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There's a podcast for thatCreative writing
The long and short-form of it: podcasts that will teach you how to write
Pleasing pairings … Margaret Atwood reads Alice Munro on the New Yorker Fiction podcast. Photograph: IBL/Rex/Shutterstock
Whether you are plotting, drafting, staring at a blank page, or keen to get tips from the pros … if you want to be an author, there's a podcast for that
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In this monthly podcast, a celebrated writer selects a short story from the New Yorker's archive to read and discuss with the magazine's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The pleasure here lies as much in the pairings of authors with material as it does the stories themselves: Margaret Atwood reading Alice Munro, or Andrew Sean Greer reading Dorothy Parker, or Tessa Hadley reading John Updike. There is much to be learned about the craft and discipline of short fiction writing from the subsequent discussions, too. A recurring point: fewer words is always better. Also, check out The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice, where writers read their own stories.
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Approaching its 10th anniversary, the Longform podcast is a weekly hour-long interview with a nonfiction writer about their work, practice and personal philosophies. When it was founded in 2012, as a co-production of Longform.org and the Atavist magazine, co-hosts Max Linsky, Evan Ratliff and Aaron Lammer drilled down into aspects of the craft such as note-taking and revising drafts. These days the scope of their warm, considered conversations has broadened to be as much about life as about writing. Dig into the archives to hear from greats such as Gay Talese, Renata Adler, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ariel Levy, Ira Glass, Michael Lewis, George Saunders, Susan Orlean and Robert McKee.
Much of their advice applies to all writers, but for a podcast with a fiction slant, check out First Draft.
In Writing With Hattie Crisell
Now in its fourth series, for this pod Hattie Crisell, a contributing editor of Grazia magazine, interviews writers of all kinds about "how they write, why they write, and what they can teach us about doing it better". There are lessons for everyone who works with words and stories here, from bona fide publishing powerhouses Curtis Sittenfeld and David Nicholls to comedians, playwrights, critics and even songwriters. Crisell is an engaging interviewer who puts her subjects at ease so that they speak freely and frankly about the realities of life as a full-time writer – not least the horror of the blank page. Those just starting out might be heartened to hear that it never gets easier. Writer's Routine and The National Writing Centre's The Writing Life are two more UK interview podcasts focusing on the day-to-day.
Start With This
Start With This is like a look inside the engine room of the hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, as co-creators Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink aim to help you "put your ideas in motion". Each episode discusses a challenge or an aspect of writing – from scene-setting to plotting, finding one's voice to overcoming perfectionism – before setting the listeners two practical assignments relevant to the subject: "something to consume" and "something to create". The series concluded last month but, with episodes totalling an entire day and a half, Start With This presents an accessible, supportive step towards starting and extending a regular writing practice. Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach is another podcast with practical exercises (with the added bonus of bitesize episodes as short as 15 minutes).
Between the Covers
With episodes often in excess of two hours, this fortnightly "literary radio show" is one to sink into rather than blitz on your commute. But when you have time to invest, Between the Covers will expand your horizons, in both the exceptional curation of the interviewees – spanning all literary forms, all over the world – and the depth of their conversation. Even if you are not familiar with the works being discussed, host David Naimon will pique your interest. He is patient, never presumptuous, curious and well-informed. This podcast is like the best writer's festival talk you've ever been to, fitting in with your schedule and with no unedifying Q&A session at the end.
There's a podcast for that
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Q: Why did my Python code get the IndexError: list index out of range When I ran the code, I encountered the following error :

IndexError: list index out of range

What is wrong in my code?
fin = open('words.txt')

for line in fin:
    word = line.strip()
    if len(word) > 20:
        print(word)

print(fin.readlines()[1])  #It is in this line that the error report shows

A: You are trying to get second element (starting from zero) of the result of execution readlines method. It's unsafe by default as file can contain only one string.
But in this particular case you will receive empty list in fin.readlines() regardless to count of lines in opened file because you've already read lines above (using for line in fin loop). You can't just read it twice and need to seek to the beginning or reopen file:
~  echo 1 >> t.txt
~  echo 2 >> t.txt
~  echo 3 >> t.txt
~  python3

Twice reading contents:
>>> with open('t.txt') as f:
...   f.readlines()
...   f.readlines()
...
['1\n', '2\n', '3\n']
[]

Seeking to begin:
>>> with open('t.txt') as f:
...   f.readlines()
...   f.seek(0)
...   f.readlines()
...
['1\n', '2\n', '3\n']
0
['1\n', '2\n', '3\n']

A: This is because file read after the loop has already reached its end.
With seek, you can set the pointer again to the beginning.
fin = open('text_file.txt')

for line in fin:
    word = line.strip()
    if len(word) > 20:
        print(word)
fin.seek(0, 0)
print(fin.readlines()[1])

Here is a link to it https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/file/seek.html

It is unclear what exactly you want to do still? But the error should disappear.

