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BkiUd3U5qYVBbtzIxnXv | Proof of Qualification: Master level required!
Health and Accident Insurance throughout whole Fellowship period including overall coverage without any exclusions of at least € 30.000,00! The policy has to be issued in English or German, terms & conditions incorporated and insurance sum to be quoted in Euro!
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BkiUdp05qsMAIzZBdgHx | (June 10, 2007) -- LBReport.com, your news outlet of record for the 37th Congressional district special election, provides below on-demand audio of the statement by Assemblywoman Laura Richardson (D., Carson-LB) at a June 7 Compton forum that ignited off-mike words and visible consternation between her and State Senator Jenny Oropeza (D., southbay).
The Democrats and former LB Councilmembers are among 17 candidates (11 Dems, 4 Repubs, 1 Green & 1 Libertarian) on the June 26 special election ballot hoping to succeed the late Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald (D. Carson-LB).
Assemblywoman Richardson: I'm going to fight for our community...This is about someone who says that no one can take our seat from us without us fighting every bit of the way for it. [applause] This is our community. This is our seat. And let me tell you something: why is it that with redistricting, Compton was removed out of the 55th [Carson-LB Assembly district]? We need people who want Compton, who will represent Compton and who will do everything humanly possible to make sure all of the cities in our community are represented and taken care of.
The order of closing speakers had Assemblywoman Richardson speaking after Sen. Oropeza...meaning Oropeza wasn't able to respond on mike to Richardson's closing. But following Assemblywoman Richardson's closing, the two apparently had some words off-mike (inaudible to the audience) which began to careen into a verbal brouhaha until others intervened.
A few minutes later, the two Democrats declined to join hands for a collective photo. When the forum ended, Sen. Oropeza left the room without comment, her jaw set and her eyes focused on the door. Assemblywoman Richardson was surrounded by supporters.
Assemblywoman Richardson: Compton is going to deliver Laura, and Laura is going to deliver for Compton. [applause] Carson is going to deliver for Laura, and Laura is going to deliver for Carson. [applause, cheers] The Latino community is going to deliver for Laura [repeats her name with Spanish pronunciation] and Laura unequivocally is going to bust her tail for the Latino community. [applause] For the Asian community, Filipino. Cambodian, Samoan, all of the east Asian communities, they will come through and deliver for Laura, and Laura is going to deliver for those communities.
And for everyone else who's represented here, Caucasian, African-American, etcetera, you know why it's so special for you to be here? It's because I'm sick and tired of the press talkin' about this being a race thing. This race is not about your ethnic background. This race is about who cares most about the community, who has a record of delivering for the community and who is the face of the community.
And our face of the community is not the color of our skin. The face of our community is the fact that I've been working since I've been 12 years old. The face of our community is I've been working two jobs for the last ten years. The face of our community is I worked full time and went to school and cleaned toilets at UCLA to work my way through. That's our community. And so this race is about people who are rallying behind leadership that understands the community and is willing to deliver for them.
On May 29 at the first LB Congressional candidate encounter (the monthly LB Junior Chamber of Commerce "Beer & Politics" event), Assemblywoman Richardson and Senator Oropeza were all smiles.
The special election is June 26...and if no candidate in the 17-candidate field receives over 50% of the vote, the top vote drawing candidate from each party will advance to an August 21 runoff. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUc6w4uBhixmHbfTO0 | Bodybuilding.com, the Internet's most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, is proud to announce the addition of new Editor-in-Chief Jeff O'Connell to their team. O'Connell has 15 years in the health and fitness industry serving as Editor-in-Chief at Muscle & Fitness and, most recently, Executive Writer at Men's Health.
O'Connell's feature writing has been deemed "notable" in both The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. As an author, he has reached The New York Times Best-Sellers list as the collaborator on LL Cool J's Platinum Workout. Adding to his list of accomplishments, Hyperion/Disney will be publishing his prescriptive memoir, Sugar Nation, on July 19, 2011.
"Becoming Editor-in-Chief of Bodybuilding.com is a dream job for me. The site is the most heavily trafficked fitness destination in the world, making this a unique opportunity to help tens of millions of people worldwide transform their life through health and fitness," said O'Connell.
The new Bodybuilding.com Editor-in-Chief will focus on further enhancing the site's 30,000 pages of unique content with the latest and greatest health and fitness advice, news and entertainment. "Rather than pay $5.00 for a fitness or bodybuilding magazine, fitness enthusiasts can visit Bodybuilding.com and receive everything for free, from expert online trainersto workout videos to social networking. My focus is on enhancing the user experience by continuing to improve the vast array of content," explains O'Connell.
As someone who works out daily, follows a low-carbohydrate diet, and takes twelve supplements daily, O'Connell is an ideal fit for the Bodybuilding.com team. His ability to identify with the lifestyle enables him to fulfill the company mission of helping Bodybuilding.com visitors reach their health, fitness and appearance goals through information, motivation and supplementation.
"Jeff brings an insane amount of experience and enthusiasm to Bodybuilding.com, and truly understands our users and what we are trying to accomplish. We are very fortunate to have him on our team!" said Bodybuilding.com CEO Ryan DeLuca.
Jeff O'Connell will be joining the talented Bodybuilding.com Digital Publishing Team, including Spokesperson and Editor at Large Kris Gethin, Vice President John Hardesty, and many more industry experts.
Bodybuilding.com offers more than 13,000 health & fitness supplements and accessories to help more than 7.5 million people every month achieve their health, fitness and appearance goals, as well as over 35,000 pages of free information, including more than 20,000 articles and videos, expert online trainers, and new content added daily. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUdyI5qX_BteM6PPfY | Ferenc Kiss (Vas, 5 de enero de 1942 - 8 de septiembre de 2015) fue un luchador húngaro y medallista olímpico.
Biografía
Debutó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 1964, donde no llegó a conseguir ninguna megalla; corriendo la misma suerte en los Juegos Olímpicos cuatro años después. Sin embargo en los celebrados en Múnich en 1972 consiguió la medalla de bronce en lucha grecorromana en la modalidad de 100 kg. En los mundiales consiguió dos medallas de plata, una en 1965 y otra en 1970. En los europeos, dos de oro —en 1967 y 1968— y una de plata en 1970.
Falleció el 8 de septiembre de 2015 a los 73 años de edad.
Referencias
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Ficha en Sports Reference (en inglés)
Luchadores de Hungría
Luchadores en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 1964
Luchadores en los Juegos Olímpicos de México 1968
Luchadores en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972
Medallistas olímpicos de bronce de lucha
Medallistas olímpicos de bronce de Hungría
Fallecidos en Budapest | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdAfxK1yAga6JruuX | Rime in Jilin is named as one of the four meteorological wonders in China together with the sea of clouds of the Huangshan Mountain, the sunrise of the Taishan Mountain and the tide of the Qiangtang River.
Rime is usually called "tree sags" by people. China is the first country in the world that has the earliest record about rime.
Each winter, although there is thick ice as hard as iron on the surface of the Songhua Lake, the water underneath remains 40℃ in temperature. Water coming out from the turbine has a difference of about 30 degrees with the temperature of the ground surface. Thus, dozens of kilometers of the river surface in the urban area does not have ice. The difference of temperature produces fog that lasts for a long time. There are pines and willows along the 5-km bank of the river. Under certain condition of air pressure, wind and temperature, fog will condense on tree branches, becoming rime.
Due to the unique natural conditions, rime in Jilin lasts for a long time, and is thick. It also happens more. End of December to end of February next year is the best time for rime. It could happen more than 60 times maximum in a year. Beauty of rime in Jilin is wonderful and unique. People say there are three stages of rime – "watch the fog in the evening, look at rime in the morning and appreciate the falling flowers near the noon".
Rime can be seen in a large area. The major five spots are: Songjiang Road which is downtown, Ashihada which is in the suburbs, Hongshi Lake, Beidahu Woods and the Rime Photographing Base on the Rime Island. Rime in a variety of shapes can be seen in different places. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbjU4eIZijWIz2hnB | The Good Sound quality; noise-cancellation; fold-flat design; included hard case; TalkThrough feature.
The Bad Price; dance fans may want more bass; noise-cancelling bypass switch instead of automatic cut-out.
Sennheiser's PXC 450 noise-cancelling headphones claim to offer outstanding sound quality and optimum protection against ambient noise. At £299, they're aimed at a high-end consumer who's after terrific sound accuracy primarily when on the move, such as a business traveller -- and those who are comfortable wearing enormous 'phones in public. They're built to compete with the popular Bose QuietComfort range.
These are certainly among the most comfortable headphones we've seen in months. The luxury earcups are very comfortable to wear during long listening sessions and certainly feel less clammy than others of similar design. A little experimentation is required to get the best seal between the cups and your head, but your listening experience will be better as a result.
The single AAA battery resides inside the right-hand cup, and Sennheiser has done an excellent job of positioning the headphones' volume and noise-cancelling control buttons in an accessible place.
With the traveller in mind, the PXC 450s are foldable in two ingenious ways, the easiest of which makes it possible to flat-pack the headphones into the supplied hard case, which is about the size of three DVD cases.
Overall build quality is excellent. The attention to detail is also admirable, such as a small amount of rubber padding between the earcups and the brackets they're attached to.
The well-padded headband has a spine of tough aluminium, meaning it's incredibly comfortable but resilient to accidental damage.
The PXC 450s' useful TalkThrough feature can be activated with the touch of a button on the right-hand earcup. Automatically, music volume is lowered and voices around you are channelled into the headphones, allowing you to talk comfortably without removing them. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUds45qsJBjpijFiQb | Variety of sample template for letter of recommendation that will completely match your needs. When composing an official or company letter, presentation style as well as format is key to making a good impression. These layouts provide superb instances of the best ways to structure such a letter, as well as consist of sample web content to work as an overview of layout.
What does it cost? time do you invest in your cover letter? If the solution is very little, you can be losing out on high quality meetings. Modern technology career experts say that a quickly created letter or worse no letter whatsoever, could stall your IT work search.
Jobs in technology are predicted to expand 13% (or 557,100 work) from 2016 to 2026, inning accordance with the Bureau of Labor Stats. Working in tech, you can expect to make a median wage of $84,580 annually.
The ease of using online has actually led many IT specialists to miss sending a cover letter, yet that s a mistake. Mehdi Hanbali, technological employer for TEKsystems in San Jose, claims he hardly ever gets cover letters, yet always checks out the ones he obtains. I can tell if the candidate is just shooting over design templates to postings, Hanbali says.
To make your letter stand out, demonstrate how you meet or go beyond the job needs. Always provide your letter to the job summary that you are targeting, claims Abigail Swirl McMillan, IT employer for Reston, Virginia-based Open Systems Technologies. When task hunters address the job advertisement as opposed to send out a generic letter, they are most likely to be interviewed.
Kinga Wilson, president of Lincoln, Nebraska-based recruitment firm Leaders IT Recruitment, is most likely to see a cover letter that passes on a feeling of interest. You could speak about your accurate experience, yet that s just component of the equation, Wilson claims. I m looking for candidates that intend to add to the development of an organization.
Include a line that relays your passion as well as talks to the company s requirements, such as: Your opening will certainly enable me to incorporate my passions in cordless networking as well as ingrained safety and security, and I am positive that I can assist in major upgrades while keeping the highest degree of safety of your WiTrack item.
Considering that previous success is a good forecaster of future performance, Thomas Wolff, a licensed professional resume author based in Kansas City, Missouri, recommends adding considerable occupation achievements to reveal companies that you have actually been a leading performer.
Prospective employers will see just how your technical as well as organisation success have made you an important staff member which you are likely to do the very same for them, he states.
Right here s an example of just how a network designer could define the advantages of his past job: Most lately, I have actually developed and also provided innovation solutions that have raised performance, consumer fulfillment as well as profitability to document degrees.
Bottom-line impacts (understood via both expense savings as well as revenue gains) for my present employer complete virtually $1.4 million to this day.
Working with supervisors look for job-related skills, so include relevant technical terms in your letter. McMillan recommends plainly including technological abilities important to the work. If the setting calls for technological knowledge such as Java or object-oriented style, state your proficiency in these locations towards the start of the letter, she states.
Technical professionals typically list skills in their cover letters, consisting of those in which they aren t exactly proficient. Exaggerating technical or various other abilities may be tempting, but it s not a great idea.
If your knowledge of HTML is limited to aiding a close friend set up a personal Internet web page, don t promote HTML as one of your key skills. You will certainly really feel excellent about what you re discussing since you understand it well, Hanbali claims.
Hectic hiring managers put on t have time to read your life tale in your cover letter. Respect the visitor by maintaining your letter concise and also concentrated on the bottom lines, Wilson states.
Hanbali suggests integrating paragraphs with bullets to emphasize crucial qualifications as well as boost readability. A reliable approach is to lead with a paragraph that summarizes your toughest technological credentials, complied with by a line such as, Emphasizes of my qualifications consist of: Then present a bulleted listing of your technological abilities, training, accreditations and also considerable success.
Consist of a strong and also certain closing. Rather of finishing your letter with a passive line such as, I look onward to speaking with you, tell the viewers what you desire, which is to arrange a conference, Wilson states.
A systems manager might close with a line such as, I would invite the opportunity to discuss exactly how my systems management abilities would benefit your IT division, and I will comply with up with you in a couple of days to see if we can set up a conference.
Your letter is representing you in your absence, so it ought to be excellent. McMillan states mistakes in the cover letter will certainly create her to think twice around speaking with the candidate.
Hanbali agrees, claiming, Ensure that One Hundred Percent of your spelling and also grammar is proper. The added time and also interest you give your cover letter could assist you land your following work. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUd504uzlh5RkAwICe | We've partnered with Tamebay to bring you a 10-part video series on how to expand your e-commerce business abroad. In this video, we'll be talking about why you, as an online retailer should consider selling to Japan (if you haven't already), and our 5 tips to make your Japanese expansion less stressful and more fruitful.
Alternative, check out our article Expanding to Japan – Key Considerations For Marketplace Sellers for more customer insights on Japanese buyers.
Rakuten JP – As Japan's biggest marketplace, Rakuten offers a traditional shopping experience which you don't normally expect to see in e-commerce. In terms of on-boarding, Rakuten is very selective about who can sell on their platform. However, it's a very promising marketplace once you're on it.
Amazon JP – Currently, Amazon Japan offers over 200 million products and is steadily growing in popularity among Japanese customers. With its American roots, this is usually where foreign sellers start when first selling to Japan.
No only should your product listings be in Japanese, all product details should also be localised to the local currency, size and measurements.
The fact that your customer service needs to be done in Japanese may already seem to be a huge obstacle for e-commerce sellers trying to expand to Japan, not to mention the many subtleties of the Japanese language and culture. As the saying お客様は神様 (customers are gods) goes, watch the video now and find out the tips in handling Japanese buyers.
Japan is a country that's keen on quality and details. Not only does the product itself has to be of high quality, but all aspects relating to the shopping experience are expected to meet the higher standard. Pay attention to details and you'll be able to avoid negative feedback and complaints. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdk44eIZjqq6slqvN | Cosplaying has been my passion ever since I was thirteen. Years passed and everytime I would attend an open photoshoot at the park, I would be stopped by a hoard of mothers asking if I could take a picture with their kids. It's also been a habit of mine to help out my mother's friend whenever it's valentine's day at a preschool to give kids candy hearts or small paper flowers. The smiles on their faces makes it worthwhile. I was thinking of making the same business as yours but for charitable causes. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUa_Y5qWTD6essZDre | Settled in 2147, fueling point for traffic between the Vegan stars and Eta Cassiopeiae zone. Named after an Earth free port, in reflection of the free wheeling nature of the town. Jebel Ali is a tidelocked planet where the dark side has managed to retain water ice, which the residents crack for fuel to sell. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbh45jDKDyFQtkuDQ | No matter how big or small a business is, the administrative side of things, like payroll, has to be taken care of. Depending on where you are in the company, you may be aware that your employer can't stand this part of the job.
It is, of course, paramount that employees get paid on time, and the good news is that payroll doesn't have to be a nightmare. If you're the small business owner or in charge of payroll, are you making things more difficult than they need to be?
It's no surprise that for most companies, the biggest expense is the cost of employees. Payroll can be the crux of a slew of problems, especially as your business grows and you hire more people. The seemingly simple act of cutting paychecks or even managing direct deposit eats up precious hours that would be better spent elsewhere.
Here are the six biggest reasons people hate payroll and what to do about them.
Maybe there's a paper jam when you're printing checks or someone forgot to add in their sick leave. What should be a quick process can take all afternoon if just one glitch strikes.
If you pay an employee late, not only does that badly affect morale but it can also be illegal — depending on the state and just how long the delay is. If you rush to pay employees and make a mistake, whether in your favor or not, that will lead to more delays down the road.
If you're a really small business and you do payroll yourself, but have a CPA to handle quarterly taxes, you also have to keep this professional happy. A CPA won't be happy with guesstimates or a lot of mistakes.
It's important for your employees and for your business that payroll is processed correctly, on time, and the process is easy to understand. You probably pay your CPA handsomely, but you'll be paying more if you don't take care of your end.
Taxes in the US are notoriously difficult, and things get worse when you're dealing with payroll. The federal, state, and local government might all require different things of you, and the last thing your business needs is an audit.
Handling taxes is overwhelming for even the savviest business people, and there's no room for errors. A strange tax issue can creep up years down the road, so don't assume you're safe just because all has been quiet this year.
It takes a certain type of person to excel at the old-school methods of payroll. You need incredible attention to detail, a knack for numbers, and organizational abilities to rival Martha Stewart.
These are skills that can be learned, but few have the time or desire to do so. It's also not a very natural talent, and the chances that you're a "natural payroll expert" are slim to none.
Some people excel under pressure; others get worse and worse under a ticking clock.
Unfortunately, payroll pretty much has to be done under pressure. You need to print the checks by a certain time every week or month, and that pressure can cause unnecessary stress. Nobody likes to feel like they're in a race.
Even if something goes wrong and it's not your fault, your employees will blame you … and rightfully so. You're responsible for paying them correctly and on time, end of story. If anyone's going to struggle with glitches, it will be you. Not only do you have to take on absolutely everything to get the payments done, you'll also have the short stick if there's a problem.
The good news is that you don't have to put up with this. There are simple corporate solutions designed to make payroll fast, easy, and accurate — plus, it passes the buck to someone else. It can also be affordable, even for a startup. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdTM5qsBB3KMWbqGh | Birdsong
The new BBC adaptation of 'Birdsong' brings the First World War to our TV screens. (Photo: BBC / Working Title)
The big news in TV in Britain this week is all about a new adaptation of Sebastian Faulk's much-loved novel, Birdsong. 'Sherlock', it seems, has captured the nation's hearts, and established the BBC as "the home of must-watch Sunday night drama". 'Sherlock' is certainly doing something right– I've had one student ask me about reading the original stories, he so loved the newest Benedict Cumberbatch incarnation. I eagerly pushed him on. There is almost no reading pleasure as purely enjoyable as reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes mysteries.
I'm hoping that the TV adaptation of Birdsong will have the same effect on other students at Southfields– to run off and get the original book, or at least be inspired to learn more about the First World War and its literature.
Here's a confession, though. I teach AS English Literature; I teach First World War literature. Yet I've never read 'Birdsong'. I feel vaguely guilty about this every year. It is apparently the 13th most popular book that the British reading public has: there has to be a reason for that popularity.
So, I'm hoping that Abi Morgan's adaptation inspires me too. The reviews seem to be good. I'm hoping that it'll be something more than your average romantic historical drama– something more than some First World War booms and busts. We'll see! Birdsong begins on BBC1 on Sunday at 9.00pm.
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012 Categories Drama, First World War, Pop Culture, Television and RadioTags BBC, Birdsong, First World War, Sebastian Faulks, TVLeave a comment on Birdsong | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUe584uzliCsUqquqT | Last night Monday 8 June the club were pleased to welcome our friends from Darwen Camera club to a Bird of Prey demonstration. Many thanks to Shaun for his talk and introduction to the Birds. It was just a shame that a downpour at 6pm prevented a flying demonstration . | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfo025V5jcjlvdCp7 | Which Musician Do You Want to Play Like?
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Take bass guitar lessons in Boronia and Carrum Downs at the Eastern Suburbs School of Music. This instrument is one of the easier string instruments to play. Bass is THE most important instrument in a band. It bridges together the drums with the guitar and keyboards. While it is apart of what is called the rhythm section it is equally melodic. An instantly rewarding instrument. Bass is an instrument that allows the player to be very creative through inventing your own patterns and lines.
Unlike other music schools, we have dedicated bass players as teachers. Not guitar teachers that can also play this instrument. Beginners will learn to play some basic grooves and fretboard patterns. Experienced players can learn advanced walking lines and slap and tap techniques. Lessons will give you the skills needed to be part of a band and play along with your favourite songs.
To understand the kind of skills we will teach you in lessons visit our article about how to play bass. This will give you examples of the kids of things you will learn in lessons at the Eastern Suburbs School of Music.
Bass players are always in high demand by groups to join our band workshop program. This is a great instrument to quickly get involved in a band to fulfill those rock star dreams.
Try our 2 lessons for $50 deal available to new student bookings. This will get you started on the path to find out what it takes to master the bass guitar.
Check out Tom Baker, one of star students performing solo at our 2013 Concert Performance night below. We helped Tom complete VCE Solo Performance subject. He is now studying a music degree with Monash University.
Sting – one of the greatest songwriters in history.
Paul McCartney – played in a little rock combo called the Beatles. Created some of most amazing bass lines of all time. Take a read of our article about Paul's best 10 lines.
Trevor Horn – who? The guy that wrote and sings "Video Killed the Radio Star" and producer of some of the greatest pop songs of all time.
Roger Waters – the man that wrote the majority of the Pink Floyd catalogue, in particular The Wall album.
You can also check out our favourite players in our 10 Bass Players you must know article.
Wanna play like Tom or the legends mentioned? We believe we have the best teachers in Melbourne ready to pass on their knowledge to you.
Call now to secure lessons with the best teachers in town on 0421 705 150.
Need to buy an instrument? Boronia students visit Keyboard Corner for all piano and keyboard needs. Carrum Downs students visit Guitars and Things in nearby Frankston. We thank our loyal supporters of the Eastern Suburbs School of Music. Both stores are also able to provide sheet music.
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BkiUcms4eILhP_ZFAvbT | Death in Paradise: Guest Stars Announced for Season 9 of Hit Brit Mystery Series
Death in Paradise, one of the most popular mystery-crime drama series on telly today, will return next year with a new season, a new lead actor, and a host of guest stars.
Death in Paradise: Shyko Amos as Officer Ruby Patterson & Tobi Bakare as Officer JP Hooper — Photo vy Denis Guyenon © Red Planet Pictures, courtesy of BritBox
Recommissioned earlier this year for two more seasons, Death in Paradise will return to telly on both sides of the pond with Season 9 next year.
The new season will be the final one for Ardal O'Hanlon (Father Ted, My Hero), who plays DI Jack Mooney, and the first one for Ralf Little (The Cafê, Our Zoo), who will play DI Neville Parker, the new lead detective.
Little joins the series' regular cast, which includes Aude Legastelois (Nox) as DS Madeleine Dumas, Tobi Bakare (The Tunnel) as Officer JP Hooper, Shyko Amos (A Very English Scandal) as Officer Ruby Patterson, Elizabeth Bourgine (Meurtres dans le Jura) as Catherine Bordey, and Don Warrington (The Five) as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson.
Now for the guest stars!
The raft of British acting talent who will feature in Season 9 includes Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9), Adrian Edmondson (Bancroft), and Louise Brealey (A Discovery of Witches), as well as Alexander Vlahos (Versailles), Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey), Nell Hudson (Victoria), Jade Anouka (Cleaning Up), Samuel West (Mr Selfridge), and Javone Prince (PhoneShop).
Nina Wadia (EastEnders, Still Open All Hours) will guest star in not one but several episodes, and said this of her character:
"It's been wonderful playing Anna, who in having to start her life over, rediscovers herself whilst unexpectedly finding romance on the island!"
Additional guest stars include Matt King (Peep Show), Clare Hope-Ashitey (Doctor Foster), Elliot Cowan (The Spanish Princess), Amanda Hale (The White Queen), Alexandra Roach (No Offence), Adrian Bower (Mount Pleasant), Michael Obiora (Luther), Chanel Cresswell (The Bay), Sam Troughton (Chernobyl), Ellen Thomas (Casualty), Peter De Jersey (Broadchurch), Kadiff Kirwan (C.B. Strike), Andi Osho (National Treasure: Kiri), and Barbara Flynn (The Durrells in Corfu).
Filmed on the picturesque French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the new season will feature several clever and intriguing murder mysteries for the Saint Marie police team to solve, including a mysterious masked attacker who strikes twice at a family rum distillery and a survival camp trip that goes terribly wrong.
Death in Paradise: Season 9 is slated to begin on BBC One in January 2020. Its US premiere date hasn't been announced yet, but look for it next year on BritBox, the exclusive home of the series in the States, as well as on select public TV stations across the country.
Produced by Red Planet Picture, Season 10 of Death in Paradise begins production in 2010. Stay tuned for updates.
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BkiUfDnxaKgQW0DXrVY3 | Tue 8 Oct 2019 08:56 AM
UAE nationals get green light to travel to Lebanon
Decision taken following assurances over safety and security at Lebanese ports
Emirati nationals had been banned from travelling to the neighbouring country since the start of the Syrian Civil War, amid heightened fears over potential kidnappings and other safety and security concerns.
UAE nationals will be allowed to travel to Lebanon from today (October 8).
However, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has announced that the restrictions have been lifted.
Cash-strapped Lebanon turns to UAE for financial support
Lebanon relies on deposits from millions living abroad but inflows have dwindled as confidence falls in its ability to implement the reforms needed to unlock some $11bn of foreign aid pledges
Undersecretary Khalid Belhoul said the decision was taken following assurances over the security of ports in Lebanon and guarantees from the Lebanese government on safety around these areas.
He also said he hoped the move would help strengthen the 'brotherly relations that unite the UAE with Lebanon', according to a report by news agency WAM.
The news comes following a meeting between Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon, on Monday.
During the meeting held at Al Bahr Palace, they discussed bilateral relations and ways to enhance them across all levels, especially in the economic, investment and development domains in the best interest of the two fraternal countries.
They reviewed the latest Middle East, GCC, and Arab developments and their repercussions on regional and international security. They also tackled Arab, regional and global issues of mutual interest.
In February this year Saudi Arabia lifted its advice to citizens not to travel to Lebanon.
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BkiUdiM5qU2ApzQrTp9n | Ha ottenuto il riconoscimento pubblico per i suoi ruoli da protagonista in noti serial televisivi, quali Sang-doo-ya, hakgyo gaja!, Gomapseumnida, Pasta, Choego-ui sarang, Jugun-ui tae-yang, Gwaenchanha, sarangiya, Producer e Jiltueui hwasin. È inoltre nota per la sua interpretazione nel film Misseu hongdangmu.
Grazie alla sua decennale carriera e al successo ottenuto nel piccolo schermo, è stata soprannominata la "regina delle commedie romantiche".
Biografia
Nativa di Seul, nel 1994 si è trasferita in Australia assieme alla madre e al fratello minore, dove ha frequentato la John Paul College di Brisbane. Sulla base di questa esperienza, nel 2011 è stata scelta come ambasciatrice per le celebrazioni del 50º anniversario delle relazioni bilaterali fra la Corea del Sud e l'Australia.
Dopo tre anni in Australia, la famiglia Gong ha fatto ritorno in Corea del Sud nel 1997 a causa della crisi finanziaria asiatica.
Vita privata
Durante le riprese del serial Hwalyeohan sijeol ha conosciuto l'attore Ryoo Seung-bum, con il quale ha avuto una relazione dal 2001 al 2003 e nuovamente dal 2008 al 2012.
Tra maggio e settembre 2014 è stata legata sentimentalmente all'attore Lee Jin-wook.
