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Q: understanding ElasticSearch routing I am trying to use the elasticsearch routing  mapping to speed up some queries, but I am not getting the expected result set (not worried about the query performance just yet)
I am using Elastic to set up my mapping:
    $index->create(array('number_of_shards' => 4,
            'number_of_replicas' => 1,
            'mappings'=>array("country"=>array("_routing"=>array("path"=>"countrycode"))),
            'analysis' => array(
                    'analyzer' => array(
                            'indexAnalyzer' => array(
                                    'type' => 'keyword',
                                    'tokenizer' => 'nGram',
                                    'filter' => array('shingle')
                            ),
                            'searchAnalyzer' => array(
                                    'type' => 'keyword',
                                    'tokenizer' => 'nGram',
                                    'filter' => array('shingle')
                            )
                    )
            )  ), true);

If I understand correctly, what should happen is that each result should now have a field called "countrycode" with the value of "country" in it.
The results of _mapping look like this:
{"postcode":
    {"postcode":
        {"properties":
               {
               "area1":{"type":"string"},
               "area2":{"type":"string"},
               "city":{"type":"string",
               "include_in_all":true},
               "country":{"type":"string"},
               "country_iso":{"type":"string"},
               "country_name":{"type":"string"},
               "id":{"type":"string"},
               "lat":{"type":"string"},
               "lng":{"type":"string"},
               "location":{"type":"geo_point"},
               "region1":{"type":"string"},
               "region2":{"type":"string"},
               "region3":{"type":"string"},
               "region4":{"type":"string"},
               "state_abr":{"type":"string"},
               "zip":{"type":"string","include_in_all":true}}},
               "country":{
                   "_routing":{"path":"countrycode"},
                   "properties":{}
                          }
                 }
           }

Once all the data is in the index if I run this command:
http://localhost:9200/postcode/_search?pretty=true&q=country:au

it responds with 15740 total items
what I was expecting is that if I run the query like this:
http://localhost:9200/postcode/_search?routing=au&pretty=true

Then I was expecting it to respond with 15740 results
instead it returns 120617 results, which includes results where country is != au
I did note that the number of shards in the results went from 4 to 1, so something is working.
I was expecting that in the result set there would be an item called "countrycode" (from the rounting mapping) which there isn't
So I thought at this point that my understand of routing was wrong. Perhaps all the routing does is tell it which shard to look in but not what to look for? in other words if other country codes happen to also land in that particular shard, the way those queries are written will just bring back all records in that shard?
So I tried the query again, this time adding some info to it.
 http://localhost:9200/postcode/_search?routing=AU&pretty=true&q=country:AU

I thought by doing this it would force the query into giving me just the AU place names, but this time it gave me only 3936 results
So I Am not quite sure what I have done wrong, the examples I have read show the queries changing from needing a filter, to just using match_all{} which I would have thought would only being back ones matching the au country code.
Thanks for your help in getting this to work correctly.
Almost have this working, it now gives me the correct number of results in a single shard, however the create index is not working quite right, it ignores my number_of_shards setting, and possibly other ones too
$index = $client->getIndex($indexname);
    $index->create(array('mappings'=>array("$indexname"=>array("_routing"=>array("required"=>true))),'number_of_shards' => 6,
            'number_of_replicas' => 1,
            'analysis' => array(
                    'analyzer' => array(
                            'indexAnalyzer' => array(
                                    'type' => 'keyword',
                                    'tokenizer' => 'nGram',
                                    'filter' => array('shingle')
                            ),
                            'searchAnalyzer' => array(
                                    'type' => 'keyword',
                                    'tokenizer' => 'nGram',
                                    'filter' => array('shingle')
                            )
                    )
            )  ), true);

A: I can at least help you with more info on where to look:
http://localhost:9200/postcode/_search?routing=au&pretty=true

That query does indeed translate into "give me all documents on the shard where documents for country:AU should be sent."
Routing is just that, routing ... it doesn't filter your results for you.
Also i noticed you're mixing your "au"s and your "AU"s .. that might mix things up too.
You should try setting required on your routing element to true, to make sure that your documents are actually stored with routing information when being indexed.
Actually to make sure your documents are indexed with proper routing explicitly set the route to lowercase(countrycode) when indexing documents. See if that helps any.
For more information try reading this blog post:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/customizing-your-document-routing/
Hope this helps :)


