard, hit fast, get out of there quickly, and leave a long-lasting impact." Little did he know how that philosophy would be distilled to its essence on their closing night in Liverpool.
My father's contempt only deepened the love I harbored for the Beasties. Such was the obsession my friends and I shared that we had decided to form our own Beastie Boys–style collective, the Liverpool College Breaking Crew, which consisted of a handful of the hardest kids in my year. There was Gripper Stark, who was feared throughout the College as the "Cock of the School," an honorific title bestowed upon the best fighter in the schoolyard; Tuff, his sidekick, was filled with a spiky energy, always looking for objects to smash, graffiti, or commit a minor act of vandalism upon; and Joseph Nwanko a wiry beanpole of a boy who, as the son of the local Nigerian consul, was one of the only Black kids in my grade and remained super cool, despite having to answer to the obvious yet unfortunate nickname "Wankstain." Wank for short. I had gained membership in this inner circle of alphas by virtue of my ownership of a VHS copy of an instructional break-dancing video, Let's Bust A Move, which I had brought home with me from a summer-trip in Chicago.
Indeed, I was so eager to have my morals debased, I cut an entire day of school with the rest of the crew to snap up tickets the second they went on sale at the box office. We stood in line at the aging art deco concert venue, the Royal Court Theatre, braving the frigid Liverpool morning with four dozen fellow hip-hop heads, trying to look streetwise and mean, even while clad in the matching ties and blazers of our school uniform. If enormous inflatable penises were going to explode in my town, I sure as hell was going to be there to witness them.
With tickets safely acquired, we frittered away the rest of the afternoon by snapping medallions off the front grills of parked Volkswagens so we could dress like Mike D, who delighted in wearing the chrome emblem on a hefty gold chain around his neck. The style was an ironic visual gag poking fun at rappers who fetishized the Mercedes logo. After immense peer pressure from Wank and Tuff, I joined in this act of petty vandalism, snagging a logo off the front air vent of a rusty VW Golf parked near school. The moment the badge's resistance buckled under the pressure of my fingers it conjured a jolt of intense satisfaction fused with a pang of guilt.
The VW emblem was the final detail in an elaborate process I had undertaken to make over my wardrobe of late, into that of an aspiring English break boy, replete with Adidas tracksuit, Puma Clydes, and a Budweiser porkpie hat I had nabbed on special order direct from St. Louis. The fine details of this look were crucial because the Beastie Boys were more than just dumb fun in my eyes. They may have been able to manufacture outrage on demand, but I saw beyond that and drew a sense of identity and inspiration.
There were many aspects of their approach I felt connected to: Their friendship, as three young Jewish kids from New York City who met in their early teens haunting downtown TriBeCa clubs, was the kind of coreligionist camaraderie I craved. The elasticity of their humor was also enticing; being in on the joke, being the joke, ricocheting between bombast and self-deprecation in the span of just a few lines. Indeed, their entire attitude toward music, piecing together a signature sound forged of their schooling in punk clubs, with rock and old-school hip-hop woven in, was an education in aspirational crate digging.
Yes, they were brash, obnoxious wise-asses. The lyrics were violent in a manner I did not physically relate to, and often immensely sexist in a way I could not compute. Yet I rationalized this clumsy, almost cartoonish deviance away. To me, the Beasties were like kids attempting to bring life to a double period of Latin class by blurting shit out to see what they could get away with. That's how the ginormous stage penis had come about in the first place, I discovered. Their record label told the band they could have anything on the stage, to which they responded, "Really. Anything?"
Besides, I was fascinated less by their boundary pushing and more by the achievements they had made manifest because of it. They were big-dreaming, big-talking lads who had used their mouths and minds to create something that had grabbed the attention of the world, opening for Madonna, crafting a number one album, and for one of them, dating the ultimate dream girl, Molly Ringwald. The trio's Starter jacket swagger was the wondrously unhindered confidence I had always aspired to, untamed, and uncontained by what others thought. "What others thought" was 93 percent of what I actually did think about. So, on school nights, instead of doing my homework, I would circle around my room with headphones on, memorizing the lyrics to the album until I could spit them out like a mystic speaking in tongues.
When I lay on my bed on May 30, 1987, staring at the £5 ticket I had bought for that night's gig, it felt like I had acquired a golden ticket to enter New York City itself, the boom-box-filled five boroughs the Beasties embodied. I pulled on that hat, Def Jam T-shirt, and VW badge (now dangling off a plate-gold necklace I had liberated from my mother's jewelry box) and became King Rog Rock. A man transformed, willing himself to believe that a sense of possibility, adventure, and fearlessness was his for the taking.*
(*Reality often proved to be frustratingly different. After I read that the Beasties grew up skateboarding, I instantly went out and procured a skateboard, attempting to teach myself ollies and kick flips in my own driveway. One nasty, involuntary dismount straight into my mother's rosebush persuaded me to carry it around as an accessory in my arms rather than a mode of transport. For three months, I lugged that skateboard around everywhere with me, like Dorothy schlepping Toto around Oz.)
The Daily Mirror's coverage of the ill-fated night.Courtesy of Roger Bennett
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch had appeared on local TV early that night declaring that Liverpool should be ready to exercise "its constitutional right to be fresh." I did not know exactly what he meant but could not have been more exhilarated. I was not alone. Walking into pregame beers at Rigby's pub was akin to crashing a costume party packed full of fellow B-Boys, clad in shell tops, trucker hats, chunky gold chains, and "fake-vintage" high school T-shirts. By the time we got to the Royal Court the place was heaving. Two thousand fellow fans were stuffed into a sold-out venue. Somehow, though, the energy was off-kilter, and strangely agitated. I expected a communal spirit born of a sense we were all about to experience something special—our version of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, or Hendrix at Woodstock—but the prevailing atmosphere felt nervy and simmering, as if we were a Saxon horde preparing for battle.
We half-dozen members of the Liverpool College Breaking Crew stood at the back of the packed theater, marking out our territory as we marveled at the stage. Giant tall boys of Budweiser bookended a cage designed to enclose one scantily clad female. Center stage featured a pair of DJ turntables on a high riser, alongside a mysterious black box at which Gripper pointed with delight as soon as we walked in. "I'll bet that's where the huge nob springs out from."
The energy surged the second the lights went dark across the venue. I was hit by a hyper-awareness that I, King Rog Rock, was about to be in the same room and breathe the very same air as Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D. This meaningful thought was interrupted by the hoarse tones of MCA booming into a mic offstage, "Fuck you, Liverpool." The second I heard his signature gravelly Brooklyn bark hit the third syllable, a long, drawn-out "Livahhhhhhh ... ," my excitement was burned away and replaced by the cold, sickening realization that MCA had just made a terrible mistake.
"Fuck you, Livahhhhhh-pooooooooooollllllllll."
This riff might have been standard Beastie Boy stage patter, swagger that worked perfectly well in Los Angeles, Chicago, Brighton, or Birmingham. But Liverpool is different. You simply can't roll into town, say that, and expect to escape a beating. It does not matter who you are. Those are fighting words, akin to insulting someone's mum in front of her face.
The three Beasties, however, were blithely unaware of the sin they had just committed. They pogoed onto the stage, grabbing their crotches and spraying cans of beers on the crowd, as banks of light illuminated the cage, now featuring a bikini-clad dancer writhing against the bars. Yet even as the shiny bald-headed DJ Hurricane spun the opening beats of "Slow and Low," something irreparable had broken in the crowd. As the fans crushed forward, all of them were suddenly seething, ready to show the Beasties that the pupil had become the master.
"Let it flow, let yourself go ..."
The author on his way to the Beastie Boys' 1987 Liverpool show.Courtesy of Roger Bennett
After the first beer can spiraled toward the stage, exploding upon impact, a dozen more followed its arc, causing Mike D to exclaim, "Suck my dick." This invited fans at the front to spew forth a sea of spit, coating the bouncers, who were now desperately linking arms in an attempt to push the hordes back. The entire floor of the theater became a blanket of furious two-fingered V-signs. The Beasties were being given a true Liverpool welcome.
They had not made it halfway through their first song and now were in danger of completely losing control of the show. A barrage of cans began to fly down from the balcony. MCA barked for stagehands to turn up the houselights, a move that only pushed the Scousers to do something I had hitherto believed was unthinkable: waste full cans of beer, preferring to defend their city's honor by flinging them angrily at their now fully exposed prey rather than drink.
I watched in horror at the surreal scene unspooling around me. The go-go dancer, who had probably turned up at the gig believing this night would be one of the most exhilarating of her life, was now cowering for cover at the back of the cage as lagers exploded all around her. A lad standing to my left, clad in a freshly purchased Beastie Boys concert T-shirt, hurled his Bud with the one-in-a-million accuracy of a proton torpedo aimed for the Death Star. The can traveled a high trajectory, spinning end over end until it clipped a stunned DJ Hurricane flush in the center of his shiny bald pate, sending the chunky mixmaster tumbling backward off his platform.
Roadies and bouncers careened across the stage in panicked damage limitation mode. One stagehand shook his head and mimed shooting at the crowd, as the rest used their own bodies to shield the Beasties from incoming fire, guiding the beleaguered stars toward safety.
A moment of pause ensued, but regrettably, it proved only temporary. Ad Rock refused to be cowed. Something told him the wise move was to storm back onto the stage, armed this time with a baseball bat instead of a microphone. At first, he stood defiantly, a gesture that brought on a fresh fusillade of cans. He then swung his body into a slugger's stance and began to take his licks, smashing three or four cans back into the audience as if the entire theater was just a batting cage dispensing beer cans instead of fast-pitch baseballs.
It required at least half a dozen roadies to perform the extract-and-rescue operation, as they courageously smothered Ad Rock and carried him off, dragging and screaming against his will. With the stage now clear, the set lights went black, a symbol of surrender that inspired a cry of "We tamed the Beastie Boys" to arise spontaneously among the crowd, resounding around the auditorium in thick, defiant, victorious Scouse tones—a football-style chant as delirious as any I had heard on the terraces, even on cup final days.
Yet, emasculating the Beastie Boys and dispatching them inside of twelve minutes was not enough for this angry mob. Like many a triumphant army, they now wanted to pillage and hell-raise to commemorate their moment of victory. With no other outlet, the throngs elected to vent their fury upon each other. Chaos erupted all around us. Strangers started to wrestle each other to the ground, haymakers were thrown, and pint glasses were smashed.
Gripper was never more in his element than when surrounded by anarchy. "Get back," he said to us calmly. Without having to exchange a word, Stevie Tuffnell stepped up alongside him and the two of them began dropping anyone unfortunate enough to stumble into our vicinity, unleashing a ferocious battery of uppercuts, hooks, and the occasional headbutt. The brutality they dispensed was sickening yet effective, creating a protective force field around our crew. Even as violence exploded across the theater floor, we never feared for our safety. Instead, I was able to scan the room, which now resembled a gladiatorial battle royale. One man picked a stranger up above his head then flung him, full body, onto the stage; a group of feral teens stomped on a limp-bodied victim; a desperate woman glassed an assailant who seemed hell-bent on choking out her boyfriend.
Then our throats constricted. A tightness gripped my chest. Breathing became impossible. "Fuckin' 'ell, tear gas," the cry went up. "The Bizzies* 'ave gassed us." (*A common, derogatory Scouse name for the police.)
A stampede formed as the crowd moved from fight to flight. Every man for themselves, bodies colliding in every direction seeking an escape from the fear, burning, and the sudden absence of oxygen. Concertgoers jumped down from the balcony; others crawled along the floor, hoping to dodge the gas by dragging themselves over the beer, glass, and bloodstained carpet. I stumbled backward, half searching for a way out, half dragged by the wave of bodies crashing through the exit. Suddenly I was spat out into the street, a scene of carnage and confusion. People were doubled over, retching, fighting to breathe. A girl ran past me, her face shocked, scalp matted with blood, bits of glass still caught in her hair.
The blue lights of police cars and ambulances flooded the scene. I collapsed onto the curb opposite the venue, gulping down the glorious fresh air, simply relieved to have survived the madness. "That was mental." I heard a group of lads begin swapping exaggerated narratives over what had just happened. "Total aggro. One of them bouncers fired a pistol at us from the stage, like," they boasted. "They ran off stage like a bunch of wimps. Best night of me life."
Cold, heavy rain started to pour from the sky, as an exhilarated Liverpool College breaking crew reassembled. The only injury to report was a cut on Tuff's knuckles, apparently the result of his socking some kid who had braces on his teeth. "We'll always be able to say we were there," a hyped Gripper declared while bopping his head back and forward like a fighting cock. "Let's get to the State right now," he commanded, beckoning us to join him at the legendary Liverpool nightclub where so many of our great Saturday nights ended. "We got to tell people our war stories before idiots who weren't there start bullshitting that they were."
There was no way I was going to the State. There was no way I could celebrate what I had just witnessed. Liverpool had not "tamed the Beasties." We had merely brought them down to our level of hopelessness. I did not want to be with Gripper. I did not want to be with any of the crew. I was honestly relieved when they agreed to leave without me. I stayed on the curb and watched them march off into town, chanting "We tamed the Beasties" as they danced and pumped their arms in the rain. I was done. With all of it. The drudgery, fear, fists in the face, and doner kebabs and everything of late-night Liverpool life. I felt only a debilitating sense of disgust and sadness. It wasn't the violence; I was numb to that. It was the emotional whiplash of the twelve-minute
Beastie Boys show. It felt like it was the embodiment of what English life had to offer. Two thousand people had paid for tickets to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience, only to realize they would gain more pleasure from destroying it.
A girlfriend had once told me that the English derive pleasure from tearing others down, and now more than ever I understood what she meant. Usually it was just each other. On this night, it was those "most illingest B-Boys," the Beasties. I sat there in the rain listening to my countrymen milling around outside the venue bragging to each other about what they had just experienced, and the gun became bigger and bigger with each telling.
Roger Bennett is a broadcaster and half of the NBC Sports duo Men in Blazers.
Excerpted from the book REBORN IN THE USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home by Roger Bennett. Copyright © 2021 by In Loving Memory of the Recent Past 2 Inc. From Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.
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Understanding the "lucky few": the conundrum of HIV-exposed, seronegative individuals.
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It has been known for many years that not all individuals who are repeatedly exposed to HIV-1 show evidence of viral replication, seroconvert, and eventually develop disease. Quite apart from those who seroconvert but progress slowly to AIDS (ie, slow progressors, long-term nonprogressors, elite controllers), these rare, exposed seronegatives either resist infection or harbor extremely low levels of virus that may be detected only using ultrasensitive methods (occult infection). The correlates of protection that confer this unique status to a tiny minority of HIV-exposed individuals remain a subject of intense interest, investigation, and controversy, as no single genetic or immunologic parameter has yet been able to fully explain this phenomenon. However, there is general consensus that studying these individuals may provide invaluable information to aid in the design of vaccines and therapeutic approaches. This review describes the major findings on this important topic, with a focus on immunologic studies.
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Weber upends EU leadership plans with plot to run Europe's conservatives
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Manfred Weber, the self-proclaimed "Man of the Parliament," has given up his claim to be the next president of the European Parliament — and possibly scrambled the EU's leadership plans for the next two and a half years.
Instead of sticking to a deal everyone understood would make him president of the Parliament he loves so well, Weber — the German MEP and leader of the center-right European People's Party group who ran a failed campaign for European Commission president in 2019 — wants to both keep his current job and add another: president of the EPP's EU-wide umbrella organization.
The move, widely expected to win the backing of party bigwigs, will hand responsibility for the future of the party that has long dominated EU politics to a man whose lackluster bid for the EU's top job was summarily rejected by EU heads of state and government, despite his party having won the largest number of seats in the EU parliamentary elections.
Weber's personal maneuvering comes as the EPP confronts one of its lowest points in modern history — without a single conservative-led government west of Germany, and with Germany's own conservative coalition struggling in a hotly contested federal election.
Weber pitched the unorthodox strategy as a way to stabilize the EPP amid this turbulence. Yet it also runs the risk of costing the group the Parliament presidency. By forgoing Weber's presumed claim to the Parliament presidency, the EPP may struggle to claim it still has rights to the post over the current president, David Sassoli, a socialist, when his term expires early next year. Sassoli has signaled that he would be happy to stay on.
An arched eyebrow
Already some party members are raising eyebrows, asking if Weber will be able to spark renewed excitement for conservative candidates Continent-wide when he couldn't generate much appeal for his own candidacy to lead the EU.
"Honestly, there is not much enthusiasm for him in this position," said a party insider who spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity to avoid inflaming in-fighting.
"He's sometimes regarded as someone who is doing things a bit too much on his own, rather than creating a good team spirit," the person added, while conceding that despite these misgivings there was widespread consensus that Weber would get his way.
"It is easier for everybody just to let it happen," the party insider said. "But the problem is if there is no real enthusiasm within the troops. That is the problem."
It's hardly the only problem, according to other party officials.
The EPP's top position is coming vacant because former European Council President Donald Tusk, who has led the umbrella party since 2019, has announced his plans to step down to return to national politics in Poland. Party officials have decided to move up the end of his term and choose a successor at an April meeting.
But Tusk, a former Polish prime minister who is one of the EU's more charismatic and exuberant champions, was widely described as unenthusiastic about the party job, which he took over just before the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to most travel and in-person political work.
"Tusk left in part because he was bored," one party official said. "He did not do much, essentially because of COVID."
The official added: "Internally, he did not create any real EPP party life."
That said, other party operatives argued there was no one of Tusk's caliber — certainly no former head of state or government — who now wants the position.
They traced the current situation back to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's handling of the EU leadership sweepstakes, in which she initially backed Weber but ultimately withdrew her support in the face of opposition from French President Emmanuel Macron and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, among others.
The decision to instead select Ursula von der Leyen, then the German defense minister, as Commission president over Weber was both a repudiation of him personally (von der Leyen is also a member of the EPP) and a rejection of the EU's Spitzenkandidaten or "lead candidate" process.
The choice was particularly stinging because one of the sharpest criticisms of Weber during the campaign was his dearth of experience as a government leader. Yet von der Leyen also had no such experience, and far less experience in Brussels than Weber.
Detractors also cited Weber's lack of gravitas, and noted that he still did not seem older than his 49 years — even after he lost the Commission race, and grew the obligatory beard of trounced candidates in mourning.
Other EPP officials told a much more favorable narrative.
They insisted Weber enjoyed genuine internal support when he was nominated for Commission president, winning 79 percent of the vote at a party congress in Helsinki. And they argued he was denied the presidency not because he ran a lousy campaign or had little public name recognition but because Merkel betrayed him.
Among some in the party, there is an instinct to reward Weber for his loyalty throughout the events of 2019, and for his subsequent support of von der Leyen and her Commission's agenda. Most crucially, officials said, Weber has now secured support for his plan to lead the umbrella party and the faction in Parliament from Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
In addition to remaining loyal, some of Weber's backers noted he had achieved important policy successes in the last two years. There were victories on major policy issues such as the budget-and-recovery plan, and landmark legislation produced on climate change and digital policy. Weber also helped win Commission support for his initiative to fight cancer, now called "Europe's Beating Cancer Plan."
And they said Weber would be well-positioned to help the EPP claw its way forward after recent election setbacks, including losing power in countries like Spain, Ireland and Finland.
Others accused Weber of making a selfish move, having concluded that the two-and-a-half-year Parliament presidency would mark a dead-end for his political career. In contrast to his campaign slogan of 2019 — "The Power of We" — they said Weber now seems to be pursuing "The Power of Me."
Even if there's grumbling, no one seems inclined to block his path, one EPP politician said.
"Some in the group clearly raised their eyebrows … but not more than that," the politician said. "There are questions: Does he really have ideas for the party or is it a personal goal to be able to survive in politics? I think it comes down to earning a little more, without taking too many risks, while hoping to still be there in four years' time."
The race for Parliament president starts now
Weber's decision does mean he will give up a potential path to the Parliament presidency, secured as part of a 2019 deal between the three biggest party groups: the EPP, the center-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and the liberals of Renew Europe.
The EPP is now insisting the deal should hold, and the Parliament presidency should pass to another center-right conservative. Among the MEPs tipped as serious contenders are Roberta Metsola of Malta, currently a first vice president, Esther de Lange of the Netherlands, and the EPP group's longtime No. 2, Esteban González Pons of Spain.
But Weber's decision will make it easier for other parties to scuttle the deal. Sassoli could even push forward with his hopes of staying on for a second term.
Whatever Weber's motives, some of his fellow conservatives see no harm in his actions. Some said they even envisioned benefits from consolidating leadership. Others argued there was no one better qualified to devise the party campaign strategy for the 2024 European parliamentary elections than the man who had been at the very center of the contest in 2019 — and lost.
"Even if he is trying to cling onto power, many members of the EPP see him as a very reliable person, that he is a man of his word," a party official said. "There's an aura around him, not because he is charismatic but because he has always tried to be in solidarity with the EPP and he built a very strong network within the EPP."
Even some of Weber's staunchest supporters were bluntly candid about his limitations. "He's not the most exciting and glamorous guy," said an EPP member based in a European capital. "But he had the support of the EPP — all of the EPP. And he's a very competent guy as well. He's a doer, but he's not exciting."
This EPP member said that given challenges facing all political parties and incumbent politicians, not to mention recent geopolitical and economic turbulence, Europe's conservatives were lucky to have a steady captain — with or without pizzazz.
"Who do you think is going to lead the party?" the party member asked. "A former prime minister? He's the best-qualified person who wants to do the job."
"In my opinion, it's the best thing that can happen," the person added, "when it's raining shit all over the place."