Filmografia
Cinema
Yeogogoedam dubeonchae iyagi (여고괴담 두번째 이야기), regia di Kim Tae-yong e Min Kyu-dong (1999)
Yeoleum iyagi (여름 이야기), regia di Cho Yeong-ho (2000)
Seonmul (선물), regia di Oh Ki-hwan (2001)
Killerdeului suda (킬러들의 수다), regia di Jang Jin (2001)
Volcano High (화산고), regia di Kim Tae-kyun (2001)
Surprise Party (서프라이즈), regia di Kim Jin-Sung (2002)
Gimgeubjochi 19ho (긴급조치 19호), regia di Kim Tae-gyu (2002)
Cheoleobtneun anaewa paramanjanhan nampyeon geurigo taekwon sonyeo (철없는 아내와 파란만장한 남편 그리고 태권소녀), regia di Lee Moo-Young (2002)
Conduct Zero (품행제로), regia di Joh Keun-shik (2002)
Cheongun (천군), regia di Min Joon-ki (2005)
Gajog-ui tansaeng (가족의 탄생), regia di Kim Tae-yong (2006)
Haengbok (행복), regia di Hur Jin-ho (2007)
M (엠), regia di Lee Myung-se (2007)
Dajjimawa ri: aginiyeo jiokhaeng geuphaengyeolchareul tara! (다찌마와 리: 악인이여 지옥행 급행열차를 타라!), regia di Ryoo Seung-wan (2008)
Misseu hongdangmu (미쓰 홍당무), regia di Lee Kyoung-mi (2008)
Jigeum, idaeroga joayo (지금, 이대로가 좋아요), regia di Boo Ji-young (2009)
Sowa hamkke yeohaenghaneun beob (소와 함께 여행하는 법), regia di Im Sun-rye (2010)
577 Project (), regia di Lee Keun-woo (2012)
Love Fiction (러브 픽션), regia di Jeon Kye-soo (2012)
Goryeonghwa gajok (고령화 가족), regia di Song Hae-sung (2013)
Missing: Sarajin yeoja (미씽: 사라진 여자), regia di Lee Eon-hee (2016)
Single Rider (싱글라이더), regia di Lee Joo-young (2017)
Gajang botong-ui yeon-ae (), regia di Kim Han-gyul (2019)
Televisione
Gamun-ui yeong-gwang (가문의 영광) – serial TV (2000)
Hwalyeohan sijeol (화려한 시절) – serial TV (2001)
Ne meottaero haera (네 멋대로 해라) – serial TV (2002)
Nun-sa-ram (눈사람) – serial TV (2003)
Sang-doo-ya, hakgyo gaja! (상두야 학교 가자) – serial TV (2003)
Geonbbang seonsaeng-gwa byeolsatang (건빵선생과 별사탕) – serial TV (2005)
Gomapseumnida (고맙습니다) – serial TV (2007)
Pasta (파스타) – serial TV (2009)
Choego-ui sarang (최고의 사랑) – serial TV (2011)
Kkonminam ramyeongage (꽃미남 라면가게) – serial TV (2011)
Jugun-ui tae-yang (주군의 태양) – serial TV (2013)
Gwaenchanha, sarangiya (괜찮아, 사랑이야) – serial TV (2014)
Producer (프로듀사) – serial TV (2015)
Jiltu-ui hwasin (질투의 화신) – serial TV (2016)
Note
Altri progetti
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BkiUd004c3aisMboHrtu | Provider Magazine / Breaking News / AHCA Highlights Need to Prioritize Long Term Care Residents and Staff
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AHCA Highlights Need to Prioritize Long Term Care Residents and Staff
Joanne Erickson 8/26/2021
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) has released "Why It's Time To Transform Nursing Homes," a short-length documentary about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long term care and the urgent need for reform.
"Nursing homes have been at the epicenter of the global health crisis since the very beginning due to this vicious virus," said AHCA President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Parkinson.
"This documentary illustrates how the pandemic has exacerbated longstanding issues within the industry, including chronic Medicaid underfunding and workforce challenges," he said. "Without strategic, swift action from policymakers, the crises we face will continue and vulnerable seniors will be at risk of losing the care they need."
The documentary features AHCA leaders and long term care providers, including Parkinson, AHCA Chief Medical Officer David Gifford, MD, Health Management CEO Debbie Meade, and Marquis Companies President and CEO Phil Fogg, who discuss how public health officials failed to support nursing homes at the outset of the pandemic, limiting their ability to access critical resources.
The lack of government prioritization, coupled with the unique susceptibility of the residents to the virus and rampant community spread, tragically led to more than 100,000 lives lost in nursing homes, data show.
The rollout of safe and effective vaccines was a turning point for residents and caregivers, but the work continues and persistent challenges still linger, they point out. Looking forward, the documentary gives an overview of AHCA and LeadingAge's Care for Our Seniors Act, a four-pronged reform proposal that will address some of the enduring challenges within long term care and prevent future tragedies from happening.
"We must heed the lessons of this pandemic, and that means we must make our nation's seniors and their caregivers a priority," Parkinson said. "We hope that lawmakers and health care leaders watch this documentary and are compelled to act. This global pandemic is far from over, and the profession is facing a worsening economic and workforce crisis," he said.
"We are eager to work with federal and state policymakers to help providers through the pandemic as well as enact meaningful reforms that will improve the quality of care for our residents today and tomorrow."
To watch "Why It's Time To Transform Nursing Homes," go to www.ahcancal.org/solutions.
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BkiUdwI4uzlh2XfbyUpW | On The Road: Norm Rosema Takes Electricity For A Spin
Norm and Donna Rosema loved taking drives together.
Norm, now 82, lost his beloved wife of 57 years unexpectedly in February, 2018 in an automobile accident. The devastation of such a loss can be insurmountable, but it was perhaps that shared love of taking drives that helped Norm heal.
As in the case of most curative stories, family and friends can be found at the heart of each.
A friend of Norm's, Roger Bradshaw, purchased a Chevy Bolt in 2018, replacing his previous electric car, a Chevy Volt purchased in 2012. Over the years, Roger and Norm frequently talked about electric vehicles, how they were evolving, and why Roger was hooked.
"Eventually, I thought, 'I say I care about the environment and want to reduce my carbon footprint,'" said Norm. "If that's true, I'm either going to quit driving or do something about it."
In August 2018, Norm purchased a Chevy Bolt.
Not long after, a plan started piecing together.
Friends in California had missed Donna's memorial service, and Norm had never felt quite right about that. He began thinking of driving from his home in Fremont, Michigan, to where his friends lived in Southern California, over 2,000 miles away.
Planning cross-country road trips takes a certain amount of organization. Taking cross-country road trips in an electric car takes a tribe.
While dates and routes were being considered, Roger was a huge help, utilizing his experiences over the years with his electric vehicles and identifying useful resources to find charging stations along the way. Roger and Norm also took a small test run to Brighton, Michigan—about two and a half hours away.
"Plug Share was a beneficial resource in finding charging stations along Norm's planned route to California," said Roger. "Norm did a great job of identifying dealerships that also offered charging capabilities."
Norm set out on his trip the day after Easter in 2019, with maps, OnStar, and his friend Roger just a phone call away.
Norm navigated the range anxiety (concern of running out of power without a charging station nearby) and even settled into traveling at a slightly slower speed to conserve energy. Having Roger available for quick online checks was another way that Norm felt he had his buddy in the passenger seat supporting him.
Norm found dealerships very helpful and courteous—offering him their lounges and cups of coffee while his Bolt recharged. It wasn't until a charge at Petrified Forest in the Painted Desert on his way to Flagstaff, Arizona, that Norm ran into his only challenge.
After charging at a Level 2 station, with approximately 50 extra miles available on his charge, Norm experienced the effect of the altitude changes on the way to Flagstaff. Increased incline uses more power, and as Norm pulled into his reserved hotel that evening, he had very little energy left.
The hotel had misinformed Norm about their charging capabilities, sending him elsewhere for a Level 2 station, which ended up being out of service. After a bit of a scavenger hunt, Norm pulled up to a final station and his car ran out of juice. He'd pulled up just far enough to plug in, but the car wouldn't accept the charge.
One tow truck later and Norm and his Bolt were at a local dealership. The serviceman on duty said they didn't have a certified Bolt technician, but they decided to plug it into an older Volt charging station and try their luck. At first—nothing. But finally, a green flashing light indicated the car was receiving a charge.
The serviceman offered to drop Norm at his hotel, as the man was heading out on a date with his wife. He then offered to swing by the dealership on his way home to check on the Bolt and give Norm an update. The following day, that same serviceman came in on his day off to meet Norm and make sure his Bolt was charged enough to make it on his next leg of the trip.
"The people you meet along the way, I tell you…" said Norm. "I'll always remember folks like that guy and Roger who made this trip a success."
Norm made it to his next stop to meet friends in Phoenix and finally to his destination in California.
"There were a lot of emotions as I arrived in California—having that time to remember Donna and do some thinking and grieving," said Norm. "There was also a total feeling of success and being so blessed. Being with friends just accentuated it all."
What Do EV Charging Levels Mean?
Level 1—Home Charging:
Level 1 charging cords are standard equipment on a new EV. Level 1 charging only requires a grounded (three-prong) 120V outlet and can add about 40 miles of range in an eight-hour overnight charge. Overnight Level 1 charging is suitable for low and medium range plug-in hybrids and all-electric battery electric vehicle drivers with low daily driving usage.
Level 2—Home and Public Charging:
Level 2 charging typically requires a charging unit on a 240V circuit, like the circuit used to power a common electric clothes dryer. The charging rate depends on the vehicle's acceptance rate and the maximum current available. With a typical 30 amp circuit, about 180 miles can be added during an eight-hour charge.
Level 2 chargers are the most common public chargers, and you can find them at places like offices, grocery stores, and parking garages. Public Level 2 chargers have a standard EV connection plug that fits all current vehicles, except for Teslas, which require an adapter.
DC Fast Charging—Public Charging:
DC fast charging is the fastest currently available recharging method. It can typically add 50 to 90 miles in 30 minutes, depending on the station's power capacity and the make of EV.
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Emily Haines Lloyd is a freelance writer in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. She has worked in advertising and marketing for nearly twenty years and also contributes as a features writer in publications like – MLive, MicroShiner and MittenBrew. You can see more of her work at emilyhaineslloyd.com | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeRO6NNjgBtyggdmj | From Bend, go east on Hwy 20 a little over 20 miles.
Turn left at the "Shooting Range" sign just past the 24 mile marker.
Turn right over the cattle grate.
NOTE: If attending a COSSA event please use the Event gate code. There is normally a phone number posted at the gate if you don't know the event code.
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BkiUc5k4uBhiyG-89Mle | Abstract: In the late 1870s, the American District Telegraph in San Francisco introduced an intra-urban telegraph network, marketed to businesses and upper-class homes. Subscribers, needing no knowledge of telegraphy, used a dial to order pre-set services, such as messengers, police, and coal delivery. One of the service's most noted innovations was the ability to summon hired carriages through the callbox. To provide hack service through its network, the ADT bought up many of the city's carriages and consolidated them into the United Carriage Company, one of the first dispatch-oriented cab fleets anywhere. By controlling cab dispatch, the UCC also promised to reform the unruly occupation of hackdrivers. Though the telegraph box was soon supplanted by the telephone, it had put in motion a reorganization of the city's cab industry which quickly became intricated with the politics of class and control in public space. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdwA5qsNCPlpOlGZD | You'll Soon Be Able to Pay to Make Google Ads Disappear
Darren Orf
Filed to: Google ContributorFiled to: Google Contributor
Google Contributor
Google just announced a new internet subscription service called Google Contributor, essentially a paywall for web publishers to provide ad-free content for a $1-$3 contribution.
Well, free of Google ads at least. As it true with the company's current publishing revenue model AdSense, part of your contribution will go to the creators of all those lovely words, phrases, and sentences you're reading, and of course, Google will also take its cut. But your typical Google ad is instead replaced by a pixelated box that simply says "thank you for being a Contributor." All payment information is handled through your Google account.
Of course, you can still turn on AdBlock and basically have the same ad-free experience. So why bother? Well, people still buy music when they can also get it for free (I have a premium Spotify account. I will admit it), so it's interesting to see Google experimenting in ways to help readers support the websites they frequent the most, if they're so inclined.
According to Gigaom, the service is launching with ten partners, including Imgur, WikiHow, Science Daily, Urban Dictionary, The Onion, and its biggest partner, Mashable. Google is reportedly starting small to see how the new service takes hold.
This isn't the first instance of companies trying to figure out an alternative way to make money on the currently free content on the web aside from ads. This news is another step in Google's quests to find alternative ways to monetize and deliver certain stories to users, and in turn, becoming a major player in digital content distribution.
So is this the long sought after web model or will we all continue just ignoring ads as usual? [Google via Gigaom]
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BkiUbGzxK5YsWTJsNq8U | First open in 1996, SimplyFixIt, as part of Ideal Computing, has been fixing computers for over 21 years. During this time we have seen a lot of changes to the way people use computers. When we first opened people bought big tower cases, with a screen and a keyboard & mouse. Later, more and more people bought laptops, and now the smart-phone and tablets are increasingly becoming the the way that we use computers. During all these changes, one thing has remained constant; SimplyFixIt are there when things go wrong.
We know that having a device that doesn't work is a frustrating time. So we will do our best to make the repair as simple as possible. SimplyFixIt has 7 repair centres across Edinburgh & Glasgow, so there's probably one close to you. Most are open 7 days a week, and some are open from 8am. There's no need for an appointment either. Just come in with your device and we'll do a quick assessment and let you know what your options are.
We Fix Tens of Thousands of devices each year.
As reported in several national newspapers SimplyFixIt completed over 25,000 repairs in the trading year from 2015 to 2016. Our technicians have been certified by Microsoft and Apple so that they understand how these devices work. And how to make them work again. We are the experts in IT repairs.
On the 15th January 2015, SimplyFixIt was endorsed by Which?, the consumer champions. We were the first computer company in Scotland to be called a "Trusted Trader" by Which, which means that you can be sure of getting the very highest level of service.
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BkiUbMY4eIXgu1jpCmzP | Home UK & Europe LaSalle raises €600 million for new Whole Loan lending platform
LaSalle raises €600 million for new Whole Loan lending platform
LaSalle Investment Management, the global real estate investment manager, has announced the launch of the LaSalle Whole Loan Strategies programme by its Debt & Special Situations team. This is a €600 million programme focused on originating whole loans secured against real estate in Western Europe and the Nordics. The programme's strategy is to originate and hold whole loans with loan-to-values ranging from 70 per cent up to c.80 per cent across various asset types. The strategy targets financings between €25 million and €100 million plus.
This is the latest programme from LaSalle's market-leading Debt Investments & Special Situations platform. The addition of this product further enhances LaSalle's ability to provide financing solutions across the capital stack, including whole loans, mezzanine, development financing, and stretched senior loans.
The strategy's first investment is a €37 million transaction to finance the aggregation of a high-quality portfolio of last mile logistics assets located mostly around Paris, France. The financing provided the sponsor the flexibility to match its business plan to acquire the assets in batches differentiating it from a traditional senior and mezzanine financing solution. Follow-up investments include a €36 million whole loan to finance a fully let distribution centre in Belgium and an office asset in Ireland.
Ali Imraan, Managing Director, Debt & Special Situations, said: "I am delighted to launch the LaSalle Whole Loan Strategies. We have seen an increasing number of borrowers seeking flexible financing solutions for assets by combing senior and mezzanine loans through the efficiency of whole loans. This new programme will allow us to provide borrowers with a truly one-stop financing solution, greatly reducing their execution risk. It is also more efficient compared to a traditional senior and mezzanine solution, particularly for smaller deals.
"While geographically the strategy targets opportunities all across Western Europe, there is an initial focus on France, Benelux, Iberia, and Ireland."
LaSalle's Debt Investments & Special Situations team has a strong track record of developing strategic relationships with best-in-class borrowers, and has significant experience across various sectors, geographies, deal sizes, and capital structures. Since 2010, the team has committed €3.2 billion of investments across 66 individual transactions.
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BkiUdxQ4dbghOwL14NNv | My little sister and I dressed in our neighbors clothes. And then there is me with our neighbor who breeds dogs. I don't know why, but there are a lot of Mennonites and Amish people who breed dogs.
1. Rumspringa is a real thing. It's mostly an Amish thing, but Mennonites loosely practice it. It technically means a "sowing of the wild oats." For example, I got caught for drinking in high school (I only did it once) and sobbed as I told my dad. He giggled and said, "Oh, I thought you were pregnant or something." First, thanks for your confidence in me Dad. Second, I should have tried to get away with a lot more.
2. The Mennonite and Amish religions span a broad spectrum. I use the word "a" because the spectrums intersect and get all entwined. I am constantly asked the difference between Amish and Mennonite. A gross simplification of the answer: There was an Anabaptist movement in the 16th century led by a man named Menno Simons. In the 17th century, a subgroup led by Jakob Ammann was formed which was a bit more conservative in practice. They became the Amish. But now? It's way more confusing. There are car-driving Amish (called "beachy") while some Mennonites still only use a horse and buggy. There are Mennonites who still firmly believe women cannot speak in church or be pastors, and there are others who have woman pastors and allow gay members. (I'm not inserting any opinion here, just laying out the facts.) See? Spectrum I tell you.
3. Mennonites think oregano is spicy. Therefore, all food is just salted and peppered all the way baby. And buttered. And sugared. Whoopie pies, regular pies, fresh baked breads, soft pretzels, doughnuts. Buttered noodles, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes. No one ever accused the Mennonites of being health freaks. I gain a minimum of 4 pounds on every trip I take back to Lancaster. Also, smorgasbords.
4. There is an Amish/Mennonite version of Vegas. It's called Pinecraft and it's tucked into an unassuming corner of Sarasota, Florida. And let me tell you: what happens in Pinecraft stays in Pinecraft. Rollerblades, electricity, bikinis! My family has a house there, because Mennonite, and we've been going for Christmas every year of my entire life. It is by far the weirdest place I've ever been and it's easily my favorite. I want to live there for a least a year at some point in my life.
5. Mennonites love to play tricks. If you're into pranks, I guess you could find it funny. But I don't find pranks funny; I find them annoying. Mennonites love to toilet paper yards, put cattle indoors where they don't belong, steal headlights, and drive alongside you at dangerous speeds on back roads. But all in the name of good fun. I hate pranks and this was my least favorite part about going to high school with Mennonites.
6. They don't believe in birth control or war, technically. See number two, as different churches will believe different things. But my family was one of the smallest at the Mennonite church we attended growing up and I have four siblings. Yep, smallest. Oh, and I have upwards of 30 first cousins. First.
7. Mennonites live simply, they work hard, and they serve humbly. I've never been part of a stronger community and I doubt I ever will. Barn raisings are no joke. If someone's barn burns down, the whole community shows up to rebuild it. You have a baby? You have meals for a month. Hipsters like to talk about villages and tribes and all that and community has become a hip word. But Mennonites are the original tribe; they've been doing this for centuries. They take care of their own with no questions asked. These qualities are woven into their (my) culture and when I find myself getting off track, I strive to be like the people I grew up with.
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BkiUbdQ5i7PA9KsD3vb8 | GI Heroes
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Meet our team dedicated to championing business in Ireland
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Brid O'Connell, MMII, MMPRII, MSc (Hons), was appointed as CEO to Guaranteed Irish in July 2016. Brid has a long career in marketing, branding, communications and PR. She has welcomed the opportunity to add value to Guaranteed Irish members through her revitalising and repositioning of the organisation to reflect modern Ireland in a global economy.
Jean Robins
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Jean joined Guaranteed Irish in early 2009 as Accounts Manager and Credit Controller having gained vast amounts of experience in various companies such as Drought Ltd, Total Haircare Ltd, Pitney Bowes, Lely Ireland, and MSL.
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CRM & Sales Administrator
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Amanda graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor's degree (Hons) in Cultural Studies and moved to Seoul, South Korea, where she worked in education and publishing. In 2016, she moved into a business development role in New Zealand.
Since returning to Ireland, Amanda has joined Guaranteed Irish as CRM and Sales Administrator and begun an MA in Creative Writing.
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Oran joined Guaranteed Irish as Membership Manager in September 2019.
With over 20 years experience in sales and management, having previously managed in retail consumer electronics, Cloud Computing, B2B and Enterprise Sales & has also co hosted RTE's Shopping from Home Channel.
Oran holds a Diplomas in Management, Strategic Thinking, Leadership & Change, Project Management from IMI Sandyford.
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Christina's background is in full service marketing & PR, having previously worked on marketing, PR & sponsorship campaigns for brands such as Insomnia, Bacardi, Swatch, Failte Ireland and PlayStation in agency. She enjoys copywriting & social media.
She holds a MSc in Marketing Practice from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a bachelor's degree in Business Mgmt from NUI Maynooth.
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From a communications, events and marketing background she was co-founder of the Lismore Opera Festival. Jennifer is also a guest lecturer in University Limerick in Festival Management on the MA of Festive Arts.
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BkiUfcQ25V5jgqmmohmr | OK - so we're both 51y now. I get a couple of months each year to be mr ebb's younger piece of fluff before I catch up numerically. Last year was #thisis50 ... this year, well you do the maths!
... and the selfies continue; age is no barrier.
As a semi-avid selfie taker, I have dealt with the usual comments on vanity, narcissism, purpose, constructive use of time, but as a budding portrait painter, older mother, expat and trailing spouse, career-changer, and so on, I usually have a witty rebuffal.
And now there's the age thing apparently. What's the cutoff for selfies as a woman ages? and is there any protocol for choosing what to share? In the many ways that society seems to think it has a right to tell older women what to wear and how to look, is there also a set of rules regarding the sharing of selfies? I've found myself being a little more critical of my sharing - chin up, don't share the suggestion of double chin; bump up the exposure to smooth the complexion; vignette on flattering body parts; emphasise the jewelry; twinkle!
But why? It's only human to want to be acceptable, but is it authentic? What is happening to my body and face is an authentic process--ageing--so why should I hide it? IMO that would be vain.
A recent Facebook share, where I posted a #thisis51 selfie altered using the Prisma app, stimulated some interesting reflection for me on what is and what isn't permissible in being a woman, getting older and gender/society norms.
"I've thought long and hard about this reply, as there seem to be several questions inherent here.
What am I aiming for here?
Most simply - I'm messing about with the Prisma app; it's a Deep Dreaming type of algorithm set up that plays with the digital structure of a photograph. When I first noticed friends using it, I was immediately drawn to the way it presented an image, rendering different painterly effects that I thought inspiring for my own art practice. Since I paint a lot of portraits and use myself as a handy model, I try out Prisma on my selfies to explore some creative inspiration.
The slightly more complicated Qs posed are to do with age, appearance, gender norms and stereotyping, repression and age, with the implication that I am permitted to post only youthful, non-aged images at my stage of life.
First, I'd like to state that I am enjoying my age and stage, and that my appearance has nothing to do with this fact. Whether I am wrinkled as heck or possess the cheeks of a baby does not influence my selfie postings. In this digital space I explore what it means to be a woman at 51y, showing it in all its glory or otherwise, regardless of society's opinion.
I hope that sharing this journey helps other women,in the way that what they have shared has helped me. I also hope that younger friends take notice and see that life does not finish digitally at 35y or whenever.
And lastly, I hope that continuing to explore creatively and personally as I age shows that women do not have to grow invisible as they head into the sixth, seventh, eighth and more decades of life."
another year - older, wiser, ?
Off on vacation? Here's something topical I plucked from my science feeds for you.
Apparently, adding a chicken to the packing list might be a wise idea this summer, especially if you're traveling in malaria-prone areas. Researchers with the University of Addis Ababa and the Swedish University of Agriculture have found that chicken body odours repel malaria-bearing mosquitoes.
Not only did the research team determine that chickens actively discourage Anopheles arabiensis, the dominant malaria vector in the area of Ethiopia where field testing was carried out, but they also identified the "chicken-specific compounds" responsible.
First, the scientists took a look at what the mosquitoes preferred to dine on at indoor and outdoor buffets. Community living in the three Ethiopian villages surveyed includes close proximity between humans and agricultural animals, both outdoors and indoors. Surprisingly, the results showed that for the indoor buffet, mosquitoes show a preference for human blood even when cattle, goats and sheep are available. However, when outdoors, An. arabiensis prefers cow. Chickens feature rarely on either menu even though they are extremely abundant.
So, what is so repulsive about chickens? Mosquitoes use scent to target the next blood meal, so the scientists took a look at species-specific body odours, using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify the volatiles. Although they found a number of active compounds given off by hair, feather and wool clippings in common, the researches also found that chickens emit some unique personal odours. But were these the answer?
Next up was testing the mosquito response to see if the researchers could identify a positive (attractant) response or a negative (neutral or repellent) reaction. They did this by measuring the electrical response in decapitated mosquito heads, teasing the antennae with whiffs of the odour compounds. Compared to compounds common to cows, goats and sheep, the researchers saw a dose-dependent difference in antenna sensitivity to the chicken odours.
Using a real sleeping human as bait, the study then turned to a field test to see whether this lack of attraction translated into real-life events. The researchers caught fewer mosquitoes when they baited the traps with the chicken odours. Hanging a cage with a live chicken in it had the same deterrent effect.
Maybe it's not such a stretch then to imagine adding live poultry to the holiday suitcase, though most likely as body lotion or a spatial repellent rather than fowl. It is also worthwhile noting that as yet there is no proof on whether this might be true in other areas of the world; maybe, since chickens are not the source of a good blood meal, the mosquitoes tested know not to hunt for food in that environment. Further testing to see if chicken odour is a repellent in other geographical locations would be more informative.
Moreover, does chicken odour deter Zika-bearing mosquito species Aedes aegypti ? If it does, Rio might become sporting chicken central for a few weeks this summer.
Jaleta, K.T., S.R. Hill, G. Birgersson, H. Tekie, and R. Ignell. 2016. "Chicken Volatiles Repel Host-Seeking Malaria Mosquitoes." Malaria Journal 15(354). doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1386-3.
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BkiUf8PxK4tBVicoFbJ0 | 'Peter and the Starcatcher' is 'Peter Pan's' prequel
By Annie Alleman
| Naperville Sun |
North Central College students Alex Poe, Jane Hoshell and Elena Mitchell rehearse for the play "Peter and the Starcatcher." The origin story of "Peter Pan" will be presented Nov. 8-11 at North Central College. (Destany Hahn)
Packed with comedy, adventure and just a little poignancy, "Peter and the Starcatcher" is about the boy who eventually became Peter Pan.
It's being staged at North Central College. Show times are at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8-10 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 10-11 in the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall.
"Peter and the Starcatcher" is directed by guest artist Jacob Harvey, who previously directed "Sweet Charity" at North Central College. It's based on the 2004 children's book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and adapted for the stage by Rick Elice.
Harvey was familiar with the play before signing on to direct, having seen the original Broadway production in New York.
"It was a thrilling experience to see," he said. "After I saw it, I thought, 'Someday I need to direct this play.'"
It offers a level of collaboration between designers, cast, costumers and crew that he found exciting, he said.
"You really get to create the piece as a collective group. It really is an ensemble-driven effort to build the play," he said. "Also, the message in the story was really exciting to me — holding on to your inner child and learning how to be a leader. And finding love within yourself and love in your community. I just think that's a really powerful message … and really important for us to hear right now."
"Peter and the Starcatcher" is about three orphans — Prentiss, Ted and a nameless boy — who are sent on a ship called The Neverland. They're being sold into slavery. There's a simultaneous journey going on with Lord Aster and his daughter Molly; he's been trusted with the Queen's sacred treasure chest aboard a ship called The Wasp. Those two stories converge, and along the way we meet a band of pirates, he said.
"Through a series of chaotic events, one of the ships sinks, sending all of the ship's inhabitants to an island," he said. "And the island has magic in it. We meet mermaids and we meet natives on the island. And we find out through the play that we're watching the origin story of Peter Pan. It's about how he became Peter Pan and how he got his powers, how Captain Hook became Captain Hook and how Neverland became Neverland."
There are 15 people in the cast and they're doing fabulously, Harvey said.
"They're all amazing and wonderful and quirky, and just characters unto themselves as individuals, which is what the play needs," he said. "It is over the top and borderline ridiculous and it needs fearless, goofy people who are not afraid to be playful and use the full extent of their imaginations."
If you aren't familiar with the book, or even with Peter Pan, you can still enjoy the play, he said.
