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[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Gary Kenneally (@SecretDeveloper) [2015]")]
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Kids are relating to 'Disney's 'Encanto' in the cutest way
Kaheisha Brand opened up to TODAY Parents about how the new Disney film made her 2-year-old son Kenzo feel seen.
Is 'We don't talk about Bruno' from 'Encanto' the new 'Let it go?'
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By Joyann Jeffrey
The uplifting message of "Encanto" is striking a chord with families -- and it's especially powerful for the many children who are seeing characters who look like them, some for the first time.
Parents around the world are sharing joyful photos of their children "twinning" with characters in the Disney film, which tells the story of the Madrigals, a family in Colombia who has been (mostly) gifted with magical powers.
One 2-year-old boy, Kenzo, instantly lit up when he saw a character who looked just like him on-screen.
"He immediately gravitated towards the image of Antonio," Kenzo's mom, Kaheisha Brand, told TODAY Parents. "It just made my heart smile because I do believe that he thought he was seeing himself because of the resemblance between him and Antonio."
Once Kenzo noticed that his curly hair and brown skin matched the character's appearance, he couldn't take his eyes off the TV screen.
Disney's "Encanto" tells the story of an extraordinary family — the Madrigals — who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a magical place called an Encanto. The magic of the town has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift — every child except one, Mirabel.
Brand believes that Kenzo really gravitated towards "Encanto" because of how included it made him feel. She took a picture of her son standing next to the TV screen and shared the image on his Instagram account, @katchingupwithkenzo.
"He instantly lit up, and turned to us, and was smiling and that made me take the picture because it made my heart happy that it brought such enjoyment to him. And that's what made me share it," she said.
"And then the next thing you know, it blew up. So I think that for me, and for us, it made us feel like there're so many people that echoed the same sentiments that we felt in that moment that our child was being seen," Brand added.
A still photo of Antonio from Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Encanto."Disney / DISNEY
Brand and her son's father, Keith Brooks, were thrilled with "Encanto," and not just because of Kenzo's reaction.
"We loved the movie 'Encanto' and how rich it was in culture," Brooks said. "One of the themes that it presented was family, and how strong family is, and how strong family can be when it's united. But one of the things that I thought 'Encanto' really brought to light ... was about representation."
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FLAMESPY Awards | Liberty Flames (2023)
AD – Commitment to Excellence Darius Dixon Service Award Support Staff of the Year Award Perseverance of Job Award Strength & Conditioning Athlete of the Year Dr. Jerry Falwell Leadership Award (Male Award Winner) Dr. Jerry Falwell Leadership Award (Female Award Winner) Best Clutch Performance Award Best Championship Performance Award Most Outstanding Team Award Play of the Year Award Fan Voted Play of the Year Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Award Female Newcomer/Rookie Athlete of the Year Award Male Rookie Athlete of the Year Award Best Female Athlete of the Year Award Best Male Athlete of the Year Award Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award Assistant Coach of the Year Award Athletic Training Award Best Blooper Award Best Finish Award Best Supporting Athlete of the Year Award Best Upset Award Cornerstone Award Gifts of the Spirit Award Head Coach of the Year Award Professor of the Year Award University Support Staff of the Year Award FLAMESPY Award Recaps
AD – Commitment to Excellence
Given to a senior athlete with a cumulative grade point average of a 4.0
2012 – Megan Neff (Cheerleading)
2013 – Pat Kelly (Football) and Lauren Stell (Women's Soccer)
2014 – Rebecaa Haraf (Volleyball)
2015 – Helen Doolittle (Field Hockey), Matt Pennington (Baseball), Megan Robinson (Softball) and Brittany Yang (Women's Tennis)
2016 – Jason Burgess (Men's Tennis), Ashley Rininger (Women's Basketball), Natalie Beale (Women's Swimming), Madison Long (Women's Swimming) and Will Templeton (Men's Track & Field)
2017 – Serena Barr (Field Hockey), Stephanie Patton (Women's Basketball) and Hunter Winstead (Football)
2018 – Graham Hansel (Men's Cross Country/Track & Field), Molly Reagan (Women's Basketball), Sheana Vega (Women's Basketball)
2019 – Michael Chorowicz (Football), Ruben Garcia Arnaza (Men's Soccer), Alicia Finnigan (Women's Swimming & Diving), Siani Null (Women's Swimming & Diving), Kelly Shaffer (Track & Field)
Darius Dixon Service Award
Previously known as the "Pay It Forward Award, this award is fiven annually to a student-athlete or team who gives freely and unselfishly of their time to community activities, they inspire others and act as a role model as well as improve the lives of others through voluntary giving. The award is named in honor of former track & field student-athlete Darius Dixon, who was committed to community service before he tragically passed away on Dec. 7, 2013.
2012 – Jen Moyer (Lacrosse)
2013 – Baseball
2015 – Volleyball
2016 – Men's Basketball
2017 – Women's Lacrosse
Support Staff of the Year Award
Presented annually to a member of the athletics department staff that athletics could not do without.
2012 – Mickey Guridy (Senior Associate Athletics Director – Internal Operations)
2013 – Dave Williams (Strength & Conditioning)
2014 – Kristie Beitz (Senior Associate Athletics Director – Academics)
2015 – Ryan Kindt (Director of Ticket Sales)
2016 – Paul Carmany (Athletics Communications)
2017 – Megan Robinson (Flames Club)
2018 – Seth Mullen (Associate Director of Ticket Operations)
2019 – Kassy McAloon (Director of Fan Experience and Promotions)
Perseverance of Job Award
Given to a student-athlete who has triumphed and overcome obstacles as well as difficulties over their Liberty University athletics career or in recent months.
2012 – Stan Vaughan (Men's Tennis)
2013 – Khristina Kanagy (Women's Cross Country/Track & Field)
2014 – Abigail Flower (Women's Track & Field)
2015 – Yana Babbitt (Women's Track & Field)
2017 – Audrey Rettstatt (Women's Basketball)
2018 – Jessica Cicerchia (Softball)
2019 – Evan Brabrand (Baseball)
Strength & Conditioning Athlete of the Year
The Strength & Conditioning Athlete of the Year Award recognizes one male and one female whose athletic accomplishments, in the opinion of their strength coach, reflect the dedication to the overall strength training and conditioning program (first presented in 2017).
Female Student-Athlete Award Winner:
2017 – Erika Troutman (Women's Soccer)
2018 – Kylie Polsgrove (Women's Track & Field)
2019 – Margaret Latchford (Volleyball)
Male Student-Athlete Award Winner:
2017- John Dawson (Men's Basketball)
2018 – Carrington Mosley (Football)
2019 – Zach Farquhar (Men's Basketball)
Dr. Jerry Falwell Leadership Award (Male Award Winner)
Presented to one male who have exemplified Dr. Falwell's vision through leadership, commitment to academics, athletic talent and service to others.
2012 – Trey Wimmer (Baseball)
2013 – Siim Tuus (Men's Tennis)
2014 – Cory Freeman (Football)
2015 – Dillon Segur (Men's Tennis)
2016 – Tim Harbison (Men's Soccer)
2017 – Will Shepherd (Baseball)
2018 – Vinnie Tarantola (Baseball)
2019 – Tyler Galazin (Baseball)
Dr. Jerry Falwell Leadership Award (Female Award Winner)
Presented to one female who has exemplified Dr. Falwell's vision through leadership, commitment to academics, athletic talent and service to others.
2012 – Karen Blocker (Women's Soccer)
2013 – Loren Thomas (Volleyball)
2014 – Bethany Kennon (Women's Soccer)
2015 – Mercedes Cox (Field Hockey/Women's Lacrosse)
2016 – Hannan Jones (Field Hockey)
2017 – Casey Thate (Women's Lacrosse)
2018 – Alynn Richardson (Field Hockey)
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Best Clutch Performance Award
Given to the best or most significant performance by a student-athlete in a game, match or meet.
2012 – Dalton Sype (Baseball)
2013 – Davon Marshall (Men's Basketball)
2014 – Jarred Cornfield (Men's Track & Field)
2015 – Caroline Douglas (Volleyball)
2016 – John Dawson (Men's Basketball)
2017 – A.C. Reid (Men's Basketball)
2018 – Ashtyn Baker (Women's Basketball)
2019 – Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz (Men's Basketball)
Best Championship Performance Award
Given to the best or most significant performance in a championship match, series, or tournament.
2012 – Men's Soccer (Winning its second Big South title)
2013 – Men's Basketball winning Big South Men's Basketball Championship (March 5-10, 2013)
2014 – Baseball win the 2013 Big South Baseball Championship (May 25, 2013)
2015 – Aklesso Agam at the 2015 Big South Men's Indoor Championship (Feb. 26-27, 2015)
2016 – Kendall Hough posts three podium finishes at 2016 CCSA Swimming & Diving Championship (Feb. 18-20, 2016)
2017 – Carson Waters at the Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships on Feb. 25, 2017 (Men's Track & Field)
2018 – Kylie Polsgrove at the Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships (Women's Track & Field)
2019 – Caleb Homesley (Men's Basketball) vs. Mississippi State at the NCAA Tournament (March 22, 2019)
Most Outstanding Team Award
Given to the best team based on their record, conference championship match, series, or tournament.
2012 – Track & Field
2013 – Women's Basketball
2014 – Women's Swimming & Diving
2015 – Football
2016 – Field Hockey
2017 – Women's Soccer
Play of the Year Award
Given for the single play or performance that made the most impact on a game or season.
2012 – Chris Summers and Mike Brown (Football)
2013 – Ryan Cordell (Baseball) at South Carolina (Feb. 17, 2013)
2014 – Kyle Breitmeyer (Men's Soccer) vs. Longwood (Oct. 29, 2013)
2015 – Chima Uzowihe (Football) vs. Coastal Carolina (Nov. 22, 2014)
2016 – Chris Turner (Football) vs. Coastal Carolina (Nov. 19, 2015)
2017 – Bethany Barr vs. Providence in the 2016 BIG EAST Championship semifinals on Nov. 4, 2016 (Field Hockey)
2018 – Keegan McDowell and Scottie James (Men's Basketball) vs. UNC Asheville
2019 – Ayden Karraker (Baseball) vs. Wake Forest (Feb. 19, 2019)
Fan Voted Play of the Year
Given to the top play of the year, as voted upon by members of Flames Nation.
2019 – Kaitlin McFarland (Softball) vs. Hofstra (May 18, 2019) (Winner)
Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Award
Given to the student-athlete who made the most impact or significant breakthrough during the season.
2012 – Kevin Fogg (Football)
2013 – Kyle Breitmeyer (Men's Soccer)
2014 – Ryan Seiz (Baseball)
2015 – D.J. Abnar (Football)
2016 – Catherine Kearney (Women's Basketball)
2017 – Brianna McCaffrey (Women's Lacrosse)
2018 – Antonio Gandy-Golden (Football)
2019 – Frankie Hickson (Football)
Female Newcomer/Rookie Athlete of the Year Award
Given to the female student-athlete who was dedicated, positive, hard-working and made an immediate impact on their program during their first year of competition at Liberty (freshman, redshirt freshman or transfer student-athlete).
2012 – Mychelle Cumings (Women's Track & Field)
2014 – Holly Van Noord (Women's Soccer)
2015 – Katy Pridemor (Women's Lacrosse)
2016 – Delaney McDowell (Women's Track & Field)
2017 – Keyen Green (Women's Basketball)
2019 – Emily Lytle (Women's Basketball)
Male Rookie Athlete of the Year Award
Given to the male student-athlete who was dedicated, positive, hard-working and made an immediate impact on their program during their first year of competition at Liberty (freshman, redshirt freshman or transfer student-athlete).
2012 – Leonard Robbins (Men's Track & Field)
2013 – Josh Woodrum (Football)
2014 – Stephen Racanelli (Men's Track & Field)
2015 – Jovanni Chavez (Men's Soccer)
2016 – D.J. Artis (Baseball)
2018 – Elijah Cuffee (Men's Basketball)
2019 – Nicaise Muamba (Men's Tennis)
Best Female Athlete of the Year Award
Presented to an individual female athlete based on her yearly stats and athletics accolades.
2012 – Avery Warley (Women's Basketball)
2013 – Devon Brown (Women's Basketball)
2014 – Natalie Barr (Field Hockey)
2015 – Ashley Rininger (Women's Basketball)
2016 – Ednah Kurgat (Women's Cross Country/Track & Field)
2017 – Serena Barr (Field Hockey)
2018 – Evangeline Crist (Women's Tennis)
2019 – Agueda Moroni (Field Hockey)
Best Male Athlete of the Year Award
Presented to an individual male athlete based on his yearly stats and athletics accolades.
2012 – Robert Karlsson (Golf)
2013 – Tavares Speaks (Men's Basketball)
2014 – Shea Thomas (Men's Tennis)
2015 – Shawn Clowers (Baseball)
2016 – Chima Uzowihe (Football)
2017 – Tresor Mbuyu (Men's Soccer)
2019 – Alejandro Perlaza Zapata (Men's Track & Field)
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Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award
In 1975, the Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award was established to honor the top graduating senior student-athlete at Liberty University who best exemplifies the standards and lives of both of these great Christian men. Rock Royer was Liberty's first football coach in 1973. Mac Rivera was a member of Liberty's basketball team from 1972 until 1975. Both Rock Royer and Mac Rivera tragically died at a young age. This award encompasses more than just athletic ability. It recognizes the Liberty University graduating senior student-athlete who has maintained an exemplary testimony on the playing field, in the classroom and among the student body.
Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award winners since the start of the FLAMESPY Awards:
2012 – Jesse Sanders (Men's Basketball)
2013 – Jennifer Klugh (Women's Cross Country/Track & Field)
2014 – Trey Lambert (Baseball)
2015 – Alex Close (Baseball)
2019 – Alicia Finnigan (Women's Swimming & Diving)
Click here for the full list of Rock Royer/Mack Rivera Award winners since 1975.
Discontinued Awards:
Assistant Coach of the Year Award
Presented to an Assistant Coach who helped their team achieve a high level of success athletically, academically, socially and spiritually.
2012 – Pete McFadden (Track & Field)
2013 – Lance Bingham (Track & Field)
2014 – Adam Godwin (Women's Soccer)
2015 – Jessica Barnes (Women's Swimming & Diving)
2016 – Giancarlo Lemmi (Women's Tennis)
2017 – Brad Soucie (Men's Basketball)
2018 – Erin Batth (Women's Basketball)
Athletic Training Award
Nominated by the athletic training staff, this award is given to a student-athlete who has overcome injury and remained diligent in their recovery and rehabilitation process (first presented in 2017).
2017 – Jackson Bertsch (Baseball)
Best Blooper Award
Given to the student-athlete with the funniest blooper moment (only presented in 2012 and 2013).
2012 – Tomasz Gielo (Men's Basketball)
2013 – Sparky (Liberty's mascot)
Best Finish Award
Given to the team or student-athlete with the best game, winning shot, goal, run or hit (presented from 2012-16).
2012 – Antwan Burrus (Men's Basketball)
2014 – Ashton Perritt (Baseball)
2015 – Mallory Cuccio (Field Hockey)
2016 – Devon Jones (Women's Soccer)
Best Supporting Athlete of the Year Award
2012 – Courtney Cooper (Volleyball)
Best Upset Award
Given to the team or student-athlete with the best, most significant or most impressive upset of the year.
2012 – Baseball vs. No. 14 Virginia and No. 6 North Carolina
2013 – Football's 28-14 win over No. 6/8 Stony Brook (Nov. 10, 2012)
2014 – Field Hockey's win over No. 10 Stanford to claim the NorPar Championship (Nov. 9, 2013)
2015 – Football's win over No. 1 Coastal Carolina to push Liberty into the NCAA FCS Playoffs (Nov. 22, 2014)
2016 – Women's Tennis defeated No. 53 Winthrop (March 19, 2016)
2017 – Evangeline Crist and Anna Dollar score upset win in quarterfinals of 2016 ITA Atlantic Regional Women's Tennis Championships, Oct. 16, 2016 (Women's Tennis)
Presented to an individual honoring their commitment to continue Dr. Jerry Falwell's vision of making Liberty Athletics one of the top NCAA Division I programs in the country.
2012 – Jerry Falwell, Jr., Liberty University President, and his wife, Becki
2013 – Neal Askew, Liberty University Executive Vice President
2014 – Mark Hine, Liberty University Senior VP for Student Affairs
2015 – Ron Kennedy, Liberty University Executive Vice President for Marketing
2016 – Laura Wallace, Liberty University Executive Vice President for Human Resources
2017 – Dave Williams, Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach
Gifts of the Spirit Award
Given to the tutor that exemplifies all of the fruits of the spirit while assisting student-athletes academically, socially and spiritually.
2012 – Rueben Gaines
2013 – Taylor Bishop
2014 – Heath Detweiler
2015 – Tyler Bunzey
2016 – Maleah Mortorff
2017 – Carter Hull
2018 – Andrew Cesanek
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Presented to a Head Coach who helped their team achieve a high level of success athletically, academically, socially and spiritually.
2012 – Jodi Murphy (Field Hockey)
2013 – Jeff Thomas (Men's Golf)
2014 – Jeff Maren (Women's Tennis)
2015 – Jim Toman (Baseball)
2016 – Ritchie McKay (Men's Basketball)
2017 – Jake Shellenberger (swimming & diving)
2018 – Kelly Nangle (Women's Lacrosse)
Professor of the Year Award
Presented to a Liberty University professor for their commitment to academic excellence and support of academic achievement (first presented in 2012; restarted in 2016).
2012 – Carolyn Towles (English)
2016 – Travis Holt (English)
2017 – George Buzzy (Helm's School of Government)
University Support Staff of the Year Award
Presented annually to a Liberty University staff member that has collaborated with the athletics department and has impacted the success of student-athletes (first presented in 2016).
2016 – Dr. Megan Cordes (Director of Individualized Programs of Study)
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Q: Standard deviation of the difference between a time series and its EMA? I have a time series $Q={\{q_t\}}$ of known standard deviation $\sigma$, and its EMA of parameter $\alpha$ : $\{EMA_t(\alpha)\}$.
My question is : I'm looking for a formula that would give the standard deviation $\sigma_{\alpha}$ of the time series made by the difference between $Q$ and its EMA for any $\alpha$, depending of the known Q standard deviation $\sigma$ :
$$
\sigma_{\alpha} = f_\sigma(\alpha) \space\space?
$$
Here is what I did so far
Intuitively, one could think that, the shorter is the EMA (= the closer is $\alpha$ to 1), the more it will fit the shape of the time series, so the less the stddev of the difference between the TS and its EMA, $\sigma_\alpha$, will be. Here is a time series with $\sigma = 2.82$ and their EMAs with different values for alpha to illustrate this intuition :
To get a further intuition of what that function could be, I plotted $\sigma_\alpha$ as a function of $\alpha$ :
As expected, when $\alpha$ is close to 0, $\sigma_\alpha$ approches $\sigma$ ; and when $\alpha$ is close to 1, the $EMA = Q$ : the standard deviation of the difference is naturally 0.
When I plot that with many different $Q$, this curve looks like pretty much the same, so it appears there is some deterministic function f, but I'm not able to find its expression. I plotted the derivative of $f$ for many different Q, and unfortunalty, it has a different shape depending on Q. Here are some plot of $(\sigma_\alpha)'$ :
In order to try to understand better the problem, I plotted $\alpha_\sigma$ and its derivative for a Q containing a very small number of points (4). The shape of f and its derivative looks now much more random... Here are $\alpha_\sigma$ and $(\alpha_\sigma)'$ for different Q containing 4 points :
So finally, it looks like the more the time series has points, the more $f$ will tend to be something deterministic. Though, I can't see intuitively what can be the missing information different than Q standard deviation $\sigma$ that make f stochastic, especially with a little number of points.
Am I missing some constant that I could compute from $Q$, whose depend an existing deterministic $f$ (appart from $\sigma$) ? Or is $f$ eventually stochastic and I can only have an estimation of $\sigma_\alpha$ by doing a regression ?
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Officials at Litton & Giddings Radiological Associates (LGRA) announced Wednesday a potential breach of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which may have compromised the personal health information of some 13,000 patients.
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According to an Oct. 5 letter mailed to potentially affected patients, the paper documents that were improperly disposed may have included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnosis codes and/or Social Security numbers.
Officials are uncertain which patient files and the exact number of patient files were sent to the recyling center. Thus, the letter notifying patients that their information may not have been properly shredded was mailed to the some 13,000 patients who had any billing activity between July 23 and Aug. 2, 2012. PST Services, Inc., the company that handles LGRA"s billing records, was able to identify the specific dates when records were not properly destroyed by reviewing internal security cameras.
Officials say PST Services is committed to patient record confidentiality and requires the shredding and destruction of records. However, on Aug. 10, 2012, LGRA learned that a building janitor mistakenly removed documents from the locked shred bin and placed them in a different secured container with other recyclable materials. This locked container was transported to a recycling center where the items were sorted for recycling and, ultimately, completely destroyed. The recycling process is largely mechanized, but recycling facility employees do, at times, manually sort the materials. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 909 |
Q: db.Entry vs db.update in Entity Framework Core I am learning how to create a Web API in .NET Core and I realized that there's another way to update an entry...
I usually update an entry using:
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
db.update(pais);
db.SaveChanges();
return new CreatedAtRouteResult("GetById", new { id = pais.Id }, pais);
}
But watching a video I realized that he used:
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
db.Entry(pais).State = EntityState.Modified;
db.SaveChanges();
return new CreatedAtRouteResult("GetById", new { id = pais.Id }, pais);
}
Both work for me, but what is the difference between them?
A: *
*DbContext update: For entity types with generated keys if an entity has its primary key value set then it will be tracked in the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.EntityState.Modified state. If the primary key value is not set then it will be tracked in the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.EntityState.Added state. This helps ensure new entities will be inserted, while existing entities will be updated. An entity is considered to have its primary key value set if the primary key property is set to anything other than the CLR default for the property type.
*DbContext Entry: For entity types without generated keys, the state set is always Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.EntityState.Modified. Use Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ChangeTracking.EntityEntry.State to set the state of only a single entity.
I summarize it in the description of the DbContext update interface. Hope to help you
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The Similarities And Differences Of A Rose For Emily And Everyday Use
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In order to truly understand and appreciate a story, it needs to be taken and profoundly analyzed, different aspects need to be considered like settings, the time it is supposed to be taking place in, the location, even the writer plays a big role. Here comparing and contrasting the stories 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker, 'A rose for Emily' is written by William Faulkner in the form of a short story where the it is divided into sections that follow the life of Emily Grierson, the whole story takes place in in a small town called Jefferson in the early 20th century where as 'Everyday Use' was taken place on a pasture during the mid 20th century.
The 'Rose for Emily' mainly took place on the same site, but however throughout the story the site would change as time passed. The exact time it took place around is never really said in the story, but we can get to this conclusion based on the language and little context clues we get in the stories like for example how they derogatorily call dark skinned people or African Americans "Negros". Knowing the time and place in which the story is happening gives us other information, in this case having in mind that they lived in the south during those years, there were certain distinctive culture aspects like the first being that everyone had their place in society in addition to that, we know that even after the civil war there were serious cases of racism and sexism happening there. In addition to this, there were many and judgmental and strict social guidelines that were supposed to be followed by women.
In A Rose for Emily the author uses the protagonist, Miss Emily to symbolize the old south aristocracy. Like her farther she is proud. She possesses a duty and doesn't accept to many favors. When Emily's father died, the mayor, Colonel Sartoris protected Emily by remitting her taxes. when the board of Alderman went to talk to her about her taxes, she ignored their request and pushed them to leave. It was her stature of superiority along with pride that made her turn others away. Her pride kept her from paying taxes since, Colonel Sartoris said it was the town's way of repaying her father. The mayor even created a lie so Emily would not feel ashamed for accepting charity. The whole town expected for Emily Grierson to marry, but when she was still single at thirty the town pitied her.
Another example from Everyday Use is Maggie's impending marriage to John Thomas. Even though John Thomas has "mossy teeth", since Maggie is scarred with burns this marriage is considered lucky. Another aspect of the Deep South that affects and has big relevance because of the setting is the distrust of outsiders. After the Reconstruction era, Southerners, white and black, distrusted outsiders. White Southerners distrusted outsiders because of the war that destroyed their way of life, while African Americans distrusted outsiders because their ways. "Whites" had treated African Americans poorly in the South, this made African Americans distrust white people and vice versa. Faulkner and Walker both show the facet of distrust against outsiders. In A Rose for Emily, when Emily was seen taking rides with a Yankee foreman, the town thought it was scandalous; a preacher even went to speak to her about the impropriety. Alice Walker's Everyday Use the mother distrusted Wagner's boyfriend. She even distrusted him more when he said, "farming and raising cattle is not my style". The Deep South culture was the tension between the races. Everyday Use showed this aspect when the mother remembered white men poisoning the wells of neighbors.
Faulkner showed this by the "negro" working for Emily not trusting white neighbors with Emily's secrets. In these stories there is a lot of symbolism like in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, Emily's mansion is a big thing in the story "Emily's house, like Emily herself, is a monument, the only remaining emblem of a dying world of Southern aristocracy. The outside of the large, square frame house is lavishly decorated. The cupolas, spires, and scrolled balconies are the hallmarks of a decadent style of architecture that became popular in the 1870s. By the time the story takes place, much has changed. The street and neighborhood, at one time affluent, pristine, and privileged, have lost their standing as the realm of the elite. The house is in some ways an extension of Emily: it bares its "stubborn and coquettish decay" to the town's residents. It is a testament to the endurance and preservation of tradition but now seems out of place among the cotton wagons, gasoline pumps, and other industrial trappings that surround it—just as the South's old values are out of place in a changing society.
Emily's house also represents alienation, mental illness, and death. It is a shrine to the living past, and the sealed upstairs bedroom is her macabre trophy room where she preserves the man, she would not allow to leave her. As when the group of men sprinkled lime along the foundation to counteract the stench of rotting flesh, the townspeople skulk along the edges of Emily's life and property. The house, like its owner, is an object of fascination for them. They project their own lurid fantasies and interpretations onto the crumbling edifice and mysterious figure inside. Emily's death is a chance for them to gain access to this forbidden realm and confirm their wildest notions and most sensationalistic suppositions about what had occurred on the inside." (Barnes and Noble) According to this, the house was more than just a house it represented Emily in many ways as of her mental health, how the house with the years got more and more deteriorated and with the person in charge of keeping it how it was before not really doing anything for it, how loneliness and everything she went through with the death of her Father as well as him not allowing her to get married or even be close to a man adjudicating her to a life of loneliness and not having a mom affected her was reflected in the house as the years went by, these things became stronger and the house got more and more deteriorated.
In 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker we can witness a lot of symbolism too here with a different and maybe a less significant item as how the sisters fight for the quilts ""Everyday Use" focuses on the bonds between women of different generations and their enduring legacy, as symbolized in the quilts they fashion together. This connection between generations is strong, yet Dee's arrival and lack of understanding of her history shows that those bonds are vulnerable as well. The relationship between Aunt Dicie and Mama, the experienced seamstresses who made the quilts, is very different from the relationship between Maggie and Dee, sisters who share barely a word and have almost nothing in common.
Just as Dee cannot understand the legacy of her name, passed along through four generations, she does not understand the significance of the quilts, which contain swatches of clothes once worn or owned by at least a century's worth of ancestors. The quilts are pieces of living history, documents in fabric that chronicle the lives of the various generations and the trials, such as war and poverty, that they faced. The quilts serve as a testament to a family's history of pride and struggle. With the limitations that poverty and lack of education placed on her life, Mama considers her personal history one of her few treasures. Her house contains the handicrafts of her extended family. Instead of receiving a financial inheritance from her ancestors, Mama has been given the quilts. For her, these objects have a value that Dee, despite professing her desire to care for and preserve the quilts, is unable to fathom." (Barnes and Nobles)
Based on this it can be concluded that these quilts really meant something they were a very valuable treasure with an actual non-monetary value but a sentimental one, they represent heritage. And the "perfect" sister Dee wants them even though her sister Maggie had asked for them before but she argues that she won't appreciate them giving her sister underestimating her sister and her abilities, it could be said that she sees herself as a superior human being than her sister because she has achieved other things in life while her sister is still home with their mom taking care of the house and focusing on other things. Dee's mom even says that life has never learned how to say 'no' to Dee implying that what she's achieved, she didn't really have to work that hard in order to get them.
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Last week, seven lions began a 36 hour journey from South Africa. Now, the lions are back in Rwanda. More precisely, in Akagera National Park.
Rwanda's lions were nonexistent prior to this. During the 1944 genocide that took place in the country, many people took refuge in the park. They were eventually forced to drive out, or actually kill, the lions, in attempts to protect their livestock.
The relocation selected lions from different areas in the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, where the lion population was large enough that there was a need to remove surplus animals. But, judging by a statement from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, this doesn't happen too often.
ICUN warned that the number of cats in eastern Africa, usually the region where the lion reigns, has been in rapid decline due to traditional practices in African medicine. The felines are hunted for their bones and other body parts which constitute key ingredients in several drugs, giving them a high value on the market.
Still, it could be worse. In western Africa, the ICUN lists the population of lions as "critically endangered" due to over-hunting not only of the lions, but of their pray also, leaving them with nothing to feed on.
In Akagera, the lions will have a wide variety of pray to choose from on the menu: multiple antelope species, buffaloes, giraffes, and zebras. Still, if the cats are feeling particularly adventurous, they can restate their dominance over all the other animals by hunting leopards, or elephants; a sight not uncommon in Africa.
In spite of all this, or maybe because of it, the humans of Rwanda have shown concern as to their and their livestock's safety. The authorities, however, say that they have nothing to fear, for the park is surrounded by a big fence and the lions will be equipped with satellite collars, so that they can be easily tracked.
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The 28th Months of Government gave practical taste of power to the Indian Leaders. So, after 1937, nationalist movement got strengthened. Though the Muslim League leaders and Congress leaders were not finding any common platform to share.
Still, the leaders of Congress were not ready to compromise. Because they knew that Britishers are under pressure due to World War-II, Nazism and Fascism in Europe. In this condition, an internal crisis evolved in Congress.
As we know that after Swadeshi Movement, Surat Spilt took place. In the Surat Split, Extremists and Moderates got separated. Congress also divided into the two groups after the Non-Cooperation Movement; Pro-changers and No-changer. Even after the Civil Disobedience Movement, some Congress leaders became a believer in Communist philosophy.
In 1938, Haripura (Gujarat) Session of Indian National Congress held. The eminent young leader of Congress Subhash Chandra Bose won the presidential election of this session unanimously. Subhash Chandra Bose was the most dynamic leader of that time in Congress. When he became the president in Haripura Session the demand for Complete Independence was at its peak.
After the 1857 Revolt, though slowly but steadily the participation of Indian Leaders in Political Affairs was increasing. While Swadeshi, Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience Movements gave foundation to the Indian Industries. Indian Capitalists helped in these movements through their finance.
All these mass movements got leadership from the middle class, finance from Capitalist class and people from the suppressed class. So, on all the fronts except military, Indian Masses were performing very enthusiastically to get independence.
Bose was a nationalist leader he knew that to get independence from the imperialistic power, military empowerment was necessary. So, in the next year 1939, Bose decided to stand again for the INC president election. It was Tripuri Session of Indian National Congress.
I represent new ideologies, ideas, problems and programmes that had emerged with the progressive sharening of the anti-imperialist struggle in India.
But the other Congress leaders countered this statement of Bose and said that all the ideas, ideologies and movements are evolved by the various committees of Congress. They said that the position of Congress president was like that of the Constitutional head who represented and symbolised the unity and solidarity of the nation.
When the Bose submitted his candidature form for the Tripuri Session. Gandhi put forward the candidature of an Andhra leader Pattabhi Sitaramayya for the President of Tripuri Session. But the popularity of Bose shattered the hope of Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose won the presidential election.
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The resignation of Congress Working Committee was very distressing for Bose. So, Bose left Congress and found a new party Forward Bloc in Calcutta. After this, he also went on some military expeditions with the help of Japan, Singapore etc. Bose also led the Indian National Army during Quit India Movement. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 915 |
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Q: Soln for U-Boot Compilation error with myir board? I'm using the MYD-Y6ULX-HMI series boards supports the Linux kernel version 4.1.15, and provided with rich hardware and software resource. They recommend to use Ubuntu 16.04 64bit distribution. For more details about the devkit
-> http://www.myirtech.com/list.asp?id=602
-> http://d.myirtech.com/MYD-Y6ULX-HMI/
By referring their usermanual,
(1) Installed virtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 64bit distribution
(2) Installed software package and made the working directory in root.
(3) Installed Yocto toolchain:gcc version 5.3.0(GCC) - for driver(metatoolchain)
After installation sourced the env file:
source /opt/myir-imx6ulx-fb/4.1.15-2.0.1/environment-setup-cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi
and checked the compiler version:
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc --version
(4) Now trying to make u-boot config and compiling it with that able to generate config file but facing issue while compiling it,
(a) Sourced the metaToolChain
(b) Entered the U-bootsource file directory
(c) given sudo make distclean
(d) Exported the env variables CROSS_COMPILER and ARCH
(e) sudo make
the core board of one i'm using is MYC-Y6ULY2-356N256D-50-C
(f) sudo make
But cant able to compile. Can any one please help on this to solve the issue?
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A: Do not use sudo here. It's a bad practice all around, but specifically in this case the environment from the user isn't passed to sudo, so CROSS_COMPILE is unset, so that's why you see that error.
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L'étymologie des prénoms nord-amérindiens aborde le sujet complexe de leur origine. Prénoms sur lesquels il y a parfois une controverse, dans la mesure où le manque d'éléments ne permet pas d'attester toujours avec certitude l'origine étymologique des prénoms. Il existe toutefois des sources fiables auxquelles se référer.
Origine des prénoms nord-amérindiens
Les prénoms nord-amérindiens prennent souvent ancrage dans le monde des Amérindiens, dans la nature qui les entoure, dans les forces surnaturelles qu'ils perçoivent, dans les qualités des personnes, ou bien d'autres événements de la vie, souvent liés à la naissance. Lorsqu'ils font référence à la nature, c'est parfois en référence à une qualité humaine.
Le terme nord-amérindien recouvre de très nombreuses tribus divisées essentiellement en que des ethnologues ont classés par région culturelle. Parmi les nombreux peuples, on peut citer les : Abénaquis, Algonquins, Apaches, Athabaskans, Pieds-Noirs (Blackfoot), Caddos, Chérokîs, Cheyennes, Tchipewyans, Ojibwés, Chactas, Comanches, Cris, Creeks, Crows, Dénés, Lenapes, Haïdas, Hopis, Inuktitut, Kiowas, Lenapes, Malécites, Mescaleros, Passamaquoddys, Mesquakies, Mohawks, Mojaves, Munsee, Muskogee, Navajos, Nez-Percés, Nuxalk, Ojibway, Onneiouts, Osages, Pawnees, Pimas, Potéouatamis, Salish, Sauks, Séminoles, Sénécas, Chaouanons, Shoshones, Sioux (Dakotas, Lakotas dont les Oglalas, Nakotas), Tohono O'odham, Tlingits et Yaquis.
Controverse sur les prénoms nord-amérindiens
Les Amérindiens étaient les premiers habitants des actuels États-Unis et Canada. C'est pourquoi beaucoup de noms de lieux, et dans une moindre mesure de prénoms sont d'origine amérindienne. Cependant certains prénoms semblent d'origine amérindienne alors qu'ils ne le sont pas réellement.
Il est probable que les premiers colons aient entendu les noms amérindiens dans leur langue originelle et ont essayé d'en faire une traduction dans leur propre langue. Or il arrive alors que le nom amérindien original soit mal orthographié et mal prononcé. Ou encore que des noms nord-amérindiens aient été pris pour des prénoms. Par exemple :
Dakota : prénom masculin et féminin qui signifierait « ami » en sioux, selon des livres américains de prénoms. Dakota est en réalité le nom d'une tribu sioux, mais en aucun cas un prénom sioux. Par ailleurs, cela ne signifie pas « ami » mais est un mot pluriel signifiant « les alliés ».
Hateya : prénom féminin amérindien des Miwoks, qui signifierait « trace de pas dans le sable ». Cette traduction semble un embellissement de la réalité, car en miwok le mot « ha·t'ej » signifie « appuyer avec le pied » ou bien « faire des traces ». Sans doute le nom « Hateya » est-il la contraction et l'anglicisation de deux mots qui ensemble signifiaient bien « trace de pas dans le sable ».
Nahima ou Nahimana : prénom féminin qui signifierait « mystique » en sioux. Il s'agit sans doute d'une mauvaise traduction du mot dakota sioux qui signifie « secret » pas dans une dimension mystique, mais plus dans celle d'un espion.
