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Opinion, Vernuccio's View
Vernuccio's View: US, German Relations Reach Low Point
September 29, 2019 11:10 AM·
German-U.S. relations have reached their lowest point since East and West Germany were united. Issues including Berlin's inadequate contribution to NATO, its Middle Eastern policies, and its growing energy dependence on Russia are the key concerns.
President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Friday, March 17, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
American Military News recently reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reneged on Berlin's promise to live up to its NATO obligation to commit 2% of its GDP on defense. U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell tweeted that "It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers will continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans [U.S. troops] in #Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on #domestic programs."
DW, a German news source, reports that "US defense expenditure represents 72 percent of defense spending across the trans-Atlantic alliance."
Merkel's course reversal resulted in significant controversy. Christian Whiton, a former State Department senior advisor, told The Jerusalem Post that "Merkel's posture is a joke and shows that the German government has no intention of doing its fair share for common defense. We ought to move our forces out of Germany and focus on collaboration with Poland the Baltics." He added, "Even if Germany were to spend the minimum 2 percent of GDP it promised on defense, which seems unlikely, there's the question of what they would do with it. After all, they have opposed the US on Iran nuclear sanctions, and seem totally unwilling to help protect shipping in the Persian Gulf."
Dietmar Bartsch, the chairman of the Left Party faction in the German Bundestag, has suggested that if the U.S. does transfer troops to Eastern Europe, it should also remove its nuclear weapons from German soil.
The Financial Times explains that "Germany's low defence spending weakens NATO party politics and a pacifist culture make it hard to raise expenditure… Even if German defence spending is a bit higher than planned, it will remain the weakest military power among Europe's largest countries despite having the strongest economy." The strength of Germany's economy, the fourth largest in the world, makes its subpar defense spending more inflammatory.
The Gatestone Institute has thoroughly reviewed Berlin's anti-Israel, pro-Iran tilt. Its' examination indicates that "Germany continues to provide millions of euros annually to organizations that promote anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and "lawfare" campaigns, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and violence… In May 2016, Germany approved an especially disgraceful UN resolution that singled out Israel at the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the world's only violator of "mental, physical and environmental health… German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cozied up to the Iranian regime and other enemies of Israel. Germany consistently appears to prioritize its relations with Israel's enemies… Instex, an initiative of German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, would enable European trade with Iran despite U.S. sanctions… A senior German diplomat appointed to head an EU barter system that would enable European companies to sidestep U.S. sanctions on Iran stepped down after giving an interview in which he criticized the existence of Israel and praised Tehran's ballistic missile program… much of Germany's political establishment appears to be fundamentally anti-Israel. In March 2019, for instance, Germany's Bundestag overwhelmingly rejected a resolution by the Free Democratic Party (FDP) to urge Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to reverse its anti-Israel voting record at the United Nations… In February 2019, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier congratulated, "also in the name of my compatriots," the Iranian regime on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that seeks Israel's destruction."
The Clean Energy Wire reports that "Germany is the biggest buyer of Russian gas." A Forbes study noted that Russia's natural gas exports to Germany increased significantly in 2018, and that dependence is expected to continue to rise. Angela Merkel has vowed to phase out both coal and nuclear power, which will render her nation increasingly reliant on Russian energy. Forbes believes that "Germany may not be 'controlled' by a dependency on Russian gas at the moment, but if the disappearing coal and nuclear energy is replaced by Russian gas, it would quickly be in a situation where it is. And that has many in the West very concerned."
Relations Remain Vital
German-American relations remain vital for both nations. However, Berlin needs to contribute its fair share and to cease engaging in efforts that weaken the Western alliance.
Frank Vernuccio serves as editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government.
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Tags: Angela Merkel, NATO, Russia, U.S.-German relations
Author: Frank Vernuccio, Jr. Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., J.D. is the editor-in-chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government and the co-host of the popular WVOX weekly radio show, "And Nothing But The Truth." He is a regular columnist and contributor for a number of newspapers and other news outlets, and previously was an editor of legislative affairs for a major publishing company. Before moving to writing and broadcasting full time, he served in both Democrat and Republican administrations within New York State.
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I easily can do it like this from Eclipse

So how I can do it from Intellij ?
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I succeed with adding the module as dependency, but the module dependencies are not visible to the original project
==> Project A, Project B ,,, B has many dependencies,, I added B into A as dependency ,, A now can access all B modules but it cannot see the B dependencies

A: The Eclipse notion of a workspace is slightly different from IntelliJ.
In your situation I would create a dummy parent project with each project physically located beneath referenced as submodules, so that Maven sees it as a single module.  This will let both Maven and IDE's to know that they are connected so you skip the "generate jar" step.
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A: You can configure this in Project properties (cmd + ; on Mac, Ctrl + alt + shift + s on Windows/Linux). Just add a module as dependency. See the attached image as a reference.

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Egypt Court Acquits 26 Men Charged With 'Debauchery' in Gay Bathhouse Raid
January 12, 2015 by Kyler Geoffroy
An Egyptian court has acquitted the 26 men arrested in the televised raid on a Cairo bathhouse early last month, the Associated Press reports:
The men in the bathhouse raid faced various charges, including debauchery and performing indecent public acts. Monday's verdict came after only three hearings, during which families quarreled with journalists who tried to photograph their relatives in the dock.
The courtroom erupted into a frenzy after the word "acquittal" was heard from the judge and women ululated. Scott Long, an American researcher who had followed the case said he was both "shocked and delighted."
"I hope this is a sign that these raids will come to an end," Long told the Associated Press amid the cheering. "Finally there was a judge who listened to the evidence."
Rights activists say 2014 was the worst year in a decade for Egypt's gay community, with at least 150 men arrested or put on trial.
"They destroyed our lives. God rescued us," said one of the defendants, who didn't give his name.
Following the acquittal, defense lawyer Tarek el-Awady said he would file charges against the officer who led the raid, Lt. Col. Ahmed Hashad for fabricating testimony and would also bring charges against reporter Mona Iraqi. Iraqi has been accused by activist groups of breaking various laws in her filming of the bathhouse raid.
Buzzfeed reports:
"We will not leave Mona Iraqi," said a relative of one of the accused who gave his name as Mahmoud. "We will take her to court. We will not leave Ahmed Hashad. If I have to sell the furniture in my house to take a case to take her to jail, I will not let her rest until the end of her life."
One of the pieces of evidence seized upon by defense lawyers was the anal exams performed by police medical experts after their arrest. Egyptian authorities maintain testing the tightness of the anal sphincter can establish whether or not a man is gay, though many international medical experts say the exams are unreliable and human rights groups have denounced them as a violation of basic human rights.
But instead of reporting many of them had been penetrated – as Hashad claims to have seen with his own eyes – the examiners reported only three had "wounds" in the anus. Defense attorney Mohamed Zaki told BuzzFeed News that in these cases the examiners reported scratches or tears, which could be evidence of trauma that actually occurred after the men were in police custody.
One of the three men also told lawyers he had been raped while in police custody, claiming police had presented him to other prisoners using an Egyptian expression that roughly corresponds to "here's a hot piece of ass". The man refused to allow his lawyers to use his claim to contest charges, however, due to the social taboos surrounding penetration.
"How can he stand in the court and say he has been penetrated?" said defense lawyer Mohamed Zaki. "Even if we can prove that he was raped inside the police station, this will never clear his reputation … once you have been penetrated, you are not considered a man."
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18 сентября 2007 года Айви подписал однолетний контракт с «Милуоки Бакс».

24 июля 2008 года Айви перешёл в «Филадельфию-76».

15 июня 2009 года Айви отказался от варианта продления контракта на сезон 2009-10, что делало его неограниченно свободным агентом. Тем не менее, он снова подписал контракт с «Сиксерс».

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11 ноября 2020 года он присоединился к «Бруклин Нетс» в качестве ассистента главного тренера Стива Нэша.

