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RAGNAR JONASSON'S SNOW BLIND
Ari Thor Arason is a trainee policeman who on an impulse accepts a posting in Siglufjordur, in the far north of Iceland. He leaves his medical student girlfriend behind in Reykjavik, and arrives in the small and isolated village, once busy with the fishing industry but now just a sleepy bywater, where he is told 'nothing ever happens'. Of course, within weeks there are two corpses – one a famous writer found dead at the foot of the stairs of the local theatre on the eve of an amateur production, the other a woman living with the man playing the lead in that production, discovered almost naked, bleeding red into the newly-fallen snow.
Ragnar Jonasson's novel is very much a traditional murder mystery, closer to Yrsa Sigurdardottir than Arnaldur Indridason, which gains much from the isolated setting, in which a whole town is trapped, in effect, by the snow. Amateur dramatics and murder in an isolated setting make it sound very Agatha Christie, but as with Sigurdardottir it's the nature of the people in their isolated society, a world of extremes of light and darkness, that perhaps makes difficult the shadings of gray. It's a tangled web, with each character's back story suggesting more knots, and the past is woven deeply into it: thefts and murders, abuses and illicit loves: sometimes it seems as if no one in this Icelandic milieu possesses a life free of serious damage. And that includes Ari Thor, whose relationship with his girlfriend seems unlikely to survive the great distance, both real and metaphoric, between them.
Ari Thor is an oddly unfinished character, which may suit his relatively naiveté, but it stands in sharp contrast to the more telling bits of exposition the various suspects and victims receive. There's a fascinating dynamic between him and his boss, Tomas, whose live and let live attitude sometimes seems to take on a more sinister connotation, and sometimes seems almost comic: casting him in the film version is an amusing exercise.
In some ways, because Ari Thor 'solves' both deaths, but doesn't get a full measure of justice, this becomes the story of his adjustment to a world much different from the 'big city' of Reykjavik; an adjustment which was at the heart of Indridason's Erlendur series too. The novel's end leaves that story unfinished....
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
translated by Quentin Bates
Orenda Books £8.99 ISBN 9781910633038
Labels: Arnaldur Indridason , Quentin Bates , Ragnar Jonasson , Snow Blind , Yrsa Sigurdardottir
E.L.DOCTOROW: THOUGHTS ON MY FRONT ROW DISCUSSION
I was on BBC Radio4 Front Row yesterday, discussing E.L. Doctorow with Samira Ahmed. Although I was saddened by his death, it was a privilege to be able to convey some of my enthusiasm for his work, and for him as a person, to a wider audience. You can link to that broadcast here; our segment starts about 16 minutes in, but really it's worth listening right through from the start, it's that good a programme.
Doctorow's work is always about relations of power—whether class, financial, racial, physical or whatever, and how the imbalance of those relations is at the core of the American experience, if not the core of the American Dream. It is always about the problems of America, the way those at the bottom experience the City on A Hill. It's easy to miss, because the stories themselves are so engrossing, the characters so well drawn: his historical figures blend with his invented ones, reinforcing his insistence that he was not writing historical fiction. Take The March, published when he was 74. It's as good a Civil War novel as anyone had written in a long time, but at heart it's about the way, even before the war was over, the rebellious southerners were being welcomed back into the fold, and the newly 'freed' slaves were being found a status not much different from slavery.
I met Doctorow once, at a debate organised by the New Yorker (with whom I was on good terms at the time, though never good enough to sell them anything) and the Sunday Telegraph at Cheltenham Ladies College, probably about 25 years ago. I was standing by myself at the pre-debate reception, and two guys standing next to me drew me into their conversation. 'Hi, I'm Joe, this is Ed,' one of them said, and a few seconds later I dissolved into fan boy status as I realised I was talking to Joe Heller and Ed Doctorow. It was one of the finest half-hours I've ever spent: the discussion never got near literary gossip; it covered real topics, and had mobile phones been invented I would even now be bombarding you with selfies.
Doctorow was maybe the last of the politically involved novelists from the time writers of fiction (and excellent non-fiction) were considered important pundits, rather than retreating to academia and ceding the high ground to the screeching beltway hacks who now populate the airways and leech into print. He was younger than Vonnegut, Mailer, or Vidal, but like them he accepted a public presence. He and his Kenyon classmate Paul Newman helped keep the Nation, America's pre-eminent left-wing weekly, afloat for years, and Doctorow contributed many fine essays to it. And like Mailer, and Roth (who is two years younger) he may the last of that generation of novelists educated in New York's public schools and then WASPy private colleges. I mentioned on Front Row that Doctorow's academic career reads like a character from a Philip Roth novel (Marcus, from Indignation, actually).
What was important from Doctorow's time at Kenyon was his study with John Crowe Ransom, one of the godfathers of 'New Criticism'. There's an interesting essay to be written about how New Criticism's analysis of Modernism helped generate Post-Modernism. Mailer and Vidal followed the modernist greats, with Vidal picking up a post-modern sort of irony; but Vonnegut and, with less flash but more variety, Doctorow, clearly embraced a post-modern sense of narrative. I mentioned how Doctorow's narrative strategies changed with each book: Loon Lake, perhaps the most extreme example, might be compared with John Hawkes.
But it was Doctorow's sense of history that inevitably defines his writing. John Updike hated Ragtime, saying Doctorow was 'playing with helpless dead puppets...in a gravity-free faintly sadistic game'. But I can't think of a writer less sadistic to his characters. One often has the feeling the author wishes the characters could be something other than what they are, but that what they are is simply too powerful, too real, to change. The famous story about staring at a portrait of J.P. Morgan by Edward Steichen to 'research' his character rings absolutely true. It's also why I like his first novel, Welcome To Hard Times, so much. Many of the obituaries repeated the line that the book started out as parody, but even were that Doctorow's original intent, his sense of parody became one of deconstruction. I look at the book as a precursor to Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, and Berger's novel as a sort of precursor to Doctorow's bigger novels. The film of Welcome To Hard Times isn't great; Burt Kennedy's scripts were always better when someone else directed them, but you can see Henry Fonda gets what the book was about. In passing, it's odd how that great wave of post-modern novelists: Heller, Doctorow, Vonnegut, Mailer, Berger, Barth, Pynchon, were either ill-served or served not at all by Hollywood. I sometimes wonder if too many of Doctorow's novels end in melodrama and violence, and if those genre novels he edited at NAL did affect him, but it occurs to me that an imbalance of power in society is almost always enforced by violence, and protested by violence. Hard Times is about what happens when society is ill-equipped to deal with rampant evil; that's a classic western trope, but Doctorow's idea is that it is really endemic in our society.
I mentioned the New Criticism; Doctorow was a fine editor at New American Library and Dial Press. His obits mentioned the big names he edited, everything from Mailer and Baldwin to the unlikely pairing with Ayn Rand. But Ed Brubaker wrote today about how it was Doctorow who commissioned Jules Feiffer's The Comic Book Heroes; the first serious study of comics, and one that looked wryly at the America those early super-heroes represented. I mentioned to Samira that World's Fair might be my favourite of Doctorow's novels, and I spoke of the sense it gives me of the time in which my parents grew up; but I realised too that part of my pleasure in that book is the way our knowledge of what became of the world since then burnishes our memories of 1939. It was published in 1985, as if to say, look what we came out of, look at how high our hopes were, and now you want to turn the clocks back to the age of greed?
I ought to explain as well that I don't consider Waterworks his best novel, but in its style and structure it may be his best piece of prose writing. I haven't even mentioned Billy Bathgate or The Book Of Daniel, either of which might head many people's list of favourite Doctorow books, but we do mention them in the Front Row talk. I recommend his short stories too, and especially his essays, which approach literature and politics with the same caring that he shows his fictional characters. He gave a graduation address at Brandeis, and after the college edited the copy for its magazine, The Nation published it in full. It was almost a Jeremiad, an effort to remind the students of the world they were about to enter, and remind them more of what they could bring to it with the learning they had just received. Couching his words in almost literary theory, but using an uncharacteristic vituperative approach, he talked about how we were seeing a 'national regression to the robber baronial thinking of the 19th century—nothing less than a deconstruction of America...as if we were not supposed to be a just nation, but a confederacy of stupid murderous gluttons.'
Labels: Billy Bathgate , Burt Kennedy , Ed Brubaker , EL Doctorow , Front Row , Henry Fonda , Joseph Heller , Jules Feiffer , Paul Newman , Samira Ahmed , The Nation , Thomas Berger , Watrworks , Welcome To Hard Times , World's Fair
MARK STRAND: THE LOST TELEGRAPH OBITUARY
I wrote the following piece in early December for the Daily Telegraph, but for some reason it didn't appear in the paper immediately, and then it just drifted onto the spike. I was never taken with Strand's poetry, though I did enjoy his book on Hopper. But researching his obit made me appreciate some of the convergences between his life and his work. I was particularly fascinated with the idea he studied with Josef Albers, and then moved from art to poetry via Wallace Stevens: as if placing a cube in Tennessee...
Mark Strand, who has died aged 80, once said 'Poetry tries to lead us to relocate ourselves in the self.' Relocate seemed to be the key word for Strand, who has died aged 80. In his often spare but always elegant poetry, Strand seems to be looking at the world, and at himself, from the outside. 'The poet provides the reader with a surrogate world through which he reads this world,' Strand said, and at his best he achieved the paradoxical success of bringing readers closer to the very worlds from which he felt distanced and alienated.
