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While there has been no shortage of headlines surrounding the security of data on mobile devices, but there has nevertheless been little let up in the popularity of bring your own device (BYOD) trends.
Allowing employees to use their own device in the workplace has increased levels of flexibility and morale among workers, which in turn has lead to gains in productivity.
According to a new study from Hexa Research, the popularity surrounding BYOD is set to make further gains over the next few years across all verticals and global regions.
Whereas companies many have previously opted against the use of BYOD due to security concerns, the increased sophistication of mobile security platforms has helped to ease those worries, creating a policy that is ultimately helping to increase job satisfaction.
That has allowed many companies to enjoy the benefits that come with implementing a BYOD policy, whether they be a small firm or a large multinational corporation.
Larger firms are likely to be the main drivers behind the growth of BYOD policies, primarily due to the fact that they have the most to gain financially.
Most of the growth predicted in Hexa's study will occur between now and 2020, with the financial and healthcare sectors expected to the see the most intense increase in installing effective BYOD systems.
Both sectors have had to deal with a number of compliance issues when putting together BYOD strategies, but organisations working in these sectors are becoming more proficient in dealing with these challenges.


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Q: SQL select ids with columns that has a least two tags I am working on job related data and wanted to do some analysis.
I have two tables a Job table with job_id and an Application table with app_id,job_id,tag.
I want to select all job_ids that have an application with at least one tag with the name -> 'hired' AND at least one tag with the name 'not hired'. May I know how do i do this in Postgresql?
Job Table

job_id

1

2

3

Application table

app_id
job_id
tag

1
1
hired

2
1
not hired

3
2
hired

4
2
hired

5
3
not hired

6
3
not hired

In this case i want my output to be

job_id

1

job_id 2 and 3 is not included because it does not have at least 1 hired and at least 1 not hired in the tags.

A: You can aggregate all tags into an array, then test if at least the two arrays you are after are included in that:
select job_id
from application
group by job_id
having array_agg(tag) @> array['hired', 'not hired']

If you need columns from the job table as well, you can join the result to it:
select j.*
from job j
join (
  select job_id
  from application
  group by job_id
  having array_agg(tag) @> array['hired', 'not hired']
) a on a.job_id = j.job_id

Online example

A: You can use CTE to achieve it (result here)
with x as (select distinct job_id,tag from application)
select job_id
from x
group by job_id
having count(*) > 1

or you can use subqueries
select job_id
from (select distinct job_id,tag from application) x
group by job_id
having count(*) > 1;

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Turkey: Determined struggle of the TEKEL workers
February 1, 2010 senan Turkey
Striking workers demand general strike from the trade union leadership!
We publish below an article from sozialismus.info (the website of the SAV, CWI in Germany) published on 28 January. Today, 1 February, new proposals from the Turkish government to "resolve" the dispute are expected to be announced. Initially, Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, (AKP) made sharp comments, saying that the government would not "dole out money to workers for not producing anything". After the threat from the country's biggest trade union federation, Turk-Is, to organise a general strike next Wednesday, Erdogan changed his approach and ordered the financial and the labour minister to find a solution to the dispute by today.
12,000 workers are threatened with lower-paid, temporary jobs as a result of the ruling AKP's programmes to privatise state-owned companies. Tekel, formerly the state's tobacco monopoly, was sold to the US company, BAT (British American Tobacco).
See also: Sacked TEKEL workers keep up pressure with demonstrations
socialistworld.net
Determined struggle of the TEKEL workers
The TEKEL workers are continuing their struggle and their demand for a general strike to be called has forced the trade union leadership to act. After a meeting of six trade union federations, the call for a general strike on 3 February was made, which will be held if there is no satisfying result from the arranged meeting with Prime Minister, Erdogan, on 28 January.
For more than 43 days, the workers of the Turkish tobacco and alcohol sector have been fighting against the consequences of privatisation. Their battle has taken on an historic meaning for the Turkish workers' movement. With its determination, not only against the conservative government, but also their own trade union leaders, they give an example for the working class internationally.
The government wanted to close all forty collection points for tobacco leaves and raw tobacco which remain in public ownership by the end of January and want to transfer the workers into other industries. Through this, workers are threatened with so-called "4/C" status – massive wage cutbacks, the loss of bargaining and social rights and unsecured, fixed-term employment contracts for 12,000 workers. Workers were asked to "choose" between these conditions and unemployment. But they selected a third option: to fight until their demands are met!
Such determination has not been seen in the Turkish workers' movement for twenty years or more. On 15 December, workers came from more than one hundred provinces throughout Turkey to Ankara and met in front of the party headquarters of the ruling AKP. They had the expectation that the party, which many of them had voted for years, would listen to them. It didn't take long for them to realise that to regard the AKP as a party for workers and ordinary people as they have tried to portray themselves for years, would be an illusion. The workers were received with police batons, tear gas and water cannons. Prime Minister, Erdogan, showed his true face when he reproached them, saying that they lazy, not working etc. This strengthened the preparedness of the workers to struggle rather than weakening it. They have announced that they will remain in Ankara and fight on.
General strike and the role of the trade union leadership
The workers demand a general strike. The bureaucratic leadership of the trade union federation, TURK IS, and the conservative union, TEK GIDA IS, in which the TEKEL workers are organised, try to negotiate with the government and to prevent further radicalisation of the strike. The conciliatory methods of the trade union bureaucracy and the lack of consistent support from them makes the workers yet more suspicious of their leadership. The workers have made it clear on every occasion that they will not accept cowardly compromises.
The fury of the strikers against the union bureaucracy reached its peak on the 17 January, at a demonstration in Ankara of almost 100,000. The chairperson of the TURK IS, Mustafa Kumlu, spoke neither of the strike nor of a general strike in his speech, provoking a group of TEKEL workers to occupy the stage and demand a statement of Kumlu calling for a general strike. At the same time, the mass of the demonstrators began to shout, "general strike!". Only half an hour later, after the HARB-IS chairperson promised a general strike, they concluded the action. After enormous pressure from below, six trade union federations – TURK-IS, HAK-IS, DISK, MEMUR-SEN, KAMU-SEN, KESK – concluded a meeting on 26 January. At this meeting it was decided to announce a one-day general strike on 3 of February if, in the planned meeting with Erdogan, no progress is obtained.
The Kurdish and Turkish TEKEL workers, who for days, in spite of cold weather, snow and rain stayed on the streets and in the park in Ankara in their tents, have received great respect and sympathy from ordinary people throughout Turkey. Other workers, like fire fighters in Istanbul or railroad workers have shown solidarity, both through solidarity declarations and taking concrete steps, warning strike action in support of them. School students, students, teachers and social organisations have also expressed their solidarity. In the beginning, opposition parties like the nationalistic party, MHP, and the Kemal'ist party, CHP, tried to use the struggle against the AKP. But, as the struggle has radicalised day by day, they disappeared.
The importance of the TEKEL struggle
The TEKEL workers have not yet won, but they have already changed a lot. The capitalists in Turkey are again afraid of the working class. The expected battles in the coming months against privatisations, redundancies, poverty and social misery will certainly become more determined and will be more radical than before. It will be no longer only a struggle against the consequences of privatisations (which are planned for other public services in the next months and years) but a battle against privatisation itself.
This strike has exposed the true face of the government in front of the whole country and the AKP will lose support amongst the population.
They showed how to fight in spite of the role of the trade union bureaucracy, and how to put pressure on these 'leaders'.
The discussions of the last forty days have also brought a lot of clarity to the consciousness of the workers. The workers, who have had to listen to nationalist, anti-Kurdish and anti-socialist slogans for years from the government and the state, had an entirely conflicting experience, when they fought shoulder to shoulder with their Kurdish colleagues and got enormous support from socialist activists.
That is also the best proof that struggle can accelerate the development of the political and class consciousness of the working class.
This battle also showed that the so-called "Kurdish" or "democratic evolution" that the government propagates as a solution of the Kurdish national question in the last months, will not be successful if imposed from above. A solution to this question has to be established from below, by the Turkish and Kurdish workers and farmers themselves.
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Cast
 Silva Cusin - Ex Wife
 Labina Mitevska - Milena
 Pavle Ravnohrib - Tine
 Igor Samobor - Dusan

