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Economy, Side Feature, The Khilafah
Q&A: The Permissibility to Save Up for a Need Does Not Invalidate the Obligation of Zakat
written by Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah
The savings of gold that for years in which zakat was not paid on it, is it paid for each year or once in a lifetime? And is the material payment permissible that is by its value? Thank you.
From Abbas Hamamdah
Wa Alaikum Assalam Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh
1- Before answering your question I would like to draw attention to the fact that saving gold and silver and money for a non-specific need is considered as hoarding even if you pay the zakat on it, and hoarding is haram, and the evidence of its prohibition:
Allah (swt) says: وَالَّذِينَ يَكْنِزُونَ الذَّهَبَ وَالْفِضَّةَ وَلَا يُنْفِقُونَهَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَبَشِّرْهُمْ بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ * يَوْمَ يُحْمَى عَلَيْهَا فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ فَتُكْوَى بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ وَجُنُوبُهُمْ وَظُهُورُهُمْ هَذَا مَا كَنَزْتُمْ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ فَذُوقُوا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَكْنِزُونَ "And those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah – give them tidings of a painful punishment * The Day when it will be heated in the fire of Hell and seared therewith will be their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs, [it will be said], "This is what you hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you used to hoard." [At-Tawba: 34-35]
-Ahmad narrated through a correct chain of narration from Abu Amamah that he said: (تُوُفِّيَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الصُّفَّةِ، فَوُجِدَ فِي مِئْزَرِهِ دِينَارٌ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم «كَيَّةٌ»، قَالَ: ثُمَّ تُوُفِّيَ آخَرُ فَوُجِدَ فِي مِئْزَرِهِ دِينَارَانِ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: «كَيَّتَانِ») "A man from Ahl Al-Suffah died, and a Dinar was found in his garment (waist-wrap); the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "he will be burnt", then another died and two Dinars were found on him, and the Messenger of Allah said: "he will be burnt twice".
Tabari narrated the same from Abu Amamah Al-Bahili. This means that it is haram to hoard gold and silver at all, even if it is two dinars, even if it is one dinar, as long as it is hoarding; that is saving up of money for no reason. And the Messenger ﷺ said that regarding these two men because they were living off charity and yet they had gold pieces, he ﷺ said: «Kayat» and said: «Kayatan» referring to the verse of Allah (swt): يَوْمَ يُحْمَى عَلَيْهَا فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ فَتُكْوَى بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ وَجُنُوبُهُمْ "The Day when it will be heated in the fire of Hell and seared therewith will be their foreheads, their flanks," [At-Tawba: 35]
which is a section of the verse of hoarding, i.e. it refers to the verse of hoarding. This is an evidence of the absolute prohibition of hoarding, whether the nisab zakat is due on it or not, and whether the person paid zakat on it or not, all types of hoarding is haram.
As for saving up for a need, it is permissible and the evidences of hoarding do not apply to it. "The difference between hoarding and saving is that hoarding is the collection of the money for no purpose, it is keeping the money away from the market. As for saving, it is keeping the money for a purpose; like saving to build a house, to marry, to buy a factory, to open a business or otherwise".
2- If one saves gold for no purpose, then he has committed a sin because it is hoarding of gold, which is haram … However, he has to pay zakat on gold that he has saved for no reason, because the forbidden hoarding does not invalidate the obligation of zakat. The same goes to saving for a purpose, it is not haram, but the owner must pay zakat on it if the nisab is reached and the year has passed on it. This is because the permissibility to save up for a need does not invalidate the obligation of zakat.
3- The obligation of zakat is due on a (Hijri) yearly basis, if the money reaches "gold, for example," the nisab and a year passes on it, the zakat is due on it, it is one-quarter of the tenth, or 2.5% of it. If one pays zakat on his money after the year, he would have fulfilled the obligation. But if he delays the payment of zakat on that year, it remains obligatory for him to perform it for that year. Its payment for one Hijri year does not take the place for another Hijri year, because zakat as mentioned above is an annual obligation that is renewed each year as long as its causes and conditions are in place.
For example, a person who has saved up gold five Hijri years, and gold has reached the nisab at the beginning of saving. He has to pay zakat of five years at the end of the fifth year if he has not paid zakat on this gold before Because the zakat of every Hijri year of those five years is an obligation on his neck and must be paid. He must pay zakat five times for that time (5 years), with the amount 2.5% of the gold he saved … Note that it is not obligatory for him to pay zakat on the amount of the first year that he paid, i.e. the 2.5 % rather he must pay zakat on the remaining 97.5% from the first year, so in the second year he will pay 2.5% of the remaining amount. The same goes in the subsequent years, it is noticed that there is a decrease on money of the person paying zakat after paying off zakat in previous years.
4- As for paying zakat in the value of the wealth rather than in same material is permissible, so instead of giving gold on gold, he can pay the value of the gold in banknotes, silver or the like.
In the Book "Funds in the Khilafah State" page 140 (English) it states the following under the chapters of Treasury's revenues:
(It is also found in the Sunnah that the Messenger of Allah and his companions would oblige a right in money then change it to something else easier for its giver to give than the original money. Of this is the book of the Prophet to Muaz in Yemen on Jizya: "Upon each mature person is a Dinar or its equivalent in clothes (Mu'afir)." So the Prophet took goods instead of taking the specific thing itself i.e. he took clothes instead of gold. Of this also is what he wrote to the people of Najran: "Upon them two thousand garments every year or its equivalent in ounces of gold and silver." 'Umar (RA) used to take camels in Jizya instead of gold and silver, as Ali used to take needles, ropes and large needles in Jizya instead of gold and silver.) End quote.
(Zakat on gold is paid in gold, representative currency and reliable currency. Zakat on silver is paid in silver, representative currency and reliable currency. Similarly, Zakat on gold can be paid in silver and compulsory currency while Zakat on silver can be paid in gold and compulsory currency, as they are all currencies and prices. So some of them can take the place of others and some of them can be paid in the place of others for the objective is verified in this. It has been mentioned in the chapter of Zakat on crops and fruits the evidences for taking the value as a substitute for the property upon which Zakat is obliged.) End quote
It is clear from the above that it is permissible to pay zakat on gold and silver with the banknotes used, according to the market price for gold and silver when paying zakat.
I hope this answer is sufficient.
Your brother,
01 Ramadan 1440 AH
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Source: EBONY Magazine. Dec. 1967, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p41-46. 4p.
IT HAS never been Everett Newton Kelsey's habit to wait a long time before getting things done. At 16 he was out of high school. At 19 he graduated from Hamilton College. At 20 he was an officer—an ensign—in the Navy. At 24 he had a Columbia University master's degree in International Affairs. At 25 he was off in Africa, a Ford Foundation Fellow helping Tanzania through its first years of independence. At 26 he'd been hired for management training by New York's Chase Manhattan Bank—which, with $17 billion in assets, crowds Bank of America's position as the biggest in the world. At 28 he had been sent overseas by Chase as assistant manager of its Paris branch.
Now, at 30, Kelsey sits in a Rue Cambon office overlooking Ernest Hemingway's favored Ritz Hotel Bar and handles major aspects of the branch's business with such industry giants as Ralston-Purina, Caterpillar, Shell-British Petroleum, Mobil Oil, ITT and the French-American electronics manufacturer, Bull-GE. These corporate clients and about 45 others in his portfolio can call on Kelsey for every banking service—from setting-up new accounts to providing information about, say, Common Market trends and the policies of the German Bundes Bank; from giving advice on investments and markets to approving lines-of-eredit for another year. Kelsey is expert in each such area, but his specialty is commercial loans. This year his approvals resulted in more than $30 million of Chase money being made available to businesses in England, France, Belgium and other countries of Europe. In just two years there, he has become the leading loaning officer at the Paris branch.
After graduate school, Kelsey worked for a while as a research associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and wrote Africa-oriented articles for International Conciliation. Then he became the first African-American ever selected as a Fellow of the Africa-Asia Program, the Ford Foundation-sponsored program which is administered by the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and which each year selects 10 or 12 of the top men from the best graduate schools and prepares them for service to governments in developing countries. The government of Tanzania picked Kelsey to work as a civil servant in its Ministry of Community and Cooperative Development, and off went he and his wife. Olive, and their daughter, Holly, to live in Africa for a year and a half. Kelsey was district cooperative officer in the Mwanza District of northern Tanzania. He dealt with farmers and their agricultural marketing co-ops, took charge of five inspectors, approved budgets, hired staff and supervised distribution of profits of the co-op scheme. At 24, he was, to Africans, still "a small boy." But by dealing squarely with the farmers, he won the respect of the nearly 300,000 people with whom he was involved.