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Kimmo Rentola
World English rights to "WINTER WARRIORS: How Finland Survived Stalin" sold to Yale University Press
Breaking news for the new year 2023!
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS has acquired World English rights to Professor Kimmo Rentola's award-winning non-fiction book "WINTER WARRIORS: How Finland Survived Stalin" (working title) ("Stalin ja Suomen kohtalo, Otava, 2016). WINTER WARRIORS will be published in Spring 2024 simultaneously in the UK YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS UK and in the US YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS US. The deal was closed by Elina Ahlback at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency.
Editorial Director Julian Loose adds:
'I am thrilled to be publishing Kimmo Rentola's important work on Finland and Stalin. As the leading scholar on Soviet-Finnish relations, his intimate understanding of the intelligence history during this crucial period makes for a uniquely fascinating and revelatory read. And of course this story has huge resonance at the present time, with Finland joining NATO and the parallels between the Winter War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yale University Press will be proud to publish Kimmo's book in English in the spring of 2024.'
– Julian Loose, Editorial Director Trade & Academic, Yale University Press London
Download the materials for WINTER WARRIORS: How Finland Survived Stalin HERE!
WINTER WARRIORS: How Finland Survived Stalin (working title)
orig. publication: Stalin ja Suomen kohtalo
orig. publisher Otava, October 2016, 240 pp.
Finland: Otava (orig.)
World English: Yale University Press
Estonia: Äripäev
Reading material:
English manuscript
Kimmo Rentola (b. 1953), PhD, is a historian and professor emeritus of political history, at the University of Turku from 2006 to 2014 and at the University of Helsinki since 2014. In his research, Rentola has specialized in the history of the Cold War, the relationships between Finland and the Soviet Union, and both Finnish and Nordic communism. His other research areas are the youth movements of the 1960s and the history of intelligence agencies.
His latest title, WINTER WARRIORS: How Finland Survived Stalin, won the Lauri Jäntti Award for non-fiction literature in 2017, while his previous book Vallankumouksen aave ('The Ghost of the Revolution') won the Scholarly Book of the Year Award in Finland in 2007.
2016, Narrative Nonfiction
Winter Warriors: How Finland Survived Stalin
We are thrilled to present our Non-Fiction Catalogue for Fall 2022: Are you ready to experience meaningful work? Or learn more about Finland's most beloved artist or about the destructive power of money in football?
From our new catalogue, we've picked some hot titles for you – take a look at them below!
View the full Fall 2022 Non-Fiction Catalogue here!
by Frank Martela
Are you ready to experience meaningful work and make it possible? Start your journey with this book!
Work occupies a more central role in our lives than just a way of making ends meet. At best, work fills our lives with meaningfulness, making our whole existence more worth living. At worst, it is a desperate toil that alienates us from who we are and what's good in life.
How, then, can we make work more meaningful? In principle, the recipe for meaningful work is surprisingly simple: do personally interesting and engaging things, while making a positive contribution to other people. However, making that into reality is the tough part.
THE MEANING MANIFESTO by Frank Martela, the acclaimed author of the internationally-bestselling A WONDERFUL LIFE, helps you navigate modern work life towards a more purposeful career and meaningful everyday work experience.
Ella – Helene Schjerfbeck
by Mari Tossavainen
The story of the most well-known Finnish artist in the world, supplemented by previously unpublished correspondence
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is one of the most well-known Finnish artists in the world. Her modernist and realist works have been on display in galleries all over Europe, North America and Asia, a biographical film based on her life was released in 2020, and her birthday, July 10th, is a national day for the painted arts in Finland.
This fascinating book, drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and archival materials, paints a far more multithreaded picture of the life of Helene Schjerfbeck and brings into light the significance of previously forgotten people in her creative work. In her letters, Schjerfbeck divulged both her works and her thoughts not only to fellow artists, but also to people outside the artistic world.
The Black Book of Football
by Hannu Aaltonen and Tapio Keskitalo
A critical depiction of the destructive power of money in professional association football
During the 2000s, international association football has become a pompous, money-driven business. 'The Beautiful Game' has developed into a playing field with its own laws where oligarchs, sheikhs, and American billionaires run amok.
This startling book delves into the outrageously wealthy and powerful football clubs that do not abide by football's own economic rules. Influential football bosses and governing bodies have become bogged down in bribe scandals, while small football countries like Finland have to count pennies.
The grotesque development culminates with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, where the authorities and organizers do not care about costs or construction worker deaths.
Stalin and the Fate of Finland
by Kimmo Rentola
A meticulously researched insight into critical points in the history of relations between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Winner of the Lauri Jäntti Prize for non-fiction literature!
How did Finland evade Joseph Stalin's crosshairs three times? Did Stalin have a special relationship with Finland and the Finns? Why didn't he continue the Soviet onslaught on Finland during the Winter War in 1940? The answers lie in the relations between Finland and Russia which remain highly timely to this day.
Joseph Stalin has been one of the individuals with the most influence on the history of independent Finland. There are few who have made so many far-reaching decisions as Stalin: he decreed the beginning and the end of the Winter War, the Moscow Armistice of 1944 that ended the Continuation War was signed with his authorization, and when, in 1948, it was time to decide whether Finland would become a 'people's republic' or not, he initially pushed forward but eventually backed down. All of these decisions can be seen as pivotal to the fate of Finland, its society, its independence, the life and death of the Finnish people.
The book focuses on the decisions of Stalin in which the entire existence or, at the very least, the essential nature of that existence, of Finland was at stake.

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The following article is part of an ongoing series that focuses on a select topic of inspiration for the month. For February, we are focusing on 'Community'. We are thinking about communities and the ways in which we can help them reach their goals.
Principal Phil Colleran, ASLA, recently donated his urban design and public realm expertise to the ULI Technical Assistance Panel for the Town of Clinton, MA. Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs) are part of the ULI Advisory Services program. TAPs bring together a range of experienced professionals for these one to two-day work sessions to address land use challenges that require local knowledge to resolve. The Town of Clinton, MA applied for the Technical Assistance Panel's aid and MassDevelopment sponsored the effort.
1. What can be developed there?
– What is the market?
– What is the fitness of existing inventory to contemporary desires?
– How will site circulation work?
2. How do we make it happen?
– What is the organizational structure that moves this forward?
– What needs to change? On-site? Near the site? In the town?
– Who do we need to engage?
3. How is it integrated into the Town?
– What are the connections?
The panelists began by taking a site tour and having two sessions of interviews with stakeholders which included town officials, local business leaders, private property owners, local merchants, local residents, and local developers. The panelists then engaged in a five hour charrette, which concluded in a one hour public presentation to the town's Board of Selectmen.
Panel recommendations included exploring potential public-private partnerships, creating a compelling vision to link past achievements to future opportunities, considering updates to current downtown zoning to support new development, building on regional tourism drivers, and suggestions on how to secure the appropriate funding. The panel also identified important gateways to the site, connectivity opportunities, parking, potential open space, and suggested building use.


This study represents a morphometric assessment of the anterior segment of the lumbar spine, focused on the vertebral body - intervertebral disk assembly, calculating some specific indicators and then completing direct morphometry data with the data resulting from the imaging interpretation and subsequently correlating the same to map an anatomic-imaging model. The study was carried out with anatomic items from personal archive and images obtained from Computer Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) assessment. The morphometric assessment was carried out for intervertebral disks, the disk height in the anterior and posterior sections and correlated with the disk angle degree. Direct morphometric data was compared and correlated with the data resulting from the imaging interpretation. Direct morphometric assessment was carried out for 11 vertebral blocks; the vertebral blocks were sectioned and turned into 22 vertebral semi-blocks allowing easy access to absolutely all dimensional values pursued, including the ones covered by the posterior arc. The assessment of imaging data was made with CT, CT 3D and MRI investigations from the 120 subjects in the study. The disk sizes were assessed by direct measurements on the anatomic items and directly measured by means of the software for modern imaging examination. In case of significant differences between the vertebral bodies, the calculation of disk sizes was made indirectly, on grounds of the geometric interpretation of the vertebral body face sizes. The vertebral body / intervertebral disk (IVD) assembly represents a dynamic structure, permanently subject to changes and adaptation, IVD being capable of incurring changes for the entire life time, including growth changes; the growth, however, is not lineal, but a succession of thickening and getting thinner, in full concordance with the structural stresses and changes occurring inside.
KEY WORDS: Lumbar spine; Direct morphometry; Vertebral blocks.


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24 Summer Love Stories That Will Make You Swoon
According to these truly epic tales of romance, one way to find a love that lasts in summer is to always say yes. Say yes to adventures, new connections, moments that make your heart race and that gut feeling that tells you *this* is how it's all supposed to feel. Most of all? Say yes to one another.
Decide who really matters
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Ben Bryant, 81, lives on the Upper West Side with his wife of almost 50 years, Elizabeth, who's just a few years younger. They met in August 1967 when Ben was the lead in the musical Carousel and Elizabeth (known as Betsey back then) was in a supporting role. During a rehearsal, Ben spotted Betsey. "It was as though there was a pin spotlight on her and all the others in the room faded from view." He asked her to lunch. With some reluctance, she accepted they went to the snack bar across from the theater. Ben calls it a "profound inner knowing." He said, "I knew she was the one." Later that day, on Ben's way to the laundromat, he asked Betsey to join him. Under the glamorous fluorescent lighting, they had their first date. Ben says their relationship felt natural from then on…three months later they married. Check out these adorable true love stories from couples who knew exactly when they'd found "the one."
Shape life around summer camp
Courtesy-Anne-Wallace
In 1967 when she was 17, Fran Wallace got a summer job as a kitchen girl at the all-boys Camp Tosebo near her family's summer cottage near Lake Michigan. It was Pancake Day in the dining hall and Fran, along with the other kitchen girls, got the syrup ready for the meal, but it spilled and ants were everywhere. That's when former camper turned counselor Dave Walle stepped in to help. The two quickly realized they were both from Chicago where they went to rival high schools. Fran found Dave to be gentle in the way he showed her around and explained camp rules. Dave liked how Fran laughed at his jokes. As the summer progressed, their interest in one another grew. Halfway into the eight-week summer program, some counselors had to travel back to Chicago to pick up the next round of campers. Dave didn't want to go. He wanted to be with Fran for an upcoming beach party. He said, "Once you started venturing into relationships you don't particularly want them to stop. I did everything I could to stay." Dave managed to stick around that weekend and he married Fran five years later. Ten years later, the camp closed. The Wallace's still visited the family cottage on weekends and in the summer. Over the years, they maintained close bonds with former camp friends. On one visit they discovered the sale of the camp fell through and it was looking for new owners. Dave dreamed of owning Camp Tosebo but the timing wasn't exactly right, financially speaking. Their daughter was starting college and their son was getting married, but the newfound empty nesters had been praying for a fresh community and active lifestyle and realized this could be it. Thanks to a conservation easement (an agreement not to develop the property), the Wallaces, along with three other couples, now own Camp Toesbo and rent it out to other families. In 2012, they moved to the camp for good where they volunteer regularly, gather as a community and enjoy evenings on the front porch. Now grandparents, Dave 68, and Fran, 67, recently purchased a Camp Tosebo onesie for the latest addition to their family.
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Q: Lattices in Lie groups In the literature, people seem to predominantly look at lattices in nilpotent or reductive groups.
Is there a result that gives a general description of a lattice in an arbitrary Lie group?
Something like how a general lattice is built out of components of the reductive or nilpotent case?


