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Some sources cite full name as Vanessa Jeanne Marshall; born 1970; daughter of John Marshall (in journalism) and Joan Van Ark (an actress); niece of Carol Kuykendall (a writer and educator). Education: Princeton University, B.A., English, 1991; New York University, M.F.A., acting. Avocational Interests: Hockey.
Agent—CESD Talent (Cunningham Escott Slevin and Doherty Talent Agency), 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suites 130 and 135, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
Actress and voice artist. Stand-up comedienne at various venues. Member of the company at the Acme Comedy Theatre, member of the Short Attention Span comedy group at the Knitting Factory, and member of the Inhalers, an improvisational sketch troupe at the Austin Comedy Festival. Announcer for various projects and for television networks, worked as a voice artist for television and radio promotional spots, as a voice artist for film trailers, and created advertisements and promotional spots. Worked as a documentary filmmaker and as a model.
Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Award nomination, best female voice performance, c. 2005, for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone.
Various voices, including Irwin and Mandy's mother, Grim & Evil (animated; also known as The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), Cartoon Network, beginning 2001.
Voice of Melissa Docona, Detroit Docona (animated), beginning c. 2004.
Announcer, On the Cover, PAX TV (later known as I, Independent Television), beginning 2004.
Some sources cite work on Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (also known as Ellen and The Ellen DeGeneres Show), syndicated.
Presenter, 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as Screen Actors Guild 12th Annual Awards), TNT and TBS, 2006.
Veronica, "Blue Bamboo," Law & Order (also known as Law & Order Prime), NBC, 1994.
Voices of store assistant, beautician, and store attendant, "The Full Monty/Mall Cop/I.M. Weasel: I Am Cliched," Cow and Chicken (animated), Cartoon Network, 1999.
Becky, "My Best Friend's Mistake," Scrubs, NBC, 2001.
Voices of trucker and airport announcer, "A Johnny Bravo Christmas," Johnny Bravo (animated), Cartoon, 2001.
Voice, "Heroes and Daredevils," Chasing the Sun (documentary), PBS, 2001.
Voice, "The Visionaries," Chasing the Sun (documentary), PBS, 2001.
Voice of Cleopatra, "A Sandwich by Any Other Name/Shop Like an Egyptian," Time Squad (animated), Cartoon Network, 2002.
Voice of lipstick lady, "Fury: Parts 1 & 2," Justice League (animated; also known as JL, JLA, Justice League of America, and Justice League Unlimited), Cartoon Network, 2002.
Voice of virtual operator, "Wired: Part 2," The Zeta Project (animated), The WB, 2002.
Herself, Intimate Portrait: Joan Van Ark, Lifetime, 2002.
Voices of waitress and women, "Shiver Me Dodgers," Duck Dodgers (animated; also known as Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century), Cartoon Network, 2003.
Voices of gal and teller, "Mo'Linguish/Oops, I Did It Again," The Powerpuff Girls (animated), Cartoon Network, 2004.
Voice of Eleanor Brown, "Escape from Cavigor," W.I.T.C.H. (animated), ABC Family Channel, 2005.
Voice of Eleanor Brown, "Parent's Night," W.I.T.C.H. (animated), ABC Family Channel, 2005.
Voice of new cadet, "Till Doom Do Us Part," Duck Dodgers (animated; also known as Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century), Cartoon Network, 2005.
Voices of vanity automaton and Dandy Boy Blue, "Villainstruck/Just the Two of Us," Duck Dodgers (animated; also known as Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century), Cartoon Network, 2005.
Voice of Miriadel, "J Is for Jewel," W.I.T.C.H. (animated), ABC Family Channel, 2006.
Voice of Tiny, "The Galactic Enforcers," Ben 10 (animated), Cartoon Network, 2006.
Voices of Diamondhead and Fourarms, "Gwen 10," Ben 10 (animated), Cartoon Network, 2006.
Voices of police officer and others, "A Change of Face," Ben 10 (animated), Cartoon Network, 2006.
Provided voices for The Simpsons (animated), Fox; appeared in multiple episodes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC; appeared in episodes of other programs, including City Guys, NBC; and provided the voice of Daphne's cousin, Scooby Doo (animated).
Voice of Mrs. Sirol, Bagboy! (animated), Cartoon Network, 2002.
Wardrobe worker, Under the Piano, [Canada], 1995, Lifetime, 1996.
Lipstick, Tango Flush (short film), 1998.
Bloody girl, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (also known as Jack Frost II), Unapix Entertainment, 2000.
Voice of Sweetie, Supernova, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 2000.
The booster, Defending the Super$ave (short film), This Side of the Fence, 2001.
Voices of Honohan and others, The Golden Blaze (animated), Warner Bros., 2005.
Voices of white hen and tan hen, Dr. Dolittle 3, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2006.
Some sources cite appearances in Gone in Sixty Seconds (also known as Gone in 60 Seconds), Buena Vista, 2000; Life or Something Like It, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002; and Curious George (animated), Universal, 2006.
Wardrobe worker, Sleeping Dogs Lie (also known as Le mystere d'Ambrose Small), Sullivan Entertainment, 1998.
Isabel, The American Clock, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Main Stage, Williamstown, MA, 1988.
Got Phat? Tales of a Plus Size Model (solo show), Hudson Guild Theatre, Hollywood, CA, then HERE Arts Center, New York City, both 2000.
Appeared in The Big Funk, The Odyssey; The Maderati, Actor's Circle; and Star Dust, Tiffany Theater, Los Angeles. Appeared in other productions, including an appearance as Masha, The Three Sisters, and as Viola, Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night, or What You Will), both New York University.
Narrator, Dune 2000, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1998.
Voice of car computer, 007: Agent under Fire (also known as Agent under Fire and James Bond in "Agent under Fire"), Electronic Arts, 2001.
Voice of Eldrith, Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate—Dark Alliance (also known as Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance), Interplay Entertainment, 2001.
Voice of Olga Gurlukovich, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (also known as Metal Gear Solid 2 and MGS2), Konami, 2001.
Voice of Soviet amphibious transport, Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge (also known as Red Alert 2 Expansion Pack: Yuri's Revenge), Electronic Arts, 2001.
Voice, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Interplay Entertainment, 2001.
Voice, Disney's "The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure" (also known as The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure), Activision, 2001.
Voice, Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale—Heart of Winter, Interplay Entertainment, 2001.
Voice of female, Red Faction II, THQ, 2002.
Voice of Jan Ors, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II—Jedi Outcast (also known as Star Wars: Dark Forces 3), LucasArts Entertainment Company, 2002.
Voice of Nani, Lilo & Stitch, Disney Interactive/Sony Computer Entertainment America, 2002.
Voice of Olga Gurlukovich, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (also known as Metal Gear Solid X), Konami, 2002.
Voice of starbase traffic controller, Earth and Beyond, Electronic Arts, 2002.
Voices of filmbook and unit response member, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Electronic Arts, 2002.
Voices of Jenny and Uranus, Bloody Roar Extreme (also known as Bloody Roar: Primal Fury), Activision, 2002.
Voices of mermaid and valkyrie, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, EA Games, 2002.
Voice, Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale II (also known as Icewind Dale II), Black Isle Studios, 2002.
Voice, James Bond 007: Nightfire (also known as 007: Nightfire), Electronic Arts, 2002.
Voice of headquarters, SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs, Sony Computer Entertainment America, 2003.
Voice of Sonya Hart, Dino Crisis 3, Capcom, 2003.
Various voices, True Crime: Streets of LA, Activision, 2003.
Voice, Freedom Fighters, EA Games, 2003.
Voice, Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader (also known as Lionheart), Interplay Entertainment/Black Isle Studios, 2003.
Voice of Eve, Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell, DreamCatcher Interactive, 2004.
Voice of Rachel, Viewtiful Joe 2, Capcom, 2004.
Voice of Vega Donna, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (also known as Onimusha 3), Capcom, 2004.
Voices of Catherine and Eve, Painkiller, DreamCatcher Interactive, 2004.
Voices of Rader matron (Jane) and Wasteland prostitute (Ruby), Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (also known as Wasteland Prostitute), Interplay Entertainment, 2004.
Voices of wicked witch, Cinderella, and Grandma, Shrek 2, Activision, 2004.
Voices of Zhai, female elf, and elven villager, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, Atari, 2004.
Various voices, EverQuest II, Sony Online Entertainment, 2004.
Various voices, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (also known as Everything or Nothing and 007: Everything or Nothing), EA Games, 2004.
Various voices, Shark Tale (also known as DreamWorks's "Shark Tale"), Activision, 2004.
Various voices, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords (also known as Star Wars: KOTOR II), LucasArts Entertainment Company, 2004.
Voice, Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest (also known as Champions of Norrath), Sony Online Entertainment, 2004.
Voice, Wrath Unleashed, LucasArts Entertainment Company/Activision, 2004.
Voice of adult female, Crash Tag Team Racing, Vivendi Universal Games, 2005.
Voice of Candi, True Crime: New York City, Activision, 2005.
Voice of Mercy, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Vivendi Universal Games/Sierra, 2005.
Voice of Nala, Kingdom Hearts II (also known as Kingudamu hatsu II), Square Enix, 2005.
Voice of Olivia, Advent Rising, Majesco Entertainment, 2005.
Voice of second officer, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Electronic Arts, 2005, other edition of game also released, Electronic Arts, 2005.
Voices of Ancanas and others, Shadow of Rome, Capcom, 2005.
Voices of Daniels, enforcer, and prostitute, Narc, Midway Games, 2005.
(As Anessa Marshall) Voices of Sprocket, Rachel, and Tsukumo, Viewtiful Joe: Battle Carnival (also known as Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble), Capcom, 2005.
Various voices, Gun, Activision, 2005.
Voice, Champions: Return to Arms, Sony Online Entertainment/Snowblind Studios, 2005.
Voice, EverQuest II: Desert of Flames, Sony Online Entertainment/Ubi Soft, 2005.
Voice of Antoinette Marceau, Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, AWE Games, 2006.
Voice of Eva in English version, Metal Gear Solid 2: Portable Ops, Konami, 2006.
Voice of Huntress, Justice League Heroes (also known as Justice League Heroes: The Flash), Eidos/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2006.
Voice of Sparx's mother, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, Sierra Entertainment, 2006.
Voice, Guild Wars: Factions, NCsoft, 2006.
Voice, Saint's Row, THQ, 2006.
Voices, Dead Rising, Capcom, 2006.
"Marshall, Vanessa 1970–." Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. . Encyclopedia.com. 18 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>. | {
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Donald Glover on "Bad and Boujee": "There's no better song to have sex to"
Shaheem Reid
// Jan 9, 2017
@childishnews
Shaheem ReidJan 9, 2017
Sunday night (January 8) Donald Glover selflessly took some of his time in the spotlight to show love to Migos and their single "Bad and Boujee." The actor/rapper also known as Childish Gambino shouted out the ATL trio and their current banger at the Golden Globes Awards during his acceptance speech for Best Series Musical or Comedy for Atlanta. Backstage at the Globes, Glover explained his big-ups.
"I think they're the Beatles of this generation, and they don't get a lot of respect," Glover said of Migos. "I think outside of Atlanta… Not that they don't get a lot of respect, but there's a generation, outside the YouTube generation that I kinda came up with. There's a generation of kids that are growing up on something that's completely separate from a whole group of people. And honestly, that song is just fly. There's no better song to have sex to. "
Migos did appear on Atlanta as drug dealers during its debut season on FX, and Glover acknowledged their cameo onstage during the Globes, but concentrated his praise on "Bad and Boujee."
"I really want to thank the Migos. Not for being on the show, but for making 'Bad and Boujee.' That's the best song, ever."
The Migos' Quavo took to Instagram and thanked Glover. "Respect at the highest level," he wrote. "@childishgambino. CULTURE."
#GoldenGlobeAwards ✊🏾RESPECT AT THA HIGHEST LEVEL @childishgambino C U L T U R E
A video posted by QuavoHuncho (@quavohuncho) on Jan 8, 2017 at 5:44pm PST
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Donald Glover wins two Golden Globes for "Atlanta," thanks Migos
Big night for Atlanta's very own.Shaheem Reid // 3 years ago
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Donald Glover reveals why he's retiring the Childish Gambino moniker
"I feel like there's gotta be a reason to do things," he said.REVOLT TV // 2 years ago
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And Jennifer Hudson signs on to judge next season of 'The Voice.'2 years ago | {
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I saw another post a week ago i think about someone not being able to upgrade but i can't find it anymore I don't remember the thread i was in.
Yea i disabled speedhacks...i dont know what savestates is i dont see it anywhere in the emulation settings thing. but uhh yea it still wont let me upgrade anything but the blades of athena.
Are you using any patches?
Edit: nvm that,try changing the CDVD Plugin.
P.S. making an ISO of the game is the best idea, I played God Of War 1 (used the ISO instead of the CD) without almost anything happening wrong.
(06-22-2010, 06:43 AM)l[Shady]l Wrote: Are you using any patches?
im not using patches that i know of. I tried all of teh cdvd plugins and it still is happening, and im also using an iso.
(06-22-2010, 03:04 PM)diegochiha Wrote: what version of the game do you have?
Setting the Clamp modes for EE and VU to something higher than normal might also fix some ingame bugs In FFX for example enemies are turned away from you in battle, if you use normal or no clamp. | {
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Q: Bash парсинг результата команды Привет, сколько ищу- не могу найти ответ на решение вопроса.
Имеется баш скрипт, который запускается с помощью php(связывается с CMS), при запуске он (bash скрипт) выдает результат в виде
------------------------------------------------------------------
I M P O R T A N T
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Account created
loginname= "login", password= "password"
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Каким образом можно отпарсить значения loginname и password с помощью того же пхп ?
A: Не проверял код, но должно отработать:
function getCredentials($input, $output) {
preg_match('/'.$input.'=\s"(.*?)"/', $output, $matches);
if(empty($matches[1])) {
return null;
}
return $matches[1];
}
$output = shell_exec('command');
$login = getCredentials('loginname', $output);
$passsword = getCredentials('passsword', $output);
Функция принимает атрибут и вывод консоли и находит значение.
Или же можно всё сделать чуть иначе:
function getCredentials($output) {
preg_match_all('/=\s"(.*?)"/', $output, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
if(empty($matches[1])) {
return null;
}
return $matches[1];
}
Но в таком случае не понятно что в итоге может придти в ответе, в идеале должен быть ответ:
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(5) "login"
[1]=>
string(8) "password"
}
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International Air Charter Bolsters Fleet
International Air Charter (IAC) has bolstered its fleet to meet the expected surge in demand during Eid Al Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. IAC is one of the world's biggest independent private jet charter brokers and consultants.
The company hit their growth target this season and expects a 50 per cent increase in the number of clients. IAC Middle East Partner Elie Abdo said "While IAC has been hitting its growth targets for the season with bookings and reservations steadily increasing, we are expecting a further rush in demand during Eid Al Fitr."
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The amphitheater in downtown Amman is the most magnificent remnant of Amman's Roman past. It was built around 170AD at the height of the Roman empire, when Amman was known as Philadelphia. The capacity is upwards of 6,000. Amphitheaters were the heart of Roman civic life. Citizens would gather there to watch plays and discuss politics. The Nymphaeum, an impressive Rom...
Oslo Opera House
This building is home to the National Opera of Norway. Seated at the mouth of Oslo's fjord, the building was awarded the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in 2008. Over one million people have already visited this beautiful building; we recommend you do the same, if only in passing. Address: Kirsten Flagstads Plass 1 {lo...
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
This museum unfolds the very best in historical art and modern contemporary work. The works on display usually range from the 20th century up to the 1980s. The most famous is Picasso's Guernica , with plenty more on display. Plaza Santa Isabel 52, Atocha Tel: +34 91 774 1000 Fax: +34 91 774 1056 Timings: Mon & Wed-Sat 10:00 - 21:00, Sun 10:00 - 14:30 &n...
What to do with Children in Tow
Although it may not seem that way at first, Buenos Aires is an extremely safe and child friendly city. There are many child-friendly eateries and lots of parks to explore. Porteños adore children; you are bound to get into some interesting conversations with the locals that never would have happened if not for your little ones. Keeping the kids busy for hours will not be difficult in Buenos Aires....
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Another picture of whatever is living in my pepper plants. I also noticed two extremely small, extremely fast little white bugs running around the soil in two of the containers. Thinking these might be the adolescent version of this? I'm really looking for sunny, more moderate weather so I can get these back outside, and to help out the other struggling warm weather plants that are already in the ground.
Both look very similar, no idea what they are.
The first of two bugs found on sweet pepper plants.
These two are lighter and reddish-brown.
A few days ago, I noticed a few small holes in the broccoli plants. The next day, I noticed some in the radishes and thought, "hmm, I wonder if they are related." Now, a few in the spinach. I haven't seen any bugs, but I haven't had time to investigate either. It appears to be the workings of a flea beetle judging from pictures I found on the web. I plan on doing a thorough investigation this weekend if the weather allows. I'll post pictures of the damage, and the offenders if found. | {
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– japoński kolarz torowy, brązowy medalista olimpijski.
Kariera
Największym sukcesem w karierze Takanobu Jūmonjiego był zdobycie brązowego medalu w wyścigu na 1 km podczas igrzysk olimpijskich w Atlancie w 1996 roku. W zawodach tych wyprzedzili go jedynie Francuz Florian Rousseau oraz Amerykanin Erin Hartwell. Był to jedyny start olimpijski Japończyka. Na rozgrywanych dwa lata później igrzyskach azjatyckich w Bangkoku w tej samej konkurencji zajął drugie miejsce. Nigdy nie zdobył medalu na torowych mistrzostwach świata.
Bibliografia
Profil na cyclingarchives.com
Japońscy kolarze torowi
Japońscy medaliści olimpijscy
Medaliści Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1996
Urodzeni w 1975 | {
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O&R - Major Transmission Upgrade Improves Electric Reliability
Pearl River – May 20, 2020
O&R's COVID-19 Efforts Continue to Help Customers Manage Bills
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.(O&R) today announced the completion of a major two-year, $17 million project that substantially overhauled the utility's Ramapo transmission substation in Hillburn by replacing its transformers with new, modern equipment that provides significantly increased service reliability and capacity for O&R's over 300,000 electric customers.
The project was completed in late April when the second of two huge, electric transmission transformers, custom-made in the Netherlands at 300-tons each, was installed in the O&R system and energized. The first unit was installed and energized in May 2019. These transmission transformers convert high voltage electricity from the overhead transmission system to a lower voltage that is channeled into the community's electric distribution system.
O&R President and CEO Robert Sanchez said, "This project represents a major milestone in our daily efforts to improve electric service reliability. As we enter the summer season, Covid-19 has made reliability as important as it ever has been. This project makes the entire O&R transmission system stronger, more robust and more resilient for our families and our community."
O&R has prepared to meet high summer demand for electricity with continued investments in projects, such as its Ramapo transmission substation upgrade, that improve electric service reliability and with the further development of energy efficiency programs that help customers use less energy, save money and reduce their carbon footprint. Further, O&R has implemented a number of programs to help its customers manage their bills as effectively as possible during the public health emergency created by Covid-19.
Electric System Improvement Projects
To prepare for this summer's peak demands for electricity, O&R has made investments totaling over $140 million this year to fortify and improve the reliability of its electric system. That investment builds on the nearly $1 billion O&R has invested over the past 10 years on electric system maintenance and reliability projects.
In addition to the Ramapo transmission substation project, those investments include several projects to provide additional storm protection at specific key electric system locations. These storm-resilience electric system improvements include building additional electric circuits and undergrounding selective system-critical locations where multiple overhead circuits are present on distribution poles. Taller, stronger poles and more storm-resistant wire also are being installed at key locations.
In addition, several operational steps --- from line clearance work in the form of specific tree-trimming projects and infrared inspections to transmission line aerial and foot patrols and distribution equipment testing and inspections – also are key in O&R's delivering safe and reliable electric service this summer.
O&R also continues to further automate its electric system through smart grid technological improvements. The smart grid integrates state-of-the-art equipment and technology with advances in computer analysis, communications, monitoring and control to significantly enhance system reliability, efficiency and overall quality of service.
For example, "smart" operating equipment – communication systems, automated switches, sensors and other "intelligent" devices – enables the electric system to detect where issues on the circuit exist and automatically isolate those issues. This isolated section of the circuit would remain out of service until repairs are made, but the remainder of the circuit -- often serving hundreds of other customers -- would remain energized, providing uninterrupted service to those customers.
All these programs are considered "essential work" under the public health emergency standards set by the states of New York and New Jersey.
While that essential work is being performed during the public health emergency, O&R employees are required to follow the Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for social distancing and personal hygiene including frequent hand washing or hand sanitizing. Employees also are required to wear protective medical masks. O&R asks members of the public to maintain appropriate social distancing when they encounter O&R employees working in the field, to provide for mutual safety. The following video shows a crew's social distancing in action: https://bcove.video/3b4FvKW
One of the other leaders of O&R's electric service reliability line up this summer is the smart meter program.
Smart meters' benefits go beyond power monitoring to provide individuals greater control over their energy consumption. Customers will be able to see when their consumption fluctuates and can then take action to further manage their usage. The smart meters also facilitate quicker restoration of service after a storm event by communicating the precise location of service interruptions. Since 2017, O&R has invested approximately $92 million in this project in New York.
Overall, O&R plans to install 230,000 electric smart meters and 134,450 smart gas modules in its New York service area by the end of 2020. That estimate may be revised as O&R has temporarily halted installation because of the public health emergency.
Summer Bill Forecast, COVID-19 and Bill Management
Orange & Rockland (O&R) is forecasting that a typical New York residential electric bill based on typical summer residential usage of 600 kWh will remain about the same this summer for that level of usage as compared to last summer.
The typical O&R residential customer in New York using an average of 600 kWh of electricity per month last summer saw, on average, a monthly electric bill, which consists of both electric supply and delivery costs, of $126.48.
That monthly bill for using 600 kWh of electricity in the summer of 2020 is expected to remain nearly the same, decreasing 0.3 percent, on average, or 40 cents to $126.08. O&R buys electricity on the wholesale market and provides it to customers at cost.
But, because of the public health emergency and its stay-at-home orders, residential usage has presumably increased because most families who are not usually home during the day are now home, according to the April 7 Short-Term Energy Outlook issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). And, those families are using all the electronic devices from computers to flat screen TVs that they would ordinarily use when they got home after spending the day at work or school, EIA said. That increased at-home usage all takes place now, before the air conditioning season --- with its higher electricity use and its resulting higher electric bills --- begins.
Stay-at-home orders not only created unanticipated higher home electric usage and its accompanying higher bills, but the orders also shut down nearly all businesses, costing some O&R customers their regular paychecks, and some of them even their jobs.
That's why O&R took immediate steps when the shutdown was ordered to try to moderate its impact on O&R customers by:
Stopping shutoffs of electric and natural gas service due to non-payment during the time of the public health emergency. We will continue to shut off service when there is a safety issue.
Not billing new late-payment charges for all customers and suspending the fee charged to a customer who is unable to grant access to their property.
Conducting business with customers 24/7 online via www.oru.com/myaccount. or by downloading the free O&R mobile app.
Providing residential and commercial customers with helpful links to company, state and local assistance agencies. To view these links, go to www.oru.com and click on the payment assistance button.
Offering flexible payment arrangements. Customers can call O&R to discuss flexible payment arrangements Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 1-877-434-4100.
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Hey to the entire forum!
John Keats a poet of his time?
What have you got in common with Junkets?
Proof Keats can make you feverish!
Muses and artisst- who would JK admire of today's?
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Q: How to allow users to submit custom email templates in Rails? Working on a Rails app that connects with eCommerce sites, occasionally sending emails from our app to customers of the eCommerce sites we work with.
Right now we have a generic email template saved in the app as a html.erb file, but we're trying to add functionality to allow these eCommerce sites (our users) to submit their own custom email templates to use for their respective customers.
My first instinct was to allow users to submit their template in a textarea form and save it in our MySQL database in a templates table. However, I'm concerned about a few things:
*
*The template requires access to instance variables, meaning we'd need ERB, HAML, or some other format that is compatible with Rails instance variables in a view.
*How would this process even work properly? I'd be taking in a textarea filled with HTML tags, content, and CSS style tags - it would then need to be converted into a giant string to save in a table. How does one convert raw HTML into a string and then back into HTML to action render the view and sent the mailer?
*Is there a gem, or other practice to prevent all unwanted erb or Ruby code from being submitted into a user's custom template? My big worry here is a user submitting a template with <% User.destroy_all %> or some other damaging Ruby code inside.
*Is there any easier way to implement this process than what I'm thinking? The database route is what I first thought of, but now I'm thinking it might be better to simply have our users submit their own custom templates directly to us and save them directly in the app. But this would, of course, require a user to resubmit their template any time they might want to make a change to it.
Our app uses Rails 4.1.7 And Ruby 2.1.4p265.
A: As per your needs I would go with a simple solution
*
*Allow the users to save a basic HTML or markdown template in the database, and let them know how to build it by telling them what variables they have to use or can use.
*Create a parser class that parses the html input and builds an valid .erb file out of it.
I'll leave the implementation up to you, but here is the example input:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>[[title]]</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello [[username]], thank you for subscribing.
You can get started by visiting this <a href="[[link]]">link</a>.
</body>
</html>
the parser converts [[username]] to <%= @username %>, and the result will be something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title><%= @title %></title>
</head>
<body>
Hello <%= @username %>, thank you for subscribing.
You can get started by visiting this <a href="<%= @link %>">link</a>.
</body>
</html>
To answer your concerns:
1.This is already answered above.
2.That's very easy, use .html_safe or the raw() helper function.
3.This should not be a concern because you will not run any code that's submitted by the user, since you will only allow user to give set variables that you know of. You just do a regex match not a eval().
4.This is the easiest solution I could think of.
A: One way you might approach this is to allow users to save an mjml template to the database.
Theres a mjml-rails gem that might help out.
there is a mjml-include tag that will allow you to include thigns before they are rendered. I'd imagine you can give your users a list of allowable includes, which link to the proper partial.
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Lmao wanting Koras to get a free win and making jokes hoping to prevent Russians getting out of the group, calling me "szajsz"? That's what you call a joke? Hiding behind your language hoping noone will notice? And tadeusz jumping on your remarks like a tiny minion applauding you for this genius? It's like Pinky and the Brain, just without the brain.