When his Africa work was finished, Kelsey came back to New York and was snapped up by Chase Manhattan for his rigorous Special Management Program. He was, finally, in the area that by now seemed most important to him: banking and finance. He joined Chase in October. 1963, and it was another "first" for him: the first African-American ever hired for what is supposedly the "best bank officers training program in the world." For six months he went from one Chase department to another, familiarizing himself with the huge bank's organization and with such things as accounting and finance analysis. Then he moved into the credit department as a credit analyst. For 18 months he worked alongside experienced bank officers in analyzing corporate loans and in learning all aspects of Chase's worldwide corporate lending activity.
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Arguments and How They Fail
A short guide to debate and logical fallacies.
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side," said GK Chesterton. "I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
Arguments are attempts to persuade by providing reasons (or premises) in support of a particular claim (or conclusion).
There are two broad kinds of argument: deductive and inductive. In a deductive argument, the conclusion follows from the premises as their logical consequence:
All dogs are mammals. (Premise 1)
Fluffy is a dog. (Premise 2)
Therefore, Fluffy is a mammal. (Conclusion)
In an inductive argument, the conclusion is merely supported or suggested by the premises.
Whenever I eat hazelnuts, my mouth tingles. (Premise 1)
Whenever I eat walnuts, my mouth tingles. (Premise 2)
I am allergic to nuts. (Conclusion)
Even when sincere, arguments are often messily made, with premises and conclusions embedded in extraneous material and presented in any order or none at all. In many cases, a premise or conclusion may be implicit, that is, taken for granted and omitted from the argument.
Wuthering Heights is the best book ever written in the English language. Each year for the past 10 years, it has received more votes than any other book in our survey of British readers.
If we were to reconstruct this (flawed) argument, it might run something like this:
British public opinion accurately reflects literary merit in the English language. (P1, an implicit, and flawed, premise)
Our survey accurately reflects British public opinion. (P2, another implicit premise)
For the past ten years, Wuthering Heights has topped our survey. (P3)
Therefore, Wuthering Heights is the best book ever written in the English language. (C)
Validity and soundness
Parts of arguments are either true or false—unless they are vague or ambiguous, in which case they are indeterminate. But arguments themselves, taken as a whole, are either valid or invalid. An argument is valid if its conclusion is a logical consequence of its premises, regardless of the truth or falsity of the premises, or indeed of the conclusion.
All organisms with wings can fly. (P1, False)
Penguins have wings. (P2, True)
Therefore, penguins can fly. (C, False)
Although the above argument is valid (it "works"), it is unsound. For an argument to be both valid and sound, all of its premises have to be true—and, of course, the conclusion has to follow logically from the premises. In such cases, the conclusion is bound to be true.
All mammals are warm-blooded. (P1, True)
Bats are mammals. (P2, True)
Therefore, bats are warm-blooded. (C, True)
For an inductive argument, the equivalent of soundness is cogency. An inductive argument is cogent if its premises are true and render the truth of the conclusion more or less probable.
If you're having trouble deciding whether the form of a deductive argument is valid or invalid, it can be useful to formulate a parallel argument with exactly the same form, true premises, and an obviously false conclusion.
Some farmers are landowners.
Some landowners are aristocrats.
Therefore, some farmers are aristocrats.
The argument in symbol or general form:
Some A are B.
Some B are C.
Therefore, some A are C.
Parallel argument:
Some insects are herbivores.
Some herbivores are mammals.
Therefore, some insects are mammals.
Formal fallacies
A fallacy is some kind of defect in an argument, whether unintended or intended (with the aim to deceive). A formal fallacy is a deductive argument with an invalid form, such as the one above: The argument is invalid regardless of the truth of its premises. In contrast, an informal fallacy is a defect that can only be identified by an analysis of the content of the argument. One way to think about it, as far as deductive arguments are concerned, is that, whereas formal fallacies are invalid, informal fallacies are unsound.
Common formal fallacies include "affirming the consequent" and "denying the antecedent."
Affirming the consequent (also called converse error) is to infer the converse from the first premise.
If A, then B.
Therefore, A.
If I have the flu, then I have a fever.
Therefore, I have the flu.
Denying the antecedent (also called inverse error) is to infer the inverse from the original statement.
Not A.
Therefore, not B.
If it snows, Jill works from home.
It's not snowing.
Therefore, Jill is not working from home.
You get the idea, and the idea is all you need, so let's move on to something a little more entertaining…
Informal fallacies
Informal fallacies, popular with politicians and conmen of all stripes, are frequently found in inductive arguments and can be very hard to uncover. What follows is a selection of some of the more common or important informal fallacies, with, for each fallacy, a short definition and live example (verbatim examples are referenced at the foot of the article).
A "red herring" is a deliberate attempt to weaken or gloss over an argument by diverting attention away from it or its central tenets.
—Critical appraisal of the new Bordeaux vintage would be more objective and meaningful if the wines could be tasted blind. —Just Bordeaux?
Straw man is to misrepresent an argument, and then knock it down to score an easy win.
He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008.
If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that's OK. But it's not OK with me, because based on what she's saying, and based on where she's going, and where she's been, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month on the final day. And that's not acceptable.
Ad hominem ("to the man") is to attack not the argument itself, but the person making it.
Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time. She just can't stop, which is so good for the Republican Party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!
Genetic fallacy is to accept or reject an argument on the basis of its proponents or origins.
I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, people from organizations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
Appeal to hypocrisy (tu quoque, "you too") is to dismiss an argument on the grounds that its proponent's behavior is inconsistent with it.
I don't buy into your arguments for higher taxation. You yourself have used every trick in the book to minimize your effective tax rate—indeed, the very tricks that you propose to ban.
Note that ad hominem, genetic fallacy, and appeal to hypocrisy are all three closely related.
Appeal to popularity, also called appeal to democracy or consensus fallacy, is to conclude the truth of a proposition on the basis that most or many people believe it to be true.
Of course he's guilty: Even his own mother has turned her back on him.
Argument to moderation, also called the Englishman's fallacy, is to argue that the moderate view or middle position must be the right or best one.
Half the country favors leaving the European Union, the other half favors remaining. Let's compromise by leaving the European Union, but remaining in the Customs Union.
Bifurcation (false dilemma, false trilemma, etc.) is the presentation of limited alternatives when there are in fact more, creating the false impression that the alternatives presented are either mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive. Bifurcation is often an attempt to force a Hobson's choice of "take it or leave it."
It's my deal or no deal.
It's my deal, no deal, or no Brexit at all.
Analogical fallacy is to assume that things which are similar in one or more respects must be similar in all respects.
Like prisons, mental hospitals feature security officers, high walls and fences, and locked or barred windows. And, like prisons, mental hospitals are a form of punishment for deviant behavior.
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc ("with this, therefore because of this") is to assume that correlation necessarily implies causation.
Studies have found that people who drink red wine with their meals are, on average, less likely to suffer from heart disease. Therefore, drinking red wine with meals protects against heart disease.
There could, in this case, be a third factor involved; for example, people who drink red wine with their meals may tend to eat more healthily or be less stressed.
Gambler's fallacy is the assumption that the outcome of one or more independent events can influence the outcome of a subsequent independent event.
June is pregnant with her fourth child. Her first three children are all boys, so this time it's bound to be a girl.
Runaway train is an argument that is used to justify a particular course of action, but which, on its own, would also justify much more drastic action in the same direction.
Speed kills. Reducing the speed limit from 30 to 20 mph will reduce the number of fatal road traffic accidents.