Il arrive aussi que des prénoms soient des emprunts des peuples nord-amérindiens de mots d'origine occidentale. Par exemple :
Angeni, prénom féminin qui signifie « ange », a probablement une origine européenne ; peut être de l'anglais « angel », puisque de nombreuses langues amérindiennes n'ont pas de lettre « L », et comme le mot potawatomi « azhe'ni' » ou le mot ojibwé « aanzhenii ». Le concept d'ange n'existait pas avant la colonisation européenne.
Sakari est un prénom féminin qui signifierait « douce » en inuktitut. Mais il ne s'agit pas d'un nom traditionnel inuit, et proviendrait d'une langue indo-européenne, dans laquelle le terme signifie « doux » ou « sucre ». Il s'agirait peut-être aussi d'un emprunt au finnois, voire du grec.
Par ailleurs, il est arrivé que des prénoms avec d'autres origines comme le grec, l'espagnol, l'hindi ou le russe soient pris pour des prénoms amérindiens, cela souvent pour des raisons de proximité sonore. Des noms de lieux - notamment des villes - ont également été pris pour des prénoms amérindiens. Erreur sans doute due au fait que ces noms de lieux ont eux une origine amérindienne. Par exemple :
Ayiana est un prénom féminin faussement considéré comme amérindien, qui signifierait « fleur éternelle » en chérokî. Il semble que ce prénom n'ait pas de signification particulière en chérokî, voire dans aucune langue amérindienne. Il s'agit probablement d'une variante d'Ayanna, prénom afro-américain ou jamaïcain ou encore d'une variante d'Ayana, prénom indien (hindi).
Chenoa est un prénom féminin faussement considéré comme amérindien, qui signifierait « colombe blanche » en chérokî. Son origine viendrait plutôt d'une petite ville de l'Illinois (États-Unis) dénommée « Chenoa » dont l'origine du nom n'est pas certaine. Les autorités locales suggèrent que Chenoa aurait été nommée par son fondateur qui venait d'une autre ville du Kentucky. Dans ce cas, Chenoa pourrait avoir une origine chérokîe, dont la signification se serait perdue. Mais probablement sans lien avec les colombes. Le mot chérokî pour « colombe » est « woya » et « unega woya » pour « colombe blanche ».
Taima est un prénom féminin qui signifierait « fracas du tonnerre » ou "Foudre" en navajo. Ce prénom n'a certainement pas ce sens en navajo, mais son origine pourrait être d'une autre langue, voire du nom d'un lieu dont l'origine serait elle, amérindienne. En fait, le mot "Taima" provient de l'Inuktitut du nunavut et du nunavik.
Satinka est un prénom masculin et féminin faussement considéré comme amérindien qui signifierait « danseuse magique » ou « danseur sacré » dans une langue amérindienne non spécifiée. Cette origine semble erronée, car ce terme n'est pas mentionné dans l'histoire tribale ou dans la littérature anthropologique, ni nulle part avant 1990 concernant cet usage. Il est possible que cela signifie « danseur » ou « danse » dans un langage amérindien. Mais étant donné qu'il n'est pas un prénom traditionnel et que son origine semble récente, il est plus probablement inspiré de prénoms d'origine russe comme Katinka, voire de noms de lieu d'origine russe.
Sans parler de quelques assez rares prénoms qui ne sont pas à proprement parler amérindiens, mais sont les inventions de romanciers ayant écrit sur les Amérindiens. Par exemple :
Enola qui n'est aucunement d'origine amérindienne, mais est l'anacyclique du mot anglais alone, donné à une héroïne de roman. C'est à la suite de ce roman que ce prénom fut réellement donné.
Kaya est un prénom féminin faussement considéré comme amérindien qui signifierait « petite sœur » ou « sœur ainée » en hopi. . Son origine proviendrait plutôt du personnage fictionnel amérindien dénommé « Kaya » dans « American Girl » de la littérature pour enfants. Dans ce livre, Kaya est une abréviation du nom de cette fille : Kaya'aton'my' qui est un vrai nom Nez-Percés.
Toutefois ces prénoms sont aujourd'hui portés - essentiellement aux États-Unis, Canada et en Australie.
Exemples de prénoms liés à la nature
Abey : prénom féminin qui signifie « feuille » - Peuple Sioux, tribu Omahas.
Abeytu : prénom féminin qui signifie « feuille verte » - Peuple Sioux, tribu Omahas.
Adriel :
Ama : prénom féminin qui signifie « eau » - Peuple chérokî.
Bena : prénom féminin d'origine qui signifie « faisan ».
Chayton : prénom masculin qui signifie « faucon » (Cetan prononcé ché-tane) - Langues siouanes.
Chilali :
Chimalis : prénom féminin qui signifie « oiseau bleu ».
Cholena : prénom féminin qui signifie « oiseau ».
Chumani : prénom féminin qui signifie « goutte de rosée » - Peuple sioux.
Coahoma : prénom féminin qui signifie « panthère rouge » - Tribu des Choctaws.
Dena : prénom féminin qui signifie « vallée ».
Doli : prénom féminin qui signifie « oiseau bleu » - Peuple navajo.
Donoma : prénom féminin qui signifie « le soleil est là » - Peuple sioux, tribu des Omahas.
Dyani : prénom féminin qui signifie « cerf ».
Hateya :
Huyana :
Kaliska :
Kiona :
Kishi :
Magena :
Migina : prénom féminin qui signifie « lune descendante » - Peuple sioux, tribu des Omahas.
Nita :
Ozalee :
Paco : prénom masculin qui signifierait « aigle à la tête blanche ».
Papina :
Petunia :
Sora :
Tadi : prénom masculin qui signifie « vent ».
Waban : prénom masculin qui signifie « vent d'est ».
Waneta :
Yahto : prénom masculin qui signifie la couleur « bleue ».
Yepa :
Exemples de prénoms liés aux forces surnaturelles
Angeni : prénom féminin qui signifie « ange » - Dans de nombreuses langues amérindiennes, par exemple en potawatomis ou en ojibwé.
Kwanita : prénom masculin et féminin qui signifie « les esprits sont bons ».
Wakanda : prénom féminin qui signifie « pouvoir magique intérieur » - Peuple dakota.
Exemples de prénoms liés aux qualités des personnes
Anoki : prénom masculin qui signifie « comédien ».
Bly : prénom masculin qui signifie « grand ».
Cheyenne : prénom féminin et masculin qui signifie « orateur inintelligible » - Peuple cheyenne.
Ehawee : prénom féminin qui signifie « elle rit » - Peuple Sioux, tribus dakotas ou lakotas.
Etania : prénom féminin qui signifie « riche ».
Eyota : prénom féminin qui signifie « la meilleure » - Peuple sioux.
Halona : prénom féminin qui signifie « fortunée ».
Kachina : Prénom féminin qui signifie « danseuse sacrée ».
Mahala : prénom féminin qui signifie « femme ».
Nahima : prénom féminin qui signifie « mystique ».
Natane : prénom féminin qui signifie « fille » ou « ma fille » - Peuples algonquiens, tribu des Arapahos.
Nirvelli : prénom féminin qui signifie « enfant de l'eau ».
Nokomis : prénom féminin qui signifie « fille de la lune ».
Olathe : prénom féminin qui signifie « belle » - Peuple shawnee.
Patamon : prénom masculin qui signifie « en colère ». - Peuple sud-amérindien Patamona ?
Sahale : prénom masculin qui signifie « au-dessus ».
Wapi : prénom masculin qui signifie « heureux ».
Wakiza : prénom masculin qui signifie « guerrier déterminé ».
Yancy : prénom masculin (parfois féminin) qui signifie « anglais » (dérivé de « Yankee » ?).
Exemples de prénoms liés aux évènements de la vie
Abequa : prénom féminin d'origine qui signifie « reste à la maison » pour une femme - En Algonquien : ojibwa, ojibway, ojibwe et chippewa.
Anaba : prénom féminin qui signifie « elle rentre de la bataille ».
Dezba : prénom féminin qui signifie « qui va à la guerre » - Peuple navajo.
Aquene : prénom féminin qui signifie « paix ».
Namata : prénom féminin qui signifie « épouse de Geronimo » - Peuple apache.
Nuna : prénom féminin qui signifie « pays » chez les Inuits.
Oneida : prénom féminin qui signifie « impatiemment attendue » - Peuple iroquois, tribu des Oneidas.
Poloma : prénom féminin qui signifie « arc » - Tribu des Choctaws.
Tyee : prénom masculin qui signifie « chef » - Peuple Chinook.
Winona : prénom féminin qui signifie « fille première née » - Peuple sioux.
Yuma : prénom masculin qui signifie « fils du chef » - Peuple yuman, nord-amérindiens originaires de Basse-Californie (Mexique).
Fréquence de ces prénoms
La plupart de ces prénoms sont aujourd'hui peu usités aux États-Unis. Cela s'explique par le faible nombre d'Amérindiens vivant actuellement aux États-Unis. Mais sans doute aussi par le souhait de certains de porter des prénoms occidentaux, synonymes pour ces personnes d'intégration.
Par ailleurs, la plupart de ces prénoms ont été très peu donnés en France. On note toutefois que certains prénoms .
Bibliographie
Sources sur l'authenticité des prénoms nord-amérindiens
La liste des erreurs citées précédemment indique qu'il faut se méfier des sites internet qui publient de très nombreuses listes de prénoms « nord-amérindiens », dont la traduction est parfois simplifiée ou erronée.
Sources sur les prénoms nord-amérindiens
Notes et références
Culture amérindienne en Amérique du Nord
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Q: Inhabilitar ciertos meses en el arranque datepicker para cualquier año Estoy usando datepicker de bootstrap, configurado para viewMode: "años", minViewMode: "meses" y tengo la necesidad de deshabilitar ciertos meses en cualquier año que elija dependiendo de un dato externo.
Por ejemplo en la siguiente imagen debo habilitar los trimestres por lo que debería elegir sólo enero, abril, julio y septiembre, los demás deben ser inhabilitados u ocultos.
Otro ejemplo: si es semestral, debería poder escojer sólo enero y julio como en la imagen, los demás meses deshabilitados o escondidos.
Esto es lo que hice, pero no funciona correctamente. Sólo si le paso el mouse por encima de las casillas las deshabilita, pero aún así las puedo escojer
$('#fechaf').datepicker({
autoclose: true,
format: 'yyyy/mm',
viewMode: "years",
minViewMode: "months"
}).on('changeDate', function(ev) {
var valid_months = "1,7";
var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
$(".month").hover(function () {
var month = $(this).html(), index = +months.indexOf(month) + 1;
var index_valid = valid_months.indexOf(index.toString());
if (index_valid >= 0) {
$(this).addClass('available').removeClass('disabled');
}
else {
$(this).addClass('disabled').removeClass('active').removeClass('available');
}
});
}).data('datepicker')
A: consegui hacerlo de la siguiente manera:
$('#fechaf').datepicker({
autoclose: true,
format: 'yyyy/mm',
viewMode: "years",
minViewMode: "months"
}).on('changeDate', function (ev) {
var monthsf = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
$('.month').show();
$('.month').each(function () {
var monthf = $(this).html(), indexf = +monthsf.indexOf(monthf) + 1;
var index_validf = -1;
var ss = valid_monthsf.split(",");
for (var i in ss) {
if (ss[i] == indexf.toString()) {
index_validf = ss[i];
}
}
if (index_validf >= 0) {
$(this).addClass('available').removeClass('disabled');
}
else {
$(this).hide();
}
});
});
y queda para trimestral por ejemplo
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Battlefield Coalition Unveils Findings of Year-Long "Wilderness Gateway Study"
Home › News › Battlefield Coalition Unveils Findings of Year-Long "Wilderness Gateway Study"
(Orange County, Va.) – After more than a year of public meetings and intense research, the Wilderness Battlefield Coalition today announced the findings of its study of the Wilderness Battlefield gateway region. The study, the result of a cooperative effort between local officials, landowners, and the preservation community, offers a mutually beneficial blueprint for balancing conservation with economic development. The study was unveiled at Germanna Community College during a series of meetings with local partners and members of the media.
In recent years, Orange County made headlines due to a controversial proposal to build a Walmart superstore on part of the historic Wilderness Battlefield on the eastern edge of the county. Members of the preservation and conservation community advocated that an alternate site further from the battlefield would protect the battlefield's historic resources and still meet the county's goals for economic growth. Ultimately, Walmart decided to pursue an alternative location three miles from the battlefield – a decision that was supported by the preservation community and unanimously approved by the board of supervisors.
Believing that advance planning and better communication would prevent future conflict, in March 2011 the Wilderness Battlefield Coalition began work on a study investigating opportunities for broadly beneficial land use strategies in the Wilderness Battlefield gateway region. With the study now completed, the member groups of the coalition — including Friends of the Wilderness Battlefield, the Civil War Trust, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Piedmont Environmental Council and National Parks Conservation Association — have officially endorsed its findings.
Through a series of stakeholder meetings with residents, landowners, developers, county officials and other relevant parties, the team weighed many potentially competing interests, looking for common ground and shared vision. The goal was to provide a widely acceptable vision that would avoid situations whereby important land use decisions were contemplated in isolation, resulting in a patchwork of growth that neither meets the community's underlying economic development goals or address its one-of-a-kind assets. This process of building consensus was an important step in a community that had previously been bitterly divided on questions of appropriate development.
One area of particularly broad appeal within the study is its emphasis on finding opportunities for Orange County to strengthen its financial footing. According to the report's findings, currently the county experiences a retail and restaurant sales leakage — meaning the amount that residents are spending at business outside their immediate community — of $87.3 million. There is room for improvement in this category through the creation and expansion of business catering to residents and visitors alike.
To fill this retail need, the Gateway Study advocates pursuing conservation of significant lands, that protect sensitive cultural resources and create a framework of open-space and outdoor recreation. These patterns reserve land set back from Route 3, to accommodate appropriately-scaled development, keynoted by a mixed-use village that brings together visitor-focused retail and support services, second-floor residential, and local goods and services important to residents. These and other patterns represented in the study focus infrastructure and reinforce the address of east Orange County as it looks to the future, while protecting its history.
With careful planning related to siting, screening and other considerations, additional residential hamlets of single unit homes and major business campuses may also be appropriate, following the establishment of the village. All told, the report estimates that even the most aggressive forecast for development would only absorb less than 30 percent of currently undeveloped land in the gateway area, but would still address the varying desires of residents, landowners, historians and outdoor enthusiasts.
To demonstrate the many avenues and opportunities available to Orange County as it weighs strategies for continued growth, the study includes three scenario concepts illustrating various compositions of the development patterns and tools recommended in the report. But those involved in the process emphasize that the next step need not necessarily be the wholesale adoption of any single concept plan — elements from each scenario may be combined to create a mutually beneficial consensus plan compromise. Using the findings of the Gateway Study, stakeholders will now embark on a second phase in the process, moving toward a single, comprehensive preferred alternative. The continuation of the planning process will center on a two-day work session, where experts will be on hand to help the diverse interests at the heart of the Gateway Study draft a detailed, consensus-based design blueprint for the project area. Once complete, this cooperative effort will evolve still, as the participants begin the work of transforming shared ideas into shared realities.
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–6, 1864, was one of the most significant engagements of the American Civil War. Today, the battlefield is protected and administered by the National Park Service. Orange County's rich heritage also includes sites significant to earlier Native American inhabitants and the one-time western outpost of European civilization in Virginia, a German settlement established by early British colonial leader Alexander Spotswood, as well as the 19th century gold mining industry.
The full text of the Wilderness Gateway Study, as well as additional supplementary materials and endorsements from the preservation community, is available online at www.wildernessgateway.org.
The Civil War Trust is the largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization in the United States. Its goal is to preserve our nation's endangered Civil War sites and to promote appreciation of these hallowed grounds through education and heritage tourism. To date, the Trust has preserved more than 32,000 acres of battlefield land in 20 states. Please visit the Trust's website at www.civilwar.org, the home of the Civil War sesquicentennial.
Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, Inc. is a non-profit, all volunteer organization devoted to assisting the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in efforts to preserve the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange and Spotsylvania Counties. The Friends provide advocacy, educational programs and service projects for the battlefield. Learn more by visiting www.fowb.org.
Since 1919, NPCA has been the leading voice of the American people in protecting and enhancing our National Park System. NPCA, its more than 600,000 members and supporters, and many partners work together to protect the park system and preserve our nation's natural, historical, and cultural heritage for generations to come. For more information, please visit www.npca.org.
The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) is a grassroots nonprofit emphasizing the links between city and country, nature and people, conserving and creating. PEC works to safeguarding the landscapes, communities and heritage of Virginia's Piedmont region by involving citizens in public policy and land conservation. PEC has facilitated the permanent conservation of 300,000 acres across its nine-county region. The organization actively advocates on behalf of air and water quality, wildlife habitats, energy solutions and sustainable communities. Learn more by visiting www.pecva.org. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 922 |
Our 51st Annual
2012 Dinner of Champions
Celebrating 51 years of excellence!
2012 Sportsmen of Westport honorees 2012 Sportsmen of Westport scholarship recipients
Jeb Backus (Sportsmen Award), Rich Franzis (William A. Krause, Jr. Humanitarian Award), Mike Breen (Sportsmen Award), Joseph Nixon (PAL Award), Suzanne Allen Redpath (Sportsmen Award), Nicholas Garoffolo (Coaching Award), George Barrett (Sportsmen Award), Andrew Lobsenz (Sportsmen Award) & Janet Zamary (Citizenship Award). Mikolaj Kulas, Michael Garrity, Maeve Flaherty, Peter Bonenfant & Thomas Jenkins
Presenting the 2012 honorees... click name for bios coming soon
Jeb Backus George Barrett Mike Breen Rich Franzis Nick Garoffolo
Andrew Lobsenz Joe Nixon Suzanne Allen Redpath Janet Zamary
William A. Krause Jr. Humanitarian Award: Rich Franzis in memory of our past president, Bill Krause.
PAL Award: Joe Nixon
Coaching Award: Nick Garoffolo (Staples class of '77)
Citizenship Award: Janet Zamary
Sportsmen Awards: George Barrett (Staples class of '73) / Suzanne Allen Redpath (Staples class of '65) / Jeb Backus (Staples class of '81)/ Mike Breen (Staples class of '83) / Andrew Lobsenz (Staples class of '85) /
Student Scholarships: Mikolaj Kulas | Maeve Flaherty | Thomas Jenkins | Michael Garrity | Peter Bonenfant
All bios written by George Albano, assistant sports editor and columnist at The Hour Newspaper in Norwalk, CT.
Jeb Backus (Staples class of '81)
Growing up in Westport, Jeb Backus never met a baseball diamond he didn't like; or didn't excel on. He certainly played on plenty of them, rising through the ranks from the Westport Little League, Junior and Senior Babe Ruth leagues, the Westport Advertisers, and finally Staples High School before becoming an All-American in college.
One of this year's five Sportsmen Award recipients, Backus truly defines the term "chip off the old block." Tonight's honor comes 23 years after his father, Ed Backus, received the same award from the Sportsmen of Westport in 1989.
Making the award even more special for the younger Backus is the fact that he was nominated for it by the late Junior Bieling in what turned out to be one of Bieling's last tasks in his many years of service as a member of the Sportsmen before passing away in March.
Backus began his love affair with baseball in 1972 as a nine year-old in the Westport LL "Minors" where he played for Corsairs and one of his coaches was Carmen Arciola, a 2011 Sportsmen Award winner.
One year later, Backus moved up to the Major Division and played centerfield and pitched for the Jaguars for three years, making the Westport Little League all-stars each season.
The talented Backus would make all-star teams the next six years as well in Westport's Babe Ruth program, where he played three years with VFW in Junior Babe Ruth and then three years of Senior Babe Ruth baseball with the American Legion. As a 16-year-old, he helped the Legion team win the 1979 town championship.
In the summer of 1981, in addition to his Senior Babe Ruth duties, Backus played centerfield for the Westport Advertisers coached by Red Izzo, his former Junior Babe Ruth coach with VFW.
Backus, a 1981 Staples graduate, also played centerfield and pitched for the Wreckers as a junior and senior, and hit one of the team's three home runs his final season.
But it was on the collegiate level where Backus really shined. He played three seasons of varsity baseball at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., and as a senior in 1987 was named to the NAIA All-District, All-Regional and All-American teams.
Backus was also named the MVP of the NAIA District 25 tournament after pitching a six-hit shutout in the championship game and batting .583 with two home runs and eight RBIs in five games. When Flagler College formed an Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004, Backus was part of the inaugural class inducted.
While in college, he also played for the Valdosta (Ga.) Red Sox, a high-level amateur team in the National Baseball Congress. Backus helped the Sox win the 1985 NBC Georgia state championship, NBC southeast regional title, and finish fifth at the NBC national tournament in Wichita, Kansas. He was named to the Georgia all-state and Southeast All-Region teams.
But baseball wasn't the only sport Backus excelled in. He also played football at Staples, where as a senior in 1980 he set five school records, including most interceptions in a game (four) and season (eight), longest interception return for a touchdown (96 yards), longest fumble return for a TD (also 96 yards) and most interception returns for a touchdown. Some of those records still stand.
When his baseball days were over, Backus turned to softball and during the 1980's helped Sonny's of Westport win four ASA Class 'A' state championships and qualify for six national tournaments, finishing in the top-10 four times.
He played in five more national tournaments from 1990-94 with Midas Touch Jewelers of Fairfield, which won the Triple Crown Class 'A' national title in Colorado in 1993. Backus also helped the St. Ann's softball team win a pair of Norwalk City League championships and hit .903 (28-for-31) in a 1998 Class B national qualifying tournament in New Hampshire.
If that wasn't enough, Backus played for Fly Juice of Westport/Norwalk, which captured three ASA Over-35 state titles in 1998, '99 and 2001.
Another highlight came in 1994 when Backus was invited to participate in the Michael Bolton Charity Softball Game and a home run hitting contest at Cubeta Stadium. In the final round, Backus belted nine homeruns in a row to outslug major leaguer Barry Bonds 19-18 in total homers and win the contest.
Backus is still involved with sports in his community, only now as an assistant coach in the Westport Little League and Westport PAL Football— the same programs he started playing in nearly 40 years ago. In 2008, the Westport fourth-grade Wreckers he helped coach won the Fairfield County Football League championship with a 10-0-1 record, while his Little League team, the Ravens, captured the "AA" town title with a 19-0 mark.
This year Backus will serve as head coach of the Westport Wreckers 12-U travel baseball team, and is still on the board of directors with both Westport Little League and Westport PAL. Professionally, he has worked at YMCAs in Wilton, Stratford and Norwalk, and is currently the Senior Program Director at the Lakewood-Trumbull YMCA. He is also the owner of 'Stars of the Future Youth Baseball Instruction.'
Backus and his wife Karen and their two children reside in Westport.
- George Albano
George Barrett (Staples class of '73)
Anyone who knew and played with George Barrett during his athletic days at Staples High School 40 years ago would probably not be the least bit surprised that he is currently the chairman and CEO of a successful healthcare company in Ohio. It would not be surprising that he's held the position of president at several other companies. That's because Barrett, a former three-sport athlete for the Wreckers and one of tonight's Sportsmen Award winners, displayed those same types of leadership qualities while wearing the Staples uniform.
After all, it was no accident that Barrett was selected as a captain in all three sports, soccer, basketball and baseball, when he played on North Avenue in the early 1970s.
"From my junior high years through my time at Staples and into college sports, on virtually every team, I was selected by my teammates to be captain of the team," Barrett, who now lives in Columbus, Ohio, wrote on his Sportsmen biography form. "Looking back, perhaps my teammates saw in me, not only someone who demanded a lot of himself, but also someone who brought out the best in them, inspired positive belief and a commitment to excellence, and perhaps most important, a person who put team over self."
Some four decades later, that description of Barrett still holds true today.
"All of my best memories of my sports career are associated with team moments — accomplishments, challenges, disappointments and maybe most profound, the overcoming of adversity," he added. "I think these are the things I bring to my daily life as a leader today."
George Barrett certainly compiled a number of fond memories during his time at Staples. Two of them came in soccer as a junior in the fall of 1971 and as a senior in '72. The Wreckers swept the FCIAC and state championships each year and Barrett was not only a captain on both teams, but was named the team MVP as a junior. He was also selected to the All-FCIAC first team that season, but missed most of his senior campaign with season-ending surgery.
The two state championships were the third and fourth of the five straight state titles Staples won from 1969-73.
Barrett was also a three-year varsity player on the Wreckers' basketball team and as a senior was team captain, the starting point guard, and a New York Daily News All-Southern Connecticut Honorable Mention selection.
He was also named first-team All-FCIAC in baseball back to back years, selected as a shortstop his junior season and as a third baseman his senior year when he was also named all-state and a captain in his third sport.
Following his graduation in 1973, Barrett attended Brown University where he was a varsity defender and midfielder on the varsity soccer team and helped the Bears win the Ivy League championship and reach the NCAA quarterfinals. His collegiate career was cut short, however, due to an injury his junior year.
After his playing days, Barrett stayed close to sports through coaching, spending one year as an assistant varsity baseball coach at The Collegiate School in New York City. He then spent four seasons (1978-81) as the head soccer coach and assistant baseball coach at Horace Mann School, a college preparatory school also located in NYC. Under Barrett's leadership, the Lions won a league championship in soccer.
More than a decade later, in the mid-1990s, Barrett showed he hadn't lost his athleticism or competitive nature by playing tennis and being ranked in the USTA Middle States Section in the men's 35-and-over age group.
In addition to his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown in 1977 and an MBA from New York University in 1988, Barrett also holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Long Island University's Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
During his career in the healthcare field, Barrett has served as president of U.S. Pharmaceuticals from 1994-97; president of NMC Laboratories; president of Teva USA from 1999 to 2004; president and CEO of North America for Teva Pharmaceutical from 2005-07; and during 2007 was corporate executive vice president of the company's Global Pharmaceutical Markets.
He joined Cardinal Health, Inc., in 2008 and is currently chairman and chief executive officer of the company, which is ranked No. 19 on the Fortune 500 and dedicated to improving the cost-effectiveness of health care. He has also received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his work in the healthcare field.
Tonight will be a reunion of sorts for Barrett, who will be joining several former teammates who were also honored by the Sportsmen of Westport, including Bob Uly, Dana Hollingsworth, Mike Calise, Mark Cizynski, Ed and Dennis Murphy, and Jim Deegan.
Barrett and his wife, the former Debbie Neimeth, have three children.
Mike Breen (Staples class of '83)
The Staples High School wrestling program has produced its share of outstanding, dominant champions in the four and a half decades it's been around.
The name Michael Breen is somewhere near the top of that impressive list.
Breen, a 1983 SHS graduate and one of tonight's Sportsmen Award winners, was without question one of the best wrestlers to ever wear the Staples singlet.
All he did was win three straight Class LL state titles and three straight State Open championships. And he did it at three different weights: 112 pounds as a sophomore, 119 as a junior, and 126 pounds his senior year.
There's no telling how much more decorated his scholastic career would have been if Staples had a freshmen class like so many other high schools did when Breen was in ninth grade.
"My prediction is he would've been a four-time state champ," said John Chacho, who was Breen's coach at Staples as well as his Westport PAL coach and physical education teacher at Bedford Junior High School. "At that time, we had a junior high school system that went through ninth grade. When Mike was in ninth grade, I had nobody at 98 pounds and we petitioned the Board of Ed to let him come up and wrestle for Staples.
"He would have still gone to school at Bedford and just wrestled for us. But they wouldn't allow it."
Instead, Breen had to wait a year before embarking on a brilliant three-year career. When he finally arrived at Staples, he wasted no time making his presence known.
As a sophomore in 1981, he went 11-3 in the regular season and finished third at the FCIAC Championships. He saved his best for last, however, as he captured the Class LL 112-pound state title with a 13-1 superior decision over Joe Scollo of Southington in the finals, and then beat Scollo again by an 8-0 major decision the following week in the State Open final.
The three losses that year would be the only time Breen would taste defeat in high school as he would put together back to back unbeaten seasons his junior and senior years.
As a junior in 1982, he went a perfect 15-0 in the regular season and added 11 more wins in the postseason, including a 10-2 major decision in the FCIAC 119-pound finals, an 8-3 decision in the Class LL final, and an 11-1 major decision in the Open finals. He was also named the Most Outstanding Wrestler at the Class LL meet.
Then as a senior in '83, Breen went 14-0 at 126 pounds as he led the Wreckers to the Eastern Division crown, a third-place finish at the FCIAC Championships, and a fifth-place showing at the Class LL state meet.
And again he did his best wrestling in the postseason, starting with his second FCIAC title in a row following a 10-2 major decision in the finals. He won a third straight Class LL state title and second consecutive Most Outstanding Wrestler award with a 14-0 superior decision in the finals.
He capped off his memorable high school career the following weekend with his third straight State Open championship while earning High School All-American honors.
Breen accomplished all this in his career not only without the benefit of a fourth year, but with a limited schedule compared to today. Back when he was wrestling, teams barely scheduled more than 15-to-20 dual meets a season, while tri-meets and quad-meets were unheard of.
"They wouldn't let us have multi meets back then," Chacho pointed out.
But Breen was able to top the 100-victory plateau by wrestling three straight summers with the Connecticut National Team that competed in the Freestyle and Greco Roman Wrestling tournaments in Iowa, serving as team captain his senior year.
"He was the most sought-after wrestler in the state by college coaches," Chacho noted.
Breen ended up choosing Western New England College in Springfield, but a reoccurring knee injury that would have required surgery convinced him to not wrestle in college.
"The wrestling coach at Western New England, Rob Skelton, told me nobody would have measured up to Mike if he was able to wrestle in college," Chacho said.
But perhaps no coach knew Mike Breen better than Chacho himself.
"I started with him in second or third grade and I stayed with him the whole way," the former PAL and Staples coach said. "I had him in the PAL program and then in junior high. Even though I was the coach at Staples, wrestling was part of my gym class curriculum and Mike was the junior high champ."
Breen fondly remembers those days, too.
"Coach Chacho progressed with me the whole way," he said. "He was my coach in the town program, then at Bedford Junior High, and when he went to Staples I followed right along. He's been with me forever.
"I would have to attribute a lot of my success to Coach Chacho."
He also has to give a little credit to his older brother Jamie Breen, who was a standout wrestler at Staples from 1975-77.
"I originally learned how to wrestle from my brother through self defense," the younger Breen laughed. "He's five years older and he won states twice. That was my incentive to win it three times."
Breen now lives in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and has been an assistant coach with the Cumberland High School wrestling team since 2004, compiling a record of 91-20 and winning two state titles in that time.
Married to the former Susan Dyson, the father of two daughters, he has also been a youth lacrosse coach and later treasurer of the Cumberland HS girls lacrosse program.
Breen is currently the marketing director of the Anchor Auto Group in Rhode Island after previously working in marketing with Cox Communications (1999-2003) in Warwick, R.I., and with the Golf Channel (1997-99) in Boston.
Rich Franzis
During the week, Rich Franzis is an assistant vice principal at Staples High School.
But for one weekend of month and two weeks every summer, he serves his country as a member of the United States Army Reserve. Not to mention the one full year of active duty he spent in Iraq.
But tonight his only duty is to receive the William A. Krause Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Sportsmen of Westport.
Franzis should feel right at home among so many former athletes. A 1973 graduate of Shelton High School, Franzis was a standout offensive tackle for the Gaels and as a senior in the fall of 1972 he was both an All-Housatonic League and All-Housatonic Valley first-team selection and made the New Haven Register all-state second team.
One of his teammates while at Shelton was former Westport Police Chief Al Fiore, recipient of last year's Westport PAL Award from the Sportsmen.
Franzis says many of the values he learned through playing football still help him today.
"The work ethic and team work that were ingrained in me playing football for Coach George Martin at Shelton High School unquestionably served as the foundation for any and all academic or personal success that I may have accomplished throughout my life," Franzis wrote on his Sportsmen bio form. "That 'never quit, never give up' attitude has been indispensible to me, both in my civilian life and in my 30-year military career.
"The leadership and life lessons that I learned at Lafayette Field in Shelton were very much a transferrable skill throughout my life," he added. "That experience had such a profound impact. In fact, during my year in Iraq, I personally flew a flag over my unit's headquarters and mailed it to one of the team captains from my high school team who was named that year as the head coach for an inner-city high school program. I did this even though I hadn't seen him in nearly 35 years."
"In the conditions of Iraq during 2007-2008, I had a great deal of time to reflect and to take stock of those times in my life that were formative and invaluable, and without question my time spent playing high school football was one of the most valuable, foundational experiences of my life."
That experience has come in handy during the 30 years Franzis has been in the Army Reserves. For the first quarter of a century, he was part of what was known as "Strategic Reserve," or the one-weekend-a-month, two-weeks-a-summer format that those in the Reserve were accustomed to.
But since 9/11, the Army Reserve has transformed to an "Operational Reserve," fully integrated in the current Global War on Terror. Franzis was mobilized on active duty for over 18 months as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for the 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC) and was deployed to Iraq from June 2007 through June of 2008 as part of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
Franzis was one of six officers on the primary staff of Brigadier General Greg Couch, commander of the 316th ESC, which was composed of roughly 20,000 soldiers. The mission of the 316th ESC was resupply of every commodity necessary to execute the "Surge" in 2007 and 2008. At any one time, the 316th had 2,000 vehicles and up to 6,000 soldiers on what Franzis described as "arguably the most dangerous road network in the world at that time," and that during its time in Iraq "the command lost 20 soldiers."
Franzis' responsibilities in Iraq were to oversee the intelligence sections of five subordinate brigades throughout all of the multi-national areas of Iraq, as well as be the commanding general's subject matter expert on enemy threats directed against sustainment operations and logistics bases.
In 2009, the 316th ESC was awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation for distinguished service in the Iraqi Theater of Operations.
Franzis has served in command positions as a company commander, a captain, a battalion commander, and as both a Major and Lieutenant Colonel. He was promoted to Colonel in the United States Army Reserve in 2009 and currently commands Detachment 1, Central Command, Army Reserve Element (Intelligence), located in FT Devens, MA.
Detachment 1 specializes in human intelligence and counterintelligence, and directly supports the Joint Human Intelligence Section at United States Central Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. It was awarded the Defense Intelligence Agency's Meritorious Unit Citation in 2009 for vetting over 15,000 Iraqi detainees for either release or continued confinement as the U.S. began to draw down combat operations in Iraq.
Franzis' other military awards include the Bronze Star Medal, the Iraqi Campaign Medal and the Global War on Terror Service Medal. He also received two Meritorious Service Medals for command at the lieutenant colonel and colonel level, and two Army Commendation Medals for service as a battalion staff officer and company commander.
He is in his 14th year as Dean of Students and assistant principal at Staples, and prior to that was the assistant principal at Brookfield High School. He was also a science teacher at three schools in Shelton, Stratford and Trumbull, before becoming a Chemistry and Biology teacher and Science Department coordinator at Darien High School.
Franzis is the eighth recipient of the William A. Krause Jr. Humanitarian Award, named in honor of Billy Krause, the former Sportsmen president and for years one of the driving force behind the annual Dinner of Champions.
Rich and his wife, Maryanne, reside in Shelton. Rich has three children, Liz, Kate, and James.
Nick Garoffolo (Staples class of '77)
Nick Garoffolo continues a Staples High School wrestling tradition tonight when he receives the Coaching Award from the Sportsmen of Westport.
The 1977 Staples graduate, who wrestled for and later coached the Wreckers, is following in the footsteps of three other former SHS head wrestling coaches who received the same award from the Sportsmen: John Chacho in 1977, Saul Pollack in 2007 and Kevin Lippert in 2010.
Garoffolo wrestled for Pollack, coached with Chacho, and coached against Lippert. Tonight he joins all three in the same special Sportsmen fraternity.
Like his predecessors, this year's Coaching Award recipient has built his own impressive resume as a head coach, first at Staples in his former hometown and for the past eight years at Fairfield Ludlowe High School in his new hometown.
Born in New York, Garoffolo's association with wrestling began at Long Lots Junior High School in 1972-73. He also played baseball and football at Long Lots, but it was apparent even then which sport would be in his future.
Garoffolo went on to wrestle at Staples where as a junior he was a member of the Wreckers' 1976 unbeaten FCIAC championship team that finished runner-up at the Class LL state tournament.
Then as a senior in '77, he racked up 20 victories in the 185 lb.weight class and some in the heavyweight class to help Staples finish second in the FCIAC tournament and repeat as state runner-up. He capped off his scholastic career by winning the team's Most Improved Wrestler Award.
Garoffolo then wrestled at the University of Lowell before transferring to the University of Bridgeport, where he helped start a wrestling club and was captain of the inaugural team. A year later, he won the 1983 New England freestyle wrestling championship in the 180.5-pound Open division, while 10 years later, at the age of 34, he placed second in the 1993 Connecticut Nutmeg Games in the 190-pound Open division.
It was also in 1983 that Garoffolo began his coaching career as an assistant under Chacho at Staples and together they guided the Wreckers to the 1985 FCIAC championship.