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Royal denounces "intolerable conflicts" at the French ministry
Published on: 05/13/2013 – 17:06 Amended: 05/13/2013 – 6:12 PM
French socialist Ségolène Royal said on Monday that internal conflicts at the finance ministry had become "intolerable" and called for a cabinet reshuffle, but denied applying for a cabinet post.
In a series of media interviews on Sunday and Monday, former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal criticized President François Hollande's Ministry of Economy and Finance for what she described as "intolerable backbiting" . The socialist regional governor also called for a cabinet reshuffle, but denied applying for a cabinet post.
Who is who in Bercy
Minister of Finances: Pierre Moscovici.
Minister of Consumer Affairs: Benoît Hamon.
Budget minister : Bernard Cazeneuve (who replaced Jérôme Cahuzac following his admission of tax evasion).
Minister of Industrial Renewal: Aranud Montebourg.
"What is intolerable, especially for those who are fighting to create movement and jobs, is this backbiting between ministers," she said Monday on French radio France Inter. "We must put an end to it and restructure what is called Bercy [the ministry of finance]. "
"This is the ministry that everyone is turning to right now," she added. In a separate interview with the French daily Le Monde On Monday, she described the ministry as "a vast galaxy" and said everyone knew it needed a restructuring. "It's no secret, the president said it himself," she said.
Royal also criticized the Hollande government for dragging its feet on election promises such as same-sex marriage, which was legalized in April. "The marriage equality bill should have been passed last summer," she said.
Personal ambition
Asked about her own ambitions to be appointed minister, Royal said it was "not on the cards" but added that "no matter what" she would certainly stand for re-election as regional governor of Poitou-Charentes, a role she has held. since 2004.
Royal's new book, 'This Beautiful Idea of Courage'.
In February, Royal was appointed director of the new Public Investment Bank, a public institution responsible for financing small businesses.
But before that, she suffered a series of political defeats since her defeat in the 2007 presidential elections to Nicolas Sarkozy. She failed to secure a seat in parliament in June after suffering an embarrassing defeat to a socialist rival – which was notoriously backed on Twitter by Holland's girlfriend, Valérie Trierweiler, in what became a scandal national. She was even more disappointed in June when Hollande chose not to appoint her to his cabinet.
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1 Election results from presidential races
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4 List of members representing the district
South Carolina's 1st congressional district
South Carolina's 1st congressional district - since January 3, 2019.
D–Charleston
$66,337[1]
74.8% White
21.1% Black
1.3% Asian
2.5% Hispanic
0.4% Native American
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The 1st Congressional District of South Carolina is a coastal congressional district in South Carolina, represented by Democrat Joe Cunningham since January 3, 2019. He succeeded Republican Mark Sanford, who was defeated by Katie Arrington in the Republican primary.
The district has historically been based in Charleston. It has included Myrtle Beach, which became a major tourist destination in the late 20th century, as well as other coastal areas that have attracted retirees and seasonal visitors. From 1993 to 2013, the district boundaries extended from Seabrook Island in the south to the North Carolina border and included parts of Charleston, Dorchester, Berkeley and Georgetown counties and all of Horry County to the North Carolina line.
In 2010, the state received another seat in Congressional apportionment due to an increase in population. The state's districts had to be redrawn, which was completed in 2013. In the final plan, the 1st congressional district was redrawn to reach from Hilton Head to mid-coast South Carolina, ending at the Santee River and comprising parts of Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester and Beaufort counties. This configuration is similar to the one it had for most of the 20th century. Horry County was included in the new 7th congressional district.
Election results from presidential races
2004 George W. Bush 61 - 39%
2008 John McCain 56.1 - 42.7%
2012 Mitt Romney 58.3 - 40.2%
2016 Donald Trump 53.5 - 40.4%
Following the Civil War and granting of citizenship to former slaves, in 1870, Charleston's population was 53 percent black; and Charleston County had a 73 percent black majority.[2] The city's large population of free people of color had developed many leaders who advanced in the changing society. These population majorities protected freedmen against some of the election-related violence that occurred in other parts of the state in the 1870s as white Democrats worked to suppress black voting and regain political control of the state.[2] During Reconstruction, the mostly black Republicans from this district supported Republican candidates, including four terms for Joseph H. Rainey as US Representative to Congress, a record by an African-American legislator not surpassed until the 1950s.
After the Democrats regained control of the state in 1876, during an election season marked by violence and fraud, and Reconstruction ended in 1877, they passed laws establishing racial segregation and making voter registration and voting more difficult, such as the "eight-box law." African-American George W. Murray finally won in the disputed 1894 congressional election from this district; he challenged the Republican candidate's victory because of election fraud and was upheld by the House Committee on Elections. But passage of a new state constitution by Democrats in 1895 effectively disfranchised most African-American citizens in 1896. Their participation in the political system was ended for seven decades. The white Democrats established a one-party state and used various devices to maintain the exclusion of blacks until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.
Party realignments in the late 20th century resulted in many new black voters supporting the national Democratic Party. White conservatives in the South shifted and joined the Republican Party, in 1980 electing the first Republican congressman from the state to be elected in the 20th century. Since the buildup of the military in this region, especially the Navy, the area's white voters have supported conservative candidates.
Given the crippling of the Republican Party by the disfranchisement of blacks, a Republican was not elected to a full term in this district in the 20th century until 1980, when Tommy Hartnett was swept in by Reagan's coattails. But, his election represented a different party and was the result of a major realignment of white conservative voters in the late 20th century to the Republican, rather than the Democratic Party. Starting with national candidates in the late 1960s and 1970s, white voters in South Carolina began to shift to the Republican Party.
As after every decennial census, the state legislature conducted redistricting after the 1990 census. The white Republican-controlled legislature shifted most of Charleston's African-American majority areas into South Carolina's 6th Congressional District, creating a majority-minority district. To make up for the loss of population, the 1st was extended all the way up the Atlantic coast to Myrtle Beach. The 2010 redistricting cut the district back to the southeastern corner of the state.
Since that time, the 1st Congressional District has had a majority-white population. But, in 2008, with the appeal of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, Democrat Linda Ketner came within two points of winning the 1st district congressional seat. In the following off-year election of 2010, Republican Tim Scott, a conservative African American, won the seat with 65 percent of the vote.
During the 2018 South Carolina primaries on June 12, 2018, Mark Sanford lost re-nomination to the seat. The Republicans would go on to lose the seat to the Democrats after the district swung heavily to the Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.
2013 special election
Main article: South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, 2013
As noted, Tim Scott, a Republican from North Charleston, was elected as the 1st district's representative in 2010. He was appointed by Governor Nikki Haley to the United States Senate after Jim DeMint resigned on January 1, 2013.
The district boundaries had been redrawn in 2011. A special election was held on May 7, 2013 to determine the district's Representative to the US House to fill the new vacancy. In a Primary Election held on March 19, 2013, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, won the Democratic nomination. Former Governor Mark Sanford, who represented the district from 1995 to 2001, and former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Eilliott Bostic faced each other in a runoff Primary for the Republican nomination on April 2, 2013. Sanford won the nomination, and defeated challengers Colbert-Busch and South Carolina Green Party candidate Eugene Platt in the special election on May 7.
Cunningham is the first Democrat to represent the district since the 1980s.
List of members representing the district
William L. Smith Pro-Administration March 4, 1789 –
March 3, 1795 Elected in 1788.
Re-elected in 1790.
Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Portugal. 1789–1793
"Charleston Division"
South Carolina Congressional Districts, 1789–1793
1st District, Charleston
2nd District, Beaufort-Orangeburg
3rd District, Georgetown-Cheraw
4th District, Camden
5th District, Ninety-Six
"Charleston District"
Federalist March 4, 1795 –
Vacant July 10, 1797 –
Thomas Pinckney Federalist November 23, 1797 –
March 3, 1801 Elected to finish Smith's term.
Retired.
Thomas Lowndes Federalist March 4, 1801 –
Robert Marion Democratic-Republican March 4, 1805 –
December 4, 1810 Elected in 1804.
Retired and then resigned.
Vacant December 4, 1810 –
Langdon Cheves Democratic-Republican December 31, 1810 –
Later elected to finish Marion's term and seated January 24, 1811.
Henry Middleton Democratic-Republican March 4, 1815 –
Charles Pinckney Democratic-Republican March 4, 1819 –
Joel R. Poinsett Democratic-Republican March 4, 1821 –
March 3, 1823 Re-elected in 1820.
Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Mexico.
Jackson Democratic-Republican March 4, 1823 –
Jacksonian March 4, 1825 –
Vacant March 7, 1825 –
William Drayton Jacksonian May 17, 1825 –
March 3, 1833 Elected May 16, 1825 to finish Poinsett's term and seated December 5, 1825.
Henry L. Pinckney Nullifier March 4, 1833 –
March 3, 1837 [Data unknown/missing.] 1833–1843
Hugh S. Legaré Democratic March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1839 [Data unknown/missing.]
Isaac E. Holmes Democratic March 4, 1839 –
Redistricted to the 6th district.
James A. Black Democratic March 4, 1843 –
April 3, 1848 [Data unknown/missing.]
Died. 1843–1853
Vacant April 3, 1848 –
Daniel Wallace Democratic June 12, 1848 –
John McQueen Democratic March 4, 1853 –
December 21, 1860 Redistricted from the 4th district.
Vacant December 21, 1860 –
July 18, 1868 Civil War and Reconstruction
Benjamin F. Whittemore Republican July 18, 1868 –
February 24, 1870 [Data unknown/missing.]
Resigned.
Vacant February 24, 1870 –
Joseph H. Rainey Republican December 12, 1870 –
Lost re-election.
John S. Richardson Democratic March 4, 1879 –
Samuel Dibble Democratic March 4, 1883 –
William H. Brawley Democratic March 4, 1891 –
Resigned to become U.S. District Judge.
James F. Izlar Democratic April 12, 1894 –
William Elliott Democratic March 4, 1895 –
June 4, 1896 Lost election contest.
George W. Murray Republican June 4, 1896 –
March 3, 1897 Won election contest.
George S. Legaré Democratic March 4, 1903 –
January 31, 1913 [Data unknown/missing.]
Vacant January 31, 1913 –
Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, and Dorchester Counties[3]
Richard S. Whaley Democratic April 29, 1913 –
March 3, 1921 Elected to finish Legaré's term.
W. Turner Logan Democratic March 4, 1921 –
Thomas S. McMillan Democratic March 4, 1925 –
September 29, 1939 Elected in 1924.
Died.
Vacant September 29, 1939 –
Clara Gooding McMillan Democratic November 7, 1939 –
January 3, 1941 Elected to finish her husband's term.
L. Mendel Rivers Democratic January 3, 1941 –
December 28, 1970 Elected in 1940.
Mendel Jackson Davis Democratic April 27, 1971 –
January 3, 1981 Elected to finish Rivers's term.
Retired for health reasons.
Thomas Hartnett Republican January 3, 1981 –
January 3, 1987 Elected in 1980.
Retired to run for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Republican January 3, 1987 –
Retired to run for Governor of South Carolina.
Mark Sanford Republican January 3, 1995 –
Retired to run for Governor of South Carolina. 1995–2003
Henry Brown Republican January 3, 2001 –
Tim Scott Republican January 3, 2011 –
Re-elected in 2012, but resigned when appointed U.S. Senator.
Vacant January 2, 2013 –
Mark Sanford Republican May 7, 2013 –
January 3, 2019 Elected to finish Scott's term.
Lost renomination.
Joe Cunningham Democratic January 3, 2019 –
present Elected in 2018.
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South Carolina's congressional districts
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^ a b Melinda Meeks Hennessy, "Racial Violence During Reconstruction: The 1876 Riots in Charleston and Cainhoy", South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 86, No. 2, (April 1985), 104-106 (subscription required)
^ "South Carolina". Official congressional directory. p. 103.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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South Carolina's past and present Representatives, Senators, and Delegations
Recent U.S. House elections in South Carolina: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
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L'Università tecnica nazionale di Atene (; in inglese National Technical University of Athens, da cui la sigla NTUA), semplicemente chiamata Politecnico di Atene, è la più antica e prestigiosa istituzione della Grecia nel campo della formazione alla tecnologia e ha costantemente contribuito allo sviluppo scientifico, tecnico ed economico del Paese fin dalla sua fondazione avvenuta nel 1836.

