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How far to Auschwitz? Why we need to read Lidia Ostalowska's 'Watercolours' to look for an answer
A book that details Nazi ambitions in general and concentration camps in particular, 'Watercolours' is a constant reminder and a warning.
Annie Zaidi
Jan 05, 2019 · 08:30 am
Lidia Ostalowska
There is a curious object available online these days. "Hitler Germany" is a cheap plastic electric extension board. The company selling it is called Freedom Fashion. The strip costs between Rs 199 and Rs 399, after an appropriate discount. Someone noticed the offer and wondered aloud on social media if we should be reporting it. But what would we report? A gadget plugged into fascism?
This is a strange moment in time: close enough for us to recall gas chambers but far enough to forget gas chambers don't happen without a lot of people wanting them, prepping for them, refusing to see that a lot of people were going to be raped and worked to death before being gassed and cremated. No burials, no headstones.
Electrical accessories branded "Hitler Germany" on sale online
Nazi Germany was headed towards a holocaust but first, it was headed towards slavery. Before the gas chambers, there was Commandant Rudolf Hoss working on a Generalplan Ost. Once they were done with the big war, the Nazis intended to re-introduce slavery. Hierarchy would be re-established with members of the SS at the top. Other "serfs" and workers would follow, with slaves at the bottom. The estimated cost of the colonisation of the east was the lives of 29 million prisoners and the hoped for reward, a "Thousand-Year Reich".
Journalist Lidia Ostalowska outlines these ambitions in Watercolours: A Story From Auschwitz. Captive workers were intended to build railway lines, dig giant canals linking rivers across Europe, and run factories and farms. Plans included a "model town" with residences for workers' families, establishments for butchers and bakers, hairdressers and tailors, cobblers and chemists, even doctors and dentists. Schools and cinemas were envisioned along with tennis courts and Hitler Youth Centres. The plan drawings showed figures of workers in overalls with "P" on their backs: P for Poles.
At some distance from the model township would be barracks – concentration camps where 30,000 slaves were meant to live. The model township never materialised. The camps, the slavery and the extermination did.
A major Nazi research project involved fraternal twins. During one of the experiments, a pair of babies – twins, but not conjoined ones – were surgically sewn together. The Nazis were big on progress. And on data collection.
These weren't blonde "Aryan" babies, of course. Gypsy babies were made available, as were Jewish babies. The results of these experiments revealed that Gypsy babies bled and howled in pain. Hence proved human.
Racism, fascism and genocide need human beings who don't get to say no. No to ghettos, to forced labour, to externment or internment, to wearing a label/ribbon/star/number, to uniforms.
Before a holocaust, a nation must create a set of people who don't get to decide what to eat, whom to marry, where to live. They don't get to say "no" when their children are taken away, or their bodies used for scientific or socio-economic experiments.
To ask this – how far from Auschwitz are we? – might come off as an alarmist question. Nevertheless, the question presents itself.
In India, we have people who don't get to eat what they choose. Some have been killed just for transporting cattle and even trading in buffaloes isn't entirely safe these days. The state has made it clear that it values cattle, or even hens' eggs, over human beings. For years, we have had people being killed for marrying across caste and religious lines, with the state refusing to endorse inter-community marriages. We have had people in communal ghettos, with the state refusing to intervene on behalf of those discriminated against, or take any steps to reverse the process.
We have not yet seen or heard of such cruelty as the using of babies to conduct horrific experiments. But we would do well to remember that any talk about development and the nation's progress is suspect unless we also ask: who progresses, at whose cost? Currently, asking questions like this can get you arrested as a Naxal sympathiser, or have you charged with sedition. There is far too much talk of anti-nationals who stand in the way of "development". There are too many exhortations to shut up. There are too many attempts to control who gets to write and publish what stories, who gets to make what sort of art.
'Watercolours: A Story From Auschwitz'
Auschwitz was a way off but, by 1939, things had got to the point where Jews were no longer allowed to study or work in certain professions. Art school was barred to talented young people like Dina Gottleibova, whose life and work forms the basis of Watercolours.
At first, Dina tried to secretly learn while working for non-Jewish artists. But ultimately, it was the ghetto for her, then the camps. She was sent to Theresienstadt first, "a claustrophic town that the Fuhrer had granted to the Jews." The camp had at least 15,000 children and some teachers. Residents were allowed to learn drawing and singing, even Herbrew. Maths, history and geography were forbidden.
Still, a few lessons were conducted in secret. After all, there were "poets, artists, journalists, writers, professors and Nobel prize winners all locked up in a tight space: it was a frenzy of activity. Anything to forget, anything to distract from what was coming. The ghetto sang, exercised, went to lectures, made films and argued over Communism and Zionism. And fell in love."
Sometimes the camps had to put on an act, pretending to be okay. The Red Cross had been hearing complaints of genocide. As late as 1944, Theresienstadt was dressed up – neat flower beds, shops selling soap and food – to reassure a visiting delegation from the International Red Cross. Before and after the day of this visit, the camp was a place where food was scarce, a cup of thin milk had to last a week and there was no water to shower with. There was lice, begbugs, diarrhoea, typhus.
There was great irony, then, in the Nazis having Dina paint signs like "Cleanliness is your obligation!" in Auschwitz, where conditions were worse. That's how she started out, painting signs and barrack numbers. Eventually, SS officers started giving her photos of wives and girlfriends to make portraits. She was even allowed a room to paint in.
Dina Gottleibova Babbit | Image credit: via YouTube/USC Shoah Foundation
The art that forms the basis for Watercolours eventually led to a diplomatic tussle between Dina, who wanted the Auschwitz museum to return them to her – her claims were supported by the USA – and the Auschwitz museum, which argued that the art here belonged to the place itself, and also to the victims who were made to pose for it. Many of the paintings Dina did were of captive Gypsies.
This wasn't an art project though. It was part of scientific research. If there had been enough cameras and film handy, there would have been no portraits; there would have been mugshots instead. If the Nazis had had the technology, they'd have issued identity cards based on biometric data.
People don't talk about the Gypsy camp at Auschwitz much. Its residents were isolated, kept separate from Jewish and Communist prisoners. They were allowed to keep their traditional outfits rather than being put in standard prisoner uniforms. The author finds the words for it – it was a sort of human zoo – and she wonders if this wasn't a natural progression given how people looked at those who were different from themselves. "At the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition in Paris," she writes, "34 million people bought tickets to see a display of Africans who'd been stripped naked."
Many of the Gypsies sent into camps were soldiers who had fought in the first world war for Germany. Initially there was some confusion about how they should be treated. There was also a theory that Gypsies were of Aryan stock. Then, in 1936, it was decided to segregate "pure" Gypsies and keep them on reservations. Here, they could be allowed to live as "relics of the past and research subjects". The mixed race ones were to be killed.
This is the other thing common to racism, fascism, genocide: a terror of mixed marriages, an obsession with purity.
How did mixed race Gypsies end up in camps when they were not so easily identified by name or faith? The answer lay in science. Or, in big data. Robert Ritter, a neurologist, psychiatrist and anthropologist had been researching Gypsy genealogies. He founded the Centre for the Study of Racial Hygiene and Social Biology and the Institute of Criminal biology. He had got hold of files from the Munich police.
