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Q: CKEditor on ASP.NET MVC - how to edit a document I have found a lot of tutorials on how to setup CKEditor on ASP.NET MVC, but they were mostly focused on how to create documents. I need not only to create, but to edit documents as well.
I use a basic razor action to create a textarea,
@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Description)

and basic javascript to setup the editor.
CKEDITOR.replace('Description', {
        language: 'cs'
    });

However, my editor loads blank. Always, even if model.Description contains already some  text. Add the setData function only made the Rich text editor disappear and loaded the textarea with HTML (escaped, as I checked in the source). My questions are:

*

*How can I set the text to edit in the editor?

*Isn't there a more effective way or e better editor to handle this?

A: You don't need #. Do you use jquery? Try this:
$(document).ready(function() {
    // Get the description element to check it exists and that it has a value
    var d = $('#Description');
    alert(d.val(););

    // Create the editor
    CKEDITOR.replace('Description', {
        language: 'en'
    });
});

If you don't use jquery, try this:
function replaceCke(){
    // Get the description element to check it exists and that it has a value
    var d = document.getElementById("Description");
    alert(d.value);

    // Create the editor
    CKEDITOR.replace('Description', {
        language: 'en'
    });
}

if(window.addEventListener) {
    window.addEventListener('load', replaceCke, false);
} else {
    window.attachEvent('onload', replaceCke);
}

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HBO cues "Portraits of Resilience" for 9/11
HBO is lining up a slate of programming to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, including Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, a doc which promises to highlight "transcendent stories of courage, survival and remembrance."
By Adam Benzine
HBO is lining up a slate of programming to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, including Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, a doc which promises to highlight "transcendent stories of courage, survival and remembrance."
The film will debut on September 11 at 8:46 a.m. EST – 10 years to the minute that the first plane hit World Trade Center One – and is a presentation in association with TIME Magazine.
In addition, HBO will screen encore presentations of a number of 9/11 titles, including Nine Innings from Ground Zero, a sports documentary looking at the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks, which took place a month after the attacks.
The documentary looks at how the game proved pivotal in helping the city return to a sense of normalcy and features interviews with players, fans, former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, President George W. Bush, and managers Joe Torre, Bobby Valentine and Bob Brenly. The doc premieres September 10 at 8 a.m. EST.
Elsewhere, the documentary In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01, promises a panoramic record of the events of that day, featuring Giuliani as guide.
Made with a personal collection of video and still photography shot by New York City residents, it follows the mayor and his staff "from their first realization of what had occurred, through smoke and fire, rescue and recovery, and despair and tears to a newfound strength that would emerge in the spirit of a new America."
It airs on September 11 at 7:15 a.m. EST. Finally, Telling Nicholas looks at 9/11 through the eyes of seven-year-old Nicholas, whose mother, Michele, worked in the World Trade Center.
The film uses footage shot through apartment windows blocks from the World Trade Center, as well as interviews with Nicholas and his family, as they reluctantly come to terms with Michele's death and struggle to break the news to Nicholas.
It airs on September 11 at 10:30 a.m. EST on the HBO Signature channel.
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He was the back-up Astronaut for the NASA / Russian Soyuz TMA-13 flight to the International Space Station in 2008. He currently remains in mission allocation status for a future flight to Earth's only manned outpost in orbitm - the International Space Station with the Russian Federation.


I'm just thinking about why we normally like to put out our hands when it's raining. I always find it bizarre, and I don't know if everyone feels it but I know I just instinctively feel like I should hold my hand out whenever I see rain.
I guess it's the nice feeling of rain in my hands, as they say water means life - as trees, plants, and crops grow. Perhaps that's why? I like hearing the sound of rain drops so maybe it's because we each just feel and know that water will mean more life in our world. One could say the same with the sun being out.


