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Election Results: 2010 Midterms Put Democratic Control On The Line
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congress that enacted President Barack Obama's far-reaching health care law and plowed staggering sums into economic relief is at risk Tuesday in an election that promises to shake up the political order across the nation.
Republicans buoyantly forecast a new era of shared governance, two years after Democrats sealed victory in the presidency, the House and the Senate and set about reshaping the agenda in a time of severe recession and war. Democrats did not seriously dispute expectations that they would lose the House this time, even while campaigning through the final hours to stem losses.
His campaign travels over, Obama was giving interviews to radio hosts in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Honolulu and Miami – mostly cities in states where Democrats are either trailing or in tight re-election bids – for broadcast Tuesday as Americans vote. In one interview he pulled back from earlier remarks calling Republicans "enemies" of Hispanics.
Democrats tend to be strong closers, with a vaunted operation by the party, Obama's organizers and unions to get supporters to voting sites on Election Day. This time, they faced a ground game infused by the tea party, less polished than the other side but full of energy.
The midterm elections are a prime-time test for that loosely knit and largely leaderless coalition, a force unheard of just two years ago. Tea party supporters rattled the Republican establishment in the primaries, booting out several veteran lawmakers and installing more than 70 candidates, nearly three dozen of whom are in competitive races Tuesday.
If successful, that conservative movement could come to Washington as a firewall against expansive federal spending, immigration liberalization and more, as well as a further threat to the historic health care law that Republicans hope somehow to roll back.
In Thornton, Colo., on Monday, coffee and leftover Halloween candy fueled volunteers at campaign offices of both Senate candidates, Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck. Republican helper Susan Nalbone, 55, a retired schoolteacher who was phoning voters, said her side was dispirited in 2008. Not now.
"This is more intense," she said. "I know that elections are all important, all a big deal, but this one feels especially important to people."
At Bennet's office, LuAnn Lind, 52, a nurse, said she's been volunteering for Democrats for years and finding it harder now to fire people up. "It's a little less urgent among the people I'm talking to," Lind said. "I'm telling them: 'We don't want to lose ground now. We want to keep the Obama momentum moving forward.'"
Ohio Rep. John Boehner, in line to become speaker if Republicans win the House, promised Monday to hold weekly votes to cut federal spending, make jobs the top GOP priority and fight to repeal the health law. Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for Democrats as if his own future were on the line, stumped late into the night in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Florida.
Republicans need 40 more seats to win the House, a goal that polls indicated they might achieve. Races for more than 100 of the 435 seats are competitive.
Republicans need a net gain of 10 to take the Senate, a tougher road that requires them to win every tight race. The GOP also made strong bids to add governors to their ranks and expand in state legislatures.
Voter mobilization efforts have been unfolding for weeks as more than 14 million Americans cast early ballots.
In Nevada, home of the hot Senate contest between Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and tea-party pick Sharron Angle, registered Democrats and Republicans came out early in similar numbers. In Pennsylvania, another battleground, more than half the early voters were Republican, by the latest count.
"I need you in the next few hours," Reid told supporters at a rally Monday with first lady Michelle Obama. "Don't hope someone else will work harder than you. You need to knock on that extra door. You need to make that extra phone call."
Some races could go days or more without a winner, thanks to the multitude of expected close contests – in Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, West Virginia, Ohio, Alaska and more – and the persistence of shaky voting systems in some places a decade after the presidential-election counting disaster in Florida.
Hundreds of lawyers from both sides are ready to roll. This was a campaign marked by the ragged anger of partisans and caustic ads by candidates, now spilling into an Election Day that's likely to lead to complaints of voting irregularities, fraud or machine meltdowns – and hair-trigger legal challenges.
One of the most unpredictable races was unfolding in Alaska, where Sen. Lisa Murkowski, upset in the GOP primaries by the tea party's pick, Joe Miller, is trying to win by having voters write her name on the ballot. Democrats injected cash late in the campaign to try to lift their candidate, Scott McAdams, over the other two.
Voters in 37 states are electing governors. Among the most competitive: the contest in Ohio between Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and former Republican Rep. John Kasich.
AP writers Kristen Wyatt in Thornton, Colo., and Michael R. Blood and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.


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April 7, 2016 (Updated November 16, 2018) / Erectile Dysfunction / 7.12k views
Purported ED 'Cure' Found to Cause Health Complications
A Southern California medical clinic has come under fire for a so-called erectile dysfunction cure. The therapy involves penile injections that have caused health complications for some of the clinic's patients.
A couple of years back, a Southern California medical clinic allegedly targeted men with erectile dysfunction using aggressive advertising that promised an instant "cure" for their condition. Lured by persuasive advertisements, men flocked from all around the country to the clinic in Costa Mesa, California, for a $200 consultation to learn about the miracle cure. Once at the clinic, the men found out that the cure involved risky penile injections.
According to patients who have sued the practice, the men who visited the clinic were given one penile injection of a powerful mix of drugs that causes an instant erection, and then given a sales pitch while in that state. Patients were urged to buy enough medication for 60 injections to be administered at home. Once the round of injections was through, claimed doctors, the patient's erectile dysfunction would be cured. The doctors also never mentioned any of the common side effects of these powerful drugs.
Reports claim that not only were patients not warned about possible side effects and treatment options, but the clinic's business practices were suspect as well. Doctors at the clinic used high-pressure sales tactics on men while they were in a vulnerable aroused state and received bonuses for generating business. The injections, which the clinic sold for $25 each, can be purchased with a prescription for around $3 each. Investigators also found that the pharmacy responsible for filling many of the injection prescriptions is owned by the wife of one of the clinic's founders.
Intracavernous Pharmacotherapy
This kind of erectile dysfunction injection therapy, called intracavernous pharmacotherapy, is usually a urologist's last resort for treating erectile dysfunction. Penile injections are only prescribed by doctors once other drug therapies have failed to work, and they are usually administered in a doctor's office. Patients were told at the California clinic that penile injections were actually safer than pills like Viagra, despite evidence to the contrary.
Multiple patients of the California clinic sued once they experienced severe side effects from the penile injections. Some suffered permanent damage after experiencing a condition called priapism, a condition in which erection lasts for four or more hours. Priapism can damage delicate penile blood vessels and cause permanent impotence and other health complications. While priapism is a side effect of some oral medications, penile injections can create a higher risk for the condition, especially if administered at home without a doctor's supervision.
One Georgia patient was awarded several million dollars in damages after the judge ruled that he had been misled about his treatment options and the risks involved with the injections. Another patient from Illinois was also awarded millions of dollars after he suffered through priapism that resulted in reconstructive surgeries. The patient had been advised by the clinic's doctors to continue the injections even after he had reported priapism and other side effects.
Doctors at the clinic have come under fire for giving these risky injections to patients without first trying other safer drugs like Viagra and other oral ED medications. Patients who sued the clinic have testified in court that they had not previously been on oral medications for erectile dysfunction, and that the clinic's staff never discussed alternative treatments with them.
If you are suffering from erectile dysfunction, it is critical that you see your doctor to get a proper diagnosis. If he determines that your ED is caused by insufficient blood flow to the penis, he will probably prescribe oral ED drugs or other less invasive methods of treatment. Injections should only be considered when all other safer alternatives have been exhausted and only by referral from your doctor to a specialist.
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Q: nodejs express unknown method render after creating a plain vanilla express application, I have this default app.js:
var express = require('express');
var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

// Configuration
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  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(express.cookieParser());
  app.use(express.session({ secret: 'your secret here' }));
  app.use(app.router);
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});

app.configure('development', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));
});

app.configure('production', function(){
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app.get('/', function(req, res) {
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});

app.listen(3000, function(){
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});

However I keep getting this stacktrace:
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at C:\Users\...\app.js:34:7

that is right before the render method of the '/' route
layout.jade looks like this:
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html(lang='de')
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    link(rel='stylesheet', href='/stylesheets/style.css')
    link(rel='shortcut icon' type='image/png' href='/images/favicon.png')
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  body!= body
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and index.jade looks like this:
#body

  #nav
    a(href='/login') anmelden

What am I missing?