"There are very few things in the play that you need to know all the intricate details of 'Peter Pan,'" he said. "If you do know the 'Peter Pan' story, then you enjoy it on a different level and … you can draw connections between these stories and 'Peter Pan,' but you don't need to know all the details. I think it's completely accessible to everyone."
The play is very funny, he said, and he thinks people will enjoy the humor and escapism it provides.
"Everyone can come together and escape for a minute to a magical island of adventure where there's pirate ships and mermaids and flying cats and crocodiles and laugh and have a great time," he said. "I think we could all use a good laugh right now and I think this play will offer that. And it warms your heart at the end. It's really difficult to get through this play and not feel touched."
'Peter and the Starcatcher'
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When: Nov. 8-11
Where: The Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville
Tickets: $8-$10
Information: 630-637-7469; www.northcentralcollege.edu/show | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUag_xK1yAgWay2Yss | Massachusetts Obituaries
Peter K. Houmere, 97 2/6/2019 12:00:00 AM Worcester,MA
Tallahassee FL: Peter K. Houmere, 97, formerly of Worcester MA, passed away on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. He leaves his wife of over 60 years Rose Varter (Berbarian) Houmere; 4 daughters- Pamela Houmere (Bill Armstrong), Donna Gilbane (Bob), Karen Reddish (Michael), and Cynthia Chisolm (Joe); a grandson Kenneth Gilbane; and 3 granddaughters- Jennifer, Elizabeth and Rebecca Reddish.
Peter was born in Garce, Armenia, son of the late James and Diane (Tacvorian) Ishlemedjian, later changed to Houmere. He emigrated to New York at the age of 7 and lived there for a few years before moving to Worcester with his parents. He graduated from Fitchburg State Teacher's College and earned his Master's Degree in Education from Northeastern University. Peter worked on the airplane jet engine development team during his time with General Electric during World War II. He was a teacher, Head of the Industrial Arts Department, and Assistant Principal at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, the Principal at Amesbury High School, taught at Framingham North High School before retiring. He was a member of the Armenian Church of Our Saviour and the Leicester Rod and Gun Club. His hobbies included fishing, building fishing rods, wooden ships and model airplanes, caring for foster animals and fixing any mechanical object that needed repair. He was a problem solver at heart and loved to see the light of understanding go on in his students' eyes.
A graveside funeral service and burial will be held on Thursday, February 21 at 11:00 a.m. in Hope Cemetery in Worcester. A brief visitation will take place at Nordgren Funeral Home 300 Lincoln St. Worcester, MA at 10:00 am, followed by a graveside service and burial. In lieu of flowers, donations in Peter's memory may be made to the Rose & Peter Houmere Scholarship Fund. Checks may be made payable to WRSD and sent to Wachusett Regional High School, 1401 Main St., Holden, MA 01520. To leave an online condolence message, please click link.
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BkiUdkU5qX_Bo8oPOplI | If peace has vanished from the face of the earth, if men are getting more and more terrified by the weapons that they themselves have made, if integrity is disappearing from mankind, the root cause for all this is the selfishness of human beings. Led by the feeling of 'I' and 'mine', which gives rise to selfishness, men have been leading absolutely meaningless lives. When man thinks that he is only the body and doesn't control his mind and senses, and is constantly struggling to enjoy the worldly pleasures, there is no way he can be selfless. You look at any country, and you will see lot of problems, miseries and sorrow. That too specifically in young men and young women. Driven by their craving for sensual pleasures and increasing selfishness, their misery is mounting. If any of their flimsy desires are not fulfilled, they get depressed and finally, many of them end their lives. All this is happening because the right kind of education is not being imparted to children.
Only when you get rid of selfishness and develop selfless love for everyone, an individual can get peace and eventually, the world will too. When you purchase education, you are prone to selling education. But when you get free education, you naturally develop some kind of gratitude towards society. Why have we introduced free education in our institutions? We want to utilise this – hard-earned money, which is given by men and women of sacrifice for educating poor and backward children to help them get a good life. Doing so, these children will develop a sense of gratitude towards the society. And since they know that they have got free education, they will also develop a desire to utilise all their energy and time for serving society. It is an inseparable cycle of relation between society and education: society helps educate you and after having got the education, you serve the society. Thus, when we serve each other, it will become possible to establish peace in society.
Many of our teachers, who are Tyagajeevis – men and women of sacrifice – are ready to go to any nook and corner of Karnataka, especially in the rural areas and grant this kind of education to children. On the other hand, men and women who are ardent devotees of Swami from many countries sacrifice their hard-earned money and hand it over for this kind of educational transformation here in India. When somebody helps us, we should move forward with the motivation that we should also help others. Only when our students offer this kind of selfless service, our educational institutions and this kind of educational system will find fulfilment. Good teachers plus good students is equal to good education. There is nothing higher than becoming teachers and imparting the right kind of education.
On first of June, we are going to start the construction of the girls pre-university college near Hyderabad. On second of June, in our Gulbarga campus, we are going to lay the foundation for starting of a new private university. On third of June, we are going to our Bijapur campus in order to inaugurate the new hostel for students. On fourth of June, we are going to inaugurate a new campus for girls in the district of Gadag. On seventh of June, in the district of Chikkaballapur, we are going to start both pre- university college and first year college for girls. It is My will that we build many such institutions and grant this kind of education to boys and girls without any differentiation to anyone. Without any difference of caste, creed, religion or nationality, we should keep serving everyone. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUcRy6NNjgBpvIAkTB | The Broward Stage Door Theatre company etched a name for itself on stages in Coral Springs and Wilton Manors by tackling some of Broadway's bigger, more lavish productions and winning a 2011 Carbonell for best musical (Mack & Mabel).
Now Stage Door is taking its talents to North Beach with the announcement of a Miami location opening at the Byron Carlyle Theater. And it's kicking off the new Miami Stage Door Theatre with its popular, crowd-pleasing Suds, a rocking '60s musical. Artistic director Dee Bunn thinks Suds is the perfect production to announce Stage Door's presence in Miami. "We decided to open with Suds because it is a fun, light musical perfect for the summer," she says. "It's such an audience pleaser."
Suds is a bubbly comedy about three teenage girls trying to find romance through song and dance, all set in a Wash-O-Rama. Stage Door performed the musical last year at its Coral Springs area stage and quickly found a growing audience for it. "It was supposed to play for six weeks," Bunn says. "And it stayed for almost six months, playing to sold-out houses and standing ovations."
Suds -- an all-around good-time musical -- is drenched in toe-tapping oldies hits, colorful '60s costumes, and hilarious moments. And Stage Door wants to introduce Miami theater audiences not only to an entertaining show with talented actors, but also to their production values, which sometimes get neglected down here.
"The right sets and the right costumes are important to us," Bunn says. "It's how we have pleased audiences for 18 years in Broward and become one of the largest regional theaters in the area. I hope [Miami audiences] see the care with which we put up a production."
Along with a carefully built set and painstakingly made costumes, Stage Door has nixed the idea of prerecorded music blared over loudspeakers and has employed a live band to perform the oldies that make Suds such a campy good time. The musical features erstwhile Top 40 hits such as "Johnny Angel," "Don't Make Me Over," and "Chapel of Love," among others.
Suds is American Bandstand meets Hairspray in a Laundromat. And it's a hell of a way to introduce theater to Miami.
Catch Suds this Friday at the Byron Carlyle Theater (500 71st St., Miami Beach). Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets range from $38 to $42. Call 305-397-8977 or visit stagedoortheatre.com. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUd1U5qYVBbAIhuHzS | Peter, Paul and Mary — американское фолк-трио, образовавшееся в Нью-Йорке в 1961 году в составе: Питер Ярроу, Пол Стуки и Мэри Трэверс, ставшее (согласно Allmusic) самой популярной фолк-группой 1960-х годов и оказавшее значительное влияние на развитие жанра. Впоследствии Peter, Paul and Mary не сдали позиций, оставшись в истории современной музыки одним из самых долговечных и последовательных в своём творчестве коллективов. Характерным фактором, обусловившим отличие трио от основных конкурентов, в частности, The Kingston Trio и The Brothers Four, стала многолетняя связь с одним и тем же крупным лейблом Warner Bros..
Двенадцать альбомов Peter, Paul and Mary входили в Billboard 200, два первых (в 1962 и 1963 годах) поднимались до 1 места в списках. Из 19 попаданий в первую сотню американского хит-парада синглов наивысшим оказалось «Leaving on a Jet Plane» (#1, 1969). В 1962—1969 годах группа получила пять премий Grammy.
После смерти Трэверс в 2009 году Ярроу и Стоуки продолжили выступать в качестве дуэта под своими именами.
Предыстория
Peter, Paul and Mary формально считаются частью фолк-возрождения 1960-х годов, но истоки их творчества уходят вглубь 1940-х годов, когда возникли The Weavers, первая популярная фолк-группа, ставшая не только культурной, но и социальной силой в Америке. The Weavers распались в конце 1952 года, познав наряду с фантастическим коммерческим успехом и полную обструкцию, но оставили глубокий след в популярной американской культуре. С одной стороны, в маленьких клубах и студенческих городках возникло массовое движение folk revival, служившее своего рода досуговой формой популярной культуры. С другой — стала формироваться качественно иная, политически ориентированная фолк-сцена. Последняя существовала как андеграундное явление, пробиваясь наружу лишь в отдельных островках, таких, как Гринвич-виллидж в Нью-Йорке.
Лидерами «развлекательного» крыла фолк-сцены стали сначала Easy Riders, затем их последователи: The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters, The Brothers Four и The Highwaymen, мужские трио и квартеты, создававшие гладкий, почти глянцевый фолк. Но вернулись и ветераны: Пит Сигер и воссоединившиеся Weavers, Эд Маккёрди, Оскар Бранд. Появился феномен фолк-биг-бэнда: лидеры жанра, New Christy Minstrels и Serendipity Singers исполняли фолк в усложнённых аранжировках и оркестровом формате. На этом фоне и возникли в 1961 году собранные менеджером Албертом Гроссманом Peter, Paul and Mary. О влиянии The Weavers, с одной стороны, говорила сама Мэри Трэверс. С другой — в документальном фильме Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On — A Musical Legacy участники The Weavers отмечали, что именно Peter, Paul and Mary «подхватили факел» протестного фолка в 1960-х годах.
История группы
Менеджер Альберт Гроссман создал коллектив Peter, Paul and Mary в 1961 году после того, как провёл прослушивание большого числа фолк-исполнителей нью-йоркской фолк-сцены. В состав трио вошли Мэри Трэверс (Mary Travers, 1936—2009), Питер Ярроу и Пол Стуки, музыканты, уже имевшие солидный исполнительский опыт. Трэверс, дочь политически активных журналистов, интересовавшихся музыкой, записывалась с 1954 года, будучи ещё школьницей, в студиях Folkways Records, где подпевала Питу Сигеру, в качестве основных влияний позже называя Ронни Гилберт из The Weavers и фолк-блюзовую исполнительницу Джо Мейпс.
Ноэл Пол Стуки (Noel Paul Stookey), джаз-фэн, увлекавшийся также музыкой, которая впоследствии стала называться ритм-энд-блюзом, свой первый ансамбль The Birds of Paradise, собрал также будучи школьником, в начале 1950-х годов. Помимо прочего он открыл в себе комедийный талант, а также способность создавать оригинальные вокальные звуковые эффекты. Стуки и Трэверс были дружны, хоть и работали в разных кругах: он — в клубах, она — в бутике Элен Старкман (впоследствии известного в Нью-Йорке дизайнера) на Бликер-стрит. Третьим участником коллектива стал выпускник Корнеллского университета Питер Ярроу (Peter Yarrow), который в конце 1950-х годов, работая над телевизионными программами о народной музыкальной культуре, и познакомился с Гроссманом. Последний предложил тому создать трио, которое, исполняя серьёзный фолк, соединило бы в себе основные принципы The Weavers с юмором The Limeliters и общей жизнерадостностью The Kingston Trio. Сначала к проекту присоединилась Трэверс, а затем и Стуки, от первого имени отказавшийся в пользу более ёмкого среднего: Пол. К сотрудничеству был призван аранжировщик Милт Окунь (Milt Okun), известный по работам с Гарри Белафонте и The Chad Mitchell Trio, и уже спустя семь месяцев после образования коллектив приобрёл большую популярностьв клубах Гринвич Виллидж.
Первый успех
Трио подписало контракт с Warner Bros., и в марте 1962 года выпустило именной дебютный альбом, сингл из которого, «Lemon Tree», поднялся той же весной до #35 в чартах. Но настоящий успех принёс группе второй сингл «If I Had a Hammer»; песня, написанная Сигером и Хейсом во времена The Weavers, оказалась созвучной духу времени: в 1962 году движение за гражданские права набирало силу и оказалось в центре внимания широкой публики. Сингл, поднявшийся до #10, заработал для группы первые две премии «Грэмми» («Best Performance by a Vocal Group» и «Best Folk Recording»), а альбом вышел на вершину хит-парада. Так в течение первых шести месяцев своей карьеры Peter, Paul and Mary (согласно Allmusic), благодаря во многом уже изменившемся в более благоприятную сторону политическом климате, сумели сделать то, чего не удалось The Weavers: вывести протестный фолк в фокус общественного внимания. При этом группа (в основном — усилиями юмориста-Стуки) создала себе не слишком серьёзный, шутливый имидж, нередко на сцене пародируя себя же, слегка в духе Вуди Аллена (в те годы — также сценического юмориста). Серьёзным их преимуществом перед конкурентами было и присутствие в составе Мэри Трэверс: не только прекрасной вокалистки, но и весьма привлекательной исполнительницы.
Второй альбом группы Moving вышел в январе 1963 года и продавалася поначалу не слишком активно. B конечном итоге он добрался до второй позиции и провёл в списках 99 недель, во многом благодаря успеху сингла «Puff (The Magic Dragon)», заглавную песню которого Питер Ярроу написал ещё в бытность студентом. Сингл поднялся в США до #2 и стал одной из любимейших детских песен всех времён. Непосредственным следствием успеха явилось появление рядом с группой Боба Дилана, который сольного успеха со своими первыми релизами на Columbia Records не имел: слишком острыми (согласно Allmusic) были его тексты и слишком блюзовой, по фолк-стандартам того времени — манера исполнения. Трио, которое публикой принималось в любом случае хорошо, включило в свой репертуар «Blowin' in the Wind» и — принесли песне такой успех, какого её молодой автор никогда не смог бы добиться самостоятельно.
Дискография
Альбомы
1962: Peter, Paul and Mary
1963: Moving
1963: In the Wind
1965: A Song Will Rise
1965: See What Tomorrow Brings
1966: The Peter, Paul and Mary Album
1967: Album 1700
1968: Late Again
1969: Peter, Paul and Mommy
1978: Reunion
1986: No Easy Walk To Freedom
1990: Flowers & Stones
1995: Once Upon The Time
1995: LifeLines
1996: LifeLines Live
2000: Don't Laugh at Me
2004: In These Times
2008: The Solo Recordings (1971—1972)
2010: The Prague Sessions
Сборники
1970: The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together
1998: Around the Campfire
1998: The Collection
1999: Songs of Conscience and Concern
2004: Carry It On [4-CD, 1-DVD boxed set]
2005: The Very Best of Peter, Paul & Mary
2005: Platinum Collection
2006: Weave Me the Sunshine
Концертные альбомы
1964: In Concert
1983: Such Is Love
1988: A Holiday Celebration
1993: Peter, Paul and Mommy, Too
Синглы
Примечания
Ссылки
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 1961 году
Музыкальные коллективы из Нью-Йорка
Фолк-группы США
Фолк-рок-группы США
Музыкальные коллективы, распавшиеся в 2009 году
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BkiUbN05qg5A5-klCPQ7 | Q: how to convert lower case character to upper case? unichar c;
c = [myString characterAtIndex:0];
unichar catchcar = [c lowercaseString];
error : invalid reciever type unicar.
I know lowercaseString is used to covert String not character. Is there any solution?
A: you could do the following:
unichar catchcar = [[myString lowercaseString] characterAtIndex: 0];
If you have a a character only, do the following:
// given unichar c
unichar catchcar = [[[NSString stringWithCharacters:&c length:1] lowercaseString] characterAtIndex: 0];
A: The simplest solution for converting case on a single character is to just use the C functions tolower and toupper. Using the code example from the question and rewriting that would give this for conversion to lowercase:
#import <ctype.h>
unichar catchcar = tolower([myString characterAtIndex:0]);
No need to do anything complicated with the NSString API. And no need to make the whole string lowercase first either.
Hope this helps,
Erik
A: unichar c = [[myString lowercaseString] characterAtIndex:0];
Try this.
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BkiUdtU5qdmB642cv52I | Cuomo heading to Washington to push Gateway project to Trump
By Kenneth Lovett
Albany Bureau Chief |
Nov 27, 2018 | 1:50 PM
| ALBANY
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to supporters during an election night watch party hosted by the New York State Democratic Committee, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in New York. (Mary Altaffer / AP)
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is set to head to Washington on Wednesday to meet with President Trump to again push for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
The Gov. said Tuesday he is tentatively scheduled to meet with Trump and U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to discuss the Gateway program that would double the number of passenger trains running under the Hudson River.
Cuomo and a contingent of New York and New Jersey officials previously met face-to-face with Trump at the White House in October, 2017 to discuss the project.
Cuomo administration aides didn't immediately say whether the governor will be traveling alone Wednesday or whether a similar delegation will be part of the discussion.
The governor several weeks ago sent Trump a video of the current two aging and crumbling tunnels used by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit that he says threatens commerce in the northeast corridor should it collapse.
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"I think the videos actually had a simple, but impactful effect with the President," the governor said during a Tuesday morning radio appearance on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show."
Since sending the video, Cuomo said he and Trump have again spoken about the issue and tentatively scheduled Wednesday's meeting.
"These tunnels are federally-owned by the Amtrak Corporation and must be replaced," Cuomo said in a statement later Thursday. "If only one of the two 100-year-old tunnels becomes unusable, it would pose a serious economic hardship for New York City and the entire Northeast corridor."
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Cuomo, then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the Barack Obama White House had reached a deal in which the federal government would pay for half the $11.1 billion Gateway project to build a new tunnel, with the New York and New Jersey-controlled Port Authority splitting the rest of the costs. Another $1.6 billion would be spent to rehab the two deteriorating tunnels that were damaged during Hurricane Sandy in four years.
But the Trump administration scrapped the agreement, saying there should be more local costs and less reliance on federal loans.
Cuomo urged the President to reverse course, saying that even if a decision was made immediately, it would likely take seven years get the project done.
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After regularly trashing Trump during the recent gubernatorial campaign, Cuomo struck a less partisan tone Tuesday.
"This is not a partisan issue, but a practical government necessity,' he said in his Thursday afternoon statement.
In hopes of winning over Washington, Cuomo told Lehrer he is also focusing on the impact the tunnels failing would have on the entire northeast, which he said generates 20% of the nation's gross domestic product.
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"You know, for the federal politics, when you say, New York, New Jersey, these are not states that voted for Republicans and I think everything is political down there," he said.
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The governor on Monday had sent a letter to the state's congressional delegation urging they prioritize in the federal budget talks funding the Gateway project and ending the new federal tax law's elimination of most of the deductions of state and local taxes that he says will disproportionately harm New York and Democratic states.
Elaine Chao
Senate set to approve Trump impeachment trial plan without evidence assurances after unexpected McConnell... | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdj85qsBDH82z6rm9 | class TagsController < ApplicationController
def new
@tag = Tag.new
end
def create
@tag = Tag.new(tag_params)
respond_to do |format|
if @tag.save
format.html { redirect_to resources_path, notice: 'Tag was successfully created.' }
format.json { render :'/resources/index', status: :created, location: @tag }
else
format.html { render :new }
format.json { render json: @tag.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
private
def tag_params
params.require(:tag).permit(:name)
end
end
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BkiUcAjxK6EuNA_gMn7s | package com.google.pubsublite.kafka.sink;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.CloudZone;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.ProjectPath;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.PublishMetadata;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.TopicName;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.TopicPath;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.internal.Publisher;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.internal.wire.PubsubContext;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.internal.wire.PubsubContext.Framework;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.internal.wire.RoutingPublisherBuilder;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.internal.wire.SinglePartitionPublisherBuilder;
import java.util.Map;
import org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigValue;
class PublisherFactoryImpl implements PublisherFactory {
private static final Framework FRAMEWORK = Framework.of("KAFKA_CONNECT");
@Override
public Publisher<PublishMetadata> newPublisher(Map<String, String> params) {
Map<String, ConfigValue> config = ConfigDefs.config().validateAll(params);
RoutingPublisherBuilder.Builder builder = RoutingPublisherBuilder.newBuilder();
TopicPath topic = TopicPath.newBuilder()
.setProject(ProjectPath.parse("projects/" + config.get(ConfigDefs.PROJECT_FLAG).value()).project())
.setLocation(CloudZone.parse(config.get(ConfigDefs.LOCATION_FLAG).value().toString()))
.setName(TopicName.of(config.get(ConfigDefs.TOPIC_NAME_FLAG).value().toString())).build();
builder.setTopic(topic);
builder.setPublisherFactory(
partition -> SinglePartitionPublisherBuilder.newBuilder().setTopic(topic)
.setPartition(partition).setContext(
PubsubContext.of(FRAMEWORK)).build());
return builder.build();
}
}
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BkiUdkM4eIXh0sNxw8ff | Defense civilian policy moves closer to law
By Frank Tiboni
Officials from the House of Representatives announced today that House-Senate conferees concluded work on the framework for a new Defense Department civilian personnel system.
The National Security Personnel System would give Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld more leeway in hiring, classifying, paying, promoting and firing employees, said a House statement issued this week.
"The new system will bring the department into the 21st century and allow [it] to recruit the best and brightest civilian employees. The fact is that we need a civilian workforce that is more agile and effective than it was during the Cold War or has been in past decades," said Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), House Armed Services Committee chairman, and Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va,), House Government Reform Committee chairman.
The National Security Personnel System addresses appeals, alignment, collaboration, early retirement, expert hiring, increasing pay caps for Senior Executive Service employees, performance management, staffing flexibility and rehiring annuitants, the House statement said.
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/**
* @file
* @brief Board configuration macros for the MXRT595 platform
*
* This header file is used to specify and describe board-level aspects for the
* 'MXRT595' platform.
*/
#ifndef _SOC__H_
#define _SOC__H_
#ifndef _ASMLANGUAGE
#include <zephyr/sys/util.h>
#include <fsl_common.h>
#endif /* !_ASMLANGUAGE */
/*!<@brief Analog mux is disabled */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_ANAMUX_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Analog mux is enabled */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_ANAMUX_EN 0x0200u
/*!<@brief Normal drive */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FULLDRIVE_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Full drive */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FULLDRIVE_EN 0x0100u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 0 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC0 0x00u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 1 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC1 0x01u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 2 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC2 0x02u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 3 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC3 0x03u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 4 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC4 0x04u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 5 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC5 0x05u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 6 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC6 0x06u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 7 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC7 0x07u
/*!<@brief Selects pin function 8 */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_FUNC8 0x08u
/*!<@brief Disable input buffer function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_INBUF_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Enables input buffer function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_INBUF_EN 0x40u
/*!<@brief Input function is not inverted */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_INV_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Input function is inverted */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_INV_EN 0x0800u
/*!<@brief Pseudo Output Drain is disabled */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PSEDRAIN_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Pseudo Output Drain is enabled */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PSEDRAIN_EN 0x0400u
/*!<@brief Enable pull-down function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PULLDOWN_EN 0x00u
/*!<@brief Enable pull-up function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PULLUP_EN 0x20u
/*!<@brief Disable pull-up / pull-down function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PUPD_DI 0x00u
/*!<@brief Enable pull-up / pull-down function */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_PUPD_EN 0x10u
/*!<@brief Normal mode */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_SLEW_RATE_NORMAL 0x00u
/*!<@brief Slow mode */
#define IOPCTL_PIO_SLEW_RATE_SLOW 0x80u
/* Workaround to handle macro variation in the SDK */
#ifndef INPUTMUX_PINTSEL_COUNT
#define INPUTMUX_PINTSEL_COUNT INPUTMUX_PINT_SEL_COUNT
#endif
#endif /* _SOC__H_ */
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BkiUdOM5qhDBZQieouAH | « Alessandro Del Piero, Juventus & Azzurri Legend, Turns 34
Serie A Matchday 11 – Week-End Review + GOALS of the Week (2008-09) »
Lecce 1-1 Milan: Ronaldinho Gives Hope, Set Pieces Shatter It (Serie A Matchday 11)
AC Milan's stay on top of Serie A standings lasted merely a week, as the Rossoneri drew 1-1 away to Lecce, the home side making use of the one thing that still continues to be the bane of Carlo Ancelotti's team: defending set pieces.
The 93rd minute goal scored by the Giallorossi, after Milan had dominated proceedings in their best away display so far this season, looks like a slap in the face for Ronaldinho & friends, especially since Borriello and Kaká had contrived to miss a flurry of chances for the visitors. The positive news for Galliani & Berlusconi, while they still wait for Shevchenko, is that their bet on Ronaldinho seems to be really paying off, the ex-Barcelona forward scoring the Rossoneri's only goal from an assist by Pato (just on in place of Mathieu Flamini).
(From Gazzetta): Lecce manager Mario Beretta chose to field his side in a very orthodox 4-4-2 formation with the aim of countering Milan's attacking verve. Beretta also replaced Andrea Esposito with Antunes in defence, while upfront the Lecce tactician put his faith in Daniele Cacia as partner to Simone Tiribocchi. On the other end, Carlo Ancelotti's reply was to field his usual 4-3-2-1 Xmas tree formation, preferring Favalli to Kaladze in defence and Flamini to Ambrosini in midfield. Upfront, Borriello was chosen as the lone striker in front of Kaká and Ronaldinho.
And Borriello, in spite of an overall good performance, will have to take a large share of the blame for Milan's goalless first half (and by extension, for the final scoreline) as the forward was twice guilty of failing to score from just a few yards out. After the first miss in the 13th minute, even more incredible was the second one in the 34th: the ex-Genoa striker somehow managed to fail to hit the target from just a few yards out, after receiving a great set-up by Ronaldinho.
On top of creating their scoring chances, Milan dominated the first half of the game and especially the first 20 minutes, when Lecce players hardly had a touch of the ball. This was also perhaps due to Lecce's fearful start to the game as Milan made very few errors and forced the Giallorossi to defend deep in their own half. Kaká was also in fine form, generating his team's best play and allowing his clever movements to give Milan a numerical advantage in more than one occasion.
The game eventually did up in tempo, when the Lecce players finally began to play further up the field (heeding their manager's orders) later in the half . This did not bring any change to the flow of the game but Lecce's greater pressing of the ball made life more difficult for Milan, who in spite of their totalitarian grip of the game (61% ball possession in the first 45 minutes) could not inspire any more real scoring chances on Benussi's goal.
Milan's domination essentially continued in the second half, even though Lecce's counterattacks did cause the Rossoneri backline some trouble, especially in the 51st minute when Giacomazzi should have scored with his head, in what was a similar miss to Borriello's earlier in the match. Kaká, in spite of his good performance, was also guilty of missing a gilt-edged chance when the playmaker shot over the bar whilst one-on-one with Benussi.
At this point, Beretta substituted Munari with Ardito in order to give new impetus to his midfield, but the Rossoneri's grip of the game was not to be relinquished; the only difficulty for Milan was in the final third of the pitch where they repeatedly came up against a cluster of Lecce players, the majority of whom were now permanently stationed deep in their own half. There was another substitution for Lecce with Caserta coming on for Giacomazzi, but once again the change did not have any sort of impact on Milan's dominance.
The Giallorossi were nonetheless resisting Milan's siege of their goal, also due in no small part to the Rossoneri's inability to put away their chances and who once again had Borriello to blame for missing a sitter with 15 minutes to go. Andrea Esposito then came on for the injured Polenghi, later proving to be a very wise substitution, just like Ancelotti's, who replaced Flamini and Borriello with Pato and Inzaghi.
The deadlock was finally broken with less than 10 minutes of the game to go, Pato collecting the ball on the right and crossing in the centre, where Ronaldinho was at hand to put an unstoppable shot past Benussi. 1-0 Milan. Pato could have himself doubled his side's lead minutes later, just before Ronaldinho was replaced with Emerson in order to give added steal to Milan's midfield, as Lecce failed to muster any sort of response to the Rossoneri taking the lead.
