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The Italian Bourse (Borsa Italiana S.p.A.), based in Milan, is Italy's stock exchange. It manages and organises domestic market, regulating procedures for admission and listing of companies and intermediaries and supervising disclosures for listed companies. Borsa Italiana is also informally known as Piazza Affari ("Business Square"), after the city square of Milan where its headquarters (the Palazzo Mezzanotte building) is located.
History
The Borsa di commercio di Milano (Milan Stock Exchange) was established by Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, through decrees dated 16 January and 6 February 1808. It operated under public ownership until 1998, when it was privatized. In 1997, all the Italian stocks were merged. Before this year, other smaller stocks exchanges based in Naples, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Bologna, Rome, and Palermo. In 1991, the electronic exchanges were approved, and in 1994, the market with grida (A,B,C) was abolished. In Milan were also the currencies exchange rates fixing and the commodities fixing. |
As opposed to photons of darkness?
It's proved fact.
As much as)
There's a much simpler solution to the water problem. Don't send meatbags. Do all the work with robots & advanced waldo systems. Even ignoring the water, you could afford to lose (completely) several robotic mining systems for the cost of one human-rated craft..
I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.
I propose that you're wrong for two reasons. The first is the infamous "two bombs on an airplane" theory: the number of people killed by sharks while taking a selfie (go ahead, mis-attribute my clause there and claim the shark has the camera!) is infinitesimal, so if you're going to swim with shartks, be sure to take a selfie.
The second is the well-known "cancellation Hearts" rule: each dangerous item cancels out the other.
"... or you don't get no spending cash"
Presumably robots can't talk back anyway.
I'd usually finish my work fast and early and then be bored, and start distracting my neighbors. That began to earn me having my desk up closer to the teacher where she could keep an eye on me, or give me something else to do.
I would come up with new and creative things to do in class...
All of which in no way suggests ADD/ADHD. ADD kids are generally incapable of focussing on the assigned task and thus do **not** finish their work. Any vaguely competent teacher (or MD) can tell the difference between an ADD kid and a smart kid who's bored to the point of disruptance..
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Not that there aren't plenty of seriously ugly watches under $200...
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Comfort for Aurora
“In the hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my young friend, and your brave and early fallen child.” Abraham Lincoln, May 25, 1861 in a letter of condolence to the parents of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth
I did not know Jessica Ghawi, Alex Teves, Alex Sullivan or any of the other nine victims murdered in the horrific July 20, 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” I do not know any of the 70 people who were injured that night and survived. But as an advocate for gun violence prevention, Jessica, Alex, Alex and many others have become my (forever young) friends. It is because of them that we work for a safer future so others are not sacrificed on America’s insane firearms alters.
The trial for the monster responsible for this all too familiar, American-centric, gun-related carnage is underway in Colorado and I find there is no way to accurately or compassionately convey my love to the survivors, their families, or the families of those murdered without sounding as if I can possibly understand their grief, pain, suffering, loss, anger… even this list seems somehow presumptuous. To those strong enough and compelled to attend the daily court proceedings, this list of presumptions must also include: the ability to sit in the same room with such a monster, knowing that he is attempting to “game” the jurisprudence of Colorado with his “superior” intellect, and the self-control and commitment to a civilized society not to throttle him when he lifts his veil of innocence whenever the jury is not in chambers. Cameras are everywhere.
It is, therefore, ironic that I find the most reflective and appropriate comments in the haunting words of one who would himself later become the victim of gun violence. In a letter dated Nov. 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a mother who it was believed had lost five sons in the Civil War. He wrote:
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
And so, with these borrowed words, please let the victims and their families know that I am thinking of them, grieve for them, honor their children and don’t presume to understand their pain. I haven’t the right words. Allow Lincoln’s to carry my comforts. |
Dominic Hassler (born March 30, 1981 in Lienz) is a former Austrian football player at the position of a striker.
Career
Dominic Hassler began his career in his home town of Irschen in Carinthia at the local sports club. In 2000 he went to the first division club SV Austria Salzburg . His debut in the first team was in 2002, 2003 he scored his first goal for the Salzburg. In January 2004 he moved to Grazer AK, where he became Austrian champion and cup winner in 2004. In 2005 he went on loan to LASK in Linz for six months on loan.
After the GAK was forced to relegate to the Regionalliga Mitte (3rd division), Hassler left in 2007 and went to FC Gratkorn, where he was an all-rounder (midfield, central defense and attack).
On January 14, 2009 he signed a two and a half year contract with Sturm Graz, with which he reached fourth place in the table in 2009. Hassler became Austrian football champion in the 2010/11 season. In the summer of 2011 he moved to FC Blau-Weiss Linz. For this he completed 21 league games he scored seven goals. In the 2012/13 season he was a member of the regional league team FC Gratkorn and then played three seasons for FC Frohnleiten in the Landesliga Steiermark from 2013 to 2016. He then moved two leagues deeper and made 38 league appearances and scored 24 goals in two seasons for SV Peggau. Today (2021) he is the sporting director of SV Peggau.
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2x Austrian Champion: 2004 (GAK), 2011 (Sturm Graz)
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The raccoon (Procyon lotor, common raccoon,) is a mammal. Raccoons are curious, clever, and solitary. They are originally from North America. They have spread through Central America, and live in various habitats. They have escaped in some parts of Eurasia (see map), and now live there as well. Raccoons are in the family Caniformia, and are related to the mustelids.
The raccoon has short legs, a pointed nose, small ears, grayish-brown fur, and a bushy tail.
The raccoon's most distinctive features are its multi-purpose front paws, its facial 'mask', and its striped tail. Moreover, raccoons are noted for their intelligence. Studies show they are able to remember the solution to tasks for up to three years. Raccoons are usually nocturnal. Their food is about 40% invertebrates, 33% plant foods, and 27% vertebrates. Raccoons are omnivores. They feed on mice, squirrels, rabbits, birds, fish, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, eggs, insects, worms, fruit, and nuts. Their predators are red foxes, wolves, coyotes, bears, eagles, hawks, owls, cougars, and lynxes.
Most raccoons live in the wild. Being around humans does not bother them. They often nest in empty buildings, garages, sheds, and even the attics of houses. Raccoons do not hibernate in the winter. Those that live further north where it is colder, grow thick coats to keep them warm and spend long periods sleeping. Raccoons that live in captivity can survive up to 20 years. In the wild, they usually live only 1-3 years.
Two other species of raccoon, the crab-eating raccoon (P. cancrivorus) and the Cozumel Island raccoon (P. pygmaeus), are extremely similar to the common raccoon. The crab-eating raccoon is quite widespread in eastern South America.
After a gestation period (pregnancy) of about 65 days, two to five young are born in spring. Newborn raccoons are called "kits".
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Russell neighbors asked for input on community's future
Thousands of people in the Russell neighborhood are getting a chance to shape the future.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Thousands of people in the Russell neighborhood are getting a chance to shape the future.
It is part of a multi-million dollar plan to revitalize the neighborhood.
"Cooking and baking was always my passion," said Pamela Haines, who owns her own business called Sweet Peaches.
A few years ago, Haines turned her talent in the kitchen into a deli and bakery at the corner of 18th and Muhammad Ali in the Russell neighborhood.
"I put my passion to work with my work experience and came up with Sweet Peaches," Haines explained.
The neighborhood has seen its share of crime and violence in recent years but with the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage just across the street, and Vision Russell in the works, Haines is excited about the future.
"It will help boost my business," Haines said. "Build it and they'll come."
Part of the multi-million dollar plan to revitalize the Russell neighborhood is now on paper. It includes before and after pictures.
"Everything in the transformation plan is based on what people have been telling us," said Gretchen Milliken, With Louisville Forward.
Milliken is director of advanced planning for Louisville Forward and said the artist renderings are what neighbors have asked for but they're accepting more input. "We're looking for additional feedback -- did we get it right, is this what you thought when you gave us your ideas, is this how you would have imagined it?"
There have been meetings, workshops and focus groups to get your input. This Saturday, April 16 11:00 a.m -12:30 p.m. (Community Conversation on Crime & Safety) and 1:00-2:30 p.m. (Design Workshop 2). The meetings will be held at the Louisville Central Community Center's Old Walnut Street Campus.
"I am going to go to that meeting on Saturday," Haines said,
Haines is looking forward to seeing the plans and growing with the Neighborhood. "I am just ready to go, when they go...I'm going to go."
The plan is for the transformation work to start soon but the entire project will take 10 to 15 years to complete. |
Harmonics in music are notes which are produced in a special way. They are notes which are produced as part of the "harmonic series".
In physics, a harmonic is a wave which is added to the basic fundamental wave. This article talks about sound waves, which can be understood clearly by looking at the strings of a musical instrument.
When a violinist plays a note on a violin string, the string starts to vibrate very fast. This vibration makes the air vibrate and the sound waves travel to our ear so that we can hear it. If the note were absolutely pure the string would move in a perfect sinusoidal shape and produce only one frequency, but instead there are multiple frequencies being produced at the same time along with the main one. The note played on the violin string makes the string vibrate in a very complicated way. There is the basic note (the fundamental), but added to that are lots of other little notes that all add up to a sound in a special way that tells us that it is a violin playing and not a clarinet or a human voice.
The higher the note, the faster the string vibrates. An A above middle C (the violinist's A string) vibrates at 440Hz (440 times per second). This is the "fundamental" or "first harmonic". The second harmonic vibrates twice as fast (ratio 2:1): 880Hz. This gives an A an octave higher. The third harmonic will give a ratio 3:2. This will be an E (an octave and a fifth above the fundamental). The higher the harmonic the quieter it is, but the ratio is always a whole number (not a fraction).
Every note that is played on an instrument is really a combination of several notes or "harmonics", even though we may not realize that we are hearing more than one note at a time. Play the lowest C on the piano. Now find the next C which is an octave higher. Press this key very slowly so that it does not sound and hold it down. While holding it down play the bottom C again making it loud and very short. The C that is being held silently will now sound. This is because the strings of that C are vibrating a little because it is a harmonic of the low C (they can vibrate because the damper is off the string while the note is being held down). The same can be done holding the next G down, then the next C, then the E. The higher the note the fainter (quieter) the harmonics become. The musical example below shows the notes of a harmonic series in musical notation.
To hear the notes of a harmonic series click here:
clicking here.
Playing harmonics on instruments
Musicians sometimes need to play harmonics on their instruments. In musical notation this is shown by placing a small circle above the note.
A violinist can place their finger very lightly on a string so that it divides the string into half. They will hear a harmonic (the note an octave higher than the open string). By placing their fingers in other places they can get more harmonics, e.g. by touching the string a quarter of the way down they gets the next harmonic. "Artificial harmonics" can be played by stopping a string with the finger in the usual way (so that the string is now shorter) and placing the little finger farther up the string to get a harmonic of the stopped note. Artificial harmonics are written with diamond-shaped note heads. They are very hard to play well.
Harpists can play harmonics with their left hand by stopping the string with the side of the hand (near the little finger) and plucking with the thumb or finger. Up to 3 notes can be played by the left hand. They can play harmonics with the right hand by stopping the string with the upper knuckle of the second finger and plucking with the thumb. Only one harmonic note can be played by the right hand. Harmonics on the harp sound very beautiful.
Players of woodwind and brass instruments play many of their notes by blowing slightly stronger (overblowing) to get a higher series of notes. Instruments such as the recorder can play chords by making several harmonics sound together, but this is extremely difficult to do well and only found in modern music for virtuoso players.
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The Oath Keepers are an American conservative and anti-government militia organization. They are made of military, police and first responders. They pledge to fulfill an oath that all military and police take in order to "defend the Consitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic".
The Oath Keepers were present and wearing combat uniforms in Ferguson, Missouri during the 2014 and 2015 unrest in the city. Members of the group were indicted on conspiracy charges for staging a planned mission during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers in March 2009. |
Sentai Bets On KAIJI
Source: Sentai press release
Sentai announced today that it acquired KAIJI, the amusingly sinister, 52-episode survival series produced by Madhouse and based on the manga of the same name. Sentai previously licensed KAIJI spinoff series, MR. TONEGAWA – MIDDLE MANAGEMENT BLUES -. Sentai will distribute the series in the Unites States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Central America, South American, South Africa, Spain and Portugal..
The series will be available to stream on select digital outlets with a home video release to follow. The home video collection encompasses both seasons of the anime series, including all 26 episodes of KAIJI -ULTIMATE SURVIVOR- (逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor, Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, 2007-08) and all 26 episodes of KAIJI -AGAINST ALL RULES- (逆境無頼カイジ 破戒録篇, Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen, 2011-12).. |
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is a political party in South Africa. Since it was founded it has been led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It is currently the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of South Africa. It was very close with the African National Congress.
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The Southeastern Anatolia Region is a geographical region of Turkey. The city with most people in the region is Gaziantep. Other big cities are Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Mardin and Adiyaman.
It is next to the Mediterranean Region to the west, the Eastern Anatolia Region to the north, Syria to the south, and Iraq to the southeast.
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Geo was a brand of economy cars sold by Chevrolet dealerships. Geo was founded in 1989 to compete with Japanese automotives. Geo's roots date back to the 1970s in which General Motors began selling and offering captive imports. The Buick Opel which was originally an Isuzu Gemini and was also offered to future GM marque Daewoo as the Maepsy (which was sold as a Saehan and later Daewoo model). Geo cars were a joint venture between GM and its Japanese partners which included Toyota, Suzuki and Isuzu. Chevrolet's revived Nova (the Corolla Sprinter) led to Chevrolet Sprint (Suzuki Cultus) and the Spectrum (Isuzu Gemini). All three cars were rebranded as Geo in 1989. Geo was cancelled in 1997 and merged into the Chevrolet brand. The Geo models were the Metro, Prizm, Storm, Tracker, and Spectrum. The Prizm was made at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. which was jointly owned by Toyota and General Motors. While the Metro and Tracker were made at CAMI Automotive a joint venture between GM and Suzuki, and the Storm and Spectrum were made entirely in Japan by Isuzu, and because of dwindling Isuzu sales they were short-lived. Many Geo models continued as Chevrolet's and were later replaced by in-house cars (i.e. Chevrolet Cobalt (Geo Prizm), a another joint venture vehicle or inherited models from GM Daewoo/Korea.
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The principal of Goulburn's Trinity Catholic College has formally resigned from the position.
Mary Jane Carroll Fajada has been working with the Catholic Education Office in Canberra since last year, assisting secondary schools in the archdiocese.
While she has been working in the ACT, Tanya Appleby has been in the acting principal's position at Trinity.
The Catholic Education Office says a formal recruitment process for the principal's position will be undertaken.
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The right to life is the belief that a being has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity, including a government. This concept has led to some discussion:
Ending a pregnancy without the birth of a child is called abortion. This also means that if it was alive, the fetus or embryo will die.
Euthanasia is ending a person's life. Usually, this is done to keep the person from suffering longer. Assisted suicide is the idea that a person can take the decision to end his or her own life.
Capital punishment means that the state kills a criminal, for having committed a crime. Many countries and states have abolished the death penality, and replaced it with other forms of punishment.
Some people say that killing another person is wrong. Most legal systems have a number of different definitions, which classify the killing: killing someone in self-defense, killing someone with intent to kill, or killing someone because of not being careful enough are usually different (and there are different punishments).
Some people say that only the state has a right to kill. Killings done as extrajudicial killings are seen as wrong. Soldiers killing other soldiers in a war are usually not punished. Cases were police forces kill people (in peace time) are usually investigated, the policeman or policewoman who killed someone may be punished, if he or she is guilty of a crime, or didn't show correct behavior.
Some people say that animals shouldn't be killed, or if they are, that there should be minimal standards, so as to not make them suffer.
The right to life may apply in any of these cases, and different groups have different opinions where it should apply.
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"April 5th and my five in five photos are a theme I know I have used before. I did not go out intending to take these photos but was walking round to see a friend and there was such a beautiful sun set that as I walked I took photos and these five are in the space of five minutes from different spots along our Esplanade at Brighton. The Jetty in the photo is Brighton Jetty, South Australia. I didn’t even have my camera on me but fortunately had my phone so these photo are phone photos. Hope you enjoy seeing the sunset and sea".
Thank you to Melanie for sharing these photos and for taking part. Anything to do with the sea makes me happy, and seeing the sunset cheers me all the more. It is nice to live somewhere with such beautiful views and walks.
