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Stephanie Hilborne named CEO of Women in Sport
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Hilborne is an experienced campaigner for change in both policy and government legislation
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location: Chesterton Community College and Sports Centre, Cambridge UK, United Kingdom
Women in Sport has appointed Stephanie Hilborne OBE as its new chief executive.
Hilborne, who is currently CEO at The Wildlife Trusts, is an experienced campaigner for change, as well as driving developments in both policy and government legislation.
She has worked in nature conservation for more than 20 years and was instrumental in the introduction of the Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009 and the Natural Environment White Paper 2011.
According to a statement from Women in Sport, her ability to "change opinions and behaviour" was a deciding factor in her appointment, as her skills "will be vital for the next phase of Women in Sport's work creating equal opportunities for women and girls in sport".
Jayne Haines, chair of Women in Sport said: "Stephanie brings with her considerable experience as a CEO as well as a strength in campaigning and leadership and we are confident that she will take the charity to the next phase of development.
"Next year is the 36th year since Women in Sport was founded, and we are excited about what lies ahead for this fantastic organisation with Stephanie at the helm."
On her appointment, Hilborne commented: "Sport is something I'm hugely passionate about; it was the centre of my life when I was young, and it taught me leadership, teamwork and resilience.
"After many years in the environment movement, I am delighted to have the opportunity to help Women in Sport with its mission to break down barriers to girls and women participating in sport, unimpeded by social expectations."
Hilborne will officially take up her post at the end of October 2019 and replaces the outgoing Ruth Holdaway.
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Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited (SMIPL) has launched the fuel-injected (Fi) version of the Intruder in India. The Japanese two-wheeler giant had showcased the cruiser at the 2018 Auto Expo earlier this year. The new Suzuki Intruder Fi has been priced at Rs 1,06,896; the stock carburettor version retails for Rs 99,995 (both prices, ex-showroom, New Delhi).
The new cruiser motorcycle from Suzuki will be offered in two colour options – metallic oort/metallic matt black, and glass sparkle black/metallic matt titanium silver. According to Suzuki, the new fuel-injection system consists of six sensors that calculate the optimum amount of fuel required for better combustion. This not only improves fuel consumption, but also offers better throttle response.
The Suzuki Intruder is based on the Gixxer platform and is the first affordable cruiser from Suzuki for the Indian market. Styling of the new motorcycle is a bit in-your-face and it has received mixed reviews for its design language. It carries forward the same all-digital instrument console as seen on the Gixxer.
Powering the Intruder Fi, is the same 155cc, single-cylinder motor as seen on the standard Intruder and, despite the addition of fuel-injection, power and torque figures remain identical at 14.6hp and 14Nm respectively. Transmission duties are handled by a five-speed gearbox. It gets a 41mm telescopic setup up front and a mid-mounted, preload-adjustable monoshock at the rear. The bike has been equipped with 17-inch alloy wheels, which come shod with 100-section MRF Nylogrip Zapper up front and a 140-section Zapper at the rear. Anchorage is provided by disc brakes on both ends and single-channel ABS comes as standard.
Given its price and positioning, the Suzuki Intruder doesn't have any real competition in our two-wheeler space and the only motorcycle that comes close with respect to pricing is the Bajaj Avenger 220 series.


EMC has added information lifecycle management (ILM) to its Proven Professional training, emphasising its increased focus on the technology.
The addition of ILM comes as a result of the firm's acquisitions from last year. In July, it bought back-up storage company Legato, and in October, snapped up Documentum, a content management vendor.
"With the continual expansion of our product set, over the past 18 months we have developed a new strategy around ILM," said Rod Gilbert, business development manager for EMC global education, calling for a complete revamping of the training curriculum, originally introduced in 2001. "Market needs have changed around data, and it was necessary to enhance the programme to take advantage of the new technologies," he added.
Gilbert said there are other vendors who provide storage-specific certification, but he claimed that EMC's is the "most comprehensive" because of the depth and breadth of the programme. "We cover all aspects [of ILM] - whether it's planning, designing, implementing, or managing, maintaining and supporting the infrastructure needed to carry out ILM."
The training program includes six tracks that "cover an entire spectrum of roles that people would participate in," Gilbert said. Four of those tracks - storage administrator, technology architect, customer engineer and implementation engineer - are for authorised service partner certification, and the storage administrator track is also available for customer certification. The other two tracks are for sales and presales systems and sales engineers. They are geared toward authorised reseller partners.
The storage administrator track has five areas of specialisation: storage management, networked storage (SAN), networked storage (NS solution), Clariion solutions and business continuity. In addition, there are three levels of certification achievement: associate, specialist and expert level, which "cover everything from basics to the advanced."
Gilbert emphasized that the certification is "not just hardware or storage-centric" but includes both hardware and software, and even covers applications from other vendors like Oracle and Microsoft, and what their role is in the lifecycle of information. "In the expert level it gets into third-party applications where we look at how applications integrate with the infrastructure EMC provides."
At the expert level, the technical architecture track also covers third-party standards, the ITIL principles of designing and other things that have "nothing to do with EMC, but are really methodologies regarding how to design or plan IT infrastructure or solutions," he explained.
The higher the level of certification, the more hands-on the training gets, Gilbert noted. In the expert level, about 65 percent of time is spent in labs, versus 35 percent lecture; the hands-on/lecture ratio at the specialist level is about 50/50, while at the associate level it's predominately an 80/20 lecture/lab split, he said.
An alternative to lectures at any level is to take the e-learning option. "It's a challenge for customers these days to take time out of their schedules and attend a class. After listening to customers and partners through a number of vehicles, including our customer council and online surveys, the input was that, 'anything you can do to minimize our time out of field to sit in class is very valuable to us'."
The cost of certification varies, but exams are offered at Prometric worldwide for about $200 each. "If you're an expert with EMC or a guru, you can just take the exams, but if you're new to the technology, you need to progress through the curriculum." Since most of EMC's technology has been refreshed in the last six months, Gilbert said the firm strongly advises that certification candidates first take the free practice test and, based on the results, proceed either directly to the exam or take the course.
A training subscription for $9,995 is available at the expert level. "It's like an unlimited pass for one year." For some of the smaller tracks, EMC offers bundled packages or "value packs". A customer who just wants to take Clariion training at the specialist level, for example, would be paying somewhere around $5,000.
It remains to be seen whether students who carry these credentials will have the "opportunity to maximize their earnings potential," Gilbert admitted. "But if I was a CIO and had two candidates in front of me, and my organization had a large Oracle financial database, if one of them was a basic DBA and other had some underlying knowledge of infrastructure and training, my move would be to choose the one with additional credentials."
Bill Ross, co-chair of the certification council at CIPS National, pointed out that this type of certification, much like Microsoft's MCSE designation, is "useful for organisations that have a particular technology and expect people to be competent at managing that technology."
He said ILM certification could become increasingly desirable the more companies are required to manage certain types of data - for example, payroll and tax information - over longer periods of time. "They've got lots of information, and sometimes it could get lost or forgotten. If you provide a certification that keeps people aware (of those issues), that may be useful."
An employer who would consider listing ILM certification as a requirement would first need to have bought into ILM as a principle, Ross said, adding that it's important to balance the certification against the practical experience of using the vendor's products.


