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· Posted on Jun 18, 2014
7 Fairy Tales That Won't Be Disney's New Blockbuster
They can't all be Frozen.
by HarperCollins
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1. Hans The Hedgehog
Potential Concerns for the Disney Adaptation:
- A human woman giving birth to a spiny mammal.
- Abduction by Hedgehog
- Questionable morality all around
Picture this as the next 'Lion King':
A merchant's wife gives birth to a boy who is a hedgehog from the waist up. They call him Hans. No one wants to hang out with Hans. As a teenager, he spends most of his time alone in the woods; playing the bagpipes… and helping lost kings find their way home in exchange for their daughters.
When one of the kings refuses to hand over his daughter, Hans kidnaps the girl, pierces her skin with his spines, and sends her back to her father looking like a human pincushion. Despite being a complete sociopath, Hans is somehow able to transform into a handsome young man—just in time for his wedding night with another (more compliant) princess.
Warning: The Hans the Hedgehog doll may not be appropriate for children under… actually; it may not be appropriate for anyone. Ever.
2. The Girl Without Hands
Potential Concerns for Disney Adaptation:
- Lots of really terrible people
- Medical procedures in unsanitary conditions
- Objectification of women
A miller accidentally turns over his daughter to the devil in exchange for immense wealth. However, the girl's hands are so pure that the devil cannot take her. So her father makes the totally sane choice of cutting off his daughter's hands, but the devil still thinks she's too much of a goody-goody to introduce to his friends in Hell.
A king eventually falls in love with the girl and makes her some silver hands, which, while impractical, are certainly a classy upgrade. But the devil refuses to let the miller's promise go unfulfilled, and tricks the girl into running away. The silver-handed girl and her baby live alone in the woods for seven years, after which the king is finally able to locate them.
"Hakuna Matata" (No Worries) would be much too tame for her situation—how do you say "No PTSD" in Swahili?
3. Fitcher's Bird
- Kidnapping
- Mutilated corpses
- Lots and lots of homicide
A sorcerer kidnaps the eldest daughter from a family with three girls. He forbids his new "guest" from going into one particular room in his house.
Of course, the girl goes into the forbidden room, where she finds hacked-up dead bodies. As punishment, the sorcerer hacks her up as well. The sorcerer then kidnaps her second sister and does the exact same thing. When he kidnaps the youngest sister, however, she stays out of the forbidden room and agrees to marry the sorcerer, pretending to succumb to his (murderous) charm.
But secretly the youngest sister re-assembles her sisters as if they were Lego pieces and brings them back to life. She dresses up as a bird (?!!!) and sneaks out to invite her relatives to the wedding. However, due to some sloppy planning and bad communication, the wedding guests lock the sorcerer and the girls in the house and burn it all down.
At least when Ursula the Sea Witch staged a fake wedding, nobody died.
4. Bluebeard
- One seriously nasty dude.
- A larger pile of mutilated corpses
Bluebeard is ugly but rich, so girls keep marrying him. Once they realize that all his wives eventually disappear, the village girls stop returning his calls. He eventually talks one girl into marrying him. After their wedding, he gives her the key to the forbidden room but also warns her not to enter it. The new Mrs. Bluebeard has a party and goes into the forbidden room—which is filled with the mutilated bodies of her husband's former wives.
When Bluebeard returns, she locks herself in a tower. Before Bluebeard can kill his wife, her brothers come to the rescue and kill him. Mrs. Bluebeard inherits all of her husband's money and eventually marries a guy who isn't a crazy serial killer.
The sequel can follow Mrs. Bluebeard's years of intensive therapy. Perhaps she and Rapunzel can form a "locked in a tower" support group.
5. Juniper Tree
- Homicide by millstone
- Cannibalism
- Does it really get worse than cannibalism?!
A woman dies giving birth to her son and is buried under her family's juniper tree. Her husband remarries and his new wife gives birth to a daughter, Malinchen. However, the new wife hates her stepson because he will inherit all of the family's wealth.
In a major parenting fail, the stepmother beheads her stepson and makes Malinchen think she did it. Mother and daughter then lie to the boy's father and claim he ran away. The stepmother uses the boy's body in a stew and feeds it to her husband; Malinchen saves the boy's bones and buries them under the Juniper tree. Soon, a beautiful bird appears from the grave and drops a millstone on the stepmother's head. When Malinchen comes out to investigate the noise, all she sees is her brother emerging from the dust.
Even Cinderella's stepmother would find this movie disturbing. "And you call me evil? I just made her do chores!"
6. The Red Shoes
- Vindictive shoes
- Disembodied feet taking on a life of their own and terrorizing a disabled young girl.
A spoiled little girl named Karen cons her adoptive mother into buying her a pair of fancy red shoes (19th Century Louboutins?). Karen becomes increasingly bratty and even deserts her ill mother to go dancing in her red shoes. Soon thereafter, Karen can't stop dancing and her shoes are stuck to her feet.
The shoes carry Karen through thorny bushes that cut her up. She eventually finds an executioner to cut off her feet, which continue to dance even though they are no longer attached to her body. Karen tries to go to church to atone for her sins, but her amputated feet in the shoes block her entry (and probably freak everyone out). Eventually, an angel grants Karen mercy by ending her earthly life and sending her soul to Heaven.
The soundtrack, featuring the song "Let [Your Feet] Go" may have difficulty cracking the top 40.
7. The Singing Bone
- Fratricide over a boar corpse
- Haunted human bones that sing
- Creation of a pillow with human stuffing
- Drowning aforementioned pillow
A wild boar is terrorizing a village—destroying fields and killing peasants. The king proclaims that anyone who can kill the beast can have his daughter's hand in marriage (sounds like a show on Bravo).
Only two poor brothers are up to the task. They go into the woods separately and the younger brother kills the animal, while his older brother gets wasted in a bar.
The older brother kills his younger brother on the way out of the woods and takes all the credit for killing the boar. Years later, a shepherd finds a bone in the same woods. To his surprise, the bone sings a song, telling the truth about the brothers. The shepherd brings the incriminating bone to the king, who has his son-in-law sewn into a sack and drowned as punishment.
It's safe to say that this family's Thanksgiving is going to be sufficiently awkward this year. The Princess is gonna be all, "I'm trying to date again after a bone told dad to kill my husband."
Written by Soman Chainani, Harvard educated fairy tale expert and bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil
http://schoolforgoodandevil.com
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Luck of the Irie: St Croix's Irish Connection
March 17, 2016 by Cindy @ MyStCroix.VI 3 Comments
Each year on the Saturday closest to St Patrick's Day, Christiansted goes green as revelers flood the streets clad in t-shirts and costumes while cheering on the Annual St Croix St Patrick's Parade. With the Irish diaspora representing over 100 million people, the raucous holiday is celebrated more outside of Ireland than within. And here on St Croix, it's done with true Crucian gusto, though many don't realize the strong Irish heritage that St Croix has.
Planning to attend? Visit the St Croix Calendar for parade dates.
The St Croix St Patrick's Day Parade got it's official start in 1969 when a group of local businessmen got together on March 17th and started to talk about local celebrations. They wondered why an island that celebrates with any excuse, didn't have an official St Paddy's celebration. So, they took matters into their own hands, got a flatbed and a piano, and drove through the streets of Christiansted singing Irish and local songs. Today, that tradition has grown into the annual parade and after-party featuring bands on floating stages and throughout the town. During the parade, local majorette troupes, high school bands and carnival troupes tramp through the streets celebrating their Irish Caribbean Heritage on an island full of Armstrongs, O'Bryans, O'Neales, O'Reillys, and more.
St Croix is proud of its diverse heritage that comes as a result of having flown the 7 flags of 6 different nations and the Knights of Malta since Columbus first landed in 1493. Though the Irish flag was not one of those, the island's strong Irish connection is clear. It began alongside the Caribbean's dark past and history with the rise of the sugar trade in the 1700s. Along with other European nations in the eighteenth century, Ireland's wealthy merchants got even wealthier with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. While not as successful in colonizing as the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch, they were the vast majority on the island of Montserrat with a strong presence on neighboring Antigua and Nevis that began in the 1600s. There, merchants established plantations worked by both African slave labor and indentured farmers from Ireland.
St Croix's importance to the sugar trade can be seen by the many Sugar Mills that dot her landscape to this day.
In 1733, the Danish West India Company purchased the island of St Croix and began to develop their colony. The Danes had the money and mercantile expertise but lacked the experience and manpower needed to develop sugar plantations on the fertile island. So, they recruited Irish Montserratians and laborers directly from Ireland to move to the new Danish colony on St Croix. One of those Irish Montserratians was Nicholas Tuite who eventually owned 7 Crucian plantations and was part owner of 7 more. At the height of the sugar craze in the West Indies, St Croix was dotted with over 150 Sugar Plantations and was booming. "In 1760 [Tuite] journeyed to Copenhagen, where Fredrick V appointed him chamberlain and paid tribute to his role as founder of Denmark's Caribbean empire. … slave-trading and plantation-owning had made him the friend of kings." – History Ireland: The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade.
While there were a few wealthy Irish plantation owners like Tuite, most of the Irish who initially populated the Danish colony on St Croix were laborers. And while many of the West Indians today bear the Irish surnames of the former slave owners, many also have shared heritage from the Irish laborers who became a part of the eclectic cultural fabric of the island and intermarried with those of African descent. And that brings us to the beautiful diversity of the St Patrick's Day parade on St Croix.
If you haven't yet been, be sure to make plans for next year. Slainte!
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CHARLES W SMITH says
Happy St, Patricks Day over there. I had the opportunity to come there and stayed right after Hurricane Hugo in Jan. 1990. A bunch of us Texans moved there to work on rebuilding the island, which was devastated. Really rough conditions. We all lived in the Hotel Colibri on Company Street. I remember walking down to the library where the parade was going on. The floats and palm fronds. I looked over and Gov. Farley was walking next to me in the parade route. I worked as a cook there and had a job at several places, Hondo's Back Yard, Salt River Marina, Hotel Colibri. Met a lot of people there. The Rastas were really good people and I made friends with many. I went back in 2007 when a group of us missionaries traveled to San Juan . I took a seaplane from there and went back to St. Croix for a couple of days. Nothing like it was when we were there. I love that island and the Crucians. If I could, I'd move there to stay.
Ivana says
So proud and found out genetically and the paper work is correct I am a Tuite descendant how cool!!! Thank you for your resource who helped me find my way.
My-StCroix.com says
That is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing that. Made my day!! 🙂