It just shows you don't have to go out with the intention of taking photos for 5 in 5 - sometimes the spontaneous moment is just right. What photos don't always show is the emotional connection with that moment, and I am imagining a warm breeze and the sound of waves as I look at those photos. It is blissful!. |
Oosterscheldekering is a dam and storm surge barrier between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland. It is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta Works made to protect the Netherlands from flooding from the North Sea. |
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Some say that we should talk about things without talking about the supernatural, because we cannot prove that supernatural things are real. Other people say that although we cannot prove supernatural things in a scientific way, they are real. Some examples of supernatural things or examples are:
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balistic
06-17-2004, 06:10 PM ()
This was a fun painting to do. I was given a way cool character sketch by Jose Saenz, as well as a rough idea of the layout the client wanted, and told to render it as a theatrical poster.
~4000 pixels wide (need more RAM!). Several nights of work in Photo-Paint 10.
Thanks for looking.
jud
06-17-2004, 08:21 PM
Very nice,I love the cartoony feel to it,it's like funny evil or something,good job.
jud
Gena
06-17-2004, 08:32 PM
Looks like a caricature theme of "Sleepy Hollow". Nice job! :thumbsup:
Ra1Der
06-17-2004, 09:09 PM
darn thats cool!!! Really nice lighting!
keight
06-17-2004, 09:52 PM
I love the flaming jack-o-lantern! Other than that, I laughed out loud when I saw it. It's great!
Ilikesoup
06-17-2004, 09:58 PM
Awesome picture and great details. The moon is huge and is a wonderful backdrop. Love the horse's skinny legs. One question -- looks like somebody else's arm with a webbed hand in chains. What is it?
balistic
06-17-2004, 10:07 PM
Huge thanks guys!
ilikesoup: I'm not quite sure which part you mean . . . there's a chain leading down towards the horsedude's knee, and another one from the reins to the top of the horse's blanket.
joelfurtado
06-17-2004, 11:30 PM
CONGRATS ! This is soooo good, the sketch is great and I love the exaggeration. Your paint skills rock though, and the dramatic lighting is really effective. That's some crazy details in the leaves, hope you didn't go nutty filling those in :)
balistic
06-18-2004, 12:00 AM
Here's the sketch I was provided:
Good paintings usually come from good drawings, and I think Jose did a very nice job on the drawing, yeah?
Thanks again for the feedback guys.
SGT.Squeaks
06-18-2004, 03:20 AM
This looks amazing!! A bit of a change from your other art. The atmosphere is just great, and you did an amazing job on the flames and the leaves. :thumbsup:
grandma
06-18-2004, 04:54 AM
good !good!very good!:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:
FLX
06-18-2004, 01:45 PM
sweet as hell ballistic
bluemagicuk
06-18-2004, 02:30 PM
Frigin awesome character and composition, the lighting is wicked.
mu hah aha hahah (evil laugh)
liquidwerx
06-18-2004, 06:26 PM
Damn nice work dude. Probably my favorite thing I've ever seen from you.
Very nice. :)
~M~
cr0ss
06-18-2004, 07:28 PM
funny drawing :D
what a big (head) pumpkin jack-o-lantern has :scream:
the horse is funny :)
wangsen
06-19-2004, 04:55 AM
cool work ! i'm just like it !
direndra
06-19-2004, 10:36 AM
.. woooo: :buttrock:.....
perfect !!!":beer:
balistic
06-20-2004, 06:19 AM
my first five star thread . . . I love you guys *snif*
Kirt
06-20-2004, 09:27 AM
This is really fantastic. Nice lighting and the characters are great!
If noone else is going to plug it ... I am! Good job balistic!
miloszwl
06-20-2004, 10:06 AM
really awesome work on that flames and general look of image. it looks scary and cute at the same moment which makes this piece of art very unique and stylish. good job. :thumbsup:
Riddick
06-20-2004, 10:11 AM
Damn!!
That is a great painting!
You are a talented guy with the effects and the color.
Good stuff!
BigSky
06-20-2004, 10:54 AM.:)
luhna
06-20-2004, 11:00 AM
Super...I like it!!!:buttrock:
eupee
06-20-2004, 11:03 AM
this is really good. i love the flames, they are superb, feels like theres movement in them..
one this that isnt at all a crit, at first glance the headless horseman looked like a huge face insead of a body, hah! t
but your style is very impressive
rexfang
06-20-2004, 01:39 PM
Damn ......
It's awsome dude....Wow....the character is damn cool...
Very very nice painting...FANTASIC!!:buttrock:
olijosman
06-20-2004, 03:33 PM
Very good design and wonderful color and light use. I love the flames! :twisted:
elnady
06-20-2004, 04:05 PM
Very good job:bounce:
mk3d
06-20-2004, 06:02 PM
Very nice :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
cat33
06-20-2004, 06:07 PM.:)
Hey balistic, I loooove this piece a lot. Its beautiifully painted and looks awesome.....seriously! I do agree with BigSky though about the impression of it being headless. When I first saw it, it looked to me like the cape is over the head. After I saw the sketch it was a bit more clear to me that its headless. But I think its the lump in the cape that throws it off. Great job though, it all works!
valentinfischer
06-20-2004, 10:47 PM
Impressive. Very nice :applause:
Elm
06-20-2004, 11:45 PM
incredible.
balistic
06-21-2004, 12:20 AM
In hindsight, I agree with those who mentioned that the billows at the neck of the cape look like they could conceal a head. Definitely something I'll watch out for the next time I paint a headless character ;)
Thanks again everyone.
oxyg3n
06-21-2004, 02:44 AM
Good painting. The drawing is nice too.
keithlango
06-21-2004, 06:32 AM
Dang, call me a fan-boy, but that is COOL!!
Nice work. :)
-k
sgt1138
06-21-2004, 02:32 PM
Yeah dude, Totally kick ass...
by the way...
MY 10th post! WOO HOOOO
lateonight
06-21-2004, 03:01 PM
cool man!!!
Wilson-3d
06-21-2004, 04:30 PM
great artwork. The original sketch has great character and style. You did a good job taking that,pushing and staying with the intended style.
HocusPocus
06-21-2004, 07:35 PM
The atmosphere is amazing!
Very good job with the flames!
swarding
06-21-2004, 08:54 PM
Awesome, totally awesome. The silhouette is done so well, you can see just enough detail to keep things spooky and foreboding. And the flames? *shakes head* Unbelievable.
jasonkey
06-22-2004, 01:22 AM
i especially like the composition achieved with the tree/moon. love the horses eyes too!
DoLeeP
06-22-2004, 11:57 AM
:thumbsup: just amazing
VOO
06-22-2004, 05:01 PM
Very Nice Rendering.
The origional sketch is good, but so much is added with your painting.
Nice work.
JBoskma
06-22-2004, 11:48 PM
DOn't know if this has been posted yet, but the first time I looked at the picture, it looked like his cape was over his head... After seeing the sketch I noticed how it should be. But first impression was not a headless guy :) Amazing lighting and paintwork, technique superb!
robin3d
06-23-2004, 01:09 AM
what can i say it' s soo cool i gota get painting rightaway wanna learn to do such groovey art too:bounce:
matt olson
06-23-2004, 01
balistic
06-23-2004, 04
Thanks! I never touch the mouse when painting anymore, except when doing non-painterly stuff, like adjusting sliders. Sometimes for work that needs to be really precise, you can put a sheet of paper between your tablet and stylus. This will add a bit of friction, and you'll have better control than you would on just the bare tablet surface. I generally keep a big sheet of illustration board around for this purpose, since regular copy paper wears out after a relatively short time on the wacom.
Try using some paper for traction . . . you might be surprised at how much more pencil-like your Wacom suddenly feels.
mojodesign
06-23-2004, 11:49 PM
I'm so glad that this piece was so well received. Brian was highly recommended by a mutual friend and after seeing some samples of his work on his web site, I was confident that the drawing was in good hands. I agree with what was previously said. The sketch is pretty cool, but the painting adds so much more. You can imagine how hyped I was when I saw my drawing having been taken from sketch to a masterpiece. I thought, "I wish this dude could paint all my drawings". I was fortunate enough to have the company I work for commission Brian. He's currently doing more stuff for us....which should also look really cool, although this last one has the most fun subject matter I think. Anyway Brian, keep up the good work.
-jose saenz
P.S. maybe it's because I'm so amazed with the painting, but I don't know what those dudes are talking about in regards to the cape and head thing....I just don't see it....looks perfect to me.
Rikaro
06-24-2004, 01:18 AM
yea it's so cute :P
great work!
Toxic_Mind
06-25-2004, 02:12 PM
THIS-SIMPLY-RULES! I love dark and atmospheric images like this one, my respect!! :eek: :bounce:
T_M
maxpaynemax
06-26-2004, 09:06 AM
nice job.go on.
bogusangel
06-26-2004, 10:35 AM
:thumbsup: wonderful!!!
i like it
Spirock
08-16-2004, 12:10 AM
wow, its cool, the headless horseman's head is on fire! yiks, does that hurt?. |
Aulus Vitellius Germanicus {September 24, 15-December 22, AD 69} was later known as Vitellius was an Roman Emperor and general for eight months from 16 April to 22 December 69.
Vitellius was acclaimed emperor following quick succession of previous emperors Galba and Marcus Salvius Otho, in the year of civil war known as Year of the Four Emperors
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Rebellion
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The word filtering through the news is that the people in charge are trying to figure out how to reopen the country for business. Oddly enough it doesn't seem to be clear who exactly gets to make that decision, with the President mulling over how fast he can do it and the state governors wondering what their best moves will be individually. The whole proposition seems ridiculous to me but there again it seems to me we the people have done a better job of making the decision to self isolate than our leaders have done in telling us what to do.
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Marley died from pancreatic cancer on 10 January 2014. She was aged 75. She died in Sao Paulo. Her widower is the actor and comedian Ary Toledo. |
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has three members in the band; the current band members are Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and Leah Shapiro.
Band members
Current
Peter Hayes - vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer
Robert Levon Been - vocals, bass, guitar, piano
Leah Shapiro - drums, percussion
Former
Nick Jago - drums, percussion
Peter Salisbury - drums, percussion
Michael "Spike" Keating - bass, guitar
Discography
Albums
B.R.M.C. (2001)
Take Them On, On Your Own (2003)
Howl (2005)
Baby 81 (2007)
The Effects of 333 (2008)
Beat the Devil's Tattoo (2010)
Specter at the Feast (2013)
Wrong Creatures (2018) |
Earlier this year the Department for Education (DfE) launched a consultation into the proposal, “Enabling maintained school boards to remove elected governors”. The consultation posed three?
Following the consultation DfE published an amendment to the School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) Regulations 2012. This amendment applies to the constitutional arrangements of maintained school governing bodies, including federated governing bodies. According to these amendments
- From 1st Sept 2017 governing bodies will be able to remove elected parent and staff governors in the same way as they can other governors (by a majority of governors voting in favour of the removal)
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The procedure for removal is as follows (Regulation 25)
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Larry Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American actor and a voice actor. He is best known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and faro dealer, in the internationally acclaimed HBO series, Deadwood.
Filmography
Movie roles
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Atlas Shrugged: Part III - Dr. Floyd Ferris
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. - Graves
Constantine - Vermin Man
Demonic Toys - Peterson
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Control Room Guard
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Pinocchio's Revenge - District Attorney
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The Gingerdead Man - Jimmy Dean
The London Connection - Roger Pike
The Master of Disguise - Businessman
Towelhead - Photographer
Twilight Zone: The Movie - Creature on the Wing (Episode #4)
Television roles
Boston Legal - Robert Hooper
Charmed in a season eight guest role as the scheming Demon Xar, pushing the episode's action in "Engaged and Confused".
Community - Cornelius Hawthorne
Deadwood - Leon (3 seasons)
Get a Life - Ted (2 episodes)
Saved by the Bell - Mystery Weekend actor
Square One Television - Series Regular
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Nydrom (Episode: "Armageddon Game")
Star Trek: Voyager - Tersa
Star Trek: Enterprise - Tessic
State of Mind - Larry Carson
The Riches - Karl
W*A*L*T*E*R (unsold M*A*S*H spinoff) - Zipkin
Without a Trace - Ray Pallidies
Video game roles
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Loki
SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs - Vandal
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 -
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2 -
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Faye Wong, or Wang Fei (, born August 8, 1969) is a Chinese singer and actress. Faye Wang was born at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing. She moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and has had great success since the early 1990s.