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Taylor Swift's 'The Lakes' Lyrics Seemingly Reveal Details About Her Relationship With Joe Alwyn
Author: Desiree Murphy
Published: 11:28 AM PDT August 7, 2020
Updated: 11:28 AM PDT August 7, 2020
Taylor Swift's 'The Lakes' Lyrics Reveal Details About Her Relationship With Joe Alwyn
Swifties can officially calm down now, knowing that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn are still going strong! Following the release of Swift's surprise album Folklore earlier this month, some fans were questioning whether the two had called it quits due to all of the lyrics and songs about heartbreak. However, Swift's new song "The Lakes" (a bonus track on the album) seems to confirm that theory isn't true, as it contains several loving references to the British actor.
"Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die / I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you," she sings. "Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry / I'm setting off, but not without my muse."
It's no secret that Alwyn has been a muse to Swift ever since the two began dating over three years ago. On top of that, the "Windermere" line seems to reference England's largest natural lake. The lovebirds have spent plenty of quality time together in the country, so it makes sense why she'd want to pay tribute to the U.K. in some way.
Fans also know that Swift has been trying to keep her life more private in recent years, especially when it comes to love. Unlike past relationships, Swift decided to keep her romance with Alwyn off social media, which she seems to address later in the song.
"And I want you right here / A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground / With no one around to tweet it," she sings on the track. "While I bathe in cliffside pools / With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief."
At the beginning of "The Lakes," Swift also seems to reference her life in the spotlight, and the unglamorous side of fame, when she sings, "Is it romantic how all of my elegies eulogize me? / I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones / These hunters with cell phones."
The singer has been very vocal in recent years about how the public has perceived her, most notably, the backlash she faced amid her feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West over his 2016 hit "Famous."
"A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is a very isolating experience," Swift told Vogue last September. "I don't think there are that many people who can actually understand what it's like to have millions of people hate you very loudly. When you say someone is canceled, it's not a TV show. It's a human being. You're sending mass amounts of messaging to this person to either shut up, disappear, or it could also be perceived as, 'kill yourself.'"
"I realized I needed to restructure my life because it felt completely out of control," she continued. "I knew immediately I needed to make music about it because I knew it was the only way I could survive it. It was the only way I could preserve my mental health and also tell the story of what it's like to go through something so humiliating."
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Geografische Lage
Das Gemeindegebiet von Cölbe liegt am Südrand des Burgwaldes, eines Teils des Westhessischen Berglandes, und grenzt direkt an die südlich gelegene Universitätsstadt Marburg. Der namengebende Ortsteil befindet sich innerhalb einer Flussschleife der Lahn, die hier ihre Hauptflussrichtung von Osten nach Süden ändert und in die von Osten kommend die Ohm einmündet.