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Q: Creating Symmetric Key from external provider Knowing the security objects hierarchy, we can see that in order to create a Symmetric Key and encrypt data, we need to create:

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*Database Master Key which is protected by password

*Certificate which is protected by the Database Master key

*The Symmetric Key itself, which is protect by the Certificate

In Always Encrypted, we can use EKM module to simplify this hierarchy. For example, we can store the certificates in the Windows Certification Store and these certificates are protecting our encryption master keys.
I am wondering, if I want to use not Always Encrypted built-in encryption functionalities, can I use EKM module to create and manage my symmetric keys (like it is shown on the diagram). In the CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY documentation we have provider option, but not enough information about possible providers and examples.
I am interesting in storing the Certificate which is protecting the Symmetric keys or the Symmetric keys in external storage, because in such way the data is separated from the keys and in the database we are storing only references to the keys (like in always encrypted). Windows Certification Store will be best option for me, but Azure Key Vault or something else will work as well, I guess.

A: tl;dr - use CREATE CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER to create a connection inside SQL Server to your EKM/HSM hardware/software, through a vendor-provided .DLL file designed for that purpose.
You can use Azure Key Vault to protect on-premises data.  There are many steps required to enable your Azure account with Azure Key Vault, which are detailed at setup steps for extensible key management using Azure Key Vault.
The steps inside SQL Server consist of the following:

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*Install the SQL Server Connector for Azure Key Vault from the Microsoft download center.

