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Wewelsburg (prononcer [ˈveːvəlsˌbʊɐ̯k]) est un château Renaissance situé en Westphalie dans le nord-est de la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, en Allemagne. Il se trouve dans le village de Wewelsburg, qui dépend de la municipalité de la ville de Büren dans le district de Paderborn et la vallée d'Alme.

Le château est bâti selon un plan en triangle. Il est connu pour avoir été le quartier général de la SS à partir de 1934 sous la direction de Heinrich Himmler.

Histoire
La Wewelsburg a été construite de 1603 à 1609 en tant que résidence de campagne des princes-évêques de Paderborn. Elle est restaurée par le prince-évêque Dietrich Adolf, après les dévastations de la Guerre de Trente Ans. En 1802, le château devient la propriété de la couronne de Prusse.

Himmler à la Wewelsburg
En novembre 1933, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer de la SS, en quête d'un bâtiment pour l'école SS qu'il compte mettre en place, visite le château. Son emplacement à  des Externsteine, qui seront une des bases "scientifiques" de la propagande nazie sur le patrimoine germanique de l'Allemagne, est idéal. À l'issue de travaux de rénovation effectués par des prisonniers venant d'un camp spécialement créé aux alentours du château (Camp de concentration de Niederhagen), il se voit remettre les clés du château par la municipalité, le , au cours d'une cérémonie. Pour la gestion quotidienne de l'endroit, Himmler nomme un capitaine du château, Manfred von Knobelsdorff, responsable de l'école des cadres de la SS et beau-frère de Walter Darré, qui organise le transfert de cette structure de formation dans le château. Au fil des années, Himmler fait élaborer des plans de transformation du château afin d'en faire un lieu de cérémonies et de représentations, dans lequel il se rend plusieurs fois par an : ainsi, il organise une rencontre au plus haut niveau de la SS en mai 1938, puis, en novembre, il souhaite que le château devienne le lieu dans lequel auraient lieu les prestations de serment des Gruppenführer, le château étant destiné non seulement à accueillir les blasons des Gruppenführer défunts (ce qui pose d'ailleurs problème, la plupart n'ayant pas d'armoiries) mais aussi à les accueillir une fois par an dans une salle prévue à cet effet : dans les faits, une seule réunion eut lieu, en juin 1941.

En 1934, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer de la SS, avait signé pour un bail centenaire pour 100 Reichsmark par an avec le district de Paderborn pour la location du château, qu'il avait l'intention non seulement de rénover et de remodeler afin d'en faire une école de cadres de la SS (Reichsführerschule SS), mais aussi d'en faire le quartier général de la SS. Centre d'études et de formation spirituelle des SS, le château est aussi un musée, consacré à l'art et à l'archéologie germaniques, chers à Himmler, alimenté par les résultats des fouilles de l'Ahnenerbe; y sont également exposées des reproductions des regalia, c'est-à-dire la couronne, le globe et le sceptre, de l'empereur germanique, ainsi que la Lance de Saint Longin. Organisé comme un lieu d'études, le château contient aussi une bibliothèque de  volumes, tous consacrés à l'histoire germanique.

Des cours pour les officiers sur la mythologie, l'archéologie et l'art y étaient enseignés. Les domaines d'activité ont été :
 la préhistoire
 histoire médiévale et études folkloriques
 mise en place de la "Bibliothèque de la Schutzstaffel à la Wewelsburg"
 le renforcement de l'idéologie nationale socialiste dans le village de Wewelsburg

Lieu de recherche, le château est aussi un lieu de culte. Des cérémonies néopaïennes sont organisées ; dans la crypte, aménagée sous la tour Nord, doit brûler en permanence la flamme éternelle de la SS.

Dès 1936, Himmler voulait en faire un centre idéologique et représentatif des activités de la SS. Selon ses plans, le château devait être le « Centre du Monde nouveau » (Zentrum der neuen Welt) après la "victoire finale". Ainsi, le château, situé sur éperon rocheux, devait être le centre d'un ensemble architectural en arc de cercle doté de vastes bâtiments monumentaux, propres à accueillir le centre intellectuel et spirituel de l'empire SS. Centre névralgique de la SS, le château doit être tenu à l'écart de la curiosité de la presse, interdisant toute publication sur le château médiéval.
L'architecte désigné pour le projet était Hermann Bartels. Peu de temps avant la fin du conflit, Himmler donne son accord pour un projet de rénovation grandiose du château, mais les multiples directives qu'il laisse laissent penser qu'il n'avait pas d'idées claires sur ce que devait devenir le château. Il souhaite néanmoins disposer d'une chambre dans laquelle on trouverait un gobelin et une vierge, doter le château à la fois d'un planétarium et d'un trésor sous la forme de métaux précieux, pour les temps difficiles.

Entre 1939 et 1943, le Reichsarbeitsdienst (« Service du travail du Reich ») effectue alors les travaux nécessaires en employant des prisonniers des camps de concentration de Sachsenhausen et Niederhagen.

Deux chambres ont été construites dans la tour nord du château. Celles-ci peuvent encore être visitées aujourd'hui :
 une chambre représentative, le Obergruppenführersaal (« salle des Obergruppenführer » c'est-à-dire littéralement : « salle des généraux »). Sur le sol en marbre a été installé un ornement vert foncé, une mosaïque circulaire, au milieu duquel se trouve un disque d'or. Le terme de "Soleil noir", désignant la roue solaire de la Wewelsburg, a été utilisé après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
 Au sous-sol : une chambre pour la prière des morts (inachevée). Peu avant la fin de la guerre, la SS a fait exploser la pièce qui a été partiellement détruite.

Après la guerre
Depuis 2010, une auberge de jeunesse et un musée se trouvent dans le château.

Galerie

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler. Biographie, München (Siedler) 2008, Trad. française, Himmler. L'éclosion quotidienne d'un monstre ordinaire, éditions Héloise d'Ormesson, Paris, 2010, .
 Laurent Olivier, Nos ancêtres les Germains, Les archéologues au service du nazisme, Paris, Tallandier, 2012, 314 pages, .

Articles connexes
 Ahnenerbe
 Mysticisme nazi
 Julius Evola
 Karl Maria Wiligut

Liens externes
 Le site web officiel de Wewelsburg (allemand)
http://www.wewelsburg.de/ Le site du musée du château de Wewelsburg
 Information pour visiteurs
 Wewelsburg from 1933 to 1945, place of cult and terror
 The North Tower of Wewelsburg Castle
 http://www.heresie.com/wewelsburg.htm

Château en Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie
Schutzstaffel
Architecture nazie


