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This is Not a Pity Memoir
Abi Morgan (Autor)
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Took my breath away . . . I sobbed and laughed and then sobbed again. I think it puts life into perspective but also, by being a love story, it defies many of the norms. Morgan's unique voice rings out and she is a great companion throughout' EMMA BARNETT, i-Paper, Books of the Year
'This is the meditation on love and grief that we all need to read' The Skinny, Books of the Year
'Extraordinary . . . utterly compelling and so honestly told' NIGELLA LAWSON
Both very funny and as propulsive as a thriller . . . impossible to put down' RACHEL COOKE, Observer
'Breathtaking . . . this book is a gift' MERYL STREEP
'The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends: 'Have you read it?' CAITLIN MORAN
'Gripping, funny and always honest' DAVID NICHOLLS
'Truly breathtaking. I could not have loved it more' CAREY MULLIGAN
An ordinary day.
The end of ordinary life.
One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor.
And nothing would ever be the same again.
But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person. And crazed late night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all. It's about sushi and the wrong shoes and the moments you want to shout 'cut'. It's about the silence when you are lost in space and the importance of family and parties and noise.
It's the difference between surviving and living.
It's a reminder that, even in the worst times, there is light ahead.
It's a love story.
John Murray Press
Coping with illness & specific conditions


Unfortunately we didn't fly away somewhere for vacation this week or book ourselves into an exotic resort.
We are on vacation though and not at home and it feels good to get away.
The good news is that we aren't going near any grocery stores.
One of the hardest things for us to do this past week was trying to eat up all of the fruits and vegetables in our fridge.
When you go on vacation the last thing you want is food rotting in the fridge causing waste and costing you money. The process of rotting fruits and vegetables is called heat of respiration.
What happens is the more fruits and vegetables in your fridge the harder it is for your fridge to maintain its temperature.
Fruits and Vegetables in a controlled environment like your fridge will give off heat as they start to decompose, so not only will the produce spoil but you'll be paying more to keep bad food if you don't clear out the fridge.
I think near the end of the week we had eaten so much fruit and vegetables that our 5 a day quota was more than met and our vitamin levels should be good for a while.
What we learned was that we shouldn't buy so much food before we go on holidays. That way we won't have to worry about having to eat it all up, and fast. A sure-fire way to save on groceries is to go on vacation because you simply don't have to go into the grocery store for food to cook.
It's been a bit since we've actually not gone into the grocery store for a full week so it will be a nice change for us and hopefully get us back on track with our no-shop weeks.
It seems like lately even on no-shop days that we are always running out of something so that means we need to work on better grocery planning so that doesn't happen.
One of the number one items we run out of is milk but other than that if we can conquer keeping on top of making sure we are stocked on food we can keep the no-shop weeks going all year-long.
It's important for us to balance how often we go into the grocery store because we find the more we shop the more money we spend especially if we didn't intend to.
You and I have talked about why it's important to take a step back from going to the grocery store so much and how it can cost you more money in your grocery budget even if you have the best of intentions.
You have all had the intention of going into the grocery store for one thing but come out with 10 so sometimes a grocery store vacation is the best way to save even if you don't actually go on vacation.
This week we are on holidays and gone out of town for the week so no shopping for us.
There are some benefits to using up the food in the house, it certainly cleared out the fridge for us which left it easier to clean the inside. On the cleaning front, we also did the usual pre-leaving house cleaning, just in case burglars break in we want them to know that our house is clean and our stuff is worth stealing.
Clean items are easier to sell off once you've stolen them.
Once your ready to leave the house, for some reason I will do exactly what my parents used to do and check the locked door 3 or more times just in case it has suddenly become unlocked. What strange or unusual habits do you have when going on holidays or a well deserved break?
Do you use up everything in your refrigerator before you go on vacation?
Do you plan your grocery shop before you go on holiday so you don't have food waste?
Free Money Saving Downloads is lists that were created to get us on track to work towards reaching our budgeting goals. Get organized with a freezer inventory, meal plan, shopping list, price comparison list and much more all for FREE.
Weekly Overview: So far so good since we have not been in the grocery store this week.
Kids Eat Free- Is it a restaurant lure to eat out targeting parents?
This was my easy week as it was Thanksgiving and I had my turkey already. We had lots of turkey leftovers and there is stock and meat in the freezer now for at least 3 more meals!!! This is on top of 2 lunches and 4 dinners off that bird!!! There were a couple of good sales at Foodland I picked up too!!! All shops were there this week.
I was under for this week thanks to all those meals I got from the turkey. I even managed to do a little stocking up with the butter and cider mix. I still need to do more stocking up as meat is very low here. We don't eat a whole lot of meat but still some, hubby and the boys love the meat so I try to get what I can as cheaply as I can. I don't have a lot left for the month but I will work to get what is needed and keep the cost as low as I can. Another trip to No Frills is in the books… I will try but may not make it under the line… but I will be trying to keep it as low as possible!!!
Our weekly budget is $100 making this month $500.
Had an awesome week!! Glad to stock up on a few things, as I am looking to stock up enough to last a year or maybe more, and grab a few xmas gifts which I will keep picking up while I can still stack and get for almost free.
But we gotta do a no shop week or close to it as possible next week because we have to save for our trip next weekend visiting the kids and well money was just really tight this week.
Hmm….i havent posted in quite some time! Thought i would try to get back in the game. The reason i haven't posted since returning to work well besides lack of time is a complete life change. Myself and my husband decided to completely change our diet and lifestyle due to some health circumstances we were seeing our very good friends go through. We have recently changed to organic and free range which caused my previous budget of 125 to go out of whack as those are more expensive. I have finally managed to get a good handle on our budget which is why i would love to jump back on and join the game!! I now budget between 150 and 175 for a family of seven. (Myself, Hubby, 5 year old, almost two year old, 2 dogs and a cat!) So here goes!!
I will eventually get back into the proper format!!
so far this month i have been under budget. i was lucky a few weeks ago to score a ton of great priced meat at zehrs so i stocked up the freezer so haven't had to buy much. by cutting out pop and most junk food we have been able to afford this change.
I had planned to do some grocery shopping in the US this week but we have no room in the fridges! Now isn't that a tough problem to have? LOL I pushed the shop back until the 27th and hopefully can make some room before then. I need to get rid of some of the extras that we have from our Thanksgiving celebration.
We did find a few amazing sales here in Canada this week though and it was worth going over budget by $3.69 to get in on the sales. I mean look at the price of the potatoes and carrots! Even in the US I rarely get bread for Larry at 89 cents a loaf!
I'm like you when I see a good deal but I have to have somewhat of a plan like you do here. You will have 2 no shop weeks but one shop will be US so as long as the plan is in place it makes me feel better. I just don't want to get stuck like that one month but it's hard. I'm not sure about this weeks shop and how over we went but I'll be working on that today. We might end up with no more shops for the month but we are fully stocked. You love your avocados like we do as well. How do you like to eat them the best? We just chop them up for salads or make guacamole once in a while. The potatoes and carrots were a great deal so I don't blame you at all. How long would 10lbs of potatoes last Larry and yourself? For us it would take us the full month to get through. Keep at it.. you get ballot 7.
I use 1/2 avocados as serving dishes for things like egg salad, chicken, salad, tuna salad… it makes a complete meal! I do like them in salad or on a BLTA or just plain sprinkled with a little salt. Guacamole is good too, but they always seem to find my mouth before I get that far! LOL 😀 Potatoes… well now that soup season is here… they'll be gone within the month.
Ya same here especially when they are nice and ripe… my mouth finds it first.
I drive my husband crazy when we're getting ready to go. He's a spur of the moment kind of guy, I'm a planner. He thinks we should just throw a few things in a bag and go, if we've forgotten something, we'll pick one up on the way, his focus is entirely on getting on the road. I always write lists and lists planning our packing and preparations. Depending on how long we're going away, I like to have the perishable food used up before we go, the fridge wiped out, pantry straightened all in preparation for doing groceries upon return. I like to have the house clean and tidy before we walk out the door – generally I'm not in the mood for general housework after traveling and its nice to walk into a nice house. AND all the laundry has to be up to date – even if it means a few items go thru in a small load and then hiffed into the dryer as we leave. I know it probably sounds very OCD but I love coming home to an evening off from housework. If I'm a really smart cookie, I also organise an online grocery shop to be delivered either later the same day we get back or the next morning. AND always leave a bottle of wine in the fridge to enjoy to wind down after travelling.
In my defence the first time I went away with my hubby, he decided we would go camping and to leave it all up to him. He forgot tent pegs, only packed one sleeping bag (his), canned food but no can opener, no torch. Of course, we arrived after dark so the no torch problem became very apparent very quickly. Eventually we decided to find alternative accommodation for the night BUT GUESS WHAT? He'd left his wallet behind.
Oh man, this was the funniest comment tnoight Moni… lol.. awesome ..
We also try to use up all our food before we go away on vacation. We leave for 7 months at a time, so we always have the pickles, condiments, and a few onions left…so we tell our kids if they want them, to help themselves.
While on vacation, we housesit for others who are going away on vacation. They always tell us to use up any perishables, and to help ourselves to anything else. We just stick to the stuff that won't last until they return home, like eggs,fruit and veggies.While we housesit, we have a portable pantry of food basics, and refill it as required.
Enjoy your holiday!!! With the turkey I'm looking to keep groceries low this week as we enjoy all those yummy leftovers!
You have your little habit when you go away… Hubby used to drive me nuts back when the kids were small and his parents still with us. Whether it was going for a couple of days to their place in St Catharines or the cottage up on Manitoulin , I was the one that had to get everything ready and load it all into the car as well as the kids loaded while he stood around getting underfoot. He would wait untilI had everything and everybody in the vehicle…..then he would decide he had to check the oil in the car. He's known for days we were going, he stood there watching me get everything packed and loaded and once that was done he decides the oil needs checking… He couldn't have done it in the couple of days before!!!!! Heaven forbid…that would make too much sense!!! I complained to his mother about it and, yes, his father did the same thing. Drove his mother just as nuts!!!! When we got home I was the one that would be unloading while he farted around in the way….again, like father like son….