*Run the following code to enable EKM providers:
-- Enable advanced options.
USE master;
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sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

-- Enable EKM provider
sp_configure 'EKM provider enabled', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;

*Register the EKM module:
CREATE CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER AzureKeyVault_EKM_Prov
FROM FILE = 'C:\Program Files\SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault\Microsoft.AzureKeyVaultService.EKM.dll';
GO

*Setup a credential for SQL Server to connect to Azure:
USE master;
CREATE CREDENTIAL sysadmin_ekm_cred
    WITH IDENTITY = 'ContosoDevKeyVault', -- for public Azure
    -- WITH IDENTITY = 'ContosoDevKeyVault.vault.usgovcloudapi.net', -- for Azure Government
    -- WITH IDENTITY = 'ContosoDevKeyVault.vault.azure.cn', -- for Azure China
    -- WITH IDENTITY = 'ContosoDevKeyVault.vault.microsoftazure.de', -- for Azure Germany
    SECRET = 'EF5C8E094D2A4A769998D93440D8115DReplace-With-AAD-Client-Secret'
FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER AzureKeyVault_EKM_Prov;

-- Add the credential to the SQL Server administrator's domain login
ALTER LOGIN [<domain>\<login>]
ADD CREDENTIAL sysadmin_ekm_cred;

*Open the key vault:
CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY CONTOSO_KEY
FROM PROVIDER [AzureKeyVault_EKM_Prov]
WITH PROVIDER_KEY_NAME = 'ContosoRSAKey0',
CREATION_DISPOSITION = OPEN_EXISTING;

You can then enable TDE by following the steps listed to use SQL Server with SQL Encryption.

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A dying father told police that his son, Dakota Theriot, was the person who shot him down. Police believe Theriot also murdered his girlfriend's family before taking aim at his parents.
A manhunt ended in the capture of a gunman suspected of killing his girlfriend's family before driving to his parents house and shooting them down as well.
Police believe that Dakota Theriot, 21, shot and killed Summer Ernest, 20, her father, Billy Ernest, 43, and her younger brother, Tanner Ernest, 17 on January 26. Theriot had been living with Summer's family near Baton Rouge after being kicked out of his parents' home for drug use. Two children, ages 7 and 1, were in the Earnest home at the time of the shooting but were not harmed.
A relative of the Ernest family, Crystal DeYoung, believed Theriot and Summer had just started dating, according to The Associated Press.
Theriot allegedly fled the scene in Billy's 2004 Dodge pickup. He then drove to Ascension Parish, about 30 miles away. There, he allegedly took aim at his parents, Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 50 years old.
Police responding to the second shooting found Keith Theriot close to death. In "a dying declaration … [he told officers] that it was his son that committed this act," said Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre at a news conference on Saturday.
Theriot allegedly fled the scene again, this time heading to Warsaw, Virginia, about a 16-hour drive from the last killing. Police in Virginia had been warned that Theriot had more family in the area that could become potential targets, according to The Washington Post.
Theriot's grandmother temporarily moved to a hotel for her own safety. Police found Theriot with his gun drawn at his grandmother's residence at around 7 A.M. on January 27, at which point a stand-off occurred, according to The Advocate, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based news organization. Dakota eventually surrendered.
Richmond County Sheriff Stephan Smith described Theriot as having "a little bit of sleep deprivation."
"He seemed tired ... and there were some statements made, but at this time that's part of the investigation," Smith said.
Cory Flannery, a former friend of Theriot's, was baffled by the news about the killings.
"I grew up with him. I knew he wasn't like that," said Flannery, of Montross, Virginia, who attended middle school in Richmond County, Virginia with Theriot. "I just want people to know that Dakota was not that person. That wasn't him. Something had to have happened ... He wouldn't have just woken up and said, 'Hey I need to kill these people.'"
Meanwhile, Paul Hays, Jr., Summer's cousin, disputed that Theriot and Summer were dating. He said the two had just met and that he was practically "a stranger" to the Ernest family.
Theriot will face five counts of first-degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, and home invasion charges.


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Senegal becomes first African team to qualify for World Cup's round of 16 after defeating Ecuador
Tuesday, 29 November 2022 – Senegal has become the first African to qualify for the 2022 World Cup's round of 16 following a 2-1 victory over Ecuador.
Netherlands' dominant victory over Qatar meant only a win would see Senegal through to the knockouts from Group A, while Ecuador would have progressed with a draw.
Senegal got the first goal in the match after Ismaila Sarr converted a penalty kick in the first half.
When Moisés Caicedo cancelled out Ismaïla Sarr's penalty in the 67th minute at the Khalifa Stadium, Ecuador were heading into the knockout stages for the second time in their history.
Senegal captain's Kalidou Koulibaly however led his team into the last 16 of the World Cup three minutes later, by volleying home the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Ecuador. The result erased lingering memories from four years ago, when Senegal could only draw its last group game in Russia and missed the knockout stage because it had collected more yellow cards than Japan, which advanced instead.
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Gleiwitz in Poland, 1939 – On the night of August 31, Reinhard Heydrich ordered the SS to start a war – World War II. And the Poles were to be caught starting it. Heydrich's Operation Tannenberg worked perfectly, and the world bought it – although the Allies' next moves surprised the Nazis.
For Gruppenführer Heydrich's career, this was another stride towards standing behind Hitler as his accepted successor. Riding high from leading the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, Heydrich was to perform a similar role in Poland. Despite his virulent anti-communism, Heydrich supported the Nazi-Soviet Pact (signed a week earlier). He knew the Soviet Union would soon invade eastern Poland, and he assumed Britain now could not enter war against Germany because it would also have to declare war on the USSR.
All is prepared – except a pretext for war. What the Fuehrer needs, we will supply… We are going to create the cause for this war! … We will begin the Polish campaign without a formal declaration of war, with a counterattack, telling the world that it was the Poles who fired the first shot. But telling it isn't enough. Practical proof is needed, hard clues Goebbels can show to the foreign press.
Heydrich had already compiled a list of names and addresses of 61,000 Poles – potential leaders of resistance, whether it be armed, political or religious – to be targeted as soon as Nazi troops entered the country. Their families could not expect to be spared. On that list were relatives of my granny, whom the character 'Dyta' is based upon in my novel, A Chance Kill. A canny uncle, well placed in the Polish Secret Service, knew to try to get my seventeen-year-old gran* out of the country before Nazi troops pillaged Poland. * She's actually my dad's step-mum. His mum died young, so my Polish granny, Sabina, is the only gran I knew (and know) on that side of the family.
Heydrich planned the fake attack in detail; rehearsals went well. It was important that many German casualties would be seen, whereas he wanted the death of just one (supposed) Polish militiaman.
On the evening of August 31 at the German border town of Gleiwitz (now Gliwice), Heydrich's men – dressed in Polish uniforms – arrived outside a radio station. At 7:30pm a Gestapo car arrived with the 'Pole' – actually a German (called Franz Honiok) who was well-known locally as a Polish sympathizer. The first casualty of war was shot and bled to death at the main entrance of the radio station.
The radio station's apparent assailants went on air and made anti-German declarations in Polish and German. Within hours, a mass of German troops and tanks stormed the length of the Polish border.
The SS photographed some dead bodies in German uniforms – concentration camp victims killed by injection with gunshots later added. The Nazis referred to the victims as 'canned goods'.
Interestingly (considering what happened later), Admiral Canaris, who led German military intelligence (the Abwehr) was involved in initiating a range of other incidents designed to justify the launch of war on Poland.* Six months later, Canaris would be telling Britain and France of Germany's plans to attack on the western front. And with that, the war's highest ranked double-agent was just getting started.
Thereafter, my gran would have to escape the siege of Warsaw and slip out of Poland before the noose tightened. Her route would be through a string of nations which were neutral (temporarily, as things would go) – Romania, Yugoslavia and Italy – to France. She survived on apples taken straight from the orchard, before racing to Bordeaux ahead of the advancing Germans. As she departed on a merchant ship, the SS Madura – the last boat from Bordeaux – she watched the enemy arrive on the cliff top and set up their artillery. Shells whistled down, explosions roared out of the sea around her ship and the Luftwaffe gave chase.
Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.