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We have been inspired by the community-based initiatives delivered by Members during lockdown, such as the Bingo nights in Avondale Park in Mulhuddart, part of the Dublin West Co-op. Organiser and resident Ann-Marie Reid hopes they can hold more events in the future.
I must say, lockdown has been hard, but we had great fun doing Bingo with other residents at Avondale Park. It was wonderful during lockdown to bring people together for a good cause. We were proud to raise over €920 for frontline workers. We still haven't chosen which deserving charity we will donate the money to yet, but we're hoping to do an online pole via the Avondale Lockdown Bingo page so residents can decide.
We held three Bingo nights for residents. They started small, but once we ran the first night, we scaled it up adding spot prizes such as hampers and held a raffle. We also ran two dancing competitions for different age groups of kids in the estate to take part in with prizes for both the winners and small gifts those who took part.
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James Shaw rates his Zero Carbon Bill as seven or eight out of ten. And former Green Party co-leader, Russel Norman – now with Greenpeace – rates it zero out of ten. Either way, it's clear that the new legislation isn't really the crucial planet-saving bill that many were hoping for. And it certainly doesn't seem to match up to Jacinda Ardern's claim that her government regards the climate change crisis as her generation's nuclear-free moment.
The press release from Greenpeace really was quite stunning in its scathing critique of the Government – see: Toothless Zero Carbon Bill has bark but no bite. To quote Norman: "What we've got here is a reasonably ambitious piece of legislation that's then had the teeth ripped out of it. There's bark, but there's no bite." And ultimately, the bill "is watered-down medicine that lacks the potency to cure the actual ailment we have".
Norman went on to criticise more about the bill, on various broadcasters, even saying that it amounted to "virtue signalling" as it would do nothing to fight climate change, only make the Government look like they were taking action.
One of Norman's main criticisms is that the bill establishes targets for emission reductions that are "unenforceable". He told TVNZ's Breakfast: "They've made it very clear – it's like saying the speed limit is 50km/h, then the next line says that no one is allowed to enforce the speed limit. The next part is you can go get a declaration, it's called, but a declaration has no weight – you can't force the Government to do anything" – see: Climate change amendment bill 'unenforceable, problematic' – says Greenpeace New Zealand leader.
In this interview, Norman also calls on the public to pressure the Government to do more: "That people power element is essential and people shouldn't think that somehow, this, the Government now has this under control… They've been calling it climate action – it's not. Action will only happen now if people really mobilise and put pressure on politicians."
Norman also says: "The Bill sends some good signals, until you get to the section at the end that negates everything else you've just read. This section states there is no remedy or relief for failure to meet the 2050 target, meaning there's no legal compulsion for anyone to take any notice." See also: Greenpeace Executive Director rates Zero Carbon Bill 0 of 10.
Others have also criticised the new legislation for setting up a Climate Commission that recommends necessary actions, but has no power.
According to Gordon Campbell the bill has "been reduced to a shadow of what the Greens originally envisaged", and the lack of independence for the Commission is big problem: "Crucially, these are to be aspirational targets and recommendations only. The Commission lacks the policies to help achieve them, the powers to enforce them, the penalties to punish non-compliance, and the independence to over-ride the opposition from competing interests. Instead of reporting to Parliament, the Commission will report to the government of the day, who will be free to spin or muzzle its findings as it sees fit" – see: Token moves on climate change.
Blogger No Right Turn is also critical of the bill, and not only for the problem with the enforceability of the targets, but because setting the carbon neutral goal for 2050 is too unambitious in light of the crisis we are in: "2050 looked great as a target year a decade ago, but it may now be too late. I suspect that we're going to have to increase our ambition and bring forward the target year for net-zero in the medium term" – see: Climate Change: The Zero Carbon Bill.
Other climate commentators have criticised the lack of ambition in the targets and processes involved. For example, Bronwyn Hayward, who was New Zealand's lead author on last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, is reported as approving of the overall framework of the bill, but being unhappy about the new Commission reporting to the Government of the day rather than Parliament as a whole: "We all know that when you're reporting to a government of the day your report can be, the text can be massaged, the release can be delayed which all gets in the way of what we actually need which is a fearless commission" – see Kate Gudsell's Climate change plan: 'Setting the bar so low'.
As to why the Government "had to set the bar so low", Hayward suggests it was "in order to get everybody on board". This has been a common theme in the commentary about the new bill. For example, although Gordon Campbell points the finger at New Zealand First for watering down the bill, he thinks that it's a result of the consensus political process and "the path of moderation has ended up pleasing virtually no-one".
Clearly, the Government and the Greens have put a high priority on "consensus" in drawing up the Zero Carbon Bill. James Shaw, in particular, wanted to put together a law that had as much buy-in as possible from political parties and relevant organisations.
For one of the best discussions of this prioritisation of consensus, see Toby Manhire's interview with the Climate Change Minister, in which Shaw explains that he went to great lengths to consult and find consensus, saying "I've bent over backwards, and some people argue forwards too, to get them on board" – see: James Shaw and the zero hour.
This might have led to what Shaw acknowledges are "imperfections" in the legislation, but he justifies the approach like this: "It's important because it reduces the chances that a future government will come in and biff it out. I mean, they could. But generally what happens is if a party votes for legislation when they're in opposition they will uphold it when they're in government."
Furthermore, Shaw says that environmental groups backed this approach: "I've said to them: tell me what is more important. Do you want this thing to last for 30 years or do you want it to be perfect? And what they've said is that they need it to last for 30 years, because there's no point in having a perfect piece of legislation that get thrown out three or six or nine years down the track. If you think about that 30-year target, it's got to survive three or four governments in that time."
In this interview, Shaw has high praise for the National Party for how they engaged in the process: "Look, they've operated in a way that has been unusually nonpartisan. They really have. We've been talking to them for just under a year. They've had plenty of opportunity to give us a good kicking, to really blow it up politically, or make hay out of it. They've chosen not to do so. So they have engaged in really good faith. There are certainly elements of the bill that are directly due to things they've proposed to us."
And in terms of the controversial new target whereby methane gases will need to be reduced by ten per cent by 2030, Shaw suggests that this could still be moderated over the next few months if it helps get the National Party onboard. But there would inevitably be a trade-off: "you could have a lower methane target, but that means you'd have to have a steeper long-lived gases target – get to net zero in, say, 2040 or 2030".
For another very good discussion of both the Greens' attempt to find consensus, and also the possibility of bringing National into the multi-party consensus on the legislation, see Thomas Coughlan's Zero Carbon Bill lives or dies on politics. According to Coughlan, the success or otherwise of this bill will be very telling for the New Zealand political system: "If the bill succeeds, it will vindicate the ability of our complicated, imperfect democracy to solve the great problems of our age… If it fails, it will prove the opposite: that our democracy isn't up to handling the great problems of our age."
The problem is, "When your starting point is bringing in as many cooks as possible, you'll inevitably spoil the broth. The Government's next big problem also has a British precedent [of Brexit], and that is the danger that in trying to please everyone, you end up pleasing no-one".
Now the pressure will be on National to support the bill. They want the Government to drop the detailed methane targets and instead leave the target-setting to the new Climate Commission. Commenting on this, political journalist Richard Harman says: "whether the Government would be prepared to accommodate that now would seem highly unlikely. And that could be a deal breaker" – see: Why is James Shaw apologising to Todd Muller over climate change?.
It therefore seems unlikely that a cross-party consensus will eventuate. But, in reality the Government appeared to give up on that some weeks ago, with Shaw apparently having to pull out of continued talks with National's climate spokesperson, Todd Muller – which Shaw publicly apologised for last week. It seems that New Zealand First has played a significant role in recent changes to the process and substance of the bill. Although Harman reports that New Zealand First contacts "have been briefing journalists warning that they would have to agree to stricter methane targets than they would like because of the big win they had over capital gains tax".
Given that consensus hasn't worked out, and given that the Greens didn't get what they wanted from the bill, Simon Wilson ponders who was to blame in his column, High stakes and the Greens' game (paywalled). Wilson seems to think that it was Labour rather than New Zealand First who have stymied the bill being more progressive.
Wilson almost rules out New Zealand First and National as being responsible for ruining the consensus: "So why did that consensus fail? Blame the usual suspects, NZ First? Their rhetoric is all about their being the farmers' friend, which makes them unlikely promoters of a methane target higher than farmers wanted. Was it National, slyly deciding to stay out of the deal, whatever it proposed? That also seems unlikely: Shaw and National's climate change spokesperson Todd Muller have forged a close working relationship they both say is based on trust."
Instead, it seems that Labour might be responsible: "So was it NZ First after all, playing dark and dirty with a Greens initiative because that's what they always do? Or did Labour shaft the consensus? There's a logic to that. Labour always needs issues that define it as being different from National, and consensus doesn't matter if your opponents are going to accept your reforms later anyway."
Finally, according to economist Rod Oram, this bill was always destined to be a problem because all political parties are hostage to conservative forces who don't want to see real action on climate change. He says that the Zero Carbon Bill "is by far the most important Act our Parliament will ever pass" but that it isn't the best legislation that could have been produced. Therefore, "time is very short to get a very direct message to all parties: a significant number of voters want a far more effective Climate Act than this Bill offers. If that means taking to the streets, let's do it" – see: Time to shout for a better climate law.
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Being that summer is finally here, it is time to put away our gloves, hats and long underwear and embrace the sun shining on our faces! And what better way to spend a lazy summer day than by touring your local winery or vineyard? Many people assume that if you want to visit a winery you have to travel far distances to the larger vineyards of the Napa Valley, the Loire or the Hunter Valley. Truth is, you don't have to travel very far at all to experience the wonder that is the winery, all the while at the same time supporting and giving back to your local community!
In saying that, sometimes people don't even realize that there are wineries right around the corner from their own homes. If you live in Florida, did you know that you have 10 wineries spread out all over the state? New Yorkers looking to visit a winery can find 53 of them in the Seneca Lake area alone. There are even wineries in places such as Ohio, Colorado and Hawaii. A quick search online for the winery closest to you is the first step in planning your perfect day trip or weekend away to a fantastic relaxing and fun winery trip!
For those who have never been to a winery, it is an experience unlike any you have ever had before. Walking on the grounds and seeing the rows of grapes on their vines is a truly picturesque experience. Most wineries will offer a tour upon your arrival that could involve anything from seeing the wine production process to viewing the barrels where the wine is stored before transportation or for maturation (if it's a red wine). Whether the winery has a tour like this or not, all wineries will provide some form of wine tasting of their more popular wines, whether they are red or white, sparkling or not. One of the staff from the winery will conduct the tasting and provide a description of the wines grapes and history before everyone takes a taste. There are of course bowls to spit out the taste so as not to destroy the palette for future tastings, but half the fun of a tasting is actually drinking the wine and not just "tasting" it! So not only is it fun, but also educational!
Once you've finished with your wine tasting and are hopefully still standing on your two feet, then you can wander round the shop at the winery to maybe pick up a bottle or two of a wine that you enjoyed during the tasting, or maybe find something new to experience. Whether you are a serious wine collector or you simply enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner occasionally, there is no reason that you should not buy the best and enjoy the pleasures as if you had a winery in your very own home.
So support your local community and instead of only going to a winery when on vacation, one day just pop down the road to your local winery and enjoy the splendour that they have on offer. You might be surprised at the quality of wine that can be found on your own doorstep!