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A: En tu archivo validar.php debes incluir la clase que vas a utilizar, luego creas un objeto de la clase que realizara las acciones y por último ejecutas el request así:
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CCT's Prof. Diana Owen has been awarded a substantial competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Supporting Effective Teacher Educator Development (SEED) Program in conjunction with the James Madison Legacy Project (JMLP) that is being implemented by the Center for Civic Education. The JMLP will provide professional development to over 2,000 civics and American government teachers with the goal of increasing the achievement of more than 200,000 high-need students over the next three years. The teacher professional development is based around the We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, a long-standing curriculum intervention that has involved over 28 million students and 75,000 teachers in all 50 states since 1987. The program instructs students in the foundations and institutions of American government, and is distinctive for its emphasis on Constitutional principles, the Bill of Rights, and Supreme Court cases. We the People teachers employ active learning techniques, including simulated congressional hearings, to encourage civic learning.
With the assistance of a team of CCT students, Dr. Owen is conducting research on the effectiveness of the JMLP in increasing teachers' knowledge, improving their pedagogy, and developing their sense of self-efficacy. The study will assess the effectiveness of face-to-face professional development compared to a blended model that includes a digital education component. The team also is evaluating the impact of the teacher professional development program on students' civic knowledge, dispositions, and skills. The research is notable for its focus on high-need students whose civic education is often short-changed. High-need students include those living in poverty as well as English as a Second Language (ESL), incarcerated, and special needs students.


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I have had the good fortune of some wonderful word of mouth for a number of out of town clients in Arizona. Naturally, when these clients visit San Diego, they want to be near the beach. When Sarah reached out to me telling me about her family and their plans for vacation, I knew that meant only one thing. Beach. And beach we did!
Over the last few days here in San Diego we've had what you might call "weather". It almost sorta rained like two times and I'm pretty sure it rained while we were all sleeping on Thursday night/Friday morning. Whether it's the promise of rain or rain itself, it creates amazing clouds in the sky which turns into gorgeous photos on the beach at sunset.
I will admit that driving to Carlsbad for sunset isn't something I look forward to because I know it comes with a good amount of additional time in the car during rush hour traffic. Yesterday was almost an hour and a half drive in bumper to bumper traffic. I passed the time by keeping my cool and flipping stations on Pandora. It somehow was perfection. I had some time to myself and I got to hear a ton of music I haven't heard in years. I was almost too relaxed by the time I showed up in front of the hotel to meet the entire family.
I was greeted with the standard apprehension paired with lots of smiles and hello's. All concerns were immediately dashed away as we stepped onto the sand and began shooting. The tide had it's own agenda yesterday. Combined with large waves, strong undertow and the desire to cover as much of the beach as possible with water, we were all forced to be soaking wet up to our thighs and just laugh at the whole thing. It was a divine way for me to work with a family. They gave themselves over to me and managed to enjoy each other as well as the beautiful scenery. The children have ruined me for life because they were so well behaved and accommodating I almost wandered if they were actually robots posing as children.
In short, they were amazing. It was all amazing. Just when I start to think that perhaps my new life of caring for my father has far outweighed my love of photography this family comes along and saves me from myself. I hope to bottle this moment and remind myself daily how much I enjoyed it and to push aside the anxiety that rushes through my body days and hours before I do a session because when I am present and in the moment I am joyful.


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Volume 17, #2 Fall/Winter 2011/12
CIC Google Digitization: Purdue contributed over 57,000 items for this project and is currently collaborating with the University of Iowa to catalog and contribute individual items from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set for this initiative. (Bert Chapman)
Indiana University Libraries News-It's been an incredibly busy fall semester! We have had a lot of library users. We are most pleased to have three history classes delving into State Department records with many of these on microfilm. Students are studying various historical topics including Latin America, the Caribbean, Japan, and various conspiracies. Declassified Documents is another popular source.
During the Spring Semester, the University will be renovating about 2/3 of the floor currently assigned to Government Information, Maps, and Microforms to create space for the University's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. This necessitated a considerable amount of our collection being transferred to off-site storage. It all still should be available for Interlibrary Loan and other patron use. However, if you refer anyone here for access, advise them to request it before making a trip to Bloomington. They should email libet2@indiana.edu and we can retrieve volumes before we visit. The Indiana Collection is not affected by this and this collection is the only collection of official state documents shelved together on open shelves for patrons to browse.
We have subscribed to the UN Energy Database. Although not officially "government" information, the biggest news is the digital release of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on IU's GIS website the Indiana Spatial Data Portal. We will be linking the color scans to our Union List over the semester break, making PDF copies of these easier to retrieve. Note: When you go to the Indiana Spatial Data Portal, click on Dataset Information, then Sanborn Historic Maps, then Single File Interface, then the County you want to view, then the place. From there click on the Indiana Sanborn Historic Maps, Public Domain, PDF. Genealogists will love this, if we can get the links on the Union List. So you, might wait until January to refer users to them.
Staffing: Pam Glim and Linda Kelsey retired in August. Their positions are to be filled by one new position. Andrea Singer will retire in January, and her position will probably be re-described and assigned more to Area Studies. Be patient with us through these reductions, but do not hesitate to e-mail the department libet2@indiana.edu if documents are needed. (Lou Malcomb).
Purdue Libraries News-Purdue has contributed over 57,000 documents to the Hathitrust/Google digitization project and is collaborating with the University of Iowa to catalog individual works in the Congressional Serial Set for this project. We also continue making progress cataloging pre-1976 congressional committee hearings for the Indiana Government Document Light Archive. Sometime in the next year we hope to begin cataloging publications from the Energy Department, EPA, and NASA from our Engineering Library as part of our Light Archive commitment. A large variety of students received instruction in Government Information and used these resources during the fall semester with subjects represented including Agricultural Economics, health care law and policy, Indiana Government and politics, natural resources policy, oil sands, regulatory politics, sociology, the relationship between Catholicism and labor strikes, U.S. Constitutional Law history, U.S. political and religious history. and others. I have contributed 14 entries to the Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West on various aspects of military and natural resources policy which will be published by CQ Press. I have also contributed chapter on various national and international government and military information resources to the forthcoming CRC Press work Pandemic Planning (Bert Chapman)
ARPA-E: The Energy Dept's Advanced Research Products Agency was established in 2007 by the America Competes Act (P.L. 110-69) and codified at 42 USC 16538. ARPA-E's purposes include enhancing U.S. economic and energy security by developing energy technologies to reduce energy imports from foreign sources; reducing energy-related emissions including greenhouse gases; improving energy efficiency in all sectors; and ensuring the U.S. maintains a technolgical lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies. Means of achieving these goals include identifying and promoting revolutionary advances in fundamental and applied sciences; translating scientific discoveries and cutting-edge inventions into technological innovations; and accelerating transformational technological advances in areas industry is not likely to undertake due to technical and financial uncertainty. ARPA-E is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
ARPA-E has received several hundred million in economic stimulus funding and its FY 2012 congressional budget request was for $650,011,000. Its FY 2010 Annual Report covered program areas such as agile delivery of electric power technology; batteries for electrical energy storage in transportation; electrofuels; grid-scale rampable intermittent dispatchable storage; and innovative materials and processes for carbon capture technologies. Its website includes funding opportunity announcements, upcoming events and workshops such as an Energy Innovation Workshop scheduled for February 27-29, 2012 near Washington, DC; and information about ongoing ARPA-E funded projects such as the University of Notre Dame's CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) Capture with Ionic Liquids Involving Phase Change. (Bert Chapman)
Arctic Military Resources: Due to climactic changes, the Arctic Ocean region is becoming of increasing interest to various nations including the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and even China. This region possesses significant oil and natural gas resources and the increasing occurrence of ice free waters during the summer makes it possible for ships carrying international trade to use these waters to drastically shorten the length of some existing maritime trade routes. This region is also becoming increasingly important for military activity as many of these countries are strengthening their military presences in this region. in August 2007 Russia planted its national flag on the floor beneath the North Pole to strengthen its claims to that areas natural resources. Canada is strengthening its physical presence in this region as well. Numerous government and military agencies are producing information resources that seek to outline national Arctic policy including those with military implications. Numerous USGS and Energy Information Administration studies have documented the region's natural resources. In January 2009 the outgoing Bush Administration released the following document of administration Arctic strategy which has continued into the Obama Administration. A May 2011 DOD document Report to Congress on Arctic Operations and the Northwest Passage provides additional specifics. Russia in the Arctic a July 2011 U.S. Army War College report is another example of the Arctic's growing presence in military literature as is this July 2011 document detailing Canada's northern strategy. The Norwegian academic website GeoPolitics in the High North provides additional analyses and links to government Arctic strategy documents. (Bert Chapman)
Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive: This office seeks to integrate national counterintelligence efforts against foreign intelligence threats facing the U.S. Executive Order (EO) 12333 defines counterintelligence as "information gathered and activities conducted to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities. Information resources on this site include the text of relevant laws including the 2008 amended version of EO 12333, a counterintelligence glossary and historical background reading, and various reports including annual Counterintelligence Strategy documents required by 50 USC 402a, and an archive of annual reports to Congress on foreign economic and industrial espionage from 1995 to the present. This site is an extremely useful information resource for those interested in counterintelligence and economic aspects of national security. (Bert Chapman)
AALL's Government Relations Office and Government Relations Committee Develop One-Pagers: AALL's Government Relations Office (GRO) and Government Relations Committee are working together to develop one-agers on our public policy proorities. These one-pagers provide background information and key talking points to influence members of Congress and other stakeholders. The new one-pagers explain AALL's support for funding the Government Printing Office, the Federal Depository Library Program, and the Faster FOIA Act. The GRO used the recent one-pager on Network Neutrality as part of the AALL's action campaign to oppose a resolution (S.J. RES 6) that would strip the Federal Communications Commission of the authority to enforce net neutrality. (Jennifer Bryan Morgan).