A: Try change this:
link(rel='shortcut icon' type='image/png' href='/images/favicon.png')
script(src='/javascripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js' type='text/javascript' charset='utf-8')

to this:
link(rel='shortcut icon', type='image/png', href='/images/favicon.png')
script(src='/javascripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js', type='text/javascript', charset='utf-8')

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  version '0.13.1'
  sha256 '79f7835a799680c07a00dcb0687a135c8f61fd9e2f46978de069d5f1df631f44'

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  url "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/stellarium/Stellarium-#{version}.dmg"
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The individual bones of the braincase are primarily embryological units. In the adults of most vertebrates, the braincase is largely fused into a single solid mass. The braincase may be bone, cartilage, or (most commonly) mixed. However, the various embryonic cartilages and centers of ossification are not separated by obvious sutures in the manner of the dermal bones, and there is rarely any marked kinesis between sections of the brain. Nevertheless, there are certain more or less persistent regions and landmarks that are frequently mentioned. These are illustrated schematically in Figure 1.
It should be emphasized that braincases come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. The otico-occipital boundary is sometimes almost seamless. Likewise the sphenethmoid area is frequently a single unit. It is almost always relatively easy to distinguish the otico-occipital and sphenethmoid units, although the ventral fissure is not always present. By way of example, see the braincase of Trilophosaurus from Parks (1969). Fig. 2.
It is interesting, as well as a useful aid to memory, to note that the principal braincase regions are each strongly associated with different sensory functions. The occipital region is defined by the bones of the occiput (the basi-, ex-, and supra-occipitals) which surround the foramen magnum. This is the point where the notochord and the sensory (and motor) nerves from the body enter the brain. The otic capsule partially surrounds the semi-circular canals of the labyrinth, which sense motion and orientation, as well as the organs of hearing in tetrapods. The sphenoid region is essentially defined by the orbit, and the ethmoid region is associated with chemosensation.
Vertebrate braincase development is relatively stereotyped, even if the final result is extremely variable. Neural crest cells migrate into the head region lateral and anterior to the notochord and condense into a pair of elongate cartilage bars, the trabeculae or prechordal bars, and a pair of small polar cartilages. A similar pair of parachordal cartilages develop posteriorly from mesoderm, flanking the notochord. Occipital cartilages form just posterior to the parachordals. Later in development, the bars widen laterally and extend up around the sides dorsally to form a trough. An ethmoid plate forms anteriorly. The embryonic composition of the ethmoid plate is not known with certainty.
In addition, a pair of sensory capsules develops adjacent to each set of axial cartilages: the nasal capsules, optic capsules and the otic capsules. Later in development, all of these growing regions of cartilage fuse. The product of this fusion is the chondrocranium.
Ancestrally, the chondrocranium was an open-topped pan that housed the brain in a trough chondrichthyans have a chondrocranium that is only slightly modified from this condition. The dorsal surface closes off medially to form a roof over the brain. In bony vertebrates, endochondral bones form from centers of ossification in the chondrocranium, although much of the braincase often remains cartilage. In teleost fish, and occasionally in other groups, separate ossifications occur in the ethmoid region. In mammals, the ethmoid ossifies to form the turbinals, convoluted bones in the nasal cavity that are covered by olfactory sense organs. Parts of the sphenoid region frequently ossify to form the basi-, orbito-, pre-, latero-, etc. sphenoid bones. These, along with the basioccipital, form the platform on which the brain rests. There are several ossification centers in the otic region, notably the prootic and opisthotic. In mammals, this region ossifies into a structure called the petrosal, which houses the inner ear. Finally, around the foramen magnum, these bones develop as the supra-, para-, and basioccipitals. See The Occiput.
The anatomical relations of the adult braincase are complex and somewhat variable. For simplicity, this discussion is restricted to the more conventional gnathostomes. Dorsally, the braincase and the brain are covered by the dermal bones of the vault series (frontals, parietals, and so on), or the equivalent dermal plates in placoderms. The chondrichthyans, of course, lack dermal skull bones, and here the braincase itself grows up over the brain and forms a completely enclosed capsule. Ventrally, the basioccipital (the ventral member of the occipital series) lies on or over the parasphenoid and pterygoid of the dermal palatal series. Again, sharks are the exception. The shark braincase is perhaps the major structural anchor of the skull and, in primitive forms, it supports the palatoquadrate directly. The occipital series is itself the main support of the posterior skull, and it also serves to bind the braincase to the notochord, primitively the main axial support of the entire organism.
The problem area, in terms of evolutionary engineering, appears to have been lateral support. The dorsolateral portion of the skull is dominated by the jaw adductor muscles. The location, size, orientation and mechanical advantage of these muscles has probably been more critical to vertebrate evolution than any other single body element, the brain included. As humans, our cultural progress has often been driven by speech. But, in evolutionary terms, its how you close your mouth that counts. This creates a serious evolutionary conflict: how can we provide lateral stability for a big, delicate brain sitting in the middle of big, active, important muscles whose size and orientation is critical to survival?
Evolution has devised any number of solutions to the problem, and it would be impossible to cover even the more significant approaches. One of the most frequent designs has involved a posterolaterally directed brace, frequently through the stapes, which extends roughly from the level of the braincase's center of mass down and back towards the heavily stabilized occiput. Another, more radical, design is the peculiar system of the always-aberrant mammals. They circumvent the entire issue by placing the jaw muscles largely outside the dermal bones. This lets the brain get very big indeed without losing stability, but it requires a reoriented, shorter jaw with very little snap. This, in turn, has only been successful because mammals have unique teeth which can process food by grinding, a process driven by the masseter muscles rather than the classical jaw adductors. Whatever the solution, it is important to keep track of how these paramount issues interact: brain size and stability vs. jaw musculature.
By definition, Bob the Basal Amniote has the Standard Condition -- in this case the standard brain. While Bob is not a creature of towering intellectual prowess, we nonetheless value his companionship because of his congenial disposition and straightforward anatomy. Even so, we are perhaps not yet ready to tackle a real braincase head on, as it were. Instead, we will first describe the state of his mind as a schematic, or rather two of schematics of increasing complexity. At this stage, we will restrict ourselves to bones. This, for all practical purposes, eliminates the unossified front half of the braincase.
The thing at right which looks like a badly drawn dhow is in fact a badly drawn amniote braincase. Only the basic osteology is shown. We also provide an occipital view for reference. Beginning with the supraoccipital and moving roughly clockwise, we'll go through the essential information about each of the main structures.
The supraoccipital is essentially an unpaired dermal bone of the occiput. It is a bone found only in tetrapods and develops by ossification of a membrane joining the two otic capsules. The supraoccipital contacts the parietals of the skull table dorsally and the exoccipitals ventrally. It usually forms at least the dorsal edge of the foramen magnum.
The exoccipitals are paired bones of the occiput. They derive from the neural arch elements of embryonic vertebrae which have been incorporated into the braincase. Dorsally, the exoccipitals contact the supraoccipital and the foramen magnum. Ventrally, they contact the basioccipital. The exoccipitals often form part of the occipital condyle.
The opisthotic is the posterior of the two bones making up the otic capsule and is usually fused to the prootic, the anterior otic bone. The opisthotic is an endochondral bone. It is usually the largest contributor to the paroccipital process and to the structures of the middle and inner ear. It normally contacts all of the occipital bones and the prootic, and may contact the basisphenoid. It often forms part of the edge of the foramen ovale, the door to the inner ear.
