Will German kebabs, Arabian coffee and a French wine store be a hit with UK consumers? Only if brands can find the right franchisees to help them bridge the culture gap.
A growing number of brands are choosing franchising as a low-capital way to enter new markets.
They seek out individuals or 'master franchisors' with the right track record and local knowledge.
HSBC works to connect both parties, harnessing its extensive global network.
Olivier Mermuys has a picture of the ideal franchisee to take his French wine merchant brand to UK customers.
With ambitious plans – he foresees a network of 20 Cavavin outlets in London alone – Mermuys' challenge is to find people with the right qualities to adapt the brand to UK tastes. With two current UK franchisees already in place, he knows it can work.
To support his expansion bid, he has joined HSBC's Meet the Brands initiative, which brings overseas brands together with potential franchisees.
Presenting to 120 UK entrepreneurs at his first event, Mermuys learned of a key cultural difference. While French franchisees enjoy details about the wines and their sources, canny UK audiences want to go "straight to the bottom line" and understand the brand's profitability.
That's the watchword of HSBC's franchising team, which harnesses the power of the bank's international network to bring overseas brands to the UK.
Many are big names in their home markets, but may have had little UK exposure. That's where Meet the Brands comes in.
"Our international capability and footprint gives us a unique ability to make these connections," says Martin Francis, international franchise director at HSBC.
The bank has recently begun to mount similar events abroad for UK brands seeking franchisors in new territories. The first of several planned missions to US cities took place in October, and the spring will see presentations to franchisees in France.
The franchise model is seen as especially attractive amid economic and political uncertainty, says Marc Talbot, HSBC's head of international franchising development. "More businesses may look to franchise as a way of expansion without committing so much capital at present," he says.
Dubai-based Coffee Planet chose this strategy for its UK market entry. It has set up an outlet in Cardiff to perfect its offering of speciality coffee at high street prices.
Through the venture, Coffee Planet found people in the UK have a greater desire for organic products, milk alternatives and decaffeinated coffee. It has tweaked its UK proposition accordingly.
"Although we are the largest roaster of speciality Arabica coffee in the Middle East, we believe tailoring our offer to the local market is key," says Commercial Director, Mike Butler.
The local knowledge of franchisees is equally critical for Hero Brands, which launches new brands across the world. Typically, Franchise Development Director Jon Cullen seeks out a master franchisee to cover a whole territory.
Currently, the group is looking for partners to help introduce food brands German Doner Kebab and Salaid to a host of new countries, including the UK. An HSBC connection has already led to a 50-store deal in Egypt.


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Q: Convert List to string and vice versa? I've looked for hours and can't find an easy way to do this. I have a list of integers, and need to store it as a string so I can post it to an SQL server. Then I need to convert it back from a string to a list of integers later. What is the simplest way to do that?

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"Use the force, Linq!" - Obi Enum Kenobi

using System.Linq;

List<Int32> numbers = new List<Int32>()
{
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4
};

String asString = String
    .Join(
        ", ",
        numbers.Select( n => n.ToString( CultureInfo.InvariantCulture ) )
    );

List<Int32> fromString = asString
    .Split( "," )
    .Select( c => Int32.Parse( c, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture ) );

When converting to and from strings that are read by machines, not humans, it's important to avoid using ToString and Parse without using CultureInfo.InvariantCulture to ensure consistent formatting regardless of a user's culture and formatting settings.
FWIW, I have my own helper library that adds this useful extension method:
public static String ToStringInvariant<T>( this T value )
    where T : IConvertible
{
    return value.ToString( c, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture );
}

public static String StringJoin( this IEnumerable<String> source, String separator )
{
    return String.Join( separator, source );
}

Which tidies things up somewhat:
String asString = numbers
    .Select( n => n.ToStringInvariant() )
    .StringJoin( ", " );

List<Int32> fromString = asString
    .Split( "," )
    .Select( c => Int32.Parse( c, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture ) );

A: String is the 2nd worst format you can have. Only binary is slightly worse. If you got an Int, keep it an int. Do not transform anything into a string unless you really need to (like sending it via XML, use IO). This does not seem like such a case.
The only reason I can think you want to turn them into strings to build a DB query. But do not build SQL Queries via string concatenation. You only get SQL Injections doing that. Use SQL Parameters. If you do, there is no need to convert them to string. Something between the SQL Classes and the DBMS will deal with getting it transferred reliably.
If for some reason the SQL is actually storing that Data as NVARCHARS: Replace that DB design. There is no reason to ever have a DB store a number as string. It has proper Number Field Types in anything this side of MS Access.

A: The easiest way is to make a new list each time and casting each item as you iterate.

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Jeb Bush to Congress: Don't use border crisis as 'excuse' to avoid immigration reform
byJon Terbush
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is urging Congress to show "compassion" for the migrant children streaming to the border and to address the issue head on by tackling comprehensive immigration reform.
The potential 2016 candidate and Clint Bolick, who co-authored a book last year on immigration, say in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that the crisis is the "latest consequence of the failure of President Obama and Congress to overhaul America's broken immigration system." So to remedy the problem, they urge House Republicans to take the lead, lest Obama unilaterally act on the issue himself.
"Now is the time for House Republicans to demonstrate leadership on this issue," they write. "Congress should not use the present crisis as an excuse to defer comprehensive immigration reform."
Bush has previously said that many who enter the country illegally do so as an "act of love" to be with their families, and has often found himself at odds with the majority of his party's lawmakers on the issue.
Though the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill last year, the GOP-controlled House spiked the measure.

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Guillermo IV de Luxemburgo (nacido Guillaume Alexandre; Wiesbaden, 22 de abril de 1852-Colmar-Berg, 25 de febrero de 1912) fue el gran duque de Luxemburgo desde su ascenso al trono, el 17 de noviembre de 1905 hasta su muerte, en 1912.

Biografía

Nacimiento
Guillermo nació el 22 de abril de 1852 en el Palacio de Biebrich, en el Ducado de Nassau, siendo el primer hijo de Adolfo, duque de Nassau y posteriormente gran duque de Luxemburgo, y de su segunda esposa, Adelaida María de Anhalt-Dessau.

Gran duque de Luxemburgo
Accedió al trono a la muerte de su padre, el 17 de noviembre de 1905. Fue el último soberano hasta la actualidad en morir ejerciendo el cargo de gran duque de Luxemburgo; desde entonces todos sus sucesores, sin excepción, han abdicado por diferentes motivos.

Matrimonio y descendencia
El 21 de junio de 1893 se casó con la infanta María Ana de Portugal (hija del rey Miguel I), en el castillo de Fischhorn.

Guillermo era protestante, la religión de la Casa de Nassau, y su mujer católica, por lo que adoptó la religión de María Ana, siendo a partir de este momento todos los futuros miembros de la casa real luxemburguesa católicos.

Hijas
 María Adelaida (1894-1924), le sucedió en el trono en 1912 (fue declarada heredera suya en 1907).
 Carlota (1896-1985), sucedió a su hermana en el año 1919. Casada con el príncipe Félix de Borbón-Parma; con descendencia.
 Hilda (1897-1979), contrajo matrimonio en el Castillo de Berg el 29 de octubre de 1930 con Adolfo, 10.º príncipe de Schwarzenberg (Frauenberg, 18 de agosto de 1890- Bordighera, 27 de febrero de 1950); sin descendencia.
 Antonieta (1899-1954), casada con el príncipe Ruperto de Baviera; con descendencia.
 Isabel (1901-1950), casada con el príncipe Luis Felipe de Thurn y Taxis; con descendencia.
 Sofía (1902-1941), casada con el príncipe Ernesto Enrique de Sajonia; con descendencia.

Muerte
Guillermo murió el 25 de febrero de 1912 en el Castillo de Berg, en Luxemburgo. Su entierro tuvo lugar en el Castillo de la Iglesia de Weilburg, en Alemania.

Distinciones honoríficas

Distinciones honoríficas luxemburguesas
  Soberano gran maestre de la Orden del León de Oro de Nassau.
  Soberano gran maestre de la Orden de Adolfo de Nassau.
  Soberano gran maestre de la Orden de la Corona de Roble.