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Written by Domobranec
Category: Sylabus bludov a omylov Povstania '44
Translation: Cindy Frances Svihalek
Already seventy years you lie to our grandfathers, fathers and us that Uprising ´44 was uprising of the Slovak nation!
In order to be true we would have to democatically assume that at least the majority of the Slovak nation of its own will uprose against its own state and its regime or, at least for this purpose it supported the Uprising ´44 of its own will. Indeed, the vast majority of the Slovak nation acted to the Uprising ´44 neutrally. It is illustrated the most by the attitude of Slovak workers from arms factories in Dubnica and Považská Bystrica. Though both of the factories were located in the immediate vicinity of the uprising territory, and who wanted could leave without any difficulties, just very few of Slovak workers have done so. Vast majority of the Slovak workers continued working and therefore helping the war effort of the Third Reich, against who – as the plotters of the Uprising ´44 agitated – in the first place should occur uprising...
The Uprising ´44 itself actively attended not even 3% of Slovak nation, only 18 000 soldiers from 90 000-member Slovak army, mostly forced, mainly on the basis of mobilization under the threat of the death penalty or on the basis of extended disinformation that German national socialists captured the president Jozef Tiso and militarily occupy Slovakia. Thus deceived couple of Slovak participants attended the Uprising ´44 – paradoxically – with purpose to defend Slovakia, its state and its that time political regime personified in the person of the president Tiso.
On the other hand the Uprising ´44 attended, with other than for the goodness of the Slovak nation orientated interests, many risers and partisans from more than twenty other nations, above average represented particularly by Czechs and more than 1600 Jews which presented almost the 10% Jewish representation in partisan division.
After the defeat of the Uprising ´44 at least three-quarters of its remaining Slovak participants had returned home. Even more of the Slovak participants would have done so if they weren´t afraid of reprisals of the German Armed Forces or if they weren´t so far from home.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, due to the great disinterest of the Slovak nation in Uprising ´44 and due to the motivation of part of the Slovak participants on the basis of extended disinformation, - finally after seventy years – we won´t talk about the Uprising ´44 as of "Slovak national" or as of "uprising for the goodness of the Slovak nation", and under the abbreviation "SNU" we recognize merely "Slovak national disaster"!
Already seventy years you juggle our grandfathers, fathers and ultimately also us that participants of the Uprising ´44 fought heroically!
Disinterest of most of the Slovak nation in the Uprising ´44 who resisted the extended disinformation have reflected in the disinterest in fighting and dying for its partial goal among which belonged seduction of the German Armed Forces to until then unoccupied area of Slovakia and subsequent armed uprising against them. It was usual that participants of the Uprising ´44 succumbed to panic and ran from the battlefield, aleternatively also from homes.
"Former uprise commanders, at the end of the life usualy colonels and generals in retirement, same as historians themselves have not explained us how is it possible that in the national uprising, in own country, against foreign occupying power the risers shown much weaker performance than e.g. in the first years of war against USSR, a war of which was written that have met in Slovak society with a great resistance and dislike," lets put the myth of the heroic participants of Uprising ´44 under investigation of the historian Martin Lacko:
"How is it possible that in the first year of the war against USSR the amount of deserting Slovak soldiers could be counted on the fingers of both hands but in the year 1944 within the national-liberation war the deserations after first two weeks were in such amount that uprising command had to threaten for desertation with execution? Why were the soldiers running away from the army in the time when it was generally known that Germany already lost the war and when the Red Army stood near the Slovak borders? Why was there necessity to treat soldiers with the most cruel penalties in this time?"
Lets ask in other way: Can we consider as heroes those who stolen the food supplies from the soft-hearted population and subsequently frivolously seclude to the mountains meanwhile just thanks to them there are punitive expeditions of the German Armed Forces crossing the villages, like it was in Mladoňov, Kľak, Ostrý Grúň or in Skýcov? Or perhaps have anyone heard about situation that partisans heroically rushed to help villagers to save them?
Thus if, according to given, the ethnic Slovaks were not heroes in the Uprising ´44 then were the heroes at least the Slovak Jews whose motivation to fight against Third Reich far exceeded the possible Slovak motivation? In the military reports we read: "Active participation of Jews in the first lines is scant and does not correspond to their amount in the army. But vice-versa they are in huge amount represented in more comfortable and safer places." – Therefore who are all those heroes of the national Uprising ´44?
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, due to the blatant personal lethargy of domestic participants and tactical-strategic carelessness of commanders of the Uprising ´44 – finally after seventy years – we refuse to celebrate risers and partisans as keen and for the thing of the Uprising ´44 as zealous heroic warriors!
Already seventy years you shamelessly wheedle our grandfathers, fathers and us that the Uprising ´44 was famous!
Some of the participants of the Uprising ´44 were ordinary murderers. During the Uprising ´44, same as before its beginning and also after it, they murdered around 2 000 innocent people. Participants of the Uprising ´44 have signed themselves under the bestial mass murders in Sklené, Sklabiná or in Kováčová and tracks of their glory we are finding also on tortured civilians in concentration camp in Slovenská Ľupča.
Or can we also celebrate with clear conscience and consider excellent the hideous acts of partisans among which belongs passion of the catholic priests Anton Šalát and Ján Nemec to the death, skinning alive the catholic priest Rudolf Scheda, sawing of catholic priest Martin Martinka by numerous sections from automats or cold-blooded murder of Imrich Teplan, the student of fifth grade of divinity?
Did the Uprising ´44 help to set the democracy? Did it save the state from plundering of the front? Did it protect the people against terror of the German Armed Forces? And did it save Jews from deportations? No, the Uprising ´44 was from all of this aspects useless because it did not avoid anything and it did not help anyone. On the contrary, thanks to the Uprising ´44 over Slovakia reigned terror and forced conscription of civilians to uprising lines, by the power of the Third Reich was renewed – by the Slovak government stopped – the evacuation of next 13 000 Jews and the only functional yeshiva in wide surrounding functioning in Nitra ceased to exist.
The Uprising ´44 created a criminal spawn in Banská Bystrica which in the mid of the catholic state became known as Slovak Sodom and Gomorrah where all the glory of the Uprising ´44 lied right before its outbreak in hectoliters of drunk alcohol and in a number of submissive harlots obliging risers and partisans. All that glory lived from the food reserves which had been created by working Slovak people and which the participants of the Uprising ´44 ostentatiously scattered right in Banská Bystrica but also elsewhere in the uprising area without heroic fight for their personal glory or the glory of their goals.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, finally after seventy years from Slovak home are shouting out loud that slaughter 2 000 people and uselessly sacrifice lives of other thousands of people is not any glory – it is a shame of the Uprising ´44 which became for many individuals or groups mainly an opportunity to settle a personal debts with their victims or their own criminal activity.
Already seventy years you impassively lie to our grandfathers, fathers and us that the German Armed Forces beated the Uprising ´44 because they had miliraty superiority!
The German Armed Forces during suppression of the Uprising ´44 had not have superiority in the number of soldiers. We even cannot speak of the predominance in heavy weapons. Vice-versa, the risers with partisans were from 28. August to 27. October 1944 all the time in a large superiority.
Its command ordered a mobilization of all men under the age of 35 in the area on which the uprising army operated already on 30. August. To the amount of 18 000 involved soldiers of the Slovak army were added mobilized reservists so the uprising command had available at first 47 000 and later 60 000 men! To risers we have to add gradually increasing amount of partisans from four to maximum eighty thousand men. When it comes to armaments, participants of the Uprising ´44 had available about 46 000 guns, 4 000 submachine guns, 2 700 machine-guns, 41 tanks, 2 self-propelled guns, 3 armored trains, 34 aircrafts.
In contrast, the Third Reich started to liquidate bandits – as the Germans called the participants of the Uprising ´44 – with not more than 3 500 novice soldiers. The most units of the German Armed Forces were in Slovakia in the second half of October when the amount of men was around 32 000. Misleading are the claims that the Uprising ´44 employed eight special divisions of the German Armed Forces. In the year 1944 the command of the German Armed Forces did not designate by division the units which consisted from three full brigades, armored regiment, artillery etc. To the German command remained due to the number of men, due to the state of its morality and due to the quality of armament only fractions of real divisions to which the military experts reffer as to Schattendivision, i.e. only shadow divisions.
We even cannot speak about the lack of supply in the uprising area, since minister Karvaš took advantage of the allied bombing of Bratislava from 16. June 1944 in order to transpose most of the Slovak food and fuel reserves to Banská Bystrica with the consent of the highest state positions.
Not to mention the requisition of estates and material resources by risers and partisans from the local population everywhere where they appeared.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, do not apportion the failure of the Uprising ´44 to the police intervention of the German Armed Forces, to the Emergency Units of the Hlinka Guard nor to that part of Slovak army which did not participate in the Uprising ´44 but – finally after seventy years – for the failure of the Uprising ´44 we blame the inner disinterest of its Slovak participants to fight heroically and also to die for the glory of the Uprising ´44 unlike the heroic and glorious manfulness of the Slovak nation who fought in the Slovak-Hungarian War (Little War) against Hungarian occupier to protect the renewed Slovak state!
Already seventy years in front of our grandfathers, fathers and us you are picturesquely boasting that the Uprising ´44 helped to the victory over the Third Reich!
From the aspect of the Second World War the Uprising ´44 was a marginal event since it binded less than 1% of the German Armed Forces to whom it caused not even 1 per mille of total losses. That is the reason why it is often not mentioned in comprehensive essays of western writers about the Second World War.
The Western allied powers did not care much of the success of the Uprising ´44 – only the Beneš Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London as on coup d´ État. On the other hand, the Uprising ´44 did not play any strategic role in the plans of Red Army of the Soviet Union in the progression to Berlin – unless – according to political strategic taste of generalissimo Stalin, the well-supplied Uprising ´44 did invoke and in full length caused a military occupation of whole Slovakia by the German Armed Forces and therefore psychologically set the Slovak population toward the Red Army as victim toward liberator. Only thanks to that in the first place the Uprising ´44 could come to attention of politically engaged communist public space of the Central Europe and Soviet sector.
Considering all occasions, including fact that by provoking the Uprising ´44 the economic help of Slovakia had to be increased for the war effort of the Third Reich, it is more likely that the Uprising ´44 rather helped the Third Reich than granted decisive or targeted blow which would contribute to its defeat.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, finally after seventy years freely recognize that the Uprising ´44 was from the outer side used to lead the in advance lost struggle which served neither to the Slovak affair nor it had any part in defeating the war campaign of the Third Reich or nacism but it most significantly supported the interests of the Soviet Union and international communism in the post-war estabilishment of the Europe. In the light of this knowledge lets honor eighty thousand and the same number of maimed lives in the senseless Carpatho-Dukla Operation without distinction between the fighting side and with the needlessly shed blood we pour faces of those who are trying to excuse so many thwarted lives with perverse speech about the importance of their sacrifice!
Already seventy years you are bothering our grandfathers, fathers and us with delusion that president Tiso summoned the German Armed Forces against his own nation!
President Tiso did not wish the presence of units of the German Armed Forces in Slovakia what he already vouched for as a prime minister during negotiations with Germans about a form of a Treaty on the protective relationship between the German Empire and the Slovak State shortly after its formation. The prime minister, Jozef Tiso, firstly at the negotiation with J. Burckel, Gauleiter of Westmark, refused with the phrase Wo ist mein Hut? a linked occupation of the northwest Slovakia up to the back of the western Carpathians on the line Baba-Jablunkov. He repeated his resolute no to Seyss-Inquart, Governor of Ostmark, and finally at first he also respectfully thanked Hitler for allowing Slovak state to exist and then he expressed his famous aber, i.e. but to the proposed occupation of the northwest Slovakia.
Finally the diplomatic mission headed by Jozf Tiso managed to negotiate that although the military administration on the designed area, so-called Schutzzone will be carried out by the Third Reich, however the area in other administrative affairs will underlie the Slovak governance.
Mons. Tiso already as president to the last moment refused the crossing of troops of the Third Reich further eastward from the Schutzzone line. However, at night from 27. To 28. August the district town Brezno nad Hronom became a target of ominous partisan malignity which was directed against representatives of the Slovak governance. František Slameň a member of the Slovak Diet fell victim to them and also other signifiant Slovak officials who were brutally slaughtered by partisans. President Tiso later stated in court: "If there was no such a case, for sure there would not be any word about intervention from our side…"
The recent numerous partisan provocation and final occupation of a factory for making gun carriages for the Third Reich in Ružomberok on 27. August were adequate partisan invitation for the German Armed Forces for intervention behind the Schutzzone line which president Tiso – shocked by the slaughter of Slovak officials – ultimately have had politically accepted.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, after seventy years of blaming the innocent are thanking the President Tiso that he delayed the intervention of the German Armed Forces in Slovakia to the last moment and have had politically accepted it when it was obvious that armed disorder induced by organizers of the Uprising ´44 is threatening domestic Slovak and German population. And with sorrow we pronounce sincere regret to Slovak victims of this police intervention of the German Armed Forces in Slovakia but for their extinct lives we are blaming also the partisan commanders who according to their thrust against Volksdeutsche in Slovakia called the vengeance of the Third Reich upon Slovak blood!
Already seventy years you are unanimously blaming the president Tiso that he had been honoring murderers of the Slovak nation in Banská Bystrica!
"Slovak state is not liquidated and the Slovak nation is not burried. When we are confronted by the enemy saying that it happened thanks to the foreign help, then I am asking, with whos help did you go against the Slovak nation? When the Czechs, Frenchmen, Serbs and members of various tribes from whole Russia arrived wasn´t that onrush of foreigners against Slovak state? But there is one difference, while we were taking a care of saving our homeland you went for the prey that should be bloody and fatal for Slovaks. That is a big difference." (Jozef Tiso)
President Jozef Tiso honored soldiers in Banská Bystrica who haven´t committed any murder against civil population. Thanks to this he miligated the planned reprisals of the German Army Command that should just take place at the opportunity of definitive suppression of the Uprising ´44 – General and Commander of German Police, Hermann Hoffle, planned to execute hundreds of civilians as a warning and to transport thousands of captured risers to the area of Third Reich. President Tiso as a wonderful statesman finally managed to persuade General Hoffle to abstain from this action in exchange that he himself will honor certain number of soldiers who participated in the Uprising ´44.
Subsequently, President Tiso as a Roman Catholic priest and the highest representative of the Slovak state served a silent mass for dead and fallen, thus equally for the victims of the Uprising ´44 and for the murdured participants of the Uprising ´44 without distinction of belligerent.
In his speech that followed the silent mass, in the introduction he compares his visit to Banská Bystrica as a prime minister after the declaration of Slovak authonomy with current visit and openly admits in front of the assembly: "And I came again to Banská Bystrica. Truly, you see on me and I see on you how differently seems this visitation."
In his speech of Banská Bystrica president Tiso next describes what the Uprising ´44 brought Slovakia and compares it with crimes of Bolshevism in Ukraine: "Demolished bridges, destroyed roads, burned houses, people wandering down the streets and I can see on you how awful marks have left that promised ,paradise´ in your hearts. What I have seen here on our roads I once saw in Ukraine. Crowds of hopelessly rolling people who had no idea where they are going, from whos faces there could not be seen smile, whos mouth did not give any confidence because enslaved Ukrainian people after the quarter of a century of Bolshevism yoke have lost their human effigy. And Slovaks, you have been in that ,paradise´ for two months. That was a paradise! (...) Boys were walking around you, beating and killing everyone who crossed their path. Well I think that all of you Slovaks have enough of this paradise. You have an adequate memory for saying that Slovak never ever wishes this kind of ,paradise´."
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, after seventy years finally absolutly do not reproach president Jozef Tiso for honoring the soldiers on 30. October in Banská Bystrica for the suppression of the Uprising ´44 since he avoided next harassment of Slovak Nation thanks to this statesmanlike act! For what is more worthy – few pieces of tin or even only one saved human life?
Already seventy years you tattle nonsense about how the Uprising ´44 opened a "window" into democratic Europe to Slovakia!
Representatives of Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party had a decisive influence on the Slovak government who had a long-term support of the Slovak nation, while in the year 1938 the support of the party significantly increased.
For so-called Slovak National Council (SNR), which figured as a representative of the Slovak nation during the Uprising ´44, nobody voted. It was a group of usurpers in which half were Communists who promoted not democracy but dictatorship.
Since Slovak National Council prohibited Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party, for whos joint candidacy voted 97% of voters in the year 1938, it was by its nature antidemocratic. Claim that antidemocratic regime was opening a windiw to democracy is nonsense, for not everything that was antifascist was automatically democratic where as an example can serve the antifascist Soviet Union of Stalin.
Through interest groups of initiators of the Uprising ´44 there came up not only to rejection and negation of a state independence of Slovakia, for which stood most of the Slovak nation, but it also came up to rejection of regime of notional democracy in Slovakia since the period of the Uprisng ´44 there was represented with a gun in a hand the future totalitarian system, so-called People´s Democracy and Communism which fully developed after the year 1948.
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, must procaim after seventy years also for all mute people that the Uprising ´44 started a cruel forty year period of Slovak unfreedom, persecution and targeted liquidation of a Slovak intelectual and moral elite while Slovakia disappeared from the map of Europe and was mastered by the Communist totalitarianism!
Already 22 years, despite the listed facts, you are forcing us, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, to celebrate initial date of outbreak of the Uprising ´44, - and therefore the 29. August – as a public holiday in Slovak republic!
On a date 29. September 1992 you adopted in Slovak National Council an Act no. 489 about the proclamation of 29. August as a public holiday in Slovak republic with statement: "(SNR) Aware of meaning of the Slovak national uprising in which the Slovak nation rose up to the fight against totalitarianism, oppression, racism, fascism, suppression of human and civil rights and regardless to victims it expressed a desire to live freely and espoused to a reference of whole antifascist resistance..."
The explanatory report to the Act contradictory, in the period of creation of the second Slovak republic, underthrust to a sense of the public holiday that by it we should also celebrate an idea of fighting against Slovak state independence when it literally states: "On the day 29. August 1944 the Slovak people and members of nations living in Slovakia rose up against totalitarian regime as well as against Nazi occupier with an idea to create a liberal democratic Czechoslovakia." And this inner contradiction of legalized public holiday persists in successor Act of National Council of the Slovak Republic no. 241/1993 from 20. October 1993 till today, even in the time of legal existence of Slovak state independence!
While, valued former and some present members of the lawmaking body, you were not adopting this Act as proud and famous representants of emerging sovereign state but, as one of the promoters of Act admitted, Mr. Pavol Kanis from Democratic Left Party, - into which by the way the former communists got infiltrated, - you acted like vassals of Washington, who in the year 1992 demanded from you: "...activation of Slovak foreign policy by a wide propagation of democatic, human, cultural traditions of Slovakia at the international policy scene," and whom you left in your persons to blackmail whole Slovak republic from fear of comparing specificities of Slovakia with masaryk-beneš tradition of deformed democracy of Czech republic, therefore you re-baptized the so-called Slovak national uprising into democatic a this mercyful lie of yours born from your shameless cowardness which you clothed into assumption that Slovak "democratic forces owes one to another the creation of Slovak national Uprising as a public holiday"!
In the decisive moment you irresponsibly seized the myth of so-called Slovak national uprising as well as communists would have done before you right after the war in Slovakia to emphasize their constructed share on the change of the regime ass well as liberal communists seized the myth of so-called Slovak national uprising at the end of 60´s so they could demand in the framework of Czechoslovakia at least a feudal status for Slovakia which thanks to the Uprising ´44 lost its hard reached and by blood of defenders from Little war baptized state independence and ceased to exist!
It seems like some of the Slovak social elite are circling in the ring of 29. August 1944 for decades in an imaginary blind man´s buff game as if they never wanted to be "knocked out of the game".
Valued former and some present members of the lawmaking body, you failed right during placing the basic building stones of a renewed statehood! Or as Mr. parliamentarian Neuwirth noted in front of you at parlamentary debate: "With your permission I will cite a few lines from a letter from Basic Oragization of the Union of Antifascist Fighters dated on 22.7.1992... ,The best sons of our nations, participants of the antifascist fight were obtained to the service of ZNB (National Security Corps) and army.´ That is all for the first quote. And now second: ,Aren´t they ashame to call the best sons of nation of those who were beating people during hearings, manipulated investigations, falsified protocols and caused condemnation of innocent people for thousands of years and sent them to gallows. This should be the best sons of nation?!´ With this words the member of Confederation of Political Prisoners of Slovakia reacted on the first mentioned quote. One and the same event invoke contradictory ideas and associations. Nay, it even invoke sometimes hostile attitude of our people.
Valued former and some present members of the lawmaking body, you didn´t want to see how contradictory event you proclaimed as a public holiday 22 years ago. However, we will remind you especially in front of young generation by a words of Mr. parliamentarian Neuwirth: "On one hand it was a fight for renewal of Czechoslovak republic, a fight against brown totalitarianism, against German nazism, fulfillment of combat tasks of Soviet airdrops and units in Slovakia, strengthening of the position of London government-in-exile, strengthening of the position of moscow group and communists in Slovakia and in whole Czechoslovak republic. However, there were also opposite motives for the participation in fight, for example the defense of Slovak statehood, defense of president of Slovakia dr. Jozef Tiso against Germans who were according to the report threatening him in Bratislava. And a final fulfillment of military oath of faithfulness given to Slovak state. Most ofen it was simple fulfillment of a military oath on one or another side... And ultimately it was also calculating political and economic greed that leaded some people into the Slovak national uprising but not into fightings."
If you needed very urgently 22 years ago a humanistic public holiday to match with masaryk-beneš tradition of deformed democracy of the second successor state of Czechoslovakia, why didn´t you reach for the 8. February 1627 just like you were derisively recommended at the parliamentary debate by Mr. parliamentarian Fekete?
"If we should choose as a public holiday an event which is well known to Europe than we should reach deeper in the history and stop on a date 8. February 1627. What happened on that day? It seems that nothing great, but, judging that event by current political and ethical criteria, as well as is the entry to Europe often and richly proclaimed, globalization, or the significant historical deposit into universal spirituality, nevertheless something revolutionary, historically valuable, humanely, unrepeatable and unique happened. On that day was used for the first time in the history of mankind a gunpowder, thus gun with high-parameter of destructiveness for the peaceful purposes. Gunpowder, as we know, was invented by Chinese. For the first time they used it as a gun in 1232 against Mongols during the defense of Beijing. From this moment it was nearly for whole four centuries used only for killing, slaying and slaughtering. And suddenly unexpectedly there appears something let´s say renaissance, philosophically new, revelatory, clever – a gun can become a working tool and standard working aid. It was due to men from Banská Štiavnica who, on a date 8. February 1627 next to crosscut named Daniel in upper Bieber tunnel in mine of count Montecuccoli, used a gunpowder, until then it was apocalyptic human invention for splitting the rocks and simplification of human labor."
Valued former and some present members of the lawmaking body, when you managed to change a coat so fast that you haven´t got a time to undress also an iron shirt and when you were rushing in such a rocket tempo into that democratic Europe, it is more than clear that you didn´t care of Slovakia and by proclaiming 29. August as a public holiday you wanted to celebrate the idea of fighting against Slovak state independence indeed – moreover, 22 years of celebrating this holiday by your successors, proves us, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, right.
After all, at first The North Atlantic Council let Slovakia join the Military Administration of (1) Transatlantic Military Union known as NATO on 5. February 2004. Subsequently, Brusel annexed Slovakia to its (2) European Economic Union on 1. May 2004 as another regional gravity market for a demand for their overproduction of trash and to (3) Schengen Territorial Union as a space for distribution of homestead of non-European immigrants. By accepting Eurocurrency the Slovak yes-men continued to betray Slovak nation when they let Slovakia join (4) Single Monetary and Financial Union on 1. January 2009. 1. December 2009, after signing of Treaty of Lisbon Slovakia was plunged into pan-European (5) Constitutional Law Union, and finally domestic minions done everything to create (6) Central Fiscal Union on 22.6.2012 so the anschluss of Slovakia by western banks was accomplished.
In this light we understand why do you celebrate so famously 29. August even nowdays and in chorus are shaking heads that the Uprising ´44 event cannot be subjected to revision. After all, the Uprising ´44 is the revolutionary tradition on which you base all of your other lunges against the real interests and needs of our Slovakia and our Slovak nation!
We, The first generation of the Slovak youth after the 17th November 1989, finally after seventy years already as free generation consider the 29. August 1944 dies ater – a black day of Slovakia – thanks to which, among other things, started the liquidation of Slovak intelligence which honestly grew in harsh Slovak conditions for three generations wrought by strick morality and eternal values such as God, Thuth and fidelity to Slovak nation!
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A pedestrian has been paid a five figure compensation amount for serious knee and back injuries he suffered during a car accident.
According to the Sheffield Star, Dion Curry was knocked through a shop window when a car hit him while he was walking on the pavement of Eccleshall Road in Sheffield.
The 31-year-old who is Canadian but is conducting research for his PhD in Britain, sustained torn knee ligaments and severe scarring from broken glass following the accident and also needed chiropractic treatment.
Mr Curry's car accident injuries required him to stay in hospital for two weeks following the collision and still suffers from persistent headaches and struggles to maintain concentration.
"The accident set me back three months in my PhD research and teaching and created undue stress for me financially and personally," he told the news source.
However, despite the fact the driver in question was never prosecuted after losing control of his Audi R8, the car's insurance company paid compensation for Mr Curry's injuries in an out-of-court settlement.