That sense of dislocation may have begun in childhood. Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island 11 April 1934. His father's work took the family to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal before moving to Philadelphia, where Strand started school as an outsider, speaking English with a heavy French-Canadian accent. His father's new job with Pepsi-Cola took the family to Cuba, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico, but the young Mark returned each summer with his mother to St Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia, and memories of that seacoast and its pine forests reverberate through his work. Still feeling less than comfortable with English, he intended to become an artist. While earning a BA from Antioch College (Ohio) he spent a summer an assistant to the Mexican muralist David Siquieros, painting 'the kind of art I learned to despise while I was working at it.' He moved to Yale, taking a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree studying under the painter Josef Albers. The contrast between Siquieros' social realism and Albers' abstract focus on the language of paint itself might be seen as template for Strand's later poetry.
While at Yale he immersed himself in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and began to move away from painting, placing poems in the New Yorker. A Fulbright grant took him to Italy to study 19th century poetry; when he returned he took a creative writing MFA at the University of Iowa, America's most prestigious programme. In 1965 he received another Fulbright, to teach in Brazil. His first collection, Sleeping With One Eye Open (1964) was published by a small press in Iowa, but in 1968 the influential editor Harry Ford at Athaneum published Reasons For Moving, establishing Strand as a major voice. He moved to New York and taught at Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale and Princeton. There he became close to Richard Howard, Charles Wright, and Charles Simic, poets whose work incorporated elements of surrealism, what Wright and Robert Bly labelled 'leaping poetry'. But Strand's closest affinity might be with John Ashbery, particularly in their shared roots in painting.
He published three more collections whose titles are revealing: Darker (1970), The Story Of Our Lives (1973) and The Late Hour (1978), as well a long prose poem about immortality, The Monument (1978) and translations of the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti and the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade. But following publication of his Selected Poems (1980) he gave up writing poetry for a decade. 'I didn't like what I was writing; I didn't believe in my autobiographical poems,' he said. He moved to the University of Utah to teach and wrote three childrens books, a collection of essays on art, The Art Of The Real (1983) and a monograph on the artist William Bailey (1987). That year he also received a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'.
Strand marked his return to poetry with the 1990 collection A Continuous Life, and spent a year as America's Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. His new publisher was Alfred Knopf, a relationship which survived an argument over reissuing The Monument labelled as prose. Dark Harbor (1993) received the Bollingen Prize, and in 1994 his monograph on Edward Hopper was a magnificent exercise in affinity, as Strand's minute breakdown of Hopper's paintings speaks of the waiting, the sense of time, and the position as observer of the poet in his own poems.
His 1998 collection, Blizzard Of One, received the Pulitzer Prize, deservedly so as it was perhaps his finest work. It includes the long meditation 'Delerium Waltz', reflecting on life as a waltz 'we think will never end'. He followed with the surprisingly brighter Man and Camel (2006), New Selected Poems (2007) and this year his Collected Poems, which was nominated for the National Book Award.
Strand died 29 November 2014, of liposarcoma, at his daughter's home in Brooklyn, to which he was moving back after living in Madrid. His two marriages ended in divorce, and he is survived by his partner Maricruz Bilbao, his daughter Jessica and son Thomas.
'Poetry tries to lead us to relocate ourselves in the self,' Mark Strand once told an interviewer. Relocate seemed to be the key word for Strand, who has died aged XX. In his often spare but always elegant poetry, Strand seems to be looking from the outside, at the world and at himself. 'The poet provides the reader with a surrogate world through which he reads this world,' he said, and at his best Strand achieved the paradoxical success of bringing readers closer to the very worlds from which he felt distanced and alienated.
Strand died 29 November 2014, of liposarcoma, at his daughter's home in Brooklyn, to which he was moving back after living in Madrid. His two marriages ended in divorce, and he is survived by his partner Maricruz Bilbao, his daughter Jessica and son Thomas. As he wrote in Blizzard Of One, in the poem 'A Piece Of The Storm':
A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
From your book, saw it the moment it landed.
That's all there was to it. No more than a solemn waking
To brevity, to the lifting and falling away of attention, swiftly,
A time between times, a flowerless funeral.
Labels: Daily Telegraph , Edward Hopper , John Ashberry , Josef Albers , Mark Strand , Wallace Stevens
THE COLOURS OF CHLOE: A POEM (AFTER EBERHARD WEBER)
I wrote this poem in January 1977, in my hometown of Milford, Connecticut. I had left Montreal in late November '76, having completed my master's thesis in August, to avoid having to register (and pay) for another academic year. I was about to fly to London with Theresa. I can't say I ever imagined I would stay more than a few years.
The title, of course, comes from the title song of Eberhard Weber's first ECM record, which was one of my favourites in the tiny flat Theresa and I shared on Lorne Avenue, and I'm sure I set my simple stereo up on my parents' porch, listened, and wrote. I may have been looking at Maya Weber's cover painting while I did. And it may have been the last thing I wrote before I arrived in England.
It seems it was published in something called Chock, which may have been the same as the Chock Freesheet, in October 1979. I've probably got a copy of it in storage somewhere. But this is its first appearance since then, 35 years ago...
THE COLOURS OF CHLOE (Eberhard Weber)
Why is she sleeping
while her cello sits
unbowed just out of
cast aside
by a cypress, reaching down
to touch her?
She surrounds
the sunset in
her eyes.
The path of her dreams can be
followed on her face
by anyone
who drifts by
& happens to look.
As slowly as the music lures
her back to consciousness
she sees a spectrum
rising, below the horizon
the redness of angry
sky, crackling louder
than the cold blue of crying
than a yellow straw forgetting
broken in the wind.
Labels: Eberhard Weber , ECM , Michael Carlson Poems , Michael Carlson poetry , Milford Connecticut , Montreal , The Colours Of Chloe
RICHARD LANGE WINS THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER: A JUDGE'S TALE
The Crime Writers Association awards dinner June 30th was great fun, and I was privileged to attend as one of the judges for the Short Story Dagger award. It was my first experience of judging, and it was a long slog, with shall we say, an avalanche of stories from all different published formats--including one, Neil Gaiman's 'The Case Of Death And Honey' which we had been sent and all liked but then discovered had actually been entered for the Dagger the previous year!
Eventually Laura Wilson, our chair Ayo Onatade, and I each submitted long-lists of about 12 stories. I collated them, and it quickly became obvious that our short list had created itself. Two stories appeared on all three of our lists, three on two of the lists, and in correspondence we found the Dashiell Hammett story was on one long list (mine, as it happens) but had just missed the other two. It became our sixth story, and I was grateful to see it in print in what is a very fine collection for anyone keen on the progression of detective fiction from cosy to hard-boiled.
This was our short list, with the descriptions I wrote for the CWA's releases:
Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane 'Red Eye' (from Face Off, published by Sphere) Connelly's Harry Bosch travels from LA on the red eye to Boston to arrest a suspect his cold case file has turned up, and finds Lehane's Patrick Kinsey on a stake out of the same suspect. A tale whose understatement brings out the sharpness of both authors' handling of character, highlighting the differences between the two detectives in order to reveal their ultimate sameness at the core.
Dashiell Hammett 'The Hunter' (The Hunter & Other Stories/No Exit Press): In this story a detective who might be seen as a variation on Hammett's famous Continental Op uses ruthless bullying to try to get a confession, and in Hammett terms, something like the truth. This story, never published in its time, reminds us that the essence of hard-boiled is not cracking wise, ready violence, or blazing roscoes, but the world view which seeks solutions for their own sake, even though solving the crime does not necessarily bring society or its citizens (or its detectives) any closer to satisfactory solutions for their lives.
Richard Lange 'Apocrypha' (Sweet Nothing/Mulholland Press): An ex-convict called B works as a security guard in a jewellery store and lives in an LA flop house, where a couple of would be players who mock him as 'McGruff the Crime Dog' plan to rob his store. Lange reveals small bits of B's character with off-hand remarks about his past, but it's the fatalistic view of life, and the dark clarity with which it is drawn, that make this a subtly powerful neo-noir story.
Richard Lange 'Sweet Nothing' (Sweet Nothing/Mulholland Press): Richard Lange's stories of Los Angeles lie somewhere between Charles Bukowski and George Pelecanos. In 'Sweet Nothing' Dennis is a drug addict who's lost almost everything, including his children, and is trying to make himself respectable again. He shares an apartment with Troy, who weighs 450 pounds, and works as a manager in a Subway store. One night he meets a woman whose daughter is on life-support at a nearby hospital, hit by a car while jaywalking. Lange's characters are simply trying to get by in a world which sometimes seems casually antagonistic; this story is a very brightly lit piece of LA darkness.
Stuart Neville 'Juror 8' (OxCrimes/Profile Books): If you remember 12 Angry Men you will recall Juror 8, the older man with his own business who is the first one persuaded by Juror 9. But, asks Neville, what if Juror 9 weren't such a noble Henry Fonda, but more like the Fonda of Once Upon A Time In The West, and what if the boy accused of stabbing his father to death actually was guilty?
George Pelecanos 'The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us' (OxCrimes/Profile Books): In 1930s Washington DC, Greek immigrant Vasili is just starting his climb to the American Dream of success, and the one non-Greek friend he makes in his restaurant job turns up dead. Pelecanos' story is, like much of his writing, about the values of work and family, the struggles of little people in a world where those values aren't always followed. Vasili is written with such honesty the contradictions become plain, even in his own attitudes, but at heart he is a man of honour, and this is a dark look about what it means, or meant in those days, to be a man.
The two stories that appeared on all three long lists were 'Apocrypha' and 'The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us'. When we met for lunch to decide the winner, it wasn't an easy decision, hence the commendation as runner-up for the Pelecanos, but in the end we were probably influenced by the overall quality of Lange's collection, the quality of the second-nominated story, 'Sweet Nothing', which is sweet nothing at all like the winner, and indeed, just passingly a 'crime' story at all, and the freshness of the voice.