Distinciones honoríficas extranjeras
 23 de abril de 1876:  Caballero de la Orden del Elefante (Reino de Dinamarca).
 19 de junio de 1889:  Caballero de la Orden de los Serafines (Reino de Suecia).

Ancestros

Línea de tiempo

Referencias

Personas de Wiesbaden
Casa de Nassau-Weilburg
Casa de Orange-Nassau
Guillermo 04
Caballeros de la Orden de los Serafines
Caballeros de la Orden del Elefante
Protestantes de Luxemburgo
Grandes cruces de la Orden de Alberto el Oso

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Death Penalty Dilemma
January 12, 2021 by Essay Writer
The dilemma of whether or not the Death Penalty is ethical is major problem facing society today. The death penalty is given to those who commit crimes deemed by society and government as deserving the infliction of death with crimes such as murder earning this punishment. A widely controversial subject, the death penalty is a divider among many ideologies, religions, and cultures. This essay will go over why the death penalty is ethical from the viewpoints of Immanuel Kant and Utilitarianism. Immanuel Kant believed that the death penalty was morally justifiable in certain cases. He absolutely insisted on the capital punishment for murders saying, "whoever has committed murder, must die" (Kant). He believed that a society that does not sentence someone who has killed people to death turns into an accomplice of crime. Kant criticizes the notion that nobody has a right to deprive a person of a right to live, therefore death penalty is unjust. He believed that a state should have the right to kill a murderer.
Kant believed that capital punishment is justified only regarding serious crimes such as murder or anything that causes a very large amount of damage to society. He believed it was impossible to allow any type of situation where a murderer should be entitled to any legal rights and would be able to justify his actions. He also believed that we could not replace capital punishment and didn't know what could replace it if it was abolished. Kant thought that if a criminal is not punished then society has a controversial nature and undermines itself. Punishing an innocent man by accident was also preferable than failure to punish someone who has actually committed a crime to Kant. In Kant's opinion a murderer sentenced to death is unallowed to appeal for pardon or lighter punishment. Authorities should have no such right to allow such a situation but if they still choose to do so, it means that legal authorities contradict themselves.
Legal authorities must not violate justice, arbitrariness regarding justice cannot be allowed. A legal system must strictly abide by the law, because observation of laws is an expression of justice. The death penalty in the United States is reserved for only the most heinous of crimes. It is not a state-run lottery that randomly chooses people at random from among all those convicted of murder. Instead, it is a system that selects the worst of the worst. If you were to sentence killers like the ones previously described to a lighter punishment, such as a long period in prison, would be disproportionate to the severity of the crime. Kant insisted on the capital punishment for murderers. Kant said that "whoever has committed murder, must die" (Kant). A society that does not sentence a murderer to death turns into an accomplice of this crime. Utilitarianism views the death penalty as being morally justifiable if it benefits society as a whole or promotes general happiness.
So, if someone committed a heinous crime like murder or rape then it would promote the general happiness of the public to have that person be punished with the death penalty. So, while even though punishing criminals might cause sadness and pain for them and the people who are close to them, these punishments will ensure the happiness of the society as a whole. It can be said that Utilitarianisms support death penalty because, violating laws causes pain for the majority of the society so preventing this pain is necessary.
However, they don't believe it is all right to punish criminals in order to give them what they deserve or exact revenge or retribution on them. The problem with retribution, for utilitarianists, is that it promotes suffering without any gain in happiness. Utilitarianists also believe capital punishment is meant to deter many criminals from committing murder. The severity of losing one's life is intended to cause fear and consequently prevent crime. The death penalty is also better than life imprisonment because it prevents the criminal who committed such heinous crimes from being released from prison and committing them again. From this viewpoint, the taking of the criminal's life is justified because it prevents the taking of other, innocent lives. If decided that the permitting the criminal to live may result in consequences of more terrible crimes, then capital punishment would be considered an appropriate alternative in that case. These views show that the death penalty is an ethical solution to terrible crimes.
All of these viewpoints state that the death penalty should only be used in scenarios where the criminal in question has committed the most heinous of crimes, murder. Kant states that if a criminal has killed someone then he forfeits his rights as a human being and his punishment should be equal to the crime. Executing murderers prevents them from committing their crime again, and thus protects innocent victims. The good outweighs the bad, and the executioner is morally justified in taking the murderer's life. It is actually more morally wrong to simply incarcerate a murderer to a life of air-conditioning, television equipped prison where they get three free meals a day, recreational time, and visits from people close to them.
Someone who murders another person can only be made to pay for their actions by forfeiting their rights and giving their life in place of the person they killed. It should be this way because a loss of freedom does not compare to loss of life. If the punishment for smaller crimes such as theft is imprisonment, then the punishment for murder must be even more severe, because human life is much more valuable than any material item. For example, if a murderer took the life of a child and the criminal was only given a life sentence then, the family of the victim will be paying taxes for his meals and his television. And if he were to take the college courses that prison might offer him, the family of the victim would be financing that as well. This goes against Kant and utilitarianism because it doesn't strip the criminal of their rights or punish them accordingly, but it also doesn't promote happiness to the victim's family.
More than Revenge Many people claim that the death penalty is just a means of revenge. However, it is not while in reality, the murderer actually gets off fairly easy when they are sentenced to death. The murderer is often only injected with a lethal injection. If a person is given the lethal injection they are put to sleep and then administered potassium chloride that will stops their heart. The criminal dies from overdose and respiratory and cardiac arrest while they are unconscious. The small amount of pain the criminal goes through does not even begin to compensate for the pain of the victims and their families. The death penalty is not a deterrent against violent crime. The death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not the issue. Capital punishment is, pardon the redundancy, a punishment for crime.
As a punishment, the death penalty is 100% effective—every time it is used, the prisoner dies. Additionally, the death penalty is actually 100% effective as a deterrent to crime: the murderer will never commit another crime once he has been executed. While there is no proof that any innocents have been executed in this century, there is an abundance of evidence that prisoners who either escaped or were released early murdered innocent victims again. Professor [and former federal judge in Utah] Paul Cassell points out that Out of a sample of 164 paroled Georgia murderers, eight committed subsequent murders within seven years of release. A study of twenty Oregon murderers released on parole in 1979 found that one (i.e., five percent) had committed a subsequent homicide within five years of release. Another study found that of 11,404 persons originally convicted of "willful homicide" and released during 1965 and 1974, 34 were returned to prison for commission of a subsequent criminal homicide during the first year alone. Even those who are not released but still serve life terms murder again.
Cassell further notes that, "At least five federal prison officers have been killed since December 1982, and the inmates in at least three of the incidents were already serving life sentences for murder." Had these prisoners been executed, innocent lives would have been saved. The death penalty is, without question, a deterrent to murder. The death penalty is not a cruel and unusual punishment. The framers of the Constitution supported the death penalty, and in fact constructed laws in order to carry it out, so it is ridiculous to claim that cruel and unusual punishment refers to the death penalty. Justice Antonin Scalia observed, "The Fifth Amendment provides that '[n]o persons shall be held to answer for a capital … crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury … nor be deprived of life … without the due process of law.' This clearly permits the death penalty to be imposed, and establishes beyond doubt that the death penalty is not one of the 'cruel and unusual punishments' prohibited by the Eighth Amendment." The death penalty is moral and just.
The American draftsmen were primarily concerned with proscribing "tortures" and other "barbarous" methods of punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court noted in Gregg v. Georgia that "In the earliest cases raising Eighth Amendment claims, the Court focused on particular methods of execution to determine whether they were too cruel to pass constitutional muster. The constitutionality of the sentence of death itself was not at issue." The Senate Judiciary Committee once noted, "Murder does not simply differ in magnitude from extortion or burglary or property destruction offenses; it differs in kind. Its punishment ought to also differ in kind. It must acknowledge the inviolability and dignity of innocent human life.
It must, in short, be proportionate." The very notion that one could be cruel while punishing a guilty murderer for murdering an innocent victim is laughable.
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Tag: Anthony Trollope
Thomas Hardy Tourism in Dorset
We fancied a short break before term starts (my husband is a teaching associate in university-level biology), so booked a cheap Airbnb room in Bridport for a couple of nights and headed to Dorset on Wednesday, stopping at the Thomas Hardy birthplace cottage on the way down and returning on Friday via Max Gate, the home he designed on the outskirts of Dorchester.
I'd been to both before, but over 15 years ago. In the summer of 2004, at the end of my study abroad year, I used a travel grant from my college to spend a week in Dorset and Nottinghamshire, researching the sense of place in the works of Hardy and D.H. Lawrence. I marvel at my bravery now: barely out of my teens, there I was traveling alone by train and bus to places I'd never been before, finding my own B&B accommodation, and taking long countryside walks to arrive at many sites on foot.
Max Gate
I found that much had changed in 15 years. The main difference is that both properties have now been given the full National Trust treatment, with an offsite visitor centre and café down the lane from Hardy's Cottage, and the upper floors of Max Gate now open to the public after the end of private tenancies in 2011.* This could be perceived as a good thing or a bad thing: Everything is more commercial and geared towards tourists, yes, but also better looked after and more inviting thanks to visitor income and knowledgeable volunteers. Fifteen years ago I remember the two sites being virtually deserted, with the cottage's garden under black plastic and awaiting a complete replanting. Now it's flourishing with flowers and vegetables.