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One of the things about Stargate SG-1 that always entertained me was the fact that the show never took itself too seriously. That tone was set by a leading character, Jack O'Neill, who loved to go fishing so much that he had a fishing pond installed on his property behind his rustic log cabin home. But because he enjoyed fishing more than he actually enjoyed catching fish, he never had any fish put into the pond. Jack would simply sit there in his lawn chair, with an ice chest full of cold drinks, watching the water and casting his line out every once in a while. I don't think he even used any bait.
When Jesus called the first disciples, he said, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Matthew 4:19, NIV). That call extends to all of us who have decided to follow Jesus, but sometimes I think we enjoy fishing for men the way Jack O'Neill enjoyed fishing. We like talking about it. We enjoy feeling like we're fishing. We may even enjoy going through the motions just like Jack enjoyed casting out his line. But at the end of the day, we're more interested in fishing for people than in catching people. You can tell because, like Jack, we don't actually go where the fish are. We stay where we are comfortable, where we can feel like we're fishing, where we might catch something if the fish come to us. But truly fishing means going where the fish are.
Jesus was known as a friend of sinners because he went where the sinners were. Jesus went into the homes of the tax collectors and ate with the prostitutes. He hung out with sinners so much that the religious leaders labeled him a drunkard and a glutton (Mathew 11:19). He wasn't. But Jesus didn't fear being labelled by people who claimed to care about others but really only pushed them away from the kingdom of God (Mathew 23:13-15). Jesus hung out with sinners because he remembered it is not the healthy who need a doctor but the sick (Mathew 9:12, NIV).
If we want to get serious about fishing for people, we must be willing to go where the fish are. We must be willing to spend time with sinners and hang out with people who don't act like good Christians. And we must be willing to love them the same way Jesus did, accepting them and caring for them without ever glossing over their sin.
Are we fishing for people in order to catch something or are we just going through the motions? Instead of sitting by an empty pond, casting our reels in vain, let's go where the fish are.


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Supreme Court Strikes Down Qualified Immunity Claim
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While Congress has largely dropped the ball on criminal justice reform, there is a glimmer of hope that the Supreme Court may yet erect some limits on the government's police power – specifically, on qualified immunity.
According to Reason's Billy Binion:
…prison guards escorted a naked Trent Taylor, then an inmate at the John T. Montford Psychiatric Facility Unit in Lubbock, Texas, to his cell. That cell, he contends, was covered in "massive" amounts of human feces—on the ceiling, on the floor, on the walls, and on the windows. He didn't eat for four days because he was anxious he'd risk contamination. Nor did he drink anything after observing that feces were "packed inside the water faucet."
He next moved to a seclusion cell, one that came without a toilet, bed, or water fountain. Its only contents: sewage, built up from a clogged drain on the floor. When Taylor asked to use the restroom, the guards denied his request and told him to urinate in the drain. He would then have to sleep in his own urine, since the floor was already steeped in waste, and since he was without a bed. After 24 hours, he urinated on himself involuntarily, and slept, naked, in sewage.
Taylor sued, alleging a violation of his 8th Amendment rights. Both a U.S. District Court and the federal appeals court agreed the situation was terrible, but granted the guards immunity anyway.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 the guards obviously violated Taylor's rights, and can be sued:
"The Fifth Circuit erred in granting the officers qualified immunity on this basis," wrote the Supreme Court in an unsigned opinion. The newly-minted Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate, and the lone dissenter was Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. The panel added that "no reasonable correctional officer could have concluded that, under the extreme circumstances of this case, it was constitutionally permissible to house Taylor in such deplorably unsanitary conditions for such an extended period of time."
A small victory for common sense, the 8th Amendment, and – possibly — criminal justice reform.
Image Credit: Joe Ravi [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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VIDEO: Maryland Dem Gov Candidate Rushern Baker Tries To Downplay His Attempts To Raise Property Taxes
Baker knows that his history of supporting major tax hikes could seriously damage his campaign governor.
Per The RGA:
Maryland Democrat gubernatorial candidate Rushern Baker knows that his history of supporting major tax hikes could seriously damage his campaign governor. That's why Baker is now disingenuously rushing to downplay his record, even though the facts show that he fought to raise his county's property taxes by over $100 million to the "highest" rate in the state.
At a recent candidate's forum in Annapolis, Baker admitted that he expects to be attacked over his record of trying to push tax hikes. In an attempt to downplay his 2015 property tax hike proposal, Baker remarked, "I tried one time to raise the property taxes, which I'm sure I'll see in a commercial, by fifteen cents. In a county that's fairly wealthy." Watch here.
Baker would have you believe that his property tax hike attempt was small, at just "fifteen cents." That's far from the truth.
The Baltimore Sun reported at the time that Baker was actually proposing a tax hike what would increase the property tax by "15 percent…from 96 cents to $1.11 per $100 of assessable property." Baker also proposed "higher personal property and telecommunications tax rates." When Baker talks about a fifteen-cent hike, he's means fifteen cents on the dollar.
This is a clear case of Baker engaging in revisionist history, and it's only just the beginning of Baker's troubling record on property tax hikes. The Washington Post reports that Baker faced a "firestorm of opposition" from homeowners after he proposed his tax hike because it would have ended a 35-year cap on property tax rates and given Prince George's county "the highest tax rate in the state."
Fighting to give Prince George's county "the highest tax rate in the state." That's Rushern Baker's real record on property taxes.
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BT has announced plans to replace dozens of payphones on the streets of Southwark with new advertising-funded multimedia kiosks offering free phone calls, free wifi and USB charging sockets for mobile phones.
The LinkUK project is a collaboration between BT, Intersection and outdoor advertising company Primesight.
LinkUK is based on the LinkNYC kiosks installed by Intersection in New York City.
More than 100 LinkUK kiosks are planned for the streets of Southwark and dozens of planning applications have now been submitted to the council.
The kiosks will have handsets offering free phone calls to UK landlines and mobiles, as well as free high-speed wifi access and two USB sockets where mobile phone batteries can be topped up.
The free services will be funded from revenue from advertising displayed on the kiosks' digital screens.
"The increased connectivity and access to local services Links will bring to Southwark will undoubtedly benefit residents, visitors and businesses alike and supports our ambition to become a digital council," said Cllr Peter John, leader of Southwark Council.
Nick Hale of BT Wholesale and Ventures said: "This is the phone box of the future.
"We're evolving the phone box to make it relevant to people in the 21st century by offering them ultrafast Wi-Fi, free phone calls, rapid mobile charging, a range of digital and information services and all for free.
"Southwark is at the heart of one of the greatest cities in the world and it's entirely fitting that it will become one of the first boroughs in the UK to benefit from the new Links as we look to transform the look of our payphones and the services they offer the public."
BT has pledged to reduce street clutter by removing more phone boxes than will be replaced by Links.


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SouthworldCulture April 2016Kenya – Maasai. The drinking of milk ceremony.
One of the characteristic in the life of Maasai is the Eunoto ceremony, drinking milk and becoming elders. We look at the event.
A ceremony that signals the passage from the state of warrior to that of elder is the drinking milk ritual. Beer is brewed in a pristine calabash and the mother of the warrior who will go through the ceremony stores some milk. When the beer is being brewed, warriors come to the settlement, and two elder maternal uncles belonging to the godfather-group are called to give the warrior his milk.
In the early evening when the herding is done, the two elders and the warriors gather. The warriors are given milk to drink with the twig of a wild olive tree. When this is done, a little of this sweet milk in placed in a small gourd and poured into a small calabash with curdled milk and a little water. The drink is then given to the warrior. In turn, the warriors bring the drink to the elders to bless it. Those belonging to the Olotuno circumcision-group and the other office bearers are first given milk to drink and then all members get milk to drink. The warrior at the centre of the ceremony sits right inside the main bed, dressed in a black cloth, whilst his mother stands near the bed. One elder is dressed in a cloak and he holds the milk for the warrior.
The elder stands holding the milk out to the warrior, but at first the warrior refuses the milk, until the people of his family give him cattle. When the warrior knows that the people of his whole family and his age-mate warriors will give him cattle, he drinks the milk. He sucks the milk four times whilst the elder holds it out to him, after which the elder gives it to him to hold himself and to drink till satisfaction. The warriors then sing and dance, while the elders are given honey-beer. When it is time to go to sleep, the warriors go outside and leave the one who drank milk so that he can to sleep in his mother's house in between the two elders of the godfather-group. The morning after, when the early red dawn spreads around, the mother of the warrior gets up and raises a bull which has not yet managed to catch a cow. She also takes up some dung but allows the first amount to slip through her fingers, and holds on to the rest. She has a small gourd in which she places the urine of a small ox and a goat. This she takes to the house to keep it and then goes to milk the cattle. The evening before, the two elders had come with a stick of an aromatic bush pulled out by the roots, and they stripped off the leaves leaving a few near the top. These they stuck into the gatepost on the left as one enters the settlement. In the morning, they rise and remove that stick and give it to the warrior who is to be an elder in the kraal and they place this for the warrior along with the white stick of an entopisianoi-tree, so that there are now two.
While the cattle are in the kraal and the gate is still closed with some thorn-branches, the elders and the warrior enter the cattle pen holding a small stool on which white chalk is powdered. They hold the top of a calabash with sweet milk in it and also put the urine of the young bull and the goat on the stool, along with the dung of a bull. All these are now to be thoroughly mixed together. The warrior's face is then anointed covering both his cheeks. His right shin is also anointed in blessing. The words are: Be favoured in cattle and people; this is at the blessing of the face. Then they say to him: May children put bracelets on you, boys as well as girls; this is at the blessing of the foot. And his sticks are anointed with the words: Be matched, the sticks of the boys and of girls. At this, everything is mixed together: white chalk, milk, urine, dung, beer. This is called 'olkupelia', the big blessing by which he becomes an elder ever after.
When 'olkupelia' has been performed, the cattle go out of the settlement, and he too goes out amongst the cattle, and beats three calves with a special stick, beginning with a bull and then the other cattle. And when the cattle have been struck, he sees them off for a while before returning into the settlement, where he is shaved again. The next morning he goes out with the cattle for four days. And with this the ceremony of drinking milk is over.
Frans Mol


