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I received my new TV this week-end and proceeded with the upgrade to the latest version (2011-10-21).
But, I'm not sure that there were no problems with the older version because I don't tried to put the TV in sleep mode.
Randomly, when I wake-up the TV or switch on with the breaker, the screen stays black. If the TV is on with an active source, I can hear audio and Ambilight works fine, but no image.
Is someone experienced a similar issue?

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Optimizing CO2 laser use: Part I
Many factors can affect laser processing efficiency. This article, Part I of a two-part series, stresses laser system maintenance and discusses factors that can affect beam quality and efficiency—namely, impurities introduced by laser gases and gas supply systems and how to prevent them. It also has a supply system requirements list. Part II discusses beam delivery to the workpiece and the gases used to process the material.
Although continuous improvements have been made to increase CO2 laser cutting productivity, the basic parameters of the process have not changed in the last 20-plus years. A process's growth depends on how the technology and its ancillary components serve the user. New laser technology that produces cutting systems with higher power, improved material handling, and on-time monitoring will meet future market demands and encourage laser processing growth.
The CO2 laser process depends on the power of the laser beam produced. The laser beam is nothing more than light. In fact the word laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
In the CO2 laser process, the beam is produced by exciting a mixture of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and helium. In some cases, other gases may be added to the mixture. The exact mixture will vary according to the design, operating pressure, and operating mode selected by the laser system's manufacturer.
Figure 1 |
Besides generating the laser beam, gases are used to protect the transmission of the beam from the resonator to the workpiece and also to cut the material (Figure 1). Each gas plays an independent role in the total process and is critical to a successful operation.
Factors Affecting Beam Quality
The single most important factor in CO2 laser processing is the beam quality. A laser-driven manufacturing process must deliver sufficient laser power to the work area at the correct time. Industrial lasers can function in multimode operation, and good beam quality in all modes is very important. As laser manufacturing is pushed to higher performance levels, the beam quality often can mean the difference between acceptable and unacceptable processes.
The beam quality is determined when the laser is built, but it does not remain unchanged throughout the laser's life. Internal components, such as cavity mirrors, resonator tubes, and electrodes, can change over time, and each component can affect the laser's performance.
In most modern CO2 laser cutting machines, many internal functions are automated. Cutting parameters, such as the focus point, assist gas pressure, and gas type, can be changed remotely via a cutting database table, and selection depends on the process to be performed. If the laser beam power is not sufficient, even properly selecting the other parameters may not achieve the desired result.
As with any industrial tool, a preventive maintenance schedule should be implemented to keep the laser working at maximum efficiency. Industrial laser power has increased dramatically over the past few years, and more power can result in greater damage to the internal components.
Because certain gas impurities, such as oil, moisture, and other particulate material, can significantly damage the laser resonator, maintaining the correct gas atmosphere within the resonator is more important than ever. But how pure does the laser gas need to be? Does greater purity increase laser productivity, and how can you know for sure that a laser resonator gas does not contain damaging impurities? To most laser users, this is critical information that can mean the difference between cost savings and productivity enhancements and costly repair bills and lost production.
The laser beam's power should be measured at the output of the resonator cavity, because the beam also can degrade during transmission to the workpiece. Protecting the laser beam path will be discussed in Part II of this series.
Determining the laser's current efficiency compared with standards provided by the manufacturer can help identify any system degradation. When setting up a maintenance schedule, calculate how long the laser has been in operation in actual operating hours, not days or months. Also consider the type of processing the laser has performed and the surrounding environment. Has the laser been used at or near maximum power or in a work area with high concentrations of moisture, oil, or dirt particles? If so, maintenance may have to be performed more frequently to keep the laser working efficiently.
Gas Impurities
Because laser gas contamination can cause beam degradation, a method is needed to determine the introduction of contaminates. Contaminates can be found in the gases themselves, introduced by the systems that deliver the gases to the resonator, or even created by the laser reaction.
Most lasing gases for industrial lasers are combinations of helium, nitrogen, and CO2. Various laser manufacturers also may require small amounts of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and xenon for beam improvement. All gases can contain impurities caused by the actual gas production. Impurities also can be introduced when filling high-pressure cylinders if correct procedures are not followed; these impurities typically are nitrogen, oxygen, and water.
If the impurity already is a component of the desired mixture, there is no reason to worry. For example, nitrogen impurities found in helium are not a problem, because nitrogen already exists in the lasing gas mixture. Rare gas impurities, such as argon, have little to no effect on the laser resonator, unless they are present in quantities larger than a few percent.
As soon as a laser is activated, a series of reactions begins to occur within the resonator, separating the CO2 molecules into carbon monoxide and oxygen. This creates many thousands of parts per million (PPM) of carbon monoxide and oxygen within the resonator—many more than are present even in the source product. Introducing these impurities at this level can cause the laser resonator to overheat if other impurities are present. The main impurities present in the gases themselves that can cause problems in the laser resonator are moisture and total hydrocarbons. Moisture destabilizes the beam, absorbs into the coating of some optics, and decreases power output. Hydrocarbons reduce the laser's power, which limits its ability to amplify power.
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Depending on the laser type, the resonator will require either premixed lasing gas or individual pure gases. The impurity control should range from a minimum of 1 to 5 PPM for each impurity, depending on the premixed gas and the laser type. Newer gas production and supply methods produce impurity levels in the parts per billion (PPB) range, allowing for increased gas usage (Figure 2).
Preventing Contamination
What can be done to protect the lasing gas and resonator from impurity contamination?
While purchasing the correct quality of laser gases is important, it is just as important to protect the gas from the supply source to the point of use. Using the correct gas distribution equipment designed specifically for the laser system will help prevent gas contamination from atmospheric permeation through the hoses, improper materials used in pressure control regulation equipment, and atmospheric contamination during cylinder changeout.
Selecting a Delivery System
The proper laser gas delivery system should meet these minimum requirements:
- Pressure control regulation equipment equipped with stainless steel diaphragms that does not allow the pressure to drop below 200 pounds per square inch.
- A reserve cylinder of each laser gas to avoid unnecessary cylinder exchange during the work process.
- Gas lines constructed from metal prevent permeation from the atmosphere. Copper tubing meets minimum requirements; stainless steel is preferred.
- Connections made with compression tube fittings. Avoid solder joints and flux.
- A purging system that removes contaminants from air exposure during cylinder exchange.
- Micron line filters rated 2.0 or better installed on all laser resonator gas lines.
- Gas purifier system that serves as final protection from impurities that may have been introduced.
- A gas manifold switchover system with alarms for cylinder depletion and possible work shutdown.
Laser gases and gas delivery systems represent less than 10 percent of the total laser process operating cost, but these components can have a significant impact on the process's efficiency. Part II of this series will discuss the process and assist gas requirements for CO2 laser cutting.
David Bell
Witt Gas Controls LP
Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30004


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Alessi is a family owned Italian design company, founded in 1921. Giovanni Alessi, a talented sheet metal worker, produced items by hand for the table and home out of copper, brass and nickel-silver. He was later joined by his son Carlo who was responsible for many of the designs produced in the 1930s and early 1940s. In the mid 1940s Alessi began to work with outside designers. The current Alessi catalog is the result of a collaboration with over 500 designers from all over the world.
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Introduction to Genealogy | |
Birth records are primary source records because they are completed at, or close to, the time of the birth by someone who was present at the birth. A birth certificate is usually signed by the doctor or midwife who attended the birth, though that is not always the case. Privacy laws often make birth records the most difficult vital records to obtain.