*In 2004 only a few ground-floor rooms were open to the public. I happened to spot in the visitor's book that novelist Vikram Seth had signed in just before me. When I made the caretakers aware of this, they expressed admiration for his work and offered him an exclusive look at the study where Hardy wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I got to tag along! The story is less impressive since it's been a standard part of the house tour for eight years now, but I still consider it a minor claim to fame.
The thatched cottage doesn't possess anything that belonged to the Hardy family, but is decorated in a period style that's true to its mid-1800s origin. Hardy was born here and remained until his early thirties, completing an architecture apprenticeship and writing his first few books, including Under the Greenwood Tree. Even if you're not particularly familiar with or fond of Hardy's work, I'd recommend an afternoon at the cottage for a glimpse of how simple folk lived in that time. With wood smoke spooling out of the chimney and live music emanating from the door – there are two old fiddles in the sitting room that guests are invited to play – it was a perfectly atmospheric visit.
Afterwards, we headed to Portland, an isthmus extending from the south coast near Weymouth and known for its stone. It's the setting of The Well-Beloved, which Hardy issued in serial form in 1892 and revised in 1897 for its book publication. Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor whose fame is growing in London, returns to "the Isle of Slingers" (Hardy gave all his English locales made-up names) for a visit and runs into Avice Caro, a childhood friend. On a whim, he asks her to marry him. Before long, though, following a steamy (for Victorian literature, anyway) scene under an upturned boat during a storm, he transfers his affections to Miss Bencomb, the daughter of his father's rival stone merchant. The fickle young man soon issues a second marriage proposal. I read the first 30 pages, but that was enough for me.
St. George's Church, Portland, in a Christopher Wren style.
[I failed on classics or doorstoppers this month, alas, so look out for these monthly features to return in October. I did start The Warden by Anthony Trollope, my first of his works since Phineas Finn in 2005, with the best of intentions, and initially enjoyed the style – partway between Dickens and Hardy, and much less verbose than Trollope usually is. However, I got bogged down in the financial details of Septimus Harding's supposed ripping-off of the 12 old peasants who live in the local hospital (as in a rest center for the aged and infirm, like the Hospital of St Cross at Winchester). He never should have had his comfortable £800 a year, it seems. His son-in-law, the archdeacon Dr. Grantly, and his would-be son-in-law, gadfly John Bold, take opposing sides as Harding looks to the legal and religious authorities for advice. I read the first 125 pages but only briefly skimmed the rest. Given how much longer the other five volumes are, I doubt I'll ever read the rest of the Barchester Chronicles.]
My other appropriate reading of the trip was Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, in which Claudia Hampton, a popular historian now on her deathbed, excavates the layers of her personal past and dwells on the subjectivity of history and memory. She grew up in Dorset and mentions ammonites and rock strata, which we encountered on our beach walks.
Bridport isn't so well known, but we thought it a lovely place, full of pleasant cafés, pubs and charity shops. It also has an independent bookshop and two secondhand ones, and we had an excellent meal of dumplings and noodle bowls at the English/Asian fusion restaurant Dorshi. It's tucked away down an alley, but well worth a special trip. Our other special experience of the trip was a tour of Dorset Nectar, a small, family-run organic cider farm just outside of Bridport, which included a tasting of their 10+ delicious ciders. We had splendid late-summer weather for our three days away, too – we really couldn't have asked for better.
Three secondhand books purchased, for a total of £4.10.
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Classic of the Month: Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
I didn't even make it past the first page of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard, which I'd planned for June, so in the middle of the month I had to rifle through my shelves for a short and accessible classic and found just that in Thérèse Raquin (1868) by Émile Zola. I'd only read one Zola novel previously, Germinal (1885), about seven years ago. I remember finding Germinal, an exposé of the working conditions of miners, heavy-handed, and while the same could be said of Thérèse Raquin, the latter is so deliciously Gothic that I could forgive the hammering on extreme emotions and points of morality that takes up the second half.
"The Passage du Pont-Neuf is no place to go for a nice stroll. You use it as a short cut and time-saver." Yet this is the Paris street on which Madame Raquin runs her haberdashery shop, having moved here from a Normandy town when her son Camille insisted on getting a job with the Orléans railway. He has recently married his first cousin, Thérèse, whom Mme Raquin raised as her own daughter and always intended for Camille. Mme Raquin's brother, a naval captain, had dropped off this product of his short-lived relationship with "a native woman of great beauty" from Algeria. Thérèse used to bear sisterly feelings for the sickly Camille, but finds him repulsive as a bedfellow, and their new Paris lodgings feel like a "newly-dug grave" – she can "see her whole life stretching before her totally void."
It's no particular surprise, then, when Thérèse is drawn to Laurent, a colleague and old school-friend of Camille's who joins in their regular Thursday night soirées. Laurent and Thérèse start an affair right under the noses of Camille and Mme Raquin, with Thérèse throwing "herself into adultery with a kind of furious honesty, flouting danger, and as it were, taking pride in doing so." There are details here that make today's reader cringe: Thérèse's "African blood" is cited as the reason for her reckless passion, and her first encounter with Laurent doesn't sound fully consensual ("The act was silent and brutal"). But you also have to cheer for Thérèse, at least a little, because she's finally chosen something for herself instead of just going along with what everyone else wants for her.
Before long Laurent and Thérèse are dreaming of how much better their lives would be if only Camille were out of the way and they could be together forever. They start plotting. This is a definite case of "be careful what you wish for." I'll say no more for fear of spoilers, except that the rest of this brief, claustrophobic book is a consideration of the ramifications of their decision, and it's a gloriously lurid vision of what guilt can drive people to. From the "delicious terrors and agonizing thrills of adultery," the couple is thrown deeper into a "sink of filth." While you might predict the book's general outcome, its exact ending surprised me.
Zola in 1870. [Public domain]
Zola's novel is certainly in conversation with Madame Bovary, though it's nastier and more obsessed with the supernatural than Flaubert's 1857 novel. Upon the publication of Thérèse Raquin, Zola was accused of pornography, and in a preface to the second edition he felt he had to defend his commitment to Naturalism, which arose from the Realism of Flaubert et al. Looking forward, I wondered to what extent Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Talented Mr. Ripley might have been influenced by Thérèse Raquin. Particularly if you've enjoyed any of the works mentioned in this paragraph, I highly recommend it.
I read a Penguin Classics edition of Leonard Tancock's 1962 translation.
Next month's plan: I have George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London on my stack to read soon. After Sophie Ratcliffe's The Lost Properties of Love, I might be inspired to read the first in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, The Warden. Or maybe after a week spent in Italy I'll be led to pick up D.H. Lawrence's Sea and Sardinia. L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between would also seem like an appropriate classic to pick up in the summer months.
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Leonard Tancock
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The Lost Properties of Love by Sophie Ratcliffe
Everything was in its place.
Particulars moved
along designated rails.
Even the arranged meeting
occurred. […]
In paradise lost
of probability.
From "Railway station" by Wisława Szymborska
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
From "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
This is not your average memoir. For one thing, it ends with 34 pages of notes and bibliography. Sophie Ratcliffe is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, and it's clear that her life and the narrative have been indelibly shaped by literature. In this work of creative nonfiction she is particularly interested in the lives and works of Leo Tolstoy and Anthony Trollope and the women they loved. For another, the book is based around train journeys – real and fictional, remembered and imagined. Trains are appropriate symbols for many of the book's dichotomies: scheduling versus unpredictability, having or lacking a direction in life, monotony versus momentous events, and fleeting versus lasting connections.
Each chapter, marked with a location and a year, functions as a mini-essay; as the nonchronological pieces accrete you develop a sense of what have been the most important elements of Ratcliffe's life. One was her father's death from cancer when she was 13, an early loss that inevitably affected the years that followed. Another was a love affair with a married photographer 30 years her senior. A number of chapters are addressed directly to this ex-lover in the second person. Although they've had no contact since she got married, she still thinks about him – and wonders if she'll have a right to mourn him when he dies.
Could she have been his muse, as Kate Field was for Trollope? Field appeared in fictional guises in much of his work and thereby inspired Anna Karenina, for Tolstoy was a devoted reader of Trollope and gave his heroine a penchant for reading English novels, too. Ratcliffe seems to see herself in Anna, a wife and mother who longs for a life of her own: she writes of her love for her two children but also of the boredom that comes with motherhood's minutiae.
Much of life's daily tedium is bound up in physical objects, like the random objects that litter the cover. "I am a lover of small things – and of clutter," Ratcliffe confesses. She notes that generations of literary critics have asked what was in the red handbag Anna Karenina left behind, too. What does such lost property say about its owner? What can be saved from a life in which loss is so prevalent? These are questions the book explores through its metaphors, stories and memories. It ends with the hope that writing things down gives them meaning.
If you enjoy nonstandard memoirs (like Jean Hannah Edelstein's This Really Isn't About You) and books about how what we read makes us who we are (such as Samantha Ellis's How to Be a Heroine and Lucy Mangan's Bookworm), you have a real treat in store here.
"Life is in the between-ness, the space in the margins – not in the headlines."
"Books, like trains, are another way of tricking time, of moving to a different beat, a different space."
"Has my reading been a way of keeping me company – of helping me through the worlds of nearlys and barelys and the feelings of missing, and the hopeless messiness?"
"Writing is better than nothing. Better than thin air."
With thanks to William Collins for the free copy for review.
I first heard of the author when she was a Wellcome Book Prize judge in 2018. I was delighted to be invited to take part in the blog tour for The Lost Properties of Love. Below are details of where other reviews and features have appeared or will be appearing soon.
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Painful but Necessary: Culling Books, Etc.