Beginning in 2015, an employer that employed at least 100 full-time employees (or full-time equivalents) during 2014 will become subject to the shared responsibility (employer mandate) provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended (ACA). The employer mandate generally imposes penalties on such a "large" employer if the employer fails to offer affordable, minimum-value group health plan coverage to its "full-time employees," generally defined under the ACA as employees working 30 hours or more per week.
Due to the rising cost of employer-sponsored health plans, this mandate could be particularly burdensome for employers not currently offering coverage to all such full-time employees. For example, the mandate may require some employers to offer coverage to employees who were historically ineligible for coverage, such as temporary or seasonal employees, or pay a penalty (see the February 2014 Bond Information Memo for a discussion of the final regulations implementing the employer mandate). As a result, many budget-conscious employers are exploring low-cost coverage alternatives, including sub-minimum-value health plans (called skinny plans) and employee-pay-all health plans, which could be offered to all full-time employees or just to those full-time employees who were historically ineligible for coverage. However, these strategies carry some risk, as discussed below.
2. The employer offers health coverage to its full-time employees (and their dependents), but the coverage is either unaffordable or does not provide minimum value (deficient-coverage penalty).
The no-offer penalty is $2,000 per year times all of the employer's full-time employees (disregarding the first 30 employees). The deficient-coverage penalty is $3,000 per year times each full-time employee who receives a premium tax credit or cost-sharing reduction to purchase coverage on a health insurance exchange.
In most cases, the no-offer penalty will vastly exceed the deficient-coverage penalty because, despite the deficient-coverage penalty being a greater dollar amount, the deficient-coverage penalty applies only to each full-time employee who receives a subsidy to purchase coverage on a health insurance exchange. On the other hand, the no-offer penalty is multiplied by the number of all of the employer's full-time employees (disregarding the first 30 employees).
To avoid the potentially hefty no-offer penalty, some employers are considering a low-cost health coverage compliance strategy. Subject to satisfaction of any applicable non-discrimination requirements, this strategy could be applied to all full-time employees or just to those full-time employees who were historically ineligible for coverage. There are two main ways to implement this strategy, both of which involve intentional exposure to the deficient-coverage penalty.
Generally, a group health plan provides minimum value if it is designed to pay for at least 60% of the cost of claims for a standard population. Some employers are considering offering low-cost coverage that would intentionally fail the minimum value test. These so-called "skinny" plans are low cost because they exclude large categories of care. For example, they may only cover preventive care, like vaccines and cancer screenings, without employee cost-sharing (as required by the ACA), but not hospitalization, surgery, x-ray, or prenatal care.
An employer offering a skinny plan would be exposed (intentionally) to the deficient-coverage penalty. Because the skinny plan fails the minimum value test, each full-time employee who purchases subsidized coverage on a health insurance exchange would trigger the deficient-coverage penalty. Employers electing this strategy project that the premium/cost savings from offering the skinny plan will exceed the deficient-coverage penalties triggered.
Generally, a group health plan is unaffordable for ACA purposes if the employee's required contribution for self-only coverage exceeds 9.5% of the employee's household income for the taxable year. Because an employer typically will not know an employee's household income, recently-issued final regulations offer safe harbors that employers can use to determine affordability (see the March 2014 Bond Information Memo for a detailed discussion of the affordability safe harbors).
Some employers are considering offering coverage that, in most cases, would intentionally fail the affordability test. These unaffordable plans are low-cost because employees would be required to pay most or all of the premiums. In a plan that is designed to be unaffordable, the required employee premium would be set at a level that is projected to readily exceed 9.5% of household income for most employees.
As with skinny plans, an employer offering unaffordable coverage would be exposed to the deficient-coverage penalty. Each full-time employee for whom the coverage is unaffordable, and who purchases subsidized coverage on a health insurance exchange, would trigger the deficient-coverage penalty. However, as with skinny plans, employers pursuing this compliance strategy project that the cost savings from offering unaffordable coverage will exceed the deficient-coverage penalties triggered.
These low-cost coverage compliance strategies have immediate appeal to budget-conscious employers that face new health plan and penalty costs under the looming employer mandate. However, these strategies carry some risk. For example, although Federal officials have informally indicated that skinny plans currently meet the ACA's broad definition of "minimum essential coverage" – which generally means medical coverage that includes more than HIPAA-excepted benefits (e.g., more than limited-scope dental and vision benefits) – that definition could be amended to require more robust coverage.


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Yvonne Gittelson of Goshen Announces Candidacy for Hampshire County Sheriff
Corrections Specialist and former Hampshire jail employee to challenge the incumbent.
Dateline: GOSHEN, Massachusetts, March 17, 2022.
Yvonne Gittelson, a longterm resident of Goshen, Corrections Program Specialist, lifelong educator, and former Education Director of the Hampshire County Jail and House of Correction, has announced her candidacy for the Office of Sheriff in the November election. She is running as a Democrat, challenging the first-term incumbent.


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Checking and Packing - GZ - PUP - GZ P.UP leatherwares Co. Ltd.
Each aspect of workmanship is checked visually with severe eyes. After this process the handbag will be pack into cartons and ready for shipment, therefore, no defectiveness shall be overlooked. Packing way is very important to keep the shape of the bag.
So, the packing department need to find a correct way under the instruction from buyer. Such as stuffing with paper inside the bag,separating each bag with cardboard,using standard export carton. In all ,We need to protect the bag well ,until delivered to the buyer.


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To increase the level of safety in the event of a fire onboard, CLIA's members have adopted a policy that each cruise vessel operator install local sounding smoke alarms1 in all passenger and crew cabins that are intended to immediately alert occupants of the cabin to the presence of smoke in all ships that are not required to comply with Regulations 7.5.1 and 7.5.2 of Chapter II-2 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). These local alarms, when operated in conjunction with the smoke detection and alarm system required by SOLAS, enhance smoke detection with minimal adverse operational impact.
Central to the presence of local sounding smoke alarms is the premise that these alarms should not interfere with internationally required fire detection systems or operational procedures necessary for passenger management in the event of an emergency. Local sounding smoke alarms should not render the public address system ineffective, prevent efficient communications between crew and passengers or within the fire team, or otherwise prevent the passing of information necessary in responding to an emergency.
CLIA's policy recognizes that life safety onboard cruise ships in the event of a fire is enhanced by a system of safety that incorporates: structural fire resistant design; fire detection and extinguishing systems (including smoke detectors and alarms, sprinkler systems, and fire mains); emergency response teams that have received advanced training in shipboard firefighting; and shipboard operational response procedures formulated for specific emergency situations.
Immediately direct one or more crew members to the location of the activated smoke detector to investigate.
Immediately place a telephone call from the ship's safety center to the affected passenger cabin or crew cabin where equipped with a telephone.
In the event of the activation of multiple smoke detectors throughout a space or in more than one space, and in the absence of specific knowledge or additional information regarding the origin of these alarms, immediately assemble and, in the absence of confirmation that there is no fire, dispatch a fire response team.
Additionally, under CLIA's policy members are to provide passenger instruction on what action to take in the event of the activation of a local sounding alarm. Such instruction may be provided via in-room written, electronic and/or video safety information. Such instructions should include, but are not limited to, the meaning of the alarm and the action the passenger is directed to take. Training for the crew regarding how to respond to local sounding alarms is to be given at appropriate intervals and included in the crew safety manuals required by SOLAS.
1 Local sounding smoke alarm means an audible signal that is emitted within a passenger or crew cabin where a smoke detector is activated and which is of sufficient sound pressure (loudness) to alert occupants of the cabin to the possibility of danger from smoke.


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Q: nservicebus unsubscribing when we want it to subscribe We have an NServiceBus 3.0 publisher running under the production profile.
When a subscriber starts up it sends the subscription messages to the publisher but the publisher does not add them to Raven. Infact in the publisher's log is the entry:
NServiceBus.Unicast.UnicastBus [(null)] <(null)> - Unsubscribing subscriber@servername from message type MyMessage, MyMessages, Version=1.0.20323.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=XXXXXXXX

When the bus does a Publish() the subscriber does not receive a message because it would seem as if the publisher cannot process the subscriptions.
Any help would be stellar as we have a demo tomorrow.

