The students of CEIP Fernando Guanarteme They were the first to enjoy, with detail and with luxury guides, the latest edition of The Adventures of Arminda, in a unique presentation held at the Museum and Archaeological Park Painted Cave.
Arminda and the corsair's attack, third title of the collection, had its particular setting with the authors of the volume, the writer Alexis Ravelo and the illustrator Alex Falcón, together with Javier Gutierrez, representative of the printing company Gráfica Irudi. The act in this museum center is included in the program April-Book, which is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria throughout the month of April.
Ravelo, Falcón and Gutierrez explained in a didactic way the whole process of elaboration of this new title of Arminda: from the idea from which the story arises to its realization, edition and printing, to end with an animated game tracks to find a treasure: the same book. This group of CEIP Fernando Guanarteme He has worked, from the childhood stage, with the first two stories of the collection, through a project of the educational center.
Alexis Ravelo It was he who devised this new adventure around a new character, the evil Ojonegro, which represents a time in which the incursions of navigators, in this case, the corsairs, were common on the coasts of the Canary Islands, to carry out all kinds of looting and, also, the capture of human beings. This fact motivates that in this fictional story, Castilians and natives ally to expel these evildoers.
Cueva Pintada was, in this way, the scene of an animated activity, enjoyed intensely by a large group of small privateers (the students of the CEIP), whose objective has been to encourage reading as a vehicle to know the history of the Island The children of the aforementioned Galden educational center had the opportunity to learn about this editorial project and what is the process that has allowed for this illustrated album: the choice of the line of work and of those who write and illustrate the stories, the format , the script, the historical advice, the dialogue between images and texts € This activity was completed with a game of search for the one that was the town where the protagonist of the collection lived and lived.
Arminda and the corsair's attack is the third title of the collection, which the books complete Arajelbén How Arminda and Fernandillo met, written by Dolores Campos-Herrero and illustrated by Agustín Casassa (and converted into Till Another Day, after the translation into English of Isabel Pascua Febles) and The treasure of the Mocán (by Pedro Flores del Rosario).
In Arminda and the corsair's attack the writer Alexis Ravelo combines his talent with another Gran Canaria artist, the illustrator Alex Falcón. An author with a truly own label, who started as a graphic designer in the press and finished profiling his abilities in the advertising and photography environment.
In the Archaeological Museum and Cave Archaeological Park, Arminda will remain the protagonist. Your book translated into English Arajelbén (Till Another Day) It is also the epigraph of an activity aimed at primary school students, to spread the old town of Cueva Pintada, through a dynamic tour with readings of the story Arajelbén, which tells the meeting and friendship that arose between the Canarian girl Arminda and Fernandillo, the Castilian child.
This educational initiative will be developed throughout the month of April, has a bilingual character (in Spanish and English, and is free and from Tuesday to Friday (at a time agreed with the museum).
The museum contemplates the celebration of the visit-workshop Painted Cave in Family for Saturday, April 27 (from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.), addressed to families (previous registration, Monday to Friday, in the museum or in the number 298 895 489). The work Arminda and the corsair will involve families in a new adventure and in the pre-Hispanic universe.
In addition, throughout April the last adventure of Arminda will be the central motive of the dynamic visits proposed by the museum, for groups, equally free and from Tuesday to Friday (at a time arranged with the museum).
In addition, this illustrated album can be purchased at the El Rincon de Arminda Museum and Archaeological Park store and at the Library of the Cabildo. The price will be the same as previous copies, of 12 euros. The publication will also be a key element in the dynamic visits within the educational programs and will be made available as a teaching resource, through the loan, to educational centers that request it for use in the classroom.
In the collection The adventures of Arminda reality and fiction intertwine. Thus, the characters of Fernandillo, Hitaya and Alonso de Sotomayor emerged from the imagination of the writer Dolores Campos, author of the first story: Arajelbén (until another day!). How Arminda and Fernandillo met. In this new adventure, Alexis Ravelo gives life to Joao Figueira Guimaraes, Ojonegro, a fearsome corsair.
The protagonist, the sympathetic Arminda, historical character and daughter of the penultimate guanarteme or king of Agáldar, establishes friendship with Fernandillo, the Castilian child, and shows how friendship arises between its protagonists, who belong to different cultures and how those ties can overcome any border. This first story was also translated into English by Isabel Pascua Febles.
The friendship of Arminda and Fernandillo is consolidated in the second adventure The treasure of the Mocán written by Pedro Flores, where the importance of respecting our natural heritage is highlighted. The illustrator of these first two stories is Agustín Casassa.


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Palmarès
 Coupe de Yougoslavie 1999
 Champion de Bulgarie 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007
 Coupe de Bulgarie 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
 Ligue internationale de basket-ball des Balkans 2010

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Naissance en mars 1981
Naissance à Blagoevgrad
Joueur international bulgare de basket-ball
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If there was a contest which metal band can produce more brutal material, probably Infernal Torment would win that. There were plenty of exaggerated albums in the early '90s, but "Man's True Nature" had an exact mix of sound, themes and intensiveness that it resulted something more effective.
It was like another trying how to reach the possible borders all-round. The insane speed and hammering is one thing, but the sound emphasized the inhuman features the most, which came mostly by the animalistic vocals and the sick lyrics based on sexual perversions and senseless brutality. These were doubtlessly influenced by early Cannibal Corpse, but the insane feeling reminds to Infester. Musically it's different from Cannibal Corpse for sure, they tried to get further. "Man's True Nature" is closer to brutal death/goregrind than to ordinary death metal both in style and concept. The difference is that they kept the constant intensiveness and didn't change the song's structure. For the fans of exaggerated brutality this album counts as a golden classic. Not surprisingly the band wasn't able to exceed it's debut and didn't even try to keep this line, so they returned with a way softer and melodic album before they disappeared.