After three seasons as an assistant, Garoffolo took over as head coach in 1986 and over the next eight years led the Wreckers to seven East Division titles, six FCIAC tournament runner-up finishes, a Class L state championship in 1990, and back to back State Open runner-up finishes in 1990 and '91.
He was honored as the FCIAC Coach of the Year 1990, and during his watch the Wreckers also finished second in Class L in 1991, third in 1992 and '93, and sixth in New England in 1991. In eight seasons, he compiled a glossy record of 111-50.
Garoffolo stepped down as head coach after the 1993 season, but stayed involved with wrestling in town as a coach with the successful Westport PAL Wrestling program and later with the newly formed Fairfield PAL program in his hometown.
Then in 2004-05 when Fairfield High School split into two high schools, Garoffolo became the first head coach of the Fairfield Ludlowe wrestling team. Just three years later, he guided the Falcons to a runner-up finish in the 2008 FCIAC tournament, and in eight seasons has won another 93 matches, giving him 204 total victories in his career.
Garoffolo also played baseball growing up in Westport and was a four-time all-star in the Westport PAL Babe Ruth program. A first baseman and pitcher, he helped lead Boccanfuso Brothers to a pair of Senior Babe Ruth town championships, pitching and winning the deciding game one of those years.
He also pitched and played first base at Staples and later for the Westport Advertisers in the Senior City League. He eventually switched to softball and helped Burndy finish second in the 1983 Industrial League state tournament and sixth at nationals.
Garoffolo, a father of three, later coached youth baseball and recreation soccer in Westport and Fairfield where he and wife, Jean, currently reside.
Andrew Lobsenz (Staples class of '85)
Staples High School has won eight FCIAC championships in the sport of wrestling, which is more than any other school except for perennial power, Danbury.
Andrew Lobsenz, one of tonight's five Sportsmen Award winners, was one of the key reasons behind the Wreckers' last league title in 1985.
Lobsenz was a three-year varsity wrestler at Staples, competing at 138 pounds as a sophomore in 1983 for a team that won the East Division title and finished third in the FCIAC. One of his teammates and the senior co-captain on that squad was Mike Breen, who is also receiving a Sportsmen Award tonight.
As a junior in 1984, Lobsenz moved up to 155 pounds and finished runner-up in both the FCIAC and Class LL state tournaments while placing fourth in New England. That was just a prelude to a huge senior year which saw Lobsenz return at 155 pounds and help Staples go 12-1 during the FCIAC dual-meet season.
Lobsenz lost his opening match of the season against Trumbull's Ross Mostrorocco. That would also be the Wreckers' only FCIAC loss as the Eagles finished 13-0 to win the East Division. Lobsenz would win his next 21 matches and reach the FCIAC finals, where he met Mostrorocco in a rematch.
Trumbull had five wrestlers in the finals and Staples four, but that was the only weight class where the two teams met head to head. Going into the 155-pound final, Staples led Trumbull by one point, 157.5 to 156.5, and a Trumbull win of any kind would've clinched the crown for the Eagles.
But Lobsenz posted a third-round pin in 4:43 to avenge his only loss, capture the 155-pound FCIAC title, and give Staples a 163.5-156.5 lead. In fact, the two extra team points he earned with the pin turned out to be the difference in the final scoring as the Wreckers edged Trumbull 163.5 to 162.5 to win their eighth FCIAC championship.
Lobsenz, who would also earn first-team All-FCIAC honors, finished third at the Class LL state meet the following weekend.
His coach at Staples and before that with the Westport PAL wrestling program was John Chacho, who was honored by the Sportsmen of Westport in 1977 with the Coaching Award. That 1985 season was Chacho's sixth and final year as Staples coach and he also stepped down after 14 years directing the PAL program.
The assistant coach during Lobsenz' three years with the Wreckers was Nick Garoffolo, who is receiving the Sportsmen's Coaching Award tonight. He replaced Chacho as head wrestling coach at Staples the following season.
The summer after his senior year, Lobsenz won the state freestyle championship. He also competed at 165 pounds for the Connecticut Junior National Team and finished 10th at the Freestyle Junior Nationals and 12th at the Greco Roman Junior Nationals.
The 1985 Staples grad went on to have a successful four-year collegiate career at Boston University, wrestling varsity a 167 pounds as a freshman. As a sophomore in 1986-87, Lobsenz was named a captain and moved up to 177 pounds, where he finished third in the Colonial Conference and helped BU win the conference team title.
He was the conference runner-up at 177 his junior year, while as a senior in 1988-89 he was named captain a third straight year and captured the Colonial Conference individual championship. He also took first at the Albany Open and was runner-up at the Coast Guard Academy Invitational.
In between his junior and senior years, Lobsenz wrestled at the University World Games in the USSR and finished fifth in the 180.5-pound weight class.
With his wrestling days behind him, Lobsenz became a competitive Category 3, or "Cat 3" cyclist, in his mid-30s. In 2004, he finished first at the North Atlantic Time Trial Championships, while placing third in 2003 and '05, and fifth in 2006.
He also won the Bethel Spring Series championship in 2005, while finishing second in 2004 and third in '06. Also in 2006, he won the Harriman Road Race.
A father of two, Lobsenz now lives in Fairfield with his wife, the former Sylvie Martinez, and he is an executive vice president with Dun and Bradstreet. He has also remained close to his favorite sport by coaching in the Fairfield PAL wrestling program since 2002. During that time he has coached 23 state place winners and 10 New England place winners, including six state medalists and four New England medalists in the recently concluded 2012 season.
"Andy has always had a passion and love for the sport," Chacho, his former PAL and Staples coach, said. "He started young and kept going. He still has that passion."
Joe Nixon
How does someone who grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania and went to a high school that offered only one sport end up in the Westport PAL program?
Joe Nixon found a way and tonight he is the recipient of the Sportsmen of Westport PAL Award.
"I've been involved with the PAL for about 15 years," he said. "My wife got me involved. She was a volunteer with the Sons of Italy when they had the Italian Festival and she saw a booth the PAL had and told me about it."
Nixon's journey to Westport, however, began in Peckville, Pa., where he was born in 1938 and graduated from tiny St. Patrick's High School in Olyphant, Pa., in 1956.
"There were only 37 kids in my graduating class and basketball was the only sport we had," he said. "I played a little in high school, but then I hurt my knee and I never played that much after that."
Instead Nixon became the varsity basketball manager from 1953-56, and then attended Scranton University where he earned his degree in Economics and spent two years in the ROTC program.
Following his graduation in 1960, Nixon spent six months of active duty in Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Jackson, S.C. When he was done, he heard about a small town in Connecticut called Westport and moved there in 1961. .
"I had an uncle who lived here and he told me there were more job opportunities and that I should move up here."
Nixon took his advice and began a 40-year career as a sales representative with Liberty Mutual Insurance. He also arranged to serve the balance of his six-year obligation in the Connecticut National Guard.
"I was in the National Guard unit in Pennsylvania with the 109th Infantry and when I moved up here I transferred to the Connecticut National Guard in Norwalk," he explained.
He also married his high school sweetheart in 1961 and he and Maureen had four children. After Maureen passed away in 1991, Nixon married Kathy Acquino in 1993 and together she and Joe have six children and eight grandchildren.
That's how Nixon became aware of the Westport Little League and from 1969 to 1980 he served as a volunteer umpire.
"My kids were in Little League, but because I never played many sports growing up I didn't think I could coach. So I volunteered to be an umpire," he explained. "Most of the people who coach have some kind of sports background. I always felt I couldn't coach, but I could help out in some other way."
During the time Nixon umpired, he also volunteered to be the Westport LL equipment manager from 1969-75. With over a thousand kids in the program, Nixon stored all the equipment in his basement.
"I took care of the equipment for the whole town," he said. "There was not much room for anything else in my basement."
Over the years, Nixon became involved with a number of other volunteer-fueled organizations in Westport, including the Westport/Weston United Way, the Church of the Assumption, St. Luke's Church, the Westport Rotary, the Westport Sons of Italy, and, of course, the Westport PAL.
"When I got involved I helped out with the fireworks by selling tickets. I still sell tickets," he said. "I also help cook at our golf tournament, I help out with the Christmas party every year, and I've been helping out with our Halloween party.
"The Westport PAL does a tremendous job with kids."
Nixon is also a regular at almost every Staples High School football game, home and away, and attends other sporting events at the school as well.
"High school sports are great."
During his four decades with Liberty Mutual, Nixon had offices in Bridgeport and Trumbull. He was promoted to an executive sales rep in 1978, and in 1990 he was inducted into Liberty Mutual's National Sales Hall of Fame. He retired in 2001.
In addition to all the miles he's logged in Westport as a tireless volunteer, for the past 16 years Nixon has participated in the New York City 5 Borough Bike Tour, which covers 52 miles in NYC.
Suzanne Allen Redpath (Staples Class of' '65)
Suzanne Allen Redpath has covered some of the biggest and most important stories in the world during a 40-year award-winning career with CBS News. She credits her years at Staples High School and, in particular, her participation in sports for much of her success the last four decades.
"CBS let me see the world and cover some of the most important stories of my generation," she said via email. "But in many ways, the passion I developed for television journalism began at Staples High School when I was chosen by The American Field Service (AFS) to be an exchange student to Portugal."
For someone who had never left the east coast, never been on an ocean liner or airplane, Allen's AFS experience changed her life.
"It allowed me to begin to figure out who I was, what I might become and how to be brave," she added. "What also taught me to be brave, though, was competing in team sports at Staples — namely field hockey and track — under legendary coach Ginny Parker. If playing for Coach Parker didn't make a person brave, absolutely nothing would.
"I'll be forever grateful to her and everything she taught me about the importance of being a good competitor, a strong team player, working hard and never giving up."
Tonight, Suzanne Allen, as she was known in high school, becomes the latest former Staples athlete who played for Parker to be honored by the Sportsmen of Westport. In fact, one of her former teammates, Mary Gail (Horelick) Gristina, received the same Sportsmen Award a year ago, while another, Kitty (Carlson) Larkworthy, was honored in 2008.
Like Carlson, Allen graduated from Staples in 1965, which was still seven years before Title IX, the federal law that assured gender equality in athletics, was adopted. But even though opportunities for girls in sports were rare in the mid '60s, it didn't stop Allen from competing for the Wreckers.
In the fall, she started at left wing for the varsity field hockey team, while in the spring she ran the 100-yard dash and the anchor leg on the 440 relay team. She was also a class officer all three years at Staples. Her parents, the late John and 'Buzz' Allen, were both huge Staples sports fans who rarely missed a Wreckers football game.
Allen went on to attend Hollins College in Virginia where she majored in History and spent her junior year studying in Florence. She played field hockey at Hollins, continued to study dance, and even gave lacrosse a try.
She landed a job at CBS right out of college and before long joined the News Department, where she held a succession of jobs at the local station in New York. Allen eventually became a researcher for legendary news anchorman, Walter Cronkite, during Watergate and was the lone researcher in New York for the CBS Evening News assisting with coverage of the scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
As she did during her athletic days at Staples, Allen thrived under pressure in her new position. One example she cited was how Cronkite "would buzz me during commercials with a question and expect me to have the answer by the end of the commercial — roughly a two-minute period. Telling him I couldn't answer the question was not an option."
In the mid-1970s, Allen became a producer at the CBS Evening News, at the time the youngest producer on the staff. She produced a wide array of stories on politics, science, medicine, social issues and the arts. But not surprisingly, her favorite were sports stories.
Allen covered two America's Cup challenges and was the lead CBS News producer at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. She was at the famous "Miracle on Ice" hockey game between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, which would be shown on tape delay later that evening during prime time.
When the U.S. team shocked the world by winning the game, Allen raced to a phone booth — mobile phones didn't exist — and called Cronkite directly while the Evening News was in its last commercial.
"I screamed into the phone that the U.S. had won and gave him the score," Allen recalled. "Cronkite barely had time to report the win before we went off the air, but he did and we were the only evening news broadcast to do so."
Thanks to Allen, CBS even scooped ABC, which held the broadcast rights to the Olympics that year.
In the late '70s and early '80s, CBS News began to send women on overseas assignments and into war zones and Allen eagerly stepped forward. One of the more memorable stories she covered was the Solidarity movement in Poland, which paved the way for the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and ultimately the Soviet Union. She served as the Warsaw bureau's producer and acting bureau chief.
Allen was also sent to Argentina to cover the war between Argentina and Britain over control of the Falkland Islands. She eventually became the CBS Evening News Senior Producer for Foreign Coverage and oversaw broadcasts of historic events such as the democracy movement in China, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Persian Gulf War.
During her rapidly growing career, Suzanne Allen became Suzanne Allen Redpath and soon the mother of a small child, but she was still able to travel to different parts of the world on selected stories.
Since 1992, she has worked for the CBS News broadcast 48 Hours, first as a producer and now as the Senior Coordinating Producer and member of the senior staff. Her work includes coverage of Hurricane Katrina, last year's Royal Wedding, and 9/11, which Redpath calls "the defining story of our time."
She has won Emmy Awards for her news coverage and received the Alfred I. DuPont Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University.
She's been married for 33 years to John Redpath, the former General Counsel of HBO and of Time Inc. They live in Manhattan and their daughter, Ann, works in finance in New York City.
As busy as she is, Suzanne still has time to follow sports. Because of Jeremy Lin, she recently became a Knicks fan.
Janet Zamary
Janet Zamary has been hanging around the Staples High School athletic complex for a quarter of a century.
The first 10 ½ years were spent as the first fulltime athletic trainer in school history from 1987-1998. The last 14 ½ years have been as a Physical Education teacher there.
But without question the last part of her journey has been the most rewarding experience at the Westport school. Since 2005, Zamary has been the Unified Sports coach at Staples, overseeing three sports a year — soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter, and track and field in the spring.
In that role, Zamary has touched and impacted the lives of countless students, and tonight the Sportsmen of Westport recognize that outstanding work by presenting her with its Citizenship Award.
But Zamary was hanging around gymnasiums and athletic fields long before she arrived at Staples. A native of Endicott, N.Y., she moved to Danbury in the fifth grade and later went to Danbury High School, where she was a three-sport athlete for the Hatters. Janet Bovaird, as she was known then, played four years of basketball, manning both the center and forward positions.
"When I was in junior high school, a teacher came up to me and said 'Hey, we're starting a basketball team and you're tall. Do you want to play? " she said. "That's how I got started in basketball."
Ironically, one of the players she competed against in the FCIAC, and also in summer league basketball, was Karen DeFelice of Staples, now Karen DeFelice During, the president of the Sportsmen of Westport.
"I graduated in 1981 and Karen in 1982, so we actually played against each other," Zamary said.
She also competed in track and field all four years at Danbury with her best event being the discus, which she was an FCIAC qualifier in.
And despite having never picked up a field hockey stick until her junior year, Zamary made the Hatters' varsity field hockey team and started at fullback her final two years. As a senior, she sustained a broken collar bone during a game against — you guessed it — Staples, the school she would end up at seven years later.
Zamary also threw the discus for the track team at Springfield College, but eventually gave up playing sports so she could work with athletes and teams instead to gain the 1,500 hours of athletic training study required for her national exam.
She graduated cum laude from Springfield in 1985, earning a Degree in Physical Education with a concentration in Athletic Training. Two years later, Zamary became the first fulltime Certified Athletic Trainer at Staples, and among the first hired in the FCIAC.
"Being the athletic trainer for 10 ½ years, there was never one day that I didn't look forward to going to school to help and support the athletes," Zamary wrote on her Sportsmen bio form. "I've had the pleasure of working with many of the best coaches in the state who go way above and beyond to support our kids. They put 200 percent into their work and they do it for all the right reasons."
She continued working as the Wreckers' athletic trainer until the older of her two daughters began kindergarten in 1998, at which point she started teaching physical education at Staples.
It was also around this time Zamary got her first taste of coaching. As her daughters were growing up, she coached both of them in the Newtown Parks and Recreation basketball program. Because they were in different age groups, Zamary ran back to back practices for their teams on Fridays and coached in two games every Saturday for five years, and an additional three years when only one daughter played.
When she stopped coaching basketball in 2008, Zamary became a volunteer EMT in the town of Newtown, which she continues to do and is usually on ambulance duty every Friday night.
In addition to making the transition from athletic trainer to physical education teacher, Zamary also taught Adapted Physical Education, which led to her becoming the Unified Sports coach at Staples in 2005.
"Liza Paglialunga was teaching it and when she moved from Staples to Greens Farms, I ended up taking over the adapted physical education class," Zamary explained. "I just really appreciated teaching students who had disabilities.
"Then the CIAC started this Unified Sports program and it's a great opportunity for those students to work with mainstream students and become partners with them," she added. "The idea is for the mainstream students to help the special needs students and create a bond. It's been great."
Besides her regular workload of daily PE classes she teaches, Zamary oversees the Unified Sports Club at Staples and conducts practices every Friday afternoon — after her school day and before ambulance duty — and the Wreckers enter tournaments and other competitions.
"We've won the Michaels Cup three times," Zamary proudly boasted. "And I have a slew of gold, silver and bronze medals on my wall that our kids have won."
Zamary resides in Newtown with her husband Jack and their two daughters, Shannon and Stephanie.
"I think my mission in life at this point in time is to help others understand the value of physical activity on a consistent basis," she wrote about her role as a PE and Adapted PE teacher. "Keeping active and enthusiastic about participating to the best of your ability is what it's all about. It's not the destination or the end product, but the pursuit to get there. Sports and activity promote friendships and health. What more do you need?"
Student Scholarships: Student bios written by Karen DeFelice
Mikolaj Kulas | Maeve Flaherty | Thomas Jenkins | Michael Garrity | Peter Bonenfant | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 923 |
Q: Method that corrects the text, inserting spaces after the comma in Java I want to create a refactorSeparators method that takes an object of the String type as an argument. Method returns the text from the input object corrected so that if there is any
a comma or a period and there is no space after it, it will insert this space.I'm stuck, don't know what to do next, below is my code. How can I finish it? I wonder how to write this part: if (s.equals(".") && i.next().equals())
public class Separator {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = "Periods,hyphens, the last two characters cannot be a period. The rest of them don't. And there you go.";
ArrayList<String> stringArr = new ArrayList<>();
String[] arrOfStr = text.split("");
Iterator i = stringArr.iterator();
for (String s : arrOfStr) {
stringArr.add(s);
System.out.println("{" +s + "}");
}
for (String s : arrOfStr) {
if (s.equals(".") && i.next().equals()) {
String space = " ";
stringArr.add(i.next(, " ");
} else {
System.out.println("error");
}
}
}}
A: You're over-thinking it:
String refactorSeparators(String str) {
return str.replaceAll("([,.]) ?", "$1 ").trim();
}
The regex ([,.]) ? matches a comma or dot optionally followed by a space, which is replaced with the dot/comma and a space. The trim() removes the space that would be added if there's a dot at the end of the input.
A: Your main problem is here:
Iterator i = stringArr.iterator();
// ...
for (String s : arrOfStr) {
if (s.equals(".") && i.next().equals()) {
You are iterating both with an iterator and a for-loop, that makes life complicated. I'd suggest using a for-loop over the index.
Also your second equals expression is missing an argument.
Since Bohemian already posted the regex one liner, I might as well post my solution too:
public class PunctuationFixer {
private String text;
private int index;
public static String addMissingWhitespaceAfterPunctuation(String input) {
return new PunctuationFixer(input).fix();
}
private PunctuationFixer(String input) {
this.text = input;
this.index = 0;
}
private String fix() {
while (index < this.text.length() - 1) {
fix(this.text.charAt(index));
index++;
}
return this.text;
}
private void fix(char current) {
if (current == '.' || current == ',') {
addSpaceIfNeeded();
}
}
private void addSpaceIfNeeded() {
if (' ' != (text.charAt(index + 1))) {
text = text.substring(0, index + 1) + " " + text.substring(index + 1);
index++;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = "Periods,hyphens, the last two characters cannot be a period. The rest of them don't. And there you go.";
System.out.println(addMissingWhitespaceAfterPunctuation(text));
}
}
A: That's an typical parse issue. You have to remember the last char you've read and deppendend on your current char, you know what to do.
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = "Periods,hyphens, the last two characters cannot be a period.The rest of them don't. And there you go.";
StringBuilder fixedString = new StringBuilder();
String[] arrOfStr = text.split("");
String lastChar = null;
for(String currentChar : arrOfStr) {
if(lastChar != null && (lastChar.equals(",") || lastChar.equals(".")) && !currentChar.equals(" "))
fixedString.append(" ");
fixedString.append(currentChar);
lastChar = currentChar;
}
System.out.println(fixedString);
}
Side note: The shortest and most elegant solution is, of course, @bohemian's. But I suspect it is not in the sense of the homework! ;-)
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Venezuela claimed that several countries had shown interest in its oil-backed cryptocurrency, petro. This list included Poland as well. In response to the same, Poland's Ministry of Finance has promptly refuted any reports citing its interest in petro.
Prior to the launch of the petro, Venezuelan Minter of Foreign Trade claimed that Poland was willing to export food and medicine to Venezuela and receive payment in petros.
Also, the Venezuelan Superintendent of Cryptocurrency mentioned that a lot of investors from Qatar, Turkey and other parts of the Middle East were interested in investing. He also hinted at the participation of Europeans and Americans in it too.
Earlier this month, President Maduro has appealed OPEC countries to join this move to create a platform for oil-backed cryptocurrencies.
Last week the Minister of Popular Power for Economy and Finance tweeted that he had reviewed the economic and financial cooperation with Russia with an emphasis on the petro.
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The healthcare and medical travel sector in Mauritius is experiencing sustained growth and has attracted significant domestic and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The sector is gradually becoming an important contributor to economic growth.
According to the Bank of Mauritius figures, FDI has increased in a sustained manner in the healthcare sector over the last 5 years, Rs 2 million in 2006, Rs 29 million in 2007, Rs 120 million in 2008 and Rs 145 million in 2009.
Based on the 2010 edition of the annual private healthcare industry survey conducted by the Board of Investment, medical travel is experiencing a healthy growth. In fact, the number of foreign patients seeking medical care in Mauritius has increased from a mere 1,000 in 2005 to more than 10,000 in 2010.
Mauritius has a well-developed medical devices industry manufacturing a wide range of quality products. Leading industry players from Europe like Johnson & Johnson, Carl Zeiss Inc., Laboratoire Perouse and Natec Medical have set up their production units in the country with an annual turnover exceeding Rs 1 billion and employing more than 500 people.
The pharmaceutical sector is becoming self-sustaining as the sector continues to grow and is tagged for long-term expansion and further development. Over recent years, global pharmaceutical companies like Ajanta Pharma and Mascareignes Pharmaceutical Manufacturing have started operations in Mauritius employing some hundred people and are engaged in the production of antibiotics, anti-cholesterols, anti-malarials, antipyretics and pain killers exported to African countries and the rest of the world.
The Republic of Mauritius, an island country in the Indian Ocean, lies east of Madagascar and the south-east African coast. Its nearest neighbour is the French island of Réunion. The Constitution of Mauritius provides that Mauritius includes the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega, Tromelin, Cargados Carajos and the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia and any other island comprised in the State of Mauritius. Mauritius has always maintained that it has sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago but has not been able so far to exercise its sovereignty.
The climate is maritime subtropical, with south-east trade winds blowing for much of the year. Summer, the rainy season, is from November to April, winter from June to September. Rainfall ranges from 80 mm in October to 310 mm in February. Heavy rains fall mainly from late December to the beginning of April. Cyclones, occurring in the summer, occasionally do severe damage.
Environment: The most significant issues are water pollution and degradation of coral reefs.
1,240,000 (2012); 42 per cent of people live in urban areas. The population growth rate stood at 0.7 per cent p.a. between the years of 1990 and 2012. In 2012 the birth rate was 12 per 1,000 people (28 in 1970) and life expectancy was 73 years (62 in 1970). About 68 per cent of the population is of Indian descent, 27 per cent Creole and the remainder largely of Chinese or French descent.
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Q: int icon meaning in C++ (Visual Studio) I have been working with Visual studio for few months, I just can't understand what this icon means with int in C++ . In C# int has icon of struct , but in C++ I cant understand. Here is icon
A: That seems to be the icon for keywords.
It doesn't appear in David's list because the Object Browser doesn't include keywords. Intellisense does.
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Regular followers of our technical analysis are well aware that we tend to favor "under the radar" indicators -- say, the 320-day moving average over the 200-day, or the Relative Momentum Index (RMI) over the Relative Strength Index (RSI). By incorporating these less-popular metrics into our chart studies alongside the "usual suspects," we've found we can more easily maintain an edge over the rest of the technical crowd in pinpointing prime buying and selling opportunities.
To that end, we've previously extolled the virtues of tracking what we refer to as "hidden" round numbers. Even the greenest technician is surely aware of the psychological resistance a stock might encounter when approaching the $100-per-share level for the first time, or an index on its initial trips up to a new four- or five-digit millennium mark. But in our experience, stocks can experience similar congestion around "quieter" round numbers that are easy to miss, if you're not paying attention.
Some of these include round-number percentage returns, such as the price point coinciding with a 10%, 20%, or 50% gain or loss from a recent or all-time high or low. And you may have also seen us point out the significance of per-share price levels corresponding with major round-number market capitalizations.
Now, there was nothing particularly "under the radar" about last week's action in the Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) around 7,500 -- a century level that's about as clear-cut a "big round number" as you're likely to encounter. The tech-focused benchmark rallied as high as 7,505 intraday on Thursday, before paring its gains to end the session at 7,493. It was NDX's first touch of 7,500 since Oct. 5, and it was followed by a sharply lower open on Friday. All things considered, we feel comfortable calling this a "firm rejection" at the round 7,500 century level, with this now emerging as a likely short-term resistance level to watch for NDX.
Notably, Friday's sell-off occurred after a period of this indicator hovering right at or below that 50% barrier -- as opposed to spiking above it, which is what we saw in the weeks and months preceding the sharp fourth-quarter downturn. But we'd still venture to say that this is one "hidden round number" indicator worth bringing to the forefront.
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B735, vicinity Perm Russian Federation, 2008
On September 13 2008, at night and in good visual conditions*, a Boeing 737-500 operated by Aeroflot-Nord executed an unstabilised approach to Runway 21 at Bolshoye Savino Airport (Perm) which subsequently resulted in loss of control and terrain impact.
Actual or Potential
Airworthiness, Fire Smoke and Fumes, Human Factors, Loss of Control
Flight Conditions
Aeroflot-Nord Airline
Type of Flight
Public Transport (Passenger)
Moscow/Sheretyevo International Airport
Intended Destination
Perm/Bolshoye Savino International Airport
Take off Commenced
Flight Airborne
Flight Completed
Flight Phase
Manoeuvring
MNV
Location - Airport
Airport vicinity
Approach not stabilised,
Non Precision Approach,
Inadequate Airworthiness Procedures,
Inadequate Aircraft Operator Procedures
Post Crash Fire
Data use error,
Inappropriate ATC Communication,
Inappropriate crew response - skills deficiency,
Inappropriate crew response (automatics),
Inappropriate crew response (technical fault),
Ineffective Monitoring,
Manual Handling,
Procedural non compliance,
Spatial Disorientation,
AP Status Awareness,
Flight Management Error,
Flight Control Error"Flight Control Error" is not in the list (Airframe Structural Failure, Significant Systems or Systems Control Failure, Degraded flight instrument display, Uncommanded AP disconnect, AP Status Awareness, Non-normal FBW flight control status, Loss of Engine Power, Flight Management Error, Environmental Factors, Bird or Animal Strike, ...) of allowed values for the "LOC" property.,
Extreme Bank,
Extreme Pitch
System(s)
Autoflight,
Engine Fuel and Control
Contributor(s) Maintenance Error (valid guidance available),
Pilot verbal-only defect communication
Damage or injury
Aircraft damage
Hull loss
Non-aircraft damage
Most or all occupants (88)
Causal Factor Group(s)
Group(s)
Aircraft Operation,
Aircraft Technical
Safety Recommendation(s)
Aircraft Airworthiness,
Air Traffic Management
On September 13 2008, in night IMC a Boeing 737-500 being operated by Aeroflot-Nord was makimg a procedural approach to join the ILS final approach for runway 21 at Perm when loss of control occurred and terrain impact followed.
This is an extract from the aircraft accident Report (Final report B 737-505 VP-BKO) published by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), Russian Federation:
"[…] the crew started descent from the flight level to waypoint Mendeleyevo […]. After passing over Mendeleyevo, in compliance with the Perm Approach Control instruction, the aircraft flew via the outer marker […] of Runway 21 which is the initial approach fix (IAF) for Runway 21 (magnetic heading 212°). After passing over the RWY [runway] with heading 110° M, the crew, following the Controller's instruction, turned right for back course and started maneuvering for ILS approach to Runway 21.
After the base turn, approaching the landing course at 600 m with both autopilot and autothrottle disengaged, the aircraft started climbing up to 1300 m, rolled 360° over the left wing [then entered a deep descend with 65° nose down pitch] and collided with the ground."
A very detailed description regarding the chain of events leading to the accident are given in the Analysis section of the Report, beginning on page 96. Further, the Report uncovers the immediate events that led to the loss of control:
"The abnormal situation on board started developing when the aircraft was at base leg, with landing gears extended and flaps 30 at 600 m. The aircraft was flying with the autopilot engaged and the autothrottle disengaged.
The autothrottle was disengaged (with the relative alert activated) earlier, at establishing 2100 m by the cruise split monitor due to the significant thrust split. The crew did not attempt re-engaging the autothrottle.
The Co-pilot was the PF [Pilot Flying] during most of the approach. As he did not have basic skills of flying multiengine aircraft with spaced-apart engines, he synchronically shifted the throttles for manual speed control and thus created a significant yawing moment to the left due to the thrust split. The PIC [pilot-in-command] (as the PM [Pilot Monitoring]) was engaged in the radio communication and did not monitor the engine parameters. The crew did not attempt to match the N1 [RPM of both engines].
The pilots did not apply rudder to compensate the yaw moment, which led to a constant left banking. The autopilot's ability to counteract it by right wheel inputs was decreasing as the airspeed was dropping and the aerodynamic efficiency of the ailerons was decreasing.
After the autopilot was saturated followed by 30° left bank, the Co-pilot, while compensating the roll, overrode the autopilot to the CWS [control wheel steering] ROLL and CWS PITCH mode.
Then, in the CWS mode, the Co-pilot inadvertently pressed the manual stabilizer pushbutton, which disengaged the autopilot, accompanied with the relative alert. The crew switched off the alert and did not attempt to re-engage the autopilot.
As the pilot lacked steady piloting skills, he could not monitor all the flight parameters (altitude, speed, roll and pitch) when flying manually. The flight was unstabilised with significant changes of altitude, speed, pitch and roll, and fluctuations of thrust. An increase in thrust led to a significant nose up pitching moment, high pitch attitude (up to 23°) and consequently to significant reduction of airspeed (three times - down to 112, 110 and 113 knots).
The PIC was leading lengthy discussions with the Controller and did not monitor the flight properly, only interfering with the flight control from time to time.
The crew did not follow the Controller's instruction to terminate the approach and prepare for the second one.
At altitude about 1200 m with airspeed of 120 knots (10 kts18.52 km/h <br />5.14 m/s <br /> lower than Reference Speed (Vref)) and left bank of about 30° the PIC, following the Co-pilot's request, took control.
Not having proper situation awareness the PIC abruptly applied left wheel, increasing the left bank up to over 70°. Despite the correct remark from the Co-pilot after which he initially used right wheel (decreasing the left bank to 30°), the PIC then abruptly and disproportionately made several wheel inputs causing rapid left banking, followed by left overturn and deep descent with 65° nose down pitch. It was impossible to recover from such upset at a low altitude."
There is an extensive section in the Report reflecting the crew's qualifications which specifies that the PIC underwent transitional training for Boeing-737 and during the course a co-pilot transition program was used. The training centre mentioned in the Report was neither approved nor accepted by the Russian aviation authorities. The Report states:
[…] "because of substantial lack of documentation, it seems impossible to make a deep analysis of the amount of training received by the PIC during the transition course, the degree and quality of acquired skills and the instructors' remarks."
According to the Report several discrepancies were discovered in the airline operator documents regarding the training of the PIC and the co-pilot, additionally there were internal operators' requirements that the captain did not comply with. The Report uncovers that:
Total solo flight experience of the PIC on Boeing 737 by the time of the accident was less than 500 hours.
According to a note in the Report, the instructors at the training centre where the transition training was conducted expressed an opinion that pilots from Russia experience particular difficulties due to the general difference between western and eastern types of aircraft. Of special notice were problems with bank recovery due to different types of roll indication on the attitude indicators.
In a section titled Aircraft components of particular interest (page 27), the Report states:
"In accordance with the provided data, before the accident flight, the Captain performed 20 flights on aircraft with the integarted cue EADI, the last flight - on September 11, 2008, while the co-pilot performed 10 flights totally, the last one - on August 04, 2008."
Ten out of the 12 Boeing 737 aircraft operated by the airline by the time of the accident were fitted with the usual split command bars while two of them - with the integrated cue type attitude indicators (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Different EADI types (left to right -"normal", "integrated cue" and "eastern type attitude indicator"). Image Source: Final report B 737-505 VP-BKO
The picture […] shows EADI readings at the moment when the PIC took control of the aircraft and deflected the control wheel abruptly to the left. For comparison the EADI installed on Tu-134 aircraft is shown on the right side of the picture. This EADI shows 40° of bank to the right (not to the left as it was during accident flight) and 7° pitch down (to make a more obvious comparison with the actual position of the command bars [installed on the accident aircraft]).
After the accident the Russian CAA prohibited to the operator involved in the accident as well as to other Russian airlines, "to execute flights on aircraft of foreign manufacture that have a different type of attitude indication on the EADI than the standard type used during flight crew training before they (crew members) are trained for this type of indication on aircraft or simulator."
Regarding the loss of spatial orientation contributed by the attitude indication, the Report further clarifies:
"The PIC was unable to determine the bank direction properly and recover spatial orientation, as he did not have steady upset recovery skills for aircraft with western type of attitude indicators installed on modern Russian and western aircraft. This type of indication is different from the one used on the aircraft operated by both pilots before the Boeing 737. The complicated situation accompanied with increasing emotional stress caused a negative transfer of piloting and flight control skills from the earlier aircraft type (Tu-134)."
The assessment of the accident made by an independent expert pilot group stated, that "it is impracticable to use EADI's with different types of indications on aircraft of one type within one airline." Another problem is identified by the pilot working group which encompasses the transitioning from multi-crew aircraft to two-member crew aircraft and distribution of crewmembers' duties.
The technical condition of the aircraft is described in section "History of operation in Russia" (page 29) where it is stated:
"The aircraft was dispatched for the last flight with two MEL [Minimum Equipment List] items: autothrottle inoperative […] and Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) inoperative. […]The logbook does not contain any record if troubleshooting was done by the maintenance staff. […]
The analysis showed that the autothrottle was operative. Its numerous disengagements during the flight were connected with the engine miss-trim which at part power led to a N1 split up to 20% with matching TLA [thrust lever angle], or a throttle stagger up to 15 degrees with matching N1. The left engine thrust was within the limitations at all modes, while the right engine thrust was higher than nominal. The engine trim was equal at idle and almost equal at takeoff mode.
This defect first appeared on August 6, 2008 and, despite numerous records made by the flight crews in the flight log, it was not rectified by the maintenance personnel. The investigation team revealed that the relative AMM [aircraft maintenance manual] troubleshooting procedures were not followed, and the flight records were not used.
[…] During the whole approach the abovementioned mistrim in the engines was present, which increased the workload on the crew during the approach with a disengaged autothrottle."
The section of the Report titled "Pathological, Toxicological, Biochemical and Other Investigations" (page 66) reveales that the forensic medical expertise of the Captains' body residue exposed "the presence of ethyl alcohol in his body before death". No evidence of alcohol was found in the bodies of other crew members.
The probable and contributing causes to the accident are stated in the Report's section titled Conclusion (page 135) and are identified as:
"The immediate cause of the accident was spatial disorientation of the crew, especially the Captain who was the pilot flying at the final stage of the flight, which led to the left flip-over, a steep descent and the crash of the aircraft. The spatial disorientation was experienced during the night time operation in clouds, with both autopilot and autothrottle disengaged. Contributing to the development of the spatial disorientation and failure to recover from it was a lack of proficiency in aircraft handling, crew resource management and of skills associated with upset recovery using "western"-type attitude indications that are found on foreign and modern Russian-made aircraft. This type of indication differs from the one used on aircraft types previously flown by the crew (Tupolev 134, Antonov 2).
The systemic cause of the accident was insufficient management by the airline of flight and maintenance operations of the Boeing 737 type of aircraft. These deficiencies in the aircraft maintenance also revealed through safety inspections conducted by the Russian Transport Oversight Authority and the Russian CAA after the accident.
