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Is Kindle Unlimited the Future?
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By Tom Ashford
Bear with me, despite the somewhat loaded title. This isn't actually a call to arms for every indie author who's decided to go exclusive with Amazon rather than spread their books across every other literary platform, but rather a considered (though hardly guaranteed) look at where the industry may be headed.
For those new to self-publishing, Kindle Unlimited is a service through which readers can read unlimited books for a monthly subscription price. Authors can sign their books up for Kindle Unlimited by enrolling in the Kindle Select program. This doesn't mean giving your book away for free – it's still full price for those who aren't subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, and authors get paid for every page subscribers read (at the time of writing, it's somewhere in the region of $0.004 to $0.0045 per page).
The reason I ask whether or not Kindle Unlimited is the future (of reading) is not a case of exclusive versus wide, but rather one of subscription-based consumer models versus the old system of owning physical material.
Consider how the music industry used to look. You had to buy CDs. Physical media! Then when internet became a household norm (yes, I might be Young Tom, but I'm not that young), you could buy those same albums online through iTunes. Some people hated the change (I was amongst that number), but others fully embraced the digital revolution… perhaps too fully, back when LimeWire and Napster were popular. The way they bought their albums didn't matter, and the quicker they could get hold of them, the better.
And then what happened? People stopped paying for albums outright. Not because they didn't want to, mind you, but because out of that digital revolution new models of consumer consumption developed: streaming subscription services. If you pay a monthly fee (distributed amongst the artists according to how many times their tracks have been played, Kindle Unlimited style), you can consume as much music as you want on Spotify, or Amazon Music, or any other online service. In fact, this model was so successful that, thanks to advertising revenue, some of these platforms allow you to listen to music without ever paying them so much as a penny.
And everyone knows that the change to subscription models isn't exclusive to the music industry. Look at films and television. People still buy DVDs and blu rays, and others will gladly pay full price for a digital copy of a film that they can stream on its day of release. But most of us subscribe to at least one (if not most) of the streaming giants, who spend insane amounts of money on producing original content (or licensing third-party films and television series) which we, as subscribers, can instantly watch for free. We still have to buy a lot of films if we want to watch them straight away, but we also know that sooner or later they'll arrive to a streaming service somewhere.
Same with video games. The biggest of entertainment industries is finally moving in the same direction as music and TV – offering unlimited gaming entertainment for an ongoing monthly payment. Microsoft have introduced the Xbox Game Pass, which gives its subscribers every new game Microsoft develops for free, plus a whole range of other third-party gaming content. Google are ready to release Stadia – a streaming subscription service which, you've guessed it, gives subscribers a range of games for free.
And all that brings me back to the digital publishing industry. The digital revolution saw people move from purchasing physical books to downloading them online, and we already have a literary subscription model from Amazon (the same company who knows all about TV subscription thanks to their Prime service). It's not just indie authors signing their books up for the service, of course – even books that are available wide, such as the Harry Potter series, are included.
So are subscription services the way forward for books, just as they have been for music and television? Maybe, maybe not. If Amazon didn't have such a monopoly on the industry, I'd probably bet on it – readers could sign up for multiple subscriptions from various outlets and always be able to read a book for free, on one service or the other. But for better or worse, Amazon does have a tight hold on the ebook market (in the US and UK, at least). And with ebooks largely still read through first-party hardware such as Kindles and Nooks, that's another barrier to multiple subscription services (though saying that, they do offer apps for other devices).
That said, Amazon does have a monopoly (practically), and clearly considers Kindle Unlimited an important part of their business model. Whilst I very much doubt they (or anyone) would ever move to a system where a subscription was a required part of their approach (few authors will want to be forced to give up the royalties from traditional sales, particularly if exclusive), there's nothing to say that the Kindle Unlimited program won't develop over time. With media industries moving further towards subscription-based content across the board, I doubt ebooks won't follow suit in some form or another.
Tom Ashford
Tom Ashford is a professional copywriter, author of numerous dark fantasy and sci-fi novels, and the Head of Content at the Self Publishing Formula Blog. His books include the Blackwater trilogy and the Checking Out series.
He lives in London with his wife, in an apartment that doesn't allow pets. Find out more about Tom here.
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A Garden in the Palace
The landscaped roof gardens in the Medici residence
Loggia of Saturn – The Museum of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
On Monday, May 23rd, the landscaped roof garden in Palazzo Vecchio was inaugurated: the setup – promoted by Musei Civici Fiorentini and curated by the Associazione MUS.E with the technical sponsorship by Gruppo Zelari – recalls the orticini adorning the ducal palace of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora de Toledo in the middle of the sixteenth century. Grafted onto the palace's austere walls of sandstone to compensate for the lack of a true garden, the gardens offered a pleasant source of entertainment and were able to satisfy the slightest whim "enjoying salads and fruits at whatever moment of the day and of the night" (G.V. Soderini, Trattato degli orti e dei Giardini, published only in 1814).
A "green marvel" for the eyes and for the nose, allowing the visitors to delve into the tastes and atmosphere of the Medici court in the sixteenth century. The setup takes place on the Loggia of Saturn, one of the many open spaces, loggias and balconies realized during the transformation of the building into the ducal residence, whose name recalls the series of paintings decorating the ceiling and dedicated to Saturn and that offers a spectacular view of the southeastern side of Florence. Since the paintings really need an intervention of restoration, a campaign of awareness and crowdfunding meant for such restoration was started off in connection with the garden.
The garden will be accessible till September 25th, without an increase of the ticket of Palazzo Vecchio. Visitors will be able to read on a free booklet in Italian/English the reasons, characters and specifications of the garden.
What were these orticini? The term could refer to limited portions of a garden but also to big vases and containers – in terracotta or bronze –where plants and early produce grew. And such a vegetable garden had by rights to be in the ducal palace, considering the interest and passion that Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora de Toledo shared for the natural world. The Duke, a dedicated scholar of natural sciences, was able to promote a real "botanical Renaissance" (suffice it to mention the creation of the botanical Gardens in Pisa and Florence). The Duchess, on the other hand, having enjoyed wonderful landscaped roof gardens overlooking the gulf at her father's palace, Castel Nuovo, in Naples, once in Florence was to carefully attend to the management of the gardens in all the Medici residences, as the one in the new residence, Pitti Palace, she had personally contributed to buy, and the orticini of the palace overlooking the square, probably located on top of the building, near the walkway on the battlements: "the new mansion was beautifully adorned and the Duchess added the delight of hanging gardens, admired by the entire city" (R. Galluzzi, Istoria del Granducato di Toscana sotto il governo Medici, 1781).
Places of pleasure to delight and surprise, mirrored in the palace by a decorative plan strongly inspired by nature. Still today the painted ceilings and walls of the palace are brimming with floral decoration and fruits, symbolizing the wealth of the state but also accurately depicting new plants coming from all over the world. We must also recall Cosimo's studio, painted by Francesco Ubertini called Bachiacca, where the botanical description reaches its climax: the walls display all sorts of plants, fruits and vegetables, almost a painted natural encyclopedia.
The species proposed in the current garden are the result of a selection of plants mentioned in the archival, iconographical and historical and literary sources. The arrangement – that follows the principles of order and symmetry of the modern period but updated to contemporary times – provides for vases of citrus fruits, espaliers with fruit-bearing plants, pomegranate trees and roses, vegetables and early produce, aromatic plants, artificially shaped boxwood and laurel, echoing the fantastical Renaissance evergreen shrubs «in the shape of balls, spires, horses, dragons and other animals that create wonder in the visitors» (Del Riccio 1595).
Dedicated tours will be offered for the duration of the exhibit: thematic itineraries for adults and sensory workshops for kids (Saturday, 4th and 18th of June, Saturday 10th and 24th of September), in addition to three educational "talks" led by experts in the field. The first one, dedicated to the plants at the Medici court, discussing science, agriculture and art, will take place on Wednesday, May 25th, and will be delivered by Maria Adele Signorini; the second one, on the theme of gardens in the past and today, will take place on Wednesday, June 8th, and will be delivered by Giorgio Galletti and Tessa Matteini; the third and last one, at the end of the project, will take place on Wednesday, September 21th, focusing on the Medici green contribution to the city and will be delivered by Elisabetta Stumpo.
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Terrazzo di Saturno - Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze
Sono previsti percorsi e attività sui temi della natura, del giardino e del verde correlati alla storia e alle residenze della famiglia Medici:
La natura in Palazzo Vecchio
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A cura di: Valentina Zucchi, Associazione MUS.E
Supervisione scientifica: Serena Pini, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio
Progetto scientifico: Maria Adele Signorini, Elisabetta Stumpo, Valentina Zucchi
Progetto di allestimento: Andrea Meli e Marinella Carrieri, Studio INLAND
Selezione e fornitura piante: Luca Inzaina, Gruppo Zelari
Esecuzione allestimento: Euroambiente, Gruppo Zelari
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Dir. Cultura e Sport – Servizio Musei, Dir. Servizi Tecnici – Servizio Belle Arti e Fabbrica di Palazzo Vecchio, Dir. Ambiente, Dir. Generale – Servizi Prevenzione e Protezione del Comune di Firenze
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sezioni Botanica e Orto Botanico