As the saying goes however, never say never, especially against a defence renown for periodically losing their concentration on set pieces. And so it was to be 3 minutes into stoppage time, when Zanchetta's hopeful ball in the box met with Andrea Esposito's noggin and flew past a helpless Abbiati for a share of the spoils. 1-1 the final score.
LECCE-MILAN
[Match Highlights]
GOALSCORERS: 79' Ronaldinho (M), 93' A.Esposito (L).
LECCE (4-4-2): Benussi – Polenghi (78' A.Esposito), Stendardo, Diamoutene, Antunes – Munari (58' Ardito), Giacomazzi (66' Caserta), Zanchetta, Ariatti – Cacia, Tiribocchi. (bench: Rosati, Konan, Fabiano, Castillo). All: Beretta
MILAN (4-3-2-1): Abbiati – Zambrotta, Bonera, Favalli, Jankulovski – Flamini (79' Pato), Gattuso, Seedorf – Kaká, Ronaldinho (84' Emerson) – Borriello (79' Inzaghi) (bench: Dida, Kaladze, Antonini, Shevchenko). Coach: Ancelotti.
Tags: AC Milan, Andrea Esposito, Carlo Ancelotti, Lecce, Mario Beretta, Ronaldinho, Serie A
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BkiUdL04ubnjow-6Mos0 | Curiosity Mars Rover: New Research Bolsters Habitable Conditions
View from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp. Using the robot's Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument, scientists have discovered unusual material in these veins that has the highest germanium concentrations found in Gale Crater.
Credit: AGU/NASA
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 1798 science duties.
In newly released data from Curiosity, scientists report a potential history of hydrothermal activity at Gale Crater on the Red Planet, a finding that broadens the variety of habitable conditions once present there.
The new study has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The new measurements come from the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) on Curiosity.
Zinc and germanium
According to an AGU statement on the group's "Blogosphere," researchers found concentrations of the elements zinc and germanium to be 10 to 100 times greater in sedimentary rocks in Gale Crater compared to the typical Martian crust.
Curiosity Front Hazcam Right B image taken on Sol 1797, August 26, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Zinc and germanium tend to be enriched together in high temperature fluids and often occur together on Earth in hydrothermal deposits containing sulfur. The elevated concentrations of zinc and germanium in Gale Crater can potentially be explained by hydrothermal activity that occurred in the region, the new research suggests.
Evidence preserved?
"Extreme thermal environments on Earth are home to a diverse array of microbial life adapted to these conditions, and these organisms may have been some of the first to evolve on Earth," notes the AGU.
Curiosity Mastcam Left image taken on Sol 1796, August 25, 2017.
Now with potential evidence for hydrothermal conditions once present inside or near Gale Crater, Curiosity's mission takes another step toward determining if there were favorable environmental conditions for microbial life on Mars, explains Jeff Berger, a geologist at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada and lead author of the new study.
Curiosity Navcam Left B image taken on Sol 1796, August 25, 2017.
Hydrothermal deposits are more likely to preserve evidence of microbial life or its precursors, according to Berger. "You have heat and chemical gradients…conditions favorable for the genesis and persistence life," he said.
Curiosity ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager photo acquired on Sol 1797, August 26 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
New road map
A new Curiosity traverse map has been released, indicating the route driven by the robot through Sol 1796 (August 25, 2017).
Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up.
The scale bar is 1 kilometer (~0.62 mile).
Self-inspection for wheel wear. Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) photo taken on Sol 1798, August 27, 2017.
Total odometry
From Sol 1795 to Sol 1796, Curiosity had driven a straight line distance of about 56.12 feet (17.11 meters), bringing the rover's total odometry for the mission that began in August 2012 to 10.72 miles (17.26 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
The base image from the map is from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment Camera (HiRISE) in NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The new AGU-published research "Zinc and germanium in the sedimentary rocks of Gale Crater on Mars indicate hydrothermal enrichment followed by diagenetic fractionation" is available at:
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BkiUduo5qdmDNlI6-r-f | in 7 to the other side, Author Interviews, Book, Roma Dutia
Interview with Author Roma Dutia
Recently, I interacted with Roma Dutia, a debut author who wrote the book 7 To The Other Side. The book is about the life an individual who departs from the world, one fine day without knowing that his moment of departure was approaching him. It's a story of goodness!. To read the complete review of the book, visit Book Review : 7 To The Other Side - Roma Dutia.
-- Interview with author Roma Dutia --
Q: How does it feel to be a published author?
A: It feels amazing; there are honestly no words to describe what it feels like to see your name printed on the cover and every other second page. Until last year, if someone told me that I would write my own book, I would tell them to check themselves. I started writing between my Masters program and the plan was to graduate and be a PR professional but I'm so happy that it wasn't the case. To call myself an author is the greatest privilege I have. And it would be so wrong to not mention a few people that have made this happen; my parents, in a world where everyone is fighting for a place in the corporate world, they just let me be and told me to follow my dreams. My friend, Aditi, who was the first person to tell me that this distant dream I've had all my life would be reality if I worked hard enough and finally my literary agent, Suhail Mathur, for giving me this honour to call myself an author and making sure my manuscript got a deal to be published. So yeah, in short, it's the best and I couldn't have asked for a better 'job' so to speak.
Q: What was your first reaction, holding a copy of your book "7 To The Other Side" ?
A: This is embarrassing, my first reaction to holding a copy of my book was honestly just pride, I flipped every single page and I couldn't believe all those words now printed were the ones I had scribbled in my notebook when I thought 7 To The Other Side could possibly be something. But I did cry, when I got the deal, I got an email from Locksley Hall Publishing telling me that my manuscript was going to be a book along with the contract for it and all I managed was going to my room and I sobbed like a child. It was finally going to happen.
Q: When did you decide that you wanted to be a writer? Or you think that you were destined to write a book?
A: I wouldn't say I was destined to write a book, but I would say that I think I was always destined to be a story teller. Even in school, I was always someone who just loved going on and on about my own take on everything. Creating stories and writing them based on just anything, though very few people have actually read what I wrote back then, the only time I actually wrote for people to read was in the exam papers and it would be safe to say my teachers loved it. That was honestly the first validation I got, my teachers all throughout every school I had studied in always told me I had a way with my words. I never took them seriously, I just thought it was because I read a lot that it was just somehow a little easier for me to write. But now I know what they mean, the feedback I have gotten from everyone who's read 7 To The Other Side has been phenomenal, everyone has loved it. Even though a lot of them are my friends and they are probably being too kind, but still its amazing. Deciding to be a writer was not a decision I made honestly, it was the story itself, because while I was writing I was still in the middle of my Masters and would go on to getting a job, but then 7 To The Other Side happened and now to think of it maybe I always did want to be a story teller.
Q: How was your experience of getting "7 To The Other Side" published?
A: My experience of getting published initially was a little nerve wracking, like everybody else I did a couple of google searches and read so many blogs about how people got published and how long it took and so many times people did not get published at all. I was honestly a little scared, would my story make it, was it good enough, because for me a book is something magical. Unless it's not amazing, it wouldn't be a book in the first place. Luckily, I had the privilege to talk to Mr. Ashwin Sanghi about my aspiration, and he told me to start approaching literary agents rather than publishing houses which I had been so confidently doing. I went on all the publishing websites and submitted my manuscript but I got no response. Almost all of them had a 2-6 months response time, and so I stopped emailing them and started sending out my proposal to literary agents. I'm not embarrassed to say I got rejected a few times as well, but then luckily almost in no time after I sent out my proposal to Mr. Suhail Mathur at the Book Bakers, he replied telling me he was interested. And then it just snowballed from there, the complete manuscript, the editing process and finally the publishing deal. It was amazing, the only thing I remember from this whole ordeal is whatever you do, do not look online for these answers. Just keep trying, it could happen anytime.
Q: Tell us about, how writing is a part of your daily life?
A: Writing to me yet is not something that I have introduced into my life as a schedule, I never want it to be that way. I have completely dedicated my time to what I want to do, essentially to be a story teller. And I write when I'm inspired, while writing 7 To The Other Side, I've had the best of both, being inspired for a long period of time and days on end where I didn't get a single word on paper. And I always want it to be like that, I do not want to conform to making writing my job. Because that is something that I don't think I would be happy in doing in the first place, to make a schedule to write. You will find me scribbling into my notebook for days and nights and there will be times where you will think I don't do anything at all and I am completely content with that.
Q: How did you finalize the cover of the book? Did you have more options?
A: The cover of the book was a little difficult for me, I knew what I wanted it to be like, though it turned out so much better than I had initially planned it to be. I am completely challenged where it comes to putting my idea on paper as a design, I could write it down if the need be but not draw to save my life. My friend, Dhanraj, he's an excellent artist and he just understood everything that I tried and failed miserably to tell him. All I gave him was notes on a tissue paper about what I initially wanted the cover to be and he drew the cover for me. It looked amazing even as a sketch and then I went on to discussing this with my agent, Suhail and the team at Book Bakers and they did such a wonderful job on the final product. The cover is perfect, exactly what I wanted it to be.
Q: Other than writing, what else do you do professional?
A: I always want to be a writer. I have my Masters degree in Public Relations and I could pursue that if I wanted to, but I don't think I would, at least for now. I know everyone thinks that writers don't make enough money, and for a debut novel it is true as well. But it's not about the money right now, writing gives me complete happiness and I wouldn't want it any other way. If I want, I could always put my degree to use and get a job but for now this is it, being a writer is what I want to do professionally as well. Maybe eventually move on to screen writing, but basically stick to writing.
Interview with Author Roma Dutia author of the book 7 to the other side
Q: Apart from "7 To The Other Side", have you written anything else? What can we expect from you in the near future?
A: 7 To The Other Side is my debut, I haven't written anything else, at least nothing that I want to publish but I am working on my second. I have a 2 stories that I am torn between at the moment, so I'm just going ahead and conceptualizing both at the same time. But I know which one I'm more inclined towards, and it's probably going to be the one I end up writing first. Right now, it's too soon to tell everybody what it is about, but I can say this, it's going to be a real eye opener. It will bust a myth that we hold on to in our society and consider it taboo even, and no, it's not a concept on gay marriage or the gay sphere in general though yeah, that taboo should be busted too. But it's a phenomenon that so many people deal with on a daily basis and there are more and more people adding to the statistics almost everyday and yet our society chooses to believe that it's not a problem.
Q: How did you develop the characters of the story?
A: I have no background knowledge or theoretical knowledge to write, as in I haven't learnt the art of creative writing. It's something that has always come naturally to me even as a child when I wrote stories or anything for that matter. The characters in my story developed as I wrote them, though I had their basics and main characteristics down even before I started writing but details started forming as I continued to write. But now, for the second one I'm definitely looking into this further and developing my main characters more deeply than I did with 7 To The Other Side. But in hind sight, that's what made Joshua, George and Laurel so real, because they are a mixture of so many people I know that everyone that's read the book has told me that they know each of these characters in their own lives in the form of their own friends.
Q: Is the story of "7 To The Other Side" inspired from real life events or is it completely fictional?
A: Apart from one chapter, the story is completely fictional. The chapter where he takes up a sport and the choice he makes between his sport and his education is inspired from my own experience of playing Table Tennis. I have played Table Tennis professionally for almost 9 years and achieved a lot while playing but eventually I too made a choice and continued to study leaving my career as a sportsperson aside. It was important for me to add that for Joshua as well, because I believe sports adds such a dimension to your life like nothing else can but even then to make a decision like Josh does tells one a little more about his personality. The whole journey of making it in your respective sport is amazing and cannot be replicated by any other feeling and I think that chapter was my way of doing it all over again. It was honestly one of the hardest chapter endings I wrote, I felt really bad for a couple of days and did not write for a while.
Q: Was there a specific reason that the story was not set in India except for the small tour in Mumbai by Joshua?
A: Honestly, No. There was no specific reason, like I said this story developed as I wrote it. I had no chapter outlines or no guidelines I followed for there to be a reason behind the events. The only thing I was absolutely sure about was that the book would be written only in 7 chapters, one for each minute that he would relive his life and no more. I started writing and it just so happened that the story was not set in India and I think that is why I got him to Mumbai, the city is beautiful. I would hate for it not to be in the book.
Q: How much time did you take to complete the book, did you ever face a writer's block? How did you come out of it?
A: I was with the story almost for a year but at the time I was doing it between my course and finally I stopped for a couple of months because of my final thesis but if I actually take into account the actual time I took to write and finalize the entire manuscript, it would about 3-4 months. But then again, it wasn't everyday that I would be equally productive as the last. I have no idea what writer's block is, for me I think it's a few days where you don't feel like your story is working out the way you want it to. There was a chapter I started, I did write it but then I deleted the whole thing because it wasn't fitting well. Is that writers block too? If you don't like what you've written? I did use the term writer's block but only to tell my friends because it sounded cool, yeah, I didn't write today you know… writer's block. But honestly I have no idea what that is.
Q: If "7 To The Other Side" is made into a short film, which actors/actresses would you want to be a part of it?
A: First of all, that would be totally awesome and let's hope someone reading this decides to make a short film out of 7 To The Other Side. Keeping that in mind, I'm totally flexible, anyone you might think will suit the role well, I'm game!
Q: Do you read as much as you write? Which are your favorite books and authors?
A: I read more than I write. Writing has come to me very recently, in the professional sense. Before that it's been for me and stuff no one has read apart from a few friends. My all time favourite books have to be without a doubt, the Harry Potter series. I live by the Harry Potter series, so much as so that I have a tattoo about the series as well. Considering that I need not mention my favorite author, but I love reading immensely and I don't restrict myself to a particular genre. I love reading the works of Sidney Sheldon, Agatha Christie, James Ludlum, I love the sappy ones as well Cecelia Ahern, Danielle Steele, Nicolas Sparks, Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, they are the reason I started reading at such a young age and I have completed literally all of their books.
Q: You prefer reading e-books or the traditional paper/hard back book?
A: Tradition paper or hard back book without a doubt, like any other reader, I love the smell of the paper and the way a book feels. I know it doesn't make much sense to a lot of people, but to the ones that love it, they know exactly what I am talking about. E-books are cool as well, I know they're so much easier to access and all of that specially for people who travel all the time. But I think I'm always going to be loyal to my paperbacks and hardbacks.
Q: Two things that you like and dislike about "Life"?
A: This might sound a little pretentious and Oh My God, she's a writer she's going to come with something that sounds like a tumblr quote but there isn't anything I dislike about life. It's amazing, I know it sucks at times and all of that, but there's no fun if Life doesn't get hard at times. What's not to like? I have a great family, amazing friends that keep me sane through all the crazy, I'm blessed that I can call myself an author. Do I really have any reason to complain?
Q: If you have to give one reason to our readers to get hold of your book, "7 To The Other Side", what would the reason be?
A: Because by the end of the book everyone's going to want to be George's friend.
Q: Any message you would want to share with our readers?
A: This is specially to anyone who's thinking about writing their own book. The best advice I ever got was to just go for it. We just put so much thought into the process of getting published, that we miss out on the most important part, the story. If you don't have a story to begin with, what's there to publish? Worry about the publishing aspect later and just get to it! I know I wouldn't have made it if I followed those extensive google searches I carried out. So yeah, you want to write? What's stopping you?
Q: How can our readers connect with you?
A: I'm extremely active on all my social media accounts, hit me up anywhere and I assure you a good conversation. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email - roma.dutia21@gmail.com
-- End of interview with author Roman Dutia --
You can order a copy of the book from Amazon.
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BkiUcbXxaL3Sugla0W7S | Do White College Students Believe Stereotypes About Minorities?
Asian American students are "cold but competent." Latinos and blacks "need to work harder to move up."
At least, that's how their white peers at the country's elite colleges and universities see them, according to a new study by Baylor University researchers. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a survey of 898 participants from 27 prestigious American universities in which respondents rated their opinions of Asian, black, and Latino Americans based on work ethic, intelligence, and perseverance.
Read the via story via The Atlantic: Do White College Students Believe Stereotypes About Minorities?
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BkiUdeM5qhDBeB4iUFxt | Dieter Weberpals (* 21. August 1954 in Nürnberg) ist ein deutscher Flötist.
Leben
Dieter Weberpals lebt in Kucha, wo er von 1965 bis 1971 das Johannes-Scharrer-Gymnasium besuchte.
Er spielt mit zahlreichen international renommierten Künstlern im Bereich Jazz, Rock, Worldmusic. Sehr bekannt ist seine Formation Argile, mit der er Jazz, afrikanische und asiatische Musik kombiniert und 5 CDs veröffentlichte. Er spielte u. a. bei Audio-CDs mit Klaus Maria Brandauer oder der Autorin Ilona Maria Hilliges (Bestseller "Die Weiße Hexe"), als Gastmusiker bei CD-Einspielungen mit Embryo, El-Houssaine Kili, Orange Winds, Frankenbänd und arbeitete mit so namhaften Musikern wie Sona Diabaté, Moussa Diallo, Famadou Konate, Andrea Wolper, Ken Filiano und Ramesh Shotham.
Diskografie
Soloveröffentlichungen
Dieter Weberpals - Meditation - CD (bibi 1944) - 2014
Edda B. & Dieter Weberpals - Handpan Meditation - CD (bibi 1947) - 2019
mit Argile
Argile feat. Barry Sangare - Koko - (bibiafrica/Indigo 01046) - 1991
Argile feat. Barry Sangare & Ramesh Shotham - Idjo - (bibiafrica/Indigo 03055) - 1995.
Argile feat. Sona Diabaté - Live in Africa & Europe - (bibiafrica/Indigo 85642) - 1998
Argile feat. S. Diabaté, Famoudou Konaté u. a. - Mandingo Festival - (bibiafrica/Indigo 97092) - 2000
Argile - filefola / the flute album - (bibiafrica) - 2007
mit Gebärväterli
Gebärväterli - Im Tal der Emmen - LP (Brutkasten Records) - 1978
Gebärväterli - Im Tal der Emmen - CD-Re-Issue + 2 Bonus-Tracks (bibi 1945) - 2014
als Gastmusiker
Benjamin Van Haeff - Down To Earth (Track 1) CD (B.V.Haeff) - 2019
Lena Dobler - Setagaya - CD (Track 11) (Lena Dobler) - 2014
Rainer Rabus - Handpan Music - CD (bibiafrica 19143) - 2013
Frankendry - Palmen auf den Almen CD (Sinwell records 0513) - 2013
Iria - Geborgen (Tracks 5, 8, 10 + 13) - CD (Easy-Does-It Productions IS0410) - 2010
Wolfsmehl - Königshaut (Hörspiel mit Klaus Maria Brandauer u. a. + Musik von Hans Kraus-Hübner) - 2 CDs (Hörbuch Hamburg Verlag 03198) - 2005
Die Frankenbänd - Morgenrot (Tracks 3, 7 & 17) - CD (Streetlife 5002-05-01) - 2005
Orange Winds - Dahab Walk (Track 4 + 7) CD (bibiafrica/FMS 30372) - 2005
Pavla Kapitánová - The Alchemy Of Life (Tracks 4 - 9) CD + Poetry-Book 2004
Ilona Maria Hilliges - Mit den Augen einer Afrikanerin (kompl. CD audiobook + flute) - CD (brainstorm/Eichborn 85541) - 2003
Ilona Maria Hilliges - Mit den Augen einer Leopardin (kompl. CD audiobook + flute) - CD (brainstorm/Eichborn 85540) - 2003
El-Houssaine Kili - Safran (Track 2) - CD (Tropical Music 68803) - 1999
Embryo - Istanbul Casablanca (Track ) - 2 CDs (Schneeball 85362) - 1999
Kompilationen
Bardentreffen 2005 - Track 5: Argile feat. Abdel Illah Hajim - Hada Hal Dunja (heartmoon records) - 2005
African Artists Hand In Hand - Track 8: Bajaly Suso/D. Weberpals - Youndoumounko 2003
Global Rhythm 8/02 - Track 8: Argile - Mandingo Festival 2002 - USA Global Rhythm Magazine
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Argile
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Afrika Kulturtage
Weltmusik-Künstler
Querflötist
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Pallavi Aiyar is an Indian-born, award-winning foreign correspondent and the author of several books.
The book topics she has covered are as diverse as contemporary China, air pollution and parenting in a global context. She was also the lead author of a special Lonely Planet guide to China for the Indian market.
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Her debut book, "Smoke and Mirrors", examines the differential political and social systems in China and India. Her forthcoming book on Japan, "Orienting", analyzes the underlying cultural and aesthetic values that underpin Japan, while triangulating her conclusions with comparisons to India and China. She has also written extensively on global culture, including feature articles in top international publications like The New York Times.
Pallavi started out her journalistic career as an on-camera reporter for NDTV, India's premier news channel. She was The Hindu's China Bureau Chief between 2005 and 2009, after which she moved to Brussels, where she served as the Europe correspondent for India's Business Standard (2009-2012). She has since been a columnist for The Hindu with a focus on first on Indonesia (2013-15) and then on Japan (2016-2020).
Her book on contemporary Europe's crises, "Punjabi Parmesan: Dispatches from a Europe in Crisis", was published in the United States as "New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe". It was selected as "one of the best books on Europe in 2016", by Foreign Affairs magazine.
Pallavi's 2008 China memoir, "Smoke and Mirrors", won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular award. Her 2011 novel, "Chinese Whiskers: The Adventures of Soyabean and Tofu", a modern fable set in Beijing, was published in the United States, Italy, Belgium and India.
Her most recent books are an anthology of prose and poetry, "A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred", and "Jakarta Tails: The Continuing Adventures of Soyabean and Tofu".
Other books include "Babies and Bylines: Parenting on the Move", which explored parenting in a geographically fluid, multicultural environment. Her book "Choked" provided an in-depth look at the air pollution-crisis in New Delhi and Beijing.
Pallavi is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She was also a member of the Forum's Global Future Council on Information, Media and Entertainment between 2016 and 2018.
Pallavi was awarded the 2007 Prem Bhatia memorial prize for excellence in political reporting for her dispatches from China. Between 2004-2009, she served as advisor to the Confederation of Indian Industry on China-related issues. In 2010, she was recognized by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for her work in furthering Sino-Indian relations.
Pallavi has presented her works at literary festivals, universities, think tanks and foundations around the world including at the Berlin, Jaipur, Mumbai, Bangalore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Ubud literary festivals, the German Marshall Fund India Forum, the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, The Asia Society in New York and Mumbai, Columbia University, and The New School in New York and The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.
She publishes a weekly newsletter on global culture at: https://pallaviaiyar.substack.com/people/3382685-pallavi-aiyar
Pallavi has an MSc from the London School of Economics in Global Media and Communications. She was awarded the Robert McKenzie scholarship for the best Master's dissertation from her year (2002) across disciplines at the LSE, on the role of mobile phones in altering the perceptions of space and time of their users.
In addition, she received a first-class M.A. (Oxon) in Modern History from Oxford University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Delhi University's St. Stephen's College. She also was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University in 2007.
She is currently based in Madrid, Spain.
Articles by Pallavi Aiyar
On the Transgressions of Identity
Who am I? At heart, I suppose, I am a crane.
Catching Religion at the Sagrada Familia
The confessions of an atheist.
Global Society
Why We Travel
Two age-old questions: What is travel? And why do we do it?
Asian Nations and Their Languages
Three large Asian nations -- China, India and Indonesia -- are polyphonic and geographically diverse. They all made different choices on their national language.
Global Culture & Global Women
Why I'd Rather Be A Japanese Woman Than A Japanese Man
How Japan's culture of overwork and lack of personal space makes life even more difficult for men than women.
Global Cusine
Lunch in Spain
Explaining one of the world's most unique culinary traditions.
Global Culture & Global Governance
Contemplating Culture Wars: From the Alhambra to India
Every country I have lived in has had a history of culture wars, but at the same time also a history of cultural cross-fertilization.
Global Health & Global Society
Japan: To Mask or Not to Mask?
Japan's long history of mask-wearing may be the global future.
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
Reflections on the futility of food nationalism.
Global Culture & Global Diplomacy
India/Japan: The Jugaad-Shokunin Dichotomy
Why the Japan-India relationship refuses to take off.
India: The Europe of Asia
Despite a similarity in temperament, Europe and India struggle to enhance their partnership. Why?
Nomadland: A "Chinese" Western
This year's big Oscar-winner indicates that the U.S. and China are two sides of the same coin.
Global Identity & Global Society
What's in a Name? Or Polly's Story
A real-life guide to the befuddling world of Chinese naming conventions.
COVID and Mr. Modi's Beard
Beards can be acts of masculine messaging. Narendra Modi is using his beard for identity politics.
Meet Pallavi Aiyar
A lifelong globalist and globe-trotting journalist joins The Globalist as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and lays out her vision.
The Moment When Japan Explodes, Each Year
Reflections on Japan, a culture driven by hyper-accuracy and anticipatory nostalgia, and its obsession with the cherry blossom season.
Choked — Delhi's Pollution Crisis
Unpacking the commonly used term "air pollution," what it really means and the associated health risks.
Global Culture & Global Society
Babies and Bylines in a Globalized World
What is identity for children raised globally, by international couples?
Global Democracy
Modi and Jokowi: Why the World Should Take Notice
Comparing the leaders of the world's largest and third-largest democracies.
Why Europe Leaves Me Puzzled
Reflections of a foreign correspondent from Asia upon leaving her post in Brussels.
India as an Inspiration for Europe?
What can India teach the EU regarding the key challenges it faces?
The Rushdie Affair: India, Europe and Multiculturalism
Is Europe doing any better than India in balancing religious belief and the secular right of free speech? | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeG3xK6-gD0SreJno | We will feature gifts for each holiday at least two weeks in advance of that holiday. Unique treasures from around the world. Floral stems, as well as pre-made and custom floral arrangements, art, collectibles,costume and designer jewelry, housewares and much more. There are literally thousands of vendors, food and drinks, rides for the kids. C'mon out and find your treasures while having a fun filled day at Trader's Village. Mention this ad for a 10% discount at Neicy's Treasures #967. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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BkiUfyg5qhDCU1N83nTh | Susan Chapelle, founder of eco-friendly Squamish Integrated Health. Photo by David Fournier.
Squamish is all about living a healthy and active lifestyle.
It's a place where adventurous souls come from all over the world to rock climb, mountain bike, ski, snowboard and take part in a wide variety of thrilling outdoor recreation options and opportunities.
Squamish Integrated Health (SIH) is a big part of helping people in the Sea to Sky community to maintain and excel in that unique lifestyle, by offering a multidisciplinary healthcare practice featuring massage therapy, physiotherapy and acupuncture, plus naturopathic and chiropractic care – all under one roof.
"I spent much of my childhood in hospital, and that fed my passion for helping others achieve their goals." said Susan Chapelle, registered massage therapist and creator of Squamish Integrated Health.
Originally from Toronto, Chapelle owned an Artists Treatment Clinic, where she worked with performers from the National Opera Company, the National Ballet and Toronto Symphony before relocating to the West Coast and building SIH 15 years ago.
The state-of-the-art SIH centre boasts more than 20 different therapists, specializing in a range of disciplines, who work collaboratively to deliver a full complement of healthcare services, consultation and support.
And the facility's mandate is to provide everyone access to that quality, integrated healthcare… and they actually mean it.
"We provide health care and education to many low income and struggling members of the Squamish population" said Chapelle.
The program sees healthcare practitioners regularly donate their time to those who may not otherwise be able to afford their services.
That commitment to the community also extends to the environment.
Research is also a big part of the SIH mandate, and Chapelle's research into examining the effects of manual therapy on post-surgical care for cancer patients is currently being funded through the National Institute of Medical Science at the University of New England.
"I have been a massage therapist for 20 years, however my life has been focused on providing some science to alternative medicine for the past 10." she said, adding she relishes working in science to provide evidence that prevention is an effective form of healthcare.
The clinic is open weekends and evenings, and also conveniently provides online bookings to accommodate and help maintain the wide range of rich and active lifestyles throughout the corridor. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdh85qhLBU3f_P38N | Рональд Діон Десантіс (; , Джексонвілл, Флорида) — американський політик-республіканець, 46-й губернатор штату Флорида з 8 січня 2019. З 2013 до 2018 роки представляв 6-й округ штату Флорида в Палаті представників.