I've been somewhat cagey about the purpose for my trip back to the States. Yes, it was about helping my parents move, but the backstory to that is that they're divorcing after 44 years of marriage and so their home of 13 years, one of three family homes I've known, is being sold. It was pretty overwhelming to see all the stacks of stuff in the garage. I was reminded of these jolting lines from Nausheen Eusuf's lush poem about her late parents' house, "Musée des Beaux Morts": "Well, there you have it, folks, the crap / one collects over a lifetime."
On the 7th I moved my mom into her new retirement community, and in my two brief spells back at the house I was busy dealing with the many, many boxes I've stored there for years. In the weeks leading up to my trip I'd looked into shipping everything back across the ocean, but the cost would have been in the thousands of dollars and just wasn't worth it. Although my dad is renting a storage unit, so I'm able to leave a fair bit behind with him, I knew that a lot still had to go. Even (or maybe especially) books.
Had I had more time at my disposal, I might have looked into eBay and other ways to maximize profits, but with just a few weeks and limited time in the house itself, I had to go for the quickest and easiest options. I'm a pretty sentimental person, but I tried to approach the process rationally to minimize my emotional overload. I spent about 24 hours going through all of my boxes of books, plus the hundreds of books and DVDs my parents had set aside for sale, and figuring out the best way to dispose of everything. Maybe these steps will help you prepare for a future move.
The Great Book Sort-Out in progress.
When culling books, I asked myself:
Do I have duplicate copies? This was often the case for works by Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. I kept the most readable copy and put the others aside for sale.
Have I read it and rated it 3 stars or below? I don't need to keep the Ayn Rand paperback just to prove to myself that I got through all 1000+ pages. If I'm not going to reread Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, better to put it in the local Little Free Library so someone else can enjoy it for the first time.
Can I see myself referring to this again? My college philosophy textbook had good explanations and examples, but I can access pithy statements of philosophers' beliefs on the Internet instead. I'd like to keep up conversational French, sure, but I doubt I'll ever open up a handbook of unusual verb conjugations.
Am I really going to read this? I used to amass classics with the best intention of inhaling them and becoming some mythically well-read person, but many have hung around for up to two decades without making it onto my reading stack. So it was farewell to everything by Joseph Fielding and Sinclair Lewis; to obscure titles by D.H. Lawrence and Anthony Trollope; and to impossible dreams like Don Quixote. If I have a change of heart in the future, these are the kinds of books I can find in a university library or download from Project Gutenberg.
My first port of call for reselling books was Bookscouter.com (the closest equivalents in the UK are WeBuyBooks and Ziffit). This is an American site that compares buyback offers from 30 secondhand booksellers. There's a minimum number of books / minimum value you have to meet before you can complete a trade-in. You print off a free shipping label and then drop off the box at your nearest UPS depot or arrange for a free USPS pickup. I ended up sending boxes to Powell's Books, TextbookRush and Sellbackyourbook and making nearly a dollar per book. Powell's bought about 18 of my paperback fiction titles, while the other two sites took a bizarre selection of around 30 books each.
Some books that were in rather poor condition or laughably outdated got shunted directly into piles for the Little Free Library or a Salvation Army donation. Many of my mom's older Christian living books and my dad's diet and fitness books I sorted into categories to be sold by the box in an online auction after the house sells.
The final set of books awaiting sale.
All this still left about 18 boxes worth of rejects. For the non-antiquarian material I first tried 2nd & Charles, a new and secondhand bookstore chain that offers cash or store credit on select books. I planned to take the rest, including the antiquarian stuff, to an Abebooks seller in my mom's new town, but I never managed to connect with him. So, the remaining boxes went to Wonder Book and Video, a multi-branch store I worked for during my final year of college. The great thing about them (though maybe not so great when you work there and have to sort through boxes full of dross) is that they accept absolutely everything when they make a cash offer. Although I felt silly selling back lots of literary titles I bought there over the years, at a massive loss, it was certainly an efficient way of offloading unwanted books.
As to everything else…
I sent off 42.5 pounds (19.3 kilograms) of electronic waste to GreenDisk for recycling. That's 75 VHS tapes, 63 CDs, 38 cassette tapes, 11 DVDs, five floppy disks, two dead cables, and one dead cell phone I saved from landfill, even if I did have to pay for the privilege.
I donated all but a few of my jigsaw puzzles to my mom's retirement community.
I gave my mom my remaining framed artworks to display at her new place.
I gave some children's books, stuffed animals, games and craft supplies away to my nieces and nephews or friends' kids.
I let my step-nephew (if that's a word) take whatever he wanted from my coin collection, and then sold that and most of my stamp collection back to a coin store.
Most of my other collections – miniature tea sets, unicorn figurines, classic film memorabilia – all went onto the auction pile.
My remaining furniture, a gorgeous rolltop desk plus a few bookcases, will also be part of the auction.
You can tell I was in a mood to scale back: I finally agreed to throw out two pairs of worn-out shoes with holes in them, long after my mother had started nagging me about them.
Mementos and schoolwork have been the most difficult items for me to decide what to do with. Ultimately, I ran out of time and had to store most of the boxes as they were. But with the few that I did start to go through I tried to get in a habit of appreciating, photographing and then disposing. So I kept a handful of favorite essays and drawings, but threw out my retainers, recycled the science fair projects, and put the hand-knit baby clothes on the auction pile. (My mom kept the craziest things, like 12 inches of my hair from a major haircut I had in seventh grade – this I threw out at the edge of the woods for something to nest with.)
My spelling wasn't always impeccable. (To be fair, I think I was six.)
My high school senior year project, based on a one-year internship at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
All this work and somehow I was still left with 29 smallish boxes to store with my dad's stuff. Fourteen of these are full of books, with another four boxes of books stored in my mom's spare room closet to select reading material from on future visits. So to an extent I've just put off the really hard work of culling until some years down the road – unless we ever move to the States, of course, in which case the intense downsizing would start over here.
At any rate, in the end it's all just stuff. What I'm really mourning, I know, is not what I had to get rid of, or even the house, but the end of our happy family life there. I didn't know how to say goodbye to that, or to my hometown. I've got the photos and the memories, and those will have to suffice.
Have you had to face a mountain of stuff recently? What are your strategies for getting rid of books and everything else?
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Classic of the Month: The Rector's Daughter by F.M. Mayor
I sought this out because Susan Hill hails it as a forgotten classic and it's included on a list of books to read in your thirties in The Novel Cure.* It's a gentle and rather melancholy little 1924 novel about Mary, the plain, unmarried 35-year-old daughter of elderly Canon Jocelyn, a clergyman in the undistinguished East Anglian village of Dedmayne. "On the whole she was happy. She did not question the destiny life brought her. People spoke pityingly of her, but she did not feel she required pity." That is, until she unexpectedly falls in love. We follow Mary for the next four years and see how even a seemingly small life can have an impact.
I expect Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin chose this as a book for one's thirties because it's about a late bloomer who hasn't acquired the expected spouse and children and harbors secret professional ambitions. The struggle to find common ground with an ageing parent is a strong theme, as is the danger of an unequal marriage. Best not to say too much more about the plot itself, but I'd recommend this to readers of Elizabeth Taylor. I was also reminded strongly at points of A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence and Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's a short and surprising classic, one well worth rediscovering.
"she had written almost as a silkworm weaves a cocoon, with no thought of admiration."
"after three years in one place, suburban people, whatever their layer in society, become restless and want to move on."
"She had found self-pity a quagmire in which it was difficult not to be submerged."
Note: Flora Macdonald Mayor (1872–1932) published four novels and a short story collection. Her life story is vaguely similar to Mary Jocelyn's in that she was the daughter of a Cambridge clergyman.
*I've now read six of the 10 titles on their list. The remaining four, which I'll probably try to read by the end of next year, are London Fields by Martin Amis, The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope. I own the Sinclair in paperback, the Jaffe is on shelf at my local public library, and I can get the Amis and Trollope from the university library any time.
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Reading Goals for 2017
I've set just a few modest goals for the coming year's reading:
As always, I'd like to focus on reading more of the books I actually own. I went around and did an inventory of unread books in the house and came up with 221. That could easily fill two-thirds or more of next year, yet I know I'm unlikely to cut down on my library borrowing or NetGalley and Edelweiss requests. I think the strategy will be to always have two of my own books on the go at all times, one fiction and one nonfiction, no matter how many other public library or Kindle books I'm reading.
Some of the books I most want to tackle have 500+ pages. I wonder if I have enough really long books to sustain a Doorstopper of the Month feature? To get a head start on this goal, this past week I started City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg and Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Also on the shelf are A Suitable Boy, This Thing of Darkness, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Until I Find You, and a few chunky biographies; I'm also sure to get some long books from the library and NetGalley.
The classics bookcase.
I read very few classics in 2016, just a couple short books by Jerome K. Jerome, a Stefan Zweig novella, Tender Is the Night, and two rediscovered 1930s works from the Apollo Classics series. So that's something to rectify in 2017. Three classics from the list of "Books to Read in Your 30s" in The Novel Cure are calling to me, and it's also high time I read some more Dickens (maybe I'll finally return to Dombey and Son?), Trollope (at least The Warden, if not more of the Barsetshire series), Brontë (Anne, in this case) and Woolf (The Voyage Out). Maybe I'll also start a Classic of the Month feature?
Regarding my career…
I'd like to replace some of my individual book reviewing with longer articles. For instance, this past year Foreword magazine invited me to write three articles surveying new and upcoming books in various genres: young adult, climate change and middle grade. It's more rewarding (and remunerative) to prioritize full-length articles.
Regarding the blog…
I'd love to get involved in more blog tours and collaborative challenges. I also hope to continue maintaining a balance between straightforward reviews/lists and different stuff, whether that's travel reports or more introspective pieces. My dream is still to judge a literary prize, even if that's just as part of a shadow panel.