See also
 List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Slovenian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

2009 films
Slovene-language films
2009 thriller films
Slovenian thriller films

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Gone are the days where sustainable, cruelty-free and slow fashion brands were dull, drab and right down awful. With this new wave of consciousness for the environment that has taken pretty much the whole world by storm, there's now space in the clothing industry for brands that are taking a different approach to production.
With the myths surrounding sustainable fashion — low value for money, lack of quality, outdated styles — falling apart, it's now, more than ever, easy to build the perfect ethical wardrobe.
From yoga wear that can double up as comfy flight clothes to vegan leather bags, here are some of Modern Getaways favorite sustainable brands.
A basic is just a basic, right? Not really, at least not when we're talking about Dorsu. Their pieces are produced from start to finish in their Kampot workshop, using remnant cotton jersey sourced from independent suppliers in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Phen.
Fighting waste and promoting a fair and safe employment around their factory is the cornerstone of Dorsu's brand -- and you can see it in their pieces. Impeccably made, with flattering cuts and excellent finishing, these clothes are timeless.
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Hailing from Copenhagen, Underprotection has some of the cutest and most comfortable underwear and loungewear. On top of that, all of their pieces are made from sustainable materials in a small certified factory in India.
With two collections a year — including lingerie, loungewear and swimwear — Underprotection proves that fair fashion can be beautifully designed. And we are not the only ones that think so. Underprotection is sold across the world in lingerie boutiques or high-end luxury departments stores like KaDeWe in Germany or Hudson's Bay in the Netherlands.
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Matt and Nat's simple motto, "Live beautifully," has given the brand a loyal following base that keeps coming back season after season.
Their commitment to not using leather or any other animal-based materials and the recent introduction of linings made 100% out of plastic bottles are what sets them apart from the rest of the industry.
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Matter's jumpsuits, pants and dresses echo the traditional clothing of ethnical tribes with a twist. Pieces go from day to night; we can easily imagine taking a stroll around Bangkok's temples in their Sideswept Dhoti pants in the morning and putting on a beautiful top and going for drinks at Banyan Tree in the evening.
Dariadéh is the brainchild of Madeleine Alizadeh, a lifestyle and sustainable fashion blogger. Moved to ditch fast fashion after watching a documentary on leather tanneries of Bangladesh, Madeleine collaborated with a brand to create a small, ethical capsule collection. From the overwhelming success of this, Dariadéh was born a couple of months later.
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text:
package runtime

import (
	"unsafe"
)

const (
	_MEM_COMMIT   = 0x1000
	_MEM_RESERVE  = 0x2000
	_MEM_DECOMMIT = 0x4000
	_MEM_RELEASE  = 0x8000

	_PAGE_READWRITE = 0x0004
	_PAGE_NOACCESS  = 0x0001

	_ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY = 8
	_ERROR_COMMITMENT_LIMIT  = 1455
)

// Don't split the stack as this function may be invoked without a valid G,
// which prevents us from allocating more stack.
//go:nosplit
func sysAlloc(n uintptr, sysStat *uint64) unsafe.Pointer {
	mSysStatInc(sysStat, n)
	return unsafe.Pointer(stdcall4(_VirtualAlloc, 0, n, _MEM_COMMIT|_MEM_RESERVE, _PAGE_READWRITE))
}

func sysUnused(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) {
	r := stdcall3(_VirtualFree, uintptr(v), n, _MEM_DECOMMIT)
	if r != 0 {
		return
	}

	// Decommit failed. Usual reason is that we've merged memory from two different
	// VirtualAlloc calls, and Windows will only let each VirtualFree handle pages from
	// a single VirtualAlloc. It is okay to specify a subset of the pages from a single alloc,
	// just not pages from multiple allocs. This is a rare case, arising only when we're
	// trying to give memory back to the operating system, which happens on a time
	// scale of minutes. It doesn't have to be terribly fast. Instead of extra bookkeeping
	// on all our VirtualAlloc calls, try freeing successively smaller pieces until
	// we manage to free something, and then repeat. This ends up being O(n log n)
	// in the worst case, but that's fast enough.
	for n > 0 {
		small := n
		for small >= 4096 && stdcall3(_VirtualFree, uintptr(v), small, _MEM_DECOMMIT) == 0 {
			small /= 2
			small &^= 4096 - 1
		}
		if small < 4096 {
			print("runtime: VirtualFree of ", small, " bytes failed with errno=", getlasterror(), "\n")
			throw("runtime: failed to decommit pages")
		}
		v = add(v, small)
		n -= small
	}
}

func sysUsed(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) {
	p := stdcall4(_VirtualAlloc, uintptr(v), n, _MEM_COMMIT, _PAGE_READWRITE)
	if p == uintptr(v) {
		return
	}

	// Commit failed. See SysUnused.
	// Hold on to n here so we can give back a better error message
	// for certain cases.
	k := n
	for k > 0 {
		small := k
		for small >= 4096 && stdcall4(_VirtualAlloc, uintptr(v), small, _MEM_COMMIT, _PAGE_READWRITE) == 0 {
			small /= 2
			small &^= 4096 - 1
		}
		if small < 4096 {
			errno := getlasterror()
			switch errno {
			case _ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, _ERROR_COMMITMENT_LIMIT:
				print("runtime: VirtualAlloc of ", n, " bytes failed with errno=", errno, "\n")
				throw("out of memory")
			default:
				print("runtime: VirtualAlloc of ", small, " bytes failed with errno=", errno, "\n")
				throw("runtime: failed to commit pages")
			}
		}
		v = add(v, small)
		k -= small
	}
}

func sysHugePage(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) {
}

// Don't split the stack as this function may be invoked without a valid G,
// which prevents us from allocating more stack.
//go:nosplit
func sysFree(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr, sysStat *uint64) {
	mSysStatDec(sysStat, n)
	r := stdcall3(_VirtualFree, uintptr(v), 0, _MEM_RELEASE)
	if r == 0 {
		print("runtime: VirtualFree of ", n, " bytes failed with errno=", getlasterror(), "\n")
		throw("runtime: failed to release pages")
	}
}

func sysFault(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) {
	// SysUnused makes the memory inaccessible and prevents its reuse
	sysUnused(v, n)
}

func sysReserve(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr) unsafe.Pointer {
	// v is just a hint.
	// First try at v.
	// This will fail if any of [v, v+n) is already reserved.
	v = unsafe.Pointer(stdcall4(_VirtualAlloc, uintptr(v), n, _MEM_RESERVE, _PAGE_READWRITE))
	if v != nil {
		return v
	}

	// Next let the kernel choose the address.
	return unsafe.Pointer(stdcall4(_VirtualAlloc, 0, n, _MEM_RESERVE, _PAGE_READWRITE))
}

func sysMap(v unsafe.Pointer, n uintptr, sysStat *uint64) {
	mSysStatInc(sysStat, n)
}

