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December 29, 2015 December 29, 2015 / egquillen	/ 1 Comment
We leave Edinburgh today.
While we were sad, for a number of reasons, to leave the places we've let before (California and Texas), we knew we'd always need to come back (families, etc.).
Leaving Edinburgh is odd, then, because there might not be reasons to ever come back. That's five years of roots we will be pulling up when our flight departs.
In an act of serendipitous fate yesterday, as we were discussing these very feelings during our last walk around town, we received the perfect farewell.
As we went to cross the street, in the middle of an intersection of course (jaywalking?), a well-dressed older gentleman greeted us from the opposite side with an emphatic, one-worded yell:
"GETTHEFUCKOUTOFTHESTREETANDFUCKOFF!!!"
It was, perhaps, the perfect way for Edinburgh to bid us farewell.
In that spirit, here's a song for that gentleman, as well as for Edinburgh, from us:
***Whilst the lyrics of "Fare Thee Well" do not, perhaps, convey the exact message I'd like, I still believe the overall theme works here. Also, go see Star Wars.***
December 22, 2015 January 17, 2016 / egquillen	/ Leave a comment
Around this time of year, an occasional debate comes up about the 'inappropriateness' of saying either 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays.' Here's a funny anecdote.
A few years back I was working at a rather famous department store, before I got distracted with all this 'academia' nonsense.
It was the first day of Chanukah. This wasn't unknown to people. It was on the news.
A phone call came in on our cash wrap desk and I answered it: 'Happy Chanukah.' This was, I admit, an unorthodox response, considering we were all told to say: 'Happy Holidays.' I answered the caller's question, and all was fine. About two hours later, I received a message to see the manager of our department. It turns out a complaint was filed, and I was given a written warning. I was told that I had offended a caller with an inappropriate holiday greeting. I was reminded how to properly answer the phones, and was sent back to work.
Since then, and after all these years, I've come to a simple conclusion when it comes to this, dare I say, 'nonsense.' It is, admittedly, once again rather unorthodox.
In 1984, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision on the case of Lynch vs. Donnelly. Here's a brief description of the case from the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law website, Oyez:
The city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, annually erected a Christmas display located in the city's shopping district. The display included such objects as a Santa Claus house, a Christmas tree, a banner reading "Seasons Greetings," and a nativity scene. The creche had been included in the display for over 40 years. Daniel Donnelly objected to the display and took action against Dennis Lynch, the Mayor of Pawtucket.
The lead question facing the Court's decision is described as such:
Did the inclusion of a nativity scene in the city's display violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?
The answer they provided is described as such:
No. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Court held that notwithstanding the religious significance of the creche, the city had not violated the Establishment Clause. The Court found that the display, viewed in the context of the holiday season, was not a purposeful or surreptitious effort to advocate a particular religious message. The Court found that the display merely depicted the historical origins of the Holiday and had "legitimate secular purposes." The Court held that the symbols posed no danger of establishing a state church and that it was "far too late in the day to impose a crabbed reading of the [Establishment] Clause on the country."
The key element of this case is the statement here: "legitimate secular purposes." In essence, the court had stated that the image of the nativity scene was just as secularly innocuous as that of a Christmas Tree or Santa's house. The sacred element of the image no lounger remained. It, and what it stood for, had become secular.
In a similar case in 2010, the court decided in favour of the placement of a latin cross on government property in the Mojave desert in California. Originally placed by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars foundation as a memorial to those killed in battle in 1934, the cross became an issue worthy of the court's attention as it appeared to challenge the disestablishment clause of the First Amendment. A former member of the National Park Association, Frank Buono, eventually filed suit, and the case worked its way to the Supreme Court.
The decision of the Court was very similar to that in Lynch vs. Donnelly, namely that the cross itself, as a memorial, represented a secular image.
So what does all of this have to do with 'Merry Christmas?'
By means of an explanation, consider the fact that we, as a western society, tend to not work on Sundays, and have built our culture around a particular calendar. We take time off for Christmas and Easter, regardless of the fact that this often gets disguised by 'winter' and 'spring' breaks. Now, this does not mean that these days are not still ritually 'sacred' to certain individuals. It does, however, mean that they might accommodate two meanings. After all, Sundays are used for football viewings and BBQs, as well as for church-going.
In this way, then, and in taking the Supreme Court's lead, there's nothing seemingly wrong with saying 'Merry Christmas' as, like the nativity scene in Rhode Island, the cross in the Mojave, and our use of the 'sabbath' for secular purposes, 'Christmas' is no longer, or at least, no longer needs to be, sacred. It's a holiday we can all enjoy. We can find pleasure in the twinkling lights, the trees, the markets, and even the nativity scenes, without needing to 'believe' in the myths that give these objects sacred meaning.
With that in mind, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
Tourist Trap Sacred Space Revisited
December 15, 2015 January 3, 2016 / egquillen	/ Leave a comment
10:10 AM, Saturday, The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain
Our tickets permit us entrance at 10:30, so we have to wait another twenty minutes.
We walk the Christmas Market in the park, the Fira de Nadal a la Sagrada Familia. Vendors are just starting to slowly open their booths.
We sit on a bench and eat an apple from the hotel. We look up at the Passion Facade.
We watch as three people, likely father, mother, and son walk through the crowd of tourists, then return to a spot behind a booth, and retrieve two cloth sacks from outside the plastic liner of a trash can.
Are they dangerous? Should we move? Should we tell someone?
The son kneels on the sidewalk, right in the middle of the crowd.
He slowly unwraps the cloth, folding it open on the ground. He begins to place items in rows.
A tourist comes up and hands him her phone. He attaches it to a pink 'selfie stick' and she offers him a five euro note.
20:30 PM, Fira de Santa Llúcia, Catedral de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
At a stall, we purchase a small el caganer.
We marvel at the nativity scenes, at the many ways people can decorate or design their own. Some are built of large bark pieces, others of tiny stone walls, designed to mimic old rock houses, with windows and half-covered straw rooftops. Assorted animal statues are sold, as well as different depictions of Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ, the shepherds, and wise men.
You can buy flats of moss, pine branches, and whole trees.
There isn't a single 'German' booth, like those which we've grown accustomed to in Edinburgh. There are no fudge or marzipan sellers. No bratwursts or pretzels.
Here, below the cathedral, the products are all telling the same story.
11:00 AM, Sunday, Mercado de San Miguel, Madrid, Spain.
Hundreds upon hundreds of people. Pushing, fighting, yelling. Ordering olives, oysters, paella, vermouth in a glass with ice, with lemon.
All are dressed in black. Most have just come from mass, or are on their way, their rosaries still hanging out of pockets. Crumpled prayer and scripture pamphlets on the floor.