What are some of your goals for 2017 – reading-related or otherwise?
Tomorrow: Some final statistics on my reading for the year.
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Garth Risk Hallberg
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Our main activity is the Ben Kinsella choices and Consequences Exhibitions are based in Finsbury Library in Islington, North London and in the National Justice Museum in Nottingham.
These exhibition spaces are used to deliver anti-knife crime workshops aimed at young people aged between 10-16.
The workshops, each for or up to 30 young people, are unique as they give young people an opportunity to learn about the dangers of knife crime and the emotions associated with living the experience in a safe space.
We know all young people learn differently, so we have combined role play, video testimony featuring real life stories, quizzes and surveys to keep young people engaged. During workshops, young people move through 5 different themed rooms, guided by trained facilitators and actors who provide age-appropriate guidance, interaction and content.
Room One
The workshop starts with role play in the "Choices Comic Cartoon" room, where the cartoon's main character has chosen to carry a knife to protect himself after experiencing bullying.
There are three possible endings, all of which were not envisaged by the main character but are those most likely to occur when carrying a knife (being arrested, being stabbed with your own knife, or stabbing someone accidentally). Participants discuss the outcomes and how the main character could have prevented these happening.
Room Two
Next, the young people enter "Ben's Room" and watch him growing up through photos and film clips.In this room they get to understand the person behind the headlines, that Ben was like them, a normal London teenager who did things that they like to do.The young people also consider what their aspiration might be for the future and how that future might look if they were to become involved in criminal behaviour.
Room Three
In the "Cinema Room" they watch an emotional documentary of how a series of negative choices left the Kinsella family, Ben's friends and a whole community devastated. Young people explore the ripple effect of knife crime, the loss of life and liberty on both sides, and how life is never the same again for those involved.
Room Four
After this, young people take part in quizzes and discussions in the "Consequences Room", which enable young people to think through the right and wrong decisions relating to knife crime. In this room, they learn about the medical implication of knife wounds (i.e. there is no safe place to stab someone).
Here too, they learn about the Law and how it is applied to knife crime cases. This includes a discussion on joint enterprise and how simply encouraging or assisting someone to commit a criminal act may result in someone being convicted and serving a similar sentence to the offender.
Room Five
In the penultimate room, they enter a replica prison cell where an actor drives home the message of the reality of living in a prison cell. The young people get to ask the 'prisoner' about prison and this helps debunk some of myths that they may hold about the prison regime.
It also allows them to experience what it would be like to be stuck in a confined space. They are then able to reflect on the 10-minute experience and compare what that might be like if they had to live this for 23 hours a day 7 days a week.
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'Waitress' Star Finds Strength In The Female Narrative On Broadway
Here's how Tony winner Jessie Mueller's latest role is making history.
Curtis M. Wong
Senior Culture Reporter, HuffPost
"Waitress," starring Jessie Mueller, is Broadway's first show helmed by an all-female creative team.
Much of the buzz surrounding "Waitress," which is now playing at New York's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, has emphasized the musical's all-female creative team — the first in Broadway history.
Still, one person hadn't picked up on that anomaly until late in the game: the show's leading lady, Jessie Mueller.
"I honestly didn't know that was the case until somebody brought it up. I hadn't noticed," Mueller told The Huffington Post. Ultimately, she believes her oversight is a positive thing: "Everybody was there simply because they were the best person for the job."
To her point, few new Broadway musicals boast such an impressive pedigree. "Waitress," which is based on Adrienne Shelly's 2007 film of the same name, is directed by Diane Paulus, who nabbed a Tony Award for the 2013 revival of "Pippin." Choreographer Lorin Latarro, who worked on the immersive theater sensation, "Queen of the Night," was brought in to give the cast slick moves, while Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam") provided the book. Then, of course, there's the anthemic, pop-rock score, written by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles.
Mueller plays Jenna Hunterson, a down-on-her-luck waitress who finds an unlikely love interest in her gynecologist (Drew Gehling).
"Waitress" finds its heartbeat, however, in Mueller. The 33-year-old singer-actress brings undeniable warmth and charm to the role of Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and pie-making aficionado at a small-town diner who feels trapped in a loveless relationship with an abusive husband (Nick Cordero). After discovering that she's pregnant, Jenna finds herself in a surprise affair with her gynecologist (Drew Gehling), and sets out on a journey of self re-discovery with the help of a few imaginative pie recipes.
""I think it's really important for women to see a character who has not taken care of herself, but then see that person taking control again and experiencing a redemption.""
Mueller, who hails from Evanston, Illinois, first played the role in a 2014 workshop during her Tony-winning run as Carole King in the smash musical, "Beautiful," and said she connected to the "inherent goodness" of Jenna, portrayed by Keri Russell in the 2007 film.
"There's something about her soul that I just really loved," Mueller said. "There's a lot of pain there, but there's also a lot of strength. That really appealed to me."
Keala Settle, Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in "Waitress."
Before "Waitress" began its out-of-town run in Cambridge, Massachusetts last August, Mueller spent time with victims of sexual and domestic violence at the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) program in New York. That process, she said, was an "interesting challenge" that allowed her to get inside Jenna's head but made her feel "blessed to not know what that's like firsthand."
Mueller wants audiences to see her portrayal of Jenna as a cautionary, albeit uplifting, tale that's told with plenty of humor. Though "Waitress" tackles a number of serious themes, it offers its star plenty of opportunities to show off her comedic chops, too. In fact, Mueller said her favorite number is not her centerpiece ballad, "She Used to Be Mine," but rather the sexy "Bad Idea," which finds Jenna and her doctor in flagrante delicto atop an examination table.
Discovering those nuggets of comic relief, she said, was "hugely satisfying" and strengthened the musical's redemptive message.
On May 9, Mueller performed at the 11th annual Night at the Pier on behalf of the Family Equality Council, a U.S. advocacy group that supports LGBT parents across the country.
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"In today's society, I still think young women are taught to stay out of the way, take care of everybody else and not put themselves first," she said. "I think it's really important for women to see a character who has not taken care of herself, but then see that person taking control again and experiencing a redemption."
Certainly, that work has paid off. The show, which opened on April 25, received four Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Mueller.
Pointing to her Tony victory for "Beautiful" just two years ago, Mueller is refreshingly modest about the critical raves she's received for "Waitress." Still, she said, "To be recognized for this show, which we have worked so hard on and I love so much… I feel really, really lucky."
"In today's society, I still think young women are taught to stay out of the way, take care of everybody else and not put themselves first," Mueller said.
Given that "Waitress" arrived at a time when the need for diverse narratives has dominated the cultural discourse around show business, Mueller said she is proud to be associated with a musical that's embraced a female perspective wholeheartedly.
"If young women can look at this show and say, 'Oh, I can be a book writer, I can be a director, I can be a choreographer,' that's such a great thing, because it hasn't happened before," she said. "I hope that people are just more open than ever to hiring the best person for the job, no matter what their gender or their sexual orientation or their race is, and that we're finally getting to a point where we are inclusive and not taking anyone out of the equation."
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Tom Montgomery Fate offers a new take on cabin fever.
Cabin fever used to mean you were snowed in, isolated and itching to get outside and see other people.
"In the modern era, it is just the opposite," Fate said.
Today, we long to be "unplugged" and seek isolation from the pressures of modern life.
"People are multi-present and we are overwhelmed with technology," he said.
"It's really a modern conversation with Henry David Thoreau," he said.
Thoreau was an early 19th century author and poet who wrote "Walden," which reflected on his experience of living simply while surrounded by nature.
Fate, a professor of English at College of DuPage in suburban Chicago, will be in Springfield for a presentation and book signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bonaventure Hall, Chiara Center, 4875 LaVerna Road.
Balance can be tough to achieve, he said, with all the pressures of kids, family, work and the pushes of technology.
"You are always standing on the fulcrum and there is always something trying to push you out of balance," Fate said.
What the book seeks to do, he said, is to help the reader recover some "attentiveness" to the world around us, helping make day-to-day experiences more meaningful.
"Each chapter is an invitation to the reader asking how they weigh the various aspects in their lives," Fate said.
The book grew out of a series of 500-word radio essays he recorded over the past 10 years.
Fate said the same technology that connects us disconnects us, too.
He gives the example of people using smartphones.
People, he said, aspire to be in several places at the same time.
"But the natural world has a different sense of time," Fate said.
Especially when it comes to natural cycles.
"Nature can heal form human excess, but we don't live on that 50-60 year recovery cycle," he said.
"Cabin Fever," one of Fate's five books, was published in late 2011 and came out in paperback in June 2012.
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Do I often tell others what God has done in my life?
Lord, I know you are always present to me. There are times when I take your presence for granted. Grant me the strength to announce to the whole world, and especially my family, that you are always present to me.
Simeon rejoiced when Jesus was revealed to them. Am I able to recognize Jesus' presence in my life?
Lord, my knowledge of you is constantly increasing. Help me to be more joyful as you reveal yourselfto me. Help me to be aware of your presence with me.
What gets in the way of me following the teachings of Jesus?
Lord, there are so many distractions in this world. Help me to ignore them and to concentrate on your word. Grant me the strength to turn away all distractions and to always follow your teachings.
How does Jesus minister through me? In what ways do I evangelize?
Lord, give me the courage to spread your good news. Help me to be aware of your presence with me always.
When have I played it "safe" and chosen to protect myself rather than follow the teachings of Jesus?
Lord I know there are times I put myself before you. I know this is wrong. Help me to always put you first and myself and my reputation second.


