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Coronavirus Ireland: Dublin Bus passenger numbers growing by the day as public urged to 'Get off the streets'
There are fears that many people are no longer taking the lockdown seriously as health chiefs desperately urge public against complacency
Ferghal Blaney
Dublin Bus coronavirus
Get off the streets is the new message from the Department of the Taoiseach this morning.
Following Dr Tony Holohan's similar plea last night, the Government has revealed shocking new evidence that people are ignoring the "stay at home" message in their droves.
Dublin Bus has told government officials that they have seen an increase in passenger numbers every day over the past week.
This disturbing finding shows that people are clearly on the move more and it tallies with Dr Holohan's evidence from Thursday's briefing where he showed seismic evidence of the same problem.
Coronavirus Ireland: People Before Profit leader Richard Boyd Barrett calls out Dublin Bus for making workers take annual leave during coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus Ireland: Our new enemy in war against COVID-19 is complacency, says Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, Liz Canavan, said at the Government's daily coronavirus briefing this morning that movement is now "certainly a cause for concern" after reviewing more official evidence.
She said: "Car traffic is but just one indicator of activity levels…… I have more information today.
"Dublin Bus notified us yesterday that there has been an increase in passenger numbers day on day this week and that all levels are above those seen the previous week.
"They are engaging with the National Transport Authority trying to pinpoint more information for us."
Taoiseach