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The Second Sense
By Nadine Gordimer
Five senses: hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste.
He has to make a living any way he can. He was a young D.Phil. from Budapest then—when they emigrated, for reasons nobody here is interested in, there have been so many waves of Europeans, whites moving in on the blacks' country. Whether this time the instance was escape from Communist rule or the rule that succeeded it in Hungary, is neither here nor there. Soon the country of adoption went through an overturn of regime of its own; victory, and the different problems unvisioned that presents, preoccupied the population long programmed to see themselves only as black and white. As for professional opportunities an immigrant hopes for in a new land, what university could have been expected to appoint a professor who was fluent at academic level only in a remote language, with the ability to speak one other—German—well enough maybe to lecture (where this was on the curricula of European tongues) in a country that itself had a Tower of Babel? Eleven official languages after the change of regime. So, in the obligation of natal solidarity, someone of an older generation of immigrants, whose children were conceived and born in South Africa, arranged for the member of new immigration to be employed in the prosperous son's supermarket. Stores Department. Ferenc became Fred.
It's not a bad living. The pay modest; what one would expect for the working-class. He was a storeman, at first; Stores Manager now, with a team of young black assistants careening hugely loaded trolleys about with the power of splendid muscles raised on the soccer fields. Strangely—a well-educated man would be expected to have the advantage of facility in learning a new language he hears spoken to him every day—his English has never advanced beyond the simple colloquial vocabulary of supermarket exchanges. So moving up to some level of activity, even commercial if not intellectual, commensurate with any career he would have had back where he came from, faded as a promise, a possibility. She—Zsuzsana—who had no more than schooling in a small Hungarian town, picked up the language easily, perhaps perforce—because having been taught how to sew in accordance with the strict requirements of a female role imposed by her grandmother, she had turned resourcefully to dress-making as the way to contribute to getting ends to meet. She had become fluent in order to speak her clients' language in flattery of their appearance. The child born to the couple in immigration (both felt, what better way to make claim to a new country?) went to school where the language of instruction and of his playmates was English. Peter. A name chosen—common to many countries, distinguishable only by differing pronunciation. The boy and his mother chattered away in English together, at home. Magyar, like Latin in churches, belonged in a special context, undertones spoken on the occasions of lovemaking.
For the first years, Ferenc had friends, still back there, send him news-papers. But reading, here, what was happening in Hungary, what crowds were demanding of whatever new government, what was being discussed in the endless forum of Budapest cafés became detached from the venue, abstract, without accompanying vision, awareness of familiar place. This was the reverse of looking at old photographs, recognizing the place in which they were taken and having no memory of who the people were. It was Fred, driving in his Korean car across the vast suspension bridge—named for this country's great hero, Mandela—who was suddenly crossing from Buda to Pest over the gleaming breast of the Danube, and not over the confusion of railroad tracks the hero's bridge actually spans. Budapest. The light of the water was in his eyes, the features of faces met him. He was there for the moments of the traverse, being recognized, claimed by the facades, the detailed prospects of streets rising from the river-of-rivers. He saw. As he did not see any other place.
His enterprising, hard-working wife had more women coming to be clothed by her than she could "take on" as she said in quick-witted acquisition of their turns of phrase, their vision of themselves, their scattering of the word "darling" as punctuation of what neckline, what brief scrap of skirt, there in the mirror, would "make the best of what I've got to show, darling." They stayed for her coffee after a fitting. Unlike a man, a woman in her difference, her foreign image, is attractive to locals, doesn't have to conform to some other norm. Her name was not translated into something less exotic. The abbreviation of Zsuzsana, "Szuzsi," by which she'd been known since childhood, sounded like the familiar "Susie," common in English. An evening dress, a pants suit made by Szuzsi caught a certain touch of European fashion flair that couldn't be bought off the peg. She had a little assistant to iron the seams and tack the hems, a young black girl, as he had his black team of muscle to man the trolleys.
It was through her friendly relations with her clients that it came about.
As the women for whose image she sewed were inclined to take someone outside their social circle into confidences about their lives she was herself beguiled in turn to confess, with alert precaution of assuring she enjoyed the privilege of making beautiful clothes for the confidante present, that she was tired of working at home. It wasn't what she was made for; she let it be imagined what that might be. Circumstances kept her shut away from the world. She had "had enough"—just as the women phrased it, for her unlikely ear alone, of their drug-addict daughter or the second husbnd who was more difficult than the first. The mother of that daughter was one who had no complaints about a husband, indeed proud of getting a man she believed her own qualities deserved. One of these was her willingness to help others, which her capable husband in the building industry indulged. Perhaps they were good Christians, or good Jews. His firm specialized in restoring grand neglected houses for new-rich people who aspired to the power and prestige of Old Money the image of such mansions recalled. It was easy enough for her; she had the kind idea that the personality, the appearance of Szuszi could go into the business of selling such houses—there was the obvious cachet of a European background, the palimpsest images of familiarity with cultured settings far above local standards. The husband introduced the charming Zsuzsi to an estate agent friend who agreed to give her a trial once reassured that her English was fluent, even advantageously distinguished from the usual spiel of estate agents by the occasional Continental flourish—as the accent wasn't German perhaps it was French. She looked good. Well, keep your hands to yourself. She was assigned to a section of the Agency's upmarket territory, to those old suburbs from the days of early gold-mining magnates the latest generation of wealthy whites hunted for tradition that wasn't political, just aesthetic, not to be misinterpreted, in assertive frontage and form, as nostalgia for lost white racist supremacy. The Agency's other upmarket activity was where the emergent black jet-set looked to take possession of fake Bauhaus and California haciendas that had been the taste of the final generation of whites in power, the deposed, many of whom had taken their money and gone to Australia or Canada where the Aborigines and the Red Indians had been effectively dealt with.
She worked hard indeed, it seemed to him, who left the Stores warehouse at the same time every weekday morning and returned at the same time every evening. Even longer hours than she had sat at the sewing machine, its whirrs, snipped-off stops and starts that had accompanied Sundays while he sat reading this country's newspapers with its particular political obsessions resultant from its history he didn't share, scenes he couldn't visualize, and the boy entrancedly mimed American shrieks and howls of heroes and villains he was watching on TV. There are no regular hours in the business of selling houses. Prospective buyers and sellers expect the agent to be at their disposal in the evenings and over weekends, whenever it suits the one who is in the market, so to speak. She could hardly oppose with personal inconvenience: "My husband is waiting for me to cook dinner," he proposed, laughing at presumption of an agent's life being measured against the client's. You don't have to be a philosopher to know Immigration means accepting the conditions declared if you want to survive. He and Peter, helpful little lad, put together the meal, frying eggs or heating up the goulash she'd frozen after preparing early some morning—not often the chance for such tasks; some clients want to view houses before going to their offices, legal chambers or doctors' consulting rooms. And it's true that it's a good time to take them viewing, have them come upon a fine house in the fresh light, as a face that may be destined to become familiar, owned. Late afternoon client viewing appointments would extend into the evening, particularly, she learned and related to him, if things were going well, she could sense that the client's interest in a particular property was rising; advantage must be taken of this by continuing discussion relaxed over a drink in some elegant hotel bar. If she arrived back from these other houses only when the meal father and son had concocted was greasy-cold, it didn't matter: she felt the deal was done. He heated up food for her. She would smile to him, almost nervously, for acknowledgment: commission on the sale of such a prime property was going to be higher than she, without qualifications for any profession, could ever have expected to gain, any way, any place.
The money she was bringing in eased some of the stringencies in their life. Peter had fine sports equipment he had yearned for, the old car was traded in for a later second-hand model and now was Fred's exclusively—the Agency provided Zsuzsi with a car that would give clients confidence in her income status as high enough to be informed of the expectations of their own. But funds didn't extend to provide for major changes in their life—she had to spend considerably on being well-dressed (no time for homemade outfits), groomed, visits to an expensive hairdressing salon, including manicure; people notice proletarian hands as a sign of limitations. Of course she had the luck to be good-looking, right basis for being produced by these methods as exceptionally so.
They made a handsome couple when it was assumed, on occasion, husbands, wives, or gay partners of the Agency personnel would get together for the obligatory Christmas party, or some cocktail hour to mark particular progress in the business. He did not know the personal incumbents of Zaza's colleagues, beyond these encounters, well enough to discover what range of topics they might have in common to talk about; except sports event. In this country even women shared this lingua franca. Spectator passion for team sports is the only universal religion. Its faithful adherents are everywhere; he was a football center-forward as a student somewhere else but the litany held good; he followed the matches on fields locally and internationally and could give all the responses. There were the lunches among the agents only, with professional concerns to be discussed "in house"; anyway lunch break at the supermarket didn't allow time for such leisurely customs. Fred ate in the canteen, or picked up something more to his taste in the deli section where there were hams and spiced sausage imported from Italy and other European countries. Szuzsi said, yes, good idea, when he once suggested, after mother and son had spent a happily riotous half-hour teasing one another in South African English slang, that they should speak to the boy a short time every day, even around a meal, in Magyar. So that he would have it. It turned out meals were not a suitable choice, the boy was tired after a day at school, play, homework. She didn't have other spare time.