Studio Albums
1989: Shirley Wong (Wang Jing Wen )
1990: Everything
1990: You're the Only One
1992: Coming Home
1993: No Regrets (Zhi Mi Bu Hui )
1993: 100,000 Whys (Shi Wan Ge Wei Shi Mo )
1994: Mystery (Mi )
1994: Random Thoughts (Hu Si Luan Xiang )
1994: Sky (Tian Kong )
1994: Ingratiate Oneself (Tao Hao Zi Ji )
1995: Decadent Sounds of Faye (Fei Mi Mi Zhi Yin )
1995: Di-Dar
1996: Restless (Fu Zao )
1997: Faye Wong (Wang Fei )
1998: Scenic Tour (Chang You )
1999: Only Love Strangers (Zhi Ai Mo Sheng Ren )
2000: Fable (Yu Yan )
2001: Faye Wong (Wang Fei )
2003: To Love (Jiang Ai )
2015: Be Perfunctory (Fu Yan ) |
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HEAR the winds that sweep the moor, I know the waves are high, And far above the stormy coast doth bend an inky sky; I'm waiting still to greet my boy who promised he would come I've longed and waited many years, I've watched tho speechless sea, But somewhere in the distance sails the Seagull far from me; Each Christmastida I set his chair before the chestnut fire, And wait for footsteps at the door to bring me my desire. The rose has faded on the mead, and winter crowns the wold, And In the village Christmas bells ring out the story old, But dear to all the world, how in the soft and scented hay, In Judah's land beloved by all, tha gentle Christ-child lay. I stir the fire and wait for Joe, for , something' unexpressed Tells me that I shall feel again the hand BO often blessed, That from the tropics far away, or from the lands of snow The missing ship will bring the boy •who left me long ago. 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OtJB BUDGET OF JUS, SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED- A Vfttlet* 6* «fohe» Original and Selected—Flotsam and Jetsam from the Tide of Ha tad*— Witty 8«ylnK». * ONE GOOD DEALER WANTED In every town . where not represented, OXAUl* PURE MIXED PAINTS Finest and most durable, Colors nlways uniform and guaranteed. ENTERPRISE PAINT MFG. CO., Makers, Chicago- Was that the storm king at my door? Or did I hear a band? Who conies to wish me well today o'er snowy sea and land? This Christmas I would wait alone within my little home For Joe, who told me with a kiss that some day he would come. It was a knock, 1 ope the door. What stranger guest is this? Unlike the tall and gallant youth whose cherished voice I miss. What! back at last? it cannot be, yet 'tis his smile, I know, And Christmas brings my darling home despite the swirling snow. Aye, thro" the tempest and the sea he comes tp .keep his word, And now I know that far above the widow's prayer was heard; There steals Into my little room a light like that which fell Upon the plains of Bethlehem when •watched the shepherds well. I place him at the table and I look Into his face, The while the village hells ring out their hymns of peace and grace; And Joe gives back the same old smile BO full of love and Joy, The smile that made me happy when he was a little boy. I read of Christmastides within the palaces of old, Where kings and princes merry make beneath a cloth of gold; But I would rather sit today within our little home, And bless the God who brought me Joe across the crested foam. —T. C. Harbaugh. joy and Expense. "Uncle Theodore, what Is the Christmas spirit?" "It is that genial joy you feel when you discover that you have money enough to go round." One morning Emperor William, who lias a great penchant for building churches, was riding in his carriage on Uhter den Linden, when and old gentleman espied him from a distance, ami immediately bared his head, which was as bald as a billiard-ball. Suddonly the old gentleman feltsome- bocly touching his shoulder, itnd heard a voice behind him saying: "Say, ol« man, you had better cover you ^heatl, for wherever the emperor notices a bald spot he'll surely build n church." Mark Twain, in his account of the German language, tells how "the in- telligen^t German plunges into a sea of vcrbiag-e and comes up on tho other side, like a doer, with his verb in his mouth." The same idea is illustrated in a story, told in tho Century, of a lady who once listened, through an interpreter, to a speech, made by Bismarck. All went well for a time, as the low voice of the pains-taking translator rendered with some adequacy tho thought of Bismarck. Then there were short pauses, followed by rapid little summaries of what had been said". As these grew more and more frequent, the lady became irritated. Finally there was an entire cassation on the part of the interpreter, and yet Bismarck was going right on with ever-increasing vehemence. There were constant calls from the lady of "What's he saying? Wliat's he saying?" and an increase of impatience proportionate to the growing violence of the speaker. Finally the wretched interpreter could stand the strain no longer, and, turning with a gesture of fierce resentmunt to his excited employer, he hissed: "Madam, I am waiting-for the verb'." Can You Solve This Puzzle Verio? ••A simple go-between am-I, Without a thought of pride; I part the gathered thoughts or men, And liberally divide. 1 set the soul of Shakespeare free, To Milton's thoughts give liberty, lild Sidney speak with freer speech, Let Spenser sing and Taylor preach. ThouEh through all learning swift I glide, No wisdom doth with me abide." If you can solve the foregoing, and send the correct answer to George H. Hea''ord, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Old Colony Building, Chicago, together with a two-cent stamp, he will send you what it calls for._ Riches sometimes fly away from the honest man and light on the perch erected by the other fellow. A. B. Stlckney, president of the Chicago Great Western Railway, has received the following cable from London: "London, December 7, 1898. A. B. Stlckney: Reported here that Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Rock Island & Pacific have given notice of boycott against Chicago Great Western Railway. Is It true, and what will it amount to?" Tho following is A. B. Stickney's answer: "Their last boycott increased the west-bound business of the Chicago Great Western Railway to Kansas City from loss than four to more than ten per cent. Too early to say how profitable the present boycott will be." _ About the time an elevator 1 ov gets a little way up in the world seme one is sure to call him down. VERY LO.W RATES. Vl» the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Hallway. Semi-monthly excursions to the Southwest. The greatest opportunity to visit Texas, the empire state of the union unparalleled as to resources and products ana with an area exceeding all the Eastern and Middle states. The statistical reports of products as compiled by the commissioners of .Texas indicate this section as having the greatest possible advantages in its mild and equable climate and in the variety and productiveness of its soil. For further information, descriptive pamphlet and dates of excursions, apply to T. B. Cookerly, D. P. A., Des Moines. Iowa. Zola. you come across the oceaftt Mister Zola, kindly say Wiat you haven't any notion That you'll give us all away. For we're quite disposed to mention, Mister Zola, sir, that we Do not like the strong attentl6n Which we might expect from the*. We're averse to feeing treated, Mister Zola, on the plan That our morals are all fetid In the social garbage can. While we know you are a wonder, Mister Zola, nnd a wit, If you soil us. well, by thunder) We shan't like It. sir, a bfc! —Cleveland Plalndoaler. "1 trader *ri»y fillups drinks sd touch?" "I've had an Idea that he does it to get the taste of his eonversAtion out of his mouth/ „___ Neversweat Nicodemus—Are you .a single man, Tolliver? Tattered Tolliver—Say, ef I wus double I'd be in a dime museum. Waiting. The Colonel—"Say, what have you got against our .congressman, anyway? I know he doesn't'belong to your party, but really he doesn't deserve all tho harsh things you say of him In your paper. I wonder If there will ever come a time, when you will be pleased to come out and say that he has done the right thing—when you will have a word of praise for him?" Editor of the Weekly Hidebound— "Oh, yes, I've got an article In type now, in which I praise him very highly; in which I say that he never did a dishonest thing in his life and ought to be numbered among our greatest men. He'll die some day and then I'll print it." Not Down to the Bottom. "You boast of your greater civilization!" exclaimed the Indian contemptuously. "Haven't we a right to?" "No, sir. The Indian has been dragged down by your influence, but he is still superior. He may drink Intoxicating liquor. But he doesn't smash the bottles on the ashphalt for bicycles to run over." World'i Supply of An English expert claims, that the wheat frdducing soil of tli6 tvdrld is nneqhal to the strain that will bS put upon it, Evefl now when the food supply is ample, thousands die because their disordered stomachs fail to digest the food they take, Hosteller's Stomach Bitters strengthen and tone tip the stomach and digestive organs. Speaking of fireworks, Da*id w,as the original giant cracker. Mud has a ten'dency to make the average laortfti melancholy. A woman loves her dog all the more when another dog whips it; n man will get rid of his. _' Save the wrappers around Diamond "C" Soap. They are worth money. . To make 1,000 watch movements by hand would cost $90,832; by machinery they are produced at an expense of 81.70U. _______ _ WAKTED-Cnse of bad lionlth thnt IMP/ \-N-8 will not, lictient. Send r< cento to Itlnnns Chctnlcnl Co., Now York, for 10 samples <in|l 1,000 testimonials, Isn't it strange how people can treat you coldly when they get hot at you? Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's BOIIB, of Atlnntn, Gu. The greatest dropsy RpecinllstB in the world. Reiul thoir advertisement in another column of this paper. You may laugh und grow fat yourself, but you must use corn for your hogs. TO C«ni5 A COliI> IN ONE DAT Tivlto Laxative Uromo Qutnlno Tablets. All ilniRKlsts refund Urn money If Jt falls to euro. Sic. Tho pi" tilt" 1 1'n.i T, >< o. on nach tablet. The mnii who is dissatisfied with his work is never happy. There is more Catarrh iti this section of the country tlia-i nil other diseases put together, and until tho last few years was supposed to bo incurable. For a grout many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and proscribed local remedies und by constantly failtiiK to cure with local trout- men t,, pronounced it incurable.. Science has proven Catarrh to bo n constitutional dis- OUBO und therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional cure on the market. It is tnkon internally in doses from lOdropstoutoiispoonfnl. It acts directly on tho blood und mucous surf noes of tho system. They offer ono hundred dollurs for uny case it fa'ils to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, . I- 1 . J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 7fic. Hull's Family Pills are tho heat. The sun's rays in winter are highly appreciated. _ ___ ' There's only one soap in tne world for me, That's the soap they call the Diamond "C." "Whftt ftre you tftfrkfog on asked of a rttfttt Who Is ftttfftyft ting tml »e»er indents. Nothing very big Just at pfejtefjt, I'm about edmdieting ft inethott for eAlculfttiritf compotma interest vWB ft rubber stamp." ' A cftlatdtiie of 300 prizes suitable to every tAste ftnd condition mailed »tt intinlf?, Prizes given for sftvitttf &'»* inond "C" Soap wrfcpperft, Address Cttdfthy SOftp Works, South Omthfy Nebraska. ^ A thief may take a thing easy, bttt he always takes it hard whett he » caught. _^^_ , We will forfeit $1,000 If any of onr t>t»b< lished testimonials are proven to be not genuine. TaBPisoOo.i Warren, Pa^ The expense of running an Atlantic* steamer for three years exceeds the cost of its construction. ___^, 4 > "A Perfect type of the Highest Ofdefof Excellence in Manufacture," Breakfast Absolutely Pure, Delicious, Nutritious. .Costs less TtianOHE CENT a Cup.. Dp sure that you get the Genuine Article, made at DORCHEStER, MASS, by \ WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd, ESTABLISHED 171)0. No Gontletnnn. It is always easy tor cry. a hypocrite to "They say that music stimulates the growth of the hair." "That's queer; whenever I slng.Har- ry grabs a whole lot of his hair out." atural Black is Produced by y ckingli a m 'sOyj ,',•::, |ts. of druggMs or R. P.Hall&Co..NMhu»,N.H. _ NEW DISCOVERY; ?i«j f and cures worst , PATENTS, CLAIMS. ^ CURE YQURIElh . Use IUg« for unnatural Meteorological Condition* Tried to Mitlco It. Up. "Waiter," said the bicyclist at the little country inn, "bring mo three eggs and boil them four minutes." Fifteen minutes elapse, and tho waiter returns with one egg. "Very sorry, sir, our eggs is out. This Is the only one we had left—but we boiled it twelve minutes, sir."— Harper's Bazar. CHKAVKHT DAILY IN THIS WOULD. •J'lio Dos Mr.lnoK DA11A' NtSWH is thu only dollar dully In tho wurlil. Its subscription prloo Is »1 n yeiiv. Td cents for six: mouths, 40 oontb for throo months, 25 cants a month. The dollar ruto has boon In furco over three yours, und Is no experiment, uudll Ims inorvuKod thoulranliii'.o i of iho NEWS to!!!l.40U. fur tho lamest of any lowtt dully. Tho DAILY NMWH Is u memlii'rof the Associated 1'ress. mid ulvcs it dully tclwrupMo mu k >t report, nud all tlionows oflowu u n 1t hu world, comluiiBod forbmy people. Its Hulnrdiiy Issuo contains attractive IIUKOB for women und uhlldren, und vulnublo literary manor. Tlio Saturday Issno Is ivlono worth tbo price oft ho paper. He up with the Union, road it dully paper and keep poslod. Address. TU15 NKWB, Des Mollies, Iowa. After marriage a girl becomes too economical to cry on her husband's coat collar. $fs.OO PER WEEK. We will pay a salary of $15 per week for man with rig to introduce Perfection Poultry Mixture In the country the greatest egg producer on earth Addfess with stamp. Perfection Mfg Co.. Parsons, Kansas. Ilope for the future is a tacit admis sion of evil in the present. Dr. Soth Arnold's Cough Killer In an excellent remedy fi.r children. Mru. Wm.M. Frogue, Columbus, Kim. 25c. u bottle. The fireplace is the nicest corner now at nights. Diploma and lirarded Chl««go Sole Co. for b».t Stock ud Hi; Bcalti at OmtbnKipo. iltton. Official Beslei Stock FiiTlllim, World'! K.lr, Chlcuo, 180*. Hrqnlre us pit. BUetVramm, Iron for Btotk BM!«| H«ktlnl "«cki. 8e«l«« for all pnrpoui. Hnt JOIll ITItill91 Qnilltjr. Lowell Prlc.i. Warranted. AUutt Wholesale PrleMi S«wln» Haehliei, Bafei, lllcjelei, llUck.mllb.' Tool.,Feed Btlli,Corn Sb«lleri.Bngliiei,Bollenl, Plow.,Seratien, Wire rente,Slorei,Baddlei,Harne»,Ba|r(tei ( 8lel»h« and tmndredi ofn.cful artlelei. Catalog free. Addma iUlCiei) BCiLK CO., B90 Jatkion Boulttard, Chleno, HI. Wheat Wheat Wheaf "Nothing but -whent as far as the eye could reach on either side: what you might call a sea of wheat," was what a lecturer speaking of Western Canada said while referring to that country. For particulars as to routes, railway fares, etc., apply to CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AGENT, Department Interior, Ottawa, Canada,or to N. Bartholomew, «00 Fifth Street, Des Moinos, Iowa. .' STRANGE BUT TRUE You onn get a Gold AVatch worth 115.00, warranted for live yeurs, (Ladles'orOentv) for 25 cts. For partlculari) address with stamp HOLBROOK & McNAMARA, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. $20 A WEEK, steady emp'ioyment, solltne Peerless Flavoring Powders. Goods guaranteed. 10W* SDfPlT OQ.,Har»luJUoWB.I>. DR, KAY'S LUNG W. N. L). Des Moines. Mo 52.—1898. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Taper. _ It is easier to tell a fool by his laugh than any other way. _ Go South ThlH Winter. For tie present winter season tlib Louisville & Nashville Kailroad Company has improved its already nearly perfect through service of Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mobile, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Thomasville, Ga., Pensacola, Jacksonville, Tampa, Palm Bcacn and other points in Florida. Perfect connection will be made with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto IJico, Nassau and West Indian ports. Tourist and Home- Seekers' excvirsion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., fqr particulars. _ A man should associate with his or live alone. Never Swore. "Witness," wild the cross-examining lawyer, "are you willing to swear that the- prisoner was smoking a pipe at the time?" "No, sir," replied the witness, "I never swear. But I am willing to bet you £5 to a shilling that he was."— London Punch. p'EWEY'S PROJECTILES So do the pains of N EU R ALGI A* So docs ST. JACOBS OIL. _^__ Pain surrenders —subdued, knocked out, and captured Same Thine. "I understand that she had an uncle who committed suicide." "Well, yes, you might call It that. He stole a horse out in Arizona." A Question of 8, "A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL BARGAIN." MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES SAPOLIO "What is a green Christmas, M "A g green Christmas? Wl»y, H time Uen a |ty ««»• »ta« * and only P»e bos of c PI50' C "Ever try tfectrlejty for yow J«e b? " " b< " l in* [Ho}t<l»y JSxcurslous. Excursion tickets will be sold at all stations on the North-Western line (C. & N. W. R'y, C. St. P. M. & 0. R'y, S. 0. & P. R'y and F. E. & M. V. R. R.) to all other points on this system and on. tbe Union Pacific RaUvoad, within 200 miles of the gelling atatlop, at greatly reduced rates, Pecember W, 25, 26 ana 31. 1898, an,d January 1 a»4 ?, 18,99, gppri wtn January *. J899. Apply to agents OWca&Q &, North-Western tor |«U particulars. There''s nothing Buf(i|oh In a Tourist Sleeping Gar W ^^^^^ mm Personally conducted — vh the Burlington RouK —that's the way to go to California, Why F Because you don't change car? j you make fas? tinaej you, tee the fiuebt scenery on the globe. Your car in not w expensively finished nor w fine to look at as a pa)»ce sleeper, but it i« just as clean, just as comfortable, just as goox} rife in. ANO Every
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During its 13-year history, Manchukuo used to have two national anthems.
Anthem from 1933
The first national anthem was adopted on February 24, 1933 . The lyrics author is the first Prime Minister of Manchukuo, Zheng Xiaoxu. The composer is unknown
Anthem from 1942
On September 5, 1942, the same Manchukuo Prime Minister, Zheng Xiaoxu wrote a new lyrics, more focused on Japan. The anthem's melody was composed by the Japanese conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic, Kosaku Yamada. The anthem also had a its Japanese version. |
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Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is a music producer from London, England. Ronson has released two albums. His first, released in 2003, was mainly hip hop music. His second, in 2007, featured British singers and musicians performing many different genres and styles.
Early life
Ronson's mother, Ann Dexter-Jones, is a writer, and his father used to work in the music industry. He has two twin sisters, Charlotte and Samantha. Samantha is also a musical artist, and a well known LA DJ.
Charlotte is a well known clothing designer and owns several clothing stores.
Ronson's family are ethnically Jewish.
Ronson became interested in hip hop when he moved to New York City, aged 8. He went New York University, and became a popular DJ in New York during the 1990s.
Albums
Ronson's first album was called Here Comes the Fuzz, a hip hop album featuring artists such as Ghostface Killah. It was released in 2003. It reached #70 in the music charts.
His second album, Version, was more successful. It sold more, and was nominated for a number of awards. It featured lead vocals by the likes of Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, and others famous British singers too. Jordan Galland, an American musican also contributed to it. The artists performed cover songs, (which means the songs were new 'versions' of old songs - the word "version" was originally used in this context by the Reggae scene) but what made this second album stand out was the return to the use of professional arrangers and a full brass section. At a time when other producers such as Timbaland had made a name for themselves by producing simple stripped down backing beats, the sound was a complete change of direction. The brass section that Ronson used was the Dap-Kings who usually performed with Sharon Jones. It reached #2 in the British charts.
Other websites
MarkRonson.co.uk Official home page
MySpace.com/MarkRonson Ronson's MySpace page |
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Vanessa Vaccaro McMahon, Catering Manager for PRIME at the Plaza, joined Mazzone Hospitality in March of 2014. Vanessa knew early working as a Restaurant and Bar Supervisor that Special Events were her passion. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelors in Restaurant and Food Management, Vanessa worked for 10 years at the University at Albany in sales and was eventually promoted to Director of Catering with Compass Group. Most recently, she worked with Interstate Hotels as Group Rooms Sales Manager. A natural people person at heart, she loves meeting and working with new groups. Vanessa coordinates new and current catering events for all facets of PRIME at the Plaza. In her personal time, while her first love is her family and friends, she enjoys; reading, baking and a secret indulgence of Reality TV now and then!
Matt Joyce, Executive Chef for PRIME at the Plaza, joined the Prime Business Dining team in 2014 and was recently promoted from Sous Chef in early 2015. He began his career in Hospitality at the Beverwyck (Northeast Health-Sodexho) while attending the University at Albany. He quickly found a passion for the craft and the hard work rewarding. After pursuing his culinary degree from Schenectady County Community College in 2002, Matt has held chef positions at Scrimshaw at the Desmond, Normanside Country Club, and Hidden Café. Having experience in all facets of the food service industry: health care, hotel, private club, and independently owned, Matt has developed a strong guest service objective "treat everyone like they are your mother". When not in the kitchen, Matt is especially grateful to have 8 nieces and nephews who provide constant entertainment and are always up for a game of kickball. When not with his family, Matt is shadowed by his canine companion, Ted!