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Goa the smallest state on western coastline is a perfect holiday destination and is popular among the tourists for its beaches and nightlife. Maharashtra the state just above it is famous for rock cut caves of Ajanta & Ellora, Elephanta caves and the most for Bollywood. Kerala the southern state at west coastline is a famous tourist destination. Throughout the year tourist from pan world visit this state for its amazing backwater, clean and calm beaches and resorts at Kovalam, nature and wildlife. Tamilnadu is adjacent state to Kerala and is also the southernmost state famous for its temples and architecture. Karnatka and Andhra Pradesh above Tamilnadu are two state with their own importance. Once is centre of one of the most hi-tech city which is Bangalore and another one houses city of Nawab and famous Kabab-Hyderabad.
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Jammu & Kashmir: March to October is the best time to visit Kashmir. From December to March the valley wears blanket of snow and open the ways for the lovers of winter sports.
Himachal & Uttarakhand: Uttarakhand is worth to visit throughout the year except July & August which is Monsoon season. Risk of Landslides, road jam increases during that time.
Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujrat: These regions are year open sectors. The best time to visit is October to March as during this time the weather is pleasant. From March onwards summer starts and temperature starts to rise, but yet this time is perfect for those who look for good travel deals within budget.
Northeast India: November to April is the best time to visit Northeast India when the beauty of this sector is at the best. However if you are adventure lover, want to walk alongside of the clouds and see countless waterfalls then you may visit from May to September which is a Monsoon season, but don't forget about the landslides and Jam which is common during this period.
South India: Southern India is at best from October to March. Monsoon falls from May to September. But for those who seek to have some Ayurvedic treatment this period is considered the best.
Religions: Sanatan Dharam is the prime religion of India. But along with this Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Jainism and Buddhism are some other religions followed in India. India is a democratic and secular country so people of all the religions can live here independently. The mixture of religions has blessed the country with some of the most beautiful specimens of architecture in the form of Temple, Gurudwaras, Mosques and Monasteries. In India the religious scripture and holy books play a great role in lives of people and that can be seen reflecting in their beliefs and thinking.
Region is something which strikes directly to the heart of people of different religion here and hence for the tourists it also becomes necessary to do a basic homework for the tour which would help them to explore the beauty of temple and religious places. Dress decently while visiting any religious temple. Wear full sleeve shirts, women are advised not to wear shorts. Keep your shoes and slippers off before entering and religious place and it is offence to enter any such place in state of consuming alcohol.
Dresses: Indian presents a wide variety of dresses and costumes as according to the state, region, tradition, religion, tribe etc. Beautifully dressed people in their different traditional style are common to see during fair and festivals. There is a wide range of variety in the dresses of people. It would be certainly a great and different experience to get a click in traditional Dhoti & Kurta by men and Saree by women. You can also try different other style of dresses too during your visit.
Food & Cuisines: India is a country of variety and this difference can also be seen in its food and cuisines. Every state has its own speciality like Sarso Ka Saag and Makki ki roti, Kaude ki roti and Jhangora Bhaat of Uttarakahnd, Dhokla & Khakra of Gujrat, Idali, Sambhar, Rasam of South India, Kabab of Hyderabad. Hence if you are food lover India would be the perfect treat for your hunger. In India eating with hands can be seen commonly and for eating only right hand is used. You will find good restaurants offering different local and international cuisines almost at every city. If you want to eat traditionally then numerous local Dhabas are there and cooking class can also be arranged by us on request for you. Along with it all the International food chains like Mc Donald, KFC, Pizza Hut and CCD etc. are also common in cities.
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Languages: In India there are numerous languages belonging to different language families. As according to 2001 census India has major 122 languages and 1599 other languages. What happened? Astonished? Don't worries India have a greatest gift given by British and that is English. Although the national language is Hindi but being a huge and diverse country English is the language which unites it. In cities people speak and understand English well at small towns although the people have knowledge of the same but sometimes they may not be much comfortable with it.
Accommodation: India has uplifted its image from the snake charmers to home of some of the richest persons of the world and from small huts to big and lavish houses, villas and hotels of different categories to cater the need of every kind of tourist. Here you will find hotel from budget to Luxury class, guest houses, Youth Hostels and also Home stays are getting very popular these days. Hence you will always remains with plenty of options to stay in India.
Transportation of India also provides you the liberty to choose and experience the rides as you want. Condition of roads has improved, just at some remote areas and rural villages you may find bit trouble with roads or else the condition of roads in cities have very much improved. In India you can get a private or public transport easily. But kindly be alert and attentive from the touts if you don't know the exact price of transportation, beware of getting over charged. Using private transports always ask to turn on the meter by the driver and start the navigation in your phone. At some places night charge may apply in between 1100 PM to 0500 AM. At metro cities prepaid taxi services are available.
Currency: An Indian rupee is the currency of the country. You may exchange the currency at airport, hotel or authorized currency exchange agent. But the rates offered by them are not so attractive. If you want we can also exchange the money for your from some authorized currency exchange office. It is illegal and not advised to convert the currency from other means as mentioned above. Credit and debit cards can be used as per the availability of facility at hotels, malls or restaurants. ATMs are easily available at all the cities and towns except very remote and rural areas.
Learning: There are many things to learn in India but there are few things of which India is Pioneer. India offers a wide scope for learners who want to learn the basic knowledge of different thing or we can say the heritage art of India. Yog is one among them. In India Rishikesh is the International capital of Yog, thousands of people from the globe visit this beautiful, calm and peaceful city as a tourist and learner of Yog. Along with classical music and dances, Ayurveda, Sanskrit are among few other things of which the tourist could be interested in as a learner. Moreover a great and rich education system, large number of universities and economical rates attract million of students from all around the world for education.
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An Overdue Visit
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Completed An Overdue Visit
By Katherine Bowen
January 22, 2020 in ARCHIVED IN CHARACTER THREADS
Katherine Bowen
Time Zone: Australia - East Coast (AEST)
Teacher - Kalispell School
Player: JulieS
Playby: Dianne Foster
Goes By: Kate, Katie
Mature Content: No
With: Kate Bowen, Pastor and Mrs. Evans, Shade Thornton
Location: Kalispell, then Lost Lake Ranch
When: Saturday - mid September 1875
Kate took one last look in the mirror and nodded firmly. She was wearing a dark brown dress with navy blue accents on the cuffs and collar. It was not her favourite dress but it was one befitting her position as teacher. She had wanted to wear one of her more colourful outfits but thought better of it. After all, she had only talked to the man one and that was just before his encounter with the bear. It was too early...well it was just too early.
Today's trip to Lost Lake Ranch under the guise of meeting the two young Thornton children would allow her to get to know him a little bit better. When Pastor Evans told her that he was going to visit Shade Thornton to see how he was recovering and that Mrs. Evans was going to visit the housekeeper, she initially tried to think of way to join them. Thankfully, Pastor Evans mentioned that it would be a good opportunity for her to see the countryside and to meet the children.
In a way, the ride out would be beneficial in helping her to know what the surrounding country was like and who lived where. But, if truth be told she was more interested in seeing Shade again.
Once again, she stopped. Her thoughts were getting way ahead of the reality of the situation. For all she knew, he wouldn't even remember who she was. With his injuries and running a ranch, he probably never gave her a passing thought.
A knock at the door alerted her to the fact that the Pastor was ready to leave. Grabbing her coat and bag, she made her way out of the room.
(OOC: @Stormwolfe I will do another post about the trip to the ranch before arriving. You can do a post if you want for Shade.)
Shade Thornton
Time Zone: USA, Eastern Time
Lost Lake Ranch
Player: Stormwolfe
Playby: Robert Fuller
Goes By: Shade
Eye Color: Dark Blue
It was another beautiful Montana day. The sun was out, but the approaching fall could be felt in the air, making it very pleasant. Too nice to stay inside. Mary Miller, the ranch's housekeeper, had informed Shade that they were having guests. Pastor Evans and his wife were coming for a long-overdue visit. Shade did not know the reverend and his wife since he attended Mass at the abbey, as did most of the household. Mary and Sage, her husband and night foreman, attended church in town, of course. Still, the visit was not untoward or unexpected. Shade had heard good things about the pastor and his wife.
Shade could not help the fact that his thoughts turned to the pretty young school teacher that he had met in town before the bear hunt. She had mentioned that she was boarding with the Evans'. So, that is not exactly what she had said, but it was inferred when she told him that he could send word to her there when a good opportunity for a visit presented itself. Mary's words made him wonder if Mr. and Mrs. Evans' boarder would be accompanying them. He could not help but hope so. He would like to get to know her better.
His rambling thoughts were interrupted by Cody and Nettie as they brought some elaborately folded paper animals to show him. Harriet Mercer's colleague and, probably, protector, had shown them how to make the paper animals at some point in time. Now, they were busy making their own paper animal ranch. Shade smiled and examined the little horse carefully, praising his nephew on how good it was. He pointed at the box of colored chalk, "Why don't you color them?" Shade delved back into his school memories when he actually did some landscape and horse sketches. "You can combine some colors to get another." It would make a mess because they would have to use their fingers, but it would be fun and a learning adventure for them.
The twins chattered excitedly at one another and started work on the project their uncle had suggested. Shade had never imagined himself so settled and so content with being settled. His duties as the twin's guardian and surrogate parent meant the world to him. It had also made his thoughts turn toward settling down in other ways. He had gone, almost overnight, from being a drifter and practically an outlaw to being a wealthy ranch owner and guardian of two five-year-olds. Would that change in status matter to...
Wait! Shade shook his head fiercely. He had only met Miss Bowen once and very casually at that. Still...would a genteel schoolmarm be willing to overlook some of his past exploits? Shade wouldn't mind finding out...
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Kate listened as Pastor Evans and his wife pointed out various places along the way. It was a little bit overwhelming trying to remember who lived where but at the least she now had a good idea on who lived on this side of town.
At the beginning of the trip, Mrs. Evans had asked her husband if the people at Lost Lake knew of their impending visit. He had told her that he had sent a note back with Ben Hall, one of the ranch hands who did attend their church when he was able. Ben had been in town collecting the mail and some supplies for the ranch.
Pastor Evans remarked that even though he hadn't met Shade Thornton, he had been impressed by what he had heard about the man. Knowing that things needed to be settled at the ranch was one of the reasons why Pastor Evans had taken so long to go out there. His wife, Jemima, who was good friends with Mary Miller, the housekeeper, bristled with excitement as she told Kate that she hoped to get a few of Mary's recipes to try out.
As they continued along the road that lead to Lost Lake, Kate also took all of the different colours and smells. Summer was slowly turning into fall and some of the trees had already started to lose their leaves. Today's visit might be the only chance she could get to come here before winter set in. Teaching school during the week and preparing lessons on the weekends left very little time for going on long trips to the outlying ranches. There were a few more ranches and farms on her list to visit.
Saddened by the thought that this might be her only visit to the home of someone who was starting to figure prominently in her life, she immediately vowed to make the most of it and to learn as much as she could about him. Maybe a long winter would give her time to think and work out what she would do, if anything at all.
A comment from Pastor Evans, alerted her to the fact they were nearing their destination. She would put these next few minutes in getting herself composed and hopefully hide how eager she was to see him again.
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"Mr. Shade," Mary admonished firmly, but with an amused note in her voice, "they will get chalk dust all over their clothes." She shook her head and added, "I believe our guests have arrived." Mary headed toward the doors that faced out into the home's large courtyard.
Shade knew that Mary was not truly concerned. After all, it was Saturday, and the children were clad in their play clothes. "Come on," he said and held his hands out to the twins. "Let's greet our guests, then you can continue your coloring projects." Cody and Nettie were too well-behaved to show how little they wanted to be interrupted. Taking their uncle's hand, they went with him to the courtyard.
Fortunately, although he was still noticeably limping, Shade's leg was healing well. This was a good thing since he did not want to be the object of too much concern or sympathy. He was not used to being "fussed" over, and it made him more than a little uncomfortable. They reached the courtyard, and just as Mary had said, their visitors were arriving. Shade considered his sense of hearing to be exceptional. Mary, however, seemed to be able to hear as well as a dog!
While waiting for their guest to alight from their conveyance, Shade's eyes scanned the small party, unable to stop his eyes from lighting up when he spotted the person he was hoping would be with the reverend and his wife. The woman was every bit as pretty as he remembered, and he found himself impatient for the formal introductions to be said. Would he and Miss Bowen have an opportunity to converse privately? Probably not. Mary was a stickler for social etiquette.
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Kate had been too busy gawking at the house that she almost didn't see Pastor Evans come around to help her off the buggy. Growing up in Chicago she had seen and lived in some big houses but never expected to see one out here. Even when she was teaching in Avoca, the houses of the local ranchers were modest compared to this. Whoever built this one must have had a great vision for what he wanted this place to be.
After getting off the buggy, she looked down as she straightened her coat and dusting it off slightly. As she raised her head, her eyes went over to where Mrs. Evans was being greeted by a woman and that is when she saw him.
Her first reaction was to stand still. She wasn't sure what to do next. Knowing that it might seem odd, she began to move towards the group at the front of the house. There were two children with Shade, as well as the woman, she now assumed as the one that Mrs. Evans had come to visit.
Mary Miller, seeing that the visitors were now all present, introduced Pastor Evans and his wife to Shade. Pastor Evans then in turn, introduced Kate to Mrs. Miller and Shade. Not knowing whether it was wise or not to say she and Shade were already acquainted with each other, she just smiled. Besides she was a tad nervous at being so close to him that she couldn't say anything at all.
As the introductions were being done, Shade offered his own smiles and greetings in turn. When the pastor introduced Miss Bowen, his smile deepened, lighting the shadows in his dark blue eyes, "Miss Bowen, it is a pleasure to see you again." Shade gave the reverend and his wife a nod, "Miss Bowen and I met very briefly at the general store in Kalispell before the bear hunt," his explanation made it clear that their meeting had been fleeting.
Feeling a gentle tug on his hand, Shade looked down at his niece, "I am being informed that more introductions are in order. Pastor Evans, Mrs. Evans, Miss Bowen - these two imps are my wards and my niece and nephew - Cody and Antoinette, Nettie, Thornton." The twins murmured polite greetings, but Cody moved closer to Shade. He was still nervous about meeting new people.
Nettie, however, had no qualms. She loved attention and loved visitors, "Miss Mary made an angel food cake but says we have to have a real lunch first."
Kate smiled at the girl. "I think your Miss Mary cares for you very much. You are very lucky to have someone to make angel food cake as it is only for very special people and their friends."
She turned her attention to the boy. Seeing that he was a little shy, she just smiled and said hello. Knowing that she would have to wait until the boy opened up a bit more. Having lunch and spending a little time with him might do that. One thing she did know was that she didn't want to give the impression that she was using him to get to his uncle. A slight frown appeared on her face as she mentally chided herself at the thought that this visit was nothing more than getting to know a local resident and his wards, who were close to school age, a bit better.
Looking over to Pastor and Mrs. Evans, she replied to Shade's comment, "Yes, it was very brief and quite unexpected."
Turning back to Shade, she felt a bit awkward. Not knowing quite what to say, she blurted out, "I was sorry to hear about your accident. I had heard that the injuries were rather terrible. It is good to see that you are recovering well."
Shade smiled easily, "Thank you. My injuries were not as severe as first feared, fortunately. Please, come inside. Mary thought we might like to have lunch on the front terrace." He was careful not to draw undue attention to Cody. He didn't have to worry about Nettie on that score.
Nettie took Katherine's hand firmly in her own, "I will show you," she stated adamantly and tugged the woman toward the house, all the while chattering about doing the paper folding and coloring. Shade smiled and fell in behind with Pastor Evans while Mary and Mrs. Evans chatted and followed.
Earlier that morning, Mary had gotten a couple of the ranch's hands to move the table they used for outdoor dining so that it caught the sun. With the leaves barely beginning to change to their autumn colors contrasting sharply with the intense blue of the lake, and the snowcapped mountains beyond, the view was spectacular. Mary mentally preened just a bit, proud of working in such a beautiful home and location. She then chastised herself for such prideful thoughts.
"I will get lunch laid out," Mary said and peeled off toward the kitchen.
Shade nodded and gestured at the outdoor seating area, "Please, make yourselves comfortable." He separated his hand from Cody's and Nettie from Katherine, "Go on, get cleaned up for lunch." Both children made their polite excuses and darted off. "Oh...uh...Pastor, Mrs. Evans, Miss Bowen, do you want to wash the trail dust off?" Shade could not help a bit of awkwardness. He was not accustomed to hosting guests.
After accepting Shade's offer to wash the trail dust off, Kate followed Pastor and Mrs. Evans to the room where they could freshen up. Part of her wanted to stay behind to talk to Shade and get to know him better as it might be the only time they could be alone. However, her own sensibility and etiquette made her decide not to.
When she and the Evans returned, the two children were already seated, and Mary had begun to place the food on the table. Mrs. Evans delighted at the spread her friend was putting on, remarked that it wasn't very often that she got the chance to have a meal in such a genial location. Pastor Evans quickly agreed before going over to the children and chatting with them.
Mary had come out again and when she had finished placing another platter of food on the table, she asked Mrs. Evans to come with her as she wanted her opinion on something...Kate couldn't quite hear as she had been occupied with looking at the scenery in an attempt to avoid talking to Shade.
Nerves were now starting to get the better of her. She had no idea of what was going on. One minute, she wanted to be alone with Shade and the next she wanted to be as far away as possible. Now that they were the only two who were standing around doing nothing, well it was a bit unsettling. Deciding that going into schoolteacher mode was the only thing she could do, she turned to Shade, "I am glad that weather has cleared after the rain we had the other day. It would have been a shame to miss all of the wonderful scenery."
Finally, Shade and Katherine were alone for a few moments, and he could not think of a good conversation opener. His head was buzzing with things he wanted to say, questions he wanted to ask her. Shade wanted to know everything he could about the lovely woman standing near the terrace railing with him. Why had she come to Montana? Was it only to teach school, or had she been leaving something behind? Poetically, he wanted to believe it was fate.
Shade's mind had been on getting the supplies for the bear hunt when he met her the first time. He had felt drawn to her during their brief meeting, but it was only while he was recovering from the injuries he had gotten on the hunt that she had started to really occupy his thoughts. The more he thought about that meeting in the general store, the more he felt some elusive quality to it that had never happened to him before.
Now, here they were, and he was as tongue-tied as a schoolboy. Fortunately, Katherine broke the awkward silence. Shade sighed inwardly with relief and gratitude. The last thing he wanted was for her to feel as if he was not interested in talking to her.
"I didn't realize how much I missed this until I got home," Shade replied, waving a hand at the mountains and the deep lake below. "May I get you something to drink? A glass of lemonade?" He inquired politely.
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Hay Festival #5: 6 Commonwealth Writers on Writing
June 6, 2013 /0 Comments/in Writing Fiction /by anne
'Kamila Shamsie has placed Pakistani literature on the world stage,' said Razia Iqbal introducing a Commonwealth Writers' panel on the second weekend of Hay Festival. Kamila Shamsie's most recent novel Burnt Shadows takes the reader across the globe from Nagasaki in 1945, through Partition in India and on to 9/11 in New York, and Afghanistan. (Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction).
A standout event at Hay Festival: left to right, Razia Iqbal talks with Kamila Shamsie, Michelle de Kretser and Monique Roffey. In association with Commonwealth Writers.
'I didn't know what I was doing,' said Shamsie. 'I was moving away from things I knew, the neighbourhoods where I grew up.' Before starting this novel she'd assumed she would only ever write about Karachi. However, she approached Burnt Shadows in the same way she approached any fiction project. 'The first questions are: What year is it? What month? What's happening? What's the political temperature?'
Shamsie appeared alongside Sri Lankan writer Michelle de Kretser and Trinidadian writer Monique Roffey to discuss Making Sense of Place: Using Fiction to Tell The Real Story.
Signing in festival bookshop. Sadly no Kamila Shamsie books were available.
Iqbal asked the three writers if they felt they had a responsibility to counter outside perceptions of their countries. Roffey responded, 'The Caribbean suffers from stereotyping – palm trees and paradise. So the writer has to dig deep.' And de Kretser said, 'I have friends who visit Sri Lanka and have a marvellous time. They say, "So the war's over and everything's all right." It's certainly not all right but none of it seems to impinge on them. When I travel I have that happy, glib response, too, to the countries I travel through.'
Shamsie highlighted the difference between fiction and non-fiction is this regard. 'As a writer I have to start with the idea that I'm writing for someone who knows some of what I'm talking about. Fiction has a different sort of intimacy to non-fiction. I'm not trying to explain but trying the understand something; it's about I need to enter this world.' She praised John Hersey's non-fiction account Hiroshima. 'There are certain things reportage can do. Fiction has to be very deeply touching.'
And on the issue of colonial history, de Kretser said, 'History intruded on our lives so we can't write fiction that ignores that history.' And Roffey: 'History impacts on your characters unless you keep them indoors!'
In her current writing project, Roffey has focused on the attempted coup d'état in Trinidad in 1990 and specifically on an urban myth that emerged from that event. The insurgents were prosecuted but gained amnesty. A myth developed among sections of the community that the insurgents should have been executed when arrested. 'I said 'Let's say they were shot. How would you feel then?" I decided in my current book to have the possibility of that story coming true.' (Sounds a great starting point to me).
On the writing process, de Kretser said, 'I always know the ending. It gives me a feeling of security, that I know where I'm heading.' Roffey: 'I live with an idea for a year, testing it. But then the organic thing happens.' And Shamsie on the subject matter for Burnt Shadows, 'I saw a photograph of a woman in Nagasaki who had three bird-shaped burns on her back.' At the time of the bomb, this woman had been wearing a white kimono with a black pattern of birds, which became 'tattoos' on her skin. 'I knew it then: There will be a novel, there will be this woman and I need her to turn around so I can see her.'
This was a standout event for me at Hay Festival. And the ticket only cost £5. The next event, also from Commonwealth Writers, was free.
Writers on Writing – Commonwealth Prizes
John le Carré presented Lisa O'Donnell with the Commonwealth Book Prize.
Lisa O'Donnell received the Commonwealth Book Prize for the best first novel of 2012, The Death of Bees. The prize was presented by John le Carré, no less!
O'Donnell was born in Scotland and now lives in Los Angeles. She won the Orange Screenwriting Prize in 2000.
So what prompted her to write The Death of Bees? Answer: 'I wrote the first few lines of a screenplay and I looked at them for a long time. I decided to turn it into a novel.'
Canadian writer Eliza Robertson and Trinidadian Sharon Millar were jointly awarded the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. According to Robertson, who wrote We Walked on Water, 'I'm certainly a short story writer and I read more short stories than novels. I like to play with form and the short story encourages experimentation.'
Happy Day: Lisa O'Donnell, Eliza Robertson and Sharon Millar.
And Sharon Millar who wrote The Whale House: 'Almost everything I write is about place. If I don't, then the note is off. I have started a novel but I'm not sure if a novel can have the same luminosity as a short story.'
Indeed author DW Wilson, one of the judges, commented that the short story seemed easier because 'it's a smaller object.' But he cautioned, 'If you have one clunker sentence in a short story it becomes very apparent, very quickly.' (Indeed it does).
For my next, possibly last, Writers on Writing blogpost I'll cover a brilliant event on the last day of Hay that introduced NoViolet Bulawayo and Meike Ziervogel.
Tags: Eliza Robertson, Hay Festival, Kamila Shamsie, Lisa O'Donnell, Michelle de Kretser, Monique Folley, Sharon Millar
Hay Festival #6: NoViolet Bulawayo and Meike Ziervogel
Hay Festival #3: Rhianna Pratchett on Writing for Games
Favourite Quotes from Write the Future Micro-Conference
Hay Festival #1: Lydia Davis Booker International Winner
Hay Festival Reading: Will Self and 'Umbrella'
Hay Festival: Michael Cunningham on The Snow Queen
Hay Festival #4: 7 Fiction Writers on Writing Hay Festival #6: NoViolet Bulawayo and Meike Ziervogel


