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By Andy Hutchison
Published: Apr 01, 2019 02:05 PM
Winners of the South-West Conference championship in three of the last four years, Newtown High School's girls' golf team is rebuilding following the graduation of six seniors — including standout Sarah Houle — last year.
"We're building a new foundation. We're very excited. We have 13 girls in the program, and six are freshmen," Coach Jeremy O'Connell said. "I love coaching here — a lot of instructional time for kids that really haven't played a lot of golf."
This year's captains are Emma DaSilva, Cailin Wilson, and Gigi Marino.
The team also includes sophomores Nidhi Mukka, Summer Wilmot, Abby Watson, and Bradyn Smith; and freshmen Naiya Amin, Maggie Breault, Norah Kolb, Catherine Murray, Kendall Reed, and Christina Savo.
"I'm looking forward to seeing how the older kids do when they're in a match role now," said O'Connell, adding that the upperclassmen, for the most part, did not compete last season.
Tough competition stands to come from Masuk of Monroe and Joel Barlow of Redding. The regular season is set to begin on Wednesday, April 4, when Notre Dame-Fairfield visits the team's new home course, at Newtown Country Club, starting at 3 pm.
Cailin Wilson returns to the course this spring. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)
Nidhi Mukka follows through on her shot last season. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)
Golf captains are Emma DaSilva, Cailin Wilson, and Gigi Marino. (Bee Photo, Hutchison)


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Q: Append values to a list of json objects I'm collecting weather data and trying to create a list that has the latest (temperature) value by minute.
I want to add them to a list, and if the list does not contains the "minute index" it should at it as a new element in the list. So the list always keeps the latest temperature value per minute:
def AddValue(arr, value):
    timestamp = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

    for v in arr['values']:
        try:
            e = v[timestamp]     # will trigger the try/catch if not there
            v[timestamp] = value
        except KeyError:
            v.append({ timestamp: value })

history = [
    { 'values': [ {'2017-12-22 10:20': 1}, {'2017-12-22 10:21': 2}, {'2017-12-22 10:22': 3} ] },
]

AddValue(history, 99)

However, I'm getting
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'append'**

A: You associate a key k with a value v in a dictionary d with:
d[k] = v

this works regardless whether there is already a key k present in the dictioanry. In case that happens, the value is "overwritten". We can thus rewrite the for loop to:
for v in arr['values']:
    v[timestamp] = value
In case you want to update a dictionary with several keys, you can use .update and pass a dictionary object, or named parameters as keys (and the corresponding values as value). So we can write it as:
for v in arr['values']:
    v.update({timestamp: value})
which is semantically the same, but will require more computational effort.
Nevertheless since you need to iterate over a dictionary, you perhaps should reconsider the way you structured the data.

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Comandante musulmano nelle grandi conquiste islamiche (futūḥāt) del VII secolo, all'epoca del califfato di ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, apparteneva alla tribù araba dei B. Muzayna. Venne a sapere delle attività religiose messe in atto da Maometto e volle conoscerlo non appena questi si trasferì a Yathrib (poi Medina) con l'Egira (622).
Si recò quindi nella città-oasi del Ḥijāz coi suoi dieci fratelli e 400 cavalieri della sua tribù e, per ovviare all'imbarazzo di presentarsi a Maometto senza donativi, vista la carestia che aveva colpito i Muzayna, impose ai suoi contribuli di dargli ciò che potevano in ovini.
Assolto quest'obbligo morale, al-Nuʿmān e il suo seguito si convertirono all'Islam, nel tripudio dei musulmani che non avevano fino ad allora assistito a una simile imponente conversione di massa.

Al-Nuʿmān partecipò a tutti i più rilevanti fatti d'arme della prima Umma e alla Guerra della ridda. Durante il califfato di ʿUmar, al-Nuʿmān prese parte con onore alla conquista islamica della Persia, ricoprendo posizioni di comando.

Su incarico di Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ e poco prima della battaglia di al-Qādisiyya, si recò alla testa di una delegazione alla corte dell'Imperatore sasanide Yazdegerd III che reagì con sdegno all'invito dell'emissario musulmano a convertirsi alla fede islamica e a riconoscere l'autorità del Profeta, preannunciandogli per tutta risposta l'invio contro i musulmani di un esercito al comando di Rostam Farrokhzād.

Dopo la disfatta di al-Qādisiyya cadde anche Ctesifonte ma Yazdegerd provò a organizzare un'estrema resistenza nelle province orientali dell'Impero, arruolando un esercito di 150.000 persone da scagliare contro i musulmani, mentre Medina rispondeva affidando ad al-Nuʿmān b. Muqarrin la guida di un suo esercito.
I musulmani si scontrarono coi Persiani, comandati da Fīrūzan, nella difficile battaglia di Nihavand, dalla quale uscirono a fatica vittoriosi (tanto da chiamarla "la vittoria delle vittorie"), ma dovettero subire la grave perdita del loro comandante, il cui cadavere fu pietosamente coperto da suo fratello Naʿīm con un mantello (burda) per sottrarlo ai possibili insulti degli sconfitti.

Note

Bibliografia
 Ṭabarī, Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa l-mulūk, ed. Muḥammad Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm, 10 voll., Il Cairo, Dār al-maʿārif, 1960-69.
 Ibn al-Athīr, Usd al-ghāba fī maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba, 7 voll., Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Bannā, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʿAshūr, Maḥmūd al-Wahhāb Fāʾid (edd.), Il Cairo, Kitāb al-shaʿb, 1393/1973, V, pp. 342-3, n. 5261.

Guerrieri arabi
Sahaba

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Watching a movie is about giving yourself over to the experience onscreen, at once absorbing the simultaneous visual and aural input. By talking during a movie, you reject the movie experience and moreover set yourself at a higher level of importance than the movie within the arena of the theater, but also higher than your fellow patrons. Moviegoers have not paid to watch or listen to you. They paid for the movie. You are not more important than the movie. To think otherwise must be some kind of egomaniacal personality disorder. Somewhere out there, scientists are working on classifying this disease.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, audiences should not be faulted for reacting to a movie. For laughing when laughter is intended, for shrieking when the movie wants to scare you, for gasping when a plot twist reveals something unexpected. Such reactions are only natural and cannot be helped. What can be helped are patrons who talk about what they're watching, supply their opinion on this or that moment, or giggle amongst themselves at inappropriate times. Another example: If the theater is relatively empty, it's okay to sit far away from other moviegoers and whisper oh-so quietly, as long it doesn't disturb others. The concern here overall is not bothering others with your presence, allowing everyone the same cinematic experience.
If you're so compelled to talk during a movie, then perhaps the problem is you. Do you have a short attention span? Do you have trouble making it through an entire movie? Perhaps then you shouldn't go to movies. You could stay home and stream Netflix. Or you could watch television instead—after all, TV shows are usually shorter, requires less attention, and generally speaking no one cares if you talk in your living room. Important concept: The movie theater is not your living room. If you take one thing away from my remarks, let it be this.
There's a tradition some moviegoers have, and I think it's a good one. After a movie, they go out for a cup of coffee or meal and discuss what they've seen. They sit down in a place where it's socially acceptable to talk—where they can speak loudly or at length—and share their opinions. Here, all topics are open for discussion: plot details, performances, camerawork, etc. You don't even have to talk about movies. After all, you're on your time now. When you're in the communal setting of a movie theater, you're on group time and must consider the experience of your fellow moviegoer. The point is, people expect talking in coffee shops, restaurants, and other such places. They don't, and certainly shouldn't have to expect it in movie theaters.


