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What our partner's have to say
Genpact's association with Udayan Care is a special one. It shares the vision of the Udayan Shalini Program – a belief in women's empowerment. This association has great meaning for all of Genpact – for the volunteers who engage with the girls, for the payroll donors which supports the cause, and for the Genpact Social Impact Fellows who are directly working to take the cause of Udayan Shalini'...read more
Genpact's association with Udayan Care is a special one. It shares the vision of the Udayan Shalini Program – a belief in women's empowerment. This association has great meaning for all of Genpact – for the volunteers who engage with the girls, for the payroll donors which supports the cause, and for the Genpact Social Impact Fellows who are directly working to take the cause of Udayan Shalini's to the next level. We are immensely proud of the Udayan Shalini's and will be following their success year after year.
Yashodhara Lal
Vice President, CSR and Diversity, Genpact
We have worked with the Udayan Care group since the Arrows Group Foundation was founded in 2015. We share similar values and focus in the work we do. We feel the support and hope that is given to the children is exceptional. The focus on education and also progression is to be commended. The biggest thing we have always been impressed with are the Mums that are given to the children. It is love...read more
We have worked with the Udayan Care group since the Arrows Group Foundation was founded in 2015. We share similar values and focus in the work we do. We feel the support and hope that is given to the children is exceptional. The focus on education and also progression is to be commended. The biggest thing we have always been impressed with are the Mums that are given to the children. It is lovely to see children who have had difficult starts in life get the full support and love of a mum in the Udayan homes.
Adrian Treacy
Chairman of ICG and Founder and Trustee of Arrows Group Foundation
At adidas and Reebok we believe in making the world a better place through sport. In this regard it has been an honour and privilege to support the Udayan Care family for a decade. The work that they are doing is exemplary and we are proud to be able to contribute to making a difference to the lives of children through our partnership. In future, we intend to further strengthen our association ...read more
At adidas and Reebok we believe in making the world a better place through sport. In this regard it has been an honour and privilege to support the Udayan Care family for a decade. The work that they are doing is exemplary and we are proud to be able to contribute to making a difference to the lives of children through our partnership. In future, we intend to further strengthen our association and make meaningful efforts to positively impact Udayan Care and the local communities that we live and operate in".
MD, Adidas Group India
In the last decade, Microsoft has been fortunate to get an opportunity to collaborate on many facets of programs at Udayan Care. A learning experience for both. As a CSR professional, Kiranji and her entire team have always given their full commitment and innovative thinking for us to 'together' deliver on SDGs. And looking forward to another decade of partnership.
Manju Dhasmana
Lead – Community Affairs and Philanthropies, Microsoft India
Kishwarna Charitable Trust and Udayan Care joined hands and set up Kishwarna-Udayan Care Charitable Computer Learning Centre in 2007. It is accredited for conducting Computer Courses under Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India. Since inception, 2585 students have been mentored towards successful career.
The Trust is very confident that under the selfless ...read more
The Trust is very confident that under the selfless leadership of Dr. Kiran Modi, who is an exceptional personality, the Centre will scale greater heights and increasingly help in achieving our common mission of upliftment of the society.
Prem Arora
Trustee, Kishwarna Charitable Trust Badarpur
16 years ago, my 5 other colleagues and I at MakeMyTrip tutored kids in Math and English on weekends at the first Udayan Ghar. The relationship has only grown from personal to professional – as a funder, mentor and active advisor, helping with the strategic efforts in running the NGO.
We have a corporate mentoring program wherein our employees mentor kids at the Udayan Ghars. These kids ...read more
We have a corporate mentoring program wherein our employees mentor kids at the Udayan Ghars. These kids regularly visit our office to interact with our employees. Apart from this, our content team has been involved in designing their website and helps them with its upkeep and other creative work periodically. In fact, one of the girls from Udayan Care – Gurmeet Kaur worked with us in our Content team before she proceeded to pursue her passion in the TV and film world.
Through our payroll-giving program run by Give India, majority of our employees' funds get routed towards Udayan Care as well. For the 11th consecutive year, our employees are again running for Udayan Care in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2016!
Deep Kalra
Founder & Group CEO, Make My Trip


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Amazon Prime Day: 5 tips and tricks to get the best deals
July 12, 2016, 3:19 PM UTC / Source: NBC News
By Ben Popken
Happy Amazon Prime Day! That's right: Summer's Black Friday is back for its second annual event held by the online retailer.
Amazon Prime Day spurs other retailers to slash prices too
Amazon predicts this year's deals will deliver "record breaking sales," but shoppers and sellers will be watching to see whether the Seattle-based company can deliver on its promise to improve the quantity and quality of deals for consumers who were disappointed last year by middling savings and items that sold out in seconds.
According to sellers, everyone involved is more willing to take bigger bets this year and increase their stocks after seeing numbers on par with Black Friday, which traditionally kicks off the Christmas shopping season.
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With so many deals on the line — members purchased 398 items a second during the inaugural event last July, according to Amazon — here's how to make the most of the day.
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1. Don't shop hungry — make a list.
If you go grocery shopping, without a list, when you're hungry, your cart just ends up full of Fruit Roll-Ups and Lunchables. Same thing on Amazon Prime Day. Use the site's "wishlist" feature to bookmark items you've researched that you need, said Dealnews features editor Benjamin Glaser. Then, on Prime Day, sort it by discount. Anything with a good price drop is worth thinking about picking up.
2. See the deals before they go live.
Instead of hitting refresh all day, you can download the Amazon smartphone app and see "Lightning Deals" before they go live, posted up to 24 hours in advance. Mark the categories or specific deals you're interested and you'll get push alerts just before they go on the site.
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3. Click fast, think slow.
The deals will go fast, so if you think you see something you like, click "buy" to put the item in your cart and reserve it for 15 minutes. Then Google it and use a third-party price-tracking service like Camel Camel Camel to see the item's historical prices to make sure it's really a good deal, or even that unique.
"Just because you're seeing a deal on Prime Day doesn't mean it's the best deal," said Sara Skirboll, spokeswoman for the RetailMeNot coupon site.
For instance, a speaker that normally sells for $300 might be on sale for $250 on Prime Day, but using a price-tracking service can show that it might drop to $250 at several points during the year anyway.
"It might not be something you want to jump on," said Jacqui Cheng, editor-in-chief of deal review sites The Wirecutter and The Sweethome. Last year the sites highlighted only about 35 deals out of the 3,200 pre-researched products they were tracking.
4. If your item sells out, shop around.
Last Prime Day, social media and media coverage focused on would-be shoppers who complained about items that sold out mere moments after being posted. If that happens on Tuesday, hop on over to Wal-Mart, Macy's or Best Buy. Just like last year, other retailers are trying to grab the coattails of Prime Day by launching competing sales days, including price-matching certain deals.
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5. Watch out for these scenarios.
Chinese counterfeiters selling on Amazon.com have exploded this year, CNBC reports, so you need to watch out for prices that seem too good from sellers you've never heard of.
"Derivatives"
Sometimes during these deal holidays, an amazing high-def TV will go on sale for an incredible price. But scope the spec sheet and you'll see certain things are missing, like ports or features. One year a "4K" TV advertised as a deal on Black Friday turned out to only be "4K" when the picture was stationary.
Emotional buying
"It's a big sale day and their goal is to flood you with as much information and make you act impulsively," said Cheng.
A lot of items may be on sale for a good price, but you might also be able to get that product at another point in the year, perhaps after some more planning and saving up. Don't feel the pressure to buy, "unless you want it for next weekend," Cheng said.
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Nourishing: In four months hemp produces a very nutritious nut. The shell is full of fiber, the meat is packed with protein and essential fatty acids, meaning it is good for the heart, the brain, and the whole body.
Clothing: For style and function, the fabric can last long. It has a natural UV protection for that strong sun. The porous fiber breathes well, and has anti-microbial properties that don't promote bad odors. Recent improvements have made hemp fabric finer and more versatile than ever before, as you do loose some strength, at least hemp is not limited to burlap sacks!
Growing: This plant can grow 3-4 meters in three months! As one of nature's strongest fibers it is very useful in products that require endurance as well as in products that will be tossed after a short period. From papers to plastics, woods to concrete, hemp can help grow our resource bases and help supplement the use of other resources that have greater negative impacts on our health and environment, and or are becoming more expensive and less available (ie. oil, trees, time).


FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/KRLD-AM) – Property owners in Tarrant County who unnecessarily prepaid their 2018 property taxes can get that money refunded.
The IRS ruled only property taxes that have already been assessed can be written off federal taxes.
Therefore, since Tarrant County will not send tax assessments until October, those prepayments cannot be written off 2017 federal taxes.
Tarrant County is offering to refund those prepayments.
Refund requests must be made in writing, and those that exceed $5,000 must be approved by the Commissioners Court.
Starting this year, state and local tax write-offs are capped at $10,000.
In Texas, county tax collectors won't send out property tax bills for 2018 until October 1.
So that means, even if people here in North Texas prepaid their 2018 property taxes, they would not be able to deduct them from this year's federal income taxes.


The Design Sprint is a 5-day pressure cooker in which you and your team will answer critical questions to develop your digital solution. By involving both experts and end-users this framework will enable you to learn, build and test, all in order to refine your product and launch solutions faster. The process decreases your risk while making something people actually want! Sounds good right?
A Design Sprint is a fixed process that has been developed by Google Ventures. Its main goal is to be able to define, refine and test new ideas before you start spending too much time and money. Therefore, every day of the week has a predefined sub-goal. On Monday you identify the problem, on Tuesday you come up with solutions, on Wednesday you pick the best solutions, on Thursday you make a prototype and on Friday you will test that prototype.
In summary, a Design sprint will enable you to deliver fast and helps to gain critical product learnings quickly.
If you want to move quickly, while having all stakeholders on board, a design sprint might suit your needs. The process has been build for product design challenges and is typically used for optimising and defining existing or new digital products that solve a clear and tangible problem. Examples could be optimising an online e-commerce shop or prototyping a new mobile application.
Besides creating a shared vision, a design sprint will deliver user journey maps, storyboards, context understanding and answers to your team's shared set of vital questions. Last but not least, a first prototype will be built for you to test with real customers.
Do you have a new or existing product that would you like to optimise, build and test quickly? Let us know!


North American equity index futures declined on Friday, for a third consecutive session, as market participants grew increasingly concerned that Donald Trump's decision to not meet with Chinese President, Xi Jinping, before the US self-imposed March 1 trade deal deadline, signals a lack of progress in long-running trade negotiations between the world's two largest economies.
Trump told reporters in the White House, that he has no plans to meet Xi between now and March 1, while his administration has vowed to increase tariffs on $200 billion worth of China-made goods to 25% from 10%, if a trade deal isn't in place.
Trump's comments suggested talks, which resume next week in Beijing, with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, remain stuck on key issues such as China's broader market reforms and intellectual property protections.
These moves in pre-market trading follow suit to Thursday's session, where Wall Street saw shares decline, after White House adviser, Larry Kudlow, stated there was a "pretty sizable distance" between the US and China regarding a trade deal, whilst overseas, GDP forecasts were slashed by both the European Commission and the Bank of England, ratcheting up worries surrounding global growth.
The S&P 500 ended the day -0.9% in the red, its worst day in two weeks, tugged lower by the Energy sector, down -2.21%, on the back of lower oil prices, as well as Technology and Materials shares, down -1.3% a piece.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite shared a similar fate, both negative -0.78% and -1.34%, respectively.
Today's session will likely remain attuned to ongoing global trade developments, as well as Friday's earnings reports, with; Goodyear (GT), Hasbro (HAS), Exelon (EXC), Arconic (ARNC), Phillips 66 (PSX) and Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) set to report before market open.
A Trump-Xi meeting ahead of the March 1 deadline is now off the table, diminishing hopes for a breakthrough by then. As the world awaits the outcome of a new round of talks in Beijing mid-February, trade data keeps worsening.
Skechers (SKX): [EARNINGS] Beat estimates by 8 cents a share, with quarterly profit of 31 cents per share. Revenue slightly below forecasts.
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Coty (COTY): [EARNINGS] Beat estimates by 2 cents a share, with adjusted quarterly profit of 24 cents per share. Revenue beat forecast.
Hasbro (HAS): [EARNINGS] Earned an adjusted $1.33 per share for its latest quarter, well below the consensus estimate of $1.67. Revenue below forecasts, with gaming revenue down 22 percent and partner brands revenue down 20 percent.
Expedia (EXPE): [EARNINGS] Reported adjusted quarterly profit of $1.24 per share, 16 cents a share above estimates. Revenue beat forecasts.
Eli Lilly (LLY): [NEWS] The drugmaker announced plans to divest its remaining stake in Elanco Animal Health through an exchange offer.
Fiat Chrysler (FCAU): [NEWS] Fiat Chrysler paid $77 million in penalties for failing to meet 2016 model year fuel economy standards, according to Reuters.
Verizon (VZ): [NEWS] Verizon elected CEO Hans Vestberg as chairman, effective March 9, following the retirement of former CEO Lowell McAdam as chairman.
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Gannett (GCI): [NEWS] Gannett is the target of a proxy fight, with hedge fund-backed newspaper owner Digital First Media seeking to replace a majority of the USA Today publisher's board members.
Wells Fargo (WFC): [NEWS] The bank said most of its ATMs and online and mobile services are working once again, after a widespread outage yesterday.
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IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC): [EARNINGS] Reported a quarterly profit of $2.04 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $1.67 a share. Revenue topped forecasts.
Covetrus (CVET): [NEWS] The animal health company begins trading today on the Nasdaq, after being formed by the combination of Henry Schein Animal Health and Vets First Choice.


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Q: returned dictionary value is 'None' python I have a function in a file which I am calling in a separate script (as shown below). Printing directly from the function works correctly, however when I try to return the value to the script it sends 'None'.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
script:
import modules.functions as f

restype = 'THR'
atomtype = 'CA'

print f.AtomType(restype,atomtype)

function: (this is the part of the function which returns the value)
def AtomType(resName,atomType):
    def threonine():
        print 'well im here'
        atoms = {'N' : 1,
                 'CA': 6,
                 'C' : 8,
                 'O' : 2,
                 'CB': 6,
                 'OG1': 1,
                 'CG2': 4,
                 }

            print atoms[atomType]
            return atoms[atomType]

    residues = {'ALA' : hydrophobic,
                'ARG' : arginine,
                'ASN' : asparagine,
                'ASP' : aspartate,
                'CYS' : cysteine,
                'GLN' : glutamine,
                'GLU' : glutamate,
                'GLY' : hydrophobic,
                'HIS' : histidine,
                'ILE' : hydrophobic,
                'LEU' : hydrophobic,
                'LYS' : lysine,
                'MET' : methionine,
                'PHE' : phenylalanine,
                'PRO' : proline,
                'SER' : serine,
                'THR' : threonine,
                'TRP' : tryptophan,
                'TYR' : tyrosine,
                'VAL' : hydrophobic,
                }

    residues[resName]()

and the output I get is:
well im here
6
None

edit: added entire function

A: Here's a guess: AtomType calls threonine, but doesn't return its return value.