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The Union: new (and old) challenges for the new Prime Minister
Professor Nicola McEwen
What position will an incoming Prime Minister inherit?
Leaving the European Union has generated significant tensions within the UK Union. Both Scotland and Northern Ireland voted Remain by large majorities, but these votes were crowded out by the UK-wide decision to leave. During Brexit negotiations, both the Scottish and Welsh Governments consistently advocated for as close a relationship with the EU as possible, including membership of the single market. Just as consistently, both were largely ignored.
Brexit tensions have been compounded by a more assertive approach to the Union. Boris Johnson's so-called 'muscular unionism' was aimed at strengthening the UK government's role and visibility in devolved territories. Centred on policy areas that fall under the responsibility of the devolved institutions, this approach has prompted repeated accusations that devolution is being undermined. For example, the three devolved Finance ministers combined forces to charge that new powers to spend directly in devolved areas, which the UK government gifted to itself in the controversial United Kingdom Internal Market Act, threaten and reverse the devolution settlements.
Together, these developments have led to a significant erosion in trust between the UK and devolved governments. In research interviews I have been conducting in preparation for a book, it is not unusual for officials from devolved governments to describe relations with the UK government as the worst they have ever been.
Both the Welsh and Scottish governments have initiated constitutional reform processes. In Wales, the government set up an independent commission to explore options for a fundamental reform of the UK's constitutional governance and strengthen Welsh democracy. But the biggest threat to the Union comes from the Scottish Government's plans to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in October 2023. The SNP was re-elected with a promise to hold such a referendum. The SNP, together with the Scottish Greens, form a pro-independence parliamentary majority in Holyrood.
At issue, however, is where the legal authority to sanction a referendum lies. This question was never resolved ahead of the 2014 referendum, as the two governments negotiated a temporary transfer of authority to the Scottish Parliament to ensure a legally watertight vote. Both Theresa May and Boris Johnson rejected similar requests. At the First Minister's request, the Lord Advocate, the Scottish Government's senior law officer, made a reference to the Supreme Court to test whether the referendum bill prepared by her government is within the Scottish Parliament's law-making competence.
Immediate and long-term issues
The most immediate challenge facing the next Prime Minister will be how to engage with the Supreme Court reference and respond to its outcome. This is a legal process, but one that is loaded with political significance.
The Court may conclude that the reference is premature and await a further reference from UK law officers once the proposed legislation has passed through parliament. Or, it may take up the request to determine in advance of the legislation where competence lies.
On the substantive issue, the Court may decide that the Scottish Parliament has competence to legislate to hold a referendum that – the First Minister stated – would be 'consultative, not self-executing', designed to 'ascertain the views of the Scottish people for or against independence', not to bring independence into effect. In this case, we can expect legislation to follow soon after.
The new prime minister would then face a choice. Accept the ruling, perhaps even offer a more consensual approach to the process, whilst preparing to support those campaigning against independence in the subsequent referendum? Challenge the legitimacy of the process by encouraging a Unionist boycott? Or use the legal supremacy of the UK parliament to amend the Scotland Act to make any referendum on independence a reserved matter (and therefore not something that the Scottish Parliament could legislate for)?
If the Court determines, as the UK government maintains, that referendum legislation is beyond the Scottish Parliament's law-making powers, that would clearly present a huge headache for the SNP Government. But it would put pressure on the UK government too. If 'now is not the time', as the two previous prime ministers concluded and all candidates to succeed them have agreed, what would be the circumstances that would merit a process to determine whether Scots still consented to live in union with the rest of the UK?
Implications of potential policy choices
Ultimately, the future of the Union will be determined by politics, not law. If there is no legal pathway to an independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon declared that she would regard the next UK general election as a de facto referendum. Such a scenario might suit the Conservatives in the short-term, as the party most likely to benefit electorally from opposition to independence within Scotland. And so long as Scotland remains divided on independence, there is neither a legal nor a political imperative to respond to any claims of an SNP mandate. But such prolonged constitutional limbo could have a debilitating effect on politics and the Union in the longer term and do little to restore intergovernmental relationships already damaged by Brexit.
By Nicola McEwen, Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and Professor of Territorial Politics at the University of Edinburgh. This piece was originally part of the report 'The Conservative leadership contest: a guide to the policy landscape' with Full Fact.
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If you are looking for a really good short story then this is the one for you. This story follows a man who is privileged and spoiled. He really isn't very good at anything but spending money and drinking. The story opens with him going to work one morning and walking into the building. He makes his way towards his office with his poor secretary in tow. She has no love for the man at all and thinks he is quite the waste of space. He feels something on his face and reaches up, it is a fly. He swats it away and opens the door to his office. To his horror it is infested with flies and he orders her to go in and fumigate.
Later in the story we find our guy at a bar drinking and trying to pick up a girl who works there. There have been several more times that he has found a fly on him or flying in his face. He can't seem to get rid of them or figure out where they are coming from. He can hear them but can't seem to see them and neither can anyone else.
Now at this point you know I will not tell you much else other than to say you want to read this story. It is gruesome and bloody with some wickedness all rolled into one tight ball. Andrew really did an amazing job with this I'm really glad I had the opportunity to read it for an honest review.
There is another thing I really loved about this book. It never ceases to amaze me the brotherhood and love these guys show for each other. They support and encourage one another and it makes me proud to know them. That being said they have come together and have included several other short stories in a bonus section at the end of Andrews story. You will want to read them as well. It all makes into a very nicely done book.
Andrew Lennon is very talented and has a terrific way of spinning a story. Don't miss this one!!!


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Andrew Sheets: Twists and Turns In 2022
Our 500th episode! From all of us at Morgan Stanley, thanks to our listeners for all your support!
An overview of our expectations for the year ahead across inflation, policy, asset classes and more. As with 2021, we expect many twists and turns along the way.
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Welcome to the 500th episode of Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, and from all of us here at Morgan Stanley, thank you for your support. Today, as always, I'll be talking about trends across the global investment landscape and how we put those ideas together. It's Tuesday, November 23rd at 2:00 p.m. in London.
At Morgan Stanley Research. We've just completed our outlook for 2022. This is a large, collaborative effort where all of the economists and strategists in Morgan Stanley Research get together and debate, discuss and forecast what we think holds for the year ahead. This is an inherently uncertain practice, and we expect a lot of twists and turns along the way, but what follows is a bit of what we think the next year might hold.
So let's start with the global economy. My colleague Seth Carpenter and our Global Economics team are pretty optimistic. We think growth is strong in the U.S., the Euro area and China next year, with all three of those regions exceeding consensus expectations. A strong consumer, a restocking of low inventories and a strong capital expenditure cycle are all part of this strong, sustainable growth. And because we think consumers saved a lot of the stimulus from 2021, we're not forecasting a big drop off in growth as that stimulus fails to appear again in 2022.
While growth remains strong, we think inflation will actually moderate. We forecast developed market inflation to peak in the coming months and then actually decline throughout next year as supply chains normalize and commodity price gains slow.
Even though inflation is moderating, monetary policy is going to start to shift. Ultimately, we think moderating inflation and some improvement in labor force participation means that the Fed thinks it can wait a little bit longer to raise interest rates and doesn't ultimately raise rates until the start of 2023.
For markets, shifting central bank policy means that the training wheels are coming off, so to speak. After 20 months of unprecedented support from both governments and central banks, this extraordinary aid is now winding down. Asset classes will need to rise and fall or, for lack of a better word, pedal under their own power.
In some places, this should be fine. From a strategy perspective, we continue to believe that this is a surprisingly normal cycle, albeit one that's moving hotter and faster given the scale of the drawdown during the recession and then the scale of a subsequent response. As part of our cross-asset strategy framework, we run a cycle indicator that tries to quantify where we are in that economic cycle. We think markets are facing many normal mid-cycle conditions, not unlike 2004/2005. Better growth colliding with higher inflation, shifting central bank policy and more expensive valuations.
Overall, we think that those valuations and this stage of the economic cycle supports stocks over corporate bonds or government bonds. We think the case for stocks is stronger in Europe and Japan than in emerging markets or the US, as these former markets enjoy more reasonable valuations, more limited central bank tightening and less risk from legislation or higher taxes. Those same issues drive a below consensus forecast here at Morgan Stanley for the S&P 500. We think that benchmark index will be at 4400 by the end of next year, lower than current levels. How do we get there? Well, we think earnings are actually pretty good, but that the market assigns a lower valuation multiple of those earnings - closer to 18x or around the average of the last 5 years as monetary policy normalizes.
For interest rates and foreign exchange, my colleagues really see a year of two parts. As I mentioned before, we think that the Fed will ultimately wait until 2023 to make its first rate hike, but it might not be in any rush to signal that action right away, especially because inflation remains relatively high. As such, we remain positive on the U.S. dollar and think that U.S. interest rates will rise into the start of the year - two factors that mean we think investors should be patient before buying emerging market assets, which tend to do worse when both the U.S. dollar and yields are rising. We forecast the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield to be at 2.1% by the end of 2022 and think the Canadian dollar will appreciate against most currencies as the Bank of Canada moves to raise interest rates.
That's a summary of just a few of the things that we think lie ahead in 2022. As with 2021, we're sure they're going to be many twists and turns along the way, and we hope you keep listening to Thoughts on the Market for updates on how we see these changes and how they impact our market views.
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In recent years, the Republican approach to fixing poverty seems to be, "If we embarrass poor people enough, maybe they'll start earning money." While you're probably not going to get many economists to agree to this line of thought, Robert Macdonald, the mayor of Lewiston, Maine, just proposed that his state start publicly shaming welfare recipients.
Macdonald unveiled his new plan in his regular op-ed column in the Twin City Times. He argues that since retired state employees have their pensions published, printing the names of people receiving government assistance is also fair game. According to him, it's all about the public's right to know how its tax dollars are being spent.
Sign a petition telling Mayor Macdonald to drop his plan to shame the poor.
It's not as though the public can't already look up exactly how much money is budgeted for welfare. By specifically naming the people whose incomes are low enough to qualify them for assistance, the list will stigmatize them and leave them susceptible to harassment from disgruntled conservatives.
It gets more preposterous when Macdonald insists that the list wouldn't cause humiliation since people on welfare already "flaunt it in public." (Yes, yes, think of all the people you've encountered proudly waving around an EBT card and loudly shouting, "I am on welfare!") Some families have a hard enough time agreeing to accept assistance when they need it, so publicizing their economic setbacks will only add further shame to their current circumstances.
1. Limiting welfare recipients to no more than 5 years of assistance.
Statistically speaking, most welfare recipients are not on the program for that long anyway. However, given how many people spend their entire lives living in poverty, assuming that everyone can escape within a specified time period is foolish.
2. A woman who gives birth while already receiving welfare is cut off.
Republicans love labeling women receiving government assistance "welfare moms" and cling to a narrative that women have plenty of babies to get more money. Macdonald believes the solution is to automatically disqualify women who have babies while already on welfare. Considering that many in the GOP oppose access to birth control and abortion, I'm not sure what they want a woman in this situation to do; certainly it's the baby who suffers when a poor mother can't afford to take care of it.
Macdonald may have some clout as the leader of the second biggest city in Maine, but if he's going to make his pet projects state law, he'll first need a state legislator to sponsor his bills. So far, Macdonald has given copies of his bills to a handful of politicians, but none have formally agreed to take up his cause yet. "I'm a strong supporter for welfare reform, but I'm also a big advocate for privacy rights, so I would really need to study this more before saying whether I would support this or not," Republican State Senator Eric Brakey told the Bangor Daily News.
Finding a sponsor is not the only obstacle. State Representative Drew Gattine, a Democrat, said that passing this law at the state level would be futile since existing federal laws would likely forbid publishing this information anyway. Gattine also points out that in a state of 1.3 million people, just 6,000 Maine families are on welfare, making the money spent on feeding the poor an insignificant portion of the overall state budget.
Let's tell Mayor Macdonald to abandon these cruel proposed laws now with this petition. Shaming the poorest residents of Maine adds insult to injury – it is not an effective way to reform the welfare system.
The results of Tuesday's runoff election are in!
Mayor MacDonald has just been re-elected to a THIRD TERM!
Unbelievable stupidity based on unreal stereotypes. How did this horrible human ever get elected? And WHY do do many of you who sympathize with the poor still feel the need to justify your position? We ALL need money to live on whether some self rightous fool thinks we deserve it or not. There is no shame in being poor in a country where the government does not supply it's own population with the cultures currency. Businesses are not required to create enough jobs to put everybody to work and charities can't handle the need, so the social safety net has to. Of course there's generational poverty. We didn't all start in the middle class then fall off, most started in poverty and some managed to move up and away from the land and low paying jobs that will always need to be done. And maybe it's time to question this idea that YOUR TAXES are funding this.
The people who truly do not want to work will not be bothered. Those who have had no other option will be affected the worst, when they are the ones most likely to get themselves back up and off benefits.