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Mauser-Werke, Oberndorf
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On 31 July 1811, King Friedrich I of Württemberg decided to establish a rifle factory in the Augustinian monastery in Oberndorf am Neckar that had been secularized five years before. The factory was under the supervision of the royal Ministry of War.
In 1834, Wilhelm Mauser was born in Oberndorf, and in 1838 his brother Paul. After completing elementary school, Wilhelm Mauser joined the royal rifle factory as an apprentice, and Paul followed in 1852. After their apprenticeship, the two brothers worked in weapons development, and together designed a new breech-loading rifle, which went into serial
production in 1867. After working for a while in the rifle factory in Liège, the brothers returned to Oberndorf, and designed a new rifle, which was adopted in 1871 as the "M/71 German infantry rifle".
The brothers received 8,000 thalers from the Prussian government as initial payment for their weapon development. In 1872 Wilhelm and Paul Mauser bought a plot of land in Oberndorf and began building their own rifle factory. The brothers did good business with a rifle sight developed for the M/71, and thus accumulated capital to purchase machinery for the mass
production of the M/71. They founded the firm of "Gebrüder W. & P. Mauser", and obtained an order to supply almost 100,000 rifles for the Württemberg troops. The revenue from this order enabled them to buy the royal rifle factory for 200,000 florins.
Further orders for the M/71 by the Prussian Ministry of War followed. Shortly afterwards, they also received orders from China (26,000 rifles) and Serbia (120,000). The plants in Oberndorf were enlarged. In 1882 Wilhelm Mauser died, and his brother Paul became the sole general partner.
In 1884, a modified Mauser rifle with a tubular magazine for eight cartridges was introduced by the Prussian military as the M/71.84 German Infantry Rifle. The limited partnership Gebrüder Mauser & Cie. was converted into a partnership limited by shares, and from then on did business as Waffenfabrik Mauser. The general partners were Paul Mauser and Alfred
Kaulla of the Württem¬bergische Vereinsbank. Paul Mauser held 334 shares, and the Vereinsbank the remaining 1666. Another 19,000 infantry rifles were ordered in Oberndorf by the Royal Rifle Auditing Commission.
But the big breakthrough came in 1887: Mauser received an order from the Ottoman Ministry of War in Constantinople to manufacture 500,000 repeating rifles and 50,000 cavalry carbines for the Turkish Ottoman army. Actively involved in landing this order, against stiff European and US. competition was the Prussian General Colmar Baron von der Goltz, who was a consultant to the Turkish general staff, and taught strategy and tactics at Turkish war colleges. Since the Mauser rifle factory was not able to fulfill this order itself, the Württembergische Vereinsbank sold five-sixths of its shareholding to the arms manufacturer Ludwig Loewe & Co in Berlin for two million reichsmarks. Paul Mauser retained the remaining sixth, and
remained in the firm as Technical Director, continuing to work on innovations.
The first result was the M/87 rifle, quickly followed by the model M/93; both models featured improved rapidity and accuracy of fire. The Turkish army leadership sent a commission of acceptance to Oberndorf — a total of nineteen officers who were supposed to monitor the
production process. General von der Goltz also appeared in Oberndorf, and reported continuously to the Sultan on the progress of the work. The last of the 550,000 long rifles and carbines were delivered to the Ottoman Empire before Christmas in 1893.
Another order, for 200,000 rifles of the improved model M/93 followed. At a unit price of 71 marks, the volume of the order came to more than 14 million marks. Paul Mauser was raised to the peerage by the King for his services to the Württemberg economy, allowing him to add
the nobiliary particle "von" to his name. "In 1896, 48.5 percent of the rifles stored in the
armories of the Turkish Ottoman army came from the Mauser company. By the beginning of the First World War, in which the Turks fought alongside their German comrades-in-arms in many theaters of the Near and Middle East, this share probably reached two-thirds." (1)
Those who suffered for this were not only the hundreds of thousands of war dead on both sides of the front, but also the Armenian people, whose almost total extermination was carried out with Mauser weapons, among others.
Isidor Loewe, who held a majority of the Mauser shares, with the Deutsche Waffen- und Munitions¬fabriken (DWM) created a giant group containing all the rifle and ammunition factories owned or controlled by him. "The profits from the arms and ammunition business were enormous, and could be increased still further by concentration and joint administration.
The dividend rose from 4% (1879) to 10% (1882), and then in the year of the Turkish deal from 12% to the unusual height of 24% in the year of the transformation of the company (1896)." (2)
But DWM was also successful in other parts of the world. South America offered a favorable market, since a build-up of the armies there, and especially the introduction of general conscription meant that long rifles, carbines, and pistols were needed. Argentina in particular, which had a dispute with neighboring Chile over an unresolved border question, wanted to demonstrate military power by acquiring modern long rifles, carbines, and pistols. So 120,000 Mauser rifles were ordered from Loewe, to be delivered in several lots.
Since the Argentinian army comprised only about 6,500 men in 1892, the Chileans suspected that it would soon be enlarged drastically, in order to get the upper hand in an impending war with Chile. After lengthy negotiations with the Chilean general staff and pressure from the German Instructor of the Army, General Bernhard Emil Körner, who had a similarly strong
position in Chile to that of General von der Goltz in Turkey, the Chileans ordered 50,000 long rifles and 10,000 carbines, with 300 rounds of ammunition each. "In the following years —from 1895 to 1902 — the German arms industrialists made successful efforts to play up thetensions between Argentina and Chile, and convert them into hard cash…" (3)
All these deals were eclipsed by the demand for arms and ammunition in the First World War. Paul von Mauser and Isidor Loewe did not live to experience this boom in orders. Loewe died in 1910, Mauser four years later. In 1928, the former Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken were taken over by the major industrialist Günther Quandt, who directed them into re-armament for the Second World War. 1945 was the year of total collapse in Oberndorf, as well. Only with the establishment of the Bundeswehr from 1949 on did arms
production resume in the town on the Neckar.
The factory owned by the Quandt family changed owners again in 1979. Purchased by the Diehl arms-manufacturing group of Nuremberg, production at Mauser shifted to manufacturing aircraft and naval canons. Finally, in 2004, the firm was taken over by Rheinmetall–Weapons and Ammunition.
Since then, medium-caliber (diameter of the shells around 30 mm) canons and matching ammunition are made in Oberndorf. "Since the 1990s, it is the light naval gun MLG 27 with the corresponding 27-mm FAPDS ammunition that has attracted attention. Also, in 1997 the Bundeswehr, in cooperation with Britain, Italy and Spain, decided to introduce the Eurofighter 2000, that was to be equipped with an increased-performance BK 27 cannon with
unbelted ammunition feed from Mauser. In 2004, the consistent splitting up of Rheinmetall's Defence division activities into product divisions, and the associated concentration on the name Rheinmetall led to the name Mauser as the company name disappearing after 132 years. But the word "Mauser" will remain in the factory's name."(4)
The Mauser heritage of rifle production was assumed in the 1950s by the firm Heckler & Koch, which was founded by three former engineers. Its G3 assault rifle has been sold throughout the world in similarly large numbers as the Mauser rifles before the First World War.
(1) Andreas Kussmann-Hochhalter, Halbmond über Oberndorf – Der Fabrikant vom Neckar, der Sultan vom Bosporus und ihre Geschichte, Museum im Schwedenbau, Oberndorf 2015
(2) Jürgen Schäfer, Deutsche Militärhilfe an Südamerika, Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag Düsseldorf, 1974
(3) idem, op. cit.
(4) Rheinmetall Defence, Zwei Jahrhunderte industrielle Waffenfertigung
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African American Artists
ARTWISE EDITORIAL
Welcome to February, and happy Black History Month— in the midst of a time when we get a chance to put a spotlight on some of the most charismatic and influential black Americans in our country's history, taking a look at the visual artists who have helped to shape our collective imagery is a vital way to frame it in a context. These talented and inspired visionaries pave the way with their lush, emotional and powerful work, assembling a visual understanding of a complex, deep and ultimately beautiful experience of life.
Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in South Central Los Angeles where the Black Power and Civil Rights movements had a significant impact on his paintings. His work meanders through narratives of black everyday life, with an undercurrent juxtaposing elements of idealism with reality. While able to depict true stories and real people, he touches the inescapable presence of magic and the enigmatic style within his culture. This breathtaking and enormous signed etching Vignette (Wishing Well) fills the whole room with its music.
Vignette (Wishing Well) – Kerry James Marshall, 2010 SIGNED etching
Jacob Lawrence began his art practice at age 13 with a move to Harlem in New York City in 1930, a seed that led him to develop practices as a painter, storyteller, interpreter and educator. What started by way of copying the patterns of his mother's carpets evolved into a style he referred to as dynamic cubism, inspired by the shapes and colors of Harlem— a bold mix of the darkness of the Great Depression against the indelible heart of his vibrant community. Even the hand drawn typography in this signed 1968 Skowhegan School print displays the grace and grit of his distinctive energy.