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Periscope-Like Live Video Streaming Comes to Everyday Facebook Users
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Kim Lachance Shandrow
Former West Coast Editor
December 4, 2015 2 min read
The rich and famous had it first. Now everyday people have it, too. Taking aim at Twitter's Periscope and Meerkat, Facebook is finally opening up its live video-streaming feature to everyone.
The social media giant announced the move yesterday, marking the expansion of a capability first unveiled last August as part of its public-figures initiative, Facebook Mentions. Some of the first celebs cherry-picked to live stream on the world's largest social media network include household names like Martha Stewart, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Serena Williams.
"Live lets you show the people you care about what you're seeing in real time," Facebook product manager Vadim Lavrusik wrote on his Facebook wall. "Whether you're visiting a new place, cooking your favorite recipe, or just want to share some thoughts. Live lets you bring your friends and family right next to you to experience what's happening together."
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Initially, Facebook says only a "small percent" of its users in the U.S. will be able to test out the feature, simply called Live Video. For now, it's only available via Facebook's iOS app. An Android version of it is slated for release early next year.
If you're one of the lucky people who see the feature within your Facebook iPhone app, all you have to do is select the Live Video icon to start streaming. Don't forget to specify who gets to watch your real-time broadcast -- your friends or the public. Once the stream ends, your video will live on your timeline.
Facebook's latest foray into video highlights its ability to adapt to the fast evolving media consumption landscape. The company already racks up some 8 billion traditional video views per day. It will be interesting to see how its streaming video numbers shake out. With more than 1 billion people active on Facebook the world over, it can't go wrong.
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As Social Media Assistant, your main responsibility will be to implement and drive the club's engagement strategy across all social media channels. You will be directly responding to our fans and using your real grasp of social media to ensure our fans receive world class customer service and feel valued by the club. You will also be working with the social media manager to execute content in line with the club's overall content plan. You will also have some editorial duties and will use your literary skills to support the club with written content for the website and programme.
Key Responsibilities • Responding to fans direct messages across all social channels within agreed SLAs and representing the club in a professional and engaging manner.
• Weekly reporting on fan sentiment and communications, and presenting findings back to senior staff.
• Monitoring notifications and creating content from fan posts that help drive best-in-class engagement from our fan base.
• Delivering brilliant content across both the website and social platforms for West Ham United.
• Helping manage all social media platforms including UK and international accounts in line with our "always on" strategy.
• Supporting the delivery of social content on match days.
• Supporting the content team with website and programme content.
We are committed to the principle of equality and equal opportunities in employment and have been accredited with the being Disability Confident Committed. We will actively promote equality and equal opportunities in our business to ensure that individuals receive treatment that is fair and equitable and consistent with their relevant aptitudes, potential skills and abilities. Employees will be recruited and selected, promoted and trained on the basis of objective criteria.
We encourage applicants to apply as early as possible as we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.


The Hyatt Atlanta Perimeter - Villa Christina offers a prime location in Atlanta, inside the Perimeter and just minutes from Buckhead. The first new full service hotel built in the Atlanta area in 25 years, the Hyatt Atlanta Perimeter offers all the comforts of home. Situated adjacent to Villa Christina at Perimeter Summit, Atlanta's favorite destination for weddings, events, and business meetings, the Hyatt invites you to sit back, relax and enjoy your stay! Perimeter Summit is home to meeting & conference facilities, a Nature Conservation Area, walking trails, and multiple dining options.
Hotel is located inside the Perimeter and just minutes from Buckhead. Situated in an 83 acre development that offers meeting and conference facilities, wedding and fine dining venue, and multiple dining and retail options.
Take a tour of Italy when you visit Villa Christina! Offering an abudance of freshly prepared meals, Villa Christina is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.


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In a veiled threat, the largest police union in the country says it has a "surprise" in store for Quentin Tarantino.
I think part of the problem isn't just what he said about the police, but that he is upholding the Michael Brown narrative, which was proven to be untrue, just to demean law enforcement.
Pulp Fiction changed people's ideas about American independent cinema.
Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone will be doing an original score for Quentin Tarantino's new movie The Hateful 8.
Tarantino and Morricone...this is going to be great (again)!
Quentin Tarantino took over the operations at the New Beverly Cinema, ousting Michael Torgan, whose family has run the theater since 1978.


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ALSO…..WHY can't that story be found on your website anymore?…"they" want it to "disappear"????
Probably because you aren't looking for it in the right places. It is still on my site.
What is it with the hoaxes at UH? There was a girl that did it a little while back. I think she lied that sxhe had been assaulted in a bathroom.