In which case, why not reduce the speed limit to 0 mph?
Argument from ignorance, also called the negative proof fallacy, upholds the truth of a proposition based on a lack of evidence against it, or the falsity of a proposition based on a lack of evidence for it.
Of course God exists. How else do you explain life on Earth?
Argument from ignorance is often used to shift the burden of proving or disproving something onto the other side, when normally this burden rests with the party staking the claim.
Begging the question is to argue in circles, supporting the conclusion by means of itself.
I oppose same-sex marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage is not marriage.
This is more or less equivalent to "I'm right because I say so."
See my follow-up article, The Art of Persuasion.
G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922.
Hillary Clinton, National Security Speech Delivered at Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 2 June 2016.
Donald Trump, Third Presidential Debate, 20 October 2016.
Donald Trump on Twitter (@realDonaldTrump), 18 November 2017.
Michael Gove, during an interview with Faisal Islam on Sky News, June 3, 2016.
Theresa May, at various times during her prime ministership.
Begging the question
Submitted by XUSNLT on June 25, 2019 - 1:21am
It is interesting how your examples of false arguments fall so completely on the Left. In describing the argument against same-sex marriage, you have chosen the most inaccurate phrasing possible. Were your other examples more middle-of-the-road politically, I might write it off as being done merely for the purpose of illumination. But the entirety of your article reveals otherwise. So, then, allow me to illuminate for you the correct and logically sound argument against same-sex marriages:
Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. (P1)
A same-sex union is not a union between a man and woman. (P2)
Any same-sex union is not a marriage. (C)
It is not lost on the Conservative community that many academics like yourself have adopted the ingenuous tactic of misstating our arguments so as to undermine them. That, sir, is the definition of an ad hominem approach to discourse. Worse, it actually tends toward an "ends justifies the means" type of bullying rhetoric.
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The author did not commit an ad hominem fallacy
Submitted by Peter Schorn on July 21, 2019 - 6:39pm
An ad hominem fallacy is when you levy a personal attack on someone instead of responding to their actual argument(s). Thus, an Ad hominem, per definition, must be directed against a specific person. If you think he committed the ad hominem fallacy, then against whom was it directed? As a matter of fact, "misstating our arguments so as to undermine them." is referred to as the strawman fallacy. This fallacy is committed when someone misrepresents and distorts an opponent's argument as weaker than it actually is in order to make it easier to refute.
The author never claimed to be stating the arguments of the conservative community, he simply presented *A* argument against same-sex marriage and showed why it was flawed. Because the author never attributed the argument to a specific person, or even to the conservative community, you cannot claim that he "misstated [the conservative community's] arguments."
Also, the argument that you made against same-sex marriage is remarkably unimpressive. All you did was define marriage as only between a man and women in the first premise, and then conclude that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman. Your argument, like the one in the article, is begging the question. The fallacy of begging the question occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. Your first premise, by defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, assumes that a same-sex union is not a marriage. You then conclude that a same-sex union is not a marriage. Do you see the circularity in that?
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Alt girl Jena Malone raised eyebrows at the beginning of the summer when she appeared nearly naked in a video for the song "Dead Rabbit Hopes" from her band, The Shoe. The only thing that kept the Hunger Games actress on the good side of YouTube's censors were a few small, carefully placed flowers.
Which is a good thing, since it's a lovely, intimate song that uses nudity not for prurient purposes but to express Jena's views about the importance of feeling comfortable in your own skin.
That attitude also drives the nouveau boho clothing label For Love & Lemons, which hooked up with Jena to create a capsule lingerie collection that embodies both the visual style and free spirit of Dead Rabbit Hopes.
The resulting collection, called Flower Hopes, appears to be available only online and by pre-order until Aug. 26 (tomorrow!).
It's a small collection — three bra-brief sets plus one bodysuit — and, just like The Shoe's video, it makes clever use of macramé appliqué florals to provide a bit of modesty on an otherwise sheer tulle base.
And, like Jena herself, the Flower Hopes range has a lot to say about how young women view themselves.
"I still wake up some days myself and forget my own perfect beauty," she says in a Q&A on the For Love & Lemons blog. "I get down on myself when I look in the mirror. And I look at my body sometimes and wish it looked different. This is natural and part of the human condition, I'm learning. What is unnatural is allowing our beautiful minds to live in this state instead of laughing at these impulses.
"What helps me the most is realizing the moments in my life when I felt most beautiful and happy and content had nothing to do with my physical image and had everything to do with my heart."
The L.A.-based For Love & Lemons calls this a "passion project" and it's the kind of celebrity collaboration that feels authentic and worthwhile, since it promotes a conventional wisdom that young women can't hear often enough.
"Our collection, like the Dead Rabbit Hopes song, is intended to empower women to celebrate their bodies and feel beautiful in their skin," the company says. "We hope our capsule collection will inspire women to look to themselves to find confidence and peace in their own unique beauty."
The red-hot label has a lot of new things coming for fall, which we'll look at later. As for the newly-blonde Jena, she's touring with her two-piece band this summer before getting ready for another season of red carpet appearances in support of the next Hunger Games instalment. Don't be surprised if she shows up in one of FL&L's lacey see-through maxis.
Here's the rest of the Flower Hopes lookbook starring Jena, who radiates happiness and self-confidence throughout.
A Breathtaking Ode To 'Beauty Inside'
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A Haunting is History Waiting to be Heard!
The Paranormal Seekers
Places We've Investigated
Stories and Reports
Photos, Video & EVP
Got Ghosts? Contact Us!
Oshawa Community Museum & Archives - Oshawa
Date: Friday April 3, 2009
Time: 7pm – 11pm
Team Members Present: Rachel, Jay, Jeff, Paula, Amanda, Donny, Crystal, Dan.
Equipment: EMF, 2 digital audio recorders, 2 video camera, 3 digital cameras, Parabolic Sound equipment, Infra-red camera, walkie talkies.
Located on the shores of Lake Ontario, the Oshawa Community Museum and Archives resides in three separate buildings: The Guy House, The Robinson House and The Henry House. All three buildings still sit on their original foundation, all being built in the 1800's. Stories about ghosts and haunting have been circulating these three building for many years. Most of the stories revolve around The Henry House, but as we found out, there are many more interesting stories about the other two houses.
The rain was coming down steady when Jay and Rachel pulled into the parking lot at the Museums. After gathering the equipment, they made their way to the Guy House where they were to meet the Curator and Executive Director. After dodging puddles, Jay and Rachel made it to the back door and were greeted by Melissa and Laura.
After a brief discussion and some preliminary questions, the team was ready to begin. Crystal and Dan were running a bit behind, so we ventured through the Guy House and let Amanda get a feel for the place. "This is exactly how I pictured it!" Amanda exclaimed as she enter the upper level of the Guy House. "I can hear the tapping of shoes, as if they are going up and down stairs. I feel like they come from a little girl," Amanda started to say as she stood between the two rooms at the back of the stairs. "These spirits stay here. They like it here." Amanda then reached for a chair, and sat down. "I can see someone digging, burying something, shovelling. Something is on this property. Now I see a man. He has gray hair, in his 50's/60's. He has a pocket watch, wearing a suit with a vest and jacket. He has money. Maybe early 1900's. He is wearing glasses. He is well educated, teacher," Amanda said. "I'm hearing a 'W' sounding name. Wilfred? Wilbur? William? I can't make out what it is. There is also a lady here. She is associated with the little girl. Something like a mother or motherly figure," continued Amanda. "Now I'm hearing 'Tell Jessica'. They keep repeating it over and over. And I know that this is a common name, but I hear the name McLaughlin". At this point Jeff sees something unusual on his infra-red camera. While Amanda was channelling, he watched her hands change from being warm to cold, and that she had one long cold streak going down the side of Amanda's head. It was then that Amanda decided that she would venture into another room.
Amanda walked into the room on her right, which had been converted into an office. "There was someone standing there when we came into the room," Amanda said as she pointed to the back left corner. "Something is wrong with someone's arm. It's broken or hurting. And I keep hearing 'tell Jessica'. What do you want me to tell her?" Amanda asked out loud. Paula was listening extensively to what was going on, when something caught her attention. "I hear music!" she exclaimed. Everyone stopped talking and listened. However, Paula was the only one who could hear it as she had the parabolic turned on and was listening through ear phones. "It is very faint. I can't make out the song but it is some place far away," Paula said.