Zemke coś wspominał żeby nie pisać po Polsku na stronie CWT . Też dostałeś prośbę Chelsea ?
Lepiej zagrajmy, jutro i pojutrze mam z nimi mecze. Zobaczymy jak mi pojdzie i pogadamy.
Dwóm kacapom? Great chat between bunch of polish comment-warriors. I really like the manners of these guys. Just awesome. If you are not able to communicate adequately, then just don't write anything. And last - we have to follow the rules.
Demonstrating unsportsmanlike behavior, in the game or in the forums is forbidden. This includes flaming and defamation of your opponent.
But who cares, isn't it?
I am no fan of Kayz but i see this tourney going GREAT so far. Qualis, draw, streams. Everything is very smooth. Just support the toruney and make it stronger. No need to go negative.
I disagree. I used a random pairing tool for this. If you want to win CWT, you need to win vs. every single player. So it doesn't matter if I paired good with good / noobs with noobs. You are just mad because you lost. End of story. | {
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Brexit's Hard Pounding
National Security & Defense
By Andrew Stuttaford
About Andrew Stuttaford
The slump in the pound has—how can I put it—attracted some attention in recent days, and has put a spring in the step of those who want to talk Brexit down. The Financial Times, long something of a Brussels Pravda, has rather relished pointing out that sterling had now hit (an effective) 168-year low. Then again, the pound was at a roughly 160-year low just eight years ago.
What's spooking the markets is uncertainty over the form that Brexit might take. What will the Brits ask for? What will the EU agree to? Investors have been made more uneasy still by hints from some in the British government that they could live with a 'hard Brexit'. That term is best understood as a unilateral breach with Brussels that would (roughly speaking) leave the UK reliant on WTO rules, a far worse option than it may sound (to understand why check out this very detailed analysis prepared by the Leave Alliance).
My own guess/hope is that Prime Minister May is allowing her team to discover for themselves that, however great its romantic appeal for the pur et dur, 'hard Brexit' is not the way to go. The best solution, at least as an interim option, continues to be some variant of the 'Norway option'. Membership of the European Economic Area is not, contrary to the claims of some of the more strident euroskeptics, the same as being in the EU.
Back in February, I wrote this:
The fact that the "Norway option" is less of a break from Brussels disappoints some euroskeptics (at some level it disappoints me), but they need to face the reality that it beats the most likely alternative — a nervous British electorate voting to stick with the EU, the devil it knows. They should also understand that such a move could be the starting-off point for a more profound disengagement with Brussels, a disengagement that will be all the more effective and all the less intimidating for being taken step-by-step. No, the Norway option is not ideal, but my feeling, at least at the moment, is that this is the Brexit route that is most likely to have a chance of success. The best place to see how it might work is the immensely detailed "Flexcit" prepared by EU Referendum's Richard North. The latest version (PDF) stands at a modest 421 pages, but that is evidence of a complex reality very different, sadly, from one-leap-and-you're-free…
Norway has much more of a veto power [actually a right of reservation] than is generally understood. More than that, it can participate directly in setting the international rules that govern so much of global trade. As a member of the EU, Britain, often, cannot: Brussels has to negotiate on its behalf. Put another way, Norway sits at the top table. Britain does not.
Whether such a deal is available (I still reckon yes, but after a lot of shouting) is a different question, not least because of the attitude of EU leaders such as France's soon-to-be lame duck President Hollande, an attitude that has now drawn an angry response from the Daily Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
"There must be a threat," said French president Francois Hollande. "There must be a price… otherwise other countries or other parties will want to leave the European Union."
These are remarkable comments in all kinds of ways, not least in that the leader of a democratic state is threatening a neighbouring democracy and military ally. What he is also admitting – à son insu – is that the union is held together only by fear. He might as well write its epitaph.
In that, I fear, Mr. Evans-Pritchard being is too optimistic. The EU may be a dead-end, but it's far from done yet.
Evans-Pritchard also takes aim at the pious nonsense that the likes of Hollande and Merkel (the latter an apparatchik fluent in pious nonsense since her days as an activist in East Germany's FDJ) have been mouthing about the EU's 'four freedoms':
Mr Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel invariably fall back on the four freedoms -movement, goods, services, and capital -enshrined in EU treaty law, as if they were sacrosanct. These freedoms are nothing but pious shibboleths. They often do not exist, and where they do exist they are routinely honoured in the breach. Services make up 70pc of the EU economy yet account for just 22pc of internal EU trade. All attempts to open services up to cross-border commerce have been defeated, to the detriment of Britain.
The sorry saga of the Services Directive in 2006 tells all you need to know about how the EU works. "The French and Germans gutted it," said Professor Alan Riley from the Institute for Statecraft.
The 'country of origin rule' that would have allowed firms to operate anywhere in the EU under their own domestic law was dropped, casualty of the "Polish plumber" scare. The directive did not cover health care, transport, legal services, professions, tax experts, and the like. Germany protected its guilds.
Online and digital trade across borders remains minimal, riddled with barriers. Britain's All-Party Parliamentary Group for European Reform concluded that "there is no single market in services in any meaningful sense."
As Brussels correspondent I covered the parallel fiasco of the takeover directive. This too was sabotaged by France and Germany, after fourteen wasted years. They reinstated poison pills and a host of tricks in an explicit attempt to stop 'Anglo-Saxon predators' taking over their companies, even as their own companies were free to stalk British prey….
So much for the freedoms of capital and services. Nor has the free movement of people been strictly upheld. France and Germany – unlike Britain – blocked access to their labour markets and welfare systems for East Europeans for seven years after they joined the EU in 2004. It was political decision.
The four freedoms are really just aspirational guidelines, enforced when expedient, neglected at other times. The rigid exhortations from Paris, Berlin, and Brussels that there can be no free trade with Britain unless there is unrestricted migration – even after leaving the EU – is politics masquerading as principle. If they want to find a compromise solution, they can do so easily.
And so can the Brexiteers. But can is not the same as will.
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Pull Requests from our design, development and operations teams of [Haufe.Group](http://www.haufe-lexware.com) and its subsidiaries are greatly appreciated. If you've never contributed to an open source project before we are more than happy to walk you through how to create a pull request.
The short version of it is to fork this repo into (a) a repo of your own account under (b) the name `[your_account_name].github.io`. Upon your first commit the blog should be published at `http://[your_account_name].github.io`. In this way you can add your changes and test them live. When you are finished create a pull request with your changes and submit it against our blog repo.
Support for Categories and Tags were inspired by [this blog entry](http://www.minddust.com/post/tags-and-categories-on-github-pages/). A list of the defined categories and tags can be found at `_data/categories.yml` and `_data\tags.yml` respectively. If you want to add new categories or tags, you need to add them to the corresponding `.yml` file and add the matching template into the `meta/category` or `meta/tag` directories. Please do not go overboard with adding new categories and tags but try to stay within the ones we have. On the other hand - if you feel strongly about adding one, feel free to submit a pull request.
Author support was inspired by [this blog entry](https://blog.sorryapp.com/blogging-with-jekyll/2014/02/06/adding-authors-to-your-jekyll-site.html). In order to add information on a new author, edit the `_data/authors.yml` file, then use the new key as `author` link in the posts. If an author cannot be found in `authors.yml`, the content of the `author` tag will be used verbose. In that case, no links to any social media (Twitter, Github and LinkedIn are currently supported) will be included.
If you want to find out more about using `github-pages` for blogging or want to improve our blog the following links might be good starting points
* [Jekyll documentation, i.e. how to include images](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/)
* [Github pages powered by Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/sites)
* Liquid Documentation [here](https://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid-documentation/basics) and [here](https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Liquid-for-Designers)
Please note to set the proxy if you are working from within the Haufe Intranet
set HTTP_PROXY=http://10.12.1.236:8083/
set HTTPS_PROXY=http://10.12.1.236:8083/
If you find bugs or issues you can [open an issue](https://github.com/Haufe-Lexware/Haufe-Lexware.github.io/issues/new) describing the problem that you're looking to resolve and we'll go from there.
### Setting up jekyll on Mac OS X
If you happen to have Mac OS X device, it is a lot simpler to test your additions using the `jekyll` command line directly; you don't have to set up github pages, and you can still verify everything is fine.
To install `jekyll`, issue the following command in Terminal (I here assume you have the Mac OS X developer command line tools installed, which include ruby/gem):
```
$ sudo gem install jekyll
```
That will take a while. After that, `cd` into your `Haufe-Lexware.github.io` git clone (on your own fork obviously) and issue a
```
$ jekyll build
```
This will throw a couple of errors due to missing gems; install them one after the other in the order they occur:
```
$ sudo gem install jekyll-paginate
$ ...
```
Eventually (and hopefully) your `jekyll build` will succeed. After the build has succeeded, you can do a `jekyll serve`, and after that, you can browse the site locally on [`http://127.0.0.1:4000`](http://127.0.0.1:4000).
**Note**: The `https_proxy` setting is also needed on Mac OS X if you're inside the Haufe intranet:
```
$ export http_proxy=http://10.12.1.236:8083
$ export https_proxy=https://10.12.1.236:8083
```
### Setting up jekyll on Windows
The short version of this is: It's complicated, and not actually advisable.
The most promising path to doing this is most probably to set up a Linux VM and do it from there; that involves setting up ruby correctly, which may also be challenging, but it's still a lot simpler (and more supported) than directly on Windows.
But you can try this:
### Setting up jekyll using docker
**Note**: This will work both on Windows and Mac OS X, in case you do not want to "pollute" your local machine with ruby packages.
If you have a working `docker` setup on your machine, you can use the prepackaged docker image by the jekyll team to try out the blog generation using that image.
Pull the `jekyll/jekyll:pages` image to get something which behaves almost exactly (or really close to) the github pages generation engine:
```sh
$ docker pull jekyll/jekyll:pages
```
Inside the docker Quickstart terminal, `cd` into your `Haufe-Lexware.github.io` fork containing your changes, and then issue the following command:
```sh
$ docker run --rm --label=jekyll --volume=$(pwd):/srv/jekyll \
-it -p $(docker-machine ip `docker-machine active`):4000:4000 \
jekyll/jekyll:pages
```
If everything works out, the jekyll server will serve the blog preview on `http://<ip of your docker machine>:4000`. More information on running jekyll inside docker can be found here: [github.com/jekyll/docker](https://github.com/jekyll/docker).
#### Using docker for Mac and Windows beta
Using docker for Mac and Windows beta, the command looks a little simpler, as `docker-machine` is not involved:
```sh
$ docker run --rm --label=jekyll --volume=$(pwd):/src/jekyll \
-it -p 4000:4000 jekyll/jekyll:pages
```
Jekyll will then be served from [localhost](http://localhost:4000), just like from Linux.
### Setting up jekyll using Kitematic
If you are working with Kitematic (which has fewer proxy issues behind company firewalls than the Quickstart terminal), follow these steps:
First make sure the local copy of your Haufe-Lexware.github.io clone is located somewhere under your documents folder, for example:
`C:\Users\<username>\Documents\GitHub\Haufe-Lexware.github.io`
In Kitematic, click on the "DOCKER CLI" button (lower left), opening a power shell window.
Pull the `jekyll/jekyll:pages` image:
`> docker pull jekyll/jekyll:pages`
In this environment, you cannot use the mapping variables $(pwd) or $(docker-machine ...), so you need to enter two things explicitly:
- The path to your local repository in the following format, for example:
`/c/Users/<username>/Documents/GitHub/Haufe-Lexware.github.io`
- The ip of your docker VM. To get this, enter
`> docker-machine ip`
Now enter the following to compile the project and start the web server:
`> docker run --rm --label=jekyll --volume=/c/Users/<username>/Documents/GitHub/Haufe-Lexware.github.io:/srv/jekyll -it -p 192.168.99.100:4000:4000 jekyll/jekyll:pages`
(replacing the path and ip with your values)
The web server should now be running, so start your browser at `http://<ip>:4000` to see the results. When finished, shut down the web server with `^C` in the power shell window.
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Harrison Barnes and Malik Jackson to Help Pay for Atatiana Jefferson's Funeral
Video via ABC10
Sacramento Kings' Harrison Barnes and Philadelphia Eagles' Malik Jackson have offered to pay for the funeral of Atatiana Jefferson, the 28-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by a Texas police officer in her mother's home last week.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Barnes will cover more than half of the service costs, and Jackson will pay for the remainder. Barnes spoke about the kind gesture following the Kings' practice Thursday night.
"My wife and I wanted to do something for that family. It was a tragic situation that happened," the forward told reporters. "No one should be killed during a wellness check, but the biggest thing is anytime someone has to go through that, the last thing that you want to have to worry about is trying to come up with the money for a funeral ... It's about the family. It's about everything they're going through. Our prayers obviously are with them, and it was a gesture my wife and I wanted to do for them."
Jefferson was killed Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, while officers were performing a wellness check at the residence. A neighbor had called the non-emergency police line at around 2 a.m., stating he was concerned that the home's front door was open. Authorities arrived at the scene shortly after and began investigating the exterior when one of the officers, identified as Aaron Dean, looked inside a window and saw an individual.
"Put your hands up! Show me your hands!" Dean is heard shouting in the released body cam footage. The officer fails to identify himself as law enforcement, and opens fire moments later. Jefferson, who was babysitting her 8-year-old nephew at the time, was wounded and pronounced dead at the scene.
The 8-year-old reportedly told investigators that Jefferson had retrieved her gun, which she legally owned, after hearing noises outside. The child said he witnessed his aunt point her gun at the window, right before she was shot.
Dean resigned from the Fort Worth PD before he could be fired. He was arrested on murder charges and has since been released on $200,000 bond.
Barnes, who used to play for the Dallas Mavericks, told reporters that he was concerned about the growing gun violence in the area, and pointed to the recent fatal shooting of former NBA player Andre Emmett.
"Andre Emmett, a guy that I played pickup basketball with for two and a half straight summers, another unfortunate incident," he said. "So when you see these types of situations continue to occur, you know that change has to happen ... Anytime you come into a community ... you always have a piece of that community that's with you and you always want to give back."
Barnes said he has not spoken to the Jefferson family, as he and his wife are "giving them space, respectfully."
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The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
Jennifer Cody Epstein
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The Gods of Heavenly Punishment In this evocative and thrilling epic novel fifteen year old Yoshi Kobayashi child of Japan s New Empire daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past is on her way home on a
Title: The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
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There's a lot going on in this novel, but it's not as hard to follow as it may seem at the start. It traces the lives of several American and Japanese people before, during, and after World War II. Some of them are friends, suddenly cast into enemy positions because their countries are at war. The firebombing of Tokyo is central to the story simply because it's the definitive separation between "before" and "after," but the novel is multi-layered. There's not a great deal of space given to the f [...]
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Sometimes characters stick with you and that is the case with those in this Novel. A bit predictable in some areas, but offers a fresh perspective on prewar Japan through architecture and airmen. Americans in Japan and Japanese in America before and after war. "A guy should learn something, he'd written to Lacy, about a place he's about to bomb." I agree.Provided by publisher.
Chilling, absorbing, unique, humorous and heart-breaking. All those adjectives come to mind when I think to describe Jennifer Cody Epstein's book "The God's of Punishment." It's part historical account churned with love stories and family dysfunction. It's character-driven in the most powerful of ways. This is a book I will remember among the many this year.I have read several accounts of the war between America and Japan, but none so specifically personal as this one. The characters are captiva [...]
A lush and eloquent portrait of humanity. This heartbreaking, sensual and suspenseful novel opened my eyes to some grim and also inspiring realities about the second World War. As with her previous novel, The Painter From Shanghai, Jennifer Cody Epstein has done extensive research and manages to convey details with a masterful touch. Read this book!
I had a chance to review this book on Fiction Addict (fictionaddict/2013/05/28/t). You can get more great fiction recommendations there. Here is the review.As I read The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, I felt as if I was slowly flipping through an album of snapshots showing an amazing period of history. We often think when looking at our friends' snapshots, "if only these pictures could tell me their story." In this case, Jennifer Cody Epstein had the characters step out of their pictures to [...]
Find the enhanced version of this and other reviews at: flashlightcommentary.Jennifer Cody Epstein's The Gods of Heavenly Punishment is unlike any WWII fiction I've ever picked up. In many ways it is a personal story, driven by individual experiences, but at the same time it is a war story, shaped by the contention of two nations vying to defeat one another.As far as favorite character, it is a toss-up between Hana and Anton. Hana is glamorous, intelligent, but emotionally complex. From the begi [...]
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Learning new things is my favorite part about reading. This book opened my eyes to the events in Japan both before and after WWII. The Gods of Heavenly Punishment is told from the point of view of a young Japanese girl, certainly like nothing I've read before.The characters lives are interconnected in interesting, yet plausible, ways. The men and women that people this story are convincing and genuine. Days after reading this I can't stop thinking of th [...]
The horrendous atrocities of war and the delicate strength of the human spirit are all wrapped up in this novel about the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II. THE GODS OF HEAVENLY PUNISHMENT is a work of art and beauty and I will read it again to ease the tensions which continue to cross my mind and disrupt my awareness. "I dare you to read this and not be swept up. THE GODS OF HEAVENLY PUNISHMENT is shocking and delicate in equal measure." Debra Dean, author, of THE MADONNAS Of LENINGR [...]
Jill Meyer
It takes a special writer to produce an "epic" novel. "Epic" and "sweeping" imply a great breadth of a story line in terms of both time and characters. Jennifer Cody Epstein deserves kudos for her new novel, "The Gods of the Heavenly Punishment", which takes the reader from Tokyo 1935 to Los Angeles 1962, with characters who are as different as Japanese and Americans can be in that era. The unifying point of the novel is a green ring that survives both love and war and brings those two "differen [...]
Epstein has crafted a novel that moves back and forth between multiple third-person narratives. Throughout, she keeps the book moving forward in time as she shifts settings, from 1935 Hamburg, New York to 1962 Los Angeles and gradually begins to intertwine her characters.I suppose the novel could be called "sweeping" moving as it does through time and back and forth across the Pacific. Curiously, I never felt like I was being swept up in a massive story; Epstein makes the novel very much the int [...]
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About the book: A story of the war between the Japanese and the Americans in WWII, the atrocities of war on both sides, the innocent families and people affected both in the U.S. and in Japan. The fire bombing of the city of Tokyo in 1945 when innocent civilians were killed or maimed is, I believe, the reason for the title, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment. My comments: I was confused while reading the book. I didn't know whether I should hate the Japanese for their war atrocities and killing dow [...]
This book about Japan during World War II is beautifully researched and authentic. It weaves the stories of Billy Reynolds, Yoshi Kobayashi, and Cam Richards around the bombing of Tokyo. Raised in Japan until things heated up between the Japanese and the U.S Billy ended up going back to the U.S. with his parents and eventually returned to Japan as an occupation soldier. Cam Reynolds, a pilot who crash-landed after bombing Tokyo, became a Japanese prisoner-of-war. Yoshi was the daughter of a gove [...]
I had great expectations for this book. There are not that many books, at least not that many that I've come across that tell of World War II from the Japanese perspective. And the book starts out strong, giving us a tableau of the world from which Yoshi hails. However, it is right after this first chapter that the book starts to fall off the rails for me. We meet Cam and Lacy, a young couple from New York, who don't really seem to have anything to do with Yoshi. Then, BOOM!, we're in World War [...]
Deon Stonehouse
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein 9780393071573Three lives are tragically linked in this beautifully written, haunting story of wartime Japan. Cam Richards adores his wife Lacy, he has everything to live for when he climbs into the cockpit of his plane and heads toward Tokyo on a daredevil fire bombing raid that will decimate the city. Yoshi's Mom was multi-lingual, western educated and drop dead gorgeous, and her Dad was a very traditional Japanese man with a successful [...]
It is probably not a huge surprise to those of you who have followed my blog for some time to learn that as soon as I heard about this book I wanted to read it! A well-written book set against the backdrop of World War II. Yes, please! I had intended to read the author's debut novel after hearing many good things about it but I haven't yet done so.I was, however, very pleasantly surprised to find that this book was so much more than just another war story. Jennifer Cody Epstein has written a lov [...]
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One of the best novels that I have read in a long time! Relating the tale of 3 families who's lives are interwoven and irrevocably changed by the bombing of Toyko during WWII. The author has shown the human side of war and how if effects both the losers and the victors, both paying a price way too high. A book that will touch you deeply as you turn the tear stained pages. Ms. Epstein has written a best seller!
This book has a unique perspective on WWII - it follows both Japanese characters and American, and spans decades and 3 countries. Not all the characters are likable, in fact, most are not, but the story it tells remains gripping and true. It is a worthy addition to anyone interested in this time period.
Wow. This was just delicious. I love reading historical novels about 20th century Japan, and the mix of romance, intrigue, and war-time happenings found in this book was equal parts intriguing and addicting. Gorgeous writing, interesting characters, a satisfying ending - in summary, a fantastic read!
With the drama and sweep of THE ENGLISH PATIENT and a rich, painterly sensibility all her own, Jennifer Cody Epstein has created an indelible portrait of the war in the Pacific, seen through the eyes of six characters whose stories will haunt you long after the final brush stroke.
An unexpected treat. I had not heard or read about this book, just picked it up from the new book shelf in the library. It is a beautifully told story of the impact of WWII on two families - one Japanese and one American. Honest without being gruesome and caring without cheap emotionalism.
Esther Bradley-detally
An insightful and compelling story about both Japanese and American cultures and their experiences during World War II. Portrays the horrors of war through human beings affected. The people are wonderful done, and it is a novel rich in drama. I couldn't put it down.
Paulita Kincer
Truthfully, from the title and the description, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein is not a book I might have picked up, but I'm so glad I did.From the very beginning, the writing is beautiful. Ahh, so this is a well-written literary novel, I thought. Not one that tries to impress people with its words, but one that lets the story slowly unfurl as the reader connects to each character.The author is obviously someone who loves Japan as much as I love France. The details abou [...]
Leah (Books Speak Volumes)
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment is a sweeping epic spanning from 1935 to 1962 and centering on the war between the US and Japan. In a format that I have really grown to like, it tells the stories of multiple families and individuals, how the war affects them, and how they are connected.In the first chapter, we meet Cam, a young man falling in love with a girl named Lacy. When next we see Cam, he is a pilot in the Doolittle Raid, the first US air raid to strike Japan during WWII.In another chapte [...]
Roger Brunyate
Love Stories, War StoriesIgnore the obscure title and the lackluster cover of this book; it is approachable, subtle, and well worth reading. Well, perhaps there is more you need to ignore: the opening scene of a shy young man and lively girl falling in love at a state fair outside Buffalo in 1935 may make you fear some light romance, though it is well written and swiftly developed. For we then move to Japan in the same year to a more complex situation: a Czech-born American architect and his Jap [...]
Audra (Unabridged Chick)
Historical fiction set during wartime is a favorite genre of mine (or, I suppose, a 'favorite' -- I'm not a fan of war) because there's a real focus on the ordinary, everyday people against a massive canvas. Jennifer Cody Epstein's novel represents what I most love about this genre: it's illuminating and educational without being cold, it's emotional in ways both familiar and alien, and it offers the reader a place to see herself in a situation she, hopefully, will never experience.Set between 1 [...]
Erin Al-Mehairi
4.5 starsThe Gods of Heavenly Punishment, by Jennifer Cody Epstein, is a brilliant, epic novel that is an emotionally character driven look into a part of World War II not always featured heavily in historical fiction work.It gives the reader a glimpse, through the eyes of every day characters, the life pre- and post part of the war that occurs between America and Japan. It impacts our soul by concentrating on the result these horrors of war has on actual life.However, the book does more than br [...]
Review So let me start off by saying this, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment caught me off guard. When offered a copy of this book for review I was interested you could say. Nothing about it screamed WOW or adventurous but I was interested. Yes.Then I started the book. It started off well, Epstein is a brilliant writer who is able to make characters seem so very alive- it's almost magical how she does it. Then the book became amazing. My favourite chapters were those done through Yoshi's perspecti [...]
WWII is a popular time period for historical fiction right now but I must acknowledge that Ms. Epstein takes her reader to a different time and place than most of the books I have read lately. It was very interesting to read a novel taking place in Japan as the US starts its offensive and retaliation for Pearl Harbor.I have to admit to a sad lack of knowledge of the who/what/where etc of WWII and of the Eastern front in particular. This is good for me as a reader of a novel because I don't come [...]
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment gives us a glimpse of the U.S.'s firebombing of Tokyo during WWII. Epstein presents slices of life before, during, and after the bombing through the eyes of a U.S. bomber pilot, a young Japanese girl, an American architect who at different times has a hand in building up Japan and (indirectly) in destroying it, and an American officer serving under Gen. MacArthur during the U.S. occupation of the country after the Axis defeat. That's a lot to cover in a 378-pa [...]
I wanted to rate this book higherd sometimes I wanted to give it less stars! It had a lot going on, and was well written, but then it had random language pop upd more importantly random sexual scenes that were just thatrandom and unneccessary! it just once again brought home how violent and sensless war is! I really liked this review written about the book:There's a lot going on in this novel, but it's not as hard to follow as it may seem at the start. It traces the lives of several American and [...]
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Smooth Criminal" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson from his 1987 album Bad. First broadcast on television as a video in early October 1988, it was released as the album's seventh single on October 21, 1988, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] It was re-released on April 10, 2006, as a part of the Visionary: The Video Singles box set. The re-released Visionary single charted at number 19 in the UK. The song is one of Jackson's signature songs, and has appeared on numerous greatest hits albums.
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Revoking a Divorce Issued Before Consummation of Marriage: Permissible?
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As-Salamu alaykum. If a man issues one clear divorce to his wife before their marriage is consummated, can he revoke that divorce? What if the marriage has not been consummated, but the couple has been alone together?
1- If a divorce takes place before consummation and khalwah, it results in an irrevocable divorce, and there is no `iddah and the husband cannot revoke the divorce.
2- If divorce takes place before consummation but after khalwah, it again results in an irrevocable divorce, and the husband cannot revoke the divorce. However, in this case, the wife is obligated to observe the `iddah.
a) If the marriage has not been consummated and neither has the couple been alone together (khalwa), and the husband pronounces one divorce, then there is no obligation upon the woman to observe the waiting period (`iddah).