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Student leaders of the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) met with industry mentors in November, planning for their initial investment on January 31.
"Students say to me, 'This is real money!' and I just laugh and say, 'Yes, it is real money!'" says Amanda Carter, Associate Professor of Business and Economics. It's an exclamation she hears often in one of her investment courses, when she asks students to create a hypothetical portfolio and track its performance throughout the term.
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Browsing Category 2006 Hot Stove Season
Mailing it in, Dec. 22 2006 edition
December 22nd, 2006 → 12:33 pm	@ Seth Mnookin
And the prize for lazy story of the day goes to…ESPN's Jim Caple's "Empirically Speaking," the latest in an onslaught of stories about how the Red Sox's profligate ways have, in essence, made them the newest member of the Evil Empire Club.
If you want to throw stones at the Sox for the manner in which they've opened their wallets this offseason, you have plenty of good-sized rocks to choose from. The most obvious, of course, is the way Theo cried poverty at the trade deadline, only to offer J.D. Drew a 5-year, $70-million deal at the season's end. (At the very least, that seems to have been a misreading of the market.)
That, of course, would involve some analysis. Instead, Caple makes fun of the Red Sox's $51,111,111.11 posting bid for Matsuzaka ("when you have the luxury of slapping $1,111,111.11 on a bid for the pure look of it, you definitely are not living in the same neighborhood as the Kansas City Royals or Pittsburgh Pirates (or even the Chicago White Sox, for that matter)") and compares John Henry to the Boss ("It's to the point that if John Henry gained 40 pounds and started acting like an ass, you would think George Steinbrenner owned the Red Sox").
Huh? The Sox's bid of $51 million was arrived at because they thought it possible another team would bid $50 million; that's a common tactic in blind bids (just ask Bob Barker+). Adding on $100,000 more was done for the same reason. The extra .002 percent represented by the final $11,111.11 was done because of the number 11's significance to Henry (which I explain in Feeding the Monster). That relatively puny amount is something the White Sox (or even the Royals) could afford.
As for comparing JWH to Steinbrenner, I'm not sure where to start. Those people that consider big, blustering George offensive think so, at least in part, because of the way he blindly throws around money, overruling Brian Cashman, his beleaguered GM, in the process. Signing the 41-year-old Randy Johnson to a multi-year deal when Cashman was advocating picking up Carlos Beltran is a case in point: there was no rationale for throwing away that kind of dough on an arthritic giant except for the fact that the Sox had Schilling and George wanted a "warrior" of his own. Regardless of what you think about the Red Sox's posting fee, there is a clear rationale for spending resources on a pitcher like Matsuzaka, a phenomenal talent whose best years are in front of him, not behind him.
Caple sets up plenty of other equally silly straw men:
* "No team has ever paid more money for a world championship than did the 2004 Red Sox." And no National League team has paid more money to lose a world championship than did the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals. And no team's payroll has topped $100 million in three of the past four years without even making it to the World Series expect the New York Mets. And no team has spent over $100 million in payroll and put up a losing record except the 2002 Rangers. Since they don't win, I guess they're not Evil Empires but just…stupid? What's more, because of the unbalanced schedule, comparing the payrolls of teams in different divisions doesn't really make sense. The Yankees' 2006 payroll was 60 percent higher than the Red Sox's, a greater percentage than that between any division winner and either of the two teams that finished behind it.
* "Further, when those Red Sox recorded the final out of that World Series, not a single player on the field was homegrown." True, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what the Red Sox under the new ownership group has/had done, because it hadn't been in place long enough to have a significant impact on minor league players who'd worked their way through the system to the point where they'd be in the bigs. (What's more, Trot Nixon and Kevin Youkilis were both on the WS roster; Tim Wakefield, Derek Lowe, and Jason Varitek had been acquired early in their careers (Tek's never played a major league game for another team) and David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, and Bill Mueller were all on-the-cheap pick ups and not Evil Empire-like acquisitions).
* "When the Sox open the 2007 season, they may have just two homegrown players in the lineup, first baseman Kevin Youkilis and second baseman Dustin Pedroia." And if you add pitchers, you have Jon Lester, Jonathan Papelbon, Craig Hansen, and Manny Delcarmen. I guess they don't count. Because who needs pitching?
I know, I know: no sooner will I post this than the homer accusations will start to fly. Fine; I'm used to it. It's not that I'm blindly defending the Red Sox, or even that I'm really defending them at all. Take a shot at the disorganized way they went about things last offseason. Unpack all the reasons the Arroyo-Wily Mo trade was a bad idea. Ridicule the panic move of reacquiring Mirabelli for Cla Meredith and Josh Bard. But whatever you do, put some thought into it.
+ I know that's not how "The Price is Right" works. But you know what I mean. So lay off.
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Jim Caple & Sports Reporters
December 21st, 2006 → 2:47 pm	@ Seth Mnookin
It looks like it'll be a slow week or so in the world of Boston baseball. (Of course, that prediction is all it'll take for the Sox to orchestrate a trade that brings Barry Bonds to Fenway while simultaneously coaxing Roger Clemens out of his 9th retirement. Speaking of Clemens, in the new SI, Tom Verducci predicts he'll be pitching for the Sox come July…) Both the Globe and the Herald have the mandatory non-update updates on the J.D. Drew situation (the Globe's is actually just an AP report); the news of the day is that Scott Boras says — surprise! — that Drew is as healthy as Cal Ripken Jr. was in the prime of his career. To give you a sense of just how sluggish things are, both papers essentially reprinted a Sox press release announcing the team had signed eight minor league free agents and invited them to camp as non-roster players, with the Globe running the piece on its site and the Herald burying it at the bottom of its Drew story. What else? Oh yeah: don't forget about the Boston Baseball Writers Dinner.
So: gird yourself for a family weekend, remember to smile politely at the in-laws,* and don't get so drunk you puke. Nobody likes vomit under the tree.
* Speaking of in-laws — and everyone else — I'd bet they'd love a signed, personalized copy of Feeding the Monster. Or have I already mentioned that?
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & J.D. Drew
Can you imagine the attention this would be getting if Daisuke was back with the Lions?
December 19th, 2006 → 10:43 am	@ Seth Mnookin
For the first time in a good long time, there's a simmering issue involving the Red Sox that isn't receiving the kind of national attention usually reserved for missile treaties: J.D. Drew's still unsigned contract. The Red Sox, according to reports that still haven't been confirmed (at least on the record), by the Sox, Drew, or Scott Boras, are worried about the results of a physical. (Specifically, they're worried about Drew's gimpy shoulder.) (Drew's public comments on the issue — that the shoulder has, as recently as last year, hurt his power production — don't seem to help any kind of union claim he might make should the deal actually fall apart.)
The road bumps here are receiving the kind of temperate discussion you might expect in, say, St. Louis. After all the speculation that the Sox gave Drew that supposedly above-market contract in order to smooth their way to signing Matsuzaka, there haven't been any (or at least very few) conspiracy theorists claiming the Sox are convientently backing out of the deal now that they have Daisuke in the fold. There also hasn't been any growing chorus of concern; after all, if Drew somehow doesn't end up in Boston, the options in right involve either everyday use of the far-from polished Wily Mo or making an effort to sign the power-deficient Trot Nixon to a one-year deal.
Anyway. This'll all probably be worked out in the next few days. In the meantime, if you haven't read Gordon Edes's piece on the Matsuzaka negotiations (which I alluded to in a throwaway line in yesterday's Chass rant), check it out. Also worth perusing is the always excellent Rob Bradford's piece in the (still criminally inept) Eagle Tribune.
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Daisuke Matsuzaka & Gordon Edes & J.D. Drew & Rob Bradford
Yeah, that's right: Theo did
December 15th, 2006 → 1:04 am	@ Seth Mnookin
You wanted to know who won that game of chicken? Anyone who saw Theo's post-press conference live shot with Tina Cervasio knows damn well who won it: the Red Sox. Theo, et al., were driving to the tarmac and getting ready to fly back to Boston sans Matsuzakasan (you know: calling Boras's bluff) when Boras rang and said, 'Well, yeah, all right, I guess we will be on that plane after all.'
(Apparently, Buster Olney agrees.)
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Daisuke Matsuzaka & Red Sox front office & Scott Boras & Theo Epstein
One in ESPN's ongoing series in stating the really, really obvious
Headline of the day:
D-Mat strengthens Sox rotation.
Coming tomorrow: Ortiz can hit ball hard.
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Daisuke Matsuzaka
Ah, yes: the complete absence of value added
There's no way you thought you were going to get through a Daisuke day without someone, somewhere, wondering what this all means for Johnny Jesus — you know, the last (big-name) guy to wear #18. (Sorry, Jason and Dustan: you two ain't big-name.) Thank god, the AP is on the case:
"NEW YORK — Johnny Damon has his own $52 million contract and no regrets that the Boston Red Sox didn't give him that amount last winter. Boston announced its $52 million, six-year agreement with pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on Thursday — nearly one year after the Red Sox allowed their center fielder to switch to the New York Yankees for the exact same amount."
Now, I get asked with some frequency whether or not sports reporters are morons. My usual answer is yes and no: there are plenty of dolts writing about baseball, but there are plenty of dolts writing about politics and international relations and the media, too. But (as commenter vapodge points out),* sports reporting might very well be one of the very few areas in which writers (commentators, whatever) seem to have a fervant desire to remain ignorant.
I've tried to make this clear before, but for all the AP reporters and other aggressively clueless folk out there, I'll try one more time:
THE RED SOX DID NOT LET JOHNNY DAMON WALK FOR $52 MILLION. SCOTT BORAS LIED, POINT BLANK, TO THE SOX ABOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS. I HAVE SEEN THE EMAILS. I HAVE TALKED TO THE MLB EXECUTIVES. I HAVE TALKED WITH PEOPLE IN BASEBALL OPS ON OTHER TEAMS.
I know this won't seem like anything except another plug for my book, but man, come on already. I've been talking to owners around baseball over the last several weeks (for an unrelated project); every single one of them had already read FTM, as has every MLB exec I've spoken with. (In fact, some of the MLB execs have recommended it to other people in baseball.) Regardless of what you think about the damn book, if you're covering the Red Sox or the Yankees, wouldn't it maybe make sense to read it? If only to see if there are things you might not know about? You know, to help in your, um, reporting?
* Vapodge was objecting to a segment on Dan Patrick's ESPN show in which he apparently asked Francona about the "$2 million more per year" the Sox would have had to spend to get Damon. Technically, that's true…except Boras told them they'd need to spend that extra $2 million per for seven straight years! Aaargh! Just read the fucking excerpt. It's linked above. In big, bright, red, shiny caps.
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Daisuke Matsuzaka & Feeding the Monster Sneak Peeks & Johnny Damon & Rampaging morons & Sports Reporters
So who is it that won this game of chicken?
December 14th, 2006 → 12:18 pm	@ Seth Mnookin
(Note: I'm on a PC. I hate PC's. For some reason, most of the links I put in aren't working, so you'll need to navigate around and find the articles I'm referring to on your own.)
It's true: I made it to Boston. And waking up at 6 to get to the airport is about as physical as I'm getting today.
So…some more notes on the…now wait: what's the big story around here? Ah, yes: D-Mat. (I will use every known nickname before the day is done.) Pretty much everyone, Jack Curry in the Times to the Herald's Tony Mass to Nick Cafardo in the Globe to Gammo himself is saying the Sox got the best of Boras in these negotiations.
On the first hand, that's clearly true: if the reports are correct and the Sox's initial offer was somewhere around $6-7 mil for 4 years, $8.7 mil for 6 years is a lot closer to that than the $15-$20 mil for 6 years Boras was looking for. On the next hand, the Sox, on some level, had Boras over a barrel. Zak really couldn't have returned to Japan (well, he could have, but not without losing so much face he would have needed a face transplant), and despite the late-in-the-game posturing from Boras about Daisuke wanting "respect," the good folks of Seibu would not have considered $8 million a year disrespectful. (I spoke with Bobby Valentine on Tuesday about an unrelated matter, and he said that the negotiations would be tough but there was no way his players would be facing the Diceman next year.)
But on the third hand, the Sox clearly won this game of chicken, and they did it by showing the type of single-mindedness and determination that's marked the best days of this front office. Over Thanksgiving 2003, Theo and Larry both went to Curt's house in Arizona, which showed Schilling how serious they were and also made it clear everyone was on the same page. The same thing happened here. That can only be seen as a good sign. Whatever rifts remain between those two — and rifts do remain — they're showing they can work together.
There'll be plenty more to chew on as the day progresses: the $203 mil (or so) the Sox have committed to three players, blowing away every team save for the Cubs look; the reality that Fenway (and particularly the Fenway press box) is about to be overrun by Japanese tourists and reporters…and the question of how, exactly, the Sox will cash in on extra revenue. Hint: It won't be through TV deals (which I think are worked out with MLB, meaning the Sox would only see 1/30 of that money) or through merch sales (ditto).
OK: I'm late for the Pru.
Post Categories: 2006 Hot Stove Season & Daisuke Matsuzaka & Larry Lucchino & Red Sox & Red Sox front office & Scott Boras & Theo Epstein