At this point the billions are coming from outside investors hopeful that one day an IPO will make bankrolling these founders pay off.
The world's richest person got even richer this year. And a basketball superstar-turned-owner made the list for the first time.
Forbes said Monday that Bill Gates's net worth rose to $79.2 billion in 2015 from $76 billion last year. That put him at the top of the magazine's list of the world's billionaires for the second consecutive year. The co-founder of Microsoft Corp. has topped the list for 16 of the last 21 years.
In second place is Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim Helu, with a net worth of $77.1 billion. He had topped the list in 2013.
Next is investor Warren Buffett, who moved up one slot this year with a net worth of $72.7 billion. In fourth place was Amancio Ortega, the Spanish co-founder of clothing retail chain Zara, with a net worth of $64.5 billion. Rounding out the top five was Larry Ellison, founder of technology company Oracle Corp., with $54.3 billion.
Forbes said there were 1,826 billionaires on its list this year, up from 1,645 in 2014. Added together, they were worth a combined $7.05 trillion, up from $6.4 trillion last year.
Most of those on the list were men. But there were 197 women, up from 172 a year ago. The highest-ranking woman was Christy Walton, the widow of John Walton, a son of the founder of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. She has a net worth of $41.7 billion, according to Forbes.
The world's youngest billionaire was 24-year-old Evan Spiegel, the CEO and co-founder of mobile messaging company Snapchat, with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Snapchat's other co-founder, 25-year-old Bobby Murphy, had the same net worth as Spiegel. Other tech billionaire newcomers were two co-founders of taxi-ordering app Uber and one of its executives. Three co-founders of Airbnb, the vacation-home rental website, also made the list.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan joined the list for the first time this year, thanks to his ownership in basketball team Charlotte Hornets and payouts form his Nike brand. Jordan had a net worth of $1 billion, the magazine said.
This is the 29th year that Forbes has released its billionaires list. The magazine said it calculated each person's wealth based on stock prices and exchange rates on Feb. 13, 2015.