At The Body Management Gym we offer Pilates on a 1:1 or small group session basis. Practising Pilates is a skill acquired over time. It needs to be taught accurately with a close attention to detail for each individual.
We run approximately ten regular Pilates classes a week – view our full class schedule here. Places do get snapped up fast, book online here (you can also ask to be put on a waiting list if all places are full).
Pilates can make a world of difference to your physical shape, your body's movement and your general wellbeing; we really recommend that you give it a go!
In addition to our standard Pilates classes we also offer a couple of classes targeted at specific conditions. Max Your Back is designed especially for those with a history of back pain or with a back condition. Prime Movers is for our older clients who are keen to stay mobile and active!
For all exercise to be safe and effective, the 'core' or deep muscle system needs to work appropriately. When these muscles are not working properly, our body loses its stable platform and other muscles and joints can be affected. Pilates is an approach to exercise which focuses on these deep muscles, providing an excellent foundation for corrective exercise and building stability through conditioning.
Although Pilates techniques are now used widely in gyms and exercise classes, too often these techniques are used inappropriately, focusing on 'strengthening the core' which can lead to stiffness and limited movement. Pilates is really a specialised area of medicine requiring a high-level of training, qualification and experience. Our team of chartered physiotherapists and Pilates instructors at Physiocare are trained to the highest standards of clinical excellence – so you can rest assured you're in safe hands.
View our class times and payment options by clicking on the Pilates Membership option below. You might also like to take a look at Max Your Back, Prime Movers or Body Recovery for Mums.
When are your Pilates classes held?
We run regular, six-week courses offering Pilates class. You may choose between either a day-time or an evening course. Each course consists of six Pilates sessions, usually in line with Berkshire school term times, and is led by the same Physiotherapist or Pilates instructor each week to provide consistency.
The classes have a maximum of six people. This enables us to offer a high level of supervision to ensure that you exercise properly and gain maximum effect from each class.
Do you have beginners and advanced courses?
We find that individual skill levels vary tremendously, even if you have done Pilates before. That's why we do not separate course attendees according to their experience, but offer a single class for all instead. Our classes are small enough that we are able to tailor exercises to each individual. Pilates is not about how hard you can work certain muscles but about your ability to move freely and with control. The instructors will be able to progress the exercises accordingly for each person in each class.
Can I come along to any session?
When you book onto a course, your lesson will be the same time each week. We do not allow people to drop in on other courses as it would be difficult to measure progression consistently. On completion of your course, you may be able to move to another course on a different day and or time, depending upon availability.
If I cannot make a lesson will I still be charged?
The cost of the course is based on the full six weeks and so we do not offer refunds for classes missed.
It is best to wear loose, comfortable clothing that you can move easily in.
Yes, you can book one-hour lessons which will include instruction on our specialist Pilates equipment.
How much do your Pilates classes cost?
One hour private lesson: £45 (book a course of 10 lessons, pay for 9 in advance and receive the 10th lesson free of charge).


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Host to the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship since 2001, the 2010 Open Final Qualifying and the 2013 Ricoh Women's British Open Final Qualifying, Kingsbarns has been widely acclaimed by players and media alike since opening 14 years ago and has fitted seamlessly into the famous golfing landscape of St Andrews.
Kingsbarns joins a stellar list of courses on the Championship rota and is universally thought to be one of the World's best modern courses, ranked Number One in GolfWeek's Top 100 modern courses within the UK and ranked 18th on Golf Digest's Top 100 Best Courses Outside the United States.
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A Visit to the Edward Gorey House Continued
My visit to the Edward Gorey House in October was full of pleasant surprises. One room at the far back of the house had several very interesting displays, including the puppets shown in my previous post and materials relating to the animated sequence for Mystery!. This room also contains a display of hand made stuffed creatures. The case displays the popular Figbash dolls along with other rare pieces sewn by Mr. Gorey. A pile of frogs (with different styles of feet) are joined by a rabbit, elephant, and dragon-like creature. Of particular interest is the cat - a first glance it looks like one of the printed Toy Works cats, but it is actually a hand painted version.
In their goal to display as many interesting things as possible, the room also houses a wall of illustrated books that you can look through. Part of this display is a xerox facsimile or one of Mr. Gorey's sketchbooks containing sketches for the Nantucket and Broadway productions of Dracula. I was delighted to find a page showing his sketch for the iconic poster created for the Broadway production.
Even more of a surprise was to find a page showing the original sketch for the Dracula proscenium and drop curtain used in Nantucket. The finished artwork for the proscenium is in my collection, so it was a thrill to see the sketch. All of the elements in the final artwork are present in the sketch. When the production transferred to Broadway, Mr. Gorey redesigned the proscenium and drop curtain. One can assume that the crossing out on the sketch was done as he went through his idea book and was deciding what to keep and what to re-imagine.
A Visit to the Edward Gorey House
This past week, Bill and I made a visit the Edward Gorey House Museum in Yarmouthport, MA. The 2015 show focuses on Edward Gorey's self published Fantod Press books, and is on display through the end of the year.
Once again, Edward Gorey House director Rick Jones and his staff have done an exceptional job displaying pieces for the exhibition. Every room contains hundreds of objects, each with a story that can be related by the extremely knowledgeable docents - the day we visited, a gentleman named Charles was a delightful and informative companion as we walked through the show. The depth of material and information found in this year's exhibit is second to none.
Upon entering the House, visitors are greeted by a delightful Fantod Under Glass who presides over the exhibition and was created specially for the show. The first two cases you encounter on either side of this colorful fellow are worth the price of admission in themselves.
Edward Gorey created the Fantod Press to self publish The Beastly Baby, a title he was shopping around and which no publisher wanted to touch...much like the Baby itself! These original drawings are rarely seen and are unexpectedly larger in person than their printed versions - a rarity since Mr. Gorey usually drew art at the size he intended for publication. A small sculptural Baby which once belonged to Mr. Gorey is included in the case.
The display on the other side of the Fantod shows artwork from The Chinese Obelisks. On exhibit in this case is an actual mummy's hand which belonged to Edward Gorey and inspired several creepy drawings.
Edward Gorey's home has many rooms with twists, turns, nooks, and crannies which lend themselves to intimate display areas. The small scale of the original art on display is never overwhelmed by the space, and there is something to see in every corner. The interactive layout of the exhibitions also allows for multiple viewers to be in the spaces and still feel as through the show is there "just for them".
In addition to the Fantod displays, there are exhibits of other aspects of Edward Gorey's career. Of particular interest is the large (in terms of material) display showcasing Edward Gorey's relationship with Dracula. The Dracula material includes original artwork from an unfinished illustrated version of the novel, artwork, photographs, and Mr. Gorey's Tony Award from the Broadway production and original art used for the Dracula Toy Theater. The piece of artwork from the Toy Theater has to be one of the largest and most awe-inspiring pieces of original Gorey artwork I have ever seen in person.
Below is a photo of director Rick Jones with myself in Edward Gorey's kitchen, a room that contains a display of personal and interesting objects which Mr. Gorey collected and actually had arranged on his counter tops.
The 2015 show continues on weekends through the end of the year, and is not to be missed.
Limericks for Book Week
In the 1970's and early '80's, work by Edward Gorey would appear sporadically in Cricket Magazine. Cricket was started in 1973 by Marianne Carus, whose intent was to create a literary magazine for children aged 9 to 14 that could be used in the classroom. Many famous authors and illustrators were associated with the publication.
One of the earliest contributions by Edward Gorey was a limerick reprinted from a 1975 Book Week pamphlet that also included Gorey illustrations. Most of Mr. Gorey's future contributions would be as illustrator for works by other authors, but the magazine did reprint a portion of his Dancing Cats in the March 1981 issue. It appears that all contributions by Edward Gorey to Cricket were, like the two shown here, reprinted from other sources and were not made specifically for the magazine.