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Getting There -- The nearest airport is Jaipur's, which lies 180km (112 miles) away; it is just under a 4-hour drive. Alternatively, the sprawling village of Sawai Madhopur (10km/6 1/4 miles from the park gates) is well connected by rail to Jaipur (just over 2 hr.) and to Jodhpur (8 hr.), and is on the main line between Delhi (5 1/2 hr.) and Mumbai. All accommodations listed will arrange pickups from the station.
Game-Drive Formalities -- Only official vehicles with sanctioned drivers and guides are permitted to take visitors into the park. There are two types of vehicle: jeeps and Canter buses. The latter -- ferrying up to 25 passengers -- should be avoided, even though they're slightly cheaper. To ensure your place in a game-drive jeep, it's best to arrange well in advance through your hotel. Places on the 40 vehicles that are allowed into the park for each drive session are often booked up to 2 months in advance. For bookings in a jeep, call the Project Tiger office (tel. 07462/22-0223; Mon-Sat 5-7am and noon-2pm for advance booking). If you have no alternative, Canters buses can be booked a day in advance at the tourist reception center at RTDC's Hotel Vinayak. If you book with any of the accommodations recommended below, they will arrange all this for you (they also enjoy unofficial priority access to the park, and seem to be able to arrange entrance at short notice, although you shouldn't count on it). Please note, however, that you must let your host know when and how often you would like to go on a game drive as soon as possible -- these officially need to be booked 60 days in advance. The price varies depending on where you stay; the official rate charged by the park is Rs 800 for a seat on a jeep (which includes park entry, but excludes a Rs 200 video fee), but you can also book through your lodge, essentially sparing you the bother of exchanging cash at the park entrance. For a wonderful introduction to the park, ask your host to find a copy of The Ultimate Ranthambhore Guide (Rs 175) by Sheena Sippy and Sanjna Kapoor, also sold at the park's gate.
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Salmon is one of the easiest meals to make. It seasons easily. It cooks quick. The hardest part is you have to cook it quick because it won't keep in your refrigerator. My mom likes to make this salmon dish when we eat BBQ to contrast all of the grilled food.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the baking dish with aluminum foil and place the fish in the pan. Cover the fish with lemon juice, olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper. Put the fish in the oven for 15 minutes (20 minutes if fish is thick).
Chop the scallions, garlic, and ginger slices.
To prepare the sauce, in a small pot or pan, heat up the fat/oil on medium heat. When it is hot, put in the ginger and garlic. They should instantly sizzle when they hit the fat/oil. Let them flavor the fat/oil for 1 minute and should not turn brown.
Add in the coconut aminos, fish sauce and sesame oil and let simmer for another 1 minute. Add the scallions, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper and after 1 minute, turn off the heat.
After 15 minutes, take the fish out of the oven.
Spread the ginger and scallion sauce over the baked fish and serve!
I love to cook fried rice because I can unload a variety of vegetables into it. My kids won't eat certain vegetables by themselves (example: asparagus) but somehow they'll eat it in fried rice. This is a simple meal to cook, the most time consuming part is dicing up all of the vegetables. Bacon fried rice is one of the easiest to cook because the meat is already seasoned and a classic Chinese American meal!
Start cooking your rice. Use this recipe to cook it in a pot.
If you are using a cast iron skillet, turn the burner to medium.
Dice 1-1/2 cups of scallions, green and white parts. Put them in a pile on a large plate.
Shred 2 cups of carrots. Put them in a pile next to the scallions on a large plate.
Dice 2 cups of mushrooms. Use shiitake, button, or portobello. Put these also in a pile on the large plate.
Dice 2 cups of a green vegetable like asparagus. You can also use peas. I like to have at least 3 different vegetables (not counting scallions). Put them in a pile on a large plate.
Dice 12 pieces of bacon. I keep these on the cutting board.
Crack 5 eggs and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a bowl and beat until scrambled.
If you are using a wok, turn the burner to medium heat.
Melt 2 teaspoons of ghee. Cook the scrambled eggs. Put them in a bowl (I use the bowl they were scrambled in). Scrape all the egg out of the skillet or wok.
Use a knife to cut the egg into smaller pieces.
Cook the diced bacon for about 4 minutes.
Remove the bacon before it gets too crispy. Bacon should be soft and crispy on the ends.
3. Throw in 2 cups of the vegetable and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Cook 3-4 minutes until soft.
4. Remove everything in the skillet or wok to a plate and repeat these 4 steps for the next vegetable.
Cook the green vegetables with the 4 steps.
Cook the mushrooms with the 4 steps.
As you cook the vegetables put them back in piles on the plate.
The rice should be cooked now. Stir it slowly to fluff and loosen from the side of the pot.
Melt a teaspoon of ghee and cook the rest of the scallions for 15 seconds. Put in the rice and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Mix together for 30 seconds.
Put in the egg, bacon and vegetables on top of the rice.
Mix everything together. If I'm using a skillet, I'll use 2 large spoons to mix. If I'm using a wok, I'll use a wok spatula.
Pour in the 2 tablespoons of coconut aminos and 1 tablespoons of fish oil. Thoroughly mix with the rice. You can replace the coconut aminos and fish oil with 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.
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Start with a whole chicken between 4.5 – 5 lbs. Try to buy one that is free range, organic, or recently processed (butchered) for the best taste and most nutritious. Before you start cooking the chicken leave it on the counter until it is room temperature to help the meat stay tender.
Fill a pot of water enough to just cover the chicken completely. If you are unsure of just how much water, put the chicken into the pot and fill until the chicken is just covered and then take the chicken out. Bring the water to a boil.
Place the chicken into the water and bring the water to a boil again. Place the neck, liver, heart, or anything else that came with the chicken.
Once the water is boiling, use thongs to lift the chicken from the inside cavity.
Hold the chicken up and tilt slightly to drain the water from the inside cavity slowly. This is to ensure the water inside the raw cavity is drained and doesn't get stuck inside uncooked.
Place the chicken back into the water, ensuring water has filled the inside cavity. Bring the water to a boil again.
Once the water has boiled, lower the heat to a slow simmer where one or two steams of bubbles are coming from the bottom of the pot.
Put a pair of chopsticks over the top of the pot and then place the lid of the pot on top of the chopsticks. This helps to circulate the heat and keep an eye on the simmer. Simmer for 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, use the thongs again to drain the water from the inside cavity.
Place the chicken back into the pot and bring the water to a boil.
Turn off the stove, take the chicken out of the water and onto a plate. Cover the top and bottom of the chicken with salt.
Let the chicken sit for 20 minutes before serving. You can carve or cut, this is where the name white cut chicken came from. Or peel the chicken off the bone also known as shredding.
A bonus is the nutritious broth from the boiled chicken. I usually boil 2 chickens (one after another) in the same broth which results in a delicious broth ready for drinking. If you only boil 1 chicken, you'll need to add more bones to boil into a flavorful broth.
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Danielle Chang's team gave me permission to share one of my favorite recipes from the Lucky Rice Cookbook, Sichuanese Chicken Wings. These chicken wings have so much flavor with an added kick from the hot chiles…yumm-my.
Line a large rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and spread the chicken wings out on it. Sprinkle them generously with salt. I used Himalayan pink salt to pack in as many minerals.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the wings are golden brown and crisp. Drain off the fat and transfer the wings to the a serving bowl.
In a cast iron skillet set over medium-high heat, toast the red chile flakes, cumin seeds, Sichuanese peppercorns, and star anise, shaking the pan constantly, until the spices are toasty and fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes.
Immediately pour them into a bowl to stop the cooking. Cool slightly, and then grind to a powder in a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle.
Pour the ground spice mixture on top of the chicken wings and toss with your hands (best tools in the kitchen).
In the same dry skillet, toast the dried chiles, shaking the pan constantly, until they are darken in color and smell fragrant, 3 minutes. Then add the toasted whole chiles and the julienned ginger on top of the chicken wings.
To serve, toss the wings, spices, and ginger with your hands. Taste, and add more salt if necessary. Sprinkle with the chopped cilantro and serve at once.
If you love these Sichuanese Chicken Wings as much as I do, go and buy a copy of Danielle Chang's Lucky Rice Cookbook and see her other amazing recipes.