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'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2' Trailer, Now With More A-Holes And Baby Groot
As much as I do enjoy a number of Marvel movies, 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy stands out as my favorite. It's so different than everything else the comic book studio has produced, and the deep space high adventure is just so damn much fun. So, it's understandable I'm psyched for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and the fact that it releases fantastic trailers like this latest one only stokes that fire.
What felt like a risk two years ago--the protagonists are a cadre of intergalactic outlaws and murderers, and the two biggest stars, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, voice a raccoon with anger management issues and an alien tree who only says three words, respectively--looks like a total no brainer in retrospect. Guardians of the Galaxy made tons of money, earned almost universal critical acclaim, and helped make Chris Pratt, up to that point best known as the chubby goof from Parks and Recreation, into one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Sequels get a lot of hate, but I can't wait to see Star-Lord (Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel)--who is already the internet's favorite new character--get up to some interstellar hijinks. This trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 doesn't reveal much plot, but the misfit crew is obviously up to their old tricks and getting into sticky situations, like tangling with whatever that many-tentacled beast is and having awkward encounters elsewhere.
Though there aren't any story details, this trailer makes me want to watch the shit out of this movie. Which just goes to show you don't have to reveal an entire movie in a preview for it to do its job. Take note, movie people.
In addition to the core cast, writer/director James Gunn is back in the fold, as are Michael Rooker's Yondu and Karen Gillan's Nebula. New additions to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 include Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Kurt Russell as Ego the Living Planet, and Sylvester Stallone in an as-yet unknown role.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and its crew of a-holes returns May 5, 2017.
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Beginning in 1994, when construction of the Dabhol Power project began in Ratnagiri, local farmers, shop-keepers, fisherpeople, politicians, and other residents of the district staged protests against it. Protests ceased in 1995 through the end of 1996, because construction at the site was suspended due to the cancellation of the project by the Shiv Sena-BJP government and during consideration of the CITU case.
The abuses took place in the context of a state of emergency that had been imposed for DPC's benefit, and those responsible were state agents acting at the company's request with additional surveillance provided by DPC.
This report focuses on a series of thirty demonstrations that took place—at the height of opposition to the Dabhol Power project—between January 13 and June 1997 in Guhagar and Chiplun, population centers in Ratnagiri district.
112 Human Rights Watch interview with Dr. S.B. Bhale, Guhagar village, February 15, 1998.
113 Human Rights Watch interview with Ataman More, Veldur village, February 14, 1998.
114 Indian People's Tribunal for Human Rights, Submission on Enron in India, April 17, 1998, p. 4.