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Q: Example of a semigroup S with no identity element and a subgroup G of S I need an example of a semigroup S without an identity element and a subgroup G of S.
I have found it easy to find/make semigroups without identities but then making a subgroup from it has not been fruitful. An example or a hint would be much appreciated.

A: There is a semigroup $\{a,b\}$ without identity given by $aa=ab=a$ and $bb=ba=b$.
The set $\{a\}$ is a group (the trivial group.)

A: Take your favorite group $G$.  Let $S$ consist of $G$ together with two additional elements $a$ and $b$, and extend the multiplication in $G$ by defining $as = sa = bs = sb = b$ for all $s \in S$.  You can confirm this operation is associative, and clearly it has no identity since any product with $a$ is $b$.  But $G$ is still a subgroup of $S$.


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Shares opened at $35 on the Nasdaq, after the Phoenix, Arizona-based company raised $333 million in its initial public offering on Wednesday.
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Thomas Andrew, né le  à Bordeaux, est un auteur français de romans dans le domaine de l'imaginaire, de la science-fiction, du fantastique et de la romance gay.

Biographie
Né le  à Bordeaux, Thomas Andrew rédige ses premiers écrits à l'âge de quinze ans en écrivant des pièces de théâtre au lycée. Il fait d'abord des études dans le domaine de la chimie et de la physique, pour ensuite se diriger vers le monde de l'enseignement.

En 2015, il est publié chez J'ai lu avec le premier tome de la saga Drek Carter, une série littéraire fantastique.

En 2016, il publie un spin-off, une série dérivée de la saga  Drek Carter, Glen Landsbury. Ce diptyque, axé sur de la romance paranormale () gay, se place entre les deuxième et troisième tomes de la saga principale.

En 2018, il sort chez Juno Publishing France un roman dans la lignée des comédies romantiques gay intitulé Cœur de cible. Ce livre a obtenu le prix du roman gay (ex æquo) de la meilleure romance 2018. Leur collaboration se poursuit avec la comédie romantique gay Service compris.

En 2020, toujours chez Juno Publishing, il renoue avec la fantasy et le fantastique en publiant avec son conjoint, Sebastian Bernadotte, une nouvelle saga d'Urban fantasy historique et steampunk, Les Mystères fantastiques de Paris.

Œuvres

Série Drek Carter

Série Glen Landsbury

Les deux romans et la nouvelle ont été publiés dans une intégrale Apollon Mortel chez Juno Publishing

Série Les Mystères fantastiques de Paris
Il s'agit d'une saga d'urban fantasy historique se déroulant dans le Paris de la Belle Epoque, durant l'inauguration de l'Exposition universelle de 1889. Ces romans sont coécrit avec son conjoint, Sebastian Bernadotte, lui aussi auteur.

Série Murder by Magic
Il s'agit d'une saga d'urban fantasy et de polar se déroulant aux Etats-Unis, dans le Minnesota.
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 Tome 1.5 :

Romance

Nouvelles

Récompenses
 Prix du roman gay - Meilleure Romance 2018 (ex æquo) pour Cœur de Cible

Autres
Durant la crise du Covid-19 en 2020, il a participé à un collectif d'auteurs et d'autrices (Cassandra O'Donnell, Carina Rozenfeld, Jean-Luc Marcastel, Silène Edgar, Sebastian Bernadotte, Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc, Evelyne Brisou-Pellen, Laurence Colin, Katia Lanero Zamora, Camille Salomon, Anna Combelle, Stéphane Tamaillon, Solène Chartier, Carole Jamin) qui ont mis des histoires en libre de droit sur le site Kilitoo, proposant ainsi aux enfants de 2 à 15 ans un vaste choix de lectures basées sur le fantastique, la fantasy et l'imaginaire.

Références

Liens externes
 Biographie et bibliographie succinctes sur le site de Livraddict
 Description de l'auteur sur le site de l'éditeur"

Romancier français du XXIe siècle
Nouvelliste français du XXIe siècle
Écrivain français de science-fiction
Écrivain français de fantasy
Naissance à Bordeaux
Naissance en octobre 1981