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Consumer law firm, Slater and Gordon, is swooping in to grab a piece of what's left of the Murray Goulburn dairy business, launching a class action case on behalf of disenchanted shareholders.
The compensation claim specialist is confident of arguing in court MG's shock profit downgrade on April 27, 2016 was the result of previously overly ambitious and optimistic earnings forecasts amid deteriorating market conditions, "rather than any factors beyond its control".
The law firm, backed by litigation funder IMF Bentham, is seeking out investors who lost money on MG's listed shares for the class action against the dairy co-operative and its subsidiary, MG Responsible Entity Limited.
The move follows close behind Thursday's shareholder vote to sell the company's assets for $1.3 billion to Canada's Saputo Inc.
About $200 million has been set aside from the sale proceeds to cover legal claims against the co-op.
Other class action moves by investor advocates have already been initiated in the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Australia.
The latest class action claim assumes the big co-op's directors and management misled shareholders and the wider share market.
It is open to current and former investors who bought shares in MG's Australian Securities Exchange-listed entity MG Unit Trust between May 29, 2015 and April 26 the following year and lost money because of they were apparently misinformed.
Slater and Gordon's planned class action against Australia's largest milk processor spans the 2015 initial public offering period for the unit trust which represented almost a third of the company's value when it floated in 2015.
Moving quickly to get the claim rolling, Slater and Gordon senior associate, Andrew Paull, said registrations for unitholders wanting to join the class action would only be open until May 18.
Formal proceedings would be filed soon after, subject to sufficient interest.
"Thorough analysis of the recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Australian Securities and Investment Commission inquiries into MG has strengthened our initial findings that suggest the company misled the market by forecasting profits it could never achieve in the 2015-16 financial year," he said.
MG and the MG Responsible Entity's management have simply noted the planned legal action, and that no court proceedings had yet commenced.
The proposed claim will allege MG misled investors by issuing the 2015-16 profit forecast in the public disclosure statement and/or its revised forecast in February 2016.
At that time MG revised its forecast 2015-16 net profit after tax to $63m, citing historically weak dairy commodity prices.
The forecast was more than $20m less than the May 2015 pre-float forecast to shareholders and unitholders of a 2015-16 net profit after tax of $85.8m.
MG's news only got worse.
By late April 2016 MG had downgraded its net profit after tax forecast again to between $39m and $42m.
The co-op blamed weak growth in Chinese demand for adult milk products in early April, resulting in reduced expectations for revenue, and an uncompetitively strengthened Australian dollar against the US exchange rate.
MG also cut the valuation for its milk product inventory expected to be sold in 2016-17.
The April 27 announcement was accompanied by shock news of the resignation of managing director, Gary Helou, the champion of the MG Unit Trust float and its subsequent $500m capital raising to fund a big milk processing and export expansion push.
The dairy industry was also stunned to learn chief financial officer, Brad Hingle, would leave, and the co-op was retrospectively cutting its market-leading farmgate milk price payments to suppliers for the entire financial year.
MG's unit price subsequently plunged more than 40 per cent, down from $2.14 a share on April 21 to $1.26 April 27.
Slater and Gordon also argues MG entities were responsible for breaches of continuous disclosure obligations under the ASX listing rules and the Corporations Act 2001.
Mr Paull said the company should have announced the looming profit downgrade before April 27.
He said once sufficient participants joined the action, it would be funded by IMF Bentham.
Participants would not be required to pay any fees unless the class action was successful.


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const char *value = (const char *)sqlite3_column_text(statement, i);
[result setObject:[NSString stringWithCString:value encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] forKey:columnName];

or
const char *value = (const char*)sqlite3_column_text(statement, i);
NSString *str_Value = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",[NSString stringWithUTF8String:value]] ;
[result setObject:str_Value forKey:columnName];
[str_Value release];

how to remove this leaks .please help out......

A: You need to null check for it;
if (value != null)
{
   NSString *str_Value = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",[NSString
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}

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The Romance of Tristan
"The Relationship of King Mark and Tristan"
The romance of Tristan, developed by Beroul in the twelfth century, is an epic poem that has helped historians receive a further understanding of life in the 11th and 12th centuries.The poem explores many of the relationships that were prevalent in this time period.One relationship that is dealt with in this story is the bond between a lord and his vassal.This can be seen through the interactions of King Mark and Tristan.The Romance of Tristan shows that the bond between lord and vassal was very complicated, and it was a relationship formed out of trust and admiration, as well as self-interest.In this paper I will explore the common roles in society for a knight and a king, and I will show how Tristan and King Mark show similarities to what many believe is a normal lord-vassal relationship.I will make detail on how this single relationship would effect society as a whole, and note how this bond influences other people.Finally, I will explain how this traditional story is very helpful for historians to paint a picture on how life really was in the 11th and 12th centuries, and share my views on interpreting this poem.
"On the social and political levels, medieval men had to obey his superiors…He had to show loyalty to his authorities…The greatest social virtue required of medieval man was obedience, justified by religion." This helps form the groundwork for the traditional knight/lord relationship.A lord was a knight's superior, and is expected to be respected by his knight at all times due to this reason.The common knight would take this into account in the 11th and 12th centuries, but if he had the strength or desire to fulfill his own personal needs, he would take the opportunity to do so.It seems to me that there was always a certain level of trust that had to be measured during this time."Each party owed something to the oth…
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His comments came during head coach Steve Spurrier's weekly news conference and after Wilds and Carson, senior running backs for the Gamecocks, had fallen back on a couple of workhorses among college football clichés.
South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier himself dismissed any revenge angle heading into this week's game.
It's a hard night to forget, though, and not just because it was Spurrier's second loss to the Wildcats in 23 career games. The Gamecocks seemingly had shaken off the previous week's 21-20 loss to Missouri as they ran out to a 38-24 lead early in the fourth quarter, but Kentucky tailback JoJo Kemp rushed for 118 yards in the game's final six minutes to lead a Wildcats comeback.
It was one of six of South Carolina's conference games decided by seven or fewer points last year (two wins, four losses), and it continued a midseason slide from which the Gamecocks did not recover until the middle of November.
"Got beat several times last year in a similar way, and we're trying to prevent it from happening this year," Spurrier said.
South Carolina was 8-3 in games decided by a touchdown or less from 2011-2013, a span in which it won 33 games overall, and Spurrier suggested Tuesday that his team should be ready for more close games this season.
"Winning by three or four touchdowns, I don't know if that's in our DNA right now," he said.
Kentucky would be happy with any win at this point. The Wildcats haven't won a conference game since that night, and Kentucky and South Carolina are a combined 1-7 in the SEC since that game. The Wildcats are 1-7 in road games under third-year head coach Mark Stoops.
9.8.15. South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier talks about this weekend's game against Kentucky.
The South Carolina Gamecocks football team could get an infusion of speed when Lavonte Valentine gets on the field for them. But track kept him from the field all spring and Will Muschamp gives an update.