Klima
Cölbe liegt auf 190 m Höhe. Das Klima ist mild sowie allgemein warm und gemäßigt. Es gibt viel Niederschlag, selbst im trockensten Monat. Die Temperatur liegt im Jahresdurchschnitt bei 9,0 °C. 731 mm Niederschlag fallen innerhalb eines Jahres. Der niederschlagärmste Monat ist mit durchschnittlich 45 mm der Februar und der niederschlagsreichste der Juni mit 72 mm. Am wärmsten ist es im Monat Juli. Es werden dann durchschnittliche Temperaturen von 17,6 °C erreicht. Mit im Durchschnitt −0,1 °C ist der Januar der kälteste Monat des ganzen Jahres.

Der Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) mit Sitz in Offenbach betreibt in Cölbe eine Klimastation – die einzige im Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf. Seit November 1947 werden dort Daten wie Temperatur, Regenmenge und Sonnenschein aufgezeichnet.

Nachbargemeinden
Cölbe grenzt im Nordwesten an die Stadt Wetter, im Nordosten an die Stadt Rauschenberg, im Osten an die Stadt Kirchhain, im Süden an die Stadt Marburg, sowie im Westen an die Gemeinde Lahntal (alle im Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Gliederung
Die Gemeinde besteht aus den Ortsteilen:
 Bernsdorf
 Bürgeln
 Cölbe
 Reddehausen
 Schönstadt
 Schwarzenborn

Geschichte
Die älteste bekannte schriftliche Erwähnung von Cölbe erfolgte unter dem Namen Culbe im Jahr 1244 in einer Urkunde der Stadt Wetzlar. Weitere Erwähnungen erfolgenden unten den Ortsnamen (in Klammern das Jahr der Erwähnung): Kulbe (1309), Kolbe (1365), Koelbe (1370/1375), Kolwe (1440), Kolbe (1485), Kölb (1577) und Kölbe (1630).

Im 14. Jahrhundert erhoben als Territorialherren die Herren von Fleckenbühl und der hessische Landgraf Machtansprüche auf den Ort. Bis in das 19. Jahrhundert soll der größte Teil der Bevölkerung als Leibeigne gearbeitet haben. 1850 brachte der Bahnanschluss den industriellen Fortschritt in den Ort.

Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Mit der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten setzte 1933 auch in Cölbe die Verfolgung von Regimegegnern ein. Zu den ersten Verhafteten gehörten im März 1933 der Sozialdemokrat und Ortsgruppenvorsitzender des Reichsbanners Schwarz-Rot-Gold Balthasar Stauzebach und der kommunistische Maurer Josef Losekamm, die am 27. März in Bürgeln in "Schutzhaft" genommen wurden. Der evangelische Pfarrer Bernhard Heppe (1898–1945) war in der Gemeinde seit 1924 tätig. Er war von 1933 bis 1943 Geschäftsführer der Bekennenden Kirche der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck und zählte zu den führenden Köpfen des protestantischen Widerstands. Er starb im September 1945 in jugoslawischer Kriegsgefangenschaft.