In general, there are three types of birth certificates:
Original - the record filed at birth
Amended - a birth record which has been revised from the original to reflect corrections or new information
Delayed - a certificate issued years after the birth because an original birth certificate was not filed.
What information will a birth certificate provide? This will vary widely by location and time period. In general, vital records forms usually allow space for the following information but are not consistently filled in by the users.
Birth records usually contain:
name of child
race of child
gender of child
date and place of birth
mother's name (sometimes including maiden name)
father's name
and may contain:
mother's age, race, occupation and place of birth
father's age, race, occupation and place of birth
number of children in family
number this child is in family
witnesses to the birth
The information about the birth itself is usually provided by
the attending physician or midwife and can be considered a primary source.
Information about the parents, other children, etc. is usually provided by the
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New Haven, Connecticut - The Brown women's squash team
reached the finals of the Kurtz Cup at the Howe Cup National
Championship and fell to Dartmouth, 7-2, in the championship match
to finish 10th in the nation. The Bears had beaten Hamilton, 8-1,
and Bates, 8-1, to reach the Kurtz Cup championship.
In the championship match against the Big Green, Brown had wins by
freshman Lydia Smith at #9, who came from 1-2 down to win in five,
and senior co-captain Sarah Roberts, who won in four hard fought
games at #8. Both Roberts and Smith also earned wins over Hamilton
and Bates.
There were many well contested matches throughout the line up but
the Big Green were a little too strong for the Bears
Brown will take some players to the WISA Individual Championship
next weekend, March 5-7, which are being held at Trinity
Brown 8, Hamilton 1
1.Whipple,Kelly (H) def. Pyne,Laura, 011-9,11-9,11-9
2. Fadaifard,Nikoo (B) def. Thorman,Amanda, 11-9,11-7,11-5
3. Crosky,Sarah (B) def. Corroon, Claire, 11-6, 11-3, 11-5
4. Schellenberg,Kali (B) def. Kollmer, Courtney, 11-7, 11-5,
5. Scherl,Sophie (B) def. Rubin, Kristen, 11-4, 11-6, 11-5
6. Kohnen,Erika (B) def. Edelstein, Anne, 11-3, 11-5, 11-7
7. Tilney,Carolyn (B) def. Lee, Alexis, 11-0, 11-3, 11-4
8. Roberts,Sarah (B) def. Platt, Nina, 11-4, 11-6, 11-3
9. Smith,Lydia (B) def. Prouty, Annabel, 11-6, 11-4, 11-6
Brown 8, Bates 1
1. Parris,Cheri-Ann (Bates) def. Pyne,Laura (Brown),
2. Fadaifard,Nikoo (Brown) def. Laverty,Hannah (Bates)
3. Crosky,Sarah (Brown) def. Roller,Whitney (Bates),
4. Schellenberg,Kali (Brown) def. Neal,Maura (Bates),
5. Scherl,Sophie (Brown) def. Bragg,Alison (Bates),
6. Kohnen,Erika (Brown) def. Cabot,Stephanie (Bates),
7. Tilney,Carolyn (Brown) def. Hogeland,Anna (Bates),
8. Roberts,Sarah (Brown) def. Dorison,Liza,
9. Smith,Lydia (Brown) def. Maciewicz,Morgan (Bates),
Dartmouth 7, Brown 2
1. Wiens,Valeria (D) def. Pyne,Laura (B), (11-9,7-11,11-2,11-3)
2. Schafer,Corey (D) def. Fadaifard,Nikoo (B),
3. Lau,Rebecca (D) def. Crosky,Sarah (B),
4. Conant,Hannah (D) def. Schellenberg,Kali (B),
5. Brown,Elizabeth (D) def. Scherl,Sophie (B), (4-11,11-7,11-2,11-7)
6. Loucks,Sarah (D) def. Kohnen,Erika (B), (11-6,11-1,11-3)
7. Doherty,Maura (D) def. Tilney,Carolyn (B), (1-7,10-12,11-5,11-7)
8. Roberts,Sarah (B) def. Watson,Julia (D), (11-3,11-7,11-2)
9. Smith, Lydia (B) def. Weintraub,Elizabeth (D), (11-7,11-4,11-13,11-5)
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Hello, I was wandering if it is safe to upgrade the base system? Like, mysql, proftpd and all other packages related to the functioning of ISPConfig. I use it on FC6. And, of course, I want to upgrade, but I'm not sure if I do so, would averything be OK after that? Thanks
Normally upgrading should be no problem, but as you can never know, you should make a backup of the system before you do so (e.g. with SystemImager or Ghost4Linux).


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Carlos Delgado (10/1) Quick Cuts: The latest word on Huston Street is that he'll join the Rockies this weekend. ... Johnny Cueto will miss his next start, but don't get too worried, Reds fans, he's just ill, not injured. ... Gavin Floyd is having trouble with the hip of his landing leg; he had push-hip problems earlier this season. ... J.A. Happ heads back into the Phillies' rotation, as his oblique strain seems to have cleared up. ... Michael Young is expected to play for the Rangers this weekend, though the role depends on his hamstring. ... Jose Reyes is not running-at all. Surgery is still an option. ... Gary Sheffield made an appearance Thursday, his first since back problems sidelined him in mid-August. ... Brett Tomko has been shut down by the A's. ... Tanner Scheppers signed with the Rangers. As for his health, a bonus of "more than a million dollars" tells you that the Rangers think he's healthy, but risky. ... Congrats to friend of UTK Pete Abraham, who will be moving to the Boston Globe. ... A great article about kicking conventional wisdom in football, but what would be the baseball equivalent? ... Finally, a request: I love having conversations with you, the readers and friends of this column. Whether it's here or Twitter or a chat, one of my ways of thanking you and earning the dollars you spend with us is by answering questions. It does get really frustrating, however, when comments turns into a string of "What about this guy?" I can't write about every injury, so I pick the most impactful or interesting (as in the case of Sadler). Let's have a conversation. 9 comments have been left for this article.


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Yes i've heard a few things about the new kernel too, and read that someone successfully integrated it into BT3b in order to get some things working easier, but I'm not able to reproduce it. Is BT3 Final planned to be based on the new kernel release ?
EDIT : This thread may interests. I'm making the test with Macbook pro C2D. hxxp://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=13426


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FMST-3913 Family Development
An introduction to the family development life cycle. The course will focus on the stages that marriages and families progress through and the associated tasks that need to be addressed and successfully negotiated. Attention will be given to dating, marriage, having children, children going to school, adolescence, empty nest and issues of caretaking, grandparenting and aging. The course will also explore the related crises that develop around these developmental transition periods. This course is normally offered in the fall semester.


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HOPEDALE - Stephen Foley, a junior at Hopedale Jr-Sr High School, was selected to perform in the 2014 All-State Chorus at the Massachusetts Music Educators' Association All-State Concert, held at Symphony Hall in Boston on March 22
Thousands of students throughout Massachusetts auditioned to participate in the All-State Chorus, All-State Concert Band, All-State Orchestra, and All-State Jazz Band.
Out of more than 4,000 students, approximately 500 are chosen as Symphony Hall Scholars
Prior to the performance, the students attended the Massachusetts Music Educators' Association annual conference, where they had three days of intensive rehearsals, coaching, and other musical experiences.
Hopedale High School Choral Director Christopher Chatham helped prepare Stephen for his auditions and for the concert.
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Georgia State's 2013 class includes 21 incoming freshmen and one transfer who signed their paperwork Wednesday. In addition, five new Panthers enrolled this semester and will participate in spring practice, including three junior college transfers, one four-year transfer and one freshman.