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The Sport Club Inter Club Council (also known as the SC-ICC) serves as the governing body for all Sports Clubs at CSUF. The SC-ICC consists of one representative from each Sports Club, executive officers, and the Sports Clubs Coordinator, who serves as the advisor of the council. The purpose of this organization is to provide opportunities for association and interaction between students within Sports Clubs and members of the campus community.
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stabilization energy (ISE)5 compares an aromatic (or antiaromatic) compound against a non-aromatic reference, one that typically is made by appending an exo-methylene group to the ring. So, to assess the ISE of the T1 state of benzene, Reaction 1 is used. (Note that the inherent assumption here is that the stabilization energy of benzene is essentially identical to that of toluene.) At B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) the energy of Reaction 1 is +13.5 kcal mol-1. This reaction should be corrected for non-conservation of s-cis and s-trans conformers by adding on the energy of Reaction 2, which is +3.4 kcal mol-1. So, the ISE of triplet benzene is +16.9 kcal mol-1, indicating that it is antiaromatic. In contrast, the ISE for triplet cyclooctatetraene is -15.6 kcal mol-1, and when corrected its ISE value is -24.7 kcal mol-1, indicating aromatic character. These are completely consistent with Baird's rule. Schleyer also presents an excellent correlation between the computed ISE values for the triplet state of 9 monocyclic polyenes and their NICS(1)zz values.
the lowest 3ππ* state of cyclic hydrocarbons," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1972, 94, 4941-4948, DOI: 10.1021/ja00769a025.
catalyzed transition state TS2 shown in Figure 1. The activation barrier for this catalyzed reaction is 19.1 kcal mol-1, suggesting that a thiourea can afford a real catalytic effect.
(1) Brown, A. R.; Uyeda, C.; Brotherton, C. A.; Jacobsen, E. N. "Enantioselective Thiourea-Catalyzed Intramolecular Cope-Type Hydroamination," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6747-6749, DOI: 10.1021/ja402893z.


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Spyro Reignited Trilogy Release Date For PlayStation 4 And Xbox One Pushed Back To November
18 August 2018, 11:44 am EDT By John Carlo A. Villaruel Tech Times
With the hopes of enhancing every user's gaming experience, Activision has decided to move the release of Spyro Reignited Trilogy into a later date.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which is a collection of the first three Spyro games, will now be available for PS4 and Xbox One on Nov. 13. Activision and Toys for Bob were supposed to release the trilogy collection worldwide this Sept. 21.
Toys for Bob studio head Paul Yan did not mention any particular reason as to what caused the delay, but he cited that they are committed to keeping the game right. The news came in shortly after the San Diego Comic-Con, which featured the comeback of the original composer, Stewart Copeland, to Spyro. Copeland also served as a drummer for The Police.
"Everyone here at Toys for Bob is so proud to be reigniting the original Spyro trilogy after all these years. We're deeply committed to getting these games right, so we've decided to move the release date of Spyro Reignited Trilogy to November 13, 2018. I really hoped that you would be rescuing dragons and scorching Rhynocs sooner, but the Trilogy needs more love and care. In November when you're exploring the Dragon Realms, Avalar and the Forgotten Worlds, we know you'll agree the extra time was worth the wait," Yan said.
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy is geared with updated versions of Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Among the notable improvements in the game include the Colossus stage from Spyro: Ripto's Rage and the Hurricos level playthrough.
Negative Response By Fans Caused The Delay
According to multiple sources, Spyro fans were angered after it was revealed earlier that only the first of the three games would be complete in time to be playable offline. It added the remaining two games would need online downloads to be playable.
Although it has been confirmed that the Trilogy would require a download, the complete details of what the download includes is still uncertain at this time. However, Activision reiterated that they decided to move the game's release to a later date so that it could live up to their own standards.
Despite the delay, Gamescom 2018 guests will still be able to play the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Aside from the trilogy, other Activision games that will be featured in the event are Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Destiny 2: Forsaken, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
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est un film américain réalisé  par P.J. Castellaneta, sorti en 1998.

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Des couples de pratiques sexuelles diverses, des lesbiennes, des gays et des hétéros, fréquentent tous un bar local et luttent pour faire accepter le mode de vie des autres.

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 Titre : Relax... It's Just Sex
 Réalisateur : P.J. Castellaneta
 Scénario : P.J. Castellaneta
 Format : Couleurs
 Durée : 110 minutes
 Langue : anglais
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 Eddie Garcia
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 Jennifer Tilly
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 Cynda Williams
 Paul Winfield
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Are you ready for the next step at work but you're not sure how to get there? Take matters into your own hands and work toward your next promotion this year. Use these 10 tips to help you get there.
1. do the job you want, not the job you have
If you want to take your career to the next level, show management that you're ready for the increased responsibilities by taking them on without an official promotion. It will show you're dedicated to the company's success and worthy of a promotion.
2. have a solution-oriented approach to your work
Employers want people who bring solutions - not problems - to the table. Show that you're worth being promoted by always working to find a solution to a problem, not stewing on the problem itself. Having a positive attitude will set you apart from your peers and prove that you have what it takes to lead.
3. be sure there's room for you to grow
If growing in your career is something you value, it's important that you work at a place that can facilitate that growth. If you've maxed out your opportunities with your current employer, you might be better off being promoted at another company.
4. be clear with your supervisor
It's important that you and your supervisor share a vision for your future at work. Tell him or her that you're looking for a promotion in the next 10 months so it's on both of your radars. Then check back in on it regularly when you have performance reviews to keep the topic top of mind.
5. be social
Show that you're committed to the holistic success of the business by being a team player and developing relationships inter-departmentally. It can be a great way to show your supervisor and hiring managers that you're liked and respected in the office, which are important qualities for people in leadership positions.
6. but not too social
The last thing a supervisor wants is someone who brings unnecessary drama in the workplace. Skip the gossip and water cooler chat if you want to be considered for a promotion this year.
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Ask someone whom you admire and look up to for advice as you grow in your career. Learning how they earned promotions over the years can help you as you seek out your own.
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Before you ask for more responsibility, review your latest performance reviews to ensure you're making movement on your areas for improvement. Showing growth can be a great selling point as you work toward a promotion.
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10. ask for it
The best way to ensure you'll win that promotion is to ask for it! Make it clear that growing within the company is a priority for you, and make your intentions clear by going after what you want.
If you're planning to score that big promotion, use these 10 tips to help you as you work toward achieving your big goal.