An old man tries to sell us lotto tickets. Later, an old woman does the same.
12:00 Noon, Sunday, Santa María la Real de La Almudena, Madrid, Spain.
A few clanks of coins into a donation box.
Catholics rise from their pews, walk together, kneel, receive the host.
Tourists take pictures.
A woman, hidden somewhere within the dark places of the cathedral, is singing in Spanish. Her voice echoes back to us.
We wait until the pews refill, then walk quietly to the door and back out into the cold, Sunday light.
12:45 AM, Sunday, Templo de Debod, Madrid, Spain.
Climb the stone steps, turn left into the entrance.
Enter the dark rooms and read about the hieroglyphs. Wait in line and climb the wooden steps upstairs and wait to see a reconstructed map of Egypt.
Outside, amongst people taking selfies in the two archways that once led to the temple.
Sit with our feet hanging off the wall behind the temple, eating a stromboli of ham and mozzarella, purchased earlier at the market.
We watch the hazy light over the city. People walk their dogs. A young boy is kicking a ball back and forth with his father.
17:20, Sunday, Buen Retiro Park, Madrid Spain
Sitting in a cafe, drinking coffee and Campari on ice, watching people walk by.
Thousands of people are here this afternoon, speaking different languages, families of different ethnic and religious backgrounds.
On our way to the Atocha metro station, we stop at the Monumento del Angel Caido. At the top of the fountain, Lucifer is falling in place in bronze. All around us are skateboarders and people on roller blades.
Someone is playing music far off in the distance.
19:00, Sunday, Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain
Waiting for our flight. Delays, delays, delays.
Sitting in a row of chairs facing a blank wall with a small door. Over the doorway there is a sign: 'Capilla.'
We share a can of Mahou beer. We eat sandwiches with ham, cheese, and a barbacoa sauce.
At the gate next to us a plane is boarding for Turkey. The usual noise of people standing in line, of children fussing about and adults complaining to each other in whispers.
12:10 AM, Monday, The 100 Airlink Bus from the Edinburgh Airport to Waverley Station
We talk about the trip, about the things we saw, and how this will be the last trip for us to Europe for some time.
We talk about the people we encountered, about how so many of them seemed more concerned with pictures of themselves.
So many tourist traps, and so many sacred spaces.
Are we pilgrims? Are we a new type of pilgrim?
In the contemporary world, with terrorism and secularism and ever-changing religious diversity, what does it mean to visit a sacred place? What will it mean in the future?
Moreover, has our idea of the sacred changed, or, have these places become a hybrid?
A place to worship, as well as a place to take a selfie. To say: here I am, I was here, here's my proof.
What, then, is the difference between a selfie, and this sort of writing?
Is this not, in its own way, a literary selfie?
I went to these places, I am writing about them, here's my proof.
Everything is Temporary
December 1, 2015 December 14, 2015 / egquillen	/ 2 Comments
I'm standing at the bar in the lobby of the London Heathrow Ibis Hotel, ordering a sandwich, when the television behind the register flashes in bright red letters: BREAKING NEWS.
I hate that phrase.
Or rather, at this moment, I find myself having a deep and profound hatred of that phrase.
About five hours ago, I was sitting alone at a cafe in London Heathrow's Terminal 2 (the Queen's terminal), when out the window I watched as United Airlines flight 96 sped down the runway and lifted off into the air.
It'll be about another 5-6 hours until I can stop worrying.
On that flight are my wife and dog, heading back to America.
About two weeks ago, I told my wife that there are a number of dominoes that we've lined up: her last day at work; the family arriving for graduation; the ceremony itself; sending our dog back to the States; our last flight out.
As of last week, we tipped the first one over.
This is the fourth domino. Only one more to go.
So while I'm sitting here, eating my sandwich and waiting to find out if the two most important things in my life made it safely across the Atlantic while simultaneously refreshing United Airline's flight tracker, I thought I'd take a minute and write about the temporariness that has been our lives these last five years.
When you move to another country as a student, your life becomes a temporary thing. Right there, in your passport, your life has an expiration date. Ours is 31 December 2015. This is the time within which you must complete your degree, then go home.
So, though you might get a job, make friends, build a life, you know that it isn't meant to last. In that way, while it's a great metaphor for life in general, it also teaches you, from early on, not to get too attached to things.
Thus, you spend your time as a marginal person. You know, from the outset, that the things you love will have to be left behind: sitting on a particular bench in the Botanical Gardens, an odd little Mexican restaurant that has felt like home, pretzels at the Christmas Market, drinks outside on summer days, taxi rides in the rain, watching Scotland pass by through a train window, our seats at the Cameo.
That, and the people who come into your life slowly fade away. In fact, it's amazing how quickly those who were close friends become acquaintances, and then complete strangers. Many of them becoming nothing more than Facebook profiles, like all those you've left behind. Some, by their own doing.
What's more, you start to realise that you've become a different person as well. Sure, you're still an American, and nothing will change that, but you're also a bit Scottish. As much as you've tried to respect your hosts by not mimicking their accents, or colloquialisms, it's been almost five years, and things have rubbed off on you. This happened when you moved from California to Texas. Will these things change when you go back? Will you find yourself adapting these adaptations to a foreign, yet inherently familiar, context?
As you might expect, within this liminal stage you guard yourself. You protect yourself from getting too close to things, because you know they won't last. Interestingly, when you look back over the years and think of those fellow Americans who lived here but never really seemed to embrace Scotland, who always talked of the things they missed, of the differences between this place and 'home,' and who also seemed to be back in the States every Christmas or summer break, you start to realise this was their own way of protecting themselves as well.
Yet, it also isn't just those fellow Americans with whom you find yourself empathising toward the end. It's people here as well. You come to realise that perhaps those with whom your were close all this time, who have turned away from you when you needed them the most, are doing this to protect themselves from the disappointment or sadness of the reality that your relationship was a temporary thing.
The end of something is always difficult.
In fact, all in all it isn't easy. None of this is easy.
Yet, again, none of this is all that surprising. It isn't as if you suddenly, one day, realise that your time is up. You have years to prepare.
This is the essence of 'everything is temporary,' and again, I think it's an excellent lesson for life in general. There will always be moments when things feel like they've become permanent, when, even against your better judgment, you might find yourself bored with the monotony of life. That doesn't matter, because things will change.
Which also reminds me that while our time here has been measured by a stamp in our passports, we've also had the luxury of knowing when that end will come. Some, if not most, don't have that. For them, this realisation comes suddenly. Loved ones die, jobs end, love fades.
At least for us, the end has come just when it said it would, and though it is sad for its own reasons, it also means we get to move on into the next temporary stage which, if it's been anything like this one, should prove equally rewarding.