La sua storia è strettamente connessa alle vicende della lotta del popolo greco per l'indipendenza, la democrazia e il progresso sociale.

In Grecia il Politecnico viene denominata anche Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion ("Politecnico Metsoviano Nazionale") in onore dei suoi primi finanziatori: Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tositsa, Michail Tositsas e Georgios Averof, tutti originari di Metsovo, una piccola città dell'Epiro, che effettuarono cospicue donazioni all'Istituto nella seconda metà del XIX secolo.

Storia

1836: la fondazione
Il Politecnico fu creato per decreto Reale, pochi anni dopo la conquista dell'indipendenza greca.

Venne chiamato "Scuola Reale delle Arti", una scuola professionale part-time (limitata alla domenica e i giorni festivi) con lo scopo di formare artigiani, operai edili e capomastri.

Nel 1840, a causa della sua crescente popolarità e il mutare delle condizioni socio-economiche del nuovo Stato, fu elevato al rango di Scuola Tecnica con orario feriale e collocato nella sua attuale sede.

1843: la ristrutturazione
La "Scuola delle Arti" è oggetto del suo maggior intervento di ristrutturazione.

Tre dipartimenti vengono creati: la Scuola professionale part-time, la Scuola feriale e la Scuola Superiore delle Belle Arti.
Il termine Arti era usato all'epoca sia per le Belle Arti ed anche per l'Ingegneria.

Da questo ne seguì una tradizione per cui oggi il Politecnico include un Dipartimento di Architettura e mantiene stretti legami con la Scuola di Belle Arti che nel frattempo è divenuta una istituzione indipendente.

1873: il campus storico
La Scuola per Industria e Belle Arti si sviluppò rapidamente per divenire la principale istituzione per l'Educazione superiore, una Università Tecnica con un elevato numero di studenti e un ricco curriculum di corsi scientifici e professionali. Nel 1873 si trasferì nel suo nuovo Campus sub-urbano in via Patission (allora nella periferia di Atene) e fu rinominato (non ufficialmente) come "Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion" dal nome della città natale dei benefattori che finanziarono la sua fondazione.

1887: le scuole (facoltà)
L'istituzione venne divisa in tre Scuole di orientamento tecnico: ingegneria strutturale, Architettura e Ingegneria meccanica aprendo così la strada per la sua crescita e stabilendo il suo ruolo di guida nel progresso tecnico ed economico della Grecia durante la rivoluzione industriale.

Continuò a funzionare in tale forma fino al 1914 quando nuove Scuole furono create e il Politecnico Metsoviano, denominazione divenuta ufficiale, fu sottoposto alla supervisione del Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici, una conseguenza del suo stretto legame con la crescita tecnico-economica dello Stato greco.

In uno stadio successivo il Politecnico fu associato alle altre Università greche sotto la supervisione del Ministero dell'Educazione.

1917: verso lo status attuale
L'università tecnica ateniese assunse l'impostazione attuale in tale anno per via di una speciale Legge che la organizzò come Scuola Superiore per l'Ingegneria civile, Meccanica ed Elettrica, Chimica ed Architettura.

Fino agli anni 1950 era l'unica Università in Grecia ad offrire la laurea in Ingegneria.

Da allora altre Scuole di Ingegneria sono state create presso le Università di Salonicco, Patrasso e Tracia, ed altre Università Tecniche furono poi fondate a Chania in Creta.

1923: la camera tecnica di Grecia
Gli allievi della NTUA formano il nucleo della Camera Tecnica di Grecia, una organizzazione professionale molto potente che funge da referente tecnico per lo Stato ed è responsabile per la concessione delle abilitazioni professionali per tutti gli ingegneri praticanti in Grecia.

Tra la sua fondazione, avvenuta nel 1923, ed il 1963 la Camera Tecnica di Grecia ebbe 7800 iscritti mentre verso la fine degli anni ottanta del Novecento il numero dei suoi membri raggiunse approssimativamente il numero di 49.000.