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HISTORY OF ASSOCIATIONS IN VIRGINIA
AS we have entered largely into the general history of the Baptists in this State, we must be the more brief and comprehensive in that of the Associations which it contains.
In the year 1772, the time in which Morgan Edwards�s MS. history of Virginia Baptists closes, there were but two Associations in the State, one of the Regulars and one of the Separates. The former was called Ketockton, and contained 14 churches; and the latter Rapid-ann, or the General Association of Separates, and contained 19. In both Associations there were 33, churches,32 ordained ministers, and 3,603 members.
In the year 1809, according to Semple�s History, there were fifteen Associations, wholly in the State of Virginia, and four others, of which a part of the churches were in Virginia, and a part in a number of the adjacent States; and in all these Associations there were 294 churches, about 18O ordained ministers, who were stationed pastors of churches, bedsides a large number who were not settled in the capacity of pastors, and 31,052 members or communicants; which makes the increase of Baptist communicants in this State, for 37 years, 27,449, besides many thousands who have removed to Kentucky and other parts of the western country.
Of the fifteen Associations which are wholly in Virginia, six lie north of James-river, viz. Ketockton, Culpepper, Albemarle, Goshen, Dover, and Accomack; six, south of James-river, viz. Portsmouth, Middle District, Meherrin, Appomattox, Roanoke, and Strawberry; and three west of the Alleghany mountains, viz. New-river, Greenbrier, andUnion. Those four, a part of which only lie inVirginia, areMayo,on the borders of Virginia,North-Carolina, and Tennessee; Holston, on the borders of Virginia and Tennessee; and Redstone, on the borders of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The Redstone, Greenbrier, and Union Associations proceeded in part, and the last of them indirectly, from the Ketockton Association; the history of which may be found in the account of the Regular Baptists. The Accomack Association was formed of the churches which were dismissed for the purpose, from the Salisbury Association in Maryland; the Portsmouth was formed by the division of the Kehukee Association of North-Carolina; and the remaining 13 all originated from the Separates, and comprehend the main body of the Baptists in Virginia.
It has already been related in the history of the General Association, that this extensive body, from motives of convenience, in 1783, divided into four district 1 Associations; two of which were on the north and two on the south side of James-river. The names of those on the north side of the river, were Dover and Orange; those on the south side, were called Middle District and Roanoke.
This division was at first, however, rather nominal than real; for although the two grand divisions acted in distinct capacities from the year 1783, yet it was not until the year 1788 that their subdivision was completely effected. These two great sections appear to have met together once a year, and the four districts besides had one session in a year by themselves, until 1788, when the lines were distinctly drawn, and the four Associations formally organized.
The Dover Association deserves first to be mentioned, as it is the largest body of Baptist communicants in America, and probably in any part of the world; although it contains but 37 churches, and but 24 ordained ministers, who are pastors of churches. This Association, in 1809, contained 9,628 members, many, and perhaps some thousands of whom, were Africans. The largest church in this body is called Nominy, in the county of Westmoreland, under the pastoral care of Rev. Henry Toler, and contained at the time above mentioned 875 members.
The Orange Association, in 1791, was divided into three, which were called Goshen, Albemarle, and Culpepper, so that the original name of the Association was lost.
The Middle District Association experienced a similar division, except that it retained its original name in 1803, when two new Associations were formed from it, which were named Meherrin, and Appomattox.
The Roanoke Association was divided in 1791, and a new Association by the name of Dan river was formed from it. But this new establishment was of short duration; for after two sessions, it declined its travel, and was reunited to its mother body. But in 1794, a more permanent division of this body was effected; and as many of the churches were in North-Carolina, they were all dismissed to form a new Association, which was called Flatriver, whose history will be related, when we come to the State in which it is situated.
The Strawberry Association is in the neighborhood of the mountains, near the southern line of the State. It was formed in 1776, seven years before the dissolution of the General Association, and appears to have been some of the early fruits of the Separate preachers, who went almost every where throughout the State, preaching the gospel. The first laborers within the bounds of this Association were the two Murphies, William and Joseph, Samuel Harris, and Dutton Lane. Several preachers were also raised up soon after the rise of the Baptists in these parts, the most distinguished and the most useful of whom was Robert Stockton, who, after laboring a few years with much success in these parts, removed to Kentucky, and is now one of the the principal ministers in the Green-river Association, in that State.
In 1793, the Strawberry Association was divided, the Blue Ridge became the dividing line; the churches, to the west of which, united under the name of the New-river Association. This appears to be the smallest Association in Virginia.
The Association was divided again in 1798, and the Mayo Association was taken from it, which is composed of churches partly in Virginia, and partly in North. Carolina.
The history of the Mountain and Holsten Associations will be given under the heads of North-Carolina and Tennessee, and that of the Portsmouth and Accomack, in treating of the respective Associations from which they proceeded. And the number and names of all the churches in all the Associations in Virginia, which have been described or mentioned, and also the names of their pastors, the years in which they were constituted, and the counties in which they are situated, may be seen in the table of Associations.


