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Bill's life trajectory from Harvard School (now known as Harvard-Westlake) to Occidental College to banking to heading up the The Ahmanson Foundation seems a natural path for a scion of one of Los Angeles' most philanthropic families. But if you follow his path, it is actually one that may have some surprises.
During breaks and vacations from Harvard School he worked at a Hungarian independent auto shop cleaning bathrooms, car parts and learning basic auto repair. At Occidental, Bill's major areas of study were theater arts, concentrating in set and lighting design, Political Science and a minor sculpture. While in college, he applied to Home Savings of America, the bank founded by his uncle Howard, without letting a single Ahmanson know. He got the job, a part-time teller. After 17 years, mostly specializing in turning around troubled offices, Bill's last position at Home was Chief Underwriter for Residential Lending, responsible for all high-risk loans funded in California. After that, he worked in Union Bank's wealth management division. All of this experience he applies today.
Did we mention he worked for the Los Angeles Police Department? Bill spent over a decade working patrol as a reserve officer, two to three shifts a month. His father asked tongue-in-cheek, "Why do you want to direct traffic at the Hollywood Bowl?" His father found out after Officer Ahmanson's graduation from the Police Academy, a Reserve handles the same radio calls as a regular officer and Bill preferred areas like South Los Angeles and Rampart. Bill explains, "We all have the responsibility to contribute to our communities and this was the best way I could at the time. I miss that job every day."
The Ahmanson Foundation's purpose is to build community for the common good, increase quality of life in Southern California and enhance its cultural legacy. When asked about its mission, his uncle's vision and whether he felt he was taking the Foundation in a new direction, Bill answered, "I try to be true to what my uncle wanted, to honor those that came before me. I look at doing different things but not ones that he would find objectionable. What's important is to help the poor and better the community."
To understand the Ahmansons' commitment to help others is to understand their history. Bill's great-great-great-grandfather Johan, while visiting New York, wrote to his young son "Willie" in February 1882 expressing concern for "…many poor little boys and girls, not much bigger than you…carrying big burdens…." That message has been passed down the line. Bill's father, Robert Ahmanson, was recognized at the 2004 Cardinal's Awards Dinner, making Bill the second Ahmanson to receive the award. When asked what lessons his father passed on to him, Bill answers, "His values are my values: be fair, be honest, look out for others."
In addition to the Foundation supporting the arts, medicine, programs related to homelessness and low-income populations, Bill is passionate about a relatively new project at the Foundation, the Ahmanson Veteran Scholarship Initiative that is to recruit, educate and retain student veterans by removing obstacles that stand in the way of college graduation. "These men and women have given so much to our country. This is a way to restart their education and assimilate back to civilian lives." For the past four years, the Foundation has given out grants to 24 private colleges and universities. Over 230 veterans are currently receiving assistance.
Bill also enjoys leadership positions in many of the city's most high-profile institutions such as LACMA, Center Theatre Group, Marlborough School, Petersen Automotive Museum and the Archdiocese Development of Los Angeles Board. He has received many honors for his work including the National Association of Veteran-Serving Organizations' Joseph D. Helton Jr. Award for Leadership; Walt Disney Man of the Year from Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, where he is currently a Big Brother; and The Rotary Foundation's Paul Harris Fellow award. When asked which award means the most to him, Bill answers that they all have touched him. But he adds, that after tonight's ceremony, the Cardinal's Award will be one of the awards he is most proud of including the honors that Pope Benedict bestowed on him, the Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great and the Benemerenti Award.
The Cardinal's Award Dinner isn't new to Bill and not just because his father was honored over a decade ago. Serving as emcee for four consecutive years and as a guest many times, Bill has been moved by what it means to be a recipient. "I have seen the quality of the people honored. It is humbling and daunting. It makes you want to keep up the work."
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Self-styled god man Rampal acquitted in two criminal cases
Agencies29 Aug 2017 11:16 AM GMT
Hisar: A Hisar court today acquitted self-styled god man Rampal in connection with two criminal cases registered against him, citing lack of evidence.
Judicial Magistrate, Hisar, Mukesh Kumar pronounced the verdict, acquitting Rampal, head of Satlok Ashram, Barwala and his followers here.
On August 24, the judge had deferred the date of hearing to August 29 after the police cited tension in the wake of the Dera Sacha Sauda case.
"The court has acquitted Rampal in both the cases," said Rampal's counsel A P Singh while talking to reporters here today.
On November 17, 2014, a case was registered against Rampal and his followers under sections 186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of public function), 332 (Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging his duty) of the IPC.
Another case was registered against Rampal and his followers Purshotam Dass, Raj Kumar, Mohinder Singh, Rajender Singh, Rahul and 30-40 other persons on November 18, 2014 on a complaint of Sukhdev Singh of Ratia (Fatehabad) for rioting, unlawful assembly, disobedience to an order lawfully promulgated by a public servant and wrongfully confining any person.
Rampal was arrested after a tense standoff between some his supporters and the police after close to 15,000 of his followers were evacuated from the sprawling ashram premises in 2014.
The standoff had then turned violent, resulting into the death of five persons.
Rampal had resisted a police operation for his arrest on the Punjab and Haryana court orders. He had even refused to appear in the High court to reply to charges like contempt of court. He had holed himself up inside his ashram in Barwala, Hisar.
Rampal would remain in jail as he is facing other charges including sedition, the defence counsel said.