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Orange Aug. 20th. 1785.
Dear Sir, --Yours of the 18th of March never reached me till the 4th inst. It came by post from N. York, which it did not leave till the 21 of July. My last was dated in April, & went by Mr. Mazzei, who picked it up at N. York and promised to deliver it with his own hand.
The machinations of G. B. with regard to Commerce have produced much distress and noise in the Northern States, particularly in Boston, from whence the alarm has spread to New York & Philda. Your correspondence with Congs will no doubt have furnished you with full information on this head. I only know the general fact, and that the sufferers are everywhere calling for such augmentation of the power of Congress as may effect relief. How far the Southern States & Virginia in particular will join in this proposition cannot be foreseen. It is easy to foresee that the circumstances which in a confined view distinguish our situation from that of our brethren, will be laid hold of by the partizans of G. B, by those who are or affect to be jealous of Congress, and those who are interested in the present course of business, to give a wrong bias to our Councils. If anything should reconcile Virga to the idea of giving Congress a power over her trade, it will be that this power is likely to annoy G. B. against whom the animosities of our Citizens are still strong. They seem to have less sensibility to their commercial interests; which they very little understand, and which the mercantile class here have not the same motives if they had the same capacity to lay open to the public, as that class have in the States North of us.
The price of our Staple since the peace is another cause of inattention in the planters to the dark side of our commercial affairs. Should these or any other causes prevail in frustrating the scheme of the Eastern & Middle States of a general retaliation on G. B. I 1 tremble for the event. A majority of the States deprived of a regular remedy for their distresses by the want of a federal spirit in the minority must feel the strongest motives to some irregular experiments. The danger of such a crisis makes me surmise that the policy of G. B. results as much from the hope of effecting a breach in our Confederacy as of monopolizing our trade.
Our internal trade is taking an arrangement from which I hope good consequences. Retail Stores are spreadg all over the country, many of them carried on by native adventurers, some of them branched out from the principal Stores at the heads of navigation. The distribution of the business, however into the importing & the retail departments has not yet taken place. Should the port bill be established it will I think quickly add this amendment which indeed must in a little time follow of itself. It is the more to be wished for as it is the only radical cure for credit to the consumer which continues to be given to a degree which if not checked will turn the diffusive retail of merchandize into a nuisance. When the Shop keeper buys his goods of the wholesale merchant, he must buy at so short a credit, that he can venture to give none at all.
You ask me to unriddle the dissolution of the Commee of the States at Annapolis. I am not sure that I am myself possessed fully of the causes different members of Congress having differed in their accounts of the matter. My conception of it is that the abrupt departure of some of the Eastern delegates, which destroyed the quorum & which Dana is said to have been at the bottom of proceeded partly from irritations among the commee partly from dislike to the place of their session, and partly from an impatience to get home, which prevailed over their regard for their private characters, as well as for their public duty
. Subsequent to the date of mine in which I gave my idea of fayette I had further opportunities of penetrating his character. Though his foibles did not disappear all the favorable traits presented themselves in a stronger light on closer inspection. He certainly possesses talents which might figure in any line. If he is ambitious it is rather of the praise which virtue dedicates to merit than of the homage which fear renders to power his disposition is naturally warm & affectionate, and his attachment to the U. S. unquestionable. Unless I am grossly deceived, you will find his zeal sincere and useful, whenever it can be employed in behalf of the U. S. with [out] opposition to the essential interests of France.
The opposition to the general assessment gains ground. At the instance of some of its adversaries I drew up the remonstrance herewith inclosed.
It has been sent thro' the medium of confidential persons in a number of the upper Counties, and I am told will be pretty extensively signed. The presbyterian clergy, have at length espoused the side of the opposition, being moved either by a fear of their laity or a jealousy of the episcopalians. The mutual hatred of these sects has been much inflamed by the late Act incorporating the latter. I am far from being sorry for it, as a coalition between them could alone endanger our religious rights, and a tendency to such an event had been suspected. The fate of the Circuit Courts is uncertain. They are threatened with no small danger from the diversity of opinions entertained among the friends of some reform in that department. But the greatest danger is to be feared from those who mask a secret aversion to any reform under a zeal for such a one as they know will be rejected. The Potowmack Company are going on with very flattering prospects. Their subscriptions some time ago amounted to upwards of four-fifths of the whole sum. I have the pleasure also to find by an advertisement from the managers for James River that more than half the sum is subscribed for that undertaking, and that the subscribers are to meet shortly for the purpose of organizing themselves & going to work. I despair of seeing the Revisal taken up at the ensuing Session. The number of copies struck are so deficient (there being not above three for each County) and there has been such delay in distributing them (none of the Counties having recd them till very lately & some probably not yet, tho' they were ready long ago,) that the principal end of their being printed has been frustrated.
Our fields promise very short crops both of Corn & Tobo. The latter was much injured by the grass hopper & other insects; the former, somewhat by the bug in the Southern parts of the State, but both have suffered most from dry weather which prevails at present in this part of the Country, and has generally prevailed I understand in most other parts. It seems certain that no future weather can make a great crop of either particularly of Tobo, so great a proportion of the hills being without plants in them & so many more with plants in them which must come to nothing. Notwithstanding this prospect, its price has fallen from 36s. to 32 & 30s. on James River & 28s. on Rappahannock. The scarcity of cash is one cause.1 Harrison late Gov. was elected in Surry, whither he previously removed with his family a contest for the chair will no doubt ensue should he fail he will be for Congress. I have not yet recd any of the books which you have been so kind as to pick up for me, but expect their arrival daily, as you were probably soon after the date of your last apprised that I was withdrawn from the nomination which led you to suspend the forwarding them. I am invited by Col: Monroe to an option of rambles this fall, one of which is into the Eastern States. I wish much to accept so favorable an opportunity of executing the plan from which I was diverted last fall; but cannot decide with certainty whether it will be practicable or not. I have in conjunction with a friend here a project of interest on the anvil, which will carry me at least as far as Phila or New York where I shall be able to take my final resolution
Adieu. Yrs sincerely.
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How to travel in the captivity of your home
Dea Birkett
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We can't travel with ease anywhere, anymore. First it was Spain, now Luxembourg is the latest holiday spot to require a two-week quarantine on return. But there is one destination that is guaranteed to be hassle as well as quarantine free: your home.
If you're wondering how you can make your 15-foot square lounge the border of your annual vacation, there's a guidebook to help. It was written in 1790 by young Frenchman and amateur hot-air balloonist Xavier de Maistre. Maistre had been condemned to 42 days confinement in his Turin studio flat for taking part in an illegal duel. Rather than sit on his sofa and mope, he took up his pen and wrote A Journey around My Room, a manifesto on how to travel while going nowhere. It became a cult classic, influenced many writers including Victor Hugo and Marcel Proust, and is still in print over two centuries later.
Maistre called his new style adventure 'room-travel'. His journey begins on his armchair, which he soon starts to admire with a whole fresh set of eyes. Habituation, he realises, has made him blind to its beauty. From this fascinating sofa spot, he spies, towards the North, his pink-and-white bed and decides to strike out for it. His journey without maps follows a zigzagging path and the borders of his world have so shrunk that the bed seems impossibly far away. Gathering his strength, he takes the first steps. It's well worth the effort to reach this first resting place.