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Gone But Not Forgotten 3: More Game Cancellations That Still Sting
Time to open up some old wounds, ladies and gentlemen! When a game you're hyping is suddenly cancelled, whether it's with an official announcement or worse, quietly never talked about again, it's an emotional blow that takes something out of your soul. Perhaps I'm waxing poetic here, so I'll just say that a game cancellation for something you're hyped about takes its toll on you. That's what this series of articles is all about, games that were cancelled, either ceremoniously or not, that still hurt to this day. If you'd like to check out the first and second installments of this series, check them out with part one and part two. Now, let's open up those wounds!
Maverick Hunter X (PS3, 360)
We kick this third look at cancelled games with some Mega Man X action. Developed by several folks who had worked on Metroid Prime, Maverick Hunter X was pumped and primed to be Capcom's attempt to create a similar game. Played in a first-person perspective with the ability to scale walls, Mega Man X was in an all-new form for this perceived reboot. However, as Mega Man lead director Keiji Infaune left the company, this project was scrapped. Thankfully, all of us can view this footage of what could have been a fantastic entry in the series and a new era of Mega Man games.
True Fantasy Live Online (XBX)
A collaboration with Level-5 and Microsoft, True Fantasy Live Online was met with feverish anticipation from the moment it was unveiled. Offering an expansive fantasy world allowing for thousands of players to inhabit it simultaneously, the promises made by both companies involved sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, they very much were too good to be true. A combination of Level-5's inexperience with online gaming and Microsoft's continued demands made for a partnership that quickly unraveled at the seams. The project was officially cancelled, and the two sides left with a bit of equal bitterness.
Nintendo and Argonaut Games worked together on this direct sequel to 1993's Super Nintendo classic Star Fox. It was to feature new vehicle types, two new Star Fox team members, and an upgraded use of the Super FX chip, allowing for unparalleled 3D on the Super Nintendo hardware. The latter was the reason this basically complete game was shelved, never to be released in official capacity. Star Fox 2 was set to release in the summer of '95. However, it seemed this projected date was too close to that of the launch of the Nintendo 64. Thus, Nintendo decided to not release the game, wanting the next Star Fox to use highest caliber graphics possible that only the N64 could provide.
Crash Team Racing 2010 (PS3, 360, Wii)
Planned for development in 2010, a prototype for an all-new Crash Team Racing was being devised by High Impact Games, most notably the makers of various PSP spin-offs of acclaimed PlayStation series like Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, Secret Agent Clank, and Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier, to name a few. Before the prototype could be completely 100% finished, the publisher Activision cancelled the project. However, there is footage of the prototype and game in motion. The cancellation of this 2010 incarnation of Crash Team Racing was a rolling snowball in the number of cancellations surrounding the Crash Bandicoot IP, including a Nintendo DS racer by Renegade Kid and a new 3D platformer in the series. Nowadays, Crash Bandicoot sits at home reliving his best days and old adventures on his busted PS1 and watching commercials starring himself. He now weighs 408 lbs.
Toe Jam & Earl 3 (DC)
While the funky duo of Toe Jam and Earl did arrive for a third installment on the Xbox, that finished product and the original vision of the game on the Dreamcast are two entirely different beasts. While the Xbox game is more of a traditional 3D adventure, the Dreamcast game was much more in line with how its Genesis predecessors behaved and played. The so-called "rough cut" is available to play, and you can do so and find more information about the project at this link, courtesy of Eurogamer. Do you think in a parallel universe the finished Dreamcast would have been more intriguing than the released Xbox game?
Mega Man Mania (GBA)
Bookending this edition of Gone But Not Forgotten is a double dose of Mega Man. Around the time that Mega Man Anniversary Collection, which contained all eight mainline classic Mega Man games, was announced and later released for the PS2, GameCube, and later the Xbox, Capcom also had plans to release a companion collection for the Game Boy Advance. This would have been a compendium of Mega Man's handheld adventures from the original Game Boy. Months upon months turned into years with little information regarding Mega Man Mania (here's footage in the form of a trailer), the compilation in question, until it was sadly and silently killed off, much like the Blue Bomber is with Capcom today.
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Gordiacea is a genus of achilid planthoppers in the family Achilidae. There are at least two described species in Gordiacea.

Species
These two species belong to the genus Gordiacea:
 Gordiacea oculata (Melichar, 1903) c g
 Gordiacea patula (Chen, Yang & Wilson, 1989) c g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