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Jan-Ole Sievers (* 16. Februar 1995 in Karlsruhe) ist ein deutscher Fußballspieler auf der Position des Torwarts.

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Sievers begann seine Karriere in der Jugend des Karlsruher SC. Am 1. Juli 2011 wechselte er in die Jugendabteilung der Bolton Wanderers. 2013 schloss er sich der U19 des 1. FC Kaiserslautern an. Im Folgejahr erhielt er einen Vertrag für die zweite Mannschaft des Vereins. Am 7. Februar 2017 gab der FCK bekannt, dass Sievers einen Profivertrag erhalten hatte.

Sein erstes Spiel in der 2. Bundesliga absolvierte Sievers am 1. Dezember 2017 bei der 2:3-Niederlage in Heidenheim, als er in der 23. Minute für den verletzten Marius Müller eingewechselt wurde.

Am 4. Mai 2018 gab der Verein nach dem feststehenden Abstieg in die 3. Liga bekannt, dass Sievers seinen Vertrag mit Drittligagültigkeit bis 2021 verlängert hatte. Zu Saisonbeginn 2018/19 wurde Sievers zur Nummer Eins im Tor der Pfälzer ernannt. Er bestritt die ersten sieben Spiele. Nach einer Verletzung wurde er von Wolfgang Hesl vertreten, der auch nach Sievers' Genesung im Tor blieb.