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That's according to researchers at UCLA, who analyzed more than 500 pet owners and found nothing to support the long-held "crazy cat lady" stereotype.
The study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, observed how people reacted to distress calls from animals and also compared pet ownership with mental health-related or social difficulties.
Its results will come as a relief to those people who, absurdly, prefer cats to dogs -- and should give those who cling to the popular "cat lady" trope paws for thought.
"We found no evidence to support the 'cat lady' stereotype: cat-owners did not differ from others on self-reported symptoms of depression, anxiety or their experiences in close relationships," the study said.
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The git annex sync command provides an easy way to keep several repositories in sync.
Often git is used in a centralized fashion with a central bare repository which changes are pulled and pushed to using normal git commands. That works fine, if you don't mind having a central repository.
But it can be harder to use git in a fully decentralized fashion, with no central repository and still keep repositories in sync with one another. You have to remember to pull from each remote, and merge the appropriate branch after pulling. It's difficult to push to a remote, since git does not allow pushes into the currently checked out branch.
git annex sync makes it easier using a scheme devised by Joachim Breitner. The idea is to have a branch synced/master (actually, synced/$currentbranch), that is never directly checked out, and serves as a drop-point for other repositories to use to push changes.
When you run git annex sync, it merges the synced/master branch into master, receiving anything that's been pushed to it. (If there is a conflict in this merge, automatic conflict resolution is used to resolve it). Then it fetches from each remote, and merges in any changes that have been made to the remotes too. Finally, it updates synced/master to reflect the new state of master, and pushes it out to each of the remotes.
This way, changes propagate around between repositories as git annex sync is run on each of them. Every repository does not need to be able to talk to every other repository; as long as the graph of repositories is connected, and git annex sync is run from time to time on each, a given change, made anywhere, will eventually reach every other repository.
Make some changes to files in the repository, using git-annex, or anything else.
Run git annex sync to save the changes.
Next time you're working on a different clone of that repository, run git annex sync to update it.
Note that by default, git annex sync only synchronises the git repositories, but does not transfer the content of annexed files. If you want to fully synchronise two repositories content, you can use git annex sync --content. You can also configure preferred content settings to make only some content be synced.
See git-annex-sync for the command's man page.
I cam upon git-annex a few months ago. I saw immidiately how it could help with some frustrations I've been having. One in particlar is keeping my vimrc in sync accross multiple locations and platforms. I finally took the time to give it a try after I finally hit my boiling point this morning. I went through the walkthrough and now I have an annax everywhere I need it. git annex sync and my vimrc is up-to-date, simply grand!
Good for syncing indexes, but if I want to synchronise all data files too (specifically pushing to a remote bare repository), how do I do that?
Yes, sync only syncs the git branches, not git-annex data. To sync the date, you can run a command such as git annex copy --to bareremote. You could run that in cron. Or, the assistant can be run as a daemon, and automatically syncs git-annex data.
Sure assistant can sync git-annex data across remotes. But how do I tell a repo to sync git-annex data, but not so manually as to having to know what exactly needs to be copied from/to where?
By default, git annex sync will sync to all remotes, unless you specify a remote. So, I have to specify, e.g., git annex sync origin. I can simplify this with aliases, I suppose, but I do a lot of teaching non-programmer scientists... so it'd be nice to be able to configure this (so beginning users don't have to keep track of as many things).
Is there (or will there be) a way to do this?
I feel that syncing with all remotes by default is the right thing for git annex sync to do.
I'm trying to teach beginning scientist programmers (mostly graduate students), and a common scenario is to fork some scientific code. I'd like forking on github to be mundane, and not trigger warnings, and generally have as little for folks to explicitly keep track of as possible (this seems to be a common concern we share, which leads you to prefer syncing to all remotes without the option to configure the default behavior!).
However, I am currently working with students on forking and fixing up scientific code where the upstream maintainer doesn't want to allow pushes upstream, except via pull request. So, part of our approach is to set up some common shared datasets in git annex (and these just end up in our fork). If we have an "upstream" remote, git annex will try to sync with it, and report an error.
So - that's why I'd like to be able to configure the deactivation of syncing to a defined branch (e.g., "upstream"). However, if you have other suggestions to smooth the workflow, I would also like to hear those!
@Dav what kind of url does the upstream remote have? Perhaps it would be sufficient to make sync skip trying to push to git:// and http[s]:// remotes. Both are unlikely to accept pushes and in the cases where they do accept pushes it would be fine to need a manual git push.
assistant) from syncing with this remote.
The URLs in question in this case were read-only github https URLs. In any case, my problems are solved by what you've already suggested. I think a less error-sounding response to read-only https repos sounds nice!
I noticed that in a test with 2 local repositories and around 2'000 files "git annex sync" is still very fast, but "git annex sync --content" takes multiple seconds. Is this avoidable?
I have a central repo and client repos. I want to copy all content to the central repo after a commit. Right now, I use "git annex group central backup", "git annex wanted central standard", and a hook that triggers "git annex sync --content" after each commit. Maybe there is a more efficient way to do this? Thanks for sharing thoughts.
I too feel that syncing all remotes by default is the right thing to do, but I think it should be limited to the 'master' and 'git-annex' branch. I often create branches that I want to keep local and do not want them to be synced. But I want 'master' and 'git-annex' branches to be synced with all remotes.
I agree with mshri. It's confusing to have every local branch wind up on every remote (and it hinders «git annex unused»).
I tried working around this by just including relevant branches in the «fetch» refspec, but this will only work until another remote pushes the branches again.
We seem to have some rumor going around that git annex sync pushes all branches. It does not. It pushes only the git-annex branch and the currently checked out branch.
@Matthias, git annex sync --content has to check each file to see if any other repository wants it. This is necessarily going to get slow when there are a lot of files. The assistant does a similar syncing but uses some tricks to avoid scanning all the files too often, while still managing to keep them all in sync -- it can do this since it's a long-running daemon and is aware when files have changed.
Well, I have two git annex-ed repositories where "git remote -v" properly lists the other repo, and "git annex sync foo" manages to pull from foo, but "git annex sync" without a remote name simply does a local sync. Also, neither command pushes anything anywhere.
So, where does "git annex" get its list of remotes from? What could prevent it from accessing them?
If a remote has "remote..annex-sync" set to false in the git config, git-annex sync will skip that remote unless you specify the name. That's probably what's going on in your case.
I don't need a synced/git-annex. If upstream is not up-to-date I fetch and merge. In this case upstream happens to be a bare git repo, so I don't need synced/master either. If upstream is non-bare, I use synced/master -- or sometimes I keep upstream usually checked out on an orphan branch and just switch into master to check things and then switch away to avoid conflict. If I can avoid it, I prefer not to have several branches where I don't know which one is the latest one.
If I just do git push, close the lid and run into the forest, it may or may not have a non-fastforward event on master and git-annex ... but it always succeeds in pushing to the mylaptop remote on my server.
If I have added a batch of files, I usually push first to all my remotes, to get that precious metadata up there. At that point I don't care if there's a conflict upstream. Then I git annex copy to wherever, fetch all remotes, git annex merge, maybe merge master if I have to (usually not), then push to all remotes again. It's less of a bother than it sounds like. I don't even have any handy aliases for this, I prefer to just get the for loop from my command-line history.
1) When I have a branch "some/branch/name" containing slashes in its name, git-annex sync strips everything up to the last slash and creates "synced/name", which may clash with "some/other/name". Is there a workaround?
2) Could the "don't use synced branches" behavior referred in the comments above somehow be configured on the repository side so that everyone cloning it doesn't need to configure it for himself?
Please file bugs there and not as comments here, it's too easy to lose track of a comment deep in a thread.
how does "git-annex sync --content" transfers its file to a (regular) ssh-remote? I think it uses rsync.. Is that correct?
However, it seems that this crashes the upload. The sync just seems to hang.. Is it possible to use compression for the transfer? How?
I think that the reason your annex-rsync-upload-options setting broke it is that rsync needs --compress to be passed on to the other rsync process (in the remote repository), and that is run via git-annex-shell, which has a whitelist of options it will pass to rsync. Passing arbitrary options to rsync could allow unwanted behavior when git-annex-shell is being used as a security barrier. And --compress is one of the options that both the rsync sender and receiver have to agree on for the rsync protocol to work.
I have added a note to the man page about this limitation of what the rsync-options settings can be used to do.