What was fascinating to me was the similarity between our two finalist stories. Both are tales of men of low status working in jobs they feel lucky to have, whose choice of whether to act to do what they perceive as being right runs the risk of losing their job, if not creating the kinds of problems with the law and with the unlawly, that vulnerable people always face.
There was a small debate about 'The Martini Shot', the title story of George Pelecanos' first collection. I thought it was an impressive story, but there was some discussion whether it actually ran too close to novel length (which didn't bother me). In the US, awards for novellas (indeed sometimes 'novelettes') are common but I don't see that as necessary. In the event there was also some discussion about the sex scenes in this one, whether they were necessary to the story and whether they distracted from it. But it should be noted Pelecanos came close to having two stories on the short list too.
But Richard Lange was a new name to me, and having discovered his work was compensation enough for judging the award, even before the dinner. It was richly deserved, and you are advised to read him.
Labels: Ayo Onatade , CWA Short Story Dagger , Dashiell Hammett , Dennis Lehane , LLaura Wilson , Neil Gaiman , RPelecanos
LAWLESS: BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL CONTINUES
Tracy Lawless has spent 18 months in the hole; locked up in a military prison, no contact with the outside world. Then he's handed the personal effects left behind by his brother, murdered nine months earlier; news the Army kept from Lawless. Two days later, he's gone: headed back to the city to avenge his brother's death, because that's what guys like him are supposed to do.
The brothers grew up in crime, and Tracy knows that if he tracks down Rick's last crew he's likely to find the killer. So he makes a small heist of his own, and infiltrates the crew without anyone knowing. But huge burn scars from his soldier time in the Middle East make him easy to identify. And the crew is preparing for a big heist, and of course there's a woman too, who happened to be his brother Rick's girl.
The beauty of this installment of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Criminal series isn't so much the noirish setting, which Phillips' dark art gets well-night perfect, nor the relentless pace of the story, which Brubaker takes through twists combined with the usual noirish inevitability. But what makes it really stand out is the way it shifts times: flashbacks to the Lawless childhoods, to Tracy's Army service, and the story of why he's behind bars at the start, and of course the caper which he intends to use as the stage for his revenge. They segue smoothly, but what's impressive is the way the stories mesh together, providing characterization and motivation that makes precise sense, even down to Lawless' names. And it connects, in the end, with previous chapters of the Criminal story.
Being noir, nothing works out as planned, not relationships, not revenge, not the noirish femme fatale, and of course not the heist. But the ending is perfect noir, and there aren't many writers around, in any medium, who get it as well as Brubaker does. This series moves from strength to strength.
Criminal Volume 2: Lawless
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Image 2015, £10.99 ISBN 9781632152039
Labels: Criminal , Ed Brubaker , Lawless , Sean Phillips
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Our ferry ride is today! I'm excited like a child going on a merry-go-round for the first time..it's a bit weird I know..but I do like big boats. Couldn't get enough during my 6 month stint as a yachtie in the Mediterranean a few years ago.
We say goodbye to sweet and kind Mauricio and Jimena at 6:30am (soooo early, yawn) so we can catch our bus to Colonia from Tres Cruces. It only departs at 7:55am, but check-in starts at 7am so we want to get there early. We make it to the very modern and equipped bus station in 10minutes without any hiccups…until we see the check-in line.
People are lined up like sheep and it is the slowest line I have ever waited in. I am already so hungry that I could eat a whole Uruguayan cow, but I will have to settle for an Olympic sandwich on the bus after we get our passes stamped. An Olympic sandwich is a huge triangle, about 3 normal half sandwiches, with ham and cheese on the one side, another slice of bread in the middle, and boiled egg, tomato and lettuce on the other side. Breakfast of champions!
We make it to the ferry terminal in Colonia in about 2 hours, just a stone's throw away from the bus terminal. It is very crisp and clean and feels like an airport. Once again we are ushered into a queue and we wait for what seems like forever just to find out at the front that we have already been checked in for the boat – I forgot my own rule about not being a damn sheep. We move on to customs where we get stamped out of Uruguay and into Argentina, and wait to board the boat.
The ColoniaExpress is not a huge boat. It has two levels, a duty free shop selling ciggies, alcohol and sweets and chocolates in bulk, and a small counter selling coffee and sandwiches for slightly ridiculous prices. The river crossing takes about an hour which is pretty fast considering that you cross a river that seems as wide as an ocean.
We arrive at the ColoniaExpress Port, which is separate from the Buquebus and Seacat port, in Buenos Aires – the city of Good Winds, which is a bit ironic as the city is built in such a way that there is almost never a draught sweeping through the place. We will be in the city for three nights before going to our next host in the northern part of the greater Buenos Aires area.
First we have to find our way to 1111 Ave de Mayo, The Ritz by Hostel Inn, our home for the next 3 days. We have thoroughly researched this, we know we have to take a short walk up the road, make a left and catch a bus – simple as that. The only problem is that the buses in BA only accept coins (a whole lot is needed at a time) or a rechargeable card, and of course we have neither of these at this time. So after two buses pass us by because we can't pay them our only option is to take a taxi cab. They are all over the streets and we see more black and yellow cabs than any other cars on the road. They are reasonably priced – an initial 11 pesos the 1,10 for every 200m and an extra 1,10 for every minute of idling time..not really fair as you can't really control what traffic is like or for how long a light will stay red. It costs us about 35 pesos to get to our destination – not too bad.
111 Avenida de Mayo is a very old, historical building set in the centre of downtown, built in a Parisian style as Buenos Aires is the Paris of South America you know. With the original wooden floors, high ceilings and a spiral staircase it has a bit of a spiritually sinister feel to it. The city is gripped by a heatwave at the moment and the aircon in the room is most definitely necessary. It is a decent place and will do for our stay.
We settle in to our room, exhausted we decide that we need food before sitting down for too long. It has been 6 hours since breakfast. From our hostel we walk 1 block down Avenida Lima to Restaurant Almeda where we enjoy the set menu for a steal at 82 pesos each. It includes a starter, main, desert and a glass of wine. Always look out for these (usually lunch) deals – great value for money. We couldn't even finish our mains! We took half away and enjoyed it for lunch the next day.
After a wonderful meal it was most definitely time for an afternoon nap. We are exhausted! No sightseeing for these two travellers today – we're going to get our relaxing on!
As darkness creeps in we hear loud noises coming from afar, and we soon realise there is a protest going on and it is making its way right past our window. I've never seen an actual protest up close before, but we soon realise that this is common in the city and that protesters very rarely get rowdy and violent.
Exhausted, we drift off to sleep. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve!
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May 4, 2018 - Parents of twins and other multiple-birth children experience higher than average rates of depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, particularly during the first three months, according to a survey study in the May issue of Journal of Psychiatric Practice. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.
About half of parents of multiples say they could have benefited from treatment for symptoms of mental health problems - but less than ten percent received such care, reports the study by Susan J. Wenze, PhD, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and Cynthia L. Battle, PhD, of Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, R.I. They write, "There is a large, unmet need for mental health treatment in parents of multiples in the perinatal period, especially the early postpartum months."
Forty-eight percent of the parents said they would have been interested in some type of mental health treatment during pregnancy or the first year after their children were born. Participants cited a wide range of concerns, including symptoms of depression or anxiety, elevated stress, relationship issues, and "managing having multiples."
Most parents said that the most difficult time was between birth and age three months. Although most reported relatively mild symptoms, some parents had more severe symptoms consistent with generalized anxiety disorder (25 percent) or major depressive disorder (14 percent). These rates were higher for parents of younger multiples. Unmarried parents, those with low incomes, and those whose babies were premature had more severe depression and anxiety symptoms.
Lack of time was the most commonly reported obstacle to mental health care. Nearly two-thirds of participants said that no healthcare provider talked to them during pregnancy about mental health issues that might arise after their multiples were born. Sleep quality was poor for all participants - especially mothers - and poor sleep quality was strongly related to more severe depression and anxiety symptoms.
While many parents of multiples express interest in mental health care - especially during the very challenging first three months - few receive treatment. The new findings suggest that eHealth strategies might be an acceptable option for these parents, while overcoming lack of time and other barriers to mental health care.
Most parents say that they received no prenatal counseling about the mental health issues associated with multiple births. Drs. Wenze and Battle write, "We recommend that healthcare providers attend carefully to parents of multiples' mental health during pregnancy and the early postpartum periods, and proactively integrate discussion of perinatal mental health concerns into their prenatal care regimens."
Click here to read "Perinatal Mental Health Treatment Needs, Preferences, and Barriers in Parents of Multiples."
Journal of Psychiatric Practice®, a peer reviewed journal, publishes reports on new research, clinically applicable reviews, articles on treatment advances, and case studies, with the goal of providing practical and informative guidance for clinicians. Mental health professionals will want access to this journal¬--for sharpening their clinical skills, discovering the best in treatment, and navigating this rapidly changing field. John M. Oldham, MD, is the editor in chief and past president of the American Psychiatric Association.