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02 Nov Top 5 Italian Restaurants in Tulsa – Picked By Locals!
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Have you been looking for the best places to find a little taste of Italy locally in Tulsa? Well, we've got a list of Tulsa's Top 5 Italian Restaurants picked by locals! Whether you're a local or just visiting, finding a new Tulsa restaurant can be an extensive or exhausting process. Just so you don't have to go through the process of finding Tulsa's Best Italian Restaurants, we've compiled a list of the very best restaurants. Happy Eating!
Tulsa's Top 5 Italian Restaurants
With so many great food options, it can be hard to decide on where to go. Thankfully, Tulsa has a great selection of Italian restaurants that are highly rated among Tulsans! You could just as soon be eating a little slice of heaven, tasting creamy pasta, layer upon later of lasagna, plate after plate of bruschetta, heaping with red sauce––all served with garlic and zesty Italian sausage. After a wonderful Italian meal, top off your lunch or dinner with a cannoli, gelato, or zeppoles for dessert. Here's our list of Tulsa's Top 5 Italian Restaurants!
Mondo's Ristorante Italiano
Mondo's Ristorante Italiano was voted best Italian Restaurant by the Tulsa World in 2019, Tulsa People, The Voice, CTR Magazine, and ThreeBestRated.com. They've been a Tulsa Tradition since 1969 and have celebrated 51 years serving the Tulsa area! A true family-owned and operated Italian restaurant, eight Aloisio family members own and operate Mondo's.
This three-generational restaurant started with Angelo Aloisio from Abruzzi, Italy. His son developed a passion for Italian cruising and used their one-of-a-kind family recipes to open their doors in 1969. "Papa" Lou's three sons, Michael, Rob, and Christo, have helped Mondo's to win multiple awards, including "Best Italian Restaurant in Tulsa."
Whether you're interested in an Italian lunch, dinner, dessert, wine, or catering, Mondo's can cater to your Italian dining tastes! Their lunch is served from 11 AM-3 PM Monday through Friday and includes appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, wood-fired pizza, subs and sandwiches, beverages, and beer on tap.
The dinner menu consists of the same categories as their lunch menu. With a wide variety of classic entrees like lasagna, spaghetti or rigatoni and meatballs, ravioli, clams and linguini, manicotti, baked ziti, or rigatoni, the Aloisios are ready to serve you!
Located off South Peoria Ave., Mondo's prides itself in staying true to their family values and their family recipes. They invite you to taste history and enjoy an authentic Italian family dining experience with the Aloisios.
Villa Ravenna Fine Dining
Opened by immigrants from northern Italy, Villa Ravenna is an authentic Italian owned and operated restaurant offering fine dining. From homemade pasta, game meats, seafood, and daily specialties to traditional plates, Villa Revenna's menu can satisfy the most sophisticated palates! The restaurant has a romantic, low-lit dining room with elegant table lines.
They specialize in fine dining with a full menu and lunch special offered Tuesday through Friday. Whether you're looking for a place for a business meeting or you want a place for a romantic date, Villa Ravenna is the place for you!
The Orioli family founded and has owned and operated a total of eight restaurants in Latin America and the United States. They first visited the Tulsa area in 2008 and have since shared their passion for food and culture from northern Italy with Tulsans!
Sergio and Yani Orioli both hope you'll visit their family-owned-and-operated Italian restaurant voted #1 Fine Dine, Italian and Wine Selection Restaurant in Tulsa. They strive to treat every guest as family and make them feel at home the moment you enter Villa Ravenna located on 51st.
Andolini's Pizzeria
Adolini's Pizzeria family lineage starts near Naples, Italy, until they immigrated to lower Manhattan. From there, they moved to San Francisco before settling in Tulsa. Founded by brothers Jim and Mike Bausch, these brothers rely on their passion and Italian roots to guide their culinary pursuits.
Their high-standards come from competing around the country and the world in different pizza competitions that progress the art form and craft of being an Italian pizza maker. Andolini's mission is to deliver a great experience every time. Their values and standards attract the best employees, creating a working environment built on professionalism and teamwork.
Jim and Mike's high-quality process and fresh, sustainably sourced ingredients make Andolini's a unique dining experience. Andolini's policy from day one has been if a customer isn't happy with their food for any reason whatever, if they are anything short of impressed, they should not pay for it.
Andolini's offers pizza, appetizers, entrees, desserts, and drinks on their menu. From pizza classics to luxury pizzas, Andolini's Pizzeria can satisfy all your pie needs. Visit their restaurant located off 15th street.
Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen
From Naples and Sicily, the Russo family moved to New Jersey and then Galveston, where Anthony Russo perfected the art of spinning pizza dough. Anthony grew up in a restaurant where he developed a passion for authentic Italian cooking.
If you know anything about Italians, it's that they understand that some of life's greatest moments are sometimes around the table with friends and family enjoying the pleasures of food and drink together. That's why when Anthony's relatives visited his family every summer, he learned recipes and methods which are implemented at Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen.
The Russo's family promise is, "if it isn't fresh, don't serve it." And fresh is what you'll find at Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen, where they offer home-style specialties cooked specifically for you. Their mission is to serve fresh-to-order meals that reflect the integrity of their original family recipes in a fast-casual environment.
From fresh ingredients to authentic know-how, every Russo's franchise location will master the skills it takes to deliver a delicious, quality Italian meal for their customers–every time. They offer food ranging from calzones, sandwiches, and pasta to build-your-own pizza, soups and salads, and specialties. Visit them at their South Yale location!
Ti Amo Ristorante Italiano
Since 1989, owner Mehdi Khezri has served high-quality traditional Italian and American cuisine. Ti Amo Ristorante Italiano is downtown Tulsa's best-kept secret for award-winning Italian cuisine where they strive to bring an exceptional dining experience with our traditional Italian and decadent dishes. Customers love the old world charm of the dining room, friendly staff, and fantastic food.
Great for both dining in and take out, their banquet facilities and catering are also a local favorite in Tulsa. Ti Amo brings the taste of Italy to you & other menu choices that are not just Italian dishes. Whether you're looking to feed 50 people or 1000, Ti Amo can customize a menu and provide a serving staff for any affair business or pleasure.
Their menu consists of various dishes. There is something for everyone on the menu, including their famous bruschetta and a wide variety of dinner options. From appetizers to dessert, Ti Amo offers many options that will make you want to eat there again!
Their menu includes appetizers, salads, steaks and chops, seafood, chicken and veal, baked pasta, pasta. They also offer desserts, specialty drinks, beer, red and white wines, and vegan options. Visit them at their 61st and Sheridan location or downtown!
While there are many other excellent Italian restaurants in the Tulsa area, we cannot feature them all. Did we miss your favorite Tulsa Italian restaurant? We'd love to hear about it and include it in our next list!
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A recent report published by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that the number of removal cases waiting to be decided in immigration court has risen to nearly 600,000. 100,000 of those cases were added in the last twelve months.
Although the Trump administration has touted the need to remove immigrants who are engaging in criminal or terrorist activity from the US, TRAC's report shows that only 1.7% of cases filed in the last year involve individuals charged with an aggravated felony, and 4.1% involve charges of less serious criminal grounds for deportability. There has not been a single case so far this year in which the government has alleged that the individual is deportable because he or she engaged in or is likely to engage in terrorist activity. The vast majority of cases arise from noncriminal immigration violations, such as illegal entry or visa overstays.
The final months of President Obama's term were marked by an increase in ICE raids and removal actions, which added significantly to the backlog. Under President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has continued apace, and given the administration's position on the issue of undocumented immigration, the backlog is likely to continue to grow.
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La province d'Ávila (en espagnol : Provincia de Ávila) est une des neuf provinces de la communauté autonome de Castille-et-León, dans le centre de l'Espagne. Sa capitale est la ville d'Ávila.

Géographie
La province d'Ávila se trouve au sud de la communauté autonome et couvre une superficie de .

La province est bordée au nord par la province de Valladolid, à l'est par la province de Ségovie et la communauté de Madrid, au sud par la province de Tolède (communauté autonome de Castille-La Manche), au sud-ouest par la province de Cáceres (communauté autonome d'Estrémadure) et à l'ouest par la province de Salamanque.

Population
La population de la province s'élevait à  ( et ) au recensement de 2001. Les habitants de la province s'appellent Abulense, parfois Avilés.

Subdivisions

Comarques
La province d'Ávila est subdivisée en cinq comarques :
 Arévalo
 Avila
 Burgohondo-Cebreros-El Tiemblo
 El Barco de Ávila-Piedrahita
 Arenas de San Pedro

Communes

La province compte 248 communes (municipios en espagnol). Une seule compte plus de dix mille habitants : Ávila, la capitale.

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Provinces d'Espagne

Lien externe
  Site officiel de la Diputación Provincial de Ávila

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Q: how to loop through array using pointer without known the size of the array I have a question about loop through array using pointer, for example:
bool loopArray(int* array)
{
   /*for(){}*/
}

within this function, I need to loop through this array without known the size of the array, how to loop it?

A: You can't.
Errrm, that's it.
You either provide a size parameter:
bool loopArray(int* array,size_t sz)
{
   for(size_t i=0;i<sz;++i){
       //Do stuff with array[i]....
   }
}

Or a pointer to the 'end' of the array. You're allowed to point to one past the end and convention is to pass one-past-the-end as end. That allows you to specify 'empty' when begin==end:
bool loopArray(int* array,int* end)
{
   for(;array!=end;++array){
       //Do stuff with *array....
   }
}

Looking at the previous example you would have defined int* end=array+sz before calling.
The second is faster and has the added benefit that other C programmers will start to recognize you as one of their own! If you see that as a benefit....
PS: For completeness: You can ensure you have a 'sentinel'. A sentinel is some value that indicates 'end'. The C standard library uses '\0' as the sentinel in character strings. Mores the pity.
That trick can work particularly when you're dealing with arrays of pointers and use NULL as the sentinel.
However it's not something to recommend as a general answer. It's error-prone, has a big overhead if you need to know the size, it restricts your ability to access 'sub-arrays' without modifying them and forbids you from using the sentinel as a value and breaks programs that do so by accident.
Other than that it's great.

A: it is impossible. You need some kind of information about the size; otherwise you will inevitabilly go past its borders...
A pointer doesn't "contain" any information about the size of the array that was allocated; it only points to a place in memory.
EXCEPT
There might be a way around; if you know what is the last element in your array (which MUST always be present then). This is used for example in char arrays (where the last element is \0)

A: You can't.
But you could do something on the lines of how the C standard library models strings. Given a char*, or a const char*, functions like strlen stop once 0 is reached (known as the null terminator).
So (i) either reserve an int value which acts as your terminator, or (ii) pass the length.
Either way, pass a const int* if you don't intend to modify the contents.


