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The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve is proud to present its exhibition Paul-Henri Bourguignon: Citizen of the World, a showing of the globally-minded works of world renowned modernist and art historical magnate, Paul-Henri Bourguignon.
With rich golden hues, bold plains and unapologetic brush strokes, Bourguignon opens a window to a world where all places, no matter how distant, seem magically familiar and all faces glow with the nobility of the human spirit. A long-time resident of Columbus, Paul-Henri chose Ohio as the location from which to transmit his borderless ideals of compassion and identification for nearly 40 years. Far from succumbing to the limitations of his land-locked address, Bourguignon used his art as a vehicle for cultural exchange. His acrylic paintings and gouaches were not mere exercises in color and form; they allowed the extension of his physical reach into people and locations unknown, known or merely imagined.
This sense of unity, however, did not spring from an unchallenged life. Born in Belgium in 1906, as a young man Bourguignon was subject to all brutalities and horrors World War II Europe had to offer. In 1940, Paul-Henri enlisted in the Belgium army and was sent North to France, only to be cut off by the German advance and forced back to Brussels to labor under the cruel hand of Nazi occupation. After the country's liberation by Allied forces, the artist eagerly returned to his pre-war profession of journalist, covering the Battle of the Bulge and witnessing the pivotal and trying moments that marked the end of the war.
Despite experiencing first-hand the cruel realities of the human condition, Bourguignon did not withdraw from the spiritual light that he found inherent in mankind. He chose instead to create and exalt a universal voice that spoke to all people, regardless of race, faith or country of origin. This unique exhibition features a diverse sampling of the artist's favorite subject matter. Landscapes depicting vivid, sunbaked shores and portraits that are more composites of human traits than individual likenesses stand boldly next to more abstract renderings of the rhythm and flow of crowds, events and personal meetings.
These images, many of which are from the Archive's own collection, document the artist's own travels to such far-flung places as Haiti and Peru. Even after he and his wife Erika settled in Columbus (Erika taught as Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University for over three decades), Bourguignon refused to tie his identity to a single land or cultural perspective. He instead chose always to be a citizen of the world, forever turning elsewhere to see the truths in us all. As the artist put it in his own words, "Why not go elsewhere? Oh yes, elsewhere. That's the right place for me. Where else could I nurture my dreams?"
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Żakowola Poprzeczna – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie radzyńskim, w gminie Kąkolewnica.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa bialskopodlaskiego.

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Here's wishing you all a safe, sane, happy, relaxing, but most of all, FREE Fourth of July.
I've just started listening to the audible.com book of Nigel Cliff's The Shakespeare Riots, a non-fiction piece on the Astor Place Riot, a New York street brawl that had its beginnings in a rivalry between two Shakespearean actors, one American, the other English.
It's a fascinating book, and it discusses the large and special role Shakespeare played in the lives of many Americans in the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries. Shakespeare was wildly popular in the new country and it was felt that his works were uniquely American in their messaging and morality.
So, on Independence Day, be a patriot, and read a little Shakespeare!
… or The Shakespeare Riots, available on both amazon and audible.


This lovely 'Owl' ink illustration would make a fine contribution to any art collection. Lovers of Owls, and birds in general will be most pleased with this original illustration. The passionate, vibrant lines of this piece will be appreciated by any avid art collector.
This unique ink drawing would be a fine investment for any owl or bird lover.
Art dimensions: 14cm x 10cm.


The origins of the first mentor can be traced back to the Greek mythology chronicled in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey". Odysseus's close aide Mentor was entrusted with the responsibility of looking after his son Telemachus, as Odysseus forayed into the Trojan War. The modern use of the term mentor derives its meaning from the role of Mentor in Telemachus' life, as a trusted adviser who guides and imparts scholarly wisdom to an inexperienced individual.
A modern day mentor is a professional, equipped with the indispensable skills that make him/her the perfect choice for the mentoring process in an organization. The mentoring process requires the mentor to assume the role of a confidant and a counsel with whom the mentee can discuss work-related issues and career development options. A brief look into the checklist of some highly sought after traits that make for an ideal mentor will be more enlightening.
A mentor must be mentally prepared to assume the role of a guide who is to motivate and nurture an employee's growth and development in an organization. A general trust building routine has a mentor taking personal interest in the mentee's working style, immediate work goals and professional aspirations. A routine evaluation along with a feedback mechanism and an easily accessible communication channel in the organization helps in measuring the effectiveness of the mentoring relationship.
A mentor must demonstrate exceptional leadership skills and moral conduct that help a mentee effortlessly model his/her approach. A mentor should embody characteristics like loyalty, respect, courage, commitment and professional integrity. A mentor should be consciously aware of his/her conduct in the organization as it is a source of confidence for newcomers to affiliate as their mentee.
Networking skills are the trademark of a good mentor and are equally vital for long term career enhancing benefits for the mentee. A mentor plays the role of a sponsor who advocates on behalf of the mentee and connects him/her to the professionals in the network.
A good mentor should offer constructive feedback, pointing out areas that can be improved upon to ensure that the mentee does not stray below a particular level of performance. A mentee's state of mind reflects in his/her level of engagement in the work, which affects the performance of the organization altogether. A mentee may need the mentor's counsel and validation during professionally turbulent times to gain a better perspective of their goals and the required level of commitment.
A mentor keeps a watchful eye on the immediate working environment of the mentee, looking out for trouble in the form a threatening organizational atmosphere, conflicting situations or difficult assignments. Lessons in incorporating diplomacy, a professional corporate demeanor and conflict management skills can be a helpful addition to developing a mentee's knowledge base.
At the end of the day a mentor-mentee association is symbiotic in nature wherein the mentee benefits from the shared experiences and the wealth of organizational knowledge while a mentor gets to leave an imprint on the mentee's work life.


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Augment on-premises storage infrastructure. Storage Gateway lets you tier data by asynchronously moving cold and hot data to the cloud. Seamlessly leverage the price-performance advantage of the highly durable and secure Oracle Object and Archive Storage.
Files are written to Object Storage in their original format, without modification or translation. Access your files using Storage Gateway, directly from the Object Storage bucket, or using Oracle APIs, SDKs, HDFS connector, the CLI and Console, and other third-party tools. A refresh operation in Storage Gateway lets you ingest data that was added or modified directly in the Object Storage bucket by other applications.
Consolidate branch office data in the Oracle Cloud and avoid the errors and costs of forecasting and purchasing storage infrastructure separately for every branch office.
Use any supported Object Storage tool, including CLI, SDK, the CLI or Console, or third-party tools and freeware like Cyberduck or CloudBerry to manage data in the cloud.
Achieve near local NAS performance by leveraging read/write caching.
Customize the cache to support your custom workloads.
You can pin frequently accessed data to the Storage Gateway cache for quick access and superior performance.
When you write a file to Storage Gateway, the file is initially stored in cache and then asynchronously uploaded to Object Storage. Storage Gateway automatically removes files from cache that have been uploaded to the cloud and that have not been explicitly pinned to cache. Cache reclamation optimizes Storage Gateway performance.
By default, all data uploaded to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from Storage Gateway is encrypted at rest, using the AES 256 encryption algorithm.
Data is uploaded and downloaded from the cloud over secure SSL endpoints using the HTTPS protocol.
Access to data in the cloud is managed using tight integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management.
Set up and manage Storage Gateway with an intuitive user interface. Storage Gateway exposes an NFS mount point that can be mounted to any host that supports an NFSv4 client. Storage Gateway mount point maps to an Object Storage bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Storage Gateway then replicates data changes to the connected Object Storage bucket.
Monitor data upload to the cloud from the Storage Gateway management console.
Monitor the overall system health status from the Storage Gateway management console.
Use the Storage Gateway cloud sync utility to transfer and synchronize your data between on-premises NAS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage.
Quick recovery from crashes by spawning off a new instance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Gateway minimizes data loss.
Ongoing end-to-end checksum verification ensures data integrity.
Data in the cloud is actively monitored for degradation or loss of durability and self-healed if needed.
Metadata is uploaded continuously along with the data to help ensure data availability.
Learn more about installing and operating Oracle Storage Gateway.
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Ms. Dominguez has substantial experience in all aspects of family law matters, such as child custody and visitation, domestic violence issues, property division, characterization, allocation, and valuation; reimbursement claims; spousal support; child support; breaches of fiduciary duty; pre-nuptial agreement disputes and post-judgment matters. Ms. Dominguez values assisting her clients to resolve their issues and understands the concerns that may arise when dealing with the legal system in the area of family law. It is important to her that her clients are provided with the necessary information and advice in order to successfully resolve their family law matter.
Ms. Dominguez received her undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University in 2000 where she double majored in political science and Spanish. She received her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in May of 2003 and was admitted to the California State Bar in December of 2003. While attending law school, Ms. Dominguez gained clinical experience working as a law clerk for the East Bay Municipal Utility District and volunteering at the Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center. She also participated as a competitor in Honors Moot Court.
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Carsburg Earthmoving provides earthmovers hire in Brisbane. We have an extensive range of quality machinery and skilled operators to ensure the success of your project. Contact us to find out more about our professional services.
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At Carsburg Earthmoving we have an extensive range of construction vehicles that are available for hire. If you are looking for earthmovers hire in Brisbane, then you have some to the right place.
Having quality machinery is key to the success of your construction project. However, the best equipment in the world is useless without skilled operators. That's why our earthmovers hire in Brisbane also includes the services of our skilled operators.
Our skilled team is adept at using earthmoving equipment properly. We always adhere to the strictest safety standards to ensure safety is maintained at the construction site. What's more, our machine operators are extremely experienced in what they do. This will ensure the smooth running of the earthmoving stage of your construction project.
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"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."
He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants.
The angel Moroni allegedly visited Joseph once a year for five years until 1827, when Joseph was allowed to obtain the gold plates to translation them.
With the help of scribes he began translating the plates.
The language on the plates is called reformed Egyptian: which remains unknown today.
Joseph Smith gave Martin Harris (a friend interested in financing the translation) a paper of characters allegedly copied from the gold plates, so that Harris could get an independent opinion of them. Harris then visited Dr. Charles Anthon.
Martin Harris took home the first 116 pages of Joseph's translation to show to his wife, as she was skeptical of the project and concerned that Harris was being financially gullible. The manuscript came up missing.
Unfortunately we are unable to view the gold plates today, as according to Joseph, the angel Moroni took them back after Joseph had completed his translation. Joseph enlisted witnesses to provide testimony that they saw the gold plates.