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The ObserverAutobiography and memoir
'Doctors are the priests of our society': an extract from Tom Templeton's 34 Patients
'Facing the fragility of human existence helps us to celebrate it': Tom Templeton. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
From a surprise birth to a sudden death, two case studies illuminate the highs and lows of NHS life
Q&A with Tom Templeton
Tom Templeton
Sun 10 Jan 2021 04.00 EST
In 1999, aged 18, I had a summer holiday job as a ward clerk at St Thomas's hospital in London. I'd been placed there by a temp agency and had no interest in medicine at the time. The work itself felt routine, banal. In a high-ceilinged Victorian ward overlooking the River Thames, I logged patients on to the computer system, chased down medical notes and X-rays and made many cups of tea for the nurses. But although I hadn't especially wanted to work there, and was doing it to fund the next year of university, the hospital quickly became a profound environment for me.
It was the patients who changed things. They came from all parts of society, from rough sleepers to aristocrats. Some were dying rapidly, some were temporarily ill, others chronically so. Some shouted and sobbed, while some did everything to avoid emotion. I didn't understand much of what was going on, but I could see how vital it was and how different it was to what I saw in my everyday life.
I was particularly struck by one patient, Jack. A few months earlier he had gone for a drink with his partner at the Admiral Duncan, a popular gay pub in Soho. Though they didn't know it as they went in chatting, another man had left his sports bag by the bar. While Jack was queueing for a drink, the explosives in the bag were detonated by a cheap alarm clock. Three people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, were killed. Jack lost one of his legs below the knee.
He and I used to chat about football. As I got to know him, I discovered this wasn't the first hurdle in his life. He told me that, years before the bombing, he'd suffered from depression and alcohol dependence. Now he was learning to walk again, struggling with severe pain, deafness, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. "Why," he used to ask, "why did this happen to me?"
After two months I went off to university and left Jack still on the ward. Later, I became a newspaper journalist. My dream job. We reported the news and moved on. I loved the breadth of what we covered, and the speed of it, the lofty heights from which we operated. Naturally, much of what we reported on was human suffering. As time went on, I began to find the distance between the lofty heights and that suffering uncomfortable.
I found myself thinking more and more often about Jack with his stump and his crutches, searching for meaning. I began wondering if the answer to all this suffering could be found back where my holiday job had briefly taken me, in medicine.
I eventually walked into the medical school lecture theatre aged 30. As I moved on into the wards, gaining experience, as all trainee doctors do, in specialities from psychiatry to orthopaedics, from intensive care to general practice, from A&E to internal medicine, from geriatrics to paediatrics, the excitement of the work was always tempered by the sorrow and distress I witnessed. Even in cases where we "cured" the patient, I could see their time in hospital had left them with a new emotional scar. An invisible tattoo. And I've discovered something else through meeting thousands of patients from different walks and stages of life and from different cultures, who have suffered every imaginable kind of physical and psychological trauma: doctors are the priests of our society; patients bare their souls as well as their bodies.
Even if the medicine didn't always heal, the capacity for humans to understand, to endure and to love seemed to provide some sort of redemption. Hospitals can be frightening places, but an unflinching look at life there is cathartic.
Facing the fragility of human existence helps us to celebrate it.
Female. 18. Back pain
In a herculean feat, the night team have emptied the entire A&E. I sit alone in a glass-walled booth, staring meditatively at the computer screen. Then a patient silently drops on to the screen.
Female. 18. Back Pain.
I walk round the corner.
In the middle of the cubicle, a young woman is standing up, shifting her weight from foot to foot. She is scarcely an adult. Her skin is smooth and she's wearing a baggy denim man's shirt, her hair pulled back in a bun. Her pale face is clear of makeup and taut with pain.
A young man with a scraggly beard and braids in his long hair is sitting on the bed. He has a look of deep concern on his face. I ascertain that he is her boyfriend.
"How can I help?" I ask brightly.
"My back really hurts," Rachel says, and she looks ashamed and scared.
"When did this pain start?" I ask.
"Saturday," she says.
It's only Wednesday now, I think. Four days. Why come to A&E? Why not go to the GP?
"And did you fall or damage your back before the pain started?"
"No." She shakes her head. "I was at work on Friday, but I didn't hurt my back."
"What work do you do?" I ask.
"Behind a bar."
"And you didn't strain your back in some way, carrying something?"
"No," she says. 'They had me pulling pints all day."
"Have you taken any painkillers?"
"Yes," she says.
"Are they helping?"
"Not really," she says.
"We've been to the doctors about this twice already," says the boyfriend in an aggrieved tone. "We went to the minor injuries unit on Saturday night and they just gave her paracetamol, then we went to the walk-in health centre on Monday and they gave us codeine. It hasn't helped."
Jesus! I think. Back pain and this is their third visit to seek medical attention in five days; no wonder the health service is on its knees.
"Can you point to where it hurts?" I ask her.
She gestures behind her.
"Can you show me exactly by pressing on the spot?" I say. She hesitates for a long time and I feel the institutional impatience of the emergency department coursing through me.
"Is that OK?" I ask, unclear why she is being so slow.
Reluctantly, Rachel unbuttons the denim shirt and turns away to show me where the pain is. For half a second I see her body in profile as she turns, and I can see that her belly is protruding like an oversize rugby ball. Then she has turned fully and is facing directly away from me.
"The pain is here," she says, bringing both hands up behind her and pointing her thumbs into each side of her lower back.
"Right," I say, feeling confused by what I've just seen.
"Are you pregnant?" I say to her back, wondering why no one has mentioned this yet, and feeling, for some reason, that I'm transgressing as I ask.
"No," she says into the wall.
Now I'm completely taken aback.
"You're not pregnant?"
"No," she says adamantly.
Baffled by this confirmation, I look across at her boyfriend for assistance. He is staring at the floor. I cannot read his expression.
"OK," I say, trying to collect my thoughts, "so the pain?" She points her thumbs into her back again.
"Can I press?" I say. She nods and I poke my fingers hard into the flesh of her loins.
"Does that hurt?" I say.
"Look, you're sure you're not pregnant?" I find myself asking again. "I mean, you look pregnant."
"I'm not," she says.
Then suddenly her face is convulsed with pain and she starts pacing up and down in the cubicle, then pausing and trying to get comfortable.
I look over at her boyfriend. I am struck by how young he looks.
"Has she been doing this much?" I ask.
"Yes," he says.
"For the last few days," he says.
It takes about a minute for the pain to pass. For the entire time, her boyfriend and I are silent and still, the low winter sun pouring in the window, the department silent as a church. Then Rachel stops pacing and rubs her swollen abdomen.
"When was your last period?" I ask.
She looks a bit confused. "I don't… They've been a bit irregular," she says.
"When was your last one?"
She mentions a month. I count forward to the present day. "So, nine months ago," I say, raising my eyebrows, then turning to the boyfriend who has a look of defeat on his face. "And how long has your belly been like that?"
"There's been a lot of bloating," she says.
She shrugs. "I don't know."
"And have you felt any… any kicking in your belly in that time?" I ask.
She frowns. "I'm… I'm not sure."
For a moment I expect a TV crew to crash in through the curtain. I feel like I'm being tested as part of some psychological experiment. Her denial is so solid, so ridden with fear that I begin to get infected. Two medical professionals have seen her this week and treated her for musculoskeletal back pain. A significant part of me doesn't want to be humiliated by misdiagnosing pregnancy in a woman with back pain. But the belly?