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I can see that the problem lies with too many initiators and too much other work running. We also have DB2 and various other services are competing for CPU.
Unfortunately IDMS is alwys the whipping boy because it is not from IBM and management perceive any problem in throughput as an IDMS problem. I am under pressure to come up with ""something"" even though I don't believe that IDMS is the actual problem.
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Jussi Albert Jääskeläinen (Mikkeli, 19 april 1975) is een Fins voormalig voetbaldoelman.  Jääskeläinen was van 1998 tot en met 2010 international van het Fins voetbalelftal, waarvoor hij 56 wedstrijden speelde. Hij werd in 2007 verkozen tot Fins voetballer van het jaar.

Clubcarrière
Jääskeläinen debuteerde in 1992 in het betaald voetbal als speler van MP Mikkeli. In 1994 werd hij daar eerste keus onder de lat. In 1996 vertrok Jääskeläinen naar VPS Vaasa. Daar speelde hij 54 wedstrijden. In 1997 verkaste hij naar Bolton Wanderers, op dat moment actief in de First Division. In het seizoen 2000-2001 raakte hij geblesseerd. Het seizoen erna werd hij verkozen tot beste keeper van de Premier League. In het seizoen 2002/03 was hij een van de zeven spelers in de Premier League die in alle 38 duels meedeed, van de eerste tot de laatste minuut. Jääskeläinen bleef eerste keus bij Bolton tot hij begin 2012 zijn plaats onder de lat verloor aan Ádám Bogdán.

Hij tekende in augustus 2015 een contract tot medio 2016 bij Wigan Athletic, dat hem transfervrij overnam van West Ham United. Met Wigan won hij de Football League One 2015/16. In 2017 ging hij in de Indian Super League voor Atletico de Kolkata spelen. Op 17 januari 2018 werd zijn contract na slechts één optreden voortijdig ontbonden.

Een 42-jarige Jääskeläinen borg een dag later, op 18 januari 2018, zijn handschoenen definitief op na een professionele loopbaan van 26 jaar.

Interlandcarrière
Jääskeläinen speelde van 1998 tot en met 2010 voor de Finse nationale ploeg, waarvoor hij 56 keer uitkwam. Hij maakte zijn debuut op 25 maart 1998 in en tegen Malta (0-2), onder leiding van bondscoach Richard Møller Nielsen. Ook verdediger Tomi Kinnunen maakte in die wedstrijd zijn debuut voor de Finnen. In 2005 werd hij eerste keeper, na eerst tweede keus te zijn geweest achter Antti Niemi. Hij kondigde zijn afscheid van de nationale ploeg aan op 29 oktober 2009, maar maakte op 6 oktober 2010 een eenmalige rentree, toen eerste keuze Otto Fredrikson geblesseerd was.

Zie ook
 Lijst van spelers in de Premier League
 Lijst van spelers van VPS Vaasa
 Lijst van spelers van MP Mikkeli
 Lijst van spelers van het Finse voetbalelftal