"Luke Skyywalker Goes to the Supreme Court" is an animated short that tells the story of 2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell and his battle for free speech. In 1994 Campbell went to the a Supreme Court and battled for the right to release musical parodies. The outcome of his case set the precedent for the legality of parodies in entertainment.


Mobile trailer is set up in the Vendor parking lot between the Heppner Post Office and Advantage Dental businesses. They are in Heppner on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., unless otherwise posted. Their home base is Ione and they are open on a regular schedule there. Check out their Facebook Page - Tacos Hometown! TO order for pick up - text "541-561-7397" with your name, item and pickup time and it will be ready for you!


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WA State Democrats Launch Bench-Building Program
Home » WA State Democrats Launch Bench-Building Program
Washington State Democratic Party Chair Tina Podlodowski announces launch of massive new initiative to elect Democrats to local and county offices
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | January 15th, 2019
The Washington State Democratic Party is excited to announce the launch of Rise and Run, a new program targeting thousands of municipal and county elections in 2019.
The hub of the new effort, termed Rise and Run, is an online resource bank for prospective candidates. Candidates can sign up for information and resources at www.wa-democrats.org/riseandrun where they'll receive a set of custom-made tools to help them run their best races. Some candidates will be matched with targeted races, and receive additional support from the Party.
Said Washington State Democratic Party Chair Tina Podlodowski: "We've been knocking doors and talking to our neighbors in every county in our state since the spring of 2017. Together with activists and leaders all over our state, we built a grassroots army – and on the heels of major state legislative victories and flipping the 8th Congressional District, we're now setting our sights on big wins in 2019. We're going to take the fight to Republicans in the thousands of city council, county commission, mayoral, school board, and public utility district seats up for election this year. We're going to identify, recruit, train, and empower a new generation of Democratic candidates. And we're going to win."
Said Bruce Tabb, Mayor of Ellensburg: "Democrats support initiatives which make our communities more resilient and welcoming. Working together, we have supported long-term funding for public transit, the first successful local initiative to create affordable housing in Eastern Washington, and land use policies which support a sustainable walkable community. It is great to see the State Party investing heavily in races in this region. That investment can only lead to an emerging generation of local Democratic leaders focused on ensuring vibrant communities throughout Central Washington."
Said Pedro Olguin, Burien City Council Member: "When I was elected to the city council along with three other progressive leaders, we represented a lot of firsts: we were the first Latinos elected to the city council, the first labor leaders, and the first people who represented the growing and changing demographics and experiences of people in our region. That race was hard — and we won with the support of the State Party and groups from all over our region. It's tough to be a first, and this kind of support is so critical to ensuring that we build a Democratic bench that is truly representative of communities in every part of our state."
Said Rituja Indapure, Former Candidate for Sammamish City Council: "Building a strong, representative bench of candidates at the local level is so important for our communities. A lot of important decisions affecting everything from parks to traffic get made at the local level — and it's crucial that we have elected officials who represent our community and values in office. That's why it's so important for the Democratic Party to get involved in supporting local candidates — especially people who are running for the first time, like I was! Rise and Run is an excellent step in this direction — and I'm so thrilled to support this program!"
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Several road signs have been damaged in an East Yorkshire village.
The road signs have been vandalised with various black arrows spray painted on to cause confusion for motorists.
The crime is believed to have taken place between October 30 and November 1.
PCSO Darren Bainton has tweeted for more information about what has happened.
He said: "Several East Riding road signs in the Sproatley area have been spray painted.
"If you know who is responsible call 101."
Black arrows pointing to the right have been painted on the signs for Humbleton and Burton Pidsea, when in fact the villages are to the left of the sign.
Whilst black arrows pointing in the opposite direction of Sproatley and Preston have also been painted on.
A black arrow pointing north has also been painted on the Aldbrough sign, again the opposite direction to where the village actually is.
Anyone with information can call Humberside Police on 101 quoting 55149.


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La stagione 2013 degli Indianapolis Colts è stata la 61ª della franchigia nella National Football League, la 30ª con sede a Indianapolis. I Colts conclusero con un record di 11 vittorie e 5 sconfitte, terminando al primo posto della AFC South e centrando l'accesso ai playoff per il secondo anno consecutivo. Nel primo turno la squadra rimontò uno svantaggio di 28 punti ai Kansas City Chiefs, il secondo più largo della storia dei playoff, andando a vincere per 45-44. La settimana successiva i Colts furono eliminati dai New England Patriots.

Il 20 ottobre 2013, Peyton Manning fece per la prima volta ritorno a Indianapolis da avversario dopo essere stato svincolato nel marzo 2012. I Colts vinsero per 39-33.

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Q: how to listen for new tweets for an @mention using tweepy? I am new to tweepy. And tried to implement an api which can listen the new tweets for a @mention or screen name.
tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=username)

But it is not listening the new tweets. Could you please help me to understand how it can be implemented so that whenever a tweet comes with '@mention'. the api should listen immediately

A: Creating a StreamListener
The on_data method of Tweepy's StreamListener conveniently passes data from statuses to the on_status method.
Create class MyStreamListener inheriting from StreamListener and overriding on_status.
import tweepy

override tweepy.StreamListener to add logic to on_status
class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_status(self, status):
        print(status.text)

Creating a Stream
Need an API to stream with the right credentials for authentications. Once we have an API and a status listener we can create our stream object.
myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()
myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = api.auth, listener=myStreamListener)

start stream
myStream.filter(track=['python'])

myStream.filter(follow=["2211149702"])

Async stream
myStream.filter(track=['python'], is_async=True)

handling errors
class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def on_error(self, status_code):
        if status_code == 420:
            #returning False in on_error disconnects the stream
            return False

        # returning non-False reconnects the stream, with backoff.

A: Firstly, get their twitter user id using this.
Then, use this:
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
from tweepy import Stream
from tweepy import StreamListener

listener = StreamListener()
auth = OAuthHandler(config.API_KEY, config.API_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(config.ACCESS_TOKEN, config.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
stream = Stream(auth, listener)
stream.filter(follow=['1102105048253849600']) # user ID for random account

A: def on_data( self, status ):
    print("Entered on_data()")
    print(status.text, flush = True)
    return True
...
user = api.verify_credentials()
# this is just for getting user. without this also connection can be established
if user:
    print(user.id)
    print('started')
twitter_stream=Stream(auth,StdOutListener())
print('Stream created...')
twitter_stream.filter(follow=[user.id_str], is_async=True)

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The classic and timeless tale of Shakespeare's two star-crossed lovers takes on new life in this clear and concise adaptation. Audiences will understand and love this show with its lack of archaic phases or dated references. Reduced to two acts, this version makes our greatest play more accessible for modern audiences. Actors new to Shakespeare will appreciate the added stage directions as well. This is a Romeo and Juliet for today. Running time is between 90 minutes and 120 minutes, depending on further optional cuts clearly explained in the script.