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On TV: Men Behaving Badly
The existential hell that is CBS's Monday night lineup
TV review, March 30, 2007
It goes without saying that the average sitcom is never going to make you laugh. The only question is what form of humorlessness a particular show will take. Will it be bold and cheerful and stupid, the way classic sitcoms like My Three Sons or Bewitched used to be -- like loud uncles at family reunions who tell you their wheeziest knee-slappers as they elbow you in the ribs? Or will it be soothingly mirthless like The Cosby Show or Family Ties, where every joke seemed to have been designed by teams of scientists and educators as a synthetic humor substitute?
With the flourishing crop of sitcoms on CBS Monday nights, we seem to be moving into a newer and more menacing way of not being funny. How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement -- they're like a row of drunk men at a bar telling sour jokes about their wives and girlfriends while laying down the law about life. The longer you listen, the more you feel like you're staring into the abyss. You don't laugh with them, and you can't quite bear to laugh at them -- only because you're just not capable of being that dark.
Two and a Half Men is the most brutal of the bunch. It's about two brothers whose contrasting sufferings reveal the fundamental hell of American masculinity. One brother, Charlie (Charlie Sheen), is a "typical guy" -- which is to say he's a raging horndog who spends every waking moment pursuing, bedding, and discarding a succession of gorgeous women. The other brother, Alan (Jon Cryer), is Charlie's opposite -- he's a failed horndog, basically a doofus, who spends every waking moment longing for, and striking out with, gorgeous women. He has to settle for bedding female doofuses and is perpetually hoping that they're secretly slutty. Only they keep turning out to be, in Charlie's courteous words, "crazy bitches."
That's it; that's all that ever happens: a weekly dance of horndogs, doofuses, sluts, and crazy bitches. One week Alan is drawn to a female doofus (Allison Janney from The West Wing), but she proves to be a crazy bitch who leaves him tied to the bed and dressed in drag. End of episode. In another, somewhat more contemplative one, Charlie undergoes a spiritual crisis when he realizes he's becoming middle-aged and can't keep up with his current, achingly nubile girlfriend. His solution is to go to a bar where senior citizens hang out and find a hot older woman (special guest star Morgan Fairchild). She restores his confidence by promising that if he takes her to bed she'll have multiple orgasms. Problem solved.
If this horndoggy triumphalism is too much for you, stick around for Rules of Engagement immediately afterward. It's the same show, only more morose -- essentially a meditation on marriage as a form of spiritual death. Lead character Jeff (Patrick Warburton) is a horndog emeritus -- he's married, which means that he's watching the last flickering traces of his joie de vivre fade in the embers. His wife, Audrey (Megyn Price), is a curdled version of the classic sitcom wife -- consumed with bitterness, contemptuous of her husband, and retaining only a somber satisfaction in her ability to torture him by withholding sex. But, as Jeff explains, that's only to be expected: they've been together for several years, which means of course "the sex part of our marriage is pretty much over."
Meanwhile, Jeff's younger friend Adam (Oliver Hudson) is terrified by the thought of his impending marriage to Jennifer (Bianca Kajilich), who's a sort of Audrey in training. Jennifer has Adam in total thrall while flashing all kinds of warnings that she's going to make his married existence a hell on earth. In one episode, Adam coaxes her into revealing her fantasy of the perfect birthday. She confesses that it involves taking a nap while he cleans the apartment. "No crazy sex?" he asks, his voice tremulous with dawning horror. There'd be no point to fantasizing that, she tells him: "Sexwise, I figure I can get anything from you any day of the year. I mean, I'm a girl and you're a guy, after all." He nods glumly, fully grasping at last the misery ahead; it's as though he's hearing the clods of dirt fall on his coffin.
But the most sinister show of them all is How I Met Your Mother -- if only because it's the one most determined to come off as upbeat and kicky and light. The premise is that sometime in the future our hero Ted (Josh Radnor) is filling his children in on the absurdly complicated chain of events that led to their procreation. Every episode is simply another piece in the grand design of destiny: Ted was frantic to get to the airport to catch a plane for a job interview but was sidetracked by goofy complications involving jumping subway turnstiles and making a court date and running the New York marathon, and thus didn't get the job and stayed in New York, and thus met . . . and so on.
It might be almost charming if the story lines weren't such slack, stupid exercises in post-Seinfeld absurdism -- the producers have forgotten, or aren't capable of following, the Seinfeld rule that this kind of surrealist plotting must look as rigorously logical as a Restoration farce. (If you knew you were due in court, why would you agree to a job interview in another city on the same day?) But the deeper problem is that underneath the cheeriness is an unarticulated horror: the show is really about the psychopathology of the nice guy. Ted might seem harmless and goofy, but deep down he's a doofus version of Raging Bull.
The episode that exposes his soul is about a fight he has with his girlfriend, Robin (Cobie Smulders). She wants him to clear his apartment of mementos of former lovers. He agrees, but only if she'll do the same with hers. She tells him there's a problem: the only gifts she's kept are her beloved pet dogs. You might think that a chivalrous man would at this point drop the whole issue, but not our nice guy Ted. He's now consumed by fantasies about the dogs; when he looks at them he sees Robin's ex-lovers. He pictures her leading these men around on leashes -- a scene heavy with suggestions of both bestiality and S-M, and way kinkier than anything I've ever seen on Cinemax. He demands that she get rid of the dogs, and to save their relationship she sends them off to an aunt upstate.
But, wait, we're not done! Robin then finds out that Ted lied; he never got rid of his mementos. What are living creatures like dogs worth, after all, compared to his prize collection of inanimate objects? Ted and Robin have a ferocious argument -- mercifully presented as a high-speed montage -- and then at the close of the episode, in a resolution that tops any J-horror extravaganza for bloodcurdling doom, they decide . . . to move in together.
Not scary enough for you? Then consider the kicker -- which, as in all true horror classics, is never stated directly but left for you to work out for yourself. Faithful viewers will have already picked up clues in previous episodes that Robin is not going to turn out to be the mother of Ted's children. This means that even after Robin gives up her dogs, her self-worth, and her sanity in order to live with this transcendent jerk, he's going to move on to somebody else.
Then again, a revelation like that might actually be worth a laugh. Because if the show isn't pure nightmare fantasy and somewhere in the world there really are guys like this finding women to reproduce with, then the joke's on all of us.


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L'église Saint-Corneille-et-Saint-Cyprien d'Hary est une église fortifiée qui se dresse sur la commune d'Hary dans le département de l'Aisne en région Hauts-de-France.

Au titre des monuments historiques ; l'église fait l'objet d'une inscription par arrêté du  ; les parties fortifiées comprenant le clocher et la tour circulaire qui lui est accolée font l'objet d'un classement par arrêté du .

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L'église Saint-Corneille-et-Saint-Cyprien d'Hary est située dans le département français de l'Aisne sur la commune d'Hary.

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A l'église d'Hary, la partie dominante de l'édifice, c'est un solide clocher carré dont la destination n'était pas d'arrêter une force ennemie régulière, mais seulement d'offrir un asile sûr aux habitants du village, lorsque jadis les coureurs des armées belligérantes se répandaient dans les campagnes pour butiner et rançonner. En effet, le clocher n'était susceptible que d'une résistance passive, consistant dans la masse, dans l'épaisseur des murs. Il n'y a trace ni de mâchicoulis, ni de créneaux, ni d'autres défenses constituant la forteresse militaire proprement dite ; d'un autre côté, on voit encore aux parois internes des murailles, au-dessus de la voûte du rez-de-chaussée, une double rangée d'entailles destinées à recevoir des poutrelles, indice certain de l'existence de plusieurs étages qui sont aussi indiqués à l'extérieur par des cordons de briques.

Le clocher est éclairé, dans sa partie supérieure, par deux ouvertures cintrées pratiquées sur chaque face ; il est accosté à l'un de ses angles d'une tourelle ronde qui renferme un escalier, et par les trois autres, à des contreforts qui montent jusqu'au comble, lequel est à quatre pans. Au pied du massif, qui est tout de briques dont la teinte rouge se rehausse de dessins réticulés en briques vitrifiées, s'ouvre le portail de l'église : une baie cintrée et moulurée en pierre blanche, surmontée d'une fenêtre de même style. Sur un des impostes du portail est gravé assez grossièrement un écu qui porte les armes de René du Bec et d'Isabeau de Coucy, ainsi figurées : parti, au , fuselé de gueules et d'argent, au , fascé de vair et de gueules de six pièces. René du Bec, seigneur de Wardes, gouverneur de La Capelle, avait épousé Isabeau de Coucy, dame de Vervins, veuve de Roger de Cominge, en 1618.