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Turkey, known officially as The Republic of Turkey, since its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923, has balanced tradition with globalization and modernization. Although 99 percent of the population is Muslim, Turkey has been officially secular since 1924. Nearly 75 percent of the country is ethnically Turkish; the other quarter is comprised mostly of Kurds and other minorities. Thus, while the official language is Turkish, it is common to hear other languages spoken.
Turkey's climate is mostly temperate, and its two largest cities are Ankara and Istanbul. While Ankara is the nation's capital, Istanbul is about three times its size and is the only major city in the world that is built on two continents, bridging Asia and Europe. The city, much like the rest of Turkey, blends aspects of Middle Eastern and Western culture in nearly every capacity. Yogurt, bread, and rice are essential parts of any meal, followed by Turkish coffee and dessert, such as baklava.
Turkey is home to historic sites such as Aspendos and Phaselis from the Roman period and the famous Antalya Riviera on the Mediterranean coast.
Most host communities are urban or suburban, and while some host families may own a car, the most common forms of transportation include cars, buses, mini-busses, trams, metro (underground), bicycle, and walking. Students typically commute anywhere between 10 and 60 minutes each way by bus, mini-bus, tram/metro (underground), or bicycle to their host schools.
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Whilst demand for value-for-money products is a trend in South Korea in various industries, as the South Korean economy continuously slows down, the discounters channel is becoming increasingly popular since E-Mart first introduced it in 2016. It provides wide range of private label products at reasonable prices and many consumers trust the quality of products in the discounters channel as well, since E-Mart is one of the biggest retailers in South Korea, having hypermarkets, supermarkets, and convenience stores, amongst others.
After launching No Brand, E-Mart is actively developing more private label products. Food items such as snacks, chilled or frozen ready meals are popular private label items and the discounter has expanded its product range to include wine, pet food, cosmetics and consumer appliances.
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Since the first discounter successfully launched in South Korea, other major retailers might enter the discounter channel, such as Lotte Mart and Homeplus, which already have their own private label brands. Whilst the growth of hypermarkets is stagnated in South Korea and Lotte's Only Price and Homeplus's Simplus lines are currently selling in their hypermarket and supermarket brands, big store-based grocery players might open a similar type of discounters as well.
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Policy | Where should Modi 2.0 start with the environment? Everywhere
Environmental health is a long game, but politics isn't. The problem is that for human beings to effectively act on a future crisis, they need to be able to see themselves in it, and for the most part, limited election terms stymie such long views.
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Attempting to make a list of what the Union government needs to do on the environmental front is like trying to put out a thousand little fires across India… with one hose. To be honest, this is not restricted to India but the world. With report-after-report tightening the world's deadline for runaway climate change and a soon-to-be-unrecognisable Earth, we know what we are running out of the fastest — time.
The Modi government begins its second term at an unenviable level, environmentally speaking, at the bottom of the pile — that is the Global Environment Performance Index rankings. In 2018, according to Centre for Science and Environment's State of India's Environment report, India was at the 177th position out of 180 countries, down from 141 in 2016. From air and water quality to groundwater levels, from the deteriorating condition of our forests to the state of environmental justice, from greenhouse gas emissions to snowballing trash piles — to make a ranked list of where India needs would be Sophie's Choice.
Most of the Modi government's past responses to environmental crises are band aids on gaping wounds. Farmer insurance schemes against losses is welcome buffer in an exceedingly harsh profession with low returns, but there also needs to be increased focus on climate-smart agriculture. Modi has made the ambitious promise of doubling farmers' income by 2020 while climate change is slated to reduce farm incomes by up to 20-25% in the medium term.
In the face of little global unanimity or action on greenhouse gas emission reduction, it is prudent to focus on adaptation strategies including better and more accessible weather advisory, more funding for agri-science and climate resilience in the face of increasing uncertainty, and livelihood diversification.
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One of the first challenges that the Modi government had taken up was to clean Ganga but there is little to show for it. Of the money collected in the fund, The Wire reported, only 18% has been spent. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the Ganga contains so much faecal bacteria that even bathing in the river is dangerous. This is in spite of complete sanitation coverage in 4,465 villages on the banks of the Ganga and no open defecation any longer, according to the government.
India's flagship river cleaning program has failed. Consider this in the context of a Niti Aayog report which states that India is "suffering from the worst water crisis in its history". Forget just the Ganga, 70% of India's water is contaminated, impacting three in four Indians. Just a third of India's wastewater is currently treated before being dumped into freshwater bodies, and eventually leaching into groundwater. Groundwater levels are at an all-time low and falling, and 21 cities are predicted to run out by 2020 — in one year's time. To say that this fundamental right needs attention is to say that a dying man needs a doctor.
Probably the worst performance or the worst undoing of previously progressive policy regarding the environment has been in the forestry sector. While the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had passed the Forest Rights Act with the morally correct intention of putting forest resources into the hands of communities that depend on them, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has walked it back, effectively reigniting a decades-old bitter conflict between the forest department and poor, forest-dependent people. All the while though India reports an increase in forest cover, its quality of forest has declined, pointing to increase in business-oriented monocultures and plantations.
The cleanliness move by the government and plastic bans in some states are good intentions but cosmetic to a certain extent; all the while industrial and household waste pours into bulging end-of-life landfills, into our ponds, rivers and seas. Even though toilets have been built, behaviour change haven't followed. A deep focus on renewable energy is also the right decision but that too is showing signs of a slow down.
Lastly, red alerts have been seen against pollution of all kinds (air, water, soil). India scored 5.75 out of 100 in air quality the state of environment report, and Indian cities are consistently rated as the worst in global rankings. Yet, roads and private car ownership are considered the answer to mobility issues in cities, not public transport.
Over its last term, the NDA government has effectively reduced the ministry of environment, forest and climate change into an approval agency for business and industry. There is nothing wrong in streamlining regulatory processes but it has come at the cost of environmental integrity from the ministry that is supposed to protect it. The environmental justice system, that is the National Green Tribunal, is suffering from crippling manpower problems with very long case pendency.
The new government needs to fight all environmental fronts not because it is all its own doing but because environmental issues have never really been considered. All these issues are in a closed loop system — groundwater, agriculture, monsoon, pollution, emissions, trash, energy, climate change — these are all linked. It would be wise to start everywhere.
Among all these fires, small and large, it is pertinent to remember that India is heavily ecology dependent. From the health of our forests, the quality of soil, the timeliness and intensity of monsoon and other weather patterns, from the millions of homesteads in areas now susceptible to climate change impacts to the millions of livelihoods dependent, these are all dependent on natural capital. Environmental health, unfortunately, is a long game, but politics isn't. The problem is that for human beings to effectively act on a future crisis, they need to be able to see themselves in it, and for the most part, limited election terms stymie such long views.
What we need are environmental policies that are passed forward from government to government like a relay race. That baton is our future.
Padmaparna Ghosh is a freelance writer. Views are personal.
Tags: #Budget 2019 #environment #Global Environment Performance Index #Modi 2.0 #NITI Aayog
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Rescuing Mark's last 12 verses with James Snapp Jr
Bob Enyart interviews the author of Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20. In all of church history, the very first surviving quote from Mark's last chapter, written in the 100s by an influential bishop in France, quotes verse 19. Thus begins the long and powerful defense for the full chapter being written by Mark.