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Black Lives Matter is a global cause
Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement sit in the road on Parliament Square in London on July 10 during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the United States. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images)
Ishaan Tharoor
Columnist covering foreign affairs, geopolitics and history
July 12, 2016 at 1:43 p.m. UTC
In many respects, the furor around police shootings in the United States is and will remain a uniquely American story.
Few major Western nations suffer the epidemic of gun violence that exists in the United States. Few major Western nations contend with the entrenched history of systemic racism that exists in the United States. Few major Western nations cope with the number of killings by — and of — cops that exists here.
Yet as events in recent days show, the language and politics of the Black Lives Matter movement have tremendous global echoes. Solidarity protests took place in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada.
On Sunday in London, WorldViews noted, "crowds packed Oxford Street, Brixton High Street and Westminster, holding signs that read 'I do this for my brother' and 'No racist police.'"
Protesters march around the world in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The reasons for such sympathy across an ocean may not be readily apparent. As The Post's London bureau chief Griff Witte observed a year ago, police in Britain had only shot two people fatally in the preceding three years.
"That's less than the average number of people shot and killed by police every day in the United States over the first five months of 2015, according to a Washington Post analysis," he wrote.
During the weekend, attention in the United States focused on the death of five police officers at the hands of a well-trained sniper, who had picked his targets during a Black Lives Matter protest march in Dallas last week. The brazen assault on officers of the state had followed two separate incidents where U.S. police officers fatally shot black men on incredibly dubious grounds. Protests against police shootings continued across the United States on Monday evening.
"At a moment of national suffering, politics stands largely mute," wrote The Washington Post's Dan Balz. "A presidential campaign that has convulsed the country for more than a year now suddenly seems small in the face of the shocks from Dallas, Louisiana and Minnesota and the racial divisions they exposed again."
But evidently not small enough. On Sunday, former New York City mayor (and former Republican presidential candidate) Rudolph W. Giuliani infuriated many when he declared that insisting "black lives matter" — instead of, presumably, all lives — was "inherently racist" and even "anti-American."
But, as my colleague Wesley Lowery points out with painstaking detail, that misses the point. Black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers, after you crunch the data. That's now — never mind the centuries of systemic racial abuse that defined the American experience, and that confronted earlier generations of protesters. Blacks Lives Matter is an argument that sadly still needs to be made.
"Black Lives Matter is not the only political or social movement that's given rise to this kind of faux crying foul," writes Jeffrey Kluger, Time magazine editor-at-large, referring to Giuliani's argument. "It's in the howls over an imaginary war on Christmas every time a department store — accommodating the reality of America's multi-culti, multi-faith makeup — tells its employees to wish customers a generic happy holiday, so that everyone feels included. It's in the charges of reverse sexism when schools and community groups try to lure more girls into STEM courses and Little League."
Those may be particularly domestic American examples, but they fall along a universal theme: a reactionary backlash to movements that highlight the marginalization and victimization of minorities and seek their greater recognition and inclusion. In a year that has seen Europe itself convulsed by the success of far-right politics and strains of narrow nationalism, that kind of reaction — to dismiss voices from the margins as anti-American, anti-British, anti-European — is hardly unfamiliar.
"By these people coming here to stand and unite, they are showing that they are against police brutality and that's the most important thing," Maryam Ali, a lead organizer for London's Black Lives Matter movement, told a local newspaper. She added: "I think people forget that racism is a worldwide thing. It's still very prevalent. This is ultimately a cry for help."
A sign at the protest, spotted by my colleague Lindsey Bever, read: "Yes, all lives matter but we're focused on the black ones right now, OK? Because it is very apparent that our judicial system doesn't know that. Plus, if you can't see why we're exclaiming #blacklivesmatter you are part of the problem."
Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement took off in the United States in the past few years, it has found support overseas. Student activists in South Africa recently marched on a U.S. consulate in Cape Town:
And WorldViews followed the connections last year between Black Lives Matter protesters and those challenging the Israeli state:
Activists on either side of the world began connecting. As the Ferguson protests intensified, Palestinians reached out to those on the streets of the troubled St. Louis suburb. Some even offered advice over how to deal with tear gas. (In both instances, the canisters fired by Israeli and American police were U.S.-made.) In April, Ethiopian Israelis protested police brutality in Jerusalem by reportedly chanting "Baltimore is here!"
The echoes are hard to suppress. Over the weekend, a now iconic image of a peaceful, female protester in Baton Rouge getting seized by police garnered global coverage and headlines.
"Some likened her to a modern-day Statue of Liberty, guiding a bitterly divided country back toward the proper path," The Post's Michael E. Miller wrote. Others likened the episode to the stoic refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus.
But, Miller wrote, it also led to comparisons of the famous "tank man" of Beijing, 1989, "facing down war machines in Tiananmen Square."
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The defending World Tournament champion Forrest Middle School boys came into the 2015 tournament somewhat of an underdog as five-seed. With a 47-34 win over long-time rival Cascade, the 2015 edition proved they are a force to be reckoned with by advancing to the championship game against six-seed Middle Tennessee Christian School.
The Forrest Middle School girls opened up the first round of the Duck River World Tournament with a win, but like any tournament each round you survive the competition gets better. Thursday night's semifinal match against Liberty was neck and neck for the duration of the contest, but Forrest managed to hold off a streaking Liberty squad 40-28.
The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs hosted an opponent for a second game in a row and came into the Mount Pleasant game looking for the first signature win of a season that has been filled with near misses against stout competition. Cornersville (2-7, 2-2) had lost four of its last five games by a total of 19 points but finally put together a complete game in a dominating 46-39 win over the Tigers (3-7, 2-2).
The troubles continued for both Forrest hoops teams on Friday at Eagleville as they were swept, sending Chapel Hill to near the bottom of the District 9A standings. The Lady Rockets fell behind early, trailing by as many as 16 points before a second half comeback fell short, resulting in a 53-39 loss. The Rockets led just once versus the Eagles, but remained in the game until Eagleville pulled away with a fourth quarter surge to win 71-59.


I love, love, love, this website and your ability to reinvent! I am so very happy we have reconnected again and look forward to growing older with a wonderful friend and who knows… maybe even a professional working relationship as well!
Thank you so much for your lovely comments about the website. It is really going to evolve this upcoming year with the publication of the book and seminars that I will be providing for nurses that want to reinvent and reignite their careers.


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MLB players' average salary exceeds $3.8 million
By Ronald Blum
NEW YORK – Major League Baseball's average salary shot up to more than $3.8 million this year following the steepest rise in more than a decade, putting big leaguers on track to top the $4 million barrier for the first time in 2015.
The Major League Baseball Players Association said Tuesday the average salary was $3,818,923, up from $3,386,212 last year. The 12.78% hike was the biggest since a 12.83% rise from 2000 to 2001.
Player salaries are spurting after several years of more modest gains. The increase is fueled by record revenue in the $9 billion range, much of it from national television contracts and club deals with regional sports networks.
The average topped $1 million for the first time in 1992, crossed the $2 million barrier in 2001 and the $3 million mark in 2010.
MLB's wages are a stark contrast to the economy at large. The average U.S. wage rose 1.3% in 2013 to $43,041, according to the Social Security Administration.
Figures are based on 910 players. The union has based its annual studies on rosters and disabled lists as of Aug. 31 — the last day before active rosters expand from 25 per team to 40.
The commissioner's office, which uses slightly different methods, put its average at $3,726,243, an increase of 12 percent from last year's $3,326,645. MLB revised its figure Tuesday from an initial average of $3,692,123 it calculated last week.
The union did not release its annual averages for teams and positions.