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Year-End Planning: Where to Spend Your Excess Budget
by gemmayoungman | Sep 13, 2021 | Building Systems, Commercial Buildings, Expertise, General News
Year-End-Planning: Where to Spend Your Excess Budget We're rounding the corner on year end, and many businesses have money left in their budgets they need to spend. As we continue to experience extreme weather events, many wish to put it towards sustainability...
How Multiple Vantage Points Improve the Built Environment
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How Multiple Vantage Points Improve the Built Environment Mapping Starting a journey includes envisioning and mapping the destination, adding scenic and pit stops along the way, and recognizing detours and new routes may be required, as well as re-mapping accordingly...
Happy Thursday (every day is Earth Day)
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Happy Thursday (Every Day is Earth Day) Another trip around the sun, and it's Earth Day again. Many in our industry know it's not a one-day celebration event, despite the lift it gets through marketing efforts. Especially now, when we find ourselves in a...
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Healthy Buildings: Good For People and Balance Sheets As the Covid lockdown eases and businesses, schools and public buildings reopen their doors, the environmental health of buildings that have stood largely empty for a year will be under close scrutiny. But it's...
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Resilience in the Grid: What Texas Tells us About the Need for a New Energy Infrastructure Our thoughts are with the people of Texas, where we have several long-term and newer clients. Our wishes for an expedient recovery are with them and their families, and all...
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Benchmarking has long proved to be an integral part of a successful approach to farm business management for many livestock producers. It is a process whereby a farm business' key financial and production data is compared across a number of years against other farms to identify opportunities for improvement within the business.
At the GROWING SA 2017 Conference at Hahndorf on Friday, August 11, I'll be outlining how the majority of Holmes Sackett benchmarking clients participate as part of a group. Identifying and implementing farm profitability benchmarking and participating in a group are two of the most powerful tools a farm business owner has at their disposal.
We are confident of this because a recent review of our benchmarking clientele showed that the group of participants achieved on average a 1.7 percent higher return on investments managed than those who were not part of a group. It equates to an extra $85,000 of profit per farm for the average sized farm.
Each year Holmes Sackett produces our annual AgInsights publication which collates, analyses and interprets data for the industry and individual clients. At the conference, I will discuss what the key determinants of a profitable livestock enterprise are based on what I see through the Holmes Sackett benchmarking service.
Holmes Sackett benchmarks more than 150 farms per annum with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management in NSW, Vic, South East SA and Tas.
The benefits of benchmarking a livestock enterprise include gaining a better understanding of the financial and production parameters of the enterprise over time across a range of seasons and markets. It allows the owner to focus on the things that work for them to get the most out of their business.
I encourage producers who want to benchmark their operation to start in consultation with the service provider to make it as simple as possible. Understanding of a business is built up over time so there is no substitute for getting started.
Being very profitable at any enterprise is better than an enterprise mix. What is most profitable changes from year-to-year based on seasons and markets but this cannot be managed or predicted so there is no use focusing on it.
By following the above principles, a producer can develop a more profitable business. It may be considered boring but it is very effective.


We have had many different kinds of Christmas trees over the years. Below is a column I wrote in 2005 that chronicles our history in Christmas trees.
Many family Christmas memories revolve around the Christmas tree. These stories rarely have to do with the magnificence of the tree. In fact, Charlie Brown's Christmas tree may be our culture's most famous Christmas tree, standing for the true meaning of the season.
We have many family stories about our Christmas trees beginning with our first Christmas in Greenfield in 1971. I was a single mother of five children when I came to town. Our life had changed and so had many of the family routines and rituals.
As a gift, a new friend invited me and the children out to the Heath wilderness (as yet totally unknown to us) for a picturesque outing to cut down our own tree. There had been snow and frigid weather, but that afternoon was relatively warm and sunny, a perfect day for a holiday outing. The boys had disappeared, but the three girls aged 7, 9, and 10, and I set off with our friend caroling and laughing.
We got to Heath and started trekking through the woods. Unfortunately, though our friend was kind, he didn't know much about Christmas trees, or even about the woodlot he drove us to. We found nothing resembling our fantasy Christmas tree. Even worse, the sun had softened the snow crust and the going was hard. Kathy, at 7, was floundering and falling in the deep snow. Everyone was getting colder and wetter as the sun hid itself. I decided that the next tree we saw would be the perfect tree. No arguments allowed. We cut it down, dragged it out to the road, and lashed it to the car. The car heater conked out and we were exhausted. There were no carols or happy chatter on the way home.
Happily, Henry, the man I had recently met and would eventually marry, met us at the door. While I got the girls into hot baths and their warm nighties, Henry set up the tree. The trunk was crooked and it took lots of guy wiring to hold it stable. The sparse branches started to drop their needles almost immediately and my two sons just hooted in derision when they finally made their appearance.
I said the tree gave us lots of scope for ornaments. Unfortunately, somehow, in the move from Connecticut, all the Christmas ornaments disappeared, including all those my children had made in school over the years. There was no money for a treeful of ornaments, so we all sat around the table to make lots of big construction paper decorations, some of which still go on the tree every year.
That was our first Christmas tree with Henry. In 1975 we moved to New York City to live in his ancestral apartment. One year there we had a magical tree. A friend came in with presents and an angel he had made for the tree top. He gave it a casual toss across the room – and it landed gently, and perfectly, just where it should.
After four years in the city we moved to Heath. The boys were out on their own so only the three girls made the move with us the day after Thanksgiving.
This time it was easy to cut down our own tree. It was growing right in front of the kitchen window, blocking the light and the view. It was big and beautiful and shapely. It was also a blue spruce, with stiff branches and the prickliest needles. It nearly killed us to get it cut down and into the house, fighting us every inch of the way.
From our elderly neighbor Mabel Vreeland we learned about snowbelts, and over time we planted a triple row of evergreens, tiny seedlings, purchased from the Conservation Service, along our road. Our plan was to over -plant so that we could thin the snowbreak by taking out a Christmas tree every year. And that is what we have done. No longer do we trek through unfamiliar woods, but just down over our field. We don't pay much attention to the snowbelt and sometimes the trees are small, sometimes tall, sometimes quite odd, but we can always say we planted them and grew them ourselves.
This year we have what I think of as a dancing tree. The trunk twists first one way and then the other. The branches go up on one side and down on the other. If it were a Jules Feiffer cartoon character it would be dancing an ode to the solstice. There is lots of scope for ornaments.
No matter what the Christmas tree looks like – and when we spent a year in Beijing it was a potted osmanthus decorated with shiny ribbon and a handful of sequined ornaments – to me the evergreen tree (even the osmanthus) is the place where we gather with beloved family and friends to celebrate the generosity of the season. And I don't refer to all the shopping at the mall, but to the thought and kindnesses that we render each other throughout the season, the care we take of others when we make donations to the Food Bank or Warm the Children, and the prayers we send for peace on earth good will toward men.