Unter der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft wurden jüdische Bürger, Sinti und Regimegegner Opfer der Diktatur. Die jüdische Viehhändlerfamilie Heß lebte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert in der Alten Dorfstraße. 1919 heiratete David Buchheim in die Familie ein und betrieb eine Metzgerei. Als Demokrat war er ebenfalls Mitglied im Mitglied im Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold. 1937 verließ er aufgrund der Schikanen der Nationalsozialisten mit seiner Frau Hilda Cölbe, floh zunächst nach Palästina und ließ sich 1947 in den USA nieder. Seine Brüder Max und Salomon sowie seine Schwester Henny Joseph wurden in den Konzentrationslagern Theresienstadt, Buchenwald und dem Vernichtungslager Sobibor ermordet. Auch zwei Angehörige der Familie Stern starben in Theresienstadt bzw. im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz. Die zehnköpfige Sinti- und Schaustellerfamilie Strauß wurde am 23. März 1943 nach Auschwitz deportiert, wo sieben Familienmitglieder starben. Stolpersteine und Gedenktafeln erinnern im Ort an die Opfer der Gewaltherrschaft.

Hessische Gebietsreform
Im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Hessen genehmigte die Landesregierung mit Wirkung vom 31. Dezember 1971 die freiwillige Eingliederung der Gemeinden Bernsdorf und Reddehausen in die Gemeinde Cölbe im damaligen Landkreis Marburg. Mit gleichem Datum genehmigte sie sodann den Zusammenschluss der Gemeinden Cölbe und Schönstadt zu einer Gemeinde mit dem Namen Cölbe. Die Gemeinde Bürgeln wurde kraft Landesgesetzes am 1. Juli 1974 eingegliedert. Für alle ehemals eigenständigen Gemeinden von Cölbe wurden Ortsbezirke mit Ortsbeirat und Ortsvorsteher nach der Hessischen Gemeindeordnung gebildet.

Staats- und Verwaltungsgeschichte im Überblick
Die folgende Liste zeigt die Staaten und Verwaltungseinheiten, denen Cölbe angehörte:

 vor 1567: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen, Gericht Schönstadt (Gericht Schönstädt bestand aus den Orten: Kölbe, Bernsdorf, Bürgeln, Betziesdorf, Reddehausen, Schönstädt, Schwarzenborn und Bracht)
 ab 1567: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Marburg, Gericht Schönstadt
 1604–1648: Heiliges Römisches Reich, strittig zwischen Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt und Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel (Hessenkrieg), Gericht Schönstadt
 ab 1648: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel, Amt Marburg
 ab 1806: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel, Amt Marburg
 1807–1813: Königreich Westphalen, Departement der Werra, Distrikt Marburg, Kanton Kaldern
 ab 1815: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Amt Marburg
 ab 1821: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1848: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Bezirk Marburg
 ab 1851: Kurfürstentum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1867: Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1871: Deutsches Reich, Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1918: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1944: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Kurhessen, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1945: Amerikanische Besatzungszone, Groß-Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1946: Amerikanische Besatzungszone, Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1949: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg
 ab 1974: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf
 ab 1981: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Gießen, Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf

Gerichte seit 1821
Mit Edikt vom 29. Juni 1821 wurden in Kurhessen Verwaltung und Justiz endgültig getrennt. In Marburg wurde der Kreis Marburg für die Verwaltung eingerichtet und das Landgericht Marburg war als Gericht in erster Instanz für Cölbe zuständig. 1850 wurde das Landgericht in Justizamt Marburg umbenannt. Nach der Annexion Kurhessens durch Preußen 1866 erfolgte am 1. September 1867 die Umbenennung des bisherigen Justizamtes in Amtsgericht Marburg. Auch mit dem in Kraft treten des Gerichtsverfassungsgesetzes von 1879 blieb das Amtsgericht unter seinem Namen bestehen.

Bevölkerung

Einwohnerstruktur 2011
Nach den Erhebungen des Zensus 2011 lebten am Stichtag dem 9. Mai 2011 in Cölbe 6726 Einwohner. Darunter waren 333 (4,9 %) Ausländer, von denen 119 aus dem EU-Ausland, 82 aus anderen Europäischen Ländern und 128 aus anderen Staaten kamen. (Bis zum Jahr 2019 erhöhte sich der Ausländeranteil auf 7,5 %.) Die Einwohner lebten in 2985 Haushalten. Davon waren 942 Singlehaushalte, 723 Paare ohne Kinder und 926 Paare mit Kindern, sowie 282 Alleinerziehende und 108 Wohngemeinschaften. In 453 Haushalten lebten ausschließlich Senioren und in 2106 Haushaltungen lebten keine Senioren.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Historische Erwerbstätigkeit

Religion
Die Gemeinde Cölbe ist protestantisch geprägt. In den Ortsteilen Cölbe, Bürgeln, Schönstadt, Reddehausen (Kirchsaal) und Schwarzenborn gibt es evangelische Kirchen, die zur Kirchengemeinde Cölbe gehören. Daneben gibt es in der Kerngemeinde Cölbe auch eine katholische Kirche sowie eine Evangelische Gemeinschaft, die 1901 aus einem Hausbibelkreis entstand.

Daten zur Religionszugehörigkeit

Politik

Gemeindevertretung
Die Kommunalwahl am 14. März 2021 lieferte folgendes Ergebnis, in Vergleich gesetzt zu früheren Kommunalwahlen:

Bürgermeister
Seit dem Jahr 1993 werden in Hessen die Bürgermeister für sechs Jahre direkt gewählt.
2018 wurde Jens Ried zum Bürgermeister gewählt und trat sein Amt am 16. Mai 2019 an. Sein Vorgänger war seit 2001 der Parteilose Volker Carle.

Partnerschaften
Die Gemeinde Cölbe unterhält partnerschaftliche Beziehungen zu der polnischen Stadt Kościerzyna (Berent) und der sie umgebenden Landgemeinde. Die Partnerschaft besteht seit 1991. Betreut wird sie durch den Partnerschaftsverein Cölbe-Kościerzyna e.V.

Wappen und Flagge
Das Wappen und die Flagge sind in einer gesonderten Wappensatzung geschützt.
Wappen

Flagge
Die Flagge wird dort folgendermaßen beschrieben:

Eine amtliche Hissflagge führt die Gemeinde nicht. Lokal wird jedoch, angelehnt an die Bannerflagge, eine rot-weiße Flaggenbahn, belegt mit dem Gemeindewappen verwendet.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Bauwerke
 Jugendstil-Bahnhofsgebäude, heute als Gemeindeverwaltung genutzt
 Alte Kirche im Ortsteil Bürgeln
 Altes Backhaus Schwarzenborn
 Evangelische Kirche Schwarzenborn (Cölbe), frühgotische Saalkirche vermutlich 13. Jahrhundert, hessisches Kulturdenkmal
 Historischer Ortskern Schönstadt

Sport und Freizeit
Die Großgemeinde hält ein breites Angebot an traditionellen und modernen Sportarten sowie Bewegungsmöglichkeiten vor. Zunächst gibt es in allen 6 Ortsteilen Sportvereine mit einer Vielzahl von Angeboten: Trainings- und / oder Wettkampfbetrieb für Badminton, Basketball, Beachvolleyball, Cricket, Fußball, Gymnastik, Handball, Jedermannsport, Leichtathletik, Psychomotorik, Tanzen, Tischtennis, Volleyball und Zumba.

An Sportanlagen stehen zur Verfügung: Im Ortsteil Bürgeln und Ortsteil Schönstadt jeweils eine kleine Sporthalle für Schulsport und Vereinssport mit Spielmöglichkeiten, Geräteturnen, Gymnastik, Tischtennis, Volleyball und Badminton u. ä.
Im Ortsteil Cölbe wird die gemeindeeigene Großsporthalle mit 250 Zuschauer-Sitzplätzen für nahezu alle Sportarten genutzt. Die Cölber Sporthalle liegt an einem großzügigen Sport- und Bewegungsgelände. Hier gibt es zwei Fußball-Rasenplätze für die Ligaspiele, eine 400m Laufbahn, Weitsprunggrube, Cricketabschlagplatz, einen Beach-Volleyball-Feld und ein Sandplatz-Tennisanlage mit 4 Plätzen. Außerdem liegen auf dem Gelände zwei sanierte und rege genutzte Sportvereinsheime und ein Kinderspielplatz. Weitere Fußball-Rasenplätze befinden sich in Reddehausen, Schönstadt und Bürgeln. Schließlich sind die Bürgerhäuser in Schönstadt und Bürgeln mit Kegelbahnen ausgestattet.

Der Reitverein Cölbe e.V. bietet seinen 65 Mitgliedern (davon allein 29 Kinder und Jugendliche) auf einer privat zur Verfügung gestellten Reitanlage Voltigieren mit eigenen Trainerinnen an. Zudem befindet sich im Ortsteil Bürgeln eine familiär geführte Pferdepension mit Reithalle, Außenplatz und großer Weide- und Paddockfläche. Die Ohm-Auen und die Wälder der Lahnberge eignen sich für Ausritte.