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Four players in Bret Williams, Travis Van Houten, Ryan McSorley and Tyler Aug had multi-hit days, with Van Houten and McSorley each driving in a pair of runs. On the mound, Mason Vogwill, Austin Kunkel and Tyler Stabley combined to allow just two runs, with Kunkel earning the win and Stabley picking up the save.
The Lions (10-2-1) fell behind 2-0 in the bottom of the third inning but a McSorley single through the left side that drove in Miguel Torres cut the deficit in half in the top of the fourth. The Blue & White drew even one frame later when a Van Houten ground ball allowed Jackson Struve to come across.
The visitors took the lead for the first time when Williams singled and plated Chase Smith and Torres in the top of the seventh. Van Houten tacked on another run thanks to a triple to center field that pushed Williams across before scoring himself on a passed ball later in the stanza.
The Bullets (6-4) got one back in the bottom of the seventh but McSorley helped add an insurance run for Penn State Harrisburg in the ninth when his single through the left side drove in Williams before Stabley closed things out in the bottom of the frame.
- Travis Van Houten went 2-for-5 with a triple, two RBI and a run scored.
- Bret Williams finished 2-for-4 with a walk, an RBI and a pair of runs scored.
- Ryan McSorley was 2-for-3 with two walks and two RBI.
- Tyler Aug went 2-for-4 with a walk.
- The Lions racked up 13 total hits.
- Mason Vogwill got the start for the Blue & White, going four innings and allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out four batters.
- Austin Kunkel earned the win, striking out four Bullets and not allowing an earned run in 2.1 innings of work.
- Tyler Stabley picked up his first save after surrendering just two hits in the final 2.2 innings he threw.
- Myles Burbank took the loss for Gettysburg, giving up four runs on four hits and a walk in 2.2 innings.
- Each team committed a pair of errors.
- Gettysburg stole a pair of bases.
- Jackson Struve racked up six putouts in right field.
- Ryan McSorley assisted on three outs from his third base position.
The Lions are right back at it on Wednesday afternoon when they travel to Susquehanna for another non-conference outing. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.