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Supreme Court Will Decide if ISP Can Charge Money to Expose Pirates
November 24, 2017 by Ernesto Van der Sar
US-based movie company Voltage Pictures is using a reverse class action in Canada, hoping to obtain settlements from alleged pirates. The case requires Internet provider Rogers to expose many alleged pirates, but the ISP wants $100 per hour to make this happen. This resulted in a dispute between the movie company and Rogers, which is now heading to the Supreme Court.
Movie studio Voltage Pictures is no stranger to suing BitTorrent users.
The company has filed numerous lawsuits against alleged pirates in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, and is estimated to have made a lot of money doing so.
Voltage and other copyright holders who initiate these cases generally rely on IP addresses as evidence. This information is collected from BitTorrent swarms and linked to an ISP using an IP-database.
With this information in hand, they then ask the courts to direct Internet providers to hand over the personal details of the associated account holders, in order to go after the alleged pirates.
In Canada, this so-called copyright trolling practice hasn't been without controversy.
Last year Voltage Pictures launched a "reverse class action" to demand damages from an unspecified number of Internet users whom they accuse of sharing films, including The Cobbler, Pay the Ghost, Good Kill, Fathers and Daughters, and American Heist.
The application of a reverse class action in a copyright case was unprecedented in itself. In a single swoop, many of Internet subscribers were at risk of having their personal details exposed. However, Internet provider Rogers was not willing to hand over this information freely.
Instead, Rogers demanded compensation for every IP-address lookup, as is permitted by copyright law. The provider asked for $100 per hour of work, plus taxes, to link the addresses to subscriber accounts.
The Federal Court agreed that the charges were permitted under the Copyright Act. However, when Voltage Pictures appealed the decision, this was reversed. The Appeals Court noted that there's currently no fixed maximum charge defined by law. As long as this is the case, ISPs can charge no fees at all, the argument was.
In addition, the court stressed that it's important for copyright holders to be able to protect their rights in the digital era.
"The internet must not become a collection of safe houses from which pirates, with impunity, can pilfer the products of others' dedication, creativity and industry," the appeal court Justice David Stratas wrote.
Not happy with the decision, Rogers decided to take the matter to the Supreme Court, which just decided that it will hear the case.
The Supreme Court hasn't given an explanation for its decision to take the case. For the accused BitTorrent pirates in Canada, it's certainly one to watch though.
The case will in large part determine how profitable the copyright trolling scheme is in Canada. When ISPs can charge a substantial fee for the IP-address lookups the efforts might not bring in enough money through settlements, making them less likely to continue.
Appeals Court Revives Canadian Reverse Class Action Against BitTorrent Pirates
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TekSavvy Takes Pirate Site Blocking Battle to Canada's Supreme Court
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Media Giants Request Dynamic Order to Block Pirated NHL Streams in Canada
July 9, 2021, 17:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar


The APWF has been nominated as a regional coordinator of Asia-Pacific in collaboration with its partner organizations for the regional process of the 8th World Water Forum.
Regional theme leaders were selected for each of the 6 themes of the 8th World Water Forum.
During the meeting, regional process theme leaders shared their first concept notes and their preparatory processes for the 6 themes. The participants then exchanged the opinions and feedbacks, including how to inter-link the relevant topics with the 6 themes by providing quantitative and qualitative data and lessons learnt from case studies. Each sub-regional coordinator from Central Asia, Northeast Asia, Oceania & Pacific, South Asia, and Southeast Asia also made comments such as how they could contribute to the themes by sharing on-site experiences and possible case studies.
For more information about the background of discussion, please refer to the APWF 19th and 20th Governing Council meetings' report.
For more Information about the 8th World Water Forum, please visit the 8th World Water Forum Website.


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Here we are again for Happy Friday… I hope you've had a great week with many cheerful moments to report!
It's been all rather lovely here on Planet Penny because we're having a little mini-break by the sea. This means this will be a very short post, I'm saving all the news about where I've been (and lovely crafty shops) until my return when I can properly share my photos. If you really can't wait, come and follow me on Instagram!
This entry was posted in Holidays and tagged Happy Friday on February 26, 2015 by pennygj.
Hey! Your where I live! I hope you have had a wonderful time and enjoyed the beautiful weather we've had especially yesterday if you were here then. Did you partake of the best fish and chips ever at the restaurant on the beach? Where was the picture of the fabric taken in St Leonards.
Hmm the seaside..just perfect, have fun!
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The British Society of Aesthetics PhD studentship award is designed to support promising students of philosophical aesthetics by enabling them to pursue full time doctoral research. The maintenance grant mirrors the AHRC's studentship award.
Candidates for the studentship must be UK or EU citizens who are already accepted on to a PhD programme at a British university at the time of application, to research on a subject that falls within the remit of the British Society of Aesthetics. The proposed research must have a strong philosophical component.
My dissertation 'Arts and Facts. Fiction, Non-fiction and the Photographic medium' addressed the issue of how the nature of a representational medium—in this case photography—affects or contributes to the classification of works as fiction or non-fiction. The first part of the dissertation focuses on issues concerning the nature of photographic representation, its special relation with the real and its purported fictional incompetence. The second part takes up issues concerning the nature of fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on the category of non-fiction/documentary, and examines its application to photography.
My dissertation "Whither naturalistic aesthetics?" seeks to help bring about a rapprochement between philosophical aesthetics and the cognitive sciences. Whilst the naturalistic enterprise has made significant inroads into certain debates in recents years (e.g. Meskin & Weinberg, 2003), there has been less enthusiasm to court the core issues of aesthetic theory. In my dissertation I attempt to come some way to fill this lacuna. In the first part, I advance a sentimentalist account of the aesthetic. In the second part, I consider the implications of this account for the debates surrounding taste, the nature and objectivity of aesthetic judgements and the relationship between the moral and aesthetic domains.
My dissertation was an investigation of the nature and special epistemic status of photographs. In it, I argued that photographs furnish us with perceptual knowledge of the objects they depict, while paintings and drawings furnish testimonial knowledge. I then explained this in terms of a kind of indirect seeing of facts Fred Dretske calls 'secondary epistemic seeing', arguing that extant theories either fail to explain how photographs can be a source of perceptual knowledge, or else are undesirable on other grounds.
My dissertation research is on the concept of representation, and is directed at gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of depiction and pictorial representation. I approach this through the lens of the philosophy of perception, and am especially interested in laying out the possibilities of representation in sense modalities other than vision.