How do you get the feel for the culinary and cultural identity of a city in 64 hours? Try eating at over 20 restaurants, hanging at a few local live music joints, cocktailing at several watering holes, and throwing in a couple of museums along the way. Having a local guide helps too.
And so it was for my recent whirlwind culinary exploration of Kansas City. To most people, Missouri and Kansas straddling KC is identified by barbecue and blues. My mission was to determine whether the local diet consisted of more than just brisket, ribs, and burnt ends. Of course, I also wanted to find the best brisket, ribs, and burnt ends. To this end I enlisted an old friend from my law school days in St. Louis, Missouri to act as my tour guide. Now a government relations lawyer at one of the country's power firms, Adam P. Sachs, born and raised in Kansas City, volunteered not only to serve as tour guide and chauffeur, but over-zealous photographer.
What better to start our culinary adventures with than barbecue. Memphis and the Carolinas may be home to pork barbecue and Texas may be the brisket capital, but the tradition of Kansas City barbecue lies in dry rubbed spices, slow-smoking over a pit of hickory wood for upwards of 18 hours, a sweet, tangy sauce, and the willingness to cook almost anything that moves. Credited with being the city's first barbecue in the early 1900s, Henry Perry's old trolley barn served as a training pit for future local barbecue legends, including brothers Charlie and Arthur Bryant.
Presidents, movie stars, professional athletes, and chow hounds of all ethnic and economic classes and cultures have made the trek to Arthur Bryant's on Brooklyn to stand in line for a taste of what New Yorker columnist and Kansas City native Calvin Trillin called "the single best restaurant in the world". The Formica tables and linoleum floors probably haven't changed much in the last 50 years (apparently it's cleaner??) and Timmy Brown's been working the pit for over 23 years. This place is an institution and the barbecue didn't disappoint. To make a fair comparison amongst all the "pit" stops on our tour, we ordered the same items everywhere...beef sandwich with fries, short end ribs (the last 7 or 8 ribs in a slab of spare ribs), and burnt ends (the charred pieces of brisket ends that cannot be sliced). The ribs were fall-off-the-bone tender and the piled high sandwich with the hand print to press it down (in the old days, the hand print was sauce stained, but today the line workers wear gloves) was chin-dribbin' tasty. But as much as Bryant's is about great food, it's about the experience and no trip to Kansas City is complete without it.
Other barbecue stops worth the visit include Snead's, a fair ways out on Highway 58, but the melt in your mouth burnt end are well worth the drive. Go for the succulently tender ribs, whether they be beef, pork or lamb, and smoky hickory pit beans at Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue. Rosedale's shredded, as opposed to sliced, beef sandwich with their incredibly tasty sauce is a must, and Gates & Sons delivers consistency in a more corporate-like atmosphere not unlike McDowell's in the Eddie Murphy flick Coming to America.
But Kansas City is about more than just barbecue. They also boast the best freakin' donuts I have ever tasted. The slogan for Lamar's Donuts is "Simply a Better Donut", and it absolutely is. Impossibly yummy cake with chocolate and coconut, long john filled with lusciously textured chocolate cream, apple cake with cinnamon, and the simple glazed all suggest the influence of a higher power. If you could get same-day-express north of the 49th, it's worth the expense.
Fine dining in a modern sense appears to be a relatively new phenomenon here, but there are a couple of spots that are justifiably wowing the locals. 1924 Main in the Crossroads Art District is a modern, upscale room with a buzz. The "spontaneous" menu changes weekly and provides outstanding value with a $30 ($15 at lunch) three course prix fixe menu and tantalizes with such items as grilled escarole salad with dates, almonds, parsnips and duck confit; caramelized onion beef stew with horseradish creme fraiche; and balsamic glazed sirloin with potato ricotta gnocchi, gorgonzola cream and arugula. The elegantly cool lounge downstairs is a fabulous room to meet and greet over cocktails, sparkling wine and appetizers.
One of the hottest and most talked about rooms in the Midwest is Bluestem. Chef-owners Colby and Megan Garrelts have indeed brought "big city" dining to this meat and potatoes town. An elegantly simple room lets the food be the star. The husband-wife team possess a sixth sense for seamlessly combining a myriad of flavours to create memorably innovative dishes. The $75 seven-course tasting menu is a bargain, delighting diners with palate pleasuring creations like crab wrapped in Asian pear with orange segments, yogurt and riesling ice (one of the best appetizers I've experienced in the last year); the stellar puree of lentil soup, braised duck breast with cipolline onions; and the equally stunning seared tuna with piquillo pepper confit. Kansas Citians would be remis in not recognizing and embracing these up and coming culinary stars.
Along with 1924 Main and Bluestem, the Blue Bird Bistro is a 21st century oasis in a culinary culture seemingly stuck in the 1970s. Owner Jane Zieha is refreshingly adamant about organic and sustainable farming practices and personally knows the source for all the ingredients lovingly incorporated in the heart warming dishes. Don't miss the knee-weakening Ciabatta french toast dipped in a vanilla egg batter and served with maple syrup and pecan butter, or the fantastic eggs benedict. The menu contains so many mouth watering items, I am compelled to make a trip back just to try them all. Zieha knows that she's fighting an uphill battle with her natural, "granola" philosophy, but she is the future and KC desperately needs to catch up with her.
For great perfectly cooked to order meat (and it doesn't matter if it's lamb, pork or beef), a great wine list, and a glimpse of the city's mucky-mucks, check out local power room, JJ's. Skip the appetizers and desserts, but these guys know how to do meat. Quench your thirst with over 65 beers and 80 whiskys at cowboy boot stompin' Harry's Country Club. Mexican food lovers should explore the many local spots on Southwest Boulevard, and for a flavour of local, eclectic independents stroll down 39th Street. Relish is a hot dog haven for a quick bite, and the 20 seat, funky, hole in the wall YJ's Snack Bar serves up a breakfast sandwich of fried eggs, cheddar cheese, bacon and home fries on a poppy seed bun that is the perfect morning-after-the-night-before pick me up. And if you want the insider's scoop as to what's going on in town chat with YJ's owner David Ford.
No visit to Kansas City is complete without checking out the jazz and blues music scene. There is a multitude of live music venues, but the coolest is the Mutual Musicians Foundation in the historic 18th and Vine district. Opening only after all the other clubs have closed (quite literally...we stood outside in the freezing cold until someone showed up to unlock the door at just after 1:00am), this sparse 40 seat box is a throw-back along the lines of Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Players jam until the wee hours as diehard locals nod in agreement with the soulful beat.
Kansas City is far from being a culinary mecca, but highlights like Bluestem, the Blue Bird, 1925 Main, Arthur Bryant's, and even Lamar's provide locals a glimpse of what could and should be. Revitalization is a common theme when referring to development in the city. It seems apropos to describe the food scene as well.
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During the course we will discuss the requirements of the IIA INTERNATIONAL STANDARS 1312, 1320,1321,1322 through the Code of Ethics.
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Q: Convert the any locale date format to US date format in Javascript lightning I have been struggling to change the date format to US locale time.
I tried so many methods but if fails at some or other scenario.
The issue is I cannot say which Locale the client will be using.
If anybody can help me it will be great.
I have tried the $A.localizationService.formatDate(sDate, "yyyy-MM-dd") but when the date comes like this '31.3.2018' it throws error.
Even tried this as well new Date(sDate). it throws Invalid Date Error for date '31.3.2018' but it works if the date is less or equals to 12 suppose '10.2.2018' or '2.10.2018'.
So I tried to write a method which converts the date to "yyyy-MM-dd" format.   So far what I have tried.
formatDate : function(date) {
    if(typeof(date) != 'string') {
        return $A.localizationService.formatDate(date, "yyyy-MM-dd");
    }

    if(date != null && date.search("-") > -1){
        return date;
    }

    var regex = /[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g;
    var specialcharacter = '-';

    date = date.replace(regex, specialcharacter);
    var dateparts = date.split(specialcharacter);

    if(dateparts == null || dateparts.length <= 1) {
        return $A.localizationService.formatDate(new Date(), "yyyy-MM-dd");
    }
    if(dateparts[0].length == 4){
        date = new Date(parseInt(dateparts[0]), parseInt(dateparts[1] - 1), parseInt(dateparts[2]));
    }
    else{
        date = new Date(parseInt(dateparts[2]), parseInt(dateparts[1] - 1), parseInt(dateparts[0]));
    }
    return $A.localizationService.formatDate(date, "yyyy-MM-dd");
}

anywhere in my controller.js I have passing date to the above function which converts the date to "yyyy-MM-dd" format.
I tried with Finnish locale in Dev org it is working as expected but when we installed this on sandbox it was giving us the error.
Let me know if something else is required from my side.

