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Divided Poland to choose more turmoil in presidential election on Sunday

Divided Poland to choose more turmoil in presidential election on Sunday
Incumbent President Andrzej Duda (left) is facing centre-right mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski (right) in Sunday's presidential election run-off.
By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw July 10, 2020

Whoever emerges as the winner of the run-off presidential vote in Poland this Sunday, it will mark the start of several years of new turmoil in the EU’s sixth most populous country.

Backed by the nationalist government led by Law and Justice (PiS), incumbent President Andrzej Duda is facing centre-right mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski in what polls are unanimously predicting will be a razor-thin contest. The victor will either help usher Poland further down the authoritarian slide or kick off a gruelling political conflict fuelled by resentment accumulated in the past five years.

The authoritarian threat is the incumbent winning another five years in office, giving the PiS-led administration a virtually free hand in governing Poland until 2023, the year of the next general election.

Fears have long grown in Poland that five more years of Duda will give PiS’ chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski — the chief decision-maker who holds no official role in the government — an opportunity to cement power and crush the opposition, media and civil society in much the same way as Viktor Orban did in Hungary.

In the final days of the campaign, the ruling camp has made noises along those lines. Earlier this week, Poland’s foreign affairs ministry summoned Germany’s charge d’affairs over coverage of the election by the partially German-owned tabloid Fakt.

“We have to think about the media situation in Poland … and I hope we will draw some conclusions once the campaign is over,” Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said in reaction to Fakt’s cover lambasting Duda for granting a pardon in a paedophilia case.

A triumph for Trzaskowski will most likely end PiS’ authoritarian drive. Instead, it will ignite the fiercest political conflict in Poland since 2010, the year Kaczynski’s twin brother, then-president Lech Kaczynski, died in a fatal plane crash in Smolensk, Russia. That set PiS off on the track of framing then ruling party Civic Platform (PO) — where Trzaskowski is vice-chair — with conspiracy theories in which the Polish government colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to kill its own president.

In both scenarios, a big question lurks: will PiS’ subjugating democracy further or Trzaskowski setting the scene for permanent conflict reinvigorate the Left or — perhaps a more likely scenario — further boost the far-right, already a possible kingmaker in Sunday’s contest. Left or right, Poland’s political parties have rarely been anything more than a background to the PiS-PO conflict that has dominated Polish politics since the mid-2000s.

The 1.3mn people who voted for the far-right presidential candidate Krzysztof Bosak in the first round of the election on June 28 are the big unknown on Sunday. A July 9 poll by Ipsos for the independent news outlet Oko Press showed the far-right voters split nearly evenly 42%-41% in Duda’s favour with as many as 17% still undecided.

Both Duda and Trzaskowski keep appealing to the far-right on their campaign trails. Duda is accentuating traditional family values he says are dear to most in the staunchly Catholic Poland. In a campaign stunt, the president submitted a constitutional amendment banning adoption by homosexual couples. That followed weeks of anti-LGBT rhetoric.

Trzaskowski has spoken more about liberal economics that many on the far-right juxtapose with PiS’s inflated social spending. Wary of the importance of the far-right voters, however, Trzaskowski did also say — even if in slightly less discriminating language — he would not back adoption by same-sex couples. That might cost him some votes on the left on Sunday.

Unsurprisingly, Duda has the unwavering support of the government and the public media, the broadcaster TVP in particular. PiS took control over public media during its first term in power in 2015-2019 and has made them a government propaganda tube, not infrequently similar to media from regimes like North Korea.

That has only fuelled further divisions in Poland, to the point at which TVP and its private competitors TVN and Polsat proved unable to agree on a jointly hosted live debate between Duda and Trzaskowski. Not least because Duda — accustomed to servile TVP journalists — refused to face with those capable of criticising him. For his part, Trzaskowski boycotted anything to do with TVP.

The resulting curiosity was Duda and Trzaskowski holding “debates” on their own with the rival’s pulpit ostensibly empty. Duda took part in a controlled event with friendly questions reportedly asked by the local people from the town of Konskie — some of whom turned out to be bussed-in PiS supporters and functionaries. Trzaskowski did better by inviting a host of media — including pro-PiS ones — to ask him questions.

But the debates are unlikely to move the devout voters of either man one inch. The Ipsos poll showed 100% of Duda voters in the first round will vote for him again on Sunday. The ratio for Trzaskowski’s first round supporters is 99%.

It will therefore be the mobilisation of other groups of the electorate that will decide the election’s result. Most voters who backed centrist and centre-right candidates in the first round declare they will vote for Trzaskowski but the Ipsos poll for Oko Press showed they were slightly less determined to go out to the polling stations. In a razor-thin contest, that could prove crucial.

The Ipsos poll showed Duda at 50% versus Trzaskowski’s 47% with 3% still undecided. Given a 3pp margin of error in polls, that puts Duda at 47%-53% and Trzaskowski at 44%-50%.

“Duda's voters cannot be sure that they will have their "dream president" for the next five years. But Trzaskowski's voters should not give up but mobilise, [especially if] declarations of Duda's supporters prove exaggerated,” Oko Press’s editor Piotr Pacewicz wrote in a comment.

In one crucial group, voters aged 60 or more, 90% said they would vote. Only 56% did in the first round on June 28.