The police had data ready and waiting since there was already a law in place: a 1926 anti-Gypsy law intended to "expel the foreign ones, imprison the local ones in workhouses and put their children in correction centres". In order to implement the law, they asked for identity proof, family trees, details of residence. By 1942, Ritter knew the ancestry of 30,000 Gypsies spread across "Greater Germany".
It is hard not to think of parallels with video and new surveillance tech. There has been a great push towards biometric identification through Aadhaar cards, and interlinking such data with financial, health and educational needs. Meanwhile, people are stripped naked, whipped, beaten to death, and onlookers go on filming on mobile phones. There is, reportedly, a market for rape videos in India. One murder was prepped and filmed by a man who said that he was doing it for religion, to prevent a love affair across religious lines. Months passed and our government has not distanced itself from his ideas.
We have Muslim students being asked to identify themselves as such when they register for the final high school exams in Gujarat. The anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002 hasn't quite faded from memory, and the guilty have not been punished. More than one self-styled nationalist type politician has called for the sterilisation of Muslims, and the suspension of their voting rights.
There's a national registry of citizens being created in Assam. This is also a state that saw an anti-Muslim pogrom, in 1983. Now citizens who are found to not have papers, or have papers on which their names were misspelt by a clerk on any one document, or whose parents were too busy to foresee this calamity and didn't fortify them with iron-clad identities, are now in prison. They're called "detention centres" but the inmates are held in actual jails.
Copies of 'Mein Kampf' | Image credit: Adam Jones (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Assisting Ritter was a young woman called Eva Justin, a nurse who spoke some Romani and was working on her PhD. She concluded that Gypsies were "incapable of integration" and "to preserve racial integrity we must insist the men are completely sterilised." Ritter himself believed that intermarriage between Germans and Gypsies would lead to children who were "illiterates, criminals and harlots".
Germans – white, Christian Germans – were forbidden from marrying Gypsies, who had been thrown out of their jobs, whose homes were confiscated and, in several places, were allowed to move around only during certain hours. Town councils were writing to German men in mixed marriages to ask: "How can you imagine remaining married to your current wife?"
There's a story of a German soldier named Werner Soetebier who was engaged to a Gypsy widow called Berta Bamberger. The story is tragic and cinematic. After Berta was deported, Werner threw himself at the mercy of senior officers, writing letters to ask about her whereabouts. He admitted that Gypsies were "parasites sucking our nation dry" but she was different, he pleaded. In vain.
Finally, Private Werner went to rescue his love. He looked for her in various camps until he found her, in the winter of 1942. "It was a small camp where heaps of frost-covered corpses lay around a water pump in the courtyard. Berta had died of typhus...Once Werner saw the extermination camp with his own eye, he shot himself by the roadside in the forest."
What would Private Werner have seen if he had looked for her in Auschwitz? He would have seen uniforms marked with a black triangle, which represented "asocial". These prisoners were also given numbered tattoos, starting with Z for Zigeuner. Gypsy.
Eva Justin checking the facial characteristics of a Romani woman as part of her "racial studies" | Image credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Auschwitz had its own slang, apparently. Prisoners, including Jews who had surrendered totally to their fate, those who weren't resisting any more, were called "Muslims".
Most Indians don't know where Auschwitz is. Many of them can't pronounce it. People in my family don't know much about it. I don't tell them. I want to un-know it myself. But we're hearing the language of the Nazis – pests, wild dogs – used with reference to Muslim citizens and immigrants fleeing genocide elsewhere.
How many millions of Indians who have read Mein Kampf will ever get around to reading Watercolours? How many people are buying Hitler Germany electric strips?
For memory to lapse thus, for words to lose all meaning, it ought to take a couple of hundred years. A mere seventy years have passed and here we are. We see videos of Israeli youths bullying Palestinians. We watch Arab children die of starvation, the bombing of homes and hospitals, the checkpoints, the demand to see papers. We listen as an Israeli woman says that she might be a little bit fascist as she watches the destruction of Gaza.
Nobody says: Do as you would have done unto you. The elders told what was done to them; the children have grown up and inflict violence upon other children. It is like being in a hall of mirrors with a video of the past playing on loop.
Czesława Kwoka, a Polish girl murdered in Auschwitz | Image credit: Wilhelm Brasse (attributed)
It's not an overnight journey. It never was. The Nazi project was never about the absolute elimination of minorities. It was about the enslavement of those who were free. It started with name-calling, bullying in schools, making gypsies and Jews fret about proving citizenship. And for this, Nazi Germans were not necessary. There were enough white Christian Poles laying the metaphorical foundations of Auschwitz before it was built.
Auschwitz is the taking of human time, dignity, strength, bone and blood, as a freebie. To refuse to pay back a human being in your own coin of time, respect, labour, bone. Auschwitz is the opposite of consent.
Roads got made. Scraps of cloth were converted into belts for soldiers. Gypsy girls and Jewish girls and socialist girls and little boys and their sexual organs were snatched while the faces of the wives of Nazi officers got turned into watercolour portraits. Auschwitz was about coercing art out of artists. Free eyes that could measure accurately the proportions and sweetness of a face beloved by the men who were slowly killing you and your beloveds. Free prisoner eyes. Free prisoner fingers. Slave art.
I should be titling this piece "Strolling to Auschwitz". Or, just not use the word "Auschwitz", which is off-putting for those who want roads laid by slave hands and rivers inter-connected and a free pass to rape and whip people, because you can.
Maybe I should titled it "Crawling to Auschwitz". Here were are, crawling under the new barbed wire of "Never again".
Anyone who keeps going down this road, will eventually get to some place that means Auschwitz.
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2 cases of rare COVID-19-related condition in children in Snohomish County
Series: Coronavirus | Story 253
Last updated 8/7/2020 at 4:12pm
On Friday, Aug. 7, the Department of Health (DOH) announced there are now 11 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 in Washington state.
Two of those cases came from Snohomish County.
MIS-C is a rare but serious condition first identified by health care providers in the United Kingdom in late April.
An MIS-C case is defined as a patient under the age of 21 with a fever, laboratory evidence of inflammation, and severe illness involving more than two organs that requires hospitalization. To meet the definition, patients must have no other plausible diagnoses as well as a positive COVID-19 test or exposure to a confirmed case in the four weeks before their symptoms began.
"While MIS-C is very rare, parents should be aware it can happen and contact their health care provider if their children develop new or unusual symptoms," said Dr. Kathy Lofy, state health officer for DOH. "We are tracking this issue closely and continue to ask health care providers to be on the lookout and immediately report possible cases to local health."
In Washington, six MIS-C cases are nine years old or younger, and five are 10 or older. The counties reporting MIS-C cases are:
Franklin: 2
Skagit: 1
Snohomish: 2
Yakima: 3
The race/ethnicity of MIS-C cases in Washington is:
55 percent Hispanic
18 percent white
9 percent Black
9 percent Asian
9 percent American Indian or Alaska Native
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published an analysis of MIS-C in the United States, where 40 states have reported a total of 570 cases.
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Review: Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm
by Andrew Wheeler · June 10, 2009
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm
Adaptation by Mark Powers; Illustrated by Ardian Syaf
Del Rey, June 2009, $22.95
It's never a good sign when anything gets named "[[[The Gathering Storm]]]" – that's possibly the most generic title in a world filled with blandness and non-specificity. I suppose it's more understandable when you're adapting a novel named [[[Storm Front]]], and you have to call the separate volumes something, and then that phrase rises up out of the collective unconsciousness, and you can't think of anything better…but, still, it's a flabby, overused title that needs to be retired for two or three generations to have any hope of not being a laughingstock.
But [[[The Gathering Storm]]] is only the very end of an exceptionally long title, so exhaustion is a plausible excuse. This particular Gathering Storm is the first part of a comics adaptation of the novel Storm Front by Jim Butcher, which itself was the first volume in his bestselling (and now eleven volumes long) "[[[Dresden Files]]]" series. In the books, as in this comic, Harry Dresden is Chicago's only consulting wizard – he's a real wizard, doing real magic, and protecting people in his mushy post-Chandler pseudo-PI way from the various supernatural nasties that all really exist in this world.
Though this book adapts the beginning of the first "Dresden Files" novel, it's actually the second "Dresden Files" graphic novel, since Butcher wrote a comics-only prequel about a year ago – subsequently collected as Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle , and reviewed here by yours truly – which was a pleasant enough monster-of-the-week story to introduce Harry and his world. Syaf was the artist on that first story, so he's established the look of Dresden and his Chicago for this series. He's a solid modern mainstream comics artist – his people look consistently the same across different pages and from any angle, and he can draw them in different clothes when necessary (unlike so many folks drawing steady paychecks). He's good at facial expressions, which is very important for a book like this that's as much about talking as it is fighting supernatural monsters.
Storm Front has a more complicated plot than [[[Jungle]]] did, starting with Harry being asked by the Chicago PD – as usual in mysteries ever since Sherlock Holmes, fictional police forces are more than happy to let oddball civilians in to march all over their crime scenes, do weird things, and declare that they know who the criminal is – to consult on a particularly gruesome double-murder. Harry instantly knows that it was done by magic, but also immediately realizes it would take a massive, unlikely power to do so.
The investigation leads Harry through the local under- and otherworld: one victim was the right-hand man of the city's top mobster and the other was a high-priced call girl whose madam is a vampiress. Along the way, Harry also gets a visit from Morgan, who will become more and more important as the series goes on, but who mostly serves here as the agent of the otherwise unseen White Council of wizards, which trusts Harry about as far as they can throw him.
This volume just sees the storm gather and not break, so there's no real ending – it stops right after a major battle, which gives a certain amount of closure, but the murders aren't solved, and Harry is where he usually is in mid-book: far up a certain smelly creek without a paddle in sight. But there's been a lot of incident and action along the way, so it feels like enough of an ending. I do hope that the adaptation of Storm Front takes only one more volume; if there's a book of pure middle without beginning or end, that could be a problem.
At the end of this book, there's also a bonus story, "[[[Restoration of Faith]]]" – subtitled "prequel chapter," which I think means that it takes place before Storm Front – written by Butcher, adapted by Grant Alter and drawn by Kevin Mellon. Mellon's good enough, but after a hundred pages of Syaf's version of these characters here (and another hundred in [[[Welcome to the Jungle]]]), his Harry Dresden looks droopy-eyed and seriously off-model. And the story is very slight: Harry has retrieved a runaway girl but has to fight a bridge troll.
I expect that Gathering Storm will be of the most interest to established Dresden fans, but it's a sold contemporary fantasy in comics form that could well draw in new readers to Butcher's fictional world. I don't think it manages to improve upon the original novel – or replace it – but there will always be people who prefer pictures with their words, and now they have that option on Storm Front.
Andrew Wheeler has been a publishing professional for nearly twenty years, with a long stint as a Senior Editor at the Science Fiction Book Club and a current position at John Wiley & Sons. He¹s been reading comics for longer than he cares to mention, and maintains a personal, mostly book-oriented blog at antickmusings.blogspot.com.
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This is great that Dresden is now moving to graphic novels, but someone needs to make each book into a movie. The series was ok but did not follow the books. They just need to do the movies as the Harry Potter books are being done it would make a lot more fans to Dresden and Jim Butcher.
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Ecuphar - Animalcare unlocks big efficiency gains with SAP S/4HANA
Belgium-based pharmaceutical and nutrition company Ecuphar, known in the UK as Animalcare, has developed high-quality veterinary products since 2006. After a high-growth period over the last few years and acquisitions in Spain, Portugal, Italy and the UK, corporate IT manager Saeid Gharakhaninia saw that the firm's SAP systems were due for significant – and transformative – upgrades.
S/4HANA: power meets ease of use
"SAP ECC had been installed almost a decade ago," explains Saeid. "But with our new business structure and the opportunities posed by new SAP products, it was clear that a change would lead to big results."
A believer in the quality and power of SAP, Saeid and his team opted to move Ecuphar's SAP ecosystem to the Microsoft Azure cloud to take advantage of the accessibility and easy upgrades that cloud computing comes with.
"S/4HANA is all about digitization. It integrates smoothly with back office and is recognized for its efficiency, ease of use and intuitive interfacing. The new version of S/4HANA integrates smoothly with back office products like Microsoft Office 365 and is recognized for its efficiency, ease of use and intuitive interfacing," he explains. "These were big priorities for Ecuphar."
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A complete ecosystem renewal
The next step was to sketch out how Ecuphar's new ecosystem would take shape.
"We began with a detailed analysis of our as-is situation based on best practices," continues Saeid. "Based on the results, we developed a two-phased project that consists of moving the system to the cloud and then upgrading the software." The Ecuphar IT team further segmented these two phases into the following milestones: securing our hardware, upgrading it, identifying how to optimize or replace existing functionalities, and introducing a new user interface as needed.
"An incremental approach would help us adapt to changes and learn from the process, streamlining future segments and integrations."
"delaware works side-by-side with us and has a keen eye for futureproofness."
— Saeid Gharakhaninia, corporate IT manager at Ecuphar - Animalcare
Building on the agile roots of S/4HANA
After identifying its IT needs, Ecuphar began its quest for the ideal partner at the beginning of 2018. "But not a simple IT partner – a business partner, as scalability and future business growth must be enabled by the new system," Saeid stresses.
"delaware was a great match for our business and IT environment, and based on our market analysis and delaware's solutions, I felt very comfortable working with their team."
Saeid also appreciates a hands-on, pragmatic approach to IT projects. "delaware works side-by-side with our business and has a keen eye for futureproofness."
Merely six months after the decision to upgrade was made, the digital core and additional features including integrated embedded consolidation, embedded analytics and Fiori advanced usability were completely integrated and ready for use by nearly every Ecuphar subsidiary. As a new acquisition, Ecuphar's UK business will follow in fall 2018.
"New functionalities like mobile applications, the digitization of manual processes, interfacing opportunities and consolidation tools have an excellent foundation in S/4HANA," Saeid elaborates. "We're currently in the process of replacing custom-made applications while optimizing business continuity and managing risks. It's an ongoing process, and delaware will be there to think alongside us."