Біографія
Рональд Десантіс народився у Джексонвіллі у сім'ї Керен та Роналда Деніела Десантісів, його батько та мати мають італійське походження.
У 2001 році він закінчив Єльський університет, де вивчав історію та відзначився грою в університетський бейсбол. У 2005 році Десантіс здобув ступінь доктора права у Гарвардському університеті.
З 2005 до 2010 він служив у юридичному відділі Військово-морських сил, відбував службу 2007 і 2008 в Іраку. Після закінчення своєї активної військової служби став членом резерву ВМС Сполучених Штатів. Десантіс був нагороджений Бронзовою Зіркою і Медаллю за Іракську кампанію.
З 2008 до 2010 Десантіс працював в офісі прокурора Сполучених Штатів для Середнього округу Флориди. Викладав військове право в Школі права Прибережної Флориди й опублікував книгу під назвою «Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama».
Десантіса вперше обрали до Палати представників США, нижньої палати американського парламенту, у 2012 році. У Конгресі він став членом-засновником «Freedom Caucus» — групи консервативних республіканців, котрі були в опозиції до тодішнього президента-демократа Барака Обами. Десантіс був союзником наступного президента — республіканця Дональда Трампа.
У 2018 році Десантіс виграв вибори губернатора штату Флорида, здобувши перемогу над опонентом-демократом Ендрю Ґіллумом (мером Таллахассі) із відривом у 0.4 % голосів. Він обійняв посаду в січні 2019 року, за час губернаторства відзначився опозицією до суворих карантинних обмежень під час пандемії COVID-19. У медіа Десантіс широко вважається одним із найімовірніших кандидатів на посаду президента від Республіканської партії на наступних виборах 2024 року.
Політика щодо України
13 березня 2023 року американський консервативний політичний пропагандист Такер Карлсон оприлюднив відповіді Десантіса на шість питань щодо російського вторгнення в Україну. У своїй відповіді Десантіс назвав російське вторгнення "територіальним спором" та зазначив що "подальше втягнення в територіальну суперечку між Україною та Росією не є одним з національних інтересів Сполучених Штатів Америки"
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Посилання
Congressman Ron DeSantis на офіційному сайті Палати представників США
Біографія у Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Випускники Єльського університету
Випускники Гарвардської школи права
Правники США
Члени Палати представників від штату Флорида
Республіканці США
Кавалери Бронзової Зірки (США)
Морські офіцери США
Губернатори Флориди | wikipedia | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUbIc241xg-CaAErOA | Q: Model Derivative API - Conversion from dwg to obj I have been trying to convert a dwg file into an obj file using the model derivative API following the viewer tutorial. It works fine with the input files and output formats provided in the tutorial; however, when using a dwg file as input and changing the output to obj, I get the following
error: Error at Model Derivative job.
Does anyone know why this is happening? Can the model derivative API convert dwg to obj?
Looking at the console, I can see the following line in the response: 'x-ads-troubleshooting': 'The system does not support this file format.',
A: Unfortunate DWG to OBJ is not a supported translation.
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BkiUdTA25V5ipqzw5ieQ | Monogamy With Bisexual Brothas: Could You Date A Man Who Has Dated A Man?
By Toya Sharee
Anyone who knows me knows I am an absolute lover of gay culture ( I think they call it a "f*g hag," but I'm not fond of the F-word), right down to my fondness for Lady Gaga, a fierce arched eyebrow and the nude beaches of Fire Island. I love my ladies, but the truth is, gay guys have more fun and do they do it with impeccable flair. I've attracted gay men in my bestie circle for as long as I can remember. And while I like to think of myself as the most liberal rainbow flag flying ally I can imagine, I can't help but still be confused by the concept of bisexuality.
I guess it's because my experiences with my closest friends coming out have always been preceded by a prelude of bisexuality which I guess in a sense made me believe that bisexuality was some kind of bridge to all out homosexuality as opposed to a sexual preference in itself. It was almost as if claiming bisexuality somehow made being gay easier to digest for others. I can understand being sexually attracted to both sexes because sex can be as carnal or as completely physical as someone wants it to be. Not everyone wants to always be catcher, sometimes you want to see what all of the positions on the baseball team feel like.
But pursuing a monogamous relationship on the other hand takes some level of commitment to a certain place on the field. Worrying about my man getting excited every time something with soft skin and estrogen walks in the room is one thing, but to know that at any given moment he could get butterflies for the bouncer or the cocktail waitress, I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. What strangers choose to do in their bedroom is their own business, but what's going on below the belt with my boyfriend is something I want the CarFax on, whether it's a part of his past or his present. And with me feeling like bisexuality is just the entrance ramp men take to the gay highway, dating a man with a bisexual past would make me feel like maybe a relationship with me is a last ditch attempt to truly make love work with a woman.
I'm well aware that there are all types of gay men, but we can't deny that there are some stereotypes that gay men can't seem to shake. And as much as I love sipping lattes and shopping for skinny jeans with my gay guy pals, it might make me look at my boyfriend a little funny if he were to be bi. I'm well aware that being attracted to other men doesn't instantly make you a man-purse wearing, vogueing, card-carrying member of the LGBTQ culture and lifestyle, but there would be something about my guy possibly lusting after another dude that would bruise my attraction to all things alpha-male about him.
What bothers me even more is that this would be a completely different article if I were a heterosexual man writing about bisexual women. In fact, it might even be a top ten list titled, "Your Girlfriend's Bi? Here's Ten Reasons Why You're a Lucky Guy." In society's eyes there is secretly something more hot and attractive about two women going at it as opposed to two men. Personally, I think that is the craziest double standard ever, but even so, the truth is that I'm not attracted to gay men. I'll shop with them in a heartbeat, but I hate feeling like I'll be labeled "homophobic" because I don't want to sleep with them.
When Gavin Rossdale confirmed rumors that flew about his former teen fling with a cross-dressing pop-star named Marilyn, I couldn't help but wonder how Gwen Stefani felt. Was she ashamed? Did she question her own attractiveness? Did she feel like their relationship was built on a lie? Even much drooled actor Tom Hardy confessed to having flings with men in the past. But surprisingly, many women don't share my same sentiment. In a YourTango article titled, "48% of You Would Date a Bisexual Man" readers revealed that bisexuality wasn't a huge deal breaker when it came to dating a man. "Everyone falls somewhere on The Kinsey Scale (0 "exclusively heterosexual" to 10 "exclusively homosexual"), so I basically assume that most of us have either experimented or at least fantasized about it," says Rachel, a 34-year-old writer. Other readers expressed that adolescent experimentation or an isolated incident of bisexuality was acceptable, but an out-and-out declaration of bisexuality might leave them too distracted by the idea of their partner having a variety of options to actually be able to invest in a relationship. The issue is that when it comes to monogamy, you're kind of forced to choose unless you want have a plural marriage, so inevitably I would think that you would have to be attracted to one sex more than the other. If that's the case, is that truly the line between heterosexuality and homosexuality?
I must say that bi-sexuality is a completely different beast that I still have a hard time understanding. I understand the possibility of being sexually attracted to both sexes and even maintaining sexual relationships with both genders, but what happens when it comes to pursuing a real monogamous relationship? Maybe I need to get out more, but I still can't help feeling that bisexuality is a red flag of a sexual preference with a little less variety.
Could you date a man who was admittedly bisexual?
Toya Sharee is a community health educator and parenting education coordinator who has a passion for helping young women build their self-esteem and make well-informed choices about their sexual health. She also advocates for women's reproductive rights and blogs about everything from beauty to love and relationships. Follow her on Twitter @TheTrueTSharee or visit her blog Bullets and Blessings . | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUbk44c3aisKzQy3Gg | City Will Fix Downtown School 'Crunch' by Sending Kids to Chinatown
By Julie Shapiro | June 11, 2012 1:41pm
@JulieShapiro
P.S. 276 Principal Terri Ruyter is worried that her school is becoming overcrowded.
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LOWER MANHATTAN — School officials plan to bus dozens of Downtown students to P.S. 1 on Henry Street to ease Lower Manhattan's overcrowding problem — a solution that was immediately criticized by parents and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Department of Education officials acknowledged Friday during a heated meeting that Downtown schools face a "crunch" over the next several years, but said they have no plans to build new schools in the neighborhood to accommodate those extra children.
Instead, starting in the fall of 2013, the DOE plans to send dozens of Downtown kids to P.S. 1, which has 12 available classrooms and could host a new dual-language program, said Drew Patterson, the DOE's director of south Manhattan planning.
"We don't see the need for additional seats Downtown, given the capacity we have at P.S. 1," Patterson told angry parents and principals at the Friday afternoon meeting, which was hosted by Silver.
Silver and others slammed the proposal, saying P.S. 1, which is about a mile from TriBeCa's popular P.S. 234, is too far outside the neighborhood.
"That's not an option," Silver said. "P.S. 1 is not an acceptable alternative for this community."
However, Silver, the DOE and Downtown parents and principals do agree that something must be done — and soon — because several of Lower Manhattan's schools are quickly running out of space as they take in more children each year than they can hold in the long run.
P.S. 276, which just opened in a brand-new building in southern Battery Park City in 2010, has been forced to squeeze in extra kindergartners for the past three years to accommodate children who otherwise would have been waitlisted.
The school was only designed to have three classes per grade, but this fall it will have five kindergartens, four first-grade classes and four second-grade classes, Principal Terri Ruyter said.
By the fall of 2013, Ruyter said she does not see how she will have room to admit even a single incoming kindergarten class unless she shuts down the school's pre-K program and closes the music, art and science rooms.
"We're running out of classrooms," Ruyter told the DOE officials Friday. "It's a serious problem."
Silver, the powerful Democratic leader who represents Downtown Manhattan, warned that the city's decision to cram kindergartners into schools that can't fit them is "ultimately going to come back to bite us" as those large classes age up.
"You've cannibalized the future in order to alleviate the present," Silver said.
Parents want the DOE to build two new elementary schools in Lower Manhattan in addition to the Peck Slip School, which will start with just kindergarten classes in temporary space in Tweed Courthouse this fall.
They also want the city to build a stand-alone pre-K center for Downtown, which would open up space for elementary kids in the neighborhood's existing schools.
But Elizabeth Rose, who works in the DOE's Office of Public Affairs, said there is no money to build new school seats in Lower Manhattan, beyond the 712 that are already planned at Peck Slip.
"There are so many communities that need more seats," Rose said. "We have identified 15,000 seats [across the city] that we don't have the funds to build.…While I know it is nobody's preference…we do have seats nearby [at P.S. 1]."
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BkiUa9vxK6wB9k0iJgQr | Bile acid detoxifying enzymes limit susceptibility to liver fibrosis in female SHRSP5/Dmcr rats fed with a high-fat-cholesterol diet
Husna Yetti, Hisao Naito, Yuan Yuan, Xiaofang Jia, Yumi Hayashi, Hazuki Tamada, Kazuya Kitamori, Katsumi Ikeda, Yukio Yamori, Tamie Nakajima
Subject: Medicine & Pharmacology, Nutrition Keywords: constitutive androstene receptor; cytochrome P450, fibrosis; gender difference; high-fat-cholesterol (HFC) diet; necrosis; stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive 5/Dmcr rats; sulfotransferase, pregnane X receptor; UGP-glucuronosyltransferase
During middle age, women are less susceptible to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) than men. Thus, we investigated the underlying molecular mechanisms behind these sexual differences using an established rat model of NASH. Mature female and male stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive 5/Dmcr rats were fed control or high-fat-cholesterol (HFC) diets for 2, 8, and 14 weeks. Although HFC-induced hepatic fibrosis was markedly less severe in females than in males, only minor gender differences were observed in expression levels of cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYP)7A1, CYP8B1 CYP27A1, and CYP7B1, and multidrug resistance-associated protein 3, and bile salt export pump, which are involved in fibrosis-related bile acid (BA) kinetics. However, the BA detoxification-related enzymes UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) and sulfotransferase (SULT) 2A1, and the nuclear receptors constitutive androstene receptor (CAR) and pregnane X receptor (PXR), were strongly suppressed in HFC fed males, and were only slightly changed in HFC-diet fed females. Expression levels of the farnesoid X receptor and its small heterodimer partner were similarly regulated in a gender-dependent fashion following HFC feeding. Hence, the pronounced female resistance to HFC-induced liver damage likely reflects sustained expression of the nuclear receptors CAR and PXR and the BA detoxification enzymes UGT and SULT. | commoncrawl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUa5LxK7DgtAWeydyl | Tag Archives: Lansing
LANSING: Lookin' Around….
We're in the north end of Michigan's capitol city, Lansing, today the Old Town District is hosting ScrapFest. Here's how it works; back in June teams had one hour to collect up to 500 lbs of scrap from a local facility, then they have about two weeks to create their sculpture, made entirely of scrap metal. During ScrapFest pieces are displayed and auctioned off, 40% of the proceeds go to the artists, the rest is donated to the Old Town Commercial Association. It's pretty amazing, check it out…
The day promises to be a hot one, we arrive just as the festival opens; Turner street has been closed to traffic, artist's tents line the street, sidewalk cafes are overflowing with diners, metal sculptures of varying heights and widths fill the remainder of the street. My eyes follow the finger of a woman pointing to someone in the distance, I zero in on the man wearing hoof shoes and a metal framed horse head for a hat. There's so much to look at I find myself wandering with no real purpose or plan. Some sculptures are electrified, a couple of cables and a car battery do the trick. A 'painting' sits on an easel, look closely to see the city skyline, a church steeple, the moon and the stars, a second one features a bridge–is that the Mackinac? Kris and I marvel at the towering figure in front of us; with the turn of the wheel his arms, hands and fingers come to life.
There's a sculpture of a crane with a scene of cat tails that would look fabulous in my back yard. A large tree is cloaked in lovely metal flowers, there's a piece that reminds me of antique Tiffany lamps; green glass and metal form a beautiful canopy of leaves. Each sculpture is unique, so creative, it's hard to believe the components came from a scrap pile. The angel is getting a lot of attention,her stainless steel feathered wings are magnificent. I like the giant mobile-looking piece, do you remember the game Tip-It? That's what I thought of when I saw it. Lots of people are taking pictures of the robot DJ with his turntables, how about the candle-powered light bulb, the Knight with his chariot, the silhouette of the horse, the gorgeous fire pit, which one would you bid on?
We pass booths selling mini-sculptures, coasters, key chains, clothing. A line is forming at the food truck, the band is getting ready to play. Kids are making crafts, the street is filling up curious pedestrians. We're hot and thirsty, Bloom Coffee Roasters is just up the street. Housed in an attractive orange-brick building, the small space serves as a neighborhood gathering spot offering coffee drinks from beans roasted in-house. Folks at the counter are on a first-name basis with the staff, shelves hold bags of freshly roasted beans, mugs and t-shirts. A couple of iced coffees will do the trick for us.
Back outside the street is jam-packed with people, we make our way from Turner to Grand River on the way back to the car. Kris spots some interesting things through the window of The Gallery In Old Town so we go inside. Turns out the Gallery is an Estate Liquidator, they hold auctions and what they have left they bring to the shop to sell off, at really good prices. This particular lot had a bunch of vintage things; a funky organ, kitchen items from the 40's and 50's as well as some pop-style light fixtures. This is a good place to check out from time to time, you never know what you might find. A quick stop on the bridge gives a nice view of the Grand River, a lone fisherman has this part of the river to himself.
With art on our minds we drive over to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on the campus of Michigan State University. You can't miss the building; it's the striking pleated stainless steel and glass building visible from Grand River. Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, her buildings are getting a lot of attention since her death in 2016. The Iraqui-British architect was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, she was the first and only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects and she was sometimes called the "Queen of the Curve". I googled her to see her other buildings before I wrote this, she certainly had a way with geometry, I think her buildings are spectacular! The Broad is a parallelogram-shaped building with a distinct lean, the structure continually changes color depending on the time of day and the angle of the sun. We enter through the west entrance into the Passage Gallery, looking around I am surrounded by curly fries, Kris corrects me, spaghetti, he says. The exhibit is called Toiletpaper Paradise, based on the magazine TOILETPAPER. "Domestic settings are re-imagined as psychedelic, subversive montages vignettes", I'd say that sums it up. It's pretty groovy, large pieces hang on the walls, rugs are scattered on the floor; the familiar in an unfamiliar way.
Around the corner is a big silver tent, a docent leads us inside, a series of red light bulbs illuminate the space, a pulsing rhythm emits from speakers, live crickets chirp in their own rhythm. The docent demonstrates how the crickets will change their chirps as she alters the sound coming from the speakers. We amble through galleries, the next exhibit is The Transported Man, here ordinary objects become not-so-ordinary when you read the additional information about them. A mysterious floating table, a bar of liposuction soap, I like the elephant's trick, looks like the cat had too much helium…a festival of the odd. We see a wall of windows, each a different color, notable artwork hangs on a cranberry-colored wall. As much as we like contemporary art, the building itself is the main attraction for us. The staircase seems to float, every hallway leads to something unexpected, it's like an extremely sophisticated fun house.
Tags: art, Coffee, Explore, Lansing, Old Town, Scrapfest, Travel
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Grand Ledge: Fall Fun!
Once upon a time, in the sleepy little village of Grand Ledge MI, a man by the name of John Burtch had an idea; he built a one-story plank hotel, launched the steamer Dolly Varden and invited the public to discover the beauty and wonder of seven little islands residing in the Grand River; the Seven Island Resort was born. In 1877 Mr Hewings purchased the resort and launched the steamer Gertie, gone was the little hotel, replaced by the more elegant Island House Hotel, complete with a ballroom on the second floor. In addition, amenities such as rowboats, bath houses, hammocks, swings and croquet grounds were added; there was even a mineral spring on one of the islands. In 1886 Julian Mudge took possession of the resort, money was spent freely on a new dam, an addition to the Island House hotel, a causeway was built to join Second and Third island. Mr Mudge built a 3-story pagoda-like tower called the Roundhouse, the first roller coaster in Michigan was constructed over the water, starting at Second island and finishing at Third. Second island was the centerpiece of activity with the hotel, picnic area and fountain, while Third was home to the casino which hosted first run musicals and Vaudeville shows.
Yes folks, thousands of tourists came by train to this tiny resort town; side-wheel riverboats steamed up and down the river, it was the most popular resort in all of lower Michigan. In 1888 Grand Ledge became the second city, after Lansing, in MI to get electric lights. Eventually the resort became less popular, people now owned cars and could drive to other destinations. In the 1930's the property was sold to the city, the hotel continued to be used as a community building for another 20 years, sadly none of the original buildings exist today…. In 1976, with the addition of a new gazebo, the island began to be used for festivals and activities such as the annual Color Cruise and Island Festival. Which brings us to today.
It is the second full weekend in October, the sky a powder blue umbrella overhead, the sun warms our faces as we walk from Main Street to the Island. We purchase tickets, walk across the wooden bridge and find ourselves surrounded by activity. On the right a group of llamas seem to be people-watching from their fenced in area, I stop and say hello, music plays as a group of ladies tap dance in front of the gazebo, a table of cupcakes and baked goods is tempting. An asphalt path straddles the island from one end to the other, we pause at the tip and drink in the panoramic view; nature has begun painting leaves of hardwood trees in red, yellow, orange and gold, the Grand Princess riverboat floats past on the calm Grand River. We take our time walking from the far end, a group re-enacts pioneer days; dressed in period clothing they are cooking over an open fire. A pile of animal skins and a turtle shell rest on a table, examples of items such as clothing and pouches made from the skins lay nearby. Dried fruits, nuts, peas and grains are some of the foods pioneers depended on for survival. The petting zoo is popular this morning, kids of all ages are holding bunnies, petting goats and sheep. A blacksmith invites visitors to watch as he demonstrates how to make a nail, a woman at a loom weaves fleece into yarn, an antique fire truck is on display. Further up locals have set up booths selling arts and crafts, I watch as a woman hand weaves a basket, one artist carves animal faces into walking sticks, a different blacksmith has utensils, hammers and hooks for sale, a man and woman are performing a folk song now at the gazebo.
The Grand Princess is getting ready for her next excursion, we purchase tickets and climb aboard, there are two rail-side seats available on the second level, which we gladly claim. A guide will narrate as we navigate the narrow river, she begins with some History; Grand Ledge was named after the river itself, sandstone ledges line the riverbanks are composed of Eaton sandstone and quartzite that was deposited 250 million years ago; these ledges are geologically significant in lower MI. Above the trees we see the bright blue water tower, pedestrians enjoy a river side stroll, up ahead an ancient-looking railroad bridge crosses the river, it is still used today, trees reflect on the river, the view is picturesque. Private homes are built to fit the landscape, wooden stairways are like switchbacks leading down to the water, Coho salmon pass through twice a year. The boat stops at Fitzgerald Park, some of the passengers will get off here and walk back to the festivities, the rest of us stay aboard and enjoy the peacefulness and gorgeous scenery the boat affords us.
Back on land, it is lunchtime, we passed a rustic looking place in town earlier, so that's where we're headed. The Log Jam Inn has one of those old-fashioned signs hanging out front that screams Americana, the building resembles a log cabin both inside and out. The restaurant is doing a brisk business today, thanks to the festival. We are seated in a booth near the door, Kris looks at the menu, I look around. I notice a charming stone fireplace, a Spartans banner hangs nearby (we are only 10 miles west of Lansing), walls are wood panels, each table is adorned with a cute little lamp, shades look like they are made of birch, ours is a canoe that holds the S & P. Our meal arrives, the turkey sandwich is served hamburger-style on a bun, piled high and topped with lettuce, tomato and a side of honey mustard it is satisfying, the portion of fries is generous, good thing because they are excellent.
Time to get a closer look at the ledges; we drive over to Front Street and park in the lot for Oak Park, here climbers are allowed to scale the 60 ft high ledges. We follow the path down to the river's edge, the water is on our right, towering ledges on our left, fallen leaves are scattered about. The sandstone quartz ledges are golden in color some of the edges are dark, tree roots resemble hands, their fingers tightly gripping the rock, here and there a trail of crystal clear water springs from the rock, making its way to the river. In some places you can see the layers of sandstone, to me it looks like the inside of a Butterfinger, in one spot the rock has worn away forming an overhang above the path, the sun dances off the river creating a reflections upon the rock face. We come across a group of climbers securing their ropes getting ready for their ascent, two canoes are carried by the current down river. The scenery is stunning here; the autumn leaves of the trees, the golden sandstone are mirrored on the surface of the water. Large rock pieces lay broken in piles, we climb over and follow the path to its end. Once again we are in the park, we pause at the look-out one last time before heading home.
Tags: Color Cruise & Island Festival, Grand Ledge MI, Grand River, Lansing, Log Jam Inn, Pure Michigan, Rock Climbing, Seven Island Resort, Travel | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUgpzxK7IACRyfn6Yu | Adam & Eve's 'Loving Myself' is Available Now on DVD and VOD
Honey Gold, Elena Koshka, Jill Kassidy, Moka Mora, Riley Nixon, Scarlett Sage, Eden Sin, Eliza Jane and Whitney Wright, Show Viewers Why They Are 2018's Best New Starlet Nominees
LOS ANGELES (September 6, 2018) – Adam & Eve Pictures and award-winning director Kay Brandt present nine 2018 Best New Starlet nominees in the solo-themed erotic tour de force "Loving Myself", available now on DVD and VOD.
For more information on "Loving Myself", click here.
Written and directed by Brandt, "Loving Myself" is a follow up to the well-received all-girl feature "Unleashed" where Brandt shot solo scenes so compelling that they were given their own movie. The cast features AVN Best New Starlet Jill Kassidy and XBIZ Best New Starlet Honey Gold along with Moka Mora, Scarlett Sage, Eden Sin, Riley Nixon, Eliza Jane, Elena Koshka and Whitney Wright in nine highly erotic masturbation scenes.
"Kay perfectly captures the passion and essence of each performer in this unique and one-of-a-kind collection of today's hottest young stars," said Rachel Vigneaux, Adam & Eve's Executive Producer. "'Loving Myself' is the perfect companion to 'Unleashed' as these gorgeous performers share their eroticism with beauty, passion and a distinctive freshness that leaves us all wanting more."
To see the suitable-for-work trailer, click here.
"Featuring these gorgeous young performers in both Unleashed and Loving Myself was quite a treat for me as a director. This cast of nine stunning, talented starlets offered an abundance of beauty to the two movies", Brandt said. "'In Loving Myself,' each starlet has their moment to invite the viewer into their most intimate moments, enjoying their bodies for their own pleasure. There's nothing more beautiful than watching a sexy woman pleasure herself. They're each so captivating to watch, and the personal stories they reveal during their scenes allows the viewer a special connection to what truly turns these ladies on sexually."
Known for her directorial work in the Adam & Eve blockbuster, "Babysitting the Baumgartners" as well as its award-winning sequel, "Adventures with the Baumgartners," Brandt has been on a roll, earning accolades for adapting Kitt's best-selling erotic novels and directing other features. The prolific filmmaker has directed more than 60 adult movies since 2009, including nine movies for Adam & Eve beginning with the adaptation of her book "Safe Landings" in 2015, followed by 2017's well-received "Hotwives and their Dirty Desires," as well as last year's "Naked," both based upon her own books. Her work includes many award-winning films for companies like Adam & Eve, Digital Playground, Girlfriends Films and New Sensations.
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BkiUeK7xK3YB9ohkNrdQ | Dec 15, 2020 13:00:00
Google CEO announces that he will adopt a work style of '2 days for remote work and 3 days for work'
As part of measures against the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), Google CEO
Sundar Pichai plans to implement a work style of 'remote work 2 days work 3 days' after September 2021. Notified to employees.
Google CEO email delays return to Sept 2021, no permanent remote work
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/google-ceo-email-delays-return-to-sept-2021-no-permanent-remote-work.html
Google pushes return to office to September and will test flexible work week --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22175150/google-return-office-september-flexible-work-week-coronavirus-pandemic-sundar-pichai
Google delays return to office and eyes'flexible work week'-NYT | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-google-idUSL4N2IU1EO
Headquartered in California, one of America's densely populated areas with more than 300,000 deaths, Google has been requesting all North American employees to work from home since March 2020 , 2021. I was planning to continue remote work until July.
Google extends employee remote work period with new Corona until 2021 --GIGAZINE
According to an email sent internally by CEO Pichai on December 14, 2020, Google has extended the recommended period for remote work from 'until July 2021' to 'until September 2021' and beyond. COVID-19 With the exception of low-risk offices, customer representatives, data center resident managers, lab resident researchers, etc., we plan to introduce a work style of '2 days for remote work and 3 days for work' on a trial basis. That is.
Three sunrise work days a week are considered 'collaboration days' for meetings in collaborative spaces and outdoor spaces that can be reserved, and two remote work days a week are days for intensive work. In addition, in order to ensure the fairness of collaboration between employees conducting remote work and employees in the office, we have set up an in-house presentation booth where multiple viewers can see professional-quality distribution. It plans to improve the tools that can be used for online work such as Google Meet and Google Workspace .
In an email, Pichai said, 'We are testing the hypothesis that flexible work models lead to increased productivity, collaboration and well-being. These concepts are at the heart of Google's workplace philosophy and will be in the future. It should also be central to the plan. There is no precedent for a large company like Google to adopt a labor model that mixes remote work and attendance, but there are cases where a small company has introduced it on a trial basis. We will implement these trials with a spirit of reform and an open mind, and we will make rigorous results judgments, 'he said, and will be able to provide details in early 2021.
Google extends remote work period of employees with new corona until 2021
Amazon announces that the number of work days when reopening the office will be 'free for each team', full remote continuation is also OK
Apple urges employees to work three days a week starting September 2021
Apple plans to return employees working from home with the new Corona to the office, major IT companies allow long-term remote work across the board
New features such as Google Workspace fully supporting remote work and Google Meet can be used simultaneously on multiple devices will be added
Will Apple's Top Machine Learning Research Resign Due to 'Release Remote Work'?
Will Apple postpone remote work cancellation indefinitely?
Google postpones office resumption to January 2022
I tried the hearty Osaka King 'Golden Cup Beef Ribs Fried Rice', which is full of beef ribs and dumplings.
