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Current Exhibition: Exactly Where I'm At
RCTC Art Faculty member Jeffrey Jacobsen's new paintings are currently exhibited in the RCTC Art Gallery through October 2022. The work focuses on places, nature, and activities around South Eastern Minnesota. There will be a reception for the exhibition on September 9th from 4-6pm.
Title: Gold Standard
Artist: Roger Boulay
Forever and Ever, 50 Gold Gifs, 50 iPads, mylar balloons, 2022
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Roger Boulay is an artist, curator, and educator based in Winona, Minnesota. He has exhibited his work nationally, including solo exhibitions at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN, the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY and at Gallery 19 in Chicago, IL. He is the recipient of a 2018 Southeastern Minnesota Artist Council grant and the 2018-19 recipient of the Professional Excellence award at Winona State University.
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Gold simultaneously represents profound value and pretense, luxury and cheapness, high and low culture, exclusivity and obtainability. These contradictions appear in the materiality of this show. Second-hand, mass-produced paperback novels have almost no value, yet their covers use gold to suggest the opposite. Gold gifs exploit the color's connotations to elevate subject matter that is ridiculous and trivial. Gold is conspicuous. It is a signifier of class, both upper-class exclusivity, and lower-class gaudiness. How much gold is too much?
Equally central to the show is the loop. The gifs are cultural detritus trapped in a never-ending cycle of ironic silliness. The book covers are analogue versions of the looping gifs. Sculpture is gently swaying to create a three-dimensional gif. To me, the closed loop is the most interesting structural element of contemporary art. Recursive information systems are endemic to many aspects of my daily experience, whether I want them to be or not.
Title: Too Hot to Handle
Artist: Zoe Cinel
Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working with public art, video art, performance and installation. Originally from Florence, Zoe currently resides in stolen Mni Sota Makoce land where she is the Curator at the Rochester Art Center. Zoe holds a BFA from ISIA Florence and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her curatorial and artistic work has been exhibited in venues such as at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Recipient of several grants including a 2018 Creative City Challenge, Zoe is also part of the artistic collective CarryOn Homes who focuses on highlighting immigrant stories in MN. She has taught at institutions such as Carleton College and the Minneapolis College of Art And Design. Since 2020, she has been involved as an artist in the Discovery Walk project by DMC Rochester.
This exhibition features new installations about a very personal experience I have been going through since 2020, when I was diagnosed at 28 years old with RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis)*, an autoimmune inflammatory disease I inherited from my maternal grandmother. In the last year I experienced the fatality of negotiating life with chronic pain, meds and a defeating health care system in a foreign country and during a pandemic. This show is a self portrait and it's process: it's raw, clinical yet intimate. A celebration of the many times I was made way too aware of the existence and the clash of my own cells.
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Simon Murphy is the Founder & CEO of RefLIVE, a referee management system to increase retention, reduce abuse and elevate performance for referees.
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1) To kick things off, could you tell us a little about your career background and current role?
I'm currently the Founder and CEO of sports tech startup, RefLIVE. I studied business and accounting at University, and was an accountant for around 5 years before getting into startups. I always wanted to start my own business from a young age.
2) What does a day in the life look like for you? Can you take us through a recent workday?
Things have changed dramatically in the last few weeks. Traditionally I would get to work at around 8, work until 12 and head to the gym for 40 minutes, then lunch, and then work at the office until around 6 before heading home.
My commute would be 30-40 minutes of public transport which is great reading time. Working from home has required an adjustment, mostly keeping myself accountable and staying focused while trying to exercise and take enough breaks.
I think that if you're passionate about your career, then work and life become entangled. I consider it a privilege to be able to work on my own company.
3) Does your current role allow for flexible or remote working? If so, how does that fit into your life and routine?
I first started RefLIVE from the spare bedroom in my house in a regional city. Shortly after starting, I moved to the US while my co-founder stayed in Australia.
Even though it wasn't our intention, we've been remote from day one but have enjoyed the benefits of working in the same office.
Being at a co-working space enabled us to learn from other great founders and integrate a social life into work which can be challenging for small teams.
4) What does work-life balance mean to you and how do you work to achieve that goal?
I think that if you're passionate about your career, then work and life become entangled. I consider it a privilege to be able to work on my own company. When we first started, I probably spent too much time on unnecessary tasks, overthinking every little detail.
At a certain point you realise that it's in your company's best interest for you to take a break and think about things outside of the company. Otherwise it becomes difficult to innovate and solve the infinite number of problems that inevitably arise within your startup.
I try to have a small trip with my wife scheduled at least every 6 months, I find that the anticipation of a trip can be as therapeutic as going.
5) What do you think are some of the best habits or routines that you've developed over the years to help you achieve success in your life?
Setting goals, tracking progress and meditation. Setting goals provides direction. Our team sets ambitious goals that might seem impossible to achieve, but we break them down into small tasks which helps us stay motivated day to day.
Tracking progress helps build stronger habits, whether it be setting goals to complete a number of workouts, reading a number of books or even meditation, I find tracking things helps keep me accountable. Meditation is the best way to reduce stress and clear your mind.
It took me over a year of trying before it started to have an effect on me. Once I was able to simply focus on breathing and minimise expectations of anything happening, it became effective.
6) Are there any books that have helped you improve over the years?
A lot. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy might be the most important book I've read and helped shape my personal philosophy.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel was excellent to learn about the economics of early stage companies. Elon Musk's biography by Ashley Vance was a fascinating look at one of the worlds greatest innovators.
Lastly, Shoe Dog by Nike founder Phil Knight was an incredible story showing the reality of building an iconic business.
Keep testing, trying and experimenting until you find what works best for you. Don't be too hard on yourself, we all have unproductive days or phases when things feel tough. Everyone has a different perspective of what work life balance means, and that's okay.
7) What is the number one thing you do to make sure you get the most out of your day?
Make people laugh. Life is too short not to laugh everyday and enjoy it. Finding beauty, pleasure and laughter when things are tough makes life worthwhile.
8) If you could read an interview about work-life balance by anyone, who would that be?
Right now I'm very interested to hear about how doctors and medical professionals are continuing to do an incredible job despite the huge challenges they face. We're all going through a tough time at the moment but they're working tirelessly to keep us healthy.
9) Do you have any last thoughts on work, life or balance that you'd like to share with our readers?
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For the English cricketer, see Eric Dixon (cricketer).
Eric Dixon (March 28, 1930 – October 19, 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger.
Dixon's professional career extended from 1950 until his death in 1989, during which time he was credited on perhaps as many as 200 recordings. He worked with Paul Gonsalves, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Mal Waldron, Oliver Nelson, Quincy Jones, Jack McDuff, Joe Williams, Bennie Green, Frank Foster, and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, but is probably best known for his tenure in Count Basie's band, which lasted almost two decades. Dixon continued to play in the "ghost band" after Basie's death.
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Actually, DateTimeImmutable is not usable everywhere DateTime is.
string(39) "jeudi 1 janvier 1970 00:00:00 UTC+01:00"
This has been fixed in 5f09944662e09ea0b3f93cfab8702f188955e68c which is in 5.5.9 and later.
The commit you mention seems to allow DateTimeImmutable usage with DatePeriod::__construct but still does not fix intl stuffs.
DateTimeZone::getOffset also doesn't accept a DateTimeImmutable object.
I'm getting the issue that formatting a DateTimeImmutable with IntlDateFormatter results in an empty string.
string(42) "jeudi 1 janvier 1970 à 00:00:00 UTC+01:00"
@phpweb: Fixed by https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/433758ceb3e11df184a87e8185fbd7f8b969fb79, thanks for the report.