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package org.spoofax.jsglr2.layoutsensitive;

import org.metaborg.parsetable.IParseTable;
import org.metaborg.parsetable.actions.IReduce;
import org.metaborg.sdf2table.grammar.LayoutConstraintAttribute;
import org.metaborg.sdf2table.parsetable.ParseTableProduction;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.inputstack.IInputStack;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.parseforest.ParseForestManager;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.parser.AbstractParseState;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.reducing.ReduceManager;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.reducing.ReduceManagerFactory;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.reducing.ReducerFactory;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.stack.AbstractStackManager;
import org.spoofax.jsglr2.stack.IStackNode;

public class LayoutSensitiveReduceManager
//@formatter:off
   <StackNode  extends IStackNode,
    InputStack extends IInputStack,
    ParseState extends AbstractParseState<InputStack, StackNode>>
//@formatter:on
    extends
    ReduceManager<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode, InputStack, ParseState> {

    private LayoutSensitiveReduceManager(IParseTable parseTable,
        AbstractStackManager<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode, ParseState> stackManager,
        ParseForestManager<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode, ParseState> parseForestManager,
        ReducerFactory<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode, InputStack, ParseState> reducerFactory) {
        super(parseTable, stackManager, parseForestManager, reducerFactory);
    }

    public static
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       <StackNode_    extends IStackNode,
        InputStack_   extends IInputStack,
        ParseState_   extends AbstractParseState<InputStack_, StackNode_>,
        StackManager_ extends AbstractStackManager<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode_, ParseState_>>
    //@formatter:on
    ReduceManagerFactory<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode_, InputStack_, ParseState_, StackManager_, LayoutSensitiveReduceManager<StackNode_, InputStack_, ParseState_>>
        factoryLayoutSensitive(
            ReducerFactory<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>, ILayoutSensitiveParseNode<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest, ILayoutSensitiveDerivation<ILayoutSensitiveParseForest>>, StackNode_, InputStack_, ParseState_> reducerFactory) {
        return (parseTable, stackManager, parseForestManager) -> new LayoutSensitiveReduceManager<>(parseTable,
            stackManager, parseForestManager, reducerFactory);
    }

    @Override protected boolean ignoreReducePath(StackNode pathBegin, IReduce reduce,
        ILayoutSensitiveParseForest[] parseNodes) {
        return ignoreByLayoutConstraint(reduce, parseNodes);
    }

    public static boolean ignoreByLayoutConstraint(IReduce reduce, ILayoutSensitiveParseForest[] parseNodes) {
        if(reduce.production() instanceof ParseTableProduction) {
            ParseTableProduction sdf2tableProduction = (ParseTableProduction) reduce.production();

            for(LayoutConstraintAttribute lca : sdf2tableProduction.getLayoutConstraints()) {
                // Skip the reduction if the constraint evaluates to false
                if (!lca.ignoreLayout() && !LayoutConstraintEvaluator.evaluate(lca.getLayoutConstraint(), parseNodes)) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

}

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Early in my practice, I was treating a family where I learned a lot about putting the remedies that I had learned in school into real-world practice. The young daughter of this family had a peculiar obsession, which was that she had done something wrong, and would repeatedly ask her mother if she was too young to be put in jail. Some incident had happened in her Kindergarten class which triggered this feeling of guilt, but it escalated over time, even though the incident was relatively minor (in objective terms).
I was perplexed, as I keep giving her different potencies of the homeopathic remedy Lachesis, but nothing changed for her regarding this feeling of guilt. Lachesis, by the way, is the primary remedy we use for unresolved feelings of guilt, as related to underlying issues of self-esteem and self-worth. The law of cure being what it is, when the similar remedy is given the the patient at the right time in the right potency, the disease state is annihilated.
So why wasn't this remedy working? In my inexperienced state, I assumed that I had the right remedy, but hadn't hit a high enough potency yet. In fact, what I discovered further along in her treatment, when we got into treating her chronic miasms (inherited disease tendencies from the family tree), is that we hit upon the cure for her guilt state when we treated for her Sycotic miasm. I had known this remedy relatively well, but I hadn't known the emotional side of it too intimately until I saw the resolution in this little girl. The emotional state of the Sycotic miasm also contains a type of guilt, but one which is different from the Lachesis guilt — this guilt has more of a basis in an immoral feeling, in the sense of having done something "bad" or immoral, as opposed to the Lachesis feeling of being inferior.
The instantaneous disappearance of this state of mind and behaviour in this girl, once she was given the correct remedy, was a great early experience for cementing the differential between these two remedies firmly into my mind's eye. It also gave me a good general lesson about not favouring certain remedies because of some bias on my part, but to always remain open to different possibilities with each unique patient. The deep participation of each patient is what makes an accurate diagnosis possible, and the human tendency towards lazy short cuts and assumptions will always get in the way.
Not to mention that I helped keep this child from thinking she was going to be arrested and jailed!


The tension is high not only for the ladies, but also for Adrienne's NBA team. Adrienne, Paul, and Kim attend the last game of the season -- but the fans are not happy with the potential move and things get dangerous for the Maloof family. Meanwhile, back in Beverly Hills, Kyle throws a charity cocktail party to raise money for the Lollipop Theater Network. The focus, however, turns to an unexpected guest named Brandi, who is rumored to be friends with someone in Lisa's past. The ladies immediately side with Lisa and question the intentions of this gorgeous Beverly Hills newcomer.