A: Make sure that all your endpoints are 3.0.1. 300 is not compatible with 301 without the nsb.compatibility.dll in the bin dir

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IIO BC is a civilian oversight agency that investigates incidents involving police officers that result in death or serious harm to determine whether or not an officer may have committed an offence. (Black Press Media file photo)
Police watchdog seeking witnesses in officer-involved Surrey shooting
This is the fourth incident within a one-week period that IIO is investigating
Aug. 23, 2019 11:03 a.m.
The Independent Investigations Office is looking for witnesses in an officer-involved shooting in Surrey on Aug. 14.
Surrey RCMP said a man was shot by police in the early morning of Aug. 14, after reports about a man chasing someone with a machete, in an alley near 106th Avenue and 135A Street.
During the incident, IIO said in a release Friday (Aug. 23), "police officers fired their service pistols striking the man." The man was taken to hospital.
READ ALSO: B.C. watchdog investigating after man shot by police near Surrey's 135A Street, Aug. 14, 2019
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to contact the IIO witness line at 1-855-446-8477.
Meantime, IIO is also investigating three other incidents involving Surrey RCMP members.
On Aug. 19, around 4:30 p.m., officers responded to a home on 102B Avenue "following reports of a disturbance."
READ ALSO: Police apprehend 'armed and barricaded man' after standoff in Surrey neighbourhood, Aug. 20, 2019
IIO said that officers "tried to communicate with a male who they observed was in possession of several edged weapons."
The Emergency Response Team was called in, according to IIO, and while apprehending the male, an officer used a Taser and a "less lethal 40 mm Extended Range Impact Weapon."
Then on Aug. 18, Surrey RCMP received a call about a male, who was in distress, at a residence on 144A Street, according to IIO.
The police watchdog said Surrey RCMP officers found the male and apprehended him under the Mental Health Act.
IIO said officers put the male in the police vehicle and called emergency services to transport him to hospital but he "went into medical distress" and an ambulance was called in to complete the trip to the hospital.
On Aug. 13, IIO was called in after Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a woman on her balcony who wanted to end her life.
READ ALSO: Police watchdog called into Surrey after woman dies in balcony fall, Aug. 13, 2019
Front-line officers responded to an apartment complex in the 14800-block of 103A Avenue and confirmed that an individual was on the edge of a ninth-floor balcony. Police officers made multiple attempts to make contact with the individual and entered the building.
The woman fell and, despite receiving immediate emergency medical treatment from police officers and BC Ambulance attendants, was declared deceased on scene.
IIO BC is a civilian oversight agency that investigates incidents involving police officers that result in death or serious harm to determine whether or not an officer may have committed an offence.
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Naked breasts, red skin, long Rasta braids with red clay and heavy jewelry made of iron nuts and nails are the most significant sign of Himba woman. She is proud and has a straight back and most often she is carrying a baby on her back.
It is the women that take responsibility to carry on this culture. They cover themselves in otjize, a mixture of milk stirred to cream and ochre, crumbled red stone. This red cream is applied twice a day and a Himba woman never wash in water. Intimate wash consists of a homemade perfume made of herbs and aromatic branches, mashed with embers and then they let the smoke cover all parts of the body. To clean the abdomen they just sit on top of a barrel of burning perfume for a while.
My first meeting with the Himba women was on the street in Swakopmunde in Namibia. They sold homemade jewelry and approached us with an aggressive sales method. I had read so much about this beautiful people and their threatened culture and was looking forward to the possibility of a visit to a Himba village up north in Namibia. But this first meeting did not turn out very pleasant. At the moment I showed some interest in their goods they became intense pushy and I have to admit that they scared me with their red bodies and naked breasts.
They became very demanding, wanting me to take photos of them and the babies for money. So I choose to just walk away with out buying anything. When we later travelled up north to Kaokoland the area where Most Himbas are living, I did not have any expectations about a positive meeting with Himba people in a village. But then who am I? – To judge these women for trying to earn some money for them self and their family.
Himba people are one of many ethnic groups in Namibia that still live a traditional life close to a harsh nature and following old customs. They are related to the Herero people and in the language group of Bantu. It is traditionally a nomadic culture, but today mostly semi-nomadic. The Namibian authorities have drilled for water many places in Kaokaland and made it easier to stay at one place. The result is also that the women stay in the village taking care of children and the elders and taking care of their small gardens. Men can be out living a nomadic life for months looking after the herd of cows and goats.
It is common for men to have from 2 to 8 wives and one of them can be of another tribe like a Herero woman. Men mostly use western clothes and in some periods they may also work far away other places in the country. The culture is under a huge pressure and I doubt that they can continue to live this kind of life for long. So will this culture exist in 10 years time? Because they are semi-nomads the children goes to school. But girls are not allowed to cover themselves in red cream or turn up with naked breasts at school. Even though many girls drop out of school and marry very young, some will get the taste of a different way of life.
We visited a village one hour west of the small city Opuwo, north in Namibia. Our guide from Opuwo Country Lodge was brought up in a similar village. His father was Himba and his mother was Herero. The lodge had an agreement with the Himba chiefs in the area. In exchange for letting tourists visit the village we brought with us a sack of corn and a sack of sugar.
Because of the sad meeting with Himbas in Swakopmunde I was skeptic to the village visit. But we hade a fantastic time and got a great welcome. After 5 minutes of negotiation between the guide and the chief, we were welcome to walk around, take photos as much as we wanted and talking to the village people. We spent many hours there and had a nice, relaxing time. No one was pushy only smiling and laughing, but I did feel a little uncomfortable coming here to "look at them". Because our guide could interpret we could ask questions and communicate with people and learn more about their way of life.
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\section{Introduction}

Discrete Morse theory is a discrete analogue of the classical Morse theory. It was developed by R. Forman \cite{for}. This theory can be applied to any simplicial and regular CW-complexes and, although its definition is quite simple, many classical results analogous to the ones of the continuous Morse theory arise in its scope.

We develop a way to "transfer" a discrete Morse function, defined on a simplicial complex, onto the barycentric subdivision of this complex in such a way that all important data about this function (i. e. the number and dimensions of the critical simplexes and the gradient path structure) stays unchanged. It can be done in several different ways and we can produce several different Morse functions. It can be useful in computing multiplication in cohomology ring of this simplicial complex \cite{for}. The main result of the paper is the following theorem.

\begin{thm}\label{main_thm}
	Let $F$ be a discrete Morse function on a simplicial complex $L$. Suppose that for every critical cimplex $\alpha \in Crit(F)$ the ordering $Ord_{\alpha}$ on its vertices is chosen. Then the pairing on the barycentric subdivision $\Delta(L)$ constructed in Section \ref{sec_pairings} defines a discrete Morse function $\Delta(F)$ on $\Delta(L)$ such that the following holds:

	\begin{enumerate}

		\item  The critical simplexes of $\Delta(F)$ are exactly those that have the chosen orderings $Ord_*$  as their labels. That is, every critical $k$-simplex of $F$ contains exactly one critical $k$-simplex of $\Delta(F)$ which can be chosen arbitrary before constructing $\Delta(F)$. This defines a bijection  $Crit(F) \rightarrow Crit(\Delta(F))$

		\item There exists a natural bijection $Gr(F) \rightarrow Gr(\Delta(F))$ that respects the bijection $Crit(F) \rightarrow Crit(\Delta(F))$ defined above.

	\end{enumerate}
\end{thm}

It is worthy to mention in this respect that E.Babson and P. Hersch \cite{her}  introduced a technique that can be (as one particular application) used to build a certain Morse function on the barycentric subdivision of an arbitrary simplicial complex. This Morse function arises from a lexicographic order on the maximal chains of the simplexes of $L$, i.e. on the maximal simplexes of $\Delta(L)$. The question, whether there are connections between our work and \cite{her}, stays open.

The structure of this paper is as follows. In section \ref{sec_prelim} we give definitions of discrete Morse function and barycentric subdivision. We formulate our main theorem in this section as well. In section \ref{sec_pairings} we construct the Morse function on the barycentric subdivision of a simplicial complex and in section \ref{sec_proof} we prove that the constructed function satisfies the needed conditions.

\bigskip

\section{Preliminaries}\label{sec_prelim}

We start with the remindings.

\subsection*{Discrete Morse function on a regular simplicial complex \cite{for}}
Let $L$ be a regular simplicial complex. By $\alpha^p, \ \beta^p$ in this section we
denote  its $p$-dimensional simplexes, or \textit{$p$-simplexes}, for short.

 A \textit{discrete vector field} is a set of pairs
$$\big(\alpha^p,\beta^{p+1}\big)$$
 such that:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item  each simplex of the complex participates in at most one
    pair, and
    \item  in each pair, the simplex $\alpha^p$ is a facet of $\beta^{p+1}$.