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For women, a gender gap persists on youth coaching sidelines
October 5, 2015 /0 Comments/in Profiles in Mentoring /by Dawn
VIOREL FLORESCU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER, Diana Murphy is just one of the coaches in Clifton now. It wasn't always that way, though.
BY KARA YORIO, staff writer
North Jersey News
When Diana Murphy walked into a Clifton gym a couple of years ago ready to coach basketball with a team of first- and second-grade boys and girls, the men already on the courts told her, "The girls play in the other gym."
Murphy responded with a stunned, "Are you kidding me?" only to have the men explain they had never seen a woman coach boys before.
They're not alone.
Stefanie El-Ansari's appearance on the sidelines this season as Emerson Football Association's first woman assistant coach is not so much a sign of great progress in women coaching youth sports, but its noteworthiness shows exactly how slow that progress has been. Forty-three years after Title IX legislation sought equity and fairness to women's athletics and enabled more girls to play sports, it has not translated into more women coaches, despite a continuing narrative that it is happening in youth leagues across the country.
"The data doesn't bear that out," said Nicole LaVoi, director of the Tucker Center for Research on Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. "People say that. That's kind of a common perception — 'Oh, we have all these girls and women who have played sports now for 30-plus years and they have all this sport knowledge and they love sport.' "
But that has not translated to more women coaching at any level, LaVoi said. There has not been a lot of research on the subject but based on her studies, and looking at others, she puts the number of women coaching boys teams at around 10 percent. The numbers don't go up much when it comes to coaching girls teams, either, she said.
"I always let the data tell the story. You have less women coaching boys and girls probably than ever before and people go, 'Really? Why is that?' " said LaVoi, whose book "Women in Sports Coaching" will be published next year. "Well, it's complicated, but it really has to do about that sports is a male-dominated, male-centered social institution. It has to do a lot with power and gender."
There has been a little progress at the highest level of athletics. The NBA has two full-time women assistant coaches in Becky Hammon and Nancy Lieberman, and the NFL's Arizona Cardinals had Jen Welter coach during training camp and the preseason. These hirings may someday be the inspiration for a jump in women coaches at all levels. For now, though, it's status quo, LaVoi said.
'Tide is going to change'
Jay Shevins has coached youth teams for 20 years, boys and girls, and runs the Bergen Travel Basketball League. There are 263 boys teams in the league and six women head coaches. He doesn't know why more women don't coach boys.
"I really can't tell you I know any reason why that is, but I just think dads want to get involved with their sons," said Shevins, who has 11 women head coaches for the 86 girls teams in the league.
He believes that it's actually the generation of women ages 25 and younger, not those Title IX 35-and-ups, who will make the difference. Those girls, he said, played more and learned more not only on school teams but with the coming of travel leagues.
"I think it's going to be a big difference seeing them coach," he said. "I think and I want to believe the tide is going to change."
Not every league can give stats like Shevins. In most cases, there is no way to get definitive overall numbers across all youth leagues for one season, never mind over the years for comparison. National organizations such as Little League Baseball and Pop Warner football don't even track the information.
Jennifer Algieri has been president of the Clifton National Little League for six years and on the board for 12. She can think of three women coaches in that time. While Algieri actively tries to get more women involved, she finds it difficult.
"They don't have time," Algieri said she is often told. "A lot of women work now and in addition to women working they still have to cook dinner and take their other three kids somewhere else. They can't commit, because they have to be in 100 different places at once."
Intimidation factor
Andy Feinberg, fall and winter soccer commissioner with Wayne PAL, has nine women coaching in his program, including two working with boys teams. "I'm very happy when anybody volunteers to coach," he said. "The gender aspect never fazes me. I think it's probably always been a male-dominated thing and probably will continue that way for whatever reason."
Algieri has some ideas why.
"Intimidation," said Algieri. "[There's] definitely intimidation from the men — and the kids even don't necessarily think, because she's a girl, she knows what she's doing."
Karla Calder grew up in the Midwest playing volleyball, basketball, track and softball. She has coached her two sons' basketball, baseball and soccer teams in Franklin Lakes.
While her players get over their confusion with a "mom coach" pretty quickly, others have taken longer to adjust.
"When you play other teams, other coaches introduce themselves to assistants, even the umps. It takes a while to get used to, I guess," she said. "It's an interesting dynamic. It's not normal for them to see it."
In baseball, after a controversial play, the coaches and umpire went to the third-base coach, who happened to be Calder's husband.
"He said, 'I'm not the coach,' " she said. "I guess it's more comforting to go to the male."
When parents took issue with her basketball strategy with third- and fourth-graders, they went to her husband, as well.
"They would go to my husband and say, 'She's crazy. She shouldn't be doing man-to-man, she should be doing box-and-1.' "
A warm welcome
Not everyone experiences this kind of reaction. Liz Murphy coaches her son's and daughter's soccer teams in Ridgewood.
"I experienced absolutely no strangeness about it," said Murphy, who coaches her 9-year-old son's travel team and will now coach her younger daughter's rec team as well. "Everyone was extremely warm and welcoming. I didn't ever feel that I was treated any other way as a coach, because I was a woman and the others were men. I absolutely was always treated in the same fashion and really welcomed."
It never occurred to Murphy not to coach because it was a boys team, she said. Other women need a little more prodding or a reason to step in. Calder only took over after her husband started traveling more for work.
Collette Mather, who lives in Teaneck, didn't step in for her husband, but she had assumed the league director, who told her about the new travel baseball team he wanted to start with her son on it, wanted her husband to coach.
"He looked at me and said, 'I think you're the coach,' " she said. "I was flattered and excited and nervous as all get out, but I'm like, they're 7, I can do this."
David Rueger is the man who convinced Mather to coach. He has been involved in youth sports and coaching for 18 years and said he is proud that Teaneck is among the few area towns he sees with women coaches. He says a lack of time and confidence keeps most women from volunteering.
"I really don't think gender matters," he said. "People have seen women who have done it and are capable."
Now that his daughter is involved in sports, Rueger said he wishes there were more women coaching girls sports, too. That definitely has a positive impact on young female athletes, LaVoi said
"[It's] pretty clear that girls need confident, visible female role models in their lives," she said. "A lot of female athletes go through their whole careers never having had one female coach, which is sad. Same-sex role models provide a different kind of mentoring support and advice than opposite-sex role model.
"While young boys, 100 percent of the time, get a male role model in terms of a coach, they oftentimes do not get a female role model. I think when young boys experience a female coach, it helps them see women as leaders — that women can be confident, that women can command authority and it helps change their ideas about gender and leadership as they grow into young men."
It's too early to know if having women coaching men on a professional level will trickle down to the youth leagues. But which would have the bigger impact — more women coaching professional men's sports or boys' youth teams?
"One is a top-down approach where you see women at the highest level of men's sport, which does matter culturally," said LaVoi. "But women coaching boys at the youth level where young minds are developing and experiences are important for identity development. Experiencing women leaders at a young age, I think, has maybe more of an impact on more boys than it does when we see women coaching at the highest level."
Maybe coaches like the Murphys, Mather and Calder will start to have impact on the youth coaching ranks in North Jersey.
"Moms will come up to me, several moms have, and said, 'I don't know how you have the courage to do this. We appreciate it,' " Calder said. "People on the sidelines have said, 'Oh, maybe I can do this. I never thought that I could.' "
Staff Writer Andrew Wyrich contributed to this article.
Email: yoriok@northjersey.com
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Home Survival While War Wages On - Human Rights
Survival While War Wages On - Human Rights
Mother sits with her son smiling.
Two months before the Syrian war began to ravage the country in 2011, Mariam lost her husband to a heart attack, leaving her pregnant with her son, Mahmoud, only to give birth just as the fighting began.
"He is turning eight now, like the war," Mariam said.
As a single parent, struggling to survive and provide for her four children. Mariam found work on a farm and became the sole caregiver and breadwinner in her family. She earned the equivalent of 20 U.S. cents per day—barely enough to feed or house her family.
Thankfully, a CFC-sponsored organization came to Mariam's rescue.
As a new mother, Mariam recalls the difficulty of working just months after she gave birth to Mahmoud.
"I started taking Mahmoud with me to the field when he was only a few weeks old. He used to cry so much, and I was scared that the owner of the farm would fire me."
She lived under the constant fear that she would lose her family's source of income.
"I would wrap him in a piece of fabric and leave him with my daughter. When he cried, I would quickly breastfeed him. I prayed that the owner of the farm would not see me."
She eventually had to take her oldest two children out of school to help look after the younger ones while she worked.
"It was so hard for me, but I did not have a choice," Mariam said. "How else would we have survived? I can endure hunger, but my children can't."
To make ends meet, Mariam's oldest daughter now works with her on a farm to help provide for the family.
"It makes me very sad. My older son can't even read or write. If he sees a sign on the road, he has to ask his sister to read it for him," she said. "Every person should have a happy childhood. It matters for our future. And I feel so sad that I am unable to give this to my children."
But through CFC-supported organizations' support for widows, Mariam and her family were provided with new resources for living, such as sheep.
"When we received the sheep, my children and I were very happy. We had nothing at all. This meant so much to us. One of the sheep was even pregnant," she said.
No longer does Mariam have to buy milk as the sheep give enough milk for her and her children. In the spring, Mariam plans to shear the sheep and make pillows and mattresses to earn some extra money.
In part to the assistance a CFC-supported organization provided, Mariam has new hopes for her family in Syria.
"I hope that my children can go back to school and live the life they deserve," she said.