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In 1964, Pat MacCleary and several other Worthington Historical Society (WHS) volunteers started a program for third-grade students in the community. This year the program, which is now called Pioneer Days, celebrates its 50th year and hosts more than 1,000 area students during the month of May. The program will host 13 elementary schools and bring Worthington's history to life for another generation.
Before the Field Trip: A WHS volunteer visits each school with a basket of items commonly used by families during the pioneer days of Worthington. The items are part of the WHS educational collection, and students may handle them—unlike other items they will see on display during their trip to the Orange Johnson House.
On the Day of the Field Trip: Children are encouraged to come in costume to enhance the experience of life as a child in the early 1800s. They will visit St. John's Episcopal Church and cemetery, the Orange Johnson House and the Village Green. Volunteers will share a brief history of St. John's Episcopal Church, an institution that played an integral role in Worthington's establishment. In the cemetery, the kids will make grave-rubbings. And back at the Orange Johnson House, they will participate in an age-appropriate tour of the museum. Finally, everyone will head over to the Village Green to participate in Pioneer Games like rolling hoops and ring-on-a-string.
For more information about Orange Johnson House activities, Pioneer Days, or the Worthington Historical Society, visit worthingtonhistory.org, email info@worthingtonhistory.org, or call 614.885.1247.
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Wizard vs. Witch: Who's the real Villain?
While writing a story for JW Schnarr's Shadows of the Emerald City horror anthology, I began to wonder why people assume the Witch of the West is the villain? I thought the same as a child, but looking back at that movie I don't understand why she is seen as the villain at all. It can't just be the maniacal laughter and green skin, can it? I've known several very nice people with laughs that could scrape the paint off a wall, but that doesn't make them evil. And to discriminate based on green skin? I'd like to assume the makers of the movie weren't selling a racist agenda in their children's movie. I should note that the Witch in the original book did not have green skin, but she was described as being very very old, homely and having only one eye, so it could still be that she was assumed to be the villain just because she was unattractive or very old.
The Wizard is in a position of power where he has spent a lifetime misleading the public and frightening his citizens into submission. A little girl from a far-off land approaches him, asking for assistance, and his response is to send her on a mission to kill his most dangerous adversary. In return he makes promises that he's incapable of keeping, giving snake oil presents to Dorothy's helpers and then escaping before fulfilling his promise to Dorothy. His only explanation is: "I'm not a bad man, only a bad wizard." That's a terribly weak excuse considering the magnitude of his crimes. The Wizard escapes without providing his promised payment AND without paying for his crimes, and we think the story ends happily?
The Witch: The Witch's eastern counterpart is dispatched without warning by a powerful child adversary who claims she didn't mean to do it. But of course, that's exactly what any child-assassin would say in that circumstance. And honestly, when was the last time an intact house fell out of the sky by coincidence? And if it were an accident, what are the odds that it would land on the Wicked Witch of the East? The Witch would be a fool to believe Dorothy at her word. Then, despite the child-assassin's claims of innocence, the girl accepts a mission from the Witch's greatest adversary to go kill the Witch. How can anyone fault the Witch for trying to kill Dorothy? It's clearly self defense! Even in the moments of her death, the Witch has no reason to question her own judgment–somehow the girl knew her one weakness and used it with no hesitation. Dorothy claimed it was an accident, but again, what are the odds of that?
While there probably is some degree of sexism at play here, particularly since the source material was written over a hundred years ago, I don't think that's the whole picture.
If I had to pick who was the most powerful character in the story, I would say it was Glinda, yet she's not portrayed as evil. She plays a positively depicted female in power, despite her ridiculous bubbly voice, and her unfortunate fashion sense (was that pink monstrosity of a dress EVER in style?). She's the only one who is shown using magic of her own, even if she does show it by riding around in a bubble. The Wizard's magic is smoke and mirrors, and the Wicked Witch of West seems to have no magic, save through magical mediums: the broom, the crystal ball, the monkeys. Glinda is the only one who shows any inherent magic, and she's the only one who can determine the magical nature of the slippers. If sexism were the only agenda here, I think Glinda would be portrayed differently.
Glinda and Dorothy are both portrayed positively, but every single major male character has a major flaw that mars his character: the heartless, the brainless, the cowardly, and the impotent. Granted, it may be a stretch to call the Tin Man and the Scarecrow male, but they were referred to with male pronouns in the book, and were played by male actors for the movie.
The sexism of Witch vs. Wizard is perhaps not so much a fault with the filmmakers, but due to assumptions made by the viewers. Looking at it objectively, it seems clear that the Wizard is the villain because of his behavior.