In der Winterpause erklärte Cheftrainer Sascha Hildmann Lennart Grill zum neuen Stammtorwart, woraufhin sich Sievers Anfang Februar 2019 für ein Jahr zum FC Gifu in die japanische J2 League ausleihen ließ, um Spielpraxis zu sammeln. Mit Gifu musste der Torhüter am Saisonende als Tabellenletzter in die J3 League absteigen. Zum 1. Januar 2020 endete der Leihvertrag mit den Japanern und Sievers kehrte zum FCK zurück, wo er jedoch nicht im Kader stand. Im Sommer 2020 wurde eine Vertragsauflösung vereinbart. Nach einem halben Jahr ohne Verein schloss sich Sievers im Januar 2021 dem Regionalligisten SV Elversberg an, den er nach der Saison wieder verließ, ohne zum Einsatz gekommen zu sein. Zur Saison 2021/22 unterschrieb er einen Vertrag mit einer Laufzeit bis Sommer 2022 bei 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig (Regionalliga Nordost), den er nicht verlängerte.

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Acupuncture is a highly versatile modality, with applications that range from muscular dysfunctions, pain management, allergy, menstruation dysfunctions, post surgery care, to facial rejuvenation, and many more.
For me, acupuncture is first and foremost a manual modality and it is one of the most effective modalities for treating soft tissue related problems. By soft tissues, I mean skeletal muscles, meanings the muscles that wrap around your body; muscles that you can activate or de-activate consciously. These muscles get over used all the time, whether it's from your athletic trainings, or daily repetitive use from work, or habitual posture, etc. Pain, soreness, achiness, tightness, etc. from muscle over use is something we all experience and can relate to. When your body is tight, it also constantly sends a signal back to your nervous system, which in effect is told not to relax. And the nervous system then constantly keeps up neuron activities to maintain a high level of muscle tone to prepare to fight or flight. A vicious circle thus ensues. When a patient seeks treatment, it means the body/mind has already taken a toll and it needs some care and help.
In other words, this is a more nuianced way of interpreting the old adage of "how stress kills you"... To be more precise, stress doesn't kill you per se, rather, it's your stress responses that are killing you. To be even more precise, it's the cumulative residual stress responses that you are carrying on your body that are sapping your life away.
So my clinic practice is built on breaking this vicious circle for you by relaxing your muscles and your nervous sytem, which is usually the root cause of most patients' chief complaints.
In my clinic practice, I always start by needling points that relax the mind and the abdomen first. I also palpate extensively to ensure the most precise point locations, specific to that patient. The needling is gentle, smooth, with minimal manipulation. This is an essential requisitive process that helps to relax the patients and allows their body and mind a chance to cooperate for 20-25 minutes. After that, I use a combination of needling with electrical stimulation to further relax deep stubborn muscles like the traps, lower-back, and gluts, areas of most common chief complaints.
To find out how I can help you with your condition, contact me.


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Nearly 150 Killed in Battle for Libya's Tripoli: WHO
Shoes are pictured in a house damaged by shelling during the fighting between the eastern forces and internationally recognized government is pictured in Abu Salim in Tripoli, Libya April 15, 2019. | Photo: Reuters
The clashes have displaced more than 18,000 people, according to the latest figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
At least 147 people have been killed and 614 wounded in the offensive launched on April 4 by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar to take the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Eastern Libya Parliament Head Says Forces Will Push to Tripoli
Fighting broke out as Haftar's forces sought to take control of Tripoli from loyalists of the internationally-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) which is based in the capital.
The GNA called for an end to the fighting on Monday and to move to political dialogue with eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar.
In a news conference in Tripoli, Interior Minister, Fathi Bashaga, heavily condemned the bombing of civilian areas, including schools and the latest demolition of a book storage unit carrying books for the upcoming academic year.
With fighting between the two sides entering its second week, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Siala, added that LNA troops must depart the capital in order to make way for a political resolution and ceasefire.
The rising number of casualties has prompted the World Health Organization to deploy surgical teams "to support Tripoli-area hospitals as they cope with the influx of trauma cases," the UN agency wrote on Twitter.
At least eight ambulances have been hit during clashes in the southern outskirts of the capital, as both sides have defied international calls to halt the fighting.
WHO urged "all parties to exercise restraint and avoid causing collateral damage to hospitals, ambulances and health workers."
In addition to ground fighting, both pro-government forces and Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) carry out daily air raids and accuse each other of targeting civilians.
The resulting casualties have left health facilities in "critical need of assistance," according to the United Nations refugee agency.
"The situation on the ground continues deteriorating and number of casualties soaring," UNHCR tweeted.
The fighting between the LNA and troops under the internationally-backed Tripoli government has killed at least 150 people, according to U.N. migration agency.
More than 18,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, 2,500 alone in the past 24 hours the U.N. migration agency added.
After sweeping up from the south, the LNA became bogged down in Tripoli's southern suburbs 11 km (7 miles) from the city centre. Several locations have changed hands more than once.
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Saudis Offer Libya Millions Ahead of Offensive in Tripoli
Macron's Role in the War in Libya - It's All About the Money
Tripoli-Based Forces Launch Counter-Offensive in Northern Libya


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DE · Topics · Design
InfiPoints Supports CAD Modeling
New Elysium release has automatic feature extraction from point-cloud data scanned with unmanned aerial vehicless and mobile mapping systems.
Point-cloud scan using MMS (left) and automatically extracted planes using InfiPoints (right).(Point cloud data source: Association for Promotion of Infrastructure Geospatial Information Distribution/Shizuoka Prefecture). Image courtesy of Elysium.
Innovations and enhancements optimize machining tools and molds and more.
Engineers enable simulation of complete 'dance' of colliding vortices at reduced computational time.
Suite built to offer secure engineering collaboration with complete control of intellectual property.
World Design Organization Issues Call for Submissions for World Design Impact...
Projects should showcase the expanding ways that design can make a positive impact on the...
Reduce production time and costs with 3D printing.
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Elysium has developed an advanced functionality to automatically extract piping and planar surfaces for building information modeling (BIM) from scanners used by UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones) and mobile mapping systems (MMS)—in addition to currently supported feature extraction from tripod scanners. The new capability will be embedded in the latest version of Elysium's point-cloud utilization software, InfiPoints, just released.
Elysium has developed technology to complement any missing information in point-cloud data with InfiPoints' advanced processing capabilities—such as feature extraction of pipes and planar surfaces and automatic registration. This functionality allows users to accurately combine and perform registration between UAV/MMS-scanned point clouds and point-cloud data captured from tripod 3D laser scanners. The results are that the scope of efficient modeling using InfiPoints has broadened significantly from past standards.
Monochromatic solid model view (left) of piping in an industrial facility, and CAD model, with texture from the point cloud color information, in the new version of InfiPoints (right). Image courtesy of Elysium.
The new technology can be applied not only with UAVs and MMS, but also with handheld scanners that are often used for smaller scale retrofitting and engineering. Backpack scanners and cart scanners used for narrow-area scanning can also be supported by this new functionality. Users of other point-cloud processing software may find that there are cases in which their exported point-cloud data does not retain the structured information contained in the scans. InfiPoints' new functionality allows users to complement and then augment lost information so they can fully utilize InfiPoints' automatic processing technologies for improved feature extraction and registration.
Using this new Elysium functionality, users can add scan data from complementary scanning devices—such as a handheld scanner that has scanned a piece of equipment for replacement—and register that data as a complement to data already acquired from, say, an existing tripod scanner.
InfiPoints has the capability to generate CAD models from scanned point-cloud data and deliver that data to BIM software. The software originally exported CAD data as unicolor solid models. Elysium has now developed a new capability to generate a CAD model that includes texture from the point-cloud data color information. Also, of significance, the modified data size is lighter compared to the original point cloud and suitable for use with presentations and discussions between partners and customers.
"Using 3D laser scanning has become more and more common with the advancement of the technology and, while it was once a technology for early adopters, it is now expanding towards the early majority market," says Atsuto Soma, CTO of Elysium. "The modes and tools to capture point clouds have grown and diversified, along with the needs of the users across many engineering applications. Elysium's newest InfiPoints enhancement for the BIM market demonstrates influential capabilities of automatic registration and feature extraction that deliver seamless use regardless of the hardware or point cloud capturing method.
"Some industries and users have hesitated in the past when faced with the heavy file size that point clouds generate," Soma notes. "In contrast to photos that lack clear visibility, the new capability of InfiPoints to add textures should help bring down that barrier and further accelerate more widespread use of 3D laser scanning technology that takes advantage of the productivity benefits provided by InfiPoints."
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
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Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women's consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assumption was that, if women understood their conditions, knew their rights and learnt new skills, they would be empowered to actively participate in decision making and public governance in Ghana. It was against this background that the study was designed to find out the extent to which these NFE programmes have contributed to the participation of the 2010 cohort of Assembly women in local governance in Northern sector of Ghana. To achieve this, the study employed the cross-sectional survey design and with the aid of questionnaire the primary data was gathered from all the 276 assembly women respondents of the Upper East, Upper West and BrongAhafo regions) selected out of the four regions of the Northern sector of Ghana using the simple random sampling technique. The reliability of the data collection instrument using Cronbach Alpha Coefficient was 0.79. With the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), the data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The major findings of the study were that, the NFE programmes irrespective of the form by which the women acquired the skills and knowledge was positively and significantly related and associated with the women's participation in local governance as Assembly members. The influence of the abilities they acquired from the NFE programmes on the their participation was also significantly enhanced by the women's self-interest to participate in the Assembly, Social recognition of the humanitarian, meritorious and professional services of the women and their families and their social, economic and political standing in the respective communities as well as the women's geo-social setting's positive perception of their social image - being married, elderly and or well educated formally. The study outcome also showed a significant positive relationship between the influence of the NFE programmes and the women's abilities to campaign effectively and mobilise funds for their assembly elections activities. This notwithstanding, the influence of the abilities acquired from the NFE programmes by the women on their participation in the Assembly's business was hampered by negative influence of partisan politics, male dominance in the assembly, poor and irregular attendance and lack of individual competences in English and in some technical issues of the Assembly. The recommendations offered for adult education institutions and the Assemblies include the need to organise programmes alongside the women empowerment ones to conscientise the custodians of the oppressing socio-cultural and religious beliefs and practices to enhance the influence of NFE interventions on women's participation in local level governance as well as the Assemblies instituting NFE departments tasked to regularly educate, train and update the women on the changing dynamics and technical issues of the Assembly business to enhance their conpetences and active participation.