Sheet metal technician Don Hitsman shows Christian Chenard how to rivet aluminum.
Teenagers Christian Chenard and Sonia Wong are playing and important role in keeping Edmonton's aviation history alive.
Chenard, 15, and Wong, 16, have joined the ranks of volunteers in the Alberta Aviation Museum's restoration department. They are following in the footsteps of dozens of craftspeople who have turned piles of twisted wood, metal and fabric into an impressive collection of historic aircraft.
"Right now we are working on the restoration of a (Bell) P-39 Airacobra," says Chenard, a Grade 10 student who was caught by the aviation bug about five years ago. "The machines are just so fascinating. The fact that they can just get up in the air and fly and do all these amazing things is remarkable. And the fact that I can work on them and make them look good, I find that very interesting."
Wong, who attends Grade 11 and spends her days studying academic subjects, loves the opportunity to work with her hands.
"Being able to work with a group of experienced individuals in the museum with all these wonderful broken pieces of aircraft is just amazing. Because there is so much to learn."
Teaching them the intricacies of aircraft sheet metal fabrication is Don Hitsman, a 10-year veteran of the museum's restoration crew and a licensed air frame structures technician. Hitsman previously worked on the Museum's B-25 Mitchell and is the go-to expert for all complex sheet metal projects. He takes his teaching role seriously.
"With the young people I get reassured that all the work that we put into this place will get passed on. I want this museum to stay around for a long time," he says. "It's our job to bring on the next people so it's important for me to pass the torch."
Hitsman is particularly pleased to see several young women like Wong taking an interest.
"During World War II, the woman were fixing the airplanes ... so this is really a place women are entitled to be, hence the name "Rosie the Riveter."
You can learn more by attending our Volunteer Information Session, February 10 at 11am. Help us spread the word about Edmonton's unique and important role in Canadian aviation.
Mike Kutyn and his 418 Squadron crew under the nose of the B-25 Mitchell.
Mike Kutyn in 2013 speaking to our Blatchford Tales Oral History project.
It is a sad fact of collecting Edmonton's aviation heritage that we are losing many of those who have contributed to that legacy. Such is the case with Michael Kutyn, who died January 3, at the age of 95.
Kutyn was a Word War II navigator who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), then returned to Edmonton where he flew for another 20 years as part of 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron.
Growing up in Wildwood, just west of Edmonton he remembers being enchanted after seeing his first real airplane.
"One Sunday as we were having dinner we heard this strange noise," he wrote in Diary of an RCAF Serviceman, a memoir of his years in the military. "It was an airplane flying directly over the house. It looked beautiful against the blue sky. From that moment on, my ambition was to fly airplanes."
But after joining the RCAF in 1941 he changed his mind. He got into a spin during a solo flight. That incident scared him so much he decided to become a navigator instead.
And what a navigator he was. After training in Britain, he finished at the top of his class with 87 per cent. He was assigned to a special unit flying two Halifax bombers and two Lancaster bombers to India, the first time British bombers would make that trip.
In the fall of 1944 Kutyn was lead navigator for a 1000 aircraft raid on the German city of Duisburg.
That flight, along with 30 other bombing raids in which he served as navigator, earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.
At the end of the war, Kutyn returned to Edmonton, where he joined the post office. But he missed flying and in 1949 he joined the ranks of "weekend warriors" flying with 418 City of Edmonton Squadron.
Tragically, Kutyn's own brother John, was killed in the crash of a 418 Squadron Mitchell bomber in January 1955. But Kutyn himself says he was never fearful about his own safety while in the air, despite the fact that he was involved in three crashes during the war, and four more post war.
"I had faith above I guess. I was never scared. I always felt like my life was in good hands," he told our Blatchford Tales Oral History Project in 2013. "And to have that kind of feeling when you have been in all those airplane crashes. And your still talking to him."
Mike Kutyn is not the only loss the museum community has had in the past few months. Lois Argue, the first of the RCAF Women's Division members to be posted to Blatchford Field during World War II, died December 11 at the age of 96. You can read more about Argue and the memorial held at the AAM here.
Finally, another old friend of the museum, Zona Lodmell, died December 28, at the age of 86. She was a frequent face around the museum, particularly during our Tuesday and Thursday lunches. Her husband, Elmer Lodmell, was a long time volunteer who helped with much of the electrical work in the hangar during the early years of the museum. After Elmer's death in 2013, Zona continued coming to the hangar, often bringing with her clippings from the local paper for Curator Lech Lebiedowski.
We offer our condolences to the friends and families of Mike Kutyn, Lois Argue and Zona Lodmell. They all the left a legacy that will help keep Edmonton's aviation history live.
The Alberta Aviation Museum's biennial casino is our largest fundraiser and it requires a squadron of volunteers.
Thanks to those who have already stepped forward to help. But we still have some key jobs we need to fill.
Please email Michelle Shirtcliff if you can help, or call her at 780-451-1175 x104.
February 10, 11am to 1pm. Volunteer Information Session. Drop in and see all the ways you can help us better tell Edmonton's amazing aviation history. From Education Program Instructors to Special Event Assistants. There is a job for you as part of our exciting and growing team. More details here.
January 25,, 5pm to 8pm. Servus Community Access Night. This free event is your chance bring the whole family to see what the Alberta Aviation Museum has to offer. Thanks to Servus Credit Union for their support for this great program. See more about Servus' community program support here.
April 22, 2pm. Annual General Meeting of the Alberta Aviation Museum Association. Election of Board of Directors, update on the museim's operations and finances, ammendments to bylaws. More details here.