Im Ortsteil Bernsdorf liegt ein 18-Loch-Golfplatz, der vom Oberhessischen Golfclub Marburg e.V. betrieben wird.

Im Sommer bieten sich die beiden durch Cölbe fließenden Flüsse Lahn und Ohm für Kanutouren an.

Innerhalb der Gemarkung liegen zwei Premium-Rundwanderwege – der Eibenhardtpfad (6,3 km) und der Junkernpfad (10 km). Zertifiziert sind sie mit dem Wandersiegel des Deutschen Wanderinstituts. Hinzu kommt der "Cölber Rundwanderweg" (30 km), der alle Ortsteile der Gemeinde verbindet und an einem besonderen Wandertag die Bürger der Gemeinde und ihre Gäste zusammenführt mit vielfältigen kulturellen und kulinarischen Angeboten in den Ortsteilen. Seit 2005 wurde er alle zwei Jahre als "Cölber Rotweinlauf" veranstaltet in Anlehnung an den französischen Medoc-Marathon, der an den Weingütern mit Degustation vorbeiführt. 2021 soll er unter dem Namen "Cölbe bewegt sich" weniger das Sportliche als vielmehr das Gesellige betonen.

Nahe dem Ortsteil Schönstadt liegt der Verkehrslandeplatz Marburg-Schönstadt.

Bildung
In Cölbe gibt es 4 Kindergärten: Löwenzahn Cölbe und Lummerland Bürgeln, die von der Gemeinde geführt werden und Vogelnest Cölbe sowie Kindergarten Schönstadt, die von der Evangelischen Kirche betreut werden. Der Kindergarten Schönstadt nimmt auch Kinder der Ortsteile Schwarzenborn und Bürgeln auf. Diese Orte sind mit einem Kindergartenbus verbunden.

Grundschulen existieren in den Ortsteilen Cölbe, Bürgeln sowie Schönstadt und liegen in der Trägerschaft des Landkreises Marburg-Biedenkopf.

Die Hephata Ergotherapieschule Fokus gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Fachschule für Ergotherapie in Cölbe. Sie bietet in Kooperation mit der Zuyd Hogeschool Heerlen (Niederlande) einen modularen Studiengang (5 Semester ausbildungs- und berufsbegleitend) zum Erwerb des Bachelor of Science für Ergotherapeuten und Ergotherapeutinnen in Ausbildung und Beruf an.

Weitere Ausbildungsstätten wie Fachschulen, Fachoberschulen o. ä. oder (Berufliche) Gymnasien sind in den umliegenden Städten Marburg, Kirchhain oder Amöneburg zu finden. Die nächsten Hochschulen liegen in Marburg (Universität), Gießen (Universität und Fachhochschule) und Kassel (Universität).

Für die Erwachsenenbildung bietet der Landkreis eine Außenstelle der Volkshochschule Marburg-Biedenkopf.

Vereine
Die Gemeinde Cölbe verfügt über eine große und vielfältige Vereinsstruktur. Größter Verein mit etwa 1000 Mitgliedern ist der TV Cölbe. Eine Vielzahl von Vereinen in den Ortsteilen garantiert das gesellschaftliche, sportliche und kulturelle Leben der Gemeinde.

Brauchtum
Die seit 1984 als Verein eingetragene dörfliche "Burschenschaft Cölbe" lässt jährlich im Sommer den "Stroh-Bären" durch die Straßen Cölbes tanzen. Die Wickelung eines Jungburschen mit den Strohschichten benötigt allein eine Stunde. Die von Passanten und Anwohnern eingeworbenen Spenden gehen in das öffentliche Vereinsfest ein.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Betriebe

Neben einer Reihe Handwerksbetriebe rund um das Thema Haus besitzt Cölbe wegen seiner guten Verkehrslage einige bedeutende Großhandelsbetriebe. Auch haben sich einige Spezialisten für bestimmte Produktbereiche angesiedelt (z. B. Software für Personaldienstleister, Produkte für den Motorschutz oder maßgeschneiderte elektronische Steuerungen).

Hinzu kommen zwei gemeinnützige Unternehmen: Die gemeinnützige Beschäftigungs- und Qualifizierungsgesellschaft in kommunaler Trägerschaft Integral und "Die Fleckenbühler", eine therapeutische Lebens- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft für etwa 120 suchtkranke Menschen. Sie führen seit 1984 einen 100 ha großen Landwirtschaftsbetrieb mit Käserei auf biologisch-dynamische Wirtschaftsweise in Cölbe-Schönstadt. Neben den landwirtschaftlichen Produkten bieten sie Umzüge und Transporte an. Schließlich betreiben sie auf dem Hofgut ein Bistro mit Hofladen.

Verkehr
Cölbe ist zumindest im größten Ortsteil neben Marburg mit 5 Buslinien und 3 Bahnlinien die am besten angebundene Gemeinde im Landkreis. Hinzu kommt ein gut ausgebautes Radwegenetz und ein Carsharing-Angebot im Ortsteil Schönstadt.

Bahn

Der Bahnhof Cölbe wird von folgenden Bahnstrecken bedient:
 Obere Lahntalbahn (Marburg–Bad Laasphe–Erndtebrück)
 Burgwaldbahn (Marburg–Frankenberg (Eder)–Korbach–Brilon)
 Main-Weser-Bahn (Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof–Gießen–Marburg–Kassel Hauptbahnhof)

Es gibt stündliche Verbindungen nach Frankfurt am main, Marburg, Frankenberg (alle zwei Stunden weiter nach Brilon über Korbach) und Bad Laasphe (alle zwei Stunden weiter nach Erndtebrück). Des Weiteren gibt es einen Haltepunkt in Bürgeln, der an der Main-Weser-Bahn liegt.

Bus
Auf Grund seiner günstigen Verkehrslage fahren insgesamt 5 Buslinien durch den Ortsteil Cölbe und zum Teil auch durch die anderen Ortsteile:
 MR-63 Bürgeln – Schwarzenborn – Schönstadt – Wetter
 MR-72 Josbach – Rauschenberg – Cölbe – Marburg
 MR-76 Marburg – Cölbe – Schönstadt – Bracht – Schwarzenborn
 MR-78 Kirchhain/Amöneburg – Anzefahr – Cölbe – Marburg
 481 Wallau – Biedenkopf – Lahntal – Marburg

Fahrrad
Die Lage Cölbes an insgesamt fünf Fluss- und Bachläufen (Lahn, Ohm, Reddehäuser Bach und Rotes Wasser) hat den Bau von Radwegen begünstigt. So gibt es neben dem Lahnradweg, dem Ohmtal-Radweg und dem Burgwaldradweg über Schönstadt in den Burgwald auch die Verbindungen vom Kreisverkehr am Chausseehaus Richtung Bürgeln und von Bernsdorf Richtung Reddehausen.

Energie
Die Gemeindevertretung beschloss 2011, dass die Gemeinde Cölbe (Verwaltung, Bürger und Unternehmen) bis zum Jahr 2040 die Nutzung von 100 % erneuerbaren Energien anstrebt und gleichzeitig den Maßnahmen für Energieeinsparung und -effizienz einen hohen Stellenwert einräumt. Dieses Ziel soll in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den zu beteiligenden Akteuren realisiert werden. Zwei Meilensteine auf dem Weg dahin sind die Nahwärmegenossenschaft Schönstadt und der Solaracker in Bernsdorf.

In Schönstadt haben Bürger eine Genossenschaft gegründet, um die Abwärme eines nahegelegenen Heizkraftwerkes, das die Baumrinde eines Sägewerks in Strom umwandelt, zum Heizen ihrer Häuser zu nutzen. Seit 2012 fließt die Wärme durch ein 13 km langes Rohrnetz und versorgt 294 Häuser. Das ist ein Anteil von 80 %. So werden jährlich rund 800.000 Liter Heizöl ersetzt.

Im Ortsteil Bernsdorf entstand auf einer verfüllten Kiesgrube eine 3,3 Megawatt große Solarstromanlage, die seit 2012 jährlich rund 3 Millionen Kilowattstunden ins Stromnetz einspeist. Das sind 13 % des Cölber Stromverbrauchs. Geplant und gebaut wurde die Anlage von zwei ortsansässigen Solarunternehmen. Eigentümer sind die Gemeinde Cölbe und Cölber Bürger.

Gesundheit und Soziales
Insgesamt 13 Ärzte sind in Cölbe niedergelassen. Hinzu kommen 5 Zahnärzte und 1 Tierarzt. Auch eine Apotheke gehört zur medizinischen Versorgung.

Die Kinder- und Jugendarbeit wird von dem gemeinnützigen Cölber Verein, "Junge Entwicklung Fördern e. V." (JEF e. V.) im Auftrag der Gemeinde gestaltet.

Ein Seniorennetzwerk kümmert sich in Kooperation mit der Freiwilligenagentur Marburg-Biedenkopf um die Älteren. Ehrenamtliche bieten vielfältige Angebote und fördern die Vernetzung. Ihre Arbeit wird seit 2021 durch eine hauptamtliche Seniorenbeauftragte unterstützt.
Ein neu gegründeter Bürgerschaftshilfe-Verein will durch Hilfen im Alltag, Besuchsdienste und Begleitung ältere Menschen mit Pflege- oder Hilfebedarf in ihrer Selbstständigkeit unterstützen.