L'ensemble de l'église a la forme de la croix ; les bras sont peu développés ; le chevet est à l'orient. Par une singularité dont les campagnes offrent de fréquents exemples, la nef est beaucoup plus basse que la partie supérieure de la croix qu'elle relie au clocher. L'œil est vraiment choqué de cette brusque dépression de niveau, qui résulte de ce que le chœur seul étant voûté, il a fallu lui donner une plus grande élévation.

Les deux murs de la nef sont construits en moellons dont les plus gros ont  de hauteur sur  de longueur. Au mur du sud, des chaînes de tuiles maintiennent le niveau des assises, à la manière romaine qui se continua pendant le moyen âge. Au nord, affleurant le mur, se dessinent trois grandes arcades ogivales en briques avec clef en pierre, reposant sur des piliers carrés en moellons ornés d'une corniche aujourd'hui arasée. Ces arcades font supposer que la nef avait autrefois un bas-côté ou du moins qu'on avait le projet de lui en donner un ; en tout cas il ne faut pas s'étonner que l'autre flanc de la nef n'offre pas les traces d'un bas-côté correspondant : les auteurs citent plus d'une église qui présente la même irrégularité.

Les bras ou, pour employer le terme savant, le transept et le chœur sont en moellons comme la nef.

Six contreforts saillants à retraites successives soutiennent le chœur qui se termine par une abside à trois pans. Entre les arcs-boutants s'ouvrent cinq fenêtres à plein cintre, longues, étroites, entourées d'un double encadrement de pierre taillé en biseau, et surmontées d'une moulure à gorge.

Les fenêtres du transept et de la nef ont toutes été refaites en briques et remaniées par des mains qui n'avaient nul souci de se conformer au style de l'édifice.

En entrant dans l'église, on se trouve sous un porche intérieur dont la voûte en plein cintre est soutenue par deux arceaux en briques posées de champ qui se croisent en diagonale et retombent sur des culs-de-lampe formés d'un quart de sphère couronné d'une moulure ; c'est le rez-de-chaussée du clocher. On lit sur la clé de voûte la date de 1619 ; d'ailleurs le portail avec ses moulures multipliées sans colonnes ni chapiteaux annonce bien la fin de la renaissance.

Le porche donne sur la nef par une large arcade en plein cintre dont les pieds-droits ornés d'une cimaise font corps avec les murs latéraux ; pareille arcade, mais n'ayant qu'un simple cordon saillant au lieu d'une cimaise, se répète à la hauteur du transept, à l'extérieur, la surélévation des constructions.

La nef est dénuée de toute espèce d'ornement architectural. Elle n'est pas voûtée et ne l'a certainement jamais été. Primitivement la nef des grandes églises même n'avait qu'un plafond de bois ; telle était celle de la basilique Saint-Remi de Reims () dont le voûtage n'a été exécuté qu'au . Un lambris cache la charpente de la nef de l'église d'Hary ; sur une des dernières planches on lit : Dobigny 1704.

Dans les temps anciens, dit Viollet-le-Duc, on voûtait le chœur seulement en souvenir des cryptes où les premiers chrétiens célébraient leurs mystères et aussi par tradition. En effet la basilique romaine a servi d'abord de temple aux chrétiens primitifs, puis de modèle aux églises de la Thiérache. La basilique était un tribunal qui se terminait par un hémicycle où siégeaient les juges ; l'hémicycle seul était voûté, tandis que le reste de l'édifice abandonné au public laissait voir la charpente. En copiant cette disposition, les chrétiens se contentèrent de cacher la charpente par des lambris, et quand plus tard les grandes églises se voûtèrent sur toute leur longueur, les petites églises, les églises de village restèrent fidèles à la tradition, sans doute par économie.
Au centre du transept, on retrouve une voûte plein cintre avec deux arceaux diagonaux dont les naissances plongent dans le parement des murs et dont les arêtes ont fait place à deux gorges, ce qui leur donne le profil des nervures de la fin du .

À droite et à gauche, deux larges arcades basses à plein cintre s'ouvrent chacune sur une chapelle à voûte écrasée doublée de deux nervures diagonales à profil carré qui vont aussi prendre naissance dans le parement des murs : ce sont les deux bras du transept.

Il est peu probable que l'architecte ait voulu faire ici des voûtes surbaissées; leur écrasement est le résultat du peu d'élévation que lui laissait la couverture qui n'est que le prolongement du comble du chœur et de la travée centrale du transept.

Au-dessus de l'autel de la chapelle de gauche, on voit une statue de bois peinte qui représente saint Berthaud fort en vénération à Hary, quoique les patrons officiels soient saints Corneille et Cyprien. Le saint personnage est assis ; une longue robe, serrée aux reins par une ceinture bouclée, tombe sur ses pieds ; une pèlerine à double pli couvre ses épaules ; ses bras qui sortent de larges manches paraissent ornés aux poignets de hautes manchettes plissées ; la main droite s'appuie sur un bâton ; la gauche, grande ouverte, s'étend en avant ; une chevelure abondante et une longue barbe encadrent la figure ; la tête est couverte d'une toque à bords retroussés de la fin du  ou du commencement du  ; à côté du saint s'accroupit un petit animal dans lequel on a quelque peine à reconnaître un lion.

Comme aucun attribut religieux n'accompagne le saint, quelques personnes ont voulu y voir l'effigie d'un seigneur, à cause du lion peut-être. Mais quel seigneur de ce temps-là se serait laissé représenter sans le moindre insigne nobiliaire ou héraldique, et avec un bâton rustique qui était l'arme du vilain. Saint Berthaud faisait partie de ces missions irlandaises qui vinrent en France aux  chercher de pieuses retraites et évangéliser les habitants de la campagne. Il s'était fixé dans un désert du pays porcien, et poussait sans doute ses excursions jusqu'en Thiérache. La statue représente donc plutôt un de ces humbles missionnaires qu'un noble seigneur. Le costume du  ne détruit pas non plus l'interprétation populaire qui paraît la meilleure. On sait qu'autrefois les artistes n'hésitaient pas à habiller les personnages les plus anciens à la mode du temps. Quant au lion, il n'est sans doute qu'une allusion au rôle évangélique de saint Berthaud, car le lion est l'attribut de saint Marc, l'un des quatre évangélistes.

Le chœur est la partie la plus intéressante de l'intérieur de l'église ; il reproduit, dans les modestes proportions d'une église de village, les dispositions de l'architecture qui a donné les belles cathédrales du moyen âge.

Le grand arc qui ouvre sur le chœur forme une ogive surélevée, c'est-à-dire que l'ogive se rétrécit légèrement près des impostes, comme l'ouverture d'un fer à cheval ; il porte, à l'intrados, une bande accompagnée de deux tores et repose sur deux colonnes cantonnées chacune d'angles saillants et de deux autres colonnes plus minces dont l'une, du côté du sanctuaire, reçoit une moulure ronde qui encadre le grand arc, tandis que l'autre, du côté de la nef, s'élève dans le vide.

Ce chœur est divisé en cinq travées par de petites colonnes d'où partent, pour converger vers un point central, six portions d'arc qui, avec une septième bandant sur la grande arcade, soutiennent la voûte partagée ainsi en sept sections dont le remplissage est en brique. Les sections qui correspondent aux cinq travées se creusent en voûtelettes assez profondes, au-dessous desquelles s'ouvrent les fenêtres. Ces fenêtres sont décorées de colonnettes et d'arcs en boudin de forme légèrement ogivale qui servent de formerets aux petites voûtes. Ce sont là les seuls formerets qu'on trouve dans l'église, les autres voûtes en sont dépourvues.