'A bed witnesses our birth and death; it is the unvarying theatre in which the human race acts out, successively, captivating dramas, laughable farces and dreadful tragedies.'
Excited by the slumbering landscape, he declares, 'I am making discovery after discovery!' He continues on, exploring the 'vast terrain' of his novel and poetry collection. But even room-travel has its perils. En route from bed to desk, he trips over his sofa.
It takes until chapter 34 for the wanderer to eventually arrive at his writing case, sharpened pens and sealing wax. On top of a notebook lies a crumbling, dry rose. Rather like a museum object evoking a whole history beyond the glass cabinet in which it sits, Maistre sees the objects in his room as vehicles to take his imagination on a trip. He'd bought this rose at the previous year's carnival for a woman he admired. But it was unrequited love, and she had abandoned it on her dressing room table. He took it home where it had lain on his desk ever since.
Maistre is keen to extol the advantages of this 'new way of travelling that I am introducing to the world'. He claims thousands who have never dared to travel will now do so. You don't need a Tilley hat or even a pair of Bermuda shorts. Maistre finds his dressing gown the most comfortable 'travelling coat'. Anyone, he argues, can 'travel just as I do'. The cost, he points out, is nothing beyond normal outgoings. If you're afraid of nature's most challenging features, such as high cliffs and low valleys, you're not going to be challenged to conquer them. You don't even have to climb a steep set of stairs. Most of all, you won't get mugged. But for more modern-day tourists, the biggest blessing might be not having to weigh your luggage to see if you need to pay for a check-in bag. 'So, buck up then. Let's be off!' as Maistre says.
The voyager finds nothing confining about his rectangular, 36-pace circumference ('if you hug the wall') cabin. This room was not his cell but a 'rich land through which I am so agreeably travelling'. He does not long to hear the door key turning as it's unlocked. When his promised freedom from confinement grows close, he pines for the loss of 'the vast space that always lies open before me! They have forbidden me to roam around a city, a mere point in space; but they have left me with the whole universe.' As anyone returning from a good long holiday, Maistre isn't looking forward to going back. 'The yoke of business is going to weigh down on me once again; I will not longer be able to take a single step that isn't traced out for me by propriety and duty.'
Over two hundred years since this first journey, room-travel could be the answer to tourism in these Covid-19 times. Instead of enticing us to eat out with meal deals, the Government should consider room-travel vouchers as an option. Maistre ensures us that, once experienced, we will want to book room-travel for all our breaks. So much did he enjoy this mode of exploration that eight years later he made a second room-travel outing. On this journey, recorded in A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room, Maistre ventured still further – out on to his window ledge.
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Updates to the Facebook Home Page
February 4, 2010ByJustin Bishop
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Over the past several months we've tested a number of different designs of our home page to make navigation easier and to surface the most interesting content to users. Today we're starting to roll out the latest design to users. Learn all about the product changes on the Facebook blog.
Here are the changes that you will want to pay close attention to as a developer:
Along with the changes to the home page design, we're introducing new features to make it easier for users to discover and re-engage with your applications via the Games and Applications Dashboards. We announced these APIs a few weeks ago, and have been updating our public roadmap with details over the past several months. Now users can navigate to their applications via the dashboards, see news about their experiences with the applications, and discover new applications based on what their friends are using. Thanks to your feedback we've made a number of improvements to how these APIs work over the past couple of weeks. Be sure to check the documentation for the latest information.
Also, to help protect user privacy, if your application contains sensitive content (for example, it's related to a health issue) and you would rather not have your application show up in the "Friends' Recent Activity" or "Friends' Applications" sections of the dashboards, you can choose to hide it via a setting on the Advanced tab of the Developer application. In addition, we are providing users with the ability to control if they show up in the dashboards, and who they share their application activity with, through the Applications Settings page. We are also working on a way for users to set more granular controls for specific applications, so that they can easily filter how activity for these applications is shown in the dashboards.
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To make it easier for users to find applications, we're removing the application menu at the bottom of the screen, and moving the bookmarks to the left-hand side of the home page. The dashboards and three bookmarks will show up on the home page, and the remaining bookmarked applications will appear beneath a "more" link. Learn more about how the new bookmarking behavior on the roadmap. Users aren't able to reorder their bookmarks yet, but we're building the feature right now.
You can set a counter for your users (which will appear if they have bookmarked your application), indicating it's time to come back to the application and take an action. Counters serve as an additional communication channel to reach users and prompt them to re-engage with your application. Learn all about these changes and how to integrate with the new dashboards via the Dashboard API. Make sure you've included the Add Bookmark button to your application to make it easy for your users to bookmark your application.
For now, application notifications will show up with all other notifications in the new top menu. As we have stated on our public roadmap, we will stop delivering application notifications on March 1, 2010. We recommend you begin switching your integrations now.
To send information directly to your users (like application-to-user notifications today), we recommend you add news on the dashboard ("Three friends donated to your cause -- come back and recruit some more!"). You can also send email messages to users, if they have opted to receive emails from you. We recommend you use email for content like receipts for transactions, newsletters, or other richer content.
To indicate a user's friend has taken an action in an application that the user might care about (for example, the friend tagged the user in a piece of content), set the counter. When a user clicks the bookmark to land on your application, clearly indicate why the user is there (for example, to take a turn in a game.)
For now, requests will continue to appear in the upper right hand side of the home page, along with other Facebook requests. As we have said on our public roadmap, we will deprecate requests later this year, after we release our improved Share dialogs.
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My New Novel: The Cooking Class in San Sebastián
PINTXO PARTY FOOD: cold red pepper soup, garlic shrimp with piment d'Espellette, lamb meatballs, and pickled artichokes with garlic mayonnaise.
Laurence is intrigued with Eva a 70-year-old CEO who is seeking sex, love and marriage on her terms. The old retired Boeing engineer is overwhelmed by all this after so many years as a widower living his quiet life and working part time in the art gallery. She has so many things he does not, including money and four grown children with families of their own.
Amy and Kevin are on vacation in the Basque country eating foie gras, shrimp and salt cod in the pintxo bars while sipping the region's popular wines. The scenery, art and the atmosphere in the Basque country make them feel effervescent. The Cooking Class they take in San Sebastián inspires all sorts of feelings, desires and plans for pintxos parties.
Drew is risking his reputation on staging a Basque art exhibition to get new business into his art gallery. It's probably a brilliant idea but the work of sourcing the art is challenging and nerve wracking. He's approached by a mysterious Parisian woman who appears to be the help he needs, but does he trust her?
There is love and lust, food and wine, art, parties and the exhilaration and terror of falling in love at any age.
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Hours after the former Hewlett-Packard CEO appeared on NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers," the network blocked her campaign's attempt to post a clip from the show on YouTube.
"This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it on copyright grounds," an error message on the clip said on Wednesday morning.
The stumble comes after Fiorina's campaign captured early headlines for failing to buy up CarlyFiorina.org. Instead of linking to the Republican White House hopeful's campaign, the site — registered by a union employee in their off time — criticizes layoffs that occurred over the course of Fiorina's tenure at HP.
While NBC Universal had taken down the full 7-minute clip of Fiorina on Meyers's show, it did not take action against a shorter video of Fiorina explaining how she had bought SethMeyers.org.