Of the 27 newcomers, all but four are from the state of Georgia, including 16 from the metro Atlanta area.
The GSU coaching staff placed a heavy emphasis on bolstering the offensive and defensive lines, adding seven defensive linemen, four offensive linemen and three tight ends. The group also includes four linebackers, four defensive backs, three running backs, one quarterback, and one wide receiver.
"I thought it was an excellent recruiting class for the amount of time that our coaches were able to go out on the road," said Miles, who was named as the second head coach in Georgia State history on Dec. 3.
"I thought they did an outstanding job evaluating the talent, especially the local talent. We added size, speed and some potential impact players to our team."
Miles was pleased with the number local players Georgia State was able to keep at home.
"The football talent in this state is excellent," he said. "It's obvious these kids are all well-coached from a very young age. There is a lot of talent in this state. You can tell that by the number of Georgia kids we signed and will continue to sign.
"We always want to start right here in Atlanta and spread our way out," Miles continued. "It is important to get in all of the areas of Georgia and we will hit all of them.
Other than junior colleges and prep schools, we won't leave the state during our spring recruiting. We will recruit every high school in the state of Georgia. There's plenty of talent in this state to go around."
When asked to single out individuals who might make the most immediate impact, Miles noted, "Hopefully they are all impact players at some point. To be honest, you will know a lot better in three years how it worked out."
But the GSU head coach did mention linebacker Kight Dallas of Stephenson High School in Stone Mountain.
"Kight Dallas, a young man from in the Stone Mountain area, Stephenson High School, was actually sent a letter of intent from the University of Arkansas," Miles noted. "He was originally committed to the University of South Carolina and received a letter from another SEC school. He did not sign it, but signed ours. I think that speaks to his ability."
The players who are enrolled this semester will have the advantage of participating in spring practice, including quarterback Clay Chastain from Georgia Military College and Harrison High School, and linebacker Tarris Batiste, a native of Cartersville, Ga. (Cass HS) who played for Miles at Indiana State but has returned to his home state.
Georgia State attracted student-athletes from all areas of metropolitan Atlanta, including linebacker Jameel Spencer from Woodward Academy in College Park and three DeKalb County products in defensive lineman Mackendy Cheridor from Columbia and defensive back Trent Hill from M.L. King, along with Dallas from Stephenson.
The Panthers signed three offensive linemen from football-rich Gwinnett County in 6-2, 275-pound Alex Stoehr of North Gwinnett, 6-5, 290-pound Davis Moore of Loganville, and 6-5, 290-pound Daniel Zeigler of South Gwinnett.
To the Northwest, Georgia State added defensive back Robert Dowling from Lassiter High and then a pair of Paulding County standouts in running back Kyler Neal from East Paulding and defensive lineman Carnell Hopson from South Paulding, in addition to Chastain.
Moving into North Georgia, Georgia State lured defensive back-wide receiver Tyshaun Clemmons of Gordon Central and tight end Sebastian Willer of Calhoun High, in addition to Batiste.
Joining the GSU program from the South Metro area are defensive end Shawayne Lawrence and tight end Bill Teknipp, both from Eagle's Landing, defensive lineman Tevin Jones from Luella High, and Henry County running back Jonathan Jean-Bart, who is already enrolled.
The Panthers also made an impact in Middle Georgia with wide receiver Robert Davis and linebacker Trey Payne, both from Northside-Warner Robins High, and defensive lineman Jalen Lawrence from Westside-Macon.
From outside the state of Georgia, the Panthers added Florida linemen Will Cunningham (Ida Baker HS/Cape Coral) and Brandon Pertile (Countryside HS/Clearwater) and Ohio tight end Keith Rucker from Cincinnati Moeller, along with two junior college players from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in running back Gerald Howse (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and defensive lineman George Rogers (Stillwater, Okla.)
Georgia State's final addition Wednesday was cornerback Bruce Dukes, a transfer from UCF who was a first-team all-state player at Sandy Creek High in 2010.


text: Judge to Release Blurry Video of Justin Bieber's Urinating PenisLindy West3/04/14 8:25pmFiled to: dirt bagadele dazeemidina menzeljohn travoltaoscarsjustin bieberlea michelecory monteith72EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkApparently, following his Florida DUI arrest, Justin Bieber was videotaped while, um, welcoming a urine sample into the world. A few classy media outlets caught wind of this fact and have now requested the video via Florida's public records law. And then a judge was like, "As long as you blur the genitals!" YOKEY DOKEY, I SAY.AdvertisementRespecting Bieber's privacy, however, was still tantamount. Media attorneys said news organizations would never show the singer's private parts, and added that the ruling would protect the 20-year-old from Internet leaks: "It's more about what someone in the private sector might do," said Scott Ponce, attorney for the Herald and CBS."Mr. Bieber's right to privacy is paramount," Judge William Altfield added. "He has not lost his right to privacy, and that is what is important here."There's no official word on when the new clips will be released. The videos do follow several others, released last week under the same open records laws, that show Bieber stumbling during a sobriety test and doing push-ups in his jail cell.YOKEY.AdvertisementDOKEY. [RollingStone]You've had your fun, world, but it's been nearly two days since John Travolta made up a completely new name for Idina Menzel, so can't you just "Let It Go" already!? See, it's funny because "Let It Go" is the name of the song that Idina Menzel was about to sing when John Travolta introduced her to the world as the mysterious "Adele Dazeem," and it's ALSO what John Travolta would like you to do with this extremely hilarious news story about him fucking up. Let it go already, gahd.The iconic actor was introducing Menzel so that she could sing her Oscar-winning song "Let it Go," off the "Frozen" soundtrack.After voicing his love for the movie musical, he said "please welcome the wickedly talented, one and only Adele Dazeem."Since that flub, name generators have sprung up on websites and Adele Dazeem now has her own Twitter account.Today, Travolta released a statement saying "I've been beating myself up all day. Then I thought ... what would Idina Menzel say, She'd say, Let it go, let it go! Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!"I WILL LET IT GO WHEN I STOP LAUGHING, TRAVOLTA. [ABC]Lea Michele shared some feelings about her relationship with the late Cory Monteith.AdvertisementSponsored'Cory made me feel like a queen every day,' the 27-year-old revealed to Seventeen Magazine. 'From the minute he said, "I'm your boyfriend," I loved every day, and I thank him for being the best boyfriend and making me feel so beautiful.''I only have happy memories of Cory,' she added. 'He was not his addiction – unfortunately, it won. But that wasn't who he was.'...'I found myself picking and writing these songs that were very emotional and dramatic,' she recalled. 'Louder has songs that express extreme love and some pain.The album, which Lea was promoting at a signing in New Jersey on Monday, is set to be released on March 4, and the songstress assigns special meaning to that date.'[It's] bizarre, like it's meant to be,' the pretty brunette said. 'Just think about it: we're going to March fo(u)rth... I try my best to march forth and live my life as best as I can for me. I also feel an incredible, happy responsibility to keep the memory and light of [Cory, who] was the most amazing person.'<3 [DailyMail]Anna Wintour had to sit in the SECOND ROW at Paris Fashion Week. (Reportedly she was asked to move up front by staff and declined so that her editors could sit front-row.) [E!]Demi Lovato did a new side-shavey hair thing. [JustJared]This lady from the Bachelor is engaged to a different dude who is not the Bachelor. [E!]Kim Kardashian wore black. [JustJared]Hayden Panettiere "gushes." [Us]Rachel Zoe's baby. [E!]Jenna Fischer's "baby bump." [JustJared]Shakira says she wants "eight or nine" babies, but she works too much to shoot 'em out fast enough. [E!]Cressida Bonas wore "bejeweled moccasins" near Prince Harry. [VF]Here is a video of Miranda Kerr taking her clothes off accompanied by a painstakingly detailed written description of Miranda Kerr taking her clothes off. [E!]In honor of my friend Hester's birthday, here is a song very near and dear to our dance parties.Images via Getty.Reply72 repliesLeave a reply