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As a number of FP commentators have pointed out, history isn't likely to be made at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently underway in Tehran. But even if the conference is short on Earth-shaking pronouncements, it has produced one of the first examples of how Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy will conduct himself on the world stage. Morsy ...
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As a number of FP commentators have pointed out, history isn't likely to be made at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently underway in Tehran. But even if the conference is short on Earth-shaking pronouncements, it has produced one of the first examples of how Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy will conduct himself on the world stage.
Morsy broke from decades of Egyptian foreign policy by attending the summit in the first place, becoming Egypt's first head of state to visit Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His decision provoked no shortage of condemnation in the United States -- Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times, said Morsy "should be ashamed of himself" for stretching out a hand to the regime that crushed the 2009 Green Movement.
But Morsy's attendance at the Tehran summit seems to be the limit of his outreach to the Iranians. His speech at the summit offered Egypt's full-throated support for Syria's opposition, declaring "[o]ur solidarity with the struggle of the Syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy." The Syrian delegation, unsurprisingly, staged a walkout.
As a number of FP commentators have pointed out, history isn't likely to be made at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit currently underway in Tehran. But even if the conference is short on Earth-shaking pronouncements, it has produced one of the first examples of how Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy will conduct himself on the world stage.
Morsy broke from decades of Egyptian foreign policy by attending the summit in the first place, becoming Egypt's first head of state to visit Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His decision provoked no shortage of condemnation in the United States — Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times, said Morsy "should be ashamed of himself" for stretching out a hand to the regime that crushed the 2009 Green Movement.
But Morsy's attendance at the Tehran summit seems to be the limit of his outreach to the Iranians. His speech at the summit offered Egypt's full-throated support for Syria's opposition, declaring "[o]ur solidarity with the struggle of the Syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy." The Syrian delegation, unsurprisingly, staged a walkout.
Tehran, the most important international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, couldn't have been happy with Morsy's sentiment. So far, all Iran's leaders have received from him is some symbolic signs of a possible rapprochement — while Egypt's new president has at the same time explicitly aligned himself against their primary Arab ally.
Morsy seems to want to have it both ways: At times, he has tried to regain some of Egypt's lost diplomatic influence by positioning himself as a mediator in the Middle East's disputes. Most prominently, he championed a regional initiative to resolve the Syria crisis that included Iran in the discussions. Such a proposal didn't set well with Egypt's traditional allies: Eliminating Iranian influence in Damascus is a major factor in Saudi Arabia and Qatar's support for the Syrian rebels. Giving Tehran a seat at the table misses the point entirely.
But you can't play peacemaker if you're also going to take sides. Morsy clearly feels the need to support a popular, predominantly Sunni revolution — particularly one where the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood plays a prominent role. However, the nature of that support remains to be seen — and it's hard to see how his "regional initiative" gets off the ground after antagonizing the Iranians on their home turf.
Even Morsy's religious rhetoric at the NAM summit was, at times, muddled. The Egyptian president went out of his way to praise "the holy family of the Prophet," whom Shiites believe were the natural successors to Mohammed. But he also name-dropped the four caliphs who ruled the Islamic world after the Prophet's death: Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, and Ali. The fourth caliph, Ali, is venerated by Shiites — but the first three are viewed as usurpers who persecuted the true followers of Mohammed's teachings.
What, then, is Morsy trying to say — not only about his faith, but Egypt's place in the world? It may still be years before we find out.
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It seems like every time astronomers discover a new exoplanet, it comes with a weird new label: It's a hot Jupiter! An ice giant! A circumbinary super-Earth in the Goldilocks zone! If you think these names are weird, buckle up: The worlds themselves are even weirder. Here are nine of the most bizarre types of planets we know about.
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Hot Neptunes are objects the size of Neptune that orbit close to their home star. In the landscape of exoplanets, they've been strangely rare. They're less common than hot Jupiters, which are Jupiter-sized objects close to their home star, and they're also less common than super-Earths, which are planets more massive than Earth, but less massive than Neptune. In December, astronomers realized that this might be because their close proximity to their home stars cause hot Neptunes to burn off their atmospheres at a rapid pace — which eventually turns them into a type of super-Earth known as a Chthonian planet (described below).
One we know about: GJ 436b, a hot Neptune that orbits the red dwarf Gliese 436, 10.2 parsecs from Earth.
While rocky planets are small and solid, and gas giants are huge and gaseous, gas dwarfs fall somewhere in the middle. They have thick atmospheres like their big gaseous cousins, but they're around two to four times the size of Earth (compare that to Jupiter, which is more than 11 times the size of Earth).
One we know about: Possibly Kepler 138b, an exoplanet with the same mass as Earth but with a 60 percent larger radius, which means that it's potentially gaseous.
When a hot Neptune (or a hot Jupiter, or a hot Uranus) flies too close to the sun, it often starts to lose its atmosphere. Get close enough — 2 percent of Earth's distance from the sun, say — and its atmosphere could disappear completely, leaving just a huge rocky core behind. That's what you call a Chthonian planet, named for the Greek word "khthonios," which refers to the Greek deities of the underworld. Fitting, since the underworld of these planets is exposed.
One we know about: CoRoT-7b, a rocky planet seven times the size of Earth and nearly five times its mass that orbits 60 times closer to its star than Earth does to the sun. Astronomers think it was once a gas giant the size of Saturn.
Earth is made up of an iron-rich core surrounded by a silicate-rich mantle, which is why it's sometimes referred to as a silicate planet. An iron planet is like that, but with much less or perhaps zero silicate — it's mostly just the iron core. Iron planets we've found have incredibly high densities, which would give them a hefty gravitational pull for their size.
One we know about: Aside from, you know, Mercury, there's Kepler-10b, which was the first confirmed rocky planet to be discovered outside our solar system. It's believed to be mostly iron with little to no atmosphere. It has nearly five times Earth's mass but is only 40 percent larger, so it's incredibly dense. It also orbits its home star in only 20 hours at a distance 20 times closer than Mercury is to the sun.
When it comes to outer space, the discovery of carbon is usually pretty exciting; it's a "building block of life," as they say. But despite the richness of life on Earth, carbon only makes up 0.1 percent of our planet. In fact, a little goes a long way; if a planet were to be made up of mostly carbon, a lack of life would almost be guaranteed. That's because carbon gobbles up oxygen to create carbon monoxide, and that would leave little oxygen to form water. If that's disappointing, maybe this will cheer you up: The pressure beneath a carbon planet's graphite surface would likely form a thick layer of pure diamond.
One we know about: While carbon planets are still technically theoretical, the discovery of 55 Cancri e in 2012 put them further into the realm of possibility. This planet 40 light years from Earth was believed to be made of mostly diamond, although further research revealed that it might not have as much carbon as we thought.
This is another type of planet that poses a mystery. Generally, rocky planets are low-mass and gas planets are high-mass. Superpuffs, on the other hand, are gas planets with only two to six times the mass of Earth — but with gaseous atmospheres that puff them out so they're four to 10 times its size (so in the range of Neptune and Saturn, which are 17 times and 95 times the mass of Earth, respectively). Astronomers think they accomplish this by gathering all that gas far out in the protoplanetary disk — the planetary nursery around a star that eventually gives birth to a solar system — where it's cold, and that lets them collect that gas faster than they would further in.
One we know about: The exoplanets Kepler 51-b and 51-d are both superpuffs that orbit Kepler 51, a whippersnapper of a star that's only 500 million years old. These two planets are each about the size of a gas giant, but with only 10 times the mass of Earth.
If you're a planet, a pulsar is not a great place to be. A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, which itself is the super-dense core of what was once a massive star that exploded in a supernova. Any planets around a pulsar would have either had to be there before the supernova (which is unlikely, since a star massive enough to become a neutron star probably wouldn't have formed planets), or formed afterward (which could happen in a few ways, but most of them are also unlikely). As a result, less than one percent of pulsars have been found to host planets. Yet a pulsar is exactly where we found our first ever exoplanet. Weird, right?
One we know about: PSR1257+12c and PSR1257+12d, the first exoplanets humans ever discovered way back in 1992. They orbit a pulsar in the Virgo constellation that's about 2,300 light-years away — definitely no weekend trip.
When planets form, they collect all the stuff in their surrounding area. If another planet forms nearby, it'll either move away from the first planet or crash into it and combine. But there's a rarer, third option: They remain as two planets that orbit each other. That's what you might call a double, or binary planet.
One we know about: While some have proposed defining Pluto and Charon as a double planet (or even Earth and the moon), the unofficial rule is that a double planet needs to include two bodies the size of planets. We haven't actually found any yet — but astronomers think it's possible.
There's a good chance that every planet you've ever heard about orbits a star. But get this: it's estimated that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 400 billion rogue planets, or planets that don't orbit any star. Of course, since we generally detect planets by tracking the dimming of their home star as they pass in front of it, rogue planets have been tough to detect — but from the ones we have detected, scientists reckon that they might outnumber stars 2 to 1.
One we know about: SIMP J01365663+0933473 is a behemoth of a rogue planet that was discovered last year. At 1.22 times the size of Jupiter and nearly 13 times its mass, this planet was first identified as a brown dwarf, or failed star, but further research found that it wasn't quite massive enough. Therefore, it's a planet — albeit one that's right at the border between planet and star.
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I spoke to Aaron Maté of The Real News about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas' Wednesday meeting with Donald Trump at the White House.
Abbas praised the president's "courageous stewardship" and "wisdom." Trump expressed effusive optimism that he could achieve what has eluded all his predecessors: broker a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.
But is there any basis to believe that Trump will have any more success than his predecessor Barack Obama, who raised similar hopes when he took office eight years ago?
We also spoke about the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, as well as Hamas' new charter and what implications it could have for Palestinian politics.
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The flu season, which typically runs from October through May, has started with a vengeance. In fact, the Virginia Department of Health has reported significant statewide increases in flu incidents over last flu season. The most common flu virus this season is Influenza A (H3N2), a strand that is particularly severe. Our BetterMed clinics have definitely seen an increase in visits from concerned cold and flu patients over the past several weeks, with many suffering from fever, body aches and pains, and nagging coughs. Many are unsure about the seriousness of their illness or whether to seek medical attention.
If you have any grouping of symptoms, or even any one symptom that makes you feel uncomfortable, then you should consider seeking a medical evaluation, ideally in either an urgent care setting, such as BetterMed, or through your primary care physician.
Many patients arrive to our offices unsure about the type of illness that they have. That's understandable, since both a cold or the flu can present with typical symptoms or have complications. Usually, a cold will include a runny nose, congestion, sneezing, and cough, and sometimes a sore throat. Fevers with colds are less common in adults, more common in children. For these symptoms, we can provide over the counter or prescriptive medications.
If the patient has a sore throat along with other symptoms including a fever, swollen lymph nodes, difficulty swallowing, or red and swollen tonsils, they may have strep throat. This is a bacterial infection in the throat and tonsils, common in children, which can be easily treated with a course of antibiotics.
Sometimes, we may suspect pneumonia in patients with severe coughs, wheezing, or paleness. In such cases, we can confirm the diagnosis with x-rays. Once sent home, patients with a cold can find relief for dry, scratchy sore throats with warm liquids, such as chicken noodle soup, or a mix of honey and lemon juice. Taking a shower or sitting in a bathroom filled with steam can help ease an irritating cough. Drinking lots of fluids and getting plenty of rest can also provide relief for a cold.
A cold will often run its course, and you'll get better. This is usually true for the flu as well, but sometimes this virus can require special attention. The flu is very contagious and shouldn't be taken lightly. It's a significant disease that without adequate care can sometimes lead to complications.
Having worked in emergency rooms for over 10 years, I've seen instances where the flu can quickly escalate into more severe respiratory problems like pneumonia as well as sepsis, an infection that can overwhelm the body. Infants, elderly patients, and those with compromised immune systems are especially vulnerable to such side effects.
A thorough exam will help us determine whether a patient has the flu. Symptoms of the flu include fever, body aches and fatigue. Many often confuse the flu with a stomach or intestinal virus, which is not the same thing, and is more commonly associated with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. For patients with a stomach or intestinal virus, we can prescribe anti-nausea medications, or provide intravenous fluids when dehydration is a concern. Infants and children are more prone than adults to having the flu plus an ear infection. These infections can be painful, but fortunately can be treated with antibiotics.
While not 100% accurate, sometimes a rapid influenza diagnostic test can help determine if the patient has the flu. Even if the test is negative, patients with symptoms such as fever, body aches, runny noses and congestion can benefit from treatment with Tamiflu and other antiviral medications.
Once home, patients with the flu should drink lots of liquids, control their fever by taking Motrin— alternating with Tylenol every four hours—and, as with colds, get plenty of rest. To prevent the further spread of a cold or flu, and to ease your recovery, be sure to stay home from work or school for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone and no longer requires the use of fever-reducing medications.