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Q: Odoo possibility to track changes on compute field I have model A with compute field b (it depends on field c and field d values).
b = fields.Float(compute='_compute_field')

My task is every month compare past and current month field b values and get differences. For example I want to compare 2018-04-01 field b value with 2018-05-01 field b value. Firstly I was thinking to store compute value in database. But the problem is that I can't do that (store=True) because if I store field b value in database I always got 0 value on field b.
What can be other alternatives to track or store compute field values that I can compare the differences depend on time (date).

A: If you want to compare the values month per month I would run an automated (scheduled) task every month. Then, I would create a new record with the new value for the field b in the task method. So you would have a history of values in this way, one a month.
Therefore, my recommendation is that you should create a normal field without the compute attribute:
b = fields.Float()


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Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (* 21. Februar 1961 in Siegsdorf) ist ein in den Vereinigten Staaten wegen Mordes verurteilter und inhaftierter deutscher Hochstapler, der als Clark Rockefeller bekannt wurde.

Leben
1978 reiste der damals siebzehnjährige Christian Gerhartsreiter, offenbar mit dem Plan, Schauspieler zu werden, in die Vereinigten Staaten ein. Der Einreisebehörde gab er eine Einladung durch das Ehepaar Elmer und Jean Kelln vor. Die Kellns, ein Zahnarzt aus Kalifornien und seine Frau, hatte er im gleichen Jahr auf ihrer Deutschlandreise kennengelernt. Als vermeintlicher Austauschstudent und Sohn reicher deutscher Eltern fand er in Berlin (Connecticut) Aufnahme bei den Eheleuten Savio und besuchte 1979 die dortige Highschool. 1980 meldete er sich erstmals wieder bei seinen Eltern. Dem Vater Simon Gerhartsreiter, von Beruf Maler, und der Mutter Irmgard, einer Schneiderin, teilte er seine Namensänderung (Christopher Chichester) mit. Als die Savios ihn vor die Türe setzten, machte er sich seinem ursprünglichen Plan gemäß auf in Richtung Hollywood. Er schrieb sich zunächst an der Universität von Wisconsin-Milwaukee ein und nannte sich Chris Gerhart.

Um eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis für die USA zu erlangen, heiratete er 1981 Amy Jersild Duhnke in Madison (Wisconsin). Die damals 22-jährige Duhnke ließ sich zur Hochzeit bewegen, da ihm angeblich ansonsten eine Zwangsrekrutierung durch die Bundeswehr und ein Fronteinsatz im Kalten Krieg drohe. Sie reichte 1992 die Scheidung ein und gab an, dass er sie bereits am Tag nach der Hochzeit verlassen habe.

In den frühen achtziger Jahren bewohnte er das Gartenhaus der Familie Sohus (Ruth, genannt "Didi" Sohus, deren Adoptivsohn John Sohus und dessen Gattin Linda) in San Marino, einem Vorort von Los Angeles. Hier nannte er sich Chris Chichester und gab sich als Filmstudent aus.
1985 verschwanden John und Linda und anschließend Gerhartsreiter/Chichester spurlos vom Anwesen.

Weitere Aliase folgten. In den späteren achtziger Jahren arbeitete er unter dem Namen Christopher Crowe als Börsenmakler in New York. Als Clark Rockefeller habe ihn nach eigener Aussage schließlich ein inzwischen verstorbener Patenonkel identifiziert.

1994 heiratete er unter diesem Namen Sandra Boss, eine vermögende Harvard-Absolventin, die als Partnerin bei McKinsey um die 1,4 Millionen US-Dollar jährlich verdiente. Boss ließ sich 2007 von ihm scheiden, da er ihr die Auskunft über seine wahre Identität verweigerte. Durch die Scheidung verlor er das Sorgerecht für seine Tochter aus dieser Ehe, die er daraufhin kidnappte. Es kam zu einer Anklage und einer Verurteilung zu einer mehrjährigen Gefängnisstrafe. Im Prozessverlauf wurden verschiedene Aliase des "falschen Rockefellers" aufgedeckt.

Im März 2011 wurde der inzwischen Inhaftierte darüber hinaus angeklagt, 1985 John Sohus, den Adoptivsohn seiner damaligen Wohnungsvermieterin Ruth Sohus, ermordet zu haben. Sohus Leichnam, der erst 2010 per DNA-Analyse zweifelsfrei identifiziert werden konnte, war bereits 1994 bei Grabungsarbeiten im Garten des ehemaligen Wohnsitzes der Familie in San Marino entdeckt worden. Da die damalige DNA-Methodik keine Identifizierung erlaubte, galt Sohus bis 2010 offiziell als verschollen. Weiterhin fehlt jede Spur von seiner Ehefrau Linda Sohus, die von Gerhartsreiters Verteidigung als mögliche Täterin dargestellt wurde. Der Prozess begann im März 2013; am 10. April wurde Gerhartsreiter des Mordes an John Sohus für schuldig befunden. Die Verteidigung kündigte ein Revisionsverfahren an. Im August 2013 wurde das Strafmaß mit 27 Jahren bis lebenslänglich festgesetzt. Das Revisionsverfahren wurde am 23. Oktober 2015 mit leichten Verringerungen des Strafmaßes abgeschlossen und führt in seinem Urteil auch die Indizien auf, die zu der ersten Verurteilung führten.

Sonstiges
Der auf seiner Lebensgeschichte beruhende Film Wer ist Clark Rockefeller? wurde 2010 mit Eric McCormack in der Hauptrolle und Sherry Stringfield als Sandra Boss verfilmt. Der amerikanische Journalist und Autor Mark Seal veröffentlichte 2011 über Gerhartsreiter das Buch The man in the rockefeller suit – the astonishing rise and spectacular fall of a serial imposter (dt. Buchtitel: Der Mann, der Rockefeller war: Aufstieg und Fall eines bayerischen Hochstaplers).

Literatur
 Walter Kirn: Blood will out: the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York 2013
 Blut will reden. Eine wahre Geschichte von Mord und Maskerade. Aus dem Englischen von Conny Lösch. Beck, München 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66768-8.

Film
 Wer ist Clark Rockefeller?, Fernsehfilm, 95 min, USA 2010
 Mein Freund Rockefeller, Dokumentation von Steffi Kammerer (2014, 87 Min.)