Amanda made her way to the room at the top of the stairs on the left. The rest of us followed. "There is nothing negative about this room. It is pretty calm. There is a lady in here though. People walking outside see things in this window," said Amanda. Amanda gazed out the window for a brief moment. "Agh! There is a guy out there," Amanda blurted out. "Is he alive or dead?" asked Rachel. "He's dead," answered Amanda. Amanda then began to describe him. "He's just standing there. He has brown hair, rigid features. Brown eyes, dark circles, thin hair, 5'10''. He's not coming onto the property. The other ghosts/spirits won't let him in. He hasn't passed on. He doesn't know he's dead. He doesn't know what is going on." "Well just remember, we have to go outside to get to the other houses," Rachel said. With that, Amanda turned and walked away from the window. Everyone headed downstairs to wait for Crystal and Dan.
Crystal and Dan arrived shortly after. After setting Crystal up with an audio recorder we proceeded to walk through The Guy House, again. Crystal was immediately drawn to the first room on her left as she walked down the back hallway. This room appears to hold boxes of documents and archives. "There is a male spirit in here from 1913. I am getting September 10, 1913 army", Crystal said. She then turned her eyes to the photos on the wall of local Canadian heroes of the World Wars. "It could be someone related to the photos on the wall. He messes with the boxes or something in the room", she continued. "Not sure if he is fixing something or what. But they definitely keep papers in this room." Crystal circled the small room until she figured out where the male spirit was coming from. "The far left corner. I feel that he lingers there. He is attached to something in the boxes," Crystal said. As we followed Crystal down the hallway to the front of the house she began to have a familiar impression. "I'm getting a similar feeling to Eaton Hall. Something to do with medical rescue and a burning smell."
We entered a room which is now a General Store. Crystal walked around the room and stopped dead centre. "This store isn't suppose to be here," stated Crystal. "It feels wrong and weird. There should be a bed and a writing desk. And a couch behind me. Sort of like a hospital or nursing home room. Like respite care or something with a terminal illness. I am also getting heaviness in my lungs, like iron lungs. It also feels like my right thigh is severed or has been amputated." Crystal than began to pick up on the male spirit that she had sensed a few minutes earlier. "The male spirit from the other room, he resides in this room mainly." With the team in tow, Crystal rushed up the stairs and to the back right room (which is now the staff kitchen), to the window. "I rushed up these stairs to look out this window and wanted to jump," said Crystal. "Something was out this window. I still have the heaviness in the lungs. It's almost like when you run a race or like being winded and you are trying to catch your breath." Crystal stood in silence for a moment. "William Beatty," she blurted out. Crystal then turned back to the window and said something that was brought up by Amanda a half hour earlier. "Someone must see someone looking out this window when they are outside of the building," stated Crystal. "I'm just really drawn to this window." Crystal finally pulled herself away from the window only to be drawn to another corner of the room. This was the area that the microwave was currently occupying. "There is a lot of electrical current in this area. It is sort of like a vortex of energy right from the basement all the way up." Crystal said.
Crystal left the room, only to stop in the hallway. "Something is missing," she said. "Something is missing structure-wise. Like a crawl space or something. The space is now open but it should be closed." With saying that, Crystal moved on to the front office, where Amanda had previously pick up on a spirit with a sore or broken arm. "I see someone older sitting in the chair when I walked in," stated Crystal. "It's a female spirit. I am getting the names Esther and Theresa. It's all in this one area and prominently this older female spirit. She is working at the desk. She doesn't seem to be someone long gone, so she is more recently connected to the building. She was filing, and she looked like a librarian."
We left the female spirit to finish her paperwork and moved on to the next room. This room seemed to be harmless to the naked eye, but as Crystal entered the look on her face was about to change all of our opinions. "I would not want to work in here," said Crystal. "No way would you catch me working in here. I don't like it all. It's heavy and the second you walk in it becomes negative and heavy. If I wanted to work somewhere that I absolutely hated, it would be here," continued Crystal. Crystal then went on to describe the feeling. "It's like a tornado of energy, something is off in this room. It's unbalanced energy, scattered thoughts and anyone who is in here becomes loopy and finds it hard to focus. It feels like the floor is going to suck me right in." With saying that, Crystal immediately removed herself from the room and stood at the top of the stairs. "There have been major repairs done to this end of the house," Crystal said. And with that she headed back down the stairs, away from the room she didn't like. The rest of the team followed.
The Henry House was next on our investigation. We grabbed our equipment, put our hoods up, and dashed out into the rain. It was a quick walk, but nonetheless a wet one. As we enter the Henry House Crystal and Amanda made their way to the first room on the left which was set up to resemble a library/study. "I'm seeing the man again. The one I described earlier with the gray hair and pocket watch," Amanda said. Crystal was seeing someone else. "I see a young girl with a black bonnet. She has ringlets, but sometimes her hair is in braids. She is skipping around and she is excited. Not too sure why she is excited though," said Crystal. "She looks like Amanda, only 1800s style," joked Crystal. "I also feel like a chair is missing. A wingback chair. As well as a fireplace. This room was more of a library," said Crystal. Amanda then noticed something. "There is an animal in here. It's high of the floor, and in the corner. It has to be a dog. It's too big to be a cat."
Next room visited was the Parlour and Dining rooms. Crystal and Amanda entered the rooms from different entry ways, but ended up together in the Dining room. Crystal was beginning to feel confused. "The layout of this house is wrong. This room should be the kitchen," stated Crystal. Crystal then began to pick up on a person in spirit. "I'm picking up on an older woman in the parlour room. It looks as if she is praying, but she could be grieving. She is looking out the window, kneeling. The front window that looks out to the water. She also has a light in the window with her. It could be a candle or one of those finger oil lamps. She is praying, waiting, grieving." Crystal then noticed another spirit had joined them in the dining room. "There is a little boy in here now and he has a dog with him. He is also wearing a brown puffy cap. I also keep seeing an older lady." Crystal felt that it was time to move to the next room, which was the kitchen.
As Crystal walked around the large room, she was drawn to the back door on the right hand side. "This is the place you went to when you were bad," said Crystal. As Crystal looked out the back door, she asked if she could go back there. As the door was opened the team went to investigate. As we got closer to the open door, the EMF detector suddenly began to beep. After looking around, we could not find anything that would have made the EMF suddenly go off. Melissa asked if we would like to go into the basement. The door was opened and the team descended. "It feels weird down here. They must have raised the basement," Crystal said. Excitement took over when Crystal found something. "Oh look! I found the hat that the little boy was wearing!" exclaimed Crystal.
The team headed back up to the main floor and continued the investigation in the kitchen. "I'm picking up on a Grandmother. She has an apron around her waist. She is really loving, caring and she did not let people get away with stuff. She is really respected because of this," Amanda said as she described a spirit that she was seeing. Crystal states that it was getting cold all of a sudden, and with that the EMF begins to beep. "Everything is in the wrong place," Crystal said as she walked towards the sink area. "When I stand here, I hear someone saying 'I'm sick of doing the same life over, and over. I can't live this life anymore, same stupid dishes, etc'. It is coming from a young married woman. She is doing what she is told. She keeps saying that she hates the life she is living. I hear her saying 'one more day and I will hang myself'," said Crystal. "And she did." Crystal continued to describe the situation. "It was close by, maybe a tree or in the house. It had to do with a family feud. Someone in another house, close knit. It was over someone that she wanted to marry. There is a fight between families. Could be business related? A business that started out small, and grew bigger. A business deal with a marriage in it. This girl pushed or someone pushed someone down the stairs. She did something to someone to start this feud. She is kind of confusing. Rachel then asked Crystal if she was getting any names. "Mary Catherine, Joseph Mc something, Turner which would be a last name," Answered Crystal. "Someone is getting pushed. She was a shit disturber. She purposely wanted to embarrass her family," Crystal told the group. Amanda then let everyone know that she hears whispering, and she heads to the room at the back of the house that is set up to resemble a bedroom.