Deficiencies in the aircraft maintenance led to a situation when flights were performed for a long time with a throttle stagger* that exceeded the limitations in the AMM and when the maintenance staff did not follow the AMM recommended troubleshooting procedures. The need to manage the throttle stagger during the approach increased crew workload.
The forensic medical examination performed in the State Healthcare Center of Special Status "Perm Regional Forensic Expertise Bureau" confirmed the presence of ethyl alcohol in the Captain's body before his death. The captain's recent work schedule during the time period before the accident was conducive to fatigue and did not comply with national regulations."
The Report produced numerous Safety Recommendations. They are addressed to the Russian Aviation Authorities, the airline operator and maintenance organisation as well as to the aircraft manufacturer and to the organisation dealing with the English language training and proficiency. Some of the recommendations are:
"Develop a Crew Resource Management training program for flight crews that fly two-member crew aircraft and ensure this program is mandatory for flight personnel who transition from multi-crew aircraft.
Ensure that the aviation psychologists when selecting personnel for transition training should pay attention to the personality traits of the candidates with regard to their emotional reactions and behavior in abnormal situations (high workload, stress, etc.), and if they find negative traits, should give recommendations on their suitability for transition training and/or the necessity of individual approach during the training.
Arrange and conduct research of spatial disorientation and upset conditions and develop practical safety measures. Based on the research results, develop and implement a special flight crew training course (similar to Upset Recovery Training) that would contain theory and practice.
Consider the practicability of using aircraft with western type attitude indicators at colleges of initial flight training. While Russian training aircraft of such type would be designed, consider the practicability of acquiring western aircraft suitable for initial training. As an alternative measure, consider installing western type attitude indicators on the already used Russian training aircraft.
Ensure continuous MEL usage monitoring. Avoid flights with extended MEL items without a detailed analysis of any particular case.
Together with the equipment manufacturer consider the practicability of replacing the artificial voice warning "Bank angle" by a similar phrase which would indicate the direction of bank (left/right). "
For complete list of the Safety Recommendations see the official accident Report in Further Reading (page 137).
Notes of the SKYbrary editor:
* "simple meteorological conditions" are used as a term in the Final report B 737-505 VP-BKO. Further clarification in the report regarding this term is made: "According to the Russian regulations meteorological conditions (at an airport) not worse than 2000 m visibility and 200 m ceiling are considered to be simple ones."
* throttle stagger - throttle stagger is the term which is used to describe the existence of a difference in the relative position of thrust / power levers when equal thrust or power is set on all engines.
Crew Resource Management
Prioritisation for Pilots
Cross-checking Process
Bank Angle Awareness
Recovery from Unusual Aircraft Attitudes
Flight Instrument Presentation of Aircraft Attitude
Stabilised Approach
Accident and Serious Incident Reports: LOC
Other Similar A&SI Reports:
SF34, Crossair, Zurich Switzerland, 2000
OGHFA BN
Automated Cockpit Guidelines
CRM Skills Training
Decision-Making Training
Final report B 737-505 VP-BKO, the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), Russian Federation.
ICAO Amendment No.3 to PANS-TRG (Doc 9868) - Chapter 7, Upset Prevention and Recovery Training, April 2014.
FAA AC 120-111 Upset Prevention and Recovery Training, April 2015.
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1985 Голяма награда на Детройт е 4-то за Голямата награда на Детройт и шести кръг от сезон 1985 във Формула 1, провежда се на 23 юни 1985 година на пистата Детройт (градска писта) в Детройт, Мичиган, САЩ.
Класиране
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Класиране след състезанието
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Q: Is a programming language a set of programs or a set of instructions? From Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbum
A program is a sequence of instructions describing how to perform a
certain task.
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*When trying to see a programming language as a formal languages added with semantics, I heard that a programming language is a set of valid programs (valid according to the syntax and other aspects of the language).
*When reading Structured Computer Organization by Tanenbum, I understood that a programming languages is a set of instructions, from
Each machine has a machine language, consisting of all the instructions that the machine can execute.
So I wonder if a programming language is a set of programs or a set of instructions? Thanks.
A: Note that the latter definition only talks about the machine language of some computer, not about programming languages in a general sense. I suppose the machine language is a programming language, but when treating programming languages as sets of programs, we can reconcile that with the latter definition by rephrasing it like this: The machine language is the set of of strings of machine instructions (or sequences of machine instructions).
Note that this nicely fits the first definition (program = sequence of instructions). That's because that definition is from an operating system developer's perspective: In that book, Tanenbaum does not care about fancy high level languages, only about binaries that can be executed by the CPU.
Also, none of those definitions is normative. There are many other useful and defensible perspectives on programs and programming languages.
A: From the perspective of programming language theory
I would say neither. A programming language is 3 things
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*A set of rules for constructing programs: the grammar of the language.
*A set of rules for determining whether a particular program is a valid program without running it: the static semantics of the language*
*A set of rules for actually evaluating a program to a value: the dynamic semantics (this is what most people call "semantics")
You can't just call the set of programs a programming language because we, as programmers, care very deeply about how you interpret that program. If I told you I constructed a new language called Nothyp which had the same syntax as Python (accepted the same set of programs) but ran everything backwards (different dynamic semantics) it'd be characterized as the same language if we just looked at the programs they accept!
Plus, in this form proving something like type safety, termination guarantees, or the canonical values lemma is actually reasonably pleasant.
*The static semantics capture the essence of type checking and all the other things a compiler will catch before runtime
A: Why not just quote wikipedia? Nails it down in my opinion:
A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms.
Wikipedia - Programming Language
A: computer program is a sequence of instructions, written to perform a specified task with a computer (by Wikipedia)
It has nothing to do with programming language. it's just the definition of program.
What is programming language?
A programming language is a language (like English language, Persian, Arabic, etc), it has syntax and semantic (syntax: valid sentences and invalid sentences). The meaning of the sentences (semantic), however, depends on the listener (computer). if you want to communicate with computer it should understand what you mean (machine language). However, you can use a high-level programming language and a compiler or an interpreter which translate your language to the machine language.
Is programming language a set of programs it accepts?
It's another definition of a language, and mainly concerns the syntax. It says a programming language is all the programs which are valid in that language.
For example English language is all the texts (infinite) which are according to English words and grammar. But you can't guarantee, these text have any meaning as you read them. However, if we include semantic accuracy (which is meaningful related to the target audience, for example computer) then yes that sentence is true.
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Abstract: The Jordan frame action for general disformal theories is presented and studied for the first time, motivated by several unresolved mysteries that arise when working in the Einstein frame. We present the Friedmann equations and, specialising to exponential functions, study the late-time cosmology using dynamical systems methods and by finding approximate solutions. Our analysis reveals that either the disformal effects are irrelevant or the universe evolves towards a phantom phase where the equation of state of dark energy is $-3$. There is a marginal case where the asymptotic state of the universe depends on the model parameters and de-Sitter solutions can be obtained. Our findings indicate that the metric singularity found using the Einstein frame construction corresponds phantom behaviour in the Jordan frame and we argue that this is the case for general disformal theories. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 936 |
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Variable: Type of formal governance
Formal System
Basic (learn about themes)
What type of (formal) governance system is this?
Management plan, System of laws, Treaty
This variable does not necessarily have theoretical (causal) importance. But it can be important to identify what types of governance systems tend to have what effects on different types of commons problems.
"The management plan option specifies that there is a structure of rules which is derived from the formal legal system such as acts, statutes, and laws. The system of laws option indicates that the governance system in case is derived directly form the formal legal system such as acts, statutes, and laws. The treaty option specifies that a governance system in place is based on a formally concluded and ratified agreement among states."
Component Usages
"New Order" Indonesian Forest Governance System, 1965-1998
System of laws This was a formal governance system based on a nation state, and thus is a system of laws.
"Reformasi" Indonesian Forest Governance System, 1998-2012
System of laws This is a system of laws governing forest management.
ICCAT Governance System
Treaty ICCAT was created as a convention among contracting parties.
GMR governance system 1998-current
Management plan System of Laws and Management plan. Coded together as one governance system.
Rhine Chemicals Convention
Rhine Action Plan
Management plan The overall goal of the program is to improve water quality by meeting the following objectives, by the year 2000 (Van den Brink et al. 1994; Van Dijk et al. 1995): 1) To create conditions that can support the return of higher trophic level species such as Salmon salar; 2) To protect the Rhine River as a source for drinking water; 3) To decrease the contamination of sediments, suspended matter, and the biota due to toxic compounds; 4) To meet water quality standards mandated in the North Sea Action Plan; 5) To follow the 'Ecological Master Plan for the Rhine River'. This plan dictates two major ecosystem based goals: a) To restore the mainstream and its main tributaries, as habitats for migratory fish; and b) To improve and protect ecologically important areas of the Rhine River and the Rhine valley with an emphasis on increasing the biodiversity of indigenous flora and fauna. The initial years of the Rhine Action Program focused exclusively on water quality improvement. The Rhine states agreed on a target reduction of 50% of the pollution caused by priority compounds by the year 1995. In addition water quality targets were set for about 50 priority compounds based on the requirements for drinking water supply, the protection of aquatic life forms, and on human tolerance levels for fish consumption (Schulte, 1992). Rehabilitation efforts involved sewage and water treatment plants, decrease in point source discharges, reinforcing shorelines with large stones and planting of riparian vegetation, and use of seasonal chemical and biological concentration techniques to monitor water quality.
Wakatobi National Park 2008-current
Management plan Management plan: The Act is established through the 25-year management plan
NWHI Monument Act 2006
Management plan A management plan was produced in 2008 by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The Monument is simply an agreement between the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the State of Hawaii, which form the co-trusteeship that manages the Monument.
System of laws
Raja Ampat Governance System
System of laws Focussed on the System of Laws - there is a formal management plan that includes components for each of the MPAs, and a management plan for the whole network, but there is contention over which MPAs are to be finally included in this plan (there are currently two versions - one included Kawe and one without).
Joint Sanctuary Management Governance System
Management plan The management plan contains the framework for how to manage the sanctuaries and divides tasks into program areas, and also provides the legal framework regulations to enforce Sanctuary laws.
Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery Management Plan
Management plan Management plan has been implemented in the context of enabling legislation
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve Management Plan
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan
Galapagos Governance System 1998-current
Macquarie Island Marine Park Management Plan
Management plan Management plans have been designed and implemented under the appropriate legislation.
Heard and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve Management Plan
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery Management Plan
The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) Fisheries Department's Falklands Interim Conservation and Management Zone (FICZ)
System of laws Fisheries are managed based on a number of laws and ordinances (FICZ, 2005 ordinance, etc). The FICZ set up the jurisdiction for future laws and regulations.
Caeté-Taperaçú Extractive Reserve (RESEX) in Brazil
Indonesian Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Marine Areas for Responsible Fishing (AMPRs) Costa Rica
GBR Marine Park Act 1975-1999
Management plan The Act is implemented through a management plan.
GBR Marine Park Act 2004-current
Svalbard Environmental Protection Act
System of laws The first laws were established with the parks creation in 1973. The Svalbard Environmental Protection Act in 2001 further elaborates on these initial regulations.
Seaflower MPA Act 2005
System of laws It is the creation act. I could not have found the actual management plan for this MPA.
GABMP (Commonwealth Waters) Plan of Management 2000 - 2005 and Management Plan 2005 - 2012
Management plan 2000-2005, and 2005-2012. The park is managed by the Director of National Parks in the Department of the Environment. The plan describes all activities allowed and the provisions in place to manage those activities.
Cenderwasih governance system
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California Department of Fish and Wildlife Market Squid Fishery Management Plan
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New Zealand Quota Management System
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Loizos Heracleous
This page lists my work which has an applied, managerial slant and which may be of interest to strategists, consultants, organization development practitioners, and reflective practitioners. I have employed this and other research work in my executive development and consultancy engagements since 1997 (selected session abstracts can be found here). This page also lists some media articles or briefings featuring my research or commentary. My linkedin profile can be found here, and my Google Scholar citations can be found here. To get in touch please email [email protected] or use the contact form at the homepage.
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Selected applied research and thinking
Barriers to innovation
Why did fabled lab Xerox PARC fail to introduce most of its ground-breaking inventions to market, leaving the ground open for competitors? New research: Heracleous et al., 2017, Structural ambidexterity and competency traps: Insights from Xerox PARC.
How business is taking the space race to new frontiers. 2015. In The Conversation and in Fortune.
Educating Tomorrow's Thought-Leaders, 2014. Distinguished Scholars Answer a Burning Question:
What will it take to educate the next generation of thought-leaders for a complicated world?
Download booklet here
Heracleous, L. & Wirtz, J. 2014. Sustainable competitive advantage at Singapore Airlines: Dual strategy as mastering paradox. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Outlines how Singapore Airlines builds competitive advantage by balancing dual capabilities, such as cost effective service excellence, and simultaneous centralized and decentralized innovation, seen as poles of four paradoxes.
Heracleous, L. & Jacobs, C. 2011. Crafting Strategy: Embodied Metaphors
in Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Describes a methodology for engaging managers in strategic thinking workshops using three dimensional materials, which they use to build representations of their business challenges. These metaphorical representations are decoded to deliver insights richer and qualitatively different than those delivered by conventional planning techniques.
Heracleous, L. & Lan, L. L. 2010. The myth of shareholder capitalism. Harvard Business Review, April: 24.
Notes that legally speaking Directors' duties are owed to the corporation as a legal person, rather than shareholders; which has important implications for directors' duties and on how we view corporate governance.
Heracleous, L. & Wirtz, J. 2009. Achieving service excellence through innovation at Singapore Airlines. Effective Executive, June: 36-45.
Describes Singapore Airlines' unique model of service innovation, which relies on a combination of structured, rigorous, centralized innovation led by the product innovation department together with soft, emergent, distributed innovation led by functional departments.
Heracleous, L. & Rao, A. K. 2008. Systems thinking: The missing link in management education? Effective Executive, January: 47-49.
Suggests that systems thinking as an approach to management education combines a holistic view of management challenges and relevance, together with a structured approach to learning.
Heracleous, L. 2006. Competitive instinct: Taking strategy further. Interview in CIIM Management Review, 2(3): 2-6.
Interview on themes of strategic alignment, core competencies and emergent strategy.
Lan, L. L. & Heracleous, L. 2005. Shareholder votes for sale. Harvard Business Review, June, "Forethought" section: 20-24.
Notes that many companies engage in corporate vote-buying, which is a legal action to take (unlike civil vote-buying), which companies often take for strategic reasons. Suggests that such actions must be pursued with transparency, fairness and due process to avoid potential allegations of impropriety.
Heracleous, L. 2001. When local beat global: The Chinese beer industry. Business Strategy Review, 12 (3): 37-45.
Offers an example of costly failure by the world's largest beverage corporations in penetrating China, and outlines some lessons for other corporations seeking to enter China.
Heracleous, L. 1999. Why an effective board is vital for a company. Business Times, 10 March, p. 12.
Outlines the main functions of boards of directors and why it is important for corporations and society that these functions are carried out effectively.
Agility at NASA
Enabling paradigm change and agility at NASA's Johnson Space Center: Interview of Chief Technology Officer, Space Policy, 2017.
As leaders, are we aware of our effects on others? 2016. We discuss the main "leadership externalities" that leaders need to be aware of.
Strategy Research
Heracleous, L. 2013. Quantum strategy at Apple Inc. Organizational Dynamics, 42: 92-99. Describes a novel view of strategy as the ability to implement positions and capabilities that had been considered distinct; and explains how Apple uses this strategy to achieve extraordinary performance. A related case study, Strategic leadership and innovation at Apple Inc, was overall winner of the Case Centre's case awards for 2013, over 17,511 other eligible cases.
Heracleous, L. & Wirtz, J. 2010. Singapore Airlines' balancing act. Harvard Business Review, July-August: 145-149.
Explains how Singapore Airlines manages to balance service excellence and continuous innovation, with intense levels of efficiency based on primary data from a multi-year study of the company.
Heracleous, L., Wirtz, J., and Pangarkar, N. 2009. Flying High in a Competitive Industry: Secrets of the World's Leading Airline (Revised edition). McGraw-Hill.
This book is based on an in-depth case study of Singapore Airlines and seeks to describe the sources of the airline's competitive advantage including such aspects as what are the driving principles of its strategy, its underlying values, how it selects and develops people and how it innovates.
Heracleous, L. & Johnston, R. 2009. Can business learn from the public sector? European Business Review, 21: 373-379.
Challenges conventional wisdom suggesting that public sector entities should learn from the private sector, and sets out some potential lessons for business organizations based on case study research in leading public-sector entities.
Heracleous, L. and Jacobs, C. 2008. Developing strategy: The serious business of play. In Gallos, J. (Ed.) Business Leadership: A Reader. Jossey-Bass, chapter 25: 324-335.
Outlines the importance and benefits of play in strategic thinking, compares playful approaches with traditional strategizing, and describes how to play with serious intent and the role of leadership in this process.
Wirtz, J. & Heracleous, L. 2005. Biometrics meets services. Harvard Business Review (HBR List of breakthrough ideas) February: 48.
Outlines the potential of biometrics technologies, beyond their security applications, to revolutionalize service delivery through personalization and added efficiency.
Heracleous, L. & Wirtz, J. 2005. Biometrics - the new edge in service industries. Oxford on Business, May.
Describes how biometric technologies have the potential to redefine customer experience in several industries, as well as offer competitive advantage for companies that make effective use of such technologies.
Heracleous, L. & Jacobs, J. 2005. Playing to win. Oxford on Business, September.
Explains the strategic functions of play-based workshops, with several examples based on symbolic constructions developed by senior managers in such workshops.
Heracleous, L. 2004. Corporate social responsibility. Economic Post newspaper, 1 April, pp. 46-52 (in Greek).
Discusses global CSR trends, potential benefits of CSR, how CSR can be integrated with corporate strategy, and how it can be evaluated.
Selected media articles or executive briefings authored
Heracleous, L. 2018. Space tourism economics - financing and regulating trips to the final frontier. The Conversation, 25 July.
Heracleous, L. 2017. Don't panic - you'll still be able to fly to Europe after Brexit. Yahoo Finance, 16 August.
Heracleous, L. 2016. Apple, Google, Facebook: Where would you put your money? The Conversation, 1 March.
Heracleous, L. 2015. How business is taking the space race to new frontiers. The Conversation, 27 November. Republished in Fortune, Why Jeff Bezos has entered the space race, 30 November.
City AM, 2014. As Tesco plans to launch an own-brand smartphone, can it succeed? 6 May.
Heracleous, L. 2013. What do Singapore Airlines and Apple Inc have in common? Quantum Strategy. BloombergBusinessweek management blog, 31 July.
Heracleous, L. 2006. Competitive instinct: Taking strategy further. Interview in CIIM Management Review, 2(3):2-6.
Heracleous, L. & Jacobs, C. 2005. Playing to win. Oxford on Business, September.
Heracleous, L. 2004. The strategic role of the board. Corporate Governance Executive, no. 243, January.
Heracleous, L. 1995. Spinning a brand new cultural web. People Management, 2 November, pp. 24-27.
Selected media articles quoting my work or commentary
Financial Times. 2017. China's Huawei to expand in tough PC market with new laptop. 2 May.
Economist. 2016. Alaska Airlines' purchase of Virgin America could start a new wave of consolidation. 5 April.
Paredes, D. 2015. 6 'interrelated factors' that can lead to corporate failure. CIO New Zealand, 29 November.
Bourke, J. 2015. Ryanair aims for 180 million passengers by 2024. The Independent, 3 November.
Trenholm, R. 2015. Apple faces $862m fine after losing processor patent dispute. CNET, 14 October.
BBC News. 2015. Toshiba Chief Executive resigns over scandal. 21 July.
Cave, A. 2014. To boldly go. How a British business school would change NASA. Forbes, 15 October.
Snyder, B. 2014. What technology execs can still learn from Steve Jobs ... and Aristotle. Infoworld, 2 October.
BloombergBusinessweek, 2014. Why Steve Jobs was such a charismatic leader. 30 September.
Cave, A. 2014. What Apple's Steve Jobs could teach Aristotle. Forbes, 29 September.
Snyder, B. 2013. Why Apple has thrived while Dell may die. Infoworld, 25 July.
PenTest Magazine, 2013. Interview with Loizos Heracleous about Dell and its 79% fall in profits. June (02): 54-56.
Bradshaw, D., 2013. Warwick, Harvard and Insead scoop "Oscars" of the publishing world, Financial Times Business School news, 25 February.
BBC, 2012. Delta to buy Virgin stake from Singapore Airlines. BBC News, 11 December. Full commentary on this story is here: Loizos Heracleous talks to BBC about Delta and Virgin's new deal.
Sanjai, P. R. 2012. Divergent routes, one destination. Livemint (India), 14 February.
Sanjai, P. R. 2011. Air India sets annual targets to increase revenue, reduce costs. Livemint (India), 9 April.
Sanjai, P. R. & Roy, A. 2011. Banks to run checks on health of airlines. Livemint (India), 7 March.
Teo, A. 2010. SIA's success secret is a tough balancing act. Business Times (Singapore), 29 July.
Kaur, K. 2006. The write stuff on SIA: Balancing service quality and profits. The Straits Times (Singapore), 19 January.
Tan, M. P. 2006. Keep costs low and fly high. The New Paper (Singapore), 19 January.
Sreenivasan, V. 2006. Secret of SIA's success: Tight alignment of core competencies. Business Times (Singapore), 18 January.
MBA Live, 2004. How strategy helps sustain competitive advantages, July, pp. 4-5.
The Asian Banker Journal, 2000. Leadership and the composition of the board, April, Issue 21, pp. 36-37.
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Q: Material TabLayout with TabItem : Ripple effect not working In my layout i have a TabLayout with two TabItem above a ViewPager. It all works as expected, but when i tap on a TabItem for switch visible fragment, i have no ripple effect.
This is my layout:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout
android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TabLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:background="@color/white"
app:tabBackground="@color/tab_bg_color"
app:tabSelectedTextColor="@color/tab_sel_color"
app:tabTextColor="@color/tab_text_color">
<com.google.android.material.tabs.TabItem
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="TAB ONE" />
<com.google.android.material.tabs.TabItem
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="TAB TWO" />
</com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout>
<androidx.viewpager.widget.ViewPager
android:id="@+id/viewpager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
And this is my PagerAdapter implementation
class UploadScreenPagerAdapter(fragmentManager: FragmentManager) :
FragmentPagerAdapter(
fragmentManager,
BEHAVIOR_RESUME_ONLY_CURRENT_FRAGMENT
) {
var fragOne = FragOne()
var fragTwo = FragTwo()
override fun getItem(position: Int): Fragment {
return when (position) {
0 -> fragOne
1 -> fragTwo
else -> fragOne
}
}
override fun getCount(): Int {
return 2
}
override fun getPageTitle(position: Int): CharSequence? {
return when (position) {
0 -> "TAB ONE"
1 -> "TAB TWO"
else -> ""
}
}
}
what's wrong?
A: *
*Remove android:background="@color/white"
JAVA Code
void setTabRippleColor (ColorStateList color)
XML Code
You can try with app:tabRippleColor.
Add below in TabLayout section.
app:tabRippleColor="@color/colorPrimary" // or add your Hex code
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The Old Time Music Hall
Bernie's Olde Tyme Music Hall Devised and Directed by Dame Kerry Goode Garrick Theatre is proud to present 'Bernie's Olde Tyme Music Hall' a traditional Olde Tyme Music Hall show, in honour of dear Guildfordian and Master of Ceremonies Sir Bernard Doyle. The season runs from November 24 to December 10 at the historic theatre and is the ideal show as we lead into the festive season and wrapping up Garrick's 90th Anniversary celebrations.
Devised and directed by Dame Kerry Goode the show will be laden with a bounty of jokes, skits, music and melodrama in the traditional flair at the turn of the 20th century all whilst toasting Her Majesty Queen Victoria throughout the night. Life Member and Director Dame Kerry Goode said, "Of course, some content will be politically incorrect, but who cares?! It's what it was at the turn of the century. "The contents of this show will be performed in the traditional music hall genre and audience participation is highly encouraged" she said.
A show full of hilarity, song and fun. Audiences will be rolling with laughter during this madcap melodrama. Written by Yvette Wall, this melodrama – 'Ladies Who Wait', came second at the recent Short & Sweet Festival at Subiaco Arts Centre. Yvette has kindly offered an extended version for the Music Hall. Longstanding Guildford and Swan region residents and theatre goers would remember Oliver's Olde Tyme Music Hall which was well known for their regular performances in the 1980s and 90s at the local Mechanic's Institute.
The group was also known as Oliver's Travelling Music Hall and toured often to regional country areas. Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which was in its heyday between 1850 and 1960. It is a particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and specialty acts. British Music Hall was similar to American Vaudeville, featuring rousing songs and comic acts. While in the United Kingdom the term Vaudeville referred to more lowbrow entertainment that would have been termed Burlesque in the United States.
With a bounty of familiar performers well known from way back in the day to recent times, the show features Master of Ceremonies Madame Siobhan Vincent, Miss Fiona Forster, Miss Colleen Bradford, Garrick Theatre 16 Meadow Street, Guildford WA 6055 Mr Christopher Churchouse, Miss Victoria Abbott, Mr Ray Egan, Mr Alan Shaw, Miss Colleen Hopkins, Miss Susan Vincent, Miss Jenna McGougan-Shaw and special guest Sir Les Layton. PLUS Accompanist the Kitten on the Keys Miss Kendra Smith. Performance Dates: November 24, 25, 26, 27*, December 1, 2, 3^, 4*, 8, 9, 10 Times: Evening shows start 7.30pm and *matinees at 2pm. Saturday December 3 has both a matinee and evening show. Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. Garrick Theatre: 16 Meadow Street, Guildford Tickets: $25 Full, $22 Concession, $20 Members, $15 Child under 12years (plus processing fees) Bookings: www.TAZtix.com.au/garricktheatre or phone TAZ Tix 9255 3336
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with the director Kerry Goode
107 is back; bigger, better, and brattier. Premiering to critical acclaim and standing ovations at Summer Nights 2022, 107 is a fun and fierce homegrown musical celebrating the resilience of our youth. Four girls meet on a hot, summer morning, killing time and testing boundaries as they wait for the school bus. Writer and composer Michele Gould describes the show as "flipping stereotypes on their heads, whilst also flipping them off. A fever dream of my private school memories, wild friends, and the experience of growing up queer."
Lets have a chat with Michele Gould the writer of the play and find out what she has to say about her amazing musical.
Good day Michele and welcome to the Perth Art & Entertainment website.
Lets start at the very beginning. Give us a brief idea of your journey in the world of Drama
I started my journey actually pursuing science. I finished a Biomedical degree before auditioning for WAAPA and am so grateful to have studied at both incredible institutions, but the arts is my dream.
You are the writer of this peppy musical entitled " 107'" What inspired you to write about your experiences growing up queer.
A passion of mine is being the change you want to see in the world; I wanted representation for the stories that I wish I'd had growing up.
I have read a quick synopsis of the musical. Is there anything of importance that I may have left out that you may like to add.
We have more than just punk! I am incredibly proud of this sound track and am very excited for the few surprises we have for the audiences, old and new.
Your media release talks about this musical celebrating the resilience of youth. What exactly are you saying on this topic.
This musical to me is about survival. It's about going through the toughest of times, with your best friends by your side, and claiming the bravery it took to get through it all.
Obviously the musical was performed for Summernights 2022. You say that the current production is bigger and better. What sort of changes have you made to the original script.
Our script has had a few edits, but in terms of length it's almost the same! I've added more detail to some of the characters, but we've extended the show mostly through music. I think the story just became a lot more clear for me as I had more time to sit with the work.
The musical basically talks about 4 girls who test boundaries while they are waiting for their school bus. What sort of activities do they indulge in to test their boundaries.
I think in a way each character brings out a new shade of each other, in the way that your friends in real life do. Some people will bring out the best, and some the worst, and it's all about figuring out who you want to be.
One of your reviewers has said that the musical is exhilarating and masterful being likened to the Breakfast club meets Spring awakening. What exactly did they mean by this.
I think this musical feels nostalgic, even though it's completely new, because it's a homage to these experiences and the coming-of-age stories that we all consumed growing up. I was inspired by these works, and they were very formative in my creative journey, so it's such a compliment that something I made reminds people of these works.
They also described it as cinematic and poignant Do you have beautiful visuals that enhance the experience.
I think our lighting design by Katrina Johnston is absolutely breathtaking. It really heightens the experience and creates a magical atmosphere for the audience. It feels like we get transported to this world and just get to see what happens.
What are your sets like
I'm a minimalist at heart and I absolutely love working with our director Daley Rangi as they are also a Beckett-inspired creative. Our set both times has really just consisted of the bus stop bench, but it's because we wholeheartedly believe in the depth of the text and music, and the talent of the cast to bring the work to life.
Do you have any lighting special effects?
I would say everything about the design makes for a special effect, but again we've gone minimal. I think it's very fun to see what you can do with less!
And ofcourse we come to the beautiful music that has been highly appreciated by all who have seen the show. Give us an inkling of what types of songs we could expect to hear.
Punk, punk-pop, pop-rock, a bit of jazz, a bit of indie… There's so much, and it was fun trying to figure out how to combine everything so it all worked together to create one beautiful tapestry of sound.
Who is responsible for writing the words to the songs.
The lyrics and composition are my own, but I worked with a brilliant vocal director Vanitha Hart to arrange and teach the harmonies for the songs and she turned the bare-bones that I had into incredible full musical numbers. I've also worked with a producer Luke Minness and it's been really fun learning from him and seeing the depth he's added to these tracks to really make them pop.
And finally in a nutshell tell us a little about your 4 very talented performers.
I honestly couldn't do it in a nutshell; I love them so much and the individuality and talent that they bring to these characters make me so endlessly grateful and excited to see them again in this space.
Before I say good bye is there anything I may not have mentioned that you would like to talk about.
Just that I'd love to mention our incredible stage manager Ari Rahim, who couldn't be part of the summer night's season but we're thrilled to be working with now. They've just fit right into the whole cosy dynamic of the team and have been incredibly helpful when we had to do rehearsals over Zoom!
Thank you so much Michelle for talking to us on The Perth Art and entertainment website. I wish you all the best and look forward to speaking to you soon about another great show. Good bye
SO there you have it listeners the fourth wall media has described this show as "Dynamic and energetic, the performers sparking and fizzing…a musical for those who are not willing to give up their voice or have not spoken up yet…hands down one of the best new soundtracks around." With review like this do you think you can afford to miss this brilliant musical that talks about a very important section of our society.
Michele Gould
Fun for the whole family as we follow the adventures of young Dick Whittington, come to London to make his Fortune. Along the way he has to fight off the machinations of the Evil King Rat and his rat pack, aided only by his faithful (but sarcastic) talking cat, and the occasional magic of Fairy Bowbells. Will he win through and gain the heart of the beautiful Alice? And how much help will he get from Sara the Cook or Blackbeard the Pirate? Children will love his visits to a gypsy camp, a pirate ship, and the cooking pots of the native tribe of a desert island. And adults will enjoy the jokes and irreverence that are part of pantomime!!
GRADS' new production of Dick Whittington and his Cat is a joyful, traditional Christmas pantomime, set in the beautiful open-air surrounds of the New Fortune Theatre on the UWA campus. There will be plenty of chances for kids (of all ages) to get involved in the laughs and the action of this timeless tale. So come along and join in the fun!
The SpongeBob Musical
The SpongeBob Musical will delight young and old
The SpongeBob Musical explodes with colour and energy this October at the Regal Theatre and features an original pop and rock score by Grammy® Award-winning songwriters including John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's and They Might Be Giants. The musical is based on the iconic Nickelodeon™ series by Stephen Hillenburg and features a book by Kyle Jarrow.
We arrive in Bikini Bottom to meet SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and the rest of the inhabitants facing the total annihilation of their undersea world. Fortunately, a most unexpected and absorbent hero rises to the challenge of saving the town he loves.
Like the residents of Bikini Bottom, the cast and crew of this production of The SpongeBob Musical fought hard to save the show when it was facing total annihilation due to lack of funding. Thanks to many wonderful, kind sponsors they managed to raise enough money to keep the show afloat.
The SpongeBob Musical has humanity, heart, and glorious theatricality. It is suitable for the whole family and you don't have to be a fan of the cartoon to enjoy this delightful production brimming with multi-talented Perth performers.
The SpongeBob Musical plays at 7:30pm on October 27, 28, 29and 30 with 2pm matinees on October 29 & 30. Tickets are from $40.00 -$69.95. Book now at https://premier.ticketek.com.au/ or on 08 9388 2066 (Regal Theatre). The Regal Theatre is located at 474 Hay Street, Subiaco.
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with the director David Nelson
Chicago at the Planet Royale Theatre is a sublime musical complete with everything you would hope for from this classic: scandal, sensuality, and a whole lot of murder. Telling the story of Roxie Hart, a young dancer who kills her ex-lover and finds herself swept up in the whirlwind of the press surrounded by other murderous women, this production of Chicago has earned its place as one of the best shows.
It is the second longest running ' show in Broadway history', Chicago, is a remarkable performance of vice and sin. Set in early 20th century Chicago, the musical, which is an adaptation of the play by Maurine Watkins, harks back to years of the Jazz Age.
We follow the story of Roxie Hart who, after murdering her lover, finds herself in the Cook County Jail. Here we are introduced to the likes of Velma Kelly and Mama Morton as we watch the characters in their pursuit of fame and acts of deceit. However the pair seem more concerned with their fickle fame and public image than their life and death situation. Neither character has any sense of morality as they navigate their way through the media madness – desperately clutching on to every ounce of attention they can garner.
The interview was done by Malti Elliott with one of the stars Brendon Hanson.
The Marvelous Wonderettes
The Marvelous Wonderettes will keep you smiling in this must-take musical trip down memory lane!
"One irresistible musical! An utter charm bomb!" – The New York Times.
This smash off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their hairdos! As we learn about their lives and loves the girls serenade us with classic ' 50s hits including " Lollipop," " Stupid Cupid," and " Lipstick on Your Collar."
In act two, the Wonderettes reunite to take the stage and perform at their ten-year reunion. We learn about the highs and lows the girls have experienced in the past decade and are charmed to find that no matter what life throws their way, they will conquer it together. Featuring over 30 classic ' 50s and ' 60s hits.
Starring Sian Dhu, Bella Lambert, Gemma Little & Caris Reid.
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with the director Carole Dhu
The World goes round
The world keeps spinning at Midnite The Midnite Youth Theatre Company talented performers will come together next month to perform The World Goes 'Round, a lively musical revue encompassing songs from such award[1]winning Kander and Ebb musicals as Cabaret, Chicago and New York, New York.
John Kander and Fred Ebb are the longest-running collaborative partnership in musical theatre history. Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Goulet are among the many who have performed their work.
Conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson, The World Goes 'Round first appeared on Broadway in 1992. It features songs selected from the popular musicals such as "All That Jazz" and "Mr Cellophane" from Chicago and "Money" and "Maybe this Time" from Cabaret.
The World Goes 'Round will be directed by Artistic Director of Midnite, Gregory Jones, whose credits range from musical theatre and plays to devised works. Also on the creative team is Musical Director, Jackson Griggs, Choreographer, Claire Nichols and assisting the production is cabaret performer, Simone Craddock.
"We are delighted to bring this incredible revue to life, filled with great songs and style," says Midnite's Artistic Director, Gregory Jones.
The production brings together a talented ensemble of emerging young performers from 18 to 25 years selected from throughout WA.
"We have an incredibly talented team guiding these young performers through this fantastic repertoire by Kander and Ebb. These energetic and colourful songs embody the wit and enthusiasm of the writers but also embrace the raw emotions of heartbreak and loss."
The season runs from 9 to 12 March, Downstairs @ the Maj, His Majesty's Theatre. Tickets can be purchased online through the Perth Theatre Trust website. midnite.ccgs.wa.edu.au
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with one of the performers Maya Curtis
NEVERMORE: THE IMAGINARY LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
The multi award winning team at Grey Lantern Productions is thrilled to present the AUSTRALIAN PREMIER of the stunning NEVERMORE: THE IMAGINARY LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE at the Subiaco Arts Centre, 1-4 December 2021.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A SHOW UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.
Dark and dazzling, bizarre and beautiful, Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a unique and wildly theatrical musical play combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and stunning stagecraft to chronicle the fascinating and moving life story of iconic American writer Edgar Allan Poe, one of the world's most famous and fascinating writers.
Nevermore blends fact and fiction to create a darkly immersive experience that is difficult to describe, but impossible to forget. A literary rock star in his day, Poe struggled with tragedy and addiction, poverty and loss, yet produced some of the world's most original, visionary and enduring literature before dying in unexplained circumstances at the age of 40.
At once gorgeous and grotesque, exploring the events that shaped Poe's character and career and giving powerful expression to Poe's words "all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
CREDITS: Book, Lyrics and Music by Jonathan Christenson, By permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Playscripts, Inc.