According to the Hanafi jurists, the statement "before you have touched them" refers to consummation (dukhul) as well as being alone together. As such, if both – consummation and being alone – did not take place, the woman is not obligated to observe the waiting period.
b) However, if the marriage was not consummated but the couple did remain alone together, then observing the waiting period is necessary.
"In other words, being alone together (khalwah) – in this case – has the same implication as that of consummation. A woman divorced before consummation but after 'Khalwah' is also obligated to observe the waiting period.
Normally, when a divorce is pronounced in clear words after consummation of marriage, it results in a revocable (raj`i) divorce and, as such, the husband has a right of revoking the divorce/taking the wife back within the waiting period.
However, when a divorce is pronounced in clear words before consummation of marriage, it results in an irrevocable (ba'in) divorce and, as such, the husband does not have a right of revoking the divorce.
The woman may marry another man instantly after divorce, since – as explained in the first issue – she is not obliged to observe the waiting period.
As for being alone together, in this case it does not have the same implication as that of consummation. Accordingly, even if the couple had remained alone together, the divorce is still considered as irrevocable (ba'in).
Imam Badr al-Din al-`Ayni (Allah have mercy on him) states, "Consider that 'being alone together' has the same implication as that of consummation in relation to: [paying] the entire dower (mahr) and the obligation of the waiting period (`iddah), but not in relation to other than these two issues.
Since the divorce is considered irrevocable even after khalwah, the husband will not have a right of revoking the divorce within the waiting period.
In conclusion, to answer your specific question, if a divorce takes place before consummation and khalwah, it results in an irrevocable divorce, and there is no `iddah and the husband cannot revoke the divorce. If divorce takes place before consummation but after khalwah, it again results in an irrevocable divorce, and the husband cannot revoke the divorce. However, in this case, the wife is obligated to observe the `iddah.
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A "high" tech startup boom could grow around the pot plant, as legalization efforts gain momentum. And Emerald Ocean Capital is going to help fund it.
Before medical marijuana, before Colorado and Washington's legalization initiatives, there was only the underground weed economy. There was no such thing as a mainstream marijuana entrepreneur. How things have changed.
Now there's a new crop of buttoned-up weed entrepreneurs who have never been involved in the black market, with a support system of marijuana venture capital firms and private equity funds popping up beside them. "We used to get questions like "Isn't it true that marijuana causes men to grow breasts?' Now 98% of the questions we get have to do with capital formation, taxation, regulation, port liability, and zoning," says Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of NORML.
98% of the questions we get have to do with capital formation, taxation, regulation, port liability, and zoning.
The poster boy for the above-ground weed entrepreneur movement is Justin Hartfield, the CEO of marijuana review and discussion site WeedMaps. Hartfield makes big money from WeedMaps–the company generates over $25 million per year. He's continuing to expand his empire, co-founding marijuana technology venture capital firm Ghost Group in 2012 (brands include WeedMaps, MMJMenu.com, Marijuana.com, and marketing company Bonfire), and more recently, launching marijuana VC investment fund Emerald Ocean Capital.
The Emerald Ocean Capital team seeks to cement a leading position within the legal cannabis industry by consolidating market share through strategic investments. The principals look to build upon their past experience in the legal cannabis industry to navigate the opportunities in this emerging industry.
While Emerald Ocean is investing in marijuana-related business, it won't put money into any dispensaries or grow operations–at least not in the near future. With a federal ban still in place on marijuana, that would be too risky even for Hartfield, who is already peripherally participating in a semi-legal industry. And up until recently, banks didn't allow marijuana businesses to open bank accounts, making direct weed investments even more dicey.
He's more interested in software companies that dance around the edges of the marijuana economy, like WeedMaps.
Hartfield also says that his firm, which is working with friends and family investors to raise up to $25 million, is keeping an eye on marijuana testing labs. These days, testing labs often just scrape by; they're hardly raking in cash since most states don't yet require safety testing for marijuana. But Washington will have mandatory testing when its recreational marijuana program rolls out. So will Illinois' upcoming medical marijuana program. "Right now, it's really expensive to do the tests. As machinery gets more sophisticated, prices are going to come down," Hartfield believes.
Most other venture capitalist and hedge fund folks are well into their 40s, 50s, 60s, and have lived life long enough to be sufficiently paranoid.
If legalization continues at its current rate, though, Hartfield stands to become even more wealthy. The rapid pace at which marijuana dispensaries cleared their stock when Colorado legalized the drug is only a harbinger of things to come: the $1.4 billion legal marijuana market is projected to grow to $10.2 billion in the next five years. Once more states start to legalize onsite marijuana consumption in dispensaries–like the Netherlands "coffeeshop" model–the market will grow even larger.
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It feels like every time I start a new year at Garnet Valley, I'm amazed at the ever-increasing talent of the incoming freshmen. Some come in with high SAT scores right off the bat, others have course loads I wouldn't touch as a junior (let alone a freshman). What is the cause of this higher breed of competitiveness among incoming classes?
I wouldn't say that the students of one grade are more intelligent than the other; instead, this behavior appears to be a result of an increased drive for academic success. Our school district has supported these ambitious endeavors, facilitating it by their (optional) increased rigor of coursework in middle school. They offer Algebra 2/Trig to 8th graders when it previously a 9th-grade course. Regardless of whether younger students are relatively more intelligent than their older upperclassmen, it cannot be denied that the overall classes a student has to take at GVHS have gotten more rigorous as time has gone on.
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The agonising story of Shaun Marsh, Australia's Test cricket conundrum
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Shaun Marsh stood like a statue for a fleeting moment, transfixed to the Abu Dhabi deck, as Mir Hamza wheeled away in celebration.
After Hamza's peach of a delivery wiped out Marsh's off stump, it was almost as though the veteran Australian batsman knew something we didn't - but had tried to press a case for for years.
Is this the last time Shaun Marsh features in a Test match for Australia? It would seem logical to some, and short-sighted to others - but a seemingly painless outcome all the same.
It's not that he's a player who isn't up to the task of international cricket. It would be foolish to claim so. In June, Marsh scored two centuries on Australia's white-ball tour of England, which ended in a soul-destroying series whitewash by the hosts.
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Just before the Test series against Pakistan, he scored 94 on a volatile wicket against a Pakistan A side in Dubai. Positive signs were there. However, these aren't the signs of a player not up to the rigours of the international game. It's just another horrible form slump - but that's the damning word. Another. This time, could it be fatal?
Dropping Marsh would be a tough call for coach Justin Langer to make, considering how far back the pair go in Western Australia's cricket ranks.
As WA coach, Langer pushed Marsh hard, trying to reshape his mental approach while also making technical changes to his game. It came at a good time for Marsh, who had been caught up in some disciplinary dramas - he was among the players suspended during Perth Scorchers' 2012 Champions League campaign, while he had also been suspended after a boozy night with state teammate Luke Pomersbach.
Off-field drama aside, Marsh's recent numbers at Test level make for horrific reading. Since his Ashes hundred in Sydney, Marsh has averaged 13.42.
South Africa was more miss than hit (40, 33, 24, 1, 26, 0, 16, 7), Dubai was rough (7, 0) and Abu Dhabi was downright bad (3, 4).
TON ON DEBUT
Just 20 batsmen have scored a hundred on Test debut for Australia - and Marsh was one of them, against Sri Lanka in Pallekele in 2011. From there, as a 28-year-old, he carried all the hallmarks required to build a long career under the baggy green cap.
He followed up his Pallekele ton with 81 in Colombo, and won a ticket to Australia's two-Test tour of South Africa. And then, everything began to unwind.
In Cape Town, he scored 44 in the first innings as Australia looked comfortable after knocking over the hosts for 96. Then, Australia were skittled for 47. Marsh, having suffered a back injury, came out at No.10 and copped a second-ball duck courtesy of a rampant Vernon Philander. He was sent home, recovered, missed several Shield games for Western Australia and missed Australia's two-Test series against New Zealand.
Then, India arrived - and so did Marsh, back at first-drop. It was a disaster, and it led to a two-year Test hiatus.
0, 3, 0, 11, 3, 0. Six innings, 17 runs, a 2.83 average.
Marsh was a shadow of the player that strutted around in Sri Lanka just four months earlier, and with Michael Clarke (626), Ricky Ponting (544), Michael Hussey (293) and David Warner (266) setting the world on fire, Marsh looked horribly out of place.
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An okay-ish Shield season in 2013/14 - 401 runs from seven matches at 36.45 - was the spark to a shock recall for Australia's crucial tour of South Africa following their Ashes whitewash. At the time of his selection, he had scored 275 runs at 34.37 with one century.
He rewarded the faith with a brilliant hundred in the first Test in Johannesburg, but scored a pair in Port Elizabeth, and lost his spot to Shane Watson.
He missed the UAE tour against Pakistan, and earned a recall for the final three Tests against India at home. He ran himself out for 99 at the MCG, and scored 73 in Sydney.
He earned a ticket to the West Indies, where he scored 112 runs, but he would only feature in one Test on the 2015 Ashes tour to England - and it was arguably Australia's worst in a generation, as Stuart Broad ripped the Aussies apart at Trent Bridge.
It seemed that might have been his last chance - but he replaced the injured Usman Khawaja for the inaugural day-night Test against New Zealand in 2015-16, and scored 49 second-innings runs to help Australia win a close one.
He was in and out of the side. It would frustrate anyone, let alone a player battling for his Test career. He shared what still remains as the sixth-highest partnership in Test history with Adam Voges against the Windies at Hobart as he scored 182 - but got dropped. He came back for the third Test of Australia's tour of Sri Lanka, scored a century, went on to the first home Test against South Africa at the WACA, struggled to get going in Australia's big defeat - and got dropped.
He played all four Tests in India, and saved the third in Ranchi with Peter Handscomb - but missed selection for the Bangladesh tour. A wonderful Ashes series followed, where he was Australia's second-top-scorer with 445 runs and two tons.
But now we're here, back talking about his much-maligned Test career yet again.
For a player that can so easily look the part on one day, he can also look like he's missing a day later. Considering Australian bowlers Mitchell Starc (11.67), Nathan Lyon (6.5) and Peter Siddle (5) all have a higher series average than him in the UAE, this truly could be the end.
WHO COMES IN?
In the absence of Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, Marsh needed to stand up. He did in England wearing canary yellow, but in the UAE, he has fallen over for what could prove to be the final straw.
Shane Warne believes neither Shaun nor brother Mitchell deserve a spot in Australia's Test XI.
Matt Renshaw is waiting in the wings, Marnus Labuchagne and Travis Head haven't been tested on home decks yet, while the likes of Handscomb, Alex Doolan, Cameron White, Callum Ferguson, Jake Lehmann and George Bailey all could give a fair shake of the sauce bottle. Then, you've got precocious star Will Pucovski.
Regardless, Michael Hussey said Marsh - who is now 35 - is running out of time.
"At the end of the day, you do need to be scoring runs... there's going to be a lot of discussion about his place in the team," Hussey said on Wisden Radio.
"When he's on song, he's just unstoppable and looks a supreme batsman. But then when he does start having a run of low scores, he gets into this hole and he finds it extremely difficult to work his way out of it.
"Once you start getting into your 30s, mid-30s, you can't afford to have a run like that.
"Everyone starts talking about your position in the team... is that the end of your career? That extra pressure builds up on you as well."
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Christella Potts
Holding on and Letting Go: A Year in the Life of a Book
February 26, 2016 February 27, 2016 amusingpoet4 Comments
"Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear
How do you measure, measure a year?"
~"Seasons of Love", from Rent
Ann with the first book I unpacked
"I love the song "Seasons of Love," and I remember humming along with it well before I ever saw Rent. The opening lines came back to me when I began to think about how to measure my first year with a published book. Was it really only a year ago that I had my opening reading on a cold February night at Zu Coffee in Annapolis? Cliff Lynn and Rocky Jones emceed the evening, with Cliff introducing the readers and Rocky providing music with his bongos. So many of my friends came to cheer me on, and I have special thanks to each of them. To Grace Cavalieri for her unfailing support and belief in my work, to Laura Shovan for her keen insight and good ear, and to Debby Kevin for her help with marketing and promotion. My children were there at the first reading–Brian took care of video taping the reading and Christella sold the books for me so that I could talk to people while I signed copies for them. The evening was magical, and I was humbled to have so many folks attend my first reading and buy my book, The Altar of Innocence.
I think that I could perhaps measure the year in friends–old friends who have celebrated with me and new friends that I've met while doing my readings in Baltimore, Annapolis, and DC. To begin the list, I want to thank three good friends who are part of the meditation group that has become such a valuable part of my life.
Jane Nitsch and her husband, Gerry Cohee, have been steadfast in their support and love. Jane and Gerry invited me to read my poems as I was shaping them and they offered both critique and support in a safe atmosphere. Additionally, they hosted my book party last May, graciously opening their home to many other friends who attended my reading party. Thank you, Jane and Gerry.
Renee Rogers is another friend from the mediation group. Her special contribution came in the form of beautiful bookmarks that she designed and produced as party favors for all of the guests. The bookmarks are elegant and graceful, and now I give them as a special treat included with every book I sell. Thank you, Renee.
Barbara Morrison invited me to read with her and to design a program exploring memoir using our poetry. The program is called "Looking Back to Move Forward," and we explore the themes of innocence, secrets, and burdens that emerge in both of our books. Barbara's book, Terrarium, looks at her life through the lens of place. She does an amazing job of capturing both the joy and the sorrow of childhood as she leads readers to her favorite childhood haunts in Roland Park. Thank you, Barbara.
I want to thank all of the wonderful people who have come to my readings and shared their stories with me. It is deeply humbling to write a book that delves into difficult personal and family issues–alcoholism, depression, and verbal abuse–and to find that my stories touch my readers' lives and create a bridge of experience that we can share. No writer could ever ask for more.
Here's a shout-out to all of my guest-bloggers who have so faithfully contributed their talents and stories, helping to expand my readers' horizons with their fresh perspectives. Here's to Patricia Van Amburg for her thoughtful guidance as my critique partner and for the many hours she has worked with me to refine my poetry. Here's to Peter Brunn of New Day Campaign, who invited me to be part of his work of using the arts to end the stigma around mental illness and addiction.
Christella and Brian, Christmas Eve in Hampden
And lastly, here's to my wonderful children, Brian and Christella Potts. They have always believed in my work and encouraged me to write poetry when no one else thought I could. Most importantly, Brian and Christella encouraged me to resist the urge to censor my story. I am so grateful for the advice that they both offered: "Mom, no one can tell you how to make your art." Thank you, Brian and Christella.
How do I measure my past year?
In friendships, and laughter, and fearless abandon. It was all about love.
Enjoy the music!
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Love doing an altered book. Ann, you were a great teacher. Very kind, respectful, and considerate.
"Loved doing the altered book."
"I just listened to your interview and it was so moving and rich. Your poetry reading is only surpassed by your poetry. Though I think poetry is meant to be read aloud so the reading and the work are really one. Just beautiful. Thank you." Eileen C.
A moving and rich interview
"It will be helpful for to others and enlightening. Bonnie A.
Book endorsement
"I have just finished listening to your interview. You were very eloquent. Your poems are very effective at conjuring up a picture and the emotion of the moment. The interview was also educational and gave insight in to the struggles you have had, but indicated that there was hope as you move forward." Jane T.
"hope for moving forward."
Ann Bracken is an out-of-the-box thinker. She is called to shed light on the complex, universal issues of human nature, and she does it so creatively. Bev Hitchins
"an out-of-the-box thinker."
Many of the most reluctant readers and writers in the grade were writing some amazing poems. The students felt that they could be creative due to an acceptance by Ms. Bracken for all students' work. Liz Morris, Reading Specialist, Howard County Public Schools
"...most reluctant readers and writers in the grade were writing some amazing poems."
Ann Bracken is a gifted and dedicated educator, expressive arts coach, and poet. She infuses her work with a refined aesthetic sensibility that engages her clients and creates an environment where positive change and new learning can happen in unique ways. Michel Groter
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I remember almost 11 years ago this August, my oldest nephew was born. The whole family was beside it's self with joy over the beautiful new little baby boy in the family. Bill and I rushed over to the hospital the moment we got the go ahead from my brother to come. We were asked to stop and pick my sister-in-law up a ham grinder from Family Pizza on our way there. When we arrived, I traded the grinder for the baby and I remember how fragile he felt in my arms. I also remember just the depth of love I felt for him in those very first moments. I remember wondering what type of person he would grow to be.
I didn't want to share him with anyone else. He slept so soundly there in my arms. My brother and his wife looked so tired. And I felt like the whole world was blessed because of this new little life and none of our lives have ever been the same. I'm sure many of you have been in the same situation at some point and if you haven't you have had those times in your life when you have known the blessings of God, the joy of the holy was alive and being lived out in those moments.
Joy, it is a form of rejoicing, my family gave thanks to God the day that my nephew was born. We gave thanks that he had come into the world safely and that everyone was healthy. It was a day to give thanks for. It was a joyous day. Sometimes God brings us gifts. Sometimes we are allowed the opportunity to see God's hand in our lives and to feel his joy overpowering all the insecurities and fears of life.
Sometimes we feel and know that the Lord has filled our cups and the cup of our faith has overflowed with his love and care. It is times like this that we need to hold on to. To cherish and to remember because there will also be those days when we really need to feel his presence. There will those days when it is hard to sing our praises to his name because we can't feel him or we are feeling the pain that comes with life. The joyous moments will fill us and we should cherish those moments and carry that joy with us where ever we go.
Our scriptures for this morning from the second book of Samuel deal with this joy. David was singing for joy, dancing and celebrating for all that the Lord had done for him and for his people. He offered up many sacrifices to the Lord to ensure that not only the people of Israel recognized that he had been blessed but to show gratitude towards God and to engrave those moments upon his memory in the hopes that his joy and love might last forever. He hoped that the memory of those moments would be strong enough to remind him of God's faithfulness when life brought about challenges.
So often we pray to God when life's challenges mount up but forget to lift our voices in those moments of great joy and celebration. Joy and celebration is a form of thanksgiving for God's blessings in those moments. We are blessed. We each are. We each have those days that just can't seem to get any better, days when you just know that God's hand has been at work: days where we have been given a moment of peace.
In 2007, when Jackson was born I got one of my first glimpses of just how deep and healing those moments can be. Life has certainly posed me with challenges since then and I expect that those challenges will continue to come. But I know that whatever challenges and struggles I meet. They cannot overcome the work of the Lord in my life and in this world because since that moment I have known that God has blessed me and my loved ones. He will keep me close to him no matter how I may struggle, no matter how I may cry and mourn from time to time, no matter what challenges I face.
I am reminded that my soul is like a cup of faith. The Lord will fill it when it needs to be filled and life will use what is in that cup. But I believe and trust that the Lord is carrying me through this world, through all of my experiences and every moment of my life is meant to be used for something. Joy for the building of faith and for reminding me that I am watched over, sorrow to build my character and strength and to remind me to cherish and appreciate the world around me, and love to remind me that I do not travel this life alone. I was once told by a mentor that he could see God at work in my life and that all my experiences were being used to shape who I was going to be. The cups of our souls overflow, we are loved, we are valued, and we are needed by our Lord and for this we are called to live our praises to God's name.
Do you see God at work in your lives? Can you feel his presence and the touch of his hand upon your hearts? Is there a moment, a day, a week or a month when you knew that God was blessing you and your family? David knew it when he saw it. I experienced it and was aware of it as I held that little baby. When did this happen for you? As we go forth into another week, we are being challenged to sit down and remember a time when we felt this joy, the blessings of the Lord and to write it down. I challenge you to write about those moments in detail or to share the details of it with a friend or family member, relive those moments. Feel the joy and give thanks and show God your continued gratitude for his presence. Allow for the memories to strengthen you, to guide you, and to fill your souls with faith. This morning we read about joy and gratitude and we are being challenged to feel the healing and wholeness that comes when we feel joy and when we give thanks. So I leave you with the words of our scriptures, "David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals". Be like David and let your souls sing in your joy. Allow your actions in life to reflect the joy that you have in the Lord because how we live life lets others know the joy we have experienced. The Hopi, Native American Tribe, have a proverb that I think fits this so succinctly, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak". Can others hear the songs of joy on your hearts?
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Open Fly
Flying Games for Web, PC, Mobile
Air Combat Simulation
Mobile Flight Sims
Microsoft Flight Simulator: X Steam Edition
There was once a time when the Steam platform was just a baby and it was merely clawing at perimeter of the gaming industry. Fast-forward 12 years and Steam holds the lion's share of the digital distribution market, and what better simulation experience to have on this platform than the king of flying games - Microsoft's Flight Simulator X?
X Plane
If you're tired of heading to your PC to load up the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator in order to get your hyper-realistic flying kicks then it's time to turn to your mobile device - X-Plane is a multi-platform flight sim from Laminar Research that can bring you some of the best flying scenarios outside of Microsoft's long-running series or even flying an actual plane.
Digital Combat Simulator World
Flight Simulators have come a long way in the past few decades. The original Flight Simulator from Microsoft would make most young gamers today scoff due to their basic graphics, but to see how far gaming has come one only needs to look at DCS World; a Flight Combat Simulator game that populates an already healthy-looking genre that has many decent titles within it.
Play web flight games online where you can control and fly planes and other objects in the air such as a penguin in Learn to Fly 1, 2 and 3. Also pilot planes in TU 95 and TU Unleashed
DCS: F-86F Sabre Jet
The F-86F Sabre module for DCS World allows you the chance to sit in the cockpit of this aircraft that was so instrumental in the 1950-1953 Korean War. Eagle Dynamics' description of the F-86F as being "scrupulously simulated" here is no exaggeration: the flight model, the physics, and the aircraft itself is as true to life as you'll find in any simulation anywhere in the world.
Infinite Flight Simulator
Though Infinite Flight Simulator isn't an app that will please the typical mobile user, it will most certainly be at home on the mobile devices of those that enjoy an app which goes above and beyond mere light entertainment. Infinite Flight Simulator is an in-depth flight sim and although doesn't come near to the kind of simulation you'll find on the PC platform does remarkably well considering the comparative hardware-based limitations of mobile devices.
Jet Car Stunts 2
Jet Car Stunts, a fast-paced 3D platform racer from developers True Axis, was received quite well by millions of players across the world. I was one such player, and I now feel prompted to offer up a review of Jet Car Stuns 2, a long-awaited sequel that returns with the same excessive speeds, nitro-boosts, mind-bending sky-scapes, and gorgeous graphics as the original, only this time, there's a much beefier chunk of content to look forward to. Twist, turn, jump, and weave your way through 120 levels, working your way up through 7 different vehicles or varying specs and handling as you come to realise (like I did) that Jet Car Stunts 2 is perhaps the better of the two games in this series.
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What if Scarlet O'Hara collided with Scarlet Pimpernel in Jane Austen's England . . . Meet Lord St. Evert. His outlandish wardrobe belies his powerful build and the unyielding lines of his jaw. The man is ruining Miss Hampton's desperate scheme to secure a rich husband. It is terribly vexing to arrive at a fashionable soiree wearing a stunning silk gown, only to discover St. Evert is clad in unmentionables cut from identical cloth. | {
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Open question may refer to:
Open-ended question, a question that cannot be answered with a "yes" or "no" response
Open problem, or open question, a known problem which can be accurately stated, and which is assumed to have an objective and verifiable solution, but which has not yet been solved
Open-question argument, a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore
See also
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Posted on 07/05/2021 02/12/2022 by Geert van Calster
LugaNON. My brief thoughts on the European Commission's refusal to support the UK's accession to Lugano 2007, and a clarification of the procedure and required majorities.
Update 2 December 2022. No news on the horizon: the EC are still opposed to UK Lugano membership.
Update 9 July 2021 Thank you Ekaterina Pannebakker for flagging the momentarily definitive 'no': the EU's official confirmation of non-consent.
Update 8 June 2021 for the Dutch regret of the EC's approach yet de facto acceptance of the EC position, see here – with thanks to Taco Van Der Valk for signalling. The Dutch Government also emphasises the fact that the issue is open-ended: it can be revisited in a later stage of EU-UK relations.
This post is my tuppenny worth on the European Commission's Assessment on the application of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to accede to the 2007 Lugano Convention. These are my considered but of course not my exhaustive initial thoughts. For excellent review of the legal status quo, see Andrew Dickinson's 'Realignment of the Planets – Brexit and European Private International Law' in IPRax 2021/3.
The background.
In June 2020, Michel Barnier reportedly commented 'Do we really want the UK to remain a centre for commercial litigation for the EU, when we could attract these services here?'. This illustrated what has been clear now for quite a while: legal services contribute directly to GPD, mostly as a result of law firms' turnover and, more recently, via the financial performance of third-party financing. More importantly, they have an impact on the reputation of a country. Courts' know-how, speed and general performance are a particularly relevant factor here. Therefore the legal sector acts as one factor in attracting foreign direct investment, as the rise of international commercial courts shows.
The quote also illustrates however that the European Commission and the Member States were keenly aware of the impact of Brexit on judicial co-operation. Throughout the process, this included early EU flags that, should judicial co-operation fail to be included in the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement – TCA, it should not be assumed that the EU would support UK Lugano membership. Scholarship, too, warned of the inferiority of Lugano viz Brussels IA, and the particular weakness of Lugano States only having to take 'due account' (Article 1 Protocol 2 Lugano 2007) of CJEU case-law on Lugano.
As readers will be aware, the TCA as eventually negotiated includes precious little on judicial co-operation in civil and commercial matters. A Hard Brexit in this area, therefore. Amidst the many issues that needed to be discussed in the TCA, judicial co-operation did not make the grade. This was not a big surprise. As Peter Bert signalled from the start, judicial co-operation barely featured in the negotiation mandate on the EU side, and on the UK side the Government kept largely schtum about the issue.
The lack of provision in the TCA put back into the spotlights the UK's April 2020 application to join Lugano. Of note is as I have signalled before, that the UK could accede to Lugano, bypassing EU approval , if it were to become a fully fledged EFTA Member State (A70(1)a Lugano). That of course is not the route the UK has followed in its disentanglement from the EU. Under A72 Lugano therefore accession requires consent from the current Lugano States, consent which they 'endeavour to give' at the latest within one year after the invitation to do so by the Depository (i.e., Switserland).