Die Marburger Altenhilfe St. Jakob gGmbH, eine gemeinnützige, konfessionsungebundene und kommunale Trägerorganisation der Altenhilfe, betreibt in Cölbe die "Hausgemeinschaften St. Jakob". Jeweils 10 Bewohner haben dort ihren eigenen Wohn- und Versorgungsbereich. Auch der steigenden Anzahl an Demenzkranken wurden bei dem neuen Konzept berücksichtigt. Das Bistro "Culina" steht Bewohnern und Gästen offen.

Sonstiges
Das Institut für theoretische Geodäsie in Bonn hatte ermittelt, dass der Mittelpunkt der Europäischen Union nach der Erweiterung 2004 auf den Koordinaten  liegt. Dieser Punkt befand sich auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Cölbe, 895 Meter vom Ortsmittelpunkt entfernt, in der Straße Kaschubenweg. Andere Berechnungsmethoden lieferten andere Ergebnisse (siehe hier).

Persönlichkeiten
 Heinrich Orthwein (1900–?), Landrat in Melsungen

Literatur

Weblinks

 Webauftritt der Gemeinde Cölbe

Einzelnachweise

Ortsbezirk von Cölbe
Ort im Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf
Ort an der Lahn

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Q: How to write multiple "and", "or" conditions in a if-statement in shell? I am trying to make this work. I need to check if col_numbers and ok_numbers are same, then print WORKS unless col_numbers or ok_numbers both are zero. How do I test this? I tried this but failed to get what is expected.
Condition1 ( I don't want to print `WORKS!` when both are zero though they both are equal):
ok_numbers=0
col_numbers=0

Condition2 (I want to print `WORKS!` because both are non-zero and equal):

ok_numbers=4
col_numbers=4

What am I missing in my code below?
  if [ ( ${col_numbers} -eq ${ok_numbers} ) -a (( ${col_numbers} -ne 0 ) -o ( ${ok_numbers} -ne 0 )) ]; then
    echo "WORKS!"
  fi

A: I don't think you can use ()s that way. In bash they create a subshell.
Instead I would do two test conditions (and also simplify logic).
#!/bin/bash -u

col_numbers="$1"
ok_numbers="$2"

if [ ${col_numbers} -eq ${ok_numbers} ] && [ ${col_numbers} -ne 0 ]
then
    echo "WORKS!"
else
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fi

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Your consumer shouldn't need to think to use your site, it should be second nature, as if they have been on it before. The best design shouldn't feel designed at all, the way it works blends into the background. This helps increase user engagement with your website and brand. It should be simple, clean and easy to read.
5. Make it mobile ready.
Smart phones are a big part of everything we do, so it's crucial that your website should be optimized for mobile and work across all devices. The best kinds of websites now fit any screen, they are responsive. They adapt to the user and the device their using whether its mobile, laptop or desktop. The user experience should be the best it can be.
Waiting for things is the worst. We all agree that technology has made us more impatient. If your website takes longer than 5 seconds to load your bounce rate is increased drastically resulting in the user going elsewhere. You need to optimize your website for the fastest experience possible.
Building a strong brand identity and online presence is important for any company and especially for a start-up, it helps to differentiate yourself from the competition and build consumer loyalty. You need to make the right impression the first time and if you combine all the top tips above you will have a better chance of succeeding.


You get a free track and the rest as immediate download on the release date, and the record flops on your doormat shortly after the release. We are mega-excited about forthcoming gigs and tour and records, and we'd love to see you and chat to you on our journey, please come and say hi. I shall of course, mum, be keeping a tour journal, ready to delight and amuse with our tales from far flung village halls and churches. Here is lovely artwork by Pablo Clark, he's awesome, check out his work here: http://inthedarkarcade.tumblr.com/.


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11-MAN PLAYOFFS ROUNDUP
Texas High School Football Postseason Round 4: Led by state-ranked Stephenville, China Spring, Lorena, West, Crawford & Mart, Heart of Texas playoff field shrinks to six teams left standing
Despite entering the Regional Semifinal round with 10 teams from the Heart of Texas region still alive in the Class 4A, 3A & 2A, only six remain standing in the Texas High School 11-man football postseason brackets.
Heading into the playoffs as the Class 4A, Division I's top-ranked team, the Stephenville Yellowjackets (13-0) remained undefeated with a hard-fought 21-17 victory over Argyle to set up a state quarterfinal showdown with Melissa (11-2) at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Bedford's Pennington Field.
Class 4A, DII Region 3 Semifinal: NO. 5 CHINA SPRING 27, NO. 1 CARTHAGE 17
Dethroning two-time defending Class 4A, Division II state champion and top-ranked Carthage, the fifth-ranked China Spring Cougars shut down the potent Bulldogs for a surprising 27-17 victory last Friday night at Prosper ISD Children's Health Stadium.
By remaining undefeated and snapping Carthage's 41-game win streak, China Spring (13-0) advances to the state quarterfinals to face West Orange-Stark (11-1) at 7 p.m. Friday in Tomball.
Class 3A, DI Region 2 Semifinal: No. 4 West 14, No. 10 Malakoff 12
Needing all the defense they could muster, the Class 3A, DI's fourth-ranked West Trojans held off a strong challenge from 10th-ranked Malakoff to secure a clutch 14-12 victory last Friday afternoon in the at Mesquite's Hanby Stadium.
After surviving another round, the Trojans (13-0) will face Mount Vernon (13-0) in the state quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Friday in Ford Center at The Star in Frisco.
Reaching the fourth round of the playoffs for the first time since 1980, West limited Malakoff (9-4) to less than 200 yards for total offense after coming into the game averaging more than 30 points per game in the postseason.
Despite trailing 6-0 before halftime, Trojan quarterback Gus Crain tossed a swing pass to Wyatt Wolf that turned into a 63-yard touchdown pass-and-run for the fourth quarter game-winner. TJ McCutcheon gave West its first lead of the game just before intermission on a 19-yard touchdown run followed by placekicker Brock Klander's extra point.
Class 3A, DI Region 3 Semifinal: No. 5 LORENA 62, No. 6 COLUMBUS 13
Keeping an 11-game winning streak alive, the Class 3A, DI's fifth-ranked Lorena Leopards crushed sixth-ranked Columbus, 62-13, in a Region 3 semifinal matchup last Friday night at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos.
With the resounding victory, the Leopards (11-2) advance to the state quarterfinals to Diboll (10-3) at 7 p.m. Friday in Bryan.
Lorena quarterback Ryne Abel threw for 308 yards and five touchdowns, connecting with Jadon Porter three times, while Rhett Hanson led the Leopard rushing attack with 113 yards and two scores. Porter finished with a game-high with seven catches for 206 yards.
Class 2A, DI Region 2 Semifinal: No. 4 CRAWFORD 20, ITALY 13
Despite trailing 13-6 early in the fourth quarter, Class 2A, DI's fourth-ranked Crawford Pirates overcame key injuries to rally for a dramatic 20-13 come-from-behind victory over the Italy Gladiators last Friday in Alvarado's Charles Head Stadium.
Advancing to the state quarterfinals, Crawford (13-0) will face Marlin (10-3) at 7 p.m Friday at Tiger Field in Belton.
Pirate quarterback Ethan Althoff tossed a 30-yard touchdown pass to Trey Dobie in the corner of the end zone to tie the game before Colt Murphree cashed in from six yards out for the game-winner.
Class 2A, DI Region 2 Semifinal: MARLIN 52, TOLAR 36
With two surprise teams squaring off, something had to give. Using a barrage of big plays, the Marlin Bulldogs bounded past the Tolar Rattlers, 52-36, last Friday at Alvarado's Charles Head.
Advancing to the fourth round for the first time since 2004, Marlin (10-3) will face fourth-ranked and undefeated Crawford (13-0) in the state quarterfinals at 7 p.m Friday at Tiger Field in Belton.
Bulldog quarterback Desmond Woodson fired six touchdown passes, connecting on the last four Trajon Butler after tossing two scores each to Derion Gullette and Zha'mauryon.
Class 2A, DII Region 3 Semifinal: No. 1 MART 55, WORTHAM 7
By shutting out Wortham until 16 seconds remaining in the game, Class 2A, DII's top-ranked Mart Panthers totally dominated the Bulldogs, 55-7, last Friday afternoon at Mexia's Blackcat Field.
Mart (13-0) advances to the state quarterfinals to face District 10-2A, DII counterpart Chilton (11-1) at 7 p.m. Friday in Midway.
Playing in the third round of the playoffs for the first time since 2000, Wortham (7-6) managed to avoid the shutout after being outscored by Mart, 237-0, over the previous four meetings. In fact, the Bulldogs have not defeated the Panthers since 1928.
Mart quarterback Trey Powell completed nine of 13 passes for 160 yards and two touchdowns while running back Klyderion Campbell rushed for a game-high 108 yards on just three carries and a third quarter score.
Class 2A, DII Region 3 Semifinal: CHILTON 40, BREMOND 14
Earning a rematch with top-ranked Mart, the Chilton Pirates used a diversified attack to ran away with an overwhelming 40-14 victory over the Bremond Tigers last Friday night at Waco ISD Stadium.
With four different Clifton players scoring while piling up 310 yards on the ground, Luis Fernandez ran for two touchdowns while Jamoryon Benjamin ran for a score and caught a touchdown pass from Daylon Ford.
The Pirates (11-1) will face District 10-2A, DII rival Mart for the second time this season Friday at 7 p.m. at Midway's Panther Stadium after suffering their only loss of the season in convincing fashion as the Panthers rolled to a 56-6 win Oct. 8.
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Be sure to check in with THE SPORTS BUZZ every Thursday to find the complete schedule for teams from the Heart of Texas region. Then follow THE SPORTS BUZZ for up-to-the-minute final scores as they become available throughout the weekend.
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Over recent years, the Commission has received a significant number of complaints from people alleging discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal record. The complaints indicate that there is a great deal of misunderstanding by employers and people with criminal records about discrimination on the basis of criminal record.
In 2005, the Commission produced 'On the Record: Guidelines for the prevention of discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal record'. It was the result of an extensive research and consultation process undertaken by the Human Rights Commissioner in 2004 and 2005.
The Guidelines were revised in 2007, and in 2012.
'On the Record' provides information and practical guidance on how to prevent criminal record discrimination in the workplace. It covers existing anti-discrimination and related laws, as well as best practice principles when recruiting or employing someone who may have a criminal record.
NOTE: These guidelines are not legally binding. They are not intended to be (and should not be) relied on for legal advice.