The paroccipital process may be considered a process of the opisthotic, but the process may be formed by bones in addition to, or even instead of, the opisthotic. The paroccipital process runs horizontally and sometimes dorsally) across the back of the skull. It joins the occiput and braincase to the quadrate, squamosal and the other dermal bones of the "cheek."
The foramen ovale (= fenestra ovalis) is the only one of the various holes in Bob's head which makes our list of basic bits and pieces. It is a membrane covered manhole between the middle ear and inner ear. See, generally, The Ear It is covered by the footplate of the stapes. The foramen ovale is normally located anterodorsal to the paroccipital process, between the prootic and opisthotic.
The stapes is an incarnation of the hyomandibular. Originally, it may have been the main upper element of a gill arch. It later appears as the hyomandibular, an accessory jaw element. In early tetrapods, it becomes a stout bone bracing the braincase against the quadrate. As the paroccipital process took over this function, the stapes was reduced, eventually becoming specialized for hearing as the columella, in sensible amniotes, or the stapes, in mammaliforms. The stapes bears a footplate which fits over the foramen ovale.
The occipital condyle is a rounded protuberance (or a pair in some taxa) forming the ball of a ball & socket joint by which the head rotates on the neck. It is usually formed by some combination of the basioccipital and the exoccipitals.
The basioccipital is an unpaired median bone of the occiput which derives from the centra of embryonic vertebrae which have been incorporated into the braincase. It forms the floor of the braincase under the posterior part of the otic capsule. It contacts the exoccipitals dorsally and almost always forms at least part of the occipital condyle.
The basioccipital tubera are a pair of ventrolaterally directed blobs descending from the basioccipital. They are sometimes simply referred to as "basal tubera." However, the basisphenoid may also bear tubera. Presumably the basioccipital tubera act as attachment sites for ligaments stabilizing the head on the neck.
The basipterygoid processes are (despite the name) processes of the basisphenoid. They act to join the braincase to the palate. In many basal tetrapods and their ancestors, this was a moveable articulation. In most derived tetrapods, it simply staples the braincase to the palatal bones.
The pterygoid is not, of course, a braincase bone. It is the dermal palatal bone which grew up over the old palatoquadrate and eventually took over many of its functions. It is a very complex and interesting bone which, fortunately, we can skip over for present purposes. We have more than enough complex and interesting stuff to go 'round just dealing with the braincase.
The basisphenoid forms the floor of the braincase anterior to the basioccipital. Ventrally it is covered by a dermal bone, the parasphenoid. The fusion between these two is so close that some workers refer to the complex as the "parabasisphenoid." The basisphenoid gives rise to the basipterygoid process and other structures dealt with elsewhere.
The parasphenoid is the dermal bone normally found fused to the basisphenoid on its ventral surface. The parasphenoid generally extends far anteriorly on the midline of the palate as a narrow cultriform process. The upper surface of the parasphenoid (and the vomers) may be associated with the olfactory tracts. However, the anterior braincase is normally unossified in tetrapods such as Bob.
The prootic is the anterior of the two endochondral bones making up the otic capsule. It is usually fused to the other otic capsule component, the opisthotic. The extent and geometry of the prootic are quite variable. In addition to its fusion with the opisthotic, the prootic may contact the basisphenoid and any of the elements of the occiput. ATW031205.
Having disposed of the osteology, we add some landmarks. Here, we are hampered by vague, shifting, and inconsistent nomenclature as well as the more usual obstacles -- among which lack of artistic ability ranks prominently. Nevertheless we have persevered in order to illustrate some critical details, as well as to familiarize the reader with some of the prestigious optional features which are available in luxury models of the tetrapod braincase. Again, we will begin in the upper right hand (posterodorsal) corner and work clockwise.
The first feature is called by a variety of names, such as jugular foramen, vagus foramen, or perilymphatic foramen, depending on the taxon and anatomical features of interest. Nearly every tetrapod has some sort of major foramen located on the boundary between the exoccipitals and the opisthotic, near the base of the paroccipital process.
The basioccipital may bear several small foramina for the hypoglossal (XIIth) nerve near the base of the occipital condyle.
Anterior, and usually a bit ventral, to the fenestra ovalis is a foramen for the facial (VIIth) nerve. The foramen is often accompanied by a groove, fossa, or what-have-you for the palatine branch of the nerve.
Just anterior to the otic capsule is perhaps the most complex and ancient area of the vertebrate brain. This is the boundary between the embryonic trabeculae and parachordals, the ancient anterior terminus of the notochord, the transition from anterior trabecular prechordal ectoderm to posterior neural crest tissue, the site where palatal (stomodeal) ectoderm invades the brain embryonically, the location of the pituitary, the origin of the optic nerve (II) and critical optic muscles, the seat of the basipterygoid process, the division between forebrain and mesencephalon, and so on. In short, almost everything that distinguishes the vertebrates begins right there, in a suite of features separated only by millimeters. We will mention only a few of these landmarks, but the critical importance of this region cannot possibly be overstated.
The basisphenoid bears a deep, central depression at this point called the sella turcica or pituitary fossa. The sella contains the pituitary (or hypophysis), a structure formed cooperatively of brain tissue and palatal ectoderm which has invaded during development via Rathke's pouch. This is taken up in detail elsewhere. A small sheet of bone rises up vertically at the posterior margin of the sella turcica. This is the dorsum sellae. The right and left corners of the dorsum sellae are usually prolonged anterodorsally. These are the right and left pilae antotica, called the posterior clinoid processes in mammals. The pilae may disappear during development, remain cartilaginous, or ossify in a number of ways. Here, we have shown the pilae ossifying dorsally, as an irregular sheet of bone running roughly between the pila antotica and a similar band of cartilage which comes off the top of the otic capsule, the taenia marginalis. In this position, the bone is referred to as a laterosphenoid or pleurosphenoid In other taxa, a sheet of bone develops ventrally, between the pila and the basisphenoid. In that case, the bone is a presphenoid.
The prootic is quite often emarginated on its anterior border. This is the trigeminal notch which, not surprisingly, contains the exit of the trigeminal (Vth) nerve.
Finally, particularly in lepidosaurs, the prootic bears a lateral crest which runs anteriorly from near the base of the paroccipital process, over the facial foramen, to the anterior margin of the otic capsule. When present, this crest, the crista prootica, is a particularly good landmark since it is quite easy to spot. ATW031206.
This is as far as we can fruitfully go at the moment. We have not discussed the unossified anterior portions of the tetrapod brain, the brains of fishes of all kinds, or the innermost cavities, such as those between the otic capsule and the basicranial bones. Some of these areas are discussed in connection with particular taxa or particular bones. However, this is a reasonable place to stop for the moment, since the information above is all that one really needs to know for most purposes. ATW031206.
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Dermosphenotic: The dermosphenotic is a dermal bone in the otic region of many actinopterygianfishes, perhaps including groups as early as the guildayichthyiforms. It is typically found at the posterodorsal corner of the orbit and bears a portion of the postorbital sensory canal (sometimes referred to as an extension of the infraorbital canal). The neuromasts of this canal are the only ones to be innervated by the otic branch of the facialis (VIIth) nerve, or by its superficial ophthalmic branch. It typically articulates, or even fuses, with the supraorbitals and may appear to be serially homologous with them. The dermosphenotic may also articulate with the postorbital or infraorbital series and with the nasals and/or frontals. Posteriorly, the dermosphenotic articulates with the dermopterotic, to which it is developmentally related. The dermosphenotic overlies the autosphenotic, a bone of the neurocranium; and the two are frequently fused to form the sphenotic. See Adriaens & Verraes (1998); Lund 2000).


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Одиши () — исторический регион в западной Грузии, занимающий основную часть княжества Мегрелия. С начала XIX века этот топоним был вытеснен названием Самегрело (Мегрелия).