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The Modernist Web
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Symbolism in Painting
In England, which has made great Symbolic Art, most people dislike an art if they are told it is symbolic, for they confuse symbol and allegory. Even Johnson's Dictionary sees no great difference, for it calls a Symbol 'That which comprehends in its figure a representation of something else'; and an Allegory, 'A figurative discourse, in which something other is intended than is contained in the words literally taken.' It is only a very modern Dictionary that calls a Symbol 'the sign or representation of any moral thing by the images or properties of natural things,' which, though an imperfect definition, is not unlike 'The things below are as the things above' of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes! The Faery Queen and The Pilgrim's Progress have been so important in England that Allegory has overtopped Symbolism, and for a time has overwhelmed it in its own downfall. William Blake was perhaps the first modern to insist on a difference; and the other day, when I sat for my portrait to a German Symbolist in Paris, whose talk was all of his love for Symbolism and his hatred for Allegory, his definitions were the same as William Blake's, of whom he knew nothing. William Blake has written, 'Vision or imagination'—meaning symbolism by these words—'is a representation of what actually exists, really or unchangeably. Fable or Allegory is formed by the daughters of Memory.' The German insisted with many determined gestures, that Symbolism said things which could not be said so perfectly in any other way, and needed but a right instinct for its understanding; while Allegory said things which could be said as well, or better, in another way, and needed a right knowledge for its understanding. The one gave dumb things voices, and bodiless things bodies; while the other read a meaning—which had never lacked its voice or its body—into something heard or seen, and loved less for the meaning than for its own sake. The only symbols he cared for were the shapes and motions of the body; ears hidden by the hair, to make one think of a mind busy with inner voices; and a head so bent that back and neck made the one curve, as in Blake's 'Vision of Bloodthirstiness,' to call up an emotion of bodily strength; and he would not put even a lily, or a rose, or a poppy into a picture to express purity, or love, or sleep, because he thought such emblems were allegorical, and had their meaning by a traditional and not by a natural right. I said that the rose, and the lily, and the poppy were so married, by their colour and their odour, and their use, to love and purity and sleep, or to other symbols of love and purity and sleep, and had been so long a part of the imagination of the world, that a symbolist might use them to help out his meaning without becoming an allegorist. I think I quoted the lily in the hand of the angel in Rossetti's 'Annunciation,' and the lily in the jar in his 'Childhood of Mary Virgin,' and thought they made the more important symbols, the women's bodies, and the angels' bodies, and the clear morning light, take that place, in the great procession of Christian symbols, where they can alone have all their meaning and all their beauty.
It is hard to say where Allegory and Symbolism melt into one another, but it is not hard to say where either comes to its perfection; and though one may doubt whether Allegory or Symbolism is the greater in the horns of Michael Angelo's 'Moses,' one need not doubt that its symbolism has helped to awaken the modern imagination; while Tintoretto's 'Origin of the Milky Way,' which is Allegory without any Symbolism, is, apart from its fine painting, but a moment's amusement for our fancy. A hundred generations might write out what seemed the meaning of the one, and they would write different meanings, for no symbol tells all its meaning to any generation; but when you have said, 'That woman there is Juno, and the milk out of her breast is making the Milky Way,' you have told the meaning of the other, and the fine painting, which has added so much irrelevant beauty, has not told it better.
All Art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which mediaeval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence. A person or a landscape that is a part of a story or a portrait, evokes but so much emotion as the story or the portrait can permit without loosening the bonds that make it a story or a portrait; but if you liberate a person or a landscape from the bonds of motives and their actions, causes and their effects, and from all bonds but the bonds of your love, it will change under your eyes, and become a symbol of an infinite emotion, a perfected emotion, a part of the Divine Essence; for we love nothing but the perfect, and our dreams make all things perfect, that we may love them. Religious and visionary people, monks and nuns, and medicine-men, and opium-eaters, see symbols in their trances; for religious and visionary thought is thought about perfection and the way to perfection; and symbols are the only things free enough from all bonds to speak of perfection.
Wagner's dramas, Keats' odes, Blake's pictures and poems, Calvert's pictures, Rossetti's pictures, Villiers De l'Isle Adam's plays, and the black-and-white art of Mr. Beardsley and Mr. Ricketts, and the lithographs of Mr. Shannon, and the pictures of Mr. Whistler, and the plays of M. Maeterlinck, and the poetry of Verlaine, in our own day, but differ from the religious art of Giotto and his disciples in having accepted all symbolisms, the symbolism of the ancient shepherds and star-gazers, that symbolism of bodily beauty which seemed a wicked thing to Fra Angelico, the symbolism in day and night, and winter and summer, spring and autumn, once so great a part of an older religion than Christianity; and in having accepted all the Divine Intellect, its anger and its pity, its waking and its sleep, its love and its lust, for the substance of their art. A Keats or a Calvert is as much a symbolist as a Blake or a Wagner; but he is a fragmentary symbolist, for while he evokes in his persons and his landscapes an infinite emotion, a perfected emotion, a part of the Divine Essence, he does not set his symbols in the great procession as Blake would have him, 'in a certain order, suited' to his 'imaginative energy.' If you paint a beautiful woman and fill her face, as Rossetti filled so many faces, with an infinite love, a perfected love, 'one's eyes meet no mortal thing when they meet the light of her peaceful eyes,' as Michael Angelo said of Vittoria Colonna; but one's thoughts stray to mortal things, and ask, maybe, 'Has her lover gone from her, or is he coming?' or 'What pre-destinated unhappiness has made the shadow in her eyes?' If you paint the same face, and set a winged rose or a rose of gold somewhere about her, one's thoughts are of her immortal sisters, Pity and Jealousy, and of her mother, Ancestral Beauty, and of her high kinsmen, the Holy Orders, whose swords make a continual music before her face. The systematic mystic is not the greatest of artists, because his imagination is too great to be bounded by a picture or a song, and because only imperfection in a mirror of perfection, or perfection in a mirror of imperfection, delight our frailty. There is indeed a systematic mystic in every poet or painter who, like Rossetti, delights in a traditional Symbolism, or, like Wagner, delights in a personal Symbolism; and such men often fall into trances, or have waking dreams. Their thought wanders from the woman who is Love herself, to her sisters and her forebears, and to all the great procession; and so august a beauty moves before the mind, that they forget the things which move before the eyes. William Blake, who was the chanticleer of the new dawn, has written: 'If the spectator could enter into one of these images of his imagination, approaching them on the fiery chariot of his contemplative thought, if ... he could make a friend and companion of one of these images of wonder, which always entreat him to leave mortal things (as he must know), then would he arise from the grave, then would he meet the Lord in the air, and then he would be happy.' And again, 'The world of imagination is the world of Eternity. It is the Divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. The world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation or vegetation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in the vegetable glass of nature.'
Every visionary knows that the mind's eye soon comes to see a capricious and variable world, which the will cannot shape or change, though it can call it up and banish it again. I closed my eyes a moment ago, and a company of people in blue robes swept by me in a blinding light, and had gone before I had done more than see little roses embroidered on the hems of their robes, and confused, blossoming apple-boughs somewhere beyond them, and recognized one of the company by his square, black curling beard. I have often seen him; and one night a year ago, I asked him questions which he answered by showing me flowers and precious stones, of whose meaning I had no knowledge, and he seemed too perfected a soul for any knowledge that cannot be spoken in symbol or metaphor.
Are he and his blue-robed companions, and their like, 'the Eternal realities' of which we are the reflection 'in the vegetable glass of nature,' or a momentary dream? To answer is to take sides in the only controversy in which it is greatly worth taking sides, and in the only controversy which may never be decided.
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with Anno("The first position to be generated. e.g. 1.0 or [1.0, 2.0]"):
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Edgar Wright puts Baby Driver in the fast lane after Ant-Man crash
Director, who walked away from Marvel's superhero film after disagreements over the script, plans to direct a 'collision of crime, action, music and sound'
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Edgar Wright's next film will be Baby Driver, a project described as "a wild spin on the action and crime genre" by Empire magazine.
Deadline reports that the British director will resurrect the project after his high-profile departure from Marvel's comic book movie Ant-Man. Baby Driver will be put together with Working Title, the British production company with which Wright collaborated on his "Three Cornettos" comedy trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.
Wright originally intended the film, for which he also wrote the screenplay, to follow 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs the World into production. Deadline says Baby Driver, which is reportedly being fast-tracked, will be a "collision of crime, action, music and sound". It is not known if Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who appeared in all the Cornettos films, will star.
Little else is known about the project, but Baby Driver is the title of an album track from the iconic 1970 Simon and Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water. The lyrics tell the story of a boy who lives a comfortable life in a protected home until he decides to have his first sexual experience. Wright suggested the film might focus on music in an interview with Total Film in 2011. "I've written a script which is kind of like a musical," he said. "A departure for me in some ways."
In June, Wright walked away from Ant-Man, which will star Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, after eight years of development due to creative differences with Marvel. He later tweeted a Photoshopped shot of Buster Keaton (a victim of the old Hollywood studio system) in an apparent rebuke to the studio before deleting it. The British director was thought to be unhappy that Marvel commissioned rewrites of his screenplay with Joe Cornish for the film. Ant-Man will now shoot next month with Yes Man's Peyton Reed taking over as director.