Take the NYS Thruway (I-87) North to Exit 23. After the toll, follow to I-787 North. Take Exit 3 and follow the signs to Empire State Plaza. Merge onto S Mall Arterial.
Take the Northway (I-87) South. Use Exit 7 (NY-7 East). Continue on NY-& East and take 787 South Exit. Use exit 3A (Empire Plaza). Keep right following signs for Empire State Plaza and merge onto S Mall Arterial.
Take the NYS Thruway (I-90) East to Exit 24. After the toll, continue to follow signs for I-90 East to I-787 South. Use Exit 3 (Empire Plaza). Keep right following signs for Empire State Plaza and merge onto S Mall Arterial.
Take I-90 West to I-787 South. Use Exit 3 (Empire Plaza). Keep right following signs for Empire State Plaza and merge onto S Mall Arterial.
- Use V-Lot (also known as P3 North) on your right as you exit from 787. *Depending on the day of the week and time of the day, there may be a charge for parking. *Please note, parking is refunded if you are parked for less than 1 hour on weekdays.
- Instead of turning right in the V-Lot, you may continue straight to access street parking. There are two options to access street parking, take a right at the fork in the road (shortly after the V-Lot) to go toward South Swan Street and Capitol Building (State Street). Alternatively, take a left at the fork toward South Parking. Turn right into P3 South lot, then through the tunnel on the left. The road will turn to the right and go uphill to Madison Avenue.
In any case, The Cornerstone (formerly know as Sign of the Tree) is accessible from V-Lot, from the Empire State Plaza Concourse, and from the street.
- From the V-Lot, after you go through the second booth (to pay for entry), take a right at the end of the aisle. Continue are far as you can without going through additional gates (permit parking only). Follow signage and turn left before you get to this gate. Look for signage for "Mazzone Hospitality." Take elevator #28 directly into the Restaurant on level 2. - From the Concourse, go to the end of the hallway between McDonald's and the State Police with signage for Cornerstone and the East Parking Garage. Take elevator #28 on the right to the second floor
- From the street level, the Cornerstone if is between the Egg and Corning Tower.
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Sit Down Dinner Counts with Dance Floor :100 people max
Sit Down Dinner Counts :150 people max
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Brach is a commune. It is found in the region Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France.
Communes in Gironde |
Flora & Fauna explains Crystal Deodorants
Author: F&F Date Posted:16 September 2015
One of the most important things you can do when changing your skin care and lifestyle routine is to switch your deodorant from the traditional variety to a natural deodorant. This article focuses on crystal deodorants and how to use them.
Crystal Deodorants are all natural and aim to neutralise the bacteria on the skin which causes odour and that nasty BO smell. Note they are not an antiperspirant, they leave a thin mineral layer on the skin to help form a barrier to the odour and neutralise it. Mineral salts are a natural element that your body is accustomed to processing and rarely causes any type of allergic reaction. Crystal Deodorants don't leave a residue, don't stain your clothes and are mostly unscented. Crystal deodorants can last a long time and one stick could last you a year so they are very cost effective. And, very importantly they are not tested on animals so are completely cruelty-free!
- All natural, no nasty chemicals
- Work by neutralising the bacteria on the skin
- No residue and no staining
- No animal testing
- They last a long time
How to Use it?
Crystal deodorants need water to apply the mineral to the skin and there are a few ways you can do this. You could apply the crystal straight after showering when you are still wet. You could also put a couple of drops of water on the crystal and apply to the skin. This leaves a thin mineral layer on the skin which helps neutralise odour. Some people suggest you need to rub the crystal on your skin until it rubs dry so the salts are left behind. We suggest you try it and find what works for you.
- Apply when your body is wet after showering
- Or put some water on the crystal and apply
- Some suggest rubbing the crystal over your skin constantly until it is dry and the minerals are left behind
- Yes you can apply it to other parts of the body, not just under your arms
What other tips do you have?
- Your body is excreting waste so whatever goes in has to come out. If you want to minimise the smell eat clean which will really help. If you are constantly eating processed fast food it isn't going to smell great on the way out!
- Give your body time. Your body has to get used to not having traditional deodorants and it takes time so don't give up in the first week.
- Have natural perfume by your desk, or in your bag, to spritz yourself during the day - believe me this will help.
- Have some wipes at work with you if you want to freshen up, particularly whilst your body is in transition.
- Stick with it as this is one of the most important treats you can give your body.
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Juvigny, Aisne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Communes in Aisne |
Anthem. Mayor Ruben Pineda read a Proclamation acknowledging the auspices occasion.
In his message to municipalities across the state, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner wrote, “The Bicentennial is a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to fall in love with Illinois all over again. It is an opportunity to celebrate all that has been great in our first 200 years and lay the foundation for 200 more years of growth and prosperity. Illinois is home, and the Bicentennial gives us a chance to reflect on what makes it great and how we can continue to make it great for our children and grandchildren.”
Governor Rauner’s hope is that the Flag Raising Ceremony in cities across the state will be the kickoff to a yearlong celebration which showcases all that is great about Illinois.
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Siegmund Nissel (January 3, 1922 - May 21, 2008) was aBritish violinist who played second violin in the famous Amadeus Quartet.
Siegmund (Sigi) Nissel was born in Munich to a Jewish family from Vienna. He began playing the violin at the age of 6. His mother died when he was 9. He was taken by his father to Vienna, where his teachers included Max Weissgarber. Soon the political situation became dangerous for Jews in Austria and so, in 1938, the young Nissel was sent from Vienna to Great Britain.
When World War II started Nissel was interned on the Isle of Man. There he met the violinist Peter Schidlof and later Norbert Brainin. They played a lot of music together. Then they were set free because they were talented musicians. They studied with the famous violin teacher Max Rostal. There they met the British cellist, Martin Lovett whose wife was a pupil of Rostal. The four men played string quartets together, with Peter Schidlof now playing viola. At first they called themselves the Brainin Quartet, but then Nissel had the idea of the name Amadeus Quartet (Amadeus being one of Mozart's names).
The Amadeus Quartet (which their friends often called the Wolf Gang), gave its first concert in the Wigmore Hall, London in 1948. The hall was full and hundreds of people were turned away. After this concert they were invited to perform all over the world. They became the most famous string quartet group of their time. They made about 200 recordings. They were especially known for playing quartets by the great classical composers Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, but they also played works by 20th-century composers such as Bartok and Benjamin Britten (who wrote his third quartet for them).
Nissel was the one who organized all the business side for the group.
When Schidlof died from a heart attack in 1987, the Amadeus Quartet no longer existed. Nissel became a well-known teacher of young quartets at the Royal Academy of Music.
Although he had an operation for a brain tumour in 1960 and also a heart bypass he lived to the age of 86. He was a family man who had a wife, son, daughter and three grandchildren. He had many honours including an OBE (1970), and honorary doctorates from York University and the Royal Academy of Music
Further reading
Muriel Nissel, Married to the Amadeus: Life with a String Quartet, [], Giles de la Mare Publishers Limited, 1998 (a memoir of her "marriage" to the Amadeus by Nissel's wife) |
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Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Merseburg-Querfurt and Saalkreis as part of the boundary changes of 2007.
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Our event with Which? Can Consumers Trust Business? takes place tomorrow (Wednesday 25 February).
Television business journalist Stephanie McGovern will be chairing as our panel of senior figures answer trust-in-business questions, including some we’ve already received and recorded.
The panel will be - David Bird (Customer Operations Director, E.ON), Katja Hall (CBI Deputy Director-General), Richard Lloyd (Executive Director, Which?) and Andrew Miller (Guardian Media Group Chief Executive).
Here are more of the questions people have raised:
- Via which.co.uk
What can the CBI do to alter the negative ‘Rip off Britain’ image to something more positive?
I should … ask why businesses only ever ask my views (by a real person) when I’m phoning to cancel an account?
Will they listen to customer concerns and provide an apology when they’ve made errors?
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Why aren’t you better at keeping me informed through the ordering and buying process?
I would like increased disclosure around profit margins?
Why don’t you put values ahead of profits?
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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport runs the public transport for the Strathclyde area of western Scotland. This includes the Glasgow Subway.
Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive set up in 1972. In 1983 it was replaced by the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive. In 1996 it became the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority. It turned into Strathclyde Partnership for Transport in 2006, and is now responsible for planning all regional transport. |
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Last week, the former Major League Baseball player Aubrey Huff announced on Twitter that he was no longer going to wear a mask inside any business. “It’s unconstitutional to enforce,” he wrote. “Let’s make this bullshit stop now! Who’s with me?” In a video that went viral the following day, he said his critics had tried to shame him for “threatening the lives of millions of innocent people” and insisted that he considered dying from the coronavirus preferable to “wearing a damn mask.”
Thousands of people responded to Huff. Many called him a social disgrace for disrespecting his community, abdicating his civic duty, and putting Grandma at risk. The anger toward mask naysayers is understandable, and shaming can feel relieving in the moment. Yet those responses did nothing to persuade Huff to wear a mask. Instead, they played right into his notions about the finger-wagging, “elitist” public-health experts who want to take away the freedoms of ordinary Americans.
During a health crisis, some people quickly accommodate a major shift in behavioral norms. But long-standing habits—such as not wearing a mask to the grocery store—are difficult to break, and until recently few American adults have been called upon to do so. Some have, though, and the parallels are instructive..
The public-health messaging around masks during the coronavirus pandemic has been muddled and confusing. The federal government recommended against face coverings for the public in March, with some public-health officials positing that they may even cause more harm than good. But a growing body of science, including evidence that people can transmit the virus when they don’t have symptoms, indicates that masks are an important tool for mitigating coronavirus transmission, especially in combination with physical distancing, hand hygiene, and other preventive strategies. Indeed, public-health concerns may justify mask mandates in some settings, including indoor spaces where many people gather for extended periods of time. But mandates have major downsides: Any enforcement is likely to disproportionately affect communities that are already marginalized, and some Americans—including some elected leaders in states facing serious coronavirus outbreaks—believe that requiring people to wear masks is an infringement on civil liberties. In practice, if Americans are going to mask up, public-health officials will have to cajole, not compel.
This will not be easy. When the president mocks mask wearers for appearing weak and sees face coverings as a political statement against him, it’s no surprise that some Americans are loudly declining to wear them. Mask refusers are more likely to be politically conservative, an ominous trend when new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are increasing steeply in some red states—the very states where mask mandates are least likely to be adopted. As one research team noted, men are especially likely to opt out of wearing masks, believing them to be “shameful,” “a sign of weakness,” and “not cool”—even though men are at higher risk than women of dying from coronavirus infection. A similar pattern has emerged during prior pandemics and across other areas of health: Men—especially those who endorse traditional masculine gender norms—have been less likely than women to engage in protective health behaviors.
But even macho men like Huff, whose Twitter bio declares, “I support Toxic Masculinity,” aren’t immune to public-health advice: In his video, he appears to be wearing a seatbelt. Yet unlike a seatbelt, which directly benefits the user, masks primarily protect everyone else, particularly people who are older or have underlying health conditions that make them vulnerable to the coronavirus. Huff seems to understand this; he just thinks those people should “stay the fuck home.” As Representative Tom Rice, a South Carolina Republican, told The Wall Street Journal after refusing to wear a mask on the House floor and contracting the coronavirus, “A mask doesn’t really protect you as much as it protects other people. I don’t think it would have made much of a difference.” The message seems to have gotten across that masks are mainly about protecting others; these men are simply choosing not to do so.
Still, trying to shame people into healthier behavior generally doesn’t work—and actually can make things worse.
Public-health professionals have learned this lesson before. In 1987, Congress banned the use of federal funds for HIV-prevention campaigns that might “promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities.” As a result, public-health campaigns avoided sex-positive imagery and messaging, and instead associated condom use with virtue and condomless sex with irresponsibility, disease, and death. According to one particularly foreboding poster, which featured an image of a gravestone: “A bad reputation isn’t all you can get from sleeping around.” But those moralistic, fear-mongering health messages often fell flat. Other HIV-prevention campaigns began to adopt a harm-reduction approach, which empathizes with people’s basic human needs and offers them strategies to limit potential dangers. For some men, condoms got in the way of what they valued most about sex: pleasure and intimacy. Not surprisingly, HIV-prevention campaigns that put pleasure and intimacy at the center of their safer-sex messaging tended to work.
Summoning compassion for people who have a hard time wearing masks, or even the people who flat-out object to them, isn’t such a tall order. Many Americans genuinely want to keep their community safe, and recognize that masks reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission. But just like the well-intended condom on the nightstand that never makes it out of its wrapper, some masks don’t make it onto someone’s face—often for relatable reasons. And while ideologues who entirely eschew masks will be less persuadable, people who support the use of masks may find shared ground with them. Lamenting the way that face coverings impede social interactions with the cashiers ringing up his groceries, Huff says, “The two ladies that were checking me out were wearing these masks. And I love to make people like that smile and laugh and have a great conversation. You couldn’t even see the wrinkles in their eyes with their smiles. They looked so beat-down and run-down.”
Let’s be real: Americans are beat-down and run-down after months of loss and social isolation. Masks do keep people from seeing facial expressions and hearing voices clearly, both vital elements of social connection. Masks don’t deprive people of oxygen, but they do make it harder to breathe freely. They fog up people’s glasses. They make noses itch and faces sweat. Many masks feel decidedly uncool. They are yet another thing to remember when walking out the front door. And, most of all, masks are a constant reminder of what Americans so desperately want to forget: that despite all of our sacrifices, the pandemic hasn’t gone anywhere.
Empathy has its own kind of power. Acknowledging what people dislike about a public-health strategy enables a connection with them rather than alienating them further. And when the barriers are understood, they become addressable. When it became clear that people needed better condoms, companies began making them in all different shapes, sizes, and styles—ribbed, studded, impossibly thin, even glow-in-the-dark—to improve comfort, sensation, and people’s sense of individuality. Likewise, the government needs to support businesses in developing masks that are not only effective, but also fit well and feel good. People need a range of options, including face shields, that can help meet their personal needs and preferences. And people need face coverings that make them feel stylish, cool, and—yes—even manly.
When the public-health community talks about harm reduction, we often talk of “meeting people where they are.” A fundamental part of that is, well, literally meeting people where they are. Just like the buckets of free condoms stationed in gay bars, masks need to be dispensed where they’re needed most: at the front of every bus and the entrance to every airport, grocery store, and workplace. Masks should become ubiquitous, but distribution should begin in areas where the coronavirus has hit hardest, including black and Latino neighborhoods. (That black men who wear masks may be at heightened risk of violence is one more grim illustration of why combatting racism is inextricable from public health.) What matters most is that people choose to wear a mask when they are indoors or in close proximity to others—and that choice needs to be rendered as effortless as possible.
The decision of whether to wear a mask is a far more visible one than the decision of whether to wear a condom, making an individual’s choice to go without an easy target for scorn. But trying to shame people into wearing masks will only cement their resistance—and perhaps even drive them to socialize behind closed doors, where being unmasked is higher risk. Public health works best when it recognizes and supports people’s needs and desires without judgment. If Americans do this right, Huff might even find that his wearing a mask is the very thing that makes those checkout ladies smile.
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Eva Fodor Nolding (November 9, 1919 - December 10, 2017), known professionally as Eva Todor was a Hungarian-born Brazilian actress. She was born in Budapest, Hungary. She emigrated to Brazil in 1929.
Todor was best known for her television roles in Roque Santeiro, Locomotivas, Partido Alto, Olho no Olho, O Cravo e a Rosa, America, India A Love Story, Salve Jorge and in As Brasileiras. Her movie roles include Os Dois Ladroes, Xuxa Abracadabra and Meu Nome Nao E Johnny.
Todor died in Rio de Janeiro on December 10, 2017 of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease at the age of 98. |
Launch of Practice Questions
It has been some time since I have written on my blog. I was thinking of how to help all the aspirants of these exams. When I prepared for the SSCP and the CISSP exams, I found that there was a dearth of FREE practice questions on the internet. Hence, it is a humble attempt by me to ensure that you get a lot of practice questions to practice for FREE. I have not segregated the questions by any exams. It is imperative that you attempt the question irrespective of the fact that whether it is easy or difficult. The practice questions will be updated every week. Looking forward to your support and comments to improve the content on this website. I'm also working on the video course for SSCP which will be uploaded in a few days. |
Clark County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 3,837 people lived there. Its county seat is Clark. It was created in 1873. |
The World Financial Group-sponsored Nanaimo Clippers of the BCHL took to the ice recently for two contests.