Visual music is tones in pictures: color, values, and lines in time and space. The base on which this art form rest is visual music's visual tone electronics.
Like music, visual musictakes two main forms, one in pure visual tone language, the other visual music drama. The symphonic and dramatic are the premises for dynamic pictoral art, in which time is concrete. Visual tone language makes it possible for the image to collaborate as an equal partner with the words and music.
Colors, values and lines in movement is a challenge to the eye, a challenge that is perceived both physically and mentally. Direct and indirect images alternate. The eye is attacked, facinated and delighted. Colors appear, ascend and disappear, all in a flow of organic movement. The image takes shape only at the moment the impression arises; everything in visual music is transitory.
Nothing can make such an immediate impression on a person as color and movement. The wandering to and fro of the mind between form and color creates overlays and density. We create form when we are moved. It is the viewer who is the artist.
Dramatic visual music, like symphony music, is based on visual tone language. Colors, values and lines in time and space. It is the visual tone technique of visual music that endows this form of art with this special freedom.The body as a line instrument in the electronic painting.On pictorial art's premises. Man and visual tones form a whole. Visual music is milieu, costume and visual music in one. Body language and visual tone language combine to form the medium. In the world of electronic image every tiny happening is dramatic. Electronics constitute an extension of our sensory system which carries us to the furthest limits. The pulse is our own. Visual music – our breathing. Death – a static picture.
The visual music theater has its roots in the original theater of Antiquity, which was visual.
The base on which visual musical communication rests is visual tone instruments. These may be utilised by themselves, as conveyors of pure visual impressions – pure visual music – but also as a part of the setup in performing works where a synthesis of visual music and ordinary music is created. Two independent forms of art form an artistic whole. One of the principal objects of visual music is to initiate cooperation between the branches of art. On a common base with respect for the distinctive character of each. In my visual music studio it is possible to work on these premises.
The basis of visual music is the theories of visual tone I have developed. In common with other kinds of art it has movement and rhythm and the organic and architectural principles. I start composing with a written score. It bears a certain resemblance to the score a composer uses for electronic music. From the notation I play the work. Visual music can be performed in a concert hall. It can be recorded on video tape, film, and digitally on a Compact Disc for picture/sound, CDI.
We live in an age in which visual effects are palying an increasingly important role in out daily lives. In this society visual music will be a reality. Electronics make it possible to create a direct art form, i.e. to bring the spectrum of tones and intensity of the work right up to the viewer/listener.
Electronic painter,painter, visual music composer and film/video producer. Awarded a permanent governmental stipend for artists in his capacity as an electronic painter. Member of Bildende Kunstneres Sentralorganisasjon, Landsforeningen Norske Malere and Norsk Filmforbund as a producer.
Uses the media as an independent means of artistic expression: music and visual music.
Trained at Statens håndverks og kunstindustriskole, Statens Kunstakademi, Statens Filmopplœring and Dramatiska Institutet, Stockholm.
Visual music/musical compositions for the cinema and television: EVOLUTION, RELIEF 1 and 2, KINETIC ENERGY, STRUCTURES, VISION, VISUALLY, PROGRESS, ACTIO, PULSE, MEDUSA – SHE WHO SEES and THE EXPULSION. ELECTRONIC PAINTING EXHIBITIONS: Munch Museum, Oslo 1975 and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo,1976. Has represented Norway abroad as an electronic painter and film/video producer.


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Paramount pulls Terminator Genisys sequel off release schedule
By Ariana Bacle
The next film in the Terminator franchise has been taken off Paramount's release calendar, the studio confirmed Wednesday.
Terminator 2 had been scheduled to arrive in theaters on May 19, 2017, but Paramount has now set Dwayne Johnson's Baywatch film on that release date.
The most recent Terminator film, Terminator: Genisys, debuted last summer and went on to make a relatively weak $89.8 million at the box office over its 11-week run (for context, 1991's Terminator 2: Judgement Day was that year's top-grossing film with a domestic total of $204.8 million). It didn't fare too well with critics, either: The movie has a 25 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Terminator 2 does not yet have a new release date.
By Ariana Bacle @iambacle


A beautiful "original" mono pressing on the ever-classic yellow and black 203 South Washington fireworks label, with it's heavy vinyl and deep groove. Original gets the quotation treatment, because unlike Blue Note LPs from this time period, with their myriad address changes, Prestige had a single label version running from 1958 to 1964, meaning that my copy could have come from the very first run off the pressing machine, but it also just as likely could have been from a later run as well. Popular titles must have been re-pressed, and there is no way Soultrane wasn't one of their better selling albums, especially once Coltrane shot to stardom on the Atlantic label a couple of years later.
This lack of precise dating on Prestige pressings often keeps the prices in a much more realistic orbit than their Blue Note counterparts. Amazingly, I came across this one at my local shop, a neck busting double-take occurring as I was flipping through the racks. This couldn't possibly be an original, right? And yet, everything about it screamed out that it was the real deal. The asking price was only $65, a rare steal in this day and age, especially considering the slightly better than VG condition of the vinyl (some scuffs and surface noise in the quieter passages drops it down a bit from VG+) and it could easily go for much more. This was about as easy a no-brainer purchase for the vintage jazz vinyl collector as can be expected.
The sound on these 203 South Washington fireworks labels is stellar, summing up much of what is best about late-1950s vintage jazz vinyl. Not only do these fireworks labels look great in your collection, but even in less than VG+ condition they can still show off that wide, loud and full analog sound that starts many folks off on the journey of collecting vintage pressings. Add to that the fact that so many of these classic sessions, including Soultrane, were recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his famous studio, and you have all the elements to make up not only a perfect jazz recording, but it's perfect representation as well.
There's not a whole lot to say about the music on Soultrane that hasn't been said before, it's a stone cold classic from jazz's golden age, one of the albums where Coltrane began to overtake Sonny Rollins as the most influential tenor player in the jazz world. He would continue to build on that status throughout the sixties until his untimely death, and today in many jazz circles he's considered to be the most important saxophonist of the modern jazz era.
Soultrane comes from a ridiculously prolific period of Coltrane's career, a time when he was making huge leaps as a musician. In 1957 he not only recorded Blue Train, Dakar, Coltrane, and Lush Life, but he spent time with Thelonious Monk, appearing on the classic Monk's Music. While that was a busy year, 1958 was even more productive, with Trane in the studio recording enough material for an eventual eight releases on Prestige, including Soultrane, John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell, Settin' The Pace and Bahia. If all that work wasn't keeping him busy enough, in late-1957 he began playing with Miles Davis again, recording Milestones at the start of 1958, only three days before hitting the studio to record Soultrane.
Coltrane's obsession in perfecting his craft during this time is legendary, he would go home to practice into the wee hours of the morning instead of joining his fellow musicians to cavort after late-night performances. The hard work pays off on Soultrane, where Trane moves from competent sideman to leader in full, keeping the listener's interest on long takes of "Good Bait" and "I Want To Talk About You," as well as introducing a style on "Russian Lullaby' that resulted in Ira Gitler coining the phrase "Sheets of Sound" that would stick with the saxophonist for the rest of his career. The Red Garland Trio perfectly backs up Trane, these four cats recorded together quite a bit during this time and their easy rapport is a joy to behold. With all these factors at work, Soultrane is a hard bop extravaganza, truly one of the masterworks from the first part of Trane's career.
Here is a fantastic video of Trane and the rest of the Miles Davis Quintet - Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b) and Jimmy Cobb (d) - performing "On Green Dolphin Street" on a night when Miles did not perform. The performance dates from March 28th, 1960 in Düsseldorf, West Germany.
This next video shows off where Trane's music would end up in just a few short years, when he teamed up with Eric Dolphy in 1961. Here they are performing the classic "Impressions," most likely during the European tour that followed their famous engagement at the Village Vanguard. The rest of the group is McCoy Tyner (p), Reggie Workman (b) and Elvin Jones (d). Historical stuff.