"There was an affair. Rumors. They didn't want people knowing," said Amanda. There seemed to be something secretive about the back room, and not wanting to get into anyone, dead or alives, business, we decided to take the opportunity to visit the second floor.
The steep stairs that led to the second floor of the Henry House had its fair share of obstacle for those taller than 5 feet 5 inches. The second floor is used for storage and is rather quite small. It has 2 large rooms, and a small room off of the front room. Upon reaching the upper level the team members that ventured up there were complaining about how the upper level felt heavy and that it was hard to breathe. "I feel a male presence," said Amanda. "I hear a radio. Someone is talking on a radio. I also saw someone run from one side of this room to the other," Crystal stated as she pointed to the room that was to the right of the staircase. Crystal than began to describe how she felt about the first of the two rooms. "This room is scary. It feels like someone is right in front of your face. I don't like it." With that, Crystal moved to the next room. Amanda and Jay were close behind. "I'm picking up on a lady. She is in the window. She is wearing a long dress. She is crying. This lady is heartbroken, inconsolable," said Amanda. "It feels like she is pregnant," Crystal said. Jay was now beginning to feel uneasy. "I'm feeling a lot of pressure on my lungs and chest," he said. "This room use to be a bedroom, and the small room was a nursery," Crystal stated. "That would make sense. It feels like post-partum depression. Not wanting to be here," responded Amanda. The feeling of sadness was over-whelming so the group decided to head back down stairs and continue on the next house. "Someone definitely went head first down the stairs," said Crystal, as she descended.
We ventured back out into the rain and made our way to The Robinson House. There is an interesting quote posted on the wall inside the Guy House about the Robinson House: "It was a place we didn't go near for fear it would fall on us, or a ghost would appear" (Darlene William). Could this be hindsight as to what was in store for us? We were about to find out.
"There should be something in here," Crystal said as we stood on the porch. Amanda was eagerly agreeing. "I feel like they are waiting for us. Like they are all looking out the windows at us," she said. Jay, however, was feeling a little bit nervous. "This house kind of freaks me out," he said as we walked up to the front porch. The doors were opened and we walked in. The Robinson House seemed to make Crystal very happy. "I love it in here!" exclaimed Crystal. "This is the house that I am most drawn to. The other houses just wanted us to get out," continued Crystal. "The most activity happens in this house. The Henry house is very emotional and has a heavy feeling." Amanda and the rest of the team agreed.
The first room we entered was a room that was set up to resemble a general store. Crystal seemed extremely excited. "This place makes me happy! I would stay in here all the time and work," exclaimed Crystal. It was at this point that we were informed that this was the building that the museum staff does not like.
Our next stop was a room set up to resemble an early schoolhouse. Crystal was still feeling happy, but a sudden change soon took over. As Crystal touched the piano she instantly felt her back go ice cold. "I'm hearing 'Lady Amanda'," said Crystal. "It also feels like people are clinging to my legs. I am also hearing the name 'Julie Scott'. It is being repeated three times: 'Julie Scott, Julie Scott, Julie Scott'. She is a younger woman, could be a caretaker or nurse. Quiet, reserved. There is an older lady looking over her, like a mentor," described Crystal. "The older lady is the one that makes people feel uncomfortable," Crystal said to the museum staff that were present.
The basement was next on our rooms to investigate. Before the team even had a chance to take the first step down the old wooden staircase Crystal was experiencing something a little unnerving. "I just felt someone grab my arm and pull me towards the basement. All I could hear was 'Come on! Come on!" As we entered the basement Crystal's view of the house changed. "Who would want to come down here by themselves?" Crystal asks. Amanda began to get a vision of a small child. "I see a child. They are crunched up in the back corner," said Amanda and she pointed to the back right corner. "They were put in this corner as punishment," she continued. "It feels like a mortuary. It feels like were the dead come," Crystal said as she walked around the basement. Jay soon stumbled upon what appeared to be a broken tombstone. It was such a stone but it was being stored at the Museum. Jay read the stone out loud. "William Burns. Died May 9, 1852. 21 years, 1 month." Amanda let out a gasp. "I picked up on a 'Wilbur' in the other house," she said. "Maybe it wasn't Wilbur, but Will Burns? Creepy!" said Amanda as she climbed the stairs back to the main floor.
The team begin to make its way up to the second floor. As we ascended the stairs Crystal and Amanda both had the feeling that their shoes were full of cement. Crystal and Amanda joked that it was like the movie 'Nightmare on Elm Street', where the characters get stuck to the stairs. As we got to the top of the stairs, Crystal asked if there had been a fire, but before anyone could answer Crystal was taken aback by pain. "Ouch! The back of my head is throbbing. As soon as I looked into this room it felt like I was whacked in the back of the head. It feels like I've been beaten up," she said. (The room Crystal is referring to is the one to the left at the top of the stairs). Rachel was also feeling the same way. "It feels like I was punched in the nose," she said. As the team walked the second floor a strange feeling sweeps over the team. Each member began to feel light-headed and disoriented, as if they were intoxicated. "I feel like I'm hammered. I'm so disoriented," said Crystal. "I hate this floor. I feel really unstable. I don't like this at all," she continued.
There was one staircase left to climb. This staircase led to the third floor area that was now used for storage. As the team reached the top, Crystal was still feeling the negative atmosphere. "I liked this place when we first walked in. But when I got up to the second floor, I couldn't wait to get the heck out of here," Crystal said. Amanda was beginning to feel energies. "There is a couple fighting," said Amanda. "He's abusive to her. It's a really negative energy," she continued. With all this negativity swirling around, we made our way back down the stairs to the second floor.
At this point, we decided we would try to do separate sittings. We spilt the group into two teams: guys and girls. The girls stayed on the second floor in the room designated to the Native history of Oshawa. The guys took post on the first floor in the room set up to resemble an early schoolhouse. The second floor seemed to have more male energies which the women team members may attract. The first floor seemed to have more female energies which the men team members may attract. The lights were turned out and the sittings began. The team on the first floor seemed to have a very quiet sitting. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, nor did anyone see, hear or feel anything. The team on the second floor was having a much different experience. After settling for a pow-wow (we later joked how we had a pow-wow in a room dedicated to natives), Amanda began to see something take form behind Paula's back. "There is someone behind you, Paula. It's a kid. He's short," she said. Paula looked behind her nervously, but wasn't about to give up her seat on the floor. As we sat cross-legged the lights were all turned off and darkness enveloped us. "It is really dark behind me," Amanda said. Crystal was now beginning to pick up on something. "There will be a lot more activity with the new exhibit," she said. "I see a tall man and he is set in motion to make an appearance," continued Crystal. "I'm picking up on the name Edward," blurted out Amanda. Crystal began to go more into what she was seeing. "He is an older man, happy-go-lucky. He's not from long ago," she said. It was at this point that, without warning, Rachel smacked herself on the side of her head. "It seriously felt like someone was playing with my hair. It was tickling so badly. I wasn't expecting to hit myself that hard," she said. Crystal didn't flinch and went right back to describing the older man she was seeing. "Something about a big donation. He has round glasses, white hair, tall, thin. He is wearing a business suit and has his hand in one pocket. He is looking around. I can hear him saying that he 'looks out for his girls'. He likes the staff here. It's like he is a former manager or owner," said Crystal. Amanda then began to complain about a headache, and seconds after began to describe a woman that was present. "I'm having a really prominent vision. A woman, in her late 20s or early 30s. She has a white blouse on. It's high up on the neck. It is tucked into a high-waisted long dress that goes down to the floor. She has brown hair in a bun. She is really pretty," stated Amanda.
We made our way back to The Guy House to pack up our belongings and say our good-byes.
Is the Oshawa Community Museum and Archives haunted? We think so. Who do we think haunts the buildings? It's hard to put a finger on. There have been many, many residents that have come and gone through out the last 100 plus years. If you wish to experience some of Oshawa's history and heritage than we suggest you visit The Oshawa Community Museum and Archives. May 2009 sees a new exhibit called "Mourning After: The Victorian Celebration of Death" come to the Museums. For more information about the Museum and the "Mourning After" exhibit visit the Oshawa Community Museums and Archives website at www.oshawamuseum.org. We plan on making a trip to the exhibit. Maybe those that still call the Museums home will make an appearance as well.