Au fond du sanctuaire s'élève un pauvre autel néo-grec, auquel on ne peut pardonner de masquer entièrement la fenêtre du milieu bouchée d'ailleurs par un mur de briques.

Les arceaux du chœur sont, comme ceux de la voûte centrale du, creusés en gorge sur leurs arêtes.

Toutes les colonnes manquent de bases ; elles ont sans doute disparu par suite de la surélévation du pavé du chœur.

Quand saint Bernard eut stigmatisé comme contraires à l'esprit chrétien les étranges figures introduites par la barbarie dans la décoration des édifices religieux, les architectes abandonnèrent ces traditions ; mais en même temps ils s'affranchirent de l'influence byzantine qui leur avait inspiré les moulures romanes, et cherchant autour d'eux de nouveaux motifs d'ornementation, ils créèrent un art décoratif national. La nouvelle école prit ses premiers modèles sur le bord des ruisseaux, au pied des haies, le long des bois, et l'on vit, avant la fin du , surtout dans l'Ile-de-France et sur les bords de l'Oise, les plus modestes plantes, agrandies et imitées librement par le sculpteur, orner de leurs contours rustiques les parties ornementées des plus belles cathédrales. Entré dans cette voie, l'architecte du Moyen Âge parcourt progressivement l'échelle des modèles que lui offre la nature, et après s'être servi des plantes herbacées, il s'adresse au lierre, à la vigne, à l'églantier, puis aux grands végétaux, comme le figuier, le chêne.

Les chapiteaux appartiennent à la première période de développement.

Prenons, pour exemple, les chapiteaux qui reçoivent le grand arc du chœur. Ces chapiteaux sont enveloppés de feuilles dont les unes montent jusqu'à la moulure du tailloir pour en soutenir les angles, tandis que les autres restées basses laissent paraître la corbeille circulaire qui fait le fond du chapiteau ; ce sont des feuilles de plantain à en juger par les longues nervures verticales qui caractérisent le dos de cette feuille et qui sont franchement accusées sur la pierre ; les extrémités se renversent en crochets et montrent les nervures transversales de l'endroit de la feuille. On voit que l'artiste, forcé de donnera la modeste plante des proportions architecturales, a su du moins lui conserver sa physionomie en rendant fidèlement sa structure. En outre sur le chapiteau de la colonne de droite, la naissance des feuilles est recouverte de trois feuilles, à triples folioles, qui pourraient bien avoir été empruntées à la chélidoine ou grande éclaire souvent mise à contribution par l'art décoratif de l'époque.

Les chapiteaux des colonnettes qui supportent les arceaux de la voûte offrent également un mélange de feuilles à crochet et d'autres feuilles à nervures dorsales plus ou moins prononcées suivant leur nature. Les chapiteaux d'Hary possèdent les traits distinctifs attribués par Viollet-le-Duc aux chapiteaux de la fin du : «À la fin du , les crochets prennent souvent, dans les chapiteaux, la place importante ; ils soutiennent les angles du tailloir ; ils font saillie sur la partie moyenne de la corbeille ; ils se contournent et s'enroulent comme le fait un bourgeon commençant à se développer. »

Signalons pour finir, à gauche de l'autel, deux crédences géminées creusées dans la muraille ; l'une, servant de piscine, offre une curieuse disposition : sa voussure consiste en trois secteurs coniques aboutissant, au fond de la niche, à un même sommet et s'épanouissant, à fleur du mur, en arc trilobé ; l'autre n'a pas de cuvette et n'est voûtée que d'un seul secteur conique. Aux deux crédences, les arêtes ont été taillées en biseau ; ce qui se faisait alors pour économiser les moulures.

A quelle période architecturale rapporter l'église d'Hary?
Pour le clocher la réponse est écrite sur la clé de voûte du rez-de-chaussée. Quant au reste de l'église il date de l'époque où le plein cintre, qui caractérise le style roman, commence à disparaître devant l'arc brisé de l'ère ogivale. En effet si le transept est d'une ordonnance toute romane, si les baies du chœur sont en plein cintre, sauf quelques tendances vers l'ogive qui font saisir, pour ainsi dire, la transition sur le fait, nombre d'autres détails annoncent le commencement de l'âge ogival, tels sont : la saillie prononcée des contreforts avec leurs retraites successives ; l'abside à pans coupés ; la forme des arcs noyés dans le mur nord de la nef ; la grande arcade du chœur ; les chapiteaux à crochets et l'emploi des végétaux indigènes dans leur décoration ; le petit arc trilobé de la piscine qui marque le passage du plein cintre à la courbe brisée.

Ainsi l'église d'Hary appartient au style de transition, et au vu des éléments énumérés précédemment, la date de sa construction est estimée vers la fin du . Certes, le plein cintre, a disparu des cathédrales de Laon et de Soissons commencées à cette même époque, domine néanmoins dans l'église d'Hary. Mais il faut considérer que les cathédrales étaient confiées aux meilleurs maîtres du temps qui marchaient en tête du mouvement et qui créaient, tandis que les églises de village étaient aux mains d'ouvriers médiocres qui copiaient des œuvres antérieures et suivaient ainsi de loin les innovations architecturales.

Du reste on ne possède aucun document écrit de nature à préciser l'âge de l'église d'Hary. M. A. de Marsy, dans son travail sur les possessions de l'abbaye de Saint-Corneille de Compiègne dont dépendait Hary mentionne bien un titre de 1262 qui fait allusion à l'église d'Hary, et il constate même que l'autel d'Hary n'est jamais jusque-là cité parmi les églises dépendant de Saint-Corneille, ce qui est en effet singulier, d'autant plus que l'église étant encore aujourd'hui sous le vocable de Saint-Corneille a dû être édifiée par l'abbaye de Compiègne ; et cependant l'église d'Hary ne peut appartenir au , car au  le plein cintre n'existe plus dans les édifices religieux du nord de la France et particulièrement de l'Ile-de-France.

Le titre de 1262 ne parait donc devoir infirmer en rien les considérations qui décident d'attribuer l'église au  : en pareille matière, les pierres parlent plus haut que les titres.