Sound is a great part of a project to add production value because it adds so much towards the audience's perception of "quality" but does so in ways that the audience doesn't consciously notice. In contrast, sound problems are among the easiest issues for the general population to identify.
When Andrew McMunnigall, Senior Policy Officer at the NSW Government's Department of Trade & Investment came to us recently with a request to add production value to an existing video, we knew immediately that sound would play a big part in that process.
The original video was produced by the Department's internal communications team and was built around interviews they had shot.
Our main direction from the client was that they were keen to use the existing selections from the interviews. Beyond this we were given a lot of freedom with how to enhance the message.
With a new script to shift the emphasis of the video from basically "great lifestyle and work opportunities as well" to "great work opportunities and a lifestyle to match" we had to re record a new V/O.
To make sure that the voice over would really cut through with clarity in any viewing environment we wanted to be able to push both the EQ and compression.
Because of this, we chose to record using a Rode NT1A mic which has an extremely low internal noise level. This translates into being able to push the compressor and the top end of the EQ a very long way without having any limitations from microphone noise.
For the same reasons we ran the NT1A into an R16 multitrack recorder. The R16 has a fully integrated mixer with it's own internal mic preamps and, perhaps most importantly, 24 bit resolution for the recordings and all of this helps maintain the very clean signal from the NT1A in it's pristine state.
This recording chain avoided many things that can add beautiful character to a recording such as tube preamps etc. but because the first priority was clarity it made more sense to add a bit of colour and warmth to the whole mix at the end of the process- but more on that later.
We've been using Rode mic's for years and have several. Rode design and build their microphones in Sydney and we were very pleased to hear that they were recently named Australian Manufacturing Exporter of The Year.
As is our standard practice, we took an XML out of FCP and built the mix in the box with Logic Pro 9. In Logic it was easy to go in and edit out each breath and tweak any edits, usually with very short fades (less than a second) at the start and finish of each phrase. This was important because those breaths and edits would be grabbed by the compressor and become far more audible than they seemed.
We chose a ClassA-R compressor to start the process of adding some warmth while maintaining clarity. The comp settings we ended up with were aggressive to say the least, a threshold of -38.5dB, zero milliseconds Attack Time and a Ratio of 10:1. Even so there was no noise creeping into the sound.
On Logic's Channel EQ we boosted 3400 Hz by 12 dB and 13 kHz by 8.5 dB while pulling back 500 Hz by 4.5 dB and 80 Hz down 9.5 dB. This lightness on the bottom end was both for clarity and separation from the music's strong bass frequencies.
On the Channel EQ in Logic it defaults to having the Q factor linked to Gain, so that the further you push a band the narrower the frequency range becomes.
For film & tv style mixing switching this off makes the EQ behave much more like what we expect, with large gentle ranges of frequencies controlled by each band. It's important to switch this feature off before making any tweaks because if you switch it off later, any EQ'ing you've already done will still retain their narrow bands.
As you would expect we put the EQ after the Compressor on the channel strip allowing it to function on top of the work the comp was already doing and preventing the compressor "biting" at the boosted frequencies.
The interview audio also travelled across from the edit with the XML, which is great because it references the original files making it easy to do tweaks to the in and out points that are well under one frame. These sub-frame edits are really useful for getting the cleanest possible sound and again we added very short fades to the beginning & end of each phrase for more smoothness.
The interviews were shot on a DSLR and the audio was recorded from a lapel mic to an external recorder so the sound quality was solid. The audio was synced to the vision and exported as ProRes 422 before it was delivered to us, so the workflow was also very easy.
The nature of interviews demands a more natural sound than voice over in order to fit with the image of the actual person so we used a lot less compression and set this for each different interview subject. The Threshold ranged from around -12 to -18 dB and the Ratio from 1.5:1 to 6:1.
On the EQ front it was similar choices to the V/O but to a lesser extent with the frequency Gain up or down and tailored to the character of each subject's voice.
The volume automation from Final Cut travelled across in the XML and became our starting point for the music mix in Logic. Riding the level of the music throughout to fine tune the balance around the voices and the changes in the music itself gave us a complete pass of Music & Voice mix.
This voice & music mix would often become the final mix but there is so much more potential to add to a project with sound effect and ambience.
This is a fine line. FX & Atmos adds a lot of subconscious value to a mix but have to be handled very carefully so that they don't overpower or conflict with the crucial voice & music elements. The most important element in making this high-wire act work is the EQ.
As we've been building more and more layers of FX & Atmos into our mixes, we've been needing to develop a more efficient way of handling the EQ of all of those elements in order to meet the tight deadlines that are a constant reality.
One day, DAW software will allow you to also add plugins directly to a clip, the way that video editing apps do. At the moment they are still seem to be tied to something that mirrors the physicality of a hardware based studio which is all about the sound flowing through the system and getting affected on it's way.
So we're working with a system that is allowing us to add unique EQ to a large number of very different sounds quickly and efficiently and at the same time create an environment where the final mix is happening from a manageable number of tracks.
All of the Atmos & FX elements arrive either with the XML or directly into Logic onto PreMix tracks with the automation turned off. This allows us to tweak the EQ in realtime while the clip is playing to quickly find the right sound and then we use the Bounce Regions function to "record" this down to one of our actual FX or BG tracks. At the same time we could also set an approximate level for that sound.
One other advantage of this is that once the settings are right the act of bouncing the clip instantly applies that EQ to the whole clip. If we were writing automation, we would have to find the settings and then go back and write them to that section of the track.
Compared to having each element on it's own track this also makes for a much more manageable final mix and therefore a faster road to the end result. If we need to ride the EQ, that can easily be done with automation on the FX & BG tracks in the final mix but the vast majority of the sounds are sitting neatly into the space as we begin the final mix phase.
We ended up with 361 elements in the mix for this project and yet we came down to a very workable 6 tracks of Atmos and 8 tracks of FX to go with the voice & music tracks.
The clips on the PreMix tracks were all set to Mute during the bounce and then those tracks were hidden before the final mix. The beauty of this is that even though they were out of sight, on those odd occasions when we needed to re-do the EQ rather than tweak on top of what we'd already done, it was still easily to access the original file and re-bounce as required.
While this may seem slower than simply adjusting an EQ automation pass, the amount of time we saved on this project well and truly balanced out those few occasions when it was necessary to go back and re-do the EQ pre-mix.
The final mix then began with all of the elements in place, mostly with their final EQ and compression and their base volume level set. So the mixing stage becomes what it really should be… a subtle, moment by moment balancing of all of the elements in a fast and intuitive process.
For the final mix I like to start with all of the mixer channels set to quite a low baseline, usually -12 dB, because this gives a much better balance between room to pull back and room to momentarily push channels up on the control surface. The beauty of mixing digitally in the box is that there's no quality or noise penalty for working this way.
The concept of Mastering sound as a separate process to the mixing is a little alien to the film & tv world but very much standard practice in the music world.
The thing that's brought it into our workflow is a very beautiful bit of software called Mixbus. While Mixbus is a full Digital Audio Workstation itself there are still a few limitations stopping us from using it for full mixing, most notably the limited control surface support and tricky handling of video playback.
However Mixbus does have one feature that is irresistible and that's the sound. Mixbus is a product of Harrison Consoles who make some of the biggest and best mixing desks in the world including the 384 channel mixer in the Alfred Hitchcock Theatre at Universal Studios.
These desks are in fact Consoles rather than Control Surfaces in that the audio travels through the system rather than the desk simply sending control messages to the DAW. Because of this they actually affect the quality of the sound passing through them, in the case of Harrison desks very positively.
When Harrison started producing fully digital consoles their engineers had to work out how to replicate the aspects of the signature sound of their analogue consoles in the digital world. The exact way that they did this is one of the great secrets of the audio world because it worked so successfully.
So when Harrison put the same processing knowledge into software form as Mixbus it was very exciting. The good news is that while it still has the limitations I've mentioned, the sound is there and it's quite simply wonderful.
We've tested a lot of different plugins, including some really nice vintage compressors & EQ's but there is something quite unique about the big, warm Harrison sound and it's amazing to have it on your desktop.
So our current workflow is to finish our mixes in Logic as if that was the final version. We've found that if the mix is spot on then it sounds better after passing through Mixbus but flaws in the mix are often more noticeable because of the extra clarity in the Harrison master channel compressor.
We Bounce the finished mix to a 24 bit Wave and then bring it into Mixbus. I've done some tests with taking the submixes into Mixbus and letting it do the summing and while there is a payoff with this when we have time, just taking the full mix in has such a dramatic effect of the quality we're generally doing that at the moment.
In Mixbus there is a dynamics processor and EQ on every channel strip and then a few extra controls on the Master Channel. These closely mirror the controls on the big Harrison consoles both in look and function. I like the philosophy of having the EQ and dynamics built into every track because they are such fundamental tools for shaping sound that you really need to have them available on every element of a mix.
For our current purposes though, we're simply relying on the Master Channel to add a little bit of overall compression and the tiniest bit of boost to the mids or top end on the EQ. What we're getting though is mainly the flavour of the virtual console.
I'm always a little skeptical about how much these ideas can actually improve a sound or picture. It's like making digital footage look like film. It's very easy to make digital footage look like bad film, just add tons of dust and scratches, crush the shadows and turn the saturation up too much. Make it look like really good film? Very complex.
So when we started testing Mixbus I took a mix we were already very happy with through the process and put both the Logic only and the Logic+Mixbus versions on the timeline in FCP and switched between them. The result was chalk and cheese. The version that had been through Mixbus sounded bigger, clearer and warmer.
Because the process is so effective, I keep second guessing it and have repeated this experiment now with several different mixes, including this one and have come up with the same conclusion each time.
There is also a rumour that Harrison are working on a dedicated control surface for Mixbus. Given their history with the hardware side of things this could be a real game changer and turn one of the little weaknesses of Mixbus into one of it's biggest strengths.
Sound is such a powerful tool for affecting the audience. It can convey a sense of quality, give the audience the feeling of a world that extends beyond the borders of the screen and provide a shortcut to trigger a wide variety of emotional responses and all in ways that the audience rarely thinks about directly. In short, the soundtrack is very fertile ground for adding production value to any project.


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Q: JAVA distinguish curved line from straight line I am having an issue where I am not sure how to tell if a given (com.esri.arcgis.geometry.Polyline) Polyline is straight or not. My code works for straight lines but does not for curved. My issues are that I am not sure how to get a list of points from the Polyline and not sure how to check if the line is straight once I get this list of points. Code below:
 else if (shape instanceof Polyline) {
                    Polyline line = (Polyline) shape;
                    Point lowerLeft = (Point) line.getEnvelope().getLowerLeft();
                    Point upperRight = (Point) line.getEnvelope().getUpperRight();
                    Point midpoint = GeometryUtil.getMidpoint(lowerLeft, upperRight);
                    midpoint.setSpatialReferenceByRef(ActiveMapContainer.getInstance()
                                                              .getMapBean().getSpatialReference());
                    GeometryUtil.projectLatLong(midpoint);

A: You can get the number of points on polyline using "getLength()" method.
You can obtain each point with "getPoint(int i)" method.
There are probably better methods, but I would check if line is straight that way:
1. Calculate the distance between first and last point.
2. Compare it to the whole polyline's length. If both are equal (possibly using some kind of acceptable difference in length - "delta"), assume the line is straight. If they are different by a factor bigger that "delta", assume the line is not straight.


The School is relatively large, with three to four classes per year group, yet we pride ourselves on our strong sense of community and warm and friendly atmosphere. The 'feel' of the School is relatively traditional, with high expectations for behaviour and discipline and a uniform that ensures all pupils are well presented.
The 'core' of our curriculum is the learning of English and Mathematics (Literacy and Numeracy); Science, ICT and Greek also have a high profile. 'Foundation' subjects include the humanities, art and personal and social education. Greek, Music and PE are all taught by specialist teachers.
If Greek is the home language, we ensure that your child is able to maintain a level equivalent to that of the Cypriot public school system.
The class teacher is the focus of support for each pupil; we use a 'home room' structure, meaning that most lessons are taught in a classroom that each child recognises as their 'home base'. We encourage a strong and supportive relationship to develop between parents and the teacher, through formal and scheduled meetings and presentations, as well as informally, via the 'contact book' or through snatched chats at drop off or pick up time.
We ensure that the children get a wide range of opportunities to have their daily school lives enriched through a range of clubs, sporting and musical performances and events, 'House' competitions and other opportunities, to allow for the development of 'the whole child'.
Our academic and social standards are outstanding and by the time the children complete Year 6 they are well prepared for secondary education. Most of our children move from the Junior to the Senior School, where a detailed process of liaison, transition and orientation ensures that the best possible advantage is gained from the fact that the children are known to us as they move from our primary to our secondary department.
Each department is led by a Head Teacher.
The School is organized in parallel classes with three or four classes to each year group; each year group is led by a Year Group Leader who will also have responsibility for one of the classes of the year group.
The teaching and organisation of each curriculum subject is supported by a subject leader, who will ensure standards are maintained, new methods and activities are incorporated into schemes of work and that the appropriate resources and facilities are available to the children.
Pupils are assigned to classes according to their age, which is subject to the Cyprus Ministry of Education requirements. When a child comes from a different educational system, an adjustment may be made in class assignment, upon request.
We limit the class size to 24 children each. In this way the children will receive maximum attention in all their learning activities. The Pre-Reception, Reception, Year One and Year Two classes each have a learning support assistant as well as a qualified teacher. In Years Three, Four, Five and Six there is a class teacher per class, and a learning support assistant per two classes.
Support for children experiencing difficulty with their learning would initially be offered by the class teacher, liaising closely with the parents. If the issue is more serious, the Learning Support Department, or English as an Additional Language Department can be utilised. In some instances the School may call on the services of external experts such as educational psychologists, speech therapists or other appropriate professionals.
A house system is in operation for KS2. The houses are named after the three founder-teachers of the school. STONE (RED) – KENNY (BLUE) – GAYFORD (YELLOW), and a foundation governor CHRISTODOULIDES (GREEN).
Our school is academic in nature; we strive to ensure that our students go on to high quality universities in UK, the USA, Cyprus, Greece and elsewhere around the world and subsequently enjoy fulfilling professional lives.