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Sweden's GRIEF OF EMERALD have just unleashed their third and strongest album "Christian Termination", which musically combines the best elements of brutal MORBID ANGEL - type Death Metal and symphonic DIMMU BORGIR influenced Black Metal. David Déniz of NECROMANCE MAGAZINE spoke to keyboard player Robert Bengtsson and delivered the following facts...
Hello Robert… how are the things going now? I've noticed that you have some problems with your drummer, so what happened? I think you're looking for a new drummer to play live, don't you?
"Yes, Jonas has some problems with his arm / shoulder so he can't play for 6 - 12 months!!!! We can't wait that long I'm afraid so we've recruited a session drummer called Calle. He has played with MASTEMA some time ago (Christoffer from SOUL REAPER's other band) and Calle also has a projekt band with Fredrik Wester (new guitarist in LORD BELIAL). He will also smash the skins on the upcoming tribute to celtic frost on which GRIEF OF EMERALD will appear. He has only rehearsed with us 3 - 4 times and he's improving alot at every rehearsal. He will do the job - no problem. I guess he will also play with us live in France in September where we will play on a festival."
Your third full length album "Christian Termination" has been released recently… How have the reactions been to it so far, more or less what you expected? Did you achieve the sound you were looking for in the studio?
"The production work is very interesting… So far VERY good reviews, only top grades everywhere, which is nice. I think this will be the biggest CD we have ever released... hopefully, hahaha. I guess I got the sound I wanted in the studio because I wanted it to sound angry, tons of guitars and a tight production but not so god damn "nice" sounding. This time I bought myself a 24 channel studio that I used for this recording, and it sounds way better than the previous equipment I used. It's alot easier to get a better sound when you have much better stuff to work with. The mastering took place at Digital Fabriken in Sweden with Kenneth Svensson."
What is your final appreciation towards his work? What lead you to choose Kenneth to master "Christian Termination"? Was it difficult to explain him what kind of sound you were looking for?
"No not at all. I told him "I want it to sound as heavy and loud as possible" I'm satisfied with the result. We used him on the "Nightspawn" CD too. He's a cool guy and has no problems with the music at all, he just shakes his head and say "Oh my God" when he heard the recording hehehe, not the sound quality though, but the music hahaha. I mixed the CD in my studio, so the mastering took minimum of time. We almost did a quick all over mastering. I think it just took 3 hours, hehehe."
To promote the album, you are now preparing a tour
"We were supposed to go on tour in May but Jonas' arm fucked up so we had to cancel. We have also been forced to turn down 2 (!!!) tours in Europe, which is very bad. One tour was 5 weeks long and would have been very good promo... but we have said that in September we will take gigs, then we have recorded the tribute track and trimed in the new drummer. We'll see what happens... I can't wait to get on the road again."
Comparing the new album with the previous ones, I can hear some little changes in the musical background. You know, GRIEF OF EMERALD now sounds more Death Metal, a mixture of bombastic atmospheres with a massive guitar sound and destructive drum blasts… maybe a mixture of influences from MORBID ANGEL and DIMMU BORGIR? In general "Christian Termination" is faster than your previous releases
"I guess that's true, because on "Malformed Seed" we listened to what all reviewers wanted and then we received average grades... this time we just thought "Fuck all" let's do a CD that we want, we don't play for anyone else, we play for ourselves!!! And it seems that it worked out fine this time. We got so fucking tired of being put in the "nice" sounding box. We didn't care at all if people would like it or not. I get very pissed off when we receive an avarege grade in a review hahaha. It makes me wanna kill. I think you can admit that we sound way more aggressive than we've ever done. The most funny thing is that the tracks were supposed to go faster but Jonas shoulder couldn't fix that :( ... he had very big problems in the studio because his fucking shoulder hurted..."
Lyrically the new stuff is based on which subjects?
"Read the title - "Christian Termination", hahaha. It's a pure manifest against christianity. I wanted to show what I really feel towards christianity. My ex-girlfriend said that she got a very strange feeling when she listened to the CD... almost a scary feeling, she said "you sound so angry and evil that you almost frighten me" hehehe. I guess we got what we wanted."
Do you have any particular song on which the fans react more enthusiastically?
"We played 'Alas, Spiriti Sancti' live on the last tour just to test the song... people did go wild. One reporter that was on the gig in Brussel was supposed to do a live review but he was so good damn enthusiastic, so it ended up with a long interview hehehe. People did go really wild on that song!!!"
How do you usually work when composing songs? Is it an individual process or more a team kind of thing?
"A little bit of both actually. Jonas likes to make the songs at home, but me and Johnny like to do them in the rehearsal place. Jonas did a lot on this CD, but I guess we do the most things as a team."
How has Listenable treated you during the years? Have you had a lot of other offers and are you satisfied with Listenable?
"Listenable sucks!!!! Hahaha, no just kidding. They are a good label, I think. They always stick to their words. If they say you'll have the money on friday... well, then we have it on friday. "Christian Termination" is our last release on Listenable on this contract. We'll see what happens in the future, maybe we'll sign again with them... Time will tell."
Do you have anything else to say?
"Thanx as hell for the interview and the support. Please check out our website www.griefofemerald.cjb.net for latest info about releases, dates merchandise, etc... Stay Metal, slay the christians!!!"
Interview: David Déniz (originally published by NECROMANCE MAGAZINE)
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Big Pharma's newest invention: Adult ADHD - BY EVELYN PRINGLE AND MARTHA ROSENBERG,
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
There is good news and bad news about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — that is, if you're a drug company. The bad news is the kid market has peaked out with 4.5 million U.S. children now carrying the label. The good news is adult ADHD is an emerging market. In fact, adult ADHD, with symptoms similar to pediatric ADHD such as impulsivity, distractibility and difficulty paying attention, following instructions and meeting deadlines, is the next big thing.
"Immature adult market continues to offer greatest commercial potential," read a 2008 press release to the pharmaceutical industry from the market research agency Datamonitor: "Estimated to be twice the size of the pediatric ADHD population, the highly prevalent, yet largely untapped, adult ADHD population continues to represent an attractive niche to target."
So who might consider themselves part of this "untapped" market?
Like astrology in which anyone relates to Scorpio's horoscope, almost everyone who takes an adult ADHD quiz will discover they are "sick." To qualify as having attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder according to the most recent draft of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, soon to be published, you need to suffer from six or more of the following symptoms for at least six months.
Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, at work, or during other activities (e.g., overlooks or misses details, work is inaccurate).
Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities (e.g., has difficulty remaining focused during lectures, conversations, or reading lengthy writings).
Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly (e.g., mind seems elsewhere, even in the absence of any obvious distraction).
Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (e.g., starts tasks but quickly loses focus and is easily sidetracked; fails to finish schoolwork, household chores, or tasks in the workplace).
Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities (e.g., difficulty managing sequential tasks; difficulty keeping materials and belongings in order; messy, disorganized, work; poor time management; tends to fail to meet deadlines).
Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (e.g., schoolwork or homework; for older adolescents and adults, preparing reports, completing forms, or reviewing lengthy papers).
Often loses things necessary for tasks or activities (e.g., school materials, pencils, books, tools, wallets, keys, paperwork, eyeglasses, or mobile telephones).
Is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli (for older adolescents and adults, may include unrelated thoughts).
Is often forgetful in daily activities (e.g., chores, running errands; for older adolescents and adults, returning calls, paying bills, keeping appointments).
Who doesn't have six of those characterizations? And who doesn't have a neighbor or an in-law who has all of them?
Although some people who are sufferers claim great improvements with ADHD drugs, the broad criteria and aggressive marketing from drug companies leave open the possibility that many more people will become medicated who really don't need to.
Big Pharma is cashing in no doubt, but at what cost?
Even people who say they or their children are sufferers can't ignore the lucrative ADHD franchise Big Pharma has built off the disease. Examples of prices on ADHD drugs, for 100 pills at a middle dose at DrugStore.com in May 2011 were: Adderall $410, Adderall XR $791, Vyvanse $588, Intuniv $579, Ritalin $140, Ritalin SR $286, Ritalin LA $502, Concerta $651, Desoxyn $539, Dexedrine $741, and Strattera $635. The cost of one box of Daytrana 9-hour 20mg patches was $182.
It is no accident so many have drunk the ADHD Kool-Aid (one ADHD drug is actually a grape syrup marketed with the slogan "Give 'em the Grape"). Big Pharma has funded several patient front groups to sell the disease of ADHD without people knowing they are being sold.
One astroturf group known as CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) received a total of $1,205,000, from Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson's McNeil division, Novartis, Shire US and UCB during the 2007/2008 fiscal year–all ADHD drug manufacturers. (Eli Lilly makes Strattera; Johnson & Johnson makes Concerta; Novartis makes Ritalin and Focalin; Shire makes Adderall, Vyvanse, the Daytrana patch and Intuniv; and UCB makes Metadate CD.)
The next year it did almost as well–raking in $1,174,626, from Lilly, J&J's McNeil division, Novartis and Shire according to its filing. There was even a little pork left over! Although the group listed its most significant activity that year as providing "support for individuals with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders," it also spent $330,000 on its annual conference and $114,950 on a 20th anniversary gala that year. Compensation for its then CEO, E Clarke Ross, was $187,747 and the next two highest paid officials earned $130,217 and $121,095. Nice "non-profit" work if you can get it.
CHADD's communications department produces the bimonthly magazine Attention, which has plenty of advertising space and is disseminated to CHADD members and "over 40,000 doctors' offices." Its list of Officers and Board of Directors for 2009-2010 includes psychiatrist Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, whose credentials include being "a consultant for psychopharmacology projects at the National Institute of Mental Health," but who is also a past president of themother of all patient front groups, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI.. Former CHADD CEO Ross also treads the primrose path between government and industry, working at NAMI and for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
In 2010, CHADD was lobbying for recognition of adult ADHD with the Social Security Administration and "the inclusion of AD/HD and other neurobiological disorders in the definitions/eligibility categories for government benefits programs such as SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, developmental disability, and vocational rehabilitation programs." Hey, someone's got to pay the outrageous $791 Adderall XR bill, why not taxpayers?
Apparently the ADHD adults might need cash payments as well. According to CHADD's Leadership Blog, the group told a Social Security Administration advisory panel that: "A subset of adults with AD/HD is unable to be gainfully employed because of the chronic, substantial inattention and executive functioning challenges caused by the disorder."
CHADD asked the SSA to recognize adult ADHD as "a disability that can inhibit the ability to work, and to ensure that reasonable job accommodations and supports are available for individuals who cannot engage in substantial and meaningful employment without them."
Another ADHD front group called the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), promotes itself as "the world's leading adult ADHD organization." Its president, Evelyn Polk-Green, says she has ADHD and both her kids have been diagnosed with it. She is also a paid speaker and consultant for J&J subsidiary, McNeil Pediatrics.
In 2009, McNeil sponsored a Facebook page to stimulate sales called "ADHD Allies: A Place for Adults with ADHD," which listed Polk-Green as an Allies "Leader." The Facebook page, which expired in August, mentioned no ADHD drugs but provided a link to an online ADHD self-assessment questionnaire, advising people to, "Take this test and discuss your answers with your healthcare professional."
Madison Avenue Helps Sell ADHD
There is another way to sell the disease of adult ADHD and the costly drugs that treat it — screening. Just as Big Pharma seeks to screen kids for "mental problems," expectant mothers for "depression" and teens for "bipolar," it now screens for adult ADHD.
In 2009, Shire launched a Nationwide Adult ADHD Mobile Awareness Tour, which included a "mobile screening initiative" called the RoADHD Trip. The caravan, anchored by "the RoADHD Trip Tractor Trailer" which turned into a tented area with eight "self-screening stations," traveled the country, visiting major cities such as Chicago, Indianapolis and Dallas. In each city, Shire said it was partnering with the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, "a leading adult ADHD patient advocacy organization, in an effort to assist up to 20,000 adults to self-screen for this disorder."
And there was a doctor component, too. A "field-based team of experienced psychiatric nurses" would "provide in-office education to physicians and their staff on ADHD in adults," promised Shire.
If you weren't in one of the cities on the RoADHD trip, you did not have to miss out. J&J's McNeil came up with a similarly edgy mass marketing scheme for Concerta the same year in New York City. "Pedestrians mulling around Times Square in New York City can learn more about ADHD by responding to an advertisement on the CBS jumbotron, via text message," reported an article in Medical Marketing & Media.
The 15-second ad (no attention problems there) read "Can't focus? Can't sit still? Could you or your child have ADHD?" and ran on a 26×20-foot screen four times an hour. When pedestrians texted "ADHD" to a certain number, they "received a near-instantaneous text message in return containing a link to the 'Concerta Mobile Web Experience,' a branded mobile-optimized platform for McNeil's ADHD drug,'" reported the article.
And wait, there was more. Visitors to the McNeil Web site got a coupon for a 30-day free trial of Concerta.
Disease-Mongering
What is the harm in advertising the "disease" of adult ADHD? Since there is no blood or other diagnostic test to confirm it and quizzes are just guesswork, the category easily grows with advertising, a phenomenon called disease-mongering. You have it when a clinician says you have it–which is just fine with Big Pharma.
Nor will you will ever know if you have adult ADHD (assuming it exists) because the ADHD drugs–Adderall, Vyvanse, Intuniv, Ritalin, Concerta, Desoxyn, Dexedrine, Strattera, Provigil, Nuvigil and the Daytrana patch–"work" the same on everyone.
Are you "treating your ADHD" or just doing what truck drivers, factory workers, athletes, students, people working two jobs, anyone not getting enough sleep and party animals have done for over 50 years? Using speed–a drug so pleasurable, meth dealers often say, "first taste free." You'll never know, but now that the pusher is Big Pharma, you are a patient, not a recreational drug user or worse.
An April 26, 2010 segment of "60 Minutes" reported on a survey of nearly 2,000 students at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, that found 34 percent of undergraduates had taken ADHD drugs without a prescription, with the number climbing the longer students were in school. Fifty to 60 percent of juniors and seniors were taking them, Alan DeSantis, a communications professor at the University of Kentucky who was shocked at the drugs' popularity on campus, told Katie Couric.
Nor are students the only eager users. "60 Minutes" reported that in 2009 there were more than two million prescriptions written for Provigil, a stimulant first developed to treat the symptoms of the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy but now used by truck drivers on long hauls, doctors working around the clock and even fighter pilots on extended combat missions, approved by the Air Force.
This is not the first time the U.S. has threatened to become a nation of "legal speed freaks" noted pediatrician, Lawrence Diller, author of "Running on Ritalin: Should I Medicate My Child?" in a San Francisco Chronicle oped.
"There have been three previous waves of doctor-prescribed stimulant abuse since World War II, the last being Dexedrine for weight reduction in the 1970s," Diller wrote. "In every previous case, American society, through Congressional hearings and state laws, decided that the overall harm of prescription stimulants to the society was greater than the good they provided."
But it is the first time stimulants were sold on billboards in Times Square for an adult ADHD "market" of an estimated nine million people.
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I cannot believe how many comments my last post generated! A common love of Star Trek even brought out some folks I didn't even know were reading! Thank you all so much -- for the blogiversary wishes, the Star Trek comradery, and for being so darn fun in general. (And by the way, I saw the movie again last night with Sophy and Erica and I believe it was just as good, if not better, the second time).
So in the past few months, as I have worked on some attention-requiring projects and have tried to hone my pattern-writing skills (thus attempting to wake up the math part of my brain), I seem to have developed an addiction to triangular-shaped objects to be worn around the neck. There's something calming about them to me - they move so quickly at first (instant gratification!), then as they grow you get to enjoy long, repetitive rows that can be worked without thinking too hard. The first in this series: the Koigu Kerchief.
Notes: Talk about a calming knit - all the garter stitchy goodness of this kerchief made me very happy. This was one of those projects that I kept around when I needed a break, I worked on it off and on (sometimes just one row per sitting), and one day it was time to bind off. Mine is not as long as the pattern calls for because I ran out of dark red yarn, but I like it mini, too.
I didn't really plan how the colors would come out - I just wound those Koigu ends and started knitting with nary a plan - but I love them together! I feel like there's something '70's-ish about the combo.
And finally, I have been honored with the "One Lovely Blog" award by the Clumsy Knitter (And really, she is anything but. Her knits are AMAZING and everything she makes seems to involve intricate lace or cable patterns that she executes beautifully.) and Kristen of Learner's Per-Knit (isn't that an adorable blog name?). Thank you so much, ladies!
I love it! Such a cute kerchief.
I am delighted to hear Star Trek was just as enjoyable the second time because I want to see it again too!
and also, Star Trek was just as awesome the second time around. i wish we had seen a matinee so that afterwards we could just sit in a tea house and talk about the movie!
Shucks, thanks for the shout-out. I'm blushing!
That kerchief is CUTE CUTE CUTE!
Now I've got to finish up MY Koigu project-- the mittens that you graciously sent me yarn for! Just one more thumb... why is it so hard to do that one last bit??
love the scarf, it is a very cute knit!
and i bet it will be perfect for your san fran summer weather!