Director – Lorna Mackie Production Manager – Mike McAllan Musical Director – Maddison Moulin Choreographer – Anita Telkamp
Edgar Allan Poe – Cal Silberstein Players: Simon Brett, Daniel Burton, Zac Bennett-McPhee, Charlotte Williams, Erin Craddock, Arianne Westcott-King *** This show has adult themes***
Where: Subiaco Arts Centre, Main Stage
When: 1-4 December 2021
Suitable: Recommended 15+, this show has adult themes including suicide, depression, addiction and child marriage
The interview was done by Malti Elliott with the Assistant Director Mitch Lawrence.
Jack and the Bean Stalk
Jack and the Beanstalk Jack Trot and his mother, Dame Trot live in a village called Merrydale. Jack is in love with King Bertram's daughter, the lovely Princess Demelza. The village is being terrorised by the Giant who lives Up-In-The Clouds. He demands increased taxes and the hand of the Princess in marriage. In order to pay the Giant, Dame Trot and Jack are forced to sell their cow Daisy. However, Jack is tricked by Slimeball, the Giant's henchman, who pays him in beans instead of cash; and who abducts the Princess and takes her to the Giant. Jack throws the beans away in disgust, but magically they grow into a huge beanstalk allowing him to climb up into the clouds to rescue the Princess. Will it end happily ever after?
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with Gwen Browning .
ABBA's hits tell the hilarious story of a young woman's search for her birth father. This sunny and funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.
The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, creating an unforgettable show. A large cast, non-stop laughs and explosive dance numbers combine to make Mamma Mia! a guaranteed smash hit. A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget!
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with Chris Dodson & Hayley Parker
https://soundcloud.com/malti-elliott/mamma-mia-chris-dodson-hayley-parker/s-zIVzjOtCX6h
Presented by: Serasi Entertainment
Briefs Dirty Laundry
BRIEFS BOYS TO TAKE OVER GIRLS SCHOOL Briefs are heading back to Perth with a very special presentation outside the regular FRINGE WORLD Festival season for the first time in ten years!
This time, they've got a hills hoist in tow and they're ready to air all of their dirty laundry in their brand-new show, Briefs Dirty Laundry. This WA Premiere will take over Girls School from 11 – 22 August 2021.
With more glitter stains and ballsy attitude than ever before, your favourite Briefs misfits give you a night of intoxifying physicality, unapologetic truths and gob-smacking comedy. Turn your cycle to HOT as you watch these boys tumble dry.
Led by Briefs Creative Director, Fez Fa'anana (aka Shivanana), Briefs Dirty Laundry features a line-up of lads you know and love (Mark 'Captain Kidd' Winmill, Thomas Worrell and WA's own Louis Biggs) as well as some shiny new toys and boys (Brett Rosengreen, Dylan Rodriguez and Luke Hubbard).
Don't miss out on this chance to see the ridiculous showmanship of the Briefs boys who were disappointed to cancel their Perth appearance earlier this year at FRINGE WORLD 2021 due to a COVID-19 breakout in Queensland.
Fa'anana explains: "Dirty Laundry is an opportunity to creatively, metaphorically and candidly get some sh*t off our chest, to 'air our dirty laundry'. A space for the audience to free themselves with the fabric of our relationships and overindulge with the floral maskings of a softener. These interesting and unpredictable times may give us the spin cycle that we need to speak truths and let muddy waters drain. A chance to super-soak and stain-remove the blemishes that can spoil the load. We launder our collective thoughts and our Y-fronts, we rinse off the residue, spin dry some sense into ourselves and throw caution to the hills hoist."
Briefs Dirty Laundry is a co-production between Briefs Factory International, ARTRAGE and Cluster Arts. "There's no chance for a boring winter when the Briefs boys are in town. This is a ridiculously entertaining show and it's one of the many new things that ARTRAGE has on the cards for Perth. It's part of our plan to find more ways to entertain the people of Perth when we're not all busy Fringe-ing" said ARTRAGE CEO Sharon Burgess.
Tickets from $42 or $60 for the VIP Briefs Deluxe Full Service featuring table service. Tickets are on sale now from girlsschool.com.au
Girls School is the fabulous art-deco building located in East Perth and is presented by ARTRAGE, the team behind FRINGE WORLD Festival. Girls School is a creative hub featuring a winter cinema and special events. BRIEFS DIRTY LAUNDRY Girls School // 2 Wellington Street, East Perth 11 – 22 August 2021
7:30pm Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 7:30pm & 9:30pm Friday and Saturday Restricted to audiences aged 18+ Tickets on sale now from girlsschool.com.au
This is an interview with Fez Fa'anana – the creative director and Chris Durrant.
https://soundcloud.com/malti-elliott/27-jul-2021-1000
Puttin' On the Ritz
Dig out your sequins, put on your glad rags and slip into your dancing shoes. It's time to head back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Following the huge success of their 2017 debut Australian tour, Puttin' On the Ritz is back by popular demand and gliding its way across Australian May and June for an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of some of the most iconic music of all time.
Presented by Mellen Events, Puttin' On the Ritz delivers all the razzamatazz and style, celebrating the most famous songs which hark back to the glory days of Hollywood. This wonderful extravaganza features a 16-strong stellar cast of six multi-talented vocalists and 10 energetic dancers direct from London's West End.
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with Graham Macduff.
MIMMA:A Musical of War and Friendship to have World Premiere
at The Regal Theatre, Subiaco
The Regal Theatre Subiaco will be the host to the West Australian production of the new musical, Mimma: A musical of war and friendship, from Orana Productions, with the season running from April 9 -21, 2019.
The original musical is the result of several years of collaboration between WA based author Dr Giles Watson and composer, Ron Siemignowski. Incorporating completely new musical numbers, including a blend of Jazz, Opera and Musical Theatre, 'Mimma' is a musical that bridge contents and cultures.
Producer and Composer Ron Siemignowski said: "We are very excited to see 'Mimma' come to life. What started with small dreams and ambition has turned into an incredible production with an amazing cast & crew, both local and international talent investing time into creating something that we can all be proud of".
The shadow of Fascism spreads across Italy as Mimma, a young journalist from Turin, takes refuge at her Uncle Lorenzo's nightclub in Soho, London. As another World War becomes inevitable, Mimma forges an unassailable friendship with Sarah, an aspiring jazz singer, while her family are increasingly embroiled in resistance against Mussolini. The coming conflict brings out the best and worst in people as Mimma's brother is captured, Londoners prepare for Hitler's Blitz, and fears of betrayal reach fever pitch. Even refugees and firm opponents of the dictators are classified as "Enemy Aliens". Mimma and Sarah are caught in the turmoil as Soho is torn apart by arrests and internments. England and Italy are facing their darkest hours, and Mimma is in danger of losing everything. Everything – that is, except the one friend she can trust.
Casting the lead role of Mimma was a relatively easy task, when Australian Soprano, Mirusia Louwerse read the Libretta via her agent. Mirusia immediately jumped on board and is very excited to be part of the production: "This incredible new musical features such beautiful and exciting music, I fell in love with the melodies when I first heard them. The storyline and the script is something so different and fresh, yet it is based on true events during the Second World War in Italy and England. I am honoured and proud to be creating the role of Mimma and giving life and a voice to an incredible character."
Mirusia has spent 10 years performing as the Star Soprano of André Rieu and is one of the most celebrated voices in the world. She has performed in front of country leaders, royalty and sung live to many millions of fans across every continent. Mirusia is celebrated for the vocal clarity, dexterity and exquisite tone she brings to the world stage.
Directed by Adam Mitchell, previously with Black Swan Theatre Company, Mimma also stars world renowned Baritone, Jason Barry-Smith in the lead male role of Aldo, with WAAPA graduate & accomplished musical theatre actress, Holly Meegan playing Sarah.
They are joined by Canadian Opera star Suzanne Kompass, WA based Igor Sas and Ian Toyne in the main cast. Mimma's ensemble cast are all proudly West Australian performers whilst the production will feature original music performed by The Perth Symphony Orchestra under Musical Director Sean O'Boyle.
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with the Ron Siemiginowski, the Composer and Producer of the musical
Love, jealousy, and utter foolery
Dolphin Theatre, UWA
You can't hurry love
Fashion, pretension, celebrity culture and the pursuit of love are the targets for the wicked wit of WS Gilbert and musical brilliance of Arthur Sullivan in their timeless musical comedy, Patience, opening at the Dolphin Theatre on September 6, 2018.
Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious satire on the "art for art's sake" movement, epitomised by Oscar Wilde and his followers, is a timeless take on the crazes, fads and fashions that have the power to enslave us all to this day.
First produced in 1881, Patience sees the finest and manliest specimens of Her Majesty's Dragoon Guards go into a state of shock when they realise that the hearts of the most eligible young ladies about town are being stolen by a pair of "beauty loving" poetry-worshipping dandies.
Mayhem breaks out as they attempt to win their intended brides back to their side by any means possible. Even going as far as devising and declaiming poetry themselves and shedding their spiffing uniforms for something more … erm … exquisite?
Presented by The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of WA, Patienceis directed by acclaimed G&S exponent, Alan Needham (HMS Pinafore 2017, Trial By Jury, Cox & Box 2015), who has appeared in all 14 of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas. He is joined by musical directors, Michael Brett (Iolanthe 2016, HMS Pinafore 2017, The Gondoliers 2018) and Georg Corall making his directorial debut with the Society.
Needham said Patience is one of the funniest shows in the G&S comic repertoire and that its nineteenth century setting belies its contemporary relevance.
"It is an eternal delight to see Gilbert gleefully pop the balloons of pretension and pomposity whether it be from fake poets overly fond of reciting their own verses or manly posturing," he said. "Patience is a rollicking romp through the follies of fashion and the foibles of the heart that will have you in stitches and chuckling long after you leave the theatre. And maybe even striking a few poses and reciting a few verses of your own!"
The Society is thrilled to welcome back Ross Bryant as the poet Bunthorne (The Gondoliers 2016), David Cosgrove (HMS Pinafore 2017, The Gondoliers 2018) as Major Murgatroyd, Belinda Cox (Iolanthe2016, HMS Pinafore 2017, The Gondoliers 2018), as Lady Jane, and Grace Feltoe (HMS Pinafore 2017, The Gondoliers 2018) as Patience with a superb cast of Society singers and a live orchestra.
Tickets are extremely limited for the nine performance season. Don't miss out. Bookings can be made 24/7 on www.ticketsWA.com (no online booking charges) or on 6488 2440 between noon and 4 pm Monday to Friday.
Founded in 1951, The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Western Australia has produced over 50 productions of Gilbert & Sullivan's extraordinary contribution to the musical theatre. Founded by Bernard Manning, the Society is supported by The Gilbert & Sullivan / AN Bullock Trust created in 1983 through the bequest of the late Arnold Bullock. Distinguished entertainer, Max Kay became the Patron of the Society after the late Sir Charles Court. Over seven decades, the Society has brought laughter and joy through the comedy and melody of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan to generations of Western Australians. For more information: www.gilbertandsullivanwa.org.au
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with the director of the play Alan Needham
Hit U.S. Big Band Swing Celebration Returns for Silver Jubilee
"Sensational all-swinging show… it's the total package" The Adelaide Advertiser
"Seeing IN THE MOOD isn't an option, it's a MUST!" BroadwayWorld.com
Celebrating its 25th anniversary and back by popular demand, Mellen Events presents the smash U.S. 1940s big band swing celebration IN THE MOOD, returning to Australia for another triumphant run of shows in 2018.
Afterselling out seasons in 2011, 2013 and 2016, IN THE MOOD commemorates its Silver Jubilee year with a 4th Australian visit. With matinee and evening shows across the country, IN THE MOOD is an uplifting treat for the whole family and the perfect opportunity to get in early for your most inspired and desired Mother's Day gift yet!
IN THE MOOD brings you back to the bold, beautiful days of the 30s and 40s when the joint was jumping to the hot sounds and jiving rhythms of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, the Andrews Sisters and many more unforgettable, indelible swing artists. Against the contrast of war, great melodies and lyrics energized by the big bands featuringsaxophones, trumpets, trombones and rhythm sections, gave everyone faith in their heartsand a reminder of what they were fighting for.
For over 2 hours, this big retro event will hold audiences enthralled with its singers, dancers and period costumes, fine orchestral arrangements, vocalists delivering songs from the era, choreographed dance routines and shear theatrical pizzazz! IN THE MOOD introduces a new generation to the swing, rhythm and jazzy sentimental and patriotic music of a pivotal time in American history, when everyone listened to, and danced to the same music.
Nineteen cast members including the sensational Stringof Pearls Big Band Orchestra and In the MoodSingers & Dancers bring more than fifty unforgettable hits to the stage including Chattanooga Choo Choo, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B), In The Mood, Sing, Sing, Sing, On The Sunny Side of the Street and so much more!
With music arrangements written by Vic Schoen, the conductor for the Andrews Sisters and Musical Director for Universal and Paramount Pictures, along with sizzling choreography from Broadway veteran Alex Sanchez, IN THE MOOD is high-energy, world class family entertainment that pays a heart-felt tribute to the service men and women of World War II and is loved throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.
Whether it's your first time or your fourth,this show will do more than just get you IN THE MOOD, it will reaffirm your spirit!
The interview was done by Chris Durrant with Bud Forrest – the producer.
What era do the songs of the show belong to.
The first right answer will get a double pass for the show.
Please email answer to [email protected]
Gutenberg! The Musical!
MUSICAL SINGS ITS WAY BACK TO SUBIACO
After a critically acclaimed season in 2016, Gutenberg! The Musical is bringing back the laughs, this time to the Subiaco Arts Centre in June.
The knee slappingly funny, musical-spoof about two ambitious writers, Bud and Doug, and their first (cross your fingers) Broadway smash, is showing as part of the Subiaco Theatre Festival from the 27th of June.
Taking the form of a "backers' audition", Bud and Doug introduce their new project – a big, splashy musical about Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. With relentless enthusiasm and misguided optimism, they sing all the songs and play all the parts in their historical epic, hoping one of the producers in attendance will give them a shot at Broadway stardom.
Featuring Andrew Baker and Fringe World favourite Tyler Jacob Jones, the show had audiences and critics raving and gasping for breath in its original season.
"Gutenberg is really like nothing you've ever seen before – but you'll want to see it again," says Baker. "We've already had people buy tickets who saw it last time".The madcap musical comedy written by New Yorkers Anthony King and Scott Brown, ran Off-Broadway and has been seen by audiences around the world. Its appeal reaches to lovers of musicals and comedy fans.
The Subiaco Theatre Festival runs through June at the Subiaco Arts Centre, and features a showcase of exciting and innovative performances from independent WA artists and producers.
Runs: 27 – 30 June at Subiaco Arts Centre, Hammersley Rd, Subiaco
Shows: 7.30pm (run time – 80 mins)
Booking information: available at ptt.wa.gov.au
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Western Sky Theatre produces cabaret and chamber musical theatre in Western Australia. It aims to offer creative opportunities for musical theatre professionals who have a WA connection
The interview was done by Jane Sherwood with one of the cast Andrew Baker.
CATFACE PRODUCTIONS BRINGS A MULTI-AWARD WINNING MALAYSIAN MUSICAL THE EDGE TO AUSTRALIAN AUDIENCES FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
29 MAY – 16 JUNE 2018, THE BLUE ROOM THEATRE
Jarod. Lilly. Deanna. Michael. Ryan. April.
Six people who know Josh, an aspiring artist and a troubled young man. When Josh declares that he wishes to end his life, these six are forced to re-examine their relationships: with him, with one another, and with themselves.
The Edgeis a dynamic new musical, originally staged in Malaysia and coming to Perth for the first time. A production that peers over the edge of the human condition and leaps into the complicated nature of relationships, it asks questions about affect, responsibility – and ultimately, forgiveness.
"a powerful play with characters that speak directly to audiences" – New Straits Times, Malaysia
"The Edge is very unique in how it doesn't depict the act, and is not interested in shock value or shouting in an audience's face. It is firmly about those left behind, grappling with questions of if they could have done more and wondering if they were in some way responsible. We question the past, replaying it in our minds, looking for ways we could have done things differently; and it is all too futile. Even on a macro-level, with the general despair and insecurity around the environment, economy, and political spheres, shows like The Edge are needed now more than ever; while the content may be heavy, the hope contained within is so important and vital to so many people. That is why I want to make this show."
– Levon J Polinelli |Director &Producer
"It is my hope that The Edge's upcoming season at The Blue Room Theatrewill serve as yet another vehicle through which conversation on mental health issues can happen in Perth; and that other people who undergo self-doubt, self-esteem issues and self-loathing – all trademarks of depression – will see themselves reflected in the characters, to give them some small comfort in the knowledge that they are not alone in their struggles." – Nick Choo |Writer
Director and Producer: Levon J Polinelli / Book, Music and Lyrics: Nick Choo / Featuring: Claudia Van Zeller, Emerson Brophy, Grace Johnson, Madeleine Shaw, Philip Lynch, Tate Bennett / Musical Director: Harry Oliff / Designer: Sara Chirichilli / Stage Manager: Thomas Dimmick
Catface Productions was formed out of a desire to bring to Perth audiences great live entertainment across theatre, comedy, cabaret; and to work alongside and foster artists to develop works to their full potential. In its maiden year, Catface produced nine shows at FRINGE WORLD 2017 with numerous sold-out sessions, stellar reviews, a Best Comedy nomination, and over a thousand dollars raised for local charities.
Preview 29th May 2018
Season 30th May – 16th June 2018
The Blue Room Theatre
Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge, Western Australia
Bookings/info: blueroom.org.au / 08 9227 7005
The interview was done by Malti Elliott with the director Levon Polinelli
Mellen Events Present
Direct from the U.S.A.& U.K. with a cast of West End Stars
NEW JERSEY NIGHTS
Celebrating the music of FrankiValli&The Four Seasons
★★★★★A Massive 5 Star hitReno Press
Take an exciting musical journey through the career of one of the biggest-selling groups of all-time, in this spectacular celebration of the music of FrankiValli&The Four Seasons!
From the back street studio in New Jersey where it all began, this vibrant production includes all of The Four Seasons' greatest hits, including Sherry, Rag Doll, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like A Man, Let's Hang On, Can't Take My Eyes Off You and many more.
With a sensational cast of award winning West End singers and dancers, complete with a live band on stage, you won't want to miss this musical extravaganza!
New Jersey Nights has smashed box office records right across the USA and UK and is proving to be one of the most successful touring shows of all time.
From the promotors who took you back to the roaring twenties with the hugely popular In The Mood theatre tour in 2016, and through the Golden Era of Hollywood with the 2017 Puttin' On The Ritz theatre tour, New Jersey Nights promises to be one of the must see premiere musical theatre events of 2018.
Listen to a podcast of the interview of Chris Durrant with one of the main stars of Jersey Nights Ricky .
Brilliant show, perfect harmonies, the crowd went wild– Liverpool Echo
A thrilling concert – a 5 star performance – a must see–WhatsonStage.com
A Brilliant production – The Theatrical event of the year! – News and Press
5 Star Fabulous!– New York Press
The Standing Ovations say it all– The International Post
Celebrating the music of Franki Valli &The Four Seasons
BREC, Bunbury WA
Tuesday 3 April 2018 – 7:30pm
www.bunburyentertainment.com
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Mandurah WA
Wednesday 4 April 2018 – 7:30pm
www.manpac.com.au
Regal Theatre, Perth WA
Thursday 5 April 2018 – 7:30pm
Friday 6 April 2018 – 2pm
Friday 6 April 2018 – 7:30pm
www.ticketek.com.au
ONCE WE LIVED HERE
Music by Dean Bryant, Lyrics by Mathew Frank
An exciting Australian musical will receive its WA premiere at The Blue Room Theatre in October.
Once We Lived Here centres around Amy (Taryn Ryan), who runs her family's sheep station 'Emoh Ruo', in rural Australia. She's held onto the property through drought, bushfire, and falling wool prices, determined not to let it slip out of the family grasp. Over a scorching long weekend, the family gathers, and Amy has to face up to the myths and lies the place has been built upon.
Written by the critically acclaimed team of Dean Bryant & Mathew Frank (themselves WAAPA graduates from the 1990s), this full-length musical is an authentically Australian story, with a uniquely Australian sound. The debut season in Melbourne received a Green Room Award for Best New Musical, and was described by Geoffrey Rush as "a beautiful, poignant piece of home-grown music theatre". The Age newspaper described it as "musical theatre full of life, emotion and renewal"
Preview 17th October 2017
Season 19th October – 4th November 2017
All shows at 8.30pm and include an interval
The Blue Room Theatre, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
The interview was done by Malti Elliott with the director Andrew Baker.
Mellen EventsPresent
For the first time in Australia
Direct from the U.K.with a cast of West End stars
Featuring the Music of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter & George Gershwin
Travel back to the golden age of Hollywood where melody, rhythm and dance was king! The dazzling theatre spectacle Puttin' On The Ritz– with special guest Rob Mills, brings to life the music of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and George Gershwin.
Touring the countryfor the very first time this August &September, and starring Australia's own golden boyRob Mills,along withan acclaimed cast of West End stars direct from the U.K. Puttin' On The Ritz is the must see premiere musical theatre event for 2017.
Cheek to Cheek, Alexander's Rag Time Band, Birth of the Blues, Swanee, Night and Day, I Got Rhythm, Easter Parade, Puttin On The Ritzand so many more. The most famous songs of the Golden Age of Hollywood are recreated live on stage with award winning singers and dancers in glittering costume.
From the company who took you back to the roaring twenties with the hugely popular In The Mood theatre tour in 2016, Puttin' On The Ritz is an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of some of the most iconic music of all time.
Starring Rob Mills, the new face of Australian theatrewho first came to the country's attention as a finalist on Australian Idol and has gone on to become a bona fide theatre star in his own right. Rob has appeared in numerous productions including prime roles in Legally Blonde, Wicked, Grease, Hairspray and Ghost the Musical. His matinee idol good-looks and acting talent can currently be seen during his guest role on the perennial Australian TV soap favourite Neighbours.
The show is produced by David King, one of the most successful theatrical producers ever to come out of the UK. David has had hit shows all over the world, owns his own theatres in America and, at any one time, up to 20 of his shows are appearing around the globe, to the highest critical acclaim. Credited with bringing musicals to the masses and affectionately known as "the working man's Andrew Lloyd Webber", David's shows have toured in more than 30 countries, and he is the first producer from the Western world to have three consecutive tours in China, playing to over a million people.
Puttin On The Ritz delivered a brilliant and nostalgic night out! The audience loved every single minute of this show. The singing was top class, and the dancing even better.
Edinburgh press
A glittering extravaganza that has the audience cheering for more.
Norwich evening news
A decadent visual treat. A wonderful reminder of times gone by.
What's on Theatre
HIT Productions in association with Luckiest Productions presents
Everybody Loves Lucy
Written by Elise McCann & Richard Carroll
Directed by Helen Dallimore
Lucille Ball was the Queen of American comedy for decades. As television's biggest star in I Love Lucy -the most popular sitcom in American history – the wacky, fearless, and totally endearing Lucy broke the mold for the way women were allowed to behave on TV.
Lucy was joined every step of the way by her real-life and on-screen husband Desi Arnaz. Together they defied conventions and expectations, and ensured total control by creating their own studio. Lucy and Desi held up a fun-house mirror to every marriage in America – exaggerating and making amusing every idiosyncrasy of married life. But as Lucy's popularity thrived, her relationship with Desi suffered both professionally and privately.
Generations of fans love Lucy Ricardo for her impulsive, foolhardy and child-like charm – but the produ cer of I Love Lucy once said "Lucille Ball is about as different from Lucy Ricardo as anyone could possibly be." She was a dedicated professional whose seemingly effortless comedy was a result of rigorous attention to detail and fanatical rehearsing.
Everybody Loves Lucy stars Jayde Westaby, an acclaimed musical theatre performer, originally from the UK, whose West End credits include Grease, West Side Story, Jersey Boys and Chicago. And Steven Kreamer as Desi Arnaz, most recently been Associate Musical Director on Little Shop of Horrors (Tinderbox/Luckiest) and Rent (Highway Run).
Brimming with Lucille Ball's irrepressible spirit Everybody Loves Lucy is a tribute to a true trail-blazer. This cabaret-style show is a a treat for audiences young and old.
Interview by Malti with Jayde Westaby
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of WA
will be presenting this double bill at the Subiaco Art Centre from 14 – 17th October 2015.
Trial by Jury was the second collaboration of Sullivan with WS Gilbert. Edwin promised to marry Angelina then left her in the lurch. In a breach of promise suit the learned judge sings one of the most famous of the G&S patter songs which includes the line "she may very well pass for forty three in the dusk with the light behind her"! Like all G&S it has a hilarious and happy ending.
Cox and Box was written by FC Burnand with music by the then young Arthur Sullivan. Mr Cox works during the day (and is home at night) and Mr Box works at night (and is consequently home during the day). The unscrupulous landlord has rented the same room to both of them and thus collects double rent! This works well until the day they come home at the same time -then the fun really starts!
Director: Alan Needham
Musical Director: Michael Brett
Featuring :Justin Freind
Listen to an interview conducted by Chris Durrant with the director Alan Needham.
The Music Theatre Company of WA MEDIA RELEASE
SPANGLES TO STUDS! – BRENDAN HANSON (WA's HUGH JACKMAN), SCORES THE
LEAD ROLE IN OKLAHOMA!
Finalist on the TV talent show "Priscilla – Queen of the Desert", Perth actor Brendan Hanson will play Curly McLain in Oklahoma, produced by the new production company Musae – The Music Theatre Company of WA (Inc.)., at The Regal Theatre 17th-26th September 2015.
A dark horse when it comes to talent, Brendan played Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, Rum Turn lugger in Cats as well as many roles for the Black Swan Theatre Company and was Assistant Director for WA Opera's Marriage of Figaro as well as Lecturer and a Director of operas at WAAPA.
"Curly is a role that was made famous on the big screen by Gordon MacRae many years ago, and much later on the stage by WAAPA graduate Hugh Jackman, " said Brendan, " Adam Mitchell the Director ( Black Swan) and I are looking forward to a special interpretation to this romantic character," he said.
Playing the role of Curly's love-interest is opera singer Emma Petteremides who was the spectacular diva Carlotta in The Phantorr cf the Opera last year.
To complete the love-triangle, Ian Cross will play the darkly brooding Jud Fry (previously Brendan's protagonist as Javert in Les Miserables and last year Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music.)
Supported by a talented chorus of emerging WAAPA talent and the MUSAE Orchestra, Oklahoma will be conducted by Founder and Musical Director Ian Westrip 0AM.
Winner of the 2015 Performing Arts WA Best Actor award – Igor Sas is the conniving Ali Hakim and the wise and insightful Aunt Eller, will be played by the magnificent Alinta Carroll.
This new company MUSAE proudly sponsored by Zetta and supporting the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma playing matinees and evenings from September 17th (Preview) – Sat 26th Sept including matinees.
Tickets are already on sale – book through Ticketek on 132 849 or at www.ticketek.com.au.
Further information is available at www.musictheatrewa.com.au
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The game of go: the national game of Japan
Game of Go: The National Game of Japan
GAME OF GO THE NATL GAME OF JA
Arthur 1870 Smith
Título The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan (Classic Reprint)
Autor Arthur Smith
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import org.qsardb.editor.common.QdbContext;
import org.qsardb.editor.events.PredictionEvent;
import org.qsardb.editor.registry.actions.AddPredictionAction;
import org.qsardb.editor.registry.actions.RemovePredictionAction;
public class PredictionRegistryView extends RegistryView {
public PredictionRegistryView(QdbContext context) {
super(new RegistryModel(context, context.getQdb().getPredictionRegistry()));
newAction = new AddPredictionAction(context, "New");
removeAction = new RemovePredictionAction(context);
}
@Subscribe public void handle(PredictionEvent e) {
refreshView(e);
}
}
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Swimming through the waves
For Ellen Krosney Shockro '64, achieving success in both athletics and academics is a matter of possibility and persistence.
By Mills Quarterly in summer 2014 on June 15, 2014 November 2, 2020
By Ellen Krosney Shockro '64
Pat Eide Fruin and Ellen Krosney Shockro at the US Masters Swimming national meet in May
As a girl growing up, I was encouraged to participate in sports—my father won three national championships and made the Olympic team back in the late 1920s—but not to compete too seriously. This combination gave me the confidence that I could do almost anything without needing to be "the best."
When I came to Mills, I played tennis and taught swimming. Also at Mills, I discovered what would become my lifelong interest and profession. During my senior year, a new professor had arrived—Dr. LeFevour—and I took all of his "exotic" history classes on Modern China, Modern Russia, and Modern India. In the 1950s, there was such a fear of communism that these courses had not been available. Deeply fascinated with this field of study, I set a goal of earning a PhD in Chinese history.
Like so many others in my class of 1964, however, I married and got on with the life expected of me. But I stuck to my goal and earned my master's degree at Columbia; eventually, I started my doctoral studies at Claremont Graduate School, with two young children in tow. My children's swim coach also offered a program for parents. I joined up and, in the fall, started swimming with US Masters, the national adult swimming organization.
Soon enough, in 1979, I undertook my first ocean swim—and yes, I was terrified of things coming up from the deep. A year later, I was entering every race I could find, from San Diego to Santa Barbara. I was not especially fast, but I loved the rush of bounding through the waves, swimming as hard as possible, and finally sprinting up the beach to the finish line. (Even now, I continue to do up to 10 ocean swims each summer.)
Finishing the Ironman triathlon became my next goal—a 2.4-mile swim, followed by 112 miles biking, capped off with a 26.2-mile marathon run. I practiced and prepared, and finally completed two Ironman races, in 1985 and 1986. Meanwhile, I finished my PhD, spoke at conferences, continued teaching, and ultimately landed my dream job, a tenured position in history and humanities at Pasadena City College.
I am still swimming with Masters—now in the 70–74-year-old age group—and at this year's national meet in Santa Clara, California, I won the 1,650-yard race. Pat Eide Fruin '65 won the 1,000-yard event; she edged me out in the 500, and we finished one-two. What are the odds that two Mills graduates would finish back-to-back like that? Neither Pat nor I ever imagined we would win a national championship—even if it meant waiting until we were each 70! But both of us could imagine the possibility of winning, and we put in the effort to make it so. People think that it must take sheer athletic prowess to complete a triathlon or win a distance swimming race, but what is even more important is the willingness to set your sights on a goal and have the persistence to see it through.
I am a strong believer in single-sex college education for women for many reasons, but primary among them is that Mills instills in all of us the belief that we can do what we set our minds on, and can even rise above expectations to make a difference in our own lives and in the world. Much has changed for women in the 50 years since I was at Mills. But perhaps one thing remains the same: our lives are like an ocean race, and we each must fight the waves, even as they keep coming, and find our way to shore
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Adobe's new line of editing suites - CS5 - were launched with great fanfare on Monday. Among them is the video editing package, Production Premium CS5, which looks to build on the strengths of Adobe Production Premium CS4, as well as iron out some of its wrinkles.
The big draw in CS5 is going to be the speed improvements. Under the hood in Premiere Pro is a new software engine, the Mercury Playback Engine, which, says Adobe, harnesses the power of 64-bit operating systems for up to 20 times faster rendering and previewing for HDV.
However, at the moment you also need an Nvidia Cuda graphics card to see those CS5 speed improvements. There's only a handful of supported Nvidia cards, although Adobe may add more to that list.
More than anything Adobe seems to be responding to the heavy duty demands of modern high end HDV and resource intensive formats like the RED HD format.
Improvements such as native 64-bit support for After Effects will allow longer RAM previews.
Adobe says that new memory controls for individual programmes in Dynamic Link will make it more responsive. The integration between Adobe programmes that Dynamic Link offers is one of the big draws of these software bundles. However, editing with multiple programmes open at the same time (like creating a credit sequence for a Premiere Project inside After Effects, with Bridge, Photoshop, and possibly Soundbooth open and ready) can create a strain on a system's resources, so the faster Dynamic Link is going to be particularly welcome.
Adobe is still trying to make more of the web with five new facilities in its CS Live Online services. Among them is Story, a script editor that has features for automating and colloborating on scriptwriting and that integrates neatly with Adobe's Speech Search feature.
The facility to download and import a script into your project, from what I've seen of it, looks like being a useful feature for navigating footage and meta tagging. It also sounds far more reliable than the ambitious voice recognition, speech search tool that Adobe introduced in CS4.
Each CS edition seems to introduce a new editing tool or two. In CS5, After Effects has a Roto Brush, which allows you to remove backgrounds in moving footage with a quick click and a drag. In Premiere Pro CS5, there's a new chroma key tool, the Ultra keyer.
There have also been improvements to the Adobe Media Encoder and enhanced support for tapeless media.
As well as interface upgrades for Production Premium's audio editor Soundbooth, CS5 now comes packed with Royalty free media. 10,000 sound effects and over 130 customizable Soundbooth Scores to be precise.
Of course, all this power will come at a price when it comes out in the first or second week of May: in the U.S., Production Premium CS5 is priced at $1699 (according to the press release).
Due to the idiosyncracies of Adobe's pricing system, the price tag is significantly larger for UK users. It's showing on the Adobe Store as £1,773.08 (upgrade is £606.30/£516 ex VAT). You may save a few quid at Amazon especially on the Educational version which Amazon.co.uk has listed as £302.99 at time of writing. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 959 |
Star Trek: The Gamesters of Triskelion
Episode: "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
While trying to beam down to one planet, Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are whisked away across the galaxy to another one, light years away: Triskelion. They have been abducted by beings called the Providers to become gladiators. But rather than seeing the Providers directly, our heroes are controlled and trained by their fellow slaves, known as thralls.
Apart from the Thunderdome element, this episode shares similar themes with "The Apple." Shahna, Kirk's lovely lady jailer/trainer, was born on the planet, a product of selective breeding. She is completely naive to the concept of other worlds or another way of life. Kirk and friends set out not only to free themselves but the other thralls as well - from their slavers and, ultimately, their own innocence.
Dick Crockett served as stunt coordinator for the episode and also played one of the thralls, the Andorian in the ring with Kirk at the end. He was born February 27, 1915 in Maywood, Illinois. As a stunt supervisor, his biggest television gig was Peter Gunn: 76 episodes. Among many movie credits, he was associate producer for four films: The Pink Panther, The Great Race, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? and Gunn. He died in 1979 of a myocardial infraction.
Tony Laplume June 25, 2014 at 5:20 AM
This crew visited standard story types of the time the way the Simpsons travel the globe. The Simpsons are going to Canada! Kirk is becoming a gladiator!
The Armchair Squid June 25, 2014 at 7:17 AM
I think the Simpsons are more easily forgiven for retreads - 552 episodes and counting. I realize that, overall, it's more than that for Trek but they were still comfortably in double digits in 1968. The Simpsons have already used up just about every story imaginable. Isn't there a South Park episode about that?
Maurice Mitchell June 25, 2014 at 3:56 PM
Joseph Ruskin was such a wonderful character actor and this was one of his finest performances. A memorable episode indeed A.C.
The Armchair Squid June 25, 2014 at 10:00 PM
Such a great face.
Thanks, Maurice!
Geo. June 25, 2014 at 6:14 PM
I was especially impressed with the performance of Angelique Pettyjohn, who was basically given the appearance of a brainless go-go Thrall but managed to play the role with some depth, strength and compassion --essentially making Shahna a pivotal character.
You're absolutely right. The story couldn't have worked without her. The other thralls were too ogrish to evoke sympathy.
Looks like a pretty interesting episode.
Cygnus June 27, 2014 at 9:28 PM
"Fifty quatloos on the newcomer!" :-) This is a phrase that I've seen far more often in parodies and shout-outs than in the original. It's been ages since I watched this episode.
The Armchair Squid June 27, 2014 at 9:41 PM
I wonder what the current quatloo exchange rate is these days.
Wimbledon 2014: Second Week
Family Movie Night: The Magnificent Seven
The Cephalopod Coffeehouse: July 2014 Blog List
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Wimbledon 2014: My Picks
Family Movie Night: Frozen
A New Bloghop: Songs of Summer
Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles
On the Coffee Table: Maxwell Eaton III
Family Movie Night: Stagecoach
On the Coffee Table: The Day After
Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold
On the Coffee Table: Chew
Family Movie Night: The Graduate
Roland Garros 2014: 2 for 2
Star Trek: Obsession
Family Movie Night: Madagascar
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Analysis & Opinions - Los Angeles Times
Trump, Stung by Midterms and Nervous About Mueller, Retreats From Traditional Presidential Duties
Nicholas Burns
| Nov. 13, 2018
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For weeks this fall, an ebullient President Trump traveled relentlessly to hold raise-the-rafters campaign rallies — sometimes three a day — in states where his presence was likely to help Republicans on the ballot.
But his mood apparently has changed as he has taken measure of the electoral backlash that voters delivered Nov. 6. With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment, according to multiple administration sources.