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Germany: BND spying on journalists
Posted on February 25, 2017	by L
"We are disappointed to hear these claims. The BBC's mission is to bring accurate news and information to people around the world, and our journalists should be able to operate freely and safely, with full protection for their sources. We call upon all governments to respect the operation of a free press."
BBC spokesperson
Spiegel reports that at least 50 numbers used by international journalists were monitored by the BND. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
The SPIEGEL revealed today (February 24 2017) that the BND has monitored at least 50 telephone and fax numbers or e-mail addresses of journalists or editors around the world with their own so-called selectors.
The BND –Bundesnachrichtendienst — is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor's Office. The BND acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. It depends heavily on wiretapping and electronic surveillance of international communications.
The surveillance program of journalists by the BND began in 1999. The BND monitored journalists from the BBC, Reuters news agency and the New York Times as well as many others around the world.
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The spy 'targets' include more than a dozen British BBC journalists in Afghanistan and at the headquarters in London, as well as editors of the international program BBC World Service.
A correspondent of the "New York Times" in Afghanistan was also on the list. Mobile and satellite telephones of the news agency Reuters in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria were monitored.
The BND refused to comment on the allegations. SPIEGEL plans to release more details about the alleged spying on Saturday. This post will be update soon. Stay tuned.
BND bespitzelte offenbar ausländische Journalisten — SPIEGEL ONLINE
BBC dismayed at German 'BND spying on journalists' — BBC
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1 Response to Germany: BND spying on journalists
Stephen Persaud says:
well let's face it ….if I were the BND I would be spying on everyone after September the 11th 2001
http://www.wanttoknow.info/011218reuters
Besides it's a "storm in a tea cup" …..every and any intelligence agency on the planet that thinks of itself as an intelligence agency spies on everyone else …."intelligence" is about knowing who is doing what-where-when-how…. as well as the future intentions of who might want to do what where when and how
http://www.govexec.com/management/2015/06/countries-are-supposed-spy-each-other/115750/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-eu-spying-obama-idUSBRE9600QY20130701
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/us/spying-on-allies-everybody-does-it/
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1454439/catch-22-american-agencies-spy-each-other


Rosie Dastgir asks: How do you distinguish between obligation, indebtedness and responsibility?
In her debut novel "A Small Fortune," British author Rosie Dastgir asks: How do you distinguish between obligation, indebtedness and responsibility?
Harris, a middle-aged divorcee living north of London, is a lapsed everything -- Muslim, Pakistani, father, uncle, boyfriend. After his marriage fails, the patriarch's desperate attempts to rein in what's left in his life backfires, resulting in a total loss of control. Misunderstandings abound when, as a gesture of good faith, Harris tries to rid himself of the burden of his divorce settlement -- a sum of just over 53,000 pounds -- leading him to make a regrettably rash decision. While his intentions come from the heart, the more he meddles in family affairs, the more strained relations become, exposing generational and spiritual rifts that test the bonds of bloodlines and brotherhood. We took tea with Dastgir to discuss platitudes, cultural attitudes and compromise.
himself unhappily settling quite often. Is settling actually a good thing that we resist?
I think there's a kind of elegance and beauty to settling, or compromise. There's humaneness to that. Harris is pulled in all these different directions, so he has this sense of burden and, therefore, expectations. Settling isn't the worst thing a person can do. It can actually be damage control.
Kinship ties are strong, even overpowering. Harris' daughter, Alia, mistrusts her father's use of the term "community" as it refers to their extended family.
What I've tried to capture in the book is the ambiguity and ambivalence of all of these catchphrases: What it means to be a Muslim. What it means to be a good friend. An extended family can be an amazing support network, but it can also be oppressive. And that word, "community," can be oppressive. It is a group of people with a shared set of values -- that's the broadest, loosest definition. But what interests me are the fault lines of those values and the way those values clash. People talk about the Muslim community, and one thing I've tried to show is that there are many different types of Muslims -- devout ones, doubting ones, secular ones -- just as there are in any other community.
Money is a driving force behind the characters' decisions. And it gets in the way of freedom.
I've thought about this theme a lot and it's tricky. If you're saddled with debt, it hampers you in a profound way. Money can hamper you practically and it can hamper you spiritually in that you become wedded to a notion of consumption and materialism that isn't really what you should chase after. That said, if you have a sense of what things cost and what you owe, you don't take anything for granted.
Like the protagonists, before writing, did you or your family foresee a different career path?
I was the youngest of three children, so [my family] had given up by the time they got to me. [Laughs] I studied English and would have liked to do theater directing, but I ended up studying film. And then I worked for the BBC in production. I really was a frustrated writer all of that time. So after having a lot of stuff getting stuck in development, I moved to New York and thought, I'm just going to have a go at writing.
What do you consider your small -- or great -- fortune in life?
It's been meeting my husband and having our two children, seeing that the best thing in life is loving and being loved.
What about Pakistani culture do you hope readers take away from the book?
The portrayal of Pakistani culture has been demonizing in the media. I wanted to tell an ordinary, heartfelt story that would appeal to all sorts of people, that wasn't so ethnically specific. And to redress a balance of the image that people have in the West.


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Update: We are currently waiting to hear about our faculty for the removal of the side pews in All Saints' Church and the roof repairs at All Saints'.
It is our vision for All Saints' to be restored and transformed into a flexible worship space, with community use during the week and a vibrant, active and worshipping congregation on Sundays. Our latest quinquennial report has highlighted major repairs are required for All Saints' to remain in use as a place of worship. To do all of the repair work and ensure that All Saints' is fit for purpose for the future we need to raise funds in the region of £800,000.
We have begun to complete some of the work recommended by the quinquennial report by completing repairs to the Nave roof.
We have begun investigations into the work required to ensure our stained glass windows can be maintained for the future. In April 2015 we were awarded a grant from the Roof Repair Fund to help fix our chancel, creche, toilet and lychgate roofs.
We hope that throughout 2015 we can raise funds and fulfil the plan of repairing and reordering All Saints' to ensure it's continued use for the forseeable future.
To do all the repairs and improvements to All Saints' Church we need to raise a considerable amount of money. 2014 saw the start of our fundraising drive through a number of local events, run by the church and members of our local community. We held a pledge day for our regular congregations, where £70,000 was pledged for the building works. The plan for 2015 includes a number of events to raise funds, including a curry and quiz night; several concerts, and an Auction of Promises, hosted by a celebrity auctioneer. See our homepage and our calendar for more details about specific events. Appropiate grants and funding bids will be completed throughout 2015. We are planning an appeal to our local community for funds, as we are aware many local people are keen for All Saints' to remain open and in use as a focus of our community in Ockbrook.
As we begin our building project for All Saints' we will also be raising money to cover the required repairs at St Stephen's (as highlighted in our latest Quinennial Report) to ensure it is a safe and warm place to worship.
To read the Quinquennenial Report for St.Stephen's you can download it here.


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Its 180º swivel shade adjusts for optimal positioning. It may be wired into the electrical system or may be plugged into any convenient outlet.