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Q: Unable to perform postgres migrations when using docker compose I have postgres & pgadmin running in the same network & a node-express app running locally localhost:3000.
I am using sequelize orm.
After running the migration using npx sequelize-cli db:migrate it is showing
Sequelize CLI [Node: 14.17.1, CLI: 6.2.0, ORM: 6.6.5]

Loaded configuration file "database/config/config.js".
Using environment "development".
== 20210814120300-1_create_user: migrating =======
== 20210814120300-1_create_user: migrated (0.021s)

== 20210929114301-2_update_user: migrating =======
== 20210929114301-2_update_user: migrated (0.017s)

It is showing that the migrations have happened successfully but the migrated changes have not taken effect in the postgres db running inside docker container
For example this is a part of my migration file
module.exports = {
  up: async (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
    await queryInterface.createTable("Users", {
      ...
      email: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING,
        field: "email",
        allowNull: false,
        unique: true,
      },
      // newly added fields
      profileImage: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING,
        field: "profile_image",
        allowNull: true,
      },
      backgroundImage: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING,
        field: "background_image",
        allowNull: true,
      },
      bio: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING,
        allowNull: true,
      },
      // =========
      hashedPassword: {
        type: Sequelize.STRING,
        field: "hashed_pass",
      },
    });
  },
  down: async (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
    await queryInterface.dropTable("Users");
  },
};