“The declared mobilisation of Duda’s voters is so big that it appears unlikely to happen,” Pacewicz added, pointing to a chance for Trzaskowski to win.

Chances also are that the exit poll on Sunday night will not point to a winner clearly. In that case, a riveting night — and possibly Monday too — lies ahead with the final outcome shaping up as official results pour in from across Poland. It might also provide premises for opening up a Pandora's box of contesting the election result in the Supreme Court, itself a fierce political battleground between PiS and the opposition. Whatever the outcome, it is not going to be quiet before or after the election storm in Poland this weekend, this year, or anytime later.


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Blushing bee
  • Wedding: August 2010

Wild Thing would be great! There’s no such thing as TOO upbeat.

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Bumble bee

My father and I danced to “Unforgettable” by Nat King Cole.  My dad loved the song and it was great because the tempo was slow enough so that we weren’t rushing when we danced together.

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Helper bee
  • Wedding: October 2009

I think you should dance to an upbeat song. It will be super cute and most importantly, it will have significant meaning to both of you.

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Bee Keeper
  • Wedding: October 2009

Yes, go with the song that means something to the two of you! Not all dances have to be serious and I think your dad will really like that you chose a song that reminded you of him 🙂

We danced to “Love without end Amen” by George Strait, even though its a song about a boy & his father, my dad used to sing it to me, so I went with it. There are no rules when it comes to dance songs!

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Sugar bee
  • Wedding: September 2009

I think “Wild Thing” would be perfect because it is meaningful to you and your father. Plus it is a fun song.

My father and I danced to “Daddy” by Beyonce. Great song but definitely is sappy.

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Helper bee
  • Wedding: January 2021

My dad and I are dancing to “My Little Girl” by Tim McGraw….its such a sweet song.  It made me cry the first 5 times I heard it!

I like the Wild Thing idea though!

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Welcome to our monthly newsletter.  We wanted to provide an update on how to access our services.  We are open to the public in a limited capacity. Patrons are allowed back in the library—for specific purposes and limited amounts of time. There are some rules to ensure that everyone stays safe and healthy. Patrons may use the computers and copier, browse for books, or have something notarized. Only a limited number of people are allowed in the building, so we recommend making an appointment. Appointments go from 10:30am-5pm Monday-Friday and 9:30am-4pm on Saturdays. If there is space, you may be allowed as a walk-in. To schedule an appointment please call 908-754-7885 ext. 3.
Contact-less Pickup is another great option for patrons who don't feel comfortable coming into the building, but who would still like to use our collection. If you are a South Plainfield resident with a South Plainfield library card, you can go on to the online catalog and request your books, DVDs, and other materials. Only items from South Plainfield Public Library can be requested; the delivery system
between libraries is currently suspended. If you are an out-of-town resident, you can still request materials from the library; you would have to send your request to spcurbsidepickup@gmail.com  and include your full name and library card number/address and phone number. If you're looking for some recommendations, check out our booklists for adults created by the librarians in a variety of genres. There are also Google forms to fill out to request books if you don’t have specific titles in mind. All the information is on our website (southplainfield.lib.nj.us/curbside.htm), and there are also written and video tutorials to help guide you in this process. All items can be picked up Monday through Friday 10:15 AM to 6 PM and Saturday 9:15 AM to 5 PM. Staff will contact you when your items are ready to be picked up.
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Cook With Me by Alex Guarnaschelli The Sicilian Method by Andrea Camilleri
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered by Mumia Abu-Jamal  Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
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If you want to watch it again for the 100th time, or want to see it for the first time, you can find it at the library under DVD MEA.
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Of course we should be nice to one another every day. But on National Be Nice Day, really commit to being kind, thoughtful, and positive in your interactions. Pay it forward by buying a drink for the person behind you in the coffee line. Compliment a co-worker whose contributions often go unnoticed. Or surprise a family member or friend with a small, “just because” gift. The chances to be nice are limitless.

Happy Day Farm – Manalapan
You won't be bored at this Monmouth County farm. It's loaded with family activities including pumpkin picking, crafts, pony rides, hayrides, a wooden train, pig races, swings, a zoo, and even a "Kids Korner" for the 2- to 6-year-old crowd. Pumpkin Festival weekends include animal feedings, cornhole, pedal carts, tractor rides, and tug-o-war fun. Pumpkin picking, as well as other fall activities, are available weekends September 12- October 25. Advanced tickets are required.

Johnson's Corner Farm – Medford
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This fun farm is a perennial family favorite. On weekends in October, take a horse drawn wagon ridge out to the pumpkin patch where you can select your own pumpkins still growing on the vine. After picking out your pumpkin, enjoy the free grass maze, giant hay bales, and friendly farm animals.

Norz Hill Farm – Hillsborough
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Oasis Family Farm – Robbinsville
Pick pumpkins, sample local honey, enjoy games, and more at this NJ farm. There's even an ant colony and gem mine to explore plus a children's Fun Zone and bee hive to check out. Farm opens for the season September 26-November 1.

Terhune Orchards – Princeton
Terhune is such a fun place to bring the family because of the breadth of kid-friendly things to do around the farm. The pumpkin-picking fields at the main farm (Cold Soil Road) are open September – October. The Fall Family Weekends takes place on Saturdays and Sundays from September 12 – November 1, 2020. Don't forget to check out the farm store and winery.