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As he neared the athletic building, he heard giggling and thought of the women on their bikes. Water splashed, more laughter, a locker slammed shut. He ducked into the breezeway and saw them, three pretty women in their late twenties, hair tied back, long legs and arms bared for summer. They wore tight biker's shorts and loose tank tops, and their Keds were well-worn and dusty from use. The three of them crowded around the building's only water fountain. One held the button down while another drank from it; the third held her friend's hair back out of the way so it wouldn't get wet. The laughter came because the one with her finger on the button kept letting go, stopping the flow of water just when her friend tried to drink. "Crissy, stop!"
Josh paused at one end of the short breezeway and leaned over, hands on his knees, to wait out their antics. The women saw him and giggled more -- this close, they sounded like a bunch of turkeys gobbling to each other in a language he couldn't quite understand. "Stop," the one said again, nodding her head in Josh's direction. "You're getting me all wet."
That set them off again. Josh rolled his eyes and waited. Finally Crissy held down the button long enough for her friend to drink and the ladies switched positions. Then it started up all over again. Seriously? he thought, watching them. Can't I just get a quick sip and be on my way?
Before he could ask, a door squealed behind him and their friend exited the men's room. "Hey," he said to Josh. When he biked past, Josh hadn't had a moment to really look him over, but now ... sweet Lord.
Six five, maybe, very tall. Not slim really, but lean, arms and legs thick with muscle. He wore Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt with the sleeves ripped off, a baseball cap clamped down backwards over dark, wavy hair, and a pair of wraparound, iridescent sunglasses hid his eyes. But the cut of his jaw, the set of his mouth, the hollow of his throat ... everything Josh could see only made him want more.
Hoping his voice didn't really sound as high-pitched and squeaky as it did to his own ears, Josh limited his response to, "Hey." Anything more would have turned into an invitation to go back inside the men's room for a quick fuck.
Yeah, right, he berated himself. A guy like that isn't interested in your fat ass.
Only he wasn't fat anymore, was he?
The guy looked at the water fountain, then back at Josh. "Come on, girls. Can't you see he's waiting to take a drink?"
One of the girls gave Josh a seductive smile. "You look hot to me." Her friends squealed with laughter, and she pressed the button to activate the fountain. "Let me hold it down for you."
"Kelly, seriously?" The man groaned and turned to Josh. "I'm sorry, man."
"It's cool."
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When he leaned over the fountain, one of the girls let out a loud wolf whistle that echoed through the breezeway. Another said, "Mmm, baby," and her friend added, "Sexy butt." Josh felt his face burn and he dipped it under the flow of water to cool it off. Was this how women felt when men catcalled to them? Part of him wanted to like it, but part of him couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.
Their male friend muttered, "God, you're worse than a bunch of construction workers."
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"Shut up," he growled under his breath.
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Like you stand a chance with him, he reminded himself.
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CEO Kim Gilbert takes his responsibilities seriously. "We want our clients to use their limited finances to best serve their clients," he explains. "But beyond that, I believe we are all members of the same community and need to help one another."
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"At Zenith, we all look after one another as a team, and the natural extension of this is that we also look to help other members of our community where possible," says Gilbert of the supportive, inclusive environment his firm stands for.
"I am a huge believer in always treating everyone the way you would like to be treated – whether they are family, friends, staff, clients or even strangers. I think our staff feel the same way."
He is also a big believer in 'karma'. "We've been fortunate that Zenith is a successful business – due to the efforts of our staff – so it's incumbent on us to give back to our community, and to help those less fortunate than ourselves."
Zenith's staff embrace its many varied philanthropic activities – from the annual Melbourne Cup lunch to support Nulsen Disability Services to the St Vincent's CEO Sleepout and Christmas appeal and Empowering Cambodia's Cow Bank.
"I think our people get a real buzz out of helping others, and making a difference to someone's life," saysGilbert.
Giving back is personal
Nulsen Disability Services, a Zenith client, is only partially funded by government. It provides disabled residents with independent living – but fitting out residences for those with high needs doesn't come cheaply. So in 2006, Gilbert organised a bike ride from Albany to Margaret River, raising $100,000 for Nulsen's Charlesworth Estate Project.
"Our staff have built up close relationships with Nulsen and their residents over the years," explains Gilbert. "My first interaction with them had a profound effect on me – growing up in a very small country town, I had no idea of the challenges people with different abilities face. So through our events, we raise important funds but we also raise awareness – and we make sure the residents who can come have a great time."
Every year, Zenith hosts a Melbourne Cup Lunch that typically raises $20,000 for the organisation. "This year we had over 130 people, including 17 Nulsen residents and their carers, all dressed as heroes or villains," says Gilbert. "It's a fantastic day out for them, and we present them with gift boxes prepared by our staff to take back to share with other residents."
I think our people get a real buzz out of helping others, and making a difference to someone's life.
Kim Gilbert, Zenith Insurance
"My hope is always that employees who attend from our supporting organisations embrace the fact there are people with different abilities, they are part of our community and should be able to enjoy all that life offers them," says Gilbert.
He says last year's lunch raised money to sponsor an indigenous resident's first art exhibition. Zenith has since commissioned two paintings from Greg Barr, to depict how he sees the relationship between him, Nulsen and Zenith.
"I think that was the proudest moment for our entire team – most of Greg's paintings sold, and we believe he was the first disabled Noongar to hold a private exhibition."
An endurance test with the Red Sky Ride
Gilbert also co-founded the Red Sky Ride challenge in 2008 to raise funds for Solaris Cancer Care. Every February, about 20 riders cycle 1,000km over a week – it's hot and painful, which Gilbert says reflects the experience every cancer sufferer has to go through.
"Solaris is a remarkable organisation that improves quality of life for patients, carers and their families after a cancer diagnosis," he says. "We've raised over $3million over 10 years – and I only missed one ride when I had both my knees replaced."
A sustainable difference
Zenith's staff have enthusiastically embraced the Cow Bank, making gold coin donations at the office bar to fund cows for Cambodians. "Through Empowering Cambodia's work, cows can provide recurring income and help people break the poverty cycle," says Gilbert. "As a result of the fundraising, the team have purchased 40 cows so far – who've then produced 45 calves."
The team at Zenith also donate their time to many client activities – from family day BBQs for clients to the Vinnies Christmas Appeal.
"We all want to help organisations that provide essential services to those who need it most," says Gilbert. "It gives us all a sense of meaningful purpose."
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Department of Health and Human ServicesNews2010 Funding Opportunity for International Medical Students
Funding Opportunity for International Medical Students
The Department of Health and Ageing has requested a submission from all jurisdictions in relation to funds required for the Up skilling Program in 2010. This program was initiated a few years ago to support international medical specialists (IMS) to gain their specialists qualifications. Tasmania did not have any positions under this program in 2008 &2009. However, we can still apply for funds to provide support to IMS for 2010. The use of these funds may include payment of salary for the IMS; costs associated with backfilling the IMS position while the candidate attends relevant educational activities, travel expenses to and from such activities, mentoring support and so on.
The Commonwealth advised that they expect all submissions by the end of February, however, later submission (less than 2 weeks overdue) will also be considered. I encourage you to communicate this information to all relevant people and take advantage of this important opportunity
When submitting a request for funds to support International Medical Specialists to gain College Fellowship, please advise:
1. the level of funds sought;
2. the number of IMSs involved;
3. IMS details, including specialty and facility where IMS will undertake training; and
4. proof of Australian Medical Council accreditation and evidence from the relevant medical specialist college that the IMS is required to undertake a further 12 (or 24) months of training before being able to apply for Fellowship.
Information in relation to points 3 and 4, if not available at the time of submission, may be supplied after funding approval.
Given that 2010 is a transition year for the Specialist Training Program (STP) it is the intention of the Department to continue supporting the upskilling element of the STP to the same level as last year i.e. 2009. The Up skilling program to date has provided support to overseas trained specialists to gain their specialist qualifications in a timely manner. As such, all jurisdictions have been contacted to provide a submission for their 2010 requirements. Please note that in 2009, there were no Up skilling candidates in Tasmania. An earlier email sent by the Department in December 2009 to all jurisdictions referred to the management of up skilling elements of the program for 2010.
The advisory body for the STP, the Enhanced Medical Education Advisory Committee is currently considering the best way to continue support for overseas trained specialists and fully integrate this into the STP from 2011 onwards.
However, for 2010, the use of these funds may include payment of salary for IMS; costs associated with backfilling the IMS position while the candidate attends relevant educational activities, travel expenses to and from such activities, mentoring support and so on.
If you have any queries regarding this program please contact Padmaja Jha Director, Specialist Training Program, Department of Health and Ageing on (02) 6289 4567 or email padmaja.jha@health.gov.au
Submissions should be sent to olga.danilova@dhhs.tas.gov.au in medical workforce at the Office of the Chief Health Office by 27/02/10
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Growing up in Denver, Amy Adams began her acting career doing musicals such as Crazy for You. She was spotted by a director for Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and wound up appearing in shows such as Good News and Brigadoon in Minnesota.
From there, Amy went to Hollywood in 1999, where after six weeks of auditioning, she landed her first job, a TV show called Manchester Prep. Unfortunately, it never aired, but was reworked into a straight-to-video movie called Cruel Intentions 2 and released in 2000.
She went on to land a role in a pilot for the sitcom Grosse Point, which made it on the air, but without the participation of Amy, who was let go during filming.
Devastated at the time, Amy redeemed herself by winning guest spots on TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, That '70s Show, Charmed, Providence and Smallville before gaining a small role in the feature film Serving Sara (2002) and playing Leonardo DiCaprio's fianc— in Catch Me If You Can (2002).
For the 2004/2005 Fall TV season, she became a regular on the short-lived Rob Lowe series Dr. Vegas, but when it ended, quickly moved back to features, playing Debra Messing's self-absorbed sister in The Wedding Date (2005). However, it was her role as the needy but endearing Ashley in the independent film Junebug (2005) that brought her the most attention. Critics raved about her performance and she went on not only to win the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and a Broadcast Frilm Critics Association Award, but her first Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Since then, Amy has played roles in movies such as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Enchanted (2007). In 2009 she received her second Academy Award nomination for her work in Doubt (2008) and in 2011 she received her third for The Fighter.
Other roles include The Muppets (2011) with Jason Segel, Trouble with the Curve (2012) with Clint Eastwood and On the Road (2012) with Kristen Stewart. For her work in The Master (2012) opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Amy received her fourth Academy Award nomination. Amy again appeared with Phoenix in Her (2013). Amy also took on the coveted role of Lois Lane in the 2013 Superman film Man of Steel.
She earned a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture and her fifth Academy Award nomination when she starred in the Academy Award-nominated film American Hustle (2013). She won her second Golden Globe for her role in Big Eyes (2014). She starred in the DC comics remake Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), the space drama Arrival (2016), and the drama thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). She reprises her role as Lois Lane in Justice League (2017).
Later, she starred in Vice (2018), which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.
Amy also starred in the HBO limited series Sharp Objects (2018), garnering critical acclaim for her performance along with a Best Actress nod at the Golden Globe Awards.
In 2020, she starred in the Netflix drama Hillbilly Elegy, which is based on J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir of the same name.
She is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, actor Darren Le Gallo. In 2010, Amy gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl named Aviana Olea Le Gallo.
Filmography:
Sharp Objects (2018)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Arrival (2016)
Big Eyes (2014)
American Hustle (2013)
Lullaby (2012)
The Master (2012)
On the Road (2012)
Trouble with the Curve (2012)
The Muppets (2011)
The Fighter (2010)
Leap Year (2010)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Doubt (2008)
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Enchanted (2007)
Underdog (2007) (voice)
Fast Track (2006)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Standing Still (2005)
Junebug (2005)
The Wedding Date (2005)
The Last Run (2004)
Serving Sara (2002)
Pumpking (2002)
The Slaughter Rule (2002)
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Disenchanted (Disney+)
The Woman in the Window (Netflix)
Cher Evan Hansen
Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
Sharp Objects (HBO)
Trouble with the Curve
Love & Distrust
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Sunshine Cleaning
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
Charlie Wilson's War
Serving Sara
Psycho Beach Party
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TB Alliance Sublicenses Anti-tuberculosis Drug from the Medicines Patent Pool
On World Tuberculosis Day, TB Alliance and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) have announced a licensing agreement for the clinical development of sutezolid, an antibiotic drug candidate which demonstrated encouraging results in early studies. The sublicense pertains to the development of sutezolid in combination with other TB drugs and follows the MPP's license for the treatment signed with patent holder The Johns Hopkins University in January. "There are precious few novel drugs available for TB therapy and therefore every promising new candidate is greeted with much enthusiasm," said Dr. Mel Spigelman, President and CEO of TB Alliance. "With the additional positive results from our current clinical trials we can thoroughly vet sutezolid in a variety of potentially transformative new TB regimens." Sutezolid is in the same class of drugs as linezolid (oxazolidinones), which is used in some countries as a treatment option for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). Tests conducted over the past decade have indicated that sutezolid may have a better therapeutic potential than linezolid. MPP's license with The Johns Hopkins University grants the MPP the rights to sublicense sutezolid to product developers interested in further developing the treatment for both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, and to combine sutezolid with a wide variety of other drugs.
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The second act in the Major's performance, the Major II is turned up to a whole new level with updated sound, looks, and improved durability. Dead true to what Marshall believes in, the Major II headphones is yet another solid workhorse manufactured in the trademark Marshall way.
The Major II boasts many features including rounded ear cap construction and a durable vinyl finish. The iconic white Marshall script and brass details give Major II that classic Marshall look inspired by over 50 years of Rock 'n' Roll heritage.
Major II offers phenomenal sound courtesy of its customised drivers. The result is deep bass and extended, detailed highs with a refined midrange for overall lower distortion.
The detachable double-ended coil cord with mic and remote is equipped with an L-plug end, providing improved durability and carrying ease. The dual 3.5mm jacks allow you to choose which side you prefer to wear your cable on.
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Love the lightweight build and clear sound - an amazing steal for under $50!! I would easily pay $100 for these like I did for a pair of Beyerdynamic's. These will be great for carrying around.