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Wyndmere City, North Dakota
Population 447
Half are $35,100 - $95,500
The city of Wyndmere is a rural city located in southeast North Dakota. It is one of 14 cities in Richland County.
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The unadjusted gender pay gap is the median indvidiual female earnings as a percentage of male earnings. In other words, women who work in Wyndmere, ND generally make around 5102% of what men do. Much of that difference is likely due to the number of hours worked (see the Full Time vs Part Time Work chart), occupations chosen (see the Employed by Occupation chart), education, and job experience. Adjusting for each of those factors to see what women with similar qualifications and jobs make compared to men is difficult, but the adjusted pay gap would be more likely to show the difference due to discrimination, difference in ability, or willingness to negotiate pay. For these reasons, differences in the gender pay shown here may be more likely to show the gender ideals in an area than the discriminatory practices.
To classify as unemployed, people must not be in the military and must be actively looking for work (also known as the U3 measure of unemployment which is the official unemployment rate). In Wyndmere, ND, 32% of the population ages 16+ are not employed, but are also not looking for work so they are not considered in the unemployment rate. See the Labor Force Participation Rate for more information.
People in the labor force include those in the armed forces as well as civilians who are employed or classified as unemployed. To classify as unemployed, people must be actively looking for work. Common people that are not considered in the labor force are students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers not currently looking for work, and institutionalized people. In Wyndmere, ND, 32% of people are neither employed or looking for work.
The racial and ethnic diversity index measures the probability that any two people chose at random from Wyndmere, ND are of different races or ethnicities where higher numbers represent more diversity. It was developed by the University of North Carolina and USA Today in 1991 and adapted in 2000 to account for differences in Census questions. It uses the same calculation methods as the Gini Index used by the Census Bureau to determine household income inequality.
The climate estimates use Wyndmere, ND weather from 1971 to 2000 at the nearest official weather station which is located at MC LEOD 3 E.
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Name 2010 Census Wyndmere city
Name 2013 ACS Wyndmere city, North Dakota
Population 2010 Census 429
Population 2013 ACS 447
Housing Units 2010 Census 226
Housing Units 2013 ACS 251
Water Area 2010 Census 0
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How much does it cost? Engineers hate to accept this, but cost plays as important a role as any when outsourcing new tools. You can find the best product in the world for your design, but if you can't turn a profit because it costs too much, it's simply not attainable.
One of the most difficult (and often mis-handled) decisions upper management has to make is striking the balance between resource cost and efficiency. Picking the wrong tool can be a technical disaster for your engineers, causing schedule slips and possibly delaying projects indefinitely. It is imperative that tech-savvy folks carefully measure all the required specifications for the new purchase in question. Depending on the industry, this can mean size, speed, weight, runtime, memory usage, dimensions, etc. etc.
How compatible will the new product be? Integrating the tool into an existing or past design project can be a challenge. Be sure to evaluate specifically the ease-of-integration when shopping for a technical product. The schedule slip will be blamed on the engineer if the glove doesn't fit.
At times, this can be lumped in with the required specifications. But, how long the new product will last and keep your engineered designs on the cutting edge is an important enough factor to have its own bullet. I like to think of it as a tool's shelf-life. Will you still be using this in one year's time? Two? Ten? It helps to learn everything there is to know about the product you've chosen AND its competitive offerings. Go to trade shows, read technical magazines and offerings, and occasionally meet up with local salespeople to gauge what else is out there. Doing this at the onset of your product choice may clue you in to how long it will be before you are shopping again.
This is an often underrated consideration when looking for a new tool, product, or service. How comfortable are you with the technical salesperson? Can the outsourcing company be counted on when trouble arises? Make sure to get the technical support you need for your high-tech designs.
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I would argue that friends are as much a part of the Holidays as family. Chloe's friend Kennedy came over on Sunday to visit. It's so funny because the girls are aware of each other in a way that they weren't before now. All of the poking and grabbing makes it pretty interesting. Again, Kennedy is 10 days older than Chloe. It is not an optical iillusion that Chloe is larger. My child, compared with other family members, is a giant like her parents. I regret that I didn't get many facial expressions from Chloe. It's a product of the angle in which I was filming. I have to be close to her in case she decides to be untrue to her Weeble form and actually fall down.
That is so cute how calm they are and patient as they studied each other.I loved hearing my Kimberly laugh just like you always have. That song brought me joy too.
They are just too cute together!