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We talk a lot about the linear scalability of Red Hat Gluster Storage, and we can generally back that up with empirical data. Indeed, homogeneously scaling out the storage nodes and network infrastructure can result in both capacity and throughput capabilities that are directly proportional. But it's important to note that this is potential scalability, and how you use the volumes plays a vital role in the experience you have.
Most of the workload falls into a particular category—high throughput, small file, or latency sensitive, for example.
When your capacity needs grow, so do your concurrent client demands.
You're using the glusterfs native client.
Let's take a look at these points and how they affect your real scalability.
We know through thousands of test cycle results that there is a generally optimal server configuration that will apply broadly to a majority of workloads. This compiled knowledge is a huge benefit to you, the user, and it can greatly reduce your own time commitment in designing and testing fundamental system architectures. However, just up the stack from the server and network components are low-level configuration choices that you will make for every deployment. These choices are the big knobs—Particular to your workload there is likely one best choice for peak performance. And it's important to note that these aren't choices you can easily change later. Changes at these layers likely require moving data, potentially more than once, and data has inertia.
When you understand your majority workload, and preferably you isolate dislike workloads entirely, you will be positioned to make choices about server density (12, 24, or higher drive capacity), block-level configurations (e.g., HDD vs. SSD, RAID vs. JBOD, caching vs. not, block and stripe sizes), and Gluster volume geometry (e.g., replicated vs. dispersed, failure resiliency, arbiter bricks, tiering). Locked into these choices and the related workload, you'll find it reasonably simple to integrate new nodes and bricks into the volume for predictable capacity and performance expansion.
So you've built to your workload and everything is great. That is, unless your expectations aren't aligned with a scale-out solution. Any single connection to the storage pool is bound by physics. One client communicates over one network link to one server to one file system and block stack. Sure, some design options allow for single-client concurrency to multiple stacks, but those come at a trade off, and each connection is still bound by physics and bottlenecked somewhere along the line. So if your need is to provide expanded throughput capabilities to a single or a small number of clients, you will likely find that horizontal scale-out won't give you much performance benefit. There are some tricks we can use to architect for such a need, but it will never be an efficient solution.
To that end, an optimal design assumes you are operating at an appropriate client:server concurrency ratio. The best ratio will vary with your workload and the architecture decisions you make per the preceding discussion, but you can expect for most cases a ratio range of 12:1 to 48:1 to be appropriate for peak or plateau storage throughput capabilities. So if you build out a 12-node storage pool based on your capacity needs and then expect 4 client systems to use that storage concurrently, you'll bottleneck on the server node I/O stack long before you saturate the aggregate system capabilities. But with an appropriate concurrent client count of say 150+ for your 12 server nodes, you may be operating at the peak capabilities of the system.
Great! So you're heeding all the advice here, and you're going to deploy 12 Red Hat Gluster Storage nodes in an optimal architecture for 150 NFS clients. Well, hold on there a minute, buckaroo. We're more than happy to support the NFS client, but you should know what you're getting into.
When using the Gluster native client, data placement calculations are made on the client side. This means that each client is fully aware of the volume geometry and all server nodes participating, allowing it to determine how the data protection scheme is applied and which nodes and backend filesystems (bricks) each file will be written to. All client-to-server connections are then made efficiently based on this client-side intelligence. And because data placement among the distributed system is done pseudo-randomly, there is a statistically even distribution of work between the clients and servers and therefore predictable performance scalability.
When choosing NFS (or SMB), a client will make its connections to a single Gluster server. That server then has to apply the client-side intelligence for data resilience, conversion, and placement, and it will then make secondary network calls out to each participating server node for the file transaction. This inefficiency leads to a concurrency bottleneck far below the capabilities of the native client—You'll still hit peak throughput at about the same client:server ratio, but that throughput will be well below what can be achieved on the same systems with the native client.
The one surprise that can come up with the NFS client is that if you do indeed require a lower client:server ratio, NFS can in some conditions outperform the native client at that concurrency level. YMMV on this, and you'll still be far below the peak capabilities of the system, but it's worth testing out if you're absolutely determined to connect your 4 clients to your 12 Gluster nodes (but don't say I didn't warn you not to).
Lucky for you, I did that already. Take a look at our published reference architectures and, in particular, our most recent Gluster Performance and Sizing Guide. And keep an eye out here for future publications as we continue to expand and refine our data.