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Question: Can you please comment on the US refusal to send representatives to the 10th International Meeting on Syria in the Astana format, to be held in Sochi on July 30 and 31?
Maria Zakharova: Indeed, the US has declined an invitation that was sent to them to attend this event as an observer. This response is regrettable, keeping in mind that Washington constantly gives assurances that it is willing to help the political process take place in Syria. This next meeting in Sochi is dedicated precisely to this objective. Also, we have always stressed that the Astana format is in no way an alternative to Geneva. Rather, it is designed to work out the practical matters for progress on this track in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
We see the US's reluctance to send representatives to Sochi as a desire to lower the importance of the Astana format and discredit the implementation of the mediatory efforts in Syrian affairs that Washington is unable to put under its control. Moreover, the United States' call to prioritise the Geneva format, including under the pretext of aiding the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, looks disingenuous, given the UN envoy's concerned personal involvement in the Sochi event.


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6May 2020
TextEmma Elizabeth Davidson
Neon LeePhotography Balint Alovits
Intimate portraits of Saint Martins' wild and wonderful young talents
A new, stripped-back photo series spotlights students past and present
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Where once the hallowed halls of Central Saint Martins hummed with life, as flamboyantly dressed students from all four corners of the globe rushed from lecture hall to classroom to canteen and back again, now, like so many other creative institutions, the university lays dormant and dark.
Closing its doors as the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to an abrupt standstill, final shows and fashion presentations were cancelled, as people returned home to hunker down in the face of the pandemic, as the Class of 2020 came to the realisation that their graduation celebrations, this year, would be slightly more subdued than that of those who came before them.
But while CSM remains closed for the foreseeable future, beyond its walls its young community remain as creative as ever: whether they're organising remote photoshoots, crafting collections from the confines of their own homes, or fighting back against COVID-19 by sewing scrubs and face masks for the key workers who so desperately need them.
Now, as part of a new project dreamt up by former Saint Martins photography student Balint Alovits and the anonymous brains behind brilliant Instagram account @thats_so_csm, the students who roam its halls – or once roamed its halls – are captured in a collection of portraits that demonstrate the school's vibrancy and diversity. "Basically we wanted to document the landscape of CSM, but as we started working on the project, we realised it was much more than that," explains Alovits. "The series raises questions about gender issues in the 21st century, adequacy and rebellion, integration, difference, and simulacra."
Setting up a mobile DIY photo booth within Granary Square outside which 10-15 students could sometimes be found lining up in wait, by the end of the project they had captured over 300 characters. Beyond the multicoloured hair and wild outfits, each portrait conveys the the unique people whose big dreams unite them all.
For now, Alovits and @thats_so_csm's plans to curate the images into a book and exhibition have been put on hold, so, as we collectively wait for normal life to resume, they have chosen to present a small selection of the poignant portraits across their Instagram channels and here, on Dazed.
Below, we get to know a few of the young talents coming out of CSM, as they share their experience of the school, its community spirit, and where they go from here.
JEGOR PISTER, MA FASHION
Jegor PisterPhotography Balint Alovits
"Growing up, CSM seemed like a utopian paradise I needed to escape to when I could, and so I did! It liberated me, nurtured me with freedom of though – it's a huge playground, and one only has to dare to play. My favourite memories of CSM are the first months I spent there. The people I met during my foundation year, the shared motivation we had, the all-nighters we pulled together. CSM students, especially the fashion students, are racehorses – no matter how hardcore it gets, there is always excitement and commitment, with competition subtly felt in the air.
The portrait of me seen here happened between an espresso martini break and a mental breakdown, hence I think they got me at exactly the right moment. Back then, I was still accentuating my moustache with make-up, and I guess that's my favourite thing about it. It reminds me of this period of time when I needed that moustache to conquer my daily marathon – a little confidence boost."
JOHANNA PARV, MA FASHION
Johanna ParvPhotography Balint Alovits
"I come from Tallinn, in Estonia, and the first things I knew about Saint Martins was that it was big, that it was in London, and that people there would hopefully understand me. I learnt there that often, the harder the process and how painful things seemed, the bigger the victory in the end. It's a supportive place, but it's also tough. How would I describe the students? It's made up of, in a way, some very lonely and ambitious young people who are working very hard, hoping that one day, their dreams will come true. Some of my best memories of CSM are of dancing on the tables in the student union and feeling the energy of all the young people.
Right now I'm lucky in that I have a very safe and nice place to isolate with loving people, and I'm staying creative, too. Nature and books are a big part of it: as well as going through old and new gathered information, building ideas, and re-thinking and re-evaluating. When this is over, I want to go back to Estonia to finally meet my brother's just-born son Ruben, introduce myself and see how he's getting on with the big wide world. And then, I want to find a job."
OSHO TASHINGA DAVIS, BA PERFORMANCE DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Osho Tashinga DavisPhotography Balint Alovits
"I was born in Zimbabwe, grew up in Northern Ireland and Newcastle, then moved to London at 18. I thought Saint Martins was just a fashion school, but also one of the coolest universities in the world because of its alumni. Now, being part of it, I've had it confirmed that it really is an amazing, cool university. I'd describe its community as creative, fashionable, and pretentious, but when you're a student at a school like CSM it's hard not to be!
Isolation is a struggle mentally, but I'm staying creative. I've been making a lot of beats, and am currently re-thinking what I was going to do for my final year. I'm also working as a cleaner in a hospital with COVID patients, as well as trying to find a way to create a digital exhibition.
I'm really happy with my portrait! My favourite thing is that I look like I could be in a Helmut Lang fashion show in the 90s."
DANIEL SPIVAKOV, BA FINE ART
Daniel SpivakovPhotography Balint Alovits
"I'm from Kiev, Ukraine, and my first thoughts of CSM was that it was one of the best schools for arts. Now, I think it's one of the best schools for fashion. I haven't been too eager to participate in school life since I got here – maybe because art practice is quite a solitary activity and CSM is the last place to be if you wanna be far from people. The main thing I learnt here is that education doesn't necessarily involve tutors – it's the other students you learn from.
Lockdown is the best time of my life. I've bought a stock of materials and I make paintings every day, but I hope the neighbours don't murder me for listening to music so loud. I found that this quarantine teaches you to think slower. We all need to think slower. Anxiety is a product of thinking too fast.
When we come out of this, I want to go to a pub for two pints, then the cinema. And then I'll make more paintings, as always. A Russian saying goes 'What is a fly going to do? Keep flying.' I hope people will look at more art when this is done."
FEMMI NANCY, BA FINE ART
Femmi NanayPhotography Balint Alovits
"My name is F-E-double-M-I-Femmi! I don't age and I am a global pop sensation. I love all my fans from Saint Martins! They're the most beautiful and supportive fans I have ever encountered. When I met them for a meet and greet they were super nice with awesome fashion sense.
As a global sensation pop star I have my portrait taken a lot. I don't usually like to Photoshop my photos at all because I like my fans to be able to see the #realme. For this, I think the way I was portrayed was a bit too airbrushed, but I think it works. I remember when I shot with David LaChappelle for the first time it was crazy but I loved it: you really have to trust a photographer's vision.
My self(ie)-isolation is going well, but honestly I'm finding it really hard being inside my massive LA dream house with ten acres of land, a swimming pool, a games room, a cinema, a gym, and a chef all the time! I hope this is over soon so I can leave this HELLSCAPE. The first place I'll go is Starbucks for a venti caramel iced latte with soy milk and two extra pumps of caramel. Can't live without! Struggling without! After that, I'm really dedicated to recording and releasing music, so will be looking to record a new Billboard number one album and creating more smash hits for my fans."
ORLANDO MYXX, MA PHOTOGRAPHY
Orlando MyxxPhotography Balint Alovits
"I'm from Italy and before I came to CSM I didn't know much about it – just that it was one of the prestigious and renowned colleges for fashion design and art. When I got here, I found that it was a very dynamic and creative environment, though sometimes overwhelming. It's a place that encourages experimentation which I found very important in developing my practice. I mean, I entered CSM thinking of myself as a photographer and ended up doing a performance as my degree project.
The portrait series was shot by one of my classmates, so it was fun to take part in the shooting and I was pleased to be part of it. I was glad he asked me to model topless, because I'm very proud of my chest scars. I had my top surgery only a few months earlier and was happy to have reached that goal and just wanted to show it to the world.
I'm a very introverted and solitary person, so isolation is something I can actually enjoy. I'm currently designing a new digital live performance that I'll be performing at an event on Zoom in May. My creativity has really benefited from being part of a community of queer performers and artists who have been using internet-based patforms in order to create events to showcase their talent. It's really inspired and motivated me to think of new digital possibilities for performing.
Follow @thats_so_csm for more, and revisit the time we made it our Instagram of the Week here and in the gallery below.
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Alexandre I da Geórgia, conhecido como Alexandre I, o Grande (), da casa de Bagrationi, foi rei da Geórgia entre 1412 e 1442. Apesar de seus esforços para recuperar o país das ruínas deixadas pelas forças de Tamerlão em suas invasões, a Geórgia jamais se recuperou e enfrentou uma inevitável fragmentação depois de um logo período de estagnação. Em 1442, Alexandre abdicou e se retirou para um mosteiro.