The first game, on Wed., Jan. 20, had the WFG-sponsored hockey team visiting the Victoria Clippers. Despite 30 Nanaimo shots on goal, Victoria blanked the Clippers 2-0. Goalie Loic Boivin was named the Second Star of the Game for blocking all of Victoria’s 17 shots on goal in the first period and 36 total shots in the game.
Nanaimo returned to the friendly confines of Frank Crane Arena on Fri., Jan. 22 to take on the Cowichan Valley Capitals. Although Clippers’ goalie Loic Boivin shut the Caps out of the third period, the Capitals had already scored a goal in both the first and second periods. While Nanaimo’s forward Teal Burns scored in the second period on a power play, the Caps won this one 2-1 in front of 1,621 Clippers fans. Burns was named the Second Star of the Game.
The WFG-sponsored Nanaimo Clippers have a busy week ahead of them. Tuesday sees the Clippers visiting the Capitals. The next night, the Prince George Spruce Kings visit Frank Crane Arena. Then the team hit the road on Friday against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs and another trip to Victoria on Saturday. Go Clippers! |
is a Japanese martial art.
History
Kendo means the "way of the sword". The rules and gear of kendo were first created in the 18th century, and its modern rules and styles date to the 19th century.
Rules
An opponent may be struck at seven places: both sides and top of helmet (men), on either hand (gloves, kote) or either side of the body breastplate (do). There is also one legal thrust (tsuki) on throat.
The "men" can only be struck from face, not from back. However, only one of the two hands can be struck, it depends on which kind of posture("kamae") your opponent are using. A struck to the right side of body(one kind of "do") will often be ignored by referee because in the old days samurai will have a smaller sword in this position, which gives this position a good protection. Very important, because "tsuki" is somehow dangerous, junior practicer perform "tsuki" is forbidden both in match and daily training.
In a match, the attacker must name the location of each strike. Often, name these locations by Japanese list before("men","kote","do","tsuki"), but some people will name it by Korean or Chinese or other language, or even a meaningless shout. All these kinds of shout name "kiai". An effective attack must contains "kiai" besides other essential factors.
Equipment
The weapon used in kendo is a bamboo sword, called shinai. The kendo armour, which the players must wear, is called bogu and is made of a helmet (men), breastplate (do), waist protector (tare), and special gloves (kote).
Lesson contents
Lesson is called keiko in kendo. keiko means that We think about past. kendo's keiko is distinguished between shinai keiko and kata keiko. the building which we do kendo is called dojyo. In particular keiko done in summer is shochugeiko and one done in winter is kangeiko.
shinaikeiko
keiko which use shinai and bogu
suburi (waiving sword many times to improve your muscle)
kirikaeshi (Striking partner's men consecutively and confirming sword handling)
uchikomi keiko (Training basic strike like men, kote, doetc.)
oikomi keiko
kakari geiko (Striking where partner show a plow as many as possible in time)
ji geiko
shiai geiko
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If you were a policymaker looking to reduce unemployment, what would you do?
The answer we've heard has been to spend more and more money, borrowing from the future to (hopefully) regain output today. While we have seen the economy recover -- output is higher now than it was just prior to the Great Recession -- employment has not. The economy has been able to do more with 5% less people, as productivity gains have erased some of the need for hiring. If we had a stronger recovery, we would have been able to rehire more people and absorb new entrants to the labor force, while those productivity gains would have given us better standards of living.
We've had quite a big effort of government involvement to make this a stronger recovery. During election season, we might view some arguments with skepticism. As we discuss these economic topics, note that I am addressing this as an economist who is looking at data objectively and without a political agenda.
Recent research by Valerie A. Ramey in "Government Spending and Private Activity," published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, comes down firmly on the side that government spending reduces private sector activity vs. what it would be otherwise and that government spending reduces unemployment mostly to the extent the government hires those workers itself.
Ramey's research looks back over the period just prior to World War II to the present, so it's not focused on just the current downturn. Only one time period jumps out when government spending really seemed to have worked to meaningfully reduce unemployment and that was during WWII. Then, very strong productivity gains may have benefited economic fundamentals and perhaps some of this was due to patriotism. This period followed the Great Depression and the war effort was largely credited for putting many people back to work.
But other than that time period, Ramey concludes that "(o)n balance government spending does not appear to stimulate private activity." She also finds that this is independent of any tax-rate changes on the spending multiplier. Previous arguments, particularly those of Christina Romer, who was previously Chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, had vigorously made the call that the multiplier -- the ripple effects of government spending that expands overall activity by an even greater amount than the funds spent -- was sufficiently large enough to justify the spending. Some numbers that were used for the multiplier previously had been around 1.5 or so, meaning that a dollar in government spending would increase total economic output by $1.50.
Ramey's research debunks that notion. She determined that the multiplier is generally significantly less than one, meaning that a dollar in government spending reduces private activity by an even greater amount, which means that total economic activity would be less with the government spending than without. She also finds that government spending increases government payrolls, reducing unemployment, but doesn't push the private sector to hire.
Ramey avoids all policy considerations and the research is missing a crucial element, forcing one to hypothesize.
One point is that government spending essentially reallocates from either taxpayers who can afford to pay more taxes to those who cannot or from future taxpayers to the citizens of today. In that regard, it can add to uncertainty about future taxes and spending and lessen business investment and consumer confidence.
But I would make an exception for investments in technology, infrastructure and education. These can improve private sector productivity and enhance profits, outputs and our standards of living. The interstate highway system is a good example of where the government accomplished what the private sector might not have done.
Another big issue is simply cause and effect, or impulse-response, if you prefer that terminology. It is easy to simply assume that government spending is a cause, or an impulse, and that private sector economic activity is the effect, or response. It's just not that simple. One possible consideration might be that the cause behind both the need for government spending and the lack of private sector activity are the same. In other words, private sector activity may go lacking not because of government spending, but because there are other pernicious forces at work in the economy.
One also can't prove the counterfactual that during those periods of severe economic conditions whether or not private sector demand would have fallen by even more without government spending? The economy is complex and it is almost impossible to model every variable, much less do so accurately. But more government spending is probably not the answer.
Instead, we need a thoughtful approach and not heated political rhetoric going into election season. And not every good idea involves big sums of money. |
Brent Eleigh is a village and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England. In 2001, there were 174 people living in Brent Eleigh. |
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Govindpuri is located in South Delhi near Kalkaji and Okhla. Earlier there was a Cemetery at this place. It was redeveloped around 50-60 years ago. It has a Metro station by the same name Govindpuri. The violet line of Delhi Metro passes around this area. Govindpuri is situated on a small hilly area name Tuglakabad which was earlier a part of a Cemetery.
Constituency
Lok Sabha Constituency
Govindpuri comes under South Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency).The MP of the area is Ramesh Bidhuri.
Vidhan Sabha Constituency
It comes under Kalkaji Delhi Assembly Constituency. The MLA of the area is Atishi Marlena.
Places to shop
Vishal Megamart
Rampuri Market
Educational Institutes
The Small Wonder Play School Govind Puri, Kalkaji
Acharya Narendra Dev College Dlhi University |
Fired US Attorneys, revealing emails, testimony before Congress, & pleading the 5th, oh my! This Law.com article has key details:
"Taking the Fifth Amendment is everybody's right. But it's a choice that can send up a red flag, often invoked by people who have something to hide. Think of Enron's Andrew Fastow and Iran-Contra's Oliver North.
"So when Monica Goodling said last week that she would refuse to talk to Congress about the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, it was hard not to wonder what this 33-year-old party loyalist may have done wrong.
"Her pre-emptive move (Congress has yet to issue a subpoena) immediately raised questions, innuendo and gossip: Was she trying to avoid incriminating herself in a crime (and if so, what crime?), or, as her attorneys claimed, was she merely afraid that in the 'perilous' partisan environment, even an innocent witness could end up in trouble?
"Some D.C. defense lawyers remain puzzled by Goodling's strategy. Few would publicly criticize her, but some said that the decision ultimately draws more attention to Goodling instead of her superiors, who are ultimately Congress' target."
What do you think about this whole situation? |
Betty Jane Bierce (August 7, 1918 - May 21, 2014), better known by her stage name Jane "Poni" Adams, was an American actress. Her career lasted from 1942 until 1953. Her best known role was as Nina in the movie House of Dracula (1945).
Adams was born in San Antonio, Texas. She received a full scholarship to Juilliard, which she later turned down to become model and later an actress.
Adams was married to Thomas Turnage from 1945 until his death in 2000. The couple had two children.
Adams died from natural causes on May 21, 2014 in Palm Desert, California, aged 95. |
Nigerian women on Tuesday, 19 November, 2019, gave a standing ovation to Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as his administration was announced winner of the 2019 Voice of Women (VOW) Award in the capital city Abuja.
The award followed the Governor’s recent nomination of nine women as members of his cabinet and another woman, Mrs Folashade Omoniyi, as chairperson of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service, among others.
The Kwara State Government won the ‘Government Agency Supporting Women and their Families’ category of the prestigious award at the 4th VOW Conference held at the Nigerian Air Force Conference Centre Abuja.
AbdulRazaq received the award on behalf of the Government, pledging to do more to support the women and girl child and charged Women to deliver.
Attended by various international organisations, First Ladies from across the states and prominent Nigerians, First Lady Aisha Buhari also organisers cited AbdulRazaq as a “living example of every woman’s aspiration who has done what no other public servant has done for women in Nigeria”.
First Lady Aisha Buhari and wife of the Ekiti State Governor Erelu Bisi Fayemi got the audience to give the Governor a standing ovation for his courage and support to the women and child.
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The award is the latest in the series of countrywide acknowledgment of AbdulRazaq as a great supporter of women empowerment and gender parity — a key focus of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
Heidi Alexander (born 17 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East since the 2010 general election. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015. She resigned from the shadow cabinet on 26 June 2016. |
"Complexity" seems to be a lot like "energy": you can transfer it from the end user to one/some of the other players, but the total amount seems to remain pretty much constant for a given task. -- Ran
About this document.
Definitions.
Lexical Analysis
Encoding.
Indentation!
Identifiers & Keywords. and en-dash (Unicode point U+2013).
String literals.
Triple quoted string literals"
Raw string literals.
Generalized raw string literals.
Operators the two tokens * and : (to support var v*: T).
Other tokens
The following strings denote other tokens:
` ( ) { } [ ] , ; [. .] {. .} (. .)
The slice operator .. takes precedence over other tokens that contain a dot: {..} are the three tokens {, .., } and not the two tokens {., .}.
Syntax
This section lists Nim's standard syntax. How the parser handles the indentation is already described in the Lexical Analysis section.
Nim allows user-definable operators. Binary operators have 11 different levels of precedence.
Associativity)
Precedence.
Strong spaces
The number of spaces preceding a non-keyword operator affects precedence if the experimental parser directive #?strongSpaces is used. Indentation is not used to determine the number of spaces. If 2 or more operators have the same number of preceding spaces the precedence table applies, so 1 + 3 * 4 is still parsed as 1 + (3 * 4), but 1+3 * 4 is parsed as (1+3) * 4:
#? strongSpaces if foo+4 * 4 == 8 and b&c | 9 ++ bar: echo "" # is parsed as if ((foo+4)*4 == 8) and (((b&c) | 9) ++ bar): echo ""
Furthermore whether an operator is used a prefix operator is affected by the number of spaces:
#? strongSpaces echo $foo # is parsed as echo($foo)
This also affects whether [], {}, () are parsed as constructors or as accessors:
#? strongSpaces echo (1,2) # is parsed as echo((1,2))
Only 0, 1, 2, 4 or 8 spaces are allowed to specify precedence and it is enforced that infix operators have the same amount of spaces before and after them. This rules does not apply when a newline follows after the operator, then only the preceding spaces are considered.
Grammar | 'addr' | 'type' indexExpr = expr indexExprList = indexExpr ^+ comma ^+ ';' | simpleExpr ('=' expr (';' complexOrSimpleStmt ^+ ';' )? )? | (':' expr)? (',' (exprColonEqExpr comma?)*)? )?WithPragma = identVis doBlocks = doBlock ^* IND{=} procExpr = 'proc' paramListColon pragmas? ('=' COMMENT? stmt)? distinct = 'distinct' optInd typeDesc expr = (ifExpr | whenExpr | caseExpr | tryExpr) / simpleExpr typeKeyw = 'var' | 'ref' | 'ptr' | 'shared' | 'tuple' | 'proc' | 'iterator' | 'distinct' | 'object' | 'enum' primary = typeKeyw typeDescK / prefixOperator* identOrLiteral primarySuffix* / 'static' primary / 'bind' primary typeDesc = simpleExpr typeDefAux = simpleExpr | 'concept' typeClass macroColon = ':' stmt? ( IND{=} 'of' exprList ':' stmt | IND{=} 'elif' expr ':' stmt | IND{=} 'except' exprList ':' stmt | IND{=} 'else' ':' stmt )* exprStmt = simpleExpr (( '=' optInd expr ) / (')? symbol typeClass = typeClassParam ^* ',' (pragma)? ('of' typeDesc ^* ',')? &IND{>} stmt typeDef = identWithPragma genericParamList? '=' optInd typeDefAux indAndComment? varTuple = '(' optInd identWithPragma ^+ comma optPar ')' '=' optInd expr variable = (varTuple / identColonEquals)') section(variable) | bindStmt | mixinStmt) / simpleStmt stmt = (IND{>} complexOrSimpleStmt^+(IND{=} / ';') DED) / simpleStmt ^+ ';'
Types
All expressions have a type which is known at compile time. Nim is statically typed. One can declare new types, which is in essence defining an identifier that can be used to denote this custom type.
These are the major type classes:
- ordinal types (consist of integer, bool, character, enumeration (and subranges thereof) types)
- floating point types
- string type
- structured types
- reference (pointer) type
- procedural type
- generic type
Ordinal types
Ordinal types have the following characteristics:
- Ordinal types are countable and ordered. This property allows the operation of functions as inc, ord, dec on ordinal types to be defined.
- Ordinal values have a smallest possible value. Trying to count further down than the smallest value gives a checked runtime or static error.
- Ordinal values have a largest possible value. Trying to count further than the largest value gives a checked runtime or static error.
Integers, bool, characters and enumeration types (and subranges of these types) belong to ordinal types. For reasons of simplicity of implementation the types uint and uint64 are not ordinal types.
Pre-defined integer types
These integer types are pre-defined:
- int
- the generic signed integer type; its size is platform dependent and has the same size as a pointer. This type should be used in general. An integer literal that has no type suffix is of this type.
- intXX
- additional signed integer types of XX bits use this naming scheme (example: int16 is a 16 bit wide integer). The current implementation supports int8, int16, int32, int64. Literals of these types have the suffix 'iXX.
- uint
- the generic unsigned integer type; its size is platform dependent and has the same size as a pointer. An integer literal with the type suffix 'u is of this type.
- uintXX
- additional signed integer types of XX bits use this naming scheme (example: uint16 is a 16 bit wide unsigned integer). The current implementation supports.
Subrange types]
Pre-defined floating point types
The following floating point types are pre-defined:
- float
- the generic floating point type; its size is platform dependent (the compiler chooses the processor's fastest floating point type). This type should be used in general.
- floatXX
- an implementation may define additional floating point types of XX bits using this naming scheme (example: float64 is a 64 bit wide float). The current implementation supports float32:
- Invalid: operations with mathematically invalid operands, for example 0.0/0.0, sqrt(-1.0), and log(-37.8).
- Division by zero: divisor is zero and dividend is a finite nonzero number, for example 1.0.
Boolean.
Character type
String type.
cstring type
Structured types
A variable of a structured type can hold multiple values at the same time. Structured types can be nested to unlimited levels. Arrays, sequences, tuples, objects and sets belong to the structured types.
Array and sequence.
Open arrays.
Varargs[expr] is treated specially: It matches a variable list of arguments of arbitrary type but always constructs an implicit array. This is required so that the builtin echo proc does what is expected:
proc echo*(x: varargs[expr, `$`]) {...} echo(@[1, 2, 3]) # prints "@[1, 2, 3]" and not "123"
Tuples and object types.
Object construction.
Object variants.
Set typeThe set type models the mathematical notion of a set. The set's
- basetype can only be an ordinal type of a certain size, namely:
-.
Reference and pointer types.
Not nil annotation.