A: Where is the date that you're trying to process coming from? From user input? Is there any constraint on its format?
I would never consider writing a date parser (or anything remotely like one) myself. If you start throwing regexes at a string that might be a date, you're going to be in for an endless world of pain as funny strings trip you up.
I'd split the problem into two steps:

*

*Take untrusted/unpredictable input and turn it into a JS Date object

*Output the JS Date in user's locale

Part (2) is easy. As in your code, you just use $A.localizationService.formatDate. Or maybe the <lightning:formattedDateTime> component.
Part (1) is where I would just go straight to using moment.js (https://momentjs.com/). If you know what format to expect, you can parse it like this:
var parsed = moment('31.3.2018', 'DD.MM.YYYY')

Standard ISO formats are simply like this:
var parsed = moment('2018-3-31')

A: Some how I found the workaround for this solution.. This is not a full proof solution but it may be work as workaround.
<aura:attribute name="dateFormat" type="String" default="{!$Locale.dateFormat}"/>

This gives me the user's current locale date format.
So I will try to parse the date using format.
formatDate : function(component, date) {
    if(typeof(date) != 'string') {
        return $A.localizationService.formatDate(date, "yyyy-MM-dd");
    }

    var regex = /[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g;
    var specialcharacter = '-';

    date = date.replace(regex, specialcharacter);
    var dateparts = date.split(specialcharacter);

    var dateFormat = component.get('v.dateFormat');
    dateFormat = dateFormat.replace(regex, specialcharacter);
    var dateFormatParts = dateFormat.split(specialcharacter);

    var dayIndex = 0;
    var monthIndex = 0;
    var yearIndex = 0;
    for(var i=0; i<dateFormatParts.length; i++) {
        if(dateFormatParts[i].includes('d') || dateFormatParts[i].includes('D')) {
            dayIndex = i;
        }
        if(dateFormatParts[i].includes('m') || dateFormatParts[i].includes('M')) {
            monthIndex = i;
        }
        if(dateFormatParts[i].includes('y') || dateFormatParts[i].includes('Y')) {
            yearIndex = i;
        }
    }
    date = date.replace(regex, specialcharacter);
    var dateparts = date.split(specialcharacter);

    date = new Date(parseInt(dateparts[yearIndex]), parseInt(dateparts[monthIndex] - 1), parseInt(dateparts[dayIndex]));
    return $A.localizationService.formatDate(date, "yyyy-MM-dd");
}

user can call this function by passing the Component and Date. and it will change the date to "yyyy-MM-dd". User can change to other format as well. I wanted "yyyy-MM-dd" way.
Hope this may help someone.


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Children's and young people's cultures
Kehily, Mary Jane and Montgomery, Heather (2018). Children's and young people's cultures. In: Montgomery, Heather and Robb, Martin eds. Children and young people's worlds. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 25–40.
This chapter will examine children and young people's cultures, asking questions about what we mean by 'culture' as it relates to children and young people, whether or not they have their own cultures and, if so, how they work. But first a word about culture – a term described as 'one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language' (Williams 1976: 76). It has a wide range of meanings in both academic and everyday discourse: it can refer to the traditions of a particular society or community or be used more narrowly to refer to artistic forms and practices, in the sense of 'high' culture: it can also be defined as the commonplace routines and practices that characterise and bind together a particular group or community. Culture, in this sense, can be observed and studied in day-to-day engagements with the social world. This way of conceptualising culture draws on the work of literary and cultural critic Raymond Williams who insisted that culture is 'ordinary'. Williams referred to the 'everydayness' of culture as a way of life that makes sense to individuals involved in a particular community (Williams, 1958 [2014]). This perspective also sees culture as a form of action: it is not just something that people have, it is also what people do. The anthropologist Brian Street (1993) argued that 'culture is a verb', indicating that it should be seen as a dynamic process rather than a fixed entity. Applying these ideas to children and young people has important consequences for understanding childhood and youth because it suggests that children and young people make sense of the world and take their place within it through participation and engagement with everyday social practices. Through negotiations with the social world and the exercise of agency, children and young people give shape to their lives and actively ascribe meanings to events and in this way can be seen to develop their own cultures.
2018 Open University
1-4473-4845-1, 978-1-4473-4845-0
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood and Youth
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Childhood, Youth and Sport
Childhood Youth and Sport Group (CYSG)
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co...(Other)
http://oro.open.ac.uk/55683/(ORO Item)
Heather Montgomery


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If you are worried about the ageing factor that Millhouse Clinics present in the Birmingham would be the best option undergo skin medications.
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For girl's night out and to do the beauty treatment, Earls & Co would be the perfect destination, where one can find friendly staffs.
The Rye Retreat, from the historic town of Rye of East Sussex has the perfect beauticians where the visitors experience the quality salon and spa service.
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require_once('../vendor/j7mbo/twitter-api-php/TwitterAPIExchange.php');
require_once '../alchemyapi_php/alchemyapi.php';

class StackExchangeController extends BaseController {

    public function home()
    {
        return View::make('stackSearch');
    }

	public function search()
	{
        $validation = Validator::make(
            Input::all(), array(
                'stackExchangeSearch' => 'required | max:50',
            )
        );

        if ($validation->fails()) {
            return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($validation->messages());
        }

        $response = $this->getPosts(Input::get('stackExchangeSearch'), Input::get('count'));

        $alchemyapi = new AlchemyAPI();
        $postIntel = [];

        foreach($response->items as $post)
        {
            $textOptions = ['useMetadata' => 1];
            $textResponse = $alchemyapi->text('url', $post->link, $textOptions);

            $sentimentOptions = ['sentiment' => 1];
            $postSentiment = $this->doAlchemy('url', $post->link, $sentimentOptions, 'sentiment', 'docSentiment', $alchemyapi);

            //Dont use concepts
            //when loading stack url into concepts call, it just returns random unrelated stuff
            //when loading extracted text into concepts call, it returns empty every time

            $entityOptions = ['maxRetrieve' => 5, 'sentiment' => 1];
            $postEntities = $this->doAlchemy('text', $textResponse['text'], $entityOptions, 'entities', 'entities', $alchemyapi);

            $keywordOptions = ['sentiment' => 1, 'showSourceText' => 1, 'maxRetrieve' => 5];
            $postKeywords = $this->doAlchemy('text', $textResponse['text'], $keywordOptions, 'keywords', 'keywords', $alchemyapi);

            $tmp = ['link' => $post->link,
                    'title' => $post->title,
                    'answered' => $post->is_answered,
                    'sentiment' => $postSentiment,
                    'entities' => $postEntities,
                    'keywords' => $postKeywords];

            array_push($postIntel, $tmp);
        }

        return View::make('stackResults')->with('postIntel', $postIntel)->with('searchTerm', Input::get('stackExchangeSearch'));
	}

    private function doAlchemy($flavor, $data, $options, $call, $key, $alchemyapi)
    {
        $response = $alchemyapi->$call($flavor, $data, $options);
        if(array_key_exists($key, $response))
        {
            $intel = $response[$key];
        }
        else
        {
            $intel = null;
        }

        return $intel;
    }

    private function getPosts($searchTerm, $count)
    {
        function curl($url){
            $curl = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'cURL');
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");