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Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended June 28, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers (statistically weighted to represent all such outlets); national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Perennial sellers are not actively tracked. Expanded rankings are available on the Web: nytimes.com/books. All four children's lists appear each week on the Book Review's Web site. Publishers have provided the age designations for their best-selling children's titles.
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1 33 GALLOP!,written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder. (Workman, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8)
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4 24 ZEN TIES,written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth. (Scholastic, $17.99.) Stillwater the Buddhist panda encourages friends to help a neighbor. (Ages 4 to 8)
5 23 SMASH! CRASH!,by Jon Scieszka. Illustrated by David Shannon, Loren Long and David Gordon. (Simon & Schuster, $16.99.) A truck named Jack and a dump truck named Dan love to smash into things. (Ages 3 to 7)
6 12 DON'T BUMP THE GLUMP!,written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) His first collection of nonsense verse, originally published in 1964. (Ages 5 and up)
7 16 DIRT ON MY SHIRT,by Jeff Foxworthy. Illustrated by Steve Bjorkman. (HarperCollins, $16.99.) Poems of childhood by the comedian and TV host. (Ages 4 to 7)
8 15 LADYBUG GIRL,by Jacky Davis and David Soman. Illustrated by David Soman. (Dial, $16.99.) Creativity and the right outfit let a little girl feel bigger. (Ages 4 and up)
9 10 READ ALL ABOUT IT!,by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush. Illustrated by Denise Brunkus. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A boy is surprised to discover that he loves story/books. (Ages 4 to 8)
10 4 HELP ME, MR. MUTT!,by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. Illustrated by Janet Stevens. (Harcourt, $17.) A canine counselor encounters a big problem — a cat. (Ages 4 to 8)