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Follow up on the Sexual Harassment Incident in the National University of Singapore
By Black Dot Research April 23, 2019 February 24th, 2020 Courtroom, Government
This is written with reference to our earlier article relating to the Monica Baey incident (accessible here). We present this follow up for the record.
On 23 April 2019, the Singapore Police Force issued a statement explaining why the perpetrator was given a 12 month conditional warning instead of being charged and prosecuted for the offence.
The statement was shared with various media outlets and also published on their Facebook page, as we show below:
Additional Facts We Can Now Confirm
#1: The allegation that the perpetrator's parents were important people and therefore the perpetrator was granted special privileges.
We can now say clearly that this is untrue. As stated by the SPF and which has not been rebutted since –
Allegations that the man was not prosecuted because he has influential parents are untrue – the Police and AGC did not consider his parents' background. Such factors are irrelevant considerations. It is unfortunate that such untruths have been put out. The man's parents have agreed for it to be disclosed that his father is a driver in the public transport sector and his mother is a housewife.
#2: Allegations of differing treatment when comparing Monica Baey's case with a 2015 case involving a similar offence
In the SPF statement, the SPF mentioned that:
"The Police are also aware of comparisons being made between this case and a 2015 case involving a 23-year-old man who was charged and sentenced to 10 weeks' imprisonment for filming a woman showering at Republic Polytechnic (RP)."
Note that it is true that there was such a case. The perpetrator in that case was an Ang Wei Sheng, and the criminal proceedings were reported in that case (see here).
Given the clarifications seen in the SPF statement and comparing what we know now against the case involving Ang Wei Sheng, it is untrue to say that the SPF had given different treatment in this case compared with Ang Wei Sheng's case.
The SPF's position is as follows:
"The accused in the RP case had committed multiple criminal trespass offences, taken deliberate action to avoid detection by covering up the CCTVs in the vicinity and covering his face with a towel, and did not own up voluntarily but was arrested following Police investigations to track him down. He was a former student of RP and had committed the offences over a period of four months. As such, the Police, in consultation with the AGC, prosecuted him in court. The facts in that case are quite different."
Reviewing Concerns Raised by Other Netizens
Prior to the SPF statement being released, various netizens had posted that the SPF had failed to explain itself for why it gave a conditional warning instead of pushing for prosecution.
We believe it is important to raise this issue for factchecking now because the SPF statement showed that the focus of these netizens was on the need to deter against the perpetrator's conduct, but had not considered the possibility of rehabilitating the perpetrator.
In some cases, the posts by these netizens are completely false, suggesting that the SPF were "covering up". This has been debunked, as shown above.
We focus in particular on the following views which garnered significant support.
Hence 2 things:-
The SPF have not kept silent. They have issued their statement setting out the basis for the conditional warning.
Consideration was given to both the need for protecting the public (by deterring the would-be criminal) and further, rehabilitation – giving a chance for the perpetrator to rehabilitate, amongst other things, where there is a high likelihood of such rehabilitation.
We are not suggesting that the SPF statement alone is adequate justification for the conditional warning. We are not even suggesting that the SPF statement sufficiently addresses all the concerns raised so far in the Monica Baey matter. These are matters of opinion and each is free to reach his/her own conclusion.
The fact of the SPF statement is key to having a rational debate on whether such offences need to be more harshly dealt with in future. It is important to observe that Mr Gerald Giam had changed his tone after he had considered the SPF statement:
As a matter of logic, if the attitude towards such offences is changing because we recognise that technology and the importance we give to our privacy are changing, then how we appropriately punish an offender should change as well.
And perhaps, as Mr Gerald Giam puts it, the best way to this end would be by rational and respectful discussion – As that is how the law and our society develop.