He began to speak their language to the boy without explanation while they were absorbed together in the things fathers are drawn into by young sons—construction with plastic building kits, articulating bodies of battery-operated outer-space monsters. The child spoke unawaringly the Magyar word for "leg," "face," used the verbs for "fly," "shoot." But he resented that the creativity he wanted to share with his father was turning into another kind of homework when his father tried to get him to put the words into a sentence, repeating this as it came from his father's voice. He'd suddenly kick over the half-finished creation, scatter the weapons and cloak of the monster, laughing angrily.
Photographs that had been brought in the baggage of emigration and had sifted away somewhere in immigration: when they were shown to the boy so that he might make the words material, come to life in images—"That's our house"—he was only half-attentive. "Our house isn't like that." "It's my house, where I lived when I was like you. A little boy." Of course, the turret and balustrade would seem to him a picture in a book of fairy tales—but this generation of kids don't have Grimm read to them . . . he wouldn't even have that vision, to match.
Murmured to in the real intimacy of a mother tongue in bed, Zsuzsi wasn't aware she was responding softly in English. Well. She had been speaking in that essential other tongue all day, showing prospective clients the features of living-places that if grander, were like those in the familiar images the boy had; been born among.
Zsuzsi was more more and more successful. Perhaps this was "what she was made for" that she couldn't define when she knew she had enough of being the ladies' little dressmaker. This was the proof that if there is something in you which wasn't recognized, the political situation and economic order had no place for, where you came from, it's true that there are opportunities to realize your potential, build yourself a life with the kit of values of another society. She invested some of her high commissions in the stock market, on the expert advice of stockbrokers who felt they owed to her sensitivity and native shrewdness (these Eastern Europeans), her reading of their ambitions, calculated status, the finding of the material image, the statement of a home that would announce this, unmistakeable as a fox has its lair to distinguish it, an ordinary rich pig its sty. Fred could not take leave from the supermarket at Christmas, when Peter was on holiday from school and the estate agency more or less idle in the absence of clients—gone sailing or abroad to snow countries, skiing. So she took Ferenc and Peter to a Club Mediterranée on an Indian Ocean island at another time of year, when the availability of all three made this possible—one of the many treats she provided.
The Agency had become alert to the development opportunity of a change in currency law restrictions that now allowed nationals of the country to own property abroad, which had been illegal for decades. Zsuzsi went back; not to the countries the Danube had flowed through but to France, Spain, England, on a visit apparently with several colleagues from the Agency to make contact with famous ones like Christie's and Sotheby's for co-operation in finding properties for clients interested in pied-á-terre if not a castle in Spain. She came back with T-shirts for the son, picturing famous sights, Gaudi in Barcelona, Houses of Parliament in London, and CDs made by the latest rave bands. The boy didn't ask about the identity of what he saw was going to be displayed across his chest. The CDs overjoyed him. He was older now and did his homework clamped between headphones accompanying him with the sounds of the different kinds of pop music—how could the child concentrate? But his mother said, amused, we can't live in the past, they say even cows give more milk when music's played to them.
But that's Mozart. Ferenc coming up from incarceration in Fred, correcting an incomplete quotation.
His Zsuzsi had—what?—some kind of conscience over the unfairness though it was no fault of hers—the traditional social distortion of emigration had thrust a Doctor of Philosophy into a supermarket storeroom—that he had not got out of there, as when they moved to something better she found for them, she had left behind in the little house that was their first shelter in Africa, the sewing machine. Again through resource of client contacts, this time the Agency, at some stage in her success she broached to him that maybe there was some position—well, with his education—in what her clients called the advisory echelons of big business. Such firms were wanting to move into world enterprise. He could do some kind of the research they required?
He wasn't an economist.
Somewhere in her was buried the small-town girl who saw the distinction attained by the Budapest graduate in the philosophy as a Tree of Knowledge fruitful along any branch. He was touched by this returned glimpse of her; vivid vision of how she looked, which was how she was—essential self, getting up to dance, belonging in the images of the musicians' wild tossing hair, the twisting bodies, limbs rearticulated like Picasso's arrangement of body parts, by a ceiling wheel of turning lights in a student night haunt he'd taken her to.
She did try a few other possibilities for him; nothing had come of them so far. It seemed the initiative for one was from a client not for whom Zsuzsi had found an ideal home but who was a seller of one, his with sauna as well as swimming pool, guest apartment and secure parking for three cars, for which she had found a buyer at top asking price which other agencies had told the seller was impossibly high. On triumphant first-name terms with his agent, he extended the assumption to the husband, inviting Zsuzsi and Fred to dinner in this successfully overvalued home before he vacated it. For what reason and for where next, if Zsuzsi knew, it was not Fred's business to ask, and did not interest Ferenc. Zsuzsi showed him around. What he saw was that the house was, in fact, beautiful, an interior expressing what must have been someone's sense of what his or hers—their?—containment was meant to be: the eyes met with a well-made object of use, and of visual pleasure—the vista opening from the doors as well as the drawings by European artists—Dufy and Braque, lithographs probably—confidently along with the three-dimensional assertion of African wooden sculptures. But the vision might have been the wife's, Zsuzsi had sometime remarked that the man was divorced, or perhaps she said was in the process of divorce.
So this was the kind of scene, background to her life that she—his Zsuzsi—moved through every day. Property to property, kitchen gleamingly equipped as, maybe, a surgeon's operating theater, deep rooms interleading, wide staircase, bar, patio. He's never seen it before, but it was hers. Connection to the supermarket. The asparagus and scampi to follow, served at dinner by a black man in a white jacket, probably came from the cooling chamber for delicate vegetables and the freeze room, where other black men steered loads in wild trajectories and the storeman manager in his open booth surveyed the scene.
The man had room for a boat as well as three cars in his garage. He also had a young son, Zsuzsi said, and he thought it would be nice for Peter to go sailing, on a Sunday, with him and his boy. Peter was half-excited, half-dubious: I don't know them. His mother went along to see him enjoying himself in a new activity. The boat was small; his father didn't come, that time or other Sundays when the same party sailed a stretch of dam water, not a river, during the season. When Zsuzsi went, was obliged to go overseas several times—on one trip the largest German tourist company appointed her their representative in Southern Africa—Peter and he did things together; he thought up outings like a visit to the museum of the origin of mankind but the only success, in really diverting the boy, was the live spectacle of a football game. He couldn't picture his father there, in one of the players, as he had pointed out to him on the field the very position his father had had, look, that player out there. The boy saw himself grown, in the bright shorts, the boots, the intense flushed face of that man, there.
A sculpted figure stood on a small table near the chair where he sat reading when he came from the supermarket evening while she was away. It was a dignitary whose decorated carved belly rested on crossing legs seated on a low altar of some sort, its protruding oval ledge empty of the offering it was meant for. Picked up, there was on the underside an inscription inked into the wood. King Lukengu Tribe Bakuba Province Kasai. If he glanced up from his book, he saw it; or it saw him. It was a gift from the client of the farewell dinner invitation. Its lidded gaze.
She must have sold many more houses before the result of that one came about. One night on her return from a trip or was it what she had announced as a weekend conference in some out-of-town center, she said, "Ferenc, we must talk." She had picked up the colloquial jargon of the sales-world as she had adapted her way of expressing herself to the scattered "darlings" of ladies come for fittings. "We must talk" was the euphemism for crisis, something difficult to be said. Zsuzsi has decided upon a divorce. She's tried some other—what did she say—solution, some way. But in the end. What. Well, they both had been so young, back there . . . didn't know, really, how either would be . . . If they hadn't had to leave—she stopped. He waited. If we hadn't emigrated, maybe. He did not interject but it was as if he had. Yes? If we had still been there maybe we could have found ourselves going the same way together. A change of tone, accusing herself: Maybe we should have stayed. Who knows.
Maybe. The man she was with now, maybe it was the owner of the house he saw, maybe the buyer or seller of another. She viewed—that's the word, clients are taken to view what's on offer—walked through room after room, so many prospective places for herself, the ballroom-size bedroom with its vast draped bed, faintly giving the scent of perfume and semen from an image of how it will be to make love there. The bathroom's sauna and the electric massage chair, ready to shudder. The kitchen with the face of the black cook placed among the shining equipment. Zsuzsana has found home.
He is in exile.
Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) received the Booker Prize for her novel The Conservationist in 1974 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Born in South Africa, Gordimer began her publishing career in the United States in the pages of VQR with her story "The Catch," featured in the Summer 1951 issue. The author of more than thirty story collections, novels, and essays, she was one of the great voices of resistance to apartheid.
Issue: Spring 2007 Volume 83 # 2
Topics: nobel laureates