Wondering what to do with the pumpkins that you've picked?
Try Pumpkin Carving:

1. Start with the right pumpkin.

Choose one that's fresh, with a sturdy stem, no bruises, and a flat bottom so it won't roll while you carve.

2. Cut from the bottom, not the top.

cutting your "lid" from the bottom of the pumpkin helps prevent the sides from caving in later.

3. If you do carve from the top, cut out the lid on an angle.

This way it won't drop inside the pumpkin when you put it back on top, like it would with a straight up-and-down cut.

4. Scoop out all the pulp (and then some).

an ice cream scoop will do just fine. Thin the inner wall of the "face" area to 1¼-inch thick, so it will be easier to pierce the shell.

5. Sketch out your design on paper first.

If you draw your jack-o'-lantern face to size, you can use it as a pattern: Just tape it to the front of your pumpkin and use a fork or pencil to poke holes along the lines you want to carve. (Or save yourself from creative blocks by getting a pumpkin carving kit, complete with a marker, scraper, cutting tools, and pre-made patterns.)

6. Hold the pumpkin in your lap.

It's easier to create features when the face is gazing up at you. use a serrated kitchen knife or an X-Acto knife for carving. Just don't cut on a slant — clean up-and-down slices look best.

7. Start by making simple rough cuts.

If you get the big pieces of pumpkin out of the way first, you can go back and clean up the edges of your design later.

8. Use your scraps creatively.

Make a tongue, pipe, or hair accessories out of a discarded piece of pumpkin shell, for example.

9. Keep your pumpkin fresh.

spread petroleum jelly on the cut edges to seal in moisture. If your pumpkin still shrivels a few days later, you can revive it with a facedown soak in cold water for up to eight hours.

For some creative ideas for carving check out "Pumpkin Carving" by Ed Palmer 745.5941 PAL

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Hugo Award 2018 Nominees Read

I am attending WorldCon and Hugo awards ceremony this year. Yay! This will be the first time and (might be) the last time that I will get a chance to visit. It is happening in San Jose this time and I am way too excited about the prospects of meeting some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy authors at the WorldCon convention. I recently met Brian McClellan(of Powder Mage series) at the Comic Con convention and got his autograph on one of his books. I am hoping that I will be able to meet many more authors like him in WorldCon this year.

Hugo awards nominations for 2018 were announced recently. I have read quite a few of these nominated books and have some of them on my TBR as well. I got a chance to nominate books for the Hugo this year since I am attending. I will also get a chance to vote for the winning book this time so I am planning to read as many of the nominations as possible. In this post, I am going to talk about all the books from the nominations that I have already read, along with the ratings I gave to these books.

Link for the nominations list is here – 2018 Hugo Award Finalists

I have only read one book from the Novel category –

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty – 3 Stars

The overall idea of this book was interesting but a lot of things did not make sense to me. This was a diverse book but the plot moved at a snail’s pace considering it is a murder mystery set in space. I did like the science elements but everything else was pretty meh.

From the Novella category, I have read 3 –

  1. Down among the sticks and bones – 4 stars

    My vote might go to this book since it was great. It was even better than the first installment in this series which happened to win last year’s Hugo. It is a portal fantasy series about which I wrote an entire post earlier.

  2. River of Teeth – 3 stars

    It was a pretty unrealistic story which did not make much sense to me. I did like the author’s imagination and hippos, but that was it. Every other book is trying to become diverse by throwing in LGBTQ characters and LGBTQ romance. This is yet another book which wants to get praised just for having diversity and for nothing else.

  3. All Systems Red – 4 stars

    This was fun so my vote might go to this book too. The murderbot character was an interesting character but I didn’t like the way the ending felt rushed. But still it was good.

You can find mini reviews for all these books in my earlier wrap up posts.
I had read Binti (first book in the series) and I was not a fan of that so I am going to give Binti: Home a miss.

I have also read two more books from other categories.
Paper Girls vol.3 has been nominated under Graphic Novels section. I love this series and it is lot of fun. It reminds me of Stranger Things a lot which is why I love it. 1980s setting, geeky brave girls, aliens, spaceships, time travel and monsters! What is not there to like it?!
Katherine Arden has been nominated for the Campbell debut author award. I read her The Bear and the Nightingale earlier but wasn’t a huge fan of her writing. The Russian setting and world building was great, but her writing put me to sleep. The plot was all over the place. I had no clue what the book was all about until I was like approaching the end, by which time I had lost interest in the plot. So definitely not going to vote for this author.

My vote for best movie will go for Wonder Woman! (was anyone surprised?! :))

Have you read any of the nominations for Hugo awards?

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  1. Enjoy your maiden and hope-not-the-last-time visit to the award ceremony. I guess I’ve been to The Lit for Life by The Hindu a couple of times but never bothered to read any of the books, not even the ones that managed to make the final list 🙂

    Destination Infinity

  2. I wanted to read six wakes back when it first came out but it wasn’t available on ebook and I still haven’t got my hands on it! The slow pace doesn’t sound great though!