Weblinks

 Review of "Who is Clark Rockefeller?" The New York Times
 Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. Themenseite auf spiegel.online
 Ansgar Graw: Die groteske Geschichte des Wanna-be-Rockefellers Die Welt, 12. März 2013 (abgerufen am 16. März 2013)

Einzelnachweise

Hochstapler
Person (Mordfall)
Verurteilte Person
Deutscher
Geboren 1961
Mann


Not to be confused with Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain.
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (lit. The country in which the Ganges flows) is a 1960 Hindi film directed by Radhu Karmakar and produced by Raj Kapoor. The film stars Kapoor, Pran and Padmini in lead roles. This was the first directorial venture of Karmakar, who had previously been cinematographer for many of Kapoor's films. The film was declared a "hit" at Box Office India.
The team of Shankar Jaikishan composed the music for the film, which includes hit songs penned by Shailendra such as "O Basanti Pawan Pagal", "Aa Ab Lout Chalen" and the title song; "Hothon Pe Sacchai Rehti Hai".
Raju (Raj Kapoor) is a poor, friendly orphan who wins his bread by singing songs. One day, he sees an injured man and helps him. Later, he is kidnapped by a few bandits who mistake him to be an undercover policeman. It then turns out that the injured man he helped is the leader (Sardar) of this gang. The Sardar takes good care of Raju and treats him with honour. Sardar's daughter Kammo (Padmini) falls in love with Raju. Kammo and Sardar convince Raju that they are good bandits who are making sure that wealth is equally distributed amongst people.
On one of the lootings, Raju witnesses the murder of a newlywed couple. He decides to go to the police and leaves the gang. One of the bandits, Raka (Pran), kills the Sardar and takes over; he wishes to forcibly wed Kammo. When Raju tells all the truth to the police, they decide to confront and kill the bandits. Raj begs the police to not kill them but is shunned. Raju is then posed in a dilemma of what to do and finds himself helpless when he sees police stooping just as low to stop crime.
Composed by Shankar Jaikishan, the film has classic songs penned by Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri.
The film won many prestigious awards at National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards. The film stood out at the 9th Filmfare Awards function by winning the most (four) awards in various categories from eight nominations.
Best Male Playback for Mukesh for the song "Hothon Pe Sacchai Rehti Hai"
Best Lyricist for Shailendra for the song "Hothon Pe Sacchai Rehti Hai"
^ "Box office 1960". Boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
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Los Lobos tickets
By NewRider,
July 8, 2004 in Soundboard
NewRider
July 17th @ Harbourfront Center
is this show free or what?!?! Cant seem to find how to get tickets
Its listed under "Free Music".
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/summerfestivals/ritmo.php
Sweet! Los Lobos and Xavier Rudd the same night, you've got to like choices like that...
"Swallow this pill and within a half hour you'll be able to punch god right in the face."
Best signature ever!!! Where can I get it... and how soon???
that Flying Burrito Brothers dealy is the SAME night at the Toronto Star Blues Fest as well!!! Wow.. what a night for Toronto!
So it's actually free? For real? Also that Q & A with Steve Berlin at noon the same day sounds really interesting. I bet he has some amazing stories to tell, whether Dead stuff, or one-off stories about artist dirt, even stuff about the Hip (he produced Phantom Power if I'm not wrong).
yup - as far as i know its free
i'll definately be there, just waaaayy too much guitar taste factor in one place to miss it.
i'd suggest getting there early though....be nice to get some decent seats.
Awesome - I can't wait!!!
Anyone feel like giving me their opinion on the new album(other than TimmyB, who has already done so)? I haven't heard a single note...
(One catch, though - you have to actually have heard the album in order to review it...)
I've heard it a few times.
meaning I have it.
And... what do you think?
No no,I'm doing this sh!t again.
Well, is it better or worse than the 2nd Oysterhead album?
So, the plethora of guest artists doesn't make it seem a little like Supernatural? Timmy B says "no", but he's the only one I know that owns it. So it's worth the money, yes?
TimmyB
Unfortunately I'll be missing this gig but I have to make my choices especially when there are so many to make. Being such a big fan of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons and The Eagles, I'll be seeing Chris Hillman and Bernie Leadon do the tribute to Gram Parsons as the Burrito Brothers that night.
But like many bands that are soon coming to the area and I'm missing for somebody else at least I saw them recently at bonnaroo. Artists like Taj Mahal tonight where I'm seeing Eric Clapton and Robert Randolph and the Family Band at the HSBC Arena instead. Gomez where I'll be checking out the tour opener of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. And the aforementioned Los Lobos show. I really don't understand why some people don't want to go to bonnaroo each year. Even if you only go to the headlining sets and a a couple of other of your favorite artists you still get your moneys worth.
Like hanging on to taht sh!t eh? Must sad to be so bitter....
Its better then any phuckin Phish album thats for sure.
Hey Brian, I'll let you borrow it next time I see you. Are you going to the Jim Cuddy Band this weekend?
It is a good album, not their best, but still it is nothing like Santana's "Supernatural."
I the main difference between the two is that the though there were great guests on "Supernatural" like Eric Clapton and Dave Matthews, there were also terrible guests on it too, like Everlast and Rob Thomas.
Whereas all the guests on the Los Lobos album are fantastic. To name a few Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Mavis Staples and Bobby Womack.
My favorite tracks on the album are the classic Los Lobos track "Wicked Rain" combined with Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" featuring Womack! God I love that Womack song, it always reminds me of a Tarantino film, though I forget which one?
Also "Kitate" featuring Tom Waits and Martha Gonzales, in which Waits cowrites the song with Hidalgo and Perez.
Garth Hudson is also featured on three of the thirteen tracks though he doesn't get his name on the back of the album, I mean CD sleeve.
That would be "Jackie Brown", I believe.
It's rather likely that I will go to see Jim Cuddy tonight - see you there!
Cuddy is tomorrow hamilton, and if you still can make it then I'll definitely see you there. Call me and remind you to give you "The Ride"...of your life.