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California Adventure Rides by Location
United States California Disneyland
All Disneyland
Kayte Deioma
Kayte Deioma is an internationally published travel writer and photographer based in the Los Angeles area.
Disney California Adventure was originally divided into five areas, one of which, the Golden State area, was further split into three themes. With the complete makeover and grand re-opening in 2012, California Adventure now officially has eight "lands." Only Cars Land was technically added, but the Golden State was disbanded and its subdivisions became their own lands. Sunshine Plaza, which included the entrance, the Golden Gate Bridge and a giant sunshine became Buena Vista Street, modeled on 1920s Los Angeles. The muted Art Deco buildings are more classy, less kitschy, than what came before, which can be good or bad, depending on your tastes. I miss the old Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood Pictures Gate.
In the new designation of eight lands, not all of them have rides. Some only have food, shopping or tour attractions.
The currently designated lands from the entrance clockwise are:
Buena Vista Street (from the entrance to Carthay Circle)
Hollywood Land (formerly Hollywood Pictures Backlot)
"a bugs land"
Pacific Wharf
Condor Flats
Attractions on Buena Vista Street
Buena Vista Street opened as part of the California Adventure expansion completed in June 2012. It replaced the original entrance and main thoroughfare to Sunshine Plaza, which used to include the Golden Gate Bridge and a giant sun.
Buena Vista Street was designed to reflect Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s when Walt Disney first came to the city. The colorful Golden Gate was replaced with the much more subdued Hyperion Bridge, based on the Glendale/Hyperion Avenue Bridge near Walt Disney's early Hyperion Animation Studios. It still supports the monorail that runs between the two parks and Downtown Disney.
There is a Red Car Trolley stop at the beginning of Buena Vista Street that takes passengers to Carthay Circle and on through Hollywood Land.
The storefronts along Buena Vista Street reflect the Art Deco architecture of the time. the shops and cafes have names culled from the Disney vault, like the Fiddler, Fifer and Practical Cafe named for the Three Little Pigs in the early Disney animated movie.
At the intersection of Buena Vista Street and Hollywood Land, a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at street level, and the Carthay Theatre have replaced the iconic Babylon Gates that used to flank the entrance to the Hollywood Pictures Backlot.
The Carthay Circle Theatre, on Carthay Circle, is modeled after the theatre where Walt Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, debuted. At 89 feet 6 inches, it's taller than Sleeping Beauty's Castle by over 10 feet. Although the building is a replica of a theatre, it's actually a restaurant and lounge. The upstairs Carthay Circle Restaurant requires reservations. The Lounge does not.
The Carthay Circle fountain is the hub of the park, a popular meeting spot, a Red Car Trolley Stop and the staging area for the Red Car News Boys show and the Five & Dime show. It's also a good spot for viewing the Pixar Play Parade as it comes through Hollywood Land.
The Citizens of Buena Vista Street, including a quirky cop, a photographer, a bike messenger and others in period costumes of the 1920s and 30s roam around interacting with guests, bringing the street to life and providing innumerable photo opportunities.
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Hollywood Land Rides & Attractions
In Hollywood Land at Disney California Adventure, Imagineers have created reproductions of some famous Hollywood facades and soundstages as home to a passel of movie-themed attractions. The Babylon towers with elephants on top that once flanked the entrance are gone. Now there's a more subtle transition from Buena Vista Street at Carthay Circle. Turn left in front of the Carthay Circle Theatre to enter Hollywood Land.
The only two actual rides in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot are the former Hollywood Tower of Terror, which is being transformed into Guardians of the Galaxy, and Monsters Inc. Mike & Sully to the Rescue. The other attractions in this area are indoor and outdoor live stage shows, movies and interactive experiences, and of course, a parade. Disney Animation Studios is a fun place to cool off and rest weary feet. You can learn to draw Minnie Mouse, have a conversation with an animated turtle or try your hand dubbing your voice over a Disney animated movie scene. Seeing the live musical stage production of Frozen-Live at the Hyperion Theatre is another one of my favorite things to do in Hollywood Land.
Height minimums are listed next to the ride name where applicable.
Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sully to the Rescue! is a dark ride that follows the story from the movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission BREAKOUT - 40" FP is a dark elevator drop ride that you might be too chicken to ride.
Discovery Activities
Disney Animation Studios - includes the Animation Academy, Character Close-Up, Sorcerer's Workshop and the Turtle Talk with Crush interactive show.
Hyperion Theater is a live stage theatre currently showing an abbreviated musical version of Disney's Frozen.
Disney Junior - Live on Stage! is an indoor stage show with people and puppet characters from popular Disney Channel cartoons.
The Pixar Play Parade features characters from a dozen or so Pixar movies
Hollywood Backlot Stage has a daytime dance show.
A Bug's Land Rides at California Adventure
"a bug's land", modeled after the movie a bug's life, is designed for the youngest visitors to Disney California Adventure. Giant plants tower overhead to make you feel bug-size and all the rides maintain the insect theme. There are no height restrictions on any of the rides here, but toddlers will need an adult or older sibling to ride along. You might want to have some dry clothes on hand for kids tempted to play in the Princess Dot Puddle Park.
Flik's Flyers is an up and down parachute ride for young children.
Francis' Ladybug Boogie is a spinny tea-cup style ride with ladybugs instead of cups.
Heimlich's Chew Chew Train lets you ride a giant caterpillar as he munches his way through giant scented fruits and plants.
Tuck and Roll's Drive'Em Buggies is a bumper car ride.
Princess Dot Puddle Park is a multi-jet water fountain that kids can run through to cool off on a hot day.
It's Tough to Be a Bug! Is a 4D movie with scent effects that shows the world from a bug's eye view.
Cars Land Rides at California Adventure
Cars Land opened in 2012 at Disney California Adventure. Based on the Disney-Pixar animated movie Cars, the newest land in the park re-creates the animated town of Radiator Springs in complete detail as a backdrop for three new rides plus new restaurants and shops.
Radiator Springs Racers is a race ride through the Cars Land red rock landscape. Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters is a spinning car ride, and Mater's Junkyard Jamboree is a swinging square dance with baby tractors pulling passengers in Mater's junkyard trailers.
The Radiator Springs Ornament Valley backdrop includes Cadillac Mountain, the biggest mountain Disney has built in the US, which topped off at 125 feet. The mountain landscaping is shaped like the tail ends of multiple cars jutting up in the rock formation.
In addition to the rides, you'll find Flo's V8 Cafe, the Cozy Cone Motel snack bar, Sarge's Surplus and more.
Pacific Wharf Attractions
The Pacific Wharf area represents a combination of Monterrey's Cannery Row, San Francisco's iconic Victorian townhouses and Napa's wineries. There are no rides at Pacific Wharf, but there are more eating establishments here than anywhere else in the park as well as a couple food-related "factory tours." This used to be the only area in the park where alcohol is served, but some of the new Cars Land dining establishments now also serve alcohol.
The Bakery Tour, hosted by Boudin Bakery
The Mission Tortilla Factory, where you can watch tortillas being made.
The Alfresco Tasting Terrace, the Wine Country Trattoria, Sonoma Terrace and Mendocino Terrace along a hillside vineyard are considered to be part of Pacific Wharf, although they're on the outside of the area over the bridge that people generally think of as the Wharf.
Other notable establishments include the Bayside Brews with its craft beers, and the Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop, the first Ghirardelli shop in a theme park.
Paradise Pier Rides at California Adventure
The Paradise Pier section of Disney California Adventure is designed to resemble California's beachfront amusement parks, like the ones in Santa Monica and Santa Cruz and the old Pike in Long Beach. The California Screamin' roller coaster and the giant Mickey's Fun Wheel Ferris wheel dominate the landscape with Toy Story Mania and real midway games tucked underneath the roller coaster along the boardwalk. Another prominent feature is the lagoon fountain where the World of Color show is projected on the dancing water plumes at night. The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure ride joined the rides on the opposite side of the lagoon in 2011. Paradise Pier is the most distant Land from the park entrance, accessible through the Grizzly Park Recreation Area, or across the bridge from Pacific Wharf.
California Screamin' 48" FP is the Disneyland Resort's most extreme roller coaster.
Goofy's Sky School 42" FP is an exceptionally jerky smaller roller coaster that replaced the former Mulholland Madness.
Silly Symphony Swings 40" is a traditional spinning swing ride.
Jumpin' Jellyfish 40 " is an up and down parachute ride
Golden Zephyr is a spaceship with multiple rows of seats that spins around a central post.
Mickey's Fun Wheel is a giant Ferris Wheel with some fixed cars and some that tip and swing along an inner track as the wheel turns.
Toy Story Mania is a very fun interactive ride with a carnival midway theme. Riders use an air-gun to compete at balloon darts, plate toss and other carnival games.
The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventures is a dark ride through a musical underwater world populated with characters from the movie.
King Triton's Carousel is a classic merry-go-round where you ride on sea horses, fish and other sea creatures instead of horses.
World of Color is a nighttime light and music spectacular with animation projected on the dancing fountains in Paradise Lagoon. See World of Color Photos. The show evolves with each new Disney animated movie released.
Games of the Boardwalk are carnival games you can play near Toy Story Mania, under the California Screamin' coaster.
Grizzly Peak Rides at California Adventure
The Grizzly Peak Recreation Area, recreates California's great redwood forests in the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail and the whitewater adventure ride, Grizzly River Run.
Grizzly River Run 42" FP is a whitewater rafting ride. It's very fun, but you WILL get wet.
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail is an outdoor adventure trail with rope bridges, tire swings and other activities set among a part-real, part-faux redwood forest.
Soarin' Around The World 40" FP simulates parasailing or gliding over the many landscapes and landmarks of California. This is one of my favorite CA Adventure rides. (This used to be considered Condor Flats, but it has been folded into Grizzly Peak.)
Grizzly Peak is also where you'll find the connector route to the Grand Californian Hotel and Napa Rose Restaurant. Guests of the hotel can access the park through this entrance rather than through the main turnstiles out front.
Everything You Need to Know About California Adventure Rides
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The Complete Guide to Disney's Toy Story Land
Better After Dark: Disney California Adventure Rides at Night
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Q: Google drive api saving to file I am trying to save a file by using google drive api.
Code that I am using to save file at the moment looks following:
 final java.io.File file = new java.io.File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + java.io.File.separator + "Json.txt");
        try {
            file.createNewFile();
            if (file.exists()) {
                final FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file);
                final String json = gson.toJson(filesEvent);
                fileWriter.write(json);
                fileWriter.close();
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