The flip-flop?
It is reporting in the Financial Times which subsequently put things into a bit of a spin, whether as a result of misinformation or lobbying, I cannot say. On the day of an important meeting of the relevant Working Party, the FT first reported the EC would support Lugano Membership – contrary to what the vast majority of observers had assumed. By the afternoon a U-turn in reporting was made, suggesting additionally that a split had emerged among the Member States. That split is simply not there, or not to a sufficient degree (see below re the voting procedure).
The morning's reporting of white smoke made the lack of EC support look like a surprise or indeed a disappointment. Clearly it could not have been the former: most of us had assumed the EC would not support the application.
That leaves the feeling of disappointment. Quite aside from one's view on Brexit as a whole, for legal practice clearly a continuing umbilical cord between the UK and the Brussels Regime in its widest form (BIa, Rome I and II etc etc) would have been most preferable. Lugano would have been a second best. I remind readers that Lugano not only lacks a unified solid judicial oversight. It also lags behind Brussels Ia in important aspects (Lugano 2007 instead mirrors Brussels I, Regulation 44/2001).
The reasoning.
In its Communication to the EP and the Member States, as Peter Bert reports, the EC's core reasoning is
"For the European Union, the Lugano Convention is a flanking measure of the internal market and relates to the EU-EFTA/EEA context. In relation to all other third countries the consistent policy of the European Union is to promote cooperation within the framework of the multilateral Hague Conventions. The United Kingdom is a third country without a special link to the internal market. Therefore, there is no reason for the European Union to depart from its general approach in relation to the United Kingdom. Consequently, the Hague Conventions should provide the framework for future cooperation between the European Union and the United Kingdom in the field of civil judicial cooperation."
The Commission specifically refers to the example of Poland as the direction of travel (closer integration with the EU), and to Lugano being a flanking measure of the Internal Market. The 1968 Brussels Convention quite clearly shows the DNA and the narrative of market integration. The development of the EU judicial area in the meantime has moved along in the direction of the EU citisen, rather than merely corporations, as consumers of EU judicial co-operation. Yet without Lugano States being part of the much wider judicial co-operation agenda of the EU proper, it is not absurd to suggest that Lugano 2007's narrative is more closely aligned with market integration than it is with ever deeper integration.
At the time of Poland's accession to Lugano, this was indeed clearly also linked to its impending membership of the EU, as also noted by David Lock QC, relevant UK Minister at the time. For current candidates, one could think e.g. of Georgia, and the Balkan countries, as stronger candidates for Lugano membership than the UK. Clearly, however, they may bump into opposition by the non-EU Lugano States.
The victims.
The general narrative, to which I subscribe, is that it is not Business to Business contracts, and the litigation by big business cases that will be much hit by this hard Brexit in judicial co-operation. They will turn to arbitration, they will agree exclusive choice of court (covered by the 2005 Hague Convention), and if need be they will simply absorb being litigated in, or having to litigate in the EU. Likewise, many UK judgments in standard business cases will find little difficulty, if some delay, in enforcement in the EU.
Rather: SMEs (lest they too enter into exclusive choice of court agreements per Hague 2005; and they will be less likely to be able to absorb the cost of parallel litigation), consumers and employees, travellers (including in direct action versus the insurer), and claimants in corporate due diligence cases will find it much harder to have a smooth judicial process between the UK and the EU. Consumers domiciled in the EU will still be able to sue UK corporations in the EU, provided they meet the Pammer Alpenhof criteria under the relevant Section of Brussels Ia; and employees carrying out their duties here, likewise will be able to sue a UK employer in the EU. Yet with the distinct possibility of parallel UK proceedings, and subsequent difficulties in having a European judgment enforced, there will be many a freezing effect on proactive judicial action by these protected groups. Clearly and mutatis mutandis, the same categories in the UK will see a major judicial protection avenue fall away, as non-EU cq non-Lugano domiciled consumers, employees and small insureds do not enjoy the protection of the relevant Sections in BIa cq Lugano.
A distinct category of claimants that will be hit, are those which recently have enjoyed the reigning in of forum non conveniens in business and human rights cases particularly under Lugano (where Owosu's rejection of forum non rules) and even under Brussels Ia (where A33-34 does create some obstacles). Without Lugano, forum non in these cases will once again come to the fore, although recent Court of Appeal and Supreme Court authority on duty of care may alter that fear.
The voting procedure and future options.
Greg Callus suggests a number of future options here. I have made the following admittedly lame football comparison: If BIa is the Champions League, then Lugano is the Premier League and the Hague Judgments Convention the Ruritanian Boy Scouts football conference. That is because the 2019 Convention does not impact on forum non theories of the signatory States; is a long, long way off entry into force (albeit as noted the EC signals it might speed up the accession process); has such a huge amount of exceptions, reservations and open questions, counsel will drive an entire tank company through it; and, like all Hague instruments, lacks a harmonising court with authority over interpretation.
The Lugano Convention encourages consent within a year of notification. Absence of an answer in other words simply continues a status of lack of consent.
An important final word on the voting procedure: it is NOT the case that the final word on the current initiative lies with the Member States under qualified majority – QMV voting. An EU yes to Switserland, the depository, requires a Council Decision with QMV. However that requires a COM proposal for such decision. This, the European Commission clearly is not willing to put forward. Article 241 TFEU enables Council to request the EC to put forward a proposal for decision. Yet to amend that proposal (which would have to be the case here, seeing as the EC will not propose consent), unanimity is required.
I return to my Barnier quote above: 'Do we really want the UK to remain a centre for commercial litigation for the EU, when we could attract these services here?' Free movement of judgments simply is too big a cherry to have the UK pick it in the absence of a more overall framework for judicial co-operation in civil and commercial matters. I fear the fall-out for the categories listed above, might not be enough to make the EC and indeed enough Member States deviate from the Brexit negotiation mandate, which continues to cast a long shadow over this particular initiative.
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Whiskey Tasting Evening
AH!!!-THE-REDBREAST
A select group were invited to the Bulls Head on Thursday 3rdMay 2012 where Ed McAvoy the Brand Ambassador of Jameson's Irish Whiskey was over from Ireland via London to present our first 'Whiskey Tasting Evening'. Ed focused on such premium Whiskeys as Redbreast, Midletons and launched Jameson's Select Reserve as well as looking at other Irish Whiskies from within the Jameson 'family'. He did some comparisons between Scotch, American Bourbon whiskey and the Irish styles…really interesting. A big thanks to Philippa and Ed for hosting the evening.
Lloyd our head chef put on some little tasters of food that fitted the mood and his Irish Stew was inspired but the real winners were his little chocolate pieces with orange and Jameson's Select Reserve (in fact they were that good everyone insisted they went on to the new menu) and the cheese selection with the Redbreast 12 year old was fantastic.
The evening was a way of saying thanks for loyal custom as we approached our second 'birthday' of the new Bulls Head!! It is our 200th Anniversary year too…. 1812-2012 so we will be planning different events through the year.
Anyone interested in our next whiskey evening let us know by emailing [email protected] .
WHISKEY-IN-THE-GLASS
ED-MCAVOY-SELLS-IN-THE-JAMESON'
TALKING-THROUGH-THE-DETAIL
A brief history of Whisky
The Gaelic 'usquebaugh', meaning 'Water of Life', phonetically became 'usky' and then 'whisky' in English. Scotland has internationally protected the term 'Scotch'. For a whisky to be labelled Scotch it has to be produced in Scotland.
'Eight bolls of malt to Friar John Cor wherewith to make aqua vitae'. The entry above appeared in the Exchequer Rolls as long ago as 1494 and appears to be the earliest documented record of distilling in Scotland. This was sufficient to produce almost 1500 bottles.
Legend would have it that St Patrick introduced distilling to Ireland in the fifth century AD and that the secrets traveled with the Dalriadic Scots when they arrived in Kintyre around AD500.
The spirit was universally termed aqua vitae ('water of life') and was
commonly made in monasteries, and chiefly used for medicinal purposes, being prescribed for the preservation of health, the prolongation of life, and for the relief of colic, palsy and even smallpox.
Scotland's great Renaissance king, James IV (1488-1513) was fond of 'ardent spirits'. When the king visited Dundee in 1506, the treasury accounts record a payment to the local barber for a supply of aqua vitae for the king's pleasure. The reference to the barber is not surprising. In 1505, the Guild of Surgeon Barbers in Edinburgh was granted a monopoly over the
manufacture of aqua vitae – a fact that reflects the spirits perceived medicinal properties as well as the medicinal talents of the barbers.
The Scottish parliament introduced the first taxes on malt in the latter part of the 17th century, and consequently smuggling became standard practice for some 150 years. There was no moral stigma attached to it: Ministers of the Kirk often made storage space available under the pulpit, and the illicit spirit was, on occasion, transported by coffin – any effective means was used to escape the watchful eyes of the Excise men.
We have been talking about what we now know as Malt Whisky. But, in 1831 Aeneas Coffey invented the Coffey or Patent Still, which enabled a continuous process of distillation to take place. This led to the production of Grain Whisky, a different, less intense spirit than the Malt Whisky produced in the distinctive copper pot stills. The lighter flavored Grain Whisky, when blended with the more fiery malts, extended the appeal of Scotch Whisky to a considerably wider market.
For a full version of our Whisky Bible click here.
Get 'board' at the Bulls Head!!
As winter approaches Ben our landlord and the team have given great thought to drinks for winter. We are asking you to pop down and get board!!! Ben has launched his new whisky boards giving a variety of taste for two to share as a winter warmer by the fire!!
Different regions of Scotland have been carefully chosen as well as Ireland, the U.S and an international board too. It is a great way to sample whiskies and understand the differences in aroma and taste. A true winter warmer!!
During Cask Ale Week we launched our C.A.T.S (Cask Ale Tasters Society) boards where three beers can be sampled in third of a pint glasses. This is another great way to sample the varieties on offer.
We are today launching our famous winter drinks including our very own 'Woolly Bully' which has become famous over the last three winters since we opened. It has even been featured in IN/OUT Magazine this Autumn!!
You can read about our winter drinks from the board outside the pub!!
So three great reasons to get board this winter!!!
The fires are lit so what are you waiting for?
THE UNITED COLOURS OF CASK
'Tim travels Ireland for new whiskeys for the Bulls Head this Autumn'
Owner Tim is travelling Ireland searching for Whiskey that is unique to the Emerald Isle that he can bring back for this Autumns whiskey tasting evening and of course for guests of the Bulls Head to enjoy next to the fire with our Cheese Board!!
The Whiskeys will be on the bar this Sunday!!
The pictures show the worlds oldest Distillery… Kilbeggan in the county of West Meath the home of Lockes Whiskey as well as of course Kilbeggan itself!!
Two special whiskeys were acquired here!!
Midleton was next on the tour and what a lovely town this was just to the east of Cork and the home of some of the best whiskeys in the world let alone Ireland. Midleton Whiskey and Jamesons whiskey dominate here but we manged to bring back a rather nice bottle of Yellow Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey! Inspired by the original Yellow Spot and last bottled in the 1950s, Yellow Spot is the rare taste of a bonder's style Single Pot Still Irish whiskey. Rather than being simply a finished whiskey, Yellow Spot is special in that it contains single pot still whiskey that has been matured for a full 12 year period in three oak cask types: American bourbon barrels, Spanish sherry butts and uniquely, Spanish Malaga casks. Bottled at 46% ABV, the influence of the Malaga cask brings an exotic sweet note to the whiskey making it a truly delightful taste experience.
Just to let you know we also brought back to the bar at the Bulls Head are Greenore 8 Year Old an Irish Single Grain Whiskey which is a gold medal-winner at the International Wine & Spirits Competition, this unique concoction is a 100% Single Grain Irish whiskey, from the multi-award-winning Cooley distillery in Dundalk and The Kilbeggan Distillery Reserve Malt, the latest addition to the Kilbeggan family of fine whiskeys, is produced from the oldest pot still in the world which dates back to 1830. After 53 years this is the first 'official' Kilbeggan to be released. Amazing. Historic. And plain good whiskey. | {
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Tom Parker Bowles wife: Camilla's son's split from Sara Buys laid bare after 'problems'
TOM PARKER BOWLES split from his wife Sara Buys three years ago after "problems" in the relationship, according to an unearthed report.
By Charlie Smith
08:00, Sat, Dec 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 17:25, Sat, Dec 4, 2021
Camilla does not watch The Crown says Tom Parker Bowles
The food writer, 46, is the eldest child of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who is married to Prince Charles. Tom and his sister Laura Lopes are both children from Camilla's previous marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles. A well-known foodie, Tom has demonstrated his skills in the kitchen in a string of TV appearances over the years, such as BBC2's 'MasterChef: The Professionals'.
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Prince Charles' step-son also penned several cookbooks, including 'The Cook Book' for the Fortnum & Mason department store, which has long been associated with the Royal Family.
He returns to the BBC this morning for a new episode of 'Saturday Kitchen' with Matt Tebbutt.
The TV chef also welcomes comedian John Bishop, food writer Georgina Hayden and wine expert Olly Smith.
The year after Tom's 'MasterChef' appearance, he and his wife, fashion writer Sara, separated.
The couple had "problems" for "some time", according to an unearthed report by The Sun from 2018.
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Tom Parker Bowles wife: Camilla's son's split from Sara Buys laid bare after 'problems' (Image: GETTY)
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The newspaper quoted a source close to Tom and Sara, who tied the knot in 2005 and have two children together.
They said: "They are being very clear the separation is not final and they are not getting divorced.
"There is no one else involved.
"The concern of both Tom and Sara is for the stability and happiness of their children."
The paper reported that Tom had left the home the couple shared together and had moved into a rented property in West London.
Split: Tom and Sara at Meghan and Harry's wedding (Image: GETTY)
Despite their separation, the pair did still attend the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle together in 2018.
In March of this year, Tom's girlfriend, former journalist Alice Procope, died of cancer, aged 42.
Tom was reported to be "devastated" by her death, which came after the couple were together for almost two years.
A friend of Tom's told the Daily Mail that he had been "blissfully happy" in his relationship with Ms Procope.
Tom was born in 1974 to Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles, who decided to divorce in 1995.
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Charles, whose own divorce with Princess Diana was finalised the following year, had been having a highly publicised on-off affair with Camilla.
Camilla and Charles' romance drew major controversy in 1993, when newspapers published the transcript of an intimate conversation between the pair.
Tom opened up about the scandal – dubbed 'Camillagate' – in a 2014 interview.
Speaking to the Times, Camilla's son said: "I sort of remember not looking at the paper.
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"Because, you know, Jesus, the things that we've all said to people that we love … that you wouldn't want the world reading.
"I just felt p***** off. I wasn't going to read that sort of stuff about my mother, just as much as she wouldn't want to read it about me or my kids certainly wouldn't want to read it about me."
Several years after Charles and Camilla's divorces, and Diana's death in 1997, they eventually married at a small ceremony in 2005.
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Angelina Jolie has returned to work following her brave double mastectomy earlier this year, setting her sights on a new World War II movie.
The actress and United Nations ambassador will direct Unbroken, an adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling 2010 book about Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini. And she's already cast her first star… British Skins actor, Jack O'Connell.
If not an avid Skins viewer, you'll recognise Jack from his highly-publicised relationship with Tulisa Contostavlos. Though we're pretty sure it's his acting that'll have caught Angelina's eye.
Jack will play the lead role of Louis, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Louis (now 96-years-old) is a Los Angeles high school track star-turned-Olympian. He rose to fame in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – but in 1943, his Air Force plane crashed in the Pacific. He survived without food and water for an incredible 47 days enduring shark attacks, aerial attacks and hunger before arriving on a Japanese island behind enemy lines, where he was held as a prisoner of war for two years.
The movie is set for release in December 2014 and Angelina's already started work on the set. This week, she was photographed strolling around Hawaii while scouting film locations for the blockbuster, but made headlines for her incredibly happy and healthy appearance following her double mastectomy. Angelina wore a delicate black vest, proving to the world she's still body-confident despite her surgery. Such a beaut. | {
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Howard Community College announces special funding opportunities for students affected by COVID
Allana Haynes, Howard County Times, Columbia, Md.
August 5, 2021, 1:01 PM ·2 min read
Aug. 5—Howard Community College this week announced special funding opportunities to help students affected by the coronavirus pandemic start or continue their educations.
All registered Howard Community College students who have been affected by COVID-19 and are enrolled in at least one credit hour at the time of awarding are eligible, according to a news release.
Students who are undocumented or part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or Maryland Dream Act programs are eligible for the COVID-19 special funding. International and high school dual enrollment students are also eligible.
"The new COVID-19 special funding ... is critically important in helping students to continue pursuing their educational goals," Tamika Bybee, director of financial aid services, said in a statement. "We want all of our current and prospective students, especially those impacted by COVID-19, to know that financial assistance is available to help them afford and succeed in college."
The effects of the pandemic may include loss of personal or family income; increased utility bills; changes in child care, food, health care or housing needs; or technology-related costs or expenses incurred as a result of course format and instruction changes.
To be considered for COVID-19 special funding, students will be required to accept Howard Community College's mandatory aid agreement. For more information about the funding and how to apply, go to howardcc.edu/fundyourfuture. The college said it will begin review applicants three weeks into the fall semester, which starts Aug. 28.
The community college has awarded nearly $5.8 million in federal funding to 4,480 students to support their college educations through the COVID-19 special funding, according to the release. An additional $4 million is available in funding for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters.
In addition to the COVID-19 special funding, Howard Community College offers financial aid through scholarships, grants, work-study and other assistance to students, which includes emergency funds for books and associated course materials.
More information on the community college's scholarship opportunities and how to apply can be found on its online scholarships portal at howardcc.academicworks.com. Applications will be accepted through Jan. 30.
Howard Community College will be fully operational for the fall semester, with full in-person courses and the continuation of hybrid and virtual courses. | {
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Water Scarcity in West Bank and Gaza
[M]ost of Israel's water is artificially produced. About a third comes from desalination plants that are among the world's most advanced. Farmers rely on reclaimed water for irrigation. Israel recycles 86% of its wastewater, the highest level anywhere; Spain, the next best, reuses around 20%.
West Bank: None of these high-tech solutions helps the Palestinians [in the West Bank,] though, because they are not connected to Israel's water grid. They rely on the so-called "mountain aquifer", which lies beneath land Israel occupied in 1967. The 1995 Oslo Accords stipulated that 80% of the water from the aquifer would go to Israel, with the rest allocated to the Palestinians. The agreement, meant to be a five-year interim measure, will soon celebrate its 21st birthday. During that time the Palestinian population in the West Bank has nearly doubled, to almost 3m. The allocation has not kept pace.
The settler population has doubled too, and they face their own shortages. In Ariel, a city of 19,000 adjacent to Salfit, residents experienced several brief outages this month. Smaller settlements in the area, which are not hooked up to the national grid, have dealt with longer droughts. Palestinians have suffered far more, however. On average they get 73 litres per day, less than the 100-litre minimum recommended by the World Health Organisation.
The situation is even worse in Gaza, which relies almost entirely on a fast-shrinking coastal aquifer; what remains is polluted from years of untreated sewage and agricultural run-off. The stuff that comes out of Gazan taps is already brackish and salty. UN experts think that aquifer will be irreversibly damaged by 2020.
Israel's water authority sells the Palestinians 64m cubic metres of water each year. It says they cause their own shortages, because up to a third of the West Bank's water supply leaks out of rusting Palestinian pipes. A joint water committee is supposed to resolve these issues, but it has not met for five years…
Water in the West Bank: Nor yet a drop to drink, Economist, July 30, 2016, at 38
This entry was posted in agriculture, climate change, Environment, property rights, War, water resources and tagged 1995 Oslo Accords, Gaza aquifer, Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip 1995, water resources, West Bank aquifers on August 30, 2016 by Stoa.
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class OwnershipsController < ApplicationController
before_action :logged_in_user
# HaveまたはWantボタンが押されたとき
def create
# render text: params
# createアクションにpostされたときのparams
# {"_method"=>"post", "authenticity_token"=>"bWM+d61ejMW1ZDCv56XbUGxVwikwalvNPBlnsJdAMqFylZ7TELg+oCcIWIygPTUqkZ9EdkjbYuzu2LSFBDEkDw==", "asin"=>"B00777SXPS", "type"=>"Want", "controller"=>"ownerships", "action"=>"create"}
if params[:asin]
# Itemをasinという値で検索して、存在する場合はそのデータを返し、それ以外は与えた値(今回はasin)でItem.newした状態のItemモデルを返します
@item = Item.find_or_initialize_by(asin: params[:asin])
else
@item = Item.find(params[:item_id])
end
# itemsテーブルに存在しない場合はAmazonのデータを登録する。
if @item.new_record?
begin
# TODO 商品情報の取得 Amazon::Ecs.item_lookupを用いてください
# response = {}
response = Amazon::Ecs.item_lookup(params[:asin], :response_group => 'Medium', :country => 'jp')
# render text: response.inspect
rescue Amazon::RequestError => e
return render :js => "alert('#{e.message}')"
end
amazon_item = response.items.first
@item.title = amazon_item.get('ItemAttributes/Title')
@item.small_image = amazon_item.get("SmallImage/URL")
@item.medium_image = amazon_item.get("MediumImage/URL")
@item.large_image = amazon_item.get("LargeImage/URL")
@item.detail_page_url = amazon_item.get("DetailPageURL")
@item.raw_info = amazon_item.get_hash
@item.save!
end
# TODO ユーザにwant or haveを設定する
# params[:type]の値ににHaveボタンが押された時には「Have」,
# Wantボタンがされた時には「Want」が設定されています。
type = params[:type]
if type == "Have"
current_user.have(@item)
# flash[:success] = "アイテムをHaveしました" # Ajaxだとflashメッセージが表示されない
end
if type == "Want"
current_user.want(@item)
# flash[:success] = "アイテムをWantしました" # Ajaxだとflashメッセージが表示されない
end
# redirect_to request.referrer # remote true するときは redirectは必要ない
end
# Wantedまたは Havedボタンが押されたとき
def destroy
@item = Item.find(params[:item_id])
# TODO 紐付けの解除。
# params[:type]の値ににHavedボタンが押された時には「Have」,
# Wantedボタンがされた時には「Want」が設定されています。
type = params[:type]
if type == "Want"
current_user.unwant(@item)
# flash[:success] = "アイテムをunWantしました" # Ajaxだとflashメッセージが表示されない
end
if type == "Have"
current_user.unhave(@item)
# flash[:success] = "アイテムをunHaveしました" # Ajaxだとflashメッセージが表示されない
end
# redirect_to request.referrer # remote true するときは redirectは必要ない
end
end
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Intel Corp. Set to Fall Further Behind TSMC
Things are going to get ugly for Intel's manufacturing group.
Ashraf Eassa
(TMFAshrafEassa)
On April 26, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) admitted that its highly troubled 10nm chip manufacturing technology wouldn't go into volume production in the second half of 2018 as the company had said back in January, but would instead go into mass production sometime in 2019 (Intel wouldn't even commit to production in the first half of 2019, either).
With this delay, Intel has fallen solidly behind its largest peer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM), which began mass production of chips using its 7nm technology (roughly equivalent to Intel's 10nm technology) earlier this month.
Image source: Intel.
Although there is some hope that Intel might be able to pull it together and, at a minimum, return to parity with TSMC, the reality is that this is unlikely to happen. Indeed, it seems almost obvious at this point that Intel will fall further behind TSMC.
Look at the timelines
If all goes as planned -- something that, frankly, shouldn't be taken as a given at this point -- Intel should go into mass production on chips using its 10nm technology in either the first half of second half of 2019. Intel is seemingly about a year behind TSMC as of today.
The first variant of Intel's 10nm technology that will go into mass production is likely to be its second-generation variant, known as 10nm+. These products will be based on the company's Ice Lake chip architecture. The Ice Lake chips are expected to be followed by a processor family known as Tiger Lake, which will be manufactured using the company's third-generation 10nm technology, known as 10nm++.
In the best case, Intel brings 10nm+ into volume production in the first half of 2019, and then it rolls out the follow-on 10nm++ technology into production a year later in the first half of 2020. If the development of its 7nm technology goes extremely smoothly (something I'd have a hard time betting real money on), then Intel could roll out the first 7nm products near the end of 2020. More realistically, though, Intel would probably target its first 7nm product launch for the first half of 2021.
If things don't go well for Intel, then we could see the first 10nm+ products in the second half of 2019, with the 10nm++ products coming in the second half of 2020. Such a schedule would likely mean the first 7nm products wouldn't arrive until the second half of 2021, or potentially even early 2022.
By contrast, TSMC says it intends to go into mass production on its 5nm technology (roughly equivalent to Intel's 7nm technology) in the second half of 2020. Indeed, since Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is almost certainly going to use TSMC's 5nm tech for its A14 applications processor that'll launch in the second half of 2020, TSMC will need to be cranking these chips out by no later than June of 2020.
In the best case, Intel will be slightly behind TSMC during what Intel calls the 7nm generation, and what TSMC calls the 5nm generation, and in a less-ideal scenario (let alone a worst-case scenario), Intel will be substantially behind.
The implications are significant: Since TSMC manufactures chips for everybody -- including Intel's competitors -- Intel's competition could have a significant chip manufacturing advantage over Intel, allowing them to beat Intel in the marketplace with better, more efficient products.
This is a significant failure on the part of Intel's manufacturing organization that will require some serious changes to course-correct over the long term.
Ashraf Eassa is a Senior Technology Specialist with The Motley Fool. He's an experienced and passionate technology stock analyst and investor with focus on semiconductor companies. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science as well as in Mathematics from the University of Vermont. You can write to him at [email protected] -- he doesn't bite!
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Our new walking season got under way, with our usual stalwarts - Colin & Vickie Mutch, Gwyn & Eileen Williams, John Black & David McMahon - able to welcome our former Minister, Rona Young, now enjoying retirement, join us for an invigorating coastal walk from South Beach Troon to Irvine Harbour. The weather was cloudy- bright and accompanied by a cool, stiff wind from the North, Wrapping up warm and keeping a good pace was the key to survival on the day, and our efforts were rewarded with nice coffees, teas, scones and delicious Empire Biscuits in Irvine Arts Centre, ( thanks to Colin!), before catching the Train back to the cars parked in Troon.