The first "shots" in our new civil war were fired after Charlottesville when many Democratic leaders claimed that they had the right to use physical force against anyone they didn't like.
While cowardly leftist leaders are trying to portray themselves as fighting Hitler they are really fighting anyone they don't agree with. Remember that some Democrats said that Rep. Steve Scalise had it coming since he opposed gun control and that Democrats have been silent when left-wing violence was used to prevent Republicans marching in a parade in Portland.
Facing a continued loss of power because their radical agenda is toxic to most Americans, the Democrat leadership — which includes the MSM — have decided that they have the right to physically attack anyone who stands in their way.
Like their Nazi and Communist forefathers, today's Democrat leaders are comfortable sending swarms of Brownshirts out to beat into submission anyone who stands between them and power.
Under Obama, Democrats renounced the rule of law by declaring that they could choose to not enforce laws they didn't like and make up laws that Congress never passed. Now they're saying that they have the right to attack anyone who dares speak out in disagreement. Rep. Scalise wasn't a Nazi or white nationalist, nor were the Republicans in Portland, or the speakers that Democrats forcibly prevented from speaking in Berkeley. Yet the Democratic leadership's condemnation of all of those events has been muted at best.
While the first American Civil War was fought to protect that particularly Democrat institution slavery, the new civil war Democrat elites are starting to wage is about transferring power from the people to the rich white oligarchs, judges, and government bureaucrats.
As then, Republicans stand for freedom and Democrats stand for slavery.
The Democratic elite has issued a call to war by supporting and endorsing violence against people who don't agree with them.
The left has gone from endorsing Nazis marching in a neighborhood full of Holocaust survivors to endorsing attacks on Nazis wherever they might appear. We all hate Nazis, but as Americans, Republicans believe in freedom of even odious speech, which is why we're not tearing down the statues of that mass murderer Lenin that exist in America or the statues of Democrat Robert Byrd, who was a senior official in the KKK.
The time for pretending that Democrat leadership is patriotic is over. It's time to shout from the rooftops that the Democratic leadership is a fascist cabal intent on overthrowing democracy.
It's unclear how many of those who voted for Hillary support the clear fascist policies of the Democratic party. We know that those people tend to be low-information voters who get their "news" from the MSM. Hence, they live in a bubble of lies which make Democrat policies look semi-reasonable.
Even intelligent people fall victim to the Democrat Big Lies. A liberal physicist, for example, was shocked to learn that Osama greenlighted 9/11 because Clinton's fleeing from Somalia taught Osama that Americans were cowards. He'd never heard that.
Similarly, today many Americans believe that Trump was defending Nazis because the MSM is lying about what he really said.
That's why we need to be careful and not condemn all Democrats; many of them are honestly unaware of the facts just as the citizens of Nazi Germany didn't have a clue about how WWII was actually progressing or how the citizens of North Korea thought for decades that though they were starving, they had it better than those poor capitalist South Koreans.
It's clear that not all of those who voted for Hillary were actually voting for her agenda of taking power from the people and giving it to the elites.
Unlike the average Hillary voter who never heard most of the negative news about her, the Democratic leadership has sinister motives. For decades, they've been waging war against America. It started with FDR, a big fan of fascist dictator Mussolini, who began moving this country down the path to socialism with his failed big government policies. Few people remember that those policies didn't work; it took WWII for the U.S. to recover economically from the Depression.
The next big step was disempowering Americans by giving near absolute power to the unelected Supreme Court. That court overthrew the laws of all 50 states by legalizing abortion for any reason at any time in pregnancy based on a "right to privacy" which is nowhere in the Constitution.
The Supreme Court also created numerous rights for criminals and redefined marriage over the votes of 55,000,000 Americans.
In parallel, the Democrats increased the power of unelected government bureaucrats to the point that they felt empowered to demand that Catholic nuns pay for abortions. To Democrats the 1st Amendment only applies to causes they, the Democrats, support.
Trump's election was a visceral scream from America saying that we want our power back. That we don't want to be ruled by pretentious, stupid, elitist fascists like Pelosi and the Clintons, or by RINOs whose first loyalty is to the state, not the people.
The Democratic leadership is now following Mao, who said that political power grows from the barrel of a gun, while Americans are being forced to defend the core American belief that power flows from the people.
Just as the original Democrats repudiated Lincoln for opposing slavery, modern Democratic leaders are repudiating his belief that the government is of the people, for the people, by the people.
The elite bicoastal ruling class is nearly all white and racist to the core, but they use lies about Republicans, spread by the fawning liberal media, to justify violence.
Today Democrats have crossed the Rubicon. By saying that it's okay for Antifa to shut down speakers they don't like and physically assault anyone they don't happen to agree with Democrats have renounced the rule of law and summoned the whirlwind of civil war.
Why have Democrats once again started a civil war to achieve their ends?
They thought they had everything sewed up. When Hillary won she'd pack the Supreme Court with fascists who believed that they could make up whatever laws they liked. Hillary would, like Obama, ignore the Constitution and further strengthen the administrative state while waging a war against non-Democratic whites and Asians and ensuring that Blacks stayed uneducated so they couldn't see how Democrats were exploiting them.
But contrary to their expectations, the American people said no. We don't want to be ruled, we want to be represented — which is why the Republican failure to get rid of ObamaCare is so offensive.
Even with the lying media spreading Democratic talking points 24/7 the majority of Americans want to be free, not enslaved — not told how much soda they can drink or what type of entertainment they can like — Democrats support violent misogynistic rap music while condemning Americans for liking NASCAR. The Democratic message calling on Americans to accept slavery because, according to Democrats, Americans can't manage their own lives — the same line Democrats used to justify slavery– can't win elections because American's aren't that stupid. As a result, the Democrat leadership has decided that their only way to power is violence.
If they can't win in the battlefield of ideas, they've decided that they need to silence, by the use of force, any voices they don't like.
The Democrat leaders have turned to the communists they so admire — remember Obama wishing he could rule like the dictator of China does? — and decided that what they can't win by the ballot they can win with the baseball bat.
Unless we all take a stand now, this spiral of violence initiated by Democrats will lead to a truly horrible future, just as the Democrat's violent defense of slavery was the cause of the greatest tragedy in American history. If Democrats had voluntarily abandoned slavery, we could have avoided America's most costly war. Instead we had to fight to end the scourge of slavery.
Contact the Republican leadership and make it clear that instead of condemning Trump for his stand against all violence, they need to attack the Democrat's support of violence.
There is still time to avoid a massive escalation of violence but if we fail to take a stand against the Democrat's use of force we will see our streets running with blood. We know Democrats don't care about that, because they don't care about the thousands of Blacks shot in Chicago each year, but we do because we care about all Americans.
Take action and pray that we are not forced to relive the Civil War in order to prevent Democrats from destroying our democracy.
RIGHT ANGLE: Hillary's Fall is Sexist!
(How can that possibly be? According to Obama this June, the economy under his benign guidance is doing great and the dastardly Republicans should stop claiming otherwise.
One day perhaps we will have a President who doesn't take every opportunity abroad to either apologize for America or denigrate Americans for a foreign audience. We've had to endure eight years now of President Barack Obama doing just that virtually every time he travels.
This time Obama is in Luang Prabang, Laos, where he lied to a group of young Asians at Souphanouvong University that when Americans are economically stressed, they tend to "turn on others who don't look like them" in order to cope with their struggles.
"That especially becomes a problem when the economy is not doing well, and so people feel stressed. Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don't look like them.
Nonsense. Why can't this hateful, anti-American racist just stay on the golf course and quit embarrassing us overseas?
Linda Sarsour – a well-trained grievance monger whose very livelihood is founded upon her ability to convince large numbers of people that they are victims of an irredeemably bigoted and oppressive American society. In short, she has a great deal in common with President Obama. No wonder she's always welcome at the White House.
Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American community activist who since 2005 has served as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), which views the U.S. as a nation awash in racism and Islamophobia. She is also a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, whose mission is to help elect as many Democrats as possible to political office.
An outspoken critic of Israel, Sarsour supports the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative that uses various forms of public protest, economic pressure, and court rulings to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently destroying Israel as a Jewish nation-state.
Falsely maintaining that "Palestine existed before the State of Israel," Sarsour seeks to help "bring back a Palestinian State for the Palestinian people." To advance this agenda, Sarsour has tweeted images of fraudulent maps claiming to depict the "Palestinian loss of land" that supposedly occurred between 1946 and 2000.
As the head of AAANY, Sarsour has played a central role in pressuring the New York Police Department to terminate its secret surveillance of Muslim mosques and organizations suspected of promoting extremism or terrorism, and to curtail its use of "stop-and-frisk" anti-crime measures. In 2011 she worked in conjuction with Communities United for Police Reform, a coalition to advance the passage of the Community Safety Act (which expanded the definition of bias-based profiling and created an independent inspector general to review police policy in New York City). Sarsour also succeeded in pressuring City Hall to close New York's public schools for the observance of the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
In a February 2015 appearance on Rachel Maddow's television program, Sarsour lamented that a nationwide epidemic of "Islamophobia" was responsible for "anti-sharia bills trying to ban us [Muslims] from practicing our faith," "mosques being vandalized," and Muslim "kids being executed" in the United States.
In August 2015 Sarsour spoke out in support of the incarcerated Palestinian Islamic Jihad member Muhammad Allan, a known recruiter of suicide bombers.
According to CounterJihad.com, Sarsour "has attended numerous rallies sponsored by Al-Awda, promoted and solicited donations for their events, and … spoken at their rallies. Sarsour has also solicited donations for the Hamas-affiliated Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
In the aftermath of an August 2014 incident where a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri had shot and killed a violent black criminal named Michael Brown, Sarsour co-founded Muslims for Ferguson, to draw a parallel between the respective forms of oppression allegedly suffered by black and Muslim Americans.
In October 2011, Sarsour, who holds free-market economics in low regard, expressed, on behalf of "Muslim New Yorkers," "solidarity and support" for the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2011 as well, the Obama Administration honored Sarsour as a "champion of change." Thus far, she has visited the Obama White House on seven different occasions.
This, then, is Linda Sarsour – a well-trained grievance monger whose very livelihood is founded upon her ability to convince large numbers of people that they are victims of an irredeemably bigoted and oppressive American society. In short, she has a great deal in common with President Obama. No wonder she's always welcome at the White House.
CLEVELAND — In what is becoming a depressingly regular occurrence in the Obama era, police officers were murdered by a black militant in a shootout in Baton Rouge on Sunday, apparently in revenge for the recent police-involved death of black career criminal Alton Sterling outside a Baton Rouge food store.
At time of writing, three police officers had succumbed to the injuries they suffered in Louisiana's capital city. Another three were wounded.
Of course, murdering police officers has long been encouraged by activists with the Marxist, anti-American, revolutionary Black Lives Matter cult, with the support of the activist Left and financing from speculator George Soros. A year ago Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who openly advocates the mass murder of whites, called for "10,000 fearless men" to "rise up and kill those who kill us." Like many radicals, Farrakhan mischaracterizes Black Lives Matter as a rising civil rights movement.
President Barack Hussein Obama, who a decade ago promoted inter-racial warfare in Kenya, has long tried to provoke civil unrest here in the U.S. with his hateful anti-cop rhetoric and his relentless demonization of opponents. His goal is fundamental transformation of the United States. A Red diaper baby who identifies violence-espousing communist Frantz Fanon as an intellectual influence, he has also steadfastly refused to condemn Black Lives Matter. In fact Obama has lavished attention on the movement's leaders and invited them to the White House over and over again.
The Baton Rouge attack came 10 days after a black militant murdered five Dallas area police officers, the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.
A few days later Obama flew to Dallas and attended a memorial service at which he lectured the dead officers' relatives about how racist and brutal police officers are. The very next day Obama hosted leaders of Black Lives Matter, whose members urge the murder of cops, at the White House.
The Baton Rouge attack came 12 days after local police killed homeless recidivist Sterling during an altercation. Sterling, who had reportedly threatened a passer-by with a gun, violently resisted arrest and tried to grab a policeman's gun.
The shooter in Baton Rouge was killed by police following an exchange of gunfire outside a fitness center. He has been identified as Gavin Eugene Long, who claimed to have been a member of Nation of Islam. He also reportedly turned 29 yesterday.
Long was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marines in 2010. A fervent racist, he ranted against "crackers," the Daily Caller reports.
Long, who also used the name Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, talked about the Dallas massacre and recent police shootings of black men in social media posts, according to Heavy. "Violence is not THE answer (its [sic] a answer), but at what point do you stand up so that your people dont [sic] become the Native Americans…EXTINCT?," he tweeted July 13.
Referring to the death of Alton Sterling, he said, "If I would have been there with Alton — clap," Long said in a July 14 video. In the video he also discussed black liberation theology and said he wrote a book.
"I wrote it for my dark-skinned brothers," he said of the book.
In another video, Long justified his fellow ex-soldier and black militant Micah X. Johnson's killing of cops in Dallas. "It's justice, you know what I'm saying," Long said.
The officers Long killed are Brad Garafola, 45, Matthew Gerald, 41, and Montrell Jackson, 32.
Jackson, a black man, had poignantly sounded a note of despair in a Facebook post July 8, three days after Sterling's death at the hands of police and as racial tensions ramped up in Baton Rouge and across the nation.
President Obama commented on the killings but he seemed strange, playing against type. He sounded like a president who actually cared about his countrymen.
Finally Obama sounded kind of presidential. But anyone who follows Obama knows it won't last. He'll undercut these remarks with cheap agitprop soon as he lectures Americans and especially cops on how racist they are.
Oh wait! He already did.
Breitbart reported yesterday that the Obama White House formally denied a petition with 141,444 signatures gathered in just 10 days to "formally recognize Black Lives Matter as a terrorist organization," a designation this writer proposed in a recent FrontPage article.
The government doesn't designate domestic terrorist organizations, was the official weaselly reply from those who process the petitions.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wasted no time correctly blaming Obama for the climate of racial hatred and violence.
We can only hope President Obama will have the basic personal decency to stay away from memorial services for the slain Baton Rouge officers. They don't need our Marxist president rubbing more of his cop-hating filth in their faces.
But no one has ever accused Obama of putting decency above politics.
Meanwhile, Obama's ideological soulmates from Black Lives Matter showed up at a protest in Cleveland on Saturday near the Republican National Convention that officially convenes today.
Black militancy will play a huge role at the Democrats' nominating convention that starts a week from today in Philadelphia. It will reportedly be headlined by the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown (respectively, Sybrina Fulton and Lezley McSpadden), two young black thugs killed by white men in self-defense.
This makes sense. After all, the Democratic National Committee has expressly endorsed Black Lives Matter.