Memory regions:
- Memory regions might become available for string and seq too.
- Builtin regions like private, global and local will prove very useful for the upcoming OpenCL target.
- Builtin "regions" can model lent and unique pointers.
- An assignment operator can be attached to a region so that proper write barriers can be generated. This would imply that the GC can be implemented completely in user-space.
Procedural type:
- nimcall
- is the default convention used for a Nim proc. It is the same as fastcall, but only for C compilers that support fastcall.
- closure
- is the default calling convention for a procedural type that lacks any pragma annotations. It indicates that the procedure has a hidden implicit parameter (an environment). Proc vars that have the calling convention closure take up two machine words: One for the proc pointer and another one for the pointer to implicitly passed environment.
- stdcall
- This the stdcall convention as specified by Microsoft. The generated C procedure is declared with the __stdcall keyword.
- cdecl
- The cdecl convention means that a procedure shall use the same convention as the C compiler. Under windows the generated C procedure is declared with the __cdecl keyword.
- safecall
- This is the safecall convention as specified by Microsoft. The generated C procedure is declared with the __safecall keyword. The word safe refers to the fact that all hardware registers shall be pushed to the hardware stack.
- inline
- The inline convention means the the caller should not call the procedure, but inline its code directly. Note that Nim does not inline, but leaves this to the C compiler; it generates __inline procedures. This is only a hint for the compiler: it may completely ignore it and it may inline procedures that are not marked as inline.
- fastcall
- Fastcall means different things to different C compilers. One gets whatever the C __fastcall means.
- syscall
- The syscall convention is the same as __syscall in C. It is used for interrupts.
- noconv
- The generated C code will not have any explicit calling convention and thus use the C compiler's default calling convention. This is needed because Nim's default calling convention for procedures is fastcall to improve speed.
Most calling conventions exist only for the Windows 32-bit platform.
Assigning/passing a procedure to a procedural variable is only allowed if one of the following conditions hold:
- The procedure that is accessed resides in the current module.
- The procedure is marked with the procvar pragma (see procvar pragma).
- The procedure has a calling convention that differs from nimcall.
- The procedure is anonymous.
The rules' purpose is to prevent the case that extending a non-procvar procedure with default parameters breaks client code..
Distinct type.
Modelling currencies): stmt = proc `+` *(x, y: typ): typ {.borrow.} proc `-` *(x, y: typ): typ {.borrow.} # unary operators: proc `+` *(x: typ): typ {.borrow.} proc `-` *(x: typ): typ {.borrow.} template multiplicative(typ, base: typedesc): stmt = proc `*` *(x: typ, y: base): typ {.borrow.} proc `*` *(x: base, y: typ): typ {.borrow.} proc `div` *(x: typ, y: base): typ {.borrow.} proc `mod` *(x: typ, y: base): typ {.borrow.} template comparable(typ: typedesc): stmt = proc `<` * (x, y: typ): bool {.borrow.} proc `<=` * (x, y: typ): bool {.borrow.} proc `==` * (x, y: typ): bool {.borrow.} template defineCurrency(typ, base: expr): stmt =.
Avoiding SQL injection attacks.
Void type.
Auto type infered from an empty discard statement.
Type relations
The following section defines several relations on types that are needed to describe the type checking done by the compiler.
Type equality.
Type equality modulo type distinction)
Subtype relation)
Convertible relation
A type a is implicitly convertible to type b iff the following algorithm returns true:
# XXX range types? proc isImplicitlyConvertible(a, b: PType): bool =.
Assignment compatibility
An expression b can be assigned to an expression a iff a is an l-value and isImplicitlyConvertible(b.typ, a.typ) holds.
Overloading resolution
In a call p(args) the routine p that matches best is selected. If multiple routines match equally well, the ambiguity is reported at compiletime.
Every arg in args needs to match. There are multiple different category how an argument can match. Let f be the formal parameter's type and a the type of the argument.
- Exact match: a and f are of the same type.
- Literal match: a is an integer literal of value v and f is a signed or unsigned integer type and v is in f's range. Or: a is a floating point literal of value v and f is a floating point type and v is in f's range.
- Generic match: f is a generic type and a matches, for instance a is int and f is a generic (constrained) parameter type (like in [T] or [T: int|char].
- Subrange or subtype match: a is a range[T] and T matches f exactly. Or: a is a subtype of f.
- Integral conversion match: a is convertible to f and f and a is some integer or floating point type.
- Conversion match: a"
Overloading based on 'var
Automatic dereferencing
If the experimental mode is active and no other match is found, the first argument a is dereferenced automatically if it's a pointer type and overloading resolution is tried with a[] instead.
Lazy type resolution for expr expr accomplishes:
template rem(x: expr) = discard rem unresolvedExpression(undeclaredIdentifier)
A parameter of type expr always matches any argument (as long as there is any argument passed to it).
But one has to watch out because other overloads might trigger the argument's resolution:
template rem(x: expr) = discard proc rem[T](x: T) = discard # undeclared identifier: 'unresolvedExpression' rem unresolvedExpression(undeclaredIdentifier)
expr is the only metatype that is lazy in this sense, the other metatypes stmt and typedesc are not lazy.
Varargs matching
Statements and expressions.
Statement list expression.
Discard statement
Void context
In a list of statements every expression except the last one needs to have the type void. In addition to this rule an assignment to the builtin result symbol also triggers a void context:
proc invalid*(): string = result = "foo" "invalid" # Error: value of type 'string' has to be discarded
proc valid*(): string = let x = 317 "valid"
Var statement then. However it does a control flow analysis to prove the variable has been initialized and does not rely on syntactic properties:
type MyObject = object {.requiresInit.} proc p() = # the following is valid: var x: MyObject if someCondition(): x = a() else: x = a() use x
let statement.
Tuple unpacking
In a var or let statement tuple unpacking can be performed. The special identifier _ can be used to ignore some parts of the tuple:
proc returnsTuple(): (int, int, int) = (4, 2, 3) let (x, _, z) = returnsTuple()
Const section:
- Literals are compile-time computable.
- Type conversions are compile-time computable.
- Procedure calls of the form p(X) are compile-time computable if p is a proc without side-effects (see the noSideEffect pragma for details) and if X is a (possibly empty) list of compile-time computable arguments.
Constants cannot be of type ptr, ref, var or object, nor can they contain such a type.
Static statement/expression.
If statement" |}
Case statement"
When statement:
- Each condition (expr) has to be a constant expression (of type bool).
- The statements do not open a new scope.
- The statements that belong to the expression that evaluated to true are translated by the compiler, the other statements are not checked for semantics! However, each condition is checked for semantics.
The when statement enables conditional compilation techniques. As a special syntactic extension, the when construct is also available within object definitions.
When nimvm statement:
-.
Return statement
Yield statement.
Block statement.
Break statement
Example:
break
The break statement is used to leave a block immediately. If symbol is given, it is the name of the enclosing block that is to leave. If it is absent, the innermost block is left.
While statement
Example:
echo("Please tell me your password: \n") var pw = readLine(stdin) while pw != "12345": echo("Wrong password! Next try: \n") pw = readLine(stdin)
The while statement is executed until the expr evaluates to false. Endless loops are no error. while statements open an implicit block, so that they can be left with a break statement.
Continue
Assembler statement`) """
Using statement
Warning: The using statement is highly experimental and has to be explicitly enabled with the experimental pragma or command line option!
The using statement provides syntactic convenience for procs that heavily use a single contextual parameter. When applied to a variable or a constant, it will instruct Nim.
If expression
An if expression is almost like an if statement, but it is an expression. Example:
var y = if x > 8: 9 else: 10
An if expression always results in a value, so the else part is required. Elif parts are also allowed.
When expression
Just like an if expression, but corresponding to the when statement.
Case expression.
Table constructor:
- The order of the (key,value)-pairs is preserved, thus it is easy to support ordered dicts with for example {key: val}.newOrderedTable.
- A table literal can be put into a const section and the compiler can easily put it into the executable's data section just like it can for arrays and the generated data section requires a minimal amount of memory.
- Every table implementation is treated equal syntactically.
- Apart from the minimal syntactic sugar the language core does not need to know about tables.
Type conversions.
Type casts
Example:
cast[int](x)
Type casts are a crude mechanism to interpret the bit pattern of an expression as if it would be of another type. Type casts are only needed for low-level programming and are inherently unsafe.
The addr operator
Procedures
What most programming languages call methods or functions are called procedures in Nim (which is the correct terminology).))
Export marker
Method call syntax.
Properties)
Command invocation syntax.
Closures.
Anonymous Procs
Procs can also be treated as expressions, in which case it's allowed to omit the proc's name.
var cities = @["Frankfurt", "Tokyo", "New York"] cities.sort(proc (x,y: string): int = cmp(x.len, y.len))
Procs as expressions can appear both as nested procs and inside top level executable code.
Do notation
Note: The future of the do notation is uncertain.
As a special more convenient notation, proc expressions involved in procedure calls can use the do keyword:
sort(cities) do (x,y: string) -> int: cmp(x.len, y.len) # Less parenthesis using the method plus command syntax: cities = cities.map do (x:string) -> string: "City of " & x
do is written after the parentheses enclosing the regular proc params. The proc expression represented by the do block is appended to them.
More than one do block can appear in a single call:
proc performWithUndo(task: proc(), undo: proc()) = ... performWithUndo do: # multiple-line block of code # to perform the task do: # code to undo it
Nonoverloadable builtins
The following builtin procs cannot be overloaded for reasons of implementation simplicity (they require specialized semantic checking):
declared, defined, definedInScope, compiles, low, high, sizeOf, is,
Var parameters.
Var return type.
Overloading of the subscript operator
The [] subscript operator for arrays/openarrays/sequences can be overloaded.
Multi-methods
Procedures always use static dispatch. Multi-methods use dynamic dispatch..
Iterators and the for statement.
Implict items/pairs invocations.
First class iter in a closure iterator can not occur in a try statement.
- For now, a closure iterator cannot be evaluated at compile time.
- return is allowed in a closure iterator (but rarely useful) and ends iteration.
- Neither inline nor closure iterators can be recursive.
Converters.
Type sections.
Exception handling
Try expression)
Except clauses()
Defer statement.
Raise statement (unless a raise hook has been provided).
Exception hierarchy
The exception tree is defined in the system module:
- Exception
- AccessViolationError
- ArithmeticError
- AssertionError
- DeadThreadError
- FloatingPointError
- FieldError
- IndexError
- ObjectAssignmentError
- ObjectConversionError
- ValueError
- ReraiseError
- RangeError
- OutOfMemoryError
- ResourceExhaustedError
- StackOverflowError
- SystemError
Effect system
Exception tracking:
- Every indirect call via some proc type T is assumed to raise system.Exception (the base type of the exception hierarchy) and thus any exception unless T has an explicit raises list. However if the call is of the form f(...) where f is a parameter of the currently analysed routine it is ignored. The call is optimistically assumed to have no effect. Rule 2 compensates for this case.
- Every expression of some proc type within a call that is not a call itself (and not nil) is assumed to be called indirectly somehow and thus its raises list is added to p's raises list.
- Every call to a proc q which has an unknown body (due to a forward declaration or an importc pragma) is assumed to raise system.Exception unless q has an explicit raises list.
- Every call to a method m is assumed to raise system.Exception unless m has an explicit raises list.
- For every other call the analysis can determine an exact raises list.
- For determining a raises list, the raise and try statements of p are.
Tag tracking.
Read/Write tracking
Note: Read/write tracking is not yet implemented!
The inference for read/write tracking is analogous to the inference for exception tracking.
Effects pragma)
Is operator
The is operator checks for type equivalence at compile time. It is therefore very useful for type specialization within generic code:
type Table[Key, Value] = object keys: seq[Key] values: seq[Value] when not (Key is string): # nil value for strings used for optimization deletedKeys: seq[bool]
Type operator)
Type Classes.
Concepts
Note: Concepts are still in development.
Concepts, also known as "user-defined type classes", are used to specify an arbitrary set of requirements that the matched type must satisfy.
Concepts are written in the following form:
type Comparable = concept x, y (x < y) is bool Container[T] = concept c c.len is Ordinal items(c) is iterator for value in c: type(value) is T
The concept is a match if:
- all of the expressions within the body can be compiled for the tested type
- all statically evaluatable boolean expressions in the body must be true
The identifiers following the concept keyword represent instances of the currently matched type. These instances can act both as variables of the type, when used in contexts where a value is expected, and as the type itself when used in contexts where a type is expected.
Please note that the is operator allows one to easily verify the precise type signatures of the required operations, but since type inference and default parameters are still applied in the provided block, it's also possible to encode usage protocols that do not reveal implementation details.
As a special rule providing further convenience when writing concepts, any type value appearing in a callable expression will be treated as a variable of the designated type for overload resolution purposes, unless the type value was passed in its explicit typedesc[T] form:
type OutputStream = concept s write(var s, string)
Much like generics, concepts are instantiated exactly once for each tested type and any static code included within them is also executed once.
Symbol lookup in generics
Bind statement
The bind statement is the counterpart to the mixin statement. It can be used to explicitly declare identifiers that should be bound early (i.e. the identifiers should be looked up in the scope of the template/generic definition):
# Module A var lastId = 0 template genId*: expr = bind lastId inc(lastId) lastId
# Module B import A echo genId()
But a bind is rarely useful because symbol binding from the definition scope is the default.
Templates:.} =.
Symbol binding in templates
A template is a hygienic macro and so opens a new scope. Most symbols are bound from the definition scope of the template:
# Module A var lastId = 0 template genId*: expr = inc(lastId) lastId
# Module B import A echo genId() # Works as 'lastId' has been bound in 'genId's defining scope
As in generics symbol binding can be influenced via mixin or bind statements.
Identifier construction
In templates identifiers can be constructed with the backticks notation:
template typedef(name: expr, typ: typedesc) {.immediate.} = type `T name`* {.inject.} = typ `P name`* {.inject.} = ref `T name` typedef(myint, int) var x: PMyInt
In the example name is instantiated with myint, so `T name` becomes Tmyint.
Lookup rules for template parameters'
Hygiene in templates
Per default templates are hygienic: Local identifiers declared in a template cannot be accessed in the instantiation context:
template newException*(exceptn: typedesc, message: string): expr =: expr, actions: stmt): stmt {.immediate.} =.
Limitations of the method call syntax: expr): stmt =.
Macros
A macro is a special kind of low level template. Macros can be used to implement domain specific languages. Like templates, macros come in the 2 flavors immediate[expr]): stmt = # .
BindSym[expr]): stmt = result = newNimNode(nnkStmtList, n) for i in 0..n.len-1: # we can bind symbols in scope via 'bindSym': add(result, newCall(bindSym"write", bindSym"stdout", toStrLit(n[i]))) add(result, newCall(bindSym"write", bindSym"stdout", newStrLitNode(": "))) add(result, newCall(bindSym"writeLine", bindSym
Statement macros are defined just as expression macros. However, they are invoked by an expression following a colon.
The following example outlines a macro that generates a lexical analyzer from regular expressions:
import macros macro case_token(n: stmt): stmt = #:
- Use an ordinary proc/iterator, if possible.
- Else: Use a generic proc/iterator, if possible.
- Else: Use a template, if possible.
- Else: Use a macro.
Macros as pragmas
Whole routines (procs, iterators etc.) can also be passed to a template or a macro via the pragma notation:
template m(s: stmt) = discard proc p() {.m.} = discard
This is a simple syntactic transformation into:
template m(s: stmt) = discard m: proc p() = discard
Special Types
static[T]").
Special Operators
dot operators:
operator .
This operator will be matched against both field accesses and method calls.
operator .()
This operator will be matched exclusively against method calls. It has higher precedence than the . operator and this allows one to handle expressions like x.y and x.y() differently if one is interfacing with a scripting language for example.
operator .=
This operator will be matched against assignments to missing fields.
a.b = c # becomes `.=`(a, "b", c)
Type bound operations
There are 3 operations that are bound to a type:
- Assignment
- Destruction
- Deep copying for communication between threads.
operator =
destructors:
- The expr in var x = expr.
- The expr in let x = expr.
- The expr in return expr.
- The expr in result = expr where result.
Parameter constraints
Pattern operators
The operators *, **, |, ~ have a special meaning in patterns if they are written in infix notation.
The | operator
The | operator if used as infix operator creates an ordered choice:
template t{0|1}(): expr = 3 let a = 1 # outputs 3: echo a
The matching is performed after the compiler performed some optimizations like constant folding, so the following does not work:
template t{0|1}(): expr =.