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66% of Forbes' 2016 World's Billionaires started their empires with nothing but their wit and meager savings. But what if your savings isn't enough for your business idea? What if you don't have any savings at all? Yes, you can still start a business. But don't expect the bank to loan you money.


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Cuenca and Azuay Province have Ecuador's lowest poverty rates, Amazon region has the highest
Mar 7, 2022 | 1 comment
More than half of Ecuadorians in the Amazon region live on less than $2.85 a day and below the national poverty line. In Morona Santiago Province, bordering Peru in the southeast, 70 percent live in poverty, according the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).
By contrast, Azuay Province and the city of Cuenca have the lowest poverty rates at 17 and 12 percent.
Nationally, according to INEC, poverty has increased dramatically as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. "The devastation of the coronavirus has erased years of progress in reducing poverty," INEC said in a statement. "We made some recovery late in 2021 but the poverty rate remains about 30 percent of the total population. The labor market is beginning to show growth, after declining since March 2020, and we expect this to pick up speed as the virus recedes."
The statement added: "In 2020 alone, we lost 10 years of gains in our effort to reduce poverty.
Ecuador poverty rates through 2020.
INEC said it is reviewing statistics from 2021 and will release its findings in late March.
Only one in 10 residents of Morona Santiago has adequate employment, meaning they earn an income of less than $425 a month, INEC reports. Only two in 10 in the province have formal employment and appear on tax rolls and are eligible for Social Security benefits.
In the coastal region, Esmeraldas Province has the highest poverty rate, at 55 percent while in the Sierra, Bolívar Province has a rate of 46 percent.
Following Azuay for the lowest poverty rates were Pichincha at 19 percent, the Galapagos at 20 percent and El Oro at 21 percent.
Among cities with populations over 100,000, Cuenca's poverty rate of 12 percent was followed by Quito's at 15 percent, Machala's and Ambato's at 16 percent and Manta's at 18 percent.


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Marketing? Why Do You Use Python?
Steve Holden has hit the nail on the head in a recent blog post about python "marketing" Marketing? Why Do You Use Python? I've already posted a comment, but I figured I would expand on it a litte - at my current company we originally went with Perl/Java/Shell/C for everything outside of the core product (ie: tools, installers, etc). Having an amalgamation of languages is interesting, and people really simply picked those things they already knew.
Over the past few years, as I have gotten "better with the Python" I have slowly seeded a "revolution" of sorts. I've managed to get a lot of people (Java people, Perl people, Shell People) using Python for many things. (And no, I can't talk about most of them).
But the way I "started the revolution" was to show them the RAD aspects of the language, and showcase the fact that yes - it does scale, yes, other companies use it. Yes, it is easy to learn - "look, I just hooked N people on the language and they have become X+% more productive". I generated examples, taught people, and led by example wherever possible, frequently building highly useful applications and pointing at them and saying "look!".
I would showcase the standard library and ease of use. Luckily - everyone in the chain of command is highly technical, so it is easy for me to "win" on technical merit. But Python can't just be marketed to the technical people. I/we can't/shouldn't make the same mistakes that the Java Hype Machine made, and we can't start a Microsoft-esque smear campaign against other languages.
Don't market Python based off the negative of other languages. Show people the merits of the language, and show them applications, show them how to Win and become successful with the language. Show them case studies of other companies, and let them decide.
Get the word out, and make is simple, and make it clear. Good marketing campaigns tend to offer a clarity and simplicity that attract people. You don't see Nike marketing messages about the new sole of a new shoe, do you? No. You see them saying "if you get this shoe, you will be a winner".