География
Как и у большинства исторических регионов Грузии, границы Одиши не раз менялись. На западе регион был ограничен Чёрным морем, на востоке рекой Цхенисцкали; на северо-западе Одиши граничит с Абхазией, порой расширяясь за её счёт; на севере граница проходила по горам Лечхуми, соприкасаясь со Сванетией; река Риони образовала границу между Одиши и Гурией на юге. В более узком смысле Одиши занимала земли между Чёрным морем, реками Ингури и Техури. Главным и крупнейшим городом был Зугдиди. Монастырь Чкондиди в Мартвили служил главным христианским кафедральным собором. В Грузии жителей Одиши называли одишари.

История
Название Одиши впервые появляется в грузинских летописях во времена царицы Тамары (1184-1213) как феодальное владение эристави Дадиани. Суверенными князьями Дадиани стали после распада Грузинского царства в 1490-х годах. Изначально, и в ранней современной грузинской исторической литературе Одиши назывался как регионом, так и всем княжеством Дадиани. Последнее стало известно европейцам как Мингрелия по названию основной группы людей, населяющих его, но они также были знакомы с Одиши как названием одного из двух основных подразделений Княжества Мегрелия, другое название — Лечхуми. Грузинское название Мегрелии, Самегрело, хотя и упоминались в гораздо более ранних записях, не имело общего употребления до тех пор, пока в 1803 году владетель Мегрельского княжества не вступил в российское подданство. Князь Григол Дадиани, подписывая договор об объединении с Россией от имени Мегрелии, называл себя «законным Господом Одиши, Лечхуми, Сванети, Абхазии, и всех земли, принадлежавшим древним предкам».

Этимология названия Одиши не ясна. Однако есть объяснение этого имени на лазском языке. Оди-ши (Одиши) на языке лазов означали «От Оди». Грузинский учёный начала XVIII века царевич Вахушти, который включил подробные данные региона в своё описание Грузинского царства, предложил народную этимологию Одиши, что означает «когда-то эта земля была нашей». Современная гипотеза связывает Одиши с языческим божеством из мегрельского фольклора, которого звали Оди. В настоящий момент название Одиши носят плато в западной Грузии, село в Сухумском районе и телерадиокомпания, базирующуюся в Зугдиди.

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История Грузии
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Lock in a great price for Jewel Paradise Cove Adult Beach Resort & Spa - rated 8.7 by recent guests.
Very good service, happy people, beautifully kept grounds, differing food options so you don't get bored eating the same things, not too crowded.
Hotel room inside Second hotel room, hAd to change in a different block, there was constant loud music, Several request per email to get a quiet room before arrival were ignored, upon arrival we were told "no quiet room left"
Staff was really friendly. Special thanks to PT Oran and Mequale at smoothie bar .
The property was beautiful. Lots of nice areas to sit and relax. The room was great and the bed extremely comfortable. Loved Jade Samurai restaurant & the Sunset Bar. Friendly staff...I'll mention Nastassia who treated us very well on our first night while at the beach buffet party 24.12.18.
The yoga retreat was awesome! Resort is small yet spacious, not overcrowded, many places to be quiet and meditate, yet lots of places to have fun and go on adventure.
With a private strip of beach on the beautiful Caribbean Sea, Jewel Paradise Cove Beach Resort & Spa Runaway Bay Curio Collection by Hilton offers all-inclusive packages with a health and fitness theme.
Guests at this adult-only property enjoy round-trip airport transfers from Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport, 3 swimming pools and unlimited access to 7 restaurants.
The modern rooms here are air-conditioned and feature a flat-screen cable TV, WiFi access, a mini-fridge and a coffee maker. Some boast views of the sea, while guests in the superior rooms enjoy a special butler service. Guests can help themselves to the property's 7 restaurants, which serve local and international cuisine.
The resort also offers free green fees and round-trip transfers to the 18-hole championship Runway Bay Golf Club. The property has a cross-fit court, tennis facilities and a swim-up bar and pool-side concierge services.
The hotel can arrange PADI-certified diving excursions, sunset cruises, water skiing and other activities. Trips to Dunn's Rivers Falls and shopping outings are also possible.
This property is also rated for the best value in Runaway Bay! Guests are getting more for their money when compared to other properties in this city.
Jewel Paradise Cove Adult Beach Resort & Spa has been welcoming Booking.com guests since 30 Jan 2014.
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This air-conditioned room features a flat-screen TV, a safety-deposit box and a private bathroom with a shower and toilet. There is also a fridge and a coffee maker.
Overlooking the swimming pool, this air-conditioned room features a flat-screen TV, a safety-deposit box and a private bathroom with a shower and toilet. There is also a fridge and a coffee maker.
Overlooking the Caribbean Sea, this air-conditioned room features a flat-screen TV, a safety-deposit box and a private bathroom with a shower and toilet. There is also a fridge and a coffee maker.
Overlooking the Caribbean Sea, this air-conditioned junior suite features plush bedding and classic tropical textiles. It has an elegant tiled shower and a tub with multiple massaging jets.
This junior suite includes room service and a butler that can arrange in-suite check-in, unpacking and pressing, turndown service and spa treatments.
Overlooking the Caribbean Sea, this air-conditioned junior suite features a seating area with a flat-screen TV. There is also a fridge, a minibar and a safety-deposit box, while the private bathroom includes free toiletries.
This air-conditioned junior suite features plush bedding and classic tropical textiles. It has an elegant tiled shower and a tub with multiple massaging jets.
Discover paradise at Jewel Resorts! We offer three of the most beautiful resorts in Jamaica surrounded by a lush landscape, the crystal-clear Caribbean Sea and sun-kissed beaches, these Jamaican resorts offer a perfect getaway for unforgettable all-inclusive vacations!
House rules Jewel Paradise Cove Adult Beach Resort & Spa takes special requests - add in the next step!
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Jewel Paradise Cove Adult Beach Resort & Spa accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that on-site activities are based on availability and scheduling may vary.
Please note that this resort will no longer part of the Curio Collection by Hilton effective March 5, 2019 and will remain as our Jewel brand.
Lack entertainment, DND would be the on door and multiple times for the day they still try and come inside the room, if not for the bolts then they would, buffet lacked variety and flavour some days,they serve drinks that are made ice without paper straws,food portions are very small for the amount of money you pay to stay and cold most times when served.
I loved atmosphere, the location was pretty and our bed in the room was comfy, I like that the butlers check up on you ever so often and help to get things done like planning and so on, they restock the fridge daily and clean the room, so it's always a wow moment whenever you re enter the room. I liked the water activities as well. And I loved the eco friendly 1 hour thing they had that was great .
Housekeeping was a little erratic. They came to the room at all times of the day and never did I get the right amount of towels and always had to ask for stuff from them. Sometimes they would be knocking at the door at eight or 9 o'clock at night when I was ready to go to bed and they wanted to clean the room. Wasn't too happy about that.
The food was delicious and a big selection. Love the facility and all the pools. And all the people were fabulous.
Check in was long, took us a long time to get our room. Administration needs some working on.
The housekeeping was done later and later in the day as the trip continued. I had to leave a note to get them to refill our shampoo and shower gel. The floors weren't cleaned at all on the last day which was nasty because a bunch of dust balls had blown out from under the bed onto the rugs and such. Other than these issues, the rooms were actually very clean. Pretty sure the captain on our "booze cruise" was completely drunk before we even boarded the boat. Our group doesn't actually drink alcohol (which we mentioned beforehand) but they're clearly used to partyers and it ended up feeling quite awkward the entire "cruise" out on the boat.
There could have been a wider variety of food, especially for breakfast. The Wi-Fi in the room was weak and even though I was given a modem for the room, it didn't help.
The staff is polite and friendly and the facilities are clean and attractive.
I thought the food would have been for 24hrs.