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Abbakka Chowta
Updated on Nov 28, 2021
Reign 1525 – ?? 1570s
Spouse Banga Lakshmappa Arasa
Religion Jainism
Predecessor Tirumala Raya Chowta
House Chowta
Similar Keladi Chennamma, Onake Obavva, Kittur Chennamma, Belawadi Mallamma, Sangolli Rayanna
Rani Abbakka Chowta was the Queen of Ullal who fought the Portuguese in the latter half of the 16th century. She belonged to the Chowta dynasty who ruled over parts of coastal Karnataka (Tulu Nadu), India. Their capital was Puttige. The port town of Ullal served as their subsidiary capital. The Portuguese made several attempts to capture Ullal as it was strategically placed. But Abbakka repulsed each of their attacks for over four decades. For her bravery, she came to be known as Abhaya Rani (The fearless queen). She was also one of the earliest Indians to fight the colonial powers and is sometimes regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'. In the state of Karnataka, she is celebrated along with Rani Kittur Chennamma, Keladi Chennamma and Onake Obavva, as the foremost women warriors and patriots.
Battles against the Portuguese
Folklore and legend
Rani Abbakka class patrol vessel
The Chowtas followed the system of matrilineal inheritance (Aliyasantana) by which Tirumala Raya, Abbakka's uncle, crowned her the queen of Ullal. He also forged a matrimonial alliance for Abbakka with Lakshmappa Arasa, the King of the Banga principality in Mangalore. This alliance was to later prove a source of worry for the Portuguese. Tirumala Raya also trained Abbakka in the different aspects of warfare and military strategy. The marriage, however was short lived and Abbakka returned to Ullal. Her husband thus longed for revenge against Abbakka and was to later join the Portuguese in their fight against Abbakka.
After overrunning Goa and taking control of it, the Portuguese turned their attention southwards and along the coast. They first attacked the South Kanara coast in 1525 and destroyed the Mangalore port. Ullal was a prosperous port and a hub of the spice trade to Arabia and other countries in the west. Being the profitable trading center that it was, the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British vied with one another for control of the region as well as the trade routes. They however, had not been able to make much headway as the resistance from the local chieftains was very strong. The local rulers even forged alliances cutting across caste and religion lines.
Though Abbakka was a Jain by faith, her administration was well represented by Hindus and Muslims. Her army too consisted of people of all sects and castes. She even forged alliances with the Zamorin of Calicut. Together, they kept the Portuguese at bay. The marital ties with the neighbouring Banga dynasty added further strength to the alliance of the local rulers. She also gained support from powerful king Venkatappanayaka of Bidnur and ignored the threat of Portuguese forces.
The Portuguese, clearly upset by Abbakka's tactics, demanded that she pay them tribute but Abbakka refused to yield. In 1555, the Portuguese sent Admiral Dom Álvaro da Silveira to fight her after she refused to pay them tribute. In the battle that followed, Rani Abbakka once again managed to hold her own and repulsed the attack successfully.
In 1557, the Portuguese plundered Mangalore and laid waste to it. In 1568, they turned their attention to Ullal but Abbakka Rani resisted them yet again. João Peixoto, a Portuguese general and a fleet of soldiers were sent by the Portuguese Viceroy António Noronha. They managed to capture the city of Ullal and also entered the royal court. Abbakka Rani, however, escaped and took refuge in a mosque. The same night, she gathered around 200 of her soldiers and mounted an attack on the Portuguese. In the battle that ensued, General Peixoto was killed, seventy Portuguese soldiers were taken prisoners and many of the Portuguese retreated. In further attacks, Abbakka Rani and her supporters killed Admiral Mascarenhas and the Portuguese were also forced to vacate the Mangalore fort.
In 1569 however, the Portuguese not only regained the Mangalore fort but also captured Kundapur (Basrur). Despite these gains, Abbakka Rani continued to remain a source of threat. With the help of the queen's estranged husband, they mounted attacks on Ullal. Furious battles followed but Abbakka Rani held her own. In 1570, she formed an alliance with the Bijapur Sultan of Ahmed Nagar and the Zamorine of Calicut, who were also opposing the Portuguese. Kutty Pokar Markar, the Zamorine's general fought on behalf of Abbakka and destroyed the Portuguese fort at Mangalore but while returning he was killed by the Portuguese. Following these losses and her husband's treachery, Abbakka lost the war, was arrested and jailed. However, even in prison she revolted and died fighting.
According to traditional accounts, she was an immensely popular queen and this is also attested by the fact that she is even today a part of folklore. The queen's story has been retold from generation to generation through folk songs and Yakshagana, a popular folk theatre in [Coastal Karnataka]. In Bhuta Kola, a local ritual dance, the persona in trance recounts the great deeds of Abbakka Mahadevi. Abbakka is portrayed as dark and good looking, always dressed in simple clothes like a commoner. She is portrayed as a caring queen who worked late into the night dispensing justice. Legends also claim that Abbakka was the last known person to have used the Agnivana (fire-arrow) in her fight against the Portuguese. Some accounts also claim that she had two equally valiant daughters who fought alongside her in her wars against the Portuguese. Tradition however treats all three - mother and two daughters as the same person.
Abbakka's memory is much cherished in her home town of Ullal. The "Veera Rani Abbakka Utsava" is an annual celebration held in her memory. The Veera Rani Abbakka Prashasti(award) is awarded to distinguished women on the occasion. On January 15, 2003, the Indian postal department issued a special cover on Rani Abbakka. There have been calls to name the Bajpe airport. A bronze statue of the queen has been erected in Ullal and another in Bangalore. The Karnataka Itihasa Academy has called for renaming the Queen's road in the state capital as 'Rani Abbakka Devi road'.
Rani Abbakka-class patrol vessel
The Indian Coast Guard ship ICGS Rani Abbakka, the 1st of a series of five inshore patrol vessels (IPV) built at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd is named after Abbakka Mahadevi was commissioned in Visakhapatnam on January 20, 2012, and is based in Chennai.
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MILAN, ITALY — The world's largest hearing aid retailer Amplifon SpA doesn't plan to step aside while hearing aid manufacturers continue to acquire retailers across the globe. In a July 28 interview by Reuters, the company's CEO says that Amplifon is ready to make "major acquisitions" in order to bolster the company's position as the number 1 global retailer of hearing aids.
The company, which says it holds approximately 9 percent of the global market, has been recently been focused on buying retail hearing chains in Europe. The competition, however, has increased substantially in the last few years due to hearing aid manufacturer's growing interest in the retail sector. AudioNova, one of the largest hearing chains in Europe, recently sold to Sonova for close to $1 billion USD–making Sonova one of Amplifon's biggest retail competitors.
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Enrico Vita, Amplifon CEO. Image courtesy Reuters
Amplifon has so far focused primarily on a large number of small acquisitions, however, CEO Enrico Vita told Reuters that the company is ready for bigger targets. Specifically, he said the company is looking for possibly five or six hearing retailers, with revenues of €100-€200 million euros, in countries like Germany, France, Spain and Austria.
"Our objective is to lead consolidation and to play a role as a protagonist. We are looking at these potential targets in order to be ready in case they become available and up for sale."
–Enrico Vita, Amplifon CEO
Amplifon, which owns well-known US brands like Miracle Ear and the Elite Hearing Network, has an estimated market value of 2.7 billion euros, less than some of the hearing aid companies that are expanding into retail. Asked in the Reuters interview if this could make them a target for takeover, company CEO Vita responded by saying ,"This is not part of the plan. Our objective is to lead consolidation."
The company says they are also expanding and building up businesses in emerging markets, like Brazil, India and Turkey, and are optimistic about future opportunities that could become available in China in the next 12 months.
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Q: C - scanf waits until all parts in format can be evaluated I don't have a lot of time, and a lot of the stuff about stdin just raises a lot more questions than it answers at this stage. I was hoping to test for multiple types of commands passed with mutliple instances of scanf.
If I do this:
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double inputDec;