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Amidst a mini-retrospective, "Beautiful Dreamer: The Early Films of Catherine Deneuve," running from March 4-12 at the Bing Theater, the world-renowned actress paid a precious visit to avid fans at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 8, 2011, following a preview of her new film, Potiche by François Ozon. The series also features Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967), Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965), Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Donkey Skin (1970), and François Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980). In a relaxed and convivial conversation, this guest célèbre responded to the eager curiosity of host and programmer Ian Birnie.
Potiche takes us to a quaint town in the French provinces in 1977 where Suzanne Pujol, a pretty, haut-bourgeois wife who knows her place, is recruited to step into her husband's shoes when this irascible tyrant, the boss of the umbrella factory she inherited from her father, has a minor heart attack upon being taken hostage by his workers who are on strike. Suzanne stuns everyone with the friendly role she plays, negotiating the needs of workers she's known since childhood and even doing her own kind of "collective bargaining" with the aid of the Communist mayor, who turns out to be only one of her many old flames. In time, even he must come to reckon with a new Suzanne whose motherly kindness and competence take her beyond the home and the factory alike.
It's tempting to see Potiche as a compendium of riffs on Catherine Deneuve's earlier roles, especially in the middle of LACMA's captivating series. Her springtime jog in nature that opens Potiche spins on her élan at the outdoor organ in Donkey Skin's rustic setting, just as her kitchen song and dance in Potiche recall Donkey Skin's cake d'amour scene. A parapluie factory (call it Piganiol à Aurillac) drenches the film in the colors and ambiance of Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A lost locket with facing cameos of Deneuve and Depardieu in Potiche could be a keepsake from The Last Metro and comes to life as a romp in the woods (a pastel, lady-like echo of Belle de Jour's dream with the "potiche" in pink floral chiffon); this flashback in Potiche re-enacts Metro's moment on a theater floor as if Depardieu, over time, had simply snowballed into the labor-leader mayor he is in Potiche.
Gone are all the psychological menaces, perversely logical desires, Freudian fairy tales, repressed fantasies, obsessions and schemes, but not the sadder-but-wiser heroine, who emerges as even more worldly, knowing, and sympathetic than in earlier films. Beside Séverine's uncanny acuity in Belle de Jour, Suzanne's awareness is informed and palpable. Evoking personages of contemporary renown from Madame Chirac to Ségolène Royal, Ozon's Potiche poses Deneuve in the limelight that Truffaut first cast on her in The Last Metro, in which her unconscious authority comes full bloom beside a dependent husband-playwright hidden in the cellar who would like to pull the strings on the "action" from afar. Metro sets the stage for Potiche, in which the ousted executive presumes to run a factory from his sickbed or his vacation in Italy, teetering on becoming a potiche himself.
Having worked with Deneuve previously in 8 Women, Ozon felt comfortable casting against type when he asked her to play the lead in Potiche. He wanted her to be able to evolve in his film not only on the level of the story line but in all layers of the production: "In the beginning, Suzanne is a caricature, as are the other characters. She's the good little wife of a small-town factory owner, but gradually, she breaks free and undergoes a series of transformations to become a new woman. Using the character as a starting point, I wanted to explore the woman, and then end the film with the actress, in the final scene." It's a finale in which the actress, singing, gives new life to an old song, "C'est beau la vie." As Deneuve herself has pointed out, Ozon is a "great deconstructionist." Potiche, all-in-all, is a meta-discourse on the many roles a woman can play, in every sense of the word, as an "actor" — on the stage and the screen, in a home and a community, in a society and a culture.
In a basic black sweater and skirt, Catherine Deneuve, sitting on the stage of the Bing Theater, may have tempted audience members to project upon her any of her roles in her previous one hundred films that they cared to conjure as they gazed at her familiar cover-girl image, but her actual responses to each question in the conversation were as idiosyncratic and sparkling as the gossamer-weight bracelet that graced her slender ankle.
Ian Birnie What can you tell us about your experience acting in Potiche?
Catherine Deneuve Well the director, François Ozon, was also behind the camera, so he was very energetic. Also we had to complete shooting within eight weeks, which is not very much for a film like that, and he was very well prepared, so there was enough time, even though there were a lot of people involved in this film, so it went well. It was really nice.
IB And you'd made Eight Women with him. So that must have given you a level of comfort — with his experience, his style.
CD Yes, I'd worked with him, and I think I'd seen almost all his films, so I knew him as a director, the way he likes to do things, to take some normal situation and change it in some bizarre way. And that's something I like, especially for a comedy.
IB Did you feel related to the character?
CD Well I like the character very much. I don't know what potiche means for you, because the word has been translated as 'trophy wife', but it's not that, exactly, because for us a potiche can also be a man. It's a beautiful object that is very decorative that you put somewhere and it does not have much use except to look good and be there.
IB We call it a 'knick-knack,' or a 'dustcatcher'. You just dust it.
CD You know, anyone can be a potiche, for a few hours of a day, or in a lifetime; everybody has been once in a situation of having just to be there, to be with someone and have not much to do or to say to other people who are there. For a few hours, you can be a potiche. I'm sure everybody knows that situation at least once.
IB Did you enjoy wearing the clothes?
CD Well that was really the start, the beginning of the preparation of the film and of the character. You know when you have to do all those scenes in those very strange and beautiful clothes and to try the hairstyle, all that counts a lot for building the character.
IB And you were involved very early on in the project.
CD Yes, because Francois talked to me about the film. The script was not completely developed; it was not written yet. The play was there, of course, but he had not started to write the script. He told me the story, and I said 'yes' before the script was finished, because it was a very, very good story and an interesting part.
IB And it's a big part. I mean, to play the lead for that kind of character is not that easy.
CD Not that easy, no. And it's not easy, either, to work with him every day, doing all the shots, all the scenes. I was afraid, so I did prepare myself to be in good shape to follow him.
CD More and more the directors are younger than me, that's for sure!
IB But you take supporting roles, which have really interesting characters, such as in A Christmas Tale. That's a fascinating character.
CD Well I think it's important to choose also for the story, for the director, and for the interest you have in the film itself, not only the part.
IB Can I ask you about some of your early films as well? On Friday we screened Belle de Jour and Repulsion, and Repulsion has, like most of them, an exhausting role.
CD It's a powerful film, and I know there are lots of copies in stores and in the theaters they show it more. I think the film sort of aged quite well, mostly because it's in black and white, and I don't think that helps a lot, but the subject is very dark, and it was a very tough director.
IB That must have been a hard film to make — both of those films must have been hard. They're intense, and you're an object of scrutiny.
CD Yes, and I remember sometimes in scenes where you have those special effects in Repulsion, where Carole starts to see differently, it was more fun than you think… This was very important. It's very basic, but Roman did special effects. There's not anyone who would do it that way now.
IB Do you stay in touch with people you've worked with?
CD Oh, some of them. It depends on who I meet. With Roman, yes, he's someone I stay in touch with..
IB And what do you look back on over the years? Are there certain highlights, like working with Truffaut on The Last Metro?
CD Frankly, I don't look back that much. Sometimes, yes, because I have to present a film or a retrospective, or someone comes to talk to me about Buñuel or just Tristana, so I answer and I go back to that situation at that time; but after that, since I'm still working a lot and doing things, I don't have nostalgia, though I'm very pleased to have done these films and to have been involved in these projects.
IB You work a lot. Is it because you need to, from an emotional point of view, to do the acting? I know you're a film buff.
CD I see quite a lot of films, so it's part of my life. I suppose I would stop if I didn't have the excuse that for me it would be interesting in the end, because it would be really not worth it for me to make a film. But for the moment I'm very lucky because I'm involved with interesting directors.
IB Have you done stage work as well?
CD No, never. Only in films — I mean like Metro.
IB No Broadway? "A Little Night Music"?
CD I like music very much. I love to sing.
IB Would you like to work in the US again? You did two films, back in the early '70s, late '60s. It was a different Hollywood.
CD Well, Dancer in the Dark was a project that Lars Von Trier really wanted to do, and he wrote to Björk and she wasn't too keen about being in the film. I don't know if she was interested much in being an actress. She's such an incredible personality, but she has to be really in charge of everything she does. So she realized, maybe, that she would have to be directed, and she was not ready for that; it was really difficult. If she had not done the part, I think the film would not have been made. So she finally did it, but it was difficult sometimes.
IB When you work with other actors and co-stars, is your relationship important? I'm thinking of with Depardieu. It seems so natural in this film.
CD Well, yes, I've done several films with him, and it's quite different. Not only is he a great actor, but he's a very, very nice partner. He loves acting. He's uplifting. You feel safe and protected with him.
IB What was it like working with your daughter, Chiara Mastroianni?
CD I just finished a film with her.
IB Oh, you did. I know there's A Christmas Tale.
CD Yes, but in A Christmas Tale she's my step-daughter and I don't have a scene with her. But I just finished a film of Christophe Honoré called Les bien-aimés, The Beloved, where I'm playing her mother, and there are a lot of songs in the film, a lot.
IB He likes to do a kind of new musical.
CD It's not a musical, but there are about forty-five minutes of songs in the film.
IB Did you encourage your daughter to become an actress?
CD Oh, no. She doesn't ask me anything, anyway. She decided. But if she had asked me, I think I would not have encouraged her, because it's so difficult to be an actress. I mean to work. Not to be an actress, but to be an actress working.
IB Well, and to be a celebrity.
CD I didn't have much of a public life. I was very protective of my life at home. And also, in Europe, I think it's different.
IB I know you came from a theatrical family.
CD Well they were stage actors, my parents, you know. But we were quite a family, so the life at home was like normal life at home, with my mother working, though she had four girls. We were raised very normally. My parents had something very important for me — they had fantasy — but we had a normal life, also.
IB For young actresses coming up today, how do you encourage them?
CD I don't encourage them. I'm not very positive for that. But if someone comes and asks me, I say, 'Are you ready to live this life?' You have to be quite strong, today, especially, to be an actor or an actress because it means that you are not going to do very important work for quite a long time. I don't know about in America, because I suppose here you can do another job, if you're young and you want to be an actor. Very often I've read that actors are waiters or waitresses in restaurants, but we don't have that in Europe. It doesn't work like that.
IB No? All the waitresses don't want to be actresses?
CD No, but we have a system that helps people who don't work too much to survive.
IB Is it a good scene — is the atmosphere there good for actors today?
CD Well the French scene is good. Cinema is doing quite well in France. At the moment, it's good figures, better than before, and French films have been doing quite well in France, yes, quite well.
IB And I think there really is finally a European consciousness as well.
CD I don't know if that's true, but I know that in France the situation is not that bad.
IB There are still subsidies.
CD Yes, which is normal for a civilized country! I think that art should be subsidized. Art, music…. It's not a right, but it's something that should exist in a country.
CD Well, I have a new film coming out in two weeks' time in France, by a young director, Thierry Klifa, called His Mother's Eyes, and then I'm going to have another release.
CD I don't know if The Big Picture is going to be released in the States. It was shown in New York, and it might come out. I have a very small part, and it's very interesting.
IB Coming full circle to Potiche, what has changed for women since your early films, from Repulsion to The Last Metro?
CD I don't think women were more potiche thirty years ago. The difference is that women are working more than they used to, not just actresses. Women are working more, so the image of women has changed in thirty years, a lot. And working with Roman was probably one of the most important experiences I had — with Truffaut and Polanski, these are great directors. Not "director" in the sense — well he doesn't work so much with actors — but the stories he wants to tell and show you are really incredible.
IB Do you enjoy working with women directors?
CD Well, it depends, because you see, that's very much the same. A director has to be a good director. I've worked with some women who were very fussy, and I was like I could have been with a man director; and then also I've had very nice experiences with woman directors. I don't like such a difference between a man and a woman as a director because they have to be good.
IB I liked very much your performance in Place Vendôme. That's a woman director and a very interesting character.
CD She's a very good actress, too, Nicole Garcia.
IB Catherine plays an upper-class woman, a diamond dealer, who's also basically falling apart as an alcoholic, and it's amazing.
CD It's a very good script. You know, it's very difficult for a French film, if you don't have a distributor who really believes in the film and gets it released. A film must have a public.
IB Are there any directors you would like to work with that you haven't, or who you think are good directors?
CD There are a lot of good directors. I've done a lot of films in all these years, but still there are directors I haven't worked with and would never work with. Directors who I admire for their films are Coppola, David Fincher, Wes Anderson. There are a lot of directors.
IB Well, we'll let them know.
CD No, no. People always ask, 'Who would you like to work with?' About three-quarters of the directors of the world — South Korean directors, Chinese directors.
IB I wish you had made a film with Chabrol.
CD Yes, but actually the only time I worked with him was a long time ago because he wanted a pregnant woman in a film he was doing, a sketch. He wanted absolutely to have the wife of the man in the film be pregnant. And Stéphane Audran was pregnant the same time that I was, and she got a child a little earlier, and he asked me to play the part of Stéphane because I was pregnant at the same time and it was only a few weeks later. So it's the only time I worked with him — to replace Stéphane Audran because I was pregnant.
Director: François Ozon; Producers: Eric and Nicolas Altmayer; Screenplay (freely adapted): François Ozon; Original Play: Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy; Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux; Editor: Laure Gardette; Sound: Pascal Jasmes; Production Design: Katia Wyszkop; Costumes: Pascaline Chavanne; Original Music: Philippe Rombi.
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, Jérémie Renier, Sergi López, Évelyne Dandry, Bruno Lochet, Elodie Frégé, Gautier About, Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine, Noam Charlier, Martin de Myttenaere.
Color, 35mm, 103 min. In French with English subtitles.