Nouns starting with the letter Z are listed here. Many types of nouns are shown which can be helpful for writing engaging text.
zeal, zealot, zebra, zenith, zephyr, zeppelin, zero, zest.
zodiac, zombie, zone, zoning, zoo, zoologist, zoology.
There are many other posts on Noun1.com to view that are like the above Z nouns list but which start with different letters. Of all the parts of speech used in constructing a sentence, the noun is one of the most important, and these examples of nouns beginning with Z can hopefully help one find the perfect word.


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi is closing state government offices for Confederate Memorial Day.
The observation happens Monday, one week after the same holiday in Alabama.
Confederate Memorial Day in the two states commemorates those who died during the Civil War while fighting for Southern states that tried to secede. The Confederate military surrendered in April 1865.
Georgia used to mark Confederate Memorial Day, but removed the Confederate reference in 2015. Now, the last Monday in April in Georgia is simply called State Holiday.
South Carolina holds a Confederate Memorial Day in May to mark the day Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died.


We were digging through our random archives again the other day, and came across this gem of the recently departed former governor Mario Cuomo delivering what appears to be an important speech in Albany during his tenure. We would be willing to bet that it was one of his annual State of the State addresses before the State Legislature.
And while we instantly recognized Cuomo, we don't have an inkling as to the identities of the six men surrounding him. If it was a State of the State address, we have to imagine these were the most powerful men in Albany – after the governor, of course – in Albany at the time.
And it that is the case, we are sure there are some political-savvy New Yorkers out there who will recognize them instantly and help us do a little research into their history and political career.
And with the latest news this week that yet another Albany power broker, this time State Senator Dean Skelos, has been indicted for using his office to funnel money to his allegedly unemployable son in exchange for political favors, we're sure that whatever digging we end up doing will not only uncover some heretofore forgotten political careers, but a number of transgression as well!
If you think you can identify the men with Cuomo in the photo, get in touch with us at polposition@queensledger.com.


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UTEP Miners Basketball
UTEP Evens Conference USA Mark With 66-56 Victory Over Marshall
The Miners got that much needed first conference win Saturday night, knocking off the Marshall Thundering Herd 66-56 at the Don Haskins Center.
By asalom Jan 11, 2014, 10:37pm MST
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It was a slow start for both teams, but Vince Hunter, John Bohannon, and Julian Washburn each had monster nights, and the Miners used a 24-6 run to blow things open on their way to the 10 point win.
Neither team was able to gain any significant advantage in the first twenty minutes, but Bohannon and Hunter got things going offensively for the Miners in the early going, scoring the first 13 points of the game for the Orange and Blue.
Each team owned multiple leads in the first half, but neither owned one larger than three points. The Miners led the slow paced half 27-25 with about a minute to play, but a Ryan Taylor layup with :40 remaining knotted the score up at 27 heading to the break.
The Miners came firing out of the gates to start the second half, using a quick 10-0 run to go up 37-27 just 2:35 into the final twenty minutes. The Herd were unable to slow them down, as the run continued, and the lead ballooned to as many as 18 at 51-33 with 10:44 to play. But, this one wasn't quite done.
Marshall used a quick 14-3 run over the next four plus minutes to get back within striking distance at 54-47 with still 6:27 to play. They would eventually cut the lead to as little as five with still 1:37 to play, but they would come no closer than that, and fell by a final of 66-56.
Vince Hunter led the Miners in scoring, finishing the night with a career high 20 points to go along with 9 rebounds. John Bohannon had another huge night, going for 18 points, 14 rebounds, and 7 assists, and Julian Washburn finished with 17 points and 3 assists.
The Herd was led by Ryan Taylor who finished with 18 points and 5 rebounds. Chris Thomas was the only other Marshall player in double figures; he finished the night with 13 points and 6 rebounds.
The Miners flat out dominated the boards from tip to finish, winning that battle 43-34, but did give up 14 offensive rebounds to the Herd. The Miners were also able to dominate in field goal percentage, shooting 46.8% for the game, while holding Marshall to just 31.1%.
The win improves the Miners to 11-6 on the season, but more importantly puts them in the win column in Conference USA. They certainly needed that confidence booster with a tough week of conference play ahead of them.
Coach Floyd had this to say following the win:
"Really happy about the win. We know that Marshall's had some very difficult losses on the road...they came in here and played very inspired. They played really hard after they got down 18. You have to give them credit for cutting it as much as they did. I thought that was the best effort that I've seen John Bohannon have in his career, tonight...He's assisting and its really helping him...Vince Hunter did some really nice things tonight. He's going to grow and get better and better. The ceiling is so high for this young man...All in all I thought it was a good performance."
And a good performance it was. All the way around. John Bohannon's performance put him into UTEP's 1000 point club, and he also moved into second place all time in blocks. Congratulations to him.
Despite the losses that this team has suffered, from the offseason until now, there is still plenty of talent and ability to make a ton of noise in conference play. But, to do that, they will have to play just like they did tonight, on an every game basis.
Considering the lack of depth, there will be no nights off for this team. They must continue to play tough and fight hard, but more than that guys like Washburn and Bohannon, and others like Hunter and Cooper have to be there, producing on a consistent basis. So far, they've been game.
Up next, Middle Tennessee awaits. The Miners will travel to Murfreesboro on Tuesday, before taking on the Blue Raiders Thursday at the Murphy Center. A trip to Birmingham for a Saturday date with the Blazers will follow that. Both games are set to tip at 6:00 p.m. MT.
Make sure to stay tuned to MinerRush for coverage of all things UTEP sports. Also, make sure to Follow @sbnminerrush on Twitter and as always don't forget to like our Facebook Page. Picks Up, and Go Miners!