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
Read more about Managing Risk in an Unstable World
Dr. Ian Bremmer, expert in political risk and founder of the Eurasia Group, gave a seminar sponsored by the the Future of Diplomacy Project on Thursday, November 9 at the Harvard Kennedy School, titled "Managing Risk in an Unstable World."
Analysis & Opinions - Project Syndicate
Putting the Populist Revolt in Its Place
Joseph S. Nye
| October 6, 2016
Read more about Putting the Populist Revolt in Its Place
In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites. The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump's unexpected capture of the Republican Party in the United States, and populist parties' success in Germany and elsewhere strike many as heralding the end of an era. As Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens put it, "the present global order – the liberal rules-based system established in 1945 and expanded after the end of the Cold War – is under unprecedented strain. Globalization is in retreat."
In fact, it may be premature to draw such broad conclusions.
Some economists attribute the current surge of populism to the "hyper-globalization" of the 1990s, with liberalization of international financial flows and the creation of the World Trade Organization – and particularly China's WTO accession in 2001 – receiving the most attention. According to one study, Chinese imports eliminated nearly one million US manufacturing jobs from 1999 to 2011; including suppliers and related industries brings the losses to 2.4 million.
Symposium on the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Energy: Fresh Ideas for the Future
Read more about Symposium on the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Energy: Fresh Ideas for the Future
The ninth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York from April 27-May 22, 2015. This is the fourth such conference since the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995. Participating governments will discuss nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy with a view to arriving at consensus on a number of issues.
Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security
The Security Curve and the Structure of International Politics: A Neorealist Synthesis
Davide Fiammenghi
| Spring 2011
Read more about The Security Curve and the Structure of International Politics: A Neorealist Synthesis
Realist scholars have long debated the question of how much power states need to feel secure. Offensive realists claim that states should constantly seek to increase their power. Defensive realists argue that accumulating too much power can be self-defeating. Proponents of hegemonic stability theory contend that the accumulation of capabilities in one state can exert a stabilizing effect on the system. The three schools describe different points along the power continuum. When a state is weak, accumulating power increases its security. This is approximately the situation described by offensive realists. A state that continues to accumulate capabilities will eventually triggers a balancing reaction that puts its security at risk. This scenario accords with defensive realist assumptions. Finally, when the state becomes too powerful to balance, its opponents bandwagon with it, and the state's security begins to increase again. This is the situation described by hegemonic stability theory. These three stages delineate a modified parabolic relationship between power and security. As a state moves along the power continuum, its security increases up to a point, then decreases, and finally increases again. This modified parabolic relationship allows scholars to synthesize previous realist theories into a single framework.
Newsletter Article - Belfer Center Newsletter
Spotlight with Paula Dobriansky
Sasha Talcott
| Winter 2009-10
Read more about Spotlight with Paula Dobriansky
Paula Dobrianskey is a senior fellow with Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She previously served as undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs for the Bush administration, and also was a senior vice president and head of the Washington office for the Council on Foreign Relations.
Book - Princeton University Press
Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars
Read more about Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars
Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees may not be the best option. She demonstrates that thorough security-sector reform plays a critical role in establishing peace over the long term.
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Maria Stephan
| Summer 2008
Read more about Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents and in the face of repression. Nonviolent campaigns are more likely to win legitimacy, attract widespread domestic and international support, neutralize the opponent's security forces, and compel loyalty shifts among erstwhile opponent supporters than are armed campaigns, which enjoin the active support of a relatively small number of people, offer the opponent a justification for violent counterattacks, and are less likely to prompt loyalty shifts and defections. An original, aggregate data set of all known major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006 is used to test these claims. These dynamics are further explored in case studies of resistance campaigns in Southeast Asia that have featured periods of both violent and nonviolent resistance.
Journal Article - Foreign Affairs
Separatism's Final Country
Richard N. Rosecrance
Arthur A. Stein
| July/August 2008
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"Muller argues that ethnonationalism is the wave of the future and will result in more and more independent states, but this is not likely. One of the most destabilizing ideas throughout human history has been that every separately defined cultural unit should have its own state. Endless disruption and political introversion would follow an attempt to realize such a goal. Woodrow Wilson gave an impetus to further state creation when he argued for "national self-determination" as a means of preventing more nationalist conflict, which he believed was a cause of World War I...."
Analysis & Opinions - Baltimore Sun
Religion's Flame Burns Brighter Than Ever
Timothy Samuel Shah
| August 20, 2006
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Sarah Knox Taylor, född den 6 mars 1814 i Vincennes, Indiana, död den 15 september 1835 i St. Francisville, Louisiana, var dotter till generalen Zachary Taylor, som sedermera blev amerikansk president, och till Margaret Taylor. Hon gifte sig med Jefferson Davis innan han blev president över de amerikanska federationerna. Hon dog i malaria.
Referenser
The North Carolina booklet : Oct. 1920, Jan. - Apr. 1921, vol. XX, nos. 2,3,4. ; Raleigh : Daughters of the Revolution, North Carolina Society, 1921.
Externa länkar
Sarah Knox Davis at Findagrave
Jefferson Davis to Sarah Knox Taylor from The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 1, pp. 345–47
Födda 1814
Avlidna 1835
Kvinnor
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Q: post save signal only when update called hello i have two models and a post_save signal, but my signal only when object is updated is work and when i create a new object it not work
my code :
class Attendance(models.Model):
classroom = models.ForeignKey('Class', on_delete=models.CASCADE)
student = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
is_present = models.BooleanField(default=False)
present_time = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.student.username
class Class(models.Model):
course = models.ForeignKey(Course, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
students = models.ManyToManyField(User)
quantity = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField()
start_time = models.DateTimeField()
end_time = models.DateTimeField()
class Meta:
unique_together = ['quantity', 'course']
def __str__(self):
return f'{self.quantity} / {self.course}'
@receiver(post_save, sender=Class)
def create_attendance(sender, instance, **kwargs):
for student in instance.students.all():
try:
Attendance.objects.get(classroom=instance, student=student)
except Attendance.DoesNotExist:
Attendance.objects.create(classroom=instance, student=student)
A: At the moment you create the instance, the instance.students is not populated (yet) and thus empty, this means that for student in instance.students.all() will enumerate over an empty collection, and thus not enumerate at all.
This is because it first needs to create a record with a primary key, to then use it for the junction table, which is one of the (many) reasons why using signals is often not a good idea.
It might be better to work with an m2m_changed signal [Django-doc], and thus implement this like:
@receiver(m2m_changed, sender=Class.students.through)
def create_attendance(sender, instance, action, pk_set=None, **kwargs):
if action == 'post_add':
for pk in pk_set:
Attendance.objects.get_or_create(classroom=instance, student_id=pk)
The modeling however looks a bit odd. Why not make Attendance the through model [Django-doc] of you ManyToManyField? That way Django will create Attendance records, that you then can update accordingly.
A: There is a created argument in post_save signal which is True when the instance is created and False when the instance is not created(updated).
@receiver(post_save, sender=Class)
def create_attendance(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if not created:
for student in instance.students.all():
try:
Attendance.objects.get(classroom=instance, student=student)
except Attendance.DoesNotExist:
Attendance.objects.create(classroom=instance, student=student)
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The Fairfield Hotel is preparing to submit a Class 2 Local Impact Assessment (LIA) application to the Independent Liquor and Gaming Control Authority (ILGA) to allow an increase in gaming machines at the venue.
Since its refurbishment, the Fairfield Hotel has become an integral part of the local community. It has become a more family friendly venue which appeals to Fairfield's diverse local community. The Fairfield Hotel has been a finalist in the NSW AHA Award for Excellence in multiple categories every year since 2012 and has won both state and national awards.
The proposed increase of seven machines at the hotel represents an increase of less than 0.2% across the Fairfield local government area.
Should the proposal be approved, the Fairfield Hotel is proposing to establish a $2 million community fund. The fund would provide contributions to local community groups and additional responsible gambling and harm minimisation measures above legislative requirements over the next five years.
To support its application, the Fairfield Hotel is currently undertaking community and stakeholder consultation.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using XenAdmin.Actions;
using XenAdmin.Dialogs;
using XenAPI;
using XenAdmin.Core;
using System.Linq;
namespace XenAdmin.Controls.CustomDataGraph
{
public partial class GraphList : DoubleBufferedPanel
{
public const int GRAPH_PADDING = 20;
public const int GRAPH_HEIGHT = 150;
public const int GRAPH_YAXIS_LABEL_WIDTH = 30;
public const int KEY_WIDTH = 200;
public const int CONTROL_PADDING = 10;
public const int CONTROL_LEFT = 3;
public const int GRAPH_MIN_WIDTH = 400;
public event Action SelectedGraphChanged;
private ArchiveMaintainer _archiveMaintainer;
private DataPlotNav _dataPlotNav;
private DataEventList _dataEventList;
private List<DataPlot> Plots = new List<DataPlot>();
private List<DataKey> Keys = new List<DataKey>();
private List<DesignedGraph> Graphs = new List<DesignedGraph>();
private bool showingDefaultGraphs;
private bool isSettingGraphs = false;
public bool ShowingDefaultGraphs
{ get { return showingDefaultGraphs; } }
private DesignedGraph selectedGraph;
private void ChangeSelection(int index, bool isSelected)
{
if (Plots.IndexInRange(index))
{
Plots[index].IsSelected = isSelected;
}
}
public DesignedGraph SelectedGraph
{
get { return selectedGraph; }
set
{
if (selectedGraph != value)
{
SuspendDrawing();
try
{
ChangeSelection(SelectedGraphIndex, false);
selectedGraph = value;
ChangeSelection(SelectedGraphIndex, true);
}
finally
{
ResumeDrawing();
RefreshBuffer();
}
if (SelectedGraphChanged != null)
SelectedGraphChanged();
}
}
}
public int SelectedGraphIndex
{
get { return Graphs.IndexOf(selectedGraph); }
}
public int Count
{
get { return Graphs.Count; }
}
public DataEventList DataEventList
{
get { return _dataEventList; }
set
{
_dataEventList = value;
foreach (DataPlot plot in Plots)
plot.DataEventList = DataEventList;
}
}
public DataPlotNav DataPlotNav
{
get { return _dataPlotNav; }
set
{
_dataPlotNav = value;
foreach (DataPlot plot in Plots)
plot.DataPlotNav = DataPlotNav;
}
}
public ArchiveMaintainer ArchiveMaintainer
{
get { return _archiveMaintainer; }
set
{
_archiveMaintainer = value;
foreach (DataPlot plot in Plots)
plot.ArchiveMaintainer = ArchiveMaintainer;
foreach (DataKey key in Keys)
key.ArchiveMaintainer = ArchiveMaintainer;
}
}
public GraphList()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void AddGraphDetails(DesignedGraph designedGraph, int index)
{
int y = (GRAPH_HEIGHT + CONTROL_PADDING) * index;
if (VScroll)
y = y - VerticalScroll.Value;
DataPlot newplot =
CreatePlot(new Point(CONTROL_LEFT - HorizontalScroll.Value, CONTROL_PADDING + y));
int left = ClientSize.Width - (KEY_WIDTH + (2 * CONTROL_PADDING));
if (left < GRAPH_MIN_WIDTH + (2 * CONTROL_PADDING))
{
left = GRAPH_MIN_WIDTH + (2 * CONTROL_PADDING);
}
DataKey newkey =
CreateKey(new Point(left - HorizontalScroll.Value, CONTROL_PADDING + y + GRAPH_PADDING));
foreach (DataSourceItem item in designedGraph.DataSourceItems)
newkey.DataSourceUUIDsToShow.Add(item.Id);
newplot.DataKey = newkey;
newkey.Enter += new EventHandler(dataKey_Enter);
newkey.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(dataKey_MouseDown);
newkey.MouseDoubleClick += new MouseEventHandler(dataKey_MouseDoubleClick);
newkey.UpdateItems();
newplot.DisplayName = designedGraph.DisplayName;
newplot.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(dataPlot_MouseDown);
newplot.MouseDoubleClick += new MouseEventHandler(dataPlot_MouseDoubleClick);
newplot.RefreshBuffer();
}
public void SetGraphs(List<DesignedGraph> items)
{
isSettingGraphs = true;
try
{
DesignedGraphEqualityComparer comparer = new DesignedGraphEqualityComparer();
if (!items.SequenceEqual(Graphs, comparer))
{
SuspendLayout();
try
{
SelectedGraph = null;
ClearKeys();
ClearPlots();
Graphs = items;
for (int i = 0; i < items.Count; i++)
{
AddGraphDetails(items[i], i);
}
}
finally
{
ResumeLayout();
RefreshBuffer();
}
}
}
finally
{
isSettingGraphs = false;
}
}
void dataKey_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
DataKey dataKey = sender as DataKey;
if (dataKey != null)
{
Point screenPoint = dataKey.PointToScreen(e.Location);
SelectGraphAtPoint(screenPoint);
Point clientPoint = PointToClient(screenPoint);
base.OnMouseDown(new MouseEventArgs(e.Button, e.Clicks, clientPoint.X, clientPoint.Y, e.Delta));
}
}
private void dataKey_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
OnMouseDoubleClick(e);
}
private void dataPlot_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
OnMouseDoubleClick(e);
}
private void dataKey_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (isSettingGraphs)
return;
DataKey dataKey = sender as DataKey;
if (dataKey != null)
{
ScrollControlIntoView(dataKey);
int index = Keys.IndexOf(dataKey);
if (index != SelectedGraphIndex && Graphs.IndexInRange(index))
SelectedGraph = Graphs[index];
}
}
private void dataPlot_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
DataPlot dataPlot = sender as DataPlot;
if (dataPlot != null)
{
Point screenPoint = dataPlot.PointToScreen(e.Location);
SelectGraphAtPoint(screenPoint);
Point clientPoint = PointToClient(screenPoint);
base.OnMouseDown(new MouseEventArgs(e.Button, e.Clicks, clientPoint.X, clientPoint.Y, e.Delta));
}
}
private void ClearPlots()
{
foreach (DataPlot plot in Plots)
{
Controls.Remove(plot);
plot.Dispose();
}
Plots.Clear();
}
private void ClearKeys()
{
foreach (DataKey key in Keys)
{
Controls.Remove(key);
key.Dispose();
}
Keys.Clear();
}
private DataKey CreateKey(Point location)
{
DataKey key = new DataKey();
key.Location = location;
key.Size = new Size(KEY_WIDTH, GRAPH_HEIGHT - (2 * GRAPH_PADDING));
key.ArchiveMaintainer = ArchiveMaintainer;
key.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Top;
Keys.Add(key);
this.Controls.Add(key);
return key;
}
private DataPlot CreatePlot(Point location)
{
DataPlot plot = new DataPlot();
plot.ArchiveMaintainer = ArchiveMaintainer;
plot.DataPlotNav = DataPlotNav;
plot.DataEventList = DataEventList;
plot.Location = location;
plot.Size = new Size(ClientSize.Width - (KEY_WIDTH + (CONTROL_PADDING * 3)), GRAPH_HEIGHT);
plot.MinimumSize = new Size(GRAPH_MIN_WIDTH, GRAPH_HEIGHT);
plot.Padding = new Padding(GRAPH_PADDING, GRAPH_PADDING, GRAPH_PADDING + GRAPH_YAXIS_LABEL_WIDTH, GRAPH_PADDING);
plot.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Right;
Plots.Add(plot);
this.Controls.Add(plot);
return plot;
}
public IXenObject XenObject { get; private set; }
public void LoadGraphs(IXenObject xmo)
{
if (xmo == null)
return;
XenObject = xmo;
List<string> dsuuids = new List<string>();
Pool pool = Helpers.GetPoolOfOne(xmo.Connection);
if (pool != null)
{
List<DesignedGraph> dglist = new List<DesignedGraph>();
Dictionary<string, string> gui_config = Helpers.GetGuiConfig(pool);
int i = 0;
while (true)
{
string key = Palette.GetLayoutKey(i,xmo);
if (!gui_config.ContainsKey(key))
break;
DesignedGraph dg = new DesignedGraph();
string[] dslist = gui_config[key].Split(',');
foreach (string ds in dslist)
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}", xmo is Host ? "host" : "vm", Helpers.GetUuid(xmo), ds), dsuuids, dg);
}
key = Palette.GetGraphNameKey(i, xmo);
if (gui_config.ContainsKey(key))
{
dg.DisplayName = gui_config[key];
}
dglist.Add(dg);
i++;
}
showingDefaultGraphs = false;
if (dglist.Count == 0)
{
LoadDefaultGraphs();
return; // return because loaddefaultgraphs sets the displayed uuids
}
SetGraphs(dglist);
}
DataPlotNav.DisplayedUuids = dsuuids;
}
private void LoadDefaultGraphs()
{
List<string> dsuuids = new List<string>();
if (XenObject is Host host)
{
List<DesignedGraph> dg = new List<DesignedGraph>();
DesignedGraph cpudg = new DesignedGraph();
cpudg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_CPU;
foreach (Host_cpu cpu in host.Connection.ResolveAll<Host_cpu>(host.host_CPUs))
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("host:{0}:cpu{1}", host.uuid, cpu.number), dsuuids, cpudg);
}
DesignedGraph memdg = new DesignedGraph();
memdg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_MEMORY;
AddDataSource(string.Format("host:{0}:memory_total_kib", host.uuid), dsuuids, memdg);
AddDataSource(string.Format("host:{0}:memory_free_kib", host.uuid), dsuuids, memdg);
DesignedGraph netdg = new DesignedGraph();
netdg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_NETWORK;
foreach (PIF pif in host.Connection.ResolveAll(host.PIFs))
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("host:{0}:pif_{1}_tx", host.uuid, pif.device), dsuuids, netdg);
AddDataSource(string.Format("host:{0}:pif_{1}_rx", host.uuid, pif.device), dsuuids, netdg);
}
dg.Add(cpudg);
dg.Add(memdg);
dg.Add(netdg);
SetGraphs(dg);
}
if (XenObject is VM vm)
{
List<DesignedGraph> dg = new List<DesignedGraph>();
DesignedGraph cpudg = new DesignedGraph();
cpudg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_CPU;
for (int i = 0; i < vm.VCPUs_at_startup; i++)
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:cpu{1}", vm.uuid, i), dsuuids, cpudg);
}
DesignedGraph memdg = new DesignedGraph();
memdg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_MEMORY;
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:memory", vm.uuid), dsuuids, memdg);
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:memory_internal_free", vm.uuid), dsuuids, memdg);
DesignedGraph netdg = new DesignedGraph();
netdg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_NETWORK;
foreach (VIF vif in vm.Connection.ResolveAll<VIF>(vm.VIFs))
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:vif_{1}_tx", vm.uuid, vif.device), dsuuids, netdg);
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:vif_{1}_rx", vm.uuid, vif.device), dsuuids, netdg);
}
DesignedGraph diskdg = new DesignedGraph();
diskdg.DisplayName = Messages.GRAPHS_DEFAULT_NAME_DISK;
foreach (VBD vbd in vm.Connection.ResolveAll<VBD>(vm.VBDs))
{
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:vbd_{1}_read", vm.uuid, vbd.device), dsuuids, diskdg);
AddDataSource(string.Format("vm:{0}:vbd_{1}_write", vm.uuid, vbd.device), dsuuids, diskdg);
}
dg.Add(cpudg);
dg.Add(memdg);
dg.Add(netdg);
dg.Add(diskdg);
SetGraphs(dg);
}
DataPlotNav.DisplayedUuids = dsuuids;
showingDefaultGraphs = true;
}
void AddDataSource(string uuid, List<string> dsuuids, DesignedGraph dg)
{
dsuuids.Add(uuid);
dg.DataSourceItems.Add(new DataSourceItem(new Data_source(), "", Palette.GetColour(uuid), uuid));
}
private string elevatedUsername;
private string elevatedPassword;
private Session elevatedSession;
public bool AuthorizedRole
{
get
{
elevatedPassword = string.Empty;
elevatedUsername = string.Empty;
elevatedSession = null;
if (!XenObject.Connection.Session.IsLocalSuperuser && !Registry.DontSudo)
{
var action = new SaveDataSourceStateAction(XenObject.Connection, XenObject, null, null);
if (!Role.CanPerform(action.GetApiMethodsToRoleCheck, XenObject.Connection, out var validRoles))
{
using (var d = new RoleElevationDialog(action.Connection, action.Connection.Session, validRoles, action.Title))
if (d.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
{
elevatedPassword = d.elevatedPassword;
elevatedUsername = d.elevatedUsername;
elevatedSession = d.elevatedSession;
}
else
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
private void UpdateDataSources(List<DataSourceItem> datasourceItems)
{
foreach (DataSourceItem dsi in datasourceItems)
{
bool found = false;
foreach (DesignedGraph graph in Graphs)
{
found = graph.DataSourceItems.Contains(dsi);
if (found)
{
if (!Palette.HasCustomColour(dsi.Id))
{
dsi.ColorChanged = true;
Palette.SetCustomColor(dsi.Id, dsi.Color);
}
break;
}
}
if (!dsi.DataSource.standard && dsi.DataSource.name_label != "avg_cpu")
dsi.Enabled = found;
}
}
private List<DataSourceItem> GetGraphsDataSources()
{
List<DataSourceItem> dataSourceItems = new List<DataSourceItem>();
foreach (DesignedGraph designedGraph in Graphs)
{
foreach (DataSourceItem dsi in designedGraph.DataSourceItems)
{
string datasourceName = dsi.GetDataSource();
if (datasourceName == "memory_total_kib" || datasourceName == "memory")
continue;
if (!Palette.HasCustomColour(dsi.Id))
{
dsi.DataSource.name_label = datasourceName;
dsi.ColorChanged = true;
Palette.SetCustomColor(dsi.Id, dsi.Color);
dataSourceItems.Add(dsi);
}
}
}
return dataSourceItems.Count > 0 ? dataSourceItems : null;
}
private void SetSessionDetails(AsyncAction action)
{
if (elevatedSession == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(elevatedUsername) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(elevatedPassword))
return;
action.sudoUsername = elevatedUsername;
action.sudoPassword = elevatedPassword;
action.Session = elevatedSession;
}
private void RunSaveGraphsAction(List<DesignedGraph> graphs, List<DataSourceItem> dataSources)
{
SaveDataSourceStateAction action = new SaveDataSourceStateAction(XenObject.Connection, XenObject,
dataSources, graphs);
SetSessionDetails(action);
action.RunAsync();
}
public void SaveGraphs(List<DataSourceItem> dataSourceItems = null)
{
if (dataSourceItems != null)
{
UpdateDataSources(dataSourceItems);
}
else
{
dataSourceItems = GetGraphsDataSources();
}
List<DesignedGraph> graphs = ShowingDefaultGraphs ? new List<DesignedGraph>() : Graphs;
RunSaveGraphsAction(graphs, dataSourceItems);
}
private void SwapGraphDetails(int index1, int index2)
{
Plots.SwapControls(index1, index2);
Keys.SwapControls(index1, index2);
}
public void ExchangeGraphs(int index1, int index2)
{
if (!Graphs.IndexInRange(index1) || !Graphs.IndexInRange(index2))
return;
SuspendDrawing();
SuspendLayout();
try
{
Graphs.SwapListElements(index1, index2);
SwapGraphDetails(index1, index2);
if (SelectedGraphChanged != null)
SelectedGraphChanged();
showingDefaultGraphs = false;
}
finally
{
if (VScroll)
ScrollControlIntoView(Plots[SelectedGraphIndex]);
ResumeLayout();
ResumeDrawing();
RefreshBuffer();
}
}
private void DeleteGraphDetailsAt(int index)
{
Controls.Remove(Plots[index]);
Controls.Remove(Keys[index]);
Plots.DeleteControlAt(index);
Keys.DeleteControlAt(index);
}
public void DeleteGraph(DesignedGraph graph)
{
if (graph == null)
return;
SuspendLayout();
try
{
int index = Graphs.IndexOf(graph);
DesignedGraph newSelectedGraph = null;
if (SelectedGraph == graph && Count > 1)
{
newSelectedGraph = SelectedGraphIndex == Count - 1
? Graphs[SelectedGraphIndex - 1]
: Graphs[SelectedGraphIndex + 1];
}
Graphs.Remove(graph);
DeleteGraphDetailsAt(index);
if (newSelectedGraph != null)
SelectedGraph = newSelectedGraph;
showingDefaultGraphs = false;
}
finally
{
if (VScroll)
{
AdjustFormScrollbars(true);
ScrollControlIntoView(Plots[SelectedGraphIndex]);
}
ResumeLayout();
RefreshBuffer();
}
}
public void AddGraph(DesignedGraph graph)
{
SuspendLayout();
try
{
Graphs.Add(graph);
AddGraphDetails(graph, Graphs.Count - 1);
SelectedGraph = graph;
showingDefaultGraphs = false;
}
finally
{
if (VScroll)
{
AdjustFormScrollbars(true);
ScrollControlIntoView(Plots[SelectedGraphIndex]);
}
ResumeLayout();
RefreshBuffer();
}
}
public void ReplaceGraphAt(int index, DesignedGraph newGraph)
{
if (!Graphs.IndexInRange(index))
return;
SuspendLayout();
try
{
bool isSelected = (SelectedGraph == Graphs[index]);
Graphs.RemoveAt(index);
Graphs.Insert(index, newGraph);
Plots[index].DisplayName = newGraph.DisplayName;
Keys[index].DataSourceUUIDsToShow.Clear();
foreach (DataSourceItem item in newGraph.DataSourceItems)
Keys[index].DataSourceUUIDsToShow.Add(item.Id);
Keys[index].UpdateItems();
if (isSelected)
{
SelectedGraph = newGraph;
}
showingDefaultGraphs = false;
}
finally
{
ResumeLayout();
}
}
public void RestoreDefaultGraphs()
{
LoadDefaultGraphs();
}
public List<string> DisplayNames
{
get { return Graphs.ConvertAll(g => g.DisplayName); }
}
protected override void OnDrawToBuffer(PaintEventArgs paintEventArgs)
{
if (Plots.IndexInRange(SelectedGraphIndex))
{
Rectangle rect =
RectangleToClient(
Plots[SelectedGraphIndex].RectangleToScreen(Plots[SelectedGraphIndex].ClientRectangle));
rect.Y -= CONTROL_PADDING;
rect.Height += CONTROL_PADDING;
rect = Rectangle.FromLTRB(paintEventArgs.ClipRectangle.Left-1, rect.Top,
paintEventArgs.ClipRectangle.Right, rect.Bottom);
paintEventArgs.Graphics.FillRectangle(Palette.GraphShadow, rect);
}
}
private DataPlot GetDataPlotAtPoint(Point point)
{
point.X = CONTROL_LEFT;
DataPlot dataPlot = GetChildAtPoint(point) as DataPlot;
if (dataPlot == null)
{
point.Y += CONTROL_PADDING;
dataPlot = GetChildAtPoint(point) as DataPlot;
}
return dataPlot;
}
private void SelectGraphAtPoint(Point screenPoint)
{
Point point = PointToClient(screenPoint);
DataPlot dataPlot = GetDataPlotAtPoint(point);
if (dataPlot != null)
{
int index = Plots.IndexOf((DataPlot) dataPlot);
Point dataPlotPoint = dataPlot.PointToClient(screenPoint);
if (dataPlotPoint.X > dataPlot.ClientRectangle.Right)
{
if (Keys.IndexInRange(index))
ScrollControlIntoView(Keys[index]);
}
else
{
ScrollControlIntoView(dataPlot);
}
if (index != SelectedGraphIndex && Graphs.IndexInRange(index))
{
SelectedGraph = Graphs[index];
}
}
}
private void ClearDataKeySelectedItemAt(int index)
{
if (Keys.IndexInRange(index))
{
DataKey dataKey = Keys[index];
if (dataKey != null)
{
dataKey.SelectedItem = null;
}
}
}
protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
{
base.OnMouseDown(e);
Point point = e.Location;
SelectGraphAtPoint(PointToScreen(e.Location));
ClearDataKeySelectedItemAt(SelectedGraphIndex);
RefreshBuffer();
}
protected override void OnMouseWheel(MouseEventArgs e)
{
base.OnMouseWheel(e);
RefreshBuffer();
}
private int suspendCounter = 0;
private void SuspendDrawing()
{
if (suspendCounter == 0)
HelpersGUI.SuspendDrawing(this);
suspendCounter++;
}
private void ResumeDrawing()
{
suspendCounter--;
if (suspendCounter == 0)
HelpersGUI.ResumeDrawing(this);
}
}
}
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Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
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Below is Section 5 of the Fugitive Slave Law
Personal Dilemmas
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. In the response to the weakening of the original fugitive slave act, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made any Federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000. Law-enforcement officials everywhere now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave on no more evidence than a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership. The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf. It also required all citizens to turn in runaway slaves. In addition, any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter (as Huck did for Jim) was subject to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine (approximately $20,000 in today's money).
§ 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all marshals and deputy marshals to obey and execute all warrants and precepts issued under the provisions of this act, when to them directed; and should any marshal or deputy marshal refuse to receive such warrant, or other process, when tendered, or to use all proper means diligently to execute the same, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of one thousand dollars, to the use of such claimant, on the motion of such claimant, by the Circuit or District Court for the district of such marshal; and after arrest of such fugitive, by such marshal or his deputy, or whilst at any time in his custody under the provisions of this act, should such fugitive escape, whether with or without the assent of such marshal or his deputy, such marshal shall be liable, on his official bond, to be prosecuted for the benefit of such claimant, for the full value of the service or labor of said fugitive in the State, Territory, or District whence he escaped: and the better to enable the said commissioners, when thus appointed, to execute their duties faithfully and efficiently, in conformity with the requirements of the Constitution of the United States and of this act, they are hereby authorized and empowered, within their counties respectively, to appoint, in writing under their hands, any one or more suitable persons, from time to time, to execute all such warrants and other process as may be issued by them in the lawful performance of their respective duties; with authority to such commissioners, or the persons to be appointed by them, to execute process as aforesaid, to summon and call to their aid the bystanders, or posse comitatus of the proper county, when necessary to ensure a faithful observance of the clause of the Constitution referred to, in conformity with the provisions of this act; and all good citizens are hereby commanded to aid and assist in the prompt and efficient execution of this law, whenever their services may be required, as aforesaid, for that purpose; and said warrants shall run, and be executed by said officers, any where in the State within which they are issued.
Appendix #22
Using Chapter 16 from the book, the excerpt from the Fugitive Slave Law, and your study guides to guide your thinking, describe a situation from your own life or one that you have read or heard about when a decision made had moral, financial and or legal consequences.
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Response to Scottish Government Resource Consultation
Type: Consultations
Topic: Disability rights | Policy and legislation
Camphill Scotland, in consultation with our members, identified 5 key improvements that could be made to the Scottish Government's proposed 'Supporting disabled children, young people and their Families' resource. The Scottish Government stated that
This consultation will be one step towards developing a central, inclusive source of information that seeks to ease the pressure on families who have limited time and resources. Following the consultation, the content will be developed into a website and mobile app, which will aim to be accessible, inclusive and dynamic.
Our suggestions to improve this resources included the following:
Title: We would prefer the title to be: 'Supporting Children and Young People with Additional Support Needs, and their families'.
Strengthening the wider impacts of disability: The Scottish Government could consult, and work with an independent body such as LGBT Youth Scotland to ensure that this resource addresses the wider impacts of disability in the lives of LGBT children and young people, and that their views are fully represented. The Scottish Government should also consult, and work with, charities that work with ethnic minority groups to ensure that the proposed resource addresses the needs of children and young people affected by disability from ethnic minority groups, and fully takes their views into account.
Human Rights and the role of advocacy: A reference to the provisions in the Social Security (Scotland) Act relating to the rights of disabled people, requiring assistance under the legislation, to receive independent advocacy support, and to the duty of Social Security Scotland to use inclusive communication in communicating with those requiring support under the 2018 Act should be included. This will help disabled children and young people, and their families, to access such support.
Identifying available support: It would be helpful if the resource could include information about a) the SHANARRI indicators in Section 96 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, b) the Wellbeing Wheel, c) funding sources (such as the Family Fund), d) an Online tool/counter with Q&A service.
Transitions: The resource should ensure information sessions are delivered in schools and in other settings such as through organisations working for and on behalf of children and young people with a disability and their families.
Read our full submission
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Ooblets Is Now Epic Games Store Exclusive
Ooblets is Now an Epic Games Store Exclusive
More Info About This Game
Game Info More about this game
Glumberland
PC, Xbox One
July 15, 2020 (Calendar)
Indie, Simulation, RPG
Purchase (Some links may be affiliated)
Epic Games Store Microsoft Store Steam
Epic Games Store Exclusive?
An Ooblets Epic Games Store exclusivity deal has been announced by Glumberland. While the game does not yet have a firm release date, it will eventually debut on the Epic Games Store as a timed exclusive.
If you're unfamiliar with this game, Ooblets is a title that's all about collecting adorable creatures and dancing. No, really. You'll start off in a run-down farm and gradually fix it up over time. Customize your character's clothes to match your personal style and then get out into the world to find some adorable creatures! Once you have some, you can engage in dance battles with wild Ooblets and fellow trainers in a weird sort of mash-up between Pokémon and Just Dance.
Glumberland had stepped away from their publisher Double Fine and cut out on their own back in June 2019.
A blog post on the game's official website details the Ooblets Epic Games Store exclusivity deal. It explains the situation in great detail, but one particular paragraph highlights their logic behind the decision. Essentially, they received a payment from Epic Games upfront and a guaranteed minimum number of sales, giving the developer a modicum of security in an increasingly competitive entertainment market. This will allow Glumberland to make the game that they want to make without worrying too much about the day-to-day expenses or how many copies they're going to sell.
Ideally, the extra funding is going to help speed up the development of the game a bit. However, it might not be as fast as we could hope for. As any employer can tell you (especially at a software company), it takes time to train an employee and familiarize them with the systems and procedures already in use. Still, the money gained from this deal will hopefully get the game out sooner rather than later but the team cautions a delay may happen.
You'll be able to get Ooblets on the Epic Games Store whenever the heck it launches; it will be available on Steam after an unnamed period of exclusivity (likely a year). In the meantime, you can learn more about this game by checking out its official website. You can also add it to your wishlist on Steam.
What do you think of the Ooblets Epic Games Store exclusivity deal? Do you find this news disappointing or do you really not care where you buy your PC games? Let us know in the comments below!
Witchfire Release Date Tentatively Set for Late 2022
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Developing of the concepts of Tailored Information and Transparent Meat in which the consumer is informed relevant information e.g. concerning safety, availability, health, environmental protection, animal welfare, etc. using chain information systems and Future Internet.
• Opening and introduction: "Food Awareness, Food Transparency and Future Internet contribution" - Carlos Maestre (Atos, Spain).
• "Recommended practices to improve food capabilities of the Future internet" - A. Sebők, F. Homolka, I. Gábor, K. Viola (Campden BRI, Hungary).
• "Tailored Information Consumers" - Eloi Montcada (Bon Preu, Spain), Carlos Maestre (Atos, Spain), Ramón Alcarria (UPM, Spain).
• "Mobile Services for AgroFood (MoSeForAgrofood)" - Andrea Maurino (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy).
• "Animal Welfare: Consumer reactions" - Eloi Montcada (Bon Preu, Spain).
• "Tracing, Tracking and Awereness in Meat" - Rob Hartog (Wageningen UR), Bernd Hallier (EHI Retail institute), Tim Bartram (GS1).
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Welcome! Thank you for visiting! The podcasts below are my gift to you - to help you live from YOUR core! Scroll down for all episodes!
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"In Our Right Minds: Guiding Women to Their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor"
a new film by Dale Allen
Thrilled to announce that "In Our Right Minds" is a First Quarter Finalist in the Vancouver Independent Film Festival!
"In Our Right Minds - Guiding Women to their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor" is a film by Dale Allen which was presented to the Parliament of the World's Religions October 2021.
Upcoming Events: (Online links and event details to follow so that you may join us)! :
Gather the Women
March 21, 2022 • 12Noon Eastern
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Parallel Event
Film screenings will be followed by panel discussions with women leaders and interactive segments for a truly immersive, energy-shifting and healing experience!
To recieve event updates email: [email protected]
I welcome collaboration, and promotion/distribution!
Dale has presented this piece as a live multi-media performance to scores of audiences at universities, conferences, theaters and expos across the U.S., into Canada, from Kauai to Dubai and twice previously to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
"Our Mother
Who art within us
Each breath brings us to you ..."
Ingrid Baars
"The Mother
has left a memory
in us All"
Dale was privileged to twice present "In Our Right Minds"previously to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Her encore was requested by the Vice President of the Commission, Ambassador Carlos Enrique Garcia Gonzales, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations. She returns on March 21, 2022 for UNCSW online.
Dale has brought her talents to scores of audiences - across the U.S., into Canada, and from Kauai to Dubai. The piece gives voice to a brilliant, long-forgotten intelligence that is within each of us – the intelligence of the right hemisphere of the brain, the "feminine gatherer-nurturer" side. Described as having the energy of "a Cape Canaveral lift-off," Dale thoroughly engages and inspires her audience, which ranges from highly educated corporate leaders to teenage girls seeking their place in the world.