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BRIGHTON ROCK (1947)This classic Graham Greene story stars Richard Attenborough in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a caf waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence, but events escalate and a trail of killings and double-crossings eventually lead to Pinkys undoing and a thrilling and memorable climax. Also starring Hermoine Baddeley and William Hartnell, the film was produced and directed by the Boulting Brothers.THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME (1955) UK DVD PremiereAttenborough plays George Hoskins, one of a trio of ex-Navy men who profit from the post-War poor economic climate in Britain by operating a low key smuggling ring bringing in innocuous items such as wine. When Hoskins falls in with the corrupt Major Fordyce however, he insists on stepping up their activities to include arms and counterfeit currency, a move that awakens the morals in other of the ships crew who decide to put a stop to the escalating criminal activity Directed by Ealing stalwart Basil Dearden and also starring Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna and George Baker, THE ANGRY SILENCE (1960)Co-written by Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaped Room, The Raging Moon) The Angry Silence is a thought-provoking study of a man who stands up for what he believes in in direct opposition to the wishes and actions of his co-workers. When an unofficial strike is declared at a factory Tom Curtis (Attenborough), struggling to make ends meet and with another baby on the way, refuses to stop work. Despite thinly veiled threats of violence, Curtis refuses to give in, and after the first strike ends he is comprehensively outcast by all his co-workers. Soon a second strike looms and Curtis determination and moral stance is again put to the test, but are the stakes higher this time? Co-starring Pier Angeli and Bernard Lee, the films screenplay was nominated for an Oscar and won a BAFTA, as well as other prizes at the Berlin Film Festival that year.THE MAN UPSTAIRS (1958) UK DVD PremiereIn a intriguing premise, Attenborough stars as the eponymous hero of the title, who wakes in the middle of the night, stricken by pain and unexplained mental anguish. He reaches out to his neighbours for help, but lapses in and out of reason and aggressive behaviour, so the police and mental health officers are called. A standoff ensues, in which the Police Inspector (Bernard Lee) leans heavily toward a violent solution whilst the neighbours, headed by young mother Mrs Barnes (Dorothy Alison) and the Mans girlfriend (Virginia Maskell) strive for a peaceful approach. A British version of the French classic Le Jour Se Leve.Also includes: DUNKIRK (1958), PRIVATES PROGRESS (1956), BROTHERS IN LAW (1957).Special Features:None Listed.
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Get an overview of this hotel3.5-star hotel with free breakfast and restaurant
Situated in the business district, this hotel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Farlington Marshes and within 3 mi (5 km) of PlayZone Portsmouth and Explosion!. Gunwharf Quays and Spinnaker Tower are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/café. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a snack bar/deli, coffee/tea in a common area, and dry cleaning.
Room Amenities
All 84 rooms offer free WiFi, coffee makers, and flat-screen TVs. Other amenities available to guests include hair dryers, showers, and phones.
Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new windowHoliday Inn Express Portsmouth - North
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The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This Portsmouth hotel also offers a terrace, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site. A total renovation of this property was completed in February 2016.
Holiday Inn Express Portsmouth - North is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
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- Total number of rooms - 84
- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
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- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
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- Express check-in
- Free WiFi
- Terrace
- Restaurant
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nancy Johnson of Laverne, Oklahoma blends together a sweet and tangy dressing to drizzle over this pretty salad. Tip: Substitute a little freshly grated onion instead of onion powder if you have an onion on hand.
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- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 teaspoons honey
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon celery seed, crushed
- 1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 cups torn mixed salad greens
- 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled and sliced
- 6 medium fresh strawberries, sliced
- In a small bowl, whisk the first 10 ingredients. Arrange greens on two salad plates; top with avocado and strawberries. Drizzle with dressing. Yield: 2 servings.
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here I is my first webapp which get info from personal database with collection of movies and gets also info for each one of them from tmdb API. It looks and work like itunes with some extra tools created by me. It is not complete, missing navbar with filters and search. But I would like you to test it and report here bugs and possible fixs. There are some known issue that I am working on. The code is open, you can use developer tools.
Work only in chrome and safari!
[iMDb](http://cparliaros.com/imdb/ "")
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When I open the page it shows 15 items which span 3 rows, which is not enough for a scrollbar to appear, no additional items get loaded. Only way to get more items to load is by clicking one of those 15, and then scroll down. I'd call that a bug :P Imagine some one on an even larger screen, where no scrollbar appears even after clicking an item.
I didn't see that coming either while working in codepen.
Other then that, it looks awesome! :)
@CrocoDillon thanks for your help one more time. There few others bug, one you can see very easy is on the ratingMeter plugin which I builded first. At that time I was using a single movie id and there was no problems but now with many of them on after the other I can see few problems. First when you select a movie and then select another on the same row, it does not reset width and color (I tried to add a reset unsuccessfully-you have to close the info) but it takes the value from the previous movie as initial which is not that bad actually but in that case I should avoid to fadeOut and then fadeIn the ratingMeter container and that means I have to change the css of the info. Then the most bold bug is that for some reason when you use 4-5 times the ratingMeter, the counting freezes in some wrong number but the progress-bar keeps working.
I think I can fix the problem you mention by taking info for user's screen size before set the limit. Also I am gonna add content-rating based on the user's country.
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If you want to fix the first bug you can remove the transition because you have no control over that and add the animation using jQuery.
Second bug… yeah ouch! I'll have to take my time to look into that, but I need sleep now.
No need to increase the limit, just keep loading elements till there is a scrollbar (something like comparing document? height to window? height??? :P )
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Second bug, definitely maybe something with clearing your interval at line 431… your interval id is added to global scope. What happens when another interval starts while one is still running? The interval id gets overwritten so there is no way to stop the running interval. I think that's the problem here.
You need a way to stop any running intervals before starting a new one. And add var, var interval = ...
, it's always a good practice to not pollute global scope.
You are right again, that totally fixed this problem. :) As I said the ratingMeter was the first javascript code that I wrote and maybe is too messy, I never checked the code again before add it to the final js file.
@CrocoDillon I have update the code on the [iMDb](http://cparliaros.com/imdb/ "") and now you can search through loaded movies, even if you load more the search will update to include them. Just one question, does anyone know how to disable the enter function from the text input which makes the page to reload?
really? all the transition and shadows I have used are just for webkit broswer like chrome and safari, I just tested and it works without these properties. I may add them later.
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Hey, I'll have a look tonight. Meanwhile… my first guess is hook up an event listener to that form's submit event and prevent default behavior.
I did that but doesn't work. I had something like when keycode (enter code) is down return false.
EDIT: I fixed it, I had the input
inside the form and all I had to do was to replave the form
with a simple div
or you can include onsubmit="return false;"
inside the form
tag.What the use actual of form by the way?
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I don't like inline JavaScript, feels like inline styles to me :P
One issue I found by the way is that if you use the search till the scroll bar disappears you can't get more movies to load (same issue as before).
Another issue is that if that scroll bar disappears and you click a movie to get that scroll bar back (to load more movies), everything goes fubar, try clicking around a bit.
I have decide that I dont like the loadMoreMovies as scroll down functionality inside the code for many reason but the most important was that when I am searching the library I want all the movies to be there as in itunes.