\end{enumerate}

Given a discrete vector field, a \textit{path} of dimension $(p+1)$, or a \textit{$(p+1)$-path} is a sequence of
simplexes

$$ \beta_0^{p+1},\ \alpha_1^p,\ \beta_1^{p+1}, \ \alpha_2^p,\ \beta_2^{p+1} ,..., \alpha_m^p,\ \beta_m^{p+1},\ \alpha_{m+1}^p,$$
which satisfies the conditions:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item  Each $\big(\alpha_i^p,\ \beta_i^{p+1}\big)$ is a pair.
    \item Whenever $\alpha$ and  $\beta$ are neighbors in the path,
    $\alpha$ is a facet of $\beta$.
    \item $\alpha_i\neq \alpha_{i+1}$.
\end{enumerate}

Every path consists of "face"-steps (that is, transition from simplex $\beta_i^{p+1}$ to one of its faces $\alpha_{i+1}^p$) and "pair"-steps (that is, transition from simplex $\alpha_{i}^p$ to simplex $\beta_i^{p+1}$, following the pairing).

A path is \textit{closed} if $\alpha_{m+1}^p=\alpha_{0}^p$.

A \textit{discrete Morse function on a regular simplicial complex} is a
discrete vector field with no closed paths in it.

Assuming that a discrete Morse function is fixed, the \textit{critical simplexes} are those simplexes of the complex that
  are not paired.  We denote the set of all critical simplexes of a discrete Morse function $F$ with $Crit(F)$.

A \textit{ gradient $(p+1)$-path} of a discrete Morse function leading from
one critical simplex $\beta^{p+1}$ to some another  critical simplex
$\alpha^{p}$ is the sequence of simplexes:
$$\beta^{p+1},\ \ \alpha_1^p,\ \beta_1^{p+1},\ \alpha_2^p,\ \beta_2^{p+1},\ ...,\ \alpha_m^p,\ \beta_m^{p+1},\ \alpha^{p}$$

satisfying the three above conditions.

We denote the set of all gradient paths of a discrete Morse function $F$ with $Gr(F)$.

\subsection{Barycentric subdivision}

\begin{dfn}
	Let $L$ be a simplicial complex. Then its barycentric subdivision $\Delta(L)$ is a simplicial complex, such that the vertices of $\Delta(L)$ are in a bijectional correspondence with the ste of all simplexes of $L$ and the subset of vertices in $\Delta(L)$ forms a simplex iff the corresponding simplexes form a chain in the poset of all simplexes of $L$.
\end{dfn}

For any two simplexes $\alpha, \beta \in \Delta(L)$ we have $\alpha \in \beta$ iff the chain that corresponds to $\alpha$ is a subchain of the chain that corresponds to $\beta$.

The regular realization of $\Delta (L)$ can be constructed for any regular realisation of $L$ as follows. We realize every vertex of $\Delta(L)$ as the barycenter of the realization of the corresponding simplex of $L$, as depicted on Fig. \ref{fig_sub}. The realisation of a simplex $\alpha \in \Delta(L)$ lies in the interior of the realisation of a simplex $\beta \in L$ iff $\beta$ is the last simplex in the chain that corresponds to $\alpha$.

\begin{figure}[h]\label{fig_sub}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=10 cm]{Subdiv.eps}
\caption{Barycentric subdivision of a 2-simplex with the chains corresponding to some simplexes}
\end{figure}

To simplify our construction, we transform the chains of the simplexes of $L$ in the following way. We turn a chain
 $$ s_1\rightarrow s_2\rightarrow\dots\rightarrow s_{k+1}$$ that corresponds to the simplex $\gamma$ into the ordered set
 $$\lambda(\gamma)=\{s_1, s_2 \backslash s_1, \dots, s_{k+1}  \backslash s_k \},$$ that we call the \textit{label} of $\gamma$. It is a linearly ordered partition of the set $s_{k+1}$.

In this notation a simplex $\alpha' \in \Delta(L)$ is a face of a simplex $\alpha \in \Delta(L)$ iff the partition $\lambda(\alpha)$ can be turned into a refinement of the partition $\lambda(\alpha')$ by deleting some sets from the end of $\lambda(\alpha)$. We will use this geometrical picture in our proofs.

\medskip

\textbf{Example} The faces of the triangle in $\Delta(L)$ with the label $$(\{a,f\} \ \{d\} \ \{t\})$$ are the following:
\begin{itemize}
\item 1-dimensional (edges): $(\{a,f\} \{d,t\}), (\{a,f,d\} \ \{t\}), (\{a,f\} \ \{d\} )$.

\item 0-dimensional (vertices): $(\{a,f,d,t\}), (\{a,f,d\} ), (\{a,f\})$.
\end{itemize}
\medskip

\section{Pairing on the complex $\Delta(L)$}\label{sec_pairings}

Suppose we have a discrete Morse function $F$ on a regular simlicial complex $L$. In this section we define  a discrete vector field on the complex $\Delta(L)$. We deal with pieces of critical and non-critical simplexes of $L$ in two different ways.

\subsection{Non-critical simplexes}
	Let $(\alpha^{n-1},\beta^n) \in F$. We renumber their vertices so that $\alpha=[n]=\{1,2, \dots,n\},\beta=[n+1]=\{1,2, \dots, n+1\}$. This renumbering is almost arbitrary, except the vertex $n+1 = \beta \backslash \alpha$. The pairing that we define below do not depend on this renumbering, so it is made only for conveniency.

	 We  define pairings on all simplexes of $\Delta(L)$, that lie in the interiors of $\alpha$ and $\beta$. They are exactly all simplexes whose labels are the subdivisions of $[n]$ and $[n+1]$. Let $\gamma$ be a $k$-simplex with such label.	 Consider four possible cases:

	\begin{enumerate}
	\item   $\lambda(\gamma)$ is an oredered subdivision of $[n]$, i. e. $\gamma \in \Delta(\alpha)$. Then we obtain a pair for $\gamma$ by adding a singleton $\{n+1\}$ to the right end of $\lambda(\gamma)$. We get a $(k+1)$-simplex that belongs to the case 2.

	\item The entry $n+1$ forms a singleton  in $\lambda(\gamma)$ and it is the last set in $\lambda(\gamma)$. Then we obtain a pair for $\gamma$ by deleting $\{n+1\}$ from $\lambda(\gamma)$. We get a $(k-1)$-simplex  that belongs to the case 1.

	\item The entry $n+1$ forms a singleton  in $\lambda(\gamma)$ and it is not the last set in $\lambda(\gamma)$ Then we obtain a pair for $\gamma$ by uniting the singleton $\{n+1\}$ with the set that goes after it. We get a $(k-1)$-simplex  that belongs to the case 4.

	\item The entry $n+1$ lies in a non-singleton set in $\lambda(\gamma)$.  Then we obtain a pair for $\gamma$ by  splitting the  entry $n+1$ to the left from the set containing it and forming a singleton $\{n+1\}$. We get a $(k+1)$-simplex  that belongs to the case 3.

	\end{enumerate}

	It is easy to see that every simplex takes part in exactly one pair.

\textbf{Example} If $n+1=5$, then we will have such pairs of simplexes as the two below:

	$$((\{1\} \ \{3,4\} \  \{2, 5\}),\  (\{1\} \ \{3,4\} \  \{5\} \ \{2\})),$$

	and

	$$(\{1\} \ \{3,4\} \  \{2\}),\  (\{1\} \ \{3,4\} \  \{2\} \  \{ 5\}))).$$

\medskip

Now prove that this pairing defines a Morse function inside $\Delta(\beta)$.
\begin{lemma}\label{good_pair}
There are no cyclic paths in the vector field on $\Delta(\beta)$ defined above.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}

Suppose we have a path $\Gamma$ in the pairing defined above. Consider the position of the entry $n+1$ in the labels of the simplexes in $\Gamma$. In every "pair"-step this entry exits some non-singleton set and forms a singleton. Therefore, every "face"-step, except maybe the first or the last step in the path is performed by adding this entry to the set next to it. If we add this entry to the right set, then during the next "pair"-step we will immediately return back to this simplex, which is forbidden. So every face-step is defined uniquely and the entry $n+1$ travels to the left side of the label during the path. Therefore, no path is cyclic.
\end{proof}

As we will see in the Lemma \ref{lemma_proper}, we are interested only in $n$-paths inside $\Delta(\beta)$. The lemma below follows from the pairing construction and the definition of the barycentric subdivision.

	\begin{lemma}\label{lemma_noncritical}
		Let $\lambda(\gamma) = (I_1 \ I_2 \dots I_{n+1})$ be an $n$-simplex in $\Delta(\beta)$ (note that in this case all the sets $I_i$ are singletones). Then the following statements hold.
		\begin{enumerate}
		\item There is exactly one $(n-1)$-face of $\gamma$ that lies on the boundary of $\beta$ and it is the simplex with the label $( I_1 \ I_2 \dots  I_{n})$;

		\item The simplex $\gamma$ is paired with the $(n-1)$-simplex  given above  iff $I_{n+1}=\{n+1\}$;

		\item If $I_1 \neq \{n+1\}$, then there is exactly one $(n-1)$-face of $\gamma$, that is paired with another $n$-simplex of $\Delta(\beta)$.
		 It has the label obtained by uniting in $\lambda(\gamma)$ the singleton $\{n+1\}$ with the singleton that goes before it;
		 This $(n-1)$-face of  $\gamma$ is paired with the simplex $\gamma'$, which label can be obtained from $\lambda(\gamma)$ by interchanging the singleton $\{n+1\}$ with the singleton that goes before it.