            $result = curl_exec($curl);
            curl_close($curl);

            return $result;
        }

        $searchURL = "http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search?pagesize=". $count . "&order=desc&sort=activity&intitle=". $searchTerm ."&site=stackoverflow";
        $response = json_decode(curl($searchURL));

        return $response;
    }
}

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Home Sangria Sunday
Sangria Sunday
Feb 12, 2023 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Our Sangria Sunday is a popular, weekly event at Good Luck Cellars (GLC) and one you must enjoy if you're in the area.
We make fresh sangria each week, featuring a GLC wine. We make a different recipe each week -- sometimes it's white, sometimes it's red. And, during the colder months, we make a warm, seasonal version that'll warm the soul :0)
When it's gone…it's gone…until the next Sunday, of course, when we make a new batch. Come Sip and Sangria with us.
IMPORTANT NOTE: SANGRIA IS NOT SERVED ON DURING THE CORKS & OYSTERS EVENTS IN APRIL & NOV.
Event types Food & Drink
Date & Time Jan 29, 2023 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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This Dog Won't Hunt [OPINION]
Barry Richard Published: November 9, 2020
"It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, see each other again, listen to each other again. And to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans," said Joe Biden on Saturday night. Biden is calling for America to unify behind him.
Biden sees himself as president-elect even as ballots are still being counted, and court challenges loom.
Donald J. Trump called for unity four years ago after defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton following a bitterly divisive campaign. Many Democrats boycotted his inauguration. They immediately called him an illegitimate president and pledged to resist his every effort to Make America Great Again. During that campaign, Clinton referred to Trump supporters as "deplorables."
What followed was an unprecedented effort to use the U.S. Justice Department to prevent Trump from taking office, and when he did take office, to have him removed. The Democrats staged a phony impeachment of Trump at a time when COVID-19 was about to open the gates of hell on the American people. They called him "racist" and "xenophobic" when he imposed travel restrictions to keep infected people from traveling to American.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tore up President Trump's State of the Union speech in a real show of unity earlier this year. Joe Biden likened Trump to a Nazi and a white supremacist. Biden blamed Trump personally for all of the deaths related to the virus and recently called Trump's supporters "chumps."
For four solid years, Biden and his Democrat Party hounded, harassed, ridiculed, and resisted Trump at every turn. Trump's supporters were assaulted, harassed, and belittled. And now Biden calls for unity.
Mr. Biden, you may or may not be the 46th president of the United States – we'll know soon enough – but I can promise you this: 71 million Americans will never forget how you and members of your party savaged our president and divided our nation for four years. I am one of those Americans.
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How Do You Leave Americans Behind, Joe? [OPINION]
Bristol County Is Partly Responsible for Biden Mess [OPINION]
Six SouthCoast Troops Died In Afghanistan – What For? [OPINION]
Rollins Not the Best U.S. Attorney Pick for the SouthCoast [OPINION]
Biden Picks DA Rollins for Top Federal Prosecutor


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DR. ENGLISH: Capitalization
Feb 14, 2012 | Communication Tips
If you're like many individuals who learned English in the U.S. school system, you were probably told that, when it came to titles, you should not capitalize "little words," like "to" and "is." In my humble opinion, such guidance is absolutely wrong (and no, that is not how I "really feel about it," because how I "really feel about it" isn't printable in this august (actually July and August) publication). Here's the rule you should follow.
The first word of a title is always capitalized, except when the word begins with a letter that maybe shouldn't be capitalized, like "e-mail." (Note that "e-mail" is far preferred to "email" because "email" has more than one meaning, with the lesser- known meaning (but only after the development of e-mail) being a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a furnace.) In that case, e-Mail may do, although, because that looks somewhat strange, most people seem to be using E-mail; it's your call. But I digress.
All other words in a title should be capitalized, with the exception of:
articles (a, an, the);
coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet), and
prepositions (to, on, from, beneath, around, et al.).
The "little word" most commonly – and improperly – lower-cased probably is "is," which should be capitalized because it's a verb. "But it's so little," die-hard wrong-thinkers might say. Of course, the word "pi" is just as little, too, but even most die-hard wrong-thinkers wouldn't think of belittling it via lower-case-in-a-title status.
Besides, if you're going to lower-case "is," then – logically – you would also have to lower-case "isn't" (which in its uncontracted form in an improperly rendered title might otherwise have to look like "…is Not…" given that "not" is an adverb, unless one wants to argue that three-letter words also are little, which would open the floodgates), and, possibly, "would have been," given that the latter, too, is just a variant of the verb "to be."
Interestingly, the "to" of "to be" should be capitalized, because a word becomes a part of speech only when used in a sentence, and when "to" is used as part of the infinitive "to be," it is not a preposition.
What part of speech is it? It could be an expletive, which is a word that otherwise has no meaning (such as "there" in "There is no reason for…" or "it" in "It is a wonderful day today.") or an oath of some kind (a cuss word, if you will, a definition that emerged thanks to the Nixon tapes).
It could also be a particle, an old word given a new meaning by people who evidently were unaware that "expletive" already existed to fill the bill. In either case – expletive or particle – "to" would be capitalized. Thus, were one to have as a title "To Sing and To Dance" (or To Sing and To Dance were it a book), the "to" of "To Dance" would be capitalized, whereas the "to" of "Walking to Memphis" would be lower-cased, because "to" in that usage is a preposition.
If you have questions about English usage, send them along to Dr. English at [email protected]…if you dare.
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A Stanford University study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology shows that Sciton BroadBand Light (BBL™) treatments can change the expression of genes associated with the aging process to more closely resemble young skin.
The study ("Rejuvenation of Gene Expression Pattern of Aged Human Skin by BroadBand Light Treatment") reveals the molecular changes that are induced by BBL. BBL is one of the only anti-aging technologies available that actually seems to reverse aging on a genetic level. That is to say, that if patients continue BBL treatments as part of a maintenance program (this BBL maintenance is called the "Forever Young BBL" program) their genes seem to behave like skin that is 8-10 years younger!
"This is a well-performed study that not only looked at treated skin but also looked at age-matched untreated skin and compared these to youthful skin. It was clear that skin that had undergone maintenance BBL treatments was, for all intents and purposes, behaving on a genetic level like younger skin. This is just an astounding realization about this technology," says AZALA Founder Dr. Scott Mosser.
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Beyond the Pandemic: London's financial hub seeks a rebirth
By SYLVIA HUI
April 7, 2021 GMT
https://apnews.com/article/london-coronavirus-pandemic-66d7889951a6a3703950a3049cc61912
LONDON (AP) — On the surface, London's financial district appears to be a shell of its former self. No one is rushing to meetings. Chairs are flipped upside down on tables inside closed cafes and pubs. The roads are ghostly quiet on a bright spring morning.
But a hive of activity is taking place at one spot, as builders lay the groundwork for the latest skyscraper to transform the skyline. Developers of the tower, called 8 Bishopsgate, are confident that when construction ends late next year, workers and firms will return to fill all 50 floors of the gleaming new office space.
When the coronavirus struck, nearly 540,000 workers vanished almost overnight from the business hub, known as the City of London, or simply "the City." A year on, most haven't returned.
Plagues, fires, war — London has survived them all. But it has never had a year like this. The coronavirus has killed more than 15,000 Londoners and shaken the foundations of one of the world's great cities. As a fast-moving mass vaccination campaign holds the promise of reopening, The Associated Press looks at the pandemic's impact on London's people and institutions and asks what the future might hold.
While many believe that some degree of working from home will become the new normal, city planners say they aren't worried about empty office buildings. Rather, they say the uncertainties and changes are just a catalyst for the reinvention of one of the world's top financial centers.
People meet and watch the fountains near City Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames opposite the City of London. (AP Video/Alastair Grant)
"We're very clear that the office is not dead, from all that we're hearing," said Catherine McGuinness, head of policy at the City of London Corporation, the governing body of the historic district.
"(Businesses) are telling us that they're really keen to get back to their offices, but they'll use it in a different way," she added. "They'll build on some of these new ways of working that they've learned."
It's been a year like no other for the City of London, the ancient core of the capital and historically its wealthiest and most powerful area. Another nickname is "the Square Mile," a reference to its size. The district sits within the Roman walls of Londinium, the original name of the city founded on the banks of the River Thames around 50 A.D.
A January report on London's future from the mayor's office predicted that while companies won't abandon the capital, many will need to improve the quality of their office space to encourage more employees to return and use it.
The workers' return will be crucial for the survival of many shops, restaurants, theaters and museums. Although offices and city centers all over the world have emptied out during the pandemic, the report said London was hit particularly hard by the shift to remote working because it has many fewer people living in the core of the city, compared with New York or Paris.
Hubert Zanier, who co-owns a chain of Southeast Asian takeout restaurants called Nusa Kitchen in the financial district, has struggled to keep his business afloat with all six branches closed. While technically allowed to open under the government's virus restrictions, it was clear this wasn't an option with practically zero foot traffic in the City.
"We were quite hopeful when we first closed down, but little did we know the whole thing would last 12 months with all the ups and downs — more downs than ups," he said.
Zanier is preparing to reopen as restrictions gradually ease, and his best-case scenario is for 75% of workers to return on a regular basis in the summer.
"It's clear the world will look different," he said. "But you have to be optimistic — if you're not, you might as well pack up your stuff and go."
Firms like Amazon have recently stated that they plan a return to an "office-centric culture," though many studies both in the U.K. and beyond have suggested that more flexible working policies and increased remote working are here to stay.
Like many others, Smriti Jha, a project manager in an investment bank, has barely set foot in her office since March 2020. The 45-year-old single mother has recently changed jobs — she was interviewed and hired via Zoom — and her new workplace has no return-to-office plan. She doesn't miss the crowded commute, and sees a five-day week in the City as "a bit excessive."
"Before the pandemic, it was generally working moms who choose to work from home," she said. "There was always this kind of sense of stigma — it's like, well, are they actually working or not? But I think that's being blown away."
Construction is shown at the 8 Bishopsgate development in London, Thursday, April 1, 2021. (AP Video/Alastair Grant)
For now, office developers and investors say they aren't worried. Although office leasing slumped to record lows last year as many businesses reassessed their needs, demand seems to have bounced back.
McGuinness, at the City of London Corp., say that in the first three months of 2021, the body already has approved the equivalent of 80% of the number of planning applications for office space submitted last year.
On Bishopsgate, two new side-by-side skyscrapers are set to open soon, and each stress they are armed with spacious offices and a host of amenities to entice workers back.
At 62 stories, 22 Bishopsgate is the second-tallest tower in the U.K. and dwarfs everything else nearby. Billed as "Europe's first vertical village," it boasts a huge food hall and a gym, and 60% of its office space already has been leased to companies before its opening in the autumn.
Together with its neighboring tower at 8 Bishopsgate, the two will offer enough space for about 17,000 workers.
Kevin Darvishi, leasing director at Stanhope, the developer behind 8 Bishopsgate, said demand for top-quality office buildings will remain strong in the post-pandemic world.
"What you'd end up with is a two-tier market where older buildings are discounted considerably because they can't cater to the needs of the next generation of the workforce," he said.
In a broader sense, officials say COVID-19 also has accelerated plans to make the financial district a friendlier, more diverse place that's more open-minded about flexible working — as well as giving people a reason to stay after work.
More space for pedestrians and cyclists is planned, as well as more affordable or flexible workplaces that can attract people from the creative industries. By 2025, the City of London wants to see a 50% increase in weekend and evening visitors.
"I hope we build positively. I hope we come out of this with a better concept of the work-life balance," McGuinness said. "This will be a new evolution."
Read other installments in the AP's "London: Beyond the Pandemic" series:
https://apnews.com/hub/london-beyond-the-pandemic
Follow AP's pandemic coverage at:
https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic
https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine
https://apnews.com/hub/understanding-the-outbreak