I created a backup copy and I start rebuilding the code from the top, I will keep most of the old function but as I want to take out this functionality I have to put one by one the rest functions back and make sure that everything works.
So I got out the scroll load but I created a new fuctionality. Now when you load the page, all the movie-elements append inside the movies-cointainer but without images. Then only the elements inside the window will load their images and as you scroll down more images will load. This way I keep the speed boost from the old function as the loading of the images was the main problem. I have the code of the new function, works fine but I am wondreing if it is possible to be more simple or efficient:
loadCovers(); // initial load
function loadCovers() {
//for each element/movie
// if element inside the window and if has no cover already
if ( $(this).position().top < $('#main-container').scrollTop() + $(window).height() ) {
if ( $(this).children('.cover').children().length == 0 ) {
var id = $(this).attr('id'); //get its id and use it to load the image
$('.cover img').load(function() { $(this).css("opacity","1"); });
// when reach the first element out of the window break the forloop
} else { return false; }
$('#main-container').scroll(function() {
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Again I would keep a var (outside the loadCovers function) of all the elements so you don't need the jQuery selector in the function (which gets called a lot if you scroll fast I think), and a var to keep track of how many images are already loaded so you won't need to iterate over the whole list each time (or the index of the next element to load the image for, which is the same as how many images are already loaded anyway). That would be cleaner and easier to read then if ( $(this).children('.cover').children().length == 0 )
You might also consider to keep things that won't change inside the function as a var, so you don't need to calculate the same number for again and again. Like $('#main-container').scrollTop() + $(window).height()
And also bind the function to the resize event, because that could reveal unloaded images as well.
Didn't know you can break out of the .each
function, I got to remember that :)
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Dimitris & Grigoris Restaurant - Athens
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Usually tourists spend much time on the net trying to find a nice hotel and when they find one they start searching for neighbouring restaurants or "tavernas" because it is not all who can afford to book full board. Usually they want to have at least lunch outside and try the local cusine.
This nice restaurant is very close to two popular hotels. One is the Hilton and the other the Divani. There is not a single day without customers coming from the two hotels but it is popular with locals as well.
The sad thing is that some tourists ask for the usual mousaka, tzatziki, and cis kebab. They are indecisive as to what new to order.
The Greek cuisine is rich with a variety of salads, meat and vegetable dishes while virgin olive oil is used for cooking.
I loved everything, and I recommend people who come here not to leave without trying "stamnagathi" green salad. It comes from Crete and also ask for the Cretan small tomato salad. This dish was also so special.
I was so thrilled with Stamnagathi that I asked Gregory the secret of this dish. He told me that they put stamnagathi in ebullient water just for 2 minutes and it is ready…amazing. I used to boil it for 6 to 8 minutes which is wrong.
Anyway, for people interested to come to this restaurant, I post the review I have written on TripAdvisor.
"The Authentic Traditional Greek cuisine Restaurant!!"
Reviewed January 28, 2012
One of the many days we were in Athens we dined at (Dimitris & Grigoris). This time we were after Authentic Greek cuisine! The restaurant is located just behind the Divani Caravel Hotel and in short distance from the Hilton in a small side street. The name Dimitris and Grigoris is on a much smaller rectangle sign high on the side of the wall, but what is highlighted is "Taverna" on the wall above the entrance as if this is the name of the restaurant!
We were made welcome by Grigoris and we were given nice comfortable seats by the window. It was cozy inside with nothing much exaggerating, simple and beautiful. There were a few people already enjoying their dinner when we arrived, but very soon more and more people kept coming in. Some seemed to be repeaters as they knew the staff. The restaurant is a meeting point for authentic Greek cuisine lovers, and we saw politicians and popular Greeks who came here to dine.
The owners –Dimitri and Grigoris are brothers. They are professionals, passionate with their work, very warm and friendly youngsters. The food we had could not be better!!
We started our dinner with the most delicious tomatinia (small round tomatoes from Crete). We never before tasted such delicious tomato salad!! Don't expect gourmet cuisine, but it is the taste and quality that counts here for sure. We loved the decent house red wine brought in a carafe (4 euro half a kilo) It is hard to find good quality wine if not bottled in Athens, but this was really good.
We ordered several dishes to taste the cuisine actually and I noticed that the cheese balls (croquettes) and eggplant pies were sold at 0.90 a piece. Both were nice, but what made us congratulate the two brothers were the staffed vine leaves (8.60). They were superb, really cooked in the authentic traditional Greek cuisine. Don't miss ordering some out of curiosity!
Zuccini sticks (4 euro) were brought to us like sticks one on top the other and they were good. My husband loved them. They were all right for me but I try to avoid anything fried! Another dish that one should try here is the Cis kebab for 9.50 euro (pork skewer cooked on the grill, with tomato, onion and pepper). The Cis kebab was slightly spicy, juicy and very aromatic. Mousaka costs 7.50 here but don't miss the Stamnagathi salad (8.50). It is the Cretan traditional grasse boiled in hot boiling water for only 2 minutes, -so sparkling green coloured and crunchy. This green salad was so irresistible that I asked for a second portion. I highly recommend it! All Greeks know it, and I urge tourists to at least try it.
Dimitri brought us a dish to taste which was not included in the menu. It was called Hugyiar Beyienti (Turkish cusine) we found exceptional (14 euro). It was actually a very thin slice of fillet of veal in an aubergine puree with a nice sauce on top, unbelievably tasty. We finished this very beautiful dinner outing with the house millfeuille (6.00 euro). It is prepared the moment it is served, very crunchy and delicious without excess sweetness.
The menu included many more interesting dishes of course which we shall try on our next visit. We shall surely be back and taste what we missed this time. I have heard that in late spring and during the summer months the tables are moved in the small park opposite the restaurant under a string of glowing lamps. This is when I will be back for more but until then I can recommend it not only to my friends and relatives but also to anyone who wishes to try the authentic Greek cuisine that includes fresh, simple and fantastic dishes.
An extra tip is that if you see locals dining be sure the cuisine is good. Greeks are picky and they will not return if the food is not good.


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Legal Issues
Legal Issues using Linux in embedded projects
The intricacies of using the GPL license have been hashed out repeatedly in many other forums. [references would be nice for major issues]
Here are some highlights:
Kernel is licensed GPL v2 only
The Linux kernel is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 ONLY!
This is different from many other projects, which use the default wording in the license to allow GPL v2 or any later version.
This means it is unlikely that the kernel will switch to GPL version 3.0.
In September of 2006, a group of Linux kernel developers signed a position statement indicating that they objected to GPL version 3.0 (as then drafted). This further indicates the unlikelyhood of any change of the kernel to the GPL v3 license.
Signed-off-by lines and the DCO
When developers contribute to the kernel, they must provide a "Signed-off-by" line, indicating that they acknowledge the licensing and declare the work (to the best of their knowledge) to be either original, or derivative of something compatible with GPL v2.
See the Developer Certificate Of Origin which is contained in the kernel's Documentation/SubmittingPatches file.
This page has a few specific issues relating to embedded use of Linux.
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for kernel USB API
In January of 2008, Greg Kroah Hartman submitted a patch to change the core USB API to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Here is some information about that change:
- USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only (LWN.net)
- Linux 2.6.25 without Closed Source USB Drivers (Linux Magazine)
- USB drivers going GPL-only in 2.6.25 (LinuxWorld)
- the actual git commit
Binary proprietary kernel modules
One outstanding legal question with Linux, that is of particular importance in embedded, is whether or not binary (non-GPL) kernel modules violate the GPL license of the Linux kernel.