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Despite The Title: GANJA & HESS and ALIEN RAIDERS
Brian Collins and Phil Nobile defend movies with indefensible titles.
By April Swartz Jun. 27, 2011
It's frustrating to have one of the most compelling and challenging films you've ever seen saddled with a title that at worst invites lame open mic night-level jokes, and at best doesn't evoke anything close to the special quality of the film it signifies. On the other hand, if you're trying to push a weird little film on some friends and they can't get past the awkward title, you've got a nice litmus test for what to pimp to whom going forward.
Ganja & Hess is such a film, a blaxploitation footnote that played in its original form for less than a week in 1973 before it was pulled from distribution, re-cut, retitled, and forgotten about until a grass-roots movement to restore the film culminated in a DVD release in 1998. (A version three minutes longer was released in 2006; both discs are currently out of print, though you can watch one on Amazon for $2.99.) Today its odd title is guaranteed to keep it off the radar of all but the most archaeological of film buffs.
While the film was pitched (and financed) as a horror flick, it's closer in tone to Nicholas Roeg's inscrutable, non-linear The Man Who Fell To Earth, which Ganja & Hess predates by three years. Director Bill Gunn allegedly filmed a script which contained more mainstream horror elements, but later claimed he intended all along to remove most of them, leaving a frustrating but weirdly resonant meditation on addiction, cultural extinction, and the struggle of the "Blackman" (Gunn's term) to retain his identity.
We get early hints of Gunn's preoccupation with the slippery nature of identity – the film begins with a voiceover of a minister (Sam Waymon) discussing his faith over handheld, documentary-style shots of him commanding a church service. But we soon find out that the minister's main job is as a driver for Dr. Hess Green (Night of the Living Dead's Duane Jones), and we learn from some oblique exposition that the well-to-do "doctor of anthropology and geology" is studying artifacts from an extinct civilization of African blood-worshippers called the Myrthians. As the surviving crew members note on the commentary, seeing a respected, affluent black man onscreen, being chauffeured around New York in a Rolls Royce, was quite a bit of culture shock, and likely a hell of a way to start your film in 1973.
Hess studies dead civilizations; Gunn's camera suggests he is also part of one. That's about as overtly political as the film gets: there are no rallying cries for equality or quaint-but-clumsy speeches about race, just frame after lonely frame of Gunn's Blackmen occupying near-deserted bars, sparsely populated streets, and big empty rooms. Even dialogue scenes are framed in ways that isolate the individual. As Hess ponders a relic and dreams of Myrthia, there's a genuine feeling of mournfulness, of memory bleeding out into history.
The plot is set in motion when Hess hires George Meda (played by the film's director) as his assistant. We find out as abruptly as Hess does that Meda is out of his mind. After dinner, Hess finds Meda sitting in a tree, threatening to hang himself in Hess' yard (easily the film's funniest exchange, where Hess asks Meda to consider the amount of trouble his suicide would bring to "the only colored on the block"). Meda then gives a long speech about his suicidal impulses with a stalactite of snot dangling from his mustache. In the very next scene, for reasons we're never sure of, he attacks Hess in bed, stabbing him with the Myrthian dagger which transforms Hess into a blood drinker (the word "vampire" is never used in the film). This is a confusing bit of action, as we're told of the event (and its consequences) via title cards during the film's opening, and we're told again of Hess' condition during the chauffeur's voiceover ten or fifteen minutes before the stabbing occurs.
Thinking he's killed Hess, Meda takes a bath, brushes his teeth (using his bathwater), and kills himself. Hess is seen sitting up in bed, no worse for wear, and upon discovering Meda's body begins to drink his blood. Much of this film can't rightly qualify as horror, but the sight of Jones slurping congealed blood off the bathroom floor is a moment of genuine revulsion (allegedly for the actor as much as the audience), and says everything the film aims to about addiction.
Meda ends up in Hess' walk-in freezer, and Hess begins the life of an addict - petty theft from a blood bank, cruising bad neighborhoods for his fix. Soon Meda's estranged wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) shows up looking for him. From here the film becomes a kind of love story, before sending the title characters down a road of increasing debasement and self-loathing to feed their craving. As their addiction brings them together, it slowly drains their humanity. METAPHOR!
I'm not quite in the "masterpiece" camp on this film, but I've been fascinated by it for nearly 20 years (I watched a sort of incomprehensible 16mm print back in 1992). On a first viewing, the film often feels a bit patchwork and unwieldy in trying to get the basic narrative setup across, as if Gunn has so much to say, but is battling his own framework in the process. And his subtext feels at times as confusing as his talky, wandering narrative. The Christian church scenes are messy, sweaty bits of handheld verite, while the flashbacks/dreams of the Myrthian Queen are shot in loving, elegant slow motion. Is he criticizing the Western European eclipsing of African culture? It often seems so, but the film's resolution suggests otherwise.
Similarly, posing Ganja and Hess as a well-off black couple in 1973 seems a deliberate, progressive stance. But why are they then portrayed as such assholes about their status? Hess' black butler is a constant object of their ridicule and derision (by Gunn as well; the director literally robs him of all identity in almost every shot, his head cut off by the top of the frame in nearly all of his scenes). Is he criticizing Ganja and Hess for their bourgeois social status, or the butler for his willing subjugation? Or both? And the film's final shots are guaranteed to frustrate as much as they resonate.
But what seem like problems with the film begin, on repeated viewings, to feel like stubborn badges of honor. And you begin to realize it's not that Gunn CAN'T make a more traditional story; he simply refuses to. (There are 17 minutes of deleted scenes on YouTube which connect the details of the evasive plot; Gunn shot them and threw them away.) There are just enough moments in the film to show you that Gunn could have easily gone a more mainstream route,and his use of ambient sound is cutting edge for 1973. He's not an amateur. But not every movie is willing to meet you halfway. There are films that are fun to watch; Ganja & Hess compels you to watch. There are films that ask more questions than they answer; Ganja & Hess answers zero questions, nor does it aim to. But maybe that's why it lingers in the brain.
It's such a cheap bit of irony that a film rife with subtext about a dying culture devouring itself was carved up and shortened by over 30 minutes to make it more palatable to the blaxploitation crowd. As the legend goes, Gunn took a single print with him to Cannes, where it received a standing ovation and was named one of the ten best American films of the decade (in 1973, but still).
New York critics were less impressed, and Gunn's film was pulled from release after playing less than a week in one theater, after which distributors hired another filmmaker to re-cut the film into the 76 minute Blood Couple (also released in various formats and markets as Black Evil, Black Vampire, Blackout: The Moment of Terror, Vampires of Harlem, and Double Possession for good measure). Stories vary, but at some point Gunn stashed the print from Cannes at the Museum of Modern Art, and once the original negative was reworked, this became the only surviving print of Gunn's original cut, and remained so for nearly two decades. (For the whole, amazing history of the film's rescue from oblivion, check out the great Video Watchdog article by Tim Lucas and David Walker, reprinted on the DVD. Reading it, one realizes it's nothing less than a miracle that the film exists at all.)
Gunn never directed another film (he started work on the Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest, but was replaced by Monte Hellman). He returned to the stage and television, and ended up at the kitchen table on the set of The Cosby Show as one of Bill Cosby's poker buddies. Gunn died in 1989. In the end, the burial of Ganja & Hess perfectly illustrated the kind of cultural extinction which preoccupied the filmmaker.
Alien Raiders (Rock, 2008) - Brian Collins' Selection
There are guys who make their entire careers out of movies with interchangeable titles; you look at their IMDb and it's like Deadly Planet, Invasion Force, Deadly Force, Planet Invasion... you get the idea. So when I got a copy of something called Alien Raiders, I figured it was just the latest dartboard-created title from one of those guys. So imagine my surprise to discover that not only was it from some of the folks behind Blair Witch Project (one of my favorite movies), but it was actually a really solid and cool flick.
The movie is about a group of badasses (lead by 24's Carlos Bernard) who hold the occupants of a supermarket hostage as they seek for an alien lifeform that has taken over the body of a human; sort of The Thing crossed with The Mist. It unfolds almost in realtime as the badasses attempt to lock the supermarket down, and almost instantly lose the one guy who can "spot" an alien that is impersonating a human. Unlike The Thing, it doesn't become a giant monster movie, nor do 1-2 humans eventually find themselves outnumbered by the alien folk - it's just a tight, simple mystery as fingers are pointed and the number of suspects are gradually whittled down by the murderous alien in disguise.
A big part of why it works is that they don't complicate things with lengthy exposition or convoluted backstories. The movie gives you only what you need to know in order to understand what happens in it, and I love it for it. Too many low budget movies try to make up for their lack of big set pieces or giant made up worlds by just having people talk endlessly about them, and that is the wrong way to go. SHOW us, don't TELL us. And if you can't afford to show us, then stick with what you can. Director Ben Rock and his writers understood that, and as a result the movie turned out a lot better than it had any right to be with that title (which Rock wasn't a fan of either - it was forced on him by the distributor).
Note - as with Blair Witch, where supplementary material fleshed out the mythology of the story, the DVD has some stuff that does indeed provide some background on the team, the aliens, etc. To me, that's the way to do these things; if you didn't like the movie then you can skip it, but if you dug it there's more to enjoy (another reason why streaming media is not a viable option for me - you'll miss out on cool stuff like this). Either way - as with the Blair Witch "Dossier" explaining the Rustin Parr story, the movie doesn't "need" this material to get its point across, but can add another layer of interest to the proceedings, whereas if it was included in the movie it would just slow things down.
Despite The Title: TICKS And MOTHER, JUGS AND SPEED
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April Swartz
April is a Texas native, granddaughter of Spanky's little sister from the Little Rascals, initiator of arguably inane meme: Donna Martin Cryfest, homemade special effects enthusiast, and devotee of all things film and writing (only recently did she opt to marry the latter).
By April Swartz, Jul 05, 2011
April and Meredith extol the virtues of cheap horror and 70s comedy.