Of the 1,650 Greek manuscripts that include Mark, only three end at verse 8. These, along with 40 church fathers who wrote while Rome still had an emperor on the throne, along with thousands of additional manuscripts in other languages, correct the false claim of the "higher critics" of the 1800s and even many of today's populist theologians such as James White, John MacArthur, and Matt Slick, that the ending of Mark's Gospel should be rejected. If these critics were right, Mark would have penned the worst ending in the history of endings, without record of Jesus appearing to the apostles, nor to the women who went to His tomb. Instead, it would end like this, "So [the women] went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." Instead of that absurdity, here is the testimony of Bishop Irenaeus circa 180 A.D. who wrote of the beginning and ending of the Gospel, "Wherefore also Mark, the interpreter and follower of Peter, does thus commence his Gospel narrative: 'The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; as it is written in the prophets' [then] towards the conclusion of his Gospel, Mark says, 'So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God.'"
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Tackling the Lagos traffic nightmare – Guardian
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu's recent declaration of war on traffic offenders in an attempt to ensure sanity on Lagos roads should not be allowed to be yet another tale that is full of sound and fury, which signifies nothing. The reproach of dilapidated federal and inner-city roads in Lagos must be frontally addressed this time.
The other day, we bemoaned the gross failure of a presidential order on the Apapa gridlock. How is the new police commissioner's declaration different from the previous ones and what new strategy is there to deal with the problem?
The intractable traffic nightmare in Lagos is taking its toll on economic activities. Daily, Lagosians are confronted with a horrendous traffic situation that appears to defy every measure applied so far. We have repeatedly noted this in recent weeks.
The other day, Governor Sanwo-Olu, in a clear admission that the condition of roads in Lagos had become unbearable, declared an emergency on them. The emergency underscores the deplorable state of roads in the state and the untold hardship members of the public have been subjected to as a result of the situation.
It is unimaginable how almost all the roads in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria, have been left to disintegrate to the point of causing a terrible gridlock in the city. Most of the roads are under reconstruction and maintenance, a development that has worsened the situation. How do you enforce sanity under such a condition with the insufferable vehicular traffic?
According to the police commissioner, a Monitoring and Enforcement Coordination Committee to be headed by former Commissioner of Transport, Kayode Opeifa, is to monitor and enforce all the new executive orders and other existing laws of the state. He disclosed that a synergy now exists between all the law enforcement agencies in the state, which would make the enforcement of discipline possible on the roads.
"Because we are now together, you cannot hide under any agency to break the law. An officer of LASTMA can do the job of a KAI if he is the one present at the scene of the crime. All security agents across the state can get involved in maintaining law and order, notwithstanding if it's within their jurisdiction because we now work in synergy," he stated.
He added that mobile courts would now move from one point to another so that there would be instant judgment. This is not a new strategy. There should be new thinking that can elicit a glimmer of hope. What people would like to see is the sustainability of some efficiency. Most road users in Lagos cannot rely on the integrity of Lagos traffic law enforcement agencies who are notorious for placing extortion above orderliness. These officers of the law need to reorientate themselves about how to make Lagos work.
We have been consistent on the Lagos affair too because the past four weeks have been horrible for commuters who, daily, spend hours in traffic in an attempt to move from one part of the city to the other. This should not be a feature of Lagos we call the ''centre of excellence.'' When the governor used the rainy season as an alibi for tardiness, in this regard, this newspaper had also noted that the new governor should not be blamed solely for the debacle of Lagos roads as previous administrations had set the tone for what has become a systemic failure on road infrastructure. We had then enjoined him to get cracking when the rains began to disappear. We had then noted that the governor should not tolerate shoddiness and mediocrity in road construction and maintenance. Just as we reiterated the same line the other day when we told the same chief executive to discard ''His Excellency'' and embrace ''excellence,'' in the circumstances.
The failure of government to live up to its responsibility at all levels has brought untold hardship on the public. The inability of commuters to move smoothly from one point to the other, as a result of bad roads in the country has brought about general suffering and pain across the country. Sadly, our public officers don't care about that as they all fly over all the road transportation tragedy. They don't see the extent of the decrepit road infrastructure. Nor do they see how police embarrassing checkpoints have compounded the woes of the hapless road users. However, while we bemoan this national tragedy, there is a sense in which we can say that Lagos, generally regarded as the economic nerve centre of the West Coast should not be trifled with.
Endemic traffic crisis in Lagos was one of the major factors that forced the Federal Government's decision in 1976 to relocate Nigeria's capital to Abuja. The relocation took place in December 1991. It is unfortunate that there has been no improvement in management of Lagos traffic crisis since 1991. That brings into focus the Federal Government's role in Lagos as promised by the then Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed who proclaimed Abuja as the nation's capital. Nigeria's leader then said Lagos would remain a Federal Territory and ''Special Area'' that would continue to attract substantial investment because of the national security assets in the state including federal roads and the sea ports.
The way out for the authorities in Lagos is to repair all the roads in Lagos. The inner city roads should be repaired too to provide alternative exit routes. One thing is clear, once the roads are good, traffic congestion would drastically be reduced. The other corollary to this road issue is the way the town-planning and revenue authorities place revenue mobilisation above governance and orderliness. They allow street traders and undisciplined bus drivers to use parts of the narrow roads. These authorities should do some introspection, in this regard. There must be sanity in the centre of excellence, after all.
Meanwhile, a recent resolution by the Lagos State House of Assembly asking contractors to work from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. to reduce congestion should be adhered to. The authorities in Lagos should walk that good talk.
Similarly, Sanwo-Olu's directive to the VIO, police and other traffic officers not to check vehicles' particulars during peak hours should be enforced. The menace of police and VIO crude checks everywhere is part of the critical governance issues the governor should not condone too.
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Thousands gathered in the city's Central Park from about noon to 4 p.m. on Feb. 2 to decry the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose reelection to the presidency last year was widely held to be illegitimate. The rally next week is scheduled to take place outside the El Arepazo restaurant during the evening.
"All Venezuelans are united here for the same cause with strong feelings towards the freedom of our country and to fight for what our world deserves, a better world for the youth," attendee Meliana Moreno said in Spanish.
She has been living in the United States for 20 years, but said she can't wait for the day she can return and see her country flourishing.
"I live the suffering of my country very very closely, that is why we need to fight and stay together — we are going to make it," she said.
The atmosphere in the park was generally festive with people singing and chanting "Libertad! Libertad!" But some also teared up while listening to the words of the speakers.
"We are Venezuela wherever we are and we are going to go back to reconstruct our country together because the tyranny fell and Guaidó is our interim president," speaker Juan Correa Villalonga said in Spanish.
In addition to Venezuelans, a Cuban exile also spoke, though his introduction was received with a smattering of applause, perhaps indicating the strained relations between Guaidó's supporters and the Cuban government.
"It's an honor for me to be here in this moment, and I have my heart tight and often a knot in my throat because I've been fighting for 50 years to see my homeland free which has been oppressed for 60 years," said Ramon Saul Sanchez.
His voice cracking with emotion, Sanchez said he looked forward to a similar uprising on his island.
"Every day I dream that a time like this comes and my people are massively on the streets, where in exile we're all out on the streets showing support and screaming for the freedom of our country," he said.
Sanchez ended his speech by asking the crowd to hold their hands together.
"Either you stand tall in front of your tyrant or you stop calling yourself Venezuelan," he said, evoking tears from numerous members of the audience.
Organizer Jose Colina, a former lieutenant in the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela, said he was pleased by the attendance at the Saturday rally.
"The protest signifies the fight I started fighting 19 years ago," he said.
The Feb. 12 rally is scheduled to take place outside the Venezuelan restaurant El Arepazo, 10191 Northwest 58th Street, in Doral starting at 6 p.m.