The hacker group 'UCN2452' that intercepted confidential information of government agencies and companies around the world is revealed
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BkiUeJXxK6nrxl9bOTlL | Saddlered, whipped, and sent back to the barn.
The cover of this National Police Gazette published today in 1950 shows boxer Willie Pep being assessed by Dr. Vincent Nardiello after a February 1949 bout with archnemesis Sandy Saddler. Below the cover is another image from the same sequence. Saddler really put a hurting on Pep, as you can see from the severity of his injuries, but that was normal for the two fighters. They met four times, trading the lightweight championship three times in those battles, with the last fight considered even today one of the dirtiest of all time. You can see more from Police Gazette by clicking its keywords below.
If the Police Gazette has your back, you're pretty much guaranteed to lose.
Above is another great boxing cover from the National Police Gazette, February 1951, along with some of the more interesting interior pages. The cover stars this time are Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler. Gazette editors were on the Pep bandwagon, but poor Willie, whose real name was Guglielmo Papaleo, didn't get his title back. Saddler ko'd him in the ninth, beating him for the third time in four meetings. We've noticed the Gazette tends to back the guys who lose. We don't think it's due to a lack of boxing acumen, but rather the result of a deliberate strategy to snare readers by building up underdogs. In any case, if they're in your corner, you better get an ambulance ready. You may also notice, looking at panel four, that this is the second time they've touted this Gotch character in their "Greatest Wrestlers of the Past" series. His name sounds like something you'd kill with an anti-fungal cream, but when we looked him up we discovered that Frank Alvin Gotch was the guy who popularized wrestling in the United States. He was one of the longest reigning champs ever, and was so beloved he even appeared regularly on stage, before dying in 1917. So there you go—not so much something to be creamed, as a guy who did the creaming. By the way, did you notice that the Gazette made an appearance in the new Sherlock Holmes film? Well, it excited us. Does that make us geeks? Don't answer that. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeCo4uzki04H6kqcH | Shalshelet: Dealing with temptation and uncertainty
The Harry Potter books are filled with people who are having a hard time dealing with temptation, and are feeling a lot of uncertainty about what to do. In Deathly Hallows we see Xenophilius Lovegood trying to decide what to do when Harry visits:
'Would it be OK if we came in?' asked Harry. 'There's something we'd
like to ask you.'
'I ... I"m not sure that's advisable,' wispered Xenophilius. He
swallowed and cast a quick look around the garden. 'Rather a shock ... my
word ... I ... I'm afraid I don't really think I ought to -'
His good eye moved again to Harry's scar. He seemed simultaneously
terrified and mesmerised... He kept swallowing, his eyes darting between
the three of them. Harry had the impression that he was undergoing some
painful internal struggle.
Later, of course, we find out that he was torn over whether to help Harry or whether to turn Harry in to the death eaters in order to save Luna.
Many other times we see people in similar dillemas. The Malfoys are torn between their alliegence to Voldemort and their desire to save Draco. Harry is torn between searching for horcruxes and seeking hallows. Harry is also torn between believing in Dumbeldore and distrusting him.
The Torah identifies four people that epitomize dillemas. Each of them are marked with a special "trop" note, a special way of singing that word. This note is called a "shalshelet," and it appears only four times in the Torah. The note is shaped like a zig-zag line, signifying someone being torn between two sides, two possible decisions. The tune for the note is similar, a very long note sounding like someone going "back and forth" over a dillema.
The first shalshelet in the Torah was read in last week's Torah portion, VaYera. Angels go to the town of Sedom (Sodom) to destroy it, and save Abraham's nephew Lot and his family. As they lead them away, Lot is torn - does he stay in his town, his home, with his people, or does he leave with the angels? Gen 19:16 tells us "and he hesitated," and the Hebrew word, "va'yit'ma'ma," is marked with a shalshelet, telling us graphically and musically of Lot's dillema. Lot ends up saved from his indecision by the angels who "grabbed him by the hand" and led the family to safety.
The second shalshelet is in this Shabbat's Torah portion, Chayei Sarah. Abraham asks Eliezer his assistant to travel to Abraham's birthplace to find a wife for Abraham's son Issac. The Midrash tells us that Eliezer was conflicted about his task, because he truly wanted his own daughter to marry Issac. He knew that he could return to Abraham and say that he was unsuccessful, and Issac would likely marry Eliezer's daughter. Instead, as he arrived at his destination, overcome with indecision, the Torah tells us that he prayed to G-d for guidance and help in finding a suitable young lady. When the Torah tells us that Eliezer prayed, in Gen 24:12, the word is again marked with a shalshelet.
The third shalshelet is in the story of Joseph becoming a slave in Egypt, in the Torah portion of VaYeshev. After becoming a slave to Potifar, one of Pharoh's ministers, Potifar's wife attempts to seduce Joseph into immoral activities. Gen 39:12 tells us that "Joseph refused," again punctuated with a shalshelet. Joseph first tried to convince Potifar's wife that it would be wrong to do what she was suggesting, and then he simply ran out of the house.
The fourth shalshelet is found in an unlikely place, towards the end of the Torah when Moses is inaugurating Aaron's sons into their roles as priests (Lev 8:23). On the surface there's no dillema here, but the Midrash tells us that, similar to Eliezer, Moses wanted his sons to follow in his footsteps, but G-d decided that Aaron's sons would be priests but that Moses's own children would have no future role. In this case, the dillema didn't show itself in action, since Moses had the inner strength to simply perform the inauguration service. The shalshelet signifies how Moses felt, but he didn't let the feelings get in the way of what he had to do.
So we see in the Torah four different ways of dealing with dillemas:
1. Pray for Divine assistance (Eliezer)
2. Take active steps to reach the right decision (Yosef)
3. Just do the right thing, feel the dillema but don't act on it (Moses)
4. Fail the test (Lot)
Xenophilius Lovegood seems to have failed the test, and was saved from the consequences by Hermione. But Draco's parents passed, as much for self-interest as for doing the right thing. And of course Harry worked his way through his own dillemas, as victorious in his decisions as he is in his wandwork.
How are we at dealing with dillemas? If we can't just do the right thing, we can pray for clarity or we can take active steps to move away from temptation. Either way, if we want to succeed like Harry, one way is to learn the lesson of the shalshelet.
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Donated 10% of book proceeds
Just wanted to let everyone know that 10% of my proceeds from recent sales of Harry Potter and Torah was just donated to the Ahavat Yisrael school in Beit Shemesh. This was my periodic donation in keeping with my statement (not an oath or unbreakable vow) on the book cover that 10% of book proceeds would be donated to schools in Israel addressing the educational needs of recent immigrants.
Anyone who would like to donate to them or similar institutions, send me an e-mail and I'll give you the appropriate contact info.
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Tales of Beedle the Bard coming out soon!
J. K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard will be available soon, and can be pre-ordered now from Amazon! This will be a great gift, and a must-have, for Harry Potter fans.
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VaYeira: Mudbloods, Moabites, and Moshiach
The following is excerpted from a chapter of Harry Potter and Torah, and never before published on-line. The complete version can be read in the book. Enjoy!
Mudbloods, Moabites, and Moshiach
Throughout the Harry Potter series we read (or hear) about the following question: How important is it for a wizard (in the world of Harry Potter) to have pure wizard ancestry? This is the conflict summed up well by Harry's friend Ron in Chapter seven of Chamber of Secrets, after Hermione is called a "mudblood" by another student (in the movie this is said by Hermione herself):
"Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who is Muggle-born, you know,
non-magic parents. There are some wizards who think they're better than
everyone else because they're what people call pure-blood.... I mean, the
rest of us know it doesn't make any difference at all."
Throughout the series this debate rages on, as Dumbeldore says to the Minister of Magic at the end of Goblet of Fire (chapter thirty six) :
"You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called
purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is
born, but what they grow to be!"
What do you think the Torah says about the subject?
There is a surprising attitude towards "purity of lineage" at the end of Parshas VaYeira. After G-d destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham's nephew Lot hides in a cave with his two adult-age daughters. Having seen their whole town destroyed by Divine wrath, they thought that they were the only people left alive in the whole world. The Torah describes what happened next:
"The older daughter said to the younger, 'Our father is old, and there is not any man [left alive] in the world [to marry us].... Let's give our father wine and get him drunk, ... and have children from him.' "[1]
They proceeded to carry out their plan, first the older daughter and then the younger. The Torah concludes the chapter:
"The older gave birth to a son, and called him Moav (meaning 'from the father' in Hebrew), the ancestor of the Moabites. And the younger also had a son, who she called Ben-Ami, the ancestor of the Ammonites."
This is not exactly the kind of story we expect to see in the Torah! Besides showing us Lot's family's moral depravity, why does the Torah tell us about this?
One answer lies in the role that the nations of Moav and Ammon have later in Jewish history. The book of Ruth details how Ruth, a Moabite woman, converted to Judaism and married Boaz the sage, and gave birth to the grandfather of King David. King David became the ancestor of all Jewish kings, and also of the future Messiah (Moshiach). As a Moabite, Ruth was descended from Lot's older daughter's son.
At the same time, the Book of Kings tells us that King Solomon married a woman named Naama the Ammonite, who, similar to Ruth, converted to Judaism and gave birth to King Solomon's successor. Naama, as an Ammonite, was descended from Lot's second daughter's son.
So we see an amazing thing here: Both of Lot's daughters had their descendants, from their immoral relationships with their father, included into the Jewish royal bloodline! The Moshiach will be descended on two sides from the union of Lot and his daughters! Hardly the noble bloodline that we expect!
The Midrash takes this one step further, saying that the very reason that Lot and his daughters were saved from Sodom was in order to give birth to nations that would lead to the Moshiach:
"[The angels said to Lot] 'Go, take your two daughters who are found here...'[2]. Rabbi Tuvia the son of Rabbi Isaac said, This alludes to two who were found: Ruth the Moabite and Naama the Ammonite. Rabbi Isaac said: The verse[3] says 'I found King David my servant,' where was he found? In Sodom!"[4]
This Midrash is saying, in terse Talmudic style, that when the angels told Lot to take his daughters from Sodom, the reason was that Ruth and Naama had to descend from them. In other words, the immoral relationships and their consequences were actually part of G-d's Divine plan for the royal and messianic bloodline! The Midrash then identifies Sodom, the city so immoral that it had to be Divinely destroyed, as the root source of King David, the place where King David's origins can be found.
If we look more closely, we see that King David's and the Moshiach's roots in impurity go beyond Lot and his daughters. Boaz, Ruth's husband, is from the tribe of Judah. In the Torah portion of VaYeshev[5] we get a look at the early days of the tribe of Judah.
Until shortly after Talmudic times, the practice was that when a husband died without having had children, his younger brother would marry his widow (Levirite marriage) in order that the original husband's family line continue through his wife.[6] Judah, however, prevented his younger son from marrying his older son's widow, as the Torah describes:
"Judah took a wife named Tamar for his first-born son Er. But Er was evil in G-d's eyes, and he died.... And Judah told Onan [his middle son] to marry his brother's wife, to carry on his brother's family... but he did wrong in G-d's eyes, and he also died. Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, 'live as a widow in your father's house until my [third] son Shla grows up.' He was worried that Shla would also die. Tamar went to live in her father's house, and the years went by."
The Torah continues: "After a long time, Judah's wife died, and he went to supervise the shepherds.... Tamar took off her widow's clothes, and covered herself with a veil, and sat at the entrance of the wells....
"Judah saw her and thought she was a prostitute. He turned aside to her on the road, not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law...."
The Torah continues to tell us that Tamar became pregnant from Judah, and gave birth to twins, one of whom was Peretz, the ancestor of Boaz the sage, who married Ruth and was the great-grandfather of King David.
This is amazing! Events seem to have been Divinely orchestrated so that King David's ancestry on both Ruth and Boaz's sides would come from highly ignoble circumstances. (And we haven't mentioned the questionable appearance of how Ruth and Boaz met!) This seems to hardly be fitting for a king, let alone the Moshiach!
The Midrash[8] makes an interesting point about great people with murky ancestry:
"Who can withdraw purity from impurity? Abraham came from Terach [an idol-worshipper], Yoshiah from Ammon, Mordechai from Shimi, Israel from the nations, the messianic world from this world. Who could do this? None but G-d!"
The Midrash seems to be saying several things.
First, there is no limit to the purification that a person can achieve. No one is ever lost from morality, spirituality, or a successful and productive life. A descendent of Yehuda's relationship with his daughter-in-law can marry a descendent of Lot and his daughter, and give birth to King David and the Moshiach. G-d can always withdraw purity from impurity.
Second, G-d in fact crafts the events in the world, specifically the seemingly-improper events, to bring about His Divine purpose. Every event, every action, and every decision will be woven into G-d's plans for the world.
Third, seemingly immoral people and events may contain the building blocks for the noblest of G-d's Divine plans for the world. These building blocks are hidden in the "shells" of impurity, waiting to be released (with Divine assistance) by people who choose to "plug in" to G-d's plan through their choices and actions.
But why is this particularly found in the royal and messianic families? Shouldn't royal families have pure origins, and the above lessons be taught in other places? Rabbi Yehuda Leow, known as the Maharal of Prague, provides a deeper understanding of things, explaining as follows:
"The King Moshiach will be descended from other nations, as King David's line is descended from Moav and King Solomon's from Ammon. The reason is that when G-d wants to bring a new element into existence, it needs to be a new creation, different from what came before, otherwise it wouldn't be truly new. Therefore, when G-d wanted to bring the Moshiach's family into existence, He did it in a way that created a new element... specifically out of the non-Jewish nations, and the further away from perfection the roots were, the more the result was a new creation. That is why G-d started with Ammon and Moav, because there were no nations further from morality and perfection that Ammon and Moav.... Because of that, they are the ideal source for G-d's new creation."[10]
Other sources take this even further. The whole goal of the Moshiach is to elevate the Jewish people (and the whole world) from the immoral and violent state of the pre-Messianic world to the moral and peaceful world of the Messianic era. This will be accomplished by a person who himself came from immoral roots and achieved moral and spiritual perfection. As one commentary explains:
"Immediately before the Moshiach's arrival, the Jewish people will be in a dark and terrible state, the worst ever... and it will be the Moshiach's job to raise them to the highest levels. For him to have the power to do this, Divine providence will have it that even the Moshiach's birth will reflect transforming definitive evil to the highest spirituality. Everyone alive will know that he has the ability to similarly transform all."[11]
This is why, the Maharal says, Moses grew up in Pharoh's house, as the son of Pharoh's daughter. The redeemer of the Jews in Egypt, and the leader of the Jewish people for 40 years in the desert, had to be someone who had himself grown from an impure Egyptian environment to the highest of the Jewish prophets.
Based on everything we have said, it seems that the Almighty deliberately wants some great people, with the most exalted roles, to come from less-than-noble circumstances!
Returning to our original question, we see that being a "mudblood" is not only OK, it gives someone an important ingredient for greatness that a "pure-blood" will never have: the demonstrated ability to rise from less-than-noble roots and achieve greatness. Whether this point will be shown in the Harry Potter series is up to J.K. Rowling, but we can all hope to see it soon in the real-world Moshiach, as well as in our own lives.
As Dumbeldore said: "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
[1] Gen 19:31-33
[2] Gen 9:15
[3] Psalms 89:21
[4] Midrash BR 50:10
[5] Gen Chapter 38
[6] This process was obviously only carried out with the wife's agreement, and was stopped when society changed and younger brothers stopped being able to do this with the proper motivations.
[8] Bereisheet Rabba 19:1
[10] Maharal, Netzach Yisroel Chapter 32
[11] Mi'maamakim vol 1 p. 95
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Shalshelet: Dealing with temptation and uncertain... | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
BkiUbh44ubnjoqgDVAR0 | Secretary Report – Deb reviewed report. Mike made motion to approve, Michelle 2nd, motion carried.
Treasurer Report – Report reviewed. Todd made motion to approve, John 2nd, motion carried.
*PAC—Brian Field shared updated information about the PAC/Auxiliary Gym/Student Commons/Secure Entrance/Fitness Center. Cost will be just under $15 million for the project. District looking to do a $10 million bond, community capital campaign, capital outlay certificates (20 years $250,000/yr). Can the Booster club donate $6000-7000 to pay for marketing consultant? Beresford Area Arts and Beresford Area Foundation will each also pay $6000-7000 to the consultant. No one expressed opposition, but need to Will need to figure out budget first.
*Budget Review—Will have expenses of coaches' requests, deliverables, etc. Discussed having budget on paper, need to list revenue/expenditures. Michelle mentioned possibility of having a more comprehensive worksheet for tracking expenses, such as Quick-in or Quickbooks. Mike will talk to Tom about this.
Mike made motion to approve amounts requested above, Sarah 2nd. Motion carried. Also discussed cost of Rozy's Power program being around $3000-4000. Tabled remainder of requests until we here back from Geoff.
*2017/18 Membership Drive—Mike shared that we will have deliverables on hand.
*Fall Kickoff—Discussed trying to incorporate youth sports clinics (running, volleyball, football, golf). Talked about making it a fun event to kick-off fall sports. If anyone has any ideas, please share with Brendyn or Brandon.
*Middle School 3 Sport Athlete Recognition—40+ middle school students in 3 sports. Will be recognized @ middle school ceremony on 5/22/17.
*June 21 is Business Luncheon.
Next meeting will be 6/25/17 @ 4 pm at the Bridges. Will need to discuss budget, other coaches' requests and fall kick-off.
Todd made motion to adjorn meeting, Mike 2nd. Meeting adjorned. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
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Liz has always surrounded herself with books.
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Children (and then cats and chickens) interrupted her bibliographic career, and having given up library work Liz found herself doing more reading, and increasingly she found herself enjoying novels by writers like Trisha Ashley, Katie Fforde, Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond. Inspired by their example, she started writing fiction and hasn't stopped since, joining the Romantic Novelists' Association's wonderful New Writers' Scheme to try to learn how to write novels properly in 2015. She has also attempted writing some short stories, with one The Second Princess winning a competition in Writing Magazine which led her to think that maybe publication wasn't a pipe dream after all.
Liz owes everything to her tolerant and long-suffering husband Ben and her tolerant and long-suffering children, but very little to the cats who are neither tolerant nor long-suffering and keep sitting on the computer keyboard and messing up her manuscript if she forgets to feed them on time. When not reading or writing Liz is often to be found on stage (or behind it) with her local amateur dramatic society, drinking tea, or visiting one of the several North Yorkshire seaside villages which were the inspiration for the fictional Rawscar, the setting for her debut novel The Little Church by the Sea. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdM44uzlh5XI9njmT | Hjärtan i Atlantis, amerikansk-australisk dramafilm från 2001.
Handling
11-åriga Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) bor tillsammans med sin ensamstående mamma Liz (Hope Davis) i ett hus i en småstad. Liz hyr ut ett rum till en äldre man vid namn Ted Brautigan. Bobby kommer bra överens med hjälper den äldre mannen genom att läsa tidningen för honom och hålla utkik efter mystiska skurkar som sägs jaga honom.
Om filmen
Hjärtan i Atlantis regisserades av Scott Hicks. William Goldman har skrivit filmens manus som är baserat på romanen Hjärtan i Atlantis skriven av Stephen King.
Filmen hade premiär på Toronto International Film Festival 7 september 2001.
Rollista (urval)
Anthony Hopkins - Ted Brautigan
Anton Yelchin - Bobby Garfield
Hope Davis - Liz Garfield
Mika Boorem - Carol Gerber
David Morse - Bobby Garfield, som vuxen
Alan Tudyk - Monte Man
Tom Bower - Len Files
Celia Weston - Alana Files
Adam LeFevre - Don Biderman
Will Rothhaar - John Sullivan
Timothy Reifsnyder - Harry Doolin
Deirdre O'Connell - Mrs. Gerber
Externa länkar
Filmer 2001
Amerikanska dramafilmer
Australiska dramafilmer
Filmer baserade på verk av Stephen King | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeXbxK7IAHQ7RZfhB | Maggie Hassan Part of 'Dynamic Bipartisan Duo' Pushing Surprise Medical Billing Legislation
What's a bigger surprise than an unexpected medical bill for an out-of-network anesthesiologist? A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators working together to try and stop it.
New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan has teamed up with Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy to push a proposal to end so-called "surprise billing" — when a patient receives some out-of-network health services during an otherwise covered doctor visit or hospitalization, only to learn of it later when the "surprise" bill arrives.
Last month the American Medical Association and 110 other physician organizations released a letter urging Congress to address "surprise billing" while ensuring the final version "represents a fair, market-based approach that treats all stakeholders equally while protecting patient access to care."
Hassan has made the issue a legislative priority. Her guest at this year's State of the Union address, for example, was a Seabrook, N.H. woman who received a $1,648 "surprise" bill for an out-of-network doctor's consult during an emergency room visit.
Senator Maggie Hassan with Donna Beckman of Seabrook, N.H. before attending the 2019 State of the Union address.
"It shouldn't be anything the patient has to worry about," Hassan said at a Families First forum over the summer. "I want people to engage in the health care system around their health care, not their bills. When you buy health insurance, you're not supposed to be surprised by bills. That's the whole point."
Hassan has testified several times alongside Sen. Cassidy on behalf of their bill, which uses arbitration between insurance companies and healthcare providers based on "commercially reasonable rates" in the geographic area where the services were provided. "I continue to think that [arbitration] is an important mechanism. What we have from the chair and the ranking member of the committee is a commitment to make sure to level the playing field between the providers and insurance companies," Hassan said during a recent event at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).
It's an approach that's showing promise in New York, according to Ross Marchand at the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, who tells InsideSources that the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) approach of the Cassidy/Hassan "is a market-based approach that will let doctors and insurers to negotiate openly, fairly, and transparently in order to resolve out-of-network payment disputes."
"It's working in New York and we believe it can work across the country."
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Sen. Bill Cassidy R-LA) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Meanwhile, Hassan presses ahead with a bipartisan initiative that's getting relatively little attention back in her home state of New Hampshire. While her fellow New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has carefully nurtured her 'bipartisanship' brand — at odds with the facts, some argue — Hassan and Cassidy have been declared a "dynamic bipartisan duo" by Jason Grumet, President of the BPC.
"Maggie's attribute as a governor has been incredibly pragmatic, and that's been a great help," Cassidy said. "She's always very open to collaborating."
The Cassidy/Hassan bill, Stopping The Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2019, currently has 26 co-sponsors, ranging from rock-ribbed conservatives like Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to progressives like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Interestingly, one name that's missing: "Bipartisan" Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
"Any family can get hit by an unexpectedly high medical bill they thought their insurance would cover. It doesn't matter if they are Louisiana Republicans or New England Democrats. It takes a bipartisan approach to move legislation through Congress. We have found broad bipartisan support for our bill because this is an issue that must be solved for the benefit of all American families," Cassidy told InsideSources. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUa7bxK5YsWTJsNkmr | Ignoring people's wishes
Published: April 16, 2019 4:38PM
It is disappointing that the Justice Committee in its report to Parliament has not recommended that the contentious and life-threatening End of Life Choice bill (EOLCB) be rejected and defeated at its second reading in May.
The committee has ignored the 38,707 written submissions made to the committee and the 3600 oral submissions. A careful analysis of the submissions by the Care Alliance reveals that 90.02 percent of written submissions were opposed to euthanasia and the EOLCB. This represents a clear message from the community that they do not support doctors being given the authority to kill their patients with a lethal injection or to assist in their suicide.
This is the biggest number of written submissions ever received by a select committee on a bill in New Zealand. Why then is this committee ignoring the wishes of the people of New Zealand and pursuing its own agenda?
It is also disappointing that Jacinda Ardern and Paula Bennett, who have been elected to protect us, support changing the law prohibiting homicide to allow doctors to kill their patients.
There is no dignity in being killed by your doctor, who has been trained to care for us and not to kill.
Ken Orr, Christchurch
Bulldozerdan - 2 months ago
Ken, please leave our city newspaper alone. You have your own rag, write your letters to them.
If I was to let an old dog wither away and die like we do with humans I would be arrested for cruelty by the popo. There's no dignity to dying when you're that screwed you can't wipe your own butt. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdTbxK7Ehm308qZHe | De Nierntalkopf is een berg in het Berchtesgadener Land in de deelstaat Beieren, Duitsland. De berg heeft een hoogte van 1135 meter.
De Nierntalkopf is onderdeel van het Untersbergmassief, dat weer deel uitmaakt van de Berchtesgadener Alpen.
Berg in de Beierse Alpen
Berchtesgadener Alpen | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
BkiUbiPxaJiQoRGw4_5Q | The nursing unit of the Samarahan Heart Specialist hospital held a nurses Day and a seminar on Friday at the auditorium.
Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian, who is one of the doctors who started the Hospital, was an invited guest there.
Sim said the nurses at the Heart specialists had been doing a fantastic work for the community and fellow Sarawakians. He said they were professional in their work and would go an extra mile to help the patients be comfortable and at ease.
Also at the celebration were Director of HUS Dr Chin Zin Hin, Dr Alan Fong – Consultant Cardiologist PJHUS and Dr Ong Tiong Kiam, Head of Cardiology PJHUS.
Senator Datuk Dr. Sim (standing centre in front row) with the nurses and doctors . | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdXQ4uzlh5508Aiaz | A recent update to the ESO Science Archive has made accessing ESO's vast collection of astronomical data more intuitive and easier than ever before. The highlight of this update is the launch of the ESO Archive Science Portal — an interactive, browser-based sky interface allowing anyone to quickly search for, and obtain, astronomical data from ESO's telescopes.
ESO builds and operates some of the world's most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes, and competition to use these instruments is fierce, with successful proposals gaining access to pristine astronomical data. However, this data doesn't permanently belong to the researchers who gathered it. After a proprietary period, which usually lasts one year, the gathered data becomes publicly available from the ESO Science Archive.
The ESO Science Archive has been providing astronomers around the world with access to data since 1988. The goal of the latest update was to ensure that this data is available to anyone through powerful, yet convenient interfaces, making ESO's treasure trove of archival astronomical data accessible to everyone.
You can explore the new ESO Archive Science Portal here. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUayfxK4sA-7sDc5td | ← The Ascent of Tarbert
Taking a bit of a break . . . →
He Said, She Said . . .
Posted on Friday, 27 February 2015 by Lynn McAlister, MA, FSA Scot
On this day in 1756, Angus Macalister of Loup married his widowed cousin Jean (or Jane – the names were interchangeable). Jean was the daughter of John Macdonald of Ardnacross and Grace McAlester, whose father had been the seventh laird of Loup. To put it mildly, the marriage got off to a rocky start.
The first hint we have of trouble between them comes in April 1758, when Jean went before the Commissaries of Edinburgh to institute a Declarator of Marriage and Adherence.[1] By doing so, she was asking the Commissariot to rule that her marriage to Angus was valid, because by this point he was claiming that it had never taken place.
Perhaps she could have seen this denial coming, as she was certainly not the first eighteenth-century bride to find herself in this situation.[2] Theirs was an 'irregular' marriage (although Angus had procured a minister to perform the ceremony),[3] and the young groom insisted that the marriage be kept secret until he could talk to his uncle, a Lamont of that Ilk. Angus was afraid Lamont would object to the union because of his youth and because Jean did not have a fortune.[4] Angus therefore returned to Argyllshire, urging his new wife to follow.
Before she could join him, however, Jean discovered that Angus had given her a venereal disease. Angus wrote to his surgeon in Edinburgh, asking the doctor to give his new wife the best treatment available, but to keep the marriage itself a secret. Eventually Jean set off for Argyll, no doubt anxious to share the news of her marriage with her family and friends. Angus, however, insisted the secret still be kept. Jean asked that she at least be allowed to tell her mother, to whose house she now retired, but when the news began to get out, Angus denied that there had been a wedding at all.
It was precisely this sort of conflict that the Commissariot of Edinburgh existed to resolve,[5] and so it was to the Commissariot that Jean first turned in effort to force Angus to recognise her as his wife. Initially, the Commissaries ruled in Jean's favour, but when Angus appealed they reversed their verdict, determining that in fact no marriage had taken place. Jean then took her case to the Court of Sessions.[6] On the 4th of January, a decreet was issued in her favour. But Angus was having none of it: He appealed directly to the House of Lords.