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Marcus King Drops Groovy New "Lie Lie Lie," The Third Single From His Upcoming Album
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· June 23, 2022
Marcus King has done it again.
King just released the, "Lie Lie Lie," the third single from his upcoming album Young Blood, and it is a must listen for any fan of soulful southern rock and all around good music.
The riff heavy tune features an absolutely electric solo right in the middle as King takes a break from providing his soulful vocals that fit this breakup song so perfectly.
In a press release, King had this to say about the new track:
"'Lie Lie Lie' for me captures the spirit of this record. You can feel how natural the vibe was in the studio. This track showcases each player's energy, it shines a light on the production and the sound of Easy Eye Sound.
At the two-and-a-half-minute mark the band locks into a groove that becomes a sonic representation of why I do what I do! I LIVE for that feeling!"
For a visual of what King is talking about, check out the video released with the single from producer Dan Auerbach's (The Black Keys) Easy Eye Sound studio.
King, a Greenville SC native, is set to release Young Blood on August 26th as his fifth studio album. And if "Hard Working Man," "Rescue Me," and "Lie Lie Lie," are any indication, it is going to be his best work yet.
Drawing elements of influence from several genres including blues, rock, and country, King's unique sound is a refreshing blast from the past that features the dynamic combination of soulful vocals reminiscent of Marvin Gaye and the guitar chops of a new age BB King.
Marcus King has something special going on, and it is blatantly apparent in his latest single "Lie Lie Lie." Go check it out, and get ready for the release of his momentous upcoming album Young Blood.
And if you missed the lead single from the album, check out "Hard Working Man" too.
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Q: How to set image from drawable into imageview in Android I want show image into RecyclerView and i should use this images from drawable folder. I write below codes, but show me this error :
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown type class [I. You must provide a Model of a type for which there is a registered ModelLoader, if you are using a custom model, you must first call Glide#register with a ModelLoaderFactory for your custom model class
at com.bumptech.glide.RequestManager.loadGeneric(RequestManager.java:629)
at com.bumptech.glide.RequestManager.load(RequestManager.java:598)
at com.tellfa.colony.Adapters.ColoniesAdapter.onBindViewHolder(ColoniesAdapter.java:66)
at com.tellfa.colony.Adapters.ColoniesAdapter.onBindViewHolder(ColoniesAdapter.java:29)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5768)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.bindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5801)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:5037)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4913)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager$LayoutState.next(LinearLayoutManager.java:2029)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.layoutChunk(LinearLayoutManager.java:1414)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1377)
at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(LinearLayoutManager.java:578)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayoutStep2(RecyclerView.java:3260)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayout(RecyclerView.java:3069)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onLayout(RecyclerView.java:3518)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:1076)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:573)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:508)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1705)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1559)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1468)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:573)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:508)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1705)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1559)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1468)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:573)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:508)
at android.view.View.layout(View.java:15631)
at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4966)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2101)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1858)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1077)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5845)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:767)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:580)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:550)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:753)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5272)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
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Model codes:
public class MainDataModel implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private String category;
    private String categoryID;
    private String categoryDescription;
    private int[] categoryImages;