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Q: Number of disc intersections using scala I'm new the world of scala.
I'm trying to solve a codility scala problem.
I first implemented it on my machine and it gave no errors.
however, on codility, it raises the error of
exec.scala:38: error: not found: value Solution
  val result: Int = Solution.solution ( A )
                    ^
one error found

I have no clue what that means even after a bit of googling.
Here is the solution I came up with in Scala
object NumberOfDiscIntersections {
    def solution(A: Array[Int]): Int = {
        var inter = 0
        val sortedA = A.toList.sorted.toArray
        val length = sortedA.length
        var ind = 1
        var idx = 0
        while (idx <= length-1){
            ind = 0
            while (ind <= length-1) {
                var diff: Double = sortedA(ind) - sortedA(idx)
                if (diff > 0 ){
                    inter+=1
                }
                ind += 1
            }
            idx +=1
        }
        inter
    }
    solution(Array(1,5,2,1,4,0))
}

Python implementation
 A = [1,5,2,1,4,0]
    sortedA = sorted(list(set(A)))
    length = len(sortedA)
    idx = 0
    inter = 1
    while(idx <= length - 1):
        ind = 0
        while(ind <= length -1):
            diff = sortedA[ind] - sortedA[idx]
            if (diff >0): inter+=1
            ind+=1
        idx+=1
    print inter

And it does in 11 solutions as expected.
Why does it raise an error? and is there a way to optimise it?

A: It's not clear to me what you're trying to achieve but from the code it looks like you want to compare every element in a set (a collection of distinct values) to all the other elements and count the number of times a > b.
I noticed that the Scala code comes up with a different result than the Python code because one initializes inter to 0 while the other initializes it to 1.
Since the max element is going to be greater than all the others, and the next-to-max will be greater than all-others-minus-one, etc., the result is going to be a triangle number.  To optimize that I'd probably want to generate the triangle numbers lazily (i.e. only as needed) and then index to the desired result.
def solution(arr: Array[Int]): Int = {
  val tNumber:Stream[Int] = 0 #:: tNumber.zipWithIndex.map{case (n,x) => n+x}
  tNumber(arr.distinct.length)  // + 1 here if needed
}


This refreshing salad is a wonderful mixture of sweet, salty, tart and peppery. Yellow tomatoes offer a beautiful color contrast to the pink watermelon, but if not in season, red tomatoes will be just as delicious.
In a large bowl, toss together watermelon, tomatoes, basil, onion, lime juice, oil, salt and pepper.
Arrange 1 c watercress on each of 4 serving plates; top each with 1 c watermelon mixture, 2 Tbsp cheese and 1 Tbsp pumpkin seeds. Evenly drizzle salads with any remaining liquid in bottom of bowl; serve immediately to prevent mixture from getting too soggy.
Ricotta salata or queso fresco can be substituted for the feta (could affect SmartPoints value).