Brindle and White, well made with good bone and substance. Very good head shape with good turn and plenty of fill. Good eye and ear set with good expression. A little loose in movement. Showed good when he settled.
Black brindle and white. Correct in type. Very good head shape, good turn and fill. Good eye and ear set. Would prefer better lay of shoulder. Good top line. Would prefer more drive behind.
White with eye patch. Correct type, good head shape. Would prefer more length and fill. A little loose in front, prefer a better lay of shoulder. Prefer more back angulation. Moved OK.
White with red ear. Correct type with excellent outline. Correct head with good turn and well filled. Good eye and ear set. Correct front, good shoulder and top line. Would prefer more back angulation. A little overweight on the day and this showed in his movement.
White with eye patch. Correct type with excellent outline. Very good head shape, good turn and well filled. Very good eye and ear set with good expression. A little loose in front and would prefer a better lay of shoulder. Good top line and back angulation. Moved OK.
Tricolour. Correct type with good head shape. Would prefer more turn and fill. Correct front, good shoulder and top line. Prefer more back angulation and drive on the move.
White with ear markings. Correct type, excellent out line . Correct head shape with good turn and filled to the end. Good eye and ear set with very good expression. Correct front, good top line and back angulation. Did not settle in the move and was a little unsure in herself.
Black/brindle and white. Correct type with very good outline. Correct head with good turn and fill. Would prefer a better lay of shoulder. Good top line and good back angulation. Moved OK.


As of March 2019, 10 years after we brought the sheep paddock, LazyDog® Wines & Garden Restaurant is the final stage in our ambition to be self-supporting on a rural Central Otago property.
Friends retired after 25 years of restaurant operation in February 2018 and released to us the refrigeration units we needed to start a small winery on-site.
Our grapes were pressed off-site and brought back to us for wine making, but that proved hard work. Clearly we needed our own press.
A second hand press in excellent condition had been found late 2018. A new bladder was been fitted and "Howard" has arrived and been converted to NZ electricity standard.
We purchased barrels and Dean made the VCR tanks in between cooking our guest's fillet steaks and wine platters.
All manner of pumps, hoses, and specialist wine making equipment was ordered and we pretended not to notice the dramatic effect on our bank balance.
The roof structure is assembled, concreted in and will receive its cladding in time for the 2019 vintage.