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Q: How to print all file names in a folder with awk or bash? I would like to print all file names in a folder.How can I do this with awk or bash?

A: ls -l /usr/bin | awk '{ print $NF }'

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A: find . -type f -maxdepth 1

exclude the -maxdepth part if you want to also do it recursively for subdirectories

A: Following is a pure-AWK option:
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A: This command will print all the file names:
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A: /bin/ls does this job for you and you may call it from bash.
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Comic Dom Joly working on new reality show with ex-Big Brother producer
Posted March 17, 2011 16:06 by Josh Darvill
Comedian Dom Joly has revealed he has teamed up former Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity producer Daniel Nettleton to work on a new reality television format. Speaking to DigitalSpy, Dom said he wanted something more than current reality shows that just "chuck a load of people together".
"I want something that will f**k with your head a little bit more," the Trigger Happy TV comic told the website. "I think I'm supposed to hate reality TV, but I'm obsessed by it. Not all of them, but well-made reality TV is a real skill I think."
Dom revealed he would be working with Daniel Nettleton on a new format after meeting the producer on last year's I'm A Celebrity series. Nettleton has previously worked on the Big Brother reality series, voicing both Big Brother himself and the notorious Tree of Temptation which featured in the final series of the programme.
Joly explained: "When I was in the jungle I recognised the traits of the guy who did the Tree of Temptation on Big Brother, because he was the producer on this year's I'm A Celeb and he did the spy challenge and things like that.
"We got on after the show and we're coming up with a reality show that I'm quite excited about."
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Q: NullPointerException in javax.crypto.Cipher on Android I use AES encryption in the mobile app, but on rare occasions I get these errors in the Application onCreate class. Method "aesEncrypt" is often called elsewhere in the program, but does not cause an error. It seems that in some cases the internal variables don't have time to initialize, which causes the error to occur.
According to Crashlytics reports, the problem occurs on Android 10, 11 and 12.
Are there anyone who has encountered this problem and what can be done?
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean java.lang.String.equals(java.lang.Object)' on a null object reference
       at java.security.Provider$Service.supportsKeyFormat(Provider.java:1850)
       at java.security.Provider$Service.supportsParameter(Provider.java:1779)
       at javax.crypto.Cipher.tryCombinations(Cipher.java:2889)
       at javax.crypto.Cipher$SpiAndProviderUpdater.updateAndGetSpiAndProvider(Cipher.java:2796)
       at javax.crypto.Cipher.chooseProvider(Cipher.java:773)
       at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Cipher.java:1288)
       at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Cipher.java:1223)
       at my.app.name.EncKt.aesEncrypt(EncKt.java:123)
       my.app.name.App.onCreate (App.java:115)

Code:
fun aesEncrypt(cipher: String): String {
    try {
        val secretKeySpec = SecretKeySpec("abcdef1234567890".toByteArray(), "AES")
        val instance = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding")
        instance.init(1, secretKeySpec, IvParameterSpec("0987654321fedcba".toByteArray()))
        return Base64.encodeToString(instance.doFinal(cipher.toByteArray()), Base64.NO_WRAP)
    } catch (e: Exception) {
        FirebaseCrashlytics.getInstance().recordException(e)
        return ""
    }
}

UPD: My question was closed and related to the general question about NullPointerException. That's just great, thanks, I know what NPE is!
Dear moderators, before you close the question next time, pay attention to where the error occurred. These are internal components of the operating system. This is a specific question about a specific component and a possible error in the OS during application initialization.