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Maha govt bans car-pooling in non-transport vehicles over security concerns
The Maharashtra government has banned the use of non-transport vehicles for aggregation and ride-pooling (car-pooling), citing the safety and security of passengers. As per a government resolution (GR) issued on January 19, non-transport vehicles including two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers are banned (for the ride pooling and aggregation) in order to ensure road safety of the general public and passengers at large . Currently, a few aggregators provide app-based bike, auto and car taxi services in major cities of Maharashtra. Some of them provide mobile application-based aggregator service using vehicles, especially two-wheelers, registered under the non-transport category. Non-transport vehicles are ones with white number plates and are not allowed to be used for commercial purposes. On January 13, the Bombay High Court pulled up bike-taxi aggregator Rapido for operating without procuring a licence from the Maharashtra government and directed it to suspend the servic
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Post your comments on the Denver Post article, The jury is still out on success of Obamacare (click that link to go back and read the article).
OK. I tried to be PC in my previous post, but Obamacare is a complete, absolute, failure. How many people have just "checked the box", so they dont have to pay the penalty. Only M-or-on would think the jury is anywhere near out on this debacle. BOZOS run our our government and BOZOS run our press. I wonder if my post will make it through the 1st amendment sensors at the DP?
The jury will remain out until we get some real and hard numbers. So far, its been 110% lies from this administration. Based on what commmon sense dictates, this fiasco has been an absolute failure so far.
BillTheCatz wrote: The jury will remain out until we get some real and hard numbers. So far, its been 110% lies from this administration. Based on what commmon sense dictates, this fiasco has been an absolute failure so far.
The Obama administration will continue to plea the fifth, because everything they say might say will incriminate them.
Enrollment numbers are in, and despite disastrous tech problems early on, the Affordable Care Act has cleared its first crucial hurdle.
So, since Ocare was proclaimed as solving the problem of uninsured by insuring them, how many uninsured were there before Ocare and how many are there now?
Numbers being in should make these figures available so why do they seem so difficult to find from any official source?
Or are the numbers either not realy in or not supporting the claims of its cheerleading section?
Then there are all the other problems with it not being discussed here, ranging from its forced nature to its economic viability and the bureaucratic control over who gets what treatments and when they do if they do. Those are the real issues, the insured/uninsured numbers just indicating how badly it has failed at its claimed purpose when it was being rammed through with no opposition or input allowed.
The "jury is still out"? Do we need any more proof of the delusional state of the Lefties on the Denver Post editorial board?
I hope the Koch brothers buy this publication and set it straight. It would make a lot more money and gain more subscribers if it started spinning "news" articles to the Right anyway - just look at how Foxnews is stomping its competition into the dust (http://www.businessinsider.com/november-cable-news-ratings-fox-news-msnbc-cnn-2013-11).
The problem here is that even after all the failures of Obamacare, these boneheads STILL won't admit what a failure it is because that would be admitting they were wrong about Obama and that their whole political philosophy of Big Government solutions is just plain wrong. Hopefully the paper will get bought by a conservative and we won't have to put up with the outright lies and spin offered up to Coloradoans every day.
This is evidence of why the mass media is corrupt.
"if we like our insurance we can keep, and if we like our doctor we can keep them, PERIOD."
The DP board is simply follow the pied piper as he plays his flute.
I don't think the numbers are the numbers, but I'll play along with the DP board. OBAMAcare has cleared its first hurdle, OK. Then the DP board should encourage all the Democrats, especially Mark Udall to write a little to Obama and have him wave ALL the delays and wavers. With these number why the need for Obama and the Democrats to wait 3 years to fully implement the law? FULLY IMPLEMENT OBAMAcare by May 1st.
The Obama administration, as well as the corrupt mass media, is celebrating numbers to a law at doesn't exist. The OBAMAcare law that was passed by every Democrat isn't the law that these number represents.
Where is Udall? I haven't heard or seen a press conference with Mark Udall expressing his delight with the OBAMAcare numbers.
Don't tell me the DP board is doing Mark Udall's bidding on OBAMAcare.
Our "objective" mass media at it's best.
The Wall Street Journal calls Obama's victory lap his "mission accomplished" moment. Read the whole thing.
Then ask yourself if we can believe this 7.1 million figure given the record of prevarication the White House has run up on O'Care. "If you like your 7.1 million enrollees you can keep ..." well, you know the rest.
DP For Sale??? WHY? Articles Like This!
Seems this Denver Post may see it's own demise before ObamaCare does.
It occurs to me that it depends a lot on how "success" is defined. If the goal was to make health care more affordable and available, then O'Care is clearly a failure. If the goal was for government to exert control over a sixth of the US economy it's been a sweeping success.
If you want to see what it looks like when the government runs everything, visit an Indian Reservation.
No the "jury isn't still out" on Health Care Reform. It is a success and the only thing that we should be talking about is how to make it better since is here to stay.
If it is a "success" why do we have so many stories like this?
Not reported in the DP, of course, but readily available for the simple effort of looking for the truth beyond what you are told to be looking for.
What a stupid article. How can you judge the success of something that has barely left the starting line and has been nothing but a waiver/schedule postponement fiasco to date?
At this point all we know for sure is that it cost nearly $1000 for every new sign-up, and that those who had non-subsidized private insurance are now searching for new doctors and paying higher premiums/deductibles.
You cannot reasonably do an assessment until 2015 at the earliest, as that is when the employer mandate begins, the higher non-compliance penalties kick in, and the federal subsidies for state medicaid payments go away.


Once there was only one continent in the world. It was populated by magicians. At first they lived in peace, using magic to make the land prosper. But soon they were divided into two groups: good and evil. The forces of vice were strong, and the benevolent magicians need the help of a lone warrior to venture into the castle of the evil magicians and defeat them.
Legendly Knight is a Korean-made action game with platforming elements. The game consists of single-screen stages, most of which contain platform structures. The player-controlled knight can jump and attack enemies. The goal is to kill all the enemies on the screen, including bosses which are fought one-on-one.
The knight has a health bar measured by hearts. He is armed with a small sword in the beginning, but later can find throwing weapons and magic spells. Items include armor, a scuba suit, health-restoring potions, and a ring that grants temporary invincibility. Keys must be obtained in order to access the boss room. All these items are invisible, and their exact location must be revealed by attacking spots in the stage. It is possible to find and equip glasses that would show the exact location of the keys.
There are no MSX user screenshots for this game.