Contributi alla storia della Grecia moderna
Gli studenti della NTUA furono in prima linea per la lotta popolare, particolarmente nella Resistenza Nazionale, sotto l'occupazione nazista del periodo 1941-44 e durante la più recente lotta contro la Dittatura dei Colonnelli tra il 1967 al 1974.

Durante il periodo della Resistenza il movimento Studentesco era molto potente ed organizzato.
Subito dopo l'occupazione della Grecia effettuato dalla truppe tedesche nell'aprile 1941, il movimento per la Resistenza venne organizzato ovunque: città, villaggi, fabbriche e università.
Entro pochi mesi la Resistenza fu operativa all'interno della NTUA la quale, in aggiunta ai suoi ruoli di istituzione accademica, divenne uno dei maggiori centri per la resistenza attiva.

Dopo un ritardo di 40 anni, il 16 novembre 1984 l'NTUA rese omaggio al Movimento per la Resistenza Nazionale con l'erezione di una colonna commemorativa recante i nomi di 18 studenti che caddero durante la lotta di liberazione. Nel 1985 fu pubblicato un libro commemorativo con il titolo La NTUA (ed il suo ruolo) nel Movimento di Liberazione Nazionale 1941-44.

La lotta contro la dittatura militare del periodo 1967-74 culminò con l'assemblea studentesca presso il Campus Patission della NTUA del 14 febbraio 1973 seguita da un attacco da parte della Polizia, di una brutalità senza precedenti, avvenuto all'interno del campus e con l'arresto di molti studenti. A questo seguirono altre dimostrazioni, l'occupazione della Facoltà di Legge dell'Università di Atene il 23 febbraio e il 20 marzo. Ciascuna di queste manifestazioni venne repressa con la forza.

La protesta culminò con il suo maggior attacco alla Giunta militare, nota come "Ribellione del Politecnico", nel novembre 1973.

Gli eventi accaddero mercoledì 14 novembre e terminarono il 17 novembre 1973 con l'intervento, senza provocazione, dei carri armati dell'esercito e polizia contro gli assediati all'interno del Campus della NTUA e i loro simpatizzanti esterni in Via Patission. In quei pochi giorni si notò una crescita impressionante della ribellione popolare che aveva come riferimento la NTUA. Il popolo greco e la gioventù dell'intera Nazione dimostrarono il sostegno agli studenti, tutti uniti dagli ideali di Democrazia, Libertà, Indipendenza, Educazione e Progresso Sociale.

Il bilancio della "Ribellione del Politecnico" fu tragico: molti dimostranti furono ammazzati e molti di più arrestati dalla Polizia Militare e torturati per mesi nelle sue prigioni.

La Giunta cadde pochi mesi dopo e il Politecnico da allora è stato commemorato ogni anno il 17 novembre dagli studenti, dagli allievi delle Scuole Superiori, dal senato della NTUA, dalle Autorità greche, dai Partiti politici, dal Parlamento e, ovviamente, dal Popolo dell'intera Nazione.

La "Ribellione del Politecnico" è stato uno straordinario evento della storia greca recente. La NTUA ha onorato le sue vittime con un monumento all'interno della sua piazzetta, di fronte al cancello di accesso demolito dai blindati della dittatura in quella notte tragica.

Il monumento fu posto a fianco alla colonna di commemorazione della Resistenza Nazionale. I due monumenti enfatizzano la continua lotta del Popolo di Grecia e della sua gioventù nel corso degli anni.

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The agency boss who led coverage of the court battle over baby Charlie Gard's right to life has won a top prize at the National Association of Press Agency Awards.
Alison Smith-Squire took the Feature of the Year at the NAPA Awards for her articles with baby Charlie's parents, who began a legal battle to save him when doctors said his life support had to be switched off.
She scored an exclusive with the Daily Mail for the story and it ran on the paper's front page for two days, as well as making headlines around the world. She later worked closely with the Gards as they fought, ultimately in vain, at the High Court to keep their child alive.
Smith-Squire faced some criticism at the time as the stories carried her byline, but she was also representing the family as their media agent. Feature World offers free publicity services to those looking to sell their stories as it says it is paid by the publication for writing the story.
Janet Tomlinson of the Daily Mail accepted the award on Smith-Squire's behalf at the event at the Grange City Hotel, London, on Friday last week.
Other winners on the night included freelance Nick Constable, of Devon-based West Coast News, who won News Exclusive Story of the Year for his interview with a hero fireman who twice entered the Grenfell Tower inferno to rescue residents.
Meanwhile newcomers Rachel Davis of Swindon-based Calyx and Mojo Abidi of London-based Triangle News won awards in the UK Picture of the Year and the Denis Cassidy Award for Best New Talent categories respectively.
New York based Shanti Das of SWNS won News 'Spec' Story of the Year – her second NAPA – whilst Fanco Banfi of Solent News won International Picture of The Year. The entries were judged by a panel of senior journalists from various national newspapers, websites and real life magazines.
Former Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express editor Eve Pollard was guest of honour.
Jon Harris, chairman of NAPA, said: "There were 117 entries to the NAPAs 2018 and the judges' were keen to stress how particularly high the standards were this year on both stories and pictures.
Harris added: "The reality is, what was presented to the audience last Friday was merely a snapshot of the excellent work agencies like those in NAPA produce every single day for newspapers, magazines, online and broadcast media.
"They work long hours without the benefit of advertising, subscriptions, licence fee or sponsorship to bring major stories to the press yet get comparatively little financially by way of return.
"This scenario seems especially unfortunate when some media groups who complain of lack of funds appear to be able to find vast sums of money when investing in other ventures.
"Press Agencies are sometimes unfairly maligned yet more often than not they are the media organisations which originate the stories which can set the news agenda for weeks to come.


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Q: Capturing an image without storing it to internal/external storage I need to transfer image to server captured via camera "without storing it into internal or external storage" due to security reasons. Please Help!

A: For this you need to connect the android app to a web service by storing it in memory in a Bitmap variable in memory and destroy it after the code is used or image is sent to the server.

A: You can use Camera#takePicture(...) that will return the picture taken as a byte array through PictureCallback.
Here is a pseudo code that takes a picture.
Camera.ShutterCallback shutterCallback = () -> Log.i("Shutter has been triggered");
Camera.PictureCallback rawCallback = (data, camera) -> Log.d("Picture has been taken.");
Camera.PictureCallback jpegCallback = (data, camera) -> {
        // Do something with the picture here.
    };

Camera camera = Camera.open();
camera.startPreview();
camera.takePicture(shutterCallback, rawCallback, jpegCallback)

Please note that this sample uses the "old" Camera V1 API, which is very different of Camera V2 API. You can check this post for a full diff of those 2 APIs


Hey, Bob! It's so nice to have you at TD Helps today. If you represent a business that will be sending a fax for the release of funds from our mutual customer's account, please fax your authorization of release to our Fulfillment Department at 856-533-1138. Please be sure that your fax includes the following: - Merchant's letterhead authorizing TD Bank to remove the authorization with Signature – TD Bank Customer's full card number – TD Bank Customer's name - Exact date and amount of authorization to be released Our Customer can contact us 24/7 at 888-751-9000 to confirm if we have received your fax. Thanks for your help, Bob! We welcome you back if you ever have questions in the future. Enjoy your day!


The Transition Council is comprised of individuals from area agencies that are dedicated to helping students transition from school to employment and community living.
The Transition Event is designed to assist people with disabilities, their parents, and family members as they make life choices for the future.
Below is a list of the area agencies that have participated in the past. Each year different agencies are available to provide detailed options for the future.
View the local community agencies that are available and willing to assist students and parents at any time.