Seven miles was not a bad start to the first walk of the season, and we look forward to more interesting and varied walks throughout the Summer when we can again enjoy good chat in good company.
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A clinicopathological correlation of international federation of gynecology and obstetrics's PALM–COEIN classification of abnormal uterine bleeding: Indian scenario
Kanika Singh1, Charu Agarwal1, Mukta Pujani1, Sujata Raychaudhuri1, Nimisha Sharma1, Varsha Chauhan1, Raina Chawla2, Rashmi Ahuja2, Mitasha Singh3
1 Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College, Faridabad, Haryana, India
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Faridabad, Haryana, India
3 Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College, Faridabad, Haryana, India
Dr. Mukta Pujani
Department of Pathology, ESIC Medical College, Faridabad, Haryana
DOI: 10.4103/jmh.JMH_128_18
Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a common problem affecting the women of reproductive age group and may also have a significant impact on their physical, social, and emotional aspects directly affecting their quality of life. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) devised a universally acceptable system of nomenclature and classification, namely PALM–COEIN classification of AUB in the year 2011. The objective of the present study was to analyze the structural (PALM) and functional (COEIN) component of FIGO system in the Indian scenario. Materials and Methods: Three hundred patients with complaints of AUB were taken. A clinical diagnosis according to PALM–COEIN system was made after thorough history and clinical examination. Additional investigations if required were done, and endometrial sampling or hysterectomy was done whichever indicated. A histological diagnosis was made, and each case was allocated a category according to PALM–COEIN classification. A clinicopathological correlation was done in the hysterectomy cases for structural causes (PALM). Results: Leiomyoma (30%) was the most common cause of AUB closely followed by adenomyosis (29.66%) overall. The clinicopathological correlation in hysterectomy cases was good with concordance rate of 85.03%. The concordance between clinical and pathological diagnoses for AUB-L, AUB-A, AUB-M, and AUB-A, L was statistically significant with P < 05 in positive cases. However, additional finding of adenomyosis was diagnosed in 48.2% of the cases apart from primary clinical diagnosis. Conclusion: A good clinicopathological correlation was seen in the cases when classified according to PALM–COEIN classification. The system also provides for consideration of multiple etiologies contributing toward AUB both clinically and histopathologically. However, histopathology remains the cornerstone in establishing the accurate diagnosis as the cases without specific symptoms can be missed clinically.
Singh K
Agarwal C
Pujani M
Raychaudhuri S
Sharma N
Chauhan V
Ahuja R
Singh M
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To begin with, according to a number of those participants, the invitation to attend the hospice for an interview has helped them speak to the hospice staff about how they are faring since the loss of their relative and even say thank you for the services they received.
Indeed, to some participating in the interview has helped them open up and be able to speak about the loss of their loved; below is a post on social media by one of such respondents.
Given Nairobi Hospice services a largely urban clientele, and most people in such diverse cosmopolitan settings tend to be too busy to spare their valuable time, we had a number of people not turning up for interviews – even after a number of follow-up and confirmatory telephone calls. This resulted in us taking longer than expected to complete the sample size for this site. Moreover, when they did turn up – with some presenting way past their agreed appointment time – they had limited time and it was difficult to administer all the scheduled cognitive interviews for this site.
To minimise cases of no-shows, a number of interviews were carried out at participants' places of choice (i.e., either at their homes or places of work), and these often tended to be some distance from Nairobi, involving sometimes considerable travel time.
Some of the caregivers' contact details held by the hospice are no longer valid, and even in use, and this became another 'exclusion criteria' from possible participation, hindering the recruitment process.
Some caregivers on the hospice's list had since relocated from Nairobi following the death of their loved ones. This made it a challenge to come back to the city for the proposed interview, given the cost and inconvenience incurred on their behalf as a result.
The battery life of the video recorder shown in the above photograph proved to be relatively short, meaning that I had to keep interrupting the interview periodically to install a new set of batteries.
Some interviews had to be conducted in more challenging areas of the city, including urban slum dwellings, proving a security issue for myself as a woman and also for the hardware recording equipment I had to carry.
Lastly, the recent relocation of Nairobi Hospice from its previous location has made accessibility to the facility problematic to most of those who may have wanted to attend the interviews; most of those on the hospice's list of potential respondents received care from its previous location. This again impacted negatively upon the recruitment process.
Many of these challenges will hopefully be diminished at our next clinical destination: Nyeri Hospice. Working in a more rural locale, with an urbanized center that does not reflect that of the country's capital, including the available time and commitment of caregivers to honor interview commitments, I am hopeful that interviews will be completed sooner and that some of the shortfall interviews we experienced in Nairobi Hospice- especially the cognitive interviews – will be more than compensated for by Nyeri residents. Let's see what happens! | {
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Bursting with color and flavor–bright citrus, ripe avocado, roasted pecans, and sherry vinaigrette, sweet, spicy, creamy, and crunch–you absolutely want this arugula salad with clementines and maple pepper pecans!
As the weather gets hotter, we're not much into turning the oven on for toasting a few nuts. No problem here–these caramelized crunchy peppery pecans are pan roasted, stovetop. Just stir the nuts around in a hot heavy-bottomed skillet with maple syrup, a bit of coconut oil, and plenty of freshly ground black pepper. They toast up beautifully!
While the nuts cool into their crunchiness, whisk up a light tangy-sweet dressing out of sherry vinegar, maple syrup, a titch of Dijon mustard, and extra virgin olive oil. The sherry vinegar's robust almost-caramel toasted nut flavor accents the peppery arugula, sweet mandarins, and oh—those pecans!
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Grab the last of the spring season's kid-sized oranges and add this amazing arugula salad with mandarin orange and maple pepper pecans to your salad repertoire!
Mandarin oranges are slightly smaller hybrid cousins of the standard orange. Much in the same way gala and fuji are apple varietals, tangerines and clementines are varietals of the mandarin.
From November into late spring, you can find kid-sized, easy-to-peel super sweet mandarins fresh—with brand names like Cuties, Halos, and Dimples. When mandarin oranges aren't in season, simply substitute canned mandarin oranges. Strawberries are also delicious here, and pears.
Made from fermented and aged Spanish wine, sherry vinegar gives this vinaigrette dressing its distinct pleasing taste. You'll also love how sherry vinegar brings out the best in sautéed greens. In these chard quesadillas it's the unbelieveable surprise ingredient!
If your arugula comes from a garden or farm share box, it will likely be more peppery than baby arugula. All the better for a vibrant salad! Do take the time to remove and discard the larger stems, and tear the leaves into smaller pieces.
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Peppery arugula with crunchy pecans, creamy avocado, and sweet mandarin oranges, all dressed with winning vinaigrette dressing--the ingredients in this salad dance together--for your eyes and taste buds. Serves about 4 people.
Stir the pecans, maple syrup, coconut oil, salt, and pepper together in a heavy-bottomed skillet over medium heat. Stir continuously until the pecans are golden and the maple syrup has caramelized, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove from the heat, but continue to stir so the pecans don't all clump together. Set aside to cool.
Whisk the vinegar, mustard, garlic, maple syrup, salt, and pepper together. Continue whisking while drizzling in the olive oil.
Toss the arugula in a bowl with a few tablespoons of vinaigrette. Mix another tablespoon with the clementine segments so they are shiny, and then mix them with the arugula, adding more vinaigrette if you think it's needed. Arrange in a bowl or on individual plates. Top with the maple pepper pecans and avocado. Finish with several grinds of black pepper.
Makes more vinaigrette than you will likely use for this salad.
Midsummer, when mandarin oranges aren't in season, substitute canned mandarin oranges.
If you have arugula from your garden or farm share box, remove and discard the stems and tear the larger leaves into smaller (1 ½-inch) pieces. | {
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Clausewitz and modern interstate warfare (1990-2012): the continuing relevance of Clausewitz?
It has been almost 200 years since Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War. Clausewitz's discussion of war explores four distinct, but related aspects of war: reasons for war (politics), the theory of war (absolute war), war in reality, and the conduct of war. Using his experience as a soldier in the Napoleonic and other wars of the 1700s and 1800s, Clausewitz's major academic work seeks to provide a comprehensive theory of war. While war has changed dramatically since Clausewitz's time, war involving states is still a part of everyday life. In this context, this thesis examines the contemporary relevance of Clausewitz with regard to modern interstate warfare, specifically analyzing whether Clausewitz would recognize modern interstate warfare. This was achieved by analyzing whether there was symmetry between the reasons for war and conduct of war variables, as explained in On War, with modern interstate wars waged between 1990 and 2012. The data revealed that both the wars of Clausewitz's time and the wars of the modern era were varied in the their reasons for war and conduct of war, but that wars from Clausewitz's time and the modern era still share similar characteristics. Despite the vast differences between Clausewitz's time and the modern era this study found that Clausewitz's wars and modern interstate wars do share common variables, making On War still relevant for the study of modern interstate warfare. | {
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There's tucked away, and then there's out of the way. Ada Street just might be the latter, but once you taste the food from Chef Zoe Schor, you'll forget all about the inconvenience.
Ada Street is an intimate dining destination in Noble Square. Once you enter the dark restaurant, you head down a long winding hall and arrive into the 45-seat restaurant illuminated by natural light from a large glass garage door that opens into a back patio.
Cuisine is a mix of modern tavern fare that's done in a style which incorporates global flavors represented by the chef's journeys and experiences. Portions are small so if you think you are ordering too much, order some more.
We kicked things off with a chicken-liver mouse along with a steak tartare. Both were served alongside crispy toast points. A small quail egg yolk and fried capers topped the tartare that made for a delicious texture and flavor. The chicken-liver mousse was rich and creamy.
Moving on, we enjoyed our waitress' two can't-miss recommendations, grilled octopus atop a tabasco hash and the truffle asparagus served with a soft boiled egg. The grilled flavor was robust and potent, with great texture to the octopus. The asparagus was good but forgettable. We teamed both of those up with fried manchego cheese bites, which were perfectly pop-able.
For a little more sustenance, we sprung for the ham, jam, and cheese panini – a grilled, hot, salty sandwich served with a side of sweet jam. Also plugged by the waitress, we opted for a serving of cavatelli with duck confit and a poached egg. While this house-made pasta was delicious, we couldn't neglect the other house-made pasta on special for the night, the gnocchi. Pillowy on the inside, seared on the outside, this was a fan favorite for sure.
The meal ended with their brioche donuts, served piping hot with a port wine caramel dipping sauce. All in all, it felt like Ada Street was a greatest hits album incarnated into a restaurant. One after the next, the kitchen kept impressing us with the best they had to offer, leaving us wanting more.
Note that while they have an innovative cocktail list, full of new-age and classic cocktails, their wine selection was equally robust and enjoyed by my dining party.
Service is casual and friendly and ready to make recommendations on a whim. Become buddy-buddy with them and they just might send out a bowl of their crispy black-eyed peas on-the-house. Ada Street is open for dinner Monday through Saturday and a reservation and an empty stomach are encouraged. | {
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The "Bird Cage" in the photo was developed as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate that the IMAGE spacecraft could be tested at VLF and LF in the near field with acceptable background attenuation. Once completed, the "cage" was in fact donated to a local bird lover and is now used as an aviary.
In the foreground, testing of vertical VLF antenna is being performed. Voltages up to 1000 VRMS from 1 kHz to 100 kHz were developed for the various attenuation tests required with the "Bird Cage" and "Big Box" in the photos. It is not known whether ships sailed in circles during testing due to interference with various Navy VLF navigation transmitters operating at similar frequencies. | {
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Q: Double setting in odoo 13 User settings? strange case of Odoo 13 when we go to Settings -> Users and pick a user and open the form view.
then we get this:
double Accounting setting on the user, in the frist one we have Accountant and Advisor and in the second Account we have only the billing.
I checked the code and we dont have a custom module with messes with ir.module.category nor inherits the accounting for that matter.
The question is, have you ever had this case and how to combine these in one field setting?
In the base module i have found
it takes the accounting field as different app, but we are using enterprise version, from invocing app comes the Billing and from accounting app from enterprise the other two. On a demo empty db these are in one field, on this db which has our data has these 2 options.
Any help is appreciated. Odoo 13 enterprise
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The Secret Christmas Day Dogfight Of World War II
Editor's note: In the fleeting final months of peace before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of pilots from...
By Sam Kleiner | Published May 17, 2018 3:52 PM
Editor's note: In the fleeting final months of peace before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of pilots from across the U.S. armed forces comprising the First American Volunteer Group (AVG), led by legendary Army pilot Claire Lee Chennault, secretly traveled across the Pacific Ocean under false identities to secretly help the Chinese military ward off invading Japanese forces. InThe Flying Tigers: The Untold Story Of The American Pilots Who Waged A Secret War Against Japan, Sam Kleiner details the secret history of a covert operation "whose very existence would have scandalized the isolationist" United States — and the heroic men and women whose valiant efforts before and after Pearl harbor helped cement an alliance that would change the course of World War II.
As Christmas morning dawned, Bill Reed took up his position in the alert tent near the airfield, awaiting reports from the warning net of the expected attack. As the hours passed it began to seem as if the threat of a Christmas-day raid was a bluff, but at 11:00 a.m. a call came from the warning net that Japanese planes had been spotted and the pilots should scramble. Reed hurried to his P-40 and started the engine but was abruptly told to shut it down, as the signal had apparently been just another false alarm. As soon as he dismounted from the cockpit and returned to the alert tent, the scramble was back on. "In a matter of a minute or two we were in the air and climbing as rapidly as a P-40 will climb," he wrote in his diary.
The battle plan was issued over the radio: "Orbit Hometown Angels 15," which meant that his patrol of four P-40s should fly above Rangoon at fifteen thousand feet. They circled for thirty minutes without tracking anything. "I began to think people were just nervous," Bill wrote, "and we had another patrol for nothing." Then the plane ahead suddenly began rocking its wings. He anxiously scanned the sky. Some five thousand feet overhead a formation of about a few dozen Japanese bombers droned into view. Trailing them was a group of Japanese fighter planes "glinting wickedly in the sunlight."
[Claire Lee] Chennault had taught the AVG pilots to strike from above, but the squadron had no choice now but to climb to meet the enemy. Reed quickly gained altitude, aiming for the bombers, but found himself head-to-head with a Japanese fighter. He squeezed the trigger and "raked him with a long burst, and saw tracers rake him through the length of the fuselage."
With that plane all but certainly dispatched, he engaged in an inconclusive exchange of fire with two more Japanese fighters, and then climbed in a steep ascent up to twenty thousand feet, hoping to catch the bombers. He "attacked head-on, all guns blazing" and then flew past them. He hadn't succeeded in hitting any of his targets, but as he prepared to turn back for another pass, he caught sight of an American plane in a dogfight with Japanese fighters a mile ahead. He rushed into the fight, but "we went round and round, with no one getting in any very good bursts." He realized that he had flown far out over the Gulf of Martaban in the course of the battle, and headed for home.
Members of the First American Volunteer Group (AVG) post for a photo with their Chinese alliesCourtesy of the Family of J.J. Harrington
After linking up with the lone P-40 in sight, the pair flew over the open water and soon encountered three Japanese fighters heading to their base in Thailand. Despite the risk of running out of fuel in another dogfight, the two American planes pounced, dropping down on the fighters' tails. Reed opened fire, and one Japanese fighter "exploded right in my face." While he pulled up to avoid hitting the crippled craft, his squadronmate clipped the wing of another enemy plane, which "spun into the Gulf." Reed dove away from the remaining Japanese fighter. His gas meter was "damn low" and he was still out in the Gulf. He saw another group of Japanese fighters in the distance but had to ignore them. As he sped toward land, it felt as if "the coast would never show up." He made it to the base with a nearly empty tank. When he landed, he saw that he had taken his share of hits, but observed, "These P-40s absorb lead like a sponge does water."
By the end of the afternoon, two pilots had not returned: Ed Over- end from California and George McMillan from Florida. The other airmen "had given them up for dead," perhaps owing to the fact that much of the fighting had taken place far over the water. They sent back a message to Chennault in Kunming: "Two planes and pilots missing."
The men gathered together that night, and as armorer Chuck Baisden recalled: "If you've ever drank Australian ale on a hot day, it does leave an effect on you. But that was my Christmas dinner. We never even thought about Christmas really, Christmas just wasn't there, there was no feeling, my feeling was there was no Christmas at all."
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At 9:00 p.m., a car drove up to the airfield and, to the group's astonishment, George McMillan stepped out. Not only was he alive, but he was carrying a Japanese saber. McMillan enjoyed the surprise as much as any of them, writing to his parents: "You should have seen them when I walked in!"
The excitement only grew as he related his harrowing story of survival. His plane was barely staying in the air as he cleared the coastline. He knew he couldn't make it to the base, and took it down in a rice paddy. As his plane skidded to a halt, McMillan opened the canopy and waited to assess his situation. After a half hour, a group of men appeared in the distance. He used his good arm to wave his handkerchief, a sign that he was a friend. The local Burmese approached, offered him water, and guided him on a four-mile walk to a town, where they bathed his wounds and fed him. They then put him on a horse, and a guide took him to another town, from which he was given a ride back to the base. Along the way, he stopped to inspect a downed Japanese bomber, from which he retrieved the saber.
McMillan not only had survived a crash but was credited with having destroyed three bombers, more than any other AVG pilot in the air that day. He wrote to his parents: "While you were all eating turkey and cranberry sauce I led six men in an attack against thirty bombers and ten pursuit escort, ha! … Naturally, we felt pretty good over Xmas' days work."
From The Flying Tigers by Sam Kleiner, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2018 by Samuel Kleiner.
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Automated search on the ground and video registration of multicopters' operators.
Facility protection against mass-production civilian multicopters of DJI Phantom 2, 3, 4; Inspire; Mavic; Matrice; Walkera Voyager 3, etc. type.
- jamming of on-board hardware of GPS, GLONASS satellite navigation systems.
Designation of radio reconnaissance stations: automatic search, detection, determination of bearings and coordinates (while operating as mated pair), technical analysis of emissions of VHF ground and aerial radio communications operating at fixed frequencies, as well as in the mode of pre-programed radio frequency hopping with the speed up to 1000 times per second in the 30 MHz band; reception and transmission of information to the control center. Designation of radio suppression stations: radio suppression of VHF ground, aviation and satellite radio communication links: up to 20 lines operating at fixed frequencies quasi-simultaneously; one link operating in the pre-programed radio frequency hopping mode with the speed up to 500 times per second in the 30 MHz band.
Optima-B" System (GPS Satellite Navigation System Terminal Spoofing Jammer) GPS satellite system terminal spoofer "Optima-B" (hereinafter, the "Optima-B") is designed to generate and radiate, in real time, the signals whose characteristics and parameters are identical to characteristics and parameters of the signals generated by the GPS satellites at an assigned navigation receivers' station point. | {
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This year, for the first time in a while, there will be new faces in the spotlight as Austin prepares for its quadrennial inauguration festivities. A two-day, $4 million bash is set to usher Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick into office.
Prop. 1 passed. What's next for Texas transportation?
We will post City of San Marcos results as they are released this evening by the elections administrator. Polls close at 7 p.m.
For the November 2014 general election, officials will open five voting locations not in operation for the March party primaries. When you vote today, make sure you show up at the right place. | {
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In the spirit of the "Globally Networked Customs" initiative, the WCO has established an "Information and Intelligence Centre (I2C)" at its HQ to facilitate communication and coordination on Customs compliance and law enforcement-related matters.
The WCO Cargo Targeting System (WCO CTS) is a risk assessment and targeting solution for cargo manifests developed by the World Customs Organization (WCO) for Customs administrations around the globe. It enables those adopting this solution to implement international best practice in the area of cargo risk assessment, including the key pillars of the WCO's SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade. The WCO CTS has already been successfully implemented by many Customs administrations in countries that vary greatly in terms of their size, level of economic development and cargo volumes.
To enable its Members to combat transnational organized crime more effectively, the WCO has developed a global system for gathering data and information for intelligence purposes, the CEN.
WCO Strategic Trade Control Enforcement Implementation Guide, Guidelines for Post-Clearance Audit (PCA), Customs Enforcement Guidelines on Countering Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Compendium of Customs Operational Practices for Enforcement and Seizures, WCO Customs Risk Management Compendium, Information Repository of Legislation on Border Measures for Counterfeiting and Piracy- 2012 edition
One of the most practical instruments for securing the highest degree of harmonization is Recommendations that have been adopted by the WCO Council.
Customs enforcement has developed drastically over the last decades to keep pace with the tremendous increase in international trade and transport and a growing threat of trans-border organized crime. | {
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LISTEN NOW: Noah Guthrie Releases Soulful New Single "Hell Or High Water"
By James Lambert | November 5, 2019
South Carolina born, singer-songwriter Noah Guthrie has released a new single, titled "Hell or High Water." Listen now!
Noah Guthrie's Newest Single
The latest release features the Alt-Country, Americana artist's soulful, tenor vocal range, and is a standout from the modern sound of country music today.
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Over the years, Guthrie has earned a reputation for writing honest music that is representative of real-life stories. The dynamic recording, "Hell or High Water," signifies that and illustrates the reality of taking risks and navigating life while showcasing Guthrie's powerful vocal abilities.
The new release, written by Guthrie, and co-produced by Noah and his brother, Ian Guthrie at Studio 101 in Woodruff, South Carolina, is now available HERE.
To date, Guthrie has released two original albums, The Valley (2017) and Among the Wildest Things (2013), both of which have received critical acclaim. Guthrie has been in the studio recording new music, which will be released in the coming months.
Guthrie first garnered attention by covering chart-topping hits and posting them online, which landed him a pivotal role on the hit TV show, Glee, as Roderick Meeks.
His commitment to releasing new content has cultivated a dedicated fanbase online and has garnered over 85 million cumulative views and 512K engaged subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Over time, it's become clear that his skills are better put to use creating original music. Guthrie, a growing secret to today's music scene, has been touring his original music performing as an opener for Dwight Yoakam and Willie Nelson.
This December, he will hit the road for his international Hell or High Water tour, with shows spanning the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.
The Hell or High Water tour will run throughout the month of December and includes:
12.5 | London, United Kingdom (St. Pancras Old Church)
12.8 | Glasgow, United Kingdom (Broadcast)
12.9 | Koln, Germany (Studio 672)
12.10 | Hamburg, Germany (Indra Mondial)
12.12 | Dordrecht, Netherlands (Bibelot)
13.12 | Lelystad, Netherlands (Theater Posa)
14.12 | Groningen, Netherlands (Simplon)
15.12 | Utrecht, Netherlands (TivoliVredenburg)
18.12 | Zwolle, Netherlands (Hedon)
19.12 | Arnhem, Netherlands (Luxor Live)
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What's the Same about Self-Publishing and Blogging?
In some ways we're at the confluence of two of the biggest changes in the media landscape of the written word: self-publishing and blogging.
Publishing a book without intermediaries has a long and erratic tradition in the United States. Examples of early self-publishers are largely irrelevant, since the modern notion of self-publishing depends on the opposition of this type of book publishing to traditional publishing. In the dominant form of publishing, publishers acquire rights to literary properties, improve and complete the transition of the property from a manuscript to a book, from raw materials to a consumer product.
They then advertise, market, promote and sell the products of their efforts, while paying the creator of the original manuscript a rather small percentage of their revenue as a royalty. The creator is an equity partner in the enterprise of the book, but a decidedly junior partner. The author is at the mercy of the contract she has signed, the scruples of the publisher she has signed with, and the vagaries of the marketplace, about which she may know nothing, since the entire structure and mechanism of publishing keeps writers isolated from both their readers and the ways that publishers actually work.
In opposition to this, or sometimes parallel to the track of traditional publishing but largely unknown to it, there have always been authors who, for whatever reason, did not participate in this whole mechanism. Perhaps they objected to the publishers acting as gatekeepers who only allow a certain few writers into the world of published authors. If you didn't have what the publisher or his agents wanted, you didn't get published.
Some authors chose vanity publishers, companies that are not truly publishers at all, but who sell services and books to their own authors, who are, in reality, their true customers.
But many other writers set up publishing companies of their own, and became true self-publishers. They obtained ISBNs from Bowker, listed themselves in various directories, established discount schedules and distribution plans and acted in every way just like traditional publishers, but only published the works of one author—themselves.
When I decided to self-publish in the 1980s, it was still a time when self-publishers were looked on as third-class citizens, not truly members of the publishing industry. Consequently, like many other self-publishers, I made lots of efforts to appear to be an actual small independent publisher. Various family members were listed as officers in the company, and correspondence was sent out over the signature of someone who was not the author of the only book on our list. We used a post office box at the Grand Central Postal Station on Lexington Avenue in New York for our mailing address. Even the name of the press was generic—Globe Press Books—and designed to evoke associations of other, better known publishing houses.
I followed the advice and gained from the encouragement of Dan Poynter, whose Self-Publishing Manual became my bible. My books were typeset by real typesetters I knew in New York, and printed by real book printers. And while there were always self-publishers who were successful, who took a businesslike approach to publishing, it remained a sideline, and an unloved stepchild of the publishing indsutry.
Today the picture is radically different in some ways, maddeningly the same in others. But over all, the entire world of self-publishing has been yanked out of the shadow of the conglomerate publishers by technological innovation.
First, print on demand, using digital printing, revolutionized book printing and distribution by eliminating the need to print—and pay for—thousands of books just to gain entree to the publishing world.
By eliminating the risk associated with an investment of $10,000 or more, print on demand allowed the tens of thousands of people who had always dreamed of publishing a book to do so at almost no upfront cost.
Companies have sprung up to take advantage of the ease of publishing with this technology, and sometimes to take advantage of the authors who rushed to fulfill their dreams. We now have another category of companies, subsidy publishers, to account for this development. Sometimes erroneously referred to as "self-publishing companies," these firms occupy a position somewhere between vanity publishers and book printers, who don't claim to be publishers at all, even though they may offer services similar to the functions once found only inside a traditional publishing company.
The other technological innovation that has changed publishing is the widespread adoption of the internet. When we finally gained the ability to create a two-way interaction with this powerful new media, the social network was born.