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And then type a single character and hit Enter, the console waits until I enter another value before assessing whether or not there's a match.
Update
This seems to work fine, except that it expects your input to the perfect whenever it's used. If a user types aa then changes it to a 10 before hitting Enter, it matches the 4th evaluation. It's wrong for two reasons:

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*Because it should match the 3rd if it's capturing input correctly; and

*Because if it doesn't, aa should be filtered into the 5th evaluation.

Revised code:
char input[50] = { NULL };

char inputChar = NULL;
char inputChars[15] = { NULL };
int inputInt;
double inputDec;

printf("Input String:\n>");

fgets(input,sizeof(input),stdin);

if(sscanf(input,"%c%d %lf",&inputChar,&inputInt,&inputDec) == 3) { }
else if(sscanf(input,"%c%d%s",&inputChar,&inputInt,&inputChars) == 3) { }
else if(sscanf(input,"%c%d",&inputChar,&inputInt) == 2) { }
else if(sscanf(input,"%c",&inputChar) == 1) { }
else { }

Doing something like this shows that backspace is not being filtered out:
for(int i=0;i<50;i++) {
    if(input[i] == (char) 10) { break; }
    printf("\n%c %d",(char) input[i],(int) input[i]);
}

So it appears fgets is out of the picture.

A: The statements are executed in order. So it's the first scanf call that waits for more input. If the input doesn't match the first call, then the next scanf call will start all over, waiting for input. And so on.
Instead you should use fgets to read the whole line, and then use sscanf on the line.

A: Please explain what "clears the input buffer" means. Do you mean _flushall erases my keystrokes before they occur? How could it do this? Perhaps you mean that you've already read the data that you need from the line, and you don't care about the rest of the line. In that case, I assume you wish to "read and discard all characters up to and including the next newline". I have a portable mechanism to do that:
for (int c = getchar(); c >= 0 && c != '\n'; c = getchar());

You may also wish to read this related answer.
edit: It has just occured to me that the behaviour you desire might be expressed as follows:
char inputChar;
char inputChars[15] = { NULL };
int inputInt;
double inputDec;
int x = scanf("%c%d", &inputChar, &inputInt);

if (x == 2 && scanf("%lf",&inputDec) == 1) {
    ...
}
else if (x == 2 && scanf("%14s", inputChars) == 1) {
    ...
}
else {
    ...
}

A: Probably not the best way to go about it but it works.
Using the iostream library run getline(std::cin,input); to capture input to std::string input then use sscanf however many times on input.c_str().

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Bill de Blasio
Trump is from New York City, but you can't tell from his policies
Bill de Blasio is boycotting a planned meeting with President Donald Trump because despite Trump's New York City roots, his administration isn't pursuing an urban agenda.
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By Grace Segers
President Donald Trump is the first commander in chief from New York since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Raised in Queens, the Manhattan-based real estate mogul had significant ties to the local media and once defended his "New York values" on the campaign trail. But, despite his city roots, the Trump administration so far has not instituted many urban-friendly policies.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who Trump once called "the worst mayor in the history of New York City," was supposed to be among a group of more than 100 mayors visiting the White House on Wednesday to discuss infrastructure. Hours before the meeting, de Blasio announced on Twitter that he would not attend, due to the U.S. Justice Department's "racist assault on our immigrant communities."
As de Blasio would have been rubbing elbows with the mayors of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Dubuque, Iowa, and Hope Township, New Jersey (population 1,952), this gathering was likely to be less intimate than his last meeting with Trump in November 2016 when the mayor visited the president-elect in Trump Tower.
But de Blasio's decision not to visit the White House also reflects the divergent priorities of the two administrations. As a candidate, Trump said that in "our inner cities, African-Americans, Hispanics, are living in hell, because it's so dangerous." Trump said he meant this as a form of outreach to urban and nonwhite voters, an argument that they had nothing to lose by giving him a try. (Trump's critics countered that it was just another way of appealing to the biases of many white voters.) One year into his presidency, Trump has not done much since taking office to fix problems in cities or help his hometown. In some cases, his policies have hurt urban areas. Here are some examples from major policy areas:
De Blasio's statement was likely responding to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' threat to subpoena sanctuary cities, such as New York. The Trump administration has taken a hard line toward undocumented immigrants, most notably by ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which will expire in March.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration has also expanded enforcement. Earlier this month, federal immigration agents raided nearly 100 7-Eleven stores around the country targeting undocumented workers, including 16 in the New York City area. ICE also detained a prominent immigrant rights activist this month in Manhattan, which resulted in a chaotic protest and the arrests of two New York City Council members.
Urban housing and anti-poverty activists have criticized the Trump administration for appointing unqualified loyalists to key housing policy positions. At the beginning of his term, the president tapped Ben Carson, a conservative pundit and retired pediatric neurosurgeon with no previous experience in housing, urban policy or government, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The administration later appointed Lynne Patton, a former event planner who worked on the Trump campaign and helped plan Eric Trump's wedding, to be the regional administrator of HUD for New York and New Jersey in June.
Earlier this month, HUD extended the deadline for the Obama-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which would require communities to review patterns of housing segregation and come up with plans to address segregation, contingent upon receiving block grants and housing aid. Housing advocates fear that delaying the implementation of the rule until 2020 could derail the examinations that are already underway, resulting in cities prioritizing other issues. New York City is scheduled to begin its review this year.
The Trump administration also seems to have abandoned the federal government's Obama-era commitment to provide half the funding for the Gateway rail tunnel underneath the Hudson River. In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reached a tentative funding deal, but it was dismissed by the federal government.
Earlier this week, a Politico New York article revealed the Trump administration's principles for an infrastructure plan, reflecting the idea that local governments should fund greater portions of infrastructure projects. If a new tunnel is not built, experts have warned of an economic "apocalypse" that will occur if the current one fails.
The new federal tax law, signed by Trump in December, also threatens funding for New York City's beleaguered subway system, as the federal government may cut programs that the MTA relies on in order to pay for its $1.5 trillion tax cut. The tax overhaul also capped the state and local income and property tax deduction at $10,000, which could harm New York City residents who pay high property taxes.
The Environmental Protection Agency has relaxed pollution standards under the Trump administration, which could be harmful to New York City. In late October, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that he was suing the EPA for failing to curb smog pollution entering New York from upwind states. Schneiderman is also leading 15 state attorneys general in a lawsuit against the EPA for flouting Clean Air Act regulations. New York City announced this month that it was suing five oil companies over their role in climate change.
The lack of regard between Trump and his hometown appears to be mutual. On Jan. 21, 2017, the day after his inauguration, approximately 400,000 people marched in New York City to protest Trump's new administration. Trump's subsequent visits to his hometown since becoming president have also been met with protests. This past Saturday, around 200,000 people marched down Sixth Avenue to lament the first anniversary of the president's inauguration.
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Motor Boat News
Campbell's Bluebird returns to life
Nick Burnham July 19, 2012
Water speed record breaker makes a splash after seven decade break.
Malcolm Campbell's world water speed record breaking Bluebird K3 has roared across the water for thefirst time since being retired 74 years ago. The 23ft single step hydroplane carried out successful trials last week on Bewl Water as the culmination of a 22-year restoration project.
Bluebird K3, which was designed by Fred Cooper and built by Saunders-Roe on the Isle of Wight, waspowered by a 2,500hp Rolls Royce petrol engine. After shakedown trials Campbell took the boat to Lake Maggiore in Italy where, on 1st September 1937, it broke the water speed record with a new average speed of 123.33 mph.
Just over a year later Campbell and Bluebird K3 did even better, setting a new record of 130.91mph on Hallwilersee in Switzerland, following which the boat was retired. It was acquired by the Foulkes Halbard Collection in 1988, and restoration of the iconic craft began at Filching Manor, East Sussex, the following year.
Greenline 45 Coupe first look: Handsome cruiser gets more room for solar panels
Frauscher 1212 Ghost first look: This 50-knot speedster cares not for practicality