Featured Episode:
in The Revelation Project's TOP 13 Episodes of 2021!
GODDESS CALLING - Healing Through Feminine Archetypes
Listen on APPLE
The Revealtion Project with Monica Rodgers:
"This episode with Dale Allen is rich with storytelling and so many incredible insights about what's ailing the world, and how we can remember the feminine as part of our collective healing.
• Why does the term GODDESS make some of us uncomfortable?
• What is our core wound, and why do we all have one?
• How can archetypes help us to heal?
• How can we listen for the GODDESS CALLING?
• Why now? Why is the feminine the missing piece for what ails us as humans/society?
• Why a BREAKDOWN is needed for a BREAKTHROUGH.
• Why reclaiming emotion is a critical piece of our inner peace. "
Thank you again, dear Trista Hendren of The Girl God for this cherished introduction!
Prayer Loop: "Our Mother" & "Hail Mary" by Dale Allen
A prayer loop for the celebrating the sacred feminine. We are all made in the image and likeness of the divine. Honoring the mascuine and feminine within us all.
Dale Allen & Arden Donahue
on Melissa Small's "Essentially Savage"
Feminine Power is not power over, but power that strengthens, heals and enlivens and we touch.
Dale Allen and Arden Donahue are guests of Melissa Small on her "Essentially Savage" series, after Melissa completes their Deep Dive workshop. The three discuss living authentically, embracing challenging times, honoring feminine energy, creativity, the power of community and more.
Connect with Arden Donahue and Melissa Small here
On Apple
Dale Interviewed by Pat Fero and Phyllis Curott
Dale is interviewed by Pat Fero and Phyllis Curott for The Parliament of the World's Religions. Pat Fero is a seasoned psychotherapist and author of several books. She is a passionate woman who has dedicated her life to igniting the collective feminine in planetary awakening. Phyllis Curott is a pioneering spiritual teacher and one of America's first public Wiccan Priestesses. She is an attorney and outspoken advocate in the courts and media on behalf of Pagans, Wiccans and other religious minorities and is also an internationally bestselling author.
More on Phyllis Curott and Pat Fero
On Apple • On Spotify
Interview with Debbie Fay
Founder of BeSpeak Presentation Solutions
Find your VOICE! If the thought of public speaking feels daunting to you, Debbie Fay, Founder of bespeak presentation solutions, llc has tips and pracitical steps to help you! You are a better speaker than you think you are. The world needs to hear what you have to say.
Debbie Fay is founder and president of bespeak presentation solutions, llc, providing presentations coaching, training and consulting to businesses worldwide since 2006. Debbie helps her clients present themselves with confidence, conviction, and clarity, delivering presentations that get heard and get results. Bespeak's clients include: KornFerry Hay Group, US Fund for UNICEF, NYCEDC, Sabra Dipping Products and many others.
Debbie is a sought-after speaker and contributing author to forbes.com and the Huffington Post. Her book, "Nail it. Create and deliver presentations that connect, compel, and convince." is available from Amazon and other book retailers.
Learn More | Connect with Debbie Fay
Episode 5:
gOddessy - Journey to the Goddess Archetype
When I first encountered the word Goddess, I didn't like it. It felt uncomfortable and unnecessary. I decided to go headlong into working with this archetype. I began to study the sacred feminine – the work of anthropologists, psychologists, archeologists, feminist scholars, poets and historians. I dove deep. I found the experience personally transformative and so, created a presentation, "In Our Right Minds, Guiding Women to the Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor" and brought it to scores of audiences at universities, conferences, expos, and the UN Commission on the Status of Women. This podcast is an introduction to the Goddess archetype and or a chance to reflect on your own journey to the Goddess, your gOddessy!
Dale has such a soothing voice, I can listen to her talk all day. Her messages are here to penetrate our heart and soothe are souls! Tune in! Sherry Minniti D'Elia, Holistic Psychotherapy
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Cozy up for an audio journey to a winter landscape and a visit to a cave deep beneath the snows. There, an ancient yet ageless woman dwells. She is the Crone, or WiseWoman. In order to truly access your inner Power, Passion and Purpose, this archetype cannot be missed - she holds the seed to our creativity and renewal. She belongs to all of us: men, women – all genders. The archetypes are without boundary – like dreams and imagination – they don't belong to solely one group or gender. The Crone has existed in us since the day we were born. She's so powerful! She is a Keeper of Wisdom and reminds us that life is a series of "deaths." Life is a progression of disappearances... you build it, you structure it, you count on it, you think you've arrived somewhere - and then you realize the process starts again. But, there are certain threads that remain, threads that connect to our Inner Core, which is constant and timeless.
"Dale I was able to listen to your podcast. You have an incredible voice - calming, soothing, so perfect - what a great story, reflection, perspective! It almost read like a book - the imagery you created... And of course, I had the perfect day to listen: quiet, snow, peace in winter... perfect to reflect on new beginnings and the inevitable Spring. I want to figure out how to get all of your podcasts. I feel like a kid looking forward to a really good bedtime story!" Nancy Pierce Chapin
Gaia - Mother Earth
My joyful offering in Episode 4 is to speak as Mother Earth, as the Goddess Gaia.
Gaia appears in Greek mythology. She created herself out of primordial chaos. It was from a Gaia that all earth life came to be, and all things return to her as well. This archetype is part of the collective unconscious, and appears in all original cultures around the earth.
In these transformational times that we all share, connecting with nature can be very, very healing. I had the privilege to record a podcast for Yale University about the work of Stephen Kellert and Biophilia. Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature. Studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component of human health and well-being. Humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
And so, I invite you to use the power of your human imagination, and listen as the Goddess Gaia, as the Earth herself, speaks to you.
"Dale Your voice serves as a conduit merging knowledge and discovery! This week's podcast was a rejuvenating elixir, inviting each listener to slow down, observe and integrate the fantastic, alchemical and legacy laden relationship we each have to the earth, history, nature, flesh, air, roots and more. Thank you for being so passionate — and compassionate — and in offering yourself as a translator for us, for all that is good and wise!" Deirdre McCloud
The Selkie
This episode tells the story of the Selkie to help you restore you to your wholeness, your SoulSelf. It is a version I wrote as part of my one-woman show, "In Our Right Minds." I have brought this story to life hundreds of times and yet every time I tell it, it's as if I am experiencing it for the first time. The energy that is channeled by this piece is profound, powerful and healing every time.
I have found many versions of this story, mostly in folk story compilations and children's books and in a wonderful film, The Secret of Roan Inish. Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells a version in her book, Women Who Run with the Wolves. I have brought this story to life hundreds of times and yet every time I tell it, it's as if I am experiencing it for the first time. The energy that is channeled by this piece is profound, powerful and healing every time. May your sealskin be restored. May you exercise your creative, intuitive, heart-centered intelligence. May you speak and act with clarity – from your Core - in your home, your relationships, your work, your community, your faith, your school, your participation in government. May you come from your own authenticity, your own divine spark – and as we all do this – holding an unwavering vision of a world in balance – we will create a balanced world together.
"Dale, I listened to the Core episode about "The Selkie" a few days ago. Thank you for sharing your gift of story telling. It was just what my soul was needing. I look forward to listening to this week's episode!" Katie Maguire Chiaravolloti
Interview with Energy Healer, Arden Donahue
Arden Donahue has trained in many different energy healing modalilties and has synthesized them into her own unique offering. We'll learn about what Arden does, and then she'll provide some great takeaway tools for you to begin your energy healing journey today.
"Though we may not be responsible for our wounds, we are responsible for healing them."
Learn More | Connect with Arden Donahue
At your Core is your healthy Power, Passion and Purpose. It's easy to loose touch with your innate Knowing, your Authentic Self - sliding into the mundane, feeling disconnected and wooden. But with regular doses of inspiration and insight, tools and training, we can find our way. Here you'll find interviews with healers and visionaries, guided meditations, audio journeys into archetypes and myths, even humor - all offered to bring you to Y O U R Core - limitless and free. When you live from your Core, we all benefit! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 972 |
Tragic accident
Drumshanbo in shock at the death of Betty McManus
Knocked down while crossing the road
Observer Staff
[email protected]
The town of Drumshanbo is in a state of shock following the tragic death of Mrs Betty McManus yesterday evening, Thursday, December 22.
Mrs McManus, aged 74, from High Street, was knocked down by a car while crossing the road at Acres, Drumshanbo (near the swimming pool) at approximately 7.15pm. It is understood she was on her way to deliver Christmas presents when the accident occurred.
She was fatally injured and pronounced dead at the scene. Her body has been removed to the morgue at Sligo University Hospital. The female driver of the car (50 years) was uninjured. There were no passenger in the car. The road was closed for a time last night to facilitate a forensic collision examination but has since reopened.
Betty McManus was a highly respected and much admired lady in Drumshanbo and Co Leitrim. Her husband was the late Paddy McManus, the well known builder and publican. Paddy passed away in November 2015. Paddy and Betty along with Nancy Woods were the founders of the famous Joe Mooney Summer School which takes place in the town each year and McManus's Thatched Pub on High Street was the Summer School's headquarters for many years.
Betty was also very involved in the twinning of Drumshanbo with Locquirec in Brittany, France and played an important role in ensuring that twinning process was a great success.
Arrangements have not been finalised yet but it is understood the funeral service will take place early next week.
Betty McManus is survived by her five children, Conor, Patrick, Manus, Clodagh and Caitriona, her grandchildren, family members and a wide circle of friends.
Witnesses to the collision are asked to contact Carrick-on-Shannon Garda station on 071 9650510, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
Devestated by this news. I grew up in Drumshanbo with this family and Betty is a good friend of my mother's. Anyone please have a photo of the old, thatched pub please you could share? RIP Betty, it was a pleasure to know you and your whole family. I guess Paddy will be re-united with his love once again :-) at least. Thank you.
My deepest of the day goes to the McManus family Drumshanbo on the death of Betty. May she rest in peace. I have known Betty and her husband Paddy Mac for many years. I worked for Paddy away back in the 60s on a water scheme near Jackie Doherty's. May they both – rest in peace. Andy McGovern senior. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 973 |
Put away your car keys and go ahead and order that seafood platter...you'll be able to walk it off!
This unique house is all about LOCATION. Situated just one block from the embarcadero and one block from downtown, the great location allows you to leisurely stroll to see many of the wonderful things Morro Bay has to offer.
This newly remodeled 1960's home has maintained its' simple, vintage style with an added modern flavor. It is equipped with all the necessary conveniences; dishwasher, gas Bar-B-Q, Wi-Fi, Flat screen TV in every room, washer/dryer, Tempurpedic sofa bed, and an outdoor shower/rinse-off area. The spacious corner lot, coupled with an abundance of windows give this modest house an open, airy feel. If you are looking for a place where you can feel at home, comfortable, and relaxed, while still in the heart of Morro Bay, you will fall in love with this house!
Walking distance to the Beach, Morro Rock, shops, restaurants.
Flat screen TV, Cable, Wi-Fi, TV's in all 3 bedrooms, & stylish decor.
Wi-Fi, Cable, 1 King, 1 Queen beds, Trundle bed can be used as 2 twins or makes into a King size. Trundle sofa sleeper in living room is state of the art, no bars, Queen size Tempurpedic.
Full kitchen includes dishwasher and coffee maker. Full laundry room with built in ironing board, beach towels provided, games, books. Gas BBQ. This home is sure to become your favorite to return to again and again.
It is a lovely home and we enjoyed staying there.
221 Dunes - A great place to stay.
We stayed for two weeks. The house had retro charm, many amenities and clean. One could easily walk to the bay and embarcadero. The management gals were very helpful. We enjoyed our stay very much.
Relaxing and peaceful. Will be back.
The house is in a great location for walking to everything. It's really well appointed and clean and I couldn't be more pleased. Of course this was the second year we've had it for the month of FebrUary!
Perfect house for family visit to Cal Poly student. Great place to hang out and have a home away from home. Family dinners, baked cookies and just relaxed with each other.
Stayed in this home for the month of July and loved it. Felt like home. Cute little house very clean and comfortable. Perfect location for enjoying all that Morro Bay has to offer. We stayed last year for a month and enjoyed it so much came back for another month. Breakfast at Dorn's, dinner at the Galley, fish and chips at Giovanni's. Great views. Have bragged about house and location to everyone. Would definitely recommend.
The location was amazing. Sitting on the couch in the living room you could actually see the water and waves. This house was less than 2 blocks to shopping, resturants, 1/2 mile to sandy beach. The downside was that cabinets and closets were full of linen, no room for your own stuff. Marissa was great to work with.
we came up for the Thanksgiving holiday with our family (two kids in college and my father). The rooms were so big and spacious with lots of space for clothing, etc. and the kitchen was packed with all of the cooking pots and pans one needs to cook a holiday dinner. The location was awesome - so close to walk downtown and beautiful sunsets to watch at the end of the street. Loved the decor and all of the fixtures. The main bathroom door handle is difficult to open, however. Can't wait to come back and stay there again! Thanks for a wonderful stay!
The home itself is old, but the owners have done a lot of work to update it but still keep that vintage retro feel. The sofa bed is so comfortable- our kids actually fought over who got to sleep in it. We never had to drive, we were able to walk all over town which was refreshing. Marissa is the only person we dealt with at the property management office and she was very helpful and made our trip run flawless. We hope to be back next summer!
M.B. But with a family of 6-8 with cars boogie boards,bikes.etc, it was very difficult without a garage. I think the rent was high with this drawback, but we(as a family tradition) have come to M.B. every summer, now starting with the sixth generation; also,the trash cans supplied could not handle the supply generated during the week.But, we truly did enjoy our stay,especially the location!
This is the most comfortable house rental I have ever had the pleasure of staying. Not only was it exceptionally clean, well maintained, and decorated, I love it when a rental house has the leftovers of the past renters. There was stuff to make chocolate chip cookies, leftover drinks cans and bottles, medicine, vitamin packs, and anything else you can imagine that is safe to keep around for the next guest. It's in a great location a block away from the Embarcadero and close to many things Morro Bay has to offer! Thank you!
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Tag: Draconid Meteor Shower
Posted on October 8, 2012 December 23, 2015
Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast: October 8-14, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! With early evening dark skies, this is a perfect opportunity to take on some more serious studies. We'll start off BIG… and work down to the really small. (Think Hickson Compact Groups.) There's even a meteor shower this week! Now, get out your telescopes and get ready, cuz' I'm waitin' in the backyard and lookin' for the "Double Dark"…
Monday, October 8 – Today marks the birthday of Ejnar Hertzsprung. Born 1873, Hertzsprung was a Danish astronomer who first proved the existence of giant and dwarf stars in the early 1900s. His discoveries included the relationship between color and luminosity, which wasn't truly recognized until it was recovered by Henry Russell. Now it is a familiar part of all our studies as the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. His use of absolute magnitudes will come into play tonight as we have a look at the age-old mystery of M73.
Located about three fingerwidths north-northwest of Theta Capricorni (RA 58.9 Dec -12 38), this 9th magnitude open cluster consisting of four stars was discovered by Charles Messier on October 4, 1780. He described it as a "Cluster of three or four small stars, which resembles a nebula at first glance…" Hotly debated as to whether or not the grouping is a genuine cluster or simply an asterism, it was also included in J. Herschel's catalog (GC 4617) and given the NGC 6994 designation by Dreyer. In 1931 Collinder cataloged M73 as Cr 426, with an estimated distance of 12,000 light-years. Still, the debate about its authenticity as a physically related group continued.
At least two stars show the same proper motion, leading scientists to believe M73 may be the remnant of a much older and now dispersed cluster – or simply two related stars. Of the 140 stars investigated in the region, 24 may be real members, including those in Messier's original observation. Thanks to the work of Hertzsprung and Russell, these candidates fall within the color-magnitude diagram of a 2 to 3 billion year old cluster with Messier's suspect four being evolved giants. The most recent data indicates M73 may simply be an asterism – sharing no common proper motion, but until more studies are undertaken you can enjoy this unusual Messier in even a small telescope!
Tuesday, October 9 – Tonight is the peak of the Draconid meteor shower whose radiant is near the westering constellation of Hercules. This particular shower can be quite impressive when comet Giacobini-Zinner passes near Earth. When this happens, the fall rate jumps to 200 per hour and has even been known to reach 1000. So what am I going to tell you about this year? Comet Giacobini-Zinner reached perihelion on July 2nd of 2005, passing with 8 million kilometers of Earth, but has now greatly distanced itself from our solar system. Chances are the Draconids will only produce around 3 to 5 per hour, but no one knows for sure!
While we're out, let's take the time to have a peek at M72, just about a degree and a half west (RA 20 53.5 Dec -12 32) of last night's target M73.
Originally found by Mechain on the night of August 29-30, 1780, this class IX globular cluster is one of the faintest and most remote of the Messiers, and Charles didn't catalog it until over a month after its discovery. At around magnitude 9, this 53,000 light-year distant globular will be not much more than a faint round smudge in smaller aperture, but will take on a modicum of resolution in larger telescopes. Well beyond the galactic center and heading toward us at 255 kilometers per second, M72 is home to 42 variables and the average magnitude of its members is around 15. While mid-sized scopes will pick up a graininess in the texture of this globular, notice how evenly the light is distributed, with little evidence of a core region. Be sure to write down your observations!
Wednesday, October 10 – Today in 1846, William Lassell was busy at his scope as he made a new discovery – Neptune's moon Triton! Although our everyday equipment can't "see" Triton, we can still have a look at Neptune which is also hanging out in tonight's study constellation of Capricornus. Try checking astronomy periodicals or many great on-line sites for accurate locator charts.
Tonight let's head to the eastern portion of Capricornus and start by identifying Zeta about a fistwidth southwest of the eastern corner star – Delta. Now look southeast about 2 fingerwidths and identify 5th magnitude star 41. About one half degree west is our target we'll be revisiting this evening, M30 (Right Ascension: 21 : 40.4 – Declination: -23 : 11).
At near magnitude 8, this class V globular cluster is well suited to even binoculars and becomes spectacular in a telescope. Originally discovered by Messier in August 1764 and resolved by William Herschel in 1783, some of M30?s most attractive features are the branches of stars which seem to radiate from its concentrated core region. Estimated to be around 26,000 light-years away, you'll find it fairly well resolved in large aperture, but take time to really look. The dense central region may have already undergone core collapse – yet as close as these stars are, very few have collided to form x-ray binaries. For the smaller scope, notice how well M30?s red giants resolve and be sure to mark your notes!
Thursday, October 11 – Tonight is time for a telescopic challenge – a compact galaxy group. You'll find it less than half a degree southeast of stellar pair 4 and 5 Aquarii (RA 20 52 26.00 Dec -05 46 19.1).
Known as Hickson 88, this grouping of four faint spiral galaxies is estimated to be around 240 million light-years away and is by no means an easy object – yet the galactic cores can just be glimpsed with mid-sized scopes from a very dark site. Requiring around 12.5? to study, you'll find the brightest of these to be northernmost NGC 6978 and NGC 6977. While little detail can be seen in the average large backyard scope, NGC 6978 shows some evidence of being a barred spiral, while NGC 6977 shows the even appearance of a face-on. Further south, NGC 6976 is much smaller and considerably fainter. It is usually caught while averting and studying the neighborhood. The southernmost galaxy is NGC 6975, whose slender, edge-on appearance makes it much harder to catch.
Although these four galaxies seem to be in close proximity to one another, no current data suggests any interaction between them. While such a faint galaxy grouping is not for everyone, it's a challenge worthy of seasoned astronomer with a large scope! Enjoy…
Friday, October 12 – Today in 1891, the Astronomical Society of France was established. Exactly one year later in 1892, astronomy great E. E. Barnard was hard at work using the new tool of photography and became the first to discover a comet – 1892 V – in this way!
Not only did Barnard use photography for comets, but his main interest of study was details within the Milky Way. Tonight let us take out binoculars or a telescope at the widest possible field of view and have a look at two such regions in the westering Aquila – The "Double Dark Nebula."
Just northeast of Altair is bright star Gamma Aquilae, and about a fingerwidth west is a pair of Barnard discoveries: B142 and B143 – two glorious absences of stars known as interstellar dust clouds. B143 is no more than a half degree in size and will simply look like a blank area shaped like a horseshoe, with its extensions point toward the west. Just south is B142, an elongated comma shape, which seems to underline its companion.
Located anywhere from 1000 to 3000 light-years away, these non-luminous clouds of gas and dust are a very fine example of Barnard's passion. Do not be upset if you don't see them on your first attempt – for the chances are if you are seeing "nothing," you are looking in the right place!
Saturday, October 13 – Today marks the founding of the British Interplanetary Society in 1933. "From imagination to reality," the BIS is the world's oldest established organization devoted solely to supporting and promoting the exploration of space and astronautics.
Tonight we'll do them proud as we go back for another look at the mighty M2. You'll find it located about three fingerwidths north-northeast of Beta Aquarii (RA 33.5 Dec 00 49).
At slightly dimmer than 6th magnitude, this outstanding globular cluster is just inside that region where it can't quite be viewed unaided, but even the smallest of binoculars will pick it out of a relatively starless field with ease. Holding a Class II designation, it was first discovered by Maraldi on September 11, 1746 and rediscovered independently by Messier exactly 14 years later. At a distance of roughly 37,500 light-years, it is estimated to contain in the neighborhood of 150,000 stars.
Even a small telescope will reveal M2's rich and concentrated core region and slight ellipticity. Not bad for a 13 billion year old group of stars! As aperture increases, some of the brightest stars will begin to resolve, and in larger telescopes it will approach total resolution. You might well note a dark area in the northeastern section, and several more located throughout the splendid field. Feast your eyes on one of the finest in the skies!
Sunday, October 14 – Before we leave Cygnus for the year, try your luck with IC 5070 (Right Ascension: 20 : 50.8 – Declination: +44 : 21), also known as the "Pelican Nebula." You'll find it just about a degree southeast of Deneb and surrounding the binary star 56 Cygni.
Located around 2000 light-years away, the Pelican is an extension of the elusive North American Nebula, NGC 7000. Given its great expanse and faintness, catching the Pelican does require clean skies, but it can be spotted best with large binoculars. As part of this huge star forming region, look for the obscuring dark dust cloud Lynds 935 to help you distinguish the nebula's edges. Although it is every bit as close as the Orion Nebula, this star hatchery isn't quite as easy!
Now let's give deep sky a rest as we travel to the northwest corner of Capricornus and have a look just south of Alpha at beautiful Beta.
Named Dabih, this lovely white 3rd magnitude star has a very easily to split 6th magnitude companion which will appear slightly blue. Over 100 times brighter than our own Sun, the primary star is also a spectroscopic triple – one whose unseen companions orbit in a little over 8 days and 1374 days. Oddly enough the B star is also a very tight binary as well – yet the two major stars of this system are separated by about a trillion miles! If you have a large aperture telescope – power up. According to T. W. Webb, a 13th magnitude unrelated double is also found in between the two brighter stars. No matter if you chose binoculars or a telescope, I'm sure you'll find the 150 light-year trip worth your time to add to your doubles list!
Until next week? Wishing you clear skies!
Observing Alert – Draconid Meteor Shower Could Unleash A Burst Of Activity On October 8!
If you live in the Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East area, then keep watching the clock for 17-18:00 UTC when you may be in the right place at the right time for a burst of activity from the annual Draconid Meteor Shower. There's a possibility you might see up to 1,000 meteors an hour!
As always, meteor showers are unpredictable events – but that doesn't mean you can't be prepared or forewarned. While the gibbous Moon will put a damper on fainter meteor streaks, observers in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. are well situated to catch a strong pocket of activity.
"Meteor showers are as difficult to predict as rain showers. The Draconids have surprised us before, and they may do so again." says Canadian astronomer Paul Wiegert. "I'd encourage anyone outside on the night of October the 8 to look to the northern skies, just in case."
This isn't the first time the Draconid meteor shower has produced a brief storm. In 1933 and 1946 the activity reached an average hourly rate of 10,000. While that's pretty incredible, the same cometary debris trail left quite a show in the years 1952, 1985, and 1998 when it produced hundreds per hour. These remnants of Comet Giacobini-Zinner aren't the most dramatic of all showings – but knowing where the meteoroid stream is located makes such predictions valid.
When and where? In this case, start your observations just as soon as the sky gets dark. Since Draco is a northern constellation, those at high latitudes are move favored (sorry, southern hemisphere), so face toward the north and get comfortable. While the storm prediction will happen during daylight hours for North American observers, don't give up hope! It looks like clear skies for many of us and chances are above average for catching a shooting star.
When opportunity knocks, ya' gotta' be there to open the door…
And don't despair if you don't live in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, or if you get clouded out. You can still watch and listen to meteors enter the atmosphere on Spaceweather radio. Meteors reflect radio signals as they burn up and you can hear this as eerie whistles and pings.
A similar system, still employing the radio reflection method displays meteors coming in on your computer with a cool graph – The Meteorwatch Live View
And follow Universe Today's Adrian West on his Twitter feed, VirtualAstro and on his website MeteorWatch as he'll be providing updates on observed meteor rates in various parts of the world.
For Further Reading: Wiegert's original announcement via Physorg.com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 975 |
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The sign said it all. It was not some last-minute message some meth addict scrawled in crayon on a scrap of cardboard. No, this sign was professionally printed. White block letters on a blue background, the four-word message was in all caps. Someone had to have thought this through. Someone wrote it, edited it, planned it, designed it, ordered it, paid for it. Someone approved it, printed it, distributed it. And then someone thought this was a message he or she wanted to convey to the world. Thank goodness someone had the courage to take a photo of it, and then Huffington Post had the guts to post it on its home page.
Oh, I get it. Sen. Kennedy is dead, and these slugs want health care reform to be dead too. That is so clever.
Fourteen days after Edward Kennedy was laid to rest in the company of his fellow American heroes in Arlington, right-wing hate-mongers decided to use his burial to make a cheap point about their opposition to health care reform.
What would they have done if liberals had printed signs that equated Ronald Reagan's burial with the hoped-for death of George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security? Or Bill Buckley's painful passing with the GOP's loss of the White House in 2008? Or the demise of my right-wing former colleague Bob Novak with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts? You can't imagine that, can you? Because, while we progressives have our moments of frustration and our occasional lack of couth, there is nothing I can think of that compares to the sick, savage sign that the teabaggers were waving in Washington.
The inmates have taken over the asylum. The ever-sunny Reagan is dead. The congenial Buckley is dead. The old-school conservative Novak is dead as well. In their place is the party of Joe the Shouter and Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Death Panel Screecher.
They hate Pres. Obama - even though he has bent over backwards to accommodate Republicans. They hate tax increases - even though the Democrats have cut taxes for 95% of Americans. They hate health care reform - even though Ted Kennedy fought his whole life to get them the same health care millionaires like him already had.
There was not, to my knowledge, a sign that said, "Let's Bury Medicare," even though Medicare is precisely the sort of single-payer, government-run, socialized health insurance the whack-jobs say they hate. Nor did I hear about a sign that said, "Let's Bury Tricare," although the military health system is as socialized as Britain's, its beneficiaries (including, according to Newsweek, Congressclown Joe Wilson of South Carolina) are very happy with their socialized health care. Nary a sign, so far as I know, decried the Bush prescription drug entitlement, even though it ballooned the deficit, enriched the pharmaceutical companies and furthered the supposed slide toward socialism. Nor, I'm told, were there any signs criticizing the $2 trillion Mr. Bush's unjust, unwarranted, unwise war in Iraq will cost our children and grandchildren. Nor ever a single sign about the Bush tax cuts, which helped squander the Clinton surplus. If this were about fiscal policy, the protests would have happened long ago.
These tea parties are, at least for some, more about hate than high-minded debate. Anyone who needed proof need look no further than the sign captured in the photo on the front page of the Huffington Post. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 978 |
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Listed once again as of April 11th at 8:51am, this home was originally listed on April 10th in 2019. The property is being listed at a price of $519,900 , the same as its original list price. This 4 bedroom, 2 full baths, 1 half bath residence is located on Appletree Lane, a prime area in .
With a total size of 1,400 square feet, this spacious home comes in at $371.36 per square foot. That's 0.00% lower than the neighborhood average. There are also 2.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 1973, this 2-story home sits on a 1,863 square foot lot.
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ID: I284
Name: John Forbes
Suffix: 6th Lord Forbes
Death: ABT SEP 1547
COMN: 4
COUS: H13C
Note: 1 2
Actual date of death not known, but known to have occurred between Aug 23 1547 and end Sept 1547.
On July 29th, 1533, he and his two sons, John, master of Forbes, and William his brother, with william forbes of Corsindae, and another, found security to appear at the next court of justiciary at Aberdeen, to take their trial for having treasonably set fire, under cloud of night, to certain sheeppens, built of wood, belonging to the earl of Huntly, the Gordons and the Forbeses being at deadly feud, and on May 10th, 1539, the same parties found similar caution. In the latter year, however, Lord Forbes was committed to Edinburgh castle, on the far more serious accusation of treason against the king, but after a tedious confinement, he was exculpated from every charge, and restored to liberty. His son, the master of Forbes, was not so fortunate, having been convicted and executed.
The sixth lord died in 1547.
He was thrice married: first, to Lady Catherine Stewart, second daughter of John, earl of Athol, uterine brother of King James the Second, and by her he had a son, John, who died young, and a daughter Elizabeth, married to John grant of Grant; secondly, to Christian, daughter of Sir John Lundie of that ilk, and by her he had two sons and four daughters; and, thirdly, to Elizabeth Barlow, of Barclay, relict of the first Lord Elphinstone, killed at Flodden in 1513, and by her had a son, Arthur Forbes of Putachie, and a daughter, Janet, who was also thrice married.
_UID: 622AFBE02C974872BA8F67917AE1BFC100D1
Change Date: 24 AUG 2005
Father: William Forbes
Mother: Christian Gordon
Marriage 1 Catherine Stewart
Married: ABT 1500
Elizabeth Forbes
Marriage 2 Christian Lundin
William Forbes b: 1510
Marjory Forbes
Marriage 3 Elizabeth Barclay Or Barlow
Married: 1515
Janet or Jean Forbes
Arthur Forbes
Periodical: The House of Forbes
Publication: Spalding Club
Periodical: The Scottish Nation
Author: W Anderson | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 981 |
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Music "tills the soil" of the hearts of men and women in order that they can be in a state of readiness to receive "the seed", God's preached word. As the Minister of Music of Seeds of Faith Ministries, Mark C. Nelson takes seriously the responsibility of preparing those who serve in the ministry to be fully equipped in that capacity. In varying amounts, He imparts his academic and practical experiences as a singer, songwriter and musician in every rehearsal to accomplish that task. Songs are not just taught for the purpose of ministering during a service, but music fundamentals are explained to enhance understanding and create greater musical awareness.
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class CreateUserService
def call_user
user = User.find_or_create_by!(email: "[email protected]") do |user|
user.password = "changeme"
user.password_confirmation ="changeme"
user.name = "Regular User"
user.confirm!
end
end
def call_archivist
user = User.find_or_create_by!(email: "[email protected]") do |user|
user.password = "changeme"
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user.name = "OG Archivist"
user.confirm!
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where is the squad list?
GKs: Sergio Romero (Sampdoria) e Mariano Andújar (Catania).
Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City), Hugo Campagnaro (Napoli), Ezequiel Garay (Benfica), Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle), Marcos Rojo (Sporting) and Federico Fernández (Napoli).
Midfielders: Javier Mascherano (Barcelona), Fernando Gago (Valencia), Ángel Di Maria (Real Madrid), Enzo Pérez (Benfica), Pablo Guiñazú (Internacional) and José Sosa (Metalist).
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Gonzalo Higuaín (Real Madrid), Rodrigo Palacio (Internazionale), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Ezequiel Lavezzi (PSG) and Hernán Barcos (Palmeiras).
One day Mascherano will not be around or may be injured so a deputy must step in. Cirigliano looks extremely promising.
Talking about finding Masch's deputy, atleast in the near term, what about Yacob? I remember you had him mentioned previously. He's finally got a move to Europe, and he's started off well at westbrom. May be he'll catch Sabella's attention if he continues to impress.
And Pazzella was my first choice to partner FF. That should be the future central defense. But Sabella seems quite adamant on making the Garay-FF work, May be he prefers Garay's aerial threat. And whilst i don't mind giving more time to the current pair, the lack of pace at CD worries me a li'l.
Coloccini has picked up a hamstring injury while training with Argentina apparently.
He's just not having any luck with his return to the national team. 2nd time in a month he's joined the NT and he's been injured both times unable to play.
I hope it's not too serious a hamstring injury.
Since Messi has been Captain of Argentina , he's been scoring much more than before so I'm sure he'll score next international game.
We should give him Puyi's armband and watch him score 100 goals.
Well that's not fair because Messi is 25 so it would be very disrespectul for club to give him Captain's Armband while Puyol or Xavi are playing.
I was just kidding, he wont get the armband in the near future.
does someone know why pastore dont get any chance ?? and although coloccini ?
Because Sebella doesn't like him, Pastore just got back his fit at the last game, assistedone goal for Ibra.
saw the game against peru.. argentina has no plan B withouth messi.... they need to get more variety to give messi more space and let him play more up fromt..
Sabella has made some positive changes to the team. He has managed to get Messi scoring and made his partnerships with Pipita, di Maria and Kun effective especially on the counter.
The team is harmonious. Midfield needs work. Pastore cannot be relied upon at present. Don't get me wrong I am a great fan of Flaco hence the avatar but he still refuses to play the simple ball at times and gives the ball away.
Sabella does not trust the defence. He maintains both fullbacks generally very deep and prefers the 2 defensive midfielders and di Maria to tuck in whenever possible. He's right at the moment. Having a headless chicken like Lavezzi doesn't help who barely does any work at all.
Messi did perform against Paraguay but was a bit listless against Peru but his work rate cannot be faulted and all the over reaction from his performances for Barcelona this season are just that. I think he is managing himself better than ever, pacing himself and deevloping his awareness of positional play in time to become an enganche.
However Sabella has made it clear to the other players unlike under the two previous idiots that the gameplan is not to just pass the ball to Leo and hope he creates something but to take the onus on their own shoulders.
And indeed use what Messi may find troublesome in being double even triple marked as an advantage to the team and use him as a decoy. And it has worked on several occasions recently where it has left other players in space.
Zanela I would have liked to see Yacob called as Masche's immediate replacement. Cirigliano and Canteros as more longer term sucessors.
Yacob is getting back to his form of 2010 when he was unlucky not to go to South Africa. Brana is past it now. Guinazu to give him his due performed well when called upon. He is experienced and reads the game well but by 2014 will his legs hold up ?
Cirigliano is more a box to box 5 more reminiscent of a Redondo though without the finesse, Yacob more a Masche type organizer and simple passer but slightly less rough and tough in the tackle.
As for defenders I would dearly love to see Garay dropped. Has nothing special about him or any potential. Fernandez has made interceptions and tackles and passed the ball well out of defence. Yes he is not the paciest and although he is great attacking the ball at set pieces he needs to learn from Ayala how to position himself for defensive corners.
I would look to Musacchio. I have no idea why he stayed with Villareal when Gonzalo for example left. He's wasting at least half a season in Segunda football. He'd be a smart acquisition for many a side in the Primera or Serie A. Reads the game superbly and tackles hard.
The other is Pezzella. Shaky debut where he did again display his almost strikers like knack of scoring. But he has the character of a leader and is very calm and assured and also a good passer of the ball. He and FF could well be the 2 & 6 that are needed.
But will Sabella as he should do with it being 2012 still experiment with the youth ? I hope so. Juan Manuel Martinez impressed again and why he was turned over in faviur of Barcos I have no idea. He may not be prolific but he makes things happen.
As for the fullbacks the younger ones have talent and pace as does the older Ansaldi. Something the flanks do need and need to in order to operate further forward and help open the pitch up for Messi and his friends.
In the coming months I hope to see Sabella bleed some of the younger ones into the team and overhaul that midfield gradually into a cohesive unit along with the defence.
Certain players also need to consider moves in January. FF, Damian Martinez, Musacchio and Tagliafico being some.
I'm not convinced Sabella is the right man for the job especially when the team needs to refind its identity more than tread water, but unlike the past few coaches he's definitely not the problem.
Well it's quite simple - Villarreal wanted him, Gonzalo actually wanted to stay but he's not in the teams long term plans so they took whatever money they could get from him. He was brutal in their relegation season, he seems to have found his footing in Fiorentina but he's still not what he could have been without injuries.
Also not to be a homer but Roncaglia might be worth a look if he keeps it up. Technically there's better options right now but he's the kind of enforcer Argentina could use in the backline and can also play RB though he won't add much offense.
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The white hat is off. When "Scandal" returns with the second half of its fifth season on Feb. 11, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is a whole new woman.
Following the midseason finale's abortion shocker, Olivia — who's no longer with Fitz — is all fired up and back in action.