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UK clothing retailer Aquascutum goes into administration
British luxury clothing retailer Aquascutum has collapsed into administration, putting around 250 jobs at risk.
The move comes after Harold Tillman sold 90% stake in Jaeger, whose operations were tied in with those of Aquascutum.
The London-based brand was bought by Jaeger's owner Harold Tillman and its chief executive Belinda Earl in 2009, after it had made a £24m loss a year earlier.
Aquascutum said the senior management team has worked tirelessly to develop and build the brand.
"The challenging conditions in the UK, however, have unfortunately meant that the team have been unable to successfully turn the business around which has ultimately resulted in its administration," the firm said.
"The board hopes that under FRP Advisory, the business will be disposed of successfully."
FRP Advisory joint administrator Geoff Rowley told UKPA that the company is keen to enter into early discussions with interested parties open to purchasing the business.
"We will of course be conducting an urgent assessment of all stores and concessions and look to communicate to staff and suppliers at the very earliest opportunity," Rowley said.
The retailer is famous for enclothing members of the British royal family, including Queen Elizabeth, and politicians such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
In the 1980s, Aquascutum expanded into the US, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taiwan.
In 1990, the brand was bought by Japanese conglomerate Renown, but it was sold to Tillman and Earl in 2009.
Founded in 1851 by tailor John Emary, Aquascutum runs three high street stores at Westfield White City, Canary Wharf and Windsor, and has a further 16 concessions, including at Harrods, London.
The UK-based company also runs its manufacturing base from a factory in Corby, Northamptonshire.
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GPI to take a big bite out of Burger King holding
Companies / 5 December 2019, 3:30pm / Sandile Mchunu
Grand Parade Investments declined by more than 6% in early trade on the JSE yesterday. AP
JOHANNESBURG - Grand Parade Investments (GPI) declined by more than 6percent in early trade on the JSE yesterday after the investment holding company said that it had entered into talks to dispose of its material interest in Burger King SA.
GPI holds a 96percent stake in Burger King and it wants to reduce its holding to a minority stake.
GPI opened its first Burger King restaurant in the country in 2013.
"Shareholders are advised that the company has entered into negotiations in relation to a disposal of a material interest in Burger King SA, which, if successfully concluded, may have a material effect on the price of the company's securities," the company said. The Grand Parade shares declined to R3.54 a share yesterday morning from Tuesday's closing price of R3.80, and closed 3.95 percent lower at R3.65 on the JSE yesterday.
The expected disposal of its stake in Burger King comes after the group reported an improved operational performance in its largest food business by exceeding R1billion in sales.
The surge was 34.2percent higher compared to the previous year for the first time in the year to end June as the group benefited from a restructuring process it embarked on last year.
Store sales in Burger King were up by 10.3percent.
In an earlier interview with Business Report, chief executive Mohsin Tajbhai said the group was planning to open 12 new Burger King restaurants in the next financial.
Tajbhai added that it had made excellent progress in improving the overall profitability of the business and this would continue to be a strong focus, along with driving new restaurant growth in Burger King.
Burger King opened 10 restaurants during the period and closed four non-performing stores.
In February, GPI closed down Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins in South Africa due to poor performance.
The decision to liquidate the businesses came after they made sustained losses and the process of disposing them proved to be unsuccessful.


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package io.jenetics.prngine.internal;

import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
import static java.util.regex.Pattern.quote;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.counting;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.groupingBy;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.OptionalDouble;
import java.util.OptionalInt;
import java.util.random.RandomGenerator;

/**
 * Class for testing a given random engine using the
 * dieharder
 * test application.
 *
 * @author Franz Wilhelmstötter
 * @since 1.0
 * @version 2.0.0
 */
public final class DieHarder {

	/**
	 * Writes random numbers to an given data output stream.
	 *
	 * @author Franz Wilhelmstötter
	 * @since 1.0
	 * @version 1.0
	 */
	private static final class Randomizer implements Runnable {
		private final RandomGenerator _random;
		private final CountingOutputStream _out;

		Randomizer(final RandomGenerator random, final OutputStream out) {
			_random = requireNonNull(random);
			_out = new CountingOutputStream(out);
		}

		@Override
		public void run() {
			try {
				final byte[] data = new byte[4096];
				while (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
					_random.nextBytes(data);
					_out.write(data);
				}
			} catch (IOException ignore) {
			}
		}

		long getCount() {
			return _out.getCount();
		}
	}

	public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
		final PrintStream out = System.out;
		if (args.length < 1) {
			println(out, "Usage: \n" +
				"   java io.jenetics.prngine.internal.DieHarder <random-class-name>");
			return;
		}

		test(args[0], Arrays.asList(args).subList(1, args.length), out);
	}

	public static List<Result> test(
		final RandomGenerator random,
		final List<String> args,
		final PrintStream out
	)
		throws IOException, InterruptedException
	{
		final List<String> dieharderArgs = new ArrayList<>();
		dieharderArgs.add("dieharder");
		dieharderArgs.addAll(args);
		dieharderArgs.add("-g");
		dieharderArgs.add("200");

		printv(out);

		final long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
		final ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(dieharderArgs);
		final Process dieharder = builder.start();

		final Randomizer randomizer = new Randomizer(
			random,
			dieharder.getOutputStream()
		);
		final Thread randomizerThread = new Thread(randomizer);
		randomizerThread.start();

		// The dieharder console output.
		final List<Result> results = new ArrayList<>();
		try (InputStream is = dieharder.getInputStream();
			InputStreamReader ir = new InputStreamReader(is);
			BufferedReader stdout = new BufferedReader(ir))
		{
			for (String l = stdout.readLine(); l != null; l = stdout.readLine()) {
				Result.parse(l).ifPresent(results::add);
				System.out.println(l);
				System.out.flush();
			}
		}

		dieharder.waitFor();
		randomizerThread.interrupt();

		final long millis = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
		final long sec = millis/1000;
		final double megaBytes = randomizer.getCount()/(1024.0*1024.0);

		// Calculate statistics.
		final Map<Assessment, Long> grouped = results.stream()
			.collect(groupingBy(r -> r.assessment, counting()));

		final long passed = grouped.getOrDefault(Assessment.PASSED, 0L);
		final long weak = grouped.getOrDefault(Assessment.WEAK, 0L);
		final long failed = grouped.getOrDefault(Assessment.FAILED, 0L);

		final NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getIntegerInstance();
		formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(3);
		formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(3);

		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("Summary: PASSED=%d, WEAK=%d, FAILED=%d", passed, weak, failed)
		);
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("         %s MB of random data created with %s MB/sec",
				formatter.format(megaBytes),
				formatter.format(megaBytes/(millis/1000.0))
			)
		);
		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
		printt(out, "Runtime: %d:%02d:%02d", sec/3600, (sec%3600)/60, sec%60);

		return results;
	}

	private static List<Result> test(
		final String randomName,
		final List<String> args,
		final PrintStream out
	)
		throws IOException, InterruptedException
	{
		final RandomGenerator random = RandomGenerator.of(randomName);
		printt(out,
			"Testing: %s (%s)",
			randomName,
			new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm").format(new Date())
		);

		return test(random, args, out);
	}

	private static void printt(
		final PrintStream out,
		final String title,
		final Object... args
	) {
		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
		println(out, "# %-76s#", format(title, args));
		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
	}

	private static void printv(final PrintStream out) {
		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("%s %s (%s) ", p("os.name"), p("os.version"), p("os.arch"))
		);
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("java version \"%s\"", p("java.version"))
		);
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("%s (build %s)", p("java.runtime.name"), p("java.runtime.version"))
		);
		println(out,
			"# %-76s#",
			format("%s (build %s)", p("java.vm.name"), p("java.vm.version"))
		);
		println(out, "#=============================================================================#");
	}

	private static String p(final String name) {
		return System.getProperty(name);
	}

	private static void println(
		final PrintStream out,
		final String pattern,
		final Object... args
	) {
		out.println(format(pattern, args));
	}