Vida
Alexandre era o filho mais velho de Constantino I da Geórgia com sua esposa Nácia Amirejibi (Natia), filha do príncipe georgiano Kutsna Amirejibi. Foi criado por sua avó materna Rusa (m. 1413), uma nobre religiosa e bem educada que influenciou fortemente o futuro rei, principalmente em seu entusiasmo pela construção de edifícios religiosos.

Com sua ascensão ao trono em 1412, Alexandre se mudou para a Geórgia ocidental e mediou a paz entre seus vassalos, os príncipes rivais da Mingrélia e do Abecásia. Em 1414, Alexandre se lutou com o atabegue  de Mesquécia e forçou sua submissão. Depois de ter lidado com estes poderosos senhores, Alexandre, ajudado pelo patriarca Shio II da Geórgia, começou um programa de reformas das principais igrejas e fortalezas da Geórgia. Para isto, impôs um imposto temporário sobre seus súditos, mas, apesar de seus esforços, muitas cidades e vilas, antes prósperas, permaneceram em ruínas.

Em 1431, Alexandre reconquistou Lorri, um região fronteiriça da Geórgia ocupada pelos turcomanos do cordeiro negro, uma tribo turcomana da Pérsia que invadiam frequentemente o sul da Geórgia, chegando a saquear  em 1416. Por volta de 1434/5, Alexandre encorajou o príncipe Beshken II Orbeliano, da dinastia orbeliana, a atacar os turcomanos em Siúnia e, pela vitória, concedeu-lhe Lorri em vassalagem. Em 1440, Alexandre se recusou a pagar tributo a Jeã Xá, dos turcomanos. Em março, o líder turcomano invadiu a Geórgia com  soldados, destruiu a cidade de Samchevilde e saqueou a capital Tbilisi, massacrando milhares de cristãos e só retornou para Tabriz depois de extorquir um enorme tributo.

Para reduzir o poder da sempre rebelde aristocracia, Alexandre nomeou seus filhos — Vactangue, Demétrio e Jorge – como co-monarcas em Caquécia, Imerícia e Cártlia respectivamente. Porém, a decisão acabou sendo ainda mais prejudicial para a unidade do reino, que se fragmentaria depois de sua morte nas mãos de seus filhos. Por isto, Alexandre é frequentemente acusado de ter desintegrado a Geórgia e alguns afirmam que ele não merece o epíteto de "o Grande" que seu povo lhe deu. O "título", que já era utilizado logo depois de sua morte, pode estar relacionado ao seu programa de reformas e ao sucesso inicial na luta contra os nômades turcomanos, como presume Ivane Javakhishvili.

Quando os problemas ameaçavam acabar com seu reino, Alexandre abdicou ao trono (1442) e se retirou para um mosteiro sob o nome monástico "Atanásio".

Família
Alexandre casou-se por volta de 1411 com Dulanduxt, filha de Beshken II Orbeliano, com quem teve três filhos:
 Vactangue IV, rei da Geórgia.
 Bagrationi (ca. 1411–ca. 1438), casou-se em 1425 com o imperador João IV de Trebizonda.
 Demétrio (ca. 1413–1453), reinou com o pai em Imerícia; pai de Constantino II da Geórgia.

Depois, Alexandre casou-se com Tamara (m. 1455), filha do príncipe Alexandre I de Imerícia, por volta de 1414. Com ela teve mais três filhos:
 Jorge VIII, o último rei da Geórgia unificada e primeiro rei da Caquécia.
 David, católico-patriarca da Geórgia consagrado em 1426.
 Zaal (ca. 1428–depois de 1442), reinou juntamente com o pai em 1433.