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The top spot is usually the toughest to choose when it comes to hosting providers. But A2 Hosting stands out as the clear winner when it comes to VPS hosting providers.
Launched in the year 2001, A2 Hosting is a well-renowned hosting provider and is a leading contender in the market. They provide various kinds of hosting plans to its users which include shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers and many others. Their plans are of the highest quality available but here are some of its key pros and cons to help you choose better.
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The VPS plans by DreamHost are of an amazing value. They are quite affordable even for a beginner and does not let you down when it comes to uptime and space. They also provide various extra services on their servers like free SSL certificates, etc. But to help you decide better, we have come up with a list of pros and cons for DreamHost's VPS hosting.
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Despite being at the 7th spot, Arvixe is possibly the most unique VPS hosting provider out there. This is because they are one of the very few hosting providers which give its clients the option to choose between Linux-based and Windows-based servers.
Arvixe is known to offer mainstream hosting plans such as shared hosting, dedicated hosting and VPS hosting all of which come with various customization options. The company has a very good reputation online and most of its customer reviews have been positive. But here are some of its pros and cons to help you decide if they are the company you are looking for.
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No free SSL certificate: Usually, hosting providers provide a free SSL certificate but Arvixe doesn't.
Founded in the year 1998, iPage has been in this business for quite some time. Over the years, they have shown improvement with the passing of time. They provide various website related services for business owners to check out.
The VPS hosting at iPage is very reliable and assures a high-class performance upon usage. Let us look at some of its pros and cons to get a better idea of what they have on offer.
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Costly renewal: While iPage initially provides hosting plans at an extremely cheap price but the renewal just makes up for the saved money and the users are troubled by having to pay a lot for renewal.
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Liquid Web is a familiar face to everyone who has been following IT server management companies for a while. They have been in the market for a while now and seem to only get better with time.
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Fast servers: Liquid Web servers operate using an SSD. Therefore, they are extremely fast.
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Last but not the least, it is HostGator that makes the cut into the Top 10 VPS hosting providers with its amazing set of hosting offers.
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45-day money back guarantee: HostGator provides a 45-day money back guarantee to its clients.
Poor support: The support team at HostGator has significantly dipped down over the past couple of years.
Most business owners look for a reliable VPS provider as an upgrade from their shared hosting plan and in this case, some money has to be spent by them. However, there are some small business owners who want free VPS hosting without spending any money. Therefore, we have come up with a list of the Top 5 free VPS hosting websites.
5 Jelly is a London based hosting provider which provides shared hosting and VPS hosting plans for absolutely no money. They also provide premium hosting plans to their customers which are highly rated in London.
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Server specifications: The free VPS comes with 512MB-2GB of RAM, 500GB-1.5TB bandwidth, etc.
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The company is located and provides only to the customers of the USA but its servers are quite reliable. Here are some of its pros and cons to help you choose better.
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The simple 'technology' that helps us keep track
On the wall next to the Red Phone (not the colour of the phone, but the phone through which we receive our emergency calls - it's actually white) at each of our airbases is an aviation chart covering the South West peninsula. The crew uses this chart to plot the 'Track and Distance' from the airbase to the incident location.
This fantastic piece of 'technology' isn't new having been designed almost since the start of aviation itself and although we now have modern digital alternatives in flight, we still use what is in effect a map, a length of string and a weight to help us plot our track and distance to the incident initially.
The image above is of our Exeter Airbase Track and Distance map and centred over Exeter is a compass rose depicting the 360 degrees of a circle. Resting in the middle of the compass rose is a 'Devon Air Ambulance' pin badge which it attached to a length of chain (it used to be string but we upgraded to a more durable alternative!) which itself it attached to a weight located at the edge of the map.
When we are deployed to an incident the crew pull the air ambulance pin badge and extend it so that it rests over the top of where our incident is, in the example opposite I have chosen the lovely village of Horrabridge between Tavistock and Yelverton.
The chain that is attached to the pin badge is pulled with it and dissects the compass rose indicating the compass bearing, or 'track' from our airbase that the pilot needs to fly to reach the incident. In the example opposite the chain dissects the compass rose at 235 degrees.
The weight that is attached to the chain is suspended from the top right hand corner of the map which means that when the pin badge is extended the weight is lifted up the side of map. We have marked a scale on the side of the map which corresponds to the distance that the pin badge is extended. So as we pull the pin badge and rest it over Horrabridge the distance as the crow flies, or in our case as the helicopter flies, is indicated by the weight as about 32 miles.
Knowing we fly at a speed which covers approximately 2½ miles every minute we can use the distance indicated to ascertain how long it will take us to fly to the incident, which for Horrabridge would be around 13 minutes. A head wind would slow us down a little but a tail wind would get us there even quicker!
The process of extending the pin badge over an incident location on our Track and Distance map takes just a few seconds and provides us with the essential information we need to start our planning our flight to enable us to reach and then treat the patient(s).
In 2018 it cost £7.5 million to keep Devon's Air Ambulances flying. You can help support our service to Devon communities in several ways, from fundraising and volunteering, to making a secure online donation or remembering us in your Will.
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- We noted at the beginning of August in our Members content that moving forward John Cena considers himself as a part-time talent. He worked a reduced live event schedule over the summer and is due to take time off from WWE before the year is over to film the second season of his American Grit series on FOX. So it should come as no surprise WWE is incorporating Cena's part-time status in his program that involves Dean Ambrose. Responding to Dean Ambrose's kayfabe comment about him being a "lazy part-timer," Cena admitted on this week's episode of Talking Smack that he is a part-timer because he's trying to do it all at once. But Ambrose's insult about him being lazy is just lazy and Cena plans to win at No Mercy. You can check out highlights of Cena's comments on Talking Smack in the video above.
- Seth Rollins tweeted this on Tuesday: "Wrestling hurts, but that's part of the price paid to live in dreams. Crushed ribs or not, I'll be in LA for #Raw next week..ready to fight." This comes on the heels of him suffering a rib injury in his WWE Universal Championship match against Kevin Owens at Clash of Champions on Sunday. As we noted yesterday in our Members content, there was a lot of concern surrounding his status but no official diagnosis. Based on Rollins's tweet, it would appear he's going to try to gut it out barring a setback. WWE may have dodged a bullet.
- We've received a lot of questions about the possible sale of TNA Wrestling, which I'll be addressing later in our Members content. The word yesterday was that Dixie Carter was running out of time to sell the company because they needed some help in funding Sunday's Bound for Glory pay-per-view. We have more that you can look to read on the main listing shortly. If you're not yet a WNW Premium Member, keep in mind it comes with a full access pass to WNWHD.com, so SIGNUP NOW and give it a try.
- Tammy "Sunny" Sytch remains incarcerated in Carbon County, PA due to a probation violation. She isn't scheduled to see a judge until Monday, October 3rd at 9 AM. If she admits to violating her probation, there's a chance the judge will issue a ruling. If she denies it, a hearing will be scheduled and she'll have the opportunity to defend herself with her probation officer. Sytch was sentenced to five years of probation in August due to three separate incidents of driving under the influence last year. Part of her probation included bi-weekly drug and alcohol testing with a zero tolerance policy.
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* AJ Styles vs. Dean Ambrose vs. John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
* Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss for the WWE Smackdown Women's Championship
* Rhyno & Heath Slater vs. The Usos for the WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship
* The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler in a Intercontinental Championship vs. Career Match
- WWE No Mercy will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2016 from Sacramento, CA. We'll have complete coverage here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com.
- Elias Samson, who hasn't worked since June due to an ankle injury, is expected to make his in-ring return with WWE NXT at Thursday's live event in Lakeland, Florida.
- Dolph Ziggler & Randy Orton beat Bray Wyatt & The Miz in a dark match main event after this week's Smackdown went off the air. Ziggler cut a promo, saying if this is the last time he performs in front of the Cleveland fans, he just wants to say the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead. Ziggler of course was referring to his career being on the line in his match at No Mercy against Miz and his Cleveland Cavaliers overcoming the 3-1 deficit to win the 2016 NBA Championship against the Golden State Warriors.
- Alberto Del Rio noted on his social media the opening of his restaurant called La Cantinita in San Antonio, TX has been postponed until further notice.
- You can check out the new look of The Usos that they debuted this week on Smackdown at this link.
- Khabib Nurmagomedov will face Michael Johnson at UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Johnson is coming off a first-round knockout win against Dustin Poirier at UFC Fight Night 94, while Nurmagomedov has just one win in the past 28 months due to injuries. UFC 205 is one of the most loaded cards the UFC has ever done as we have the other twelve confirmed fights available at this link.
- Current UFC Interim Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo is so upset with Dana White for not making Conor McGregor fight him to unify the featherweight titles, he's asked that the UFC cancel his contract. After winning the UFC Featherweight Championship at UFC 194 by knocking Aldo out in the first round of their fight, McGregor moved up to 170 pounds to fight Nate Diaz twice and is now set to fight Eddie Alvarez for the 155-pound lightweight title at UFC 205 in November. Aldo was offered a fight on the card but not against McGregor. He's so upset about the apparent politics at play not only does he want out of his UFC contract but he doesn't want to compete in MMA anymore and wants to try his hand at another sport. White said shortly after UFC 202 that McGregor had to either defend the UFC Featherweight Championship in his next fight or forfeit it, he's not defending it in New York and he still has the title.
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Does anyone know if the downtown Manchester Spruce House mixed use project can/will proceed with their permit? It is over 15,000 square feet, three story rectangular box proposed to breakground on Colchester between the Post Office and Spruce Street. The "design standards" are, in my opinion non-existent. Thanks!
I e-mailed Scott Diener of the county's community development department to see if he knew the answer. Here's what he said.
"I do not know that. They are vested to allow 3 stories, but we have not yet begun to review the project, as we just got the Findings for the Directors Interpretation. I also do not know if there will be an appeal to the courts.