    private TimeInterpolator interpolator;

    public MainDataModel(String categoryID, String category, String categoryDescription, int[] categoryImages,
                         TimeInterpolator interpolator) {
        this.categoryID = categoryID;
        this.category = category;
        this.categoryDescription = categoryDescription;
        this.categoryImages = categoryImages;
        this.interpolator = interpolator;
    }

    public String getCategory() {
        return category;
    }

    public void setCategory(String category) {
        this.category = category;
    }

    public String getCategoryID() {
        return categoryID;
    }

    public void setCategoryID(String caategoryID) {
        this.categoryID = caategoryID;
    }

    public String getCategoryDescription() {
        return categoryDescription;
    }

    public void setCategoryDescription(String categoryDescription) {
        this.categoryDescription = categoryDescription;
    }

    public TimeInterpolator getInterpolator() {
        return interpolator;
    }

    public void setInterpolator(TimeInterpolator interpolator) {
        this.interpolator = interpolator;
    }

    public int[] getCategoryImages() {
        return categoryImages;
    }

    public void setCategoryImages(int[] categoryImages) {
        this.categoryImages = categoryImages;
    }

}

AsyncTask codes and set image :
public class ColoniesDataInfo {

    private static Context mContext;
    private String ServerAddress = ServerIP_colonies.getColoniesIP();

    public void getColoniesDataInfo(Context context) {
        mContext = context;
        new getInfo().execute(ServerAddress);
    }

    private class getInfo extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
        EventBus bus = EventBus.getDefault();
        private String ou_response;
        private List<MainDataModel> infoModels;

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            CustomProcessDialog.createAndShow(mContext);
            infoModels = new ArrayList<>();
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

            //String url = (String) params[0];
            Request request = new Request.Builder()
                    .url(ServerAddress)
                    //.cacheControl(CacheControl.FORCE_NETWORK)
                    .build();

            Response response;
            try {
                response = client.newCall(request).execute();
                ou_response = response.body().string();
                response.body().close();
                if (ou_response != null) {
                    try {
                        JSONObject postObj = new JSONObject(ou_response);
                        JSONArray postsArray = postObj.optJSONArray("categories");
                        infoModels = new ArrayList<>();

                        for (int i = 0; i <= infoModels.size(); i++) {
                            JSONObject postObject = (JSONObject) postsArray.get(i);

                            String colID = postObject.getString("id");
                            String colTitle = postObject.getString("title");
                            String colDescription = postObject.getString("description");

                            final int[] colImages = {
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_food,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_medical,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_tecgnolegy,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_entertenement,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_car,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_model,
                                    R.drawable.colonies_image_sport,
                            };

                            Log.d("Data", "Colonies ID: " + colID);
                            Log.d("Data", "Colonies title: " + colTitle);
                            Log.d("Data", "Colonies Desc: " + colDescription);
                            Log.d("Data", "---------------------------------");

                            //Use the title and id as per your requirement
                            infoModels.add(new MainDataModel(colID, colTitle, colDescription, colImages,
                                    Utils.createInterpolator(Utils.BOUNCE_INTERPOLATOR)));
                        }

                    } catch (JSONException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return ou_response;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            CustomProcessDialog.dissmis();
            if (result != null) {
                bus.post(infoModels);
            } else {
                Toast.makeText(mContext, "Empty", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }
    }
}

Adapter codes and set image into adapter :
public class ColoniesAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ColoniesAdapter.ViewHolder> {

    private List<MainDataModel> mDateSet;
    private Context mContext;
    private SparseBooleanArray expandState = new SparseBooleanArray();

    public ColoniesAdapter(Context context, List<MainDataModel> dataSet) {
        this.mContext = context;
        this.mDateSet = dataSet;
        for (int i = 0; i < mDateSet.size(); i++) {
            expandState.append(i, false);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

        View view = LayoutInflater.from(mContext).inflate(R.layout.colonies_row, parent, false);
        return new ViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(final ViewHolder holder, final int position) {

        holder.colonies_title.setText(mDateSet.get(position).getCategory());
        holder.colonies_title.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                int pos = holder.getPosition();
                MainDataModel model = mDateSet.get(pos);
                v.getContext().startActivity(new Intent(v.getContext(), Category_page.class)
                        .putExtra("categoryTitle", model.getCategory())
                        .putExtra("categoryID", model.getCategoryID()));
            }
        });

        Glide.with(mContext)
                .load(mDateSet.get(position).getCategoryImages())
                .placeholder(R.drawable.post_image)
                .crossFade()
                .override(700, 400)
                .into(holder.colonies_image);
        holder.colonies_description.setText(mDateSet.get(position).getCategoryDescription());

        holder.expandableLayout.setInterpolator(mDateSet.get(position).getInterpolator());
        holder.expandableLayout.setExpanded(expandState.get(position));
        holder.expandableLayout.setListener(new ExpandableLayoutListenerAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void onPreOpen() {
                createRotateAnimator(holder.buttonLayout, 0f, 180f).start();
                expandState.put(position, true);
            }

            @Override
            public void onPreClose() {
                createRotateAnimator(holder.buttonLayout, 180f, 0f).start();
                expandState.put(position, false);
            }
        });
        holder.buttonLayout.setRotation(expandState.get(position) ? 180f : 0f);
        holder.buttonLayout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(final View v) {
                onClickButton(holder.expandableLayout);
            }
        });
    }

    private void onClickButton(final ExpandableLayout expandableLayout) {
        expandableLayout.toggle();
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDateSet.size();
    }

    public void remove(int position) {
        mDateSet.remove(position);
        notifyItemRemoved(position);
    }

    public void clear() {
        mDateSet.clear();
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    public void add(List<MainDataModel> models) {
        mDateSet.addAll(models);
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    public void update(List<MainDataModel> models) {
        mDateSet.clear();
        mDateSet.addAll(models);
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

        private TextView colonies_title, colonies_description;
        private ImageView colonies_image;
        private ExpandableLinearLayout expandableLayout;
        private RelativeLayout buttonLayout;

        public ViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            colonies_title = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.colonies_colony_title_text);
            colonies_image = (ImageView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.colonies_cover_image);

            colonies_description = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.colonies_expandable_description_text);

            buttonLayout = (RelativeLayout) itemView.findViewById(R.id.colonies_expandable_button);
            expandableLayout = (ExpandableLinearLayout) itemView.findViewById(R.id.colonies_expandable_layout);

            itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {

/*                    v.getContext().startActivity(new Intent(v.getContext(), PostShow_page.class)
                            .putExtra("title", model.getTitle())
                            .putExtra("image", model.getThumbnail()));*/
                }
            });
        }
    }

    public ObjectAnimator createRotateAnimator(final View target, final float from, final float to) {
        ObjectAnimator animator = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(target, "rotation", from, to);
        animator.setDuration(300);
        animator.setInterpolator(Utils.createInterpolator(Utils.LINEAR_INTERPOLATOR));
        return animator;
    }
}

How can i fix it?

A: First of all why are you loading all the array of images into a single imageView? Your method getCategoryImages() gives you an integer array of images. retrieve one by one corresponding to the position.
If the problem still persists you can refer to the below link with the same issue
https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues/588
Glide.with(mContext)
            .load(mDateSet.get(position).getCategoryImages()[position])
            .placeholder(R.drawable.post_image)
            .crossFade()
            .override(700, 400)
            .into(holder.colonies_image);

A: You are trying to load a list of ints and that is why Glide isn't working.
As you gave one ImageView as destination, only one image can be loaded there.
What you need to do is extract the image you wish to load and then pass it to Glide.