In an interesting 1999 article, Leah Leneman notes that written evidence, "particularly in the man's own handwriting", carried a lot of weight when an irregular marriage was disputed.[7] The letter Angus had written to his doctor, naming Jean as his wife, was an important factor in the Lords' decision to throw out his appeal, which they did on 2 May 1759.
With no one else to turn to, Angus seems to have given up trying to dissolve the marriage — but he didn't exactly rush back to Jean's side. In the summer of 1761, Hector McAlister in Arran wrote to his brother Alexander in North Carolina that "he [Loup] does not cohabit with her nor own her, but she has an annuity of thirty pounds a year off him" and that "his estate is much encumbered defending that unhappy plea with his wife".[8]
As is probably to be expected, this was the usual result of a marital lawsuit. Leneman points out that winning such a case was unlikely to lead to a "happy married life, for the bitterness engendered in the course of the legal action usually made any prospect of an amicable relationship in the future out of the question".[9] In this, however, Angus and Jean diverge from the norm. At some point not long after the correspondence of 1761, the couple evidently reconciled. In 1765, their son Charles (future 12th of Loup) was born. In 1772, Angus granted a bond in favour of "Mrs Jean McDonald his spouse", making sure she would be provided for should she outlive him.[10] By 1775, there were three daughters in addition to Charles. And when Jean died in 1812, she was described simply as the "relic [widow] of Angus MacAlester of Loup, Esq."[11]
copyright @ Lynn McAlister, 2015
[1] Thomas S. Paton, Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords upon Appeal from Scotland, from 1757 to 1784, Vol. II (Edinburgh, 1851), p. 31.
[2] Leneman, "Wives and Mistresses in Eighteenth-century Scotland", in Women's History Review, vol. 8, no. 4 (1999): 674.
[3] According to Leneman, a 'regular' marriage was "one for which banns had been called, and which was subsequently performed in church by a minister". An 'irregular' marriage required neither banns nor a minister, simply the exchange of consent to marry – or even a promise to marry in future – followed by consummation of the relationship. Although fines were sometimes imposed to discourage irregular marriages, they were perfectly legal and recognised by the authorities (p. 673).
[4] Reports of Cases Decided, p. 30
[5] Leneman, p. 673
[6] Patrick Fraser, A Treatise on the Law of Scotland, as Applicable to the Personal and Domestic Relations, Vol. I (Edinburgh, 1846), p. 157.
[8] McAllister Family Papers, Cumberland County, NC, 1747-1935 (North Carolina Division of Archives & History, July 1996), appendix II, no. 6, p. 3.
[10] Argyll Particular Register of Sasines, RS 10, vol. 11 (25th March 1778); transcribed by the Clan McAlister of America Scottish Records Project.
[11] The Scots Magazine, vol. 74 (1812), p. 806
Posted in 18th century, McAlester of Loup | Tagged family, irregular marriage, lawsuits
2 thoughts on "He Said, She Said . . ."
Pamela Lynn
Friday, 27 February 2015 at 11:39
Thanks so much for writing these bits of history…I enjoy reading them.
Lynn McAlister, MA, FSA Scot
Thanks, Pamela! I enjoy writing them, too. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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Jayam Ravi and Nivetha Pethuraj starrer Tik Tik Tik was the most talked about film in Tamil industry after there were reports doing rounds that the story of the film will be around space travel. The film created quite a buzz when the makers revealed the cast and the title of the film. The makers of Tik Tik Tik have now released the first look poster of the film which promises to be an interesting flick.
Touted to be a race against time and travel in the space, Tik Tik Tik is being directed by Shakti Soundar Rajan. Tik Tik Tik also features Singaporean actor Aziz Aaron in an important role. In the poster, Ravi is seen in a space suit, hanging by a rope in space.
Shakti Soundar Rajan, the director, says that the film will have no run-of-the-mill romantic episodes and would have interesting episodes. "We have explored the space genre in a commercial set-up. It's very challenging to engage audience when the story shifts to space as there are not too many elements to play with. Our film has no romance and even the songs have been shot as montages but we have elements we think will appeal to everybody," director Shakti Soundar Rajan told a news agency.
This will be the second-time collaboration of Shakti Soundar Rajan and Jayam Ravi after Miruthan which was released last year. Tik Tik Tik is being produced by Hitesh Jhabak while the music album of the film is being handled by D. Imman. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd284dbghdUvaxBXJ | Q: Axios request goes to catch block when it sees response status code in range of 400 and 500 When server sends status code in range of 400 and 500 , axios skips the .then() block and directly goes to the catch block.
But when server sends anything with status code in the range of 200 axios accepts it.
This is the client side code.
axios
.post(`${API_URL}login/profile`, profile, {
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
})
.then((res) => {
//console.log(res);
if (!res.data.token) {
alert(res.data.msg);
} else {
localStorage.setItem('token', res.data.token);
props.history.push('/dashboard');
}
})
.catch((err) => console.log(err));
//handleLogin(profile);
This is the server side code
Router.post('/login/profile', (req, res, next) => {
console.log('login req was made');
//validating email
const { msg, isValid } = LoginValidator(req.body);
if (!isValid) {
return res.status(404).json({ msg });
}
const email = req.body.email;
const password = req.body.password;
ProfileModel.findOne({ email })
.then((user) => {
if (!user) {
return res.status(404).json({ msg: 'user doe not exist' });
}
//compare passwords
bcrypt
.compare(password, user.password)
.then((isMatch) => {
if (!isMatch) {
return res.status(401).json({ msg: 'please enter the correct password' });
}
const token = jwt.sign({ id: user._id }, secrete, {
expiresIn: 86400, //24 hrs
});
return res.status(200).send({ auth: true, token });
})
.catch((err) => console.log(err));
})
.catch((err) => console.log(err));
});
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BkiUbA44ukPiESmuBTb_ | these refillabe, metal tip correction pens are dope.. they're the best small applicator for smash inks, hands down.. i got two smaller bic versions, the tip looks the same except the body is thinner and more pen-like i think this holds a little more than 8ml. i filled one with pink and the other with teal, they worked perfectly! the result is small drippy tags that get the "wtf did they do that with?" reaction, especially when you use funky colors.
i definitely recommend this along with smash as a refill.
im really a fan of white out markers yet ive never tried this one.im deff. gonna get this in my next order.love thoes skinny lines! btw, CAPS LOCK FTW!!!!!!!!!! HAHA!!!
yea this thing is pretty dope.. plain and simple plus on train stops you can hit the signs up and it never gets cleaned.. for 3.49 you cant beat it..
These pens right here are the best white out pen out there.
I got on at office depot awhile back, and fell in love right away.
When it gets about half full, put a few drops of some Pilot or Garvey ink, and you will have something beautiful.
White T-Grade plus some Garvey owns all. Pick one up. You won't be sorry. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUf0zxK6-gDw5Ax0nH | According to the 1885 Cherry County census, a J. Ludwig was a resident of the village of Valentine. A native of Pennsylvania, Ludwig, with his wife, Amanda, and three children worked a farm. No other census information appears on Jacob Ludwig. The 1890-1891 Gazetteer shows an S. Ludwig (possibly a misprint) as proprietor of the Valentine Lumber Company. The next issue of the Gazetteer, 1893, lists J. Ludwig and Son (Daniel) as dealers in lumber and grain. By 1894-1895, only D.S. Ludwig was listed as a dealer in these products. Neither of the Ludwigs were entered into the 1902-1903 Gazetteer.
This collection consists of one box of manuscript material arranged in two series: 1) Account Books, 1878-1888; and 2) Miscellany, 1887-1892. This collection contains the financial records of Jacob Ludwig, farmer and lumber and grain dealer of Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska. The Account Books, 1878-1888, of Series 1 comprise the bulk of this collection. Volume 1 covers the years, 1878-1882 when Ludwig probably made his living by farming. This book shows transactions engaged in, providing the date of the transaction, the individual involved, debits and credits, and amount paid. Items involved are sometimes illegible. An alphabetical index of names is at the beginning. An "account of chickens" for the years, 1885-1887 is included at the end of the book. Volume 2 contains the same type of accounting information that appears in Volume 1. However, this book covers a later period, 1887-1888, and most of the entries reflect Ludwig's lumber and grain business transactions, with a clearer record provided of merchandise being sold. The Miscellany, 1887-1892, of Series 2 contains Jacob Ludwig's mortgage agreement and extension papers. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdco5qsMAI4khRiFZ | Today we met with our friends in Colombia for the last time. They are finished school on June 17th. We aren't finished until June 25th. However, they have to go back to school in August and we don't go back until September.
During our video conference today, we showed our friends our dances that we have been working on in gym, and then 2 of our friends in Colombia sang us a song they are going to sing in their music show later this week.
1. We make our Dad's cards.
2. We make our Dads breakfast in bed.
3. We give our Dads presents like useful things: ties, hammers, tools, toys, movies, and plants.
4. We take our Dads our for supper.
5. We spend the day with our Dads because we love them.
We will miss our friends in Colombia. Hopefully we will see them again next year! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUgb7xK7IDPV_Iuv5A | Beto O'Rourke sounds off on big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, says government needs to treat them 'a little bit more like a utility'
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke at a meet and greet at Plymouth State College on Wednesday in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who is running for president in 2020, responded Wednesday to a question about breaking up big tech companies.
O'Rourke, who officially entered the presidential race on March 14, has emerged as a fundraising frontrunner, raking in $6.1 million in 24 hours.
The CNN national reporter Eric Bradner asked O'Rourke about calls from his fellow presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to break up the big tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
O'Rourke said the "best way to approach the fact that people have become the products on these platforms" is to "perhaps to treat them a little bit more like a utility."
Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who is running for president in 2020, has responded to a question about breaking up the big tech companies.
O'Rourke, who officially entered the race March 14, quickly emerged as a fundraising frontrunner, raking in $6.1 million in the first 24 hours after announcing his campaign. He gained Democratic star power during his failed 2018 Senate campaign against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, taking in a whopping $80 million while eschewing PAC money.
Critics, however, have pointed to his seemingly nebulous stance on key issues, compared with some of his 2020 competitors who have released comprehensive policy plans. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, for instance, has released plans on affordable housing, universal childcare, and regulating big tech.
Read more: Beto O'Rourke just endorsed a healthcare idea called 'Medicare for America' which differs in some major ways from Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare for All' plan
But voters are starting to get answers. He took some policy-specific questions from the media on Wednesday in New Hampshire while on a tour through all 10 counties of the state, which holds the first primary and is second in voting only to the Iowa caucuses.
The CNN national reporter Eric Bradner asked O'Rourke about Warren's calls to break up the big tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
He responded that while he was not sure about breaking up the big tech companies, he did favor regulating them.
O'Rourke said the "best way to approach the fact that people have become the products on these platforms" was "perhaps to treat them a little bit more like a utility."
He also touched on the fact that they could "be used wittingly or not to undermine our democracy and affect the outcomes of our elections."
Warren, as recently as her CNN town hall on Monday, has proposed several specific policy changes involving the biggest tech companies, which are under scrutiny over issues like user privacy, nefarious uses of platforms, and the quick spread of disinformation.
Her plan would include appointing regulators to undo mergers of big tech companies. As examples in a campaign email, she said "break Facebook away from Instagram and WhatsApp, Amazon away from Whole Foods, Google away from Nest, and more."
Her plan would also forbid selling user data to third parties and would include what she calls "platform neutrality."
During her Monday town hall, she said this would mean that tech companies could not both own a marketplace platform and sell their own products on that marketplace (Amazon, for example, selling its brand of batteries on Amazon).
Other candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have also said they would like tighter regulations on big tech, INSIDER's Eliza Relman noted. O'Rourke now joins that crowd.
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BkiUdqI5qYVBTBbD_FU4 | Q: Resize a specific table view cell depending on contentSize of UITextView I am trying to resize a specific UITableViewCell depending on the size of a UITextView - I have been trying for quite a while and seem to have absolutely no luck.
What I have done is calculate the size of the UITextView depending on its contentSize (which varies) and then returning the height within a CGFloat and then passing that the row height method and manipulating the height of it from there.
let contentSize = self.myTextView.sizeThatFits(self.myTextView.bounds.size)
var frame = self.myTextView.frame
frame.size.height = contentSize.height
self.myTextView.frame = frame
rowHeight = frame.height
I then have a CGFloat declared called rowHeight and then attempt to pass contentSize.height into it which seems to work but then the it doesn't change the size of the cell.
Here's the method:
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat
{
if (indexPath.section == 2 && indexPath.row == 0) {
return rowHeight
}
else {
return 44.0
}
}
I have printed frame.height.description as a string in the console and then specifically defined it in the row height method and this works fine. This leads me to believe that my issue is calculating and placing the CGFloat within the rowHeight variable.
Can someone please guide me how to pass a CGFloat based on the size of a UITextView into a variable and then using that variable as the row height of a specific cell?
A: From apple's docs
func reloadData()
Call this method to reload all the data that is used to construct the
table, including cells, section headers and footers, index arrays, and
so on.
So this should redraw your table with the new height.
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BkiUdUg5qWTBIJYAseaW | A Political Animal
The city was devastated by flood, and everybody was struggling to salvage its treasures. This was Franco's chance to get away from his wife, to be useful again — and to steal a few hours for love.
Julia O'Faolain
Originally published on September 7, 1968
Franco shivered. His study was cold. Through the smear of his window, the Tuscan landscape was pulpy after months of rain. His eye ranged over it; then he turned back to his desk and took a mirror from an inner pocket. He propped it against his telephone and began to consider himself. He had a broad, fine face with predominantly horizontal lines. His teeth were all right. So was his hair, which was a lightish brown. True Tuscan. He put away the mirror and let his eye slide back to its practiced orbit: cabinet, window … Waiting days. Carla was more than a week overdue. And fat as a fool! Tearful and smelling of talc, she sat about, concealing the box of enormous chocolate kisses her mother had sent by the maid who was to stay with them until after the delivery. Meanwhile, here was Franco, stuck in this damn town when he might have been considerably more useful elsewhere.
Carla's other two pregnancies had thrilled him, for he was an affectionate father, a family man. But this time his enthusiasm had waned. "I'm getting on her nerves. It'll make the baby crazy or something. I'd do better to stay off the premises."
He got up, turned on the television, then turned it off, then on again. Gray shapes curdled the screen. A few miles away, the city of Florence — his and Carla's city until their exile to this mountaintop — was attempting to recover from the ravages of one of the worst floods in history. Incessant rains had swollen the Arno beyond its banks, and now the TV showed the Florentines struggling through tons of muck and mud to salvage their city and themselves. Franco's throat was dry as he watched women in boots filling jugs from the Fountain of Neptune. There was no typhoid-free drinking water. The next image was of a woman being rescued by boat from the upstairs window of an unsteady building in Piazza Ghiberti. Franco's mind rushed to friends who lived in that part of the city. Carla's family was on the fourth floor — an advantage, for once. Anyway, they'd have got out. They had a nice sense of self-protection. As their kind had always done, they would take to the hills, enjoy a house party in someone's villa.
Franco was concerned about the libraries and museums. He hadn't revised his last book, and some documents he needed to consult were in the vaults of the State Archives of Florence. Not that he was so self-centered as to care mainly about that, but it did come to mind. Tanks containing fuel oil, the commentator reminded listeners, had exploded, and the black, viscous stuff had contaminated the waters, clung to statues, drawn a black line across frescoes, and sealed the pages of unread documents from the earliest years of the city. Next came shots of people who had taken refuge on the rooftops in areas where the waters had not yet receded. Huddled against the cold, they were yelling jokes from roof to roof, livening themselves with the bitter wit of their kind. No villa invitations for them.
Franco began to cry. This was his city, his old, proud, beautiful, misgoverned city. Another unnecessary calamity had afflicted it. (Only last year Franco had been reading about governmental neglect of soil erosion.) Thirty people, said the reporter, were known to have perished so far. Franco turned him off. No telephone lines. He must get to Florence. Not only for personal reasons — Joan — but . . . and anyway Joan would be all right. Her uncle, Mr. Herman Adelaide, would invite her to stay in his villa. No, it was a need for activity that was tormenting Franco, a need to dispense the energies that had been accumulating while he sat slowing his pace to the broody Carla's. Waiting. He had an absurd sensation that his presence must make a difference to the city where officials who had bungled everything up to now were surely bungling things again. "Corrupt, inept, time-serving… "
Disgusted and impatient, he got up and walked down the hall to the apartment he and Carla had rented in the Archives. Carla was sitting in her room, knitting yet another white woolen jacket.
"Everything the same?" he asked her.
"I'm afraid so." A slack face smiled ashamedly up at him, blurry features dissolving into one another. Franco sat beside her and attempted to caress her. She had put on much too much weight. She'd never get rid of it. The doctor had refused to back up Franco in his efforts to make her diet.
"Franco! No!"
"What? You're not shy, are you?" Teasing.
"Not now, Franco!"
"Do you know that in France husbands learn to deliver their babies themselves? So they can feel as involved as the mothers!"
She shrugged. He rose and returned to his study. Wearily he flopped into his armchair and began to think of Joan, wondering if she were still in Florence. Headlines had described stink and screams in the unlit city and the outlandish wail of motor horns set off by the rising waters. But it was not Joan's safety he was worried about. She would land on her feet. Joan was American, nineteen years old and one of the appalling Pop generation. She would not have appealed to him some years ago, but the cinema had made the type familiar: the Hepburn girl, loose of tibia and thighbone, with the free-swinging ease that comes from liquid assets and unhampered mind. For some months now, Franco had been engaged, on the three days a week he spent working for a publisher in Florence, in furnishing the fine vacancy of this mind with notions of his own. She was — when bared of the Pop clothes — surprisingly docile. With sad security, Franco thought of his efforts to dislodge the grids of conventional belief that had been pressed down on poor Carla before he married her. Carla had defended her virginity through a six-year engagement, whereas Joan — hah! — but her pliancy bothered him. Where was the spoor of earlier loves? Would his own one day be as effectively rubbed out?
There was no question of her writing, now that the telephone lines were down. Before the flood it had seemed unwise to give her his address. He had been in the habit of telephoning her frequently from booths and racing up her stairs, suspicion titillating him, her great iron door key ready in his hand.
And now? He picked a typescript off his desk and managed to read two paragraphs.
The telephone rang. It was his brother-in-law.
"Aldo!" Franco was excited. "I thought the lines were down. Where are you?"
"In Florence. They hooked one up for us. A sort of field telephone. How's Carla? Has she had the baby?"
"Still waiting. But, tell me — "
"Mamma's going to stay with you. It's better for her to be out of Florence. I suppose you read all about the flood?"
"Indeed. I saw you on TV."
Aldo's appeal for help to salvage manuscripts from the mud had reminded Franco of another emergency: the Resistance and his childhood misery at being cut off from it. While partisans fought in the Florentine hills, Franco had been obliged to concern himself with soccer. He had since put down his frustration to growing pains, yet songs and stories from that time released a sour, seductive nostalgia in him. The Resistance had now been debased by official piety, but for him, who had experienced it as a void, it retained appeal.
Aldo, a bit older than Franco, had been a partisan. Connections from those days had pushed him ahead at top speed in the civil service.
"I saw you — " Franco said again to his brother-in-law.
"Listen!" Aldo cut in. "I'm going to send you several truckloads of damaged documents. We're farming them out to provincial archives for restoration. I don't know when we'll get our hands on the trucks, but I'll let you know. We're up to our necks here. The army is using what they've got to help flood victims, and most local transport is fouled up. We may get some from Bologna, we — "
"Listen !" Franco crushed his fingers excitedly about the receiver. "I'll come for the stuff. Right now. I can get trucks here, and I'll come."
"Absolutely not!" Aldo's voice was imperious. "You stand by. We'll take care of things at this end."
"But — "
"Nobody could expect you to leave your wife at a time like this."
"But if la mamma is coming!" Franco's voice was shrill. "And the doctor's here on call. It's her third child. Carla has babies as easily as a cat."
"No!" said Carla's brother. His voice snapped like a lid, and Franco remembered the small rodent teeth and Aldo's bullying of him when they had been students. "I understand," said Aldo — and his unctuous Tuscan accent reminded Franco of his table manners and of his provincial obsequiousness with superiors — "your anxiety about the National Patrimony . . ." Franco made a face and pulled the receiver away from his ear. The fluid sounds ceased at the end of his wrist, and he pulled the receiver back.
"Of course," he told it.
"I wouldn't wish to butt in," said Aldo.
"I just wanted to tip you off. Mr. Adelaide is the American representative of the Fund for Saving Italian Archival Treasures, so she is down here with him every day. People might get a bad impression."
"What's that?" Franco screwed the receiver into his ear. "I'm afraid I missed something you said about, ah, Mr. Adelaide and –"
"Your little friend?"
The vulgarity, my God! What did one expect? Left-wing puritans — worse than the bloody Catholics. No wonder there was not and never would be divorce in this country. "How — " began Franco.
" — did we know? Gossip. You don't think that, in a city trained through twenty years of fascism, the doorkeepers don't know their business? Anyway, it's another reason why you'd better not come. She was asking about you around the Archives. They told her about Carla's expecting a baby, Luckily, with all that's happening, your little scandal will be forgotten if you stay put. Wouldn't do either of us any good if it weren't. Listen, I'm running out of time. You can expect la mamma on tonight's train. I'll telephone again before sending the documents. Ciao."
Franco put down the receiver. So it was common knowledge. Aldo was worried about reports to the Ministry. Meanwhile, Franco was stuck here because Aldo had pulled rank. Franco rubbed his cheek. But why should he let himself be dictated to? What right had Aldo to give him orders? And was Franco to be a bloody yes man? Absolute lunacy! Manuscripts were macerating in muck. Mold was threatening, and time — Aldo himself had said so — was vital. Franco was an Italian, and Italians — he had once written an essay on the subject — had for centuries relied on subversive individuals (Galileo, Giordano Bruno, the partisans, alternatively Mussolini) to keep the national vessel afloat at all. Vested myopia had to be swept periodically aside. Franco picked up the receiver, then set it down. He would see to this in person. Action. He stood up, took his mackintosh from a hook in the hall and raced downstairs. Carla, hearing his Fiat 600 the civil service pays stingily — thunder through the fourteenth-century gullies of the little town, smiled: "Poor Franco! He gets restless!"
He was back in three hours. At eleven o'clock. He had been promised twelve trucks, eleven drivers: eight from one firm, three from another. One was from the local grocer. Franco was to have that back in time for tomorrow morning's market. An archivist could drive it. Franco would close the Archives and take all the staff with him. No. Perhaps one man had better stay to caretake and keep an eye on Carla. She might need to send him to the pharmacy.
Bounding up the stairs, Franco grinned. He liked himself as the scurrying Franco: vigorous, always on the move.
Then he paused a moment. What, now, would it be best to tell Carla?
"Darling." He strode with an anxious face into her room. "That brother of yours has been on the telephone. He wants me to go to Florence."
"Aldo? Now?"
"They're understaffed," he explained. "They want me to bring back some of the damaged documents and dry them out here. It is an emergency."
"Oh," fluttered Carla. "He always was one for giving orders! The tyrant! I hope you didn't let him take advantage of you! After all, he'll get all the credit with the Ministry! You're such a pushover," she scolded.
"I told him I couldn't possibly go until the child was born."
"And what did he say?"
"Oh, he huffed and puffed a bit. He couldn't see why you needed me. He's sending mamma by the rapido tonight. But I insisted."
"La mamma? Was he annoyed?"
"But, Franco, we'll never hear the end of it if you don't go! They'll say that while volunteers were pouring in from all over, you were too busy with your private affairs to even drive into Florence to pick up a load of documents! Can you imagine how it sounds! You might even lose your job! Franco! Aldo knows what he's talking about! You must go. Anyway, I've got Doctor Pietri. I don't need you. This isn't France, where you tell me men deliver their own babies! And if la mamma is coming — "
"But I'll be worrying about you! I'd be miserable if — "
"Go!" Carla spoke with the vigor of a Roman matron.
She is playacting too, he thought, but remembered: She is absorbed in me and the children. Poor Carla! And I'm robbing her of her great moment when the baby is produced, the pink or blue ribbon on the door, telephone calls to aunts…. For a moment Franco regretted going. He kissed Carla warmly. "Darling . . ."
"You will go, Franco?"
He rushed off with shameful alacrity. Well, he'd probably be back before the baby was born, after all. Carla yelled after him, "Don't forget to take your high boots."
"I won't."
They were off! The truck rattled as it rounded bends. Franco opened a window. Freezing cold, but the air was crisp with country smells: decaying leaves, wet undergrowth, churned earth. The rain had stopped, and Franco could see sunlight on the headlamps of the trucks behind. A little convoy, that's what they were. Hurtling down the ravines! Ambush hour! Boom! Shut up, Franco! You're a civil servant. Distinguished. He slid an eye toward the driver, but the man's face was vacant. The truck raced through groves of olive trees. In a cleft, a mountain stream hurtled downhill, curling and corkscrewing like a reddish fleece. Like Joan's hair. She, Franco was suddenly sure, would not care about his deceptions. They met as free spirits. Careless, she evaded the conventional prejudices of his own people.
Franco was drenched in mud. His arms were sore, his hands numb inside his rubber gloves. He had raced straight to the Florentine State Archives and work, eager to escape the filth and misery of Florence's streets. Aldo was not to be found. "He's been on the job for seventy-two hours," Franco was told. "He'll surely be back in an hour or two." Franco, who was well known at the Archives, made a quick survey and chose some of the damaged registers that had already been brought up from the ruined vaults — it was thought that they must be court records from the fourteenth century. He then pressed some volunteers into loading them onto his trucks. He let his drivers go, telling them to be back at seven. They would return home tonight. Meanwhile, he stacked the soggy objects handed him by the volunteers. When he got them home, he would have to see about having them scraped, sponged, dried, perhaps with the help of machines. Tobacco barns, he knew, were being used. Someone had suggested freezing. He kept his mind on salvaging techniques, for the state of the ruined registers — over half a millennium old and intact until last week — made him ready to roar with rage. What good would that do? None. Get on with the job, he told himself. And anyway — he had reached the last truck — look how much we have managed to move in a few hours. The city authorities knew of the flood eight hours in advance and gave no warning! How much of this stuff could have been saved if . . . Forget it. And the petty bickering goes on. Look at bloody Aldo! Hoping to advance his career on the flood tide. What will he say when he comes back? Stop me? No. Fear of scandal. Make it work for me. Shall I see Joan? Too tired to think. Aldo was on the job seventy-two hours. I never denied he cares about the Archives. Wonder will he let me have any funds for this lot? Well, that's the last of it now.
He was moving off, having committed his trucks to a couple of his own archivists, and thinking of a washup and sandwich when he saw Aldo.
Pink-eyed from lack of sleep, his face pushed forward in a snout of aggression, his shoulders hunched within his tawny mackintosh, Aldo had the look of a charging hamster. As he raced toward Franco across the Loggiato degli Uffizi, his glasses glittered. He was wearing high boots, and his balding, gourd-shaped head was greatly at odds with this fisherman's outfit.
"Are you out of your mind?" he cried, clutching Franco by the shoulder and pushing him backward into one of the trucks. "What's all this?" He climbed in after him and began poking at the soggy manuscripts. "Who gave you permission? This is state property. I'm responsible for it. You can't just hijack this stuff out of the city to suit your own whim! And what about Carla and Mamma? I suppose that little American whore has turned your head. What are you up to, Franco? This is insubordination!" He had closed the truck door to keep the quarrel concealed from all eyes, and now his voice rose shrilly out of the darkness.
Franco opened the door.
"Close it. Close it." Aldo's spectacles danced in the streak of light. "I want all this stuff unloaded at once."
"Back into the mud?" asked Franco.
"It doesn't leave here without my permission. I'll call the police."
"You were going to send this stuff to me anyway."
"Not this. You've taken some of the most valuable sources. Very precious material. It shouldn't leave Florence. And after the way you've come in looting state property behind my back, I don't think — "
"I got this in the regular way in broad daylight with the cooperation of your own staff," Franco said.
"Because they know you're my brother-in-law! You took advantage of that to associate me with your piracy."
"Aldo! Can't you see I'm just here to help? Like all these other people who are trying to save the damaged documents? That I'm just following up your own suggestion to me on the phone?"
"I told you not to come."