Nigeria's foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote has been ranked among 75 most powerful persons on the planet, ahead of the Vice President of the United States of America, Mike Pence.
According to the Forbe's latest 2018 ranking of the World Powerful people, Dangote ranked among world leaders like Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, Vladimir Putin the Russian President and Donald Trump, the President of the US, all of whom were ranked first, second and third respectively.
Dangote was ranked 66th most powerful person in the world ahead of Mike Pence, the Vice-President of United States ranked 67 and Qamar Javed Bajwa, the highly influential Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan who ranked 68.
The Africa's richest man is the only Nigerian on the list and one of the only two Africans who made the list with the other being the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was ranked 45th most powerful.
Dangote, it would be recalled was the only black man who made the list apart from President of the United States, Barack Obama, in the 2016 ranking released in 2017 and was listed at number 71 just above the then American presidential contender, Donald Trump, who was listed at number 72.
Dangote is the chairman of the Dangote Cement which produces 44 million metric tons annually across the African continent and still plans to expand and increase its output by 33 per cent by 2020.
According to the Forbe's rich list, Dangote as at March 2018 had an estimated net worth of $14.1 billion and ranked among the 100 richest in the world and the richest in Africa, a position he has held for almost a decade.
Dangote reached the peak in 2014 when he came 23rd richest in the world and in 2013 surpassed the Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi by over $2.6 billion to become the world richest person of African descent.


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Sheila Elliott Stewart
Sheila was appointed Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager of the Waynesburg branch of First National Bank of Pa in 1999. In her position, she is responsible for supervising branch operations, market & business development, and playing a leading role in the acquisition of loans and deposits for the Greene County Market. With over 27 years of banking experience, Sheila has served in various capacities in the banking industry.
She attended Waynesburg College, where she majored in Business. She is an active member and/or officer with the following organizations: Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce, Waynesburg Rotary Club, Greene County Industrial Development Inc. and Greene County Industrial Development Authority.
Sheila previously has served with the following organizations: Corner Cupboard Food Bank, Greene County Historical Society, King Coal Association, Carmichaels Area Chamber of Commerce and Waynesburg Central Boy's Basketball Boosters. She can also be credited with helping to create 2 area organizations: Waynesburg High School Baseball Boosters in 1997 and Rain Day Scholarship, Inc. in 2002. Sheila is a current member of Waynesburg Bible Chapel having served many years as a Junior Church Teacher and Nursery Worker.
Sheila was recently married in September 2008,. She and her husband, Ray, reside in Waynesburg. Sheila has two children, J.P. and Kaylie Barger.
Daniel Church, MD
Daniel Church, MD was born October IS, 1971 in Waynesburg, PA. He completed high school at Waynesburg Central in 1990 and went on to graduate Summa Cum-Laude at West Virginia University with a degree in chem istry. From there he went into medical school at WVU, graduating in 1998.
Always knowing he wanted to enter the field of pediatrics, he completed his Pediatric Residency in June 2001 and then returned home to begin a Pediatric practice and has been practicing here ever since.
Dr. Church has a wife, Gina. and three children, Jack, Mia, and Mac. He is a board certified pediatrician on staff at Southwest Regional Medical Center and practices at Central Greene Pediatrics. 236 Elm Drive in Waynesburg.
John Dorean
John Rich Dorean is the pastor of the Jefferson Baptist Church where he has served for more than 26 years. He is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of Greene County Habitat for Humanity. He is the author of one book, The Kingdom Adventure, and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. In 1995 he was awarded the Rosa O. Hall Award by the American Baptist Churches, USA for outstanding leadership. He loves to read and is an avid sportsman, enjoying running, swimming, biking and rowing.
John grew up in Greene County, graduating from Waynesburg Central High School before attending Dickinson College where he graduated with a BA in religion in 1974. He met his wife, Merry, while serving at Koinonia Farm, a Christian community from which the Habitat ministry was born. John and Merry are the parents of four daughters, Emily Bonner of Norman, OK, Carrie Dorean of Washington, DC, Hannah Dorean of Buena Vista, CO and Bethany Dorean still at home in Jefferson. They have five delightful grand children.
Jay Hammers
Jay S. Hammers is owner of Rhodes and Hammers Printing in Waynesburg, having worked in the commercial printing industry in Waynesburg for 37 years, first at Sutton Printing Company, before opening his own business in 1987.
A resident of Washington, Pa., Jay grew up in Waynesburg and graduated from Waynesburg Central High School in 1972. He moved to Washington in 1980 the year he married his wife Darla. He has two stepchildren, Dr. Rob Daniels of Washington and Casie Trabucco of Houston, Pa., and two grandchildren, Logan and Lexi Daniels.
Jay is on the Board of Directors of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greene County, he also is currently involved in many local organizations, The Waynesburg Rotary Club, Greene County Tourism Board, Southwest Regional Medical Center Board as well as having served on the Boards of the Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce, Waynesburg Prosperous and Beautiful and Vice Chairman of the Greene County Memorial Hospital Board.
Jay enjoys golf and spoiling the grandchildren.
Donald M. Headlee
Donald M. Headlee serves AG Financial Solutions (AGFS) in Springfield, MO as executive vice president of business development and investment solutions and chief business development officer. He oversees the asset gathering and investment activities of AGFS, which includes retirement planning and planned giving.
A graduate of Evangel University, Don previously served as vice president of First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Greene County (First Federal) headquartered in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He began at First Federal in 1984 as a loan officer and was ultimately responsible for marketing, human resources and product development and implementation.
Don was actively involved in the Waynesburg community as chairman of the Greene County Memorial Hospital board, president of the Greene County Memorial Hospital Foundation and deacon and worship leader of First Assembly of God in Waynesburg.
John Kendralla
John retired after thirty four (34) years of service with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He started out in 1970 as a Highway Laborer and worked his way up to Equipment Operator then as a foreman. He then became the Roadway Programs Coordinator, prior to becoming the County Maintenance Manager.
He was on the Greene County Memorial Hospital board of trustees until the sale to Essent Health Care in 2005. He was then asked to serve on the Greene County Memorial Hospital Foundation board. He serves as a committee member on several county committees, two of which are the Greene County Planning Commission, and the Greene County Public Participation Panel for the Southwest Pennsylvania Commission, where he serves as chairman and deals with a variety of transportation issues.
John and his wife Shelda reside in Greensboro, PA.
Kirk KIng
Kirk A. King was born in Greene County Memorial Hospital in 1965. He is a graduate of Waynesburg Central High School, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Waynesburg College in 1987. In 1991, Kirk received his Juris Doctorate degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Mr. King was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in December of 1991. Prior to returning to Greene County, he clerked for Judge Richard Lamb in the Circuit Court, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. He began practicing law with Floyd King and Bill Nalitz in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania in 1992, and practiced with the late William M. Baily for nearly ten years.
Kirk is married and has three children. In his spare time, he contributes to his community in a variety of ways. An avid sports fan, he coaches youth baseball and basketball. He also contributes financially to numerous sports and charitable organizations.
As a member of the Waynesburg First Church of the Nazarene, Kirk teaches the Children's Church class.
Mr. King is the solicitor for Central Greene School District, Domestic Relations section of Greene County, First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greene County, and several of the local municipalities. He was a member of the Greene County Planning Commission for eight years and is a member of the Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce. He is a past president of the Greene County Bar Association and currently serves on the United Way Board of Directors.
David is a former employee of Greene County Memorial Hospital (GCMH) who served as Director of Development and also as Director of the Wellness Center, overseeing all rehabilitation departments. He is a University of Pittsburgh graduate who received dual degrees in education and sports medicine. He has extensive healthcare experience acquired while employed at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio, as well as Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pleasant Hills, Pa, prior to coming to GCMH in 1999.
David also has experience as a licensed financial consultant. His most recent position was in the wealth management division of TIAA CREF where he worked with more than five hundred affluent individuals in the greater Pittsburgh area.
David is thrilled to be back in Greene County and excited to be a part of the changes that are happening in the community. He resides in Upper St. Clair with his wife Holly, and children Megan and Christian.