Notice Periods – What is required?
The applicable modern award and/or contract of employment should provide the notice period an employee must give when resigning from their employment. For example, Clause 13 of the Clerks Private Award 2010 states that an employee is required to provide the same notice as the employer, except that there are no requirements to provide additional notice based on the age of the employee.
Where an employee fails to provide the required notice, consideration must be given to the award or contract of the employment to determine whether the employer can take any action against the employee in relation to the notice not provided.
For example, Clause 13 of the Clerks Private Award 2010 provides that if an employee fails to give notice, the employer may withhold the value of the notice not given from any amount to the employee on termination. The amount deducted must not exceed the amount the employee would have been paid under this award in respect of the period of notice required. For example, if Lucy was required to provide 3 weeks' notice, but only provided 1 week, the employer may only withhold the value of 2 weeks' notice (i.e. notice not provided). Further, in the instance where Lucy's contract requires 3 months notice, and she only gives 1 weeks notice, the employer cannot withhold the full 3 months notice. The amount that can be withheld can only be the notice period required under the National Employment Standards.
For non-award covered employees, the National Employment Standards does not allow an employer to withhold notice not given.
Where an employee provides more notice than required, an employer can either accept the longer notice provided, or reject it.
In the first instance, employers need to read and understand the terms of the employee's resignation. This is important because the terms may not be reasonable or acceptable for the employer.
As a practical example, Shane provides 2 months notice and indicates he will work out the notice. By accepting the notice Shane provides, where the employer does not want him in the workplace for the next 2 months, the employer may be responsible for paying the (longer than necessary) 2 months notice in lieu of Shane working it. The employer can then enter into discussions with Shane to highlight the actual notice period required and that the resignation is accepted on the basis of the actual notice period.
By doing this the employer is notifying the employee that the employer does not want to accept the longer notice period and that the employee should shorten the notice period to the required length (eg in accordance with the industrial instrument and legislation). This revised resignation should be done in writing to avoid confusion. If an employer does not accept the longer notice period, they are essentially rejecting the employee's resignation on its initial terms, and the employee may retract their resignation, only to submit it at a later date with the correct, shorter notice period.
This article was published in the Spring 2013 Horizon. For a pdf version of the newsletter please click here.


Steel Sheds in Melbourne – Finding the Best One: 'How to' Tips You can now put in your pre-loved stuff and significant items to a steel shed. If you are in need of steel sheds in Melbourne area, here the article for you. You have a good chance to get quality steels sheds if you know how to get the best industrial shed manufacturers to supply you with it. How to find the best quality steel sheds? We are giving all the reasons why you should get the steel sheds from only qualified shed manufacturers. Here are the following helpful tips to answer all your questions. The construction of steel sheds and manufacturing it takes time, so it is best to have an understanding that when you found the best steel shed manufacturer, it must be at least ready to give you ready-made steel sheds or else you will have to wait until it is constructed. One of the best way to tell if the manufacturer of a steel shed is a good if they can use pure steel to make the floor of the shed, the support beams, and the deck piers. It is actually a challenge doing it with steels because it usually takes time. You can even request for your own design, to make it personalized. Only if you can produce what you have in mind which makes you want to get a company that can mass produce the blue print in your head. Anyone would go for the hardwood to use it as the walls instead of plywood. Walls made of pure wood are sturdier and protects it better from harsh weather as well as from intruders. It is recommended that you should go for pure steel-made sheds or steel sheds with pure wood than just plywood.
It would be best for your advantage to go for steel shed manufacturers that can easily level the ground and attach strong support beams to joists. It is a good thing to know that your style can be turn into a reality especially if you want it to do it for your own steel shed. The number one thing to always consider is the structural strength when building a steel shed and the easiest part if how floor sheeting are connected to joists.
It can be for your best benefit to get a manufacturer that can build the steel frame while creating strong and purposeful sides of the shed and not forgetting the importance of making a good rain water collecting drain system on the side. The rafters must be carefully designed as it will separate most of the blocking.


The Latin America, Middle East and Africa Neural Network Market is expected to register a CAGR of 35.3% during the forecast period (2017-2023). Neural Network Market encompasses a wide range of practices, tools, solutions, and techniques interrelated closely to a system of hardware and software. The functionalities are that of a human brain, used in conjunction with various deep learning technologies to solve pattern recognition or signal processing problems. The process, with the help of neural net and deep learning, is used to deliver improved analytical output, and at the same time optimizing profits for different business processes. Growing demand for cloud-based solutions, need for spatial data & analytical tools, and growing need for prediction solutions additionally contribute to the neural network market growth. However, limited pool of trained professionals would limit the market growth significantly during the forecast period. Nevertheless, growing application areas within the deep neural networks segment would bring in lucrative opportunities for the market participants. Neural networks are widely used in weather forecasting, handwriting recognition, oil-exploration data analysis, facial recognition, speech-to-text transcription, and others.
Based on Types, the market report segments the market into Software and Services. Software is further categorised in Analytical Software, Optimization Software, Visualization Software, and Data Mining & Archiving. Based on Verticals, the LAMEA Neural Network Market is segmented into BFSI, Public Sector, Business Function, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom & IT, Aerospace & Defence, and Others. Based on Countries, the market report segments the market into Brazil, Argentina, UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Nigeria, and Rest of LAMEA.
The report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the Neural Network Market. Key companies profiled in the report include Neural Technologies Limited, Microsoft Corporation (Swiftkey), Starmind International AG, Afiniti (TRG Holdings, LLC.), Ward Systems Group, Inc., GMDH LLC., Neurodimension, Inc., NeuralWare, Alyuda Research, Llc., and Olsoft Llc.