The {} operator
A pattern expression can be bound to a pattern parameter via the expr{param} notation:
template t{(0|1|2){x}}(x: expr): expr = x+1 let a = 1 # outputs 2: echo a
The ~ operator
The ~ operator is the not operator in patterns:
template t{x = (~x){y} and (~x){z}}(x, y, z: bool): stmt = x = y if x: x = z var a = false b = true c = false a = b and c echo a): expr = &")): expr =[expr], f: File, w: expr) = w(f, x, y)
Example: Partial evaluation
The following example shows how some simple partial evaluation can be implemented with term rewriting:
proc p(x, y: int; cond: bool): int = result = if cond: x + y else: x - y template optP1{p(x, y, true)}(x, y: expr): expr = x + y template optP2{p(x, y, false)}(x, y: expr): expr = x - y
Example: Hoisting.
AST based overloading.
Move optimization()
Modules:
- compile the whole module as usual, following import statements recursively
- if there is a cycle only import the already parsed symbols (that are exported); if an unknown identifier occurs then abort
Import statement.
Include statement
The include statement does something fundamentally different than importing a module: it merely includes the contents of a file. The include statement is useful to split up a large module into several files:
include fileA, fileB, fileC
Module names in imports
From import statement.
Export statement)
Note on paths: .. code-block:: nim
import "gfx/3d/somemodule"
Scope rules
Identifiers are valid from the point of their declaration until the end of the block in which the declaration occurred. The range where the identifier is known is the scope of the identifier. The exact scope of an identifier depends on the way it was declared.
Block scope.
Tuple or object scope
The field identifiers inside a tuple or object definition are valid in the following places:
- To the end of the tuple/object definition.
- Field designators of a variable of the given tuple/object type.
- In all descendant types of the object type.
Module scope
Compiler Messages
The Nim compiler emits different kinds of messages: hint, warning, and error messages. An error message is emitted if the compiler encounters any static error.
Pragmas.
deprecated pragma nimfix tool can be used to, without effort, automatically update your code and refactor it by performing these renamings.
noSideEffect pragma
destructor pragma
The destructor pragma is used to mark a proc to act as a type destructor. Its usage is deprecated, See type bound operations instead.
override pragma
See type bound operations instead.
procvar pragma
The procvar pragma is used to mark a proc that it can be passed to a procedural variable.
compileTime pragma
noReturn pragma
The noreturn pragma is used to mark a proc that never returns.
acyclic pragma
final pragma
The final pragma can be used for an object type to specify that it cannot be inherited from.
shallow pragma]
pure pragma.
asmNoStackFrame pragma.
error pragma.}
fatal pragma!".}
warning pragma
The warning pragma is used to make the compiler output a warning message with the given content. Compilation continues after the warning.
hint pragma
The hint pragma is used to make the compiler output a hint message with the given content. Compilation continues after the hint.
line pragma
The line pragma can be used to affect line information of the annotated statement as seen in stack backtraces:
template myassert*(cond: expr,.
linearScanEnd pragma.
computedGoto pragma.
unroll pragma.
immediate pragma
See Ordinary vs immediate templates.
compilation option pragmas
The listed pragmas here can be used to override the code generation options for a proc/method/converter.
The implementation currently provides the following possible options (various others may be added later).
Example:
{.checks: off, optimization: speed.} # compile without runtime checks and optimize for speed
push and pop pragmas
The push/pop pragmas are very similar to the option directive, but are used to override the settings temporarily. Example:
{.push checks: off.} # compile this section without runtime checks as it is # speed critical # ... some code ... {.pop.} # restore old settings
register pragma.
global pragma.
deadCodeElim pragma.}
pragma pragma.
Disabling certain messages.
experimental pragma
The experimental pragma enables experimental language features. Depending on the concrete feature this means that the feature is either considered too unstable for an otherwise stable release or that the future of the feature is uncertain (it may be removed any time).
Example:
{.experimental.} proc useUsing(dest: var string) = using dest add "foo" add "bar".
IncompleteStruct pragma
The incompleteStruct pragma tells the compiler to not use the underlying C struct in a sizeof expression:
type DIR* {.importc: "DIR", header: "<dirent.h>", final, pure, incompleteStruct.} = object
Compile pragma # use backticks to access Nim symbols within an emit section: {.emit: """fprintf(stdout, "%d\n", cvariable + (int)`nimVar`);""".} {.pop.} embedsC()
As can be seen from the example, to Nim symbols can be referred via backticks. Use two backticks to produce a single verbatim backtick.}
ImportCpp pragma. @: "#[#]".}
- An apostrophe ' followed by an integer i operation.)
Wrapping construct.}
Wrapping destructors()".}
Importcpp for objects;
- If more precise control is needed, the apostrophe ' ...
Foreign function interface
Nim's FFI (foreign function interface) is extensive and only the parts that scale to other future backends (like the LLVM/JavaScript backends) are documented here.
Importc pragma will provide the same feature under the same name. Also, if one is interfacing with C++ the ImportCpp pragma and interfacing with Objective-C the ImportObjC pragma can be used.
Exportc pragma will provide the same feature under the same name.
Extern pragma.
Bycopy pragma
The bycopy pragma can be applied to an object or tuple type and instructs the compiler to pass the type by value to procs:
type Vector {.bycopy, pure.} = object x, y, z: float
Byref pragma
The byref pragma can be applied to an object or tuple type and instructs the compiler to pass the type by reference (hidden pointer) to procs.
Varargs pragma
Union pragma.
Packed pragma.
Unchecked pragma..0, int] MySeq = object len, cap: int data: ArrayPart
Produces roughly this C code:
typedef struct { NI len; NI cap; NI data[]; } MySeq;
The bounds checking done at compile time is not disabled for now, so to access s.data[C] (where C is a constant) the array's index needs needs to include C..
Dynlib pragma for import.
Dynlib pragma for export.
Threads.
Thread prag.
GC safetyeThead..
Future directions:
- A shared GC'ed heap might be provided.
Threadvar pragma.)
Threads and exceptions
The interaction between threads and exceptions is simple: A handled exception in one thread cannot affect any other thread. However, an unhandled exception in one thread terminates the whole process!
Parallel & Spawn
Nim has two flavors of parallelism:
- Structured parallelism via the parallel statement.
- Unstructured parallelism via the standalone spawn statement. statement:
- It must be a call expression f(a, ...).
- f must be gcsafe.
- f must not have the calling convention closure.
- f's parameters may not be of type var. This means one has to use raw ptr's for data passing reminding the programmer to be careful.
- ref parameters are deeply copied which is a subtle semantic change and can cause performance problems but ensures memory safety. This deep copy is performed via system.deepCopy and so can be overriden.
- For safe data exchange between f and the caller a global TChannel needs.
Parallel statement within a parallel section has special semantics.
- Every location of the form a[i] and a[i..j] and dest where dest is part of the pattern dest = spawn f(...) has to be provably disjoint. This is called the disjoint check.
- Every other complex location loc that is used in a spawned proc (spawn f(loc)) has to be immutable for the duration of the parallel section. This is called the immutability check. Currently it is not specified what exactly "complex location" means. We need to make this an optimization!
- Every array access has to be provably within bounds. This is called the bounds check.
- Slices are optimized so that no copy is performed. This optimization is not yet performed for ordinary slices outside of a parallel section.
Guards and locks
Apart from spawn and parallel Nim also provides all the common low level concurrency mechanisms like locks, atomic intristics or condition variables.
Nim significantly improves on the safety of these features via additional pragmas:
- A guard annotation is introduced to prevent data races.
- Every access of a guarded memory location needs to happen in an appropriate locks statement.
- Locks and routines can be annotated with lock levels to prevent deadlocks at compile time.
Guards and the locks section
Protecting global variables: stmt) =): expr = {.locks: [dummyLock].}: memoryReadBarrier() x echo atomicRead(atomicCounter)
The locks pragma takes a list of lock expressions locks: [a, b, ...] in order to support multi lock statements. Why these are essential is explained in the lock levels section.
Protecting general locations: stmt) =).
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Events
Up to 1900
33 BC - Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother of future Roman Emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as Governor in one of the Provinces of Hispania.
711 - Islamic Conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 - First Scottish War of Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
1522 - Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 - Re-founding of Bogota, in present-day Colombia.
1565 - Cebu is established as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1749 - First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music of the Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ridgefield - A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1810 - Ludwig van Beethoven composes the musical piece Fur Elise.
1813 - War of 1812: US troops capture the capital city of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present-day Toronto).
1840 - The foundation stone is laid for the new Palace of Westminster.
1865 - The SS Sultana steamboat explodes and sinks on the Mississippi River, killing 1,700 people.
1901 2000
1904 - Chris Watson becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1908 - The 1908 Summer Olympics in London begin.
1909 - Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II is overthrown by his brother Mehmed V.
1914 - Honduras becomes a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention.
1927 - The Carabineros de Chile, the national police and gendarmerie of Chile, is created.
1936 - United Auto Workers gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1945 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans.
1945 - World War II: German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland.
1950 - Apartheid: in South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating (separating) Black people from White people.
1950 - The United Kingdom officially recognizes the state of Israel.
1960 - Togo becomes independent from France.
1961 - Sierra Leone becomes independent from the UK.
1967 - The Expo 67, a trade fair, begins in Montreal, Canada.
1974 - 10,000 people march in Washington, DC, calling for the impeachment for Richard Nixon.
1977 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1987 - The US Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States over revelations of possible war crimes committed by him during World War II.
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is created, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro.
1992 - Russia and 12 former Soviet Republics join the International Monetary Fund.
1992 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons.
1993 - Several members of the Zambia national football team are killed in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
1994 - South Africa holds its first general elections under free and equal conditions, with Nelson Mandela being elected President.
1996 - The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
1999 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika becomes President of Algeria.
From 2001
2005 - The Superjumbo aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight in France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower in New York City.
2007 - The Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in Tallinn is removed by Estonian authorities, amidst tensions with Russia.
2009 - The United Kingdom announces its first cases of the 2009 Swine flu outbreak.
2011 - A tornado outbreak kills hundreds of people in the Southeastern United States.
2014 - Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II are declared saints.
2018 - South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for talks.
Births
Up to 1900
85 BC - Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Roman politician and general (d. 43 BC)
1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer (d. 1722)
1650 - Charlotte-Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1701 - Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1724 - Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1755)
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and feminist (d. 1797)
1770 - Edward Codrington, English admiral (d. 1851)
1788 - Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist and writer (d. 1863)
1791 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
1802 - Louis Niedermeyer, French-Swiss composer and teacher (d. 1861)
1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1908)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1840 - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (d. 1911)
1848 - Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1853 - Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1856 - Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875)
1857 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (d. 1914)
1860 - Frank Winkelmeier, Austrian, tallest man at the time of his death (d. 1887)
1862 - Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (d. 1930)
1866 - Marcel Raoul-Duval, French polo player (d. 1916)
1875 - Maurice de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1960)
1878 - John Rimmer, British athlete (d. 1962)
1878 - Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
1880 - Mihkel Ludig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (d. 1958)
1882 - Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet (d. 1961)
1887 - Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1892 - Albert Rudomine, French photographer (d. 1975)
1893 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1939)
1893 - Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (d. 1976)
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian composer, conductor, musician, critic and writer (d. 1995)
1894 - George Petty, American artist (d. 1975)
1896 - William Hudson, Australian engineer (d. 1978)
1896 - Wallace Carothers, American chemist (d. 1937)
1898 - Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1962)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
1901 1950
1902 - Tiemoko Garan Kouyate, Malian educator and activist (d. 1942)
1903 - Horace Stoneham, American businessman (d. 1990)
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1904 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (d. 1973)
1905 - John Huck, American javelin thrower and shot putter (d. 1986)
1909 - Guillermo Leon Valencia, President of Colombia (d. 1971)
1910 - Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (d. 1988)
1911 - Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter (d. 1965)
1912 - Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
1912 - Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (d. 2001)
1913 - Luz Long, German long jumper (d. 1943)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist (d. 2008)
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (d. 2010)
1921 - Robert Dhery, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 2016)
1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
1926 - Tim LaHaye, American minister, author and speaker (d. 2016)
1927 - Coretta Scott King, American Civil Rights activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviator (d. 1988)
1929 - Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (d. 2016)
1931 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
1931 - Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist (d. 1969)
1932 - Anouk Aimee, French actress
1932 - Casey Kasem, American radio show host and voice actor (d. 2014)
1932 - Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1932 - Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
1932 - Chuck Knox, American football coach (d. 2018)
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer
1939 - Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
1941 - Fethullah Gulen, Turkish politician and religious leader
1942 - Valeri Polyakov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1943 - Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (d. 2019)
1944 - Michael Fish, English weather presenter
1944 - Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer (d. 2017)
1944 - Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, English academic and politician
1947 - Nick Greiner, Hungarian-Australian politician, 37th Premier of New South Wales
1947 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1975)
1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer-songwriter
1948 - Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer and coach
1948 - Frank Abagnale, American security consultant and trickster
1949 - Jean Asselborn, Luxembourgish politician
1950 - Paolo Pulici, Italian footballer
1951 1975
1951 - Ace Frehley, American musician
1951 - Viviane Reding, Luxembourgish journalist and politician
1952 - Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and singer
1954 - Frank Bainimarama, Fijian politician
1954 - Herman Edwards, American football manager
1954 - John Cygan, American actor (d. 2017)
1955 - Eric Schmidt, American entrepreneur, former CEO of Google
1956 - Bridget Kendall, English journalist
1957 - Adrian Utley, English musician
1959 - Andrew Fire, American Nobel Prize-winning biologist
1959 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
1959 - Jim Duffy, Scottish footballer and coach
1961 - Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality, model, politician and writer (d. 1994)
1961 - Andrew Schlafly, American conservative lawyer and activist
1962 - Edvard Moser, Norwegian neurologist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
1963 - Russell T Davies, Welsh television writer
1965 - Anna Chancellor, English actress
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
1967 - King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish saxophonist, composer and educator
1968 - Cristian Mungiu, Romanian filmmaker
1969 - Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
1969 - Mica Paris, English singer
1969 - Tess Daly, English television presenter
1969 - Cory Booker, American politician
1971 - Olari Elts, Estonian conductor
From 1976
1976 - Sally Hawkins, English actress
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter and cellist
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Faisal Saif, Indian director, screenwriter and critic
1976 - Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1978 - Jim James, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (My Morning Jacket)
1980 - Christian Lara, Ecuadorean footballer
1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer-songwriter
1982 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian politician
1983 - Ari Gaynor, American actress
1984 - Patrick Stump, American musician
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Hannes Thor Halldorsson, Icelandic footballer and filmmaker
1986 - Jenna Coleman, British actress
1986 - Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
1986 - Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 - William Moseley, English actor
1988 - Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
1989 - Lars Bender, German footballer
1989 - Sven Bender, German footballer
1989 - Emily Rios, American actress and model
1990 - Robin Bengtsson, Swedish singer
1990 - Martin Kelly, English footballer
1991 - Lara Gut, Swiss skier
1992 - Allison Iraheta, American actress
1995 - Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player
Deaths
Up to 1900
630 - Ardashir III of Persia
1272 - Zita, Italian saint (b. 1212)
1404 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1463 - Isidore of Kiev (b. 1385)
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1605 - Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish priest and missionary (b. 1532)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1794 - James Bruce, Scottish traveller and travel writer (b. 1730)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (b. 1779)
1818 - Christopher Greenup, 3rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1750)
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 - Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician (b. 1815)
1901 2000
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul, Bengali statesman (b. 1883)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1969 - Rene Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1977 - Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1891)
1979 - Celal Atik, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (b. 1918)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1991 - Robert Velter, French comic writer (b. 1909)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1996 - William Colby, American CIA director (b. 1920)
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian writer (b. 1925)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American actress and singer (b. 1954)
From 2001
2002 - Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
2002 - Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, American writer (b. 1944)
2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
2013 - Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
2014 - Yigal Arnon, Israeli lawyer (b. 1929)
2014 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1931)
2014 - Harry Firth, Australian racing driver (b. 1918)
2014 - Andrea Parisy, French actress (b. 1935)
2015 - Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
2015 - Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1926)
2015 - Suzanne Crough, American actress (b. 1963)
2015 - Gene Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1931)
2015 - Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboardist (b. 1960)
2015 - Marty Napoleon, American jazz pianist (b. 1921)
2016 - Toms, Indian cartoonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Peter George, Canadian academic (b. 1941)
2017 - Vinod Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1946)
2017 - Vinu Chakravarthy, Indian actor (b. 1945)
2017 - Julius Youngner, American virologist (b. 1920)
2018 - Paul Junger Witt, American film and television producer (b. 1941)
2018 - Roy Young, English singer and pianist (b. 1937)
2018 - Earl Balfour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2018 - Michael Luscombe, Australian chief executive (b. 1953)
2018 - Kristin Nelson, American actress, painter and author (b. 1945)
2019 - Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (b. 1955)
2019 - Negasso Gidada, President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
2019 - Bart Chilton, American civil servant (b. 1960)
Observances
Independence Day in Togo (1960) and Sierra Leone (1961)
Freedom Day in South Africa
World Tapir Day
King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)
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Mini Car Rental Le Bourget
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Andalusia is a city in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 8,805.