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Archangel Michael: And welcome to you. Yes, I am Michael. I am Mi-Ka-El, Archangel of love, warrior of truth, bringer of peace. And I welcome all of you, all of you upon sweet Gaia and far beyond. I welcome our star brothers and sisters, all masters, all beings of light throughout the Omniverse. And with each and every one of you, as I embrace you and welcome you, I invite you as we all turn and bow and commit to the Mother. For this is the sense, the essence, and the source of our beingness, of what you have termed 'journey,' the infinite journey of One. And, while we come this day to speak of ascension, of shift, of becoming – understand the message that has been shared with you in many forms by the Mother herself, by Yeshua, by St. Germaine, that holy trickster, by myself and many – is about love.
We have asked and pleaded, encouraged, each of you to love, to allow yourself to be love, to be the expression and to have the experience of love, but most importantly, to be the love. For, my beloved friends and family – and by the way those words and terms are interchangeable, my family and friends – love is the essence of all. It is the structure, the particles, the composition. It is the energy of all existence, of all creation. But importantly, I am here to remind you, as we begin this conversation and discussion – because it is meant to be a conversation and discussion – that your essence, the formulation of your sacred self, is love.
Terminology, and how you have thought and delineated terminology, has in some ways become stratified. Now, we do not throw these terms away, because they are important, for they have become many of your reference points in understanding and utilizing and comprehending your own journey, let alone others'. But, we do expand on some of this terminology. Primarily, what I do this day, and every day, until the job is done, as you would put it, is I give you my love. I bring you, as messenger, with bows to my sister Gabrielle, I bring you the energy of love and I remind you of the importance and the essential nature of love.
Now, some of you, and do not think I don't hear you because I do, have said, "Michael, Mi-Ka-El, and some of you have said this in a bored voice and some of you have said it in a cry of desperation, "Michael, is ascension still on? Is ascension even still an option for this lifetime, for my lifetime, for humanity, for the unfoldment and this time and this reality and this place?" The answer is yes. We will go into detail, but let us start here.
Ascension, in this phase of the Mother's plan, in this phase of unfoldment, yes including transition, has never been more present. Now, as I have said, many variables, what you would think of as flexibility, are built into this plan because of the nature of free will – which will not be interfered with. But, let us also be clear about that. Simply because the Mother deems that we do not interfere with free will does not mean if you were recalcitrants, disinterested, or those who just choose to ignore the process, that it simply disappears, that we bow to those who do not want to participate.
There are similarities between ascension, and you may feel free to interrupt me, my brother, between ascension and enlightenment. But, understand, so often with enlightenment, the process, unless you are completely in Sahaj Samadhi, is that you are in, out, and at times separated from your abilities to fully integrate into your body.
Now, in ascension, in this process of what you and we have called ascension, there is the process rather than leaving or elevating your consciousness to a level where you are connected, it is that you are coming and going at the same time.
Let us explain why. You chose this beautiful form as the vessel that could literally hold the energy and all the changes that were going to happen to it because you are the prototype of the new race, which is the original race improved. To carry you through this ascension process, this body was intended to house the energy so that you would be the Nova Being that walks this planet in fulfillment of the Mother's wish…in the consciousness of your soul and your connection to all of the awareness of not only who you are, but All That Is.
Now, this is hard because I am explaining in human words, albeit Saedor. But I am explaining in your terminology systems that you are not fully conversant or familiar with. So the paradigm has changed.
The third, and now I bleed into your other topic, Steve, into the light body. Now, many of you have been envisioning your light body as something you were escaping to. Again, it has been a sense of escape, of leaving this skin and bones behind. But, that is not the plan. Think of it in this way. It is not stepping out of your physical body into your light body. It is incorporating your light body, and how you define that word "body" into physicality.
Now also, let me explain. Your physical body, and you have felt it – most of you have felt this recently – is that your previous balance of electromagnetic has shifted to greater electric. It is not that the magnetic is gone, because this is what keeps you, your feet, on the ground. It is not just gravity, it is your own magnetism, your own forms as well. And that is the construct of most of what is on this planet. But you are holding, if you think of electrical as a greater composition of light quotient, so what your body is doing is transferring and as you are integrating all these energies, not just the frequency of these, but of all, you are becoming more within your light body.
Now, for some of you, you say, "But I still have days when I am miserable." And, what I say to you, my beloved friend, is on those days what is happening is the energy from the Tsunami of One and your own light infusion is bringing to the forefront core issues, vasanas, unresolved situations simply that it may be looked at and very rapidly let go of. Because there is no room in your sphere, in your being for that negativity, for that which is barring you from that full connection to who you are.
AAM: Yes. Now, also let me tease you and remind you as I have said before and that the channel always laughs at… There is always more. So, with that in mind, take a moment and think of, for some of you, the dismay that you felt when you did not 'graduate' in December 2012. And, now, my beloveds, think of where you are this day and how far you have come. Because it is vitally important in this process, in the unfoldment of the plot and the story, that you realize that you have always been part of the story and that it is actually a live play, perhaps in London or Broadway or Beijing, and you have all been players on the stage.
Now, why are we suggesting this as part of your ascension? Because we are asking, requesting, inviting your participation because, yes, you are the wayshowers. Do not worry that you say you come back and you feel spacey, that you cannot string two words together. Simply anchor, connect with Gaia. Drink water or eat fruit and allow that sense of being in your form, this body, to return and then proceed.
What you might do is, if you find yourself on these steps, is turn around and extend your hand backward and assist those coming behind you and help them up. And, do not hesitate to extend your other hand forward and allow those who are ahead of you to give you a little helping hand. This is not an exclusionary process.


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Minutes from the consultations concerning serial application for the inscription of the most precious paper mills on the UNESCO list
On November 29th and 30th, consultations were held between the representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the representatives of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. Discussions were devoted to the concept of inscribing the most precious European paper mills on the UNESCO list. Participants of the meeting were as follows:
representatives of the Republic of Poland:
– Katarzyna Zalasińska, Ph.D. with habilitation degree – Director of the Department of Monument Protection of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
– Jakub Wiśniewski – Adviser at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
– Professor Bogusław Szmygin – President of ICOMOS Poland
– Alicja Jagielska-Burduk, Ph.D. – Secretary General of Polish UNESCO Committee
– Maciej Szymczyk, Ph.D. with habilitation degree – Director of the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój
– Joanna Seredyńska – Deputy Director of the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój
representatives of the Czech Republic:
– Vlastislav Ouroda, BEng, PhD. – Deputy Minister of Culture
representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany:
– Birgitta Ringbeck, Ph.D. – World Heritage Coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The atmosphere during the meetings was very friendly. The following conclusions have been made during the talks:
The concept of submitting the suggestion for inscribing the most precious paper mills in Europe on the UNESCO list received very favourable opinions.
The representatives of Poland expressed the suggestion for assuming the role of the party coordinating the preparation of serial nomination as well as submitting it to UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
The Czech representative expressed his interest in the participation of the paper mill in Velké Losiny (Czech Republic) in the project. He declared the support of government authorities and the National Heritage Institute for the activities necessary for preparing documentation referring to the paper mill in Velké Losiny. Due to the changes in the leadership of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic after the elections, final confirmation of the position of the Czech ministry is to be provided within several weeks.
The representative of Germany expressed her interest in the participation of the paper mill in Germany (Homburg) in the project. At the same time she informed about the involvement of Bavarian conservation authorities in the subject matter of the project and the intention of the representatives of federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in performing the task from the formal perspective.
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland shall send to partners in the Czech Republic and Germany official statements including:
– information about the project
– ICOMOS report as of 2007 concerning the nomination of the paper mill in Velké Losiny including the recommendation for preparing the new nomination including a bigger number of sites connected with the history of paper (page 136 point 7 of the report).
– suggested schedule of activities,
– templates of documents to be prepared for the paper mills in Velké Losiny and Homburg.
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland shall submit to partners in the Czech Republic and Germany the document authorizing the Polish ministry to undertake the activities aimed at preparing and submitting international serial nomination.