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Notas

Bibliografia

 Ivane Javakhishvili, The History of the Georgian Nation, vol. 3 (1982), Tbilisi State University Press (In Georgian)
 Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3

Ligações externas

Reis da Geórgia
Monarcas ortodoxos
Dinastia Bagrationi
Ano de morte desconhecido
Mortos no século XV


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It is the study of supply and demand and the stock price which moves reflects the effect of demand and supply on charts. Most supply-demand relationships are not static. Technicians especially search for archetypal patterns, such as the well-known head and shoulders or double top reversal patterns, study indicators such as moving averages, and look for forms such as lines of support, resistance, channels, and more obscure formations such as flags, pennants, balance days and cup and handle patterns.
Technical analysts also extensively use indicators, which are typically mathematical transformations of price or volume. These indicators are used to help determine whether an asset is trending, and if it is, its price direction. Technicians also look for relationships between price, volume and, in the case of futures, open interest. We will study in the coming chapters what volume & open interest is. Technical analysts seek to project price movements so that the larger profits from winning trades surpass more, many smaller losing trades, producing positive returns in the long run through proper risk control and money management.
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package net.explorviz.security.services;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.mongodb.DuplicateKeyException;
import com.mongodb.MongoException;
import com.mongodb.WriteResult;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Optional;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import net.explorviz.security.services.exceptions.DuplicateUserException;
import net.explorviz.security.services.exceptions.UserCrudException;
import net.explorviz.security.user.User;
import net.explorviz.shared.common.idgen.IdGenerator;
import net.explorviz.shared.querying.Query;
import net.explorviz.shared.querying.QueryResult;
import net.explorviz.shared.querying.Queryable;
import org.jvnet.hk2.annotations.Service;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import xyz.morphia.Datastore;
import xyz.morphia.query.FindOptions;

/**
 * Offers CRUD operations on user objects, backed by a MongoDB instance as persistence layer. Each
 * user has the following fields:
 *

 *
id: the unique id of the user

 *
username: name of the user, unique

 *
password: hashed password

 *
roles: list of role that are assigned to the user

 *

 *
 */
@Service
public class UserService implements Queryable<User> {

  private static final String ADMIN = "admin";

  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(UserService.class);

  private final Datastore datastore;

  private final IdGenerator idGenerator;

  private final KafkaUserService kafkaService;

  /**
   * Creates a new UserMongoDB.
   *
   * @param datastore - the datastore instance
   */
  @Inject
  public UserService(final Datastore datastore, final IdGenerator idGenerator,
      final KafkaUserService kafkaService) {
    this.idGenerator = idGenerator;
    this.datastore = datastore;
    this.kafkaService = kafkaService;
  }

  public List<User> getAll() {
    return this.datastore.createQuery(User.class).asList();
  }

  /**
   * Persists an user entity.
   *
   * @param user - a user entity
   * @return an Optional, which contains a User or is empty
   * @throws UserCrudException if the user could not be saved
   */
  public User saveNewEntity(final User user) throws UserCrudException {
    // Generate an id
    user.setId(this.idGenerator.generateId());

    try {
      this.datastore.save(user);

      if (LOGGER.isInfoEnabled()) {
        LOGGER.info("Inserted new user with id " + user.getId());
      }
    } catch (final DuplicateKeyException e) {
      throw new DuplicateUserException(
          String.format("User with %s already exists", user.getUsername()));
    } catch (final MongoException e) {
      if (LOGGER.isErrorEnabled()) {
        LOGGER.error("Could not save user: " + e.getMessage());
      }
      throw new UserCrudException("Could no save user", e);
    }

    try {
      this.kafkaService.publishCreated(user.getId());
    } catch (final JsonProcessingException e) {
      LOGGER.warn("New user no published to kafka", e);
    }
    return user;
  }

  public void updateEntity(final User user) {
    this.datastore.save(user);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the user with the given id.
   *
   * @param id the id of the user to retrieve
   * @return and {@link Optional} which contains the user with given id or is empty if such a user
   *         does not exist
   */
  public Optional<User> getEntityById(final String id) {

    final User userObject = this.datastore.get(User.class, id);

    return Optional.ofNullable(userObject);
  }

  /**
   * Tries to delete the user with the given id. If such a user does not exists, nothing happens.
   *
   * @param id id of the user to delete
   * @throws UserCrudException if the id belongs to the a user with the admin role and there are no
   *         other admin users. This prevents the deletion of the last admin.
   */
  public void deleteEntityById(final String id) throws UserCrudException {

    if (this.isLastAdmin(id)) {
      throw new UserCrudException("Can not delete last admin");
    }

    final WriteResult w = this.datastore.delete(User.class, id);

    if (w.getN() > 0) {
      if (LOGGER.isInfoEnabled()) {
        LOGGER.info("Deleted user with id " + id);
      }
      try {
        this.kafkaService.publishDeleted(id);
      } catch (final JsonProcessingException e) {
        LOGGER.warn("User no published", e);
      }
    }

  }

  /**
   * Helper method to check whether the user with the given id is the only admin.
   *
   * @param id user id
   * @return {@code true} iff the user with the given id has the role "admin" and there is no other
   *         user with this role.
   */
  private boolean isLastAdmin(final String id) {
    User user;
    try {
      user = this.getEntityById(id).get();
    } catch (final NoSuchElementException e) {
      return false;
    }

    final boolean isadmin = user.getRoles().stream().filter(r -> r.equals(ADMIN)).count() == 1;

    final boolean otheradmin = this.getAll()
        .stream()
        .filter(u -> new ArrayList<>(u.getRoles()).contains(ADMIN))
        .anyMatch(u -> !u.getId().equals(id));

    return isadmin && !otheradmin;

  }

  /**
   * Find the first user that satisfies the condition specified in the parameters.
   *
   * @param field the field to compare
   * @param value the value to compare with
   * @return the first user which's field contains the given value.
   */
  public Optional<User> findEntityByFieldValue(final String field, final Object value) {

    final User foundUser = this.datastore.createQuery(User.class).filter(field, value).get();

    return Optional.ofNullable(foundUser);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  @Override
  public QueryResult<User> query(final Query<User> query) {
    final String roleField = "roles";
    final xyz.morphia.query.Query<User> q = this.datastore.createQuery(User.class);

    if (query.doFilter()) {
      final List<String> roles = query.getFilters().get(roleField);
      final List<String> batchIds = query.getFilters().get("batchid");

      // Filter by roles
      if (roles != null) {
        q.field(roleField).hasAllOf(new ArrayList<>(roles));
      }

      // Filter by batch id, if more than one is give, ignore all but the first
      if (batchIds != null) {
        q.field("batchId").equal(batchIds.get(0));
      }

    }

    final FindOptions options = new FindOptions();

    if (query.doPaginate()) {
      options.limit(query.getPageSize());
      options.skip(query.getPageNumber() * query.getPageSize());
    }

    final long total = q.count();
    final List<User> ret = q.asList(options);