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Woman sold as sex slave on Tampa streets at age 10 helps others survive
by: Jennifer Leigh
Posted: Feb 1, 2018 / 10:20 AM EST
Updated: Feb 1, 2018 / 10:20 AM EST
TAMPA (WFLA) – Human trafficking is not an easy thing to describe. People often think of the sex trade — massage parlors, strip clubs, prostitution — all very grown-up activities with seemingly faceless, nameless victims. Many people picture women forced into a life of sex in some faraway place.
The reality is something very different. Just ask human trafficking survivor Edie Rhea.
"It's not overseas. It's here in the United States, in Florida, in Tampa," Rhea said.
Edie Rhea says she was victimized by her mother's boyfriend beginning when she was just 8 years old. "At 8, he started sexually abusing me, and then by 10 he started selling me," she said.
On a recent morning she re-visited Tampa's Rowlett Park where she says she was first sold into a life of sex.
"I would go to school, come home, throw my books down and then… cars would pull up, trucks, vans, and they would park," she explained. "I would meet, you know, the men and work."
That terrifying existence went on from the time she was 10 until she was 17 years old.
Sometimes adults would take her to a nearby motel that's still on Nebraska Avenue, and every time, she fearfully did what her mother's boyfriend told her she had to do.
"He would threaten me, threaten to kill me, threaten to kill my mom," she said.
Special Agent James Spero is in charge of the Department of Homeland Security Investigations Tampa office. He says a common misconception is that human trafficking happens somewhere else.
"It could be going on right in your neighborhood or right down the road from where you work," Spero said.
It's so widespread in fact, it's estimated there are 25 million human trafficking victims worldwide, and Florida has the third highest number of reported cases in the country.
Capt. Andy Miller is in charge of the Salvation Army's Tampa Command. Late last year, he launched the first-ever Bay Area emergency shelter for victims of human trafficking. He says the need was so great the agency created a kind of triage center to get victims to immediate safety.
"We want to be a place where when there's a need we can pull them in, give them a safe place, give them food, give them the initial counseling they need. Then we can get them to long-term places," Miller said.
Edie Rhea never had that lifeline. She broke the cycle on her own. Now she hopes to be that lifeline to others.
"We have to stop this epidemic right now," she said.
According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, 2017 saw 878 calls regarding human trafficking in Florida.
According to the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, here are common indicators to help recognize human trafficking:
Does the person appear disconnected from family, friends, community organizations, or houses of worship?
Has a child stopped attending school?
Has the person had a sudden or dramatic change in behavior?
Is a juvenile engaged in commercial sex acts?
Is the person disoriented or confused, or showing signs of mental or physical abuse?
Does the person have bruises in various stages of healing?
Is the person fearful, timid, or submissive?
Does the person show signs of having been denied food, water, sleep, or medical care?
Is the person often in the company of someone to whom he or she defers? Or someone who seems to be in control of the situation, e.g., where they go or who they talk to?
Does the person appear to be coached on what to say?
Is the person living in unsuitable conditions?
Does the person lack personal possessions and appear not to have a stable living situation?
Does the person have freedom of movement? Can the person freely leave where they live? Are there unreasonable security measures?
If you or someone you know needs help:
National Human Trafficking Resource Center
SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")
Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
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HomeSportLas Vegas Raiders Franchise Riddled With Dysfunction and Executive Departures
Las Vegas Raiders Franchise Riddled With Dysfunction and Executive Departures
The Las Vegas Raiders have been rocked by a mass exodus of entrance workplace leaders amid dire administration blunders like overpaying taxes and underpaying sure staff for years.
The newest upheaval got here final week with the ouster of the crew's interim crew president. That government, Dan Ventrelle, responded by accusing the proprietor, Mark Davis, whose household has run the crew for greater than 50 years, of making a hostile work atmosphere, with out giving specifics.
It was considered one of many examples of a office racked by years of dysfunction, and the newest signal of an N.F.L. franchise with troubled inside workings. Since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas from Oakland, Calif., in 2020, with excessive hopes in a rising market, six of the crew's eight high executives have give up or been fired with little rationalization, both publicly or internally.
In interviews with The New York Times, greater than a dozen former staff, a few of whom spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they signed agreements with the crew prohibiting them from discussing their employment publicly, described quite a few issues massive and small. There had been, they mentioned, lax controls over how cash was spent and how individuals had been paid and even the bungling of the cost of its taxes over a number of years. Not lengthy after its transfer, the crew missed a cost for the electrical invoice in its non permanent workplace, forcing the lights to be shut off.
Nobody has asserted the monetary dysfunction quantities to any crimes, however inaccurate data on firm ledgers can typically result in issues with collectors, regulators, the league and others.
Employees who raised considerations over the crew's operations had been usually ignored or pushed out and given settlements and nondisclosure agreements to maintain them quiet.
"If anyone complained, they were let go," mentioned Nicole Adams, who labored within the human assets division for nearly 5 years. She was pushed out in late 2020 and declined to signal a severance settlement that she mentioned would have prevented her from talking about her tenure on the crew. She mentioned that Ventrelle, then the crew's normal counsel, "joked he would be ready to settle if anyone came forward with a charge."
Ventrelle didn't reply requests for remark, however he told The Las Vegas Review-Journal shortly after he left that he had been making an effort to wash issues up and had knowledgeable league officers of written complaints from staff of alleged misconduct.
The Raiders didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.
The N.F.L. declined to touch upon Friday. After Ventrelle's claims final week a few hostile work atmosphere on the crew, an N.F.L. spokesman, Brian McCarthy, mentioned the league would look into the matter.
"We recently became aware of these allegations and take them very seriously," McCarthy mentioned.
The decimation of the entrance workplace employees is the newest in a sequence of setbacks for the Raiders. In October, Coach Jon Gruden resigned after The Times detailed emails by which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks earlier than he was in his second stint with the crew. Two gamers from his tenure have been accused of felony crimes.
The crew's troubles come at a time when the N.F.L., extra well-liked than ever with followers, grapples with critical questions round the way in which the league and some groups are run. The league has been stung by a scandal on the Washington Commanders, the place dozens of feminine staff accused crew proprietor Daniel Snyder and high executives of harassment. The crew final yr was fined $10 million and has changed many executives and rebranded itself. A congressional committee and attorneys normal in Virginia and the District of Columbia are investigating a few of the accusations, together with mismanagement of the crew's funds.
Women who labored at N.F.L. headquarters have additionally complained about an workplace tradition that marginalized them, allegations that prompted attorneys normal from New York and 5 different states to threaten to research the N.F.L. if situations didn't enhance.
A Lucrative Move
After years languishing in a crumbling stadium in Oakland, the Raiders sought to reinvent themselves in Las Vegas, the place they play in a brand new, closely sponsored $2 billion stadium that can host the 2024 Super Bowl, the league's premier occasion. In 2021, the Raiders' second season at Allegiant Stadium, the crew completed 10-7 and misplaced within the first spherical of the N.F.L. playoffs. The worth of the crew has swelled to greater than $3 billion helped by the prospect of including extra followers within the fast-growing Las Vegas space.
While many different N.F.L. groups are owned by billionaires who amassed their wealth in different industries, the Raiders are a household enterprise. The franchise is basically the creation of Al Davis, who was the crew's coach and normal supervisor earlier than seizing possession management in 1972. The crew was Davis's principal enterprise till he died in 2011.
Mark Davis, the son of Al Davis, is now the crew's principal proprietor. In the years earlier than he took the daring step of transferring the crew to Las Vegas, he was principally hands-off and left the day-to-day operating of the membership to trusted lieutenants. They included Marc Badain, the longtime president who had been near the Davis household for many years.
Several former staff who spoke to The Times mentioned that Davis was not often seen across the workplace. There was little oversight of bills, staff mentioned, and cash was usually disbursed with out a clear accounting of the place it was going.
By some accounts, Davis started to take a more in-depth have a look at the inside workings of his crew final yr. Two former staff mentioned a administration consulting agency was introduced in to evaluate the organizational construction. And whereas it isn't identified exactly what Davis discovered, a number of high executives — Badain; Ed Villanueva, the chief monetary officer; and Araxie Grant, the crew's controller — had been quickly gone.
Three months later, Davis gave an evidence.
"I think it's pretty much clear now, or I don't know if it is clear now, but it was pretty much accounting irregularities," together with the overpayment of taxes, Davis told reporters at a league meeting in New York. "That's why the C.F.O. left, the controller left and the president left, that's what it was."
Badain and Villanueva haven't spoken publicly, and didn't reply to requests for remark for this story. But Grant denied Davis's claims, releasing a statement that mentioned, partly, "I can say that I have never been involved in any financial impropriety or wrongdoing before or during my 20-month tenure with the Raiders."
That irregularities may happen didn't shock veteran staff, who mentioned the crew, with roots going again to 1960, had but to modernize a lot of its operations.
"The Raiders kind of operate back in the Stone Age," Adams mentioned. Another former worker, who spoke on situation of anonymity for worry of profession repercussions, mentioned "everything was still very much paper, files, boxes, warehouses."
Employee Uprisings
What occurred within the high workplaces inevitably affected the workers under. Workers had been systematically underpaid, prompting lawsuits which have resulted within the Raiders paying greater than $1 million in settlements. In 2017, the Raiders settled a lawsuit with dozens of former cheerleaders who accused the crew of paying them lower than the minimal wage throughout the 2010 to 2013 seasons. The crew paid $1.25 million to the ladies to pay them the equal of minimal wage, and to cowl their out-of-pocket bills.