  3. I’ve read two in the Best Novel – The Collapsing Empire (which I was pretty underwhelmed by) and Raven Strategem (which I adored). I’m going to try and read the short stories and novelettes over the summer – I’ve read a couple and enjoyed them, but not to the extent I’d give them the Hugo, so hoping the rest of the field is stronger when I get there. Very much looking forward to Down Among the Sticks and Bones – I’m just sore about how much they are charging for it, so I’ve been putting off buying it (at nearly £8 it’s more expensive than most full-length novels!)

    1. So far nothing has impressed me enough to vote for Hugo’s in the novels category. Down among the sticks and bones was great. Novellas are charged like regular novels even though they are tiny. That’s not fair actually.

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Between 1919 and 1941, the U.S. Navy transformed itself from a powerful if unsophisticated force into the fleet that would win a two-ocean war, from a fleet in which the battleship dominated to one based on carrier strike groups. The great puzzle of U.S. naval history is how this was accomplished. Norman Friedman trenchantly argues that war gaming at the U.S. Naval War College made an enormous, and perhaps decisive, contribution. For much of the inter-war period, the Naval War College was the Navy’s primary think tank. War gaming was the means the college used to test alternative strategies, tactics, evolving naval aviation, and warship types in a way that the Navy’s full-scale exercises could not. The think tank perspective taken by this book is a new way of looking at the inter-war Naval War College and the war games that formed the core of its curriculum. Although the influence of both the Naval War College’s gaming and of the college itself declined after 1933, most of the key decisions shaping the wartime U.S. Navy had already been taken. In this historical book, you will find the two most important ones were on the role of naval aviation and the form the U.S. war plan against Japan ultimately assumed. As shown here, U.S. naval commanders successfully applied the lessons learned from war gaming to victorious operations in World War II.

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Table of Contents

1. Naval Transformation

 Exercises: Full-Scale Fleet Problems and Games at Newport

 Naval Aviation as a Driver Toward Transformation

 The Inter-War Navy and Its World

 The Strategic Problem

Naval Arms Control

2. The Naval War College and Gaming

3. War Gaming and War Planning

 The “Applicatory” System

 War Gaming

 War Gaming at the Inter-War War College

 Some Limits of Gamed Reality

 Using War Gaming

 War Gaming and War Planning

4. War Gaming and Carrier Aviation

 Guessing What Aircraft Could Do

 Gaming and Early Carriers

 Reeves and Operating Practices

 Putting It Together—the Yorktown Class

5. The War College and Cruisers

 Evaluating Alternatives

 Cruisers at War: Three Years of Red-Blue Warfare

 Postscript: The Fate of the Flight-Deck Cruiser

6. Downfall

7. Conclusion: Games Versus Reality in the Pacific

A: Playing the Games

B: War Game Rules—Aircraft

 The Airplanes

 Carrier Air Operations

 Bombs Versus Carriers

 Torpedo Bombing

 Air-to-Air Combat

 Anti-Aircraft Firepower

 Aircraft Navigation and Reliability

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Though rocge crusade was over, only the powerbrokers that had supported the spread of Catharism had been removed from power, their lands confiscated.

Otto Rahn in Wikipedia. This meant that any Cathars caught, were ferociously interrogated about the terrorist network they were part of, their secret hideouts, their clandestine financiers and supporters, etc.

De Fenouillet was buried at Mas Deu aroundbut his death did not prevent the Inquisitors from exhuming, re-judging and condemning him once more, posthumously, in Today, these heretics are most commonly known as the Cathars, but historically, they went under a number of guises for, in fact, they were not a uniform organisation at all. Faced with the incredible pains subjected to their bodies, and the Cathar oath not to lie, the Inquisition learned important secrets about the underground network.

After this Fall, they ended up on Earth. The site holds a statue of the Virgin Mary, and though this might appear typically Christian, the Cathars of the 14th century are known to have made similar pilgrimages to the nearby basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Marceillewhich held a Black Madonna. Big Brother, of course, won. After a ten month siege, in Marchthe castle surrendered.

This listed 16th century chateau is located on extensive grounds on the banks of the River Aude. Sometimes, nations turn against a rroche resident within their own borders. Yuri Stoyanov has indeed confirmed that the Cathars believed as such and that this belief had no counterpart in Bogomil xeodat, meaning that the Cathars were unique amongst the dualists to have this belief — meaning their religion was not at all based on the knowledge that Jesus and Mary Magdalene rodhe a dynasty but that, instead, Cathars in Southern France, where Mary Magdalene was a popular saint, used her in their cosmography, to illustrate the feminine aspect of the divine duality they believed in.

They offer all their passions with gourmet foods, a mixture of authentic cuisine and local gourmet rocye. The Synod marked the start of the real struggle between the Church and Catharism, as the Church now had an organised body to fight. I have very little keyboard time at present and less in the months to come.

Sprache Filter Filter content by language under No language option there are photos, documents, some videos. Still, from onwards, hunting down Catharism was no longer done via wide-sweeping crusades, but on an individual basis.

It was Fournier, then the local bishop, who unleashed the Inquisition at Pamiers against the villagers, even resulting in the arrest of the entire village in The ancient fortress-turned-hotel subtly blends medieval tradition with modern confort – and it has an excellent restaurant too it is important that you reserve a table in advance.