Opinions on this topic differ.
Here is an article with some interesting links:
- Encouraging closed source modules part 1: copyright and software
- Encouraging closed source modules part 2: law and the module interface
- Encouraging closed source modules part 3: elimating the "API update tax"
Other Links
- http://gpl-violations.org/ - The gpl-violations.org project tries to resolve GPL violations and raises public awareness about GPL compliance.
- http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ - The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation for open source projects and publishes information on legal issues around open source.
- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/legal/compliance - Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program
- http://www.binaryanalysis.org/ - A binary analysis tool for GPL compliance investigations
- http://lwn.net/Articles/386280/ - LWN.net article about the binary analysis tool (published on 2010/05/06)
- http://fossology.org/ - FOSSology is a framework to scan open source code: it currently scans for copyright and license information and can easily be extended.


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In ancient times a major part of present-day Ukraine was inhabited by the Scythians (see Scythia), who were later displaced by the Sarmatians (see Sarmatia). Early in the Christian era, a series of invaders (Goths, Huns, Avars) overran the Ukrainian steppes, and in the 7th cent. the Khazars included much of Ukraine in their empire. The Ukrainians themselves can be traced to Neolithic agricultural tribes in the Dnieper and Dniester valleys.
The Antes tribal federation (4th–7th cent.) represented the first definitely Slavic community in the area. In the 9th cent., a Varangian dynasty from Scandinavia established itself at Kiev. Having freed the Slavs from Khazar domination, the Varangians united them in the powerful Kievan Rus. The land and people of Ukraine formed the core of Kievan Rus.
Following Yaroslav's reign (1019–54), which marked the zenith of Kiev's power, Kievan Rus split into principalities, including the western duchies of Halych (see Galicia) and Volodymyr (see Volodymyr-Volynskyy and Volhynia). These and the rest of the western region, which included Podolia, had separate histories after the conquest of Kievan Rus (13th cent.) by the Mongols of the Golden Horde.
In the mid-14th cent. Lithuania began to expand eastward and southward, supplanting the Tatars in Ukraine. The dynastic union between Poland and Lithuania in 1386 also opened Ukraine to Polish expansion. Ukraine had flourished under Lithuanian rule, and its language became that of the state; but after the organic union of Poland and Lithuania in 1569, Ukraine came under Polish rule, enserfment of the Ukrainian peasants proceeded apace, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church suffered persecution. In 1596 the Ukrainian Orthodox bishops, confronted with the power of Polish Catholicism, established the Uniate, or Greek Catholic, faith, which recognized papal authority but retained the Orthodox rite. Meanwhile, the Black Sea shore, ruled by the khans of Crimea, was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1478.
The term Ukraine, which may be translated as "at the border" or "borderland," came into general usage in the 16th cent. At that time, Poland-Lithuania and the rising principality of Moscow, or Muscovy, were vying for control of this vast area south of their borders. The harsh conditions of Polish rule led many Ukrainians to flee serfdom and religious persecution by escaping beyond the area of the lower Dnieper rapids. There they established a military order called the Zaporizhzhya Sich ("clearing beyond the rapids"). These fugitives became known as Cossacks or Kozaks, an adaptation of the Turkic word kazak, meaning "outlaw" or "adventurer." In 1648 the Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Chmielnicki, successfully waged a revolution against Polish domination.
Ukraine, however, was too weak to stand alone, and in 1654 Chmielnicki recognized the suzerainty of Moscow in the Treaty of Pereyaslavl. By the terms of the treaty, Ukraine was to be largely independent; but Russia soon began to encroach upon its rights (the czars contemptuously referred to the Ukrainians as "Little Russians," as contrasted with the "Great Russians" of the Muscovite realm). Through a treaty with Poland in 1658, Ukraine attempted to throw off Russian protection. The ensuing Russo-Polish war ended in 1667 with the Treaty of Andrusov, which partitioned Ukraine.
Russia obtained left-bank Ukraine, east of the Dnieper River and including Kiev; Poland retained right-bank Ukraine. Hetman Ivan Mazepa, presiding over a diminished Cossack state, sought once again to free Ukraine from Russian domination; he thus joined Sweden against Russia in the Northern War, but their defeat at Poltava by Czar Peter I in 1709 sealed the fate of Ukraine. Mazepa's fall crushed the last hopes for Ukrainian independence and further curtailed Ukrainian autonomy.
The last of Ukraine's hetmans was forced by Empress Catherine II to resign in 1764; the Zaporizhzhya Sich was razed by Russian troops in 1775, and Ukraine, its political autonomy terminated, was divided into three provinces. In 1783, Russia annexed the khanate of Crimea. The Polish partition treaties of 1772, 1793, and 1795 (see Poland, partitions of) awarded Podolia and Volhynia to Russia, thus reuniting left-bank and right-bank Ukraine; E Galicia went to Austria.
Colonization of the steppes proceeded apace in the 19th cent., and in the 1870s the great Ukrainian coal and metallurgical industrial region was established. Despite a Russian ban on use of the Ukrainian language in the schools and in publications, a movement for Ukrainian national and cultural revival blossomed in the late 19th cent. There was also renewed agitation for Ukrainian independence and for the union of all Ukrainian lands, including those of Austria-Hungary–Galicia, Bukovina, and Ruthenia (see Transcarpathian Region) under a single state. The Galician Ukrainians, who emerged as a political nationality during the 1848 Austrian revolution, made Galicia a haven abroad for the nationalist movement in Russian Ukraine. This movement was spearheaded by secret educational groups called hromadas, that were repeatedly suppressed by the czar.
Following the overthrow of the czarist regime in 1917, a Ukrainian central council was set up with Mikhailo Hrushevsky as president; in June, 1917, it formed a government with Vladimir Vinnichenko as premier and Simon Petlura as war minister. Originally declaring itself a republic within the framework of a federated Russia, Ukraine proclaimed complete independence in Jan., 1918, after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Soviet troops were sent into Ukraine, but the Central Powers, having acknowledged Ukrainian independence, then overran the territory with their own soldiers and forced the Red Army, through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Mar., 1918) to withdraw. The World War I armistice of Nov., 1918, in turn forced the withdrawal from Ukraine of the Central Powers. Meanwhile, with the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, an independent republic in W Ukraine had been proclaimed in Lviv. In Jan., 1919, the union of the two Ukraines was proclaimed; however, Soviet troops immediately occupied Kiev. A four-cornered struggle ensued among Ukrainian forces, the counterrevolutionary army of Denikin, the Red Army, and the Poles. Soviet troops eventually regained control of Ukraine, which in 1922 became one of the original constituent republics of the USSR.
Lenin's attempts to assuage Ukrainian nationalism through a measure of cultural autonomy were abandoned by Stalin, who also imposed agricultural collectivization on Ukraine and requisitioned all grain for export. Millions of Ukrainians died in the resulting famine. Mykola Skrypnyk and other Ukrainian Communist leaders who opposed Stalinist measures were purged and executed. During World War II, many Ukrainians at first welcomed the Germans as liberators and collaborated with them against the USSR. However, the Nazis' scorn for all Slavs and their harsh occupation (1941–44) of Ukraine turned many Ukrainians into anti-German guerrilla fighters.
The republic suffered severe wartime devastation, esp. as a battleground both in 1941–42 (the German advance) and 1943–44 (the Russian advance). Most of Ukraine's 1.5 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the war; many were shot outright in 1941, at such sites as Babi Yar (Ukr. Babyn Yar ), outside Kiev. During the war Ukrainian guerrillas fought against both Soviet and German forces, and some anti-Soviet resistance continued until 1953.