A house that breathes with its colors, that moves with its shadows, a spiritual place where the outside world is not the enemy, but a part of the furniture. A safe haven that doesn't need the presence of people because it's entertained by itself. Maybe because it never stops to evolve? The house is beautiful and enormous with a lot of space for one to feel the creative flow, like an invisible host, always surrounding us.
Barragán, in his own way, is incorporating his idea of God and Nature into his creation. The spirituality through the golden painting Message from Mathias Goeritz, which symbolizes God, and the yellow window from the rooftop lets the golden rays fall onto the walls of the room. The Nature through the high ceiling windows allows the green among us to be seen like the part of the furniture. And with this, he proclaims the Death of the Author. He leaves his work in the arms of a Creator higher than himself and a Creator stronger than himself. At last he is leaving the work to us. The way we feel and express our motions in the house. Barragán acknowledges the fact that his corner of the world is not only his. By revisiting nature, he built a house with a memory of how the world has been created.
When I entered the living room I had a strong feeling in my gut that said I'm doing something wrong in my life because everything here was so "right." I was thinking to myself: I guess I was looking for the answers in all the wrong places. Maybe I finally need to start redirecting the gaze towards myself, my inner home: the obscure and light corners of my soul, the hidden ones, or the ones who I expose only for the guests, the errors made in the process of building... Everything works. Everything is okay. Because the furniture from which we are built is part of the inner architect plans.
In this busy modern world of ours, we are constantly moving from place to place, from one home to another more than ever. Ideally, as we grow, the square footage is also growing. Our homes are more like an elastic part of us, always doomed to be in exile just because there is something bigger, there is something better for us there. Most of the people are moving into homes that have been already made. I was born in a house that was created for the simple purpose of being a practical, happy place where one specific family can live there: my grandparents. Both my grandfather and grandmother built their home (the home of my childhood and adolescence) from scratch, and when my parents got married they expanded the house by adding more rooms. But this house belongs to my past. Just like the story of the Ugly Duckling, we the Ugly Ducklings are leaving the place where we were born in order to find the place where we are meant to be.
WHAT, MR. BARRAGÁN WILL BE YOUR LEGACY?
I remembered one quote from Gaston Bachelard: "The house of the future, sometimes is better built, lighter, and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home." This Casa has no future because it is already so wise. We are the one with the future and the happy thoughts about our very first ideal home. But houses like this, built with an emotion plan, can only help us learn how our world should be created.
This story was curated while on my trip in Mexico City, January 2018.


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Q: Android App crashing on startup with fatal exception I am getting the following code errors in LogCat...any fix? What is info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.Splashscreen?I wanted to display the splash screen before the main activity. Can anyone also explain to me what error message to look at in order to find out the issue that log cat has generated?
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824): Process: com.example.apocalypse, PID: 824
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.apocalypse/info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.apocalypse-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/com.example.apocalypse-2, /system/lib]]
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2121)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.apocalypse-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/com.example.apocalypse-2, /system/lib]]
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:497)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:457)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1061)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2112)
06-09 11:43:18.800: E/AndroidRuntime(824):  ... 11 more
06-09 11:43:24.160: I/Process(824): Sending signal. PID: 824 SIG: 9
06-09 11:43:45.990: D/AndroidRuntime(929): Shutting down VM
06-09 11:43:45.990: W/dalvikvm(929): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb2a79ba8)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929): Process: com.example.apocalypse, PID: 929
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.apocalypse/info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.apocalypse-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/com.example.apocalypse-2, /system/lib]]
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2121)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at  android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5017)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:779)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:595)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.example.apocalypse-2.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/com.example.apocalypse-2, /system/lib]]
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:497)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:457)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1061)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2112)
06-09 11:43:46.000: E/AndroidRuntime(929):  ... 11 more

My manifest is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.apocalypse"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <!-- Splash screen -->
    <activity
        android:name="info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <!-- Main activity -->
    <activity
        android:name="info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>
</application>

A: You package com.example.apocalypse does not match the one from your Activity (info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer), either you put in your Activity element name=".SplashScreen" or name="com.example.apocalypse.SplashScreen", but not info.androidhive.androidsplashscreentimer.SplashScreen. Try this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.apocalypse"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <!-- Splash screen -->
    <activity
        android:name=".SplashScreen"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <!-- Main activity -->
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>
</application>


Steel sheet pile transported to the site, the need for finishing, clean up the mouth of the debris, such as welding pigmentation, waste fill, etc., to the defect site to be sorted. Lock the mouth of the inspection, with a length of about 2 meters of the same type, with the specifications of the steel plate pile for the lock through the inspection. Check the use of winch pull the standard steel sheet pile flat car, from the pile head to the end of the pile for the lock through the inspection, the detection of the lock mouth twist and "dead" correction.
Each piece of steel sheet pile on both sides of the lock parallel to the detection method: steel sheet pile for each piece of steel sheet pile is divided into upper and lower parts with a steel ruler to measure the width of each pile so that the width of the same size, each adjacent number The difference is less than 1 cm is appropriate. More than the deviation of the steel sheet pile should be used as much as possible.
In order to ensure that the steel sheet pile in the construction process can be successfully plugged, and increase the use of steel sheet pile impermeability. Each piece of steel sheet pile lock must be evenly coated with mixed oil, the volume ratio of butter: dry bentonite: dry sawdust = 5: 5: 3.
Taking into account the lifting equipment and vibration equipment and other factors, steel sheet pile cover with piece by piece. Along the end of a good draw in front of the gray line, insert the first piece of steel sheet pile repeatedly carefully corrected steel sheet pile, to ensure that the vertical and to the design elevation. The rest of the steel sheet pile has been plugged steel sheet pile shall prevail, after lifting the artificial support to insert a piece of steel sheet pile lock, and then use vibration hammer vibration sink.
Construction points for the "pile upright, scattered that is correct, adjust the closure."
The project is designed with the upper and lower two bars, first excavating the excavation excavation with the excavator excavation earthwork, digging on the roadway design elevation, suspended excavation. To complete this road after the support to continue to excavation to the foundation pit design after the installation of high after the installation of the next channel. Enclosure construction first according to the design elevation in the steel sheet pile welding ⑸ 125 × 125 × 10 angle short legs as a temporary support, on the road with Shuanghua I45 cm I-beam, the next road with double I60 cm I-beam welding And then to be arranged in the vertical and horizontal connection in place, and then welded with steel sheet pile firmly, the gap part of the concrete filled with dense, so that the entire steel sheet pile retaining the overall force.
Until the foundation of the bottom of the concrete pouring completed and has 75% of the design strength after the demolition of the next channel, pouring the completion of the side wall concrete, and the strength to meet the requirements before the demolition of the tunnel and the demolition of steel sheet pile.
First with the pull pile driver sandwiched the top of the steel sheet vibration 1 second - 2 seconds, so that the soil around the sheet pile loose, resulting in "liquefaction" to reduce the soil on the pile of friction, and then slowly pull up. Pull the pile when the load of attention to the pile driver and found that difficult to pull on the pull or pull up, you should stop pulling the pile, you can advance to play a little, and then pull up, so repeatedly pull out the pile.