We are grateful for any help in filling the Otto Memorial website. For rocje joiners I include an index to conjure order out of the scrolling chaos and serve as an aid memoir for those hardy few who dare read further. This visit is not substantiated. Otto Rahn im Wikipedia. In retrospect, the crusade was one deoddat the bloodiest episodes in European history. One of the crusaders asked their leader, the Papal Legate Arnaud-Amaury, how dedoat distinguish between the heretics and the thousands of faithful Catholics that lived in the city.

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Roche was not only mayor of Arques; he had also held important positions within the French judicial system. A person was able to receive the consolamentum more than once, underlining the magical nature of the religion once again.

Our museum has managed to reconstruct the whole chain production of wool felting to the gilding of lace which will dress the cap, through dyeing, the crowd, forming Actually like the Chef!

Otto Rahn in Wikipedia. Equally, others have tried to underline the role of John the Baptist in this movement, but Cathars saw Elijah as an angel of Satan and they rejected baptism by water — instead baptising by fire. To the best of my knowledge and a fact that was reconfirmed to me by the current copyright holder in Germany, Rahn’s book was never translated into English although Spanish, French and Italian versions exist.

Cathars saw it as their mission to have the soul repent for the sin of being seduced by the Devil, and once accomplished, it would return to Heaven. Once inside, he seduced the spirits, who all fell from a hole in Paradise for nine days and nine nights.

What was the Church afraid of? Medallion from a bible representing orthodoxy faced with heresy a Cathar Consolamentum. So, what was Catharism? Deodzt two most important Cathar rituals were the consolamentum and the endura.

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Though it is true that their doctrine had room for Jesus and the Bible, especially the Gospel of John, and that they proclaimed Christ had no real body if he was the Son rochhe God, how could he have a body of flesh, which was evil? Indeed, what precisely the Cathars believed, remains somewhat of an enigma.


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My Mr. Gu is Courting Death Again

Chapter 539 - Wasn’t An Accident (1)

Chapter 539: Wasn’t An Accident (1)

He walked over and was about to speak to Gu Yu when Gu Yu placed his slender fingers on his lips and made a “shush” gesture. He lowered his voice and said, “Don’t wake her up.”

Doctor Li swallowed the words that were already on the tip of his tongue.

Gu Yu glanced sideways at Xu Weilai, who was still in a deep sleep. He then asked, “Do you have a spare room?”

Doctor Li understood. “I’ll get someone to arrange it now. Mr. Gu, please come to my office later. I have something important to report to you.”

Doctor Li walked over to the nurses’ station and gave his instructions. The nurse then checked on the computer, got up, and walked over to Gu Yu’s side to lead the way for him.

Gu Yu carried Xu Weilai into the empty ward. He then gently placed her on the bed and covered her with a blanket. After carefully tucking in the corner of the blanket, he lowered his head and kissed the space between her eyebrows. He then got up, walked out of the ward, and closed the door.

When he walked into Doctor Li’s office,Doctor Li was sitting behind his desk while staring at a medical record. His eyebrows were tightly knitted together, as if there was something that he didn’t understand. There were also some pills scattered beside him.

Gu Yu walked forward and pulled out a chair to sit down. He didn’t say anything to disturb him, but simply waited patiently.

Doctor Li read the medical record while he picked up the pills. He looked at them and sniffed them. After about ten minutes, he finally seemed to have noticed something. He put down the pills and then looked up to meet Gu Yu’s dark eyes.

Gu Yu hadn’t slept for the entire night. He looked tired and his eyes were bloodshot. He leaned back in his chair and rubbed the space between his eyebrows as he said in a low voice, “Just say it.”

Doctor Li pushed the glasses on his nose and crossed his hands on the table. He considered his words before he said carefully, “Mr. Gu, I suspect that the old man’s sudden fall down the stairs has nothing to do with his physical condition.”

His long eyelashes moved slightly, but there wasn’t a hint of surprise in his eyes. Even though he was tired, there wasn’t a hint of emotion on his extremely handsome face. It was as if… he had long been mentally prepared.

He said calmly, “Continue.”

Doctor Li said, “I spent the entire night studying the old man’s case. In the past few years, I have been giving the old man regular physical examinations. As an old man, his body does indeed have some minor ailments, but overall, he is still very healthy. In addition, the old man had always maintained a relaxed and happy mood. He also insisted on exercising slightly every day. Basically, there shouldn’t be any major problems with his bodily health.”

“Some time ago, he fainted because he had been too emotional during the birthday banquet, but after a period of recuperation, his health could be said to have returned to normal. It was impossible for him to be unable to go down the stairs.

“Therefore, I found the medicine that was prescribed to the old man during this period of time. I checked that there was no problem on this side, but I asked someone to send it over from the old residence. The old man didn’t finish the medicine, so I took some samples and checked them. I found that there were other drugs mixed in.

“I think the old man must have been taking these mixed drugs all the time. After a certain amount was accumulated in his body, the effects suddenly burst out. That was probably the reason the old man suddenly fell down the stairs this time!”

Gu Yu closed his eyes heavily. His thin lips were tightly pursed, and chilliness rose from his entire body.

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10 Memes That Make Fun of Socialism

This isn’t a political page, but being anti-socialism isn’t about politics. It’s about having at least a passing familiarity with history, economics, and human nature. Socialism may sound nicer than capitalism, but then again, so does Santa Claus. Of course, Santa doesn’t throw you in a gulag if you end up on his naughty list. Enjoy the memes.