My library system has one central location and 9 branches. To make storytime programming easier for all involved, we use storyboxes. These are "storytimes in a box". They contain everything a storyteller would need for a successful storytime including books, videos, fingerplays and crafts. Ideally, there should be enough variety that the box can be used for infants/toddlers, preschoolers, and lower elementary ages. The boxes are routed from branch to branch so that each week a branch has a different storytime ready to go. You don't have to use the storyboxes, but they are there as an option when you need them.
Then off the stage one goes.
Then off the stage s/he goes.
No more dancers! The performance is over.
And what do we do at the end of a performance?
Once there were some wee red shoes. They lived in a shoe shop. They lived there a long time. "This is no fun," said one wee red shoe. "I want to dance," said the other wee red shoes. So they danced out of the shoe shop. They danced down the street: tippy-tap, tippy-tap, tippy-tap.
They saw a hen. "Stop!" called Hen. "I want to wear you." She jumped into the wee red shoes. "Now scratch!" said Hen. "We cannot scratch," said wee red shoes. "Then I cannot wear you," said Hen. "Dance away!" The wee red shoes danced along. They danced and danced – tippy-tap, tippy-tap, tippy-tap.
They saw a duck. "Stop!" called Duck. "I want to wear you." She jumped into the wee red shoes. "Now swim!" said Duck. "We cannot swim," said wee red shoes. "Then I cannot wear you," said Hen. "Dance away!" The wee red shoes danced along. They danced and danced – tippy-tap, tippy-tap, tippy-tap.
They saw a dog. "Stop!" called Dog. "I want to wear you." He jumped into the wee red shoes. "Now run!" said dog. "We cannot run," said wee red shoes. "And, anyway, you need four shoes. There are only two of us!" "Then I cannot wear you," said Dog. "Dance away!" The wee red shoes danced along. They danced and danced – tippy-tap, tippy-tap, tippy-tap.
They saw a young girl. She was barefoot. She was crying. The little red shoes jumped on the girl's feet. She looked down and saw the shoes. She stopped crying.
The wee red shoes were happy. The young girl was happy. And away they went to dance class – tippy-tap, tippy-tap, tippy-tap.
And put your two arms down.
A dance around the town.
And now you lay them flat.
Who wants to dance? Who wants to dance?
Let me show you how to get, get, get down.
From Briggs, Diane. Preschool Favorites: 35 Storytimes Kids Love. Illustrated by Thomas Briggs. American Library Association: Chicago. 2007.
From: Briggs, Diane. Preschool Favorites: 35 Storytimes Kids Love. Illustrated by Thomas Briggs. American Library Association: Chicago. 2007.
From: MacMillan, Kathy and Christine Kirker. Multicultural Storytime Magic. American Library Association: Chicago. 2012.
Because this was a dancing themed storytime, it felt like I needed to include some fun music to get up and groove to. Here's the tracks I included in the storybox on a cd.
Have children color in the giraffe any way they like. Cut out the pieces, and then assemble the giraffe using brads. Ask the children if they can make the giraffe dance by moving the different body parts.
If you want this craft to go faster, you may want to cut out the giraffe pieces beforehand.
Who taught these raisins to dance, anyway? Go on – gather up some raisins, turn up the music, and get ready for a raisin romp.
Fill the glass with soda.
Drop 10-15 raisins into the soda.
Focus all of your attention on those raisins. Are they moving? Yes! They're floating, they're bobbing up and down, they're dancing!
Set up your drinking glasses with different types of soda.
See which type of soda makes the best dancing raisins.
Throw in macaroni, noodles, lentils, craisins, even corn!
Which combination of soda and dancers "performs" the best show?
For more explanation of why/how this works visit the sources I used.
To prep the craft: Have crepe paper cut.
Have children glue the crepe paper streamers (about 2 or 3 strands) to the popsicle stick.
Then dance and move and see those streamers go.
Have children color in the puppet or puppets of their choice.
Cut the puppet from the page, and then cut the two circles on the bottom out as well from each puppet.
Have the children put their fingers through the holes at the bottom of each puppet and make their puppet dance!
If you would like to make this craft faster, do the cutting ahead of time.
Have children thread 3 jingle bells through the pipe cleaner. Wrap the ends around each other to make the correct size bracelet for each child.
If the pipe cleaner is really long, use the scissors to cut to size.
If you are worried about the sharp ends of the pipe cleaner, before beginning the bracelet fold the ends (just 1/4 of an inch or so) onto itself. This will create a tip that is not quite so sharp.
Have the children color in their sheets any way they like.
Let the kids know that honeybees acutally dance to communicate! They use something called a "waggle dance", a "shake" dance, and a "tremble" dance.
On Friday February 20th I hosted my first dance party here at the library! I'm currently working on a grant to bring more play into the library, had heard about many libraries offering one, and thought it would be a perfect way to play and move. After being inspired by some fabulous blog posts from Storytiming, Jbrary, The Show Me Librarian, Storytime with Miss Sara, Thrive After Three, Catch the Possibilities, and Fat Girl Reading I finally felt confident enough to make the dance party happen!
I wasn't sure how quickly parents and kids would start dancing, or how comfortable people would feel at first, so I picked this one first because I thought it was an easy movement song that was easy enough for everyone to participate. You are practically running at the end of the song, so be prepared!
3) "All The Fish" by Caspar Babypants from I Found You!
Caspar Babypants is one of my favorite children's bands, so I was happy when I saw this title highlighted on Jbrary's blog. As suggested, we pretended to be all the different animals mentioned in the song and swim like they would swim. Perfect song for breaking our your swim moves.
4) "Robo Dancing" by Money Mark from Yo Gabba Gabba! Music is Awesome!
I thought it would be fun (and funny) to have all the kids show me their best robot moves.
Time to break out the shakers! For each prop I used I wanted to find a song that would just allow the kids to dance freely with it, and then one that they could follow instructions to. This one was the free dance for the shakers. Brother Yusef has visited our library many times and he never fails to get toes tapping and shoulders shimmying.
6) "Shake It To the East" by Kathy Reid-Naiman from Reaching for the Stars!
This was the song we used to follow instructions with the shakers. Especially fun was the little pause part in the middle where everyone stops shaking.
Moving from shaking the shakers to shaking your body!
At this point in the program I was tired, so I decided we needed to have a sit down. We all sat in a circle and danced only with our arms for this song.
We stood up from our circle and then Hokey Pokey-ed!
10) "Dancing Scarf Blues" by Carole Peterson from Dancing Feet.
Time to bring out the scarves! We started with the instructional song first this time.
And now just dancing freely, with scarves going wild when the bumblebee buzzes.
Another guided movement song. I wasn't so sure about this one, but Fat Girl Reading mentioned that it was a great track so I thought I would try it out. Of course, total success.
While I'm not exactly sure how to clap my toes, this was a fun one to move along to.
I'd heard that this one was always a hit in family dance parties as well. Yup, it is.
A nice song to end things with.
This was a super fun program, but a TIRING one. I counted this as my workout for the day. Make sure to wear clothes and shoes that are comfortable to move in. I am glad I held my dance party close to the end of the day. If I do a future one early in the day, I may consider bringing an extra change of clothes, just in case.
I wasn't sure how many people would attend the program and I was waffling regarding where I should hold the dance party. Our storytime room would have been great, because it has a door that closes so that the sound can be contained. But, it has large, broad step areas that make the space more like an amphitheater, and I knew we would need plenty of space to move around. My library recently opened a studio space which is a large open area on our 4th floor. It has no doors, so the sound carried everywhere, but the flat emptiness made it really nice for everyone to move around. And since it was just 45 minutes or the noise wasn't too much of problem.
As the dj I sort of tried to guide the patrons into what dance moves we would do for each song. "Ok, now we're going to put on the robot song! How would you dance if you were a robot?" I am wondering if this is too limiting, or if it provides needed structure. Will think about his.
I played everything from my iPad through the wireless speakers we had. This is awesome and much easier to control than having to deal with a cd player.
I think I am going to have to do one again during our music-themed summer reading program.
When I got in the car to go to work and the first song on the radio was "Land of 1000 Dances" by Wilson Pickett, I decided it was it was a good omen for the day's storytime theme – Dancing! And even though we didn't do the watusi in storytime, it was pretty fun.
MOVEMENT: "Clap Everybody and Say Hello" from Sally Go Round the Sun by Kathy Reid-Naiman.
then off the stage one goes!
Then off the stage s/he goes!
How many ballet dancers are left?
And what do we do when the show is over?
This was a pretty good storytime, overall. It was my first time using both these books in storytime, so it's interesting to see how they went over. Duck Sock Hop seemed a little bit long for the toddlers, maybe because it's still so early in the storytime session. I really like the book though, so maybe I would try it with preschoolers instead. Dancing Feet worked well, however, especially when you can get the kids to make the different animal feet rhythms with their own feet.
I LOVE the Classical Baby : The Dance Show DVD. It has some really great episodes on it – I just wish my favorites were all in a row so that they were easier to show together. That was basically how I selected the chapters I would play for this storytime – which scenes did I like well that were in a row.
I noticed I had a lot of books that were good for infants and toddlers on dancing, but had never done a dance themed storytime before. I figured it was about time.
I used four ballet dancers with the infants today. You can also have them do this as a fingerplay, and put down their fingers as they say the rhyme.
I do this as a lifting rhyme as well, so the parents can lift their baby in the air when the pig goes up, and then bring them down when the man in brown brings them down.
I thought this was a good storytime, and that it flowed pretty well. I'm trying to get into the groove of storytime again, since it has been so long since my last session. I thought both books worked really well for the group. Dance with Me was fun because instead of reading it, I tried to sing it. The beat of the story just cried out to be sung, or at least chanted. I probably could have done the same with Barnyard Dance, but figured singing one was enough. I'm really glad that they have made some of the Boynton board books in the lap edition, because they are great for storytime, and in that bigger size the pictures actually carry.
For the flannelboard that I did, I actually changed it up a bit from the original rhyme because I wanted to include boys in my flannelboard pieces. I try to make my people diverse for my flannelboards, if at all possible. And I need to keep in mind not to make shoes black for my flannelboards, because it looks like the Man in Brown has no feet at all.