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Category Archive: A. Scott Berg
A. Scott Berg Quote: "I think a biography is only…"
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
September 17, 2021 1949, A. Scott Berg, American, December 4, Quotes by Historians
A. Scott Berg Quote: "I like my subjects to be…"
I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
A. Scott Berg Quote: "I developed a mania for Fitzgerald…"
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald – by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton – I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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A. Scott Berg Quote: "I am a compulsive worker. But…"
I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.
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A. Scott Berg Quote: "When most people think of Woodrow…"
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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A. Scott Berg Quote: "Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his…"
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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A. Scott Berg Quote: "There are hundreds of books about…"
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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SAN DIEGO – Jan. 28, 2016 – San Diego audience favorite Hershey Felder ("George Gershwin Alone," "Monsieur Chopin," "Beethoven," "Liszt," "An American Story," "Irving Berlin") returns to San Diego Repertory Theatre in a pre-New York engagement of "Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in MAESTRO." Fresh from a sold out run of "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" at the La Jolla Playhouse, Felder will now perform this signature work about America's finest conductor and composer, Leonard Bernstein, which had its premiere in 2011 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. Directed by Joel Zwick, "MAESTRO" plays a limited engagement from Wednesday, July 6 to Sunday, July 17, 2016. Details for the New York presentation will be announced in April.
Felder returns to San Diego Repertory Theatre where his work was last seen as Adaptor and Director of the critical, popular and award-winning "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," which was presented for two engagements in one season due to popular demand. As is known about Felder's approach to his works, continual development and illumination is a prime goal, and so "MAESTRO" will now be presented to San Diego audiences after lengthy hit runs in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Orange County, Florida, Berkeley (Best Solo Show Award, Bay Area) and a worldwide live radio broadcast from Town Hall in New York on the WFMT Radio Network.
Combining first person narrative and his own music, as well as music that inspired him, "MAESTRO" is a tale spanning the entire 20th century. Leonard Bernstein, one of America's greatest musicians, broke through every artistic ceiling possible to become the world's musical ambassador. Conductor, composer, pianist, author, teacher, librettist, television star…for Leonard Bernstein, boundaries simply did not exist.
HERSHEY FELDER (Leonard Bernstein/Playwright) Mr. Felder created and performed "George Gershwin Alone," which played on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre, in the West End at the Duchess Theatre, and in theatres around the country. His Composers Sonata – "George Gershwin Alone," "Monsieur Chopin," "Beethoven, As I Knew Him," "Maestro Bernstein," "Hershey Felder as Franz Liszt in Musik," "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" – has been presented at dozens of theatres across the United States and around the world. His compositions and recordings include "Aliyah, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra;" "Fairytale, a musical;" "Les Anges de Paris, Suite for Violin and Piano;" "Song Settings;" "Saltimbanques for Piano and Orchestra;" "Etudes Thematiques for Piano;" and "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra." As director, he premiered Mona Golabek in "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" at the Geffen Playhouse in 2012 and recently produced and created scenic design for Taylor Hackford's "Louis and Keely 'Live' at the Sahara." He created Eighty-Eight Entertainment in 2001; its newest division, Hershey Felder Presents, continues in the creation of new works of musical theatre. Current projects include the musical plays "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" as well as the upcoming "Hershey Felder Tchaikovsky" and several musical theatre projects in development. Mr. Felder has been a scholar-in-residence at Harvard University's Department of Music and is married to Kim Campbell, the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
JOEL ZWICK (Director) Joel Zwick directed "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. Mr. Zwick is recognized as one of Hollywood's most prolific director of episodic television, having the direction of 525 episodes to his credit. These include having directed 21 pilots which have gone on to become regular series. He directed the Broadway production of "George Gershwin Alone." Previous New York productions have included "Dance With Me" (Tony nomination), "Shenandoah" (Broadway national tour), "Oklahoma" (national tour) and "Cold Storage" (American Place Theater). He directed "Esther" (Promenade Theater, NY), "Merry-Go-Round" (Chicago, Las Vegas), "Last Chance Saloon" and "Woyzeck" (West End, London). Mr. Zwick has taught drama at the Yale School of Drama, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Wheaton College, and USC. A graduate (B.A., M.A.) of Brooklyn College, he currently directs for the Disney Channel.
Single tickets are now on sale and begin at $60. Student tickets for $20 are also available for all performances. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SDRep.org, by phone at 619-544-1000 or by visiting the box office at 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101.
Combining first person narrative, and his own music as well as music that inspired him, ''MAESTRO'' is a tale spanning the entire 20th century. Leonard Bernstein, one of America's greatest musicians, broke through every artistic ceiling possible to become the world's musical ambassador. Conductor, composer, pianist, author, teacher, librettist, television star…for Leonard Bernstein, boundaries simply did not exist.