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Skinny jeans and cute shoes on a sweet little baby... I can't even handle it!!!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
She is so stinkin cute!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Those are such cute photos ...and those little booties are adorable.
Can hardly handle how gorgeous she is. I love the hair bows. I always wore hair bows when I was little. So cute! I am thinking of investing in a nice camera like you and taking some photo classes - I just love your photos and want to capture my baby the same way!
What a cutie! Happy St Patrick's Day!
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Ugh. Mim is SO CUTE. She's just the happiest, sweetest, cutest little one!! I love her face!!! She would get away with murder if I was her mom.
Cutest little lucky lady in all the land!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to Mim, Mac, and you!
Oh my goodness! Sara, I'm dying. If I didn't have baby fever before... whoa do I now. She is gorgeous and these are perfect!
Adorable!!! Callie is "reading" with me and she said mama look at that cute baby! Why is she eating green stickers? :) Adorable photos and I love her gold shoes! The perfect touch to a st. patricks day photo shoot!


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Q: Find $\lim_{x \to -8} \frac{\sqrt{1 - x} - 3 }{ 2 + \sqrt[3] {x}}$ How to find this limit?
$$\lim_{x \to -8} \frac{\sqrt{1 - x} - 3 }{ 2 + \sqrt[3] {x}}$$
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I don't know Taylor series yet.  I tried to change variable $x$ to $t^3$ but I couldn't remove $(x + 8)$ factor, which creates $0$ in the denominator.

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Why don't you multiply the top and bottom of the fraction by $\left(\sqrt{1-x}+3\right)$ and see what happens...
Hint 2
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A Massive Free Arcade Opened in Nashville Last Year [PHOTOS]
Courtlin Published: March 9, 2021
Louie Castro-Garcia
The next time you're in Nashville, Tennessee, there's a new stop you might want to add to your "must-do" list!
According to a viral Facebook post that I've been seeing non-stop this past week, Nashville is home to a giant arcade called the Game Terminal. It's located at 201 Terminal Court in a completely renovated open-air shipping terminal. The business' Facebook page says:
"Game Terminal is a destination for enthusiasts, pinheads, out-of-towners, and the curious local: bringing an excited, diverse mix of casual gamers and old pros together amid the vibrant glow of vintage gaming."
The viral social media post about the Game Terminal was written by a popular YouTuber named Jared Guynes, who just got the opportunity to tour the facility. In the post, he reveals more details about the business, which just opened in November of 2020 and cost around 3 million dollars. His post reads:
"The massive complex features 260 machines, approximately 100 pinball machines and more than 150 arcade games. Remarkably the arcade games are set to FREE PLAY and there is NO ADMISSION FEE."
Although many of the games are free, the pinball machines cost $1 to play, and a few of premium arcade games require some tokens. The arcade makes the majority of their money from the pinball machines, as well as concessions and merch.
MOST HAVE NO IDEA - One of the nations most ambitious and detailed adult arcades opened up in southern Nashville...
Posted by Jared Guynes on Friday, March 5, 2021
If you're wondering if this place is family friends, the answer is yes... until 8 p.m. After that, it's ages 21 and over only. In addition to all the arcade games, Game Terminal also has three bars, outdoor cornhole, a basketball court, jumbo beer pong, and food trucks. Here are a few photos from their Facebook page:
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You will be joining a team of 2 VR GPs and 3 Non VR GPs. There is a registered nurse, 2 administration assistants and a practice manager to lend support.
Standard clinic work hours include ten sessions per week during consulting hours Monday to Friday from 9am to 5.30pm. Saturdays from 9am to 4pm are on roster basis (one weekend in four).
The practice is predominantly bulk billing with the exception of procedures or consultations. Non VRs can expect 60% whereas VRs can expect 70% of billings.
Pirie is located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula, 224km north of Adelaide. Port Pirie is the eighth largest city in South Australia with a population of approximately 14,000. Nestled in the Southern Flinders Ranges you will see an amazing National Landscape where Rolling hills meet the coastline in a place where the people are friendly and the atmosphere relaxed. Situated just 2 hours from Adelaide, Port Pirie is readily accessible with bargain housing prices.


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Q: Script to connect to SAP I am making a Userform with several Optionbuttons, to generate different SAP reports automatically. According to the user's selection, a specific report is generated.
But I notice that I am repeating the SAP connection code multiple times (for each radio button). I am repeating the following code in each sub that I have.
Dim Appl, SapGuiAuto, Connection, session As Object

Call Shell("C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\saplogon.exe", vbMinimizedFocus)
Esperar 4 'Esperar unos segundos hasta que se abra el SAP

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I wanted to know if there is any way to create a sub for the SAP connection considering public variables or something like that. I want to avoid repeating code. Thank you so much


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CDU's research is recognised nationally and internationally. The Commonwealth Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2012 showed that there has been an improvement in research quality across Australia since the last assessment in 2010.
In this context, it is an endorsement of CDU's research strength that CDU was ranked at or above world average on 71 per cent (10 of 14) of the research disciplines for which it was assessed in the broad fields of:
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The pinnacle of achievement was CDU's research in Clinical Science, conducted primarily through the Menzies School of Health Research, which received the highest possible score of five, ranking the discipline's performance as outstanding, and well above world standard.
In 2012 CDU participated in a national trial, the Excellence in Innovation in Australia (EIA) trial, aimed at demonstrating the economic, social and environmental benefits of research undertaken by Australian universities.
The EIA trial aimed to show how research is bringing tangible end-user benefits to the nation.
The trial used case studies of research in contrast to the traditional research metrics that focus on publications and citations. This enabled the provenance of research to be traced and the impact documented more appropriate timeframes.
Led by the Group of 8 and Australian Technology Network universities including Charles Darwin University, the University of Newcastle and the University of Tasmania the trial involved seven assessment panels of 75 volunteers, 70 per cent of whom were external industry, community and business sector leaders and experts.
Up to 162 case studies were submitted for assessment by the participating universities. Of these case studies, 87 per cent were found to have considerable, very considerable or outstanding impact.
CDU submitted 10 case studies to the trial, nine of which were assessed, some by multiple panels. All nine of these case studies were found to have considerable, very considerable or outstanding impact.
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Axel Huet (París, Francia, 14 de enero de 1991) de es un actor y comediante francés, famoso por ser protagonista de la serie francesa En famille.

Biografía

Huet nació en la ciudad de París, en 1991, y no obtuvo su primer trabajo como hasta que tuvo 20 años. Su primera aparición fue en la serie televisiva Clem, interpretando a un adolescente que estudiaba un curso de francés. Al año siguiente, fue elegido para aparecer en el videoclip Elle me dit de Mika, donde él hacía que es el hijo de una madre viuda (la cual era la actriz Fanny Ardant). Durante el rodaje conoció al también humorista Patrice Pujol.