As you can see in the below image the table is not updated after the email there is hashed_pass & the columns profile_image, background_image, bio are absent

What docker concept will be used to implement this bcz. This is the docker-compose file for the following
version: "3.0"

services:
  pgadmin:
    container_name: pg_admin
    image: dpage/pgadmin4
    environment:
      - PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=....@gmail.com
      - PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=secret
    ports:
      - 80:80

  db:
    container_name: pg_container
    image: postgres
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=root
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=root
      - POSTGRES_DB=test_db
    ports:
      - 5430:5432
    volumes:
      - "C:/Users/Perry/Documents/workspace/cp-back/dumped/users:/infile"
      - pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

volumes:
  pg_data:

What needs to be done so that when i execute the migrations locally the migrations happens in the postgres db running in the docker container


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Work on the refurbishment of the school campus started this summer with the demolition of the 'New' Games Hall, the Dance Studio and the Swimming Pool (above) while a temporary gymnasium (below) was erected in front of Camaghael Hostel. With the demolition site cleared before the school re-opened in August, we are expecting work to start on our new sports centre early in 2009.
The 'Lochaber 21' refurbishment programme start in the summer of 2008 with demolition of the disused swimming pool, the dance studio and the "new" games hall to make way for a state-of-the-art sports centre of 21st century standard.
The sports centre—which will match the best in Highland—will include a high specification four-court games hall, a gymnasium, a fitness suite, a dance studio, changing rooms for indoor and outdoor sports, generous storage facilities and two dedicated P.E. classrooms with games hall viewing areas.
There will also be a new Drama classroom built beside the school's main hall. A temporary gymnasium is to be constructed in front of Camaghael Hostel (with temporary changing facilities in the hostel) and building work is expected to take around 20 months.
The sports centre is phase 1 of a remodelling of the entire school campus which will see further demolition, construction and refurbishment as outlined in the artist's impressions below. The Lochaber 21 project is funded through the Highland Council Capital Plan with assistance from sportscotland.


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La baronía de Lluriach es un título nobiliario español creado por el rey Carlos II en favor de Miguel Leonardo de Cardona y Rentería, teniente general de la costa y reino de Granada, mediante real decreto del 1 de enero de 1681 y despacho expedido el día 24 del mismo mes y año.

Barones de Lluriach

Historia de los barones de Lluriach

 Miguel Leonardo de Cardona y Rentería (Benasque, 8 de noviembre de 1634-12 de julio de 1702), I barón de Lluriach, teniente general de la costa y reino de Granada, caballero de la Orden de Santiago desde 1665.
Casó en 1681 con Francisca María Tomasa Fernández de Córdoba y Velasco (m. 1713), hija de Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Ayala, II marqués de Valenzuela, y su esposa María de Velasco. Le sucedió su hijo:

 Nicolás Esteban Cardona y Fernández de Córdoba, Rentería y Velasco (Almería, 2 de agosto de 1687-24 de enero de 1713), II barón de Lluriach, teniente general de la costa y reino de Granada.
Concertado el matrimonio con su prima Lorenza Fernández de Córdoba y Salinas, hija de Pedro Fernández de Córdoba y Velasco y su esposa Clara de Salinas y de Flor, le sobrevino la muerte. Sin descendencia. Le sucedió su prima:

 Josefa Práxedes Cardona y Guevara, Lozano y Miralles (19 de diciembre de 1660-17 de enero de 1743), III baronesa de Lluriach.
Casó el 13 de diciembre de 1676 con el doncel Gabriel de Olivar y Tolosa (1654-1694), baile general y regente de la Real Gobernación y Capitanía General (1684), consejero del brazo de caballeros (1686) y morber (1693), hijo de Gabriel de Olivar y Gomila y su esposa Antonia Tolosa y Gomila. Le sucedió su hijo:

 Simón de Olivar y Cardona, Tolosa y Guevara (Ciudadela, 20 de noviembre de 1654-17 de abril de 1752), IV barón de Lluriach, doncel, capitán (1710), doctor de ambos derechos (1716), asesor del baile general, juez ordinario de la isla de Menorca, consejero militar (1731 y 1735), jurado militar (1737-1738).
Casó el 13 de septiembre de 1742 con Antonia Sintas y Saura (1725-1770), hija de Juan Sintas y Olivar y su esposa Ángela Saura y Gomila. Le sucedió su hijo:

 Gabriel de Olivar y Sintas, Cardona y Saura (24 de enero de 1745-8 de marzo de 1828), V barón de Lluriach, obrero de la iglesia de San Juan Baustista (1763), clavario general (1772), consejero caballero (1775), baile general y juez ordinario de la isla (1786), jurado militar (1779-1780, 1798 y 1804).
Casó el 20 de octubre de 1764 con Antonia Squella y Carreras (1744-1834). Le sucedió su hijo:

 Simón de Olivar y Squella, Sintas y Carreras (Ciudadela, 1 de diciembre de 1771-17 de mayo de 1839), VI barón de Lluriach, diputado a la Junta Suprema de Gobierno de las Islas Baleares (1808), clavario de cereales (1808), obrero del hospital General (1808 y 1810), almotacén (1810), clavario general (1812), jurado militar (1815-1816), baile general (1817), consejero del brazo de caballeros (1811, 1814 y 1819).
Casó el 6 de octubre de 1801 con Antonia Martorell y de Olives (1781-1852). Le sucedió su hijo:

 Gabriel de Olivar y Martorell, Squella y de Olives (Ciudadela, 24 de agosto de 1802-15 de mayo de 1860), VII barón de Lluriach, alcalde de Ciudadela.
Casó el 1 de septiembre de 1840 con Montserrat Desvalls y Fort de Saint Maurin (1816-1876), hija de Juan Desvalls, brigadier de infantería, y de su esposa Elena Fort de Sanint Maurin, de los marqueses de Alfarras. El 6 de junio de 1862 le sucedió su hijo:

 Simón de Olivar y Desvalls, de Martorell y Fort de Saint Maurin (28 de noviembre de 1843-25 de mayo de 1907), VIII barón de Lluriach.
Casó el 12 de enero de 1878 con Eugenia de Olives y Magarola (1855-1931), hija de Bernardo José de Olives y Vigo y de su esposa Dolores de Magarola y Sarriera. El 10 de diciembre de 1907 le sucedió su hijo:

 Gabriel de Olivar y de Olives, Desvalls y Magarola (6 de diciembre de 1881-Ferrerías, Menorca, 13 de agosto de 1936), IX barón de Lluriach.
Soltero, sin descendientes. El 15 de diciembre de 1950 le sucedió su sobrino, hijo de José María de Olivar y Olives y su esposa Teresa de Canet y Méndez:

 Simón de Olivar y Canet, de Olives y Méndez (Ciudadela, 30 de junio de 1921-29 de noviembre de 1967), X barón de Lluriach, licenciado en Derecho (1943), concejal del ayuntamiento de Ciudadela (1957), teniente de alcalde (1958), diputado provincial (1958), alcalde de Ciudadela (1959), procurador en Cortes (1961), comendador del Mérito Civil (1965).
Casó en la villa de Crespià (Gerona) con Montserrat Ordis Vila (n. 1922), hija de Miguel Miguel Ordis Pagé y su esposa Teresa Vila Sabater. El 1 de septiembre de 1993 le sucedió su hijo:

 José María de Olivar y Ordis, Canet y Vila (n. Ciudadela, 3 de septiembre de 1949), XI barón de Lluriach, licenciado en Derecho y abogado, caballero de la Orden de Malta (1998).