		\item If $I_1=\{n+1\}$, then there are no $(n-1)$-faces of $\gamma$ that are paired with another k-simplexes of $\Delta(\beta)$.

		\end{enumerate}
	\end{lemma}

	This lemma shows that if we construct an $n$-path that goes through $\Delta(\beta)$ we do not have much choice. We can start from any $(n-1)$-simplex  in $\Delta(\alpha)$ and follow the pairing. On every "face" step we can either go to the boundary of $\Delta(\beta)$ in the uniquely defined way ( Lemma \ref{lemma_noncritical}.1) or go further in the uniquely defined way (Lemma \ref{lemma_noncritical}.3), until we get to the simplexes that lie near the vertex $n+1$ (Lemma \ref{lemma_noncritical}.4).

		Informally, these paths form a "flow" from $\alpha$ in the direction of the vertex $p+1$ (see Fig. \ref{fig_rairing} for example).

\label{fig_rairing}\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=10 cm]{Noncritical.eps}
\caption{The pairings on the barycentric subdivision of a pair $(\alpha^n, \beta^{n+1})$, for $n+1=3$}
\end{figure}

		 The next lemma follows from the above.

\begin{lemma}\label{path_pair}
Suppose that a gradient $n$-path of $\Delta(F)$ goes through $\Delta(\beta)$ and the last simplex of $\Delta(\beta)$ in this path is the $(n-1)$-simplex $\lambda(\gamma)=(I_1 \  I_2 \dots  I_{n})$. Suppose $I_j=\{n+1\}$.

Then  the first simplex of this path that lies in $\Delta(\beta)$ has the label

$$(I_1  \ I_2 \dots I_{j-1} \  I_{j+1}  \ \dots \ I_{n} \ [n+1] \backslash \bigcup_{i=1}^{n} I_i ).$$
\end{lemma}

\textbf{Example}

Let $n+1=5$. If an n-path  goes through $\Delta(\beta)$ and the last simplex of $\Delta(\beta)$ in this path is the $(n-1)$-simplex labeled $(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{5\} \ \{4\} )$, then the first simplex of $\Delta(\beta)$ in this path is the simplex labeled $(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4\} \ \{2\})$ and the path looks the following way:

 $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4\} \ \{2\})$$
 $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4\} \ \{2\} \ \{5\})$$
  $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4\} \ \{2,5\})$$
   $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{2\})$$
      $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{4, 5\} \ \{2\})$$
  $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{5\} \ \{4\} \ \{2\})$$
    $$(\{1\} \ \{3\} \ \{5\} \ \{4\}).$$

\bigskip

\subsection{Critical simplexes}

Let $\alpha^n$ be a critical $n$-simplex of $F$. We renuber its vertices so that $\alpha=[n+1]=\{1,2, \dots , n+1\}$.  We will pair the simplexes of $\Delta(L)$ that lie in the inner part of $\alpha$, i. e. those which labels are the ordered subdivisions of the set $[n+1]$. We leave only one $n$-simplex non-paired, namely the simplex with the label

 $$\lambda(\alpha')=(\{n+1\} \ \{n\} \dots \{1\} ).$$

 This simplex depends on our renumbering, and, given an arbitrary ordering $Ord_{\alpha}$, we can renumber the vertices in $\alpha$ in the order opposite to $Ord_{\alpha}$ to get $\lambda(\alpha')= Ord_{\alpha}$.

\medskip
Let $\gamma$ be a $k$-simplex in $\Delta(\alpha)$ with the label $\lambda(\gamma)= (I_1 \ I_1 \dots I_{k+1})$. Let $i$ be the length of the greatest common suffix of $\lambda(\gamma)$ and $\lambda(\alpha')$ (i. e. for every $j\leq i$ the j-th from the end sets in $\lambda(\gamma)$ and $\lambda(\alpha')$ are equal). Three cases are possible:

\begin{enumerate}
\item $i=n$ Then $\gamma=\alpha'$ and we do not pair it;
\item $i<n$ and the entry $i+1$ makes a singleton in $\lambda(\gamma)$. Then we pair the simplex $\gamma$ with a $(k-1)$-simplex, which label is obtained from $\lambda(\gamma)$ by uniting this singleton with the set that goes after it. This does not change the greatest common suffix with $\lambda(\alpha')$.
\item $i<n$ and the entry $i+1$ lies in a non-singleton set in $\lambda(\gamma)$.  Then we pair the simplex $\gamma$ with a $(k+1)$-simplex, which label is obtained from $\lambda(\gamma)$ by splitting this entry from this set to the left of it and forming a singletone. This does not change the greatest common suffix with $\lambda(\alpha')$
\end{enumerate}

We always pair one simplex of type $2$ with one simplex of type $3$, so this pairing  is well-defined.

      \textbf{Example.} For $n=5$ we build such pairs as
       $$((\{1,2\} \ \{3\} \ \{4,5\}), \ (\{1\} \ \{2 \} \ \{3\} \ \{4,5\})),$$
       where the length of the greatest common suffix with $\lambda(\alpha')$ is $0$, and
      $$((\{4,5\} \ \{3\} \ \{2\} \ \{1\}),  \ (\{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{3\} \ \{2\} \ \{1\})),$$
where the length of the greatest common suffix with $\lambda(\alpha')$ is $3$.
\medskip
Now we prove that this pairing forms a Morse function on $\Delta(\alpha)$.

\begin{lemma}\label{good_nonpair}
There are no cyclic paths in the vector field on $\Delta(\alpha)$ defined above.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
Let $\Gamma$ be a path in this field. Consider the greatest common suffix of the labels of simplexes in $\Gamma$ and $\lambda(\alpha')$. It never grows during the path. If it is getting shorter, then the path cannot be cyclic.

 Suppose this suffix stays the same during $\Gamma$ and its length is $i$. Then all the "pair"-steps in $\Gamma$ are performed by splitting the entry $i+1$ from non-singleton set to the left. Therefore, all the "face"-steps in  $\Gamma$ except, maybe, the first and the last one are performed by adding this entry to the set on the left side. So, the entry $i+1$ travels to the left in the label and $\Gamma$ cannot be cyclic.

\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{path_nonpair}
For every $(n-1)$-simplex $\gamma \in \Delta(\alpha)$ that lies  on the boundary of $\alpha)$ there is a unique $n$-path in $\Delta(\alpha)$ that starts in $\alpha'$ and exits $\Delta(\alpha)$ through $\gamma$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof} As we already know, there is a unique $n$-simplex $\gamma' \in \Delta(\alpha)$ that has $\gamma$ on its boundary. Our path must go through $\gamma'$.

The greatest common suffix with $\lambda(\alpha')$ can only decrease during the path (at the start its length is $n+1$). For arbitrary $i$, the entry $i$ moves inside the label during the path only when this suffix has length $i-1$. So by the time the length of this suffix becomes smaller than $i-1$, the permutation of the entries $i, i+1, \dots n+1$ in the label is fixed and does not change any more. If such a path exists, then all entries take their places in the desreasing order, and this imply the uniqueness of the path. Knowing that, it is not hard to construct such a path. For example, if $n=4$ and $\gamma=(\{2\} \ \{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{1\})$, then $\gamma'=(\{2\} \ \{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{1\} \ \{3\})$ and the path looks as follows:

$$\alpha'=(\{5\} \ \{4\} \ \{3\} \ \{2\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4, 5\} \ \{3\} \ \{2\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4\} \ \{ 5\} \ \{3\} \ \{2\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4\} \ \{ 5\} \ \{2,3\} \ \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4\} \ \{ 5\} \ \{2\} \ \{3\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4\} \ \{ 2,5\} \ \{3\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{4\} \ \{ 2\} \ \{5\} \ \{3\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{2,4\} \ \{5\} \ \{3\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{2\} \ \{ 4\} \ \{5\} \ \{3\} \ \{1\})$$
$$(\{2\} \ \{ 4\} \ \{5\} \ \{1,3\})$$
$$\gamma'=(\{2\} \ \{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{1\} \ \{3\})$$
$$\gamma=(\{2\} \ \{4\} \ \{5\} \ \{1\})$$
\end{proof}

\begin{figure}[h]\label{fig_noncritical}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=10 cm]{Critical.eps}
\caption{The pairings on the barycentric subdivision of a simplex $\alpha$ for $n=2$}
\end{figure}

Any gradient path that contains $n$-simplexes from $\Delta(\alpha)$ can look one of the two
 following ways.
 \begin{enumerate}
 \item It starts from $\alpha'$ and make steps inside $\Delta(\alpha)$. Then at some "face"-step this path comes out of $\Delta(\alpha)$ through a $(n-1)$-simplex on the boundary. According to Lemma \ref{path_nonpair}, this path is defined by its exit simplex uniquely.