The first social media was blogging, a form of posting articles to websites that's easy enough even for writers to do it. But what made blogging social was the function built into blogging software that allowed readers to take part in the conversation, to interact directly with the writer by commenting on the articles she was writing.
The interactive nature of blogging, and then of other social media innovations, is changing many aspects of our life. But blogging itself has continued to grow and adapt to widely different contexts and means of delivering information, entertainment and opinion to interested readers. And while blogs have grown to include audio and video, they are still predominantly text.
Two results of the continuing rise of blogging as a media activity of importance in our culture have been reinforcing the primacy of text and reading to the online experience, and reinforcing the importance of writers as influencers. Text dominates the web, and writers produce that text. The writing that makes a difference in people's lives, that causes mass movements, or that sells huge numbers of products are from the keyboards of copywriters, journalists, bloggers, enthusiasts, and passionate followers of a cause.
When I started blogging in late 2009 there was already a rich landscape of publishing blogs, book blogs, review blogs and, of course, technology blogs without end.
But there was little that I could find that talked about self-publishing as a part of the long tradition of bookmaking, about the design of books as an intrinsic part of how books are positioned, marketed and sold. And a lack of many of the basic book-building skills that self-publishers need to create professional-level books.
So TheBookDesigner.com was born. I tried to find the subjects that would be of the most interest to potential readers who were interested in this whole new world of personal, do-it-yourself book making. And people responded. Articles about typography, about type design, book layout, copyright, about the minutia of publishing like how to decipher bar codes, they all found readers.
It's rewarding when you've spent most of your life pursuing a field that's unknown to the average person to all of a sudden wake up to a whole world of readers who want to know those arcane bits of knowledge and who are eager to read your next article. As a writer, it's damned rewarding. Instead of boring family and friends with nuances of type design, I could talk to people who were actually interested.
As I've continued to blog and to interact with the lively and educated community that takes part in conversations on my blog, I've learned a lot. Now the talk is all about e-books, the technology that will cause the next big shift in book publishing.
Throughout the time I've been blogging, it has become apparent to me how much blogging has in common with self-publishing, and the happy confluence of these two ideas in my own life.
They really are very similar, don't you think? Blogging is, in fact, a subset of self-publishing as far as I'm concerned. Like a bridge between the printed books of the past and the electronic books of the future, blogging puts the power of the media in the hands of an individual, so that a guy sitting in his spare bedroom in San Rafael, California, can write an article on any subject that interests him and have it read by people all over the world within hours. And then enter into an ongoing conversation with those readers about the ideas and practices contained in that article.
This scenario presents me with most of the results I hoped to get from self-publishing all those years ago, and in a more immediate and interactive way. Truly, it is a golden age for self-publishing of every kind.
Unlike self-publishing, in which we intentionally create a manuscript for a book, taking care to make it consistent, readable and cohesive, blogs are made up of bits and pieces of ideas, often written in the context of a particular moment in time.
There are, today, 667 articles on this blog. Some are instructional, some newsy. Some seek to warn you of mistakes that are easy to avoid if you only know about them, and to encourage you to use these tools to pursue the publication of your ideas, your history, your dreams, and your personal story.
I am a self-publishing advocate.
The fact that many self-published books are unreadable, dreadful to look at, or otherwise flawed, means nothing to me. I applaud them all. Each book represents a writer reaching out to share something of herself with the wider world. Each has a readership, no matter how small. And for every hundred dreadful books, there will be gems, transformative reading experiences, practical knowledge you can't find anywhere else, or life changing memoirs that amaze us.
So my message to you is: go out and publish, make your voice heard, spread your word in the world. It's all good.
This article originally appeared in a slightly different form as the Introduction to A Self-Publisher's Companion. The rest of the book is just as good. You can find out more on the page for A Self-Publisher's Companion. Photo by e3000.
This is a great overview, and very informative. Thanks very much.
> they are still predominantly text.
not a thing that's burdensome in cost and complexity.
Joel, your blog to me is like an online magazine with a daily article. So many blogs focus on the mundane inanities of the blogger's daily life. I thank you for the information you convey in the most professional way. It has been vital to me as I attempt to become a better self-publisher. Another point – you could be hired to do many of the things you teach others to do, which is very altruistic. I appreciate that!
Thanks, Matt. I feel I can help many more people through education and training than I can by producing their books because, after all, there is only so much time!
Joel, First, I don't comment very often but I want you to know that I've followed you daily for almost two years and it's because of your encouragement (and a little more writing time) that I now have a WordPress site up and am blogging (I promised any readers I have) once a week on Tuesdays. I figure I'll see if I can post more soon.
About your post today, my past path is almost identical to yours. I followed Poynter's book just as you did, bought my set of 10 ISBNs from Bowkers and then, unlike you, did nothing to market. I had a too-healthy practice as an individual/marriage therapist to write anything more. About a year ago my granddaughter, whom I've raised since birth, turned 16, I cut back my practice and now I think I'm on a roll. The roll is so new, though, I want to test it before I say any more.
I particularly liked your post today because it gives a little history and brings us up to date with today: blogging and putting out more information, no matter what form it takes. I really like your inference that publishing will continue to evolve: change in publishing (as in life) is inevitable. So, the best thing and the most exciting thing is to roll with it. Yippee!!
Thank you, Joan. You obviously have a lot to offer and your readers will be grateful you now have more time to devote to publishing. If you run into any rough spots, leave a question on the blog and I'll try to help. I deeply appreciate your readership here as we explore all these changes together.
As a huge advocate of the independent publishing route … I love the idea of the blog as a daily (or weekly .. or monthly) magazine article… actually, they've morphed quite a bit over the year–reminds of my 10 years as a columnist for the Business Journals. Let's encourage … actually, I demand it, that out self-publishers embrace the art of editing…get help and eyes here. My concern is that with the massive e-volution, the pollution factor is too huge to ignore.
I just came from a 4 day conference. The mini-book, less than that 100 pages–mostly double spaced, loosely layed out looked fairly pathetic. The vanity press of today. Participants were encourage to combined all their blogs, their articles and create "the book." They were being touted as "business cards"–my response to several of the "proud" owners of 2000 each was: if this is your business card, don't you want it to look and read its best?
Blogs, and articles, are a fabulous starting point. All books have beginnings–and middles–and ends … just as a great blog does.
Interesting article. I appreciate the historical references and your struggles to remain independent when it was not a popular choice. It's always inspiring to see the journey of an entrepreneur.
Regarding blogging, I think depending on the style and genre, I consider many blogs to take on another publishing tradition: the newspaper and magazine. Many blogs remind me of the standard Opinion Section, with the comments making up the Letters to the Editor. Blogs can also be the new advice columns. Remember Dear Abby?
Andrea, I think you are right, and over the two years I've been blogging I frequently think of the blog as a kind of one-article-per-day magazine, and it also bears a strong resemblance to the op-ed page of a newspaper.
It was interesting to hear about your experiences in the 80s, and your point that "like many other self-publishers, I made lots of efforts to appear to be an actual small independent publisher".
I assumed that this only began to happen more recently, and mainly with the web. But it makes sense that it's a long-standing practice.
It also confirms a widely shared sense that indie and self-publishers can often promote more effectively if they create more of an impression of being a publisher.
Nicely said. What's been funny to me, lately, is that, as I've been sending review copies of The Prodigal Hour out, I've noticed a lot of book bloggers who outright and without exception simply state they refuse self-published books.
Both sad and ironic at the same time. On the other hand, we've had a lot of success getting online reviews for A Self-Publisher's Companion which is blatantly self-published. Have you used Christy Pinheiro's great list of reviewers who welcome indie books?
This is very informative Joel. I published through a POD company in 2005. It's a company that only published childrens books. They have since expanded, but my 2nd attempt with them was a bust.
The entire industry is changing daily, it's hard to keep up. Now with book stores closing left and right I think we may be seeing the end of traditional publishing. I really have mixed feelings about that.
Thanks for all your fine articles. I am learning a lot to fine-tune my books for greater excellence.
I agree that blogging and self-publishing are closely tied together. My blog posts often eventually grow into full-blown books, blogging has expanded my customer base, and best of all, interaction with my blog readers helps me to find out what they need and want to hear about within the niche I serve. I can then produce books that fill their needs and enrich their lives.
A beautiful post, Joel! Thanks for including the historical reference to self-publishing. I find so many who think it's a new idea. I agree that blogging is much like self-publishing. We are creating content that in many cases, the readers devour like the pages of a book. It serves the reader differently, as you said, but serves, nonetheless. Since it's free content and up-to-the-minute information, in some ways it serves the reader better. You are serving your readers well with your optimistic take on this topic. Thanks!
Thanks, Joel. Great article! I'm glad to be a part of your audience (and have learned somethings by hanging around)!
Thanks for this excellent post. You give a much needed historical context to what is happening in publishing today and show a genuine enthusiasm for where it is all headed. It is a pretty exciting time to be a writer, and a reader!
Michael Lipsey: blogs don't have to be ephemeral.
I once wrote five blogs, five days a week. When it stopped being fun, I cut back. Some blogs are on possibly permanent hiatus, and some are added-to just a few times a year. One blog is written five to seven times each week. Even my "dead" blogs still attract readers and comments.
The old blog posts will survive as long as Blogger lasts. Even if Blogger (owned by Google) doesn't last forever, archives such as the Internet Archive "wayback machine" captured words I put on the web starting in 1978.
Also, while magazines and newspapers don't go back as far as the Dead Sea Scrolls, I still have cherished magazines I bought more than 50 years ago, and two newspapers from the 19th century.
I don't see book publishing and blogging as comparable because while books are objects (even e-books) and commodities, blogging is by its very nature an ephemeral art. At the beginning of blogging there was the notion that it could be a paid service by subscription, but except for a few financial newsletters, that was soon abandoned. There are many blogs that function as commodities by selling ads, but so do magazines and newspapers, which are also ephemeral. We have books that go back to the invention of printing, and manuscripts, scrolls, tablets, etc. that go back to the invention of writing. The idea of a book is to make something enduring – at least that is my hope. But I blog on tumblr to test epigrams, show drawings or sketches, or just to have fun, ephemeral fun.
Yes, I love the idea of "ephemeral fun" but I'm not so sure a lot of genre fiction or comedy titles don't fall into the same category. But your point is well taken, and (as I say farther down the comment stream) I most often think of the blog as a kind of one-article-per-day magazine.
But I think the blogging world is also evolving. Where in past years ephemera dominated the blogs, there seem to be a lot more people publishing substantive articles and these can undoubtedly be used to create a book as a more durable form for the content. That's what I did with my last book, anyway. | {
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After watching Wednesday's game with the Mets slip through the Dodgers' fingers, you probably wouldn't guess that our local heroes were one of the luckiest teams in baseball this year.
They were sixth in the National League in scoring, but two highly accurate formulas that predict a team's run production based on its total bases, walks, stolen bases and outs had them pegged for ninth and 10th, respectively, with about 41 fewer runs than the 628 they actually scored.
There are a lot of reasons why a team outperforms its projected runs total -- clutch hitting, good lineup, savvy managing -- but the most prominent factor is luck. And looking at a list of the Dodger hitters in order of productivity, it's a wonder they ever score.
Mike Marshall's team-leading 82 RBIs notwithstanding, this is a one-man offense -- the most lopsided one-man offense in the league. Don't believe me? Take a look at the top hitters in the Dodger Dogs chart.
Kirk Gibson is first, of course. His offense, as measured by Bill James' Runs Created formula, produced about 108 runs for the Dodgers. That translates into more than seven net wins for the team. Then there's a huge dropoff to Marshall in second place and ... no ... could it be? ... It is. Rick Dempsey is in fourth place.
Well, you say, doesn't that prove the futility of this season-long statistical odyssey -- claiming a .251 hitter with a puny 167 AtBats is more productive than regular second baseman Steve Sax and his .277 batting average? Go ahead and scoff.
Sax's 175 hits, 19 doubles, 3 homers and 45 walks and other sundry offensive contributions obviously meant more to the Dodgers than Dempsey's 42 hits, 13 double, 7 homers and 24 walks. Employing a couple more James formulas, we can estimate that Sax's offense was worth about nine wins to the Dodgers, compared to Dempsey's three.
But Sax made 457 outs with the bat and another 12 on the base paths, and that's worth about nine losses, canceling out the plus side of his ledger. Dempsey's outs were worth only about one and a half losses.
Sax has a fairly low OnBase Average of .325 and zippo power. If you had nine Steve Sax's in a lineup, your team would score 4.1 runs per game. That's better than the league average of 3.89, but then again, that's an average National League lineup where the pitcher bats.
Oh, it probably wasn't all that bad a year for Sax, especially compared to your average weak-hitting second baseman. But the fact remains his was a negligible overall contribution to the Dodger offense. Dempsey's was almost as negligible, but we knew about him.
Like Sax, Marshall has a growing aversion to the base on balls and he's paying the price for it. Three years ago he walked once every 13.2 plate appearances. Last year that figure plummeted to one in 23.3 appearances. This year it was 23.6. Very few "good" hitters are allowed the luxury of such free swinging; you have to hit .356 like Kirby Puckett or 49 homers like Andre Dawson in '87.
Marshall does neither. The result was a Runs Created Per Game average of 4.92, a little below last year's 5.19 and his career average of 5.11. He's consistent, for sure; consistently 20 percent less effective than a cleanup hitter should be.
John Shelby is the only other regular who was an offensive asset on the team, due largely to a doubling of his walk total over the last two years, but it's hardly enough to cancel out what may be the biggest offensive liability in the National League: Alfredo Griffin.
Yes, Griffin was hurt this year. Thank God. In 340 plate appearances he was personally responsible for a theoretical two wins and eight losses. That's more than a full season's work for most mortals.
All of this is suppose to be offset by his slick fielding. It isn't.
John Thorn and Pete Palmer use a formula called Linear Weights to assess a player's defensive contribution to a win. Wile their methods are complicated, a tad suspect and different from Bill James' it's doubtful they're too far off the mark when they estimate that in Ozzie Smith's best defensive year, 1980, his glove alone was worth 4.5 net wins. And Smith's worst year is better than Griffin's best.
But why are we talking about hitting and fielding, anyway? Everyone knows why the Dodgers won the National League West.
Hershiser and Co. allowed the second-fewest runs in the majors (behind the Mets) and no matter what anyone tells you, that's exactly half the game. In fact, by using a formula baseball stat freaks like to attribute to Pythagoras you can predict with uncanny accuracy a team's won-loss record using equal parts of Runs and Opponents Runs.
In the case of the Dodgers, the formula predicts a 92-69 won-loss record (they finished 94-67). The formula was off by more than two games for only two team in the National League, the Expos (who came up five wins short) and the Giants (three wins short).
But if the Dodgers had scored the number of runs predicted by the Runs Created formula (587 instead of 628) their won-loss record might very well have been 86-75 -- good for second place, one game behind the Reds. | {
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Q: Qt: what are the differences between QtScript and Javascript in Webkit I am familiar with web development so I know exactly what Javascript can do in webkit. If I want to employ the scripting feature in my apps, I think there are two ways:
*
*Employ qtwebkit and open a hidden webpage running my own Javascript scripts.
*Using qtscript.
Right now I want most of my app logic are implemented with scripts but I am wondering what are differences between them and how to choose under different circumstances, javascript in webkit or qtscript?
Sorry if this question is not that professional. Thanks
A: Reading the following
Qt 4.3 and later provides support for
application scripting with ECMAScript.
in Making Applications Scriptable section in Qt docs one comes to conclusion that QtScript is just a name of Java Script (ECMAScript is the name of the Java Script's official specification) implementation in Qt.
Additionaly in QtScript in 4.6 article on Qt Labs page we find the following information
(...) Qt 4.6′s QtScript implementation is
based on WebKit's JavaScript engine,
JavaScriptCore (...)
This gives you a very strong guarantee that QtScript's behaviour will match the one you know from WebKit's implementation.
If you just want to add scripting to your application and you don't need anything related to WebKit then it's enough to use QScriptEngine class which provides an environment for evaluating Qt Script code.
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Q: Drupal Calendar views display I am working on a project which has events calendar. I am using date and calendar module for that.
On calendar month page, we can display titles of events on that day. That is simple. But suppose there are 10 events on one day, then that day column becomes too long. So, instead of displaying titles, I want to display no. of events on that day and place a link on it which will go to the day view.
Using custom php code module for views, i created one field where I am entering this code
<?php
$view = views_get_current_view();
$view->set_display(day_view);
print count($view->result).' events';
?>
"day_view" is the id of the view which display events on that particular day.
If I am not using $view->set_display(day_view); it willk display no. of events for that month. But I want to disply no. of events for that day only.
My logic is since day view displays events from that day only, it will return correct number, if I call its display for month view. But it's not doing so.
Also how to generate link for day view?
Please help!
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Manhattan luxury market logs best Thanksgiving week ever
37 contracts were signed for homes asking $4M or more
Nov.November 29, 2021 06:15 PM
By Erin Hudson
The 17 Jane Street duplex condo (Compass)
The holiday week gave New York's high-end real estate agents plenty of reasons to be thankful. Thirty-seven, to be exact.
That is how many contracts for homes asking at least $4 million were signed last week, the most during Thanksgiving week since Olshan Realty began tracking luxury Manhattan contracts in 2006. The average number of contracts signed during Thanksgiving over the past decade has been 12.
The asking prices for the 37 deals totaled just over $315 million. The week before, the number was $613.7 million, a record high.
"Talk about a Thanksgiving gorge," said Donna Olshan, the report's author. "That's it."
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The median asking price for the 37 homes was $5.95 million. The average discount from the original ask to the final one was 2 percent, down from 4 percent the prior week. Nearly all of the deals were for condos; only three were for co-op units and one was for a townhouse.
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The most expensive was a duplex condo at Edward J. Minskoff Equities' project at 17 Jane Street in the West Village. The 6,378-square-foot unit was last asking $31.9 million. The apartment also includes a cellar level and a 1,773-square-foot garden. It was the last to sell of the boutique building's seven units. The buyer, who is American but otherwise unknown to Olshan, had previously purchased a unit one floor above.
The second highest asking price among the 37 contracts was $28 million for a pre-war co-op with 11 rooms and four bedrooms on the fourth floor of the white-glove building at 960 Fifth Avenue. The unit's 39-foot living room and a 28-foot dining room overlook Central Park. The unit comes with four fireplaces and a library, but the apartment needs an extensive renovation, according to Olshan's report.
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Fans Shocked By James McAvoy's Body Transformation For New Role
by : George Pavlou on : 06 Dec 2017 08:17
When you think of James McAvoy, you think immediately of Professor Charles Xavier from X-Men. You think of him as Dr Nicholas Garrigan from The Last King of Scotland. And if you can stretch your mind that far back, you might even think of him as Steve McBride from Shameless.
And the thing each and every one of these roles has in common? He doesn't need to be hench. In fact, his natural body shape is pretty slim.
But as anyone who's ever dedicated some time and effort to the gym will tell you, it is possible to swell up, fill out and develop some bulging muscles.
That's exactly what McAvoy appears to have done for his latest role in M. Night Shyamalan's new film Glass, due for release in 2019.
McAvoy, starring alongside Hollywood legends like Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson, has needed to buff up as he plays Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde, a young man suffering from dissociative identity disorder.
His character possesses 23 personalities and his body chemistry changes with each personality resulting in a final personality, his 24th, called 'The Beast'.
And boy did he become a beast.
Recent pictures have emerged of the Scottish superstar out in Philadelphia and naturally, the Internet has been unable to cope with his newfound buffness.
The polar opposite of Jonah Hill's incredible drop in weight for certain roles, it appears McAvoy has decided to go the other way and pile on pounds of muscle at the gym.
Before we actually show you McAvoy now, let's just remind ourselves what he looked like before…
Slim. Not skinny but by no means hench. No doubt about that.
Now, let's take a look at the images that have got the Internet swooning…
Naturally, this tweeter wasn't the only person to notice just how muscular McAvoy has gotten…
Of course, whenever a Hollywood celeb buffs up or slims down for a movie role, it seems to come as a surprise to the wider public who may not follow the day-ins and day-outs of certain personalities.
However, there are those who've fancied McAvoy for a long time and see his 'new attractiveness' as a fad because well, they've loved him for a long time.
As has been mentioned, McAvoy isn't the only Hollywood A-lister to have changed their body dramatically for a new role.
Just look at Christian Bale following his preparation to play Dick Cheney…
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And seeing as it gets mentioned every few months, what about Jonah Hill…
Incredible when you think about it. How much these actors and actresses have to put themselves through for our entertainment. Mind you, if I was being paid what they're paid, I'd happily do it too.
George Pavlou
Taking the idea of 'being woke' to a whole new level over a decade-long career in sport, court and online news, George has worked for titles and agencies including ESPN FC, Eurosport, LADbible and Court News UK. He may not have a degree but does have an unhealthy obsession with Lord of the Rings.
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Newt Gingrich Embodies Everything That is Wrong With American Politics
One of the more underappreciated aspects of the race for the Republican presidential nomination is the ironic plausibility of Newt Gingrich's candidacy. Less than 15 years ago, Gingrich quit the Speakership and Congress after being reprimanded by his own Republican majority in the House for ethics violations, and after he initiated adultery-related articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, even as Gingrich was having his own extramarital affair — the second of two (that we know of). As speaker, Gingrich made it easier for representatives to obtain earmarks, resulting in a near doubling of pork barrel spending during his speakership. Gingrich himself once famously earmarked $465 million for a Lockheed-Martin plant in his home state of Georgia to build seven C-130 cargo planes — six more than the Department of Defense had requested.
However, like so many other former lawmakers, Gingrich's departure from congress didn't mean he was finished in Washington. Again a private citizen, he founded the Center for Health Transformation, which he used to lobby for the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 —a half-trillion dollar taxpayer-funded gift to the pharmaceutical industry. He took up fellowships at the Hoover Institute and the neocon propaganda factory, American Enterprise Institute. He also put aside his reservations about government-sponsored enterprises long enough to collect $1.6 million in consulting/lobbying fees from the secondary mortgage GSE Freddie Mac. And of course, no high-profile post-beltway career is complete without lucrative $60,000 speaking engagements.
All of this is fair enough. Plenty of former lawmakers and government employees have unfortunately walked back and forth through the revolving door situated between the public and private sectors, happily blurring the line between public service and self-interest. So it would be unfair to single out Gingrich for doing exactly what so many others have done. The same goes for his private life, which normally wouldn't be anyone's business. But during this campaign, Gingrich has inexplicably managed to portray himself as a limited government, anti-establishment, faith and family values candidate who represents the last best hope for America in these times of moral relativism and government largesse.
From a presentational standpoint, Gingrich's stump speeches and debate responses sound like buzzword-laden lectures from a man who resents the fact that he's speaking to you for free. Yet he is viewed as an authority and a man of ideas, such as firing unionized school janitors and instead hiring students to clean up trash so that youngsters can learn the "dignity" of work. Presumably, then, the children will be ready to travel to Gingrich's permanent moon colony, where they will attempt to clean up messes in a more challenging environment — one not bound by strong, earthly gravity.
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As international media, suppliers and buyers gathered under the roof of the Puerto Rico Convention Center last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico for the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association's 36th annual Caribbean Travel Marketplace, it was hard to imagine just four months ago that the city was in an entirely different state.
The Caribbean Travel Marketplace was a chance for several islands highly-impacted by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria to provide crucial updates to members of the travel and tourism industry, as hotels steadily re-open, and cruise ports welcome visitors once more. Hurricane Irma first made landfall in Barbuda on Sept. 5th, 2017 and left behind catastrophic results. As Puerto Rico welcomed residents with open arms, they were hit next, with winds lashing out at approximately 220 kilometres an hour; flattening houses and threatening mass flooding. Just over one week later, Hurricane Maria paid a visit, and when both storms were over, at least 64 were dead and power was knocked out across the island, severing communication and electricity for those living there.
The convention centre itself actually transformed into a shelter for the people of Puerto Rico, making the location an incredibly fitting place to discuss the island's astounding recovery amongst residents who had seen the damage first-hand, and visitors laying eyes on the destination for the first time.
This year's Caribbean Travel Marketplace, hosted by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association, took place at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan.
Today, power has been restored to San Juan, but 35 per cent of the island is still in the dark, meaning that some residents in Puerto Rico's mountainous regions near the El Yunque rainforest have seen more than 120 days of darkness. However, as many Puerto Ricans echoed throughout the conference, it's time for the media to quit re-circulating photos of Puerto Rico days after devastation hit, and start showcasing a unified picture of strength and resiliency from the Puerto Rican community and the Caribbean people.
With all eyes on Puerto Rico last week, the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Convention District Authority, Omar Marrero, and the Secretary of Economic Development Manuel Laboy Rivera took turns addressing Puerto Rico's comeback during the CHTA's Travel Marketplace.
Secretary of Economic Development Manuel Laboy Rivera, Omar Marrero, Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Convention District Authority; Puerto Rico's Secretary of State, Luis G. Rivera-Marín.
Creating new jobs and promoting new economic opportunities has been at the heart of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico as the island continues to rebuild.
Omar Marrero,Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Convention District Authority.
Resumed operations 2.5 weeks after the passing of Hurricane Maria.
Post Maria: hosted 410,000 through the San Juan Port since Oct. 7, and set to welcome 633,000 more by June 30, 2018. Expected to hit 1,00,000 by end of season, representing an increase of 3.3 per cent.
Four more home-porting ships this season than last year, bringing the number up to 14 from 10 for the season in San Juan.
Forecasting next season 2018/2019 record-breaking; 1.7 million passengers to Puerto Rico this season, shattering 2015 record of 1.5 million passengers, representing $250M towards the local economy.
Two weeks after Hurricane Maria, San Juan received 20 flights per day; flights have increased to 110 daily flights on average.
Receiving 391 seats this January; expecting 81,000 more in July which means natural loss in air capacity after a hurricane hasn't stopped Puerto Rico from receiving flights and international visitors; recovering at record speed.
Capacity levels will be on par to 2017 levels by early summer - Hurricane Katrina took 10 years to get back to capacity levels, and San Juan reports by May, they'll be on par with 2017 levels.
More than 120 properties currently operational out of the 150 properties reported.
12,458 rooms currently available in the inventory, representing more than 80 per cent of inventory stock.