	/**
	 * Represents one DieHarder test result.
	 *
	 * @author Franz Wilhelmstötter
	 * @since 1.0
	 * @version 1.0
	 */
	public static final class Result {
		public final String testName;
		public final int ntup;
		public final int tsamples;
		public final int psamples;
		public final double pvalue;
		public final Assessment assessment;

		private Result(
			final String testName,
			final int ntup,
			final int tsamples,
			final int psamples,
			final double pvalue,
			final Assessment assessment
		) {
			this.testName = testName;
			this.ntup = ntup;
			this.tsamples = tsamples;
			this.psamples = psamples;
			this.pvalue = pvalue;
			this.assessment = assessment;
		}

		static Optional<Result> parse(final String line) {
			//System.out.println("## " + line);
			//System.out.flush();

			final String[] parts = line.split(quote("|"));

			if (parts.length == 6) {
				final String name = parts[0].trim();
				final OptionalInt ntup = toOptionalInt(parts[1].trim());
				final OptionalInt tsamples = toOptionalInt(parts[2].trim());
				final OptionalInt psamples = toOptionalInt(parts[3].trim());
				final OptionalDouble pvalue = toOptionalDouble(parts[4].trim());
				final Optional<Assessment> assessment = Assessment.of(parts[5].trim());

				if (ntup.isPresent() &&
					tsamples.isPresent() &&
					psamples.isPresent() &&
					pvalue.isPresent() &&
					assessment.isPresent())
				{
					return Optional.of(new Result(
						name,
						ntup.getAsInt(),
						tsamples.getAsInt(),
						psamples.getAsInt(),
						pvalue.getAsDouble(),
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					));
				}
			}

			return Optional.empty();
		}

		private static OptionalInt toOptionalInt(final String value) {
			try {
				return OptionalInt.of(Integer.parseInt(value));
			} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
				return OptionalInt.empty();
			}
		}

		private static OptionalDouble toOptionalDouble(final String value) {
			try {
				return OptionalDouble.of(Double.parseDouble(value));
			} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
				return OptionalDouble.empty();
			}
		}

		@Override
		public String toString() {
			return format(
				"%s[ntup=%d, tsamples=%d, psamples=%d, pvalue=%f, assessment=%s]",
				testName, ntup, tsamples, psamples, pvalue, assessment
			);
		}
	}

	public static enum Assessment {
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		static Optional<Assessment> of(final String assessment) {
			switch (assessment) {
				case "PASSED": return Optional.of(PASSED);
				case "FAILED": return Optional.of(FAILED);
				case "WEAK": return Optional.of(WEAK);
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			}
		}
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No Hero – Prince Revolution!
My name is Charles Endelis. My profession is that of a butler, and I am currently seeking employment.
I come from a family of butlers steeped in old traditions and have received the strictest butler education possible. If I were to modestly claim that I am not that bad of a butler, I am afraid that no one in this world would dare claim to be a perfect butler.
Even so, I have not been able to find work, but this has nothing to do with my professional ability. It is entirely a matter of racial discrimination.
From heaven, please bless your only child and allow the abnormal young master and his vampire butler to live the life of normal human beings!
No Hero is a completed novel series written by Yu Wo, spanning 9 volumes. No Hero is narrated through Charles Endelis's first person POV, detailing an outsider's view on heroes. It is the sequel to the five volume long Eclipse Hunter, taking place several years after the end of that series. Several characters from Eclipse Hunter show up in No Hero; however, No Hero was written so that it can be read without having read Eclipse Hunter, as you would be in the same position as Charles and discovering things along with him if you have not read Eclipse Hunter. It is a matter of how much you enjoy dramatic irony!
Eclipse Hunter is being translated by Odd Squad Scanlations and can be found on their site. Our names and terminology, however, WILL differ.
So, technically we can say that he's one HELL of a butler?
May I ask something that a little off topic? Has no heroes ever been made to manga before? I'm reading this manga and it has a lot of resemblance with the synopsis.
No, the series has not been adapted to comic form yet, but I believe it will be in the future.
Is that manga you're referring to Black Butler? Don't worry, the contents of No Hero is quite different, seeing as it's written by Yu Wo.
=P After reading Kuroshitsuji, it's hard not to think of it every time you hear "Butler".
Nah, some of Ah Ye's high school friends make an appearance, but they're not major characters who impact the plot. Except for his big brother.
Yay for more big bro. I'm a big fan of his.
Please bless your only child from the heavens, and let this young master who isn't an ordinary person with his vampire butler live an ordinary life!
Dear father in heaven. Please watch over your only child, letting an abnormal young master and a vampire butler live a normal life!
Please bless your only child from the heavens and allow the abnormal young master and his vampire butler live an ordinary life!
(finally), thank you very much!
2. PR will be using Charles Endless. The chinese characters that make up Charles name (zhao suo) mean "searching for the morning".
Hm, we can consider taking out the "my," but I don't find too big a difference!
Chinese does have the L sound, and either way, it wouldn't matter. Charles is from a European-like family. Chinese has nothing to do with him. (By the way, the L/R sound is more difficult to discern in Japanese.) We chose Endelis for Charles's last name because it sounds close to "Endless," more so than we thought Andres did. That's what his name is supposed to sound like (Endless).
"Live the life of normal human beings" would be the more accurate translation of the last part of the sentence!
The reason the current synopsis reads "From heaven, please bless your only child and allow…" instead of "Please bless your only child from the heaven" is because I wanted to make sure there is no ambiguity about who is "in heaven." Placing "from heaven" after child makes it sound like the "child" could be the one currently in heaven!
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YESH!! THANK YOU!! i have been looking all over for a translation of No Hero!!
How will you be naming the characters? Will it be the english names Daren and Dar or the Chinese Xiang Ye and Ah Ye?
I can't wait for the chapters!! This is one of my favorite series!!!
We will be using pinyin for Ah Ye.
I just read the list of chapters and had a question; they really start with "dairy"?
Sorry, typo. ^^;; Fixed now.
Yes, we should do that. Thanks for the reminder!
Can anyone continue the translation for Eclipse Hunter? It's been a while since the last update.
If you google Eclipse Hunter English translations, you should be able to find a full translation of V5!
Thank you very much! I can finally continue reading at ease.
I want to read this so bad! I read the first chapter and felt like there was a lot of missing pieces so I am forcing myself to wait until Odd Squad finishes Eclipse Hunter but it is so painfully long. One day, my vampire butler love, one day.
I have read up to Chapter 5.5 but the translations aren't always as good of quality as Odd Squad (there is also the differences in names which confuses me sometimes). Even though there are translations out there of LSK and NH I still prefer waiting for PR to translate, so I still feel loyal to Odd Squad and their quality. It's been a slow four years.
Try Googling my name (without the [PR]) along with Eclipse Hunter English Translations. However, if the issue you have is the difference between Oddsquad and PrinceRevolution! naming conventions, there really isn't anything more I can do to help. Best of luck.
Is ah ye in eclipse hunter?
Yup, he is. He's the main character in Eclipse Hunter.
Love this series! The characters have so much depth and the plot is one that just made to continue until I ran out of volumes!
I was rereading the novel sypnoses and noticed that the name used in volumes 6 and 7 is different from the one in the translated chapters. I assume it's the same character based on profession given.
Oooh Thanks! I corrected it. PR! staff are busy lately.


Theo Halpert grew up in Eugene and began playing music at the age of 8. The piano was his first love, and influenced him to explore different musical genres and styles very early on in his career.. He created his first compositions at the age of 9, and began playing the drums at 10. Though he calls Eugene his home base, Theo has played music all over the world including France, Amsterdam, Germany and Canada and has toured with varied acts of many different genres.
Theo Halpert is a renowned drummer, percussionist and pianist, who has worked with countless musicians around the Northwest music scene. He is a musician, engineer and producer with experience in Rock, Jazz, Blues, Soul and Latin. Theo received a Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Oregon and now teaches musicians of all ages and experience levels. He has been an integral part in encouraging musicians old and young to find their voice and develop their technique through a personalized and comprehensive teaching style.
Theo is an active recording artist and currently plays with many notable bands, which include Skip Jones and the Spirit of New Orleans, Michael Tracey and the Hi-Tones, Reeble Jar, Woodland and The Motown Revue Band. He has also shared the stage with Curtis Salgado, Lloyd Jones, Medium Troy and Charlie Musselwhite. Theo has produced and played on many records for regional artists, which can be heard on the radio stations KRVM, and 88.1.
"I believe that music has the ability to speak to the soul. It is something so powerful that it can actually change your feelings and emotions for the positive. Music is not just an activity; it is a skill that can help you grow as an individual. It provokes a thoughtfulness and mindfulness that very few other endeavors can provide."
Theo teaches drums, piano, vibes, percussion.