Peer Review for European quality assurance for Vocational education and training is a two-year Leonardo da Vinci (Transfer of Innovation) project. The project aims to transfer and further develop the content of the European Peer Review Manual for VET and to adapt the methodology into the national quality assurance systems for continuous Vocational Education and Training. The partner-countries in the transfer of the Peer Review innovation are Greece, Sweden, France, Bulgaria and Poland.
Peer Review is a form of external evaluation with the aim to support the reviewed educational institution in its efforts for quality assessment and continuous quality improvement. For that purpose external experts (so called peers) form a Peer team. That external group of experts is invited to judge the quality of different fields of the institution such as the quality of education and training provision of individual departments or of the entire organization.
Peers are external but work in a similar environment and have specific professional expertise and knowledge of the evaluated subject. They are "persons of equal standing" with the persons whose performance is reviewed and act as critical friends during the process.
Some of the activities during the Peer Review include: deciding on one (or more than one) European Quality Area (to be reviewed), Self-report (prepared by the reviewed organization), interviewing the staff of the organization, which works in the reviewed area, Final report (prepared by the Peer Team). The organization which asked for the Peer Review actively participates in the process of assessment (reviewing). All that allows for a first-hand appraisal of strengths and weaknesses of the vocational education and training provision by the peers. The outcome of the Review are the areas of improvement which are identified and discussed during the review and thus continuing quality development is enhanced.
Peer Review is a widespread instrument in the field of higher education, but not yet in the VET area. Peer Review builds on the quality activities of VET institutions (providers) as it's proven to be economically effective and favouring networking between VET providers and organizations.
Peer Review for VET is a two-year-long project of the Lifelong learning programme and The Leonardo da Vinci programme - transfer of innovation. Respectively it is funded with support from the European Commission. Coordinator of the project is DIMITRA -Institute of Training and Development (Greece). All partner-countries are Greece, Sweden, France, Bulgaria and Poland.


his touch was like that of King Midas.
the coast near the Royal and Ancient.
nine months later. That is safe.
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to it. But you are probably right.
Find a new place, a new face to love.
Carol Hamilton has recent publications in South Carolina Review, Poet Lore, Tulane Review, Slipstream, River Oak Review, Tar River Review, San Pedro River Review, Willow Review, White Wall Review, Bryant Literary Review, Tulane Review, U.S. Newsletter, Poetrybay, Ellipsis, and others. She has been nominated five times for a Pushcart prize. She has published 15 books of children's novels, legends and poetry, most recently, Master of Theater: Peter the Great and Lexicography. She is a former poet laureate of Oklahoma.