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Along California's Pacific coastline, San Diego and Santa Barbara sunshine beckons you outdoors, the Carmel coast waits to fill your camera roll, and an overnight in San Francisco adds big city adventure to your journey.
This magical city is festive and friendly, from its legendary zoo to Balboa Park everyone here seems to be living that quintessential California lifestyle – sun, sand and surf. Between ocean and desert, the near perfect weather here is ideal for exploring charming neighborhoods, gorgeous parks, and of course, the beach.
Fair Mediterranean-style weather coupled with beautiful Mediterranean-style architecture make Santa Barbara a prime destination. Sunny days can be spent strolling through the Santa Barbara Zoo, exploring boutique- and restaurant-lined State Street, dining on Stearns Wharf or experiencing the wineries of nearby Santa Ynez Valley, producer of world-class vintages and home to photogenic landscapes of golden hills and venerable oak trees.
California's original capital is steeped in Spanish and Mexican history, but it is primarily known today as the home to the world renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, a leading advocate in ocean conservation. Steps from the Aquarium sits Cannery Row, made famous by John Steinbeck, and Fisherman's Wharf. Catch sight of harbor seals, sea otters and pelicans in their natural habitats at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Indulge in the San Francisco lifestyle by grabbing a bite of clam chowder as you walk through Fisherman's Wharf, catching some sun with a breathtaking view of the Golden Gate Bridge on Baker Beach, or hop on a trolley to ride around the renowned hilly streets.
Ensenada, third-largest city in the state of Baja, is famed for many things. Sunny and mild weather helps yield fine wines considered to be the best in Mexico. Ensenada also boasts several celebrated surfing spots. A third lure is off-road racing, with the Baja 1000 and Baja 500 each held annually. Rivaling Carnival in Rio and Mardi Gras in New Orleans is Ensenada's Carnaval, when revelers fill the streets for six fun-filled days. Migrating gray whales draw their fair share of travelers as well.
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Johnson & Johnson reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit in addition to also also raised its full-year forecast as the company gained via strong sales of its brand new cancer drugs.
Shares of J&J, part of the Dow Jones industrial average, were up 1.3 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday.
Higher demand for its blood cancer drugs, Darzalex in addition to also also Imbruvica, in addition to also also the addition of high-margin treatments for rare diseases via its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion are anticipated to boost the company's earnings within the coming quarters.
The company's pharmaceutical business posted a 15.4 percent rise in sales within the third quarter.
"We are convinced which the pharma pipeline remains robust in addition to also also more meaningful contributions will kick in beyond 2017," Joshua Jennings via Cowen & Co. wrote in a client note.
However, sales of J&J's rheumatoid arthritis drug, Remicade, slipped within the latest quarter as the company faces rising threats via copycat versions of the blockbuster drug.
The company, which makes everything via Band-Aids to Neutrogena beauty products, said its results included the impact of the first full quarter of the acquisition of Actelion, which added 7.9 percent to worldwide operational sales growth.
J&J raised its 2017 profit forecast to a range of $7.25 to $7.30 per share via a range of $7.12 to $7.22 per share estimated previously. Revenue forecast is actually anticipated to range between $76.1 billion in addition to also also $76.5 billion, compared with its earlier outlook of $75.8 billion of $76.1 billion.
Total revenue rose 10.3 percent to $19.65 billion.
However, the company's net earnings fell to $3.76 billion, or $1.37 per share, within the quarter via $4.27 billion, or $1.53 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding special items, J&J earned $1.0 per share.
Analysts on average were expecting an adjusted profit of $1.80 per share on revenue of $19.28 billion for the latest quarter, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.


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The bracket is set for the 2016 KHSAA Field Hockey State Tournament, which begins Saturday afternoon with quarterfinal action at Assumption Green in Louisville. Christian Academy-Louisville (20-4-1) will take on Atherton (19-4-1) at 2 p.m. in the first match of the day, followed by DuPont Manual (18-5-2) against Mercy (8-9-1) at 4 p.m.
Defending state champ Sacred Heart (20-5) will face Presentation (9-13) at 6 p.m., with Assumption (21-3-1) and Kentucky Country Day (9-7) squaring off in the final match of the day at 8 p.m. A complete bracket can be found at http://khsaa.org/fieldhockey/2016/fhbracket.pdf
The semifinals and finals of the state tournament will move to Bellarmine University, with the semifinal games set for 6 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. The championship game will be played Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. The semifinals and championship game will be webcast live through the NFHS Network (http://www.nfhsnetwork.com/), with links available at KHSAA.tv. Subscription plans for the NFHS Network are available for $9.95 a month. A monthly subscription, priced less than the cost of admission to a state championship event, entitles users to every broadcast by the KHSAA and the more than 40 participating state associations.
A free audio-only feed of the webcast events will also be available online through Mixlr (http://mixlr.com/khsaa/), which has a corresponding app available for iOS and Android devices. In addition, live stats for each game of the tournament will be available through the Field Hockey page at KHSAA.org.
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2017 KHSAA Hall of Fame Press Conference This Sunday
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association will hold a press conference on Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m. to announce the Dawahares/KHSAA Hall of Fame Class of 2017. The Hall of Fame announcement will take place at the KHSAA Offices in Lexington (2280 Executive Drive).
The 2017 Hall of Fame banquet will take place Saturday, March 18 in the Bluegrass Ballroom at the Lexington Center in conjunction with the 2017 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen®. Following the banquet, each inductee of the 2017 Hall of Fame class will be recognized that evening in an on-court ceremony during the semifinals of the boys' basketball state tournament.
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The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 278 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 43 state championships in 13 sports and 4 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.