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Home Print Editions May 2017 Issue Carry data disclosure demand spreads
Carry data disclosure demand spreads
PEI Staff
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association in March became the latest US public pension fund to declare that it would release information on fees paid to GPs, including carry earned by managers.
The move was in response to AB 2833, a law which requires all California public pension funds to disclose the pro rata share of fees they pay to fund managers.
On the face of it, the bill was a victory for transparency advocates who had long pushed for greater disclosure. For others, it did not go far enough.
"The law is a big disappointment relative to what was possible in terms of transparency improvements," former CalPERS board member Michael Flaherman said after its passage.
Early drafts required GPs to disclose all fees, including those paid by portfolio companies. This was watered down to require only disclosure of the pro rata share of fees paid by the vehicle through which the pension fund invests.
"If… reduced profitability of the portfolio company as a whole is seen as a 'cost' to investors, disclosing the entire amount would have provided greater insight into the impact of fees on public pension funds," law firm Ropes & Gray said in its analysis of the legislation.
"The bill wasn't intended to be all things to all people. The goal was to get relevant information to pension funds so that they can understand the fees they are charged and make better decisions about how to invest," Catherine Skulan, counsel in Ropes & Gray's private investment funds practice, tells Private Equity International . "If you take a broader step back and consider that the law was focused on transparency and disclosure, it does address those aims."
Other states including Kentucky, New Jersey and Washington are discussing similar rules. An Illinois bill would require GP disclosure of all fees, including those paid by portfolio companies. In Europe, a number of large pension schemes have been vocal about the need for enhanced private equity fee disclosure. While greater transparency is seen as in the interest of LPs, some question whether it will lead to improved investment decisions – or underlying returns.
"The push by LPs is not a push purely for the sake of transparency, of course," a large European LP says. "In all industries, it is easier to cut costs than to increase revenues, and it is the same for an LP in private equity. It is easier for the people executing the pension scheme strategy to say to the advisory board 'we were able to cut costs by 50 basis points', because you then have those costs in the hand right now. But it tells you nothing about the net gain achieved through manager selection."
Some believe that with well-established managers able to raise larger funds quicker than ever, transparency rules may backfire.
"We are in an environment where some GPs can be fickle," says David Fann, chief executive of advisory firm TorreyCove Capital Partners. "I can envision a scenario in which a hot fund that is well oversubscribed will pick and choose investors based on what public disclosure is likely to be made by the prospective LP."
Skulan says the negative impact in terms of access may be greater for smaller public investors in the US. "For smaller states without the amount of public pension money of a larger state such as California, burdensome disclosure laws risk pushing away sponsors who are not willing to address the additional reporting complexity and public disclosure that comes with this type of law."


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package org.sistcoop.producto.client.resource;

import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

import org.sistcoop.producto.representations.idm.CaracteristicaRepresentation;

public interface CaracteristicaResource {

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public CaracteristicaRepresentation caracteristica();

    @PUT
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public void update(CaracteristicaRepresentation representation);

    @DELETE
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In Moscow and the Russian regions Yabloko appointed observers to polling stations and electoral commissions engaged in remote electronic voting
Press Release, 6.09.2022
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
On 5 September, the regional branches of the Yabloko party and the candidates nominated by the party to run in the regional and local elections submitted lists of observers to the electoral commissions. The regional branches of Yabloko in Moscow, Pskov and Novgorod also sent their lists of observers for remote electronic voting to the electoral commissions organising remote electronic voting. The lists of observers include IT-specialists.
It should be noted that in April 2022, the Central Electoral Commission issued instructions for monitoring remote electronic voting. Political parties, candidates and public organisations can appoint three observers to the remote electronic voting, the lists of such observers must be formed no later than three days before the elections. Suh observers must get access the observer node (a separate blockchain node) and the lists of those who signed up for the remote electronic voting and voted. Observers will be able to monitor voting statistics in the premises of the electoral commissions: the number of those who registered, took ballots and "dropped" them into an electronic ballot box, as well as blocks of information with encrypted voting results. Statistics on the progress of online voting will also be published on the Internet.
Monitoring experts and electoral lawyers believe that the e-voting system remains opaque to observers. Noting anomalies in the course of the remote electronic votings, the participants in the observation could not figure out the reasons for what was happening and had to trust the explanations of the developers of the electronic remote voting system.
Posted: September 6th, 2022 under Elections, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Yabloko's Regional Branches.


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16-year-old Nigerian female weightlifting gold medallist fails drug test at Commonwealth Games
GLASGOW, Scotland - A 16-year-old Nigerian weightlifter failed a doping test after becoming the youngest ever female to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the sport, organizers said Tuesday.
Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the Glasgow Games after testing positive for diuretics and masking agents after winning the 53-kilogram (117-pound) division last Friday.
Amalaha's "A'' sample contained amiloride and hydrochlorothiazide, which are both banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Amalaha asked for the backup "B'' sample to be tested, which will happen in London on Wednesday.
Amalaha would be stripped of the gold medal if the second sample also comes back positive.
WADA is set to investigate how someone so young had access to banned substances.
"I am rather saddened and disappointed this has happened to a 16-year-old," WADA President Craig Reedie told The Associated Press. "We will need to see if the 'B' sample matches the 'A.' Then if it does the girl will be removed from the games and it will be up to the international weightlifting federation to apply a sanction and then she would lose her medal.
"WADA will look at the circumstances surrounding this case once we know the full facts."
The test was part of an anti-doping program at the games targeting specific sports based largely on intelligence, rather than testing every medal winner.
"It shows we have a very robust anti-doping program in place," Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said. "It sends a strong message to anybody in any sport that if you go down the path of doping, any substance to enhance performance, they will be caught ... it's an ongoing battle."
Amalaha set Commonwealth Games records in her weight category with a total of 196 kilograms (432 pounds), breaking the previous mark of 188 kilograms (414 pounds). Dika Toua of Papua New Guinea won silver and Santoshi Matsa of India earned the bronze.
Amalaha said last week that she took up weightlifting despite opposition at home.
"I started at the age of 12, but my family were strongly against me doing the sport at first," she said. "They kept me telling to stop doing it, but I persuaded them by getting a female coach.
"From then on, it was hard work, training, a lot of pain and dedication that got me here today. And now my family were in the audience and they are so excited and so proud."
The positive test is the latest setback for weightlifting, which has been marred by doping cases. Nigeria's weightlifting team didn't compete at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester because of a doping ban imposed in 2001 after four members of the squad failed drug tests.
Four years ago in New Delhi, three Nigerian runners failed doping tests. Folashade Abugan was stripped of silver medals in the women's 400 metres and 4x400-meter relay after testing positive for a steroid. Osayomi Oludamola had her gold medal in the 100 metres taken away after testing positive for a banned stimulant and hurdler Samuel Okon, who did not win a medal, also tested positive.
Hooper told The Associated Press on Sunday that about 1,500 random doping tests would be conducted in total in Glasgow. About two-thirds will be carried out during the competition, with the rest completed before the games began on July 23.
Two Welsh athletes had to withdraw over doping offences committed ahead of the Glasgow Games.
European 400-meter hurdles champion Rhys Williams was ruled out on Friday after being charged with an anti-doping violation at the Glasgow Grand Prix on July 11.
His Welsh teammate, Gareth Warburton, who had been due to compete in the 800 metres at the Commonwealth Games, is going through a U.K. Anti-Doping disciplinary procedure after being charged with earlier anti-doping offences.
Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris
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Keith Barnwell Moves to Big Machine Racing to Help Manage Team
According to Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports, Keith Barnwell, who is a longtime motorsports team executive and spotter has joined Big Machine Racing to help manage the No. 48 team for the 2022 season.
Most recently, Barnwell had worked with GMS Racing and helped with its driver development programs.
Over the offseason, Big Machine Racing relocated to Richard Childress Racing's campus in Welcome, N.C. The No. 48 team finished 24th in the Xfinity Series' owner standings last year, with Jade Buford as the team's primary driver.
Longtime motorsports team executive (and spotter) Keith Barnwell has moved from GMS Racing to Big Machine Racing (Xfinity-No. 48 Jade Buford) to help manage that team's operations. The organization this year moved on to the RCR campus and is pretty much embedded in the RCR shop.
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) January 6, 2022


NEW YORK — New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand called on Congress Sunday afternoon to allocate $1.9-billion in the fight against the Zika virus.
"Unfortunately the Congress, particularly the House of Representative is twiddling their thumbs," said Schumer.
Schumer says with more and more people spend time outdoors the threat of being bit by mosquitoes becomes greater.
The senators want congress to take action right away.
"We want summer to be fun and enjoyable for everyone in the city no one should have to the change their plans out of fear."
Fourteen pregnant woman in New York City have been hit by the Zika virus.
They have since recovered but the effects on their unborn children is not yet known.
Dr. Jill Rabin a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine says now is the time to spend money to combat the disease.
"One baby with microcephaly costs $10-million and that's a CDC figure of a lifetime of cost," said Rabin.
The senators say Zika has the potential to be more widespread than Ebola and Congress needs to act now.