Saving Our Vets > Forgotten Heroes > Kneel before the King…Stand up for Freedom!
On July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress (Our congress at that time) adopted the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king. On that day, the United States became a democracy. No longer oppressed by a king.
Our ancestors fought for the freedom that we enjoy today. Since 1776 we have had to fight to keep our freedom. In the last 241 years, millions of men, women and children have died under our flag, fighting for our freedom.
On March 3, 1931, the Star Spangled Banner was voted in as the new National Anthem by congress and President Herbert Hoover.
As you can see, this song is about the fight for our freedom. Our National Anthem is a part of our history. It reminds us of the fight that our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters went through for the freedom we enjoy today.
History helps us understand change…The past causes the present and the future. Each individual has a history. Learning from our past is essential to the present and our future.
Through the refusal to learn history, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." by George Santayana.
There's one solution…return to teaching our children the history of our country. The struggles and continuous fight of every American soldier and Veteran have gone through for their freedom.
In light of this subject, I have started the #StandUpAmerica YouTube Challenge.
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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (* 27. Dezember 1887 in London; † 6. Juni 1971) war ein britischer Physiker.

Leben und Wirken
Edward Neville Andrade war sephardisch-jüdischer Herkunft und ein Nachfahr von Moses da Costa Andrade (nicht von Moses Mendes da Costa, wie manchmal angegeben). Er promovierte an der Universität Heidelberg und forschte im Folgenden ab 1914 kurz, aber sehr erfolgreich, mit Ernest Rutherford in Manchester. Beide Forscher arbeiteten daran, die Wellennatur von Gammastrahlen mit Hilfe von Röntgenspektren aufzuzeigen. Wenig später trat er der Royal Artillery bei.

Von 1928 bis 1950 war er Quain-Professor für Physik an der Universität London und später drei Jahre Fuller-Professor für Chemie an der Royal Institution. Darüber hinaus war Andrade Rundfunksprecher in der BBC-Radiosendung Brains Trust.

Seit 1935 war er Fellow der Royal Society. 1950 wurde er korrespondierendes Mitglied der Académie des sciences.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 An Approach to Modern Physics. Bell, London 1956.
 Sir Isaac Newton. Collins, London 1954; Doubleday, New York 1964.
 Physics for the Modern World. Barnes and Noble, 1962
 Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom. Doubleday New York 1964.
 A brief history of the Royal Society. Royal Society, London 1960.
 An introduction to science. 4 Bände, Oxford, Blackwell, 1935 bis 1947 (mit Julian Huxley).

Siehe auch
 Andrade-Gleichung

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Physiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (University of London)
Mitglied der Royal Society
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Geboren 1887
Gestorben 1971
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San Antonio, Texas - Collegiate anglers competing in the 2011 BoatU.S. Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship and Pepsi Collegiate Bass Fishing Open will have the opportunity to win prizes for presenting their fishing conservation ideas, with the top prize being the angler featured on a several nationally televised fishing programs. The Berkley Conservation Institute (BCI) will award the top 2 anglers whose presentations are submitted by June 20th, 2011.
"This is a very prestigious contest presented by Berkley and it's great of them to provide this opportunity," said Wade Middleton, Tournament Director. "In addition I'm personally excited to host the winner on the water to hear their thoughts about conservation and allow them to share them with anglers nationwide on the several television programs supporting this prize package."


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Siyanbola Ladigbolu was Alaafin of Oyo from January 1911 to 1944. He was the Alaafin of Oyo when Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria were amalgamated in 1914.

Biography
Before becoming Alaafin, Ladigbolu I held the title of Aremo, similar to a crown prince, he succeeded his father Oba Lawani to the throne in 1911.

Ladigbolu I was close to the colonial authorities and was appointed as a ceremonial  member of the Nigerian Council before it was disbanded in 1923. When Oyo province was created and under the administrative colonial resident, Captain William Ross, Ladigbolu's sphere of influence was enlarged.

Prior to colonial rule, internecine wars within Northern Yorubaland had shifted political power among Yoruba city states, Ibadan had risen as a political player in the region but still paid Oyo respect as an historical and spiritual center. However, political supremacy was disputed. 1914 he supply armies men, women and food to fight at first world. Oyo province, consisting of, Ibadan, Ogbomoso, Iwo and Oyo was carved out of Southern Nigeria and Ladigbolu I was appointed traditional head of the province to the dissatisfaction of Ibadan chiefs and other Obas.

The position elevated the power of Ladigbolu I and the political power of the Alaafin which had been in decline since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Together, the Alaafin and Ross were a diarchy who agreed on administrative and political decisions within the province. When Ross left the province, agitation by Ibadan chiefs got positive response from colonial authorities. The title of the traditional ruler of Ibadan was changed to Olubadan (Oba) from Baale, a lineage head who headed a committee of head of lineages. Gradually, some of the influence Ladigbolu I enjoyed were curtailed.

Death
Wole Soyinka's play, Death and the King's Horseman, about an aide of a king who refused to commit suicide after the king's death as was the local custom was related to events surrounding the death of Ladigbolu.