This is the part that is supposed to get the file contents:
final StringBuilder sb = getStringBuilder(new FileReader(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + java.io.File.separator + "Json.txt"));
            File file  = gson.fromJson(sb.toString(), File.class);

A: I assume, you want to save a text file ('json.txt') to Google Drive and your code applies to Android.
First, you do not indicate what API you decided to use, the REST Api or the GDAA.
Starting with java.io.File as an input (your first code block), here are code snippets for both the GDAA and REST Apis.
GDAA: (you may consider turning the 'await' methods into callbacks, or you have to wrap it in non-UI thread)
dependencies {
  ...
  compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.8.0'
}

  com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient mGAC;
  ...
  /**********************************************************************
   * create file/folder in GOODrive
   * @param prnId  parent's ID, (null for root)
   * @param titl  file name
   * @param mime  file mime type
   * @param file  file (with content) to create
   * @return      file id  / null on fail
   */
  DriveId createFile(DriveId prnId, String titl, String mime, File file) {
    DriveId dId = null;
    if (mGAC != null && mGAC.isConnected() && titl != null && mime != null && file != null) {
      DriveFolder pFldr = (prnId == null) ?
        Drive.DriveApi.getRootFolder(mGAC): Drive.DriveApi.getFolder(mGAC, prnId);
      if (pFldr == null) return null; //----------------->>>

      MetadataChangeSet meta;
      DriveContentsResult r1 = Drive.DriveApi.newDriveContents(mGAC).await();
      if (r1 == null || !r1.getStatus().isSuccess()) return null; //-------->>>

      meta = new Builder().setTitle(titl).setMimeType(mime).build();
      DriveFileResult r2 = pFldr.createFile(mGAC, meta, r1.getDriveContents()).await();
      DriveFile dFil = r2 != null && r2.getStatus().isSuccess() ? r2.getDriveFile() : null;
      if (dFil == null) return null; //---------->>>

      r1 = dFil.open(mGAC, DriveFile.MODE_WRITE_ONLY, null).await();
      if ((r1 != null) && (r1.getStatus().isSuccess()))  {
        Status stts = fileToCont(r1.getDriveContents(), file).commit(mGAC, meta).await();
        if ((stts != null) && stts.isSuccess()) {
          MetadataResult r3 = dFil.getMetadata(mGAC).await();
          if (r3 != null && r3.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
            dId = r3.getMetadata().getDriveId();
          }
        }
      }
    }
    return dId;
  }

  DriveContents fileToCont(DriveContents driveContents, File file) {
    OutputStream oos = driveContents.getOutputStream();
    if (oos != null) try {
      InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
      byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
      int c;
      while ((c = is.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) > 0) {
        oos.write(buf, 0, c);
        oos.flush();
      }
    } catch (Exception e)  { UT.le(e);}
    finally {
      try {
        oos.close();
      } catch (Exception ignore) {
      }
    }
    return driveContents;
  }

REST Api: (you have to wrap it in non-UI thread)
dependencies {
  ...
  compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-drive:v2-rev105-1.17.0-rc'
  compile 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.20.0'
  compile 'com.google.http-client:google-http-client-gson:1.20.0'
}

  com.google.api.services.drive.Drive mGOOSvc;
  ...
  /***************************************************************
   * create file/folder in GOODrive
   * @param prnId  parent's ID, (null or "root") for root
   * @param titl  file name
   * @param mime  file mime type
   * @param file  file (with content) to create
   * @return      file id  / null on fail
   */
  static String createFile(String prnId, String titl, String mime, java.io.File file) {
    String rsId = null;
    if (mGOOSvc != null  && titl != null && mime != null && file != null) try {
      File meta = new File();
      meta.setParents(Arrays.asList(new ParentReference().setId(prnId == null ? "root" : prnId)));
      meta.setTitle(titl);
      meta.setMimeType(mime);

      File gFl = mGOOSvc.files().insert(meta, new FileContent(mime, file)).execute();
      if (gFl != null)
        rsId = gFl.getId();
    }
    catch (UserRecoverableAuthIOException uraIOEx) {
      // handle  uraIOEx;
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      if (e instanceof GoogleJsonResponseException) {
        if (404 == ((GoogleJsonResponseException)e).getStatusCode())
          // handle  error;
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      // handle  error;
    }
    return rsId;
  }

Wider context of these methods can be found here and here if you care to dig deeper.
Good Luck