\item It comes into $\alpha'$ at some "pair"-step from some $(n+1)$-simplex $\gamma \in \Delta(L)$. From the structure of the barycentric subdivision follows, that simplex $\gamma$ lies in the barycentric subdivision of some $(n+1)$-simplex $\beta$ of $L$, and the simplex $\alpha$ is a facet of $\beta$. This path is an $(n+1)$-path and it ends at $\alpha'$.

\end{enumerate}

\section{Paths on the barycentric subdivision}\label{sec_proof}

The Theorem \ref{main_thm}.1 follows from the construction of $\Delta(F)$. In this section we prove the rest of  the Theorem \ref{main_thm}.

\begin{lemma}\label{lemma_cyclic}
Let $F$ be a discrete Morse function on a simplicial complex $F$. Then the pairing $\Delta(F)$ constructed in the section \ref{sec_pairings} is a Morse function
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
We need to prove that no path in $\Delta(F)$ is cyclic. By Lemmata \ref{good_pair} and \ref{good_nonpair}, it is true if the path stays inside one simplex of $L$.

Let $\Gamma$ be a path in $\Delta(F)$ and let $\Gamma$ include parts of more than one simplex of $L$. Every simplex $\gamma \in \Gamma$ lies in the inner part of some simplex in $L$.
Take these simplexes as a sequence and delete the repeats. The resulting sequence $\Gamma'$ is cyclic if $\Gamma$ is cyclic.

From the definition of $\Delta(F)$ follows, that in every two consequent simplexes in $\Gamma'$ one is a facet of another. Moreover, if the  simplex with the lower dimension goes before the simplex with the higher dimension, then these two simplexes are paired. So, the sequence $\Gamma'$ consists of "face"-steps and "pair"-steps. By the definition of Morse function, no two "pair"-steps can go consequently.

 If no  two "face"-steps go consequently in $\Gamma'$, then $\Gamma'$ is a path in $F$ and cannot be cyclic. If there are at least  two consequent "face"-steps, then the dimension of the simplexes decreases during $\Gamma'$ more times than increases and $\Gamma'$ cannot be cyclic.
\end{proof}

Now we consider for arbitrary $n$ the way that the gradient $n$-paths behave in $\Delta(F)$.
If a gradient $n$-path  starts in a critical simplex $\alpha'$ then it leaves the corresponding simplex $\alpha$ of $L$ through a $(n-1)$-simplex that lies in $(n-1)$-face of $\alpha$. If an $n$-path enters $\Delta(\beta)$, where $\beta$ is non-critical through an $(n-1)$ simplex on its boundary, then it leaves this simplex through another $(n-1)$-simplex that as well lies on the boundary of $\beta$. So this path never gets out of $n$-simplexes of $L$. We get the following lemma.
\begin{lemma}\label{lemma_proper}
Suppose $\Gamma$ is a gradient $n$-path. Then all $n$-simplexes in $\Gamma$ lie in the interiors of the $n$-simplexes of $L$.
\end{lemma}

 In other words, a gradient $n$-path in $\Delta(F)$ never gets inside the simplexes of $L$ of dimensions  higher than $n$.

Now prove that the critical path structure of the function $\Delta(F)$  is isomorphic to the gradient path structure of the function $F$. We do it by constructing two mappings between the set of gradient paths $Gr(F)$  of the function $F$ and the set of gradient paths $Gr(\Delta(F))$ of the function $\Delta(F)$. These mappings are one-to-one, they are opposite to each other and they respect our bijection $Crit(F) \rightarrow Crit(\Delta(F))$.

\medskip

\textbf{Map $Gr(\Delta(F)) \rightarrow Gr(F)$}

Let $\Gamma$ be a gradient $n$-path in $\Delta(F)$. We construct the corresponding sequence $\Gamma'$ of simplexes of $L$, like we did in the proof of the Lemma \ref{lemma_cyclic}. By Lemma \ref{lemma_proper}, and by construction of $\Delta(F)$ this sequence is a $n$-path in $F$. Moreover, it starts and ends in critical points, since only critical points of $F$ contain critical points of $\Delta(F)$. These critical simplexes correspond to the start and the end of $\Gamma$.

Therefore, $\Gamma'$ is a gradient path of $F$.

\medskip

\textbf{Map $Gr(\Delta(F)) \rightarrow Gr(F)$}

Let $\Gamma$ be a gradient $n$-path in $F$ from a simplex $\beta$ to a simplex $\alpha$:

$$\beta=\beta_0,\  \alpha_1,\ \beta_1,\ \alpha_2,\ \beta_2,\ ...,\ \alpha_k,\ \beta_k,\ \alpha$$

 We construct a corresponding path $\Delta(\Gamma)$ in $\Delta(F)$ that goes from $\beta'$ to $\alpha'$.
 We define the path inside $\Delta(\beta_i)$ for every $i$ inductively. We start from the last $n$-simplex in $\Gamma$. Our path exits $\Delta(\beta_k)$ through $\alpha'$, which by Lemma \ref{good_pair} defines the path in $\Delta(\beta_k)$ uniquely. For every $1 \leq i \leq k$ the first simplex of the path constructed in $\Delta(\beta_i)$ becomes the last simplex of the path in $\Delta(\beta_{i-1})$ and defines the path in $\Delta(\beta_{i-1})$ uniquely. For the simplex $\beta$ the same holds by the Lemma \ref{good_nonpair}. Therefore, the path $\Delta(\Gamma)$ is defined uniquely.

\bigskip

It is easy to see that for every gradient path $\Gamma$ in $F$ we have $(\Delta(\Gamma))'=\Gamma$ and from Lemma \ref{lemma_proper} follows that for every gradient path $\Gamma$ in $\Delta(F)$ we have $(\Delta(\Gamma'))=\Gamma$. Therefore, our mappings define the bijection between the path structure on $F$ and $\Delta(F)$. Theorem \ref{main_thm} is proved.

\textit{Acknowledgements. This work is supported by  Russian Science Foundation 16-11-10039. The author is a Young Russian Mathematics award winner and would like to thank its sponsors and jury. The author thanks G. Panina for formulating the problem.
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package org.apache.storm.scheduler.multitenant;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.storm.DaemonConfig;
import org.apache.storm.utils.Utils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.apache.storm.Config;
import org.apache.storm.scheduler.Cluster;
import org.apache.storm.scheduler.IScheduler;
import org.apache.storm.scheduler.Topologies;
import org.apache.storm.scheduler.TopologyDetails;

public class MultitenantScheduler implements IScheduler {
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  private Map _conf;

  @Override
  public void prepare(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Map<String, Object> conf) {
    _conf = conf;
  }

  private Map<String, Number> getUserConf() {
    Map<String, Number> ret = (Map<String, Number>)_conf.get(DaemonConfig.MULTITENANT_SCHEDULER_USER_POOLS);
    if (ret == null) {
      ret = new HashMap<>();
    } else {
      ret = new HashMap<>(ret);
    }

    Map fromFile = Utils.findAndReadConfigFile("multitenant-scheduler.yaml", false);
    Map<String, Number> tmp = (Map<String, Number>)fromFile.get(DaemonConfig.MULTITENANT_SCHEDULER_USER_POOLS);
    if (tmp != null) {
      ret.putAll(tmp);
    }
    return ret;
  }

  @Override
  public void schedule(Topologies topologies, Cluster cluster) {
    LOG.debug("Rerunning scheduling...");
    Map<String, Node> nodeIdToNode = Node.getAllNodesFrom(cluster);

    Map<String, Number> userConf = getUserConf();

    Map<String, IsolatedPool> userPools = new HashMap<>();
    for (Map.Entry<String, Number> entry : userConf.entrySet()) {
      userPools.put(entry.getKey(), new IsolatedPool(entry.getValue().intValue()));
    }
    DefaultPool defaultPool = new DefaultPool();
    FreePool freePool = new FreePool();

    freePool.init(cluster, nodeIdToNode);
    for (IsolatedPool pool : userPools.values()) {
      pool.init(cluster, nodeIdToNode);
    }
    defaultPool.init(cluster, nodeIdToNode);

    for (TopologyDetails td: topologies.getTopologies()) {
      String user = (String)td.getConf().get(Config.TOPOLOGY_SUBMITTER_USER);
      LOG.debug("Found top {} run by user {}",td.getId(), user);
      NodePool pool = userPools.get(user);
      if (pool == null || !pool.canAdd(td)) {
        pool = defaultPool;
      }
      pool.addTopology(td);
    }

    //Now schedule all of the topologies that need to be scheduled
    for (IsolatedPool pool : userPools.values()) {
      pool.scheduleAsNeeded(freePool, defaultPool);
    }
    defaultPool.scheduleAsNeeded(freePool);
    LOG.debug("Scheduling done...");
  }
}


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i am not able to update the grub file. Can you please help me in that .
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