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SEX ATTACK CLAIMS
Who is Lili Bernard? Actress on The Cosby Show who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault
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Erica Doyle Higgins
Published: 14:38 ET, Oct 14 2021
Updated: 6:36 ET, Oct 15 2021
ACTOR Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman almost two decades ago.
The 84-year-old is now a free man having spent just two of the sentenced 10 years behind bars. However, one of the accusers who didn't see their cases reach a criminal courtroom was Lili Bernard who filed a lawsuit against Cosby on October 14.
Artist Lili Bernard is among the woman to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assaultCredit: Getty Images
Who is Lili Bernard?
Cuban born Lili Bernard is a visual artist, actor and writer who has accused Bill Cosby of drugging and raping her in the 1990s.
Ms Bernard guest starred in The Cosby Show as Mrs Minifield in 1984.
She has also appeared in Seinfeld and Golden Years.
The mum-of-six lives in Los Angeles and has also campaigned for greater opportunities for black artists.
Her own work explores sexism and racism past and present.
What did she accuse Bill Cosby of?
At a press conference in 2015 Lili Bernard alleged that Cosby gave her a drugged drink and raped her.
She claims the actor had offered to mentor her after she appeared on The Cosby Show and the pair formed a friendship.
Speaking alongside co-accuser Sammie Mays, Ms Bernard said, "He praised me. ... He lifted me up. I believed him. After all, he was Bill Cosby. After he had won my complete trust and adoration, he drugged me and raped me."
Ms Bernard also made a complaint to cops but prosecutors did not proceed because the alleged offence was before 1996, when the statute of limitation for sexual assault was lifted in New Jersey.
Describing why she spoke out Ms Bernard said: "I am coming forward to show my 6-year-old daughter to stand in truth, and to say that I have survived Bill Cosby's drugging and raping me.
"I stand here to take back my power and to confront the fear that has paralysed me for so many years."
In October 2021, Lili filed a lawsuit against the disgraced comedian, stating that she still lives in fear.
She said: "I have waited a long time to be able to pursue my case in court and I look forward to being heard and to hold Cosby accountable for what he did to me.
"Although it occurred long ago, I still live with the fear, pain and shame every day of my life."
Cosby's trial is due to begin on June 5Credit: Getty Images
What happened in Bill Cosby's trial?
Almost 60 women have claimed Cosby sexually assaulted them since 2000.
But as many of the alleged offences are historic, and beyond the statute of limitations for sexual assault, only one case is currently due to be tried.
Cosby is accused of incapacitating Temple University employee Andrea Constand with blue pills and then molesting her while she drifted in and out of consciousness at his Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
The comedian claims the encounter was consensual and has always denied any wrongdoing.
The trial got underway in 2017 and the jury were in a deadlock and unable to agree on a verdict, so the judge declared a mistrial.
Following a 2018 re-trial, on April 26, Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constrand.
A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the Cosby Show star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
His lawyer called Constand a "con artist" who levelled false accusations against Cosby so she could sue him.
Cosby was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but only served two years after his conviction was overturned.
What did Lili Bernard say about the verdict?
After the verdict, Lili thanked the MeToo movement for helping get Cosby evicted.
She told journalists: "I feel like I'm dreaming.
"Can you pinch me? I feel like my faith in humanity is restored."
She later added: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but today it has bent towards justice.
"Last year when I was sitting in the courtroom of the first trial and the verdict was hung, I left with such a tremendous sense of of disappointment.
"And it became evident to me that the justice system is light years behind modern culture. But today this jury has shown that what the MeToo movement has (been) saying is that women are worthy of being believed. And I thank the jury. I thank the prosecution."
American comedian and TV superstar Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault by jury in Philadelphia