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9С19 «Імбір» (за класифікацією НАТО — High Screen) — радянська та російська самохідна радіолокаційна станція секторного огляду зі складу ЗРС С-300В.

Історія створення
Розробку радіолокаційної станції (РЛС) 9С19 було розпочато 4 лютого 1975 року за постановою ЦК КПРС та Ради міністрів СРСР. Основним призначенням зенітно-ракетного комплексу С-300В була протиракетна оборона, тому до складу системи була введена РЛС здатна отримувати інформацію про балістичні траси у високому темпі. РЛС розроблялася на найсучаснішій радянській елементарній базі в московському НДЕМІ під керівництвом заступника головного конструктора В. П. Нечаєва у відділі 13. В основу принципів роботи РЛС було взято весь досвід, який був застосований раніше при створенні станції радіолокації "Шпага ". Через те, що роботи над РЛС 9С19 почалися, тоді як більшість складових частин С-300В вже проходили полігонні випробування, було встановлено жорсткі рамки за часом розробки. На швидкість виконання завдання вплинула уніфікація приладового складу 9С19 із багатоканальною станцією наведення ракет 9С32 та ЗРК 9К330 «Тор».

До січня 1983 року було виготовлено та доставлено на полігон дослідний зразок 9С19. А з лютого розпочалися випробування. Випробування проходили на Ембінському полігоні протягом кількох років. Умови випробувань були максимально наближені до бойових. За підсумками випробувань було підтверджено високі тактико-технічні вимоги, задані Міністерством оборони СРСР. У 1988 році станція радіолокації «Імбір» пройшла державні випробування в складі системи С-300В і була прийнята на озброєння.

Опис конструкції
9С19 «Імбір» є трикоординатною когерентно-імпульсною станцією радіолокації, володіє високою пропускною здатністю і працює в сантиметровому діапазоні електромагнітних хвиль. Для швидкого аналізу секторів вказівки, що надходять з командного пункту 9С457, в процесі регулярного сканування місцевості використовувалося електронне управління променем. Програмно забезпечено три режими роботи РЛС.

Перший режим призначений для виявлення та супроводу балістичних ракет типу "Першинг ". У цьому режимі забезпечена зона огляду на кутах від -45 ° до +45 ° по азимуту, по куту місця — від +26 ° до +75 °, при цьому дальність виявлення становить від 75 до 175 км. Огляд сектора пошуку займає від 12,5 до 14 секунд при максимальній кількості трас — 16. Кожну секунду отримані координати та параметри руху захопленої цілі передаються на командний пункт 9С457.

Другий режим роботи застосовується для виявлення та супроводу авіаційних балістичних та крилатих ракет з балістичним стартом. У цьому режимі забезпечена зона огляду на кутах від -30 ° до +30 ° по азимуту, по кутку місця — від +9 ° до +50 °, при цьому дальність виявлення становить від 20 до 175 км. Кожні 0,5 секунд отримані координати і параметри руху захопленої мети передаються на командний пункт 9С457.

Третій режим роботи застосовується для виявлення та супроводу аеродинамічних цілей, крім того, передбачено виявлення постановників перешкод на відстанях до 100 км. У цьому режимі забезпечена зона огляду на кутах від −30° до +30° по азимуту, кутом місця — від 0° до +50°, при цьому дальність виявлення становить від 20 до 175 км. Кожні 0,5 секунд отримані координати і параметри руху захопленої цілі передаються на командний пункт 9С457.