The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, an intergovernmental organization. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet.
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Delaneytranslations veranstaltet zweitägiges Seminar Vertragsrecht Englisch/Deutsch in London
2014-06-02 Fortbildung, Veranstaltungen
Contracts are the legal documents most frequently encountered by translators. This seminar provides an overview over the English legal framework governing contract law, enabling participants not simply to recognise some standard phrases used, but also to understand the underlying logic of contracts.
This seminar is aimed at translators working with the languages German and English, and will provide an overview of English contract law, as well as practical translation workshops using a variety of contract texts.
Overview English contract law
Problems in translation- differing legal concepts
Challenges for translators
The seminar will take the format of lectures on English contract law in the morning, followed by a lunch break and practical workshops in the afternoon. The workshops will be bi-directional; while this will be unusual for most translators who might only translate in one direction professionally, it is a useful training exercise.
The following will be covered amongst others:
Contracts of sale
Richard Delaney is a barrister by training, and currently works as a specialised legal translator and lecturer. Following his legal studies, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and has worked as a lawyer in both England and Germany.
In 2003 he started working as a translator as well, specialising in legal translation due to his practical experience in both legal systems. Starting in 2008, he was closely involved in setting up City University London's MA in Legal Translation, and taught this course for 5 years.
He is bilingual, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the German translators' association BDÜ, and was a council member of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting for two years.
Sarah Hall graduated with a first degree in Modern Languages and Law from the University of Cambridge before qualifying as a solicitor and practising in a large City firm.
She then retrained as a teacher and spent several years working overseas before returning to London to do an MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the Institute of Education.
She worked full time at City University London for 9 years, where she co-wrote and successfully launched the MA in Legal Translation, of which she was Programme Director.
The course will take place at the centrally located Holiday Inn Express in Shoreditch, 275 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LN. This part of East London borders the City and has excellent transport links, being within easy walking distance of Old St (National Rail, Northern line tube) and Shoreditch High Street (Overground), and not far from Liverpool St station (National Rail, Central line, Circle line, Hammersmith and City line and Metropolitan line tube). It is also convenient for City and Stansted airports, and is well served by buses. It is a busy and vibrant area, with a wealth of bars, cafés and restaurants to suit all tastes and budgets, and shops, nightclubs and galleries are also on offer.
London, 19 July 2014, 10 a.m. – 20 July 2014, 6 p.m.
Flyer Contract Law London 14 July 2014
www.delaneytranslations.com
[Text: Delaneytranslations. Quelle: Mitteilung Delaneytranslations, 2014-06-07. Bild: Richard Schneider.]
Es war einmal in Germersheim: Studierende erstellen in Projektarbeit mehrsprachiges Märchenbuch
"Von unverständlichen Zeichen erlösen" – Die große Schrift- und Sprachreform in der Türkei von 1928


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#include "../utils/err.h"

void nn_sockbase_init (struct nn_sockbase *self,
    const struct nn_sockbase_vfptr *vfptr, void *hint)
{
    self->vfptr = vfptr;
    self->sock = (struct nn_sock*) hint;
}

void nn_sockbase_term (struct nn_sockbase *self)
{
}

void nn_sockbase_stopped (struct nn_sockbase *self)
{
    nn_sock_stopped (self->sock);
}

struct nn_ctx *nn_sockbase_getctx (struct nn_sockbase *self)
{
    return nn_sock_getctx (self->sock);
}

int nn_sockbase_getopt (struct nn_sockbase *self, int option,
    void *optval, size_t *optvallen)
{
    return nn_sock_getopt_inner (self->sock, NN_SOL_SOCKET, option,
        optval, optvallen);
}

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Something about the fall and football season makes me want to cook this Pork Hatch Green Chili every Sunday. But honestly, I also crave this chili on a regular basis, even in the summer. The flavors are so fresh and bright that it works all year round. Looking for a vegetarian version? Check out our Vegetarian Hatch Green Chili here!
We are lucky enough to have pepper stands throughout the state in the fall and the smell of the peppers roasting is intoxicating. I stock up on two or three bushels to make sure that I have enough for my Hatch Green Chili cravings plus some extra for various Mexican dishes throughout the rest of the year.
You can easily control the heat level through the green chili powder, enchilada sauce, quantity of jalapenos, and the chile peppers themselves. This recipe is set for a mild to mild-medium heat level.
I have been getting questions about my pot in the picture below. I have a couple Staub pieces that I love cooking with when I make things like my green chili. Staub is a different brand of Le Creuset but I am partial to Staub for a few reasons. The lids have basting dots which are bumps that allow the moisture to drip back into the mot evenly instead of in a pile. I also love their colors more (they have darker, richer colors) and this brand is #1 in France over Staub. I have had zero problems with mine and love them. The one in this picture is a 5.75 quart oval cocotte which you can find here and I also have a round 4 quart one that you can find here. I use them all the time and they last forever. They are completely worth it!
After just a few minutes of assembly, you can leave this on the stove for several hours to do its thing. It also freezes really well! Just pack into mason jars and throw in the freezer for perfectly sized portions.
Green chili and Colorado are synonymous, so having recipe like this in your arsenal is sure to impress. There are so many options for toppings and add-ins, you can please everyone with this recipe.
The longer you let it cook, the better it will taste…if you are able to restrain yourself. The smell is intoxicating!
In a large pot (cast iron preferably), cook pork over medium heat until browned. Reserve two tablespoons of the fat. Drain the remaining fat and remove pork. Set aside.
Return the two tablespoons of pork drippings to the pot. Over medium heat, cook onion until translucent, approximately 5 minutes.
Add all of the dried spices: garlic powder, green chili powder, celery salt, dried oregano, and cumin. Saute to toast herbs for approximately 3 minutes.
Add the chicken stock, green enchilada sauce, beer, cilantro, jalapenos, and green chiles.
Cook, over medium low heat, for at least one hour, preferably three hours. Stir occasionally. If the chili becomes too thick, add some more stock a cup at a time. *You want the chili to thicken in this step. Continue cooking until the thickness is to your liking. You can turn up the heat a little if it is taking too long.
Finish off the chili with hot sauce for more of a kick as needed, or use as a mix-in. Serve with your favorite toppings or sides.
You can order green chile powder here.
Nothing beats fresh roasted Hatch peppers, but you can use the canned kind as well.
Use homemade vegetable stock for added flavor. Learn how to make your own here!
Kim, I am not vegan, but this looks very tasty. I would give it a try. Thank you for the recipe.
oh my goodness, this looks soooo yummy! I can't wait to try it!
So yummy! Have been looking more vegetarian recipes!
This looks amazing! Thank you for the link as to where to find the powder, that always keeps me from trying a recipe. Pinning this for sure!!
Never heard of this green chili dish. With pork sounds delicious and adding to my recipe box.
This looks so good! It will definitely satisfy both my meat and chili craving!
This sounds so great! I love green chili. I think I first had some when we lived in Lubbock, TX and fell in love with it. And sometimes we'd go to Albuquerque for a long weekend and it's EVERYWHERE there, lol. I've pinned and will be sharing to my Facebook page tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!
I have developed a thing for green chili! This looks fantastic. I can't wait to try it!
Looks so yummy!, im going to try this recipe tomorrow, my husband loveees pork.
This. Sounds. AMAZING! I'm going to have to try this recipe!
Looks and sounds fantastic! Love, Love, Love Chili!!! I'm going to try this! Thanks!
I have made this and added spicy sausage, bacon and pinto beans…..cooked it in a Dutch oven cook-off and then served it with fresh cilantro, chopped white onion and sour cream!! Excellent! Ran out of 3 gallons in no time.
Can I add diced potatoes? How would that affect the flavor?
I would say it depends on the potatoes you use and when you add them. My favorite way to eat this is actually with a chopped up baked potato in the bottom of the bowl!
If the potatoes cook in the sauce too long, they could fall apart. I would suggest adding raw potatoes in the last 30-60 minutes (depending on how large) or cook them separately and add when serving.
I have never tried adding potatoes during cooking, but those are my thoughts!