Several major territorial changes occurred in Ukraine during and after the war. South Bessarabia, recovered from Romania in 1940, was incorporated into Ukraine, while the former Moldavian ASSR was detached from the republic and merged with central Bessarabia as the Moldavian SSR. The northern parts of Bukovina and Bessarabia were added to Ukraine, as was E Galicia, including Lviv, formally ceded by Poland in 1945. Transcarpathian Region, which had been part of Czechoslovakia since 1919, was also ceded in 1945, thus completing the process by which all Ukrainian lands were united into a single republic. Crimea was annexed to Ukraine in 1954. Although Russification intensified in Ukraine (as in other Soviet republics) after World War II, Ukrainian nationalism remained strong.
During the 1960s, Ukrainians emerged as tacit junior partners of the Russians in governing the Soviet Union. Leonid Brezhnev was born in Ukraine and held important party posts there before being called to Moscow. Former Soviet ruler Nikita Khrushchev, although a Russian by birth, served as first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist party during the 1930s and carried out the Stalinist purges in Ukraine. In 1986 one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded, contaminating a wide area of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian parliament passed a declaration of sovereignty in July, 1990, and in Aug., 1991, declared Ukraine independent of the Soviet Union. Ukraine became a charter member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Dec., 1991. Leonid Kravchuk, a former Communist turned nationalist, became Ukraine's first president. Parliamentary and presidential elections were held in 1994, and Kravchuk was defeated by Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma.
Kuchma implemented a few market reforms, but the economy remained dominated by huge, inefficient state-run companies and did not improve significantly. Ukraine, briefly the world's third largest nuclear power, also ratified the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1994) and turned its nuclear arsenal over to Russia for destruction (completed 1996); in return, Ukraine received much-needed fuel for its nuclear power plants. The country's economic reforms and cooperation in disarmament helped it gain substantial Western aid and loans.
Tensions continued over the Crimean peninsula, a former Russian territory with a majority Russian population that was ceded to Ukraine in 1954. In 1995, after Crimea challenged the Ukrainian government's sovereignty and threatened to secede, Ukraine placed Crimea's government under national control; its regional assembly, however, was retained. Another contentious issue was the division between Russia and Ukraine of the former Soviet Black Sea fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. A basic agreement, under which four fifths of the fleet would fall under Russian control, was reached in 1995, and in 1997 it was agreed that Russia would be allowed to base its fleet at Sevastopol for 20 years.
Communists won the most seats in the 1998 legislative elections. Kuchma was reelected in 1999 after defeating the Communist candidate, Petro Symonenko, in a runoff, and in December Viktor Yushchenko, the central bank chairman and an advocate of market reforms, was chosen as prime minister. In Apr., 2000, voters in a referendum approved constitutional changes that increased the president's powers over parliament.
In Sept., 2000, a muckraking opposition journalist was murdered. When tape recordings implicating Kuchma in his murder and other abuses of power subsequently were aired, Kuchma's support in parliament eroded, and there were demonstrations in early 2001 calling for his resignation. The government refused to investigate the journalist's death and was accused of suppressing press coverage of the incident. The dismissal of Prime Minister Yushchenko in Apr., 2001, by parliament was a blow to reformers; he was succeeded by Anatoliy Kinakh, an ally of President Kuchma. In the Mar., 2002, parliamentary elections Yushchenko supporters won roughly a quarter of the seats, as did supporters of the president. In November, Kuchma dismissed Kinakh as prime minister and appointed Viktor Yanukovych to the post.
Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty in Jan., 2003, that defined their common borders everywhere except in the Sea of Azov. In September, Russia began building a sea dike toward Ukraine's Tuzla island in the Kerch Strait (which provides access to the sea), provoking a crisis; a subsequent accord allowed for joint use of the strait, declared Azov an internal body of water, and called for the delimiting of the Russian-Ukrainian border. Also in September, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia signed an agreement to create a common economic space, but by the time an accord was signed (2009) to establish a customs union Ukraine's relations with Russia had soured and it did not participate.
In Dec., 2003, the Ukrainian supreme court ruled that Kuchma could run for a third term because the election for his first term had occurred before the current constitution took effect. The parliament also approved a constitutional change allowing it, rather than the voters, to elect the president, but opposition and international protests led the legislators to reverse their decision two months later.
The 2004 presidential election appeared to mark a significant turning point for Ukraine, and led to the events known as the "Orange Revolution." The government candidate, Prime Minister Yanukovych, advocated close ties with Russia (and his candidacy was supported by Russian president Putin) while the opposition candidate, former Prime Minister Yushchenko, called for closer ties with the European Union and benefited from increased disillusionment with Kuchma. The October vote resulted in a narrow victory for Yushchenko, who had been poisoned by an unknown assailant during the campaign, but he failed to win a majority, forcing a runoff with Yanukovych. The November balloting was declared a victory for Yanukovych, but both it and the first round were denounced by most observers, who accused the government of holding an undemocratic election. Yushchenko's supporters mounted protests in the streets of Kiev and other W Ukraine cities, where his support was strong. Yushchenko also challenged the results in court. Meanwhile, Yanukovych and his supporters, who were more concentrated in the more heavily Russian east, denounced these moves, and the situation threatened to split Ukraine. Parliament narrowly declared the results invalid, an act with no legal significance, but in December the supreme court annulled the vote due to fraud and called for the runoff to be rerun. Subsequently, the constitution was amended to reduce the president's power to appoint the prime minister and most of the cabinet as part of an electoral reform package.
In late December a new vote resulted in a solid margin of victory for Yushchenko, but the result was not finalized until mid-Jan., 2005, because of legal challenges mounted by Yanukovych. In February Yushchenko appointed Yulia V. Tymoshenko, an outspoken political ally, as prime minister. Seven months later, however, Yushchenko dismissed Tymoshenko's government after conflicts between the cabinet and the presidency and accusations that the president tolerated corruption. The moderate economist Yuriy Yekhanurov succeeded Tymoshenko, but only after the president secured the support of Yanukovych's party by making concessions on investigations into electoral fraud in 2004 presidential election.
A dispute over the price of natural gas purchased from Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, led to a stalemate in late 2005. Ukraine had been purchasing gas at very favorable rates under a contract signed before Yushchenko won the presidency, and Gazprom now demanded a higher, market rate. In Jan., 2006, Gazprom halted its Ukrainian shipments, a move that also partially affected some downstream European customers. Although the dispute was soon resolved, the episode was generally regarded as a heavy-handed Russian response to Yushchenko's victory a year before. Opposition parties subsequently won a no-confidence vote against the cabinet over the agreement, but constitutional ambiguities made it unclear whether the vote had any validity or not.
Parliamentary elections in Mar., 2006, resulted in a setback for President Yushchenko, whose Our Ukraine party placed third, behind Yanukovych's Party of the Regions and the Tymoshenko bloc. In April the three former parties of the Orange Revolution—the Tymoshenko bloc, Our Ukraine, and the Socialist party—agreed to form a coalition government, but the agreement shattered in July as both sides disrupted sessions of parliament and the Socialists bolted for a coalition with the Party of the Regions and the Communists. The three parties nominated Yanukovych as prime minister, but the president initially refused to recognize the new coalition on the grounds that, under the law, it had been formed too soon after the Socialists left their previous coalition. Yushchenko and Yanukovych subsequently signed a unity pact, and Our Ukraine joined the three party coalition led by Yanukovych, who became prime minister in August. In October, however, Our Ukraine left the governing coalition and went into opposition. The same month Ukraine signed a deal with Gazprom to import natural gas at below market-rate prices. In December the president and prime minister became locked in disputes over the budget and foreign minister. The president vetoed the budget several times, and after parliament sacked the foreign and interior ministers, the president issued a decree calling on the foreign minister to stay in office. Parliament responded by passing (Jan., 2007) legislation giving it the right to appoint the foreign minister, which the president contested in court.