References

Alaafins of Oyo
Nigerian royalty


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About 10 years ago I decided I was interested in starting my own company, and I thought I needed to know everything about startups. I'd begun my career at Intel and then worked for IBM, so I'd worked mostly in big companies. I had managed large engineering projects, and I knew how to build products. But I didn't know anything about how to raise money, how to make the right case to investors, how small companies sell to big companies when they don't have a brand name or an established relationship. I didn't know how to hire and build a team from scratch.
I really became focused on being perfect. So instead of just diving in, I worked for another startup where the founding team had been in place for a few years. They were just getting their product launched. I worked as part of the team, and through that exercise I realized: It wasn't that I needed to be perfect, or that I needed to know everything. Because none of those people were perfect. None of them knew everything. But they were willing to be brave. They were willing to take risks. They were willing to say they didn't know, and they were willing to listen and get help.
I worked for that company for two full years, watching the executive team make mistakes and learn along the way. And I realized I didn't know why I thought I could not do it. I always thought they knew everything beforehand. But they didn't.
No one knows everything the first time.
When I realized that the people who are out there and learning at the fastest rate are not perfect, they are just brave, my trajectory of learning and exposure really accelerated. I became able to take in information and figure things out faster than I had before.
No one knows everything the first time. You have to figure it out. You can't wait until you know everything. If you wait, it takes too long, and you don't learn fast enough. Once you decide, OK, whatever I don't know, I'm going to have to learn along the way, everything accelerates. You suddenly can get things done at a pace and a scale that you never could imagine before.
You have to constantly monitor yourself. Once you dive off the deep end and say you're going to do something, unless you are willing to accept failure, you have to find people who are willing to teach you. You use all of your resources to get there as fast as you can. You're constantly reminding yourself that you can learn these things in the beginning. Then it just becomes second nature. You start to believe that you have this superpower of learning anything you need to learn.
Once you believe that, then you're golden. People who have crazy trajectories in their career, they just get to the point that they believe in themselves. They can learn anything. And because they believe that, they can do it.
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Cold War must wait
Par Leonardo Plasencia
Blog : Le blog de Leonardo Plasencia
Just a few months ago, numerous journalists and international analysts around the globe were almost eager to declare the beginning of the new era : the new Cold War. After the russian annexation of Crimea, in march 2014, and the conflict in the eastern regions of Ukraine between the pro-european Porochenko's administration and the russian-backed rebels, the most important western leaders lashed out at Vladimir Putin.
In this context, media stated on a daily basis that this was the most dangerous political standoff since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and compared the situation with Hitler taking over Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) just before World War II. Economical sanctions from both sides were introduced, russian diplomats and businessmen were black-listed, and Russia was kick out of G8. On the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis the rivalry between the two greatest nuclear superpowers seemed to be back on track.
Nonetheless, after being virtually isolated by the west for more than a year, Vladimir Putin carried out an astute strategy to get back from the 'public enemy number one' designation, while defending his country's economical and strategic interests. On Sep. 28, he addressed the U.N. General Assembly and called for a creation of a broad international coalition against terrorism, "similar to the anti-Hitler coalition", he said.
Two days later, after formal request from Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, russians jets were bombing syrian territory just around Tartus, Russia's sole naval base in the Middle East and Kremlin's only access to the Mediterranean sea. All at once, Vladimir Putin was defending a political ally, protecting a strategic military site, and showing the West that russian forces can go outside the post-soviet space, for the first time since the dissolution of the USSR.
Western leaders condemned russian military operations on Syria as benefitting Assad's dictatorship while attacking the so called 'moderate opposition forces', backed by the West. But the diplomatic isolation of Vladimir Putin is over. At least for now. The terrorist attacks in Paris last friday forced to review plans for Russia's isolation, a country as dangerous as the Islamic State and the ebola, according to one of Obama's last year speech.
"We need a big coalition against Daesh, our enemy is Daesh", the french President François Hollande said to the Parliament while announcing a visit to Moscow on Nov. 26. As reported by the russian press, the heads of state of both countries had already spoken by telephone earlier this week and agreed to coordinate the airstrikes on Syria.
"The recent tragic events in France show that we should join efforts in preventing terror" the Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameron argued last sunday after his meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey. The british leader considered that the West "can compromise with Russia to end Syrian war".
In consonance with his european counterparts, the President of United States changed radically his attitude vis-à-vis the russian leader. This sunday, in an informal meeting during lunch, Obama and Putin took half an hour out of the G20 Summit to discuss syrian crisis. In a markedly warmer exchange than in other recent encounters, both sides indicated a willingness to do more to work together. Far from the accusatory statements, the White House noted the importance of Russia's "military efforts" in Syria and called for a "broad coalition".
On april 2001, the american President George W. Bush said he would do "whatever it took" to defend Taiwan against China. In later interviews that year, he declared that military action was "certainly an option". "It's important for the Chinese to understand that if there's a military action, we will help Taiwan defend itself" Bush was quoted as saying by the New York Times. In those days, analyst considered the troubled US-China relationship as the most important international issue to Washington. But then, the 9/11 attacks occurred and "the 'War on Terror' shaped american foreign policy for more than a decade.
The terrorist attacks in Paris will force the West to fundamentally change its plans. As it happened more than a decade ago, an international terrorist organization could bring together the world's superpowers defending common interests. During the last year, the looming standoff between Russia and the West appeared to be one of the biggest challenges for american foreign policy. In the aftermaths of the attacks on french soil, the 'New Cold War' will have to cede its place to the 'New War on Terrorism'. If that's the case, Russia will have to be removed from the black list it shares with the Islamic State and the ebola.-
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Periodista especializado en política internacional
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On "Game of Thrones," some storylines are bigger than others.
If you've been thinking that there's a confusing amount of different storylines and characters on "Game of Thrones" lately, then you're not alone. Even the people who work on the show are aware of this.
Entertainment Weekly recently talked to "Game of Thrones" co-executive producer Bryan Cogman and asked about how the show manages to juggle so many different stories.
"The timelines between the various storylines don't necessarily line up within a given episode," Cogman told EW.
Sansa and Jon's campaign to take back Winterfell takes place over several weeks.
What Cogman is saying is that every character's story takes place over a different period of time. To exemplify his point, Cogman contrasts Arya's training and escape from the Faceless Men with Sansa and Jon's attempt to recapture Winterfell. While Arya's arc takes place over a few days, Jon and Sansa's would likely take place over several weeks, but both events take place in the same episode.
"We realized a while ago that if we tied ourselves in knots trying to make all the 'story days' line up between all the characters the momentum would suffer," Cogman concluded.
This explains why "Game of Thrones" has managed to do such a great job balancing a gigantic world, and is able to fully flesh out major characters like the Starks and the Lannisters, as well as smaller ones like Hodor and Brienne of Tarth.


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Zak Seddon (ur. 28 czerwca 1994) – brytyjski lekkoatleta specjalizujący się w biegach długodystansowych.

W 2009 był czwarty na gimnazjadzie w Dosze. Bez awansu do ścisłego finału startował w 2010 na igrzyskach olimpijskich młodzieży. W 2011 był piąty podczas mistrzostw świata juniorów młodszych oraz zdobył złoty medal igrzysk Wspólnoty Narodów młodzieży. Rok później uplasował się na 9. miejscu podczas mistrzostw świata juniorów w Barcelonie. Złoty medalista juniorskiego czempionatu Europy w Rieti (2013).

Rekordy życiowe: bieg na 3000 metrów z przeszkodami – 8:21,28 (6 czerwca 2019, Rzym); bieg na 1500 metrów – 3:42,02 (17 kwietnia 2015, Walnut).