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Drew Barrymore opens up in 'Wildflower'
Drew Barrymore would like us to learn more about her which seems like a very good idea. After all, this versatile actress, though only 40, has been around a long time starting at age six when she starred in the 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial directed by Steven Spielberg to the soon-to-be released Miss You Already. In between there's a long list including The Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler, Grey Gardens which earned her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards and, of course, two Charlie's Angels films.
Now in Wildflower(Dutton 2015; $28), Barrymore shares her life in a series of personal essays which include reflections of growing up as a child star from a long line of famous actors and actresses, sky diving with best friend—and fellow Charlie's Angel—Cameron Diaz, exploring religion in India and forming three companies—Flower Productions, Flower Eyewear and Barrymore Wines.
Oh and then there's the need to balance work and parenthood.
"I just got right on the idea of, where do I need to be the most?" says Barrymore who is taking a short break from movies to focus on her family. "Fifty-fifty would be ideal but life doesn't work like that–life is messy. It was just really challenging and I felt overwhelmed. I made a lot of decisions and I definitely changed my work life to suit parenthood."
Barrymore also talks about her struggles with postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, 18-month-old Frankie. The depression, which lasted six months, came as a surprise since she felt "great" after Olive, now three, was born.
"I have wanted to write a book for many years but I didn't want to do anything heavy," says Barrymore who says she's not known for being boring and wanted to make sure her book wasn't either.
She also puts her own perspective on things. Someone once told Barrymore that her life seemed so sad.
"I was like, it's not to me, but I could see how you would think that." She recalls saying. "That's the heavy perspective. Are you kidding me? My life is amazing."
Ifyougo:
What: Drew Barrymore discussion and book signing
When: Friday, October 30, the doors open at 11 am and the event begins at 11:30 am.
Where: The Standard Club in Chicago, 320 S Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL
Cost: $60 includes a plated luncheon and a copy of Wildflower
FYI: Tickets available through Anderson's Bookshop. 630-355-2665; andersonsbookshop.com
Also, Barrymore will be doing a book signing at 7 pm that evening at the Yellow Box Auditorium at Community Christian Church, 1635 Emerson Lane, Naperville, IL
Cost: $36 includes admission and one book. Tickets must be purchased through Anderson Bookstore.
October 26, 2015 Jane Simon Ammeson
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By making friends, we can know more people and groups outside world, just like a song says that" you will walk more smoothly if you have more friends".
Ma ybe you would like to ask me "who is your best friend?" I can tell you the answer is Jack. Jack used to be hardworking and interested in every subject we learn at school. He is good at Chinese and English. He is friendly and he makes many foreign friends. Meanwhile he gets on well with this classmates and friends. Jack likes dancing , and drawing as well. His work has won prizes for several times. We help each other not only in the study but also in our life.
It is possible that we are going to different schools in a few months , wherever we go, I believe/am sure Jack will be my best friend forever.
It is very important for us to know about the traffic rules. Everyone knows that red light means "stop" and you ar e not allowed to go. You can walk across the road safely when green light is on. One more thing is yellow light. Some people always forget it. Usually when the green light off, yellow light will be on, please be careful because red light will be on in a few seconds. So you must wait for a while patiently.
Here are some useful suggestions for following traffic rules. Firstly, we should follow the traffic lights and cannot break the traffic rules. Secondly, we had better remember the principle "slowly, look left and right side, go across finally". Last but not least, do not forget that it is rather dangerous to play on the street. If everybody follows the traffic rules we will have a happy life in the future.