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"I think you're pregnant and in labour," I say.
"I can't be," she says.
"I just can't."
"Shall we do a pregnancy test to be sure?" I say, fixing her with my eyes. I need proof to break the thick glass of denial. She nods, but can't look me in the eye. I hand her a tiny clear plastic cylinder with an empty label on the side and she walks off to the toilets clutching it. She comes back to the cubicle and says warily that she hasn't been able to produce any urine to be tested. She hands me back the empty plastic cylinder and for a second we are both holding it, and at that moment I look directly into her pale, drawn face.
I think of what the average pregnancy contains: all the conversations, the books, the classes, the shopping, the tests and scans and appointments, the medical and family wisdom, the hopes and fears, the tears and laughter. All bypassed. Everything locked in this tense head.
"Rachel," I say holding that cylinder, "you've come to the right place; we'll look after you. Let's get you to the maternity ward."
At the end of the day I look up Rachel's medical record on the system. I'm surprised to see a discharge letter from the maternity unit has already been written with follow-ups arranged throughout the coming week with health visitors, a psychologist and social services.
Patient gave birth to a baby girl at 3.30pm.
On a Monday evening in the run-up to Christmas, a woman in her late-50s with a shock of grey hair is brought to the hospital feverish and gasping for breath. After giving her high-flow oxygen through a mask we get an X-ray done, which shows one lung is half filled with fluid, so we cut a hole between her ribs and insert a tube as thick as a thumb to drain the fluid off.
On Tuesday morning I find Diana in a side room. Her breathing is calmer now and she only requires a trickle of oxygen delivered by small rubber prongs that sit snugly in her nostrils. Her face is gaunt, and hanging round her neck is a beautiful necklace – a small silver moon complete with seas and craters. The tube emerging from her chest curls elegantly into a tank of pink water next to her bed, which bubbles with her every breath.
"How much have you removed from the lung?" Diana asks in a low, exhausted voice.
I look at the blood-stained fluid at the bottom of the tank. "About a litre and a half," I say.
"I'm so grateful," she says, "to be able to breathe. Yesterday it felt as if I was drowning."
"Do you feel strong enough to talk?" I ask.
"Of course," she says, and with some physical effort she tells me her story. That she'd been feeling tired for a few months, and losing weight. She went to her GP a month back, who ran blood tests that came back normal. The symptoms were put down to stress, because there's a lot of that in her job in the university department. Then she went on a field trip overseas to help with the construction of a new telescope. She began to feel short of breath out there and put this down to the altitude. But on her return just a few days ago she began coughing up green phlegm and the breathlessness got worse.
As I tie a rubber tourniquet round Diana's arm she describes the telescope she is working on. It will be able to see far into the universe and far back almost to the beginnings of time.
"If we can see back to the beginning," she says, "it may help us understand where it will end."
"Seriously?" I say. "I had no idea we could do that."
Tom Templeton photographed in Oxford at his surgery. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
She laughs and then starts coughing and choking and has to recover herself. "I suppose you doctors spend all your time looking inwards. And maybe I've spent too long looking outwards."
On Wednesday morning I find Diana deep in conversation with a gentle-looking man. He introduces himself as Jonathan, her husband.
He has brought a bright sprig of flowering cherry from their garden, which sits in a plastic water jug next to her bed. I perch on the side of Diana's bed and break the news that we've looked at the lung fluid under a microscope and it has shown cancerous cells.
Diana's head slumps a little on hearing the news. Jonathan grips her hand tightly and mutters something in her ear.
"I half-expected it," she says eventually. "I guess I need to let the department know; they'll probably have to postpone my next trip."
The water tank at her side bubbles away with each breath. I can see that another half-litre of claggy, blood-stained fluid has been pushed out of her chest overnight.
"What kind of cancer is it going to be?" asks Diana. "I smoked a bit of pot when I was younger. Do you remember?" she asks Jonathan.
He smiles. "I don't think Dr T wants to hear about our misspent youth."
That afternoon, Diana has a whole-body CT scan. Later, on a portable computer, I scroll through the images that show little spiky clumps of abnormal tissue lighting up like stars within the black space of the lung. I explain that a sample of the abnormal tissue has been taken to the lab and will be cut, stained and placed between glass slides and looked at under a microscope. Only then will we know what exactly is going on and what treatment might be available.
"And when will that be?" Jonathan asks. There's an edge in his calm voice.
"One or two days," I say.
Diana is keen to tell me about a museum she went to on her recent field trip, high up in the mountains, which was full of ancient artefacts left by the native people.
"It almost never rains up there, so the things are beautifully preserved. Their pots, their clothes, their mummified ancestors. They had temples in the mountains where they worshipped the sun. They would smoke herbs that made them hallucinate before going to the temples to get closer to their gods. A bit like what we're doing with our telescope."
"Without the drugs presumably," Jonathan adds, "otherwise I'd have to report you to the university authorities."
Diana starts laughing, then coughing and puts some tissue to her mouth. When she pulls it away we can see the phlegm is jade-coloured with streaks of fresh ruby blood.
"Damn this chest," she says, unable to suppress her emotions.
On Thursday morning I arrive early to do another blood test. The water tank by the bed bubbles away with each breath. Diana looks exhausted and pale, her eyes sunken. She is wincing with pain from the chest drain.
"Have you had a difficult night?" I ask.
"To be honest, I feel dreadful," Diana says. "Everything hurts. Speaking, breathing, eating, going to the loo. The tube site is a bit sore," she says in a quiet voice, pointing to her side, "but they gave me some of that morphine you prescribed."
"Oh good," I say.
I bleed her again and we chat about their three grown-up children and the grandchildren, and how proud she is of all of them. How the kids have all turned out differently to how she expected, how they're on loan to you, not owned. How they've all gone into fields completely removed from her own.
"But Lucy's a teacher," says Jonathan, "just like you."
"I need your help, Dr T," says Diana. "Jonathan is refusing to get me a mirror so I can look at myself. Do you think that's fair, given that I can't get out of bed to fetch one myself?"
Jonathan chuckles. "I'm not refusing. I just forgot to bring it. I never was any good at packing."
I look at Diana. Her skin, tight on her face, has a faint yellow tinge. I make a mental note to add liver-function tests to the blood panel.
"I'll ask the nurses to find one for you," I say.
When I come back a few hours later, Diana waves a small circular mirror with a pink plastic frame triumphantly.
"I can see why Jonathan didn't want me to have this. I look shrivelled-up, just like those mummies I saw in the mountains."
"You just need a good night of beauty sleep," Jonathan says. "Like Dr T here."
This elicits a throaty laugh from Diana.
"We can try a sleeping pill tonight," I say.
"Me or you?" Diana asks and laughs again, but it hurts her chest and she has to stop. "This is how we see into the universe," she says, pointing at the mirror in her hand and speaking haltingly. "Giant saucer-shaped versions of this that collect and focus the light from the stars."
Jonathan chuckles. "Did I mention that Diana is a teacher?"
When I come back that afternoon, Jonathan tells me the oncologist has been and told them she has lung cancer.
"He said it could be curable," Jonathan says.
"He wasn't exactly clear," Diana says, pausing for breath halfway through the sentence to catch her breath, "about treatment."
I listen to her chest. The lower sections of both lungs are now quiet, without the sound of air coming in or out that you'd expect. Her oxygen levels have fallen again.
An hour later I stand in front of a computer monitor looking at the most recent X-ray with my boss, Dr Chen.