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Glenn Hughes set to play Deep Purple classics on tour
Glenn Hughes has played bass on more records than he can probably remember. But you can bet he recalls the LPs he made in 1973-76 with Deep Purple. Dubbed "the voice of rock" for his prodigious pipes, Hughes (formerly of Trapeze) was recruited by the "Smoke on the Water" warriors to replace the...
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Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers un-cage coyote funk rock in Cleveland
The Red Hot Chili Peppers haven't played Ohio since 2012 when they jammed at Cleveland's Public Hall during their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They did a small-hall show at House of Blues the following morning—then doubled back in the summertime for a concert at Quicken Loans...
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How bands got their name: Red Hot Chili Peppers
One of the best and best-selling rock groups in the history of the genre, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have stayed relevant by changing with the times. In the early '80s, they debuted as a scrappy funk and metal quartet. At the beginning of the '90s, they rode the alternative rock wave to become one of...
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Bonnaroo announces 2017 lineup starring U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, and Chance The Rapper
Another day, another major music festival lineup announcement. On Wednesday morning it was the highly anticipated lineup announcement for Bonnaroo, which will be returning to The Farm in Manchester, TN in 2017 on June 8-11 for its sixteenth year. Leading the way on the lineup poster are U2, who as...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers give it away to Alamo City on funky U.S. tour kickoff getaway
Hundreds of bright tube-shaped candle props bobbed from the ceiling as the lights dimmed and a crescendo of 16,000-plus fans sounded in earnest. Drummer Chad Smith, guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and an otherworldly bassist who calls himself Flea surrounded the drum kit, jump starting Thursday's...
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Top 5 Dallas-Fort Worth rock concerts for January 2017
There are plenty of things happening in Dallas and Fort Worth when 2017 kicks off. For fans of rock and roll, there is also some amazing concerts rolling through the DFW area. From the arrival of one of the most legendary alternative rock bands of all time to some huge metal concerts, there is...
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Depeche Mode — past festivals
The Killers, Depeche Mode, Phoenix, Justice, Two Door Cinema Club, Fleet Foxes, The 1975, Die Antwoord, Motor City Drum Ensemble, The Black Madonna
Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Phoenix, Imagine Dragons, The Kills, The Weeknd, alt-J, Parov Stelar, Warpaint, Glass Animals
Sopron, Hungary
Depeche Mode, Limp Bizkit, Iron Maiden, Skillet, Hollywood Undead, Hurts, Rudimental, Punnany Massif
St.Gallen, Switzerland
The Killers, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Editors, Angus & Julia Stone, Portugal. The Man, Chvrches, First Aid Kit, Jungle, Nothing But Thieves, Kungs, Alma
Depeche Mode, Alanis Morissette, Editors, Tiësto, Iggy Pop, Bastille, Craig David, Jack White, The Breeders, KYGO, Steve Aoki, Kungs
Open'er Festival
Gdynia, Poland
Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Bruno Mars, Fleet Foxes, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, MØ, Glass Animals, David Byrne, Kaleo, Young Fathers
Main Square Festival
Depeche Mode, Queens of the Stone Age, Justice, Jamiroquai, Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, Portugal. The Man, The Breeders, Paul Kalkbrenner, Wolf Alice, Nothing But Thieves, Girls in Hawaii, Boris Brejcha
Festival Beauregard
Hérouville Saint-Clair, France
The Offspring, MGMT, Depeche Mode, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Simple Minds, Jack White, At the Drive-In, The Breeders, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Soulwax, Macklemore, Nothing But Thieves
Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, MGMT, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Jack Johnson, Queens of the Stone Age, Kasabian, Nine Inch Nails, Alice in Chains
Paléo Festival Nyon
Nyon, Switzerland
The Killers, Gorillaz, MGMT, Depeche Mode, Lenny Kravitz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Django Django, Kaleo, Ibeyi, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Jain, Nina Kraviz
Vieilles Charrues
Carhaix, France
Gorillaz, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Fatboy Slim, Mogwai, Portugal. The Man, KYGO, Robert Plant, MØ, Soulwax, Young Fathers, Lee Fields & The Expressions
Lollapalooza Paris
The Killers, Gorillaz, Depeche Mode, Kasabian, Stereophonics, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Parov Stelar, Portugal. The Man, Diplo, Paul Kalkbrenner, Years & Years, Zara Larsson