Did you know that your general dentist can perform a wide variety of cosmetic procedures to help you improve the look of your smile?
Cosmetic dentistry refers to any dental work that improves the appearance of person's teeth, gums, or bite.
Common cosmetic procedures include bleaching, bonding, contouring and reshaping , crowns, and veneers.
Bleaching is a chemical procedure used to whiten teeth, which often become discolored over time. Some people have their teeth bleached to remove stains, while others simply want a brighter smile. Your dentist may perform bleaching in the office or provide you with an at-home bleaching kit to be used under his or her supervision.
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Also know as Caps, crowns are placed over a tooth to create a normal appearance. Crowns can be used to restore fractured, misshapen, or discolored teeth or those with significant structure loss. Crowns have a longer life expectancy than other cosmetic restorations, but they also are more expensive and time-consuming to place, requiring more than one office visit. Crowns are generally used in cases in which other cosmetic procedures would not be effective.
Veneers are thin pieces of porcelain or plastic placed over the front of teeth to change their color or shape. In addition to improving teeth with uneven surfaces, veneers can be used to correct chipped, discolored, oddly shaped, unevenly spaced, or crooked teeth. Placement of veneers often requires more than one office visit, but they are less expensive than crowns and have better color stability and a longer life expectancy than bonding restorations.
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Supermarket chain WM Morrison reported healthy sales and signalled that its investments in technology, store modernisation and re-branding have driven up sales. Despite the gloomy financial market, Morrison intends to continue investing and expanding.
Turnover rose by 12 per cent to £14.5 billion, up from £13bn for the year 2007 to 2008, Morrison reported in its preliminary results for the year ending February 1, 2009. Pre-tax profits were up from £612 million to £655m. The chain said it had seen an increase in customers and now serves 550,000 customers a week, it claims.
The company has been aggressively following an Optimisation Plan since 2007, which has included the complete transformation of its technology base onto a standardised Oracle platform. Marc Bolland, Morrison chief executive said the plan, which has included a programme to modernise its stores and branding, was now "reaping benefits" for the company. Morrison has also been modernising its supply chain and distribution network.
Despite the world economy slipping into a recession, Morrison plans to continue its investment strategy and will now seek to add over a million square feet of new store space to its business by January 2010. This will be achieved by the acquisition of some Somerfield stores from the Co-op, which acquired Somerfield last year. Sir Ian Gibson, the non-executive chairman of Morrison said the company was "investing to generate future growth".
Morrison acquired rival Safeways in 2004. Bolland joined the company from the brewing industry and began the optimisation plan, which involved Morrison investing £110m in core systems and modernisation.


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Tangsir is a film directed by Amir Naderi. Behrouz Vossoughi is the leading actor playing the role of Zar Mohammad (or Shir Mohammad). This film was based on a novel written by Sadeq Chubak. Tangsir is set in the southwestern Iranian coastal province of Bushehr around 1935.

Cast
 Behrouz Vossoughi
 Nouri Kasrai
 Parviz Fannizadeh
 Jafar Vali
 Enayat Bakhshi
 Noori Kasra'i
 Mehri Vedadian
 Hossein Amirfazli

Reception
Hengameh nahid said of the film, "a memorable and acceptable film that has no expiration date."
Naderi's film evokes emotive feelings about justice, honor, patriotism, and revenge