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1. Hand Sanitizer – kids are known for touching everrrrrything. So we don't leave the house without a bottle of hand santizer. We use it on our kids' hands, our hands, shopping carts, railings – anywhere and everywhere there may be germs! While hand sanitizer is not substitute for hand washing, it comes in handy when hand washing isn't always an option.We love the spray from Honest and the foam from Babyganics best.
2. Staying Home – we know, we know… you can't be hermits all winter. But we find staying home and laying low when you suspect the start of a cold or a bug is the best way to nip it in the bud. Keep you kid well-rested, ensure they get a good nap (if they're still nappers) and encourage them to drink as many fluids as possible.
3. Tea – most adults brew a fresh cup of tea when feeling a tickle in their throat, and we've found it works just as well with kiddos! Choice Tea offers some great Wellness teas to aid in battle germs. Our favorites are Throat Cozy and Breathing Space. Brew it as normal and let it cool before putting it in a sippy cup. Add a bit of honey and our little ones drink it right up!
4. Nutrition – If you're anything like our families – when one person gets sick, it's the domino effect – we all end up with it. Because so much of immune system support starts with the foods you eat, it's important to be prepared with nutritious foods when cooking is the last thing you want to do. In these times, we turn to our favorite brands for a little help – Plum Organics, Pumpkin Tree and Ella's Kitchen.
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Antonio Maria Ceriani nasce a Uboldo, nella provincia di Varese, il 2 maggio 1828. Nel 1852 è ordinato sacerdote nella diocesi di Milano e lo stesso anno è nominato custode del catalogo della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Dal 1857 è dottore dell'Ambrosiana e quindi suo prefetto dal gennaio 1870 alla morte.

A seguito della chiusura della Facoltà teologica di Milano nel 1774, la Biblioteca fondata da Carlo Borromeo tre secoli prima era rimasta una delle poche istituzioni culturali nella città. Ceriani la rese un centro frequentato ed apprezzato a livello internazionale.

Dall'8 dicembre 1888, il futuro papa Pio XII, all'epoca professore di sacra eloquenza e di teologia dogmatica al Seminario Teologico di Milano, lo affianca come dottore dell'Ambrosiana, e, in tale periodo, pubblica l'aggiornamento all'anno 1890 degli Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis, redatti del Borromeo nel 1582

Insigne filologo e semitista, Ceriani è dal 1855 professore di lingue orientali nel Seminario teologico di Milano e dal 1872 professore incaricato di paleografia greca e latina all'Accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano.

Pubblica le prime edizioni di numerose opere dell'antichità giudaica, tra cui l'Assunzione di Mosè e l'Apocalisse di Baruc (o 2 Baruc).

Esperto di paleografia, lingua siriaca e liturgia ambrosiana, a partire dal 1872 curò una nuova edizione del Messale ambrosiano.

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Bibliografia
In memoria di Monsignore Antonio Maria Ceriani Prefetto della Biblioteca Ambrosiana nel primo anniversario della sua morte, Milano, 1908.
Commemorazione di Antonio Ceriani, «La bibliofilia», 31 (1929), n. 6/7, p. 274-275.
Fausto Ruggeri, Ceriani Antonio Maria, in Dizionario della Chiesa ambrosiana, vol. II, Milano, NED, 1988, pp. 787-788.
Fausto Ruggeri, Ceriani Antonio Maria, in Dizionario di liturgia ambrosiana, a c. di M. Navoni, Milano, NED, 1996, pp.  139-141.
Giorgio de Gregori - Simonetta Buttò, Per una storia dei bibliotecari italiani del XX secolo. Dizionario bio-bibliografico 1900-1990, Roma: Associazione italiana biblioteche, 1999, pp.58-59.

Monsignor Antonio Maria Ceriani. Convegno nel centenario della morte. Uboldo, 4 marzo 2007, Saronno, 2007.

Voci correlate
Apocalisse di Baruc

Collegamenti esterni

Biblisti italiani
Bibliotecari italiani
Semitisti italiani
Siriacisti

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You might be able to get one after all.
By Chris Pereira | @TheSmokingManX on September 13, 2017 at 2:18AM PDT
Alongside plans to expand on the planned availability of the SNES Classic Edition, Nintendo has announced that it will revive last year's NES Classic Edition. Assuming you haven't yet resorted to buying the system at an exorbitant price, you'll have a chance to pick one up at retail price in stores next year.
Few specifics were shared, but we know the NES Classic Edition is coming back to at least North America and Europe. It's still a ways off, however, as it won't hit stores until sometime next summer. In a press release, Nintendo said, "More information about the timing of the return of NES Classic Edition will be announced in the future."
Nintendo didn't provide any indication that the system itself, its selection of 30 games, or its price would be any different than before. However, it wouldn't be a shock if it finds a way to block the hack that allowed users to load additional games on the system, which Nintendo didn't intend to be possible.
The NES Classic Edition first arrived last November. Pre-orders sold out in advance of launch, and those available on release day similarly disappeared in the blink of an eye, quickly leading to a price spike on sites like Ebay. Additional shipments delivered in subsequent months also rapidly sold out--this resulted in a frustrating loop where it would briefly come back in stock but be gone long before everyone could get one. Nintendo ultimately discontinued the NES Classic in April.
These supply issues have been cause for concern to those seeking an SNES Classic, which Nintendo has previously said would be available in far greater supply than the NES Classic. That didn't stop SNES Classic pre-orders from selling out, making it begin to look like getting one--at least without paying an outrageous price--was unlikely, given Nintendo's plans to only offer the system during 2017. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently tried to assuage concerns, going so far as to "strongly urge" people not to spend more than $80 to get their hands on one. That was followed by today's news that production on the SNES Classic will continue into 2018.
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Simon van der Stel (14 October 1639 – 24 June 1712) was the last commander and first Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony, the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.