2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport - A good vehicle with some flaws.
The Captiva is a great vehicle, albeit with a some things that could be improved. While it drives flawlessly, there have been problems with the electrical system since day one. I burned my hand once when trying to move the visor to block the sun. It turns out some wires had frayed or something had begun to heat up the rod that held the visor in place. When I took that in to get fixed, they must have messed up somehow, because the stereo volume was only about 60% of what it used to be. The driving is great, though. Very smooth riding and the handling is amazing.
The past few summers, a few friends and I have driven down to the coast for weekend beach vacations. Including the front seat, I've found 4 people can comfortably sleep inside.
As stated in the review, the driving is fantastic. The handling is perfect, and it is incredibly responsive to my commands. There is an amazing amount of space in both the front and back seat, with plenty of storage space in the very back. The back seat can also fold down for more carrying space, and I once transported a 60-inch plasma TV that was pretty thick by today's standards. The Bluetooth features are really good, I enjoy being able to make calls hands-free. The inclusion of OnStar is a godsend, and it has helped me out of a jam more than one time. I've traveled over 40,000 miles in it, and haven't had a single issue when it comes to driving, nor have I had any engine issues. The aesthetics of the body are also very nice.
The problems with the electrical system is my main complaint. Burning my hand, then getting much less volume from the audio system once getting that fixed is a major annoyance. There was also a problem two winters ago where the heating system quit working, making driving around during a freeze a major hassle. All these issues have been resolved, but it would have been nice not to deal with them in the first place. The only thing I'd really change is that the cup holders up front are a bit too close together, making it difficult to fit two drinks in at the same time.
2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport - Good family car.
I was initially interested in it for cosmetic reasons. They style of the body is very aesthetically pleasing. It has very soft edges and looks compact. The White Pearl color is very appealing to the eye as well. The material of the car was not impressive. It got dents and dings very easily, which does not help the resale value. It was pretty easy to maneuver, but I wish the turning ratio was better. It is top heavy, so you do have to be careful with speed and corners. The inside interior is nice and sleek. It has more room than it looks like it would have. Gas mileage is okay, nothing out of the ordinary. The engine is not very big so there is not "get up and go". You have to ease the car into accelerating. This can be problematic pulling onto main roads and interstates. The radio in the car is nice. I enjoy that is has a port specifically for iPhones. I like being able to listen and view my own music.
We traveled to Florida from Ohio in this car and it really made for an enjoyable trip. It was good on gas and didn't have any issues along the way. Everyone was able to stretch out and keep their personal things close by.
This car is great for small families and traveling. My favorite features are the leg room, the appearance of the car, and the sound system. As a whole, the car is very pleasing to the eye and sophisticated. Even though it is a smaller compact car, the room is amazing. My family of four and all of our things fit in the car very well. The sound system is great quality and has good longevity. I enjoy being able to rock out to my own personal music.
I did not like that there where no rear vents. It makes it difficult to keep everyone cool or warm. Someone is either to cold or to hot. I wish the engine was a little bigger, so I could accelerate faster. The top heavy design does make it a hazard.


Amid the controversy following the desecration of Jewish graves in Rome last month, some words of Pier Ferdinando Casini, speaker of Italy's chamber of deputies, have been remembered. He claimed that anti-semitism is less rooted in Italy than in other countries. It is my belief that a distinction must be made between intellectual anti-semitism and popular anti-semitism. Popular anti-semitism is as old as the Jewish diaspora. It arose from an instinctive reaction of the common people to different people, who spoke an unknown language evocative of magic rites. A people steeped in the culture of the book, the Jews learned to read and write. They practised medicine, engaged in trade, and lent money - hence the resentment towards them as "intellectuals". Such were the roots of peasant anti-semitism in Russia.
Certainly the Christian condemnation of the "people who killed God" carried weight, but ultimately there was a (private) relationship of shared interest and mutual respect between Christian and Jewish intellectuals throughout the middle ages, not to mention the renaissance. The desperate hordes who followed the crusades and laid waste the ghettoes by fire and the sword were not inspired by doctrine, but controlled by the urge to pillage.
Intellectual anti-semitism as we now know it originates from the modern world. In 1797, Abbé Barruel wrote his Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du jacobinisme to show that the French revolution was a plot of the Knights Templar and the freemasons. Later it was an Italian, Captain Simonini, who suggested to him that it was above all the perfidious Jews who were acting behind the scenes. It was only after this point that the argument surrounding international Jewry began, and the Jesuits seized on it as an argument against the sects of the Carbonari. The controversy raged throughout Europe, but found its most fertile soil in France, where Jewish finance was now identified as an enemy to defeat. The controversy was certainly fuelled by Catholic legitimism, but it was in secular, political circles that the ill-famed Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion slowly took shape. These were then published in Russian Tsarist circles and were finally used by Hitler.
The Protocols were a rehash of serialised fictional material, and prove their own unreliability, since it is hardly credible that "the baddies" would reveal their fell purposes so blatantly. The Elders even declare that they intend to encourage sport and visual communication to dupe the working class (a passage more reminiscent of Berlusconism than Judaism). Nevertheless, though rough and ready, this was intellectual anti-semitism. Conceding to Deputy Casini, it can be said that Italian popular anti-semitism has been less strong than in other European countries (for various social, historical and even demographic reasons). Indeed, ordinary folk ended up opposing racial persecutions by helping the Jews. But in Italy, Jesuitical anti-semitic doctrine flourished (the novels of Father Bresciani are but one example). This merged with the bourgeois anti-semitism which ultimately produced the notorious academics and writers who contributed to the infamous journal La difesa della razza [The Defence of the Race] and the version of the Protocols published by Julius Evola in 1937.
Evola wrote that the Protocols had "the value of a spiritual tonic". He added: "Above all, in these decisive hours of western history, they cannot be ignored or dismissed without seriously undermining the front of those fighting in the name of the spirit, of tradition, of true civilisation."
International Jewry, he claimed, lay behind the main sources of the perversion of western civilisation: "Liberalism, individualism, egalitarianism, free thinking, anti-religious enlightenment and their various appendages which lead to the revolt of the masses and to communism itself." For the Jew it was a duty "to destroy every surviving trace of true order and superior civilisation... One Jew is Freud, whose theory is understood to reduce the interior life to instincts and unconscious forces. Another is Einstein, who has brought 'relativism' into vogue... Schoenberg and Mahler, leading exponents of the music of decadence. Tzara is a Jew, the creator of dadaism, the extreme limit of degradation of so-called avant garde art... It is the race, it is an instinct at work here... Now is the time when the forces are rising up everywhere, because now the face of the destiny to which Europe was about to succumb is revealed... May the hour of 'conflict' find those forces gathered in a single, cast-iron bloc, unbreakable and irresistible."
Italy made a leading contribution to intellectual anti-semitism. But it is only today that a number of phenomena hint at a new popular anti-semitism, as if the ancient sources of anti-semitism have found fertile soil in other, crude forms of racism of the neo-Celtic kind. If proof were needed, it is that the doctrinal sources are always the same: it is enough to visit certain racist websites, or to follow anti-Zionist propaganda in the Arab countries, to see that anti-semites have still found nothing better to do than to recycle, yet again, those ludicrous Protocols.