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Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has accused Manchester City of trying to 'influence' referees to make decisions after their win against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final.
Pep Guardiola's side picked up their first major trophy of the season with a 4-3 win on penalties at Wembley to clinch the Carabao Cup and Mourinho was on punditry duty for Spanish television station DAZN.
The Portuguese appeared to praise Guardiola's side by praising their experience but then turned it in to a dig by suggesting they try and influence referees.
" City are a team that knows everything," the Portuguese said to DAZN.
"And when I say it knows everything, they know how to exploit all the little things in games that only experienced teams with smart people, with many kilometres in their legs at this very high level, know how to control.
"Trying to get a yellow here or a yellow here in groups of players, three or four, around the referees trying to influence a decision.
"It is a team that plays football as well as it does, [but] this management of small details ends up being important."
Mourinho has taken to punditry after he was sacked by United in December following the club's worst ever start to a Premier League campaign, the Portuguese has been on Qatar-based broadcaster Bein Sport and is set for another appearance station RT.


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namespace WebCore {

class ScriptLoader;

class HTMLScriptElement FINAL : public HTMLElement, public ScriptLoaderClient {
public:
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Q: 64 Bit Java Path in Cygwin Ok, so this is actually quite a long story, but i'll try and keep it pretty short. So I'm trying to get the WebOS SDK working on Windows using Cygwin. Well, it wasn't working. It kept complaining that i was using a 32 bit version of java instead of 64 bit. the explenation for that problem is pretty easy to figure out. my PATH variable was set wrong and was pointing to my 32 bit installation of Java. Simple solution YOU'D THINK. apparantly not. for some reason, despite my best efforts, i cannot get the 64 bit version of java written into the PATH variable. The problem:
Cygwin doesn't like spaces in the Path variable, even though the path variable is littered with spaces, it won't accept it when i add my own space. After a lot of googling, i've found multiple accurances of this problem, and multiple solutions. but none of them seem to work. i always get exactly the same error:
bash: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory

The error is pretty self explanetary, basically its not reading anything past the first space, and i have no such directory as C:/Program so it spits out an error, my question is how do i get it to except a space, because changing the name of the directory is not an option, too many things depend on it. heres what i've tried so far:
$PATH=$PATH:C:\PROGRA~1\Java\jre6
$PATH=$PATH:"'pwd'" (while in java directory)
$PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin (hay, i had to try)
$PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/"Program Files"/Java/jre6/bin
$PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jre6/bin (escape character was rumored to work
$PATH=$PATH:'/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin'
$PATH=$PATH:"`/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin`"

and i think that was it, if anyone knows how to actually do it properly (or improperly but working for all i care) it would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
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Chris

A: You also have the option of using the cygpath tool to help.  Cygpath can be used to convert from a Window's path to a Unix path, but that doesn't directly handle spaces, so you need to do a two step  process, first eliminate the spaces by converting to a DOS (short) path name, then convert to a Unix style path:
PATH=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin")):${PATH}
PATH=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\PDK\bin")):${PATH}
PATH=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin")):${PATH}
PATH=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files (x86)\HP webOS\SDK\bin\novacom")):${PATH}

The end result will be something like (short names may differ slightly):
/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~3/HPWEBO~1/SDK/bin/novacom:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~3/HPWEBO~1/SDK/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~3/HPWEBO~1/PDK/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/Java/jre6/bin:....other path elements....

One thing to keep in mind when using this, cygpath generates an error if the provided path actually does not exist because it can not create the short path for a non-existent path.
What is nice about this approach is that if you set Windows environment variables (like for example JAVA_HOME) then you can use that environment variable in the convert operation inside the .bash_profile, since all Windows environment variables are visible when the profile is being  loaded.  So if you had in the Windows environment
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre

then the cygpath command can be
$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -m -s "${JAVA_HOME}\bin"))

which means you only ever need to update via the Windows settings if the java install changes.

A: In .bash_profile:
PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jre6/bin/:${PATH}
PATH=${PATH}:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/HP\ webOS/PDK/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/HP\ webOS/SDK/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/HP\ webOS/SDK/bin/novacom

Adds the paths to your .bash_profile and both java and the webOS SDK tools should be available.


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Book Launch: Austin Harrington - German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar
School of Sociology and Social Policy event Wednesday 7 December 2016
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We are pleased to invite four leading social theorists to pose comments and questions about the work to the author.
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Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, & Editor European Journal of Social Theory
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There has been considerable interest in recent years in German social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger. In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of a circle of left-liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler, Tönnies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan-European reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage between East and West. Leeds' sociologist Austin Harrington examines their concepts of nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European identity and the place of the modern West in global social change. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in social, cultural and historical theory.
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Raymond Boisset (26 March 1912 – 6 July 1991) was a French sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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There are a lot of claims made regarding the risks and benefits of hormone replacement. One is now off the list.
The benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) continue to be debated. One of those potential benefits can now be taken off the list. If you are among the women considering HRT as a way of boosting memory and cognitive skills, don't bother. A new study finds that estradiol (a type of estrogen) does not affect brain function — positively or negatively — at all.
The study is the first large-scale, long-term study of estradiol's effects on cognitive function in women who began taking it shortly after menopause, according to the researchers. And even though estradiol won't improve their memory, women need not be concerned about its having any negative effects on memory, Victor Henderson, lead author on the study, told TheDoctor.
For those women who are thinking about HRT for hot flashes and other vasomotor symptoms, "Cognitive benefits should not weigh into their decision."
Henderson and his colleagues studied data from tests of the mental abilities of a group of over 550 women who were between the ages of 41 to 84. The women were enrolled in the ELITE (Early versus Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol) study and represented the early (within six years of menopause) and late stages (10 years or more after menopause) of postmenopause.
The researchers evaluated the women's verbal memory and executive functions like judgment, planning, reasoning and focus at the beginning of the study, then after two and a half years, and again after five years.
They found that hormone therapy begun within six years of menopause does not affect executive function, global cognition or verbal memory any differently from when estradiol is given ten or more years after menopause.
HRT is currently approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe symptoms associated with menopause such as night sweats and hot flashes, Henderson, a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Stanford University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, explained. Most of these symptoms occur during the transition to menopause and fairly soon after menopause, which is why it makes sense to take HRT early on.
HRT also has beneficial effects on bone mineral density (BMD), but is not approved as a first-line treatment for maintaining or increasing bone mineral density. "If you are considering HRT for these reasons, the study findings indicate no particular reason exists to fear harmful effects on cognition," Henderson added. But for those women who are thinking about HRT for hot flashes and other vasomotor symptoms, "Cognitive benefits should not weigh into their decision."
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