Remaining hotel stock (2,670 rooms) are undergoing renovations, expected to be finished by Q3 and Q4; properties include Ritz Carlton Reserve and Old San Juan Hotel.
22 attractions opened shortly after the hurricane; now, tourists and leisure travellers are enjoying more than 120 attractions.
13 golf courses that are operational and 15 casinos.
4,000+ restaurants open for business, with 1,500 in San Juan alone.
Old San Juan is as beautiful as ever; no major debris or damage.
Attractions like the community of La Perla, where the hit song Despacito was recorded, are still as beautiful as ever in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico's Secretary of State, Luis G. Rivera-Marín, joined Omar Marrero and Manuel Laboy Rivera on stage to reveal even more updates on what Puerto Rico has in store for 2018. Not only is the Puerto Rico Tourism Company currently revamping its entire inventory, but it's excited to announce that there are 25 per cent more rooms in the pipeline that will be built and developed in Puerto Rico, representing approximately 3,830 new jobs.
Properties under this umbrella include the J.W. Marriott, the Serafina Hotel Ponce, the Four Seasons Cayo Largo in the east, and new rooms at the St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort and the San Juan Marriott.
Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria were devastating storms to say the least, and a huge loss of life and loss of land were recorded. However, both the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association continue to look to the future, and work together to ensure September's course of events do not repeat themselves.
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While brand seems to be a common term thrown around by marketing professionals, there is not always a deep understanding of what it means from upper management. Brand is not just a logo and a tagline.
Brand is a promise that you make to your customers about the experience, service or the product you offer. If you do not have a way to distinguish your product, your logo and tagline will not resonate with your customers. Your brand will not have staying power.
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Children living in overcrowded housing are twice as likely to say their health is "not good" compared to those living in under-occupied houses, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The ONS survey is based on information from the 2011 census and says that there were 1.1 million overcrowded households in the UK. The study shows young people under 16 living in overcrowded housing are twice as likely to say their health is "not good" compared to those young people who are in under-occupied housing.
The impact on a child's health is just one of the reasons why Home-Start has put ensuring that children have access to safe places to live and play as priority one in our first manifesto, All Our Children.
According to local Home-Starts in England 81% of those who responded reported that not all of the vulnerable families they support have safe places to live and play.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Thoroughbred racing at its best. Thoroughbred racing at its worst. In a jarring matter of moments, the Kentucky Derby gave us both. It gave us an overpowering tour de force from Big Brown, stomping the competition despite inexperience and unfavorable post position. And it gave us a fatal injury after the race, when filly Eight Belles followed a sensational effort of her own to finish second by fracturing both ankles, falling to the track and being euthanized on the spot. Brilliance and brittleness. Triumph and tragedy. A superstar performance and a ghastly postscript. It was an evening of violent mood swings at Churchill Downs.
It's reminiscint of Babaro after he got injured (Preakness instead of KD) but instead of months of rehab with a sad ending, this ending happened on the same day.
The Louisville stations covered it in more detail after the network coverage ended. They interviewed the trainer of Eight Belles and the track doctor. Eight Belles was doing fine just after the race. Then for some unknown reason both of her front ankles snapped. No one seems to have an explanation as to why or how it happened. Just one of those freak things. The doctor said that in order to be able to heal a broken ankle, the horse has to be able to stand on the other three. It also had to be able to stand in order to get it into the horse ambulance so they could go to the equine hospital. With two broken ankles, there was just no way she could stand up & heal. Plus, one of those breaks had broken the skin and that cut had been exposed to the dirt & such on the track. The likelihood for infection in that wound was very high. He said that it is nearly impossible to fight off that kind of infection without two broken ankles. To top all of that off the horse was in EXTREME pain. Euthanasia was the only humane option.
It's sad when things like this happen. PETA is upset now; they will probably try to ban horse racing. But would they care if the jockey died? Somehow, I doubt it.
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Frottage
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A technique in which paper or canvas is placed over a grainy surface and rubbed with a crayon or charcoal. This was often used by Surrealist artists to create chance effects. From the French word 'frotter', meaning 'to rub'.
Max Ernst Elle garde son secret [She Keeps Her Secret] 1925 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021
Origins of the Technique: Max Ernst
Surrealist artist Max Ernst was the first to pioneer the frottage technique and to give it the name. The French word 'frottage' had erotic associations which suited the Surrealist fascination with Sigmund Freud's theories around sexual association and dreams. Ernst was first inspired to try the unusual process by the grainy texture of an old wooden floor, with a richly worn-down patina suggesting curious, hybrid creatures or mystical landscapes. He placed a sheet of paper over the floor and rubbed it with a soft, dark stick of graphite to produce unexpected and surprising outcomes. Pleased with the results, Ernst moved on to rub paper laid across an array of other surfaces including thread, straw, textiles, netting and dried paint.
As his confidence grew Ernst began moving the paper while rubbing to allow the original content to mutate into something new. Then, something miraculous happened, as Ernst saw new forms emerging from the paper, which he could rework with passages of drawing, as seen in the artwork Elle garde son secret (She Keeps Her Secret), 1925. He observed, 'When I intensely stared at the drawing won in this manner, at the 'dark spots', and others of a delicate, light, semi-darkness, I was (struck) by the sudden augmentation of my visionary facilities with contrasting and superimposed pictures.'
In the print series Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), 1926, based on Ernst's frottage drawings, we see the results of Ernst's visionary imagination as pictorial realms emerge from unusual textures featuring curious hybrid creatures and mystical, magical forests. Following on the success of these prints Ernst continued to experiment with how frottage techniques could be incorporated into his paintings and collages, taking rubbings from a further array of pre-existing surfaces and developing similar techniques of scraping or 'grattage' with oil paint on canvas.
Ernst's ideas around frottage influenced many of his fellow Surrealists, particularly the artist and collector Sir Roland Penrose. Like Ernst, Penrose took an experimental approach, playing with the ways varying textures within a single image could create a sense of dissonance and transformation in collages and oil paintings. In his collage La Méditerranée, Etude Artistique, 1937, Penrose combines cut out pieces of frottage with fragments of picture postcards, arranging them into discordant shapes and patterns while allowing traces of recognisable imagery to creep through, suggesting just a trace of hidden narrative content.
German artist Joseph Beuys was fascinated by Max Ernst, and dedicated his artwork Naturgeschichte (Natural History), 1964-1982 to Ernst's famous 'Natural History' frottage series. In contrast with Ernst, Beuys went directly to the source of the rubbings, presenting a piece of wood resembling floorboards with a richly worn surface, emphasising the same fascination with the mystical and historical properties hidden within the natural materials around us as Ernst.
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Naturgeschichte [Natural History] Joseph Beuys
Painting Sir Roland Penrose
La Méditerranée, Etude Artistique Sir Roland Penrose
Surrealism was one of the most radical movements of the twentieth century. Founded by the poet André Breton in 1924 it was both a literary and artistic movement.
Sir Roland Penrose
A radical artistic and literary movement that was a reaction against the cultural climate that supported the First World War. The Dadaists took an anti-establishment attitude, questioning art's status and favouring performance and collage over traditional art techniques. Many Dadaists went on to become involved with Surrealism.
A literary and artistic movement that sought to challenge conventions through the exploration of the subconscious mind, invoking the power of dreams and elements of chance. It is now regarded as one of the most radical movements of the twentieth century. | {
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Persistence pays off for Soso
December 18, 2019 The National Focus
Researcher THERESA MEKI, a PhD candidate with the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, presents her work on how persistence worked for PNG woman politician Julie Soso in her 2012 national election victory
IN the systematic analysis of Papua New Guinea (PNG) election data looking at whether women candidates do better when they stand more than once, Terence Wood and Thomas Wangi found that women tend to perform poorly after their first attempt.
Their research showed that most of the time, women candidates performed worse the more often they stood.
However, there are exceptions.
Former Eastern Highlands Governor Julie Soso is one example.
I would like to contribute to this discussion by providing a bit of insight into Julie Soso's case.
In her first attempt in 1997, Soso managed to secure 5.2 per cent of the 228,639 total allowable ballot, and finished fourth in a field of 36.
In her second attempt in 2002, she placed fifth in a field of 26 candidates with 4.9 per cent of the total vote.
While she received a smaller percentage of votes, she showed in her second attempt that she still had a substantial vote base.
In 2007, with the introduction of limited preferential voting (LPV), the number of candidates vying for the regional seat went back up to 36.
That year was Soso's poorest performance, finishing in eighth place.
While her 4.7 per cent share of the vote was her lowest, it again showed that she still had a substantial following.
Finally, Soso surprised everyone with her 2012 win.
She was one of the three successful women candidates in the 2012 national elections, and she credited her win to limited preferential voting, stating that it was the second and third preferences that carried her through.
Soso came fourth on first preferences with 8.1 per cent of the vote, her best performance.
The 2012 preferential vote accumulation by round – Julie Soso and Sir Barry Holloway. It shows how Julie Soso collected preferences under the LPV system after the twenty-first elimination.
And then she accumulated the most preferences. During the final elimination round, she collected 15,800 preferences to pass the absolute majority, totalling 119,606 (of 422,259, or 5 per cent).
She beat her nearest rival, Sir Barry Holloway, by 8,130 votes.
However, there is more to it.
To begin with, prior to her entry into politics in 1997, Soso worked as a radio announcer for the National Broadcasting Commission in Goroka.
With such a medium at her disposal, she became well known as she advocated for bans on firearms and liquor in the province.
Moreover, in the 1990s, she was the President of the Eastern Highlands Provincial Council of Women. Hence, she was a popular women's leader in the province prior to becoming a politician.
While election results do not reveal the demography of voters, it is safe to state that it was the women of Eastern Highlands who comprised her average 4.9 per cent base vote over the three elections from 1997 to 2007.
They wanted her in parliament, and they made it happen.
It is also important to remember that Julie Soso, as an established entrepreneur, had the funds to contest multiple times and to maintain her support base.
This fact alone significantly separates her from other women candidates, who may not be able to afford to roll out consecutive campaigns.
The fact that some women perform poorly in their second attempt could be due to various factors such as the pool of candidates, the economy, local politics, election administration and their campaign strategy.
But what Soso's winning example teaches us is the importance of maintaining a solid support base from one election year to the next.
Of course, there is also the fact that in 2017 Soso lost her seat.
Again, however, she maintained her base with 6.8 per cent of first votes.
But she did worse with preferences.
Table 1 shows Soso's performance over time from when she first ran in 1997, until her victory in 2012 and defeat in 2017.
Wood and Wangi had two pieces of advice for women candidates: first, don't assume your results will improve if you stand again next election; and second, don't assume that if you did lose this time that you're destined to fail next time.
Overall, what Julie Soso's political career shows is the importance of their second point.
In PNG elections, persistence can pay off.
Theresa Meki is a PhD candidate with the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. Her research focuses on women's presence and vote share in Papua New Guinea's election history.
This article first appeared on the DevPolicy Blog, published by the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
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A few years ago, a close friend's birthday was fast approaching and as usual, we were stumped for gifting ideas. Finally we zoned on to the fact that the friend was a shopaholic. That's when I called Pooja Dhingra, the founder and owner of Le 15 pâtisserie in Mumbai. After a careful discussion with Dhingra, we settled on a dozen shopping themed cupcakes. Two days later, I went to pick up the cupcakes and was delighted by the frosted pink delicacies that came with a quirky but tasteful icing in the shape of a bag, a stiletto and clothes. My friend of course was delighted and almost refused to eat the cupcakes. When she did eat them, we realised that unlike most cupcakes these weren't dry and the frosting wasn't overpoweringly sweet.
So, I was understandably excited when I got Dhingra's baking book The Big Book of Treats. The lavishly-produced dessert book is splashed with mouth-watering photos of Dhingra's goodies including peanut butter brownie cups, Nutella squares, white chocolate and rose sponge cake and of course her delicately-flavoured macarons which she's best known for. The book starts with a Baking 101 guide which takes readers through commonly used ingredients, essential equipment and techniques and tips. Some of them are really useful, like the distinction between baking soda and powder and the handy conversion table.
The rest of the book is divided into Cookies, Bars, Brownies; Cakes, Tea Time goodies, Tarts, Cupcakes, Frostings, Truffles, Desserts and Macarons. Dhingra offers a range of recipes from basic ones such as chocolate chip cookies and vanilla cupcakes to the fancier ones like chai cupcakes and green chilly truffles. Each recipe comes with a little note where Dhingra talks about her work at Le 15, her team, shares personal anecdotes and sometimes recommends variations as well. For instance, in the eggless passion fruit truffles recipe, Dhingra suggests that if you can't find passion fruit, which isn't easily available in the Indian market, you can substitute it with any fruit purée such as mango, strawberry, or apple.
We decided to give Dhingra's recipes a whirl in our oven. We started with the dark chocolate fudge bar, which tastes like a brownie-like fudge. We first melted dark chocolate with butter, following Dhingra's Baking 101 tips. While that mixture cooled, we whisked together free-range eggs, castor sugar and vanilla. The chocolate mixture was folded in and our kitchen was as fragrant as a real-life bakery with the cocoa, butter and vanilla doing its magic. Flour, baking soda and almonds were added. The recipe called for white chocolate chips, but we decided to experiment and tossed in some butterscotch chips instead. Dhingra recommends roasting the almonds before adding them to the batter, a tip that made sense as it improves the flavour immensely. Twenty minutes later, the batter had doubled in size and the butterscotch was smelling heavenly.
We impatiently waited for the loaf to cool before cutting it into mini bars. We found the recipe easy to follow, and the conversion chart ensured that it was an effortless switch between grams and cups while measuring the ingredients. The bars were not too sweet, they were crispy on the outside and gooey but chewy inside, a perfect snack for that 4pm craving. The almonds added a subtle crunch while the butterscotch chips melted in our mouths. And best of all, it took us less than an hour to get this dish together, and that's including baking time. Next, we plan to try the mango tart, and then we hope to roll up our sleeve and dedicate a few hours to mastering the macaron. | {
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Genitourinary symptoms with reboxetine
Reboxetine (Edronax) is a selective noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor for the treatment of major depression. ADRAC has received 130 reports concerning reboxetine. Genitourinary problems, occurring within 5 weeks of commencing therapy, were described in 41 reports.
In 26 reports patients developed urinary symptoms consistent with obstruction including hesitancy, reduced urine flow, retention, and dribbling post micturition. All but 6 of the patients were male. During short-term clinical trials, urinary retention was reported in 3% of patients and impaired urination in 4.6%.1
ADRAC has also received 22 reports of male sexual dysfunction including ejaculation disorder (7 reports), erectile dysfunction (4) and pain or swelling of the testicles or external genitalia (10).
Two additional reports were of increased libido in women. In short term clinical trials, abnormalities of sexual function and impotence were reported in 1.3% and 1.6% of patients, respectively.1 Testicular pain is a very unusual adverse reaction. It has also been associated with mazindol (Sanorex) an anorectic drug no longer marketed in Australia which has a similar structure to reboxetine.2
Patients prescribed reboxetine should be asked about symptoms of urinary obstruction and sexual dysfunction soon after commencing therapy.
Edronax, Australian Product Information, Pharmacia Australia Pty Ltd. 1 Sep 2004
McEwen J. Meyboom RH. Testicular pain caused by mazindol. Brit Med J 1983;287:1763-4.
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As we know that the active life of a SIM card is a vital thing that you should not underestimate. If your card's active period is up, your card will be scheduled to be blocked by the provider. Blocking is negative as you can no longer send or receive SMS / calls, can not surf and so on.
However there are some cases where mobile phone users have many pulses but rarely the card is used for SMS / phone, so pulsanya durable because it is not used. However, the pulses used or not used have no effect on the active period.
The active life of a SIM card will remain unchanged unless you purchase a credit or extend the active period. In this article, I will explain in detail how to extend the active life of Indosat / Im3 easily.
1. Here I want to extend my active life of my Indosat Card to increase 30 days. Therefore open Message / Messaging then just type Active 30 then send to 555 . Next select Send / Send .
2. If you get a notification like this, just select Send .
4. Please check the active life of your Indosat card by pressing * 123 * 30 # . The image below shows before and after I extend the life of my Indosat card.
That is a tutorial on how to extend the active life of Indosat with easy. Oh yes, SMS reply from 555 long enough, in the above tutorial, I waited for about 1 hour's. I do not know why, maybe that time again trouble or how, I do not know. So I suggest, before you receive SMS reply from 555, do not use your credit for SMS, telephone or internetan. Afraid, your request to extend the active period later failed due to insufficient credit. | {
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The Many Emotions Of Animals
In this excerpt of "Mama's Last Hug" by Frans de Waal, learn about the animals that express gratitude, seek revenge, and are even hopeful.
by Frans de Waal, on March 14, 2019
The following is an excerpt of Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal.
Science often compares adult apes to children, as in "the chimpanzee has the mind of a four-year-old." I never know what to do with such statements, though, given that I find it impossible to look at an adult chimpanzee as a child. A male is interested in power and sex and prepared to kill for it. If he is high-ranking, he may adopt a leadership role, which includes keeping order and defending the underdog. Males engaged in power struggles sometimes have a permanently furred-brow expression suggesting internal turmoil, and they are known to have high levels of stress. A female ape, on the other hand, is mainly interested in her offspring and the duties that come with motherhood, such as taking time to nurse, finding food, and deterring predators and aggressive members of her own species. She also works every day on her relationships, grooming her friends, consoling them after upheavals, and watching over their offspring if needed. The lives of adult apes center very much on adult concerns, therefore, and share little with a child's insouciance.
Mama's Last Hug
Juvenile apes squabble over food and hit each other screaming over the head, while adult apes politely beg and share, sometimes taking turns, while exchanging food for services received earlier in the day. Here, too, the best comparison is between ape and human juveniles or ape and human adults. This matters in relation to emotions, because some emotions are typical of adults, especially those that require a greater appreciation of time than is found in the young. Youngsters live in the moment, while adults don't. Some emotions are future oriented, such as hope and worry, while others relate to the past, such as revenge, forgiveness, and gratitude. All these timeline emotions, as I like to call them, seem present in adult apes and in some other animals as well.
In chimpanzees, sharing food is part of a give-and-take economy that includes grooming, sex, support in fights, and other types of aid. All these favors are thrown into one big exchange basket glued together by the emotion of gratitude. Gratitude functions to maintain balance sheets of exchange: it prompts individuals to seek out those who have been good to them, and—if the occasion arises—return their favors. Based on thousands of observations, we have found that chimpanzees share food specifically with those who have been kind to them in the past. Every morning, when the apes gather in the climbing frame to patiently tend each other's hair, we measure who grooms whom. In the afternoon, we provide them with shareable food, such as a few large watermelons. Melon owners allow anyone who has groomed them to remove pieces from their hands or mouth, but not individuals with whom they failed to interact in the morning—they may resist the latter individuals and sometimes even threaten them. Sharing patterns thus change from day to day depending on the distribution of earlier grooming. Since the time span between the two events is several hours, the sharing requires memory of past encounters and positive feelings about enjoyed services. We know this combination as gratitude.
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Mark Twain once quipped, "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." In my own home, adopted stray pets have always been most grateful for the warmth and food we offer. A scrawny kitten full of fleas, picked up in San Diego, grew into a gorgeous tomcat by the name of Diego. Diego purred excessively his entire fifteen-year-long life whenever he was fed—even when he barely ate anything. We interpreted his behavior as gratefulness, but it is hard to exclude mere happiness. Diego may just have enjoyed food more than your average spoiled pet.
In apes, signs of gratitude may be more obvious. Two chimps had been shut out of their shelter during a rainstorm. Wolfgang Köhler, the German pioneer of tool use studies, happened to walk by and found both apes soaking wet, shivering in the rain. He opened the door for them. Instead of hurrying past him to enter the dry area, however, the chimps hugged the professor in a frenzy of satisfaction.
Their reaction resembles that of Wounda, a chimpanzee who had been rescued from poachers, near death, and received medical care at the Tchimpounga Rehabilitation Center in Congo- Brazzaville. In 2013 she was released back into the forest. A video of this moment went viral because of the emotional interaction between Wounda and Jane Goodall, who attended her release. At first Wounda walked away, but she then hastily returned to hug the people who had taken care of her. She specifically turned to Goodall for a long mutual embrace before taking off. This was remarkable because Wounda had first been on her way, then seemed to correct herself and return, as if realizing it wouldn't be very nice to just walk away from those who had saved her and nursed her back to health.
Similar accounts exist of netted or beached dolphins and whales that human divers cut loose from nets or pushed back into the ocean. The cetaceans returned to their rescuers and nudged them or lifted them half out of the water before swimming away. In all cases, the humans present, deeply moved, viewed these interactions as signs of gratitude.
I have already mentioned how Kuif, Mama's best friend, was affected by my teaching her how to raise a baby on a bottle. From the moment we gave her permission to pick up Roosje, the adoptive baby we put in the straw of her bedroom, she treated me as family, something she'd never done before. I saw this as a sign of gratitude for changing her life for the better, from a mother who had lost several infants due to lactation failure to one who successfully raised Roosje and later applied the same bottle skills to her own offspring.
The ugly sister of gratitude is revenge, an emotion equally concerned with the squaring of accounts, but in a negative sense. Edvard Westermarck, the Finnish anthropologist who gave us the first ideas about the evolution of human morality, stressed the value of retribution in keeping people in line. He didn't think we were the only species with this tendency, but in his time, there was little animal behavior research. So he relied on anecdotes, such as one he heard in Morocco about a camel that had been excessively beaten by a fourteen-year-old boy for turning the wrong way. The animal passively took his punishment, but a few days later, while unladen and alone on the road with the same conductor, it "seized the unlucky boy's head in its monstrous mouth, and lifting him up in the air flung him down again on the earth with the upper part of the skull completely torn off, and his brains scattered on the ground." Stories of resentful animals can often be heard at zoos, usually concerning elephants (with their proverbial memories) and apes. Every new student or caretaker working with apes needs to be told that they won't be able to get away pestering or insulting them. An insulted ape remembers and will take all the time in the world for the right opportunity to get even. Sometimes it doesn't take long. One day a woman came to the front desk of a zoo where I worked complaining that her son had been hit by a rock coming from the chimpanzees. The son was surprisingly subdued, however. Witnesses later told us he'd thrown the same rock first.
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Among themselves as well, chimps retaliate. They support each other in fights, following the rule that one good turn deserves another; experiments have confirmed this tendency. Given a chance, many animals are prepared to do a partner a favor, such as by pulling a lever or selecting a token that produces food. They do so at a moderate level as long as their partner is a passive recipient, but they dramatically increase their generosity when the partner is allowed to return the favor. When both parties stand to gain, they move to a new stage. This is of course also how things work in real life. What may be unique for chimpanzees is that they apply similar tit-for-tat rules to negative acts. They tend to get even with those who have acted against them. For example, if a dominant female often attacks another female, the latter cannot retaliate on her own but will wait for the best occasion. As soon as her tormenter is involved in a brawl with others, she will join in to add to her troubles.
After Nikkie became the new alpha male in the chimpanzee colony of Burgers Zoo, he regularly practiced strategic retaliation. His dominance was not yet fully acknowledged, and subordinates would often pressure him, banding together and chasing him around, leaving him panting and licking his wounds. But Nikkie did not give up, and a few hours later he'd regain his composure. The rest of the day he'd go around the large island to single out members of the resistance, visiting them one by one while they were sitting alone minding their own business. He'd intimidate them or give them a beating, which likely made them think twice before opposing him again. This eye-for-an-eye tendency is so prominent in chimpanzees that it can be statistically demonstrated in thousands of observations in our database.
Retaliation is an "educational" reaction that attaches costs to undesirable behavior, but it is unclear if the apes themselves think along these lines. They probably just follow an urge to take revenge, a tendency we share with them. After all, we call revenge "sweet," as if it were something delicious. When experimenters gave human subjects voodoo dolls representing people who had insulted them, their mood improved markedly when they were allowed to stick needles into those dolls. Our judicial systems take the longing to get even a step further: when the family of a murder victim or those who have been scammed out of money seek redress, they are undeniably driven by a deep desire to inflict harm on those who have done harm to them.
Chimpanzees do the same, thanks to their flexible hierarchy that offers room for retaliation. Rhesus macaques and baboons, in contrast, have such despotic hierarchies that it is almost suicidal for a subordinate to turn against a superior. Intimidation and punishments always flow down the hierarchy, which excludes opportunities for revenge. But even these monkeys know how to hit back: they rely on the kinship bonds that pervade their society. Grandmothers, mothers, and sisters spend extraordinary amounts of time together, forming tight units known as matrilines. A monkey who has become a victim of aggression will likely vent his feelings on a relative of the attacker. Instead of retaliating, which he can't, he will look for a younger member of the attacker's matriline, who will be easier to intimidate. They sometimes perform vindictive actions after quite a delay, suggesting they have excellent memories. This tactic obviously requires monkeys to be aware of the family to which every other monkey belongs, and we know they are. It would be as if I responded to a reprimand from my boss by yanking the hair of his young daughter. I don't go against the pecking order, but I still punish my offender.
The final emotion concerning past events is forgiveness. Having studied primate reconciliation all my life, I have seen many times how chimpanzees kiss and embrace their former adversaries, how monkeys groom them, and how bonobos resolve social tensions with a little sex. This kind of behavior is not at all limited to primates: hundreds of reports find it in other social mammals and in birds, so much so that if anyone were to claim that a given species doesn't make up after fights, we'd be baffled.
Conflict resolution is part and parcel of social life. The emotions involved are hard to pinpoint, but a minimum requirement is that anger and fear—the typical emotions during a confrontation—are toned down in order to permit a more positive attitude. This reversal is rather counterintuitive. Someone who has just lost a fight with a dominant attacker now needs to pluck up the courage to approach him or her for a friendly reunion. Meanwhile the aggressor must suddenly drop the enmity, which is illogical. But many animals undergo these emotional changes remarkably rapidly, as if a control knob in their mind were turned from hostile to friendly.
Humans become masters at turning the same emotional knob if we live in a conflict-prone environment, such as a large family or a workplace with lots of colleagues. These places require compromise and forgiveness every day. Forgiveness is never perfect, though, and even though we often say "Forgive and forget," the forgetting part is problematic. We don't erase the memory of a slight but simply decide to move on. Many group-living animals do the same because they, too, depend on peaceful coexistence and cooperation. Reconciliation is the observable process, whereas forgiveness is how it is internally experienced. Given the evolutionary antiquity of this mechanism, it is hard to imagine that the emotions involved are radically different between us and other species.