The struggle between the prime minister and president reached new crisis point in April when the president dissolved parliament and called for new elections. The previous month a number of deputies allied with the president had joined Yanukovych's coalition, despite legal and constitutional provisions that appeared to forbid such a move (only parties are allowed to form coalitions in parliament), but it also represented a threat to the president's power. The prime minister refused to recognize the president's decree, and appealed it to the constitutional court. The events led the parties on both sides to mount a number of large demonstrations. After the president fired several constitutional court judges for misconduct and after mounting tensions, both sides agreed in late May to September elections, but squabbling continued in months preceding the elections.
Although Yanukovych's party won plurality of the seats in the new parliament, the Tymoshenko bloc and the president's bloc together secured a narrow majority. The president's bloc, however, received less than 15% of the vote and less than half the seats of the Tymoshenko bloc, a significant blow to Yushchenko. The Socialist party, which previously had held the balance of power between the president's supporters and opponents failed to receive enough votes to be awarded any seats. In December, the Tymoshenko and presidential blocs formed a coalition government, with Tymoshenko as prime minister, but the subsequent months often saw Tymoshenko and Yushchenko at odds and tensions in parliament between supporters of the two.
The government's desire to begin the process of joining NATO led in early 2008 to confrontations in parliament with the Party of Regions and also provoked strong opposition from Russia. Both reactions contributed to NATO's decision to postpone (Apr., 2008) establishing an action plan for Ukraine's admission. Ukraine again confronted threatened cuts in its natural gas supplies when Gazprom demanded payment of its debts in Feb., 2008; although cuts were averted then, the following month supplies were reduced for several days when the issue again required resolution. In May, Ukraine became a member of the World Trade Organization.
In Sept., 2008, the governing coalition broke up after Tymoshenko's bloc and the Party of Regions joined together to reduce presidential powers; disagreements between the governing parties concerning how to respond to Russia's invasion of Georgia also led to the collapse. After attempts to reestablish the coalition failed, Yushchenko, despite his relative unpopularity, called for early elections, a move that was actively opposed in parliament and the courts in subsequent weeks by Tymoshenko. Ukraine secured a $16.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in November; the money was needed to help stabilize Ukraine's currency and private banking system. Some of the disbursements of the loan subsequently were delayed, however, by the parliament's failure to pass the required budget legislaton. The country's industrial sector, especially in E Ukraine, was also hit hard by the global recession. In December, the governing coalition was finally re-formed, this time with the addition of a third, smaller party.
In Jan., 2009, Gazprom again cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine; the issues were largely the same as those three years earlier. The cutoff eventually also led to the stoppage of the flow of gas shipped through Ukraine to other European countries, for which Russia and Ukraine each blamed the other. Central and SE European nations mainly were affected by the stoppage. After three weeks and pressure from the European Union a new, ten-year agreement was reached in which Ukraine secured lower current gas prices in exchange for higher future ones; the EU subsequently agreed to make significant investments in Ukraine's gas infrastructure, prompting a negative response from Russia. A drop in energy needs as a result of a slowing economy led Ukraine in late 2009 to seek modifications in its energy agreement with Russia.
Continuing tensions between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko led to the ouster of the foreign minister in Mar., 2009, and the defense minister in June; both posts are presidential appointments. In April, the parliament set the presidential election for Oct., 2009, but Yushchenko challenged the date as too early, and the constitutional court ruled for the president. In June, the vote was rescheduled for Jan., 2010. Also in June, ongoing negotiations between Tymoshenko and Yanukovych finally ended without an agreement. Relations with Russia remained largely sour, with Russian President Medvedev in August denouncing Yushchenko as anti-Russian, an act seen as an attempt to influence the upcoming presidential election. In Sept., 2009, however, Tymoshenko and Putin agreed in principle to reduce, in light of the recession, Ukraine's required gas purchases under the January agreement.
In the first round (January) of the 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych placed first, with Tymoshenko second, but no candidate won a majority, forcing a runoff (February) that Yanukovych won by a small margin (but he again gained less than 50% of the vote). The vote also evidenced Ukraine's continuing divisions, with Yanukovych winning in the predominantly Russian-speaking east and south, while Tymposhenko ran strongly in the Ukrainian-speaking west and center. Tymoshenko subsequently lost a confidence vote in parliament, and Yanukovych's Party of Regions formed a governing coalition with Mykola Azarov, a former finance minister, as prime minister.
In April, in a rapprochement with Russia, Ukraine agreed to extend Russia's lease on the Sevastopol naval base until 2042 in exchange for what were said to be discounts on Russian natural gas, but in 2012 Azarov acknowledged that the deal did not result in discounts. The new government also rejected pursuing NATO membership while seeking to speed progress toward joining the European Union. In Oct., 2010, the constitutional amendments adopted in Dec., 2004, were overturned on the grounds that they had not been approved by the constitutional court; the decision strengthened the powers of the president.
Later in 2010 Tymoshenko and several other members of her former government were arrested and charged with a variety of criminal offenses, leading the European Union enlargement commissioner to warn (Jan., 2011) Ukraine not to use criminal law for political ends. Additional charges were brought in 2011, and in Oct., 2011, Tymoshenko was convicted of abuse of power and imprisoned. In Mar., 2011, former president Kuchma—Yanukovych's one-time political patron—was charged with abuse of office in the 2000 disappearance and murder of an opposition journalist, but the charges were dismissed in Dec., 2011. Tymoshenko's case directly affected relations with the EU in December when the EU held off signing a cooperation agreement with Ukraine because of the belief that the charges against her were politically motivated; increased cooperation with the EU continued to be stymied by the political situation in Ukraine in subsequent months.
During early 2012 there were natural gas transshipment problems from Russia to Europe, and Russia's Gazprom blamed Ukraine; negotiations in 2011 between the two nations over the price of gas and transshipment issues had been inconclusive. Gazprom subsequently rerouted a significant amount of transshipped gas through Belarus, where it controlled the pipelines. In Feb., 2012, Russia banned cheese imports from several major Ukrainian producers, allegedly over adulteration, but the dispute was seen as an attempt to apply political pressure on Ukraine similar to Russian food-related bans involving other nations. In mid-2012 the government enacted a bill making Russian an official regional language in Russian-speaking areas of the country; the law was denounced by the opposition and by advocates of Ukrainian.
In the Oct., 2012, parliamentary elections the Party of Regions won a plurality of the seats, with Tymoshenko's party second. European and other monitors criticized the election campaign as being less fair than previous ones, the voting was married by irregularities, and the vote count took weeks to complete, leading some monitors and opposition figures to charge the government with attempting to steal elections. The Party of Regions formed a coalition government; Azarov again became prime minister (Dec., 2012). In Apr., 2013, two cabinet members under Tymoshenko who had been convicted of abuse of office were pardoned, but the former prime minister was not.
Trade tensions again flared with Russia in Aug., 2013, over Ukraine's trade negotiations with the European Union, but Ukraine ultimately rejected an agreement with the EU and won improved gas rates and loans from Russia. The failure to sign an EU agreement led in Nov., 2013, to antigovernment demonstrations by protesters who favored joining the EU. The protests, which were marked at times by clashes with security forces, renewed in intensity after so-called antiprotest laws were passed in Jan., 2014.
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