This website unveils the "ProducerCoin" and the related "EmploymentCoin." These coins are based upon the discipline known as "Parity Economics", which is a basic formula for establishing the fair value of farm crops and minimum wage labor.
ProducerCoins and EmploymentCoins can be used as an alternative currency to bridge the gap between disastrously low hourly wages and a living wage for labor while adding additional value to non GMO and organic farm products that too often sell for less than the cost to produce them.
This currency can be a tool that raises millions of people out of poverty in rural and urban areas while rewarding small and mid-sized family farms that practice sustainable, organic food production systems. The need to launch "ProducerCoins" and "EmploymentCoins" stems from the proven failure of current economic systems to place an accurate value on essential raw materials and labor.
Every product and service we use in our daily lives has a fair and honest value. This value can be accurately measured in terms of the human and mechanical energy required to produce all "things". This fair and honest value becomes the "Parity Price".
Everything we utilize in our daily lives is comprised of raw materials and intelligent labor. Thus, all products, goods and services carry an intrinsic parity value which is consistent with the human and mechanical energy necessary to produce them. These coins add value to these two primary purchases, food and labor.
The adulteration of our food supply and the exploitation of labor, combined with constant shortages of food and natural resources in many underdeveloped countries has worsened in the 21st century. Poor nutrition and poor people are commonplace across the globe.
We have witnessed obscene concentrations of wealth along with obscene concentrations of poverty We are surrounded by millions of people in western democracies who can't afford to purchase the goods and services they produce.
At the core of this problem are fatally flawed, debt based monetary systems that restrict the issuance of all new currency by forcing it to be borrowed into circulation as interest bearing debt. These systems are designed to endlessly concentrate wealth at the top of the economy while restricting the flow, velocity and saving of wealth by workers, small businesses and farmers.
These monetary systems are too often controlled by people who drain the value of our planet's labor and natural resources. These monetary systems were never designed to pay an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. They leave millions with no hope of a good life and millions more with a mirage of opportunity that never materializes. Producercoins and Employmentcoins can make a difference by diversifying the contol of money.


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package ru.job4j.taskfortest;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.hamcrest.number.IsCloseTo.closeTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

/**
 * Class for testing array to list and back conversion.
 * @since 10/08/2017
 * @version 1
 **/
public class AccountManagerTest {

    /**
     * Add user and account ops test.
     */
    @Test
    public void addUserAndAccountsTest() {
        AccountManager manager = new AccountManager();
        User user1 = new User("Sasha", 12456578);
        User user2 = new User("Vasia", 78564523);
        manager.addUser(user1);
        manager.addUser(user2);
        Account account1 = new Account(15000, 15264879);
        Account account2 = new Account(30000, 45897856);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Sasha"), account1);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Vasia"), account2);
        Map<User, List<Account>> result = manager.getDB();
        List<Account> expected = new ArrayList<>();
        expected.add(account1);
        assertThat(result.get(user1), is (expected));
    }

    /**
     * Delete user and account ops test.
     */
    @Test
    public void deleteUserAndAccountsTest() {
        AccountManager manager = new AccountManager();
        User user1 = new User("Sasha", 12456578);
        User user2 = new User("Vasia", 78564523);
        manager.addUser(user1);
        manager.addUser(user2);
        Account account1 = new Account(15000, 15264879);
        Account account2 = new Account(30000, 45897856);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Sasha"), account1);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Vasia"), account2);
        manager.deleteAccountFromUser(manager.getUserByName("Sasha"), manager.getAccountByRequisites(15264879)); // будет пустой список
        manager.deleteUser(manager.getUserByName("Vasia"));
        Map<User, List<Account>> result = manager.getDB();
        assertThat(result.get(user1).size(), is (0));
        assertThat(result.keySet().contains(user2), is (false));
    }

    /**
     * Transfer ops test.
     */
    @Test
    public void transferTest() {
        AccountManager manager = new AccountManager();
        User user1 = new User("Sasha", 12456578);
        User user2 = new User("Vasia", 78564523);
        manager.addUser(user1);
        manager.addUser(user2);
        Account account1 = new Account(15000, 15264879);
        Account account2 = new Account(30000, 45897856);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Sasha"), account1);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Vasia"), account2);
        manager.transferMoney(user1, account1, user2, account2, 10000);
        Map<User, List<Account>> result = manager.getDB();
        assertThat(result.get(user1).get(0).getValue(), closeTo (5000, 0.1));
    }

    /**
     * Transfer ops test for fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void failedTransferTest() {
        AccountManager manager = new AccountManager();
        User user1 = new User("Sasha", 12456578);
        User user2 = new User("Vasia", 78564523);
        manager.addUser(user1);
        manager.addUser(user2);
        Account account1 = new Account(15000, 15264879);
        Account account2 = new Account(30000, 45897856);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Sasha"), account1);
        manager.addAccountToUser(manager.getUserByName("Vasia"), account2);
        boolean result = manager.transferMoney(user1, account1, user2, account2, 20000);
        assertThat(result, is(false));
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The former creative director of an award-winning consumer PR agency, Reuben has been coaching for over 10 years whilst remaining an active brand and communications consultant for various media and marketing agencies.
Back when he was doing PR for a living (a long time ago!), his various claims to fame included launching ASOS and the mobile phone network 3 in the UK as well as launching the latest England football kit to the global media every year with Alan Shearer, Michael Owen and some young lad with a decent right foot called Beckham. Whatever became of him?
Reuben spends a lot of time helping individuals create and deliver more compelling, engaging presentations at large events across Europe. He works with clients who have fascinating things to say so he gets to learn cool stuff on a daily basis.
Due to his marketing / PR background, his particular areas of expertise are around personal brand, creative facilitation and presentation skills – how you can manage the impact you have on the world around you is of real interest to him.
Between 1998 and 2003 he was also assistant coach and manager of England Blind Football team, attending 2 World Cups and 3 European Championships.
No-one who meets him is shocked to discover that he is also a keen am-drammer. As well as performing at the Edinburgh Festival in his student days, he is a member of a theatre group in Cambridgeshire.


My personal search for the perfect Irish baby name began many years ago, when my husband and I found out we were going to be blessed with another daughter. We knew we wanted an Irish name for our baby girl so we would always remember the spiritual connection that we shared.
After all, it was from this bond that she was conceived. In those early days and nights of endless romance and passion, practically all we ever listened to was Enya and Riverdance!
My husband and I knew we were soulmates who shared a strong "Celtic heartbeat". Like so many other happy couples expecting a baby, we knew we had been blessed to find each other in a sea of lost souls.
It wasn't long before we had formed a bond that we knew was eternal. And now that bond would become even more unbreakable...with the impending birth of our baby girl, Shannon.
"Shannon" is an example of a popular Irish name which is derived from a place, rather than a legendary character or historical person. The names "Tara" and "Kerry" are other examples. "Shannon" is the name of the longest river in Ireland.
The Irish have always held "the Shannon" in a special place of honor both as a source of life and a symbol of ancient wisdom. In fact, the accepted meaning of the name Shannon today is "wise one".
So this Irish baby name seems to be fitting after all, since our daughter became part of the lifeblood of our home, just as the river is the lifeblood of the Irish countryside.
Our children fill our lives with warmth, laughter, and love; and they provide us with neverending opportunities to gain and pass on wisdom.
If you are filled with the Irish spirit like me, whether you have Celtic ancestors or not, there is no better way to pass on that legacy than to give your wee ones a Celtic or Irish baby name. But all too often, when you go looking for that special Irish baby name, you only find yourself frustrated by the lack of practical information.
On Fantasy-Ireland, you'll not only find both popular and unique Irish baby names, you'll also discover what they mean, how to spell them, how to say them, and more.
There are many old Irish customs you can incorporate that will honor your Celtic spirit and pass on your Irish heritage to your children. If you have spent any time looking into Irish genealogy, you have probably noticed how often names recur within families. The reason for this is that there was a customary way of choosing baby names in Ireland that left very little room for the creativity we enjoy today.
If you would like to carry on some Irish family names, but prefer to be more creative, perhaps you could trace your own family tree for Irish names that you find most appealing. Or you could name your child after a famous historical figure. Another option would be to choose the name of a legendary character in Celtic mythology.
Prior to the medieval times, there were over 10,000 different names being used in Celtic territories. Many of these names were derived from combining one or two word elements which each had distinct meanings. Names would often be created using the words for lucky colors, plants, and animals.
Or names would be created using words for moral or physical qualities such as strength and beauty. For example, the name Muiriol is derived from the word muir, meaning "sea", and the word gel, meaning "bright and shining".
Just as our modern English language is drastically different than Shakespeare's English, modern Irish is very different from ancient Gaelic. Irish baby names usually have many different forms, as well as an English version or two, which is often easier to pronounce and to spell.
Alternate spellings often emerged as a result of strict and oppressive English laws, which forbid the use of the Irish native language. Throughout those dark years in Ireland, it was illegal to speak Irish, so people were forced to use English versions of their names, even if the name lost it's true meaning as a result.
Continue your cherished Celtic legacy by choosing the perfect Irish baby name for your child. Discover the meanings and stories behind the most popular and unique baby names of Ireland.
I have not listed every single Celtic or Irish baby name I have come across in our research. I have only listed certain favorites which I chose either because I like the way they sound, admire the mythical people who shared the name, or both.
Looking for a specific baby name? Try Fantasy Ireland's Site Search, powered by the world's best search engine! You can search for a specific name on this site; or expand your search to cover the world wide web!