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November 30, 2021 @ 10:13am » Chris Rosvoglou
Jerry Jones' Comment On Cowboys Situation Is Going Viral
INGLEWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 13: Owner Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys looks on from a suite during the second half against the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on September 13, 2020 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
The Dallas Cowboys are going to be shorthanded this Thursday when they take on the New Orleans Saints. Not only will they be without right tackle Terence Steele and defensive tackle Trysten Hill, they'll be missing a plethora of coaches.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, he'll have to miss Thursday's game against the Saints.
McCarthy won't be the only coach missing from the sideline, as offensive line coach Joe Philbin, assistant offensive line coach Jeff Blasko, strength and conditioning coordinator Harold Nash and assistant strength and conditioning coach Kendall Smith will also miss Thursday's game.
On Tuesday morning, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was on 105.3 The Fan to discuss the team's current situation on the COVID-19 front. He also shared his thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine.
"I believe you should be vaccinated," Jones said. "We are now 100 percent vaccinated by either having been vaccinated or gotten COVID."
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: I believe you should be vaccinated.
We are now 100 percent vaccinated by either having been vaccinated or gotten the COVID.
— Clarence Hill Jr (@clarencehilljr) November 30, 2021
Jones has been very vocal about this topic the entire year. Last week, Jones didn't hold back when asked about Amari Cooper missing two games because he was unvaccinated.
"Amari Cooper is outstanding. He's one of the highest-character guys that you will ever be around in any area. He's outstanding in his introspect and how he does things," Jones said. "Nobody is saying he isn't outstanding, but this is a classic case of how it can impact a team. At the end of the day, this is team. You cannot win anything individually. … The point is, it popped us. This did pop us."
Hopefully, the Cowboys can move past all these COVID-related issues very soon.
Filed Under: Dallas Cowboys, Top Stories Tagged With: Jerry Jones
About Chris Rosvoglou
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Sallie Houser-Hanfelder, director of the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, has been named directorof the Eastern Colorado VA Health Care System. Thomas Meyer, MD, associate chief of staff for academic affiliations at the VA, announced her appointment during the School of Medicine Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Sallie joined the VA more than 30 years ago and most recently has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Central Texas system, which is comprised of VA medical centers in Temple and Waco, an outpatient clinic in Austin and four community clinics and a rural outreach clinic. In Colorado, she will oversee delivery of health care to more than 81,000 veterans and an operating budget of $800 million at one of the nation's largest VA Medical Centers. She is expected in Colorado by early next year.
Richard Zane, MD, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, is the author of an article, "How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital," that was posted online last Thursday by the Harvard Business Review. The article summarizes the hard work and impressive results that Rich and his team have achieved in improving processes and the quality of patient care in the emergency department of University of Colorado Hospital. "Our volume has increased by 53%, putting us on track to become the highest-volume ED in Colorado," he writes. "Our patient-satisfaction scores are in the top box 77% of the time (not 90%, like we want, but we'll get there). We have cut our total treatment time by more than 40%; patients now wait fewer than eight minutes, on average, to see an attending physician. Virtually no patients leave our ED without being seen, and we are never, ever on ambulance diversion." Even more impressive, Rich and his team are already conducting a top-to-bottom evaluation of these new processes, proving that we can continuously get better.
Bob Anderson, MD, senior associate dean for education, and I met last week with about 100 medical school students in a town hall setting. We had a thoughtful conversation about tuition, curriculum, exam and evaluation reporting and community involvement to assist the medically underserved. We were pleased with the good turnout and discussion. Future issues of "The Deans' Newsletter," an email to our students, will answer some of the questions to reach a wider audience. For more information, contact Deborah.stevens@ucdenver.edu.
Congratulations to University of Colorado Primary Care at Lone Tree for its selection as the Patient Centered Medical Home Best Practice of 2016 by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) Foundation. The CAFP Foundation board commended the practice for its outstanding patient care and quality initiative and improvements. The award will be presented at the CAFP Annual Scientific Conference in April.
The University of Colorado Staff Council is seeking nominations of classified and university staff employees for its annual Service Excellence Award. The Service Excellence Award is presented to one qualified individual from each campus and system administration. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize that will be presented at the All Staff Council Conference on April 8, 2016, in Colorado Springs. Each recipient will be invited to the ceremony, along with his/her nominator, supervisor, and one additional guest. More information is available on the UCSC Service Excellence Award web page. Nominations are due Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, at 11:59 p.m.
Chancellors Don Elliman and Jerry Wartgow, PhD, announced last week the promotions of Brenda J. Allen, PhD, to vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and Raul Cardenas, PhD, to vice chancellor for student affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2016. These changes to the leadership structure of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus reflect the priority that student affairs and diversity and inclusion represent to our campuses. Brenda and Raul have served as associate vice chancellors, Brenda since 2012 and Raul since 2011. Both will continue to report to the provost, and both offices span the Denver and Anschutz campuses.
A reminder that volunteers are still needed for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus' booth at the National Western Stock Show. Students, clinical and non-clinical faculty and staff are needed to help with health screenings and education for adults and children. The stock show runs from Jan. 9 to Jan. 24. There are multiple daily shifts, which can last either four or six hours. Volunteers get admission to the show on the day they volunteer and may qualify for free rodeo tickets if volunteering for more than one shift.
Best wishes for a healthy and happy holiday season.
John J. Reilly, Jr., MD
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RIP Chuck Yeager
Screenshot: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
Chuck Yeager, one of the United States Air Force's greatest ever pilots and the first man to break the sound barrier, has died at the age of 97.
Yeager was a decorated Second World War fighter pilot—famous for shooting down five Germans in a single day in 1944—and his exploits later became the subject of the 1983 Academy Award winning film The Right Stuff.
His passing was announced earlier this evening on his Twitter account by his wife, Victoria.
I'm sharing this here because I grew up obsessed with fighter planes and hooked on flight sims, and while I had many favourites—Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and Red Baron to name just two—the one I played the most was 1991's Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
The Best Flight Sims
We've had some good times, aeroplanes and video games.
Published by EA for the PC, CYAC—the second Chuck Yeager game after the disappointing Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Training—was an air combat playground, letting players fight battles across three completely separate wars in three different eras of fighter aircraft technology. You could choose between World War Two, Korea or Vietnam, then take part in a number of scenarios designed to test you across different types of engagement.
Those pre-baked missions were pretty limited after you'd played them a few times, though, so the real longevity with CYAC came from its creation suite, which let you build your own missions using a very cool choose-your-own-adventure style story.
It wasn't the greatest flight sim ever made—indeed, it looked and handled pretty poorly compared to some of its contemporaries. But the novelty of giving you three different wars to fight through, and then the ability to pit a Vietnam-era jet against a World War Two fighter in a mission of your own creation, gave it a ton of replayability at a time when you couldn't simply wait for more and more aircraft to be patched in (or sold for $2 each).
And while it wasn't exactly an authentic experience, being more of a deathmatch shooter than a serious flight sim, the combat it did offer was really fun, especially if you were using a joystick. Indeed for all its shortcomings in some areas, the game earned itself a ton of fans, to the point where during the '90s it was routinely landing on "best game ever" lists in PC gaming magazines.
Basically, if you grew up in the early '90s and were playing flight sims, there was a really good chance you were playing a lot of CYAC, and loving every minute of it.
Yeager's involvement with the development of the game itself was limited, but EA's licensing deal meant he still played a huge role from the player's perspective. His face was everywhere in the game, from the intro screen to the menus, and he'd even pop up in the middle of missions with warnings.
There was even—this is EA, remember—a deluxe version of the game available, which included a VHS tape that featured an interview with Yeager on his exploits and thoughts on air combat.
Yeager is survived by his wife and four children.
Luke Plunkett is a Senior Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs cosplay.kotaku.com.
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He was 97. That is a life long lived.
It is sad to reach the end of the book but we should celebrate the chapters in it and the story shared.


"Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." ~Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.


Hanson County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 3,331. Its county seat is Alexandria. The county was founded in 1871 and organized in 1873. It was named for Joseph R. Hanson, clerk of the first legislature.
The terrain of Hanson County consists of low rolling hills; its area is mostly devoted to agriculture. The James River flows southeastward through the lower western part of the county. The terrain slopes toward the river basin on both sides, and generally gently slopes to the south.
Hanson county has a total area of 435.3 square miles (1,127 km2), of which 434.5 square miles (1,125 km2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2) (0.2%) is water. It is the third-smallest county in South Dakota by area.
As of the 2000 United States Census there were 3,139 people, 1,115 households, and 848 families in the county. The population density was 7 people per square mile (3/km²). There were 1,218 housing units at an average density of 3 per square mile (1/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 99.52% White, 0.10% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.03% from other races, and 0.19% from two or more races. 0.10% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Hanson County was mentioned as an "Extreme Whitopia" in Rich Benjamin's book, Searching for Whitopia.
There were 1,115 households out of which 34.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.40% were married couples living together, 3.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.90% were non-families. 21.70% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.33.
The county population contained 29.50% under the age of 18, 7.70% from 18 to 24, 26.10% from 25 to 44, 21.80% from 45 to 64, and 14.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.20 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $33,049, and the median income for a family was $39,500. Males had a median income of $27,112 versus $20,216 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,778. About 12.50% of families and 16.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.30% of those under age 18 and 15.30% of those age 65 or over.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 3,331 people, 1,045 households, and 793 families in the county. The population density was 7.7 inhabitants per square mile (3.0/km2). There were 1,177 housing units at an average density of 2.7 per square mile (1.0/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 98.6% white, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.2% from other races, and 0.5% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 0.5% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 63.7% were German, 10.8% were Irish, 6.2% were English, 5.2% were Norwegian, and 4.0% were American.
Of the 1,045 households, 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.8% were married couples living together, 3.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 24.1% were non-families, and 21.7% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.14. The median age was 35.5 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $46,556 and the median income for a family was $52,425. Males had a median income of $38,088 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,391. About 13.8% of families and 13.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.6% of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those age 65 or over.
Hanson County voters tend to vote Republican. Since 1936, they have selected the Republican Party candidate in 65% of national elections.
^ "Searching for Whitopia". Richbenjamin.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2012.
^ a b c "DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data". US Census Bureau. Retrieved 12 March 2016.