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John Hawkins created Rightwingnews.com in 2001; built it up to a top 10,000 in the world website; created a corporation with more than 20 employees to support it; created a 3.5 million person Facebook page; became one of the most popular conservative columnists in America; was published everywhere from National Review to Human Events, to Townhall, to PJ Media, to the Daily Wire, to The Hill; wrote a book 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know that was at one point top 50 in the self-help section on Amazon; did hundreds of hours as a guest on radio shows, raised $611,000 in a GoFundMe for Brett Kavanaugh’s family and has been talked about everywhere from The New York Times to Buzzfeed, to the Washington Post, to Yahoo News, to the Rush Limbaugh Show, to USA Today. After seeing the unjust way that Brett Kavanaugh was treated during his hearings and how a lifetime worth of good work was put at risk by unprovable allegations, John Hawkins decided to create a men’s website. Welcome to Brass Pills!

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    -Sagittal Plane: Flexion and Extension
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Error Messages And Workarounds

R_ASA_CONNECT FAILURE or Failed to locate registry entries for Quickbooks

This usually comes up when the accounting package is not installed on the machine you launched Connect from.

What you should do: Try to access the portal and launch Connect from the computer or remote desktop where your accounting application in installed.

Connect cannot launch the application

This is most likely an issue with Java that is either a version which is not supported or not allowing connection.

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Connect cannot overwrite

This messages comes up when you are uploading a file onto an account where you have previously uploaded a different data file.

Remember that you can upload your company data to your company account on the portal as many times as you want according to your updates and Audit needs but, you need multiple company accounts on the portal if you need to upload data for several entities.

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Beautiful woman reveals she and daughter survived Covid-19, inspires

Beautiful woman reveals she and daughter survived Covid-19, inspires

- A woman, who was identified as Zamangwe Zwane, has inspired social media users on Monday

- Zwane revealed both she and her daughter contracted the novel coronavirus that claimed the lives of thousands worldwide

- However, the mom and daughter managed to recover from Covid-19 and they became symbols of hope

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The coronavirus has been wreaking havoc across the world - countries have shut down as thousands of people lose their lives on a daily basis.

However, while the virus is without a doubt dangerous and should be taken seriously, it does not necessarily mean a death sentence.

While many have passed away from Covid-19, others managed to survive. One woman, Zamangwe Zwane revealed on Twitter that she and her daughter both tested positive for the coronavirus.

However, she gave Mzansi hope when she revealed that they managed to beat the novel virus and are now healthy again.

Her post was captioned:

"My daughter and I recovered from Covid-19."

Beautiful woman reveals she and daughter survived Covid-19, inspires

Zwane and her daughter recovered from Covid-19. Photo credit: Zamangwe Zwane/Twitter.
Source: Twitter

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In just a couple of hours, 10 000 people reacted to her post, gathered. Social media users were relieved to hear positive Covid-19 outcomes amid devastating statistics.

Dr Maheya, who goes by the Twitter handle @johny_theblessd, commented:

"Thank God."

Another tweep, @bonts04, added:

"We are thankful."

Shella Ntsoane, @ShezzGreat, wrote:

"My whole family recovered from Covid-19... It was not an easy ride, but we've made it."

One tweep asked Zwane how she treated herself after contracting Covid-19 and the survivor shared her secrets.

Earlier, reported a report claims that taxi drivers are defying lockdown laws banning interprovincial travel.

With heavy policing on all major routes, both operators and passengers are reportedly taking chances.

Citizens are allegedly leaving Gauteng to provinces with lower Covid-19 infection rates.

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Talk About It, Be About It

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:9, 10 NKJV)

Do not lose sight of what you are destined to gain by the sizes of your disasters. GOD! Yes I ,shouted to make sure you realize who you choose to think will fail you. It is OUR GOD.He will take you through it to get you to it. Which is eternal happiness and a guaranteed end to all this world’s two minute sales pitches trying to get to to sell your salvation by buying into a whole lotta nothing. Don’t sell your spot in God’s family to the world. God just wants your eyes and your ears and He will move you. You ask Him, He WILL DELIVER YOU OUT OF ANYTHING for free…in HIS TIME

Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; In You I take shelter. Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness. Revive me, O Lord, for Your names sake! For Your righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble. In Your mercy cut off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict my soul; For I am Your servant. (Psalm 143:9-12 NKJV)

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University Security: Controlling Crime on Campus

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University Security: Controlling Crime on Campus

Although crime in the UK is generally on a downward trajectory, this is largely because the public have taken notice of police appeals to become more crime-aware. The same cannot be said of the student population, around one third of whom become victims of crime during their university careers.

This is partly because students tend to own more portable electronics than most people and partly because they’re not renowned for being security-conscious.

If universities want to improve records of campus crime, there are several key areas to target.

Personal Safety

Campus WatchIn the excitement of moving to university and in the midst of an active work and social life, students may not always prioritise their own personal safety. The university authorities therefore have a role to fill if they want to make sure students stay as safe as possible. One very effective way to do this is to get students and staff involved in the promotion of personal safety as a grassroots responsibility.