"Because of Carla. And that's my own business."
"You're unreliable. What are you after? Publicity? Promotion? I'll put a stop to your caper! I'll telephone Rome."
"I'll telephone Rome myself. I'll write to the papers."
Franco jumped out of the truck and strode away from the Loggiato. He was halfway across the Piazza della Signoria before it occurred to him that, even if he could find a telephone — only a few had been hooked up for official use — all the ministries in Rome would be closed at this hour. Besides, the idea was absurd: "Please, Mr. Secretary, my brother-in-law's picking on me!" Absurd. His rage snapped like a bubble. Stopping to light a cigarette, it struck him as funny that the load he was trying to save should consist of court records: the work of the Florentine bureaucrats, the Aldos of five hundred years ago. Aldo must be sick with fatigue. Give him time to pull himself together.
Franco waded up mud-befouled streets to Piazza San Giovanni, where Joan had her apartment. He had a key and he climbed the stairs, tracking mud and sawdust after him. He had little expectation of finding her, and he was too tired to care.
As he had guessed, the apartment was deserted. He flopped down on Joan's divan. Then the cold began to nip him. He got up and traced the cold currents to their source in the bathroom, where a window had come unlatched. Its glass had shattered and the frame swung loose. He used a towel to patch it up. Joan had probably not been here since the morning of the flood. He squatted on his hunkers and closed his eyes. Seeking. Joan was gone. Not just from her apartment but from him. Her memory had left him. Gone. He tried to summon her: Joan, elastic skin, bloomy, pinkish, young, the taste of her ear — it all fell apart. Nothing. She was gone from his nerve ends. He groped for her image, as a mud creature in a well might ponder about the brief blur of a butterfly on the surface.
He was depressed by his failure of imagination. It was weariness, worry. Yes, but a dimension was being withdrawn from him. Before long, he knew — it had happened before — his passion would seem spurious; his senses would dull; the grasping clarity of the man in love would leave him, and it would be with an indulgent amusement that he would remember "the little American girl" he had run around with one autumn.
Buttoning his coat, Franco paused at Joan's dressing table, a slab of heavy glass under which she had stuck a hodgepodge of snapshots: all of herself except when some other face, male or female, had been caught by the camera click in a chance proximity too close for later discarding. None but Joan under the two yards of defensive glass, as though, traveling light, she carried no memories but of her different selves in the ski clothes, Mary Quant clothes, slicker coats of fashion. Franco fetched his wallet out of an inner pocket and, tearing a photograph of himself from an outdated identity card, slipped it beneath the plate glass. He laid the key on top of it and walked out of the apartment, pulling the door behind him.
Heavy in his boots, he clumped downstairs as quickly as he could. Outside, he waved his arms in an effort to warm himself. "Goddam and goddamn!" He cursed some medium-weight curses to himself as he squelched back toward the Archives. The cold had reached his marrow. The mission was a failure on all fronts. Another brief folly consummated. Aldo smirks. Carla hides her head. Manuscripts will have to be unloaded because Aldo will not permit me to remove them. I'll be a laughingstock. What'll I tell the truck owners? No noble exploit to report to Rome in the hope of being commended by the Minister for services rendered in time of crisis! No, no! Merely opprobrium. A provincial oaf. Butting in. Leaving his wife on her bed of pain. abandoning their unborn child. What will be said? A lot. Count on that. No guts. Home with tail between legs. What time is it? Seven? Oh God, the drivers! I will have to tell them!
They were standing in a group under the arcades, their coat collars up, smoking. They saluted him.
"All set, Dottore?"
"Better be hitting the road."
So Aldo had said nothing! Where was he now? Franco waved a limp salute to the drivers. "Be with you in a second." He sidled down toward the door of the Archives. A television van was stationed outside it. No sign of Aldo. A man was fixing a spotlight. Another had a portable camera and a microphone. He spoke to Franco.
"These your trucks, sir?"
"Taking stuff out of town to some recovery point?"
"Um, yes."
"We'd like to get a few shots. Do you mind telling us where you're going? Our listeners would be interested to hear about the work that's being done. May I ask your name?" He handed Franco the microphone.
"Doctor Soperchio," Franco told him. "I'm Director of Archives at U — "
"At U– ! That's quite a drive with the state of the roads. Did you come in this morning, Dottore?"
"Yes," Franco told him. He hesitated, but the man was giving him encouraging nods. Franco grasped the microphone tightly. "We, ah, brought in twelve empty trucks. I'm afraid the Florentines who saw us were disappointed when they saw our trucks were empty, but — "
"But you're not taking them back empty?"
Franco took a deep breath. "No!" he said. "No. We have filled them with damaged court records from the fourteenth century. We" — and here he had a feeling of abandon — "we have excellent facilities at U — . We may even return for a second consignment."
His voice, thinned and bouncy from nerves and weariness, leaped like a pea in the whistle of his throat. "A second," he repeated more firmly. He would, too. And a third and a fourth. Suddenly he knew it and was determined. If he had to, he'd fight. Write to the papers. Telephone Mr. Adelaide. He might even enlist the microphone that was rearing before him this minute. Denounce Aldo. Why not? And the hordes of bureaucrats whose swaddling, strangling red tape did more damage than the flood. To hell with caution! A pox on them all. Tell! Show them all up! If there was one thing Franco knew and cared about, it was archives; and the city of Florence held the richest archives in the world. Careful, clerkly and cautious, the old Florentines had been remarkable recorders. Neither the French nor English nor anyone else in their heyday had kept records as they had, and, as a result, the "Athens of the fifteenth century," intact among the fossils of its bones, could still be reconstructed as the fifth-century Athens never could. There might never be another. Scarcely scratched by modern scholarship, the voluminous image of the society that had elaborated the moral and aesthetic norms to which the West still held had escaped destruction by wars, tax riots, and earlier floods to succumb perhaps now to mold and the delays of an idiotic bureaucracy. Franco seized the microphone and waved it angrily. Tell, he reminded himself, but in his agitation was not sure how to begin. Tell! He jerked his chin toward the Uffizi Gallery next door. "The paintings in there," he said, "whose possible loss has agitated the world of women's clubs, are the product of a certain society. They are, of course, priceless but cannot be compared in value to the chart and image of that society's living organism." He was shouting. "Here modern man," he roared, "evolved into a political animal, and here, if history means anything at all, he can be assessed and understood."
The television man asked, "Are you taking the documents back to U — tonight?" "Definitely," said Franco more gently, but he had lost his thread. "The parchment," he accused, "is waterlogged. Mold is the great danger. I would have been here sooner, but it happens that my wife is having a baby right now. As a matter of fact, I left just before the delivery. Time is vital."
"So you actually left your wife in labor?"
The glare of the spotlight was blinding Franco. It was only when the television man turned away from him to talk into his microphone of "just another of the thousands whose unstinting zeal and selflessness have come to be accepted as a matter of course in these days of …" that Franco stepped out of the glare and saw Aldo. He was in the doorway, just behind the television spot and only a few feet away from Franco, whom he was observing with an air of alarm. Beside him was a little man in a hat who, Franco made sure from Aldo's little bobs and grins, must be from the Ministry. He too was looking at Franco. Aldo now beckoned him over.
"My brother-in-law, Doctor Soperchio, Director of Archives at U — ," said Aldo, with intense anxiety. He mentioned the name of the other man, who was indeed from the Ministry and important.
"My dear Doctor Soperchio!" The important man embraced Franco. "I am delighted to make your acquaintance. We just overheard you speak for the television. Most moving, I must say! Your feeling was contagious. I nearly broke down myself. Be assured that your outstanding devotion to the National Patrimony will not go unrecognized."
Over his shoulder, Franco perceived in Aldo's face, beneath the layers of relief, a faint oscillation of the flesh tantamount to a collusive wink.
"You are too good," Franco muttered to the important man. "I was merely doing my duty as a public servant." Then he rubbed a handkerchief over his eyelid, which was beginning to twitch uncontrollably.
Classic Fiction, Fiction
"Francine" by Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
"The Third Casket" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Castle Secret" by James Helvick
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BkiUbuc5qU2Apzl5unC_ | Winter Break homework: Read!!!!!!! and keep a Reading Log. That's it!
Please have a safe and joyful Winter Break with your child. I will be out this week due to a personal matter. Any questions can be sent to Ms. Pfeiffer via ClassDojo.
Reader's Workshop: Reading GOAL- Students have been giving a reading goal for Q2. This goal will be graded on the percentage of points that they accrue towards their total point goal. Students earn points by taking reading quizzes after they finish any IR or GR book. Please make sure that your child is reading a minimum of 30 minutes nightly from their IR book so that they may meet their goal. This week, students will work on Daily 5 activities: Read To Self, Guided Reading, Listen To Reading, and Word Work. Students will also complete work in the Class novel, Wonder.
Writer's Workshop: This week students will create, draft and publish a persuasive essay.
Math: In Math, students will complete lessons 4-7 through 4-9, emphasizing plotting ordered pairs on a grid.
Science: This week, student will use microscopes to compare/contrast items seen with the naked eye, vs magnification.
Social Studies: Students will study the first English settlement, Jamestown, in the Americas.
Writing Finish prewrite/ graphic organizer Finish draft Finish revisions Publish persuasive essay. Due Friday December 23.
Reading Read for a minimum of 30 minutes/ Complete Reading Log/Tic Tac Toe Read for a minimum of 30 minutes/ Complete Reading Log/Tic Tac Toe Read for a minimum of 30 minutes/ Complete Reading Log/Tic Tac Toe Read for a minimum of 30 minutes' Complete Reading log/Tic Tac Toe Reading Log/Tic Tac Toe board is due today.
5TH Grade Tic Tac Toe Assignment: Choose 3 different activities! Due Friday.
Make a word search with important words, names, and places from the story. Solve it! Make a connection to the story. Explain your connection in 3-5 sentences. How has Via's P.O.V. made you feel differently about Auggie and the story so far? Explain in 3-5 sentences. Cite one piece of text evidence to support your thinking.
Write a letter to the protagonist (main character) in your Independent Reading book, and give them some advice on how to solve their problem in the story. Use proper letter formatting. Use one word to describe a character from your IR book. then, find two pieces of text evidence in the story to support your word choice. Find three words that you do not know from your IR book. Define each word and draw a picture to help you remember its meaning.
Pajama Friday! We will be having a holiday celebration this Friday, December 16 in the afternoon. Students will watch a movie and enjoy light refreshments.
It's suddenly winter. Make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather conditions.
Writing Finish draft SCOPE: Poetry packet Publish persuasive essay. Due Monday December 19.
5TH Grade Tic Tac Toe Assignment: Choose 3 activities! Due Friday.
Please remember to return the field trip form and $10 to see the Nutcracker by this Thursday. Parents- we have plenty of chaperones, but if you would like to come, please contact me.
Reader's Workshop: Reading GOAL- Students have been giving a reading goal for Q2. This goal will be graded on the percentage of points that they accrue towards their total point goal. Students earn points by taking reading quizzes after they finish any IR or GR book. Please make sure that your child is reading a minimum of 30 minutes nightly from their IR book so that they may meet their goal.
This week, students will work on Daily 5 activities: Read To Self, Guided Reading, Listen To Reading, and Word Work. Students will also complete work in the Class novel, Wonder. Tic Tac Toe boards are now digital, and they will be available every week on the class blog.
Writer's Workshop: This week students will begin organizing and drafting persuasive essays. Organization through a graphic organizer will be introduced to help students gather ideas before drafting.
Math: In Math, students will complete Unit 3. There will be a Unit 3 assessment on Tuesday. Then, Unit 4.1-4.2 will be covered, reviewing decimal place value system.
Science: This week, students will continue work in Microworlds. Students will practice scientific sketching, increasing their accuracy and detail orientation. Then, student will develop a series of sketches on objects, identifying attributes of each object using their senses.
Social Studies: Students will study other explorers from Europe who were searching for the Northwest Passage.
Choose 3 activities you haven't done yet! Due Friday.
Make a word search with important words, names, and places from the story. Solve it! Make a connection to the story. Explain your connection in 3-5 sentences. From the story,Wonder,we have learned a little bit about Via's friend, Miranda. Use one word to describe her and defend your word choice by using text details to support it.
Write a letter to the protagonist (main character) in your Guided Reading book, and give them some advice on how to solve their problem in the story. Make a Venn diagram to compare this book to your guided reading book. How was it similar? How was it different? What do you think the theme of your IR book is? Remember, theme is the lesson the story is teaching you.
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BkiUa_E5qoaAwnKZBFof | U.K. attorney general: Allies must collaborate on attribution of international cyberattacks
(@attorneygeneral / Twitter)
Zaid Shoorbajee
May 23, 2018 | CyberScoop
Written by Zaid Shoorbajee
Britain's top prosecutor says that countries need to work together to determine the identity of attackers behind cross-border cyberattacks.
In a Wednesday speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a British think tank, U.K. Attorney General Jeremy Wright made the case that the world needs to do more to make sure that international law is enforced when it comes to cybercrime. To that end, he argued that the U.K. and its allies should make attribution a priority.
"Cyberspace is not – and must never be – a lawless world. It is the U.K.'s view that when states and individuals engage in hostile cyber-operations, they are governed by law just like activities in any other domain," Wright said. "The question is not whether or not international law applies, but rather how it applies and whether our current understanding is sufficient."
In his speech, Wright went at length to legally justify a state taking countermeasures against another state if it determines that the other state conducted a cyberattack against it.
"Put simply, if a hostile state breaches international law as a result of its coercive actions against the target state's sovereign freedoms, then the victim state can take action to compel that hostile state to stop," Wright said.
He also argued that retaliatory measures don't necessarily have to be symmetrical; they should just be proportional, which he said "means that the U.K. could respond to a cyber-intrusion through non-cyber means, and vice versa."
Taking things a step further, Wright made the case that if a cyberattack results in death, it's not out-of-bounds for the victim state to use force in response to the adversary.
"If a hostile state interferes with the operation of one of our nuclear reactors, resulting in widespread loss of life, the fact that the act is carried out by way of a cyber-operation does not prevent it from being viewed as an unlawful use of force or an armed attack against us," Wright said.
The problem of attribution
In order for the U.K. to aggressively respond to the scenarios that Wright is painting, the country needs to be able to make proper attributions of cyberattacks. Attribution is often difficult because of the way attacks can transcend borders and how attackers can obfuscate their identities and origins.
"One of the biggest challenges for a state that finds itself a victim of a hostile cyber-operation is determination of who was behind it," Wright said. "Without clearly identifying who is responsible for hostile cyber-activity, it is impossible to take responsible action in response."
The prosecutor cited the International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility as justification for naming naming the perpetrators of cyberattacks. Those United Nations rules require a state to take on the legal responsibility for acts that violate international law.
"These principles must be adapted and applied to a densely technical world of electronic signatures, hard-to-trace networks and the dark web," Wright said. "They must be applied to situations in which the actions of states are masked, often deliberately, by the involvement of non-state actors."
Wright said that while there's no legal obligation to publicly disclose how a country determines attribution or to even make the attribution public, the U.K. often does so.
He cited as an example the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack that affected 150 countries and hit Britain's hospital system especially hard. The U.K. along with other allies included the U.S. attributed WannaCry to North Korea in December. He also mentioned the NotPetya attack on Ukraine that the U.K. and allies attributed to the Russian military in February.
More countries ought to collaborate on the practice of attribution, Wright said, in order to more confidently name names.
"We will continue to work closely with allies to deter, mitigate and attribute malicious cyber-activity. It is important that our adversaries know their actions will be held up for scrutiny as an additional incentive to become more responsible members of the international community."
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attribution, cyberattacks, international, jeremy wright, legal, NotPetya, U.K., WannaCry
Pentagon cyber contractor...
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Active Chinese hacking...
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Bulgaria hacking suspect...
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BkiUc-I5qhDACrbibj1- | Q: Lower validation accuracy on ImageNet when evaluating Keras pre-trained models I want to work with Keras models pre-trained on ImageNet. The models and information about their performance are here.
I downloaded ILSVRC 2012 (ImageNet) dataset and evaluated ResNet50 on the validation dataset. The top-1 accuracy should be 0.749 but I get 0.68. The top-5 accuracy should be 0.921, mine is 0.884. I also tried VGG16 and MobileNet with similar discrepancies.
I preprocess the images using built-in preprocess_input function (e.g. tensorflow.keras.applications.resnet50.preprocess_input()).
My guess is that the dataset is different. How can I make sure that the validation dataset that I use for evaluation is the same as the one that was used by the authors? Could there be any other reason why I get different results?
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The Tattlesnake The Dying of the Right Part Deux Edition
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you concentrate on."
— George W. Bush
"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know — and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
— Joyce Cary
Larry (not his real name) pretty much confirms what many of us already suspected about the "I hope he fails" crowd. After years of taking public surveys, Lar developed this scientific rule of thumb, which can be stated thusly: "Twenty percent of the American people are utter freaking morons." To put it another way, about two out of ten knew such tidbits as all or most of the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment, the names of their two senators, in what century the Second World War was fought, who LBJ was and what his initials stood for, and how old the United States is; six of ten knew at least one senator, and managed to get more than half of the American history/political questions correct; two out of ten, meanwhile, barely knew what century they were living in and were hard put to name the kind of skin used to make a bear skin rug. Guess what political party and ideology was embraced by 90 percent of the bottom-feeding twenty percent, and who their favorite radio talk show host was?
Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, I heard the other day that the three most well-known Republicans in the nation were Maj. Anal Cyst, Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber's Helper, a regular triumvirate of Jim Crow snark, Wasillabilly fark and dee-do-diddley dumb fronting for the wealthy old firm of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe. The GOP is in the process of desperately trying to shore up its dwindling 'base' of Jaywalk All-Stars, and the Democrats, borrowing their gumption from single-cell amoeba, continue to flinch at the shadow of the embalmed corpse of Ronald Reagan, the threatened filibusters of King Wanker Mitch McConnell, and the fading influence of the soon-to-be perp walked Karl Rove. I've given up seeking the goose juice to make the Dems act like winners for a change. We can only hope Sheriff Obama will be able to corral these shaky steers long enough to pass legislation to end Bush's National Nightmare. Out of ideas, out of favor, out of power, and sinking ignominiously into the Hee Haw-rerun party, this is all the GOP has left.
Former Dan Quayle Chief of Staff and Original Neocon Bill Kristol, lately bounced from the NY Times op-ed page as even Andy Rosenthal could no longer cover for his nitwittery with a straight face, has laid out the reason for the strident and baffling GOP opposition to the badly-needed stimulus package: this is just the warm-up to the big fight coming over health care reform, of which the Republicans want none, contrary to the wishes of the vast majority of the public. Why does the right-wing hate America? | commoncrawl | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUdbs25V5heEVpDvPD | There have been several author deaths in the past few weeks.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Margaret Forster, who wrote more than 40 books after her 1960s bestseller Georgy Girl, died this past month at age 77. Forster's husband, the writer and journalist Hunter Davies , reported her death at a hospice near her north London home.
Forster, a former teacher, was one of the UK's most prolific writers, producing more than 20 works of fiction and a host of award-winning nonfiction titles after the success of her 1965 novel about a young woman adrift in swinging London. Georgy Girl was made into a film starring Lynn Redgrave in the title role, alongside Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates and James Mason, and featuring a song which was recorded by the Australian group the Seekers, and became an international chart-topper. It was listed at number 36 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Pop Songs of all time".
Forster interspersed her novels with books about literary figures such as Thackeray and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and had a beady eye for a good story. It was her 1993 biography of Daphne du Maurier that first revealed the novelist's complicated sexuality, and her obsessions with women, notably the actress Gertrude Lawrence.
UMBERTO ECO, The Italian scholar and best-selling author of novels such as 'The Name of the Rose' also died this month in Milan at age 84.
AND THE THIRD AUTHOR death that I have information about is the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee at age 89. Lee won the Pulitzer for fiction in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird and was much in the headlines last year when a previously unknown manuscript was discovered and published in the summer as Go Set a Watchman.
Among the many accolades she earned in her life, Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. To Kill a Mockingbird has sold 40 million copies worldwide, and the publication of Go Set a Watchman was the publishing event of 2015. The book was the bestselling book of the year, selling nearly 1.6 million copies in print.
For Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., To Kill a Mockingbird is unquestionably one of the most "beloved stories in all of American culture." He says that Mockingbird is one of the rare works to have achieved as much critical success as commercial success. That the book earned such a prominent perch in this country's collective imagination—a staple on school reading lists, as well as bestseller lists—became both boon and burden for a woman who scorned fame and prized privacy.
Published in 1960, the book has sold some 40 million copies to date, making it one of the biggest-selling American novels ever. The fact that its author who hoped her early flirtation with literary stardom would be fleeting, and largely disappeared from public life after the book was published, only contributed to the mystique.
Having successfully stayed out of the limelight for most of her post-Mockingbird life, Lee became the center of national attention again last year, when HarperCollins announced it would be releasing a new novel by her. Although Go Set a Watchman was not actually new—in fact it was an early/ rejected first draft of Mockingbird—its publication became one of the biggest industry stories of 2015. Of course, Watchman also became a huge hit: It was the bestselling print book of 2015, moving 1.6 million copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.
So it's not surprising that when No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon sued No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare, filing a complaint of copyright and trademark infringement on Feb. 5, the news spread fast. At issue, to the puzzlement of many observers, isn't word-for-word plagiarism, but what looks like Kenyon's attempt to claim ownership of some of the most archetypal themes in popular culture ("an elite band of warriors that must protect the human world from the unseen paranormal threat," for example). And egging Kenyon on is a legion of implacable Cassandra Clare detractors who have had it in for the YA phenom since her apprenticeship years in the notoriously toxic subculture of Harry Potter fandom.
I'll have more next week on the drama surrounding this lawsuit and what people are saying about both Cassandra Clare and Sherrilyn Kenyon. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbYU4uzlgqIdPi2L9 | Q&A: Serj Tankian Talks His New Electronic Project and How 'Normal' Is 'Extinction'
Serj Tankian, 52, is across the world during the pandemic, currently residing in New Zealand. But he is very conscious of all going on in the States, having lost an 86-year-old uncle in New York to COVID-19 and having his parents grounded in the States still while he is so far away. The multi-hyphenate singer/composer/painter/activist has a lot to say about the U.S. pandemic response, as well as his always-prolific artistic output, including a new collaboration, Fuktronic, with his friend, Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence. A significant departure for both frontmen, the collection melds electronic beats with dialogue "from a made-up British gangster film."
SPIN jumped on a phone call with Tankian to discuss his forthcoming rock EP and the state of the world in quarantine.
Why do you think New Zealand has had more success at flattening the curve during the pandemic?
Serj Tankian: Our Prime Minister here has done a phenomenal job with government locking down early, being very communicative and very strict with the lockdown. We didn't even have takeout for five weeks. We had a real lockdown. [Laughs.]
Quite the contrast from the U.S. government.
Absolutely, it has been a disaster. The federal response truly too little, too late; not enough preparation on masks and ventilators. They knew this was happening in January and they didn't do shit until March, until it was too late. It's interesting because you see different governors exercising their rights to close down differently. And those that did it early and strict have seemed to work. In California it helps that we haven't had public transport, we're already more isolated than people on the east coast and what not. All those factors matter. To me this whole thing is politically very interesting. Countries that have good leadership have done well. Countries that don't haven't. My parents are there. I'm worried about them even though I'm in New Zealand. I'm gonna be coming back soon 'cause I'm worried about them and it's a tough time.
What bothers you most about the current state of the world?
I'll start with the Michael Flynn thing. I read that this morning on the BBC and I was so fucking horrified. Trump's been threatening to pardon him anyway if he actually spent more time in jail. This guy has not only broken the law for Trump before he became president as far as meeting with the Russians and influencing policy, but also took money from the government of Turkey to represent Turkey. If you do that you're actually a foreign representative and you have to register with the State Department. This guy has broken two major federal laws that if it was you or me we'd be fucking rotting in jail for the rest of our lives. But today he's scot-free. Yeah, it is corrupt. Speaking of Armenia, in 2018 Armenia had a peaceful demonstration to overthrow a corrupt post-oligarchic regime. Oligarchic regimes around the world are very blatantly corrupt. In other words you pay off a cop, you pay off a judge.
The U.S. form of corruption is more refined. It's legalized. Super delegates; the electoral college, these are all instruments by which the powerful can keep their power and influence a leadership for generations to come with billions of dollars being traded. Right now over the last 15, 20 years, the government of Turkey has spent 40, 50 million dollars on K Street lobbying firms that have lobbied Congress not to recognize the genocide. And luckily the U.S. Congress recognized the genocide in November of 2019, which was a huge victory for justice and the Armenian-American community and the truthful side of history. So yeah the U.S. is very fucking corrupt, on the top. Not on the bottom. Your average person is not dealing with that type of corruption. But on the top, we're talking billions of dollars for running for president. So we need a peaceful revolution like the one in Armenia in the U.S. to topple this type of stupidity. And I say stupidity because it comes from ignorance, from the lack of education. During the Reagan time, they started cutting funding for public education and we've created a dumber population in the U.S. than we had previous to that. And that is dangerous because we're getting dumb fucking leaders because of it.
What is the biggest change you'd like to see come out of this?
There is no fucking normal. Normal is your own extinction of the species on the planet. If that's what you want to go to, have fun. But we would rather see our kids live, our grandchildren live. So let's help create what is the new normal. We can't go back to life as it used to be. We need to globally figure out how to cut down on consumption — change our lifestyle habits, our dietary habits and be more aware as a society of how we're going to go forward. That also includes getting rid of these stupid fucking ignorant corrupt leaders around the world. Does the planet have time for this? We don't have time for this.
How is this chaos impacting your own music?
As I've been in lockdown I've gone and created probably a whole hour or hour and a half of new music. Music has been my savior so I know how people feel about music. And I think it is very important in these times. Being stuck at home we've been listening to music and watching movies. It's a way of relating, a way of escaping, a way of calming ourselves down. I was looking forward to seeing Rage come back absolutely. And they still will. But personally I don't think it's gonna be until next year from what it looks like. It doesn't look like large events are gonna be possible anywhere any time soon. It's too risky, especially November coming around and the possibilities of re-infection. So I don't see this going forward anytime soon.
And how did Fuktronic come about during all this?
Fuktronic is a total goof idea that Jimmy Urine and I came up with years ago having sushi, both of us being fans of British gangster films. And we find them funny. Certain people find them offensive and violent. Of course they are those things as well. We find them over the top funny because they're just too crazy to be taken seriously. We would laugh about that and give each other quotes from films and started talking about the music. And then we were like, "Hey, man, why don't we create a soundtrack to a British gangster film and we'll get all these voiceover actor friends and we can get them on it? And we'll just make this crazy Guy Ritchie film without a film and without Guy Ritchie?" [Laughs] I've got a lot of other stuff in the pipeline. I've got an EP of rock songs that's gonna be out this year. Once I score another film I'll probably put out some more soundtracks next year as well.
Is there anyone whose artistic evolution you look to as a model for your own?
David Bowie, Tom Waits, people that reinvented themselves. Even Madonna to a certain degree reinvented herself so many times it's quite interesting. I'm a huge Tom Waits fan. That guy hasn't toured in so many years and if he did, even if I didn't want to go to any shows, that would be the one I would go to.
Tell me more about this rock EP you're putting out.
Originally I had these songs in mind for a System record if we were to end up doing a System record. But as we could not really see eye to eye on how to go forward with that I decided to finish them off myself and release them as an EP.
So people shouldn't hold their breath for new System of a Down anytime soon.
I don't know, man. It hasn't happened. But I'll never say never.
Why does the EP remind you of System?
I always have random rock tracks done at different times and I sit on them. And then one day the right project or right idea for releasing them will come along. They all have piano or synthesizers, which is a little different than the four-person crew with System, although we had some synths as well. It's got stuff that's really heavy, heavy and there's a funny aspect and then there's a song about my son. It kind of runs the gauntlet on diversity of thematic expression: political, non-political. I guess that's always been me, all over the place. I think I'm gonna call it Elasticity just because I wanted to do it with System and it didn't happen. For me, it's not Toxicity but it is Toxicity. [Laughs.] That's what I'm thinking of calling it. I haven't finalized it, but that's what I'm thinking of calling it. We'll probably put it out later this year. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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