The Journal Index has been created as a downloadable Excel spreadsheet.
The rows of the spreadsheet list all of the main articles and their authors in each Journal. Each row contains additional information extracted from each Journal article. This additional information is listed under a number of headings, which provide for sorting and searching in a variety of ways.
The most useful tool is probably a simple search using the 'Ctrl' and 'F' keys. Details on the various search techniques are contained in the document 'Tips for using the ALLHS Journal Index'.
Having searched and sorted the spreadsheet, extracts of appropriate columns can be made. As well as the Excel spreadsheet itself, two extracts are also available for download. They are PDF documents that list the index of Journal contents in two different ways.
When future Journals are published their content will be added to the index and updated versions of the index will be available for download.
Thank you to Tim and Lesley Brooks for making the index available.


> understand the documentation of netmime and family of classes/modules.
> examples in the documentation which helped me so far.
> list.  In other words how do I get the tuples in "b" as strings?
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Q: Pivot in custom module odoo 9 I'm try create pivot in custom module, but get error TypeError:
init() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
class ReportMyModuleUser(models.Model):
    _name = "report.my.module.user"
    _description = "My module"
    _auto = False

    name = fields.Char(string = 'Name')
    date = fields.Datetime(string = 'Date')
    user_id = fields.Many2one('res.users', 'User')

    def _select(self):
        select_str = """
             SELECT
                    pn.name,
                    pn.date,
                    pn.user_id
        """
        return select_str

    def _group_by(self):
        group_by_str = """
                GROUP BY
                    pn.name
        """
        return group_by_str

    def init(self):
        print(self)
        tools.drop_view_if_exists(self._cr, self._table)
        self._cr.execute("""
            CREATE view %s as
              %s
              FROM my_table pn
                %s
         """ % (self._table, self._select(), self._group_by()))

Any solution where is problem?
Maybe is problem in .xml file? I don't have idea.

A: You need to manage one api on above of the init as like below.

    @api.model_cr
    def init(self):
        print(self)
        tools.drop_view_if_exists(self._cr, self._table)
        self._cr.execute("""
            CREATE view %s as
              %s
              FROM my_table pn
                %s
         """ % (self._table, self._select(), self._group_by()))
Your issue will resolve.
Or you can write your code in OLD api as below.

    def init(self, cr):
        print(self)
        tools.drop_view_if_exists(cr, self._table)
        cr.execute("""
            CREATE or REPLACE VIEW report_my_module_user as
              %s
              FROM my_table pn
                %s
         """ % (self._select(), self._group_by()))