En 2012 fue convocado para interpretar a Antoine en la serie televisiva del canal M6 En famille, de la cual trabajará hasta 2014.

Series televisivas

 Clem: compañero de Gladys.
  Elle me dit : hijo de Fanny Ardant.
  En famille : Antoine.

Referencias

 Vive Axel Huet (en francés)

Actores de Francia
Nacidos en París

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The Art of Writing
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The Katzenstein Kids and the Eye of Horus
by A.G. Sullivan
Oz Will Fall
by John Malone and Nicole Delgado
Yara's Tawari Tree
by Yossi Lapid
The Art Flogger
by C. Edgar North
SMACK in the MIDDLE
by Gibbs Williams Ph.D. and Joel Samberg
The Unforgotten World of Ava
by Renee Scarrott
The God That I Know
by John Rogers
Face Difficult Conversations with God on Your Side
by Rebecca Finley
God's Trinity Demystified
by Adeoye Adedeji David
The Triskelion
by Victoria Lehrer
by M.L. Moyer
Shadow Eater - One Shot Manga
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by Ann Curtin
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Dreamcatcher by Ann Curtin relates the story of a young boy, Jesse, living with his dad and moving from ranch to ranch. But at the current ranch, his dad manages to get the foreman's job and it's not a broken-down ranch. Maybe things will look up. However, the owner's son doesn't like Jesse and they get into a fight at school, resulting in a suspension for both of them. A boy named Aaron adopts Jesse as his friend. Aaron is an outsider to just about everyone in school. Jesse can't shake him, and he's not sure he should. Aaron and Jesse attempt to tame a mustang that Aaron's named Dreamcatcher, creating an exciting adventure for Jesse, Aaron, and Dreamcatcher!
The theme of catching bad dreams and letting good ones sift through a dreamcatcher is at the base of Ann Curtin's Dreamcatcher. A bit western, a bit ghost story, and a bit friendship story, Dreamcatcher made me laugh. Then, it made me cry and smile. I loved the mystery of who the main character kept seeing that others couldn't see; the mystery of whether the main character's mother would come home; the mystery of whether the main character and the rich bully would become friends. I loved the artwork at the beginning of each chapter and the front cover hooked me as a reader. Dreamcatcher would be easy for young readers to relate to as it connects to their interests. I loved how Ann Curtin handled the topic of things working out, but not always the way you want. I highly recommend this book to readers from ages nine to twelve. It's full of adventure and might just help a youngster work through one of their own problems.
Jack Magnus
Dreamcatcher is a coming of age novel for young adults and preteens written by Ann Curtin. The long trip from Missoula, Montana to Riverton, Wyoming had taken a whole day, and the fact that the air-conditioning in their pickup truck had stopped working had made the trip even more grueling and tedious for Jesse. When they finally arrived at the Savage Ranch, however, Jesse had to admit to himself that he was pretty impressed with the ranch where his father would be taking on the job of ranch foreman. Big Bob Savage was every bit as imposing as his name implied, and he quickly made Jesse and his father feel at home. While Big Bob showed Mark his office, Jesse helped one of the ranch hands who was taping a mare's leg. Jesse was even more impressed when his father drove them up to the foreman's house -- this time they wouldn't be living in the bunkhouse with the ranch hands but in their own house. Everything seemed perfect, and Jesse couldn't help but wonder if perhaps his mom would come back if she knew how good a situation he and his dad were finally in. Mark didn't want to talk about it, but Jesse had begun to hope.
Ann Curtin's coming of age novel for preteens and young adults, Dreamcatcher, is a marvelous tale about a thirteen-year-old boy whose somewhat transient life with his ranch hand father finally acquires some solidity and purpose. Curtin accurately portrays the cliques and peer pressure Jesse feels in his new school, especially at the hands of Big Bob's youngest son, Cade, and his ambivalence about becoming the new best friend of Aaron, the diminutive Shoshone Indian in class, can almost be understood in terms of those pressures. I had a grand time reading about the horses, especially the paint horse Big Bob gives to Jesse for competing in the rodeo, and seeing the growing kinship between Jesse and Aaron was illuminating and powerful. The author makes the experiences a teen would encounter on a horse ranch in Wyoming come to life. There's action, adventure and danger in this well-written and engaging book -- and lots of horses. Dreamcatcher is most highly recommended.


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Nathan Deakes (né le ) à Geelong, Australie, est un athlète australien, spécialiste de la marche, champion du monde du 50 km marche en 2007 à Osaka.

Biographie
Champion du monde sur 50 kilomètres marche en 2007, il avait été désigné meilleur athlète masculin australien de l'année en 2006 à la suite de son doublé sur 20 et  lors des Jeux du Commonwealth à Melbourne. Nathan Deakes renouvelait un exploit déjà réalisé quatre ans plus tôt à Manchester. En raison d'une blessure, il ne participa ni aux Championnats du monde d'athlétisme 2005 à Helsinki, ni aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008 à Pékin.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques d'été
 Jeux olympiques d'été de 2004 à Athènes ()
  Médaille de bronze sur 20 kilomètres marche

Championnats du monde d'athlétisme
 Championnats du monde d'athlétisme 1999 à Séville ()
  sur 20 kilomètres marche

 Championnats du monde d'athlétisme 2001 à Edmonton ()
  sur 20 kilomètres marche

 Championnats du monde d'athlétisme de 2007 à Osaka ()
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Jeux du Commonwealth
 Jeux du Commonwealth de 1998 à Kuala Lumpur ()
  Médaille de bronze sur 20 kilomètres marche

 Jeux du Commonwealth de 2002 à Manchester ()
  Médaille d'or sur 50 kilomètres marche
  Médaille d'or sur 20 kilomètres marche

 Jeux du Commonwealth de 2006 à Melbourne ()
  Médaille d'or sur 50 kilomètres marche
  Médaille d'or sur 20 kilomètres marche

Goodwill Games
 Goodwill Games de 2001 à Brisbane ()
  Médaille d'or sur 20 kilomètres marche

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Champion du monde d'athlétisme
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Athlète (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2000
Athlète (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2004
Athlète (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2012
Naissance en août 1977
Naissance à Geelong


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Located on the second floor of the clubhouse is our main dining room. This room offers a panoramic view of the 18th green and pond. The main dining room seats up to 120 people and can be reserved for private events.
Family style buffet is held every Wednesday and Friday from 6-8 pm in the main dining room. Our Chef prepares themed buffets with the freshest of ingredients and unique flare.