All three emotions—gratitude, revenge, and forgiveness—sustain social relationships based on years of interaction among individuals, sometimes going back to when they played together as youngsters. These emotions serve friendships and rivalries, enhance or harm trust, and keep the society functioning to everyone's advantage. Animals are remarkably good at this balancing act, which requires them to exchange favors and resolve tensions. We know now that monkeys (and probably other animals as well) have dedicated brain networks that help them process social information. These neural networks have been tested: while monkeys watch televised scenes and see their fellows engage in social affairs, they are activated, but they remain inactive during physical or ecological scenes. Students of animal behavior have for a long time insisted on the special status of social intelligence: neuroscience is now backing us up.
Are there also emotions concerned with the future? It is well established that apes and some large- brained birds do not live purely in the present. Wild chimpanzees plan ahead by picking up tools hours before they arrive at the termite hill or beehive where they will use these implements. While collecting them, they must know where they are going. Similar planning has been demonstrated in primates and corvids, showing they may ignore immediate gratification to reap future benefits. Given a choice, apes will forgo a juicy grape placed right next to a tool that they can use only hours later for a better reward. This takes self-control. Planning is harder to prove in the social domain, even if the political battles among male chimpanzees are suggestive. When a young adult male challenges the established boss, he may lose about every confrontation and sustain frequent injuries. Yet he will keep going day after day without any immediate rewards. Only months later he may finally have a breakthrough and get support from others who help him topple his adversary. And even then, as was the case with Nikkie, the young male may still meet resistance before he is fully accepted. It may take years before his position is truly secure. Was this his plan all along? And if not, why go through this hell? It is hard to watch these strategies, as I have done so many times in my career, and not think that they are built on hope.
"Hope" is rarely attributed to animals, but the related idea of "expectation" was proposed already a century ago. The American psychologist Otto Tinklepaugh conducted an experiment in which a macaque watched a banana being placed under a cup. As soon as the monkey was given access to the room, she ran to the baited cup. If she found the banana, everything proceeded smoothly. But if the experimenter had surreptitiously replaced the banana with a piece of lettuce, the monkey could only stare at it. She'd frantically look around, inspecting the location over and over, while angrily shrieking at the sneaky experimenter. Only after a long pause would she settle for the disappointing vegetable. Tinklepaugh demonstrated that instead of a simple association between location and reward, the monkey recalled what she had seen being hidden. She had an expectation, the violation of which greatly upset her.
Primates and dogs react with similar surprise when human magicians make things miraculously disappear or conjure them out of thin air. Apes may laugh or look puzzled, while dogs madly search for the vanished treat, indicating that the reality they had in mind was different.
Expectations also feed tit-for-tat barter, which is well known among animals despite Adam Smith's claim that "nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog."16 Smith may have been right about dogs, but wild chimpanzees in Guinea are known to raid papaya plantations in order to buy sex. Adult males usually steal large fruits, one for themselves, the other for a female with a genital swelling. The female waits at a quiet spot while the male risks the anger of farmers in order to bring her a delicious fruit, which he hands to her during or right after sex.
In another instance of tit for tat, the long-tailed macaques at some Balinese temples have a habit of stealing valuable objects from tourists. At temple entrances, written signs warn everyone to remove their glasses and take off their jewelry, but many tourists fail to do so, not realizing how incredibly fast the monkey mafia operates in these places. A monkey will jump onto their shoulder to snatch a pair of glasses or run off with a precious smartphone. They will steal flip-flops by literally removing them from the tourists' feet. Instead of playing with these items or taking off with them, the monkeys sit down patiently nearby, but out of reach, to see how much their victim is willing to pay to get an item back. A few peanuts won't do. The monkeys want at least a whole bag of crackers before they will drop the item. Primatologists who studied this extortion game found that the monkeys had a pretty good idea of which objects humans value the most.
Given the existence of future-oriented behavior, dogs have recently been classified as either "optimistic" or "pessimistic" while facing a given task. Dogs that get seriously upset when their owner leaves them alone at home—venting their frustration by destroying the house, relieving themselves, or furiously barking—are regarded as pessimistic. When presented with a food bowl of unknown content, they hesitate and approach slowly, perhaps expecting the bowl to be empty. Dogs that are less perturbed by separation, on the other hand, are considered more optimistic: they happily run toward the bowl, expecting it to be full. This so-called cognitive bias is also common in people. Cheery, easygoing people expect good things in life, whereas depressed ones believe that everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Cognitive bias offers us a rare opportunity to test how farm animals feel about their living arrangements. After all, pigs that live under stress in small crates may expect few good things to happen to them. But those that live in a fun environment, with straw to burrow into while sleeping in piles, enjoying body heat and physical contact, may be in better spirits. In one study, groups of pigs were housed either in small pens with concrete floors or in larger pens with fresh straw every day and cardboard boxes to play with. All the pigs were trained on two different sounds: a positive sound would announce a slice of apple, and a negative sound announced only a plastic grocery bag waved in the pig's face. Being intelligent, the pigs quickly learned to go for the positive sound.
After this training, the pigs were presented with an ambiguous sound, somewhere between the other two. What would they do? It depended entirely on their living conditions. The pigs in the enriched environment expected good things to happen and eagerly approached the ambiguous sound, but the ones kept in the barren environment did not see things the same way. They stayed away, perhaps expecting that stupid plastic bag again. If their housing was changed for better or worse, the pigs' responses to the ambiguous sound followed suit, indicating that their daily life affected how they perceived the world. The cognitive bias test is informative, allowing us to verify the claims of companies that advertise their products as coming from happy animals, such as the well- known French spreadable cheese La vache qui rit (The Laughing Cow). The test can tell us if these animals really have anything to laugh about.
The condition of looking forward to something desirable is what we call "hope." A monkey looking for a lucrative trade, a chimpanzee trying to improve his status, a dolphin searching the ocean for her lost calf, wolves setting out on a hunt, or a herd of elephants following an old matriarch who knows the last watering hole in the desert—all may well experience hope. It may be present or absent in farm animals as well. Like us, many animals evaluate everything that happens to them against a backdrop of past and future. Timeline emotions that transgress the present can no longer be denied, given the mounting evidence that animals hold memories of specific events, are forward- looking, exchange favors, and engage in an eye-for-an-eye.
Reprinted from Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal. Copyright 2019. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Frans de Waal is the C. H. Candler Professor at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Primate Center. De Waal lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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TEST(ErrorHandlingMatrix, checkUnitVector) {
Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1> y_vec(2);
y_vec << sqrt(0.5), sqrt(0.5);
std::vector<Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1>> y{y_vec, y_vec, y_vec};
EXPECT_NO_THROW(stan::math::check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y));
for (auto& y_i : y) {
y_i[1] = 0;
}
EXPECT_THROW(stan::math::check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y),
std::domain_error);
}
TEST(ErrorHandlingMatrix, checkUnitVector_nan) {
constexpr double nan = std::numeric_limits<double>::quiet_NaN();
Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1> y_vec(2);
y_vec << nan, sqrt(0.5);
std::vector<Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1>> y{y_vec, y_vec, y_vec};
EXPECT_THROW(stan::math::check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y),
std::domain_error);
for (auto& y_i : y) {
y_i << sqrt(0.5), nan;
}
EXPECT_THROW(stan::math::check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y),
std::domain_error);
for (auto& y_i : y) {
y_i << nan, nan;
}
EXPECT_THROW(stan::math::check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y),
std::domain_error);
}
TEST(ErrorHandlingMatrix, checkUnitVector_0_size) {
using stan::math::check_unit_vector;
Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1> y_vec(0, 1);
std::vector<Eigen::Matrix<double, Eigen::Dynamic, 1>> y{y_vec, y_vec, y_vec};
EXPECT_THROW_MSG(check_unit_vector("checkUnitVector", "y", y),
std::invalid_argument,
"y[1] has size 0, but must have a non-zero size");
}
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ComicMix Six: Original Star Trek Backstory
by Glenn Hauman · May 9, 2009
The new Star Trek movie is in theaters, introducing the characters to new fans and surprising old fans. As anyone who's read a single review, interview or promotional piece is aware of, this movie features some alterations to Trek's past thanks to a little time travel manipulation.
But what about the original past and backstory? What did the original series establish when it went on the air?
Here then are a list of six stories from the television series that filled us in on just who these folks were before they joined the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.
"The Naked Time"
When the Enterprise was infected with a virus that destroyed inhibitions, the crew went a little nuts. For the first time, audience learned about the emotional turmoil that sometimes affected Spock, how even feeling friendship towards his captain could simultaneously cause his Vulcan half to experience shame. We also saw that Kirk sometimes resented his job, that he felt tethered by responsibilities that did not allow him a relationship or a family. This adventure was also the crew's first experience with time travel, making it a significant precursor to the new film.
"Operation: Annihilate!"
Kirk and the Enterprise attempt to rescue a colony that has been seized by madness. In this adventure, audiences met Kirk's brother George Samuel Kirk, Jr. and learned about the Captain's sister-in-law and nephew.
In this story, Kirk learns of the Pon-Farr, the Vulcan "time of mating." Every seven years, all the repressed primal urges of a Vulcan male suddenly rise and overcome him with madness. He must choose a mate or die. The Enterprise then introduced us all to the planet Vulcan and to the fact that its people were mystics as much as scientists.
"Journey to Babel"
Though Spock had occasionally referred to his parents, this was the first time we or the Enterprise crew met them. We learned about the disagreements between Spock and his father Sarek, who could not understand why his son had not accepted his invitation to the Vulcan Science Academy. And we saw that, despite marrying a Vulcan and living on the desert planet for years, Spock's mother Amanda Grayson was openly emotional and not afraid to show that she was proud of both her husband and her son.
"The Menagerie"
Using footage taken from the original Star Trek pilot (entitled "The Cage"), this two-part story involved Spock revealing to Kirk details of a significant mission from the past, when he had served under the Enterprise's original Captain Christopher Pike. Pike plays a significant role in the J.J. Abrams film, making this adventure of interest to new fans.
An episode of the animated series, this adventure finally gave us some real background information about McCoy's family. We learned that he had gone through a bitter divorce. What's more, we found out about his daughter Joanna, whom he did not often get to see.
And that about wraps it up, folks. Honorable mention goes to the Next Generation two-part adventure "Unification", which revealed more details about Spock's childhood and acts as a set-up for the recent IDW comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown, a direct lead into the new film.
Alan "Sizzler" Kistler misses seeing Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley kicking butt in the stars. He has been recognized by Warner Bros. Pictures and mainstream media outlets as a comic book historian, and can be seen in the "Special Features" sections of the Adventures of Aquaman and Justice League: New Frontier DVDs. His personal website can be found at: http://KistlerUniverse.com. One of these days he'd love to write for DC, Marvel or Doctor Who.
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Jonathan (the other says:
Let us not forget "Obsession", in which we learned that Lt. Kirk had served aboard the USS Farragut under Capt. Garrovick some eleven years before, and blamed himself for a creature slaughtering half the crew. (Turned out it hadn't been his fault – no matter how promptly he had opened fire, his phaser would have been nothing more than a bright flashlight to the creature…)
Alan Kistler says:
Another excellent one.
I was also thinking of the animated episode, "Yesteryear." It reinforces Spock's family relationships established in "Journey to Babel," and acts as a strong precursor to the new movie. Young Spock confronting bullies and older Spock interferes with his personal timeline.
Another excellent choice, I only didn't include it because the list was becoming too Spock-heavy.
Sean D. Martin says:
Or "Shore Leave" where we meet Ruth and Finnegan. A highlight and lowlight from his academy days.(Which, given Kirk has now entered the Academy several years later than in the original timeline, he would now NOT know. (Or Carol Marcus. Nor would he serve on the Farragut(?) so he has nothing to have an "Obsession" about.))
I did consider Shore Leave but figure it was such a small thing, mentioning two people in Kirk's past with so little details, that the other episodes surpassed it in making it to the 6 List.
"Conscience of the King" reveals Kirk's childhood experience on a failed colony where a despot executed half of the population so the rest could survive.
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Under LXDE desktop manager Alt+F11 can be used to switch a program to full screen.
I use this shortcut so often that'd I rather have certain programs always open in full screen instead of doing it manually.
Is it possible to define some system configuration, or a shell script that'd always launch particular programs in full screen? (Particular not all because I wouldn't want certain small windows like network configuration window and system calendar to open in full screen).
and then click with your cursor inside the app window.
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const RParen = createToken({ name: "RParen", pattern: /\)/ })
const IntegerLiteral = createToken({ name: "IntegerLiteral", pattern: /\d+/ })
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name: "Whitespace",
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// certain Tokens. these tokens are still consumed from the text, they just don't appear in the
// lexer's output. the is especially useful for ignoring whitespace and in some use cases comments too.
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name: "Comment",
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Which foods should children eat has always been a topic that plenty parents care about.
You can make the best and healthiest foods in the world, but whether your kids eat them is a whole different thing.
And that makes you always wonder if your children are receiving enough nutrients needed for them to grow up.
If you are still carrying that question, you can read the following types of the most nutrient food to find out the answer.
Moreover, I would also introduce to you an Airfryer Healthy, which can delight your children with all the fries they love but still not affect their health.
Mango is one of the best foods that your kids can eat. It is full of vitamin A, B and C, magnesium and fibrous matter. That is why mango is splendid for eyes, prevents sight-shorted and night-blindness.
It also cleans your children's skin by sweeping all the dirt in the pores and eliminating pimples, especially if your kids are in puberty. Moreover, mango can strengthen your children's immune system with vitamin A, C, and 26 types of different carotenoids.
Your kids will love mangos if you turn them into delicious foods such as a mango smoothie or pudding. And kids usually love snacks, so you can try by grinding a mango into pieces with a blender, then pouring them into an ice cube trays. Within a few hours of freezing, you children can have the best mango snacks ever.
Just like mango, avocado is superb for children's eyes and skin, but it also can prevent obesity. The reason is avocado contains polyunsaturated fats, protein, and high fiber, which control appetite and balance calories inside human bodies.
Avocado is also particularly perfect for children in the early years due to its fat intake. Therefore, your kids will always feel full of energy and would not crave for unhealthy junk foods.
And avocado gets along with children well if it is mixed with mayonnaise or cheese. Or you can ripe and mash it, then mix it with lemon juice and salt. Your kids will love the best dessert that you made for them.
This great pink fish has always been on the list of the most nutrient foods for children. Salmon has a high-fat diet and omega-3, which can develop children muscles and help them grow faster.
It also assists metabolism and prevents obesity. Furthermore, DHA found in salmon plays a crucial part in growing brain cells; therefore, your children will get smarter and have a better memory.
Various parents usually worry about may contain mercury, which is harmful to their children. The fact is salmon is consistently proved by FDA as one of the five fishes having the lowest amount of mercury.
So there is no need to concern.One more fascinating feature that I found in salmon is that it is easy to cook. It can be made with numerous recipes and styles, such as baked or grilled. Salmon with pasta or potato is also the number one choice for your children, especially 7-9-month-old.
This is a dish original from the Middle East and Arab, which is rich in nutrition. It is made from well done and pulverized chickpea mixed with tahini sauce, olive oil, lime juice, salt, and garlic.
Besides being popular all over Middle East, Turkey, North Africa, and Morocco, it is also a type of food that cannot be excluded from children's diet.Hummus contains a significant amount of iron, vitamin C, acid folic, and vitamin B6.
It provides your kids with healthy proteins, fiber, along with calories, which can keep them full and feel energetic until dinner.Moreover, hummus can be served with not only Pita cake but also sandwiches, fries, meat, or seafood. You can add this type of food to numerous recipes, and your children will still love it.
It is so familiar with all of us, isn't it?
Because it is a product made from milk, it has plenty milk's nutrients, such as iron, zinc, calcium, and all types of vitamins.
If your children eat yogurt every day, they will have a better immune system because yogurt increases the number of white blood cells in their body.
And it is also extremely helpful for digestion and children's bones, in particular. At your kids' early age and puberty, having yogurt regularly will help them grow fast and increase their height.
And most of the children like yogurt so don't worry too much. If they don't want to eat, just mix it with fruits, cream, or jelly, they will love it in no time.
Not only people who want to have a perfect body but also children who are growing should eat this. It is proved to be one of the most nutrient foods in the world. It provides your kids with fiber, calories, proteins, vitamin B6, and many others.
It is sweet, but it does not raise the level of blood sugar or cause obesity. Furthermore, its vitamins will light your kids' eyes, increase their height, and develop the nervous system, which means that they will get more and more intelligent every day.
Besides, you will never have to concern if they had constipation due to the considerable amount of fiber in sweet potato. However, not many kids like this type of food since it looks not so beautiful and unattractive.
I did not like sweet potato either when I was small. It's not a problem. You can have plenty tasty recipes that will make your kids love it. My mother usually served it with yogurt, applesauce, or maple syrup, which were all fantastic. You can try if you like.
Iron, proteins, and calcium are three essential criteria making tofu the best food for children. It is made from fermented soybean, which is delicious, nutrient, and cheap. Moreover, iron, proteins, and calcium play a necessary part in children's development and performance.
Like sweet potato, you may think that your kids will never touch tofu and may even scream "Ewww" when seeing it. Then, you can try adding tofu to their dessert by blending it in smoothies with blueberry, cookies, or cream. Tanya, my daughter, loves the strawberry smoothie made by me but never knows that she is eating tofu with it. It will be fun, so try it.
Those are the healthiest foods and recipes that you can add to your children's daily diet. I hope that they will grow much faster and quicker every day as you expect.
Now I will show you a machine that can solve your problems when your kids desire for fries. We all know that kids love chips although it is terrible for health. Because they are made from oil, it contains more calories than your children's body needs.
Besides, it can cause addiction, and you cannot keep an eye on your kids 24 hours a day. Therefore, they may end up with obesity sometime in the future.So to prevent this, you can use an Airfryer Healthy.
It is a machine that can make fries in just a few seconds but not harmful fries. The ingredient uses to make fries done to a turn is hot air, not oil. That is why the fries are still themselves but healthier than when you cook with oil.
It can be a beautiful solution for you when your children claim for fries, and you don't want to let them eat unhealthy foods. Moreover, you can use it at an in-house weekend party as well. Everyone can still feel the delicious taste of fries inside their mouth but do not need to worry about high rate of cholesterols or heart risks.
And that is the end of my article. Lastly, thank you for reading it, and I wish that your children, as well as each member of your family, would stay as healthy as they are.
Lastly, thank you for reading our article, and we hope that you will have the wisest choice to protect your child's health and growth. Goodbye, and see you in the next articles.
Thank you to Abigail Karnik for writing this guest post today, Abigail Karnik is the founder of familynano.com and she is a cook, a blogger, and a mother of two children. She used to take part in numerous baking contests all over America and gained plenty awards. She has also been writing a remarkable number of articles about food and nutrient diet for families. She is enthusiastic and loves sharing her experiences about how to protect family's health. | {
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Schools in Italy
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School in Bologna
Master of Pasta
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Cooking Italian School in Bologna Culinary Masters in a Food Capital Study programs for a new culinary skill
Cooking School in Bologna
The cooking school in Bologna is located in the center, just 5 minutes from the rail station. It has an area of 350 square meters entirely dedicated to the teaching of Italian cuisine. In addition to the common areas, the washing and pantry area, the cooking school has two perfectly equipped laboratories to accommodate 20 students at a time. Cooking workshops are equipped with a multimedia system to speed up student learning. The area surrounding the school is fool of actractions, just inside history and amenities of this magic city. The school offers regular courses for italian students and the masters for foreign students.
«Every student must be able to achieve a real new skill.
To do this it can not simply learn a recipe, but also understand the dynamics and the bases that compose it.
This will allow the student to vary the recipe and create new ones in pure Italian style. »
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Studying cuisine in Bologna, a multi-sensory experience in Food, History and Art.
The advantages of studying in a cooking school in Bologna.
Your school is in the center of Bologna, one of the italian food capital, full of artistic and culinary wonders.
We can try to propose an itinerary in the city of the arcades, through its millennial churches, through its gardens, the trattorias set in the Renaissance palaces. All places are near your cooking school in Bologna.
Bologna, one of the most scenographic cities in the world.
Thanks to its peculiarities and its rich history is a very popular place with lots of beauties to discover. The presence of the University helps to make it a cosmopolitan city, its towers are famous all over the world, and its history is so rich that important corners, medieval remains and enchanting landscapes are hidden behind every corner. Bologna is an unmissable destination for tourists who are looking for art, culture, excellent gastronomy and escape from their trip to Italy. The city is also known for its nicknames: the learned, the red, the turrita and the fat.
Bologna "the learned", so it is defined the capital of Emilia Romagna, thanks to the presence of one of the oldest Italian universities, founded in 1088, still today frequented by local students and university students from abroad. An ideal place to create a Cooking School in Italy.
The town of Bologna preserves traces of the past, in a marriage between ancient and modern, which strikes at a glance the tourist: you can walk in Piazza Maggiore and admire in the same instant the oldest buildings of the city, but at the at the same time perceive the cultural ferment that animate an open and tolerant city, ready to welcome ever new artistic and cultural ideas. This place is very near to you Cokking School in Bologna. The history of Bologna begins in 600 a. C., when it was the capital of the Etruscan Empire, then its territory has seen the passage of Gauls and Romans, up to the Byzantines and the Normans. Only by this is it easy to perceive the mixture of styles and cultures that are felt in Bologna.
Art and Culture near your Cooking School in Bologna.
His university had excellent students: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Thomas Becket, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Copernicus. In the Middle Ages, like most Italian villages, the Emilian city closed in its walls, but no country reached the Bolognese record, more than 180 watchtowers were built. After various vicissitudes and destructions due to the Wars that struck the city, today Bologna, mindful of its past, is a very important university center and a city full of cultural ferment.
The Torre degli Asinelli and the arcades of Bologna
The towers are the symbol of the city of Bologna, and a visitor around the city can not miss the two most famous towers, that of the Asinellis and that of the Garisenda. The most famous is the first that was built between 1109 and 1119 by the family that, in addition to receiving social prestige, used it for military purposes of defense and sighting. To date, its 498 steps are climbed by tourists to enjoy a panoramic view of the city from a height that is close to 100 meters from the ground. Moreover, during the sunny days, the view can reach the Romagna sea and the Veneto Prealps.
In addition to the Towers, another distinctive feature of Bologna are its arcades. It is impossible to think of the city without associating it with this aspect of its urban conformation. For 40 kilometers the city is crossed by porticos, from the elegant ones of the Church of the Servants to those painted in Piazza Malpinghi. These are covered paths that allow the traveler to reach every point of the city. The origins of the arcades date back to the late Middle Ages when, in a period of rapid expansion, hence the need to make the most of outdoor spaces. The only wooden porch that still survives is that of Casa Isolani in Strada Maggiore.
History and Arts near your Cooking School.
Bologna is a sort of open-air museum, wherever you breathe art and history. All this is very near to our Cooking School in Bologna, just in the center of the city. The styles that are found in the city range from the Gothic, to the Baroque, to the Romanesque, up to the Renaissance. The city is visited in a few days, even if the things to see are endless, just a bit of organization. The tour of the Emilian city can start from Piazza Maggiore, which is the center of Bolognese life, at the center of which is the famous Fontana del Nettuno. The Piazza is surrounded by the history of the city. From the Palazzo Comunale to the Palazzo dei Bianchi, to the Palazzo del Podestà. The south side of Piazza Maggiore is occupied by the majestic façade of the Basilica of San Petronio, the fifth largest church in the world and the last great Gothic work in Italy. Its late-Gothic naves house the works of Parmigianino and Masaccio and its walls have seen religious ceremonies alternating with civil ceremonies. The interior of the basilica is extremely bright and spacious, dominated by the pink tones of its brick pillars. A belief very popular among the students on Piazza Maggiore wants the Piazza to bring a little bad luck, in fact it is thought that going through the center is bad, and then you always have to coast, otherwise there is the risk of saying goodbye to the long-hoped degree .
Another important church is the Basilica of Santo Stefano, which belongs to the complex of the seven medieval churches. The square of Santo Stefano houses: the Church of the Crucifix, the Basilica of the Sepulcher, the Church of San Vitale and Sant'Agricola, the Cortile di Pilato, the Church of the Martyrium, the Medieval Cloister and the Santo Stefano Museum. Today the churches have been reduced to four for renovations. Also worthy of mention is the Church of Santa Maria della Vita, which is the church of the first hospital in Bologna and where the harrowing terracotta group of the "Lamentation over the Dead Christ" is kept.
Besides Bologna in the open air, there is also a hidden Bologna, underground, the ancient canals that plowed the city, have been restored and today are visited by thousands of tourists. Returning to the light of the sun, not to be missed, then, is the National Art Gallery, which preserves works ranging from 200 to 700, where there are artists such as Raphael, Carracci, Reni and many other artists related to Bologna.
During your trip to Bologna, there will certainly be time to refresh yourself with the goodness of Bolognese cuisine. In the city, just a stone's throw from your cooking school in Bologna, there are many taverns and inns with a great gastronomic tradition, in every street and in every alley you can rediscover the flavors of tradition and smell aromas that are hard to forget. Ragout, Lasagna, tortellini, tagliatelle, crescentine, tigelle and mortadella are just some of the typical products. From the point of view of confectionery, however, the most famous dish is the Certosino, a typical Christmas dessert prepared with honey, candied fruit, pine nuts, almonds, butter, grapes, cinnamon and dark chocolate.
All these specialties can be tasted in the many taverns and taverns, just some minutes from your cooking school in Bologna, many of which are family-run and where you can dive into the true flavors of the Emilia tradition, also tasting the specialties and DOC wines of the hills of Bologna, such as Pignoletto, Barbera and Cabernet Sauvignon. Among the most rustic taverns is that Dei Butteri, where you eat anything with your hands; or the two historical trattorias the Osteria De 'Poeti and the trattoria Boni, symbol of Bolognese cuisine. A good relationship between price and quality can be found at the Antica Osteria Romagnola, Ristorante Teresina, Ristorante Biagi or Osteria dell'Orsa.
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