In the first teaser, released Thursday by ABC, Olivia tells presidential hopeful Mellie (Bellamy Young) that she's not running her campaign.
On the romance side, Jake (Scott Foley) tells Olivia, "I don't like waiting" to which she replies, "Then don't," proceeding to jump into his arms for a full-blown make out session. Meanwhile, Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) is all alone in the Oval Office and when Abby (Darby Stanchfield) asks Olivia if she misses the president, she says no. However, by the end of the video, Liv phones into the White House.
Earlier this month at the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, Calif., Goldwyn spoke to Variety about Fitz and Olivia's estrangement, teasing that the duo will be in bad shape when the new episodes return — and Fitz is truly down in the dumps. He also noted that Fitz does not know about Olivia's abortion and if and when he finds out, he would be heartbroken. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 990 |
I hope he keeps working in the 'hot dogs' joke in all of the reviews this year!
uncle lies and aunt decit! that´s perfect!
I'd be funny if you ever managed to have a big family reunion in one episode where uncle Lies and aunt Deceit came over for a visit (together with their son Fraud) xD .
This came out sooner than I thought it would. So Uncle Lies and Aunt Decit is canon, right? Also, 2:02 to 2:11 made me LOL. When I grew up, the dial up computer was just starting to go out of style.
The one thing that I hate about pre-internet was having to use encyclopedias for school reports.
I wonder what ever happened to the stupid guy who was pitching the "Encyclopedia Brittanica".
Doug should do a "Where Are They Now" for this guy; like he did with Zack the Lego Maniac.
5:43 I remember in the final years of Blockbuster they would actually put the adult films right next to the other films.
I would see "Spider-Babe" right next to "Spider-Man".
I think I just gave Brad an upcoming review.
I didn't realize the Hot Dogs joke until now. Oh god!
Why wasn't this listed on the front page? It isn't even listed on your Facebook page! I only found this by looking at your other videos. Tamara is so funny. Of course you did an editorial on the Mask! Is this video that old? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 991 |
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We have hired Lorraine on several occasions and will continue to do so due her high level of knowledge in lighting design and the quality of works she produces.
Lorraine is well connected with the local authorities from her consultancy work on a number of high profile lighting design projects. These cover teams in Milton Keynes, Westminister, Basildon, and Gatwick airport. She has helped us to study the possibility of wireless equipment attachment on light columns in UK and Europe. We found her inputs are constructive and valuable especially when there are no national guideline given. We are very please with her feedback and research in this area.
Lorraine Calcott has worked with us, and our clients, on many lighting projects over several years and we have never failed to be impressed by her innovative approach and constructive advice when assisting clients to find the best solutions to their lighting needs. Lorraine's professional, enthusiastic and detailed knowledge of lighting design and engineering has seen a number of clients adopting solutions which not only met their lighting needs but also fulfilled their desire to reduce their carbon footprint and improve the working environment. I would have no hesitation in recommending Lorraine and it does Lighting Ltd to any of our clients.
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Lorraine is a highly creative designer who understands lighting effects for both interior and exterior applications and is able to bring her considerable knowledge and contacts list to each project she has worked on for me, resulting in unique solutions on a practical level .
Lorraine and her company "it does Lighting Ltd" have been working closely with us since the beginning of 2012 and this has proved of great benefit. Lorraine has contributed to the new Secured by Design lighting guidance for streets and outdoor spaces and helped to shape that document for imminent release. To help our officers implement the changes Lorraine recently presented a series of workshops at our National Training Event on the technical detail of the new British Standard for street lighting (BS5489:2013) which included guidance on the basics of lighting. We will continue to work with Lorraine and seek her assistance on future lighting guidance documents and look forward to a long a fruitful working relationship.
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Lorraine impressed me form the very first moment we worked together. I hired Lorraine for a specific role but it became clear that her skills far exceeded my expectations. Lorraine demonstrated that she was a fast learner and also possessed people skills that meant that she could slot into a future sales and management role with ease, which she accomplished. She exhibited Lighting design and engineering skills which, when mixed with her natural flair and drive, molded her into a successful and much valued player in the industry. It was my great pleasure to have presented together with her, and also to have worked together on lighting design projects and also we collaborated with on-site lighting installation commissioning. Imagine how proud I was as her manager to be in the audience and see her present at the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) Young Lighter of the year competition. I am deeply proud of the many achievements that Lorraine has made since she first joined my department, and she has not changed at all over the years. I have met her recently at lighting events like Light and build and it is clear to me that she has vast knowledge of the lighting industry challenges of today. I am also proud of the fact that we collaborated in later years with Social media, and she went on to become a lighting blogger with a much defined style which is exclusively Lorraine! She continues to have a rich mix of lighting design skill and in-depth knowledge, business acumen, digital marketing know-how and a delightful personality. Without any doubt, Lorraine has been the brightest success story of my Lighting design career to date, and she has become a key player in the lighting industry.
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I have worked with Lorraine over many years and I have nothing but praise for her as a person and as a business professional. She is highly talented, professional, motivate, articulate, driving, enthusiastic, dynamic business woman but above all a very nice person to know being very supportive and helpful in nature. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 992 |
Six years have passed since a well-known, promising amateur boxer was gunned down at a busy gas station on 15th Street. Questions about who killed Arhmad Vaughan and why have haunted family members since the April 13, 2008, shooting.
Six years have passed since a well-known, promising amateur boxer was gunned down at a busy gas station on 15th Street.
Questions about who killed Arhmad Vaughan and why have haunted family members since the April 13, 2008, shooting.
Vaughan was shot dead at what was a BP Station in west Tuscaloosa, where 15th Street becomes Stillman Boulevard.
Investigators say they may be closer to finding out who fired the bullet that killed the 27-year-old father of three. Several CrimeStoppers tips were recently provided to the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit after surveillance video of the shooting was shown during a WVUA series featuring cold cases, said unit commander Sgt. Dale Phillips.
"We implore anyone who knows anything about this case to please come forward so we can provide some answers for his family," he said.
Investigators believe that Vaughan was targeted. He was pumping gas just after 9 p.m. on a Sunday night when the gunman, wearing dark clothing, seemed to purposefully approach Vaughan before firing a gun and heading back toward 15th Street.
Vaughan took a few steps before he collapsed and died.
Moyacca Jones says that Vaughan left behind a large family that has never forgotten him. She's one of Vaughan's many cousins and other family members who live in the area.
Vaughan was the father of two daughters, now 16 and 13, and a son, now 11. His mother said they ask about him often and enjoy watching a video of him boxing. The oldest has been training and learning to box, she said.
Vaughan won the Alabama Golden Gloves championship in 2006 and was selected in 2008 for the Alabama team that competed in the Golden Gloves Southern Regional competition in Knoxville, Tenn.
After Vaughan died, his friends and sparring partners spoke to The Tuscaloosa News at Skyy Gym in Northport. They all said that Vaughan, nicknamed "Kool," was a positive influence who motivated the beginners and pushed everyone to do his best. Carol Vaughan said she's described that man to her grandchildren, so they'll know what kind of person he was.
Jones said an arrest would bring her some comfort, but she said she'll always mourn the loss of her cousin, who was more like a brother. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 993 |
Man shoots, kills 3 kids and himself
Photo: AP
Published Tuesday, August 14, 2018
A father of four young children who was arrested in March and May on domestic violence complaints and barred from owning a firearm went on a shooting spree outside his home this weekend, killing three of his children and then himself, authorities said.
The children's mother called 911 shortly after midnight on Sunday saying the man, Ricardo Garcia Lopez, was firing a gun, police in the Northern California city of Clearlake said Monday.
Responding officers found Lopez, a 39-year-old laborer, dead in his driveway with a firearm and apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, said police in Clearlake, which is about 110 miles (175 kilometers) north of San Francisco.
The couple's children were found inside an SUV parked outside the home, Clearlake Police Sgt. Tim Hobbs said in a statement. Three of the children, ages 9 months, 2 and 4, were dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
A 5-year-old who was also in the car had been shot in the chest but was alive and was hospitalized in stable condition, the statement said.
Police did not say what kind of gun Lopez used in the crime or how he obtained it. Clearlake police on Monday did not immediately release copies of the 911 call or identify the children's mother, who they say called 911 as she ran from the home seeking help.
But it is clear that they were familiar with Lopez.
Lopez was arrested March 10 on a felony charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and released on $10,000 bail, according to records from the Lake County Sheriff's office and the Lake County Superior Court.
He pleaded guilty to battery on a non-cohabitating partner and was sentenced to three years of probation and barred from owning or possessing a firearm, court clerk Luanne Hayes said. The court also issued a restraining order, Hayes said.
Just two months later, police arrested Lopez again on May 24 on a misdemeanor complaint of spousal battery and released him on $25,000 bail, Hayes said. Police issued a bench warrant for Lopez's arrest after he failed to show up for his scheduled arraignment in July. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 994 |
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Open Access Library Journal > Vol.3 No.9, September 2016
A Study of the Relationship among Performance Contracting, Measurement and Public Service Delivery in Kenya ()
Richard E. Ndubai, Isaac M. Mbeche, Ganesh P. Pokhariyal*
School of Business and School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102850 PDF HTML XML 946 Downloads 1,940 Views Citations
The aim of this study was to establish the factors influencing improvement in performance and delivery of public services. Thus, the paper studied the effect of performance contracting and measurement on public service delivery in Kenya. The public services considered in the study included ministries, state corporations, local authorities and tertiary institutions, with a total of 470 public agencies. The cross-sectional survey design was used. The study is based on performance evaluation results compiled over the period between 2004 and 2011. Using regression analysis, it was found that performance measurement was critical to improvement in public service delivery and explained 73.6 percent of improvement in service delivery, as evidenced by independent measurement of customer satisfaction with the services delivered by the public sector.
Performance Contracting, Performance Measurement, Performance Improvement, Service Delivery, Customer Satisfaction
Ndubai, R. , Mbeche, I. and Pokhariyal, G. (2016) A Study of the Relationship among Performance Contracting, Measurement and Public Service Delivery in Kenya. Open Access Library Journal, 3, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102850.
The key challenge that governments have been grappling within the pursuit of better service delivery over the past three decades has been the question of developing a flexible yet powerful model of performance management, measurement and improvement. Such a model needs to be grounded in theory, supported by research, and able to communicate complex relationships, while maintaining simplicity and should be sensitive to transactional relationships across performance levels (that is, individual, group, organizational and external impact).
Many government dispensations, in attempts to transform their public services, have developed systems that involve employees in improving organizational effectiveness by focusing their attention on achieving the organization's mission and strategic goals. These are essentially performance management systems designed for implementing strategy by communicating organizational goals and objectives, reinforcing individual accountability for meeting those goals, and tracking individual and organizational performance results. These are however, largely tools that address the immediate performance shortfalls, without necessarily meeting the criteria of models that are both theoretically sound and need attention of practitioners. There are different types of performance management and measurement frameworks, with variants of the core performance management tools, particularly measurement and evaluation. The bulk of these are however, designed for revenue and profit generating organizations. Few other systems place greater emphasis on the strategic management processes with little regard for measurement and evaluation.
The Balanced Score Card and the Performance Contract are the most commonly known and used: the former is largely in the corporate sector and the latter mainly in the public sector. The Performance Contract is a management control system tool that defines the strategic direction, identifies organizational goals, decomposes strategic objectives into measurable performance indicators as well as targets and defines objective methodologies for measuring progress towards achievement of the targets. It therefore, encapsulates the full range of the key attributes of managing, measuring and improving performance. The objective of performance contracting is to improve enterprise performance towards its goals, and aims to bring private enterprise conditions into public enterprises and to encourage initiative, innovation and the spirit of entrepreneurship for the purpose of achieving targeted results effectively and efficiently. Unlike privatization, where public assets are disposed off, the policy seeks to privatize the public sector style of management. It is, in essence, an attempt to move the public sector style of management away from "control by procedures"' to "control by results" (Trivedi, 1994) [1] . The system addresses three of the key problems that public enterprises faces, they are: ill-defined and un-reconciled goals, political and bureaucratic interventions in operational decision-making and management rewards which are fixed irrespective of effort or results (Bennet, 1990) [2] . The objective of this research was to study the factors influencing improvement in the performance and service delivery in Kenyan public services, with a hypothesis to be tested.
2. Literature Review
Performance measurement is the most important element in any performance management, measurement and improvement system, including performance contracting. In explaining the distinction between performance management and performance measurement (Nathan, 2009) [3] , stated that the utility of performance management practices is predicated on sound performance measurement system and that the latter should be seen as a prerequisite for effective management. Geniat and Libert (2002) [4] opined, fairly correctly, that "without the capacity to measure, we would be uncertain, literally, as to where we stood and where we are going. We would not know whether we are rich or poor, hot or cold, old or young. The very word 'measure' pervades all fields and you can't make decisions, connections, money, or music without true measurements". To a fairly significant extent, the way we measure success in turn determines the success we attain. Activities, events and programs, which cannot be measured cannot also be easily replicated, managed, or even appreciated. According to Garvin (1993) [5] , if something cannot be measured, it cannot be managed. Lebas (1995) [6] goes to the extreme of negating the existence of management without measurement. Performance measurement is a key component of performance management systems and is employed primarily to improve organizational performance and service delivery.
It has been argued that there is a distinct linkage between organizational performance and excellence, in public service delivery. In exploring deliverables as a concept, Langdon (2000) [7] described outputs as synonymous with deliverables of performance. Furthermore, he contended that an output is the reason for the existence of a business or organization. He further stated that output has a consequence, such that the result of the output being interpreted as that which is delivered. He explained that to produce output and consequence there is need for reason and resources, called inputs such as materials, ideas, knowledge and equipment. First, a reason is needed for doing the performance, which comes in the form of a task of some kind. For example, the business unit identifies a customer need, then an order initiates a core process to deliver what the customer wants and finally a work group receives its assignment to meet this need. A manager asks individuals to do their part to produce the output. A service delivered is an outcome resulting from actions directed at making available tangible products for disposal purposes.
Hudson (2006) [8] contends that public services are collectively rendered through government machinery commonly known as departments. Collective units (comprised of employees) within this machinery have to be managed effectively, efficiently and economically. It is on this basis that the collective units are expected to perform at a particular level to measure the type of service delivered against the recipients' expectations. The level of performance by collective units will ultimately represent the level of service delivery. This logic formed the foundation of this study, that excellence in service delivery is predicated on and influenced by improvement in operational performance, while the latter is predicated on measurement as a prerequisite.
Performance Contracting in Kenya
Performance contracting was introduced in Kenya in 2004 as a set of tools for managing, measuring and improving the performance of the public service. As has been the case in many countries, the principal objective was to create competitive advantage for the country by addressing the problems of inefficiencies in the exploitation and use of public resources, and an unresponsive service delivery culture. This was to change remarkably when performance contracting became operational by, in addition, re-focusing public service management from inputs, processes, procedures, and activities, to results (outputs, outcomes and impacts). As a result the performance of public sector institutions, the economy improved rapidly with the economic growth rate rising from 0.4 percent in 2002 to of 7.1 percent in 2007.
Performance contracting in Kenya was founded on five year institutional strategic plans, which were, in turn, linked to the national vision and was built around clear performance criteria, indicators and targets. This included an elaborate measurement and evaluation system which compares achievement on freely negotiated performance targets with actual achievement. The subsequent evaluation examined the various factors affecting performance. Although performance contracting was introduced in the country in 2004, it was not until the financial year 2005/06 that citizens' service charters, and the concomitant requirement for service-oriented public agencies to carry out annual customer satisfaction surveys, thereby paving the way for measurement of various aspects of service delivery that yield to customer satisfaction, began to take root. Accordingly, ministries, state corporations, and local authorities that were on performance contract began to incorporate "customer satisfaction" as a key performance indicator, under the "service delivery" criterion in their performance contracts in the financial year 2006/07. It was therefore, not until 2006/07 that measurement and evaluation incorporating "customer satisfaction" was carried out. Tertiary institutions came on board in 2007/08.
Improvement in performance, impelled to a significant extent by measurement, informs the quality, accessibility, affordability and speed of public services. Performance improvement is engendered when operations are managed under a performance management, measurement and improvement regime that has an elaborate measurement system because, as Osborne and Gaebler (1992) [9] state, "what gets measured gets done". Brown et al. (2001) [10] state that "people make decisions and do their work at least partly based on how they will be evaluated. As a result, they tend to improve in performance aspects that will be measured and rewarded, rather than in un-measured aspects, even if these do not necessarily support organizational goals and customer satisfaction". Many governments have yet to recognize the power of measurement in driving performance improvement. Until 2004, the public sector in Kenya was not an exception. The closest it came to measurement was the performance appraisal system that focused on largely subjective attributes to measure the performance of individual employees. Improvement in organizational performance and service delivery define the framework that drives creation of competitive advantage for countries. Competitive advantage driven by public sector efficiency and effectiveness and customer centric approach to public sector governance has been to address the missing link that defines the difference in economic and social advancement between virtually resource-deficit countries and resource-abundant nations, the latter mainly in the developing world. Governments have critical roles to play in the creation of competitive advantage for respective countries. According to Porter (1990) [11] , this role entails acting as a catalyst and challenger to encourage and even push companies to raise their aspirations and move to higher levels of competitive performance, stimulating early demand for advanced products, focusing on specialized factor creation, and stimulating corporate rivalry by limiting direct cooperation and enforcing anti-trust regulations. Effective execution of the role requires an efficient and effective public service, the performance of which forms the basis for measurement and improvement. This then, is about performance improvement driven by an empowered and efficient public service. This study was therefore, prompted by the need to establish the influence performance contracting, anchored on performance measurement would have on improvement of performance and delivery of public services. However, the performance of both public and private sector, to a large extent, depends on the political stability prevailing in the country, as was reported in the case of Lesotho (Manchafalo, 2014 [12] ). On the other hand, economic uncertainty, rapidly changing social and cultural value systems and advancements in technology, in general, influence the performance of the organizations (Farrel & Goodman, 2013) [13] .
This study employed a cross-sectional design whereby the research problem was clearly identified, previous published literature reviewed and synthesized, and the hypotheses relating to the research questions specified. The hypothesis that formed the basis of the study was that, there is no significant relationship between performance contracting and measurement and public service delivery in Kenya.
The Kenyan Constitution that was promulgated in August 2010 significantly altered the landscape of the structure of government agencies. Requirements in the Constitution precipitated wide ranging restructuring of the mainstream civil service resulting in the merger of ministerial functions, thereby reducing the number of ministries and accounting departments from 46 to 18, the virtual abolition of local authorities and the subsequent emergence of County Governments. The data available for the study were therefore in regard only to agencies that existed in the old, constitutional structure. The study relied on secondary data which was already available. In 2010/11, which was the terminal year for data collection and analysis in this paper, the number of public agencies on performance contract was 470, made up of 46 ministries and accounting departments, 178 state corporations, 175 local authorities and 71 tertiary institutions. The distribution is shown in the table below. The focus of the study was the entire population of 470 public agencies. Further, the various categories of public agencies had, by 2010/11, been on performance contract for differing periods; these are 6 years for both ministries and state corporations, 5 years for local authorities and 4 years for tertiary institutions. The data from agencies was organized, summarized and collated in the manner that linked with research question and subsequently analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
4. Data Analysis and Results
The study focused on the five years of 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11, during which period customer satisfaction in the majority of the above categories of public agencies was measured. The distribution of the various categories of institutions is shown in Table 1.
The performance evaluation methodology in Kenya graded excellence on a composite-scoring scale ranging from 1 to 5 with 1 denoting the upper limit of "excellent" achievement and 5 representing the lowest limit of "poor" achievement. The composite scores were inverted, in order to give a rising visual effect to positive achievement and a declining visual effect to poor achievement. Further, the composite scores in each of the four categories of public agencies were averaged for each year to contain the data within manageable parameters.
The analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 21. Descriptive statistics was carried out to summarize the data and to bring out variability and dispersion using the mean, the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation. Correlation coefficients were computed to establish the relationship between the study variables and the extent to which the dependent variable could be predicted from the independent variable, and to derive the regression equation. Linear regression analysis was used to examine the models overall and individual statistical significance by using F-value and t-value, respectively. A model equation was derived for the hypothesis using variables that were significant. Table 2 shows the descriptive statistics of the study's variables.
As indicated in the table, the public sector in Kenya had an average customer satisfaction index of 0.27779, implying that nearly 72 percent of customers were dissatisfied
Table 1. Distribution of public agencies on performance contract in 2011.
Source: Organization of government; Office of the president.
Table 2. Descriptive statistics of the study's variables.
with the public sector service delivery. Among other variables pitted against customer satisfaction, performance measurement had the highest dispersion (SD = 0.27255) across the public sector made up of ministries, state corporations, local authorities and tertiary institutions. The coefficient of variation was computed to show the variability in the data of the study parameters. Customer satisfaction shows the greatest variability 44.52%, followed by performance measurement 10.27%.
The regression analysis further provided an estimate equation to predict the magnitude of the dependent variable (customer satisfaction) and give values for the predictor variables.
In addition, t-test and p-values were used to determine individual significance of the results of the analysis. Assessment of the overall robustness and significance of the regression models was done using the F-test and p-values. Pearson correlation coefficient, R2, beta coefficients, and p values were computed.
In order to establish the relationship between performance contracting and measurement and service by public agencies, regression and correlation analysis were used to establish the influence that performance contracting and measurement had on customer satisfaction. A correlation analysis of the study variables (Table 3) indicated that performance measurement was highly correlated with customer satisfaction (R = 0.858) and the relationship was significant at 99 percent confidence level. This high relationship brings out the importance of having a performance measurement system to establish performance levels and to monitor how customers are served in the public sector.
4.1. Performance Measurement and Customer Satisfaction
The critical essence of the performance contracting system is the capacity to measure performance. The results of the analysis carried out to establish the relationship between performance measurement and customer satisfaction are shown in Table 4. The results show that performance measurement had a strong positive relationship (R = 0.858) with customer satisfaction. Performance measurement explained 73.6 percent
Table 3. Correlation analysis of the study variables.
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Table 4. Relationship between performance measurement and customer satisfaction.
a. Predictors: (constant), performance measurement.
b. Predictors: (constant), performance measurement.
(R2 = 0.736) of customer satisfaction levels with the remaining 26.4 percent accounted for by other factors. The F-value for the model was 36.176 and the derived p-value was 0.000. Since the derived p-value of 0.000 was less than 0.05, with a table value of 2.145 as compared to a calculated value of 6.015, the hypothesis was rejected. Hence, performance measurement had a significant relationship with customer satisfaction. The performance measurement variable had a t-value of 6.015 and was significant.
The study demonstrated the power of performance measurement in impelling performance improvement, and further that performance improvement leads to improvement in service delivery denominated in the changing levels of customer satisfaction.
A model equation of the relationship is described as follows:
This shows that a unit change in performance improvement, impelled by performance measurement, will result in customer satisfaction changing by a factor of 0.389. In the absence of performance improvement, a constant customer satisfaction of negative 0.775 would be realized.
The key finding then was that performance measurement is critical to improvement in public service delivery, and accounts for or explains 73.6 percent of improvement in service delivery, with a unit change in measurement of performance resulting in a change of 0.389 in customer satisfaction.
4.2. Discussion
Performance contracting as practiced and implemented in the public service in Kenya is essentially a performance management, measurement and improvement system. The essence of the system is in ensuring the measurement and improvement of the performance of all key organizational factors by focusing on multiple management perspectives, thereby bringing out the assertion by Hayes and Clark (1986) [14] , that "in reality, the productivity a firm achieves is a function of how efficiently it uses all its inputs― labor, capital, technology and energy―to produce outputs". Further, by establishing that performance measurement is critical to improvement in public service delivery, the findings of this study tend to be consistent with assertions made by other authors on performance management. Osborne and Gaebler (1992) [9] contend that what gets measured gets done, while Brown et al. (2001) [10] state that people make decisions and do their work at least partly based on how they will be evaluated. As a result, they tend to improve in performance aspects that will be measured and rewarded, rather than in un-measured aspects, even if these do not necessarily support organizational goals and customer satisfaction.
In 1997, 2006, 2010 and 2012 four separate studies related to the subject of our study were conducted in different countries. Anderson et al. (1997) [15] studied customer satisfaction, productivity and profitability in respect to both goods and services, using the Swedish Customer Satisfaction Barometer (SCSB) and found that there was positive correlation between the undertaken variables. These findings match with our findings. Hudson (2006) [8] explored whether performance management (which encompasses measurement) is a precondition for organizational performance and improvement in public service delivery in South Africa. The study showed no significant correlation between the parameters and was therefore in contradiction with our study. Hu and Jen (2010) [16] conducted a study to explore the antecedents of customer satisfaction and loyalty for the freight shipping industry in Taiwan, from the viewpoint of business customers. The study established that relational performance and service quality are significant predictors of satisfaction and also that relational performance, established through measurement, is an antecedent of service quality and satisfaction. This is largely consistent with the findings of our study. Adams, et al. (2012) [17] investigated the linkages between customer service, customer satisfaction, and firm performance in the airline industry in the USA. The investigation showed a positive relationship among the variables and, significantly, that customer satisfaction increases with service performance, both established through measurement. It was reported from Lesotho (Manchafalo, 2014 [12] ) that the tourism industry recorded drastic decline in the inflow of the tourists as well decreased spending by corporate and individual customers because of political instability in the Kingdom of Lesotho Further businesses reported downturn in revenues for lodging, food, events and other hospitality services.
Braverman & Kuntz (2012) [18] observed that innovative governments are making it easier for citizens to access public services. In addition, the most forward-thinking governments are starting to master the shift from simply administering services, to regularly engaging and empowering citizens, involving them in the design and, in some cases, the delivery of the services. This shift is not just about increasing choice and well being; it is also about boosting government productivity, with the help of technology and the use of open data.
Farrell & Goodman (2013) [13] explored the daunting challenges governments are facing today. It observed that in a world characterized by macroeconomic uncertainty, rapid social change and technological innovation, citizens' expectations of what government ought to deliver are rising. On the other hand, governments are hampered by unsustainable debt burdens and shrinking budgets. For example, by 2013, the ratio of general government debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for member states of the OECD exceeded 100 percent (OECD Economic Outlook No. 93, June 2013). Meanwhile, public trust in government is eroding and against this backdrop, not only must governments do more with less, they must do so in highly visible ways, if they are to regain the faith of their constituents. Guerra-López & Hutchinson (2013) [19] noted that performance contracting system is fairly sensitive to transactional relationships across performance levels (that is, individual, group, organizational, and external impact) and contexts. These findings tend to agree with our study.
The constituency most affected by the performance of the government is essentially the citizen, who is also the tax payer. When a government is able to identify and manage the factors that influence and affect service delivery, it is better able to relate with the citizen, and to improve customer satisfaction with public services. Moreover, identifying the key factors affecting performance helps in not only focusing of public resources in the right areas, but also refocusing of managerial effort to address customer-centric issues. The findings of the study therefore point to the need for policy makers to recognize the power of performance measurement in impelling performance improvement, as the latter affects the delivery of public services, and to ensure that performance management practices in the public service are grounded on sound performance measurement systems. This study was done, for the old structure of Kenyan government. Therefore, in future, such study can be conducted with the new structure having county governments.
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German Christian Extremists in Wisconsin, USA Harass Anyone Affiliated With Businessman From Bharat
The harassment and intimidation by German Lutheran extremists of anyone in Shawano, Wisconsin, who is involved with Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology, or SIST, continues. Another example played out on Wednesday night, September 20, 2017, at approximately 10:30 pm.
Four SIST personnel had locked up their stores for the night and were headed home when they were pulled over by Shawano Police Officer, Heidi Cartwright. In an intimidating manner, Cartwright shined her light in everyone's faces and demanded the driver's license. When the driver handed it over, Cartwright returned to her car for a few minutes. When she came back, she informed everyone in the car that she had pulled them over because their vehicle looked suspicious.
The driver of the vehicle says that she has been driving the same route at the same time every night for years. This particular trip was nothing new.
Heidi Cartwright
In addition, the driver, a woman in her 70s, has lived in the Shawano area for over forty years. Her children were born and raised in Shawano, they went to the Shawano schools, and some of them still live in the Shawano area. Shawano is a small town of only 9,000 people.
It is impossible for Cartwright to say she did not know who she was pulling over. Her claim that the woman's vehicle was suspicious is completely unfounded, and furthermore, a perfect example of the way Shawano police treat anyone who works with, or sympathizes with SIST's founder, an immigrant businessman from Bharat.
The Shawano city officials, including members of the police department, have been warring against SIST's Bharatiya founder for many years.
There is a common tie to all of the people who constantly harass, intimidate, and in every other way, seek to make life difficult for anyone associated with SIST.
What is that tie?
They are all Germans. Most of them are Lutherans, and a few are Catholics. They are all bonded together through their common German Lutheran and Catholic extremist ideology. Anyone who does not look like them or go to their churches is ostracized and treated as a second-class citizen.
The only reason Cartwright targeted SIST's personnel is because SIST's founder is from Bharat, and he is not Christian.
St. James Lutheran Church in Shawano, Wisconsin
Heidi Cartwright is German. She attends St John's Lutheran Church in Shawano. As a result, she fully adheres to Martin Luther's barbaric ideology. When she saw whose vehicle it was, she remembered Martin Luther's words: "I advise that safe conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside…Let them stay at home.." Martin Luther also advised that Germans should "eject [The Jews] forever from this country."
Shawano Police officer, Heidi Cartwright, wholeheartedly follows her forefather's advice. In her German Lutheran extremist mind, she believes that anyone who isn't a German Lutheran or Catholic should never have safe passage, and should, in fact, be ejected from the country. That is the only reason she pulled them over to harass them.
This is not the first time Cartwright and other Shawano officers have been involved in the war against SIST by harassing and attempting to intimidate SIST personnel.
On January 28, 2008, Officer Heidi Thaves was involved with two other officers, Thornborrow and Stange, in harassing guests who stayed at an SIST-owned motel in Shawano. The three officers barged into the motel in the middle of the night like a gang of NAZI thugs claiming that there had been a 9-1-1 call made from the motel, and that children had been screaming in the background. Records show that no 9-1-1 phone call was ever placed from the motel that night. None of the guests who stayed that night had children. Despite that, the three officers belligerently stormed through the building banging on doors and disturbing all of the guests.
On September 10th, 2012, Thaves was involved in covering up for counterfeiters who tried to pass off fake $10 bills at SIST-owned People's Express South Station in Shawano.
Two days later, on September 12, 2012, a woman named Debra Brooks intentionally rammed her motorized wheelchair into a glass door at SIST-owned Spirit of the Northwoods in Shawano. She fractured the glass and damaged the door frame. Thaves was the responding officer to the scene of the crime. She never investigated the incident, and no charges were ever pressed against the criminal perpetrator.
Since 2008, there has been a constant stream of incidents involving, not only Thaves and Cartwright, but all other Shawano police officers harassing and trying to intimidate SIST personel. In August, 2008, SIST's CEO discovered that people were robbing equipment and supplies from SIST-owned Ponderosa. Instead of arresting the criminal perpetrators, Shawano officer Ryan Atkinson alleged that the CEO was "loitering" on her own property and kidnapped her. He brutally dislocated her shoulders, fractured her wrists, and then denied her medical attention.
The next day, all of Shawano's police officers, under guidance of then Shawano mayor, Lorna Marquardt, stood as armed guards against SIST personnel as people stripped the restaurant of everything of value and completely destroyed the building.
Marquardt, who has been a key figure behind orchestrating the destruction of SIST property, and the harassment and intimidation of SIST personnel since taking office in 2002, is a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
In 2016, Marquardt passed her torch to current mayor, Jeanne Cronce, who is a member of St. James Lutheran Church, the same church Cartwright attends. Cronce has carried on Marquardt's war against SIST and its Bharatiya founder.
Lorna Marquardt
Before Marquardt's retirement, she brought in Fond Du Lac native, Eddie Sheppard, to help the city rob SIST of its properties under the color of law by using Wisconsin's eminent domain and RDA laws. Since that time, they have upped the ante in their financial attacks. They have already been successful in razing the Ponderosa in order to cover up the evidence of their previous crimes. Now they are targeting another SIST-owned building located at 214 South Main in Shawano with the intent to steal it for themselves.
At that property, Marquardt sent someone to break into the building and do structural damage to the property. Then Cronce, after taking office, sent a building inspector to inspect the building, knowing full well that it had been damaged. Then Sheppard, a city administrator in charge of working with the RDA, demanded SIST repair the building, gave them a permit to do the repairs, then withdrew the permit, then demanded SIST hand over financial documents in order to get the permit back, and then told the public that SIST was refusing to repair the building. It is now becoming very apparent that from the beginning, Marquardt, Cronce, and Sheppard never had any intention of ever allowing SIST to do anything with the building. They are now trying to steal the property from SIST for pennies by forcing SIST to sell it to the city.
These are the dirty games that adherents to Martin Luther's theology play. Atkinson, Cartwright, Thaves, Marquardt, Cronce, and Sheppard all play their roles in maintaining their German Lutheran chokehold on the Shawano community. Like a well-oiled machine, they march forward to their ultimate goal of crushing all resistance to their oppressive ways. Simply because the founder of SIST is from Bharat and not a Christian, they believe that he has no right to exist and operate businesses in their community. Meanwhile, these same vicious criminals send missionaries to Bharat pretending friendship.
People in Bharat need to pay attention to what is happening here in the American heartland. These same Lutherans and Catholics of German heritage are entering Bharat under the guise of humanitarianism by setting up hospitals, establishing schools, and other supposed humanitarian "good deeds."
Harvesting souls in Bharat
THIS IS A WARNING!
Under the guise of humanitarian aid, they are plotting to rob Bharat of its most precious resources including its young men and women, children, natural resources, and all other forms of wealth. Just like they did to the Indigenous people in Wisconsin, the missionaries are planning to destroy Bharat in every way possible.
Bharatiya citizens need to realize that these same German Lutherans and Catholics slaughtered millions of Jews in Germany; most say six million Jews died, but a few investigators say the number was more likely 28 million. These same extremist Christians came to the Americas, thinking it was Bharat, and slaughtered millions of Native Americans. Most say about 20 million people died, but a few investigative historians say the number was more likely 150 million victims.
In the same way that the British went to Bharat under the guise of friendship and then took over by force once they had their systems in place, so are the Christian missionaries plotting against Bharat. Their motives are sinister, while their actions are currently sugar-coated. Bharat needs to wake up and realize they are under attack. The same way these vicious German Lutheran and Catholic thugs are attacking the Bharatiya founder of SIST, they plan to attack Bharat. The writing is on the wall. It is just a matter of time.
-By Chanda Sindhi
(This article first appeared at inapress.org and is being reproduced with the consent of the author)
"सेवा भारती" की अम्बुलेंस फिल्म में दिखाने पर केरल में उन्निमुकुंदम की फिल्म की आलोचना?
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Alexandre François Joseph de Boubers-Mazingan, né le à Lihons (Somme), mort le à Paris, est un général français de la révolution et de l'Empire.
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Il sert en 1757 et 1758 à bord de la frégate corsaire « le maréchal de Belle-Ile » que commandait le brave Thurot, il n'avait alors que 13 ans et n'en signala pas moins son courage dans plusieurs combats. Le , il rejoint l'école d'artillerie de La Fère et il est reçu élève en février 1763. En janvier 1775, il fait partie, en tant que capitaine, des troupes envoyées à la Guadeloupe il reste deux ans sur cette ile. Il est fait chevalier de Saint-Louis le .
En août 1789, il se trouve à Auxonne et il est chargé avec un détachement de 50 hommes de faire rentrer dans le rang les canonniers du Régiment d'artillerie qui réclament une masse déposée chez le colonel mais il ne peut venir à bout de sa mission et devant la résistance des canonniers il doit se réfugier dans sa maison n'en sortant que le soir pour rejoindre Dijon. En 1791, il rejoint ses frères d'armes à Rocroy. Il est nommé lieutenant colonel le . Après avoir servi dans l'armée commander par le général La Fayette, il passe sous les ordres de Dumourier et se distingue à la bataille de Jemmapes le , aux combats en avant de Liège, aux bombardements de Maëstricht et à la bataille de Nerwinde.
Après la trahison de Dumourier, il empêche la livraison à l'ennemi du parc d'artillerie en faisant prendre aux canons et caissons la direction de Valenciennes. Il est nommé colonel le et fait en cette qualité les campagnes de l'an II et de l'an III aux armées du Nord et des Ardennes. Pour le récompenser des services qu'il rend dans différents combats et notamment à la bataille de Fleurus, il est promu général de brigade le .
Il est admis à la retraite le 29 brumaire an V () et se retire dans son département. En l'an VIII, il est nommé commandant d'armes dans la division militaire par le premier consul. Il obtient sa solde de retraite en mars 1804 et il est fait officier de la Légion d'honneur le 25 prairial an XII ().
Il meurt le , à Paris.
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