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All Hail the New Seiko Prospex "King Turtle" Refs. SRPE03, SRPE05, and SRPE07
Like the watch that inspired it, the current Seiko "Turtle" is a classic that's beloved by watch-heads of all stripes, from those just getting into collecting to the very seasoned among us. And now, as we learned from our friends at Long Island Watch, Seiko is giving the Turtle a nice little upgrade in the form of three new models. Already dubbed "King Turtle" by Internet Watchdom, these new additions to the Turtle family feature some long-asked-for changes, some of which take the watch further away from its historical counterpart. That's okay, though, because the changes make these watches look really good.
Seiko Prospex "King Turtle" Refs. SRPE03, SRPE05, and SRPE07
Case Material: Stainless steel; ceramic bezel insert
Dial: Black, Green, "Wave" Blue
Dimensions: 45mm x 13.3mm
Crystal: Sapphire with cyclops
Movement: 4R36
Crown: Screw down
Strap/bracelet: Bracelet (SPRE03) or rubber (SPRE05 and SPRE07)
Price: SPRE03 $625; SPRE05 and SPRE07 $595
Reference Number: Refs. SRPE03, SRPE05, and SRPE07
So what do we have here? On the surface, much of the original DNA remains intact. Most notably, the iconic case is largely identical to its predecessor's, and the general dial layout remains unchanged. But, the devil's in the details, and the details here speak to a much more refined watch.
The bezel features two upgrades. The insert is now ceramic, which I recall people asking for way back when the Turtle first hit the market, and the grip-able pattern along the bezel's edge now features a harder, more angular groove pattern versus the softer one of the previous model. This gives the watch a slightly more modern, aggressive look, but I don't think it looks out of place with the Turtle's neo-vintage roots — it's just different. Plus, the new design will surely offer a better grip underwater.
Another notable upgrade is the crystal; it's no longer Hardlex, but sapphire with a cyclops at 3:00. This is another feature I've seen people request in the past (well, the sapphire, not the cyclops). Personally, I've never had any issues with Hardlex. I've always found that it provides great optical clarity without much effort, whereas sapphire crystals often need some AR to keep things reflection-free. Nevertheless, one can't deny the hard-wearing nature of sapphire, so I get why people want it.
SRPE03
The three references are as follows: SRPE03 (black bezel and dial), SRPE05 (black bezel and green dial), and SRPE07 (blue bezel and blue wave dial). The 03 and 05 feature a dial pattern that reminds me of the "Mega Tapisserie" dial of the Royal Oak Offshore, which I've always liked on a sportier watch. The seconds hand and "Diver's 200m" are rendered in gold-tone on these two models, a nice accent to the otherwise subdued dials. The 07 features a wave pattern, not unlike the one from the Turtle that was part of the "Save the Ocean" collection.
Some great in-the-metal shots via Strapcode.
Image via Strapcode.
As far as pricing is concerned, the MSRP was given a small bump. The SPRE03 on bracelet is $625; and the SPRE05 and SPRE07 on rubber are $595. It's a reasonable increase given the upgrades, and it's still a good price for a proper tool watch. As of this writing, they're sold out at Long Island Watch, but more are sure to trickle out sooner rather than latter, so be sure to keep an eye out.
Have thoughts on the "King Turtle?" Drop a comment below and let us know what you think about the change.
Affordable Vintage: King Seiko ref. 5621-7020, and Some Things to Consider When Buying King Seiko
From the Archives: a Look Back at the Seiko "Turtle"
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With temperatures cooling off and the holidays quickly approaching all I can picture is myself walking on a white sandy beach listening to the waves of the ocean crash in. Something I have been looking for is a good pair of water shoes. A Leader offers water shoes that have been getting some amazing reviews and come in a color that is sure to match anyone's style. I am loving these pink and gray ones for water adventures. With a price point within budget I definitely think these water shoes should be on everyone's travel essential list.


William Wagner, II November 27, 1961 – April 08, 2019 Service information is pending at this time. Please continue to check daily for any updates to times and schedules.
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Edward Young, Jr. July 19, 1971 – January 22, 2019 Edward Lee Young Jr. son of Brenda Young and the late Edward Young passed away unexpected in his sleep Tuesday morning, January 22, 2019 after a short bout of cancer.
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Nestled between the Chaîne des Puys mountain range and the Limagne plain, Clermont-Ferrand is a city full of promise. With its lush natural setting and rich heritage, it offers optimum quality of life for all of its inhabitants.
For its 40,000 students, the University of Clermont Auvergne offers nearly 165 courses aiming for excellence in such diverse fields as economics, engineering sciences, and literature. Around 7,000 researchers work in certified research centers and teams, guaranteeing the quality of the teaching. With 550 bilateral agreements and Erasmus grants and I-Site certification, the Clermont University has international reach. As the first French city to be included in UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, Clermont-Ferrand prioritizes.
Having set a steady course for innovation, Clermont-Ferrand is also fertile ground for entrepreneurs. Armed with the French Tech label, a burgeoning digital neighborhood, the Bivouac, and many business incubators, the city has risen to the digital challenge with drive and determination.
Clermont-Ferrand is a city with a rich culture. The Effervescences project, in anticipation of the city's running for the title of European Capital of Culture, will mark the next few years all over the region. Clermont-Ferrand is already iconic thanks to its International Short Film Festival, Europavox, and the collections in its museums, and it continues to consolidate its status as a cultural hub.
For sports enthusiasts, the city has all the facilities needed to make sports accessible to all. Clermont is home to many champions, such as the rugby players of the ASM, Renaud Lavillenie, and ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron.
With a population of more than 290,000 in the urban center, Clermont-Ferrand is the future western metropolis of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the second largest in France. It is a modern, dynamic city imbued with a strong desire: to align the city's plans with its citizens' life plans.


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Die Parlamentswahl in Bangladesch 2001 fand am 1. Oktober 2001 statt. Gewählt wurden 300 Abgeordnete des Jatiya Sangsad, des Einkammerparlaments von Bangladesch. Es handelte sich um die achte Parlamentswahl seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes.

Vorgeschichte

Bei der letzten Parlamentswahl im Juni 1996 hatte die Awami-Liga eine Mehrheit der Mandate errungen und Hasina Wajed war zur Premierministerin gewählt worden. Ab dem Jahresbeginn 2001 sah sich ihre Regierung zunehmend in der Kritik, da die Regierung nicht in Lage schien, die zunehmende Gewalt und Gesetzlosigkeit im öffentlichen Raum einzudämmen. In allen größeren Städten Bangladeschs gab es regelmäßig Schießereien und bei Polizeirazzien wurden häufig Waffenlager und Sprengsätze entdeckt. Das Land schien in Richtung Anarchie zu driften. Die Awami-Liga-Regierung räumte dieses Defizit auch ein, gab jedoch der Opposition die Schuld an den Verhältnissen, da diese die Regierung systematisch destabilisieren wolle. Die von der Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) geführte Opposition versäumte es, die eklatanten Missstände für ihre Zwecke zu instrumentalisieren. Gegen die Stimmen der Opposition und Bedenken von Menschenrechtsaktivisten verabschiedete die Regierung den Public Safety Act, ein Sondergesetz, das der Regierung erweiterte polizeiliche Vollmachten gab. In der Folgezeit nutzte die Regierung das Gesetz auch massiv zur Einschüchterung der Opposition und zur Verhaftung von Oppositionspolitikern. Es gab Berichte über staatliche Korruption, Morde und Revanche-Morde mit staatlicher Involvierung, Selbstjustiz, illegaler Beschlagnahmung von privatem Besitz, so dass die Bilanz der Awami-Regierung in der Öffentlichkeit zunehmend in ein schlechtes Licht geriet.

Die Premierministerin versuchte, die Oppositionsfront zu spalten, indem sie den Ex-General und Vorsitzenden der Jatiya Party Hossain Mohammad Ershad, der sich nach seiner Verurteilung wegen Korruption auf Bewährung auf freiem Fuß befand, erneut inhaftieren ließ. Er wurde dann wieder aus dem Gefängnis entlassen unter der nicht öffentlich ausgesprochenen Bedingung, dass er die Koalition mit der BNP aufkündigen solle, was er dann auch prompt tat.  Ershads Jatiya Party schloss sich mit mehreren überwiegend islamistischen Parteien zu einer Wahlallianz, der Islami Jatiya Oikya Front zusammen. Trotz des Austritts der Jatiya Party aus dem Oppositionsbündnis hatte dieses im Wesentlichen weiter Bestand. Die machtpolitischen Manöver Hasina Wajeds schadeten insgesamt dem Ansehen der Premierministerin und spielten der Opposition in die Hände.

Im März 2001 kündigte die Premierministerin Wahlen für den Sommer des Jahres an. Allerdings erfolgte die Übergabe der Exekutivgewalt an die in der Verfassung vorgesehene Treuhänder-Regierung (die eine freie und unmanipulierte Wahl gewährleisten sollte) erst am 15. Juli 2001, als der pensionierte ehemalige oberste Richter Latifur Rahman als Chef der Treuhänderregierung durch Präsident Shahabuddin Ahmed vereidigt wurde. Rahman veranlasste einen Personalaustausch an der Spitze der wichtigsten Behörden. Damit wurde den Befürchtungen der Opposition Rechnung getragen, dass die weiter in Schlüsselpositionen im Amt befindlichen Vertrauensleute Hasina Wajeds die Wahl in deren Sinne beeinflussen könnten. Die Treuhänder-Regierung befand sich in einer schwierigen Lage und musste den Balanceakt vollbringen, mit ihren Maßnahmen keine der beiden politischen Lager zu sehr vor den Kopf zu stoßen.