Background
Simon was the son of Adriaan van der Stel and Maria Lievens, an official of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Adriaan was appointed the first Dutch governor of Mauritius in 1639. Simon was born at sea while his father was en route to Mauritius to take up his new posting. Adriaan had a long tenure in Mauritius, and Simon spent seven years there.

His mother was Maria Lievens, daughter of a freed Indian slave woman known as Monica of the Coast of Goa, or Monica da Costa. Adriaan's governorship ended after five years, and after a few more years, Adriaan left Mauritius for Dutch Ceylon. Adriaan was murdered in Ceylon and Maria also died. Simon went on to Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, where he remained until he was 20 years old.

Career
He then went to the United Provinces, where he associated with the most important members of the VOC, such as Willem Six. In 1663 he married Willem's daughter, Johanna Jacoba Six (1645–1700). They had six children. In 1679, he was appointed "Commander" of the VOC's colony at the Cape of Good Hope, through the growing influence of his relative, Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen. Simon was involved in making wine in Muiderberg; when he left the country, he handed the vineyards over to Hendrik van Rheede.

Van der Stel and his wife, Johanna Jacoba Six, did not enjoy a very good relationship and her sister Cornelia accompanied her husband to the Cape. Van der Stel never saw his wife again, though he remained devoted to her and frequently sent her money. Johanna Jacoba remained in Holland, and sent the furnishings and works of art required to fit out the governor's residence at Groot Constantia. These included several art works including The Fisherman, an unfinished painting by Simon de Vlieger, which was one of 13 of his works purchased by Jan Cappelle upon his death. The painting came up for sale at the auction of Van der Stel's estate in 1716.

In 1685 he was visited by Hendrik van Rheede with whom he shared in great interest in tropical botany. To prevent competition anywhere else in the world, young cinnamon, cloves and camphor trees were destroyed by the ambitious son of Rijckloff van Goens. In 1685–86, he took part in an expedition to the Copper Mountains, Namaqua, where he made topographic and geographic, botanical and zoological observations. In 1691, the VOC replaced the office of "Commander" with "Governor", and Van der Stel was promoted to the new position. His house, Groot Constantia, was well furnished with fine paintings, including The Fisherman.

Every one of his four sons was at one time or another with him in South Africa. Willem Adriaan, after being magistrate of Amsterdam, succeeded his father as Governor of the Cape; Frans "de jonker" became a farmer at the Cape; Adrian became governor of Amboina (1706–1720); Cornelis was one of the 352 shipwrecked in the  in 1694. An expedition under Willem de Vlamingh was sent out to look for survivors on islands in the Indian Ocean or on the coast of Western Australia.

Van der Stel retired in 1699, and was succeeded by his son Willem Adriaan van der Stel. In retirement, Simon devoted himself to his estate at Constantia, where he died in 1712. François Valentijn visited Frans at Constantia in March 1714. The estate was split up and sold 1716; the auction took four days and was very well attended.

Legacy

The town of Stellenbosch (founded in 1679) was named after him and Simon's Town is also named after him, as well as the Simonsberg mountain. An early ship of the South African Navy,  was also named for him, in 1952.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Discourse on Inequality, refers to Governor Van der Stel by name in a story about a Hottentot raised by the Dutch who chooses to "return to his equals" rather than remain in civilised society. According to Rousseau, Van der Stel himself raised the "Hottentot" from birth "in the principles of the Christian religion and in the practices of European customs". The frontispiece of the Discourse features Van der Stel and the "Hottentot" above the phrase, Il retourne chez ses Egaux.

Widely known for his development of the South African wine industry, Van der Stel was also the first Cape Governor to be of mixed race-origin, a fact that was largely unacknowledged by the Apartheid government.

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Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis was born in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, on August 14, 1983, is an American actress. Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1991, at her age of seven.
Young Mila Kunis started to take acting classes at the Beverly Hills Studio, at the age of 9.
She first started her career in commercials. Her first acting job was in the Barbie commercial.
She made her television debut in NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (1994) in role as Young Hope Williams.
She landed her first big break with a role as Jackie Burkhart in Fox period sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006) opposite Ashton Kutcher.
She made her big screen debut in Christmas comedy movie Santa with Muscles (1996) in role as Sarah.
Her breakthrough performance came as Rachel Jansen in romantic comedy movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008).
Breaking News in Yuba County (2020) drama comedy in role as Nancy
She voiced Greta in computer animated adventure film Wonder Park (2019).
She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lily in psychological horror film Black Swan (2010).
She played Amy Mitchell in comedy movies: Bad Moms (2016) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017).
Max Payne (2008) neo-noir action thriller opposite Mark Wahlberg and Olga Kurylenko
The Book of Eli (2010) post apocalyptic neo Western action film with Denzel Washington
Extract (2009) comedy romanceopposite Jason Bateman and Ben Affleck
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) comedy-drama film with Robin Williams
Blood Ties (2013) crime thriller with Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard and Zoe Saldana
American Psycho 2 (2002) black comedy horror with William Shatner
Friends with Benefits (2011) romantic comedy opposite Justin Timberlake and Emma Stone
Jupiter Ascending (2015) space opera opposite Channing Tatum and Eddie Redmayne
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) fantasy adventure with James Franco, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz
Third Person (2013) romantic drama opposite Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) action comedy opposite Sam Heughan and Kate McKinnon
She won two consecutive Young Star Awards for Best Young Actress in 1999 and 2000, for her performance as Jackie Burkhart in Fox period sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006).
She voiced various characters on 15 episodes of stop motion sketch comedy television series Robot Chicken (2005–2011).
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