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In the heart of the beast…
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From Chapter Nineteen: It's Great to be Fine
Orion Gideon was still recovering his land legs after a handful of flights down from Arrowroot, British Columbia. At least the transport Eider took no more than a half hour to reach the landing site out of Engelus. They dropped him off five miles west of the city's barbed wire and high wall perimeters, safe as he was ever going to get. The lieutenant of the Engelus Patrol Unit named Wallace Dieko insisted on accompanying Orion in the Eider, explaining that a San Diego P.I. had come to Engelus looking for him.
At the landing site, Orion was supplied with his guitar case carrying only two of his handguns and harmonica to make room for water bottles and some clothes. Everything else he left behind at the permutation clinic.
When asking the EPU lieutenant why he had bothered helping him, Dieko had been vague on the answer. "Your father swung by yesterday, told me to keep an eye on you because of something the Chancellor got you all wrapped up in."
"My father…?"
"I mean your real one," Dieko had said. "Not your adoptive… what's-his-name? Samuel Gideon?"
"Wait! Where are you going?" Orion shouted over the propellers of the Eider as it lifted back into the air.
Wallace Dieko hung out the sliding door, only giving Orion a brief salute before he was gone. His mouth had moved, but Orion didn't hear the words.
Before he had the chance to get any real answers, he was left on his own in the Mojave. He had been walking along the dusty highway with a guitar case hung over his shoulder for days after the Chancellor's assassination.
At night, he slept in the dirt, shivering and huddled by a campfire for warmth. He drank bottles of water as he baked in the glare of the Mojave sun during the day. Even in January it flicked between sixty to seventy degrees.
A coyote had been stalking his camp when he attempted a few hours of sleep. He would make fire with some shrubs, using steel and a flintlock that Dieko must have left him in his guitar case. Afterwards, he would listen to the coyote's howl, lulling to sleep by the crackling of his campfire. Wherever the animal was, he didn't mind. He could live like this for months. Sleeping in the desert dirt bothered him less once he got used to waking up with a headache and kinks in every muscle.
Orion Gideon was brought here for a reason, he realized. He just needed a sign.
Curled up by the fire for the fifth night since he had left Engelus, he wondered what this sign could be. He also thought about Wallace Dieko, who had arranged for Orion's escape. He drifted to a partial sleep with the howling of coyotes and desert winds.
Not even the wild beasts visited him anymore. He was hungry, so hungry. He could always hunt and eat one of those animals stalking him, but he was also tired. The temperature had dropped to the lowest of forty degrees, and there was still no sign.
He woke up at twilight to the sound of an engine. Orion peeked over the cliff side where he camped, his fire a pile of ash now. The precipice overlooked a dirt road where the same truck drove to and from for the past two days, but Orion kept missing it. The dry terrain was different from the icy tundra of British Columbia or Alaska he was so used to. It also lacked much plants and cover, though provided a thirty-foot high ground to survey the low country road. He watched the orange heat waves rise from the dust, wrapping the passing truck in puffs of sand when it came by early that morning.
When the truck had come and gone, Orion grabbed his guitar case and climbed down to the dirt road where he bid his time. He could have read a book, but he didn't have one. He could whittle, but he was short on a stick and just had one knife, and a cactus needle was just too messy.
An hour later, engine sounds roused Orion's attention. He swayed, sick after running out of his last bottled water last night. This truck driving by would be his last hope before he would die of dehydration. As the truck came closer down the dirt road, Orion lifted a tired hand and stuck his thumb out.
The truck did not stop. In fact, a sandy cloud gathered in its wake as it sped by. Orion recoiled, his hands over his face as he hacked and coughed, spitting dust.
Somewhere in that blinding cloud, he heard breaks slam to a halt. Tires whined and metal crunched.
Sprinting through the sandy fog, Orion came to the rickety old truck in the shallow ditch of the road. A road sign had flown; facedown in the dirt where a blood trail disappeared into the scattering dust cloud. Orion sunk to the ground, finding mats of brown fur clotted in a red mess. He exhaled through his nose, and went after the truck. Whoever sat behind the wheel didn't seem to be moving. From the looks of it, there weren't any others beside the driver inside.
"Hey!" Orion called out, circling around to the passenger's side. "Are you okay in there? Can you… Oh. Shit."
As the dust cleared over the road, pieces of coyote were scattered across the pavement. There was a foot, and other chunks. Where was the rest of it?
At least the truck was in one piece. Only a tire from the passenger's side was flat; judging by the surface damage on the front, the driver had slammed into that road sign while attempting to avoid a jaywalking coyote. Orion turned, hearing a groan coming from the truck.
Her flaxen hair reflected in the sun glaring through the broken windshield. Gray blue eyes opened, focusing on Orion's face as he peered through the side door. When he tried to open it, she waved him off with her hand. He yanked the door open, anyway. "Are you hurt bad?" Orion felt stupid for asking.
"N-no, m'fine. What 'bout…?" Her head drooped over her shoulder, her eyes scanning for whatever she had hit.
"No worries, it was just a coyote."
"Just a coyote… Fuck." The woman echoed, and laughed. She didn't sound as bad as she looked. Orion noted her obvious southern twang. "Thought I'd hit you…"
Was she going to stop for him, or was this just a stroke of bad luck on both their parts? Orion had no room to feel grateful anymore. "Hey, I… should be able to help if you're badly hurt."
"Kit's in the glove box." She nodded to the compartment right next to Orion. She started tending to her forehead while he opened the glove compartment, pulled out a cobalt box, and opened it over the passenger's seat. "Gimme one of the red packets."
The aforementioned red packets labeled a brand of strong pain medication, which Orion wondered if a woman with a potential concussion should be taking. He handed it to her, anyway. She took it, ripped open the top, and popped two white pills dry. Orion started to offer some water, then remembered he had drank it all — then remembered why he was here in the first place.
"Sorry if I made you crash your car," he said.
"Think that's on that bastard coyote." She winced, pushing open the door at her side and slid out. Orion walked around the truck, meeting her at the front to view the damage he noticed earlier. Her hands came over her head. "Shit, they're gonna kill me for this…"
"Is there somebody you can call?"
She shook her head. "No, I can take care of this." Then she sent him a bewildered look, her hand still on her forehead. There was no blood that Orion could see, but she might be looking forward to a nasty goose egg soon. "Who the hell are you, anyways? And what're you doin' way out here?"
No way could he tell her the truth. "My car broke down a few miles down the road. One minute I was on my way to Vegas, the next…" Orion gestured like he was holding a wheel that spun out of control, before dropping his arms at his sides. "Well, the next I'm staring at a ditch."
"And you just walked from there?"
Orion started to see the gap in his anecdote. They were nowhere near a city within fifty miles each way. "I did camp out here for a few days. Had some water with me and not much else."
"Sounds like you're shit luck. I might just leave you here." She went to the backseat of her truck and extracted a spare tire. "D'you mind? This'll probably take a while."
"It wouldn't if you had an extra set of hands." He smiled. "I know my way around cars, too."
"Aren't you versatile? A man who destroys cars as he fixes 'em. Here." She flashed a grin, handing him the spare tire. "Unless you wanna just play a ditty, you can help. But you'll probably forgo your hitchhiker's rights if you decide to be musically inclined instead."
Orion hesitated, setting his guitar case next to the truck bed before taking the tire from her. The woman then picked up a jack from the back of her truck. He went with her to the flat tire as she dropped to her knees, and began propping the car up with the jack.
"What brought'cha out here?" she asked, pulling lug nuts from the front passenger tire with a wrench.
For now, there wasn't much for Orion to do but stand there with the spare tire. "Like I said, I was on my way to Vegas. Before my car broke down, that is."
"You don't say." The lug nuts fell, one after another. "That's funny. I just came back from Vegas, and I don't think I saw any cars on the side of the road today."
Shit. Orion didn't think about that. The heat must have made him a little slow. "I… did some off-road sightseeing where I got hit. I walked a good twelve miles just to get here."
"That can't be legal. The off-roadin' part. Most of the detours are closed this time of year for maintenance."
Or all times of the year, Orion started to say, but kept his mouth shut. He was an Ignorant Tourist. She might be keeping her facts inconsistent for a reason, waiting for him to correct her on things that Ignorant Tourists wouldn't know about.
Orion cocked his head. "You aren't really going to throw the book at me while I'm trying to help, are you?"
"Guess not." If she was suspicious, she masked it well. "Why are you headed this way? Vegas is 'bout sixty miles in the other direction."
Orion was beginning to get the gist that his bluff wasn't going so well. Damn, he got rusty at this. "Are you serious?" He feigned disbelief. "Dammit, I thought that's where I was going! My navigation skills are subpar at best, and it didn't help that I lost my nexus when I crashed." He chuckled nervously.
"Huh. That right?" She seemed to be only half-listening to him, catching the flat tire that fell out. "What're you in town for?"
"Sounds borin'."
"Business can be boring. Sorry I can't spin you a more interesting yarn."
"I'm sure you could come up with somethin' more imaginative."
Assuming she suspected that that wasn't the truth. Orion held the tire closer to his chest, looking out at the heat waves dancing over the cliff he had climbed from. "I always thought it was supposed to be warmer out here."
"Oh yeah? Where were you before?"
"Arrowroot, British Columbia." That much was the truth.
"You're a long ways from home."
"I'm visiting. Like I said, business," Orion said. "Nice countryside in Arrowroot. Friendly locals."
"Probably makes you wonder why you ever left for this pisspit, huh?" She took out the tire before he could answer. She turned to him with her hands out. "Give it." It was an order, not a request.
Orion surrendered the spare part over to her. She put it back in place, secured it with a few lug nuts, and then got up to walk around the car. Orion followed her to the driver's seat.
While nothing seemed out of the ordinary, her mannerisms suggested otherwise. Orion knew that she wasn't going to turn her back to him anytime soon. That must have been why she leaned into her car. When he tried to get a better look, he saw that she had pulled out her keys from the ignition.
Orion stepped back when she turned to him, wrench in hand. He nearly reflexed.
She stared, deadpan. "What's wrong? You seem a little jumpy."
"You can't blame me for being startled at a woman armed with a wrench."
"Oh, this thing?" She laughed, flipping the wrench in her hand. Orion's eyes were transfixed on it, as if expecting it to turn into something else. "Calm your tits; I wouldn't do somethin' like that with this 'cause—"
When she laughed, Orion did as well. His breath cut short when he felt a high electric punch in the gut. He dropped his knees. He then caught a glimpse of a small keychain that she had as well.
No, it hadn't been a keychain at all…
"—that's what tasers are for!"
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LEEDS earned a hard-fought win over relegation strugglers Yeovil as Brian McDermott returned to the United dugout.
McDermott had been advised to stay from Elland Road last weekend in the midst of the controversial takeover by Miami-based Italian businessman Massimo Cellino, having been told his time at the club was over.
But having been reinstated on Monday as Cellino waits for Football League approval for his £25million takeover, McDermott took his place on the bench at Huish Park as his side looked to get their play-off bid back on track.
They had to do it the hard way though, after falling behind to Ishmael Miller's header on the half-hour mark in blustery and wet conditions in Somerset.
Leeds then found themselves in more trouble when Sam Byram fouled Kevin Dawson inside the box, however, Miller's penalty attempt smashed against the crossbar.
The visitors would make Miller pay for his miss just 35 seconds into the second half when McCormack grabbed his 23rd of the campaign with a stunning 25-yard effort that flew across goal and into the top corner after Stech's goalkick hit the wind and fell to the former Cardiff man.
While Leeds' leveller was a stunning strike in difficult conditions the wind paid a big part in their winner.
Left-back Warnock floated a 40-yard free-kick from the right wing into a packed goalmouth only to see his effort catch the breeze and fly over the head of Stech who had come off his line.
Warnock's second goal for the club sparked crazy celebrations from the away supporters left open to the elements behind the goal, who took the chance to praise McDermott for masterminding the win which sees the Yorkshire club narrow the gap to five points behind sixth-placed Reading.