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Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], June 1: A 52 years old gentleman hailing from Beypore presented to PVS hospital, Calicut, Kerala on the night of 22 May 2021 in a critical condition with high fever, left chest pain, cough, and severe breathlessness. He had received treatment elsewhere for the past 5 days with no relief. In his medical history he revealed that he had contracted COVID a few months earlier for which he took treatment, and before that, he was perfectly healthy and was leading an active life and attending to his construction business. Although he became negative for COVID, he never fully recovered and was visibly tired. He was admitted to the ICU under the care of the physician Dr. Sruthi Haridas. Despite Oxygen administration, his saturation level was only around 92 %. He was diagnosed to have pneumonia and fluid in the left chest. His respiratory distress worsened despite powerful antibiotics. Non-invasive ventilation and needle drainage of fluid were done with little success.
As his condition rapidly deteriorated, expert opinion was sought from Senior Pulmonologist and Intensive Care Consultant Dr. Ajit Bhaskar who suspected the possibility of pus in the chest cavity. CT scan revealed pneumonia in the left lung along with a fluid-like image causing complete lung collapse. The patient was living only on his right lung which too was partially damaged due to COVID.
Noted Thoracic Surgeon Dr. Nasser Yusuf was called in to consider the possibility of surgery. The initial attempt by tube drainage was unsuccessful as the pus had become rock solid and trapped the left lung preventing it from expanding.
The challenge was operating on a COVID Lung. Although COVID had come to India on January 27, 2020, and subsequently became a pandemic, only of late the sequelae – long-term complications are being recognized which could be devastating. A search of the world literature on Surgery of lung complications revealed very little. The main fear is surgery as well as invasive ventilation in an already damaged lung as they could further compromise the lung function. The gravity of the situation was clearly explained to the family. Having little other option, the family consented.
On 6 June 2021, he was taken up for urgent surgery. The finding was of fleshy and hardened pus amounting to a kg and forming a thick layer around the lung. This was removed with difficulty and the trapped lung was freed by stripping the thickened layer around the whole lung in a manner similar to peeling wallpaper off a wall. This expectedly caused laceration injury and bleeding from the lung. The entire procedure lasted 6 hours. The patient was then carefully taken off the ventilator by the Anesthetists Dr. Nalini Warrier and Dr. Anu Thomas.
Postoperative improvement in lung function was remarkable and his Oxygen saturation slowly returned to normal levels. The patient was under the care of Dr. Abdul Rehman, Pulmonologist, and discharged successfully without oxygen exactly 1 week after surgery.
Post COVID syndromes usually affect mainly the lung, heart, and brain. Lung fibrosis is known to occur and last as long as up to 6 months. Some patients with lung complications following COVID such as Pneumothorax, Ruptured Lung (Bronchopleural fistula), Cavities, Bullae, Bronchiectasis, lung infarct, empyema, and entrapment may benefit from surgery says Dr. Nasser Yousuf MS., MCh, FIACS, FICC who is also trained in UK.
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Milestones in our success story
We have advanced from a small system house for industrial applications to the leading MES provider and Industry 4.0 experts with 130 employees.
The milestones in the history of Industrie Informatik GmbH range from the development of the first software terminal with Oracle® access under MS DOS in 1992 to smart MES standard software for the discrete manufacturing world in the age of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things).
The following is a concise overview of the past 30 years of our success story.
With AI in detailed planning, predictive analytics and low-code development, Industrie Informatik continues to set new impulses on the MES market in 2021.
In autumn 2019 Industrie Informatik presents the future of digital manufacturing with the new Manufacturing Execution Platform cronetworld and is awarded as "Company of the Year - Linz" in the category "Lead Company".
Markus Zalud as Chief Executive Officer, Bernd Steinbrenner as Chief Commercial Officer and Bernhard Falkner as Chief Technology Officer have been entrusted with the strategic development of Industrie Informatik from January 1, 2019. Markus Mayrhofer has been appointed Chief Operating Officer from October 1, 2020. With these changes in management, Industrie Informatik ensures a sustainable organizational structure for future challenges in the MES market. While long-standing Managing Director Ing. Thomas Krainz, as a member of the board, has shifted his focus of responsibility to strategic product management, DI (FH) Eckhard Winter is concentrating on business development & strategic alliances.
Thanks to healthy organic growth, more than 100 competent and long-standing employees have been supporting our clients since 2018 on their evolutionary path to the smart factory, for which the new BI solution PIDO, individual part traceability, and standardized machine communication via OPC-UA are important function modules.
With the opening of offices in Vienna and Ratingen bei Düsseldorf, Industrie Informatik now offers worldwide customer service from six locations.
Industrie Informatik advances toward international success
In May 2012 the location of the Industrie Informatik Group in Shanghai opened. In the first few months, Industrie Informatik in China already succeeded in implementing cronetwork at numerous well-known international industrial companies.
Partner and co-founder Herbert Parnreiter resigned from his position as Managing Director after 21 years. With the change in ownership and the new management structure, Industrie Informatik purposefully supports the positive development of the company.
Industrie 4.0 sets new impulses on the MES market, and Industrie Informatik provides the digital working environment of the future with the cronetwork Portal.
Industrie Informatik grew continuously and moved to the new company headquarters in Wankmüllerhofstraße in Linz, Austria.
The MES function spectrum would be inconceivable without APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling), KPI and OEE analysis, process data collection, and work center shift scheduling.
Industrie Informatik was awarded the 2006 Export Prize of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Economics and Labor.
The first cronetwork installation was completed in China.
The cronetwork product family was introduced and its clear market position was established as an MES manufacturer for discrete manufacturing.
A long-term partnership began as Industrie Informatik becomes a Microsoft® Certified Partner.
Detailed scheduling became the core of the MES solution cronetwork. Industrie Informatik acquired IDS Scheer's first database-driven FI-2 control station, the most powerful production planning tool to date, and further developed it functionally and technologically under the name cronetwork Scheduling Board.
Industrie Informatik became Oracle® Certified Partner in 2001.
In 2003 the Industrie Informatik location in Germany was founded under the leadership of Eckhard Winter.
In 2004 Industrie Informatik was the first MES vendor worldwide to obtain the certification "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®".
Not a matter of course at the time, cronetwork became 100% web-capable.
Industrie Informatik was awarded the Young Entrepreneur Prize of the Young Business Association of Upper Austria.
As a small team with a big vision, Industrie Informatik was founded in 1991 in Linz as a system house for industrial applications. For decades, the managing directors and shareholders Thomas Krainz and Herbert Parnreiter set the course for the company's success.
With the development of the first software terminal with Oracle® access under MS DOS and later under Windows, as well as machine data acquisition, decoupled from terminal hardware, the foundation stone for today's Plant Data Collection and Machine Data Collection was laid.
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