In the X-ray we can see the faint outline of Diana's gown, her body and her breasts. Grey-white in the centre of the image is Diana's spinal column and the ribcage hanging off it to either side.
I pull up the X-ray from when she arrived at hospital on Monday, so the two images sit side by side, and we focus on the contents of the ribcage. Monday, before we started treating her, and Thursday. In both images, her heart is half-submerged under fluid in the left lung, which means all the fluid that we pulled off with the chest drain has been replaced. And now in the right lung, which was pretty much clear on Monday, there is a new collection of fluid. The surface of the fluid in both lungs is concave, like the mirrors that collect the light in Diana's telescopes.
"She's not going to get well enough to have the chemo, is she?" I say, frustration welling up inside me.
Dr Chen's usually cherubic face is grave. "Someone should tell her," I say.
Jonathan is sitting in a chair next to the head of the bed reading to Diana from a book.
Diana asks for some water. As I'm pouring it, Dr Chen walks in.
"Hi," he says, walking up to the foot of her bed. "Diana, I spoke to Dr Venables, the oncologist, about the diagnosis. How are you feeling about it?"
Diana speaks slowly and so quietly it's hard to hear. "I'm frightened… and… I feel… like a… wimp."
"You're no wimp," Dr Chen says.
"Dr… Vena… bles… tells me… the cancer… is treatable," Diana says.
"In theory," Dr Chen says slowly. "In theory. But, Diana, the infection and the anaemia have taken a lot out of you. An awful lot out of you."
There is a very long pause while Dr Chen stares at her to confirm that he is telling her that this is it. This is the end.
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Diana understands. Her face contorts momentarily and she closes her eyes, then she opens them again and her face relaxes. Jonathan leans in to her, tears in his eyes, and takes her hands. He whispers something in her ear and they kiss.
"Are there things you need to do?" Dr Chen asks.
She thinks about this for a long time before answering. "No…" she says, smiling faintly at Jonathan, "nothing."
Dr Chen stands at the foot of the bed. "We will keep you comfortable," he says.
"Thank you…" she says, "for… being straight… with me."
Later that afternoon I come to check on her and find Diana lying in bed, seemingly asleep, a pair of headphones on her head. Her father – old but sprightly-looking – is sitting with Jonathan and his three children. He has a clump of white hair above each ear, tortoiseshell glasses and a shy smile. They are conversing quietly.
"I just wanted to check Diana is comfortable," I say to the family.
"She's been much better," says Jonathan. "The pain seems to be controlled."
"She's always been brave," Diana's father says. "She fell off a high swing when she was a girl; she was pale as a ghost but she refused to cry. Her arm was broken in two places."
"Stubborn's another word for it," Diana's son says.
"I call it brave," the elderly man says quietly. I can see the tears hovering behind the thick spectacles.
"You're right, Grandpa," he says. "I don't disagree."
There's a newfound peace to Diana's face, still skeletal but less strained. Someone has brought her an old-fashioned Walkman and a cassette tape is slowly unspooling within. I see the case on the bedside table, with a picture of a snowy landscape and the legend "Schubert: Winter Journey".
In the evening before I leave for home, I make my way to the side room door. I look in through the rectangle of glass. It's dark apart from a bedside lamp. Diana is sitting up in bed holding Jonathan's hand, eyes closed. He is reading to her from a book.
On Sunday morning I knock on the door and enter the room. Diana lies in bed, peacefully, the moon pendant round her neck with its seas and craters. The water tank has been detached and is now sitting silent and still in a corner of the room. Through the window, a barge is silently travelling upriver, against the flow. Jonathan sits in silence with the children. Their eyes are red raw.
I tell them how sorry I am, and sorry that it all happened so quickly.
Jonathan stands and gives me a hug. I feel his body warm through our clothes.
"It was a privilege to have met her," I say. "She was amazing."
"She was," Jonathan says.
• To maintain patient confidentiality and to protect the privacy of individuals, names of people/places/dates/sequences of the detail of events have been changed
• This is an edited extract from 34 Patients by Tom Templeton, published by Michael Joseph on 27 May (£20). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply
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India has always stood by Africa and its people: MOS, External Affairs
IAT Desk
India-Africa Summit
Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan, while speaking on the India-Africa Forum Summit-IV at the 15th CII-EXIM Bank Digital Conclave on India Africa Project Partnership said that India is one of the largest trade, investment and development partners of Africa and offers a huge market for African commodities and products; India has stood by Africa and its people in the past and will continue to be a major development partner in the future as well.
The India-Africa Forum Summit was cast in this tradition of enduring friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation between India and Africa. He recalled the 10 guiding principles of India's approach to Africa as articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to Parliament in Uganda in 2018.
The Minister of State detailed India's careful implementation of the commitments made during the last India-Africa Forum Summit, noting that the Mid-Term Review Meeting on the Summit held in 2019 in New Delhi with the African Union Commission had also acknowledged this and had noted the important areas of cooperation including trade and investment, agriculture, energy, blue and ocean economy, infrastructure, education and skill development, health, peace and security and cooperation in multilateral fora. The MOS recapitulated two significant multilateral initiatives that India had launched after the last Summit, viz., the International Solar Alliance and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, welcoming African participation in both of them. He noted that India had provided medical aid to 85 nations worldwide of which 25 were African countries.
The minister recalled that the first-ever India-Africa Defence Ministers' Conclave was held in Lucknow in February 2020 in which 146 delegates from 33 African countries had participated and which had adopted the Lucknow Declaration which appreciated that India and Africa were a significant part of the Indo-Pacific continuum and that the AU Vision for peace and security in Africa coincided with India's vision of SAGAR. He ended by hoping to hold the 4th edition of the India-Africa Forum Summit at the earliest feasible opportunity.
The other speakers at the session were HE Dr. Lemogang Kwape, Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Botswana, HE Dr. Rania A Al Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of the Arab Republic of Egypt, HE Eisenhower Mkaka, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Malawi and HE Lt. Gen. Dr Sibusiso B Moyo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Republic of Zimbabwe.
The African Ministers, in their statements, hailed India's generous assistance and support to the development aspirations of Africa based on the enduring friendship between and shared aspirations of India and Africa. Several Ministers thanked India for the duty-free quota-free access to the Indian market that India had provided to African Least Development Countries (LDCs) since years. Some made specific mention of the support India had given to their Small and Medium Enterprises sector describing India as "an indispensable partner". All the Ministers spoke warm words for the concessional loans that India had made available to African countries, especially over the last 5 years, observing that these loans and the preferential market access had supported African economies. Favourable mention was also made of how India was "helping Africa to bridge the digital divide" in particular the tele-education and tele-medicine services that India was making available across the African continent. The Ministers hailed the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and hoped that there would be a synergy between the outcome of India-Africa Forum Summit-IV and Africa's Agenda 2063.
In the brief discussion that followed, the Ministers agreed on the need to strengthen the India-Africa partnership so as to overcome the effects of the pandemic.
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