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Might have beens, Locations
The hundredth port of Wild Cat's second voyage is described in Chapter 1 of Missee Lee It is an un-named port close to the mainland of China, visited on Wild Cat's second voyage. The harbourmaster here is an old friend of Captain Flint.
Where is it?[edit | edit source]
Arthur Ransome, while protecting the secret location of Miss Lee's protection racket, concealed the Hundredth Port's identity, but left a few clues, mainly in the words of the harbourmaster:
it has a resident Chinese population "...the Chinese women here frighten their babies..." (ML1)
it is "across" from the China coast, about four day's sailing away (ML1)
it has a steamship service to Swatow (ML1)
it has two channels used for departing ships (ML1)
it is the territory of a naval power, with whom the Harbourmaster personally identifies as "We'd have had gunboats after her long ago..." (ML1)
The harbourmaster's nationality is not entirely clear which is a pity since it would give a good clue to the location of the Hundredth Port.
he was "thin and brown" (ML1) (these are possibly characteristics of ethnicity, which people did not hesitate to discuss in Ransome's day; on the other hand, maybe he was just 'suntanned' as described in the Japanese version)
he personally identifies with the world naval power that would threaten Miss Lee: We'd have had gunboats after her... (ML1)
expresses antipathy toward the Chinese You know these Chinese. Can't get a word out of them (ML1), so he probably isn't Chinese himself.
uses the expression "our respected ancestors" which is not British idiom, unless intended as irony, and he comes from a country historically threatened by some chap called Bony (...our great grandfathers' nannies used to keep our respected ancestors quiet by telling them Bony would come for them) ("Bony" here could refer to Napoleon Bonaparte) (ML1)
possible Hundredth Port locations[edit | edit source]
running north to south:
Korea (Japanese administered in those days)
Ryukyu islands (Loochoo), (Japanese territory in those days and currently part of modern Japan
Taiwan (Formosa) (Japanese administered in those days)
Philippines (which had a heavy US presence)
Vietnam (French administered in those days)
All of the above had reasonably large populations of Chinese in the 1930s (Formosa being mostly Chinese). See also Wikipedia:Overseas Chinese
Some hypotheses[edit | edit source]
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You are standing into danger. This article or section contains conjecture.
The "naval power" with gunboats is probably Britain, as Olo Lee said the men of the Three Islands were not to take English prisoners to avoid visits by gunboats (ML13). Later Miss Lee learns that the Swallow's father is the Captain of a "Blitish Navy" ship and was previously stationed at Hong Kong. She says to tell no one else especially Wu or the counsellor; if they knew ......(ML16).
On the other hand, Japan was a growing naval power in the region and was asserting itself as such. Japanese people can be "thin" and "brown" and might use idioms such as "our respected ancestors"... These point to the hundredth harbourmaster being Japanese, and the setting being the islands of Loochoo (now known as Ryukyu or Okinawa Prefecture) or Formosa (now known as Taiwan). Both territories were administered by Japan. Formosa, naturally, had a mostly Chinese population, but a Japanese administrative class which would have included harbourmasters. Loochoo had a long history of links with both Japan and China, thus had significant populations of both Chinese and Japanese. Both Formosa and Loochoo are broadly south-east from China. The Dutch islands and Formosa are mentioned possible places where Wild Cat and her crew might be thought by Mary Walker to have gone to (ML18) while they were actually in the Three Islands with Miss Lee. This could indicate that the crew had not visited Formosa yet when they were shipwrecked; the 100th port would therefore be in Loochoo, quod elat demonstlandum, as Miss Lee would say.
see also Wikipedia:Loochoo, Wikipedia:Formosa
The hundredth harbourmaster could be Filipino or Spanish-Filipino (and therefore using non-Anglo-Saxon idiom our respected ancestors - being Spanish would make him historically connected with the threat of old Bony), but identifying personally with the US which was a regional naval power based in the Philippines islands.
see also: Wikipedia:Philippines
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Chiromantis senapatiensis es una especie de anfibio anuro de la familia Rhacophoridae.

Distribución geográfica
Esta especie es endémica de Manipur en la India. Se conoce solo en su localidad tipo, Kangpokpi, en el distrito de Senapati, a 1082 m sobre el nivel del mar.

Etimología
El nombre de la especie está compuesto de senapati y del sufijo latino -ensis que significa "que vive, que habita", y le fue dado en referencia al lugar de su descubrimiento, el distrito de Senapati.

Publicación original
 Mathew & Sen, 2009 : Studies on little known amphibians of Northeast India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Papers, n.º293, p. 1-64.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

senapatiensis

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A group in Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State, known as "Nsukka Zonal Strategic Group (NZSG)", has unanimously endorsed Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for a second term in office, resolving to join hands with other people of the state to ensure the governor's success in the forthcoming 2019 elections.
The group, which membership cut across every strata of society – leaders of thought, captains of industry, the academia, entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, and youths, with notable personalities, such as Chief Okechukwu Itanyi, Engr. Vita Abba, Prof. Osita Ogbu and Maj. Gen. Godwin Ugwuoke, among others, gave the endorsement after assessing the achievements of the governor in the past three and half years.
They commended Gov. Ugwuanyi for "the remarkable and exemplary way he has piloted the affairs of Enugu State" and expressed gratitude to him for the monumental infrastructural development in the state evidenced in numerous road constructions across the three senatorial districts.
The group's members also expressed "full satisfaction with the prudent manner" the governor "has managed the resources of the state culminating in the prompt payment of salaries of civil servants including the '13th month' of every year, as well, that of pensioners in the state".
They equally lauded the governor for improving the internally generated revenue portfolio of the state, adding that "Enugu State was rated the "third in the country after Lagos and Rivers States" and "first state in the whole country in Fiscal Sustainability Index by world reputed economic analyst, Ernest and Young".
The group observed with great delight the peace and security of lives and prosperity being enjoyed in Enugu State as well as the governor's inclusive leadership style, describing them as "unprecedented" in the history of the state, and urged him to continue to sustain the good works.
"In view of the foregoing reasons, and several others too numerous to mention, the Nsukka Zonal Strategic Group (NZSG) unanimously endorse His Excellency Rt. Hon. Dr, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for a Second-Term in Office as Governor of Enugu State come 2019 elections.
"Nsukka Zonal Strategic Group further resolved to join hands with our brothers and sisters across Enugu State to ensure the success of His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the forthcoming 2019 elections".