Media
Radio stations
WAAO-FM 103.7 (Country)
WSTF 91.5 FM (Religious)
Newspaper
Andalusia Star-News (daily)
Education
Public education is provided by Andalusia City School System. which consists of Andalusia Elementary School, Andalusia Middle School, and Andalusia High School.
Notable natives
Charles Brooks, editorial cartoonist
Robert Horry, NBA player
Nico Johnson, NFL player for Kansas City Chiefs, won 3 BCS National Championships while playing football for The University of Alabama.
Alexa Jones, Miss Alabama 2005 and Miss America 2006 second runner-up
Frank Tipler, cosmologist
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Three Smart Girls is a 1936 American romantic musical comedy movie directed by Henry Koster and starring Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, Mischa Auer, Ernest Cossart, Lucile Watson. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1937. It was followed up by two sequels Three Smart Girls Grow Up in 1939 and Hers to Hold in 1943. |
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Antonin Klimek (January 18, 1937 in Prague - January 9, 2005 in Prague) was a Czech historian. He wrote mainly about the Czechoslovakian First Republic.
Books
1989 - Diplomacie na krizovatce Evropy
1989 - Jak se delal mir roku 1919
1995 - Ceskoslovenska zahranicni politika 1918-1938 (with Eduard Kubu)
1995 - Vitez, ktery prohral, general Radola Gajda (with Petr Hofman)
1996-98 - Boj o Hrad I, II
1998 - Rijen 1918
2001 - Velke dejiny zemi Koruny ceske - dil XIII. (1918-1929)
2002 - Velke dejiny zemi Koruny ceske - dil XIV. (1929-1938)
2003 - Vitejte v prvni republice
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Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, was asked the following question by a panellist at the beauty pageant on Sunday night:
"A recent report shows that in 40 per cent of American families with children, women are the primary earners yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?"
Miss Powell nodded, paused and then garbled response led viewers to compare her to Miss Teen America 2007 contestant Caitlin Upton, who became an internet sensation. When asked why she thought a fifth of Americans were unable to locate the United States on a world map, the Miss South Carolina beauty queen replied it was probably because they did not have one.
Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, won the pageant after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the US Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests.
Asked if she agreed with the decision to swab the cheeks of arrestees, Miss Brady said she did, since they had committed crimes.
Miss Brady, who started competing in beauty pageants two year ago, gets the crown and a New York apartment for one year. She is expected to spend her title reign on a nationwide speaking tour and raising breast and ovarian cancer awareness, the organisation's official cause.
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The Power and the Prize is a 1956 American drama movie directed by Henry Koster and starring Robert Taylor, Burl Ives, Mary Astor, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Coburn, Elisabeth Muller. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1957. |
Sentido De Vida En La Tercera Edad: Experiencia En Los Talleres De UPAMI En La Universidad De Flores
Abstract
We are faced with a new demographic fact: the extension of age, and simultaneously, the increase of the quality of life of people. Regarding the expectative of life, it grew from 48 years in 1900, to 80 for women and 72 for men, in the present. Argentina and, in particular, the City of Buenos Aires, has the more “aged” demographic profile in Latin America, along with Cuba and Uruguay. Therefore, all issues concerning the elderly and the possibility of finding meaning in life based on the occupation, are and will continue to deepen in the future. Flores University and other universities in Buenos Aires, based on an agreement with PAMI (Comprehensive Medical Assistance Program), created the UPAMI or University program, providing a specific space for elders in order to promote their personal growth, improve their quality of life and affirm the equality of opportunities for the development of cultural and vocational values. The Multiple Intelligences Questionnaire, as well and the Diagram of Behavior Areas and Fundamental Roles , both created by R. Kertész are essential for working with older adults, to find their sense of life.<< |
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 Americans crime-action movie directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars Charles Bronson. It is the first Death Wish movie that wasn't directed by Michael Winner. It received mixed reviews on November 6, 1987.
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American thriller movies
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Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (surname pronounced VAR-SEY; born 28 March 1971 in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a British politician and lawyer. She was born to Pakistani immigrants and is a member of the House of Lords. She has been the Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister Without Portfolio in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. She was the first Muslim woman to be a member of the British cabinet. She lives in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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In 1990 Warsi married her cousin Naeem in an arranged marriage. She and her first husband divorced in December 2007. On 20 August 2009, she married Iftikhar Azam. |
The Salem Homecoming queen will be crowned at halftime Friday during the Salem High School football game vs Minerva at Reilly Stadium. Kickoff is 7 p.m. The court is comprised of, from left, Mary Cappuzzello, daughter of Joe and Amy Cappuzzello, escorted by Troy Kuhns; Megan Lehwald, daughter of Jim and Heather Lehwald, escorted by Jordan McGuire; Brittany Skiba, daughter of Steve and Pam Skiba, escorted by Hobie Butcher; Emma Wilson, daughter of Scott and Nan Wilson, escorted by Brandon Boyle; Rachel Menegos, daughter of Nick and Charlene Menegos, escorted by Alex Weikart; Kaci Wellendorf, daughter of Brian Wellendorf and Rob Joan Clark, escorted by Mark Fredrickson; and Mariah Eshelman, daughter of Bryan and Amy Eshelman, escorted by Anthony Nunzir. (Salem News photo by J.D. Creer)
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The Free French Forces were a free army during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. It started in 1940. It ended in 1944 because of the invasion of Normandy. These forces made a major impact on the German army by destroying railroads and attacking German units.
World War II
1940s in France
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New Store Arrivals - So Many Namas (over 41 and counting)
I did an informal count the other day of unpasteurized sake in the store and I was shocked. Not counting nama-chozo like Eiko Fuji Junmai Ginjo we had 41 namazake on hand. That is insane, and as I stated in our Instagram account (truesake) it represents more nama than most sake shops in Japan. Now I know that it is “Nama Season,” but this number is still awesome. It’s truly the best time of the year for seasonally fresh released nama sake. Herewith are a few reviews of the many unpasteurized brews in the store now:
Denshin “Haru” 2019
From Fukui Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo Nama. SMV: N/A Acidity: N/A
With a nose filled cherry, peach, and melon aromas say hello to a smooth and fun unpasteurized sake in a killer bottle with a special hidden sticker. Clean, bright, and fun, this brew drinks semi-thick, semi-chewy, and semi-dry with a dry finish. Look for hints of citrus, strawberry, melon, and red apple on a smooth and even flow. This is a very flavorful nama that drinks very Ginjo-like and is bright but not too jagged or brash. If you like silky then this sake is for you. WORD: Smooth WINE: Soft reds/smooth whites BEER: Fruity ales FOODS: Shellfish, oysters, sushi, sashimi.
Masumi Arabashiri “First Run” 2019
From Nagano Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo Nama. SMV: -0.6 Acidity: 1.7
The nose on this very old friend of True Sake is a great collection of cherry, grape, berry, sweet rice, and powder sugar aromas. Since you’ve had this brew before what’s it like this year? The ’19 version of Arabashiri is more controlled and smooth than in year’s past. It is smooth with round and rolling fruit tones that are juicy and soft, semi-thick, semi-rich and fully tasty. The larger the vessel the more zesty and fresh feeling with honeydew melon, pear, apple, and a hint of grapefruit. A mid-sized glass brings out the best flavor to feeling play, but whatever you drink out of you will taste fresh sake at its best. WORD:Fresh WINE: Brights Reds/Fruity Whites BEER: Crisp Ales FOODS:International spice, sushi, sashimi, American sushi.
Ama No To “Heavens Door” 2019
From Akita Prefecture. Tokubetsu Junmai Nama. SMV: +4 Acidity: 1.5
The nose on the seasonally released unpasteurized sake is an amazing collection of green apple, rice candy, sweet rice, and Jolly Rancher aromas. Say hello to a very lush sake with a tremendous flavor field that makes each sip a sensation. Lively, fresh, vivid, and fun this brew is fleshy as fleshy sake can be. Tons of green apple flavors with sweet rice teases, and a bright chewy umami quality that sneaks to the sweet side. Green Green Green like the label. Green apple, green pear, green papaya and all in nama green. There is a ton of glucose in this nama that drinks sticky and wicked in the palate with a lovely lychee finish. Long flavor and very tasty. WORD: Green WINE: Sweet Reds/Fat Whites BEER: Fruity Ales FOODS: Salty and savory, fruit salads, cheese plates, bright fare.
Shichida Muroka 2019
From Saga Prefecture. Junmai Ginjo Muroka Nama. SMV: +0 Acidity: 1.4
It’s Spring Nama Season and the nose on this unpasteurized beauty is a unique collection of grapefruit, peach, lemon peel, and steamed rice aromas. Talk about a big, sweet, and sexy nama! This non-charcoal-filtered (Muroka) sake is not a Nigori, but it drinks similar to one. It is a very full-bodied brew with a “gotcha” first sip. The sweetness is more bright than sweet with a gentle acidity play. Chewy, layered, and really fun in the glass. Look for honeydew melon, ripe pear, and peach compote flavors that drink semi-sweet upfront, but finish balanced and very tasty. WORD: Honey WINE: Chewy Reds/Fat Whites BEER: Sweet Ales FOODS: International Spice from tacos to curry, American sushi, and large pastas. |
Ben and Jerry's is an American ice cream company. It sells different kinds of ice creams. The company was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. In 2000, Ben and Jerry's was sold to Unilever, a British-Dutch company.
History
In 1977, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield took a course on ice cream making at Pennsylvania State University. On May 5, 1978, they opened a first ice cream shop. It was in a gas station in Burlington, Vermont. One year later, they had the first free cone day. This is now a celebration all over the world.
In 1980, Ben and Jerry got space in a building in South Champlain Street in Burlington. They started packing their ice cream in pint containers. This is still the most common size of container. In 1981, the first Ben & Jerry's store opened in Shelburne, Vermont. In 1983, Ben & Jerry's ice cream was used to make"the world's largest ice cream sundae" in St. Albans, Vermont. The sundae weighed 27,102 pounds. In 1986, Ben & Jerry's made its "Cowmobile". This was a Ben and Jerry's van. It was used to pass out free ice cream. The Cowmobile was driven by Ben and Jerry themselves. Four months later, the "Cowmobile" caught fire near Cleveland. Ben said it looked like "the world's biggest baked Alaska." In 1988, Ben and Jerry's won the title of U.S Small Business Persons Of The Year awarded by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Flavors and Sizes
Ben and Jerry's ice cream are sold in pints, pint slices, non-dairy pints, scoop shop flavors, frozen yogurt pints, mini cups and quarts. Top ten flavors:
Half Baked
Cherry Garcia
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Chocolate Fudge Brownie
The Tonight Dough
Americone Dream
Phish Food
Chunky Monkey
Strawberry Cheesecake
Salted Caramel
Former flavors
Schweedy Balls
Wavy Gravvy
Fossil Fuel
Turtle Soup
This is Nuts
Aloha Macademia
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt
Sugar Plum
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Urban Jumble
Creme Brulee
Devil's Food Chocolate
Cow Powder
Dublin Mudslide
Tennessee Mud
Coconutterly Fair
Chocolate Macadamia
Holy Cannoli
Wild Maine Blueberry
Purple Passion Fruit
Economic crunch
White Russion
Peanuts! Popcorn!
Rainforest Crunch
Magic Brownie
Locations
Ben & Jerry's has stores all over the world. There are stores in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Resources
"Ben & Jerry's" Ben & Jerry's. Ben & Jerry's. <http://www.benjerry.co.uk/ourflavours/ >. (2010)
Sources
1978 establishments in the United States
American food companies
Burlington, Vermont
20th-century establishments in Vermont
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Dr. Shannon Lucid (born 1943) is a biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time she had the longest duration in space for an American astronaut. She has flown in space five times. This includes a long mission on the Mir space station.
Lucid was born in Shanghai, China. She grew up in Bethany, Oklahoma. She attended the University of Oklahoma.
Lucid was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996. She is the tenth person and first woman to be given that honor. In 1993 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame.
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That’s no small trick when you consider the natural tensions that exist between the association’s general contractors and trade contractors.
And, that’s on top of the ongoing rivalries between general contractors, who are constantly in competition with one another for work.
Sashaw is leaving the VRCA to take up a new position as president and chief executive officer of the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies of British Columbia.
In that role, he will still be involved with the construction industry.
“I’m not leaving the neighbourhood, I’m just moving down the block and across the street,” he said.
Sashaw’s time with the VRCA overlapped what was likely the largest boom in decades for the city’s construction industry.
During his tenure, the equivalent of entirely new cities, such as False Creek North and Coal Harbour, were built.
The association kept pace with the changes.
It has gone from a relatively low-profile group of companies to an industry voice that is heard at all levels of government.
It also spread its wings to operate a full-time satellite office in Abbotsford, which serves the Fraser Valley.
“I’ve had a fabulous run,” he said.
“It’s been a lot of fun and I look back with pride on a number of things we’ve been able to accomplish.”
For that, Sashaw gave credit to his staff.
“When somebody phones the office, it’s never a case of ‘that’s not my department’.” he said.
“It’s always a matter of ‘what can I do to help?’”
Top among the VRCA accomplishments during Sashaw’s time was the evolution of its education programs.
The association effectively had zero education programs when he took the helm.
The VRCA now offers somewhere between 60 and 80 courses to more than 1,000 people a year in its Vancouver and Abbotsford offices.
“Education is now seen as a base benefit of the association,” he said.
Fundamental to the association was the operation of the plan rooms.
The exchange of plans and soliciting of tenders on jobs being planned was the original foundation of the association.
The group was founded in the late 1800s as the Vancouver Builders’ Exchange.
The association, we see today, was started in 1929.
Over the years, the exchange of plans has changed dramatically and the VRCA was in the forefront of the evolution.
Today, the large room it used to operate, and which was full of paper plans, has been almost totally replaced by an electronic plan room.
Raising the profile of the association was another key goal.
“The profile was low when I came in. Not too many people outside the industry had heard of it. It was one of the best kept secrets in the construction industry,” he said.
“We were really able to move the dial on that. Now it has a media presence and its views are sought out. If there is anything going on in the construction industry, its views are asked for.”
As part of raising the profile, Sashaw took the association’s Awards of Excellence program from a mostly in-house event to a large annual gala occasion.
More than 600 industry leaders now gather each year at the Vancouver Convention Centre to have dinner and honour outstanding construction projects.
In the same vein, the association started a group aimed specifically at young industry professionals.
The U40 Group is for women and men under 40 years old.
“It has taken off,” said Sashaw
“These are the future leaders of the association. We are now seeing the leaders of the U40 Network stepping up and getting involved with committees of the association. We’re hoping they’ll develop personal networks that are so important in the industry.”
So how has he managed to keep all these very different groups – young, old and sometimes competitors – working together?
“That’s been one of the fun elements,” he said.
“They’re often competitors. They’re not necessarily in conflict, but they may have different views. The goal is to bring them together. The key element is what’s good for the industry. What’s good for the association.”
That is often more easily said than done.
“The role of the president, I would suggest, is to be a good listener and pick out what are the real issues,” he explained
“You sit down and try to figure out what is beneath all this. And – at all times – treat people with respect and consideration.”
It has been a winning formula.
With about 700 member companies, the VRCA is the largest component of the B.C. Construction Association (BCCA), which includes similar groups in the Northern Interior, Southern Interior and on Vancouver Island.
Sashaw’s position within the provincial group was significant.
“Keith’s keen appreciation of the role of the VRCA and its engagement of the industry throughout the Lower Mainland will be missed,” said Manley McLachlan, president of the BCCA.
It is a reminder of the essential role that the staff of associations play in meeting the needs of industry and advancing the plans of employer based organizations.
“As Keith’s season of leadership at the VRCA comes to its conclusion, we wish him all the best in his new position and look forward to working with him in his new role within another critical component of the construction industry,” Manley said.
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