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San Bernardino National Forest and Big Bear Lake in southern California was a random, completely unplanned stop along the way that turned out to be one of my favorite places – ever. While in my car driving through the relentless heat of the desert I simply opened up my road map and spotted an extensive green blob with the words "National Forest" and knew I wanted to head to higher, more lush land. I ended up spending two days and nights here and had to practically tear myself away when it was time to go.
The park has many campgrounds to choose from. Those along the lake appear more crowded and family oriented while others, hidden up in the pine-covered mountains, are more remote and secluded. Heart Bar Campground, falling into the latter category of campgrounds, won my heart. Soon beer was opened and sausages roasted over a campfire before falling fast asleep under the moon and the stars in the crisp night air.
The next day was spent hiking, picnicking, and strolling along beautiful Big Bear Lake.
I felt so comfortable here and everyone I came in contact with – especially the campground attendants – were so friendly and welcoming. My camping site was clean, private, and an outdoor-lover's paradise. Big Bear City was quaint and cute and had every amenity you could desire. I hit up Starbucks for my internet (and blogging!) needs and the grocery store for all my food. There were many hiking, biking, and horse trails throughout the park and great picnic spots along with boating and many other activities. All of this in an easy to maneuver area; big enough for everyone to enjoy their own private space but small enough not to feel overwhelmed. In the winter, Big Bear is a skier and winter wonderland destination. I couldn't have asked for more from my quick desert getaway.
There's really nothing left to say except that you should go. Go and fall in love like I did!


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Elsa Hosk, Before and After
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Michelle Villett
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ISU Women's Basketball
KISU | By Rachel McGovern
Published February 11, 2022 at 9:29 AM MST
Bengals in action
Bengals Rout Vandals in Historic 103-68 Victory
The Idaho State Bengal women's basketball team trounced the in-state rival Idaho Vandals 103-68 in front of a raucous crowd over of over 1100 screaming Bengal fans in Reed Gym Thursday night.
The Bengals (15-8, 11-3 BSC) handed the Idaho Vandals (5-15, 4-7 BSC) the most points scored on them by Idaho State in the program's history.
The win also marked just the fourth time in program history that the Bengals have beaten a NCAA DI team with over 100 points scored.
The Bengals set the tone in the first half, after trading baskets for the first six minutes, and the Vandals holding an 11-10 lead, the Bengals turned on the jets. Thanks to consecutive three pointers made by Dora Goles and field goals by Montana Oltrogge and Estefania Ors the Bengals went on a 10-0 run at the end of the first that gave them a 22-16 advantage heading into the 2nd period.
The two teams traded baskets at the beginning of the second period with neither team being able to fully pull away from the other. The Vandals were able to bring the game to within one with 4:02 to play in the half before the Bengals, once again, showed their team strength.
Oltrogge kicked the Bengals run off hitting a jumpshot just outside the paint then on the next possession making a three to give the Orange and Black a six-point 39-33 lead with 3:17 to play.
As the half wound down the Bengals continued to pour it on. Growing the lead to as much as 12 with 1:16 to play off of a pair of Diaba Konate free throws.
The Vandals tried to respond but after cutting the lead to 10, ISU freshman Anaya Bernard hit her jumpshot with 21 seconds left and Tomekia Whitman blocked the Vandals last shot to send the Bengals into the locker room up 47-35.
As the second half started the Bengals maintained their margin until with 4:30 to go in the third, Goles hit a three and the next possession Konate took a steal and made a fastbreak layup giving the Bengals a 64-48 sixteen-point lead.
At this point was becoming electric, with each passing second and each made Bengal basket the Idaho State faithful were growing louder and rowdier setting the stage for a monumental fourth quarter.
The Bengals didn't let up. Goles was fouled on a three-point attempt and hit all of her free throws, Whitman then followed with a three of her own and the Bengals went into the final period up 76-56.
Calling the fourth quarter dominant is an understatement. In the final 7:16 of the game, the Idaho State Bengals outscored the Idaho Vandals 19-2 highlighted by breaking the century mark on the scoreboard.
With 4:09 left in the game, Goles stole the ball from the Vandals and drove the length of the court, laying in the ball with the Vandal defender on her back and making the score 101-66. It was true pandemonium in the crowd with the Idaho State student sections cheers leading the way.
The Bengals would score two more points in the quarter but the statement was made and as the final buzzer sounded, the Bengals had come away with the 103-68 victory.
Five different Bengals scored in double-digits in the historic win. Goles led the way with 21 points on six-of-10 shooting from the field also going four-of-six from behind the arc.
Oltrogge and Whitman both contributed 19 points. Konate scored 15 on the floor and Ors added 11. Just behind them as a post presence was Ellie Smith with eight points.
The Bengals controlled the glass, outrebounding the Vandals 40-31. In the paint the Bengals margin was absolutely dominant outscoring Idaho 42-20.
The win was truly a team effort with 10 Bengals scoring and 46 points coming from the Bengal bench.
The team never stopped passing the ball and 23 of the Bengals 40 made field goals had an assist with them.
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Naoko found me a Japanese rugby streaming channel. This is probably bad news as I can now vegetate in front of the screen and watch rugby all the time. It has already had an influence on my social life as the graceful Arisa was singing last night but her performance clashed with All Blacks / Lions. Er, sorry Arisa.
I don't like sponge cake!
Anyway, I swim out to the field of antler coral as what lies close to my house. I have sailed over this wonderful place a few times recently and have noticed a big sheet of plastic that had snared on the coral.
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Čertův dub u Třeboně (také známý jako Krčínův dub) je památný strom, který roste na hrázi zaniklého rybníku Hrádeček. Obvodem je největším dubem původní hráze, svému atypicky tvarovanému kmeni vděčí za pověst. Strom (respektive všechny duby na hrázi bývalého Hrádečku) byl chráněn v první polovině 20. století Památkovým úřadem v Praze, i nyní je evidován jako památný strom.