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'The Boss' review: So, like, how long until 'Ghostbusters' comes out?
Like an old bra, this series of sketches is held together by the thinnest of thread.
By Hillary Busis on April 8, 2016
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In a sea of blandly titled raunchfests -- Neighbors, Sisters, Grown-Ups, Spy -- The Boss still manages to stand out as the most generic title of them all. Which is sort of funny, considering just how strange Melissa McCarthy's latest movie is.
It's a foul-mouthed, R-rated comedy with the soul of a schlocky, mid-career Robin Williams vehicle; a film that takes 10 minutes to explore the comic possibilities of an old bra but hardly cares to explain how its title character made her vast fortune (not to mention the mechanics of how she gets it back); a casually feminist Bechdel-buster that hinges not one but two big punchlines on how hilarious it is when a man gives another man a blow job.
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It meanders amiably from setpiece to setpiece, separating them with long, laugh-free stretches -- until director Ben Falcone seems to remember he's making a broad comedy and sends his star, who also happens to be his wife, tumbling down a flight of stairs.
Maybe the movie's inconsistencies were baked in from the very beginning. It centers on Michelle Darnell, a sort of Donald Trump/Tony Robbins hybrid with Suze Orman hair whom McCarthy first started playing in Groundlings sketches some 15 years ago(Opens in a new window). That could be why the film often feels like a series of Saturday Night Live bits strung together by the thinnest of thread.
Perhaps it's also why every character besides the long-gestating Michelle can easily be summed up in two words. (Kristen Bell's Claire: "single mom." Ella Anderson's Rachel: "cute kid." Tyler Labine's Mike: "nice guy." Peter Dinklage's Renault: "straight weirdo.")
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The plot is slightly more complicated. Our story begins when Michelle, a vaguely defined billionaire -- she owns ... companies? -- gets busted for insider trading and, after the universe's fastest trial, serves the universe's quickest sentence. Upon release, she learns that she's lost all of her assets and status, which leads her to seek refuge with her old assistant, Claire.
From there, the movie basically turns into Troop Beverly Hills, but with more cursing and a corporate intrigue subplot: Inspired by Claire's daughter, Michelle starts a for-profit Girl Scouts clone. Yes, there's a rival troop led by an uptight stick-in-the-mud; yes, the members of "Darnell's Darlings" are a ragtag group of misfits. And yes, Michelle gradually realizes that money isn't as important as love.
McCarthy is engaging as ever throughout, even though Michelle is curiously underdeveloped -- especially for a character who's existed nearly as long as the iPod. We hear a lot about what a shark Michelle is, and how many people in the business world hate her -- but we never see her do anything particularly heinous, beyond yelling obscenities at children.
It's as if McCarthy and Falcone, who wrote the film's script with Steve Mallory, were worried that going deeper would make their leading lady too unlikeable.
That said, it's nice to see the Oscar nominee as a character who's not as one-note grotesque as the title characters she's played in movies like Identity Thief and Tammy; it's also nice that her size is never comic fodder here, or even remarked upon at all. The film does have jokes that land, as well as a stacked cast filled with welcome faces -- Kathy Bates, Margo Martindale, Cecily Strong and Kristen Schaal among them.
Mostly, though, it just feels sort of off -- not outrageous enough to win points for its daring, not warm enough to really win hearts. It doesn't have much to say about capitalism, or business ethics, or female friendship. It does, however, have Peter Dinklage wielding a sword for some reason, if that's what you're into.
In the grand scheme of things, The Boss will be a minor blip in McCarthy's filmography, the sort of movie it's more interesting to dissect than it is to watch. Which is fine; not every comedy can be Bridesmaids, and again, at least it's not Tammy. And hey, she'll get another shot at the gold in just a few months: That's when we'll finally see her in the big Ghostbusters reboot. Doesn't that movie look pretty boss?
Hillary Busis
Hillary Busis was Mashable's Deputy Entertainment Editor. Her coverage focused on the film and television industry. A graduate of Columbia, Hillary previously worked as a digital news editor at Entertainment Weekly, where she also cohosted a weekly show on EW's Sirius XM Radio channel. Her work has been featured in Vulture, Slate and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and she's also appeared as a guest on the 'Today' show and HuffPost Live.