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Films based on works by Sadeq Chubak
Films directed by Amir Naderi
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Chris Christie Needs An Economist
If you're looking to make a career change and you've got a head for numbers, great news: the state of New Jersey is hiring. Even more good news: if you can handle getting your head bit off the first (and hopefully, for your sake, last) time you accidentally address Christie as "boss" (and are subsequently treated to a 10 minute lecture about how "There can only be one 'Boss,' and he hails from Asbury Park; you can call me Governor or Sir"), it shouldn't be too difficult to exceed expectations, as the last guy set the bar extremely low.
Charles Steindel, whose three straight years of optimistic revenue projections influenced six New Jersey credit downgrades, is resigning as Republican Governor Chris Christie's chief economist. New Jersey is seeking a replacement with a July 30 deadline for applicants, according to a job posting by the office of Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff...Christie, who created the chief economist's job to help guide the state to recovery after the 18-month recession, has been dogged by revenue shortfalls and rising pension costs. The three major credit-rating companies have all indicated that the state may face a seventh downgrade, a record for a New Jersey governor, if he and lawmakers can't end recurring deficits...
Santarelli has said the missed projections were caused in part by New Jersey's volatile tax structure, the economic effects of Hurricane Sandy and federal measures that prompted high-income filers to accelerate payments. "The treasurer is extremely grateful to Dr. Steindel for his service to the state," Santarelli said in a follow-up e-mail after the telephone conversation. State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, 55, a Democrat from West Deptford, said by telephone that Steindel's forecasts "haven't been right yet." "The one thing that has been consistent," Sweeney said, "is that he's been wrong."
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Stuck in Stonewall
By Cyrus Grace Dunham
In the nineteen-sixties, New York City was rife with laws that criminalized gay life. Members of the same sex were banned from dancing with one another. Bars were not permitted to serve gay people alcoholic beverages. If people wore fewer than three items of clothing of their supposed gender, they were subject to arrest and incarceration on charges of "sexual deviancy." The enforcement of these laws, along with the N.Y.P.D.'s routine harassment, made being gay precarious at best and deadly at worst.
A new short film, starring Mya Taylor, paints a lush and speculative portrait of Marsha P. Johnson, a transgender activist in New York City during the Stonewall era.Photograph by Nathan Fitch
At the Cooper Union, last Saturday, the activist Jay Toole spoke to a full auditorium about these laws and their impact on gay life. Toole—who uses the gender pronouns he, she, and they—founded, in 2002, Queers for Economic Justice, a group that led the fight for policies in New York that allow same-gender couples to stay together in homeless shelters and transgender and gender-nonconforming people to choose whether to reside in men's or women's shelters. Toole was at the Stonewall Inn that eponymous night in 1969. "But back then every night was Stonewall," Toole once said to me. "That was our life."
Toole was onstage introducing a preview of the forthcoming short film "Happy Birthday, Marsha!" and a lecture by the film's directors, Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel. The film is a lush and speculative portrait of Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman and New York City activist who was at the forefront of gay liberation, economic and racial justice, and AIDS activism for more than thirty years. The film reimagines moments between Johnson and her close friends in the day leading up to the Stonewall riots. Those friends include Sylvia Rivera, the trans Latina activist with whom Johnson co-founded the organization STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). Johnson, Rivera, and their comrades kept a home on East Second Street, called the STAR House, which was a safe haven for homeless sex workers and runaways. They coördinated protests demanding better treatment of and social services for trans people, including a five-day occupation of N.Y.U.'s Weinstein Hall, in 1970.
Before making "Happy Birthday, Marsha!" Gossett worked as an organizer at Queers for Economic Justice and as the membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides legal aid to low-income and incarcerated queer and trans people. Wortzel currently works as an arts educator at the Whitney Museum of Art. Gossett began researching the work of Johnson and Rivera in 2005, looking through early gay-liberation ephemera and long-forgotten footage, and locating former friends of the activists. Gossett pieced together a story, about their role in the riots and STAR's impact on the gay-liberation movement, that mainstream gay histories had not accounted for. Together, Gossett and Wortzel decided that this history needed to be animated, not just archived.
In June, the month of the Stonewall riots, and in the same neighborhoods where Johnson and Rivera lived and worked, Gossett, Wortzel, and a cast and crew of friends and supporters filmed "Happy Birthday, Marsha!" Trans women played every principal role: Mya Taylor as Johnson, Eve Lindley as Rivera, Cherno Biko as their friend Andorra, Rios O'Leary-Tagiuri as their friend Bambi. Queer and trans activists and artists—some teen-agers, others who came of age with Johnson and Rivera—volunteered as extras, costume designers, makeup artists, and choreographers. I played a character named Junior, a young butch hustler based on Toole.
We filmed around Washington Square, where Johnson, Rivera, and their peers held protests, partied, and worked the streets. I drove a blue convertible down Gay Street in the middle of the night, picking up Marsha P. Johnson—now Mya Taylor, in a red dress and flower tiara—to take her to a party at our reimagined Stonewall, which the crew constructed in the back of an East Williamsburg dive bar. The crew built Marsha P. Johnson a pink apartment with a claw-foot tub in a loft on the Bowery, next door to the Bowery Mission.
The last day of shooting was a highly orchestrated crowd scene involving more than fifty extras. In an industrial Williamsburg garage, around the corner from the set, the entire cast sifted through racks of nineteen-seventies dresses, jumpers, and suits. For some of the young actors, who were scouted through organizations like FIERCE and the Audre Lorde Project, this was the first time they'd gotten the chance to try on a dress or a skirt they liked outside the gaze of a parent. After the shoot inside our Stonewall—which was flooded with pink and blue light—many in the cast changed back into clothing they could wear on the subway, or walking down the street, without feeling unsafe. Though anti-cross-dressing laws were technically taken off the books in the seventies, harassment and police profiling of gender-nonconforming people—particularly people of color—are still routine in New York City.
Movies often take history as their subject in order to prove the trajectory of progress. Big-budget Hollywood films about gay history—"Milk," for example, or September's "Stonewall"—are no exception. We're supposed to see how bad things were and how far we've come. Laws have been overturned, legislation has been passed, and people who were once outsiders have been granted citizenship. But, while a reality for some, progress in queer life is a story for many others.
Marsha P. Johnson died in 1992, her body found in the Hudson River next to the piers where she had lived, worked, and socialized for three decades. Though the police declared her death a suicide, her close friends swore it was a homicide following an assault she had fled earlier that evening. A few years before her death, her husband, a black man, was murdered by an off-duty N.Y.P.D. officer, according to Johnson and Rivera.
Twenty-three trans-feminine people have been murdered this year in the United States, including Mya Hall, who was killed in a security breach in Maryland. Of the twenty-three murdered, twenty were trans women of color. The majority of these women died under circumstances that mirrored the alleged murder of Johnson: in city streets, doing sex work for survival, at the hands of an attacker who would never be known or apprehended. Most of these women, like Johnson, were incorrectly gendered and misnamed by the law-enforcement agents tasked with solving their murders.
Halfway through filming, the writer Diana Tourjee called Gossett and Wortzel and told them that she had discovered a VHS tape, from 1991, of Johnson talking and dancing in an East Village basement, just a year before her death. Wearing a handmade mirror and a glass-bead crown, Johnson cycles between song, laughter, and mourning—of her husband's murder, her own discrimination within mainstream gay organizations, and the conditions that did not change after Stonewall. Gossett and Wortzel have woven this footage throughout the film, so that Johnson herself appears between the dream-like reënactments. "1967, 1969," Johnson says in one clip. "1968. I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall."
Onstage Saturday night at Cooper Union, after sharing the film's trailer, Gossett asked, "How do you tell the stories of people navigating enormous amounts of violence without simply reducing them to that violence?" This was a central question of "Happy Birthday, Marsha!" as a film and a historical approach. The violence depicted in the film—the circumstances against which its protagonists lived and worked—is ongoing. People continue to find ways of living despite that violence.
Cyrus Grace Dunham is a writer and an organizer living in Los Angeles. Their first book, "A Year Without a Name," comes out in October.
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