Základní údaje
 název: Čertův dub, Krčínův dub
 druh: dub letní (Quercus robur)
 výška: 20 m (2005)
 obvod: 619 cm (2005)
 věk: ? (zhruba 400 let podle pověsti)
 chráněn: 1. pol. 20. století památkovým úřadem
 památný strom ČR: pravděpodobně není vyhlášen
 umístění: kraj Jihočeský, okres Jindřichův Hradec, obec Třeboň
 souřadnice: 48°59'46.3"N, 14°47'5.7"E

Dub roste na hrázi bývalého rybníka Hrádeček, konkrétně u rybníčku Malý Hrádeček (v jižním cípu 4 kilometry dlouhé naučné Stezky zdraví Hrádeček, která je doplněna na jednotlivých zastaveních atrakcemi "Tomových parků"). Kmen je nízko nad zemí výrazně soudkovitě ztloustlý a porostlý mechem. Patrné jsou chodbičky tesaříka obrovského (Cerambyx cerdo). Krom hráze rostly ještě další staré duby u lesa pod rybníkem Kaprovým. Ty ale byly vykácené roku 1940 (3 z celkových 13 již byly suché).

Historie a pověsti
Rybník Hrádeček jako první navrhl vybudovat Štěpánek Netolický, vyměřen byl ale teprve v roce 1554 Jarohněvem Sádlem z Vražného. Samotné vybudování rybníku probíhalo v letech 1566-1572 pod vedením Mikuláše Rutharta z Malešova. Pojmenován byl po malé pevnosti, která původně sloužila jako část městské obrany. Kvůli rašelinnému podloží byly s rybníkem potíže, hráze prosakovaly a bortily se. Potíže řešil Jakub Krčín z Jelčan, ale ani on neměl příliš štěstí. Objevily se další potíže – nedostatek vody pro napuštění, sesuv části hráze roku 1573. Znovu se hráz protrhla roku 1602, opět při povodních 1604. Během třicetileté války nebyly prostředky na údržbu tak velkého rybníka (688 ha) a Hrádeček zpustl. Zarostlé dno se využívalo jako pastviny. K obnově došlo za Schwarzenbergů v letech 1681-1684. Staré problémy se ale objevily znovu. Rybník se špatně napouštěl, voda byla příliš železitá a chladná, výnosy špatné. Proto byl před rokem 1779 zrušen a později zalesněn. Hráz byla z části snížena a rozebrána, materiál použitý pro zesílení valů u městských bran a při stavbě železnice Praha – Vídeň roku 1870. Dnešní Malý Hrádeček byl založený roku 1903.

Říkalo se, že Jakub Krčín z Jelčan pro svou krutost k lidem propadl peklu. Čert ho noc co noc zapřahal do pluhu a devítiocasým pekelným bičem ho hnal po hrázích rybníků, které rybníkář za živa založil. Krčínovo kvílení bylo prý po nocích slyšet až do Třeboně a práskání čertovského biče nahánělo strach nočním opozdilcům. Za jedné noční bouře, kdy pro hustý déšť nebylo na krok vidět, dojelo pekelné spřežení až na hráz rybníku Hrádeček. Jenže ten založil Mikuláš Ruthard. Kletba byla zlomena, čertovský řetěz praskl, Krčín byl volný a z posledního článku řetězu vyrostl dub. Dub, který dodnes tvarem svého kmene onen článek řetězu připomíná.

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Dub letní
 Jakub Krčín
 Památný strom v Česku
 CHKO Třeboňsko
 Seznam památných stromů v okrese Jindřichův Hradec

Externí odkazy
 Fotogalerie Krčínův dub stromy.trebonsko.org

Památné duby letní v Česku
Památné duby v okrese Jindřichův Hradec
Památné stromy osobností
Památné stromy v Třeboňské pánvi
Paměť stromů
Památné stromy v CHKO Třeboňsko
Příroda v Třeboni


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Sep. 17, 2016 | 12:04 AM
Ravaged by conflict, Yemen faces rising malnutrition
In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, Salem, 5, who suffers from malnutrition, lies on a bed at a hospital in the port city of Hodeidah, southwest of Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo)
Ahmed Al-Haj| Associated Press
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on September 17, 2016, on page 9.
Ali Salem
Ibrahim Al-Kaali
Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi
Ali Hassan Tanmina
Dawoud Gunid
Even before the war, Hudaida was one of the poorest cities in Yemen, the Arab world's most impoverished nation. Now, the destruction of the port city's fishing boats and infrastructure by the Arab-led coalition's airstrikes over the past 18 months of war has deprived the townspeople of their prime livelihood.
The U.N. estimates that about 100,000 children under the age of five in the city and the surrounding province, also called Hudaida, are at risk of severe malnutrition.
As Yemen's conflict dragged on, food prices soared and gasoline ran out. At Hudaida's central hospital, the 12-bed unit for children with severe malnutrition has been fully occupied for months.
Salem's family is just one of about 600 impoverished and desperate families in villages along Hudaida's western coastline, he added.
Abbsi says that even after the children improved enough to be discharged from hospital, their condition often deteriorated rapidly as their family struggled once more to feed them.
UNICEF said that 2015 nutrition surveys in five of 10 highly affected governorates in Yemen, including Hudaida, showed that 96,600 children under the age of five are at risk of severe acute malnutrition – compared to 23,000 before the conflict escalated in March that year.