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Q: Azure Graph API Filter by array value I'm trying to execute an query on my users of my Azure B2C Active Directory.
So far everything works fine with the following query:
https://graph.windows.net/myTentant/users?$filter=
startswith(displayName,'test')%20
or%20startswith(givenName,'test')%20
or%20startswith(surname,'test')%20
or%20startswith(mail,'test')%20
or%20startswith(userPrincipalName,'test')
&api-version=1.6

The thing about that is, that this properties are just simple values like this:
"displayName: "testValue",
"givenName": "testValue",
"displayName: "testValue",
"surname": "testValue",
"mail: "testValue",
"userPrincipalName": "testValue",

In my case I need to use one more statement, in which I need to check an array if it contains 'test' like the others. This array look like that:
        "signInNames": [
            {
                "type": "emailAddress",
                "value": "test@mail.com"
            },                {
                "type": "emailAddress",
                "value": "test2@mail.com"
            }
        ]

I Already search in the official documentation but had no luck....
Any ideas?

A: In theory, we should use the following format to determine whether the value starts with "test".
GET https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/users?$filter=signInNames/any(c:startswith(c/value, 'test'))

Unfortunately, it will show an error: value only supports equals-match. PrefixMatch is not supported.
And the contains string operator is currently not supported on any Microsoft Graph resources. So we can't use contains neither.
You need to use equal to find the exact match data:
GET https://graph.windows.net/myorganization/users?$filter=signInNames/any(c:c/value eq '***')

It is not a solution. But there seems not to be a way to meet your needs.
Maybe you could query all the signInNames and handle them in your code.