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Pitcairn is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, fifteen miles (twenty-four kilometers) east of Pittsburgh. Early in the 20th century, it was the site of large railroad yards and shops that employed nearly ten thousand men. In 1900, 2,601 people lived there. In 1910, 4,975 lived there, and in 1940, Pitcairn was home to 6,310 people. The population was 3,689 at the 2000 census. Pitcairn operates its own power distribution system and municipally owned cable television system. Pitcairn was the birthplace of bandleader Ted Weems and of musical instrument maker Carl Thompson, as well as early NFL football player Harry Robb. In 1971 the first Fox's Pizza Den was opened on Broadway Blvd. in Pitcairn. It remains open to this day. Pitcairn Yard, which opened in 1892 and was for many deca... (from wikipedia)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson sees big business running with government space tech the way it did with GPS
Published Mon, Dec 16 20199:49 AM EST Updated Mon, Dec 16 201912:06 PM EST
The space industry is long overdue in its shift toward commercialization, says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
"This should have happened decades ago," he says.
Tyson points to the military's development of GPS and the industries that popped up in the private sector as a blueprint for business opportunities in space.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the future of investing in space
The space industry is long overdue in its shift toward commercialization, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told CNBC on Monday.
"This should have happened decades ago," Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History, said on "Squawk Box."
"When we think of space, we think of NASA," but the government agency is "only a small fraction" of what's going on in space, said Tyson, who likes to comment on all things science on social media and television.
Among the top commercial space enterprises are Virgin Galactic, the space tourism arm of Richard Branson's empire that went public this year, as well as privately held rocket companies SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, and Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos.
Morgan Stanley forecast $800 billion in annual sales by 2040 for hypersonic travel, which means traveling in aircraft at more than five times the speed of sound.
Virgin Galactic is in the early stages of exploring how the technologies it developed for space tourism might apply, with Boeing venture arm HorizonX recently investing $20 million in Branson's firm, specifically to explore hypersonics.
However, the idea of companies forming around what was once the government's domain is not new.
Tyson, a bestselling author and host of TV shows, pointed to the history of Global Positioning System technology. "Now entire industries exist" because of the GPS development that started out as a military project, he explained.
"That's the future" blueprint for the advancement of space travel and exploration by companies, he predicted. But there needs to be an increase in regulation in space, he said, adding it's been "a little bit of a wild West" thus far, he added.
Tyson reiterated his support for a "space force" to protect U.S. interests in space.
Funding for the creation of that type of arm of the military, a priority for President Donald Trump, is contained in the $738 billion defense policy bill that passed the House last week.
— CNBC's Michael Sheetz contributed to this report.
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Last Friday, while a twenty-four-hour tempest of near-Shakespearean strength blew across the Dutch coastline, Gerrit Noordzij launched his book with a lively seminar in The Hague, at his old home of the Royal Academy of Art. Students from the Academy's Type & Media course were there, as were some of Gerrit's old students, and the occasion was introduced by one of the earliest of them, the designer Huug Schipper. We were given a good taste of the Noordzijan pedagogy and skill at the black-(actually green-)board. The author then conducted a virtuoso book-signing session. For a nice record of the event, see the slide show at Anno Fekes's Vide.


Students Draw 'World Cup Sticker Book' to Raise Money for Cancer Charities!
A primary school in Somerset has launched its own version of the classic Panini World Cup sticker book. Interestingly, not only the pupils but the teachers joined in this process of book-making and all the 576 players in the official album have been drawn by pupils at the Flax Bourton Primary School.
This is not the most lovely thing so far-what makes me feel the love is that, the launch of the album aims to raise money online for two bowel cancer charities: the Bobby Moore Trust and Above & Beyond. The school came up with the idea after the village lost 'two of its most vibrant members' to bowel cancer last year.
I'm certainly not the only one moved by the heartwarming portraits. Josh Brown, a parent at Flax Bourton Primary School, also reflected on the portraits.
"It's a thing of beauty and we're hoping it will find a welcome home," Brown said.
To find out more about the Flaxini Sticker Book visit their school's Facebook page or follow them on Twitter.


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At Cha Chai Home we believe that eating healthy non-meat meals should be just as enjoyable and delicious as anything you can find on a meat inclusive menu – or even more so! We have developed a large choice of dishes, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snack options – all meat free, all homemade, all fresh and all tasty. We pride ourselves on creating original and fusion treats which you cannot find anywhere else, incorporating traditional Thai herbs and spices, as well as international tastes and 'superfood' options. We offer a choice to suit every palette, and make sure that what you receive is not only fresh and homemade, but also clean and healthy.
…Additionally, by eating less or no meat, you also help to improve your health, lowering your cholesterol, blood pressure, sodium levels, and your chance of getting cancer, heart disease, having a stroke or forming kidney stones. Did we mention that increasing the number of vegetarian or vegan meals in your diet is also one of the best ways to help achieve and maintain a healthy and stable weight?
…Of course, not everyone is able, or willing, to be vegetarian or vegan, but many are reducing the amount of meat and animal products which they eat – and this is a growing trend essential for our survival as a species. Ultimately, everyone eating less meat will have more impact than a few people eating no meat.
As well as choosing no meat to help the environment, we also try to use natural materials, such as paper bags and cups, and water refills instead of plastic bottles, to cut down on the amount of plastic waste going into the environment and our oceans.
What's more, our drinks do not automatically come with a straw; instead, customers are given the choice of no straw, or of purchasing a reusable bamboo straw for the cut price cost of just 20 baht when taken with a drink (50 baht if bought separately). They can then reuse the straw not only at our restaurant, but also at all the other places where they are eating and drinking, thus helping to drastically reduce the amount of plastic straws ending up on beaches and in oceans.
The money from the bamboo straws goes to TCDF foundation, in Pa Tho (2 hours from Koh Phayam) to support their activities in the local community there (please see this link to their website for more information: TCDF).
Although we are far from perfect, we do believe that every little bit helps, and with your support, the positive choices we make together can help to transform both your well being, the well being of our planet and all the species on her.


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Review: The Woman Before Wallis by: Bryn Turnbull
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Title: The Woman Before Wallis
Author: Bryn Turnbull
Publisher: Mira
Format: e-book (430 p.)
Source: NetGalley & Book Tour
For fans of The Paris Wife and The Crown, this stunning novel tells the true story of the American divorcée who captured Prince Edward's heart before he abdicated his throne for Wallis Simpson.
In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she's immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale—even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales.
In a twist of fate, her marriage to Duke leads her to fall headlong into a love affair with Edward. But happiness is fleeting, and their love is threatened when Thelma's sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, becomes embroiled in a scandal with far-reaching implications. As Thelma sails to New York to support Gloria, she leaves Edward in the hands of her trusted friend Wallis, never imagining the consequences that will follow.
Bryn Turnbull takes readers from the raucous glamour of the Paris Ritz and the French Riviera to the quiet, private corners of St. James's Palace in this sweeping story of love, loyalty and betrayal.
This book all began with a single request for a friend to watch the man she loves while she is gone. What transpired it's what we know to become a huge story. We meet Thelma Morgan and her twin sister Gloria Morgan the ups and downs these sisters suffer through is huge. Gloria lands the dashing Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma falls for Viscount Duke Furness.
This book so rich in history and what women went through back then and how men behaved. I found myself following along with Thelma as her story is shared and the ups and downs she went through with her sister to the death of her husband and the court case that shook the country.
I loved it and think anyone wanting to learn more about Edward the King who abdicated his throne for love to Gloria's ups and downs in her life. Definitely worth learning more about. Can't wait to see what this writer comes up with next!
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