Many universities start the academic year with fun safety-themed events, run in association with the Students’ Union and other relevant authorities. These give information about the safest ways to travel back from nights out, fire safety, and sometimes distribute free personal alarms to students.

Another initiative proving to be very successful in universities throughout the country is Campus Watch, a scheme where staff and students liaise with the police and college security to improve safety on campus and around town.

Car Crime

Campus car parks can be remote from other buildings and, since student cars are often older models, they may lack the security features that come as standard in more recent vehicles. The fact that a car is older and less valuable may actually be an incentive to an opportunistic thief, because such a car is often easier to steal and the owner frequently more sanguine about their loss.

For this reason, CCTV is a must-have in university car parks, both for its deterrent value and its usefulness when investigating crimes that have already been committed.

Bicycle Theft

Bicycle TheftCycle parks should also be covered by CCTV systems, and must offer secure, vandal-proof storage for bicycles and equipment. New schemes promoting the security tagging of bicycles are often incredibly successful at deterring theft, mainly because advances in technology have produced security devices that are almost impossible to remove.

“Tags,” for example, are microchips embedded in shuttlecock-shaped devices, which are inserted into the bicycle frame via the seat post. This simple addition provides a unique serial number that can be registered to the cycle’s legitimate owner.

Criminal Damage

The cloistered atmosphere of the university campus is notorious for lulling staff and students into a false sense of security. In the seemingly secure environment of a university library, even typically cautious students can become lax, putting laptops and other personal belongings at risk of theft.

Simple access control systems such as those operated by magnetic swipe cards can go a long way towards reducing easy pickings by outsiders.

Property Crime

Theft and vandalism in student accommodation runs at incredibly high levels, aided and abetted by the 30% of students who regularly leave their accommodation unsecured when going out. Here, educating the student body on the importance of simple security is probably the most effective step a university can take.

Students should also be encouraged to insure their valuables against theft, and to prominently mark items with their initials and postcode to make it harder to sell them on.

Reporting and Prevention

One important crime prevention measure is to make it easy for students to report crime. Although the first port of call for any victim of crime must be the local police, students should also be encouraged to approach campus security. They will be much more likely to do this if the security staff already have a profile among and are trusted by the student population.

Such a profile can be gained by uniformed patrols of the campus, especially areas that may be secluded or vulnerable to crime, and by participation in campus safety events such as those typically held at freshers’ fairs. Also, universities should consider the use of covert patrols, as these can be helpful in preventing certain types of offence.

One third of students will be affected by crime during their time at university. Fortunately, the majority of campus crime is directed at property, but this can still be inconvenient and even devastating. Universities can and should do more to help students stay safe and secure on campus.

Broadsword Security is committed to help you keep your property safe with our range of alarm systems and security gates.

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Brolik is an award winning digital agency based in Philadelphia.

Web Design. Digital Marketing. Branding. Video.

Our Story

We launched Brolik in 2004 from a college apartment.

We worked outside of the classroom and found ourselves producing local TV commercials and designing websites for small businesses. We continued to build a portfolio and moved into an office in Philadelphia after graduating.

But why Brolik (brä lik)?

Brolik is a slang term for strength, and we used it back then to describe extraordinary things. We wanted to stand out in a sea of creative agencies, so when it came time to name our company, Brolik just made sense. We embraced our quirky name from that day on.

Over the next 10 years we developed into a full service digital agency. We support our clients with web design, digital marketing, branding and video production, guided by an overarching strategy.

Our advantage is not in a specific service area or product offering. Our advantage is our people and our integrated approach.

We’re problem solvers, creative types, and designer/coders. We’re all about leading by example and merging our talents. Our blog is proof, where our team shares their experience and expertise.

We look forward to meeting you and working with you. If you want to learn more, you can get in touch to start a conversation.

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We wouldn’t be where we are today without our clients. We’re lucky to have worked with some great companies of all shapes and sizes.

It has been a pleasure to work with the Brolik team.  From start to finish, Brolik helped us to carry out our vision beyond expectation, producing engaging, high-quality videos and delivering each step on time.  We certainly look forward to our next production venture with Brolik.

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Swagger UI reading YAML file

You’ve been playing with Swagger and can now see the benefits, and you are planning to use a YAML file, now you would like to display it to the outside work, here is a short article explaining all that is required.  This is based on you using Express within Node.js

Swagger UI Express

Adds middleware to your express app to serve the Swagger UI bound to your Swagger document. This acts as living documentation for your API hosted from within your app.

Swagger version is pulled from npm module swagger-ui-dist. Please use a lock file or specify the version of swagger-ui-dist you want to ensure it is consistent across environments.

Install using npm:

$ npm install swagger-ui-express

Load swagger from yaml file

To load your swagger specification yaml file you need to use a module able to convert yaml to json ; for instance yamljs.

npm install --save yamljs
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const swaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-express');
const YAML = require('yamljs');
const swaggerDocument = YAML.load('./swagger.yaml');
app.use('/api-docs', swaggerUi.serve, swaggerUi.setup(swaggerDocument));
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The importance of early involvement of customers and suppliers in self-administered insolvency plans

Insolvency is still a stigma and only rarely seen as an opportunity. Yet, many business owners could profit from it. The Act to Further Facilitate the Restructuring of Companies (ESUG) of 1 March 2012 is the German legislator’s attempt to motivate companies to consider filing for insolvency early on. The legislator, through planned insolvency by self-administration, provides a company with options to retain the company and to prevent liquidation or disposal of assets by way of an asset deal. Although the process can be structured to be almost legally watertight, virtually always the same concerns are expressed in initial meetings with business owners. Concerns of loss of reputation often keep companies from taking the legally required first steps. Most affected parties not only lack the requisite knowledge of the potential offered by a self-administered insolvency plan but also lack the understanding of the risks involved in insolvency.