I have been using thumbnail class by 'Ian Selby' v1 that can crop image from center and create thumbnail by given width and height parameters but that was not flexible. If the image has same width and height ratio (e.g. 100×100 or 500×500) then it is great to crop and resize image from center and the full image thumbnail will be displayed as a result.
If this is not the case and width of image is like 200px and height is 800px then that class is not good enough. It will not crop full image but it will crop image from center. I needed a thumbnail class that can create thumbnail of full image, doesn't matter what is the width and what is the height of an image. Recently I used Timthumb that worked great. Here is how to use Timthumb php script to crop image and create thumbnail.
You will need Timthumb script but after you download/copy it, make sure it has php closing tag at the end of it. If it does not have php closing tag, add closing tag to it. Also see here and here.
Ok Timthumb is said to be vulnerable. In my opinion, it is said because it requires cache folder with chmod 777 to use image cache. The point is, if you are security conscious (which you should be), do not use cache for this script. Remove cache folder and turn off cache from the script.
And you are good to go secure. At least in my opinion.
Ok. This script will create thumbnails, that's for sure. If its not, then you need to troubleshoot your code.
Always confirm that the image URL that you are giving is correct?
If you are using mod-rewrite, URL rewriting, then make sure to provide absolute path of image.
I repeat: Use absolute path, for script and for image.
If images are not displaying, it means there is some problem in timthumb file path or the image path.
And of course you need GD2 library, that is enabled in most cases (on hosts / servers). If using localhost (wamp etc.), edit configfiles > php.ini and make sure GD2 extension is uncommented.
Use firebug to see your output of image and track the path of image and script if you are not getting the thumbnails.
I hope I made sense above.


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Hécate est un roman de Pierre Jean Jouve paru en 1928. Associé à Vagadu (paru en 1931), il constitue le premier volet du diptyque Aventure de Catherine Crachat.

Résumé rapide
Le diptyque Aventure de Catherine Crachat débute par Hécate (1928) qui conte l'histoire d'une star de cinéma, Catherine Crachat, qui cherche son destin entre différents hommes et différentes femmes. On retient surtout la figure de Pierre Indemini, mathématicien, peintre et poète, et celle de la baronne Fanny Felicitas Hohenstein, la « femme fatale ». Comme Hécate, la déesse lunaire à laquelle elle est comparée, Catherine conduit à la mort ceux et celles qu'elle aime. Le roman peut aussi être lu comme une percutante chronique de la vie dans les milieux intellectuels, mondains, artistiques et féministes des Années 1920 en Europe.

Édition disponible en poche
 Hécate, suivi de Vagadu, L'Imaginaire/Gallimard (2010).

Liens externes
 Lire Hécate aujourd'hui sur le site des Lecteurs de Pierre Jean Jouve à l'occasion de l'édition de Hécate suivi de Vagadu en Imaginaire/Gallimard.

Roman français paru en 1928

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Thankful for President Trump's support.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump endorsed embattled Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race on Monday, looking past sexual misconduct allegations against the GOP candidate to argue that his vote is needed in Congress.
Trump for weeks was silent after the allegations against Moore surfaced, and the White House has said he had no plans to make campaign appearances before the Dec. 12 election. But Trump in recent days has raised doubts about the allegations against Moore, and he has agreed to headline a campaign-style rally in Pensacola, Florida — less than 20 miles from the Alabama border — just four days before the Alabama election.