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Noah Smith: Ronald Reagan, the diversity president
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally for Sen. Dave Durenberger, Feb. 8, 1982. (Michael Evans/The White House/Getty Images)
By Noah Smith |
PUBLISHED: September 8, 2019 at 10:25 am | UPDATED: September 10, 2019 at 5:31 pm
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Many Republicans are worried about America's changing demographics. But it was a Republican president — Ronald Reagan — who set the country on its irrevocable course toward greater diversity. And they should honor Reagan's vision.
The U.S. is inexorably becoming a more heterogeneous country. Non-Hispanic whites comprise about three fifths of the population, down from almost nine tenths in 1940.
Already, the country's two largest and most economically important states, California and Texas, are majority-minority. Although Hispanic fertility rates have fallen and Latin American immigration has mostly tapered off, the Census Bureau projects that the country as a whole will become majority-minority by 2045.
Polls show that the bulk of Americans, including whites, are comfortable with this shift. But a substantial minority — including many Republicans, and especially Trump voters — is not happy. A 2016 survey found that reminding some white voters of the demographic shift increased their support for Donald Trump, and for anti-immigration policies.
Democrats tend to attribute such views to racism, and this is an important factor, intertwined with a chauvinistic belief in Western cultural superiority. But many Republicans are also worried about the political implications of the shift. With Hispanic and Asian Americans now seemingly a solid Democratic constituency, analysts on both sides anticipate that demographic change could make the GOP a permanent minority party. Such worries are commonplace throughout U.S. history — in the early 1800s, Federalists and Whigs fretted that Democrats were importing Irish votes.
Many attribute the nation's increasing diversity to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Adopted under President Lyndon Johnson, the legislation abolished the quota system that had heavily restricted non-European immigration since 1924. Yet when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency in 1981, the country was still about 80% non-Hispanic white. Reagan, a conservative who made deep changes to tax policy, labor relations, and the military, had a unique opportunity to arrest the demographic impact of the 1965 law before it became significant.
Instead, he chose to let demographic change continue. From the start, Reagan expressed pro-immigration sentiments. In a 1980 debate with primary election rival George H.W. Bush, Reagan advocated expanded legal immigration from Mexico, declaring: "Rather than … talking about putting up a fence, why don't we…make it possible for (Mexicans) to come here legally with a work permit."
Reagan made good on his word. In 1986 he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to more than 3 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. It was an epochal event — the largest such amnesty in the country's history.
The IRCA changed U.S. demographics irrevocably. Had Reagan chosen to enact a large-scale deportation program (like the ones carried out in more recent years), he might have expelled many of those 3 million undocumented immigrants, most of whom were Mexican. Instead, they got to stay, and had children who became U.S. citizens. As a concession to restrictionists, IRCA did include punishments for employers who hired unauthorized immigrants, but these had no effect on immigration patterns.
Reagan also had a chance to stop the mostly nonwhite legal immigration that was bringing people from all corners of the globe. He never tried. In fact, despite holding some bigoted attitudes in private, Reagan remained passionately committed to the ideal of global immigration throughout his presidency. In his farewell address, he told a story of a U.S. Navy ship accepting a boat full of Southeast Asian refugees hoping to become Americans. And in his final speech from the Oval Office, Reagan articulated a vision of the nation that put immigration at the center of American exceptionalism: "We lead the world because unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world."
Thus, although it was Johnson who opened the door for diverse immigration, it was Reagan who sealed the country's fate as a nation of all races and ethnicities.
Now Trump and his base want to turn back the clock, using immigration restriction and mass deportation to wipe away the diverse nation Reagan created. The effort will fail: A majority-minority citizenry is already baked into the demographic cake.
Instead of a joining a doomed rebellion against demographic destiny, Republicans should re-commit themselves to Reagan's vision. Global immigration is important for the nation's prosperity. Even more crucial is the social trust and unity that comes from Americans of all races believing that they belong.
To allay fears of permanent Democratic dominance, Republicans should reject Trumpism and redouble their efforts to court more nonwhite voters — something Reagan strongly believed was possible. Notably, this is what the Federalists and Whigs did in the 1800s, when faced with a wave of Irish votes. Asian Americans — now the fastest-growing group in the country — used to lean Republican, and a sizeable slice of Hispanic voters are receptive to GOP candidates.
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Ronald Reagan believed in a country that was defined by ideals and institutions instead of by race. Today's Republicans should reject demographic fear and return to that powerful vision.
Noah Smith is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.
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The Ireland National Committee aims to promote sustainable energy development in Ireland, as a part of the World Energy Council's energy vision. As a member of the World Energy Council network, the organisation is committed to representing the Irish perspective within national, regional and global energy debates. The committee includes a variety of members to ensure that the diverse energy interests of Ireland are appropriately represented. Members of the committee are invited to attend high-level events, participate in energy-focused study groups, contribute to technical research and be a part of the global energy dialogue.
Secretary: Clive Bowers
Energy in Ireland
The broad direction of Ireland's energy policy is identified in the 2021 edition of the World Energy Issues Monitor. The top three issues identified by respondents are; renewable energies; market design; and decentralised systems and behavioural changes. These strongly correlate with the high-level policy framework. At the EU level, policy has been set through the existing Clean Energy Package, with recent announcements about increased 2030 ambitions confirming this. Along with the Clean Energy Package, the Climate Action Plan published by the Irish government sets out a detailed blueprint for decarbonisation out to 2030 and to put the country on a compatible pathway for net zero by 2050.
The action priorities that emerge in the Issues Monitor suggest that respondents are focussed on implementing the Climate Action Plan. Renewable energies are the highest priority item but are seen to have a low uncertainty. There is a call for action on support mechanisms and the investor environment which is understandable given the scale of investment needed in the coming decade. The Electricity Association of Ireland has published a study which suggests that a €32bn investment is required to achieve a 70% renewable electricity system by 2030.
The need to consider market design has also emerged as an action priority. This has arisen from
renewable investors who see the current market as being built around traditional generation;
those who are more focussed on electricity system flexibility requirements with high renewables and the need to decarbonise the residual dispatchable generation requirement; and
parties interested in gas and electricity system integration.
The action priorities also identify the need to consider demographic patterns, which will influence how people engage with the transition in terms of digitalisation, smart products and building stock retrofit.
Within the responses, there is a recurring theme about the need for infrastructure to be built to support the transition. This relates to planning and permitting of large-scale infrastructure (including interconnection) to support renewable electricity and to the role of the electricity Distribution System Operator (DSO) in delivering a distribution system that can support the required scale of ambition in electrification.
The key critical uncertainties that emerge from the survey results remain linked to Ireland's energy policy; in that they represent issues that will have to be addressed in the country's pathway to decarbonisation.
Energy storage is key for an island system like Ireland with very high levels of variable renewable electricity, and respondents see this as a key issue to address in the low carbon transition. Innovative transport emerges as an important issue for respondents: transport emissions make up 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. Responses show that transport innovation must come from better overall design and increased use of public transport and decarbonisation of the vehicles that will still be needed.
Carbon abatement and carbon removal also feature as critical uncertainties; this is intuitive since the EU and Ireland is on a target pathway of net zero by 2050. One third of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions arise from agriculture, and so offsetting through carbon removal must be part of the overall transition. Carbon removal can be achieved using Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) in combination with natural gas, while carbon removal would involve negative emissions solutions such as land use, direct air capture of CO2 or bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Finally, hydrogen emerges as a critical uncertainty. Hydrogen has become a major part of the energy transition narrative in the past two years. The European Commission has published a communication on a hydrogen strategy, which would see widespread hydrogen usage in hard-to-abate sectors. It remains an uncertainty since the specific use cases for hydrogen in Ireland are not identified. Respondents see roles for hydrogen sourced from green electricity or from gas and CCS.
Regarding preparedness for different events, there was lower confidence in preparedness for natural disasters, extreme weather events and malicious attacks, with higher confidence in the ability to deal with pandemics and structural changes on the demand side.
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Victoria Cross: third citation for Corporal William James Lendrim, Royal Sappers and Miners. April 20, 1855, he was one of four volunteers who destroyed the screen which the Russians had erected to conceal their advance rifle-pits.
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Victoria Cross: second of three citations for Private Alexander Wright, 77th Regt. 1855, he showed great bravery at the taking of the Russian Rifle Pits and was particularly noticed for the encouragement he gave the other men while holding the Pits under very heavy fire; he was wounded in this action.
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Why are mainframes still in the enterprise data center?
In the recent past, I've had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Cobol-IT, Compuware, Heirloom Computing, TmaxSoft and a few others who have targeted enterprises still using mainframes.
A few of them, such as Compuware, are focused on adding rapid application development and deployment (aka DevOps) to the mainframe, making the environment seem relevant today.
Most of the others, however, are focused on convincing enterprises that it is finally time for them to abandon the mainframe and move those workloads to industry-standard x86 systems running Windows or Linux or, perhaps, to midrange Unix systems.
Regardless of all of this industry attention, the mainframe still is a common resident of the enterprise data center. The key question is why?
The problem facing enterprises wishing to move away from mainframes has always been the "all-or-nothing" challenge posed by their own workloads. These workloads are so interdependent and complex that everything has to be moved at once or the enterprise suffers.
The suffering typically centers on underperformance, increased complexity caused by bringing functions over piecemeal, or having to add new development or operational staff to support the target environment. In the end, the savings on hardware or software turns out to be less than the increased costs required of a hybrid computing solution.
Some have chosen to lift whole functions and substitute cloud-based solutions, or just replace the whole custom solution with a less custom, off-the-shelf piece of packaged software. The enterprise decision makers appear, in these cases, to have accepted having less customization in exchange for some benefit: better performance, made possible by using a cluster or grid of industry standard systems; increased ease in finding development and operational staff; or reduced costs for additional hardware, software and software components that can be found in the industry-standard world.
I've noticed that many of the competitors in this "mainframe migration" market target Cobol-based applications executing on mainframes. Some hope to persuade customers to move to other computing platforms or to the cloud by transforming the Cobol to Java, others suggest moving to a more portable version of Cobol, and a very few suggest different language processing environments. If my memory serves me well, some of those other platforms include Ruby and Python.
While all of these services appear to offer at least something to help enterprises wishing to retire their mainframes, none of them really addresses the entire environment.
It is easy to see that moving the complete workload environment from the mainframe somewhere else is a very difficult problem. That's why most suppliers cherry-pick the "easy" bits out of the list as their focal point.
Can one of the suppliers help with mainframe migration?
Many suppliers are clamoring for the enterprise's attention, but can they really help? It's a simple question that unfolds into a difficult answer. It all depends upon how complex your mainframe computing environment is.
If it is largely constructed of some Cobol applications using a relational database managed by a simple job control environment, the answer could be yes they can help in a migration effort. If your environment is more complex, at best they can help you move the simple bits somewhere else leaving the rest of it behind.


1. Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial. 1 Cor.15.
2. Consisting of earth; as the terrestrial globe.
3. Pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary. Death puts and end to all terrestrial scenes.
Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as, terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial. 1 Cor. xv.
Consisting of earth; as, the terrestrial globe.
Pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary. Death puts an end to all terrestrial scenes.
"Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.
"The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.
Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser.
Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young.
The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward.
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1. Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial 1 Corinthians 15:40.
Any work of wood or iron, made by crossing laths, rods or bars, and forming open squares like net-work; as the lattice of a window.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judges 5.
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1. To form with cross bars, and open work.
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Armslist cons trick on the web customers on armslist into considering they are dealing with a respectable speak to but it is actually a scammer.
Scammers will pose as legitimate sellers and put up phony ads on armslist, and might method you via e-mail or on social media platforms.
The advertisement can be for everything, these kinds of as handguns, ammo. It might even consist of pictures and other particulars usually copied from a legitimate sellers advertisement. In buy to entice a amount of victims in a hurry, the scammer advertises the item at a minimal price tag, frequently considerably decrease than equivalent products advertised on the identical web site.
When you show curiosity in the product, the scammer may assert that they are travelling or have moved overseas and that an agent will supply the products subsequent receipt of payment. Subsequent payment you may acquire a e-mail, nevertheless, you wont obtain the items and will not be able to get in touch with the vendor.
If you are advertising and marketing your things for sale by way of armslist, beware of scammers posing as real purchasers. Scammers could make up tales these kinds of as needing your support to pay out an agent or third get together for upfront costs like transportation or insurance policies. They might promise you reimbursement for these costs.
Alternatively the scammer could deliver a cheque for far more funds than the agreed sale price tag. The scammer will invent an excuse for the overpayment, such as to protect the costs of an agent or extra shipping and delivery costs, or that it was merely human error. The scammer will then inquire you to refund the excessive sum typically through an on the internet banking transfer, pre-loaded income card, or a wire transfer ahead of you find out that their cheque has bounced. See Overpayment scams for a lot more information.
In each instances, you will shed the money you gave the scammer, and if you have previously sent the item you ended up selling, you will lose it as nicely.
The armslist advert promotes items, at extremely reduced charges, usually decrease than similar objects advertised on the armslist and other sites.
The vendor promises to be unavailable (e.g. they are travelling or have moved abroad) and insists on payment prior to arranging for shipping of the merchandise.
The seller requests that you pay via international income transfers, cheques or direct lender transfers.
The possible customer is inclined to buy your product without having getting viewed it in man or woman even if you are marketing an high-priced item.
A likely overseas buyer is intrigued in getting your merchandise regardless of it getting a typically offered item in their residence nation (e.g. ammo). Frequently the transport fees would considerably outweigh the expense of the item itself.
The customer sends you a cheque for far more than the agreed price, and then asks you to refund the overpaid quantity.
If the advertised value of a great, product seems to be too very good to be accurate, it almost certainly is. If you have any doubts, never go forward with the offer.
Do an world wide web search employing the actual wording in the ad, several nicely-known ripoffs can be identified this way.
For expensive products, the most secure option is to only pay out the seller after you have inspected the merchandise in person. In the same way, do not shell out a deposit or any partial payments before you have inspected an merchandise.
Stay away from any arrangement with a stranger that asks for payment by means of funds order, wire transfer, intercontinental money transfer, pre-loaded card or electronic currency, like Bitcoin. It is uncommon to recuperate income despatched this way.
Be wary of any transactions that entail an overpayment, and requests to refund the excess cash by world wide web banking or wire transfers.
buy, wire transfer, worldwide cash transfer, pre-loaded card or digital currency. It is rare to get better cash sent this way.
If you have been despatched a cheque for far more income than the agreed price, send it again and inquire for one more cheque with the correct volume.
Do not deliver the items to the buyer till the cheque has cleared in your financial institution account.
For items of high benefit, do not let likely buyers to inspect the merchandise with no an individual else being there to supervise.
We encourage you to report ripoffs to the ACCC by way of the report a scam page. This aids us to warn folks about existing scams, keep track of developments and disrupt ripoffs in which possible. You should include information of the scam get in touch with you gained, for illustration, electronic mail or screenshot.


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Thor 2 will be in the works now
John July 2, 2011
Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddlestone are both working on the Avengers film and it is getting ready for release next year. Thor 2 is also now in the works with a new writer and director. Kenneth Branagh is out of it for a second time.
The film is expected to hit theaters on July 26 th 2013. Hemsworth is confirmed for the sequel of the film. Don Payne will be writing the new film and will be returning from the first film. The material was handled with a lot of care in the able hands of Kenneth. He really brought out something watchable on to the screen.
The director's chair is something to check out. The studio should be really carefull who they get as the director for the film. There are plenty of very capable directors out there who will be make this material work. Thor was special and I hope they get a good director.
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1. Preserve the quality of life for SIGE residents now and into the future.
2. Encourage member participation in official and social activities sponsored by the Association.
3. Manage association funds in a fiscally responsible, open and accountable manner.
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Episode 16 - Kevlin Henney
Kevlin Henney is a professional public speaker and the highly regarded author of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. He also runs his own software consultancy firm.
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Obama will use a speech at an Associated Press luncheon to press the "Buffett Rule," which would ensure that the wealthy pay comparable tax rates to those of the middle and lower classes, senior administration officials said today.
The Senate is set to consider the Buffett Rule the week of April 16, when it returns from its spring recess.
The officials also said the president would use the speech to criticize the House-passed Republican fiscal 2013 budget, which was adopted largely along party lines last week in that chamber.
Democrats contend that both the Buffett Rule and the GOP budget underscore the theme of income inequality, an issue that they believe will resonate with middle-class voters.
A senior GOP aide questioned Democrats' decision to move the Buffett Rule while the chamber has done nothing to address rising gas prices.
Obama discussed the issue in his weekly radio address Saturday.
The Buffett Rule is named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has criticized the lower tax rates paid on investments compared with the tax rate paid on wages and other earned income.
The Senate is set to take a procedural vote when it returns on whether to take up a bill, introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in February, that would ensure that individuals making more than $1 million a year pay at least a 30 percent tax rate to put them on par with the percentage paid by most middle-income taxpayers.
"If they vote to keep giving tax breaks to people like me — tax breaks our country can't afford — then they're going to have to explain to you where that money comes from," Obama said in his Saturday address.
Senate Republicans are likely to deny the Democrats the votes needed to cut off debate on the motion to proceed to the bill, which would result in killing the measure. Sixty votes are needed and Democrats control only 53 votes.
Republicans argue the measure would be a jobs killer because it would raise taxes on small-business owners who tend to file their businesses taxes as part of their individual income tax.
But the Senate GOP might also take up Democrats' invitation to debate the issue with an eye to vote it down later in the week. This would follow a similar pattern as last week's debate on repealing oil and gas subsidies.
Despite admonitions from Senate Democrats and Obama, the Senate voted 51-47, failing to reach the 60 votes needed to cut off debate on the oil and gas tax break repeal measure.
The 47 votes against the bill included Democratic Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska), Mary Landrieu (La.) Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jim Webb (Va.) voting with Republicans against cutting off debate on the bill. GOP Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe joined with Democrats.
With regard to the House GOP budget plan, Obama is expected to continue to highlight the differences between it and his approach.
Democrats have criticized the House budget, sponsored by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), for giving tax breaks to the wealthy and cutting discretionary spending and revamping Medicare, which Democrats argue would result in higher health care costs to seniors.
Ryan's proposal also lowers discretionary spending from $1.047 trillion to $1.028 trillion for fiscal 2013, which Democrats argue breaks an agreement Congress and the administration agreed to and enacted into law: the Budget Control Act.
Also, on Friday the administration will host the White House Forum on Women in the Economy, according to a White House official. Obama is scheduled to address the gathering.
As part of the meeting, the White House will release a report on women and the economy that examines the ways in which the administration has worked to ensure women's economic security and create jobs for women through all stages of life, the official said.
White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Attorney General Eric Holder are expected to participate.