Hi. My name is…and here's where I get nervous. You see, my early childhood was marked by a fairy tale beginning – you know the kind where the poor heroine is outcast, left alone in the world with no one to care for her. At least that's how it felt. Truth was, my parents separated the year I turned seven. My mom, sister and I moved from Lakenheath AFB in Suffolk, UK to Denver, Colorado (USA). Culture shock would aptly describe some of what I went through my first few months in school. I was teased, bullied, etc. Broken home, no father figure, yadda, yadda, yadda. I turned all of that into my personal story of woe-is-me. A story I'm sad to say I've used to define me for 40 years. I want to turn my Divine given passion for writing creative fiction to better use by rewriting my own story, and thus redefine WHO I AM. But I'm not sure how to do that. I have the ability to take dramatic license with a lot of my life's experiences – all of my books are fictionalized, dramatized, accounts of things that have happened to me, but that's the only way I know to do it; dress up what happened, but not WHO I AM. I don't know how to take real life and rewrite it, as well, real life.
I was named after my father. I'm forty-six years old, divorced, single, and a mother of a twenty year old. I have emotions that I don't often show, but very deeply feel. Often this leads to confusion in others because I come across as cold and unemotional. I prefer to see myself as good in a crisis in that while others are caught in the throes of emotional outbursts, I'm able to carry out basic functions that see me through whatever the drama or crisis may be. I panic AFTER something happens, once I know it's safe to fall apart. Alone. I can count the number of times friends have seen or heard me cry, on one hand.
I am an empath in that I register the moods or feelings of others. I respond on a subconscious level, meaning other's moods quite often alter my own. In that respect I am a human chameleon. Because these mood changes happen so subtly, I often find myself depressed for no discernible reason. At that time, I go into protective mode and hibernate. I use that time to restore my other ability and that is to see and believe in the impossible; to find the positive potential in whomever or whatever I come across in my day-to-day.
I spend more than I make. Not on lavish items, or attempts to keep up with the Jones' (or whichever reality — FAKE — family is making headlines), I just tend to have more expenses than I have money. For example, I fell and amassed a few hundred dollars in medical expenses that I didn't have savings for. Otherwise, I tend to live simply. I don't need much to feel content and happy. I am forgetful and easily distracted.
But who am I, really? I'm more than my past experiences. I am a daring, somewhat inquisitive kid in an adult body. I am kind, open minded, and for the most part, non-judgmental. I am an introvert. I am cautious with my trust. I am passionate. I am impulsive and impatient with myself. I am creative, imaginative and that sometimes gets me in sticky situations. But because I am a survivor, I have faith I'll come out alive. Until I die at least. No getting around that.
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DPS looking for info to solve 1981 cold case murder of Harris Co. mom
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Department of Public Safety is asking for information to help solve the 1981 cold case homicide of 22-year-old Karen Lynn Douglas in Harris County.
On Jan. 6, 1981, Douglas was found stabbed to death in her Houston home. Her mother found Douglas when she came to the house on Croteau Drive to pick her up for a doctor's appointment. Also at the house was Douglas' infant child. Douglas' husband was at work at the time of her death.
Law enforcement determined there was a struggle prior to Douglas' death. She was last seen alive two hours before she was found dead.
In the months before and after Douglas' death, there were other unsolved home invasions in the area, in which women who were home alone were attacked with a knife. It's believed these crimes were committed by a young, slender white male. It remains unclear if Douglas' death is linked to those other crimes.
Photo of Karen Lynn Douglas courtesy Texas Department of Public Safety.
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As part of a DPS public awareness program, one case from the Texas Rangers Unsolved Crimes Investigation (Cold Case) Program will be featured bi-monthly in an effort to generate new investigative leads and bring attention to these cold cases. The Texas Crime Stoppers reward is increased up to $6,000 for the featured case in hopes that the higher reward money will generate additional tips. The higher reward amount will only be paid if the tip is submitted before the next case is featured.
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Salebria romanoffella is een vlinder uit de familie van de snuitmotten (Pyralidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1887 door Ragonot.

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