    return new QueryResult<>(query, ret, (int) total);
  }

}


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Testimonies Begin in Ongoing Corruption Scandal
Many of those implicated are expected to strike a plea deal.
By Allie Pitchon | [email protected] | August 2, 2018 11:59am
Roberto Barata is arrested early yesterday morning, via Clarín
The current, ongoing scandal that began yesterday after Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio ordered the detention of 18 people implicated in a massive corruption scheme that allegedly took place during the Néstor and Cristina Kirchner administrations continues today—with 13 people currently detained and five still unaccounted for.
The scandal began in March, after journalists from La Nación Diego Cabot, Candela Ini, and Santiago Nasra, got ahold of eight notebooks that contained a detailed record of bribe payments from business leaders to public officials in exchange for lucrative public works projects between between 2008 and 2015.
Today, all of the detained officials and businessmen were transferred to the Comodoro Py courts to begin testifying before federal Judge Claudio Bonadio.
All those detained, except for Gerardo Ferreyra—the owner of Electroingeniería, one of the companies that grew the most rapidly during the Kirchner administrations—remained silent during the transfer and did not speak to the media. From the courts, Ferreyra briefly told La Nación "this is a media show, I did not pay any bribes."
Gerardo Ferreyra was arrested yesterday and transferred this morning to the Retiro tribunals, via La Nación/Ricardo Pristupluk
The first to be transferred to begin testimonies was Roberto Barrata, the former secretary of Coordination and Management in the Ministry of Planning, a little before 7 o'clock this morning. Barrata is at the center of the scandal, with millions in dirty money allegedly passing through his office. Barrata was the highest-profile official arrested yesterday.
Barrata arrives at the courts to testify, via La Nación/Ricardo Pristupluk
Meanwhile, it has been speculated that some of these officials and businessmen are strongly considering striking a plea deal, agreeing to plead guilty to certain charges and perhaps handing over lucrative information on their co-conspirators in return for a lighter sentence.
One of those detained who began testifying this morning after agreeing to a plea deal is Oscar Centeno, Barrata's private chauffeur at the Federal Ministry of Planning. Centeno's ex-wife had reported him for transporting multiple bags of laundered money with Baratta. In Centeno's case, a plea deal would likely involve implicating Barrata.
A number of other detained officials and businessmen are likely to be freed from detention soon after agreeing to exuberantly high bonds valued at millions of pesos.
In addition to those who were arrested, the Justice ordered numerous officials and private citizens be brought in for questioning.
Among these are Senator and former President Cristina Kirchner—around whom this scandal revolves—and former Planning Minister Julio de Vido, who is currently currently in pre-trial arrest himself since last year for a separate corruption case. Barrata was de Vido's right hand man, and it is speculated that many of Barrata's alleged illegal activities were conducted under de Vido's instruction and supervision.
Also called in for questioning was the ex-judge Norberto Oyarbide, who held a number of meetings with those implicated in the bribery scheme, as is detailed in the eight notebooks.
The schedule for those who have been called in for questioning is as follows:
Jorge Mayoral, former secretary of Mining
Javier Fernández, former head of the National Audit Office and judicial operator
Rudy Ulloa, former driver
Oscar Parrilli, former head of the Federal Intelligence Agency
Norberto Oyarbide, former federal judge
Néstor Otero, businessman
Juan Carlos Lascurain, businessman
José María Olazagasti, De Vido's former secretary
Juan Manuel Abal Medina, former chief of staff
Julio De Vido, former Minister of Federal Planning, currently detained in Marcos Paz for another investigation
Cristina Kirchner, current Senator and former president
Allie Pitchon
Half-Argentine, half-American, Allie was born and raised in Buenos Aires and studies International Relations at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her areas of interest include global politics and social justice in both the domestic and international realms.
Tags: "cristina kirchner, "néstor kirchner", Candela Ini, claudio bonadio, comodoro py, Diego Cabot, Gerardo Ferreyra, Julio de Vido, la nacion, Norberto Oyarbide, oscar centeno, Roberto Barrata, Santiago Nasra
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Thursday's community health screening trip to Nkoko was one of the best bits so far. We set off due-North from Impfondo on the same road which runs straight through town. It was tarmac-ed but within a couple of minutes driving its flat surface began to give way to Africa. The 4 wheel drive bounced its way over car size pot-holes while swerving around bits of thick jungle undergrowth that was slowly covering the road from the edges. Both sides of the track were dotted with men, women and children carrying loads often larger than themselves, sometimes with a dog in tow which looked more like a hyena-fox hybrid than your average poodle.
Nkoko was much the same as any other cluster of houses in Likouala. Mud huts topped with leaves made up 99% of the buildings, with scrawny chickens running around on the flat earth beaten hard by feet. A gaggle of children quickly emerged from nowhere, shyly hiding behind a bush and laughing, probably, at my weird white skin.
One of the first things I noticed was the chief's ingenious way to listen the local Likouala radio station. His radio's antenna had long been forgotten and in its place there was a long wire stretching from his wooden table to a small tree. From there the wire navigated its way through and around the branches, crossed overhead to the roof of the nearest mud hut, spiraled up a tall wooden pole and finally connected to a hand-size piece of corrugated metal, where it received a crackly but audible stream of Congolese music.
The next thing I noticed reminded me of something I read in Tim Butcher's Blood River the day before. He writes that during his time in the DRC, he saw a number of people wearing clothes which would have been received from charities; hand-me-downs no longer wanted by the West. In Nkoko I saw a man in a black tee which read 'World of Warcraft Qualifier'. I wondered whether the previous owner was playing right at that moment, somewhere far off in his Western paradise.
The chief's wife offered me a plate of bananas as I took a seat in the shade near the chief. I said no thank you, feeling guilty as she made a fuss over me, but Henri was quick to let me know that it is culturally polite to take everything that gets offered to you. I'm glad he did, because the bananas she then brought out were the best I have ever eaten. Sweet, perfectly ripe, and slightly warm from the midday heat, I realized that these were probably the only bananas I have ever eaten which haven't been transported in a motor vehicle. They were so good I ate three.
I am no medical professional so I took some photos for the website, chatted to the villagers, and learnt about the various components required to perform healthcare provision trips into the jungle like this one. It was certainly a learning experience. There must have been over 40 people experiencing problems with their eyes, and none of them had ever been treated. In a region like Likouala, the amount of money, manpower and logistical capability is stretched thin to even try and provide the care that is required. Even so, Henri and his team seemed to handle the screening very efficiently and we were on our way home by half past 12 midday.


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Undoing Patriarchy— Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women in The Progressive Populist
By Seth Sandronsky
The Progressive Populist
Patriarchy is male supremacy over women. The Me Too movement fighting sexual assault and harassment is a modern battle against this centuries-long phenomenon. In Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (PM Press 2018), Silvia Federici connects patriarchy to the rise of a cash society, or capitalism, in western Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, a process proceeding in the so-called developing world of the Global South now.
Why speak of witch-hunts in 2018? Federici's themes are straightforward in her two-part book of essays. One theme is the process of peasant removal, or enclosing of the common lands in Europe, that disrupts the social status of men and women. What Europeans did to Africans and indigenous Americans in the so-called "new world" undergirded that old country pattern of conquest and theft that created poverty, immiserating women. Then the patriarchal state criminalized them. It was and is a one-two punch.
Federici continues. In Africa and India now, for instance, such land dispossession is underway to benefit transnational corporations. Communal property relations end violently. With-hunts and homicides are symptoms of this dislocation. Whether it is by the bullet or fire, dehumanizing women as witches is a violent process. Federici shows how the language, replete with the patriarchal-structures of male-centered religious demonology, facilitates the maiming and murdering of independent females.
Federici unpacks male demonizing of women as witches those who resist the rise of a money economy whereby people's labor becomes a commodity to buy and sell in the marketplace, to produce commodities with prices. These communal societies were and are women-centered in part because they are the gender nurturing and reproducing the future generation.
Theme two is the increasing power of males over the bodies of women. This relationship encompasses women's sexuality and birth capacity. The witch-hunts, seen in legal codes of European nations 500 years ago, targeted in part women who struggled to maintain ties to food, land and work that capitalist social relations broke. Historian Peter Linebaugh has written extensively on that period in Europe that Federici cites.
She also sheds useful light on women's status in the face of a rising tide of capitalist social relations in the book's seventh and longest essay, tying processes in some African nations under World Bank structural adjustment policies that upend communalism. That violent change produces alienated and frightened males. They are ripe for scapegoating women who labor to maintain their former social status, e.g., folk healers and midwives. Observantly, Federici compares their discrediting as witches to the red-baiting of the Cold War era in which communists were the alleged enemies of the common good for whom no punishment was too severe.
Federici connects past witch-hunting to feminicide. A case in point is the unsolved murders of northern Mexican girls and women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across the river from El Paso, Texas, over the past 26 years. She contextualizes this homicidal trend to whites lynching blacks in front of approving Caucasian crowds stateside. In this case, the more public and brutal the killings, the more such male violence against so-called witches "is taking forms once seen only in times of war," she writes in a penultimate essay examining global and historical views of women and capitalist globalization. The killings of women called witches in Africa and India, and female resistance to that mayhem, take up the last part of the book.
The final essay clarifies the whys and wherefores of economic globalization and male attacks on women. They pay for trying to hold on to old ways of living and working as capitalist institutions like the World Bank (behind the scenes to local people) push policies of land robbery. Think the mining of coltan (vital to digital devices) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the mass murders of its women. Especially in harm's way, in Africa now and Europe of the past, are older women past child-bearing age. They are keepers of folk wisdom, for example, demonized as witches with no right to live under the rules of an economy based on people creating profits for capital.
Undoing patriarchy is a gargantuan process. Honesty about gender relations in the context of global capitalism is key, Federici argues, to creating the new world of equity and sustainability between and among people of all genders. Her new book is a necessary resource for that social change.
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