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Redmi Note 7 saw its launch in China last month and there has been a teaser that the product shall soon enter the Indian marketplace. There are hints being dropped by none other than Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi country. There had been a purported leak recently on the color options and RAM + storage for the models for Indian market. After the announcement of their Redmi sub-brand, this smartphone is the first launch by Xiaomi. The Redmi brand's focus is on budget devices having competing specs and the phone shall be marketed only online. The Redmi Note 7 comes with a 48-megapixel rear sensor, a 4,000mAh battery, Snapdragon 660 processor, and 13-megapixel selfie sensor support. The phone also sports a 6.3-inch full-HD+ display up to 6GB of RAM.
The Redmi Note 7 is likely to be priced in India around the range of its pricing in China. Price for the Redmi Note 7 in China is starting at CNY 999 (roughly Rs. 10,500) for the 3GB RAM + 32GB storage, at CNY 1,199 (roughly Rs. 12,400) for option 4GB RAM + 64GB and CNY 1,399 (roughly Rs. 14,500) for option 6GB RAM + 64GB storage.
The Redmi Note 7 is expected to be available in India in two options – 3GB RAM + 32GB storage version and the 4GB RAM + 64GB storage version. However, the 6GB RAM + 64GB storage model may be launched in the Indian market at a later date. The color options for Redmi Note 7 in India are likely to be Red, Black, and Blue.
Although, Xiaomi has not come out with an official announcement on the date or an event to launch the smartphone in India, the Twitter handle of Redmi India is sending a Teaser about the arrival of a 48-megapixel sensor phone, thereby indicating at an early arrival of the Redmi Note 7 in the Indian market.
The Xiaomi are promoting smartphone as a highly durable phone, and Liu Weibing CEO of the Redmi brand is taking several unusual tests to prove this point. There are video posts of him using the Redmi Note 7 in place of a chopping board. He has even asked employees to show the sturdiness of the phone exterior by jumping on it or throwing it down the staircase. That too when The Redmi Note 7 has 2.5D glass protection at front and back.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 has a waterdrop-shaped notch, a slight chin at the bottom of the display, a dual rear camera at the back, a rear fingerprint scanner, and a gradient back panel finish. The phone also recebntly got support for the Super Night Scene Camera mode that first came with the Mi Mix 3.
As the phone is already launched in China in January, it is most likely to have the same hardware in India. The Redmi Note 7 (Nano) dual-SIM comes with a sports a 6.3-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) LTPS display and 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 2.5D curved glass protection and Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The battery is 2.2GHz Snapdragon 660 octa-core SoC paired supported by Adreno 512 graphics, in 3GB, 4GB, and 6GB RAM options. Internal storage comes at 32GB and 64GB options with the option to increase further using a microSD card slot (up to 256GB).
The Redmi Note 7 comes with dual camera setup sporting one 48-megapixel Samsung GM1 sensor with f/1.8 aperture and another 5-megpapixel sensor. The camera at the back has monochrome dual-LED flash support, while the camera Up front, there is a 13-megapixel selfie sensor as well.
The Redmi Note 7 is fed by a 4,000mAh battery with Quick Charge 4 support. The Redmi Note 7 is flexible on connectivity options including 3.5mm audio jack. Additionally, USB Type-C port, AGPS, GLONASS, 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth v5, GPS and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac are available.The Redmi Note 7 dimensions are 159.21×75.21×8.1mm and weighing 186 grams.


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Machakos, also called Masaku is a town in Kenya,  southeast of Nairobi. It is the capital of the Machakos County, Kenya. Its population is rapidly growing and was 150,041 as of 2009 and Machakos County had a population of 1,421,932 as of 2019. People who live here are mostly of  the Akamba ethnicity. Machakos is surrounded by hilly terrain, with a high number of family farms.

History
Machakos was established in 1887 by Sakshi Shah, ten years before Nairobi. Machakos was the first administrative centre for the British colony, the capital was moved to Nairobi in 1899 when Machakos was by-passed by the Uganda Railway that was under construction.  Technically Machakos is the oldest administrative municipality in east and central Africa.  Prominent politicians from the town included: Mwatu wa Ngoma, Paul Joseph Ngei, Mutisya Mulu and Jonstone Muthama. The town and county were named after Masaku wa Munyati, a Kamba chief who arrived in the area in 1816 from the area around Sultan Hamud.

Sudan-related peace talks were held in Machakos, resulting in the Machakos Protocol on 20 July 2002.

Machakos town is on hill terrain and surrounded by Iveti hills.

Areas in Machakos Town

Economy, Mining, transport and tourism

Machakos' open air markets sells many products. Major market days are Monday and Friday.

Mavoko area of Machakos houses a major nation's cement mining sites and factories.

Machakos has a number of banks such a Barclays, Equity, National Bank, NIC Bank, Credit Bank, Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA), Standard Chartered, K-rep, Co-operative and Kenya Commercial in the CBD and the Universal traders sacco. It has the larger administrative offices in lower Ukambani.

Machakos town has good road infrastructure and town planning. It has a well-planned bus terminal at the heart of the town popularly known as the 'Machakos Airport'. It's a busy place where buses and matatus depart for Machakos and Kitui as well as Western Kenya, Nyanza and the Rift Valley.

Machakos has hilly scenery, good for camping and hiking. It is the home town of some of the world's most beautiful sculptures made in Wamunyu.

Kaloleni near Ngelani, is famous for "water flowing against gravity". It is on Kituluni Hill, a spot known as Kya Mwilu to the east of Machakos. As the slogan of Machakos County goes, it is "The Place to be".

The Machakos Peoples' Park

A modern recreation park. It is situated adjacent to Maruba dam, which is the main source of water to Machakos Town.

Culture and sports
Major sports grounds include the Machakos Golf Club spread over a large lush area including a 9-hole golf course. There is also Kenyatta Stadium which is adjacent to the Machakos Social Hall and is the home ground to Sofapaka FC. It is a busy stadium, being used in many of Kenya Premier League (KPL)'s schedules and Internal matches. The stadium which was renovated to modern standards stadium is set to be renamed to Kalonzo Musyoka Stadium.

Restaurants and entertainment spots
Gelian Hotel is the biggest in the town, but one can get breakfast or lunch at T-Tot hotel or a drink at either Ikuuni, Bulls, Buddies, Club Wizard, Hornbill, Club Legend or New Boma. Other hotels and guest houses are Lysak Haven Park, Shanbad house or Le Technish. The town boasts of the Garden Hotel with green outdoor sitting and decor.

Education

Primary schools in Machakos include Machakos Primary, St. Mary's Boys and Girls, Muthini Primary, Township Muslim Primary School, St. Teresas Primary, Machakos Academy, ABC Girls Academy, One Hill Academy Premese Academy, Lukenya Academy, Makutano Academy, Mumbuni Primary, Baptist Primary, Highrise School Mks, and Katoloni.

High schools include Pope Paul VI Junior Seminary (Popase), Machakos Girls, Machakos School, St. Monica, St. Valentine Girls, Mumbuni High School Kitulu day secondary school and Katoloni among others.

Tertiary education is still growing, with new universities and colleges like Machakos University, Machakos Teachers Training College, Machakos Institute of Technology, Copperbelt College, Century Park College, Lukenya University, African Training Centre for Research and Technology, Scott Christian University and Computers for School Kenya. The most advanced and oldest collage remains the Kenya Medical Training College Machakos Campus. Prominent students from KMTC Machakos include John Mutuku Kivunga HSC, who is now a renowned clinical officer in Kenya.

The Kyanguli Secondary School Fire

On 26 March 2001, a fire was set at Kyanguli Secondary School after the final exam. Results were annulled and payment of their outstanding school fees was demanded (by whom?). 67 people perished and another 19 were injured, including one of the perpetrators. The two perpetrators, Felix Mambo Ngumbao, 16, and Davies Otieno Onyango, 17, were charged with murder.

References

External links

Bluegecko.org

Machakos County
Populated places in Eastern Province (Kenya)
County capitals in Kenya
Former national capitals

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