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Two injured in crash that closed Highway 32 for…
Two injured in crash that closed Highway 32 for 90 minutes
PUBLISHED: September 10, 2008 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 14, 2018 at 12:00 am
CHICO — Highway 32 was closed for almost 90 minutes Tuesday after a vehicle rolled over and a passenger was ejected in a crash that occurred at 6:32 a.m.
The closed portion, between Bruce Road and lower Humboldt Road, was opened at 8 a.m.
Chico police Sgt. George Laver said driver Michael Sanchez, 56, was traveling east on 32 near Yosemite Drive when he allowed his 2005 Ford Focus to drift off the south shoulder of the road.
Laver said the Forest Ranch man overcorrected and his vehicle overturned.
Sanchez was wearing a seat belt, but his passenger, Forest Ranch resident Mary Fischer, 42, wasn"t belted and was thrown from the vehicle.
She reportedly suffered moderate to major injuries, including a fractured leg, cuts and abrasions. Sanchez remained in the vehicle and suffered only minor injuries.
Both were transported to Enloe Medical Center for treatment.
"We certainly saw the value of seat belts today," said Laver.
During the 32 closure, smaller vehicles were able to use Old Humboldt Road, but big rigs couldn"t and were forced to take much longer alternate routes, or just wait out the closure on the side of the road.
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Lidl stocks the second highest proportion of sustainably sourced wild caught fish as certified by the MSC in the UK.
Our success has been the result of working hard for many years with our supply partners to ensure what we provide to our customers is both responsibly sourced and sustainable.
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification is a scheme recognised by Lidl. The accreditation is awarded to fishing companies who can prove by means of independent checks by third party organisations that their fishing practices do not contribute to the overfishing of fish stocks. We have supported the scheme since 2006 when we became one of the first UK retailers to offer MSC fish and seafood and in 2015 we became the first to offer MSC-certified lobster in the UK.
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We are continuously looking at the status of global fish stocks and the response of the industry. In the event of a dramatic decline in fish populations, new scientific findings or catch methods considered unethical in terms of animal welfare, we take proactive measures by removing endangered fish species from our product range. For example, we made early decisions to discontinue sales of halibut, shark and swordfish.
Our buying policies support the principles of sustainable fishing and fishing methods. As we would be unable to achieve this aim on our own, we work closely with our suppliers to find solutions to the issue of sustainable fishing.
We actively support organisations as such the Marine Stewardship Council and the Earth Island Institute in their efforts to promote sustainable fishing and fishing methods; we have supported the dolphin-friendly fishing of tuna in cooperation with the Earth Island institute for over 15 years.
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Home Blog Engineering Firm Saves Time Labor On Joint Use Inventory With Trupulse Rangefinding Technology
Based in Richmond, VA, Timmons Group is an engineering and technology firm that specializes in GIS, civil, environmental and surveying services across the United States. One type of project Timmons Group regularly performs is joint use inventories.
In 2019, Timmons Group was tasked with conducting a joint use inventory for all electrical/telephone poles that are shared between two major corporations. As part of the inventory, they would have to collect precise attributional, locational and vertical measurement data.
The Problem: Capture Precise Measurement Data for State-Wide Joint Use Inventory Without Using Hot Sticks
The challenge? Collecting accurate data while maintaining efficiency. Each pole housed a variety of equipment, and Timmons Group had to inventory not only the locations of the poles, but also the total heights and attachment heights for the various pieces of equipment, as well as the different cables on each pole.
Timmons Group Project Manager, Dylan Sheets, knew this project would require specific equipment that could not only handle these challenges, but also work in the sometimes-difficult environments they would inevitably run into. To find what they needed, Dylan turned to Duncan-Parnell and Technical Sales Representative, Russell Vrhovac, knowing their consultative approach would uncover the tools that would help boost his team's efficiency and accuracy.
The Solution: Combine Sub-Meter Accuracy of Trimble R1 With Vertical Accuracy of TruPulse 200x Laser Rangefinder
As a long-time Duncan-Parnell customer, Dylan and the Timmons Group team were familiar with their services and products and knew they'd have what was needed for this job. For this project, the team planned on using the Trimble R1 Bluetooth GNSS Receiver, which they already had experience with. The R1 would capture the sub-meter horizontal accuracy on each pole location, but they still needed something to capture high-accuracy vertical measurements.
For the amount of measuring that this project would entail, Dylan knew he didn't want to resort to using "hot sticks" – a time-consuming and labor-intensive method where the field teams need to have equipment in close proximity to live power lines to collect the necessary information. Between his research and Duncan-Parnell's recommendations, Dylan was guided towards Laser Tech Inc's TruPulse Rangefinding technology as a solution to this problem, because it would allow them to remotely measure height and connection points of various features on each pole.
The TruPulse 200x Laser Rangefinder would efficiently capture the complex, high-accuracy vertical measurements they had to collect. The small size of the rangefinder and its ability to harvest information entered into Esri's ArcGIS Collector made it a great option for this project. This was the first time Dylan had worked with Laser Tech's TruPulse technology, but since the equipment was so intuitive, it was easy to get acclimated, "Process of measuring multiple attachments on a pole is made much quicker and easier with [TruPulse] as opposed to using a hot stick for each measurement," said Dylan.
Even though Dylan and his team were using the R1 prior to this project, Dylan reports the learning curve for it to be very small as well, saying, "if you can work a Bluetooth speaker you can work with the R1." Additionally, to make the TruPulse even more user-friendly in the field, they mounted the rangefinder to a survey tripod, allowing them to conduct height surveys along with the positional surveys they were doing.
The Result: More Efficient Workflow & Confidence in Data
Although this is somewhat of a typical project for Timmons Group, the last time they took inventory of these poles was about 20 years ago. Back then, the joint use inventory didn't involve measurements, so having the TruPulse 200x and R1 were critical in collecting the more in-depth data they needed this time around.
Today, the project is still ongoing, and Dylan is confident that these tools have saved him and his team significant time, "the entire team has felt the impact of working with these tools," he said. Since his team of around 10 to 20 people are measuring dozens of poles a day, using these tools saves a lot of time and is much safer than the hot stick method.
After so many years of working with Duncan-Parnell, Dylan has been impressed with the effect the TruPulse Laser Rangefinders have had in combination with the R1, calling them "huge confidence boosters" for this project. Although the small learning curve allowed Dylan and his team to quickly implement the TruPulse 200x, he still relies on Russell whenever questions do arise, "Duncan-Parnell has been really awesome to work with and super responsive," he said.
Interested in how TruPulse Laser Rangefinders can help with your next project? Contact our team to learn more!


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Vevo Lives: YouTube, Universal Announce New Music Video JV
Tameka Kee Apr 9, 2009 - 5:07 PM CDT
Rumors about a new "premium" music video site from YouTube and Universal Music Group churned out non-stop early last month, but now it's official: UMG and YouTube plan to launch Vevo later this year.
Music videos from Universal artists will be available both on Vevo.com, as well as through a new Vevo channel on YouTube. The two companies, which will share ad revenue, expect the joint venture to be the largest music-video site in the United States upon launch.
Chris Maxcy, YouTube's director of business development, told us that this was a "completely different" deal than the recent one it inked to carry full-length clips from Disney: "It's a fairly deep partnership where we're providing tech, ad sales support and access to the YouTube community."
Maxcy said the two companies had discussed the possibility of long-form content, including original series, and the ability to sell music through Vevo, though it was "a bit early" to speculate about what those efforts might look like, or when they'd roll out. As for the timeline, he would only confirm that it was a "long term deal."
The release is embedded after the jump.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND YOUTUBE TO LAUNCH REVOLUTIONARY PREMIUM MUSIC AND VIDEO SERVICE
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7 Responses to "Vevo Lives: YouTube, Universal Announce New Music Video JV"
cwright January 30, 2010
Why the constant interruption when viewing. Never had this problem with You Tube. I have a great internet connection yet it feels like I am on dial up when viewing on VEVO.. They need to fix it or reconsider this affiliation
Musician's Guide December 9, 2009
So far i'm not too convinced by Vevo – It seems like a great idea, and could clearly follow in the potential success of Spotify, but I think the limitation on content to major labels is holding it back a lot.
Good to see these new business models coming into action though :)
Kelly April 12, 2009
Well, it is going to be something big as it seems. But I am not sure if they will manage to attract so many big-name advertisers and other content-owner partners as they plan. They need to gain big popularity among the ordinary internet users first of all. I don't see what new they will offer so that can happen. Quite brave expectations they have in my opinion.
staci April 11, 2009
marcus & videopoet: what you're talking aboot are youtube (music) videos. and leaving aside interactive videos as well (1st that comes to mind – r.e.m.'s), music videos will basically remain the same – short films trying to help sell a song.
marcus April 11, 2009
sonya, he means that the music video as a medium will not be around in its current state much longer, which is true. its practically dead already.
Sonya April 10, 2009
Sorry videopoet but you're wrong about the shelf life of music videos at least regarding classic music videos from the 80's and early 90's. The most popular views are from videos that are 20+ years old. Maybe it's because that's when MTV was MTV and many of us were in high school when it began.
I will give you that some mashups are outstanding and have massive views but they've got to be outstanding like Titanic: The Sequel.
videopoet April 10, 2009
The conventional music video has a very short life span left. Mashups, people experimenting with re-edited video material, putting it to music, and putting music to it, is the way forward. This heralds a whole new arena for mashing up material, embedding advertising into it and paves the way for long form mashups, re-editing movies, splicing movies, slowing them down, speeding them up. The business model is coming….
Only after the creative model has arrived though…
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