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From the Research Triangle to Silicon Valley: The Recession Hits the High Tech Industry
It looked like the high tech industry was going to dodge this economic downturn. Industry hot spots like North Carolina's Research Triangle (the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill area) and Northern California's legendary Silicon Valley remained fairly secure throughout most of last year. While other major regions around the country saw big declines in every sector, the high tech areas continued to see job growth and stable housing prices. They were, it seemed, "recession proof.- Until the fourth quarter, that is.
Growth in the high tech industry came to a screeching hault in the fall of 2008. The problem? The major players in the industry had pretty much spent all of their venture capital funds. A few years ago, it seemed venture capitalists were clamoring to fund new research and development projects in the tech industry. Not anymore. Given the current state of affairs in the economy, venture capitalists -" like most people -" are holding back and waiting for these things to restabilize before making more investments.
Without the necessary investment funds, the high tech areas were quickly swept up into the financial turmoil wreaking havoc around the country. The rates of bankruptcy, foreclosure, and unemployment spiked in the fall, and have continued to climb since. By now, those rates are some of the highest in the country.
For example, in North Carolina, the unemployment rate has doubled since this time last year, to a record of 10.7 percent. In raw numbers, this figure means almost 200,000 people have lost their jobs. Twenty percent of those losses came out of the Research Triangle. In Santa Clara County (the situs of Silicon Valley), bankruptcy filings shot up 59 percent over the last 12 months, and experts predict the rate will continue to climb. The once-booming high tech neighborhoods of Boston are also getting a hard dose of the current economic reality: the number of foreclosures in the area has tripled since last summer.
And you'd probably be surprised to hear that the layoffs are coming from industry powerhouses, like Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Intel, Sun, Hewlett Packard, and . . . yes, even the once apparently-infallible Google. Indeed, things have taken such a dramatic turn for the worse that community service centers in Silicon Valley are literally handing out food to people who used to earn six-figure salaries and live in million dollar homes.
It took a while longer for the high tech industry to feel the effects of the current downturn, but it happened, and now the industry is caught up in the full grips of the recession. Fortunately, those caught up in the industry's current woes have the same relief available to them as those whom the recession hit much earlier: bankruptcy protection. Bankruptcy has already helped millions of people weather this storm, as it always has in times of economic turmoil.
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The Latest in the Search for Wisdom
By Jerry Adler On 1/9/09 at 7:00 PM EST
The quest for wisdom is as old as Socrates, but it's also an up-to-the-minute economic indicator. A contrarian one: when things are going well, you don't have to go searching for wisdom. It streams nonstop over CNBC, its avatars sit smugly atop the Forbes list of billionaires and each day it proves again the eternal truths of the free market. Then in due course things go to hell; the sages and gurus humbly confess their ignorance to Congress or a grand jury, and the search for new paradigms begins. Tellingly, scholars date the modern scientific study of wisdom to the work of the American psychologist Vivian Clayton in the malaise-ridden 1970s. Clayton devised the first empirical tests for wisdom, which she defined as the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally—picking up on the work begun by Socrates, around the time the Peloponnesian War began to turn into what we would call a "quagmire."
So it's no coincidence that several dozen researchers in fields ranging from neuroscience to art, music and law have just received wisdom-seeking grants under the auspices of the University of Chicago. The $2.7 million program, funded by the Templeton Foundation, is called Defining Wisdom, a name that implies the researchers will know what they were looking for once they find it. Wisdom, according to Robert J. Sternberg of Tufts University, the author of several books on the topic, is still an obscure field with minimal academic cachet. (Clayton dropped her research in 1982; it was carried on at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin until a few years ago.) "The current state of the world is a good example of why wisdom research is needed," he adds. "Look at Robert McNamara or Donald Rumsfeld, brilliant people without wisdom, who get into power and make a mess of things."
With so much at stake, the program's directors, psychologists John Cacioppo and Howard Nusbaum, dismissed the traditional approach to wisdom research, which involves sending grad students with tape recorders to nursing homes and small-town barbershops. So they cast their nets wide and deep into the pools of academe. The 38 proposals they approved include ones aimed at finding wisdom in computer algorithms ("Data Compression as a Mathematical Measure of Wisdom") and in classical literature ("The Price of Wisdom: Community and the Individual in Greek and Roman Poetry"). Starting at the beginning, one scholar observes that "language is the medium by which wisdom-related knowledge is usually conveyed." That sounds self-evident, but another scientist proposes to "explore music as a form of wisdom, by looking more closely at aspects of deep musical experience," and a third nominates pheromones ("The Wisdom of the Ant: The Role of Experience in Sociality and Aggression"). "We're trying to think out of the box," says Nusbaum. "Does it even make sense to ask questions about an animal model for wisdom? We have no clue."
And if ants can teach us something about wisdom, why not Sylvia Miles? An actress notorious for frittering away her career with nonstop partying seems an unlikely source of guidance. But in a new book titled "How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People," the essayist Henry Alford, the Socrates of dilettantes, mines Miles's life for whatever gems of wisdom she might have picked up at Studio 54, along with whatever else she picked up there. In the fullness of age, does she regret dumping a plate of cold cuts on the critic John Simon in revenge for a bad review? Not a chance. If you want reassurance that it's already too late to reform, Alford is the philosopher for you. If Miles isn't your ideal of sagacity, he also interviews the literary theorist Harold Bloom, who warns him, forebodingly if obscurely, that wisdom is "a very dark topic." Perhaps he took a beating on his 401(k), too.
Cacioppo and Nusbaum dismiss quibbles about the inherent circularity of searching for wisdom at the same time as defining it. But they have some preconceptions about what they expect to find. They see "wisdom" in part as a corrective to the "rational choice" paradigm of decision making, the foundation of free-market economics. Rational choice holds that everyone's happiness is best served when people maximize their short-term individual gains, even at the expense of the broad interests of society or the long-term future. That is precisely opposite the approach of, well, ants, who are entirely indifferent to their individual fates, functioning as interchangeable parts of what the entomologists Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson call, in their new book, "The Superorganism." Ant colonies have good years and bad ones, but they don't, as a rule, overexpand out of reckless greed and then collapse in economic crisis. So watch your step. The next Alan Greenspan may be under your feet.
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Eden Gardens to reserve 50 seats for the differently-abled
The decision was taken by the state association to mark the World Disabled Day and CAB joint secretary, Avishek Dalmiya, stated that there will be wheelchair assistance and special toilet facilities.
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Mumbai 03 December, 2018 23:03 IST
With no international fixture lined up at the moment, the facility is likely to begin during the Indian Premier League. - FILE PHOTO/G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has decided to reserve 50 seats for the differently-abled for any international fixtures at the iconic Eden Gardens.
"We have taken a decision that the front row of G Block comprising 50 seats will be reserved for the differently abled people. Steps will be taken so that they can come and view the matches comfortably. We want Eden Gardens to be a warm and an all embracing venue," said CAB president and former India captain, Sourav Ganguly.
"We are also planning to aid and support the specially abled cricketers as we don't want to lose out on any talent," Ganguly added.
READ| Eden Gardens declared best ground of IPL 2018
The decision was taken by the state association to mark the World Disabled Day and CAB joint secretary, Avishek Dalmiya, stated that there will be wheelchair assistance and special toilet facilities for the differently-abled spectators. "We were thinking about it for a while and since cricket stands for unity, we don't want the differently-abled spectators to be left out," CAB joint secretary, Avishek Dalmiya, told Sportstar.
With no international fixture lined up at the moment, the facility is likely to begin during the Indian Premier League. "We will also need to talk to Kolkata Knight Riders as there are a few areas that needs to be discussed," Dalmiya said, adding that they are also contemplating issuing the tickets to the differently-abled spectators for free.
The CAB is also working out a model for holding camps for the differently-abled cricketers. Over the last year, the CAB has been supporting visually challenged and hearing impaired cricketers aiding in tournaments and with logistics.
"We want to provide specific coaching and training programmes for the talented cricketers as we want to support them in every way possible to promote sports among the specially abled," Dalmiya said, adding that the CAB has also incorporated a Differently Abled Cricket Committee while amending its constitution.
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Q: Debugging JavaScript in Chromium Embedded Framework I have a WPF application which uses CEF to display web content. My question is, is there a way to debug the Javascript/Web parts inside a WPF application?

A: You may also use ShowDevTools() extension method (source)
ChromiumWebBrowser browser = new ChromiumWebBrowser();
browser.ShowDevTools(); // Opens Chrome Developer tools window

A: To use 'ShowDevTools()' you will need first verify if the browser is initialized.
An example solution:
//Add an event to check
ChromeBrowser.IsBrowserInitializedChanged += ChromeBrowser_IsBrowserInitializedChanged;

//Declare the event method to be called
private void ChromeBrowser_IsBrowserInitializedChanged(object sender, IsBrowserInitializedChangedEventArgs e)
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A: Enable remote debugging in your application:
C# (CefSharp)
CefSettings.RemoteDebuggingPort = 8088;

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CefSettings settings;
settings.remote_debugging_port = 8088;

then run your app and point your browser to http://localhost:8088/ to access the Chromium developer console (the same you have in Chrome with Ctrl+Shift+j)

A: To open the Chromium Dev-Tools window you can do the following:
CefBrowser.GetBrowser().GetHost().ShowDevTools();

This is similar to Eido95's answer, but it doesn't require the extension methods, which essentially just wrap these method calls.
NOTE: The control needs to be initialized before calling this method can be called. If you're wiring-up and F12-like functionality this shouldn't be a problem. If you're trying to do this when the app is starting you will need to listen for the ChromiumWebBrowser.IsBrowserInitializedChanged event

A: While the accepted answer is correct, it doesn't really have enough detail.
I got this working in CefSharp using the WinForms control in a WPF application. (the WinForms control seems to have better performance). The code for remote debugging will probably be very similar for the WPF control though.
var settings = new CefSettings { RemoteDebuggingPort = 8088 };
Cef.Initialize(settings);
WindowsFormsHost.Child = new ChromiumWebBrowser(url);

Then go to http://localhost:8088/ in your browser.

A: An alternative can be to launch cef with --enable-chrome-runtime.
You'll have the fully featured debugger (link files on disk and edit them from the debugger)

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