Ходова частина
Всі засоби станції радіолокації 9С19 встановлені на спеціальне гусеничне шасі, що має індекс ДБТУ — «Об'єкт 832». Шасі розроблено в конструкторському бюро Ленінградського заводу імені Кірова. В основі конструкції лежить шасі самохідної гармати 2С7 «Піон». Змінено положення моторно-трансмісійного відділення (перенесено в кормову частину машини), вузли та агрегати шасі окремими вузлами уніфіковані з танками Т-72 і Т-80.

Модифікації

 9С19 — РЛС ЗРС С-300В.
 9С19М — РЛС ЗРС С-300ВМ.
 9С19М2 — модернізована РЛС ЗРС С-300В. Враховані зауваження під час роботи з базовим варіантом. Надійшла на озброєння у 1995 році.

Експлуатація
4 серпня 2022 українські війська вполювали 4 зенітно-ракетні системи С-300 та радіолокаційну станцію "Імбир".

Примітки

Література

Бронетехніка СРСР
Радіолокаційні станції
Зенітно-ракетні комплекси Росії


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folk/roots, reviews 21 August 2020 21 August 2020
During last month's installment of our recurring Snappy Singles feature, we introduced "Never Love Another," the latest single at the time from the recently formed duo, Summersets. And while the name may be unfamiliar, this duo are no strangers to the Ontario music scene. Comprised of popular Ottawa-based (and JUNO Award nominated) singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson and North Bay artist/friend Andrew Sowka (Faraway Neighbours), it was pure luck that brought both musicians together in Sault Ste. Marie back in 2014 – a fruitful musical journey that culminates today in the release of their highly anticipated debut EP, "Small Town Saturday."
"The whole Summersets project came from a place of desperation and inspiration," admits Mattson. "After my last solo album, I felt so beaten down by the music industry, but once Andrew and I began writing and singing these songs together I was energized by the process, making music was fun again." Entrusting the production duties to acclaimed musician/engineer Jim Bryson (Evangeline Gentle, Kathleen Edwards), the trio quickly conceptualized and recorded the sound for this new project, each song taking no longer than a couple of days to finish. "When we started this project we had no idea we would be releasing this EP under so many bizarre circumstances," shares Mattson. "Quarantine shaped a lot of our creative decisions." "We were trying not to overthink anything," adds Sowka. "Just trying to chase a warm, lush production, and taking a page or two from the late-60s early-70s singer-songwriters we really love."
The six tracks on "Small Town Saturday" play out like a series of vignettes, each one exploring a different moment in the two characters small-town world and relationship. This is soft, mellow, acoustic folk music at its finest, as detected immediately from the opening track (and current single) "Fake Flowers." Commencing with some light guitar riffs to establish the tone, you soon discover the dual vocal harmonies that effortlessly characterize the dynamic being offered by two good friends and collaborators. "Summer sets on us / As our youth turns into dust / Now all I'm thinking of / Is to lose always to love?" the duo recite, "Small town Saturday / When I first saw your face / But who were we to know? / How a heart follows a ghost … / Summer sets on us / As our youth turns into dust."
Comparisons will naturally be drawn to the sounds of yesteryear, even if you happened to skip the part where Andrew dropped hints about seeking that late-60s early 70s sound. By the time I arrive at the second track, "Anywhere You Go," my mind is reeling from thoughts of The Association, Bread, and Simon & Garfunkel. Add a splash of modern day Andy Shauf, and you'll see the picture being painted here. "If we never come back home / I'll follow you anywhere you go / From Montreal down to Mexico / I'll follow you anywhere you go / I'll follow you anywhere you go," deliver the duo, accompanied by a slight galloping drum rhythm that provides a heartwarming blanket in which you can easily lose yourself, recapturing perhaps your own memories of life, love and adolescence. "Oh, we could be anybody / Oh, an old car, a little money / Oh, it doesn't matter, I swear / Anywhere I don't care."
"Never Love Another" remains as powerful here today as it did last month during my previous review, and is clearly the anchor track that holds these vignettes together; yet I find myself curiously drawn to the breezy acoustic guitar intro of "More Less," and the pure nostalgic sounds that follow (striking similarities to the namesakes listed earlier). I can't be the only one hearing "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard" here, surely? "Somewhere there's a siren ringing / In the middle of my hometown / A runaway from words I'm singing / The more I try it the less I'm down / The more I try it the less I'm down," are the catchy lines delivered with that slight calypso, up-tempo beat. "Some night when I remember / The two of us way back when / Cigarettes and soft September's / The more beginning the less we end / The more beginning the less we end." I must confess that I listened to this track from beginning to end much more than just once – how about you?
"Small Town Saturday" is a thoroughly delightful debut from Summersets, who are already dropping hints of possibly more to come. Take your time to really, really listen to this one; only then will you fully appreciate the small town life stories that are playing out when you do. Highly recommended.
Visit Summersets on Bandcamp.
Photo Credit: Brittany Lucas
The British guy that crossed the ocean and crash landed in central Pennsylvania (to quote Greg Keelor, "And I wonder what am I doing here?"). As the youngest of four siblings, exposure to music from a very early age nurtured my passion and appreciation for many musical genres. Continuing to discover some amazingly diverse and talented musicians based in Canada, I gravitate to live music experiences and remain devoted to spreading the word about such a vibrant music scene.
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Sorry, Trump: Jared Kushner's brother makes yuge donation to 'March For Our Lives'
Family dinners just got a lot more awkward.
By Marcus Gilmer on March 12, 2018
Yes, the nametag looks like it says "Kush." Credit: FLICKR/DOMINIQUE A. PINEIRO
Proving that no family is immune to political arguments over dinner, Joshua Kushner -- yes, brother of Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner -- has reportedly donated $50,000 to the upcoming "March For Our Lives(Opens in a new window)."
This is happening just as the Trump administration is moving forward with a plan for more guns in school. The tidbit came in Mike Allen's Sunday newsletter over at Axios(Opens in a new window), which read:
Josh Kushner — a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who founded Thrive Capital, a venture capital firm; Oscar, a health insurance company; and Cadre, a real estate investment platform (and brother of Jared) — has quietly donated $50,000 to March for Our Lives.
The upcoming march, happening in Washington, D.C. and dozens of other locations around the country on March 24, was spearheaded by students(Opens in a new window) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida after the deadly February 14 shooting that killed 17 students and staff.
As for Joshua Kushner, it's hardly the first time he's supported something that probably drives his in-laws crazy.
As Jezebel notes(Opens in a new window), Oscar Health has been involved in expanded Obamacare enrollment(Opens in a new window) and Joshua has given money(Opens in a new window) to pro-Democrat fundraising site ActBlue and Democratic candidates(Opens in a new window) like Sen. Cory Booker (NJ).
Meanwhile, on Sunday evening, the Trump administration announced a basic outline(Opens in a new window) for preventing further mass shootings in school, the thrust of which apparently is "more guns," as it included funding for training armed teachers.
While the brother vs. brother scenario is pretty tame in the larger context of the Kushner family drama(Opens in a new window), it still probably makes for an awkward moment around the White House dinner table when someone asks, "So, Jared, how's your brother?"
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


There's nothing titchy about our lake. At 64km long and 12km wide, Lake Constance is one of the largest in Central Europe, covering an area of 536 square metres. And in the past few weeks it's been getting bigger and bigger – the water level is over a metre higher than average for this time of year.
Above is one of the car ferries, which takes just under an hour to get from Romanshorn on the Swiss side to Friedreichshafen on the oppposite bank in Germany.
On the right is is the floods marker in Rorschach, just up the lake from us – you can see the mark for 1999 third up on the right. I don't think we'll have flooding this year, unless we have a spectacularly bad summer, but the current high levels make for interesting viewing.
Half the population of our town, Arbon, can be met at any one time down at the harbour, peering at this graph, which is updated daily. The black line is the average level, which increases from end May onwards due to the snow in the mountains melting and coming down; the blue one is 1999, when we had serious flooding. The red is this year's. Lots of water.
To finish off, one of the best photos I've ever seen of our lake. I just hope we eventually get some sunshine to enjoy it this summer!
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