Ablauf der Wahl
Die Wahl fand als einfache Mehrheitswahl in 300 Ein-Personen-Wahlkreisen statt. Die letzte Neufestsetzung der Wahlkreisgrenzen hatte es im Jahr 1985 gegeben (1995 waren minimale Korrekturen erfolgt). Aufgrund des ungleichen Bevölkerungswachstums war es seitdem zu erheblichen Ungleichgewichten in Bezug auf die Bevölkerungszahl der einzelnen Wahlkreise gekommen, so dass insbesondere stark urbanisierte Gebiete relativ unterrepräsentiert waren.
Kandidaten konnten bis zum 29. August 2001 ihre Kandidatur anmelden. Über die Zulassung zur Wahl wurde am 30. und 31. August 2001 entschieden. An der Wahl nahmen 54 politische Parteien teil, von denen viele allerdings mehr oder weniger Ein-Personen-Veranstaltungen waren. Von den insgesamt 1939 Kandidaten bewarben sich 33 Kandidaten in mehr als einem Wahlkreis (Hasina Wajed und Khaleda Zia kandidierten jeweils in 5 Wahlkreisen). 38 Kandidaten (2 Prozent) waren Frauen. Die Wahl fand zwischen 8:00 Uhr und 16:00 Uhr Ortszeit in landesweit 29.978 Wahllokalen statt. Auf Veranlassung der Treuhänderregierung wurde während der Wahl die Armee eingesetzt, um für geordnete Verhältnisse zu sorgen.

Der Ablauf der Wahl wurde von Beobachtermissonen der EU, einer Delegation unter Ex-US-Präsident Jimmy Carter und von der bangladeschischen Menschenrechtsvereinigung Odhikar sowie dem Asian Network For Free Elections (ANFREL) beobachtet. Ungeachtet der ausgeprägten Gewalttätigkeiten und Übergriffe wurde die Wahl als die faireste Wahl, die Bangladesch bisher erlebt hatte, und als im Großen und Ganzen "frei, fair, friedlich und geordnet" gelobt.

Ergebnisse

Landesweites Gesamtergebnis
Die Gesamtzahl der angegebenen Stimmen belief sich auf 56.185.707, was bei 74.946.364 Wahlberechtigten einer Wahlbeteiligung von 75,59 % entsprach. 623.661 Wahlberechtigte (0,8 %) in 204 Wahllokalen in 86 Wahlkreisen konnten aufgrund äußerer Umstände am Wahltag nicht abstimmen. Da die Wahl zu ganz eindeutigen Mehrheitsverhältnissen führte, wurde in diesen Wahllokalen keine Nachwahl abgehalten. 55.736.625 Stimmen waren gültig (99,2 %) und 449.082 (0,8 %) ungültig. Weil der BNP-Kandidat im Wahlkreis Cox Bazar-3 (296) überraschend verstorben war und weil eine Beschwerde gegen die Annullierung von 7 Wahllokalen im Wahlkreis Munshigonj-4 eingereicht wurde, fanden die Wahlen in Cox Bazar-3 erst am 1. November 2001 und in den fehlenden Wahlbezirken von Munshigonj-4 (179) am 10. November 2001 statt.

Nachwahlen
Da mehrere Kandidaten in mehreren Wahlkreisen gleichzeitig kandidiert hatten und dabei mehr als einen Wahlkreis gewonnen hatten (Khaleda Zia hatte 5 und Hasina Wajed 4 Wahlkreise gewonnen), konnten sie nur ein Mandat annehmen. In den anderen Wahlkreisen mussten Nachwahlen erfolgen. Dies betraf die folgenden 11 Wahlkreise: Bogra-7 (42), Khulna-2 (100), Feni-1 (266), Lakshmipur-2 (276), Narail-1 (93), Narail-2 (94), Barguna-3 (112), Moulavibazar-3 (236), Manikgonj-2 (173), Faridpur-4 (212), Munshigonj-1 (176). In zwei Nachwahlterminen am 12. November 2001 und 17. Januar 2002 gingen 9 Mandate an die BNP (davon 4 ohne Gegenkandidat), eines an Islami Okiya Jote und eines an einen Unabhängigen. Durch die Nachbesetzungen gewann die BNP in der Summe zwei Mandate (195 statt 193), die Awami-Liga verlor 4 (58 statt 62), Islami Okiya Jote gewann ein Mandat (3 statt 2) und es kam ein Unabhängiger hinzu (7 statt 6).

Gewonnene Wahlkreise nach Divisionen
Die BNP gewann in 5 der 6 Divisionen Bangladeschs die absolute Mehrheit der Wahlkreise. Nur in Sylhet erreichte sie nur eine relative Mehrheit. Ihr bestes Ergebnis erzielte sie in der Division Chittagong.

Karte der Wahlkreisergebnisse

Nach der Wahl

Kurz vor der Wahl erwarteten die meisten Beobachter einen knappen Wahlausgang, möglicherweise mit dem Ergebnis eines hung parliaments. Die beiden Hauptprotagonistinnen Hasina Wajed und die BNP-Vorsitzende Khaleda Zia prognostizierten jeweils für ihre Parteien eine Wahlsieg. Ershad erklärte, dass keine der beiden Parteien eine Mehrheit erlangen werde und dass die Jatiya Party damit das entscheidende Zünglein an der Waage sein werde. Insofern war der sehr deutliche Wahlsieg der BNP-geführten Koalition eine Überraschung, allerdings auch mehr ein Effekt des geltenden Mehrheitswahlrechts, da die beiden großen Parteien fast gleich viel Stimmen erhalten hatten (40,97 % gegenüber 40,13 %). Die Nachwahlen mitberücksichtigt gewann die BNP 195 der 300 Wahlkreise (65,0 %) und lag damit knapp vor einer Zweidrittelmehrheit. Die beiden mit der BNP verbündeten islamistischen Parteien Jamaat-e-Islami und Islami Oikya Jote gewannen 17 (5,7 %) und 3 (1 %) Mandate. Der relative Erfolg dieser beiden islamistischen Parteien und deren anschließende Regierungsbeteiligung  wurde weltweit beachtet, da sich am 11. September 2001, knapp drei Wochen vor dem Wahltermin, die islamistischen Terroranschläge auf das World Trade Center ereignet hatten und US-Präsident George W. Bush den Krieg gegen den Terror und insbesondere gegen die Taliban in Afghanistan ausgerufen hatte. Am 10. Oktober 2001 wurde Khaleda Zia als neue Premierministerin vereidigt.

Nach der Wahl kam es zu erheblichen Gewaltexzessen, die vor allem von Anhängern der siegreichen Parteien BNP und Jamaat gegen Awami-Anhänger verübt wurde. Überproportional war die Hindu-Minderheit von der Gewalt betroffen. Die neue BNP-geführte Regierung schaffte es in dem Jahr nach der Wahl nicht, die Gesetzlosigkeit im öffentlichen Raum einzudämmen, so dass die Deliktzahlen sogar noch anstiegen. Bis zum Oktober 2002 gab es pro Monat durchschnittlich 325 Morde, 300 Vergewaltigungen und etwa 18 Säureattentate.

Spätere Hinzuwahl von weiblichen Abgeordneten im Jahr 2005
Um den Anteil von Frauen im Parlament zu erhöhen, sah die bangladeschische Verfassung in einer temporären Verfügung vor, dass eine bestimmte Anzahl von Parlamentssitzen für weibliche Abgeordnete reserviert sein sollten. Diese Abgeordneten wurden indirekt gewählt, d. h. durch das Parlament hinzugewählt. Die Zahl dieser reservierten Sitze betrug anfänglich 15 und ab dem Jahr 1979 30. Diese Bestimmung lief im Jahr 1987 aus, wurde aber 1990 wieder in Kraft gesetzt und lief im Jahr 2000 erneut aus. Im 2001 neu gewählten Parlament waren nur 6 der 300 Abgeordneten Frauen (2 %). Frauenrechtsgruppen setzten sich für eine neue Quotenregelung ein. Am 16. Mai 2004 verabschiedete das Jatiya Sangsad mit der komfortablen Zweidrittelmehrheit der Regierungsparteien den 14. Verfassungszusatz, nach dem für die kommenden 10 Jahre jeweils 45 weibliche Abgeordnete hinzugewählt werden sollten. Im Unterschied zu früheren Regelungen, wo die jeweilige Mehrheitsfraktion alle hinzugewählten Abgeordneten hatte bestimmen können, waren diese künftig  entsprechend dem Sitzanteil der Parteien zu vergeben. Die 45 Frauen wurden am 6. September 2005 bzw. 2. Oktober 2005 hinzugewählt, so dass sich damit die Abgeordnetenzahl des Parlaments auf 345 erhöhte.

Einzelnachweise

Bangladesch
2001