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Somalia Gold Elephant Coins
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins stand out as a beautiful testimony of the world's biggest land mammal and its majesty. As an issue in the African Wildlife series, these bullion gold coins contain an impressive 99.99% gold purity. They were first produced by fellow African nation Zambia in 1999, though Somalia assumed the series from them beginning in 2004. These coins are now minted in various sizes and denominations in both gold and silver.
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins Background and History
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins started in 2004 when the war-torn African nation from the horn of the East African region took over production of the coin from Zambia. This is among the few bullion coins on earth which changes its designs every year. This helps to explain why the Somalia Gold Elephant Coins remain a highly sought out issue by investors and collectors alike for their high gold purity and beauty of design. The obverse side of the golden coin constantly showcases one or several elephants within their natural habitat. Beginning in 2004, the reverse side of the coins have highlighted the Somalia national seal. Before 2004, that side showed off the national seal of issuing country Zambia instead.
These Somalia Gold Elephant Coins are struck every year by the Bavarian State Mint. This is the oldest firm in Munich by reputation. The facility started striking coins back in 1158 during the rule of Heinrich dem Löwen. The mint has long been called by locals the Das Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt. It has a deserved centuries old reputation for its excellence in manufacturing of collectible coins, medals, and seals.
The Gold Elephant's bullion history proves to be fascinating and controversial at points. The Bavarian State Mint originally produced the issue for Zambia. In 2004, the mint states that it received legal authorization to transfer over the legend of the series to the Republic of Somalia. There have been various experts who expressed doubts regarding this claim from the mint. This is because Somalia has never accepted this Gold Elephant coin as legal tender within its territory. What's more, the pieces themselves have not yet been distributed by Somalia's Central Bank. It is true that a great deal of the confusion on who stands behind these coins can be blamed on the continuous unrest and political turmoil that constantly grips the East African nation. Civil war has been ongoing here, even as Somalia is struggling to establish a parliamentary-based federal republic.
This helps to explain why the Bavarian State Mint does not have the appropriate documentation to prove that they are authorized to strike this coin on the behalf of Somalia every year. While these issues could be troubling to collectors and investors in the gold pieces, it does not change the fact that they are still highly pure gold coins created by one of the world's longest established and highest quality official government entity mints. In fact, some analysts contend that this lack of clarity concerning Somalia's gold and silver coins makes them more interesting and valuable all at once.
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins Physical Characteristics
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins are struck and guaranteed for purity and content by the highly reputable, German-based Bavarian State Mint, for centuries the money producing authority for the entirely autonomous Principality of Bavaria. This mint today remains among the four main mints for the German nation. It is owned by the Free State of Bavaria, as it has since been since the Bavarian local princes ruling in Munich established it in the 12th century over 800 years ago.
Coin Design
The "obverse" is the name of the front side of a coin. These coins have a changing obverse design which varies each year of production. Somalia Gold Elephant Coins' obverse in 2017 bears the image of an enormous elephant which stands in knee length grass on the African Serengeti savanna. It is in the process of emitting a deep and powerful bellow in the striking picture. The background boasts a traditional Somalian hut bordered by a little cluster of coconut palm trees. There is a setting sun at the top of the image. The coin inscriptions state "AFRICAN WILDLIFE" at the top and "ELEPHANT," and "1 oz Au 999.9" in the bottom half of the obverse.
Coin aficionados the world over refer to the rear side of coins as the "reverse." Somalia Gold Elephant Coins' reverse features the country's unique national coat of arms. This emblem is made up of a single star emblazoned on a backdrop containing horizontal lines upon the nation's heraldic shield. To either side of and upholding the shield are leopards. The leopards themselves stand upon two outward pointing crossed lances which are covered by a ribbon and are framed by two crossing palm frond leaves. The mintage year is split in half on the outside of each leopard's flank. The much debated face value adorns the bottom of the coin in an arc shape. The top of the coin bears the inscription "SOMALI REPUBLIC" in an upward facing arc.
These Somalia Gold Elephant coins come available in a variety of sizes. These include one kilogram, five ounces, one ounce, one-half ounce, one-quarter ounce, one-tenth ounce, one-twenty fifth, one-fiftieth ounce, and half gram sizes. The specifications of the most heavily produced and most commonly purchased one ounce size are:
Mass: 31.1 grams
Content: 1 troy oz. gold
Purity: 99.99% gold
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins Pricing
Somalia Gold Elephant Coins are struck advertising an impressive-sounding thousand Somalia Shillings face value. The question remains whether they are truly legal tender in the Republic of Somalia or not. According to the Central Bank of Somalia, they never have been legal tender. This is where the confusion comes of having one foreign national mint produce a coin for another country's completely independent central bank. Regardless of whether the coins bear any actual face value or not, they certainly contain a nearly pure troy ounce of gold whose value far eclipses the nominal legal tender value in any case. This intrinsic value demonstrates why gold coins are so useful as store houses of value. Even if their issuing government and central bank goes bust or renounces their fiscal responsibilities and obligations, the coins' precious metal content holds up alone.
It is this intrinsic value of gold which sets the market pricing of all Somalia Gold Elephant Coins contained within an investor's portfolio. These coins trade at a substantial premium over gold prices because of the controversy which surrounds their legal tender status, which in turn drives high collector demand into the relatively scarce issues. The market worth of these coins fluctuates every market trading day based on the value of the gold which they contain. You can simply find out today's live gold prices by navigating over to our homepage.
Can IRA Accounts Contain Somalia Gold Elephant Coins?
If you are contemplating investing retirement dollars into Somalia Gold Elephant Coins, you need to know if the IRS allows them to be included in an IRA retirement account. The question is one which the American taxing authority determines in its sole discretion. They decide on the purity and collectibility standards which allow or disallow such coins from self directed IRAs.
In order to open such an account, you have to start by funding a precious metals IRA account with minimally $5,000 in approved gold or silver bullion coins and bars. After this point, you can always add additional purchases and shipments of precious metals by depositing funds that are at least $1,000 or more. In case you have your own traditional type of IRA account now, you can simply and easily roll it on over to a precious metals IRA vehicle. Once your bullion arrives, your IRA administrator will move it on into a vault that the Internal Revenue Service officially approves for IRA bullion storage within the United States. These secure third party depositories bear the burden of both maintaining and guarding your valuable stake of physical precious metals in gold and silver. They will not relinquish your holdings until and unless you issue a sell order which is conveyed to them by your precious metals IRA administrator on your behalf. The coins must never be in your personal possession, even for a single day, or they become invalid for IRA account inclusion.
However interesting and controversial these Somalia Gold Elephant Coins may in fact be, the IRS forbids you to include them in your IRA account. The reason is because of their failure on the collectibility standard. While the coins easily exceed the IRS standard for minimum purity of at least .995 with their impressive .9999 purity, they command an excessive premium over spot gold prices because of their apparent rarity and consistent investor- and collector-based demand. Even though these striking tributes to the vanishing African elephant may not be a part of your IRA account, they are excellent choices for other forms of investment and retirement vehicles you may have. You can purchase them from many U.S. and global precious metals dealers.
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Banjo is a male. Cattledog kind mixed breed pup and about 9 weeks old. He has a beautiful outgoing and content nature, as he must for a infant. He's also an instinctive retriever so would be great for most varieties of dog sports for an interested owner. Poor Banjo has had lots of adoption enquiries but is nonetheless searching for the appropriate spot, maybe you have the ideal residence for him.
Free to a excellent house-12 week old mixed breed puppies. I have spent a lot of time and money raising these puppies so I am charging a rehoming fee of $100 per puppy. That is so i know you are a good individual because only someone who can afford to take care of them will spend the charge. I wont let these puppies go to just anybody. there are guidelines though. I will want to meet with you and tour your residence just before you can adopt a puppy. I will be checking that you have a clean house and can afford to care for a pet. I do not want these puppies to go to any person who already has pets. They deserve undivided attention. You need to have a huge fenced yard, and a residence massive enough to accomadate a pet. I will inspect that you also have pet supplies such as a harness (no collars!), leashes, pet furniture, vitamins, shampoos, grooming brushes and meals. You will have to decide on a vet ahead of you adopt as well, I will want to verify that your vet is good.
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I once saved a groundhog's life. I had shot an arrow into the woods in my backyard and lost it. I searched for it every single day – my archery set only had 3 arrows! Lastly, one autumn day although searching for my arrow, I discovered a hungry groundhog who had stuck his head in an old coffee can and gotten stuck. 1 shouldn't strategy wild animals, but I could not help it I had to pull the guy out. He looked just like Winnie-the-Pooh with a jar stuck on his head. He was also dazed to do a lot much more than stare at me in bafflement and then scuttle off. Soon after which I identified my arrow. Becoming all of about 13 at the time, I took this as a profound sign of anything or other and wrote an really pompous story about it.


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Sea-Hawks win second game of the year, down Tigers 66-61
Memorial (1-13,1-13) 19 15 17 15 66
Dalhousie (3-11,3-11) 11 16 16 18 61
Pts: Caleb Gould - 15
Reb: Caleb Gould - 12
Ast: Vasilije Curcic - 4
Pts: Ritchie Kanza Mata - 15
Reb: Simon Marr - 7
Ast: Ritchie Kanza Mata - 5
The Memorial Sea-Hawks grinded out a tough, gritty win against the Dalhousie Tigers on Saturday night, staving off a late fourth quarter surge by the Tigers to go on to win 66-61.
The Tigers couldn't get anything to drop from the field, shooting 28.8% (21-73), and were ice cold from deep, shooting just 3-20. The Sea-Hawks had four starters in double figures.
The Sea-Hawks came out flying, catching the Tigers flat footed to start the game. The Tigers were without star big man Devon Stedman, who is out with an ankle injury. Memorial was up 19-7 late in the first quarter, before the Tigers tacked on four late points to trim the lead to eight as they trailed 19-11 after the first quarter.
The Sea-Hawks began the second quarter on a 9-0 run before Ritchie Kanza Mata's jump shot with 4:29 remaining broke the dry streak for the Tigers. Jacob Ranton's threewith 2:39 extended the Sea-Hawk's lead to 34-16.
The Tigers exploded back into the game in the third quarter and Jarred Reid nailed a pair of free throws with 5:58 left to make it a four point game, but Memorial kept getting buckets when it counted.
Kanza Mata put the team on his back in the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough as the Sea-Hawks went on to win 66-61, winning just their second game of the year. The Tigers drop to 3-12 and slip into eighth place with the loss.
Caleb Gould had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the double-double to lead the Sea-Hawk, while Vasilije Curcic chipped in 13 points and ten rebounds.
Kanza Mata had a monster game for the Tigers, dropping 15 points, five rebounds, five assists, and four steals in the loss. Jarred Reid added 14 points and five assists.
The teams will do battle again tomorrow at the Dalplex at 1:00pm.


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