A business owner who is informed about the possibilities offered by a self-administered insolvency plan in an initial meeting usually expresses the following concerns:

  • Suppliers will jump ship as they will lose money in the process. If we do not receive resources, we cannot function    properly.
  • Customers will no longer be loyal to our company, as their confidence in the company will wane due to the insolvency.    Without customers, the company will generate no sales.

However, both concerns are completely unfounded and do not materialise, as we can show by a variety of examples. Suppliers almost always have an interest in continuing to supply a company, as otherwise they would be left to look for new sales channels. This entails a large expense and is often associated with a considerable loss in yield. Of course, suppliers do lose money in on-going insolvency proceedings. This is of course unpleasant and does not immediately build trust. If, however, the supplier can be convinced by evidence that the company, reorganised un- der the plan, will have sufficient liquidity to pay supplier invoices in the future, and moreover has an equity ratio that is no longer negative but is clearly moving in a positive direction, the supplier can be easily convinced that the company will be a safe and solvent customer in the future. Usually, for the first few weeks under the insolvency plan, the company will have to pay for the supplier’s good and services in advance. However, as the proceedings progress and the suppliers’ confidence in the customer’s solvency increases, the supplier will gradually alter the payment terms, considering that advance payment is an extremely laborious process.

In any event the supplier has no interest in creating new sales channels, because here he is in competition with third parties and must often accept worse payment terms as initially competition only exists with re- spect to price. Moreover, sometimes even prelisting fees must be paid, which is common practice in retail. In any case, suppliers will always prefer keeping old customers to looking for new ones. If the supplier chooses to do other- wise, however, the loss of its customers may have even more harmful effects than a mere one-off, non-recurring loss. It is even conceivable that this would plunge the very supplier into a crisis that could only be resolved through restructuring measures on its turf. A plan-reorganised company with strengthened liquidity and reduced debt is therefore significantly more attractive to the supplier than an uncertain new customer. If the supplier cannot be convinced – which is rather the exception –, the company can still switch to other suppli- ers. After all, why would a new supplier refuse to deliver if advance payment is offered? This of course is a point which applies equally to the affected supplier/creditor, who can monitor whether his client actually develops the way it was predicted.

Customer behaviour can be analysed similarly. Likewise, the customer will not assess the insolvency negatively but rather see it as a sign of proactive entrepreneurial per- formance if he is explained the method by which the crisis will be overcome by the company’s management. Our experience shows that the insolvency self-administrator does not receive negative reactions from customers but rather is greeted with positive encouragement. In general, the proceedings are still unknown to the customer, and for that reason it is also recommended, just as with respect to the suppliers, to explain the proceedings with the help of the competent advisor using a projected balance sheet and projected profit and loss statements. This will clarify to the client the professionalism with which the debtor is meeting the challenge.

The customer’s confidence regarding the company’s future will be significantly strengthened thereby. Sometimes it makes sense to let the customers in on what is being planned, even before the actual petition will be filed. This is particularly the case if the customer is to some degree dependent on the potential debtor. This may be the case e. g. with ongoing projects or when the customer receives important components from its supplier, which cannot be obtained elsewhere in the short term. This dependence is regularly found in the automotive industry. The auto maker always returns to specially tested parts. This is perfectly necessary as shown convincingly by constantly occurring recalls the costs of which often run into billions for auto maker.

Given this background of the impending insolvency, the customer is often prepared to take liquidity support meas- ures. This most likely occurs through easing the payment terms, which can also give substantial additional liquidity to the company in advance of filing the petition. Moreover, it is not infrequent that the esteemed customer itself is one of the causes of the insolvency risk because the profit margins imposed by the customer’s conditions are not sufficient to cover costs. If the insolvency debtor can make this transparent, the customer may even be willing to accept some of the loss.

This requires, however, that the customer has to get involved closely and early in the whole proceeding, including possibly an involvement as a member of the creditors’ committee during the entire proceedings. The decisive criteria for the customer are the advisor’s competence and the evidence he brings regarding the successful outcome, and possibly also his industry-specific knowledge. Moreover, it is advisable to determine, when one is pre- paring for the proceedings, which customers and suppliers will be informed, and how and when. Sometimes a simple letter, in which the proceedings are explained, is enough but sometimes a personal visit is necessary. This requires a kind of information strategy that should be developed before the proceedings commence. The major customers and suppliers should not learn about the proceedings from the media but rather receive privileged information in advance as a trust-building measure.

In summary, it can be said that as a rule the concerns that were expressed initially vanish “into thin air” and the flow of information between customers and suppliers can become an opportunity to create an even stronger bond and increase trust in the proceedings. Many company owners who have successfully executed such proceedings can attest to this.