Cheerleaders weren't the one staff handled poorly. Adams, who began within the human assets division in 2016, mentioned she was informed to create job descriptions that may make it inconceivable for workers to file for additional time despite the fact that staff may log 12 or extra hours throughout recreation days, coaching camp and different busy durations.
Adams mentioned that she informed her boss that skirting additional time was unlawful. Her boss agreed, however mentioned that Ventrelle needed it executed.
Adams, who's Black, filed a criticism towards the Raiders with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission. In the criticism, which was reviewed by The Times, she accused the crew of discriminating towards her due to her race and retaliating towards her after she raised considerations about pay disparities and unequal remedy.
Separately, in 2020, Nicolle Reeder, a former Raiders worker, sued the crew on behalf of herself and different game-day staff, accusing the crew of violating labor legal guidelines by denying them required relaxation and meal breaks and not paying wages on time. The go well with was settled final yr for $325,000, a fraction of which was distributed amongst greater than 400 affected staff.
Bradley Kaplan, who labored as a scout for 12 years, sued the Raiders in 2019 as a result of, he mentioned in a lawsuit, he was demoted after telling the crew he and his spouse had been anticipating a baby throughout the soccer season. He mentioned that after he expressed considerations about balancing his soccer and household tasks, and after he requested household depart, he was fired. The crew efficiently moved these claims to arbitration, the place they had been resolved behind closed doorways.
Kaplan additionally claimed in his lawsuit that the Raiders required some soccer operations personnel to signal illegal confidentiality and non-disparagement agreements, which he mentioned prevented staff from discussing issues associated to their employment or elevating considerations about working situations. The Raiders denied these claims, however agreed to a $25,000 settlement in 2021 overlaying the 65 previous or current staff who signed contracts with such confidentiality provisions between July 2018 and September 2021.
Lawsuits towards the crew alleging poor working situations proceed to be filed. Matthew Proscia, who labored for The Raider Image, the crew's attire shops, filed a class-action lawsuit final month accusing the crew of additional time pay violations and a "company-wide policy and practice of refusing to pay full daily overtime wages to Nevada employees who worked over eight hours in a workday."
The Raiders have but to reply to Proscia's criticism.
An Attempt to Rally
Ventrelle, who had been the crew's normal counsel, was named interim president after Badain all of a sudden left in July. A wave of high-level worker departures adopted. Tom Blanda, who was in control of constructing the stadium; Mark Shearer, the chief income officer; and Brandon Doll, the vp in control of enterprise technique, all left the crew.
Marc Badain, the Raiders' president, left the crew all of a sudden in July.Credit…Ethan Miller/Getty Images
The departed executives collectively had put in additional than 100 years of labor for the Raiders, with most of their tenures stretching again to when Al Davis was nonetheless alive.
"Current people tell me the culture is worse than they've seen it," Adams mentioned.
Days after Badain's departure, business-side staff had been gathered right into a crew assembly room. For the subsequent hour or so, Gruden, nonetheless the coach on the time, gave what was supposed to be a rousing speech about teamwork, peppering his message with soccer metaphors as he paced across the room and requested the workers to get behind their new boss, Ventrelle, in keeping with two former staff who had been current.
But over the subsequent yr, that "team" would proceed to unravel. Gruden was gone simply three months after his speech, and within the rapid aftermath, staff got spontaneous bonuses, both $5,000 or a proportion of their wage, relying on their rank with the crew. One former worker who obtained this bonus felt it was an effort by Davis to spice up morale — however there was extra upheaval to come back.
Jaime Stratton, who ran human assets for 2 years, left in April. Employees had been knowledgeable of her departure in an e-mail that mentioned solely that she was "no longer" with the crew. Jeremy Aguero, the crew's chief operations and analytics officer, resigned in May after simply seven months.
Days later, it was Ventrelle's flip to go. Davis's public assertion gave no cause for his firing. Ventrelle insisted to The Review-Journal that he had tried to handle the crew's issues with Davis, to no avail.
"When Mark was confronted about these issues he was dismissive and did not demonstrate the warranted level of concern," Ventrelle mentioned.
Amid the turmoil, a few of the crew's high management roles have remained vacant.
At least one high government has Davis's ear, in keeping with former colleagues. Marcel Reece, who was a running back with the Raiders for seven seasons, was employed by the Raiders in late 2020 after retiring from taking part in in 2017 and spending time with the NFL Network as a soccer analyst.
Now, after lower than two years within the Raiders' entrance workplace, he's listed second on the membership's organizational chart — proper below Davis — following a latest promotion from senior adviser to chief individuals officer.
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KARACHI: The two arch-rival teams, Pakistan and India, will face-off against each other in the Blind Cricket World Cup on Friday (today) at Ajman cricket ground in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The world cup is being played in Pakistan and India but the match between two arch-rival teams moved to a neutral location after Indian government refused to send its team to Pakistan.
Pakistani blind cricket team are leading the points table after registering back-to-back victories against Bangladesh and Nepal. They are followed by India and Sri Lanka.
Earlier this week, team manager Zeeshan Abbasi said that they are ready to face India. "We are fully prepared to face India in a decent way, no matter we will be playing India in UAE there will be no added pressure on us," he said.
"It is going to be a very important of the event for us and I have urged the players to demonstrate higher level of cricket keeping in view the strength of our opponents. It will be a tough match, rather the most toughest of the event and collective efforts and hard work will be the key to success," he added.
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First Comes Marriage
My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
Huda Al-Marashi
A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it means to be American, liberated, and in loveWhen Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, she is six years old. Both are the American-born children of Iraqi immigrants, who grew up on opposite ends of California. Hadi considers Huda his childhood sweetheart, the first and only girl he's ever loved, but Huda needs proof that she is more than just the girl Hadi's mother has chosen for her son. She wants what many other American girls have--the entertainment culture's almost singular tale of chance meetings, defying the odds, and falling in love. She wants stolen kisses, romantic dates, and a surprise proposal. As long as she has a grand love story, Huda believes no one will question if her marriage has been arranged. But when Huda and Hadi's conservative Muslim families forbid them to go out alone before their wedding, Huda must navigate her way through the despair of unmet expectations and dashed happily-ever-after ideals. Eventually she comes to understand the toll of straddling two cultures in a marriage and the importance of reconciling what you dreamed of with the life you eventually live. Tender, honest and irresistibly compelling, First Comes Marriage is the first Muslim-American memoir dedicated to the themes of love and sexuality. Huda and Hadi's story brilliantly circles around a series of firsts, chronicling two virgins moving through their first everything: first hand holding, first kiss, and first sexual encounter. First Comes Marriage is an almost unbearably humanizing tale that tucks into our hearts and lingers in our imagination, while also challenging long-standing taboos within the Muslim community and the romantic stereotypes we unknowingly carry within us that sabotage some of our best chances for finding true love.
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Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography / Religious, Biography & Autobiography / Women
"Charming, funny, heartbreaking memoir of faith, family and the journey to love. If Jane Austen had grown up as a first-gen daughter of Iraqi parents in the 1990s, she might have written this. Keenly observed, with indelible characters, Al-Marashi portrays the complex mores and manners that govern life and love in the immigrant community of her youth." —Washington Post
"Honest and compelling, this memoir deconstructs the American pop culture idea of love and challenges the taboo within the Muslim community. And despite the rough path, her love for Hadi reconciles and grows to be more than your typical fairy tale." — Hippocampus Magazine
"Sweet, candid and poignant First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story is part biography, part love story, part cultural narrative and altogether delightful. This charming tale of love not-so-American style does a fabulous job of introducing readers to the idea that not all romances must follow the path pushed upon us by Hollywood."— All About Romance
"Al-Marashi's story reminds us that there are so many ways to be a girlfriend, a fiancée, a mother, a sister, a wife, and a bride. Her book artfully upturns the colonial assumptions that so often govern stories about love and marriage, while also exposing the tensions inherent in building a life and a family while balancing conflicting cultural expectations derived from not one, but two well-loved homelands." —Vida Review
"Told with exuberance and honesty, First Comes Marriage is a charming, delightful memoir of love and self-discovery. Huda Al-Marashi has written a smart, down-to-earth, and unforgettable modern-day love story that celebrates the enduring bonds of culture, faith, and family. A wonderful book." —Jasmin Darznik, New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Daughter and Song of a Captive Bird
"This sweet, sharply insightful memoir of an Iraqi American marriage skewers stereotypes as it leaves you cheering for these newlyweds." —Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of A Curious Land
"Determined to weave her own love story from the threads of the two seemingly opposing cultures she grew up in, Al-Marashi fearlessly takes us on a journey into the darkest corners of her young marriage, as well as herself." —Jen Waite, internationally bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
"An honest, often amusing, account of one young woman's quest to balance the traditional Muslim values she acquired from her Iraqi immigrant parents with the romantic fantasies she acquired from American media. Her story is both unique in that the devout, overachieving narrator is not the rebellious first-generation daughter we've come to expect from immigrant narratives, and universal in its instructive journey from youthful hubris and naïveté to learning how to make a marriage work." —Faith Adiele, author of The Nigerian Nordic Girl's Guide to Lady Problems, and founder of VONA Travel Workshop for Writers of Color
"There comes a time in every relationship (romantic or platonic) when one must decide to leave or stay. With courage, humor, and vulnerability, skilled memoirist Huda Al-Marashi excavates the contours of her marriage, intimately sharing with the reader the journey to her moment of choice." —Ayesha Mattu, coeditor of Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women and Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy


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Classes take place on Sundays, as well as throughout the week during the day and in the evenings. If you would like a current listing of all adult classes, please take a look at the calendar on the website or contact the church office by email or telephone. Hope to see you there!
Our children are our future. We owe it to them to provide a safe, loving environment in which to grow and learn. Besides your own home, what better place is there to do this than the church? Utica United Methodist Church has many different ministries where your children can play, make friends, and most importantly, learn about the wonderful world of our Lord.
From the age of three until the time they finish 5th grade, your children can participate in many fun-filled activities that will encourage, teach and inspire them. We also have a wonderful children's media center where they can borrow books and many other items to reinforce their Christian growth.
Children really are our future -as a society and as a congregation. A good, Christ-centered program of activities like the one we have set up here will ensure that the future will be a very exciting time for all of God's children.
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Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf Browne, Baron de Camus und Mountany (* 23. Oktober 1705 in Basel; † 26. Juni 1757 in Prag) war ein österreichischer Feldmarschall irischer Abstammung.

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Herkunft und frühe Karriere
Seine Eltern waren Ulysses (von) Browne (* 24. August 1659; † September 1731) und Annabella Fitzgerald, sein Onkel war der russische Feldmarschall Georg Browne.
Er trat sehr jung in die österreichischen Dienste ein und zeichnete sich im polnischen Erbfolgekrieg, 1734 in Italien, 1735 in Tirol und im Türkenkrieg 1737–1739 aus. Maximilian Ulysses Browne wurde 1739 in den Hofkriegsrat berufen, zum Feldmarschallleutnant ernannt und erhielt den Oberbefehl in Schlesien.

Im Erbfolgekrieg
Als 1740 Friedrich II. in dieses Land einbrach, musste sich Browne nach Mähren zurückziehen und drang dann von hier aus mit dem Feldmarschall Graf Neipperg Ende März wieder in Schlesien ein. Hier führte er in der Schlacht bei Mollwitz den rechten Flügel und wurde dabei verwundet, bei der Schlacht bei Chotusitz in Böhmen unter Karl Alexander von Lothringen das Oberkommando.

Nach dem Breslauer Frieden stand er unter Khevenhüller den Franzosen in Böhmen gegenüber und dann in Italien unter dem Fürsten Lobkowitz den Spaniern. Hier führte er am 11. August 1744 den Überfall auf Velletti aus. 1745 kommandierte er wieder in Bayern, dann, zum Feldzeugmeister befördert, am Rhein und 1746 bis 1748 mit einem Heer von 30.000 Mann wieder in Italien. Dort eroberte er Guastalla und Parma, besetzte Genua, entschied den Sieg bei Piacenza und drang auf dem erfolglosen Zuge gegen Toulon in die Provence ein.
1749 zum Militärgouverneur von Siebenbürgen ernannt und mit dem Generalkommando in Böhmen betraut, erhielt er 1754 die Würde eines kaiserlichen Feldmarschalls.

Im Siebenjährigen Krieg
Nach dem Ausbruch des Siebenjährigen Kriegs an die Spitze des bei der Schlacht bei Kolin zusammengezogenen Heers gestellt, wurde er am 1. Oktober 1756 von Friedrich II. in der Schlacht bei Lobositz nach langem Ringen und beiderseitigen starken Verlusten geschlagen.

Er versuchte dann, am rechten Ufer der Elbe nach Sachsen vorzudringen und die bei Pirna eingeschlossene sächsische Armee zu entsetzen, was aber misslang. Nachdem Friedrich II. Böhmen geräumt hatte, nahm Browne sein Winterquartier in Prag. Als er Anfang Februar 1757 nach Wien kam, um an den Beratungen des Hofkriegsrats über den Plan des nächsten Feldzugs teilzunehmen, fand er bei Hof zwar den ehrenvollsten Empfang, aber im Rat kein Gehör für seinen Vorschlag, die Offensive zu ergreifen und mit der Hauptmacht den König in Sachsen anzugreifen.

Am 6. Mai 1757 in der Schlacht bei Prag, in der Browne unter dem Oberbefehl des Prinzen Karl von Lothringen durch rasch getroffene Maßregeln die von den Preußen versuchte Überflügelung abwehrte und den ersten Angriff von Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin mit großer Tapferkeit zurückschlug, wurde er durch eine Geschützkugel am Schenkel schwer verwundet. Browne wurde mit dem österreichischen Heer in Prag eingeschlossen, blieb aber guten Mutes und wies die Forderung nach Übergabe der Stadt zurück.
Er starb am 26. Juni 1757 in Prag an den Folgen der erlittenen Verletzungen.

Familie
Die Vorfahren von Maximilian Browne waren nach dem Aufstand der Jakobiten (1689–1691) aus Irland geflüchtet. Viele Iren gingen in den Militärdienst auf dem Kontinent (z. B. Peter von Lacy). So auch Maximilians Vater Ulysses (* 24. August 1659; † September 1731) und sein Onkel Georg (1657; † 11. Oktober 1729 in Pavia). Sie wurden 1716 von Karl VI. zu Reichsgrafen des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation ernannt (Freiherr von Browne).

Die Brüder waren gute Freunde von John Churchill, 1. Duke of Marlborough, der sich schon auf dem Schlachtfeld in Deutschland einen Namen gemacht hatte. Maximilians Schwester Barbara (* 1700 in Limerick; † 16. September 1751 in Mantua) war mit Generalfeldwachtmeister Francis Patrick Freiherr von O'Neillan (* 4. Oktober 1671 in Dysert; † 3. Oktober 1734 in Mantua) verheiratet, der ebenfalls in der Kaiserlichen Armee diente. Er selbst war seit 1726 mit Marie Philippine Bořita von Martinitz (1705–1785) verehelicht. Ihr Vater war Georg Adam von Martinitz (Jiří Adam Ignác Bořita z Martinic), Vizekönig von Neapel: Zu ihren Söhnen zählen die Generale Philipp (* 2. Juni 1727; † 19. Dezember 1803), der 1777 die Gräfin Anna Maria von Sztaray heiratete, und Josef Ulysses (1728; † 13. Oktober 1758). Josef starb in der Schlacht bei Hochkirch.

Rezeption

Durch die kaiserliche Entschließung von Franz Joseph I. vom 28. Februar 1863 wurde Maximilian Ulysses Browne in die Liste der "berühmtesten, zur immerwährenden Nacheiferung würdiger Kriegsfürsten und Feldherren Österreichs" aufgenommen, zu deren Ehren und Andenken auch eine lebensgroße Statue in der Feldherrenhalle des damals neu errichteten k.k. Hofwaffenmuseums (heute: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien) errichtet wurde. Die Statue wurde 1867 vom Bildhauer Matthias Purkhartshofer (1827–1893) aus Carrara-Marmor geschaffen, gewidmet wurde sie von Kaiser Franz Joseph selbst.

Literatur
 Zuverläßige Lebens-Beschreibung des verstorbenen kaiserl. königl. General-Feldmarschals, Ulyßes Maximilian, des heil. röm. Reichs Grafen von Browne, Frankfurt und Leipzig 1757, Digitalisat
 Joannes Limpacher, Beich-Rede über den Todtes-Fall Ihro Hoch-Reichs-Gräflichen Excellenz Maximiliani Ulyssis, 1757, Digitalisat
 Baron O'Cahill, 'Militairische Geschichte des K. K. General-Feldmarschalls Grafen von Browne', Geschichte der Grösten Heerführer neuerer Zeiten gesammelt und mit taktisch-geographischen Noten begleitet. Zweyter Theil, Rastadt 1785, S. 264–317 Digitalisat

 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 Browne, Maximilian Ulysses

 Stefan Michael Newerkla, "Die irischen Reichsgrafen von Browne-Camus in russischen und österreichischen Diensten. Vom Vertrag von Limerick (1691) bis zum Tod ihres Hausfreunds Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)". In: Lazar Fleishman – Stefan Michael Newerkla – Michael Wachtel (eds.): Скрещения судеб. Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen. A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov (= Stanford Slavic Studies, Volume 49). Peter Lang, Berlin et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-78385-6, S. 43–68, hier S. 47–50.

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Kaiserlicher General (HRR)
Militärperson (österreichische Habsburger)
Person im Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieg (Österreich)
Person in den Schlesischen Kriegen (Österreich)
Person im Siebenjährigen Krieg (Österreich)
Träger des Weißen Adlerordens
Ritter des Ordens vom Goldenen Vlies (Österreich, 18. Jahrhundert)
Person (Siebenbürgen)
Geboren 1705
Gestorben 1757
Mann