Tiger Sheds are advertising 'the world's first' Zombie-Proof Log Cabin – designed to withstand the even the most relentless of zombie attacks.
The ZFC-1, or 'Zombie Fortification Cabin' in full, comes complete with a 10-year "Anti-Zombie" Guarantee – promising to be strong and secure enough to stop any walking dead from getting inside.
For a mere £69,995 you can own an entry level cabin. However, you will still need to budget for installation (sneaking in at an extra £13k right there), security cameras (£1800), a riot protection outfit and solar panels. However, if you want a flame thrower and/or a "Big Bear" water cannon, you are welcome to send them an enquiry here.
Thankfully, if you're worried about a row from the other half – you can point out that delivery is actually free. Also, keep it bookmarked because one day it might be cheaper in the sales.
However, if you are suspicious that this product isn't entirely legitimate, the guarantee small print probably won't help to convince you. It reads: "Please note – we require medical evidence of the presence of a real zombie should you wish to claim under the 10 year anti zombie guarantee". There's also the problem that should the cabin NOT live up to it's claims – you won't be around to make the claim. Or the world as we know it will have ended. Bigger concerns!
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Traditionally, it has been the role of the librarian to locate, select, organize, and disseminate information resources. With the advent of online services, this role is now being extended to include providing information about electronic resources in addition to those in print.
For blind and visually handicapped computer users, the availability of electronic information has presented an even greater opportunity than it has for those who are able to read printed material. Prior to this, only a very limited amount of reading material had been available in an accessible format. In fact, texts, such as large reference works, have never been accessible to visually impaired users. For this reason, blind people are finding the burgeoning online services of numerous public and specialized libraries to be of great interest. Librarians should expect a growing number of people who have heretofore not been part of their library's patron population to avail themselves of the library's online offerings.
The person whose vision is not good enough to allow the reading of a standard computer screen can gain access to a computer system via refreshable braille display, synthetic speech, or large print. If a braille display or speech synthesizer is used, accompanying screen-reading software is also required. Numerous software and hardware options are available for large-print access. For this discussion, the focus will be on issues affecting blind persons who use speech or braille access to a computer. Generally, access issues for large-print users are less complex, and very little, if any, accommodation is required to meet their needs.
The power and flexibility of the World Wide Web lie in its ability to present information in multiple formats (text, audio, video, graphic, etc.). However, the features that provide power and elegance for some users present barriers to others. For example, services that depend solely on graphic images are completely inaccessible to blind users. Careful design and coding of information can alleviate many of these access barriers.
For blind users, some inroads have been made into the use of graphically based access methods, but the current access still permits only a rather cumbersome and restrictive use of graphics browsers like Mosaic and Netscape. A far more straightforward access opportunity is afforded to blind users by text-based browsers such as Lynx. Since actually "viewing" a graphic element is not usually an option for most blind people, the only possible advantages of using a graphical WWW browser are the instant availability of audio playback, an occasional opportunity to move through an inaccessible image that would halt a text-based browser in its tracks, and the possibility of seeking additional information about a graphic image from a sighted person.
It is not just blind and visually handicapped computer users who may have a need for access options. It is essential to remember the wide range of users you are designing for when creating WWW pages at a library. Library patrons who can connect to the WWW typically range from those with high-speed connections, to those with lower-speed modem connections, and even those with no more than text-based telnet access to the Web. Although it may not always be practical to design for those users with the most limited access, it is still a good idea to remember that these users exist and acknowledge them through warning messages or by creating alternate paths.
A WWW document does not need to be limited only to text to be accessible. There are a number of strategies that can be used to allow inclusion of graphics while still maintaining accessibility. Following these simple guidelines for designing and coding accessible WWW documents can make your documents available and more usable to all. It is important to note that implementing these guidelines does not compromise the aesthetics or functionality of the service.
HTML is the encoding method used for documents or "pages" on the World Wide Web. Within the HTML language, the designer has the ability to create hypertext references to other HTML pages and resources, both locally and elsewhere on the Internet. These resources can be images, motion videos, and sounds in addition to text files. For librarians establishing Web sites, it is important to know how Web documents are structured and how to apply proper design and layout principles to ensure the desired result.
HTML documents are written in plain ASCII text and can be created using any text editor. Web documents are coded, or "marked-up," with tags resembling those produced by some word-processing programs. These tags serve to structure the page by designating heading sizes, paragraph breaks, lists of items, quoted text, and strong or emphasized words, to name a few.
citizens of developing countries who pay for network access by the hour.
Designers of WWW pages will not have ultimate control over the appearance of their creations. Each Web browser interprets the HTML codes in a slightly different way with variations in spacing, bullet styles, and general adherence to the current HTML standard (version 2.0). The actual font size and type will be under the control of each user and will be further dependent on the capabilities of the WWW browser in use. Therefore, it is important to test each HTML document on a wide variety of browsers prior to placing the document in a production environment.
can be very confusing when encountered unexpectedly.
An inline image is a graphic element that appears along with the text on a Web page. These are encoded in HTML using the  tag. For accessible pages, always include an ALT= attribute within the  tag for each inline image provided on the page. This tag provides an opportunity to present textual identification or a description of the image for users with text-only browsers, or for those who choose not to load inline images due to performance issues.
This ALT (alternate text) attribute is an alternative to the graphics and will be displayed in text-only environments. The ALT text can contain entities, e.g., for accented characters or special symbols, but it can't contain markup.
code in HTML) or use simple elements to indicate bullets like the asterisk or small letter "o." These are good alternative text choices in the  code, but remember to always include one space after the character you choose (e.g., ALT="* " or ALT="o ").
If the person attempting to access an image file is using a text-based browser or has graphics turned off in other browsers, the link will be completely lost. A separate "text" file should be made available giving a description and/or a transcript of the image.
Image of the "Nicolay Draft" of the Gettysburg Address. Page 2.
In general, it is preferable to provide graphic and text options on the same page rather than offer a separate "text-only" page. Even blind users may sometimes want to pull up a picture to show someone, or to have someone describe it in more detail.
An image map is a graphic that has been mapped to allow different areas of the image to represent hypertext links to other documents (selectable via a mouse). The ISMAP attribute is used within the  tag to denote an image as an image map. Because image maps exclude users with text-based browsers, you must provide an alternate means for selecting those items directly above or below the image map, as well as instructions for the user.
Graphically based file formats should be used only as alternatives to ASCII files. Some file formats, such as Portable Document Format (PDF) from Adobe Inc., are strictly graphic in nature and are, therefore, inaccessible to users operating in a text mode or to those who do not have an appropriate viewer for the format.
If documents must be provided in a specialized format, provide the equivalent text file in HTML or plain text format. Some Web sites are introducing special data structures and viewers to differentiate themselves or provide special functions not available with the standard tools. The only way for these custom data and views to be accessible is if the access is built directly into the viewer. Standard access tools do not generally work with special viewers.
The use of forms will restrict only a very small number of users. The most prevalently used text-based browser is forms-capable and can be easily used by those individuals accessing the WWW with speech or braille devices. However, there are some text-based browsers (such as Doslynx) that do not support forms, and such browsers must be used by those with certain kinds of network connections. To accommodate such access methods, it is recommended that an optional e-mail address be provided to allow the individual to submit the requested information by e-mail.
The precise degree to which a particular WWW site or page is accessible to blind users depends, in large part, on the knowledge and awareness of the Web page designers. Many excellent pages have already been designed so that the content is accessible in a variety of ways, taking into account those accessing the page with a text-based browser while still accommodating those with a desire for more visually stimulating graphical presentations.
In general, to create WWW documents that will be accessible to people with visual disabilities, you need to either avoid using some features and data types or provide alternative methods for carrying out the functions or accessing the information provided through the inaccessible functions. In the future, alternative access methods for standard features may be built directly into WWW browsers, as well as the standard data storage and transmission formats, making it unnecessary to avoid certain features or build redundant mechanisms into your HTML documents. Until these alternative access features and standards are developed, however, care must be taken in the design of HTML pages if they are to be accessible to users with visual impairments.
There are a wide variety of ways to construct a WWW document, and there are many style manuals now available that offer assistance in creating pages that are consistent and easy to use. It is important that each library develop its own standards based on local needs and preferences. Some design considerations presented here, however, are not usually included in most style manuals and should be kept in mind when developing local standards to ensure real accessibility for the entire population.
Dixon, J. M. (1995). Leveling the road ahead: Guidelines for the creation of WWW pages accessible to the blind and visually handicapped users. Information Technology and Disabilities E-Journal, 2(4).


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Q: PHP Insert into database script no longer works I've used this script for many projects and it has always worked flawlessly, but it decided to no longer work today on all my projects. I haven't changed a thing. Some help would be nice.
<?php

$con = mysqli_connect('127.0.0.1','root','sutdenlol1');

if(!$con)
{
    echo 'Not Connected to Server';
}

if(!mysqli_select_db($con,'mineblox'))
{
    echo 'Not Selecting Database';
}

$Email = $_POST['email'];
$Username = $_POST['username'];
$Password = $_POST['password'];

$paassword = password_hash($Password, PASSWORD_DEFAULT);

    $sql = "INSERT INTO users (Email,Username,Password,) VALUES ('$Email','$Username','$paassword')";
if(!mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
    echo 'Not Inserted';
}
else
{
    header ('Location: profile.php');

}

?>

Edit: Should be noted I haven't work on anything for a week, which before I left I checked, and it worked. I came back today, and it no longer worked.
Edit 2: It returns "Not Inserted"

A: (Email,Username,Password,)

You have an extra , in your your query